Richmond Planet

PRICE, FIVE CENTS "Tap" Turner's Car Ditched. Joy Riding With Serious Consequences—A Narrow Escape. There is another Stevens-Doryes automobile in Richmond, owned by a colored person than the one which performed an acrobatic feat on the Belt Line tracks some tome age, with Chauffeur Fauntleroy at the wheel. This car is owned by Mr. Beverly Turner, Jr., better known among his friends as "Tap" Turner. Chauffeur Henry Polindexter decided to "ront, hire or lease" the car, belonging to "Tap" Turner and he succeeded in so doing, having a jolly party in the HAD A GOOD TIME. Messars Russell Walker, Thomas Whitehead, Juntious Robinson, and Bob Mosby composed the party, that went out last Sunday afternoon. They were not satisfied with Richmond sights, but took in the country and when last heard from were having a good time on the ThreeChap Road. How far they went, deponent sayeth not. Suffice it to say that some people say that that car was seen coming down a road, climbing banks and exploring ditches at a speed that would have done credit to a Pennsylvania Special. NOT A REGULAR STATION. This would have been all right too, but for the fact that the landing place was not a regular automobile station, but along the road side, and when it was all over, it was found that Bob Mosby decided that the car was headed for eternity and he leaped out, landing in the road-way, entirely oblivious of his surroundings and gave for his breathing and meaning, he might have been "stone dead." The left front wheel was demolished the wind-shield was smashed, the axle bent, the hood damaged and many other parts put out of commission. CARS TO THE RESCUE. Other than being shaken up, the others were uninjured. The news came to Richmond that Mosby was dead. Funeral Director W. Isaac Johnson's car was called for the purpose of pulling in the wreck and it was not long before Undertaker A. D. Price, with Chauffeur Fauntiery A. D. Price, W. H. Johnson, John Mitchell, Jr. and Douglas Price were on the way to that Three Chop Road. Mr. Price was thoughtful enough to take his over-coat and all of the others wished that they had taken a similar precaution before their returned to the city that night. THEY DRIVE HORSES The party passed the farm of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Tapker, but it was after night-fall. Coming down the road, the Price car met the Johnson car going out and a change was made at end. It was some time before the damaged car was found on the roadside. After examining the same all started for the city again. Bob Mossy had been removed to the Richmond Hospital, where he finally gained consciousness and is on the road to improvement. The explanation of the accident is that a blowout took place and the brakes would not work. COULDST STOP IT. Coming down the hill, the car could not be stopped. The loss is in "Tap" Turner. He listens to all of this explanation but having gone out to the scene of the wreck last Monday to bring the car in and having committed carefully the ground where the plunge was taken, he looks up with the quirical look, indicating that Chancee Poindexter will have to "show him." He figures his loss at $399.06 and indicates that this amount will not be expended on the car this Fall. He has another car service and remarked that he had not been joyriding in either of them he bought them. THE PRICE CAR The furthest out he had been was New York. This seems to be the side of the other owners of cars who have them for hire. They are housed in preference. There are two six cylinder Stevens-Duryea commissions. Mr. A. D: Price. He will rebuild the one he had built, but Chewitton Peter King began work on the job. He learns Mr. Price's money, then known. Bridgerton "Tap" who determined to see just what them will have before he anneals a similar task. brakes to work. The car was brought in under its own power and with the brakes working properly. Still, "Tap" Turner is ranged among the list of doubling Thomas and as he figures up the damage to his pow-erful automobile, there is a far-away look in his eyes, which means again. "You'll have to show me." VIRGINIA NORMAL. Industrial Institute at Petersburg Virginia. Sept. 19. 1914.—Yesterday saw the first week's work of the State Normal here for the term beginning Sept. 15. The enrollment for the opening week shows 501 for the ac-ademic and special, training departments and 72 for the model school, with quite a number of applicants yet to enter. This year, and for several years past, more than 200 applications for entrance had to be refused because of lack of room space. One of the unusual features of the present form's attendance is the large number of pupils entered with advanced standing from the etiology of the State. Lynchburg, Danville, Clifton Forge, Petersburg, Norfolk, and Stamton are each unusually well represented. The Board of Visitors to the institution, upon its recent meeting rotated several substantial improvements among them being a new dormitory for the boys. This dormitory, new in the building, is to be a commodious brick structure of four stories providing room capacity for at least 180 pupils, in addition to space for Y. I. C. A. and reading room for the young men. Under the new administration that of recently elected Pres., Prof. J. M. Gandy, several marked changes have been made in the registration of pupils upon entrance and as to the method of keeping a record of their class-standing and of their department while in school. The most important feature of the changes in this instance being that at the end of a given school term the parents or guardian of each pupil will be mailed a certified report both of the class standing and of the general department of the pupil for such term's work. The school faculty, with the exception above mentioned, is the same. Both faculty and pupils have started upon their work with much carminecess, and withal the outlook indicates in every respect a very prosperous year's work for the institution. BENWARN MEDAL Dr. J. E. Spingarn offers to furnish annually a gold medal not to cost more than $100, and to be awarded for the highest or noblest achievement by an American Negro during the preceding year, upon the following terms and conditions: The Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People shall select five persons, who may or may not be members of that board, as the Committee of Award, and this committee shall have full charge of the awarding of the medal, and its decision in regard to all matters connected with the medal shall be final. Preferably at the annual conference on the Negro, held under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, this medal shall be awarded with appropriate ceremonies, to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor; and the Committee of Award shall decide for itself, in each year, what particular act deserves the highest acclaim; and nothing in this section shall be understood to limit their choice in any way to any one field, whether that field be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, commercial educational or any other. The Committee of Award may withhold the award of the medal in any year if no achievement seems to merit an award, and in that event the committee may employ the money so withheld for the creation of one or more medals in the following year or years, to be awarded, as a second, third or other prize in accordance with the same principles. Committee Of Award. Bishop John Hurst, Chairman; Hon. William Howard Taft; Dr. James H. Dillard; Mr. John Hope; Mr. Owald Garrison Villard. WANTED—TRACHERS PUR PUB In Schools and Other Institutions. Register early. Send four en- rollment blanks. Address 678, Boston, M. C. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 1914 Row Grew Out of Crap Game. Otis James shot in Leek Lane and Dice Instantly—Ocurs Near Garnett's Store in Hearne County, Near Milks From Richmond. Six hours after he is alleged to have shot and instantly killed Otis James, colored, and while a rigid search was being made for him, Solomon Gibbs, colored, surrendered himself late last night to County Officer John Shoemaker, and was lodged in the Hearne County Jail, formally charged with murder. The shooting occurred last Saturday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, near Robt Garnett's store, in Varina District, twelve miles east of Richmond. Gibbs, it is claimed, drew a revolver and deliberately, and without provocation, shot James, and then jumped on a bicycle and escaped before the witnesses to the shooting could interfere. The county authorities were notified at once and a search was started for the accused man. After surrendering, Gibbs denied that he had fired the fatal shot, and said that James had been murdered by a companion during a dispute over a crap game. Eye Injuries Trial Of Fatal Shooting According to the story, told the county police by eyewitnesses, Gibba who had been at Garnett's store and made several purchases, was on his way home, when he passed a group of negro laborers. He stopped and engaged them in conversation. Gibba is then allowed to have taken a revolver from his pocket and paked if they believed that he would heart and before any one had made a reply, leveled the weapon toward James and fired. James was struck in the left lung and the ball penetrated that organ. Death was instantaneous. He was twenty-four years old and unmarried. The alleged murderer is of the same age and is also single. As far as could be accertained, the men were on friendly terms and Gibbs is said to bear an excellent character. In spite of the story told by the necro witness 40 the shooting, Gibbs stoutly denies his guilt, and sticks to his statement that the men were gambling and that one shot James. No reason for his flight was given, although he asserts that he surrendered at the first opportunity. --- COL. ALLENWORTH DEAD. A Remarkable Character Gone. Llut.-Colonel Allen Allenaworth is gone, his life virtually snatched away by the crushing impact of a heavy motorcycle by which he was fatally injured Sunday. The frightful accident that cost this noted life occurred at Monrovia, Cal., about 10 a.m. Sunday morning. He had just stepped from the train and was proceeding to a church at which he was to speak. Using the paved roadbed of Myrtle Ave., a sixty-foot boulevard, for better walking than the mere pathway afforded, he was overtaken and struck down by a motorcycle ridden by two young caulksane. The bruised and bleeding form was rushed to the hospital at Monrovia where death came after two days of unconsciousness. Word reached Los Angeles and relative hastened to the bed side. Mrs. Allenaworth hurrying from Allenaworth by fastest train. Announcement of the Colonel's and misfortune was made at different churches and the whole community seemed stunned by the news. At the corner's inquest held Tuesday afternoon at Monrovia, E. S. White, who drove the mortorcycle and W. E. Ray, who rode with him, were closely examined as were other witnesses also. Both men aware that the machine was running only about 12 to 14 miles per hour and that warning was given Col. Alenworth when 150 feet away. They claimed that he looked back then walked on and that he became excited, as they were passing and in dodging to and fro to prevent being struck, ran into the machine, which was not stopped for 150 feet after striking the Colonel. Sharp questioning and direct expressions afterward showed that many believed the motorcycle must have been going at high speed, and that Colonel Alenworth probably had little opportunity to save himself. The coroner's jury returned an open verdict, without fixing any responsibility. Following the inquest, the remains were removed to the parlor of A. J. Roberts & Son of this city. Colesel Allanworth's book is a fearful shock to his devoted family, the widow, "Mig Allanworth, and two daughters, Mrs. H. B. Shanks, and Mrs. L. Kledgut." Rearing the strain upon them, very slight, funeral services will be held at Pleasant est. day at 1 p. m. at the 2nd. Baptist church on Maple Away near 8th, Rev. J. L. Mayley affiliated, and the G. A. R. being in attendance. Interment will take place at Rosedale cemetery. At a late date appropriate memorial services will be held and Colonel Allenworth's life and services to his Race, and country will then be appropriately commemorated. Mr. Editor: The Ebenzoer Baptist Church, of which I have the honor to be pastor, is now engaged in a series of revival meetings under the direction of Rev. J. W. Brooks, pastor of the Mt. Lebanon Bapt. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. These services began very auspiciously Monday night, Sept. 21, eight souls accepting Christ on the first night. This meeting is only introductory to a virious spiritual and financial campaign outlined for this fall's work. We up here are confronted by problems in church work little appreciated by our brethren of the South: yet by the grace of God we are going on. The moral, spiritual, and intellectual efficiency of the ministry of this section is steadily increasing. The churches are looking to the schools for pastors as never before; and as a consequence, there is a larger number of seminary men in the pulpits of greater New York and vicinity than ever before witnessed by the Baptist churches. Relative to men coming from my own school, I wish to say that they are "making good" up this way. The only regret and lamentable fact is not sufficient seal on the part of the Union men collectively, in boosting their alma mater. Let there be an occasions calling together the alumni of any other Negro school in the country, and there is a mighty "rush among dry bones" to get there; but let sound the call to Union men, and it is "here and there a traveler." Now why is this seeming apathy on the part of our men? Have they "denied the faith"? At the New England Baptist Convention at Bridgeport last June there was a call for all Union men to meet to organize a Northern Chapter of the V. U. Alumni Association. Not more than one half of those present responded. At Philadelphia at the National Baptist Convention there was a call for a meeting of the National Baptist Chapter of the Alumni Association, out of some one hundred or more present, about 30 responded. Now these facts are deeply deployed by me, and not by me only; and I am intentionally digressing here to begin to try to stir up a more lively alumni interest as the time draws on towards our next Commencement. I feel that out in the world we should exemplify some of that "college spirit" of which we yelled: as we sat by the "fresh pots" in Union's Mess Hall, and in which we waged our word battles on that hallowed campus. Spare will not permit me to give my views in full; but these "straws" will doubless show which way the wind is blowing. "It stands written" that there is a Union soldier, a University war dog, a natural born fighter for principle, at Flushing, L. I. Oho whose sword will never be breathed until Union University and her sable sons come into their own among the scholastic powers that be. "With sounding protestation, Proclaiming Union's right, Proud some of Africa's nation. Must gather for the fight." Mrs. Mildred Johnson Laid to Rest. The funeral services of Mrs. Milfred Johnson, devoted mother of Moses A. Johnson, were held from the Second Baptist Church, Thursday evening, of which she was a faithful member. Rev. Ruffin preached a most soul-stirring sermon. Prayer was offgled by Deacon Washington, after which Prof. T. M. Crump sang, "There Is Rest for the Weary," so sweetly. While the remains were being borne down the alley the choir sang her favorite hymn, "Why Should We Mourn Departed Friends." She leaves a devoted son, one sister, daughter-in-law, twelve grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Pall bearers were as follows: Honorary, Messrs. W. R. Minor, E. C. Burke; Active, Messrs. John D. Booker, C. Smith, R. D. Brown, James A. Dixon, M. Coleman, G. B. Howard, J. Turman. A Cord. Mr. Moses A. Johnson and family wish to return many thanks to their neighbors and friends for their kindness shown them in their and hour of imprisonment. May God bless their brightest day, and them all. Resolutions of Condolence Whereas: it has pleased the Supreme Architect of the Universe, in the fulfillment of his great and Holy Universal plan, to remove from our midst one of our most esteemed and beloved brethren, in the person of our dear brother, Past Master H. L. Jackson, Sr. District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Va., and whereas, we feel it our duty as Christians and Master Masons, to humbly, and unquestionably submit to His Will, but deem it proper that we should place on record our appreciation of his worth, and services, both as a Mason and as a man, and Whereas, we deeply feel and acknowledge our loss as occasioned by the removal from us of our dear brother. Therefore be, it resolved that while we bow in humble submission to the ruling of a Divine Providence we do not the less mourn for our brother who has been called from labor to reward, acknowledging the sovereignty and wisdom of our Heavenly Father, and humbly be soothing him to enable us to accept His Omnipotent will as our Law and guidance. Resolved, further, that by the death of our brother our lodge loses a brother who was always active and zealous as a mason ever ready to succer the needy and distressed of the fraternity; prompt, to advance the interest of the order; devoted to its welfare and prosperity; one who was wise in counsel, and fearless in action; an honest and right man, whose virtues endowed him, not only to his brother of the order but to all his fellow citizens. Resolved, that this Lodge extend to the bereaved family and relatives of our deceased brother, our sincere, and heartfelt sympathy, in this their hour of trial and sad affliction. Resolved, That, a copy of these resolutions be entered upon our minutes, a copy sent to the Richmond Planet, for publication and a copy be sent to the family of our deceased brother. By order of W. H. Hughes Lodge No. 95. A. F. & A. M. Blackstone Va. at a call communication. Sept. 18th, 1914. Mrs. Hughes' Funeral. The First Baptist Church, of South Richmond, Va. was crowded on Friday afternoon, September 25th, at three o'clock to pay the last tribute of respect to Mrs. Martha Ann Hughes, one of the oldest and most respected female citizens of "Old Manchester. The deceased was well-known by both colored and white people as an earnest, devoted Christian worker among our people. She was loved by all, envied by none. Her Christian deeds and noble character will long be remembered by the many friends who parked the edifice. Dr. A. Binga, the pastor, paid a glowing tribute to the deceased so he had known her for more than 40 years. His text was taken from the 26th chapter of Matthew and 13th verse. Scriptures were read by Rev. A. S. Thomas, prayer by Rev. T. J. J. Mosby and Mrs. Fanny Payne Clark sang with touching feeling. "Abido With Me." The deceased was a member of the Earnest Workers, Tents, Esthers, Venus Court, O. of C., True Reformers, Eastern Star and Education Circle, which turned out in a body. The active pall-bearers were of the medical fraternity. Doctors J. r. Blackwell, Jr., A. A. Tennant, W. H. Tylor, Walter Brown, Robert Deane and R. E. Jacns, Jr. Honorary: Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Sr., Messrs John Baker, James Cunningham, ham, Sr. and Mundin. The deceased leaves four children, Dr. William H. Hughes, Lawyer, R. A. Hughes, Mattle Gray Harris, Mrs. Bertha Hughes Hatchett and two sisters. The interment was made in Mt. Olivet Cemetery (the colored section of Maury's). WANTED—A COLORED BARBER for White trade. Apply to CONN and ROBINSON, 119 East Main St., Charlestonville, Va. Executor's Notice. Wallace F. Brown, Room 214. Mutual Building, having qualified an executor of Alice Jones, deceased, regrets all creditors of her estate to present their claims to him for settlement, and will her defences to minor matters with him. PEACE SUNDAY AND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. October 4, 1914. To all churches in the United States Our President has, by proclamation, designated Sunday, October 4, as a day of prayer for peace. It has been suggested in many quarters that on this Sunday a collection be taken up in every church to relieve suffering in the war-ravaged countries of Europe. The red Cross, which is charged with the special duty of aiding the sick and wounded, in time of war, respectively urges that opportunity be given in each church to every person who so desires to make a contribution to the American Red Cross, which is impartially aiding every country in a spirit of common humanity, and which recognizes no distinction of race or nationality. However, every contributor who desires to designate any particular fund or country to which his or her contribution shall be applied may do so, and such request will be rejected. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AMERICAN RED CROSS HOLLYMORE—BROOKS Mr. Chas. H. Taylor announces the marriage of his sister. Lucille Clarice to Mr. Ellsworth W. Holcomb, Sept. 30, 1914 at Rev. Rowley's residence. Reception, Oct. 6th, 1914 at the bride's residence 617 N. 30th Street. from S to L. P. M. All friends invited. A GREAT SOUL WINNER COMING Staunton, Vn. -Mount Zion Baptist church - Rev. J. C. Austin B. D. pastor. Last May we engaged The Rev. W. H. Skipwith B. D. to conduct a ten days campaign for us, against sin, flesh and Satan, and since that time people have been looking forward to his coming: Sunday next if life lasteth, our own international preacher and Slugger, will make his first appearance, and we pray that his coming may be a blessing to the entire city. Mr. Johnson Returns Home. Mr. J. W. Johnson of U. E. Leach St., has returned home after spending three months in Boston, Cambridge, Oak Bluff Mass., and Portland Maine. He seems very much impressed with the N. E. States. He was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. J. Anderson of Newton Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Ross of Allston Mass., Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brooks of Cambridge, Mrs. Alice Powell of Cambridge and Mrs. Mary J. Harris of Portland. He made many friends while there. While in the North, Mr. Johnson kept out of the reach of the news paper men, as he wished to rest and be quiet. Before leaving Cambridge he was joined by his wife. Wednesday evening Sept. 16th, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were given a brilliant reception by their cousin, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ross of No. 14 Parker St., Cambridge Mass. The evening which was spent in games and music, was greatly enjoyed by all who were present. While enroute home, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson stopped in Providence R. I. and spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Price of 14 Halton St., who made it very pleasant for them during their stay. Mrs. Price, who was formerly Miss Martha C. Trice, is looking fine and getting on nicely. CARD OF THANKS Dr. Hughes and family thank the many friends for their kind expressions and tokens of sympathy shown during the illness and at the death of their dear mother, Martha A Hughes. COURT ANNIVERSARY Old Dominion Court No. 114, Order of Calanthe observed its anniversary last Monday afternoon at 727 N. Third St. Worthy Counsellor John Mitchell, Jr., presiding. A history of the court was read. After singing and addresses by Miss M. L. Chiles, Mrs. Sarah Wilson and others, refreshments were served to the members and visitors. A vote of thanks was tendered Miss M. L. Chiles for uowers presented The committee of arrangements consisted of Miss Louisa Payne Chairman Mrs. Sarah Wilson and Mrs. Sarah Lewis. All heartily enjoyed themselves. VALUE OF VOTES 2 Months Subscription, 25c... 15 4 Months Subscription, 50c... 45 5 Months Subscription, 31... 135 12 Months Subscription, 81.50... 235 Att'y Pollard Objects. Interesting Correspondence. The Richmond, Va. City Council passed a resolution directing the City Attorney to appear before the State Corporation Commission for the purpose of having that body compel the C. & O. R. R. Company to provide separate waiting rooms for its white and colored passengers. Attorney Joseph R. Pollard took the matter up and the following correspondence explains itself. Sept. 19th, 1914 To the Honorable. State Corporation Commission of Virginia. Gentlemen: Your undersigned, on behalf of himself and such other persons as may feel aggrieved in consequence of the action of the Council of the City of Richmond, Va. requesting your Honorable body to require the Railroad stations in the City of Richmond to establish and maintain separate waiting rooms for white and colored people, respectively ask leave to file a petition in said proceedings setting forth the reasons why the request should be refused; and with the object in view further ask that this communication be regarded as a motion to that end. Sept. 22nd, 1914. Mr. Joseph R. Pollard, Lawyer, 500 North Second Street. Richmond, Va. My dear Sir: Your letter of September 19th addressed to this Commission, has been referred to me. Replying therefore I would say that it is your right to appear in the pending proceeding against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and the Richmond, Frederickburg and Potomac Railroad Company, having for its object the separation of the races in the stations in the City of Richmond. The process is returnable on Thursday, Oct. 1st, 1914, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. at the court room of the Commission. You can intervene in that case by filing such petition as you see fit to file, substantially as you would if you had an interest in a suit pending in a court of equity. Very truly yours, Robert R. Hentia, Chairman PERSONALS AND BRIEF Dr. Miles B. Jones is improving Mrs. Alice Kersey, of 100 W Leigh St. is very H. Rev. J. H. Burks of Roanoke Va. called on us. Mr. William H. Thorogood, of Norfolk, Va. was in the city last Sunday. Mr. D. Frasier of Camden, S. C. visited our office in company with Mr. James M. Frasier. The Battle Axe Football Team defeated the A. S. C.'d by a score of 13 to 6, last Wednesday. Mr. Davis S. Lee of 1509 Decatur St. So. Richmond, Va., is out again after a week's sickness. William F. Denny, Attorney at Law, is in the city visiting his wife and children. He is located at Lester, W Va. with narrative practice. Sir George W. Rison of Danville, Va. was in the city last week. He was looking well and reported conditions as prosperous there. Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Bowers, of Skipwith, Va. are rejoicing over the advent of a fine bouncing baby girl. Mother and daughter are getting on nicely. Mr. R. L. Pervall is home after spending the Summer at Atlantic City and visiting his relatives in Philadelphia, Pa. and will again enter upon his studies at Virginia Union University. Mrs. William H. Smith has returned home after spending a delightful time visiting her son. William H. Smith, Jr., of Jersey City N. J., and her brother Kesex Williams of New York. Mrs. Jolla Stephens Thurston of Cleveland, Ohio, who was in the city the past two months visiting her mother, Mrs. Maggie B. Austin, 166 1-2 W. Duval St., left the city Sept. 25, for London to spend a few days visiting relatives of her husband, the Rev. William G. T. Thurston. From Louis Mrs. Thurston returned to Cleveland. Stop Thief! Novelized From the Great Play of the Same Name by George C. Jenks and Carlyle Moore Copyright, 1913, by The H. K. Ply Company TV/O SYNOPSIS Detective Thompson's watch is stolen by Jack Doogan, a thief, accompanied by his sweetheart, Nell. The south arrests William Carr, an absent-minded business man, in mistake for a noted crook. Douglas Jamison, Carr's friend, identifies him. Doogan promises Nell to reform and to marry her after they have turned their last trick in robbing the Carr home, where Nell is to start work as maid. Thompson corners Doogan. Doogan escapes. James Clonney, who is to marry Madge Carr, fears he is a kleptomaniac, but his best man, Dr Willoughby, reassures him. Nell arrives at the Carr residence on the wedding day. Caroline Carr admits Nell. Mr Carr shows a ruby ring he bought for Caroline's present to Madge. Nell feels it and later places it in Clonney's pocket. CHAPTER VI. A Light Fingered Mystery. JAMES CLUNEY cast his eyes about the room to assure himself that he and Dr. Willoughby were alone. Nell was out of sight. "Doctor, there's a mystery here." "You mean the disappearance of this ruby ring. Yes, I should say it is a mystery." "I was not referring to that. But I found this in my overcoat pocket." James Cluney impressively held out the box which had contained the pigeon blood ruby. "The ring?" cried Willoughby. "No, but evidently the box the ring came in. It's marked 'Bolomon, Boston.' That's where Mr. Carr must have bought it. The box is empty. It was in my pocket. How did it get there?" "Some one must have put it there," was the doctor's sapient suggestion. "Exactly." "Well, what do you make of it?" "There's a thief in the house," replied James Cluney, with a slight shiver. "What?" "There must be. I didn't put it there." Dr. Willoughby stepped back a little from his friend and fixed him with a severe and penetrating gaze, as he asked slowly: "Are you sure you didn't?" James Cluney stared back at the doctor, and there was defiance in his eyes, mingled with something very like apprehension. "Sure I didn't? Of course I am. How could I put it there? Why should I? Thank goodness, the box was empty. Can you imagine what would have happened if the ring had been found on me?" "Great Scott! This is a mystery!" "Doctor, doctor! Come to mother! screened Joan, burning suddenly into the room. "She's having hysterics!" "Oh, Lord! Here's more of it! groomed Willoughby as he rushed up to Joan, and-perhaps unconsciously, who can say?—took Joan's hand. "I'm coming, Joan. She must be kept quiet! Your mother must be kept very quiet!" He and Joan scuttled away temporarily, and as the door banged behind them, Cluney pressed his two hands to his temples and exclaimed: "Hah, this is a nice wedding day! All the servants on strike, mother-in-law in hysteria, strange things in my pocket! What the dickens will I do?" Then, after a thoughtful pause, "I know!" He ran to the telephone and feverishly took off the receiver. "Give me hysterical!" he bawled. "No, no, centrall! I mean, give me police headquarters!" "Hello, police headquarters!" cried Cluney. "This is Mr. Carr's house, West Seventy-second street. Will you send a plain clothes man here in a hurry? Tell him not to see or speak to any one but Mr. Cluney. Understand? What? Yes, Cluney-James Cluney. Got that name? All right! Thank you." As soon as Nell beard the word "poison" she felt that the time had come for prompt action. So soon she slipped out from the back of the sofa and moved quietly around the room, unobserved by Cluney, until she was behind him at the table. With a deftness that suggested considerable practice, she took the box from the table where he had placed it, and, removing the ruby ring from her shoe, she put it in the box and replaced the letter, ring and all, on the table. Then, with noiseless step, she made her way to a door leading to the kitchen regions and was gone: before Cluney had quite finished telephoning. He had just bung up the receiver when Mr. Carr came in at the other door, communicating with the upper part of the house, talking to his daughter, Carolina, who was with him: "But don't you remember, Carolina? Don't you remember my abewing it to you in this room?" "Of course I do, father," replied Carolina. "You must have misdied it. That is the only way to account for it." "What are you going to do about it? That's the question," put in Chase, looking around. "I'm going to telegraph the Jeweler I'm just," answered Mr. Owr. Then, as a height man comes to him, he adduits "Tobias will. I'll inform you." ```markdown ``` "Are you sure you didn't demanded Dr. Willoughby of Cluney. newspapers and advertise for it. That's what I'll do." It was at that instant that Mr. Carr's eyes and mouth opened together in astonishment, and he uttered a quiet little bleat of joy. He had been on his way to the table to take up the telephone. Instead he pounced upon the box that Nell had just put on the table and opened it. The precious pigeon blood ruby ring was inside. "Hurrah! Hall Columbia!" he about- ed frantically. "This is it! I've found it! I've found it! I've found it!" "The spectacle of an elderly, usually sedate gentleman, with white hair, dancing the cane. Is not common in the gentled residences of West Sven- tory second street it is said. But Mr. William Carr treated his daughter Caroline and James Cluney to an exibition of that sort for several moments as he waved the box above his head, while Caroline pushed open the door to scream into the hall: "He's found it! He's found it! He's found it!" "I've found it! I've found it! I've found it!" repeated Mr. Carr again and again, as Sludge, the minister and Dr. Wiloughby came in. "Where did you find it?" asked Wil- oughby. "Right here on the table, where I laid it," replied Mr. Carr, hardly able to articulate for excitement. "See, here's the toox." "Jovel! That's the empty box I left there," said Cluney aside to Willoughby. "Oh, Lord!" ejaculated the doctor. "May I see it, daddy?" asked Madge, holding out her hand for the ring. "Of course, dear. Isn't it a beauty?" As Madge took the ring from the box where the late afternoon sun streamed through the window full upon it, making it look like a thing of living fire. Dr. Willoughby and James Cluney stared at it in bewilderment. "Oh, it's gorgeous!" sighed Madge. "James, dear, look! A beautiful pigeon blood ruby! You're the dearest dad in all the world!" she added, kissing her father. "Well, now that we are all happy again, don't you think we'd better have the wedding?" suggested Mr. Spealah, who was thinking of the other nuptial engagement he had for that day. "Yes, yes," agreed Mr. Carr. "Let's have the wedding." Strangely enough, James Cruney drew back and answered, with some embarrassment: "Just a moment, darting. I want a few words with Mr. Willoughby first." "Don't keep us waiting, boys," admonished Mr. Carr as he, Madge, Caroline and the minister all went out together. "Well, Willoughby," said Cuney when they were alone, "what do you make of this?" Dr. Willoughby did not answer at once, but there was a world of meaning in the distressed gaze he bent upon the very much perturbed bridgregreen elect. "I thought you said the box was empty, James!" were Willoughby's first words. "So it was." "But it wasn't" insisted the doctor. "I can swear it was." "Well, the ring couldn't have walked back into the box." "That's true, too," admitted Glenn starly. "But-" THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA take that box and put it in just pocket." "Of course, I am," was Clancy'signant, rejoinder. "I never saw the d—thing till I found it there." "Bare you're not mistaken." "Mistaken! How could I be mistaken?" "You were mistaken about the box being empty, weren't you?" "I don't think so. But"—He broke off abruptly and, looking wistfully into Willoughby's face, walled. "Bay, doctor, what the dickens is the matter with me anyway?" Suddenly he pulled out a handmade gold watch from one of his trousseau pockets and almost shrieked: "Why, what the dickens is like?" "Why, it's my watch. I was wondering where it had gone." "But where did I get it?" demanded James Cluney miserably. "That's just it. Where did you get it?" "Oh yes. I remember now," returned Cluney in awe stricken tones. "I was in your consultation room for a few minutes with you this afternoon. I recollect seeing the watch on the table. I must have taken it then—consciously." "Unconciously! You must have done it when I wasn't looking, you know." James Cluney shuddered, and the doctor went on kindly and seriously: "See here. James. I want to ask you something. In your answer I want the truth. Now, don't be offended. Have you ever taken anything before?" "What do you mean?" snapped Claney. "Do you think I am a thief?" "No, no. Don't mishunderstand me." "But you insinulate that I take things." "Unconsciously. In a moment of excitement like this—your wedding day." "I never heard such rot. I!" "Unconscious kleptomania, we doctors call it Why, it's common nowadays." "It is it" "Certainly, I know hundreds of cases. Now, to your knowledge was there ever a kleptomaniac in your family?" "Why, is it hereditary? My Lord! That uncle I told you about! The one who used to suffer from paroxysms of lying! Maybe he was a kleptomaniac, too, though I never heard of it." "Now, don't let it excite you. It's not incurable. Well it got it in its early stages, and!" "Early stages he hanged!" abouted Cluney, as he plumped himself down upon the sofa. Dr Willoughby seated himself on the sofa by the side of his friend and said soothingly: "Keep cool, James. It's no crime. It's a disease." "Disease." Oh, what are you talking? "Don't lose your temper," pleaded Willoughby. "If your nerves fall you'll lose your power of will to regulate your actions. Whatever you do, don't mention this to a soul. If they ever learn that your uncle was a kleptomanic they'll watch you like hawks." "But, see here, doctor, this is ridiculous. Why, you can't imagine for a moment that I—" "There, there." Now, change the subject," he begged. "I can't change the subject. You really believe I've inherited that you founded uncle infirmity, though you told me at my rooms that I was in no danger." "We were talking about lying, then." Willoughby reminded him quietly. "But never mind. Forget it, please. As a medical man I know what is best, and I tell you to forget it." "Barger it! One moment you tell me I'm a kleptomanic and the next you prate to me that I must forget it. Ha, haa." "Don't worry, old man. There's no scriptum for it. Here"—be cook a handle of neatly folded papers held together by a rubber band from his coat pocket and gave them to Cluney—"here's something to occupy your mind—your international steel bonds." "Steel bonds? growled Cluney. 'I don't want any steel bonds.'" "Why, you 'phoned me to get' them out of the vault and bring them to you." "Oh, Lord! I'm so excited I forgot. Yes, I'm going to give them to Mudge for a wedding present." "Mother's lost her ear trumpet!" Like a hollow voice from the tomb came this awful announcement. ing vacantly around without paying any attention to what the two young men had been talking about. "Oh, Lord!" groaned Cluney. "It was a beautiful jeweled ear trumpet," went on Mr. Carr fatuously. James Cluney whispered in agonized tones to Willoughby, "Do you suppose— "No, no," replied Willoughby, in a low voice, "Don't worry." "Have either of you seen it?" asked Mr. Carr. "An ear trumpet?" fenced Dr. Willoughby. "No, I— "Mother thought this was it," explained Carr, holding up the piece of garden hose. "But I can sweat I put this hose in this table drawer the last time I was in this room." He opened the drawer as he spoke and, with an interjection of surprise and pleasure, drew from it the missing ear trumpet. "Why, here it is!" he exclaimed. "How did it get in there?" The problem was too much for him so he did not try to work it out; but putting the piece of bone in the drawer and laying the ear trumpet on the table, he turned to Cluney and said: "James, Cluney-I mean Madge—told me to tell you"— "Oh, Mr. Carr," interrupted Cluney as he held out the packet of bones "will you please put this in a safe place for me till after the wedding?" "What is it?" asked Mr. Carr. "A present for Madge." "Oh, I see," said Carr as he took the bones and slipped them through his fingers. "International steel bones oh! Why, I have a bundle of these things in my make new. Teek them from Douglas Jamesco—you know him for morning for a little. Thank you." ```markdown ``` earn enough to pay interest. He's going to redeem them today, thank heaven! No more speculative stock for me." "But these aren't speculative," corrected Dr. Willoughby. "They are bonds guaranteed to pay 1 per cent. The common stock is speculative. Perhaps that's what you've taken as security." "Oh, that's so," said Mr. Carr, looking at the bonds again. "These are bonds, of course. Here, put them in the safe, James." He handed the pocket of bonds to James Cluney and turned away, as if he did not want to be bothered with them, while Cluney went to the safe and tried to open the door. "The safe is locked, Mr. Carr," he said. "Oh, it is. I'd forgotten. Wait. I'll give you the combination." He took out a notebook and consulted it while he distracted. "Right," proclaimed Cuney as he opened the safe door. Then, standing up, the bonds in his hand, he said, "I wish you'd put these bonds in the safe, if you don't mind." "Certainly," said Mr. Carr, taking the bonds. "What's the matter? Afraid to trust yourself around where there are valuable artifacts?" The Interloper JAMES CLUNEY turned quickly to look at Dr. Willoughby, who motioned to him not to betray himself. William Carr put the beads in the safe and took from it a negligent sunburst pin. "What do you think of that?" he asked as he held out the sunburst to Cluney. The young man was about to take it. Then he abruptly thrust his hands behind him as if he were afraid of it. "By George, that's a beauty!" he declared, looking at the sunburst as it lay in Mr. Carr's palm. "I didn't know you went in for jewelry." "Mother's always afraid of losing it," said Mr. Carr as he put the sunburst back in the safe. "It will be Madge's some day." He was in the act of closing the safe door when Mrs. Carr called from outside the room in the hall: "William, William!" "Yes, mother! he shouted back." "Did you find my car trumpet?" He jumped up as he shout the door of the safe, but in his ignition forgot to lock it and called out: "Your car trumpet? Yes, here it is." Hastily grunting the telephone, he had taken a step or two away from the table when Dr. Willoughby stopped him and, depriving him of the telephone instrument, put the car trumpet in his hand, remarking, with a smile: "You've got the wrong article, Mr. Carr." "He's nearly as bad as you are, old man," laughed Dr. Willoughby to James Cluney. "This wedding has got him all fused up." "It's all very well to laugh," complained Cluney, "but this is a very serious matter. If you really think I am a kleptomaniac this marriage ought to be postponed." The two went out, and for a few moments the library was empty. Then the door communicating with the kitchen part of the house opened, and Nell came in with a noiseless step. One glance around, and she shook her head at somebody, outside. "Hush!" she hosed. Jack Deegan walked into the room and glanced appreciatively, at the evidences of wealth he saw on every side. "Some swell damp, Nell!" "Hush, Jack!" "What's the matter, Nell?" "Take it on the run, Jack!" she whispered horribly. "We're in wrong horn. They've telephoned headquarters for a plain clothes man." "They're so to me!" "No, not pet. They thought they'd lost a ring. I'd capped it. But I also need it build." ```markdown ``` "So they'd find it and stop looking for it. I'll stick around here, Jack, but you beat it—quick!" "And leave you to take a chance? Not on your lifel. Not me! Now, don't get panicky, Neil. We're bound to have lock now that we're going to turn straight. Remember, this is to be our last trick." "You really mean that, Jack, don't you?" said the girl anxiously. "And you're going to macry me, ain't you?" "Yes, Jack." "Woll, that's why I'm going to turn straight," he said emphatically. "But will you stay straight, Jack?" "You bet I will. Say, look here, Nell. Everybody in the world has got an ambition. You're mine, honey. Here, I've got something to show you," he went on as he took a folded paper from his inside pocket. "It's our marriage license. We'll be splicked this evening, and then the straight and narrow" for ours evermore. But we've got to get a bank roll to make an honest start with, ain't we? He kissed the girl affectionately and added in a brisk tone: "Come on, Nell, let's clean up What's loose?" "Wedding presents and the family silver," was her answer. "Family silver ain't enough to make on honest start with," was his brief dictum. "Have you got the combination of this?" He was pointing to the safe. "No, Jack. I've only been here twenty minutes." "I'll turn it inside out in less than that time," he declared, confidently. "There's a getaway front and back, isn't there?" "Look out, Jack! There's somebody coming," warned the girl eagerly. "Quick, get in that closet!" Mrs. Carr and her husband came in. They were talking earnestly and concerning the same kind of thing that had occupied the attention of the household—namely, the mysterious disappearance of some article of value. "Yes, it's most extraordinary," said Mrs. Carr. "I was showing it to Joan in this room only a few moments ago, and she tells me that she showed it to you." "Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Carr shortly. "We found the ring, but now we've lost a diamond bracelet." "A diamond bracelet, ma'am!" exclaimed Nell, with becoming awe. "Oh, dear." "But you took it out with you, didn't you, mother?" put in Mr. Carr. "And you haven't been in here since, so it must be in some other part of the house." "I'll look all over, ma'am," volunteered Nell. "Perhaps you dropped it on the stairs. I'll search very thoroughly." "Yes, do. I hope you'll find it." Nell bowed and went out, ostensibly to look on the staircase, but really in the hope that Mrs. Carr would follow with her husband and give Jack Doogan a chance to get away. "William," said Mrs. Carr when they were alone, "I hate to suggest it, but are you sure you haven't taken it?" Mr. Carr frowned and began to go through his pockets irritably. "Mother, how could I?" he began. Then, with a slammed face, he slowly drew the bracelet from his pocket. "William!" cried Mrs. Carr reproachfully. "Well, now, how did that get into my pocket?" said Mrs. Carr in a tone of perplexity. "William!" intoned Mrs. Carr solemnly as she took the bracelet from him, you've gone back to taking things again." The bracelet was an extremely beautiful one and had cost a great deal of money, for it was Mrs. Carr's wedding present to her daughter, and the mother had not spared her own or her husband's pocketbook in procuring the best she could get. William Carr gazed at it dizzily. "Mother, I haven't taken anything for years," he protested into her ear trumpet. She shook her head and sat down by the table in sad thought for a second or two. Then: "William, I wish you would realize what a dreadful thing it would be for Madge if James should find out about your affliction. He would think you were a"— "A thief. A thief!" spluttered William Carr, more violently than it was his wont to speak. "Go on, say it. Anyone who knows me knows better. They know that when I take things I always put them back—if I don't forget it. It's absent-mindedness, mother. I just can't help it." "I know, dear—I know. But do be careful," she answered as she said the bracelet on the table. "Please be careful for Madge's sake." "I'll be careful, mother. I'll be careful." She got up and went to the bookcase, where she selected a volume she wanted. It occupied her perhaps two minutes. In that time William Carr picked up the bracelet, looked at it a moment, as if examining its workmanship, and then calmly put it into his pocket. He had just hidden the bracelet when his wife came back to the table, book in hand, and looked about anxiously: "Why, where is it?" she exclaimed. "The bracelet! I said it on the table a moment ago." "Here it is," said William Carr, with a queer smile, and he took the article from his pocket and put it on the table. "William" cried Mrs. Carr reprovingly as she turned over the leaves of her book to assure herself she had the one she wanted. Mr. Carre still smiling, did not reply, but he quietly picked up his wife's ear trumpet and the breastset from the table and placed them on another bookcase, which she stood to be close to the door of the room in which Jack Duggar was hiding. Then the tall gentleman walked back to the table with his trumpet. "Madge wants you, Mrs. Carr," said Dr. Willoughby, coming in hastily. "Oh, yes, thank you, doctor," responded Mrs. Carr graciously. "Come along, William." Dr. Willoughby ran quickly to the telephone and called "Central" with a sharp, "Hello." The door of the closet opened and Doogan's hand reached out to the top of the bookcase and picked up the bracelet and ear trumpet. Before the hand could be withdrawn, however, Dr. Willoughby continued into the telephone, "Give me police headquarters" and Doogan swiftly replaced the bracelet and ear trumpet on the bookcase, drew back into the closet and shut the door. James Cluney entered, a picture of misery. "What are you telephoning for?" he asked wearily. "Hello, James! I'm calling up police headquarters. I want to tell them not to send that man. The ring's been found." "Better have him over anyway," said James, with a gloomy smile. "What for?" "To watch me," snapped Cluney. "I am liable to take something if I'm not watched. Don't you think so?" "But you can't explain his presence in the house," said Willoughby, taking Cluney's words quite seriously. Then, into the telephone: "Hello, headquarters! This is Mr. Carr's home. Mr. Cluney phoned to you—Wilat? The man's on the way?" "Good!" muttered James Cluney. "Oh, all right!" said Willoughby into the telephone. "I'll explain to your man when he gets here." He hung up the receiver, and, picking up his hat and black leather medicine bag, turned to James Cluney: "You see, Jannen, they've sent a detective. But I'll tell you what I will do. 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. I'll wait for him at the corner of the block and stall him off." James Climney was sitting at the table, his head in his hands, the picture of dejection, when Madge stole gently into the room and took one of his hands. He jumped like the guilty thing he believed himself to be. "Hello! What's the matter? I didn't— Oh, it's you, Madge! Ha, ha! You started me. I was thinking. I was thinking about you, darling." "I knew that," she said. "But come on, dear. The minister is waiting. We're all ready." "Wait a minute, love. I—I"— "Wait? What for, pet?" "Dr. Walthoughly has gone, sweet-heart," blurted out Clinney desperately. "The best man gone? Why?" "Yes. We can't be married without the best man, can we?" Out of the corner of his eye James Clinney perceived that William Carr had slipped in and was seemingly searching for something, not only about the room, but in his own pockets. "Oh, he needn't look," thought Clinney. "If anything is lost, I have it, of course." Then, aloud, to Madge: "Yes, it's too bad, isn't it? Loving our best man like this." "Where did he go, dearest?" asked Madge. "I stole him. I mean I don't know. At least— Yes. I do. He's gone across the street. He'll be back directly." "William," broke in Mrs. Carr's voice at the open door. "This is too much." Then, to her daughter: "Madge, he's misguid my ear trumpet again." Now, William, what did you do with it? You had it in your hand." "I put it right here," declared Mr. Carr, as he went to the bookcase. "No. I only thought I did," he added, as he found the top of the bookcase empty. "Now, what did I do with it?" "And, William, the diamond bracelet?" asked Mrs. Carr. "You had it in your hand at the same time. What did you do with that?" "A diamond bracelet, mother?" shouted Madge—for it was difficult to talk to Mrs. Carr when her ear trumpet was absent. "Yes, my wedding present to you, darling. Now, William, what did you do with it?" "I don't know. I don't know," was his helpless reply. "Why will I be so suffering?" Madge and her mother were about to go and look in William Carr's room when they met the minister and Caroline coming in. The goverend gentleman seemed decidedly disturbed, and there was a alight acidity in his tone as he said: "I'm sorry to hurry you, but I've another wedding engagement today, and I should like this ceremony to take place without any further delay." "We'll be ready in just a few moments, Mr. Spelain," put in Madge. "We've lost a diamond bracelet, and we want to find it before we do anything else." Mr. Spelain threw up his hands in despair and, muttering, "This means another postponement, I suppose," went out to find Mr. Carr. Carr and Cluney were buddy looking about the room in all places they could think of, likely and unlikely, as is the custom of people when hunting for a lost article. The two bumped into each other in a corner. Suddenly Mr. Carr stood up straight and, fixing James Cluney with his eye, asked with what Cluney thought unnecessary significance: "How long have you been in this room alone?" "Just a few minutes. Why?" "Are you sure you didn't see them?" James Cluney scowled, and he could not help thinking how it would, delight him to take his respected father-in-law to be by a convenient part of his clothing and throw him out of the window. But he only said: "Certainly I haven't seen them. Don't you suppose I'd tell you if I had?" "Well, I can swear they were in this room the last time I was here," persisted Mr. Carr. "A distend bracelet, and a jeweled ear trumpet are not the right things to leave lying around loose," was Cluney's rejoinder. "Has any one been in here with you?" asked Mr. Carr. "Yes. Dr. Willoughby was here." "Oh, nonsense! He wouldn't take them. Are you sure you didn't see them?" A Side Line Love Episode. JAMES CLUNEY closed the table drawer, where he had been looking for the fourth time, with a tremendous slam, and William Carr jumped nervously. "Mr. Carr," thundered Cluney, "what do you mean to instillate by all this cross questioning?" "Oh, nothing—nothing!" replied Mr. Carr hardly. "Only it seems to me as if there must be a kleptomaniac in the house." With this shot at the young man he went out. James Cluney sink into a chair and exploded: "My Lord, he suspects me! Well, I can't blame him. Hello, Willoughby!" he went on as the doctor came in. "Where's that detective? Has he got his handcuffs with him?" "There's nobody in sight that looks to me like a detective. What's the matter with you?" he added as Cluney jumped to his feet excitedly. "You seem to be in a nervous fever." "Well, can you wonder? There's a diamond bracelet has been stolen. I suppose I took it. But I don't remember the slightest thing about it, on my word of honor. It was lost in this room. Everybody is searching for it everywhere. I have looked for it everywhere and can't find it anywhere." At the door they met Joan coming in, who stared at him in surprise, for he was wild looking enough to make anybody start. "Has anybody found the bracelet?" asked Joan. "No!" shouted Cluney. "But I'll find it. I can find anything if I'm only watched. You watch me! Wow! I'm going outside to meet him," announced Cluney cryptically. "Dr. Willoughby will tell you, Joan." Then to Willoughby, "You explain to her, won't you?" "I can't explain," declared the doctor. "Then make love to her!" howled Cluney as he vanished. "Now, Joan, you'll have to answer me," said Willoughby. "I determined, when I came here, that I would have an understanding with you—if I could get it. Now, don't you wish it were our welding day?" "Don't ask impertinent questions. It seems to me that you would hardly have, time for the ceremony—even if you were going to get married. Those old patients of yours are always taking you away." "Well, I'm a doctor, and I must go when I'm called. It is sometimes a case of life or death," he added gravely. "Oh, of course, I know that. I didn't mean exactly what I said. But I do hope you won't be called away today before the wedding breakfast." "So do I. Do you really want me to stay?" "Of course I so. Oh, isn't it a lot of fun, though? Don't you just love weddings?" she went on, with a conjecturefulness that made it difficult for Dr. Willoughby not to take her in his arms and carry her off to the hymenal altar there and then. "Do you love weddings?" he countered, with a desperate effort at self-control. "I should say so," replied Joan. "I'm an nervous as if I were going to be married myself." "And would you really be nervous if you were going to be married yourself, Joan?" "Indeed, I should. Wouldn't you be?" "I should be wild with happiness, if that's what you mean," he answered, sitting a little closer to her. There was a pause. The doctor couldn't think of anything else to say just then, and Joan was turning something over in her mind, as was evidenced by her next remark: "You and James Chuny have been chums for a long time, haven't you?" "Yes." "Always together when we go, your profession and his business interests surround?" "Yes, Joan." "Won't you be careful that he be careful to keep with you?" SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914. came and went in her transparently fair checks. Dr. Willoughby looked at her steadily while he fumbled in his pockets and finally brought out a folded paper of official looking aspect. He opened this paper and spread it before her are he answered her question: "Yes, I shall be lonely, as you say. So this morning I went down town and got a marriage license." Joan drew away from the paper as if she were afraid of it and gasped: "A marriage license! Why, whatever for?" "I don't you think your sister and my friend James Cluney are setting us an example that we should profit by?" And there was a world of love in his eyes. "Why, what do you mean, doctor?" asked Joan, in a pretty flutter of fear and perplexity and perhaps another and softer emotion. "Now, don't call me 'doctor,'" he pleaded. "You know my name, and you know my southmounds, Joan, my dear, I can't stand this much longer," and his voice shook as he proceeded. "I'm really in love with you, and you know it." "What? Oh, doctor?" "Yes, and you're madly in love with me," he added bodily as his arm stole around her waist. he jumped up as the door to the hall opened and Mr. Carr looked in. He went away again in once. But he had stopped the poor young man at a critical moment. Dr. Walthoughly stuilt the license into his pocket and muttered mildly: "Doeze take him! I nearly had hee. That old man's always in the way." "What were you saying?" asked Joan natively. "Oh, I can't tell you here. Let's go into the dining room. There's nobody there. But really, Joan." "Hush!" she said. "Don't talk so loud. Wait till we are in the dining room." "All right. Only it seems to me that you are always telling me to wait," he complained. "But I'm going to finish what I started to say, either in the dining room or somewhere else." "I don't know whether I want to hear it," she giggled. "At least until we have found Madge's traveler." "Well, then, it's up to me to find the branche. I suppose," he returned as they disappeared very close together on their way to the dining room. For several seconds somebody had been waiting at the door from the kitchen regions for the doctor and Joan to go out of the library. The somebody had entitlement pushed the door open an inch or two, watching and ready to retreat if by any chance either of them had moved in that direction. Now that the coast was clear the door opened wide, and the person who I "I'm madly in love with you, and you know it." had been waiting, none other than the pretty lady's maid, Nellie Jones, came in with a large bundle in her arms. The bundle contained articles of irregular shape and, unyielding substance, and it all jingled as Nell walked across the room to the closet where Jack Doogan was hiding. Nell opened the closet door gently, and as she did so Jack Doogan stepped forward, his ponderous left foot poised to strike. He dropped his flat hurriedly when he saw who it was. "Gee, Nell! I came near landing on you that time, kid. You want to knock when you come into my room." "Hush, Jack!" whispered the girl. "Go on and beat it. If you don't well be nubbed sure." "Not on your life, kiddo!" was Jack Doogan's positive rejoinder. "Not on your life! Not until we get some of this stuff. And judging from that young tshishop in your arms—it's all right. Let's see." She placed the bundle—which he had called a "young shishop"—in his arms, saying anxiously, "Grab this and scoot, Jack." "What's in this?" "Jewelry. The wedding presents." "Our wedding presents," said Doogan, with a grin. Hell had opened the door to the front hall a little way and now waved, her hand frantically at Doogan as she called in a fronded whisper: "Get back, thorn, quick. Jack! Bombs can be spotted!" "All right. Watch the bundle. Neil replied I know as he bolted into the closet and shit the door. Neil was busy at the table putting things straight that had never been otherwise, where the door was pushed open, and in came a fat man in a brown business suit. He had a red face and white eyelashes. At first glance Neil recognised him as the detective who had stepped on her pet dog in the Grand Central station. "What are you looking at?" "Nothing, sir." replied Neil. "Do you generally leave the front door open, so that anybody can walk in?" he demanded. "Sometimes, sir." "Sometimes?" He paused impressively, the mutual staring never ceasing. Then he growled abruptly, "Who are you?" "I'm the indy's maid, sir." "Lady's maid? H'm! I want to see Mr. Cluney." "He's out, sir." "Out?" His tone indicated that he did not believe her, and he continued to stare. "Yes, sir," said Nell. "He's out." "All right. Then I'll wait for him," announced the detective, seating himself on the edge of a chair, but never taking his eyes off the girl. "Shall I tell the family you wish to see?" "No," interrupted the detective. "I don't want to see the family—just Cluney, that's all. You sit him one of those cards when he comes in and tell him I'm waiting in here for him." He handed a card to Nell, and Jack Doogan, who had been trying to, hear the conversation from the slightly opened closet door, leaned forward as if he wanted to see what was on the card. "Yes, sir," said Nell to the detective. Then reading from the card, "Police Headquarters." Doogan sprang back and closed the closet door with a much louder bang than he had intended. The detective jumped from his chair and looked around suspiciously. "What's that?" he demanded. "What's what?" came from Nell's trembling lips. "That noise." "Which noise, sir?" "That." The detective made a peculiar sound in his throat by which he tried to imitate the rattling of a door. It was not a bit like it, but Nell knew what he meant and she answered domestically: "It was the wind, I guess, alr." "The wind, eh?" He walked completely around the girl, his eyes fixed on her all the time and then jerked out. "What's that door?" "Which door?" she asked. He pointed to the door of the closet where Doogan was hidden. "That door," he said. "The one you are looking at." "Oh, that?" exclaimed Nell, with a little smile of comprehension, as if she hadn't noticed the door before. "Oh, that's just a door, alr." "Any one in there?" he asked. Nell hesitated and a flush covered her pretty face as she stammered. "What did you say, sir?" "Say, what's the matter with you?" he bowled, turning on her savagely. "Nothing, sir." Without deliging to waste further time in a colloquy which promised to get him nowhere, Joseph Thompson, the famous detective, after giving Nell a look of withering suspicion, strode over to the closet and fung it wide open. Inside he found Jack Doogan, with his back to the door, but the young man swung around when it opened. "Hello!" said Doogan. "Hello!" retorted the detective. "What are you doing in that closet?" "I was hanging up my coat," replied Doogan easily. "Hanging up your coat, eh? Who are you?" "Huh!" grunted Doogan inquiringly. "Who are you?" repeated the detective in a slightly louder tone. Noll ran forward eagerly, snapping her fingers at Doogan behind Thompson's back, as she said in a rather breathless voice: "Oh, this is sir. Cluney, sir—the gentleman you asked to see." "Are you Mr. Cluney?" asked Thompson, trying to bore down to Doogan's soul with his goggle eyes, but certainly not succeeding. Nell was trying to tell Doogan in pantomime behind Thompson's back that the man was a detective, but Doogan did not know what she meant. He did know who Thompson was, however, and all he was praying for was that the detective would not recognize him as the man he had tried to arrest in the Grand Central station. But, as Doogan had remarked to Neil the evening before, the detective had obtained only the slightest glimpse of his (Doogan's) face, and there was very little danger. He was more glad of it now than ever. "Are you Cluney?" repeated the detective. The quick witted Doogan saw that for some reason it would be well for him to assume the role of this man Cluney, and he replied in an offhand way: "Yes; my name is Cluney. Are you the detective I sent for?" "I'm from headquarters. You are Cluney, then?" "Yes." "The detective turned sharply on Neil. "How's this? You said Cluney was out?" Again Doogan leaped into the breach. "That's all right, officer," he said. "I told her to say that. Hush! Look here! I've got a big case for you: Hush! But you've got to keep it quiet." "Yes." put in Neil. "Hush!" "Now, listen," went on Doogan, clutching the detective's arm. "I want you to sneak cut of this house without any one seeing you and come back in an hour. It's a mysterious case." "Vary mysterious," added Neil. "Eh!" circulated the detective. "I can't tell you what the case is now." said Doogan. "But you go on." think out and be back in an hour. Bee? "What the — — began Lieutenant Thompson, almost lapping into profanity in his bowelderment. 'What's this all about, anyway?' "Please do as I say, begged Doogan, or you'll spoil your chance of unraveling this mystery. It's a secret case." "Oh, I see," observed the detective, with a sage nod. "Is she in the secret?" pointing to Noll. "Yes; the only witness," replied Doogan. "Go on. Do as I tell you, sneak out and be back in an hour." "Don't be late, sir," warned Neil. "Be back in an hour, and we'll catch them sure." "Them?" repeated the detective, much interested. "Is there more than one?" "Yes. Sure! Two of them. Better bring an assistant along." answered Doogan. "Don't forget. One hour!" "I'll be here." "Hush!" whispered Doogan. "Look here! Are you a good detective?" "Gee, that was a close shave!" muttered Doogan as he bent to examine the steel safe by the table. His sensitive fingers wandered over the combination. Then he turned the handle, but without expecting it to yield. "Oh, you baby," he exclaimed, "It's open!" Hardly were the words out of his mouth when he fell flat on the floor behind the table. Some one had come in. But it was only Nell. "It's all right, Jack!" she whispered. "He's gone." "Good! Say, Nell, what do you think of this? The door was open—the door of this safe." "Oh, anything is likely to happen in this house," remarked Nell acornfully. "Get busy, Jack." [TO BE CONTINUED] THE By his brilliant victories over the Germans generalist victories over the French commander in chief of the French army, this invasion of the national capital This in one of the most pictures received the French commander and received the French commander with members of the staff at an improvised bench on the battlefield. Three Dile In Railroad Tunnel. 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Worry, sends as many people to the grave yard an does disease and ret most all of us worry. * We should not look for pure and undefiled religion all of the time in the churches of the country. --- It pays too to be neat and tidy. This applies to the men folks as much as it does to the women folks. --- War taxes with no war. Could any administration explain it? The reduction to the tariff is now to be paid out of the pockets of the people. Nagelden was quoted as saying that God was on the side of the strongest battalions. Emperor William of Germany seems to be of the same opinion. ```markdown ``` We have not been able to figure out how Hon. Theodore Roosevelt can ever be President of the United States again, and yet he may reach that pinnacle again. --- When a man has lost out in every thing else, there are two things, no is disposed to do; enter the ministry or go into politics and abuse the colorful folks. about loss are much concerned what the white folks do against them after they "have gone and done it," but not active enough before hand to prevent these infurious occurrences. --- Mexico is still unsettled. The outlook is that Gen. Huerta's provisional government was in better shape when it went out of action than the Curranza government is at present time. --- "It is all well enough to marry the man you want when you can get him, but it is just as well to marry one you don't want. You'll have all the trouble you are looking for anyhow. This rule applies to the males as well as the females. Some of our citizens over on this side are very much worried about what will become of the women that so many of the soldiers of both the German and French armies are leaving behind. It may be well to send several ship-loads of young men over there from this side for "stay at home" purposes. --- When colored citizens were permitted to vote it was alleged that we had a corrupt electorate. Now that they have eliminated the colored citizens vote, they still have a corrupt electorate and most all of the white folks are talking about it. Can a white citizen be segregat- anced against his will, when he is free vent from contagious diseases? Can disc this be lawfully done? If it is in a done, what becomes of the protec- tion to life liberty and property is give guaranteed in the Constitution of the Colored people should not relax their efforts to have their children observe upright living. Politeness and good manners are the fundamental principles of success in life. Practice this towards white and colored people and all will be well. If the colored leaders, both male and female would lend their efforts to looking after the boys and girls of tender years, our city streets would not be constantly furnishing material for the jails, penitentiaries and electric chairs. We cannot afford to shift this responsibility to the shoulders of the officers of the law. 5.50 From the newspaper accounts all of the Austrians were killed by the Russians last week. Still they are sending something like three hundred thousand troops to assist the German army in France. These can't be dead men, shipped for this purpose. ```markdown ``` It was said over here that a fifteen inch gun was unsafe to fire more than a specified number of times. Now these Germans have brought out a 16.8 inch gun, which is raid to be good, for any number of rounds and will last a lifetime. President Woodrow Wilson has succeeded in having more legislation upon the statute books of this country than any other President except Col. Roosevelt. Still, food is high and higher and the war tax is now to be inflicted upon a long-suffering people. The opinion is gaining ground that the theories of the Democratic Party have failed of practical realization. The elections in November will give everybody a line on what the masses of the people think about the matter The Colored Alabamian at Montgomery. Ala. is not satisfied with the outcome of the National Baptist Convention and announces that a movement is on foot to bring about a change in the organization. Opposition will have a tendency to improve conditions. While we do not know specifically the troubles, in a general way, we have not noted anything, but what can be remedied. A conference of some of the conservative leaders to the opposition, may accomplish all that is desired within the ranks. Eliminate office-seeking and the office-seekers and the agitation will bear wholesome fruit. --- R. Petitford, President of Alabama Penny Savings Bank and President of the National Negra Bankers' Association is no more. He was the center of financial information in Birmingham. Alabama and ranked so far above his fellows in the field of finance that there is no one thoroughly qualified to take his place. We read of his death with sadness and we felt his demise as keenly as we would have done, had he been one of our own official family. --- Some people believe that Hon. Woodrow Wilson will be an easy candidate to defeat the next time. We are not of the opinion. The cause of it is that no Party seems to have a strong candidate to line up against him. Ex-President Roosevelt could win on the Republican ticket, but the trouble is, he cannot get on the Republican ticket and the Progressive ticket is not strong enough to bear his weight. ```markdown ``` Now they are after Dr. Booker T. Washington again, alleging that he discouraged the fight on segregation by the colored people of the country. The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger says that Dr. Washington did not make any such statement, and so it goes. Whether he said it or not, if he did say it, he should not have done so, and if his detractors say he said it and he did not say it then they should be ashamed of themselves. We think we have noted a radical change in Dr. Washington and his policy and there are latent evidences of man-hood and man-hood that thousands of people did not believe that he possessed. --- We do not approve of the publicity given to the statements that certain ministers, who were in attendance at the National Baptist Convention were guilty of immoral indictments. This charge appeared in a Philadelphia journal, which could illly have afforded to have given out such information since the visitors were there as guests of the city. When it comes to human ally, there is hardly a body of five thousand white or colored ministers that would not find a few of its members enjoying for a brief season, "the flesh-pots of Egypt." These cases cited should have been brought to the attention of the National Baptist Convention and if that body failed to take cognizance of the charges and refused to punish the guilty parties, then it would have been in order to publish the affair to the discredit of this organization. The shocking death of Lleutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth at Monrovia, California removes from the field of action one of the most remarkable characters. this country has ever produced. He held the highest rank ever achieved by a citisep of color in the United States Army. We visited his pleasant and palatial home in Los Angeles upon our visit to the Coast and we wore royally entertained by him. That he should have been the victim of a motor cycle accident is all the more regrettable. These surprising happenings are puzzling and but little understood. We figure just how they might have been avoided and yet sometimes, we are led to believe in destiny. 'The widow has our sympathy and his family all of the consolation that an admiring friend can give. He sleeps but we shall meet him again. We have received a unique pamphlet entitled, "Song Tract Poem P公ation. The Last Call." It is copyrighted by James Alexander Chiles, Esq. 148 N. Limestone St. Lexington, Ky. and may be obtained from him. The publication is amply copyrighted, both in this country and Canada. It consists of suggestive illustrations and quotations from the Scriptures, embracing each line of the poem. It is unique and interesting as well as highly instructive to all. --- It seems to us that agitation is needed and that some well direct effort on the part of the colored people themselves should be made to check of this pale of oppression which has now settled down all over the country. With the elimination of our political rights has come the interference with our property rights and from freemap to serf is but a short walk in the distance. Colored men, must stand up for their rights and they should not depend upon others to stand up for them. a are contending for the right of suffrage, let the colored men contend for the same thing. Political "poll" against us is accomplishing our ruin. We have never believed that the colored people should eschew politics. This was the commencement of our undoing and the sooner, we get back on the political road again, the better. Rights are controlled and curtailed by politics. This is the lever to be used in our favor, just as some white folks have been using it against us. Thousands of white men in the Southland wish us well and will help us. Let us start out by helping ourselves. THE SITUATION IN NEW YORK. The result of the primaries in New York would seem to indicate that there will be a 'battle royal' for political supremacy in the Empire State this Fall. The nomination of Gov. Glynn as the Democratic candidate is generally regarded as a victory for Tammany Hall. Gov. Glynn has not the support of the united Democracy and it may be that Hon. Charley S. Whitman may make some inroads upon him among the rank and file of his party. The Republican organization could not have done better than it did when it named District Attorney Whitman as the gubernational nominee of that party. He is a favorite among those independent voters, whose support is essential to win in this great contest. If the Republicans cannot win with him as the standard bearer, then they cannot win with any one else. He has a reputation second to no leader in this country. If he can sweep New York State by a sufficiently large majority, he will unquestionably be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. The Republican Party is lacking in presidential "timber." All of the great leaders, who would suit for the position have been retired to private life. The logical candidate of the Party is Hon. Elith Root and he has removed himself from the list of possibilities by declaring that he is out of public life, as far as occupying public office is concerned and we do not blame him. The masses of the people seem to The Progressive Party has presented a sorry spectacle in New York State. Ex-Governor William Sulzer nearly succeeded in his effort to capture the nomination of that Party. The result was so close, that he claimed his election at first. Hon. Frederick M. Davenport claims a majority of only 5,740. Mr. Davenport was endorsed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt. It is not surprising that this distinguished statesman had nothing to say on the result of the primary. The indications are that the Progressive Party has seen its best days. It can only continue in action for the purpose of defeating the Republican Party drawing enough Republicans from the regular organization to make the success of the Democratic Party secure. This was done in the recent Maline elections. When ox-President Roosevelt offered to support Hon. Harvey D. Hinman as the Republican candidate for Governor, this was as far as he was willing to go. It may be that the Democrats can win next November, but it does not seem possible. If they retain control of the congress of the United States, then the renomination and reelection of President Woodrow Wilson may be regarded as a forgone conclusion. * WHAT'S IN A NAME? Mr. R. H. Ball of Lawrence, Mass. is bitterly opposed to the use of the word, Negro, in the designation of the citizens of color in the United States. We have never been able to understand why such a name should have been applied to us after a residence here dating back to the early settlers of this country. We became more opposed to the use of it, when some of our enemies proceeded to designate our women as negroes. This tended to increase our antagonism. It is but fair to say that the colored people themselves have been largely responsible for the use of the term. Thousands "nigger" in speaking to each other so they do it in the presence of the white folks. If Mr. Ball, in conjunction with ourselves and others can stop this practice, then it may be that a change may be affected. It may be well to remark though that Dr. Bloomer T. Washington, the admitted leader of the colored people in this country has "O, K'd" the word Negro and it will be a long time before those of us who believe otherwise can counteract this view taken by htm. His league is known as the "National Negro Business League, National Negro Press Association, National Negro Bankers' Association. If the very able colored men, who compose these organizations accept these designations, what can such small men like R. H. Ball and the editor of this journal do? A WONDERFUL PREACHER AND SINGER. Orange, N. J., Union Baptist Church, Rev. P. W. Lawrence Ph. D. Pastor. January last we engaged the Rev. William H. Skipwith, our "Eraserlist" to begin a fall meeting for us at this time, and we are glad, to say that no mistake was made in the selection. For if there ever were a time that we needed upright, conscious, ministers, it is now: Not some one who believes in one thing, and preaches another; but one who knows the truth, and will speak it fearlessly regardless of where he is, whether he be a pastor in charge or an evangelist. Such men can always get my heartiest co-operation; and "brethern" when we need helpers these ought to be men we should seek. The real Evangelist, the God sent Evangelist, and the qualified Evangelist, of preacher, will be a help to any pastor or people. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to add my testimony with hundreds of others, but especially with the Rev. Dr. W. T. 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A Paris dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says: "It is stated here tonight (Tuesday) that the German right wing has been entirely broken and is now being pursued by the allies. All the automobiles in northern France have been requisitioned for the purposes of pursuit." The British war office says that it has no confirmation of this report and can add nothing to the French official bulletin, which states that the Germans are still attacking the French left, but that in every instance they have been repulled. The latest French bulletin says: "There is nothing new in the situation." The Paris dispatch, reporting the reverse of Von Rothk, is: "The right wing of the German army in France is in full retreat, according to information from the north. General Von Knick has offered to surrender to General Jornet, the French commander-in-chief, it is said if the Germans are allowed to retreat to their own country. "According to reports from the north, General Von Kluck's army began to break on Saturday under the terrific pounding of the French and British. The French had extended their lines to Combles, less than fifty miles from the Belgian border, and ten miles south of Baupaume, where they were vigorously assaulting the rear of the German right and the troops defending Von Kluck's line of communication into Belgium. "It was then that General Von Kluck opened the peace parley. In addition to demanding safe conduct to Germany, he agreed to guarantee that his soldiers would not ake up arms again during the war. General Joffre's reply to the German general's terms was to redouble the fury of the French bombardment. "When the German retreat began, it is reported, mitrailleuses were mounted on automobile trucks and sent in pursuit of the German army." "According to unofficial information, the Germans were exhausted. They could not make rapid progress and lost heavily. They are reported to have left behind many guns and a large quantity of munitions. "The consummation of this enveloping movement around Vona Kluck's army is believed to have been the cause of the recent tightening of the censorship. General Von Buelow's German army is reported to be in grave danger." It is the opinion of foreign military attaches that in any event the battle which will end the war will be fought soon, probably before the extreme cold weather sets in. Most of these men look for simultaneous conflicts, one in Belgium and west of the Rhine, and the other in the eastern theater of activities. French officers who have returned from the front seem to share the same opinion. They declare that there is a decided contrast between the spirit of the Germans and that of the allies. The French soldiers are absolutely confident of victory. In fact they are so convinced that the chief difficulty of the officers is keeping their troops from recklessly exposing themselves. It is reported that the Germans have renewed their operations in upper Alsace and that fierce fighting is again in progress in the vicinity of Muelhausen. The Germans continue their assaults against the Verdun-Toul line of forts, but it is officially denied that they have made any substantial progress. While no authentic figures are obtainable from military headquarters, officers who are familiar with the situation there, declare that the German casualties in the battle of the Alpine number fully 180,000 in killed, wounded and missing. The losses of the officers, they say, will probably reach 100,000 as at many points of the line it has been found necessary to deliver frontal attacks on heavily entrenched positions. In the case of the Germans, it is said, they have a far higher percent age of dead than the allies. The Brits have lost heavily, but all of the Germans in their forces have been filled with the members of the latest expedition to French France. The following official communications --- tion was issued in Paris: "On our left wing, to the north of the Somme and between the Somme and the Oise, the enemy has attempted night and day attacks and has been repulsed. On the north of the Alpine there is no change. "At the center, in the Champagne district, and to the east of the Argonne, the enemy has been engaged in conducting a heavy bombardment of our position. Between the Argonne region and the Meuse slight progress has been made by our troops, who find themselves facing strongly organized positions on the heights of the Meuse. "In the Woeuvre section and on our right wing (Lorraine and the Vosges) no notable change has occurred. "In a general way, our line is thrown east and west along a point from the region of Pont-au-Musson Apremont, the Muse, the region of St. Mihiel, the heights to the north of Spada and a part of the heights of the Muse to the Southeast of Nordun. "Between Verdun and Rhelins the central front is bounded by a line passing through the region of Varennes to the north of Soulin and Chausses Romaine, and at Rhelins places the approaches to Rhelins, the Rhelins road to Berry-au-Bac and the heights called the Chemin du Dames. "On the right bank of the River Alane this line follows the river as far as the region of Solassons. Between Solassons and the forest of L'Alagle includes the first plateau of the right bank of the Alane. Between the Rivers Oise and Somme this line corresponds to the front to Ribecourt (occupied by us), Lassignay (occupied by the enemy), Roye (occupied by us) and Chalons (the enemy). "To the north of the Somme the line stretches across the plateau between Albert and Chaulnes." The war office in Berlin in its official statement declared the operations in France had settled down to a general artillery duel, interposed with frequent assaults at the vital points along the line. The report says: "While the fighting is general, it is not apparent at any line of the battle that the conflict has entered into deciding stages. The German right has been subjected to severe pressure, but every attempt to pene trate it has been repelled with great loss to the enemy. "On the center there has been no decided change for nearly a week while on the left the fighting continues. Our forces continue to make mains along the lines of the Meuse." SAY PRINCE ADALBERT IS DEAD Died in Brussels Hospital, From Ger man Bullet, Physician Asserta. A Belgian doctor, just out of Brussels, says that Prince Adalbert, the kaiser's third son, died in a hospital there, and that Dr. Lepage, King Albert's physician, was ordered to hold an autopsy in the presence of two German doctors. It was found, he says, that the prince had been willed by a German bullet, and that in other examinations officers were found to have died, too from wounds made by German bullets. The man who told this was firmly convinced of the truth of his state ment, but it should be accepted with reserve. The English Language The English language contains about 600,000 words, but of this total nearly one-half consist of scientific terminology—that is, solidum met with outside of text books—and of archaic terms. An examination of 100,000 words shows them to comprise 40,000 words of Teutonic origin, 30,000 of Greek or Latin origin, and 10,000 words derived from miscellaneous sources. Milton wrote his "Paradise Lost" with 4000 words, and Shakespeare put up his plays with 10,000—New York Ameri can. Weak Tea Leads to Tragedy Because Mrs. Marie Noort, o. C cage, failed to make his tea so enough, her husband shot and Mie her and then committed suicide. Our glorious gone, the invaders march. Weeps triumph over each leveled arch: Freedom, such as God bath given Unto all beneath his heaven. With their breath and from their birth. Though Guilt would sweep it from the earth With a fierce and lavish hand, Scattering nations' wealth like sand, Pouring nations' blood like water In imperial seas of slaughter! But the heart and the mind, And the voice of mankind Shall arise in commonion— And who shall resist that proud union! The time is part when swords Even in this low world of care Freedom never shall want an beauty. Millions breathe, but to inherit Her forever bounding spirit— When once more her hosts assemble Tyrants shall believe and tremble. —Lord Byron. HAPPINESS A man who dedicates his life to knowledge becomes habituated to pleasure which carries with it no reproach; and there is one security that he will never love that pleasure which is paid for by anguish of heart—his pleasures are all cheap, all dignified and all innocent, and, as far as any human being can expect permanence in this changing scene, he has secured a happiness which no malignity of fectune can ever take away, but which must cleave to him while he lives, ameliorating every good and diminishing every evil of his existence—Sydney Smith. CLICK O' THE LATCH. The silence holds for it, taut and true; The young moon stays for it, wistful white; Winds that whimpered the sun set through, Sigh for it, low and light. Click o' the latch and he'll come home— A stir in the dusk at the little gate. Hosh, my heart, and be still, my heart— Surely it's sweet to wait! The tall skies lean for it, listening. Never a star but lends an ear. The passionate porch flowers stoop and cling. Parting their leaves to hear Click o' the latch, and him come home— A step on the flaga, a snatch of song. Hurry, my heart, be swift, my heart. How did we wait so long! -Nancy Byrd Turner in Lippincott's Magazine. NOBILITY OF WORK. All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. Carlyle. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well—Earl of Chesterfield. We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and our best doing is our best enjoy- ment—Jacobl. It is better to wear, oqt than to rust out—Bishop Horne. Nothing is impossible to industry. Periander. Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. -Longfellow. Going up! We're all Alpine imbers on the mounins of high prices. It's BENJAMIN BENJAMIN BENJAMIN Economy Hints A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin. NEW celery has a perfect forest of leaves if it is in good condition. The cartridge cost of these leaves from field to kitchen is something as they occupy at least half of the space of the whole bunch sometimes. Must they inevitably go into the waste can? No, it is wholly unnecessary. Every fair leaf may be cooked to the real enhancement of the menu on which it appears. Celery is lower in price now and better in some respects than at any other season of the year, but except for the hearts the most of it is better cooked than raw, although poorly cooked celery is a dreary dish. We may dry some of the leaves for future use, although this is less done than formerly because this reallies in is season practically all the year around now. In a lamb stew the cooked celery tops, consisting of the leaves and the small stalk above the joint, which is rarely or never eaten raw, is about the most savory thing in the whole dish. For greens we can use white and green leaves stalk, picking them over as we pick over any greens, and removing carefully those which are tough or rusty and also the rusty stalks. Any very green and heavily ribbed outer stalks may be peeled just as rhubarb is peeled, then cut up in small pieces and cooked with the greens. The inside is white and pulpy. More than half of what is most generally thrown away as refuse can be put to very good use. The leaves from ten good stalks of celery will furnish greens for three or four people or a salad for that number. Coley Greens—Do not remove the leaves from the stalk unless the latter is rusty or large. After plecking over wash very thoroughly in several waters, then drop into boiling water and blanch for five minutes. Drain, put back in kettle, cover with boiling water, slightly salted, and cook until tender, or about half an hour, not allowing the water to boil violently but to just boil. Serve just as you would other greens. Fresh butter and then a little lemon juice or vinegar may be added. A little of these greens, buttered and seasoned with a few drops of vinegar, was taken to some one who had never heard of using coley to top in this way, because very few people probably have ever tried cooking them, and she at first seemed quite perplexed as she tasted, thinking them like paraguas, and they are mild enough to suggest that. Cooked Celery Top Salad.—When the leaves are cooked, drain and add a little butter while they are hot, then serve cold with only a few drops of vinegar, or do not add the butter and serve with a French dressing. A guest who happened in while these were beaten manipulated in various ways said they positively that she had eaten, far more salads. USE BICARBONATE OF SODA What is the secret of destroying the "onion breath"? Not all the spices of Araby can do it, but there is a simple deodorant that has its place on every cupboard shelf which will do the trick. Bend low and lend an car-plain bi-carbonate of soda, saleratus or baking soda—take your choice of a name, the effect is the same. "Gargle with a solution made by dissolving one to one and a half teaspoonfuls of the soda in a glazed of water, and gargle and gargle and gargle; thenally forth to your dance with a clear conscience and a sweet clean breath. The virtues of bicarbonate of soda as a deodorant are known and appreciated by very few—most of them nurses and physicians. What woman will not be glad to learn, for instance, that it is a perfect neutraliser of perspiration odors? There are many expensive powders, put up for this purpose, and some of them are effective, but plain sodium bicarbonate at 6 cents a whole lot is quite as good as the best of them. It may be rubbed on the shields or through the armholes of a white shirt waist and be relied upon to neutralise any odor. The amps may also be bathed with a solution of it before dressing. $10,000 PRIZE RECIPE How to Clean Delicate Fabrics Without Injuring Them. In the Woman's Home Companion appears a department called "The Exchange," in which readers contribute various household suggestions. One contributor sends in the following simple recipe for cleaning delicate fabrics without injury to color or goods, and says that the Paris Art Institute offered a $10,000 price for the best preparation of this kind and the following recipe won the money: "Grate raw potatoes to a pulp and add a pint of water to a pint of pulp; pass this liquid through a sieve and allow it to settle. Pour off the clear liquid, which is to be used for cleaning. Dip a sponge in the liquid and apply to the fabric till spots are removed. Hinease in tepid water and press with a warm iron on the wrong side." THREE MILK HINTS. How Cleanlineous, Economy, Health, May Be Furthered. In the interests of cleanlineous, economy and health it is of the utmost importance to know how to take proper care of milk. No other article of food becomes so easily contaminated. Merfo- By to make sure that the milk you buy is pure, is not sufficient; for these are countless ways in which it can be remended until for use after it reaches your home. Before removing the cap from a bottle of milk the cap and the neck of the bottle should be washed and carefully wiped with a clean cloth. The cap should not be pushed down into the milk. It may be easily removed with a sharp pointed instrument without injuring the contents. The bottle when once open should be kept covered, and the milk should be kept in the original bottle until it is used up. The original cap should not be replaced, but instead an inverted glass may be put over the top of the bottle. The bottle when not in use should, of course, always be left in the refrigerator, and any milk that has been poured from it into another vessel should not be poured back. - Ortons and other foods having a strong odor, especially during the hot weather, very easily impart their distinctive smell to milk that is left uncovered. This is an additional reason for always keeping milk in a covered teapot. There are charming possibilities in the numerous bargain table remnants today, when a little money plus some ability will accomplish a smart waist garniture in short order. An attractive girdle can be made from a yard and a half of black measaline or any desired silk weave. Crush an eight inch strip around the waist and divide the rest into one long strip the full eighteen inches of the material. Sew along the selvage edges on the wrong side, turn and finish each end in a point. Knot this over the girdle, which fastens with books and eyes a few inches to the left of the center front, and have one end six inches longer than the other. Sew a jet tassel or ball to the end of each plant. A homemade trimming may be made instead by winding two small circles of cardboard with a hole in the center with heavy rope silk. When closely wound cut the threads between these two rugs of pasteboard and tie them tightly by strands of the rope silk slipped through the cardboard and tied tightly around the center, with end long enough to make loops. Make fourteen such balls. Fasten one at each point of the saff, crochet or chain stitch three ends three inches long, attach a ball to each, then continue the ends for four or five inches more and finish with another ball on the end of each one. --- FOR THE CUISINE How to Serve Cheese Daintily and With Satisfaction. The housekeeper of economical mind should not fall to make a thorough study of cheeses. They go far toward giving rest to a meal and are really nourishing. They contain nitrogenous matter and are therefore a muscle or tissue building food. Cheese is a concentrated food, however, and should be eaten in small quantities as a reliab rather than as the fundamental element of a meal. The common American cheese is generally supposed to be the most digestible of its family. In reality it is not so easily digested as those which are known as ripe or old cheeses, such as Camembert, Roquefort and Brie. The housewife of systematic habits will stock up her pantry with different cheeses for different purposes. For flavoring, making raribbs and for cooked dishes she will use a good grade of American cheese or Parmesan. The latter can be bought ready grated in bottles. The best cheeses to serve with salad are the medium rich, such as pineapple, Edam, English dairy and American full cream. The Neuchatel or cream cheese is also served with salad, but is less easy to digest than are the medium rich cheeses mentioned be fore. The most popular after dinner cheeses are Loquefort, Camembert, Stilton, Limburger, Brie, Schweitzer and Gorgonzola, all very rich and ripe. Presumably they are imported cheeses. Quite often; however, they are made in America, and dealers claim they give just as good satisfaction as the imported article. When cheese is served both with the salad and with the coffee course a very dainty accompaniment for green salad with French dressing is this: Spread thin salines with a mixture of grated American cheese and butter in the proportion of two tablespoons of cheese to one of butter. Dust lightly with cayenne pepper and stand for a moment or so in a quick oven. For cheese served with the final dinner course there is nothing more appropriate than hard crackers split and toasted a golden brown. "Dog Days." How did the phrase "dog days" originate? It had its origin in ignorance and superstition. The ancient Romans called the six or eight hotest weeks of summer "cankelacares die." According to their theory, the dog star, or Sirius, rising with the sun, added to its heat, and the dog days bore the combined heat of the dog star and the sun. The time was from July 2 to Aug. 11. Some make the time to extend from July 15 to Aug. 20 and others from July 24 to about Sept. 1. Sirius, the dog star, was so called because it was the brightest star in the constellation canis major, or the greater dog. -Indianapolis News. —Mrs Vertle Roberson and Miss Irene Baller after several weeks visit to N. J. where they visited Mrs. Mabel. Atkinson report a fine time. —Mrs. Laura Mason left for Washington, Wednesday with Master Andrew Lee Mason. Mrs. Lizzie Walker is on the sick list this week. —Mrs. Mary Davis is much improved. Mr. Frank Collins is suffering with a broken finger. Mr. Samuel Taylor is just from Boston, where he attended the great Odd Follow's Meeting. Mr. Frank Davis and Miss Lue Helms made a flying trip to Washington today. We had grand services at Providence Bapt. Church Sunday, proaching morning and evening. Rev. Dr. Taylor was at his boat Text Phil. 3-7 Subject Sublimity. Humanity. It did our very hearts good. Miss Robert Douglass of Washington worshipped us at 2:30. The R. S. was called to order by Supt. Wm. Roberts The lesson for the quarter was gone over. At 7:30 the Elder was again at his post opening an old time Covenant Meeting. The Spirit ran high. He used as a text Rev. 1-7 Subject. "The Unexpressed and Its Consequences." It being Communion night, many of the members were present. We had a good time all day! Mrs. Sarah Whiten entertained at dinner the Rev. Dr. Tyler, and Mrs. Noble Corum. Miss Irene F. Ballet said she was royally entertained up north and made many friends as well as in the South. She is feeling much improved. —Mr. Richard E. Grey and sister were the guest of Miss Annie Flecher at Alde, Va. —Miss Mary G. Jones of Washington is visiting her sister and aunt of New York. —Mrs. Maria R. Ladson and Miss Bessie Jones, our slick are all improving. Pray for us. LABOR'S RESPONSIBILITY. I believe in workmen's compensation. I believe in the eight hour day for men in continuous industries and for women and children everywhere and eventually for all workers in all industries. I believe in social insurance. I believe in minimum wage legislation for those industries in which labor is not itself in a position to enforce fair living conditions. I believe in unions. I believe that labor organizations have been one of the greatest factors in improving the material and moral conditions of the wage carrier and in raising the standard of industrial citizenship. The union is as necessary an outgrowth of our modern industrial system as is the corporation. The wise and farsighted employer will recognize this fact. He will appreciate that the men in the employ of a great corporation have the right of collective bargaining. But the union must accept the responsibility that comes with power. It must recognize its obligation to the industry and to the continuity as a whole. It must be judged by its conduct. It must do its utmost to promote the efficiency of its members, for unless the business is increasingly productive there will be no sufficient reward for anybody, no profit to the shareholders, no adequate wage for the working man, no proper service to the public.—Theology Roosevelt. RIMED QUOTATIONS. How long we live, not years, but actions tell; —Watkins. That man lives twice, who lives the first life well; —Herrick. Make, then, while yet we may, your God your friend; —William Mason. Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend; —Hill. The trust that's given guard, and to yourself be just; —Dana. For live we how we may, yet die we must; —Shakespeare. Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war is human nature. — Voltaire. It is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversion toward society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast. — Iacon. The gain which is made at the expense of reputation should rather be set down as a Iowa. — Latin Proverb. Truth never was indebted to a lie. — Young. The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Emerson. Good and Bad A noted wag met an Irishman in the street one day and thought he would be funny at his expense. "Hello, 'Iat' he said. 'I'll give you eight (in pence for a shilling).' "Will ye now," said Pat. "Yes," he replied. The Irishman handed over the shilling, and his friend put eightpence into his palm in return. "Eight in pence," he explained. "Not bad, is it." "No," answered Pat. "but the shilling is"—London Tit-Bita. As a result of a suspect in a bedroom at Stochelle and Durvet Strokes, who tow should pay for a pound of drinks, four negroes were shot, one probably fatally, Friday night 16th, inst, and the police are now looking for the alleged assailant. Cause Spooner. The wounded are Lewis Fleet, of 12 West Federal Street, shot in the abdomen; Joseph Farrar 610 North First Street, shot in the arm; John Cole, 7 West Durvel Street; shot in the high, and William Allen, 308 Preston Street, shot through the arm. Fleet is seriously injured, and may die. All were taken to the City Hospital for attention. The city ambulance, with John Drake in the chauffeur's seat, which had been called to another case, was standing at Second and Duval Street when Drake heard the shot. He rushed to the scene and found the wounded negroes cornered in the barroom. Without waiting to discover the causes of the shooting, Drake drove the men to the City Hospital and gave the alarm to the police. One of the wounded men stated that the quarrel was over the question as to who should pay for the drinks. Spooner, he said, left the saloon, and returned a short time later. "Now I've got you," he is alleged to have said, and began flying. At the fourth shot, when the fourth man fell to the floor. Spooner returned the gun to his pocket, and calmly walked out. The whole department was notified to be on the look-out for him. --- ROANOKE (VA). NOTES —Mrs. L. J. Johnson of Bluelief, W. Va. and Mrs. Mable Jones of Kimball W Va., are the guest of Mrs. Lomack, 7th Ave. N. W. —Mrs. J. H. Page of Kimball W Va. has returned after one week visiting Mrs. Kate Carpenter of 146 3rd. Ave. N. W. Capt. Hersie Stepton left Monday night for Hampton Institute. —Mr. B. L. Jordan Gou. Asst Supt. of Southern Aid Ins. Co is visiting the city. Mr. Jnc. Howard left for Richmond. Saturday. —Misses Mable Curle. Frankle Pierce, Marie Coleman and Messrs. Theron Williams of Salem, and Herbert Harth left Monday night for Hampton Institute where they will resume their studies. —Mr. Earnest Coleman of Chattanooga. Tenn. passed through the city Monday enroute to Hampton Institute. —The drama, "East Lynn" which was rendered by a number of young ladies and gentlemen two weeks ago, was repeated last Monday night at True Reformers Hall. It was witnessed by an appreciative audience, and was a success in every way. A Jubilee meeting will be held at High St. Baptist Church Tuesday night, at which time papers, recitations and solos will be rendered in celebration of the great victory for State-Wide Prohibition. Mr. Lewis Downing returned to the Biddle University last Friday where he will resume his studies. Mr. G. P. Downing has returned to the city after spending his vacation in the North. Mrs. Hoyle and little daughter Willie, have returned to their home in Martinville after a visit to Mrs. Greene Penn on Third Ave. NOTICE To whom it may concern. This is to certify that Mrs. Julia E. A. Johnson manager of the Vendrome Apartments at 200 N. 6th. St. (formerly Reformer Hotel) can still be found at the above named place of business. Parties coming into the city seeking employment, can secure neat lodging rooms, hot water heat and bath thankking the public generally for past favors, beg to solicit a continuance of your patroinage. L. P. A. Johnson, Prop. Julia E. A. Johnson mgr. NORTH CAROLINA STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR Raleigh, N. C. October 19-24. On account of the above the Southern Railway has authorized very low round trip fares from stations on its lines in Virginia. Tickets on sale Oct. 17-24, Inc. Final return limit to reach original starting point not later than midnight Oct. 26, 1914. For further information see local agent. 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BOMARD TOWN OF ALOST The Kaiser’s Officers Are Quoted as Saying They Can Take Seaport Whenever They Are Ready. After a brief briefment the German officers in England Malthus (the Lieutenant) in the middle of Antwerp, a city in the northwest of Belgium, sent by the German war office. The German officers also briefed the British at Antwerp on the situation and War Office, to help them in the temporary position. The German officers were briefed again regarding the situation at Antwerp, where ever the situation was. The official statement says: After the briefing Malthus, fourteen officers of Antwerp, the German officer in the northwest of Belgium, sent by the German war office, to help them in the temporary position, have now been briefed to learn more from "The officers have directed the fire of their artillery on the fort of Haver, at Chichester and Worcester, about ten miles from Antwerp, with a result not justifiable, their great expenditure of ammunition. Our forts replied, and the bombardment cooled." "Between the Den fire and the Wiltshire canal, west of Worcester, the officer the movement of the enemy was promptly locked. The forts inflicted serious losses on the enemy and compelled his retreat." "The city of Most has suffered considerably from artillery fire. The Belgian artillery was compelled to take up a position, that allowed shells to drop in the city. In consequence fire started and a number of buildings were destroyed." The Belgians claim to have silenced the German guns and compelled the Germans to retreat (Alot has a population of nearly 35,000). It is about sixteen miles northwest of Brussels on the Dendro river. The old quarters of the town is more than 900 years old). During the fighting the burgeonmaster, although eighty years old, remained in the city. "I must remain at my post," he said when friends and relatives urged him to seek safety. Although a shell fell in the garden of his residence he stayed on the veranda of his house, watching the battle. He wept at the sight of the battle's ravages. RUSSIA DRIVES BACK GERMANS IN POLAND Ossowetz Resists the Kaiser's Heavy Siege Guns. The following official communication from the chief of the general staff in Petrograd regarding the Russian operations has been given out: "Russian troops are driving fast on the offensive in the forests of Augsburg, in Russian Poland, province of Suwalki. "The Germans are using heavy siege artillery in the bombardment of the fortress of Ossowetz. An attempt by the German infantry to close in on the fortress has been checked. "On the front of Silesia the enemy has been greatly reinforced and shows much activity. "Sorties by the garrison of Przemysl have not been successful. "At Tsarstye Solo, on Sept. 28, the emperor received delegates from the Petrograd banks, who placed at his disposal one million rubles ($500,000) for the necessities of war, and another million for the organization of a hospital service and to aid the families of soldiers at the front. The Empress Alexandra and the Dowarer Empress Maria Podofovna were present at the audience." The Invasion of Hungary continues. German attacks on the Niemen and Boby rivers, in northwest Russia, strengthen the belief, inspired by the news of the German railways to the Baltic ports being closed for traffic to the public, that a descent on the Russian coast is planned. AIR BOMB KILLS CHILDREN Zeppelin Drops Explosives on Russian School House. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam says that further forays have been made by Zeppelin dirigible balloons. Four bombs were dropped on the town of Deynze, nine miles southeast of Ghent, and two were thrown on Taist, between miles southeast of Bruege. At the former place the convent of St. Vincent was badly damaged. St. Vincent was badly damaged. The operators of a German Zeppelin driggle dropped a bomb into a schoolhouse at Bielostok, Russia, according to a dispatch from Petrokrad to the Morning Post. Eleven children were killed. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Abandonment by the kaiser of his furious attempts to break the French front near Rheims encourages the belief that his center army is already in retreat to the north to, protect the remaining avenues of escape for the flanked German right wing and the forces commanded by the crown prince, both of which are in imminent peril. The western end of the German line commanded by General Von Kluk has been crumpled back north of Neyon by French and British troops, while a separate French force has moved southeast from Amnes to cut the railway lines at St. Quentin. In the east, General Russky, commander of the Russian forces in Gashela, officially confirms that Jarsawos has fallen after two days' bombardment. The Apertians are called to have lost more than 300 killed and wounded, and killed prisoners are reported taken. THURSDAY The German officer was extremely ill, victim at the western end of the long line stretching along the Rivers Oise and Aisne in France. The official balloon landed in Paris says that the battle is becoming paler in the center, that is in the frontier district, that is in the frontier district, that is on the Oise and the Rhône. An earlier balloon announced another advance for the allies in this region. The First Maths wrote a dispatch from Pettered stating that the Germans, who drove General Romania into Russia, are reported to have suffered great defeat at Subir. A Pettered dispatch forwarded to London by the Royal correspondent of the Central News agency says that the Russian advance guards already have arrived before the Austrian fortress of Cracow. FRIDAY. French troops have been victorious in combat with the German counterattack of Bielstein and have driven the enemy into retreat. The entire German line east of Bielstein has been greatly weakened by the harried sounding of retaliations to St. Quentin, where a new battle on a huge scale has begun. Large German forces are resisting desperately the attacks of the French at St. Quentin, the fall of which would bring swift disaster to the kaiser's right wing army, commanded by General Von Kluck, already in grave peril from the steady advance of French and British forces in encircling maneuvers. The Russian forces in Poland and Galicia are moving toward each other for joint action against Cravon. SATURDAY. The widely separated wings of the opposing arches in northern France are still striking hard blows at each other in an effort to break through the respective positions. From Solssons to Rheims and thence to Verdun there has been no change in the situation, but in the south of Wowrore the French continue to make progress and have defeated with heavy losses a German corps. There has been a lull in the fighting in Galicia, while the Russians are perfecting their plans for the investing of Przemysl, which is now cut off from all communication with the outside world. The Russians have taken Rzeszow, an important railway center between Tarnow and Przemysl, and also have captured two fortified positions to the north and south of the latter fortress. SUNDAY French and British forces were victorious along the entire battle front in the most furious contests of the battle of the Alsine in France, in which bayonet fighting replaced the long range artillery duels. It is officially stated that a vigorous German offensive has been thrown back in the region of Rerru and Nogent L'Abasse. The Germans, it is said, occupy a front which passes by St. Michel and northwest of Pont-au-Moussou. One man was killed and a girl wounded when a German acroplae dropped a bomb into a Paris street. The greater portion of the city of Przemysl is now occupied by Russian troops. The Austrians have been driven into the forts east of the city, which are now surrounded by the MONDAY. The Germans are reported to be at attacking the allies along a 120-mile battle front. On the west, repeated as assaults have been repulsed by the French and British troops which now threaten the line of communications of General Von Kluck, commanding the German right wing. On the eastern end of the conflict several of the forts southeast of Verdun have been silenced by the kalsor's heavy artillery, and the Germans have advanced along the Meuse until they threaten to cut off the French forces around Toul from the main allied army. Unofficial advises indicate a struggle in Russian Poland rivaling in desperation and possibly in the numbers enraged, the battles of the Marne and Alsne. The main body of the Russians is moving toward the German frontier. On its right another army is supposed to be attempting to protect the larger body by stealing the rush southward of the German force that drove the Russian invaders from East Prussia. VILLA STARTS NEW REVOLT Constitutionalist Chief Renounced by Mexican General HAS ARMY OF 50,000 MEN Proclamation Denounces Huerta's Successor as a Traitor to Cause of the People. General Francisco Villa has risen in revolt against the so-called Constitutionalist government, headed by Venustiano Carranza. General Villa, who has 50,000 soldiers at his disposal, made official announcement of his independence and ordered posted proclamations repudiating Carranza throughout the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. Governor Maytorena, of Sonora, has been hostile to Carranza for weeks, and it is believed he was in a large measure responsible for Villa's decision to combat the central government. The proclamation of revolt is signed by Jose de Sanchez. "General Villa has refused to roog nize the traitor Carranza," the pro- clamation read, "and has ordered the mobilization of his veteran troops to move as the capital." After paying tribute to Villa, the presentation added that his efforts are supported by Governor Nayayonna and Governor Manuel Capilla Brito, of Cazpeña. Villa's statement, explaining his stand, asserted that beaches Chihuahua and Sotomayo that Zenitensis and a part of Cancun, Carranza's native state, had joined the uprising. The statement follows. In view of the attitude of Venus thamo Carranza, which has been the causes of great injuries to our country, and since he could never govern a republic nor make happy a country which applies to real democracy, a country which wants to have a government emanating from the people subject to an interpretation of the national feelings, we have been obliged to renounce him as commander-in-chief of the Constitution's army in charge of the executive power; and we have deferred hostilities, being disposed to fight until the last, until he is forced to abandon his power and place the same in the hands of the real representatives of the people who are disposed to remedy all aspects of the republic and to direct it through the proper road of progress and well-being. "We are not in favor of personalism, but we are defenders of principles and consequently we will not fight against any other of the chief who have contributed to the downfall of the usurper Huerta, our difficulties being against the person of Vonus tiano Carranza. The states of Sonora Zacatecas and a part of Coahuila have seconded our attitude and shortly we will be polled by adherents from other localities. General Obregon left for El Paso, Texas. (Signed) "FRANCISCO VILLA," Word was received from Laredo, Texas, that Villa plans the seizure of ports of entry along the United States border, including Nuevo Laredo. --- Drop Bombs in Paris From Airship Spectacular rail of a German airship plane over Paris caused the death of one man and the serious wounding of a girl when the airship dropped a bomb on the city. The airplane failed in its main purpose, however, which appears to have been to destroy the Kiffel tower, or at least to cripple the wireless telephone station atop the tower. Growds were on the street as usual on Sunday, when the cry was raised that an airplane was circling over head. The air buoyant was dying at a great height. Park residents, who had felt little fear after the failure of previous attempts to do damage by bombs, remained in the streets in stead of seeking shelter. The airship rapidly circled over the city several times and then, narrowing the circle until it was almost diagonally over the Kiffel tower, dropped several bombs. One of the bombs fell in the Avenue du Troudero, at the corner of the Rue Freyreln, near the Eiffel tower and only one block from the American embassy. After the smoke of the explosion had cleared away it was found that the head of a man had been torn from his body. The wounded girl, who was the daughter of the man killed, is in a serious condition, both of her legs having been shattered. Many houses, including that of the Prince of Monaco, were badly damaged, by the bomb. At the direction of President Wil- son Secretary Tumulty wrote a letter to New Jersey Democrats, declining to have them endorse the president for a second term. Mr. Tumulty's letter was to Edward E. Grosup, state treasurer. It follows: "You were generous, enough to consult me as to whether the Democrats of New Jersey should at this time endorse the president for a second term. I had a talk with the president about it, and he deeply appreciates the generosity of the suggestion; but New Jersey is his home state, the men who would act in this matter are his own personal friends, and he feels that it might seem as if he were taking advantage of the extraordinary situation now existing to gain some personal advantage through such an expression of confidence by them. "This would be inconsistent with his whole thought and spirit and he shrinks from it as from something that would embarrass him, rather than FRENCE GEORGE. Servian Mair Wounded as We Led a Terrific Charge. Photo by American Press Association. For the second time since the war began Prince George of Serbia has been wounded in battling the chase. He was shot three times in the body with rifle bullet. His aid brought him safe from the field. Thyssenkruse said the prince's life is in no danger. Prince Ibrahim was wounded first at Belgium. First he was shot in the shell bombardment early in the attacking. Burst near him in two shots. He is of the city's elite. The first wound was not a serious one. I time since the war charge of Serbia has leaving the charge of the body with a rife brought him safely Therians said the to no danger. Prince fresh blood leaked bombardment, A shell brood from burst near him as before the city's do- wnd was not as old. "I the feels know the sp that in urgling jersey not to in the least "that you will which he sees this; democrats of New she is not abusing deep appreciation." Washington Expecta Peace. General Garrison's statement that he will withdraw from the political life of Mexico to General Villa and the other military cities also retire has brought renewed hope for peace to administration officials and constitutionalist representatives in Washington. Secretary of War Garrison said that there had been no change in the plan to withdraw the American troops from Vera Cruz. Assurances from General Villa that he will not be a candidate for president or vice president of Mexico were forwarded to the administration by Consular Agent Carrothers. Woman Made Citizen. Evelyn Drummond, of Jeffersonville employed in Philadelphia as a stenographer, was admitted to American citizenship in the naturalization court in Norristown, Pa. She is a native of the West Indies and twenty-two years old. She is the first woman in half a century to be naturalized in the Norristown courts. Two Miners Instantly Killed Salvatore Easel and George Chossoer, both twenty-two years old and employed as hitchers at the foot of the Oakhale mine of the G. B. Markle company at Hazleton, Pa. were instantly killed by being struck by a runaway car that came down the plane after the holing chain broke. 1.000.000 Feet of Pine Burned One million foot of white pine lumber, owned by the Pennsylvania Match company, and a number of dwelling houses nearby, were destroyed by a fire at Bellonte, Pa. The loss is estimated at $250,000. Family of Five Die in Fire. Mrs. Joseph Stone and her four children were burned to death when fire destroyed their home at Champaign, Ill. The mother lost her life trying to save her children. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm: city mills, cty, cy, $5.09f RYE FLOUR at steady; per barrel $567.50. WHEAT quiet; No. 4 red. $1.09 1.14. CORN steady; No. 2 yellow, 88¢ 88½¢. GATS steady; No. 2 write, 54½¢ 55c; lower grades, 52½¢. POTATOES steady; per bush, 73 ¢76c. OBLYRING; Live steady; hens, 15¢ 17c; old roosters, 12¢/13c. Dressed farm; choice fowls, 20½c; old roost- ars, 13c. BUTTER firm; fancy creamy, 35c, EGGS steady; selected, 35 ¢37c; nearby, 31c; western, 31c. Live Stock Prices. CHICAGO-HOGS strong: bulk of iakes, $8.10@8.65; light, $8.55@9.15; mixed, $8.10@9.15; heavy, $7.80@8.85; mixed, $7.80@7.95; plax, $4.75@8.60 CATTLE, $8.10@8.65; stock, $11.05; steers, $6.20@9.10; stock, ad feeders, $3.30@8.20; cows and beefers, $3.50@9; calves, $8.50@11.25; SHEEP feeders, $6.20@9; bearlings, $5.60@6.30; lambs, $6.25@ 17.0. Nish, the "Chicago of the Balkans." Nish, in Servia, has been termed the "Chicago of the Balkans," a title conveying the fact that it is the center of the national industry in pigs. The Servian pig is a remarkable animal, very different from the trim, carefully groomed porker of the English countryside. He is big, fierce and wolfish, with a coat of brownish hair as curly as a retriever's, which turns into long, gray bristles as he advances in years. As might be expected, Servian bacon is coarse and inferior, though a large quantity of it makes its way to English breakfast tainment, and the Servian pig bristles in one brazen—London Standard. ENGLISH TROUTS ON THE MARCH Note the cook stove and fuel. The government has promised to feed Tommy well. II Behavior of Passengers in the Other Borthe Causes Him to Abandon Trip to Cheer His Mother-in-law as much as He Wants to See Her. Bv. M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1914, by Associated Literary Press.] MRS. BOWSER was in tears. The cook was in tears. The cat was in tears. Wife of Mr. BOWSER. When Mr. Bowyer reached home and saw the tearful state of affairs he was about to make a great roar, but Mrs. Bowyer handed him a telegram. It was from her mother and read that the old lady was very ill. "Mint it awful!" sobbed Mrs. Bowser. "It surely is," replied Mr. Bowser and magnanimously added: "She's my mother-in-law, of course, and she never visits us except to make things uncomfortable for me, but I'll forgive her. I'll not only forgive her, but as you are not feeling well I'll run to Concord and see just how she and cheer her up all I can. In fact, I think I'd rather enjoy the visit." "You--you don't mean it!" gasped Mrs. Bowser in astonishment. "Why, of course I do. Just throw a few things in the satchel for me and A man in a suit and hat looks up at a man hanging from a hook. "WHAT HAVES LING NOW? I'll take the night train up. I haven't been out of town for a year, and I shall rather enjoy a short trip." "But I afraid you can't sleep on the sleeping car." "I'll sleep like a top. It's all settled that I go." A Generous Estimate of Mr. Bowyer. And two hours later Mr. Bowyer was a passenger aboard the night train enjoying the feeling that a good action always brings happiness. Every berth in his sleeper was taken, and there were several children aboard. He made friends with two or three from the start, and before the train had gone fifty miles he was gratified on hearing one mother say to another: "Now, there's a man who makes his home and his whole neighborhood happy. I don't believe that anything ever puts him out or that he has a cross word for anybody." Mr. Bowser is in the habit of tumbling into bed, rolling on his back and falling asleep within five minutes. As soon as he strikes the bed the cat, cat rats and mice walk about on tippet and the grocery wagons, butcher carts and fire engines never pass his house if it can be avoided. The small boy who would dare utter one "coo-ee" in front of his house after 10 o'clock at night would realize that he was taking his life in his hands. He got into his berth in the sleeper expecting the usual results to follow, but somewhat to his surprise they didn't. As is usually the case, two or three men were not yet ready to turn in, and they began discussing politics. Every word was audible from end to end of the car. For about ten minutes Mr. Bowser wandered over their impudence. For five more he was amused at their disregard for the rights of others. Then he jumped to the conclusion that it was a personal matter, and he called the porter and said: "This is the sleeping car. I have gone to bed to sleep. Those men must shut up or get out" Mr. Bowser's Ire Aroused. "Yes, sali," replied the porter, and he went off about his business instead of delivering the message. He, had been on a sleeping car long enough to know that twenty-three people had up THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN This photo was made while the lied Cross physicians and nurses were on the way from Titleymont to Louvain. which in some and twenty-fourth didn't feel sleepy, the discussion continued for ten minutes. Mr. Bowsor poked his head between the curtains of his birth and exclaimed: "Are you fellows going to keep that chatter up all night? How does it happen that you didn't take the hog train?" There was an exchange of courtesies. The language was vigorous. Mr. Bowsor was dored and defied, but his dander was up, and he called the porter, and conductor and insisted so strenuously on his rights that the political discussion came to an end. As a windup, however, Mr. Bowsor was called a crank, a micker and a cheese head and was advised to go off in a lonely spot by himself. There had been seven or eight minutes of comparative quiet and his eyes were closing in sleep when a man in the opposite berth began to anore, and pretty soon the snore was ornamented with a gurgle. "That's got to stop," exclaimed Mr. Bowser as he sat up and poked his head out. "Here-you over there-stop that infernal bazoof yours." Porter, come here, and wake up that fellow across the way! The "fellow" was roused. He got in two more snores and three long drawn groans before the dig in the rih broke in on his slumber. Then he indignantly demanded to know who had dared to disturb him. "You were snorhing," explained Mr. Bowser. "Well, what of it? Is it any business of yours?" "You bet it is. If you want to make a hog of yourself get off and take the stock train." More 'Trouble. The quarrel lasted ten minutes, and as two-thirds of the passengers' sided with Mr. Bowser, and as the snores diminished to sighs and gnaws, he felt that the victory was his. This time quietness brought sleep, but sleep lasted forty winks. The wall of a child brought Mr. Bowser's eyes open; a second wall sat him up, and a third caused him to exclaim: "Have I got to murder some one on this car before I can get an hour's sleep? Where's the mother of that young 'un that she don't stop his noise?" "My little boy seems to be ill," replied a female voice. "Seems to be ill? Don't you know whether he is or not? If he is sick get up and attend to him. If he's only dreaming give him a cuff, and wake him up. Why the law allows a woman to gail about the country with a child I can't understand." "And I thought he was such a nice, good natural old man!" murmured the woman as she petted the child to sleep again. This time there was no sleep for Mr. Bowser. He was now so mad that his eyes wouldn't close, and he tumbled around and wished he was home so that he could say something to Mrs. Bowser to make her feel bad. He was ready for another fractas when the train drew up at a station. He heard people talking, baggage trucks rumbling and a man passing along and striking wheels with a hammer. At last he called to the porter, and when the man had arrived he was accosted with: "What's happened now? What are all those people gabbling about?" "It's people at the depot, sah," was the reply. "Tee, but are the people at the depot allowed to whoop and chatter and scream and wake up every sleeper in the cars? Fine managed road this. What's that rumbling and banging and flashing?" "Loadin' up the baggage." "Oh, is it? In order to load up a few trunks they must hustle and bang and stand everybody's hair up. I'd like to talk to the manager of this road for five minutes! And what's that danderhead pounding on the wheel for?" "Tear," ran, and "Well, I'd like to just look my mouth, but the people of the United States are the biggest lot of faces on earth to put up with such impressions. I'll see some body tomorrow for $20,000 damage." An Impudent Fellow Passenger. There was yet another cruise to kick. The train hadn't left, the station ten miles when there was a bump on the floor of the car, followed by a yell. One of the children had fallen out of bed. "In the name of mercy, what's that?" howled Mr. Bowser as the curtain parted again. "Look here, old man," answered a masculine voice, "you seem worried. Why don't you shut up and go to sleep?" "Because I'm got to murder seven or eight people before I'll be allowed to go to sleep, and don't you tell me to shut up!" The man put his head out and gazed at Mr. Bowser. Then he advised him to eat a bean mash, soak his head and hang on to his chiff. Mr. Bowser replied in kind and added a threat to lick his fellow passenger if he had to purge him around the globe to find the occasion. The whole car was in a row before the conductor could be brought in as a peacemaker, and Mr. Bowser was one of the half dozen who dressed and sat up for the next three hours and glared around him and muttered under his breath. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Bowser entered his own house and flung his satchel on the floor. "How did you get home so soon?" asked Mrs. Bowser in alarm. "And is my mother better or worse?" "I didn't get to Concord," he replied. "You didn't? Then is she dead? You got a telegram?" "I got nothing." The informal railroad underdose to buildde me around and deprive me of my rights, and I wouldn't stand for it. I got off at a junction and took the first train back, and I'll be hanged if I don't see a lawyer and start about 400 damage suits." Mr. Wilson Thanks Senate. President Wilson conveyed to the senate his thanks for the resolution of sympathy adopted by that body on the death of Mrs. Wilson. He sent the following message: "With men of the Senate I have received at the hands of the secretary of the senate the resolutions of sympathy passed upon the occasion of the death of Mrs. Wilson. It was very gracious of you to think of me in my hour of deep affliction, and I thank you with sincere gratitude. It is comforting to me to think that we are comrades in the conduct of life as in the conduct of the nation's business and that we are bound together in human sympathy as well as in duty as servants of the people. Your courtesy and thoughtfulness I deeply appreciate. "WOODROW WILSON." War Must End In Half a Year. Professor Charles Richel, the president of the Society for Arbitration Between the Nations, said in Paris that Germany would be unable to wage war for more than half a year, "Germany has only five months' provisions," he said, "even granting that she may import several hundred thousand tons through neutral nations." Curiosity Proves Fatal. Curiosity cost George Heldman, of York, Pa., his life near Lancaster, Pa. Heldman was employed on the state road near Oregon, where blasting was being done. One of two dynamite cartridges falling to explode, he approached to investigate, and while bending over the cartridge it exploded, killing Heldman instantly. Found. Nickler-What is the dearest market basket? Bocker The one used for ticker tape-New York Sun SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. Sea of Fields joke Edward Everett Hale greatly enjoyed a joke which was perpetrated on him by Eugene Field. Field celebrated one of Dr. Hale's visits to Chicago by giving a luncheon in his honor and inviting a number of prominent persons to meet him. "Field was aware," said Dr. Hale. "that I was a temperance man, and therefore I was somewhat surprised to see that the table on which the luncheon was served was very abundantly supplied with bottles labeled 'Whisky,' 'Brandy' and 'Champagne.' But when these bottles came to be uncorked they were all found to contain nothing but water."—Chicago Herald. Ending a Letter. The simplicity of "You're" as a letter ending would have astounded Jeremy Taylor, whose letters to John Evolyn often wind up with perfect triumphs of complexity in this respect. His host in "Believe me that I am, in great heartiness and dearness of affection, dear sir, your obliged and most affectionate and endeared friend and servant," or "Your very affectionate friend and hearty servant." Even in his shortest perceptions of the kind the "affectionate" and the "servant" are always the two indispensable words. Probably no man, woman or child would combine those two at the end of a letter today.—London Tatler. Dining on Woodchuck Horace Kephart once asked old Uncle Bob Flowers, one of his neighbors in the Smokies, "Did you ever eat a woodchuck?" "Reckon I don't know what them is." "Groundhog." "Oh, la, dozens of 'em! The red ones hain't good, but the gray ones! Man, they'd just make yer mouth water!" "How do you cook them?" "Out the leeled kernels out from under their forelegs; then bile 'em fust—all the strong is left in the water—the pepper 'em and sage 'em, and put 'em in a pan and bake 'em to a nice brown, and—then I don't want nobody there but me!"--Buffalo News. The Dead Large In Baluchistan even the wolves go mad. In his book, "The Frontiers of Baluchistan." G. P. Tate writes: "The ahepcids give a strange reason for the epidemic of rabies. According to them, it was caused by the wild beasts eating dead larks. In some years, they said, the larks develop extraordinary vitality and pour forth such a flood of songs as they rise on the wing that they become suffocated and fall to the ground dead. A wild animal which eats one of those dead birds invariably develops rubble. This is a widespread superation and seems not unfamiliar to the natives of India who were with me." The Zone of Greatness Says a trenchant writer: "Around this globe is a narrow zone between the thirtieth and fifteenth parallels of north latitude, and within this belt of power have existed all the great nations of the past, and in it exist all the great nations of the present. It is true that north of his charmed circle, as well as south of it, have existed nations of wealth and power, but the peoples that have given direction to the thought of mankind, that have created philosophy for the race, that have given jurisprudence and history and oratory and poetry and art and science and government and religion to mankind, have been crowded within this zone of supremacy."—Christian Herald. More Fickle Than the Weather. There is one quite naked piece of nonsense which must be destroyed if modern society is to go on at all. That is the pretense of teaching things "scientifically" which are not in their own nature scientific. A man may learn to be a good prophet about the stars; he may learn, after long audacity and self-culture to be a self prophet about the weather, but no man would dare to predict his wife's temper, even falsely. It is not a scientific subject. It is impossible to imagine whether the wife would be more annoyed if he prophesied wrong or if he prophesied right. Let a man keep a weather chart, then, but not a wife chart—G. K. Chesterton. Pearson's Measures The meteor discovered at Cape York, in Greenland, by captain Peary, by chemical analysis reveals its composition to be: iron, 91.476 parts; nickel, 7.785 parts; cobalt, 0.583 parts; copper, 0.614 parts; phosphorus, 0.202 parts; carbon, 0.623 parts. These, it will be noted, are all original chemical elements and the meteor came in from immense depths of cosmic space. The apotery, of carbon is on display here, and phosphorus Hikswa. No hitherto unknown element has been discovered in any meteor. New York American. This One Did It. "Tell me, honestly," said the novel reader to the novel writer, "did you ever see a woman who stood and tapped the door impatiently with her toe for several moments as you describe?" "But," was the thoughtful reply, "I did come." ? 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Thousands of people United States and Europe will testify healers of all complaints in the roots, barks, gums, balsams, leaves, in my medicines. They have cured physicians and the best hospital physician given up to die, and said there was THE WORLD The Elks' Bulletin. GRAND EXALTED RULER NUTTER SPEAKS. Office of the Grand Exalted Ruler. Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 19, 1914. PROCLAMATION NO. 1. To the Grand Lodge Officers, State and District. Deputies and the Members of the Improved, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World: The fifteenth annual session of the Grand Lodge of the Improved, Bupevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, held at Norfolk Virginia, August 25-28, 1914, with Eureka Lodge No. 5, was the most resplendent in the history of our beloved Order. It distinctly marked an epoch in Negro Elkdom. Never before has our Organization met in its annual session under such auspicious circumstances as on this occasion. Peace within and peace without, an assured fact; confidence restored and hope revived and enthusiasm renewed, and the Order on the threshold of the greatest awakening in the history of secret organizations, these clearly mark the line of demarcation between the past and the present condition of our Order, and from which may be reckoned, the new birth of our beloved Organization. This new birth of freedom from strife within and from conflict without was radiantly reflected in the faces of the splendid body of men assembled in our fifteenth annual session, hailing from every section of the country, and representative of the best in American citizenship. SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. The Order did well when it selected Norfolk, Va., a southern city, as our meeting place. Passing, as we are, through the crucial period in the history of our Order, the demonstration of friendship and good will and mutual helpfulness and sympathy of a southern city means much to our Organization, marks the passing of conflict and strife between the white and colored Elks. Surely if there had been any desire on the part of the white Elks to continue the fight against us, they would have seized upon the opportunity offered at our recent meeting. But on the contrary, the white Elks and white citizens of Norfolk extended to us every courtesy, and were in attendance upon our Grand Ball. The city of Norfolk appropriated four hundred dollars for the entertainment of our Grand Lodge and treated us with real southern hospitality. PEACE ASSURED From the messages sent to our convention by prominent white Elks from various sections of the country, and from assurances we have received from like sources, before and since our meeting in Norfolk, I feel safe in saying to you that peace and harmony and good-will between the white and colored Elks will prevail from now on, and that we shall no longer be harassed in our efforts to exemplify the works of our beloved Order "Surely the Lord doth work wonders." ORDER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. The Order, in every department, is in excellent condition. The reports of the Grand Lodge Officers showed that the condition of our Order to-day is the best in its entire history. The report of the Grand Secretary reflected the splendid financial and numerical growth of the Order during the past twelve months. It was a growth of which we all may well feel proud, and to which we should lend every effort to continue during the present year. GO FORWARD. We must not be content with what we have done in the past. We must reach other and greater climates. Our Order is pregnant with great possibilities, and it is left to us to say whether or not these possibilities shall become stern realities or glaring and unbridled opportunities. We must not stand still. We must Go Forward. We must achieve the glorious deity awaiting us. I want to make a personal appeal for a general increase in every department of our Order. We should add at least a thousand members to our Order this year. We can do it, if the members will but do their duty. Permit me to urge in the most vigorous manner possible that each lodge inaugurate right away a strenuous campaign for new members. Let the handsome increase of last year be more than doubled the present year. With the proper effort put forth by the officers and members, we should easily add a thousand members to the old lodges and establish at least twenty-five New Lodges. CONSTITUTION TO BE REVISED. The Grand Exiled Ruler was authorized to appoint a committee to revise our, Grand Lodge Constitution. This is necessary as our THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914 Mrs Mary Green of Wilmington, N. C. passed through the city today enroute for home. She had been visiting relatives and friends at Timmonville and Lamar. Rev. Marcus green of Coardville, S. C. passed through the city recently enroute for home. He is a first class farmer and Benefitate of Anderson Baptist church, Rev. N. A. Smalla pastor. Mrs E. B. Brock of So. City Hill passed through the city on Sept. 23rd, enroute for home. She was returning from the B. M. C. meeting at Boston, Mass. She visited many of the large cities. She very much enjoyed her trip. Rev. C. F. Gandy and two children, Chas. F. Gandy Jr. and Alma C. Gandy passed through the city Friday, Sept. 25th, enroute for home in Henderson, S. C. They very much enjoyed their trip. Mr. S. J. Johnson is one of our promising young men. He can be relied upon. Mr. Townsend Alexander and Miss Mary James, were married by his honor, Judge C. S. McClenakan on Saturday, Sept. 26th, when seen afterwards they seemed quite happy. Mr. Alfred Castley was among the first to congratulate the couple wrapped in a present. Mrs. Mary Nelson of Charleston, S. C., passed through the city recently enroute for Mullins, S. C. had been visiting relatives at Sumter, S. C. Her two boys were with her. Allon and Weber. Mr. C. E. Gillard passed through the city today returning from Sumter. He was enroute for his home at Way Cross, Ga. Miss Ruble M. Webster after spending two weeks with her aunt Mrs. J. E. Stubbs at Bennettsville, S. C. returned home on SunMay, Sept. 27th. The stay, greatly improved her. Miss Laura V. Roberts returned to Bonedict College on Tuesday, Sept. 29th. Rev. W. R. Reese and Rev. H. B. McPhall from Bonnetteville was in our county. They are always pleagant and we are glad to meet them. Mr. Editor: In addressing your this letter, I hope it will meet your approval. yet I hesitate to out line my meaning, because it so many times found my self with not, help me with the question. But after all, I may be on the "wrong side of the subject. However, I want to lay this burning matter before you, and let you put me wise, so here it is: Does it take more space to say, "we Colored People" or "we Negroes?" In your own city, where almost every month some people of other races are drawing the line present constitution is absolutely unworkable and is a mass of contradictions. I am hoping that the committed appointed will make a thorough revision, and in order to assist the committee in doing so, I hereby request each local lodge or members thereof to forward to this office such amendment or amendments as it or they may deem will tend to perfect our present constitution, so that I may submit the same to the committee for its consideration. I trust that you will give this matter your careful attention at an early date. I have appointed the following committee: W. E. Atkins, Hampton, Va.; J. Frank Wheaton, New York City; H. H. Pace, Atlanta, Ga. R. E. Jones, Richmond, Va.; and Hamilton Travis, Newark, New Jersey. I have also appointed W. H. Stanton, Pittsburgh, Pa., Grand Legal Advisor; James E. Churchman, Newark, N. J. Grand Chaplain; and S. B. Noble, Danville, Va., Grand Master of Social Sessions. OFFICERS MUST BE BONDED. The Grand Lodge directed at its recent meeting that the officers of the Local Lodges handling the funds thereof should be bonded. I hope that this mandate of the Grand Lodge will be carried out to the letter. It is to the interest of the members of the Local Lodges that their funds be safe-guarded, and that can only be done by bonding the officers handling their funds in sufficient penalty to cover any possible loss. Let the members see to it that the officers handling their funds are bonded in sufficient penalty before they are installed, and I hereby direct my deputies to install no such officers until bonded as directed by the Grand Lodge. The committee to revise the constitution will also adopt a uniform system of book-keeping for the local lodges, in order that each local lodge may have an intelligible and permanent record. In the meantime let the local lodges adopt some system which will be easily comprehended and readily show the exact status of the lodge. By doing this much fraud and mis-representation will be made impossible. WORK AND ONENESS OF PURPOSE Our record for the year just closed is one of which we can feel just proud and one that should give life, new hope and new inspiration to every member of the Order and the Race. Our position in the public eye is acknowledged to be more commanding and our possibilities more clearly defined than ever before. I would remind you, however, that this record was not an accident al one, but the result of our unity of action and oneness of purpose, and if we continue thus to work together, which I hope we will, I assure you, when we assemble in our next annual session we will be able to come up from every lodge and every section bearing greater sheaves and recording greater victories than ever before. Prayerfully soliciting your loyal and undivided support, and wishing for each of you the greatest prosperity and happiness, I am Yours in C. J. B. L. & F.. Grand Exalted Raters George E. Rates. Grand Secretary Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night was a very profitable hour with the Y. M. C. A. Literary. A special program was rendered. The opening of the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Leason last Saturday at the Y. M. C. A. was the best in the history of the Y. M. C. A. Prof. J. W. Barco came filled with zeal and inspiration thus the vision comes to the class for a great success. The attendance was above the general interest. Everybody has pledged to do more. Help us. Last Sunday was an extreme busy day with the boys, women, and men of the Y. M. C. A. 9:36 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building the workers hold a special meeting. The special services 3:30 P. M. on the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. and the Brigade No. 2. were a great success. Dr. D. S. Freeman preached a sermon that will not be forgotten soon. The special choir of the Y. M. C. A. under the directions of Prof. Walter D. Jones sang the jubilee Songs from the heart and everybody was happy. The collection was good and all are thanked. The Doctor was so helpful that he has been secured to preach again soon. 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the boys had a special meeting and rally. They took a trip to Boston by the way of Pres. John S. Powell who has just returned from a special trip. They were delighted and want to go again soon. Our president knows how to interest boys. The Reds and Blues fought well but the Blues won. Mothers we thank you. The men's meeting 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. was a great success. Committeeman Darius conducted the meeting. Mr. Howard Harris-Parker gave the men an address that went to their very souls. The singing was good. Today 5 P. M. come to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson at the Y. M. C. A. Building. It will more than pay you to hear Prof. J. W. Barco of the Va. Union University. Bring a friend. Opon to women and men. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard, work and the other man. All workers are invited to a special meeting at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. A special address will be delivered to the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Mothers send your boys. The Season for the Work of the Y. M. C. A. will be launched 8 P. M. at the 2nd. St. Methodist Church. Rev. John Horndon will preach a special sermon. Subject: ASKING FOR HAED THINGS. Special music by the choir of the church. Women and men are invited: Come and hear for, your selves. Help us to make this hour a good one. The Y. M. C. A. Night School now opened, for everybody. Everbody is going to hear Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court of Washington D. C. Monday Oct. 12th. S. P. M. at the 5th St. Baptist Church. deliver a great lecture. Subject. "A RIEF RE-TROSPECT" The Ebenezer Quartette will sing. The Sabbath Sleeve Club is planning to give some special music. Come and hear this new quartette. No one can afford to miss hearing and seeing Judge Terrell. Admission—15 cents. Doors open at 7 P. M. Be a committee. Every home is asked to have prayer for the Y. M. C. A. Regular meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday Oct. 5th. 6 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building. The Pres. Mrs. Delta West will be glad to meet you. All women are invited. Come and bring the other women. FLORENCE (S. C.) NOTES. Rev. A. W. Williams of Timmonsville, S. C., was in the city today on business. Rev. Williams is a practical farmer and business man. Mr. Bartemus James, of Rocky Mt. N. C., attended the funeral of his brother, Curlean James, Mr. James formerly live here. Rev. C. H. Fausson a prominent young divine of Timmonsville, 3. C. now pastoring the New Hope Baptist Church, at Latta, S. C. passed through the city today returning from his work. Rev. Fuerson reads negro literature. Rev. C. McDonald of Timmonsville, S. C., passed through the city on Sunday Sept. 20th, to visit his church at Poe Dee, S. C. Rev. McDonald reads negro literature. Rev. M. M. Martin Presiding Elder, H. M. A of the Dillon District. passed through the city recently returning from his work enroute for his home at Sumter S. C. Rev. Martin is bringing things to pass. Mr. D. P. Ropper and Mrs. Charlotte Rippher his wife passed through the city Sept. 22nd, enroute for Jacksonville, Fla. and Middleburg, Fla. to visit relatives. Mr. Ben Brooks of Passaic, N. J. is home with his family for a few days at Latta, S. C. He will return the 24th, inat. carrying with him his little boy Leesley. Mr. Brooks is enjoying the best of health. He and Mrs. Brooks spent the day at Florence. Rev. G. H. Miles of Moxton, N. C., who is pastor of St. Matthew Zion church passed through our city, Sept. 22nd, enroute for Jacksonville Fla. to spend his vacation. He was accompanied by Mr. H. D. Mallory of Moxton, N. C. Miss Frances E. Keith of Darlington, S. C. passed through the city today Sept. 22nd, enroute Miss Keith is a fine teacher and an excellent penman. Mrs. Lula Adams of Conway, S. C., passed through our city recently enroute for home Conway, S. C. Mrs. Laura Swinney of Darlington having spent quite a pliant two weeks stay with relatives and friends at Mayoville, S. C., passed through the city on Thursday Sept. 24th, enroute for home. MR. BALL DOESN'T LIKE IT. Boys' and Girls' Contest Open to All Children Under 16 Years. The Voting Ends Dec. 1st, 1914 For each job brought and paid for, the same allowance will be made. This includes money for job work, notices of any kind and advertisements. Votes will be published from time to time. A fair race and no favors. Persons already listed at The PLANET Office will be entered. The coupon will be found in another column of this paper. against the Colored people, don't you think the title of negro is an insult, pure and simple and can we be elevated to public respect, hearing the title? You will I hope excuse me I must tell the truth, and here it is. If any one wrong ever face the earth again the message left us by the Redeemer it is not humiliation for the many publications issued by members of the race to keep for ever the insults of slavery days before the public which were food for the slave-owners to low rate the Colored woman or man and before these dark days; we, the Colored people of self respect appear never to get a head and no where are we able to keep our people to themselves when there is a chance to go back on our own and have not those dark days of slavery left our people in a bad light before the world without burning the title so often seen in the daily press, and what Sir do we owe the coming generations? Shall they be born to face life with the shame and disgrace with which we are now suffering and can they over all the title of full citizenship with all races of people looking down upon them and you know that the title of Negro is a full developed life, to prove it, here are the facts; German from Germany; Japanese from Japan; Chinese from England, yet in 1613-20 Colored people landed one year a head of the Pilgrim fathers yet Negroes. Africa is too good for her Sons and daughters to bear, and it does look that if over the world of God is to guide the people right that now or never is the time. Mr. article of Sept. 12th, told some plain facts, and I can state that we are not going a head, but are going backward. A little money and properly with a fine education is not the mainspring of the progress. We want that public respect which will prevent race hatred from drawing the line against us, we must find a better way to protect our females, so that in years to come young men will marry those of virtue and character without trouble We must be true teachers of the highest character if Our race is ever to come to the front and one of the most important foundation stones is a proper name that carries respect with it. Your valuable paper has a great field in which to work first of all kill for ever from your paper the title Negro. May I be allowed to say that the only way we can please God is to deal out the highest of respect to our people. We must look ahead now, if not the danger will overtake the millions of Bishlomas. At 12 o'clock Midnight. THE PRIZES: THE PLANET, 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. Mrs. Anna Taylor Visits Dillwyn, Va. Mrs. Anna Taylor, D. D. G. W. C. arrived here last week. 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