Richmond Planet
Saturday, October 17, 1914
Richmond, Virginia
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LAWYER
American Bankers' Association Here.
Wealthy Men in Conference.--Financial Conditions Discussed.
The Federal Reserve System Under Fire President Reynolds Presides. WILL PROBABLY MEET NEXT YEAR AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.
VOLUME-XXXI, NO. 47
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The American Bankers' Association commenced its sessions in this city last Monday with the committees doing the advance or preliminary business. There were four thousand of these wealthy people in attendance at the Boston session last year, but the number here fell far short of that number. Some say two thousand, but it is enough to say that the Jefferson Hotel Auditorium was sufficient to hold this aggregation of wealth that attended. This slump was due to unsettled condition of currency. The Federal Reserve system is being launched and the boards are being organized. This has necessitated some of the loading money wings remaining at home.
A JOINT MEETING
The Savings Bank Section and the Trust Company Section met in the Auditorium of the Jefferson Hotel Tuesday Morning at 10 A. M. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank was among the number. The Invocation was by Rev. Dr. J. J. Gravatt of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. "The Future of State Institutions under the
Federal Reserve Act." was ably discussed by H: Parker Willis, Secretary of the Federal Reserve Commission. He made a strong plea for the State banks to join the system. He was asked at the conclusion of his remarks as to what service this new system would be to a bank that did not have its money in assets defined by him.
COULD NOT PROFITABLY JOIN
He admitted that for such an institution to join would only be from a sentimental stand-point. A letter was read from Mr. George M. Reynolds, President of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago and one of the ablest financiers in the country advising the state banks to stay out of the system until it had been tested. These banks represent a large majority of the capital of the United States. Mr. Reynolds was unable to attend the sessions owing to the organization of a Reserve Bank in Chicago, he answered the question as implied in his subject, which was "What should be the Attitude of State Banks and Trust Companies toward the Federal Reserve System?"
MR. WEXLER'S PLEA.
Mr. Sol. Wexler of New Orleans made an attack upon the Federal Reserve System and offered a motion for the appointment of a committee from the various sections and from the Association itself to confer with the Federal Reserve Commission with a view to having such amendments made to the law to enable these banks to join the system. Other speakers joined in the attack and the discussion became slowly. It was 12:46, when appointment was had and the members passed out discussing the situation.
SAVINGS BANK SECTION MEETS.
The Savings Bank Section met at 3:30 P. M., President J. E. Sartor, guiding Mr. N. F. Hawley of Minneapolis, Minn., read the report of the Requisite Committee. The report of Methods and Systems Committees was read by Mr. V. A. Lerner of
Brooklyn, N. Y. The report of the membership committee was made by Mr. G. E. Edwards of New York. The report of the Law and Supervision Committee was made by Mr. N. F. Hawley of Minneapolis, Minn. The report of the Special Committee on Postal Savings Banks was made by Mr. E. L. Robinson of Baltimore, Md. Savings Bank Securities in the Light of Recent Events was read. and Mr. E. C. McDougall discussed "Recent Amendments, to Savings Bank Law of New York and Reasons for such Amendments."
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
The election of officers resulted in the choosing of Mr. W. B. Knox, Comptroller Bowery Savings Bank of New York as President, Mr. E. G. McWilliam was again chosen Secretary. He has rivalled Mr. William Hanhart in the efficient service that he has rendered and is a universal favorite among the bankers of the section. His Typical Functional Chart of a large Trust and Savings Bank showed profound study as well as transcondent ability along this line. The section adjourned at about 5 P. M.
DEACON JACKSON
IN THE HOSPITAL
Deacon Benjamin Jackson is now in the Freedman's Hospital at Washington undergoing treatment. He was operated, upon last week and is said to be improving. His devoted wife and Miss Cora L. Bright visited him last Sunday.
WOMAN SHOT HIM.
Ed Davis, colorer, was shot by a woman, said to have been Ankle Johnson, at 5 Walnut Alley during a quarrel there early Thursday morning the 5th, inst. Davis was rushed to the Colored City Home by Ambulance Surgeon Walker, where an operation was performed. He is in a serious condition and is said to have but little chance of recovery. Patrolmen Sweet and Folkes arrested the woman a short time after the shooting, and she was locked in the First Police Station.
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DR. BROOKS TO PREACH
DR. BROOKS TO. PREACH.
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., will preach at the Fourth Baptist Church Tuesday night, Oct. 20th, and at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Wednesday night, Oct. 21st, for the benefit of the Burrying Ground Association.
"Unde Remps' Visit to New York."
The Hippodrome management announces that the Haynes Photo-Play Co will present, "Uncle Remus: Visit to New York," Tuesday and Wednesday, October, 20-21. This is a $3,000 production, featuring Tom Brown and Able Mitchell, two of America's most noted Colored performers. In addition to this special picture program, there will be special Vaudeville features. The Hippodrome is situated on North Second st. and the management is catering to the better class of theatre goers, with polite and clean shows.
DR. 8. D. CALLOWAY.
Dr. 8. D Callaway, having passed the State Dental Board and registered, wishes to announce that he will open temporarily, an office at 24 W. Leigh St. Your patronage is solicited.
Mr. A. E. Straus, Ashcake, Va. arrived in Richmond for Richmond Hospital, October 13, 1914.
Mr. Frank Redd, of North Third Street, who has been indiposed, is able to be about again.
Regimental inspection of the U. R. K. of P. was held last Thursday night. The companies acquitted themselves nicely.
Dr. E. P. Read and wife of Philadelphia Pa. are visiting the South. This is Mrs. Read's first visit to the South. Dr. Read is President of the Cosmopolitan Educational Institute and Eureka Sanatorium Association, Lawnside, N. J.
Miss Louise Winston of Clifton Forge, is on a visit to Wavelly, Va. Miss Winston is Industrial Supervisor of Sussex Co. Va. and was on her way to take charge of her work.
CARD OF THANKS
Richmond, Virginia, Oct. 14,
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Browne of 1024
St. Peter St. wishes to extend their
heart-felt thanks to their many
St. Peter St. wish to extend their
valuable service and hospitality,
rendered us during the illness and
death of our deceased daughter,
Lottie M. Browne. We are wishing you all much prosperity and happiness.
Rev. W. R. Aahburn At 5th 80
Rev. W. W. R. Ashburp, D. D., the noted preacher and President of the State B. V. P. U. will preach two great sermons at the 5th Street Baptist Church at 11:30 A.M. and 8 I: M. Sunday Oct. 18th. 1914. All are invited to be present. The choir will sing special music.
WHAT MEN OF SCIENCE SAY
Prof. McKendrick: "Alcohol must be regarded, in the scientific sense, as a food."
Prof. Hoenig: "Alcohol, in moderate doses, is an important stimulant to digestion."
Sir T. Lauder-Prunton, London, England: "Moderate quantities of alcohol may be used as a food."
Dr. P. H. Pyo Smith of Guy's Hospital Medical School, London: "Temporance is much better than abstinence."
I. Burdun Sanderson, professor of physiology, Oxford university, England: "I myself often experience the advantage of alcohol, and the more the older I become."
Prof. A. Dastre, of Paris: "From the point of view of hygiene, I think that alcohol, taken in small and reasonable doses, in the form of good wine with meals, is an excellent thing, very agreeable, and entirely harmless."
MRS. WARE IN THE CITY.
Mrs. Ella C. Ware of Bremo Bluff, Virginia, was in the City last week and stopped at No 826 St. James Street with her cousin, Mrs. Salillo H. Jonathan. She spent a week in the city visiting her friends in Richmond and South Richmond, and returned home on Saturday last. Mrs. Ware was delighted with her visit to Richmond and at the progress that our people are making in this City.
Wallace. F. Brown. Room 214.
Mutual Building, having qualified as
executor of Alice Jones, deceased,
requests all creditors of her estate
to present their claims to him for
settlement, and all her debts, to
make settlement with him.
"A Brief Retrospect."
Able and Scholarly Lecture, Judge
Terrell Charms a Fine Audience.
The Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course
last Monday night at the Fifth St.
Baptist Church, when Judge Robert
H. Terrell spoke was a success. A
large and appreciative audience had
gathered to hear the speaker. General
Secretary Scott C. Burrell was
Master of Corononies, while Mr.
John S. Powell, President of the Y.M.
C. A. occupied a seat with him on the
lower rostrum. The music by the
Sabbath Glee Club was fine. It was
encored again and again, for it had
won popular favor. The invocation
was delivered by Rev. S. S. Morris,
the popular pastor of the Third St.
Bethel A. M. E. Church.
THE INTRODUCTION
The music by the Ebenezer Quartette was also fine and created something of a surprise. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. proceeded to introduce Judge Robert H. Terrell. He declared that it was worth the price of admission just to see the colored
JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRELL
jurist. Attorney General McReynold's a Democrat endorsed him and declared him to be the best judge on the bench of the Municipal Court. He had been nominated by President Woodrow Wilson, who had insisted upon his confirmation. Of five Municipal judges upon the bench, he was the only one re-appointed.
THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED.
He was the first and only judge to receive the endorsation of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. He had been confirmed by a vote of 24 to 39. He pronounced him a student of human nature, a graduate of Harvard University and a credit to the race. Judge Terrell arose amidst applause and after a brief reference to his experience in his fight for confirmation plunged into the discussion of his subject "A Brief Retrospect." He discussed the history of the colored man in this country and said that while some persons had tabooed the Negro question he had come to discuss.
A BIT OF HISTORY.
He told of the early importation of the Negroes to this country, of their varied experiences and services. He told of how many were employed in the various useful or gainful occupations and then discussed them in war. His references to their valor brought forth applause. He spoke of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, of Sergeant Carney and other celebrities of the race. He spoke too of the grand old man, Frederic Douglass and of that remarkable poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar. He had spoken about an hour to an audience that had listened to him with rant attention and was not tired at the close.
FRIENDLY GREETING
The Ebonezer Quartette rendered a selection. The Sabbath Glee Club did the same and then Mrs. Maggie L. Walker was called upon for an impromptu address. She responded in how immutable style and all went
out saying words of commendation of the evening's entertainment. As for Judge Torrell, he went to his temporary residence with Mr. Mitchell and then quickly returned to the K. of P. Castle, where his friends had gathered and where an impromptu reception was held and refreshments served until a late hour. Some say it was 2 A. M. when they retired, but definite information on this point has not been forthcoming.
CONGREGATION OPTOSED TO:
Declaring that the trustees had acted without authority in deciding to sell the church property, and had not notified the congregation of the purpose of their recent meeting, certain members, of the congregation of Immanuel Baptist Church yesterday filed a petition in the City Circuit Court in opposition to the petition of the trustees for court authority to dispose, of the property and named themselves as respondents in the case when it comes up for hearing.
The respondents are Mrs. Alice M. Burroughs, Mrs. S. S. Elllett, Mrs. E. R. Hill and Mrs. Lille Propst. They have engaged the law firm of Pace and Leary to represent them and other members of the congregation, while the trustees are represented by Thomas C. Diggs. The petition of the trustees has been in possession of the City Circuit Court for some time, but was not placed on file yesterday afternoon, when the opposing petition was allowed to the records of the court. Judge M. Carter Scott decided that the case should be heard upon the issues of fact, and set the hearing for November 3. Both sides have agreed to waive further notice and to have all their witnesses present upon that date. In the meanwhile Judge Scott has ordered that all the books of the church shall be open to the respondents.
CHARGE THAT MEETING HELD
NOT IN ACCORD TO RULES
In their petition the respondents set forth that the trustees were not duly authorized and were not empowered to make a sale of the church property, and the respondent petitioners further say that "the alleged meeting of the said congregation, under authority of which the trustees purport to act, was not, as your petitioners are advised and believe, and therefore aver and charge held in accordance with the rules and regulations of the said church that no notice of the purpose for which the said meeting was held was given to your petitioners or to the congregation." The paper goes on to say that it is not the wish of the congregation, nor of a majority of the congregation, that the real estate of the church shall be sold, but, on the contrary, the sale is opposed, particularly if the sale be to a colored church or congregation, so, the respondent petitioners is contemplated by the trustees.
The meeting in which it was decided to sell the church property was held on September 27. In that meeting the trustees claim that they were authorized and directed to apply to the court for authority to sell the property for $21,000. Of this $500 was to be paid when the court signed, the order for the sale, and $7,500 to be paid when the purchasers took possession of the property and $13,000 to be paid in five years' time.
Attorney Diggan says that he will insist that the respondents have no rights in the premises, and he will show that they now have the opportunity, if the question of other sanctuary for the congregation should arise, to buy the Calvary Baptist Church, at Grace and Pine Streets. He says that the congregation wishes to make financial arrangements for the purchase of the Calvary Baptist Church as speedily as possible. Under this amended congregation ordinance signed by Mayor Alnashle on October 7, Immanuel Baptist Church, which is situated on the northeast corner of Fifth and Leigh Streets, may not be occupied by a colored congregation, since the church is in a neighborhood in which the majority of residents are white. If, however, colored people should buy sufficient property in the vicinity of the church as to change the character of the population the church would then be considered to be within the proper confines for use by colored congregation. It is said that such a move is under contemplation of the colored people who wish to purchase Immanuel Church. Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch Oct. 13, 194.
The Colored Banker's Temporary Predicament.
President John Mitchell, Jr., entered the Jefferson Hotel last Sunday to register as a member of the American Bankers' Association. There were six white lady stenographers of this city there with a skilled manager in charge. He passed his engraved plato card to one of them. She seemed somewhat embarrassed and then she said, "We are not registering people from the city, only visitors today." The gentleman in charge picked up the card and hurriedly went to the rear of the enclosure. He returned and said pleasantly that it was all right.
WAS EMBARRASSED
The indy stenographer was embarrassed and said that she had stated only what she had been instructed to state and that she was in no wise responsible. She then proceeded to register the colored bank president complying strictly with course of procedure. President Mitchell was told to take it to the other side in order to get the badge or button of the American Bankers' Association which entitles the holder to admission into the meetings of the Association. Here the young white gentlemen who had been faithfully working balked.
ANOTHER OBJECTION.
They were unwilling to pass over the badge. The colored banker smilingly asked for Mr. Fitzwilson, the Assistant Secretary of the American Bankers' Association. Up in being told that he was at luncheon, he said that he would wait. When he came, he cordially greeted him "Mr. Nixwilson," said President Mitchell, "I wish you would straighten these young gentlemen out. They are doing good service, but they just don't understand my case." "Certainly," was the response. He walked to the desk and asked for the badge. It was given to him and he handed it to President Mitchell.
A BANKER'S PROMISE
"This part," said he "comes under the American Bankers' Association, and the local committee has charge of their department." The colored bank thanked him. He then went over to a local banker and asked him to take the matter up with the committee and thus avoid further annoyance. He promised he would do so. A few moments afterward, he was in conversation with a group of Richmond bankers. They spoke in a low tone and no one was aware of what was going on as the matter had been so quietly and pleasantly taken up that the people in the hotel lobby were unaware of the occurrence.
THE RETURN TRIP
The colored banker passed out. On returning Tuesday morning to attend the sessions in the Auditorium of the Jefferson Hotel, every courtesy was extended to him. The local committee met him just as he met them with a smile. The apparent friction had passed and the friendly feeling between the better class of colored people and the better class of white people was in evidence. A leading Richmond banker had also taken the matter up and on Thursday morning inquiries were made by a member of the local committee as to President Mitchell's health and environments. It was all that could be desired.
THE PROPER SPIRIT.
He met many bankers from different parts of the country and those from the Southland were equally as cordial. This incident was a practical demonstration that an appeal made in the proper spirit to southoners will bring its reward. There was no upatr, no illfeeling and the matter was, adjusted while the hundreds of visitors and home people, were not cognizant of the occurrence. The progress of the colored people hereabouts is due primarily to just this kind of people and the fact is emphasized in a way that many northoners cannot understand: they understand us and we understand them.
O. A. C Football Schedule
Manager George H. Johnson has arranged for a hard schedule for the Olympia Athletics this year as follows.
October 16th, Va. N. and I. I. at Peterburg, Va.
October 26th, Monarchs of Norfolk at Richmond.
November 6th, St. Paul N. and I.
I. at Iahrencoville, Va.
November 7th, St. Augustine, at
Ralouge, N. C.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
CHAVERS—HOLMES.
The marriage of Mr. D. J. Chavera to Mrs. Susanna Holmes has been announced. At home, to friends, Friday evening, Oct. 23, 1914. From 7 to 11 P. M. at their residence 318 D Preston Street.
SMITH-BROWN
The marriage of Mrs. Fannie E. Brown to Mr. William Edward Smith, will be solemnized on Thursday night, Oct. 29th, 9 o'clock at the home of the bride, 222 South First Street.
Friends invited. No cards. Reception from 9:30 to 11 P. M.
MAYO-BROWN
The marriage of Miss Julia Brown to Mr. Horace Mayo, of New Kent Co. Va., will take place at the residence of the bride's brother, Mr. Wm. Brown, 801 Denny St., Thursday, Oct. 22nd, 1914 at S o'clock P. M. Reception from S:30 to 11:00 o'clock P. M. Friends are invited. No cards.
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GROWING RACIAL CO-OPERATION
Even the casual observer must see that there is growing a spirit of rank co-operation and sympathy between the two races in the South, and that never before has there been a more earnest and sincere effort on the part of both races for mutual help and co-operation. There is a growing and genuinely honest disposition on the part of the Negro everywhere to seek the advice as well as the assistance and co-operation of white people in every movement for the common good of the Negroes. There is an increasingly strong feeling on the part of Negro laborers and mechanics for unity and co-operation with similar groups of white artisans, and the white unions are getting more and more the necessity for a closer union of the various classes of skilled workers, and this feeling will continue to grow as men become better trained, better educated, and better Christians.
In educational matters also there is a growing sympathy and spirit of co-operation between whites and blacks as never before. The Negro is calling on school officials for a fair and equitable distribution of school funds. He is asking for better schools, longer terms, better pay for teachers, and better equipment; in many cases the Negroes, out of their own earnings, are buying land for the school and often pulling up the schoolhouse, sometimes supplementing the pay of the teacher, this generally being done with the advice and approval of the local school officials, who are making appropriations for school purposes with a liberality such as was never before witnessed.
ONE OF THE GRAND RALLY DAYS AT MT. CARMEL
At 11:30 A. M. "The unveiling of Faces" will be the subject of a sermon by Rev. E. D. Coffee, the pastor. Text II Cor. 3-13. "And not as Mosco who put a vell-up upon his face." From what we have heard of the pastor and this sermon, we know that it will be a great privilege and a blessing to all who can possibly avail themselves of the opportunity of being present at Mt. Carmel next Sunday morning., All who may be present will be furnished with small pieces of paper upon which they will be asked to write their names and addresses to be left with the pastor. At 3:30 P. M. will convene "The First Anniversary of the Wildows Aid and Orphans Relief Society of Richmond. The interesting subject of the sermon by the pastor has been announced: "The Personal Failures of Christianity." 8:00 P. M. Brief services and the weekly report from the Governors, of the United States of Mt. Carmel. These are clubs with a novel plan for raising funds for the church Each Sunday night the Governors of the different "States" report a total sum from thirty-five to forty dollars extra to be added to the general funds. We hope that many may plan now and go to Mt. Carmel next Sunday to appreciate the efforts of this wide awake congregation which is going itself worthy of Richmond's highest praises.
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STOP
THIEF!
Novelized From the Great Play
of the Same Name by
George C. Jenks and
Carlyle Moore
Copyright, 1913, by the H. K. Fly
Company
SYNOPSIS
Carr puts the Steel bonds in his sake for Cuney, absentmindedly leaving the door unlocked. Doogan arrives and hides in a closet. A diamond bracelet is missed. Dr. Willoughby asks Joan Carr to marry him. He gathers all the wedding presuppositions of the back Detective Thompson, who arrives in response to Cuney's phone message. After stealing the steel bonds Doogan poses as Detective Thompson. Cuney asks the supposed sleuth to watch him so that he won't take things. The theft incidents is discovered. Doogan clears Neil. Doogan gets a list of the valuables in the house from each member of the family. Neil taking in the location of the boot.
CHAPTER XH.
DOOGAN made the best of his way to the closet in the rear hall, where the suit case, with the plunder in it, still reposed behind the brooms and brushes.
"I'll just stay in here till there's a chance to beat it," he decided. "The getaway is all there is to this job now." Mr. Carr was moonwhile doing his best to cheer up his wife.
"William, our honor is at stake," she said. "We must either find Mr. Jamison's certificates or make up his loss if it costs us every dollar we possess."
"I'm willing, mother. I'll do it."
"Well, then, do as Mr. Jamison says. Make out an 'inventory of everything we own while I go and hunt for that stock. And I'll find it if it's in the house,' she added.
"Inventory!' muttered William Carr when he was alone. "Now they'll find out that I am in business difficulties and that I have even mortgaged my home. Oh, dear."
The distressed old gentleman trotted after his wife, and Jack Doogan, who had been watching him from the closet, came out, suit case in hand, intending to get away. Just as he was going to sneak out of the library he came face to face with Dr. Wooloughy coming in.
"Oh, you were going to leave us in the lurch, were you?" said the doctor. "No, you don't! You're going to stay right here till this mystery is cleared up. You promised to stick and see this thing through. Got your suit case, too, eb? No, you don't Give me that."
"Durned fool!" muttered Doogan. Then, as Nell came in, he said to her hastily, "Say, Nell, you follow him and plant it the minute he lays it down," adding to himself as Nell darted after Dr. Willoughby: "I must be getting nutty. I let that boob take the catchel right out of my hand."
Dr. Willoughby came back minus the suit case and, going up to Doogan, said hurriedly: "Now, you watch here at the door. I want to see if this d—safe is open, so that I can get the stock back where it belongs. Now, don't go away until I get back, will you?" begged Willoughby as he hurried away.
"No, I won't go away!" cried Doogan, and to himself, "T'll break all speed records, that's all."
He stopped, with a queer grin, as he muttered:
"Gee! What do you think of me? Blessed if I wasn't forgetting the suit case! I'm a blessed thief, I am! Ah, here's Nell! She's a little bit of all right, that's what she is!"
"Hero it is, Jack!" said Neil exultantly as she held out the suit case to him. "I grabbed it the minute he laid it down."
"Did you get the money in the closet—the $4,000 under the rug!"
"Yes, I've got it and the sable fur and scalskins in the steamer trunk."
"Good kid! Now I'll go."
Jack Doogan went to the door communicating with the front hall and, as he opened it, bumped into that famous detective. Lieutenant Joseph Thompson.
"Well, here I am," announced the detective.
"What do I want? Why, you told me to be back in an hour, didn't you?" "Ha, ha!" laughed Doogan nervously. "You're on the det all right. Hope you isn't detty. . Ha, ha! But we were
Wrong about the time, wasn't well turning to Nell.
"You. We made a mistake about the time," replied Nell.
"They won't be here till 9 tonight."
"That's so. Nine tonight!" said Doogan, nodding and smiling at the detective as if to convey, "You see what a mess you've made of it!"
"Who won't be here till 9 tonight!"
grewled the detective.
"The two you want to capture," replied Nell.
"This will be a great feather in your cap if you pull it off." Jack Doogan assumed him. "You'll have Burns backed off the map."
"Who's Burns?" snapped Thompson.
"Quit your stalling. Why don't you tell me what the case is?"
"It's a case of amalgamania. You know what that is, don't you?"
"Bure!" answered Thompson, staggering mentally. "It's-yes-it's—"
Jack Doogan gave him a slap on the back that made him cough as he help-
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"Well, here I am!" announced Detective Thompson.
"Well, here I am!" announced Detective Thompson.
ed out: "Yes, you're right. It's collective robbery."
"Yes, of course. Robbery! Have you got any evidence!"
"Evidence? Sure! This suit case is full of evidence."
"That so? I think I'd better take it."
Thompson reached for the suit case, but Doogan drew it away, as he objected hastily. "No, I think you'd better not." Then to Nell, "What do you think?
"I think you'd better keep it, sir."
"Yes, I think she's right," agreed Doogan, looking at Thompson knowingly. "You see, if you take it the thieves can get it—no evidence! If you leave it here the thieves will get it and there's the evidence. You understand?"
"I got you," answered the detective.
"Now, don't disappoint us again," begged Doogan with his hand on the detective's shoulder. "Be here at 9 o'clock sharp."
"I got you," was Thompson's reply.
"Have you got the right time?" asked Doogan.
Thompson put his hand to his suit pocket, but drew it away again with a muttered oath and cried:
"Some dip' grabbed my watch last night. It was worth $600 too. I'll get it back soon, because I know the crook who took it quite well. In the meanwhile I can depend for the time on clocks in—in"—
"Café—saloon! Yes, I know," grinned Doogan.
No sooner was Lichtenant Joseph Thompson well away than Jack Doogan picked up the suit case and prepared to get out of the house with his booty. He might have done it too, only that, just as he was at the door, William Carr came moonlight into the room, with a paper pad, in his hand, on which he was writing the names of various articles about him. In fact he was making out the inventory which had been suggested by Douglas Jamison.
"Wish some one would choke that old man" muttered Jack Doogan. "He's always in the way."
Before William Carr had observed him Doogan had thrown the suit case under the table and seated himself with his pad in his band, as if he were brutally going over the list of valuable articles he had compiled in the presence of the family not long before.
William Carr sat down at the table with his pad, while on the other side Doogan watched him furtively as he pretended to examine his list.
When Mr. Carr took two $500 dollar bills from his pocket and inspected them on the table, almost under Doogan's nose, the strain was so terrific that the young man could not help stretching out his fingers toward the money.
"What are you doting with that money?"
"Why? It's mite."
Jack Doogan took his list from his pocket and made a great show of scanning it from top to bottom. Then he said:
"You didn't declare that money on this list of valuables."
"I was going to include it in the inventory I am making for Mr. Jamison," faltered the old man.
"Why? Jamison has no right to it."
"Han't he?" asked Mr. Carr, feebly.
"Certainly not. If you haven't got it you can't include it in your inventory, can you?"
"That's so," asserted Mr. Carr.
"Of course that's so. I'll mind it for you."
Jacy Doogan took the notes from Mr. Carr's unrestricted hand, and Carr
Thus Mr. Jack Doogan, as he grabbed his suit case under the table and prepared to make a dive for the door to the basement.
Again unkind fate stood in his way—this time in the fair person of Miss Caroline Carr, who burst into the room screaming: "Police police! The police are here!"
Jack Doogan swore softly. Then he hid the suit case under the sofa and locked the door to the front hall to gain a little time. As he did so the entire family came running in at one door as a tremendous thumping began at another—that communicating with the front hall.
"Where are they?" demanded Mrs. Carr.
"Open this door in the name of the law!" roared a powerful voice outside.
"Let him pound awhile," observed Jack Doogan. "It's good exercise."
"But he'll break the door down," objected William Carr.
Suddenly the door was kicked open and four policemen in uniform came in, with Douglas Jamison among them. One of the policemen wore the stripes of a sergeant, and he was as fierce an example of the peace officer in extra authority as one would wish to see. "Now, sergeant," said Douglas Jamison, pointing to William Carr, who tried to shrink behind his wife, "that is Mr. Carr. He's got my stock certificates and my money."
"I have a search warrant," replied the sorkont curly.
"A search warrant!" muttered Jack Doogan, who was modestly in the background. "Goodby, sunburst!"
He slipped around behind the others and dexterously planned the sunburst he had taken from the safe to Madge Carr's skirt.
"That isn't the inventory. That's a pencil," called 'out Jack Doogan from the back of the table as he picked up the inventory.
Definitely taking the warrant from the sergeant's fingers without his knowledge he pressed the inventory on him. Then he contrived to drop the inventory before the sergeant could get hold of it and stooped to pick it up with an urbane: "You're dropped your warrant. Allow me, sergeant!"
The performance was what is known as "filmam" when done with money, and Jack Doogan had a reputation in some cities as an expert filmammer. "Stop that! None of your tricks with me! Let this warrant alone. I'll pick it up."
If the sergeant had been a little more careful himself he would have looked at the paper he picked up. But he didn't, to his subsequent discomfiture.
Doogan slipped the sergeant's search warrant into Mr. Carr's coat pocket. "Bay, sergeant," broke in Jamison. "Well?" "Here's the tricky one," continued Jamison, pointing to William Carr. "Don't trust him." "Why, Jamison!" gasped Mr. Carr. "Sleepee!" bellowed the sergeant. There was nothing of the jolly, good mature man who had come to William Carr in the Grand Central station the night before in the Douglas Jamison who frowned at him now. "Oh, mother! What a disgrace! groaned Mudge into her mother's ear trumpet. "To think of the police being here! I can hardly believe it!" "And on our wedding day!" added Chuny logobrently.
A loud scream from Mrs. Carr made everybody stare at her, and the sergeant frowned awfully as he waited for an explanation.
The truth was that Mrs. Carr had just seen the diamond sunburst pinched to Madge's skirt. The good lady murured "Heredity" more than once while Doogan coughed loudly to drown her voice. "Everybody must be searched" announced the lieutenant.
Jack Doogan proved his chivalry in the face of adverse conditions.
"Stop!" he shouted.
"What!" yelled the sergeant. "Get back there or I will put handcuffs on you."
"No, you won't!" shouted Jack Doogan, as determined as the other. "I want you to do this thing regular if you do it at all."
"Oh, I'll do it all right!" snarled the sergeant.
"All right. But you haven't served the warrant yet."
The sergeant opened his document with a sourik and began in a loud tone. "My home and personal effects, all furniture; one ice box."
He had got as far as this before he could stop himself. Then as he looked in amusement at the paper in his hand he beheld:
"My God! I've lost my warrant! This is a list of furniture."
THE sergeant was in a faming rage, and be looked at the inscrent William Carr as it be lieved him to be the that who had stolen his warrant under his very nose.
"Let everybody look for that warrant," howled the sergeant. "If it on the floor it must be somewhere close at hand. Get under the table, you!" This list was dung at Mr. Carr, who obediently crawled under the table while his wife and daughter, Clunay, Willoughby, Doogan, Jamson and the four polkemen groped about the floor on their hands and knees, like a lot of children playing a game.
The sergeant suddenly jumped to his feet at last, and as he brushed the dust from the knees of his new blue trousers, he issued the dictum:
"That's enough! Get up! There's no use looking about the floor."
He waited until all the others were on their feet, and then he continued
wonderfully:
Simplyby in this room has stared me
for my warrant. Now, come on! Who's
got it? He wounded up he stared hand
at Mrs. Carr.
"Do you mean to intimate that some
one, has stolen your warrant?" demanded that lady, bridling.
"And my money!" put in Douglas Jamison boisterously. "Don't forget my money."
"I'm going to search the house and everybody in it," interrupted the sergeant.
"But you can't search this house without one. I know the law," said Jack Doogan.
"Say, who are you?" abruptly demanded the sergeant. "You are talking a lot. Now, who are you?"
"Never mind who I am." replied Doogan, with significant emphasis. "You haven't got a warrant and that stops you."
"Go on," said Dr. Willoughby to Doogan. "Tell him who you are."
Everybody except Mr. Carr and Douglas Jamison interposed a warning "Sh!"
The sergeant was obviously uncomfortable.
"What's all this abushing about, any how?"
"I didn't abuh," remarked Mr. Carr, with an ingratiating smile as he moved apart from the rest of his family, the feeling of self protection strong within him.
"Come, sorgeant, come!" urged Jamison. "For beaven's sake do something. My brokers extended the time, but I must have those certificates within an hour."
"All right. I suppose that's about the only thing to be done. But don't let any of them get away."
"Hold on here! You policemen can't stay in this house." exclaimed Doogan.
Jack Doogan did not design to reply, but he shook his head warningly as he walked over to the bookcase and read the titles of the volumes with ostentatious interest.
Dr. Willoughby was getting tired of the bumptious manner of the sergeant, and be asked him now, rather shortly:
"Look here, sergeant. What's all this excitement. about? What's bean stolen."
"Mr. Jamleon's steel stock certificate," replied the sergeant.
"Why, the steel stocks are in that safe."
"No," interposed William Carr, shaking his head disconsolately. "We just looked in the safe."
"But," persisted Dr. Willoughby, "you haven't looked in the safe lately—not in the last few minutes. Perhaps you were mistaken. You'd better look again."
"Perhaps I was mistaken," observed Mr. Carr. "I'll look in the safe again."
Mr. Carr and Madge knelt down in front of the safe, while Mrs. Carr looked on expectantly. Her husband had begun to turn the combination knob when the rattle of it attracted the attention of the sergeant.
"Get away from that safer!" he shouted. "Nobody will touch anything in this house until Jamison gets back with that warrant. Then I'll do the searching."
Doogun maneuvered over from the bookcase and planted himself in front of the sergeant treculently.
"Look here!" he said. "You can't tell this gentleman what he can do in his own house."
"I'll wait you in a minute" threatened the sergeant, chucking his fist.
Doogan was up in arms at once. "You'll wail up me, will you?" he answered, measuring the sergeant with his eye from head to foot in an exasperating way. "I think you would if my hands were tied."
Bang! There was a riot on the instant.
The sergeant aimed a blow at Doogan with his left hand, which Doogan neatly ducked and would have landed a jolt with his own left if the other three policemen had not rushed between them just in time.
"Keep quiet, Doogan!" admonished Cliney.
"Yes, he's not worth bothering with," added Willoughby. "Thrash him some other time if you like, but this is not the time."
"All right! Let it go!" he added as the three subordinate policemen showed him up against the bookcase. "I'm through."
Through the open doorway, where the sergeant had kicked the door away, there then trotted in the dapper, black attired figure of Mr. Spelain, the minister.
"Dear me," he excisalled, looking at the sergeant, who, like his open, was in full police uniform. "Are you a policeman?
"What did you think I was," growled the sergeant, a messenger boy? What are you?
"An Episcopallian," answered Mr. Spelain. "Dear dear! If there's any trouble I'll go."
"No, you don't. Get back there."
James Cluney interfered indigently. "Look here, officer. This is ridiculous! Mr. Spelain is a minister of the Episcopal."
"What's that?" barked the sergeant, turning on Cluney suddenly with an expression of countenance such as might be seen in an angry—and very hungry—canibal.
"Nothing," murmured Cluney. "I didn't say anything."
Mr. Speakis looked about for somebody to confide in and chose Jack Doogan as the most self possessed man in the room.
"Yes, I know," interrupted Doogan without ceremony. "Go over there and tail it to Chamoy."
Mr. Speakis proceeded to put a penguin block on and carried in his hand into one of his pockets.
"Were you?" seized the sergeant.
"What are you putting in your pocket?"
"My prayer book," replied Mr. Klein mildly.
"See if that is a prayer book, Clancy."
"Is it a prayer book?"
"I don't know," replied Clancy.
"Give it back to him," was the next order.
When the sergeant had decided that he had looked enough at Mrs. Carr and her girls to subdue them and that he had impressed Dr. Willoughby and James Clancy, at least, to some extent, he resolved to try the power of the eye on that much beset old gentleman, William Carr.
"Oh, Lord!" mourned Carr.
The sergeant had done with Mr. Carr for the present and was exercising the power of his eye on Jack Doogan. The experiment here was a complete failure, for Doogan nonchalantly looked him all over in return and then gazed in another direction, as if the sight of the sergeant made him tired.
"Stop that!" suddenly bawled the sergeant at Mr. Carr.
The old gentleman had not been doing anything in particular, but as the raucous tones of the sergeant amo his car he started and ran, frantically to his wife and, clinging to her arm, cried like a frightened childt "Mother."
"Now, you three fellows sit down there on that sofa," commanded the sergeant, indicating Dr. Willoughby, James Cluney and Jack Doogan. "I want you where I can keep my eye on you."
"Bilthering idolocy!" murmured Chuney to Dr. Willoughby.
"I know, but do as he tells you."
"Till have to, I suppose."
He moved disgustedly across the room to the sofa and sat down with a bump. Dr. Willoughby dropped by his side, and then Jack Doogrn sat on the sofa, taking one shoe off and placing the too to his lips to assume the sergeant he would keep quiet.
"That's what I want," observed the sergeant, with a sardonic smile, as he stood off and inspected them, as a drill sergeant might "size up" a line of "rookies."
Mrs. Carr took this opportunity, while the sergeant's attention was di-
Jack Doogan Set on the Bofa.
rected away from her, to whisper to Madge:
"Madge, dear, I found the diamond sunburn fastened to your dress. Did you take anything else?"
Madge's look of surprised horror might have convinced anybody as she fell back from her mother with a low voiced "What!"
"Bb!" warned Mrs. Carr.
"Stop that shaking. I tell you!" roared the sergeant, swinging around suspiciously.
"You'll make me angry in a moment, Mr. Officer," seemed Mrs. Carr in a weak voice.
As the sergeant turned away to rebuke Mrs. Carr the three men on the sofa put their heads together and began to talk earnestly in back and caught them, and they straightened up as one man, like three toy monkeys on a stick. The sergeant shook his first at them and, addressing his three police subordinates, said: "Now, listen, men! Keep your eyes open. Don't let any of these people pick up or get rid of a thing. If one of them should so much as put his hand in his pocket, even, just call my attention to it."
James Clonney's right hand had been in his trousers pocket, but he took it out in a hurry.
"Mother," he went on in a horrified tone, "I think I have something in my pocket."
"William!"
There was a long and solemn pause, and then William Carr remarked nervously, "Ain't it quiet?"
"Madge, your father has something in his coat pocket. Try and get it out. Your father will help you."
Madge was a little confused, but she slipped by the side of her father, where the sergeant could, not see, and Mr Carr tried to guide her hand into his pocket.
At this particular moment, however, some evil spirit moved the fast policeman, O'Malley, to walk over to the group, and as Madge stepped away from her father the policeman slipped into her place. The consequence was that William Carr, groping for his daughter's hand to lead it into his pocket, seized O'Malley's fathers paw if he had been anything but the most absentminded, old gentleman in New York he must have noted the difference at once) and tried to put it into his pocket.
"What in thunder are you doin'?" demanded O'Malley, jerking his hand away and threatening Mr. Curr with his elbow.
Meanwhile the three men on the sofa had plunged into a whispered conversation and were oblivious of all that was going on around them.
"Let's tell him the stocks are in the safe," whipped Dr. Willoughby to his companions.
"Don't tell them that," interpressed Deugan, hurriedly, "or you'll have to explain where you get them."
poking about," she added. "Nobody," replied Mr. Browne. "But the corpse was not unharmed." "I think you follow bad habits spread out. Come on! Spit out and get apart!" Mr. Carr, with a struggle of his shoulders that seemed to ask, "Where's the use?" began to whistle, "Home, Sweet Home," very much off the bay. "Now, now!" whispered Mrs. Carr to her daughter. And Madge once more tried to get her hand into her father's pocket. Clancy moved forward from the door where he had been on guard and stared at Madge's manicures, while Mr. Carr whistled Ryder. "Cut out that whistling," commanded the servant. And Mr. Carr stopped in the middle of a bar. "It's no use, Madge." murmured Mrs. Carr; "the servant and the other policemen are watching us like hawks."
"Maybe if we could get into the dining room," suggested Madra.
"Yes; that might do. Joan!"
"Yes, mother."
"Tell them we are hungry."
"Very well, mother. Mr. Sergeant," she said aloud, "we haven't had a bite since breakfast. Please may we have something to eat!"
"Well, that's pretty hard, miss, if you're hungry. Surel Go ahead and get something."
"Ah!" said Mrs. Carr, with a pleased look. "Come, William!"
William Carr moved with alacrity, and the minister was not at all slow in walking to ward the dining room. James Cluney, Dr. Willoughby and Doogan also stirred in that direction.
"Thank you, sergeant," said Cluney effusively.
But the sergeant was not to be cajoled. He immediately pushed Cluney. Doogan and Dr. Willoughby back toward the sofa.
CHAPTER XIV.
Who Hid the Chocolate Pet?
"JOAN!" whispered Mrs. Carr, turning her ear trumpet toward her youngest daughter's mouth. "See if the sergeant will let you make some chocolate."
"Please, may I serve some chocolate?" she asked the sergeant meekly. "We're half starved—really we are." She patted him on the sleeve with a caressing gentleness that few men could resist—certainly not this susceptible policeman—and purrred, "There's a dear, sergeant!"
"Well, I guess it will be all right, miss," said the sergeant, "if I go with you, O'Malley!"
"Yes, sir."
"Look out for things here while I take charge of the young lady."
"Yes, sir."
The sergeant gallantly offered his arm to Joan, who took it with a smile, and the two went out on their way to the dining room. Dr. Willoughby was indignant at seeing the sergeant thus taking possession of Joan.
"Oh, I guess she's been in worse company," grinned O'Malley.
His grin was abruptly changed into a frown as he turped and saw Mrs. Carr's band in her husband's pocket O'Malley, like his chief, was exceedingly curious to know what it was that everybody was trying to get away from Mr. Carr without the police knowing anything about it.
"Here, madam!" he called out. "Take your hand out of that man's pocket. I'm watching you!"
Jack Doogan, continuously on the watch for some means of escape, picked up his hat and, seeing that no one was guarding the door to the front hall, countered toward it apparently without thinking what he was doing. But Clancey, of the sharp black eye, had been watching Doogan and divining his attention, slipped through to the front hall and awished development.
Clancey had not long to wait. The next minute Doogan slid into the hall—right into Clancey's arms!
"Hello! grunted Clancy. "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to see whether anybody was out here," replied the unashamed Doogan, as he protruded back into the library, with Clancy as his beak.
"I wonder what all that rocket is in the dining room," observed Clancy to Willoughby, as they heard the sergeant's voice shouting. "I've got it! I've got it."
"What the dickens has he got?" responded the doctor. "He's making enough noise about it."
The sergeant dashed into the library, holding up a sheaf of legal looking papers inclosed by a wide rubber band, while Joan Carr, almost as excited as the sergeant came running in after him.
"What is it?" saked Mr. Carr. "The warrant?"
"No, no. The certificates. I knew I'd find them!" boasted the sergeant.
He placed the bundle of papers in William Carr's hands, and the old gentleman slowly fumbled at them in the endeavor to see what they were.
"The securities!" cried Cheney. Then, mute to Dr. Willoughby. "How's this, Willoughby? I thought you put them in the safe."
"So I did," declared the doctor. "Didn't I?" he asked of Doogan, who was by his side.
"Ah! That mutt!" whispered Doogan disgustedly, as he glanced at the arrest. "They're not the certificate. He's got the bonds."
"These are the bonds," confirmed Mr. Carr at that instant, unconscionally corroborating Doogan.
"Where was the chocolate pot?" enquired the practical Midge.
"Hidden in the pantry."
"Who hid the chocolate pot?" enquired Dr. Willoughby.
"Well, you needn't look at me," blured out the barned old gentleman.
"Come on," snapped the sergeant.
"Who hid the chocolate pet?"
Burt William Curtis could not understand
WITH nothing in mind, I am for
admission, with the help of several
sometimes quite far away men to be with
the air, myself. I want but you take
the blame, I think I will it.
Nate Chamry was expressive by the
pause of depth, and the focus to be
practical in everybody, and he threat
himself forward, anxious.
"I won't allow this, sir. I
sart. Now, thank you. I dread me,
but having done so, but I regret I did
the chocolate pot."
The sergeant shook off Chamry sup-
timately.
"What's all this about?" he snorted.
"Come on now. I want the truth. Who-
bled—the chocolate-pot!"
To his intense assessment he got
three confessions at once. William
Carr, Mr. Carr and James Cluny all
answer solemnly as one person:
"I did!
"This is all too much for me," observed
Mr. Spolain to himself. "I'll
keep out of it—if I can."
The good minister glided away and, with his face to the wall, opened his prayer book and began-to read.
"See here, sergeant," said Dr. Willoughby. "You want Mr. Jamison's steel stocks? Isn't that what you came for?
"Well, what of it?" was the grunt reckoner.
"But they are there," insisted the doctor, going over to the safe and pulling the door open. "I know it. I'll show you. See, here they are!" He took the stocks out of the safe and handed them to the sergeant. "There you are. This is the cause of all the trouble. Take them."
The sergeant took the papers and scanned them hastily, finally gasping: "International Steel stock! Well, well!" "How did they get in there?" exclaimed Mrs. Carr.
"Yes, how did they get back in there?" added her husband, looking as if he hardly believed his own eyes.
"Sh, sh, sb!" came from Doogan, Cluney and Dr. Willoughby.
"Cut out that abushing, I tell you!" stored the sergeant. "Say, what kind of a game is this anyway?"
"I didn't abush!" protested Mr. Carr. "Who stole my warrant? That's what I want to know." shouted the sergeant, reverting to his original grievance.
"The old man's got something in his pocket," volunteered Clancey, coming forward.
"He has? Get it."
Clancey, only too glad to be doing something besides guarding a door, advanced upon William Carr and dug his hands into each of his pockets with the ostentatious disregard of the victim's feelings that one generally sees in a policeman making a personal search, and at last, from one of Mr. Carr's coat pockets, drew forth the missing warrant!
The sergeant snatched the warrant from Clancey, glanced at it to make sure it really was the missing document, and then looked fiercely at William Carr.
"Oh, father!" exclaimed Madge. And "Oh, William!" came from Mrs. Carr.
"I didn't steal that!" declared the old gentleman, with an earnestness that might have convinced anybody but a seasoned police officer.
"Are you sure?" asked the sergeant in a tone which showed he didn't believe the denial.
"You can search me," offered the old man.
"That's just what I'm going to do. I'm going to search everything and everybody in this house."
Nell listened anxiously at the door.
Jack Doogan retired to a corner at the end of the bookcase and surreptitiously took a fat pocketbook from his clothes. From the pocketbook he drew forth the roll of yellow back blank notes he had taken from Douglas Jamison—and kissed it affectionately. Then with a savven, "Goodby, bankroll," he dropped it into an outside pocket of the minister's coat and moved away to another part of the room. Mr. Spelain continued to read his prayer book.
"O'Malley," called out the sergeant, "grab a taxi, beat Mr. Jamison to headquarters and bring him back with you."
"Night str."
"I'm going to search this bunch. I want you all to line up here on this side. Come on! No, no! What are you all running around in a circle for, like a crazy mole in a circuse? This isn't a ring-around-a-scoy game. I want you to line up here."
Backing away from his prisoner to get a better view of them as a whole, the servant tripped over the sofa and fall upon it at full length in a most undignified heap. He was up in an instant, red in the face and as mad as a disturbed bumblebee, as he showed to Clancy, pointing to the sofa:
"Move that thing out of the way!"
Clancy obeyed hurriedly, and, pushing the sofa back, brought into view the suit case that Jack Doogan had hidden there when he heard the police coming in, some time before.
"What's that?" demanded the servant, taking the suit case out of Clancy's hand.
"Why, that's my suit case," said Camay in surprise. "What's it doing here?"
"That's what I want to know," grunted the sergeant, as he turned to William Carr and asked him suspiciously. "Who put that suit case under the suit?"
"I don't know," walled William Cam. "What do you ask me for?"
"Who bid this suit case? That's what I'm asking. And, by the guest host soon, I'm going to find out" thundered the sergeant, glaring around him.
"I don't understand this," observed Dr. Willeighby. "I put that suit case in the closet at the other end of the hall less than twenty minutes ago."
"Where did you get it?" asked Daniel Clouse.
dignity and, looking significantly brisk at Carr and then at Cluney, said slowly:
"I must decline to answer."
"Why?"
"For fear of incriminating a friend," replied Jack Doogan, with a highly virtuous lift of the chin.
"What do you think of this, Clancey?" whispered the sergeant, with a sharp sidolong look at the suit case.
Clancey did not reply for fear he might say the wrong thing. So be only nodded wisely, as if to leave everything to the superior judgment of his chief. Considerable of a diplomat was Clancey.
"He's protecting me," whispered Cluney to Dr. Willoughby.
"Father, he's protecting you." murmured Mrs. Carr to her husband.
"Give that suit case to me," ordered the sergeant. "I'll see what's in it."
He had already lifted the suit case to the sofa and was proceeding to open it when Mrs. Carr caught him by the arm as she begged, with tears in her eyes:
"Please—please! Don't open that suit case."
"Why? What's all this about?" helped the sergeant, with a frown.
"See what this lady has to say, won't you?" said Doogan. "It will be worth four while, I'm sure."
"What do you know about it?"
"Nothing, only I'd give her a chance," was Doogan's hasty response.
THE
Not Listened Anxiously at the Deen.
"I think I can explain this mystery," stammered Mrs. Carr. "If-if-I disclose a family secret I rely on the honor of all here that it will go no further. William, tell the truth."
"I presume you've all heard of kleptomaniacs?" questioned William Carr, with painful hesitation.
"Doctor, they've discovered me!" interrupted Cluney desperately.
"What?" cried Mrs. Carr and Madge together.
"Yes. I'll confess all," went on Cluney. "I'm a kleptomaniac. It's an inheritance over which I've no control."
"James!" sobbed Madge, taking his hand.
"Forgive me, Madge, that's all I can say. Forgive me."
"Good heavens!" ejaculated Mrs. Carr. "If he's a kleptomaniac what will my grandchildren be?"
"Mother!" whispered William Carr,
"he's lying to save me."
"How noble of him!" murmured Mr.
Carr.
For a moment Dr. Willoughby had
been dumfounded by the queer turn
of affair. New, as he recovered him-
self, he turned to the sergeant:
"Look here, sergeant. This is all
wrong. James, you have no right to"—
"Oh, what's the use, Willoughby?
It's true—it's true, I tell you. I am
a kleptomaniac! Mr. Doogan will tell
you. I had Him sent here from police
headquarters to watch me. He's a
detective, and"—
"Who's a detective?" roared the ser-
geant.
Cutting
In a case tried in a Philadelphia court the prosecuting attorney had a good deal of fun at the expense of counsel for the defendant, each of whom seemed as stupid as the other.
"I ignorance of the law," interposed the judge at a certain juncture, "in no excuse for violation of law."
"May I inquire of your honor," asked the prosecuting attorney, "whether your honour's remarks are directed at the defendant or his counsel" — Ex honoree.
Take the City of Lifto and Bombard Druges.
Heavy Fighting In Northwestern France—French Score, Notsworthy Advance.
In northwestern France and southwestern Belgium the Germans continue their advancement in force toward the seacoast.
The Germans have occupied the important French city of Lille, in the vicinity of which fighting has been going on for many days.
According to the French official account, the city was held only by a territorial detachment, which gave way before the German army corps sent to take it. This indicates that the position was not considered to be of great strategic importance.
As an offset, the French announce "a somewhat noteworthy advance" in the region of Berry-Au-Bac, northeast of Soissons, and east of the plateau of Craonne, which has been the pivot of General Von Kluck's advanced position. They also claim gains between Arras and Albert, south of Lille. On the right bank of the Mouse, east of Verdun, the French have advanced.
In southwestern Belgium the Germans have reached a point near Bruges, which city is reported to be under bombardment. Bruges is fourteen miles east of Ostend. A German aviator has pushed on to Ostend and dropped two bombs thore, neither of which exploded.
The official bulletin issued in Berlin says:
The official bulletin issued in Paris says:
"There is nothing to announce except a somewhat noteworthy advance in the region of Berry-Au-Bac.
"On our left wing our forces have resumed the offensive in the regions of Hazebrouck and Bethune against detachments of the enemy composed in large part of cavalry coming from the front along Balleul, Estaires and La Bassee.
"The town of Lille, held by a territorial detachment, has been attacked and occupied by a German army corps.
"Between Arras and Albert we have made notable progress.
"On the center also we have made progress in the region of Berry-Au-Bac, and we have advanced toward Boudan, in the west of the Argonne and north of Malacourt.
"Between the Argonne and the Mouse, on the right bank of the Mouse, our troops who hold the heights of the Mouse to the east of Verdun, have advanced.
"To the south of the road from Verdun to Metz, in the region of Apremont, we have gained a little territory on our right and repulsed a German attack on our left.
"To sum up, the day was marked by perceptible progress on the part of our forces at various points on the field of battle."
That dispositions are being made by both the Germans and the allies for a big battle between Lens and Sassel is deduced from the fragmentary information give hout by the intelligence departments of the belligerent powers. Cassel is eighteen miles inland from the fortified seaport of Dunkirk, on the Straits of Dover.
1. A Times correspondent in the north of France reports strong German columns of all arms passing through Bailleul, department of the Nord, near the Belgian frontier, in the direction of Ypres, in West Franders, Belgium, thirty miles southwest of Ruges. Around Ypres the Germans have concentrated in large numbers. German cavalry patrols have been seen in many places within twenty miles of Dunkirk. These detachments doubtless are pair of a screen thrown out to test the strength of the allies and to mask the movements of the German main body.
A Daily Mall correspondent telegraphs:
"The fighting around 'Arran has been exceedingly severe and Lena has changed hands at least three times in as many weeks. If the Gormans could succeed in bursting the ring at some part their desperate program might prevail, but so far they have failed, and their forces are hopelessly scattered.
"It would be aburd, however, for that reason to say they are negligible. On the contrary, they are still capable of giving great trouble. Their cavalry lies in considerable numbers on the east of Hazebrouck (thirty-two miles northwest of Lille) and in the country surrounding Orchies (sixteen miles southeast of Lille). All their scattered forces in this region are being slowly but surely shepherded in the right direction northward, while the forces threatening Hazebrouck are being driven northward. In short, after weeks of furious fighting they have accomplished nothing worth recording."
information gleaned from the Dutch press, from travellers and from other sources points to the conclusion that during the last ten days the German armies in France have been heavily reinforced. There has been a steady flow of traps to western France through Air-Chapelle, and some ten or more Landsaturn divisions must now be added to the German troops.
222 NASHMORE PLANES, RESMOND, VIRGINIA
THE LAND OF THE LORD
A MESSAGE FROM THE LORD
IN THE LAND OF THE LORD
LEMBERG RETAKEN;
WARSAW MAY FALL
Russians Driven Back From All Points.
Evading in some mysterious way the watchfulness of the Russian consorship, a report has reached London which shows that for weeks past, apparently, the Russian government has concealed the successful advance of the Germans into Russian Poland and has converted Russian defeats into magnificent victories. The effect of this report is the more crushing in that it shows that all of Russian Poland has been overrun by the kaiser's forces and that Warsaw alone is still in the hands of the czar, though its fall seems imminent. The denouncement came in the form of a message from the American consul in Warsaw. This message told of the impending occupation of the capital of Russian Poland by the Germans and asked for instructions as to the care of foreign interests during the expected period of occupancy.
Another report which has served to discount the early advice concerning the successes of the Russian armies in Galleria reached London from Berlin to the effect that Lemberg has been retaken by the Austrians.
This, coming on the heels of the reported raising of the siege of Przemysl by the combined Austro-German forces, seems to indicate that the Russians have suffered serious reverses in the last few days of fighting, which they have concealed with the utmost care.
It is officially announced at Petrograd that the siege of Przemysl is progressing, according to a dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company from the Russian capital. The Russian artillery is rapidly destroying the forts, which, however, continue an energetic resistance.
The Przemysl garrison, it is further announced, down not exceed thirty thousand men.
SERVIAN PRINCES WOUNDED
George, King Peter's Eldest Son, Reported Mortally Hurt. Crown Prince Alexander of Servia and his brother, Prince George, are reported wounded in the fighting against the Austrians, according to a Berlin dispatch via Copenhagen. Prince George is reported mortally hurt. The crown prince is twenty-six years old, and has acted as regent during the illness of King Peter. Prince George is his elder brother, but was forced to renounce his rights of succession in 1809 in favor of his brother.
GUNS TO SIGNAL ZEPPELINS
Take to Cellar When Warning Salvo Is Heard, Says Gravesend's Mayor. The only notice of the arrival of hostile air craft in the neighborhood of the Thames and the Medway, in England, says the mayor of Gravesend in a proclamation, will be the firing of guns from the defenses. The notice adds: "Persons seeking to gratify their curiosity will do so at their own risk. When firing is heard the people should immediately take shelter in the lower rooms or cellars of their buildings."
Asks Canada For 22,000 More. Orders were received by the war department in Ottawa, Can., for the dispatch of the second contingent of 22,000 Canadian troops to Europe to reinforce the allies.
Lure of the Opera.
The mode of operas always has been and always will be the lure of its millions of patrons; the singing, too, is frequently brilliant and perfect, but the presentment of scenes from life upon the stage where everything, however commonplace and benazal, is sung, however beautifully, will always sadden the soul by the very impossibility and inappropriateness of the spectacle. Fat temors and sopranos expire in fights of high notes, choruses express various quite unnecessary sentiments with what vocal skill they may, and the average person who likes music and a little logic, ten, is thrown into existence of wondertime - Musical Standard.
BRITISH BOER TROOPS MUTINY
Command Joins Forces With Invading Germans.
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED
Colonel Maritz, Head of the Mutiny,
Threatens Invasion From Northwest—Disaffection Said to Be Widespread.
It has been definitely announced in Cape Town, South Africa, that a command under Colonel Maritz has rebelled in the northwest of the Cape provinces.
Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the Union of South Africa. It is understood that the mutinous troops are largely blooms, supposedly serving near the border of German Southwest Africa.
The rebellion among the forces of the Northwest Cape province has been brewing since the designation of General Beyers as commander-in-chief of the Union forces.
As soon as the government realised this situation it sent Colonel Brits to relieve Maritz of his command. Colonel Brits then discovered that Maritz was commanding German troops as well as his own and that he had German guns in his possession. Maritz, who has been given the German rank of general, had arrested those of his officers and men who were unwilling to join the Germans and had sent them as prisoners of war to German Southwest Africa. According to an official statement an agreement was drawn up between Maritz and the governor of German Southwest Africa guaranteeing the independence of the Union as a republic, ceding Walfish bay and other parts of the Union to the Germans, and undertaking that the Germans should invade the Union only if Maritz asked them to do so.
Maritz boasted that he possessed large supplies of guns, rifles, ammunition and money, obtained from the Germans, and that he would overrun the whole of South Africa.
"In view of this state of affairs," concludes the official statement, "the government is taking most drastic steps to quell this rebellion and punish all rebels and traitors according to their desserts."
The robellion of a section of the Dutch element in South Africa, which broke out with the suddenness of a bolt from the blue, is the first warning note that has marred the harmony in the British empire since the outbreak of the European war.
That this rising was real and dangerous was sufficiently proved by official dispatches from Governor General Buxton to the imperial government and by the drastic stop General Louis Botha and his colleagues have taken to stamp it out by declaring martial law in the whole Union of South Africa.
It apparently is the belief of General Botha's government that others besides those under the immediate command of Colonel Martiz may have been affected, hence the inclusion of the whole dominion in the order establishing martial law.
Germanizing factors are said by the British authorities to have been at work for years in the frontier districts and to have been percolated in southwestern Transvaal and other Dutch districts.
Telegrams from Cape Twin say that a majority of the lutch remain also jutely loyal, and this seems to be shown by resolutions drawn up at an emergency meeting of the South Afri can party, which condemned the conduct of Colonel Maritz in the strong est terms. A telegram was dispatched to Preinier Botha unreservedly offering the services of the Cape Dutch it any capacity desired.
MEMORIAL TO MRS. WILSON
Women Plan Model Block of Houses For Washington Poor.
A movement to build a memorial to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the form of a model block of sanitary houses in the slum district of Washington has been started by Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, who interested Mrs. Wilson in slum work in Washington; Mrs. Ernest Bicknell, wife of the director of the American Red Cross, and other prominent women.
Mrs. Wilson's dying wish was that a bill for the elimination of the unsanitary alleys of Washington be passed, and since her death this has been done.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911
Well behaved, colored folks. How well behaved white folks are a valuable asset to any community don't forget that.
The opinion of the average banker of the average politician at Washington in dealing with finance will not bear expression in English.
"God's help is very essential these days, but the help of the better class of white folks will be of much more service, provided you ask God to help you get it.
Germany seems to be looking for
everything the same after. Now she
is looking with jealous eyes at the
land. That country is something of
a porcupine and won't bear a welcoming.
Colored folks buy more land and
improve your financial condition. The
white folks will help you if you will
help yourselves and they will help
you a little sometimes when you
don't help yourselves.
The "Dry" forces now say that they have spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on the Richmond Virginian. This shows that if a man wants to get rid of his money, buy a newspaper, or an automobile.
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First Chief Carraza has resigned twice. The first time it was rejected and the second time, it was accepted. There is such a thing as tendering a resignation too often. Some of one's friends will get the idea that he means it.
In our discussion of the B. M. C last week and Mr. Ben, Davis and Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson and Mr. Edward H. Morris, we inadvertently mixed up the meeting places of the Elks and the Odd Fellows. The latter will meet in Washington instead of in Chicago as stated by us. No wonder Brother Ben, Davis is sharpening his axes and preparing now for the fray. What better place for a row could be found anywhere on the American continent? (except in Mexico).
Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson would be at home there and the "machine" could be worried from "start to finish." W. L. Houston, Esq. knows how to do this. In the meantime, Brother Ben. Davis is taking a briefest relative to the Odd Fellows and he is now devoting himself to the interest of the race.
Excursion rates will be obtained a long time a head for the next 11 M. C. and unless steps are taken to prevent a harmony plan, the country will be "treated" to a row of a kind and size never before known in the history of fraternal organizations.
Atlanta, which now "holds the palm" for disorder will be forced to climb down and make room for Washington. And so it goes.
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We certainly regret to note that the promised reconciliation between the contending factions of the National Baptist Convention was short-lived. Already, the columns of the National Baptist Union are toeming again with denunciations of the distinguished President and his supporters. There may have been abuses but the columns of the organ of the National Baptist Convention are not the place to settle them. Every body knows that no business can be properly done until after a body has been formally organised and a report received from the Committee on Engollment, but the place to object to
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this is in the convention itself. We are of the opinion that these irregularities can be remedied by conferences. We understand that the resolutions adopted prevent a repetition of this error in the future. We are of the opinion that Dr. R. H. Boyd would do well to restrain the enthusiasm of his friends. The attack by Rev. F. H. Cook D. D. of Natchez, Miss., charging that the body was in the midst of a mob is especially unfortunate. The National Baptist Convention has acted. No allegation is made that a minority of the delegates elected the President.
Dr. E. C. Morris is a Christian and a scholar, but no man would be willing to stand such attacks in the organ of his own denomination. It is a case of "rubbing it in too deep." If Dr. Morris is a political trickster and a dishonest manipulator, then "on with the game," but if he is not and his bitterest enemies give him credit for upright conduct, then this line of attack has been carried too far. Let us have peace!
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Mrs. Alice M. Burroughs, Mrs. S. Eilett, Mrs. E. R. Hill and Mrs. Little Propst are named as the plaintiffs in a bill filed in the City Circuit Court to prevent the confirmation of the sale already made by the Immunel Baptist Church to the Leigh Street Methodist Episcopal Church. They state plainly that their objection is based upon the sale of the church structure to colored people, which people are guaranteed their civil and political rights of citizenship under the law. When it is remembered that this bill is presented to a jubist, of the old Virginia type, to the manner born," the controversy is all the more interesting.
Judith K. Carter Scott and his late unmarried father made a reputation for the state for equal and equal justice to all people will come brighten the community area. He is now known to be the deceased one upon the law and the fact that upon race prejudice. There is another affair that causes in color to have certain property owners from what they regard as a certain deprivation on their property the law must be reaffirmed and property rights endangered. As a matter of fact the sale of the Immanned Baptist Church will be the value of property. For it is a fact that colored people pay more money for old property formerly occupied by white people than the white people will pay themselves.
It is also very amusing to note that the congregation of Immanuel Baptist Church is anxious to get away from their colored neighbors, who are already in close proximity to them and these ladies are anxious to hold them there and yet are not willing to contribute to the loss that these people will sustain as a result of the overturning of the contract. So far as the colored population in the neighborhood of Fifth and Leigh street are concerned, they are perfectly willing to have the white congregation on that corner. They have been model Christians in their church worship and have made many friends among the better class of colored people.
It seems too that they have become equally popular among some of the white people, who have gone so far as to institute court proceedings to prevent their removal. Either way the colored population have need to be congratulated. When we inspect the beautiful suburbs of Richmond, where white people are provided with cosy homes, we smile at the attempt of these people to stop the natural growth of a part of the city's population, although this part is made up of colored people. God's hand may be seen in all of this. To try to stop the onward march of the city's progress is like attempting to dam up James River with a shovel.
The better class of white people and the better class of colored people are well satisfied with each other and only the politicians and their sympathizers are the ones who would disturb this relationship. The irritation against colored people, even though they do not participate in politics is so bitter few white men in the city government dare be outspoken in giving a fair and a square deal to one of the most faithful races of people on the face of the globe. Thank God! The judiciary of this State is not so affected and notable instances of this innate spirit of fair play is being manifested.
Justice John Jeter Crutchfield, who has been regarded by many as being the "king of Negro-haters" gave a noticeable example of this last week and this is not the first time he lias done so. White men know that they and we must some day "cross the River" and be in the presence of that Judge of judges, where the secrets of the heart shall be made manifest and the right and wrong of all questions shall be decided. - We can and will trust this kind and class of white people, with the abiding faith that all things will be made right after a while.
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Citizens Back Efforts to Finally Settle The Vexed Segregation Questions.
(Baltimore Afro-American Ledger).
With an eye single to settling the question of segregation laws for the colored people in this country once for all, leading colored residents of the city will file proceedings in the United States District Court next Thursday attacking the validity of the Qurtis segregation Law.
Recently, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, of Washington, leased the store and dwelling at 1929 Etting street to a Hebrew for a year. The block has been occupied wholly by colored people and a grocery store was run by a now dead
When the police learned that the Jew had moved in, they told him he could run the grocery store, but that he and his family could not live there. Though he has expressed willingness to move, the lease funds him to hold the property for a year. The proceedings will take the form of an injunction filed by Dr. Hopkins to secure a foottraining order against the Mayor and City council and the police from interference with the plaintiff in rent-occupancy property, and against the tenant. This will bring before the court the question of a man's right to use his property as he sees fit, and to determine how it may rest with the United States Supreme Court.
C. C. Paterson has connected to service attorney without pay. He will have other aid, the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a leading white lawyer of this city having already volunteered their resistance.
TWO OTHER CASES
There is a case pending now before the Court of Appeals attacking the validity of the law. It is that of a white owner who was recently convicted of renting a house to a white man in a "colored" block. Mary G. Lilly, who recently moved into the house at 12 S. Pine St. was released for the action of the Criminal Court Wednesday on the charge of violating the aggregation law. The owner of the property was fined last week at the Western Police Station for renting her the property and she was ordered to move but refused. The case is an interesting one as there are only two houses in the block, one of which is occupied by a white family. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is backing her in her efforts to test the law. W. Ashble Hawkins is counsel in the case.
The National Association is also behind the movement to test the validity of the segregation in Louiseville, Ky.
TO AROUSE INTEREST.
A big mass meeting to arouse general interest in the campaign against the law will be held at the Grace Presbyterian Church next Wednesday. The following gentlemen have been invited to speak: United States Senator Moses B. Clapp, Attorney C. C. Fitzgerald, Rev. W. C. Hughes, J. Milton Waldron, both of Washington; G. F. Bragg, A. L. Galnes, and Harvey Johnson.
The meeting will be under the auspices of a general committee organized to fight the law, headed by Rev. M. J. Naylor. Other members include Rev. W. Edward Williams, secretary; A. L. Galnes, treasurer; Ernest Lyon, P. J. Jordan and S. H. Norwood.
Dillwyn, Buckingham Co., Va. Oct.
S. A Band of Calanthe was organized here, today by D. G. W. C and Grand Worthy Mother, Mrs. Anna Taylor. There were thirty candidates and others are expected at the next meeting.
Twenty-five boys were organized for a club for a Cadet Company. All were delighted with the first meeting. Much credit is due Rev. West, and W. C. Hemmings.
Senior Matron, Miss Mary Hemmings; Junior Matron, Mrs. Anzie Lewis; Treasurer, Mrs. Sarah West; Worthy Father, W. C. Hemmings; Chaplain, Rev. West, The Grand Worthy Mother lectured on the third Sunday at Mt. Olive Church, and on the fourth Spenday at Slate River. She was entertained at the home of Sir W. C. Hemmings.
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Furiously angry at the efforts of Martha Booker, a colored woman, to impugn the motive that led him to arrest her, Patrolman G. A. Jennings rushed at her today in Justice Crutchfield's court and dealt her a resounding slap in the face.
Apurently deeply incensed at the officer's conduct, Justice Crutchfield hastily issued a bench warrant for Jennings' arrest and fined him $10.
The woman was fined $5 on the original charge on which Jennings arrested her, one of disorderly conduct, and was held for trial Oct. 15 on the charge of resisting arrest.
"You would not have arrested me Saturday night if I had met you as you wanted me to," was the accusation leveled at the policeman when the Booker woman got an opportunity to testify. Jennings flushed angrily and the next moment struck here.
The woman buried her face in her hands and wept loudly for several minutes. As quickly as possible Justice Crutchfield brought the hearing to a close and she was lod out of the prisoner's dock.
The courtroom was crowded at the time and the incident created some confusion. Several officers who were standing nearly sprang forward when they saw Jennings advance on the defendant, but the blow had been delivered before they reached his side. He made no effort to strike her again.
At police headquarters it was stated by Chief Werner that the police board would take cognizance of Jennings' misconduct.
TheHooker woman was arrested late Saturday night on complaint of persons residing in First street, between Cary and Canal streets.
They complained to Jennings that she was creating a disturbance in the street. When the policeman arrived with his prisoner at the patrol box at First and Main streets, she attacked him, he said today, and tried desperately to get away. This led to a charge of resistance being preferred against her.
The woman is well known to the police and recently resisted being arrested by Patrolman Tiller, it was stated. — Richmond, Va.. News-Leader Oct. 12, 1914.
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The theater of war in Europe includes the most historic vineyards of the world, and we are threatened with a famine in champagne, burgundy, moselle, hock, and other famous wines, as well as in German beer and Scotch whiskey, because the British army will appropriate all the fighting liquid of Scotland. Here at home, California is threatening to go dry, and Capt Hobson is making war for national prohibition. It is a hard world for the man who wants something stronger than water. But still, there are other substitutes. Dr Oliver Wendel Holmes in his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, referred to the French wine with enthusiasm, and in reply to the divinity student's question if he believed in a diet of rum, makes the old autocrat say:
"Rum. I take to be the name which unwashed moralists apply allike to the product distilled from molasses and the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy, 'in all its sunset glow' is rum. Champagne, 'soul of the foaming grape of Eastern France,' is rum. Hock, which our friend the poet speaks of as—
"The Rhine's-breast-milk, gushing cold and bright.
Palo as the moon and maddening as her light.
as her light.
is rum. Sir, I repudiate the loathsome vulgarism as an insult to the first miracle wrought by the Founder of our religion. I believe in temperance, nay, almost in abstinence, for healthy people. I trust that I practice both. But let me tell you there are companies of men of genius into which sometimes go, where the atmosphere of intellect and sentiment is so much more stimulating than alcohol, that if I thought fit to take wine it would be to keep me 'soher. Among the gentleman I have known, few if any-were ruined by drinking. My few drunken acquaintances were generally ruined before they became drinkards. The habit of drinking is often a vice, no doubt—sometimes a misfortune—as when an almost irresistible heredity propensity exists to indulge in it—but oftenest of all a punishment."
The old autocrat then, remarked: "Men got intoxicated with music with poetry, with religious excitement, oftentest with love. Ninan de l'Enclos said she, was so easily excited that her soup intoxicated her, and convalescents have been made tispy by a beefsteak."
So, if Dr. Holmes is to be accepted as an authority, the destruction of the vineyards of France, the breweries of Germany, the stills of Scotland, and prohibition in the United States would not prevent men from getting tispy unless we also abolish soun, beefsteak, music, poetry and religion.—Washington Herald, August 12, 1914.
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She Discusses the Merits of Her Possible Successor.
BUT MR. D. SAYS NOT A WORD.
He's a Man of Remarkable Self Possession, and It's Hard to Get His Goat. Developmenta Show. It Would Have Been Foolish to Talk Back Anyway.
By M. QUAD.
(Copyright 1994 by Associated Literary Press)
AFTER supper Mr. Dolby, had gone to the store for a what stone and a paper of carpet tacks, and as he woe Mr. Dolby was singing "The Home Over There" with great feeling. He returned in half an hour, and as he reached the kitchen door the sound of sobbing met his ears. It was Mrs. Dolby. He didn't inquire what it was, but turned about and sat on the doorstep and in an absent way began shampooing a slickle. It was five minutes before Mrs. Dolby volunteered an explanation.
"Samuel," she said finally, "when you've got that slickle shampooer you might go over to Mrs. Beesby and tell her that I shall be a dead woman before tomorrow. Tell her right out. She was over here this afternoon, and I said I was liable to get my summons any time."
With calm deliberation Mr. Dolby spat on the whelstone.
"Yes, Samuel, my time has come," sobbed Mrs. Dolly. "A few hours hence and you will be a widower and wearin' a red necklace and centerpiece around after a second wife. When you started over town I hadn't the slightest idea of dyn'. Ten minutes later when I went to carry the butter down color there came the knuckles on that empty cider bottle, and as I stood there shaken I heard a wilde-poodle voice: 'Hammer Dolly, get ready to be an angel!' It was my summons. What kind of a sex end wife shall you marry, Samuel?
Mr. Dolby was looking absently at a robin in a cherry tree.
"You needn't feel at all delukit about talking it, over with me," said Mrs Dolby. "I've allus 'spected you'd get married again if I should die. Now, didn't the Wilder Lapham. Everybody says she's worth $2,000, but she's too bity-dity for a man of your age. While she was swinging in a hammock she'd let the bread burn up in the oven. And there's the Wilder Davia She's a good housekeeper, as I'll admit, but they say she gifts streaks on she肌 make a good pound of ten go as far as I肌, but she told me with her own mouth that she had four pair of stockings last year. Could you put up with sich extravagance as that, Samuel?
"There! Phoebe Smalls—she's an old maid and not in her ways. If you come into the house and thrown your hat down on the floor or pulled your boots off in the parlor she raises the awfulest kind of a row. I guess you'll
GIVE READY TO BE AN ANGEL!
bew to marry a gal, Samuel. I was thinkin' of Sue Sabina the older day. She's twenty years old and a great hand to work, and mebbe you'll be happy with her. Her mother says Sue likes to be petted. You're never petted me, but mebbe you'll change when I am gone.
"I-I don't complain," said Mrs. Dolby when she could control her voice again. "When I saw that you was no hand to pet I let it go. It will be different with a gal. But I ain't goln to pick out nobody fur you nor find fault with your choice. I've got just one favor to ask."
The lump in her throat and the tears in her eyes choked her speech for half a minute.
"It's only this," Samuel. You needn't try to look all broke up over my loss. You kna go right to playin' checkers as soon as the funeral is over, but remem her I had good pigs. I want you to remember that I used a clothes biller with seven hoses in the bottom fur nine years without mendin' and that I hain't had a skirt fur seven years."
She retreated into the house, but Mr. Dolly knew nothing of it. He hung the sticks on a nail near the door, put the whistle and tacks on a shell in the weighted and walked down the
And that taught the engineer and did a lot more than the planner. When he appeared in the public life, he was following the up of "I Want to Be an Angel." She had had her presentation and given over it. It would be quite or four days before she would break out again.
Maryco Almalez signed yesterday to City Life.
THE DOUBLE CURE.
In Which Nemoey Gave His Reward—A
Confidential Tromaion.
"I HE hair," said the assistant, "is
very thick."
"If you suffer to mine," I replied, "he is frightfully thick."
paint, "it is brightly pink."
He looked at it reflectively. "It is very thick," he said, "very thick," and he jabbed the comb into it.
"On the other hand," I pointed out, "my skull is very thin."
"Yes, sir."
"And the comb is very sharn."
He apologized, pulled the comb out and jabbed it back not quite so severely.
"Very sharp." "Very thick," we murmured together.
"I will thin it out," he suggested.
"As long as you get it out painlessly I don't mind." I said.
"It's a curious thing." I observed.
"For any degree of baldness you provide remedies by the hundreds. You offer to lurkigate the hair, to dress it, to bring it up in the way it should go and to produce it in any quantity."
The light of battle came into the assistant's eye.
"Yes," he said, picking up a bottle, "this preparation, for instance, is really to be recommended. The famous Crinilline."
He held it aloft, and the neighboring assistant barely suppressed a cheer. "I've sold—"
"That's all very well," I objected, "but where do I come in?"
"Well, sir—he hold out his scissors—these surely are effective."
"Cutting only makes it grow more quickly. The beasty stuffs so thick." I complained. "What I want is some stuff for thinning my hair."
"For thinning the hair? Yes, sir." He combed the atmosphere thoughtfully. "I should like to sell you something, sir."
Of a sudden he slipped excitedly. "I have it!" he exclaimed. He picked up a bottle. "The very thing." He looked round cautiously, bent down toward my car and conquered nervously. "Of course," he said. "this is—or—not a preparation for your particular complaint. I—or—it—between our two selves, sir, it was—or—intended for other purposes." "Yes!" I said.
"Hut, sir, it may be lost what you require."
"Yes, yes!" I held my hand out for the bottle.
"Yes, sir," he whispered. "It may be. At any rate I happen to know for a fact that there is no possible danger of its increasing the growth of the hair."
And he handed me the famous Crinilla.
To show my appreciation of his honesty I bought two bottles—Punch.
The Retort Courtroom
"It was mighty nice of you to give up your seat to that stout old lady, Mr. Binka. It is pleasant to see that there are still some polite men left in the world."
"Sorry, Mrs. Jabbers, but it wasn't politeness at all. The man who sat next to me was, quarrelsome because he said I crowded him too much, and all I did was to use that stout old lady as a sort of rutort courteous."—Judge
His Part
"Let's make something good to eat," planned Robert's two little sisters in an undertone.
"All right," said Robert, overhearing "We'll each make something. You can go ahead and make the cany and Flo the popcorn."
"And what'll you make?" they asked.
"Oh," said he. "I'll make away with it." St. Louis Louis-Democrat
Atrogloual
"Bombybody put a bomb in the midst of one of those eastern Austria districts."
"Yes!"
"When it exploded it blow 11,000 conscientis and seven vowels from Chrumbrog to Pridmgh. — Cleveland Plain Dealer."
The Wrong Kind.
"There is a lot of human interest in my play, air. A poor girl, madly in love, is forced to give up her lover to marry a rich man so she can pay back a loan made her father at 50 per cent."
"What are you talking about? That's inhuman interest."—Baltimore Ameri-can
Classified advertising in this paper costs you so little for the net average of results that the charge is almost negligible.
Take a real estate ad., for instance. A "For Sale" notice may sell your property right off the bat. You save anywhere from, say, $25 to $200 commission. Even if the ad. is kept in many times the cost is nothing. That's just one way classified ads. pay.
Murray Avalle signed and returned yesterday to City Clerk August the amended segregation ordinance, which has held the centre of the councilmanic stage since the beginning of the movement to soil Immanuel Baptist Church to a colored congregation.
Prior to the amendment which is now effective, the segregation law defined the unit block as a street between two parallel streets. A block so defined, which contained whitish residents in the majority was barred to colonization by negroes. Conversely the same restriction was applied to blocks in which a majority of the residents are colored.
The law was shown to be incomplete when the congregation of Immanuel Baptist undertook to sell the church to a colored congregation. The church is located on the northeast corner of Fifth and Leigh Street The Fifth Street block between Leigh and Jackson Street is exclusively white. Jackson Street merely enters but does not intersect, Fifth Street.
In a case which was tried in the Police Court, Justice Crutchfield held that the whole Fifth Street stretch between Leigh and Duval. Streets was one block in the meaning of the segregation Law, and open to colored residents, because, so considered, the block contained colored people in the minority. Under this ruling the congregation of Immanuel Baptist planned to evade the intent of the segregation ordinance by changing the front of the church from Leigh to Fifth Street. So changed, the church would be on a colored block, and could, therefore, be used as a colored, house of worship. The ordinance, as amended, now prevents the use of the church by a colored congregation, by holding a street that intersects another street or seeing street. This makes the Fifth Street block between Leigh and Jackson Streets, a distinct white block, and closed to colored people—Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch, Oct. 9.
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FLORECECS. C. NOTES.
Mr. R. S. Johnson, of Turvilleville, C. S., was in the city today on business. In the interest of his school at Turvilleville, S. C.
Mr. Johnson is what we might call a live wire. He is a real estate and insurance man. His son Dr. Johnson is Prof. of Chemistry at Alton University, Columbia S. C.
Mr. Frank Livingston and wife, Mrs. Ann, passed through the city Oct. 9th, enroute for home at Coleman. Flu. They were returning from Waukee, S. C.
Mr. Richard Rivers of our city is quite an industrious young man. He is yet single. He is always buying something to read. He is a fine young man.
Miss Allmena Harn left for Dillon Oct. 10th, while she will also visit Rochester N. C. She is enjoying very good health.
Rev. James M. Henderson, M. M. of Southern Pines N. C., passed the city Oct. 10th, enroute for Augusta, Ga. He is an ardent worker for Christ. He came from Greenboro, N. C.
Miss Ever Shavis, of Wilmington, N. C. passed through the city recently enroute for home.
Mr. Richard Keith of Casterville S. C. was in the city Oct. 6th. Mr. Kolth is a first class farmer, and stands well at home.
Mr. Amos Shield reads Negro Journals.
While in Mullins I met Mrs. Guselia Rowell, Rev. J. M. Lewis and Mr. J. B. Black.
Miss Roxy Hampton spent a few days visiting relatives and friends at Timmonsville, S. C.
Mr. B. P. Gee of N. Y. city passed through the city recently enroute for Jamaica.
While Sharow on Wednesday Oct. 7. I met Miss Pognes and Miss Gray two of Cheraw's five young women.
Mrs. H. L. Mack of Mullins, S. C. passed through the city on Saturday Oct. 3rd. enroute for Hartville, S. C.
Mrs. Mack is a teacher in the Mullins Graded School.
Mr. W. T. Burgos of Lake City passed through the city today Oct. 8. enroute for Wilson, N. C.
Mr. Willie Hampton who spent the Summer at Atlaticn City N. J. passed through the city Oct. 8th, on route for choice, August, 16th. Prof. Brian Hampton, who passed through the city on Saturday, Oct. 10 enroute for Mullins, S. C. to open school.
ROANOKE (VA.) NOTES.
Rev. Dr. Bruner is carrying on a great revival meeting in this city, under the auspices of South Baptist Home Mission Society.
There has never been a time in the history of Roanoke before that the white and colored people have taken so much interest.
All last week the Calvary Baptist church throw open its doors for both white and colored.
The meeting was carried on last week at the First Church and High St. Baptist. This week it has moved to the Hill Street Baptist church, and Jorunaelem Baptist church.
At the High street, Rev. Richard Carrolla and Rev. J. H. Burks, conducted the meeting. At the First Church, Rev. Bailley and Rev. W. R. Brown, conducted a meeting.
The report Monday showed three hundred and seventy-converts last week.
Sunday at 3 o'clock there was a mass meeting held in the First Baptist Church and 4:30 special meeting to the men. At the High Street Baptist Church sermon by Rev. Carroll. Dr. H. J. Moseley and Mr. Sheridan Muse witnessed the first two games of ball last Friday and Saturday. The great battle between Boston and Philadelphia. They left Sunday for N. Y. and Boston. Dr. J. S. Cooper, has returned to the city after visiting his Sister-in-law, Mrs. A. F. Brooks who now
FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—READ AND CONSIDER—VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK
Brought Forward..... $26,200.00
1914
Brought Forward..... $18,475.00
1914
January 26—Clarkie Bell. Victoria Court, No. 52.
Jan. 31—Josephine Western, Christian, Light, No. 157
Feb. 3—Ola Wagataf. Zion Travellers Court, No. 96.
Feb. 3—Frances Cattor. White Rose Court, No. 118.
Feb. 3—Annie Clerk. Magic City Court, No. 83.
February 17—Bettle Stewart, Randolph C.urt. No. 150.
February 17—Carrio Riddey. Silver Key Court, No. 75.
February 17—Maggie Riddick. Victoria Court, No. 52.
February 18—Henrietta Brow. Pleasant Grove Court, 51
April 6—Ida Levi. Shiloh Court, No. 110.
April 14—Martha Brown, King's Daughters Court, No. 70
April 15—Anna Washington, Queen Victoria Court, No. 115
April 18—Laura J. Aitnor, Salem Court, No. 81.
April 18—Bebecca P. Mitchell, Old Domfion Court, No. 114
April 23—Maggie A. P. Gray. Virginia Court, No. 47.
April 29—Mattie L. Janser. of Hope Court, No. 93.
May 2—Estelle Morris. Friendship Court, No. 143.
May 18—Winnie Holmes. Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85.
May 23—Annie Robinson. Georgetown Court, No. 152.
May 30—Sylvia Randolph. Georgetown Court, No. 152.
July 1—Mary Nash. Elizabeth Court, No. 210.
July 14—Nannie Vicks. Friendship Court, No. 143.
July 15—Ada Hilton. Blooming Rose Court, No. 104.
July 31—Almeta Riddick. St. Mary's Court, No. 101.
Aug. 10—I. D. Burrell. Magic City Court, No. 83.
August 22—Martha Frederick. Morning Star Court, 124.
Aug. 26—Julia Norman. Pride of Allegheny Court, 79.
Sept. 9—Lettle Williams. Evening Star Court, No. 77.
Sept. 9—Sarah Pettus. Evening Star Court, No. 77.
Total. $16,625.00
AMOUNT TAID BY GRAND LODGE. $33,500.00
AMOUNT TAID BY GRAND COURT. 16,625.00
TOTAL. $50,125.00
is in the Freedman's Hospital Washington, D. C. He reported her improving. He returned in a car. Mr.-W. B. F. Crowell has been indeposed for a week on account of a sprained ankle. Departed this life Sunday, Oct. 4. Mr. John Penn of Martinville, Va. age 98 years. He was a prominent business man. His funeral preached from A. M. E. Church by Rev. Watkins, Pastor, Text. "If a man dies shall he live again" Pallbearers, Allen Foster, Gee, W. Bowles, James Dandridge, John Penn and Landun Trotters. Peace be to his ashes. His life time friend, Mr. Green Penn. Mr. Green Penn has returned to the city from Martinville, Va., where he attended the funeral of his friend, Mr. John Penn.
TO PASTORS AND CHURCHES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION.
Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 14, 1914.
Greeting:
Dear Christian Workers:
Near three decades ago, the Negro Baptists in Convention assembled decided upon the establishment of a Negro Baptist Educational Institution. Immediately this decision was materialized in the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, of Lynchburg, Va., an institution for the Normal, Academic, Collegiate and Theological training of the youth of the race.
This educational plant has had unprecedented success, marvelous growth, and has wrought wonderfully for Christ's kingdom and humanity. Thousands of young men and women have entered its intellectual portals: hundreds have finished from its different departments, and to-day are in every higher walk of life. This institution is an especial gift of God, a beacon of to mankind.
Dear Christian Workers:
No educational enterprise, in the history of the race's freedom, has equalled this one, in meriting for the race a permanent standing along constructive and progressive lines. It has demonstrated the moral, mental and spiritual worth of the Negro. It has proved well his fitness, worthiness, his perseverance in a righteous work. It has won for the Negro the high approval of all well-thinking people-white and colored. Today another call is made. Hear, ye faithful Christian workers. A modernly equipped four-story brick structure has been erected for a Girl's Dormitory and to-day_is occupied. This building complete with all equipment moans an approximate cost of ($30,000.00) thirty thousand dollars.
Thursday, November 6th, it will be dedicated. Elaborate arrangements have been made for a great dedication exercise. We want to see ten thousand Baptists present. Let all Baptists come. Again, that day we want ($1,10.00) one thousand and one hundred dollars.
This amount is, an urgent heed. We are asking, most earnestly, churches to give from five to ten dollars, board members from five to ten dollars, individuals from one to five dollars, just as you feel able to respond to the needs now of a needy cause.
Remember the date. Come. If you can not come, answer this with some money. Ministers will please urgently state this to their churches.
Yours for God and Education.
R. C. Woods, Pres. Va. Theo. Sem
and College. A. Humbles. Treas. Va.
Theo. Sem. and College A. A. Galvin.
Pres. Va. Bapt. Con. Con., J. H.
Burks, Chairman, Trustee Board,
W. R. Brown, Sec. Trustee Board,
W. F. Graham, Fin. Sec.
Economy
Hints
A penny saved is
a penny earned—
Benjamin Franklin.
IN France—even in crowded Paris—
every one has a garden, secluded
somehow from the gaze of the
curious, where the family can gather in fair weather, and these gardens are usually just the courtyards between the crowded houses transformed by a few rows of box, a chestnut tree and maybe a little fountain. In America we cement our courtyards, or if we do not convert them into gardens we put them where every one can see them and rob them of all their home value. In Italy the home is not complete without its touch of outdoors, even if it is only a balcony with morning glories and tomato vines. English people, too, have their private gardens, where they may have their indispensable cup of tea shielded from the gaze of outsiders.
But it is a funny thing that most of us Americana, who are so truly outdoor people, content ourselves with having all our home indoors. Gardens we have, surely, but they are usually not gardens in all as the European would understand the term. They are decorations, power beds, arranged for the benefit of the passerbly. We are guildless of fences and walls, and our lawns and arbors and groves might as well be public parks for all the home quality they possess.
But one thing we do have that our European counsels have to stand back and admire it the veranda, and all the time we are getting to appreciate the possibilities of the veranda more and more, and the veranda is becoming more and more a part of the home.
Of course the first requisite to the hominess of the vernanda is to have it away from the street. The old fashioned idea was to have it plastered over the front of the house an enlarged entrance porch, where we might sit and watch our neighbors as they passed and where they might be us as they passed. But nowadays architects have convinced us that a spacious front vernanda is not absolutely essential to the structural completeness of the house, and we have learned for ourselves that the privilege of privacy is worth more than the privilege of viewing our neighbors.
But most of us cannot live in new houses. We must make the most of the old style veranda. And in this work we have several alts—vines and screens and awnings, which, taken together, will effect a good looking shield. A veranda should be the most comfortable and the most hospitable part of the house. It should have some place to recline—a hammock, a steamer chair or a long wicker chair, or a foot rest used in connection with an easy chair, and plenty of servile cushions.
Then the veranda should afford opportunities for refreshment. There should be a table where to can be served or cold drinks dispensed, and, if it is excluded enough, where lunch-on or breakfast on a warm day may be simply eaten. A convenient table for this purpose is one of the folding ironing tables which can be closed to form a settle.
FOR .THE HOUSEKEEPER.
How to Mend an iron Pot or Pan
Satisfactorily.
Pots and pans, whether of iron or
tin (which is only iron tinned over),
get holes in their bottoms all too soon
to please the economical housekeeper.
Then it becomes necessary to call in
the tinsmith, who puts a lump of solder
in the hole. This soon meets and
the hole is there again.
But nothing is easier than to repair such holes at home and without the aid of a tinsmith. First of all make the hole round by inserting the point of a knife and twisting it back and forth. Place the pot or pan upon any firm, flat piece of metal, such as an anvil, a bar of iron or an inverted flatiron, so that the hole is immediately over and touching the latter. In the middle of the hole place a shot of about the size of the hole. Any piece of lead will serve if shot be not handy. Now a few sharp blows with a hammer will flatten the hole tightly and overlapping enough to hold it in place. A few strokes with a file and a rub with sandpaper complete the operation. The repair is permanent. It is said that a hole as large as a quarter of an inch in diameter can be mended in this way.
HOW TO SAVE JUICE FROM CANNED FRUIT.
Almost all canned fruit has a quantity of juice left over, which no one wants and is consequently almost always thrown out. It may be made into a delicious sauce for cottage and bread puddings or may be used as flavoring in tapioca. To make a pudding sauce add a little lemon if it is too sweet or a little sugar if it is too sour and dilute if too strong. Then thicken with flour mixed in with the same amount of butter. This makes a delicious sauce.
LAUNDRY ADVICE
How to Wash a Sweater So It Will Not Shrink.
Did washing shrink your sweater so that it was too narrow across the chest?
Worse than that, were the sleeves stretched to twice the length of a nat.
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These sometimes can be avoided if you know how to wash the sweater properly.
Begin with a good, warm sweater with soap powder gliding it well until the water becomes foamy. Then damp the sweater through the water until thoroughly clean. Do not rub on an board or between the hands and do not rub soap on the garment.
Rinse in a second soap water. Do not rinse in clear water. The soap powder in the rinse water will keep the wool soft. Now comes the important part—the drying. If the sweater is hung over a line the weight of the wet sweater will drag them down. First pull the sweater into perfect shape with the hands, drawing it out over the chest and widening the arms and seeing that it does not hang in a point anywhere and that the front edges are straight.
Then lay it carefully in the bottom of a pillowcase, folding the sleeves over. Do not push it into the case in a heap. Pin the pillowcase (open) on two lines that are parallel and only a foot apart. The air can then reach the sweater. Hang in the sun on a breezy day. Wash the sweater early in the morning so it can have all day in which to dry. Do not wash it on a damp, still day.
A few drops of bluing in the last water will keep baby's little white sweater from turning yellow.
How to Preserve Your Linoleum.
When your linoleum begins to show signs of wear and dry it carefully without soap (select a time when there will be little or no wear) and apply the following, which will give a fine and lasting polish, not overestaining, of course, but with care it will do a long time: Mix a grit of methylapyr spirits with an ounce of shellac, and when the latter is dissolved apply to the linoleum with a soft flannel. It dries during the process of rubbing in and retains the polish after it is washed.
HOW TO ALWAYS HAVE BUTTONS ON WAISTS.
Every woman knows how this courageing it is to pick up a mull or not wrest past home from the laundry) and find that selling in the washing or grinding the buttons have yielded out pieces of the material, leaving both sections on either side of each button.
It has been suggested that instead of sitting this occur the waist be made with buttonboxes on either side and that the buttons themselves be flamed on a tape the same color as the waist. Then both edges can be buttoned one on top of the other to the tape. The same string of buttons will serve for a number of white waists.
For stiff linen waists this arrangement will also be found very convenient. It is much simpler to iron the front without buttons than with, and the buttons can be adjusted on their tape later.
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FOR THE KIDDIES.
How to Make Soap Bubbles to Amuse the Children.
Making soap bubbles is great sport for the children when they are confined indoors. The first thing to be considered is the preparation of the solution. Plain yellow soap is the most suitable. It should be rubbed patiently into a bowl of tepid water until a heavy lather is formed. Every particle of lather must then be removed from the surface with a spoon.
The bubbles will be larger and last longer if a little glycerin is added to the soap water. They may then be blown with an ordinary clay pipe and will grow from five to six inches in diameter without bursting. Molten the forefinger with the soap solution and try to push it through the bubble well toward the center. If the bubble will stand this test the solution is ready for use, but if it bursts when touched more soap must be rubbed into the water until the above experiment can be successfully accomplished.
With a correctly prepared solution success in bubble blowing depends mainly upon the observance of two simple rules: First, the solution when once made must never be shaken up or stirred; second, everything upon which a bubble is to be blown must be liberally smeared with the soapy mixture. To blow a string of bubbles, first blow one from the pipe, throw it into the air; blow a second, catch the first, and so on. With practice a chain of five or six bubbles may be formed. It is a simple matter to blow a number of bubbles one inside the other. To do this, first pour a very thin film of solution upon a sheet of glass. Then with a straw blow upon the glass a good sized hemispherical bubble. Now dip the straw a second time into the solution, thrust it boldly through the big bubble and proceed to blow a somewhat smaller one within. Repeat the process as often as possible and a very pretty series of iridescent hemispheres will result.
Comparisons
"A woman has to give up a great deal after she gets married," sighed Mr. Gabb.
"A man does nothing else but give up after he gets married," replied Mr. Gabb.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cupid's Advertisement.
Cupid is a busy elf.
You can see for yourself.
For the first time you see Prince Promessly to advertise.
Somewhat in this style maybe,
"Hearts extracted painlessly."
Hell or course omit to state.
That is he painless.
And when heart is gone, "his sad,
Man is apt to lose his head.
Gladly would be bear some pain
M his heart be scared."
—New York Times.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914.
RUMANIA MAY
GET INTO WAR
Death of King Will Cause a
Change in Policy.
PEOPLE OPPOSED GERMANY
Dead Monarch Planned a Coup d'Etat,
to Aid Kaiser, But General Refused
to Join Him.
That the death of King Charles of Rumania will cause exchange in the policy of that country in regard to the present war and probably result in her entrance into the conflict is the gist of several dispatches received in London from Rome. Italy is watching developments in Rumania. The announcement that KI-Charles was dead caused a sensation in Rome, and on every side it was freely predicted that the dead monarch's strict policy of neutrality would be overruled by the desire of the population to allin the fight against the kaiser and Austro Hungary. King Charles, who died on Satur day, was a member of the house of Hohensilber, and at the beginning of the war was reported to be ready to cast his lot with these countries, but such a course was entered, strong opposition in Rumania, and particularly in the legislature.
Recent despatches have said that the king, because of a promise he had made to the kaiser, desired to mobilize the Rumanian army to aid the many in the war.
It has been said on many occasions in the last few weeks that Germany counted on the intervention of Rumania. A story published in Paris the latter part of September related that when King Charles asked the cabinet to order a mobilization of the army, one of the ministers replied, "We are quite willing if it is against Austria."
King Charles turned to them and said: "I gave my word to Emperor William, and a Hohenzollern keeps his word."
The president of the countil here torpedoed, saying: "The country knows no Hohenzollern. It knows only the king of Rumania, who does not have to give his word to anyone whatsoever."
King Charles then decided to call a council of the crown, with the former ministers in attendance, but only one sided with him in favor of Germany. It was reported that the King then tried to persuade General Averroco to attempt a coup detat and arrest the ministers, but General Averroco refused, saying, "Sire, you would be the first victim of such an attempt." It also was said that a number of superior officers of the Rumanian army declared that they would desert and join the Russian army rather than fight for Austria.
Recent dispatches described King Charles as being seriously ill, but from other quarters his indisposition was declared to be entirely political. It had been predicted lately that he was preparing to abdicate.
German Aviator Drops Bombs on Paris A score of bombs, launched on different quarters of Paris by two German aviators, killed three civilians and injured fourteen others. The damage to property was slight.
The airmen appeared soon after moon on Sunday. One began the attack by dropping a bomb near the Northern railway terminal, another in the Rue St. Lazare and a third at the rear of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Three more bombs were hurled by the same airmen in the vicinity of the Bourse.
A house was set on fire, but the loss was not great. One of these missiles struck within 100 yards of an office occupied by American newspaper men.
The second aeroplane also flew over the cathedral, dropping four bombs, one of which fell on the roof, but failed to explode. A second fell in the square where the bishop's residence is situated. A third struck the parapet of the Qual de Bourton and glanced off into the Seine. The fourth dropped into the Seine near the bridge of Notre Dame.
The second Taube appeared to aim at the cathedral, while the other machine attempted to hit the Northern and Bt. Lazaro stations. Altogother twenty bombs fell. The Germans flew at a low altitude. After they had apparently exhausted their supply of missiles, French aerospace ascended and pursued them toward the east.
Pendlone Show Falling Off.
Uncle Sam paid out a total of $172,417,546 in pensions in the fiscal year ended June 30 last, according to Commissioner of Pensions Saltzgerber, in his annual report made public. This compares with $174,171,660 in 1913, which was the largest amount ever paid out. The commissioner, however, points out that the summit in expenditures has been reached and a
decrease in the amount may be expected to continue. The grand total ofponsibilities for pensions was 1866up to and including 1914 was 84,628,811,996.
The total number of pensions ofall classes on the rolls was 785,239against 820,272 in 1918. The numberof Civil War pensions were 782,129,compared with 763,439 in 1918. The
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largest number ever on the rolls was
in 1912, when there were 399,468. The
year was 33,629, or 7.3 per cent.
Off Train-Top to Death
Paterson, N. J., Oct. 10. In a night between railroad detectives and a party of five unidentified men at a fast freight train travel forty miles an hour, two of the latter were swept to death against overhead bridges near here. The others escaped. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western fast freight from Hoboken to Pennsylvania cities, carrying a rich collection of valuable items, has been robbed repeatedly of late, and detectives were recently placed aboard it each night. While searching the train the detectives found the men hidden in cars. The light ensued.
Fire Sweeps W. Va. Town
The entire business district of the town of Spencer, W. Va., was destroyed by fire, with a loss of approximately $300,000. The fire started in a fruit store and spread rapidly because there was no water with which to fight the flames. Little rain has fallen throughout this section in the past two months.
Illinois Official a Suicide.
The body of Secretary of State Harry Woods was found in the garage in the rear of his residence in Spring Field, Ill. Monday. He had evidently shot himself. The body had apparently been there since Saturday night. The defeat of Woods for the United States senatorship in September is believed to have been the cause of his suicide.
T. B. Buya Buclal Plot
Colonel Theoreme Roosevelt has purchased a burial plot in Young's Memorial cemetery at Oyster Bay. Deed to the plot was filed in the office of the county clerk at Mineola, L. I. The plot adjoins the burial place of Samuel U. Fleet and is 18 by 20 feet. The consideration is given as $1.
Albanlans Kill Christians
Mohammadians are plundering and killing Christians in Albania, according to a dispatch from Janina. This says that many villages about Bishir have been burned and that refugee declare that at least 500 men, women and children have been massacred.
Dios After Football Game
Milwaukee's first football fatality for the 1914 season occurred when Carroll Olson, aged twenty, died in a hospital of concussion of the brain, the result of injuries received in a game on Saturday.
Japs Seize Second Pacific Island.
According to a dispatch from a German news agency Japanese forces have occupied the island of Yap, the most important island in the Carribean group, or New Philippines, in the Pacific ocean.
Steel Tonnage Shows Decrease.
The unified tonnage of the United States Steel corporation on Sept. 20 totalled 3,787,667 tons, a decrease of 425,663 tons from Aug. 30.
GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet winter clear, $4.60/4.85; city inills, fancy, $6.00.
POTATOES stoddy; per bushel, 60
¢635c.
POULTRY: I live steady; bene, 14¢
15¢; old roosters, 11¢/12¢. Pressed
farm; choice fowls, 21¢; old roosters,
13¢/4.
BUTTER quiet; fancy creamy,
32c per lb.
Eggs steady; selected, 35 & 37c;
nearby, 31c; western, 31c.
Live Stock Prices
CHICAGO—HOGS weak: bulk of sales: $7.20@7.85; light: $7.65@8.50; mixed: $7.20@8.10; heavy: $6.90@8; rough: $4.90@7.10; plgs: $4.70@7.75. CATTLE easy: beeves, $5.50@10.50; stores: $5.10@9.10; stockers and feeders: $5.30@8.15; cows and heifers: $2.00@9; calves: $7.50@11.25.
weak; sheep, $4.20$6.5;
lamb, $6.40$4.5; lamb, $6.40$7.90;
WEDNESDAY,
Fashing steadily ahead, I deepest troops of the enemy which had been sent to stop them, the Angle-French forces which have been trying to turn the right wing of the German army in France, have reached the Belgian frontier, according to an official statement from Paris. Hard fighting is reported on the border line of Belgium. In the meantime the siege of Antwerp is progressing favorably to the Germans. Formal notice has been sent to the burgomaster of Antwerp that the city is to be shelled, and all non-combatants were warned to leave. The 'great clash between Russian arms' and the Austro-German troops which have been concentrated along the southeastern frontier of Germany is believed to be on.
THURSDAY
While the German artillery is shelling the city of Antwerp, the French and British troops which have been advancing in northern France are fighting fortuitly to break through the kaiser's defense and other turn his sank or reach out help to the beleguered Belgian city.
German troops which were placed across the path of the allies' flanking movement in northern France, appear thus far to have failed to stop the Anglo-French advance, for dispatches from Paris place the fighting at Menen, Pomerlinghe, Wauerkhem, Ypres and other Belgian cities. The allies' flanking movement has reached nearly to the northern coast of France.
Berlin officially announces that the German army under General Von Hindenburg, operating in Russia, has joined a large body of Austrians, and that the combined forces are engaged with the caesar's army north of the Vistula river, near Opatow.
FRIDAY
On fire in several places, with its outer forts in the hands of the Germans, shells from the Kaiser's heavy siege artillery bursting in the streets and the besiegers attacking the third line of defense, the city of Antwerp is expected to capitulate at any minute.
In the meantime fighting of the most severe character is reported in the extreme northeast corner of France and western Belgium, where the Anglo-French army has been trying to break through and relieve the beheaded Belgian city of Antwerp. The joint expected battle between the Russian army of 1,000,000 men, in Poland, and the Austro-German forces of 650,000 under General Von Hisdenburg, is in progress north of the Vistula.
SATURDAY.
Antwerp and the forts surrounding the city are now in complete possession of the Germans, but the greater part of the Belgian army has escaped. It took the Germans just eleven days to capture the strongest fortress in the world. The Germans, after shelling the city itself for many hours, making it untenable, entered the town through the suburb of Berchem, to the east. They had made a breach in the outer line of forts, some of which were destroyed by the big guns and others blown up by the defenders. In France, according to the French communication, the allies have maintained their positions in several violent attacks at several poles. The cavalry is still engaged along the Belgian frontier and across it, each side trying to work around the other wing.
BUNDAY
German aviators dropped twenty bombs into various districts of Paris, killing three persons and wounding fourteen others.
German troops are advancing swiftly toward Ostend, in Belgium, hoping to capture the city by a sudden attack and make prisoners of King Albert and the Belgian government officials, according to a dispatch from The Hague.
German cavalry was signally defeated in battle for the possession of positions necessary for the crossing of the River Lys, in France. The invaders were driven into retreat toward Armentierles.
French troops were victorious in a two days' battle for the possession of the village of Apremont, east of St. Mikel, and also on the center of the battle line, where they advanced to new positions after having repeated a night attack of the enemy.
MONDAY
With Antwerp in their hands, the German army operating in Belgium has begun a move toward Ostend, the temporary capital of the country, where King Albert is reported to have arrived with that portion of the Antwerp defenders which escaped to the westward.
Germany's evident purpose now is to prevent the retreating Belgians from Joining the Anglo-French forces operating in northern France near the Belgian border and at the same time to break through to the coast.
The Germans have begun a heavy attack near Lille. Berlin reports that a move in force is being made toward Belfort, in Alsace.
Paris reports that the attacks near Lille have been repulsed and that the allies have gained ground near Solsons.
The Berlin war office officially asserts that the German forces in East Prussia have won a victory over the Russians opposing them, taking many prisoners.
Directions
thing," said the sentimentalist.
"No doubt of it," replied Mr. Monton.
"Where Florence places her nf-lyptites her administration is questioning. The only reason she objects to mounting our building is that she thinks the manu will spell his facial expression."—Washington Star.
Mrs. Beaver Furnished Them, and He
Deceives to Hold the Scheme in
Abayances and Take Up Another, but
Mrs. B. Finds Places in That Tea.
By M. QUAD.
[Copyright, 1914, by Associated Literary Press.]
M. BOWSER was smiling as he left the office.
He chuckled as he took the
R. BOWSEB was smiling as he left the office.
He reached home with a grin on his face.
That he was about to make a break of some sort was apparent to Mrs. Bowser before he had been home five minutes, but she asked no questions, and he managed to contain himself until after dinner. Then he rubbed his hands together, chuckled softly and said:
"I suppose that if I should tell you that I expect to make a clean $1,000 a month on the outside for the next five years you'll call it one of my fads, wouldn't you?"
"Perhaps not," answered Mrs. Bowser doubtfully. "Are you going to speculate?"
"Not at all. I have simply struck a sure thing."
"If it's a sure thing it will be nice. What is it?"
"I'll tell you, though you won't understand. Not one man in 10,000
"I SHALL BUT A THOUSAND FOR."
has a business head on her. I have often wished you knew something of business, so that I could talk to you. It isn't your fault that the Lord created you to read novels and gad around to the stores in search of bargains, and so I don't lay it up against you. I'll tell you what my new move is. I am going into boast.
Mrs. Brenner Hits It Right.
"I can understand that much," quietly replied Mr. Bowner. "You are going to raise hogs in order to supply the market with pork."
"That's the plan to a dot, and you deserve praise for catching on so quick," he says, "a thousand plant. A pig six months old can be bought for a dollar."
"And 1,000 plus for $1,000."
"That's it. I invest $1,000 in pigs. At the age of two years every pig is ready to be made into pork. The average weight of a two-year-old pig ready for the pork barrel is 200 pounds. Fresh pork is worth 13 cents per pound. That is $26 for every pig, or $25 clear profit. Any man with an ounce of brains in his head can figure $25,000 clean profit in two years. Is there any sad about that?"
"I'm sorry I haven't got a business head on me," said Mrs. Bower as she got penicillin and paper, "but I will figure with you a little. Where are you going to fatten your hogs?"
"Why, on a farm, of course. You don't suppose I'm going to turn the basement of our house into a pigpen, do you?"
"But where is your farm?"
"Various Little Overwrights. Mr. Bower's jaw dropped. He hadn't secured on a farm."
"A farmer figures that it costs 6 cents per pound to make pork for market," continued Mrs. Bowyer. "Those are the figures even when he owns his farm and grows his own corn. It will take, in addition to all other feeds, at least twenty bushels of corn for every one of your pigs. Have you figured on buying 20,000 bushels of corn, Mr. Bowyer."
He began to finish up and breathe hard, but made no reply.
"To care for a thousand hogs you must at least hire five men. It will cost you quite a sum to get them together. There will be more or less to figure on. You must also figure on butchering and getting your pork to market. And you haven't counted in—"
"Woman, do you take me for a fool?" shouted Mr. Bowyer as he jumped off his chair and frightened the family cat under the piano.
"Not at all," she calmly replied. "A bed would go into this bog scheme and lose $2,000 instead of making $25,000, but you won't."
He didn't know whether to bluff it out or give in gracefully, but finally decided to do the latter. Her facts and figures were beyond dispute and had held him gold, but he feared she would not nailed it over it.
Something Better.
"Of course," he said, "I should have figured it to a penny, before hawking money. What you say is all good work, but we'll let it go for a time. In fact, the bag scheme was a secondary master. I've got a better thing."
"Why and what it over with me? not, and M. Boyer.
"You won't comprehend it, of course, but I'll give you an outline of it. How much do you suppose a man in Ohio has made out of chickens in the last year?
"A thousand dollars, perhaps."
"Over $5,000 clean money, and next year he will double that amount. I've got my facts and figures down pat, and I'm going into chicken raising."
"What are your facts and figures? You can't understand them, but I'll give you a few. I'll start in with 1,000 beans."
"Where do you start?"
"Where do I start? Perhaps you imagine I'm going to make a hen roost of the top of the house! I start in our back yard, of course. I buy 1,000 hens at 25 cents aplee."
"I don't know where you are going to do it," said Mrs. Bowser. "The very lowest figure you can make is 50 cents, and the fowls will be common at that. Having got your threshers hens together, then what?"
"Then I depend on eggs and chickens" replied Mr. Bowser. "I figure on 500 eggs per day. We'll call it fifty dozen, and put the price" at 20 cents per dozen. Or 10 per dozen for aure. One thousand hens ought to batch 10,000 chickens per year. Each chicken will readily sell for."
Again Figure Rise Up to Tear Him.
"Just wait a minute. We begin with the back yard. We have an area of 30 by 45 feet. One thousand hens wouldn't have room to snap their wings in that space."
"Are you trying to make out that I don't know enough to come in when it rains?" shouted Mr. Bower as he bobbed up with furious gustures.
"Not all. You are going into poultry. You are going to make a fortune. I haven't a business head on me, of course, but I can figure a little. You might coop up fifty hens in the back yard, but not more. As to eggs, if you get 200 a day from 1,000 hens you would do well. The increase would not be half what you figure. Then you have not figured on the expense of lumber and carpenter work for the barn, nor for feed and help. You see."
"Yes. I see. Of course, I see. I see that you know nothing about poultry. I tell you that any man with an ounce of brinns can make $5,000 a year out of 2,000 fowls."
"Well, let us see how it is done."
"It's done in a business way, of course."
"Then we'll figure in a business way.
You will want lumber and nails for the coops, and there will be carpenter work. How much lumber?"—
"Not a plank, not a board, not a foot!" howled Mr. Houser.
"But how are you going to do it?"
Mr. B. Goes Clear Off the Handle.
"None of your business! I go to work and invent a plan to make $5,000 a year as easy as rolling off a log. I come home feeling pleasant over it. Like an ass I state my plan to you, and you immediately and maliciously set out to tear it to pieces. Woman-"
It was lucky for Mr. Bowyer that just then he heard the voice of a trump in the basement hall asking the cook for a bite to eat. It offered him a diversion, and he took advantage of it. He turned from Mrs. Bowyer and rushed downstairs followed by the cat, and he fell upon that unsuspicuous trump like a thunderbolt. There was a mix, three or four whoops and yells, and then the trump broke loose and spread his wings and made for the street. He didn't stop to open the gate, but went over the fence like a bird, and the chase was over. When Mr. Bowyer returned to the sitting room pencil and paper had disappeared, and the diplomatic Mrs. Bowyer was looking into the family almanac to see what day of the week the next Fourth of July would fall on.
Bomb Scare In New York.
Police reserves from the Fifty-first street police station in New York were rushed to St. Patrick's cathedral, following a report that two bombs had been thrown into the edifice. Later the police said that the explosion was caused by a hot-air box used for heating purposes. It was near the altar, and when it exploded it shattered several windows and injured one man.
Kaleer Gives Thanks to God
It is announced that Emperor William has telegraphed to his aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Baden, as follows: "Antwerp was occupied without fighting. God be thanked in deepest humility, for this glorious result! To him be all honor!"
JOYS WE MISS
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time—Colton.
In a Perfume Factory
Musk is perhaps the most valuable and delightful of all perfumes, yet the refiner—as he opens the most pods must wear thick, cloth over mouth and nostril, no regulator is the odor that the pods emit. Indeed, this odor, inhaled for any length of time, causes nosebleed. Clove, harissa and ambergris have in small quantities a delicious perfume, but in large quantities they smell so abominable as to give the worker nausea. The hawthorn blossoms is delicately sweet, and perfumery prince it highly, yet a rocous of hawthorn blossoms smells like a charred house. This, too, is in type of the tuba.
Economy Hints
A penny saved in a penny earned—Benjamin Franklin.
THE washing of frocks and muslin blouses becomes a serious item in the laundress' bill during the hot weather months, yet a very little trouble enables the novice to undertake the blouse washing, and when she becomes proficient in the art it is but one step more to undertake the home laundering of washing frocks.
The saving of the laundress' charges is not the only economy. When the owner washes a blouse she has a proprietary interest in it and trusts it with lighter handling than it receives from a washing machine.
First with regard to the washing of the blouses. A warm lather should be prepared. Shred thinly two ounces of castle soap or any pure mild laundry soap. Pour on the shredded soap a gallon of, boiling water and stir it vigorously with a smooth stick. Add a tablepoonful of powdered borax and two gallons of cold water. This is sufficient for two or three blouses, but if the number of blouses is increased there must be a corresponding increase in the quantity of lather.
Shake the blouses out of doors and immerse them in the lather. Leave them soaking for half an hour, add another quart of boiling water and then squeeze and knead the blouses until all traces of dirt have disappeared. Rub a little soap on the parts that are very soiled, but do not rub the blouses themselves.
Squeeze the blossoms from the washing water and empty the bath. Replace the blossoms and stand the bath under a running tap until all traces of soapiness have disappeared. If treated in this way blue rinsing water is not required, but in case of a scarcity of water a little liquid blue should be added to the second rinsing water to overcome the yellow tint which the soap clays.
Prepare a bowl of starch. Mix a tbblepouffal of blue starch to a smooth paste with a little cold water. Pour a pint of boiling water gradually on the paste, stirring it all the time until a thick, clear jelly is formed. Stir in a teapoonful of gum water made by covering a pennyworth of gum-arabic with a pint of water and pouring off the clear part when the gum is dissolved and settled. Cover the bowl with a plate to prevent a skin forming on top of the starch, and when it is cool enough to be borne by the hands place the blosses in the starch. Knead them well so that the starch penetrates all parts. Wring them from the starch and clap them.
Clapping is the secret of success in clear starching. It is invariably done by French laudresses when they are getting up fine muslins and lace. The object is to prevent the starch being cooked by the hot iron in mighty patches between the threads. Take the blouses one by one and lay each on a clean kitchen table. Clap the hands with a layer of muslins between and continue until every part looks clear and new.
Hang the blouses out of doors to dry, but take care that colored muslins or those printed in color are not exposed to sunshine while they are wet. A faded blouse is a pathetic figure, but it can be avoided by setting the colors. This is done by soaking the blouse in a quart of water in which a teaspoonful of slum is dissolved before washing it as described for white muslin blouses. Further, the colors can be revived by rinsing the blouse in a quart of water containing a teaspoonful of vinegar, but most important of all is to dry the colored blouses in the shade.
When dry each blouse should be rolled in a towel which has been lightly wrung from cold water. In this they should rest for at least an hour so as to become equally damp, and indeed it is a good plan to pack the rolled blouses closely together and leave them all night.
How to Utilize Scrape at Silk and
Ribbon
Do not throw away your old ribbons and silk scraps. They make beautiful mats, and, if you have enough of them, a lovely slumber robs may be made for your divan or cover for one of its cushions.
Wash and iron rolled ribbons, as faded places, will not show, and cut all the silk and satin pieces you have into strips the width of a lead pencil. The stripe may be any length, and the more colors are jumbed the better will be the result. Sew the ends of the strips together as though they were being sewed for a rag rug and roll the lengths into a ball. With a coarse crochet needle crochet in plain chain stitch round or square mats for tables and stands, cushion covers or divan throw.
If the colors have been well mixed the effect will be a rich bluebrown color scheme, made soft and pleasing by the roughness of the raw edges of the silk. It is possible to use only two or three colors and to crochet these in a pattern or in alternate rows of different colors, but this arrangement is not as attractive and does not give as lasting pleasure as the blurred Persian effect produced by crocheting well mixed lengths of silk together.
THREE GOOD IDEAS.
How to Realize the Possibilities of the Turkish Towel.
The Turkish towel, with its affinity for the wash tub, has many practical possibilities, three of which are a laundry bag for the inside of a closet door, both slippers and a folding traveling
another way. To be successful the bath slippers are all made of the same material and one is placed to sit next to eight white benches, four to be placed on top of the bag and four on the bottom of the pocket.
Cute little bath slippers are quickly made by shaping the uppers from Turkish toweling and the regulation bed room slipper soles. Cut the towel is the shape of an apron pocket, about eight inches on the straight side and six inches deep.
The straight edge is hemmed or bristled and fastened to the soles in the usual way. A perky little bow of wash ribbon or a simple rose or two in French knots on the top of the upper completes a little pair of slippers which even a bath cannot spell.
A traveler's case to hold the usual toilet articles can be made quite attractively and durable if Turkish toweling is used in place of the usual cretonne.
The case should be made in the usual style, about 9 by 18 inches, lined with rubber and arranged with pockets to hold brush, comb, wash cloth, apogee, soap, tooth paste, brush and a buttonhook.
The outside cover of Turkish toweling is decorated with the initials of the owner in French knots on the back, and perhaps a border of knots around the outside edge corresponding to the color of the wash ribbon to be used to tie the case when folded.
How to Keep the Refrigerator Clean. Cleanliness does come "next to godliness" as regards your refrigerator—more perhaps than in any other part of the establishment. The housekeeper's first aim regarding her refrigerator must be absolute cleanliness. A few hints concerning this article may be helpful to the inexperienced:
Look over the feblock daily. Wash it at least three times a week. If the pipe connecting the ice chamber and dip pan is adjustable it should be removed and scaled once a week, for you will be surprised to notice the green allure that forms an inside conting. Do not simply empty the dip pan once or twice daily. Clean it regularly also. There is nothing better for the purpose than old fashioned anisoda combined with plenty of boiling water.
Never be guilty of putting ice in the chest wrapped in newspapers. That is well enough to keep in a box or tub and is good at times. It is more sanitary to wash ice before placing it in the ice chamber, and you avoid the risk of clogging the waste pipe with particles of straw and sawdust.
Didn't Have a Bully Time.
"Old Wombat had to come back from Europe on a cattle steamer."
"How did such environment seem to affect him?"
"Oh, he kicked like a steer!"—Pittsburgh Post.
A Reversion to Type.
The Goose—Mrs. Hen, why is that yellow chick of yours such a little girl?
Mrs. Hen—I guess he must have been a bad egg—Philadelphia Ledger.
Reasona.
How rapidly she moves her feet
(though not herself) along the street
An beel and toe at each step meet!
She does not think that it's mettlea,
And she's been trained to be athletica,
But fashion's slaves are off patella.
When with that franço, worried frown
She pets her little fingers down
And grasps a handful of her gown
It's not to show her often stocking.
She'd hate to be thought bold or shocking.
It's merely to permit of walking!
—New York Press.
Her Age.
The lady with the upturned nose
Came into court one day.
But wanted to show how it all."
At least, it looked that way.
"What is your age?" the counsel said.
"My age is thirty-six, all right.
But she was thirty-six, all right.
That any one could see.
"I thought you were quite well informed,"
Said counsel, with a drawl.
"But when it comes down to your age
You do not know it all."
Austria-Hungary is one of the most beautiful and picturesque countries in the world.
"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips especially prunes and prism."
Whirl, wheel, whee, whiz and wants are very good words for speed—especially whiz and wants.
Your wants will be filled speedily if you use this paper. You'll get what you want when you want it.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914
HILLS OF GOD.
The hills of God are hard to climb.
Oh, tender little feet!
They stand up high above the plain
And beckon to the wind and rain.
And one is faith and one is pain.
Oh, tired little feet!
The upward trails are flanked with thorns.
Oh, little pilgrim heart!
The stones that shine so white ahead
Where you must leave your passions, dead.
Oh, little pilgrim heart!
But, oh, the hills of God they lean so close
Against the feet of God.
You see from their sunlit crest
The goal that is your prayerful quest
And hear the voice you've loved the best.
High on the hills of God.
—Sarah Beaumont Kennedy.
THOUGHTS ON MAN.
In one respect man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I most do good to men and endure them.—Aurelius Antoninus.
Men in great place are thrice servants—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame and servants of business.—Bacon.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one scorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, he folded already in the first man—Emerson.
AN QLD BATTLEFIELD.
The softest whisperings of the scented south,
And rust and roses in the cannon's mouth,
And, where the thunders of the fight were born.
The wind's sweet tenor in the standing corn.
With song of larks, low lingering in the gloom.
And blue skies bending over love and home.
But still the thought—somewhere upon the hills
Or, where the vale ring with the whippoorwill
Sad, wistful eyes and broken hearts that beat
For the loved sound of unreturning feet
And when the oaks their leafy banners wave,
Dream of a battle and an unmarked grave!
—Frank L. Stanton.
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION
Piggins Hear of Something New and
Tries to Buy the Article.
BUSINESS was rather slow that
day in the only shop in the
village. Though they sold every-
thing there from a box of matches to a
white elephant, not a single copper had
been passed over the counter.
As the church clock struck midday
the bored assistant cast a hopeless eye
up the narrow street. Only one figure
was to be seen coming toward the
shop, and he was on the other side of
the road. It was old man Figgina.
A look of hope came into the
assistant's eyes. Yes, the old boy was
crossing the street and making straight
for the shop! He entered.
"Mornin', morpim!" he said heartily.
"Tye just looked in to buy an average.
Let's have a look a some, will yer,
young feller?"
"An average, did you (eay, sir?) said the assistant blankly,
"Yes, yes; same what old Bruggine
brought."
"What's it like, sir?" asked the unfortunate fellow behind the counter.
"Ow should I know?" answered Figgins angrily. "All I know is he old Bruggins told me as 'ow's got a ben what lets twenty-five eggs a week on an average, an' I wants one, too—to treat 'em out and let's have a look at them."—London Answer.
Conveniently Dedit
A man in Ayrshire bad a habit of frightening deafness when he wanted to avoid answering an awkward question.
One day a neighbor said to him:
"I'd like to borrow your cart this morning. Mine is having a spring meeded."
"You'll have to speak louder," the old farmer answered. "I don't hear very well—and I don't like to lend my cart, anyhow."—Stray Stories.
Making Good.
"Gladys declared she would swoop away if anybody ever attempted to harm her."
"Did she do it when Jack tried."
"She made a feint effort."—Baltimore American
THE WATCH ON THE RHINE.
A voice resounds like thunder
peal.
Mid clashing waves and clang
of steel:
"The Rhine, the Rhine, the G
erman Rhine!
Who guards today my stream
divino?"
Chorus
Dear fatherland, no danger
thine:
They stand a hundred thousand strong.
Quick to avenge their country's wrong.
With glial love their bosoms swell.
They'll guard the sacred landmark well!
The dead of a heroic race.
From heaven look down and meet their gaze.
They swear with dauntless heart. "O Rhine.
Be German as this breast of mine!
"While flows one drop of German blood.
Or sword remplains to guard thy flood.
While rife roots in patriot hand—
No foo shall tread thy sacred strand!
"Our oath resounds, the river flows.
In golden light our banner glows;
Our hearts will guard thy stream divine.
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine!"
Timely Verse.
Timely Verse.
Bill Bowhay is a jolly wight.
He loves his little joke.
Says he: "My watch is watertight.
It's often been in soak."
—Cinclanlati Enquirer
Bill Billy has no timepiece now.
(Here's one we can't resist!)
A pude man got him in a row
And slapped him on the wrist.
—Youngstown Telegram
Now, Bill a lazy loafer was.
He bung about the stands.
Bill bung about what he could
Have time upon his hands.
—Snookie Snookie Review
HOPE OF CIVILIZATION
Today the welfare of the world is in the hands of the American worker. Today civilization's sole hope lies in the spirit and energy of those who labor in America's industries. Today the manhood of America guards the gates of peace to keep the world from famine and to preserve for all mankind the accumulated achievements of centuries of endeavor. With Europe plunged into bloody strife, with its manhood removed from useful production, its intelligence devoted to destruction and its farms and industries lying idle, the burden of human progress at this time rests upon the men and women of America. It is a time that should call forth the best in every American citizen. It is a time for the people of America to stand shoulder to shoulder. It is a time for every class to forget petty differences and to unite to meet the great emergency and the greater responsibility confronting the nation. Governor Glynn of New York at Labor Convention.
FROM THE CLASSICS
Can any one find out in what condition his body will be? I do not say a year hence, but this evening—Cicero.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position—Claudianus.
If matters go on badly now they will not always be so—Horace.
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower—Ovid.
The plant which is often transplanted does not prosper—Beneca.
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution—Tacitus.
THE MAN HE KILLED.
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient man,
We should have set us down to
wet
Right many a nipperkin.
But ranged as infantry
And staring face to face,
I shot at him, as he at me,
And killed him in his piece.
I shot him dead because—
Because he was my foe.
Just so; my foe, of course, he
was;
That's clear enough, although
He thought he'd list, perhaps, Offhand like—just as I—
Was out of work—had sold his traps—
No other reason why.
Yes; quiet and curious warriors.
You shoot a fellow down.
You'd trust it met where any bar is
Or help to half a crown.
—Thomas Hardy.
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
A BACHELOR'S REVERE.
THE light that lies in woman's eye
In faithless, so they say,
To my distress, I must confess
I've found it of that way.
The hours I spent, the bills I rest.
What did they do? The girls I know?
There's Jane, she's fat and forty-
But married, yeah. And little Bee
Wed a horse jockey sport.
E'en Ann, the stall's, not an old maid
While itosa, who turned the table
On me when I once passed her by.
Exposed the town constable.
There's Clara, Lou and Mabel, too,
All scattered and disbanded.
Buo settled down in some far town.
Marie, the actress, stranded.
Buo I saw I can touch mine.
Their pictures are imbbedded.
Within my heart—but we must part,
For they have all been wedded.
The light that lies in woman's eyes
Has kept me very busy,
And if they would be much whirled
Long since I'd have been dizzy.
But here I put at thirty-odd
Heart whole and free as ever.
While still those eyes tell lies and lies
Forever and forever.
—Milwaukee Free Press.
Neutrality.
Neutrality
Mrs. Newlywed—Wo are neutral, aren't w. George?
Mr. Newlywed—Yes, dear.
"We mustn't show any bias, must we?"
"No."
"Then I did just right."
"In what wny?"
"Why, I gave all our French mustard and our German soap and our English breakfast tea and our Russian caviar to Mary, the cook. Mary said she didn't think her folks were neutrals—and she was quite sure they needed the soap and things. Wasn't that thoughtful of me?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Art Experiment
"Lady," said Plodding Peto, "kin I hang around the barnyard awhile"
"What for?"
"I have been studyin' up on interpretive music an' if dhero is any way of making sound take de place of reality I want de benefit. Lomme stop an' listen to do pligs grunt an' de hems cackle, 'caused sumpin' tells me date as near as I'm goln' to get to real hain an' eggs."—Washington Star.
8arcaam.
"You'll simply have to take what we've got," she said to the man her husband had unexpectedly brought home to dinner.
"That's all right," said the guest.
"That's all right, and the guess. "Ever since we've been married I've been trying to convince Jim that this is just our home, not a delicatessen store."-Detroit Free Press.
An Early Start.
Marjorie (aged six) — I suppose I ought to be looking for a husband right now.
Spinister Aunt—Why, dear?
Marjorie—I heard pa say you'd been looking for one-for twenty years, so I'll begin early.—Baltimore Sun.
Taking No Chances
"Wife, what does the doctor say about your case?"
"He thinks there is nothing radically wrong. Still, complications may arise, so I guess I'll spend a month at the seahorse to be on the safe side."—Louisville Courter-Journal.
Anxious Inquiry.
"How many times have you been arrested?"
"I'm sorry, judge, but I've lost count. Dere ain't anybody offerin' a pris, is dere?"—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
How It Started.
Ninnycus — Wonder who originated that saying. "Busy as a hen with one chicken!"
Cynkus — Somebody, probably, who had observed the activity of a hen with one chicken just ready for the marri-monial market—Judge.
A. Sad Affair.
"Why didn't you attend Jack's wedding?" naked a visiting friend of a Jacksonville girl yesterday.
"Why? Because I wanted to remember poor Jack as he looked in life." replied the latter in a pitying tone. Florida Times-Union.
THE LOVING WORD.
Did you hear the loving word?
Pass it on.
Like the singing of a bird?
Pass it on.
Let in music live and grow.
Let it cheer another's woe.
You have reaped what others sow.
Pass it on.—Henry Barton.
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Jewelled clocks are comparatively rare, but jewelled watches are some what common. The newab of Rampur possesses a watch which is valued at over £18,000. The lower case is cut from a single topaz, the upper from an emerald, and a diamond ground very thin nerves for the glaze. This watch, which was put together by a small jeweler, shows the second, minute, quarter hours, half hours, hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years and leap years up to A. D. 1800.
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NOT BY ONE FALL.
Not by one fall or many be we stayed.
If falls await on yonder fighting field;
Too great the issue that we timely yield
Or count the cost until the cost is paid.
Right may be balked and for awhile delayed.
Truth in a mist of falsehood be concealed.
But laws divine are not to be repealed.
Nor love divine forever disobeyed.
Not by one fall! But if the triumph go
To doubt and fallacy, delusion freak.
If for awhile defeated, we shall know
The time will come for highest truth to speak.
Beneuso the high sees farther than the low.
And guidance must be from the mountain peak.
—Arthur L. Salmon in Churchman.
Out of His Line
Mrs. Smith was young and inexperienced, but she was ambitious. So one afternoon she waded deep into the cookbook and dug out an angel cake, which she placed before the old man at the evening meal.
"What's the matter with the angel cake, Harry?" asked wifey disappointedly on noticing that he studiously avoided it. "Isn't it good enough?"
"It isn't that, dear," gently responded the old man. "I'm afraid that I am not good enough."
"Good enough for what?" queried little wifey with a puzzled expression.
"Good enough to become an angel sweetheart," softly answered hubby—Philadelphia Telegraph.
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NEGROES IN UNITED STATES.
Washington, D. C., October 12th, 1914.—A bulletin on negroes in the United States will be issued at an early date by William J. Harris, D.S. director of the Census, Department of Commerce, which will contain all the principal information obtained through the census regarding the number and distribution of the negroes, their rate of increase, their sex and age distribution, and their marital condition. Figures for illiteracy and school attendance and the occupations of negroes will also be presented, as well as data on negroes in Agriculture and on mortality among negroes. This bulletin is preliminary to a detailed report on negroes in the United States to be issued later, which will be a complete analytical presentation of the statistics concerning the negroes.
NEGRO POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATE
The bulletin will show that the number of negroes in the United States (exclusive of outliving possessions) in 1910 was 9,827,763, and they formed 10.7 per cent of the total population. In 1900 the number of negroes was 8,833,994, of 11.6 per cent of the total population of that date. The increase among the negroes during the decade was 993,769. Or 11.2 per cent, as compared with an increase of 20.8 per cent among the native whites and of 30.7 per cent among the foreignborn whites. The growth of the negro population results from their own natural increase while the growth of the white population is accelerated by the great influx of immigrants and the high birth rate in immigrant families.
Of the total number of necropsy in 1910 about one-fifth were reported as mutilato; this is, as having some white blood. The proportion that mutilates formed of the total negro population increased from 12 per cent in 1870 to 15.2 per cent in 1890, and to 20.9 per cent, in 1910.
URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION
Nearly three-fourths of the negroes (7,138,534, or 72.6 per cent) were rural dwellers, while about one-fourth (2,689,229, or 27.4 per cent) lived in towns or cities of at least 2,500 inhabitants. The negroes formed 14.5 per cent of the rural population of the United States as compared with 6.3 per cent of the urban. In the Southern States the great majority of the negroes lived in rural districts, while of the negroes of the North and of the West a large proportion were city dwellers.
Of a total of 2,953 counties in the United States there were only 110 in which there were no negroes, and there were 53 counties in 1910, as compared with 55 counties in 1900, in which 75 per cent of the population was negro. There were 263 counties in 1910 in which 50 per cent of the population was negro.
SEX AND AGE
In 1910 there were 4,855,851 negro males in the United States, as compared with 4,941,582 negro females, the number of males to 100 females thus being 98.9 as compared with a ratio of 106 for the whites. The negroes were the only race in the United States in which were more females than males.
The age distribution of the negroes was as follows:
Age group, all ages (includes persons of unknown age.) Number. 9,827,763, per cent. distribution. 100. Under 5 years. Number. 1,263,288 per cent dis. 12.9.
Five to 14 years. Number. 2,401,519, per cent. dis. 24.4.
Fifteen to 24 years, Number 2,:
091.211 per cont. dist. 21.3.
Twenty-five to 44 years, number.
2,638,178, per cent. dist. 26.8.
Forty-five years to 64 years, number.
1,108,103, per cent. dist. 11.3.
Sixty-five years and over, number.
294,124, per cent. dist. 3.0.
The age distribution of the necrose does not differ materially from that of the native whites.
The negro males in the United States of voting age numbered 2,468,872 in 1910, and the negro females of voting age numbered 2,427,742.
SCHOOL, ATTENDANCE
AND ILLITERACY.
Of the negroes 6 to 9 years of age 458,954, or 49.3 per cent, were reported as having attended school during the school year 1890-10, of those 10 to 14 years of age, 781,995, or 68.6 per cent, were reported; and of those 15 to 20 years of age, 328,750, or 26.5 per cent. In each age group the percentage of school attendance was much lower for the negroes than for the whites.
Of the total number of negroes 10 years of age and, over, 2,227,-731, or 30.4 per cent, were reported as illiterate; among the whites the percentage of illiteracy was 5, being 3 among native whites and 12.7 among foreign-horn whites. The percentage of illiteracy among negroes decreased from 57.1 in 1890 to 44.5 in 1900, and to 30.4 in 1910.
THE NEGRO IN AGRICULTURE
The bulletin will contain information by states, and also by counties, about negroes in agriculture. The total number of farms operated by negroes in 1910 was 898,270; of this number, 218,972 were operated by their owners, 672,064 by tom-
ants, and 1,424 by managers. The number of farms owned by negroes increased by 31,175, or 16.6 per cent, between 1900 and 1910, and the number of negro tenants increased by 115,790, or 20.8 per cent, during the decade. The total value of farm property operated by negroes in 1910 was $1,144,181,000, as compared with $499,941,000 in 1900 indicating that the value of agricultural property operated by negroes increased considerably more than twofold during the decade. The statistics show that 1,806,727 negro males and 1,050,849 negro females were engaged in agriculture.
MORTALITY STATISTICS
The forthcoming bulletin will contain for the first time a statement regarding mortality among the negroes. All previous conus publications have given statistics for the total colored population, in which was included the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and other non-white. The data will be shown for the registration area of the United States, which includes the registration states and certain selected cities. The death rate among negroes in 1910 in this area was 25.5 per 1000, showing a decrease as compared with the rate in 1900, which was 29.4, and the death rates for 1910 show many decreases, especially in the southern municipalities.
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JUDGE TERRELL IN RICIMOND.
His Honor, Robert H. Terrell
Judge of the Municipal Court of the
District of Columbia arrived in this
city last Monday afternoon at 2:50
o'clock. He was met at the train by
John Mitchell, Jr., President of the
Mechanics' Savings Bank and taken
to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. F. Thompson, No. 20 W. Leigh
St.' where he was domiciled during
his brief stay in this city. Later,
in company with Mr. Mitchell, he
went for a drive around the city. On
Tuesday morning, Mrs. Maggie L.
Walker carried him in her electric
car to visit her institution and other
places of interest. He was entertained at lunchtime Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Thompson's residence in company with Mr. John Mitchell,
Jr. and Mr. A. W. Holmes.
He left for Washington at 2:50 P
M. after having taken an automobile
trip in Mr. Price's new Killiney car
He was delighted with his stay here
LYNCHING AND "CIVILIZATION"
Those of us who think this country is the seat of the world's conscience, the last word in civilization, the citadel of the rights and liberties of mankind, might have to change our opinion slightly if we could see our solves as others see us.
Just now, when we are putting our solves up as final arbiter's in the conflict of nations, and are filled with "richness indignation" over alleged barbarities and atrocities in the theatre of war, the Independent comes along with these disquieting reflections:
That this is a barbarous country, in spots. Is undeniable when we learn that in 1913, as many as 73 colored men and women were killed by mobs, lynched without trial. The crimes charged against them were various, some serious, others trivial. Some of the victims were doubtless innocent. The figures prove a shocking degree of barbarism to exist with us, and the only relief we find is that there is a pretty steady decrease in the number. In 1892 there were 155 lynched, and
154 the next year. At this rate of decrease we may be quite civilized 20 years from now. There have been only twenty lynchings in the first six months of the present year.
Here is a record of atrocities for which we venture to say no parallel can be found in any of the "barbarous" nations now at war, and compared with which the atrocities charged against the German soldiers would appear for the most part as trifling indiscretions incident to the heat of war.
Before we throw any more stones at the Germans, let us be sure we are not living in a glass house. If war is what Sherman said it was, it is natural to expect a few human devils in any army of three or four millions of men engaged in deadly conflict; but who would expect to find mobs of human devils at work in times of peace at the very feet of Liberty Enlightening the World?
Meantime, we should like to direct the attention of Mr. Wilson and the southern gentleman, who sit in the saddle at Washington to this paragraph from an address to the people of the United States issued by our colored brethren at their recent convention in New York city:
Let the American people, and especially the President, in view of the bloody war of all Europe and the probable grant of freedom to Ireland and suffrage to women, freedom to the Poles and Finns and relief from segregation and political disabilities for the Jews, induced by needs of warring nations, remember that twelve million native citizens in this country are worse prescribed than those of Europe. We appeal to President Wilson to free colored Americans from Jim-Crow cars, disfranchisement, lynching and segregation, especially under the federal government at the federal capital, now, rather than await some awful war here.
Whatever Mr. Wilson may think of Jim-Crow cars, disfranchisement and negotiation at the federal capital, he cannot be unmindful of the right of the colored race to protection against the mob, to the legal presumption of innocence which is accorded every other class of citizens, and to legal trial and legal punishment if proven guilty.
The crime of lynching constitutes a blot upon Uncle Sam's escapade which must be wiped out before Uncle Sam is entitled to sit in judgment upon the morals or civilization of any nation on earth. He cannot preach morality and civilization for others and himself remain uncivilized us-
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less he whiten to appear in the eyes of the world as the most consummate hypocrite in oil history. Civilization, like charity, begins at home. Exchange
A WORD OF CHER FROM STAUNTON.
The Queen Among The Hills.
Beloved Editor Mitchell:
A voice is heard from the hills of North West Virginia, which says to your fair and noble sons who are honored with the first kiss of a rising Sun, "It is well with us." As richest the vision of man to behold the brows of these eternal peaks, so loft goes his ambition to do and dare and his faith in God to trust and obey.
Every branch of our city life is on the upward march, men and women are bestirring themselves as never before along business lines and as a result of this our bank is in a flourishing condition, like the green bay tree. Our Insurance Companies are lifting high their banners of victory and success. Our colored merchants march beneath a star of hope, on behind which is rising a glorious sun of prosperity.
Our new drug store which is owned and operated by Drs. Hunks and McGaffy, is the pride of all progress lovers, in the face of this hopeful state of our business and social life the doctors and undertakers are not made to cover their faces in shame for their business keeps abreast with the line of march.
SECRET OF OUR PROSPERITY
"Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts." We are pressing to the front and feel no fear of retreat, because God is our father and Christ, our elder brother is general of our forces. The preachers of this city are on the wall as watchmen and consecrated heralds, giving to the people God's orders seasoned with grace and illuminated by heavenly fire. At the great Mt. Zion Baptist Church where the young and noted Dr. J. C. Austin is lifting up the name of Our blessed Lord; the spirit tide still runs high and the people are flocking from all parts of the city when ever Zion's doors swing wide. That they may hear from Heaven, Dr. Austin not only believes in giving the people of Staunton, the advantage of his earnest research and rich food which comes in answer to prayer, but he is always casting about for the best talent of the denominations that the faith of his flock might never waver. From the National Conventions, he brought to us Rev. W. H. Skipwith, B. D., our international preacher and singer, who is now conducting a battle against the devil here and every night Mt. Zion is crowded with anxious saints and sinners to hear this great man of God. Since the battle began, on October 4th, many souls have accepted Christ as King and Sailor and many are seeking his love to know. All Staunton is thankful to God for such a consecrated Christian and earnest preacher as Rev. Skipwith has proven himself to be here. The meeting is still on and we would
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like to keep the Dr. over next week but Clifton Forge has claimed him and he must go.
The old and young of Zion are dropping out of line by death. At this writing, Deacon Fleming Scott, one of Zion's oldest deacons, lay cold in death. He passed into the great beyond Monday morning and will be laid to rest Wednesday 8:30 P. M. He had served as deacon 16F 35 years and a good one he was.
On last Tuesday, Hey J. C. Austin preached the funeral of a young man Mr. Samuel Brookage 21. He was a splendid young man and of a good Christian home; he for two years had been student of Howard University. The sermon was a powerful message to the young men whose chances are still good and a soothing balm to the family. Samuel died in full triumph of faith.
This at one time was a large active family in Zion, with Father, Wm. Brooks as deacon but now the most of them have fallen asleep and to that end Rev. Austin concluded his remarks with this his original poem:
THE FAMILY TREE.
I strolled among the forest woods, Of human shrubs and trees
In flourishing array one stood.
With progress as its leaves.
Two mighty branches was this tree, Husband and wife in Love.
Beneath its boughs so merrily.
Ten children played about.
The season changed the years marched on.
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The frosty winds did blow.
The vital cords of brain and brawn.
Were festered from below.
The soxton of earth with ax in hand.
Began his march of terror.
His orders were to spare no man.
The just nor one of error.
With cutting pain the old tree parted.
Mother being the first to fall.
Then little, children though faint,
hearted,
Looked to Father as Mother for all.
Though arnlous was the Father's
heart.
With active hands he did his best
But The sexton returned one day.
And with chilling blows laid to rest.
The Father who received his pay.
Three sisters dear, five brothers
brave.
They struggled on together.
But a las, we march now to the grave
To deposit baby brother.
The family tree is falling fast.
In the silent city together.
There to wait the trumpet blast.
For Father Children and Mother.
Step on dear brother and comrade
brave.
Though silence shroud your form
We shall strike hands beyond the
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When suffering days are done.
Though divided by the valley death,
Or Jordan's angry sea,
We shall unite and be at rest.
One grand old family tree.
Long live the Planet that gives light of hope to a struggling race.
SHEFFIELD (ALA) NOTES.
Sheffield, Ala. Oct. 12th, 1914.
The people of this city have been engaged in attending the Colbert County Fair this past week at Tuscumbia, Ala. All report a nice time. The colored Colbert County Fair opened this week at Tuscumbia, it will be held at Big Spring Park, the colored citizens of the Trieties (Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia) and surrounding communities are hoping great success.
The First and Second Baptist churches baptized yesterday. The Primitive Baptist also baptized a large crowd witnessed the occasion.
Rev. C. R. Moore is continuing the series of meetings at the C. P. Church.
The Council of Colored Women Richmond, Va., will give away A Ford's Automobile (a 5-passenger touring car) Wednesday Night, October 28th, 1914 at True Reformers
Hall.
The tickets for the car are 50 cts each.
The object is to raise funds for the salary of the colored visiting nurse of Richmond, Va.
Buy a ticket—Help a most worthy object.
The person holding the successful number will take the car home Oct. 28, 1914.
All ticket purchasers are urgently invited to be present on this night and see the, lucky person receive and take away the car.
Every ticket is numbered.
Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, President.
Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, Secretary.
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