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The Leading Weekly Journal in the State. PRES. E.C. MORRIS SPEAKS He Answers His Accusers-The National Baptist Convention Marching On. An Era of Prosperity Ahead--A United Body. VOLUME XXXII NO 13 PRES. E. He Answers Baptist C An Era of Pro Helena, Ark. Helena, Ark. To the Baptists of America, Dear Brothren: For twelve months there has been kept up a continuous war of words through the medium of some of our denominational papers concerning the conduct of affairs of the National Baptist Convention as carried on by one of the boards. During this long period the president of the Convention has come in for the lion's share of abuse, or adverse criticism. But up to the present he has borne these things in silence, except when some of the critics have so far forgot themselves as to "cross the dead line," knowing that most of those who were making such unholy thrusts were actuated by an unjust and impure motive. PLAIN DENIAL8 The president of the Convention is not inhuman nor is he insemiest to the fact that many laborous efforts have been made to place his name before the world as a grafter, and a surper of the people's rights. But the president known full well that there are many things greater than the presidency of the great National Baptist Convention, and that there are interests to be served far greater than those which may attach to him or any other individual. The very fact that the interests of 2,500,000 Negro Baptists as well as the interest of the entire race are in the balances, and the future is to be very largely determined by the success or failure of the great religious organizations among the people of this race, has been the restraining point to keep us out of this controversy. And too; because most of those who have been engaged in the unwholesome newspaper articles are men who have no interest in anybody or anything beyond themselves. DID NOT EXCEED ITS AUTHORITY. The people of the world have been told that the National Baptist Convention has exceeded its authority in dealing with its creatures, and that the Convention, itself is a mob, and to, through the medium of the organ of the Convention. These weird articles have in the main come from men who were directly the cause of nearly all the confusion which has come up in the Convention. I any confusion for that is the extent of the disorder in any of the meetings. There has never been any violence of any kind to our knowledge in any meeting during the nineteen years that it has been our privilege to preside over the consolidated body. Among the many great leaders in the Baptist denomination, men who are real leaders of the people, and whose standing in their respective communities for honesty and integrity, men who love their race and denomination more than they love newspaper notoriety, very few. If any, have taken part in the vile and slanderous things which have been given such wide circulation, but have patiently waited for the time to come when these things would cease. . DENOMINATIONAL PAPERS CONSERVATIVE. Our denominational papers have as a rule been very conservative, keeping their editorial columns clean: the Editors not allowing themselves to be drawn into the mud-slinging business, doubtless because they took knowledge of the men who have been the voluntary correspondents on these unwholesome matters. To attempt to disrupt or tear to pieces the greatest organization among the Negro people of the world is a crime which can be attributed only to men of very questionable standing, and who are too stupid to foresee the damage they are doing to future generations. Some of the men who have been profite in writing, are or little known to the general public that they have had to exploit them they are not, because they happen to hear the same name as some of the distinguished officers of the Bands, have let it be known that they were an foe to these great men. WOULD BACK INDUCTION? is in them worthy of note, for it is evidien that they, are not known by their works in the great 'Baptist family. The president of the National Baptist Convention knows full well, and he hopes all the older leaders in the denomination will recognize the fact, that there is coming; and is now at hand, a mighty army of well educated, well trained, consecrated plous young men in the denomination who will soon assume the leadership in denominal work, and he knows full well that one had as well attempt to turn the course of a mighty river, as to stop the forward movement of this mighty host, and he cheerfully bids them hall and God speed, and he would feel that much of his life's work would have been a failure, if such an invincible army had not been developed in the many years of our conquest and toll. SO PERSONAL WAR. If there is any one thing more than another, which has placed the public at a disadvantage, so that it could not get at the real inwardness of the discussions, it was doubles the attempt of those who have kept up the harangue to make the public believe that there was a personal war between the president and one of the Secretaries of one of the Boards of the Convention, which is not true. There has never been, so far as the president is concerned, any personal difference between him and any of the secretaries of the Boards, art he hopes there will never be. The thought has never at any time entered the mind of the president that any one should be put in the place of that secretary about whom so much has been written. But to the reverse the president has done more to sustain that man than any other man in the denomination, hence those who have attempted to make that the issue, or those who may have been led to believe that to be it, have failed to grasp the grave problem before the Baptists of the country. THE ATTITUDE OF THE PRESIDENT The attitude of the president has been exactly the same towards all the secretaries, and will ever be the same, whether in or out of office. What are the issues before the What are the issues before the National Baptist Convention? Can those issues be settled within the ranks? We do not presume to be wise enough to give an answer which will be satisfactory to all, but we venture to say that the only issue under controversy is.—Shall the people rule, and shall the orders of the Convention as expressed by that body in regular session be (Continued on 8th, Page) Emma Jefferson, Aged Cripple Burned to Death in Home. Mrs. Emma Jefferson, colored, about seventy years old, was burned to death Thursday morning, the 11th, at 11 o'clock, in her home, 211 East Ninth Street, South Richmond, when she attempted to extinguish a fire which had broken out in a room adjoining hers. Her slimy clothes caught as soon as she opened the door, and the flames left her body unrecognizable. The woman, who was partly paralyzed, was alone at the time and could not make her escape. A window was the only exit in the room, both doors having been locked. An overheated stove is thought to have been the origin of the fire. Half of the building was destroyed by the flames and the remainder of the house gutted. SHOT TO DEATH BY BRUTAL MOB Accused of Stoffling a Cow Letter Developed that the Animal Had Buried from Home. Vicksburg, Kill — Mr. Johnson, a young adopted man, was taken from a deputy sheriff by a mob of tweets and within the city limits bury nearly in the day and凌晨. He had still arrested strangely with smiling faces and the alley was pungent by the day then he was made by a man who was then by death. He was then taken by the police and held there until he was freed. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915 91 WANT TO BE RECORDER. President Has Long List of Applicants, for Johnson's Place. Only 91 persons have signified, directly or indirectly, their willingness to hold the office of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. A list of the names is now before the President. No ladies are in the list. The District has been without a recorder since last summer when Lincoln Johnson, colored, resigned following a gentle hint from the White House. Since then Deputy Recorder Dutton has been in charge of the office, and the general impression seems to be that he is taking the best possible care of it, as there have been no complaints. Following are the names of those who want the job: J. R. Anderson, J. E. Brodie, Norris B. Clarke, Alfred B. Cosey, J. Crane, Johnson S. Cravons, John W. Davis, J. A. Dickson, Burton T. Doyle, Charles L. Ebaugh, C. H. Eberle, J. L. Edmonds, H. B. Evana, Joseph R. Fague, B. T. Foster. Carey S. Frye, Emmanuel M. Howlett, James T. V. Hill, Richard R. Horner, Giles B. Jackson, W. D. Johnson, John H Kelly, J. W Paisley, A. A. Mathis, Richard S. Mitchell, Benjamin F. Lee, William Cranch McIntire, Christian J. Gockeler, George D. Samken, J. P. Kaulfman. Robert W. Dutton, W. H. Holloway, Bernard J. Brown, R. W. Naah, S. L. Moore, J. J. Lightford, Jr.; G. W. McBath, William A. Orne, A. F. Jenkins, Rev. R. H. Ronin, Prof. D. R. Stokes, L. C. Balley, James D. Sneed, W. H. Nelson, William R. Page. Charles E. Lane, Edward Beckham, James B. Lloyd, James S. McCarthy, John I. Martin, Walter F. Miller, D. J. Mohler, Paul W. Pope, Frank W. Reed, Jerome R. Riley, James A. Ross, James Schooler, Horace Spencer, William W. Still, Rufus S. Stout. J. L. F. Talton, Julius F. Taylor, B. H. Tyton, J. M. Underwood, W. L. Venable, Dr. J. Milton Waldron, L. G. Warfield, Robert L. Preston, William E. Gross, John H. Colpoys, Wilbur F. Cleaver, D. C. Brantley, J. T. Davenport, William J. Dwyer, Prof. W. E. Reynolds. Sully Jaymes, G. W. Tanner, Maurice Lyon, T. R. Knox, Lee Crandall, James W. H. Howard, Charles W. Lancaster, Rev. George C. Clements, Rev. J. Francis Lee, Dr. A. H. Weather, W. W. Woodward, Dr. Lewis A. Griffith, Clifford H. Plummer, Rev. R. B. Robinson, Adam E. Patterson, and William P. Morton. -Washington Post, Feb 16, 1915. O "HANGED." IS AWARDED CENT Black Man Sues for $7,500 for Having Been "Nearly Lynched." Fayette (Me.) Dispatch to the St. Louis Times. A Howard county jury gave a verdict recently for 1 cent to Bud Davis, the Sherby county negro, who sued seven prominent business men of Shelbina, Md., for $7,500. The case came here on a change of venue. The defendants were Ernest Jewett, editor of the Shelbina Democrat; John Jewett, a hardware dealer; Fletcher Affick, son of Sheriff Fletcher Affick; E. J. Colbourn, past editor of the Shelbina Torhlight; Robert White, dairyman; Robert Spaulding, furniture dealer, and Otie Boo, a real estate man. Davis asked $2,500 actual and $5,000 punitive damages for an alleged attack upon him April 19, 1914, when, according to his petition, he was taken from Shelbina in an automobile to a lonely place a half mile away, where he was "hanged and trounced." He says his nervous system was shattered. He was taken by the same man 16 miles from Shelbina—kind told not to return, he alleged. The incident was alleged to have followed a fire and smashing of windows in the block where all the defendants do business. DO YOU KNOW THERE? I deserve to know the whereabouts of my uncle, David Crown. His sister is my mother and her name is Katherine Booth. I have not heard from my people in 20 years. My name is Karen Booth of which they speak by call my Sister Crown. My grandson is TVV in South Carolina. THE FAMILY OF THE LATE REV. WM. I. TAYLOR THANK THEIR MANY FRIENDS. We are indeed grateful to our many friends, who rendered us assistance during the illness and death of our lamented father and husband, who departed this life Jan. 27th, and was buried Jan. 31st, 1915. He was born a slave in 1854 in Caroline Co., Va., and professed religion at an early age and connected himself with the Ebenezer Baptist church and was elected church clerk. He became an active worker in both church and Sunday school and subsequently was licensed to presch the gospel. He was called to and pastored several churches, the last of which was Jerusalem Baptist church, Doswell, Va., which he served 18 years. Notwithstanding, the inclement weather, there, was a large attendance to bid a long farewell to their departed friend. Miss Susie Elllett and Mrs. Alice Robinson of his church, read excellent papers in testimony of his high Christian character. Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Susie J. Tinsley rendered pathetic solos suitable to the occasion. After several able colleges by Lawyer Robinson and others, Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis, pastor of Second Baptist church, Richmond, Va., delivered a historical and impressive funeral sermon. The Masonic and St. Luke brethren with whom he was identified, as a member, were out in large numbers. At the age of 21 he married Miss Rachel Walter of Fredericksburg, Va., with whom he lived happy to the time of her death, a period of 36 years. During their happy union, they were blessed with 15 children. About 1885 he met the Rev. W. W. Brown, the founder of the True Reformers, who persuaded him to join the order. With a full belief of the possibilities of his race, he connected himself with the order as an humble member and was appointed State deputy of Hanover, Co. Prior to this appointment, he was engaged preaching and teaching the public schools. He gave up teaching and entered the field of the order with all of his heart and soul. His persistent efforts: obedience to authority; honesty and sobriety won for him the second place in the gift of the Brotherhoods. In 1897 he was elected Grand Worthy Master of the order, which position he hold with honor for 13 years. In 1912 he married Mrs Ella Chatham of Washington, D. C., and returned to his country home. Duswell, Va., where he lived quietly and happily to the end. He is survived by a widow, four sons, three daughters, three daugh- ters-in-law, and eight grandchildren. Mr. A. D. Price, the popular udd taker of Richmond, Va., took charge of the remates and laid it quietly to rest in the family bury- ing ground at his home, Doswell, Va. Memorial services will be held on some future date. Mr. J. E. Chick, of Mangobick, Va., was in the city this week and called on us. SHE GOT HER BICYCLE. Richmond, Va., Feb. 17, 1916. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor of The Planet City. Dear Sir: Allow me to extend my heartfelt thanks to you for the beautiful prize that I won in the children's contest. I certainly appreciate the reception of the bicycle and it is a fine gift. Allow me to thank you again and also to thank my many friends who assisted me so nicely in helping me win the prize. May the Planet grow in its circulation and you with your great work continue to prosper. Yours. RUBIE L. PEYTON. 1413 W. Leigh Street. Richmond, Va. DR. SMITH SELIA DRUQ STORE Dr. W. H. Smith, proprietor of Smith's Pharmacy, 301 W. Baker Street, Richmond, Va., and Grant Worthy Treasurer of the Grant-Fountain U. O. True Reformers, has recently sold his up-to-date drug store to Dr. Stanford H. Hay. Dr. Hay is eminently qualified to succeed Dr. Smith in the operation of the drug business. He is a graduate of Hope College, Kingston, Jamaica, and an under graduate of Liola University, Chicago. For the last two years or more months he has been assistant to Dr. Gop. A. Thompson, proprietor of Duval Street Pharmacy, Richmond, Va. Mr. Martin J. Graham, brother-in-law of Dr. Smith and who most recently assisted him in the appraisal of his drug business, will continue in the service with Dr. Mur. DR. R. H. BOYD WRATHY Scathing Denunciation of His Enemies. Well Pleased with The Planet. The Convention's Monumental Blunder--The Man from Texas. Our old, true and tried friend, The Richmond Planet, is out again in a very great common sense editorial, giving advice to our Baptist brotherhood in the following language: The issue of the National Baptist Union-Review was free from all allusions to the recent controversy with the National Baptist Convention. This is gratifying and indicates that the discussion will be confined to those committees to which it propels and when the President of the Convention had advised the secretary to place among other great religious bodies of the country. Our aims should be to strengthen the organization and not to weaken it. Roy Dr. E. C. Morris is a great leader with executive ability and discretion. He knows how to control himself and this gives him the ability to guide and direct the great organization of which he is the off-facial head. reared a large family and whose grandchildren were hovered around her, to have to live cooped up in a publishing house with all the noisy machinery. But this ignorant secretary had no better sense than to obey the demands of his Board, and he lived there. But, when these educated, industrial secretaries of other boards, who by the way, had no place to live, began to find fault with this, those committees to which it propels and when the President of the Convention had advised the secretary to place among other great religious bodies of the country. Our aims should be to strengthen the organization and not to weaken it. Roy Dr. E. C. Morris is a great leader with executive ability and discretion. He knows how to control himself and this gives him the ability to guide and direct the great organization of which he is the off-facial head. Va. Friday, Feb. 12th, 1915. Lower suite of rooms were used for the entertainment of the visit. Music was furnished by Miss D. Follis and Mrs. C. B. Stratton, Mist. Howden and Panol, vocalist. In setting addresses were made by H. W. A. Gilliam, Supt. J. K. Trent other visitors. Afterwards the gree where a delicious supper was served by Misses Lucy Banks, Howden and C. B. Stratton. A late hour the visitors departed many were heard to express their selves by saying "It is so good have been here." Richmond is to be favored with the presence of the World Familias Colored Singers on Thursday, March 4th, at the City and As for Rev. R. H. Boyd, he is a wonder, and our knowledge of the printing business has enabled us to know it. Put Dr. Boyd in President Morris' position and Dr. Morris in Dr. Boyd's office, and we are of the opinion that a downward grade in both concerns would be struck in less than ten days' time. The Baptists have succeeded because they have the right man in the right places. Don't let us "play fool" and change them. Let well enough alone—Richmond Planet (Richmond, Va.) John Mitchell Jr. Editor. Yes, Brother Mitchell, we give your editorial word for word and we wish all of our brothers would read it and take your advice. As secretary of the Publishing board, as well as Manager of the Union-Review, I would say on behalf of that Board that it has made many mistakes through its Secretary, R. H. Boyd, as would be expected when the following facts were true to start with: First, the Board made the mistake of starting without a direct order or constitutional authority of the National Baptist Convention. Second, it made a second grave mistake by going down to Texas and getting a cow-border, mule-cared rabbit-chaser, an uneducated Texas ruffian with no experience and placing him as its secretary, treasurer and manager. Well, the secretary, as would be the most natural thing in the world, has made many mistakes, but in all of his ignorance he has been loyal to his employers, the National Baptist Publishing Board. He has been almost a worshipping of the president of the Convention, and has stood by him in all things to the best of his ability until the President of the Convention and the National Baptist Publishing Board had different opinions. Of course, there were secretaries of five or six other boards. All of them are educated gentlemen, college bred, if you please, and knew better how the Publishing Board ought to run, what it ought to do than did the Texas ignoramus. Therefore, they gathered around the president and ordered him to have the secretary change every thing for he had become disloyal, impudent, rebellious against the National Baptist Publishing Board that employed him; but the Secretary did not have sense enough to do this. He had just sense enough to obey his employers so long as they were pleased to employ him and pay him a little salary upon which he could feed his wife and children. Well, this Secretary did not have sense nor education, but he did have a few thousand dollars that he and his old wife had labored hard for for the past forty years in Texas, and had laid by for a rainy day; and, like a man betting on a horse race backed up his and his board's judgment with every dollar that he had. Hence, business has gone until the Board has accumulated machinery, property, etc., to the tune of about $250,000. Of course, there is little mortgage on this property of $5,000 or $6,000 besides its outstanding current debts. Its mortgage was first held by Mrs. R. H. Bovd, whose money had gone into it, but these brothers thought Mrs. Boyd was dishonest, hence, the officials of the Convention asked the Board, for, the benefit or sixty years of age, who had to change this mortgage. The Board had asked the secretary to live in the building for its protection and become contented. You can become what a hardship it was on a woman or sixty years of age, who had reared a large family and whose grandchildren were hovered around her, to have to live cooped up in a publishing house with all the noisy machinery. But this ignorant secretary had no better sense than to obey the demands of his Board, and he lived there. But, when these educated, industrial secretaries of other boards, who by the way, had no place to live, began to find fault with this, and when the President of the Convention had advised the secretary to move this mortgage the secretary felt that this was advice to move his family. So, he built a little shack at the corner of Sixteenth avenue and Helman street and moved his old gray-haired wife out there and turned this mortgage over to the One Cent Savings Bank. So, you see, Brother Mitchell, the dust has begun to rise, and they have made it so dusty that the Baptist constituents cannot see where the dust first arose; but we are thankful to say that a little zephyr of cooling breeze and a little sprinkling of rains are gradually blowing away and settling the dust, and you can take our word for it, this Baptist machine is going to move right on, and when the mist has cleared away, in the dawning of the morning, we shall know each other better. Of course, Brother Mitchell, the day the secretary has done to much inter-locking to suit the other secretaries. He has made the mistake of organizing the first Negro bank in the state of Tennessee, which band in the last eleven years has handled about, $8,000,000 of Negroes' money; and he, the secretary, has been President from the day of its organization. He made the mistake to organize a National Baptist Church Supply Company, which has made school desks, opera chairs, pulpit pulpit chairs and church seats for several hundred Negro and white churches, and has been giving steady employment to from fifteen to thirty-five Negro employees, and has paid its bills. Well this is another mistake. He had the misfortune to believe that Negro children should play with Negro dolls; hence, he got a few who had more money than they had sense and they allowed him to use this in forming a Negro Doll Company, which is shipping Negro dolls to Negroes from Alaska to Cape Horn Well, the Negroes of Middle Tennessee had never had a first-class newspaper to properly present their secular and political stairs. They tried to get the secretary from time to time to allow these political articles to appear in the columns of the religious periodicals published by the Board. To this the secretary stoutly demurred for he was aware of the fact that his Northern brothers notified the Southern people that if they allowed a Negro establishment to own and operate presses in the South, that the South would have trouble, especially with such a ruffian as was coming from Texas to Nashville to begin such an undertaking. Well, the secretary thought to be forewarned was to be forearmed. Therefore, he advised the Board that such a course of run (Continued on 8th page.) EVERYBODY WAS HAPPY First Baptist church. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., pastor. Sunday: that being our communion we looked forward for a great time and it went beyond our expectation. At 3:45 over one thousand persons had gathered in the main auditorium, lifting up their voices in songs and prayers to God for another Pentecost. It came with such power until pastor, preachers and people who taken off their feet. Members who have been here for forty and fifty years declared it was one of the greatest communions they had ever witnessed. Rev. Skipwith, our evangelist, is still with us preaching and singing the gospel with great power, and on the 4th Sunday at 3:30 P. M. we expect to go down in the baptismal waters. "Come thou and go with us, and we will do these good." TEACHERS ENTERTAIN. The teachers and officers of the First Baptist Sunday school entertained delightfully at the home of Mrs. C. B. Strutton, N. B., Rennoke, PRICE, FIVE CENTS. WRATHY of His Enemies. The Planet. Tal Blunder--The as. Va., Friday, Feb. 12th 1915. The lower suite of rooms were used for the entertainment of the visitors. Music was furnished by Miss Daly Follis and Mrs. Bessie Cooper, planists, and Mrs. C. B. Stratton, Misses Bowden and Panel, vocalist. Interacting addresses were made by Prof. W. A. Gilliam, Supt. J. K. Trent and other visitors. Afterwards the guest were invited to the dining room where a delicious-supper was served by Misses Lucy Banks, Ella Bowden and C. B. Stratton. At a late hour the visitors departed and many were heard to express themselves by saying "It is so good to have been here." 0 Richmond is to be favored with the presence of the World Famous Williams Colored Singers on Thursday, March 4th, at the City auditorium. These renowned singers have just returned from Europe, visiting Holland, Belgium, Germany and France, and this is their first visit South, though they have visited all of the principal cities in Canada and the northern, eastern and western part of the United States. There is no doubt that these popular singers will be greeted with a large and appreciative audience. 9 Mrs. Johnson Passe Away Mrs. Brena Johnson departed this life Feb. 1st, 1915 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Bette Scott, 1107 N. First St. Funeral took place Thursday, Feb. 4th, at 2:30 P.M. P. R. Rev. W. H. Stokes Associates Sunday 11 A. M. Special sermon on dancing, card playing, theatre-goling and kindred amusements. 2:30 P. M. Revs. Lloyd T. Wilson D. D. and J. W. Dixon and Mr. B. H. Melton, members of the vice commission of Richmond, which recently reported to Mayor Ainslie, will address the colored citizens at the 3rd St., A. M. E. church. Rev. Chas. Hannigan has been requested to preside. Persons under 16 years of age will not be admitted. --- Roanoke Notes. Mrs. Smule Brown, of 124 8th Ave., is out again after four weeks' illness. All Past Chancellors of K. of P. and Past Worthy Counsellors or Courts of Calanthe are requested to be present Thursday, Feb. 26, 1915 at 7:30 P. M., at Burrell Hall, business of vital importance by the order. Mrs M. H. Burrell, D. D. of Courts; Sir J. H. Fowlkes, D. D. of K. of P. Mr. J. H. Whales of 314 8th Ave. N. E., is still confined to the house. Mrs. Maria Motley, 309 9th Ave. N. E., is detained at home from an attack of la grippie. Mrs. Emma Field, of Vinton, is confined to her bed with la grippie Sir George Simpson of 510 Gainsboro Ave., N. W., is detained at home. Sir L. B. Board is still held home on account of the pneumonia. After a brief illness Mrs. Louisa Lockley, has returned from Willvill, Ind. Mrs. Maggie Bailey Simms, of Waynesboro, Va., was called to the city on account of the death of her father, Mr. George Bailey. She was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Justin M. Simms. SAMARITANS HALL, 6th and BU- VAL STREETS PEK THA Monday evening, February 23rd, from 7 to 12. Tickets of admission TEN OENTS. Retrohumane Poem. You are cordially invited to inspect our hall and have an opening of pleasure. Benefit of the Western Bank No. 1. Now Running atthe i.e poareme eae @ Zunora 7 A Great Myinte Siper by esis McGrath | Two SYNOPSIS. Sete ASE, On hah Ae Ae eae age iiet father ty kiled Wim Kod tole. 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Tnenam Alt consgires to Neve John Storm mest [ the sume fate ar Ge Winter and he and Storm are oveteotie by goeettul fumes Zasora vaxee then proven that MeWin: tern own der trated and Kittel him and aaven Sinn fusinin hun af Iencheee “An ainwstot tiaws ng a suvmaring with a peer Nee pay whack en Arnis thrush water Harsarn Att sendy Zadors (oa pladmcrapher directs beneuth the Ib- venture bitetutory. art andere. the. tn venti tw Kili hee Zudora germ 8 NEI. and har ize #0 saved The heat ray Mar chine fa sistrayed, met the phatoxrapher, after aquitrel with fassain All, found Send ty the tree” CHAPTER vill. ‘The Hypnetic Power of Mr. Chang. OR a tong thine Zndura paced her rom, She war troubled That afternoon Storm — had Headed WH her no xtronels to Jenve her unele, marry, him and 50 far away that xhe tind Imen drawn ab: mont irresistibly toward her lover. From thine to tine she paused before some object. inaved It abstractedls and resumed her pactug. ‘The youth In her wanted to tty away and he bapoy. The thouzht of ber rant fortane of. ten terrified ter The moment the world found ont that she was 80 rich an helrees ale woutld be beset with al! sorta of devices by fortune hunters Exery grade of berxar would be at her doorstep More than that, she bad made nove strange enemies daring her abort enrcer ng a detective, and {f thene tndividonis, knew of her wealth they would leave no stone antarned to trap her and -bold her for some enormous ransom. A little money. “enough to take care of ber nnd supply ber simple necds—that was all abe cmared. But twenty mittiGns: tn doltarn ahe coulé hardly conpt that sum doring Rer allotted years! : ‘Sometimes nbe fonnd herseif on the Verge of askin her uncle, Hassar| All. to take the bulk of ¢ apd let ber, be free to do as whe thougbt Ot. But always she stepped back from the’ threshold of this act. Great dresme of Se ee aes dreamed of helping bomanity with these milliona, to boy fatms and con- vert them Into commonities for thrifty bat onfortunste prople. to bolld xreat| Boepitals, children’s plaseroomis, Khe Getermined that these dreams should Decome realities Just an soon as abe had accomplinbed the twenty tanks tm [posed upon her by her uncle. [ Sbe longed with all ber beart to £0 fo Jobn Storm, but ber word to ber uncle was like a herrier of atone. But toaight life had anddealy dere! oped a mew angie. She wan {3 love whe was young: abe had x.right to. happy. And she was fixbting # bate Detwoen loyalty to ber word and the wryings of ber heart. Besides. tt was Ws posetole that the very mest cose might be the lect. Several tines se for whe ted cocaped death by « batt. That ta feat did wet deter her. ve the was an cvurngeeny oso Men, Bat] Se G4 no care to court death when tho gientest Rapptacey te, the. Ghee enroned sedératy before 2 wie | a ae ay — _ | dow and pressed her pot forenead Aigninst the cool pane. Over the seat city hong that almost lurid baze—the mnlliiony lamps Chtown against the mky. Seddenly all healtanee eft her; ber Feeslution was formed, She walked quickly to, her writtyg déwk and nat down to write, Nhe would accept John Stokm's wen. She would go to him the very next day Let her uncle Meco furlous Was not ber lover more te her than (hit atrange man who was all that remained of kith or kin, whe followed strange cult per: fortud ‘extraordinney feata at one, time and the eerkest humbug at an: other? . { She woul run away on the morrow and nerrs John Storm And to pro - a pee “Sicep!™ she heard vaguely. “Bleep!” vide against ans wenkeniog to thin Fenolre she would write him at once to thts effect. - Downatalm the bell rang. Amed shumled to.the door. A vory beantifal ‘woman entered. “I should Ike to sce your master, Hassam Al.” sbe anid quletly. “Have you ao appointment?” asked the servant, bowing. “One scos. him at niebt.only by appointment.” “1 delieve he will sce me.” abe re- piled. with 2 alogular smile. “An- ‘pounce Mme. Da Roy.” * - | Yee, madame.” The servant’ re- turned directly. “Follow me; madame. ‘The master will receive you.” “1 thought #0.” Flaanam All stood by bis crystal as abe entered. At a algo the secvant took bimself off. “I waa not expecting you, madame.” said Hassam Alt, bot be smiled as be spoke. j “Mr. Chang conld not come ' Of course you know that you can trast oor organization.” . "Yes. Bat did Chang confite ta your” An almost imperceptible trowa fitted across Hamam All's face He Kew the Caucasian women: be was wary in trosting thew with vital ve crete, A Chinaman, on the other and. was like sand: he absorbed bet sever ware back = secret. Still, im the pree ent case. be was boesd to trust this women. : A quirter of iim bowr pesed, when’ she took ber Ieave, leaving Hamam Au quite satisfied. He was ressenstty vere thet Zedera wesld be taben of bie bands: this time and foo maznet which wonld totally belly off the ér tectives to Mantetins. ‘Bot these war o burt te %. it was guing to cust mee’ @. We ovtitel gull wens mane bentvem lower, for We eo queayted suyttink bet oud Siv bir appre Tou mene mere med ar pew F wisest orlentul-in New York. | Amou the various races which In [ natit tiv varth ogc Is lene, know ‘than the Chivers One beara a tal | now and then thincomes down to th Hconnt. and those who know China be Here alt that cores down to the coaxt It fe only the casual touftst who t wkeptical. ‘There wax ft certain Bont who thought he had dicovered gun powder: thery was a man who thourb bo had discovered glazing for potters there wax a German pbyaleinn whe honestly belleved thnt he hud dscover ed hyhuetlers, N11 fallactes of opihton ‘The Chinere had trivented these thing: or Blscovered them, long befyre th Christian orn. Wa Chang bad taught Massa i all be knew ttwut hepmotlam, and bsp potism vitally concerns Zudorn in thls eplnode of her adventures. A DIC uf Rteedines which be Inherent tna dFlentala—on the part of Wu Chans proved his ulthnate undoing, Wn Chang spoke English with ce ainrkuble tuency Onis in his den dle he telapee tote the guttural of hia na Use tongue, Men npplled to ble arts as men applied’ to Hawam AML Thore lived) in New York at this day n wealthy old bachelor who hind adopt edn nen ‘The old man wax theolate: Jy alone tn the world. and thie kind of int bax 4 horror of aging And hmeins strange divide Ile mones. Aw this that anfoset hie father sreathy. Ti tore byt the Se ae an n hopeless jo, av AP Alin hind not Porwsined a vertain amount of vanity Zadora would hare vanished from the face of the earth, Curloun, San't tt. how these things dovetail? ‘The tos of an envelope in Singapore may be the cause of the ultimate death of a man tn Chicago, Mille had had dreams of this boy be coming m tent orate, eventually & xtateaan, Just ax nu ordinary father would bare dreamed over the career of a real non. Mills had one day bens! ged about the bos’ proweny in this Stretton and foulishly entered the boy In nn eraturieal contest ‘Then _ be, started ont to hant for some one to coaet thie tery anid Woally eame to the door of « Chinaman! Yea, for m price Wu Chan woul! make an orator of the bey Cor yur nicht, This wae nll Mille destred to came hin vanity. The! prive was rather stift, but he agreed. | Wa Ching brought the bey ander he nell af Uspmatism and put a bell | fant xpeceh on the tor's tongue. Alt hat seas osceseary now was the pive| ence of Ww Chang at the content. Un- fortunately for Chang. this night wan! Jone to n.far more Inerative apd dan-| serous misalon. You cannot throw ro atorien with two bands.” Zudora had written Storm, aod er- rything wax prepared for her Aight. From n erack In the door Hnxxam Alt’ | pan witched her curfously an abe! ecked her belongings. Junt enongh of lothes t0 see her at her Journey's end. storm wan to meet her With an auto. She wan to leave her room by way of Patent rope. The Windy servant returned to nts nanter to report that the memsahib ran getting ready to run away. And Ineanm All wet bia ncence immediate- y. Wa Chang wan oxhered in half an our Inter. nnd he very quietly changed ontuings with the Binda. “Remember.” warned Hamam All, if abe seca you or notices anything rrong ahe iii} escape.” “Trust mq” smiled the Chtoaman. It was growing dark by now. A treet ght spurted soveral times and ben blazed brilliantly. Zodora heard be rumble of her lover's automobile bd pulled up the window without aking 8 sound. Sbe gave the whis- @ agreed opon, and Storm and his paoffeur managed to get the rope up > ber. She fastened it securely to the Dot of-tbe bed. : Not for a moment did she feel any ret. She bad for bet ancle a cor. iz fondness, bot. due‘to hie reneral nldness, it had never developed tanto sal Jove. ‘The only thing she realty d regret leaving bebind was the car| er pigeon. It was.too late now. ! Why, abe thought. bow strangely the: orm began to appear! Was it fog eat-| de? What was this strange and ue-| countable desire to laugh, to fling | er things about? Seted with a wed-} a= and terrible knowiedgs, she tried | turn. It wan impossibie te stir! ' “Beep!” sbe heard vaguely. -“Sieaw!” § Zedori's eyes closed ireatetsaiy, We | bane stepped in treat of het amd] weched her forebead. The man's ows | wetped was covered WHR sweat, for | ts bed been 5 tremendous eserticn | | will power. Had the git boom atte | tern be would bere falled ctgmaity. |. “Re a child,” be whispered. “Be al aid. Kew you same see eves. i ithent a enre fa the Yeo aod wow di ae 1 “Ob, Fos, Lee's CET Sateen bof m te inegt. f wre Chane visto! wo tho pastas f her lever and tad & bel 4 a ce EB i A Py pate orp. Sie syr -Rnateg Baan es Ma ‘window. Ste locked down cululy ure ber loverenq never. made any ‘aig that she eaw him. If ft teed beow tat er be’ mig baye noted the stentnes of ber book, Une inaatural pabor. “Wht ia*beaven's name Res bay DencdY" murmured the distracted 10¥ er, At any moment Hassan Al! migt ‘Appear upoe the scene. Btill He walted Chang left the room. 7 It ix donef” be sald to Hassam All “It in something I'vo never been abl to accompliah. Sbu ta Fery atrong men tally.” “Bot at that moment abe was tbink tng of Jove," sald the oriental “Nov wo hate no time ta warte.upon din cusalug thp ecleuce of the thing. Tha young man may at any time becom surpicloun ond brenk in, Let us ac at once. You sball for the present be como Wo Chang, apd 1 xball remat the servant of Hansnin All, You have makeup. Come! Hurry?” Jn a Seay sbort time the two return ed'to Zudora, ‘They put her bat xpd coat on and led her fron! the room. “Sturm Sablb lias gone around to the rear!” cried the real nervnnt. “Good!” anid dix double. To Har. sau All be sald: “You sin the er Teare now by the front door. I'll han: ‘die your man.” “Do nothing violent." sald Haxsam AM, who, though he rently deere the death of Storm, Wid-not caret base the .atfair take piace on. the premires. ‘There was, an had) been stated before, no love lost between hit amt the poltce. He followed Chans’s ndvice withont mero ate aud wax wnuzly inside n tax! with Zudora when Chang opened the foor to Storm. He made as thouzh to close the door again, but Storm was tou quick, He rusted iy fonrlensts Snd.gas Chang clised tn, dunk bim aside before the Chinatuan could put the trick In hla Iz to throw Storm. The lore rurhet headlong up the atales (0 Zador’s quern, eww the rope attached to the bed. the ault eave, but no Zidora, tasxam AM badd telckesd him Down the states he rahe, wild with aner Chang nwalted bin, but fora secopt time he was not quick cuourh. The lover sanbed t=. tw house, to be In- forped by Die exeited chouifeur that a Chinaman aul Ztoru bad entered a tax) which bud stot opposite and had bertt driven uveay. “Which way?” Straight aboa* “Come on then! And drive tke the well! Did you get the Heense num. ber? “Tou dark to see, but there was ermek tn thee tall Lamps Te war a, wld snne chane, for they aerer came within wight of a rot ain with a erick tn tL But there wa one thing that Jobn Storm knew = f wushe in the Way of harm befell bis eecethwart be sould KIN Hassam All with his Wire ands, “Suppose we go down to Chinatown and takes try? muzgestesd (he chat eur. : A. igeal soon: “My diat uf inquiry they lonrned that Chinaman and a wenn had bed crn enteriiu: Wa Chang's ton shop. Mtorm walle! for orer an hour, and an © onn came ont he concinded that ls wasn case fer professional de- cetiver, and he atrilghitway Kought heir aid, Together they went over | he records of Chinatown, but Wo ‘hang wax not @ tous tan, There mt never bern any oplam amuggling | Te wan one of the few Chioamen | jown Iu that crime Infested hole who tood clean. npon the police records. | tll, thes were willing fo maken thor. | Rh investization, —- Hraxaam Ail, atfll dinguised as Chang, nteret the supposed tea merchant's jure and found Mme. Do Roy awalt: | nx him. The woman at Orxt thought ' im to be Chang himself untif he ox- | lated “Can sou bring her ont of the | rance?” whic avked, “That's the enalest part of it. But here's no newt. She wost remalo tn | nis conditfon until long after yoo are 2 vt at nea 1 don't care If she never ” omea out uf It." ! “You're ih xtmnmge kind of oncle.” * vosed ihe woman, wonilering what ° ran Dehind thts apontural attitade of be man. 3 “That's mj business," said Hassam IW grmMy. “Now, find me « room for ® he girl. 1 um not going to trast ‘to ick” 3 “There isn wailed room. ‘The meth- ¢ 4 of getting In and ont of it te se S ie t “I rather tetteve you can trust me ith’ tbe secret”+ said Bassam ait } rimaty. af “Follow me, then.” iz Zodora had to be ted. She was phys. © ally capable as ever, bot her mind , as temporarily blank. Once in the | alled room, nbe sat down plactdly. fer the manner of persona hypno-, * lee Pete i pie a ha “I rather believe you can trust me with’ the secret": anid Hascam All sity. “Follow me, then.” Zodora had to be led. She was phys- ically capable as ever, bot her mind Was temporarily blank. Once in the walled room, she sat down placidly. after the manner of persons hypno- tised, and stared at her hands, It was all Hassam Ali could do to resist the Gesire to bring ber out of the" trance and tell her what was, xoing to bap- pen, bat hie timp of caution was ab- normal She might efcepe somewhere aldag the route, and that would wind up the affairs of a certain mystic who for a commivsion advised old ladies when ‘and bow to tuvest their for: tunes, = commission which, by the way, evvally comstated of at lonst half ef the sume invested. The real Wa Chong to the mean while left the heage of Mascam Ai at wins, might be ciligd the parcbetagical moment. Ten astguses Meter the beese wae under the explentge of a piste cipthes mar. My. Chang. oftedle tes miurepent. wis Gotvun to ene of the RPE Heol: hos SRST eoqeNNT of, Ge. wanted on oS, Destien St aetel wes cute Guat, the ReB the adopted son of MES wen to cute ho balllinnt agen thet eanie aight Rw a 2 comay weet om 1 up ts’ otevedy {oak gee: ‘mon emes. . “SOeru wens Tos bab toot. ot Wrbere be cael faci tod oye wt te bey and patientiy fie bis de bet, ft must have berm exceedingly fn Dutineas fer a mind’ en Neen’ at o oy LIEN AHS ER oe a : i ee i eae ln ty ae c ee JS | es Bei SER Rar ce ‘gaa 2 Tee. | “ | a a She Felt the Smart and Sting of Flam ; ‘Upon Her Wrists. : 1] Wa Chaug’s to d¢ forced to Uaten t |] the onttortcat mpoutings of greet J young fatellecte, - ut s Chinaman wii {tarry unull the reaper comes If ther | ix eon at the end, ‘| When the boy finally came forward, | DiinkIng and frightened, ot SMe to 2 moment thought Wu Chang bad be. | trayed him, But all at once the boy {seemed to xtraigbten up. and, present: _ ty he bezan to speak, The voice wun . anpleaxapt and monotonour. No byp- * notinn: in the world coukl change that. | There were nome wurprined people I that ball, you any be sure, espectally among the Judges, From the audl- ence there came ‘occanionally a ripple of applause. The nent began to form upon Wu Chang's foreicad. ‘Two such exploits tn one day were terribly eB: Frvating. When the affalr was over the atifoned dgure of the Chinaman rvinxal. He found some dliBiculty, too, In opening bin thin, wpering hands, which had beeu Ugutly clincbed under the concentration of bis wlll, “Ate you satistiod?” he whispered rather weakly (o Mille, who saf next to hin, “1. ain, unit 1 will keep to the letter of my bargain.” “Aod never brag again about your ron'a oratorieal powers. I doubt If could told blin agntu.” Milllv dushed, but for all that he wax mighty glad to be bigh ond dry on shore. He wonld mend the boy on a long tour. Feople would forget. Chang entered Milin" automoblte, and a plain clothes man recognized ble face and finmediately warned Storm and the athes atlee to watch Chang's houre. Chanz ordinarily would bave Kept useas fron bin home, but her was weak and thred sud wanted—nay, need wde-the noluce of las’ poppy pipe. Ardving hame te at onve conferred with Mnssain AN and was glad to learn that Zadom had been confined to the walled room, At dawn Mme. Du Hos would convey ber to the ship that was to antl for Cherlours, Frou there they wonld drop down to Mar- refiles and xatl for Hongkong... Zudore Tminor would never be heard of again, “T think that before 1 upoke 1 wit nee the young lady.” said Chang, xentl- ing. Tasim All smiled too. In bis mind's eye he wan countiug vp the enormous pyramids of gold coin, “He would butld « himself a paince cloxe to farix, and no prince ty Hindustan would rival him in luxury, Yet Inxury would reqoire the spending of these pyramids, and atrnizitway hin enthuaiasm grew cold nad died. | “I hene nutomoblies.” .be naid wud- denly and with apprehension, : Chang placed a hand to bis ear. “And they are stopping fa froat! 1 will take care of the str! and sce that you play the part of Wo Chang well. This {x n critical moment. It may: be the pollee. Speak sofy and ‘kotow as often an they axk questions, Your makeup In this Nght will fool them.” “No; you remain and tet me go to Zudorat “Fool! I am master bere. Do as? say" ‘With that Wo Chang ran toward the alcove behind whieh was Zodora’s pris- on. Hassam All swallowed with dim- culty. He was courageous only when he war sure of results, Aime, Du Roy. had already vanished. He was alone. , Md roused bie will and subdued bis | shaking knees. A bold front for afew | moments, and the difficulties would be rarmonnted. ‘The dell beran to ring violently, and | immediately after “there followed « | faronk harimering —Btorm, fortous | with anger and fear. : iP “That won't do any good, Mr. ¢ Btorm.” ndvised one of the détectives | “There'll be better hammeriag than , that presently—that ts, if Chang bie , nad a band in this abduction.” yy “Bot they may be horting bert” ‘ “That! make the hammering all the better.” grimlg. “Ha, some one at the 't door! Old Chang himeeit, 1 ao pay.” I ‘The door «pened, and what lected t ke the-biand fare of a cultivated, t Chtnemen peered out at them from t the half opened Geer. . “Gentionsn, what is this?" » Ht meems, Mr. Chang. that we wii] pave jo search yout heese, Orders.” | wand tor whet,” ff ‘This gentivmam bere.” ond the o-| eetive in@iesesd Sterm, “vistes that poo abéuated 6 young indy this oven- | ey Saad Het ain ts deme.” - 2 low Gurtts tllowed thts ctnte:| mdse. “Tims aweniag | wee 4 thal ® fterm on6 the Getectiven” anowdnd |= ‘this, sind swravmed “ebeet : te { boune, ,There.was a goad dnpt-of-un- , noreasary racket. , 48, Soren ep pum j tar the alcove be seeped shert, soe: ‘ yinred that be hed, beang a ery. He tntqued intently, bet beard ne farther sound. Halt 22 hour iter the detec. tives trooped beck to their taxis, chetr previews convictions that Wa. Obang wae. a goody Chinaman strocger than ever. Seas Ye - “She ts tn that house, said’. Btorm: stubbornly, “and 1'll get bér oat alone If necenwary.” ig ‘The detectives shrogeed compli fogly and took solace in cigara® | Storm had heart a cry. ‘This te what. had taken place bebind the sicove: Chang. curious to’ learn what Zodora , would do. brought her back to her senten and, renvouably secare fd hls, haven from ontuide interforem. parm ed bin bandn before her face. Over bie xhoulger peered his axsitant, bis beady oxen blinking at the beauty of the prisoner. Slowly Zsidora returned to the world, The facex looking down at ber were aufficlent. She guve a ces. And thin rry Storin heard. Instantly, Chang nnd bis axaixtant xetzed ber and bound and gacend her. Then the oriental tried to throw her bnek nto the trace. hut ne| failed, for Zudorn wax ‘not taken un- awares thin time. She was bewildered and could ‘nut dream what had hap.) pened “xine that moriient she tnd started for the rope which hung from ber boudotr window. The two witle fourht for n minute, and then Wal Chank stepped back, aigbins. Ge hna! wanted foo much power that mixbt. | The girl's 13!nd wns now. free, how: ver well ber body was bound. ( 0 he left her for the might. At inwn nho would be on the Ithzh sean. | Tbe Booner the better, no tar ax he was uncerned, When that ner drew out . ot her slip Maxam. di! would place | p bls hands 1.000 abining diska of old. But‘zhe Roxwer to a telepboae mall at dawn dismayed Wu “Chang. Phe Mner would not sail until 4 tn the + fternoon. Ships do not alwasa sal! 2 xcheduled time. : As for Storm, he did not {ake bis Jotbes of at all, and he was some bing of a wreck when he atz n meager, renkfant. Ife bail ‘ucard Zastorn calt "| or help nx plainly ax if be find ween er. Me thought and thonzbt and nally, recalling certain curkns fea- } urex in Wu Chang's houre, fell upon 3 chat he belleved to be the true solu: t ion, A Mecret oom bebind that al: “f ofc, from whence the volce had s ome! Me relzed the telephone and t outed out half a dozen grumbling de- & ceures, Storm was a coming power: & “turn of the wheet might life him to P ne porition of district attorney. and ne dvtvetives wanted to be on the ® bt ile of hin Ip that event. 8 There was a bit of bluff tn bik dec- § ration that ke Ind been myateriour- F apprines! of the fact that there was bidden room in Wo Chang's bourne jd that Zudorn wan there: The detec: f en were willl nkeptical, y To return to Zudora. She wax suite Y Chang hind left ber—bound, KoKRed, siplexs. ‘There wan only one bit of & nxolation ber mind was her own. 2 rough a sinall, high window—out- } antly Kiting the appearance of be izing to the next boure—the aun 4g mired In brightly and warmly. She zed about eagerly, endeavoring ¥atn- to flod something wharp upon whieh §| ¢ comld naw her bonda, The room © | i ‘ /. | MM | ee Py so bi pe Bin, Sopa NPE dO aa eae? A Wise Wied WVaHestes Roce, bad been .and evidently still was kind of seclusion for Wu Chang when he desired to pursue bis modes of cal- tare, “There was n table, upda which stood a reader's magnifying glass at- tached to n frame, Quickly Zadora calculated the rays of the #un-as the inspiration came to her. Bbe was quite oblivious to the nudden sounds coming faintly through the wall.” If sbe could but reach that table! Fortunately abe was‘not boand to the chair. She rose slowly and took short little jumps, ba}- ancing herself nicely. {f abe stumbied and fell goodby Uberty. It took three minutes to reach the table. Witb ber elbow she bitched the glass s0 that the som fell fall upon ft. Instantly the book, benpath emitted « bit of xmokr. Zadore turned abort so that this borning rey became focused Upon the bempen conis, Sbe felt the ewert and sting of Same upon her wrists. Rut thet was nothing. Tbe ray was xbriveling the rope; abe cos: smelt! it: She strained suddenly at her wriste—and wae free! Phetot shoes! % | Ge lstrncd. A pounding begun to take place agninet the wal cutuida. Hier Weer hed found her! Bere wag the descr hed ceteernd VEEreistety thi theta end s thee | be of wertere cosesé Chmme bet bts enper mek te Soteg on toot bt Barty. ote Ss haus wb over ie 2 Fee Shae ‘tay found ‘the Heer of Wr Conte's farts taoe ands nt cian of oplow—aod ‘stil! for- thee below a hig rein halt Gijed wich | thie Gerretsen af the drag. : * Later Unesam’ AK eat ta his: mystic veo and heard from ber own lps Siederg's rewartable adveature. “My child, you tad better sive wp the sereggte, In come manner Chang han heard of your fertane and kidnaped | yeu tor ransom. Walt wath: you are tweaty-oue. You will still be youne eaough to matry Storm.” -~" “I have cunclatied to: me.te the eod. Tam determined to sotve these twenty: Hédlen becaund—well; Secavea I bexit to find these adventures the moat fan- sipating things in the world.” “Very well, wy chikt, but remembe? that I have warned you.” No sooner was shé fone from tho room than be st to plan some new deviltry. Bat for two weeks be.trom- Died. Chang mizbt speak. But Chang never spoke. His bit of work for Tinesam Alt wan of amnll consequence compared with other erimten udearthed within that fortuight. Wo Chang war not: born to die In a cell. A litthe buck pellet in hin maodarto'n riog’ opened tho way. out. . 170 ne coxtixvEn.) IN FLANDERS St Omer Describes the Fight- “Ing aS Severe ALLIES [AKE TWO TOWNS Roasting on Roulers. A now battle is raging in Flanders, according 16 advices from. northern France, aud the fighting ts reported to de of a violent character. A dispateh from St. Omer, Just be- low the Belgian border, and sont by way of Paris, says the Germans aro drivgtix up reinforcements trans ferred from the district about Rhetmn and that they are belog hurled axainat the allies’-dines. Tho German lonson, are wevere. The hospitals at Roulors are overcrowded, and tho wounded pour fn night and day. . The village of Middickerke bas been Almont destroyed by the fire of the allies. The dispatch says the town of. Masa Lua, changed banda. several Umes, and that most of the piace is in rulos. Nolther the Fretieh nor the Gorman offictale report records a mccond bat- Ue on a-large arale in Flasders, al {hourh arin reports the bombard- mnent of Ypren and Furnes, without riviog any details. The unofficial ats- patch from St. Umer, however, wan Apparently pasted by’ the Paris cen- sorstilp. The Helginn towns of Pamezen- dacte and Langemarck have been cap- tured by the allies, accordihg to a dinpatch received In Amsterdam from Sluln. 1t maya that the Bolglan troops took there places with tho assitance of a large force:of Rriush troopm ‘af- ter a hard fight With the Germans. Langemarck fs north and Paxn: chendacle northeaxt of Ypres. Their occupation would imperil tho Germua army whose center reata on Roulers. Fight In Dense Forest. The report of the progress of tho war givcn out by the Freach war of- fico follown: “In Belgium there wero totermlt- tent artillery exchanges and Ypree and Furnes were bombarded. Tho Bel- ring artillery dentroyed a farm, the defender of which fed. “On the road between Bethune and Ta Bansee we reoccupted a mill where the enemy had Ancceeded fn foatalling ‘Dimaclt., “Sotssona was bombarded with pro- fectiles, the purpose of which was to ‘eet the city on fire. On all the Alsne front and io Champagne, our artillery effectively engaxod the batteries of the Germans. 2 “In the Argonne tho fight which hax developed around Bagatelle continned in one of the most dense parts of the forest, and conrequeatly became quite confused. Fach aide, generally speak- ing, was successful in maintaining its Unes. The mon engaged in this Aight, Feb. 7, did not exceed three or four battalfons (3000 or 4000 mes) on each eide. During Monday only one French battalion (1000 men) was engaged. “In Lorraine and {n the Vosxes there were artillery engaxements.” FIRE IN SOUTH BETHLEHEM Flames Destroy Hetel and Damage Stores In Heart ef City. Caftrey's hotel, at Third aad New streets, n the heart of South Bethle Yew, Pa, was badly damaged by Are whoee offgin te a mystecy. Several riores in the bailing werr amared by fire and water. The bulk fag was saved, bat the contests are s tetal loss. A The Structure ts near a whole Boch et wooden buildings. The Boeth Beth Jebew and the Bethiobem fre éepart meats saved adjolaing property afte: ao hand ght. Tha loon to ihe Caffres |property, deducting. laseraace, will be ‘Ghout $15,000. Owners of the Devnet stores wil! looe several theusand dol tare, ‘ Sigeey Somataes Catenin rer. eaieed cisen to Sess bemoan wait to the" bess : r= tester yo: men, ; eee and Neutral Vessels Advised by Berlin to Avoid English Channel, Under Parll of Destruction. Germany has officially promulgated what is virtually a blockade order against France, and warned the ships of all neutral nations to avoid the north and west coasts of that country. This statement supplements the announcement given out by the admiralty, which was wirelessed to the United States and other neutral nations, declaring that after Feb. 18, all waters surrounding the British islands would be considered in the war zone and that not even neutral merchant vessels would be free from danger of attack, presumably from German submarines. The last statement, however, seemingly goes farther than the announcement of Thursday, in that it intimates German activity, against shipping in the English channel at once. The reason for this step, as given in a statement issued by the chief admiral of the staff of the German navy, is that the kaiser intends to make a determined effort to prevent the transportation of Lord Kitchener's now British army to the Continent. The order follows: "Enland is on the eve of shipping numerous troops and large quantities of war material to France. Against these English transports we will proceed with all the means of warfare at our disposal. "Neutral shipping is earnestly cautioned against approaching the northern or the western coasts of France, as in these waters such vessels would run the serious danger of being confounded with ships whose purposes are wartlike. "The best route for the North sea is around Scotland." United States May Protest Germany's declarations placing the waters bordering on the British Isles and France in the war zone and virtually declaring a "blockade" against these countries, was taken up at the cabinet-meeting in Washington. The stand taken by Germany is regarded as one of the most serious developments of the war thus far afield of the United States, and what action, if any, is to be taken by this government remains in doubt. In certain official quarters the view is expressed that ground is lacking for a protest, since no objection was raised by this government when the North sea was strewn with mines by Great Britain and Germany several months ago. From other quarters it was indicated that the so-called "blockade" will be protested against, and that an official statement of the position of this government is being prepared by the state department. Say Old People Were Murdered. That five old men and three old women were deliberately chloroformed to death as they slept in the German Odd Fellows' home on the Tucurro road, near Yonkers, N. Y., and that they were murdered because their age and general debility was too much of a care and that their deaths were announced simply as due to old age, is the belief of Coroner James P. Dunn. The coroner told of his conviction in this regard after he had concluded the first session of the Inquest which he is making into the eight deaths at the home. He immediately issued warrants for the arrest of three porters at the home whom he had interrogated, and for Adam Bangert, the superintendent of the home. All were locked up as material witnesses without ball. Immigration Bill: Killed. The attempt to pass the immigration bill in the house over the veto of President Wilson has failed, the vote being 261 in favor of overriding the veto and 136 against it. Two members voted present, and with his attendance 266 ayes would have been necessary to give the necessary two-thirds. The measure falls, therefore, by five votes. The vote came at the end of a six-hour debate. The discussion was sharp in the extreme at times. Such Democratic leaders as Representative Underwood, of Alabama; Hay, of Virginia, and Sisson, of Mississippi, voted to override the president's veto, while Representative Mann, of Illinois, and other prominent Republicans argued and voted with the president. Only a few Democrats voted to sustain the president's veto. The bodies of Mrs. Lixie Drake, sixty-five years old; Mrs. Irene Spencer, thirty-five years old, and her daughter, Gertrude Spencer, twelve years old, were found in their beds at Salamanca, near Buffalo, N. Y. Their heads had been crushed with a sledge hammer. Coroner Martin believes that the victims have been dead since last Sunday. There is no close to the shayers. The bodies were found by two young men who called at the house. Live Stock Prices. CHICAGO—HOOZ higher; wheat and butchers, $6.55,7.66; good heavy, $8.56,7; rough heavy, $8.19,8.66; milk, $8.55,7; plum, $6.15,8; bunt, $7.55,7; honey, $8.00,7; milk, $8.00,7; Czar's Forces Are Moving Steadily Forward in the Carpathians—Kalaier's Losses Heavy. The Russians are meeting more stubborn resistance in East Prussia since the Germans received reinforcements there. At the same time German troops appear to have been withdrawn from at least one position in the Carpathians. On the right bank of the Vistula Russian light horse is sweeping northward on a wide front, mounted and fighting with bayonets atoot. These troops have driven the Germans out of the villages commanding the main roads toward the German frontier. Nauroge, one of the villages, is only twelve miles from the German frontier and about twenty-eight miles east of Thorn. In the Carpathians the Russians are moving steadily forward on the right wing. The Lukowina movement is plainly sporadic, the Russian objects here having been to draw as many as possible of the enemy's troops eastward pending an advance of the Russian right. General Mackensen's army has ceased to take risks since its left wing was forced adrift on Friday from the strong position at Gamillon, north of the junction of the Buzura and the Viatula rivers. Orders to avoid more heavy slaughter must have been imperative. In the final stage of the last assault on Bolnow the Germans abandoned several field guns. This defensive seems connected with the substantial movement made through Lentschitz to Thorn of the troops intended to replace the important German formations, being moved again into East Prussia. The Germans are using hundreds of squadrons of motor trucks, each one carrying twenty men with three days' rations, that cover about sixteen miles an hour. All signs strengthen the belief that Field Marshal von Hindenburg will next try battering ram tactics on the northern line in East Prussia, between Thistl and Finsterberg. Very great reserves are being pressed behind this gap, where the Russians on Saturday repulsed an attempt at the offensive by the easternmost German column, which a week ago was being forced out of the forest region. The kabar is said to have reached East Prusia for this new development of the winter campaign. The right flank of the German army already is threatened by the Russians strength in the extreme north of Poland, where cavalry is now spread over aside front. The Russians arrested and broke through an important German position beside Lake Djela, west of Rypin, and captured besides prisoners, an immense quantity of barbed wire dispositions. The growing strength of both sides forebodes very heavy battles between the Polish frontier and Koenigsberg. and Polish frontier and Koenigberg German losses in the battle of Borjmow are estimated at 27,000 men, in dispatches received in Petrograd from Warsaw. Of these at least 15,000 were killed, according to the correspondent of the Novoe Vremya, who was at the battle front in the conflict that raged along the line through Borjmow, Goumine and Wolaczy-Lowieczka, who ntlle Germans attempted to cut their way through the Russian lines in order to approach Warsaw. STATE POLICE DEFY GUNS Rush Thleves' Quarters in Palo Alto and Arrest Four. Pottaville, Pa., Feb. 10.—Although robbers with shotguns pointed at their heads warned them to keep off state police rushed into a Palo Alto house and found it to be the headquarters of a gang of thieves who have committed numerous burglaries in this section lately. The house was filled with booty from cellar to garret. William Geiger, alleged leader of the gang, is only seventeen years old. The other arrested are Louis Trylo, Joseph Hardy and Domincie Parry. State Trooper I. F. Spang and Corporal William S. Everett headed the police who rushed the house, disregarding the weapons aimed at them. The robbers did not have the nerve to fire. Rail Mill In Operation. The Pennsylvania Steel company placed its rail mill at the Steelton, Pa., plant in operation, after a suspension, on a trial order for 1000 tons of rails for the Pennsylvania railroad. Throo hundred men returned to work. Where the Earth stands still Where the Earth Stands Still. "The dearest university in the world"—such is the unequivable distinction of El Azhar, the great Modern university at Cairo. This "institution of learning" schools its 11,000 students on the Tolemale theory of the universe, which makes the earth the center of the solar system, around which the sun and stars revolve. But a passion for real education has begun to sweep north Africa. Schools are meeting even in the desert, wherever a teacher can be found. The schoolgirl, formerly an unknown quantity, now numbers 25,000 strong in Egypt. North Africa has two mighty colleges, Gordon Memorial and Amstur. In modern schools 18,000 children are being trained for the criminality of traffickers. The day of El Azhar is pending — Wilfred Price in World Outlook. THE NORTHD PLANET; RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Agents' Contest. VOTING COUPON. Name..... Address..... (GOOD FOR 15 VOTES.) WOLF BROTHERS' Improved 1918 Model, 8 pz. Solid Brass Most Nail Straightener and Dryer Comb. 50 inches. 72 in. Actual Length of Comb is 9 inches. Made of solid brass and has full serrated teeth. Solid solid and durable this Comb will hold hand longer than any other Comb on the market. Other Combes are as good are advertised for $1.00. Our Policy is Fifty Comb, and Our John Lany Attachment Free When ordering by mail and $9-and-change for postage. Agents Wanted. WOLF BROGS. 1216 M. Gousto Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY. Copenhagen dispatches say that the Germans are planning to invade England and that troops have been concentrated at Wilhelmshaven. Berlin dispatches say that shipping has been warned of the approaching activity in the North sea. The French official report says that the German attacks on the center of the line and in the Argonne have been repulsed. Petrograd claims that the German drive against the Russian lines to the west of Warsaw have been halted and that the Russians have made some gains in that region. On the other battle fronts the Russian official, dispatch says that the Russians are now progressing. Berlin claims that French attacks in the region of Perthes have been repulsed and that at other points along the battle front there is a full in the fighting. THURSDAY. Germany has warned all neutral nations that the English channel will be included in the war zone after Feb. 18, and that all neutral vessels are ordered to avoid those waters. The Dutch coast also is included in this war zone. The Japanese cruiser Asama has been wrecked 250 miles from Port Bartolomeu, off the California coast, and American warships are rushing to the aid of the vessel. Berlin reports the capture of three lines of trenches along the front and the repulse of French and British attacks in the western zone of war. Paris alpaches say that the allies have gained considerable advantage in the artillery duels. Petroviral official reports say that the German attacks to the west of Warsaw continue, but that they are less violent and have all been repulsed. In the other battle zones the Russians report considerable progress. FRIDAY. Germany issued a virtual blockade order against the coasts of France announcing that every effort is to be made to prevent the transportation of British troops to the Continent, and serving warning that neutral ships entering those waters would incur danger of destruction. Estimates placed before parliament provide for a British army of 3,000,000 men. German almmen who raided Verdun were brought down and one was executed. Paris announces. The kaiser's aviators also have been busy in Belgium. The allies have captured a German trench near Arrays. Petrograd reports that the Russian troops are taking the offensive against the Germans west of Warsaw, and that progress has been made in the invasion of both East Prussia and Hungary. SATURDAY Germany's order declaring the waters bordering on France and the British Isles in the "war zone" does not apply to American ships carrying cargoes of food for civilians, according to the German ambassador in Washington. A quarter million men, with 1000 heavy guns, are engaged in what is described as the "heaviest battle of the war" between the Bruna and the Rwaka rivers, west of Warsaw. In East Galicia the Austrian forces are holding their own, but farther west the Russians are advancing through the Carpathians. The Russians advancing toward East Prussia have been checked. Afrenen from the allies' army have bombed Colonne, Germany. Other fighting along the western battle line has been confined to artillery engagements. SUNDAY. Petrograd diplomatess say that a terrific battle fighting in the Carpathians along the Shore-Stroik line and that the Russians continue to make progress. The Germans have rushed reinforcements to the East Prussian front to halt the drive toward Thera. Emperor William visited the Silestan troops in the trenches on the Poland front. Germany and America are cooperating for the relief of the starvation in territory held by the Carpathians in western Poland. Berlioz and first official diplomatess say that most troops along the battle front are in zone Artil. Waraw dispatches say the German attack west of that city has ceased, and that part of the Germans are retreating. The kaiser is beloved to be shifting troops north to stop the Russian force invading East Prussia. Petrograd announces that the Russians in the Carpathians, are slowly making headway. French troops captured a trench from the Germans near Carency, according to a report from Paris. A heavy infantry fight is in progress in the Arsonne. Premier Asquith announced in the houses of commons that the British losses in killed, wounded and missing, in the fighting in France, has amounted to 104,000. Ambassador Page has sent to the state department a report of the Lusitania's act in holsting the American flag, but has received no official report from Great Britain. Secretary Bryan refuses to make any comment on the incident. General Obregon Retakes Capital. Mexico City is again in the hands of the forces of General Curranza, who while acting as the provisional president of the government, was forced to leave Mexico City early in November under the threat of the advancing troops of Generals Villa and Zapata, who disagreed with his policies. The new authorities have reestablished order in the capital and a general feeling of confidence prevails in the city. It has been established that the shooting which occurred in the main plaza, before the National Palace, when General Alvaro Obregon; at the head of the Curranza forces, reached that place, was done by salpers, hidden on the roof of the cathedral. General Obregon said that the shots undoubtedly were directed at him and that it was an attempted assassination. The perpetrators have not been captured. Three soldiers were killed and a number wounded during the firing. All the saloons are closed as the result of an order by the authorities, but the commercial houses and banks will resume business immediately. Late Thursday afternoon and in the early evening 20,000 additional Carranza troops, consisting of three branches of arms, entered the capital and marched to the quarters selected for them by General Obregon. The Zapatita troops, who left the city on the appearance of General Obregon and his forces, have retreated to the southward. The German Empire. A century ago there was to German emplore only a number of German states whose aggregate wealth and income were probably less than those of France. Now united Germany is estimated to possess an income of nearly $10,000,000,000 and accumulated wealth of about $90,000,000,000. During the century Germany's population has grown from 24,000,000 to more than 37,000,000, or 180 per cent. Have you lost anything? Don't sit down and mourn with a "I'll never get it back" expression on your face. Cheer up! 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Per- Scalp Specialist of is astonishing the derful art of growing my beat advertise- tments my hair two years. It had re- four (four Inches) for 15 for my hair I am of others, and will Matchless Scientific My treatment stopping off excess salt THREE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS - WEEKDAYS Leave Byd N. Jr. N., 6:00 P. M. for Frederickbury. Arrive Byd N. Jr. N., 6:30 P. M. for Ankhel. Arrive Byd N. Jr. N., 7:00 P. M. for Ankhel. Arrive Byd N. Jr. N., 8:30 A.M. for Ankhel. *Daily* † Weekdays, 18 Sundays only. † Commencing January 8th, 1975. All arrives to or from Byd Street Station stop at Elkton. Departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK Schedule in Effect December 1, 1914. Leave Bray Street Station, Richmond, FOR NORFOLK: 9:00 A.M. 12:00 P.M. 14:10 P.M. FOLLINGHURST AND THE WEST 16:15 A.M. FOLLINGHURST 10:00 P.M. 9:00 P.M. Arrive Richmond from North. For 11:00 A.M. 6:00 P.M. M. *11:00 P.M. From the West: 6:00 A.M. **2:10 P.M. M. **11:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 9:00 P.M. M. *Daily* **Daily except Sunday.** **Sunday only. W. B. DEVILL. W. C. SAUNDERS. Sunday W. R. DEVILLE, W. G. DEVILLE P. T. M. KROMPKE, G. P. A. ROGERS ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE APRIL 12, 1914 IMPACT LEAVES MICHMONO DAILY For Florida and South: 8:18 A M and 6:20 F M. 11 For Northwich: 0:00 A M, 8:00 P M, 4:10 P M For N. W. A. R. Wy. West: 0:00 A M, 8:00 A M For Palmerston: 12:50 A M, 6:15 A M, 9:15 A M, 9:00 A M, 9:00 A M, 8:00 P M, 4:10 P M, 4:10 P M, 6:00 P M, 6:25 P M, 8:90 P M For Goldstone and Faversholt: 4:10 P M Trains Arrive Richmond Daily: 6:50 A M, 10:15 A M, 6:50 A M, 8:27 A M, 7:80 A M, 10:15 A M, 6:50 A M, 8:10 P M, 11:40 P M, 6:00 P M, 6:25 P M, 8:00 P M, 9:00 P M 11:30 P M *Parent Sunday, *Monday calls *Time of arrival and departure and *courses not guaranteed C. B. CAMPBELL, D. P. A., 882 Male 92 SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier Carrier of the South SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Premier Carrier of the South Pronator Carrier of the south. Trains Leave Richmond—Mala Street Station. W N—Following schedule. Journals published as information and not guaranteed: For the South—Daily: 8:58 A. M. Local M:38 M. Express: 8:00 P. M. Express with Illumination and sleeping Carry for Atlanta and Hiramingham, U.S. M. Express. Week Buyer 8:00 P. M. Local. YORK RIVER LINE. 8:10 P. M. Steamer train (partier car). Sunday, no local store; and 8:15 P. M. Busy. Local—Connecting for Baltimore, daily, commute Sunday. TRAINS ARRIVING SUNDAY. TRAINS ANNIVE RICHMOND, and 8:49 A. M. From the M., 8:49 A. M., daily; 2:15 P. M., daily; From West Point; 8:49 A. M. (observer brunet, dally except Monday); 8:49 A. M., daily; 2:15 P. M., except Monday. 8:49 K. M. HOP, D. P. A. 8:49 K. M. HOP, WED. MON. C. & O. 7:15 A - Local - Daily Ex. Sun - N. News. 8:00 A - Local - Daily - Chillie. Ex. Sun Clifton Forge. 9:00 A. Daily, Norfolk, Old Point 10:00 L. Daily-Lynchburg, Lex, C. G. Force 12:00 Non-Express-Daily Ex Norfolk, Old Point. Oil Point. * **100) P. 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Colored folks should continue to make friends with those white folks who will appreciate their friendship. --- Get all the religion you can for it is easily gotten. Get all of the money you can for it is not easily gotten. Teach your children good manners. Even if they fail to follow your instructions, teach your children good manners. The way they are killing up man in Europe even makes cattle smil! The slaughter houses at Chicago and Kansas City are now being duplicated almost the modern nightlife of Europe. MR. POLLARD, A. CANDIDATE. Hon John Garland Pollard. Attorney General of Virginia, has announced his candidacy for the Gov. armorship of Virginia. Based upon good books, he should win "hand-down" Gov. Henry C. Skidt, who he is anxious to succeed, is something of "a looker" himself. We have watched Mr. Pollard's career with interest. We are not more, but what his elevation to the prominent position which he now holds has spolled a most favorable citizen. "He has erred in handling the race question, but if the "dry" forces should gain ground in the State, he may yet succeed in polling the vote which will give him the victory. But what of Hon. Carter Glassie has a senatorial bee in his bonnet and will hardly worry the distaste gained Richmander. It is plain though, that Mr. Pollard will have a hard road to travel." The organized Democracy will oppose him and perhaps the latent Republicanism. We would to God that he had taken the broad road of right and outlined his platform upon the basic principles of the Bible and the Constitution, rather than set his sights to catch a political breeze that is no treacherous as it is false. We have but a brief time to live at host and the determination to do right will bring its own reward, while stepping aside to win doubtful political favor will result in the despair of Mr. Pollard's fondest hopes and dislike the best wishes of his many friends. --- THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA It looks like "the trony of fate" that the Supreme Court of Georgia should hand down a decree declaring the segregation ordinance passed by the Atlanta City Council unconstitutional. The following telegraphic report explains itself: Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 12. The Supreme Court of Georgia today declared unconstitutional an ordinance passed by the Atlanta City Council for the segregation of the races. The court said that to prohibit members of the two races from living in the same city block, they deny the inherent right of a person to acquire, enjoy or dispose of property, and for these reasons is violative of the due process clause of the Federal and State Constitutions." Four of the five justices concurred in the decision. Chief Justice Fish being absent on account of illness. The ordinance designated, certain city-blocks for white persons, certain ones for negroes and others for members of both races. Today's decision reversed a lower court finding. This ordinance was framed after the one adopted in this city. We have always contended that this would be the final result. The following extracts will prove to be interesting reading: The right of the people to be peace in their persons, homes, persons and affairs, against unreasonable encroachments and abuses shall not This should be plain enough, but here is another: All persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the Jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without duo process of law; nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -- Constitution of the United States, Sec. 1, Article XIV. Some States' Rights Democrats flunch when a reference is made to the Federal Constitution. The Constitution of Virginia is just as good. Read the following: That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, or any compact, deprive or divest their posturity;—namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Constitution of Virginia, Section 1. Article I. That no person shall be deprived of his property without due process of law. Section 11. There seems then to be plenty of constitutional law on which the Supreme Court of Georgia was able to base its holdings in this memorable case. We have insisted that the result could not be otherwise. Race prejudice has gone too far. It has endangered the fundamental rights not only of the colored man, but the white man as well. The argument that the denial of rights to a white man legalizes the denial of rights to a colored one is all "moonshine". The law specifically prohibits the denial of rights to other. We have called attention to the fact that the rights of colored men will ultimately be upheld by Southernners instead of by Northerners. The trend is this way. The better class of white people are already thriving of this ground against the better class of colored people. They realize that the interests of both races are identical. When a Georgia Supreme Court upholds the rights and privileges of colored folks and white folks, then indeed is a turn-for-point in this racial agitation at hand. Brother Deacon, will you kindly lead us in a strong prayer for the Supreme Court of the United States. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 12th day of February, 1915. Florence Freeland, Plaintiff, against Wilhelm, of Freeland, Defendant In Chancery. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony) by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of adultery. An affidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due pub- lication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit. A Copy Teste LUTHER LIBBY, J E. Byrd, p. 9 TO WILLIAM C. FREELAND; You will take notice that I shall, on the 30th day of March, 1915, at the office of Phil H. Shields' room number 701. Travelers building, situated on the north side of Main street, between the hours of 11th and 12th streets, in the City of Richmond, Virginia between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., of that day proceed to take the depositions of those who have been in charge of behalf in a certain suit in chancery, depending in the Law and Equity Court, for the City of Richmond, Virginia. Wherein you are defendant, and I am plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of said depositions be commenced on that day, or, if commenced, be not concluded on that day, that taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place, and, between the same hours, until the same is conducted. Respectfully. LORENCE FREELAND by Council I. E. Bydr. 502. N. 3rd St. VIRGINIA: In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 17th day of February, 1915. Annie Scott, Plaintiff. vs. Charlie Scott, Defendant. in Chancery. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony, by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of assertion And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia. It is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interests herein. A Court-Torta: You will take notice that I shall, on the 14th day of April, 1918, at the offices of Phil B. Baldwin's room, number 701, Travelers' Building, situated on the north side of Main Street, between 11th and 12th St. in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., of that day, proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of said depositions be not commenced on that day, or, if commenced, be not concluded on that day, that taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place, and between the same hours, until the same is concluded. FINE SHOWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS-READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK Brought Forward..... 926, 200.00 1914 January 19—John Adam Sheffey, Summit Lodge, No. 80.8 50.00 January 19—Joseph Logan, Benedict Lodge, No. 116 100.00 January 19—John H. Kidd, Rescue Lodge, No. 4 100.00 January 26—Joe Fountain, Douglas Lodge, No. 68 50.00 Feb. 2—E. H. Armfield, Friendship Lodge, No. 2 100.00 Feb. 2—William Kee, Lovely Mt. Lodge, No. 57 100.00 Feb. 4—Daniel Reid, Jonathan Lodge, No. 20 100.00 Feb. 7—Andrew McClannan, King. David Lodge, 193 50.00 February 16—D. W. Davis, Planet Lodge, No. 22 150.00 February 17—Andrew William Jackson, Pride of Dante, 187 50.00 March 6—Henry Willkama, Venus Lodge, No. 46 100.00 March 7—Alexander Brown, Benevolent Lodge, No. 34 100.00 March 9—James T. Brown, Myrtle Lodge, No. 17 100.00 March 16—W. S. Walker, Flying Eagle Lodge, No. 120 100.00 March 17—R. A. Shelton, Moravian Lodge, No. 13 100.00 March 17—Thomas A. Richardson, Goldepal Seal, No. 39 100.00 March 31—D. D. Weaver, Newport News Lodge, No. 74 100.00 March 31—Champ West, Crescent Lodge, No. 151 100.00 March 1 — Patean Taylor, Flying Eagle Lodge, No. 130 April 4 — David Bullett, Rockingham Star Lodge, No. 72 April 4 — Dalton Smith, Charlly Lodge, No. 32 April 22 — Edward J. Evans, Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15 April 22 — James Simoeus, All of the Bay Lodge, No. 14 April 25 — James W. J. Carter, All of the Bridge Lodge, No. 14 April 29 — Matthew Foster, Manchester Lodge, No. 11 April 29 — William H. Robb, Venus Lodge, No. 46 May 2 — Lorenza Easley, M. Pride Lodge, No. 138 May 2 — Patrick Woonridge, Winterpock Lodge, No. 132 May 4 — Samuel Hopson, Crystal Lodge, No. 156 May 16 — Martin Russell, Vernon Hill Lodge, No. 154 May 25 — Nat Hooper, Golden Link Lodge, No. 83 May 30 — Charles Hogue, White Oak Lodge, No. 67 June 8 — Wesley Hendrick, New Light Lodge, No. 155 June 8 — Eustace Shelton, Nightingale Lodge, No. 45 June 24 — J. R. Griffin, Crispau Attucks, Lodge, No. 117 June 29 — John W. Miller, Staunton Lodge, No. 62 June 29 — Herbert Matthews, Covington Lodge, No. 60 July 1 — Albert Hughes, Macedonia Lodge, No. 59 July 1 — Christopher Archer, Magic City Lodge, No. 181 July 8 — John A. Walker, Capital Lodge, No. 81 July 20 — Charles Manning, Pride of the East Lodge, 33 July 7 — W. H. Burke, Rescue Lodge, No. 4 July 27 — W. H. Burke, Rescue Lodge, No. 4 July 30 — Guaren Walker, Morning Glory Lodge, No. 97 Aug. 1 — A. S. Thompson, Pocahontas Lodge, No. 41 M. H. B. Aug. 11—William Taylor, Orcad Lodge, No. 6. Aug. 11—Pred McQuire, Suffolk Lodge, No. 6. Aug. 11—Frank Chappell, Rising Storm Lodge, No. 106 Aug. 11—Albert Roosebrough, Nanton Lodge, No. 182. Aug. 18—Alan Booth, Magic City Lodge, No. 181. August 22—Nelson Going, Zenth Lodge, No. 111. August 25—William Coleman, Rising Star Lodge, No. 106 Sept. 4—Booker Leftwich, Venn Lodge, No. 46. Sept. 4—John Lewis Lewis, North Star Lodge, 62. Sept. 9—Isaiah Pitts, Benevolent Lodge, No. 34. Sept. 14—Ianghorne Patrick, Sufflight Lodge, No. 179. Sept. 18—Jerry Carter, Nightscale Lodge, No. 45. Sept. 18—Thomas Oliver, Flying Eagle Lodge, No. 130. Sept. 23—William Berry, Zenth Lodge, No. 111. Sept. 23—Marshall Land, King David Lodge, No. 193. Sept. 26—Albert Hooper, Old Dominion Lodge, No. 8. Sept. 25—George Staten, Charity Lodge, No. 32. Oct. 17—Isham Powell, Suffolk Lodge, No. 5. Oct. 24—Emmanuel Shayton, Royal Lodge, No. 26. Oct. 26—Ferdinand H. Calloway, City Lodge, No. 90 Oct. 26—John Space, New Hope Lodge, No. 94. Oct. 26—John M. Carter, Pathin Lodge, No. 13. Oct. 27—John Jones, Pathin Lodge, No. 21. Oct. 27—Oliver C. Clements, Nightscale Lodge, No. 45 Oct. 28—R. D. Brown, Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15. Oct. 21—Hawkey Jenkins, Suffolk Lodge, No. 6. Photos by American Press Association To discuss the situation arising from the American note protecting against the establishment of a war zone about the British Isles, without tribals, the American ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, has been invited by the German emperor to go to the army headquarters on the east front, returning to a dispatch from the Hague. Nov. 10—Dr. I. D. Burrell, Roanoke Lodge No. 51. Nov. 14—W. H. Wigginhighbill, Pioneer Lodge No. 28. Nov. 14—John L. Garner, Friendship Lodge, No. 3. Nov. 14—Benjamin A. Hurd, Charity Lodge, No. 32. Nov. 14—John Frank Wake, Crescent Lodge, No. 151. Nov. 14—James A. Parsons, Pioneer Lodge, No. 28. Nov. 16—Boyd Sheffey, Fair View Lodge, No. 177. Nov. 16—Andrew Johnson, Valley of Virginia, No. 95. Nov. 15—Benjamin J. Allen, Friendship Lodge, No. 2 Dec. 2—Sager Jones, Capital Lodge, No. 81. Dec. 5—Smith Johnson, Sunlight Lodge, No. 179. Dec. 21—Richard Hewitt, Hampton Roads, No. 194. Dec. 23—John Patterson, Pythias Lodge, No. 21. Dec. 22—James Petty, Puritan Lodge, No. 101. Dec. 23—William Johnson, Staunton Lodge, No. 62. Dec. 24—Richard Gibson, Pythias Lodge, No. 21. Dec. 24—Jack Johnson, Macedonia Lodge, No. 59. Dec. 24—James Mosley, Jr., Randolph Lodge, No. 163. Dec. 30—Walter Polindexter, Valley Lodge, No. 73. Dec. 30—William Taylor, Banner Lodge, No. 118. Dec. 30— Joseph Scott, Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15. Dec. 30—George Mosley, Saddle Lodge, No. 16. Dec. 30—Walter Payno, Fulton Lodge, No. 24. Dec. 30—N. C. Booker, Unity Lodge, No. 24. Dec. 30—Toebe King, Douglas Lodge, No. 69. Dec. 20—Henry Wilson, Samson Lodge, No. 16. Dec. 20—Arthur Dickerson, Pride of Danto, No. 187. Dec. 20—George W. Lawson, Englo Lodge, No. 53. Dec. 20—James Dickerson, Englo Lodge, No. 53. Dec. 30—Washington Eldridge, New Arbor No. 142 Dec. 30—John Broady, Zenith Dec. 20—Henry L. Jackson, Blackstone Lodge, No. 70. Dec. 20-Gilbert H. Young, Puritan Lodge, No. 101. 40 AVIATORS SHELL GERMANS IN BELGIUM British and French Flyers Attack Several Towns. Forty British and French aeroplane and seaplanes attacked the Germans positions at Ostend, Middlekierke Ghistelles and Zeebrugge, in Belgium and according to the official report with good results. Bombs were dropped on gun positions, trawlers and barges and an ae rodrome. The official statement concerning the air raid says: "The air operations of the naval wing against the Bruges, Ostend and Zeebrugge district were continued Forty aeroplanes and seaplanes bom barded Ostend, Middlekierke, Ghis tellles and Zeebrugge. Total $40,100.00 "Bombs were dropped on the heavy batteries situated, on the east and west side of Osted, on gun positions at. Middelkerke, on transport wagons on the Osted-Ghistelle road, on the Mole at Zeebrugh to widen the breach made in former attacks, or the focks at Zeebrugh, on barger outside Hankenburgha and on trawlers outside Zeebrugh. January 25—Clarkie Bell. Victoria Court, No. 52. Jan. 31—Josephite Western, Christian, Light, No. 157 Feb. 1—Ola Wagstaff, Zion Travellers Court, No. 94. Feb. 3—Frances Cartor, White Rose Court, No. 118. Feb. 1—Annie Clerg. Magic City Court, No. 83. February 17—Bottle Stewart, Randolph C. urt. No. 159 February 17—Carrie Ridley, Silver Key Court, No. 75. February 17—Maggie Middlek, Victoria Court, No. 5. 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 15—Laura J. Minor, Balmion Court, No. 81. April 18—Rebecca Mitchell, Old Dominion Court, No. 114 April 23—Mary A. P. Grey, Venus Court, No. 47. April 29—Mattile Lane, Star of Hope Court, No. 93. May 2—Patelle Morris, Friendship Court, No. 143. May 14—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. 318. July 14—Nannie Vicks, Friendship Court, No. 142. July 15—Ada H. Iton, Blooming Rose Court, No. 104. July 21—Alma Riddick, St. Mary's Court, No. 101. Aug. 10—I. D. Burrell, Magie City Court, No. 83. August 23—Martha Frederick, Morning Star Court, No. 184. Aug. 25—Julia Norman, Friday of Allegheny Court, No. 79. Sept. 9—Little Williams, Evening Star Court, No. 77. Sept. 9—Sarah Pettus, Evening Star Court, No. 77. Sept. 11—Rhode Robinson, Queen Victoria Court, No. 115. Sept. 23—Martha Osborne, White Oak Court, No. 123. Nov. 7—Martha Botta, Shiloh Court, No. 110. Nov. 16—Marie Kirby, Fairies Court, No. 142. Nov. 19—Sophia Danny, Industrial Court, No. 74. Nov. 10—Ruth Jamerson, Progressive Court, No. 145. Nov. 16—Francis Johnson, Lexington Court, No. 107. Nov. 20—Sally Hill, Magic City Court, No. 85. 6—Mary Daniel, Fairies Court, No. 142. Dec. 5—Mario Morrow, Elon Travellers' No. 96. Dec. 5—Honorists Flan, Morning Star, No. 124. Dec. 10—John Smith, Fairies Court, No. 73. Dec. 10—Adrian Allen, George's, No. 152. Dec. 20—James Johnson, May's Court, No. 70. Dec. 20—Mary A. Pettus, Fairies Court, No. 105. "Eight French aeroplanes assisted the naval machines by making at attacks on the Chistelles aerodrome this effectively preventing the German aircraft from cutting off out machines. It is reported that good results were obtained. "Instructions are always issued to confine attacks to points of military importance, and every effort is made by the flying officers to avoid dropping bombs on any residential portions of towns." TURNS DOWN WAR CONTRACT Reason* Declines to Make Bid. Because of "humanitarian reasons", the Electro Steel company, of Pittsburg, Pa. has declined to bid on a contract to furnish part of an order of 1,000,000 drop forge shells wasted by the British government. The value of the contract offered to the company was estimated at $460,000. Charles E. Brynn, president and general manager, said: "We don't think warring nations should be on guard. I wish to state that we are not opposed to England or her allies or to Germany and her allies. We don't desire to make money from its advantages that are used to strengthen nations." GERMAN ARMY OCCUPIES PLOCK Russians Fail to Check On march of Enemy. WARSAW AGAIN MENAGED Vienna Claims 80,000 of Czar's Troops Were Beaten In Most Furious Battle Yet Fought In Gallicia. The capture of Plock and Bielsk, two towns of northern Poland, on the right bank of the Vistula river, by German troops, is announced in an official report from the German general staff in Berlin. It states that those two towns were taken by the Germans after a short fight, which resulted in the capture of about 1000 prisoners. The announcement of the capture of Plock is the most important that has been made since the news of the Russian defeat in East Prussia. Plock is less than fifty miles west northwest of Novo Georgiysk, the great fortress which protects Warsaw from the northwest. Bielsk is a few miles north northeast of Plock. The German successes in this region show that the Russian drive to ward Thorn has been completely checked and that the czar's troops are being rapidly forced back in northern Poland. The general staff's report follows: "Our pursuit of and continued fighting with the enemy on and beyond the East Prussian frontier are proceeding very favorably. In Poland, north of the Vistula, the Germans occupied Bielsk and Plock after a short fight. About 1000 prisoners were captured. In Poland, south of the Vistula, no important events occurred." The general staff added to its report on military operations a denial of the Russian claims that the German forces suffered terrific losses in the fighting east of Bollomow early in February. This official denial was as follows: "The most absurd rumors are circulated in the foreign press about the immense German losses in the fighting east of Holloway at the beginning of February. The German losses in these attacks were small in proportion to the success which they attained." Reports from the Carpathian mountains to the Poster Lloyd of Budapest, Hungary, say that the Austro-Hungarian armies were everywhere successful in their offensive movement in the Dukla pass. The total losses of the Russians in the Dukla pass battles in the past few days, the reports say, were at least 50,000 men killed or wounded. Austria Claims Big Victory. Eighty thousand Russian troops were defeated in the battle of Dalatyn and driven in rout through Nadworma and back toward Stanislau, it is officially reported in dispatches received at the war office in Vienna. The battle of Dalatyn, which is eight miles southeast of Nadworma, is declared to have been the "greatest battle fought on the soil of Galicia, and a battle that resulted in a complete triumph of the Austrian troops and their German allies." The retreating Russians made a stand at hill 431, at the bottom of whose northern slopes Nadworma is located. The Austrian and German troops captured the hill and drove the Russians down the northern slope into Nadworma. Hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of Nadworma lasted for three hours. The Austrians claim to have taken 7000 prisoners and they counted more than 2000 dead along the road from Delatyn to Nadworma. They believe that in the fighting the Russians lost more than 13,000 men. KING ALBERT IN AEROPLANE Takes Trip Ovar German Trenches and Moving in the Field and Machine is Fired On. King Albert of Belgium is the first reigning monarch to ascend in an aeroplane. A dispatch from the front stated that he made a reconnaissance over the German lines in an aeroplane on Saturday, during which he was repeatedly fired on, but he escaped injury. The king was in the air for an hour, during which time the biplane hovered over the German trenches and artillery screens. Afterwards the king was landed at the door of his headquarters. 110,000 Tons of Food Sent to Belgium. More than 110,000 tons of food supplies had been sent over the ocean to Belgium up to Jan. 20 by the commission for relief in Belgium, according to its twelfth weekly report. Of the supplies shipped up to the close of the report, 652 tons were medical stores. The commission announces that need for food in Belgium is increasing. Italy to Mobile All Forces. In an interview, in the London Globe General Garibaldi predicts that Italy would mobilize her complete war strength within the port ten days. General Garibaldi, a member of the European Indian family of soldiers, died that the war might in Italy to grow steadily. BRITAIN READY TO RETALIATE Prepares to Declare Blockade Against Germany. CONGESSIONS ARE REJECTED London Believe. Prohibition of Ship- ments of All Foodstuffs to Empire Will Be Proclaimed. The prohibition against foodstuffs destined for Germany will be formally proclaimed by Great Britain at once, according to present expectations, and the government's retaliatory measures against the threatened German submarine "blockade" will go into immediate effect. Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, conferred with Sir Ed- ward Grey, the British foreign secretary, concerning the German note of offering to cease attacks upon British ships if Great Britain will permit, foodstuffs for the civilian population to enter Germany. The British government has shown in many ways that it is unterfired by threats of attacks on shipping and that it has no thought of making any concessions to Germany, but on the contrary is preparing to tighten the restrictions upon freight movements toward that country. It is considered unlikely, however, that any evidence could be produce, which would induce Great Britain to permit the food to go to Germany without the action of any prize court. Statements in parliament have indicated that it is the determination of Great Britain to make reprisals if Germany enforces her threat to destroy merchant ships, together with their crew, and a prohibition against footwear-secured for Germany will be formally proclaimed as soon as the authorities are satisfied that Germany intends to put its threat into execution. When issued the government's retaliatory measures against the threat enol German submarine "blockade" will go into immediate effect. The German proposal was presented to the cabinet at an extraordinary session by Sir Edward Grey, and according to reliable reports was rejected in its entirety. The cabinet was informed by Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, that plans had been made to regulate against Germany. Announcement was made that Premier Aquith will be asked in parliament whether the government will consider the establishment of a joint price court, consisting of representatives of Great Britain and the United States, with a view to avoiding a recurrence of the dispute between the two countries in connection with neutral trade. FRENCH AIRMEN RAID TOWN ON THE RHINE French aviators have made several attempts on the Alsatian town of Eichwald, across the Rhine from Neumonture, in coercing to a dispatch from Basle, Switzerland, by way of Paris. Daily forays into Alsace and Bides have been made for some time, but particular efforts are being directed against Eichwald on account of the location there, of German fortifications of greater importance. Exactly opposite claims regarding the results of the fighting in Flanders are made by Paris and Berlin of fictal statements. The recapture of British trenches captured by the Germans south of Ypres is announced by the French war office. This was the first official confirmation given of the claim made in Berlin that the Germans had won a success near St. Elio. On the other hand, the Germans state that the attacks of the allies on the captured trenches failed. The German war office reports that the English have lost some trenches near St. Eloi, two and a half miles south of Ypres, if borne out, means that the British - holding the front south of Ypres have been compelled to fall back about seven miles. "Home Run" Baker Quits Base Ball J. Franklin Eaker, the s. a.r. third baseman of the Philadelphia Athletic club for the past six years and one of the greatest hitters of the present day, has quit base ball. This announcement was made by Manager Connie Mack, of the White Elephants. Vote Mountain Laurel State Flower. By a vote of 168 to 11 the Pennsylvania house passed the bill to designate the mountains laurel as the state flower. Mr. Geiger, of Northampton, sponsor for the bill, presented pictures of the flower and urged the passage of the bill. Middle School Teachers to Vistit U. & One hundred Mexican women school teachers have been selected to go to the United States to study international examples in that country. The are groups of these teachers will be held at the American universities. ```markdown ``` WARNED AGAINST HARMING SHIPS INSIST ON SAFETY TO VESSELS Washington Declares We Have Right to Sail High Beas Unless Blockade Is Declared. The United States warned Great Britain and Germany that general use of the American flag by British vessels would be viewed with grave concern here, and that the destruction by Germany of any American vessel in the newly prescribed war zone would lead to serious complications. It became known that the text of the two notes sent to these two powers expressed much more emphatically than had been generally known, the displeasure of the United States at the use of neutral flags by British merchants, and its solicitude over the implication that neutral vessels were liable to destruction by German submarines in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland. In the document which has been transmitted to Ambassador Gerard, at Berlin, for presentation to the German foreign office, there is a friendly but pointed statement that American vessels should have free and unrestricted passage through the high seas and unblockaded waters, and that destruction of an American vessel might lead to a change in the hitherto friendly relations which have existed between the United States and Germany. While in the note to Great Britain the representations made are not based on the Lusitania incident, but on the statement of the British foreign office justifying the use of neutral flags by its vessels, the United States has stated unequivocally, it is understood, that a continuance of the practice would be highly dangerous to neutral vessels and would be viewed with deep anxiety in Washington. Among diplomats the fact that the United States has taken a pronounced stand has created a profound impression. No joint representations with the United States on the same subjects have been made by any of the neutrals, though the various foreign offices, through their ministers in Washington have consulted the American government as to its attitude. There is no question, according to those who are familiar with the American position, that the issuance of any orders from the British admiralty, as Germany alleges, authorising the use of the American flag, would be disapproved. The British foreign office statement was taken by officials as tantamount to a suggestion to British vessels that they could bolst a neutral flag. It is such an official and general countenance to the practice to which the United States takes exception. Fanny Crosby, Hymn Writer, Dead. Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer, author of about 8000 hymns, died in Bridgeport, Conn., after a long illness. She would have been ninety-five years old on March 24 of this year. Fanny Crosby, in private life Mrs. Frances Jane Van Alstyne, was born in Southeast, N. Y. She became blind when six weeks old, due to hot poutics applies to her eyes during an illness, thus destroying the optic nerve. In 1858 she was married to Alexander Van Alstyne, a blind teacher of the school in which she formerly was a teacher. He was a brilliant musician and a fine classical scholar. Soon after the death of her husband, in 1902, she wrote a group of hymns, including "Only a Step to Jesus," "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour," "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross," "To the Work," "Blessed Assurance," "I Am Thine, O Lord," "Only a Beam of Sunshine," "Rescue the Perishing," "Just a Word for Jesus" and "Saved by Grace." Some of her best known songs are "There's Music in the Air," "Jesus the Water of Life Will Give," "Hazel Dell," "The Honeysuckle Glen," "Roselle, the Prairie Flower." Her cantatas of "The Flower Queen" and the "Pilgrim Fathers" had a great deal of popularity in their day. Zeppelin Plunges Into Sea. The entire crew of a Zeppelin airship, which has been missing for four days, was drowned when the airship fell into the North sea off the coast of Denmark during a storm, it is reported at Friedrichshafen, Germany. Details of the disaster have not been received. The ill-fated airship was one of the newest Zeppelin type. It is said in Geneva that one Zeppelin and two airships of the Parareval type will accompany the German troops detailed to take the field against Serbia. The Parareval, defended and loaded on special railroad train, passed through Munich Monday on the way to Vienna. M. B. the plant, which has been unusually busy, has been working for foreign orders. It was said also that the company is working on orders for the United States government. Bayonet Charges on Skills. The Londay Daily Chronicle correspondent at Geneva, Switzerland, telegraphs the following: "The first bayonet charge on skills occurred Saturday in the Vosges, near Col du Bonhomme. Forty Alpine chasseurs and two officers, who had been cut off, were asked to surrender. "Instead they charged 'down the slopes on' skills into the German trenches. A terrible struggle ensued. All the French were killed, but the German losses were double." Refuacs Bio War Order. J. B. Brusher, proprietor of the Norristown, Pn., Handle works, recently turned down an order of the British government for 100,000 axe handles, supposedly for use for implements in digging trenches in the war. Mr. Brusher said that the reason he did not take the order was because he would have found it difficult to fill on account of the character of the material to be used in their manufacture. No Flour In Mexico City. There is no flour in Mexico City advices to the state department in Washington any. Bread is being made from cornmeal. Carranza forces there disclaim any intention of evacuating the city. Zapata's forces still hold some of the suburbs. General Gutier rez, who fleed from the capital, is reported with General Blanco at Vallea fifty miles west of Tampico, with 2006 troops. Killed by Burzaaw. A terrible fate befell Alden Koch twenty-one years of age, an automobile dealer of Allentown, Pa. Young Koch decided to take a day off to visit his father; John Koch, a rich farmer, several miles from town. The father was preparing to operate his saw mill, and while tuning up Alden was caught by the flywheel and hurled into the buzzwaw. Killa Father with "Unloaded" Platton Joseph Martin, of Dorothy, N. J. was shot and killed by his son. Al exander, five years of age. He was seated at dinner, when the child picked up a revolver, supposed to be unloaded, and while playing with it the gun was discharged. The bullet entered the fathers' neck and came out through the forehead, killing him instantly. Steel Tonnage Increases. The unified orders of the United States Steel corporation on Jan. 31 totaled 4,248,571 tons, an increase of 411,928 tons over Dec. 31. The present tonnage is the highest since March, 1914. In January of last year the unified orders were placed at 4,613,630, and in 1913 at 7,827,368 tons. Iowa Senate For Dry State The Iowa senate adopted a constitutional amendment providing for statewide prohibition by a vote of 39 to 10. The measure now goes to the house. Des Moines a "Dry" Town. Des Molines, in. in "dry" for the first time in its history. As a result of city councils' decision not to issue licenses, the saloons have closed. No liquor was sold at the policemen's annual ball, which lasted through the night. The orchestra entertained the dancers several times with the strains of "How Dry I Am." Three Richest Nations According to the best tables and the latest, the three richest nations are The United States, $130,000,000,000 Great Britain, $80,000,000,000; France $65,000,000,000; Germany follows hard after France with $90,000,000,000. Russia is put at $40,000,000,000. New York American. War. Wheat and Rye. The four trading continent countries at war have a total wheat area of about 182,000,000 acres and a crop area of 142,000,000 acres. The war remains primarily a loss of agricultural group of wheat and rice in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Mr. L. John was in the city on business. Miss Emma Bethena has left for Rocky Mount, N. C. Mr. W. S. Guiller, Secretary of the Joint Stock Co. of S. C., was in the city. Mrs. Charlotte Mao Tatum visited Darlington recently. Miss Julia I. Mitchell having finished a successful school term at Mullins, S. C. returned home on Sunday, Feb. 14th. Miss Mitchell is a fine woman and gives satisfaction as a teacher. Mrs. Rosa W. Williams passed through the city Feb. 14th on route to Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. J. P. Robinson, pastor at Cades, has been recently appointed to serve at Timmonsville, Rev. G. J. Davis having served only a short time before his death caused by being drowned in crossing a swollen stream near Carterville, S. C. Mrs. Wm. T. Hines, of Wilson, N. C., passed through the city recently. Miss Janio Harlee of Clausson, S. C., is advancing raptily as a member of the 6th grade of the city Graded School. Miss Amanda Mingo and Mr. Allen McElveen were married Sunday, February 14th. Mr. J. C. Abrahams loft the city Saturday, Feb. 13th to visit his family at Whitesville, N. C. Mrs. Abraham has charge of valuable real estate left by her mother. Rev. W. R. Reese, pastor of St. James Baptist church, reports a successful meeting Sunday, 7th inst. On his return his people loaded him with chickens, hams, etc. Mr. J. S. Smithe and Robinson have been added to the Planet's reading force: Mrs. Josephine Turner is quite successful. She knows how to treat strangers. Miss Kate Gee passed through the city the 8th inst. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Broadfoot passed through the city Tuesday, Fob. 9th enroute for Fayetteville, N. C. Dr. G. J. Lythcoat passed through the city Feb. 5th en route for Raleigh, N. C. with a sick patient. Dr. Lythcoat reads Negro literature. Rev. G. J. Nathaniel, of Sumter, S. C. passed through the city the ninth. Rev. Nathaniel is pastor of Weeping Willow Baptist church, Marion county. On the 3rd Sunday in March there will be an installation service held at that church. Revs. E. W. Dix and Wm. Washington are among the speakers. Mro. Wm. McComming is Senior Deacon and Bro. Robert Hix supt. of Sunday school. Mrs. Sue Collins, of this city, accompanied by her four children, Earneut, Nellie, Rosa Lee and Earl, left for Tarboro, N. C. Mr. Ross McBride has been in the Fayetteville run from Florence to Richmond this week. Mr. J. J. Jones, quite a reliable farmer and business man from Hyman, S. C., is in the city today on business. Mr. Beal Davia is one of the founders of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist church. Mr. Samle Whittington passed through the city recently en route to Conway, S. C. Mr. Harrison Gamble, of Manning, S. C., spent the 5th in the city on business. Rev. Wm. R. Eddy left the city on train 60 over the Winston-Salem southbound for McCall, S. C. Mr. Wm. David, of Englewood, N. J., was buried at Tatum recently. Rev. Wm. Eddy officiated. A beautiful costly wreath of flowers was placed on the casket at Eaglewood, N. J. Mrs. Eugenia Brayboy left the city on train 79 to spend a few days in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. S. H Robinson, of Timmonsville, S. C., passed through the city today on route to Darlington, S. C. Miss Mamie McAlater left this A. M., the 15th, inst. for home, Maxton, N. C., to spend a while. Mr. Cato Floyd, quite a respectable citizen and deacon of the Mt. Olive Baptist church at Mullins, S. C., was buried Wednesday, Feb. 18th. Rev. J. R. Brooks, the pastor, officiated at the burial. Miss C. J. Anderson of Lamar, S. C., hair culturist, in the city. She it stopping at 209 Brown St. She makes hair switches and dresses the hair. Mr. J. B. Brown, of Key West, Fla. is visiting in Wilson Street. He has purchased in East Florence and contemplates building in the near future. Mr. Wm. Smith is still with the Java lumber Co. Mrs. Mamie-Bolloway, of Orange, N. J., and Mrs. B. E. Cannon, are in the city for a few days. Mr. G. W. Jackson, of Darlington, visited Mr. John Buchanan, who has been quite ill. Mr. John Gale is quite, a reliable fireman of the Coast Lime. Mrs. Casio Planter, who has been quite unwell is able to be out again. Mr Charlie Cumming of Timmons, was married to Miss-Ether McDaniel, P. O. Timmonsville, on Sunday, P. M. Feb. 14th, in attesting Howard Chapel, Rev. Frank Johnson officiating. Mr. Nevel Gurley of this city was married to Mrs Julia Richardson January 17th. Mrs. Rilla Morrison of Bonnettsville, spent the day, Feb. 17th. In the city. Mr. P. G. Garland is still porter on the Wilmington Columbia run. Miss Jannie Dauser of Buffalo, N. Y. passed through the city Feb. 12th en route for Gourdolins, S. C. Rev. G. B Flagler of Lalla, S. C. passed through the city Friday, February 12th inat, en route for Cartersville, N. C. Rev. Flagler is pastor of Humphreys chapel at that place. Mr. J. T. Johnson is here in attendance, upon the quarterly meeting of the Joint Stock. Rev. C. McClary, the grand chief, arrived on train 54, to preside at the meeting. Quite a number of Young people left the city Monday, Feb. 15th, to attend the funeral of Mr. John Bouchman, who died here Sunday, the 14th inat. We mention a few, Miss Maud Howard, Mr. Larry Allen, Mira. Singleton, ```markdown ``` charge, no matter what your disease, and entree you to perfect health. The leading ones in the United States and Born of the most wonderful healers of all nothing but herbs, roots, bark, games, flowers and plants in my medicine. The most skillful physicians and the best and Europe have given up to die, as am. 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They have cured all physicians and the best hospital physic have given up to die, and said there was allowing Diseases:—Heart Disease, Con- der, Stricture, Pilee in any form, Vertigo Peepalia, Indigestion, Consipation, Rheu- l Aches of any kind, Celids, Bronchial all itching sensations, all Female Coma, Ulcer, Carbuncles, Boils, Cancer in the knife or instrument, Baccala, Pimples of kidneys or Bright's Disease of the Kid disease, so matter of what nature. Gon, a Specialty. For fall particulars, send, write or call mankind, or no charge, no matter what your disease, sickness or affliction may be, and entreat you to perfect health. Thousands of people the best and leading ones in the United States and Europe will testify that I am one of the most wonderful healers of all complaints in the world. I use nothing but herbs, roots, barks, gums, balms, leaves, seeds, berries, flowers and plants in my medicine. 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Write for money for any business you have We ship to impove any have adance,prepare freight,and a which time you may ride the lever you can use perfectly cycle ship it back to us about FACTORY PRICES posi- tional factory cost. We re- siding direct of us and have then bicycle. DO NOT BUY a b any price until you resoil our factory price and remember YOU WILL BE ASTONISH bicycle for last inventory than any o bicycle factory cost. BYCYCLE BE would pick of best bicycle. SECOND BICYCLE. We but suitably all prices may be from $0 to $0 or not properly all prices may be from $0 to $0 or equipment of all GOASTER BRAKES and equipment of all $10.00 Modgethorn Punct Self-healing Tires TO MY Richmond, Va. AGENTS WANTED and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model furnished by us. Our Rider Agents every where it was. Write for full particulars and special after at one Quarter is until you receive and approve your bicycle one. If you have the choice to return your model for in a high, and allow THE BAY OF FRIEND TRIAL during may ride the bicycle and put it to any test you wish to. For the first time you will not be made one run not perfectly salished or do not wish to keep the bike to us all our spouse and how well I will be made one run RIDGES We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make at one small profit, always you receive $10 to $25 middle-price or by buy- and I buy a bicycle or pair of tires from any one you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of and remarkable special offers. EASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful rule- ment of the new car and study our superb myriad reactions. We will be the first to give our first new and other story. We are not bound with its profit $100% of the $25 million price. Ordinarily, the second time you get your car to the new car. BIG TOLLE. We do not regularly handle second hand Dryables, and in trade by our Chicago Retail store. There we read about the new car and study our other models. We have to be more important to other�ations and goodies, etc., repair equipment of all kinds as half the regular retail price. Puncture-Proof $80 A SAMPLE PAIR RES TO INTROOVE, ONLY 220 West Broad St. Richmond, Va. RIDER AGENTS WANTED EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit a sample Latest Model bicycle and find distractions. Our Uidir Agenda everywhere are your guides. Write for us. We will be happy to help you. **DO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve your bicycle.** We ship to anyone anywhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit in your account. We will accept any amount of money during which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to any test. If you are then not perfectly missed or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it back to us at your expense and you will not be out one cent. **FACTORY PROPOSES** possible to make at one small profit above normal factory cost. You have $10 to $15 middlemen's profits by buying a factory. You have a guarantee behind your purchase. **DO NOT BUY** a bicycle at your price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory prices and remarkable special offers. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful logo, the wonderfully low price we can make this year. We sell the highest quality products in the industry and we are proud to have a factory cost. BROUGHT BACK. YOU can sell our beer to your user. BROUGHT BACK. SECOND BROUGHT BACK. We do not regularly reorder second beer. We do not regularly reorder second beer. Our beer is sold by permission of BROUGHT BACK. We do not regularly reorder second beer. We do not regularly reorder second beer. ```markdown ``` dove una volte all'epoca a sappolo pairo per il 1400 (cash with order $1.56). NOMOSE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES Nelly, Tatiana or those who met but she did. A hundred thousand pairs sold last year. DEPOSIORATION: Made in all sizes. Riding, vory durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never be punctures without allowing air to occur. They weigh no more than an ordinary fire, the puncture resisting prepared fabric on the trunk. The regular price of these tires is $10.0 per pair, but for advertising purposes we charge $8.0 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We will ship C. O. D. on approval. You do and find them strictly as represented (thereby making the price $4.85 per pair) if印染师 make their own fabric. You are in this business at our expense if for any reason they are not made and money must be so as to be as in a bank. If you order a fabric, Oklahoma where it is made, look at it and pay at our expense. We know that you will be so pleased that when you make a kind of any price you need for a pair of linestretchers, you tire on apparel and trial at the special introductory store here the new and wonderful offers we are making today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a jersey or a pair of pollicuro. Great Discovery. Patentee Method Straightens and the heads of Colored People and Of Hair in Fifteen Months particulars, proof, pictures, testimonials. Price 50 cents, $1.00, $1 st. Order to-day. Body Co. 52 Broadway, New York. CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO Robert C. Scott First Class Livery, Office 2220 E. Randolph, 30 73, Richmond Va. and Sunday, call Randolph, 2703. FOLLICURIO. A Great Discovery. Applied under a Patentee Method. Stows long hair on the heads of Colored Hair. Writes long hair on the heads of Colored Hair. Write for FIREE particulars, proof, plea, addresses. Price 50 c. By Parcel Post. Ordero-day. Radio Herbo Remedy Co. 52 Broadway. We will allow a peak discount of 15 per cent (thereby making the price $4.88 per pair) if you send FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. You run no risk in sending us an order as the tires may be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are notprofessionally or examination. We are perfectly reliable and money-made to us as we are as in a bank. If you order a pair of the tires you will find that the entire driver, run faster, and better, lead longer and look faster than any tire you have to see. We will not be so well pleased that you free you to buy a bicycle you will give to your order. We want you to send a a trial order at once. Please, this review is the right way to send a a pair of Hoggetton IF YOU NEED TIRES Don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Hoggetton Pencature. If tires are approval and trial at the special intercity price quoted above, or write for our big Tire and Bandry Catalogues which deberites and quotes all makes and kinds of tires and bicycle equipment and sundries at about half the total price. DO NOT WAIT but write to a point today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair Funeral Dirc. : First Class Livery, Office 2229 E. Main St Telephone, Randolph, 20 73, Richmond Va. All night and Sunday, call Randolph, 2703. --- Write for FREE particulars, proof, pictures, testimonials, addresses, fee 50 dollars, $1.00, $1 Post. Ordered by: city Sunday, Feb. 14th for Hartsville, S. Cz. her home. ary for the, American Home Mission Society, preached at the morning service at Trinity Baptist church, Feb. 14th. Brother John Edwards is quite sick at his home at Warner, S. C. Mr. Paft Brown aside from being a progressive farmer, as an industrious gardener. Among those present were Mrs. J. J. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Gonerik Robinson, Messrs. J. S. Smith, Mrs. Julia Jordan, Mrs. E. R. Roberts, and Misses S. B. White, T. E. Thomas. Ruble M. Webster, Leona Mae Webster, Mr. Jas. W. Wijlams, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Alston, E. B. Webster. Rev. A. A. L. Wilson passed through the city today, returning from Barnwell, S. C., on route for home, Society Hill, S. C. Respectfully E. B. WEBSTER. W. M. Robinson WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER, Fish, Oysters and Game, 120 N. 17th St., RICHMOND. VIRGINIA We Train the Heart and the Hand Cumberland M. E. church Sunday school was addressed by E. B. Webster on Sunday afternoon at 4:30. Subject: Importance of Reading Negro Newspapers. The school was largely attended of those present we mention a fow. Mrs. E. E. Scott, Mrs Frances Davis, Mrs. S. E. Bowler, Miss Violet Gary, Mrs. C. R. Brown, Mrs. N. B. Singleton, Mr. Will Gupple and Miss Lissie Washington, teachers. Mr. R. P. Scott, Supt. Some of the scholars present were Misses Annie Williams, Delay Holloway, Evelyn Wilson, Almede McCleman, Delay Tindel, Messrs. Eugene Counts, Russell Gregg, Julian Grant, J. A. McWhirter, Hide Jacobs, etc. Visitors, Miss Leona Webster. Also Mrs. Jessie E. Grant, teacher. Mr. W. H. Ellis and his daughter, Miss Mary Ida, passed through the city Feb. 14th en route for Tampa, Fla. Mr. Marion Harper, of Full River, Maine, passed through the city Sunday, Feb. 14th on route for August, Georgia. Mrs. Amelia Davis, a church worker, who had been contained in the McCloud hospital of this city as a result of an operation, left the MARCUS MARCUS TO CURE ALL DISEASES OR NO CHARGES. DO YOU LOVE HEALTH 7 If so, call and see L. J. HAYDEN Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines. 220 West Broad Street. My Medicines cure all diseases known to Justice the thick rubber trous "A" and puncture stripe"i" and "and" also rim strip "the" woven troussels the tire will artifact any other make- SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. ... Please send the Planet for ..... Months to ```markdown ``` QUINADE QUINASOAP QUINACOMB SILBY DRUG COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. N. Y. 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That her selection for the part was a while one is evidenced by her performance in the series in which she has the lead. Technical officers declared her work remarkable for one of her years, and they have marveled at the case with which the diminutive star regist- eralized the most subtle points, ac- compulsing the director's desire oftentimes with an immensite perception of what was wanted quite in contrast to some of the coworkers many years her senior. One scene shows Helen locked in a calseuse upon a lonely siding: It would be plain by her setting how she got there even if the introductory scenes were not illustrated by her plight. The big blue eyes which shine out of the childish consternance, seemingly too large for their setting, reveal tiny tears starting on their journey as though back of them a childish heart really was breaking. 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THE STANDARD NEWS CO., Chas Gary, President and General Manager, 131 W. 53rd St., New York Chicago Agency. Those sojourning in Chicago and desire the PLANET weekly, may obtain the same at W. H. Robinson, jeweler and art dealer, 1927 West Lake street, phones, Scoley 4641; Auto 5.6121: Our agent, Mr. Robinson, will give priding attention to any one desiring the PLANET. Edw. Stewart 203 S. Second St. Richmond, Va. Dealer in FANCY GROCERIES, FRESH MEATS, VEGETABLES, FISH AND OYSTERS. 'Phone Madison 1637.. Agricultural & Mechanical College, FOR THE COLORED RACE. Open all the year round. For Males Only. Maintained by the governance of the United States and of North Carolina. Three strong departments—Aud- ence, Mechanical, Agricultural Board, Lodging and Tourism, $7.99 per month. Write for further information or entlog. JAMES R. DUBLEY, President, Greenbore, N.C. NOVEMBER JOE The Detective of the Woods by Hesketh Prichard. Copyright, 1913, by Hesketh Prichard SYNOPSIS. James Quarrit cigar maker November Joe on his guide Joe and he go to the big green portage to investigate the murder of a trapper named Lyon. Joe decides that the murderer followed Lyon to his camp and shot him from a canoe. By studying woodland evidence and making clever deductions Joe discovers the murderer, Higginson. Lumberman Close reports that Blacomask, a high wayman, is robbing his men. Six lumberjacks are robbed by the same man. Joe makes a careful examination of the scene of the robber. Close is accused by his man, but Joe arrests Chris, one of the lumberjacks, the real robber. Sally Rowe, a wildew, has been robbed of valuable pith. Joe and Ivana, a game warden, search for the thief. Sally's heart, Val Blanc, is suspected but Joe catches the actual object. Joey Sylvester, Midwestern Illinois daughter Virginia, has been detected. The abductors demanded $200 to raise for Virginia. Joe investigates the case that one think Hippert has abducted the girl. Joe ascertains that Virginia had herself abducted to get the tame for her lover Joe goes after Cecil Atkinson, who has stolen $100. Joe discovers that the robber has been robbed by his sweetheart, Linda Fountarre, and compels her to give up the money. John Stafford has been robbed of valuable black jeans. Joe finds that an Alcat employs John Stafford in league with the thieves. Joe traps the crime to the Duggers and recovers the tame black jeans he gets Joe to deliver to the detective at the macka. Mysterious uncle wears a black shirt of Potterham, and one of them pulls up buttons, an emblem and a tape on the mand. C 1APTER XII T: ooted island. T was a clear night, bright with stars. Joe and I were sitting by our campfire one of the hours. I was talking when suddenly Jo touched me. "Shift!" he whispered. "There's some feller moving down by the river." We waited, and I was soon awake of a figure advancing through the night. Then a voice said, "Time might mates," and a snowy, long arm fell low with a bit of a red board stepped into the circle of light. "The cold is what you keep your hands in your pockets don't," said Joe gently. "It doesn't." I then noticed that both men were covering each other with frosty through them to the end. The stronger slowly drew on the land. "I'm John St. 2447." This here to No. quarter of Quebec. I'm his guide. We come after big game. "I guess you're spitting truth. It's up to me to get it free to own I was doubtful about you. You'll understand that when I tell you what happened. Perhaps you've noticed an island about eight miles off the coast lying nor west." "Sort of leaf-shaped island? Yes." "That's where I come from—Eel island. I have a fox farm there. I returned to it yesterday after a run down to Vanitez. When I went away a fortnight ago I left my man in charge of some of the finest black foxes between this and Ivanitez. I got back to find the foxes all killed and my hired man gone disappeared." "Who was he?" "An Alent, called Sam. He's been in my employ three years. I see what you're thinking that he killed the foxes, and I'd have thought that myself only I know he didn't." "One reason is that I own only one boat, and when I went to the mainland last Friday week I took it, leaving Sam on the island. It's all of seven miles from the coast, so he couldn't have got away if he wanted. That I say, is one reason why it couldn't have been him. The other reason's an good. I was decoved away so cleverly. Here's the letter that did it." Gr-Your wife wants you to come down at once. She's due for an operation in the hospital here on Friday week, and she's hard put to it, to plan for the children till she gets a chance again. So you'd best come. You're truly in. 8 MACFARLANK (Doctor) I gave him back the letter. "Any man would have gone on such news." I said. "Well, I did," said Stafford savagely. "I got that letter twelve days back and off I wrest hot foot, leaving Aleu Sam in charge. It took me a week going down. When I reached the house where my wife is living, she was not priced to see me, and I showed her the letter. You can know. It was all a pussy. There wasn't any Dr. Sloc Siriana, nor any operation, and back I came—record breaking travel—to Ec Island. I found the place clean gutted. All the blacks and silvers cagged and killed, and the skinned excesses lying around. And About Sam vanished as if he had never lied. It may have been done for spite, but whoever he was he lived in my cabin several days, and slept in my bank. I wonder what he did with Sam. Knocked him on the head and heaved him in the son like as not. I'm ugh despair. The work of three years gone, three winter spent with Sam alone, like some kind of a Cruise and his man Friday, and keeping my wife, and two little girls down at Valhalla. "Look here, and it a bit early in the year to kill loves!" said Joe, after a pause. "They'd have been worth 25 per cent more in a month." "Because I couldn't have been decoyed away except while the steamer was running before the winter closed down. See? Even as early as this in the year the pelts were worth $1,000." "My?" said Joe. "Suspect any one in particular?" "I believe it may have been Trapper Simpson." He's had a down on me this good while back. Well, if it was him, he paid me out good, the black guard." "Hard words don't bring down nor man nor door," said Joe. "There was a shining, then, I said: "What would you give the man that discovered what it was robbed you?" "Good enough, November." I asked it matched. "What do you mean?" asked Staff to turn to Joe. "You a trail order?" "Leanin' to be," said Joe. .... The next we asked that we should go to the office. "What dawn to let no enter here?" he said. We want access, and I saw three took a cue, looking for the thief, though he knew he was little in money to mind any for the graved man he was as fright and had been impressive for days. We next came to Stafford's cabin. "Come right to," said Joe. "You told us the rubber lined in where he was on the island. If things is the way he left them lied to you point." "Have your way," said Stafford. "I haven't disturbed them. I put off theently I saw your smoke, and I hadn't long ago here." "Joe want in," said Stafford, every thing with his usual swift care. He'll match after match and peeped about the stove for the morning of the day, was pretty drizzled in the daytime. After this he bent over the table and, drawing his knife, sat behind at a stain on the lower side and then at a similar stain upon the other. "I'm through," he said at length. Stafford, who had been watching Joe's proceedings with an air of incredulity that bordered on derision, turned sharply to question him: "Found out anything?" "Not much," answered Joe. "Well, all I can see is that the victim has eaten a good share of my grub." "I dare say," said Joe. "There was two of them, you know." "No, I don't! And what else can you tell me about them?" "I think they was man and wife. She's a smallish woman; I'd guess she's maybe weakly, too. And he's fond of reading; anyway, he can read." Stafford stared at November half unpleasantly. "What? he shouted. "Are you kidding me? Or how did you get all that?" "That's easy," replied November. "There are two or three traces of a little flat foot in front of the store and a woman couldn't run this job on her own, so it's likely there was a man too." Stafford grunted. "You said she was weakly." "I thought maybe she was, for if she hadn't split the water out of the kettle most times she took it off the stove there wouldn't be any track, and here is one near on top of the other, so it happened more'n once on the same spot. She found her kettle heavy, Mr. Stafford, Joo said seriously. "I'm free to own that seems sense," acknowledged Stafford. "But the reading—that's different." "Table's been pulled up alongside the bunk—see that scrape of the leg—and he's had the lamp close up alongside the edge where the stain is. There's plenty old oil stains in the mid-gee of the table, but those close to the edge ain't been long on. You can see that for yourself." "By jago," said the fox farmer. "Anything else?" . The class what required you was trapper all right and had killed a red fox recent, so recent he 'carried it across and skinned it here." "Where?" "By your store." Joe bent down and picked up some short red hairs. "Clumy skinnning," said he. "Let's go out and take a look round the island." Stafford led the way. At a short distance some of the skinned carcasses lay. Joe turned them over. Suddenly he bent down with that quick intentness that I had learned to connect with his more important discoveries. From one he passed to another till he had handled every carcass. Stafford pointed out another island lying some five miles north, where, he told us, he kept his less valuable stock. "There's a lot of red and cross foxes over there on Edith Island. It's named for my oldest girl," he said. "When ever there happens a black one in the fitters I try to catch it and bring it over here to Ecl- I hullo! What's that?" Stuffard stood with his hands shading his eyes staring at Edith Island. "Look! That's smoke or I'm dreaming." he cried. A very faint line of bluish haze rose from the distant rock. "Smoke it is," said Joe. "But the island is uninhabited. Come on, come on!" cried Stafford excitedly. "It may be those guilliams clearing out Edith Island too. We'll get after them." "All right, Mr. Stafford," agreed Joe. "But I guess it's liable to be your Alent Sam marooned over there." "That's a signal fire. Whoever's made that fire is putting on moss. And I've not told things here that make me think it didn't likely they killed Sam." The what served us fairly well, and ATKEO "Look! That's smoke or I'm dreaming," he cried. as we ran under the boe of the land we were aware of a figure standing on the beach waiting for us. "It's Alent Sam, sure enough," said Stafford. The Alent proved to be a squat fellow of a most Mongolian cast of countenance. We rowed ashore in the canyass boat, and on the beach Stafford held a rapid conversation with his man in Indian. Neither Joe nor I could follow what was said, but presently Stafford enlightened us. "Nam says that one night, four days after I left Eel island, he had just eaten his supper when he heard a knocking on the door. Thinking it must be me who had returned, he opened it. Seeing no one, he stepped out into the dark, when a pair of arms were thrown around him, and a cloth that smelt like the stuff that made him go sleep in the hospital (Sam's had most of his toes off on account of frost bite down to Valdez) was clapped about his head. He struggled, but he says he does not remember any more until he woke up on the beach here. It was still dark, and the men and boat were gone. "Toward evening he discovered a barrel of dried fish which had been tumbled ashore from the boat which marooned him—to keep him from starving. I suppose. He went up into the scrub and made a fire. Since then he's been here and seen no one. That's all." "Then he didn't ever really see the faces of the claps that kidnapped him?" Stafford translated the question to Sam and repeated the answer. "One had a beard and was a big man; he wore a penked cap. Anything else to ask him?" "Yes. How long has he been here on this island?" "Eight days." "What's he been doing all the time?" "Just wandering around." "Where has he been camped?" Stafford raised his thumb over his shoulder. "In the scrub above here." Joe nodded. "Well, let's go to his camping place and boil the kettle. He'll sure have a bit of fire there." Joe stirred the smouldering logs into life, but in doing so was so unfortunate as to overturn the kettle. "That's bad," said he. "Best tell your man to get some more water." Stafford sent off Sam on his errand; but no sooner had the Aleut disappeared than November was on his knees examining the charred embers and delving among the ashes. "Get rid of your hired man for a while longer, only so he don't suspect anything." he said. "I hear him coming." "You mean he's in the robbery?" "He sure is. And, what's more, it looks to me like he's your only chance of getting your foxes back... Here he comes." A moment later Sam appeared in sight walking up the narrow gravel Within the region, people are loved. Stanford eager to him in About. Sam grinned in acquiescence, and went off up the hill that formed the center of the island. "I told him, to go gather some more wood while the kettle's holling. Now you can talk and tell me who you think has the pelts of my foxes." "Your foxes ain't dead." "Ain't dead! You've forgot their skinned carcasses." "I allow we saw some skinned carcasses, but they was the carcasses of red foxes worth no more than $10 apiece instead of a thousand. I examined those carcasses mighty careful. Their eyes wasn't the right color for black foxes. That's one thing. For another, I found some red hairs. It ain't in nature you can take a pelt off and not a hair stick on the body under." Stafford digested this in silence. "But why, in creation should the chaps have taken the trouble to bring over red fox carcasses?" he inquired at length. "That's easy answered. They was after your best stock. It's pretty likely they didn't take them far, and they wouldn't want you nosing about for your live foxes." "Is that it?" "Another thing. The robbers was six days or more on Eol island. Now, they could catch and kill all your foxes in two. But to catch them so they wouldn't be hurt would take time. No, your foxes aren't dead yet, and they ain't far off, neither, and your Alent knows who's got them. He told you he'd been eight days on this island, didn't he?" Stafford nodded. "Eight days, that's what he said." "He lied. I knew it the moment I set eyes on his fire. Not enough ash to this fire to make heat to keep a man without a blanket comfortable for eight days this weather. And look! The bought he's broke off for his bed. They're too fresh. Agin, he didn't got no ax here, yet the charred ends of the thicker bits on the fire has been cut with an ax. It's clear as light. The robbers ferried Sam across here about two days back, cut some wood for him so he shouldn't be too cold, gave him grub to list till about the time you'd likely be home and left him." "I guess you're right. I see it now. I'm grateful to you." Stafford reached for his rifle, but Joe intervened. "Stay you still, and I'll show you the way we do in the bulbier camp." why we do in the hummock camps. Sam's strong, squat figure advanced toward us. As he stooped to throw the wood he had brought on the ground Joe caught his shoulder with one hand and snatched the knife from his belt with the other. And then there flashed across the features of the Aleut an expression like a mad dog. He flung himself, grumbling and snarling, on November. But he was in the grip of a man too strong for him, and, though he returned again and again to the attack, the huge young woodsman twisted him to earth, where Stafford and I tied his struggling limbs. This done we rolled him over. The Aleut shook his head. Stafford pulled out his revolver, opened the breech, made surge it was loaded and cocked it. Next he held his watch in front of Sam's face and pointed out the face that it wanted but five minutes to the hour. "I'm telling him if he don't confess," he said. "I'll shoot him when the hand reaches the hour." He turned to us. "You'd best go." "Good heavens," You don't really mean"--I cried. Stafford winked. Joe and I went down to the bench below. A quarter of an hour passed before Stafford joined us. "What's happened?" I asked. "He's confessed, all right." Then Stafford looked at Joe. "It all went through just the way you said. It A man is standing over a man who is lying on the ground in a forest. The man is holding a knife and appears to be threatening the man. "I'll shoot him when the hand reaches the hour." was a rival fox farmer, Jurgensen, dik it. Landed on Eel island with his wife the night I left, they were there until two days ago; took them all their time and Sam's to get my force. Then they brought him over here. And now I will leave out any account of the course of the next sixteen hours which we spent in the still and pick up the thread of this history again with Stuart housing at the door of the Jurgensen estate on Dynein island. We had neither there after dick. Saw and I missed both Stuart Stand the Gain. It was grown open, and a big fingerbread Swede demanded his business. "I've just called around to take back my foxes," said Stafford. "Vet voxes!" "The blacks and silvers you stole." "You are malt!" "Shut it!" cried Stafford. "Ten days ago you and your wife, having decoyed me away to Valdes, went to Eel island. You were, there eight days, during which time you cleaned out every animal I owned on it. I know you didn't kill them, though you tried to make me believe you had by leaving the skimmed carcasses of a lot of red foxes. Three days ago you left Eel island." "As he spoke I saw the wizened figure of a woman squeezing out under the big Swede's elbow. She had a narrow face, with blinking, malvolent eyes, that she fixed on Stafford. "Zo! Vot then?" jeered Jurgensen. "When you rowed over to Eilth island and manoeuvred my man Alent Sam, who was in the robbery with you." The big Swede snatched up a rifle by the door and stepped out. "Get out of here," he cried, "or"—He paused on catching sight of Joe and myself. "I'll go if you wish it," said Stafford dangerously, "that if I do it'll be to return with the police." "And look here, Mr. Dutchman," broke in Joey gently, "if it comes to that you'll get put away for a fifteen years' rest cure, aure." "Who are you?" bellowed Jurgensen. "He's the man that told me my wife was weakly and spilled the water from the kettle when she lifted it, for he found her tracks at my place by the slope. He's the man that discovered ax cut log ends in Alent Saurus' fire on Edith island when we knew Sam had no ax with him. He's the man I owe a lot to." "Me also," said Jurgenson venomously ly as he bowed his head. "Vot you vant--your terms?" he asked at last. Stafford hid his answer ready. "My own foxes, that's restoration--and two of yours by way of interest--that's retribution." "And if I say no?" "You won't. Where's my foxes?" Jurgensen heirited, but clearly there could be only one decision in the circumstances. "I left them in my kennels," he answered. "Were inclosures?" cried Stafford in disgust. "Yes." "You can't grow a decent pelt in a cage," snapped Stafford, with the eagerness of a fortunate mounted upon his hobby. "You must let them dive their natural life as near as possible or their color suffers. The pigmentary glands get affected." "Poof!" I half read of all that in the book "Zeichen: Relief of Color Forms." "Yes," put in Joe. "you read a good bit while you were at Mr. Stafford's place, that's so lying in Mr. Stafford's bunk." Jurgensen raised startled eyes. "You see me?" "No." "How you know then?" Joe langhed. "I guess the spiders mustn't told me." said he. CHAPTER XII NOVEMBER JOE had odden me farewell at the little siding known by the picturesque name of Silent Water "Sport you'll be back again. Mr. Quartich, as soon as you've fixed them new mining contracts, and then, maybe, we'll try a wolf hunt. There's a tidy pack comes out on the Lac Noir ice when it's nightlight." But the shinies of business are not so easily shaken off, and the spring had already come before another vacation in the woods had begun to merge into productivity. About this time Linda Peter him rang me up on the telephone and demanded my presence at lunch. "But I am engaged," said I. "What is it? "I will tell you when you come. I want you." I made another effort to explain my position, but Linda had said her last word and rung off. I smiled as I called up the picture of a small Greek head crowned with golden hair, a pair of dark blue eyes and a mouth wearing a rather imperious expression. The end of it was that I went, for I have known Linda all her life. The Petersham family consists of Linda and her father, and, though in business relations Mr. Petersham is a power to be reckoned with, at home he exists for the sole apparent purpose of carrying out his charming daughter's wishes. It is a delightful house to go to, for they are the happiest people I know. I found myself the only guest, which surprised me, for the Petersham mansion has a reputation for hospitality. "James, I want you to do this for me. I want you to persuade pop not to do something." "I? I persuade him? You don't need me for that--you, who can make him do or not do anything, just as you wish!" "I thought I could, but I find I can't." "How is that?" "Weil, he is set on going back to Kalmacks." "Kalmacks? I know it is the place Jultus Fischer built up in the mountains. He used to go shooting and fishing there." "That is it. It's a place you'd love—bits of good rooms and standing way back on a mountain slope, with miles of view and a stream tumbling past the very door. Father bought it last year and with it all the sporting rights Jultus Fischer claimed. The woods are full of moose, and there are bearer and otter, and that's where the trouble came in." "But Fischer had trouble from the day he went up to school at Kaiserslau. He had to run for it, so I was told. Didn't your father know that? Why did he Fischer have to anything to do with the game?" Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair It is unsurpassed for making harsh, kinky and stubborn hair—soft, glossy and luxurious. 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"It would be." I commented: I could without effort imagine Julius Fischer's views on compensation, for I had met him in business. "Well, father went into the matter and he found that the squatters had a good deal to be said for their side of the case, so that he did what he thought was fair by them. He paid them good high press for their rights, or what they considered to be their rights, for to law, of course, they posessed none. Every one seemed pleased and satisfied, and we were looking forward to going there this spring for the fishing when news came that one of father's game wardens had been shot at." "Shot at?" Linda molded the Greek head I admired so much. "Yes. Last autumn father put on a couple of wardens to look after the game, and they have been there all winter. From their reports they have got on quite well with the squatters, and now suddenly, for no reason that they can guess, one of them, William Worke by name, has been fired upon in his camp." "Killed?" I asked. "No, but badly wounded. He said he was sure the bullet could have been put into his heart just as easily, but it was sent through his knee by way of a notice to quit, he thinks." "Those folks up there must be half savages." "They are, but that's not all. Three days ago a letter came, meant for father, but addressed to me. Whoever wrote it must have seen father and knew that he was not the kind of man who could be readily frightened, so they thought they would get at him through me. It was a horrible letter." The words were written upon a sheet torn from an old account book. They ran as follows: You, Peterham, you mean skunk! Don't you come in our wods unless you willing to pay five thousand dollars. Bring the goods and you be told to put it so it will come into the hands of rifters. Dollars isn't mothin to you, but they can keep an expanding bullet out for hide. "Do you think it is a hoax?" "Well, no, I can't honestly say I do." "Which means, in plain language, that if father does not pay up that $5,000 he will be shot." "Not necessarily. He need not go up to Kalmacks this fall." "But of course he will go! He's more not on going than ever. You know father when he is dealing with men. And he persists in his opinion that the letter is probably only bluff." "I considered for a little before I spoken. "Linda, have you really sent for me to try to persuade your father that it would be winer for him not to go to Kalmacks?" Linda's tip curled gracefully. "I should not put it just like that! I can forgive father's unworthy if you did. You should it will be no good feeling for anything you don't know here." "You mean that I have no tact?" "She smiled at me, and I instantly forgave her. "Well, perhaps I do, but you know it is far better to be able to give help than just to talk about it. Father is determined on going to Kalmacks, and I want you to come with us." "Us?" I cried. "Naturally, I'm going." "But it is absurd! Your father would never allow it." "He can't prevent it, dear James," she said softly. "I don't for a moment suppose that even the Kalmacks people would attack a wolman. And father is all that I have in the world. I'm going." "Then I suppose I shall have to go too. But tell me what purpose does your father think he will serve by undertaking this very risky expedition?" "I believe that the general feeling up at Kalmacks is in his favor, and the shooting of the warden as well as the writing of this letter is the work of a small band of individuals who wish to blackmail him. We will be quite a strong party, and he hopes to discover who is threatening him. By the way, didn't I hear from Sir Andrew McLerrick that you had been in the woods all these last falls with a wonderful guide who could read trails like Uncas, the last of the Deluwares, or one of those old trappers one reads of in Fentmore Cooper's novels?" "That's true." "What is his name?" "November Joe." "November Joe," she repented. "I visualize him at once. A witty looking old man, with gray gontee and piercing eyes." I burst out laughing. "It's extraordinary you should hit him off so well." "He must come too," she commanded. On Friday I got Joe, who arranged to meet us at Prismville, the nearest point on the railway to those mountains in the heart of which the estate of Kalmacka was situated. I myself arranged to accompany the Petersona. Into the story of our journey to Priamville I need not go, but will pick up the sequence of events at the moment of our arrival at that entertaining town, when Linda, looking from the car window, suddenly exclaimed: "Look at that magnificent young man!" "Which one?" I asked innocently as I caught sight of November's tall figs awaiting us. "How many men in sight answer my description?" she retorted. "Of course I mean the woodsman. Why, he's coming this way. I must speak to him." Before I could answer she had jumped lightly to the platform and, turning to Joe with a childlike expression in her blue eyes, said: "Oh, can you tell me how many minutes this trails stops here?" "It's very kind of roos." At this moment I appeared from the cave, "Katie, Joe!" and I. "How are things?" "All right, Mr. Quentin. There's problem with breakfast with a pair of beans in each writing and a cup (Quentin's on a smooth page)." November. Joe The Detective of the Woods By HESKETH PRICHARD Copyright, 1913. By Dusketh Prichard ette It for the king o Russia. The road between this and the mountain is flooded by beaver working in a backwater 'bout ten miles out. They say we can drive through all right. Miss Peterham needn't fear getting too wet." "How do you know my name?" exclaimed Linda. "I heard you described, miss," replied Joe gravely. Linda looked at me. "Good for the old moshback!" said I. Her lips bent into a sudden smile. "You must be Mr. November Joe. I have heard so much of you from Mr Quaritch." We went out and loaded our baggage upon the waiting buckboards. One of these was driven by a small, shallow faced man, who turned out to be the second game warden, Puttick. Mr. Peterham asked how Bill Worke, the wounded man, was progressing. "He's coming along pretty tidy, Mr. Peterham, but he'll carry a stiff leg with him all his life." "I'm sorry for that. I suppose you have found out nothing further as to the identity of the man who fired the shot." "Nothing," said Puttick, "and not likely to. They're all banded together up there." On which cheerful information our little caravan started. At Linda's wish Joe took the place of the driver of Mr. Petterham's light imported wagonette, and as we went along she gave him a very clear story of the sequence of events, to all of which he listened with the characteristic series of "Well, now!" and "You don't say!" with which he was in the habit of punctuating the remarks of a lady. He said them, as usual, in a volco which not only emphasized the facts at exactly the right places, but also lent an air of subtle compliment to the eloquence of the narrator. When we stopped near a patch of pine trees to partake of an impromptu lunch it was his quick hands that prepared the campfire and his skilled ax that fashioned the rude but comfortable seats. It was he also who disappeared for a moment to return with three half pound trout that he had taken by some swift process of his own from the brook, of which we only heard the murmur. And for all these doings he received an amount of open admiration from Linda's blue eyes which seemed to me almost exaggerated. "I think your November Joe is a perfect dear," she confided to me. "If you really think that," said I, "have mercy on him! You do not want to add his scalp to all the others." "Many of the others are bald." said abe. "His hair would furnish a dozen of them!" CHAPTER XIV Max of the Mountains So the afternoon passed away, and as it became late we entered great tracts of gloomy pine woods. A wind which had risen with the evening moaned through their tops and flung the dark waters of innumerable little lakes against their moss bordered shores. I noticed that Puttick unsing his rifle and laid it among the packs upon the buckboard beside him, and whenever the road dipped to a more than usually somber defile his eyes, quick and restless as those of some forest animal, darted and peered into the shadows. The light of the sun was fading when there occurred the one incident of our journey. It was not of real importance, but I think it made an impression on all of us. The road along which we were driving came suddenly out into an open space, and here in front of a shack of the roughest description a man was engaged in cutting logs. As we passed he glanced up at us, and his face was like that of some medieval prisoner—a tangle of wild beard, a mass of grayish hair and among it all a pair of eyes which seemed to glare forth hatred. There was something omnisome about the wolfish face. It was already dark when we arrived at the house, a long, low building of surprising spaciousness, set literally among the pines, the fragrant branches of which tapped and rustled upon the windows. We went in, and while dinner was preparing Mr. Peterham, Joe and I went to the room where the wounded game warden, Worthy, lay upon a bed smashing a pipe with a candle sputtering on a chair bundle him. "Yes, Mr. Peterson," said he in answer to a question. "When you went away last fall I did think things were nothing down a bit, but a week ago while Peterson was on the summer boundary I thought I'd go up to Smith Hill, where last year Kreggman had the break mated. I was making a fire to hell my battle when a shot was fired from the ballet gym above and the next I jumped wide that I was hit poorly but through this knee. "It was coming on dart, and I rolled into a bush for cover, but whoever it were didn't fire at me again. I don't think he wanted to kill me. If he had he could have put the bullet into my heart just as easy as in my leg. I tied up the wound the best way I could. CKRA His Face Was Like That of Some Medieval Prisoner. Lucky the bullet didn't touched any big artery. Next morning I crawled up the hill and lit signal smokes till Puttick came. He brought me in hero." "I suppose Puttick had a look round for the tracks of the fella who gunned you!" asked November. "He did, but he didn't find out nothing. There was a light shower between dark and dawn, and the ground on the hill above there is mostly rock." Such, then, was the story, of our coming to Kalmacks; and for the next two or three days we spent our time dashing in the streams, the only move in the direction of the main object of our visit being that Joe, whom Linda insisted upon accompanying, walked over to Senilla lake and had a look at the scene of Worke's accident. The old tracks, of course, were long since washed away, and I thought, with the others, that Joe's visit had been fruitless until he showed me the shell of an exploded cartridge. "The bullet which went through Bill Worke's leg came out of that. I found it on the hill above. It's a 45.75 central fire ridge, an old 70 model." "This is a great discovery you and Miss Petermann have made." Joe smiled. "There's nothing much to it, anyway. She lost her brooch somewhere by the lake and was looking for it when I found this." Joe indicated the exploded shell. "The mountains is full of 45.75 gun, 1876 pattern. Some years back a big tromongery store down here went bust and threw a fine stock of them caliber rifles on the market. A few dollars would buy one, so there's one in pretty nigh every house and two and three in some. Howsoever, it may be useful to know that him that shot Bill Worke carried that kind o' a rifle Still, we'd best keep it to ourselves. Mr. Quaritch." "All right." said I. "By the way, Joe, there's a side to the situation I don't understand. We've been here four days, and nothing has happened. I mean Mr. Petersham has had no word of where to put the $5,000 black-mall these criminals are demanding of him." "Maybe there's a reason for that." "I can't think of any." "What about the sand?" "The sand?" I repeated. "Yen, haven't you noticed? I got Mr. Petersham to have two loads of sand brought up from the lake and laid all round the house. It takes a track wonderful. I guess it's pretty near impossible to come nigh the house without leaving a clear trail. But the first rainy night, I mean when there's rain enough to wash out tracks." "Thou'll come!" "Yes, they'll likely come." But as it happened Joe was wrong. I believe that his reasoning was correct enough, and that it was the fear of leaving such marks as would enable us to gather something of their identity that kept the enemy from pinning upon our door the letter which finally arrived pronically enough in a cheap store envelope that bore the Framville postmark. The contents of this letter were as follows: Petersham, you go alone, to Butler's cairn II. o'clock Friday night. Take the dollars along; you be met their and can hand it over. Below was a rude drawing of a coffin. Petersham read the note out to Joe and myself. "Where's Butler's cairn?" he asked. "I know it." said November. "But- let's claim in on a hill about two miles west of here." "I supposes you won't go?" said I. "With the money? Certainly not." "You can hardly go without it." "Why not?" "You would be shot down." "I'd talk to the rifflers first and then if there was any shooting, I guess I'd be as much in it as they would." "I suggest that we all three go," I said. But Joe would have some of this when. "I was thinking I might skip lightning to Ribbon's eye and maybe get a look at the ladies." "No!" said Petunium doubtfully. "I THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. would allow it. You say yourself you would be shot." "I said we would get shot, not me alone. Three men can't go quiet where one can." And so finally it was arranged, though not without a good deal of argument with Petersham. "That's a fine fellow," remarked Petersham. I nodded. "The kind of fellow who fought with and bettered the Iroquois at their own game. I wonder what he will see at Butler's calm?" It was past midnight when Joe appeared again. Petersham and I both asked for his news. November shook his head. "I've nothing to wit, nothing at all. I didn't see no one." "Where were you?" "Lying down on top of the calm itself. There's good corners to it." "You could see well round, then, and if any one had, come you would not have failed to observe them." "Couldn't be too sure. There was some dark times when the moon was shut in by clouds. They might 'a come-them times, though I don't think they did. But I'll know for certain soon unless it comes on heavy rain. There's a fine little lake they calls Butler's pond up there. You take your fishpole, Mr. Qnaritch, and we'll go over at sunrise and you try for some of them trout, while I take a scout round for tracks." This we did, but search as Joe would be failed to discover any sign at all. He told me this when he joined me at breakfast time. After I had caught a nice string of trout we walked back to Kalmacka, circling round the house before we entered it. The sand lay undisturbed by any strange footstep, but when we got in we found Mr. Petersham in a state of the greatest excitement. "One of the blackmallers has had a long talk with Puttick," he told us. "What?" "Incredible as it sounds, it is no." "But when was this?" "Early this morning, some time after you and Joe started. This is how it happened. Puttick had just got up and gone down, with a tin of rosin and some spare canvas and tin to mend that canoe we ripped on the rock yesterday. In fact, he had only just begun working when he was startled by a voice ordering him to hold up his hands." "By Jove, what next?" "Why, he held them up. He had no choice. And then a man stepped out from behind the big rock that's just above where the canoe lion." "I hope Puttick recognized him." "No. The fellow had a red handkerchief tied over his nose and mouth. Only his eyes showed under the brim of a felt hat that was pulled low down over them. He carried a rifle, that he kept full on Puttick's chest while they talked. But I'll call Puttick. He can finish the account of the affair himself. That's best." Puttick answered to the call, and after running over the story, which was exactly similar to that we had just heard from Petersham, he continued: "The tough had a red banker tied over his ugly face, nothing but his eyes showing. He had me covered with his gun to rights all the time." "What kind of a gun was it?" "I didn't see; leastways I didn't no tice." "Well, find he anything to say?" "He kep' me that way a minute be fore he started speaking. 'You tell Petersham,' says he, 'it's up to him to pay right away. Tell him unless he goes at once to Butler's cairn and takes the goods and leaves them there on the big flat stone by the rock he'll hear from us afore evening, and he'll hear in a way that'll make him sorry all his life. And as for you, Ben Puttick, you take a hint and advise old man Petersham to buy us off, and he can't be too quick about doing it either. If he tries to escape we'll get him on the road down to Priamville.' After he'd done talking he made me put my watch on the canoe—that I'd turned bottom up to get at that rent—and warned me not to move for half an hour. When the half hour was up I come right away and tell you." "Tall or short was he?" "Medium-like." "Which way did he go when he left you?" "West: right along the bank." "You followed his trail after the half hour was over?" Puttick opened his eyes. "He didn't leave none." "Left no trail! How's that?" cried Petersham. But Joe interposed. "You mean he key to the stones in the bed of the brook all the time?" "That's it. And, anyway, if I'd got fooling lookin' for his tracks I'd 'a' got a bullet in me same as Bill Worke." ended the little man. "They're all watching for us." [TO BE CONTINUED.] House Votes For Two Battleships. The house voted in favor of the two battleship program of the naval affairs committee, in spite of the warmings by Mr. Underwood, the house leader, against extravagance, and the pleas by the big navy men for more warships. 10,000 Pages of Austrian Casualties. More than 10,000 pages of names of Austrian and Hungarian soldiers who were killed, wounded and otherwise incapacitated in the European war, were filed at the congressional library in Washington by the Austrian embassy. Extra Session In Sight. President Wilson will not consent to drop the ship bill, he fold his calls at the White House, but he is not likely convinced that the legislative system will make certain an entire condition of congress. His remarks were, interpreted by his colleagues as impugning he would not hosthe to an open session if the bill were defeated by a dissentor. 1 Bryan Criticized In House: Criticism of Secretary of State Bryan for filling lecture engagements "while a war is raging in Europe" was made in the house by Representative Mondell, of Wyoming. Pupils Escape From Burning School. The frame school house at Maryd, near Pottsville, Pa., was destroyed by fire. All the 175 pupils were taken out safely. A defective flue was the cause. The loss is $6000. WERNER HORN. German Who Dynamited Bridge Between Canada and U. 8. JOHN H. BURGESS 1913, by American Press Association. Villa Proclaima Himself President. General Francisco Villa proclaimed himself provisional president of Mexico. He also announced that he will remain as military chief. There was general jubilation all along the border, following Villa's announcement. There is a feeling that in establishing a dictatorship he will crush 'all revolts and bring order out of the present chaos. Villa gave as his reason for assuming the office that his forces had been separated from the convention government headed by Roque Gonzales Garza, as provisional president, who left with the Zapata forces when they departed south from Mexico City at its occupation recently by Obregona's Carranza troops. Villa telegraphed from Aguas Crientes the following: "On account of communications having been cut off between the convention government and the division under my command, and as public service cannot be interrupted in the extensive zone which I control, I have found myself compelled to assume the political authority, creating these three political administrative departments: "The foreign affairs and justice department, in charge of M. Diaz Lombardo; state and communications, General Luis de la Garza Cardenas; treasury and industry, Francisco Escudero." Mine Blow-Up Kills Twenty. Twenty miners were killed and 160 escaped death in an explosion in the Carlisle mine of the New River Coal company at Fayetteville, W. Va. That so many men escaped after being entombed was due to the fact that the cage and shaft were not damaged. While many were brought out by the cage, some managed to climb out through the air shafts. Four men were rescued by searching parties, who penetrated the mine soon after the explosion, which is believed to have been due to the ignition of a pocket of gas from a miner's lamp. One of the rescued men, suffering from burns, was sent to a hospital. Six bodies, none of which has been identified, were found near where the explosion occurred, by the first rescue party to descend. Later, a more extended search of the mine, followed in the clearing away of debris, led to the finding of fourteen more bodies. All had been killed by after dawn while at work. State mine inspectors, who take charge of the mine, learned that 100 men had gone into the workings. All the victims were of foreign birth or emigration. Have You Joined Our Christmas Savings Club? You Should Do So at Once. There are Four Classes. You can join either one or all of them. Get ready to accumulate and save up money for next Christmas. You can start, with 2 cents for the first week. Monday, December 28th, the amount payable is 4 cents. You increase the payment each week until it reaches $1.00 per week. You will draw $25.50 next Christmas, which amount will be increased by 3 per cent interest. You can take out a 2 cent descending card. You can start with $1.00 per week. The last payment is 2 cents payable Nov. 29, 1958. For the benefit of those who prefer to pay the larger sum first, we have arranged for the 2 cent card to have a downward movement, by permitting you to pay the largest amount first. The last amount to be paid on the card in Class 2, is $1.00 payable No. 29th, 1915. You can pay this as of Dec. 21, 1914, Dec. 28th, 1914, the amount is 98 cents, Jan. 1, 1915, the amount is 96 cents, Jan. 11, 1915, the amount is 94 cents until the last amount payable Nov. 29, 1916 is 2 cents. You will receive $25.50 and interest to be included if you keep up the payments. Should you not keep up the payments you will receive all that you paid into the Class. You can start by paying five cents the first week. Monday Dec. 28th, the amount to be paid will be 10 cents. It increases 5 cents each week. The last payment is $2.50. The total amount that you will receive if you keep up the payments will be $6.75. You can start by paying $2.50 the first week and the amount will be 5 cents less each week until the last payment will be 5 cents. You get 3 per cent interest if you make all payments. CLASS 5A. For the benefit of those who desire to pay the largest amount first, we have arranged the descending card in this class. You can pay $2.50, as of Dec. 21, 1914; $2.45 as of Dec. 28, 1914; $2.40 as of Jan. 4, 1916 $2.35 as of Jan. 11, 1915 and so on until the amount will be only 5 cents Nov. 29, 1915, the date of the first payment. Checks for all Classes are mailed Dec. 7, 1915, in timefor Christmas shopping. The total amount you will receive is $63.55 to which will be added 3 per cent interest. You pay 25 cents the first week and 25 cents each week thereafter. $12.50 will be paid by check with interest next December. CLASS 50. You pay 50 cents the first week and 50 cents each week thereafter. The amount you will receive next Christmas by check with interest is $25.00. You can join now. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, N. W. Corner Third and Clay Sts., Richmond, Virginia. Agents' Contest. Open to Everybody. Men, Women or Children. 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For each back paying subscriber or money paid into the office, a vote will be allowed for each cost paid, whether on advertisement or job work. 311 North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. The Coupon will be found in this paper. CLASS 2. to first week. Monday until it reaches $1.00. x 3 per cent interest. the last payment is 2 c CLASS 3A. to pay the larger settling you to pay t payable No. 29th, 1 4, 1915, the amount 29, 1916 is 2 cents child you not keep u CLASS No. 5. is the first week. Mo week. The last payme t be $63.75. You can t until the last payme CLASS 5A. to pay the largest ams of Dec. 21, 1914; $ until the amount will be remailed Dec. 7, 191 which will be added CLASS 25. and 25 cents each week CLASS 50. and 50 cents each week cost is $25.00. You can Corner Third and Clos s' Co y. Men, FIRST PRIZE. A Exposition or to the will not less than 25.0 SECOND PRIZE. THIRD PRIZE. FOURTH PRIZE. 0. votes. FIFTH PRIZE. VALUE OF VOTES. and get 19 votes. and get 45 votes. d get 125 votes. and get 225 votes. money paid into the k. PLA ```markdown ``` (Continued from 1st, Page ) obeyed by the Boards working under it. That these issues will be settled and settled within the denominational rank. I verily believe. MAJORITY MUST RULE Fundamentally, the leaders as well as the people in Baptist churches are democratic in their views of church government, (real Baptists) they believe in majority rule, and while they concede that sometimes majorities are wrong, yet they submit, rather than attempt to change the principle, for as Christian men they believe that it is "better to suffer writing, than to do wrong." They have been taught this principle in their local churches, in their district associations, and in their state Conventions, and will not yield or compromise it in the National Convention. They are careful to see that the rights of the local church, which is the unit, is not infringed upon, and that no laws are enacted which does not accord with the New Testament scriptures. The churches having created the National Baptist Convention upon the basis of their own existence have a right to expect, and will demand that the Convention govern all of its agencies upon the same rule or principle by which they themselves are governed. That there has been some resistance to this rule must be admitted, but as we have already said, that these matters will be settled within the ranks we will not discuss them here. THE DENOMINATION'S GROWTH Perhaps the marvelous growth of the denomination, and the wonderful development of the enterprise carried on by it, have been the cause for some of the misunderstandings among the people. One of the presidents of our country once said, "Long continuation in office, breeds dissention." Some of us have been in office for more than twenty years, and it is perfectly natural that many will think that it is time for a change, and I am sure that some who are in office would be glad to be replaced by what of the marvelous growth. ONE NATIONAL BODY A quarter of a century ago, the Negro Baptists were divided into three National Conventions. The principal objects before them were the preaching of the gospel in Africa, the gathering of statistics, and the publication of a magazine. These were grand days, and those in the lead at that time were grand good men, but what have the same people now? The largest single organization among Baptists in the world, which organization has representative membership in the General Convention of North America, representative membership in the Baptist World Alliance; representative membership in the Federal Council of Churches in America; and cooperative alliance in missionary and educational work with the great Southern Baptist Convention. It has also the largest and strongest auxiliary Convention of Women among Negro people in the world. In addition to this it has six Boards actively engaged in religious work three hundred and sixty-five days in each year. MUST GUIDE THE SHIP The leaders of this great army are being looked to by thousands of men and women who are bually engaged as college presidents, principals of great schools, teachers, lawyers, doctors, business men and many more thousands engaged in other pursuits, to guide the old Baptist ship safely over the turbulent waters. Shall they be disappointed? We most earnestly hope they will not be, and am giving out this letter that they may know that those who are stirring up strife do not represent the host thought among the leaders of the denomination. President of the National Baptist Convention OVERHEARD. (Now York Sun.) Whoever keeps his cars wide open at this time finds one almost unanimous opinion rushing into them from many mouths. In the subway and on the elevated in the street cars and on the ferry boats, in the smoking rooms of European and Caribbean steamers, in the smoking compartments and smoking cars of trains East, Middle West and far west among knots of commercial travellers in hotels, in clubs and in barber shops, wherever man talk, this opinion is uttered frankly and too often with a profane emphasis; forms of it are about like this: "You will never live long enough to see the Democratic party in power again. "Just wait until 1916. "Wilson is on the down grade. "Mr. Wilson may mean well, but he doesn't know anything about business." Associated Doctors. try is to put the Republicans back again. "Oh, of course those fellows in Washington know more about my business than I do." "They made a fine old tariff, I don't think. "I can't stand for that Mexican business, either. "Say, aln't Bryan a wonder? "Had to put the navy on the blink, too. "Meadoodledandy is a great boy, for sure. I've got a little red headed office boy that I'm training for Secretary of the Treasury. "This is a pinhead, bonchhead, fathead administration. Course and common words of vulgar people base enough to prefer a living to all the graces of rhetoric and even to that service to mankind for which the United States exists at present. Those regrettable expressions, a few of many of the same import with which the air is now vibrating, are set down without malice and without extinction. One more, as frequent, perhaps, as any of its comrades of plebeian criticism, is this: "And I never voted a Republican ticket in my life." Troy (N.Y.) Notes Mrs. Gee W. Vanderpohle of No. 10 Franklin Street who has been a great sufferer from the drought for a long time was taken to Troy Hospital Sun. day at 1 P M Jan 31M. She measured around her body six feet, could not lay down with any cave at all. They have taken much water from her. We were up to see her Sunday Feb. 7th, and she was getting along well for one having been sleek so long. The Emmanuel Baptist Church people will meet hereafter at the Gospel Chapel Harrison Place near Jacob St. Preaching 10 20 A.M and 7:30 P. M. Baraca Class meets at 5 P. M. Wednesday N.P. M. Bible reading and prayer meeting. Rev J. A. Talor Pastor DR. R. H. BOYD WRATHY. (Continued from 1st Page) ning a semi-religious and semi-political paper combined would not be the best thing for the Negro Baptists, hence, none of these articles were allowed in the columns of the religious periodicals. But, at a great negro meeting, the secretary made one of his cow-herding yells and harangues, and a few negroes with more money than sense got together $5,000 or $6,000 in one night, and they organized and incorporated under the laws of the state of Tennessee. The Globe Publishing Company, whose business it would be to publish a secular and political newspaper to be independent in its politics and conservative in its literary productions and views. Well, after hunting around for a few minutes for a president they elected this same secretary as president of this Globe Publishing Company. You can understand that he is a modest man, and cool dutti refuse an honest thrust on him. Now, Brother Mitchell, the cry comes up that this fellow is entrusted in too much power to be placed in the hands of such an educated irrorism as the secret tray. Well, thus far he has had sense enough and has been honest enough, not to steal a political officer nor break into the penitentiary. Just what will become of him in the end we cannot promise. Next monta he will celebrate. If he should be blessed to live, his seventy-first anniversary. He is now ready to retire from business. His children are all grown and married, all of his twelve grandchildren have parents to look after them but one, his old wife is still active and able to cook him a honecake of bread (in case he can furnish it to her to cook), and the brethren will allow him a little chance he hopes soon to say. "In peace now I lay me down to sleep." I pray the Lord my soul to keep R. H. Boyd, Manager National Baptist Union-Review AGENTS CONTEST. W. E. Brown, Richmond . 156 James H. Smith, Richmond . 135 Thomas Page of Fulton . 100 E. H. Webster, Florence, S. C. . 600 E. B. Johnson, Ruckner, Va. . 450 W. L. Jones, Lecesburg, Va. . 500 J. H. Fowkes, Roanoke, Va. 470 E. K. Thumm, Pittsburgh, Pa. 475 J. H. Mattox, Brooklyn, N. Y. 400 J. E. Schmidt, New York. . 360 Ned McKlever, Newport News. 325 Wm. H. Moore, Wilm'mt'n, N. C. 300 J. A. Taylor, Troy, N. Y. . 225 Quaker City Adv. Co, Phil. Pa. 225 D. W. Shoemaker, Sheffield, Al. 170 T. W. Townley, Washington 150 Mrs. L. Langon, Washington N. Y. 120 Samuel Hobbs, New Nork, N. Y. 110 Rev. J. J. Nickerson, Williamsburg, Va. . 110 Rudolph Graves, Elizabeth City, N. C. . 105 Frank N. Wilson, Washington 100 Hours 9 to 1—8 to 5. ANNOUNCEMENT. We have located a permanent institute in Richmond. We desire to secure a few cases in each community within 100 miles of this city. We want these few cases at once for advertising purposes. We want these cases that are incurable by ordinary methods. We want to prove what the United System will do. To get these we are going to make the following PRINT OFFICE Until February 5th we will give free examination and five compuls- Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night was a getting ready for the membership campaign. The hour was a warm one. The men are full of the spirit. The Blues and the Reds are to cross the bats in a few days. Let every man find another man. When we know of the great good that is being done by the Y. M. C. A. we feel and believe that no man will object to being a member. Some of the strongest boys and men for principle are of this great body. Richmond can speak out without fear. Come and get into the ring. The explanation on the Sunday school lesson last Sunday was a great help to the class, and we were glad to see new members. Keep the life up and, you will be more than paid. Last Sunday found much for the boys and men to do in the Y. M. C. A. work. 9.20 The workers' meeting was a good one and the fellows got the key for the day's work. Committeeman B. L. Allen gave the boys some special help at 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. by the address which interested them much. Mothers you are helping us much with the boys, so we ask you to keep up this same interest. 5.30 P. M. Mr. A. C. Clarke lead the open meeting for men and the subject was a great one. PAY THE PRICE. Every follow took an active part. The Y. M. C. A. Building. The meetings in the city home and city jail were a great help to the inmates and prisoners. Men do not get tired doing good. Did you know that you and your friend are invited to the Y. M. C. A. Saturday (today) 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday school lesson by prof. J. W. Barco? You are, so we will expect you to be on time. Do not miss this great opportunity. Men, be on time Sunday., ready for hard work and the other man "You shall not see my face unless you bring your brother." A special meeting for workers. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Committeeman J. B. Gaston will address the boys at 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Every boy is invited. Sept. John L. Ballard, of the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist church, will address the men at 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Mr. Waverly Hopkins will sing special solos. Men, help us to make this meeting a great hit for the good of Richmond. You can do it, so let us be active for the other man. Be on time. We are sorry to hear of the illness of one of our active members. Bro W. S. Morgan. Do not forget him in your prayers. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. We have and are being helped every day by your prayers. Mrs. Annie E. Wright, sister of Mrs Mary E. Washington and aunt of Miss Blanche Hullock continues very sick at her residence 1119 N. 5th Street. FOR RENT FOR RENT Something New Under the Sun The attention of the public is called to the fact that the Samaritan Hall, at the corner of 6th and Duval Streets has been thoroughly renovated from top to bottom and made a strictly modern up-to-date hall in every respect. To this end, we are offering to the public, to societies, lodges, educational clubs, social parties, to all persons and organizations who desire an excellent place to have, events of pleasure and entertainments, the privilege of renting rooms in the Samaritan Hall. These lodge rooms and the main hall which is used for entertainments, are for rent at strictly modern prices. We are ready and prepared to serve the public along this line. Let us have your application. For full information apply at the office of State Grand Lodge No. 6, L. O. of Good Samaritans and D. of Samarita, at the corner of 6th and Duval Streets. Address all communications to J. W. THOMPSON, Grand Secretary. G mos --- FOR RENT 732 N. 4th St. 4-room flat. 1007 N. 3rd St. 3-room house. 1009 N. 3rd St. 5-room house. 210 W. Charity St. 5-room house. 1015 St. James St. 2-room flat. 933 S. Lombardy St. 3-room house. 16 W. Jackson St. 3-room flat. 614 St. Petor St. 3-room flat. 537 N. 2nd St. 4-room flat. 514 Kenny St. 5-room house. 1003 N. 8th St. 3-room flat. 1002 Roane St. store and 2 rooms. 1631-a Aashland St., two 2-room Real Estate Agent, Cor. 2nd and Leigh Sts. SUITE 600 EAST BROAD. Thursday and Saturday 7 to 8 P.M. tation to all comers. Those cases which are curable we will accept for treatment absolutely free of charge, except for the medicines used. We treat diseases of the nerves, blood, skin, heart, liver, stomach, kidneys, including rheumatism, paralysis, golte, constipation, satarr, epilepsy, indigestion, dyspnea, weak back, bloating, droopy, oesma, sorre- ful, piles, hernia or rupture, dis- cases of women and diseases of men. We make no failure. We can't afford to. We accept for treatment only curable cases and take no money from these that are incurri- Lentship, (Va.) Noten. Miss Mary Lee, of Washington, paid her mother a flying visit Saturday, returning Sunday. Our pastor preached morning and evening. At eleven o'clock he mounted the stand with Rev. W. R. Manley, Reading Romans, 8th Chapter, Dr. Tylor using I. Cor. 15-19. Subject: The Christian's Hope, Rev. J. E. Dotson's congregation swooped down on us and many strangers worshipped with us. At 2:30 the Sunday school mot with Superintendent Roberts at the helm. The lesson was well taught. At 8 we were again blessed with a grand sermon by our pastor, from the subject: "Falling Leaves." Luke, 24-28: "Then He said unto them, O fools and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken." The doctor gave us some wholesome doctrine. We had to take it. Our Bro. Pinkett worshipped with us all day. The youngster took us off our feet. We are looking forward when we shall have a few weeks meeting and our spring rally. Hoping the members will get in good trim for the work. We have several sick. We were glad to have with us all our sister, Gracie Barlow, and the bride and groom Mr. and Mrs. Noble Adams. W. L. J. The Rev. S. Douglas McDume of Cleveland, Ohio, conducted a meeting at the Beulah A. M. E. church with great success. This young man of God is a representative and teacher of the young people. He claims that in a few years the Christian work must change hands. The young people of today are the ones who will be the officers of the Christian work. The future success of the Christian church depends largely upon the development of the right principles in the young people. He claims there is a leading sin which infolds many others; and when practiced gives birth to those sins which are destructive to the moral status of the people. This leading sin among the young people is dancing. He spoke particularly of the discipline of the Baptist and Methodist churches whose laws are against dancing. From a physical, disciplinarian, and Biblical view points he logically handled the subject with ease, and in a persuasive and convicive way brought conviction to many to believe it is a sin to dance. The result is one hundred and seventy on bended knees in prayer to God promised not to dance. When we think all of these are members of the church and having been allowed, by the officials, to drift for years in this direction, and not even called in question, is a serious matter to be considered by the consistent church members. The religious atmosphere here is somewhat undergoing a change and many church members are learning the lesson of obedience to church discipline and their God. Rev. J. W. Harmon of the A. M. E. church, and Rev. R. G. Adams of the First Baptist church filled their pulpits on Sunday. There is much rejoicing among the Baptist congregation over the two sermons delivered by their pastor Sunday morning and night. Miss M. Jenkins, of Warrenton, Va., is visiting Miss Evelyn Hatraton of Main Street. Her admirers here are many. Rev. McDuffie, the evangelist, and Rev. J. W. Harmon and his better half, dined with Rev. and Mrs. Adams, 109 Virginia St. Mrs. Salle Bartlette, of 4th St. is reported all. Mrs. Waddell, of Norfolk, Va., in here visiting her daughter. Mrs. Sallie Anderson is convalescent. Mr. James Booker, of Elly Street who has been very ill, is much imp proved. Mr. A. W. Mosey lost his father who resided in Cumberland Co. Va. Mrs. Susan Bland, of Grove Street is on the sick list. Miss Mary Moore has been in doors for several months. DO YOU KNOW THEM. I desire to know the whereabouts of my aunt, Mrs. Louisa Cary who lived in Sydney. I also had a cousin named Jennie Cephas. When last heard from she lived on Henry St. Any information concerning them will be gladly received by. JENNIE CHAMPION. 1727 N. Woodstock St. Philadelphia, Pa. WANTS TO FIND THEM. My father Ell Smith now dead was born and reared in the State of Virginia. He was sold as a slave to the State of Louisiana. There were three brothers and one sister, all sold as slaves in Louisiana. Ell John, James and Emily Smith. I am the only living son. Any information concerning the whereabouts of any member of the family will be gladly received. DR J. MITCHELL SMITH. 955 1-2 Naomi Ave. Los Angeles, California. Sunday 10 to 12. 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Prescription Druggist. 214 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW HER. I want to know the whereabouts of Mrs. Douglas Jiggett. Her husband was shot and killed here Jan. 9. Address WM. G. HERB, Coroner, Steubenville, Ohio. W. L. BRANCH. Federal Director and Embraider For First Class Service that Calls you Lonely. Association Center, and Office and Picture, 916 St. 2nd St., Phoenix, 1830. --- We will shingle the most kiky and stubborn hair Will dry the hair after Shampoo. We will cultivate the hair after Shampoo. It is fine and beautiful. The Beautiful Only Soap Maker. SPECIAL PRICE COMPLETE $2.80 We are the largest importers and manufacturers of soap in the world. Send 25 cents for our beautiful shaded Cedarwood. THE OLD REALABLE Mme. Baum's Hair Emperium 486 - 8th Ave. New York City Female E FemaleEmbalmer MADAM LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her hueband, Mr. Alphene Scott. Madam Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed one of the few women in the United States, Embalming and Conducting Bunarals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely: Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of G. Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your Patronage and Lausuence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. OFFICE: 8006 P Street. Phone Madison 3837. RESIDENCE: 1016 St. James St. Phone. Madison 6629. 'Phone, 577. A. D. P. Funeral Director, Embe All Orders Promptly Filled at uphone. Halls rented for most Family of room with all necessary Band Wings for Bire at recharge Gummings, Daggles, etc. Keep supplier. No. 212 East (Restaurant) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT THE STAR HAIR 'Phone, 577. Richmond, Va. A. D. 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