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BEDRAND CHARGES MRS. ALMA LITTLE WITH HAVING NEGRO BLOOD. (N. Y. American.) Arthur C. Little, a. draggist, of No. 1619 Joseph Campau. Avenue, Detroit, Mich. has begun suit for sl- vence from his wife. Mrs. Alma Boone Little, on the ground that she has negro blood in her veins, which she concealed at the time of the marriage. The divorce case gives new interest because of the most curious questions in anthropology and makes it easier how impossible it is for say no-called white man to prove that his wife is not a negro, or that his own veins do not contain negro blood. 1. Your personal appearance may determine the characteristics of the relationship, and yet you may have negro blood. On the other hand, your appearance may be dark, your hair black, and your feet flat, and yet you may be of the person whose descent you have failed to distinguish from the method of dressing to what race a man or woman belongs. The distinctions between the true negro and the true Caucasian types extend to every structure and every form of the body, but very few white persons are perfect types. There must be thousands of whites in Europe and America, who have remote negro ancestors. No marked discrimination has been shown in Europe against marriages with negroes, and as Africa is a very short distance from Europe, these marriages must have been going on for ages. Moreover, science has proved that in probistic times a race with negro characteristics lived in the south of France and other parts. It is probable that many descendants of these people are now living, and that though they may be of negro descent, they may not be African descent because their race originated in Europe. If you think over the list of your friends, you will probably find that many have something of the characteristic negro protruding jaw and flat nose, and that a few of them, perhaps, have the negro's kinky hair. You may even find other negro characteristics by careful examination in persons who at first sight appear perfectly white. So it will be seen that the case offers possibilities of a scientific controversy more far-reaching than the discussion of insanity in the Thaw case. Mrs. Little, who is a pronounced blonde, and apparently of strictly Caucasian features, says that she will call Professor Franz Bos, the noted New York anthropologist, to prove that she has not negro blood. Mr. Little, on the other hand, declares that he will call scientific experts and other witnesses to prove that his wife is of colored parentage. Professor Boas is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and curator in anthropology at the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History. He has studied strange and civilized races all over the world. Already he has made a preliminary examination of the Little case, and makes this statement about it: "As every scientist knows, each race has certain characteristics, and in the event of a marriage of persons of different races, the characteristics of either race may predominate in their children. Characterization of one race which may not be at all apparent in one generation may be strongly so in another. "If Mrs. Little, whose case is now attracting so much attention, has any of the characteristics of the negro race, it ought to be easy to find them by a close examination. Yet she may have negro blood in her veins and show few or none of the characteristics of that race. I have seen colonies who apparently had none of the characteristics of the negro." Beneath hide the hide the most reliable means of killing in what rises a present helmet. It is possible by a interceptable examination of a great anatomy of the hide to determine with a reasonable degree of accuracy what kind of helmet it is in the hide in each value. The greatest number of a hide from a helmet is found that of a white helmet in purple and that of a green helmet in blue. The greatest number of a helmet in blue is A cross section of her hair might be a perfect oval and yet she might have a large percentage of negro blood in her veins. "We know that the eyes of a negro have certain characteristics; likewise his nose, his lips and his jaw. His teeth are set in a different way from that of other races. The pigmentation in the skin is another important thing to be taken into consideration in proving the presence or absence of negro blood. But experience and tests have shown that a person of mixed blood may have several of the characteristics of one race and, other characteristics of another race. "It is impossible to attempt to settle the question by relying on one feature or one characteristic alone, because, as everybody knows, you often find among certain races one or more features which are commonly described as characteristics of entirely different races; and yet you would be unable to say that the person in question had in his veins the blood of the nation of which this special feature is a characteristic. "The characteristics of the negro race, like those of every other race, may run through many generations. There are many of them which are quite pronounced besides those I have mentioned. "It is easy to decide whether Mrs. Little has any of the characteristics of the negro race, but nevertheless the lack of them would not be proof that she has no negro blood in her veins. When science faces a problem like that presented by this case it has to confess how comparatively little it really knows about hopeless. "It has been asserted that a chemical examination of the blood will show that it is a more ancient ancestry, even though it has many generations before; but I do not believe that this is a reliable test. I do not think that it has worked out accurately. "As a matter of fact, we know less about the hereditary characteristics of the negro than we do of the other races. It seems to me that much good could be done for the negro by making a thorough study of the race with a view to obtaining more scientific data along this line. It would in the end prove more helpful than the giving of great sums for the education of the negro. "It has been said, for instance, that in mixed marriages only the unfavorable characteristics of the negro remain; but this has not yet been proved scientifically and personally I do not believe it to be a fact." All that Professor Boas and other scientists have to say on the subject makes it plain how impossible it is in the present state of our knowledge of heredity for any one to prove his purity of descoat. A man may possess all the characteristics of the purest blooded white, and still may have in his veins a strong strain of the negro or the Chinese. This strain, which during the present generation gives no outward sign of its existence, is likely to crop out among his children in the shape of pronounced negro or Chinese characteristics. Science so frankly confesses its inability to determine the purity of a person's blood that Mrs. Little will be forced to abandon her plan of meeting her husband's charges with analysis of her blood and other scientific tests. If this golden-haired blonde really has negro blood in her veins, not a husband in the world can feel assured that his wife is not a negress. Until science knows a great deal more about the secrets of heredity than it now does, he can never be certain whether she is white, black, brown or yellow. Emancipation Day. Buckmars, Va., Feb. 23, 1915. Editor, Richmond Planet. Editor, Richmond Planet. Please give us, through your paper, the proper Emancipation Day for celebration in this State, and oblige, A SUBSCHIBER. There is a disagreement as to the proper day. The people who live in Richmond are disposed to regard the 3d of April as the proper date, that being the day Richmond fell. Historians, however, seem to generally agree that January 1st is the proper day. Grand Worthy Master Morrie Speaks. "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, by any compact, deprive or direct their property; namely, the enjoyment of life liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." —Article I, Bill of Rights of Virginia. "That no person shall be deprived of his property without due process of law; and in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, trial by jury is preferable to any other." —Article I, Section 2, Bill of Rights of Virginia. GREAT DAY AND GREAT REJOICING AT 5th St. BAPT. The members and friends of the Fifth Street Baptist church enjoyed themselves to the utmost on last Sunday when Dr. W. F. Graham, pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist church, Philadelphia Pa., ex-pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist church, filled the pulpit. Beginning in the Sunday school at 9:30, the school had one of the largest attendances for quite a while. More than 200 were present and all greeted the ex-pastor with great pleasure. At 11:30 A. M. the main auditorium and galleries were filled to their capacity when this great pulpitere opened services. He took as his text, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." It is needless to say how well he did preach, for it pleased every soul in the house. After preaching, he baptized six candidates. The choir sang special music. Collection was fine. At 3 P. M. Communion services were had. The church was well filled again, in fact it was the largest communion had for sometime. Dr. Graham, Rev. Anthony and many other visiting ministers and deacons were present and an old fashion communion was had and every soul seemed to have been gladdened and made to know that they had been born again. This was a rejoicing time in Zion. At 8 P. M. the Doctor took for his text, "Go On Moses." This was a great sermon. Well did he handle the subject. It gave so much strength to the church and members that every person present was filled with new energy and great zeal. It was announced at this service that the sum of $114.10 had been raised during the day. This was indeed an excellent collection. Many thanks and praises to God for this great God-sent man were expressed on all sides. Dr. Graham certainly has the best wishes for success and prosperity wherever he goes from his many friends in Richmond. His name will always live with the people of the Fifth Street Baptist Church. They love him, as he pasted and labored with them so long. Winner of Spingarna Model. Great at Sander. Washington, D. C. Mail. 1, 18 Dr. Brant M. J. Inst., winner of the first Spingarna model, was inaugurated a scholar by the George P. Pal Professor of Howard University in spring 1918. Feb. 24 at 11:00. Sander Plains, N. I. George P. Pal. In the museum, he will be exhibited from April 15 to May 15. hundred-dollar gold medal is offered annually by Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of the directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to the man or woman of African descent who has made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated human endeavor, and was awarded by Gov. Whitman of New York at the Annual Meeting of the Association on February 12th. Testimonials of affection and praise were offered by the many friends present, and the evening closed with an address by Dr. Just, urging the Negro youths of Howard University to bind themselves together for the higher pursuits of life. WILLARD CAMP PUTS OUT NO FURTHER SCRAP DOFF Big Jean Stops Training Reading Trip of Curley to Johnson at Havanna. El Paso, Tex., February 26.—No further word came today from fight promoters or the camp of Jesse Willard relative to, Jack Johnson and his intentions, regarding the Juarez fight. Willard said tonight that he was certain Jack Curley would bring Johnson, back, and that the fight would be held at Juarez. Willard did not train any today, as it rained hard, but he said he would train tomorrow again. "I am in fine condition," he said, and he looks it. Since the arrival, Willard has taken on hard muscle, and his face assumed a brilliant tan. He looks as hard as a rock and says he is. "I am feeling fine," he said, "but I will feel better, when that smoke shows up in Juarez. I just want one chance at him. I would fight him anywhere, but I want to fight him here. I have been working hard to get in condition, and I think it is due me that the fight he held here. I am willing to give Johnson all the time he wants to get into condition; for I want him to feel at his best. I don't want him to say afterward that he was not in shape when he want against me." Manager Tom Jones, who, with Jack Curley, represents the financial bailers of the fight, asserted tonight that he is more than positive that Curley will bring Johnson to Jaurem. "Somebody interested in pulling the fight in Havana tried to seize Johnson when he got there," said Jaurem. "Curley can fix it up all right. I am sure." --- Y, MARCH 6, 1915. PRICE. TEACHERS HERE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION HAVING FINE SESSION Many Visit the City-Interesting The 'Negro Teachers' Association and Improvement League of Virginia began its seasons at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in this city last Thursday morning at 11:30 o'clock. Prof. E. A. Long presided. Mr. A. E. Tucker is secretary. The local teacher's committee has made extended preparation to receive and entertain them. The Finance Committee of the City Council of Richmond made an appropriation of $100.00. A trolley car party was the feature and on last Friday night a fine banquet was tendered at Johnson's Hall. Mayor George Ainslie welcomed the body Thursday morning. The other speakers were Superintendent J. A. C. Chandler, Mila E. A. Coles, Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D. Dr. R. C. Brown, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, W. H. Hughes, M. D. John Mitchell, Jr., Prof. I. C. Norcum. Mrs. Rosa D. Bawar read an excellent paper on geography; How Boat Taught Effectively. Prof. J. W., Barco also spoke. Rev. J. Andrew Bowler discussed in the afternoon. "Can we shorten the time given to Arithmetic?" Prof. E. A. Long delivered an able address at the night session. State Superintendent K. C. Stearns followed with a most timely address. Attorney T. C. Walker was Master of Coronemes. Friday morning Miss Sarah J. Walters spoke and an admirable address was delivered by Mrs. M. B. Mumford, President of the Co-operative Educational Association Mr. Nelson Williams, Jr., and Miss Virginia Randolph had been selected to open the discussion of subjects. Miss Lizzie Jenkins and Mr. Jackson Davis discussed Home Canning Clubs, prof. W. T. B. Williams spoke. Officers were directed. Prof. Garnet C. Wilkinson. Principal of the Armatrong Manual Training School of Washington. D. C. delivered the concluding address Friday night. The colored public schools of Richmond were visited and inspected by the visitors Thursday morning. Prof. A. V. Norrell, chairman; Lillian F. Jackson, secretary; Nelson Williams, Jr., president. O GREAT REVIVAL IN WEST END. Moore Street Baptist, Rev. R. O. Johnson, D. D., Pastor. We are now in midst of a great revival being conducted by the Rev. W. H. Skipwith, B. D., International preacher and singing evangelist. Large crowds are still following this most beloved and God-sent evangelist while sinners and backsliders are returning to the Bishop of their souls. What "Billy Sunday" is to the whites, Billy Skipwith is to us and would be more, if all of our pastors would unite in a general movement against the powers of hell. Come to the West End and hear this mighty man of God and be strengthened. He will remain with us until the 19th instant. Dr. L. G. Jordan, Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, writes: "A large number of Sunday Schools have written the Foreign Mission Board, for Missionary programs to be carried on Easter Sunday." He feels that this is to be the most successful rally the Sunday schools have ever held. It is hoped that every Sunday school in the land, whether they use a program or not, will remember our Foreign Mission Work, with an offering on Easter Sunday. We owe it to our Missionaries in Foreign Fields, as well as to our good name as Baptists, to stand by our Missionary work. Send for programs and report the money to the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, Rev. L. G. Jordan, Secretary. 624 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. M. Sloan's This Week. Rev. V. M. Moody, a graduate of Virginia Union University, is doing the work as pastor of the Second Church of the Sacred Heart of the Sacred Heart, and is in charge of a year-long GIRL IS MURDERED TRAGIC HAPPENING BOY INSTANTLY KILLS YOUNG COLORED GIRL Leslie Drew Fires at Manager of Dretention Home, Striking Virginia Muscoe. In a desperate struggle to escape last night from the Negro Dotention Home, at 305 North Fourteenth St., Leslie Drew, eighteen years old, fired at William H. Tharps, the manager, and, missing him, killed sixteen-year old Virginia Muscoe, who was standing at the foot of the stairway watching the fight. She is the second person to have been killed by the youth. In March, 1914, he shot and killed a negro boy in Penitentiary Bottom, and it was for this slaying that he was under detention. Drew had been sent to a place in the country to serve until he became of age. He escaped and returned to Richmond. Tharps met him on Broad Street yesterday afternoon and took him again into his care. Last night the boy broke out of his room and came downstairs. Tharps came after him, and Tharps's stopson, Joo Woody, followed in pursuit. They caught the fugitive in the hallway, and Drew drew a 44-callbore revolver from his hip pocket. Tharps caught his arms and Woody flung himself on the wild boy. BOY SNAPS REVOLVER TRIGGER THREE TIMES For a time the three swayed together. Drew snapped the trigger of his revolver three times without effect. At the fourth time and as Woody's hand was about to close over the muzzle of the pistol, a cartridge exploded, and the bullet struck the innocent girl standing by squarely in the middle of the forehead. Her brains spattered over the stairway, and she fell without a groan. The fight continued about the girl's body, and finally Drew was overcome. Then the police were called, and Officer Mitchell raced to the house. He placed Drew under arrest and took him to the First Police Station. The boy looks to be about sixteen years old, but his age was given as eighteen. Drew has a bad character with the police. He has now committed two murders. He has been arrested for stalking chickens, and is suspected of having snatched many pocketbooks. He has been arrested by Sergeant Shepherd and Detective-Sergeant Krengel. The rifle with which he killed a boy last March was stolen. Virginia Muscoe had but, lately been brought to Richmond Detention Home from Lynchburg on a charge of incorrigibility.--Times-Dispatch, Feb. 29, 1915. --- TALESMEN REFUSE TO FIND WHITE MEN GUILTY OF LYNCHING. Court Begins Trial of Alleged Members of South Carolina Mob. Walhalla, S. C., March 3.— The trial of W. M. McClure, Woodrow Campbell, C. C. Kay, S. A. Jones, William Kay and John McDonald, farmers, charged with the murder of Green Gibson, a colored man in race rioting at Fair Play, S. C., Dec. 20, has begun here. Although three negroes were killed, the state charges the defendants, with the murder of one. Several talesmen were disqualified when they stated they would not convict white men for killing or lynching a colored man if the fact is proved beyond reasonable doubt. Witnesses testified that on the night previous to the riot Tom Speights, a colored man, was severely whipped. This, it was testified, resulted in a pitched battle, in which three colored men shot to death. Special The Secretary of the National Independent Equal Rights League, Massachusetts Branch, received the following telegram from Representative Thacher (Democrat) of Massachusetts on Monday: Washington, D. C., Feb. 22, 1915. William M. Trotter, 49 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. The House today postponed indefinitely any action on the Jim-Crow Car Bill by vote of 179 to 99. THOMAS C. THACHER. 3.00 P. M. Church Notice. Third Street Bethel A. M. Church. Baptism 11. A. M. Communion. 8:30 P. M. Monday night. Iestura, Rev. R. Baptistry, Bury. Admission Pump. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. PERSONALS AND BRIMPS. Mrs. Isaac Hilton, of Philadelphia, Pa., called on us. Mr. John H. Berry, attorney and real-estate dealer of Washington, D. C., called on us. Mr. Frank Bacchus, who resided several years at Greenville, Miss., called on us. Mrs. Lucy P. Mickey of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting her cousin, Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Skipwith. Mr. J. G. Shelton, editor and manager of Charlottescville Messenger, was in the city and called on us. Rov. H. Powell, D. D., pastor of the Liberty Baptist church, called on us. He was looking well. Mrs. Mary T. Heenley, daughter of Mrs. Anna Taylor, has been sick at her residence, 722 N. 9th Street, for several weeks. RACIAL ENTHUSIASM The Fundamental Question of Human Rights. To the Editor of The Richmond Planet: I have often desired to see the editorials of the Richmond Planet published in book form and placed in every home since it would be of an untestable value, as it is a pity that so valuable information should perish out rather ought to be preserved and transmitted to our posterity to acquaint them with our problems in our day so that they may emulate our successes and show our errors. GOOD ADVICE GIVEN. In your recent editorials you gave some mighty good advice concerning our personal rights and property rights, that ought to be beheaded by every one, or in other words, you not only told them of the hard and fast rules which govern our property rights as hold by our learned judges but at the same time you warned them against sleeping upon their malleable rights. This question of personal rights and property rights transcend all other rights and go to the very vital of our well being and upon these all our other rights must stand or fall. AEL SHOULD BESTIR THEM SELVES. On account of the criminal code of procedure which has taken form in America in the midst of so high a Christian civilization of putting Negro men and women to death, commonly known as lynching, without due process of law, ought to beattr all men who love justice and hate injustice and love liberty and spurn oppression to come forward in the spirit of righteousness to rid his country of such unspeakable crime, so that we may not hand down to posterity a Christian civilization as cruel and harborous as in these days, when a chase was to be given or blood to be had, brought forth a mighty shout and a great oxultation from the multitude. Let us not become discouraged over such atrociousness, but rather remember that Belgium just a few years ago was practicing or visiting, such upon their African subjects, but let us return unto the God of our fathers and earnestly entreat Him to keep us from sinking down. HENRY P. LIPSCOMB, 46 East 132d St., New York City. Appointed Notary Public. Miss Sarah L. Hewin, stenographer in the office of Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, her uncle, who has offices at Mechanics Bank Building, rooms 406-408, has been commissioned Notary Public.by Governor H. C. Stuart. WANTED—Colored men in each locality to operate a profitable business. No capital required, no vanancing. greatest chance ever offered to ambitious men. Investigate quick before it is too late. Address B. B. IMES, 3427 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. AGENTS WANTED I want Colored Agents, male or female, to sell to all nations one of the Best Hair Oatmeals on the market. Large profits. JAMES P. CLEARK 1750 Bank Street. Baltimore, Md. BARBER WANTED. A good barber wanted at most Will pay $10.00 per week on the dollar. One who implements the business and is not a barber is not work. (Now Running at the _ Hippodrome Theatre. 2 A Sach Mystic siey fy Harold HeGrath os SYNOPSIS. Zudora te left an otphon at an cari) eae. Mer father I killed in a K0Id mice Eudora ‘and the fortune rein the ming hich crowa to be worthy EDORMY aN Jett in the cuantiansinp of Frank Keene Zuduew's mother'n brother. Zudura, vv ing (omne of glen Denuty, ronchem te ake of elshteen. ‘The uncle. who haw el fimeei( up nea Hindu tnyntic and. ts Known ‘ns Nunaamn All, decides that Zu: Sora mur die before phe can have chance to cutie dito porresnion of hee Money. 40 that It may be left to bir. the RexCel kin. “Tanrarn All neen at, obsiacls fo hia scteine in the, perwun of John Storm a young lawyer, for whom’ Zu- doruhén Laken u fancy, and he, com- Mandy the kiel to put the man out of her mind.” Zulera Inslain (hat If abe cannot marry Storm she will matey 20 one. “Well, weil.” saya Haasam All, “If you take ruch a stand 1") compromise Boive my neat twenty casce and you can Marry him: fall mn winkla cane anid you munt Fenounce bin.” e Fanlore, using tho knowledge gained From dears of nmmcation with her uncle Munravele i GAMing myatery and wine her fire case cane in whlch Jolin Storm Ik saved {rom being convicted of « murder inaticated by Haneam Atl himoelt. Zuders and Massam All vlalt Nabok Bhan's lintse, Whete sleep overcomes er- ery the wlunever Natale attempt to Mar, Fy A princess. Storm, seeking Zudore, la rande W_ privonet. Zudora foil Nabok Bhan, rentores the priuicess to hee original lovey-aind raves Sturn from death. ‘A Gooker at alamonds telln Ttumsam At his necret. Miner) hiformm Zurtora that Bia life Ie. being attempted frequently. Horie turigets Hansa ALL Storm ie Arrinjad forketaling the diamond maker's Kemal but Zudora. dincivern the real UBleven pate of tilce The nexte help. employes an Storm's father's farm dre ecing tecnune @ great skeleton fund appears at night upon ® Ri nent Vy. Storm ie haMed In hin Ine Nenticauon, but Zudorg learna that) per Uncle han employed Jin¥ay Hotton, « halt Witter map, thus to annoy Storm's pare enite ZOdtors tide Helton operating @ Bie magic Jantern” and in” attacked hy Bim, Htorin npasrtunely mppeare and aavew her from Molton Taseain All askn Zudtivra to find a gens Joat’ by twin mysterious old men. Zudora ete a phntazroph of the ken and tt buns {ther band. An old house tw. mined by Hiassnna All att the cht tnen, Ble and Zudorn ure turst there and nareiwly ea: eape dertraction when the house Biows Up | John MeWinter, yrteavoring t trap an KAW George Stith in killed himaeity, and Beith ty charged with munder, Hasnain | All cunrgizen to have Juxn Btorm tare the annie fete ur MgWintern and he and: Btorm are Gvercome by tuimepetul tumen | Zadorn saven Dus. proves that McWin | tere own dine trial nnd Tiled him ana paves Smith fet a wand of lynchern = | ‘An Inventor lows ue rubmnarine with! a pomerfar nest tty weiueh hen nents} Sirouit water Haxcem Ail end Zaudors | fon photographer direrty tw ceath the ht Ventar'e taburatues int vera the in| Vantie (o kil her Zura kets e waentin, And her Bfe te ratnl the heut Pay. Me chine ty Gestrayia), atal the photugeaphen, Stern guartel with Mansar All, by found Sead In the ewver Wu Chane prevents Zutora’s elapetnent with Junn Sturm by hepnettring Bere and Be and Marsan Alt utrent to naugste! er out of the countey tie lot le fee! trated by storie Jove With Zoture Tard and Mine. Da Vat kidnap Zaistora and the Van Wik child. Htaten rencues them, nnd Dineen Ali irs j WIth Hannan At dosd Zonder be retear | ed af her pintae ta sotve (wenly ennee She confretite, Lawever, thn greatest tye. teey ef ull, whi In the mnntery of her own life, sind the sentation to recure te want fortune wf SdiuhIAY Toft to ber. Tee pomatkaie adveututen will be porteay el by Harold Mavstnth in the Kuccesticn chaptery. Thoin (sister mesial Ie beans mlurw t In the feading minting pleture theuters be the Thatdniser Haim Corporation. Amon thoes teticcpateig are, Marguerite Sniew Mary Eliesttt Forbes, James Cruze, 10° ihn ew rhe uf teppiriershero, | Bidne Senecs: cd Fiank Eoreinetcs. ; CHAPTER xX. Gentlemen Crooks and the Lady. ASSAM ALL of, to give bin his real name, Frank Keene Wed suddents. Baird, bla dou ble, appreciating that the en was at band, left the house by a acer exit, taking with him only muck thing: ap belonged to him, When the Hindu servant notified Zudora that ber uncle was dead she could not helleve ft, and one.look at the dead man was enourt to convince ber that there was some thing extremely mynterious in the change. The Hnnsam Ali be bad seen & few days pant had not_lpoked Ill bat thin corpo wha mets eridtace of @ long and despernte Minegn. But whe ‘ever solvint thie purzle; sho was nev: er given the time to. That night the house caught fire. and very fow, thingy were haved. | One day shortly after the fre abe: @ragged Use battered old trunk out into the center of the room and proceeded to explore ita contents. The first thinge ‘abe came acrone were her mother’s oh} circus costumes. and she sat dreaming abeat them for some time. A knock ‘Spon the door sraused ber. if “Come in” orm entered with a bonquet. “Ob, how pretty! Wait until I pot them into a vase. There! Flowers ab ways make @ room look cozler.” “And what's going op bere?” asked Joba, pointing to the trom. “Why, John, that tronic ta ‘aboet ‘the saly thing they reacved from the house, De you know, I'm bappler in this som than i fave been in yearn Unche Frank was always -colé sod repetiont: ba Sept woulda’t ict me love him.” “Good riddance of bed rebhieif”. ye Storms : “T @on't care. I'm postive of the| Pat that he- attempted to make way <2) | Wate Ke , oe ee She Dragged the Old Trunk Out into ~ the Center of the Room. Wh teth of un haifa dazen mez And Sn equally susan positive that be was hand tn ghee with pomne of the ioxt dingerwne eeliinla tn the coun Uy. Weil, oe yon aay, he'n dead. But “Good ciddance of bad rubbish” ‘aK for me, 1 feel n deat easier in walk lng mbout these days, And yet tha [man was sour uncle, Sesh and blood {Have you gone through the truok yet? The two of thenr kneit down togethes and dux ont the ancient elreus trap Pings, Par down tn a corner they cain Ingman a Titties Be, veut Zankora opie Mt curfousty SA diamond?” exclalwed Storm, “Ate LHomighty good one, too, (fT don't mis iny ges. Look, there Isa part of a letees utater It! Letic see what it naga.” / The consents or the batt Pontents Of (At burned abet of paper affected them strangely, It bad originally been a letter to Zadora's mother from ber father, and brokenly it stated that he hd xtruck ft rich in BearlL He, or his partner, had stumbled upon an ex- cetdingty rich deposit of diamonds and rome day they would have pleaty. ‘To Zudora it wax evideng thot tbld bad been written a few dayn before her father's death, after be bad made the trike (6 xuld. “And Hassam All kept this a secret from you!” . “Never mind now; it Is no longer « secret.” replied Zudora, be pat the Uttle box aside and once more gere her attention to the Interior ét the tronk. She next resurrected « locket. Thia contained the likeness of her par. ente, “My fagher and mother,” abe waid, ber eyes filling. { “You poor ide cbickéo!” He pat his arms nroupd her. “We'd better, see what can be done about this.dia- mond wine. I'm sure there must be 2 lot of coms somewhere. But you don’t net # diamond mine so far as I'm concerned, sweetheart; you're pre- clous enough gem for any man.” { “Thank you, John.” ! Almost at this ssme moment « great liner plowed itn way westward acrous the Atlantic. And on boant thie liner was a bandfal of diamonds which Fight, fully. beloa Zodora Kenn: ‘There way 2 passenger whe went by the name A Broce. He was a smug. suave idtividual. bot wae far‘deeper, far more cunning, than be: appeared - eatwartiy. He wae in his stateroom. i Tbe dior was locked. The bed was polied from the wail. The man tin-| self was between the bed: amd the ship's aide, cawing a hete ia the waie-; peoting. Prom time to time Ra paesed jo Meten for sceade tm the sQjecunt materro=: bet te wap quite onthahed that the occupants were all oa deok tr thelr chairs. When the job was com -Pleted he Ufted out the square plece of boant nnd Inid it nnide. ‘Then be drew 1 bainboo cane toward him. He awiftly unvcrewed the top and dumped softicthing Into the pain of bis band. Minute Masher of red and blue Same Garted up bite his exe. These Mashes came fromsdingends of the purest white, He chuckled Inandibly. Next be poured the gents Into a Ifttle chamote dag and thrust the bag tuto the bole fn the wall, With extrnardianry deft Rem be Fephicn! tw aquare.of waln scottig. nad onty the closest scrutiny j would have told uny one what had taken place. 2 es After thut’Mr. Reuce weyt up to the smoke rooy nud tndulsed tn @ athe Whisky and soda. ‘Then he played bridge antl the xecotm bugle call for dinner and fn that, period of Ume more than mate bis expenses for the trip. Mr. ftruce enjoyed hie dinner. enjoyed Dix whe, the coffee and partiga. The necret stgents contd heur what they plensest, ang they contd earch hia aud all Hix helengings,” mad he would sub. mit with the ulmest complacency. Only foots were caught these days Uy the agents of the United States cur fo. We had anade sesne Crenty voy Page. and what had they ever found Japon jim that was contrabaed? Nour Hing, ateuiutely nothing. Tomorrow they would dock, and that olebe be yeould Ie nite to conttde another suc: Gem to hiy vonfederntes. It all de pendant upon neeve and foresight. But there woe one man with whom he bad Fet to rekon. | Tie name wax Thomax Hunt, and one of Un apeciaitics woe putting bts stout head upon the shoulders of male- factor and axking them politely which they pteferted, mtcel cuffs or docllity? Te day before Broce Innded Hunt re celved acable which he war Ine Tikipeie Oy enemy was Ro- ing to attempt to FBn the blockade exaly, with dinmond« ax usual, And ope of the remarkable phaxoa of these explolte of Hruve'n wax the fact-that he invariably wold gema in Holland an 8 stirter, Int brougbt the bulk of. then inte the United States, { The otictals knew that he had con: federites, some above him In power and one below, Chief among thone of the ft unter were. Mme, Dq Val and Captain Radetlfe, a man without A lcountry. Radcliffe wax patently in love with Mine, Du Val, but rahe could not pot from .ber thenghta the man Ratrd. The faet that he had gone over, Co tin othr aide. In a attempt to teo| habiiitate bintetf dit not feasen the womatrs sdinteatten, An the pacudo! Hancam ale hid hnd nome power over! him, tut ns 1 reperter on one of the’ big HeWHpaper® he had parsed deyond | “Somewhere she bad acon a painting! by the late Alma-Tadema, and abe bad under Ye inspiration Axed up what; se enllvd a Greek snlon, She really er there was a fonntain surrounded | Hy plants, ‘The water tinkled merrily | at all times, fmt sometiines the stream cuddenty fil oxtant, whieh Indigated hat nome ane wan behind the necret rnnel. On the night before the nérivat of truce fies Bs tH gotten geuns madame cay in the -<alon, pinging Wy with n Angers kitten, ft fe 9, fact ra lese User women alwaya bave kit- ens about. Suddenly she noted the |. lant of. the Jet of water. She gam- honed an attendant and nodded mean. ngly toward the wali.” The footman | rept over swiftly, touched a” knob, | nd the secret panel went up, reveal- Dg A mall elevator, Out of this step-|' ed Captain Radcliffe, something of = andy In appearance, bot at heart « pady rogue. He cronsed the room! ! wiftiy, making no effort to conceal } ls sentiments. Rot abe adroltly eved-| § ? him. “Take care, captain, No sentiment,f / you please. Some day possibly, bat F the present we have businesa” -| * “I wonder if that some Gay will ever! me 7”. “The captatn abragged. & “I will be ready,” ehe said, “tn about} 4 venty minutes.” . 8 “What!” taking = step forward. - q “No, no, eimpleten! I mean I'll be] © aay to fo out with you.” Now, Ict! ¢ #94 this; Please do not ose that! Z cret- panel again just because yoo} | ant to surprise me, After midnight,| & you have anything really important] Z ) band, enter by the panel,. bat ta] 7 dinary timen the front door, ny dear} V ptain.” . 48 ‘Your word is law,” be replied; bow. : : - Bhe -Jeft the saién, and be dled! ray the twenty minutes playing with} “2 e kitten. When abe retorned abt] ws ready for the street. She carried| W tind of velvet purse. wi ‘Do you know what's tw thie?” aba) pe bed. we ‘Powder puffat* 7 ‘ The did. vot: reply, bet teste: out a] mm ded squire of white timue pagel} S opened it. Several fae be mkiod before hin eves, =. | the AR art_tbey to be Ginpensd of, i 4 A me SS a Rts | “Oustetely, and the ssencr the bet tor. re ‘Will be la pet ebertiy, and we G0 net wast too many en ow atete.” _ f ‘ ‘ | “TU, take care.of them.” Thts done. be added rather Impationtty. “It's high time we mage off for that ee ‘To retusn to Thomas Hunt, ve and secret service man. Hunt divided Dis time between personal cases and the more dimicuit problems which fre- quently” cogfronted the government agents. Théy generally came to bim when they were In trouble. He wae altting at hin denk, « Before, bum, apread out fanwise, were’ numerous Detrupu- per tlippings, and tn alt of them there was nome reference to a man named Brace. Unitke bin kind. the tan was elwayn xetling tuto the papers, For & long Ume thin footed the secret serv. ke. They hn looked upon bim as a barmleny crunk. Hunt looked up suddenly. He swept the clippings into a drawer. “Come In," be anid. - _— eT j | } ; | A | ! ii | | i : ie, | | ae i q a oan He Thrust the, Bag nto the Hole In ie aie eee The clerk stuck is hel toto hte ehiefa office. “Lady uni gentleman whl to see you.” “Narwe?" *8torm." “Jolin Storm 7* ‘ “¥eR, air.” “Show them in at once.” ie bailed Storm fovtalty. for be und known thts young’ lawyer for xeveral years, “Come in, come ful Um ging to ace you. What's on that fezal mind of yours?” | “I want you to mect Misa Keene, Hunt--Miva Zudern Keene,” “Oh, TE beteve I've heard about you, Mim Keeace. You're Baestnm Al's 7 | “It's high time we made off for tha lye. Me wna a very shrowd man, Wan worry to hear of bis death.” “Hunt. you make a atudy of din monds, don't you?” asked Storm. “Legally, legally.” “I want you to Ond a dinmond min in Brazit twlonging to the father o| Misa Keene here. Ho's been dead fo 9 good many years.” . Hont whistled. “That's a big orter Any papem?" *. : “Nothing that woald give a bint te ‘the location of the mine.” a “Well, I can make @ stad at {t, any bow. But It looks on the face of 1 Uke that okt needle -in the baystach stuff. We have some agente dows there. They might be able to help us out.” “Tt Wil Lo -very good of you,” said Zodors. . _ Bhe and Btorm rose and as they 4i6 bo a young man entered anannonnced Zotora récognised hife instantly as the young man abe bed met at Mme. Dv Val's. As for Storm, be bowed slight, ly. Carelexs xreetings passed between them; and Raird and Hent were lett alone. oS ! “Well,” aid the- detective grimly, how are you behaving yoursstfT: “Rtraight.” sail atrd seberty. “11 was mighty fine of you to hetp me mien [ needed help, ‘The life of a re porter is fascinating. - Bet just Bow | needs story, Got eae?’ 7 { “Maybe. Dia you ever hear of. o: wan amet Brace?” mo “Yeu.” Baird stervé st the rag. Tes, © bed knows Buse in the days Wien o war Memeet: Gh. na WU” . bent <a i gh awayl |) “Nothing woul! val me any bette || L_want to niake good in this beninen Hunt The old chap way otick a kaif | tame one Of theue days, dex I'll w | eer bonest.” hes | “That's the way-to talk! Come oc | then.” - 2 ‘At the plere oa cases Ike this Han | Severally donned the regulation wil | form and the regalar tospectors di not faterfere with bis work. Bo wher Brace came down the gangpiank th | detective greeted iim, : Yl take cate of you, Mr. Brace . You wilt not hare to bother with th { usual formalities? | ., “Anything is agrecable 60 lovg as 1 "get out of this barn in reasonable timo | Here's. my luggage coming down. All suit cane and one steamer trunk.” We may have to nearch you person: ally, Mr. Druce.” “Bame old Idea, bubt , Go as for a2 you like. You Losa will get tired some Qay bunting for dlamoods in my grips.” “We often dle on the fob, Mr. Bruce. bat we never get tired.” ‘The ohly dlamoud found on Mr. Bruck wa net fo ble fob, Higut sbrugeed. “Give it up?" sald Fruce, grfaning. | “For tpday. Mr. euge. Good das." Bruce started for the exit, looking wbout for a-taxi unt waved bis hand towant the npot where Batrd tay fo'wait The latter understood thie Soxture to fudicate that he was amxign- fed to follow the man. Bruce found bis taxt. but Roint's was only baif a Block behind when the mee besun. - 8 8 8 we ee Mme. Du Val and Captain Radetttfe retarned to the foriner’s house hniwe- lately nfter lunch and they both ap- peared rather excited over romething. It neemy that the tio bad, met Storm apd Zudora at the restaurant and had aakeg them to alt at thetr table, with 00 plirpose In mind xnre that af fetend- noxs. During the luncheon inadame noticed the quaint locket around 72- Gora’s throat and iispected It ‘The tye faces she paw Inside tho Tocket niede her heart Jump, but the milldly curtoun expression oa ber faew did not ‘change, * Slie and the cagtuln came {nto the saloyyhurrtediy. ‘They went directly toa table upon which the cat wae alecping, The fellne dreams were rude- ty shattered, however, for the mistress puxhed the nntinal to the floor, Madame Dressel certain Mts af inlay and a ne ¢ret drawer way revealed. From this drawer ake tes two old dagugrree tyDen. . ae “The same! whispered the captain. “The very same! Ob, wo are in luck, captain, to find thts out in time... That mine is this gt HoUce svete bate to Watch our cards.” “Put ber out of the way?” : “There's been a Uttle too much of that, Well try all other methods fit. But what luck!” “Telephone!” be xatd. “Shall T ap- awer 1t7" “Retter tet me." She returned to him after a moment. “Bruce; he's slip: ped through on usual.” “Clover chapr" “Am! the geme are Rtill on board the boat!” In the meantime Ratnt had 20 grent UMculty tn banxing to the heels of Bruce's cab, He dud an dea that the cab would neck n dexerted spot. poral: bly near the water front, where there 4 & Kom! deal of abandoned property. While his eye followed the eab In front hin mind-wan clxewhere. A year ago ho tnd been a crook, not a dangerous one, to be nuire, but Infernally clever, And here he wan, atriving honestly te tre Greently, all because he had’ fallen | n love with the Firl tat whould hava een tin virdin. Lote kinkw to this, Id world; lota of nturtling twista and | winding. Nut of what ure to love | er? She lored another, and a ckehn, lecent man toe. Mo sanceres the™ lay would come when by could tdi ber be truth, that for monthn be bad play- at Beles her uncle aud bad -beldiy tempted to do away with ber. ~ What x contemptible xcoundrel by ad been and what.a singular Jack of erception he hid had of thix fact un- 2 love awoke him! Come, now; ht auRt not fall to Yreuming. Tis bust ean wae to Watch yonder cab, Brace’s ab began to leave A, trail through the farchonre dintrict and eventually came > a xtopy before a dixused factory aint dixmiwed hix cab and waited t¢ pe what-the amuggler did. He, too” inmisned the cab, glanced nwiftly over Is nboulder and entered the factory oor, evidently (py. means of a key aird waited « renxonable length of me, then made for the factory. ‘It now that he would nd the door lock 1, Wut nevertheless be tried tt. fit asn't at all disturbed to Dad It Tock L Ina ruined old bullding tke this ere were many rickety windows, | He had no dificulty in getting inside” was not intended that he should ve any real difficulty in gaining ep ance. Hruce, knowing the tricks of tectives, had been quite certain thal would be followed: from the boa! er. He bad merely led Baird {nto 1p. Bruce had gone in by one en ince and oat the other. . "Fhe cab mei ‘wasn't at all disturbed to Ond It Tock ed Ina ruined old building ke thi: there were many rickety windows. "He had no difficulty. in'getting inside It was not intended that he sbould have any real diMficulty in gaining eo trance. Hruce, knowing the tricks of Getectivon, had been quite certain thal he would be followed. from the boal pier. He 'bad merely led Baird fato # trap. Bruce had gone in by ove en trance and ont the other. . "Fhe cab mel ita two Dlocks away, and be was driven to another pax of the town—is fact, to 9 memfoccupted apartment house where there was a tunnel whick Jed to the secret elevator 1a the hooae of Mui. Do Val on the next street. He received # royai welceme from May Do Val and. Captate Bedetife He Kat brought to port something like $20,000 worth of: parest Brazilians, | “Ob, I was follewed.” he boasted “and I led thé follower. by hie nose ts the od trap, and by thie ‘time be i doubtless out of the running. Bet tnk| He kuews, but be can't prove aay hing.’ New, what's your news?” ‘They told him betefiy. “You dave 'found the real betr?” he] aed : “Ten.” And wo have jest arctret aif ee cunctusten. of 2. conference. This}: RS Susdeon meant be pet awn watt: Perro weGeall that mbes wf ti test, pate 5; fe. be. . % thet’ pocket yok baliove ime. “Y dite "Rg quick action we- enn gut what ' we ‘want within etx sentht:- We'll Rees : Suhora ander cover Sev Gat ported of time. As we wnderemad:t, ahe's oy srant to 0 ewer named Storm, We cam fake up an. accident to Storm and Grew the xirt tate the wet”. . “acton's the word. And there's ne better place to ase ‘antl the const le thar thin tm fe old fuak hut That's where the boys will be taking ‘Hunt's undertudy by thie tine.” “But, the diamonds!” interjected Mme, Da Val. : “My Gear lady, 1 retarn to Liverpool on’ the same boat 1-arrived on. You wit come and seo me off. And wheo you bid me x “toarful farewell . the Precioua pebbicn will be Inside your muff. In‘fact. J.returo tn the same cabin, and: the gema are still In that same cabin. It's a-new atunt ani! onght to bold off the {nxpectors for at Teast a dozen voyages.” * rr “You've gut a head on“you,- Bruce.” admitted Captiin Radcliffe admiriogty. Baird woe able to (nd bis way tn- side the deserted ‘factory. . A trap rf the cellnr cavfrbt bls eye. . Ho rained it, and, went down amt stepped plum Into the arts of a hulk of x may who “had been avwniting , hie ‘arriy, al, Baird wan no weakling, but tt seemed tu bim that he bad run nto a bunch of live wire ‘cables. Only A ebance blow anced him, It saved bim only temporarily. Another dock -wal. loner came to bin companton’s ald. Raled war no superman, aud a blow en the wide of the bend Iaid him ont, ‘The two rogues bound and gagced thelr victim and hiindfoldgd bim too Baird wan half Copacious of belug car. | Hed out of tho bailing and umes nto 2 wagon., A moment later a lot ft evtl ameliiig Jonk wan thrown tn} pon bln, Then they went rumbling wer “tho rough cobble Pavement. re weed to Baird that the Jourucy wurst ave Iaxted fully ou hour. Then the! vagon «lopped. the funk wan hauled: way, und be was drocged into a hot " a Re er koe rf oy aed a“. act aN i, : AT rr 7 e Pr a inte This Middle Room Baird Was Car- led and Beund to a Post. Ge mniddic mom of whih was used aga prinon. Snto this middle’ room Baled was car. Hed nnd bound to a post. When Zutora Ipurned that ber lover wan injured she et ovt ponthaute, And, a juck would have It. Storin and Bunt arrived Just after whe had tet fo the ‘taxtenb Ktorm wan aupposed to have'nent her. “Keep your bute on." natd the detec- tre. “We enn keep track of that cab, Don't you worry. I'm glad I camo along with you. 1'U bet a dollar that this hax suiething to do with ‘those diamonds. ‘There's nothing Ike add. fog twd.«tul two to get four. ‘Now we're of.” “Metner and meaner grew the streete, ma ean TNGN mUns Succeeded In Drawing Hie Automation, | "That's one fault of the crooked mind,” was the detective's comment. “Thay always seek low plasse to bide their victime in. Not one ve fm & thousand would think,of bestiog.« missing perece. in a good neighberbord. Be's slowing wp. 1 think we'd betrer finish thio on foot: Come along. Mr. Lawyer, and dea’t got te a sweat.” As- for Bedere, her evil star shove cold and beMiawt as any of the gree abe was secking as ber own, When she dhcerned the charseter of the Seighberkosd her sumpictens . become aroused. Siny called to the chaeSvur. but hip assirer was a fren burt of speed. He whirted up in-freut of the: Se ee rn tite be, Jempel dows Gree Os qe. -. The ee wre. Wee. Weir: aaeiinn da chgntivw: “am, bnsto a: bead “arith thhi ‘bamSte sf petticoats, ‘sad i she guts away from yen TS cat your 1, Betora, while cbe could net padey- Stand the reasvn-af this abéactios. per- fectly comprehended thet t weed be ‘esslees to striggio agalhet thive men. She allowed them ‘to tahe ber inside the but. ‘The: chanifver jumped beck ‘ his sent and whiried away at top Hunt and Btorm. were qaite wilting that he should go. It mibant one fess bo Dandie, It was bard for Btorm to wait foc Hant's signal. When it did come he'wax Oret at the door of the hut. But the ‘door was a stout one. ind It took sundry smashing blows of both men’s shoulder to make: the lock give. There was a rattling good Bght for’a moment, Then Hunt succeeded in drawing bis actomaticn, “Hnnda up!" . ‘The two thugs saw. businegs in bia cokl bine eso and raised their hands. “You po girl cried Storm. “Never minil me.” abe sald, “There's ome one in the next room calling for help.” # a ‘And there they found Bain. 170 ne contixnen.] . fr DR. DERNBURG. 1 Bald to Be Acting as Kaleers . Representative Here. rom ea ba hy Pd PR eg ie aN re Yollo#ing thé rumors thet Count you Rermstorf. the German ambacus- dor to the-United States, is to return t© Germany and. that his place Is to be flited by Baron Treutler, comes the Feport that Dr. Dernberg, former. Ger- man imperial mintater tor the colo- niles. has Deen acting fo the canacity of a pernonal representative of the Eafeor tn America. This surpicion is now coupled with fbe report of Count von, Horastord"s impen jing return to Rerlin. « it is not known definitely that Dr. Dernbure has been making rerors to the kairer Im reward to the state of feeling here Sancerulan the war ani the course pursued by Count ven Bernstorm, but there fn a strong be Nef that he has kept hin emperor or his government very well informed on these subjectn, In Its reply to the American note concerning the German naval war sone, the German government agree: that, under certain conditions ite 82h marines will halt and {avestigate mer chantmen and wif proceed against only such vexscla as are found to br carrying contratand or are’ owned tn auons hortile to Germany. ‘The seply. declares Germany's read- fness to xccept virtually all of the American proposals except the one which wou!!-restrict the use of ap chorea mincs to purely defensive pur poses. ‘The German covoroment expressed the bellef that beligerents cannot af. ford to abandon entirely the use of exchored mines for offensive oper ations. It {s willing to consider the abandonment of foating mines. In case Getman submarines take action, after investigation, against merchantmen carrying contraband of owned {n hostile countries, It.ts agrees that such actlon will be in accord ance with the general rules ‘of inter: national Jaw, This presupposes, however, the | abandonment of the use of peutra’ fiaga by merchantment of hostile na- tlons or the arming of such merchant- men. If such tactics were émployed Germany cottonds that it would be impossible. to restrict the operations . of submarines in this masner. The reply suggests that there be ponstituted in the countries concern: ed American commisaions te which mippiies of foodstafts for the vee of tvillan populations could be coustsn- od. Thia plan, it fs weld, fe coatem- ated in the American proposals. AGREE OW 10 SUBMARINES “The ‘Cenferses Ovep Three of Ocean x -Qeing Type : ‘Tee conferees ca the nabal. dill Seve agreed to report favorably on two Deitiestize, two submarines of coran- tatng type tusteed Of five, as the ses- ste Wiated; siztece coast defense submarines, gx Or more torpeto bost cemeur ere oat ane 08 + Fae svecte amendment ing. $1,000,000 toward @@ aner ‘piste tuctery. eoriaees Alam: total OM Fen WAR COSTS’ $10,000,000 2AY GOAL TARE and Mourn views oe “Gredit te Mest Expenses. + The establishment. of a virtua Blockade of Germany and other ep amy countries by the allies ‘is Oreat Britaln's reply to Germany's attacks ea merchant sbipping.. as announced eficlally by Premier Asquith in a mo mentous spooch in the house of come tons {n London. “Germany bas driven her opponents to adopt retallatery meaaures to pre vent commodities: of every kind frost reaching or leaving Germany,” bo de clared. , ‘The plan of tho allied governments for the regulation of shipping to and from ports: of hoatile nations conten plates the prevention of commodities of every kind, including toodstutte, reaching or leaving those ports, with out, however, involving’ risks to new tral veasels or Chace ‘Tne alltes hold tl wen aC Ib eny to “capture ,goods presumed t have come from hostile countries or, to be destined for them. TBey have no Jatention, However, ‘of confiscating adips of cargoes which are detained unlese they are lixble to confiscation under mormal conditions of war. | Referring to what he termed whi pera of peace, Mr. Asquith sald it was Bot Ume to talk of peacesThis time would arrive “only when tbe xroa! purpodes of the allies are in sight of: accomplishment.” : ‘The proposed measures of reprisal against Germany, tho premier said, would be enforced with atrict ob eervance of the dictates of humanity, Dut the dilfes did not purpose “to ab low thelr eforts to be strangled in a Retwork of judicial nicetios.” There was no Intention, be oxplaincd, t¢ confiscate Setained ships of -cargoer unless they were Iiablo to confiacatics ander the ordinary conditions of war ‘The promier sald the aiiios woul! hold themaolven free to capture K00.1) whorever there was a presumptive that auch xonts wore destined for the | uge of thetr enemtex or bad been nen‘ | from hostile countries. : Tho promler revealed thene ineas . ares cf reprisaln to parlament an} | the natioh on Sntroducing the third | and fwurth voter of credit to meets | the etpenres of the war. There are | raxpectively $145,000,.000 to balance the expensd:tures of the current fixca! year, makInS tie ‘total coat of elghi months of war $7,919,000,000, and um § ctint vote of —$1,259,000,000 ax the ¢ (+ dnetatlment for the year openiod Awd. ; “Surtuer advances to these alllor } wre in reutempintion,” the premier g rontined. “it is probably within the ¢ mark to ray that by April 1 we nball De xpeniing roughly £3,004600 ($10, t 000,000) dally alove the normal” | ¢ ——— g ‘British Waranip Sunk: 280 Lost. b The oMclal Information bureau any ounced.in London that the Clan Mach Naughton, an armed merchant crittnet mith 280 mien on board, haa deed Aven up for lost. ‘The veese) was last heard from on reb. 3, anid it Is feared that she has een 1ont. . ft ‘Tbe text of tbe bureau's snnounce pent follows: e “Tho-secretary of the admiralty 4, esrots to announce that H. M. 8 tan MacNaughton, an armed men 7 bant crolscr, Commander Robert ¢; effreys, RN. bas been missing slace eb. 3 andit tn feared that the ves g e) has been Jost. “An unsuccessful search has been * ade, and wreckaxe supposed to be ortionftf ‘this ship has since been Ot incovered. “The fast sixnal received trom the lan MacNaughton wan mado In the rly morning of Feb. 3, and It t# pu ered abo wae lost durtng the bal $8 eather which prevailed at that if me.” bs . berets $5 Confesses Murder in 1911. , 6. Richmond, Va, Feb. 26.—Allegina §4] at they obtained a confession in tha 12 Se ee ee ee ee Richmond, Va. Feb. 26.—Alleging that they obtained a confession in tbe Virginia penitentiary trom Joo Cary alles Joo Wingcy,-to the effect that he fired the ahot whfch killed Gordan Kaufman, a Reading, Pa, baker, when he-and three othor youthful compan: fona entered. Kaufman's place In the fall of 1911 and quarreled with bir over a few cents: Harvey F. Hotnly, district attorney of Berks county, and Harry D. Schaef. fer, former district attorney, called at Governor Stuart's office, seeking re quisition for the youths. They are now serving tweive years each to: the penitentiary for Bighway robbery committed noon after the Reading deed. Governor Stuart, botng {ll at the executive mansion, the lawyors said they would rotura home and write him about the matter. | Seanch Geatsever: tlecd,« tn fat, the Peak. doetzovan Paris that, the Freach destroyer Dague, s veanel of 720 tons, was sank ‘by an Austriad mine {n the Montene grt port of Antivarl on Wednesday algbt. # y The following. statarsent, was teveod Fron ine: SRS, Peenene torpedo” boat Dearne, walle coavoying provisions for, Monte megting, atreck an Austrian mine 1a the port of Aativar! at 9.30 o'clock on ‘Wednesday aight and sank. Thirty- miabt of her crew’ dlanppeared .wht “Fhe necidont aid mot prevent the wecegatal termination of the provi watng aperations and the normal re wwe of the cosvoy.” "Center. ot Ving: Torte, 0 faaed | eae : Two Hotels Burned. Fire at Shoemukeraville, Pa, near Resding, destroyed the Mansion house, the storeroom occupted by J. R. Keim, & -warehouse, and lodge hall in the same bulkiing. and cauned a loss of $26,000. - ‘There is some insurance on tbe property. The cause js undetermined. Ten guests at the hotel got out of the building as quickly as they could. Not a few of them eacaped with noth- ing but thelr nicht clothes. A fire at Avoca, near Scranton, Pa, deatroyed the Demko hotel ead, Dunn's: "Nickelet” and damaged nov! eral adjoining properties, causing & los of $50,000. © Man Slain: Brother Heid. Robert T Dean wax shot down and killed on Maryland avenue, fh: Cum: berland, Md. the slayer excaping 10 the dafkners. ‘William Dean, hin brother, wax ar- rested an a sumepect, und at the coro- ner’s inquest he fainted. He admitted that be and Nix brother bad some trouble over money, clalming that the dead man owe! bi $6. | Tbe brothers and ter families wcame to Cumberland svveral_ months ‘ago from Harrisonburg, Va. Tho wifo of the dead man sald that William Dean bad threatened hor husband and Derelt. e Btate Trooper Shot, Charles Sinith, colored, 19 dead: Btate “Trooper Charles Nicholson {3 dying Inn Pittebureh kospital, and sororal citizenn are suffering from minor wounds as a result.of a pitched Dattle, following @ riot on the out- akirta of the new manufacturing town of Langeloth, near Washington, Pa. | Tho tragedy had tts bestnoing to the beating of a woman by a drunken ' foreigner. Smith, thy man Inter killed, ' was not concerned in the trauble, but. be later became the Inder of a mob Which battled the state police, who’ had been called. { GENERAL MARKETS | PHILADELPHIA -- FLOUR quiet: winter clear, $6.50G6.75; ehty iille, fahex, 37.6077 7.85, ore FLOUK frm; per barrel, $6.75 1g tEAT quiet. No. 2 red, $1.49@ CORN quiet, No. = yellow, 7744 TBC. * * OATS firm; No. > wiiite, 61% 626.5 lower grader, Ga, POULTRY: Live steady: bens, 1415 gsc: old roouters, ” J1@ IE ge, reared firm; choice fowls, Ie.: old roosters, 14c. gun eee firm, fancy creamery, 34c. ASS Kleady; xelected, 27 @ 29e: Boarby, 25r.; western, 25¢. Live Stock’ Prices. CHICAGO HOGS higher; " mixed butchers, $5.42G0.89; good _ heavy, pAsess, Fough heavy, $6254 6.40; ght, $8.2040.50, pied, $5.65716,60; bulk, $6604, 95,75. CATTLE steady to strong: beevas, $5.75G 9.25; cows and helfors, eg 6.40: stockera and fecilers, $4.49 $3 8e Texan, $647.25: calver, $5 50@ SHEEP «trong; native end west: ern,. $4.76 7.05; lambs, $5.66g 9.50. 915 MARCH 1915 (SimM[T[wITlJFTs] [11 |2[3/4]5/6| 7 |8|9 10111213) 1a! Lew 119720 22i2s242512627| ICIZLIZ 324 26i2 anal 8293031] | | | 12829,50'5) - . Ende Extra Session Tatk. President Wilson stated dednttely that be had abandoned plans for an extra pession of tho secate frome lately atter March 4, and, up to the present, has not seriously considered the suggestion of a special acsston of congress tn October. *~ 5 Foe Renvived. Says Berlin. ‘The followin: statement war tssne by the war no" ce tp Fertin: “Tr the esccom wrens of the we the Reasiay 0 oaees te the sonthes ani cam) Smengh see tore save Fee : ane atte . om woe? # . > bee ep #: Ee ee ee ee ee ee we we eg NN ww |. Agents’ Contest. __ . VOTING ‘COUPON. a Address oe noses s. oe : son . (GOOD FOR 15 VOTES.) POCO DORESPOFEDOEHE STOO WOLF BROTHERS’ ""Gaitti‘sirnoad an Gah a ae Actual Lergth of Comb is 9 inches Medea od et a, SL Scaic ewan ctreues brats ~ Oar Prien fa Filty Conte, 20d wo sho Leap Attachment Free. ‘When ordering fy malt sand § 2-cent Stamps for potagh. Agents Wapted WOLF BROS. 1214 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 2 WRONREDAY. = - Bertin reports the sinking by a-sab marine of a~Dritish transport, ‘but London tasists that the vessel was the Branksome Chino, a colilgr. The-Brit Sah ship Oakby ban dopa torpedoed fn the’ English cman ft . : Berlin admits thatsftussian troops have crossed the Bobr river, in north Poland. but announces" that progress bas been made by, the kaiser’s armies at every other point on; the eastern battle front. Petrograd gaya bat the German offensive bys been. checked, and that the Russians bave made im- portant gains in the Carpathians. Fierce hand-tohand fighting ts re ported -from the Champagne region and in the Vosges. in France, * ‘THURSDAY. °* ‘ '<-Five moro Bfitlun morchant ab{ps Mave been sunk by German subme rines or mines in British waters dur. tag the lant twenty-four hours, Bir Edward Grey sald that Great Britain was tn full accord with Rus- sia’s desirc to abtain @ warm wator outlet to the ocean by way of the Biack ‘ea. : Przasnyaz, north Poland, has been atormed by the Germans and 10,000 Russians have been taken prisoners, according to Berlin. Thirty German xoldiers are report. ed killed and forty wounded by bombs Aropped by a British aviator upon Knocke, Belxtum. .” Dispatcher from Salonika say, the tiled feet has resumed Jts bombard ment of the Dardanelles. 2 * eRipay. Petrograd dixpatchos say that the Germann have begun two new ad ‘vance movements toward Warsaw (rom hort: Poland, one from between the Bobr anu Nuarew rivers, on the other from Prrasfss2, Mty-elght miles trom the Potis!. capital Tay Turkisi. {ary on the European MUM! the Dardatieltes and one fort Op (DF Astathe ste have deen reduced by Gr Aaete Byench. fleet “i the AtKean ses * Tarkist official report rays the attaching sitps were badly aaiiaced 5 Prepaiatians ure ‘ing made by the allies Wott nee German ating aions the westes: battle Moe ia Prawe ; tie A Frene! ceaiser arrested the American eile facta, with e cotton gare. fat Germany, inthe English Channel an! tool her to Brest. Landing partic: from te allied Acet emo'tsnet Unree Dardanetles forts Tie allies whefed neutral counteter that they hotd themaelves at Hherty to ftop all Ripping ty and from Ger: many and her altes Ruselans tacaptured Mrenxnyaz, and the Germaine are retreating Ia disor: ter, Petrasrat announced Seven cannon, 2600 meu ant thirty eMcora buve been capturet alent Praasnynz. Hunslan declares, Herlla places the fizhting south uf that cfty, thus relterataz the agsertfon that the place hay heen captieed, something the Russia bav® pot admitted, Russie. ce ked the Austrian aut vance In ecto Gallela and. recap. tured Sti tos aset Koloniea, SUNDAY. 1 The nities Steet cantinded fe bom jPardment on the bertanetles forts ane [ate reat ‘coo. sntan The rene ate Priioh tase tow my aver the ea [tured defen ©. pant’ hae orcurre: In Constants gee and the governmen Is prepatine fe fee fo Broussa, tn Asa Shier Te Mes Can generat statt renorts portions $ ra ang Im northern Po- land Visesny. 2, once captured by the “Geriiat. was Jost by then: on Thurs. Jvtas. wes back again on Mritay and agai be toon Safurday The Romalas« new fol the city we urety, Be Vrench. war cefes announcer AMI fariter ratne fn te Chamipamne resfet Tre cittes of Khetome ant Sele wens Tave teen tecntarded aata, hires Sette Dowie te rhe cathetrat The ee wre eatmne a path Pde ete HE Fase PONDAY, | Brewer « inte house of arate a at Great Uritate oF fm ete AL of the : SANE dere fe y { wer hy Ppa Gross : Wrttabn . $7,750,000 oday. 2 sacked’ another exten nasieat te another drive againet the sJormens and official “Sapatches frou jetag forced back. The. csars forces have captured 13,000 prisoners in the fighting around- Prassayss, continues the dispatch. . ‘Bad weather. has forced the allied Beets to halt their operations against the inner forts of the ‘Dardanelles. Another dig battle Is raging along the dattle front, and Berlin oMetal atatements clam gains for thelr re apective forces. Germany Has 9,898,000 Troops. Germany's total army of trained and untrained mon consists of 9,898, 000 soldiers, according to an an. nouncement by Under Secrotary of Btate for War Tennant to parliament tn London. 7 N.‘J. SENATE: FOR OPTION Provides For Vote on Question When 80% of Citizena Request Election. Tho New Jersey senate at Trenton pansed the local option bill by a vote of 11 to 9, with éne senator not rot ing. Tho dill provides for @ referendum on the question of local option when 30 per cent of the citizens of » munt- cipality request a special election. ‘The bill will now «o to the house, | Delaware Retaine Whipping Post, | By a vote of 30 to 4 the Delaware house defeated. Representative Down- ward's Dill abolishing the whipping post. Opponents of the Dill nald the lash was necossary to keep in chock “certeln elements we have to look, after.” a eer Signed. _ President Wilson signed the pension sppropriation .bIll, carrying approré, mately $164,000,000. It was the first of the farse appropriation bills to Teach the president. | 182 ENTOMBEO IN MINE Explosion Near Quinnimont. W. Va Does Damage 300 Yarde Away. Working voutiguously for near twelve ours, restuern had brough out allve only lz of the 152 miner entombed I. the Layland mines o the New Rivet and Pocahontas Coa aolldated Cont company, near Quinn! mont, W. Va. by an oxplosica. One body, that of George Henork wan recovered by a regcuo party neat the entrance of mine No. 3. From outalde evidence the force: o! tho explosion must have been terri fle. The #tone arch over the math 3 trance of the workings wax ‘lentroy ed; windows within a 300-yard radius were broken and the explosion was folt for miltes wround. A. B. Cooper, who was delivering groceries to a house withis seventy: five yards of the mine entrance, was blown against a telegraph pole and willed. The frat resPuc :party which Deoe trated the mine, a drift’ working. found bat slate fall. They roported the alr rourses good. Guasd linen have boon extablished about the workings an} only workers are normitted within them. Company officials rofuse to’ give out any Infor: mation z Most of the entom'ed minern aro of foreign birth, but there are also a larKe number of Americans. | Vout Wad Kida ia Auto Oech. In a wild dash over the mountatr roatx, Josep P Rutey, twenty-noves year ols, of Belle Vernon, wes to Stantly ile and tify sempanton, Rex tha Jones, 1 muntenris! of Ptitabn © eaaped pia thally untngured whe thelr autoninbite turned tide to Ths “wood, near Uatontoven, Fa. Zapatirtas Attack Capital, Unoitital reporte reelved trom Vora Cruz, Mex, state that Zapatista attacked Mot yCity Monday nice fatter the, clever: wis within the capital bat beer cat. ond that ttf feared a mastarte (obs progress 4h the clty. 4 Geit Teara Arm Out. ‘ P While pepeltine sc tot on a ant ak the tope a fice Ming at th General Cheetoat comyenn's plat 7 Marcus Neos. sear (ur tor, Pa tw vey Mears. a per titehe fot iin regs arm. It was torn ‘ram te aoe ket. ey pete AS. vga So FoR AN ea ek Oe, r is OP TICE ROOM, NO, 405, MECHANICS @AVINGS RANK BUILDING. e ‘Feene, Moareo—3687. : * Rastéence, Cle N. let R—Shepin Rear. ‘Phene. Mearee-2166. Sposa! Attention Paid te the Taking of Contrasts fer Building of Any Otte of Architecture. Jov Work a Speciaity. “§ | > Booting ie, TR McC SS inte iz mar ra eGo & OO (ee) paxines (uae A ee Sel u3sp2o | REE SS MAILED Ee ee yeast 7 dress bil be Mas Shampoe Drier Coy 2), apo Tot fo mdivedoOb ~_ & BEACTIVUL HEAD OF BAIR UA LADTS CROWNING GLORT.—Avd every lady can ave It ifabe will neo the Mage, The Magte will dry tho hair after @ shampoo er bath. and tireigbten the carlleet head of hair. It will also etiaulate lie growth. The Alamiatam Comb com ‘eet injere the hair, besance it le never hented dirert, but takes ite beat from the breting bar which Wsheated on eur Alchebe! Heater, of any other beater. We advise the ugp of Mares’ Male Pome te. Becton the euartel rice pet box, See. Alcotol Heater, price eu, Wiesel terms Lo naval mi ‘Write for liternture today, ae MAGIC B”AMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Og Ne Ee en EE oe Se ee See et nh 3 PHOTOS. : We offer you, the Laces and Mest Artistic Photos, of © More Mederate Figure than yee can cotels claowhers, Special Attention Paid te Chiléren, Malarging an@ Ospying taterter View Werk. ‘We will alee be Piessed to Quete qou Prices om Bxterter and trem: Ofd Photes, 4 Specialty. . . ' Geo. O. Brown, PxoTocrapuee, 603 North 2nd St. -- Richmond, Va. Mme. T. D. PERKINS ? SCIENTIFIC SCALP SPECIALIST 4630 W. 35th Avenuc, Denver, Colo. "Madam T. D. Perkins, of Denver, Colo who has spent five years. fo study of the scalp, is mow interesting women all over the globe in the care of the hair and scalp. No matter how dark your akin In Madam Perkins’ matchless scalp preparations and scientific method of treatment for cult!- vating, beautifying and growing the hale will grow your hair {f there is no physical ailment to prevent. Her treatments bavo been successful where all others have failed. Have you written her? If not. and you want hair ike her own, write her to-day. Bo sure to enclone a 4cent stamp and ‘write your name and address very plain If you expect a reply. Don't writo enless you mean business. ° 3 : sf SE ranean ; Perr Brad . A ary 3 ae F Re fs { , Rew ey Ee a t Ee ce ; H pees ted ree pa oe | Rt a 5 PC reat asc} So A Bo Prmmarenmneng 1 © STOR & IN re Lee ree oink is || WOMEN, STOP, .WAIT, LISTEN, READ! * Ifa Woman have ihe hate, 1 fs a Glory to Mer: © 1 Cor, 11-15, Every Woman Gan Have that Glory If She Wishes it. > ‘ This is for you. PASE No more froned halr, but soft, long, beau fe tiful halt that need not be ‘put on the [> .;SpemMMM | droaner on. retiring. Po you want thix [<7 Sie] kind of hair? It no, write for particulary [2° 0a Mies 5], to Madam T. D. Per: kins, the Selentifc rp Sass 4° Scalp Specialist of Denver, Colo, who |< ya ai Owme Sa on in astonishing the world with her won [ag pet Beaii dertul art of growing bair. a ‘My own bair tn ff my beat advertise. ment. With these Eo BS treatments my hair crew 17 inchen in two yeara, It had ra mained one length (four inches) for 15 years. What I did ff adie Y for my hair 1 .am foing for bundreds #4 of others, and will io for you with my JPR BR} Matchloes’ Sclentine Scalp Preparations. SO Ny (reatnient store alee MS CR aaa ee acc Eee ace Rie eae ane a Ween ends, removes dandruff and acalp-scurf, causes the hair to grow long, no matter how short: soft, no matter how harsh; thick, no matter bow thin, straight from the bulls, ne matter how kinky. First treataient will shaw wonderful improvement. Do-not watt If you are Interented Jn yout bul. I give treatments all over the United Statex by mall. Write me at once. !kend booklet concorning the care of the halr, and testimonials of thoxe taking my treatments when a deent rtamp Is enclosed, 1 do not have agents. I need a personal history of your hair and xealp and your physteal condition. . e @ All mail promptly answered when a Scent stantp fa enclosed tam tue only womaa of the race prowing halr today who can show (he publie the real length my hair was wher I fret bein treating 1. Send for hooks Jot if you mean business, You ean aceure these preparations only from me. None ke them made in the world. The T. D. #. Seleatifie Sear reparation, Madam Perkins, sole agent. © pu ECONOMY, .~ | 1327 North Fist Street. SEIN EY FAILORING ” CLRAEWe DTMING AND SSB 6 eB CHITMAN &. WHITE, Prepricter. enamine A. HAYES, OFFICE AND WAREROOMS: 727 N. Second St. RESIDENCE—725 N- SECOND ST. First-tlats Hecks and Caskets of ult descriptions. I have « spare room for bodies, when the family have not , galtable place All Country Orders piven Bpecial Attention.” Your special attention is called o the New Style Osk Caskets. Call ad sco me and you chal! we walled m individually. 7 * ee, Bie eee This is for you. but soft, long, beau not be ‘put on the Do you want thix write for particulars King, the Selentife Denver, Colo., who world with her won hair, My own hair tn ment. With these grew 17 fochen in mained one length yearn. What I did doing for bundreda do for you with my Scalp Preparations. Other People Judge You by Your Furniture Now _uas When vou can et em «0d HUGS trom an O:d wetadlished poase Ike JURGENS—tnat’ known to sell the best quality gocds. just as freasomable a6 elsewhere—why not give your ‘riends a goud tmprepsien; It will gtve us the greatest pleasure to show you our weudorful stock of bome-making comfoxt giving Furni- ture and Rugs and—don't fail to ask our salesmen about our banking plano which gives you 6, 19 or 15 months ‘n-which to pay for any purchase , : CHAS. G. JURGENS -SON, ESTABLISHED 1880. ADAMS‘ AND BROAD. Sere ea ote ener aoe J. 2 . SUBSCMBE TO THE : | wien PLAST No more froned halr, Uful halt that need dresser on retiring. Kind of hate? If no, to Madam T. D. Per- Scalp Specialist of fn astonishing the dertut art of growing my best advertise: (eatments my bair two yeara. It had re. (four tnches) for 15 for my hafr 1 -am of others, and will Matchloss’ Sclentifie My treatnient stopa Sa ee ale aes ORK ri * 10 280 FROG WAREANBTOR ABO BETOND. ms Azstve Bigumons- a te} 880 a Beg SStb gaits! caer Ramee THEE RoE rs Sere Sate ae Epon ee ELE a0 Fm. Bye me. TSS Brg Seles be Ree. SRPPEE A CUE Bane SRVOF.M. Byrd At: Bia 19-40 algns rd Resin. ‘ACCOMMOSATION 18 MMS—WHEERBAYS. fears Bes M4. Raa. 6.80 P.M. for Frederiheberg. I ECM Se ete sft te naae an fom tte Arie tt tates t bm an eres Fochay Sema TGTUaa Ha FS E pide sommesteos sles Sane oe Rx etna Tani Wee ait salen tS 2 tote Sard Tien shee Sas ce tee creases Paes anaes Seer N. & W. "Vi Our at mats Loex To Nomina cian tn hes: Deemer sa: fehetile ta Mes, Par BIO ag SAYS 7 Sinn Sati, Micon, Pom Pn Lhacid NGM Roe Mest ot 7, INCHES no THe Wy Mts Ket Rete ee eutth, HeA Ey S35 PM Silage Me tram ibe Wea a 8 Soper ore eee i. Souty ease ints, shai cal, 0. per e OH Seng, sotnday at CE. are aunaE ATLANTIC COAST LINE. 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Funeral Direster and Embaimer OPax BAY a eee Omice, $006 P St, Phone Mad 9881 Residence, 1015 St. James Gt., Phone, Mad. ¢619 S of. the Best, eityey Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SOOTT, Busbaime) Se for Wemen aud Ohil@ren an@ & attendanes at funerals, ND Se lB lt Ot Ber OR JOHN M. - . - Higgins, ———— Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 411 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITOHILL, JR. . . MIDTOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by, Wednesday. Enferred at the Post Office at Richmond, Va., as second-class matter. SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. We need friends right through here now and plenty of them. Politeness costs nothing, then let us all be polite. There are numbers of people without work, but very few of them want to work after they get it. Colored folks are talking race pride, but so few of them practice it. Let us change this condition. Treat white folks with unusual politeness and it will cause you to treat colored folks the same way. A person who will not work should not eat. The city will bury such individuals free of charge or send their bodies to the medical college and there the expense to the community ends. There is no use whining about your troubles. Remember that other folks have their troubles too and thousands of them are not whining about them either. 1. Remember that as a workman you must make a salary for your self and a profit for him, else it will not pay him to employ you. The employer gives an employee an opportunity and that is all any person should ask. . City Attorney H. R. Pollard says that Dr. Hooker T. Washington advised the colored people to stop fighting segregation. He may right about this, but if he will show us by history where, any race ever amounted to anything that failed to contend for rights denied, we shall take pleasure in carrying the announcement three months in these column free of charge and apologize to him for questioning his statements. We believe in emulating the white man. If you do not give him his rights, it is a fight and no frolic. Colored folks do like the white folks have done. They got on the pianacle by so doing and we are timing for the same goal. --- THE CITY ATTORNEY'S REPLY - BRIEF Law is a rule of civil conduct presented by the supreme power of a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong. - Blackstone. We return thanks to Hon. H. R. Pollard, the very brilliant and able City Attorney for a copy of his abil- reply brief in the case of Mary S. Hopkins of al., versus the City of Richmond now before the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia on an appeal, from the judgment of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond. It would naturally seem that the first question to be discussed would be, What is the law? What does the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia say about the rights of property? Can a minor privilege or exercise of power abrogate a constitutional right? Mr. Pollard cites the judicial opinion in lions rendered and quotes liberally and from technical legal quibbles, but law he does not in any part of this brief body himself cite from the Constitution of ing the United States and the Bill of in a Rights of Virginia. For this reason "Rc we are proceeding to quote from the sold Declaration of Independence, an im- mense instrument, written by Thomas Judew- Chau- son and to this day practically an effec- We hold these truths to be self- guident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unallisable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As Hon. H. R. Pollard as an official of the city, is sworn to recognize the civil and political equality of all men before the law and is a Virginian, "to the manor born," he will hardly question the citizenship of the colored men in this State. He virtually argues that a white man shall not do what he is lawfully entitled to do with his own property, that is, sell it to another citizen and that he shall not be permitted to purchase property in a certain section of the city and exercise the rights of ownership, absolute and complete in connection therewith. To emphasize the fact, there are white men of moderate means, who own property in colored neighborhoods, doing business therein and they are denied the right to house their families therein, being compelled to do business in one section of the city and live in another. On the other hand, colored families are permitted to live upstairs, where the white man's family desires to be, and the white man and his family are downstairs and both families save for sleeping, are living in the same house and under the most surprising conditions. What is true of white people is true of colored ones. It is this absurdity that this legal luminary is called upon to defend. Who believes that a gentleman of his type has his heart in the task? The peculiar position has caused a sensation in the country and the promoters of race prejudice are now on the defensive. H. R. Pollard seems to be more interested in the opinions of Jews than he is in the Constitution. He seems to lose sight of the fact that the exercise of police powers can not hastily be elevated to the plane of a constitutional provision to the extent of nullifying a fundamental constitutional right. To argue that it can be done is to indulge in an attempt at an absurdity, both in law and common-sense. The rights of residents of another state are also involved for Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States reads: The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. A resident of another State, who purchases property in this State would not be subject to any such legal discrimination as this ordinance provides, else he would have a remedy in the Federal Courts. Under the segregation ordinance in effect in this city, a citizen may be deprived of the use of his property and also of his liberty by the mere use of a ministerate in other words a fundamental right can be nullified and the liberty of a citizen endangered by an irresponsible official. A humious punishment as provided for in lieu of the fine, a citizen may be sent to jail for living in his own house and for exercising the right of ownership over his own property. To argue this question is to answer that legal obligations will not do. This Richmond segregation ordinance endeavors and does as far as it is possible for it to do, abrogate a contract. Under its provisions, a colored person, better known as a citizen, cannot legally convey to a white person property in a colored neighborhood for the reason that a white person is not permitted to have quiet and peaceable possession. Every deed of bargain and sale contains this provision or one of similar import: The said party of the first part covenants that he has the right to convey the said land to grantee, that he has done so to encumber the said land and that the grantee shall have quiet possession of the said land, free from all encumbrances and that the said party of the first part will execute such further assurance of the said land as may be requisite. How can a colored man give quiet possession to land or how can a white man give a colored one quiet possession to land with a squad of police officers pounding on the door at one time and Police Justice Wilbur J. Griggs going inside of the house at another so that he can determine on a basis of color the number of citizens or families residing therein it is not only a disgrace, but an outrage and it is violative of every right of an American citizen. Amendment V of the Constitution of the United States reads: No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. White and colored citizens are being deprived, of both their liberty and property without duo process of law. We witnessed the spectacle of a body of God-fearing white people being subjected to every humiliation in a court of law by persons with "Ritching palms," who would have sold their own property just as the members of Immanuel Baptist Church had done had the amount deprived been on the same basis of the building where a black woman supported colored passersby there because he had purchased a house on Fifth Street and within a street throw, of the thickly settled colored population. But all of these persecutions can not last forever and God's hand will yet be seen in the matter before the end. Are white men citizens? Are colored men citizens? The XIV Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. 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 due process of law; nor deny to any person, within its jurisdiction the equal Protection of the law. This seems to be plain enough for the City of Richmond, the State of Virginia and the United States of America. Certainly if a State has not the power to do it, the city of Richmond and Justice Griggs would not have any such power. But we do not find any quotations from the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights of Virginia. Some of these F. F. V. attorneys are slightly "tenderfooted" on the Constitution of the United States, but certainly they should be willing to "stand on all fours" when it comes to the Bill of Rights of Virginia, especially when it was re-adopted by the unconstitutional Constitutional Convention held in this State many years ago. That instrument reads (See Article 1): 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 by any compact, deprive or direct their posture, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. What happiness or safety can I white or colored man obtain with police officers hammering on his door summoning him to the Police Court and Police Justice Grimes observing that a place should be set apart for citizens of color, when these same colored folks have raised two thirds of the white folks in this State, who had any blood in them worth rainsings. Oh, it is sickening! But it would be well to give another extract from that Bill of Rights of Virginia. Article I. Section 11. which Hon. H. R. Pollard did not see fit to "encourage" in his reply brief in this Mary S. Hopkins case. Here it is. That no person shall be deprived of his property without due process of law, and in controversies respecting property and in rights between man and man, trial by jury is preferable to any other. But the Richmond Clergation Ordinance does not say no. It provides that trial by Justice Wilbur J. Griffes, the President of the Eagles, who sent a delegation to oppose the encrancement of Negroes is preferable to all others. Oh, the absurdity of it. We have always had a high opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. The members of that August tribunal have as a rule been free from race prejudice and we are trusting this case with them now. Certainly if any of them are believers in the Holy Writ, the case will be soon decided and if all of them are acquainted with the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of Virginia, Hon H. R. Pollard will have his brief for his palms. But we are not through with that reply brief altogether and shall reserve our further comment for our next issue. Let the colored folks pray from the mountains to the sea, that God may exercise His divine power and enable the praying kind-hearted colored folks to find friends among the white folks, who can be most friendly. Of law there can be no less ac- knowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest, as not-exempted from her power - Hooker. 4. ^ CHAMPION JACK JOHNSON The fight between Jack Johnson, Champion of the World, and Jess Willard, the white pugilist, which ring battle was to have taken place at Jaurez, Mexico, March 6, 1915, has been declared off and Champion Johnson is asking Willard to come over to Havana, Cuba and have the bout there. The reason for the postponement is the allied discovery that Gen. Carranza, through whose territory Johnson would have had to pass in order to reach his destination, was preparing to seize him and deliver him to the United States authorities for transportation to Chicago, where he would be charged with forfeiting his bond. We have never understood why he would take the risk of going to that wild country to fight. All of the fighting is now going on in Havana. when he is making a mistake and properly throw it to someone beyond his area in shooting to handle everybody in the United States. Jack Johnson is "playing with fire" new god taking risk, which must ultimately result in his undoing. The sports calculate upon making one more "big haul" through his influence and then the outlaws will come down on his career as an athlete. He is the most wonderful character the prize ring has ever produced. While there is much criticism of his acts and his inexplainable itinerancy, he is still at heart the idol of the masses of the colored people of the country. No name can thrill them with emotion so much as this black champion, who seems to care no more about the colored people than the white people do. His affiliations are all white and he likes everything white. Still, the race has in a large measure profited by his prowess, he cannot get away from the race by any species of reasoning or by any change. For weal or woe, Jack Johnson belongs to the colored race and the race, or that portion of which admires him most belongs to Jack Johnson. # 9 GEN. LEE AND THE NEGRO. The Richmond Times-Dispatch in reproducing extracts from that journal of war news, March 4, 1865, just fifty years ago, quotes as follows: Notwithstanding General Lee's indomoration of the plan, the Senate of the Confederate Congress in secret session has defeated the bill to enlist negro soldiers in the Confederate Armies. In justice to General Lee, it should be remembered that the employment of negro soldiers is not a recent suggestion of his, made at the eleventh hour. For a long time he has foreseen the necessity which has now arisen, and has labored in vain to meet it by the only means at our command—the employment of the negroes in gray uniforms. If his counsels could have controlled the deliberations of Congress, the 200,000 negroes now. In the Federal service might be in our ranks, and the result of this contest no longer in doubt. General Lee's honest proposition that the negro must be guaranteed freedom and a home when the fighting was done, was probably the rock upon which the ship stranded. This shows, then, that Major General Robert E. Lee had not only the great powers of a leader, but the transcendent abilities of a statesman. The accession to the ranks of the Union Army of hundreds of thousands of black men settled the contest and results followed which proved the undoing of the Confederacy. With the South championing the freedom of the Negro, the support of the Confederacy by them would have been a foregone conclusion. Somehow, despite the delegation laws now being enacted in many cities of the Southland and in some municipalities in the North, we believe that the final result will be that southern whites men will yet champion the cause of the colored race and give to them eventually the right and privilege to vote at the polls. An Organization of the Old Folks Home Is Being Established by the Colored People in the City of Bristol, Va. At a recent meeting the following officers were elected: J. E. DeLapp, president; Gee W. W. Wilson, Vice President; E. L. Newton, Secretary; Daniel Martin, Treasurer; A. D. McDallanah, General Manager; William Loman, Recording Secretary; James DeLapp and Mrs. Mary Ferguson, Field Secretaries; Directors, Nelson Sawyers, Wm. Loman, H. DeLapp and Taylor Williams. LOOK! LOOK! HELP! HELP! WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE. This is the first time in history, an institution of this kind has been organized in Southeast Virginia, and it is earnestly hoped that much good will be done as a protection to the city, and general uplift of the falling humanity. Our object in this work is to prepare a Home for our old ex-save mothers and fathers. We need to prepare a home for the Orphan children, the Widows and for people that are poor and unable to help themselves. Again we need some convenient protection for our sleek, and distressed. The 5th chapter and 4dth verse of St. Matthews tells us to give to him that anketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. So let every body rally to this end and contribute something to help build-a Home for these people here in South west Virginia. Everything sent will be highly appreciated and published. Make all orders payable to the Old Folks Home, Bristol, Va. P. O. Box No. 383. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT BUREAU Richmond, Va., Feb. 1915. To the Employers of Labor: TO THE EMPLOYERS OF LABOR: The Public Employment Bureau, recently established by the City, is now open and prepared to render efficient service to those desiring skilled and unskilled male and female help, white and colored. This Bureau is prepared to co-operate with the employing public, acting as its agent in the intelligent selection of suitable help. The Bureau forms that it can be of great assistance to you, in select- You can be of great service in this work, for the unemployed, by placing your ord so refer STAGINTEAO—your order for help with this Bureau. In so doing, you may have perfect confidence in its ability—to render intelligent service equal to the best. Relying upon your co-operation in this matter, we are. You're very truly To the Lodge Committees for the unemployed, Typewriter employment bureau, Business Colleges, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., and any organization for the help and assistance of those having positions to fill or be filled: The Public Employment Bureau established by the City is now opened and prepared to render efficient service by supplying high grade, skilled and unskilled male and female help, white and colored. We desire to co-operate with you in the placing of worthy applicants and can do this only in proportion to the number called for by employers. You can assist in this great work by requesting such employers as you meet to place their orders for help with the City Bureau. Praying that this Bureau will have the confidence of employer and employee alike in rendering Service Free To All. Yours very truly. WORTLEY DICKIE. Manager. FOR RENT! FOR RENT! 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, beneficial clubs, social parties, to all persons and organizations who desire an excellent place to have evenings of pleasure and entertainments, the privilege of renting rooms in the Samaritan Hall. These lodge rooms and the mala 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 self-information apply at the office of State Grand Lodge No. 6, I. 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. BUILDING COMMITTEE J. N. MYERS. 'ISHAM MANN. W. H. HATCHER. Mrs. M. J. WASHINGTON, MRS. F. E. DAMMELL. FREE WIN FAME AND FORTUNE. Learn Moving Picture Acting Learn the greatest profession now open to everybody regardless of color, education or where you live and earn the highest salaries ever paid in any business. THE COLORED RACE possesses more talent for singing, dancing, acting, than any people on earth. The Lincoln National Film Co. conducting the International School of Motion Picture Acting offers to assist in developing this talent. You may be able to make money and not even leave your own home. Enclose stamp for full details. Address. Dept. (G) Lincoln National Film Co., Chicago, Ill. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 2nd day of March, 1915. Ruth Alice Bates, Plaintiff. V.R. Clarence A. Bates, Defendant. 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 or desertion. *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 duo publication of this order, and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. *A Copy-Toate: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. E. BYRD, P. Q.* TO CLARENCE A. DATES: You will take notice that I will, on the 20th day of April, 1915, at the office of Phil B. Shield's room, number 701, Travolera 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, the taking of the same will be adformed 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. RUTH ALICE BATES. By Counsel— J. R. BYRD. 502 N. 3rd Street. HOTEL DALE, Cape May, N. J. OPENS APRIL 1. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful sub-shore resort in the world; replaces with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service and refined petruvage. Orchestra daily, garage, bath house, banana, etc., on premises. Special attention given to Indian and children. Hand for booklet. R. W. DALE. Gurnon. In the La Salle 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 desertion. And an amdavit 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. LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. E. Byrd, p. q. TO CHARLIE SCOTT: You will take notice that I shall on the 14th day of April, 1916, at the office of Phil B. Shield's room number 701. Travelers Building, situated on the north side of Main Street, between 11th and 12th Sts. 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. Respectfully, ANNIE SCOTT. By Counsel, J. E. Byrd, 502 N. 3rd St. VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA: In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 13th day of February, 1915. William C. 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 amdavit 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 duo publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interests in this suit. A Copy-Teate: LUTHER LIBBY. J. E. Byrd, p. q. Clerk. TO WILLIAM C. FREELAND: You will take notice that I shall, on the 20th day of March, 1915, at the office of Phil B. Shield's 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 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. FLORENCE FREELAND By Counsel. J. E. Byrd. 502 N. 3rd St. HOTEL DALE, C OPENS APE A little more than a month ago, some farmers even decided to any country. It is a drought winter and has made a ten of hay to the crop in very dry region without irrigation, and it is a better hay crop than market for the wetter climate, making from one to three cuttings a season and yielding better in wet than in dry year. There is a great danger, however, lurking in Sudan grass wherever Johnson grass will live ever winter. Some men say that they can tell Sudan grass need from that of Johnson grass, but Cottrell states that not even an expert can do so. Johnson grass may grow up in the field and infect the seed without the knowledge of the grower if there is any Johnson grass in the country.—Farm and Fireside. --- ```markdown ``` PIT SILOS·IN THE WEST. They Are Particularly Profitable In Drier Farming Districts. Scattered over the drier, farming districts in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico there are something more than 2,000 big holes in the ground, dug for the specific purpose of fighting the effects of drought along lines that have already been proved successful, writes Robert H. Moulton. These holes vary from ten to twenty feet in diameter and from twenty to fifty-feet in depth. They are lined with concrete. Some of them have concrete extensions above the surface of the ground. They look exactly like what they are—holes in the ground. They suggest great clisters, but their distance from any roof shed which might catch sufficient water to fill them even if the rains were heavy enough proves they are clisters. They are pit silos, and into them is packed the village made from corn, Kaffir, milo and sorghum, which in the fall and through the winter not only keeps live stock alive, but fattens beef steers and causes milk cows to give large quantities of rich milk. And their number is increasing rapidly. It is only natural that a farmer without one of these holes in the ground, seeing with his own eyes that his neighbor has turned practically worthless corn fooster and Kaffir and sorghum stalks into feed worth from $11 to $20 per ton by packing it in the pit silo, should decide to build one for himself, especially since the cost is so small, say about $25 to $20. One man built his for $1.45. A small pit silo can be built for a cash expenditure of $5 and a large one for $15 to $25. The pit silo has made sure and regular profits from small farms in the dry land districts of the southwest. Any farmer, no matter how poor, can have one. Forage crops never fall in any year. They can be preserved any length of time in the silo in a palatable form and with little loss. Silage fed to dairy cows with other dry land feeds insures a steady cash income every week in the year from cream, and the skimmilk fed with dry land grains to pigs and hens assures additional cash. ```markdown ``` The pit, silo is no new thing. It has been in use, in isolated cases, for years, in widely separated states. A community in town, a farmer in central Illinois, another, in Mississippi, and others, have used pit silos for some time and found them satisfactory. But it is a new comer in the semiland agricultural regions of the southwest, and its appreciable influence upon farming there dates back no further than two years. Last year, when the long drought came and burned up millions of acres of crops and $100,000,000, there were enough pit silos in existence to prove to everyone that they are a necessary part of a successful farmer's equipment. Contingent. The Bridegroom - You haven't told me yet when the wedding day is going to be. The Bride-My dressmaker will let you know-Life. A Reporter, Evidently. Little Peter Hopowitch, Who had just turned seven. Struck a match near looking goo- Didn't go to heaven. In the min they planted him. Grew new skin in patches. Peter soon will try again. Playing with those matches. - Philadelphia Ledger. JOHNSON FIGHT POSTPONED El Paso, Tex. Feb. 22.—Virtuall postponement of the Johnson-Jess Willard boxing bout was admitted late today by Jack Curley, the promoter. It was believed that Johnson could not arrive at Juarez, Mexico, on the border here, from Habana, by way of any Mexican seaport, by March 6. Curley, however, declared that he beloved Johnson would arrive safely at Juarez within a short time after the original date. The Carranza officials have announced their intention of arresting Johnson on the ground that he is a fugitive from justice in the United States. Johnson cabled from Cuba today to curley so that it were considered to hold the fight in Juarez, that it could be held at Habana. Curley, however, declared that he would not consent to this, since all matters had been arranged at Juarez. Curley declared again today that no other boxer would be substituted for Johnson. He said that Johnson would need at least a week's training at Juarez before the fight. This week, with the time required for Johnson's trip through Mexico, even should he encounter no great difficulty, would make it impossible for him to fight on March 6. FIGHT MANAGERIS UP IN ARMS; FREEDOM; FREELANCE; BOOT UNDECIDED El Paso, Tex. Feb. 25.—Tom Jouce, Jess Willard's manager, said boro today: "I am not going to break camp or leave El Paso until the affair is settled. Johnson will have to fight Willard in Juarez or not at all." Willard will do no training for two days, it was announced, after which he will do only the lightest sort of work. He apparently has become acclimated and has worked off his excess flesh. Toronto, Ontario, Feb. 25.—Tom Flanagan, who trained Jack Johnson the negro bugilist for the fight with James Willard, has announced that he had received a cabelgram from Johnson at Habana in which Johnson said he had called off the fight with Jess Willard set for March 6 at Juarez and that the fight would occur in Habana. Flanagan gave out the text of the cable he had received from Johnson at Habana, as follows: "Will fight Willard here. Fight will draw as much as Joffries-Johnson fight. There is no chance for me to go to Mexico." El Paso, Feb. 25. Jack Curley, promoter of the Johnson-Willard fight, before his departure today for Hibana, was told that Tom Flanagan, Jack Johnson's former trainer, had given out a telegram in which Johnson was told as saying that the fight would not take place in Cuba. "I don't bollove Johnson 'ever said that,' declared Curley. 'I am going to Hibana to see what's the matter, that's all. There is absolutely nothing definite yet. It is true it has been suggested, holding the fight in Hibana, but nothing has been settled so far as I am concerned." --- JACK JOHNSON FINDS TIME BRINGS HIM MANY CHANGES In those days of royal splendor, wonder if Jack Johnson ever members those ikan days when he curried Jack Shechan's horses near Houston. Jack is quoted as saying that the European war has cost him over $200,000—quite some language for one who not many decades ago was thankful indoof when handed 10. pr 15 cents by one who took pity on him. Those who have had a chance to see Johnson at some stage or other of his pilgrim's progress toward Juarez and Jesse Willard say that the big Ace of Clubbers is oh, so fat, from eating too many chickens and mimicking What furniture another startling contrast to the days when Jack Johnson used to stand sideways in an always successful effort to escape the attention of those looking for him. Too little to eat has spoiled many a promising young boxer. The extremes meet, for the history of the game shows other instances even more empatic than the Johnson case when the opponent appeared the departure of a champion or a contender from the ranks of the mitt threshers. CARRANZA WILL ARREST JOHNSON IF PUGILIT GETS WITHIN REACH Curley, Promoter of Fight, to Leave For Habana, and Championship Bout May Be Transferred. If Jack Johnson goes into Gen. Carranza's Mexican sphere of influence he will be arrested and turned over to the United States authorities. This was stated officially at the constitutionalist agency here yesterday. This information was the first notification of another change of front on Carranza's property. Originally it was understood he intended to arrest Johnson if the latter visited his part of Mexico. Later, it was stated, he had received requests from MIpe Business men asking that the pugilist be permitted to Sertan J. Willard at JOHNSON, a progressive democrat who believed so he had more power than he had in the government himself at first so the government then by pleased any group of individuals at El Paso. Johnson was said to have been advised at Habana of Carranza's decision, and it was not regarded as at all likely that he would give the constitutionalist christian a chance to arrest him. Even should be succeed in getting clandestinely through, through Carnanza's territory, as he must do to reach Jaureus without entering the United States, it was pointed out that the hardships and perils he would have to endure would hardly leave him in condition to meet Willard. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 24.—JACK Curley, promoter of the Johnson-Willard bout at Juarez, announced tonight he would leave tomorrow for Habana, where Johnson remained today. It was said the trip to Cuba did not necessarily mean the transfer of the fight to Habana, although Johnson was expected to outcome of the situation. The announcement followed the receipt of a cablegram from Johnson, the contents of which were not given out. Willard will lighten his training work until something definitive is received regarding Johnson's arrival for the fight, originally set for May 15, was announced. Physicians have announced Willard in good shape, and the indoinite postponement of the bout brought fear that he might overtrain. Habana. Feb. 24.—A local fight promoter telegrammed to John. Toes Willard asking him to come here to fight Jack Johnson for the heavy-weights. If he accepts the fight will take place at the Oriental park race track. Extracts from the Vacation and Quarterly Report of the President of Va. Theo. Sem. & College. FINANCIAL Receipts: Month of May from board, tuition, etc. $ 672.88 Expenditures for all purposes 1037.27 Vacation from June 1st to Oct. 1st, 1914: Received from donations as follows: Va. Baptist State Convention 2300.00 From Churches, Associations and District Conventions 2012.87 From Student's Accounts 172.75 From other sources, not classified. 492.25 Total vacation receipts. 4977.87 Vacation Expenditures, June 1st, to Oct. 1st, 1914: Paid for school supplies $ 648.74 Paid on Boarding, Department 560.16 Paid on Improvements to property 274.74 Paid on Salaries and Account. 1150.00 Paid on Accounts above classified. 1965.40 Total amount 4599.04 First Quarter from October 1st, 1914 to Jan. 1st, 1915: Received from Tuition. . . 729.70 Received from Board. . . 2739.64 Received from Churches and Associations. . . 50.00 Received from Old Accounts. . 122.90 Unclassified Receipts. . . 581.15 Incidentals. . . 466.25 Receipts from Dedication. . 530.00 Brought forward from Vacation receipts. . . $ 378.85 Credit by note discount. . . 593.60 Total receipts for quarter 6152.11 Expenditures for the Quarter, Oct. 1st, 1914 to Jan. 1st, 1915: School supplies. . . 1234.09 Boarding department. . . 934.34 Repairs. . . 155.00 Salaries. . . 2010.84 Additions to property. . 1250.00 Sundries. . . 667.24 Total receipts for Vacation and quarter $11,842.50 Total payments for Vacation $9,916.50 cation and quarter . . . 11,887,57 Total Deficit . . . . . . . 45,61 Improvements and other Conditions. Our new heating plant cost fifteen hundred dollars ($1500). To wrap our old pipes, it cost thirty-one dollars ($31.00) making a total of fifteen hundred and thirty-one dollars ($1531.00). We have paid fourteen hundred and thirty-one dollars ($1531.00) the amount out of our current funds. We have informed our old chapel and offices into class rooms at a cost of two hundred and fifty-six dollars ($256.00). We spent to furnish these classrooms and our new dormitory one thousand dollars ($1,000). The interest on mortgage amounting to one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00). Insurance premiums on two-buildings amounting to four hundred and fifty dollars ($450.00). Paid Ms. Hayes-Allen a claim of five hundred and hundred dollars. All of these 'proven' dollars we have paid for out of our current funds, except three hundred dollars ($300.00). Thus we have spent from our current funds altogether for improvements not including our current expenses, three thousand, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents ($314.89). To take care of our current expenses it has cost eight thousand, seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and otherwise. Now, but for the cash we have spent out of our current funds to take care of improvements, we could finish the academic year with a cash balance. The general conditions of the work their are up to the standard otherwise. We stand have been meeting with unprece- as n dented success. Every lover of this man work and every well wisher of the any race have every reason for rejoicing. Matt But let us not in a state of joy for- adap get that there are heights yet un- aver tained to which we are aiming. Let cost us very thoroughly understand that back we are to struggle, wrestle, combat, have work and go forward. All of this is viro in the game. First Lieut. Benjamin O. Davis, of the Ninth cavalry, who left here a few days ago under orders of the war department to assume his new duties as instructor of military science and tactics at Willberforce university, in Ohio, is one of the only three colored commissioned officers of the line. in the United States army he commanded four colored commissioned officers in any but they are chaplains and appointed from civil life. Chaplain George W. triteau, Ninth cavalry, is one of them. the other two officers of the line alluded to are Major Charles Young now stationed in Liberia on behalf of the United States government, and Lieut. John E. Grace, now stationed with the Twenty-fifth infantry. There are two colored regiments of cavalry in the army. It is not very often that an enlisted man gets a commission in the United States army and a variety when a Negro obtains one. Major Young went to West Point. The career of Lieut. Davis is therefore notable. Just before leaving here he took an examination for promotion to captain. Three years ago he returned from Liberia where he served 20 months in the position Major Young new occupies. FATHER'OLDEST EMPLOYE. Lieut. Davis's father is messenger for Secretary of State Franklin K. Lano, having been a messenger in the department since 1866 and having more years of departmental service to his credit than any other governmental officer in Washington. Lieut. Davis's army career began when he organized a company of the Eighth United States volunteer infantry in Washington in 1898. It was a colored regiment. He accompanied it to Fort Thomas, Ky., becoming first lieutenant. When the regiment was mustered out at Chickamauga, Ga., in 1898 it was established as a private in Troop I. Named the military of which company Colonel J. F. Gullifoye was then captain. He remained in the Ninth cavalry until May, 1901, becoming successively corporal and squadron sergeant major. Before the end of his three-year term of his first enlistment he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Tenth cavalry in May, 1901, and moved to first lieutenant. He served with the Tenth during the Samar campaign in the Philippines. AT WILBERFORCE From September, 1905, to Sept. 1, 1909 he was on special service at Wilberforce university, to which he has just returned as professor of military science and tactics. Then he received his appointment as military attaché to the American legation at Monrovia, Liberia. Dec. 3, 1911 he went back to the Ninth cavalry as commanded Troop B during early day at the first light at Naco in 1913. Davis was a junior in Howard university, Washington, when he resolved to enlist in the army and take from the shoulders of his parents the burden of keeping him in school. His idea in joining the army was to get leisure time in which to complete his education without expense. He was able, however, to get a commission before his enlistment expired and was appointed a captain in any career. 'Aked why there are not more colored officers with commissions in the army he said: LACK EDUCATION "The reason is I think that most of the recruits in the colored regiments are drawn from districts where the educational facilities are not good. Besides, most colored boys, after graduating from institutions like Harvard, find that they can earn better salaries immediately after leaving school in civil pursuits than after including in the army for $15 a month. Lloot, Davis says that Liberia is a country of 43,000 square miles situated on the west coast of Africa almost directly under the equator. It extends 300 miles along the coast. The population consists of 39,000 American-Liberians and 2,000,000 natives. The colony was founded early in the Nineteenth century by Americans who wished to provide an asylum for the slaves of the southern states. The capital was named Monrova after President James Monroe. American men were given in 1847, and Lloot, Davis thinks the fact that the country has never find a revolution since proves that the negroes are capable of self-government. FOREIGNERS ENCROACH The country is rich in resources Encouragements on its territory by foreign powers caused it to send an appeal to the United States, and this country appointed a commission to go over and help out the government in the war that was in 1909. The cause of other nations for encroaching was that Liberia was not capable of preserving order along its borders. Liput. Davis assisted in organizing a regiment of soldiers to protect the border. Reid Page Clarke is representing the United States government there now. Major Young being militiaman of the United States sometimes suggested of sending all American negroes to Liberia. Liout. Davis said it is not feasible. COLONIZATION IMPRACTICABLE. "This was shown clearly," he explained, "when migrants in the South threatened to lynch men who were advocating the plan. The reason for their attitude is not hard to understand. The American negro is just as much an American as any white man and will just as quickly recent any attempt to deport him. As a matter of fact the negro is better adapted to the American average European, because his ancestry in this country dates further back. His African characteristics have been taken out of him by environment. When I went to Liberia/m friends told me that the African mankind, or no charge, no matter what your disease, sickness or affliction may be, and educate 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 see nothing but herbs, roots, bark, gums, balances, leaves. I care for women and plants in my medicine. 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STATE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE CONVENTION Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday begins Tuesday evening, 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. day, March 16th, 17th, 18th, beginning Tuesday evening at 8 P. M. Cumberland Street M. E. Church South, corner of Cumberland and Freemason Street, Norfolk, Virginia The church is within one block of the Bank Street and also of the Church Street car line. HEADQUARTERS Headquarters will be at the Atlantic Hotel, corner of Main and Granby Streets. Rates for rooms at this hotel are $1.00 per day for a single room, $1.50 for two in a room. Meals can be gotten at restaurants in the vicinity of the hotel at reasonable rates. RAILROAD RATES. The Associated Railways have been requested to give the usual reduced rates for such Conventions. Apply at once to your ticket agent for the rate from your station, and if he can not report it to you, ask him to write and find out what the rate will be. CONVENTION TOPIC: "Our Great Victory—What Shall We Do With It?" The Convention will partake of the nature of a great Praise Meeting for the great victory won by the temperance people of the State. But will the people of the State consideration of the work which lies before us in order to secure substantial results of that victory. STATE AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION. Addresses and discussions concerning the legislation needed both for the State of Virginia and for the State of Texas, much of the time of the Convention. SOME OF THE SPEAKERS Dr. Robt. J. Patterson, familiar-Scly known by Christian workers as Ly "Catch-my-Pal" Patterson, will make be one of the principal addresses. Dr. Patterson is a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian minister of Belfast, Ireland. He has conducted campaigns all over the Irish Isles to induce men to sign the total abstinence pledge, and TO CURE ALL DISEASES OR NO CHARGES: DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? If so, call and call L. J. HAYDEN. Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines, 220 West Broad Street. 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Wheeler, National Attorney of the Anti-Saloon League of America, who recently served in how famous case of the West Virginia Lawsuit; Mr. E. H. Cherrington, Secretary of Publications of the Anti-Saloon League of America, recognized everywhere as the leading authority on Prohibition facts in this country; Mr. Dan Morgan Smith, for many years National Attorney for the Model License League of Louisville, Kentucky, but who finally recognized the impossibility of reforming the Saloon, and now tells a remarkable story of why he resigned as attorney for the Model License League; Mrs. Margaret Intringer of Chicago, Executive Secretary of Citizenship Movement; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, First Vice President of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; men prominent in public life in Virginia, including Hon. J. Taylor Ellison, Hon. R. E. Byrd, Hon. Wm. Holgeman Mann, Hon. Martin Williams, Hon. John Garland Pollard, Senator C. Harding Walker, John R. S. Bauders, J. E. West and G. Walter Mapp, all of whom have been intimately associated with temperance legislation; Mrs. Howard M. Hoge, State President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. George May Jobson, President of the Women's Christian Temperance League of America; Superintendent of cities, counties and districts in the Prohibition campaign; leading ministers and editors also will be present and speak. There will be an abundance of speakers to occupy every moment of the time with interesting and helpful discussions. 0 JEFFRIES PHARMACY. FOR PURE DRUGS and good service. Special attention in filling your prescriptions. We specialize on Toilet Articles. Rubber Bubble, Trusses, Perfumery, Stationery, and will be pleased to serve you with any and every thing carried in a first class drug store. Goods delivered when requested or sent to you by parcel post. THOS, TABB JEFFRIES. Prescription Drugsist. 214 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW THEM? 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AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE One scene shows Fleen locked in a cabsome on a lonely stall. It would be plain by her acting how she got there even if the introductory scenes were not illustrative of her plight. The big blue eye which shine out of the childish countenance, seemingly too large for their setting, reveal tiny tears starting on their journey as though back of them a childish heart really was breaking. FOR THE COLORED RACE Open all the year round. For Males Only. Maintained by the governments of the United States and of North Carolina. Awarding. Departments—Academic, Mechanical, Agricultural Board, Lodging and Tuition, $7.00 per month. Write for further information or catalog. 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ROBINSON Halfway down the steps of the fraternity house Anglin turned and went thoughtfully back to the room that he shared with Beresford. "You're dead sure you'll not change your mind and come?" queried Anglin. Beresford, with a volume open on his knee and a pipe, gripped between his teeth, nodded emphatically. "Then I suppose you don't mind if I take your skates. They're sharper than mine." "Take them, of course." But when Fred Anglin had slung the skates over his shoulder and buttoned on his thick gloves he still lingered. It seemed as though this were not what he had come back to say after all. "I ought to tell you. Tom—we've been such pals right—along—that I'm going to put my fate to the 'test tonight. The Tremaine girls will be at the stating party. And tonight I intend to speak to Gerla." Bereford jumped up and wrung his friend's hand enthusiastically. "Good for you!" he cried. "Go in and win! As long as it isn't Geraldine I can endure the thought of your happiness if she says yes. I'll be able to listen to your captures without experiencing a perfectly legitimate desire to sling you through the window." "Thanks, old man," laughed Anglin, adding, "Iucky we've not set our respective hearts on the same sister. Now, I'm blessed if I understand your infatuation for Geraldine. But as long as you are her captive why do you hold back? You are older than I am, and—" Boreford shook his head with a grim smile. "It isn't that. You're a wealthy father and a settled income. I'm only enough to pull me through this final year. When I get my diploma—well, I shan't have much more in a material line. I don't date Geraldine to wait until I have attained—achieved—arrived. It wouldn't be fair to her." "It would—her spouse—be a treemenous incentive to you." "Oh, I know that. But she must be considered first." There was another handclay, a firm and silent one. Anglin swamped for the trump into the country, where the skaters were to assemble at Pill grim's pond. The star stimulated night closed down early. When Anglin reached the appointed place the amusement of the crewing was already in full swing. The expense of lee was clean swept and of an quique, turquoise tint. Strings of Chinese lanterns dangled in the multi-hued propulsion from bare tree to tree and from pole to pole. In a decivity semi-shaped by a fly tent a royal fire blazed and crackled. In and out, around and about, in dullness under the sunlit stars or in red relief where the daubieux set, at regular intervals, flared fantastically, sped and dashed the dark figures of the skaters. Fred Anglin got on his skates as quickly as possible and started out across the frozen pond. Many turned to look after the athletic young figure circling through their midget with such easy, swallow-like grace of motion. But he noticed no other their presence nor their admiration. He was looking for one particular little figure. She would wear a short skating costume of blue velvet, the Russian blouse, which was girl with heavy cowl that awned backward when she raced. The high poked cap would make a penthouse over a mass of fair girls and into chlovous eyes, bliner than any violet that ever mocked the blueness of a June time sky. And... "There she'll be said suddenly to himself. Alone in the shadow of the wigwam shaped refreshment tent, apparently fancying herself undo-served, a slender young form was whirling on heel and toe, cutting a pattern of intricate tracery on the ice. "Come with me!" he cried as he disbanded to her side. He held out his hands, crossed at the wrists in the old approved carry the lady-out of town style. Together they swung gracefully down the strip of glamming ice which was least covered. But when they were quite away from the merry crowd of skaters, whose voices came to them musically through the frosty night air, Anglin turned their impetuous progress to one very deliberate. And then, as he took a firmer hold of her mittened hands, he began, after the manner of many another lover who has been compelled to force his courage to the sticking point. "Dear," he said desperately, "I can't keep silent any longer. You know how I've cared for you ever since well ever since I entered college. All though I've never been obliged to consider ways and means, still a legacy has made it possible for me to ask you to give me your promise. I know, he added hastily, "you won't care about this sort of thing, but I ought to mention it. There's only one question now—do you think you will ever love me—a little?" His words, video, even the tense with which he retarded her flight, holding her hands tight pressed to his side, did not escape the girl's alert consciousness. But she answered in upsteady accents. There was trepidation in her tone, as well as dread, the dread a sweet girl experiences who hates to give pain. "I'm sorry—sorry—sorry that I've ever been about anything in all my life" she began. "I—I did not dream I knew I for whom you—carried. Had I you to my chair." As one stunned he rebalanced his grip on her finger, while he recounted their speed. "Don't worry!" he answered bravely. "I must have been awfully stupid to have fancied—you are sure you're quite warm enough." We are almost at the tent now. I'd better bring you some hot coffee. Gerla. They were at the tent. Yellow streaks of light from its canvas apertures were glinting out at them. The girl came to a standstill, her hand still on her companion's arm. "What was that you said?" she asked sharply. "Gerla. I suppose I should have said Mise Tremaine," and then, as she did not at once reply, he wheeled swiftly and confronted her. She had dashed back the peaked hood of her skating coat. He saw a little, dark, mignonne face looking up at him in the wavering amber light—a face that looked uncertain as to whether it might to break into smiles or quiver into tears—the face of Gerla's twin. "Geralline!" he exclaimed as he fell back in astonishment. It was her turn to be amazed. "Why, did you think it was Gerla?" she cried. "Sure," he added, with enthusiastic relief. And then when her merry peal of laughter had died away he queried, "But how do you happen to be wearing Gerla's costume?" She laughed again—a believed sort of merriment that made Anglin think suddenly of his roommate. "Oh, that's what—what fooled you, was it it? Why, we changed them just for fun. But if Tom"—she flushed furiously at her elip of names—"I mean if Gerla had thought"— "What!" exclaimed Anglin ambigonally, "Geraldine, do you think"— The next instant Anglin was facing a girl in a suit of wine colored velvet. The peaked cap was drawn high over toasted golden curls and eyes of deepest blue. "How you stare!" she laughed. "Am I an uncanny spirit" "I've proposed to one girl tonight," he confessed as he whisked away to the waitz the band was playing. "and I don't want to make a similar mistake again, for she was not the girl at all whom I mount to ask to marry me." "Are you quite sure you're not mistaken now?" she asked quizzically. "Quite," he assured her. "But I would like positive proof—and corroboration." And both Fred Anglin succeeded in securing before he strumbled home to ask Tom for congratulations and to hearten him with the fondest of hopes. Watch In a Pearl The foot of making a watch in a pearl has been accomplished by a watchmaking firm at Choux de Ponds, Switzerland. This wonderful watch, the only one of its kind in the world, was finished a few days ago. A pearl which weight forty-five grains and has a diameter of about half an inch contains all the works. It took an employee of the firm fifteen months to hollow out the pearl and fix the wheels. The watch is guaranteed to keep good time and may be worn as a ring on the finger. Taege in China. One dollar to get married, 10 cents to go to college and 60 cents to graduate are some of the items in the new regulation "governing the affixing of stamps on certificates concerning human affair" which were recently promulgated in China. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT Orowaineas Drowsiness is sometimes a sign of disease. It is often a symptom of a poisoned system. When therefore a person begins to show unusual and inexplicable drowsiness he ought to find out what the causes. It may be that malaria or indigestion or some form of kidney disease is poisoning the blood. A diminished blood stream can also produce convulsions, as in the case of the aged, who often fall into a convulsion of little appall day because the amount of blood that circulates through the brain is so small that there is a constant condition of cerebral anaemia. Abnormal drowsiness also results from tumors of the brain or injuries to the skull. Then it is usually caused by the pressure that interferes with the circulation of the blood. In diabetes drowsiness occasionally comes on with great suddenness. It is then generally the precursor of the unconsciousness or coma that accompanies the late stages of that disease. The treatment of drowsiness must be determined by the cause. Old people should be permitted to drowsse freely. Young people who are anaemic should try to improve their blood by tonics and diet and cultivate a habit of living and sleeping in the fresh air. One or she Other. "What is she mad at him for?" "I don't know." "Maybe he kissed her?" "Maybe, or maybe he didn't"—Houston Post. The Younger Generation He had learned to play at tennis. He had won full many a match. On the ball ground he was famous— He could pitch and bat and catch. He could box and throw the hammer. And at wrestling he was good; He was thoroughly athletic— But his father chopped the wood. She was well informed on ethics. She could formulate a plan Which would show us all our duty To our struggling fellow man. She could write on household topics In a manner hard to beat; She embroidered fancy pillows— But her mother cooked the meat EIGHT.COMRADES OF THESE AGED ODD FELLOWS REPORTED MURDERED. THE GAMBLER Frederick Morn, an orderly in the German Old Fellows' home at Yonkers, N. Y., declared he assisted in helping off eight inmates to make room for others. The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a grayscale image with a blurry and indistinct appearance. Therefore, no text can be accurately extracted from this image. Mrs. Bowser was looking out of a front window when Mr. Bowser came home the other evening. He stopped at the gate, faced the street and gave a man opposite the military salute. Then he about faced, opened the gate and marched up the street with the tread of a warrior. As he entered the hall and saw Mrs. Bowser he saluted her as he had the pedestrian. There was the scent of gunpowder in the air. One almost expected to see a Zeppelin come sailing down the hall. Was that the cook silinging disbes around, or was it the rattle of the machine guns? Was Mr. Bowser six inches taller than when he left, the house in the morning? Was there the light of glory in his eyes—a do and dare expression of the month? "Why this tomfoolery?" asked Mrs. Bowser. "We will wait until we have eaten our rations," he replied with great dignity. "Ratings?" "That's how we of the army speak of our food." Mr. Bowser had broken out again, and Mrs. Bowser could see a family row not an hour away. Duffing the JACKSON "ON; BRAVE BOY, ON" dinner he sat with his shoulders squared and a stern look on his face, and he was not asked a single question. It was after the meal was over and they had returned to the sitting room that he said. "Mrs. Houser, we are about to have a discussion, and if you have no objection you can use my title in speaking to me." "Is it your majesty? that I am to call you?" "Woman, if you know how serious this matter is you would not speak of it so floppily. My title is general—General Dower." "What did it cost you, or did you find it on the street?" The general turned red in the face and swallowed hard at his Adam's "You know, they are like you and an honest man like a warrior though." "I have told all about it." "Who haven't heard me any much about it, like you?" "No, general. You are always looking for advertisements of liver pads." Mr. Bowner looked around. Like a man who would wreak destruction, but he didn't wreak. He shook off the dust and said: "I was looking at the situation from a soldier's standpoint, you see, and you could not help me in that." "But you were never a soldier," announced Mrs. Bower. "We will let that pass, and I will say to you that from a soldier's standpoint there have been grievous mistakes in conducting this war." "And you can point them out?" "Each and every one. Listen." "The Germans have made twenty-four mistakes." "The Austrians have made twenty-seven." "The Servians have made seventeen." "The Russians have made twelve." "The British have made seven." at all had you been running the show? "I do not wish to be charged with egotism. Mrs. Bowser, but I can see the mistakes that others have made." "It's a wonder that you have kept out of the war." "I knew you did not understand it, but I was waiting. I shall wait no longer. Excuse me for a moment, please." Among the rubbish in the garret was an old saber-which a soldier of the Spanish-American war had presented Mr. Bowerer as a substitute for a lawn mower. It had never drawn blood, and it had never cut grass. General Bowerer now went up and got it out of the frame, and, standing before Mrs. Bowerer, he aroung the weapon around his head and cried out: "On, brave boys, on!" "Do you want to scare the cat and the cook into flies?" exclaimed Mrs. Bowerer. The general cut and thrust. He right face and he left faced. He attacked the enemy in front and flank. He chopped off heads and arms and legs. He won Waterloo over again. He won Waterloo over again. When he had lost his breath and the gleody but glorious weapon side Mrs. Bowser observed: "If you have got through making an kiss of yourself perhaps you will explain: "Mrs. Bowser. I have watched this war as a hawk watches a chicken from the very first move." "Yes!" "I was watching out for false moves that might be made." "I see!" "I have given you the number of mistakes made up to the present time." "Wonderful man!" "At the office today I was pointing them out to Green when a stranger entered and listened to me. He was a general in citizen's clothes, and as I named the various mistakes he nodded his head. When I was through he extended his blind and introduced himself as General Scott. Then he said: "Mr. Bowser, each and all your criticisms are correct. You must have been at West Point." "Yes, you and I were up there one day for the steamboat ride," smiled Mrs. Bowser. The general glared at her with cold revenge in his eyes and then went on: "He wanted to know if a lieutenancy would tempt me to take a hand in the game. No." "A captaincy? No." Man 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. It not only beautifies the hair—but also keeps it in good condition. Nelson's Hair Dressing is delightfully perfumed—Make it a part of your daily toilet and you will be surprised how easily and quickly you can improve your appearance. Someone you know is sure to use it—Ask your friends—their answer is all the recommendation Nelson's Hair Dressing needs. Price, 25 and 50 Cents Everywhere NELSON MFG. CO., • RICHMOND, VA. "Would I be a major? No. A college? No. "A counselor. No. "A general?" I hesitated. "That only for a moment?" queried Mrs. Bower. "Only for a moment, my dear." "And then?" "And then!" I was General Bowser, "he answered as he went strutting around the room, with saber threatening the cat and the furniture. Mrs. Bowser let him strut for a minute and then asked: "How soon do you take your departure for the front?" "I shall start tomorrow if my commission comes tonight." "As soon as that? I must tell you that the coal is almost out and that there is a gas bill to pay." "Great heavens, woman!" exclaimed the general. "Can you think of coal and gas bills when mistakes are being made by the dozen and brave men are dying by the thousand?" "And we are about out of coffee and sugar," she added. "Woman?" "And don't forget to leave some change to pay the boy for shoveling snow." "Shovelling snow! And the wounded are screaming in their agony!" "And leave me some postage stamps, so that I can write you now and then." General Bowser turned pale. Then he turned red. Then the purple came. Then he shivered. At the moment he was about to collapse and die a glorious death on the field of battle the doorbell rang. "My commotion!" he gasped. Mrs. Bower answered the bell and took in an official envelope and handed it to him. General Bower opened it with trembling fingers and then fainted dead away. It was a receipt for making lamb's wool grow on a bald head. The general was a general no longer. TROUBLE OUT OF A CLEAR SKY! "SHUCKS; I don't see why I shouldn't spend my money while I'm alive! I'll be a long time dead." How often you hear some people say that! If they follow it they generally spend all they have QUICKLY ENOUGH, and when trouble comes they are left UNPREPARED to meet it. Troubles, like bombs from aerial craft in the war, often drop out of an apparently CLEAR sky. The only SAFE, SENSIBLE, SANE way is to keep a BANK ACCOUNT going. An officer of Carr N. Hollis' house hold in a letter to a friend in New York write that the second wide sweeping reform to be effected in Russia will be compulsory education. The letter states that M. Kasson minister of instruction and religion is formulating a decree to be issued on the termination of the present hostilities and to be in full effect through out the entire after a period of two years. This letter is being discussed by the ministers of the cabinet. London Directorx Shrinks London Directory Shrinks. For the first time in years a new edition of London's city directory shows a shrinkage. The 1914 directory weighed exactly fifteen pounds. The directory for 1915 has wasted away to fourteen pounds and fourteen ounces. Part of the two ounces is due to the disappearance of German and Austrian firms. This directory contains the names of business houses, professional men and householders, but the population living in hotels or boarding houses is not mentioned, so that it is difficult to ascertain the shrinkage due to endiments. Patterns by Kaleidoscope. Dr. Pufrich, one of the optical experts in Germany, has constructed a kaleidoscope on scientific principles and of mathematical accuracy. Its use is for making kaleidoscopic patterns for textiles, linoleum, decorations, etc., some of those it has produced being of extraordinary beauty. He calls it the photokaleidosgraph because it is part of a camera that photographs the patterns it forms. Motors In Forest Fire Experiences with forest fires in the national forest last year show that automobiles, where they can be used, furnish the quickest and cheapest transportation for crews of fire fighters. Motor rates are higher than those for teams for the actual time employed, but the total cost per distance traveled and in wages paid to men in getting to fires is much less. - Modern Mechanics. Short Life of Big Guns. What is the life of the big guns that are playing so great a part in this war? A big naval gun is used up after firing a hundred rounds. After a hundred rounds the rifting of the core or lining of the gun is destroyed by hot gases from the explosive, not as one might suppose, by the friction of the shell. New York Sun. The Czar's Forces Resume the Offensive in New Move on Czernowitz. Foe Repulsed, Says Berlin. Victorious in their apeartions against the Germans in Northern Poland, the Russians have now resumed the offensive in Bukowina and southeastern Galicia, on the extreme left wing of the 10th battle front. They already have captured Sadagorn, a few miles north of Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowina, and Kolomea, a Galician railway center, and they are bringing such heavy pressure to bear upon the Austro-German forces about Stanislau that the evacuation of this city is now imminent. In northern Poland the losses suffered by the Germans have been so severe that they are now making no infantry attacks, their activities being confined to artillery bombardments of the fortress of Ossowiec and the Russian positions northwest of Grodno. The great number of prisoners taken by the Russians along the Niemen-Bobr-Narew front has been increased by 10,000 captured at Przasyasy, and 1300 taken at Grodno. In addition the Russians have captured about thirty machine guns along this front, together with ten cannon and enormous boots. In the Carpathians the Germans and Anatrians during the last two days have made numerous attacks upon the Russian front, near Lupkjow pass. These assaults, as usual, were made in mass formation, and as a result the attacking forces suffered heavy losses from the Russia nartillary fire. All the attacks were repulsed. "Does Tightwad keep Sunday?" "I expect he does, if he ever gets hold of it."—Judson SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. FLORENCE, S. C. March 4, 1915 The car of Mr. Bravery left Florence at 3:10 P. M., reached Pat-May Williams, Bravery and Mac Moses and E. B. Webster. We left Florence at 3:10 P. M., reached Patmetto at 3:20. Darlington at 3:31. We passed Rev. P. A. Caller's home. Very soon the family came in. They consisted of his wife, Mrs. Rachel Wright, and children, Lucie-Annie Mae, S. J. Wright, Jr., and Francis Wright, his father Mr. Thaddeus Wright, his brothers, John and Charley Wright, his sisters, Misses Annie Dargan Wright, Rachel and Elizabeth Wright, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gibson and Miss J. J. Johnson, who accompanied the body from Dillon Saturday with the family. The funeral services were conducted in Macedonia Baptist church, which is quite a spacious one, but at 4:15 P. M. when Dr. Callahan read the scripture lesson there were few vacant seats. At 4:20 Rev. Cappahan had a test the 6th verse of the 4th chapter of Paul's second letter to Timothy. The Reverend dwelt upon the great necessity of being ready when death comes. We may chance to pass a required state or county examination giving us the right to fill a certain position, but no one receives the reward laid up for the final and faithful unless they weigh 16 ounces to the pound. Dr. S. J. Wright was born in Darlington, S. C., in 1873, being 42 years old at his death. For more than twelve years Dr. S. J. Wright has lived at Dillon, S. C., where he practiced medicine. While in Dillon he closely identified himself with the church and all educational movement. Many of the leading citizens went from Florence to attend the funeral namely: Mrs. J. Bravey, May W. Hams, Charles Russell, Henry William, Mack Douglas Harry Douglas, Mack Moses, Rev. J. B. Taylor, Dr. R. J. Wilson, Dr. J. R. Lacy and E. B. Webster. Miss Annie E. Govan of Orangesburg, S. C., passed through the city the 1st inst. enroute to New York. She is a graduate of Clafflin University. Mr. H. Rouse of Timmonsville, S. C., passed through the city today enroute to Fayetteville, S. C. Mr. Rouse is a first class farmer. This year his farm produced 22 bales of cotton, 200 bushels of corn, 4 tons of oats. He made a clear profit of $100 in 7 acres of tobacco. He will save 600 bles, pork, poultry, etc. Prof. D. M. Wilson of Hemmingway, S. C., passed through the city today enroute for Allen university. Columbia, S. C. Mrs. Dr. J. P. Golden passed through the city today enroute for Towanda, Pa. Mr. N. G. Graham and Miss Annis Ingram were married on Sept. 7, 21 Dillon, S. C. They are living at Dillon, S. C. Mr. B. J. Jeffrey is one of the leading farmers of Darlington county. Last year his farm produced 32 bales of cotton, 300 bushels of corn, 75 bushels of peas, 200 bushels of sweet potatoes, a quantity of oats, ribbon cane and he will store away 1,000 pounds pork, has a fine lot of chickens and lives at home. Mr. J. B. Morris is quite an industrious farmer of Darlington county. This year his farm produced 18 bales of cotton, 200 bushels of corn, of 5 acres, 800 bundles of fodder, 2,000 lbs of oats, 25 bushels of white peas, 500 lbs of pork, a quantity of poultry and has sold 1,000 stalks of ribbon cane. Mrs. R. J. Law of Hartsville, S. C., passed through the city, February 26 enroute for Hartsville, S. C. Sha was returning from Norfolk, Va. Rev. M. D. L. Pope of Bethunes, S. C., was in the city Monday, Feb. 22d. Rev. Pope is pastoring two fine churches, Bethel Hall at Bethunes and Ebenezer at Causett, S. C. Rev. Pope was married Dec. 30th to Miss Lucy Joyner at St. George, S. C. Miss Joyner belongs to one of the best families of the town. Rev. J. M. Lewis of Mullins, S. C., passed through the city Feb. 22nd, returning from his work at Mount Carmel Baptist church. On Sunday the 21st inst. the Rev. Lewis preached to a large congregation. He used a text Corin. 22th chapter, 31st Verse. Mrs. Hattie Williamson of Hartsville, S. C., passed through the city today, Feb. 25th, returning from a trip to Savannah, Ga. Prof. R. W. Westberry of Sumter, who is connected with the farm demonstration work of the government, passed through the city recently, returning to Dillon, S. C. Associated Doctors. he went to see Dr. S. J. Wright, who is quite ill at that place. Dr. Pickett is a graduate of Shaw University, Italeigh, N. C., and a post graduate of Harvard medical school. He is vice President of the Palmetto Medical Association of South Carolina, of which Dr. S. J. Wright is president. Miss Mabel Brown passed through the city today, the 25th. inst. enroute for home at Petersburg, Va. At the morning services at Trinity Baptist church an able sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. C. T. Taylor. Among those present we mention a few: Mrs. Mable Doosler, Mrs. Brown, Miss Ruth Webster, Mrs. G. Brockingham, Mrs. C. Brown, Mr. Trostle Porter, of Missouri, Mr. Frank H. McBleenze of Dillon, S. C., Mr. Elder Lee of Florence, S. C. have emitted in the U. S. Navy and left over the Coast Line for St. Louis. 14th, on train 11. Mr. Eikhak Staggers lived here on Monday, Feb. 12th, and was sent to Lanier, his home, for birth, on train No. S. Feb. 14th. Mr. John Hall has returned from his home at Houston, Alabama. Mrs. Cora Beykin of Camden, S. C., president of the Woman's Missionary State Convention of South Carolina, spoke at Trinity Baptist church on Friday night, Feb. 26th. She delivered, most excellent address. Among those present we mention a few, viz. Miss Rubie M. Webster, Miss Leona M. Webster, Miss Ruth Webster, Mrs. Julia Jordan, Mrs. Almona Horn, Mr. Ellerhoe, Dr. T. Gallant, City Dentist, Mr. Solomon Mack, Mr. F. L. Thomas, Mrs. Annie Keith, Mrs. Rachel Garry, Miss Ellen Wells, Miss Lola Weeds, Mrs. S. E. Coleman, Mrs. Annie Robinson, Miss Maggie Sparkles Dellah, Mr. L. Roodinson, Miss Connie Robinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Rienadson, Mrs. Williams and daughter, Mrs. Georgiana Brookington, Mr. and Mrs. J. Flegiar, Mrs. Julia Jordan, Mrs. C. E. Godhill, Mr. Thos Keith, Mr. Elliche, Mrs. Josie E. Grant, Mr. Leroy Allen, Mrs. J. Sammersted, Mrs. Almona Harn, Mrs. W. Williams, Mr. L. C. Gurley, Mr. Joseph Melver, Mr. L. L. Gregg, Mr. Maylol Roberts Dargan, Mr. Mason Rev, Dr E. R. Roberts, Rev. A. J. Streector, Rep. J. M. McCloud, Rev. A T Taylor and E. B. Webster. At the close of the service E. B. Webster announced the death of Dr. S. J. Wright of Dillon. President of the Palmetto Association of South Carolina. Notwithstanding the low price of our lively staple cotton, many of our best citizens are hard at it. Now an end then we find a man who has not doubled his grain crop this year, but there are few. I am paying more attention to grain, stock raising, poultry, planting vegetables than heretofore, can be heard on all sides. Below will be found the names of some of our industrious farmers of the county. Messrs: Alston King, Reese Keith, Sam Thompson, F. R. Miller, John Judge, D. C. Ham, R. C. Green, Charlie Keith, L. C. Bottogray, Moss Hyman, Jesse Jace, J. C. Cussack, P. K. Kelley, Mack Woodberry, Lowry Gordon, Paul Gordon, A. Daniels, B. H. Daniels, Oliver Colin, P. F. Frerson, John Frerson, Fran, Hame-Jake Jenkins, Jerry Williams, Maxy Williams, Ferdinando Knowlin, Walter Myers, C. J. Benjamin, D. M. Thompson, F. T. Thompson, Nathan Benjamin, Ned Gee, Henry Jackson, Stinley Thompson, Sidney Woods, Bere Davis, Prince Miller, H. Hudson, H. H. Dargand. Mr. Doster Thomas is kept busy, regardless of the scarcity of work. A loving couple is Mrs. Williams and daughter, Miss Lovetta Williams-Mr. Clayton Bacote and Mr. Alex Bacote of Darlington county, died recently. The State Medical Association sent by Dr. Burnie of Sumter a beautiful flower wrench to be placed on the grave of Dr. S. J. Wright, the lamented president. Rev. M. M. Morizon, P. E. visited Latta Sunday morning, Feb 25, and Marion that night. I spent Monday, March 3d at Darlington, S.C. in attendance at the public sales. I saw many old friends and did some bushings. About two o'clock I went to the home of Mrs. S. S. Sandera, where she served a luncheon. I met Miss Cora Douglas Mrs. Sanders, her sister, is a very fine cook as well as being a first class dressmaker. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Harn are equally yoked and living peaceably on Wilton Street, city of Florence. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wright are living in Jacksonville, Fla. and doing well. Wright was a pupil omine for about 7 years and has very fine manners. Mr. Wright left for home, returning from his brother's funeral Monday, March 1st on train 19. Southbound. LEESBURG, VA. At Providence Laptist Church. We had a grand meeting Friday night. Hand of fellowship was given to two and others to come. Sunday Rev. Dr. Tyler was at his best all day at 11 o'clock, 122nd Psalm, 6 verse. At 3 o'clock the funeral of Sister Frances Hinton took place, one of old faithful ones who departed this life Saturday at 7.30. Hours 9 to 1—8 to 5. 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 those 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 FROM OFFICE Until February 30th we will give free examination and free consult- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 417KBR17 The Reverend used for a tax, Hebrews, 4-9, subject: "Rest. There remainth therefore a rest to the people of God," etc. Miss Tena Jackson, a member of the Mt. Zion M. E. church, departed this life last night after a long fitness. Funeral Tuesday at 8 o'clock. The Doctor was at his post. Hebrews 13-6. Subject "Useshaking confidence in God to an Appreciative Audience." Many of Rev. Dotson's congregation worshipped with us. A great day in Zion. Deacon Joshua Williams is on the sick list. We are praying for his early recovery. Mrs. Garner Diggs, after spending the week in Washington has returned home. Miss Irene Bailey, after visiting Rev. Dr. Williams and friends in Manassas, Va., has returned, much elated. Little John Arthur Stanton is very ill at this writing. Others sick are all improving. W. L. J. Another, deacon gone, Bro. Daniel Berry, formerly of Louisa, Va. date of Waverly Heights, after a long period of illness, departed this life Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 P. M. he bore his illness with fortitude. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. M. B. Strother from his late resi- dency. Associate pastors present. Rev. W. Sidney, Rev. J. E. Dotson. W. R. Manley, All had something to say. Rev. Strother used as his text, 2d Curtin, 5-1. For we know if our earthly house of this Tahercane were dissolved we have a building of God and House not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. He was 84 years, 9 months and 14 days old. He leaves a devoted wife, five daughters, two sons and many relatives and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Thank God their loss is heaven's gain. Mr Henry. Sims died very suddenly last night. He had no hope as we know of. Miss Charlotte Headley, who has been sick for sometime, daughter of Mrs. Fannie Headley, departed this life today about 1 o'clock. She made confession of faith during the wee. Bro. Daniel Burry was held to rest in the family plot at Lincoln, Va. Mrs. Margaret Digra is visiting in Washington for a few days. Miss Irene Bailey is visiting at Manassas, Va. for a few days. Mrs. Frances Hinton has returned from the hospital to her home, but she is still very sick. Capt. C. F. Slims, of M. Vernon, was in town today looking well. The Primitive Baptists are in season here today. Elder S. Brown is in charge. We are glad to see Mr. Lodge Newman able to be out again. W. L. J. FARMVILLE, VA. We have been blessed with two beautiful Sundays in succession. This we have not had since last fall. The church-being people took advantage of the occasion and turned out in large numbers. At the First Baptist church each service was largely attended, and collections better than for months. This is a sign of prosperity in Christian work in spite of hard times. On the 22nd of February at the First Baptist church, was given "A Washington Tea Party," by Mrs. M. M. Hairston. Chorus "America" Mrs. Pearl Baker, Organist Welcome by Mad Baker Recitation Miss Margarette Griegs Solo Miss Elizabeth Jordan Instrumental Solo Miss Schuyler Hand. Solo Miss Florence Coles Instrumental Solo Miss Mirtat, Perkins. The Life of Washington Miss Josephine Hughes. To which the response was by Miss Maran Jenkins who represented Mrs George Washington and Mr J W. Bland, George Washington. Both of them acquitted themselves with honor. Mr Norman Hariston represented Uncle Sam in costume and physique. Mrs. Mattie Allen and Mattle Branch were the guests of the occasion. Miss E E Hairston was mistress of ceremony and acted as though she was in the "White House." Mrs M M Hairston deserves much credit. - FOENTAIN & REEL WE HAVE OPENED A FIRST-CLASS GROCERY STORE AT 405 W. LEIGH ST., SEAR BROOK AVE. Dealing in all kinds of meats and Domestic Canned Goods. Good Lard, 11c per lb. Good Salt Pork, 11c per lb. Silver Leaf Flour, 48c per bag. Arbuckle Coffee, 15c per lb. Sugar, 6c per lb. Ham, 19c per lb. Shoulders, 14c per lb. Breakfast Baron, 19c per lb. Mackerel, 7 for 25c. Your Patronage Solicited. W. S. FOUNTAIN. S. M. KEEL. Phone, Madison 2374. Thursday and Saturday 7 to 8 P.M. tation to all cameras. 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, goitre, constipation, earring, epilepsy, indigestion, dyspepsia, weak back, bloating, dropy, omena, scrofa, piles, hernia or rupture, diseases of women and diseases of men. We make no failures. We can't afford to. We accept for treatment only curable cases and take no noisy from these that are insecure. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Reeds and Blues hold a special conference last Friday night and results were in honor of the Blues. The Losing General must wheel the Winning General around the Corner Watch for the fun 500 men are the number. The class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson manifested much interest in the lesson. New members joined. Last Sunday was a crowded day for service. All were busy. The workers meeting at the Y M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. was a good one. 10 A. M. the committee was busy in the city home and much was accomplished. The committee in the jail at 10 A. M. was well paid. Nine prisoners were lead to accept Christ. The meeting with the women in the penultuary at 10 A. M. was very impressive. Committee B. L. Allen helped the boys much at 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. by the special address which he gave them. Subject. "Absalom." President John S. Powell was at his seat at 5.30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Subject: Cut Out Two Days of Your Life. Every man was well paid for coming. Director John H. Mabrey, accompanied by Mr. R. S. Johnson sang from his soul and the songs added much to the hour. Today 5 P. M. you. and your friends are asked to come to the explanation on the Sunday School lesson at the Y. M. C. A. building. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. 9:30 A. M. a special meeting for workers at the Y. M. C. A. building. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will address the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Mothers, help us. Rev. Joseph H. Brown, of Fulton will address the men at 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mr. R. A. B. Cramp will sing for the men. Do not miss this meeting. See that the other man comes. We are still in need of your prayers. Every home is asked not to forget the Y. M. C. A. AGENTS CONTEST. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I desire to know the whereabouts of my uncle, David Cross. His sister is my mother and her name is Martha Booker. I have not heard from my people in 20 years. My name is James Jackson although they used to call me James Cross. My address is 2377 E. 31st St., St. Cleveland, O. 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. To prove to you that chronic diseases are our life study, and that we know the human body to the most minute detail, we will undertake to diagnose any case in a few minutes, describing every ache and pain, without asking the patient a single question. To aid us in diagnosis we have instruments of our own, used by no other doctor. If you have any chronic or long standing trouble, call at once and take advantage of the Grand Free offer. Read the story each week in The Planet----Page Two. SPECIAL FOR LENT-ONE DAY ONLY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10TH-Matinee and Night. PATHE HAND COLORED PASSION PLAY OR THE PASSION AND LIFE OF CHRIST IN 3 GREAT PARTS. BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD HUNDREDS of People spend Bavaria, to see THE PASSI can now see this Gorgeous Spect that the world has ever known. production. NOTICE AT WEDNESDAY AT NIGHT. PICTURE CENTS—NIGHTS, 10-20-30 2U IN THE TWENTY EVERY THUU Stop—Look! "THE I Friday. 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