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NET VOLUME XXXII, NO. 47 EDITOR MITCHELL TRAVELS A Trip through Canada—The British Government And The Recruits—Awe Inspiring Scenery—Alpine Mountains And Their Splendors—An Intriguing Recital. THE LAND OF 24 O'CLOCK. I was new in the land of 24 o'clock. Time is reckoned after 12 o'clock midnight as 1 o'clock. 11 o'clock at night is called 23 o'clock. The way time is determined according to my watch was to subtract 12 hours. If I were told that it was 14 o'clock, I knew at once that 2 o'clock was meant. I made enquiries about race prejudice in Canada, I was told that it was almost as bad as it is in the Southland. COLORED FOLKS RESPONSIBLE TOO. The speaker qualified his statement by saying that the prejudiced southerners and the bad Negroes both male and female were responsible for this condition. So far as I could see no colored people were engaged in any employment in Canada. They were not employed on the dining cars On these cars the train crew is served before the passengers. The sum of 25 cents would purchase for a colored porter just double what it would for a passenger. I entered the dining car and was assigned to a seat by the politic white steward. White waiters looked after my orders. It was surprising to me to observe that upon two occasions the dishes were tipped from the waiter to the floor on account of the movement of the train. I had never seen this happen in a dining car manned by colored help on an American railroad. The white waiters though quickly cleaned up the floor. PASSENGERS AND THE BLANKETS It was nearly midnight when Medicine Hat was reached. As for me, I had retired and only learned of that fact the next morning. It was cool on the observation car the next morning. A white passenger was on the car in company with some ladies. He conceived an idea and he came out smiling with two blankets. He wrapped one of them around the limbs of one of the lady passengers and then performed a similar service for the other lady. Another passenger or followed it and another handler was mustered into service. I was an interested observer. THE PORTERS ACTIUE The colored West Indian person passed out to the rear platform where he made some enquiries. He is known that two of the blankets came from his car, "$15.00 each, $30.00," he said as he held up his fingers. The inspector would hold him responsible. A few moments parlaying and then a porter still mumbling wended his way through the car with those precious two blankets, while a look of satisfaction was upon his counterance. There was still another blanket on the platform and another porter came and disrobed the other passenger. The Canadian Pacific R. R. Company furnished blankets in berths, but not on the dust-covered platforms of its sleeping cars. JOKING THE RAILROAD MEN. I was much amused and I joked the porters for some time afterwards about the singular happening. The train stopped at longer intervals at the stations. I found that an opportunity was given the passengers to walk about the platform, and thus relieves the monotony of the journey. Post cards were purchased and placed in the Canadian mail boxes. In each case the war tax of one cent was required. Postage on letters was two cents with one cent additional for the war tax. EVERYBODY UNEASY. In conversation with the residents of Canada, the universal verdict was that the war had paralyzed and ruined everything. The Banks were holding the money that they had and the people had practically ceased to deposit any more money therein. Business was at a standstill and many mills and factories had ceased to operate. The best material had been commenced to war. I saw a fine specimen of Canadian manhood standing on a platform talking to two other companions, while the train was at the station. "There are five of me," he said, "and all of us have collapsed." "One or my brothers has just returned from the front. He is the bravest and the most able to get around again. When do I expect to go? Well you can never tell. I may go at anytime." THE PICTURES OF THE DEPARTED On the observation cars were London illustrated journals and they contained the pictures of offisers who were apparently "the flower of the empire," and they had died in action. Some of them were titlol and the only heirs to vast estates, but cruel war had done its work and their mangled remains were lying on some faraway battle field. I had imbibed the spirit of sadness and general dejection in this land where some of its sons were being returned home permanently disabled and many others would never be seen again. During this long tedious journey, I saw no colored people, Chinamen and Japanese, both male and female were in evidence, but the colored man better known as the Afro-American was as invisible as though the earth had opened and swallowed him up. THE GREAT DIVIDE Banff is a place of interest. The tourists stop here in great numbers. We had been gradually coming to the scenic part of Canada and it was with genuine delight that I vaulted out to the platform. A short time there after we had reached the Great Divide. This was indicated by a sign. Here the waters divided. One stream would flow down the mountain side to the Atlantic Ocean and the other would flow towards the Pacific Ocean. The accemity at this point was sublime. The mighty mountain peaks like sentiments extended into the clouds. The snow-capped mountains told of the bleak winds and icy blasts that made nature hoary with frost. I gazed in silent wonderment at the scene and feasted upon the repast that nature served. THE GERMANS INTERNED. Our attention was called to the detention camps where the English Government had segregated all Austrians and Germans who were found within the confines of Canada when the war broke out. These prisoners could be seen along the mountaintide while the officers, in their tents just in front sat down at tables and the sentries were performing their duties. Whenever a bridge was reached, I noticed that it was guarded by a squad of Canadian recruits. As soon as the train passed over a sentry with a loaded rifle would march over the bridge. For two thousand miles and more I noticed this custom. The sentries sometimes occupied a freight car at a bridge or a tent but they were always there. It was one of the penalties of war. The Canadian National Park is entered at Damf, where the elevation is 4,521 feet above the sea level. It embraces 5732 square miles and some idea of its area may be understood, when it is asserted that it is half as large again as our own famous Yellowstone Park. MAGNIFICENT SCENERY The Canadian government has every mountain peak named, and the Canadian Pacific R. It has arrows along its line pointing towards the peaks named. The highest is 9,798 feet above sea level. Every moment now was one of interest and I gazed at this magnificent acency with increasing awe and admiration. To me who has lived in a neighborhood with its hills, one of mountains seems strange and awe, inspiring. The bleak mountain summits with their crags and passes tend to make active the imagination and thoughts of ferocious beasts and dangerous reptiles immediately cross the mind. But civilization has played havoc with wild animals. The demand for furs and wild animal meat has caused-the practical extermination of the animals of this section. In explaining the scenes through which I was passing the guide said, "These mountains are tremendous uplifts of stratified rocks of the Deyonahire and Carboniferous ages, which have been broken out of the crust of the earth and slowly heaved aloft." I was nearing Canmore, where the profile of the three alstars could be seen on the mountain sky line. The train was in the Cascade Mountains. The mountain scenery increased in grandeur. LAKE LOUISE REGION. I was not able to see Lake Louise from the station, although its beauties were described by the train official, who explains the scenery as the train passes on its journey. The Bow River is fed by the melting snow from the icy capped peaks of the mountain ranges. The Canadian government has a buffalo reservation in this neighborhood, since this animal of both the Canadian and American plains would have long since been exterminated. The train was at the place where the shaft erected to the memory of Sir James Hector, the discoverer of Kicking Horse Pass may be seen. The entrance to the gorge was sublimely grand. The Canadian Pacific Guide called the attention of the passengers to the kicking horse on the really side (Guarded on the 4th Pass.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915. 10 THE WALKER CASE CONTINUED The case of Russell E. T. Walker charged with the murder of his father Armistead Walker, Jr. was called in the Hustings Court of this city, last Tuesday and upon motion of Commonwealth Attorney George E. Wise continued until Thursday, October 21, 1915. All of the witnesses were recognized for their appearance at that time. Attorney H. M. Smith, Jr. and Attorney J. Thomas Hewin appeared as counsel for the defense. Young Walker was admitted to bail with his mother, Mrs Maggie L. Walker as surety. WHO IS COMING? The Nelson Brothers (white) of Georgin, the greatest aerobats of the South will appear at Tride Reformers Hall, Monday evening, October 18th, under the auspices of Circle No. 9, of First Baptist Church and Board of Ushers of Trirty-first Street Baptist Church, and Sharon Baptist Church. The Nelson Brothers will be assisted by some of Richmond's best talent, including Mrs Bernard Gilpin and the famous little Jenkins Quartette, of South Richmond. This entertainment will be one of the greatest of the season. General admission, 10 cents Reserved seats, 15 cents. Managers--Edward Vaden and H. G Carter. Committee--Charles Young and J. W. Harris. --- Buy The Planet every Saturday at Willam's Sola Fountain, 1906 Hull street, South Richmond REV H. C. PRESIDENT H. C. JONES BELIVERS ADDRESS The following is the address of the President of the Vienna Oak Sunday School Convention held with Willow Chapel Baptist S. S., Gold Point, N. C.: In commemoration and celebration of the completion of the twenty-fifth year of the Convention we take a step forward. Our hearts are filled with thanksgiving to our Great Supernatural Being for paving our way with possibilities. Inminating it with the divine rays and decorating it with rosettes of love. Were we to look in the annals of the past, we would see that this convention at the beginning of it was hindered by many disadvantages, evil influences surrounded it an the Persians did Leonidas and his Spartan party in the battle of Thermopylae. The divine inspiration of the young people appeared to be dominant. The spiritual quiescence of the older people was manifested by the obsocious assertion of "Children need no Sunday School," but in spite of these great oppositions, we with the aid of our Creator, who existed during the dateline period when not a solitary star illuminated the bound (Continued on 5th Page.) OPENING OF VIRGINIA-UNION UNIVERSITY. The University opened last Tuesday the 28, with an excellent attendance and a strong and enlarged faculty. Prof. Wm. N. Colson, who gives half of his time to the Negro Welfare League of Richmond, gives the other half to classes at the University. He has much important subjects an Applied Economics, and Sociology applied to present Negro Conditions, as well as Negro History. His course ought to prove very attractive. Prof. M. P. Robbinson h. courses in History and in Teacher Training which will strengthen the University in department which it has not paid much attention to in the past. Prof. Robinson also h.a. charge of the physical training and athletics. Prof. Charles E. Hardy, a very promising graduate of Butte College Maine, takes the profession of Science made vacant by the realization of Prof. Rice. In other departments the experienced teachers of former cars have all returned. --- With but a week's practice, Upson's Varsity has already developed into mid-season form. Prof Robinson, the new physical director, is putting his charges through a daily grind of expert molekskin phenomena of every description has a result of complete teams of machine-like efficiency. Never before has there been a more formidable camp of recruits from which to select regulars as are on hand this season. Even with only a few days of practice several have performed stellar feats in scrimmages. Howle a graduate of Armstrong High School, Washington D.C., is giving good account of himself in right half. Woods, recently of N. L. I. is making good in left. Hudson has proved an invaluable find in quarter, chief C. JONES for his adaptability in successfully tooling the oval for long distances. S. Taylor has the material needed for a good end. Naturally, there is a great deal of apprehension in the regulars camp over such valiant recruits. Even Captain Howell, chosen All American fullback for the past two years, declares that his position is far from being immune to capture. But the recruits will certainly have to go a terrible pace to oust either him or Nut Thompson in left half. The first game is staged with St. Paul on Oct. 16th, in Lawrenceville. FINE TIME THERE. Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Goodman, of No. 7 Jackson street, South Richmond celebrated their Wooden Wedding on Thursday night, 30th ntl. and a grand time was bad by all who were fortunate to receive an invitation to this brilliant affair. The chit chat and minor social games were indulged in until the wee ama hours of morn and all regretted when the time came for departure. Space will not allow us to mention the names of the persons, but suffice it to say the beautifully illuminated residence was crowded with society's select. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman return thanks for the many useful and neatly presents and well-wishes of their many friends. BAPTISTS OF VA. AND UNION The President of the General Association, has utterly failed to give one good reason why the two organizations should unite. But on the other hand he has by the many vile epithets hurled at the brethren of the Convention proven the wisdom of the separation at Lexington. The same spirit was prevalent in the Convention prior to the Lexington meeting, and was one of the reasons for the split. It was strange indeed that he would want to associate with men whom he calls 'Tools, Notices, demons' from the lower world. He does not look upon any of the brethren of the Convention, as being equal with him in morals and intelligence. And to allow one to come into our Convention, who feels himself our superior would bring confusion where we now have sweet peace. We will come to him the victory of the discussion and confess that we are not his equal in slang and vituperations, of which he seems to have a full store house of these terms which would not be appropriate in the pulpit nor in the Sunday School. Therefore we close the discussion and call off our brethren, and continue the work for which the Convention stands and pray for the continued peace and prosperity of the Bantlet Family. There has not been appointed any committee on reconciliation between the two bodies, and no conference will be held, because no one man or set of men have any authority to act for the Convention. And we are too busy with the work of education and Missions, to stop now to consider matters that are impossible of solution. Yours for peace of the Baptist Family of Virginia. NOTED VIRGINIA BANKER JOURNALIST VISITS AND PRAISES LOS ANGELES. The Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia, president of the Mechanics' Bank and editor of the Planet, and direct from the National Banks' Association, has been, a three day visitor in the city the guese of Mr. and Mr. R. C. Owens. The picture of health, interested in and praising the Angel City, the fighting Virginian was made over wherever he appeared and left regrets at his early departure. (The New Age, Los Angeles, Cal.) Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. Richmond, Va., the J. P. Morgan of the colloid race spoke at Wesley chapel Sunday night. (California Eagle Los Angeles Cal CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Rowena White of Launchbiz Virginia takes this means of extending her thanks to all who assisted her in the recent Agents Contest. DEPTY WANTED Wanted a Deputy to work the State of Virginia for the Faithful Sirs and Ladies of Harmony. A good inducement for a good and faithful worker. For further information write, GEORGE B. PAXTON, 614 N. Eaxt, St. Indianapolis, Ind. --- THE CONTEMPT PROCEDINGS AT WASHINGTON. The case of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythina, N. A., S. A., E., A., A., and A. and S. W. Green S. A. T. Watkins, R. R. Jackson, and E. E. Underwood was called in the Supreme Court of the District of Colurp bla at Washington D. C. yesterday in the contempt proceedings. The defendants were not ready for trial and through counsel, Attorney James A. Cobb, and Attorney Henry E. Davis asked for a postponement of the case for two weeks. With the evidence now before the court, there is little doubt but what all of the defendants will be adjudged guilty of violating the court's decree. The freshest in the James River here last week reached 12 feet. The gauge at Columbia Virginia registered 22 feet. WHITE POLICE. OFFICER SUSPENDED FOR ARRESTING COLORED YOUTHS. Columbus, Ohio. For unjustifiably arresting Waldo and Harold Tyler, young sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Tyler, while they were quietly on their way home from an entertain- ATTORNEY ROBERT B. BARCUS ment, the Local Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, filed and prosecuted charges against a white police officer here. At the hearing, Attorney Robert B. Bareus represented the N.A. A. C. P., and ably managing the case secured the conviction and suspension of the white officer. Attorney Bareus is a former Virginian, having been born and reared in Charlottesville, Va. He is not successfully practicing law in Columbus where he has resided for the past sixteen years. MADAM CROLYN GWYNNE MONTGOMERY. Melanie Carolyn Gavinne Montremory, the noted Contratto will appear at True Reformers Hall, Friday night October 27, 1915 at 15 in a Classical Reporters' Madame Montremory is expected to be the foremost Colored Contratto Subject before the American public today. The Philadelphia North American say "Difficult classical composers, sweet ballads and ballads were artistically rendered." Madame Tremor to be highly recompensed, and a treat to be served for all who hear her. She will be supported by a collection of Rohmonds best talent. Loved by First Baptist Church, Roy W. J. Johnson, D. D. Pastor, under the guidance of Church Emergency Club, Band and Circle No. 3, Mes. M. R. Johnson, Pamela E. Johns, Mr. W. T. Morgan, Managing Melanie Carolyn Gavinne Montremory, the noted Contratto will appear at True Reformers Hall, Friday night October 27, 1915 at 15 in a Classical Reporters' Madame Montremory is expected to be the foremost Colored Contratto Subject before the American public today. The Philadelphia North American say "Difficult classical composers, sweet ballads and ballads were artistically rendered." Madame Tremor to be highly recompensed, and a treat to be served for all who hear her. She will be supported by a collection of Rohmonds best talent. Loved by First Baptist Church, Roy W. J. Johnson, D. D. Pastor, under the guidance of Church Emergency Club, Band and Circle No. 3, Mes. M. R. Johnson, Pamela E. Johns, Mr. W. T. Morgan, Managing Melanie Carolyn Gavinne Montremory, the noted Contratto will appear at True Reformers Hall, Friday night October 27, 1915 at 15 in a Classical Reporters' Madame Montremory is expected to be the foremost Colored Contratto Subject before the American public today. The Philadelphia North American say "Difficult classical composers, sweet ballads and ballads were artistically rendered." Madame Tremor to be highly recompensed, and a treat to be served for all who hear her. She will be supported by a collection of Rohmonds best talent. Loved by First Baptist Church, Roy W. J. Johnson, D. D. Pastor, under the guidance of Church Emergency Club, Band and Circle No. 3, Mes. M. R. Johnson, Pamela E. Johns, Mr. W. T. Morgan, Managing 9 FIRS, NALS AND BREIFES Mr Frank Cepheus is 11 years at his residence, North First street. Mrs Emma Gray, No. 2 W Baker street has been confined to her bed for several weeks. When in need of furniture call and see Messrs Rountree Cherry. They carry a first-class stock at prices that will surprise you. Editor John Mitchell, Jr. returned to the city from the Pacific Coast, Thursday, September 20th. Miss Dolla F Ruffin, of New York, General Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. arrived in the city last Tuesday. Mr. D. J. Chavera is dangerously ill at his residence, 318 E. Preston street. He has rallied somewhat but is still in a critical condition. Dr. W. T. Johnson will preach at the Leigh Street Memorial M. E. Church, Sunday October 10th, 1915 at 8 P. M. Music will be rendered by the First Baptist, Church Choir. All are welcome. Miss Alberta Jenkins of South Ridg mont Va., has returned to the cl after having spent a pleasant vacation in Toronto Canada, Nigara Falls Buffalo N. Y. and Philadelphia, Pa. Before leaving this city Miss Jenkins was highly entertained with a sur- prise social at her residence by a band of girls and boys calling themselves the Southside Colonial Social Club. REV. T. J. KING AT 5TH STREET Rev. T. J. King, D. D., who has been called to the pastorate of the Fifth Street Baptist Church will take charge of the Church and preach at 11:30 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. The public is invited to be present. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE GREAT BABY CONTEST We will commence a Baby Voting Contest, open to all babies of two years and under at the time of entrance. The ballots will be printed weekly in The Planet and no baby will be eligible for a prize that does not poll thirty thousand votes. All that is necessary to enter the contest will be to file the names in The Planet office with 100 votes. These ballots must be cut out of The Planet. The same rules will govern in the matter of securing subscriptions to The Planet as heretofore. We will publish the picture of any baby who enters, before the contest is decided, upon the payment of $2.50, together with the photograph Joyous mothers and happy fathers can now come into the timelife. --- BOY FATALLY HURT BY AUTOMOBILE Peyton Johnson, a colored boy eight years old, was run over and possibly fatally injured by an automobile driven by W. P. Forbes, of No. 3407 Monument Avenue, Tuesday night at 8:20 at the corner of Hancock and Clay Streets. The vietnam and a companion, Moses Holmes, started to run across the street and had just left the curbing when Mr. Forbes turned the corner in his machine. Johnson kept on, despite the oncoming car, and was knocked down and run over. The other boy stopped short in his track and escaped. Johnson's skull was fractured and his left arm broken. Mr. Forbes picked up the injured boy and rushed him to the office of Dr. J. S. Wolfes, at 925 West Grace Street, where he was given first aid treatment and later taken in an ambulance to Virginia Hospital. Mr. Forbes stated that in the darkness he did not see the boys until they had darted from the curb into the street and stopping as quickly as he could, did not realize that he had done any damage until he felt the impact of the car going over the boy's form. There were several witnesses to the accident and these stated that he was going very slow and that the accident was purely the fault of the injured boy. Young Johnson's parents live at 1116 Catherine Street. An operation was performed on the lad at the hospital last night in hope of saving his life. A technical charge of rockless driving was preferred against Mr Forbes at the Second Police Station and he gave ball for his appearance this morning. Y W C A OPENING You are invited to attend the Greater Meeting on Sunday, October 31, 1955 1:00 P.M. at Sixth Mt. Zona Baptist Church. Miss Delta F. Kullin, a re- gular trained Secretary has been secured to take charge of the work. She will deliver an address, subject. What Y. W. C. A. Means to Our People Offers from the Central Association (whose will be present) Music under direction of Mrs. Louise Titon Deane, the talents and jobs. Mrs. L. B. Lewis, President, Miss Bessie Edwards, Secretary; Mrs. M. C. Braxton, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. A. G. Thompson, Treasurer. RETURNS THANKS The Tag Day Committee returns sincere thanks to all, who in any way contributed to make the movement a success. The amount collected, $413.54 has been deposited with Messra, John L. Williams and Sons, bankers. SCHOOL DAYS! SCHOOL DAYS! DEAR OLD GOLDEN RULE DAY8. Don't fall to witness an original production in four acts, by Mrs. M. E. Satterfield, of this famous play supported by a cast of fifty lads and lassies. This stupendous production supplemented with the rarest musical gems, will be presented at the True Reformers Hall. Monday Oct. 25th at 8:30 P. M. Under the auspices of the building fund of the Richmond Industrial Beneficial Club of Va., Supreme Lodge Inc. Admission.....15 cents. Mrs. M. E. Satterfield Mrg. Mr. John R. Holmes, President Richmond Ind. Beneficial Club of Virginia, Supreme Lodge Inc. SLIGHTLY INJURED Isabella Thomas, a colored woman was shot and slightly injured Sat. October 2nd by Hesuchiah Johnson at 2066 East Main St. It was claimed that it was an accident. Items of Interest For Farmers. Farm and Garden HOW TO KNOW RIPE MELONS. Should Remain Attached to the Parent Stem Till Life Current Causes. To get the fullest flavor and melting in the mouth effect in muskmelons and watermelons they must remain attached to the parent stem until a certain stage of development is reached or when the life current ceases. To know this stage to a nicety one must have "melon sense." It is more of a trick to know this stage in a watermelon than to know when the muskmelon is fit. Watermelon that is still undeveloped will show quite a white color where the melon roots on the ground. When ripe NOME RIUE MELONR or about it to pick the color becomes a lemon or creamy tint. There can generally be heard a crackling sound at this stage when the melon is pressed with considerable force. Generally there will be found a tendril on the vine near the stem. This tendril remains green as long as the melon is growing and turns brown when the growth is complete. Muskelons when about ready to pick separate quite easily from the vines, and when fully ripe and mellow the vines generally crack near the stem to which the melon is attached. At this stage sometimes will be drops of juice astringing to the cracking stem. Both muskelons and watermelons should be stored a few days in a cool place to mellow up before cutting. Don't Burn Straw. Rotation investigations by many of the experiment stations indicate that vegetable matter is a very important ingredient in the soil and that straw from any of the grains, returned to the land, adds material to the production. Hopkins of Illinois gives the value of oat straw for manure purposes at $3.20 per ton. Wheat straw is valued at $2.58 per ton. The same relative comparison gives the value of fresh farm manure at $2.22 and barnyard manure at $2.34 per ton. Any one who destroys a ton of wheat or oat straw, therefore, is destroying more fertilizing ingredients than are contained in the average ton of manure from the barnyard. The place for the straw is back on the land. If it can go through the medium of live stock, as food and bedding for them, that is the best way to return it. Where sufficient live stock is not raised, however, to use all of the straw in this way the straw should be returned directly to the land. It can be spread thinly and plowed under, or better yet, it can be used as a top dressing or mulch for the small groutfields and on the pastures and meadows. If it is applied to the pastures and meadows it would be better to make the application in the fall. On the groutfields it can be used as dressing after the grain has been sown. Machines are made for spreading it thinly and evenly—Minnesota Agricultural Station. SOME HORSE SENSE ```markdown ``` A small amount of illneed meal add to each serving is available. A small amount of mixed meat added to the horse ration is invaluable. Train the colt before he is six months old and you can control his disposition when he is older. It weakens the horses to keep them shut up in a close stable during the hot nights. Turn them out. Horses that are clipped dry off at night, which is to be preferred to standing in a heavy wet coat of hair. It is not the quantity of food taken into the stomach, but the amount absorbed in it, which benefits the system. Newly broken colts should not be worked too hard. They are apt to overtrain themselves and be injured for life. Do not let the little colt follow the dam while she is at work. If the dam becomes heated the milk is injurious to the colt. A balky horse is made by a cranky or crief driver and can rarely be curved. Be very careful in breaking the colt. If the skin of the horse is kept clean he will sweat more freely, which is necessary to keep him in good condition. FILLING THE SILO. The Time Differe And Depende Upon Climatic Conditions. Just when to fill the silo depends upon climatic conditions, writes W. M. Hardy in the Farm Progress. I generally put the blender in the field when the grains are well dented and the husks and lower blades begin to dry. This is a very busy time, as the corn is cut and put directly into the silos. The day before filling I start the harvester in order to have some corn cut ahead and the field opened. The sheaves are made medium size to small so they will be easy to handle. In hauling the corn from the field to the silage cutter we use low wagons with wide, flat racks with a standard on the rear end of the rack. When loading the loader begins at the rear end and piles up a tier of bundles as he wishes the load to be; then in front of this he places another tier and so on until the front end of the rack is reached, and then drives to the silage cutter. The teamster loads and unloads his own load. In unloading he begins at the front end where he placed the last sheaf and takes off the last ter put on down to the rack, the next, and so on, always taking the ter clear down to the rack. This method enables the teamster to know which sheft to take next and avoids the hard and annoying labor of pulling the bundles out when bound in the load and always gives him a good hard floor on which to stand and work. Also there is less lost energy by this method and the men make the best time. The teamster bundles to a man who lays them on the "trivelling table" of the silage cutter. The bundles are tied on the table with the butts on the bundle to the ears of the previous bundle, and in this way a steady stream is kept going in the silage cutter. The corn is cut about one half inch in length. The knives of the cutter are sharpened every half day. The cut corn is elevated into the silos by means of a blower. I like the blower much better than the carrier, as less work is required in the silo, although it takes more power to run it. To distribute the corn not keep the silage level we use a barrel with both heads removed. This is suspended from the roof of the silo at such a height that the silage is blown into it from the blower. There an attendant, sitting at the top of the silo, by swinging the barrel can direct the stream to any part of the silo, thus keeping the silage level with out the hard and disagreeable labor in the silo. This barrel attachment works well until the silo is about two-thirds full, when it becomes necessary for the attendant to do some work with the fork in order to keep the silage level. The last cover I have ever found for silage in the silo is very wet sawdust. Keeping out the air is, of course, an extremely important matter. But the air out of the top in some way and replace the side door in the silo as fast as a new one is opened. Shed For Steers. A cheap shelter for stock is made by setting the posts eight feet apart, eight feet high on one side and six feet on the other side, making the shed twelve feet wide and forty feet long, written D. Siskel of Merrick county, Neb., in the Missouri Valley Farmer. Roof ratio one way and north side and ends are boxed, with a gate at each end and rack running the full length of shed on south side. Straw may be used for the roof to further cheapen construction. A shed of this size will shelter twenty-five or thirty two-year-old steers. Adding Humus to Soil: Who has not noticed how loose and mellow the soil is where an old fence row has been plowed up and brought into cultivation, says the Kansas Farmer. The soil was once all like this, but man has destroyed and removed humus faster than nature unlucky could replace it. On the old fence row the crop grows rank and green and stands out in marked contrast to the balance of the field. The soil is full of rotted, decaying vegetable matter without which all farming is a failure. There must be a reserve of humus in the soil at all times to keep it in good physical condition, but a large reserve of humus is not sufficient. Soil to be productive, must be full of actively decomposing organic matter. This decomposing vegetable material renders mineral particles soluble, and as it decays supplies nitrogen, so essential to plant growth. This active decomposition and loss of organic matter takes place rapidly when land is well tilled, much more rapidly than it can be replaced without special effort. The remedy is simply to follow nature's methods—no vegetable matter of any kind should be burned—legumes and other green manure crops must be grown and plowed under each year to keep up the supply of actively decomposing organic matter. Do this systematically and the apparently worn out soil will again become alive and active. It will remain loose and mellow instead of running together and baking, and crops will again grow green and rank as when the soil was first broken. Why not take advantage of this wet year and make an extra effort to grow some green manure. Making the Little Farm Pay By C. C. BOWSFIELD Alfalfa is a profitable crop both on large and small farms. It is of special value where the acreage of pasture is restricted. As this crop is cut three times or more every summer the total yield per acre will average upward of five tons. The market value therefore runs from $00 to $100 an acre. It is a much more valuable crop than corn, wheat or oats and requires less work. Owners of small farms cannot give up much land to pasture, but to a great extent must feed their stock in summer, as well as in winter. Alfalfa better than any other legume provides mid-ummer feed, keeping up the flow of milk or bringing cattle and hogs along in flesh toward marketable condition. After the last cutting of the season an alfalfa field may be pastured until winter sets in. Deep, loamy soils with open subsoils are undoubtedly best for alfalfa, but there is plenty of evidence to show that it may be successfully produced on almost any type of soil, from light sand or gravelly loams and peats or muckes to heavy clays, provided that it is well drained, sweet and properly supplied with organic matter and available plant food. Many soils that at present are not fit for alfalfa culture may be made so by providing drainage facilities, correcting acidity, adding organic matter or sop PANTERING AN ALFALFA FIELD. plying needed plant food, according to the requirements. Good drainage is essential in order that the roots may go deep into the soil. Hardpan must be broken up or avoided altogether. Soils that are sour may be made sweet by through drainage and the application of lime. A good supply of decomposable organic matter in the soil helps the bacterial action in making plant food available, facilitates the incubating process and together with good drainage prevents leaving in the spring. Alfalfa requires large quantities of plant food and cannot be expected to do well on poor soils. Its deep rooting holds may enable it to extract more food from the soil than most other crops, but to secure large yields there must be an abundance of food within easy reach, and, if the soil is not naturally well supplied, manure, or commercial fertilizer must be added. After it is thoroughly established and properly insulated with its nitrogen gathering bacteria alfalfa will supply itself with nitrogen from the air, but all potash, phosphoric acid and other mineral food must come from the soil, and as the crop is naturally a large producer large quantities are required. Every alfalfa field should be started with a liberal dressing of stable manure if possible. Experiments have proved time and again that manure is unusually valuable in starting alfalfa. The farmer must also be sure that his land is not lacking in lime. The planting can be done at any time between April and September. Usually it will pay to use all available manure on the grain crops and buy the necessary amount of phosphoric acid and potash for alfalfa. An application of 300 pounds per acre of 14 or 16 per cent acid phosphate and 200 pounds per acre muriate of potash costs between six and seven dollars and supplies as much phosphoric acid and potash as ten tons of manure. There is little question also that such an application of fertilizer about the third or fourth year after seeding generally prolongs the life of a field of alfalfa from two to four years. To get the most out of the alfalfa crop and, in fact, before it can make its best development the roots must be inoculated with the proper nodule forming, nitrogen gathering bacteria. In the majority of cases where alfalfa is sown for the first time it will need to be inoculated by some artificial means. The surrest and most practical way to do this is to broadcast and harrow in before sowing the seed some earth from a good alfalfa field where the bacteria are known to exist. At least two or three hundred pounds of soil per acre should be used. Fall Care of Alfalfa. A growth of from four to six inches is necessary to hold the snow and to protect the crowns of alfalfa plants. A higher growth is not often necessary. New seedlings of alfalfa should not be pastured. The ground in these fields is not firm and considerable damage is done by the tramping of the plants, especially during wet weather. Plants established a year or more may be pastured lightly in the fall, but should never be eaten down close. Freshkish weather is likely to modify the autumn outdoor color scheme, but various shades of brown, yellow and red are likely to prevail as usual. An army training camp is in the place for an individual to train in the relative ingenuity, as, as that of a man to the earth. Cullings Here and There. Sandy Brown, a grocer in a small village in Scotland, discovered a bad two shilling piece which his wife, who was afflicted with weak eyesight, had taken during the day. Being of a parimonious disposition, this annoyed him greatly, and he determined to pass the coin at the first opportunity. A man and a woman talking in front of a house. The next day white walking down the road he saw "Daft Jinnie", the village idiot, pass. Calling him over, he said: "Here's a bad two whiling piece, Jinnie. I want you to go to "BING ME THE CHANGE." Jimmy. I want you to go to Simpson's (a rival tradesman) and buy an ounce of tobacco. You can keep the tobacco, but bring me the change." "Did Simpson no suspect anything?" he asked. "Ach," said Jimmy. "I didn't flash gown so far as Simpson's. I just passed it in yer shoppe." They Wait For You Look out, O friend, with unwavelling tears Into the past—look to the brave young years! Look to the future, all is there in wait. All that you fought for by the broken gate— The faith that faltered and the hope that felt— The song that died into a lonely knell. It is all there—the love that went astray With bitter crys on that remembered day. The joys that were so needed by the And all the tender dreams you saw de- part. Nothing is lost forever that the soul Cried out for; all is waiting at the goal. —Edwin Markham. Brown's Case. A man was going through a hospital one day when he came across Brown, who was patched up here and placed out there and looking considerably like a veteran of an aviation corps. "Sorry to see you looking like this, old man," remarked the visitor, pausing before the chair in which Brown was recuperating. "What in the world ever happened to you?" "Wasn't watching my feet," answered Brown, "and fell out of a skyscraper." "You don't really mean it!" exclaimed the visitor almost enthusiastically. "They say that when a man falls from a great height he thinks of all his sins before he hits the ground. Is that true?" "Well, no that is, not in my case," thoughtfully rejoined Brown. "You see, I only fell stories." Exchange Stewart and Travern. When A. T. Stewart conceived the idea of putting up a coat of arms he went to W. R. Travers, the New York wit, for advice. Mr. Travers suggested an employer rampant chasing a lazy salesman with a yardstick, and Mr. and Mr. Stewart did not speak to him again for a month. This anecdote is probably about as authentic as the other which states that, Mr. Stewart being extremely loquacious at a state banquet at Delmonico's, Mr. Travers silenced him by calling the length of the table "Cash!" .A Collector's Bargain. Lord Spencer of Althorp, one of the greatest of book collectors, was at home only in his own field. One day in browsing about Bond street, London, he went into the shop of a dealer in bride-brace. The dealer, who knew him by sight, said persuasively: "Here is a fine bit of pottery which your lordship really ought to have, and you shall have it very cheap—only 2 guineas." So Lord Spencer bought it and took it home and set in a high place. One day a connosseur of china paid him a visit, and Lord Spencer showed his bargain. "What did you give for, it?" asked the connosseur. "Two guineas," answered Spencer rather proudly. "He'm," said the connosseur. "At that price the marmalade should have been included." "What do you mean?" "Why, that precious piece of yours is nothing more or less than a shilling marmalade pot with a green thistle paled on it." No Scandalmenger. A party of young ladies from a certain southern town was touring Europe last summer, under the guidance of a superannuated clerkman, when hostilities broke out and left them, for the time being, marooned in northern Italy. One of the party, who is locally famous in her own community for her aversion to circulating anything in the nature of kite groups, wrote a letter back home to a friend. After describing some of the sight she had seen and mentioning the prevalent weather at some length, she added this sentence: "It is rumored in Milan that war has been declared, but don't say I told you"—saturday Evening Post. It is difficult to understand why war should be reported in individual when nobody on earth can be found who will mind that he or she is already dead. SORRY FOR HIS ECONOMY. A Thrifty Ball Player Who Was Seized With a Spasm of Reason. Tolling on his experiences as a ball player, John H. ("Honus") Warner related to John H. Daddy of the Philadelphia Ledger this story about a bush league star who had batted his way into an engagement with the Pirates: "When a big-league ball club goes into a city and stops at a hotel on the European plan the players are allowed a certain sum of money for their meals. It will average about $1 a meal. I guess. The secretary just hands the ball player the money, and he can eat when and where and how he please, and that ends the matter. But we stop at American plan hotels in some of the cities on our circuit. "Now, the busher I referred to was in the dining room early and often when we were quartered at American plan hotels. And how he could eat! Why, say, he was the best ever. He kept a waiter busy bringing food to his table. "But when we were stopping at a European hotel and the secretary of the club handed out meal money Mr. Busher didn't gormandize quite so much. He hunted up the cheapest place he could find and ate the cheapest food they had in the restaurant. "Well, the gang was wise to the recruit. On the last day of one of our trips we framed up a good joke on the kid and one which curried him of the starvation life when sleeping at the European plan hotels. "One of the boys called Mr. Recruit inside and told him it was customary to return to the secretary all money not spent for meals. Then the veteran walked over to the "sore" and, with a wink, handed over a roll of bills. Right away over trailed the busher. "I saved more than this out of my meal money, but I'll have to owe it to you," said the recruit as he handed the secretary $1. "Gosh darn it, if I'd known you, had to give back what, you didn't spend I'd have eaten it all up, you can bet!" Our Friends. If we choose, our friends for what they are, not for what they have, and if we deserve so great a blessing, then they will be always with us, preserved in absence and even after death, in the chamber of memory.—Cheero. Answered. A skeptic who was badgering a simple minded old man about the miracle of Bahamn's ass finally said, "How is it possible, for an ass to talk like a man?" "Well," replied the honest old believer, with meaning emphasis, "I don't see why it isn't an easy for an ass to talk like a man as it is for a man to talk like an ass." Witty Retort. Dr. Cyrus Northrop, president emeritus of the University of Minnesota, eighty-two years of age and full of honors, is proudest of the fact that he once worsted Chauney M. Depew in repartee. Introduced by Depew as a "young cyclone from the west" at a notable dinner in the east, Dr. Northrop set the table tooring by saying when he rose to speak that he was proud to receive such recognition from the "world's greatest authority on wind."—Detroit Free Press. Tough Turkey. Mark Twain when he worked in Nevada on the Virginia City Enterprise inserted in the news a good many boarding house jokes. In revenge the humorist's sensitive fellow boarders in Virginia City decided to put up a game on him. They enlisted the buddygirl's help, and at the Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding house Mark Twain, by a dexterous piece "WHAT MAKES YOU THINK so?" of slight of hand, was served apparently direct from the fowl with a turkey leg of painted wood. The humorist sawed away solemnly at the wooden leg for some time. Then he said to the landlady, with a amble: "You've changed your poultry dealer, haven't you, naaam!" "Why, no, Mr. Clemens," she replied. "What makes you think so?" "This turkey," he answered, giving the wooden dramatist a little whack with his knife. "is about the tenderest normal I've struck in this house for some months." A Coastal Retort. A Census Report. An Engineer of somewhat questionable reputation, who was criticising the American way of spelling, once turned to Maurice Barryman, the other, and said: "I'll have it to Mr. Barryman. In it I might have kept the 'W' to keep such in hungery, might have kept it off." "Well, should he keep it off?" I do and should not, and where it goes to be put in the census I do not. It be Something Appalling. The Jap is always polite, but once in awhile he else from grace, and when he does he is against it, for there are no swear words in the Japanese language. When a Japanese meets you he bows three times and takes off his hat, but does not shake hands. When he greets you his first concern is about your ancestors and next about your stomach. It would be almost an open insult for one Japanese to meet another without asking him how his stomach fared. On the third bow he asks, "This morning how is it with your honorable insider?" As you come up on your third bour you answer to the effect that the place mentioned is doing as well as could be expected and in turn ask him what news he has had from the front. Then he lifts his hat again and says, "Your delightful head this morning. I hope it have no commotion." When you tell him that you are pleased to report that it feels well this morning he asks about a few generations of honorable ancestors, and then you are free to take up the weather. Even though they are pliably polite, once in awhile one Japanese will get mad at another. Their anger kindles slowly at first, finally fainting into a blaze that knows no staying. But even though there is a torrent of emotion something in his soul, there are no words to give it vent. It keeps surging harder and harder until he throws aside all restraint and gives up all idea of decency by putting into one phrase all his bitterness and snapping squarely into the other man's astonished face the worst thing that can be said in the whole language. "Your stomach is not on straight." This is the final insult. Nothing more can be 'addelt; he has cast the glove. There is nothing left for him to do but to give his enemy a cutting look, turn on his heel and haughtily clip, clap, away on his wooden shoes.—Homer 'troy in Leslie's Weekly. Your Goal. Desire your goal; desire it so keenly that you are willing to work for its attainment; more than that, desire the work that is to carry you on the way—William Ganson Rose. An Embarassing Question: Mrs. Monroe was carefully explaining to her small-daughter Margaret what she must do that evening. Company would be there for dinner, and Margaret was going to be allowed the privilege of sitting at the table. She latened very attentively and faithfully. 6. Boussard PUT HER DAINY FINGER DEEP INTO THE JELLY. promised to obey. During the first part of the meal she never spoke, but remained quiet and thoughtful, but it seemed a long time to her before the dessert came. Finally a large dish was placed near her of which the contents looked most appetizing. For some time she gazed at it, and when no longer able to resist the temptation she reached over and put her dainly finger deep into the jelly and cream, then licked her finger and continued to smack her lips with great satisfaction. Before the mortified mother could say anything Margaret remarked: "Say, mamma, is this the jelly which the cat licked the cream off of and you said it didn't matter, there was more cream?" : Praised the Weather On the way to the office of his publishers one crisp fall morning James Whitecomb Riley met an unusually large number of acquaintances who commented conventionally upon the fine weather. This unremitting applause amused him. When greeted at the office with "Nice day, Mr. Riley," he amled broadly. "Yes," he agreed—"yes, I've heard it very highly spoken of." Pleasant For Him There was only one man at the boarding house, and there wasn't much of him. But the girls all made a fuse over him. After all, he was a 'man!' One evening they had a dance, and our hero engaged himself to Miss A. for No. 1. Miss A. didn't turn up, so he cooed accordingly suggested that Miss B. might take it on. Just as they commenced to dance Miss A. entered the room, and her eyes glittered angely. "I'm afraid you're late, dearness," said Miss B., with the air of a victor. But Miss A. tensed her head. "Yes, dear," she replied cuttingly; "together one of the early bird anything the worm!" THE NEW YORK TIMES to give way under the weight of a ben. A door is next made and hinged at the top as shown. To this door is fastened a rope leading to a weight that is heavy enough to lift the door. A small strip of wood is nailed across the front of the hinged platform; completing the work. The details are clearly shown in the sketch and require no further explanation. The action of the automatic doors is quite simple. As n ben steps on the platform the strip at the front end is pressed downward, releasing the door, which files open because of the weight attached to it. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. ```markdown ``` Fresh Air in the Lunge. Your body is a human house, the place in which you live. Food alone cannot make this house a healthy place. The lungs, the ventilators of the house, must be filled and ruffled many times each minute with pure, fresh air. The air breathed deep into the tiny cells of the lungs meets and purifies the blood which has been sent there by the heart, the great pump in your human house. This pump is kept busy every moment. It must gather the waste laden blood from every part of the body and send it to the lungs; then it must take the purified blood back to the farthest point of the human house. Sometimes invisible enemies, the microbes, creep into the human house and try to steal our health away. Nothing can do more in the way of driving these little enemies out than our ventilators, the lungs, when they are allowed an abundance of fresh air. ```markdown ``` RIGHT ON THE JOB. Moee, the Newboy, Grasped the Situation and Sayed the Day. Mose Jacobs, the richest newsboy in the country, began selling papers in Des Moines, Ia., when six years of age and at forty-four is still at it. He has a fine house, an automobile and a good income. He has established his business in a store and is now a merchant, but it is still his delight to meet incoming trains with his cry of "Paper!" His average sales are 3,000 a day. Once upon a time Mose saved the city of Des Moines from disgrace. The then secretary of war, Russell A. Alger, was coming to the capital of Iowa. Great plans had been made for his reception. There was to be a band, many open carriages and tall hats and reception committee ribbon-a-fittering. But in some way the plans miscarried. When the great man stepped from the train, there was nobody there to meet him—nobody, that is, except Mose, the newboy. Mose grasped the situation in a second. He recognized Mr. Alger from his pictures. He dumped his bundle of papers on the platform and strode up to the secretary of war, extending a cordial hand. "Mr. Alger, I believe?" It was Mose's host voice, the voice which has brought in the coppers to the tune of about $25,000. "I'm glad to meet you, sir. I'm Mose Jacobi. There's evidently been some mistake. The committee expected you on a later train, but—welcome to Des Moines. The keys of the city are yours." And Mr. Alger was hustled into a carriage and directed to a hotel—American Magazine. He Starts Things. "The kind of man that makes things go," Appealed to Kitty Carter. "Be of humble rank and low rank of Sir and Carter." Then you would make sister Flo. "A livered carriage starter." Tamptrees. She—George, dear? He—Yes, mine own? She—Why don't you write me some love letters like they read in court? Is it that you don't trust me?—Kansas City Star. Robmorgant. The home of a queen. He may kill just opium. He was dead not for joy. And gave away his mind. —Mary Washington and Samuel. Robmorgant, please, please, the queen, the queen, please, please, the queen, and Mary Washington, please, please, the queen. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. The czar has saved his army on the Villna front, according to dispatches from Petrograd, but practically the entire Villna-Rovno railway line, which was supposed to mark the limits of the German campaign, is in the hands of the kaiser. The official report on operations issued at the war office records successes for the Russians near Dvinsk and in Volhynia. On the Dvinsk front the Germans are using asphylaxiatux gas. The German war office clashed further gains along the front north of Villna and that the Russian lince at Dvinsk have been pierced. Following the action of Bulgaria, the king of Greece has ordered the mobilization of the army. Bulgaria's declaration of war against the entente powers is expected any hour. THURSDAY. With the Russian army, which was driven from Vilna safe, German forces have, begun a vigorous attack on Dvinsk and along the Dvina river, according to dispatches to London. Berlin says the fall of Dvinsk is expected in a few days. Petrograd announces that civilians have been ordered to evacuate Minsk, 110 miles east of Vilna. Rome hears that the entente allies have made new proposals to Bulgaria in an effort to keep the Balkan nation out of the war. Dispatches from the east say Bulgaria continues her warlike preparations. On the western front the allies continue a furious bombardment of the German trenches. FRIDAY. Alarmed by Bulgaria's warlike preparations, King Constantine has ordered the mobilization of the Greek army, calling twenty classes of reserves to the colors. Bulgaria is reported to have 700,000 men under arms. General von Mackenisen, who had advanced 110 miles east of Brest-Litovsk, has been forced to retreat, according to a Berlin admission. General von Hindenburg has taken several of the defenses of Dvytak. An unofficial despatch from Kiev says the Russians have achieved a notable victory over the Austro-Germans in Volhynia, and that the Teutons are in retreat after losing several thousand in prisoners. French reports say the Allies' artillery operations are demolishing the German defensive works along the western front. Fluerge fighting is reported in the identity of St. Mihiel and Pont. a Mousson SATURDAY. Greece is hurrying the concentration of troops, preparing for the possible entrance of Bulgaria into the war. Crowds in Bucharest have taken part in demonstrations against Germany. Romanian troops, it is reported, have been sent to the Bulgarian border. Petrograd reports the recapture of Lutak, in Vothynia, with the capture of 4000 prisoners, and a retreat by the Austro-German forces in that field. Russian gains are reported also east of Vilna, while the Muscovite army near Pinak is said to be holding General von Mackensen in check. Thirty thousand new troops have been added to the German crown prince's army in the Argonne region. France. Paris reports heavy cannonading along the whole western battle front. British warships have bombarded the German defences at Zeebrugge. SUNDAY The allies' "big drive" has rolled back the Germans at two points along the Teuton front and more than 20,000 prisoners were taken. British warships shelled German positions along the Belgian coast. The Russian war-office claimed gains all along the front, with the exception of near Dvinsk. The czar recaptured Luxk and took over 8,000 German prisoners. "Terrific fighting continues. The Bulgarian government, in an official note to the allied governments, declares the mobilization is a preventative measure and that the Bulgars were called out as a check to any Austro-German drive on the Balkan states. Sofia despatches say Bulgaria and Turkey, on Saturday, signed a protocol providing for the handling over of territory ceded by Turkey to Bulgaria for the latter's neutrality in the war. MONDAY. The allies have made further progress in the Champagne region, and that all captured positions in the Artois region have been held, the Paris official statement says. German attacks have been repulsed with heavy loss, the statement adds. Borin despatches say that in the naval attack on Zeebrugge, which accompanied the land advance, one British shipship was sunk and two were damaged. FOR THE MEMORIAM. The Army knew that two Bulgarian artillery guns in motion, one pierced Macedonia and the other toward the Sun, then boundary line. Glennon and Rumelia are understood to be ready to go in Serbia's aid. If she is attacked by the Bulgarians. TRAIN KILLS NINE IN TUNNEL Eight Others Are Injured, Several Fatally. Reading Railway Express Dashes Among Workmen in Black Rock Cut, Near Phoenikville. Nine men were killed and eight others seriously hurt when an express train over the Philadelphia and Reading railway ploughed through a gang of workmen in a tunnel near Phoenikville, Pa. The men, nearly all of whom were Italians, were engaged on the work of wildening the tunnel and they were standing beside their work, train, which was on the northbound track. There are but two tracks in the tunnel and the men had no chance of escape when the express dashed into th tunnel among them. The dead are as follows: James Tilley, foroman of track crew; Antonio Dadario, Glovanni Granato, Raffaolo Glannine, Domenico Druno, Crecol Padole, Alfonso Sarlivs, Alphonso Luciano, John Gulazlamono. The injured, all of whom are in St. Timothy's hospital, Phoenixville, are: Wallace Zimmerman, foreman, Tamaqua, Pa., internal injuries, broken leg and nose, cuts of the face and head. Guissep Piecrilli, internal injuries, cuts and bruises of the head and body. Balgarpino Piecrilli, internal injuries; condition serious. Joseph Simoni, internal injuries, serious. Antonio di Flori, internal injuries, cuts and bruises; condition serious. Carlo Reasil, internal injuries. Chicchio Nunato, internal injuries. Nicholas Bruno, broken dogs, internal injuries; condition serious. Passengers on the express were panic-arreken when the brakes were applied after the locomotive had struck the workmen. The shouts of the injured and those who escaped were heard by the passengers, who bolted for the doors in an attempt to escape from the tunnel Trainmen quieted those abroad by leading them to the last car, from which the end of the tunnel and daylight could be seen. Hurry calls were sent to Phoenixville and Norristown and physicians living near were summoned to the scene. Wallace Zimmerman, the injured foreman of the gang of drillers, managed to, tell of the accident, although he is in a serious condition in the Phoenixville hospital. He said: "I was at work with my gang of drillers in the tunnel. We were enlarging the roof. There are two tracks in the tunnel, and we were 300 feet in the tunnel from the south entrance. We received the signal that the work train, which was on the other track, was going to back out of the tunnel, and the workmen and myself stepped on the other track, which we believed was clear. Then suddenly we saw a fight loom up in front of us and heard the rumble of the oncoming express. Before we could move, the passenger train dashed among us. "The next thing I remember I was lying in the middle of the track on which was the work train. I could not move, and I knew I was"badly hurt. I could see the dead and dying men lying scattered around me. It was a horrible sight. Soon I heard the shouts of the rescuer and saw them picking up the men who were lying about and carrying them out of the tunnel. I tried to shout, but could not make a sound. I fainted, and the next thing I knew I was here in the hospital. How horrible it was!" Further inside the tunnel Tilley was at work with twenty men. After the train ploughed through Zimmerman's gang it tore through the men under Tilley, who had been engaged in picking up rocks and loading them in the work train. GEN. MARCHAND WOUNDED Hero of Fashoda Seriously Hurt by Shell in Champagne Fighting. Brigadier-General, Marchand, of Fashoda fame, who has distinguished himself several times upon the field in the present war, was wounded in the course of the fighting in the Champagne district when the French forces took the offensive, Saturday. The general was hit in the abdomen by a fragment of shell. His condition is serious. Steals Auto, Hits Tree, Escapes After stealing an automobile owned by Victor Crowe, while it was stand- ing in front of a theatre in Hagar- town, Md. the thief made a dash through crowded streets, demolished two vehicles, injured Mr. and Mra- Lewis Ernde, who occupied one car- riage, rammed his machine into a telegraph pole, badly damaging the machine, jumped from the car un- furished and escaped. Turtle Remolled from Bullet As soon as the Turco-Bulgarian accord was signed great quantities of food stocks and supplies on board Tunday from Bulgaria. So huge was the adjustment of petrol that the price dropped seventy-five per cent. We have a fine line of Calendars for 1916, both imported and domestic and they are now ready for the inspection of the Public. We can quote prices that will be of special interest to those who buy these kind of souvenirs. A visit is requested even if you are not ready or are not prepared to purchase now. THE LINE IS ATTRACTIVE AND THE DESIGNS ARE NEW AND SURPRISINGLY BEAUTIFUL. THE J. W. BUTLER PAPER CO., OF CHICAGO, ILL. HANDLES THE FINEST LINES OF CALENDARS, COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMMES AND FOLDERS OF ANY HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY. TO SEE THEM IS TO REALIZE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE FORCE OF THIS DECLARATION. Among the Teuton Prisoners Captured by the Allies Were Troops Just Returned from Russia. The allies are still pushing the Germans backwards in Flanders and according to the official statement issued by the Paris war office the French have made further gains east of Souchez and north of Massiges. In the fighting more German prisoners have been taken, including some recently brought back from the Russian front. A further gain in the Artois region and additional progress in Champagne are also reported. A heavy artillery action is in progress in the Argonne, where the German counter attack is said to have been repulsed. The Germans are offering determined resistance in Champagne where the positions to which they have retreated are protected by a system of barb wire entanglements. Some idea of the desperate character of the fighting is gained from the French statement, which says that the gains have been made foot by foot. It says: "During the day of September 28 our troops continued to gain ground foot-by-foot in the direction of the ridges to the east of Souchez. We took about a hundred prisoners, among whom were men of the guard corps brought back a few days ago from the Russian front. "In Champagne Ikweise, new progress has been made, particularly to the north of Massigles, where we have taken an additional eight hundred prisoners. "The enemy has directed against our trenches in the Argonne a violent bombardment, to which we have effec- tiously replied, but he has attempted no infantry action. "Paraguayements us with grenades have enabled us to regain some parts of our first line, where the enemy had maintained himself since Monday. "There has been intermittent conning in the forest of La Pietra and in the region of the Ban de Sept." In the Argentine the crown princess center made furious efforts to counter, with the result, that all infiltrated lines to the east and north, according to French information, were engaged Monday night in carrying away Gorilla wounded. French officers revision that the crown prince's army lost 100,000 men in this attack and the previous assaults during the summer. The plan of attack of this army has been the sending in masses of two divisions, or about 100,000 men at a time, against French works. These engagements, each one equal in importance to some of the great battles of history, have been damplified hitherto with brief references in the French official communications because the results were only negative. Germans captured recently testify that the resistance of the French has been as destructive as their offensive and that their artillery fire, of deadly effect a year ago, has now attained such intensity as to work demoralization among their opponents. According to the official statement issued in Berlin the Germans not only have stopped the general offensive of the allies on the western front, but by counter attacks have gained considerable territory for themselves. TO DISARM HAYTIENS Marines Seek Rebels Who Killed American and Wounded 10 in Battles. Detachments of American marines were sent in all directions from Cape Halten into the interior, to disarm the rebels, whose resistance has resulted in the killing of one marine and the wounding of ten others in recent fighting. Colonel L. M. T. Waller and Colonel Lee are in command of the principal zones of operations, while Major Smedley D. Butler is leading the first battalion of marines. Each marine detachment took with it an armored motor car and a field piece. Two rebel leaders, General Morence and General Petion, have written the American officers asking for a conference to arrange for the surrender of their followers. The body of a rebel officer who was killed in Monday's fighting was brought in. In recent years football went through a reform period and in the refining process eliminated almost entirely the brutalities which twenty years ago were supposedly absolutely essential to the development of the sport. Practically all unnecessary roughness has been taken out, and manners and methods on the field have been revolutionised. Coaches have discovered that the club which coaches its men to harry the opposing team and resort to roughness not contemplated in the rules loses both time and efficiency as compared with a club that sticks closely to banners. Wise trainers tell their men to ignore all attempts of opponents to provoke them to anger and even advise players to take above and blow without retaliation, because no team can play football and carry on a fight at the same time. YOU CAN FIND NERE ADVERTISING CALENDARS SUITABLE FOR ALL LINES OF BUSINESS AND AT PRICES THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU. THERE IS ALSO A LINE OF "LEFT OVER" 1915 CALENDAR BACKS, WHICH CAN BE SOLD AT A SACRIFICE TO LARGE PURCHASERS, WHO DESIRE TO SAVE MONEY. Recently an eastern farmer who had vainly searched for a purchaser for many years turned down a tempting offer at the last minute. His argument for reversing himself was substantially one of sentiment and ran in this vein: It tears the heart to sell one's birthplace and that of his father before him, to leave the playground of childhood, the fields of arduous but happy manhood's toll, where in youth and prime alike the heart looked forward to spending a green old age. Then there are the trees and shady paths still echoing the voices and revealing the shadows of the dear ones gone before, the graves on the hillside, where wife and I pass many a sad but soul refining hour, seeming as young as we were fifty years ago. To us these acres represent home, not merely that cent per cent productivity which you coldly figure up. So keep your gold, stranger. You can find plenty of acres as good as those, but for us there's no other home in all the world. Portugal is technically a belligerent but only to the extent of being obliged under an old treaty to furnish a limited number of troops in the event of her ally, England, being at war. As a result of the affirmation of that treaty at the beginning of hostilities Germany took action against Portuguese colonies, and troops were sent out for their defense. As to whether there are Portuguese official troops operating at any other point in the war there is no reliable information. Thirteen months of warfare ought to have furnished sufficient variety of weather to give the alarms opportunity for demonstrating their worth as instruments of destruction. For scouring purposes they have accomplished all that was expected; but, though they have done something as terrorists, they have done practically nothing as destroyers. British experts say that the United States will have the cream of everything after the war and that the capitalists of combatant nations will get only thin skimmed milk. What remains for the common people who are doing the fighting will be curled nothings. Pilot Wilson encountered comparatively lamblike weather at the outset of his term, only tariff, banking and business reform, with painful waiting for Mexico. Just now the Lion has the weather bit in his teeth, apparently for the rest of the voyage. Every Mexican leader has a secretary who knows how to draft simplified motto. Get the habit of reading The Planet Subscribe now, $1.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents each. JOHN M. NIGGINS DEALER IN Choice Groceries, Wines Liquers and Cigars PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin St. (Near Old Market) RICHMOND . VIRGINIA A. HAYES, OFFICE AND WAREROOMS: 727 N. Second St. REGIDENCE—725 N. SECOND ST. First-air Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bedien, when the family have not suitable place. All Country Orders given Special Attention. Your special attention is called to the New Style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall we waited on individually. PRESIDENT, MADISON 2723 OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of homemaking comfort giving Furniture and Rugs and—don't fail to ask our salesmen about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CMS. G. JURGENS SOM ESTABLISHED 1889 ADAMS AND BROAD ACCOMMODATION TRANS—WEEKDAYS Loews Bryd St. Nt. 6.48 M. P. H. For Fredericksbury. Artsy Bryd St. Nt. 8.35 A. M. H. For Fredericksbury. Loews Bryd St. 7.90 A. M. 8.18 P. M. 6.58 P. M. *Daily. All trains to or from Byrd Street Station set at Kline. See list of arrivals and de- pressures.* NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINK TO NORFOLK. Schedule in effect, April 5, 1914. Leave Bryd Street, Station, Richmond, for NORFOLK. *8:20 P.M. *4:00 P.M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND *8:20 A.M. *8:00 P.M. *9:30 P.M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: *7:10 A.M. *0:30 P.M. *11:30 P.M. From the West: *0:30 A.M. *10:10 P.M. *1:40 P.M. *0:60 P.M. *10:00 P.M. *Daily* ..*Daily except Sunday* ..*Sunday only* W. B. BEVILL W. C. BAUNDEL T. T. M. Roanis G. P. A. Roanis U. I. BUDLEY, D. P. A. Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE TRAINE LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY- For Florida and the South: 8:15 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 13:50 A. M. For North Carolina: 8:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M., *4:00 P. M., 13:10 P. M. For N. W. Ry., Work: 8:15 A. M., 8:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 8:20 P. M. For Pennsylvania: 12:50 A. M., 6:15 A. M. 18:50 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 8:00 P. M., *4:00 P. M., 8:00 P. M., 8:55 P. M., 6:40 P. M. 9:20 P. M., 11:50 P. M. For Goldsboro and Payetteville: 1:00 P. M. TRAINE LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY: 5:20 A. M., 9:15 A. M., 6:20 A. M., *5:07 A. M. 18:45 A. M., 11:40 A. M., *2:10 P. M. **4:40 A. M., 6:17 A. M., 6:55 P. M., 8:50 P. M., 9:00 P. M., 11:50 P. M. *except Sunday, **sunday only. Time of arrival and departure and connections not guaranteed. G. R. CAMPBELL, D. P. A., 800 Main St. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the Way Traine leave Richmond, Main Street Station, N. B.-Following schedule Source figures published in information and not guaranteed: 6:30 A. M.-Daily local for Danville. 8:00 P. M.-Daily-limited-For all potato South 8:00 P. M.-Daily-limited-For all potato South 8:00 P. M.-Daily-limited-For all potato South City, Burbank and information stations 6:30 P. M.-Daily-For Danville, Albuquerque and Merrillham, with Palm Hill observation dugouts 11:15 P. M.-Daily-limited-For all potato South Palm Hill observation dugouts YORK RIVER LINE. 6:10 P. M. — Stammer train (Purser car)—Ballard —To West Point, consecring for Baltimore, daily except Sunday. 7:00 A. M. — Dally—local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND From the South: 7:08 A. M., 8:00 A. M. : 8:00 P. M., and 8:00 P. M., daily; 8:00 A. M. except Sunday. From West Point: 9:10 A. M., 6:15 P. M. daily. H. L. KHOPF, D. P. A. 07 East Main St. Phys. Med. 100 CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Cincinnati, Louisville & West. *2:00 P.* *2:10 P.* Mala Line Local. *2:00 A.* *2:00 P.* *2:10 P.* James River Line. *2:00 A.* *2:10 P.* Kew, North Old Pt. *2:00 A.* *2:10 P.* Newport News Local. *2:15 A.* *2:00 P.* Trains arrive from Kortalk. *11:00 A.* *2:00 P.* *2:00 P.* Newport News. *9:55 A.* *2:00 P.* Prawn West. *9:55 A.* *2:00 P.* *2:00 A.* *2:00 P.* *7:00 P.* James River. *2:00 A.* *2:15 P.* *Daily.* **Except Sunday.** SEABOARD AIR LINE. Boutside train scheduled to leave Richmond daily, 8:25 A. M. local to Marlins; 1:29 F. M. Jacksonville; 8:25 F. M. Atlanta; Birmingham. Jacksonville; 8:25 F. M. Atlanta; Birmingham. Jacksonville; 12:45 A. M. sleeper; Atlanta. Birmingham; Jacksonville; Tampa and coache Jacksonville. Boutside train scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily, 8:25 A. M. 8:29 A. M. Local 8:25 A. M. 5:27 F. M. ALPNEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3006 P. Street, Phane, Mad. 2337—Residence, 1016 St. James St, Phane, Madison 6619. Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Funeral Service. Moderate Rate MADAMA SCOTT, Funeral Service and Children and in attendance at Punishable. THE ECONOMY 327 N. FIRST ST. Fine Tailoring Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing CRITMAN M. WHITE Painter --- Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. or M.L. N. on Rt. Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR.——EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be not so as to reside by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. to avoid one matter. SATURDAY OCTOBER 9th, 1915 A person without good manners is like a horse without a driver. The Devil may not be recognized in some of our churches but he certainly controls some of them. Some people are never happy,unless they are enjoying some pleasure at somebody else's expense The trouble we have in this world is caused from the fact that the leaders of the people will not do right --- CHRYSTE ROUGIN N. WOSE of the United Colored Democracy is dead. He was one of the most influential colored men in the State of New York. --- RAN, WILLIAM A. CURTIS, D. De, one of the ablest pulpit orators in the country has tendered his resignation as pastor of Cherry Memorial Baptist Church, at Philadelphia, Pa. --- PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON has decided to get married. He shows good sense. A man who has been pulling an double harness all of his life will make a poor "out" of it working single. When you feel most like praying trouble is evidently knocking at your front door and hard times at the back one. Few people remember God in prosperity. --- People, who get religion should keep it. Many of them wear it for three months, then hang it out on the line in the back yard, to be used when church time comes around. --- When a Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia takes its stand among the ranks of the Negrohaters, there are dark days ahead in Virginia for the colored man. Colored folks, be polite to white people, and to colored people. Politeness towards the one or the other will guarantee politeness to both. Good manners cost nothing, but it always yields a heavy rate of interest and pays a big dividend. Rcv. Dr. R. H. Born is in possession of the publishing house and Rcv. Dr. E. C. Morris is in possession of the National Baptist Convention. The fussing preachers belonging to both factions had the time of their lives in Chicago and both sides should now sleep well for a month at least as a result of the exertion. --- The Cleveland, O. Gazette, is rightfully jubilant over the decision of the State Board of Film Censors in barring "The Birth of a Nation" from the moving picture houses of Ohio. It names the Columbus branch of the N. A. A. C. P., MAYOR BRONGE J. KARL, DR. WARHINGTON GLADEN, EX-Secretary of State DANIEL J. RYAN, RANRI KORNYFIELD, EDITOR JAMEN CARBOLL of the Catholic Columbian "and others" as being active in the matter. HON. CHARLES G. WILLIAMS, Chairman of the Board of Censors appears in the limelight, while Gov. FRANK B. WILLIE is the central figure in the championship of human rights. We have observed the course of the Gassette and its brilliant editor for more than twenty years and it seems strange to us that the colored people of the United States in general and of Ohio in particular do not realise that these two agencies have been true to the interests of the race during all of that time. We may disagree with Boston Smith at times, but upon the fundamental questions affecting the race he is "as true as the needle to the pole." REMARKABLE CONFERENCE. The fate of Virtue may be obtained by all over the country. In every State, the plan is made that colored people do not stand together in business. We have accumulated $700,000,000 worth of property upon a basis of individualism. What would have been our wealth had we observed the economic principles, which have made the white-race wealthy? Our people delight in building up every other race, but their own. While they do not seem to know it, they indulge in the very racial antipathy, which they condemn in prejudiced white men. They are educating their children who in turn are barred from employment in the white work shops of the country. This is due not only to racial antipathy, but also to the opposition of the labor unions. Knowing these things, colored men, who have been elevated to positions in colored institutions will persist in doing all in their power to deny to colored concerns that patronage to which they are entitled. A lifebrew will seek out every other Hebrew, who is engaged in selling something that he wants. He will do this to help him. A colored man will pass by every colored man engaged in business in order to secure goods from the Hebrew or from some other white man. Complains come thick and fast of this condition of affairs. There are notable exceptions, for a minority of the face leaders have awakened to the fact that this policy is useful and that it must result in their own unbending. There is no class of people who marvel more at this idiotic policy than do the white people. In many instances they find it necessary to drive colored people out of their establishment before they can anger them enough to make them patronize their own people. To be some colored people, who saw they have no confidence in colored professional men and then they send their own children off to colleges where they graduate as professional men. When they come back, if their parents' safety were observed, they would not have anything to do. Many of them were colored people and take the served and they usually use the that way. During our recent trip to the Pacific Coast, we heard this complaint on 28 sites. It is a fundamental racial weakness that even fifty years of freedom have not blotted out. Still, there is a plurky minority that is blaring the way to success. Richmond city has a larger band than any other section, but this is not saying much for Richmond, for hundreds of our leaders here are still "in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of injustice." Their children, who are with out employment are looking at them and wondering at their short sightedness. In our governmental offices and in the local positions in this city thousands of dollars are poured into the hands of colored people and it flows back to its white source without even a look in it" so far as colored places of business are concerned. White people wonder at this for they want us to be thrifty and aid each other. We will not see until it is too late and thousands of us have brains and desire to use them. We know that this style of argument will not accomplish material results. We must begin the work of regeneration at the cradle if the colored people hope to take their places in the realm of finance. A large proportion of our colored leaders are all wrong upon the fundamental principles of racial financial success. They are permeated with petty jealousy, which has for its motto, "If I can't, you shan't." Let us hope that God will exercise his miraculous power to the end that these poor blind leaders may be made to see. --- A WORD ABOUT THE LOAN Much comment has been caused throughout the country by the visit of a European committee of financiers to this country for the purpose of securing a loan of as much money as possible for the Allies. The Allies are composed of Great Britain, France, Belgium, Servia, Montenegro, Russia and Japan, but the money was wanted by Great Britain, France and Russia primarily. Italy is also in the combine. The attempt was at first made to get one thousand million dollars. This was found to be out of the question at this time and the J. P. Morgan syndicate was paid ten million dollars to underwrite the loan. The bonds were delivered to them at 96 and they sold them at 98, which netted the investors ten million dollars more, making twenty million dollars in all. The annual interest on these bonds is twenty-five million dollars or a total of one hundred and twenty-five million dollars for five years. This loan will cost the British government the tremendous sum of forty-five million dollars and it emphasizes the fact that the greatest financial nation in the world and heretofore the richest, is hard up. When it comes to making money, the New York financiers know how to do it. Some of the London journals charge the New Yorkers with taking advantage of their necessities. It seems as though the charge is well founded. Of course, the Americans will say that John Hull is getting a fine of his own credit and that it We must admit that we were gravely surprised to learn that the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in session at Shuinton, Va., did on Thursday, Sept. 9, 1915 hand down a decision affirming the action of the Hustings Court of Richmond, Virginia in the Hopkins case Znd also taking the same action in the Ashland segregation case. It has been a well established principle of law that an ordinance or statute void in one particular was void in all others, hence the Latin expression, "Falsus uno, falsus omnibus." But the learned jurists virtually strained a point to sustain the conditions of the Negro haters for it ruled that the ordinance was invalid, in so far as it applied to persons who had contracted for the rental or purchase of the property for residential purposes prior to the enactment of the ordinance. It seems that race prejudice has permeated everywhere and everything. Our Virginia courts have been particularly free from this kind of racial antipathy in the past. It is not enough to argue that this decision will affect white people and colored people, for the reason that the colored man's hand is closest to the fire so to speak, and feels most keenly the biting fames of oppression. There is one ray of hope, one gleam of light in the fact that that great and good man, Do so now JAVA, KIRR dissented. While we do not intend to reflect upon the intentions or motives of the other members of the Court, it is gratifying for us to know that this one great Virginian stood out for the rights of citizens, regardless of race or color. The right to life, liberty and pro- perty is vital. They are intertwined and interlinked. When you limit the right of a citizen be he white or black as to the place of his residence, and have such limitations solely upon his color, you violate the guarantees of the State and Federal Constitutions. We have in mind similar oppressive opinions by courts higher up, but we have lived to see these pernicious and discriminatory decrees reversed. God help the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia! God bless the President of that same tribunal. EDITOR MITCHELL TRAVELS (Continued from last Page.) of the mountain. It was a dark place but the outlines of the horse and its rider could be plainly seen A REMINDER OF VIRGINIA. It reminded me of the eagle and the bear, at Natural Bridge, Va. The outline was similar. Below the rushing water was in tireless connection. The stream was known as Kicking Horse River. I could now see Yellow Valley and Cathedral Mountain outlined against the sky. I had traveled many miles, but I had never before seen a corkscrew tunnel, a spiral tunnel cut in solid rock and the spiral arrangement was inside of the rock. The guide explained it. The train enters the corkscrew tunnel 3,200 feet under Cathedral Mountain. The train comes out of the train runs back over the Kicking Horse River and then enters the eastern spiral tunnel of 2,910 feet under Mount Ogden and after describing an elliptic curve emerges to again cross the Kicking Horse River westward. A PTZZLING MOVEMENT. When I saw the train going in the direction from which I had just come, it was indeed puzzling to me. Then it turned westward again and went on its way. It had doubled back twice in order to secure an unfilled plane level and then go on its way. The two tunnels are each one and a quarter miles in length. The cut is seven miles. The grade was reduced from 4.5 to 2.2. The approximate cost of the work was one million, five hundred thousand dollars. It took twenty months to complete the job. Twenty-five car-loads of dynamite were used on the job, the cost of, which was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This piece of engineering was the first spiral tunnel ever built on the American continent. A CHANGE OF TIME. The time changed from Central time to Mountain time at Portal. This is two hours earlier than the time at Richmond, Va. At Field, the time shifted to Pacific time. This is just three hours faster than the time at Richmond, Va. When it is 12 o'clock there, it is 9:00 o'clock by Pacific time. The guide well described the scenes through which I am now passing when he said: "The canyon deepens until, beyond Palliser the mountain sides become vertical, rising straight up thousands of feet, in a bronze wall created by a man named stone's throw from wall to wall. Down the vast chasm go the railway and the river together, the former crossing from side to side to ledges cut out of the solid rock and twisting and turning in every direction and every minute or two plunging through projecting angles of rock which seem to close the way. A WORD PICTURE With the towering skies almost shutting out the sunlight and the rear of the river and the banks increased as he bounced by the swirling walk, the passage of the turbulent group will never be beating. WITH MARKS M MERGEL'S MEMORIAL WAS JUSTIFIED Repeating his intention to pursue his duties on the Police Board regardless of the clamor in many quar- ters that he resign from that body, Police Commissioner Cliff Well last night supplemented this declaration with a statement in which he reviews the considerations that led him to rule for Sergeant Kronge's removal. As a member of the Police Board, charged with the duty of acting for the best interest of the city, Mr. Weil says in his statement, he was constrained to vote for the election of Mr. Wood to replace Sergeant Krengel. He reviews Krengel's jewelry trafficking, as well as his alleged incorrect testimony with respect to Sergeant Wiltshire on the night of February 15, 1915, in which he is quoted as saying that Wiltshire was drunk as a "billed owl." These and other alleged shortcomings of the deposed detective-sergeant are recited by Mr. Weil to show that in voting not to reelect Mr. Krengel to the force he was acting with the best interests of his native city at heart. The statement follows in full: I irrespective of the fact that the constituted authorities of the city of Richmond, have, in the exercise of their lawful functions, acquitted me of the commission of any acts justifying my dismissal from the Board of Police Commissioners of the city of Richmond or demanding of me my resignation from the body. I have been subjected to hysterical, misjudged or malicious public criticism by some newspapers and many palpitations of the city of Richmond, for my vote in electing to the police force Mr. Wood in the place of Mr. Krengel, whose term of office had expired. I would have it understood that I was a duly elected and qualified member of the Police Board, and as such charged with the duty of casting my vote for the best interests of the city of Richmond in general and the Police Department in particular. I have no quarrel with any man who honestly and intelligently criticizes me. I do present the strictures which have been put upon me by persons who manifestly have no knowledge of the legal status of my position or of the facts which influenced my vote on the occasion in question. I still reserve to myself the privilege of thinking of myself that I have the interests of my native city at heart, and can act and have acted for what I conceive to be the test interests of that city in the discharge of my official duties. DETAILS CONSIDERATIONS WHICH GUIDED HIS ACTION In explanation of my action upon the occasion in question, and, for the information of the citizens of Richmond, who are interested in me as an official of Richmond, I submit for the dispassionate consideration of my fellow citizens the following facts, which are a part of the evidence under oath developed during the proceeding of the special joint committee of the Commission: I Mr. Kreengel testified that James (Csnut) Stewart was a notorious policy writer, well known to him for a long time. Under cross-examination Mr. Kreengel admitted that he had sold to Stewart jewelry as follows: one small ring for $15, one sapphire and diamond ring, one pair diamond earrings, $200. Charles Kohler and J. S. Winston, of the Newton Company, testified that the retail value of the small ring was beaten off of the sapphire and diamond ring was at the outside $50; and that the retail value of the earrings could not exceed $50. Mr. Krengel swore, that he paid J. Weinstein, pawnbroker, $55 for the sapphire and diamond ring. J. Weinstein, pawnbroker testified that he sold same to Mr. Krengel for $68. According to Mr. Krengel's own testimony he had made in this transaction out of this admitted donzen of the underwagd $15. If Weinstein be believed, he had made $22. SAYS KRENGEL MADE 100 PER CENT PROFIT If the retail value of the small rings, as testified to by Mr. Kohler and Mr. Winston, be accepted, Mr. Krengel profited at the rate of approximately 100 per cent on this transaction. Mr. Krengel testified that he had worn this ring upon his little finger. He was then asked to put it on his finger. The ring was too small to go over the first joint of the little finger. Mr. Krengel then said the size of the ring had been changed since he sold it. J. E. Allen, jeweler, testified that the earrings were worth at retail $165 or $175. Accepting Mr. Allen's valuation, Mr. Krengel made $25 or $35. Accepting the testimony of Messrs. Kohler and Winston, Mr. Krengel had profited between $120 and $125 on this transaction. Mark Ridley and Annie Clayton, colored, reside near Brook Avenue and Baker Street. Ridley's premises have been on several occasions raided by the police, who suspected him of selling cocaine. Mr. Krengel had sold Ridley a scarf pin, a watch and a brooch for the following amounts, respectively: $25, $25 and $150, according to Ridley and Clayton. The prices which Mr. Krengel paid for the scarf pin and watch were not disclosed. As to the brooch, Mr. Krengel testified that the same had been sold to Ridley by one Moses or Lake Golden, pawnbroker's clerk, but admitted that he had delivered the brooch to Ridley as a favor to Golden. GOLDEN DENIED SELLING JEWELRY TO RIDLEY. Moses Golden, the only pawnbroker clerk, in Ridgman of that name, testified that he had sold over $4000 jewelry to Ridgman. The Ridgman then testified that he had made a addition that the payment to whom he had brought the money was $4000. ```markdown ``` The other nine were caught farther back in the gangway and so found their escape cut off. They made their way up a chute, where they huddled together almost seven days. Several of them were able to save their dinner pails and the contents were apportioned out sparingly, while the lights of their miner lamps were extinguished to keep the air pure and to husband the oil for nourishment. Thursday the last drop of oil was consumed and also the last of the chicken bones which two of the men had in their pails, and not until then did they give up hope. They had heard the rescueres working at times, and they felt themselves growing weaker and weaker, they abandoned hope of being taken out alive. When the last barrier was broken through the gangway was found to be filled with water, and it was necessary to use the electric pumps to clear it out before the rescuers could get to the chute. In the meantime, word had been sent to the surface and ambulances were brought to the mine opening, and a crowd quickly gathered. It was not known until the entombed men reached the surface whether they had been found dead or alive. A number of physicians were in the mine at the time the rescue was made. Man and Four Children Killed in Auto A collision at a blind grade crossing, at which there is no watchman, between an automobile loaded with school children and a Pennsylvania Railroad train on the Lancaster & Downingtown division resulted in five deaths and serious injury to two others. The accident occurred one mile west of Leola, near Lancaster, Pa. The dead are: Edwin Zell, of Monterey, aged fifty, driver of the car; Edwin Zell, Jr., aged twelve; Jason Groff, aged eight; Paul Groff, aged twelve, brother of Jason, both of Laola; Martha Buch, aged ten, of Monterey. The injured are: George McCarthy, aged ten, and Mary Groff, aged ten, both of Loola. Zell was bound from his home to the Leola High School to get his older daughter when he was halled by the children. Nine of them clambered into the machine and all were killed or injured a few minutes afterward except two. Neither Zell nor the engineer were able to see each other because of a deep cut where the highway crosses the track. Bishop John J. McCort, of Philadelphia, conferred 900 children in all Catholic churches of Mahanoy City, Pa. Incidentally, he rescued a local Catholic clerkyman from fire. As Rev. Pt C. McEurose, the venerable pastor of St. Cantius' Catholic church, was assisting the bishop in the confirmation of 400 Catechumens. Father McEnnus' vestments caught fire from a candle on the altar. Suddenly, he was ablaze. Parishioners shrieked and the catechumens became panic stricken. Bishop McCort throw his arms about the priest, smothering the names, and restored order among the audience, which tamed the capacity of the church. Apparently unperturbed, Bishop McCort continued his constation services. Father McEurose was injured slightly. Brittlet U. B. Sobel's Head in Mexico The head of Private Richard J. Johnson, United States cavalryman, who has been mining since last Pri- gree battle near Pyroco, has been exhibited as a trophy on the Mexican affair of the Rio Grande, according to a statement made by a Mexican prereg- ner to Mihaley county officials de- partment, according to a report which ranished Browneville, Tumon. The officers admitted that they woke building the Minum in compass. needed the brooch to keep him from getting hurt. He was wearing knitwear. Mr. Krengel appeared near the window and twisted him about Christmas. Mr. Krengel made him big shoes and could how much he worked for the brooch. Mr. routed him. Mr. Krengel took the brooch and three days later brought him $40, and that he (Wildbirds) had no idea to whom Mr. Krengel had sold the brooch. On the night of February 19, 1918, two supposed highways were arrested on Grace Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. Sergeants Krengel and Wiltshire were detailed by the Chief of Police to make the arrest. They were joined by Privates Tucker and Mitchell. Mr. Krengel on this occasion gratuitously stated under oath that Sergeant Wiltshire was, as drunk as a "billed owl", which made the arrest a "very difficult one." Sergeant Wiltshire was at var. during the night under the observation of the police officer, the Chief of Police, Captain of Detectives McMhonh, Sergeant Jeter, Sergeant Halloy, and Privates Mitchell and Tutker. All of whom testified that Sergeant Wiltshire was not drunk and showed no indication of having taken a single drink. SAYS KRENGEL TRIED TO HUMILIATE OFFICER This evidence, to my mind, was conclusive and demonstrated a wilful and deliberate attempt on the port of Mr. Krengel felicitly to disgrace and humiliate his brother officer in order to exploit himself. The evidence disclosed that Mr. Krengel had shot to death two colored men and plead in justification of these homicides necessity in the performance of his duty, upon which pleas he was acquitted. In one of those cases the man who was killed was not either suspected of, nor charged with, crime. Mr. Kreneg testified that the Negro drew a pistol and attempted to shoot him. The pistol failed to fire, whereupon the Negro fled, and Mr. Kreneg began to fire. The Negro was found in an outhouse some 150 yards away, desperately wounded, but no weapon was found either upon his person nor along the way which he had fled, though Sergeant Kellam, who was with Mr. Kreneg, occasioned testified that a diligent search was made. Mr. Kreneg testified that Sergeant Kellam called to him that the Negro had a "gun," and this Sergeant Kellam flatly denied, and further stated, under oath that he saw no weapon in the possession of the Negro. MANY OTHER DISCREPANCIES IN KRENGLER'S TESTIMONY There are many other discpancies in the testimony of Mr. Krengel and contradictions of his statements by reputable witnesses, all of which are disclosed by the record, which is public property and open to the inspection of every person who may be enough interested to read it. In conclusion, all that I ask of my fellow-citizens is that, before they criticize me for what I considered a duty, conscientiously performed, they familiarize themselves with the facts which influenced my action. Respectfully, Clifford Weil. --- STATE OF TEXAS ISSUES RESTRAINING ORDER Compelling K or P Grand officers to Stop Assignment To Walter Bollner, L. E. Wilson, N. T. Williams, L. M. Johnson, Will White and Silas Glaze—Greeting: Wheres, James E. Guinn, O. C. Crook, S. A. Bramletee, B. F. Brown and A. T. Thomas filed their petition in the District Court of Tarrant County on the 25th day of September, A. D. 1915, in a suit numbered 39903 on the docket of said Court, wherein James E. Guinn, O. C. Crook, S. A. Bramletee, B. F. Brown and A. T. Thomas are plaintiffs, and The Grand Lodge of the Colored Knights of Pythias of Texas, A. N. Prince, W. S. Willego, Geo. H. B. Willego, W. S. Willego, Walter Bellner, L. E. Wilson, N. T. Williams, L. M. Johnson, Will White and Silas Glaze are defendants, wherein the plaintiffs pray for an injunction against said defendants, restraining and enjoining them and each of them from further attempting to levy certain taxes against the various subordinate lodges of said Order and the members of said subordinate lodges by special assessment, of $2.50 per member, or from enforcing the payment thereof, and also restraining the funds of the Grand Lodge for the purpose of the grand lodge relief, nues for the purpose of illegal resolutions, and from paying any sums to the Actaries, all of which is more fully set forth in the plaintiffs original petition, which is now on file in my said office, reference to which is hereby made for all purposes. And, whereas, the Hon. Ben M. Tey tell, Judge of the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, endorsed on said petition, his flat in words and figures, as follows, to-wit: "September 24th, 1915. Upon the execution by petitioners herein of a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $2,500.00, as required by the Statute, the Clerk of this Court will issue the writ of injunction, above, prayed for and as herein prayed for. BEN M. TERRILL, Judge." And, whereas the said Jas. E. Guin, O. C. Crook; S. A. Hrameloe, B. F. Brown and A. T. Thomas executed and died with the Clerk of said Court bond in the sum of $2,500.00, made payable and conditioned as required by law: Therefore you; Walter Bellner, L. E. Wilson, N. T. Williams, L. M. Johnson, Will White, and Stiles Giese, you and each of you are hereby restrained and enjoined from doting any of the things to above me out, and of the things to below me out. You will hence order under penalty of the law as in such cases made and provided, until the further order of said Court. Given under my head and seal of said Court, at office in Port Worth, Tampa, Ohio 610 day of September, A. M. Bickley Jen M. Cummings Saint Bernard Court Tampa, Ga. LAWRENCE COUNTY DOWNER AND OIL Six Men and Three Days Are Rescued From Mine. ALL ARE VERY WEAK They Chewed Wicks In Lamps to Get the Oil and Finally Gave up Hope of Rescue. The six men and three boys attombed in the Coaldale mine, near Pottsville, Pa., last Monday morning were rescued alive and in good con- dition Sunday afternoon. They were taken to the Panther Creek hospital, where their families were forbidden to see them. They keep alive by eating chickens bones and chewing the oil from the wicks of their minor lamps. Of the eleven men imprisoned when a rush of water blocked them, all have now been rescued alive. The rescued men, all of Couldaire are: Elmer Herring, Michael Gutody, Peter Lohanbich, Joseph Ludgini, Charles Matsocka. The boys saved are: Joseph Murphy, of Tamaqua; John McAndrew and Bonner John, of Couldaire. The accident occurred in the Foster tunnel of No. 11 mine of the Lehah Coal & Narkton company colliory. A blast released water from an abandoned working, and the flood rushed into the gangway, where the eleven men were working and blocked the gangway a distance of more than1200 feet. William Watkins and George Hollywood canaped on Tuesday afternoon, by making their way from a chute through various air ways; until they finally reached the surface. Bishop Saves Priest ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. Captain Montford, who formerly was postmaster of Cincinnati, Q. won his new honor in a hotly contested election at the encampment in Washington. relative as Ms. Katherine Johnson, Mount Morris, N. Y. He was twenty-one years old. Powder Explosion Kills Three Three men were killed and three others injured in an explosion in the powder mill of the Dapont de Nomours company, at. Haskell, near Pompton Lake, N. J. This is the second big explosion in the Hankell plant since the war began. Great quantities of powder for the allies are being turned out there. Sailor Killie Wife, Servant. Himself Charles Hanson, a sailor, of Erie, Ja., shot and killed his wife and their servant, Theresa Simms, and then killed himself. Domestic difficulties, which culminated recently in the arrest of Hanson at the fistance of his wife, is said to have precipitated the crime. Plan $17,000,000: Cruelson A battle cruiser that will make thirty-five knots an hour and which will cost $17,000,000, has been designated by naval experts. Secretary Daniels announced. It is highly pr宝able, he said, that the administration naval program will call for several vessels of this type. Boy Drops Match in Powder Rummaging in a garret for a toy, nine-year-old RussoWilt, of Centre Valley; near South Bethlehem, came across a package of powder, into which he dropped a lighted match. In the explosion the lad's hair was singed and he probably destroyed the sight of both eyes. Mlddy Dlamased for Harling Alexander R. Bolling. 8705 Gepmantown avenue, Philadelphia, was dismissed from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he was a student in the third class, for hazing. Bolling is one of six midshipmen to be dropped. Train Strikes Auto; Three Killed Three men were killed when an automobile was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio railroad train at Leslie, near Elkton, Md. The victims were Elmer Gassaway and John Hand. The third has not yet been identified. War Make a Mule Scarce War demands for mules have caused a scarcity of this valuable adjunct to the collieries of the Hampton, Pa. region. Prices are far above the mark at which they were usually bought in this section. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear $6.49.00; city mills, fancy $6.90.70.20 FLOUR — Quiet; per barrel, $5 $6.50. WHEAT firm; No. 2 red, new, $1.08 $1.10. CORN weak; No. 2 yellow, 78.70£; BQS quail; No. 2 white, 62.00; low- grades 40¢%. FOULTRY; Live steady; hens, 16 $17¢.; old roosters, 12$15c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 19¢%; old roosters, 23¢%; per lb. BUTTER quiet; fancy creamery, 23¢%; per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 25$7¢;. moorby, 33¢.; western, 35¢. Live Stock Prices. SHICAGO — HOGS — Steady; mixed and butchers, $6.75.80; good heavy, $6.90.25; rough heavy, $6.60.60; flight, $7.80.40; pligs, $6.75.70; beef, $7.80.40. CATTLE — Weak and lice; lower, beef, $2.55.10.50; cows and britt- ers, $3.25.90; Texas, $6.75.80; calves, $9.50.11.50. Train Buna Ovee Babe David P. S. Boyer, seventeen months old, was run over by a Western Maryland railway passenger, train, three miles east of Bountiful, Md., and his left leg was crushed off between the knees and ankle. The child had followed his father to feed some Bye stock and had wondered, on the railway track, married by Washington D. C., provision of trust. Fiction areas of land have been owned by the Richmond Press and Banky Corporation, valued at $27,500,000 for the purpose of building a National Home for all begging down and worn out Negroes in the U. S. The directors of this new Corporation have issued an appeal to the general public to aid in their blasting splendor and in raising $100,000.00 alone a commitment, along magidence into assistance, has been appointed to present sent forth the eternal fat, so this matter to Congress asking for mediately, in all their pristine $500,000 endowment, fund for the stars, worlds, and system of maintenance of this institution. I stopped 'in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wess. 2205 Hallette street Mr. Wess has been a police officer of that city for nineteen years and has never been called before his superior officer to be reprimanded for dereliction of duty. I was told there was not a mark on the books against him. Mr. Wess is a cousin of mine and we have granted two days leave of absence to show me the city. For forty-eight hours he carried me over that great city. Mrs. Wess was a member of my Church in Danville, Va. I met nearly all the Divines of that city. I had the pleasure of prescribing to Dr. Carter and Messor and lecturing to Dr. Austin's people. These brothers have the support of their people. On my return home I found an invitation inviting me, requesting I should deliver the address, at the invovling of the movement to the late Rev. W. L. Pruitt, R. D. at Hampstead Gleney, Dr. D. M. Jordan delivered the subscriptions. Rev. Puston Anderson, member of congregation. CASE OF THE BAPTISTS The National Baptist Convention has split and as a result the usual light among colored folks drags its weary length along. Prof. Harris and Dr. Morris are sending out notices to who soaves will read them, calling on the Negro Baptists to support them as against Dr. K. H. Boyd and the publishing house. That element of Colored Baptists who never did support Dr. Boyd and who never will support Dr. Morris are still bound haud and root to the American Baptist Publication Society (white) of Philadelphia. This is the situation. The cause Years ago the United Baptist forces except those wedded to the A. B. P. S. (white) passed a resolution asking Gov. Boyd and others to print liture for colored Baptists. The resolution carried with it no means (unless) with which they would Dr. Boyd invented plans to get the money. He called about him his sons daughters and friends—and went to work without a dollar of capital of the National. Baptist resulgers They succeeded in building up the greatest Baptist Publishing house among Negroes on earth. Of necessity he and those immediately associated, had to incorporate themselves so as to do business. Stick a pin there! The Baptists everywhere (except those belonging to the A. B. P. S., white) rallied to the support of the Boyd interest and bought the literatures which he (Boyd) printed, they (Baptists) receiving, however, their money's worth for every order. As soon as it was seen that Dr. Boyd and his Board were making some money and had amassed some property through their investments and the petro-chemical business, they began to claim the plant at Nashville' as the property of the whole bunch Naturally, Dr. Boyd objected. The result, a split. The people are now called on to decide the important question as to whether or not the mere fast that the Baptists authorized Dr. Boyd to print and that they bought what he printed, veats them with the ownership of the physical property at Nashville. The Dallas Express believes that upon the most liberal construction the Baptist makes the equity in equity more than partnership in the business than on an agreed amount or they would have been in keeping with the propieties to have asked that Dr. Boyd offer to them for sale the propieties at a fair valuation. Most certainly no just man can believe that Dr. Boyd should be dispossessed of the properties nor the income from the same. Instead of looking on him in the light of one who has taken advantage of a fellow he could regard as the greatest constructive genius among the Baptists of this country—their greatest benefactor. (Dallas, Tox. Express.) THE QUESTIONABLE LODGE BOSS. There are a number of Negro lodges in Texas, who treat the Dallas Expresses job department as something not to be used but to be endured. They have a few cards or cheap envelopes printed here amounting to a few dollars, while they spend hundreds of dollars in white print shops. These leaders (?) are the kind who raise most h—l about race pride. They are blatant hypocrites who we have made up our minds to expose. The money collected in lodge treasuries comes out of the pockets of Negroes. As far as possible it should be spent with Negroes. As a matter of fact most of the money spent by Negro Lodge bosses for printing, lawyers, and in fact everything, also goes to white men, who do the work no other than black men engaged in the pursuits being patronised. It was time that a halt was called. It was time that the members of local lodges inquired as to who printed the blanks being sent them by the bosses. The Negro boys and girls in Texas to the number of 200 could easily be used in the printing business, if the Negro lodge bosses would let the Negro printers have a chance at the people's money being spent in this line. There are exceptions of course but they are few and far between. (Dallas Tex. Express.) WHITE CROSS NATIONAL COLORED OLD FOLKS HOME ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STAETS OF AMERICA INC. Officers and 'Directors' have received a copy of Certificate of Incorporation from the clerk of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia, to day authorizing them to operate in the State of Virginia under the head of a charitable organization. They are authorized to associate themselves to establish a corporation under and by virtue of the provision of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, entitled "An act concurring corporation," which became a law on the 21st day of May 1982. This principal office of the corporation will be in the city of Morgantown. The House in Washington Bills this program for such Corporation is directed to be held, to be authorized by the governor in a letter to be sent to the governor and the commissioners of the Corporation. served in Washington D. C. president of Iowa. Failure areas of Iowa have been directed by the Ridgedown Finance and Banky Corporation, which paid $77,000,000 for the purpose of building a National Home for all穷困下own and were sent Negroes in the U. S. A. The directors of this new Corporation have issued an appeal to the general public to aid in raising $100,000,000 a committee has been appointed to present this matter to Congress asking for $500,000 endowment fund for the maintenance of this institution. Wedding bells are still ringing. Miss Lottie Bentley and a Mr. Jackson were quietly joined in wedlock. Saturday, Rev. William Sidney officiating. Mrs. Limie Thomas left for Washington Friday for a few days. Capt. C. P. Stinch and his descon friend of Mr. Vernon, Va. were in town today. Mrs. Garner Diggs has returned after a few days visit to D. C. Miss Dahl Fux and Miss Erline Fux left for the country the week end, when they will teach this session. Mrs. Lucy Summers is still indoors. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Freeman are all smiles over a bouncing baby girl. Miss Lee of Washington is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy Summers, then took off. THANKSGIVING DINNER WILL BE GIVEN NOVEMBER 5th In The Retroforms Hall, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 5 P. M. for all the old Negroes in the State of Virginia, also Thankgiving Dinner has been arranged between the hours of 6 P. M. and 10 P. M. to be held in the Coomopolitan Baptist Church N. Street between 9th and N. W., Washington D. C. Benefit performance will be held Tuesday October 26th at the Hippodrome 2nd Street between 1st and 1st Clay Street given by Mrs. A. E. Thorpe (white) for the benefit of the said institution. Directors:—Rew. Simon P. W. Drew President Washington D. C. Phillip E. Hiltoh. Vice Richmond, Rev. Jas W. Poo. Richmond Sect., Oscar C M. Asst. Sect., Washington, D. C. J. Thoum. Rew. Twin, Sect., Richmond Va. Rev. L. Fauler, Field Agent, Richmond, Va. Blair, Alexander Wattern. New York City N. G. Geo. H. White. Philadelphia, Hon. Judgson Lyons, Atlanta G. Prof. Jesse Lawson, Plainfield N. J., N. Nathaniel F. Drew, New York City, Richard Ivey, Margaretaville, N. C. Rev. Francis Robinson, Birmingham D. C., Callis, Baltimore Md. Rev. W. E. Stephenson, Wheeling W. Va. Dr. W. Stephenson, Washington D. C. John T. Grasson, Washington D. C. Blair Lee, Washington D. C. Rev George C. Clement, Charlotte, N C. Florence, S. C., October 6.—Prof. S. N. Rogers, of Wample, S. C. spent Monday in our city. Mrs. Dr. F. W. Avant, of Wilmington, N. C. passed through the city recently returning from Asheville, N. C. Mr. D. W. Washington, of Kingstree S. C. passed through the city recently en route to Allen University, Columbia S. C. Prof. M. N. Mix, Superintendent of Agriculture at Mayesville Institute, Mayesville, S. C. passed through the city recently enroute for Mayesville, S. C. Mias Leona Mae Webster has been elected to teach in the city graded school, W. S. Singleton, principal. Rev. J. R. Jance died suddenly here and was buried Saturday, September 25 Mr. C. E. McFadden, of Sumter, S. C. passed through the city recently returning from Philadelphia enroute Morchouse College, Atlanta, Ga. I spent Saturday the 2nd inst. in Darlington. I called to see Mrs. Mable Keith Howard in Exchange St. I met many old acquaintances and friends in the street. I left Florence Sunday A. M. for Mullen, S. C. Bro. Mack Smith took me to the Oldfield Baptist Church, Hero I met Rev. Glchrist, Jackson, Ham and others. Rev. Ham preached, after which I addressed the congregation. Brother Smith has been called to the ministry and will preach the second Sunday in October at Oldfield Baptist Church, Marlton county. Miss Kate Moses writes me that she is feeling much better and will not go South this year, as she generally does. Miss Mabel Howard, who has been spending a while visiting friends at Tatum, S. C. is home again looking fresh and fine. FARMVILLE, VA. Mr. Editor: It has been some time since I have penned you a line. I have been from home a good bit this Summer, therefore was unable to say much concerning our people in this vicinity. I have just returned from the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention which met in Pittsburgh, Pa. There I spent several weeks. My trip was a delightful one. The convention held the most successful meeting in its history. lead pathways fields of infinite space that Being who spoke flery sum in their blasting splendid and dazzling magnificence in intelligence and sent forth the eternal flat, and immediately, in all their printing glory, stars, worlds, and systems of world sprang forth. I repeat we with aid of such a God broke the monopoly of ignorance and found in our reachyes, at our feet many golden opportunities. At a given command we seised the opportunity to eliminate the evils of transgressions by leading the young people and older ones if possible, in the path of rectitude through the instruction of the Holy Word or God. Russia's position at Drvinsk is unmistakable. The enemy's attempts at an assault from Novo Alexandrovsk, their nearest point, to Drvinsk, were overwhelmed, and north of Lake Drivinya the violence of the Russian artillery has even put the Germans to flight. At Lubtcha, northeast of Novo Drvinsk, the Germans almost succeeded in crossing to the right bank of the Moscow. This was important to them for the purpose of turning the Russian front and Vladimir's position at Novo Alexandrovsk. For twenty-five years we have atriven to take advantage of the above stated opportunity, to execute our mission and to do this we were forced to struggle. It is true that the career of the conventionist is clearly marked by hard work which act as stepping stones to success, and so time there were seven or more schools of the convention, but the interest for the convention began to wane and the number decreased to two schools but after a period of delinquency, three or four others joined, then came the year of jubilee (1914 1915) when the number of schools was raised from nine to sixteen, when Sunday School interest was increased to a greater number, and when the young preachers together with them the young men and women, realized that convention was, and is, an instrument to prepare them for better service and an organization supported and controlled mainly by themselves. Before this year the financial maximum was about $28 annually, but during the convention year of 1914-1915 the amount raised was more than $100. We thank the Lord for such success and pray to Him to help us achieve a higher height. We are now the Lord for the placing of a teacher (Miss Armella Taylor, a graduate of Higgan Roanoke Seminary) in our school. To the co-workers of Vienna Oak Sunday School Convention, the day is ours, the object is now in our view the conquest is within our reach. Pray for it, work for it, and struggle for it, at length the battle will be over, the victory won, the spoils taken, the prize awarded and the glory earned, but remember that this campaign is great one and you will be accosted from great height, but be brave, my follow-workers, and expand your energy in this grand old cause. Our opponents are numerous and well equipped, therefore we must prepare for their onset and watch for the same. The foremy friends, have courage. Our image is the first component of character. Courage is an essential element of a successful business life. Courage is an essential in the administration of a household, the government of servants and the management of societies. Courage marks the difference between the strong and the weak; the noble and the sluggard; the devoted and the unfortunate. There are several classes of courage, two of which I will mention: physical and moral. Physical courage was clearly manifested in the prehistoric age. In the victory of Beowulf over Grendel and his mother in the charge made by Horatius against the Etruscans on the bridge across the Tiber, in the battle of Marathon, when Philidippe des made the great dash from Athena to Sparta (a distance of 133 or 140 miles) in thirty-four hours. Jasper replacing the flag at Port Moultrie. Therefore it can be traced through all ages yet, because of certain forms of it, such as the form that appears in unreminiscence, hysteria and ignorance, it does not rank with moral courage, which ranks the man or woman power to consider facts upon their own merits. It is one of the characteristics that mark a christian. My friends, let us be possessors of it and the Lord will give us a great reward. The infantry of Haden will lay down their arms to us. The walls of the wicked will crumble at our approach. Their rope will disappear, as Summuramit, heiress of Babylon disappeared in the form of a dove from Assyria, and after the conquest of this world for Christ, the gates of the Holy City will be lifted and the heroes of the battlefield will receive a cordial welcome. "Enter ye into the joys of the Lord." H. C. JONES Pros. LEESBURA (VA.) ITENS. Rev. J. E. Dotson was at his best all day. At eleven o'clock he mounted the rostrum with Rev. William Sidney and Swan, using John 16-33. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Theme, Our Part of the Saviour's Victory Over the World. He said we have the Saviour's victory over the world and right well did he discuss his subject. Rev. W. R. Manley preached for us at the Baptist Church from Phill. 1-21. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. It was one of the best we ever heard him preach. New York City, October 3.—Colored women of this city are doing well in the hair dressing and manicuring business, and it may be safe in saying that there is no city in the country where the women of the race are making a more pronounced success in this field than in New York. Last year correspondent called on a few of our engaged in this field and noted the progress that/ is being made in this direction by our women. Paris reports continued advances by a team in France, and some German counter attacks near Arles and in the Champagne region have been reported. The Germans have begun a heavy investment north of the Alps at Saint-Germain. The army of the German group is reported to be in the area. Among the latest enterprise of this nature that has been opened in this city is the Hairdressing Partor, conducted by Miss Maud Jones at 124 West 135th street in the heart of the Negro population of the metropolis. Miss Jones conducts one of the most inviting and attractive hair dressing and manicuring parlor in this city and is one of the most productive women in this field. At Miss Jones she may be found the latest methods for the treatment of the hair and scalp as well as the treatment of the nails, etc. Miss Jones uses the Madam Walker's perfect system, having taken this course in the Lella Walker College in. Miss Jones is one of the best prepared women of the race in this field and is among the first to enter this profession. She graduated several years ago from the Buffalo School of Hair Dressing and for some time did private work among the wealthy people of that city. Miss Jones is a thoroughly educated woman and is a woman of great versatility. She is a graduate of the Elmira Free Academy at Elmira, N. and of the Schoemaker's School of Education of Philadelphia, Pa. For years Miss Jones travelled with the Williams and Kers' and Rufus Rastus Companies and hiked with these companies she was on her most gifted members of this troop. A year or so ago Miss Jones retired from the stage to enter her present profession which she will devote the rest of her life to. In talking with your correspondent, Miss Jones was enthusiastic over the prospects of her profession and be-li that this field offers five possibilities for Miss Jones of the race. The many friends of Miss Jones throughout the country will be glad to know that she has entered this field. Miss Jones was formerly a member of St. Marks M. E. Church and is well known in church and club circles in this city. ANOTHER BEAUTY CULTURIST Another creditable enterprise of this kind is The Beauty Shop, at 2033 7th Avenue, in charge of Miss Henrietta Allen, a former Indianapolis woman. This doubtless is the most complete shop of its kind in this city and has various departments for manufacturing shampooing and massaging. A course in hair dressing, manicuring treatment of the scalp is given at the shop, the large number of young women are taken in this work. Mme. Allen is a well-known hair specialist and is the daughter of Mrs. Belle Davis, the well known caterer, of Indianapolis. She is assisted in her work by Miss Grace Powler. BEN, A. L. SCOTT MAKES FINE ADDRESS. One of the most helpful addresses heard in this city for sometime, and one which makes its appeal to the educated young folk of the race was the address dellyerled by Rev. A. L. Scott, who is a candidate for his degree of Ph. D. at Howard University, before St. Mark's Lyceum last Sunday afternoon. It was educational day at the Lyceum and the day was given to the discussion of the topic of education as it relates to efficiency. Rev. Scott spoke on, "Education for Efficiency." He said in part that the whole aim of education is to make men and women efficient in whatever life endeavor that they entered, and that education did not serve to make a man more efficient it was a failure. He explored the fact that there were a large number of young men and women of the race who acquired an education and they failed to become efficient in their respective fields of labor and that in many cases were a disgrace to the race. His address was thoroughly enjoyed and was listened to with great interest. He is one of the most promising young men in the M. E. Church and contemplates entering a new field in Boston very soon. RUSSIANS ON OFFENSIVE Big Armies Hurried at Germans Causee Deadlock in Poland. An 'An attack by Russians "In dense masses" against von Hindenburg's forces is recorded by the statement issued by the war office in Berlin. The assault broke down, the Germans say, despite extensive preparations with artillery. A general alackoning of German activity has been noticed along the entire eastern front, says a Petrograd despatch to the Daily News. Since the failure of the operations at Svysanyany the German-deft wing has lost all activity, and the right wing, after a series of unsuccessful engagements, has been unable up to now to recover or alter conditions. Consequently the centre, having lost the service of the wings, has been brought to a deadlock by the determined Russian resistance. Note—Persons living in the South can get their goods three days earlier if they will order from The Star Hair Grower, Mfr., Box 812, Greenabor, North Carolina. ```markdown ``` NEGRO ORGANIZATION SOCIETY TO MEET the programme of the third annual meeting of the Negro Organization Society to be held at Pittsburgh, Nov. 3, 4. 5, is about ready to go to the printer. It provides for six sessions. The opening session at 8 o'clock P. M. of November 3rd will be an inspiration at meeting. The welcome address and response will be delivered, and Prof. Hawkins, of Washington D. C. former Secretary of Education and now Financial Secretary of the A. M. E. Church has been invited to be the speaker of the evening. This session opening at 10 o'clock A. M. of November 4th will be the school improvement season, the feature of which will be a round table talk on "School Improvement Leagues and their work," conducted by Prof. J. H. Binford Executive Secretary of the Co-operative Education Association. Reports on school improvement in many communities will be made at this session. The health improvement session will be held at 8 o'clock P. M. of this day. Along other numbers an address will be delivered on "Cause of the High Mortality Rate of the Negroes of Virginia, and Dr. Ennion G. Williams. State commissioner of Health, will also speak On the morning of November 5th, the very important home improvement session will be held. A practical discussion on "Beautifying the Home," and addresses by delegates from the State Conference of Charities and Corrections, among whom will be former Governor Mann and Dr. J. Martin will characterize this session, A.2.2. M. of this day, a farm improvement session will be held and Dr. Booker T. Washington will bring to this session special message for farmers. A strong array of experts on various phases of farming have been invited to speak on this programme. The final session of the meeting will be held at the Academy of Music, at a clock of the 5th. This will be meeting of white and bird citizens and delegates and members of the society. The speakers of the evening will be former Governor Mann, Governor Stuart, and Doctor Booker T. Washington. Indications are that a large delegation will attend the meeting, and the people of Petersburg are making ample provisions for their entertainment. All persons expecting to attend the meeting should write Y. C. Erwin, State Normal School, Petersburg, Va., as early as is convenient. Efforts are being made to secure reduced rates on the railroads. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. German casualties resulting from the big offensive of the French and British, including killed, wounded and prisoners, were given officially by the French war office as in excess of the strength of three army corps (more than 120,000 men). The British forces north of Lens, in Artois, are storming the third line of German defences. Over 3,000 prisoners were captured and great quantities of munition na. Reports from Russia say an entire German army corps (40,000 men were trapped in the marshos near Pinsk and only a few escaped death. The official report says the Russian offensive continues unchecked. The first-class Italian battleship Benedetto Pitto was literally torn to pieces by an internal explosion while lying at sea in the harbor of Brindisi. Only 75 men and eight officers of her command of 720 men are known to have been saved. THURSDAY: French for us have penetrated the second half of the defences in the Champlain and St. Lawrence, according to official announcements in Paris. Both the British and French are engaged in a drive to send Lendy which controls the main position at Lille. The German war office admits the loss of Hille No. 191, near the Champlain pane region, and the allies announce they have to turn Hille 70 and 141, in the fighting near Artois. Petrograt official reports say the Russian army has made great gains between Drinka and Vilina, and that they have captured Postawy after driving the Germans tweety-five miles. General von Hindenburg, is pushing his attack upon Drinka, but the defenders are said to be holding their own. Austro-German gains near Lestak, in Volhynia, are admitted. FRIDAY. A WORTHFUL HAIR DRESSING AND GROWING. One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money made. 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A new German offensive south of Riga was repulsed. France and Great Britain have taken military measures to defend Serbia and Greece against Bulgarian aggression, the Paris Tempis announces. 8ATURDAY. Reports to London say that Bulgarian troops have been massed on the Greek and Serbian borders, and it is believed that the nation has definitely decided to cast in its lot with the Teutonic allies. An ultimatum from the entente to Bulgaria is predicted within the next forty-eight hours. Further gains by the allied troops near Artils and in the Champagne region are reported by the French war office, notwithstanding a heavy German bombardment. French aviators are reported to have attacked with guns the railroads behind the German positions. Despatches to London say the Russians are holding their own on the eastern front except in front of Dvlnsk and in Volhynia. Petrograd admits a German advance south of Dvlnsk. SUNDAY Batteries of German artillery which fired asphaltifying shells into the French reserve and cannon, positions in the Champagne country, were ablenced by the vikor and destructive power of a counter bombardment by the French. Onslaughts by the kaiser's troops to retrieve their lost ground in Champagne and in Artols ended in new defeats for them. In Russia no important changes have taken place, both sides making claims of minor advantages. The Petrograd official statement says the German attack along the Dvina has shackened owing to moving of Touston troops to the western front and the Serbian frontier. MONDAY Troops of the entente nations have been landed at Salonika, and Greece, in welcoming them, has aligned herself with the enemies of the Teutonic alliance. General von Mackensen is reported to be in command of the Austrian and German forces which threaten to invade Serbia. French troops have dropped forty bombs upon Salonika, one of the circle of fortified cities surrounding Metz. Five allied armies shelled Zeebrugge, one of them brought down by the Germans, and another descending in Dutch territory. Paris reserves French advances north of Arras, and furious fighting near Artux and in the Champagne reckon. London bears that the Germans have been pressed back, east of Vilna, that the German offensive is weakening and that the Russians have straightened their battle line from Dnisky to the southwest. Whover is inclined to review with alarm now has plenty of material to work from. Justice Hughes is a good man gone right, and he proposes to stand pat on his record. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Southern Railway announces the sale of cheap pound trip tickets on account of the following State and County Fairs held in the State of Virginia: -Virginia State Fair, Richmond, Va. -October 11—16, 1915. Tickets on sale October 8—16 inc., 1915, final limit, October 18th, 1915. -Agricultural and Industrial Fair, Danville, Va., October 5—8, 1915. -Tickets on sale October 2—8 inc., 1915 final limit October 18th, 1915. -Halifax County Fair, South Boston, Va., October 19—23, 1915. Tickets on sale October 17—22 inc., 1915, final limit October 24th, 1915. FIVE DIES AFTER VACCINATION Camden Boy Falls Care for Wound Patient Care For Wound and Death Results from Tetanus. Elmer West, seven years old, 647 Cheatut street, died in the Cooper hospital from tetanus, caused it is said, by neglecting a vaccination wound. The boy was vaccinated four weeks ago and failed to keep the wound clean. Iast Thursday the boy was selzed with spasms and was taken to the hospital. When it was found that he was suffering from tetanus. Antioch in was administered, but it was too late to save the boy's life. Florist Lies From Pin Prick George G. Gallibrush forty-one years old, for twenty four years a florist in near, died at St. Joseph's, from St. poisoning, superinfused by the pricking of a pimple with a pin. 1915 OCTOBER 1915 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24/31 25 26 27 28 29 30 JAMES H. COLEMAN DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES CONFECTIONERIES, MEATS AND VEGETABLES All Goods Promptly Delivered. 'Phone, Randolph 3266 125 WEST DUVAL STREET State Summer School SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BEGIN JULY 5, 1915 AT THE AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE (FORMELT A. AND M. COLLAGE) AND CONTINUE FIVE WEEKS. Write for catalog. Secure lodging in advance. Address, J. H. BLUFORD Director State Summer School, Greene boro, N. C. JAS. B. DUDLEY, PRESIDENT. The Knights of Toussaint L'Ouverture And Court of Susanne. The STANDARD NEGRO PRATERNAL ORDER Of the WORLD Organizers make big money organi- zing Lodges and Courts for this Order. Good organizers (men and women) wanted every where. Liberal Commission. Organizers make big money organizing Lodges and Courts for this Order: Good organizers (men and women) wanted every where. Liberal Commission. Write for terms. Address Rev. A. Fitzholan Wallace SUPREME ORAND GENERAL 81 O Street, N. W. Phone North, 7188 Washington, D. C. S. W. Robinson and Son, Inc. Dealers in HIGH GRADE LIQUOR 19 and 21 North 18th Street Richmond, Va. 'Phone, Randolph 2313 EDW. STEWART 203 SO. SECOND ST. Richmond, Va. Dealer in Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats, Vegetables, Fish and Oysters. 'Phone, Madison 1637. --- SUN SETS FOR NEGRO BOXERS (By Otto Photo) Ottunes when the mood of a serious spectation sleeps us we send a hurried glance down the barrel of time, as fleeting fantasies hold us in their embrace. Ideas come to us conceptions of other days grawn at us, fantasy, the light and impressions strike us until we begin to watch we dwell during arguments, hour. The longer we linger and tarry on the theme, the stronger the conclusion eliminates the fact that the colored fighter is becoming a thing of the past, so far as titles and championships are concerned. With the passing of Sam Langford, Sam M. Voe, Joe Jeannette battling Johnson and maybe one on two others Jack Johnson already considered to obliterate the day of the wonderful events eludators will come to a close. Standing the horizon, we fail to note any black boys coming to the fore to take the places of the above mentioned, and if there were any obstructions and disenraiment they would be for little further. financial recompense It was Jack Johnson who seated the room for all colored fighters of the future. His actions while seated in the throne chair were such as to rub the welcome off the crown which formerly bid them enter. Speaking of those who still are with us, I am forced to sell my title to Sam, Langford. As a fighter great hung her cloak about his shoulders I really believe there never was a man of his weight, he that man was black or yellow, he could match him in flight ability to this his splendid behavior, always conducting himself properly and making friends both among the pale face and dark-skinned races. Yet he must suffer for the sins of a tribesman and through no doing of his own. He must see bars erected against "mixed" matches at a time when he could have beaten any other man for the title. Fortunate for the fight fans there exist two colored boxers worthy of his metal - Sam McVeen and Jack Johnson. In possible between the blanks, isn't it wrong, however, to punish the other colored fighters for the deeds committed by Jack Johnson? Again looking back into the vestibule of Tue I picture Joe Gans stand erect in the ring with arms extended. It's enough to bring a tear to our eye when contemplating his likes never to be produced again among colored boys, and heaven knows if the whites will ever match him in the dim and distant future. There is no incentive for a black boy, no matter how promising to develop into a Joe Gans—what good would it do him if he did? Among his own race no opponent of sufficient catcher could be found and the doors are locked against him when white opponents are mentioned. That's why the colored fighter is passing. THERE NEVER WILL BE ANOTHER GEORGE DIXON Then there comes back to my mind George Dixon. Poor "Little Chocolate" who only have a black skin as covering to his frame, but who was white through and through in all things else. I saw him again in the skating rink at Troy, N. Y. faculté Cal McCarty. I see Jock McAuliffe and Billy-Madden sneering at him from McCarty's corner and Tom O'Rourke and Hodges sneering back from Dixon's angle as referee Jerry Dunne calls them to the center of the ring to give his final instruction. What a cleverness over the cleverness Back and forth away the tide of success until the twenty second round (if I remember correctly). Dixon delivered the blow which made him undisputed featherweight champion. I again recall the night at Miller's Eighth Avenue theatre in New York, when Richard K. Fox selected me to present the championship belt to little George That evening-Dixon knocked out a chap named Pierce in a few rounds. Just think of it—we are never to have a George Dixon again. Only he cause a dark skin is the obstacle which prevents it. Just because a man, who himself was encased in a dark skin, drew the opposition of the world on his head. Blackburn, Walcott, Young Peter Jackson, the Kentucky Rosebud, were great black boys, who ranked up well with their white brothen. Nowhere can we glean even a semblance of a chance for other boys of the race to succeed them. Not because there is a scarcity of good boys still in the embryonic stage and needing only devotion to bring them to a state of perfection. There is plenty of material but what's the use of unraveling it? No encouragement of the future is held out to them. They have been eliminated from the running because here again Jack Johnson's action figured. IF YOU EVER HAVE A CHANCE SEE LANGFORD. For this reason we advise all who have the opportunity to go and see Langford in action. You are not going to have the chance of witnessing this wonderful piece, of fighting machinery many more years and when he is finished, when he has bid farewell to the ring; his like is not going to be seen again. The same day work in Denver he knelt from below, as opponent who has given Langford the moment arguments of his career. It should prove a great treat for fight followers. The occasion, to watch two men in action who really know how, and can fight is something so rare in these days of Graeco-Roman wrestlers I would not miss it for a great deal. Small hope does the future offer of producing other languages. Meets and that type of gladiators. WHAT WOULD JEFFRIES HAVE DONE IN TEN ROUNDS? Would Jim Jeffries have been rated the great fighter we labeled him, had he existed in this day on no-decision ten-round arguments? That's a serious question for the fight fans to digest. Recall how Jeffries in his early career never got well under way until nearly half the distance of the journey had been negotiated! I do. Recall for paranormal reasons I against Jim Corbett in which the hitter had all the better of the going until the twenty third round, when Jeff's poke rocked him to sleep. Had that bout been a ten round affair there wasn't a newspaper in New York but would have declared Jim Corbett the winner Jeffries' clash with Shark eat at Coney Island was another battle in which Jim Didn't have any the best of it Jim the preliminary stages and still proved decisive winner in real fighters are tested, over the marathon trip, we call attention to the above hours for argument's sake. The argument we make is: As ten round no-decision bouts lend themselves to producing real fighters! I am, fast coming to the conclusion these ten round things have done more to restrict the development of storing fighters than any one thing we can recall at the present time. In fact, we fear not to go on record as saying the ten round, no-decision bouts are barriers to the good ship "Self defence" which must be removed before the craft can again glide smoothly through the troubled waters of the pupilate ocean. There is a impugnment on foot attempt this fall to change the prize for the champion, so that championship and important matches may be tonight over the twenty round distance. It is intended to leave the present no-decision law to stand so young fighters may be developed as they were in the four round bouts in San Francisco in the days when Jim Cofforth was staging championship affairs. "ELISH ESCAPES BY GRACE OF SHORT SCRAPS." The boys now before the public are much of the same caliber, there is very little difference between the title holder and the next men to him. That is why ten rounds are not of sufficient length to produce listen-eye winners. Over the twenty round trip this would be different, for a good many top Attackers don't seem to strike their gait until seven or eight frames have been enacted. The most glaring example we have of the absurdity of ten round no-declare stunts is Freddie Welsh. There is not a lightweight living can defeat him in ten rounds. True, Freddie may not defeat his opponent, but that is neither here nor there, for he loses no reputation or prestige so long as the affairs are decisionless. Twenty rounds might make a great difference to Welsh and a lot of others as well. --- COUNCIL, REQUESTS GOODS TO RESIGN. By a vote of 2 to 7 the Common Council last night concurred in the passage of the resolution recommended by the police investigating committee finding Commissioner R N Goodpaste guilty of malfeasance and misuse in office and calling for his resignation from the Police Board. The members voted as follows: Ayes, Councilmen Ferguson, Fulter, Haddon, Jones, Pichler, Powell, Rat cliff, Seaton and Peters. 9. Noes, Councilmen Atkinson, Chestnut-Wood, English, Pollock, Powers, Sullivan and Weish. 7. The vote on the resolution was taken within fifteen minutes after the body was called to order, after it had adopted, by a vote of 15 to 1 a motion by Councilman Ratecliffe waiving the examination and hearing called for by a resolution under which the body met. The opposing vote was cast by Councilman Seaton. GOODE AND HIS ATTORNEY WIT NESS PROCEEDINGS. Commissioner Goode and his attorney, Hiram M. Smith, witnessed the proceeding. The motion under which the Council considered the Goode resolution directed that the body sit as a committee of the whole to hear from Mr. Goode's counsel and the City Attorney, who acted as the police investigating committee's adviser. The same resolution provided for the assembling of all the evidence introduced during the investigation relating to Mr. Goode; Bookleta containing reprints of the evidence were supplied to the Councilmen by City Clerk August last week. When the body was called to order at 8:30 o'clock Councillor Rutledge took the floor, with a brief reech. It was his belief, he said that every member present knew now how he was going to vote, and that nothing would be gained by going into the examination and hearing contemplated by the resolution under which the body was acting. He moved therefore that the body waive, a further hearing of the matter and proceed without debate to vote on the pending resolution. SEATON READY TO VOTE AT ONCE. Councilman Seaton, who at the last meeting of the Council introduced a resolution directing the president of the body to call a special meeting within five days after the printed booklets containing the Goode evidence were distributed, told the members that it was for them to decide whether or not they wanted a further hearing. The proceeding was not of my institution," said Mr. Seaton. "I was ready, at the first meeting of the Common Council to vote on the resolution. As a member of the investigating committee, I signed the paper, and if I had to do it over I would not so soon. Of the Council does not deserve to examine into this matter further I am ready to vote" he neatly the Counselled wanted the future President. From parts of the chamber I am aware the calls for the question, and President Peters put Mr. Ratelife's motion before the house. It received fifteen affirmative votes, Mr. Seaton alone voting against it. Five minutes later the body concurred in the passage of the resolution calling for Mr. Goode's resignation. GOODE DECLINES TO COMMENT ON ACTION Commissioner Goode, asked after adjournment for a statement, said that he had nothing to say. "Will you comply with the resolution and send in your resignation," he was asked. "I would prefer to consult my lawyer before answering that question." It replied. "It is reported that you have expressed to some of your friends your intention of declining to resign. Is that correct?" he was asked. "I have made no such expression." replied Mr. Goode. In official circles the gossip was current last hight that Mr. Goode would refuse to comply with the resolution's request that he resign. It was pointed out as supporting this rumor that the accused police commissioner had everything to gain and nothing to lose by such a course in adopting the investigating committee's resolution the Council virtually found him guilty of the charges of misfiance preferred against him. A formal trial under impachment proceedings it was pointed out, could result in no stronger verdict and might terminate in a finding less drastic. The resolution will go to day to the Mayor for his signature. When the signed paper is returned to City Clerk August he will mail a copy of the resolution to Police Councillor Gomer Clerk. The act will permit the Council's official request that he resign from the Police Board. In the event that Mr. Goods refused to comply with the Council's resolution and that body desires to presume its judgment it will be forced to impeach him. Under this rare proceeding, the Councill will formally prefer charges against the accused commissioner and summon him to appear before it for trial. The Councill will also be required to give law-bearing evidence for and against the accused and the arguments of counsel it, after hearing the evidence, it shall still be continued of the accused's guilt. It will enter an order declaring his position on the Police Board vacant. He would still have the right of appeal to the Hustlers Court. INTERESTED SPECTATORS FOLLOW PROCEDURES An interested gallery, including a dozen or more clergymen, members of the Police Board and representatives of social organizations, followed the Council's brief proceedings. In the gathering were several members of the Board of Aldermen. With the disposal of the Goode resolution the Council completed the unfinished business remaining from the police investigating committee's report. All the other resolutions reported by this committee have either adopted or referred to appropriate committee's report. Councilman Scotton introduced and had adopted under a suspension of the rules a resolution giving the Administrators board authority to grant special permits for electric wiring in the State Fair grounds. It was found that the method of wiring the booth on the Midway did not conform to the city's electrical regulations, and an order for a temporary suspension of the code in this respect was found necessary. (Time, Dispatch, Sept. 28, 1915) There is one blockade now in force in Europe the blame for which belongs to none of the belligerents in particular, but must be shared by all, the virtual blockade of Switzerland to the tourist trade. And this is no small matter to the Swiss. The business of ministering to foreign visitors was one of the greatest and most productive of Swiss industries. There are about 4,000 tourist hotels in Switzerland, employing 43,000 persons, with a nearly wage list of $5,000,000 and $227,000,000 capital invested. More than $100,000 was spent by tourists in Switzerland in 1915, and all but $5,500,000 which went for postage, telegrams, telephone calls and railroad charges, constituted gross revenue for the shops and hostels, the latter taking about 50 per cent of the total. The business in 1914 was only 40 per cent of the normal, while this season it amounted to practically nothing. The ruin of war is not limited to gunshot range. Baden-Powell, who originated the boy scout organization, after serving in many high and honorable positions in the British army, opposes compulsory military training for boys. It would repress individuality, he says, and "it would destroy the good work of all those great voluntary movements for boys, which, after an experience of twenty-five years, are beginning to influence so large a proportion of our manhood." Coming at this time when the military authorities and the aristocracy are making a concerted effort to fasten conscription upon England, General Baden-Powell's condemnation of compulsory military training will be highly serviceable to the radical and labor elements that are unqualifiedly opposed to conscription as anti-democratic. Putting Down Trouble. Pollution - Father put down a disturbance last night. Practice - Really? For he has a Wish in mind."—Temba Baden-Powell. You May Secure The Planet Any Week From These Agents In Various Cities. W. H. Green 752 N. 8th st., Stoubenville, Ohio. Singular that the "back to the farm movement should suggest hard work to the car chasing, strap hanging and ball playing generations of the city. Many of the good citizens of the re public would be still butter citizens for a term now and then, in the soldier training camps. Winter is not so far around the corner that the issue of the jouce can afford to dolly through an unclean furnace. Greatly reduced fare in effect March 1 to November 30, with three months return limit and very literal stop-over privileges. Vigilant route tickets will be sold enabling purchaser to make going trip via Manhattan or New Orleans or Marseport or St. Louis, returning via anyone of these gateways or any other regular ticketing route. The "Land of the Sky" in Western North Carolina is very inviting the year through and a trip through the country, at least in one direction should prove very enjoyable. The Washington-Sunset Route also operated on the Southern Railway through Atlanta and New Orleans. This constitutes a daily Pullman Star Tourist car service with through per sonal conductor. For further information, descriptive matter, apply to H. L. BISHOP, Div Pasa, Agt., Southern Railway, 997 H Main St, Richmond, Va. RICHMOND PLANET THEATRE Farmers wishing to avoid a recurrence of potato blight in their fields during 1910 should make it a point to select seed stock only from crops grown on land that has been free from blight and rot this year. Such careful selection of seed stock is the only salvation in sight, according to R. E. Vaughan of the agricultural experiment station of the University of Wisconsin. While preventive measures, such as the application of bordeaux mixture to plants in late summer, only often check the blight, it is far wider and safer to begin by careful seed selection at digging time. Disease free seed represents the "source of prevention" so universally recognized as superior to a "pound of cure." THE PARANDRA BORER. Attacks Orchards Which the Trees Have Previously Been Injured. [Prepared by United States department of agriculture.] The paranaden borer is an insect which can do very little harm to fruit and other trees as long as they are sound and vigorous, but which is quick to take advantage of any injury to complete the work of destruction. Orchardists are therefore recommended to keep their trees free from all exposed dead surfaces. For example, the apt uncommon practice, when pruning out large branches, of leaving stubs of six inches or more is quite likely to result in ultimate injury from this insect. The stubs are practically sure to die back to the trunk, and the decayed spot or cavity thus formed attracts the beetle as a place in which to lay her eggs. Instead of leaving such stubs, therefore, the cut should be made nearer the trunk, where the natural swell at the base of the branch will insure rapid healing. The cut surface should then be covered with a heavy cont of white lead or some similar paint. It frequently happens also that the parandra borer takes advantage of injury caused by the entrance of the common round headed apple tree borer into a tree. For this reason whenever round headed borers are found they should be removed at once, while the wounds made by them are still sufficiently small to heal quickly. Accidental injuries to a tree should be remedied by cleaning off the torn and splintered bark and wood and painting the surface thoroughly. Precautions such as these, if carefully carried out, will probably protect orchards from this borer. Many trees, however, which have passed their prime have their lives much shortened by the insect. The larvae hatching from the eggs burrow within the wood, probably for three years, before they emerge as adult beetles. In this respect they are very similar to the round headed apple tree borer. Snake Export Angler Snake Export Angler. That some snakes can catch fish as well as old anglers was demonstrated recently on the ranch of E. D. Osborne, near here, says the Seattle Post-Intelligeer. A small spring creek runs through the pasture on the Osborne ranch, large enough for fish to play in. Here a large water snake was seen to grab a rainbow trout by the head and make for the tall grass. Osborne killed the snake and threw the live fish back into the pool. The fish was about twelve inches in length. The Farm Dwelling. Water supply and sewage disposal are most important factors in the comfort of the farm dwelling. Where conditions permit it is desirable to have the farmhouse stand in an open location facing the southwest, so that sunlight may enter all of the rooms during the day. An abundance of ventilation is a necessity, and in most sections of the country the addition of sleeping porches will be found well worth while. 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Twenty people are believed to be dead, at least two hundred are injured and property worth at least five hundred thousand dollars was destroyed by fire at Ardmore, Okla., when a 250-barral Santo Ke tank car filled with gasoline exploded. Many of the dead are women. The force of the explosion threw burning oil all over the city and more than thirty fires were burning at one time. A dense pall of smoke settled over the city, adding to the confusion. Martial law was declared to prevent looting. When the passenger and freight stations were destroyed by the explosion it is said every person in it was killed. The tank car that exploded was fifty yards from the station. The tremendous outburst of the gasoline itself wrecked many buildings, the flaming field was hurled in every direction, and scores of fires broke out immediately. Fifteen persons were killed by the explosion itself. A large part of the town soon was in flames. Ten blocks of business buildings caught fire and some of the victims were killed there. The Whittington hotel, a half block from the station, was reported completely wrecked and about fifty persons injured. WARSHIP BLOWN UP A despatch to the Havas Agency, in Paris, from Brindeliel says: "A die which was followed by an explosion has occurred on board the Italian battleship Benedetto Brin. Night officers and 279 marines have been saved thus far. "Rear Admiral Rubin de Cervin is among the dead. "The fire was purely accidental." The battleship Bendetto Brin was a vessel of 13,427 tons and in peace times carried a complement of 720 men. She was completed in 1904 at a cost of $5,750,000. The battleship, which was of the preadrenau-night class, carried four 12-inch, four 8-inch and twelve 6-inch guns, twenty 12-pounders, two 1-pounders and two Maximis. She also was armed, with four torpedo tubes. The vessel had a speed of about 30% knots. Rear Admiral Baron Ernesto Rubin de Cervin was in command of the vessel. VELVETS FOR WINTER. Any material with a pile-will be most acceptable for the development of the winter modes. It may be armpred that the materials in demand for the bouillant effects that are to be the winter's vague should have more body than the velvets we know. This is true, but winter has taken care that his velvets meet all these requirements. They have not only had the approval of the leading courtiers of Paris, but large orders have been given for these very materials, and many gowns to be shown at the very earliest openings are fashioned of velvet. Not only are the velvets be be striped and checked, but they are made up in chemical paint, combinations. Other materials are a combination of velvet and silk or nylon, and they are further combined with woolen materials. It is possible that he have fashioned them by these means, and by these means we know. Woman's World Mima. Halene Padderawaki. God-mothera Petilh Delta For Relief. M. MME. HELENE PADERNWEKI. One of the most popular exhibits in New York city may be seen at the headquarters of the Polish Victims' Relief fund, 33 West Forty-second street, where thirty-one Polish girls hold out beseechings hands to America in behalf of their compatriots, war refugees in Paris. Godmothered by Mme. Helene Padernweki, wife of the planet, these wafers are undoubtedly doing the greatest service to mankind of all the inhabitants of dolom. Designed by refugee Polish artists and sculptors and dressed by Polish seamstresses who are paid for their work by the fund, these dolls actually incorporate the characteristics and even the expressions of Polish peasants, while their raiment, fashioned of bits of silk, ribbon, satin A Copyright, 1915, by F. B. Lyman. HALKA OF WARSAW. and real lace, charmingly typify the quaint costumes worn in every province of Poland. These interesting droll, wistful little people of all toyland now laid waste in Europe are the only dolls that promise to cross the Atlantic in time for Christmas. The tariff on each one is only $4, and they are delighting the hearts of American children all over the country while giving food to thousands of hungry Polish children. Torn from her playmates, Halka of Warsaw greets you and hopes you will like to get acquainted with others of her friends. Halka is doing such a wonderful work that it seems almost unkind to remark that coming over the salt water took the curl out of her bang. NECKWEAR AND VEILS. Mediah Hints About Two of Autumn's Accessories. High and neck enveloping styles will be seen in the fall neckwear. The leading material is organdie, combined with dark satin, velvet and ribbon, so as to make the article more suitable for cold weather wear. Narrow edgings of fur will be used in connection with net. High collars with jabots side plaitings or double front frills are to be worn. A new idea is a butterfly jabot made of net and edged with narrow vanille lace. Combinations of net with vanille edges and very fine nets shirred on to a high stock foundation are dresy. Georgette crape is much used in the new neckwear. Some styles are trimmed with hand embroidery and narrow lace, and even plaited nets are applied as trimming on georgette crape styles. Narrow ribbon bows are much used on both sufty and tailored styles of neckwear. Bright touches of color and even metallic laces and narrow cut steel edgings appear on lace and net neckwear as a means of giving an individual touch. An entirely new color in the stiffly starched and furted design. Fittings are made to stand high and close around the neck, closing with a small tailored bow. Vestions are made more elaborate by the combination of uppermain. Oppyphene beads will again be worn. Velvet and silk collars and neckwear of an elaborate design also Bulb Planting In the Fall Bulbs must all go in before early November. The sooner they are set out the better, as it gives them that much longer to make root growth before cold weather puts them to sleep. "But," some one says, "I see people setting out tulips and daffodils in the spring." True, but they are ready to bloom, having been started indoors or in hothouses. You may do that, too, if you have the time and the place, or you may buy them from the forst next spring all ready to bloom. But that is expensive and not half the fun. No one really knows the true joy of flowers who does not work among them. It brings an entirely different love. Dormant bulbs are much cheaper just as seeds are cheaper than growing plants. Buy only bulbs of good quality from reputable dealers. The heavier the bulb the better it is. Isn't that sensible when you consider that each bulb has already stored up within itself almost enough food for next year's growth and bloom? The rest it gets by sending down roots into the earth; but, no matter how good your soil and how great your care, you can only improve the size and color of the blooms, not their number. No amount of culture will make one more flower grow from any tulip bulb nor one more bell on any bycathin. In that sweet mystery, a bulb, the exact number of flowers it will produce is already decided upon. Cut one open, and if you have a magnifying glass you, will be able to count how many blooms it would have had. Here they come in gray succession—snowdrops, crocuses, squills, daffodils and jonquils, hyacinths and tulips—a wonderful procession. What a pity to make geometrical beds or patterns of them! Happy you if you have a corner of the garden where you can naturalize them, since all the bulbs but tulips and hyacinths lend themselves to this treatment and are infinitely more beautiful growing naturally in the grass at the base of a stump or rock when set in formal, even lines. Where this is possible simply scatter the bulbs, planting them where they fall. One authority says that we should take the irregular shapes of summer clouds as a guide in this arrangement, noticing that the cloud is beaver at the center and this on the edges and making the plantation follow this idea. Since few of us possess the possibilities of a wild garden by all means plant the bulbs in the hardy borders in irregular groups of a dozen or more here and there in the niches made by other plants and with their foliage as a background and contrast. Both columbine and bleeding heart have beautiful foliage and are early on the scene. And how deep should bulbs be planted? A hard and fast rule cannot be made, but a good general rule is, as deep as the circumference of the bulb. This rule worked out gives an average of three inches for crocuses, tulips four inches, hyacinths five and narcissus six. The latter vary greatly in size, so it is a case of individual observation and care with these bulbs. The 'distance apart' also depends on also and soil and kind of bulb. Small ones, such as the crocus and snowdrop, may be planted as close as three inches. Early tulips should be five or six inches apart and hyacinths the same. But some of the stronger growing, late flowering tulips and strong growing daffodils may be planted six to eight inches apart to good advantage. Bulbs will prosper either in full sun or partial shade. Dig the ground deep. It may seem like an unnecessary waste of labor to dig one and a half to two feet deep when you want to plant the bulbs only three or four inches deep, but it is not. In fact, it is essential for good results. "Take care of the soil, and the soil will take care of the flowers." If the ground is included to be wet and heavy and yogurt planting choice kinds of bulbs it is worth to put a handful of sand about each one. Do not use fresh manure. If it is well rotted and placed deep enough in the hole to escape direct contact with the rootlets it is very beneficial. Also use part sand with any heavy soil to make it porous. The ideal soil is made up of one-third sand, one-third good garden soil and one-third old manure. Water lying about bulbs causes them to rot. For the same reason thin skinned bulbs should be planted on their sides, to allow any excess of water to run off. It is a serious mistake to cover your bulbs until after the ground frozen. If you do field mice and other vermin are likely to take up winter quarters there in December and eat the bulbs at their leavage. Squab Patnia. Out into dice three ounces of salt pork, divide six nine squares into pieces at the joints; remove the skin. Out up four potatoes into small squares and prepare a dozen small dough balls. Put into a deep baking dish the pork, potatoes and squares and then the balls of dough. Season with salt, white pepper and a dash of marse or nutmeg, adding hot water enough to cook the ingredients. Cover with a short peanut and bake in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour. FOR THE TOODLER. Daisy Lingero Potatoes For the General Store. Do You Want an Umbrella? Well, here it is. The Hull Bros. Umbrella Company will guarantee them. The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it into your traveling bag or trunk without injury to the Umbrella. We have ordered a consignment of these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent quality. Twenty-five Dollars worth of Umbrella Coupons entitle you to one Umbrella, lady or gent. Specify the kind you want and we will send the Umbrella upon receipt of the Coupons. For every cent paid on a subscription or job work you are entitled to a coupon for that amount. Our customers who pay for their work can get Coupons and secure an Umbrella. Wedo not allow Umbrella Coupons and Voting Coupons, too. You can get the one or the other. Call at The Planet Office and inspect the Umbrellas. When you purchase a copy of The Planet for five cents, this gives you five cents worth of Coupons. When the number you have equals $25.00, bring them to The Planet Office and get a Ladies' or a Gent's Detachable Handle Umbrella. The Planet will be sent to you four months for fifty cents; six months for eighty cents; one dollar and fifty cents per year. We Print Bills, Tickets, Letter-heads, in fact, everything. We do Linotype Work for the Trade, at the Lowest Prices. THE PLANET 311 N. Fourth St. Richmond, Virginia --- enjoy this design, which, being hung from the shoulders, with straps and bands, is an hygienic as it is beautiful. ```markdown ``` DIMINUTIVE ELEGANCE Finest batiste is used for this small petittoe, the flounce of which is scalloped and edged with buttonholed scallops and val lace. The same finish is used on the neck and the armseyes, while dainty clusters of small flowers embroidered on the front and an engaging bow of pink baby ribbon give the last exquisite touches. Keeping Young. When middle age arrives a lot of Beauty blushes come with it—little gray hairs, yellow spots on the skin, stooped shoulders and sometimes a middle aged figure. All these troubles can be kept at arm's length by beginning early to follow some simple rules of hydiene. Drink plenty of water, sleep with the windows wide open, walk out of doors every day, keep up with the books and the tattle of the times. Slack up one minute, woman, and the world gets ahead of you. Therefore keep yourself young by right swing and bright thinking. It is possible that the value of fortresses may be re-estimated as a result of recent war experiences. As an immobile line of defense, behind which the defeated field, army was able to take shelter and recuperate, the Russian string of fortresses from Kovno to Ivangorod proved invaluable. If Field Marshal von Hindenburg had not been stopped by the fortified lines of the Niemen and Narew and had been able to follow up his success at Tannenberg last fall the defeat of the Russians would, probably, have been decisive. Fortresses evidently are not without military value. The best drawn defense of the second class features of Orenburg probably saved the Russian army of the Vienna and with it the Crimea and Nerovsk, and the best drawn defense of the How To Get One. Phone, Randolph 2213 Leading shipping and commercial interests have advocated the creation of a federal marine commission having authority in its special field equal to that which the interstate commerce commission has within its particular sphere. Such a commission would deal finally with all shipping matters and recommend from time to time changes in the nation's navigation laws. Bills providing for such a body are likely to be submitted to the next session of congress. The pressing necessity of rehabilitating the merchant marine of the United States is already well understood by the mass of business men. The referendum that was taken some months ago by the chamber of commerce of the United States has a good deal of significance as a symptom of public feeding. While the local associations and chambers allied with that organization decisively rejected government purchase and construction of ships, they approved an alternative plan of a corporation backed and financed by the national government that should be empowered to encourage by loans and subventions the building and operation of merchant ships. Presumably a measure of this general nature will be urged before congress. A CHIC TURBAN. That Also Naively Suggests the Scotch Cap. L SMART JOB PALL WHAT This decidedly good looking terracotta block velvet has all the comforts of comfort and style. Its deep brown floor with deep terracotta velvet. A striking jot pin and a jot embroidered pumpkin, jointly embroidered. UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. A Theory That History May Repeat Itself in 1916. Some of our contentious are speculating over the possibility that the year 1916 will be summerless. The year 1916, the year after the disastrous end of the Napoleonic wars, had severely enough summer to be worth mentioning, and the theory seemed to be that the terrible bombardments on European battlefields were bound to have a similar effect upon weather conditions next year. June of 1916, we are told, was a month of frost and ice. New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania were covered with snow. June 17 there was a great anstorm, and floods of sheep were overwhelmed and suffocated. The fire was an inch thick on the 17 of July, and Aug. 20 witnessed a heavy fall of snow. Not until September were normal climatic conditions restored. The motion is that history will repeat itself after the passage of a century and the affirming thought in this connection is that if the amount of explosives used in the Napoleonic war caused all that derangement of meteorological conditions, then the amount used in the present war is likely to keep the temperature at 10 below zero, at least all next summer. If that should prove to be the case it surely is time for universal disarmament.—Ohio State Journal. According to a note in the Geographical Journal, the name "Southern ocean" has been recommended by the British admiralty and formally adopted by the commonwealth of Australia and the Union of South Africa to designate the whole oceanic zone encclosing the globe south of Australia, Africa and South America. The name is, of course, not, but it has been used in a merely tentative way by many geographers. As the admiralty mentions the antarctic continent as the southern boundary of this body of water no room be left on the map for an "Antarctic ocean." One American product, for which the war has created a demand in the link jointed wire cutter, on the double leverage principle, familiar enough to every mechanic in this country, but new to England. An English paper commends with a sort of envious wonder on the fact that, although the Yankee tool is considerably smaller than the ordinary English wire cutters and weighs less, it exerts, at equal pressure, a force of 500 pounds as compared with 200 pounds by the English tool and can be used to cut wire extangulations in places where the other is of no service. Pneumatic Chisel in Scripture. London. Taft has installed in his site a pneumatic chisel, by means of which the work or cutting material is easily supplied. NO SUMMER NEXT YEAR? The Southern Ocean. Yankee Wire Cutters method of carrying with mallet and chisel is not only laborious, but rather awkward for the sculptor, since only one hand is left free to guide the chisel. In the case of the penumbatic chisel both hands may be used for this purpose. The chisel, of course, is used only to outline the statue roughly, the finishing work all being done by hand. Two Words. There are few words more often seen in the newspapers or magazines of the day than "pacifist" and "pacifism". Yet no dictionary, even the most voluminous, that was published previous to the outbreak of the great war, contains either word. We may be sure that no dictionary henceforth can ignore them, for the idea they express has entered into the mind of the race to stay-Youth's companion. Austria's Skoda Gun. The Shoja gun is Austria's chief contribution to efficiency in the present war. Men in the vicinity of an exploiting Shoja shell merely vanish. It is said, no shred or fragment being found. Gun barrels are melted by the heat of this explosion. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Flat Foot. Tight shoes are the chief cause of foot injuries and pulls at flat foot. Occupations in which it is no easy to wear about a few steps on the foot slowly are another cause. The reason is that the long arch bone of the foot gives away under constant pressure. Flat foot can be cured to a degree at least. There are two methods. The easiest and quickest is to place inside the shoe a carefully molded arch which is made of metal and does not look unlike a broad shoe horn. This, if properly fitted by an expert, will relieve the pain which comes with a broken arch. It will make walking comfortable and so give the weak muscles a chance to build up. The best way is to begin with a rather low metal arch and increase its height as the muscles tune up to their proper standard and position. The other way is to take a series of exercises, including skipping, dancing, rising on tiptoes and bending the ankles in and out. This, combined with proper food, plenty of sleep and fresh air, will gradually strengthen on the foot muscles. It is a longer method, but its results are more permanent. Summer may have been submarined at the starting point, but evidently and warning do is to save a few frags. ‘oe a SRS Pe ote Se Nata el 18 i ee a aM a eR ESE SS SS 2S EN By so BNO a aes Pret csi eaiees gece 2 ie ane a a iets MAD pete De ote To geen. + Ee Big Rie na ot Mes ie Ss Sia sae ib aie Piet os i se ace te ies eas ae i Sg A ian Bplay Pee Rn ae EN Bie ; aria eae toe, BPS bo oie es ce ¢ eC ee _— eee FRATERNAL REVOLT OF “O00 FELLOWS AND OEP, (Dallax Express) ‘The OL Fellows and Kalsbus of Pythias of the cfty and county met In a joint mecting to consider and discunx the recent Moblte Law as pass ed by the State Lesiniature, Re. Alleb N.G. of Tyler Lodge No 2693, G. UO, Gt O. F. wax elected char mian and ALL. Strode, Secretary. 4 comtuitics wax appointed and drafted the following retolutions: (2) We, the Udd Fellows and X. Lof P's of Tyler and Smith county con demi the action of the Grand Lodse offlerrs und Grand Ledges tu pardaig an Endowiient Law pitting the mem Derk on the .o-called adequate rate When the ataté evemptx (raternal and benevolent societies whoxe poll cles do not exceed $900.00 CD) We also disapprove of the Ne kro Fraternal Congress, where saci recommendations have thelr ortght anh whose bavingss i appears he to bind burden upon us that we are une able and unwilling to bear, (2) We feel It our duty to be loyal to the actlony of the Grand Lodges and {te officers, bnt we know that the Jaws that have been made for the last thres years ans driving membeza out of our Institution. : (1) We further belteve that unless Qhese laws are repeated our lodxes in Teras will be forced te been aus pended, Commitee J M_ Wood, Tyler, Lodge Gol. O. of O. F., No. 283; HM. Craft, PLN. F.. North Tyler, Lodge, GUL O. of OF, No, 2039; DW. Betler, PON. F., Gartleld Lodge G. UL O. of 0. F. No. 4750; George Henry C.K. of P. Union No. 50 DF. Fureh, CC. K. of BP. Stlver Light. No. 132; EW. MeCuen, C. C. K. of P, Hannibal, No. tur. M.S. MeKinney, P, 3. Hollywood, No. 681, G. U.-0. of 0. F. TENAS PYTIYANS EN REVOLT It adopted the following tnstramen Ax oxprestlon’ of itm will: PROCLAMATION: To all Subordinate Ledges of K of 2.0.2. of the State of Texan: We, the local lodsem of FC Worth. held a mass meeting Monday evening Sept. 13. and considered and discuss: el the stew features of our endow- ment department and the enforce ment thereof. 4 We believe thy law and enforce - ment ay promulcated ov ur Grand Lodge ofticnrs are 4inerous, inequite- ble, unfair and should not be tolera, ted or countenanced ar complied with, At this meeting we had with us our Grand Chaneeor Prince. Ho spent two and a half hours trying to explain the Grand Ladge officers’ po- sition, Hix explanations were tn the Jenat quite unsatinfactory. Ho was tevanive In giving afiawern to all sal- font questions, and would not adhere to the proportion to join us ina friendly sult to teat the Mobile Law. We decided something must be dono to obtain rellef and cave the Order from decimation hence we hare de- cided toscek satinfaction in tho courts. ‘As our cause is a common causo we have deided to call a state mass meeting to be held at Ft. Worth. Get. 22nd. Wo will try to have rates. If Fates are not obtained tp thin city, then all who desire to attfad can ob: tain’ rates to the Dalias Fair and thence to thie elty. We have receited.many otters en- dorning our couse. Wo hope to have you to join ua. Address all communication to, T. H. Daily, 908 East 3rd St Tho-fotlowing in the action of our nase meeting: ‘Whereas, the-Grand Lodgo K. of P. in ite sewsion held in Austin June last, placed upon each member of tho Order in good standing July Ist, 1915 an naxcssment of $2.50, a8 & Tesarro for the endowment department, in ‘order to enable satd endowment to meet the requirements of the Insur- ance department of the atate. ‘Whereas, the Grand Lodge officers are most rikidly doing ail hey cvs to collect the assessment by’ insults ‘and throats: * Whoreas, ve do most earnestly pro- tent tho collection-of this asseasment | and do absolutely refuse to pay it;| ‘Wheroas,,wo hold that the law that created tho assessment was not prop- | erly and legally presented and peased | by the Grand Lodge: } \ hereas, we farther hold that the! law has never received the Supreme} Chancellor's official approval (consult |) Constitution and By-Laws;) Wherecs, we further hold. that the] law “known as the Mobile Lew docs |: not apply to the Colored K. of P's and | similar organizations as operated in this state; - Be {t reeolved, that we seek court adjustment by entering @ friendly suit to determing whether the P. of P. Order is to be operated under the Mobile Law. Be is reectved, thet we have our yon to restrain the Grand Lodge}! esvemminent. | fs Sak fchiber Seostvea, tet wo sal s -K. of P. state mass seating fer f Det. Rind, to be held “tin FL. Werth. f° bs Of the aahd tose ta, Wine plans nud meee by ow, Gadowment differences may be prop- Be it ved. thet we ask all aud- ordinate lodges that are-in aympatty with our action. to send as many delegates as possible to this meeting and to gire us their moral support and ‘also thelr financial support if needed. : Respectfully sudmitted, — * Commitee7 —— Ye MC. AL NOTES. iy Laxt Monday nlght The Y. M. 6 A. Night School opened ith mue: encouraxemout and the teachers ar happy and rendy for bant work, Everybody is invited to come and bring another. Thy Bible class for boys began Jant Tuexday ana a very helpful course will be given the boys. An orchextre made up Of boys will play for the Bible Class. * : | tant Tuesday Night 2 lurgo number of men joined tie Bible Class for men and are wry anxious to learn all the can Vor xervice. A very oxcetlont course will be taken outlined by Lie International Committee of the ¥. M. ©. A. Work. Thin class in opened to all members: Come. The Opening of ao Yo MC. A. Laterary whe p Kreat success last Friday Night at the ¥. M,C. AL Builds tng. A good proxrammine wan render- cd. The officers Of the Hterary were fnstalled by Rey. W. A, Mitchell, The hour wax concinded by the social committee who made everybody hap- DY by serving cake and’ cream, We were glad to wee (he pastoregirencnt. This department under the directions of President A.C. Clark $s planning to do seme helpful work for the men, We were very glad to,se you iast Saturday 5 P.M. at our building and we how that you enjoyed the expla nation on the Sunday School Lexson by Pot. J. W. Barco. Lust Sunday was a full day for wer- vies and the boys and men were active, : os #220 ALM. the meeting for the workers at the Building was a god one. The work In the city home To A. M by the commiittes gave much hope ‘o the immater, 1H A.M. the. Jatt committee did namie very excellent work in the clty jail. ~~ General Séety. 8. Co Burrell cons ducted the meeting for women In) thie penttentiary 14a, Mo and much Interest was manifented by the wo- men. Three were Jed ta accept Christ and It wax a‘joyful hour. Committee Ci Gaston conducted the meeting for boxe t P.M. at the YOM. CAL butiding, Rew Wot Hall Kave tha boys x very timely ad reas. Tho boga’ rally wan a Kood one Mothers continue to help un. The Inunching of the work for the ceaxon atthe ML. Vernon Mathai) Church war a great hit § PLM. on song nerrice war conducted which cave much inaplration to all, Rev. John H. Herndon one of our memntiers preached an able nermon which will wor Mve and bring forth much fruit The several departments of the work were all represented by the coumit- vex, ‘The tusle by the,cholr filet our soul with for. ‘The collection wan vareliont. Rey. Mo HL Payne. pastor, deacons, and members ‘nad ux extremely welcome, ‘The season x now open for hard work. Come tothe explanation on the Sunday School Lesxon today 3 P.M. tthe YOM.C. AL Rutlding. Men teeon thine Sunday ready Cor hard work and the other man Come to the workers! meeting 4°30 AM. A xpectal meeting for boss (1 M othe Ye MLC AL Mr A. C8Clarke will conduct the wen meeting for.men f-he P.M. tithe YM. CA. Subject: Work Do not forget that the Yo MOC. A, Sight School tn for you The YOM. CAL Lecture course iL open Mondag SP, M. Det. 1S. at he Ebenezer Baptist Church by Dr. VM. Stokes Tiekets 16 cents Every home i« agked to lary pecfal prayer for the VY. MOCO A Re ee vee el NO COLOR LINE EN ARMY } Col. John R. Marshall, retired late colonel, Eighth Infantry Mllnos: national guard. made formal applics tlon for admittance to the elvilian camp which the federal government | has ordered for Fort Sheridan, best ning Septembor 20th. Aa usual the Chicago Tribune sought at once to stir up the cetor question with big hendlines about "NEGRO COLONEL” and endoavor- ed to show thal ft wan against the policy of thé government to hav “Negro officers” etcetera ad ‘pouseam, | When tho matter was called tw the nttention of Col. D. A. Freder- ick head of the central army division tho man to whom falls the duty of making the arrangements for the camp, he sald: "I regret sincerely that the color question has beon raised, but sinco it has been raised. I may ad weil settle it once for all. : “The army draws no color ling. Thix is & camp for business and profes- lonal men and they will be admitted whetbery-zolored.or! not. We have colored men in, tho state militia, in the army, in bobiness and-in the pro- fossions, and the apsiteat ans of col- | ored men will receive the same atton tion as these of ang one els)” ‘The Tribune shild have called Col- dne] Marshall a colored man and not s “Negro” for he is es fatr as & lily. jaa dlae eyes and hair of flery red If a pérson who was not acquainted with the colonel wore sent.to pick him out frdzh the soldiers at the camp he chances are a thousand to one that he would select a Jew or cn italian ‘or some other dark-skinne3 man instead of the fair colonel. (St.Paul Appeal; . - | A GOOD PLACE FOR A GOOD ‘WOMAN a A Ciein, Teoeserove, “Misele-sged Maret lass cocks sie socare a pecasen as.cook tn on tastifetion by_ writteg. Tvatatas Sieat for Women a8 Girt, ‘A geed pias tana peak women. 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WHOS - oleae AGRL veered by ragged, ele- mental mea ef the grat: Westecs - (renting, living out her “US. DEMANDS DMsavovs Siaking of Arable ax _ Will Pay Indenmntty, WILL PREVENT SIMILAR ACTS Count von‘ @ernstorit Admits Error of , U-Boat Captain’ and Liability for American Ceaths, ; * Secretary of State Lansing an: nounced that Germany had disavowed the sinking of the steamship AnsBle and was prepared to pay an iddemaity for the two Américan divos lost. Mr. Lanwing Rave out the text of ® Agtier reeelved trom Count von Bern storm, tho Ger:.an ambayaaior, which reat: “My Dear Mr. Secretary: Prompted by the desire to reach a xatisfactory agreement with recard to the Arable Incident, my government has given me tie following Instructions: “phe ‘orders Isxned by Ib. majesty the emperor to commanders of Ger man submarines, of whlch 1 notited you on a prevtous Geradons hax been’ tide ro atringent that the recurrence of Ancllents similar ye the Arable vase $< considered ont of the qyeation “According “to the report Tof Com mander Scinebler, of tie submurine which sank the Aratie, and fin aff Pavit, us well AS those of hia men Commander Schneider we convinced the Aratde fatendet to ram (he ut maine, “On tie other hand, the fmpertal Rovernmrnt does net doubt the goad falth of the avidavit of te British of ficers of the ratte, according ta whi + the Arsble Hh nat intend to ram the submarine, ‘i “Toe attack of the submarine way underiaket agatast the {nstructtons Iasned to the commander, The tm Perlal government regret and dts Yous thie art, and has potited Com mailer S.aeiter aceordinel, “Cader Mew elreumstances, my rovernment Is prepared to pay an in| demGy for American Hyes whieh, to IN eep regret, have been Jost on the! Aram Tam wuthorized to negotiate| Fall of || Srtap - || = and Gat} Es “wilt, pony diese Jew benmenit a ey. we wale Sit -segulie,: toy, Seer Mr. Leahting youre very sincerely; 0686 nw! x) ScVON BERNSTORIP? tten ve \Becreta Ln =» wave} ry eral, surances ‘that his tN antatation submitted Saturday, would. be thabe td (to conform tp, the wistes of the Gaited States, ahd an chour later a messenger from ‘the German ombassy took the documont to tho state depart meat.” as Secrotary Lansing took it to the Whito Ifouse, and after a brief talk with the prositent, sali there would oe an-announcument shortly, arcane ts ' OR GREATER NAVY Danlole Says 48 Battleships May be is Future Polley of U..8 - | Congress probably will be .asked to approve at Ite next mension a contipuing bdullding policy for the pavy, baying for {tx object main tenance of the navy on the basis of at least forty-eight first-class bat- Ueships. ‘Tho proportion of supoer-battle cruis ers, scouts, “destroyers, submarines and aualifaricn wil be worked oat from*this Agure, but the plan will in- clude at leant two! euper-dreadnoughts for next year, cuch to cost $18,000,000, Secretary Daniels announced. “We BavG learned nothing from the European war,” the secretary. said, wthat shakes our faith In these heavi iy armored ships, as the main fkbting Une of dhe navy.” Congross will be + asked also to make more iberal provixion in ro. nerves of ammunttion than ever be fore has bor tout necessary. October 27 Will Be Arcor Day Friday, Ost bor 22, wae fived an fall Arbor day in Peausyhazia by proela- mation of Nathan C. Se"neffes, euper Intendent’ of publfe Instrcetton. | “The sndepeulenee of the cepublie’ and “the bishest dntes fmpesed uper Diu by his cleated trust!” together With loot, private vencesiee and a love of slaughter, aie the consdleration- Uanidly weatest the heart of o Meatenn “dellverer.” Revert eltios Inns many states want the national party conveatiune by 176. ‘Phere tay be be connectidn, hut sone Of the states ith sa hat Atiens eines are Welieved to have “favarite same tn the backgren it oe a SE ai SS ft < eS . BED DAVENPORTS =f that can be used as a sofa or settee in the day time and turned into a bed at night time. ‘We are showing a magnifi- “cent line of these most useful pieces of - Furniture... All finishes, Mahogany, }. Oak, Fumed and Early English, uphol- -Stered in Leather or Tapestry. Prices | very low. Quality the best. = - . ROUNTREE—CHERRY “THE HOUSE OF QUALITY.” . : 111-113-115 West Broad Street. FURNITURE | The Mage Grenadegmien Guntegy at Peessbarg, Berember 3:6: i and the, eolered: peagie of the ‘city Mave begun ‘their “preparations fey the proper entertateament of the éale- gation. . Several jarge: committees have been appointed and the. prelim: inary detalis are being: ‘carefully worked ‘out, wt + This meeting will cause to be as- sembled: at Petershurg many of the abler men. of the race’ in and out of Virginia and: the program will offer many Interesting features, Dr. Booker T. Washington ‘will deliver two addresses—a special addross to farmers on the afternoon of the last day of tho meeting and the usual address at the mass meeting of bots races with which the meetings of the society have always been closed During the present week, Septem: ber 13—18, a large Darty @ prom: inent men is making the anaual compaign for social and industrial davajopment under the auspices of the lety. The Northera Neck {a the section belng traversed and Dr. Booker be ‘Washington ame princi- pal speaker. The party is travellog up the Rappebannock Kiver on the “Hampton,” « boat owned by, Hamp ton Institute and the meetings are scheduled at Heathsville, Kiimarnock Warsaw, Tappahannock, Montross and Fredericksburg. | + FOR SALE—A Nice. Colored Under taking Establishment, doing good business. Owner leaving city. Apply HH. G., care Planet’ Office. TTT a nT 20 a | (ee ¥ TT | ft io mt WT oh | Hh salt 7 en ee wo NEAR SIGHTED? Tow mach could you do Mf you were unable tome to tad clewsigt Fite Rprctactes eh justal acconling to the rewulte of my scientific Pnminatonm, my be JOR hat ur bar arede ie Grip tn ip Sia ction Grew agen oxsigh foot without DIUGS et KSIFE” Svoten, lems Hugivatede EXAMINATION FRAE Glantes fitted $2.00 and up f | DR. M.M.SPIGEL, . 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