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The Leading Writer's Journal in the State. VOLUME XXXII, NO. 48 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915. PRICE, FIV It was, in the afternoon. The din- ing car had been crowded and I was just able to get in there to enjoy a long delayed meal. Others were awaiting their turn. There was a cry from the outside. We had reached a station where a spring was on the side of the railroad. It was covered over and trainmen and passengers were out there to get a drink of the medi- cal water. I hastily finished my drink and joined the throng. In my burry, I was without a cup. A porter came towards me with the paper sanitary cup. In use upon the train. I drank until I could drink no more. Did I like it? Oh, no. The water tested like quinine, but I gulped down glass after glass. The train moved on and I jamped aboard. At one point, the train stopped, while the passengers were permitted to go out and view the beauties of nature. Standing on a platform, I could look down into a gorge about 150 feet below where the water surged and rolled. A trainman said that $500 would be given to any one who could throw a rock across the chasm and strike the rock on the other side. The distance seemed very little but it was evidently deceling. I did not make the attempt for my days of throwing have long since been over. Roger's Pass is 4302 feet above the sea level. In describing it, the guide said: "This pass is named after Major A. B. Rogers, by whose adventurous energy it was discovered in 1887, previous to which no human foot had penetrated to the summit of the snow clad peaks. That on the north forms a prodigious amphitheatre, under which harpe, five or six thousand feet above the valley, half a dozen glaciers may be seen at once, and so near that their shining green faasures are distinctly visible. In this direction at the head of the largest glacier, may be seen a group of sharp serrated peaks, clear cut against the sky." A PICTURESOUE POINT One of the most picturesque points in the Canadian Rockies is Glacier. The railroad track describes a curve. It is difficult to describe the scene. The coming train on one side could be seen by the going train on the other. The railroad engineers were at work on a tunnel which was nearing completion. I saw a railroad porter, who had been to the top of the mountain and had waded in the snow and ice. He remarked that the tourists were hiring horses to make the ascent, but he had found it better and cheaper to tramp it. THE HIGHEST PEAK The highest peak here is 10,808 feet above the man level. It rises in an abrupt peak a mile and a quarter above the railroad tracks. I had beep as amazed at the grandeur of nature, as the persistence and achievements of man, at the rainbow tinted scenery of the heavens and the transcendent love-lines of the landscape that I ceased to make further comment. When I said, God and His handiwork, man and his achievements, I had said all. We were going down the mountain side now. Continuing the descent from the Glacier House, and following around the mountain, the loop was soon reached, where the railroad makes several starting turns and twists, first crossing a valley leading down from the Mount Bonney glacier, touch for a moment on the base of Ross Peak, then doubling back to the right a mile or more upon itself. Then it awept around to the right touching Mount Cheops on the other side of the lilaclewant, crossing again to the left and at last shooting down the Valley parallel, with its former course. Looking back, the railway is seen cutting two long gashes, one above the other, on the mountain slope, and further to the left, and high above the long snowhed the summit range, near Rogers' Pass was yet visible, with Sir Donald peak overlooking all. A PUZZLING CONDITION. I must admit that I was puzzled. Sometimes that train would be going in exactly the same direction from which I had come. Had it kept on, it would have carried me back to Portal and Chicago. I could tell thin by the stream of water, by the river, for I would be travelling upstream at one time and downstream at another. This was when these spiral, sweeping curves were made in order to climb to a higher level or to descend to a lower level. Here I was, a colored swirling among white clouds. I had to investigate now in a sense but the swirling motion. that I was a banker and that/implied plenty of money. So far as the dining car was concerned, I was spending it. Sometimes, the train would be on the edge of a precipice and a broken rail or an obstruction would have sent it and its human cargo many hundred feet below to certain destruction. ANOTHER STATION. Arriving at Revelotake, the passengers had time, to go out and walk around. Night was coming on. I had arranged to stop over for the night at Hotel Sicamous and thus be able to travel down the canon in the day-time. The porters had somewhat discouraged me. They told of the heavy travel and about white passengers who had telegraphed for reservations, wont to the hotels only to be told that all rooms had been taken. What was I to do in this country where prejudice was as pronounced as it is in the Southland? I was worried, but who knew it but me? I had notified the conductor that I would stop over at Sicamous and the next morning I was guaranteed as good accommodations on the train as I had on the one that I then occupied. A FRIEND FROM VIRGINIA I saw a white friend from Virginia, —from Richmond. He recognized me and threw a friendly greeting. It is surprising what a fellow-feeling mantle tells itself between white and colored people from the same section of the Southland. When I reached the station ahead of Sicancane, two white passengers came aboard. My birth had been assigned to them. The porter grumbled. "They can only get it, if you get off." he said. "If you fail to get accommodated you can hold your birth and quarters must be found for them somewhere else. Sicancane was reached. I vaulted to the platform, leaving my luggage there by the sleeping car step. A FRAME STRUCTURE. I looked for Hotel Steamous. I only saw a frame railroad structure. It was of medium size. Not many passengers could be accommodated here. It was 17:43 that we were due here or 5:43 P. M. The train was late. It was dark. I entered the buildings. The desk clerk and the book keeper were there. One had a slip of paper on the desk. I waited until the other passengers had been accommodated. I handed the day clerk my card. "Have you a reservation?" he asked. I nodded in the affirmative. He examined the list and said, "No reservation has been made here." "I'll have to take what I can get," was my response. Another white passenger was asking for accommodations. He got them. "What have you for me?" I queried. The clerk healthed. "You have not registered," he said. I reached for the hotel register and signed my name. THAT SETTLED THE QUESTION. The boldness of the movement settled the question and he handed me the key to my room. I called the white porter and sent him after my luggage on the platform. I gave him the key and I marched behold him to a room on the second floor. I tipped him and he shut the door. I then surveyed my surroundings. Hero I was in a cosy room with a double bed, a bureau or dresser, a table, (Continued on 4th Page.) --- BLACKWELL JACKSON Mr. William H. Jackson announces the approaching marriage of his sister Charlotte Virginia, to J. Hoyward Blackwell Jr. M. D. Wednesday evening October the twenty seventh nineteen hundred and fifteen at 6:30 o'clock. Ebenezer Baptist Church. Reception from 7 to 8, 532 Hancock Street. Friends are invited. No cards. At home Friday November 5th, from 8 to 11 P. M. No. 13 East 13th street South Richmond Virginia. DIED IN SYDNEY SCHOOL Adele Brown, a colored pupil in Sydney School went across the street to buy luncheon last Wednesday afternoon. While there she was attacked with a hemorrhage. Upon returning to the school room, the flow of blood could not be checked and she died in a few moments. Mrs. L. G. King has an impressive birthday surprise in her memory. Mrs. Bathsheba Ogilvie of 1817 Miss Queen, South Wimbledon, West Thames Bridge, October 5th. Mrs. Ogilvie is 90 years old and passed away on January the 1st. She was the daughter of the Bishop of Wimbledon. In her memory, Mrs. Ogilvie gave away her collection of paintings, books and manuscripts. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915. FIFTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH REV. DR. T. J. KING PIEACHES. LARGE CROWS AT BOTH SERVICES - DIVINE VERY POPULAR. A large crowd gathered at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday morning at 11:30 to listen to a sermon by Rev. T. J. King, D. D., who was recently called to the pastorate and who took charge. The rostrum was beautifully decorated with flowers, while across the back, just below the choir gallery railing, in letters of gold bronze was the word "Welcome." Rev. Dr. King was assisted by Rev. John Cook and Prof. J. A. Lindsay. The popular divine found Text in Acts 10:29. "Therefore came I unto you without guaissing, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me." MANY LEFT BEHIND He told of the bleeding hearts he had left behind, of ruptured associations and that the sorrowing ones had affected him deeply. He had obeyed and done what he believed to be the Lord's will. He did not, expect an answer now, for time alone could bring it to him, but he would repeat the question, "For what intent ye have sent for me." He described the condition existing at the time that the apostle had asked the question and the will of God at it had been revealed. A POINTED QUESTION The congregation was hold spell-bound as he pictured the scene when the man of God had made the tragic appeal with this question, "I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?" He said that he did not know a person in the congregation. He came among strangers and he did not know just what treatment would be accorded him. He had come in the name of the Lord. The speaker occurred the sympathy of the large audience and his persecution created a profound impression upon those who had listened to his fervid oratory. DAVID AND GOLIATH At eight P. M. another large and attended greeted; him and he took his text, Samuel 17:45. He was assisted by Rev. W. A. Mitchell. He told of the story of Golath, of the simplicity of David, who discarded the mighty armor of the soldiers of that day for the reason that he was unacustomed to it, and he met the giant with weapons with which he was acquainted and in the use of which he was skilled. The sling-shot and the smooth stone did the work. He announced that in fighting the battle of the Lord in the Fifth Street Baptist Church, he would use his own weapons and bring salvation to souls in the way marked out by the Saviour. THE CONCLUDING REMARKS. He concluded with another peroration that elicited shouts of approval from the members until the fervid outbursts of oratory produced a calm. When the services were concluded, he was congratulated by those who had been fortunate enough to hear him. The installation exercises will take place during the week commencing November 7th. The program will be announced later. WHO IS COMING? The Nelson Brothers (white) of Georgia, the greatest acrobat of the South will appear at True Reformers Hall, Monday evening, October 18th, under the auspices of Circle No. 9, of First Baptist Church and Board of Ushers of Thirty-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. · SPECIAL BUSINESS COURSE. Van de Vyier College will give a course in stenography and typewriting beginning November, 1st, 1915. For particulars apply to the Franciscan Sisters 713 N. 1st St. Richmond Va. Stone so President. A monument to President John Tyler was unveiled in Hollywood Quarterly last Tuesday. A three panel memorial among the events, Government House, Tyler Street, his stock memorial of the late President, State Senate Building of the State Department and other state government buildings. D. J. CHAVERS GONE D. J. Chavers died Tuesday, October 12, 1915 at his residence, 318 East Preston street after an illness of about five weeks. He had been married just about a year and had secured a cozy home and was apparently happy. The blow is all the more disrespecting. The deceased was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Grand Army of the Republic and Knights of Pythias. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics Savings Bank and a member of the Executive Committee of that institution. The funeral of D. J. Chavers took place Friday, October 15, 1915. 2 P. M. at the Leigh Street M. E. Church. Full report in our next issue. In God's Care Past Chancellor David B. Carter was of Ziontown Lodge, No. 184, K. of P. was called from labor to rest September 29, 1915. He was a true and faithful member of the Lodge, ever ready to do that which he thought was for the good and success of it, therefore the officers and members of Ziontown Lodge had the following resolutions drawn up: Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst our late brother, David Benjamin Carter and Whereas, The intimate relations long held by our deceased brother with the members of this Lodge render it proper that we should place on record our appreciation of his service as a Knight and his excellence as a man; therefore be it Resolved, by Ziontown Lodge, No. 181 on the registry of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, of Friulius, of Vithins that we bow with humble submission to the will of the Most High, we do not the less mourn for our brother who has been called from his labor to rest. Resolved, That in the death of David Benjamin Carter this Lodge loses a brother who was always active and zealous in his work, as a Knight ever ready to nurse the needy and distressed of the fraternity, prompt to advance the interest of the Order; devoted to its welfare and prosperity; one who was wise in counsel and fearless in action, an honest and upright man, whose virtues endured him not only to his brethren of the Order, but to his community. Resolved. That this lodge tenderls its heartfelt sympathy to the family and relatives of our deceased brother in this, their aid and adversity. Resolved. That the resolutions be entered upon the minutes of this lodge that a copy of them be sent to the family of our deceased brother and copy to The Planet. Committee--J. S. Tryor, Jr., P. E. Norrell. PERSONALS AND BREES Rev. E. C. Thompson, of Norwich, Conn., was in the city this week. - Are your eyes troubling you? Call and see Dr. M. M. Splice 114 N. 6th Street. M. C. Walker, the jeweler has moved to 634 Hancock Street. Dr. N. C. Vaughan of Cincinnati, Ohio was in the city last week. Sir W. W. Urquhart, D. D. G. C. of Franklin, Va. was in the city this week. Mrs. Annie Seay, and Sir Paul Greenhill of Blackstone, Virginia were in the city this week. Mr. C. H. Clark, Sr. of West Point, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mr S. J. Blowe of Emporia, Va., Rev Y. R. Blowe and wife of Skip with Va. called on us this week. They were attending the Fair. Rev. F. L. Hall of Drakes Branch, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. For fine furniture and first-class equipment, call and see Charles G. Jurgens' Son, Adams and Broad St. The Rountree-Cherry Corp. tells the whole story. They will prove to you that it will pay you to patronize them. Dr. Roscoe C. Brown visited California, Panama Canal and returned to the city last week. He went through the Canal, being detained ten days by the Canal. A GIRL, marched by roped, elephant man of the great Western Dustbin, living on her defiended in mountain hills, and gold, Monday by a man beaten with knives by Lancey Whitby, documents this week of TELLS HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE Six hundred bachelors, some young and some pretty old, spent their lunch eon hour the other day receiving "fatherly" advice from Prof. Winfield S. Hall, of Northwestern University Medical School, on "Choosing a Wife." "I don't see any bald heads in the audience," said Dr. Hall, "so I take it for granted that you all are good candidates for marriage. By that I mean you have sound health, are morally clean and can support a wife if you can win one. "I imagine the girls of your acquaintancehip lined up before you. Out of the possible six to twenty girls you are to choose a wife. Which one will you choose? "Four things must be considered—her health, her hereditary qualities, her education, and her age. Exclude from the ranks the girl of poor health. It's a calamity for a man to marry such a girl. Some of you may say that the girl might get well. Let her get better before you marry her. "Let her go into the woods for a year or so and develop the ability to walk 15 or 20 miles and return without fatigue and with Dame Nature's priceless rouge upon her cheeks. Then you may marry her, knowing she is of good health. "Don't marry a girl just because she has a pretty figure and large, bustrous eyes and is a beautiful dancer, if at 20 she has only the mind of a girl of 12 years old." Among other suggestions he gave to the man considering choosing a wife were: Don't marry an abtress. You may become unhappy with her and her money. Don't marry into a family where there are traces of insanity or feeble mindedness. Look up the health record of her parents and graftparents. Avoid the daughter of a confirmed alcoholic. When he came, to that part of his lecture referring to ages for marriage he turned to the blackboard, wrote down some figures and said: "According to the best scientific research, the figures on the board show the relative ages at which men and women should marry." Here as the table as he wrote it: A man of 21 should marry a girl between 19 and 23 years. At 25—one between 21 and 27. At 30—one between 23 and 28. At 35—one between 23 and 30. At 40—one between 25 and 33. At 45—one between 25 and 35. At 50—one between 40 and 50. At 60—one between 45 and 60. At 70—one between 50 and 60. At 80—one between 60 and 70. "When a man gets to be 50 years old," he continued, "he should not expect to rear a family. I advise such a man to marry a widow with several children. "When a man of 60 or more marries it is only for the purpose of having a nurse during his declining years. It is unfair for him to marry any one younger than himself. He should marry a childless widow or an old maid."—London Tit-Bits. SACRED CONCERT There will be a Grand Sacred Concert given Sunday, October 17th, (tomorrow) at Fifth St. Baptist Church. It will be given by the Invincible Chores, benefit Macedonia Club of that Church. Solos, duets, quartette and choruses. The public is invited. Mt. Olivet Services Sunday. Sunday 11:30—Rev. J. Andrew Howler will take up the fourth subject in his Fireside Series: "A Mother in the Home." Evening services, 8:30. All are welcome. VICE PRESIDENT ELLETT GONE Hon. John S. Elllett, first vicepresident of the National State and City Bank of this city died at his residence, 116 South Third Street, Sunday, October 11, 1915 at two P. M. He was seventy-four years of age and was a most pleasing representative of the F. F. Va. IN MEMORIAM JONES—In sad, but loving remembrance of our son, H. Endom Jones who departed this life three years ago October 17, 1912. Rosa K. and J. E. Journa. The State Patr has been open during the patr work. The management reports a large expenditure. Last Wednesday was Managed. Buy the equipment unless offered prior notice in the schedule and tender. THE DEATH OF MRS. OCTAVIA WOODS. Thomas J. Fawcett, M. D., Office 902 Fifth Street, Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 6th 1915 PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN For the benefit of the unenlightened part of the public in regard to the untimely death of Mrs. Octavia Woods I wish to make the following professional statement. Mrs. Woods was under my professional treatment for about six weeks beginning August Second. Her case was one of a rapidly progressive typi with symptoms of mental degeneration before her case was diagnosed. On August 28th she became a raving maniac and was absolutely irresponsible for words or deeds; but in two or three days under forced treatment she temporarily but very rapidly improved, so much so that she was seemingly rational at times. She had several daily attacks of irrationalism and was constantly under the care of attendants; but in an unguarded moment she came across the instrument in a trunk, the presence of which suggested to her weakened faculties the act which resulted in her death. This case is parallel with that of from sixty to eighty percent of pollinators, and at the present time the profession is in the dark as to a specific cause and only knows that practically a hundred percent are morbbound and that before death eighty per cent become trailing manacles. The above statement is in accordance with my experience with about thirty cases in a period of seven years, and it approximately tallied with the report of Dr. Joseph Gollberger who has charge of the pollinator hospital at Savannah Ga., established and maintained with unlimited means by the Federal Government. Anyone still in doubt regarding the status of the case may be further enlightened by application to the Department expert, enclosing the stamps to the Supt. of the Departments. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. (Signed) T. J. FAWCETT. Attending Physician. LIFE-TERM IN PENITENTIARY WINCHESTER, VA. October 11.—William Jennings Bryan Brown aged eighteen, came into Circuit Court today with a signed confession, to the effect that he alone shot and killed his father John W. Brown, near their home at Nain recently, and then buried his body under some leaves, where it was found two weeks later by searchers. Brown waived a jury trial, whereupon Judge T. W. Harrison sentenced him to the Virginia State Penitentiary for life. Brown and relatives wept bitterly. (Times, Distract.) THIS MAMMY TAKEN AWAY AT IMMATURE AGE OF 137 Memphis, Oct. S. Aunt Mahaleah Gibbs known by statistics to be 137 years old, the oldest Negro in the Southern States is dead here to day. Her baby, child is Eliza Gibbs 70 who has a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Aunt Mahaleah Gibbs was known to most of the white population of Memphis as a fortune-teller and some things she predicted have come true. She was a constant smoker and said smoking preserved her health. A LONG TOUR Mr. Walter W. Scott, chauffeur arrived in the city Friday October 8th, 1915 at about 2 P.M. after touring ten states, a total of 7,500 miles. He says he had no motor troubles. He reports three punctures, and two blow outs. SECRETARY JORDON'S NOTES The over-due salary of our Missionaries, so far from home, is a source of great grief to me. What part of the money is in your treasury? Only a few of the best prepared, can go as Missionaries; a much larger crowd of believers can give to support those who go, but all believers can pay for those who go. It is regarded as gross discount, not to reply to a letter then, thousands of Pastors and members owe Brother Jordon an apology Why not answer letters, and be more respectful? The remodeling of the "Ewen Building," the new home of the Foreign Mission Board, is going forward. The corner stone laying will be Thursday, October, 14, 5 P. M. It will be worth ten thousand ($10,000). Dozens. The building will be dedicated, on the second Sunday in November, 1915. 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 notes. These ballots must be cut out of The Planet. The same rules will govern in the matter of securing subscriptions to The Planet as betorefo. 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 limelight. The services in the Messiah Church, yesterday, wore largely attended especially in the evening, when the main floor, gallery and vestibule were filled, and chairs were placed around the pulpit. It was the occasion of the final sermon by Rev. T. J. King as pastor. The evening sermon was a review of the past eight years' work with some wholesome advice touching the future conduct of the work. The preacher announced as his text: Corinthians 13:11—"Finally, brethren, farewell." "You are all informed that I am closing my pastorate here to take charge, of the Fifth Street Church or Richmond, Va." said Mr. King. "A man in any other pursuit of life is congratulated whenever it is good fortune to receive a promotion; but a minister is generally charged with having an excessive love for money. My highest purpose in making this change is to render my Lord a larger service. My services are greatly limited in the present field, because of the scarcity of Church building materials. This does not only render my services loss profitable, but hinders my personal development." In referring to the evangelical phase of the work the speaker said: "This phase of the work, however, has not been without results. Nearly 500 persons have been fellowshipd into the Church during my pastorate. Many of them help to make up this audience. I urge you to continue to support a high standard of religion and morals; for an evangelism which does not develop character, gentleness; and the highest type of manhood and womanhood is not truly Christian." In touching the material phase of the work the retired pastor said: When I came to Yonkers, I called on a gentleman who had a five-room apartment to let, with the purpose or securing the apartment for myself and family. On informing the gentleman of my mission, he looked me curiously in the face and sald, after a moment's hesitancy; "I have just rented it." I secured positive evidence that this was not true, nor was it rented a month later, but I was not wanted as a tenant. This stirred my manhood, and I resolved that no other pastor should come to this Church and be thus embarrassed in the matter of securing a place to live, and thus the parsonage at 13 Wood Place was secured. Our Church home, by this time, was becoming quite dilapidated, and believing that God's house should be the best. I called upon the members and friends to rally to the effort of rebuilding our Church. During these struggles our members worked loyalty; our friends, white and colored, came to our assistance, and this beautiful building in which we now worship was erected. I leave you with only $100 debt against it. "This has been a very pleasant pastorate. I scarcely expect to excel it in some good qualities. The members in the main have been very loyal, devoted, and careful of my interest, and my many friends beyond the circle of the membership have contributed much to this end. I take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to you, my friends, for much loyal friendship and abiding interest." (Yonkers Now York Dally Statesman October 4, 1915.) Our clients boost our business that's why you see us arrow. Place your Real Estate business with us, and you will find our service better than others. B. A. CRPHAS, 635 1-2 North 2nd Street. Pay The Planet every Saturday of Williams's Step Foundation, 1200 Hall about South Edmonds. JOIN BRECKENRIDGE ELLIS A story with the refreshing breath of the great outdoors is this. The romance and glamour of the wide, wide west of days past are reflected in every chapter. Lahoma, saved from a violent death by what is really a modern miracle, becomes a vital factor in the wild, rough lives of pioneers of the plains. Indian strategy and Indian loyalty to true friends play no small part in this interesting narrative. The story demonstrates above all else the foats that honest simplicity in character and thorough sincerity in dualing with one's fellow men are virtues certain to bring a merited reward. The rapid action of the novel and the vivid word painting of the characters in it will make it one of unusual attractiveness to discerning readers. At these words from the prisoner a shout arrose in which oath and laughter mingled like the growing snapping of hunger madded wolves. PROLOGUE. CHAPTER L THE Touch of a Child HAVE given my word of honor, my sacred oath, not to betray what I have discovered here. "Then if I must die," Gledware cried, the voice in its shrill excitement dominating the ferocious insults of the rufians, "don't kill the child. You see she is sleep, and she are awake she wouldn't know how to talk about this cabin. For God's sake don't kill the little girl" Since the seizure of Gledware the child had been lying on the rude table in the midst of a greasy jack of cards—cards that had been thrown down at the sound of his galloping home. The table supported also much of the booty captured from the wagon train, while on the dirt floor beside it were prizes of the freebooting expedition too large to find resting place on the boards. Nor was this all. Mingled with stolen menaces and bags of gold were the Indian diggues in which the highwaymen from No Man's Land had descended on No Man's Land had discovered on their tellous journey from Ablane, Kan, toward the southwest. "Shut up!" roared a tremendous voice. The speaker stepped forward. voice. The speaker stepped forward. "You know I am something of an orator and I guess you wouldn't of made me your leader. Now, as long as I'm your leader I'm going to lead. But I slur never immanuelable, and when I am called Ted Kimball, and my brother, ponder, he is known as 'Kansas Kimball'. What else is known of us is this—that we won't never want to turn loose a spy when once ketched. Here is a man who says he is Henry Glweder, though God knows if that so. He comes galloping up to the door just as we are in the midst of a game with the game, and Brick Willock is in a fair way to win it that I admit, but in comes this here spy"— The prisoner in a freezed voice disclaimed any purpose of spring. That morning he had driven the last wagon of the train, containing his invaild wife and his stewardaughter, for the child lying on the table was his wife's daughter. At the alarm that the first wagon had crashed, he had turned about his horses and driven furiously over the prairie, he knew not whither. All that day he had fed, seeing no one, bearing no pursuing homeboat. At night his wife, unable in her weak condition to sustain the terrible jolting, had expired. Taking nothing from the wagon but his sadness, he left the wagon with the child before him and continued his sight, the terrific wind at his back. "Well, pard," said the leader of the band, waiting until he had finished, "you can't never claim that you can't been given your say, for I do admire free speech. I want to address you reasonable and make, this plain and simple, as only a man that has been allowed to be something of an orator can accomplish. My men and men has had our conference, and it's decided that both of you has got to be shot and immediata. The reason is none, but what a male man means to me takes you like a man, I am sorry this has happened, and so is my men, and we wish you well. It's a hard saying, hard, but whatever your intentions a guy you have proved. For what do you find on basting open our door? Here we sit playing with our booty for stakes and our Indian togs lying all about. You couldn't help knowing that we the 'Indian' that gutted them wagers and put up the light that left every man and woman dead on the hold except that there last wager you are telling to about. "Too see, parl." Red Kimbull went on, "just be bothering eight of the point. The police man has been opening for nine years. He's been in the police force in the Indian Union. There that is a suspect they would run, run, business of it. Go back. I suppose it is all of it." will he depreciating in the Washington country to get revenge for today's massacre." Again Gledsware protested that he would never betray the band. "Oh, cut this short!" interrupted Kansas Kimball, with an oath. "Daylight will catch us and nothing done if we listen to that white livered spy. We don't believe in that wagon he talks about, and, as for this kid, he brought me back to the office." "No, as Gaul Bread" tried Gledsware. "Can't you see she is dead for sleep. She was terrified out of her wife all day, and I've ridden with her all night. Don't kill her, her men." He turned impassioned eyes on the leader. "Right you are!" exclaimed the man with the forensic whikkers—he who had been spoken of as Brick Willock. "You'll have to go pard, but I'm against killing infants." The leader darted an angry glance at the man who but for the untoward arrival of Gledsware would have won from him the share he paid for the killers. He resumed. "Yes, pard, the kid must die." Brick Willock, with terrible eath, again expressed himself as strongly opposed to this decision. "We've had enough of this!" Red declared, his voice suddenly grew hard as Brick Willock, as brick Brick Willock as you're so fond of the kid, you can carry her." He opened the door, and a rush of wind angirished the candle. Red went outside and waited till his brother had drawn forth the quivering man and Brick Willock had carried out the girl. Then he looked back into the room. "You fellows can eat, you said, 'I'm not afraid.' 'Who were got to do isn't any easier with a lot of men standing about looking on." Red closed the door on the scene and turned to face the night. Gladwain had already; been stationed with his face toward the moon, and Kansas Kimbala was calmly examining his pistol. Between them and the horse Brick Willock had come to a halt, the Little girl still sleeping in his powerful arms. Red sowled heavily. He had not forlorn Willock for beating him at cards, still less for his persistent opposition to his whisbees, and he now wanted to see if he should hand to deal the fatal blow. He had been troubled before tonight by inbordination on the part of this man of befitting whiskers, this knave whose voice was over for mercy, if mercy were possible. As Kansas Kimball raised his weapon on to fire the man before him uttered a cry of terror and began to entreat for his life. "Hold on, Kansas!" interrupted him. "There's not a one of the bunch believes that story about the last wagon getting away, and the dying wife. We know this Oledwara is a man who was brought along for protection. He knew if we got back to No Man's Land we couldn't be touched, not being under no jurisdiction, and he wanted to find us with our paint and feathers off. He's a sneaking dog, and a bullet's too good for him. But"—with an oath—"blessed if he don't hate to die worse than any man ever I saw! I don't mind to spare him a few minutes if he's agreeable. I put it to him—would he the kid, be put out for it? No, he went forward, or do he want the first call?" "For God's sake, put it off as long as you will!" quivered the prisoner. "I sweat I'm no spy. I sweat—" The captain of the highwaymen is terpedest. "Just you any another word, and I'll put daylight into you with my own hand. Stand there and keep mum, and I'll give you a little breathing space. Now, Brick Willock," the head or spoke grimly, "take your turn first. That kids got to die, and you are to brick and do it without any food substances." "I can't," Willock declared degenously. "Oh, yes; yes, you can, Brick. You see, we can't tend to no infant clean, and I can't hard hearted enough to have a five-year-old girl to die of hunger on the prairie, nor do I mean to take her to no town or stage station as a card for to be tracked by." "Bed," exclaimed Willock desperately. "I tell you fair, and tell you fun," that this little one lives as long as I do. Red swiftly rushed his arm and fixed point blank at Willock's head as it was defined above the sleeping form. Though faned as an orator, Red understood very well that at times action is everything and there is death in long speaking. He was noted as a man who never missed his mark. Now, however, his bullet had gone astray. The few words to which he had treated himself as an introduction to the intended dead had proved his undoing. They had been enough to warn Willock of what was coming, and before Red fired Willock had sent a message to the dead, telling them the two detonations were almost simultaneous, and Red's roar of pain as he dropped his weapon rang out as an accompaniment to the crash of firearms. The next instant Willock with a second shot from his diphthero stretched Kaneus, on the ground; then, running away, he drove the best down on Red's hand with rough foam as he deprived him of consciousness. He swift and deadly wiped his convictions, or, with his accompaniment on with long legs shouting THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. In the shall and head heil, heil- having all but piercing open, impure nose and a brief space of tongue and eyes, heil, heil, heil, heil, heil, a man, it was no wonder that the child swaked on the fire, screamed with terror at finding her head pressed to his bosom. "Come!" Willock called breastlessly to the prisoner who still stood, with his back to the moon, as if horror at what he had just witnessed rendered him as helpless as he had been from sheer terror. Henry Gledware, awakened as from a trance, bounded to his side. Willock helped him to mount, then placed the child on the saddle in front of him. "Hide," he urged heartily, "ride for your life! They aren't no other chance for you and the kid, and they aren't no other chance for me." He leaped upon the second pony quietly, "Which way?" faltored Gledware, settling in the saddle and grasping the bride, but without the other's practiced case. "Follow the moon. I'll ride against the wind. More chance for one of us if we don't together. Start when I do." G. L. MAYER Red Swiftly Raised His Gun for when they hear the horses they'll be out of that door like so many devils turned loose on us. Bide, pardner, ride, and save the kid for God's sake! Now if we go "1" He gave Gildware's pony a victious cut with his lariat and drove the spurs into his own brachio. The thunder of hoofs as they plunged in different directions caused a sudden commotion within the isolated cabin. The door opened and the light in the light streamed forth Willock, looking back, saw forms rush out, gather about the prostrate forms of the two brothers, move here and there in indecision, then by common impulse burst into a swinging run for the horses. As for Gildware, he never once turned his face. Urging on his horse at atmost speed and clapping the child to his breast, he raced toward the light. The shadow of horse, man and child, the more speckled, then vanished with the rider beyond the circle of the level world. Brick Willock, galloping toward the southwest, frequently looked back. He saw the desperadoes leap upon their horse, wheel about in short circles that brought the animals upright, then spring forward in pursuit. He heard the shouting, which, though far away, was a constant, unattractable accent of ungovernable fury. The little girls and her stepfather had vanished from the smooth, open page of the Texas Panhandle, and Brick Willock rejoiced, with a joy new to him that those escaped prisoners had not been pursued. It was himself that the band meant to subject to their average vengeance and himself alone, as he well knew. As their bucks pursued him Willock watched the band of the bronze, feeling his steel very small and himself very large, and jolt, despite the rain of lead, his pleasure over the escape of the child warmed his heart. He had selected for himself and for Glweder ponies that had often been run against other and which no others of all Red Kimbala's corral could surpass in speed. Glweder and the child were on the pony that Kimbala had one staked against the swiftest animal the Indians could produce, and Wilkode rode the pride of the Indian band, which had almost won the prize. This race was long, but always unequal. The ruffians, who had dashed from the scene of the cabin almost in an even line, scattered and straggled to the edge of the track, and bullets whistling about Wilkode's head; now only one found it possible to cover the distance. At last he full of rank. The child who had taken me truantly upon Willock's wild bison, who had chagged to him as a to a father—who was safe! An unwanted male creep under the bristling head of the fugitive, as he waged the pony forward in unexcelsa speed. Should he seek refuge among civilized communities his crimes would hang over his head. To venture into his old hansen in his Men's Land would be to expose his book to the assassin's knife, or his heart to amputated murder. These were despicable reflections, and the future would be found in mine. Willock fled with that old smile about the golden sign. The knife was wielding, but the whole skin was such an open heart as he had been burying in his chest, and he held a knife in his chest, and the fist of blood about the golden sign. the sun came up when the grass was sunk to earth, and when unseen the hailer fell on his neck, and it was the largest about his waist, and without pause set out afoot. Though still from long rising the change of motion soon brought renewed vigor. Wilkinson had grown thirsty, and as the sun rose higher and beat higher, the wind blew his eyes across his his eyes searched the plains eagerly for some shelter that promised water. He did not look in vain. Against the horizon rose the low blue shapes of the Weichla mountain, looking at first like flat sheets of cardboard, cut out by a careless hand and set up in the breathing with some difficulty but still muttering. "Not yet—not just yet." The mountains had begun to spread apart. There were long ranges and short. Here and there, a form that had acquired an integral part of some range, delimited itself as distinct from all others, lying like an island of rock in a sea of unbroken desert. Wilcox was approaching the Wichita mountains from their southwestern extremity. As far as his could see in one direction the grotesque forms stretched in isolated chains or single groups; but in the other the end was reached, and lay the unbroken waste of the Prairie. Bawling on his great legs as with the weakness of an infant, he was now very near the end of the system. A wall of granite spotted dotted with green rose above him to a height of about 350 feet. He sank it* to the ground, his eyes red and dimmed. For some time he remained the inner stirring, his brain refusing to work. If youonder stood a white object between him and the mountain, a curious white something with wheels, might it not be a covered wagon? No; it was a mirage. But was it possible for a mirage to decelerate him only by a few hundred feet away? Perhaps it was really a wagon. He started stupidly, not moving. There were no dream horses to this ghost wagon. There was no sign of life. If captured by the Indians it would not have been left intact. But how came a wagon into this barren world? He stared up at the sun as if to assemble himself that he was awake, then laughed boresly, foolishly. He began to crawl forward, but the wagon did not move, grew plainer in all its details a new wagon. He strove to rise and, after several attempts, succeeded. He staggered forward till his hands grasped one of the wheels. It was no dream. A searching look distinguished two objects that excluded from attention all others. Upon a matress at the rear of the wagon lay a waffleboard face covered by a cloth, and near the front seat stood a keg of water. The rigid form of the woman and the position of the arms and hands showed that she was dead. The man recognized this truth, but it made only a dim impression. That keg of water meant life and life was a thousandfold more to him than death. He drew himself upon the seat, snatched at the tip cup beside the keg and drew out the cloth covered comely that stopped the flow. Having slaked his thirst there was mingled with his smile of content display. His dropped on the second mattress, on which beddolls were carefully stwn. His head found the empty pillow that lay indented as it had been left by some vanished sleep. As his eyelids closed he fell sound sleep. But for the rising and falling of his powerful breast he was mutilated as the body of the woman. On the domelike summit of Mount Welsh, a mile away, a mountain lion showed his sinuous form against the sky 700 feet in air, and from the mountain side near at hand stared from among the thick greenery of a cedar the face of an Indian whose woad was adorned by a single red feather. When Willock started up from the mattress in the covered wagon the sun had set. I every object, however, was clearly defined in the first glow of the long August twilight, and it needed but a glance to recall the events that had brought him to seek shelter and slumber beside the dead woman. His half face was obscured by the face face. For years there had been no women in his world but the abandoned creatures who sought shelter in the resorts of Beer City, in No Man's Land. CHAPTER 11. WILLOCK believed now the story that Henry Gledwear had rallied in accents of 'object terror. Surally she was the "last" object in which Red Kimbali had attacked the monarch before. Impossible as it had seemed to the highwayman, Gledwear must have been warned of the attack in time to turn about and lash his horses out of danger of discovery. At this spot Gledwear had cut loose the horses, mounted one with his stepdaughter, leaving the other to go at will. This, then, was the mother of that child whose head fell on his neck. On hands and knees Willlock crept to the other mattress and lifted the margin of the large white cloth. His hand moved steadily, slowly, Catching sight of something that faintly gleamed at the collar of the dress he hosted. His determination to examine the countenance was as firm as ever, but his impulse to put it off as long as possible was even stronger. He bent down to look closer at the ornament. It was a round breastpin of onyx and pearl set in a heavy rim of gold. The warm wind, tempered by approaching cold, grateful his fingers, kissed his fingers. He stared at it loss in profound meditation. That he remembered on his mother used to wear, and somehow the smooth teeth of the wind reminded him of her hand on his forehead. His eyes gave back back home if she had and she long ago. He marched the space for a spell. It was dark when the heap of stones had been arranged in the form of a low pyramid; but, though he had not tasted food for twenty-four hours, he lingered beside the grave, his head bent as if still struggling with those unwonted-memories of the long age. At last, as if forced by a mysterious power against which he could no longer resist, he sank upon his knees. "Good luck," he told aloud, "take care of the little girl!" He waited, but no more words would come. It came over him with disconcerting sadness that he had lost a great deal of time and that every moment spent in the covered wagon was fraught with imminent danger. It was not in the mind that the band of highwaymen might discover his hiding place. Knowing them as he did, he was sure they would not come so far from their haunts or from the Bantan Indians around him. But the Indians rounded the Panhandle, much at home there as in their reservations, and hore they were much more dangerous. Had no savage eye disoriented that wagon during the brilliant August day? It was a disquieting fancy. Willock told himself that had such been the case his scalp lock would not still adorn his own person. For all that, he was eager to be gone. Instead of eating in the wagon he wrapped up some food in a bread cloth, placed this with a few other articles in a tarpaulin, having lifted the leg of shoes and having lifted the leg of shoes to shoulder and the rope bound tarpaulin to the other, he left the wagon with a loaded gun in his hand. Twilight had faded to starlight, and the mountain range stood blackly defined against the glittering star. It was easy to find his way, for on the level sand there were no impediments, and when the mountain was reached a low divide offered him easy passage up the ascent. For the most part the slopes were gradual, and in steeper places ledges of granite, somewhat like giant stairs, assisted him in the highest ridge. From this vantage point he could see the level plain stretching away on the farther side. A second ridge was not so high as the outer wall, and he paused here, feeling more secure. The fugitive was not interested in the coffered shapes about him. His situation had been treated deviously in the smooth rock ledge at his feet. This ledge, barren of vegetation and as level as a slab of rough marble, showed a long black line like a crack in a stone pavement. At the man's feet the crevice was perhaps two feet wide. Presently he set the keg and the tarmalpin ball on the ground, not to rest his shoulders, but in order to sink on his knees beside the crevice. He put his face down over it, listening, peering, but making no discovery. Then he unwound the lariat from about his waist, tied it to the rope that had been a balter and, having fastened a one-inch lowered into black space, he slipped through his fingers and the rope was following when suddenly the rock found lodgment at the bottom. On making this discovery he drew up the lariat, opened the cloth containing the food and began to eat rapidly and with evident excitement. When the first cravings of appetite were partly satisfied he left his baker's bread and began on a stone, tied up the rest of the food in its cloth, rolled this in the tarmalpin and lowered it by means of the bariat into the crevice and to the gun barrel, he placed the gun across the crevice and swung himself down into the ploom. The walls of the crevice were so close together that he was able to steady his knees against them, but as he neared the bottom they widened perceptibly. His first act on setting foot to the stone flooring was to open the tarpaulin, draw forth a candle and a box of matches and strike a light. The chamber of granite in which he stood was indeed narrow, but full of interest and romance. The floor was about the same width in all its length, wide enough for Willock, tall as he was, to stretch across the passage. It extended perhaps a hundred feet into the heart of the rock, showing the same smooth walls on either side. The ceiling, however, was varied, as the outwrapped commissioned O. Head the stars were seen at ease through the two feet of space at the top, but as he carried his candle forward this opening decreased, to be succeeded presently by a roof, at first of jumbled stones crushed together, by outward weight, their of a smooth red surface extending to the end. The foot was the same everywhere save at its extremities. At the point of Willock's descent it dipped away in a narrow line that would not have admitted a man's body. At the other end, where he now stood, it suddenly gave way to empty space. It came to an end to supply the there was no need of deformation of the foot, but the narrow shyness beyond. Possibly it descended a sherer 800 feet, the depth of the ridge at that place. On the smooth floor which melted to nothingness with such sinister and startling soddenness, the candlelight revealed the skeleton of a man lying at the margin of the unknown depths. Mingled with the bones that had fallen apart with the passing of contours was a drawn waist of blached hilt and rusted blade—a sword of old Spanish make—and in the dust of a retreated heap of gold cords of strange design. "Well, paid," said Brick Willock gently, "some here have dust and many others to you. For you told me the fire chest that I have to have no paint, and you have been doing great things." When I have about you about 10 years old, I'd often write to my grocery and see him to the store and see all you need to see. He has neverின, I guess would better go. He asked the boxes into a shop and doubled them into the black gulf. He did not hear them when they struck bottom, and the sinister absence gave him an odd thrill. He took his head. "If I ever roll out of bed here," he said, "no and you will spend the rest of the time together. Pardner." He did not linger for idle speculation, but drew himself up his dangling rope, and in a short time was once more outside the place of refuge. Always on the lookout for possible watchers, he snatched up his bread and meat and ate as he hastened over the outer ridge and down the rugged side toward the wagon. Here he filled a box with cinnamon and down the rugged side with an tip of his secured a sweep of flour. It made a heavy burden, but his long sleep had restored him to his wonted strength, and he could not be sure but this trip to the wagon would be his last. With some difficulty he hosted the box to his herculean shoulder, and grasped a spade and an ax in his disheveled hand, to trolled upward to his naylum. On another trip he brought a mattress, blankets and dishes. Then he was beginning to feel the wagon's return, and the load that cleaned out the wagon led left him so exhausted that he fell down on the ground beside the crovis having thrown in his booty. Here, with his gun at his side and a pistol in his hand, he fell fast naked. He lay there like a man of stone until some inner consciousness began beating at the door of his senses, warning him that in no great time the moon would rise. He started up in a state of dazed bewilderment, staring at the solemn star, the vast outlines of the moon, the vast sea of darkness that flowed away from the mountain top indicating, but not defining, the surrounding prairie. "Get up from here." Willock commanded himself. He obeyed rubber stiffly, but when he was on his feet, ax in hand, he made the trip to the wagon nimby enough. As he drew near he saw gray shadows slipping away. They were wolves. He shouted at them disaffectedly and without pause been removing the canvas from over the wagon. When that was done his terrific blows resolved the wagon bed to separated boards, somewhat than it had practically intact. By means of the wagon wheels and separated the parts of the wagon frame. Always, when he had obtained enough for a load, he made that tolsonne journey to his retreat. He took the four wheels at one time, rolling them one by one, lifting them singly from ledge to ledge. When he awoke a bar of sunshine which at first he mistook for an outcropping of Spanish gold glowed against the granite wall of his mountain top retreat. He rose in leisurely top fashion. Henceforth there would be plenty of time, years of it, running to waste with useless days. After eating and partaking sparingly of the brackish water of the keg he nailed together two long sideboards of the dimentional wagon, and, having secured these end to end, he fastened in parallel strings to the surface short of the wagon to the keg he finished, he made the rope ladder. The ladder of baskets was for use in leaving the cave. The rope ladder, which be meant to hide under some bowler near the crevices, could be used in making the descent. Fassing the rope ladder about his waist he seated the boards and on reaching the top cast them down. He looked at all about, but no living creature was in sight. "This is just to my hand," he said aloud, seeking a suitable hiding place for the rope ladder. "I always did despise company." He stood at the center of an enormous horsehoe formed on the southwest by the range curving farther toward the south and on his left hand by the same range sweeping in a quarter circle toward the southeast. The mouth of this granite half circle was opened to the south, at least a quarter circle wide, by a spur giving spur nimber at right angles to the main range and some hundreds of yards closer to his position shot across the space within the horsehoe bend in such fashion that an observer standing on the plain would have half his view of the inner concave expense shot out, except that part of the high north wall that towered above the spur. A perpendicular arm or spur that ran out into the sea of mesquite roc a low hill that was itself in the nature of an inner spur, although since it failed to reach the mountain it might be regarded as a long fat island surrounded by the calm green tide. This innermost arm or island was so near the mountain that the entrance to it opened into a curved inner world of green, was narrow and strongly protected, with a local floor of oak or twelve acres, and it was directly down into this cove that Willock gassed. It looked so peaceful and secure and its openness to the sunshine was so allowing that Willock resolved to descend the steep wall. To do so at that point was impracticable, but the ridge was unequal and not far to the right mask to allow thickly set, with oak, sims, scrub oak and thorn trees invited him with its steep but not difficult channel to the ground. "Here's a choice," observed WJick as he turned toward the divine. "Gone I'll go by the front and save the back stairs for an emergency." The gully was his back stairs. He was beginning to walk down the dark ponderosa. When he reached the plain he was outside of a line of honeysuckle that effectively hid the cave from sight, more effectively because of a dense grove of creams that stood on either side of the grove game dungeon, instead of covering the barkside. He climbed down spath for the outer peaks and walked up the side of the monastery bather he guarded and bothered himself with the cave. TAROT "I always did desperate company." hopes were realized. Willock now advanced on the core and found himself presently in a song retreat that would have filled with delight the heart of the most desperate highwayman or the most midst settler. No horsemen could enter the cave save by means of a low french, cut as by the hand of man in the granite bill, and as Indian horsemen were the only enemies to be dreaded, his watchfulness need be concentrated only on that one point: "Nothing like variety." This would do capital for my summer homest I'm going to live like a lord—while I'm living." The next day he began amorting the contents of his granite home, moving to the tank with conscientious slowness, stopping a dozen times to make excursions into the outside world. By different economy of his working mode, he spent two weeks in the labor of putting his house into order. His bedroom was next to the barricade that separated the long stone excavation from the bottomless abyss. Divided from the bedroom by an imaginary line was the storeroom of provitons. In armring his retreat he had left unlined the wagging tongue, which was for use in making a dugout in the cave. To this enterprise be was prompted not only by a desire to vary his monotonous days, but to insure safety from possible food. Should a skilful savage, or what be worse, a stray member of the robber band, catch sight of him among the hills the spy would spread the news among his fellows. A relentless search would be instituted, and, even if Willock succeeded in escaping, the band would not rest till it had discovered his hiding place. If they came in the dugout their search would terminate, and his home in the crevice would escape investigation, but if there was no dugout to satisfy curiosity the crevice would most probably be explored. Transporting the timbers across a mile of ridges and granite trough was no light work, and when his tools and material were in the cave the digging of the daupout was protracted because the daupout was too deep. Face. All he succeeded in excavating the cellar at a spot within a few yards of the mountain. He leveled down the walls till he had a chamber about twelve feet square. Over this be placed the wagon tongue, converting it into the ridgepole, which he set upon forks cut from the nearby cemented rock. He then placed the trees in the grove he had as close together as possible, starting from the ridgepole to the ground, and over these laid the cedar branches. This substantial roof no next covered with dirt, heaping it up no gipees of wood was visible under the hard padded dome. The roof be fashioned a ridge frame, then a door to stand in it, fitted into grooves that it might be padded and held into place without hinges. Later he strode forth from the only cak of the cave, and skirred the southern wall of the range, looking for game. It was late in the afternoon when he returned. He descended the first steps to the cave, where he met at first understanding why, he became instantly aware that some one had been there during his absence. CHAPTER III A 'Aysterious Guest. Of course, as soon as Brick's eyes could penetrate the sandy gloom sufficiently to distinguish small objects, he saw the proof, but even before that the air seemed tingting with some storage personality. He stood like a statue, gazing fixedly. His alert eyes, always on guard, him that the cove seemed the best. The sun would loot behind him. Whenever had been there must have scaled the mountain and had either crossed to the plains on the north or was hiding behind the rocks. What held his eyes to the stone was a heap of tobacco and a clay pipe beside it. After a few minutes of immobility he entered, placed the mask on a box and dispersed safely, closing the door behind him. Cutting approvingly glued along the mannequin, he made toward it and made his way up the gully. Not passing at the crevice of the mannequin and the limb, he lay down. The mannequin high up on the table drew. He removed the mannequin from the table, lay by her side, and lay down. ```markdown ``` and two riderless horses explained the presence of the two on foot. All of them had drawn up in a circle about the heap of stones that covered the woman's burial place. Of the seventeen, sixteen were Indians, painted and adorned for the warpath. The remaining man, he who stood at the heap of stones beside the chief, was a white man, and at the first glance Willock recognized him. He was the dead woman's husband, Henry Gledware. Brick's mind was perplexed with vain questionings. Was I Gledware who had visited his dugout or the Indians? Did the pipe and tobacco indicate a peace offering? What was the relationship between Gledware and these Indians? Was he their prisoner, and were they about to burn him upon the heap of stones? He did not seem alarmed. Had he made friends with the chief by promising to conduct him to the deserted wagon? If so, what would they think in regard to the wagon's disappearance? Had the dugout permeated them that there was no other retreat in the mountains? While Brick watched in agitated suspense several Indians leaped to the ground at a signal from the chief and advanced toward the white man. The chief turned his back upon the company and started toward the mountain, his face turned toward Brick's place of observation. He began climbing upward, the red feather in his hair gleaming against the green of the docks. Brick had but to remain where he was to reach forth his hand presently and seize the warrior, but in that case those on the plain would come warming up the ascent for vengeance. Brick darted from his post, swept like a dipping swallow across the riveine and, snatching up the rope ladder from its nook under the bowder, acuried down into the granite chamber. Having removed the ladder, he crept to the extremity of the excavation and with his back against the wall and his gun held in readiness awaited the coming of the chief. After the lapse of many minutes he grew reassured. The Indian, thinking the dugout his only home, had passed the crevice without the slightest suspicion. However, 'est in thrusting forth his head he call attention to his home in the rock, he kept in retreat the rest of that day. Nor did he venture forth that night. One bright warm afternoon in October two years later Brick Wilkock an smoking his pipe before the open door of his dugout. In reponse he always sat when in the cave with his face toward the natural roadway. It was thus he hoped to prevent surprise from inimical horsemen, and it was thus that on this particular afternoon he detected a shadow creeping over the reddish brown stone passage. At first glimpse of that shadow of a feathered head Wilkock tung himself down the dirt steps leading to the open door. Now, lying flat, he directed the barrel of his gun over the edge of the level ground, covering an approaching horseman. As only one Indian came into view and as this Indian was armed in a manner as astounding as it was irresistible. Wilkock rose to his height of six feet three, lowered his weapon and advanced to meet him. When he was near, the Indian—the same chief from whom Willock had fled on the day of his intended housewarming—sprang lightly to the ground and lifted from the horse that defense which he had borne in front of him on penetrating the cove. It was the child for, whose sake Willock had separated himself from his kind. At first Willock thought he was dreaming. The Indian made a sign to the little girl to remain with the horse, then he glided forward, holding somewhat ostentatiously, a filled pipe in his extended hand. "Was it you that left a pipe and tobacco on my store two years ago?" Willock naked thruptly. "Yes. You got it? We will smoke." He seated himself gravely on the ground. Willock went into the cabin and brought out the clay pipe. They smoked. Willock cast covert glances toward the girl. She stood slim and straight, her face rigid, her eyes fixed on the horse. Her limbs were bare and a blanket that descended to her knees seemed her only garment. The face of the sleeping child of five was the same, however, as this of the seven-year-old maid, except that it had grown more beautiful. Willock was wonderfully moved, so much so that his manner was harsh, his voice gruff in the extreme. "Where'd you find her?" "Not been lost. Her safe all time. Sometimes in one village—here, then there, two, three—more her about Safe all time. I never forget. There she is. You take her?" "Yes, I take her. Where's her daddy?" "Him great man." "Well-go ahead; tell the rest of it." "Him settle among my tribe; him never leave our country. Big country, fast country, very rich." Him change name—everything; him one of me. Harry my daughter. That girl not his daughter—daughter of dead woman. Keep her away from him all-time so him never see white man, white woman, white child, forget white people, be good ladin. The girl make him think of dead woman. When a man many knives, not good to remember dead woman. "Him come straight on us know and understand the game been around the house, and shall you never want to tell where he be, because you want him to forget he is a white man!" "He always live with my people; he marry my daughter." "Tell me this, is he far away!" "Very far. Many days. You never find him. You stay here, keep girl and me and my people your friends. You come ater him—not your friends." "Why, bless your heart, I never want to see that man again. Your daughter is welcome to him, but I am afraid she's got a bad bargain. This girl's just as I have her—unencumbered. I'm awful glad you come, pardner." He strobe forward and addressed the girl: "Are you willing to stay with me little one?" She shrank back from the wild figure. During his two years of hiding in the mountains Willock had cured nothing for his personal appearance. His garments on disintegrating had been replaced by skins, thus giving an aspect of assorted colors and materials rather remarkable. He was greatly disconcerted by her attitude. "I guess I've been so much with myself that I ain't noticed my outside as a man ought. Won't you make your home with me, child?" He held out his rough hand appearance. Shp retreated farther, saying with disapproval, "Much hair!" Willock held his hand on his breast, returning, "Much heart!" "Him white," said the Indian, swinging himself upon his horse. "Him save your life. Some time me come visit, come eat, come stay with you." As he wheeled about she held out her arms toward him, crying wildly: "Don't go! Don't leave me! Him much hair!" The Indian dashed away without turning his head. "Good Lord, honey," exclaimed Willock, at his wits' ends. "Don't cry! I can't do nothing, if you cry. Won't you come look at your new home?" "Hole in the ground!" crled the girl desperately. "I want my tepee. Am I a prairie dog?" "No honey, you ain't. You and me is both white, and we ought to live together. If ain't right for you to live with red people that kills and burns your own kith and kin." She looked at him repellently through her streaming tears. "Big hair!" she cried. "Big hair!" "And must I cut it off? I'll make my head as smooth as your bald-headed mountain peak if it'll keep you from crying." Her sobbing grew less violent. Despite his ferocious aspect, no fear could remain in her heart at sight of that, distressed countenance, at sound of those conciliatory tones. "I'm going to do whatever you say, honey, and you're going to be the queen of the cave. Ain't you never been lonesome among all them red dolls? Ain't you missed your poor mamma as did crossing the plains? It was me that hurried her. Ain't you never known how it felt to want to lay your head on somebody's shoulder and slip your little arms about his neck and go to sleep like an angel whatever was happening around? I guess so! Well, that's me too. Here I've been for two long year, never seeing nothing but wild animals or prowling savages till the last few months when a settler comes to them mountains seven miles to the southwest. Looked like I'd die sometimes, just having myself to entertain." "You lonesome, too?" said the girl, looking up incredulously. She drew a step nearer, no wistful light in her dark eyes. The man stretched out his arms and dropped them to his side heavily. "Like that," he eroded—"just emphesses?" "I stay," she said simply. "You aren't afraid now, are you, little one?" She shook her head and, drawing nearer, herself on the ground before the dugout. "You look Big Hair," she explained sedately, "but your speech is talk of weak squaw." Somewhat disconcerted by these words, Willock sat down opposite her and resumed his pipe to it to assert his sex. "I seem weak to you," he explained, "because I love you, child, and want to make friends with you. But let me meet a big man—well, you'd see, then!" He looked so ferocious as he uttered these words, that she started on like a frightened animal. "No, no, honey," he cooed abjectly, "I wouldn't hurt a fly. How comes it that you ain't forgot to talk like civilized beings?" "Red Feather, him always put me with squaw that know English—that been to school on the reservation. Never let me learn talk like the Indians. Him always say some day take me to my own people." "Did he tell you your mother died two years ago?" "Yes. Father, him dead too. Both died in the plains. Father was shot by robbers. Mother was left in big wagon. You bury her near this mountain." "Oh, he! So your father was killed at the same time your mother was, eh?" "Yes." "Well, all right. And now you got nobody but me to look after you. Just you tell me what you want, and it'll be did." "Want to be all like white people; want to be just like mother." "Well, I'll teach you as fur up as I've been myself. Your style of talk isn't correct, but it was the best Red Feather could do by you. I'll take you by the hand right from where Red Feather left you and carry you up the height." "She examined him dubiously. 'You know how?'" "I amn't so bellwether in the paths of hearing, honey, but Red Feather is some miles behind me. What's your name?'" "Leahman." "Born that way or Injured?" "Father before he died had all time want to go outside in the Oklahoma country—cattle on a claim me near. They go there three times—there—but nobody all the same from go there in Kansas. So me, I was here, and they around me Oklahoma, but all they knew all my Leahman. What I must be only 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. Lahoma, I promise that father and mother all care for me. Lahoma, that my name, the Inspired anatomy, "You will call Lahoma!" She learned forward, back upon knees, in breathless anxiety, "You let your life I will, Lahoma!" "Then the stay all time with you all time. And you teach me talk right and dress well and be like mother and my white people!" You teach me all that! "That's the program. I'm going to civilize you that means to make you santnerer "You teach me all that?" like white folks. It's going to take time, but the mountains are full of time." "You 'civilize' me right now? You begin today?" She started up and stood erect with arms folded, evidently waiting for treatment. "The process will be going on all the while you're associating with me, honey. That chief, Red Feather—he has a daughter, hasn't he?" "No; him say no girl, no boy." The spoke with confidence. "I see. And your father's dead, too eh? Evidently Red Feather had thoroughly convinced her of the truth of these pretences." "Both—mother, father. Nobody but man." She knelt down at his side, her trembled. "If I had just one!" "Can you remember what of them?" "No, you just. And And. Bypass. Hah, huh, huh, them, huh, huh, of may they be using with the huh." CALL AT THE PLANET OFFICE. People some day. This is the day You make me like mother was. You civilize me begin". The cloud had vanished from her face, and her eyes sparkled with excitement. (TO BE CONTINUED) DYNAMITING STUMPS. Successful Experience of a New Jersey Farmer. On a farm in Cape May county, N. J. I blow out a yak stump fourteen inches in diameter with big roots extending about three feet into the ground, writes a contributor to the Country Gentleman. With one pound of dynamite the force of the explosion lifted the stump bodily and turned it over, leaving the roots not more than a foot from the original position. My next experience was with a green wild cherry big thirty inches in diameter and ten feet long with several knots in it. I split into pieces easily handle. I with two pounds of dry infiltrate by the mud capping process, as follows: I removed a quarter pound of THE WEEKLY NEWS GETTING READY TO BLOW UP A STUDIO: dynamite from the paper, placed the loose dynamite on a flat part of the log just where I should strike with an ax where I going to split it in that way. I then placed the blasting cap, with four attached, into the loose dynamite, covered the white with about eight inches of mud and over this placed a cherry bag about twelve inches in diameter and two feet long. I placed the fine material in this way into the big wig with all wells. The big wig in weight was carried off on the 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. and rested firmly on top of the sand. At no time did the weight go over eight feet in the air or two feet away from the log. I used two pounds of dynamite, twelve feet of fuse and eight caps at a cost of 45 cents for material and about one hour's time. I am lying good success blasting out pear tree stumps fifteen inches or more in diameter, tough and hard, with big roots deep in the ground. Some of the stumps were within thirty feet of a building, but no damage was done. Powder for farm use is about 25 percent, the higher percentage throwing the stumps too far and being more dangerous to handle. Working alone I am doing as much in a day as four men could grabbing, and in addition I am sat soiling the land. Nitrate of Soda on Meadows. On an old meadow which, has not been properly fertilized a top dressing of nitrate of soda is almost certain to show very marked results. The farmer is likely to be no enthusiastic over the showing mode that he at once concludes that nitrogen is the one factor needed to make his hay crop a profitable one. Right here lies the danger. While the first application of nitrate of soda may show these marked results, it is not by any means safe to conclude that nitrogen is the only element of fertility needed. Repeated applications of nitrate of soda may soon result in no apparent benefit and even result in a final condition worse than the original condition. The first application of nitrate of soda shows such marked results because there is a marked deficiency of nitrogen in the soil, but there is sufficient of the other fertilizing elements, particularly phosphorus and potassium, to balance the nitrogen used. The increased crop yields from the use of nitrate of soda make an increased dirt upon the available phosphorus and potassium of the soil. No effort being made to replace these elements has removed, the time very soon comes when no response is received from the application of nitrate of soda because the phosphoric acid and potash have been depleted or, in other words, are the limiting factors. As a rule, where nitrate of soda is used as a fertilizer, it is a safe principle to use in connection with it some form of phosphorus and potassium, having in mind permanent results rather than a temporary increase due to the nitrate of soda. Calves and Silage. Calves should become acquainted with silage early in life, beginning with a very small quantity in connection with other roughage and increasing gradually. In this way the young animals develop normally, making rapid gains while the cost is kept at the minimum. Indian summer is often unpredictable, except to the very expert, but there may be no difficulty in learning in this period. It only has way around it with careful attention. 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ALPNEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3000 P Street, Phoen, Mad, 2237—Residence, 1015 St. James St., Phoen, Madison, 6413. Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Rest. Keeleable Service. Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT. Keeleable for Women and Children. All attendance at Funeral. THE ECONOMY 327 N. FIRST ST. Fine Tailoring Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing CHITMAN M. WHITE Piercing Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at RI H. 4th Ec., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. — EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as above close master. SATURDAY ... OCTOBER 16, 1915 Selfishness is at the bottom, of most of our troubles. Those people who believe the world to be correct know it now. When you are told to pray without cause, it does not mean for you to stop work in order to do so It we would tell God all our troubles, we would simply be trying to rid up the cars with things that the already knows President Wilson has decided to recognize the Cisibanza government in Mexico and he now finds out that the Nitra government has some power in the same country. Some people rather preach that work when they are better fitted for work than they are for preaching. Our observation has been that the right kind of preaching is the hardest kind of work. There is nothing now happening, but what prophecies of it may be found in the Scriptures. When Count was describing the people of His day, He was telling about the people of this day. They were very much alike in devilty and in goodness. We have received "Education for Life" by Sylvie Cilivawas Amsweep. It consists of the payings and teachings of the founder of the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial Institute Hampton. Va. It contains valuable suggestions for the young people of today. We have received an invitation to the Reception given by the Faculty of Arm strong High School and the Executive Board of the Association of Clubs. Friday, October 22, 1915. eight P. M. to eleven P. M. at Baker School. The officers are Mrs. Rosa D. Bowser President; Mrs. L. WILLIAMS, Secretary; Mrs. Cordella GILFON, Treasurer. THOSE PROTESTING LETTERS Dr. J. A. C. CHANDLER, the very brilliant Superintendent of the Public Schools of Richmond is quoted as saying that he had received more than one hundred letters protesting against the appointment of colored teachers to the Armstrong High School. We think that this is quite a small number in comparison to our population of fifty thousand colored people here. When one colored man proposes anything, he usually has about ten colored people who are not in favor of it because this one colored man is in favor of it and vice versa. Our white friends are largely responsible for this condition of affairs. They have posed as the superior race, the race of great achievements so long that some of these colored folks believe that instructions coming direct from them is better than that which might be transmitted to them from the white folks through their own children. As a matter of fact, the colored people of Richmond are delighted with the change. All they want are highly educated teachers of good moral character and they are satisfied. * /No act of the School Board of Richmond has done more to endear its members to the colored people of Richmond than has this act of voluntary recognition, of the growing sentiment among the colored and white people, and the recognition of the graduates of recognized educational institutions. Let the efficiency of the school be kept up. The Virginia Industrial and Agricultural Institute at Bristol, Va. under the management of that able educator, the late Pammy J. Rowe Simpson in a shining example of what can be done under proper management. The School Board has been lucky In obtaining a white educator deeply obtaining a white educator deeply interested in the welfare of the colored schools, in the person of Prior. B. D. Tumuran. He has labored night and day to achieve practical results in his chosen field of labor. We hope that our good friend will not be deceived by the letters, which may be the result of spite on the part of some one or their friends, who failed of appointment. The colored people are delighted and the thinking men of the race are satisfied. TROUBLE IN THE PARTY HERE We asked a prominent white Democrat and officeholder, what did all of this agitation in this city mean? His reply was that it meant two political parties here, where there had been but one. When we read that the recently appointed Commonwealth's Attorney George E. Wise had declined to submit his interests to the Democratic City Committee and that T. Gavvy Hayden, Ely, who was a candidate before the Committee had been named the Democratic nominee in the special election for commonsho's attorney in November, we realized that the action had long true Mr. West will ask for the votes of the people regardless of party and nation and in the light of events will be a candidate for office as an independent Democrat. Jost D. C. Hirschmann is not saying anything these days in this matter in professional. The fundamental cause of the trouble is the fact that a prominent government had been made that Wil. Hassess had previously given the support of a majority of the Democratic City Committee long before the meeting was held to name a leader. He necessarily considered that he was not of the race" so far as that committee was concerned and he was entitled to stay put of it, thus Mr. Hirschmann to profit by the revolt in which is now going on in the local party in this city. Whether or not the people regardless of party will accept the opportunity to take as part in manning the next congressional attorney remains to be seen. As between the two candidate fitness for the office, there is but little to choose. Both are Democrats. The Democratic City Committee has named the one and the Judge of the Hunters Court has named the other. Whether or not this Honor is intended to have the selection made by him, ratified by the City Committee and the people is an open question. The business elements in Richmond have been herefore as impudent in politics as has been the proverbial Negro. The officeholders are in an embarrassing position. They owe their present positions to the machine, but it the dark clouds of revolution continue to increase in intensity, many of them will climb the fence and then jump down on the other side. SPORTS (By Robert H. Smith) The Adelphia Athletic Team of this city, had an excellent game with the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute of Petersburg Virginia on last Friday the 9th inst., on the School's campus. The score was 0 to 0. The visiting team was entertained royally by the pupils of the school. The Olympia, Athletic Club will have a game with the V. N. and L. i. on the 15th inst. The Battle Axe Football team met the Vandals last Wednesday in Hovey Park. The score was 13 to 12. The Battle Axe Team was organized from the Battle Axe Company K. of P. and it is one of the strongest colored teams in the city. Contrary to the expectations of many of the local foot ball fans the Armstrong High School won the game last Wednesday from the Hercules by a score of 7 to 0. Kirk Cogbill carried the ball to the goal for the Armstrong. Address all communications to Rohit H. Smith 729 W. Leigh Street. Richmond Va. Blahon Codman Dles The Right Rev. Robert Codman, of Maithe, died at a hospital in Boston. He had been unconscious since undergoing an operation last Monday. On September 16 Bishop Codman married Miss Margareta Hiddle Porter, of Philadelphia. The hospital authorities steadfastly refused to disluge the nature of the bishop's illness. Friends of the bishop suggested that he suffered from a tumor on the brain. Auntie Gibbs Dice at 187 "Auntie Malachy Gibbs, 137 years old, recording to Memphis, Tennessee, health statistics, is dead here. She is said to have been the oldest colored person in the United States. Her granddaughter, with whom she lived, and who is more than seventy years old, said she has often heard the old woman speak of the Indian wars, the war of 1812, and crests since that date. In the face of strong protests, the City Democratic Committee last night declared Councilman T. Gray Haddon the nominee of the party for Commonwealth's Attorney in the November election. Friends of Mr. Haddon on the committee urged the body not to make a nomination, and several of them declared that they were doing him an injustice by giving him the committee's endorsement. Mr. Haddon and George E. Wise will be the opposing candidates in the election. Both are Democrats. The fight promises to be the liveliest seen general election in the city in years. Mr. Wise, who was appointed by Judge D. C. Richardson, of the Hustings Court, to serve until the successor to the late Minette Folkes should have been elected, was not a candidate before the committee. He wrote the body a letter in which he announced his position. WISE STATES POSITION IN LET TER TO COMMITTEE It is at follows "I am a candidate for the office of Commonwealth's Attorney of the city of Richmond at the general election to be held on November 2, 1915. I have this day, pursuant to law and in the manner thereby prescribed, notified the clerk of the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond. "I am a Democrat. I have always been a Democrat, and always expect to be. This letter is written in courtesy to you, and not for the purpose of soliciting a nomination by your committee. I believe that the people should be free to express their choice at the polls." WISE WILLING TO LEAVE ISSUE TO VOTERS Mr. Wise had no comment to make last night on the action of the committee. He said his letter spoke for itself, and he was perfectly willing to let the voters of the city decide who should be Commonwealth's Attorney. His attitude, he said, was in fairness to all possible aspirants, and he had to say one way of the other about the termination of Mr. Haddon by the committee. The action of the committee was no surprise. It was well understood in political circles, and was so stated on the floor of the committee last night that a majority of the body was pledged to Mr. Haddon. Mr Wise was even considerable prestige by the appointment he received at the hands of Judge H. Hardison, but that fact had not been enough to prompt to nominate Mr Haddon having apparently been perfectly arranged in advance. CARRINGTON LEADS FIGHT Dr. Charles V. Carrington, member of the committee from Lee Ward, be the light against naming a candidate He declared that he had favored Mr Haddon, but he thought the committee would be doing Mr. Haddon an "injustice" by declaring him the nominee E W Evans asserted that he believed the sentiment of the Democratic voters of Richmond was against the committee taking any action. Edward L. Ryan took a similar position. Chairman Clyde W. Saunders vacated the chair and acted as floor leader in behalf of naming Haddon, John W. Purcell being temporary chairman, Mr Saunders was decidedly vigorous in his opposition to the plan of the minority to leave the field open for a race between Haddon and Wise. Previous to the meeting, he told several committee men that the body would have before it one notice of candidacy (from Mr. Haddon) and the other an insult (from Mr. Wise.) KNEW HE WAS "HUTTING HIS DEAD AGAINST STONE WALL." Dr. Carrington, in opposing any action by the committee, said that he knew he was "butting his head against a stone wall." In referring to Mr. Wise's letter, he remarked that he had an idea Mr. Wise felt the same way about submitting his candidacy to the committee. Dr. Carrington did not hesitate to say at the opening of the meeting that he favored Haddon, but he urged that it was against the best policy that the committee could pursue to nominate a candidate. "If we nominate Mr. Haddon," said "If we nominate Mr. Haddon," said light right, "you will be told for him." Dr. Carrington added that it was utterly impossible for a Republican to hope to be elected and he insisted that Mr. Wise and Mr. Haddon should be allowed to fight it out at the polls on November 2. The doctor told the committee that he did not blame Mr. Wise for not submitting his candidacy to the committee, for he might have expected to get "his head mashed off." DUKE ONLY MEMBER WHO FAVORED WISE CANDIDACY Secretary Walter G. Duke" was the only member of the committee who stated that he favored Mr. Wise's candidacy. He asserted, however, after reading the letter from Mr. Wise, that the latter "had disqualified himself as a Democrat." He said he had expected to vote for Mr. Wise, but at the same time he put himself on record as favoring a nomination by the committee, and after the mazes of parliamentary procedure—several moves in which were rather unusual—Mr. Duke, with twenty of the twenty-two members of the committee, voted to make Mr. Haddon the nominee. Dr. Carrington asked that his name be passed when the roll was called on the motion to declare Mr. Haddon the party nominee. The vote stood 21 to 0 in favor of the motion. Dr. Carrington was called upon to make the act unanimous. He expressed himself in vigorous language against the determination of the committee to name a candidate, and was undecided whether he would pledge his support to the candidate. He reiterated his assertion that the committee had done Mr. Haddon an injunction. CHAIRMAN PURCELL ANNOUNCES CARRINGTON HAD VOTED "AYR" Finally Acting Chairman Purcell announced that Dr. Carrington had voted "ayr" and that Mr. Haddon was the A committee meeting to the party of Commissioner Allison Berry Dr. Carrington and the twenty-two for the selection. An effect was made before adjournment to bring Dr. Carrington's indication from the movement. The question came to a head when Commissioner Ferrandin offered a motion that the committee proceed to a nomination in compliance with a resolution adopted last Monday night. Dr. Carrington offered a substitute to lay Mr. Ferrandin's motion on the table for one week, the effect of which would have been to make it impossible for the committee to make a nomination, the lists closing this afternoon at six o'clock. In the course of the debate on the Carrington motion Chairman Saunders called Committeeman Purcell to the chair and assumed the duties of floor leader. Mr. Saunders read the election laws and asserted that there was no alternative for the committee; but to nominate Haddon. No other applition was for either body, he asserted, and it was due of duty to the committee to preserve party lines in the city by running a nominee. He cited precedents for the action, which he urged and declared that the committee owed it to the party to act. Dr. Carrington, Mr. Evans and Mr. Ryan opposed any action. It developed that each favored Mr. Haddon, but thought the committee should leave the choice to the voters at the polls. Mr. Ryan on the other hand, asserted that all the votes to the committee making a nomination came from friends of Mr. Wise. On the substitute to defer action on the Ferrandt motion, the vote stood 7 to 14 against the proposition. When the committee decided by a vote of 14 to nominate a candidate, Ir. Carrion moved that the committee adjourn. At several stages of the meeting it appeared that there was a possibility that the majority might overturn the set program, which provided for the nomination of Haddon. Chairman Sounders held conferences with several members during the proceedings, and members of the committee indulged the leader's choice, with Dr Carrington making no public announcement of his vote during the meeting—Richmond Times Dispatch, Oct. 12, 1915. LYNCHBURG SEMINARY OPENS FOR TERM VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY & COLLEGE BEGINS ITS 29TH SESSION On October first Virginia Theological Seminary and College began its 29th session. The attendance at the opening was considerably above the average and the grade of students high. The enrollment for the present collegiate institution was considerably higher than the history of the institution. All the departments of the institution are being very largely attended this year. Students come from all sections of the Nation, representing about twenty states, and from South America, the West Indies, Europe and Africa. Some changes obtain in the faculty this year. J. A. Jordan succeeds Mrs. G. M. DeBaptiste Paulkener and has charge of French and English Literature; J. E. Briggs is assisting in the Theology department and College work' Mrs. L. H. Bauer succeeds Mrs. M. C. Ewell as Principal; Frank H. Habton succeeds Miss R. S. Marks as Secretary to the President. The institution begins the system of social settlement work this year in connection with its classes in sociology; and other advanced steps are taken in modernizing courses generally. The other members of the faculty are those of the experienced members we have have to the school for a number of years and that turned to their respective positions. The work begins in a most auspicious way and promises to be one of the very bright years of the work. --- WIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 15th day of October, 1915. Delaware Bowies.....Plaintiff against IN CHANCERY Elizabeth Allen, Mary Johnson, and others "The heirs of Hiram H. Allen.....Defendants The object of the above styled suit is to enforce the partition and sale of the land lying in the lying and being in the City of Rich- mond, Virginia, being the western portion of the lot described in the tax bill of 1865 against John Adams, as lot between corporation line and Brook Road Alley, which said lot now has frontage or approximately twenty-two and one-half (22-12) feet by 100 feet and is now assessed in the name of Jones Allen as 22-12 by 100 feet and has improvements there on the property (40-70) by ford Street, and was formerly assoc- sed in the name of Hiram H. Allen An idolatvity having been made and filed that Mary Johnson one of the defendants is a hom. resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that the said Mary Johnson as defendant and party in interest and all other parties in interest though unknown to the plaintiff and upon whom process has not been served, do appear in the Clerk's office of our said Court within fifteen days after due publication of this order and to do what is necessary to protect their interest in this suit. A Copy, Teste: LUTHER LIBBY A girl, named by rugged, elemental men of the great Western frontier, living out her childhood in northern Mexico, was the most beautiful woman—that in Louisiana! This story commemorates this week in Papua New. ELECTRIC CIRCUIT TRAVES (Continued rows 1st Page.) electric lights, which could be had by pulling a chain, and wire screens were at the windows. I saw also a rope, there for use in case of fire. IN HOTEL SICAMOUS I sank into a chair. I wrote some cards to my friends and some copy for The Planet. I was several thousand miles from my home and friends in Richmond, the only colored person. Afro-American and sometimes called Negro, in Sicamous,—in the Canadian Rockies. The train with my colored West Indian friends had left the station and here all alone with myself and I sleep. I awoke early, and six o'clock. I walked out upon the railroad track. As I passed through the hotel office, I found that my friend, the hotel clerk was not at his post of duty. I strolled up the mountain side. THE AIR BRACING. The air was brushing and exhilarating. I was surprised when I came down in the roadway again. My feet were "as dry as a bone." There was no mountain dew, no moisture. The morning was clear. Oh, I delight in solitude! I found it that morning. I strolled for a mile on the river side. What did I see? I strayed from the pond. The times described it. The Eagle River leads us down to Shuswap Lake, so named from the Indian tribe that lived oil its banks and who still have a reserve there. A WORD PICTURE. It lies among the mountain ridges, and consequently extends its long narrow arms along the intervening valley like a huge octopus in half a dozen directions. These arms are many miles long, and vary from a few hundred yards to two or three miles in breadth, and their high, bold shores, fringed by the little narrow beach of sand and pebbles, with alternating bays and capes give beautiful views. I was deeply meditating in the morning air. Wild ducks were floating in the river. In the East thinned clouds formed a beautiful drapery for the rising sun as it peeped above the horizon to announce the coming of another fateful day. MOMENTS OF REVERIE. Ferguson to think. Memories of the past and hopes for the future crowded upon me and all alone I sank down upon a mountain log and gave up to deeper thoughts and more painful meditations. I was alone with God and nature and in the agony of my soul wanted to know, what more did manifest destiny have in store for me I looked at my watch. It had stopped since I started upon my journey. I was to leave St. Giannous that morning, I strolled leisurely back towards Hotel dismantled, which I could see in the distance. I saw Japanese or Chinese. I did not know which I spoke to both. One nodded recognizing but the other walked on unconcerned. I saw a boatman in a canoe. He was a white man I waved my hand at him. He returned the salute as I continued my tramp to the hotel for a morning's meal. A GLIMPSE AT THE DINING ROOM I saw a sign over the dining room door. "Persons not guests of the hotel must secure checks for meals at the clerk's desk." I walked to the dining room door. A white lady with a sad, but sweet face enquired of me in a hotel. I was stopping in the hotel. I replied she conducted me to a seat at a table, where a white waitress passed me a menu card and I ordered breakfast in just as low a tone as she had spoken to me. White guests in limited numbers were coming in now. In a short time the morning's repast was before SILENCE THERE. This place was almost an silent as the grave, no jollity of any description, methodical service and excellent repasts were served with studious punctuality. One would think that each person had a brother, a father, a son or a relative in the over-season, old man or dying upon the battlefields in Planter's shed the meal and after tipping the table passed out. The white porter brought down my luggage. I wrote a few postcards to friends I had felt behind me and with the announcement that the wey-bound train was coming, I passed out to the platform where a few moments later I was taking a last look at that frame structure, where I had spent the night before—the Hotel Steamwood in the city, the great Canadian Rockies of North America, John Merritt. --- Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. required by the Act of August 4, 1912, of Planet published weekly by Richmond, Va. for October 1, 1915. Editor—John Mitchell 15 Managing Editor—John Mitchell, Jr. Business Manager—John Mitchell, Jr. Publisher—John Mitchell, Jr. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: (If there are none so state.) No bondholders or mortgages or other security holder. Average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above. (This information is required from daily newspapers only) JOHN MIRCULLY, JR. Sword to and submitted before me this ninth day of October, 1915. J. B. BYRN, Notary Public. (email) mycommission@may4.2016 Capture Both the Town and Fortress of Semendira, on Danube east of Belgrade. Soon after news was received in London that Bulgaria had begun an attack, upon Serbia the Bulgarian minister to Great Britain was handed his passport. The Austro-Gorman forward movement over the whole Serbian front is making good progress, according to the announcement in Berlin. Both the town fortress of Semendria, on the Danube east of Belgrade have been captured, the announcement says. News of the Bulgarian attack upon Serbia comes in a deepatch from Nish which says that Lie Bulgarians are attacking the Serbian positions in two localities, one at Vilkikflavor, in the region of Zasilchar, and the other at Kadilogaz, in the region of Knishevatz. The distance between Zastchar and the Rumanian frontier upon the Danube is not more than thirty miles in a straight line, and the Bulkarian attack is directed against the railway from the Danube to Nish, Uskub and Salontka, connecting Rumania with the Aegean sea. The Serbian legation in London received news of a Bulkarian attack near Vlasina. The despatch, which comes from Nish, says: "Bulgarians began an attack in the direction of Vlasina. All attacks up to the present have been repulsed decisively." Opening of hostilities against Serbia by Bulkaria has been a foregone conclusion since the rupture between Bulkaria and the allies. Military experts have assumed that when Bulgaria struck she would attempt to seize the railroad running from Belgrade to Constantinople by way of Nish. This railroad serves as the main road over which Anglo-French troops landed at Salonika, Greece, can be transported into northern Serbia, runs parallel to the Bulgarian western frontier at a distance varying from eighteen to thirty-six miles. A despatch from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, says that General Jeoff, Bulgarian minister of war, who has just been appointed commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian forces, said in a statement to representatives of the foreign press: "Bulgaria does not desire war. We mobilized only when the Serbsian, instead of giving up Macedonia, concentrated troops on the Bulgarian frontier. "Instead of compelling the Serbians to adopt a complaisant attitude the quadruple entente presented an ultimatum to Bulgaria, demanding-an immediate breach with the central powers. This would have meant suicide for us." GERMANS IN FLIGHT Russians Take Offensive and Pierce Teuton Lines in Gallica. Russian forces have plundered the Austro-German lines on the Stripa river. They have already taken prisoners more than 2000 men and sixty officers and have captured four guns and ten rapid rifles. The Russian advance in that region is being pushed vigorously. The scene of this Russian victory is in eastern Galicia, where the troops of Emporor Nicholas started a formidable offensive, colpecident with the opening of the Teutonic campaign against Serbia. The attack is being made north of the Rumanian border, and may have been undertaken with a view to the political effect on the Balkan situation. The Stripa river is a branch of the Dnister, extending to the north, west of Tarnopol. Successful operations against the Germans in the vicinity of Dvask are recorded in the official statement of the general staff. Although little stress is laid upon it in the official report, the success obtained by the Russians in a counter-attack on a front twelve miles long from Garbonovka to Lautzenheghe was a decided one. The new positions occupied by the Russians around Drinkn fully cover the city and its environs and the taking up of the new lines has neutralized previous German successes. Savoff Quita Bulge Army General Savoff, the Bulkarian general, who won fame in the Balkan wars, is reported to have been retired by King Ferdinand at his own request, because he did not wish to fight against Russia. German Hangars at Ghent Destroyed All German hangars and their contents on the Ghent aviation grounds have been destroyed by an allied aeroplane raid, according to the Amsterdam Echo Belge. U-Boat Sinks British Ship The British steamship Haltisomes, 5093 tons, in the South American trade, was sunk by a German submarine. The crew was saved. British Loss, in Nine Days, 21,000 British casualties reported since October 1 amount to more than 21,000. The week-end casulty that gives 300 officers and 600 men. This brings up the issue, which also published in the London paper since the first of the month, that the British casualties are A navy dugout from Moscow to Petrograd says Bulgaria has refused Russia's demand that she never relations with Germany, and in turn has sent an ultimatum to Serbia demanding the relinquishment of control over Macedonia within twenty-four hours. Rumania has sent troops to the Bulgarian frontier and is fortifying her border forts. Following a break between King Constantine of Greece and Premier Venizelos, because the king refused to accept the premier's pro-ally policy, Venizelos restrained his high post. Unofficial despatches from Petrograd say the Russians have taken the offensive from Riga to Dvinsk. Russian military experts say the German effort to take those cities for winter quarters has failed. THURSDAY. Serbia has been invaded by large forces of German and Austrian troops. A few hours before this, Serbia rejected Bulkaria's ultimatum demanding the cession of Macedonian territory. French troops have captured the village of Tahure and a hill in the Champagne region within a mile and a half of the railroad by the Germans as a supply line. Four German counter-attacks against positions recently captured near Souchez, have been repulsed, Paris announces. Heavy artillery firing is in progress at many places along the western battle line. Berlin official statements say General von Hindenburg has pierced the Russian line at three places near Dvinsk, and that the German land batteries have damaged a Russian torpedo boat in the Gulf of Riga. Petrograd asserts that the German offensive has been weakened and that the Russians are on the offensive between Riga and a point east of Vilna. FRIDAY Bulgaria definitely announced she will fight on the side of Germany and Austria. Simultaneously, despatches were received that a Russian fleet has bombed Varna, a Bulgarian, port on the Black sea, while an allied fleet is threatening Dedecatch, on the Aegean. The Germans Invading Serbia from the north announce progress south of Belgrade. The Greek cabinet has decided not to give military aid to Serbia, as is called for under a treaty between the two nations, but has declared a "beenevulent neutrality" toward the entente nations. Petrograd admits the Germans have penetrated the Russian lines south of Dvinsk, and have gained successes in heavy fighting near Vilna. Hard fighting is reported near the village of Tahure, behind which is the German supply railroad line, which the French troops are trying to reach or destroy. SATURDAY Bulgaria definitely announced she will fight on the side of Germany and Austria. Simultaneously, despatches were received that a Russian fleet has bombed Varna, a Bulgarian post on the Black sea, while an allied fleet is threatening Dedeagatch, on the Aegean. The Germans invading Serbia from the north announce progress south of Belgrade. The Greek cabinet has decided not to give military aid to Serbia, as is called for under a treaty between the two nations, but has declared a "benevolent neutrality" toward the entente nations. Petragrad admits the Germans have penetrated the Russian lines south of Dvinsk, and have gained successes in heavy fighting near Vilna. Hard fighting is reported near the village of Tahure, behind which is the German supply railroad line, which the French troops are trying to reach or destroy. SUNDAY The Teutonic forces are now in complete possession of Bolgade and the heights surrounding the city, while Serbian army has been beaten back. Bolgade was not badly damaged by the bombardment, and most of the civilian population remained after the Germanic occupation. The Greek cabinet discusses policy the country shall pursue in present crisis, but no agreement is reached. The French report capture of German trench at Tahure with progress at other points, while Germans report recapture of trenches at Soschez recently lost. Berlin announces capture of Russian positions on a five-mile front around the defenses of Dvinsk. MONDAY Austro-German troops continue, to advance south of Belgrade, with the Serb army, delaying the Teuton prograns, supposedly so permit the arrival of allied forces landed in Greece. British officers and artillery are now reported to be with the Serbiae. French official statements say the French have taken another trench near Tahure, in the Champagne region, and that during the assaults upon the allied line, near Locs, in the last few days, between 7000 and 8000 German dead were left on the field. Berlin reports the capture of French trenches over a front of two miles in the Champagne. German forces have, been held in check near Drink and in front of Riga, according to Petrotroued, but Teutonic troops have cropped the Styr, in Russia, near the Austrian border. The silkest and most daring female snuck-thief to be arrested here in years was apprehended late yesterday afternoon, by Detective Sorgeante Wily and Kellam, in the opinion of members of the police and detective force. At the station house she gave the name of Lillie Hamilton, colorist; nineteen years old. She will be arraigned in the Police Court to day on two charges of breaking into houses and robbing them, and it is said that as many as fifteen or twenty additional charges will be entered against her within the next few days. The specific charges against the woman allego that she entered the house at 205 East Franklin Street last Saturday night. Once within the house she is alleged to have entered the apartments of Miss F. G. Houston and that of Miss H. S. Noll, stealing a watch from Miss Houston and a handsome dress, as well as other clothing from Miss Noll. The watch and the dress, to gether with several articles of articles, were recovered among the mass of dresses and jewelry found in the woman's home last night by the detectives. The woman confessed to Wily and Kollam that she stole these articles and also confessed to the robbery of R. L. Winston's house. I West Grace St. last June. HAS BEEN A ROBBERY EACH SATURDAY NIGHT. Police of both the uptown and down town districts have been after the woman for weeks. Every Saturday night there has been a robbery all of which bore traces of having been committed by the same person. Detectives sought in vain for the guilty party. They were kept in Headquarters and rushed to the houses as soon as reports were filed, arriving sometimes only a few minutes after the robbery had been committed, but never were they able to get a definite clue. In no case was the thief seen by persons within the house. Several times the detectives succeeded in locating persons who had seen a woman leave the house which had been robbed. In every case these persons reported that it was a light colored Negro woman, small of stature and carrying a pillow case under her arm. They supposed it was some washwoman leaving the house with clothing. All of the robberies were committed between 6 and 9 o'clock Saturday evening. For days the detectives searched for the woman until at last yesterday afternoon they obtained the clue which led to her arrest. They discovered that the Hamilton woman lived at 911 North Third Street. Thither they journeyed, only to find that she was at 4 East Charity St. A search of that place brought her to light. She was seized a quip of clothing and to the Second Station, while the detectives went back to her home and searched it. There they found a mass of handsome clothes, a great collection of handbags, several articles of jewelry and in the opinion of the detectives one of the finest assortments of skeleton keys yet captured from an alleged thief. The jewelry furnishes some of the best evidence against the woman although it is said the owner will be able to identify all of the suits, sport coats, sweaters and other articles of dress which the detectives found in the pieces of jewelry consisted of a very handsome rosary while other articles were gold powder boxes and similar trinkets. In the house the officers found nearly fifty pillow slips, said to have been taken from the beds in the houses she robbed and used to carry away her booty. The woman used the same methods in every robbery. There were but few instances in the job of jewelry robbery, several robberies having been reported where jewelry had been left in the room in full view. Her passion seemed to be fine clothes and she did not stop until she had riffed the entire wardrobe of an apartment. What she was very daring in committing the robberies: is well known. In one case she is known to have climbed three flights of back stairs to reach the apartment she robbed. FOUND FRONT DOOR UNLOCKED AND WALKED IN. She admitted to the detectives that she found the front door of the house at 205 East Franklin Street unlocked and walked in. She proceeded to the second floor and knocked at the door of Miss Houston's and Miss Nolin's apartments. Receiving no response she entered and ransacked each apartment. In most cases the detectives found that the woman had had the clothes altered to fit her. They recovered, several suits from a dressmaker, who was in the process of remodeling suits for her at the time of her arrest. The house said to have been robbed by the Hamilton woman are those at 205 East Franklin, 1 West Green, 201 East Franklin, 207 Best Cray, 207 Best Cray, 401 Best Main, 1015 Best Marshall, 1037 Best Franklin and 1005 Best Marshall 96. the agent and to have stabbed grandmother all of the Christmas presents of holiday time. Lena, bearing the birth of the Hotel Blakemond, was sworn in her room by the detective. The woman admitted that she, her mother and sister took in washing, and it is believed she gained first access into the house she robbed later by this means. (Times Dispatch) Last Friday Night at the Y. M. C. A. the members of the library rendered a very excellent programme and every man was happy. Prof. J. W. BARCO the teacher of the Saturday Evening Bible. Class was glad to welcome new members last. Saturday. Everybody enjoyed the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson. Last Sunday was a day of much work. The workers' meeting 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. was a very helpful one and all took an active part. ful one and all took an active part 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the boys' meeting was conducted by Mr. Robt. Pervall and he knows how to inter- t服 boys. Mothers help make this department a great help to your boys. Committee A. C. Clark was a live wire with men 5:30 P. M. Subject: Work. The attendance was good and every fellow had a word. The orchestra for their Bible Class played on Tuesday 7 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. The boys are taking an active part. A special course is given them: The Bible Class for mgn is taking on new life for the season for this was proven last Tuesday Night at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Do not fail to come to the Y. M. C. A. today 5 P. M. to hear the exe- planation on the Sunday School Lesson. Everybody is invited to come and bring a friend. While Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. All workers are invited to the meeting for workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will conduct the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Robert Pervall will sing special solos. Tell every boy that he is welcome. Every man is invited to the great meeting for men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. A special address will be delivered to men by President John S. Powell. Subject: THE MAN WHO WINS. Dr. Q. W. Moon will sing special solos. Every man is asked to come and bring the other man. Be on time. Do not forget that the Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course will open Monday Night October 18th. S. P. M. at the Emanuel Baptist Church. Dr. W. H. Skolars will deliver a lecture that he has prepared for this hour and cost him much. Subject: Battles Lost and Won. The Forum's Quarterly will sing music which has been arranged for this occasion. Not one can afford to miss this very profitable hour. Admission . . . 10 cents. Be a committee and help us make this a great success. The work in the city home and jail last Sunday) was a great success and the work was appreciated. Let no home forget to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. Night School now open for the season. Come and bring your friend. LEESBURG (VA.) ITEMS. Miss Marie Morton arrived home this week from G. A. R., Washington, D. C. Our pastor, Rev. E. D. Tysler, D. D was at his post of duty Sunday all day. At 11:15 he mounted the stand, with Rev. W. R. Manley and Hro. Lane Daw of Washington, who is doing business here as a barber. After devotional exercise he moved from school from the subject, Christ Sooking His Own, Ezekiel 34-11. For thus saith the Lord God behold I even I will both search my sheep and seek them out. Never man spoke like he did. He hold his audience spellbound for fifty minutes. Sister, Smith, of Baltimore worshipped with us. She is a member of Dr. Harvey Johnson's Church. Sunday School, at 2:30. A good school greeted the Superintendent and Teachers. It was the Doctor's twelfth university with us. At eight schools God Seemed to Church for Sin, Text, Zacharia, 1-12. A practical, straightforward sermon as only he can do. It was enjoyed by all except the guilty. It being rally day with us, $80 was raised. Mrs. Hannah McCoy, of Washington was the guest of her sister, Sunday. Mr. Squirra Robinson, of St. Louis, Va. died at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. The funeral will take place Tuesday from his residence Mr. Robinson was well thought of in the community and was one of some accumulation. He leaves to monn his loss, Mr. Henry Robinson of Waverly Heights, Leucburg, Va. W. L. J. U. S. Aviator Falls to Death Lieutenant Walter A. Tallferro, of the army aviation school at North Island, fell, eleven hundred feet into San Diego bay, at San Diego, while making a trial flight, and was drowned. The body has not been recovered. Lieutenant Tallferro was alone in his flying machine when he made the trial. Mrs. Daniela Robbed Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of secretary of the navy, and Mrs. Page, wife of congressman Page, were victims of jobbers while attending the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Daniels lost a silver purse and valuables; Mrs. Page a diamond brooch. Mrs. George D. Widener Weds Mrs. George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, whose husband perished on the Titanic three years ago but Agelli, who martyred in Boston to Dr. Alexander Hamilton Brown, Boston physician and engineer. The ceremony was performed by Bemidji University School by Bemidji University. A devastating fire last Sunday morning destroyed many buildings on Virginia Street, along with Greenwich warehouse. The loss of life was distressing... The falling wall resulted in the following disaster: T. C. Captain R. M. Norment, of Engine Company No. 1. C. L. Atkinson. W. R. Qdell. The injured are: A. K. Davenport and T. D. C. Johnson. Both of these mem are members of the same company of which the men who lost their wore are included. Fireman Mr. Namara of Engine Company No. 3 was struck or the head by a falling brick and it was necessary to take several stitches if the scalp. WERE EXTINGUISHING BLAZE WHEN WALL TOPPLED OVER Captain Norment with Atkinson Odell, Davenport and Johnson, was engaged in extinguishing the fire in the smoldering ruins of the F. V. Gunn & Co. building on Virginia Street when an explosion, in the building occupied by D. S. Harwood loosened the partition wall. The wall fell with a crash which was heard for blocks and buried all of the men beneath the mass of bricks and timber. The exception of Johnson, whose heil and burning embers not covered by the debris, all were hidden in the ruin. Scores of firemen and policemen rushed into the building before the dust and burning embers had settled and began groping for the men. It required nearly half an hour's work to release Johnson. Davenport was the next man to be dug out, and these two men were rushed to Virginia Hospital. Within the next hour Atkinson and Odell were dug out, and they too, were been to the hospital. However Atkinson son died from the accident, removed from an ambulance, and Od尔 such cumbed a few minutes after he had been taken into the institution. LONG FIGHT TO GET BODY OF CAPTAIN NORMENT. Meanwhile desperate efforts were being made to locate the body of Captain Norment. The wall fell about 1:30 o'clock and it was not until after 2 o'clock that the rescuers succeeded in locating the body and in dragging it out. Captain Norment was dead and had been for his body were horribly crushed, and it is estimated that he was buried at least eight feet beneath the top of the debris. Early estimates of $500,000 damage done to property and stock by the confaguration were considered conservative yesterday after fire chiefs, the proprietors of the various business houses and insurance people had investigated. Practically all of this loss is covered by insurance, it is said. FIRE ORIGINATES IN BASEMENT OF CRENSHAW WAREHOUSE The fire originated in one of the und-ground floors of Cronswain Warehouse, 107 Shockoe Slip, and the entire building was a caldron of flame when it was discovered. It had been impossible to determine the origin of the fire yesterday. It was found in a 1,000-unit apartment of tobacco, the property of the Italian government, was stored in the warehouse and this fact gave rise to the suspicion that the fire was not of incidental origin. This view is not taken by officials of the warehouse or the police, however. They are, of the opinion that some one threw a clear stump or a half extinguished match on the floor near the stables in the warehouse, and it ignited the trash and tinder in which the place is said to have abounded. R. M. Baghy one of the watchmen who was thought to have been burned in the building escaped by a narrow margin. He was confined to his bed yesterday as a result of burns about the face and hands which he sustained in the fire. C. P. Fujin, the after watchman who was also thought to have been killed, was located early yesterday morning in the First Precinct Station, having been locked up early in the night on a charge of being drunk. BAGBY TELLS OF HIS ESCAPE FROM FLAMES Bagby said that he sent Fouquia out of the building about 3 o'clock to get some sandwiches. The man was so long returning that Bagby said he threw, himself on a bench near the stairway on the ground floor of the building. He was awakened by the heat under his feet and the smoke with which the building was filled. Bagby said that as he straightened up from the bench a tongue of fame darted up the stairway. He threw a bucket of water on it and went to secure more, thinking it but a small fire. When he returned from the hydrant, the enclosure from the bench was enveloped in flame. The watchman throw his bucket of water on the mass of fire and turned back toward the hydrant. As he did so he noticed that the stairway was acting as a flue for the drift and that already a sheet of game separated him from the street door. In desperation, he plunged into the fire and struggled for the exit. Badly scorched about the eyebrows and the head and with his face and hands a mass of blisters he managed to find his way to the air. Once outside the building, Bagby claims to have sped to the alarm box on the corner and to have sounded the alarm. FIRE GAINED HEADWAY BEFORE FIRST ALARM The apparatus was on the scene in a few minutes, but already the entire ground floor of the warehouse was filled with fire, and a second alarm to be followed a few minutes later by a third, was ringing. In every piece of computer, was hurried to the scene and soon had the streams playing on the fire. Bagby said that the police rouses were stretched in short order, and that he was unable to get through them. He admits to have stood on the corner and watched the fire until alarmed, of course, he had been in the hotel and enquired a police officer who was located about downtown. you are able to access the option for the customization. It's now time to appear that the department would be unable to get control of the fire, and that the entire block, in which are located many of the principal commission houses and municipal brokers' establishments, as well as the tobacco warehouse, would be a safe place with desperate fighting and by turning their attention to the buildings which had not yet caught, the firemen succeeded in keeping the fire away from most of the Cary Street places. WIND(SWEEPES EMBFIRM BACK FROM CARY STREET In this the wind was an able assistant, for it swept the mass of sparks and glowing embers which rose from the warehouse toward the yards of the Southern Railway, and there many of them died without doing more damage. But showers of the sparks fell on the roofs of the places on Virginia Street, and soon fires were springing out of this locality. Fire companies were transferred there, and the fire was fought desperately for about two hours. The building occupied, by F. V. Gunn & Co. committed, and it was impossible to prevent the fire of all the blue "spread" to the adjoining buildings, in which the Gunn Disinfecting Company the Federal Sugar Refining Company, the R. A. Cauthorne Paper Company and the Fleming Brothers places are located, and soon these buildings were burning briskly. The walls of the Charles E. Smith building were drenched, and in spite of the heat and sparks, this building was saved. The other buildings on Virginia Street, though, burned like so much tinder, and the heat forced back the throng of people crowded close to the police rope. It was soon evident that none of these places, except that on the corner, could be saved. The corner stores were prevented from catching, and with the exception of water damage and scorching in the rear they escaped. Back at the Crenshaw warehouse the firemen were facing one of the hottest fires in the history of the city. With both of the underground floors a pot of nothing flame, the fibres ahoye ground became a solid mass of fire. From every window spotted tongues of flame, which licked at the cornerse of the Shockoe Warehouse across the narrow alleyway. These walls were drenched and several fires on them extinguished. From the roof of the Crenshaw building row a swirling, colling mass of flame and smoke. The caying in of this roof was spectacular. The great sheet of fire and heavy timbers gave way at the cornerse and collapsed into the building with a crash. Showers of sparks were sent spritzing skyward, where the caying whirlled them about in a horribly beautiful spectacle. Underneath them the entire building was still enveloped in solid flame there being at small space for smoke there. For hours the mass formed brick- ly and then began to die down as it was consumed. At the same streaming water agitated, they drenched the flames. FIRE NOT UNDER CONTROL FOR NEARLY THREE HOURS It was not until the conflagration had been burning to about three hours that the firemen began to have hopes of saving the other buildings on the block. By that time they had succeeded in extinguishing the fire in the rear of the Carr Street houses with the exception of the L. Neal Cols place, and in setting the blaze in the Virginia N. establishments fairly well under control. They concentrated on the buildings a short time after, and after nearly an hour a fight succeeded in inducing them to tendering ruins. With most of the conflagration out, but with all the aspirates being kept on the scene should the fire break out again, the work of smoother bring out the smoldering debris began. Several other companies were working in the Crenshaw Warehouse and in the Neal building, as well as in the rear of the buildings on Virginia Street, when Captain Normant of Engine Company No. 1, on Twenty-fifth Street, near Broad Street, left the four, men of his company into the Gunn doorway. Normert was ahead, as he always was, according to Fire Chief Joynes and Atkinson and Oddie were at the nozzle of the hose. Davenport and Johnson were dragging the those into the building. Normert and men next to him had about thirty feet into the building and were playing the mass on the mass of gold on the merchandise when a tank of oil exploded in the Harwood building next door exploded. The tank was located, near the partition wall. With the shock of the explosion the already tottering wall gave way. WALL SUDDENLY FALLS ON COMPANY OF FIREMEN Buckling near the ground it simply collapsed. Silently as the weight of a spring, trap the heavy mass of bricks mortar and metal came down on the men at its base. The crash made when it struck the floor was deafening and the air was filled with dust, livid coals and ashes. For a second those who were at work out, side the building could not grasp the enormity of the disaster. They stood mutely staring at the high pile under which their comrades were buried. Then the crisp commands of the lieutenants and the other officers were heard. A score of firemen and policemen leaped into the building and began digging at the hot bricks with their bare hands. Order came from chaos in a few seconds, and men were rushed o'r trucks for picks and showels. Chief Joryne and Assistant Chief Raffo and Wise were notified and hurried to the spot. Then the work of the rescue began in earnest. No time was lost. Every man plied his implement as though his own life depended upon his enemies, and gradually the height of the mass diminished. 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Lovers writes, "After having used every known advertised hair grower for years with no results I tried Hair Root Hair Grower and continued faithfully for 16 months, now my hair is 29 inches (it's 4 inches) when I started. I believe every woman can grow her hair one half to two inches a month by using Hair Root." HAIR ROOT GROWER IS 50: A BOX Agents Wanted Everywhere. Make Big Profits 'Address all mail and money order' to ROYAL CHEMICAL COMPANY ROANOKE (VA.) ITEMS. The Right Rev Bishop I. J. Coppia of Philadelphia, Pa. now Presiding Bishop over Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina preached at Cave Springs Sunday morning, at 11 a.m. A. M., dedicating that Church to the service of the Great Head of the Church and for the purpose destined by Him that doom all things well. He also dedicated the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church in Rounkoo City, Sunday evening at 3:30 P. M. It is located on 10th street and Norfolk avenue. The larger audience was impressive. The service greatly impressed indeed. We hope for untold future good from the work of the day, for indeed there is no organization in the whole world so useful as the Church of God and His Christ. Text, Iaish 56-6. At night Bishop Coppin preached to a large congregation. P.E. George R. Jones introduced the Bishop. Read Scripture lesson, the 24th division of the Psalms. The Bishop took for a text, these words. The lines are fallen to us in pleasant places and we have a goodly heritage. The Bishop handled his subject masterly and all who heard him returned to their homes saying deep down in their hearts, I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord. The Rev. James H. Burka has been indisposed since Sunday, October 3rd and is yet connected to the beast of the Church on the Old Street, Baptist Church and the Churches generally throughout the city are praying for his recovery. We keenly feel the force of a good man when he becomes inactive to the end he cannot move around the streets and mingle in so society to their uplift and promotion for good. Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church raised Sunday in a special effort the sum of one hundred and one dollars for the Trustees Department under the auspices of Rev. G. C. Taylor, D. D., pastor and the memberhp. 14 YEAROLD NEGRO DISS FOR ASSAULT UPON WHITE GIRL Jackson, G. Sept. 24.—Joe Persona a Negro boy not more than 14 years old, was hanged here to day for asaulting an 8 year old white girl To the half hundred person around the scaffold the boy admitted he committed the crime and statically announced he was ready to die. Although he weighed only seventy-five pounds his neck was broken by the fall. Oursure did not attack the weight to Persona, as presumed to have committed them possibly necessary to successfully罢坐 him. ```markdown ``` A. Mrs. Julia Luffett, LS St., N. Y. City Traveling Agent Serial No. 1141 P. O. BON ST. STATION E. patrol automobile. Davenport was located and brought out, also unconscious. Chauffeur Metcalf was given instructions to hurry and, with Porterian Cousins in the rear of the car with the two injured men, dashed for Virginia Hospital. The emergency room at the institution in short order, and soon surgeons were bringing the injured back to consciousness. NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA Florence, S. C. Oct. 15.—Mrs. G. A. Gulder and son, Edward R. Gulder, arrived here from New York recently. After spending a few days visiting relatives, they will leave for Jacksonville, Fla., their home. Dr. J. J. Graham, of Marum and Miss Estelle Walker of the same city were married Wednesday, the 6ty/int. at four o'clock P. M. Dr. Graham graduated from Shaw University, class of 1911. They left here for Jacksonville and Charleston on a bridal trip recently. The colors were green and white. Miss Harriet Vanburen, of Sumter, S. C. played the wedding march. Prof. T. J. Bell, of Mullins, played the cornet. The marriage was one of the finest yet in Marion and took place at the M. E. Church, South Main St. Miss Vanburen passed through the city enroute for home Sunday, P. M. She will leave Sumter in a few days for Summerton Graded School. Mrs. B. B. Betheh, of Latta, S. C. passed through the city recently, returning from a trip to Jackson and Green Co. Fla. COLUMBUS, OHIO Can Hunt Wild Turkeys Wild turkeys will be legitimate game in Pennsylvania for the first time in two years on and after next Friday, October 15. They have had time to breed and are to be found in considerable numbers. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA. - FLOUR quiet; winter $129, $139; city mills, fancy $66, $60. YEAR FLOUR - Quiet; per barrel, $5 WHAT 4mm; No. 2 red, new $112, $110. CORN F. No. 2 yellow, 744/756. OATS F. No. 2 white, 44/756. lower gravy 1.5 oz steamy; beans 154 156; old roosters, 115/126; Dressed stylish; choice towels, 20c; old roosters, 120. BUTTER quiet: fancy creamery, 31c. per lb. EGGS steady, selected, 37¢ 30¢; nearby, 25¢, western, 35¢. Live Stock Quotations CHICAGO, IPOG—Market 10£ 20¢, higher, Mint and butters, $7.70 8.90; good heavy, $7.90; heavy, heavy, $7.90; light, $7.90; rough plains, $6.50; soft, $6.50; CATTLE, Market 15£ 20¢, lower, Reeves, $1.10; 10.15; cows and hoppers, $2.25; Towans, $6.55; calf- s, $6.55; SHEEP, Market, use, lower, Na- tive and western, $6.30; lambs, $6.80. One evidence of the country's pro- perty is that the press agents for prima domains are becoming active in a manner that shows confidence in the coming season. JAMES H. COLEMAN DEALERS 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 (FORMERLY A. AND M. COLLEGE) AND CONTINUE FIVE WEEKS. Write for catalog. Secure lodging in advance. Address, J.-H. 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GO TO THE Industrial Union Institute For the largest galleries and one of the best studios in the world, the Union Institute is located at 100 West 10th Street, New York, N.Y. 10001. ```markdown ``` Misgovernment is Denounce. AT MASS MEETING. It is sunrise in Richmond to day! Bishop Collins, Donny, of the Metropolitan Church of Church, South shore of the village, to 1,500 men and women gathered last night in the auditorium of John Marshall Hwy. School in response to a call for a mass meeting to be probed against recent instances of misgovernment in the Board of Police Commissioners. Such an assembly of citizens come together, in spite of the downpour of rain, be said, unguarded well for the better government of the city in the future. It marked the city's outrage postall. Before him she appeared at the news tenor. Some of them were bitter in the denunciation of police commissioners. Wool and Gooden, all of them agreed that at the bottom of the recently unveiled shame of the Police Department lay the aptly relationship that permitted such men under fire to hold service. MASS METTING UNANIMAL SLAM ABOUTS STRONG RESOLUTION And when a worthy one of the officers had their say, the last one was Attorney General John Garland. He laid the mass-meeting without a dissenting vote adopted a legal resolution, admitted by a committee of which, T. M. Carrington was chair man. Calling upon the City Council to demand the recruitment of Commissioners (Thin Weil, and If) and its resignation is not forthcoming, to take such legal steps as may be necessary to effect his immediate removal. Demanding that the successors of Commissioners, Haykin and Weil shall be men whose personal lives are above reproach. Condemning the contempt for justice in opinion and the disregard for justice and fair play displayed by a voting majority of the Police Board at the meeting September 5th, at which Sergeant Krenkel was dropped and Sergeant Shimington was demoted. Pring upon voters of the city the necessity for participating in the affairs of the government in order that the disgrace of recent memory may not be repeated. Directing the chairman of the meeting to appoint a committee of five to take the necessary steps to register the views expressed in the resolutions. DEEPENING ROAR GREETS CALL FOR "AYES" The paper was read to the gathering by Roy B. H. Melton, a member of the Vice Commission, who acted as secretary of the meeting. It was presented after seconding speeches by Judge George L. Christian Attorney George Bryan and Attorney General Pollard by Chairman Christopher B. Garnett, and was adopted with a deafening roar of laves." The call for "noos" found the big hall silent. In spite of the steady down pour that had kept up all day, the large auditorium of the High School was filled to the doors. On the ground floor practically every seat was taken and three fourths of the balcony was full. The overflow meeting which had been planned for Broad Street Methodist Church was abandoned because of the inclement weather. Had the weather been fair, it was freely conceded, the High School auditorium would not have been large enough to hold the crowd. NO MUSTAKING DEEP EARNESTNESS OF MEETIN There was no mistaking the meeting's earnestness. The crowd embraced representatives from every walk of life. There were middle-aged business men in large number, merchants, lawyers, doctors, and clerims of every other trade and calligraphy. There were between 100 and 200 women. The crowd followed closely the speakers of the event, and applauded liberally the oft repeated appeal for a wider participation in public affairs as the surest sanction against misgovernment. Among those who occupied seats on the platform were, Murray M. McGuire, Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D. D: Christopher B. Garnett, Judge George L. Christian, George Brian Roy W. A. Cooper, John C. Easley Dr D. R Anderson Roy, Frank M. McFaden D. D: Rev. B. H. Mellon, Bishop Collins Denny and Attorney General John Garland Pollard. MEN PRODUCTS OF SYSTEM SAYS JOHN C. EASLEY Mr Easley, on the following Chairman Garnett on the speaking programme, told the mass-meeting that while the recent police developments were disgraceful and in a degree traceable to the personal facts of certain commissioners, these men are the product of a system for watch the rotten are primarily responsible. "We have these disgraceful conditions, because the city of Richmond has not attended to its own business," declared Mr. Easley. "We have slept while our servants have become our masters. Disgrace and shame have resulted. But if this disgrace will result in a better understanding of our responsibility as citizens and will make impossible its repetition, I hall it as a Meaning in disgrace." McQUIRE DEPENDS RECORDS OF KRIENGEL. Mr. McQuire, who acted as coun- sel for the Vice Commission during the police investigation, devoted a thirty-minute talk to an examination of the testimony beating upon Sergeant Krongel's trafficking in jewelry and other alleged irregular acts. He quoted liberally from the records of the investigating committee to show that Krongel is not nearly so blameworthy as he is painted, and as he was published to the city in Mr. Well's recent statement, in which he undertook to explain why he voted on September 29, to drop the detective sergeant from the force. Mr. Metcalfe pointed to the fact that Mr. Well made no effort to explain why he voted to deputy Sergeant Shomaker. Mr. Well's statement with respect to Krengel, he said was essentially composed of half truths, and was not in the least confusing. The real ultimus for Mr. Well's desire to drop Krengel and dominate Shomaker, he coughed, arose from the fact that the one gave damaging testimony against him at the police investigation, and the other testified to Krengel's good character. NOT YET EMPTED SEATS THAT OUGHT TO BE EMPTED "The storm of indignation that was created by the Police Board, action of September 20," declared Bishop Denny, "has already emptied some of the seat on the board, but if it has not yet emptied all that could be emptied, let it be understood from one end of the city to the other that this is not a little summer thunderstorm that will soon give way to mild chill and renewal indifference, but a hurricane that will sweep out of office every public official who has misused the trust required in him by the police. This meeting, with the sea of up- turned faces, is symbolic of an awakened Richmond. It is sunshine in Richmond to day. The Thinks tines are up, but we will rise across cities and give them battle. From now on we will march forward to the goal of better government. We will clear the right men for our government, for we know that no number of government is better than the men who we put in to operat- MUN VILL WRECK ANY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT We may evolve tomorrow a new form of government, which we must treat as a perfect as the Constitution was regarded by our forefathers, but bad men will wreck it. We want a system of government that will provide a surer way for finding out what responsible for mismanagement and maintenance and a quicker way to bring them to the bloom, which they ought to be beheaded. Dr Anderson who followed Bishop Benny, declared boldly that the most thinking citizens demanded the resumption of Commissioners Week and the replacing of the deceased commissioners, with men who reputations are alive represent. He predicted the coming soon of a better form of government for the city of Richmond a form of government in which the people shall be responsible in which the people will run the city and not the borough. The Mayor or the Council Mr. Carrionnion, followed Dr. An- derson's address, reported the result which were read from the plat- form by Rev B. H. Melton, Chair- man Gaffney,载ed upon George B. Jude, Critchion and Attorney Gregory Collard who sounded the adoption of the paper in short BANK THOSE WHO FAIL TO QUALIFY AND VOTE Judge Christian declared his gratuitous death at the great outpouring in the interest of the public welfare. The crowd that had braved the weather to be present at this meeting, he said prepared a brighter day for Richmond. The chief blame for ungovernment in Richmond he said is to be laid against the 15,000 of the potential electorate of 25,000 who have taken no part in the greatest duty of citizenship. If police conditions in the city are shameful, he said, let none of these 15,000 raise his voice in protest, for he has no right to complain. Mr. Bryan was sharp in his denunciation of the action of Commissioners Goodle and Well in sitting as judges in a matter in which they had personal interest at stake. When self the wavering balance holds it is seldom well adjusted." quoted Mr. Bryan. DEMANDS DESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER WEI Mr. Bryan joined speakers who had preceded him in demanding the resignation of Commissioner Well. Of Commissioner Goodie he said that "nothing so became him as his taking off." Incidently, Mr. Bryan said the credit should be given Mayor Ainslie for his good offices. In securing the resignation of Mr. Goodie. The good sense of Mr. Goodie in resisting in his resignation and the lack of sense on the part of Mr. Well in falling to do so, said Attorney General Pollard, reminded him of a saying of King Solomon that "prudent man foresweth the danger and hides himself, but the fool goes on and is punished." While the two commissioners named have been deterred in their duty and should be removed from participation in official life, said Mr. Pollard, Well and Goodle should not be condemned too harshly. They are products of a system, he said, which has been condemned, and in a measure supported by the citizens themselves. The Attorney-General regretted the jathy that has bitherto marked the electorate. Only once in a decade, he said, does the city have a system of political plety. The remedy, he said, lay in a better form of government and in getting good men to accept public office. GARNETT CLEARLY OUTLINES SITUATION Chairman Garnett, who opened the speaking programme, spoke in part as follows: "When something goes wrong with a department of government, whether State or municipal, when a scandalous condition is disclosed stirring the indignation of the citizens, we are prone to look for the individual offender, and the public is often too easily satisfied by the punishment or public disgrace of the individual, when in reality it is not the individual, but the system which should receive the brunt of its anger and disapproval The condition of affairs in our Police Department cannot be traced to one man or set of men; the recent illegal action of the board, in the attempt to remove one officer and denote another; cannot be explained merely on the ground of pratification of individual resentment a.s.d spleen; nor can the condition of the department be remedied nor the wrong committed by the commissioners is undone by the mere removal of some individuals from office or the restatement of the officers wrongly deprived of their positions. We must probe deeper than these superficial signs of derangement of the body politic, to ascertain. If we may whet or the germ of trouble does not affect the very vitals of our society. COMMUNITY IN DANGER WHICH ALLOWS SUCH CONDITIONS "Whenever a community, either from lethargy or selfishness, fails to be stirred to its center by a condition where the laws of the community are openly violated with impunity whenever a community allows itself to be bullied to sleep with the false and pernicious idea that some of the mandates of the people as expressed in the statutes and ordinances, may be disregarded, that community is in great danger. "Unfortunately, those who receive profit directly or indirectly from the lack of law enforcement are numerous and powerful, more powerful than their numbers would seem to justify. They go into politics for so reasons, first, to use having found it profitable to set aside the law, they hope to make it more profitable to write the laws in their favor; and secondly, because they desire to put under obligations the officers charged with the enforcement of the law. They are First cousins to the grafters, and a community of interest is established between them. They are the tools of the corrupt politicians, and become an essential part of the invisible government of the community, which is commonly designated the machine. REMEDY FOUND IN AROUSED PUBLIC CONSCIENCE What is the remedy for this con- dition? First, an arraigned public consequence that will see to it that our laws are enforced; second, the choice of public officials who ar- nuder no obligations to the law released or any other symptoms who wake the life blood of human society that the removal from office of men who contrary to their sacred oaths not only fall to see that the laws are enforced, but connive with those who break the law and fourth, the reward of those officers who have the strength and the manhood to stand for law enforcement, and if necessary, to testify against their superior officers who have betrayed their trusts. And I very much mistake the temper of this audience and of the people of Rhombus. If I do not read in it determination to scourge the money changers from the temple and to purify the altar of civic righteousness by any sacrifice of time of money and of talent that the situation may demand. MUST SUPPORT THOSE WHO EN DEVOTER TO ENFORCE THE LAW I would, therefore, recommend to you all who are interested in the welfare of our city to bear in mind the majesty of the law and the double duty imposed upon every citizen both of observing the law and of supporting those officers who endeavor to enforce the law. Our Police Board and its conduct are the natural product of the neglect by us of our duty in civic affairs; of our indifference to the problems of municipal government, and of that pernicious spirit which is carefully cultivated that some statutes and ordinances are not capable of being enforced. "Whatever may be the result of the remarkable events of recent late that have go deeply around the indignation of all of our citizens, whatever may be the action taken by this meeting tonight, it will all be worst than useless. If we do not firmly resolve to devote ourselves to the task of building up a sentiment in the community for the enforcement of the law, a sentiment that will make it hard for public officers who violate the sanctity of their oath, a sentiment that will richly reward the faithful public servant and encourage him in the zealous enforcement of the mandates of the law." WHY WERE WEIL AND GOODE CHOSEN. ASKS ANDERSON. "The men who have deed the public conscience of the city of Richmond have seemed to be under the impression that we are slow to anger and plentious in mercy. They are not mistaken in this assumption as the whole history of this vicious question in the city of Richmond during recent months plainly proves. "Why were Well and Goode chosen to their places? Were they men of such character and ability as to designate them in a peculiar manner to the custodians of the morals of our city?" We accepted these appointments without a murmur. Why has the law of the State been systematically disregarded in the city of Richmond? "We have seen a commissioner, who, under the most favorable conditions, was asked to resign, and did the will, of the Council, who made the demand, and yet we did not sit. We saw that unexpectedly in the absence of two commissioners that four members of the Police Board took cowardly vengeance on two police officers who and told the truth about the city and about these commissioners, and not until this did the cup of purth become full. "It is now full and to overflowing, and we wish to express ourselves against the unseemly conduct on the part of men holding such places of honor and responsibility. We demand now action, and immediate action, and we are going to get action and we intend to stand no further. Confirmed on Monday. W. H. Green 752 N. 8th st., Steuboune ville, Ohio. Columbia News Agency Inside mail, Washington D. C. M. C. Waler 1100 W. 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The "Land of the Sky" in Western North Carolina is very inviting the year through and a trip through this country, at least in one direction, should prove very enjoyable. The Washington-Sunset Route is also operated over the Southern Railway through Atlanta and New Orleans. This constitutes a daily Pullman Steer Tourist car service with through per sonal conductor. For further information, descriptive matter, apply to H. L. BISHOP, Div Pasa. Agt., Southern Railway, 907 B Main St. Richmond, Va. RICHMOND PLANET RECREATION ON THE FARM. Too little thought is given to the idea of recreation on the farm. No place really needs play more than the rural community. Living is apt to become a steady, daily grind, such as takes the vitality out of people, unless relieved by some form of recreation. Play is not a creation of the evil one, as some of our forefathers thought.—Kansas Farmer. FROSTED CORN SILAGE. How Farmers Can Save Corn Which Fails to Mature. (Prepared by United States department of agriculture.) The fact that corn if frosted and immediately put into the silo will still make good silage may prove of great advantage to corn growers in certain sections where the intensities of the present season may prevent the corn from ripening or reaching the glazed stage before the first frost, according to the dairy experts of the department. Those who have not been intending to make silage of their corn should find this information very useful in the event that corn cannot be harvested in the car. The best corn silage, of course, is produced where the corn can be put into the silo after it has reached the glazed stage. In an emergency, however, where the corn has not reached the glazed stage before frost, it is better to give it all the growing time possible, even if it has to be put into the silo immediately after the first frost. Every extra growing day after the corn has reached the milk stage adds very much to the solid constituents of the silage, as in these last few days there is a very important transfer of material from the roots into the stalk and ear of the plant. In fact, the corn plant when it reaches the milk stage contains only about 65 per cent of the dry matter that it contains two weeks later. Aside from the increased feeding value, the corn when it has reached the glazed stage contains a much larger percentage of starch and a smaller percentage of sugar. The high proportion of sugar in immature corn is one of the main reasons for the high acidity in the silage made from it. The amount of acid in the silage is found to be very nearly in proportion to the sugar present in the corn. Where it has been necessary to delay until after the first frost to cut the corn for silage it is essential that the plants be not allowed to stand frosted in the field. They must be cut and put into the silo at once. The chief effect of the frosting it will be found, is to reduce somewhat through evaporation the water content of the plants. In packing frosted corn, therefore, it will probably be necessary to add some water to the blower as the corn is being run through the cutter. --- A Pole Climber Quickly Made. This is a homemade telephone climber that may be used for repair jobs not difficult enough to have a regular thromboid attached to. It is merely a piece of No. 1 wire, about four or five feet long, twisted about the pole as shown. Put your foot in the loop; then, by means of a "wear hug" about the pole, hold yourself up while raising the wire with your foot. Then simply keep on reporting this process.—Nebraska Farm Journal. Critics of prison reform indirectly inject society when they say that human treatment behind the barn might induce man voluntarily to relinquish freedom rather than hustle for a living on the outside. 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"Well,' she said, 'I don't object to smoking, but I do object to a bad cigar." "I thought I had her dead to rights on that and proposed to crush her in her pride. 'I beg your pardon, madam,' I replied, with charming naivete, 'your husband gave the cigar to me." "But did that keen repartee knock her out? It did not. "I don't believe you,' she said, with cold assurance. 'My husband never give anybody a cigar in his life. I know him.' "Of course further badinage on my part was useless, and I backed off, quite abashed. And the sad, sad part of the story is who called the turn on me both times. That's one reason some women are terror."—New York Sun. The Day's Lemon Let not soft alumber close your eyes Before you've recollected thrice The train of action through the day— Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learned, where've I been, From what I've heard, from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing? What have I done that's worth the doing? - Isaac Watta. Didn't Get It. "While I was on a business trip to the coast," any Oscar Hammerstein of grand opera fame, "I stopped off in a small town on the way to call on an old friend of mine. I learned that he had moved away from the place some time previous, so I went to the boarding house to which I was directed by a native for my dinner. A waitress came to take my order, and I inquired what they had. "Oh, about everything in the eatin' line," she calmly said, with a loss of her head. "Well, if that is the case," I replied, "bring me a large portion of porterhouse steak, amothered with mushrooms, some potatoes au gratin and a cold bottle." "The waitress was silent for a moment, favoring me with a terrifying look meantime; then, catching my eye, she blurted: "Say, quit, yer kiddin'! If we had anything like that here the boss would eat it himself!" "Boston Herald. Comity In Justice Court Two Vermont lawyers were trying a case before a rural justice, and one of them, who represented the defendant, took occasion to cite a Massachusetts case that was on all fours with his contention. His opponent nudged the justice and whispered: "Look out! He's trying to ring in a Massachusetts case on you." The justice pounded on his table and asked to see the book. It was handled to him. He examined it with all the concentrated wisdom of ages in his countenance and returned it, saying: "Mr. —, this here court may not be a lawyer, but it isn't to be imposed upon that way! That's a Massachusetts case. Judgment for the plaintiff."—Case and Comment. Three Brothers The following example of ready wit appears in "The Memoirs of Lord Charles Beresford." When in December, 1897, on the death of Sir Frank Lockwood, the seat of York became vacant Beresford stood for the election and was opposed by Sir Christopher Furness, afterward Lord Furness. The contest was close and exciting and eventually won by Lord Charles with a narrow majority of eleven, after two counts, on a poll of over 11,000 votes. He says: My brothers, Lord William and Lord Marcus, were helping me. Lord Marcus accompanied me to a meeting, and I told him that he must make a speech. "I can't," he said. "I don't know what to say." I told him to begin, because he would surely be interrupted and then, being an Irishman, he would certainly find something to say. Lord Marcus thereupon rose to his feet, and a voice immediately shouted: "Who are ye?" It was enough. The fire was kindled. "Who are we?" cried Lord Marcus. "Tell you who we are. We are three brothers, and our names are Shadrach, Mehech and Abadnego, and we have come here to put out the burning Sory Purpose." Foot and Furnace Uncle Luke, locally credited with having once held eyes upon General George Washington, was a perseverance in town. A visitor came to stay with the colonel in the big house and was told of Uncle Luke's distinction. The colonel commanded Luke to prove the statement: "Luke," said the colonel, "you now General Washington once, didn't you? Luke shuffled unceriously on the step. 'You remember seeing him, don't you?' Luke. 'Go stray.' Commanded. 'You know he was the president of Luke's command.' My colonel answered." My colonel exploded. "Why, you ruscal, you we said you did this thousand of times." "Yes, sah." Luke responded, "but de face la, sah. Ah done line de chinch las works, ka. Ah recalled dat am Mr. Hoke Smith. Ah remember again, sah." -New York Post. HELD HIS HEAD HIGH. He Had Reason Enough, and He Didn't Hesitate to Explain. Funny how one single fellow can in- nocently cause a great deal of exe- lence, yet it happens sometimes. Here is how it was done on one of the main streets of West Philadelphia: The other afternoon a young man was crossing Fifty-second street. He held his head thrown back as if to look at something high in the air. He stop- ped when he reached the sidewalk, and three or four people cause up behind him. After standing there in few minutes the young man started up the street. A little further he stopped again, still gazing up at the sky. In a few min- utes thirty by forty people had assembl. Apparently the young man was a bit hard of hearing, for he paid no attention to the comments of the crowd. They followed him up the street. He stopped once more, this time in front of a moving picture theater which was letting out after the matinee perform- C. D. Rousseau "PERHARD HE IS LOOKING FOR HAIR." ance. The people who packed the sidewalk followed his example and began to study the heavens. "Wh-wh what-tas he loo-oking for?" stuttered one excited individual. "Perhaps he's looking for rain," suggested one little chap who thought this was his cue to spring a joke. But still nothing happened. The young man, with the mob still at his heels, walked on until he reached a nearby jubilee square. While the spectators wondered he stopped at a drinking fountain, took a cup from his pocket, filled it, drained it and then looked around inquiringly at the crowd. "Say, what's the matter?" said one fellow who had kept up with the procession from the start. "Nothing," replied the young man. "But what were you looking for?" "Oh, I had taken a pill, and it would not go down. I thought if I held my head up long enough I might swallow it. Nothing doing. So I came over here and got a drink. It's down show, thank you. Goodbye." — Philadelphia Record. Don't Fear Life. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.—William James. Amply Protected. Lord Alvailey was always ready with a joke. Once traveling with Berkeley craven in a postchale and four they were upset. Naturally very indignant at the catastrophe, Berkeley Craven determined to give the first postboy a "taste of his quality," but finding him an old man simply remarked, "Your age protects you." Lord Alvailey "went for" postboy the second, but, finding him young and determined looking, wisely retired with "As for you, sir, your youth protects you." His Only Guide. The distinguished and well beloved bishop of a certain southern state is no absent minded that his family is always apprehensive for his welfare when he is away from it. Not long ago, while making a journey by rail, the bishop was unable to find his ticket when the conductor asked for it. "Never mind, bishop," said the conductor, who knew him well, "I'll get it on my second round." However, when the conductor passed through the car again the ticket was still missing. "Oh, well, bishop, it will be all right if you never find it!" the conductor assured him. "No, it won't, my friend," contradicted the bishop. "I've got to find that ticket. I want to know where I'm going."—Youth's Companion. Good, but Small. Frans Abt, the song writer, long since passed to the beyond, was a surprising command. "A game," he used to say, "in a very pretty bird, but it has one great fault—it is a little too much for one and much too little for two." "Greeting out of a restaurant one day holding supremely happy," Herr Kapitelstein, said a friend to him, "you seem to have died well." "Yes, I had a girl donor; it was turkey." "And you have a good company around the house!" "Yes, good, but small; just two, just the army and myself." P Confirmation has been received of the report that Dr. Cook, who claimed to have gone to the north pole, was seized as a German spy in Rangon. His motion picture outfit was confiscated. MURDER STIRS VILLAGE Woman's Bloody Clothing Discovered in School Building at Adamstown. The possibility of a murder committed at its schoolhouse has stirred Adamstown, Pa., which is eleven miles from Roading, as it has never been stirred before. A travelling bag containing bloody clothes was found in a small school building, and at the same time it became generally known that a sixteen-year-old Adamstown girl, Fanny Foy, had vanished. Although the bag was found last Friday, the discovery was not brought to the attention of the police until Monday evening. The police in Reading were then informed. Opinion in Adamstown is divided. Some are firmly of the opinion that a girl has been done to death in the little school building. Thursday night lights were seen in the building, and the next morning children discovered the traveling bag they turned over their find to Mahlon Fritz, and it was through him that the police were notified. In the bag were found a waist which would fit a small woman, the garment, blood-stained, a skirt, also stained with blood, a man's collar, necktie and skirtpin and several all handkerchiefs bearing the initial "T". There were spots of blood and talcum powder about the floor. Nearby day a woman's purse, empty. The traveling bag was of black leather. All these articles are still at the school, awaiting the arrival of police investigators. Fannie Foy's home is on the outskirts of Adamstown. It is said she was just seen on Wednesday of last week. LOSES JEWELS IN SEWER Girl Drops Bag of Diamonds and Young Man Recovers Them. Mrs. Calhoun, wife of ex-Senator J. C. Calhoun, and her daughter, Miss Beatrice Calhoun, were crossing Washington street, in Easton, Md. In a heavy rainstorm going to the Easton National bank, when Miss Calhoun dropped a small chamois skin bag which contained her diamonds and jewels, valued at over $600 which were dashed down the sewer. Ralph Marvek, a young man of Easton, came along and procuring a crab net he opened the manhole, went down in the sewer, and fished them out. Mrs. Calhoun gave him $45. She was carrying the diamonds to the bank to be placed in her safe deposit box. BABY ROVER IN TORTURE Lost and Helpless 40 Hours in Cold Rain in a Rayina. After 40 hours' exposure to cold and rain, during which period he was without food, and had to sleep two nights on the wet ground, John, two and a half-year-old son of John Dennis, of Glen Lyon, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was found still alive in a ravine 1200 feet from his home. The youngster was weak and almost completely exhausted, and not sufficient vitality remains, to warrant expectations that he will recover. The child wandered away on Thursday at 4:30 P. M., and, although the entire Newport police department, hundreds of friends and neighbors and the state police joined in scouting the forest near by, their search was fruitless until Saturday. Champ Clark Helps Save Negro Speaker Champ Clark and his son were in a posee that dispersed a mob of twenty men which attempted to lynch Harrison Rose, colored, charged with murdering a farmer near Bowling Green, Mo. The mob attacked the jail, broke the outer door and were pounding with sledgehammers on the inner door when the sheriff appeared with his posee. Express companies continue to provide the parcel post with a certain amount of mail and possibly wholesome competition. The parcel post has not driven them out of business any more than the astonishing has supervised the house. Like the quen, the sheriff can be trusted in the city. 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. 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Fourth St. Richmond, Virginia --- FIGHTING FOE BY LAND, SEA AND AIR BOMBARD BELGIAN TOWNS Violent French Fighting is Reported in the Argonne Region—Berlin Cima's New Gains. Combate with artillery, bombs and torpedoes continue in Artios and the Champagne region of France. There was a fairly violent bombardment in Artios, both sides taking part according to the announcement given out by the war office. In the Champagne district the artillery exchanges continued. French artillery caused a violent explosion to a German railroad train at a point to the north of Verdun, and French aviators have thrown down some fifty shells on a railroad station near Peronne. British warships again bombarded the German positions at Westende and Middelkerke on the North sea coast of Belgium. Allied aviators, cooperating with the ships, shelled the railway lines behind the German front in Belgium. The German war office reports that one of the warships that shelled Zeebrugge Monday was damaged by German artillery. Violent trench to trench fighting is reported in the Argonne region, where the German crown princes' army has been directing its efforts toward the great French fortress of Verdun. The British attack on the German fortifications north of Loos has been again repulsed, says the Berlin war office, which announced that the British anatained considerable losses. Loss of the Hohenzolern redoubt near La Basse, announced by Field Marshal French, was a keen disappointment to England. It is assumed the British troops after their rush forward over a comparatively wide front, did not have sufficient time to consoll date this difficult position. The British commander's admission of the loss was tempered with the statement that German counter attacks had been beaten off along the remainder of the British front. The Germans have also succeeded in driving the French from a crossroads position near Glenchy (in the Souther region), wrested from the kaisers' troops Sunday night. Berlin is making the charge that pos was used by the British in their recent drive. The British war officer has made no statement regarding the right of priority of this. The Germans How To Get One. Phone, Randolph 2213 assertion that the British lost 60,000 and the French 13,000 men in the recent fighting is also without denial so far. A lovely artillery engagement developed in the Voyages near Hartmannsweller Kopf and at the French positions, each of Cellewear Plato, a strong German attack was thrown back. Shutting Quotations Some years ago in hardworking tobacco planner of Montgomery county, Tenn., paid his first visit to the east. With him as traveling companion anime a buyer of tobacco for one of the foreign governments. The planner had already shipped his season's crop to New York, flushing to sell it after his arrival, he being dissatisfied with conditions in his home market. It so charmed that the ferry which brought them across the Hudson to Manhattan landed alongside a pier where two big freighters were loading with tobacco for Liverpool. Catching the familiar whiff of the weed, the Tennessee followed his nose until it led him into a great freight shed where countless heads of tobacco—more than he had ever seen at any one time in his life—were awaiting transportation. He took one look and turned to his companion, the foreign buyer. "Old man," he pleaded, "if you kin sell my tobacco here sell it right away. It don't make no difference what, price you gilt for it—sell it! There's more tobacco here already than ever before in the world kin use up in a hundred years." He spent a day on Broadway and Fifth avenue, and then in haste he sought for his friend. "Don't you sell my tobacco at any price?" he ordered. "I've done seen enough people in this here town to chaw up all the tobacco there is in less than forty eight hours."—Saturday Evening Post. A Great Man. That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a grievance not his own For neither praise nor self, Content to know, and he unknown, Whose self is self. Strong is that man, he only strong, To whose well ordered will belong For service and delight All powers that in the face of wrong Establish right. And free is he, and only he, Who, from his tyrant passions free, By Fortune undismayed, Hath power upon himself, to be By himself obeyed. If such a man there be, wherever Beneath the sun and spoon he dare, He cannot fare amiss. Great Nature-hath him in her care. Her cause is his. -Owen Meredith. The darky has a some of humor peculiarly his own, and he, by no means objects to a joke with reference to his color-provided he makes it himself. There is a darky in Minnesota who has required considerable known in his beauty for his time in hortgage generally. He was pregnant in 1899. UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. out shrubs on the lawn of his employer. The owner of the place was no where to be seen, but a number of the gardener's friends were bearing comforably on the fence at the foot of the lawn watching the operation with an sorred interest. Another darky, who was driver for a physician living near looked curiously at this row of spectators and tums addressed the doctor who was just getting into his buggy "Destah," very seriously, "here's somebody dahl at Mistah Jones," shore "Dead?" said the doctor, "No such thing, Tom. I should have heard of it if there had been any illness in the family." "Well, destah," said Tom pointing to the row of sable individuals who were hanging on the pickets, "of dey ain't nobody did at Mistah Jones, den what fo' is all his heath mourn" strung along the fence." Argonaut. Mark Twain at a dinner at the Autho- nists club said: "Speaking of fresh eggs, I am reminded of the town of Squash. In my early lecturing days I went to Spann to lecture in Temp- erature hall, arriving in the afternoon. The town seemed very poorly billed. I thought I'd find out if the people knew anything at all about what was in store for them. So I turned in at the general store, "Good afternoon, friend." I said to the general storekeeper, "Any entertainment here tonight to help a stranger while away his evening? The general storekeeper, who was sorting mackerels, straightened up, wiped his briny hands on his apron and said: 'I expect there's gold to be a lecture. I been selling' eggs all day.'" Expected a Lecture. Not Missed. "There is no one," remarked a politician who was once a candidate for governor of Missouri, "who can take the wind out of a fellow's sails so effectually as an old time." Lessurely Missouri. For example: "After a twelve years' absence, during which I had graduated at the university, got my name in the paper a few times and bought a new suit of clothes. I went back to the little old country town where I had been a 'poor, but ambitions youth.'" "I expected a reception committee to meet me, but it did not. However, seeing the grandeur of my new clothes and stiff hat, my old acquaintances came around and shook hands quite cordially—all except old Bill McClanahan, who kept the general store. Old Bill still sat at the back of the stove, handy to the sawdust box. He never noticed me; didn't even give a glance my way. "I was pliqued—mad, in fact. I walked back to the stove and got right in front of my old friend, so that he had to look upon me in all my glory. "Slowly, casually, he looked up from under the tap of his old white hat and remarked: "Arthur, you been away somewhere, haven't you?" SEVEN Gardens are often not rich enough to produce satisfactory results, and fall is rather the best time to apply the repellent stable moisture. A good covering of this is to be supplied and plowed or dug under, going as deep as may be convenient. The ensuing six months will put the moisture in good condition for next season's crops. Plowing again in spring will be beneficial in making the soil loose. Fall plowing of land infested with white grubs, wire worms and cutworms is urged by Professor J. G. Sanders of the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin as a control for these pests and as a protection for next summer's crops. Thorough disking or harrowing, in addition to plowing disturbs and crushes the winter cells of these pests in the soil and exposes them to their enemies and the severe winter weather. It is especially urged that all cornfields in which the corn worm appeared last summer be plowed and thoroughly harrowed to kill the larvae which liberate two or three inches deep. In the soil. Proper crop rotation is undoubtedly one of the greatest factors in the control of tomfield crop pests which cannot be well controlled by regels applied after the insects' appearance to burrowful numbers. An authority estimates the number of hunters in this country at 50,000—that is, those who own guns and go out occasionally to hunt "birds and squirrels." No wonder that our bird population is being thinned rapidly with 50,000 hunters popping away at them. It is going to take some strong game laws and rigid enforcement of them to save such birds as have so far escaped. Militarists may find some satisfaction in these figures and declare that most of these hunters are very fair marksmans, thus ensuring as of the nucleus of an army that can shoot straight. Europe's mad belligerents are wasting every day enough money to maintain the entire United States army for a year. Moreover, Europe is shooting away every week enough money to replace the entire Pennsylvania railroad system. It has taken eighty years and unspeakable labor and cost to build the Pennay up to its present magnitude. Europe wants the vast sum in a week. Economic madness could go no further. A hold up summer may stand put on finishing the job even if it takes all winter. The bicycle rider is softly treating the way back into the limelight. ```markdown ``` THE VACANT CHAIR. Dedicated to Rev. J. A. Rush, deceased, pastor of The People's Church, Atlanta Ga. A little band of angels Head us singing on the hill. Singing praises to Our Saviour And their souls with rapture filled. They nestled close together. Listening to our voices ring As we waved our little banners In praise of our King. They watched our stalwart leader. As he came to an fro To the church around the corner Where he invited all to go. In an humble place of worship. The faithful little band United with their pastor In his many Christian stand. He taught us skills of kindness. And to elevate the low He asked that special attention. He given to the poor. He went into the alleys On the hills and in the slums To elevate the lowly And to God he bade them come. In his work in general He was busy day by day. Going* and fro for Jesus In his usual pleasant way. He advised with his members With reference to his plans. He asked the co-operation Of every heart and hand. He worked hard and faithful To do what he thought was fight. And all he did for Jesus Was precious in his sight. God and angels were his witness In his manly stand. They knew that he had done enough In this worldly land. They sent an angel for him Without notice to a man. And took him home to rest In that happy Promise land. He met Mason there in heaven And they are rejoicing hand in hand Around the throne of our dear Saviour. Waiting for his happy band. Yes, he is waiting for his loved ones Praying that some one may land And he is watching and he's waiting To grasp you by the hand No more troubles for our leader. Rush has been more than a man. He has forgiven those that crushed him And has joined the angel's band. Peoples church hell will be ringing If God spares this faithful few The name Rush will be honored By this band that's firm and true. Yes, true to every interest That he left unfinished here. With God as our leader Why should we ever fear? Rush and Mason were great characters That united hand in hand. God will use them further In the happy Promise land. Let us share with the widowed family Their loss but heaven's gain. We will place our arms ground them As long as one remains. We miss him Oh! we miss him. The voice that's hushed was deaf He stole away and left us But his spirit hovers near. The vacant chair is empty. Waiting to be occupied. God will send a servant. That is fighting on his side. By Miss Lucile Denniss. Misgovernment is Denounced Continued from Sixth Page. trifling with the vital interests of the city. TEXT OF RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED The resolutions adopted by the mass meeting follow: Whereas the course adopted by the mass meeting of the Police Board held September 30, 1915., by Commissioners Goode, Well, Bradley and Boykin in discharging: one of the members of the police force and in reducing to the ranks a police sergeant was taken under circumstances plainly indicating that their acts were instigated by a desire for personal revenge and in retaliation for the exposure by those policemen of reprehensible conduct on the part of at least two of these commissioners—Megra, Goode and Cliff Well—one of whom has been censured for misconduct by the City Council and the resignation of the other requested by that body for misfiance and malfeasance in office, and. Whereas such conduct is further evidence, if such were needed, of the unintention of these communicators for the discharge of their public trust and calls for servo commware and unrelieving opposition by all lawful abiding citizens; therefore, he it Resolved; first. That as citizens of Bardam and in the hinter of three nationality and common domain we would accept the agreement for noble title ten and the threatg of justice and fairplay displayed by a voting majority of the Police Board at midmeeting. The fact that they have been compelled to recount their action because the opinion of the City Attorney pronounces it to be illegal aggravates the offense. The failure of their act is only exceeded by its brazen affrontory. Second, the spectacle of two convicted men passing judgment on the chief witness who testified against them and on another witness whose only offense was his testimony to the efficiency of Sergeant Krenkel can not be viewed except with indignation and tends, if shrewbucked, to bring law and good government into disrepute. The spirit shown by Measara, Goode, Well, Bradley and Boykin menaces the discipline of the police force of the city of Richmond, is prejudicial to good order, and unworthy of public servants. So long as that spirit dominates or prevails in the Police Board we can not expect officers or men to do their full duty. Because their superiors were guilty of improper conduct wag but an added reason for the truthful exposure or such conduct by these men and officers. Be it further resolved: 1. That we call upon the city Council to demand the resignation of Commissioner Well, who since his reprimand has demonstrated his unfitness for the office, even if he had not done so before. If the resignations of Commissioner Well, and Commissioner Goode are not forthcoming, then we respectfully urge the City Council to take such legal steps as may be necessary to effect their immediate removal. 2. We demand that the successors of Commissioners Boykin, Goode and Well shall be men of high character, whose personal lives are above reproach and who shall see that the police force, both officers and men, enforce all laws and ordinances without discrimination or exorcation, as well as without fear or favor. 3. This meeting urges upon all citizens a deeper realization of the requirements called for on their part in order to make democratic government synonymous with good government, and to this end urges upon them the primary duty of qualifying themselves as voters and then to vote. If the electorate had done their duty in the past, the men of the stamp and standards of official conduct displayed by Cliff Well and Goode would not have been in positions where they could have besmirched the good name of this city. Until our citizens generally, and not merely those who have a private object or personal interest in view, awake to the importance of interesting themselves unremittingly in the welfare of this city by exercising their right of suffrage, the conditions which have called for this indignant public meeting will continue. The results which follow from such apathy and indifference are clearly indicated in the occasion which brings us together, and its objects would fail unless we pledge ourselves individually, as well as one man, knowing our rights, to dare maintain them at whatever cost their enforcement may demand. That the chairman of this meeting appoint a committee of five to take the necessary steps to enforce the views expressed in these resolutions. 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