Richmond Planet

VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 33 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1916 PRICE, FIVE CENTS 1776·INDEPENDENCE DAY·1916 Signing of the Declaration, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. FROM PAINTING BY JOHN TRUMBULL EDITOR MITCHELL FACES POL LICE OFFICERS. Many Infidential Colored Citizen Board in a Quandary—Resolution With A Joker—Policemen Not Vindicated. EDITOR MITCHELL'S LETTER Richmond, Va., May 17, 1916. The following letter of withdrawa was said to be worse than the ork final charges. This letter was never withdrawn by Editor Mitchell: His Honor George Ahlale, Chairman and the Honorable Board of Police Commissioners, Richmond, Va.—Gentlemen: Upon the earnest solicitation of many of the white citizens, who interested themselves in my behalf, I have decided to withdraw the charges filed by me against Sergeant C. A. Sherry, and Officers H. Settles and M. F. Lumpkin. The treatment to which I was subjected at the time was so outrageous that I felt that it should be brought to your attention in order that some other citizen might escape similar treatment and that I, too, might go unmolested by a similar happening in the future. But, having been vindicated in the Police Court and the fact established that I have never been either disorderly or properly chargeable with violating any ordinance, or order of any police-officer in discharge of his duty, I have decided to thank you for the offer of a hearing accorded me and to permit the matter to rest here. Permit me to remark that the present efficiency of the police force has been especially noticeable, and that no one regrets more than the undersigned, the unpleasant affair, which has been brought to your official notice. With sincere regard, I am. Former Sergeant C. A. Sherry, Officer H. Settles and Officer M. F. Lumpkins were out-witted and outgeneralled at the meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners last Wednesday night, June 28, 1916. Attorney H. M. Smith, Jr., who appeared as a witness and a friend of Editor John Mitchell, Jr., whom he represented in the Police Court, accomplished the task, aided by the array of witnesses, some fifteen or more, who had been summoned to testify in the case. MEETING CALLED The meeting was called for 8:20 P. M., but it was 9:20 before the buzzer was heard and the call for John Mitchell. C. A. Sherry, M. F. Lumpkin and H. Settles was made. The accused officers did not have any witnesses. It was soon ascertained that they did not presume such a course was necessary. They had ascertained in advance that their course of action would be upheld regardless of what they had done. ' PROMINENT CITIZENS. Still, they displayed some uneasiness over the large body of industrial colored citizens who were present. Among them were Dr. R. R. Jones, Rev. W. M. Stakes, Ph.D., master of the Business Bapt. Church; Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church; Dr. J. Mercor G. Ramsey, Mr. George W. Bragg, Mr. A. D. Price, Mr. Benjamin Kerney, Mr. D. P. Bragg, Col. Thomas M. Crump, Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Mr. John T. Taylor, Mr. R. C. Mitchell, Rev. Scott C. Burrell, Rev. T. J. King, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Mrs. Kate S. Thomas, Mrs. Nannie C. Johnson, Mrs. Adelaide G. Thompson, Mrs. Lucie Christian Scott, Miss M. L. Chiles, Mrs. W. D. Jones, Mr. R. W. Whitting, Mr. H. H. Price, Mr. J. B. Page They were treated with the utmost courtesy, being seated in the spacious back room, which might be termed a back parlor, while the officers conversed in low tones in the front room. Hon. H. M. Smith, Jr. appeared and when the case was called was ushered into the room occupied by the Board of Police Commissioners on the other side of the spacious hall. Seated at a long table were the members of the Board. They were hatless and coattless. His Honor, Mayor George Ainslie presided in his infinitable way. To his right sat Hon. H. M. Smith, Jr. and next to him was the genial, but ably Chief of Police Louis Werner. AN EFFICIENT CLERK At the further end of the table, sat Captain George E. Pollock, one of the ablest stenographers in the State. To his right was his short-hand typewriter. He read his own notes with case. Mr. Smith crossed over to Editor Mitchell. He was evidently unacuse. "You are still willing to withdraw the charges against these officers," he enquired. "I leave the matter entirely in your hands," was the reply. NO SUCH ADMISSION Later he inquired after a talk with the officers. "Are you willing to admit that you were wrong?" "No, alr." came the prompt response, "I was outrageously treated." He then returned to the officers. They went into the other part of the room, while, Editor Mitchell laughed and talked with Mayor Ainalle. President of the Board. Chief of Police Werner showed Editor Mitchell a copy of the Police Bulletin. It contained the following item: AN OFFICER'S FEAT "Croditable Mention—The attention of this department is called to the following: Patrolman J. C. Napier. First District, in the rescue of George Brown from the burning building. 1710 E. Franklin St., Sunday morning, June 25th, 1916, carrying the man from the building on his back." The Chief remarked that the man, presumably colored, insisted upon going back into the building to get some things that he had left there. In the meantime the Board members were sitting listlessly awaiting the outcome of the peace parloys, going on. Mr. Smith was getting tired. Capt. Sherry was asked if he would consent to a withdrawal of the charges by Mitchell. He replied in the negative. He wanted a vindication. Another hurried consultation followed. WORSE THAN THE FIRST. Mr. Smith came over to Editor Mitchell and said, "Mitchell, they say that while you withdraw the charges you in reality reiterated them. The letter sent by you is really worse than the charges." "the statements are true. I was outrageously treated." Mr. Smith rose and stated, "Well." gentlemen, there seems to be no other way. We are ready to proceed. I was summoned here as a witness. Mitchell has some fifteen or twenty witnesses outside. all of whom are to be heard and it will take until about two o'clock to hear them. WOULD HAVE ADVISED DIFFER ENTLY. (Mitchell has told me that he will be guided by what I say. He did not consult me when he presented the charges or I would have advised him otherwise. He was vindicated in the Police Court and I would have advised him to let the matter rest there. I do not know of any law that can (Continued on Fifth Page.) The summer school at the Virginia Union University opened June 19th and is in charge of President G. R. Hovey. It is being largely attended. The Zion Baptist Church of South Richmond will have a barbecue on the 4th of July. Miss Rosa Reese left the city last week for Baltimore, the guest of Miss Evlyn Henderson. Captain L. O. Phillips, of Chemical Engine o., No. 1, Pittsburgh, Pa., spent his vacation in the city meeting old friends. While here he was the guest of his brother-in-law, Mr. A. W. Holmes. Miss Hermione Crawford will leave the city Thursday for Atlantic Highlands, N. J., where she will spend the Summer with her mother. Question: Two clocks, one with a pendulum 8-inch long and another 12-inch long, swing together at 12 o'clock, when will they swing together again? Answer. 9:30 A. M. July 17; when Mt. O goes to Buckroe. WANTED—A Practical All Round Printer. Apply, stating terms. The Century Publishing Company; 500 Queen St., Norfolk, Va. SHEFFIELD (ALA.) NOTES. The School Improvement League met last evening and elected officers as follows: Mr. F. T. Easland president; Mr. Joe Hines, vice-president; Mr. J. W. Jennings, secretary; D. W. Shoemaker, assistant secretary; Pillow Patton, treasurer. We the members of this League, feel safe in saying that our work, together with the co-operation of the good citizens of this town, has broken all past records of school work. There has been quite a sum—over a hundred dollars—raised this year, to pay off all side expenses of the school, and now we have a balance of $40.00 in the treasury to begin with, so we wish to call your attention to the fact that all fifth Sundays, hereafter will be our educational rally days. The officers, members and friends of all the churches of this city have come upon an agreement for the same. Fourth of July Reduced Fares via Southern Railway. Southern Railway announces reduced round trip fares on account of Fourth of July; tickets on sale July 2, 2, and 4th, 1916 with near-limit July 8th, 1916. For detail information confer with nearest Agent. Magnuder Dost, District Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va. I. M. C. A. NORES. Last Friday night was a warm hour with the Y. M. C. A. Literary. The subject was, "Shall the Blue Law Be Obeyed?" Clarke and Parker, affirmative; negative, Taylor and Clark. After a very hard battle the negative won. The men were very happy to have Prof. R. A. B. Crump present, one of our own men. I learned. Last Sunday was a crowded day for much work. At 10:30 A. M. the workers' meeting was well attended at the Y. M. C. A. The committee held some special meeting in the city home, and the limates were happy. (To A. M.) At 10 A. M., four prisoners were won for Christ by the committee. In the city jail. The meeting in the penitentiary (10 A. M.) for the women was a cool one. At 1 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the boys rendered a special program. Masters Burrell and Lomax read excellent papers. The men's meeting (C. 10 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A., was well attended and the fellows enjoyed the address by Mr. Isaac Parker. Music was a great hit. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for workers (9:50 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. At 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A., a special meeting for boys. Mothers, help us by sending your boys. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will address the men (5:30 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. All men are invited. Come and bring the other man. Sunday, July 19th, 5:30 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. Prof. Joseph Matthews will conduct a justice song service for the men. Do not forget this date and help to make this a five hour. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. Question:--Why did the colored soldiers get killed in Mexico? Answer. They were in front. What were they doing in front? Answer. WAR. brother, war you know, but come lets go, with Mt. O. to Buckroe July 2 times 6 plus 1 plus 4. Real Estate For Sale. I am offering a big bargain in cor- ner property on St. James St. In- quires invited. B. A. CEPHAS Agent, 535-1-2 N. 2nd St. BARGAINS! 14 per cent investment in West End 2 new flats in Jackson Ward. 2 homes in Buburbs. Jarge lots. 2 good homes on N Third St. 1 beautiful home on N. Fifth St. 1 Corder Store Baker St. All cheap at the price BRAGG BROS. & CO., N. Second St. PUBLIC MASS MEETING. You and your friends are cordially invited to be present at a Public Mass Meeting under auspices of Richmond Division True Reformers. Friday evening, July 7, 1916, 8:30 o'clock, at True Reformers Auditorium. Prominent speakers will deliver addresses in interest of the Order. Mrs. L. L. Stanford; Chairman; Mrs. B. G. Cousins. Secretary Mrs. Calebte Son Syndlay and her little son, Moey, if Chester, S. C. are visiting relatives in Virginia. While here they will be the guest if Dr. and Mrs. Q. W. Moon; Mr. and Mrs. A. D. P. Moon of Richmond, and Rev. and Mrs. John Brown, of Petersburg, Va. the man who wants to help his race Attain a higher, nobler place. Just of its sorrows drink his cup. And drive aloft from shoulders up - ROBT. D. CRAWLEY June, 1915 United Spanish War Veterans. The Department of the Potomac United Spanish War Veterans will meet in Convention at Norfolk, Va. on Tuesday, 9th of July in their 64th Annual Session. Campa will be in attendance from Richmond Petersbury, and Washington, D. C. There are about ten camps in this department and the members served in every branch of the service, the Regular Arms, the Navy and the U. S. Volunteers. Capt. W. H. Anderson, former 1st Lieut. and Regimental Adjutant of the 6th Va. Reg. I. S. W. V., during the war with Spain, is Department Commander. Lieut. Fredick E. Mangrum, Past Dept. Commander, Department Quartermaster. Much interest is centered upon this meeting, as many grave and important questions are expected to arise. A delegate will be elected to attend the National Encampment which meets in Chicago September 4, 5, 6 and 7th. W. H. ANDERSON ANOTHER COLORED INVENTOR Denver, Col., June 14.—Travelers by rail all the world over, ever since the introduction of passenger coaches from the immigrant car to the palatial Pullman, have been subjected to the annoyances and inconveniences of having the toilet rooms closed whenever a train reached a city's limits. This rule applied equally the same during indefinite layovers at depots in cities. Despite complaints from passengers it was frankly admitted that the local sanitary laws were such that the rail roads could not afford any relief, leaving it for a colored train porter to invent a device which will revolutionize toilet accessories on trains and remove any further causes of complaint on that score. H. P. Gonsouland is the inventor and his device, during the meeting of the railroad officials to be held here will be on exhibition at the Go-Ro Manufacturing plant, S26 Baronne street. Gonsouland is a native of Louisiana and is now a resident of this city. At an early age he took to railroading and worked his way up the scale of duty until finally becoming a train porter, and an such, after over thirty-five years of service, has traveled all over the Union. Complaints from passengers on the locking of toilet rooms suggested the invention of the device which without going into long technical description so operates that the toilets can be always left open, no matter where the train-stops or how long. Gonsouland at once secured patents on his device and being fully protected against infringement in the United States and foreign countries, submitted his plans to the Go-Ro Manufacturing Company, which perfected and built a working model, showing the device in every detail just as it will operate on a passenger train. —Tell the boss. I wont be loss! I won't be shirking if I'm not working July 17.—I just can't stay here on that day when Mt. O. gets away to Buckroe. The discharge without honor of several companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry a Negro regiment, for complicity in the Brownsville raid in the summer of 1906 has proved a blessing in disguise to fourteen of the disgraced soldiers. They are serving again with the colors, and each man must regard himself as a Crook. If he has not already disfigured the county beowed upon him by a just Government Enlistment, men are generally imprudent, and the most impudent of all are the soldiers of the Negro regiment, who are born gamely. Imagine then the attitude of the fourteen lucky soldiers of the regiment under a cloak when they found themselves back in the ranks with arrears of pay ranging in amount from 11,289.75 to $41,496. the last sum falling in the lap of Private Robert William, a troop cook The truth about the Brownstill raid will never be known although there were two investigations, one by a military court and the other by Congress, the latter dragging on for more than a year. It was after the first investigation that the battalion was summarily discharged, although most of the men who suffered could have had no hand in "shooting up" Brownville. Some of them knew nothing about it and others shunned by silence. The number of soldiers actually guilty of the affronty must have been small. Congress came at last to the relief of the helpless innocent by adopting a resolution directing the President to appoint a board of army officers to make what was practically a third investigation. They were authorized to receive and pass upon applications by the discharged soldiers for reenlistment with back pay and allowances. Some of the highest officers in the army were on the board and they went over the oll evidence and listened to the pleas of the applicants, several of whom had been witnesses in the military and Congressional inquiries. These officers were convinced that fourteen of the old soldiers had nothing to do with the notorious raid, either as principals or as accessories. And so their dishonorable discharge was struck from the record, and they resumed their rank and places in the army as if the intervening years of stigma had been twisted out. But each now had a bank account, if he were thrifty. Three corporals, ten privates and a cook rejoined the old Twenty-fifth. Some of the innocent are dead; others, no doubt, are still recorded as discharged without honor, being too ignorant to avail themselves of the chance of vindication. We trust that none of the guilty is in the honor and back pay list. It is a gratification to know that by this act of reinstatement justice has been done in some worthy cases, and that in effect the precipitate action that caused the innocent to suffer ignominiously with the guilty stands condemned as irrational and unjust.—New York Sun, June 26, 1916. Miss Annie E. Thomas Appointed on the Faculty of V. N. and I. I. Miss Annie E. Thomas, the daughter of Dr. A. S. Thomas, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church, and Mra Kate S. Thomas, has been elected as a member of the faculty of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute of Petersburg, Va. The Summer Normal at Virginia Union University opened Monday; the 19th, with a decidedly larger enrollment than that of the preceding year. Thursday afternoon the number reached nearly 250. About half of the students are taking the professional course and half are preparing for the state examinations. An interesting feature of the school is the large number who are desiring special high school and college work. The Theological Summer School will be July 5, and will include five courses of nine lectures each, and other lectures. The subjects of the lectures will be as follows: Christianity and Personal Mobile Africa and Missions Interpretation of Scripture. Organization of the Church for Present Day Work. Inspiration and Authority of Scriptures. A lecture of especial interest will be the lectures of N. D. Overinga, a native of Africa, an especially able and promising man, who will leave Africa immediately at the conclusion of his lectures here. He is to return to take charge of a supervising school at Orkosmoshaw. He is so effective a speaker that he has been called upon to deliver lectures before the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (white) at Louisville, Ky., and to deliver addresses at some of the meetings of the Forward Missionary Movements. We expect it will be a very profitable session. 100,000 NEGROES READY TO FIGHT. The following Associated Press dispatch was published throughout the country last week: Tuskegee, Alabama, June 22—When informed by an Associate Press representative today of the killing of 12 Negro soldiers, Emmit J. Scott, Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, called attention to the fact that eighteen years ago when war was declared with Spain that the late Rooker T. Washington, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, called upon the Negro people of the United States and particularly upon Tuskegee graduates and former students, to volunteer for service in defense of their country. Hundreds of Negroes followed this advice Secretary Scott states that there are a dozen or more Tuskegee graduates and former students in Mexico now as members of the various colored regiments. "Negroes," he states, "will tally to the defense of their country now as they have always done. As the first American soldier to lose his life in Mexico, March 24, of this year, was a Negro, so the first man killed in the Revolutionary War was a Negro. The Negro people take pride in the fact that it was the charge of Negro troops at San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War that turned the tide there, and that Negroes have fought bravely in every war, in which this country has engaged. The Negro was with Jackson at New Orleans, with Perry on Lake Erie, and 180,000 Negro soldiers served in the Civil War. "The Negroes of this country" he writes, "will be no less patriotic at this time than in former periods of stress and storm. The Negro possesses a patriotism that rises above injustices and wrongs. He is American through and through. The President will find no hybrids among us. The Negro has never faltered in defense of his country; he will not falter now. If President Wilson desires to employ sturdy Negroes to defend the flag, he can be assured that a hundred thousand and more are at his disposal." Mexicans “Shot Hell Out - . '. of Us” Says Soldier. SERS Sore sa. se eee: See —Vlain “Manler," Declares Prt vate Harris—Hellcves Fully) 104 of the Enemy Were Stag. > Columba, N.°Mea., “June 25.~- “They whot hell out of wa at Carel zal" sald Private Sam Harrls, TFoo) C. Tenth Cavalry, who reached bere feday to be treated for an ugiy Muuxer bullet wound {nate neck. The soldier was In the thick of the fight. Hs story In the rat story brought to the border ty atu individ: tal. He told how Tuy Mexteap In. diane opened tre with Uitdden mi ching KuaS on A handful of American troopers. “mowing them dowa with the precision of i msihe Thes shot ‘hel out of um, they ent-us to pleces, "he kept repeating, Harris told how Capt. Bord aud Capt Morey. with Lieut, Adair, had Fabten out with -Froups © and Kat dastreak on che kunt for marauders Ne touched upon the meeting be: tween Crypt. Bord atd: the Mexiéan Gen Gone: oat en the fat, open, fled : GOMEZ GAVE SIGNAL TO FIRE, Meo remetsheret -teariy watebing Gonier return to is command ahd Ae tae slsnad to" tre Then us he told of me battle Mone the trooper placed hin hands ONer Ain een as though to shut out D reethiai uf the hauaiing vlatont| Capt Boxd cave oun the order to Geophys iy skirmish formation.” be pai SAS the order of dimount Cutie thessYleateans, wpeped fire all Alois tue “Mine, Uo wan unalloxhis. a; le Trem over my horse when the rattle of a marhine gun started from, Betind perfect cover “The Baraa bolted, Moxt of them Du bank fr the ranch 12 mltes asay We Hopped to the ground an fart as the Alimtehty womid let ue and hewn ounce OxF files and autwtuatier There were tee ter watere the Mic ans sere eating and q fnew Ate a SKM Flee ef thar otse Of Feat There Ga a dhe. wter thers tor The Mews wefe edt caw HoOWAS MEREEE Says siboeriit th path twa eh the enente i aw nie Totercot qeerysdises bat ms cean etl hey wtatinintiot | Dwar tt be tee uae fast deena Bagh gt msi farce! tre wed edeet dt ties Tes rates etal niaytonert es pe eters . Within 2st ae: onan nr tie te pine lef the bell the Meats flethE Batetne ce We eseush see Ue aie they Reet a we thes SEED etawing ant rina, ot Fist ant fern eeenpe Tie Sak thee ees wage oa samy ett od suites Re adn FP | Metin i cet hk ett Hew aint Qnead Vite ate PORE aad A dette th Lee otitte tora leat ta as tat Ua beat sheet at it Dalla TEE Hae geet At. the eNitete * etry fret enwaverent out Dare? beater yet Vorwar dat nia my. SE, Sem et HE Sed eee saat aie teotheet at Ant Did Pett Powth ate ata halt mdnate oft pensted Phew hour Tessa Meveet oad Poke eat frome Sent a fetes pent weer iy the rowt Vget a bead on Po then jet ee attomy rites Zoe? Mos thar Meweat juniaed inty tie wie amt feet? Todtea Ditties Rom atleast He dil net seve avats MACHINE GEN GETS Nie | eH Ne tON. ‘ ee ees Tosute ielt gnadt ait that frst soot "Pa 1 snoutea 1 eo Rist Pe gdete T pleked ther care ful tetore Poteet ant Doma tier drop when Point ity My guess that at aud dee Meviana Sere bet Gere tn Gig tuesqulte aid acne the fetee ard diteh. fur Gat nwehdae nun gets, spurt spats sjattter,” It kept rattan al the Une and every rarde plousts wb inte us. The alhalt dust was Lisi up eM around toe, with that fachine pun mditiog stecdiy. The fellow Tuning It was a Koud.one. He Was TakINE his Job ag a serious business which demanded strietcattentton t6 duty——the memudical killing of ax many of us in ad shOFE y time aM fosnible, IE wan hell T don't know what happened to Capt Boyd or Capt) Morey Gr Lieut Adult. Tht noc nee ther asain af ter te Mexicann started flanking ts, We were nitzing the trafl, cach our fan wa. ‘There were not many of us left, though, The machine gins had attended to that. “IT Kot buck to the Santo Doriluso ranch house tater than I ever lw. fore hiked 12 miles. A fex_other troopers.were therr ‘A kood many horwe nad found thelr way back after they tad hatted, FOUND BY RFLIFF COLUMN, “Wr were picked up by the rellet column of the Eierenth Cavalry. which ‘was gent out to locate us. I was all in. My throat was parched. My tongue waa swollen, -T had my arm In a home-made siting to help ty Neck ang shoulder, which a Mex- fean bullet had ripped through. “1 reckon that’s about all I know. Teoop K waa op the right and Troop C—that’s mine—was plamb tn front of thr: machine gun. ‘Ae were lems than 100 yards from tho Mexicans when they opéned fire. Our numbers were little more than $0 and the Mexichos were close to 700. That looks lke the whole mory tome. “They jest shot bel! out.of os.” LYNCHBURG RURAL LETTER. "on Sunday, June 38, the Sanday Rchool of Veasant Valley Baptts Church was well attended, with Super Intendent Dea, Chay. E. Wheler tn tn charge. The teacher vf the frst Bibl clans being atwent, Deacon P. 1. Joba non Wok charge of the class, and Drought ont some vory xtriking points on less. “ Mr. Hepry Johnwon and Miss Dorts “Stratton were uppointed as delegates to meet the Sunday School Congress, whirl will convene with the PHot Mt. Church of the 29th and (Ath of this month, > At 11 o'lock, the pastor, Rev. S. H. Vreston being abaent, Rev. Chas, Chap- pell filled the #tand’ all day. In the morning be preached from Ist Kings. Tsth chapter, IMB vere. Subject “Get proves Imucif to be a God by debivertug us, and If we rebel against Him, He proves Himrelf to be a God hy Just wiping un out of extxtence, ae He did the prophets and prlesta of Bast.” “The cholr sang beautifully. A solo, Come Ye Disconsolated,” was sung ctter Ue sermon, by Deacon John C. Mariner, chorister of the Juntor heir, “Mra, James Mexsinsun, the organist. nemed to be at her beat A Mberal cajection was Ufted by Dea- son Fleteher Statham. of Bethany Rapust Church, and Dewoen Chan. Ailes, of New Hope Baptlat Church. In” the evening, Hey. Chappell preached from the Slat chupter of the Palms, and 7th verse; subject, “The Effects of Siz.” (in Monday, June 18th, the Busy Hew Circle held tte regular monthly meeting at the home of Mra, Rosal Mexginaon, The president, Mrs; Chas. Chaypell, wae present, and presided over the mectiix. The devotionals were conducted by the chaplaln, Mrn, Whit F. Stratton, Miter the transaction of business, a very fnteresting and kelpful paper was read by Mrs, John Meggtuson: rihyet, “Chowing Our Daughter's se let She urged upen the moth, sre tg ie more earetul In choosing (oor daughters’, and sume’ noctety, feo Rell, sive the future generation fopetda Lareely upon the training we Pe unr Sous people af today Twas responded to by Mrs, Kilbett, Lop tahewed ay hy Mee Wht K Strat Patter whtth we went te to diner eas Peel Lowrenee Dunbar std i: Petia fre sore ef Tie Party Ws UM Dhe te ted sed tat sae toed fread, wa n't atte fer Mekdoe toeht the dieters fy Pobettas ytd Chere gave oe act oettertas ttt a tae rated tess ut teeters Mah tar tt ser Pte abe eatis ath vieat etre tee Mri sacy Paste att Mis Dreneo | he Chari, Have Tees, ub ett he vivkter, Wee John Meee wr at 4 seat Waly Pogo Aes Meets cc due Beer heehee gine ' OW AEEISTON Os ea REP rR Jites Posted nitrac Inas ett er ate Teac tot, venti t te La cat Gekeng Hebt a chert spat of see Voce gee cationt tg Mane Say Velntoes cet Mice Danana Wa et Tey doe fats flat ts fase ate tececet flare Satiday dane ct weet bet tarkase amd Ree Chae P Gandr of Greenviie, £0 Me fe re site nisl ewredge of fo6 church 1 Mine, S02 Mike Cesstane | Caine and Mz. Thos MeCay a cet bassed thet ae far as Flarencn front Martian or, where they spett Gar day sith Prod 1 Calas fanily. 7 Sef Qatnes Wittman sy peso throgets the eity reeentty, returnizes fons hte uit heme at Dee svifte, 86 fe teaite fat Dennis t Cote re, Column Mas 5 ¢ George Wien, » sents etd. shot hie Qeather, Atint | }eage eht. ut Momtay the tues The sitesttses wae dae act tentatly, Gaorge diet altgent distantly Mr Geo V1. Fuster, prime ipat at the prwted sted al Boston, SC phe set Carnet ie oigy tecenitiy es Fonte to New York. Her, Jus. Wittannon, of Benedt t| College, fe recovering fom) m seriens eration ' Rev. James Williamson, of Benet t Cutlvge, Columbia, B.C. paid a xiort Visit ta Miwe Eatetle Hotttewa at Johnston, 2 @. recently. + | Mive Currie Dotler, of Sumter, 8. Ca seed through the elty recently en Tonite to Keiettnend: Va, for a few aay tev, Jas, Williarisan, of, Renedfet Colne, preached at Jerunitem Hap-! Uist Church, Hartevitle, S.C, Sunday, Sune 1s Mr. fe Small, of Ridgeland. S.C, paseed thrnugh the ely, recently, re turning from Petersburg, Va. Mz. Helton Graiamy and | Extward Meanw, of Dillon, have Kune to Co: lumbin, «SC. 5 Misses Inez Andéraon and - Olida Washlnktin, of Georgetown, S.C, have kone to Hampton, Vite. to att tend the tummer eebooi. | Mr. J.-A. Emanuel, of Lecabure. Fin. ater “vinung hie brother, Sir, Finier Emanuel here, and friends and relatives in Wayne, Sampson, Camber: land and Harnett counties, N.C, re: turned home rgrently.. He sald’ he very much enjoyed his vialt. , Reaptettully, . £, B, WEBSTER. EARLY NEGLECT. Richmond, Va, Jane 21.—Virginia ‘had but 143 cases of Poral typhoid dur. ing May, according to statietics just compiled by the Mate Board of Health, but 1¢. past experience fsa guide, the number daring August will be 4.8 times as ereat, of 6, The onty way to save this heavy"tax of dieense. the Deard avers, ‘ie “te give pcrapalous care to the carly cases and to prevent the Spread of the Gisense-Dearing. paola perme. oS oe ‘The reports of typheld tor pievicws yours. ta the counties of Virgtala show that'che minimum le Feacked: ts the late winter and, that thereafer, Jar the ‘summer comes én, the number mouate up. During 1918, it.ts pointed -out, the’ minimum for the year was in March when only 145, cases were re ported by physicians in the counties The maximum was in August, when Teporta of 859'cases were sent in, In April, 1915, the number of cases re. ported was 153, In May 179, in June 292, to July Gs3, 1m August $59 and in Soptember 788. : The Agures for 1916 are therefore lower than for 1915, but “unless pre. cautions are taken; a large and speedy Increase may be expécted. While typhoid 1s caxentialy. a die cane of human fith and can only bo contracted -by getting {nto the body Kernin that have como from the body of someone who has or bas had ty phold. the great increare in the dis- cane during the carly months of the summer,” anya the weekly bulletin of the board, twued today, “Is due to the activity Of fies and to the care Tenn dinyonal of Mith from earls cases. “Within reaxonable bounds. it ts ponstbie for the people of a commun. ity to control typhold by caring for the “filth from all persony, sick and weil, Whenever an early cine occurs, It de generally possible to xtop the Jseane with the original, infection by weving to {t that ‘all Wasien from the ody are disinfected nud dinpoxed of where they can cause nO harm. “For thin rearon, it in’ highly tox portant that every cane receive proper nttontion and that certain ruleq be followed to the letter. There rules, nated in the form of ‘Bedalde Direc: | fona for the Care of Typhod Canes’ | ran he had free Upon request+to the State Board of Health... In houre tolds and neighborhoods where there x much early typhoid {tis alwaye went for thoar who may be exposed © thy Diwan { protect themaclves 8 typhost vaccination.” Talks on Banking | Thirty per cent of the men who tat Jn business do so because they btek th Mknow Bow." They have no busties abiity.. In the previous tk we huv Culeavared to show Uhat the frat es rental when a man engages in buntnen ful barruws mebey. of, ceckm credit is Mugtness charw tee and that Uh sharacter Ie mere than Nenesty, 0 AUD risky credit, the weret fe that Shteh has tecrely honesty: hack of it Hiewever temient a pits may be, IC he feck the abllite 13 “mnake goed he eaanet pay: for keed Intentions pay te debts Tate ate turnings daw Sane hy the hundred that sve bas keel Sy heaeety only The warht be Cult nt Honest mes, -<0 honest that they Soukint take a paper from a news Stand, of rite tat treltey gratis, tat sapve osety and wont beatin they blokes Hue AMEE te takes a usta se oe We put te Abeeount cspen the tt Tortant element af tenecte, bat Tawi Sb qutekty stemonsteate that wndees Nook nt Renesty there be atlite te Snterpee fe cite ta bat Mure Maite sc hos Yeon deft in a healthy Petiees faeesetoe the wet att ted tt Sorin the father's ability nel Cath fotesen That fas ne essary ts bey Cr doaatee tt Vheretfure the secnnd thts the herth br eN pesto tee died tte tone barat Li ts frites alate Vhnbe tween fefirtesttate dbx geeir past porters steve Vente autvertssinit, Solr store Soar dtpese ynup honk aveoatt. gece cherry, war belt very akin ot bats Nt af Mane teeth yeah Me Many a Mastness men has bees bins out a pitserable eadetenee, ot Hine aramid, waltiag for sete hi: car kp. Leepttis nemiettaitee sie rain tee The fawn fa phake bette tte e, having tet places for eves y olathe egts Ite hands on, balf fed (ail feerly viuthedd, Betest to the cated nut Taking the pais to niake a bus ese succeed, The banker wtil tint en touch a fellow. He hues the? svenitiel element of “g9." Yon may argge that abetite is 1 ferite, oF that ft venies from edit, fen, und evense yourself Hat very oman gets the edueation he Caits, not in gehoat, then by tis eit If you haven't ability atid qe rguire yon ean buy It fa the ote e tinw, Brains are stsays tor sate ta prtee And the man ‘sho-lack-t usthiess ability, and eannot roa the! ccocetty nf applying himrelt toa ire If, and hag no Money ty buy ity many great men have heen made « | F the crawd they gathered areunt nem) had etter not be a keaker for redit_at a well managed bank, tory at Af nitch loans come the lossen, | Capitalize your honesty by coupline | wlth ability, and mnke your ality | aluable by devoting ft {0 honest ext eon the level, but be very busy | ‘hile you are on the level . After all, thrttt 4 merely the ahi | yy to do—io earn; an earning, to} ave. The ability that getx a man owhere fnanclally ix nm mindirectert | bility: for the map who applies him: ” elf to a definite end. and In honest 1 hi application waver money an x atural acquence; and when yau ue our banker to lend you money, hix aa monte eye oe mener Ae] fyour own?” If you can't take carr), your money, what ascurance hne* e that you will Judiclounly une the ; joney he lends sou? Character nn| apaeits—tha two big ca of credit ut Teading to capital, the dant big) j c* without whith. you cannot aue-| ; ‘ed, and with which yon ara hound! ¢ y win If you Use ft aright. i ae ee oe a et a , . A dost Tribute,” Why did Wombat Ieare bla moors to found a home for xervant gira?” “Well, you know, he way a manufac torer of tne china. And he aware sais the cirla did a lot for ble bustness."— Kausas City Journal, Ite Enterprise. “Tt was all vers Wel! for Solomon to point to the ant for an example of industry, but a etter exemple for 2 provider wotk) hase: Leen,a chicken.” “Why a chickes 7 “Beceane It ahraye comes op to the seratéh when dt fan crcation of ak fog 0 Heiss Seis. + Anerinam, we a, :D. Cy qaly 119M a oni Odom: preGnetion' tu the _ United’ States, Just iauied: ty. Btresner Rami Li Rogers, of the. Bureau of. the _ Census Department of Commerce, and prnpared oder the supervision of Hr. Willem M. Stewart, obtet sta tm charag of the Inquiry, shows the American crop of 1916—31, 191, $30 equivalent, 500-poundsbates—to ‘have deen the ‘amallest since 190%. The tables contained tn this "publication ‘will ba reprinted {p the annual cotton bulletin, to be published about October 1, which ‘will’ also Include more de- tailed figures ag 10 production, to- gether wth dita in regard to con- sumption, imports, exports, and stocks of cotten, i The crop of 1915 foudelow that of the proceding year by nearly 5,000,000 bales, or more than 30 per cent. The Produstion in‘ evAry state showed a decrease, the erenteat propertionally being In Oklahoma. where the crop of 1915 was only a trifle more than hate au Iarge-as that of 1914. The.tneresse iu the production of Unters during recent years 18 note- worthy. Staring at 114.644 bales in }1898, the output of thts product in- ‘creased to $80,780 bales in 1915. The| 1915 Unter product even excpeded that of the preceding year by mearly 24,000 bales, although the cotton crop of 1915 waa Very Touch xmaller than that of 1914. This Increase in Unter prodac- Hon ia due to some extent to closer delinting vf the reed for the better yoparation of the meat from the hulls, but more caperially to the high prices obtained for the Aber, which fe weed extennively in the manufacture of Rvn-cotton and smokelers powder, Many mill now” obtain considerably more than 14 pounds of inters, per ton of seed treated, whorean in ear- Her yearn 50 pounds per ton wan a high yield. Seaciyland votton, of Which 91,844 running bales were sinned tu i915, repreaented In that year less than 1 per cent of the total cotton produced: All this cotton waa grown in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, the frat: panied state producing 57,572 bales, of more than three-fiftha of tbe total.” | Although cotton in grown in -18 tates, the combined product of four ~Texas, Georkta, South Caroling, and Alnhama—represented , nearly two- hirda of the total crop of 1985, | Texan wlone produced’ 3,227,480} males, oF iner# than onefourth of ‘the otal cro a: 11S, The next greatest! ronduetion wax that of Georgia, 1908.1 73 bales. ur more than one-sixth af{ he total Other sates producing largo Fone were - Caroling, with 11k.) 19 bales; Miabam, 1,020,839 bales; Mientwndpey bt walew; Apkauisan,! 16,002 buies, N, Carolina, 49.4942 The denditne cotton count fare: pret te huiniwr of Males gihhed fret he growth ef 11S te Ellin County, eran whi s reread LVES3T baler ty he Oly wer vauNEY to Fepart more van 10s" bales was Matlvar COUnEY, Mee, nos tet the gitaiiage amet: 3 Pte Ww. Studer \' SOUTH Boston (VAD LETTER, so Beste ca eter goin tars eto nain ja thie os tte ts delayins Corners de tet ore at pears kuin a goed Deady The fart wre care just raring. time aad wit fee on the Wot atl the cast OM HOM, Janes at the tiftn ef Sune Mit dese, PRoreosctie: eueeky tien om ieaet Mal teat. etide Qite. sitise tp Fo aed bie wishes te tthe Mesmond Viatet Me WOK Youtas ot the Nertotk Jenene ana Gunde, passed through Bere Lot werk et fonte te Davie Hes viv ting oar pesgle good adviee fer Ty chy Gey should read colored Beespapere | | Wate gathertos cherries fer her erated, Mre Sindy Adanis fell frewt a cherry tree at Cluster Springs, near ere. Mtbdays Het feck wae) broken, ‘and she lied a few minutes: iver She le sevonty Sour pears od, A targe delegation téfe thls section feattend the annual sitting of Oe K, of Pe tn Portarsaath, Ver | The Southinids Bnteau of Informa: hon opened Bere this Week, with ALD. Kastan! manager, | CINCINNATI (0) LEFTER, | ade Anercnn 48. Siatene: + Cin tnnath, O, June 20.—Notice to ty subecribers owing to abuse of trusting my customers, and they fait to pay thelr bile ae thay promise me. 1am forced to discontinue crediting ny one, maving my monthly cus- temers and Tam expecting them to bas when bi 4g renderad, of their puper will be discontinued. Tam rexponntble for every paper 1 recetye, and mumt pay mg. bflln when they are due, so pleate pay when served. - + Yours truly, ‘Jas. H. Wilson, Agent. | Miss Isabel Givens, contralto ot this city, will render @ recital at the Park Street M. E, Chureh Friday eventing, June 30, 3916. for the beneftt of the Women's Honie Mistonary Society. The -Eltznbeth Gamble Deaconess Home Association wil! Bold thetr ap; nual session ot the Union Bapttat Churck June 20. AN students that are partakera of the home Bible study wit be: awarded diplomas for thelr yeir's work, Admission free. All are invites. * | Tho annual convention of the Sun- day Schools (Baptist) will convene at Lockland, ©., June 23, %4, and 25, Theré will be a great parade Sunday. Communton at the Sekitane Baptist Church wns well gttended as usual. "Dinner waa served Sunday by Rev. Dudley, Saylor Park, O.. In honor of his son's birthday, Mr. Bert Dudley. Many were present, and a Kappy after. nodn wae enjoyed: by all. After dia- ner evaryione went to church. . Children’s Day was -observed’ by many of our leeding churches, ‘Mra. Comtis $6 still on the mck Iiet, and is tmpreviag slowly. | At your Steure you may jeave per. sonal wows st- Mr, John Foildingy barber sop, nd I will txy te ave. peblished: fer you at al! times. eee dk CAEN nat eee A ie Ses, . aso : NBS : Es ce 2. ’ Pet 2% Bs \So. Ae OO re Yan (Oo UN um | XN } fae | & rel | ArUst—Te gods, a check for 330.” Wife-Ob. Percy, the people will fink yon. formed tt. — Pblladelpbbe Sacccd: : Ne Bale. “Ti give you #5 for that dog of yours, od man.” : “a “Five dollar! Why, that dog's got 8 pedigreo ax loug as your arm. Cost me Boo" ; | ““That'e all right. You can keep the pedigree. I only want the dug.” ‘One More on Mary. Mary haa wits amd = Just’ thirty years ago: * The chope we had for june today ‘Ware from that lamb, 1 koow. Exchange. : eT can never be yours, ere are sour presenta” AN very fine, But who's going to retura all those cigars. 1 bought Four. father anit all those quarters 1 gare soar little brother?"—Loulwciile Cou rlerJournal. Businaas Method. I . ial ~ ial HET | og ria es Pa ee | i fi i di ] it 0 s u = bs ! By | Employer—Why do you want mor pay? Do sou tink I'm a fool? + Olllce Hoy—No, sir! Mut 1 thonght you'd think Towan tf 1 didn't!—Hx. ebange Strategy. ~ Mra. Tixe— Yor alwars hare suck womlertal success In getting people to done to your. parties. Mes. Wye On, Patway tell the men that it's tex te bea dees up affalt fink the Women thot ¢it te Reston Traneertyt. A Limerick. Acwver sostvun Denia + With Peete tenar tne Whe cite | ite ge he ae dona Maret te Me Seniesa Tea goa ka Hevaure tir tb eqae were bene SRA Witten er he Niehalan + His Big Matake, sWhat's Che totter!” lie asked af the Hew Lrideastewt, Pin fe tool. My wife wae her fatth tn me fx tejetessly shatteresh™ “What ferrebie thug have gan done?" “Ht ahdu't seem se terrible at the| start. 1 broke a dish amd trie to Blame ft on mg wife pot cate" Pitts Dureb Fost. dap =—s- Wise Guy, 4 | 1 aaap Wise Guy. ibe. | ea) pee) BG | | ae Ee Lge “AG oer No ames? 5 wy IR RES SS | FBR p20 | : ets . - ; pall Mry, Fariner—Would. you work for your boant and clothes? | Trwp—Neser again, mum. I've mar ied fur wiadas ewiea-tschinge Bad Policy. 7 “Just one word of caution,” safd the dealer In hatr gvo.ts tu the uew clerk. “Yessir.” . * “Never tell n lady you have some thing prettier when abe {6 trying match her hatr."—Loutsville Courier Journ 7 bitin oo ‘Wig Bear of bright young ptichers Dut aime are priching baseball ‘That sboule ve,pitching hay. “Row York World oo Much Trouble, Mr. X. Pounder—Brace up and bare some confilence in yourself and you'll amomt to s.mething. If you hace faith you can more mountains Lazy Luke—On, well! Who wants ‘em move] anyway? — Milwaukee em er) “He Who Fighte—and Rune Away.” “I bear you Lad aume trogble at the pirate,” saic Fred. ‘S¥ea," sighed Percy. “Tbe girke call. ef me 2 coward. becacte | wouldo’: get them a hornets’ nest.” ” -“Unbenored, eh Y* choctied Fred. <*Fon.” sakl Percy, “bat auerene.” - | | 23 TROOPERS WERE SLAIN Sight,’le Rescued. « Twenty-three American soldiers are known to have lost thelr lives on the ‘Dartlefield at Carrizal, according to a report to Brigadier Genera! John J. [Pershing from: Major Jenkins, com: ‘mandlug the Eloventh Cavalry column, ordered to scour the country in the vicinity for survivors. ‘The report told of the rescue tn safe ty of Captain Lewis 8. Morey, after jbe bad made a daring stand in the face of heavy Merican odds and heroic petsonal sacrifices, In an effort to sate, the lives of his men. Major Jenkins sald he had evidenco that nine Amer!. can troopers, in addition to those pre: viously reported dead, had been kille!. Captain Morey was brought to heal quarters 10 a motor car. He tn fo splendid condition physically -constt ering the privation he endured before ra was (ound. Hix wounds were trest ed, anil It Is believed he will be on hl feet again na day of two. A note found on the body of Captain Charlier T. Hosa, the American cin mander, who lost: hix life in a charce on tho México machine un trench proved that Genera! Fellx Gomez th Meriean cemmanter, invited lin tne the town of (arrizal, and that he th. refused, and afterward conferred wit: Gomes outside the town, Netther the nntedwok of Captata Hosa nur tat of Captain Morey. tot of which they recovered, threw any new Medt an the ctasl, according ¢ the report After General Perstitie sald feurtytheee momnbers of the «om mina eacaged hat been acrounted fo, ind that one ather was known to be HHve, but ts lost in the desert. The ernatider ef the elehtsfour men wie bale uj the detachment are teltewe! © have been Milled or made prisoner SIX MORE SURVIVORS Four Return to U. 5. Lines and Tw Are Captured. Four more memsera of the Teat Cavalry, who survived the maneacie 2 Carrizal, have been pleked up and turned (o the American eape tition, fs reqiorted i Cufumtan, NM The colored triovers were in a pl £41 contition, halt dead from bunge and thir. see Two colored troopers, ragged at ball dead from hartehtps, are lodge fn Jafl at Juatex, having been brough from Guzman, here they were captur el by ate facto government. tro; They are believed to be survivors 0: the Currlzal engagement Will Parker, owner of Parker’ ranch, thirts-five miles southwest Machits, N.M., and ‘ile wife were mur dered, presumably by Mexican tran its according to Infortpation received by relatives, : American cavalry already haa start €d in pursuit of the murlerora, and if necesnary will cross the bonler. Al the time of\the murder the bandits ran off apnrovimately twenty-five bornes which military oficialx believe will as sist them tn finding the trial: KILLED ON WAY TO CAMP MESTERREN Vr STENT FMS WHER Ee Leans From Car Window. ~ Danfel Guptill, of Everson, Fay ette county. =» member of thi national guard, whose compan left, MU Pleasant, was fatally 1 Jured while leaning from a car win. dow 9a, the troin was | approachlas Huntingdon. He died in the Hla't Memorial hospital. i = | IT REALLY HAPPENED The youngster was full of fight. [thet he thought He ran out of the: house, iaried leet into trouble & mround twice, peeslod off his coat, matter. This jus let out a choice <ollection of ep!- man. -He resem thets, described the lineage of the with mach gusto. old tan consigned his soul and body the old man was to the Sery pit and them invited the a coward. This old'tham to come oat and Sight. The wrathy. He had Tow had stared inside the heuse, and porch, teking ali the young mas though t would be. were belag. heeg the cree” (Ol twnram he Sd bet wp. Pest. Omh— trams hnown os ‘siving ing Say be.o talk toni, 6 =: 3? Be. : 2 oes he aoe ae beet wot ‘ohn amd cofhesied, iweahed' the gate peg CP a 26. P OFF:FOR EL.Pase we Se eiag Mender, eo 5 Wert Brignt, un ie. comcem? ‘Generel Price, let ‘Dt. Pe, lor-Tt Paso, Te ai, ‘Fouts to lp. faen was anarine. of pn teliows:”. on By .Philaselpbia 4 Reading re:wav. to:Phitadelphis, chinge at W.one Desction to Baltimore & Obio ral, proceed: to Twenty-fourth ani .les- Bat streets, where-a sto, wil bz a1. © for lanch, ac.urding to préeat 5l.-%, em to Washington, thence tb 8 ~ Toate, then to Dalias, Tosa, an. ua ‘te Bi Paro. -: The work of musiering-in an! al- ‘miaistering the oath still is pr cea! fag, and-will not be Aniehed for » “i.e days, There are almost twice ax many men in camp now as there was when the (eotd) city, formally ras opened. Hookles ave arriving on eve.y train, and ft wer announced at divi! Deadquarters that Afy rBokics bai? arrived for every company im tie camp. That corsn't mean tha: each fedividual company hax been street 1 emed Gy the addition of fifty recruits, * as sme have added more to thelr ros- ter and sore less. F Outelde tho First’ Brizaite, there 's bitter dlvappointment among the troops. Uxiess the war, if bostiittes dbovld be declared, ts @ more stud- bora one than the quaniamén here be- Weve, they think there ls litle Nke't- hood’ of the other three brigades of the Pennsylvania troops over getting farther from home than the concen- tration camp here. KILLS TWO AMERICANS Mexicane Sry Cattiomen In Sonora, Englishman Oles of Wounds. + William Roberino an} Tom Sydney, Aworican cattlemen, have been kille! by. Mexicans southeast of Nacotart, Sonora, according to the statement of military omitnle from Agua Prieta, Oftcials at Artspe have telezraphed General P. Eilox Calles, conf ming the Meath of A. 1. Dickson, a Rel tb aub- fect, who way wounded in the Mbt with Mexican cowboys: in whitch Jim Parks, an American prospector, wow kilied. Another Found Dying on allroad, 1 Private No. tof Company Ey J Elghtesnt — Rectment, . Pittabirgs, 2 with inition “2 oH Th tn Ms Yo hat. was found dying beatde the © Pesmyivanta rtiread tracks helow Lo Middietown, He was pinced upen a * train and Droucht to thin elty, but diet fon the way.” An autopsy will be Sell "ty determine cause of death, The 1 man’s pocket were filled with green * “ratt’and medteal ‘men expreased the ' opinton that arute tndlgestion might, * have canse* death, THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER » Is from Calcuta, the capital of India. and It ts sald to grow like banangs, | when ripened ts gathered, perfymed and put tn Jara ready for the market to be ured for the half only, "MUN EAST INDIA WOMEN when standing, their halr recches the "ground: they use thetr hair for towel to bathe thelr children’s faces They aleo the thelr hair around thoir walste for belts. The East [niin race ts of w yerg dark brown color. NOTE: "She Wiped My Feet Wis The Halr Of Her Heat" Tf a woman haw long hate tz tx = Rlory to her. The Werles ey Greatewt Books > ~~ «By Sidney C, Tapp PRB gre btngred pagee, Moh My 005 Was a den and Not a woman’ Yates Tiana miece tok tattle of ise Bialseetr fuse: Arne meat Sesceere tat See ee Siser darian ahisis cca Ses Sed aioe fetta Gates tase shock oc soit ond ns oe eta sie lite ohare tae ae! spite Golte strat es Se Start oneonriie arresting’ tho altention of the medica Scene sie ma Scientia, philosophical Rnd. thealogical Seis piace fo asap! Se Eg rr tai santos cece ransoue ace Thoy are dally acing to thy atest thinks sell ees : ere Of all parva of tio civiiied world. Ia ed eer We dee imgeat the ara Se TT Bulb seas he Geis ade Mist aeatear dat oid Wate Pkt meine a Gis gt Geeta erteree t eaaepeis Gonna cae seria ata eat peatadd PEL shading Heese br. ‘Pappa books"on the Nilsie and Bis ae ee tenia oy ale le ane ag until time shall be no more. cane ow sal Mines Benseen, geretat aay Fase hek Gs at Sec (hese Looks on the Bible, will Dever diem Siacreaan nee “Mr. Tapp's werks on the le. pier samira. co Bil sicitae ea eeiaietas ete astie ad aa Oe oo sts ae ais Bt Split Uenlst SS Be Sie th aine is eee ea eae aa Saahilahey puss and Ay ie Se4 cto as Salt ja the civilised world $b Peeegn ERE i dats Seb ‘We have arranged with the author to oi alt “tor ee tc is ohare nace fi SO BE pects ou wish wad tee sume will be eat £0 FoR BS ones, * thet he thought it was uteless to Ket into trouble about such » trivial matter, This just suited the young man. He reseqwed his challenge with mach gusto. He sided that the old man was several varieties of a coward. Tole made the old boy wrathy. Fie had been sitting on the porch, tekipg all the inonus thet were being. heaped cpon him, it now he hed ‘botlied a. su cmt poses def oaw weet wes confor pt, be commemend oo {alk sonia, bet he. copnoed. the tame. Now ft was, sors co conehod the gate THB YOUNG Mf The Thirty-nine Steps By JOHN BUCHAN Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Company. WHO WAS SCUDDER, THE HINTED MAN, AND WAS HIS STRANGE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL PLOT TO RUSSIA AND OMERMANY IN WAR WELL FOUND IN FACT? WAS JUNE IS THE DAY FIXED FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF THE MAN WHO WAS THIS THE INSANE IDEA OF "THE MAN WHO WAS DEAD"? WHO WAS THE OLD MAN WITH THE VELED EYES AND WHAT PANT, IF ANY, DID HE PLAY IN THE GREAT CONSPIRACY? WHAT DID THE MYSTERIOUS REFERENCE TO THIRTY-NINE STEPS, HIGH TIDE IN F. M. MEAN? READ AND YOU WILL NOT DISPLAY THESE MYSTERIES, BUT WILL BE VERY WELL, ENTERTAINED BEESIDE. RETURNED from the city about 3 o'clock on that May afternoon, pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the old country and was fed up with it. If any one had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have called him a liar, but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish; the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick; I couldn't get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as goddess water that has been standing in the sun. "Richard Hannay," I kept telling myself, "you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out." It made me bite my lips to think of all the plans I had been building up those last years in Buluwaya. I had got my pile—not one of the big ones, but good enough for me—and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of 6X, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of "Arabian Nights" to me, and I counted on stopping there for the rest of my days. But from the first I was disappointed with it. In about a week I was tired of seeing sights, and in less than a month I had had enough of restaurants and theaters and race meetings. I had no real pal to go about with, which probably explains things. Plenty of people invited me to their houses, but they didn't seem much interested in me. They would ask me a question or two about South Africa and then get on to their own affairs. A lot of imperialist ladies asked me to tea to meet schoolmasters from New Zealand and editors from Vancouver, and that was the dainiest business of all. Here was I, thirty-seven years old, sound in wind and limb, with enough money to have a good time, yawning my head off all limb. I had just about settled to clear out and get back to the veld, for I was the best bored man in the United Kingdom. That afternoon I had been worrying my brokers about investments to give my mind something to work on, and on my way home I turned into my club—rather a pothoue, which took in colonial members. I had a long drink and read the evening papers. They were full of the row in the near east, and there was an article about Karoloides, the Greek premier. I remember wondering if I could get a job in those parts. It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning. About 6 o'clock I went home, dressed, dined at the Cafe Royal and turned into a music ball. It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey faced men, and I did not stay long. The night was fine and clear as I walked back to the flat I had hired near Portland place. The crowd surged past me on the payments, all busy and chattering, and I enriched the people for having something to do. These shoppers and clerks and dancers and policemen had some interest in it and light them up. I gave half a crown to a better beer, I saw him yawn; he was a felter sufferer. At Coffee Circus I look up into the spring sky and I made a new. I would give the old cow. 1111 1111 1111 1111 CHAPTER I. The Man Who Died. --- I rather fancied the chap. servants on the premises, so I had a fellow to look after me who came in by the day. He arrived before 8 o'clock every morning and used to depart at 7, for I never dined at home. I was just hitting my key into the door when I noticed a man at my elbow. I had not seen him approach, and the sudden appearance made me start. He was a slim man with a short brown beard and small, gimlety, blue eyes. I recognized him as the occupant of a flat on the top floor, with whom I had passed the time of day on the stairs. "Can I speak to you?" he said. "May I come in for a minute?" He was steadying his voice with an effort, and his hand was pawing my arm. I got my door open and motioned him in. No sooner was he over the threshold than he made a dash for my back room where I used to smoke and write my letters. Then he bolted back, "Is the door locked?" he asked feverishly, and he fastened the chain with his own hand. "I'm very sorry," he said humbly, "It's a mighty liberty, but you looked the kind of man who would understand. I've had you in my mind all this week when things got troublesome. Say, will you do me a good turn?" "I'll listen to you." I said, "That's all, I'll promise." I was getting worried by the anteces of this nervous little chimp. There was a tray of drinks on the table beside him, from which he filled himself a stiff whisky and soda. He drank it off in three gulps and cracked the glass as he set it down. "Barlion," he said. "I'm a bit rattled tonight. You see, I happen at this moment to be dead." I sat down in an armchair and lit my oice. What does it feel like? I asked. I was pretty cottage that I had to deal with a madman. A smile disliked over his drawn face. I'm not mad-y yet. Say, Mr. Hanauy. A. M. "You see, I happen at this moment to be dead." "You see, I happen at this moment to be dead." I've been watching you, and I reckon you're a cool customer. I reckon, too, you're an honest man and not afraid of playing a bold hand. I'm going to confide in you. I need help worse than any man ever needed it, and I want to know if I can count you in? "Get on with your yarn." I said, "and then I'll tell you." He seemed to brace himself for a great effort and then started on the queerest rigmarole. I didn't get hold of it at first, and I had to stop and ask him questions. But here is the gist of it: He was an American, from Kentucky, and after college, being pretty well off, he had started out to see the world. He wrote a bit and acted as war correspondent for a Chicago paper and spent a year or two in southeastern Europe. I gathered that he was a linguist and had got to know pretty well the society of those pars. He spoke familiarity of many names that I reimbled for to have seen in the newspapers. He had played about with politics. He told me—at first for the interest of children and because he could help himself. I read him as a sharp, restless fellow who always wanted to get down to the rooms of things. He got a little further down than he wanted. I am giving you what he told me as well as I could make it out. Away behind all the governments and the armenians there was a big settlement movement going on, engineered by very dangerous people. He had come in by ambulance. It connected him, went further and then got caught. Significant that most of the people in towns the sort of educated merchants that made peruvian, but they brought them, these with filmmakers told were playing for aliyah. If falling market, and it silted the plane of both classes to set Europe by the ears. He told me some queer things that explained what that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan war: how one suddenly came out on top; why alliance were made and broken; why certain men disappeared and where the slaves of war came from. The aim of the whole conspiracy was to get Russia and Germany at loggerheads. When I asked why, he said that the anarchist lot thought it would give them their chance. Everything would be in the melting pot and they looked to see a new world emerge. The capitalists would rike in the shekels and make fortunes by buying up wreckage. Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland; besides, the Jew was behind it, and the Jew hated Russia. "Do you wonder?" he cried. "For 300 years they have been persecuted, and this is the return match for the porgris. The Jew is everywhere, but you have to go far down the back stairs to find him. "Take my big Teutonic business concern. If you have dealings with it the first man you meet is Prince von Something, an elegant young man who talks Eton and Harrow English. But he cuts no ice. If your business is big you get behind him and find a prognostus Westphalian. "He is the German business man that gives your English papers the shakes. But if you're on the biggest kind of a job and are bound to get to the real boss, ten to one you are brought up against a little, white faced Jew in a both chair, with an eye like a rattle. Yes, sir, sir, he is the man who is rolling the world just now, and he has his刃罪 in the empire of the ear because his father was troglody in some horse location on the Volker." I could not help saying that his Jew anarchists seemed to have got left behind a little. "Yes and no," he said. "They won up to a point, but they struck a bigger thing than money, a thing that couldn't be bought—the oldimental disfitness, instincts of man. If you were going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to have the thing. These foolish desis of soldiers have found some thing they care for and that has upset the pretty plan laid in Berlin and Vienna. But my friends haven't played their last card by a long sight. They have got the map up their sleeves, and unless I can keep alive for a month they are going to play it and win." "But I thought you were dead," I put in. "Death is the door of life," he smiled. "I'm coming to that, but I've got to put you to a lot of things first. If you read your newspaper I guess you know the name of Constantine Karolides." I sat up at that, for I had been reading about him that very afternoon. "He is the man that has wrecked all their games. He is the one big brain in the whole show, and he happens also to be an honest man. Therefore he has been marred down these twelve months past. I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much—but I found out the way they were going to get him, and that knowledge was deadly. That's why I have had to diease." He had another drink, and I invited it for him myself, for I was getting terased in the bagger. "They can't get him in his own hand for he has a bodyguard of Epiphanes that would skin their grandmothers. But on the 15th day of June he is coming to this city. The British for office has taken to having international tea parties, and the biggest of them is due on that date. Now, Kazuoides is reckoned the principal guest, and if my friends have their way he will never return to his admiring countrymen." "That's simple enough anyhow," I said. "You can warn him and keep him at home." "And play their game?" he asked sharply. "If he does not come they win, for he's the only man that can straighten out the tangle. And if his government is warmed he won't come, for he does not know how big the stakes will be on June 15." "What about the British government?" I said. "They're not going to let their guests be murdered. Tip them the wink and they'll take extra precautions." "No good. They might stuff your city with plain clothes detectives and double the police, and Constantine would still be a doomed man. My friends are not playing this game for fun. They want a big occasion for the taking off, with the eyes of all Europe on it. He'll be murdered by an Austrian, and there'll be plenty of evidence to show the connivance of the big folk in Vienna and Berlin. It will all be an infernal lie, of course, but the case will look black enough to the world. "I'm not talking hot air, my friend. "I happen to know every detail of the bellish contrivance, and I can tell you it will be the most finished piece of blackguardism since the Borgnan. But it's not going to come off if there's a certain man who knows the wheels of the business alive right here in London on the 15th day of June. And that man is going to be your servant, Franklin P. Scudder." I was getting to like the little chap. His jaw had shunt like a rat trap, and there was the fire of battle in his glimly eyes. If he was spinning me a yarn he could act up to it. "Where did you find out this story?" I snabb. "I got the first hint in an inn on the Acheneese in Tyrol. That set me inquiring, and I collected my other claws in a fur shop in the Galician quarter of Buda, in a Brangere's club in Vienna and in a little book shop on the Rock-nitramente in Lapalp. I completed my evidence ten days ago in Paris. "I can't tell you the details now, for it's something of a tale. When I was quite sure in my own mind I judged it my business to disappear, and I reached the city by a mighty quirk clerk." "He'll be murdered by an Austrian." Left Paris a dumplified French American, and I sailed from Hamburg a Jew diamond merchant. "In Norway I was an English student of them, collecting materials for lectures. But when I left Bergen I was a moving picture man with special ski films. And I came here from Leth with a lot of pulpwood preparations in my pocket to put before the London newspapers. Till yesterday I thought I had muddied my trail some and was feeling pretty happy. Then—" The recollection seemed to upset him, and he gulped down half a glass of whiskey. "then I saw a man standing in the street outside this block. I used to stay close in my room all day and only slip out after dark for an hour or two. I watched him for a bit from my window, and I thought I recognized him. He came in and spoke to the porter. When I came back from my walk last night I found a card in my letter box. It hore the name of the man I ward host to meet on Gifts earth." I think that the book in my compartment was a novel. They paled light on him as they looked at my condition of his health. "My own value sharpened a bit as I loved him what he did best. I really that I was battled assure as a packed herring and that there was only one way out. I had to die if my partners knew I was dead they would go to sleep again." "How did you manage it?" "I told the man that values me that I was feeling pretty bad, and I got myself up to look like death. That wasn't difficult, for I was so shoutless and disgusted. Then I got a worse case can always get a bask in London if you know where to go for it. I fetched it back in a trunk on top of a four wheeler, and I had to be assisted upstairs to my room. "You see, I had to pile up some dence for the impost. I went to bed and got my man to mix me a sleepy draft and then told him to clear out. He wanted to fetch a doctor but I swore some and said I could, able leeches. When I was left alone I started in to take me that carriage." "He was my sir and I joked had perished from too much alcohol, so I put some spirits himself about the place. The jaw was the weak, point in the likeness, so I blew it away with a revolver. I dare say there will be some body tomorrow to swear to having heard a shot, but there are no needles on my floor, and I guess I could risk that. "So I left the body in bed dressed up in my pajamas, with a recover lying on the bed clothes and a considerable mess around. Then I got into a suit of clothes I had kept waiting for emergencies. I didn't dare to shave for fear of leaving tracks, and bedside, it wasn't any kind of use my trying to get into the streets. "I had had you in my mind all day, and there seemed nothing to do but to make an appeal to you. I watched from my window till I saw you come home and then slipped down the stairs to meet you. There, sir, I guess you know about as much as me of this business." He sat blinking like an owl, duttering with nerves and yet desperately determined. By this time I was pretty well convinced that he was going straight with me. It was the wildest sort of narrative, but I had heard in my time many steep tales which had turned out to be true, and I had made a practice of judging the man rather than the story. If he had wanted to get a lesson in my flat and then cut my throat he would have pitched me a far infiler yarn. "Hand me your key," I said, "and I'll take a look at the corpse. Excuse my caution, but I'm bound to verify a bit if I can." CHAPTER II. "Captain Theophilus Digby of the Seventh Goorkhas." HE shook his head mournfully. "I reckoned you'd ask for that, but I haven't got it. It's on my chain on the dressing table. I had to leave it behind, for I couldn't leave any clews to breed suspicions. The gentry who are after me are pretty bright eyed citizens. You'll have to take me on trust for the night, and tomorrow you'll get proof of the corpse business right enough." I thought for an instant or two. bought for an instant or two. "Right! I will trust you for the night. I'll lock you into this room and keep the key. Just one word, Mr. Scudder. I believe you're straight, but if so be you are not I should warn you that I'm a handy man with a gun." "Bure!" be said, jumping up with some brinkness. "I haven't the privilege of your name, sir, but let me tell you that you're a white man. I'll thank you to lend me a razor." I took him into my bedroom and turned him loose. In half an hour's time a figure came out that I scarcely recognized. Only his glamour, hungry eyes were the same. He was shaved clean, his hair was parted in the middle, and he had cut his eyebrows. Gunther: He carried himself as if he had been drilled and was the very model, even to the known completion, of some British officer who had had a long spell in India. He had a mounicle, too, which he struck in his eye, and every trace of the American had gone out of his speech "My hat! Mr. Sendder" - I stammered. "Not Mr. Sendder." he corrected "Captain Theophilus Digby of the Seventh Georgak, presently home on leave. I'll thank you to remember that, sir." I made him up a bed in my smoking room and sought my own comfy cheerful than I had been for the past month. Things did happen as easily even in this God forsaken metropolis. I woke next morning to hear my man Padlock making the decree of a row at the smoking room door. Paddock was a follow I had come a good turn to cut on the Selakwat, and I had insulted him as my servant as soon as I got to England. He had about as much gift of the gab as a hip popotamus and was not a great bard at valeting, but I knew I could count on his loyalty. "Stop that row, Paddock." I said "There's a friend of mine, Captain-Captain"—I couldn't remember the name "doshing down in there, got breakfast for two, and then come and speak to me." I told Paddock a fine story about how my friend was a great swallow, with his nerves pretty bad from overwork, who wanted absolute rest and stillness. Nobody had got to know he was here or he would be bested by comp munications from the India office and the prime minister, and his cure would be ruined. "I am bound to say Sunder played up splendidly when he came to break fast." He fixed Eddie back with his eyeglass just like a British officer, asked him about the Beer war and slung out on me a lot of stuff about imaginary pubs of whom I had never heard. Eddie couldn't learn to eat a 'skirt' but he "stirred" Sumbler as if his life detained on it. I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars and went down to the city till binches. When I got back the porter had an important face. "Nawesty business were the morning sir. Gent in No 15 been and shot 'tself. They've just took 'tia to the mortuary. The police are up there now." I ascended to No 15 and found a couple of bobbies and an inspector busy making an examination. I asked a few blotting questions, and they skipped me out. Then I found the man that had valued Sumbler and pumped him, but I could see he appeared noth ing. He was a whiting fellow with a churchyard face and built a grown weir far to console him. I attended the impost next day. A partner of some publishing firm gave evidence that the deceased had brought him weed pulp propositions and had been, he believed, an agent of an American business. The jury found it a case of subtle white use of unnatural blood, and the few effects were handled over to the American authorities. I gave Sunder a full account of the affair, and it interested him greatly. He said he wished he could have at tended the impost, for he rejoined it would be about as stray as to read one's own ordinary notices. The first two days he stayed with me in that back room he was very peaceful. He rest and smiled a bit and made a heap of lettings in a note book, and every night we had a game of chess at which he beat me follow. I think he was missing his nerves back to health, for he had had a pretty trying time. But on the third day I could see he was beginning to get toless. He fixed up a list of the days till June 15 and ticked each off with a red pen and made remarks in shorthand against them. I would find him sunk in a brown study, with his sharp eyes abstraction, and after these spells of meditation he was not to be dependent. Then I could see that he began to get eagly again. He listened for little notices and was always asking me if Paddock could be trusted. Once or twice he got very peculiar and apologized for it. I didn't blame him. I made every allowance, for he had taken on a fairly stiff job. It was not the safety of his own skin that troubled him, but the success of the scheme he had planned. That lithe man was clean thick all through, without a soft spot in him. One night he was very solemn. "Say, Hannay," he said. "I judge I should let you a bit deeper into this business. I should hate to go out without leaving somebody else to put up a fight." And he began to tell me in detail what I had only heard from him vaguely. I did not give him very close attention. The fact is I was more interested in his own adventures than in his high politics. I reckoned that Karolides and his affairs were not my business, leaving all that to him. So a lot that he said slipped clean out of my memory. I remember that he was very clear that the danger to Karolides would not begin if he had got to London and would come from the very highest quarters, where there would be no thought of suspicion. He mentioned the name of a woman, Julia Czechenylt, as having something to do with the danger. She would be the decoy, I gathered, to get Karolides out of the care of his guards. He talked, too, about a Black Stone and a man that lipped in his speech, and he described very particularly somebody that he never referred to without a shudder, an old man with a young voice who could hood his eyes like a lionhawk. He spoke a good deal about death too. He was mortally anxious about whining through with his job, but he didn't care a rush for his life. I reckon he like going to sleep when you are pretty well tired out and waiting to find a summer day, with the sevent of hay coming in at the windows. I used to thank God for such mornings 'way back, in the blue grass country, and I guess I'll thank him when I wake up on the other side of Jordan.' Next day he was much more cheerful and read the life of Stonewall Jackson most of the time. I went out to dinner with a mining engineer I had got to see on business and came back about half past 10. In time for our game of chess before turning in. I had a cigar in my mouth. I remember, as I pushed open the smoking room door. The lights were not lit. A man in a suit stands over a man lying on the floor, who is dressed in a suit and lying on his back. The man in the suit is holding a bottle of wine and a glass of water, while the man on the floor is lying on his back with his head resting on the floor. The background is a dark, indistinct room with a table and a lamp. There Was a Long Knife Through His Heart, Which Skewered Him to the Floor. which struck me as cold. I wondered if Sumbler had turned in. I shapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my jaw and fall into a cold sweat. My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long shingle through his heart, which shewerved him to the floor. I sat down to an armchair and felt very sick. That lasted for five minutes and was noceled by a bit of the horrors. The poor, starting, white face on the floor was more than I could bear, and I managed to get a table both and cover it. Then I staggered to a cupboard, found the beauty and swallowed several mouthfuls. I had seen them die violently before. Indeed, I had killed a few myself in the Matter of war. Bilt the cold blooded business was waged. Still I managed to pull myself together. I looked at my watch and saw that it was half past 10. An idea seized me, and I went over the hat with a small tooth comb. There was nobody there nor my trace of my lady, but I shuttered and bolted all the windows and put the ladder on the door. By this the toy wires were coming back to me and I could think again. It took me about an hour to figure the thing out, and I did not hurry. For us less the murder came back. I had till about 6 o'clock in the morning for my engagements. I was in the soup that was pretty clear. Any shadow of a doubt I did have had about the truth of Sakata's tale was now gone. The proof of was lying under the table. T' men who knew that he knew what ' knew had to tell him and had to tell the best way to make certain of all silence Yes, but he had been in my ten four days, and his enemies must have reckoned that he had stollen it in. So I would be the next to be might be that very likely or most or the day after but my number is up all right. Then suddenly I thought of another probability. Supposing I want out now and called in the police or went to bed and let Iuddock find the body and call them in the morning. What kind of a story was I to tell about Scudder? I had led to Iuddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately daisy. If I made a clean breast of it and told the police anything he had told me they would simply laugh at me. The tolds were a thousand to one that I would be charged with the murder, and the circumstantial evidence was strong enough to hang me. Few people knew me in England. I had no real pal who could come for ward and swear to my character. Perhaps that was what those secret ones were playing for. They were clever enough for anything, and an English prison was as good a way of getting rid of me till after June 15 as a knife in my chest. Besides, if I told the whole story and by any miracle was believed I would be playing their game. Karolides would stay at home, which was what they wanted. Somehow or other the sight of Scoeder's dead face had made me a firm believer in his scheme. He was gone, but he had taken me into his confidence, and I was pretty well bound to carry on his work. You may think this difficult for a man in danger of his life, but that was the way I looked at it. I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not heavier than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scoeder if I could play the game in his place. It took me an hour or two to think this out, and by that time I had come to a decision. I must vanish somehow and keep vanished till the end of the second week of Jump. Then I must somehow find a way to get in touch with the government people and tell them what freudian had told me. I whined to heaven he had told me more and that I had finished more carefully to the little be he had told me. I knew nothing but the barest facts. There was a 'little risk that even if I PAGE THREE Weathered the other dangers I would not be believed in the end. I must take my chance of that aid hope that something might happen which would confirm my tale in the eyes of the government. My first job was to keep going for the next three weeks. It was now the 21st day of May, and that meant twenty days of hiding before I could venture to approach the powers that be. I risked that two sets of people would be looking for me—Scudder's enemies, to put me out of existence, and the police, who would want me for Scudder's murder. It was going to be a glady hunt, and it was queer how the prospect comforted me. I had been shack so long that almost any chance of activity was welcome. When I had to sit alone with that corpse and wait on fortune I was no better than a crushed worm, but if my mask's safety was to hang on my own wits I was prepared to be cheerful about it. The next thought was whether Sander had my paper about him give me a better clew to the business. I drew back the tablecloth and searched his pockets. I had no longer any shrinking from the body. The face was wonderfully calm for a man who had been struck down in a moment. There was nothing in the breast pocket and only a few loose coins and a cigar holder in the waistband. The trousers held a little peplum and (Continued on Page 6.) # BODY AND BREATH | | | | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | [L. Boehm] | 1.9.11 | 9.2.31 | *9.2.31* | [L. Boehm] | 1.9.11 | *12.49* | | [L. Boehm] | 9.2.23 | 9.2.31 | *9.2.31* | [L. 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SATURDAY.....JULY 1. 1910 Colored folks, be respectful to the white folks and you'll be respectful to colored ones. --- It is evident that Richmond, Va. has been a ring-ruled city, but the heaven is working. Colored folks, who got out of poli- tics will have to get back in it again if they would retain their self-respect Teach your children good manners colored folks. It is a valuable asset, even if it does not count with some of these new policemen. There are many good men on the police-force of this city. The action of the new men, who have neither self respect nor good breeding should not mitigate against one of the best organizations in the Southland. don't be discouraged, colored folks because the lower element of the white folks get on the police force and are against you. Do not resist them but be common sense method- make your appeal and come unto your own again. They made Sergeant Sherry a captain and he wasted satisfied. he wanted to be vindicated when there was no vindication for him. A new day is dawning and conduct of the kind which he approved will go a glimmering in the distance. The police officers seem to have captured the reportorial department of the Times, Dispatch. If we are to judge by the report or the meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners, One good thing is that we have our own journal in which to state the facts without the unfair coloring. --- The Mexican situation is overshadowing all other issues. The practical annihilation of two companies of the Teenth Cavalry has tended to arouse much feeling in this country. Colored men have shed the first blood in the great conflict now pending between the United States and Mexico. Let us hope that they have not died in vain. --- COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT has written ten an open letter opposing the candidacy of PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON and indorsing the candidacy of HON. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES. The Progressive National Committee has indorsed his attitude. This seems to dispose of all hope on the part of the Democratic Party of winning the presidential contest. --- AN AMUSING SITUATION. --- "Wonders will never cease." Who would have believed that in the year of nineteen hundred and sixteen a President, the candidate of the Negro-hating Democratic Party would be placed in the embarrassing attitude of demanding the release of twenty-three Negroes, wearing the uniform of the army of the United States, and threatening war if the demand is not compiled with, within forty-eight hours? To support this demand white members of the National Guard from Maine to Texas are being mobilized. God moves in a mysterious way, but he is so accomplishing the change as to bring 'Sambo' unto his own again. Sometimes we think that after all, like the Hebrews, we belong to a chosen race of people, despite our, "ups and downs, our hurts and wounds." Captain Morey, of the Tenth Cavalry trained to the Soldier and bravery of that black regiment. President Wilson will get his Negroes back without being required to send Uncle Sam's army to get them. They got into this trouble through their white officers. It has been clearly demonstrated that colored troops can get more protection in Mexico than they can get in this country even if one half of them are killed before they measure the after-ward protection. The Philadelphia Tribune declines to accept as satisfactory the formal denial on the part of the New York Age that Major R. R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, made the statement accredited to him by the Associated Press dispatches, relative to the outrageous treatment of his wife in Alabama. It cites his past record and utterances in substitution of the position which he is alleged to have taken. We admit that it makes out rather a strong case, but hardly one that would bring about a conviction before an impartial tribunal. Principal Moton is alleged to have made a statement. The New York Age denies that he made the statement. Major Moton is silent, so far as the public press is concerned. We understand that Principal Moton has denied that he either condoned the outrage or criticized his wife. It would seem to us that this is a case of suspended judgment. It is insignificant that this distinguished Virginian should have taken the position accredited to him: He would merit the contempt of every self-respecting citizen in the country. We have too few leaders of ability and we are careful not to unnecessarily cripple this one. We need manhood. We need manly men. Let us hope that the gestation of the question will cease. TROUBLE IN PENNSYLVANIA. ```markdown ``` *General character of the mother of Women's Anatomy must have trouble with the mother's fraternity. If the fraternity is "Paternal" in Inheritance it may be supposed as being in the situation. It says The Knights of Pythias is one organization that affords greater opportunities for the needs of profession. Therefore its patronage, among other factors, is patronized, and while this is true and commendable, the members should take into consideration that no man of all ages or of all races is worthy of their support who prove that he is only identified with them for the fathers and leaves. When it is to be considered that a Negro doctor has Negro bodies to carry there will be no carrying to do, therefore the profession would go by default, and in as much as history does not record a single incident where any profession has produced a single man, but it does record the fact that man has produced all of the professions, therefore the mere fact that a man be a lawyer, doctor, preacher, professor, author, artist, sculptor or a hodbarrer—man applies to all of them. "The Knights of Pythias and its members are asleep at the switch and are now fattening frogs for snakes when they are giving their patronage to the doctors of the order who feel above them and accept them on the equilibrium base only when he has some patronage to follow. "The Fraternal Informer' appeals to all lodges and members thereof to consider this impimposition and let their efforts he to bring all members of the order on that plane of equality. "He that is coward enough to concede by word or action that the wife of a professional man is better than his wife, because he is a hodcarrier, ought to have been planted beneath the sod forty years before he saw her; provided, however, that the moral quality were equal. "When you stop to think that if the Negroes withdraw their patronage from Negro doctors, some waiters or hodderlers will lose their jobs. While we believe that it is our duty to both encourage and support the men of our race in every and all of their efforts, to the end that they may ascend to the highest rung in the ladder of success and standing; we also believe that this class of men should disseminate these teachings, so that his fellowman who was not blessed with the golden opportunity to acquire learning whereby the brain could excel the muscle, would benefit by God's blessing." We do not know whether or not it is one physician or many of them to which our esteemed contemporary refers. Certain it is that the medical men are not in favor with the officials of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, of Pennsylvania. TROUBLE IN OHIO. Editor W. Philip Dabney of The Union, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been zealously contending for the rights and privileges of citizens of color. He has been placed in a very embarrassing predicament by the conduct of some of the tough element of the race. It says: "Last Thursday, the one or two colored schools of this city, and others of this vicinity, had an outing at the Zoo. They were accompanied by a mass of grown people, good, bad, and indifferent. The Zoo is a high-grade resort, and one of the very few places now open to colored people. This fact alone should have caused the people present to carefully guard their conduct; but slain, reliable reports indicate just the revenge. A few irresponsible men and women seem to have tossed aside even the very rudiments of public decorum. Their drinking at the bar, bouncing and drinking around the grounds, constituted a right unit for responsible adults, not to speak of innocent little children. Of course, in the opinion of the whites who behind this disprocious exhibition, all colored citizens, however responsible will be forced to bear their THE RIGHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA share of disgrace. The scene furnishes another argument for 'Mixed Schools'. Recently, when they had the Zoo, the parents of white and colored pupils were present. Everything passed off smoothly and decently. If irresponsible, Negroes were present, or irresponsible whites, they kept evil natures and incinations in subjection. Unfortunately for us, THE WHITES JUDGE US BY OUR WORST PRODUCTS AND THEMSELVES BY THEIR BEST. The following article is a description of a white plenic, taken from a white newspaper. However, white people will view it as an accident, affecting only the lower class of whites, whereas had colored people been the participants, they would have immediately used it as an argument to prove the unfitness of colored people generally for citizenship or association. Here's what a white journal said about that white plenic: "A Disgraceful Mixup In Which Six Young Girls Figure—Almost Naked After Fight. "Another disgraceful Sunday picnic was pulled off last Sunday at or near Stop 9 on the Lower Riier road. It was given by the Tin Cup Club, whatever that is, and after a day spent in semi-dobauchery, it all ended up in a free for all fight reports say, in which six young girls were demuded the fighting lasting until their clothes were nearly all torn off. They were forced to make the trip home in borrowed garments, that night. "It is reported that there were many young girls under legal age that were permitted to drink until they were drunk. "No arrests were made so far as can be learned. "This appears to have been as shameful a proceeding as that recently held at Mt Healthy. It is such affairs as this that make it hard for legitimate saloon men and liquor dealers in general, as well as distillers and brewers. Sundays in out of the way places are the times and places placed for these debauchers." The dullly colored folks should best arrested at the instigation of the other colored ones. The fact that white people are at times so far that conduct may pollitate the record of but it does not excuse it. It is unfortunate that the disreputable elements will mix with the reputable classes. The police department is indicted to separate and should not hesitate to hold them in custody. THE HEADLIGHT PUZZLED. The Lindenburg CA CA Headlight indicated as to whether or not to publish a contributed article entitled Time for Certain Negro Churches in Lynchburg to Change Fosters. This is quite an interesting question. We have been of the opinion that each Baptist Church being sovereign, should be able to settle this question for itself. As to pastors falling to properly support journals devoted to the interest of the race, there should not be any surprizes whatever. They will support a journal if it will cause its columns to seem with praise of the pastor and be a veritable hand-bill of church notices. An editor will always find that he will be better off, from a financial standpoint, without the support of the pastor than he will with it. If he pays one dollar and fifty cents per year for his subscription, he will send free notices which will cost the editor at least ten dollars per year to set up and publish. Still, there are many exceptions. Some of the best friends of the colored editors may be found in the pupit. COLORED SOLDIERS RESTORED It has been well said that "Justice may sleep, but never dies." This is emphasized by the elimination from the records of the dishonorable discharge and the restoration to the roster of the United States Army, with full bark pay, to fourteen of the members of the two companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, alleged to have been implicated in the shooting up of Brownville, Texas. The innocent were punished with the alleged guilty. Although only about a dozen colored soldiers were alleged to have been concerned in the affair, about one hundred and sixty of them were dismissed from the service in 1908. Ten years afterwards, when nearly one hundred of their comrades had offered up themselves in Mexico, those fourteen men have been restored to the service. The comment of the New York Sun is good reading. It states the case plainly and puts these faithful colored men in a most favorable light before the people of the country. WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? "Theodore Roosevelt, when president of the United States, practically lynched an entire battalion of colored troops, and in 1912 he kicked the southern colored delegates out of his Progressive national conventions. Yet last week at Chicago some colored men so lost their sense of decemay and honor that they held public meetings and passed resolutions calling on the colored delegates to vote for Roosevelt, for the process of the party and the safety of the country!" "St. Paul (Bloom.) Appell." "What about Theodore 'Brownsville' Brother Adams, at the close of the Spanish-American war, accusing the Afro-American soldiers of cowardice who saved his and his 'Rough Riders' lives in Cuba during the progress of that war?. And the recent A. M. E. general conference's invitation to him to address it? "The Afro-American delegates to the recent Republican National convention and the members of the A. M. E. general conference, as well as those Chicago Afro-Americans, are members of the race above the average in point of intelligence, too! "GOOD LORD! HAVE MERCY! Whither are we drifting?"—Cleveland (O.) Gazette. Editor John Q. Adams, of St. Paul, Minn. and Hon. H. C. Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio, are always stirring up something that should be stirred up. With them, race interest is first, and personal aggrandizement second. We were surprised at the action of those colored folks, ours- selves. THAT SCOTCH VERDICT. If former Police-Sergeant C. A. Sherry, Officers H. Settles and M. F. Lumpkin can extract any consolation out of the resolution of the Board of Police Commissioners as adopted at their meeting Wednesday night, June 28, 1916, they are welcome to it. They were charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The Board did not hear any evidence. Not wishing to embarrass our white friends, who had requested us so to do, we withdrew the charges. The Board finally permitted us so to do after realizing that we had fifteen witnesses against the officers in question and so far as we could see, they had none in their favor. They evidently considered that they had the matter "inclined," so far as that land was concerned. We had hoped never to witness such exhibitions of cartoonism in this city among gentlemen of that type. It shows to what extent machine politics will deteriorate and destroy some of our most honored organizations. Among both of the great political parties race prejudice is the ghost which hung every avenue of legitimately endgayer. We make our pleas as a Virginian and a citizen and never as a citizen of color. We shall contend for our rights until we get them, either on one's side of the Master's vineyard or on the other side of it. In the Peace Court, a fair decision was rendered. Before the Police Commission, the verdict was virtually "guilty, but not proven." It was not proven for the reason that at the request of friends of a lifetime, the charges were withdrawn and the evidence was not submitted. We received assurances and warnings from all sides that whether the evidence had been submitted or withdrawn, the official whitewash was to be applied and the Search verdict rendered. The Board of Police Commissioners is gone. "Peace to its ashes and rest to each goe." The Richmond Va. Times-Dispatch in its issue of the 20th inst., has the following to say There was nothing in the conduct of the Negro regulars at Carrizal for which we need blush. All reports, official and unofficial, point to the fact that the colored troopers fought gallantly against overwhelming odds, that they stood their ground and answered every command of their white officers, under the deadly fire of the Mexican machine gun. This is not the first time that Negro soldiers have proved their courage. They played an important part in the battle of Santiago, and it is recorded that they went to the rescue of Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the San Jose engagement at a time when the roughriders were hard pressed. By his very nature, the Negro is amenable to discipline and responds eagerly to it if his orders come from superiors in whom he has confidence. We know this is true in civil life, and our military experience has further emphasized it. The wisdom of the War Department, therefore, in placing white officers in command of Negro troops cannot be questioned. We regret that our very fair and able contemporary shold have taken this as an argument in favor of discountancing Negro leadership. If a Negro cannot lead a Negro, who can be lead? You and your associates have barred him from leading white men. Colored folks can always get along with the better class of white people. In order for our people to attain their full measure of citizenship, they must learn to command as well as to obey and to obey as well as command. Still the editorial in question will help us and we thank the editorial department for this timely recognition. —Take that flour, bake a cake, Catch that chicken, break his neck. Fry his legs crisp and brown, for you know I'm going down, with Mt. O to Bucknue, July 2 times 6 plus 1 plus four. —"Preparedness or not prepared, that's the question." —I'm prepared for. I've got the amount, that will count July 17, when Mt. O goes to Bucknue. With a "hyl'i" and an aggravating battle the scared dog shot around the corner, a tin can hanging from the end of its tail. The small boy who had fixed the tin can in its place stopped laughing when a stern voice came to his ears. "William"—it was his father who spoke—"did you to that tin to the poor dog's tail?" Willie did some sapid thinking. Then he replied innocently: "Yes, father. I did. I'm trying to do one kind act every day, and that dog is always chasing cats, so I tied the tin can to its tail so that it would make a noise and warn the poor little cats." The Wifely:View. "My dear, what do you think I bought you? A nice cookbook." "A man buying a cookbook! Well, that canvasser must have been a peach." Broken Engagement. The cashier girl is very strange. She promised to sell her dress. Broken liked to mind her change. Was why she changed her mind. —New York Mall Great News Fond Mother—Oh, John, the baby can walk. Cruel Father—Good! He can walk the door with himself at night then—Boston Transcript. Sidesteping. "I don't see how young Bentley can sidestep all his bills." "He doesn't; he sidestep the collector."—Pittsburgh Press. They were discussing the new house, "How about the sash?" asked the architect. "Oh, something in baby blue," spoke up the young wife. Louisville Courier- Journal. Conversation. I must admit I don't know whether It is a rude or not. But when two people get together They seem to talk about the weather An awful lot. Earns Hia Salary. "This moving picture comedian gets an enormous surprise." "He earns it. The last time I saw him on the screen he was knocked down twelve times, struck on the head five times, thrown into a barrel, blown up by a bomb and drenched by the fire department." — Birmingham, Age-Herald. It All Depends. 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GARFIELD CHESTER A ARTHUR GROVER CLEVELAND BENJAMIN HARRISON WILLIAM MFKINLEY THEODORE ROOSEVELT WILLIAM H TAPT WOODROW WILSON Charley Goes Into Restaurant to Bow to His Appetite THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers (Continued from First Page.) compel a man to make charges when he does not wish to do so." MAYOR NOT PRESENT. Mayor Ainslie stated that he was not present at the meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners when the body declined to permit the withdrawal of the charges. The acting chairman stated that they had due consideration for Mitchell, but the officers had a right to demand a vindication and it was for this reason that a hearing had been granted. Attorney Smith stated that no good could possibly come from a further agitation of the question. It would only stir up race feeling: a thing not to be desired. He would make an unqualified withdrawal of the charges against the officers, doing this on his own initiative, but having had Editor Mitchell's interests placed in his hands. DIDN'T LIKE IT MUCH. The officers were apparently agitated and were not favorable to this procedure. Attorney Smith, John Mitchell, Jr., former Sergeant C. A. Sherry, Officer M. F. Lumpkin and Officer H. Settles were requested to retire. A short while the buzzer called the officer, and the door opened. An official came out and conversed with the officers. Then he returned. A few moments later, all were called into the room again. A compromise resolution had been adopted. THAT SCOTCH VERDICT. It was read by Clerk George E. Pollock as folloke: "In view of the statement made by Mr. H. M. Smith, Jr., who was present as the friend of Mr. Mitchell, unconditionally withdrawing the charges made by him against Sergeant Sherry and Officers Lumpkin and Settles, the Board feels that the withdrawal of the charges so made should be permitted, as they consider such withdrawal a complete vindication of the conduct of the officers upon that occasion. ALL RETIRED The officers, Attorney Smith and Editor Mitchell retired. The colored folks filed out to the street corner. Editor Mitchell explained the situation. As the matter now stands, Editor John Mitchell, Jr., has been vindicated by the only legal tribunal that heard the evidence. The officers simply got the Board of Police Commissioners, a quast-legal body, which went out of existence at midnight, June 30, 1916, having been abolished to say that the body considered the withdrawal of the charges to be a complete vindication. It had not heard any of the evidence, but just expressed a "horseback" opinion. THE RECORD STANDS This leaves the record as it stood before, with the charges enrolled and with not one word of modification of what had been previously alleged. Editor Mitchell summoned Charles C. Timberlake, the wealthy Mr. Harris' colored chauffeur to testify that he was only placed under a nominal arrest, although charged with murder, having accidentally caused the death of a white man while striving to avoid the killing of a white child. THE CHAUFFEUR'S RELEASE. He was released by Squire Purdie on his own recognition, while Editor Mitchell, who was endearing to ascertain the facts in the case, was railroaded to the Second Police Station, after having been given a joyride through Jackson Ward. Editor Mitchell was backed by some of the most influential white citizens in this community, including Hon. H. M. Smith, Jr., and it was at their request, although smarting under the treatment he received, that he consented to withdraw the charges. 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Terms—Our Special Offer for July, an ocean room with board for one week and less than four weeks, $8.00 per week. Special Rates for families for the season or any part thereof on request. Special Rates for parties of ladies or gentlemen occupying a dormitory for four or six. Week-End—Saturday Tea until Monday breakfast. $4.00. This Hotel is the only property we own on the Atlantic Beach front. It has wide porches and every room opens on the ocean. Bathing, Fishing, Boating and Amusements. Transportation—The Pennsylvania R. R. MRS. LUCY LEE, Prop., 5 Plains Street, Elmhurst, L. I. Address after June 22nd. "The Ocean House." Sea Isle City, N. J. ```markdown ``` HOTEL DALE, Cape OPEN 8 A.M. This Magnificent Hotel, located in the heart of the quarter with every modern improvement, superlative school patronage. On weekdays daily, gallery, bath hous- ion given to ladies and children. Read for booklet. THE OCEAN HOUSE ```markdown ``` Dance Music will be furnished a given to week-end parties. Terms—Our Special Offer for July for one week and less than four Special Rates for families for the on request. Special Rates for p FOR THE BEST DRINKS. All the latest and up-to-date drinks from the "Boda Fountain." Bottle Goods, Etc. ICE CREAM, in all shapes and forms served at the "Counter" or delivered to your homes...Special Attention to PICNICS and SUNDAY SCHOOL PARTIES. Pastry, Fruits and Deliacles...Orders Delivered Anywhere Tobacco & Cigars. Give us a trial. WINSTON'S CAPE May, New Jersey SATURDAY, APRIL 1 2 of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world operative in construction, appointments, services and with bounces, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attire booklet. E. W. DALE, OWNER USE, Sea Isle City, N J OPENS JULY 1ST CLOSES SEPT. 10TH Directly on the magnificent shelving beach at Sea Isle, N. J. The Climate of this Ocean Resort has been favorably compared with that of Northern Italy. ned and special attention will be for July, an ocean room with board four weeks, $8.00 per week. for the season or any part thereof for parties of ladies or gentlemen I SAVE 20 PER CT. ON ALL SUMMER FURNITURE NOW Under-selling prices on entire stock of Willow., Wicker, Reed, Rattan, Fibre Rush and Rustic Hickory—in complete 2 and 5 piece suites—also in CHAIRS—ROCKERS SETTEES and TABLES Now is the time to furnish your porch and living rooms with cool, comfortable furniture. Come in and make selections now. We'll gladly open an account. Rountree Cherry Corp. FURNITURE & VICTORIA 111-113-115 WEST BROAD PANAMA HATTERS ESTABLISHED 1995 A NEW HAT OUT. OF YOUR OLD ONE—PANAMA. STRAW FELT AND SILK HATS CLEANED BLOCKED RETRIMMED SPRING STYLES AT SAME PLACE—AMERICAN HAT CO., 501 E. MARSHALL American Hat Company--Furnace condition Has been heating 12 rooms CONFIDENCE American Hat Company--Furnace for Sale Cheap. In fairly good condition Has been heating 12 rooms For Church or Hall. CONFIDENCE PREPAREDNESS is the magic word today. It is on every tongue. Are you prepared for sickness or business misfortune? Have you enough cash to take you over? If you haven't a bank account make up your mind to open one today. If you have an account decide to increase it. The man with the substantial bank account can look the world in the face. A good balance in bank bogets confidence. It makes for independence. The business man with a good balance in bank always is prepared to take advantage of an opportunity to buy cheaply for ready cash. BE PREPARED WITH A BANK BOOK FOR ANY EMERGENCY. The man with the substantial bank account can look the world in the face. A good balance in bank bagets confidence. It makes for independence. The business man with a good balance in bank always is prepared to take advantage of an opportunity to buy cheaply for ready cash. BE PREPARED WITH A BANK BOOK FOR ANY EMERGENCY. THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK IS READY TO SERVE YOU. WRITE OR VISIT US AT THIRD AND CLAY STS.—NORTHWEST CORNER. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRES. WALTER T. DAVIS, CASHIER A. D. PRICE. 212 EAST LEIGH STREET. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. Open All Day and Night—Man on Duty All Night. PHONE, MAD. 577 RICHMOND, Va. (Residence next door) P OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE you by your Furniture now! When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENR—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of homemaking comfort giving Furniture and Rugs—and don't fail to ask our salesmen about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CHAS. G. JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1830 ADAMS AND BROAD News-stand. Mr Edward Dandridge, 11 W. Duval Street, agent for the Planet, handles all kinds of newspapers. HAT r Sale Cheap. In fairly good con- For Church or Hall. total bank account can look and balance in bank logets dependence. The business bank always is prepared to unity to buy cheaply for A BANK BOOK FOR PAGE FIVE PAGE SIX The Thirty=nine Steps By JOHN BUCHAN Author of "Prester John" Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Company Some silver, and the side pocket of his jacket contained an old crocodile skin cigar case. There was no sign of the little black book in which I had seen him making notes. That had no doubt been taken by his murderer. But as I looked up from my task I saw that some drawers had been pulled out in the writing table. Sunder would never have left them in that state, for he was the tallest of mortals. Some one must have been searching for something perhaps for the note book. I went round the flat and found that everything had been rat-sucked. The side of books, drawers, and end-books, even the pockets of the clothes in my wardrobe, and the sideboard in the dining room. There was no trace of the book. Most likely the enemy had found it but they had not found it on Sunder's body. Then I put out an introspective look at a big smirk of the British. My gosh! was he bent? So he was with distrust where my self left would be before some use to see me. I would be in a troubled state in his mind. I considered that Scotland would be best for my people were Scotland. I would pass. And where are my children Scotland? And shall we be at that time be our next tourist for the next bad German parties and I had been brought up to see the country pretty directly, put to mount a journey put in three years prospecting for support in German. Northern Land. But I considered that it would be less considerable to be a Scottish child in a free life what the country might know of my past. I loved it. Guahay was the best place to go to. It was the nearest wild part of Scotland, so far as I could figure out, and from the loss of the man was not overthinking with population. A search in Bradshaw informed me that a train left St. Peters at 7:10 which would find me at Gateway Patton in the late afternoon. That was well enough, but a more important matter was how I was to make my way to the station. For I was pretty certain that Sunder's friends would be watching outside. This proved no for a bit. Then I and a friend on which I went to look and see for two troubled boys. TO BE CONTINUED. HOW To Remove Painful Substances From Your Eye D UST, either or other force matter may be removed some of the objects in the type eyebacles and drawing to cyclicle glasses, or it may in return to come in contact with the lower lashes so that they may not as a brond or brush. In the foreign body as so the bad the will not remove it. Proprietely it is sufficient to rub the other eye wetting. This by causing sympathetic movements of the lignes eye in the course of tears may help to wash out the offending particle. Is not in any case into the lignes eye. Some make a practice of inserting a flushed in the eye the seed moving around and removing the foreign matter. The best way to remove foreign matter is to hold a toothpick over the upper lip with one hand and with the other group the upper eyelashes and lift and bend the eyelid sharply back over the toothpick so that the inner pink surface is in plain sight. Sharp eyes and good light, with perhaps, the assistance of a magnifying glass, should detect the intruding particle, which should be removed by some sterile body if possible, such as sterilized gauze. Occasionally for some time after the object has been removed there will be an irritation, giving the impression that the object is still there. Swab the eyes with a solution of witch hazel and boiled water, equal parts, and this sensation soon passes. THE GARDENER'S FRIENDS. Why Birds as Well as Teens Should Be Guarded and Encouraged. All successful gardeners know that toads are their best friends, but all of them do not know the value of birds as insect destroyers. The department of agriculture has reported that the annual crop loss to the United States from insect pests is over $700,000,000. An expert has estimated that certain larvae will consume 200 times their original weight in twenty-four hours. If an infant did as much as some cage pillars, he would weigh forty tons at maturity. All investigators agree that the song and game birds are the best of agents for destroying insects. One authority says that it is more than likely that successful agriculture would become responsible, if all the birds were to be --- exterminated. The work of the friendly flicker, who likes the city almost as well as the country, is a good example of what an energetic bird will accomplish if unhindered. Certain flickers that were subjected to a survey were found to devour 5,000 ants a day while two orioles feasted on 3,200 plant life at a single meal. The amateur gardener usually comes to his first grief in consequence of his ignorance of the ways of plant life. By encouraging birds as well as toads to live in his garden he can reduce his troubles with insects to a minimum. ```markdown ``` HOW TO START STRAWBERRY PLANTS SO THEY WILL FLOURISH. -It is often advised to cut off first runners of strawberry plants; also not to cover the crowns. The first is altogether wrong, the second is wrong in some cases. If the first runners are cut off, the second crop of runners is larger and more vigorous, but valuable time has been lost in the growing. These first runners would have made plants (with good feel and care large, vigorous and well rooted specimens) before the second lot of runners get down to business. * Don't cover the crowns of plants when you set them out or they will fall. But when the runners form plants, they insure resting quickly; space them carefully about the mother plant and completely cover the little foliage with a large handful of dirt and let it stay. It will not hurt them, but it will hold them in place and, acting as a handle, draw the moisture up to the plant, when it will stiffle rest at once. Then new leaves will thirst the dirt easily. Some tall trees like the plants from the timber row. But if large berries that will sell them sales are watered, feel well to make tops to shade the berries. A berry is nearly all water, and a plant pumps water in a berry until it begins to color and then shows so far that berry is com- cerned. Many sunny habitats cycling "The large berries are focal where they are well shaded. To Keep Eggs Fresh For Long Period WILL not save 10 cents on the dozen of eggs! If eggs are 20 to 25 cents a dozen then by the time carrier, postage and preservation are paid when one lives in the city 8 to 10 cents a dozen must be added to the cost of a dozen eggs, making them 20 to 25 cents a dozen as compared to 40 to 45 cents during the winter months. There is a place not so very far from one city in the first parcel post zone where fresh eggs were sold for 18 cents a dozen recently. Why were they so cheap when we were paying from 28 to 24 cents in the city? This particular small farm is off from the main road, and the husbands that gather the eggs do not go there, and the country store is a long distance from the farm, but the farmer could send his eggs in the small four dozen carrier with the rural parcels delivery at 12 cents for the carrier of four dozen eggs. Two quarters of siltate of soa, liquid glass, will do up thirty dozen eggs. Be sure that the eggs are not cracked and pick the dark shell eggs for preserving. The white shell eggs can be used at once in the home. Put the eggs in carbonware crocks, wooden land or butter tubs, cover and set in cool place. Following is the way to prepare the silicate of soda. One quart of silicate of soda (water glass), ten quarts of water, boil and cool the water, and silicate of soda, put in carbonware crock or crocks or wooden tub. Examine the eggs, being sure there are none cracked. Eggs can be added; it is not necessary to fill the crock at once. When there are as many as one wants to do up paste or the a piece of muslin over the top and wet with the solution before putting in cool place. Now, this would not pay if the housekeeper had to buy a stone crock, but most housekeepers have a stone crock, and some have large glass jars, others have wooden pails which can be used for this purpose. A managing housekeeper who has a very large household recently stated she did up thirty dozen eggs last year which she bought from her butter and egg man and that every one was good. She says that she is going to do up ninety dozen this year, as she uses twelve to fifteen dozen a week. THE SAVING SENSE OF HUMOR U The Patient—see here! Your instructor took out two sound teeth behind of those I wanted removed. The Dentist—Ha, ha! Glad you told me. That's a good joke on the doctor. I'll tell it on him at the club—Richmond Times Dispatch. JULY 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY Soars Our Land and Ocean Free Emblem of Our Liberty! Our Fourth Copyright, 1916, by American Press As sociation SOME strokes of pen by valiant men, Some interchange of views, The clang of bell in tower to tell A nation new the news— News to warm the patriot's heart, The tyrant's heart transfix; This was the first, most glorious Fourth— The Fourth of '76. SOME wars well fought, some lessons taught, Some peace to bless the land. Some peace to bless the land. Some struggles drear, some hope, some fear And some achievements grand. And every year on July 4 Old Glory floating high To thrill the heart and keep us strong To strive, to do or die. SOME strong intents, some great events. Wealth, power, increase, freedom and peace (A lasting peace we pray). A flag untainted—these things attained We celebrate today. JUN INDEPENDENCE DAY Soars O'er Ocean Emblem Liber The Declaration's Printing. The delegates from New York and those newly elected from Pennsylvania who had been sent in place of the men formerly opposing the declaration, as well as John Morris, signed the Declaration of Independence on the 24 of August. Thomas McKean of Delaware was allowed to sign later because he was absent from congress on that date, and newly elected members were allowed the same privilege as late as November. Satisfied that the signed parchment was a lasting evidence of the birth of the new nation, congress took no further official action regarding the instrument itself until the month of January, 1777. By that time the new republic began to feel its strength, and congress decided to promulgate the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence by ordering that printed copies of the document should be made, with the names of the signers added. These were to be sent to every state, with the request that the declaration be put in the assembly records. Mary Katherine Goddard, a woman who carried on the printing business on Broadside, Baltimore, probably never heard of woman's rights, yet it happened that it became her right to print these copies of the American bill of rights, as she was then conducting the printshop in which her brother, William Goddard, had failed some time before. From these copies numerous others were soon made, until before long every home bonusted at least one copy of the original document which gave life to our republic. The spread of interest in the text of the declaration was enormous, every rebellious colonist desiring to read the charter of American liberties. Lost Revolutionary Survivor. The last survivor of the Revolution, ear war was John Gray, who died in Noble county, O., aged 104 years, on March 20, 1808. He came to the Buckeye State early in its existence. For some years before he died he drew an annual pension of 500 from the government, General John, A. Bingham having got a special act through congress for this. Gray's father was killed at the battle of Stillwater, and he took his place in the army, being only sixteen years old then. He served through the remainder of the war. His military record is on the at the office of the Ohio commissioner of soldiers' claims. Celebrate S Celebrate the Fourth war patriotic fervor, but celebrate Be willing to lay down your country, but do either to make a holiday. The tabulated records and injuries on July 4. I over half of the injuries in New York and Philadelphia eighty-four cities tabulate were injured. Of these N Old July 4 Toast. In 1814 in Philadelphia some interesting Fourth of July toasts were drunk. General Barker proposed "Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence; may the spirit that prevailed that day be specially revived." Mr. Mintzer proposed "The memory of General Luke; long life to his friends and extinction to his enemies." G. W. Bartrum proposed "The idol of democracy; not to be found in the island of Elba nor at the court of Berlin as a British spy, but in the virtue and reason of every honest American." Hats Off to the Flag! If any reader of these lines has ever visited a foreign country, has been a stranger in some far away place over the ocean, he may remember the feeling of joy, of pride, that came to him when he first saw the stars and stripes floating over the consulate. One writer says he remembers some years ago walking down the Bols de Boulogne in Paris. Just ahead of him was a regulation man of the world, and yet something about him indicated that at one time or another he had LY 4 NCE er Land and n Free m of Our berly! treated in America. He walked slowly down the avenue until all of a sudden from the second story of a building at the right there were ding to the breeze the silken folds of a beautiful specimen of the American flag. The man of the world saw it. In a second his silk hat was off his head, and despite the onlookers he gave three as lusty cheers for the stars and stripes as ever came from an American threat. As the writer reached him he turned about and with tears rolling down his cheeks said, "I did not know that the sight of anything could touch me like that." Sad Fourth For Washington On the 4th day of July, 1754, Colonel George Washington surrendered an army. It was only a small army, but a fort well with it. He experienced on this occasion his first defeat in war, at the hands of the French. Although at that time only twenty-two years of age, he had been placed in command of a small body of troops which was marching toward Fort Duquesne. At a point on the Monongabba river less than forty miles from his destination he heard of the approach of a party of French and Indians, sent to intercept him. Accordingly he fell back to the Great Mendows, fifty miles from Cumberland, and hastily erected a stockade, which he called Fort Necessity. With the beip of a friendly Indian sachem, Half King, he attacked the French in their camp at night, killing their commander, Jumonville, and taking a number of prisoners. It was the first blood shed in the French and Indian war. A few days later Port Necessity was attacked by 1,500 Indians and French and De Villiers, and Washington surrounded on honorable terms. This was on the morning of July 4. He marched out with his little army of 400 men, drums beating and flags flying, and he and his soldiers returned peacefully to their homes. Celebrate Sanely. Celebrate the Fourth with all proper patriotic fervor, but celebrate anely. Be willing to lay down life or limb for your country, but do not sacrifice either to make a holiday. The tabulated records of the deaths and injuries on July 4, 1915, show that over half of the injuries in cities were in New York and Philadelphia. In the eighty-four cities tabulated 806 persons were injured. Of these New York was responsible for 272 and Philadelphia for 290, making a total of 552 for these two cities alone, while only 254 persons were injured in the other eighty-two cities. In Chicago, which in 1007 and sixteen persons killed and 151 injured and in 1008 and twelve persons killed and 202 persons injured, there were in 1015 only eight Fourth of July accidents. Curiously enough, however, of these five were fatal, giving Chicago, in spite of its remarkably low record for injuries, the largest number of deaths of any of the eighty-four cities, five deaths in Chicago being half of the total number of fatalities in cities. To Exterminate Mosquitoes, Flies and Roaches in Summer HOW any householder may exterminate roaches, ants, fleas mosquitoes or flies is explained by Director Krusen of the Philadelphia department of public health and charities. Coach is Dr. Krusen's recipe for killing roaches. Gasoline or benzine poured into their nest is death to ants. Keeping fleas out of the house, says Dr. Krusen, is largely a matter of keeping them out of the cat or dog. As for mosquitoes, apply a match to pythrine powder or sulphur, and you will generate a gas bomb that will be most efficacious. "The approach of warm weather brings a swarm of household insects." Ir. Krusen declares, "I am therefore submitting the following directions, which will prove of great value if carried out properly and with reasonable care." "Coal oil is one of the best agents for the destruction of roaches and their eggs. It should be sprayed freely by means of a machine oil can into the cracks and crevices of the floors and other woodwork where they breed. Powdered borax mixed with a little sugar is also a good remedy, but in the presence of other food borax is not very effective. Crumbs should be carefully swept from the floor, all food-stuffs kept covered, and everything about the kitchen scrubbed clean." "The best way to destroy ants is to trace them to their nest and pour into it gasoline or borax. When using these substances remember that they are highly inflammable. "The young of these live in carpets and matting, so the cats and dogs should not only be kept clean, but the sweepings from the carpets in which they sleep should be burned. A solution of corrosive sublimate, which is a dangerous poison to be handled with care, is the best spray for relief from bed bugs. "To save clothes from moths pack them in paper bags which have been sealed and made air tight. Moth preventives in flakes or balls should be freely distributed in trunks, closets and the packets of clothes. "A good defense against flies is a tight garbage gall lid. Fly paper distributed through the house will also be a great help in destroying them." USES OF KEROSENE Why It Is an Indispensable Article For the Housekeeper. Coal oil will help the housekeeper out of many difficulties. A spoonful of kerosene added to a kettle of very hot water will make windows, looking glasses and picture glasses bright and clear. Use a small clean cloth, writing it dry and rub it over the glass after wiping down the framework with an oiled cloth; then, proceed to the next window and treat it similarly on both sides. After that go back to the first one and wipe it dry with a large clean cloth. No real polishing is required. and the windows or glass will look clear and shiny. Kerosene will clean your hands better than anything else after blacking a range or stove. Pour a little in the water; wash your hands in it; then wash them in tepid water and finally with plenty of soap and a stiff brush in hot water. Flush up by rubbing the hands with lemon and rosewater and glycerin. When your kitchen sink is rusty rub it over with kerosene. Squeaky shoes are cured by dipping the soles in kerosene—enough to reach the top of the soles without reaching the upper leather. The white spots appearing in the spring on the lining of your refrigerator will disappear if you rub the zinc with kerosene. Leave the refrigerator open several hours, then wash with water, soap and some ammonia. The refrigerator will then be clean and sweet and all spots will have disappeared. How to Remove the Oder of Onions From Pets. To remove the odor of onions from the pots in which they have been cooked, boil them in a weak solution of sal soda and afterward rinse well in warm water. To prevent the odor of onions from adhering to the heads always peel and slice them under cold running water. How to Wrap Papers For Molding. In using a homemade paper wrapper for mailing purposes cut a triangular section from each end of it before applying the paste or machine, pays the Popular Mechanics. This presents the adhesive from coating out at the edges and sticking to the paper it includes. This also permits the easy withdrawal of the paper Our Query and Reply Department What is the correct pronunciation of the Mexican bandit's name, Villa? About as it would be if spelled "Vec-a," with the accent on the first syllable; a short and a slight sound of "y" before the "a." Please publish that part of Washing ton's farewell address warning against foreign alliances or complications. He said: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations Did President Hayes take the oath of office on Sunday, March 4, 1877, or the day following? If on the 5th, for what reason? March 4, 1877, was Sunday. President Elect Hayes was in Washington, the guest of Senator John Sherman. There had been threats of taking forcible possession of the presidential office and inaugurating Samuel J. Tilden, the rival candidate for the presidency. It was thought best by the friends of the president elect not to postpone administering the oath of office to him until Monday, as had been done in other cases when the time for inaugurating a new president fell on Sunday. Mr. Hayes therefore took the oath of office privately in Senator Sherman's home. What kind of government have the Philippine islands? Do they have elections? The islands are governed by a governor general and a commission consisting of five Filipinos and three Americans besides the governor general, all appointed by the president. There is a legislative body whose members are elected every four years. At the last election, held in June, 1012, there were 225,781 votes cast. What is the basis of representation in the next Republican national convention? When and where will the convention be held? The convention will be held in Chicago, beginning Wednesday, June 7. Each state will be entitled to four delegates at large and one delegate from each congressional district, with an additional delegate for each congressional district in which the vote for any Republican elector in 1908 or for the Republican nominee for congress in 1914 shall have been not less than 7,500. Under this basis of representation as adopted by the Republican national committee Alabama will lose 8 delegates, Arkansas 3, Florida 4, Georgia 11, Louisiana 8, North Carolina 3, South Carolina 7, Texas 10, Virginia 8 and Tennessee 3. Who is at the head of the Christian Science church since the death of Mrs. Eddy? The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, founded in 1870, known as the "Mother Church," is the parent organization of the Christian Science denomination. Local churches known as branches of the "Mother Church" are situated in towns and cities throughout the world, but mainly in countries where the English language is spoken. The "Mother Church" is governed by a board of five directors. What is the manner of voting in the German empire? A says the votes are divided into classes according to wealth or rank and that it takes a large number of the lower class of votes to equal one of the next higher rank. B says there is no difference and that every man's vote counts equally without regard to wealth or station. There is a national election for the members of the parliament (rechstat) similar to the national election for congress, for which any male person twenty-five years old or over, provided he did not forfeit this privilege by committing a criminal net for which he was punished, may vote for the candidate. Then, again, are elections for the legislatures (dicts) of the different states, which are ruled by kings, dukes, etc. The law governing elections in these states differs. In Prussia, for instance, the rotters are divided in three classes, according to the taxes they pay to the state. These rotters elect electors, who again elect the member for the state legislature. In other states, again, the law permits the voter to vote directly for the member of the state legislature, as, for instance, in Bavaria. What is the president's salary? What was it when Washington and Lincoln were presidents? The president receives $75,000 a year. Washington and Lincoln each received $25,000 a year as president. What was the date of the great Chicago fire? Please give an outline history of it. It began Sunday evening, Oct. 8, 1871, and continued till Tuesday morning about thirty-six hours. Area burned over, 2,100 acres, or about three square miles; buildings destroyed, 17,450; people rendered homeless, 85,500; killed, 200; total loss, $100,000,000; insurance, $44,000,000. In consequence of this loss fifty-seven insurance companies were forced to suspend payments. Among the buildings burned were the courthouse, custom house, postoffice, chamber of commerce, gas works, three railroad stations, offices of nine daily newspapers, thirty-two hotels, ten theaters and assembly halls, eight public schools, forty-one churches, five grain elevators containing 1,642,000 baskets of grain and all the national banks or one. The Library Room: Blues A man named Andrew McNass was the official bell ringer of the statehouse bell from 1778 to 1778, the last entry of payment for each service being of the date of Sept. 15. While there is no official report extant to prove that An知 McNass rung the Liberty bell or July 4, 1778, it is altogether probable that he was the man who rung it. Please publish that part of Washington's farewell address warning against foreign alliances or complications. He said: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none or a very remote relation; hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns; hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collusions of her friendships or embittered." Is military service obligatory in the following country: Germany, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway? Military service is obligatory in all the countries you name. The length of time with the colors, however, varies widely, from three years to ninety days. When Great' Britain declared war on Germany it was stated that she did so by virtue of a treaty signed at The Hague guaranteeing Belgian territory from violation. Kindly inform me which countries were signatories to this treaty and when it was signed. The treaty of which obliged violation formed the cause well for Great Britain in August, 1914, was signed April 10, 1929, by Prussia, France, England, Austria and Russia. These nations thus declared themselves guarantors of a treaty concluded on the same day between the king of the Belgians and the king of the Netherlands, which contained the following sentence: "Belgium forms an independent state of perpetual neutrality." Is General Frederick Funeton a West Point graduate? No. He served in the Cuban army in 1907 and in the war with Spain as colonel of a Kansas regiment of volunteers. He owes his appointment in the regular army to gallant services in the Philippines. What is meant by eminent domain? I have only a vague idea. Through eminent domain whoever owns any property or has any interest in the same is liable to have it taken away from him whenever the sovereign power of congress or the legislature of the state in which the same is located shall authorize its being appropriated for public use. This power is so comprehensive it relates to every species of property, even including money (although this has been doubled by some courts), which it may be necessary to take from any source to repel an invasion, to prevent famine or to furnish relief in any great public calamity. The use must always be for public purposes, and, under the guise of a declaration that it is so intended, it cannot be applied for private uses. However, the constitution provides in terms that no private property shall be taken without just, ample and complete compensation, whether such a provision is contained in a state constitution or not. In many of the states it is made a condition that before the property shall be taken provision must be made for its payment; in others that possession can be taken and the owner afterward must bring his petition for compensation within the allotted time stated in the act giving the right. Please give the name of each country and its emblem flower. The term national flower has no official significance, but those of popular designation are: England, the red rose; France, the iris lily, or flower-decease; Germany, the linden blossom; Ireland, shamrock leaf; Scotland, the thistle; Canada, the leaf of the sugar maple. Many years ago the American Horticultural society adopted the golden rod for the United States, and the legatures of some states and public school pupils in others have adopted state flowers. In 1013 the Indiana legature adopted the carnation. What is opium? Optum is the dried product from milky juice of the unripo capsules of a poppy, which for this product has been cultivated through many centuries. Each species of poppy is capable of yielding to a greater or less extent. Can a common soldier also be a general in the army of the United States? Following are two records taken from the Official Army Register: "Young, Samuel B. M., private Company K, Twelfth Pennsylvania infantry, April 25, 1801. Lieutenant general commanding the army of the United States Aug. 8, 1803. Chaffee, Adna R., private Company K, Sixth United States cavalry, July 22, 1801. Lieutenant general commanding the army of the United States Jan. 2, 1804." Citizens by birth or choice of a new nation country, that country has a reli- ance to concentrate your affections. The type of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must al- so accept the jute pride of patriotism than any appellation derived from local discriminations. Washington i i a _ Ee P ee BATURDAY,.,-.....JULY 1, 11916 @ s Patriotism A goed poem to reread on this Fourth of July 9» By SR WALTER SCOTT BBREATHES thre she man wih os 90 dea ‘Who never to himself hath said, This ia my own, my obtive land : Whore heart hath ne'er within him bumed, . As home’ his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? BW such there breathe, go, mark him well For him po minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth sa wish can claim, ‘The wretch, concentered all in self, : ‘Living, shall forfeit fair renown And," doubly dying, ‘shall go down To the vile dust from whence he spring, Unwept, unhonored and unumg. URGES MOOSE TO SUPPORT HUGHES Roosevelt Finaity Deciiacs Fre- gressiv2 Konination, PARKER FIGHTS SECRECY Progressive Nominee for Vice Preat dent Quits National Coromittec Meeting When Newapapec Men Are Barrea. Colonel Theod re Roosevelt, im | letter sent to ie Progrensive tis onal cominfites, in Chi ago, declare: the party's corunation for the pres dency, strongly endorsed Charles E Hughes, and urged “unkrudeing” wup port of the Repablivan nominee by the Proxresstved. It tn dnpesstnle for the Progressives + to abanten thelr convictions, be yah but these convicthins can be fartier ed more by elveting Hughes than 4) supporting a third party ticket, wate! would give an casy viclury to the Democrats, The present administration, he charges, “has been guilty of shortrcm fps more signal than those of any Adminivtration rlace the days of Hu chanan,” An to the German-American Alt ance’s wupport of Mr. Hughes, Mr. Roorevelt says he belleved their at- Urode fs due, “not in the least to any Uking for Mr. Hughes, but solely to thelr antasontam fo me.” Most Americann of German ancestry are loyal citizens, be asserts, but the Professional German-Americana “are acting purely tn the slnlster Interest of Germany.” Ip his tritute to Mr. Hughes the colonel says: “We have the alternative of contin ning In office an wtministration whitch | has proved a lamentable fallure or of putting Into office an administration which we have every reason to lailere wit function with eMfciency for the faterest and Nonor of all our penpie”” . During the discussion of the colo net's Jetter, John M. Parker, the par ty’s vice presidential nominee, and fourteen of his frienjls left the meet ing. ° Parker's abrupt departure was occh stoned, st was anid, hy the refusal of the committee to allow newapaper men to attend the meetings. Parker said he wanted the reporters to heat some cofifdential toformation or Hughes that James R. Garfield, Ray mond Robins and Chester S. Rowe! had for the committee. Among those who walked out with| Mr. Parker were Batabridge Colby, as; New York, who nominated Roosevelt in the Progressive convention; Burton| Vance, of Kentucky; Judge A. E. Nor toni, of St. Louts; J. M. Ingersoll, of| Idaho; A. T. Moon, of Utah, and H. F| Cocheme, of Winsconsin. All returned} when the exccutire session was over, After the colonel'a letter was read, Parker read a telegram be had recetv, ed from Colonel Roosevelt, June 16. and his reply thereto. The telegram) asked a confertnce with Mr. Parker In his.reply Mr. Parker declared he would not support Mr. Hughes, sais it was Impossible for him to visit Colonel. Roosevelt, and exprdssed re]. pret at the latter's retirement from) politics. . oT Referring to the Hughes-candidacy, Mr. Parker sald: “His candidacy represents the ter. 4c precedent of dragging a judge of he United States supreme court into he mire of politics to be used as of, task for professional pollticiams.” He expressed his willingness to re} ¢ ire from the licket in favor of & conf § rel or weatern tran should that courm} s Fhe sommitive declined to nombia "THE GEM HAIR GOODS CO 235 Duffield St., Brooklyn, N. Y. . GEM SKIN WHITENER ‘ we St 9 poten weten wien Gentteed Th welpr aati by sied for. banct eS epis seve eet net Om es ony ome On eee ee sate Victor Murdock, of Karyas, be prgelieut, by a vols of twin yls te Aitteen.- This vote indicate! t at Swen; states were averse to putting '@ third ticket in the ‘eld. ‘The committee then by an over wheitoing Yote endorsed Highs and ended all bopes for a third ticker. | Dying’ Mother Asked.Son to Enlist. “In compitance with his mother's deathbe! request, Willis Braitman, nineteen years old, hax cnitated in Company F, Third infantry, at Molina. - The mother, when tohl by a phyat. clan she was Airing cated ‘the youth to her and*bade him enlist ani re tura to her in uniform, ‘This be did, having obtained a leave of absence for two days when he expiained the cir ‘cumstances. An uncle of tho boy, whose name he refuse to give for persoual rea- sons, is high In United States army circles, he asserts. Since the lad’s acy tion has been made public at Medina wther youths have docked to enlist. : $1,000,000 Lost by Rain. Au a result’ of the Keavy rain storm at Kalamazoo, Mich, dams at the Bryan and Motaren Pa- per milla burst. Twenty-six Ulocks in the residence dtatrict were fooded. Damage in estimated at $1,000,000. There were‘no casualtics. Hail Damages Maryland Crops. ‘Tho crops of Caroline county, ML were damaged hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth by recent hallstorms. The -areatext destruction occurred Wedngiday and Wednesday night. GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND | Pennsylvania Guargeman Bidding fl Bweetheart Goodby. {| ee fy ya eo Ace : " ; mR la an aay 28 ere “ Photp by Americas }rese Asmrciation Leaps to Death on Dare. Harry Jenson, a pacttist, of Putte phis, was drowsed near Delaware Cis, Del. He was on the kteamer President whieh carried over a tioned ex ur slontxts below Augustine Heaeh, when some one dared Mint to Jamp. over: board. He Juznpet x eilnute later frm the tecond Meck of the heat. inte the water, The hoat wes stopped ax soon as posible: Avyacht In the tear of the Prost tent rushed to the mea, wiry was swin. ming, anid a ite preserver was thew fo lilia, Neng exhaseted, however, Le was, unutle to crasp the preserves, ani) san’. i Atter tie drewalne afl rushedto une side of Ire vost. A parte then start. ed, and someone rhoutet, “The beat's sinking.” A general pants eased. Men‘tousht and » rambled, women ant ebildren talnted, Many were tram led upon and Injured. \ numter were placed under arrest and taken to the hold of the boar, where they were con: fined. After the boat dockel at Au: gusting Reach a nuaver would net return to Mhiladelphta on the host, but took other means of retirning. Virginia Bank Robbed. The Pas. af Crockerts, at Crees: oe a hah eee 2 Ue tt: hl at - - att, seven miles west Wyibevtm ‘Va, 08 the ‘Norfolk. and. .Westers railway, was robbed. by’ twostrang. era, who, on entertag, covered the cashier,” Arthur’ Hounshell, and’ a patron of the bank, Roy -Groseciose, with guns. es ' ‘The robbers forced the cashier and Grosclose ‘to Ko into the vaults and remain until the robbery was complet od. “o> Four thouvand dollars wae obtained. ‘The bandits zhen got away fo an auto- mobile stolen from x neighboring farm or after tying him to a tree, New Naval Program. A Ddillding program including four superdreadnoughts. ami four bxstlo cruisers for the coming years was agreed upon by the nenste naval sub- committee aftgs a conference with Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Rear Admirals Taylor and Blue. *¥ho subcommittes also decided to recommond .an Increase of 20,70 in the enilcted strength of the navy, bringintg ‘the total up to 74,700. ‘Shaten Manned the Gacttek: , All previous records for shipments of strawberries from Federalsburg, ‘Ma., tiave been broken this year, as there havo been shipped seventy-five carloads, or 690,00 quarte, The price averaged 7% cents a quart, which means $45,410 for the growera, while the pickers shared $2010, Shayer Gets Fifteen. Years. Witton Fowier, agit-confessed mars derer of Joseph Ludwig, at Hazleton, on April 1, Friday was sentenced to fifteen years in the Eastern peniten- tay. ‘ee ot Fa “GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA. — FLOUR quiet; Punter clears $4.50 475; city mille, S065, us ie FLOUR—Stendy: per barrel, 15.59. g WHEAT firm: No. 2 red, sie. Lvl. i CORN quiet: No. 2 yellow, ‘03 i) Se. Cea gfOATS aes No. 2 whtte, 4515 a “POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 19% G20e.: Old roosters, 13q ite, Dreseed, Steady, cholce fowls, 224xe; old roos: ters, Tie. BETTER ately; Foney creamery, 32e. per Ib. : EGGS Steady: Setected, guy se; nearby, 27r.. western, 27e. Lidee Shacks uatatione: CHICAGO, — HOGS =~ tse. highes Mixed anid batehers, 9.124 1.5. a a boney. Hicciatacty gach ueaey: Fe Mette icine wats plan betes Bags athe dara 98. bn ans PLE, = Steady, Tie. tle er Beeres, 250 tbe, cawe and heliore Bee eo Meer adage ie Sestaes: Teeans, ¥STR MTS: Calven, dua 11 74 . SHEEP Strong. Nativesand west ern, $8078. lang, S250 1.6 WILLCOX TO LEAD G. 0: P. Hughes’ Closer Friend, Will Manage ic Mace P The sele then of Wiliam R, Wille. x former postmaster of New York ct And later state pablle service em missioner, ax Repattiean math ras chatrinas Wits announced In Nev York. Mr. Wilieay was the are chotee of Charnes E, Hughes, Acceptance oy C lene) Ronwevett o an tnvitation from Mr. Huxhes fo dinner wus anotier development 124 stirred Hughes healytarters, Mr Hughes pest a corttal letter te tie volonel futlewtn: the endorsement Ale candid y by the Propre sive nu Uonal committen “und alee wiry! appreelation of the action te the ccs mittee areca ca, Mr. WIoA. tse new national ehatr man, baw teen beue a chee tefent the Republican prestdentiat menue: He was one of te ret callers pet Mr. Hustes wo en tae later arrive) tr New York trom Wasidusten to o:(7 Headquarter. He tsa native of Nes York state, havine heey tera da Say Foe, Chenango eoiity, St years age, Dying After Fight Anthony Venesky. ot Prackyite fe odyfas in the Miners) Resptat at Madanos City, Pa. ofa tra tire skull recetved fn a barron traw! x: Frockvile, Anti ny Sa bscas, An Uhony Eeravage and loin Nork were Jalled bf Saulre Paeneti, Seravton Hae Prenacednesc.Pacate. More thaw 25,00 men and women mareied In So ranton’s jetearedae parade: They inelated German, Eng Mab, Hollsh, Savonic, Greek, Syrian Russian, Irish and Litheantan sot eties, many of them unformed and armet, ‘ Will Hola Jobs and Pay Wages.- Mrectora of the Bethlehem Sree: company have decided to srant Ivave of absence with full pay. to empl ye° who are membern of tyr nations guard, called ont for Mextean service Do You WantanUmbrella? Wel, here it is. The Hull Bros. 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The Knsstans fave aivert aD tae tye milegen tae Woy ty Via kate Verte at the northern gatewny te Lemtwre, 16 cording tu Betrogt ! advlirs, ea te Rovao-lembers reat Me Re-stan: havo resexed Tre ty: whleh they are now sheitine, Heth repurta ditsine the Russtanis back over the Styr wht k Uiey had crested weet of Kathe. Vi enny admits the eneny bas crossed te Suroth : Premlersh slot. (Green, a re ported to hate recone dM, Zant fa dikely to be tue ead or the new cabinet. The Walluns report repute of Aus trian attacks on the Axtogn: plate The losses of the Acotriams on tu Trentino front siuee Mny Mare esth Taated at 1h Repulse ofan atts kts the Germany fn the Caamparne foetus announces! by the Paris war. fe. THURSDAY. Grete, menace ty un entente na val demonstration betore Piraeus, ha uncontitionally xranted all the de mands of the a'Nes, presented tn at ultimatum on Wednestay, according ( Athens despatches, 31. Zalmis hax un dertaken to form a new ministry ir which the Venizelos party will be rep resented . The RussianAustr-German fighting front has ¢xtende! to a SHmile atretch, according to Petrograd. ler Un reports German sorcesses north of Latak and near Prrv-wolka. A violent battle along the Nag, tue to German efforts to sate Korel, seems to be developing on te Russia front. In a battle lasting all nixbt, the Ger mans gained a footing Jn first-line French trenches, cast of the Meuse. in the Vaur sector. _ eripay. The Germans. nade three attacks along a 12-yard front in Champagne Mast night, The atta. ks wero repulsed. after they succeeded im temporarily pecupying ono-of tho French advanced Positions, 1 » German armies, reinforced from the French pront, are taking the offensive against the Russian right, where the Grive of the czars troopa has been halted for the present. Alexanler Zaimis has completed the formation ‘of the new Greek cabinet of which he Js premier. He fs a neutral fat with pro-entente leanings. , » The Russian passenger ship Mercury has been,mined tn the Diack sea. The: Joes of life Is reported as 336. | : SATURDAY. t ‘The battle of Verdan fa raging with ‘a fury not surpassed’ by snv previon? Aighting ‘there. Toe Germans, using large forces, xot within three and 9 balf miles of t*e city. bat part of f-« grown ee Cen pegeknal ty tt French, the Marks wareteeannenners The Geemane MA tthe Phtara a Bel Wore wat b Mes martheast on th The Asetetans, haste cern; ete heya caate | eniaa, Rave been feb wd by the Hoseeane tt the fer a Thians, where tevtine ben ew takin Mace aoc int so Ttresrad Torts IMims that the erinun terens deren fre Konet are roe ot thee Reostiny Tie ales Mave Wtted thete utter ate Gre Tae canter will ty Eee feet Lit new ateetlows belt Auth et cay. , The Kev Se Paes! af Ubecontine Viattber oneenta yt Wokewin cage on Rewer teas from Petrasrat They nie vecgee the few: of Kian Daag In the extres seethers qartoof the province fut foothale of sue Marpatidans, the ‘ns Kraporiant pte remade in Asse a Bante, amd vatth 1p have tale tere fan fet prince tte tee pa adds Vieor as pounter atta ke wer aye ' dyothe Preven earth of Vet re multi fy Tie ee taining of soni te RToand. ae Fling tothe Parts report Bertin, hewever de lars eat all oh Freteh attache were repates tT hartiest fet tng way chouto te Pola: mont relat, where Some of tt trenches ta the west of Me sort wer reeovere!. There was hang crena AghUnK tn toe wMaRe Of Fleury. re cently oren; ied dn part hy the Ger MANS, Feayiticw 1a seine progress hatiis made ty tie Preneh, LAR official Hritish statement anya 9 German rait on thelr trenches neat Loos was dren off, Ag Italian eilser and a Frearh tor pedo baat deste wer were sank by 9 submarine om Iaty. MONDAY. = | The situation at Veriun appears ¢ Jhave reache! a critical atage.” Th Germans are now only threequarter of a mile fe cn the French Une Imme MMately tn front of the fortress, Par! claims the dsenders are hobling we: at the seese sf fie main Aghting, thre miles from tae city. Petrograd reporta that a Rusatan ae my hos forred the passage of the Car pathians ant invaded Huneary. The Austrians have definitely aban Goned their cffenxive in the souther: Trfol an-l are retreating along’a fron! of some twenty miles in'tho Aatage tector, according to Italfan announce mont. The Itallana are keeplog ur & viroroun pursuit. ‘ | ‘The German war office announces that the Britistron the Ypres front have deen bombarding thetr trencher Yigoroualy for the lant three days ano pre expécting an offensive motement <r megan, : Imowen's line are coral need,” Fler bate Iike the ravens wine, Mer ayea have a1) the pea's Soap bse ‘That a pertect day can Being. There's never a girl Ike Imogen ‘Tal she opens her mouth to ming. Peanaitvenin Denar Mean = fe ARMY IS. -READY TO FIGHT te Establish Censasbip to Con- ceal Troop Movements. QUIET ALONG THE FRONTIER Joo Mayer tieseral Fre terk xe Pun to BM ha. shat earetey every fe per from ail Wider” stati ane for fen Of Mestety by Canranea’, ari hat bo peuine inte nurtiera Mew kG, lait fae peal work of departiien: Readearters at San. Auturbe was ths Buperyiten, of tie aultttudtnuas de tain fheitent to preparing the Auer! can tures ter ettictent xetfin, “If war has got fo come, 1 wonk Just as -cot it came tomorrow ax not, the general sait. “Hy that time, ws shall he ae sell prepared as purstdle Some militia whl be on the border and the rest on Ua: way. Tam sure the reculars are an gewdy aa they ver will. be. TP have po tear of the vut come.” : The confidence expressed hy thr American commander was reflected by bis suuortinates. Reports that troops of General Jacinto Trevino and Brisa dler General Join J. Pershing already had clashed at Vita Abuinada were re ceived without anvtety, The report while unconttrae), canned no aurprise, aa tls place ts rapected to bo the scone of the frst battle. | Reports from El Vaso, Easle Pass. Drownavilie and other Texas posts tn dicated! no aggreasion by Mexicans. Units of thy American army have’ deen atatloned In nuch manner that al- Bust tuatait as (on can bu obtained by the cunimanding officer. Thore has been no relaxatlon of efforts to guard the border towns and ranches from bandits, but far more attention fs be. Ing pald to marshaling the thousands ef men diong the border. , ° Tho situation opposita Naco, Artz. where 1500 Metican troops are beinr! eld on trains, aroused speculation,’ ut General Funston annsunced that American officers were sure they had athome the design of this movement, telaforcements were acnt to thi \merican force at Naco, and entrench-! nents have been thrown up. | Unite of the national guard now qoving throughout the United suas] Subscribe to The Richmond Plone ~—Only $1.50 per snaem. as ver OMe ey ad oats the wll oe sate pabtts amt y met et son tac Ruan tes ee net bent rue tat Aaete tead de teen Some ing ten e we Beriaced at General Poet a taanttens: tat seomnh pp cats beet aah feet given te trop mctetegts ant i a fdteate £0 aeetis reat, far Benet Ine ta is operation WED eos tbat Mie ales GC atary Neat ht Moytab Neon bet Me re ae army, froth Port btcan Utien, Wty hat arrive. 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Mrs. Elizabeth Armstead, of 7th Avenue, N. W., arrived home from Norfolk, Va., last Monday, after a very pleasant stay of one week in the Tidewater Section, visiting her sister, Mrs. Adjine Brinkley, at Ocean View. She returned home much refreshed from the trip. The inspector of the Richmond Beneficial Inc. Company, Mr. C. 49 Gilpin. Mr. Thompson and Mr. Brown left the city for home last Saturday, after an absence from Richmond of two weeks, in the interest of the Company. They left on No. 16 Norfolk and Western. Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock the treasurer, George C. Taylor, D. preached from the 4th chapter of Romans 16 and 17th verses. The text and base of his discourse "therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace to the end the promblem might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that, so which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 17 - "As it is written I have made "a father of many Nations" before him whom he believed even God who counseeth the dead and wilt, those things which he not as though they were moving a beautiful illustration in the bean and the corn and the vegetation and production of things in nature that man has never been able to discover from a natural observation. Only faith, hope and love can reveal the greatest god's great love for His children. Taylor made his subject under the above heads very dear and plain to a very attentive audience. Mrs. Mary L. Preston, of Ballard, died Sunday night. She is the sister of Mrs. Nainie Rollins, of 61st Avenue N. E. The funeral services and in-mortem took place Monday June 27, at 10:30. Many of the acquaintances and friends attended the funeral. Monday night key Scott, of Lynchburg, Va. preached at 5 o'clock, at the High Street Baptist Church, from key 2nd chapter, 1st and 2nd times. "Eight reasons why the Church is losing ground." The church has lost her first love. He will speak four nights. Sunday night at 9:00, Rev Rose of the Zion Methodist Church preached at M. Zion A. M. E. Church for the Rev Tiee C. Taylor D. D., from this text St John, 4th Chapter and 14th verse "Bless me that I am in the father and the Father in me or else deserve me for the very work sake." He mentioned the number of supernatural words that Christ had wrought upon mankind in years of His sojourn in the world with them, among Galilee, Judaea and Jerusalem of the caliphate, port of Lazania from the grave, the saving of sight to their mind, and many wonderful things done by Him for which few entire world should believe on Christ. Rev Rose is a strong advocate for a noble Christian ministry. He is originally of Red Plains Franklin County, Va., where some of the noblest Christian Characters of young Christian men I have ever had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with in life, such as James H. Hale and Beattie Furgeon, Thomas C. Wright, and many others, who it has been my pleasure to know in the last fifteen or twenty years. Rev Rose has been away from his acquaintances and friends for twenty-three years or more, and it certainly afforded him great pleasure to return after a large of twenty-five years, and preach and instruct the children of his more youthful days, and encourage the mothers and fathers to cling to the Mighty One who has done so much for them: Who is all and in all to them that trust in Him. Rev. Dr. Geo. C. Taylor preached for the St. Paul's M. E. Church congregation Monday night, June 26th, at no clock, at the close of which service he left for Newport News and the Tidewater Section of the East. The Cadet Companies A. and B. of Roanoke, Va., returned home Friday morning, at 4:10, marched to their armory; took up camp until 7:30, at which time the Captains, Eugene Brown or Co. B., and Roy Hayden, of Co. A., made arrangements and served a very delicious breakfast to the boys in the most unique manner, having their automatic gas stores for heating and warming purposes. Myself, M. Stanfield and Pharmacist Dr. Hilmar had the pleasure of taking breakfast with the boys, after a most hospitable invitation from Major H. L. Shelton and Sir Johnnie Hayes, who have given so much of their precious time and money to make the boys appear as they did on the streets of Portsmouth, Va. The boys seemed very ubliant over their trip. This morning (Tuesday, June 27) was a very sad scene in the city of Roanoke, when about 10,000 of the citizens of Roanoke, out of sympathy and regard to the young soldier boys of Company F., who marched to the N., and W. passenger station to take leave for Richmond, and to further proceed to the border of the United States, where they are called to protect and upblood the United States flag. Mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sweethearts and lovers and friends gathered to bid farewell to the gallant young soldiers. Our prayer and hope is that peace may be brought about without further bloodshed. The Honorable Mayor Brown made a very-betting address to Company F, on the responsibility and duty devolved upon them, and what their country expected of them and the high esteem in which they were held in the hearts of the citizens of Roanoke, for the noble cause for which they were about to assume. The Mayor pointed out to the soldiers the dangers and hardships to which they would be called to face in such perilous times, which brought tears to many a eye. Mrs. Vogel, a fast friend of Company F, gave each member of the Company a rose to be worn by them in token of the loving remembrance of those at home. Mrs. Mary Toliver, of 7th Avenue, N. W., who was operated on at Roanoke Hospital, is reported getting on nicely and hopes to be home very soon. Her many friends are very proud to learn of her speedy recovery. Mrs Mary Holland, of this city who underwent a serious operation at Burrell's Memorial Hospital, is at home again, after a very successful operation. Mrs. Beulah Williams, of Philadelphia, is visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown, 205 8th Ave. N. E. She is expecting to return to Philadelphia Saturday, July 1st. Mrs. Mary Dillard, of 3825 Finney Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., is the guest of Mrs. Mary C. Jones, of 9th Ave., N. E. Mr. W. H. Pierce, of Detroit Michigan, is visiting the city, Mr. Pierce conducted a hotel in Roanoke for a number of years. He is the proprietor of a hotel in Detroit, and he is making good. Mr. Fountain Duke, now of Detroit, Mich., a former resident of Roanoke is in the city visiting his many friends. Mr. Duke will be in the city ten days or more. He works on the Big Four railroad dining service. He formerly worked with the N. & W. dining service. Mr. Duke seems to be enjoying the best of health. Mrs. Pearl Coyas Brown, of Camphas, Ohio, is visiting her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Coyas, of Camphas, Avenue N. 2. The "Storm" visited the home of Mrs. Delaine Luas Fate and felt a the be doing a joy. The mother and son ate getting along nicely. Mr. Sneed S. Hale, a Roanover, was to be seen with the Silas Green Snow in the city visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Hale, 6th Avenue, N. W. Mr. S. S. Snow made a good deal for the theatre premises and is good to be on about us. Entertained. Mr. J. Johnson entertained little of the friends at the house. Street Wednesday night from 9 to 10 P.M. The menu consisted of lobster salad, schooling chicken, pecan cobbler, American and Repertory desserts. They all enjoyed the menu. Luonghe Defatted Lanhburg. Roadside meet Lonhour at the fairground Tuesday, and before a good crowd, and proceed to trim a hill by the score of 12 to 0. The game was loosely played, and Roadside hitting, government and teaching avoided Lonhour. 9-12-14. Roadside 12-14-14. Jatteries, Lonhour and Lonhour. Perkins Jones, Patter, Roadside Wilson, Johnson, and Jones. Roadside has won 5 out of 6 games so far. They are cochairs of Southeast Virginia. Tom Milne, Roadside, Va. Thursday and Friday, Roadside with Miss Joyce, Bob Allen, and are even more speedy and at the proved. She resides in southeast Aven. N.W. "The traffic of young Moses was abolished and the police officer on Wheeling was mending a wound. He appointed for murder, and is now fast traced on the charges against him today. The outrage of calculation of which is still not decided of made public at this writing. It is such jobs that men forged and do the crimes which are so embittered forbidden by the Almighty, found in the law given to Moses on Sinai smoking top, in the ten commandments, especially "Thou shalt not steal." Those shalt not kill, nor do anything outrage by this law and rest we assured we will find peace and quiet prevailing all over our land and continued favor and help for the Lord bearing along our pathway. It is seriously sad to think of the existing conditions now prevalent all over our land from shore to shore. May our prayers assemble up to the Hill of the Lord for peace and safety of our land and nation. M. Stanfield and J. C. Dugger, the hustling agents for the Planet, are pleased to furnish the people of Roanoke with the Richmond Planet at five cents per copy, or $1.50 a year. Call us and see us. Yours for promotion and good literature, as you will always find in the Planet. Mr. Charles Jackson, of Washington, was a guest in town today. Mrs. Samuel Jackson and two little children left last Sunday for Pennsylvania, where she will visit her mother, Mrs. Leanna Washington. Our town was made very sad this week by the death of two of our sisters, Mrs. Chas, Bash, who departed this life Thursday at noon, and Mrs. Daniel Johnson, Friday evening, after having been in the hospital over three weeks. Mrs. Ash was a devoted wife and mother and sincere Christian for 24 years. 1 month and 28 days. She died in full faith. Rev. D. G. Henderson of Washington, preached the funeral sermon in Mark 5-39, as our pastor, Dr. E. D. Tyler, was sick. The funeral was preached from the house. Mrs. Ash was sixty-five years of age. She leaves a devoted husband, Mr. Chas. B. Ash; two sons, three daughters, seven grandchildren, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Providence *Baptist* Church has had a terrible blow—two in one week: Dr. Henderson also prescheduled Sister Daniel Johnson's funeral this afternoon. She had been a devoted Christian and member of the Baptist Church about four years. Dr. Henderson proceeded to preach from 9:30 Psalms, 6th verse: "In the morning it flourisheth and grow up; in the evening it is out down and witheth. "Standing room was at a premium. This service was held at the church. She leaves a mother, a devoted husband, three little children, father and mother-in-law, and one sister, one brother, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. We shall miss her. Sleep on sister, we shall meet you soon. At S. So'clock, Dr. Henderson mounted the stand for the third time, and proceeded to preach 32nd Psalms, 8th verse: "I will instruct thee and teach thee, etc., to a good audience. Come again, brother. The people heard him gladly. A good collection was turned over to the doctor. 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