Richmond Planet

Saturday, July 1, 1916

Richmond, Virginia

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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 This letter was never withdrawn by Editor Mitchell: His Honor George Ahlale, Chairman and the Honorable Board of Police Commissioners, Richmond, Va.—Gentlemen: Upon the earnest solicitation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. American Cavalry Practically Surrounded by 700 Carranzistas Battled Gallantly Against Great Odds—Plain "Murder," Declares Private Harris—Believes Fully 100 of the Enemy Were Slain. Columbus, N. Mex., June 25.—"They shot hell out of us at Carrizal," said Private Sam Harris, Troop C, Tenth Cavalry, who reached here today to be treated for an ugly Munster bullet wound in his neck. The soldier was in the thick of the fight. His story is the first story brought to the border by an individual. He told how 700 Mexican Indians opened fire with hidden machine guns on a handful of American troopers, mowing them down with the precision of a sword. "They shot hell out of us, they cut us to pieces," he kept repeating. Harris told how Boyd, Boyd and Capt. Morey, with Lhout, Adair, had ridden out with Troops C and K at daybreak on the hunt for marauders. He touched upon the meeting between Capt. Boyd and the Mexican Gen. Gomez out on the flat, open field. GOMEZ GAVE SIGNAL TO FIRE. He remembered clearly watching Gomez return to his command and give the signal to fire. Then as he told of the battle scene the trooper placed his hands over his eyes as though to shut out a repetition of the haunting vision "Capt. Boyd gave us the order to deploy in skirmish formation," he said. "As the order of dismount came the Mexicans opened fire all along the line. I was unallonging my leg from over my horse when the rattle of a machine gun started from behind perfect cover." The horses bolted. Most of them hit book for the ranch 12 miles away. We stepped to the ground as fast as the Almighty would let us and began jumping our rules and animations. The trees grew after we rode the Mexicans were hauling and a fence a slight rise of the edge of a road. There was a fire over there. The Mexicans were back covered. E. WAS MURDER SAYS BROTHER. We were to go to the park to be落在 our some is under the front son in pain now of the home. It was murder. I had never seen but my mom and his admiration. I was trying to see my母 last 4 old best pet's my target the end ept. It was the runme etnal machinery on the work. Within high air seers of the beginning of the 1980s the Mexico started flating up. We could see the dishes keeping us as the stered stawling and running off. The before has and let to be rung and let it seeps. There was a time of them to be a second all went the back. The sun is the best age of the sun, off of the soil. We all's a red. Here was the abstract in the books on the text of the book. Member is not the one of When the fight, a small team of men, with a few men, stood at the door, I saw them shout at me. I saw them hold a gun, the explosion of my first encounter, and I tried to cry so loud. We want it. I don't believe my self, you will not believe me to shoot at it. And I did. I thought you are at a half minute. I pressed like an hour. I saw a Mavit in front poked out from behind a fence post. I stood and got a look at them. I saw them. "Zagor" how that Mexican jumped into the air and threw it. I think I killed him all right. He did not move again. MACHINE GUN GETS INTO ACTION. I saw ole' good with that shot putth' butth!' I shouted. I got most to hide. I picked them carefu- tly before I fired and I saw them drop when I let fly. My guess is that a good few Mexicans were left there in the mesquite and along the force and ditch. But that machine gun got us, spot, spatter. It kept rattling all the time and every rattle plough- ed into us. The alkali dust was kicking up all around me, with that machine gun spitting steadily. The fellow running it was a good one. He was taking his job as a serious business which demanded strict attention to duty—the methodical killing of as many of us in as short a time as possible. It was hell. I don't know what happened to Craig Bock in a fight with Dr. Lent. Adult. I did them then again after the Mexicans started fanking us. We were hitting the truth, each our Can way. There were not many of us left, though. The machine guns had attended to that. "I got back to the Santo Domingo ranch house faster than I ever before hiked 12 miles. A few other troopers were there. "A good many horses had found their way back after they had hobbled. FOUND BY RELIFF COLUMN. "We were picked up by the relief column of the Eleventh Cavalry, which was sent out to locate us. I was all in. My throat was parched. My tongue was swollen. I had my arm in a home-made sling to help my neck and shoulder, which a Mexican bullet had ripped through. "I reckon that's about all I know. Troop K was on the right and Troop C—that's mine—was plumb in front or that machine gun. "We were less than 100 yards from the Mexicans when they opened fire. Our numbers were little more than 80 and the Mexicans were close to 700. That looks like the whole story to me. "They just shot hell out of us." LYNCHBURG RURAL LETTER On Sunday, June 18, the Sunday School of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church was well attended, with Superintendent Desa Chas. E. Wheeler is in charge. The teacher of the first Bible class being absent, Deacon P. I. Johnson took charge of the class, and brought out some very striking points on lesson. Henry Johnson and Miles Doris Stratton were appointed as delegates to meet the Sunday School Congress, which will convene with the Pilot Mt. Church on the 29th and 30th of this month. At 11 o'clock, the pastor, Rev. S. H. Preston being absent, Rev. Chas. Chappell filled the stand all day. In the morning he preached from 1st-Klugs, 1st chapter, 35th verse. Subject "God proves Himself to be a God by delivering us, and if we rebel against Him, He proves Himself to be a God by wilping us out of existence, as He did the prophets and priests of Bad." The choir sang beautifully. A solo "Come Ye Discounseled," was sung after the sermon, by Deacon John C. Mammer, chanter of the Junior Choir, Mrs James Menglinson, the organist, served to be at her host. A liberal collection was lifted by Deacon John C. Mammer, the pastor of the Baptist Church, Deacon Chas. Ales, of New Hope Baptist Church. In the evening, Rev. Chappell preached from the 51st chapter of the Psalms, and 7th verse; subject, "The Effects of Sin." On Monday, June 19th, the Busy Bee Circle held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Royal Menglinson. The president, Mrs. Chas. Chappell, was present, and presided over the meeting. The devotionals were conducted by the chapelin, Mrs. Whit E. Shraton. After the transaction of business a very interesting and helpful paper was read by Mrs. John McGinnion, subject, "Choosing Our Daughter's Society." She urged upon the mothers to be more careful in choosing their daughter's, and sons' society, as well, since the future generation depends largely upon the training we give our young people of today. It was responded to by Mrs. Killiburton, and followed up by Mrs. Whit F Stratton, after which we went in to dinner which consisted of many good theretofore so until we are forced to赴 as Paul Lawrence Dunbar sold in writing the story of The Party. We would like to tell you what we had really we cannot add. On Monday, the Johnston Church of Baths Baptist Church gave a great amount of the United States Church Hall for the occasion of the Lifesong annual event of the Church. Mr. Sally Eyler and Mrs. Tressa, both Mothers have been attending her church, Mrs. John McGinnion, at Baths Valley. Born in West Michigan in 1920. Graduated from Michigan State University in 1942. ```markdown ``` CHARLISSON (S. C.) LETTER. Mr Gee H. Fisher, principal of the grad school at Boston, S. C., passed through the city recently in Route to New York. Rev. Jas Williamson, of Benedict College, is recovering from a serious operation. Rev. James Williamson, of Benedict College, Columbia, S. C., paid a short visit to Miss Estelle Robinson at Johnston, S. C., recently. Miss Carrie Bottler, of Sumter, S. C., passed through the city recently en route to Richmond, Va., for a few days. Rev. Jas Williamson, of Benedict College, preached at Jerusalem Baptist Church, Hartville, S. C., Sunday, June 18. Mr. L. Smalls, of Ridgeland, S. C., passed through the city, recently, returning from Petersburg, Va. Belton Graham and Edward Means, of Dillon, have gone to Columbia, S. C. Misses Inez Anderson and Oldin Washington, of Georgetown, S. C., have gone to Hampton, Va., to attend the summer school. Mr. J. A. Emanuel, of Leedsburg, Fla., after visiting his brother, Mr. Fisher Emanuel here, and friends and relatives in Wayne, Sampson, Cu伯尔, returned home, summited NC, returned home, sequestered it, he said he very much enlarged his visit. Richmond, Va., June 21. Virginia had but 143 cases of floral typhoid during May, according to statistics just compiled by the State Board of Health, but if past experience is a guide, the number during August will be 4.8 times as great, or 666. The only way to save this heavy tax of disease, the board advises, is to give percipulous care to the early cases and to prevent The reports of typhoid for previous years in the counties of Virginia show that the minimum is reached in the late winter and that thereafter, as the summer comes on, the number mounts up. During 1915, it is pointed out, the minimum for the year was in March when only 145 cases were reported by physicians in the counties. The maximum was in August, when reports of 859 cases were in In. During 1915, a number of portions were reported was 153, in May 179, in June 282, in July 685, in August 859 and in September 788. The figures for 1916 are therefore lower than for 1915, but unless precautions are taken; a large and speedy increase may be expected. While typhoid is essentially a disease of human fifth and can only be contracted by getting into the body germs that have come from the body of someone who has or has had typhoid, the great increase in the disease during the early months of the summer, says the weekly bulletin of the board, issued today, "is due to the activity of files and to the careless disposal of filth from early cases." Within reasonable bounds, it is possible for the people of a community to control typhoid by caring for filth from the community and well. Wherever an early case occurs, it is generally possible to stop the disease with the original infection by seeing to it that all wastes from the body are disinfected and disposed of where they can cause no harm. "For this reason, it is highly important that every case receive proper attention and that certain rules be followed to the letter. These rules issued in the form of *Bledside Directions* for the care of Typhoid Cases can be had free upon request to the State and neighborhood where there is much early typhoid it is always best for those who may be exposed to the disease to protect themselves by typhoid vaccination." Thirty per cent of the men who fail in business do so because they lack the "know how." They have no business ability. In the previous talk we have endeavored to show that the first so emotional when a man engages in business and borrows money, or seeks credit, business character, and that this character is all risky credit, the worst is that which has merely honesty back of it. However honest a man may be, if he lack the ability to "make good" he cannot pay; for good intentions pay no debts. Ranks are turning down loans by the hundred that are backed by honesty only. The world is full of honest men — so honest that they wouldn't take a paper from a news reporter, or be arrested for being down and out to beause the ability to make a business We put no discount upon the important element of beauty, but logically it will quickly demonstrate that unless book of beauty there is ability the interpretation is sure to fail. Many a lady's book has been left in a beauty book by father to son or by father to son to daughter to daughter to father the father's ability and could not see that it was necessary to buy or a suitcase. Therefore the second thing the bank or creditor to that in your business is business ability. This is easily demonstrated by your post performance. Your advertising, your store your dress, your bank account, your energy, your delivery wagon, all carry evidence of how well you can do. Many a business man has been caught up in a miserable experience, sitting around, waiting for something to turn up, hoping something will come to the town to make business better, having ten places for every dollar he gets his hands on, half fed and poorly cloth, honest to the core, but lacking the push to make a business succeed. The banker will not lend to such a fellow. He lacks the essential element of "go." You may argue that ability is inherited, or that it comes from education, and excuse yourself. Book! Every man gets the education he wants. If not in school, then by him self. If you haven't ability and can't acquire it, you can buy it in the other fellow. Brains are always for sale at a price. And the man who lacks business ability, and cannot see the necessity of applying himself to acquire it, and has no money to buy it (many great men have been made by the crowd they gathered around them) had better not be a hooker for credit at a well managed bank, for out of such loans come the losses. Capitalize your honesty by coupling it with ability, and make your ability valuable by devoting it to honest end. Be on the level, but be very busy while you are on the level. After all, thrift is merely the ability to do—to earn; an earning, to save. The ability that gets a man nowhere financially is a misdirected ability; for the man who applies himself to a definite end, and is honest in his application saves money as a natural sequence; and when you ask your banker to lend you money, his first question will be: "Have you any of your own?" If you can't take care of your money, what assurance has he that you will judiciously use the money and you your Character and capacity—the two things but leading to capital, the that big "C" without whith, you cannot succeed, and with which you are bound to win if you use it right. Just Tribute to found a home for servant girls" "Well, you know, he was a mannecruter of line china. And he always said to him, 'For his business.'" Kaugae's Journal. Its Enterprise "It was all very well for Solomon to point to the ant for an example of industry, but a better example for a provider would have been a chicken." "Why a chicken?" "Because it always comes up to the scratch when it is a question of making a Briquet." "Citizen," American Washington, D. C., July 1, 1920. A balloon on cotton production in the United States, just impaired by. Professor Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census Department of Commerce, and prepared under the supervision of Mr. William M. Stewart, chief statistician in charge of the inquiry, shows the American crop of 1915—11, 191, 320 equivalent, 500-pounds' bales—to have been the smallest since 1909. The tables contained in this 'publication will be reprinted in the annual cotton bulletin, to be published about October 1, which will also include more detailed figures as to production, together with data in regard to consumption, imports, exports, and stocks of cotton. The crop of 1915 below that of the crop year by nearly 5,000,000 bales, or more than 30 per cent. The production in every state showed a decrease, the greatest proportionally being in Oklahoma, where the crop of 1915 was only a trifle more than half as large as that of 1914. The increase in the production of linters during recent years is noteworthy. Starting at 114,644 bales in 1899, the output of this product increased to $80,780 bales in 1915. The 1915 lint product even exceeded that of the preceding year by nearly 24,000 bales, although the cotton crop of 1915 was vary luch smaller than that of the previous year. This increase in the lint production is the extent delimiting of the seed for the better separation of the meat from the hulls, but more especially to the high prices obtained for the fiber, which is used extensively in the manufacture of gun-cotton and smokeless powder. Many mills now obtain considerably more than 100 pounds of linters per ton of seed treated, whereas in earlier years 50 pounds per ton was a high yield. Sea-island cotton, of which 91,844 running bales were ginned in 1915, represented that year less than 30 percent of the total. All this cotton was grown in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, the first-named state producing 57,572 bales, or more than three-fifths of the total. Although cotton is grown in 18 states, the combined product of four Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama—represented, nearly two- thirds of the total crop of 1915. Texas alone produced 3,227,480 bales, or more than one-fourth of the total crop. One-third of the total production was that of Georgia, 1,908, 673 bales, or more than one-sixth of the total other bales producing large crops were: Carolina, with 1,133, 919 bales; Alabama, 1,020,539 bales; Mississippi, 955,265 bales; Arkansas, N16,092 bales; N. Carolina, 699,194 bales; spd. Alabama, 699,826 bales. The leading cotton county in respect to number of bales ginned from the growth of 1915 is Elk County. The only county in 1915 bales. Only four counties in report than 100,000 bales was伍尔威县. Miss, in which the ginnies amounted to 102,393 bales. SOUTH BOSTON (VA.) LETTER. Boston in this section is a humble amount of rain in this section is delaying formats in their race and grass gaming a good roadway. The farm ware are just marrying time and wi- ting on the wind and the sun. Mr H. B. Jones of the firm of Sugg and Jones, progressive groceries on lower Main Street, sends his subscri- pment and best wishes to the Richmond Planet. Mr W F Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, passed through here last week on route to Daville. He is giving our people good advice to why they should read colored newspapers. While gathering cherries for her grandchild, Mrs Sindy Adams fell from a cherry tree at Cluster Springs pear here, Monday. Her neck was broken, and she died a few minutes later. She is second four years old. A large delegation left this section to attend the annual sitting of the K. F. F. Portsmouth, N. The Southeastern Bureau of Information this week with A.D. Harrington manager CINCINNATTI (O.) LETTER. (By James H. Wilson) Cincinnati, O, June 20.—Notice to my subscribers owing to abuse of trusting my customers, and they fall to pay their bills as they promise me. I am forced to discontinue crediting any one, saving my monthly customers, and I am expecting them to pay when bill is rendered, of their paper will be discontinued. I am responsible for every paper I receive, and must pay my bills when they are due, so please pay when served. Yours truly, Jas. H. Wilson, Agent. Miss Isabel Glens, contralto of this city, will render a recital at the Park Street M. E. Church Friday evening, June 30, 1816, for the benefit of the Women's Home Missionary Society. The Ellizbeth Gamble Deaconess Home Association will hold their annual session at the Union Baptist Church June 20. All students that are partakers of the home Bible study will be awarded diplomas for their year's work. Admission free. All are invited. Annual convention of the Sunday Schools (Baptist) will convene at Lockhill O. June 23, 24, and 25. There will be a great parade Sunday. Communion at the Sokitane Baptist Church was well attended as usual. Dinner was served Sunday by Rev. Dudley, Baylor Park, O., in honor of his son's birthday, Mr. Bert Dudley. Many were present, and a happy afternoon was enjoyed by all. After dinner everyone went to church. Children's Day was observed by many of our leading churches. Mr. Conte is still on the neck list, and is improving slowly. At your lecture you may leave personal news at Mr. John Fulldinger barber shop, and I will try to have it published by you at all times. A CUP OF ENJOY. Artist—To gods, a check for $30. Wife—Oh. Percy, the people will think you forged it. —Philadelphia Record. No Sale. "I'll give you $5 for that dog of yours, old man." "That's all right. You can keep the pedigree. I only went the dog." One More on Mary. Mary had a little lamb Just thirty years ago: The chops we had for lunch today Were from that lamb, I know - Exchange Dead Loss. "I can never be yours. Here are your presents." "All very fine. But who's going to return all those cigars I bought your father and all those quarters I gave your little brother?"—Louisville Courier-Journal. Business Method. Employer—Why do you want more pay? Do you think I'm a fool? Office Boy—No, sir! But I thought I think I was if I didn't—Exchange Strategy. Mrs. Exe—You always have such wonderful success in getting people to come to your parties. Mrs. Wyse. Oh, I always tell the men that it's not to be a dress up affair and the women that it is—Boston Trumscript. A Limerick. A clever Scent of the Sea With a sweet smile Who own I am not a fool Nature is a show I know Because I am Waterman in St. Nicholas His Big Mustake. "What's the matter?" he asked of the new bridegroom. "I'm in bad. My wife says her faith in me is hopelessly shattered." "What terrible thing have you done?" "It didn't seem so terrible at the start. I broke a dish and tried to blame it on my wife's pet cat."—Pittsburgh Post. Wise Guy. Mrs. Farmer—Would, you work for your board and clothes? Trump—Never again, mum. I've married for money twice.—Exchange. Bad Policy. "Just one word of caution," said the dealer in hair goods to the new clerk. "Yeasir." "Never tell a lady you have something prettier when she is trying to match her hair."—Louisville Courler Journal. Criticism. We hear of bitter young pitchers Discovered every day. But some are pitching baseball That should be, pitching hay. —New York World. Too Much Trouble. Mr. X. Pounder—Brace up and have some confidence in yourself and you'll amount to something. If you have faith you can move mountains. Lazy Luke—Oh, well! Who wants am moved anyway? — Milwaukee Kewa. "Me Who Fights—and Runes Away." "I hear you had some trouble at the grank," said Fred. "Ten," aligned Percy. "The girls called me a coward because I wouldn't get them a hornets next." "Unhonored, oh!" chuckled Fred. "Ten," said Percy. "but unstressed." MORTON & BLAIR Secretary of War, Army, with Morton Blaire. Photo by Davidson Press, Amherst. 23 TROOPERS WERE SLAIN Captain Meroy, Wounded in Carrizal Flight, 'Is Rescued. Twenty-three American soldiers are known to have lost their lives on the battlefield at Carrial, according to a report to Brigadier General John J. Pershing from: Major Jenkins, commanding the Eleventh Cavalry column, ordered to scour the country in the vicinity for survivors. The report told of the rescue in safety of Captain Lewis S. Morey, after he had made a daring stand in the face of heavy Mexican odds and heroic personal sacrifices, in an effort to save the lives of his men. Major Jenkins said he had evidence that nine American troopers, in addition to those previously reported dead, had been killed. Captain Morey was brought to headquarters in a motor car. He is in splendid condition physically considering the privation he endured before he was found. His wounds were treated, and it is believed he will be on his feet again in a day or two. A note found on the body of Captain T. Boyd, the American commander, who lost his life in a charade on the Mexico machine gun trench proved that General Felix Gomez the Mexican commander, invited him into the town of Carrizal, and that he be refused, and afterward conferred with Gomez outside the town. Neither the note-book of Captain Boyd nor Cat of Captain Morey, both of which they recovered, threw any new light on the clash, according to the report. After General Pershing said forty-three members of the command engaged had been accounted for, and that one other was known to be alive, but is lost in the desert. The remainder of the eighty-four men who made up the detachment are believed to have been killed or made prisoner SIX MORE SURVIVORS Four Return to U. S. Lines and Two Are Captured. Four more members of the Tent Cavalry, who survived the massacre at Carrival, have been picked up and returned to the American expedition, 1 is reported in Columbus, N. M. The colored troopers were in a full condition, half dead from hungue and thirst. Two colored troopers, ragged and half dead from harbours, are lodged in fall at Juarez, having been brought from Guzman, where they were captured by de facto government troops. They are believed to be survivors of the Carrival engagement. Will Parker, owner of Parker's ranch, thirty-five miles southwest of Hachita, N. M., and his wife were murdered, presumably by Mexican bandits, according to information received by relatives. American cavalry already has starred in pursuit of the murders, and it necessary will cross the border. At the time of the murder the bandits raid off approximately twenty-five horses which military officials believe will assist them in finding the trial: KILLED ON WAY TO CAMP Guardsman Fatally Injured When H Leans From Car Window. Daniel Guptill, of Everson, Fayette county, a member of the nation's police whose company left M. Pleasant, a jailer jure while leaking from a car win dow as the train was approaching Huntingdon. He died in the Blair Memorial hospital. The youngster was full of fight. He ran out of the house, turned around twice, peelod off his coat, let out a choice collection of epithets, described the lineage of the old man consigned his soul and body to the fury pit and then invited the old man to come out and fight. The row had stared inside the house, and the young man though it would be better to pull off the fight out in the open. (Of course, he did not mean to sell or run away, sometimes known as giving big bang; he only wanted more room to host his opponent.) The old man peelod coat, swim and collapsed. He kicked the bar that he didn't need to fight. The Bank Branch, under command of President General Price, left Mr. George, P. for El Paso, Te ah. The route to baken was announced follows: By Philadelphia & Reading rewav to Philadelphia, change at Wynne Junction to Baltimore & Ohio railroad, proceed to Twenty-fourth and closest streets, where a will be built for lunch, according to present plans, then to Washington, thence to St. Louis, then to Dallas, Texas, and on to El Paso. The work of mastering in an administering the cath still is preaching, and will not be finished for some days. There are almost twice as many men in camp now as there was when the tenth city formally was opened. Rookies are arriving on every train, and it was announced at division headquarters that fifty rockhoppers arrived for every company in the camp. That doesn't mean that each individual company has been strengthened by the addition of fifty recruits, as some have added more to their roster and some less. Outside the First Brigade, there is bitter disappointment among the troops. Unless the war, if hostilities should be declared, is a more stubborn one than the guardmen here believe, they think there is little likelihood of the other three brigades of the Pennsylvania troops ever getting farther from home than the concentration camp here. KILLS TWO AMERICANS Mexican Stray Cattlemen in Sonora. Englishman Dies of Wounds Englishman Dies of Wounds. American Robertson and Tom Sydney. American cattlemen, have been killed by Mexicans southeast of Nacozari, Sborra, according to the statement of military officials from Agua Prieta. Officials at Arispe have telegraphed General P. Ellis Calle, confirming the death of A. H. Dickson, a British subject, who was wounded in the fight with Mexican cowboys, in which Jim Parks, an American prospector, was killed. Another Found Dying on Railroad. Private No. 40, of Company E. Eighthight Ridement. . . Pittsburgh, with intifits "J. H. B." in his hat, was found dying beside the Pennsylvania railroad tracks below Middletown. He was placed upon a train and, brought to this city, but did on the way. An autopsy will be left to determine cause of death. The man's pockets were filled with green trait and medical men expressed the opinion that acute indigestion might have caused death. THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER is from Calcutta, the capital of India, and it is said to grow like bananas, when ripened is gathered, perfumed and put in jars ready for the market to be used for the hair only. THE EAST INDIA WOMEN when standing, their hair reaches the ground; they use their hair for towels to bathe their children's faces. They also use their hair around their waists if a very dark brown color. NOTE: "She Wiped My Feet W: The Hair Of Her Head" If a woman has long hair it is a glory to her. Sex the Key to the Bible The World's Three Greatest Books By Silny G. Tann, Ph.D. "Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jalika inane ideas than that has ever been given to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good, morally and spiritually that has been produced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the civilized world. W. A. Thompson, M.D. W. A. Swen, M.D. B. M. McCubbins, M.D. B. F. Mikel, A.B. M.D. The American Charlottesville we have arranged with the author to fill all orders for these books. Result price of book or books you desire to this paper and mages of the book will be sent to you as soon that he thought it was useless to get into trouble about such a trivial matter. This just suited the young man. He recalled his challenge with much gusto. He added that the old man was several varieties of a coward. This made the old boy wrathy. He had been sitting on the porch, talking all the insults that were being, heaped upon him, but now he had "bottled over." He got up, puffed out—when the boy now was coming off, he commenced to talk again, but he changed the tune. Now it was, "You ought to be on best man!" When the old man reached the gate THE YOUNG MAN HAD "WARPORATE!" 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. Boehm] | 9.2.23 | *0.19* | | [L. Boehm] | 9.2.31 | 9.2.31 | *9.2.31* | [L. Boehm] | 9.2.31 | *0.13* | | 11.01 | 13.59 | *5.47* | 19.09 | 19.09 | *0.13* | | 0.28 | | | | | 11.01 | 14.49 | Beechwood Almondia L. var. Lv. 72.15 PR, week days; 24.15 PR, Seeds days; Lv. 211.25 AR, days. Frederickian leam. week days; Lv. 24.04 PR; Lv. 24.25 AR. United leam. week days; Lv. 27.30 AR, 0.30 PR; Lv. 25.31 AR, 5.42 PR. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALI RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. (Schedule in effect Jan. 3, 1916) Lease Hyde Street Station, Highwood, FOB NORFOLK: *5-16 A.M., *2:00 A.M., 7:00 P.M. *COD P.M. FOR LYSCHBURG AND TID WEST: *8:18 A. M., *9:50 A. M., *9:00 P. M., *9:25 P. M., Local to Crewe, *6:35 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: *11:40 A. M., *6:35 P. M., *9:00 P. M., *11:40 P. M. From the West: *6:15 A. M., *4:37 A. M., **2:19 P. M., ***1:40 P. M., *6:17 P. M., *9:00 P. M. Daily ***Daily except Sunday ***Sunday Daily ***Daily except Sunday ***Sunday only W. C. BAUSDERR, P. T. M., Reanoke, G. P. A., Ronnota, C. H. ROSLKY, D. P. A., Richmond, W. ATLANTIC COAST LINE THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH (1916) Train Railway Richmond Daily: For Florida and South: *15 A. M. and 8:18* For Georgia: *12:50 A. M.* For North Carolina: *12:50 A. M.* P. M. *4:00 P. M. *4:10 P. M.* P. M. *4:00 P. M. *4:10 P. M.* For A. W. West: *9:15 A. M. *8:00 A. M.* For Petersburg: *12:50 A. M. *6:15 A. M.* P. M. *9:10 A. M. *9:50 A. M. *8:00 P. M.* P. M. *9:25 P. M. *11:50 P. M.* For Goldbabor and Fayetteville: *4:00 P. M.* P. M. *11:50 A. M. *11:25 P. M. *7:05 P. M.* P. M. *9:15 P. M.* Trains arrive Richmond daily: *6:28 A. M.* Trains arrive Atlanta daily: *6:28 A. M. *8:77 A. M.* 11:40 A. M. *22:10 P. M.* 10:35 A. M. *7:45 P. M. *9:00 P. M.* *Except Sunday.* *"Bunny Only." Three of area railroad departures and connections not guaranteed. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Trains Leave Richmond, Main Street Station Schedule figures not guaranteed. For the South-Daily: 6:30 A.M. local; 18:30 M. express: 6 P. M. local for Atlanta; 11:35 M. express: 5:00 P. M. local for Keysville and Town City-work days. Park Ave. Line-6:10 P. M. Bremen Trains except Sunday, connecting for Baltimore 3:25 A. M. and 4:15 P. M. daily, local. M. M. Birth Announcement - From the South: 7:50 A.M. 8:40 A.M. P. M. daily: 8:40 A.M. except Sunday From West Point: 8:45 A.M. M. except Monday, 9:40 A.M. and 6:15 P. M. daily. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Grace, Louville & West. 7:28 p. -11:08 p. Main Line, Local. 7:28 p. -11:08 p. West, Local. 7:28 p. -11:08 p. N. News, Nite. Old Pt. 7:28 p. -11:08 p. Newport News, Local. 7:18 p. -11:08 p. Newport News, Local. 7:18 p. -11:08 p. Newport News, Local. 7:18 p. -11:08 p. From West. 7:30 a. 7:40 p. -11:08 p. From West. 7:30 a. 7:40 p. -11:08 p. From West. 7:30 a. 7:40 p. -11:08 p. day from Thursoud, James Kelley 7:10 p. day from Thursoud, James Kelley 7:10 p. Daily 7:10 p. SEABOARD AIR LINE SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH provides train schedules to leave Richmond daily; 9:30 A.M. to Jacksonville, Alamogordo, sleepers and coaches to Jacksonville, Alamogordo, sleepers to Jacksonville, 11:30 P.M. to Florida Limited; 12:48 A.M. to Alamogordo, Biloxi, Jacksonville, Tempa and coaches to Jacksonville. Northbound train schedules to serve to Jacksonville, 12:48 A.M. to Jacksonville, M., A.M. local, 12:48 A.M. to M., 8:37 P.M. to A.M. local, 8:37 P.M. to M. ALPNEUS SCOTT Funeral Director and Enables OPEN DAY AND JETTY Office, 2001 P Street, Flan. 2001 SW—Baltimore, MD St. James St., Flam. St. Thomas St. PAGE FOUR Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. 211 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR... EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va as second class matter. 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. Willie Wiggles Pa. you don't get chestnuts until after there's a frost. do you? Pa Wiggs. Except in the case of a farce comedy, so, then the chest nuts come first and the frost afterward —Philadelphia Ledger. Poor Child. "What a lot of baby foods there are those days." "Yes; it is a wise child that knows his own folder these times."—Life. Choleric. His face is red, his breath is short, And whitly grims his wandering eye. He's angry. Nothing of the sort. He's struggling with a balky tie. —Washington Star. Avoiding Trouble. She—Don't you ever wear trains? Another—No; my husband always puts his foot down on anything of that sort.—Record. Mrs. Justwed—Where is the plate I served you the pie on? Trump—Plate? Graciones! I thought that was the under crust and ate it—Boston Globe. Languid Larry's Luck. Gentleman—What would you do with a nickel if I gave you one? Trump (not literally)—Get a new ring, matter no more supper, an a night's feast, in the garden or din near tomorrow. 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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. Personally speaking, nothing would have suited him better than to have gone on with the case. THOSE SUMMONED. Those summoned were Willie Seay, 1014 N. 8th St.; Hon. H. M. Smith, Jr., Travelers' Building; W. W. Hill, 1006 1-2 N. 7th St.; John Woolfolk, 127 W. Jackson St.; Arthur Chapman. Thalhimers; John Harper, Thalhimers; Willie G.Carpenter; 2 N. 5th St.; Joseph Matthows, 900 N. Sixth St.; Edward Balles, 1019 St. John St.; Joe Wastray, 103 E. Leigh St.; Charles Thompson, 1407 E. Leigh St.; Chas. C. Timberlake, 514 1-2 Catherine St.; Mrs. Ora B. Stokes. Leave Richmond, 8:10 P. M—Arrive Baltimore 7:00 A. M. Leave Baltimore 6:00 P. M.—Arrive Richmond 8:45 A. M. Most Delightful Water Trip in America Up Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore YORK RIVER LINE NEW STEAMERS—CITY OF RICHMOND—CITY OF ANNAPOLIS With the Comforts of the Best Hotel. Staterooms with Berths and Brass Bods, Privato Bath and Shower. Hot and Cold Water in Each Room. Spacious Decks, Saloons and Smoking Room. Sea Food. 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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 SATURDAY.....JULY 1. 1916 Patriotism A good poem to reread on this Fourth of July BREATHES there the man with soul so dead As home his footsteps he hash turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and self, The wretch, concentrated all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsuing. URGES MOOSE TO SUPPORT HUGHES Roosevelt Finally Declines Progressive Nomination. Progressive Nominee for Vice President Quits National Committee Meeting When Newspaper Men Are Barred. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter sent to the Progressive national committee, in Chicago, declined the party's nomination for the presidency, strongly endorsed Charles E Hughes, and urged "unxurging" support of the Republican nominee by the Progressives. It is impossible for the Progressives to abandon their convictions, but these convictions can be further edged more by electing Hughes than by supporting a third party ticket, which would give an easy victory to the Democrats. The present administration, he charges, "has been guilty of shortcomings more signal than those of any administration since the days of Hu chan." As to the German-American Alliance's support of Mr. Hughes, Mr. Roosevelt says he believed their attitude is due, "not in the least to any liking for Mr. Hughes, but solely to their antagonism to me." Most Americans of German ancestry are loyal citizens, he asserts, but the professional German-American "are acting purely in the shister interest of Germany." In his tribute to Mr. Hughes the colonel says: "We have the alternative of continuing in office an administration which has proved a lamentable failure or of putting into office an administration which we have every reason to believe will function with efficiency for the interest and honor of all our people." During the discussion of the colonel's letter, John M. Parker, the party's vice presidential nominee, and fourteen of his friends left the meeting. Parker's abrupt departure was occasioned, it was said, by the refusal of the committee to allow newspaper men to attend the meetings. Parker said he wanted the reporters to hear some confidential information on Hughes that James R. Garfield, Raymond Robins and Chester S. Rowell had for the committee. Among those who walked out with Mr. Parker were Bajlbridge Colby, of New York, who nominated Roosevelt in the Progressive convention; Burton Vance, of Kentucky; Judge A. E. Norton, of St. Louis; J. M. Ingersoll, of Idaho; A. T. Moon, of Utah, and H. F. Cochems, of Wisconsin. All returned when the executive session was over. After the colonel's letter was read, Parker read a telegram he had received from Colonel Roosevelt, June 16, and his reply thereto. The telegram asked a conference with Mr. Parker. In his reply Mr. Parker declared he would not support Mr. Hughes, said it was impossible for him to visit Colonel Roosevelt, and expressed regret at the latter's retirement from politics. Referring to the Hughes-candidacy, Mr. Parker said: "His candidacy represents the terrific precedent of dragging a judge of the United States supreme court into the mire of politics to be used as a mask for professional politicians." He expressed his willingness to retire from the ticket in favor of a central or western man should that course seem best. The committee declined to nomb THE GEM HAIR GOODS CO. 235 Duffield St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 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In compliance with his mother's deathbed request, Willis Braithman nineteen years old, has enlisted in Company F, Third Infantry, at Melina. The mother, when told by a physician she was dying called the youth to her and bade him enlist an return to her in uniform. This he did, having obtained a leave of absence for two days when he explained the circumstances. An uncle of the boy, whose name he refuses to give for personal reasons, is high in United States army circles, he asserts. Since the lad's action has been made public at Medina other youths have focked to enlist. $1,000,000 Lost by Rain. As a result of the heavy rain storm at Kalamazoo, Mich., dams at the Bryan and Monarch Paper mills burst. Twenty-six blocks in the residence district were flooded. Damage is estimated at $1,000,000. There were no casualties. Hall Damages Maryland Crops. The crops of Caroline county, M.I., were damaged hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth by recent hailstorms. The greatest destruction occurred Wednesday and Wednesday night. Pennsylvania Guardsman Bidding Sweetheart Goodby. 1 Photo by American Press Association Leaps to Death on Dare Harry Jones, a pupil of Philadelphia, was drowned near Delaware City, Del. He was on the steamer President, which carried over a thousand ex urslons below Augusta Beach, when some one dared blim to jump overboard. He jumped a minute later from the second deck of the boat, into the water. The boat was stopped as soon as possible. A yacht in the rear of the President rushed to the man, who was swimming, and a the preserver was thrown to him. Being exhausted, however, he was unable to grasp the preserver, and sank. After the drawing all rush to one side of the boat. A paddle then started, and someone shouted, "The boat's sinking." A general paddle ensued. Men fought and scrambled, women and children talented. Many were trapped upon and inflicted. A number were placed under arrest and taken to the hold of the boat, where they were confined. After the boat docked at Augustine Beach a number would not return to Philadelphia on the boat, but took other means of returning. Virginia Bank Robbed. The Fane of Crocodile, at Creek eith, seven miles west Wyndsworth Va., on the Norfolk, and Western railway, was robbed by two strangers, who, on entering, covered the cashier; Arthur Hounsell, and a patron of the bank, Roy Groseclose, with guns. The robbers forced the cashier and Groseclose to go into the vaults and remain until the robbery was completed. Four thousand dollars was obtained. The bandits then got away in an automobile stolen from a neighboring farmer after tying him to a tree. New Naval Program A building program including four superdreadnoughts and four battle cruisers for the coming years was agreed upon by the senate naval subcommittee after a conference with Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Rear Admirals Taylor and Blue. The subcommittee also decided to recommend an increase of 20,700 in the enlisted strength of the navy, bringing the total up to 74,700. Makes Record for Barrie. All previous records for shipments of strawberries from Federalburg Md., have been broken this year, as there have been shipped seventy-five carloads, or 600,000 quarts. The price averaged 7½ cents a quart, which means $45,000 for the growers, while the pickers shared $2000. Slayer Gets Fifteen Years. Wilson Fowier, self-confessed murderer of Joseph Ludwig, at Hazleton, on April 1, Friday was sentenced to fifteen years in the Eastern penitentiary. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.50¢/4.75; city mill; $5.50¢/6.25. RYE FLOUR — Steady; bar harbor RYE FLOUR—Steady: per barrel. $61.50. WHEAT firm: No. 2 red, 99c, 110c CORN quiet: No. 2 yellow, 44c, 185c OATS quiet: No. 2 white, 40c, 187c POULTRY: Live steady, hen, 195c, 202c; old roosters, 13q, 14c; Dressed, steady, choice fowls, 22q, c; old roosters, 18c BUTTER steady: Fancy creamery. 32c. per lb. CHICAGO - HOGS - 15c, higher, Mixed and butchers, $1.50/10g, good heavy, $3.00/10g, rough heavy, $2.50 $3.00/10g, plus $3.50 $4.50/10g, plus $5.50 $6.50/10g, plus $7.50 CATTLE -- Sticky, Ine. Biggars Beerers. $22.00 11:40 rows and hollers. Tennessee. $75.00 11:40 rows and hollers. $55.00 11:40 Texas. $75.00 11:40 calories. $115.00 SHEEP- Strong. Native and west ern. $3.50/lamb. $7.50/lb. 11.65. WILLCOX TO LEAD G. O. P. Hughes' Close Friend, Will Manage His Campaign. The selection of William R. Willey, former postmaster of New York city and later state public service commissioner, as Republican national chairman was announced in New York. Mr. Willey was the first choice of Charles E. Hughes. Acceptance by Clement Roosevelt of an invitation from Mr. Hughes for dinner was another development that stirred Hughes headquarters. Mr. Hughes sent a cordial letter to the colonel following the endorsement of his candidacy by the Progressive national committee and also wished a appreciation of the action to the committee at Washington. Mr. Wilton, the new national chairman, has been born a close friend of the Republican presidential nominee. He was one of the first callers upon Mr. Hughes when the latter arrived in New York from Washington to or headquarters. He is a native of New York state, having been born in Sayyora, Chennai county, 52 years ago. Dying After Eight Anthony Venusky, of Frackville is dying in the Miners' hospital at Mahanoy City, Pa., of a fractured skull received in a harrow room brawn x Frackville. Anthony Saturdays. Anthony Botavage and John Nork were killed by Squirt Purnell. --- Scranton Has Preparedness, Parade. 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The Russians have reached Brotzy which they are now shelling. Berlin reports driving the Russians back over the Styr which they had crossed west of Kohl. Vienna admits the enemy has crossed the Sarcot. Premier Shulzilov, if Greece, is reported to have resumed. M. Zaimi is likely to be the lead on the new cabinet. The Russians report repulse of Austrian attacks on the Adagio platan. The losses of the Austrians on the Trentino front since May 14 are estimated at 100,000. Repulse of an attack by the Germans in the Champagne region is announced by the Paris war office. THURSDAY. Greece, menaced by an entente na val demonstration before Piraeus, ha-unconditionally granted all the demands of the allies, presented in an ultimatum on Wednesday, according to Athens despatches. M. Zalmiis has undertaken to form a new ministry in which the Venizelos party will be represented. The Russian-Austro-German fighting front has extended to a 500-mile stretch, according to Petrograd. Berl in reports German successes north of Lutak and near Frizwolka. A violent battle along the Dug, due to German efforts to save Kovch, seems to be developing on the Russian front. In a battle lasting all night, the Germans gained a footing in first-line French trenches, east of the Mouse, in the Vaux sector. FRIDAY. The Germans made three attacks along a 1200-yard front in Champagne last night. The attacks were repulsed after they succeeded in temporarily occupying one of the French advanced positions. German armies, reinforced from the French profront, are taking the offensive against the Russian right, where the drive of the czars troops has been halted for the present. Alexander Zalmis has completed the formation of the new Greek cabinet of which he is premier. He is a neutralist with pro-entente leanings. The Russian passenger ship Mercury has been mined in the Black sea. The loss of life is reported as 336. SATURDAY The battle of Verdun is raging with a fury not surpassed by any previous fighting there. The Germans, using large forces, got within three and a half miles of the city, but part of it How To Get One. Richmond, Virginia 213 The Pl ground. It was then regained by the French, the Paris war was announced. The Germans held the Titanic in field war, with its northeast on the fortress. The Americans, having completely evacuated the Kawai, have been forced to lay by the Rivers into the Forth tributa, where the tributa is now taking place, where that it entered. It then imitates that the German forces dazzled the Kawai, and entering the Russian land base of Britain. The allies have lifted their morale. The Germans will be forced to new locations hold the August. QUIET ALONG THE FRONTIER The Roches, a woman part of the entire Austrian crossroad in Bukowina, says a reporter has been from Portugal. They have occupied the town of Kimpel in the extreme southern part of the province in the footfalls of the Cargatians, the important pharoahs in Austria, hands, and with it have taken more than 200 prisoners, the day past add. Vice-president attacks were made by the French north of Vienna resulting in the sinking of some ground, writing to the Paris report Berlin, however, de lauré at a French attack were repaired. The hardest fighting was about the Tatam mont reduit, where some of the trenches to the west of the sort were recovered. There was hand grenade fighting in the village of Fleury, recently occupied in part by the Germans, respelling in some progress being made by the French. An official British statement says a German raid on their treenches near Loos was driven off. An Italian ruler and a French torpedo boat destroyer were snuck by a submarine off Italy. The situation at Verdon appears to have reached a critical stage. 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"If war has got to come, I would just as such it came tomorrow as not, the general said. "By that time, we shall be as well prepared as possible. Some militia will be on the border and the rest on the way. I am sure the regulars are as ready as they ever will be. I have no fear of the out- come." The confidence expressed by the American commander was reflected by his subordinates. Reports that troops of General Jacinto Trevino and Brigadier General John J. Pershing already had clashed at Villa Abumada were received without anxiety. The reports while uncontrived, caused no surprise as this place is expected to be the scene of the first battle. Reports from El Paso, Eagle Pass, Brownville and other Texas posts indicated no aggression by Mexicans. Units of the American army have been stationed in such manner that almost instant action can be obtained by the commanding officer. 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We trust they will have a very happy stay during their sojourn in the Magic City, for indeed, one cannot fail to enjoy the cooling mountain breeze sweeping over the Alleghenies and the Blue Ridge mountains here at this season. 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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