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NET VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 34 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND COURT SESSION—HARMONY EVERYWHERE—MEMBERS ENTHUSIASTIC. Portsmouth, Va., June 21.—The Grand League, Knights of Pythia preconvened yesterday at 5 P. M., with representatives from the various lod Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., presiding. The roster of the grand representatives from the various lodges was called and responses were made. At 6 P. M.; a recess was taken until 9 A. M. today. The Grand Court. Order of Calantha, was called to order at 5:15 P. M., Tuesday, by Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell. Jr. The roster or the subordinate courts was called, and the delegates responded. A recess was taken at 6:15 P. M., until this morning at 10 A. M. THE PUBLIC MEETING The public meeting was held at the Zion Baptist Church at 9 P. M. Col. Archer Drew was the master of coronies. The choir rendered a selection, after which the devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. A. S. Thomas. D. D. Col. Thomas M. Crump sang with pathetic melody, which attired the audience. "I Am a Poor Sinner." When he resumed his seat, the appliance was deafening, and despite his bowing acknowledgment, he was forced to sing again. He rendered "My Ransom." FINE ADDRESSES Music as rendered by the Adelphin Quartete. Rev. Dr. T. H. White, of Clifton Forge. Va. was introduced and he delivered an impromptu address. He paid a glowing tribute to Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., and gave sound advice to those assembled. Mr. R. J. Kylea, the promoter and founder of the Mutual Savings Bank of Portsmouth. Va was introduced and made a profound impression. He declared that the colored people of Portsmouth were more united than ever before. He commented upon the achievements of Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., and he declared that his achievements had been a source of inspiration to him. He related specific instances of the great work that Mr. Mitchell had done for the race. He introduced the Grand Chancellor. THE GRAND CHANCELLOR SPEAKS. Mr. Mitchell then delivered an address which affirmed the audience. He told of the recognition that had been accorded to him by his white friends and he gave advice to the race in the great struggle for recognition in this country. A solo was rendered by Miss . . . She was encored. Benediction was announced by Rev. L. J. Morris. The meeting was a success. GRAND COURT O. OF C. OF VA. In accordance with the Pythian Laws that require the Female Department to meet at same time and place as the Grand Lodge, K. of P. the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe convened in its 19th annual session in the Zion Baptist Church of Portsmouth, Va., June 19, 1916, and continued its routine business for four days. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of K. of P. of Virginia, has also been the G. W. Counsellor of this department for the nineteen years. He has the unique distinction of being the only person in the country that has had the unanimous vote of both departments of the Order for that length of time. Not once has any person's name been offered in opposition to his in Virginia. He has always declined election for more than one year at a time. Miss M. L. Chiles has also been the G. W. R. of Deeds or secretary for the same period. The Grand Court opened in due form at 10 A. M., with all the Grand Officers except the G. W. Lecturer, in their stations. The Committee on Credentials, reported 58 new delegates, 32 old delegates with the Grand Officers and Endowment Board; 130 managing the affairs of this department. Joint meeting at 1 P. M. to. receive the Mayer. ceive the Mayor. The Grand Lodge and Grand Court hold joint exercises at 1 P. M., to carry out the program arranged by the Local Committee. How. F. S. Hope, Mayor of Portsmouth, Va., gave one of the most cordial and hearty welcome addresses it has been our pleasure to positive in any city. Among other things he said it was "his province in practice and not to provoke;" that the population of the city is 40,000 people, one third, whom are colored, retired, arrested, punished and so by side with the Jew and George so "poor problem" had been created and without friction or unannounced to anybody. "He commanded the race upon the numerous programs made in their years." intellectually, morally and in every way, and said the uplift of one race is the uplift of the other, and he wished such open-hearted, generous hospitality shown by all the people that we would like to return to Portsmouth, Va. Justice John Lewis Thomas, Chief of Police Department, welcomed all to the city, but not to the "Police Department. He said, glancing over that magnificent audience, he could see the quality of citizens to be heartily welcomed in any city, as he himself being a "student of human nature," could see the people before him were not a police court crowd, but persons who had accomplished something in life—men and women of strong character, means and business acumen that benefits any locality in which a gathering held its session. He also advised looking more closely after children and raising them from the cradle and keeping them out of the streets, thereby reducing the number in reformatories, probation homes, and prisons. Dr. Thos. H. White, of Clifton Forge, Va. and Rev. R. G. Adams made able responses to these distinguished speakers. PUBLIC MEETING The public meeting at 7:30 was fine. Soum-airturing music by choir; solo by Sir Thomas M. Crump. Introduction of Hon. John Mittchell, Jr., by Sir Roger Kyles, of Portsmouth, Va., was of more than passing interest, as the speaker enumerated many things accomplished by Mr. Mitchell for the race in general, and Richmond city in particular, when Mr. Mitchell was a member of the Board of Aldermen in the city. Mr. Mitchell's address was highly enjoyed by all, and much information and benefit was derived therefrom. PARADE. The parade was the most spectacular and longest in the history of the order. No horses could be secured, so the Grand Chancellor and his staff, accompanied by the visiting companies from different parts of the state, trudged bravely on, despite the intense heat of the day, through the principal streets and out to the baseball park, where the drill was scheduled to take place. The Grand Court convened in session. Report of the Grand Worthy Counsellor, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., was read, received and adopted. It was comprehensive and instructive. He was at once elected by acclamation: Chaitanaqua Salute given, and as he was conducted to his station amid the wave of handlers' chefs, the Grand Court sang "I Will Guide Thee With Mine Eye." The report of the G. W. R. of Deals, Miss M. L. Chiffe, and G. W. R. of Deposits, Mrs. Kate S. Thomas, were read and received. These two reports showed the increase in membership and the financial condition during the past year. Over eleven thousand dollars had been taken in General Fund and endowment dept. $9,383.41 receipts from Endowment Department. 6,238.83 expenses during the year. $2,144.58 balance from year's receipts. Over two thousand dollars was taken in through General Fund Department with a balance of our eight thousand dollars in the treasury to both departments. APPOINTMENTS FOR 1916. ENDOWMENT ADVISORY BOARD. Mrs. Mikkred Johnson, Richmond. Va.; Mrs. Lillie D. Byrd, Newport News, Va.; Mrs. Mary N. Gray, Nor- tolk, Va.; Mrs. Gortrade R. Pusson- sley, Lycheburs, Va.; Mrs. R. B. Brown, Covingson, Va.; Mrs. Rachel Webb, Portsmouth, Va.; Mrs. Emily Botta, Butherlin, Va.; Mrs. Lester (Continued On Page Five) ```markdown ``` Plain Statement From a Great Worker—Her Position and the Cause—Cautious, Demonstration of Critic—A Plea for Peace. I have been informed, by a few persons interested in the work of the National Baptist Convention, that my activity in the interest of Peace has been misinterpreted. It has even been intimated that I want to split the Woman's Convention. As much as I dislike to say a word, I owe it to my friends, as well as to myself, to make it quite clear I have never advised the women to meet anywhere. I favor the plan suggested that the Executive Board consider the wisdom of allowing the women to meet apart until our brethren adjust the matters that have provoked this denominational war. This simple suggestion was made to offset any reason for forming another National organization of Baptist Women. Any practical person knows that this duplication of organizations is not only a waste, but will prove a more formidable impediment to denominational advancement. I hold that two National organizations of Baptist Women will be a living example of denominational weakness rather than of denominational strength. LETTERS MISUNDERSTOOD The letters that were sent out were very clear, but there must be a few people who do not read their letters carefully. There are others who misquote and misinterpret. It would be well for those who received the letters to give them a second reading or have them read. In the name of common sense, why would I want to split the Woman's Convention? I am not a child. I do not build houses and then tear them down for the fun of it, and unless I am made over by the Almighty, I shall always be numbered among the CONSTRUCTIONISTS and never among the DESTRUCTIONISTS. If the Woman's-Convention does not split until I split it, it will ever be the most compact body of human beings that ever existed. I am not a splitter, neither am I a mud singer, for I believe people can express themselves unequivocally on any issue without disregarding the genius and service of those they oppose. FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE SERVICE I entered the field fifteen year ago with my soul atlame for service. I had to blaze the way. The opportunity to cultivate an uncultivated insured me. The first address I delivered before the National Baptist Convention was based on Lunis 11 chapter, and the latter part of the old verse. "Ye entred not in yourselves and them that were entering in see hindered." The subject was "How Christian Women Are Hindered From Helping." Never therefore, put me down among the blockers and knockers. I am with the Negro women of this country for ever to help build up the waste places and to encourage the weak to be strong and tear not. The Woman's Convention Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention did not own a piece of paper large enough to write the great and good name that it now has on. I was employed when I urged my election at Richmond. Though I had not been out of school very long, like all who were at the meeting, I had worked long enough at home, to be locally worth white in the Master's service. The Woman's Convention did not, therefore, take a woman as its Corresponding Secretary who did not have a job, and who, at her home, was not known for her service in the Church, in the Sunday School and in the Young People's work and in other gatherings where men and women met to debate live issues. THE MAKING OF A WOMAN. Rather precocious for my years perhaps, but I had "tried" my sails before I launched my little bark on Baptist Waters at Richmond. Washington public and my host of friends here knew me before I faced the host at Richmond that tried to destroy me the day I asked the Lord to let me have a hand in the constructive work of my denomination. Some one who hasn't read this bit of ancient history says, "We made Nannie Burroughs." Well, to be liberal, let us grant we did "make Nannie Burroughs." How do we like our job? For her part, Nannie Burroughs has enjoyed every minute of the time during which she was being made. Nannie Burroughs had a job and had done with her might. what her hands found to do in Church and local activities before she met the Convention in Richmond. She had been out of school only three years and could not, therefore, have attained a National reputation for dating constructive work. In other words, it has taken three million people fifteen years to make me. (Continued On Page Five) It reasonable to suppose that a local Church could have made me in three years? THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED When I took the work of the Woman's Convention as Corresponding Secretary, they did not own a sheet of paper. Here is the work that has been accomplished in fifteen years: 1. They organized in Richmond, Virginia, 1900. 2. Collected $175,109.08 since 1900 and spent it for Missions and Christian Education. (This does not include any money spent by the State Conventions for missions and education.) 3. Have kept from two to seven foreign girls in American schools since 1905. 4. Purchased six acres of land in the District of Columbia and are now operating the National Training School for Women and Girls. Have spent $72,111.73 in the five years for land, buildings (6), equipments and running expenses. This is the only piece of property owned at the National Capital by Colored Americans throughout the country, and devoted to educational and uplift work. The opportunity for large service at a strategic point is unqualified. 5. Have sent annually, to missionaries on foreign fields, boxes containing bolts of cloth, ready-made garments and school supplies. Have distributed more good literature among colored women than any other organization of Negroes in the world. Millions of pages have been printed and scattered broadcast. 1. Have developed a National organization that has grown in favor and efficiency. 2. Operate the only Social Refinement in the entire country; financed by Negroes and employing trained workers. 3. Operate the only school that ever reached National scope and practice without depending on white friends to carry the financial burden. 4. Operate the only National educational institution provided over by a woman of the race. 5. Have more foreign girls in training than any other race group. RELENTLESS OPPOSITION We leave you to Judd, who has been made, but before you render your desigb, let me reiterate a bit of our history. For several years following the Richmond meeting, I faced the most stubborn and relentless opposition that any moral could have been called upon to face. The Woman's Convention was not wanted, neither was the woman who was its Corresponding Secretary. Oh these years of lightings within and lightings without, God sent the calm, but the Training School began to take shape, the opposition broke out again. We were told that we did not moved the School and that we could never build it. The opposition that was not open and active was underground. There was a time when this little School on the Hill could count its stauned, friends, who occupied the high places, on two hands. Had it not been that God sent to this place students of the royal kind, we could not have pulled through those pioneer days. Then he sent helpers on the faculty who had hearts as well as heads to invest. We will never forget those who held up our arms in those days. God bless, every one of them. THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY. Then, too, we came to a city where those who had known us from childhood had helpful hands and kind words when the outlook was dark. The faithful few in the states stood by us. God took charge of the work on Lincoln Heights, and used the mites that were sont. The School began to grow. The skeptical, the doubting Thomasae, the knockers, the blockers, the ground-moles began to see the hand of the Almighty. The masses—God bless the everyday people—who keep their feet on the ground—cheered our hearts as we looked out upon seas of faces in meetings of various kinds. In the face of these facts, God forbid that these hands shall ever purloin a penny wring from wash-tubs or laid on the table by hands made horry from toil. What kind of a heart could a woman possess who would betray a trust so sacred? The money given for this work is used as wisely as we know how. WELL-NIGH PENNILIESS FOR THE CAUSE. Now a few regrets and crooks think that I have the Training school property fixed, so I can come in session of it. I have a few clothes, bric-a-brac and furniture that I HOTEL DALE ARRIVALS. (Cape May, New Jersey.) --- Tell the boss, I wont be loss. I wont be shirking if I'm not working July 17.--I just can't stay here on that day when Mt. O. gets away to luckroe. X X 225,000 X X Brown & Robinson Can Newstate First Class Mortgage. We have $2000 to loan on improved city real estate. BROWN & ROBINSON St. Luke Bank Building PERSONALS AND BRIEF Mr. M. M. F. Williams is now visiting forerunner for American and Richmond Beneficial Insurance companies. The members of the American Beneficial and Richmond Beneficial Companies are delighted with the comfort they are receiving from her. Rey and Mrs. A. A. Hector have channel their address from New N. Ten Street to 941 N. North Street. George Lemay D. D. Richmond June 26, 1910, to spend the Summer with his aunts, Frances Watkins and Clara Washington, of Orange, N. J. The enforcement of the "Blue laws" in this city has caused almost universal gloom among the store-keepers and their patrons. The Routztree Sutherland Corporation are offering unusual inducements. It will pay you to call and see them and to take advantage of their offers. The Mechanies Savings Bank is sending out checks to the patrons of the Vacation Club. It will be well for everybody to join now for next year. A vacation sometimes saves many weeks of sickness. Brown & Robinson Can Negotiate First Class Mortgages. We have $25,000 to loan on improved city real estate. BROWN & ROBINSON St. Luke Bank Building Mrs. Callie D. Brown, Miss Louise Brown and Master. Reginald Brown are visiting relatives in Charles City County. They will enjoy a vacation of several weeks. — Mrs. Georgianna Wilson left the city last Sunday to visit her uncle. Rev. Daniel Stratton, of St. Alban, W. Va. She has not seen him for twenty years. — We have received a programme of the Third Annual Convention of the Tri-State Dental Association of District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The Bay Shore Hotel, Buckroe Beach, Va., July 13, 14 and 15, 1916. It was sent up by Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey. — Mr. R. B. Sampson, family and mother, left the city Sunday, June 25th for an extended Northern trip. While away them will be the guest of Mrs. R. B. Sampson's sister, Mrs. Casie Trottman of Newark N.J. and Mrs. Leslie Clarke of Jersey City, sister of Mr. R. B. Sampson and daughter of Mrs. Georgianna Sampson. They will also visit Philadelphia, Niagara Falls and Atlantic City. EX-CONGRESSMAN MURRAY AT FIFTH STREET BAPTIST. Ex-Congressman George W. Murray, of Chicago, Illinois will open his series of lectures appertaining to the development of better Negro manhood, at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, the coming Monday night, July 10th. His subject is, "The Second Emancipation." Mr. Murray served two terms in the lower branch of the House of Congress, representing his district in the State of South Carolina. This was during the Cleveland administration. Mr. Murray is a profound student of thought and an orator of no mean ability. In touring the country, spreading his new line of thought, he has covered twenty-three states. At Fifth Street, the executive heads of our various fraternal, civic and business interests will be introduced. The Ex-Congressman's line of thought is of estimable value to all colored business interests. In addition there will be a duet by Miss Lea Maya and Mr. Joseph Matthews, solo, Gertrude Davis, recitation, Miss Jane Griman and selections by the Church Choir. During next week, the Ex-M. C will speak at the First Baptist Church Tuesday night, Calvary Baptist, Fulton, Wednesday night; Third Street Bethel, Friday night. Among his subjects for the week, one will be, "Why the Afro-American is Producing an Undesirable Man in His Native Environments." New Church M. Pebbs, Va. Peale's Turnout P. O., Hanover Co. Va., June 11, 1910. Minutes of the Execudative Council, called for the purpose of recognizing a new church in gorgetown, by the name of New Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. The Council convened at the Georgetown Hall at 1 o'clock P. M. The Council was organized by electing Rev. M. W. Washington as Moderator, Deacon R. H. Unsley as clerk. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. Henderson Truncart Rev. C. L. Bray and Rev. W. C. Lloyd. Humans by Rev. Trueheart, Scripture Lesson, by Rev. W. J. Phelps, prayer by Rev. C. L. Bray, after which the Council provided testimonies. Rev. Samuel Alphe was appointed, and on motion of the Clerks, he was made welcome to take a part with us in the Council unanimously. Motion prevailed to hear from the Committee that called the Council. After the Committee stated the call and no motion of the Clerks that were called, motion prevailed to receive the report of the Committee, and thereby discharge it. Motion prevailed that the New Chestnut Grove Baptist Church shall be reconstricted by an independent body, carried unanimously. Motion and seconded to have a Recognizing Sermon by Rev. Samuel Alphe. Carried. Motion and seconded that Deacon Joseph Hunter shall pray the Recognizing Prayer. Carried. Motton prevailed that Roy M. Washington shall extend the hand of fellowship and the covenant. Carried Humf. by the congregation was sung with the spirit as never before. At this hour, Roy. Allen was introduced to preach the sermon. Roy Allen took as a test, "Behold, How Good It Is for Brethren to Dwell Together in Union," which what he preached with great power. He surely was in the spirit and on the Lord's day. We all felt that we were on our Road to Zion, as Pilgrim Travelers for he held the entire audience spellbound while he was preaching the word of God. The congregation was very sorry when he stopped. Dearcon Hunter offered a fervent prayer, to the gratification of all who head him. Then came Roy. Washington, whom we all recognized as "Old Father in Israel," to give the covenant and the hand of fellowship which was enjoyed by all. A handsome collection was lifted by Dearcon Morton and Dearcon Brown Benediction by Rev. Geo. Thompson All shook hands and went out. Refreshments were served in abundance, and all returned home feeling well gratified with their day's work for the Lord. R. H. TINSLEY, Council Ck. —Mr. T. Everette Johnson left the city Sunday to spend the season in Asbury Park, N. J. Spartana vs. Church Hill Browales The baseball nine of the Spartan Athletic and Literary Association will cross bats with the Church Hill Brownies. Saturday, July 8, 1916, at Hovey Park at 4:30 o'clock. The Brownies are considered to be one of the strongest nines in the city; and the Spartans having recently defeated the strong Adolphite team by the score of 13 to 5, a great game is anticipated. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. PRICE FIVE CENTS Dr. Peter B. Ramssey Dental Society Organized. The dentists of Richmond and Petersburg, Va., organized a twin city dental society in honor of Dr. Peter D. Ramsey, the first colored dentist of the State, Friday night. June 30, in Petersburg. The officers are Dr. O. R. Johnson, Petersburg, President; Dr. S. D. Calloway, Richmond, Vice-President; Dr. W. M. Logan, Petersburg, Treasurer; Dr. L. A. Reid, Richmond, Secretary. The meetings of the society will be bi-monthly. We have a client for a home in the West End, Chaffin or Taylor Street preferred. What have you to offer? Money to loan in any amount. Washington Park lots for sale. BRAGG BROS. & CO. North Second Street. Dr. Thompson Falls. Drugstat George A. Thompson of I. E. Duval Street, has failed and has been adjudged a bankrupt. He is one of the best known pharmacists of color in the city, and his misfortunes are generally regretted. Jesus says whoever will let him come and drink of the waters of life, come to 700 Q Street Road, near Hanford Avenue, West Highland Park, Rev. W. E. Pettus, sent 31 years in the school of Christ and is now master of Biblical doctrine "Come all ye who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest." Thursday from 7 to 9, and Sunday from 5 to 7. Start Campaign Fund. Nazarene Baptist Sunday School started a campanion to raise money to help rebuild the church, with a joke on the 8th day of July, for based by a concert that night, raise in the amount of $1400, which was put in the Mercyhall Savings Bank for safe cooping. Master of Catechism, Emma Brooks, daughter of Lorea 6th Bray, of Paines, Va. SPARTANS CELEBRATE THE YOURTH. Tuesday, July 17th, was an eventful day for the Spartan Literary and Athletic Association, one of the most prominent organizations of its kind in this city among the colored people. In the afternoon, a both contested game of baseball was played by the Spartans and Adelphia at Hoyne Park, which resulted in a sweeping victory, for the Spartans, the score being 13 to 6. Manager C. P. Haves has succeeded in putting the Spartans in good fighting trim, and they played a wonderful game. The battles were Jeffries and Taylor for the Spartans, and Mayo, Randolph and Johnson for the Adelphias. After the game, four members of the track team, Messrs. Edward Sturley, Henry Hanks, Rexford Ovelton and O. E. Butler gave an exhibition in track work. The evening marked the formal opening of the Literary department, and the Professor, Samuel C. Howell, a public school teacher and member of the association had charge of the program, which was well executed as follows: Prayer, Mr. Chester Carter; Plant Solo, Mrs. Lloyd Perkins; "Purpose of the Literary Department," Prof. S. C. Howell, Blackboard demonstration, Mr. George Johnson; Remarks Physical Director, Mr. J. Milton Dahney; Debate, "Resolved: That, segregation is detrimental to the best interests of the Negroes of Richmond," Messrs. Leroy Ragland and George Johnson, affirmative, and Mr. Maurice Rouseille and S. C. Howell, negative; Solo, Mrs. Lloyd Perkins, accompanied by Prof. Chas. M. Bland, pianist; Remarks, Mr. M. Alphonso Norrell, president. Mr. Rexford Ovelton also rendered several excellent tenor solos. The debate was highly commendable and was won by the affirmatives. After the rendition of the program a delightful menu was served by Mr. Chas. White, caterer. A large number of the gentle sex graced the occasion and contributed largely to its enjoyment. The entertainment was a success from every standpoint, and marks the beginning of the literary development of the association. —Question:-- Two clocks, one with a pendulum 8 inches, long and another 12 inches long, swing together at 12 o'clock, when will they swing together again? Answer: 0:30 A. M. July 17, when M. O. goes to Buckrook. Black Tenth Ever Singing Ever Ready to Risk Their Lives. PAGE TWO Famous Regiment, Always Gay Fight, Like Flends at Drop of Hat (By Damon Runyon.) Dawn in camp. The bushes harb and insistent, are sounding a quick- step that precedes revellie. "You're in the army now." You're in the army now." And so on. From the squirty little shelter tents that dot the land scape comes a stir and a low, sleepy murmur of voices, petulant in tone. The white soldiers are getting out. The army is being careful and ness common to Caucasian masking. From another section of the big camp comes a sound of broad laughter—a yah-hah-hahing that rouses the sleep-clogged echoes far and near. It is followed by snatches of singing and talking. The black cavalry is satir. It is rising in clouds of sunshine. The children of the Tenth are awake. They crawled into their blankets the night before, laughing and sing- ing. Presently they all be grooming companiment to their songs, with the curry combs and brushes against the riffs of the animals. Presently they will be riding along the dusty highway, still laughing and singing. The children of the Tenth go through life laughing, and singing. In the camp of the black cavalry there is always a gleam of white teeth, and a loud guffawing. All life is apparently mighty pleasant to the ducks' troopers of the army, but to the children they are not afraid to die as was shown in that sand pit at Carrizal the other day when a pitiful little handful fought five times their number. TENTH ALWAYS FAMOUS The Black Tenth has long been famous, more so, perhaps, than the black Ninth, or the black Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth foot, in the run of army history, but its fame has been revived to a greater extent or late because of its activities in the Mexican campaign. It was with the vanguard of the Pershing expedition, and it has been riding the long white roads of Northern "California" ever since. Did you ever hear the story of Josiah Quincy Dinky? Probably not. Probably not, partly because the story of Josiah Quincy Dinky was developed early in Pershing's pivotal campaign, and so was lost in the confusion of events and partly because he was used to some extent by army generals. The censors did not want it generally known at that time that our army was making use of the Mexican railroads for the transportation of troops though they never used them again for that purpose to any extent. STORY OF JOSIAH Q. DENBY. Josiah Quinney Denby was, and is a hospital servant of the Tenth He was a member of a detachment of the regiment which was loaded upon freight cars far down the State of Chihuahua during the early stages of the Villa pursuit. The detachment had to make a junction with other detachments by a certain number and there was no other way to do it save by use of the railroad. Following the Messenio fashion of troop transportation by rail the soldiers were put on top and underneath the freight cars while horses were placed inside. With him a side two of the cars were turned over, and the men and horses were spilled down a steep declivity. The horses got up at the foot of the hill and calmly started eating grass, but the ten men were burt. Josiah Quinney Denby, hospital servant, was placed in charge of the injured. He loaded them upon a handcar. He pumped that handcar made weary to a town where there was a hospital. Some of the injured were able to help him to some extent but not much. He did most of his work also by addition of pumping the handcar he had to feed the men as he could. One of them died Josiah Quinney Denby buried him, and made a map of the place of burial so the body could be recovered some day. He got the rest of his hand-car load safely to the hospital and he seemed surprised when some folks showed an inclination to make a bit of fuss over him because of his work. Was one of the worst feats of the campaign. It may help illustrate the character and culture of the black soldier, and especially the black soldiers of the Tenth. TIRED BY GRINNING. I can see them now, coming up on of the great dust cloud on a hot, dry afternoon, their faces covered with that blistering, dry grime of the road, their eyes masked by yellow goggles that give them a devilish appearance, their horses stumbling from sheer weariness, but every man-jack upright in his saddle and pants. When night comes up, and camp is made, and the men and horses fed, a quartet goes touring, hearing down heavily upon "Sweet Adeline" and "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet," or other ditties slightly moss-grown, but tuneful. They have a song writer among the soldiers of the Tenth—his name escapes me at the moment and he used to write parodies on "Tipperary" that had a big run. The words were mainly about the pursuit of Tippy. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," a popular effusion at one time. They can sing, too, those warbler of the Tenth, or at least to an car none too well attuned to music their efforts were sweetest melody. A blanket is ever handy in the camp of the Truth. So, too, is a piece of ground. So, too, are a brace of dice. A knot which sheds the v dimmest of dim lights may be had by the simple process of lifting it from the tail gate or a supply wagon when the teamster is not looking, and with this combination further diversion is an easy matter. The men of the Tenth come from all over the country. They are peculiar to no one section. Many are New Yorkers. More were recruited in the far South. It is mainly an old regiment. This is to say, the old soldiers. In some troops of the Tenth a man with only one or two enlistments behind him is called a "new issue man." He is a rookie. Many of the troopers have served from fifteen to twenty-five years. "MEXICO" IN NUTSHELL It as an old sergeant of M troop of the Tenth who summed up Mexico succinctly one morning, as he stood gazing out across the blank plains, which seemed to have nothing beyond them but a blanker horizon. "Well, sul," said the sergeant, finally "Theah ab moh rahv an'ah les watchah, an moh cows, an 'less milk, an indian food, an indian diet, an indian country dan any place ah evah blin in." Maybe it wasn't altogether original with him—it has a slightly familiar ring—but he said it, anyway. It is never any difficulty to recruit the Tenth or any of the black regiment for that matter. Some of them have waiting lists. To the colored man in the service, the uniform of the United States is the livery of the very highest honor. They react to all else. When a man becomes a non-commissioned officer in the Tenth, that man considers that he has achieved a position of distinction and trust as, indeed, he has. He appreciates his responsibility to the fullest extent. To lose that position is to him, a very great cost among the black regiment. To the Tenth, and among the privates, too, are many men of education and exceptional intelligence. MOST ARE GOOD SHOTS Most of the are good shots with rifle and pistol. Marksmanship in the army carries with it additional pay and the black troopers have high training for their ability to put a bullet time to the mark. They are good horsemen, both in the matter of riding and in the care of their horses. Heart Mover of M Troop used to go down the troop, line up and motivate, inspecting the backs of the mounts, and then say pridely: "I'll give you twenty dollars, if you find a pimple on 'em!" It was the Tenth which charged up San Juan hill in Cuba, with housewife's Rough Riders, eighteen years old. That brought the battle to the end of the Tenth record of more another record. In Mexico before Carrillo, the cement had injured in several more or less thrilling incidents. A detachment of the dark horsemen had a trunk little light at a place called O'Caliente with some of Vilas banks' Another detachment made a hard ride to the reinforcement of Major Frans. Tomkins after the troopers' assault on Tomkins' column in the town of Parral. Mata and many a mile the men of the Teenth have covered on noticing exhortations proclaiming their main causes and passes of north Mexico since last March. In all the soldier work that has fallen to the living columns led to John. Perching the Teenth has done its pull share 'and maybe a little more at times. ONE COLORED OFFICER There is only one colored officer with the Tenth. He is Major Young, a quiet, self-contained man, of great efficiency. All the others are white. They are among the very best officers in the army. Mitchell Case Is Disposed Of-Members to the New York Mercantile The last regular meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners was held last night. All business matters were wiped off the blatter and the board will not again meet for the transaction of business. The board goes out of commission on Saturday. At 4 o'clock Friday afternoon the board will get together to hold farwell meeting the force. At 5 o'clock the cornerstones of the new Second Station will be laid with appropriate ceremonies, after which the members of the board and officials of the department will adjourn to the Jefferson, where a good-bye supply will be indulged in. At the meeting last night Officer W. P. Waters, charged with failure to be at his relief post and with being disrespectful to a superior officer, was appointed. S. Gary, charged with being asleep while on duty in the smoking room of Byrd-Street Station, was fired $10. At the suggestion of Attorney H. M. Smith, Jr., who had been summoned by John Mitchell, Jr., in the matter of the charge preferred by Mitchell against Sergeant (now Captain) C. A. Sherry and Officers M. F. Lumpkin and Herbert Settles, of conduct unbecoming officers, the board accepted the withdrawal of the charges by Mitchell and adopted the following resolution: In law of the statement made by W. M. Smith, Jr., who present as the friend of Mr. Mitchell, unconditionally withdrawing the charges made by him against Sergeant Sherry and Officers Lamphra and Settles, the board took; that the withdrawal of the charges so made THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA should be, permitted, as they consider such with withdrawal a 'demandless officer' opens upon that occasion.'—Richmond (Va.) Virginia. MAJOR MOTON IS ALL RIGHT. (Memphis, Tenn., National Beacon Light L. A few weeks ago a statement was telegraphed throughout the country to the effect that Major Moton, who has succeeded the late Professor Booker T. Washington as principal of Tuskegee Institute, had stated that he was in sympathy with the Jim Crow can policy of the South; that he dispassionately opposed his husband and brother to ride in a Pullman sleeper, and that he felt no resentment because they were taken out of one into which they had entered. It is well that the colored people of this country should keep yery clearly in mind upon all occasions the conditions under which Negro men in public life in the South have to labor in matters relating to the public press. It has been a long standing policy of the white people of the South to exercise a sort of censorship over matters pertaining to the relations of the races. In the days of slavery, ministers in some sections were forbidden to preach sermons against that institution. Books against slavery were barred the close of the Civil War it offered occurred that politicians, white and colored, have been denied the privilege of free speech. In late years this censorship has been exercised in the direction of quoting parts of speeches of Negroes and leaving out other parts. Sometimes incorrect reports have been given to the public and there has been a refusal of an opportunity to correct them. This does not mean that such a policy is universal in the South. For there are some sections and some newspapers that are very liberal in their attitude. However, conditions are such that our people should not pass hasty judgment upon those in public life trying to serve their interests, because of what they pay for their services, because of what they did not say what is ascribed to them, sometimes he is not permitted to deny statements or has not an adequate opportunity to do so. Sometimes friendly reporters, more thoughtful of sentiment among white people than among the colored, so report savings as to please the white people and alienate the colored people, whereas if things were reported exactly as spoken the colored people would have been pleased and the white people displeased. In view of these conditions, known to let our people be careful and sensitive to the actions of servants in public life. Withhold judgment even if no dental is seen for as pointed out sometimes a dental cannot be gotten to the country. So far as Major Moton is concerned, we know of no man among us more heartily in sympathy with every worthy aspiration than he He is sound upon every doctrine pertaining to our welfare and perseveres in this country. In ways unknown to the world he has done things for his race that would thrill their hearts if they knew about them, but the telling of them would put him in a position where he could be of the tougher service in that direction. Have no doubt whatever concerning Major Moton. He is absolutely all right, regardless of what presses have him saying and regardless as to whether you see a dental treatment or not. We speak from personal knowledge of Major Moton and of conditions in some sections of the South. OLD GAM BOOTS FOUND DEAD. No. 1000. 0, 2, 3, 4, 7 An Aged Negro, An Old Character On Dock Street, Philadelphia, Discovered Lifeless on a Bask- ket of Scullions. "Old Gum Boots," sitting on a basket of sellouls in front of a producer house at 116 Dock Street was found dead on Saturday morning at 5 o'clock by Polleman Barry. Summer and winter these forty years past this aged Negro whom merchant and rostautable knew only as "Old Gum Boots," had never skipped there than on one of the boots of vegetables which by day he carried for the provision dealers, who always found him a faithful servitor. His name is supposed to have been James Johnson, but Tom Clark, a veteran Negro teamer of Dock Street, whose career along the produce wharves covers a period of more than fifty years, knew him only by the sobriquet applied, because he had always been kirked around like a pair of old gum boots. He is supposed to have come from Virginia. "Old Man Toss Vot," an herb doctor, who has his office in a herb馆 on Lombard Street, is believed to be a brother, but he could not be found at his place of business today, as he had gone home to the street. He is a fresh supply of roots and herbs for his fall trade and will be gone a month. "Sister Sue Richardson," another. Dock Street character, couldn't aid in the search for "Gum Boots" relatives, because sig was too old to move around but offered her purse, containing three nickels toward saving his body from Potter's Field. A collection will be taken up and he will have a decent burial. BRAITISTS STILL BENT ON HAVING ONE NATIONAL BODY Peace Promoters Issue Call. Invited to Savannah. For seven months, we have labored unceasingly to accomplish the thing to which we set our hands and hearts last January. One efficient organization of Baptists is the five of the Peace Movement. Five double reasons were given in the Memorial for having attained the task of trying to bring peace to our great Boston Public School. We must come together and distance ourselves from a great warfare to attend the Conference. Hundreds of others have sent letters enduring the movement. Above all, we have felt that we had the approval of the Almighty in our humble effort. The results have been most gratifying. Men stopped consolider, and begun to count the cost. From every section comes the cheering message that the Peace Movement certainly has proved a check to stop men from going "satray." The appeal helped to stop the random firing and hurling of anatheman at each other. The workers for peace are pledged to labor on, for our arduous work will not be done until Negro Baptists understand one basis with the inscription: "One Faith—One National Baptist Convention." Rev. W. H. Moses is now associated with us to do doff service in the interest of peace. Rev. J. W. Baller, of Texas, is serving in like capacity. Hundreds of others are working and praying to the end that strife shall cease, and peace and unity abound. WHY WE HAVE WORKED. 1. We have worked to see if those concerned in this struggle, haven't a willing capacity to correct anyvention. 2. To see if fair and mutual conerva that exist in our National Concessions could not be made, and prudent forbearance exercised in order to make the purmament establishment of our National organizations, impossible. 3. Because we cannot see any reason why identical interests in the work of the National Baptist Convention should not coalesse. 4. To urge the use of incense, instead of sulphur, in Christian warfare. We shall meet in Savannah, Ga., in the upper room, as it were. We shall meet to pray. We shall meet to complain in John 7:14 for which Jesus said in John 7:14 and we believe, we ask, we pray, that thousands of like-minded Christians, shall meet with us. We therefore appeal to every Baptist that believes that we should have one National Baptist Convention and make that one the most efficient body of Christians in the world, and will work with us to accomplish that end, to meet in Savannah, Ga., September sixth. Yours in his name. W. H. Jernigan, chairman of Peace Movement Among Baptists, Natalie H. Burroughs, Secretary. A LESSON ON COLOR LINE. (Boston, Guardian.) "The Pittsburgh Gazette Times in its comment," Leslie W. Rowland on Binka Diamond's running, said: "The University of Chicago has a Negro runner of whom the stalemoorhood is mighty proud. Binka Diamond, a good student, a gentleman, an athlete of extraordinary ability, has been carrying the Marrows to victory all season. And the students who frequent Marshall Field and the Midway forget Diamond's color and slug praises to his name. He is as conference quarterback record in the annual meet at Exxonston Saturday and equaled Ted Meredith's world's record of 47.25 seconds in that event. Such men are more than a credit to their race, they are a credit to the white race. They are white inside." "Paste that in your hat or in your jacket, you colored boys and girls, men and women of the North. Our difficulties are due to race prejudice carried into action, and above all shown by separation which means exclusion. Here is recorded the element of decreasing contempt by mixed educational institutions. Dismond has overcome all of us, much of the color prejudice in those thousands of students at Chicago, and they live in many states. "Here also is shown the value of able colored athletes using that ability to break down race prejudice by belonging to institutions and clubs with white athletes, rather than the proof of the harm of colored Y. M. C. A.S. Settlement Houses, etc., in the North. Let us learn the lesson." FROM SOUTH BOSTON (VA.) South Boston, Va.—Mr. Nance Farley died at her home today. She leaves a husband Mr. James Farley, to mourn his loss. John Cradock fell from John Mitchell's porch Sunday evening and died before medical aid could be summoned. Cradock had been drink ing. The police said a blood vessel was broken. Row, W. St. Staples, evangelist, of Winston-Salem, N. C., is here this week and seems to be doing good work along religious lines. The truth in the saying, "Be sure your sins will find you out," was demonstrated. in Mayor Ponick's court Monday, before which were many cases, representing three races. A feature in the proceedings was brought out when Maggie and Beauty littleredd were being tried for the murder of several Jack Johann and supercurs, after she had "looked too long upon the wine when it was red," and her opponents were not feeling good from the effecta even on Monday. Beauty admitted that she passed the spirits around, but it was like pulling an eye-tooth to find where it was purchased. When this fact was known, Ballie Roe, of Riverdale, was brought before His Honor for selling whiskey without a license. After the charge was presented and she was asked if guilty or not guilty, the old lady, who pulls the scales to the 100 pound mark, turned and looked carefully around as if trying to find one to advise her. She was given time to prepare for trial. The delegation to the K. of P. convention at Portsmouth, Va., have returned and are asked over the areas of the commission. WARNER U. S. OF VILLA'S ROAD Garanza Declares Word Was Sent to the Border. Mexican Foreign Office Denies Giving Protection to Outlaws and Accuser United States of Bad Faith. Notice was served upon the United States government by the de facto government of Mexico that the presence of American troops would not be tolerated any longer upon the soil of Mexico. This notification was contained in a statement given out by the foreign minister, which is interpreted as an answer to the recent note of President Wilson. The Mexican government charger the United States with sending a haughty and discourteous communication, and the attention of the United States authorities is called to the fact that the Mexicans have been murdered on the border where no attempt was made to punish the perpetrators. The Mexican foreign office lays blame for the killing of Americans at Santa Yebel upon the victims for attempting to journey across territory that was known to be dangerous. It is declared that the pursuit of bandits under the leadership of Iran clash Villa by Mexicans was taken up at once after they began their depredations, and that the duty of stamping out these outlaws rests with Mexico and not with the United States and adds that the Americans themselves were responsible for the raid in that Americans on the border had been notified by Carranza officers of the bandits' movements. In substance, the Mexican government denies the right of American troops to occupy Mexican territory and declares that the presence of United States troops in this country is a violation of the national rights. The statement says: "It seems strange that the department of state should show surprise and disappointment for the tone and character of the note of the twenty second of May, which it calls discourteous, when the very same department of state has sent to the constitution allist government not one, but many notes, not only discourteous but also haughty, to say the least. "During the same period to which the note alludes, 140 Mexicans have been murdered in United States territory by American civilians, although the two countries were at peace, and in none of those cases, although representations have been made to the department of state through our minister at Washington, the guilty have never been brought to justice or punished. These acts have been committed by Americans in American territory or by Texan Mexicans against the lives and interests of Mexicans. "The government of Mexico cannot be held responsible for these acts which have taken place in foreign territory and which should be charged to the native of another country. Be elder, the American government was well aware of all of the facts before recognizing the constitutional government, and it now appears irrelevant or out of place to bring these facts forward so as to make a base for an unqualified retaliation withdraw the American troops, from our territory. "It is not true that the Mexican government or its authorities had protected or covered the criminals who are claimed to have committed those depredations and crimes in territory of the United States. This can never be proved by the American government. The constitutionalist government has done all in its power, and has gone beyond all efforts to protect the foreigners who are to be blamed to a great extent for persisting in remaining in places where conditions were not normal, although its own government, on various occasions, has asked them not to remain there. "If our own citizens had to suffer a good deal on account of actual conditions, it is not just that foreigners should pretend and expect to be immune." Honor Molly Pitcher The unveiling and dedication of a monumental memorial to Molly Pitcher, America's foremost military heroine, given by the state of Pennsylvania and designed by J. Otto Schweitzer, sculptor, took place at Carlisle Pa. in the presence of tremendous crowds in the cemetery where Molly McCauley's body has lain for fourscore years. The monument supports a life-sized bronze figure of Molly Pitcher, the head and facial features of which were secured from composite photographs of the faces and heads of linear female descendants of Mrs. McCauley. Hand some basreliefs at the wings of the monument and describe Molly Pitcher's activities as a nurse and her herd art in taking her wounded husband's place at the cannon. In front of the monument stands a replica of an ancient Dumming cannon. Casement is Gullity; Sentenced to Die. Sir Rzoer Casement was found guilty of high treason in London. The ending of the historic trial came when the jury, which had been sat less than an hour, brought in its verdict against the prisoner. Half an hour after the verdict had been rendered, a big sign on the foreman of the jury, Vaccin and Reading, cordial justice was given, with the black clothity trailing a cap spread over its head, and no notes in its mouth. Howevin black-capped, prosecuall the sentences of death. Execution will be by hanging. An appeal by Casement was later announced by Marshal Francis Dearn, of Philadelphia, of counsel for the convicted man. After Casement had been sentenced, Daniel J. Bailey, the private soldier who had been held as his accomplice, was placed in the dock. The court directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty and Bailey was discharged. It was announced that the crown had withdrawn the charge against him. Bailey is believed to have furnished useful information to the prosecution. Splendidly Equipped Press Room R We print everything. Before ordering your prituting elsewhere give us a chance. Higgins--Your son is studying music, isn't he? Wiggins--No; he's merely learning to play popular tunes on the piano--Washington Star Mexico's Foreign Minister Who Drafted Carranza's Defiance. hoo Remains of Worthiest Woman to La Beaside Those of Husband. The body of Mrs. Hetty Green, the really wealthiest woman in the world, was died in New York, was taken by his son, Colonel Edward Green, and his daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilk to Bellows Falls, VT, where the interment is to take place beside the grave of Mrs. Green's husband, Edward Henry Green, who died in 1902. IT REALLY HAD His name is Patrick. The gang calls him Pat for short. Other of his friends know him as Paradise. This certainly is an awful combination of names for a young colored gentleman, but Pat certainly could live up to all of them. Pat's gang was a hardy bunch and engaged in many escapades. Pat taking many heroic roles. In fact, he had played "star" so often, the gang had begun to think that "nothing's done" until Pat's on the job. The gang without Pat was like a ship without a sail, a boat without a rudder, and a ship without a tail—no go. Great preparations were being made for a camping trip. The day had arrived The funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Arthur C. Wilson pastor of the Church of the Immaculate of Bellevue Falls. Colonel Green says that though his mother was eighty-two years old her vitality was so great she will live strokes of paralysis because she succumbed. Until a few days ago Mrs. Green said she was "determined she will not die," though she made the news sary memoranda for the old post her estate. The value of Mrs. Green's place at from $90,000,000 to $900. SHOOTS HIS SLAYER'S As He Was Dying, "Star Born Made Etranglement First John Bedrick walked into his in Alpha, near Phillipsburg, N. and after a few words with Vagd, the "star boarder," sent a into Yard's chest. Ledrick then walked out of house. Vagd, who had fallen to the floor, raised himself, pulled a reco from his pocket and sent two, but crashing into the chest of Mrs. Bedrick. She died fatally. Vagd was examined by Dr. W. H Albright, who ordered his immediate removal to the Easton hospital. He died there. Coroner Hagerty went to the hospital and attempted to obtain an anemortem statement from Vagd, who said that Bedrick shot him, and thinking that he was going to die, he in turn shot the woman because he did not want Bedrick to live with his again. For some time past Bedrick has been living at the house of Leul Nemeth, only a few doors from his wife's home. Bedrick was taken into custody later in the evening, but managed to escape and is still at large. TIRE BLOWS UP: KILLS GIRL Hurtles From Wheel and Pushes Man Through Show Window. An exploding automobile tire hurtle from the rear wheel of a running motor car knocked down and mortally injured ten-year-old Annie Valaska then pushed Joseph Keenan, thirty four, through the plate glass window of a jewelry store in Yonkers, N. Y. Edward Anderson was driving north on Riverdale avenue, Yonkers, when the tire blew out. It shot from the wheel into the gutter, hitting the Valesta girl and passing over her. Then it struck Keenan, who was passing, and jumped him through the window. Annie Valaska, who lives at No. 131 Riverdale avenue, died later in St. John's hospital from internal injury. Keenan suffered only a few bruises. SOLDIERS QUARANTINED Train Carrying Connecticut Trooper is Believed to be Victim of Smaller Believed to be Victim of Smallpox. The Second Pattation of the ond Connecticut Infantry war in quarantine upon its Nogales, Arizona, to a present a troop of pox, which developed in train left Nantle. The skim man, Corp. M. Company H. of Waterloo, put off the train she be first ill, because it was thought he w fering to be box. Variant Responses. The jok is to be told and then they can't be told. When they laugh will make on the other person. Sex the Key to the Bible Sex the Key to the Bible The World's Three Greatest Books By Disney G. Tape, Ph.D. "The Truth About the Bible," about the story of Jesus. Was a Man and not a Woman, three hundred pages, $2.00. "Sexology of the Bible," about the sex of Jesus. Five pages, $2.00. All cloth-bound. These books treat of the sex of the Bible, and the Bible is a book of sex and a book of spiritual world. They show that distance between the physical and spiritual worlds. They show that distance between the sex, and that sex-lust was the original sin and cause of death. They are a scientific, philosophical and theological world, and people of all classes as no other, probably do more to shape the world. The writer is the history of the world. The author is the history of the world. The author is all parts of the civilized world. "I would rather be the author of the book," Pippin said to the Bible by Sidney C. Tapp, that he to the United States. His sex interpretation of the Bible is therein contained, is written in a language that is answerable that the human intellect staggers under the ideas presented. For Mr. Tapp's books on the Bible and his sex interpretation of the Bible will live may perish and Empires may decay, but the ideas presented by the author in the Bible will never die.—Prot. J. Sillas Harris, A. M. "Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jails than introduce ideas that has ever been given to the world in our opinion, to say nothing really, that they will do the ruman race. He has indeed produced a world idea in our home and library in the civilized world. W. A. Thewson, M.D. W. A. Swan, M.D. M. A. M.D. R. F. Mikel, A.R. M.D. Theodore F. Clark, M.D." "We have arranged with the author to fill all the gaps in the price of book or books you desire to this paper and make of the book or the same will be sent to you at once." when the gang would pick up and hike to the woods and enjoy a camping spell. All of the boys had shown up. After a while Pat's absence was noted—the gang became excited. Surely something awful had happened to Pat—he had always been first on the job when anything was to be pulled off, and here the gang was all ready to pull out and no Pat. Something had to be done immediately. A committee of one was appointed to look Pat. Just as he stored out, Pat was seen coming around the nearest corner. "What's the matter, Pat?" Pat: "A burgling brace in WB home and some dogs!" Pat is now enlightened. "We The Thirty-nine Steps BY JOHN BUCHAN Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Company. SYNOPSIS Michael Hannay, after making his plea in Rhodeis, returned to London. He meets Franklin P. Scudder, who tells him of a man he met as a salesman. Scudder, followed by spies, buys a corps and makes it appear that he has committed suicide. By this ruse Scudder throws the spies off the track for a few days. He is then murdered. The body is found by Hannay, who soon realizes that he will be hung in the basement. He has Scudder's secret, and by the police for the murder of Scudder. CHAPTER III. The Milman Starts on His Travels. GOT up at 4 and opened my bedside station. The faint light of a fine summer morning was good, ling the skies, and the sparrows had begun to chatter. I had a great pervasion of feeling and felt a God for forgotten fool. My inclination was to let thingsslide and trust to the British police taking a reasonable view of my case. But as I reviewed the situation I could find no arguments to bring against my decision of the previous night. So with a wry mouth I resolved to go on with my plan. I was not feeling in any particular funk, only disinclined to go looking for trouble, if you understand me. I hunted out a well used tweed suit, a pair of strong naked boots and a channel shirt with a collar. Into my pockets I stuffed a spare shirt, a cloth cap, some handkerchiefs and a toothbrush. I had drawn a good sum in gold from the bank two days before in gold. Beadder should want money, and I took 150 of it in sovereigns in a belt which I had brought back from Rhodeia. That was about all I was tired. Then I had a bath and cut my mustache, which was long and drooping, into a short, stubby fringe. Now came the next step. Paddock used to arrive punctually at 7:20 and let himself in with a latchkey. But about twenty minutes to 7, I knew from bitter experience, the milkman turned up with a great clatter of cans and deposited my share outside my door. I had seen that milkman sometimes when I had gone out for an early ride. He was a young man about my own height, with a scrubby mustache, dressed in a white overall. On him I staked all my chances. I went into the darkened smoking room, where the rays of morning light were beginning to creep through the staircase. There I breakfasted off a whisky and soda and some biscuits from the cupboard. By this time it was getting on to 10:clock. I got a pipe in my pocket and filled my pouch from the tobacco jar on the table by the fireplace. As I poked into the tobacco my fingers touched something hard, and I drew out Scudder's little black notebook. That seemed to me a good omen. I lifted the cloth from the body and was amazed at the peace and dignity of the dead face. "Goodby, old chap." I said. "I am going to do my best for you. Whah me well wherever you are." Then I hung about in the hall, waiting for the milkman. That was the worst part of the business, for I was fairly choking to get out of doors. Six thirty passed, then 6:40, but still he did not come. The fool had chosen this day of all days to be late. At one minute after the quarter to 7 I heard the rattle of the cans outside him into the dining room. "I reckon you're a bit of a sportsman," I said, "and I want you to do me a service. Lend me your cap and overalls for ten minutes, and here's a sovereign for yon." His eyes opened at the sight of the gold, and he grinned broadly. "What's the game?" he asked. "A bet," I said. "I haven't time to explain, but to win it I've got to be a milkman for the next ten minutes. All you've got to do is to stay here till I come back. You'll be a bit late, but nobody will complain, and you'll have that quid for yourself." "Bright of he said cheerly. 'I ain't the man to spoil a bit of sport. Here's the rig, guv-nor.'" I stock on his flat, blue hat and his white overalls, picked up the can, banged my door and went whistling downstairs. The porter at the foot told me to shout my jaw, which sounded as if my makeup was adequate. At first I thought there was nobody. in the street. Then I caught sight of a policeman a hundred yards down and a looser shuffling past on the other side. Some impulse made me raise my eyes to the house opposite, and there at a first floor window was a face. As the lofer passed he looked up, and I fancied a signal was exchanged. I crossed the street, whistling gagly and imitating the junty sway of the milkman. Then I took the first side street and turned up a left hand turning which led past a lot of vacant ground. There was no one in the little street, so I dropped the milk cans inside the boarding and sent the hat and overalls after them. I had only just put on my cloth cap when a postman came round the corner. I gave him good morning, and be answered me unnusually. Just then the clock of a neighboring church struck the hour of 7. There was not a moment to spare. As soon as I got to Euston road I took to my beds and ran. The clock at Euston station showed five minutes past the hour. At St. Pancreas I had no time to take a ticket, let alone that I had not settled upon my destination. A porter told me the platform, and as I entered it I saw the train already in motion. Two station officials blocked the way, but I dodged them and clambered into the last carriage. Three minutes later as we were pacing through the northern tunnels an lrate guard interviewed me. He wrote out for me a ticket to Newtown Stewart, a name which had suddenly come back to my memory, and he conducted me from the first class compartment where I had enclosed myself to a third class another, occupied by a sailor and a stout woman with a child. He went off grumbling, and as I mopped my brow I observed to my companions in my broadest Notch that it was a more job catching trains. I had already entered upon my part. The impatience of 'that guard' said the lady bitterly. 'He needd a Scottish tongue to pit him in his place. He was complainit 'o this wean no hain' a ticket and her no fower till August twelvemonth, and he was objectit to this gentleman spittin'." The sailor cheerfully agreed, and I started my new life in an atmosphere 'of protest against authority. I reminded myself that a week ago I had been finding the world dull. I solemn time travelling north that day. It was fine May weather, with the hawthorn dowering on every hedge, and I asked myself why, when I was still a free man, I had stayed on in London and not got the good of this heavenly country. I didn't play face the restaurant car, but I got a luncheon baker at Leeds and shared it with the fat woman. Also I got the morning papers, with news about starters for the Derby and the beginning of the cricket season and some paragraphs about how Balkan affairs were settling down and a British squad was going to Kiel. When I had done with them I got out Scudder's little black notebook and studied it. It was pretty well filled with lottings, chiefly figures, now and then a name was printed in. For example, I found the words "Hortguard," "Luneville" and "Arcadoc" pretty often and especially the word "Prisma." Now I was certain that Scudder new and anything without a reason, and I was pretty sure that there was a citizen in this town. That is a subject which has always interested me, and I had a bib at it myself once an intelligence officer at Delagon bay during the door war. I have always had a head for things like chess and puzzles, and I used to watch myself pretty good at finding out cubes. This one looked like the numerical kind, where sets of figures correspond to the letters of the alphabet, but any thirty shaded man can find the clew to that sort after an hour or two weeks, and I didn't think Goddard would help been consistent with any thing in glyph. So I proceeded on the printed worker, for you can make a pretty good sequencer. Cipher. If you have a fixed-wheel vehicle given you the sequence of the letters. I will be known, but none of the Then I fell asleep and woke at Dumfries just in time to bumble out and get into the slow Galloway train. There was a man on the platform whose books I didn't like, but he never glanced at me, and when I caught sight of myself in the mirror of an automatic machine I didn't wonder. With my brown face, my old tweeds and my shorthair I was the very model of one of the hill farmers who were crowding into the third class carriage. I traveled with half a dozen in an atmosphere of shag and clay pipes. They had come from the weekly market, and their mouths were full of prices. I heard accounts of how the lambing had gone up the Calm and the Deuch and a dozen other mysterious waters. My man Patlock had given the alarm and had the milkman arrested. Poor devil! It looked as if the inter had earned his sovereign hardly. But for me he had been cheap at the price, for he seemed to have occupied the police the better part of the day. In the stop press news I found a further instalment of the story. The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines. There was a short note about me as the owner of the flat. I guessed the police and stuck that in a company that permeated me that I was unsuspected. There was nothing else in the paper—nothing about foreign politics or Knolles or the things that had inter- Then I saw and saw a low green plantation which spoke Last of all sky, and the my pulses in south a mourn the heaviness I was looking, belong to the two I watch It now flow in narrow creech up which I to change in height and south. I did not ill About half of the men had finished heavily and were highly favored with whisky, but they let me alone. We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great, wide moorland place, gleaming with lakes with high, blue hills showing north ward. About 6 o'clock the carriages had emptied, and I was left alone, as I had kept. I got out at the next station, a little place whose name I carefully noted, set in the heart of a bog. It reminded me of one of those forgotten little statues in the Korros. An old station master was digging in his garden and with his spade over his shoulder sauntered to the train, took charge of a parcel and went back to his potatoes. A child of ten received my ticket, and I emerged on a white road that strangled over the moss. It was a gorgeous spring evening, with every hill showing as clear as a cut another. of boxes, but it was fresh as midcoast, and it had the strangest effect on my spirits. I actually felt tight hearted. I might have been a boy out for spring holiday tramp instead of a man of thirty-seven very much wanted by the police. I felt just as I used to feel when I was starting for a big trench on a frosty morning on the high velvet. If you believe me, I swung along that road whistling. There was no plan of campground in my head, only just to go on and in this blessed, humming little place, for every mile put in better hummer. In a roundlede planting I cut a walking stick of hazel and presently struck off the highway up a bypass which followed the glen of a browning stream. I reckoned that I was still far ahead of any pursuit and for that night might please myself. It was some hours since I had tasted food, and I was getting very hungry when I came to a herd's cottage set in a mook beside a waterfall. A brown faced woman was standing by the door and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places. When I asked for a night's lodging she said I was welcome to the "bed in the loft," and very soon she set before me a hearty meal of ham and eggs, scence and thick sweet milk. At the darkening her man came in from the hills a lean shant, who in one step caught much ground as three paces of ordinary mortal. They asked no questions, for they had the perfect breeding of all dwellers in the wilds, but I could see they set me down as some kind of dealer, and I took a little trouble to confirm their view. I spoke a lot about cattle, of which my host knew little, and I picked up from him a good deal about the local Galloway markets, which I tucked away in my memory for future use. At 10 I was nodding in my chair, and the bed in the lost received a weary man, who never opened his eyes till 5 o'clock set the little homeestead going once more. They refuse any payment, and by it I had breakfasted and was arriving southward again. My notion was to return to the railway line a station or two farther on than the place where I had alighted yesterday and to double back. I reckoned that was the safest way, for the police would naturally assume that I was always making farther from London in the direction of some western port. I thought I had still a good bit of a start, for as I reasoned it would take some hours to fix the blame on me and several more to identify the fellow who got on board the train at Panama. It was the same jolly clear spring weather, and I simply could not contribute to feel careworm. Indeed, I was in better spirits than I had been for months. Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Calrmorem of Fleet. Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere, and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs. All the slackness of the past months was slipping from my bones, and I stepped out like a four-year-old. By and by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train. The station when I reached it proved to be ideal for my purpose. The moor surged up around it and left room only for the single line, the stender adding, a waiting room, an office, the station master's cottage and a tiny yard of gooseberries and sweet william. There seemed no road to it from anywhere, and to increase the decoration the waves of a loch lapped on their gray granite beach half a mile away. I walked in the deep heather till I saw the smoke of an east roting train on the horizon. Then I approached the thy booking office and took a ticket for Dumfries. The only occupants of the carriage were an old shepherd and his dog, a well aged breed that I admitted. The man was old and on the cushions behind him was that morning's theremoir. Literally I asked on her if I fancied it would tell me anything. There were no comments about the portland plains carriage it was ed. My man Pauldoik had given the alarm and had the milkman greeted. Poor devil! It looked as if the latter had earned his sovereign hard. But for me he be had been cheap at the price, for he seemed to have occupied the police the better part of the day. In the stop press news I found a further instalment of the story. The milkman had been released. I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was belated. I have got away by one of the northern lines. There was a short note about me as the owner of the fat. I guessed the police had stuck that in as a clumsy contrivance to permeate me that I was unassisted. There was nothing else in the paper—nothing about foreign politics or Karoloides or the things that had interested Sculder. I laid it down and found that we were approaching the station at which I had got out yesterday. The potato digging station master had been gingered up into some activity, for the west going train was waiting to let us pass, and from it had descended three men, who were asking him questions. CHAPTER IV. The Mysterious Aeroplane. SUPPOSED that they were the local police who had been attired up by Scotland Yard and had traced me as far as this one house sliding. Bitting well back in the shadow, I watched them carefully. (One of them had a book and took down notes. The old potato digger seemed to have turned peebish, but the child who had collected the notes as well all. All the party looked out across the moor where the white road departed. I hoped they were going to take up my tracks there. comes of 'beh' a teetotale lives in litter tones I express my surprise that in him I should have met a blue rider stilwart. "Aye, but I'm a strong testator," he said proudly. "I took the pledge that Mortimass and I have met a drop o' whisky singye. No even at Hogmway, though I was saft tempted." He swung his heels up on the seat and burrowed a frowsy head into the cushions. "And that's a l'get," he meant. "A held better than hell fire and twine cen looker different ways for Sunday." "Who did that?" "What did it? I asked. "A drink they can' brandy. Bein' a teetotaler. I kept off the whisky, but I was nihiliph' a day yesterday at this brandy, and I doubt I'll be weel for a fortaleft." His voice died away into a stutter and sleep once more laid its heavy hand on him. My plan had been to get out at some station down the line, but the train suddenly gave me a better chance, for it came to a standstill at the end of a culvert which spanned a bawling porcelain river. I locked out and saw that every carriage window was closed and no human figure appeared in the landscape. So opened the door and dropped up into the triangle of hazels which edged the wall. It would have been all right but for that internal dog. Under the impression that I was decembling with its masters belongings it started to bark and all but got me by the treasurer. This woke up the heat who stood bawling at the carriage door in the belief that I had committed suicide. I crawled through the thicket, reached the edge of the stream and in cover of the bushes put a hundred yards of so behind me. Then from my shelter I peered back and saw the guard had several passengers gathered around the open carriage door and starting in my direction. I could not have made a more public departure the had left with a bugler and a brass band. Happily the brunched hed provided a diversion. He and his dog which was attached by a rope to his waist, suddenly cascaded out of the carriage, landed on their heads on the track and rolled some way down the back toward the water. In the rescue which followed the dog bit somebody, for I could hear the sound of hard sweating. Presently they had forgotten me, and when after a quarter of a mile's crawl I ventured to look back the train had started again and was vanishing in the cutting. I was in a wide smile of moor land, with the brown river as radius and the high bills forming the northern circumference. There was not a sign or sound of a human being, only the splashing water and the intermingle crying of curlew. Not, oddly enough, for the first time I felt the terror of the hunted on me. It was not the police that I thought of, but the other folk, who knew that I knew Scudder's identity and dared not let me live. I was certain that they would pursue me with a keenness and vigilance unknown to the British law and that once their grip closed on me I should dig no merry. I looked back, but there was nothing in the landscape. The sun glinted on the metals of the tree and the wet stones in the stream, and you could not have found a more peaceful sight in the world. Nevertheless I started to run. Crouching low in the runners of the dog, I ran till the sweat blinded my eyes. The mood did not leave me till I had reached the top of mountain and flung myself, painting on a ridge high above the young waters of the brown river. From my vantage ground I could see the whole right right away to the gateway tree and to the mouth of it, where we found the faces of the thief. I have seen like a hawk, but if I see nothing more than the white country life. Then I looked east beyond the ridge and saw a new kind of landscape—shallow green valleys with plentiful plantations and the faint lines of dust which spoke of highroads. Last of all I looked into the blue May sky, and there I saw that which set my pulses racing. Low down in the south a monoplane was climbing into the heavens. I was as certain as if I had been told that that monoplane was looking for me and that it did me belong to the police. For an hour or two I watched it from a pit of heather. It flew low along the billops and then in narrow circles back over the valley up which I had come. Then it seemed to change its mind, rose to a great height and flew away back to the south. I did not like this expedition from the air, and I began to think less well of the countryside I had chosen for a refuge. These heather hills were no sort of cover if my climbs were in the sky. I must find a different kind of sanctuary. I looked with more satisfaction to the green country beyond the ridge, for there I should find woods and stone houses. About 6 in the evening I came out of the moorland to a white ribbon of road which wound up the carriage value of a lowland stream. As I followed it fields gave place to banks, the glen became a plateau, and presently I had reached a kind of pass where a solitary house smoked in the twilight. The road swung over a bridge, and leaning on the parterre was a man. He was smoking a long clay pipe and studying the water with specta- A man is digging a hole in the ground. He is wearing a hat and a long coat. The ground is covered with grass and rocks. There is a small stream flowing nearby. I Was Certain That The Airplane Was Looking For Me. cled eyes. In his left hand was a small book, with a finger marking the place. Slowly he repeated. As when a Gryphen through the wilderness. With winged step, her bill and moury dale Pursues the Armenian. He jumped round as my step rung on the keystone, and I saw a pleasant, unburnt, boyish face. "Good evening to you," he said gravely. "It's a fine night for the road." The smell of wool smoke and of some savory roast floated to me from the house. "Is that place an fun?" I asked. "At your service," he said politely. "I am the landlord, sir, and I hope you will stay the night, for, to tell you the truth, I have had no company for a week." "You're young to be an hunkeeper," I said. "My father died a year ago and left me the business. I live there with my grandmother. It's a slow job for a young man, and it wasn't my choice of profession." "Which was?" He actually blushed. "I want to write books," he said. "And what better chance could you ask?" I cried. "Mum, I often thought that an inkblender would make the best story teller in the world." "Not now," he said eagerly. "May be in the old days when you had pilgrims and bollard makers and high waymen and mailers to the road, but not now. Now, here but motorwars full of lad women, who stop for lunch, and a bollard or two in the spring and the shooting tenants in August. There is not much material to be get out of that. I want to see life, to travel the world, and write things like Kipind and coined. But the most I have done yet to get some verses printed in Chambers' Journals." I looked at the inn, standing golden I looked at the lim, standing golden in the sunset against wine red hills. "I've knocked a bit about the world, and I wouldn't despite such a horrific age. Did you think that adventure is found only in the trades or among gentry in red shirts? Maybe you rubbishishing with it at this moment." "That's what Killing says," he said, his eyes lightening, and he quoted some verse about "romance bringing up the blue-freen." "Here's a true tale for you then," I cried, and a month hence you can make a novel out of it." Sitting on the bridge in the soft May gleaming I pitched him a lovely yarn. It was true in essentials, too, though I altered the minor details. I made out that I was a mining magnet from Khersimber who had had a lot of trouble with I. D. B.* and had shown up a gang. This return to the lighthouse diamond buy- ers of South Africa. As explained by Dr George Frederick Kand in an address to the diamond mining companies of South Africa have annual power under the law of the act so that you are permitted to own such diamond mine where such diamond mine is owned by the buyers and where sally buyers or guilty desires. The detective system is remarkable. People in all walks of life belong to this special system, based on the importance of the diamond mines under Cecil Rhodes and his airlift laws, it would have been impossible to mine diamonds with profit." They had pursued me across the ocean and had killed my best friend I and were now on my trunk. I told the story well, though I say it who shouldn't. I pictured a flight across the Kalahari to German Africa, the crackling, parching days, the wonderful blue volley nights. I described an attack on my life on the voyage home, and I made a really horrid affair of the Portland place murder. "You're looking for adventure!" I cried. "Well, you've found it here. The devils are after me, and the poisons are after them. It is a race that I mean to win." "Heaven!" he whispered, drawing his breath in shurply. "It is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle." "You believe me," I said gratefully, "Of course I do." And he hold out his band. "I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to dis- trust is the normal." He was very young, but he was the mature man he was meant to be. "I think they're off my track for the moment, but I must be close for a couple of days. Can you take me in? He caught my elbow in his bigger gross and drew me toward the house. "You can lie as sing here as if you were in a monopole. If you like to behly bliss either. And you like to some more natural about your re- nature." As I entered the fun perch I heard from far off the beat of an engine. There silhouetted against the dusky west was my friend, the monoplane. An old woman called Margit brought me my meals, and the lockerkeeper was around me at all hours. I wanted some time to myself, so I invented a job for him. He had a motorcycle, and I sent him off next morning for the daily paper, which usually arrived with the post in the late afternoon. I told him to keep his eyes skinned and make note of any strange figure he saw, keeping a special, sharp lookout for motors and acroplates. I sat down in real earnest to Scudder's desk. He came back at midday with the Scotman. There was nothing in it except some further evidence of Paddock and the milkman and a repetition of yesterday's statement that the murder had gone north. But there was a long article, reprinted from the Times, about Knapheles and the state of affairs in the Palmhills, though there was no mention of my visit to England. I got rid of the lockerkeeper for the afternoon, for I was getting very warm in my search for the elfber. As I told you, it was a numerical cipher, and by an elaborate system of experiments I had pretty well discovered what were the milks and stops. The trouble was the keyword, and when I thought of the old million words he might have used I felt pretty hopeless. But about 6 o'clock I had a sudden inspiration. The mine Julian Crockett flashed across my memory. Squirrel had said it was the key to the kardia business, and it occurred to me to try it on his cipher. It worked. The five letters of "dullity" gave me the position of the vowels A was J, the touch letter of the alphabet, and so represented by X in the cipher. "dullity" gave me the merals for the principal consumers. In half an hour I was reading with a whitish face and fingers that drummed on the table. I glanced out of the window and saw a big touring car coming up the glen toward the fun. It drew up at the door and there was the sound of alighting. There seemed to be two of them, men in acquaintances and tweed caps. Ten minutes later the innkeeper slipped into the room, his eye bright with excitement. "There's two chaps below looking for you," he whispered. "They're in the dining room having whiskies and so das. They asked about you and said they had hoped to meet you here. Oh. And they described you jolly well down to your boots and shirt. I told them you had been here last night and had gone off on a motorcycle this morning, and one of the chaps swapped like a navy." I made him tell me what they looked like. One was a dark eyelid, thin fellow with bushy eyebrows, the other was always smiling and lined in his talk. Neither was any kind of forgerie. I took a bit of paper and write these words in German as if they were part of a letter: Black Stone. Should he get on to this but he could not act for a fortune! I doubt if I can do any good now, especially if I uncle me about the plan. But if Mr. T. I will. I manufactured it rather neatly, so that it looked like a house page of a private letter. "Take this down and say it was found in my bedroom, and ask them to return it to me if they overtake me." Three minutes later I heard the car begin to move and, peeping from behind the curtain, caught sight of the two figures. One was slim, the other was sleek. That was the most I could make of my recountessence. The knickerer appeared in great excrement. "Your paper woke them up" he said gleefully. "The dark fellow went as white as death and cursed like blazes, and the fat one whistled and joked nigly. They paid for their drinks with half a sovereign and would not wait for change." "Now I'll tell you what I want you to do." I ask. "Give me on your bicycle and run off to Newton Stewart to the chief cookman." I describe the two men, and say my subject them of having and something to do with the Lenten murder. You can invent your seas. The two will come back, never PAGE THREE fear. Not tonight, for they'll follow me forty miles along the road, but first thing tomorrow morning. Tell the police to be here bright and early." CHAPTER V. The National Candidate's Adventure He set off like a doozie child, while I worked at Scudder's notes. When he came back we dined, and in common decency and to let him pump me. I gave him a lot of care about him hum and the Matabele war, thinking all the while what tame business the were compared to this I was now engaged in. When he went to bed I set up and finished Scudder. I smoked in a chair till daylight, for I couldn't sleep. About 6 next morning I witnessed the arrival of two constables and a sergeant. They put their car in a coach house under the inkeeper's instructions and entered the home. Twenty minutes later I saw from my window a second car come across the plateau from the opposite direction. Did not come across the but stopped 20 feet off in the shelter of a patch of wood. I noticed that its occupants carefully reversed it before leaving it. A minute or two later I heard their steps on the gravel outside the window. My plan had Leon to lie hid in my bedroom and see what happened. I had a notion that if I could bring the police and my other more dangerous pursuits together something might work out of it to my advantage. But now I had a better idea. (Continued on Page 6.) RAILROADS Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. (Rebatele in effect Jan. 2, 1916) Leave Bird Street Station, Richmond, FOB NOLFOLK: *618 A. M., *9:00 A. M., *1:00 P. M., *4:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST: *M. P. M.* *M. P. M.* local to Owens, F. M. Arrive Hitchcock from Norfolk: **11:40 A. M.** 16:30 P. M. *"00 P. M.** *11:30 P. M. From 16:30 P. M. *"00 P. M.** *11:30 P. M. From *"11:40 P. M.** *10:17 P. M. *"00 P. M.* *"Daily** *"Daily"散播 Sunday *"Sunday* *"Daily"散播 Sunday *"Daily"散播 W. B. REVIL. W. C. BAUDRUDER C. H. BOROLEY, D. W. A. BAUDRUDER, Y. ATLANTIC COAST LINE THIK STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH (1965) Trains leave Richmond Daily: For Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:15 F. M. 8:15 F. M. 8:50 A. M. 8:50 A. M. For Norfolk: 8:15 A. M. 8:50 A. M. 8:50 A. M. For N. W. & R. W. West: 8:15 A. M. 8:50 A. M. 8:00 F. M. 8:25 F. M. 8:25 F. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:00 A. M. 8:50 A. M. 8:50 F. M. 8:15 A. M. 8:00 A. 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It will pay you to buy land and it will pay you better to buy improved land. Some people seem to believe that pleasure is all that there is to life. They just live and when they die they are forgotten We should not be cast down because the whole world seems against us. It was against Jesus Christ at one time too but he humphed even in death. We received a copy of the remarks of Hon. Patrick G. Newlands, of Nevada in the Senate of the United States, April 11, 1946 on the "River Regulation and Flood Control." When a person is supposed to have money, it seems that every one is planning to get it without expending any of the labor to secure it that the possessor expended in securing a competency. Colored men should enlist in the United States Army. The valor of the Tenth Cavalry in Mexico and the losing by death of many of the members of that famous organization have done more to restore to the colored folks of the country their lost prestige than ten years of educational ability and twenty-five years of argument. Hon H. C. Smith editor of the Cleveland. O. Gazette proposes a fund to aid W. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Mass. Gugardian, who has been ill. He suggests that each race journal contribute one dollar. We are doing this, after designating him as treasurer and Editor J. R. Clifford, of the Martinsburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press as chairman of the movement. NOT A PROPHET. The National Baptist Union Review says "Sometimes we hope to call attention to our opposition brothers who have turned prophets without any evidence of a divine cell, including the popular, versatile Baptist, John Mitchell, Jr., editor, banker, financier." We have never laid any claim to being a prophet, although we have assumed, at times the duties of a judge. All that we have said relative to the disagreement now existing between the two wings of the National Baptist Convention have been based upon the evidence presented. We have been careful not to take partisan action in the matter. When Iev. Dr. Boyd declared under oath that the National Publishing House was not the creature of the National Baptist Convention as formerly constituted, we were astounded, and we cannot as yet see our way clear to accept, without question, the statement. We have discountenanced the litigation now pending for the reason that we do not believe that "the game is worth the candle." We want peace and we yet hope that a basis of agreement may be reached, by which we may obtain it. THAT BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS. The Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch is "speaking right out in the meeting these days." In referring to one department of the service, the only edited newspaper note: For the Board of Police Commi- signeers, few had a word of good to say. There never was a valid reason for its existence. All its duties could much better be performed by one capable man than by any body of man, no matter how capable the individual members of that body might be, and the division of authority and responsibility management of the steel-military forces in its control seriously impaired the discipline and efficiency of that force. The Mayor will have sole charge of the police force; he will not inherit, so to speak, any of the board's appointments, but the city will look to him for the intelligent and fearless administration of police affairs. The truth of this statement was verified and proven Wednesday night June 25, 1911 when the charges against former Police Sergeant C. A. Sherry and Officers H. Sottles and M. F. Lumpkin were considered. They were so anxious to help these people that a "joker" was inserted in the resolution adopted. This "joker" did not state that the men were vindicated, but simply declared that they would be considered vindicated "A drowning man will grasp at a straw" and so these police officers were satisfied with even the shadow of a vindication although the substance of it could not even be seen in the distance. SPECTAL HONORS FOR BLACK HEROES. The public will read with interest the following telegraphic report from Washington, D.C. Washington, June 29. A resolution to provide for military resort for the bodies of the troops of the Third United States Cavalry killed in action at Carrizal Mexico, from El Paso to Washington, and for burial with military honors in Arlington Cemetery, was introduced to day by Representative Johnson, of Washington. Representative Johnson asked the military commanders to take up the resolution that Representative Urizzell of New York objected, saying the matter should be referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Johnson told the House that those in the navy who fell at Vera Crize were accorded similar honors and that the Carrizal victims were Navy troops, but they were buried the same as white soldiers. The resolution was referred to the Military Committee. A nonfiction offered the production and a posterher subjected to its consideration. In the face of patriotism and locality and death, the dreaded race prejudice is in evidence and the special honors requested were denied to these brave black men who gave up their lives for their country. THE RACE LINE. In order to be consistent, Mayor Mitchel of New York must go on record as being in favor of mixed regiments that is white and colored men serving in the same companies, battalions and brigades, if the following telegraph report is truer. New York June 16, Mayor Mitchel objects to the organization of a regiment composed exclusively of citizens of German birth. He has made public a letter in which he replied to the suggestion of a German resident that such a regiment be organized. The Mayor said that he was of the opinion it would be hurtful to draw racial lines in American military affairs. "I would deprecate the formation of a regiment composed wholly of men of any nationality," he added. "Whether they be German French, Italian or Russian, as this might tend to draw the very racial lines which I believe ought to be avoided. I suggest that you urge your men to join the regular organization of the National Guard or such other organizations as may be recruited by the Federal authorities. It would be well for him to send a similar letter to the colored men in New York State, who have been enduring to organize and equip a Negro regiment in that State. This literary effort on the part of the brilliant New York city executive will be subject of much comment in all parts of the country for some time to come." 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 Buckrow, July 2 times 6 plus 1 plus four. FLORENCE (S. C.) LETTER. Florence, S. C., July 4, 1916.—Miss Edith Cleo Gandy of Society Hill, S. C., was married to Prof. J. E. Crow, of Dunn, N. C., June 27. Mrs. Isaac Gandy, of Society Hill, passed through the city recently en route for Dunn, N. C., to visit her daughter. B. W. Brokenton, of Darlington, S. C., has gone to Bufalo, N. Y., to visit bill bons. Mrs. Lula Harvey, of Darlington, S. C., passed through the city recently en route to Boston, Mass. Mrs. Imbella Harrington, of Kollocks, S. C., has gone to Orangeburg, S. C., to visit State Summer School. Mr. Washington Brown, of this city, with twenty in party, left the city for City Point, Va., for the summer. Mr. Z. P. Witherowson, of Warner-boro, Ga., has left for his home. He is a fine farmer and is doing well. I. (M. B. Webster), will be attending Saturday July 9, for the state Sunday School Convention at Chambers, stopping over in Columbia for a few days prior thereto. Children's Day was observed at Unionville A. M. E. Church on Sunday, June 26. The addresses from the children were excellent and all very much enjoyed the occasion. A splendid collection was raised for mission. Julia Ginley left the city recently for Saluda, N. C., for the summer. Mr. Z. F. Witherpoon, of Waynesboro. O. passed through the city recently returning home. He is a well-to-do farmer, and visited South Carolina on business. Dr. J. H. Howard and son, J. H. Jr. of Holly Spring. Miss visited here recently. He took high home with the Mr. Mattelue W. Greggs, son of Rev. Greggs, of this city. Rey, W. M. Burnett, assistant in the department of the Joint Stock Company, set up a lodge fifty-two strong at St. Charles, S. C. Monday night, June 26. He Rey, J. D. Coe and others returned in an automobile through the county at night. Much enthusiasm was manifested. Dr. E. R. Roberts, Sunday School missionary for South Carolina, is quite sick at his home in East Florence. He was taken sick at Anderson, S. C. in attendance at the Woman's State Convention. Rey, W. M. Howard, of East Florence, accompanied his brother, Dr. J. H. Howard, to the train Friday evening June 23. Mrs. Rosa De Witt, of Timmonsville, S. C. passed through the city recently en route for home" Mr M. C. Stokes, more than tallor from Pee Dee, S. C. has gone to Lambert, S. C. in company with Mossers, Sam Phydall and Willie Fisher. Mrs. Eliza Donghua, of Society Hill, S. C. has gone to Clarkton N. C. Miss Geneva Rogers of Warrenton Ga. passed through the city re- cently on route for Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Martha Chandler, of Moulton Fl. has gone to Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Erica Nelson has gone to Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Lina Willoughby and daugh- tor Madie, passed through the city recently on route for Laundry, N. C. They were returning from Dalton, Fla. Mr. J. D. Davis head waiter at the Commercial Hotel of Dillon S. C. has returned to Dillon. Mr. S. H. Pool, for fifteen years, a teacher in the public school of Darlington, County, has returned E. B. WEBSTER Louisburg, N. C. B. S. B. July 2, 1916 To the Richmond Planet. Richmond, Va. Mr. Editor: Dear Sir, I am so continued over the speech published in the Richmond Planet, made by Hon. Joseph Daniels, to the colored people at the school of Howard University that I am compelled to commend it. It was said in my very souls what he said in his speech that "the only way the colored people could successfully solve the most complicated life problem, which today confronts them, is to shoulder their own responsibility and, to speak work out their own salvation." Those words of advice are the secret of our success. And they should put every good-thinking individual of our race to thinking. It absolutely matters that we gain our independence, liberty and equal rights in this or any other country would have to work out our way. It is no doubt that we have a great many white friends who are striving to give us the colored people of this country and all other people. Liberty and equal rights with all of the country. But how can they do anything for us, when we at the same time, are sitting down doing nothing for ourselves? I am so young at I have not yet had the privilege to vote; but I think that the colored voters, and then are engaged in politics of this country, should come together and earnestly work for the good and success of one another and for the country at large. For instance, the colored voters of the country should hold a convention of their own and work out plans for our good. Of course, I do not mean that every voter in our race attend the convention, but I mean that we should elect or send delegates. We may as well be willing to keep low from melting to gain recognition among the white people in convention or anywhere else, when they are in the majority. Our people or voters seem to be too anxious to gather in a crowd of white people, and grumble because they are not recognized. That, does not help our case at all, but the only way we can gain recognition, success or honor, is to come as near as possible on body of people, working for the good of ourselves and others. We have been separated from the white people in the drugnores, the schools, and in most all other places, and have been successful. Then, why can't we separate ourselves in working for the good of ourselves and be successful? I do not mean that Mr. Daniels must so should work out our salvation to so speak, in any particular way, but I presume he meant that we would have to do it at whatever we go about. So let us prop by his advice, and press upward in the spirit of Longfellow's Excelsior; with a noble resolve and a determination that is daunted by no difficulties or failures. FOWLER WILLIAMS LEESBURG (VA.) NOTES.) Leedsburg, Va.—Rev. Gypsey Smith (white) who has been conducting a series of meetings here for four weeks, one of the greatest preachers of his day, held a special service throughout the county. It was spent. We had eight or else hundred people under the town. Our town outgift to feel accomplished after such a spiritual feast. We trust much good has been done. Mrs. Emily Douglas arrived in own last week. Rev. A. W. Price passed through town Sunday on route to Alexandria, after having preached at Lyachburg, Va. Mr. Lewis Wail was the guest of his brother, Mr. Wm. Neal, Sunday. Our pastor, Rev. E. D. Tylier, is still confined to his home. Mr. E. F. Coleman left this mornin- g in Washington. to see the, the dentist. Miss Irene Bailey, of Washington, arrived in town Saturday. "Preparedness or not preparedness that's the question"—I'm prepared or I've got the amount. that I must July 17, when M. O. goes to Buckroo YONKERS NOTES ```markdown ``` Yonkers, N. Y., Rev. T. W. Timsley, of Newark, N. J., preached two powerful sermons Sunday in the Messiah Baptist Church. The lawn party given by the Missionary Society) for the benefit of St. John's Riverside Hospital, was favorably attended. The drama, entitled "The May Queen," given by the Baily Dramatic Company of Mount Vernon, N. Y., for the benefit of the Messiah Baptist Sunday School, was very interesting and inspiring. The Sunday School wishes to extend many thanks of the Dramatic Company for their most excellent program rendered. John J. Simyer has just returned from the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference. The new A. M. E. Church held its fourth quarter meeting Sunday. At the morning service the presiding Elder Ellison administered Love Coast. In the evening presiding Elder Ellison preached a most wonderful sermon to a large audience. The Rev. Dr. John J. Smyer left Western New York Conference, which will convene in Auburn, New York. On Thursday evening here was a musical program rendered at the New, A. M. E. Zion Church, by Mrs. Prebble Simpson, many of her talent from New Jersey, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mount Vernon, and Williambridge, Mrs. Simpson rendered one of her most select and globo piano solos. She deserves much credit. It has been requested that he same be repeated in the near future. The Grand Chancellor, Lee Grewford, of New Rochester, was the guest of Grand Lecturer, John R Green, Tuesday June 27. In the evening the Grand Lecturer accompanied the Grand Chancellor on an official visit to Good Fellowship Lodge, No. 35 K. of P. Rev. T. S. Matthews, pastor of East Side Baptist Church, is preaching marvellous sermons each Sunday. Miss Colin Richards and Mrs Beatrice Merritt, a bride of Port chester, were the guests of Dr. and Mrs John J. Sluver Sunday. Major Motson's Estimate of His Race and Attitude Towards Segregation The enactment of the wife and brother of Principal Robert R. Motor of Tuskegee Institute, from a Pullman car, at Troy, Alabama, concerning which we spoke at length in The Tribune, of last week, and the position on the matter Principal Moton is alleged to have taken—that he had advised his wife not to take a Pullman sleeper North, and that it was not his policy to antagonize white Southerns Public opinion and prejudices in such matters—has around him a possible discussion in Afro-American circles most of them taking a position against the attitude of Principal Moton, while others prefer to suspend judgment until Principal Moton shall define himself and his policy in the matter of race attitude and segregation. The Tribute has not waited for any such definition, and did not need to. It knows the Tuskegee estimate of the race and its attitude toward segregation very well, all too well, and is in no humor to tolerate either in the new Principal of Tuskegee Institute, or in other institutions. In the leadership of the race hereafter with his squarer and many polity of disfavor and hostility forms or race segregation and low estimates of the race or we shall fight such leadership to the finish. We had more than enough of such shuffling and double dealing under the leadership of the into Dr. Washington, who sacrificed all other race interests to promote the interests of Tuskegee Institute and his own, and we will no have any more of it in his successor. The New York Age, which has been a truckling, subservient and service specimen, the Tuskegee Institute apparatus ever, it passed into the hands of its present engagement, in 1907, has the following to say in its issue of June 5, upon the Moton mix-up: "Referring to certain statements attributed to Major R. R. Moton, principal of Turkegue Institute, concerning the treatment accorded Mr. Moton on a Pullman car in Alabama. The Age is in position to affirm most positively that the Associated Press dispatches have misquoted Major Moton in every particular. "Telephone messages and letters from prominent white citizens, both of the South and North, have conveyed sympathy to Major Moton and assured him of their loyal support." That sounds all too familiar, as coming over from the Dr. Washington days, and his way of dressing similar attire. What The Age "is in a position to affirm most positively; what would help it, would be a clear cut, straightforward statement from Principal Moton. We do not suspect any such statement. It has not them, the Tupelo, the Houston, the Nothier would a dolge or messages and letters meet the requirements of the situation. They do not help the race, and we cannot see how they can have helped the Nothier, who is allied to haveided with the wife and to haveided with white Southern beautifity. The messages of sympathy should have been sent to Mrs. Moton, who was not only the victim of the outrage, but was, it is alleged, deserted by her husband and publicly rebuked by him for seeking to travel in a public conveyance as a self-respecting woman has a just right to do, and in the interest of his transfer service over which the laws of no jurisdiction, as the Federal Inter-State Commerce Commission has decided, and whose authorities transcended their legal functions when they effected Mrs. Moton and her escort from the Pullman car. That is the plain truth of the matter, and the truth of which we are all obligated to contend for in Alabama and in the States of the Federal Republic where segregation and degradation of the Nation manhood of the race are attempted by State authority or hoodlum public opinion. We shall be less than men if we shall do less than that. Two years ago, at the Muskogee meeting of the National Business League, Dr. Washington turned aside from his written address and said of the question of segregation, which was then uppermost in the minds of the race, because of the forcing of the issue in Louisville and other cities, that the race should stop talking about segregation so much and do more to displease and beautify the segregated districts. In addition, they were forced to live." An Associated Press reporter happened to be present and seized upon the sensational statement and scattered it broadcast over the country. The race was greatly outraged and scandalized by it. The writer was then associated with a Washington newspaper and called upon Dr. Washington to state what he did say, as the Associated Press was charged with having "misquoted" him, as usual in such mix-ups, but he refused to do so, writing instead a letter to a St. Louis person about it which was given to the Afro-American press, which proved to be a straddle on a straddle. The writer had the official stenographer of the Business League, at Washington, Mr. William H. Davis, search his notes for the author of the Dr. Washington did say on the sunday of segregation, but after making the accusation, stated that there was no record that Dr. Washington had said anything upon the question of segregation in his Muskegon address. It becomes of the first moment then, to know what Principal Moton's estimate of the race and his attitude towards aggression arm. We find those in his collected addresses, issued by the Hampton Institute Press the current year, and since Principal Moton was elected to succeed Dr. Washington in the Tuskegee Institute work. From those addresses we make the following paragraphic quotations: "You and I belong to an undeveloped, backward race that is rarely for its own sake taken into account in the adjustment of man's relation to man, but is considered largely with reference to the impression which it makes upon the dominant Anglo-Saxon race. The Negro's very existence is itself somewhat satellitics, and secondary only, to the great white orth around which he revolves." "We might as well be perfectly frank and perfectly honest with ourselves; it is not an easy task to adjust the relations of ten millions of people who, while they may be mature in passion and perhaps in prejudice, are yet to a large extent children in judgment and experience." "No race that despares itself, that laughs at and ridicules itself, that wishes to God that it were anything else but itself, can ever be a great people." "It is no reproach to the Negro to say that his history and environment in this country have well-night placed him at the bottom of the moral scale. "Educated Negroes a thousand miles away from Alabama have been kind, enough to settle every question and solve every problem affecting race, by beautiful resolutions which are seldom read outside the immediate community and often effect no one, not even the people who pass them." "God has given to the Negro here in this Southern country two of the most fundamental necessities in his development—land and labor. If you don't possess this land and hold this labor God will tell you, as He has often told other races, to move on." "The black man has not as yet thoroughly learned to have the respect for his race that is so necessary to the making of a great people." "Race prejudice is as much a fact as the law of gravitation, and it is as foolish to ignore the operation of the one as of the other. Mountaintal complaint and arrogant criticism are as useless as the crying of a baby against the fury of a great wind." "Fek white people know the Negro real feeling on the question of segregation. As a matter of fact, ninety-nine per cent. I should say, of the Negro race, if they should tell what they really feel, would say, that they have no desire to be with white people because they are white; that, so far as enforced segregation and separation are concerned, they are entirely in accord with it, not because of unfitness but because of racial incompatibility. One can observe this attitude in every Southern communities and in most Northern communities where there is any considerable number of Negroes." The Tribune maintains that no man who holds the views that Principal Robert R. Motton holds, as an estimate of his race and as his attitude towards segregation, can be the leader of a great race, with no equal rights under the Federal Constitution, with all of the other so-called groups in the National citizenship and entitled to the and equal treatment in all matters of citizenship. HELLER'S HUMAN HAIR STORE HELLER'S HUMAN HAIR STORE 712 SEVENTH ST. WASHINGTON D. C. ESTABLISHED 1856. THE OLDEST HAIR STORE IN THE SOUTH. Here is the Straightening COMB that will give you Perfect SATISFACTION This One Dollar Brass Comb will be sent to your address prepaid for 79c. Send Stamps or Post Office Money Order. "TAKE OUT KINK" is the Best Hair Pomade Made. It is made from the Purest Ox Marrow. It will make the most stubborn and kinky hair straight. It makes the hair grow. Cures Dandruff. Scalp Diseases. One bottle will make the Hair Soft. Fine and Silky. 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Henry; South Boston, H. C. White; Roanoke, W. B. F. Crowell; Pulaski, J. R. Martin; Manassas, John W. White; Staunton William Ellis; Lynchburg, J. B Evans; Cape Charles, C. N. McCune; Ashland, R. T. Jones; Suffolk, C. W. Jordan; Portsmouth Archer Drew; Pocahontas, D. C. Johnson; Charlottesville, Capt. O. G. Conn; Dante, G. R. Hale; Houston, J. H. Martin; Sutherlins, A. B. Betts; Winterpock, Thomas Leo; Boykins, D. W. Whitfield; Vernon Hill, R. D. Jennings; Harrisonburg, Rev. G. A. Newman; Covington, S. A. Smith; Farmville, Rev. R. G. Adams; Salem, W. R. Brown; Lexington, R. Gooch; Martinsville, L. F. Flood; Rural Retreat, J. F. Bentley; Louisa, J. Rice Perkins; Franklin, W. W. Urquhart; Emporia, A. D. Battis; Drewery's Bluff, Henry Thomas Jefferson; Rio Vista, Moses Carter; Chester, Wm. White; Buckner, W. H. Dabney; Bristol, W. T. Henderson; Strasburg, T. H. Byrd; Hot Spg. C. B. Cakhan; Clifton Forge, E. F. Scott; Natural Bridge, J. M. Carter; Glasgow, L. R. Wooldridge; Prince George, E. D. Bland; Titus Town, J. D. Archer; Chao City, Geo. C. Lancaster; Buckingham, W. C. Hemings; Midlothian, John Bland; Meadville, Robert Stokes; Randolph, George L. Coleman; New Church, George H. Whealton; Waverly, Geo. W. Peace; Drakes Branch, F. R. Banks; Buena Vista, L. R. Wooldridge. SPECIAL DEPUTIES Norfolk, W. T. Gilliam, G. R. Duke; Pulsaski, I. T. Anderson; Richmond, Dr. A. A Tennant and W. E. Brown; Chase City, Geo. C. Lancaster; Danville, W. P. Allen, G. W. Fultz and Joshua Williaus; Berkeley, F. H. Walker; Harrisonburg, Jos. W. Carter; Lynchburg, E. A. Spencer; Portsmouth, Mosse A. Brown and Clarence Nixon; Rio Vista, F. M. Fountain. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA brought from Louisville, or bought since I came here. Other than these, I do not own as much as a sprig of grass or a grain of sand on Lincoln Heights. Seven years ago, Negro Baptist Women did not own $200 worth of property. Today, they have a plant valued at $63,000. What I have labored to accumulate here is not mine. I am a trustee for the Convention and will faithfully discharge my duty. The legal owner of this property is the Woman's Convention. That organization will never have to spend one cent in court, nor one hour in a fight to get what is theirs. I am not a rogue. I am a trustee. If those who are spending their time mindinterpreting correspondence, impuning motives, questioning honesty, would spend half as much time praying and the other half helping God to answer their prayers. Negroes would face a new day, and the young people who are looking on with amazement and disgust, would throw themselves deservedly into service. POSITION PLAINLY STATED. A few nodescripts with impeached veracity have impuned my motives in this Peace movement. If the people I serve do not know it, the Record Keeper in Glory knows that I have never made a selfish move, nor lined up with friends for friendship's sake, at the expense of the Cause, since I entered the service, and God helping me, I never will. I have no friends to favor, and thank God I have no enemies to punish, but I have a sacred trust to live up to, and I propose to do it. If any of your trusted servants, appropriate to themselves anything that belongs to the denomination, do not brand others. It is a dangerous thing to do. I am not in the misappropriating, trust-betraying business. In the name of fairness I ask you not to compare me with any one except Nannie H. Burroughs in the matter of handling the business of the denomination. AN EFFORT FOR PEACE I do not know what the others have said or done, but I do know that aside from subscribing my name to an appeal to which I propose to dedicate my time and strength, to restore peace in my denomination, I have not on a single platform nor in any public meeting; made a single utterance touching the embarrassing, humiliating and disgusting situation. I would not. Now I take the time from the work, which is very dear to my heart, to answer the snacks who work like moles, but I am making his statement because I owe a big debt of gratitude to the men and women who have stood by me in my effort to do constructive work and use with us in this Peace movement. I wish, therefore, to thank them for their encouragement and for having given for the furtherance of the work of the Women's Convention. On the other hand, I shall never cease working to help, in an humble, womanly way, to readjust our denomination machinery, the work of the various Boards. SHOULD WORK TOGETHER For this reason, I urge our women to stay together for applied Christianity emphasizes to a luminous degree the imperative need of working together for the unity for which Jesus prayed. Divisions and strife are certainly the direct results of loyalty to, and love of, lesser things than Christ. Yours for the highest development of Christian womanhood. NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. FAILURE. What mortal rowards are ye Who fear, despair and dread me; On land and sea—I follow Not to discourage, but to test and see Whether or not you possess energy The greatest race I make men run Without me many could not have won: The greatest accomplishments under the run Without me would still not "be done." Ask the many who have achieved success implore I have even knocked at their door; But they possessed: vim, determination—sure; "Try again," they said and "onward go." Encounter me if you want true luck— You'll succeed if you hastily add "real" pluck. — FRANK BURTON HOOD. 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JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1800 ADAMS AND BROAD Mr Edward Dandridge, 11 W. Duval Street, agent for the Planet, handles all kinds of newspapers. PAGE FIVE News-stand. (Southeast from Page 8.) The Thirty-nine Steps By JOHN BUCHAN Author of "Prester John" Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Company I scribbed a line of thanks to my host, opened the window and dropped quietly into a good berry bush. Unobserved I crossed the like, crawled down the side of a tributary bum and won the highland on the far side of the patch of trees. There stood the ear, very spiky and spain in the morning sunlight, but with the dust on her, jumped into the chiffonies, and stole gently out on to the plum. Almost at once the road dipped so that I lost sight of the lin, but the wind seemed to bring me the sound of angry robes. You may picture me driving that for my horsepower car for all she was worth over the cristle moors on that shifter. May morning, glaua the at; during building and building, driving for the next running, then driving with a vignette eye, while enough awake to keep on the highsight. For I was thinking desperately of what I had found in Scotland's note book. The little man had told me a pack of bites. All his names about the Hakins and the forging, other conference were eye wash, and so was Kara Libbey. And yet not quite as you shall hear. I had looked everything on my belief in his eyes and to them set down. Here was his book telling me a different tale, and instead of being one bit, to take a lie. I believed it absolutely. Why? I didn't know. It rung desperately true, and the first year, if you understood me, had been a strong way to play in sport. The 11th day of June was going to be a day of destiny, a bigger destiny than the killing of a man. It was so big that I didn't blame. Sunder for keeping me out of the game and wont be play a one hand. When I was pretty clear, was his intention. He had told me something which sounded big enough, but the real thing was so immortally big that he, the man who said found it out, wanted it all for himself. I didn't blame him. It was risks after all, that he was chicely gross about. The whole story was in the notes, with gaps, you understand, which he would have filled up from his memory. He struck down his authorities, too, and had an odd trick of giving them all a numerical value and then striking a balance, which stood for the reliability of each stage in the yarn. The three names he had printed were authorities, and there was a man, Duccione, who got five out of a possible five, and another fellow, Ammersfort, who got three. The bare bones of the tale were all that was in the book there and one quiet phrase which occurred half a dozen times inside brackets: "Thirty nine steps" was the phrase, and in the fast time of use it ran: "Thirty nine steps I counted them in this little book." I could make out many of that. The first detail I learned was that it was not a war A. G. B. The dark fellow went as white as death and cursed like blazes." That was coming as sure as Christmas; had been arranged, said Scudder; ever since February, 1012. Karolides was going to be the occasion. He was booked all right and was going to hand in his checks on June 15, two weeks and four days from that May morning. I gathered from Scudder's notes that nothing on earth could prevent that. His talk of Epiprote guards that would skim their own grandmother's all nonense. The second thing was that this war was going to come as a mighty surprise to Britain. Karolides death would not the Palakane by the earn, and then Vienna would join in with an atmatum. Russia wouldn't like that. And there would be high words. But Berlin would play the peacemaker and pour oil on the waters till suddenly she would find a good cause for a quarrel. Our cool would be silently ringed with mules, and submarines would be waiting for every battleship. But all this depended upon the third thing, which was due to happen on June 15. I would never have grasped this if I hadn't once happened to meet a French staff officer, coming back from West Africa, who had told me a lot of things. In spite of all the non-sense talked in parliament there was a real working alliance between France and Britain and that the two general staff met every now and then and made plans for joint action in time of war. Woll, in June 18, Royer, the French minister of marine, was coming over from Paris, and he was going to get nothing less than a statement of the deposition of the British home floor on mobilization. At least I gathered it was something like that. Arghw. It was something uncommonly important. But on the 15th day of June there were to be others in London others at whom I could only guess. Scudder was content to call them collectively the Black Stone. They represented not our allies, but our deadly foes, and the information, destined for France, was to be diverted to their pockets. And it was to be used, remember, used a week or two later-with great guns and swift torpedoes suddenly in the darkness of a summer night. This was the story I had been deepening in a back room of a country town overseeing a cabbage garden. This is the story that hummed in my brain as I saving in the big touring car from cloak to glen. My first impulse had been to write a letter to the prime minister, but a little reflection confirmed me that that would be useless. Who would believe my tale? Above all I must keep going myself, ready to get when things got ripe, and that was going to be no light job, with the pellet of the British blues in full cry after me and the watchers of the black Stone running alertly and swiftly on my trail. I had no very clear purpose in my journey, but I strolled east by the sun, for I remembered the map that if I went north I would comp into a region of coal pits and industrial towns. Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river. For miles I am alongside a park wall, and in a break of the trees I saw a great castle. I awoke through little old thatched streams and past gardens blazing with hawthorn and yellow jubborn. The land was so deep in peace that I could scarcely believe that someone behind me were those who sought my life; age, and that in a month's time, unless I had the almightiest of luck, these round, country faces would be pinched and staring, and men would be lying dead in English fields. It was hard to conceive that shortly an act would be committed which would set the world afame with the most terrible of all wars. And as I look back now and think of the tremendous secret that I possessed I wonder how I shoulded the respon- sibility. But I had no time to think seriously of the future in those storming days. It was action, and immediate action, that was demanded. It was imperative that I lived in touch with our government by the 16th of June. About midday I entered a long, string gilting village and had a hard to stop and eat. Halfway down was the postoffice and on the steps of it stood the postmistress and a policeman hard at work counting a telegram. When they saw me they waked up, and the policeman advanced with raised hand and cried up to stop. I nearly was feel enough to obey. Then it dashed upon me that the wife had to do with me, that my friends at the inn had come to an understanding and were united in desiring to see more of me and that it had been easy enough for them to write the description of me and the car to thirty villages through which I might pass. I released the bricks just in time. As it was the policeman made a claw at the hotel and only dropped off when he got my left in his eye. I saw that main roads were no place for me and turned into the byways. It wasn't an easy job without a map; there was the risk of getting on to a farm road and ending in a duck pond or a stable yard, and I couldn't afford that kind of delay. I began to see what an ass I had been to steer the car. The big green brite would be the safest kind of clew to me over the breadth of Scotland. If I left it and took to my feet it would be discovered in an hour or two, and I would get no start in the race. The immediate thing to do was to get to the loneliest roads. There I soon found when I struck a tributary of the big river and got into a glen with steep hills all about me and a cork-screw road at the end which climbed over a pass. Here I met nobody, but it was taking me too far north, so I siced along a big track and finally struck a big double line railway. Away below me I saw another broadish valley, and it occurred to me that if I crossed it I might find some remote hostelry so pass the night. The evening was now drawing in, and I was furiously hungry, for I had eaten nothing since breakfast except a couple of buns I had bought from a bakery car. Just then I heard a noise in the sky, and behold there was that inflamed aeropline, dying low, about a downie to the south and rapidly coming toward me. I had the sense to remember that on a bare moor I was at the aeropline's mercy and that my only chance was to get to the color of the valley. Down the hill I went like blue light. wing, screwing my head round whenever I dared to watch that — flying machine. Soon I was on a road between hedges and slipping to the deep cut glen of a stream. Then came a bit of thick wood, where I shocked speed. Suddenly on my left I heard the boot of another car and realized to my horror that I was almost upon a couple of gateposts through which a private road dobouched on the highway. My horn gave an agonized roar, but it was no impetus. I clapped on my brakes, but my impetus was too great, and there before me a car was sibling atwarm my course. In a second there would have been the deuce of a wreck. I did the only thing possible and ran slip into the hedge on the right, trusting to find something soft beyond. But there I was mistaken. My car silthed through the hedge like butter and then gave a slickening plunge forward. I saw what was coming, leaped on the seat and would have jumped out. But a stout branch of hawthorn got me in the chest. lifted me up and held me, while a ton or two of expensive metal slipped below me, bucked and pitched, and then dropped with an almighty smash fifty feet to the bed of the stream. I subsided first on the hedge and then very gently on a bower of nettles. As I scrambled to my feet a hand took me by the arm and a sympathetic and badly scared voice asked me if I were hurt. I found myself looking at a tall young man in goggles and a leather ulcer, who kept on blessing his soul and whinning apologies. For myself, once I got my wind back, I was rather gidded than otherwise. This was one way of getting rid of the car. "My blame, sir," I answered him. "It's lucky that I did not add homicide to my follies. That's the night of my Scottish motor tour, but it might have been the end of my life." He plucked, on a watch and studied it. "You're the right sort of fellow," he said. "I can spike a quarter of an hour, and my house is two minutes A A Stout Branch of Hawthorn Got Me in the Chest. off. I'll see you clothes and fed and sung in bed. Where's your kit, by the way? Is it in the born along with the car? "In my pocket," I said, brandishing a toothbrush. "I'm a colonial and travel light." "A colonial," he哭泣. "By god, you're the very man I've been praying for. Are you by any blessed chance a free trader?" "I am," I哭泣, without the foggiest notion of what he meant. He petted my shoulder and hurried me into his car. Three minutes later we drew up before a comfortable look shooting box set among pine trees, and he shattered my indoors. He took me first to a bedroom and dung half a dozen of his suits before me, for my own had been pretty well reduced to rage. I selected a loose blue jersey, which differed most conspicuously from my own garments, and borrowed a tunic. Then he handed me to the dining room, where the remnants of a meal stood on the table, and announced that I had just five minutes to feed. "You can take a snack in your pocket, and we'll give a cup when we get back. I've got to be in the kitchen at 8 o'clock or my agent will comb my hair." CHAPTER VI. "A Bit About Australia." HAD a cup of coffee and some cold hamb, while the young man of goggles and leather ulders earned away on the hearth rug. "You find me in the deuce of a mess, Mr.—By the bye, you haven't told me your name. Twiden? Any relation of old Tommy Twiden of the Sixteenth? No. Well, you see I'm Liberal candidate for this part of the world, and I had a meeting on tonight at Brattlehurm. That's my chief town and an internal Tory stronghold. "I had got the colonial ex-premier fellow, Crumpleton, coming to speak for me tonight and had the thing the menously billed and the whole place ground halted. This afternoon I got wife from the ruffian saying he has influenza at Blackpool, and here am I left to do the whole thing myself. had meant to speak for ten minute, and must go on for forty, and though I've been racking my brains for three hours to think of something, simply cannot last the course. "How, you're got to be a good cide and help me. You're a free traderian can tell me people what a washer protection is in the colony. All ye fellows have the gift of the gab. wish to behead I had K. I'll be for evermore in your debt." I had very few notions about free wants me or the other, but I saw no other chance to get what I wanted. My young gentleman was far too abused in his own difficulties to think how old it was to ask a stranger who had just unintended death by an ace and had lost a 1,000 guinea car to address a meeting for him on the spur of the moment. But my necessities did not allow me to contemplate oldnesses or to pick and choose my supports. "All right," I said. "I'm not much good as a speaker, but I'll tell them a bit about Australia." At my words the cares of the ages slipped from his shoulders, and he was rapturous in his thanks. He lent me a big driving coat and never troubled to ask why I had started in a motor tour without possessing alu shuster and as we shuffled down the dusty roads poured into my cars the simple facts of his history. He was an orphan, and his uncle had brought him up. I were forgotten the uncle's name, but he was in the cabinet, and you can read his speeches in the papers. He had gone round the world after leaving Cambridge, and then, being short of a job, his uncle had advised politics. I gathered that he had no preference in parties. "Good chaps in both," he said cheerfully, "and plenty of blighters too. I'm Liberal because my family have always been Whigs." But if he was lukewarm politically he had strong views on other things. He found out I knew a bit about horses and fawed away about the Derby entries, and he was full of plans for improving his shooting—al together a very clean, decent, callow young man. As we passed through a little town two policemen signaled us to stop and dashed their danterns on us. We pardon, Sir Harry, said one. "We've got instructions to look out for a car, and the description is no unlike yours." "Night-to-" said my host, while I thanked Providence for the derious ways I had been brought to safety. After that we spoke no more, for my host's mind began to labor heavily with his coming speech. His lips kept muttering, his eye wandered, and I began to prepare myself for a second catastrophe. I tried to think of something to say myself, but my mind way dry as a stone. The next thing I knew we had drawn up outside a door in a street and were being welcomed by some noisy gentlemen in rosettes. The hall had had 500 in it, women mostly, a lot of headbands and a dozen or two young men. The chairmade a weasely minister with a reddish nose, lamented *Cumpleton's absence*, scollied on his influenza and gave me a certificate as a "trusted leader of Australian thought." There were two politemen at the door, and I hoped they took note of this testimonial. Then Sir Harry started. I never heard anything like it. He didn't begin to know how to talk. He had about a bushel of notes from which he read, and when he let go of them he fell into one probed stutter. Every now and then he remembered a phrase he had learned by heart, straightened his back and gave it off like Henry living, and the next moment he was bent double and crouching over his papers. It was the most appalling to see. He talked about the "German menace," and said it was all a Tory invention to cheat the poor of their rights and keep back the great flood of social reform, but that "organized labor" realized this and laughed the Tories to scorn. He was all for reducing our navy as a proof of our good faith and then sending Germany an ultimatum demanding that she should do the same. He said that but for the Tories Germany and Britain would be fellow workers in peace and reform. I thought of the little black book in my pocket: Yet in a queer way I liked the speech. You could see the niceness of the chap whining out behind the stairs, which he had been spared; I took a load off my mind. I might be much of an annotator, but I was 1600 per cent better than Sir Harry. I didn't get on so badly when it came to my turn. I simply told them all I could remember about Australia, praying there should be no Australian there—all about its labor party and emigration and universal service. I doubt if I remembered to mention Free trade, but I said there were no Terries in Australia, only Labor and Liberals. That fetched a cheer, and I woke them up a bit when I started in to tell them the kind of glorious business I thought could be made out of the empire if we really put our backs into it. Alotheren I fancy I was rather a success. The minister didn't like me, though, and when he proposed a vote of thanks spoke of Sir Harry's speech as "statutesmimike" and mine as having the "consequence of an official emigration agent." When we were in the day again my host was to wild spits at having his job over. "A ripping speech, Twiden," he said. "Now, you're coming home with me. I'm all alone, and if you'll stop a day or two I'll show you some very decent fishing." We had a hot sapper, and I wanted it pretty badly, and then drank grog in a big, cheery smoking room with a crackling wood fire. I thought time had come for me to put my car on the table. I saw by this man's ear, that he was the kind you can trust. "Keten, Sir Harry." I said. "I something pretty important to say, you. You're a good fellow and I'm going to be frank. Where on earth did you get that poisonous publish you talked tonight?" His face felt. "Won it an bad, bad that?" he asked quietly. "It did sound rather thin. I got most of it out of the Liberal Magazines and pamphlets that agent抽 of those men sending me, but you sure don't think Germany would ever go to war with me?" "Ask that question in six weeks and it won't need an answer," I said. "If you won't give me your attention for six an hour I am going to tell you a story." E I Did the Old Mashona Trick of Toots Ing it and Catching it in My Lips. I Did the Old Mashaah Trick of Tossing it and Catching it in My Lips. the deer's heads and the old prints on the walls. Sir Harry standing restlessly on the stone curb of the hearth and myself lying back in an armchair speaking. I received to be another person, standing aside and listening to my own voice and judging carefully the reliability of my tale. It was the first time I had ever told any one the exact truth, so far as I understood it, and it did me no end of good, for it straightened out the thing my own mind. I blinked my own eyes. He heard all about Sender and the milkman and the notebook and my doings in Galloway. Presently he got very excited and walked up and down the hearth rug. "So, you see," I concluded, "you have got here in your house the man that is wanted for the Portland place murder. Your duty is to send your car for the police and give me up. I don't think I'll get very far. There'll be an accident, and I'll have a knife in my ribs in an hour or so after arrest. Nevertheless it's your duty as a law-abiding citizen. Perhaps in a month's time you'll be sorry, but you have no cause to think of that." He was looking at me with bright, steady eyes. "What was your job in Rhodesia, Mr. Hammey?" he asked. "Mining engineer," I said. "I made my pile cleanly, and I've had a good time in the making of it." "Not a profession that weakens the nerves, is it?" I laughed, "Oh as to that, my nerves are good enough." I took down a hunting knife from a stand on the wall and did the old Madison rick of toasting it and catching it in my lip. That wants a pretty steady heart. He watched me with a smile. "I don't want people. I may be an ass on the platform, but I can size up a man. You're no murderer, and you're no fool, and I believe you are speaking the truth. I'm going to back you up. Now, what can I do?" "First, I want you to write a letter to your uncle. I've got to get in touch with the government people some time before the 16th of June." He pulled his mustache. "That won't help you. This is foreign office business, and my uncle would have nothing to do with it. Besides, you'd never convince him. No; I'll go one better. I'll write to the permanent secretary at the foreign office. He's my godfather and one of the best going. What do you want?" He sat down at a table and wrote to my attention. The gist of Twisede (I thought) I had better stick to that name) turned up before June 15 he was to treat him kindly. He said Twisede would prove his骨朵 idea. by passing the word "Black Stone" and whistling "Anna Laurie." "Good!" said Sir Harry. "That's the proper style. By the way, you'll find my godfather, his name's Sir Walter Ruthrill down at his country cottage for Whitleyville. It's close to Artwell well on the Kempt. That's done. Now, what's the next thing?" "You're about my height. Lend me the oldest tweed suit you get. Anything will do so long as the color is the opposite of the clothes I destroyed this afternoon. Then show me a map of the neighborhood and explain to me the lie of the land. If the person come asking about me just show them the car in the garden. If the other lot turn up tell them I caught the south express after your meeting." He did or promised to do all these things. I shared off the remnants of my mustache and got inside an ancient suit of what I believe is called heather mixture. The map gave me some notion of my whereabouts and told me the two things I wanted to know—where the main railway to the south could be joined and what were the wildest distribs near at hand. At 2 o'clock he waked me from my slumber in the smoking room arm chair and led me blinking into the dark, starry night. An old bicycle was found in a tool shed and handed over to me. "First turn to the right up by the long or wood" he enjoined. "By day-break you'll be well into the bills. Then I should pitch the moors on foot. You can put in a week among the shephards and be an safe as if you were New Guinea." I paddled diligently up steep route of hill gravel till the blue wedge with suspense. As the lily cleared beneath the sun I found myself in a wide green world, with just faint tassels on every side and a faraway blue horizon. Here at any time I could carry more of my companions. pain and heat have taken hold of the earth. Splendid sea, with the mild air flowing through a long hill, in the light which was the larger of some mountain river. In front was a flat grass of may be a mile, all pitted with hot heater and rough with tussocks. To the left and right were round snowdusted, green hills as smooth as peanuts, but to the south—that is, the left hand—there was a glimpse of heather mountains, which I remembered from the map as the big knot of hill which. I had chosen for my sanctuary. I was on the central boas of a huge updash country, and could see everything moving for miles. In the meadows below the road, half a mile back, a cottage smoked, but it was the only sign of human life. Otherwise there was only the calling of plovers and the tinkling of little streams. It was now about 7 o'clock, and as I waited I beard once again the ominous beat in the air. Then I realized that my vantage ground might be in reality a trap. There was no cover for a tomit in those bald green places. I sat quite still and hopeless, while the beat grew louder. Then I saw an aeroplane coming up from the east. It was flying high, but as I looked it dropped several hundred feet and began to circle around the knot of hill in narrowing circles, just as a hawk wheels before it jounced. Now it was flying very low, and now the watchman on board caught sight of me. I could see one of the two occupants examining me through glasses. Suddenly it began to rise in swift whirls, and the next I knew it was speeding eastward again till it became a speck in the blue morning. That made me do some savage thinking. My enemies had located me, and the next thing would be a cordon round me. I didn't know what force they could command, but I was certain it would be sufficient. The aeroplane had seen my bicycle and would conclude that I would try to escape by the road. In that case there might be a chance on the moors to the right or left. I wheeled the machine a hundred yards from the highway and plunged it into a moss hole, where it sank among pondweed and water buttercups. Then I climbed to a knoll which gave me a view of the two valleys. Nothing was stirring. And there was not corer in the whole place to hide a rat. As the day advanced it was flooded with soft light till it had the fragrant sunshine of the South African veil. At other times I should have liked the place, but now it seemed to suffocate me. The free mounds were prison walls, and the keen bill air was the breath of a dungeon. I tossed a coin—hends right, tails left—and it fell heads, so I turned to the north. In a little I came to the brow, of the ridge which was the containing wall of the jaws. I saw the highland for maybe ten miles and far down it something that was moving and which I took to be a motorway. Beyond the ridge I looked on a rolling green moor, which fell away into weated slopes. Now, my life on the veld has given me the eyes of a kite, and I can see things for which most men need a telescope. Away down the slope, a couple of men dancing like a row of beaters at a shock. I dugged out of sight behind the skyline. That way was shut to me, and I must try the bigger bills to the south beyond the highway. The car I had noted was getting better, but it was still a long road off, with some very steep gradients before it. I ran hard, crumbling low except in the hollows, and as I ran I kept scanning the brow of the bill before me. Was it information or did I see moving on a sleeper? No, neither. In a sleeper, I see information. TO BE CONTINUED. Our Query and Perly Department The treasury department March 1 showed $3,200,000,000 in the United States outside of the United States treasury. $38.54 per capita. When was the rural free delivery first started, and who first suggested it? Rural delivery was first officially suggested by Bottammer General John Wannaker in the annual report for the first year of 1941. The first delivery was introduced in the house of representatives June 5, 1942, by James O'Donnell, member of congress from Michigan. This bill carried an appropriation of $600,000, but failed of passage. March 3, 1943, congress appropriated $100,000 for experimental rural delivery. July 10, 1951, the sum of $200,000 was appropriated for the same purpose, and again on June 11, 1951, $200,000 was appropriated. The first experimental rural delivery service was published on March 11, 1951. Distribution on three routes from Charleston, Chelsea and Richmond, W. V. themselves begin leaping over the obstacle and to be as much as half an inch lower than a woman's step. It is in the opening. The color of the limb of the eye and the characteristic black gaze of the police are also re- covered. The following information are noted: The length and width of the hand; the length of the foot; the width of the middle and little fingers of the hand; the stature of the whole body, as well as the length of the up- ward and lowered arms; the length and width of the left arm. The system has been used in Paris since 1900, and is now employed in Paris since 1900, and is now departments in this country. How much money is there in circulation now in the United States? the District of Columbia and judges in the dependencies. The federal jurisdiction includes nine circuits, one justice of the supreme court being assigned to each circuit. Next below the supreme court are the circuit courts of appeals, which bear appeals from the district court having original jurisdiction. The circuit court of appeals for each circuit is composed of the justice of the supreme court assigned to that circuit. The circuit judges and the district judges of the districts included in that circuit. Alaska has four divisions of district judges, each with a separate jurisdiction. Hawaii has both territorial courts and district judges. Porto Rico has a district judge and an insular judiciary. The Philippines have an insular judiciary and no district judges. The District of Columbia has a court of appeals of its own and is not included in any of the circuits. Porto Rico and the Philippines are not attached to any circuit. --- Was there more than one Confederate officer holding the rank of general? In histories one finds that title given to Lee, Albert Sidney, Johnston and others, and several have the title lieutenant general. There were five, including the above and Joseph E. Johnston, Samuel Cooper and I. G. T. Beauregard. There were perhaps half a score of lieutenant generals. Does international law provide for the absolute inviolability of mail? The Hague conference on the subject is as follows: "XI. Convention relative to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise of the right of captive in naval war. "Chapter I. Postal correspondence. Article I. The postal correspondence of neutrals or belligerents, whatever its official or private character may be, found on the high seas on board a neutral or enemy ship is inviolable. If the ship is detained the correspondence is forwarded by the captor with the least possible delay." The convention was signed and ratified in accordance with the provisions of its tenth article by Great Britain and by other powers involved in the present war. When the present war was started was there a treaty between France and Russia to the effect that France would have to fight with Russia if the latter were attacked? There was an offensive and defensive alliance between France and Russia in force at the time this war began. Neck Tired. He has a look of furious care. Like one of crime suspected. As he stuts out at morn to wear The tie his wife selected. Star Wars The Difference "This paper," said Languid Lowia, "tells about a horse running away with a woman, and she was laid up for six weeks." "That ain't so worse," rejoined Boast- ful Benjamin. "A friend of mine once ran away with a horse, and he was laid up for six years."—New York Journal. Just Like Her. Percy—She didn't remember me! And only last summer we were en- raged: Reegy - That's just like a woman, and you can remember a joke- - Boston Globe Inducement "This is the tea," said the salesman "and this copy of 'Hugglins' History, of the World' is worth twice the money." "I suppose you sell the tea and throw in the history?" "No. We sell the history and give you the tea to keep you awake while you are reading it." - Washington Star. In the Woodless Age. When everything made of concrete in a world, where there a nary a stick. The child that has been indulgent Will have to be spanked with a brick. Bridge *Life and Letters* "Drat it, this poet didn't leave any letters to publish." "No?" "No. All he left was a lot of unpaid bills. What if we compile them in a de luxe edition?"—Louisville Courrier Journal. A Too Willing Worker. "Son, the lines said, he was real, real money on the things I was making." "And who were you making?" "Shaken—" Philadelphia Posted. SATURDAY...JULY 8, 1916 U. S. MAY OCCUPY BORDER TOWNS Army Men Recommend They be Garrisoned. WOULD BOTTLE UP BANDITS This Action is Seen as Result of Gradual Withdrawal of General Pershing's Forces. The gradual removal of the American, punitive expedition from Mexico, which has been progressing with the movement of militia to the border, will result in more drastic action on the Mexican border than it indicates on the face, officials in Washington declare. It is learned that army men have recommended this move, which seems but compliance with the Mexican demands that American troops leave Mexico, but recommend it continually. The condition was the coincidental occupation of all Mexican border towns. This was considered the most effective means of protecting the border against raids if the administration did not see fit to occupy larger portions of the interior. The outward movement of the American troops, although seemingly just discovered by some newspapers has been progressing and reported as progressing for weeks in despatches from Mexico City and El Paso, Texas. Its causes are purely speculative. Officials are mum. But one of two things is certain. The administration either intends a gradual removal, permitting some good fortune to smooth over the apparent compliance to the Mexican demands, or the army scheme of counter action on the border is to be adopted at the proper moment. This latter program, as suggested would permit the Mexican army to be bottled up hopelessly without any invasion by Mexico farther than Jaurez Nogales, Pletras Negras, Matamoros and other important Mexican towns on the international line, and all termials of the few railroad lines running into the Interior. The subsequent embargo and border patrol which could be afforded by the combined expeditionary army, regular troops now on border patrol and the 75,000 national guardmen estimated as having reached the frontier would be most effective, and if necessary augmented by a blockade of Mexican seaports by the navy. It is an open secret among army men that the expedition under Brigadier General Perching is doing nothing toward protecting the border aside from the unimportant border its base occupies on the New Mexico line. And under existing orders, it is explained, General Pershing is helpless since he only may defend his positions against Mexican attack, and his positions on the Chihuahua desert are worthless strategically. In other words, the only objection of the army to the removal of the expedition under existing orders and circumstances was that it would be a diplomatic and a personal retreat after the strongly worded demands of the Mexican government that American troops leave Mexico. To take border towns, already largely evacuated by the Mexican army would be easy and effective in protecting the American border country against attacks by armed Mexican who come from and return to Mexico SWEETHEART BEHEADED Dual Tragedy of Supposed Elopement Sell a Mystery. The headless body of a girl was found in the river near Landingville about six miles south of Pottaville Pa., by workmen at a washery. It is believed to be the body of Helen Hepler, of Cressona, who, with her sweetheart, Clayton Mengel, disap peared the night of January 9. It was supposed that they had eloped, uniff April 5, when the body of Mengel was found in the river near Schuylkill Haven. There is doubt as to whether it was a suicide pact or whether they were struck by a train and knocked into the river. Mengel's skull was fractured which led to the theory of foul play. The Truth. Mary had a little lamb. And furthermore we state, She had it in a restaurant And tangued while she ate. -Chicago News. Natural. If I only had a million Do you know what I would do? Why, I want another million Just the same as you. York Times Incredulous Bill "As it really true," inquired the gentleman with the swollen jaw, "that you extrud tooth without pain?" "Correctly it was true," replied the proprietor of the dental cemetery. "Didn't you see the sign on the floor?" "I saw the sign all right," was the manified proprietor. "But in the master of teeth I didn't believe in sign."—Midland and Nimrod Diamond. Female Embalmer Nearly 13,000 Prisoners Taken by All lies and Units of Teuton Reinforce- ments Shattered. Striking east from Fricourt, which was stormed on Monday, British troops fought their way to the main German second line of defence on their sec- tion of the great Somme battle front capturing a village and an important fortified wooded position. Holding these gains, the troops bea- back repeated German counter attacks while the heavy artillery began a furl ous bombardment of the German sec and line preparatory to an assault. On the French section of the battle front the swift advance that carried General Foch's troops at one point is miles into the German line has bee given pause for the moment in order that the captured ground may be con- solidated and preparations made for a new onslaught against the strong in new defences of the Germans. General Foch's attacks in the last twenty-four hours have taken him to within three miles of the city of Peronne and three miles inside the German second line defences on his section of the battle front. In order to achieve this wonderful success the French stormed five strongly fortified villages. Nearly 13,000 prisoners now have been taken by the French and Brittai in the three days of fighting. Among them is an entire battalion of the 18th Prussian infantry, which surrendered near Fricourt. Twenty officers and 60 men laid down their arms after their trenches had been almost levelled by the British camp. The official statement announced the continuation of desperate fighting along the British front. Strong German counter attacks were made particularly against the town of La Poésie, captured by the British Monday. The Germans recaptured a small portion of the defences south of the village, but otherwise were unable to make any headway. The official statement reads as follows: "The enemy, reinforced by my battalions drawn from other parts of the line, continues to offer very strong resistance to us at all points. During the night there was heavy fighting in the vicinity of La Boisselle. Our troops fought with great gallantry against heavy attacks by the enemy. Otherwise the situation in this neighborhood is unchanged." Depatches from headquarters at the front state that the British heavy artillery had to level the defences of Fricourt and the village of Magrez near by, before the Germans wounded surrender. Germans taken prisoner have informed the British commander that new battalions were hastened to the defence of the Somme from points as far distant as like this. "Further south some progress was made during the night. We captured a wood, further war material and prisoners. "On other portions of the front continuous trench warfare activity was maintained. Several raids were carried out. In particular, raids by the rifle brigade and the Snowwood Forces were especially successful. "In the vicinity of Amenières, off a heavy bombardment, an attack by the enemy was repulsed, losses to them, some wounded prisoners remaining in our hands." The Paris war office announced to the French advance north and south of the Somme had passed for the moment to enable the troops to consolidate their new positions and prepare for further attacks on the inner German defences. The Germans made no attempt to interfere with the French preparations, it is stated. In addition to the seven batteries of guns already reported captured, it was announced that three more had been taken, two of them heavy weapons. MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. 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The city of Peronne, the objective of the French in the great battle, is now almost within the grasp of Geneva. Fech, the French commander. Its capture would be a tremendous victory for the allies, as it is the central point of the German supply system for all the territory from the Somme to Solsona. Spurge Federal "Park" Mayor Thayer, of Ripon, Wis., the town which desires to give up a $75,000 appropriation for a public building for national defense purposes, telegramed Senator Husting, in Washington, urging action toward that end. A bill has been introduced by Senator Husting to turn the $75,000 over to the army aviation service. Lad Dice From Splinter in Foot. After three days' suffering from a splinter in his foot, Charles R. Mchler, nine years old, of Barrata Pa. died from locklaw. GEN. JACINTO TREVINO Carranza Officer Who Ordered At-tack on U. & Troopers. M. A Sense of Humor. 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Native and west- ern. $4.50¢/8; lambs. $7.50¢/11.65. 1916 JULY 1916 SUN SUN TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 How To Get One. Richmond, Virginia A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR London, Paris and Berlin are eager awaiting developments on the western front, particularly in the Bilt- sector, where the infrastructure are believed to be solid in all aspects of fencing. The Biltsector is now sur- over the Austrian town in protest. The Biltsector has pushed about the Asia plateau, occupied the southern side of the Asia Sea and caused other impress positions between Połina and Witto. Berlin can further gains in Val- hyla in the capture of Russian pa- titions near Solih. The Russians are pursuing the Ags trians into the Carpathian mountains. The trial of Dr. Karl Liekskeht Socialist leader, for attempted treason, begins in Berlin. Activity on the British front of the western war theatre continues to engage the attention of military exports. Berlin reports fighting of considerable violence all along the western line, and Paris announces repulse of German attacks north of Verdun. Petrograd announces capture of 10, 505 more prisoners in Vienna and Galicia. Berlin reports successes on the Stockholm, forcing the Russians to recross the river in one sector. Three Italian steamships are reported sunset. The United States note to Vienna on the Petrotille case, just published, demands an apology and repatriation for the attack, and punishment of the submarine commander. The Germans attacked on the west side of the Menue on a front extending from the Avbcourt wood, on the extreme French left, to a point east of Hill 304, about two miles to the northeast of the wood. Par's anounce that while the crown princes troops carried a redoubt east of Hill 304, literally crushing its defenders, a spirited counter attack drove them out. Palming liquids were used by the Germans. Lively engagements, chilly between the opposing artillery forces and patrol detachments, continue along the British front and the French line, south to the Argonne. Russian progress in southern Gallia threatens, Kolomea, an important railroad center, and one of the key positions to Lemberg. A great offensive was started by the British on a front extending from the River Somme in northern France for a distance of twenty miles northward. The French took up the fight where WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY. FRIDAY SATURDAY. their the Johns that of the British running southward. At latest accounts the allies had swett the Germans back to their second line of trenches, capturing five positions and many prisoners. The French after recapturing the Thlaument field work, northeast of Verdun, lost it again to the Germans. The French held the approach, Paris says. There fighting is in progress on both sides of the Meuse river, the Germans in some attacks using liquid The Russians have taken Kelmea- Galacha, Petter-grad reports. This suc- cess places an imp start railway con- ter in Russian lands and threatens the flank of the Austro-German central force. SUNDAY. The great Anglo-French offensive continues to roll back the Germans at many points. The British repr it the capture of Pricourt, three miles east of Aller, and progress further to the east of that fortified village. Thirty-five km dred prisoners have been bagged by Sir Douglas Halls's forces. South of, the river Somme the French penetrated, the second German lines at a number of places captured the village of Prise and the Mercaucourt wood. Paris also claim the capture of 6000 unwounded German prisoners. Berlin 'admits the allies' offensive has gained at many points, but claims in the eastern theatre. To the west of Kolonica the Slave stormed Teuton positions and took 2000 more prisoners. Petrograd say heavy Teuton attacks on the northern sector of the line have been repulsed. MONDAY. The great allied offensive in north ern France continues successfully, ac- cording to advice from London on Paris. The French, south of the Slim- me, have occupied two lines of trench os of the second German position or a front of three miles. The French have captured the village of Horbe- court. The British have pushed from Fri- court north to higher ground. The objective apparently is Bapense while the French aim for Ferrenne Capture of these towns would seri- ly menace the German field line of communications, some of which are already imperilley by the French oper- ations. Fighting continues in the Verdur sector. 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