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NET. WITHDREW THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP DR. E. P. JONES AND DR. S. W. GAVLES DECLARED TO BE IN DISORDER BY STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. Jackson, Miss., July 22, 1916.—The Mississippi General Mission Baptist Convention which has been in session here during the week presided over by Dr. A. M. Johnson, by unanimous vote of the convention withdrew the hand of fellowship from the Rev. Dr. E. P. Jones, of Vicksburg, and Dr. G. W. Gayles, of Greenville, declaring then in disorder with the Baptist of the state. Last Tuesday, Dr. Jones, and Rev. Gayles, assisted by Rows, R. H. Boyd, of Naphville and C. H. Clark, of Naphville, left the convention rented the American theatre, and proceeded to organize another convention, growing out of the spirit of the National Baptist convention trouble last September in Chicago, III. The Mississippi convention, representing 250,000 Negro Baptist refused to indorse the movement of Dr. Jones but rather condemned his course Only 18 followed Dr. Jones and Gayles out of the Convention and five returned the following day and asked for forgiveness. "They were told to Go in peace and slim no more." Dr. Jones was very much disappointed at the turnover which he received in his own home. He had hoped to have carried a large following from Mississippi to Kansas City where he will hold his convention. The convention adopted resolutions plodging support to the National Baptist convention which meets September 6. in Savannah, Ga. Dr. E. C. Morrilla, president. THE THRIFT CAMPAIGN. For more than a year the Saving Bank Section of the American Bankers' Association has been at work inaugurating a Thrift Campaign upon a nation-wide scale. The urgent need of united, concentrated effort upon the part of bankers in this direction is too well understood to need discussion here. The work of several months demonstrate the need of DEFINITE PLANS which could be put at the disposal of bankers, and on which they could unite locally with a minimum of labor upon their part. Two plans were developed by well-known publicity organizations technically qualified for this work. After the plans were submitted however, it became apparent that confusion arose, and some difficulties and delays were imposed by the necessity of weighing their merits and choosing between them. For this reason, an also in order that a Thrift Campaign identical in character might be concluded as nearly simultaneously as possible throughout the country, the committee having the matter in charge concluded to adopt and designate one of these campaigns as the "OFFICIAL NATION-WIDE THRIET CAMPAIGN OF THE AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION." What has been designated as "PLAIN NUMBER ONE CENTENNIAL THRIET CAMPAIGN" was chosen for this purpose. NO LONGER "CENTENNIAL THRIFT CAMPAIGN" As the movement progressed and its great possibilities became manifest, it became apparent that, while the "Savings Bank Centennial Year" is a most appropriate time for the initiation of a nation-wide Thrift Campaign, the movement is of such great magnitude that it could be started during the year, and the time for its continuance was indefinitely extended. For this reason it seemed best to call the campaign homeforth the "Official Nation-Wide Campaign of the American Bankers, Association." Already there is every promise of a most successful movement. Interest is growing and momentum is increasing daily as more bankers signify their determination to give the campaign their enthusiastic support. Of course the American-Bankers Association is not soliciting anything of its members. The campaign is a part of the constructive service program of the Association. M. W. Harrison, Secretary Savings Bank Section American Bankers Association, Five Nassau Street, New York. Zamolos Carter attempted to shoot a girl in front of 1916 North First Street last Tuesday night. The bulldog struck Howard Allegn in the arm. PASTOR VINDICATED BY HIS CHURCH. At a meeting of the congregation of the First Calvary Baptist Church, held on the 30th of July, 1916, immediately after the usual morning service, upon motion the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1. That the recent publication in the Journal and Guide (issue of July 29th, 1916) of what purports to be the proceedings of an ex parte council "called to consider the difficulties between the First Calvary Baptist Church and L. A. Wright, formerly clerk of the church and S. Taylor, formerly deacon" is unjust both to the church and to our beloved pastor Rev. P. J. Wallace, D. D. 2. The statement that the church is or has been in a state of turmoil and trouble is untrue: for as a matter of fact harmony has prevailed to a degree second to that in no other church in the city. While it is not to be expected that perfect harmony will ever exist in any body of large membership, we know that Christian love, good will and harmony prevail to an exceptional degree among our members. 3. That the charges and institutions in the published account of the ex parte council meeting which reflect upon the conduct of our pastor as a minister, as a Christian gentleman or as worthy upright and honorable citizen are untrue. Dr. P. J. Wallace has been pastor of this church for the last ten years. When he was called to it's pastorate, the church was in anything but a prosperous condition. By his untiring energy and splendid talents as an organizer, but chiefly by the example of his spotless Christian Character, a new spirit has been breathed into the church work, as an evidence of which our membership has been more than doubled, and we will soon have a new church built mainly by the voluntary contributions of our members alone. 4. That these resolutions be recorded in the minute book of the church, and that a copy of the same be furnished to the press for publication. Deaconss D. Griffin, H. Blow, A. Harris, T. C. Skinner, W. H. Stokes, L. Morris, J. Battis, S. Clayborne, J. B. Praxton, R. L. Holm, F. Brooks, A. T. Archer, S. Allen. Trustees, T. C. Skinner, W. H. Trustees - T. C. Shiner, W. H. Studios, R. H. Fields, J. A. Harris --- GRAND CHANCELLOR MITCHELL AT TUCKAROE BAPTIST S. S. UNION. The Tuckahoe Baptist Sunday School Union hold a annual session with the Good Hope Well Baptist Sun day School last Sunday. It was one of the best meetings for some time. The Union was called to order at two oclock. After opening in regular form, the program of the various schools was tendered. All present were delighted with the exercises. Just before the last of the program Mr. James A. Scott drove up in his seven passenger car, with our honored Mr. Mitchell. He was escorted to the rostrum by our Missionary, Deacon James Norrell. At the completion of the program, the President stated that he had been successful in getting Mr. Mitchell to be present with us today, after which he introduced Mr. James A. Scott, who in turn introduced the speaker, Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's speech was grand and encouraging. For more than half an hour he told us about the success of the colored man and the manner and what he should do to be successful in the future. We are truly glad to know that God has not spared a man that is fearless and will stand for the right in the behalf of his race. We pray God's blessing upon him for greater progress in life. The officers are M. L. Carter, President; P. E. Norrell, Secretary; L. D. Lewis, Treasurer. THE NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE PREPARING FOR A "GET TOGETHER." Widepread Interest is being shown in the proposal made by Rev. Byron Gunner, President of the National Equal Rights League, that the colored people hold a National Race Congress and get together on their civil and political rights and disabilities. In the tentative call, Rev. Gunner, from Hillburn, N. Y., advises that this get-together meeting be held within 60 days at some central location in the North. The Secretary of the League, William Monroe Trotter, joins in urging the Congress and sacks leaders in each community to form Equal Rights Committees and arrange meetings to send representation. An exchange of views on the project is invited, the Secretary's address being 27 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. —With little extra effort you can get one our price graphaphones. See on book page. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916 GRAND CHAPTER, O. E. 8. MET IN PORTSMOUTH, VA. The fifteenth annual session of the Grand Chapter of Order of Eastern Star was held in Portsmouth, Va., July 24-27, 1916. The session was harmonious and smooth. The following officers were elected: Dr. H. L. Harris, G. Patron; Mrs. Mary A. Kerr, G. M.; W. Henry Jones, G. A. P.; Mrs. H. L. Johnson, G. A. M.; Mrs. Ida R. Harris, G. Secretary; Mrs. M. C. Stoward, G. Treasurer. A CALL TO ARMS! To the Missionaries, B. Y. P. U., and Sunday School Workers, of the Baptist State Sunday School Convention of Virginia: Our next Annual Session will be held at Loyal Street Baptist Church, Danville, Va., August 23, 1916, Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D. Pasgrat, Prof. G. W. Woody, Superintendent. This bid fair to be a great Sunday School Congress. Some of the most learned laymen and professional men and women will be there to discuss pertinent subjects concerning the spiritual, intellectual and material development of our race. The work we support is in excellent condition and we need sufficient funds to help in keeping it up to the standard; therefore I make an earnest plea that we use every effort to bring a large contribution to help our educational and mission work, and to accomplish more this year than ever. J. S. Lee, President, J. K. Trent, Corresponding Secretary. BAPTIST ORGANIZATIONS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. All Baptist-Associations, State and District Conventions holding annual meetings between now and July, should elect delegates to the Jubilee Meeting of 1917. Every association and convention of whatever size of Baptist workers should be represented. Now is the time to elect delegates. The authoritative date of the Jubilee meeting is July 10th-1917. Very truly yours. S. A. Mossa, Chairman Jubilee Committee. JUBILEE COMMITTEE TO MEET Danville, Va. July, 17th, 1916. All members of the Jubilee Committee are hereby called to meet in Danville Virginia, August 23rd, during the meeting of the State Sunday School Convention. This is the first meeting of the Committee and all members are urgently requested to be present. Very truly yours. S. A. Moses, Chairman Jubilee Committee. WILL EMPLOY 4,000 MEN. The American Locomotive Works will employ 1,000 men in making shafts for the allies. Guardians are kept on the Fifth St. Vladuet day and night to protect the works from bombs and other explosives, which might be thrown down into the plant. FROM LEESBURG. Quite a big turnout at the Odd Fellows' picnic Saturday at Gleedsville. We are told some one was shot in the knee. In sad, but loving remembrance of our beloved husband and father, J. F. Coleman, who departed this life, July 12, 1915, at 11:40 o'clock. Oh, so sad but loving remembrance comes to my heart today, as I sit and think of you, father, that was taken from us. I cannot forget you father, though long may seem the year and of the lonely hours. I wipe away my tears. Oh, our family circle was broken when our loved one passed away. All through his long period of illness; he was always cheerful until the last. Everything loving heart and willing hands could do, was done by the family. Mrs. Edmonia Grigg, of Pittsburg. Miss Rockey Arm Manley of Washington and their niece were the guest of Mrs. Clifton Hatcher the week and Mrs. Julia Layton, of Washington was the guest of Mrs. E. P. Diggs on Sunday. Mrs. Layton gave some very wholesome talk at the Mt. Zion M. E. Church, as Woman's Day Exercise was the order of the day. Providence Baptist Choir has been invited to sing for the Lincoln Baptist Church Sunday, August 6th. We are glad to learn Mrs. Pauline Spiller is on the road to recovery, after a week's illness. The colored folios are beginning to friddle and shoot each other. PERSONALS AND BRIEFN. Mr. E. A. Washington was in the city Sunday. Mr. Samuel Washington left for Washington, D. C. last Sunday. Miss Antoinette E. Bowler is spending a while in Louisiana, Va. Mastor Mettauer Vaughan left for Farmville, Va. last Friday. Mr. G. Henry Reid is visiting relatives and friends in New York City and Cambridge, Mass. Col. Adolphus Jackson is spending the season at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Mrs. Martha B. Scott, of Huntington, W. Va., is visiting her nephew, Rev. J. Andrew Bowler. You may not want to be buried now, but some friend of yours may have need of such attention. That is why Messrs. C. P. Hayes and Pro-dosing business as A. Hayes Sons are ready to serve you. Terms reasonable. You could not do better than to phone us concerning our advertising rates. A notice put in these columns will benefit us as well as help you. They are there. Charles G. Jurrens' Son has kept up the reputation of the house established by his father. You will find up to date furniture there on the most reasonable terms. See ad. You know the name "Heller." You ought to know just what the preparations made by this well-known establishment will do. When you groom your money there, you get the full benefit of years of experience and skillful treatment. Brown and Robinson have fitted up palatial quarters to do business and they are handling the business that has come to them. If you wish to place your rental with a reliable firm, call and see them. Mrs. Heresenta N. N. left last Tuesday to spend her vacation at Tanty City, N. J. Your teeth do not abide, but they can be cleaned up and repaired. Dr. C. S. Cowan to the one to do it. He is in the Mechanics Savings Bank building, third floor. Have you secured one of our prize umbrellas. Read big umbrella offer on page seven. Edward Stewart's grocery is right at your door, so to speak. All you have to do is phone your orders and his wagon will back up to your door and deliver the goods. The Sunday School Publishing Company will fill your orders for all religious literature. Write or call and see them. Try the Vacation Club. It is now forming. You know you will want some money next Summer. Save up for that time. Have you gotten an umbrella? Plenty of people have secured them. Thirty dollars worth of comps will get you one free of charge. When you pay your subscription, ask for umbrella coupons. When you have job work done, ask for umbrella coupons. When Banker Henry W Rountree, backs anything, you may know it is all right. That is why we are telling you about the Rountree Cherry Corporation. Bridal couples and prospective housekeepers have a standing in invitation to call. The Rising Mt. Zion Baptist, S. S. is going to Claremont. It is a pleasant trip going through Dutch Gap August 25. You can bank by mail. Send your money. We will keep it for you and pay you interest. Mechanics Savings Bank, N. W. Corner Third and Clay streets. The Detention Home for colored boys and girls will be located on Leigh street, between 4th and 5th Sts. Our talking machines are ready now. Call at the Planet Office and hear them. They are free to anybody, who brings us the required number of coupons. GRAND CHANCELLOR B. G. COLLIER BE-ELECTED. The session of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythia of Pennsylvania was the best in its history. The rules were suspended and Grand Chancellor B. G. Collier was re-elected by a unanimous vote. He has succeeded in purchasing for the Order one of the cheapest and best Pythian Castles in the country. TOLLIVERS SMART SET HERE NEXT WEEK. Commencing Monday night, August 7, Tollers Smart Set Company will open in this city for their first appearance this year. This show carries over one hundred colored performers and is known throughout the South. Novelty Acts, Singing, Dancing and the great "Hamtree Chorus" are some of the features of this great aggregation. Madam Ralney, famous singer of the "Blues" Wells and Wells, well-artists, Dabby Martin, of Smart Set fame, Gatnes Brothers in fancy aerobat and fire escape net and last but not least, our old friend Peg Lightfoot "Pog Leg" dancer are a few of the people still with the show this year. Remember this is our first time here this season and do not mistake this for a small show but remember this is the one big show…Tollers Smart Set that caused such a sensation here last year. The show grounds will be located on Q and 30th Street, Churchhill. The admission will be the same—10 cents to everyone. 10 cents for reserved seats. Remember we carry a water proof canvas seating over 5000 people. Doors open 7:30, performance starts 8:30 prompt. Do not forget the date. Y. W. C. J. The Bible Study Class meets regularly on Friday evenings. The exposition of the Sunday School lesson is helpful. Veteran service, July 20, was unusual interesting. Mr John S. Powell, President of the Y M. C. A, was the principal speaker. He was followed by Mr. McCrow, State Secretary of Y M. C. A. The membership Committee and the Finance Committee are highly pleased with the patronage given them at the hawn party. The girls are enthusiastic. A group shows its prowess. Eighteen residents in the home at present. We have two off on vacation Rev. A. A. Hector will speak at Vectors next Sunday. The public meetings are well attended but we desire a certain to see our friends at any time. We want them to see us in working order ATTORNEY JACKSON'S SON GONE James A. Jackson son of Attorney Oliver R. Jackson on died Tuesday, August 1, 1916. 1 Lov P. M., at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., after an illness of several months. He was 41 years of age. His funeral will take place Sunday, August 6, 1916, at St. Phillips P. E. Church, at 10 P. M. He leaves a father, mother, four sisters, one brother and wife to pearn their loss. No Special Rooms for Them. The Virginia Hospital has decided that it has no power to set aside special rooms for the Fire Department, Police Department and Street Cleaning Department. Members of these departments will be received though just as any other patient is received. --- MANN - Departed this life at the home of her parents, 1316 Boyd St. Monday morning, July 21, 1916 at 3:15 A.M. Josephine Mann, in the twelfth year of her age. She leaves a mother, father, six sisters, two brothers and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Funeral took place from the home Wednesday, at 3:00 o'clock. Asleep in Jesus. --- Protection of Wells and Outhouse Briefly Covered in New Bulletin. Richmond, Va. Aug. 2, 1916—(Special.) To supply farmers and residents of unpowered towns with information necessary to protect their water and sewage, the State Board of Health has released in compact form its bullet tin on Health Insurance, and has available a large edition for distribution free of charge to interested persons. The bulletin explains how wells and springs may be protected and how sanitary privates may be constructed at small cost. STILL AFTER THE TAX PAYING CITIZEN The Administrative Board has directed the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance requiring citizens to fill in all holes, where stagnant water col leets. LIBBY HILL ROAD-WAY CLOSED. The road-way around the top of Libby Hill Park has been closed to automobiles and other vehicles. HEALTH OFFICERS' PAY. To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: It is most unfortunate that the alarm which has been aroused by the epidemic of infantile paralysis in New York should be attributed to the publicity which has been given it by the local health authorities. Not only are the people entitled to this information, but publicity is also recognized as one of our most valuable weapons in fighting epidemics. We have two classical instances of its value. When bubonic plague was discovered in San Francisco, about 1903, its presence was at first denied on account of pressure brought to bear by commercial interests. The disease spread saddens, worse than the actual facts, circulated and the situation became critical. Not until this policy was reversed and the public fully informed as to the facts was confidence restored and the epidemic stopped. A few years later yellow fever appeared in New Orleans. By this time the value of publicity had come to be recognized. There was no attempt at concealment, but the full facts were given out daily. There was no panic. The epidemic was controlled, with little loss to business. Why is that publicity, which was so potent a factor in saving the day when bubonic plague threatened San Francisco, and when yellow fever threatened New Orleans, is being charged with creating a panic in New York in connection with the present epidemic of infantile paralysis? The answer is not hard to find. When the health authorities finally took the people into their confidence in San Francisco as to the number of cases of plague in that city, they will not hide from them the terrible nature of the disease or the haze it had wrought in past times. But they were able to state that sanitary science had discovered the way in which it spread and to explain to them the definite, convincing programme by which it could be stopped. The campaign against infant plague was a campaign against rat. It was put into effect and the epidemic was controlled. Publicity was of great value in stopping the spread of yellow fever in New Orleans because through publicity the people learned that this disease is spread by a certain kind of mosquito. A campaign against mosquitoes was successful in averting the epidemic. Publicity can get no such results as there in New York because sanitary science has not yet discovered how in infant paralysis is spread, because it is impossible to outline a plain effective campaign for its control. In this fact has the full explanation why publicity has caused alarm instead of confidence. There is a further lesson in all this. Why is it that sanitary science has not discovered the means of spread of infant paralysis? It is because of the meagre support given to public health work. Heath officers are paid salaries small and they are so subject to loss of their positions, by political influences that many young men are kept from choosing sanitary science as their profession. Those who enter this profession and make a success of it are constantly being taken from public service by commercial concerns, which offer them salaries many times what they get in public office. Our states and the Federal service are thus robbed of their best men, unless these men are willing to make a constant personal sacrifice for the public good. This is not all. In other directions our departments of health do not receive the support which would enable them to do their best work. Research must be encouraged, even though immediate results are not always forthcoming. Had there been liberal support of research work in sanitary science, not only in the laboratory but also in the field, not only in our largest cities but in our towns and rural districts all over the country, it is more than probable that we would today have definite knowledge concerning the means by which infantile paralysis is spread, and in consequence knowledge of the means whereby its spread can be controlled. New York pays to its Commissioner of Health $2,600 a year; to the Director of Public Health Education $5,000 a year; to the Registrar of Records $5,000 a year; to the Director of the Division of Child Hygiene $5,000 a year; to medical inspectors, from $1,020 to $3,000 a year; to dentists from $1,200 to $1,500 a year; the budget appropriation for the maintenance of the Health Department of this city for 1916 was $3,210,361.60, and the Board of Estimate under the law must make whatever appropriations the Board of Health certifies are necessary for the protection of the public. The department employees are practically all safeguarded in their jobs by the civil service law. Our Riich- mond friend is mistaken if he believes the New York Department suffers from lack of money or uncertain tenure of office. FROM THE OWENS One of the most valued presents in our collection of gifts is a handmade leather collar and cuff box marked, "Love the Owens." It always brings pleasant reminders of the time spent in Los Angeles, California, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Owens and his charming wife. We hope some day to have them come this way in order that we may return the compliment, or it may be that some other time, we may back in the sunshine of that southern California again. COLLECTED MUCH MONEY Police Justice John J. Crutchfield collected $2,600.50 in fines during the month of July. A large proportion of this money was contributed by the colored people. SURMARINE GONE. The German merchant submarine went through the Virginia coast last Wednesday night and disappeared from View at 8:30 P.M. She is known as the Deutschland, which means "The Germany." This remarkable vessel is the first upper sea boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean under its own steam. It can travel at about 25 miles an hour on the surface of the water and at about 12 miles per hour under the water. It is the best long and carried a cargo worth many million dollars. One trip has paid the expense of building the boat her sister ship. The Bremen is now here. LEFT MONEY TO HER MAID Mrs Ellen Squirrel Huntley, formerly of this city died last April in New York, and in her will left $5000 of her $10,000 estate to her maid, Minne- c F. Smith. PUT INNOCENT JANITOR IN CLLL The police, or at least some members of the police force, seem to be able to arrest almost anybody but those who have been having a carnival robbing houses in this locality. They took their own janitor of the First Police Station, Ren Timberlake by name, and looked him up, charging him with knowing something about the death of John Brown, a coloured man who was found dead. Brown's body was dig up and an antique hold, by Corner Taylor before Timberlake could secure his release. Timberlake stated that Brown was asking and he went to his assistant. He was put in a cell at the NOT AN ENIGMA "The Euroka Blixie Life Chart the Attorney James Alexander Cates of Levington. Kentucky is not an enigma. --- Florence, S. C., Aug., 1919. Miss M. E. Brawley, of Durham N. C., daughter of Dr E. M. Utsawy passed through the city recently returning from Doveville, N. C. en route for home. Miss Brawley is graduate of Tuskegee School and now assistant teacher in the graded school at Durham, N. C. Richmond, Va., Aug. 2, 1916 Editor of the Planet: Please allow me space in your paper for the announcement of my birthday. I was born in Stanton County, $ miles from Frederickburg, August 5, 1847. I belonged to Win Irving, and was sold in 1802 to Andrew Elllett, of Richmond, Va. This is my 90th birthday and I would like all my friends to remember me. Yours respectfully, THOMAS BYRD MEMORIAL MEETING The Booker T. Washington Memorial Committee held a meeting at the First Baptist Church last Monday night. President William Isaac Johnson presiding. An interesting programme was rendered. Editor James W. Poe was secretary. Many persons there subscribed to the fund. Another meeting will be held shortly. MR. BLUFORD SUMMONED BEFORE BOARD IN FLOOD INVESTIGATION (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) Complaints concerning Shockoe Creek overflow are the subject of an inquiry by the administrative board today. The board summoned I. Bluford, who had alleged negligence on the part of the city and the board in looking after the creek. Chairman, Hirschberg sent a summons to Mr. Bluford to appear before the board at 10:30 A. M. and requested the attendance of City Engineer Boiling, Dr. E. C. Levy, chief health officer; Chief Sanitary Officer Truck, of the health department, and the clerk of the board. The clerks were asked to attend because Mr. Bluford had stated that he had called the attention of the board to the condition of Shockoe Creek Saturday, and nothing had been done. Clerk Heckman said he had talked with some one over the telephone, presumably Mr. Bluford, between 1 and 2 o'clock Saturday, that no members of she board were in city hall at the time, and that he had gone to the city engineer's department and reported that she had been in the water. "Major Hankins said the water was all over creation and nothing could be done," said Clerk Heckman. CITY ENGINEER'S STATEMENT City Engineer Bolling told of his visit to Shuckneck Creek valley Saturday day between 1 and 2 o'clock. He had gone to Franklin and Union streets Near Mr. Bluford's place of business he said he saw street cleaners at work cleaning barrels out of the stream. He said he also saw men of his own department and Mr. Bluford's men at work. Mr. Bolling saluted he had availed the arches through which the creek ran and that everything seemed to be all right, except for the overflow. The city engineer told of talking with Chairman Hirschberg over the phone Sunday morning and of receiving orders to do everything possible. Chief Sanitary Officer Tuck said that everything possible in the face of the flood had been done to look after families driven out by the flood. "EVERYTHING POSSIBLE!" HE SAID. Chairman Harsberg then, addressing Mr. Bluford, said that the board had asked him to be present to show him that the board was doing every thing possible. He said he did not think that the board desired criticism. The chairman said that he sought a spirit of cooperation. He also would ask that the board be more complied. He said that the work on closing in Shookoe Creek was being done as fast as appropriations were available. HOW MR. BLUFORD VIEWED IT Mr. Bluford said he looked upon his summons as a reprimand and so he not think everything positive he had been "home to alleviate the gloominess of institute Negroes." "Two women told me that they had applied for not to the city home and all they got was a loaf of bread," said. "Mr. Cabell reported here this morning," said Chairman Hirschberg. "The two women had applied for that ratione were offered them, but all they wanted was a loaf of bread. Now Mr. Bluford, you have helped the Negroes with money and they go to you with their tales to get sympathy and more money. The board and the city will do everything possible to aid and keep them equipped with loaf give them clothing and other necessities. "We thank you for coming here." CONCERNED ONLY AS TO THE BOARD In his opening remarks Chairman Hirsberg called attention to the fact that he merely wished to deal with Mr. Bluford's criticism so far as it related to the administrative board. "Matters relating to the mayor and the chief of police we will not go into," the chairman announced. Following the exclusive publication in Monday's News Leader of a statement of distressing conditions in Shockoe Creek valley, following the heavy rains, made by I. Bluford, whose place of business is in the valley, Mrs. Norman V. Randolph repaired to the scene early Tuesday morning and spent the greater part of the day there. Suspectly, Mrs. Randolph took the trouble to call at the office to inform The News Leader that Mr. Bluford's statement had not exaggerated conditions, and that its publication was most timely. Yesterday, it will be recalled, Citizen Bluford, responding to a court summons, served by the sheriff, faced the administrative board as a result of his public statement. In a column statement, published below, Mr. Bluford today goes into great particularity in discussing what was not done for the relief of stricken families, reiterating his previous statement, and protesting against the attitude of the board toward him. Building Inspector Butler today informed The News Leader that the buildings in question were safe and habitable, and that he could not order their destruction. Chief Health Officer Levy today, responding to questions by The News Leader, said the houses were as fit for habitation as many others in the city and that he would not set the precedent of declaring them unfit. Mrs. Randolph, whose work carries her into the very heart of the colored section every day, declared to The News Leader with emphases that these Shockooe Creek shacks were worse than anything that had come under her observation. "It is difficult to conceive," she said, "that such things can exist in a civilized community." Mrs. Randolph declared that the city should not permit the using of these buildings, for two reasons: First, the inmates should be saved from such dangerous living conditions; second, citizens-at-large, in whose families some of these colored people worked as domestics should not be put in danger of pestilential disease. Mrs. Randolph spent from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. on the ground. The long-delayed relief of families, she said, when once started, was admirably handled by the police, the money for this work being provided from a fund raised in a similar emergency in 1915. STATEMENT OF MR. BLUFORD. Following is Mr. Bluford's signed statement: "I found that Shoekoe Creek was rising at a rapid rate Saturday, the water was coming down with an immense amount of debris, consisting of barrels, boxes, lumber, logs and roots of trees. I went to the arch at Marshall Street in the midst of the storm and saw unless action was taken at once that the water would overflow the entire valley, as the timber were blocking up the entire arch. I ran back to the shop and got my force of men. They went down there and cleared up the arch before anyone else arrived upon the scene. I then went to the telephone and commenced telephoning for assistance. I was got敲hed that the arch would be covered up again, unless we got more help. This was about 1 or 1:20 o'clock in the afternoon. GOT HOLD OF CLERK "I called up the administrative board and I could only get into touch with the clerk of the board. I asked him if the board had adjourned and had come home for the day. I asked the clerk if there was any way in which I could get into communication with the board or any of the city officials. He told me that he would try to get the city engineer, but could not get into touch with any of the other members. Sunday morning following it, I met Mr. Beck of the administrative board, and Mr. Davies of the water department. I called Mr. Beck to attend it to the broken arch of the building. I am satisfied that he had never seen that before and had never heard of it before except through me Monday following the flood. I called up Mr. Amelie mayor of the city of Richmond at 5:30 a.m. and told him of the deplorable state of affairs in the city and of the condition of the arch of Marshall street. CONVERSATION WITH DR LEVY "He told me that a so-called he wont dwell in town he would get the touch with the proper authorities Monday at about 10 a.m. I called up Dr. Levy, of the board of health and I could hardly get Dr. Levy to understand what I was talking about. Dr. Levy talked about the storm in North Carolina and what damage had been done all over the country, and said that this storm in Richmond was an act of God and that the city of Richmond was not responsible for it. He told me that he had sent a man down there. I told him that no body from the board of health had been there up to that hour. He said that someone from that department had been there. He said that I wouldn't come to his office and tell him there must not be one had been. Facts about this are that Mr. Tack, of the board of health, did he arrive on the scene until 4 o'clock of that afternoon. By that time, after The News Leader had come out, four members of the administrative board and several other city officials arrived on the scene. This was the first that we saw of my city officials, with the exception of Mr. Beck, who came down there Sunday. RELIEF ONLY YESTERDAY "So far as practical help was concerned the stricken district did not receive any up to that time, and it was not before yesterday at noon that the residents of the district received any food, and this was brought down there by the police being supplied out at a fund which was left over from last year. Today some of the people down there are without clothing and other things as necessary as food. "Several men headed by the city prisoner mill assistant, without any implements or tools with which to work Saturday afternoon, who said they would assist us in the work of removing the debris from the creek. This was after we had the situation in hand. No help for the stricken residents, however, came at all Saturday. I went around to the people and told them what Mr. Hirschberg, of the administrative board, had told me Monday afternoon after seeing conditions, to apply at the city home for food and clothing and a place to stay Mr. Hirschberg said that they would get these things there. The city home is located about two miles from the Shoekoe valley. However, I sent two colored women out there. One of these women who has several children told me that she asked for food at the city home that night; that they offered to let her stay there, but gave her only one loaf of bread. The other woman was also given a loaf of bread. This was all the food that they had had since the flood Saturday afternoon. One of these women went back Monday morning, walking the entire distance to get some rations. TWO DAYS TO RELIEVE THEM. "Conditions of famine of course, were the most pressing and it took about two days to relieve these, but the health menace has been entirely ignored. There has been no one at all down there from the city to assist in the work of cleaning up the place. Water is still in some of the houses and tainted with sewerage, as it is, the water is putrid. This alone is a condition which seems to demand immediate attention. What may be called my hearing before the administrative board I considered was merely a force. "I was placed in the role of being called before the board to defend myself because I had made a statement to The News Leader every word of which was a fact. It was not I. who was supposed to do the testifying at the board meeting, but the case was presented by a burialment of questions which were hurried at me. SUMMONED LIKE CRIMINAL "When I went to the board meeting I found myself confronted by a host of city officials who considered themselves aggrieved and who were acting the part of judges sitting on a case. I anticipated that this would be the situation and would not have gone to the meeting if I had not received regular court summons served by the city sheriff. They got and had me in their power and I was given no time in which to present my side of the case and hardly time to think before I found myself down on the sidewalk again with a verdict returned against me by the tribunal above. I never knew with what I was charged, but I suppose since what I said in The News Leader was not favorable to certain city officials I was charged with misstating the facts. I do not consider I got a square deal. There was apparently no effort on the part of the city officials to arrive at the facts in the case and to render what assistance they could, but there appeared to be a very strong effort to discredit me and absolve the city officials of any blame in the matter. The fact that no help came to the stricken district for two days and other facts which reflect what I consider negligence on the part of the city speak for themselves and the board could have ascertained these without summoning me. The fact I was summoned and put through a grilling showed that it was not the facts that were wanted, but punishment of myself for stating them in public." ```markdown ``` MR. WERSTER IN WILMINGTON I arrived here on Saturday, the 29th of July, at 2:55 P.M. The train was about two hours late from Florence over the A C railroad. I was somewhat jaded, and rested awhile at the garden while I conversed with friends. It was about 5:00 clock P.M. when I was taken to Fultsh. No 111, at the parapage of Mt Zion A.M. E. Church, where Rev R T Timberlake and family reside. I ford I Rev, and Mrs. Timberlake at home with the children Robert and Linda. Mrs. Timberlake be a sister of my wife, who died a few years ago. I visited his Sunday school at 2:30 Sunrise evening, when I addressed the school in interest of Negro literature. I also visited his church at the evening services and again I spoke. Rev Timberlake is a great church worker and is devoted to his congregation and takes pleasure in telling you that he has the finest choir in the city. I think, too, it would be a hard matter to find their equal. They sing with ease and uniformity. Mrs J. Timberlake is superintendent of the Sunday school, and Mr. James Londer is superintendent. Rey Timberlake has a fire horse and buggy to visit his members. I enjoyed a ride through the city with "Nolita" in the lead. When I left on Monday evening, Rey Timberlake was preparing to put into his church a large pipe organ. I attended the Minister's Conference and Union meeting at Central Baptist Church, Sunday morning. Rey D. R. Madana, pastor At 12 o'clock, Mrs W. O. Madana delivered an excellent address on the needs of the Fashion Industrial School. A collection of $15.00 was raised for the benefit of the school. Rey Madana is giving the church good service, and it is in turn appreciated by his people. At 5 o'clock P. M. I addressed St. Stephens A. M. E. Sunday School, and was kindly received by the superintendent, teachers and pastor. Rev. E. H. McGill, pastor of the William Chapel A. M. E. Church or Orangeburg, S.C. received the lesson for the school. S.C. made Mrs. Tinghorelake and children aden and were taken to the Union station by Rev. Tinghorelake and at 3:45 left the city on route for Florence, S.C. Florence, S. C., August 3.—Mr. W. J. Montgomery and son, Nicholas, of Miami, Fla., are here visiting friends and relatives. Mr. N. D. Bacote, of Society Hill, S. C., passed through the city recently on route for Washington, D. C. Mr. Floyd Samuel, of Society Hill, S. C., passed through the city recently on route for Wilmington, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. M. McCall, of New York, left the city the 27th of July for a short visit to Charleston and Rufount, S. C. Mr. McCall is a native Florentine, and Mrs. McCall is a Kentuckian. Mrs. D. Capera Rowman, of New York, passed through the city recently on route to Jacksonville, Fla., to attend the funeral of her father. GUEST AT HOTEL DALE. Cape May, N. J. Madalene Alexander, Catherine Green, Wm. J. Drapr, Grant E. Gregor, Zanella Fluming, Mamie Warren, Mice K. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Roland, C. B. Lawrence, J. B. Johnson, Miss Fannie Gross, Dr. Janifer, Vict. Lawrence, J. Grey, all of Philadelphia. Ellison H. Gaines, Orange, Va.; Mrs. Willetta Mimms, Mr. J. B. Nelson, of New York; Jno. H. Golins, Washington, D. C.; Paul Morris, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes, Ardmore, Pn.; Jas C. Frazer, Wildwood, N. J.; Wm. C. Price, Penelo, N. C. Subscribe Now! You need a good, live, up-to-date newspaper, then why not subscribe to The Richmond Planet? $1.50 per year in advance COUNT'S ASSIGNMENTS BENEFICIED BY THE BOARD. Administration with Council to have Crowned Street City Units With Respect. Alleged discourteous treatment by Police Justice Crutchfield of officials and Justice Netts of the courts under the Administrative Board's control on numerous occasions when these appeared in the Police Court as witnesses against persons charged with violating city ordinances, caused the board yesterday to adopt the following motion: "That the Council be requested, through His Honor the Mayor, to have the Police Justice or the city of Richmond; John J. Crutchfield, treat with proper respect the city officers under the Jurisdiction of the Administrative Board when they appear in his court for the transaction of necessary and important city business." The motion was offered by Commissioner John Hirschberg, and was adopted without debate. Shortly before this the board had adopted two motions offered by Commissioner Beck, the first asking the Mayor to inquire of Justice Crutchfield why the ordinance with reference to over crowding in the Police Court is not enforced, and asking the Mayor, further, to have the police force assist the custodian of this building to prevent the crowding of this court every morning. OVERCROWDING OF COURT MENACE TO HEALTH. The second motion provided that Chief Health Officer Levy be directed to report to the board "whether, in his opinion, the crowds that daily congregate in the Police Court should be allowed, in view of the present precautions health conditions existing in the city of Richmond." According to two members of the Administrative Board, Mr. Hirschberg and Mr. Jock, recent experiences of officials and employees of the departments under the Board's direction, testifying in the Police Court, have been in a high degree unsatisfactory instead of receiving at the hands of the presiding justice a ready sympathy and a spacious observation of the health and sanitary ordinances, the board asserts, its representatives have been in many cases received, with indifference approaching content. Recently the cases of the Police Court's lack of sympathy. It is charged, has been visited on the Health Department, whose officers and inspectors have acquired a dread of appearing before Justice Crutchfield in the prosecution of offenders, because of his rashness to hold them up to ridicule. Instead of disposing promptly of ordinance violation cases and imposing the fines required by the regulations, he proposes to impose respect for the regulations. Justice Crutchfield has repeatedly postponed case, practice which it is charged, mitigating against the proper observance of the city's ordinances bearing on health and sanitation. LEVY REPORTS POND NEAR CRUTONFIELDS HOUSE The board adopted the Hirschberg motion following an unpleasant experience between Justice Crutchfield and Chief Health Officer Levy, the details of which were not made public. The Health Other had complained of a pool of standing water in front of Justice Crutchfield's residence, complained with the justice himself. The latter called Dr Levy into his office yesterday, and the two discussed the matter at some length. When Dr. Levy returned to the Admirement Board after the interview he was in a high state of excitement. Justice Crutchfield's remarks with regard to the complaint against him could not be borne, but they were of such a character as to cause Dr. Levy naive personal distress. Neither Dr. Levy nor Justice Crutchfield would discuss the matter last night. The board's adoption of the Hirschberg resolution recalled the adoption six or seven years ago by the Board of Police Commissioners of a resolution requesting Justice Crutchfield to abandon his practice of holding police officers up to ridicule since he had a sense of responsibility to accredit the Police Department and its efforts in the eyes of the criminal elements represented in the courtroom. The resolution was offered by former Police Commissioner W. Douglas Gordon, and was unanimously adopted by the Police Board. HOLDS CITY WITNESSES TO RIDICULISE BEFORE CROWD. Precisely the same complaint is now made by the Administrative Board. During the hearing of cases in which citizens are charged with infractions of the health and sanitary codes, the court, it is charged, frequently addresses remarks to the city's witnesses which hold them up to ridicule before the spectators. So acute has this condition become that Health Department inspectors have come to look upon their appearance in the Police Court as an ordeal to be readed. The motions offered by Mr. Beck are directed towards reducing the crowding, which is an objectionable feature of the daily sessions of the Police Court. The courtroom is located in the basement of the City Hall, several feet below the sidewalk line, and the indiscriminate packing of spectators, white and black, into the small basement room frequently produces a stifling congestion—Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch July 29. AMPLE TYPHOID VACCINE. State Board of Health Will Supply Wholesale Prices Those Who Desire Immunity. Richmond, Va., July 19—(Special) Despite the unprocedured demands for typhoid vaccine with which to immunize the National Guard, the State Board of Health today announced that it had an ample stock of this preventive on hand for sale at wholesale prices on the National immune typhoid fever. The vaccine is taken in three hypo- dermic infections, ten days apart, and usually causes little discomfort. In most cases a few fever for one preventing and a sufficient dose can for two days after each injection containing the only reaction. The three treatments are used in appropriate sterile syringes, ready for injection, at 60 cents for the three. Those who desire to have the vaccine injected with their physician's syringe can get the vaccine in ampules at 30 cents. The vaccine must be injected by a physician, is recorded specially useful for those who are forced to travel and for those who live in neighborhoods where typhoid fever is prevalent. All officers of the State Board of Health are immunized with it. HURLS HIMSELF FROM WINDOW J. R. Williams, of Cobham, Hygeia Patient, Leaps to Death. Said to have been temporarily insane, J. R. Williams, thirty-five years old, of Cobham, Va. under treatment at the Hygiae hospital for nervous troubles, today plunged headforemost from the third story of the hospital and was instantly killed. Superintendent C. D. Alton and Dr. R. H. Jenkins, who were attending him, stated that Williams was in better condition early this morning than for sometime. Shortly after 10 o'clock Williams was at the pool table on the third floor. Several other patients were near him on the roof garden. Without saying a word he left the table, climbed a high rolling and jumped, head struck the concrete pavement head, and he was killed. One of the nurses, Miss Wilford, saw Williams walking to the rolling, but paid no attention to him. When her back was turned he jumped. E. Puccinelli, confectioner on North Adams street; near Grace street. It was learned this afternoon, was perhaps the only eyewitness to Williams' act. "I was standing in front of my store fixing up my fruit stand," said the confectioner, when happening to glance upward. I was nearly struck dumb to notice a form hurtling through the air from the third story of the hospital. I saw that it was a man. His hands were stretched above his head just as if he were about to dive into water. In an instant there was a noise that could be heard possibly for two squares, the body of terrible imbalance, struck the body well. I ran to the assistance of the man, thinking that he had lost his balance while leaning out of the window. In a second there was a large crowd about the spot. The whole top of the man's head was crushed in. So far as is known Williams had no immediate relations. He was station agent for the Cheesapeake & Ohio railroad at Cobhann, but owing to nervous troubles was forced to abandon temporarily his position. He was admitted to the Hygene hospital July 7. It was said that nervous trouble was noticeable in his family. Dr. J. Allison Hodges stated today that precautions had been taken to prevent his patients from becoming excited at anything, but that this morning's accident was entirely unavoidable. Despite extreme care observed at the hospital it was recalled today that several of the patients had been injured at the Hygene in recent years. The last case was that of a woman patient from Charleston, W. Va., who plunged to her death from the same side of the building on which Williams met his death. Ten days ago, Dr. Hodges said, he advised Williams to go to the Westbrook sahatorium. Williams went in company with A. J. Bell, from Coham. In three days he returned and asked Dr. Hodges to allow him to remain at the Hygela. "I thought said Dr. Hodges, "that out in the country he would get the benefit of better alr." Dr. Hodges said that Williams seemed to be very melancholy for the last week. When he came to the hospital he was suffering with aphasia and from inability to speak, he thought. His condition was highly nervous. He later underwent an operation from which he seemed to recover rapidly, and seemed to be improved following the surgical treatment — Richmond Journal, Aug. 1. THE CALL FOR THE CIVIL WAR COTTON REVENUE TAX CLAIMS ANTS OF THE SOUTH The Chief Counsel of the case now pending in the interest of the Claimants of the Civil War Cotton Revenue Tax, hereby call on all the Civil War Cotton Revenue Tax Claimants, directing them to assemble in Convention on the last day of September, 1916, at the City of Canton, Mississippi, at the hour of 12 M. o'clock on said date. The purpose of this call is for the transaction of business of the most important nature relating to the further progress and prosecution of their case; and for a report from the Chief Counsel as relates to the progress of the case to the extent compatible with the interest of a proper management of the case; for the listing and otherwise perfect the identification as far as compatible, the onlishment and enrollment of the claimants as described in the bill of complaint. All persons who have enrolled themselves in the office of the Chief Counsel, and those who may enroll themselves between this date and the date for the assembling of the Convention, are directed to attend; to produce their receipts for such enrollment, and give the name of the Messenger who enrolled them, provided they were not enrolled by the Chief Counsel at headquarters or otherwise. All claimants must answer for themselves in person, but where there are those who cannot attend on account of illness, old age or other emergencies unforeseen, they must send theft own names to the Chief Counsel at headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., before the assembling of the Convention at Canton, Miss.; they must also send the name of the person who enrolled them, give the date when they gave their enrollment, and state the amount of money paid the Messenger who enrolled them. All claimants so enrolled are deferred to this Convention. Remember the date and place for the assembling of this Convention. COLUMBIA, MASS., on the first day of September, 1916. Signed this the 26th day of July, 1916, at headquarters, 228 1-8 Boise Ave., Memphis, Tenn. CORNELIUS J. JONES. Chief Counsel. HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRAD- HOWARD UNIVERSITY GRAD- UATES ORGANIZE. The thirty graduations of the many departments of Howard University organised the Richmond Chapter of the Alumni Association of the school Monday evening, July 24, 1916. The officers elected are Dr. R. C. Brown, president; Dr. J. C. Carper, vice-president; Dr. H. A. Allen, secretary; Dr. G. W. White, assistant secretary; Prof. P. J. Houry, treasurer. Chairman of the Executive Committee, Lawyer G. W. Lewis. Members—Doctors Allen, Blackwell Bowser, Andrew Brown, R. C. Brown, Calloway, Carper, Carr, Chambers, Cowan, Ferguson, Harris, Sr. Harris, Jr., J. E. Jackson, J. D. Jackson, M. B. Jones, Reid, Roane, Robinson, Smith, Tancil, White; Lawyers Henry, Lewis, Mimmis; Rev. R. V. Peyton; Department of Pedagogy, Mrs. Rosa K. Jones, Miss Nannie E. Johnston, Commercial and English Departments, Mrs. J. E. Jackson; Commercial, Mr. Wm. Thompson. This chapter of the Association was organized at the expressed personal wish of, and following consultation with, Dr. Stephen M. Newmar, president of the University. JUDGE McCANTS STEWART ABROAD As the good ship "Eckh" (Captain C. J. Williams, Commander) bore us away (myself and wife) I watched with conflicting emotions, as we passed out of Liberian waters, that Grand Old Sentinel of the Agua, Cape Mount; and as I looked, my mind swept across the years from 1883 when I first saw it, to that hour, March 9, 1916, when I waived it my sad "Au Revoir." What changes said "Au Revoir." What changes I reflectedly, have 33 years produced! All the giants gone, Barclays alone remaining! Territory gone; financial independence gone, civil life dead—the shadow of the Foreign Master Hand in Government clearly seen on the horizon! Shades of President Roberts and of Benson and Warner and Drayton and of Chief Justice Parsons! Did these Fathers live in vain? Despite the grim shadow of this awful war, the traveler finds life on this ship passing "like a marriage bell" plenty to eat, the most comfortable and commodious cabins, and the Captain as genial and kindly a seaman as ever sailed the seas, infusing his spirit into the whole ship, welding officers and crew and passengers into a family-like gathering. The only shadows crossing her path of our everyday life is the possibility of a sunlit raid, a sultry raider, or a striking a man floating on these trackless seas. Hence when on a bald, grim promontory rose out of the waters, the cry passed almost simultaneously from mouth to mouth "Canary Island!" And soon a long Neatness and High Class Work Is the motto in our composing room. There isn't a detail overlooked before the form is put on the press. A If you give us a printing order once YOULL COME AGAIN. OUR PATRONS ARE OUR BEST ADVERTISERS. If any one had to guess his name they would call him Sandy. -When Sandy gets 'charged' with Neme (a very bad concoction of many flavors of cheap alcoholic spirits) he thinks he is a great songster. The other night he kept his neighbors awake all night with a musical, the numbers on which program ranged all the way from 'curb-stone' ragtime, through the classic strains of Mosart up, to stricly religious sonatas. It seem that Sandy reached home about midnight and his wife refused to admit him. He sat on a bench at the door and the influence of the star-lit canopy of the night awakened his musical sense. Sandy made a line of lights glimored along the shore; bring and and almost within the shelter of the ship-lit hull where a warrior of the German General Military ship—monuments of the sturdyous fellow of the German General Military staff in drawing the sword and marching through Belgium. Here and there were merchant ships all flying British flags except one which floated the Stars and Strips of the great American Republic; and as one looked down from the glorious skies across the shimmering waters, there arose the Eternal Hills, which have stood there like Grim Old Man, and the grandour while men and ships have come and gone their way passing in endless procession into the Mysterious Beyond. And, now, as I write, pausing now again to glance out of the window, we look hopefully, aye prayerfully for a glimpse of the green fields of Ireland or the charming meadow lands of England for there we shall feel that we have escaped the floating mine and murderous submarine and our good ship is safe at home. Well, no matter what the end may be, I am at this moment thinking back to Liberia and dwelling with "mallee towards none" upon some of the phases of the strenuous life I have led there. As to opponents, I regret their narrowness, their lack of form, their lack of chicness to injure the country. As to friends, like Barley, Jackson, Wilmot Dunnis, Reeves, Liberty—the African League and others I wish they had been able to exert a larger influence in public and business life, and I hope to see the day when the people shall come into their own by the establishment of better government. One word more in this, my first letter—the War. You may depend upon it that the contending forces will fight to a finish. Either Germany will write on the international map, "Uber alles in der welt" or she will lie prostrate on her back before the allied hosts. Aside from the moral issues involved, the fight is for Alsace-Lorraine and Silviae. Germany draws the life-blood of her commercial activities from these provinces, seventy-five percent of her coal for her ships and her factories and the bulk of her salt and much of her oil. Without these her commercial life would be feasible. Germany goes this war France and Russia will take these provinces; and the tariffs which these are even now preparing to arrange against German trade will keep the poor for centuries to come, and the Kaiser's grave will not be kept green nor his memory handed down as a preus legacy. Mechants Stewart* At Sea, March 26, 1916. Monrovia, Liberian African Leap Submarine for Spain. The submarine Isaac Peral, said to be the first warcraft ever built in this country for Spain, was launched at the yards of the Foro River Ship building corporation, at Quincy, Massa. Mrs. Juan Rlano, wife of the Spanish ambassador, was sponsor. The vessel, named for a Spanish navigator, who experimented years ago with submarines, is 200 feet long and has a normal cruising radius of 300 miles without renewal of fuel supply. She is similar in design to the Mistral submarines being constructed for the United States. A crew has already arrived to take the Peral to Spain under her own power. The Spanish government is said to have contracted with the Foro River corporation for five additional submarines. Sex the Key to the Bible The World's Three Greatest Books C. By Sidney G. Tannen, Ph.D. "Mr. Tapp's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jaillie, make inroads you have been given in idea that has been given to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good, morally and spiritually. He may indeed produced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the civilized world. W. A. Thompson, M.D. W. A. Baw, M.D. R. M. McCubbins, M.D. H. F. Mikel, H. C. M.D. H. F. Mikel, H. C. M.D. We have arranged with the author to fill all orders for these books. Remit price of book or books you desire to this paper, and make of the book this paper to wish and the same will be sent to you at once. fow warbles to test out his pipes, emitted a few choice cues words and proceeded to render the first number on the night's program. After commenting on his ability to sing, he rendered a few religious pieces, each accompanied with profanity, used for 'expression and emphasis.' He completed the program at seven-thirty with "Darling, I Am Growing O-old" pausing at intervals and wring everyone to listen to the next note. This song seemed to please him immensely and he sang it over and over again. The Nemo finally died out and he, closed the exercise, with the information that "CANT A D—M SOIL SING LIKE I CAN SING!" The Thirty-nine Steps By JOHN BUCHAN Author of "Prester John" Copyright by Frank A. Munnery Company SYNOPSIS Richard Hannay, after making his pike in Rhodesia, returns to London. He meets Franklin P. Boudier, who tells him of his escape. Boudier, followed by splice, buys a carpe and makes it appear that he has committed suicide. By this raise Boudier throws the spies off the track for a few days. He is then murdered. The body is found by Hannay, and the spies are taken to two reasons: the spies because he the Boudier is sent, and by the police for the murder of Boudier. Borrowing the uniform of the milkman, who called early in the morning, Hannay gets away from the fat and catches a train for Scotland. As he goes off at a station station nine alight. Hannay gets rid of the three men and an airplane over the county. His notice on an airplane over the county. He makes a hike, who agrees to hide him. Two of his pursuer arrives at the inn. Hannay drops out of a window and impresses into service the automobile of his pursuer and strikes for the open country. The word "thirty-nine steps" in cool words hides the befriendly by man running for the office. Hannay makes a speech for the candidate. Then he tells him everything. The candidate's gaffer is permanent secretary of the foreign office, and he disguises himself as a detective with the portentous secret to London. Hannay disguises himself as a road man and throws his pursuits off the scent. He steals another automobile, compels the owner to change clothing with him and makes a fresh start. He finds refuge in a country house. The old gentleman who owns it proves to be the man Sunder said he "most dreaded" When the old gentleman calls him Richard Hannay he stoudy defies his identity. Hannay is locked in a stoveroom. With the discovery of his identity almost certain he blows up the place with chemicals. Terrifying wound, he finds refuge in an old mill. Leaving the mill at night, Hannay makes his way to the outside of the road man he has befriended. Stalker with fever, he has pursued Hannay for London. Sir Walter takes Hannay to London. At Sir Walter's home Hannay makes the remarkable discovery that a man who represents himself as the head of the British navy is a German spy. CHAPTER XIII. THE STEPS. "Nonsense!" said the gentleman from the admiralty. Sir Walter got up and left the room, while we looked blankly at the table. He came back in ten minutes with a long face. "I have spoken to Alloa," said. "Had him out of bed—very grumpy. He went straight home after Murray dinner." "But it was darkness," broke in General Whistanley. "Do you mean to tell me that that man came here and sat beside me for the best part of half an hour and that I didn't detect the imposture? Alloa must be out of his mind." "Don't you see the cleverness of it?" I said. "You were too interested in other things to have any eyes. You took Lord Alloa for granted. If it had been anybody else you might have looked more closely, but it was natural for him to be here and that put you off." Then the Frenchman spoke, very slowly and in good English. "The young man is right. His psychology is good. Our enemies have not been foolish!" "But I don't see" went on Winston. "Their object was to get the dispositions without our knowing it. Now it only required one of us to mention to Alison our meeting tonight for the whole fraud to be exposed." Sir Walter laughed drily. "The selection of Alloa shows their acumen. Which of us was likely to speak to him about it tonight?" "Or was he likely to open the court?" I remembered the first six words reputation for tactility and shortness of temper. "The one thing that puzzles me" said the general. "Is what good his left here would do that any fellow he could not early say several names and strange names in his head." "That is not difficult." The French man replied. "A good one is trained to have a photographic memory. It yours own Macauley. You not only said nothing, but won't, through these papers again and again. I think we may assume that he has ever stained on his mind. When I was younger I could do the same trick." "Well, I amnoone there is nothing for it but to change the plane," said Sir Walter Russell. Whittaker was looking very glum. "Did you tell Lord Allos what had happened?" he asked. "No? I can't speak with absolute assurance. I'm nearly certain we can't make any serious change unless we alter the geography of England." "Another thing must be said." It was known why spoke. "I talked freely when that man was here. I told everyone of the military plans of my so much. But that information would be much more useful to our enemies. I am no one who Way. The man who came here and his confederates must be taken and taken at once." "Good God!" I cried. "And we have not a rage of a claw." "Berkke," said Whittaker, "there is the post. By this time the news will be on its way." "No," said the Frenchman. "You do not understand the ways of the spy. There Also Was a Drawing Showing a Flight of Steps. He receives personally his reward, and he delivers personally his intelligence. We in France know something of the breed. There is still a chance, peasants. These men must cross the sea, and there are ships to be searched and ports to be watched. Believe me, the need is desperate for both France and Britain." Royer's grave good sense seemed to pull us together. He was the man of action among fumblers. But I saw no hope in any face, and I felt none. Where among the 50,000,000 of these islands and within a dozen hours were we to lay hands on the three cleverest rogues in Europe? Then suddenly I had an inspiration. "Where is Soudier's look?" I asked Sir Walter. "Quick, man, I remember something in it." He unlocked the driver of a bureau and gave it to me. I found the place. "Thirty-nine steps." I read, and again "Thirty-nine steps." I counted them. High tide 10:17 p.m. There also was a drawing showing a flight of steps by the sea. There were scores of such places along the coast. It wasn't very definite. The admiralty man was looking at me as if he thought I had gone mad. "Don't you see it's a claw." I cried. "Boulder knew where these fellow laired—he knew where they were going to leave the country, though he kept the name to himself. Tomorrow was the day, and it was some place where high tide was at 10:17." "They may have gone tonight," some one said. "Not them. They have their own anug secret way, and they won't be hurried. I know Germans, and they are mad about working to a plan. Where the devil can I get a book of tide tables!" Whitaker brightened up. "It's a chance," he said. "Let's go over to the admiralty." We got into two of the waiting motorcars—but Sir Walter, who went off to Scotland Yard—to "mobilize MacGillitty," so he said. We marched through empty corridors and big, late chambers where the charwomen were busy, till we reached a little room lined with books and maps. A resident clerk was unearthed, and presently folded from the library in ordinary tables. I sat at the desk and the others stood for somehow or other I had got out of this expedition. It was no good. There were hundreds of entries, and as far as I could it might cover fifty places. We did find some way of narrowing the obstacles. I took my head in my hands and ought. There must be some way of calling this riddle. What did Sunderland can be steps? I thought of deck qs. but if he had meant that I did not think he would have mentioned the harbor. It must be some place where there are several staircases and one mark out from the others by having thirty, me steps. Then I had a sudden thought and untied up all the steamer sailings; there was no boat which left for the antient at 10:17 p.m. Why was high tide important? If it was a harbor it must be wide little face where the tide matter, or else it was a heavy draft boat. But there can no regular steamer sailing at that hour, and somehow I didn't think they would travel by a big boat from a regular harbor. So it must be some little harbor where the tide was important or perhaps no harbor at all. But if it was a little port I couldn't see what the steps signified. There were no sets of staircases on any harbor that I had ever seen. It must be some place which a particular staircase identified and where the tide was fall at 10:17. On the whole, it seemed to me that the place must be a bit of open coast. But the stifness kept puzzling me. Then I went back to wider considerations. Whereabouts would a man be likely to leach for Germany, a man in a burry who wanted a speedy and a secret passage? Not from any of the big harbors, and not from the channel or the west coast or the north of Scotland, for, remember, he was starting from London. I measured the distance on the map and tried to just myself in the enemy's shoes. I should try for Antwerp or Rotterdam, and I should go somewhere on the east coast between Cromer and Dover. All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of hostinct about questions like this. I don't know if I can explain myself, but I used to use my brain, as far as they went, and after they came to a blank wall I groomed, and I mostly found that my groomess came pretty neatly being right. So I got cut all my contributions on a list of admirers present. They can follow. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PAIRLY CERTAIN. Place where there are several sets of doors, and where they are distinguished by having thirty-nine steps. Booond.-Full tide at 19:17 p. m., from leaving. Shore only attains at full tide. Third.—Steps not dock steps and so place probably not harbor. Fourth.-No regular night steamer at 10:17. Means of transport must be tramp (unlikely) yacht or fishing boat. There my reasoning stopped. I made another list, which I headed "Gueseed," but I was just, as sure of the one as the other: GUESSED. First—Iince not harbor, but open coast. Second—Boat small-trawler, yacht or launch. Third—Ice somewhere on east coast between Cromer and Dover. It struck me as said that I should be sitting at that desk with a cabinet minister, a field marshal, two high government officials and a French general watching me, while from the scribble of a dead man I was trying to drag a secret which mount life or death for us. Sir Walter had joined us and presently MacGillivray arrived. He had sent our instructions to watch the forts and railway stations for the three gentlemen whom I had described to Sir Walter. Not that he or any of his colleagues thought that that would do much good. "Here's the most I can make of it." I said. "We have to find a place where there are several staircases down to the beach, one of which has thirty-one steps. I think it's a piece of open coast with bigglass cliffs somewhere between the wash and the channel. Also it's a place where full tide is at 10:17 tomorrow night." Then an idea struck me. "Is there no inspector of coast guards or some follow like that who knows the coast const?" Whittaker said there was and that he lived in Clipham. He went off in a car about to fetch him, and the rest of us sat about the little room and talked of anything that came into our heads. I a lit pipe and went over the whole thing again till my brain grew weary. About 1 in the morning the coast guard man arrived. He was a fine old fellow with the look of a naval officer and was desperately respectful to the company. I left the war minister to cross examine him, for I felt he would think it check in me to talk. "We want you to tell us the places you know on the coast where there are cliffs and where several sets of steps run down to the beach." He thought for a bit. "What kind of steps do you mean, sir? There are plenty of places with roads cut down through the cliffs, and most roads have A "Were on the scent at last?" I cried. a step or two in them. Or do you mean regular staircases, all steps, so to speak? Bir Arthur looked toward me. "We mean regular staircases," I said. He reflected a minute or two. "I don't know that I can think of any. Walt a second. There's a place in Norfolk -Brattlesham - beside a golf course, where there are a couple of staircases to let the gentlemen get a host ball." "That's not it," I said. "Then there are plenty of marine parades, if that's what you mean. Every seaside resort has them." I shook my head. "It's got to be more retired than that," I said. "Well, gentlemen, I can't think of anywhere else. Or course there's the Ruf" "The big chalk headland, in Kent, to bindrate. It's got a lot of villas on the top, and some of the houses have staircases down to a private beach. It's a very high toned sort of place, and the residents there like to keep by themselves." I tore open the tide tables and found Bradgate. High tide there was, at 10:27 p.m. on the 15th of June. "We're on the scent at last!" I cried excitedly. "How can I find out what in the tide at the lintu?" "I can tell you that, sir," said the coast guard man. "I once was loaned a house there in this very month, and I used to go out-at night to the deep sea dashing. The tide's ten minutes before Bradgate." I closed the book and looked around at the startled company. "If one of those staircases has thirty-nine steps we have solved the mystery, gentleman." I said. "I want the loan of your car. Sir Walter, and a map of the roads. Mr. McGillway, will spare me, ten minutes. I think we can prepare something for tomorrow." It was ridiculous in me to take charge of the busness like this, but they didn't seem to mind, and after all, I had been in the show from the start. Besides, I was used to rough John, and these eminent gentlemen were too clever not to see it. It was General Royer who gave me my commission. "I for one," he said, "am content to have the matter entirely in Mr. Hannah's hands." By half past 3 I wasearing past the moonlit hedgebrow of Kent with MacGilltray's best man on the seat beside me. CHAPTER XIV. Various Parties Converging on the Sea. A PINK and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin hotel over a smooth sea to the lighthouse on the Cock sands, which looked the size of a bell buoy. A couple of miles farther south and much nearer the shore a small destroyer was anchored. Seafife, McGillivray's man, who had been in the navy, knew the boat and told me her name and her commanders, so I sent off a wire to Sir Walter. After breakfast Seafife got from a house agent a key for the gates of the staircases on the Ruff. I walked with him along the stairs and sat down in a book of the cliffs while he investigated the half dozen of them. I didn't want to be seen, but the place at this hour was quite deserted, and all the time I was on that beach I saw nothing but the seagulls. It took him more than an hour to do the job, and when I saw him coming toward me, counting a bit of paper, I can tell you my heart was in my mouth. Everything deserved, you saw on my guess proving right. He read about the number of steps in the different stairs. "Thirty-four, thirty-four, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-seven and twenty-one," where the cliffs grew lower. I almost got up and shouted. We hurried back to the town and sent a wire to MacGillivray. I wanted half a dozen men, and I directed them to divide themselves among different specified hotels. Then Smite set out to prospect the house at the head of the thirty-four stair. He came back with news that both puzzled and reassured me. The house was called Trafalgar lake and belonged to an old gentleman called Appleton a retired stockbroker, the house about said. Mr. Appleton was there a good deal in the summer time and was in real dence now had been for the better part of a week. Scaffold could pick up very little information about him, except that he was a descent old fellow, who paid his bills regularly and was always goal for a river for a local charity. Then Scaffold seems to have penetrated to the back door of the house, pretending he was an agent for sewing machines. Only three servants were kept—a cook, a performer and a housemaid—and they were just the sort that you would find in a respectable middle class household. The cook was not the grieping kind god had pretty soon shut the door in his face, but Scaffold said he was positive she knew nothing. Next door there was a new house building which would give goal cover for observation, and the villa on the other side was to let, and its garden was rough and shrubby. I borrowed Stafford's telescope and before lunch went for a walk along the luff. I kept well behind the rows of villas and found a good observation point on the edge of the golf course. There I had a view of the line of turf along the cliff top, with seats placed at intertails and the little square plots, rolled in and planted with bushes, whence the staircases descended to the beach. I saw Tristan Lodge like very plainly, an island with a braided tennis lawn behind and in the ordinary sandy flower garden full of margarites and sergey gemstones. There was a thirst from which an enormous union jack hung limply in the still air. Presently I observed some one leave the house and smarbe on along the cliff. When I got my glasses on him I saw it was an old man, wearing white jacket, trousers, a blue jacket jacket and a straw hat. He carried fieldglasses and a newspaper and sat down on one of the iron seats and began to read. Sometimes he would lay down the paper and turn his glasses on the son. He looked for a long time at the destroyer. I watched him half an hour, till he got up and went back to the house for his lunchwhen, when I returned to the hotel for mine. I wasn't feeling very confident. This doent, commonplace dwelling was not what I had expected. The man might be the bald arch-bust of that horrible moorland farm, or he might not. He was exactly the kind of antised old bird you will find in every autumn and every holiday place. If you wanted a type of the perfectly harmless person you would probably pitch on that. But after lunch, as I sat in the hotel porch, I saw the thing I had hoped for and dreaded to miss. A yacht came up from the south and dropped anchor pretty well opposite the Riff. She seemed about a hundred and fifty tons, and I saw she belonged to the squadron from the white enamel. So Scale and I went down to the harbor and hired a boatman for an afternoon's fishing. I spent a warm and peaceful afternoon. We caught between us about twenty points of cod and lyth, and out in that dancing blue sea I took a cheerer view of things. Above the white luff of the Riff I saw the green and red of the villas, and especially the great shipaff of Trafalgar lodge. About a 'o'clock, when we had faded enough, I made the boatman row in round the yacht, which lay like a delicate white bird ready at a moment to fiss. Scale said she must be a fast boat from her build and that she was pretty heavily enighed. Her name was the Aradene, as I wrote, and she was the first woman who was recognizable by bravery. discovered from the cap of one of the men who was polluting brasswork. I spoke to him and got an answer in the soft dialect of Kenex. Another hand that came along passed me the time of day in an unmistakable English tongue. Our boatman had an argument with one of them about the weather, and for a few minutes we lay on our ear close to the starboard bow. Then the man suddenly discharged. A man in a hat sits on a chair, playing a guitar. He is surrounded by a rocky landscape with a mountain in the background. He Looked For a Long Time at the Destroyer. us and sent their heads to their work as an officer came along the desk. He was a pleasant, clean looking young fellow, and he put a question to us about our fishing in very good English. But there could be no doubt about him. His close cropped head of its collar and the never came out of England. That did something to reassure me, but as we rowed back to investigate my obstinate doubts would not be dismissed. The thing that worried me was the reflection that my encounters knew that I had got my knowledge from Sunder, and it was Sunder who had given me the clew to this place. If they knew that Sunder had this clew would they not change their plan? Two much depend on their success for them to take my risks. The whole question was how much they understood about Sudden's knowledge. I had talked confidently but might about Germans being likely to stick to a carefully planned scheme, but if they had any suspicion that I was on their tracks they would be fool not to cover it. I wondered if the man last night had seen that I responded him. Somehow I did not think he had, and to that I clung. But the whole business had never seemed so difficult as that afternoon when by all calculations I should have been refolling in assured success. In the hotel I met the commander of the destroyer, to whom Scaife introduced me, and with whom I had a few words. Then I thought I would put in an hour or two watching Trafinger lodge. I found a place further up the hill in the garden of an empty house. From there I had a full view of the court, on which two figures were having a game of tennis. One was the old man, whom I had already seen; the other was a younger fellow, wearing some club colors in the scarf round his middle. They played with tremendous zeal the two young men who wanted to exercise to open their passes. You couldn't conceive a more treasonous gossip. They shouted and laughed and stopped for drinks, when a model brought out two tankards on a satirer. I rubbed my eyes and asked myself if I was not the most funamental food on Mystery. Mystery and darkness had lunged about the men who hunted me over the Scotch moss in airplane and motorcar and notably about the informal antiquarium. It was easy enough to connect these folk with the knifte that pinned Scudder to the floor and with fell designs on the world's peace. But here were two gullible citizens taking their immacious exercise and soon about to go in love to a humdum dinner, where they would talk of market prices and the last cricket scores and the guspid of their native Burialton. I had been making a pet to catch vultures and fates, and to and be hold, two plump thrushes had blundered into it! Presently a third figure arrived, a young man on a bicycle with a bag of golf clubs on his back. He strolled around to the tennis lawn and was well-used routinely by the players. Exactly they were charing him and their chief son called horribly English. Then the plump man, mopping his lawn with a silk handkerchief, announced that he must have a tub. I heard his very words, "I've got into a proper lather," he said. "This will bring down my weight and my handcap. Bob. I'll take you on tomorrow, and give you a stroke a hole." You couldn't find anything much more English than that. They all went into the house and left me feeling a precious idiot. I had been barking up the wrong tree this time. These men might be acting, but if they were where were their audience? They didn't know I was sitting thirty yards off in a rhododendron. It was simply impossible to believe that these three hearty follows were anything but what they seemed—three ordinary, game playing, amuritan English, wearsome, if you like, but sorriddy innocent. And yet there were three of them, and one was old, and one was plump, and one was lean and dark, and their house chimed in with Scudder's notes, and half a mile off was lying a steam raft with at least one German officer, I thought of Karolobes lying dead, and all Europe trembled on the edge of an earthquake, and the men I had left behind me in London, who were waiting anxiously for the events of the next house. There was no doubt that mischief was foot somewhere. The Black Stone had won and if it survived the June night would bank its winnings. There seemed only one thing to do—go forward as if I had no doubts and, if I was going to make a feel of myself, to do it handsomely. 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The resilient of Peter's raise gave me the first real comfort I had that day. Peter had been a wise bird, and those followings I was after about the pick of the nasty. What I they were playing Peter's game? A few tries to look different, a sleek man looks the same and is different. It was now getting on for second and I wont back and saw Sasha climb his instructions. I arranged with him to place his men, and then I went for a walk, for I didn't feel up to any dinner. I went round the sorted golf course and then to a point on the cliff farther north, beyond the line of the villas. On the little trim, newly made roads I met people in thunders coiling back from tennis and the beach, and a coast guard from the wireless station, and duckies and perrots pudding homeward. Out at sea, in the blue dusk, I saw lights on the Aradane and on the destroyer away to the south and beyond the dock. I saw the bigger lights of steamers making for the Thames. 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CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, in responding to the committee of the National Republican Convention last Monday, which committee officially notified him of his nomination as presidential candidate of the National Republican Party demonstrated by his familiarity with the issues of the day that while he occupied a seat on the beach of the Supreme Court of the United States, that he was also family observant of current events, and with all that was transpiring in His almost judicial analysis of the Mexican policy of President Woodrow Wilson demonstrates conclusively that this will be the leading issue in the whirlwind campaign, which will now be waged from this time until the ballots are cast in November. There can be no question but what this distinguished New Yorker is displaying rare powers, and demonstrating an ability along political lines which must have been latent and which needed only the present opportunity to develop. He gives evidence of being fully cognizant of existing conditions, and is ever ready to suggest plans and to propose remedies for existing evils. No fair minded person in these United States will deny that the Republican Party showed rare judgment in the selection of its candidate. We do not observe either that He is only a theory. He is pledged and directed by great principles, and he displays more of the qualities of the small politician. He is a devotee of great principles, and he has the nerve to declare his adherence to them. The presence of Hoy Thompson Reservoir of the certification meeting is especially significant, indicating as it does a united Republican Party in the next test of strength, at the polls. It seems to us that Thompson Warsaw has read biblical history and has observed closely present political conditions he has also read the hand written upon the wall of the White House at Washigntown. In immense letters it reads "William best been worsened by the fact he is art found wearied." THE WAR IN EUROPE. It is not easy to carry out that the task be now at war in Europe should continue the struggle. The contest is commercial by every sense of the word, and the slaughter of the best human material in the world goes steadily on. There can be no question but what up to this time the tournai allies have the better of the struggle. The aim now is to "break their hold" so to speak, to drive them back within their own time and there to crush them. In this attempt the task has just begun. In order to just "warn it the ground," the British and French grenades have lost over a quarter of a million of men. It has been estimated that it will cost the allies five million men to drive the Germans back to the Rhine where the real struggle will begin. It has always been claimed that a long war meant no success for Great Britain and her allies and a short war spelled defeat for the same class of people. It is a long war. The Germans are drawn to their abilities to hold out that has sustained the world. They hold it practically all of Britain, all of Germany, all of Montenegro, a larger portion of Russia, which amounts to an empire and security per cent of industrial France. The German Empire has not nearly all of its colonies, but in their place she has substituted the portions of Europe cited. In the meantime, the best blood of Europe is flowing in rivers. Black troops have been launched in the struggle by both Great Britain and France. Germany has hesitated to do the same thing, but finally in desperation, the cohorts of Turkey have been thrown into the struggle and now the dark races are in Europe fighting on both sides of the controversy alongside of the whites. It is God's way. It seems probable that sooner or later, the fighting will resolve itself into a deadlock. The entire army will not be able to pay the price in human lives and treasure and Germany and her allies will worry of the struggle. Viewed from any angle, the result will be to the benefit of the United States of America. We are on the eve of a financial era, where untold wealth will flow to this country and where the intelligent and the industrious will benefit by the untold millions of money which will flow to this country undeastasted by war and unravaged by famine. THE TEMPEST IN THE TEAPOT. Aside from the merits of the case a very serious question is involved in the action of the Administrative Board of the City of Richmond, criticizing the judicial department of this same government and requesting that the Council require the Police Justice of the city of Richmond, Joixx JETER CRUTCHFIELD, to treat with proper respect the city officers under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Board. This is a strange and unique condition of affairs, and shows plainly the fact that our city government is just the opposite of what it was intended to be. all departments independent, performing their functions and yet all working in accord and harmony with each other. His Honor, Mayor George Arnold, seems to be about the only head that keeps his head and remains unrathered in the face of this chaotic condition of affairs. The Administrative Board shows a disposition to resent criticism and to strike back at its critics. It lacks the fideliest police which should govern a body of its importance. Chief Health Officer made a charge against Justice. Currupcion, and without appointing a committee to investigate the matter or requesting that His Honor appear before the body, it proceeds to reprimand him, for that is about all the resolution can be made to appear. The City Council elected the Police Justice and the council can entertain the charges against him but they should be filed in the form of a charge. We do not know, but what this condition of affairs will prove to be of benefit to the community and especially to that part of it which resides within the confines of old Jackson Ward. Colored folks have been tried and convicted so often in a virtual "dum court" proceedings that it is refreshing to say the least, to see the most noted Justice in all Virginia visited by the same sort of procedure. He had audiences which heard only one side of the question, and they were one-sided enough not to demand that the other side be heard. Underneath his rough exterior, we have been told, he had a tender feeling for his own Negroes that equalled that of a woman. But he is reaching the end of his life's journey now, and he is approaching the narrow deline that leads to the eternal mercy seat, where he must be accorded mercy. If he wishes to escape the consequences of the deeds done in the body. The congress of the United States is a great educational centre. It has tamed other fire-caters of the Senator TILLMAN stripe. The colored people have been praying for him and his kind for forty years and prayers of the righteous prevailed much. After reading this deliverance, we feel that, after all, God's ways are past finding out, and His commandments are immutable. TILLMAN has had his eyes opened. He has seen the illuminating light of the twentieth century. God be praised. Let us look to the Lord and be dismissed. Seek! of this city known and been very used to condition communication Sir and put its issue of the public into discussion attempts to scare these men. We have attention to nonnecessities secure larger health departments in return. Dr. Lavy mentions that will prove to cover of the past well great world by men who for money, for profession. The physician slanted after virtual paran. Gentlemen, you cannot wrong the colored folks in particular, or any part of the body politic in general, without experiencing a reaction in the same direction at some place or at some time. We do not know that we should have said anything about the matter. It is a fight among the elements, that have controlled this city for more than forty years. The time will come for the colored folks to take sides. At present, we are looking on, waiting for the solution of the Loom. We venture the opinion that it will not be long before the Administrative Word and Census laws will find out that which District is first. Our truth may not be based on the outside of the District Court but rather on all that he surveys on the inside of it. The New York, St. N. issue of the 2nd host, says About ten years ago The Sun had occasion more than once to call attention to what needed to be the dual nature of Benjamin Ryan Tillman, then and now a Senator in Congress for South Carolina. One day Mr Tillman would be a stateman, the next a rattler man whose conduct if offered a few centuries before would have invited exorcism. One day he would charm the Senate with his intellectual powers, and on the morning strike he colleague in the face. In his periods of self-possession few men in the Senate had a better grasp of things in the periods of "possession" none had better hold "I am a rude man, and I don't care," he said, and went on to justify the stulting of bachelor boys to city. The hold with the hair" and I declare that the white man must make the South strangler of all the Yankees between Cape Cod and Hell." It continue: Unfortunately for Mr. Tillman, the public of that day remembered his outbreaks and perhaps forgot his usefulness. If there are persons who retain in their minds' eye only the picture of Tillman with the pitch fork, we call their attention to a speech delivered in the Senate on Saturday by the real Tillman, from whom we trust, the black spirit is forever fled. He was acquiescing in the bill for the construction of the memorial amphitheatre at Arlington, a measure which previously he had been inclined to oppose. He made a frank confession of the ancient propheles that still smouldered in him, but declared that he had reached the conclusion that he should do everything in his power "to make Arlington a Mecca for the South as well as for the North." But it is to Mr. Tillman's peroration that we would direct the reader: "I never believed it possible that could do it, but slowly and by degree I have come to think that it was best for all concerned that the South was defeated and for me to say that is a marvel to myself. Slavery was a curse which had to be destroyed the South and the world could adance. It was a curse for which the South was no more responsible than the North. Both sections were responsible and both paid four long bloody years of penance for their joint sin. It had to go, and while it went in the worst possible way and its going gave birth to an apparently unavoidable problem, still I, who was born in and of the Old South, am glad it is gone, never to return. I am glad, also, that the idea of nationality has supplanted that of confederation, despite the dangers involved." There is the old Tillman frankness, but the old Tillman rancor is gone. The speech is one which must stir certain emotions in the older people of the South, some of whom have not been so frank as Senator Tillman. It may be a marvel to Senator Tillman that he has come to his conclusion, but it is not to all others. Next week the Senator will enter upon his seventh year. He has seen and heard a good deal, and not being a Bourbon, has learned. This is gratifying information to the ten million colored people who have suffered most from SENATOR TILLMAN's rhetoric and oratorical powers, reinforced by his transcendent ability to micropresent one of the kindiest races of people on the face of the globe. It was the Senator's way of attracting attention to himself. In the face of his fiery philippion, the colored man was necessarily silent. He had audiences which heard only one side of the question, and they wore one-sided enough not to demand that the other side be heard. Underneath his rough exterior, we have been told, he had a tender-feeling for his own Negroes that equalled that of a woman. But he is reaching the end of his life journey now, and he is approaching: the marrow defile that leads to the eternal mercy seat, where he must be accorded mercy, if he wishes to escape the consequences of the deeds done in the body. The congress of the United States is a great educational centre. It has tamed other fire-caters of the Senator TILLMAN stripe. The colored people have been praying for him and his kind for, forty years and prayers of the righteous prevailth much. After reading this deliverance, we feel that, after all, God's ways are past finding out, and His commandments are immutable. Best TILLMAN has had his eyes opened. He has seen the illuminating light of the twentieth century. God be praised. Let us look to the Lord and be dismissed. Seah! REMARKABLE EXPLANATION. The Health Department of Richmond is famous for its explanation that do not explain. It draws large sums of money from the city treasury for services and employs a host of inspector, whose chief duty seems to be to make the average tax paying citizens' life miserable. It is now endeavoring to utilize the police force of the city of Richmond for health purpose, while the thieves and pick-pockets are having high carnival and are misdisturbed in their populations. Experienced police officers are side-tracked and sent to the rear, while the novice, whose energy in arresting peaceable citizens for ordinance violations are accorded underserved recognition. Out in Jackson Ward, as it was formerly known, puddles of water may be seen in the streets, while the unpaved back alleys send up their odors to a receptive atmosphere. In the City Jail, where the sanitary regulations are admittedly disregarded, and impossible of application under existing conditions, there are no reports of typhoid fever so far as we have heard. The rather humorous situation is that reported from the Main Street district. CAMERL, BUCKERSON, O'Brien, Esq., was stricken, and his case diagnosed a typhoid fever. He is a clerk in the Merchants National Bank. Mr. NORMAN R. WATR, assistant cochler of the National State and City Bank, died in Monday from the typhoid fever. Mr. THOMAS R. MCAWNS, one of the most popular bankers to the city, and who is cashier of the Merchants National Bank, and FIRZHUH C. LAWVERY, a clerk in the same institution, are now ill with the disease. It cannot be gainsaid or denied that these gentlemen are complying with the sanitary regulations and with the health requirements as laid down by their physicians. Dr. E. C. Levy, Chief Health Officer, as reported in the daily papers, directed that chlorine be emptied into the reservoir evidently to purify water that is said to be already healthy and suitable for drinking purposes, although it comes by Lynchburg, Va., and other up-state cities, that empty refuse and filth into it. Wells, no matter how deep, must be filled up, but this city water is declared to be first class for the populace. It now seems that prisoners in jail are in less danger of typhoid fever than are the officials in the banks of this city and the residents of the palatial mansions in the West End. Still, the health department has been permitting garbage to rot in the back yards of the populace for weeks and has been lambasting the Police Justice. It not relinquishing his power to decide cases upon their merit by convicting people upon the statements of the officials of the health department. The health department has gone so far as to pass upon just how many persons should be permitted to enter the Police Court and just how many should remain outside of it. The officials of this Department have also denied the right of His Honor, John J. Cuccurriarri, to criticize the health officials, who may appear in his court after having cited taxpayers to appear there on frivolous charges. One thing that can be said about the Health Department, it is annoying all classes without regard to color or politics. The trouble is that it is endeavoring to apply the theories of well-kopt cities with abundant funds to a city like Richmond that requires no such rigid rules to be applied to its populace. The situation would be more amusing were it not so serious. The public will wake up after awhile, and when that awakening comes, thore will be a "shake-up". In the Health Department of Richmond. Du. H. C. LAVT, Chief Health Officer of this city, whose ability is well-known and recognized, seems to have been very unfortunate in his allusions to conditions in New-York city in a communication sent to the New York City and published by, that journal in its issue of the 2nd inst. He defends the publicity given to certain incurable diseases contagious, diseases, and attempts to show that these periodic sources are essential as an aid to curbing these dread maladies. We have more than once called attention to the fact that these announcements have been utilized to secure larger appropriations for these health departments without obtaining in return commonsurate results. Dr. Lervy makes the mistake of presuming that the more use of money will prove the incentive to the discovery of cures. The experiences of the past will show that all of the great world discoveries were secured by men who had given their lives not for money, but for the love of their profession. The physicists who are most persistent after money are those who are virtual parasites, profiling by the life's labors of others and always ready to bask in the sunshine of their greatness. The philosophers and stokes of the past, scorned the "fifthly here." While money is essential, it should not be given a primary and a fundamental standing as an essential to a world's discovery. Du, Lavy says that our cities, states and the Federal service are thus robbed of their best men, unless these men are willing to make a constant personal sacrifice for the public good. A physician who is not willing to make a personal sacrifice for the public good is not suited to practice his profession. The trouble with the health department in this locality is that it is seventy-five per cent, theory and twenty-five per cent, common sense, when it should be twenty-five per cent, theory and seventy-five per cent, common sense. What is applicable to New York is not serviceable in Virginia, and vice versa. Dr. Drury seems to be uninformed relative to the fact that wealthy men like Mr. Jones D. Rockyrrrrrr have placed every medical appliance and all the money needed at the disposal of trained bacteriologists to enable them to find a cure for dread diseases. In addition to this the New York State states that the salaries paid to the medical fraternity rivals any paid by the United States Government in any of its departments. It clinches its statement with the following: "The budget appropriation for the maintenance of the Health Department for 1916 was ($3,310,361,600) three million, three hundred and ten thousand, three hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty cents and the Board of Estimate under the law must make whatever appropriations the Board of Health certificates are necessary for the protection of the public." This mighty health octupus has thus settled itself upon: the finances of New York City and now admits that it is wholly unable to find a cure for the dreaded infantile paralysis, which is taking its toll of death in this same city. The time will soon come when the people will awake to the realization of the fact that they are paying a frightful toll in money and lives to this organized system which scares the masses into a condition where the public treasury is thrown open, who, with an organized force, prey upon the fears of a confiding public. Thousands of conscientious practitioners of medicine are kept in the background by these political practitioners, who bank in the favor of a confiding constituency. But then the New York Surv has But then, the New York Strikes disposed of Du. Lovy's contention so effectively that it might have been just as well that we had kept silent. KILL TEN FOOT SHARK Man-Eater Nearly Out of Sine as Man Stashes Its Throat. Man Stashes Its Throat. A man stashed a dark, measuring nearly ten feet in length, and weighing more than fifty pounds, was caught by fishing parties in a houl seine near Castle Haven, Md., off Long Point, on the Dorchester side of the Choptak river. 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FRIEND BILL'S DAUGHTER WILL BE HERE IN A MINUTE SEND HER HOME— TELL HER I SAID SO— IM HERE AT LAST I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU IM GLAD TO SEE YOU TOO— BUT MY NEPHEW— ?!! A PEACH GLUBSQI—? WHAT THE DING DING! ```markdown ``` SATURDAY.....AUGUST 5, 1916 DEUTSCHLAND OFF FOR GERMANY U-Boat Leaves Baltimore on Return Journey. BEARS A RICH CARGO U. 6. Craft Leads and Polloo Boat Clears Course for Captain Koenig's Submersible Vessel. The Deutschland, German submarine freighter and the first merchant under sea boat to cross the Atlantic ocean, bade farewell to Baltimore. When the lines were thrown off the craft was towed from its berth at the foot of Andre street, Locust Point, by her tender, the tug Thomas F. Timmins, amid the cheers of the small crowd which had gathered to see the departure and the blasts of whistles from the small water craft surrounding, all of which seemed to mean "God speed and good luck." It was an impressive sight. The sun was setting in a clear western sky and its radiance beamed from the waters as the little craft was started on its way. The Deutschland was painted a neo green. This was done during the last few days. In irregular lines across the whaleback were lines of a dirty white, and when the boat reaches the spot where the waters are deep and green it will be impossible to distin guish her, once she submerges. When seen a few days ago, the craft was painted a steel gray. The departing U-boat, carrying a cargo of crude rubber and nickel, and it is understood a consignment of gold was pulled, into the main channel by the Timmins. There the towline was cast off and the submersible proceeded under her own power. The coast guard cutter Wissakickon followed close behind and a little further back was the Timmins. In this order the little squadron proceeded down the river and soon dis appeared from view around Wagner's Point. The crew of the submarine were thinking little of their possible fate while they were receiving final orders from Captain Koenig in preparation for the departure. A smile illuminated the face of each man and they waved their hats, and those who did not have hats waved their handkerchiefs, in response to the cheers of those who wished them "bon voyage." The crew of the North German Lloyd steamship Neckar, informed at this port, which has been standing beside the little ocean craft, guarding her from curiosity, seekers and those who might possibly have had evil design were lined along the deck of the big ship looking down upon the little one as she left. Their face, too, beamed with happiness as they cheered and shouted their firewells to their countrymen on the Deutschland. Those farewell cheers were shouted in German, and few who were within hearing distance could understand, but all knew that best wishes for the voy age and the best wishes for the German cause were being shouted by those sailors who how have lived in Baltimore for almost two years because of their inability to return to their native land. WRECKED BY MINE CAVE IN Accident at Plains, Pa., Causes Families to Flee. A cavo-in in the mine of the Conlon Coal company at Plains, near Willow Barre, Pa., partially wrecked five dwellings, caused the families to die their homes, dropped the roasted few Chailey Doesn't Want to Be Annoyed! With a Kid LOOK HERE CHARLIE! MY OLD FRIEND BILL IS SENDING HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER FOR A VISIT MOTHWIN' DOIM'—I STOOD FOR YOUR ANIMALS BUT I'LL NOT HAVE THIS HOUSE OVER. RUN WITH KIDS Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers oral feet, caused the burating of water pipe and the shutting off of the supply throughout the town, and entailed a loss of several thousand dollars. The damaged homes are owned by Bartley Johnson, William Wall, Charles Brader, Miss Minnie Koons and Mrs. James Martin. The Martin home is in the center of the cave-in area, and has been dropped several feet. The interior of the house is a total wreck. The Johnson and Koons homes are tipped on their slids until the roofs touch. The Brader and Wall homes are tipped on their ends. The settling has continued throughout the day, and the authorities have suspended traffic on Main street because the roadbed has dropped a distance of about three feet. Boy Drowna in Milltrace. John, F. Carter, Jr., nine-year-old son of John F. Carter, of Glen Riddle, near Media, Pa., was drowned in the race at Lee's mill, Glen Riddle. The boy had been bathing in the race and was dressed when he slipped on the wet bank and fell into a deep hole. The water was turned out of the race to recover the body. Mrs. Frank Pardoe, forty-three years old, of Sunbury, Pa., was instantly killed by lightning. A nine-days-old baby in a crib nearby was unhurt and the woman's husband-and to another children who were in the same room escaped injury. Iowa Pastor Called to London The Rev. Joseph Font Newton, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., has been invited to fill the pulpit in the City Temple, London, as the successor of Rev. R. J. Campbell. J. HUGHES RAPS WILSON Republican Nominee Score President and His Politics With Theodore Roosevelt, former president, looking on in Carnegie hall in New York, Charles E. Hughes, being notified by Senator Harding, who was chairman of the Republican national convention, of his nomination to the presidency by that convention, accepted the nomination in a speech that flamed with indignant denunciations of President Wilson's foreign and domestic policies, especially the administration's course in Mexico, and outlined the issues upon which he will conduct his campaign for office. One of the most striking passages in Mr. Hughes' speech came near the end, when he said that as the granting of suffrage to women was inevitable, and continued agitation was unwise, the contest should be "endol promptly." Mr. Hughes assailed the administration for the course it has pursued with reference to maintenance of American rights during the European war, preparations and other great THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE OCEAN HOUSE, Sea Isle City, N J Dance Music will be furnished and special attention will be given to week-end parties. Terms—Our Special Offer for July, an ocean room with board for one week and less than four weeks, $8.00 per week. Special Rates for families for the season or any part thereof. front. It has wide porches and every room opens on the ocean. Bathing. Fishing. Boating and Amusements. Transportation—The Pennsylvania R. R. MRS. LUCY LEE, Prop.; 5 Plains Street, Elmhurst, L. I. Address after June 22nd, "The Ocean House," Soo Isle City, N. J. questions of the day. He declared for a new policy of "armness and consistency" toward Mexico, for "the unimching maintenance of all American rights on land and sea," and for "adequate national defense, adequate national defense; adequate protection on both our western and eastern coasts." "We denounce all plots and conspiracies in the interest of any foreign nation." Mr. Hushus said. "Utterly intolerable is the use of our soil for allen intrigues. Every American must unreserve condemn them and support every effort, for their suppression." The nominee assailed the administration for its "direction of diplomatic intercourse" from the beginning, declaring that where there should have been complacious strength and expertness, there had been weakness and inexperienced. He cited San Doningo as an instance please appointments had gone to "deserving Democrats" and to the failure to continue Ambassador Herrick at his post in Paris after the war had started as "a lamentable sacrifice of international rupote." Mr. Hughes' speech of acceptance was heard by Mrs. Hughes, the nominee, two co-host daughters, and Charles E. Hughes, Jr. BOYS BELONG TO NATION Right to Services of Enlisted Minor Paramount to Parenta." A statment issued by the war department pointed out that a late decision of Federal Judge Waddell, at Norfolk, Va., holding that the government's interest in a youth under eighteen years of age, who enlisted in the District of Columbia national guard was superior to that of the parent, sustains an opinion on that point given by the judge advocate general. "The ground of the decision," the statement says, "was that a parent or guardian of a prisoner has no natural or common law right of custody or control that can be asserted against the paramount right of the nation to the services of the minor under the enlistment." Baby Killed. Three Hurt in Runaway Mrs. John Waltham, fifty five years old, of Waynesboro, Pa., was perhaps (tatally injured, her daugh- ter, Mary, fifteen months old, was kill- ed, and other children were less seriously hurt when a louse hitched to a buggy in which they were riding ran away. Begin to Count R. R. Strike Vote. Preparations have been in New York for counting the vote on a general strike of 40,000 employees of 225 railroads in the United States. The count will be completed by August 7. Left the Joker to Drown. An investigation of the death by drowning of Michael Annavage, at Mar-Lin Lakes, near Minerville, Pa., showed that the man his death because his comrades thought he was only joking when he screamed for aid, as he often had done before. ```markdown ``` Rewards American Who Killed Troops Dill Ryan, the American who it is charged, directed a machine gun for the -Mexicans in the battle of Carrizal, has been promoted from captain to lieutenant colonel in the Carranza army for his work. Ryan, according to Americans who saw him, is now in Junrez, and boasts that he was in El Inso two days ago. Troopers of the Tenth cavalry who were in the Carrizal trap and escaped say they recognized Ryan. Shipbuilding Plant for New Castle New Castle, Del., is to have a large shipbuilding establishment. The Delaware Ship Building and Engineering corporation has been formed, capitalized at $1,000,000, and will be chartered under the laws of Delaware. Those interested purchased from the Pennsylvania Railroad company a tract of between ten and eleven acres fronting on the Delaware river just south of the public wharf, for $30,000. General Logan Has Heat Stroke. General A. J. Logan, of Pittsburg, Pa., commanding the Second Battalion in Pennsylvania Troops was overcome by the heat at El Paso according to a dispatch received from that city. It is said that General Logan's condition is critical. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA—FLOUR—Dull; winter clear, $5@5.25; city mills, $6.75@7.25. RYE FLOUR—Steady; per barrel, $4.50@4.75. WHEAT—Quiet; No. 2 red, $1.22@ 1.24. CORN—Firm; No. 2 yellow, $92@ 92@. OATS—Steady; No. 2 white, $49@ 49@. HOULTRY—Live; steady; hens, 19.5kg; old roosters, 13.14kg; Dress- ed, steady; choice fowls, 22c; old roosters, 15c. BUTTER—Steady; fancy creamery, 32c per lb. EGGS—Steady, selected, 33c/34c; nearby, 29c; western, 29c. Live Stock Quotations. PITTUSHUR—CATTLE—Steady; top, $3.35. Cattles—Steady, good to choice yeas, $13. HOWS—Bither; prime heavies, $10.35c/10.35s; heavy mixed, $10.35s; mediums and heavy workers, $10.35s; light workers, $10.20s; 10.25; jigs, $10.10s; roughs, $7@ $15. 1916 AUGUST 1916 SUN NON 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 | 30 | 31 | | | E, Sea Isle City, N J OPENS JULY 1ST CLOSES SEPT. 10TH Directly on the magnificent shelving beach at Sea Isle, N. J. The Climate of this Ocean Resort has been favorably compared with that of Northern Italy. and special attention will be uly, an ocean room with board our weeks, $8.00 per week. the season or any part thereof parties of ladies or gentlemen or six. Monday breakfast, $4.00. we own on the Atlantic Beach every room opens on the ocean. 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M OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of home-making comfort giving Furniture and Rugs and—don't fall to ask our sales men about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CHAS. G. JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1880 ADAMS AND BROAD News-stand. Mr Edward Dandridge, 11 W. Duval Street, agent for the Planet, handles all kinds of newspapers. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SUBSCRIBE TO PHOTOS - We Offer you the More Moderate Figure than y Attention Paid to Childs to Quote You Price VIEW ENLARGING AND COPYING BY GEORGE O. BR A. D. PRICE, 21 FUNERAL DIRECT LIVE All orders promptly filled at ephone. Halls rented for the Plenty of room with all neces- or Band Wagons for hire at first-class Carriages, Buggies, fine fun! 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Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carmages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hang fine funeral supplies. Open All Day and Night—Man on Duty All Night. PHONE, MAD. 577 RICHMOND, Va. (Residence next door) WHAT THE DING C ???? ?? WHAT T DING C PAGE FIVE ```markdown ``` Hall parked to the road. There and soon has closed the way, and the street beats, cheered. Changed. That this was eventually Mr. Hampson at the end and at the break. It was a reunited and deter- dent street party. But perhaps, instead, party beats, which had the whole appliance of the evening to the Mr. Hampson's best typify any of the very outfit of his party's party purpose, and the pro- spects called at the view of all the people. "AMERICA FIRST" IS MR. HUGHES PLEDGE WHEN NOTIFIED (New York Sun--Aug. 1, 1916.) "America a first and America efficient" This was the keynote, this the promise, uttered by Charles E. Hughes last evening at Carnegie Hall as he accepted from the Lords of Senator Warren G. Harding and the Republican convention a notification committee the party's commission to lead the coming battle for the Presidency. With all his old time favor of utterance with the same power of analysis which was the marvel of those who need him as a presenter in the old state days, the Republican candidate appearing before the public for the first time since he emerged from the national clerestor threw himself last night, as it were, full pamphlet again into the political arena with a speech that made Col. Theodore Knoe- well, coed opposite to him, chap his hands many times in approval. He meetlessly assailed the Wilson Ad- ministration for the suppression of its foreign policy pictured its course in Mexico, in a confessed chapter of banners' and pledged it for the varch tion and indictment with respect to preparations, and other domestic problems of vital concern to Ameri- cans in this point of crisis. "He was Hall pitted to the roof of the war by the awful heat, sheared Mr. Hale's arm and arm as he stood in the cold pines. But perhaps he applauded of the evening when at the very center of his speech he called to the vision of a war that he had been in which he de- tained himself an America that was the destruction of its power awake to nominations or in self-respect prepared for every emergency, de- voted to the ideals of peace instruc- ted with the spirit of brotherhood." "A country" he concluded with an enigmatic gesture that brought his attention to their feet cheering wildly loved by its citizens with a patriotic server permitting no division in their alliance and no rivalry in their affection. I mean America first and America constant." Not even in the old days when he resided face track gambling from many platforms throughout the State did Mr. Hughes get a more genuine spontaneous outburst of appliance than that which greeted him as he drew this picture. And to make the scene still more inspiring there was the Colored seated with his family in one of the first three beers, waiting and clapping his hands in approval. PAYS TLIPUTE TO COLONEL. It occurred to me on the same Charles P. Higghey that faced the crowd last night save for a whistle there which the pasture years had given to the whistlers. As he analyzed the short minutes of the prowl, with all the tensions at times with a salty and tasty though both lactic and applese from the front of him he used the same emphatic gesture that made the son an effective partner before he would the solution of the beach. Mr. Harles as he had been predicted, brought the Mexican team sharply to the fore in his speech. "A seeking story of barbarians and host," he called it indicating that he would demand from Mexico the performance of international obligations "without middlesome interference with what does not concern us." With respect to our foreign policy he insisted it was not the words, but the strength and resolution behind them that counted. When he said in this connection, that there would have been no snikering of the Laudistia had it been seen that this country meant what it said by audience cheered up routinely. There were many times indeed when the choirs worked by his on slaught on the Administration forced him to repeat a sentence. One of those came when Mr. Hughes deliberately paid a tribute to Mr. Roosevelt by declaring that "under the pressure of other leadership" the Administration had been forced to change its attitude toward preparedness. Instinctively the crowd turned toward the figure sitting quietly beside his daughter in-law Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and by the Colonel see that the apology with which this was greeted was meant as much for him as for the man who had attired it. And Mr. Hughes shouted and seemed as pleased as did the Colonel. CHEEPS GREPT ROOSEVELT There were few hotter places in New York last evening than Carnegie Hall. It was so hot that few essayed to wear evening clothes and even in the orchestra chairs and boxes many men were outdressed. The hall filled slowly, possibly because of the heat, but by the time things were ready to begin even the seats that impinged upon the rafters were full of fanning spectators. Every box was full, women sharing with the men the interest with which the first appearance of Mr. Hughes as the champion of a reunited party was awaited. Directly opposite the speakers' stand was the Hughes box, occupied by Mrs. Hughes, Miss Hughes, Miss Katherine Hughes and the family of Dr. Colin S. Carter, Mr. Hughes brother-in-law. They had motored in from Bridgampton to be on hand for the ceremony. Three boxes away was the Roosevelt box, in which was the Colonel, with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Robert Bacon and Henry L. Stittman, whom the Colonel once had nominated for Governor. It was a flag draped hall, seldom more tastefully decorated, that furnished the setting for the ceremony of notification, and most conspicuous among the decorations was a large slit flag at the very back of the stage, bown out by the brews from an elec- tric fan. It was a cooling sight on such a night, even if the breeze from the fan failed to reach but a few. It was 8:10 when a man set up a yell in the gallery. It made everybody turn quickly. Sure enough, the Colonel had come. He had taken his seat so quietly that few had noticed him enter the box. But at the gallery man's yell they rose from their chairs with the old cry. It was "Toddy! Toddy! Toddy!" heard so many times of vore. But at first the Colonel seemed acer- frown upon it. Then he got up and bowed. Another cry came sweeping down from the coatings galleries, where men threatened to fall over the rafting in their cagnness to see him "Teedd! He's all right!" The Colonel got up and in quick, staccato fashion waved his straw hat. Then the hand started up. "Should Acquaint- ance Be Forgotten?" The Colonel, who had left the box to speak to a friend, came back and stood up while every- body cheered. Signators on the plat- form poked with the rest. There were cries of "Platform," but the Colonel check his head gracefully and sat down. MR. HUGHES APPEARS Mr. Lt. Chairman Wilcox and Senator Harding appeared, and belied their lies. Lt. Joe wreathed in snitches and bowing to those he recognized, came Mr. Hughes. Though attired in a black outwear he looked cool and comfortable in contrast to many Senators perishing in Palm Beach Suite. The Lt. attack up "America" and (1) to recel of pulp service, your work in all questions and corruptions wrong in public question when in ex- cuse of it, your adding down- to your Republicanism, your possession of a evidence which has matted all believers in Republican policies un- der our party banner, your unfalter- able and adding Americanism, your high personal character and well known, capacious all those" he said, addressing the candidate, "have fixed you to the American mind as the best expenditure of Republican principles and the wisest leader to restore American prestice and the best government." The commission, Chairman Harding, went on to say, was tendered in the strong conviction that he, Mr. Hughes, would hold that platform promises constituted a sacred party command and that the expressed will of the people at the polls must find response to its capacity and efficient administration. "Avo. mr. Senator Harding concluded, saying Mr. Hughes and speaking with great sublimity, we bring it believing you will add to our self-request and I good opinion abroad which means our highest American aspirations." WHO WAS MISTHORO MAN OF MISTERY: Born in Virginia, Educated in England, Physician in Ohio, Ody Date and Place of Birth Are known. Richmond, Va., July 19, Specialist Who was born at Vinton, Virginia Nov. 2, 1837 A woman in Ohio wishes to know, not to satisfy curiosity or to write history, but to solve what officers of the State Board of Health describe as the most unusual mystery yet brought before the bureau of vital statistics. Some time ago, a prosperous physician of Ohio, Nasboro by name, felt his death approaching, and confided to his dumb-founded children that the name with which they had been christened, baptized and reared was not their correct name. They were his children but he was not Nasboro. Years before, he told them, he had run away from home, had gone to England, had studied medicine there, had returned to America and, refusing to answer advertisements from his anxious parents, had built up his practice in Ohio. His mother, he said, had been a Miss Perry, and her children were named Thomas, John and Anne. He had an uncle who was a sea-faring man, familiarly known as "Black Jack." His real name, he said, was not unlike that by whom he was known - Nasboro or Nasborough. He promised to tell the whole story and to explain the reasons for his change of name, but before he could do so, death put an end to his confession, and he died as he had lived, a man of mystery and of unknown name. Among his papers his betrayed a memorandum stating that he had been born at Vinton, Virginia, November 9, 1845; beyond this he left not a scrap to establish his identity. His family has now written the State Bureau of Vital Statistics to inquire for a list of those born at Vinton at the time indicated. Had the request been for a list of those born since 1912, when the new registration law went into effect, the bureau would have been able to supply the precise details, with the names of the children, their parentage, race, etc. But as no vital statistics were registered in Virginia in 1848, the bureau can furnish no information. In the hope, however, that some of the older residents of Vinton may recall the disappearance of a young man about the time of the war between the states, the State Board of Health has authorized the publication of the facts. These clues, it is believed, will be sufficient to identify the man of mystery. His mother's family name was Percy, his brothers (or perhaps himself) Thomas or John, his sister Annie, his uncle a sultan and his real name not unlike Nasboro. The State Board of Health will be glad to receive information from those who may remember the man. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ROBBERIES ARE RIFE. (Evening Journal-July 19, 1916). Numerous robberies featured today by an early morning hold-up at Sewenth and Franklin streets and a daylight housebreaking taking place as late as 9 o'clock this morning, indicate that thieves have begun afresh their activity in Richmond and have put the police here on the quite vile. Upward of a dozen robberies, most of them burglaries of residences, have been reported to the police since yesterday, in which amounts totalling nearly $1,000, are reported to have been taken. The thieves are thought by the police to be local criminals. J. B. Trexler, of Wilmington, N. C. came to the First police station and told a strange story—a story which the police say rivals fiction tales of the wild west Trexler says that while walking along the street at Seventh and Franklin streets, at 12:15 o'clock this morning he was held up by two men in an automobile and by them compelled to get into the automobile. He was then knocked senseless and carried away. When he "came to" he found himself back near the spot from which he was taken, however minus $15 in cash, which he had on his person. He says he went immediately to the police station and made a report. He gave the number of the machine as 2756, being a lot of a "for hire" car. The police are now investigator on the case. J. C. G. 2205 Perry street, re- ported to the police that his house was entered about 2 o'clock this morning and $12.50 in jewelry stolen. With police for his train in the Street street station last night at 7:45 o'clock. W. R. Chalkley, of Drewrys Hill was robbed of an aft case containing a suit valued at $20 and apparent worth $15 according to a re- port made to the police headquarters today. The suit case was valued at $100. Mrs. Stokes, 3165 Florid avenue, reported to the police that her house had been broken open last night, but nothing was stolen. W. W. Hines, of Petersburg, reported that a bull pup was stolen from him July 14 about 6 o'clock. The police are on the trail of the thief and the dog. Charles Floyd, 235 N street, reported today to the police that his house had been entered by a side door, on which the little boy had been broken by the thief and $10 in money stolen between 9 at 11 o'clock this morning. --- THE GAVETT'S THIRD JOURNAL MAR IN THE FIELD. With the late the late Theodore Rohde, Gazette editor upon its thirty-fourth year having been published every work on time since Aug. 19, 1852 a remarkable record for any publication. It will be noticed that in thirty four years, we have gained in time most a month. From the very beginning, it has been edited and managed by the writer who can hardly realize that so long a time, "In the saddle," has elapsed. The Gazette's successful efforts to wipe out the remnants of Ohio's "Black Laws," years ago, to secure the enactment of Ohio's Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching laws, are well-known to our people, particularly those in Ohio What it has done, in hundreds of other instances, to help, defend and encourage our people, is also well-known. One has only to recall the successful fight led by the Gazette a few years ago, to kill the Ohio Assembly's infamous anti-intermarriage bill, to appreciate the full force of the preceding sentence. Personal interests have always been subordinated in The Gazette to those of our people. Its call to Xiro Americans, in season and out, is never to accept anything in treatment, less than that due all citizens, without reference to race or color. When it comes to our citizen rights, here in the north, we have always been an alterably opposed to a "doctrine" surrender or conciliatory policy, and shall continue to be so. The Gazette believes in demanding for our people in his section of the country, and continuing to fight for until secured. ALL that is due all American citizens under the law, THIS IS Our BLOGAN! The Gazette's firm adherence to principle, through all these years, is its best recommendation for greater support. To our faithful following—thousands of readers in all parts of the country, from ocean to ocean, and from the great lakes to the gulf—we have only expressions of sincere appreciation. Urge your friends and acquaintances to subscribe for The Gazette and materially assist us to double our circulation by the first of the year. For all you have done in the past years, we thank you, and again assure you of our thorough appreciation. CORN'S NAME HEADS LIST OF "CLEAN-UP" OFFENDERS. (News Leader-July 22, 1916.) Asked to lend first aid to the health department and the street cleaning department in a clean-up campaign, the police today demonstrated their willingness to help by issuing police court summonses for numerous alleged offenders, the name of Henry J. Cohn, superintendent of the street cleaning department, heading the list of defendants. Purpose owning vacant lots where the crop of woods is luxurious will receive much attention from the police, and yards that contain trash will scarcely escape notice, as every policeman has been instructed to see that the premises on his "beat" are cleaned up.¹ More than a dozen police court summons were issued today. Superintendent Cohn and Albert Davis.² China street, are charged with allowing dirt and gravel to remain on the sidewalk at 622 Belvidere street.³ LOTS MUST BE CLEANED UP. A summons was issued for Clarence Wyatt on the charge of refusing to remove weeds from a vacant lot at Second and Arch streets, and sung monies were issued for the following real estate agents, charging them with allowing trash and weeds to remain on premises in Pine, Cary, Main and Canal streets; M. G. Thalpimer, J. Thompson Brown, L. W. MeVelegh, Richson & Crutchfield and J. T. Ramsey, charging him with allowing the yard at 312 South Second street to remain in a fifty condition. C. W. Thkrompson, 307 S. Third street, was summoned on the charge of allowing trash to remain on the vacant, premises at 615 Beltidere street. AGENTS ARE SUMMONED On the charge of allowing premises in Broad and Mayo streets to remain in an unsuitable condition, summons were issued for the following: Ribcower & Crutchfield, Wallerstein & Nelson, J. Thompson Brown, Pollard & Barby, W. E. Purcell, Green & Rodd, L. W. McMahon and H. Seldon Taylor. All are real estate firms. One cleaning assays called today in Justice Crutchfield's court, and the complaint was dismissed, M. G. Thalhimer was the defendant, charged with allowing trust to remain on the property at the South Fourth street WHITE MAN CHARGED WITH AN ASSAULT ON SMALL GIRL. F F Taylor Richmond College law student, was last held for the grand jury on a warrant charging him with a serious crime against an 11-year girl, who was near Westhampton. Taylor was released under $1,600 bail for father, A S Taylor, being accused of a bomb warrant issued by Ju Jin T. J Pursey, who board the first case against the student, charging Taylor with a similar offense against another child, served this afternoon. Bond was also furnished in this case. The prosecutor identified Taylor as the man who accused her white she was picking blackberries in a field near Richmond College early in June. She gave details of her experience. Only two other witnesses—the father of the girl and a playmate of the prosecutor, who was with her at the time of the alleged crime—were placed on the stand by the prosecution. Taylor did not take the stand, his counsel, Senator Jalton Gunn, declaring that he did not care to adduce any evidence, stating to the court that he did not think it necessary. Taylor was arrested in his home in Vocantown county by Sheriff Webb W. Sylvester and Special Postmaster George Lawrence and brought back here Sunday morning. The accused was acquitted by his father who is 83 years old and has held office as a justice of the peace in Acworth for forty-six years. News Leader Aug. 1. A. M. C. A. NOTES. The Roses were out in full last Friday) Night and rendered an excellent programme under the direction of President A. C. Clarke. The Reds are on the alert. Last Sunday was a full day for service. 8:30 A.M. At the Y. M. C. A special meeting for workers was held. The committee visited the city home 10 A.M. and much work was accomplished. 19 A.M. The committee held some special meeting in the city jail for the prisoners and much interest was mantied. Committeeman R. L. Allen conducted the meeting for the boys 4 P.M. at the Y. M. C. A. and it was a good one. 5:30 P.M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Wm. Thomas addressed the en and all were helped. Come again my brother. Men be on time. Sunday ready for hard work and the other man Come to the meeting for the workers at the N. M. C. A. 3:20 A. M. M the M. C. A. Jae A. M. Mothers please send your boys to the meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman C. H. Gaston will lead. Committeeman C. A. Scott will address the men. 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Life singing. Every home is asked to have special teacher for the Y. M. C. A. GARRIS DIES FROM FALL. D B Garris, of 1857 Venable St. who fell from a window of Smithfield Building, Ninth and Broad Streets, on Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock, and fractured his skull, died yesterday morning at 9:45 o'clock in Virginia Hospital. At the time of the fall no one could tell whether Garris jumped, fell or was thrown from the window. The thend of his fall was heard by Peter Manteche, cook in a Greek restaurant on the opposite side of the street. The body of the man, still unconscious, was picked up and sent to the Virginia Hospital where he died without regaining consciousness. The case was investigated by Detective Serg. Wily and Detective Bryant. They could find no evidences of foul play, and Coroner W. H. Taylor decided yesterday that the fall was accidental, and that there was no cause for an injury. Garris was arrested. He lived at 1807 Venable Street, and for a day before the fall he had been employed at the Richmond Branch of the American Locomotive Works—Times Dispatch, July 31, 1916. Talks on Banking To the average person a bank is a bank—a place to put money," and for all ordinary purposes this is, enough to know, provided of course, the bank is sound and worthy of confidence. It is well, however, to understand that there are different kinds of banks, and to know the distinguishing character lattics of each. We have in this country four kinds of banking institutions: (a) National banks; (b) Savings bank; (c) Trust Companies; (d) Savings banks. All the foregoing receive money on deposit and pay it back again, as a rule on demand; but the rules under which deposits are received differ. All the foregoing but the savings banks have capital stock and are owned and controlled by stockholders. Savings banks are of two kinds—stock savings banks and mutual savings banks. The difference between these will be noted later, the present talk will treat of national banks only. National banks are under the direct supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency and are not subject to state laws except in the matter of taxes. In country districts they cannot organize with a capital of less than $25,000, while in larger places the capital requirements are greater. National banks do a general banking business, which consists of receiving deposits, paying checks and making loans. The one feature which distinguishes national banks from all others is the issue of national bank notes, which form a large part of the circulating currency of the country. These notes are secured by government deposited with the Treasurer at Washington and every national bank note is in reality part of a government bond; put up into small denominations for convenience Under the Federal Reserve Act these will ultimately be retired and the Federal Bank Notes will take their place but it will be some years before this is accomplished. The national banks were instituted after the Civil War as agencies of the government, and were in reality organized under a plan which made a market for the government bonds. They are required to report to the Controller of the Currency five times as a year without notice, the report dating back a few days for obvious reasons. They are also required to be examined twice each year by the directors, and are visited by the nation al bank examiners also twice each year without notice. The examiners go carefully into all the various detaits particularly into loans, and are as conversant with the larger borrowers as the directors. The national banking system has proven sound in its principles, efficient in its management, and satisfactory in all its operations. Under the Federal Reserve Act member banks may take promissory notes of a certain type and turn them into money in the course of a few hours, by re-discounting them at the Federal Reserve Bank, which is a valuable feature. This is not to say, how ever, that a national bank is better than any other type of institution, but they have enjoyed long years of prosperity and able management with little loss to their depositors. TALKS ON THRIFT There are two mediums that make it easy to spend money without a prickling conscience. The first is the charge account, and the other is the checking account. All large stores have made it a steady policy to encourage the opening of charge accounts, being liberal in their rules as to the credit risk. A man need have but a few good references and checkup well to be honored with a place on the books of the house where he may buy, up to a certain limit, have it charge receive its bill monthly and pay within a reasonable time which is two weeks. There are obvious advantages in this feature of newborn business and the department stores are constantly importing people to avail themselves of such facilities. But beware of this alluring bait. It tempts you to over buy, purchasing the things you do not need, perhaps, and would not buy if you had to pay cash. Human nature is alike everywhere We all swumb to such temptations. The charge account does facilitate shopping for you do not have to wait change, may return goods with ease and have a record of what you buy each month. Use it but do not abuse it. The second medium is the checking account in a bank. Like the charge account it makes spending easy. There was a time when we lived on a cash basis. We paid for what we got when we got it in money. We could see the money go. We missed it. In the sight of real money there is something sub- tle and previous and we let go with regret. To all healthy and normal individ- uials uncorrupted by the possession of "easy money," or superfluous wealth or over "indulgence" in alcohol, the parting with real money is painful. As the crisp bill leaves your hand a ghost little sigh accompanies it. You have then tangibly parted with your money. The fruits of your labor gone. The insidious side of the checking account is that it enables you to spend money without pricking of conscience You write your check in a moment and hand it over as so much money; but it lacks the sting of spending real money. Beware how you let the charge account run away with your good judgment. Keep yourself in check. By all means have a bank account if you spend but a hundred dollars a month, but beware lest the temptation to draw checks gets you into the habit of treating money in the bank as different from money in your purse, because all you have to do is to fill out a check. A bank account for household expenses is the best thing yet devices, but it has its temptations. Consider your check book as a record to tell you where your money went, who got it, for what purpose, and be your best receipt, but look out for the alterment of the checking account that it does not bring you into rocky standing that you would not fall prey to if you lived on a cash bank: When you live by real money you may have a little fit at every unwise expenditure, but in a checking account or a charge account you have one big fit at the end of the month. You ought not have either. *Pinchy Constable Nerves Summons* *With Bulldog Hanging to Trousers* St. Louis, July 29.—There are many ways of serving a summons issued by a court. For originality in the method pursued a Victoria Cross might well be handed Constable Henry Yerk, of Belleville, Ill., near here. Accompanied by Attorney Edgar Grossman, Yerk went to the home of Mrs. Eva Russell, who lives near Caseyville. As the attorney, knocked on the front door Constable Yerk his summons out that he might get well started before the woman shut the door in his face. Nov. Mrs. Russell has a pet bulldog named "Kalser". It seems that some time ago "Kalser" won a name for him self through a string of victories over the best bulldogs Missouri and Illinois combined were able to place against him. He won these fights by his remarkable ability to hang on when once he took hold. Being a retiring sort of person, Mrs Russell had acquired "Kaiser" to keep her door yard clear of burglaries, tramps and the like. When the door opened Mrs. Russell came forth. As she saw the summons and heard, Yerk start reading she said just one word. That was "Kaiser." Attorney Grossman, being an athlete and having nothing to hinder him, cleared the fence with one leap. Yerk turned to do likewise, but "Kaiser" caught him on the seat of his trousers—and "Kaiser" hung on. "Yerk kept reading the summons as he went over the first fence into the next yard and over that fence into the street," said Grossman Inter. "and the dog was still hanging on when he got it read." I claim its official to, "was what Yerk said as he went to a hospital to be "mended." SOLDIER'S HAT. NOT DOFTED FOR CADL. Take off your hat; court's in-song shouted an officer in Justice Crutchfield's courtroom today when a man wearing a military uniform entered and started moving in he direction of the judge's bench. The man turned on his heels, after a look around him, and went out, still wearing his hat. Two minutes later he appeared in the office of Mayor Alnistle, on the floor above. He described himself as a corporal of Battery C. First, battalion, field artillery, Virginia national guard, encamped at Camp Stuart and after rotating what had occurred in the courtroom stated he desired to make a complaint about the treatment accorded him. By Justice Crutchfield. Questioned by the mayor, the corporal said he had gone to the courtroom to deliver a letter to the judge from Captain Branch Johnson, commander of Battery C. Mayor Atalne informed his caller that if he desired to register a complaint he should make it to his captain and the latter if he chose could then bring it to the attention of the municipal authorities. He advised him to return ar once to the courtroom and deliver the letter. The corporal reappeared before Justice Crutchfield shortly and handed over the communication from Captain Johnson. He still wore his hat. The letter related to the case of George Leighton a private in the battery who was sentenced to jail a few days ago in default of the payment of a $10 fine for disorderly conduct. Captain Johnson asked to have Leighton discharged from the city jail and placed in the corporals custody. Justice Crutchfield immediately issued the discharge. Considerable comment was caused by the unusual incident. In the opinion of several persons versed in military matters the corporal being armed and on official business, was entitled to keep his hat on in the judge's presence. Others who hold an opposite view wondered what would happen if a soldier kept on his hat while calling on Judge Waddill of the United States district court, while court was in session --- Richmond Va. News Leader July 29, 1916 INJURES TWO WOMEN. Fannie Ofta was shot through the abdomen, first below the heart, and Susie Crawford was shot through both legs last night at 8:50 o'clock by Willie Washington as they were sitting on the back porch of the house at 723 N. Ninth Street. All are colored. Washington, according to the police story, advanced on the women from the backyard. He had made love to the Ofta woman, and it is said, had been spurned by her for another man. All his bullets were directed towards her, but one of them struck the other woman, who fell, with both limbs broken on as she attempted to escape. Immediately after the shooting, Washington fled to South Richmond where he was captured by Policeman Wescott. He was brought back and was lodged in the First Police station. Washington is a cripple, having lost both his legs in an accident some years ago. He sells newspapers at Fifth and Broad Streets, where he had engaged many customers. The wounded women were attended by Dr. J. B. Hinman, of the Virginia Hospital, where they were taken for further treatment July, 31, 1916.—Times-Dispatch. TROY (N. Y.) NOTES Troy, N. Y., July 31. —Mr. Hannel Kemp, Hiring with his daughter, Mrs. D. W. Dixon at 2850-50 avenue, has been very sick over two weeks. He is improving. His oldest daughter, Mrs. S. Matthews, of Rochester, N. Y., and her daughter, Miss Gladys Matthews, have been with the sick about two weeks. She hopes that her mother will be well enough in a few weeks to go with her to Rochester. Her daughter returned home Sunday July 30th. Mrs. Minnie Clinton, of 190 Coyneys street left here Saturday evening, July 30th, to spend two weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. W. Brown, of Paterson, N. J. The friends of Mr. Richard Kelly and his son, George Kelly gave them a birthday party Wednesday evening July, 26th. Their birthdays came on the same day. Rev. H. L. Taylor, who has been pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church or this city for four years, left here with his family for his new charge. Monday, July 24th. He takes up his work this year in Newburgh, N. Y., where he has been before. Mrs. Ethel Garner, of New York City is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kelly, of this city. Miss Matilda Taylor, daughter of Rev. J. A. Taylor and Mrs. E. Garner spent Thursday, July 27th, at the Saratoga Springs. Mrs. Ethel Garnor spent Friday and Saturday, July 28-29, with friends in Kingston, N. Y. Mr. Henry Artego, of this city, moved his family to Selkirk, N. Y. last week. Mrs. Walter VanNoller is making arrangements to take her baby and mother-in-law to Saratoga Springs in a few days. Mrs. Albert Mosley departed this life in this city Saturday, July 29, nine A. M. her funeral was preached by the Rev. J. A. Taylor of this city Monday, 20:30 P. M. She leaves behind, her husband, Mr. Albert Mosley and one daughter, Miss Lily Mosley. She was laid away to rest in the Mt. Ida Cemetery of this city. The A. M. E. Church of this city is blessed in having for their pastor this year the Rev. C. Fairfax and the Church is arranging to have their annual picnic, Thursday, August 17, 1916, at the Brookside Park, West-sand Lake. Misses Rebecca and Gertrude Dennis will start for their homes in Virginia, Tuesday, August 1st, to spend the month of August. They are expecting a good time. You never get tired. Read the PLANET! It is always interesting to you. Subscription only: $1.50 per year in advance. A Are You Thinking of Getting Married? Mr. and Mrs. William Long agree the terms of your promise of the marriage of their marriage Minnie Long by Mr. Joseph J. Wood Let Us Print Your Wedding Stationery ~ TAGE ee SATURDAY...... AUGUST 5, 1918 “ROANOKE NOTES we Ab Oh. 2 cee. we ee $173.00 aba rally Sunday, July 300 with a very small momberehip, whic fs characteristic of the Mberal offer ing of the real African Methodis - Bplecopal Church throughout th connection. The Rev. Harris and bt loyal mombers need much commen dation for the people that gives Ib erally to the Church and to othe Institutions of charity will obtali + more Joy and happiness tn this lfc Knowing they havo done the bes they could, 1 am persuaded to beller ‘@ etter reward awalts them in thi world and certainly a grander ani mont desirous ono In Heaven. Mr, Wil Davin, 227 Fourth ave nue, X. W., who left the city fo Blacksburg. Va... with the hopo o! recuperating his health, died Suntlay morning. He leaver a loving wife, a little daughter to mourn thelr low and x host of friends in Roanoke and Blackeburg ax well, Mr. Davin was a brick mason. ‘The Rev. L. R. Farmer, D. D. com. ploted a ton daya’ xervico at tho Hil Btreet Baptint’ Church Inst Sunday night, where Kreat ood was accom: plished for tho Marter's caune. Sev- en souls were converted and more than’ one hundred slollars collected for the Church during the services. Mra, Josle Calloway Hostings re- turned home Saturday night from Pitteburch, Pa., where she had apent & very enjoyable threw weekn’ va- cation vinilug her nister, Mra. Sadie Barksdale Calloway. Sho seeme no] much tmproved, Sho han taken the care of her father’s home alnce the death of her mother, Sinter Sarah Cal) lowny last year, Mr. Beverly Love, of Washington, D.C. In tn the city today enroute for| South -Roston, Va.. the home of tie above named In past vears. Mr. Love fa looking fae Hin many frienda of Roanoke were glad to grasp hin hand once more in Ife and wish him well At 218 Seventh avenue, NOW. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Heasie J. Car: tix, the stork left a fine baby boy, Sunday night, July 20, 1916, Mra. JW Wine and daughter left Sunday, July 200n for Florence, 8. C.. accompunted by her husband Rev. George ©. Taylor, DL D.. of Mr. Zion A.M. B. Church preached || on the mubject of the Cross of Chrint. | wherein he made very plain the oM- clency of Christianity and the effects! thereof, A Mfe lived fa the only|! thing that bespeakes good for the]! caure .of Christ and Chriatianity. |! The Cron of Christ, the one moat}! oficlont saving powera that saves the]! noula of men. an assertion I believe]! that every man ought to get some-|! thing out of religion that will autt]! him better, Every man ahould be}! fed fram the Gospel Fountain of} God's word, Good preaching: tn Hy}! ing a life fn the community Readf? the Seriptures and plead with them until they kee Hebe tn the ite of] A Christ Jesus. 1 Rev Wo R. Brown, of Pittsbareh, |! who arrived in the elty last Tuesday] venine and began the series of wer-| 5 flees ont the High Street Haptint [1 “hurch will deliver hin farewell mex | tl mre to the naints and alnners off !s eanoke tonight, at $:30. Rev. Dr. fi irown has certainly left some lasting}! nensiges WIth the people of Roan-| ¢ ke during the Iast elght days. which t accepted will help the Christian | & cople to Ket out of che sinners’ way. | le nd ff accepted by sinner men and | ls omen they will be waved to our God | At nd his Christ and the world wit bef 3 ite better, Men and women are | 1 ving in Roanoke: whether prepared | F unprepared. » Mra, Nanniv Betts, of Sixth avenue br Wo. Mrs, Amanda Kyles and Mr, rmatead Hall, of Fourth avenue, N.} ¥v were called by telegram to Cheater | 2 prings op the aad occasion of the] On rath of thetr Guthmnl apd foving | 80 other. Mra. Clem Hall, of Pittn- | tha Irsh. Va, received the sad intelll- | tak ne and alto came to pay thint Inse | Bu Heute of respect to mother, Mrn. | ura Nett was at Clunter Springs. | !9 - home of the deceased, her moth- [8a during hor Minexs. She leaves two | 8 ns, four daughters and twenty-fvo andchildren to mourn thelr lowe | Mr. Margaret Hall dled July 24th] Cluster Springs. Va. The deceased aa falthtui member of Boll Spring piist Church. Axe 6S years. rhe Rev. George R. Jones, D. D., F. of the Roanoke District of the M.E. Church preached a very soulf \fA ring sermon on Sunday morning. | Sc y 30th, at Mt, Zion A, M. B./ >. irc, the hoad of hig district, to] With ory attentive audienco. He uned | Scot a text, Paul’a Second Lettor tof hon Hobrews, 16th and 16th Ferses.| ian verily he took not on Him the] 2 ire of Angela, but He tpok on} 108. | the seed pt Abraham. Emb the f car Editor of Tho Richmondemba jet: Plone allow mo space inf ‘cy Faluable columps to speak of, great work being done in our] Prof by tho Rev. L. R.Farmer, D. D. harleston. S. C., but now fs ref Sh gin Bedford City, Va. Dr. Par-} ganiz wus at his beat last Sunday atl pineh n o'clock. Tho most wonderful} Gon powerful sermon was delivered} 70% tm from the third chapter of St.] Ruth, , the second verse. Subsect,| of Ri Art x Teacher Sont from God-| hem ; great namber of white citizens Female Embalmer ] eure the Seceiee, ‘ove | faverti soag. oe Frame at which time thetaage to have drooped thefr wing Sie the twe choirs did sins. }2-T'many people \said, Never man speak like this man. Hf ‘preaches again on Tuesday night, Av fuet let, at “Me. Zion; Wedneeda: might, at Salem. Va. and Thursda! night at Vinton, ‘Va. Rev. Dr."W. Re Brown preichod 1 soubdiring sermon Monday dight wt the High Gtreet Baptist Chureh. Subject, God Is a wall around the people, from which be atirrod people that be never stirred before. Tt ts to be remember the Dr. Farmer It the second Lazarus ‘coming from the ‘&rave. ., Dr. Farmer was in ‘the Ministers’ ‘Conference on Monday morniog and delivered to that body a wonderful and helpfud discourse. Dg. Farmer and Dr. Downing mado a ilying trip. over to Blue Ridge nrlngs, Tucsday morning. Dr, Far- mer teently resigued the Morning Star Baptist Church, Jinkin Jones, W. Va. February 6th, Mr. Wilifam Hopkins, 728 Gains- boro avenue. is spending a fow days In Lynchburg, Va, Mrs. Mary Ella McElrath, of Pitte- burgh, I'n.. Is visitiug her sister, Mra. El. IXckeraon, of 14 Fourth avenue, N. W, . { Rey, W. #. Brown loft for his homo. Pittwburgh, Pa, ‘Tuesday night, after Preaching to overcrowded church at cach sevice since Tuesday, the 25th ult, Iv Is a wonderful’ preacher. No one han ever drawn as niany anx- joux hearera_as Dr. Brown, Como kuin soon, Dr. Brown, Ho helped Dr. J. ii, Burks quite a little bit,: spiritually and financially. : The little daughter of Mr. and Mfrs Brown died Sunday morning and was urled Monday, from thelr home on "ark street. The iittle daughter of Mr. anu, Nra. famen'Pye, of the corner of Fifth venue, N. W. died Sunday morning nd was buried Tuvaday evening, nt i80.) Puneral from thé Firat Dap- tet Church. ? The Valley Baptint Arsociation be inn August 9th. A grand time Jn nilelpated. A Randred voice choir, ‘to furnivh music at tho auditortum | uring the seasion of the Agxocintion, wv. JH. Murka, Moderator of the srociation, wif TURNER—CARLON. Mr. and Mra. John E. Carlon. of Charleston, Wy Va. arrived in Roan- oke Sunday. Mre. Nannie Turner Carlon ts the daughter of Mr. and Mrx, Waite Turner, Of a6 Chestnut avenue, No W. She‘married Mr, John Cation at Chartexton, Wo Val on the 24th and they are on shetr honeymoon here. Mneh luck — to thens. theny, LETTER FROM A ROANOKER ON THE HORDER TO MIs WIER. Dear Wife: On the Gulf Const R R., waving border, MeAllen and Mis- von, Teta, Don't know an yet where weate headed for, May know before iniling Ume, if 90, [will in- form you nt clone of thin lettor. We have about 25 enra “dead-heading” fomewhors back from border. We have Just paaned Kingnville, Toxne We carrlet the Seventy-firat N.Y. troopn from Springteld, Mo. to Me- Mien, Tei. Then we ayent dant night In Misalon Texan right near'the line, no near the line when wo were tting In our care eating breakfast dia morning we were looking over In Mexico, We could see buildings int we would not dare go over. We talked to a number of white Americans In. Mission and McAllen, Tenax, reranling conditions existing n thelr weetion an to the attitude of he Mexicans, and neither ttme nor pace will permit me te begin toe Jain the anwwers relating to condi: fons. butane tnformation they gave x nuitelent for ux to draw conelun- on that conditions are far wore han one s far away ax you aro, oF thers are, wnuld think. One man told us that he bad seven uns tn his houxe and thoy are all aded with buckshot and he had a ree mupply of ammunition. There | re no colored people living ground | leMlen or Mission and the white | rople seemed Rladof an opportualty « rtalk to ue and, too, thinking that 1 “ were all from New York ax we i ought Now York soldiers. 1 We did not Ko to Brownayilte, nx \ "once thought. 1 a wiah that 1 M could see the xoldiern that are the borden. Sunt to look at hen, a the ammunition It would svem at they ate prepared, not only to ke Mexico but Germany ax well © it those people who were talking © us say they would. not he a drop G the durket to the Mexleans and ve reasons and Incidents for thelr {ements and say there were two F 1{ MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN '| SCOTT is associated in business | with her husband, “Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro wo- man in the State of Virginia—hold- ing a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals, She ranks with the. best in her profession, : She is prominent in fraternal or- ‘fanizations, namely, Courts of Ca- lanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good. Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons’ and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethle- hem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patromge and influence will be greatly spprecated. Please remember that she is always at your: service, Ga Reiable service at Moderate Rates. - , * Omce . . yo06 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337. - Rewence ers. Se. Jaemee St., Madison 661g | Satiies lect’ Poll :in Mission,’ | September and one. in October | these people give great credit to colored solaiers an well ag the| white, F, although through many sec Tidees.I would not take anything tor this trip and all of the ‘Porters say jthe same. Though we are getting | BO tips out of the soldiers, one Porter ‘got § cents, another 43 cents and 7 got 30 cents, outof the New York soldiers. I was On ‘the road with them three days and nights. * : | Dear, I will tell you al] about my trip when I return, after seeing |things as thoy really are.” 1 give | Kreat credit to President Wilson for Lis coo}-headedness and so do these Americans hore. Ho has indeed act- od w.so as the U, S. was and is not yet prepared for war with Mexico, but Tam afraid tho U: 8, will be drawn in war with Moxico by the Fall or early Spring, if not sooner, and if s0 Japan will be with Mexico ag she has ulready shown horself and Jost one of her subjects, while a num ber of Amoricaus and a tow Mexicans wore lost also, The American house 1a horo that shows for itself, as a solve full of hgles from bottom to top by the Mexicaila, "So much that they told us we do not and can not Ket through the papers. : Now, dear, I do hopo you: al! are real well and gott:ng’ on all right. I certainly do wunt to seo you all, and all of us are hoping we will not havo to make another trip to.the border, not on account of expected danxor of ouravlves, but that we have enough and want to co home, When lcome home 1 will bring you and ttle Mable and sweet little George Edward something nico, just a littie| joken of my trip. Tell Ramey, Vale] mating and Beaver, we need thom on| he order and thousands more, 30 get themaclves tn action and we will! ome for them and carry them over, |, oo. Now, dear, be a aweet MHttle girl, || nd take xood care of the children |, nd yoursclf. It Iy now eleven of lock, 1 gues all of the other Por-| 4 cra are asleep, xo F must do Ukewlne.| Love and bext wishes Your devoted: husband, ‘ GEO, MH, SMITH. 4 A? Hitch street, SW " BRASERALL The famons Roanoke Athlotlen left _ Tuesday ut noon for Norfolk whete ithey wilt play for the champlonship jot ie ate, | Weduesduy the net an allstar axgregation ot Norfolk, and with Smokey Charles Wilaon on the mound they defeated Norfolic by the score of 5-3. Wilxon bin yet to lone a game thin xeaxon, Thix husky youngater ts the Kensation among cole ored team of the South. “The score of the Mext game Reanoke, #00 1 2a 8 nek Norfolk. 1 0106 00 1 wotenk ““Vatterion: Roanoke, WJxon and Jones: Norfolk, Thomas, W. Cayxon and J. Cayeon. Roanoke won the kecoud day 6-1, and lontthe third game, 3-2. but won the fourth Kame, 6-0. They ate the champion of Virginia, having de feated the strongest: teams’ in Vir- sinin and having won 1) and lost 6, Murrah for Moanoke. + They will meet the Taluniore Black Sox in Roanoke Thursday and Friday, the third and fourth, alxo the Lincoin Glauits of New York noon, “Manager Byrd Wade, and Shinn Jones have strengthened the lay considerable,” Misw Elin Bowden fe now enjeying n pleasant Vacation at How ling Green Va, Visiting Miss Oteltu Upadiaw, Misn Bawden expects to xu part {her vacation In Richmond Va., where atic will nea inany Clendx Mr. Charlon Stultz, 524 Chestnut venue, N. W. waa taken to the Jef- erson Honpltal Thursday fer an om | | ration of the throat. He {x Kettng Jong fine at present. Rev. E. Ricks, Mintater of the ‘rat Haptint Chureh, 4 preacting a orien of expoxition sermons from the ook of te Prophet Amox. The embers of the Church and congre-| § ation are studying the Prophet with he Pastor. . Rev, W. R. Brown..tormer pastor | ¢ f the First Church, now of Pitts. urgh, Pa. preached at three P.M, unday toa very Iarke and enthun- atic audience, ‘The: funeral of Mise Emima Pye, ee 11. took place from the Churel: | 0 one PB. M., Tuosday, August Ist. | 2 ne Pastor was anMnted by Reve, | x ouds and Jeferadn, of Roanoke and | f ev Cabell, of Lynewturs, Va. Jo WORK AND SAVE CP PLANET COUPONS AND GET AN UMBRELLA OR A PHONAGRAPH. “BOTH ARE GOOD. SER ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND START TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. ALL “ARE ELIGIBLE. 7 an Renee Beh, ecm fate ee, BROT, . or ==? Do You Want anUmbrella? gy WOmvhere it ts. The Hull Bros, Umbrella Company will guarantee them. The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it into your ‘traveling bag or trunk without injury tothe Umbrella. We have ordered a consignment of these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent quality. 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Summers,-a taxi driver, who was a nephew of Mrs. ‘Gummera Mr, and Mrs, Sherley” and several other persons ha! just stepped from the restaurant when the caveio came, Tho debris reached noarly to. the celling, when the frat rescuora ar rived. The nofse mate by tho collaps: ing walla alinot wa- deadoned by the heavy downpour of rain. Hurry catle were sent {nto the fre nalle, to the police and for ambu- ances. It was (our bours aftor the Tash that the first body was recov. red. It was that of Herbert Sum-|, ners. Then the ‘odes of tho two] | romen wore found Ono of tho most romarkable os: apes was that of John Norton, whe|- raa aleoping above tho restaurant. Vhon tha crash camo, Norton waal , arried from hix room on the second} { oot to tho ceiiar. t Seeing a ray. of light through the] ebris, he dux his way out to safety | 5 Tho hotol bas been in course of son: | § Tuction several weeks, Mr. Sherley, ho had a bowling alley and pool room sides the rertaurent on tho firat OF, was erecting additional stories] « e the hotel. 2 The rain was tho worst that has| © rept thé city in years. It flooded the! e wers to such an oxtenf that water! o ured into many stores. In some sections the water in the weet waa three feet deep. | . EXTRA DIVIDEND ON STEEL |, AN Resorde ‘For Earnings Broken in June varter. - ‘Top lattes States Stee! earporation deSared an extra divilend oF one pe centan tts comtnen steck in addith: | te the regutar quarterly dividend ¢ 1M per cent {The regular quarterly of 1% pe i eent on the preferred stock was als declared, [ The total carnines of the eorpors ton fer the quarter ended Jann > Tart were $81,128.08, according to the Quarterly sport, This establinhed the Righest record ever attained, compar fog with total carnings for the quarter ended March 31 Inst of $00,713,624, the Provioun hich level. Undiled orders on hand at June 34, $91C, ameunted ta 9n844any, tons, which will wecupy “the milla for nev oral months It wax stated new bust nese wa: coming in at a natinfactory rate, many contracta being entered for de'ivery of materials througaaut 1917, HOLD YOUTH IN GIRL‘S at | Prisoner Returne From Orive Wit! ' Companion Dead In Hle Arma. f° Roy Hinteriifier, son of a well todo farmer. ts in Jail ta Olnes X{ UL. charaed with enusing the deat! p] Of Mis sweetheart, Misa Elizabeth Rat. -] cliffe, nerenteen years ol, of Paoil, Ind. a. .| An inquest ts to be held. Minn Rat. ]clfo had bees visiting friends $n Olney. J Hlateritter, after being out driving with the girl drove to a canitarium, holding tie dewt girl fn his arma. He eald whe had complained of beta 1) and had falien unconxetous into his arina almoxt Iminedtately. : After six physicians held an autopsy Mt was decided not to aearch for poluon, The coroner woul! not reveal the do Ciaton of the surgeons, tut said the case involved a rare medical problem. Falls to Death From Train, Charles W. C. Woods, of Easton, Pa, president of tho Cantater company, ’hillpature, efther fell or jumper from a Central Raflroad of New Joravy wain a few milex east Of PHIIMpaburg and was killed. He ‘Waa returning from o busincas trip to New York. * “Baaden ‘Cite Ohik kr 6 kas Burabcth Chaldron, olne, of Camden ]N. J, died tn the: Coopor hospital of loekjaw. Six fay? ago, wile pickiog tomatoes on a farm in Mantua with her mother, the child ran a nall foto her foot. The wound bocame infected and tetanus developod. Sweden to Attack U-Bomte, Oonsequent upon royal Yocree, « gen. eral order has boen. tasued: directing that fereigr submarines in Swedish ‘Weters, unless recomnised as neutrals @ es merchant ships, tmmediataty se9 #0 be attacked. 7 Kille Wite aad Himeot?. James Schult, Stty<ight years old, @ farmer, near Miffintows, Pa, hot and killed bie wife and thea’ committed @uicide. The nine children of the! eouple witnessed the tragedy. . : WAR ;A GENERAL SURVEY Of WEONESDAY. News despatches from Petroxrad say that Husntan troeps unter General [Letchitraky, after eroastig Hukew!na, Rave plerend the Carpathian and en tored Hunxary a full dass acre, The Rusalans are sat to holt four new leading tuts Hinkary. Berlity repicts tant the Rusatana, heavily retutoreed, have renewed ate tacks agitiat von Hiidenburen forces fn tho Rixn sltsirier.. On the front of the lrtttan offenatve fn northern France the Germann ave Beavily counter attacked. AC te polnts thetr assault carted them {nto the new frltish ines. Tan lon admilte the recaptire My the Germans of a portion of Dette we at and the loee Of wow! tn the northera outaktnts of Longieral. \ Bae Preneh Daye reste) thetr drty | tas oftensive along the Sumime, fi northern France, furctiug back th J Germans ona tte front both nort pand rout of the river, According t the Paris tuttetin, the German. fre Mno treneteo from ftazlenx tn Soe court, south of the Satunia, wibitanes of Ave’ iniles, fell Into French tants North sof the rtwer the Freneh attack Dushed east (rem Hurdecourt ap! ear Hod trenches mong the CombleaClery railway. On the eastern front Russta’n armies Continue to preas thete tensive. Gene Oral Litehitzky's fyrees arm pushing thofr wivances In the movement to Im vade Hungary on the ertrone Rusalan left, and stauitancous attacks aro be ing mata tn the center of tho long ine and ayalnst Hindenburg ta the porth, FRIDAY. Russian forces ace delivering a fur! ous attack acalast the German arm Under von Hindenburg tn the Was section. The Muscovite offensive alec 46 being pushed with vigor along the Lipa river, and Petrograd raports aay Kovel and Lemborg, in Galicia, arc sortously inenaced. Moat of the pop ulation of Lemberg {s sid to bave evacuated tho city. : Tho Uritish line north of Barentin and Longuoval, tn the Somme roxion of northern France, has boon pushed forward to Foureaur wood, the Lon. don war «Mce announces. The British drove, the Germans trom the wood, but Joat part of tho position . subse. quently. a . On the Verdun front tho artiNery waa active on both sides in the victm ty of Chattancourt and Floury. Freach; Metoplanns homberded stations at Coa- fens, MareLa-Tour, LAoguyon and| Priculies. 7 SATURDAY, Strikine with werwsettie ¢ 2 4 tho Rusalan ariny fa the vtetutes os the Styr has forced Generate y tan patngen's fares te retriat again tte Aime acre ety that fiver amt te Lipa, The \astredierians ate pen Ported I ysisiteravie tearter. Tye Runrtan bv rine ra struck ona front of Sten rath. taht cneim Mont, ated crossed tle hie under heavy fire, vspruring 0 beter, According te ietrerad teapate hes An artillery taet alone tue Heres front fn nertiern France durine act h Rritiah “Mine and supporting tres we were bombarded with gaa belle Gut Projection euutatning eye tertistite te Fecorded in fe war chee tepart Renewing thetr assaatte an te Var, dun front the Germans ative ot ts French near famiorpy Sat the Peete WAT Mee States thee were rep ated The Germans attaches ren) aa fone ta the Vesges suemtane hoot Attackers, (th tate were aes ue SUNDAY. The fourth were of Oe Soci oat Yo beatis coll far tie tee Brithate be can a new atts « te whole Mie Ho hae nt OL, Ment and ervenhe te el Porters, German ronnter va aed ot @rive the Vreny feta rte pe PAttons unt the alte. oe are dee ne alowly toward Cosul le take aides from Gritlement, Austrian trope tn tie Care oa rogion of southern Hekewina, «at cast of Tatarow, have withirawn 19 ward the miala rites of the Cana inne under the menace of a Neary Rugalan ossasit, Now josttlone have teen wrested from the Aastriane In the wteety ted aD pressure tn the Trostine : = MOGMOAAY' « yp reneral §=Kuropatkin'a ferea« are Bass to Rave penetrated ihe ue t | Flold Marehat von Histentore a ftaney of twelve miles atone sono @ drive south of Msn Tie fev art Movement has exten tet over vf yn of thirty mates Tie sivntie a Presmure We wing centinied on* Galiclan fromthe r ated on the sere. fouthonst part af the tye ue ty San progress reported at att ea The kainer hax kone trot. the wes en to the eastern front, 45 In AnmeniaRuetan freed ars 5 Dorted within Atteen ties of fren Ran. which they are approacatha toi the north and the aouth. Constant w ople reportn a victory. over th Tne aiang in Persia. London reports tmpsrtant a tvan, tages rained by the Prtiteo te, piel! Aight for Poxteres, the proaene foca potat of their atiacx in the Soma Fegion. Despite a atatdura Ge mace defeace a Intke portion of the tawn fe now tn Hritish banda, Rome reports Itallan alos tn the fedt for possenaloa of Mount Cimont. $$$ “Dobseribe to The Bichmend Plonet —Only $1.50 per cane, NEW LAW PROTECTS DRINKING WATER IN CITIES AND TOWNS. Richmond, Va., Aug. 2, 1916 (Special) The State Board of Health has begun to receive applications for water permits under a recent law of General Assembly, which requires that all plans for the installations of new waterworks shall be approved by the board before work can be commenced. Designed to protect water users against the possible use of dangerous water-supplies, the act provides that the State Board of Health shall pass on all plans and order their modification where necessary. In towns where the water-supplies are known to be polluted, the board has authority to order changes required for the protection of the public health, with due appeal to the courts in cases where the orders of the board are disputed. Under the regulations adopted by the board, as required by law, an application blank for the installation of waterworks must be filled out and certified to the board and must be accompanied by maps, etc., explaining the nature of the proposed system or change in an existing system. No permit is required for laying distribution mains from external systems. Health officers regard the law as a distinct advance in the protection of the public health but do not证 that its penalties will seldom have to be invoked where plans are carefully drawn. In most instances, I says a circular of the board calling attention to the new law, skilled engineers are employed to draw the plans for new waterworks and properly safeguard the public health beyond all question. Where this is the case, it will only be necessary for the board to review and approve the plans through its board of sanitary engineering. But there are some towns in Virginia whose water supplies are suspicious and must be improved. While the board hopes that this will be done voluntarily by the towns in question or by the companies operating the waterworks, the new law gives water users a protection they have not before had and can be invoked to secure a safe supply. As the law places a very heavy responsibility on the board and gives it a wide discretion, it will be necessary to make most careful investments of doubtful supplies, and, in some instances, to hold formal hearings where proper safeguards are not placed about the water supply. "To prevent complications, inter- ested engineers should familiarize themselves with the laws and boud- forward copies of proposed plans as required by the act, but to benefit the work. OFFICER DISMISSED. It is reported that a police officer had a heart beat for the police officers for combat while accompanying an officer. He was observed with taking a colored wristwatch in the neighborhood of Ginger Park on its autumn late. He was surprised there by other officers. He hastily put the woman out of the car and escaped away. He was evacuated by his identity the police and it said that he was the result of his compulsive clothes and a result of his compulsive behavior. He had lost his heart form the police officer of this city. HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND HUMBLE CITIZEN. Theodore Shafer, of 1210 Mellon ough street, who had failed to observe the instructions of the city health de- partment in regard to quarantine regulations in a scarlet fever case has discovered he says, that he is a watchmaker and not a doctor. "I did not realize the importance of observing quarantine as laid down by the medical inspector. I regret this very much and promise to follow the exact instructions of the health department. I find that I am a watchmaker and not a doctor, and do not need any further lesson." Such is the acknowledgment made by Mr Shafer to Dr. K. C. Levy, chief health officer, who was in doubt whether he should take the case to court. Knowing that Judge Maurice invariably applied the maximum punishment, which in this case would have been a fine of $25, the chief health officer thought, as Mr. Shafer had acknowledged his error, that a statement to that effect might be as salutatory as the infliction of a fine. Shafer has a wife and six children. Consequently the case was not brought to the attention of the court. brought to the atticion of the court. It appears that Natalie, the little daughter of Mr. Shafer, had scarlet fever and Medical Inspector Summers directed that she be kept in the house to prevent any possible spread of the disease. Mr. Shafer objected, and it was not until the house was quarantined and a policeman placed in front of the door that he realized he was a watchmaker and not a doctor.—News Leader—Aug. 3, 1916. FIFTH ST. BAPTIST S. S. TO BUCKROE BEACH! MONDAY, AUGUST 7TH TRAIN LEAVES EIGHT O'CLOCK ROUND TRIP - $1.00 CHILDREN UNDER 12 YRS., 50C. RESERVED SEATS. 10 CENTS EXTRA. THE LARGEST COLORED SHOW ON EARTH. EVERYTHING NEW THIS YEAR. THE BIG SHOW FOR LITTLE MONEY. LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! ONE WEEK—COMMENCING MONDAY, AUG. 7 DOORS OPEN 7:00 P. M.—SHOW STARTS 8:15 SHOW GROUNDS—30 & Q STS., CHURCH-HILL Corracks Destroy Railway in Rear of Austrian Forces—Teutons Remove Artillery From Kovel. Germany and Hothmier's army is reported to have been involved by the Hothmier's army in a despatch from the Witrela Press. Germany and Hothmier's army is reported to have been involved by the Hothmier's army in a despatch from the Witrela Press. Germany and Hothmier's army is reported to have been involved by the Hothmier's army in a despatch from the Witrela Press. The armies are withdrawing from Kovel to heavy artillery, food and medicine to saye another destination to the Witrela Press. The city of Vittorina Volta is said to have been compelled evacuated by artillery. With General Halifax's army in full control of the Stouffler river, which has been the main route to the west, progress of the northern side of the Russian front and central hand of the Russian front and the river, with General Sir John F. Driving the Stouffler river, bounded by General Nathaniel Frost in the west from the Russian side are we advanced to the campground as we two ships pass the center of Kowal and Lomotry. Of the occupations, Kowal is in the position of a fisherman, dancer, both threatened to be in the west, where the Russian side is easily passed to Stouffler river and from the south where the Russian recently ran an advantage point on the Vastairn river. Volunteer work is important to the Austro-Germans, notwithstanding their sturdy born resistance, will be unable in longer successively to oppose all three Russian lines of advance upon Kovel Vladimir Volnoid and Lemberg, and probably will be compelled to surrender one of these points in order to stiffen resistance against the Russian attacks on the other two. Russian troops at the bend of the Stokkau in the region of the village of Vollkirchberg, formed of the Austro-German mann's bank and found their way through to a point west of this river, officially announced by the French war officer. All Tentoonte counter attacks in the Kavel and Lutek reckons were repaired by the Russians. As the result of a Russian attack on the region of Titikekovshodnka, three miles southeast of Manasterzyka, in Gallea, the Russian troops crossed the marshy river at Karpupets up to their waist in water as all the bridges had been destroyed by the Austro-German mann, and attaching the west bank of the river, organised their new positions. Here the Russians took more than three Austro-German prisoners. ```markdown ``` U. S. Salvation Army Worth $8,353,179. The wealth of the Salvation Army in the United States aggregates $8,353,179. Its officers announce in petitioning the supreme court in Brooklyn for permission to mortgage a piece of property. Real estate holdings amount to $8,886,051 and personal property is worth $1,507,128. Liabilities are $4,266,637, of which nearly $1,500,000 is unsecured. $100 Conscience Gift State Treasurer Young, in Harrisburg, Pa., received the largest fund contribution made to the company monwealth in many months. It came in the form of a draft for $300 sent by an Aspinwall bank for a client. At companying the draft was an insigned letter stating that it was tax for property that had not been assessed. The letter was postmarked Pittsville. 59,675 British Casualties in July. British casualties reported in 1 month of July in all the war are totalled 7,344 officers and 5,111 ```markdown ``` Get One Of These McDOUGALL Kitchen Cabinets and save time, steps—and least in your kitchen. Great variety of styles just re- ceived from the factory chamber. $25.75 UP Call and let us know you the many exclusive improvements that make the Mr. Brown all the best kitchen and your stay. Remember you can even any style this week. 111-113-115 WEST BROAD A man, John Glan, of Lockhart, Northampton, Parra, Pa., to escape from the car, walked into a tunnel of the warehouse and Hudson company to retrieve it and found her way to a room on the way, where many infants were in the car. As a result of her come along, the cow found her out of the way and she was carried all cars in the "trip" being pulled up in a wreck. With her foot, the car runner, escaped without injury. The cow had two dogs behind and to ease her suffering, the nurses killed her with slender hammer. The ensues was in fileness several hours until the wreck could be cleared. The cow had walked more than half a mile to total darkness into the main road of the town. Watch, Wait and Dont Be Late! For to go on the Grand Excursion To CLAREMONT With Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Sunday School MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 16 At 8:00 o'clock Sharp BOYDTON ACADEMIC AND BIBLE INSTITUTE, BOYDTON, VA. A school for both sexes of the colored race. Grammar, academic, commercial normal and Bible courses. Next session opens September 4, 1916. Send for catalogue or information. Principal J. H. Hartman, Boydton, Va. French Art Studio 514 N. Second St.—Maker of High Grade Portraits. We also make a specialty of amateur work. 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