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NET. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 4 THE 'LINCOLNITES' ARE WHITEWASHED BY UNION Red and Steel Machine Wins By 13-0-Hucles' Toe Much In Evidence. (By G. W. C. Brown) Union suitably completed the most brilliant season of her football career by swamping Lincoln under a 13-0 defeat here last Thursday. The contest was one of the toughest ever witnessed in Howie Park and was replete with thrills. Lincoln's grim determination to emerge victorious was evidenced in each charge. Her defeat is not due to poor playing or a weak non versatile eleven, but to the fact that the Red and Steel machine outplayed her in every department of the game. When the visitors attempted line bucking, a sickening slap from the impact of leather against leather was the only result. Jackson and Taylor were found to be demons early in the game and runs around their respective ends were abandoned altogether. Captain Purryer, working in new harness at right tackle, prevented the execution of a single fake. Six forward passes were passed, five were incomplete and the ether was intercepted by Bowle and netted the second touchdown of the game for Union. Such is the history of the offensive. The defense was altogether different. Union had to fight and fight hard for every inch gained throughout the tilt. Howell and Barker, linemen, prevented Union from making any substantial gains through the line, while Clinton, in left half, was phenomenal in his tackling. First Quarter: Union resolved the leather on the twenty yard line, advancing eight yards. Lincoln plays Union to downs and both sides are held to downs twice. Pass from Huebs to Taylor incomplete. Toe rivalry is now instituted, which praises Huebs superior to that of Chamberlain, for Union slowly crawls to the visitors' forty yard line Here Huebs essays another pass, this time to Jackson, who caught it over his shoulder with full good on. It was the prettiest pass of the season. After traversing a distance of thirty yards the oval spiralled down into the waiting hands of Jackson. The quickness of execution as well as greatness of distance had bewildered the Orange and Blue machine. With practically no opposition Jackson placed the playback between the uprights Huebs kicked goal. Second Quarter: Lincoln slightly ened up preceptively. Both teams kept the leather in the air. Lincoln attempted three passes in this scene. The last one occurred in midfield. Chamberlain discharged the bladder over the line of serimimage to Blumgarten. But Bowle rudely intercepted the safe passage of the leather and slinking off three would-be tacklers, landed the ball safely over Lincoln's goal line for Union's second touchdown. Huebs failed to kick goal. Third Quarter: Both eleven failed to score during the rest of the game. Lincoln put up a game fight to overcome Union's lead and once really menaced the home boys' goal line. Hucles fumbled one of Chamberlain's punts. Lincoln covered the ball. Here the Lincolnians presented their most aggressive offense of the contest. Heavy drives were directed against Watts and Thompson in their respective guards but no appreciable gain resulted. Fourth Quarter: Union primed herself for another touchdown. With steady gains the Red and Steel machine hastily left her twelve yard line, where the dawn of the last act found her. Thrashing out, mowing down, charging line, off tackle plays and the Unionized shift placed Capt. Purgear and his charges on Lincoln's ten yard line. Then came a penalty of fifteen yards for holding. Three minutes to play and twenty-five yards to a touchdown. Lincoln's determination proved too great an obstacle—the end of the game found Union five yards from a touchdown with a shutout of 13-0 to her credit. For the visitors, Clinton a work, both on offensive and defensive was great. Chamberlain's toe was in evidence throughout the contest and no doubt was a great factor in holding Union to two touchdowns. Union's left tackle, Wright, portrayed some phenomenal playing throughout the season and seems to be All-American of that position. Williamson, in center for Union, played a consistently stellar game. He is especially a terror on offense. Baumgartner l.a. Tavlor Proctor l.i. Watte Barker l.g. Wright Summary: Substitutes—Lincoln- Waters for Jatty, Digs for Waters, and Bailey for Digs. Union—Johnson for Gregory. Touchdowns— Jackson and Bowle. Goal from touchdown, Hucas. Referee—Hunt, V. T. S. and C. Umprio—Dr. Carper, Richmond. Head Binesman—Dr. Barco, Hampton. Time of peckdown. 15 minutes. ANNUAL MEMBERING OF SPARTAN L. AND A. ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the Spartan Literary and Athletic Association was largely attended on Monday night. Reports from the different departments were received, and evidenced the remarkable progress made by this new organization during its Initial year. M. Alphonso Norrell, president of the association, told of the achievements of the past year, and stated that nearly fifteen hundred dollars had been raised, with which to prosecute the work. He closed with an appeal to the members to remain loyal to the association, and make possible the program of uplift and reform among colored men, to which the Spartan Association is committed. The budget and plan of work recommended by the Board of Directors were ratified. The Spartan Minute Men Society, which is operated under the auspices of the literary Department, will continue its activities during the new year. An Emancipation celebration on January 1st heads its program. The association will renew its affiliation with the Negro Organization Society, and will affiliate with the Amateur Athletic Union of America. The following officers were elected: President, M Alphonse Norrell; Vice Presidents, R A. Cole and Arthur Dyon; Secretary S R Johnson and C E Smith; Treasurer, James Shet- ton; Auditor, C G Griffes. The chairman of the board committees for the year will be Moyd A Perkins, J M Dabney and C F Foster. These offers, together with the following members elected at large from the association, will compose the Board of Directors: Prof J. M Sampson, Emmett C Burke, R B. Sampson, James T Carter, Fred Gardner, Henry W Walton and Stephen Jones. At the close of the meeting the members were served with refreshments. ```markdown ``` STUART CONDEMNS KAUFFMAN'S BOOK. Reginald Wright Kauffman, author of the "house of Bondage" and other writings dealing with ostensibly such joists, doesn't like Governor Stuart's criticism of his latest book, "The Mark of the Beast." He has said as much in a letter to the Governor, and has elaborated on what he calls the unfairness of the criticism, in letters to various Southern newspapers. Several weeks ago the author sent the Governor a copy of his book with a courteous request for his opinion of it. The central theme of the novel is the lynching of a Negro for a crime committed against a white woman by a Southern white man who stands by and sees the Negro die for the crime of which he is himself cutty. The Governor called Mr. Kauffman's attention of the fact that there has been no lynching in Virginia in fifteen years, and concluded his criticism of the book with this statement: "I am in favor of educating the public in respect for the law of the land, but I cannot improve efforts like yours to infame the public by the presentation of an incredible situation whether you choose to call it propaganda or not." In his reply to the Governor, Mr. Kauffman master commendatory letters from former Judge A. A. Gudger, of North Carolina, and former Governor Norel, of Mississippi, neither of whom has found anything in the book to which Southerners could object: "I disclaim any intention to insult the South or create a false attraction," writes Mr. Kauffman, "and against the训令ation that I have done so I appeal to the decision of such men as Justice Gudger and ex-Governor Norel." There be cynical persons who say that authors of "violent" literature welcome the opportunity to engage prominent people in controversy over their work. Whether Mr. Kauffman is virtuously defending himself or just advertising, the fact remains that his unassayed book will receive little indorsement from Virginia's Governor—TimesDispatch, Dec. 5, 1916. NOTICE To the Brotherhood. Regular National Baptist Convention, The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Congress of the Convention will meet in Atlanta, Georgia, June 6-13, 1917. D. W. Connors, President National S. B. and Y. P. U. Congress. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. KING SAM LURED MANY COLORED FOLKS TO AFRICAN COAST VICTIMS SCATTERED ON AFRICAN WEST COAST The "Emperor" Now Heads A Tribe of Natives. Moored to a pier in Erie Basin is a huge old rustpot of a steamship, barnacle encrusted, sticky with mildew, rotten. But three short years ago a thousand persons builted upon aer dreams of an empire, of a huge and wealthy country where they would be better than the host in this country. Some of them have died in their attempt to make their dream a reality; others, after passing safely through compound dangers of drowning and disease, are now scattered along the west coast of Africa, picking up their living as they can, scorned and mistreated in the land where their empire was to lie. So ends their faith in "King Sam," the magic tongued Negro who had waved the scheme that made happy their sleep with soft dreams. For months now they have been awake and aware that it was all a nightmare. SAM'S AMBITIOUS SCHEME Three hundred feet from the spot where she was moored two years ago last spring the Liberia was tied on Sunday after a dangerous trip from Africa. When "King Sam" was filling the Negro newspapers of this country with his stock selling scheme the authorities got after him quickly, but he was able to point to the vessel in Erie Basin, which he had seized Liberia, as proof of his good faith. So the authorities permitted him to continue, as there was nothing illegal in his methods, and because they more than half suspected that he was honest, although a visionary. His scheme was to transplant American Negroes to Africa, where they would build an empire, one share of stock at $25 entitled its purchaser to a free voyage to the empire, where land would be given him. Sam was to be emperor. MONEY CAME ROLLING IN The British authorities tried to present his work, but could do nothing except trumpet warnings in the Near newspapers. But in spite of that Negroes of both sexes flooded Sam's office with their subscriptions; he bought the Liberia for about $200,000 in cash. He infected religion into the home and surrounded every commonplace with the mysticism and formality that the Negroes love. The Liberia, under a crew of Negroes, few of whom were sailors, steamed to Calyveston and there the first lead of passengers for Africa was taken ahead. The trip was made; disease claimed a huge toll; others were swent overboard during storms. It was a miracle that the vessel did not founder under her inexperienced crew. She reached Africa, and here Sam sought his kingdom. The land was not forthcoming. The Liberia was anchored while the empire seekers sought work. Sam drifted to a west coast village and soon not such a snail on the natives that they elected him chief. TOWED ALL THE WAY BACK When the war multiplied the value of freighters those to whom Sam owed huge sums thought they could get some of it back by bringing the Liberia home. It was hard to find any vessel which would consent to tow her. Finally the C. W. Morse, a wooden tug, went after her, but was never heard from after she left this port. Then on September 17 last the Zealandia of the Universal Transportation Company left here under Carte A. W. Barlow. At Barbados she crew sickened of the work and quit. Another crew was shipped and on October 18 she reached the Liberia, then anchored, off Animahoe. Some of the barnacles on the old ship's sides were scraped off by native divers; such repairs as could be made were made. An 800 foot 8 inch hawser was made fast and the journey home began. Luckily the weather remained fair, otherwise it is doubtful if the vessel could have remained afloat. The saloon of the Liberia is filled with reminders of Sam. There is the plano, from which came meeting hymns and rastreamte were thumped so much that it gives forth no sound. The linoleum on the floor is worn. through in a huge circle where the dances were held. Over a door in the rear is a sign "Holy"; King Sam used to meditate, in the room behind it. There are scraps of hymnals scattered around, some of them inserted with the names of colonists, "Cotha Bwerly," give to my daughter S. B., "Mr. Foane Staples, Paden, Oka, African Gold Coast, the Negro's Home," are two of the inscriptions. In the planets' hymnal are written the names of half a dozen girls. In the store rooms are barrels of rotten corn beef, muntz hams, mildewed potatoes. New York Sun, Dec. 5, 1916. OLD FOLKS HOME CAMPAIGNS, IS INCREASING DAY BY DAY. His Honor George Almshoe, Extend Campaign Ten Days. The management of the campa- meter to raise funds for the Old Folks Hone- located at 608 West Barker Street, has succeeded thus far in raising $3,234.8 This amount is made up as follows: $2,236.93 in cash, $1,087.95 in pledges. Within the few days left to us we deal to use every available means to increase the amount already in hand. We are deeply grateful for what our friends, both white and col- ored, have done for us already, but at this time we are anxious for all to have a hand in this good work. Invitation is hereby extended to every church, Sunday school, B. N. P. U., Christian Endeavor society, fraternal society, benevolent society, social and literary clubs, and in fact, to every citizen of the town to rally to our cause in the few days left of the campaign. The Mayor of the city, seeking the struggles of the committee, and him self being willing to do all in lat- power to render all sent to our office a written instrument extending the time of the campaign ten days from Thanksgiving. This action on the part of His Honor, the Mayor, greatly encouraged the workers and they have come to work with renewed load and energy. We are caller upon every officer to encourage the effort by giving a con- tribution, whether it be large or small. Yours for success. W. T. Johnson, Chairman: A. O. Daly, Vice Chairman, Lella Robinson, Secretary, James Fraasley Manager. In Memoriam Patrici in sad, but loving remembrance of my darling child, Berthea H. Price, who departed this life over years ago today December 9, 1909. Seven years have passed, my heart's still gone. As time goes on, I miss you more. When days are dark, and friends are few. My darling, how I long for you. PANNIE P JENKINS THOMAS F. RYAN SENDS $500.00 The following letter explains itself New York City. Mr. James Frayser Dear Sir, Mr. Ryan directs me to knowledge your letter of November 30th, and to send you his check for five hundred dollars towards the fund are raising in the interests of the Colored Old Folks Home in Rich- mond. His check inclosed herewith drawn to the order of the treasurer of the fund. Mr. Ryan prefers to make his donation outright rather than by in-dallments. Yours very truly. GERTRUDE BARR, Secy Tripleta Here. The wife of Mr. Roy Kenney, 507 S. Merrill, gave birth to triplets, November 13, 1916 Mother and child, children are doing well. Mrs. Kenney is 26 years of age. Stenographer Wanted. WANTED--A first class Stenographer can secure a splendid position at once, in an institution to teach Shorthand, Typewriting and Bookkeeping, Penmanship and Spelling. The person must be of pleasing personality and most exemplary in conduct. WANTED--Two good, honest colloidal work mails. One for cook, and one for chambermaid and help care for three small children in Lille, Broom County, N. Y. Pure, will be furnished. Address L. S., care on Planet. LYNCHERS ARE HELD FOR MURDER Abbeville, S. C., December 5. Charged with murder in connection with the lynching of Anthony Crawford, a Negro, eight white men were held for trial in the Circuit Court here today, after a preliminary hearing before, Magistrate Hammond. Those held were J. V Elkin, Samuel Adams, Jess Cann, William Cann, Samuel Cann, Eugene Nance, B Grant and R H Ferguson. Sing-Flinty, George White, Jr., M. Cause, J. Dawson, John T. Cheatham, Lester Cann and J. S. Banks, on whom warrants were served yesterday, were released. The arrests followed an investigation ordered by Governor Manning into the lynching in Abbeville several weeks ago. Crawford, who was charged with assault and battery on a white man, was first severely beaten, and then was taken from jail, where he had been placed for safekeeping, and put to death. Sheriff Burke and his father testified at the preliminary hearing today. ELK LODGE OF SORROW 10. Address Hon. Armand W. Scott of Washington, D.C. Grand Exalted Ruler H. P. O. P. of World. After a few brief maries the speaker said for this salut and salut occasion he would take for his subject the words "In the midst of life we are in death." His theme was work. For 45 minutes he held his audience as a senior listener as he neared forth great truths one after another and then by his earnest, concluding words he easily held his audience until the end. Selection Orchestra Offering for Charity Brothers Linton Taylor and Royal Brown Toast "About Brothers" Brother Harrison Doean Quartette, Sabbath Glee Club, Closing Ceremony Lodge, Selection, Orchestra, Benefition, Brother Dr. O W Moore, Brother Curtis Jordan, Musical Director. After exercises at the hall were ended the social committee and the Grand Exalted Ruler, Madame and son and other guests assembled in Brother A. D. Price's auditorium Brother John P. White preaching Brother W. I. White correspondent for the St Luke Herald made a few remarks, followed by Dr. B. P. Vanderbilt correspondent for the Richmond Planet. Dr. Q. W. Moone, trustee, praised the work of the Ladies' Auxiliary, Mrs. Rodd, of Benjamin Temple, sounded the locale for the Elks' Home by saying the women were anxious to help, and if the six hundred male members gave $1.00 each as a starter, she would give $2.00, and thought each member of the Temple would do likewise. Brother R. B. Mosby, better known to his associates, as "Tap Monby," although nearly 70 years old, was destruous of his boys going forward and getting the home. Brother P. B. Williams, the founder of Williams Lodge, and State Deputy brought them greetings from his old lodge and hoped for them continued prosperity. Brother Jan. T. Carter, of Williams Lodge, Grand Treasurer of the Order, hoped the time would soon come when there would be but one lodge in this city. Brother Clarence Griffin, of Williams Lodge, was also present. Dr W. E. Atkins, Past Grant, Exalted Ruler, made a few remarks. The last speakers asked to be excused to attend the Lodge of Sorrow to be (Continued On Fourth Page) Mr. James W. Harris Passes Away Washington, D. C., November 25 After an illness of seven months' duration, Mr. James W. Harris passed peacefully away at his residence, 210 623 Street, November 22, 1916. He bore his illness with true Christian grace. He was born in Fluviana County, Va., in 1870, and had been a Christian for more than thirty years. Mr. Harris became a member of the Beulah Baptist Church three years ago and had worked realistically with that body of God's people, having served as trustee and worked hard to bring the church up in spiritual and temporal blessings. Truly it can be said of him. Servant of God, well done. Rest from thy loved employ. And while eternal ages run. Rest in the Savior's joy. He is survived by a devoted wife, Mrs Maria Harris, who stood shoulder to shoulder with him in health and in sickness, did all that was possible to be done, assisted by his cousin. Besides his wife, he leaves one sister, Mrs Milted Johnson, of Richmond, Va. one brother, Mr El the Murray of Richmond, Va. two sons and a wife of relatives and friends. The memorial service will be held at the church of the Holy Cross, Richmond, Va. on the home of the deceased. The General Hospital will be used for the memorial service. November 10, 1906 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MR. ALLEN'S COMMENT Lakes The Planet - Also Proof Moore BROADWAY, Va. Dec. 1, 1966 Mr. Ehler. I wish to express my opinion of your great weekly journal. I have been reading your paper ever since 1965. I think it is one of the greatest articles I worked in America. There is only one thing I regret our people be not putting off. I regret as they should. Such a paper on The Planet ought to be read by our entire reading public. I am highly pleased with the letters written by Fred Moore. We think his advice should be kept to all. He seems to be the greatest advocate of the New York City. I were well-known to the masses in the Dr. Washington was during my life. We thing the overwhileness and need of our people would follow his leadership. Ascending to our circumstances here in this country I see in his polite behavior a remedy that will settle our raw problem. I would like to know what race and nationality does Prof Moore belong. ASHTON L. ALLEN Rev. Cobbs at Calvary Baptist Church Rey C. A. Cobbs will preach at Calvary Baptist Church Sunday at 1:30 P.M. to the congregation of the Donny Street Methodist Church (white) by their special request. Rey Cobbs will in a few days, leave for Philadelphia and Baltimore where he will preach in some of the large churches. Tomorrow (Sunday) at Mt. Carmel. 9:30 A. M.—Sunday School 11:30—Special Sermon by the pastor, Rev E. D. Coffee, Subject: 'The Devil Bound A Thousand Years' 3:30—A Grand Sacred Concert by some of the best talent of the city given under the auspices of the Earnest Workers' Club, Mrs. Octavia Allen, president; Mrs. Maria Knight, secretary. 8:00 P. M.—Sermon by Brother Joe Johnson. Mr. J. D. Archer, of Norfolk, Va. called on us this week. Mr. Courtney B. Howlett and wife arrived in the city last week, from Charlottsville. They will reside here. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. HOWARD DEFEATED BY HAMPTON BY 12-3 SCORE Hampton Harvester Claims the Championship Title by the Defeat of Howard University. (By Lawrence A. Lea) For two consecutive years the famous Howard University football squad has gone down to defeat at the hands of Hampton's spoody machine. Howard has not sent a man over the Hampton goal with the pikein since 1914. The defeat that was administered to Howard on "Turkey Day," gives Hampton the claim to the championship title of 1916. Hampton's machine arrived at Howard on Wednesday evening, in a light fall of rain that continued throughout the night. Every man on the squad was in good spirits and confident that Howard would go down in defeat. The only reply to the years and songs with which the Howard athletes arrested the Hampton machine was, "We didn't come to how hard to lose any more." BATTLE ON WET FIELD The sun came up on Thursday morning and partly dried up the water skied gridiron. The wet field was a great disadvantage to the light Hamilton backfield men who depend mainly on dodging their opponents. The referee blew the whistle for the kick off at 2 P M "000" of Hamilton, sent the oval down the field to the 5-yard kick. The kick was received by Hamilton. Howard's quarterback, but Hamilton's line men were on him to make much gain. Howard sent Wheaton through Hamilton, for 3 yards. Cole was followed with a gain of 2 yards and one of the college fake kicks gave Howard another gain of 3 yards. The collageians then beaten attempt to sweep the ends of the Hamilton lightning tackles and took great pleasure in pressing the runner off his interference. After two failures to gain around the end, the Howardites tried to creep by the aerial route, but Clement D Dorsey robbed Howard and Gilmore of all that came his way. During this period, he was made a distance of 25 yards to Gilmore, but Dorsey scoped in the bad with one hand. The wet ball that kept him from getting away. The ball was quickly over the Gilmore and Dorsey, the slack quarterback, the Dorsey, who had dropped the backfield, around Howard. He made the work. (continued on Fifth Page) MINOR-CREATHAM Mrs. Salle Cheatham desires to announce the marriage of her daugh- ter, Ruth Anna, to Mr. Sylvester L. Minor, December 14, 1916, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Coles, 909 Roane Street. Friends invited. No cards. SAMCELS-BROWN. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Brown announces the marriage of their daughter, Katie L. Montana, to Rev. E D. Sammels, D. D., of East Orange, N. J., to take place Wednesday, December 27, 1916, at five o'clock P. M. at the Decorzer Baptist Church. Recognition from six to eight o'clock 19 East Duval street. Friends invited. No cards. BROWN-JONES Mr. Robert H. Jones wishes to announce the marriage of his niece, Miss-Margaret V. Jones, to Mr. Vernal S. Brown, of Hampton, Va. Tuesday, December 19, 1916, at 2:30 o'clock P. M. at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Jones, 829 Denny Street. Friends invited. No cards. HINSON—FOUNTAIN Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fountain, of 1709 West Leigh Street, announce the marriage of their daughter, Lillie Norrell Fountain, to Mr. Louis B. Hinson Wednesday, November 22. 1916, in Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. R. D. Johnson, pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church, officiated. --- --- IN MEMORIAM Booker T. Washington—born 1857, Died November 14, 1915. In silent sadness as the funeral train bore off, The lifeless body of him who had suffered and passed. Murdered and poisoned. Many nations mourned the great Educator's loss. As he was converted to his eternal resting place at last. His life's work was finished. his time had come. May heaven ever keep his immortal soul. He had no advantage of training in college. And gave his life to his race in Tuskegee Institute. We know not his destiny, nor did he. A great deed of man here on earth. To kindred minds a historic event gives. His was nature's true immortal birth. Some deeds die, but this man's great work lives. J. Hazel Donaldson. MRS. VILLA EXPLAINS SOM MYSTERIES HUSBAND, CHIEF HUSBAND, For the first time, Mrs. Francisco Villa, life of the Mexican bandit chief, has revealed some of the mysteries surrounding the movements of her mortal husband since the Columbus raid. The interview was obtained by Harold Browna a staff photographer of the Haitian International News Pictorial, while Mrs. Villa was stopping at the home of her husband a brother, Hipolite Villa, in San Antonio, Texas. The Villas recently came to this country from Cuba and are living in a nice neighborhood away from the fashionable Travis Club. Occasionally enough, Mrs. Villa's American home is only a stone throw from the boarding house at which Mrs. Carranza was stopping while the interview was taking place. According to Mr. Brown, Francisco Villa显然 wasn't looking for a Carmen with soulful eyes, satin skirt and nearly teeth when he selected a wife who the woman he got already of that type. She is a wholesome, healthy, levelheaded sort of woman with a full quota of physical and intellectual power, but she is not Carmenqueque. Mr. Brown's interview with this woman serves to introduce Augustin Villa, her four-year-old son. What the son of a real handful chief looks like is shown on this page. The boy is a slender, straight as an horse snapping black eyes, already a horse master and a markman, a small bundle of vibrant muscle fibres and tingling nerves. He is very preocious. Through an interpreter Mrs. Villa stoutly denied that her husband was involved in the Columbus raid. "No, no, no That is all a joke," she exclaimed. "He had no need to do with the Columbus affair." Novert was the first to condemn the outrage. "I have reasons to know positively that he was not there and had nothing to do with it, and the whole world will know and be satisfied that this is true. The circumstances and evidence I am not at liberty to disclose now. My husband would not wish it, but he knew the war not there. When he had conquered the northern St. and has a little time to spare from his fighting, then the truth will be known if only he can live through this terrible campaign, and I believe he will. "Now he is very busy. He must have more men, but that he cannot help The Carranzistas blame all evil onto Villa, but Villa is not to blame. He must have men to fight for the freedom and honor of Mexico. Now he has probably eight thousand men, and much as he Carranzistas, War is bad. It is no worse in Mexico than it was in Belgium. "Villa will kill, yes, he would kill his brother or his wife if they proved traitors. He would kill any man that would harm a woman. That is why the people of Mexico love him. In all parts they come to him because he is not afraid to do right and punish evil. How how they are coming to him. If he was so bad, would he be so willing to fight and dis for him? "He was shot through the leg just below the knee. The bone was broken. There were only six men, with him. They carried him up in the mountain. He had no water, no food, no medical attention. For four weeks he lay there and suffered, his men contested in all directions. When they were out of town, not one of his six men for food. After they were gone, he became alarmed at the approach of soldiers, and the two men carried him over. --- the ridge and down on the other side of the mountain. It was, a month since he had been wounded. A military doctor was brought to him by one of the two men. The leg was rebroken and reset. It was tertribly painful and it was harder still for him to keep so quiet when he had so much to do. And he could not let it be known where he was so his men could come back to him. But when the wound got healed so that he could hobble around, then one by one the men gradually came back to him. "Why was he not betrayed? Ah, that is the proof! The true patriots of Mexico would not betray Villa because he is the friend of the poor and the patriot of Mexico himself. Yes, in some way the word was passed along from lip to lip among the faithful, and in them the patriot drifted back to Villa and then began the fight to drive out the enemies of Mexico. "On and on they have marched with victory at every turn. Oh, there is so much to do and the blows must be struck quick and fast. There is no time for quibbling. Mexico must be saved and the years of bloodshed must quickly come to an end. Then we shall have the explanations and the facts. All the falsehoods and wicked plots will be exposed to the world." "Francisco Villa is not a robber. If he was fighting merely for personal gain he could have left Mexico long ago and enjoyed wealth and luxury in some other country. No one can deny this, so why should he be starving and fighting with his very life to make if he did not love his country." Mrs. Villa said her husband had now sufficiently recovered from his wound, that he required, only a cane and could ride a horse almost as well as ever. So far as definite or specific plans are concerned she could not any other than that she hoped Mexico would orderly and civil government. "We do not want the United States to interfere with us in any way," she said, "but my husband always held we must never lose the friendship of the Americans, because they will always be helpful to us as friends and only injurious as enemies. A good deal of patience and diplomacy was required before he could get Mrs. Villa to pose for the "movies." From "somewhere on the Mexican border," he writes: "Mr. Hipolito Villa and several important appearing Mexicans were holding council on the veranda when I presented myself. He received me courteously and gravely. One of the guests volunteered to serve as interpreter, and I made my mission known. "There was a brief conference in Spanish, during which the interpreter apparently was trying to form a coalition but final refusal. I knew what was coming from the expressions. "I regret to say, he said, that Mrs Villa is ill and it will be impossible for you to see her." When I called the nurse time we were going to see her, I soon came apparent to me that the real trouble was the question of whether it would be good policy for Mrs Villa to appear in pictures. I suggested a little tea party, with the family sitting around the table on the veranda or in the yard. This they considered a good suggestion. Then the tea party came Rose Peralata, my wide awake chap four interpreter, me up to the house with my cameras and tripod. "Mr Villa was gone, but Mrs Villa came to the door. It was late in the afternoon. She said that Mrs Francisco Villa was getting ready for the tea party and was going to be costumed like a Japanese. This was a plea to please the idea, but were going to carry it out more pictures equally than I had expected. "You will have to wait a little white," said Mrs. Hipolito Villa, because she is going to a half dresser to have her hair fluffed up in Japanese style. "Oh! How long will it take?" "About an hour, and a half." "I saw by the time they were ready it would have to be a moonlight picture. So it was agreed that I should come the next morning at half past ten. "At half past ten the next morning I was there. There were no signs of a tea party. Mr Villa told me the women could read and an me to down on the veranda to wait for them. By this time I had discovered that he understood quite a bit of English. It was an hour before the women were greatly Mrs. Hipolito came out on the veranda I dressed up for a ride. "What about that tea party?" I asked. "Well, we decided it would be better to go ruling. Mr Villa did not want Mrs. Villa to dress in the Japanese kimono for the picture. "Oh, but a riding picture is so common. Everybody has been photographed riding in automobiles, but no one has appeared at a tea party." I argued. "I finally persuaded them to go about it with tea party plans. The men took a livelier and more laid out the big oak forest and filled them brought out tea sets, silver service bowls, turkeys until it looked like a feast. The children cut flowers that were growing in the yard. "It won't look well to have both champagne and tea, will it?" asked Mrs. Villa. She turned to a matriarch-looking woman in a purple plum gown and spoke in Spanish. I assumed this to be Mrs. Francisco Villa. She looked more like the sturdy Spanish irise type than the Latin, and "I was the bad girl eyes." Mrs. Francisco Villa called and spoke to Hipolito. He called a servant, pulled out a big roll of money from his pocket, peeked out a $20 bill and told him to go and buy some champagne. "Gustro," he called, as the lad hurried away, meaning bring four bottles riled away, meaning bring four bottles. "While waiting for the champagne we arranged the children at the small table for a picture. Mrs. Franklin Villa took an active part in arranging the picture, putting in the flowers and having a rug laid before the table for the babies to sit on. "I had the different members of the family looking through the view finder on the camera until they be very enthusiastic about the effects. "One of the little girls poured the tea and the party became as animated, as could be expected under the circumstances. THE RAIN AND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA For the time we were through with the exhibition, I was proud and was pleased. I supported that they drink a tequila to the General, and this was done at the time I indicated. Of course, in the interim of moving pictures I was taking snapshots, but the magnet of the coast was too hastily performed to look natural. I made many snapshots. The two were the moving pictures of the Tillis family, and when the office in New York wired for a story I found myself able to "ill the order." New York American TOM WATSON'S CASE. Augusta, Ga., November 30.—The case of Thomas K. Watson, charged with having sent obscene matter through the mall, was to the jury in Federal Court here tonight, and at 10:30 the jury returned without having reached a verdict. The jury was told by Presiding Judge Lamblin that the questions to be decided were whether or not the language in the four counts of the case had been caused to be mailed by the defendant or whether it was "obscene, insultive or filthy," as charged. Watson today admitted responsibility for the mailing, and the court, mentioning this, said: "The serious controversy" was on the question as to the nature of the language. The articles were attacks on the Catholic Church. In course of summing up his defense Watson cited decisions which he contended gave latitude in use of words in the indictment, and words indications from many books, including the Bible. As the speaker concluded there was a brief outburst of approval from some of the spectators. District Attorney Donaldson based his plea for conviction mainly on the alleged violation of Federal penal law by the language used in the publications. The defendant against the defendant is in four counts, and Judge Lambdin announced that he might be acquitted or convicted on one or all of them. The defense had offered to go to the jury on the charge of Presiding Judge Lambdin and without arguments, but the government declined this offer, and it was decided that the defendant would be barred from argument. The defendant, acting as his own leading counsel, announced he could make the closing speech. Watson today continued on the witness stand the statement begin yearday, and asserted that he could paraphrase Hieral English translations of the Latin alleged to be obscene, in such a manner that it "would not offend the propriety." He also reiterated that the Latin paraphrase of the Roman Catholic theologians of several centuries ago. It had been explained by the defense that it consisted of admonitions for priests to make at the confessional. Watson declared he had spent almost a lifetime of study before writing the serial story on the "Roman Catholic Herarchy," parts of which are cited in the indictment, and asserted that before publishing it he leaped a proposition of it, threatened by the Roman Catholic herarchy," he said. On objection of the proposition this was ruled out. On returning his statement to the jury today, Watson took "full responsibility" for mailing the alleged someone matter cited in the indictment against him. He had declined to do this earlier in the trial although at the time he said he had "I had no physical connection with the mailing." he said today, "But I knew it would be mugged, and I take full responsibility for mailing it." DENTAL SOCIETY ENTERTAINS THEM. Doctors Edward, King, Evans, Gwathney, Barrier, Gaskin, Gilson and Wormily, members of the Robert T. Freeman Dental Society of Washington, D. C., were entertained by the Peter R. Ramsey Dental Society Saturday at the Mechanics Bank Building. Dr. O. R. Johnson, President of the Peter R. Ramsey Dental Society, introduced Dr. T. W. Edwards, President of the Robert T. Freeman Dental Society, who delivered the address of the evening, giving a retrospective view of the progress of our profession and the opportunities it has interested in other occasions of life. It was indeed very encouraging and an incentive for greater efforts to the older as well as to the younger practitioners. After discussing, various phases of the profession, especially the business side, they adjourned temporarily from labor to refresh which were served in the old Pythian Castle Hall. 51 N. Third Street. Caterer Chas. H. White and his staff were highly complimented by Dr. R. E. Jones, upon the efficient and up-to-date method of compounding an appetizing and digestible collation. Other than the Dental profession, Dr. R. E. Jones, Messra B. P. Turner, C. R. H. Greene, and D. P. Tragg were also present. As some of the city's most prominent to the city at noon, an automobile sightseeing tour of the city was on Sunday morning, and expressions of surprise were manifested at the beauty and prosperity of Richmond. The officers of the local dentists were visited and admired, and the Washington dentists left, regretting that time would not permit them to attend church services. The local Dental Society, composed of the practitioners of Petersburg and Richmond, was organised last year by the Dr. Peter, B. Ramsey, the pioneer of the profession in Virginia. Meetings are held bi-monthly, alternately, in Richmond and Petersburg for the discussion of papers contributed by its members. —Read "The Yellow Claw," now running on page three of this paper. Full of thrill from start to finish. Don't miss a chapter. Mr. Lewis Johnson of Christie- ville, conducted the early morning Thanksgiving meeting. Thanksgiving night was a very bright hour with the men of Rich- mond, for they enjoyed the tea which was given to them by the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. Every- thing was served free. The women and men rendered a very enjoyable program. The President, Mrs. Lour- bert Blackwell, and her strong com- mittee, of ladies, were extremely happy to know that their desires were carried out by making the men happy. The number was very large. Amid our joy sorrow came, by the death of our internee, Secretary, Mr. J. A. Internee who died in Brook- lyn, N. Y., and Mr. James A. Blau- ter, Secretary of our Bible Class, who died in Richmond. This was a severe blow to us, but we have no complaint to make, for God does what is right. Two faithful workers have left us for a better home. The families have our prayers and sympathy By special request of the family, our General Secretary, Scott C. Burrell, attended the funeral of Mr. W. A. Hunton, which was held Saturday December 2, 1 P. M., in Brooklyn, N. Y. Our Secretary was one of the active pill-bearer. Much interest was cast on the class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson by Dr. W. H. Stokes. Glad to know that you were present. Come again. Last Sunday was a full day for service. At 9:30 A. M. the workers made use of the meeting at the Y. M. C. A. At 10 A. M. the committee found much to be done in the city home, and all were active. Two prisoners were led to accept Christ as their Personal Savior, in the Committee's William Thomas and D. T. Young. The boys' meeting was conducted by Committeeman C. B. Gaston, and it was a good one. Mr. F. W. Black addressed the men (5:30 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. and every fellow was helped. The solos by Mr. Isaac Parker were sung from the soul. The examination women are invited to the examination on the Sunday School lesson today (5 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Come! Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for workers (9:30 M. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers, send your boys to the special meeting for boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mr. A. C. Clarke will conduct an opening for men (5:30 P. M.) after Y. M. C. A. All men are invited. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. Urbana, Va., Nov. 27. On Sunday, 4th inst., we attended a grand rally at the Metropolitan Bistlst church, Rev. Thos. Harris, pastor. Rev. Harris preached an excellent sermon, which was a great help to us. In the late afternoon we visited Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tabb Oths are present were Miles Anne Tabb and Mattle K. Robinson. A royal dinner after which we motored down to Miss Antoinette Tabl's home in Mr. Tabl's car. On our return the gasoline gave out and we had to walk a little over an hour for the needed fuel. We reached home in time to assist in killing hags Monday morning. Mr. Archie Warmley, who opened a grocery store near Wake a few months ago, is now doing a prosperous business. The Harris Brothers' store, near Lot, will be ready for business the first of next year. The grocery building, which was destroyed by wind some months ago, has been reconstructed, and is now near completion. Mr. G. S. Bunny, of Tappanhannock, contractor. Mr. Austin Wilson, of Streets, Jed on the 20th of November. He was sick for many months. Miss M. E. Wormey, teacher of the Pine Grove school, was called home on account of the illness of her mother. Mr. Vassar Holmes, of Pennsylvania, is home for a visit with relatives and friends. Mr. Howard Wilson, of Trenton, N.J.' was called here recently on account of the death of his father, Mr. Austin Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Carter, who spent the summer in Pennsylvania, have returned home. Mr. Charlie Bawtson, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Bawtson, M. K. Robinson and Mrs. J. C. Bawtson were the guests of Miss A. Tabin on the 4th Sunday evening last. Miss Sarah C. Campbell, Lucinda Lewis and Annie Gatoweld called to see Miss Lucy A. Fitchett recently. A GOOD CITIZEN DEAD Mr. Robert Johnson, a respectable citizen living near here, died December 1. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Tynes, Dr. R. E. Berkley. Rev. J. A. Martin, who was to take part in the services, had to be elsewhere, but he left a paper which was read by Rev. Tynes. Subject, "The Sleep of the Just Is Sweet." Rev. Tynes preached from Psalm 37:37, "Mark the perfect man, and hold the light: for the end of that man is peace." Mr. Johnson was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church. He leaves four sons and one daughter to mourn their loss. Washington, D. C. Nov. 3.—A total of 27,172 square miles, comprising the whole or parts of 46 counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota, and Texas, will be released from quarantine o n account o the cattle fever tick December 11, as a result of an order recently signed by the Secretary of Agriculture. As a result of the new order the total area of released territory will run 300,138 square miles. The area originally quantified in 2000 was 738,648 square miles. The small insurgent base in the southern village with which the present military order of the kingdom, where the organization is to be trained in 19 white cavalry and 8 parts of cavalry, assigned nearly 11,000 square miles, captured throughout the State. Minimized comes second with 11 counties, and, in 1919, recreated. Taken in third, with five complete counties and parts of two other counties released, amounting to 6,424 square miles. The territory to be released from quarantine on December 11 in the five States is as follows: Alabama: The entire counties of Bullock, Colbert, Greenbush, Elmore, Jefferson, Lee, Macon, Morgan, Pickens, Pike, Tallapoose, Tuscaloosa, and Walker; and the remainder of the quarantined area in Henry, Jackson, and Sumter Counties. This free these entire counties from Federal quarantine restrictions. The total area released by this order in this State is 10,976 square miles. Arkansas: The entire counties of Franklin, Johnson, Logan, and Searcy; and the Femalender of the quarantined area in Sharp County. In addition a part of Independence and Sebastian Couties will be freed from quarantine. 324 square miles being released in the former and 360 in the latter county. The total area released is 3.564 square miles. Georgia: The entire counties of Lincoln, Oglethorpe, and Washington; and the reaminder of the quarantined area of Lumpkin County. The total area released amounts to 1.594 square miles. Mississippi: The entire counties of Amite, Carroll, Forrest, Lee, Neohaqua Pike, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tippah, Union, and Walshall, a total area of 5.814 square miles. Texas: The entire counties of Archer, Baylor, Clay, Notan, and Wichita; and part of Shockelford and Throckmorton. The total area released in this State is 5.424 square miles. Talks on Thrift For the past few years one of the timely and important topics has been the high cost of living. Foodstuffs have been increasing in cost with a rapidity that has made readjustment necessary in many lines, and only wages have kept pace with the increase in other things have we been able to keep our financial ships off the rocks. Our air conditions have not been warmer, for in spite of our great prosperity the cost of living still mounts up. As individuals we are in a large measure helpless to remedy the difficulty, for the causes are economic a d beyond our control; but we can do much toward alleviating the result, ill. We cannot all be teachers of domestic science, but we can all practice the art of good living. We cannot change the price of beekeeping, but we can make better use of our porters, cleaning staff, kitchening and apply thrift principles to our kitchens and dining rooms and offset in a very large measure the added strain of high prices. The trouble with many homekeepers is they take the easy way and at a rut. They do not study their jobs and like every one else who does thoughtless work, do the work poorly. For instance, in a large boarding house, as in all such establishments, one of the principal items of food is fish. They eat it and the waste is large. The landlady complains that she cannot make a living. But she doesn't know how. Many of the guests are fond of fish in various forms, yet the menu seldom includes fish; and the fish is cheap. On a single meal she could save from three to five dollars and please her guest immensely. She might often substitute a stew for a steak, and incomplish the same results. She might use cheaper cuts of meat made up in flour, and use the chops and steaks and grumbles at the high cost of running a boarding house. It's the high cost of ignorance that she ought to blame. We have been charged, times without number, with being a nation of waiters. This waste takes the form of household inefficiency more generally than any other form. More homes are wrecked from a financial point of view, from the waste of the kitchen any other cause. If a kitchen is wiley, Wilen's third of our food is wasted, thrift in food might be a very effective remedy for some of our present key demestic problems. With meals costing thirty cents a pound, and half bone and fat, eggs a five cents each, batter fifty cents a pound, and other things in proportion, we must do some readjusting, if we would keep pace with the procession. You cannot increase your income half as easy as you can make it go farther. You need not do anything, if you can make it go a long way. Learn the secret of French thrift and find the secret of little economies in food values. Your youngsters will relish a dish of home baked beans as much as a choice tenderloin. They will grow fat on spaghetti. They will have fewer stomach disorders on bread and molasses than on candy and soda and lobster salads. It's the appetite that count—not what satisfies it. Go easy on the butter and take only as much as you can use. Examine your garbage can to see if your high cost of thriftiness is due to the high cost of thriftiness, live better and save more. Thrift is the panacea for many tills, and the high cost of living—yes, even the cost of living high can be considerably reduced by applying thrift to the little things about the house. Snake In Boor Makes Man Swear Off. Greenshore, N. C., Dec. 2.—John Blowetley not only has signed the pledge but he wants to strike a more positive blow against J. Barleysor by suing a local brewer—all on account of a snake. It was real, the 2-foot smoke make mays he found in the bottom of a keg of beer when he and a party of friends had finished the liquid contents and remarked on his perilous taste. The smoke came out of the bung help following the greenshore. Blowetley has two sons. SUBMARINE SINKS AMERICAN SHIP The Chemung Torpedoed Off Spanish Coast. SINKS WITH FLAG FLYING The Captain Refused to Lower Stare and Stripes—Crew Was Towed To- ward Shore by Submarine. Secretary of State Lansing announced that the department had received official confirmation of the slinking of the American steamship Chamung off the Spanish coast. The vessel, it was officially announced, was sunk by gun fire and torpedo by an Austrian submarine. The information came from the American consul at Valencia. Some Americans were aboard, according to the deapatch. Mr. Lansing said the department had cabled for a detailed report on the slinking. He made the announcement as he was leaving the White House after a conference with the president. The text of the consul's cable dated at Valencia as given out by the state department follows: "American steamship Chamung sunk by gun fire and torpedo, by an Austrian submarine, fourteen miles east of Caz, De, deats, 10,20 clock A. M. twelfth. Crew landed at Valencia. All well. "Putnam." Went Down With Flap Flyin'. Lloyd's report that the American steamship Chemin has been sunk by a German submarine. She was toppled near Cabo De Gata. The ship went down with the American flag flying, the captain having formally refused to lower his colors. The crew has been landed at Valencia by the Spanish steamship Gliner, says a Reuter' despatch from Valencia. The submarines towed the crew to within five miles of the coast, the Valencia advises say, and then abandoned them. At the end of the day, they were picked up by the Gliner. (The Chemung sailed from New York November 8, for Genoa and Naples, and stopped at Fayal, Asores, November 20. She was owned by the Harby Steamship company, of New York, was built in Buffalo in 1888, and was 377 feet long and of 3062 tons gross.) --- Carried No Munitions 1. The Harris Magill Steamship company, of New York, representatives of the Harby Steamship company, owners, the Chemung, said the vessel carried general cargo only, no munitions or cargo owned by the Italian government being on board. The crew list of the Chemung filed with customs officials shows that only ten of the men on board, including Captain John I. Duffy, were Americans, the others being Greeks, Russians, Swanlands and Mexicans. CLOSING IN ON BUCHAREST Teuton Army is Only 37 Miles From Rumanian Capital. Homanian Capital. Glurgu on the Danube has been captured by von Mackenstein's army, the Berlin war office reports. The Homanian town of Curtea de Argos, south of Campulung, has been captured. Bulgarian troops have offered three more crossings of the Danube, all of them behind the Austro-German front in western Rumania. The crossings were made from the Bulgarian fortresses of Rahovo, Lom Palanka and Sidiln. The forces invading western Rumania are now within less than forty miles of Bucharest. The town of Glurgu, across the Danube from the Bulgarian fortress of Rustehuk, is thirty-seven miles south of the Homanian capital. It has considerable importance from a military standpoint, owing not only to its position with respect to Bucharest, but to the fact that it is connected by railroad with the capital. The attack on Bucharest from the north also is developing rapidly. The town of Curtea de Arges is eighty miles northwest of the city. It is twenty miles southwest of Campulung in the vicinity of which there has been heavy fighting for several weeks. Engine Kills Conductor Stepping in front of a yard shifting engine, Henry M. Huber, aged fifty-five years, for twenty-five years a conductor on the Realink railway, was killed at Pottstown, Pa. A though horribly mingled, he survived FUNERAL NOTICE LATER The great drought and famine in Egypt a million days or so ago has nothing on the present dry times in "Ole Virginia," No. air; This is the opinion of an "Oil Print," one of the reliefs of the "Art Preservative" in Richmond. He ordered his one month's supply and received it in due time. It lived quietly one hour. The "Old Print" was in a quarantery; he didn't want what to do for the balance of that one month's Risk. He merely said of "Thirst." After much covered several white waters to nearly thirst, he tried to amble his likeness by drinking impure pepper and the twenty-five minutes. The sadest happened less than 100 feet from the place where Huber's son, a behemoth, lost his life about a year ago. Pittsburgh Papers Rates Price. Owing to the enormous increase in the cost of white paper and other materials used in the production of newspapers all the Pittsburgh afternoon papers advanced their prices to two cents. The papers include the Sun, Chronicle-Telegraph, Leader and the Press. COUNT TANOWSKI New Austrian Envoy to U. S. Blocked by Allies. J. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 55th day of October, 1916. Marietta Roberts.....Plaintiff against.....In Chancery Joseph E. Roberts.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain aff absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony, by the plaintiff from the defendant, upon the ground of deserion. And devait having been made and died that the defendant, Joseph E. Roberts is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A COPY—TESTE: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk GILES B. JACKSON, p. q. Our Presses Will Handle Any Job In Town A man working in a printing press. The work they turn out CANNOT BE EXCELLED LET US DO YOUR PRINTING. HAPPENED! water. After taking copious gulps of this flery cooction and not getting much relief, he drank some red ink, mixed with elite profanity. He raved so until a doctor had to be called in to quiet him. He made out pretty good until about the end of the week. The call of the Saturday night jag was within him and he hastened to obey. He tried drinking hav rum, but, to no avail—it only thinned a bit. He went out and returned with some packages and returned to his room. Not answering Sunday morning, his room was entered and Jehovah! he had emptied POUR QUART BOTTLES OF PERUNA! The Yellow Claw By SAX ROHMER Copyright, 1915, by Lippincott's Magazine. Copyright, 1915, by MoBride, Nast & Co. SYNOPSIS Henry Leroux, novelist, is visited by a strange woman, bordering on collapse, who is murdered in his flat while he had gone to summon his friend, Dr. Cumberly. Detective Inspector Dunbar is summoged and questions Leroux, Dr. Cumberly his daughter, Helen, and Mr. Exel, a friend. Mrs. Leroux is away, supposedly on a visit. Dunbar suspects the butler, Boumes, who can suddenly disappear. Helen recognizes the dead woman as an acquaintance, Mrs. Vernon. Dunbar asks Mrs. Vernon's collector and learns that Vernon, recently dead, quarrelled with his wife on account of her occasional disappearances. up as a result of her question? of her husband "There was no case?" "I fear no, inspect me of it. But to non. My client prepares funds, and I am led to him astonishing expenditures. In S stand that her last trivially poor circuits so far as to point that £100 was—sit out—alway upon The Man In the Limousine THE HOUSE of the late Horace Vernon was a modern villa of prosperous appearance, but on this sunny September morning a palpable atmosphere of gloom seemed to overlie it. This made itself perceptible even to the toughened and unimpressionable nerves of Inspector Dunbar. As he mounted the five steps leading up to the door, glancing meanwhile at the lowered blinds at the windows, he wondered if, falling these evidences and his own private knowledge of the facts, he should have recognized that the mark upon this house but when the door was opened by a white faced serrant he told himself that he should, for a veritable miasma of death seemed to come out to meet him, to envelop him. Within proceeded a subdued activity. Sonber figure moved upon the staircase, and Inspector Dunbar, having presented his card, presently found himself in a well appointed library. At the table, whence were spread a number of documents, sat a lean, clean shaved, shallow faced man wearing gold rimmed pince nez, a man whose demeanor of businesslike gloom was most admirably adapted to that place and occasion. This was Mr. Debnam, the solicitor. He gravely waved the detective to an grimliner, adjusted his pince nez and coughed introducerly. "Your communication, inspector," he began (he had the kind of voice which seems to be buried in sawdust packing). "was brought to me this morning and has disturbed me immeasurably, unspeakably." "You have been to view the body, strf." "One of my clerks, who knew Mrs. Vernon, has just returned to this house to report that he has identified her." "I should have preferred you to go yourself, sir," began Dunbar, taking out his notebook. "My state of health, inspector," said the solicitor, "renders it undesirable that I should submit myself to an ordal so unnecessary, so wholly unnecessary." "Very good," muttered Dunbar, making an entry in his book; "your clerk, then, whom I can see in a moment, identifies the murdered woman as Mrs. Vernon. What was her Christian name?" "Iris—Iris Mary Vernon," Inspector Dunbar made a note of the fact. "And now," he said, "you will have read the copy of that portion of my report which I submitted to you this morning, acting upon information supplied by Miss Helen Cumberly." "Yes, yes, inspector; I have read it. But, by the way, I do not know Miss Cumberly." "Miss Cumberly," explained the detective, "is the daughter of Dr. Cumberly, the Harley street physician. She lives with her father in the flat above that of Mr. Leroux. She saw the body by accident and recognized it as that of a lady who had been named to her at the last Arts ball." "Ah," said Debnam, "you, I see, at the Arts ball, inspector. This is a mysterious and very glamorous case." "It is indeed, sir," agreed Dumbar. "Can you throw any light upon the presence of Mrs. Vernon at Mr. Leroux's flat on the very night of her husband's death?" "I can and I cannot," answered the solicitor, leaning back in the chair and again adjusting his place nest, in the manner of a man having important matters—and gloomy, very gloomy, matters—to communicate. "Good!" said the inspector and prepared to listen. "You see," continued Dobnam, "the late Mireo. Vernon was not actually residing with her husband at the date of his death." "Indeed." "Odetemily—" the solicitor shook a loan foredealer at his vis-a-vis—" ostensibly, inspector, she was visiting her sister in footland." Inspector Dumbar sat up very straight, his brows drawn down over the tawny crest. "These visits were of frequent occurrence and usually of about a week's duration. Mr. Vernon, my late client, a man—I'll not deny it—of inconstant affections (you understand me, inspector), did not greatly concern himself with his wife's movements. She be leuged to a smart lobemian set, and to use a popular figure of speech—breathe the candle at both ends—late dinner, night close, bridge parties and other evening purposes." SYNOPSIS "Irla—Irla Mary Vernon." "indeed" up as a result of the—shall I say cooling?—of her husband's affections." "There was another woman in the case?" "I fear so, inspector. In fact, I am sure of it. But to return to Mrs. Vernon. My client provided her with ampie funds, and I myself have expressed to him astonishment respecting her expenditures in Scotland. I under stand that her sister was in comparatively poor circumstances, and I weed so far as to point out to Mr. Vernon that £100 was—shall I say an excessive?—outlay upon a week's sojourn in Auchternder, Perth." "A hundred pounds." "One hundred pounds." "Was it queried by Mr. Vernon?" "Not at all." "Was Mr. Vernon personally acquainted with this sister in Portrush? "He was not, inspector. Mrs. Vernon at the time of her marriage did not enjoy that social status to which my late client elevated her. For many years she held no open communication with any member of her family, but latterly, as I have explained, she acquired the habit of recuperating - recuperating from the effects of her febrile pleasures. At this glacier place in Scotland. And Mr. Vernon, his interest in her movements having considerably shall I say abated? - offered no objection, even suffered it glibly counting the cool but little against" "Freedom" suggested Dunbar, scribbling in his notebook. "Rather endlessly expressed, perhaps, said the solicitor, peering over the top of his glasses, "but you have the idea I come now to my client's awakening. Four days ago he learned the truth he learned that he was being deceived." "Decided." "Mrs. Vernon, thoroughly exhausted with irregular living, announced that she was about to resort once more to the heating breeze of the heather land." Mr. Delanah was thoroughly warning to his discourse and then slightly enjoying his own dizzy phrase. "Interrupting you for a moment," but the inspector, "at what intervals do these visits take place." "At remarkably regular intervals, inspector, something like six times a year." "How long had Mrs. Vernon made a custom of these visits?" "Roughly for two years." "Thank you. Will you go on, sir? "She requested Mr. Vernon then, on the last occasion, to give her a check for £50, and this he did unquestioningly. On Thursday, the 2d of September, she left for Scotland." "Did she take her mind?" "Her mall always received a holiday on these occasions. Mrs. Vernon wired her respecting the date of her return." "Did any one actually see her off?" "No; not that I am aware of, inspector." "To put the whole thing quite bluntly, Mr. Debnam," said Dumbar, fixing his tawny eyes upon the collector. "Mr. Vernon was thoroughly glad to get rid of her for a week?" Mr. Debnam shifted uneasily in his chain. The truculent directness of the detective was unpleasing to his tortuous mind. However, he confessed: "I fear you have hit upon the truth, and I must admit that we have no legal evidence of her leaving for Scotland on this or on any other occasion. Letters were received from Perth, and letters sent to Anchterander from London were answered. But the truth, the painful truth, came to light unexpectedly, dramatically on Monday last." "Four days ago." "Exactly; three days before the death of my client." Mr. Debnam warged his finger at the inspector again, "I maintain" he said, "that this painful discovery which I am about to mention precipitated my client's end, although it is a fact that there was bardaryt Mrs. Vernon Realized In the Car heart trouble. But I admit that his neglect of his wife (to give it no harbor or name) contributed to the catastrophe." He passed to give dramatic point to the revolution. "Walking homeward at a late hour on Monday evening from a fat in Vie. torn street—the fat of (shall I employ the term 'a particular friend')—Mr. Vernon was horrified, horrified beyond measure, to perceive in a large and wild car a life." "The inside lights of the car were on them?" "No, but the light from a street lamp above directly into the car. A temporary block in the traffic compelled the driver of the car, whom my client described to me as an Asiatic, to pull up for a moment. There, within a few yards of her husband, Mrs. Vernon reclined in the car, or, rather, in the arms of a male companion!" "Positively"—Mr. Debnam was seated enjoyingly himself—"positively, my dear inspector, in the arms of a man of extremely dark complexion! Mr. Vernon was unable to perceive more than this, for the man had his back toward him. But the light shone fully upon the face of Mr. Vernon, who appeared pale and exhausted. She wore a conspicuous motorcoat of clivet fur, and it was this which first attracted Mr. Vernon's attention. The blow was a very severe one to a man in my client's state of health, and, although I cannot claim that his own conscience was clear, this open violation of the marriage vows outraged the husband—outraged him. In fact, he was so perturbed that he stood there shaking, quivering, unable to speak or act, and the car drove away before he had recovered sufficient presence of mind to note the number." "In which direction did the car proceed?" "Toward Victoria station." "Any other particular?" "Not regarding the car, its driver or its occupants, but early on the following morning Mr. Vernon, very much shaken, called upon me and instructed me to dispatch an agent to Perth immediately. My agent's report reached me at practically the same time as the news of my client's death." "His report, inspector, telegraphic, of course, was this: That no slater of Mrs. Vernon resided at the address; that the place was a cottage occupied by a certain Mrs. Fry and her husband; that the husband was of no occupation and had no visible means of support; he ticked off the points on the long forefinger; that the Frys lived better than any of their neighbors and, most important of all, that Mrs. Frys' maiden name, which my agent discovered by recourse to the parish register of marriages, was Ann Fairchild." "What of that?" "Ann Fairchild was a former maid of Mrs. Vernon." "In short, it amounts to this, then: Mrs. Vernon during these various absences never went to Scotland at all—it was a conscience?" "Exactly—exactly, inspector, I wired instructing my agent to extort from the woman Fry the address to which she forwarded letters received by her for Mrs. Vernon. The lady's death, news of which will now have reached him, will no doubt be a lever, enabling my representative to obtain the desired information." "When do you expect to hear from him?" "At any moment. Falling a full confession by the Frys, you will, of course, know how to act, inspector?" "But, cried Dunbar, 'can your man be relied upon to watch them? They mustn't slip away. Shall I instruct Perth to arrest the couple?" "I wired my agent this morning, inspector, to communicate with the local police respecting the Frys." Inspector Dunbar tapped his small, widely separated teeth with the end of his fountain pen. "I have had one priceless witness slip through my fingers," he muttered. "I'll hand in my resignation if the Frys go." "To whom do you refer?" Inspector Dunbar rose. "It is a point with which I need not trouble you, sir," he said. "It was not included in the extract of report sent to you. This is going to be the biggest case of my professional career, or my name is not Robert Dunbar!" Closing his notebook, he thrust it into his pocket and replaced his fountain pen in the little leather wallet. "Of course," said the solicitor, rising in turn and adjusting the troublesome pine ness. "there was some intrigue with Leroux. So much is evident." "Mr. dear inspector"—Mr. Debnam, the wily, was seeking information—"my dear inspector, Leroux's own wife was absent in Paris, quite a safe distance, and Mrs. Vernon, now proved to be a woman conducting a love intrigue, is found dead under most compromising circumstances—most compromising circumstances—in his fatal! His servants are even got safely out of the way for the evening." "Quite so," said Dunbar shortly; quite so, Mr. Debnam." He opened the door. "Might I see the late Mrs. Vernon's maid?" "She is at her home. As I told you, Mrs. Vernon habitually released her for the period of those absences." The notebook reappeared. 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It makes you feel better and it will improve your appearance even during cloudy weather. How, CHARLES BRANS HUDEN has decided to open law offices in New York. He will be joined by his son. It looks to us that he is about the only statesman upon the political horizon that is about as sure of the next presidential nomination as PAXIMENT WILSON was at the St. Louis convention. Whenever the high cost of living comes up for discussion, an announcement is made that another probe is under way and then we wait a few days and the prices go higher than before. Perhaps if we could get the officials to stop probing, the prices would remain stationary for a while and then drop down again to the old level. The war in Europe is getting to be a veritable slaughter of men. The effort to kill out the Germans seems to have failed. That great empire is an potent for destruction these days as it was at the beginning of the great struggle. The allies are torn with discontent, caused by the monumental losses in blood and treasure. THE BRITISH LABOR UNION AGAINST US. --- It is almost inconceivable that the labor unions would be so short-sighted as to undertake a campaign against the colored laborers of the world. Yet, a report from London shows that the organised bodies on that side have done that very thing. With black men fighting for the allies and pouring out their blood like water for the supremacy of Great Britain and its associates in the world war, the National Transport Workers Federation has adopted the following resolution: "The federation's executive hopes that the authorities will not be so ill advised as to attempt the introduction of any class of colored labor on the docks or other waterside places of employment. In the existing crisis, to think of employing colored labor would mean the recrudescence of all the trouble and discontent experienced by the increased employment of Chinese in the mercantile marine." The Republic of France would have been overrun by the Teutons and Paris would now be in the hands of the Germanic allies if it had not been for the colored troops that stemmed the tide. Colored people on this side will not forget this resolution, and it may be that it may play a most important part in events yet to follow. THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES --- head by Williamia Lodge, at: 8 F. M., at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. This was granted, and brother Dr. R. E. Jones spoke for a few minutes on Benevolence. Grand Exalted Ruler Hon. Armand W. Scott brought good tidings, stating that where a brother had been fined for wearing the emblem in Newbern N. C., that they lost in the State Court, but on November 20, 1916, had won in the U. S. Courts. That the mistake made in the New York fight was that no Federal issue had been raised by the attorneys until the decision by the State Courts, but that they were following the plan of fighting as adopted by the Knights of Pythias organization, and were growing all of the litigation to the U. S. Courts; that the decision won by the Knights of Pythias made them harmful of winning the Pennsylvania suit; that the 200 lodges were all united and all working, that it was only at the last annual session that the Ladies Auxiliary had been officially taken in under the rule of the Grand Lodge, Brother Deputy W. S. Cowan called for 600 more men to Capitol City lodge. This session will go down in the history of Capitol City Lodge as the Marking Time Session. Brother Wm. A. Smith stated that the credit of having the Grand Exalted Ruler present to deliver the address should go to Brother A. J. Brown, Secretary of the Lodge. Exalted Ruler Brother W F Weaver announced that the caterer was now ready to serve them. All formed in line and marched in. Brother O W Meine offered a blessing and the following menu was served by Caterer Charlie White of 107 West Leigh Street, Grapefruit, maraschino, salmon croquettes, green peas, olives, pickles, celery, broiled bicken, stuffed potatoes, Neapolitan cakes, cakes, demitasse. YONKERS NOTES. Yonkers, N. Y. At the Mosaiah Baptist Church yesterday the corner stone of the new building was laid Rev. S. W. Smith, the pastor, delivered the morning sermon. There were three additions to the church At 3 o'clock addresses were made by Rev B Judd, of this city; J. W. Sheldon, of New York City, and Rev A. M. Larson, of Mt. Vernon. The Deacon's Board was represented by A. A. Thornton; Trustee, by S. Gildings; Sunday School, by J. T. Spencer; B. Y. P. U., by R. Crier; Woman's Missionary Society, by Mrs. L. Johnson; Junior B. Y. P. U., by Ruth Wilson; Boy Scouts, by H. Smith; Pastors' Aid, by Mrs. H. Williams; Willing Workers, by Mrs. H. Porter; Brotherhood, by H. H. Howard The sum of $266 was contributed. There was baptizing at the night service. Church, New Rochelle, worshiped at Messiah Baptist Church Sunday. The reception given by Lincoln Lodge, K of D. November 29, reported a grand success. Committee: J. A Hall, chairman; George Hilton, secretary; James A Greene, treasurer. The Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church was well represented Sunday. The pastor, Dr. John J Smyer, preached morning and evening. Mrs. A. D. Borden, of 20 Culver Street, this city, visited relatives and friends in School Street Monday afternoon. On Monday, December 4, 1916, Hattie F. Maltyh, the daughter of the late Mary F. Maltyh, and sister of Josephine Maltyh and Ida Smalls, departed this life. Funeral services were held at Messiah Baptist Church, Thursday, December 7 at 2 o'clock. Engineer Ready, Tran Run On. Johnson's 19th year old, of Easton, Pa., was man on a Lehigh Valley raid, made in a train, met a train train in a prison still alaked in my body, near Flintown, N.J. The train ran alone for eight miles at a rate of sixty miles an hour before the fighter became aware that something was wrong, and made an investigation which resulted in the discovery of Shaffer's body lying along the track at Flintown. "Step Lively," a bright and bouyant comedy with music, which the La Salle Company is to offer at the Bjion all next week, with matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, abounds in the latest popular song crashes, which have had New York and Chicago all argo for the past few weeks. The show opens with "Come Step Lively," a rousing chorus, which has the proper swing and rhythm to make it a favorite at once and which starts the show off at a very brisk pace. "Some Girls Will and Some Girls Won't" is another popular number which has all the elements to make it a favorite immediately. "Hello Sweetheart" and "My Hawaiian Love Song" are two others that are melodious and full of sentiment and are catchy and bound to win popular favor at once. "Cupids in the Sea" is another number, unique in style and with elements that make it an instant hit. "Dreamy China Lady" is an art name suggests a Chinese number, and it is fascinating in its appeal. "My Rose" is a beautiful song, and the famous "Walkin' The Dog" song which has arrived in the wake of the dance of the same name, is a song that the whole country is mad about. It is a very clever song and it is one which the people are curious to hear. These scintillating musical numbers are intermixed throughout the plot of the piece, and the combined story and musical program makes an ent tirement that cannot be enquired for entertainment and cleverness. The members of the company are: Hail Johnson, versatile protean artist Willy Wise, blackface comedian; Claude Tone, German comedian; George P. Watson, Tyrean warrior; Wilhelm Little, prima donna; Melia Sonnehue, character comedienne, and Randall Davenport, a quartette, and Jona, the girl violinist. Pythian Goat Buay—Church Services Stork Buay—Many Deaths. News Reema. ROANOKE, VA., December 6.—Major W. B. F. Crowell, D. D. G. C. for K. of Pa., and his famous "Goat William" are busy nearly every time one of the lodges meet, making "Fresh Country Butter." The boys always call on the Major as he keeps well up on the work and knows every inch of it, and is a team in himself. He can push a bunch of candidates through in as short a time as most any one you meet, exerting, of course, the Grand Chancellor, who is the fastest in the country at this work. At the last meeting of Maxie City Lodge, No. 151, the Deputy put three through the rank of Pago, and Tuesday night, the fifth inat, the Major says he has a regular killing on hand for No. 151 and No. 198, and he says the Royal Bumper is ready always. The boys had quite a fine time, as they always do when Sir Crowell is pushing the guard end of the business with Gov. Stanfield, Brown, Maynhan, Board, Moseley and Curtis. The Master has a team that he thinks the Grand Chancellor would be proud of. Rev L. L. Downing. Grand Master of Masons of Virginia. Henry 4 Johnson. D D G. M. of 15th District and Major W. B. F Crowell. Grand Marshall will leave next Monday night for Petersburg to attend, the Grand Lodge which opens there Tuesday, the 12th, at "Low Six." Grand Lecturer W. B. P. Crowell had quite a large attendance last Friday night, to hear him lecture on the work of the Order. Every K of 12 should have been out. He was especially good on the Grecian scene and the work in the rank of Knight, showing that he had given the entire work and history of the Order great study. He will deliver another lecture Friday night, January 5, 1917 to Key West Lodge, No. 76, All Sir Knights invited. The Ladies Home Mission Society, of Northeast Ronnoke, is doing a great mission work in that part of the city, visiting the sick and aged ones, giving to them such things: they need May God bless those faithful workers. The mother of Mrs. Gillie Ferguson died Saturday night, at Red Plains, Franklin Co. Va. Mrs Terry had been in falling health for several months. Mrs. Ferguson was quite indisposed at time of her mother's death. The Stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Marshall last week and left a fine bouncing baby boy weighing nine and one-half pounds. The family is elated. Special sermons on the Seven Seals do you understand them? No. Then hear them discussed at St Paul's Memorial M E Church, beginning Sunday night. December 3rd and closing Sunday afternoon. December 10th. Do not miss it. The pastor began opening seal number one last Sunday night. He used for a text, Revelations 6-2. Rev S M Bean most beautifully pictured the white horses, the rider, the bow and the crown. Rev Bean is quite a great young man. For oratory he leads the city. On Monday night, December 10th, "The Red Horse," Rev R J Lanterbach, D D. Music by the Christian Church Choir Tuesday night, "The Black Horse," Rev George C. Taylor, D D. Music by Mc Zion A M. E. Choir, Weslah day night, "The Pale Horse," Rev E J Ruddock, Lynchburg, Va. Music by High Street Baptist Choir Thursday night, "The Martyrs," Rev W W Hicks, D D. Music by Mt Zion Baptist Choir, Friday, The Judgment, Rev E E Ricks, D D Music by the First Baptist Choir Sunday afternoon, December 10th three o'clock "The Seven Saints" Silence in Heaven," Rev J W Colbert, Music by Salen, M E Choir. The congregations and friends of the various churches are cordially invited to attend this series of sermons. A special period after each service Rev S M Bean, pastor. Mr Isaac Brown are 59 died at his home, 66 Hart avenue, N. W. November 23rd. The remains were funeralized at Ejrist Baptist Church. Sunday, November 26th, where it was largely attended. The beautiful casket was literally covered with flowers. Rev Moore officiated. The deceased was born in Franklin county and had been a resident of Roanoke for sixteen years, where he made a host of friends and was loved by all who knew him. He is survived by eight children, all of whom were present. Messrs James W. and S. A. Brown of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Walter F. Brown, Isaac Brown, Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Dudley and Miss Lucy B. Brown, of Detroit, Michigan; Mr. Millard F. Brown, of Cleveland, Ohio and Mr. John W. Brown, of Roanoke. The remains were interred in Washington Heights Cemetery, Undertaker C. C. Williams officiating. Card of Thanks—The children of Mr. Isaac Brown wish to extend their thanks to their friends for the kindness and sympathy shown them during the illness and death of their beloved father, Isaac Brown. James W. Brown. Mrs. Jannie Randolph and Miss Emma Edwards, of Norfolk, Va. spent Thanksgiving with their mother, Mrs. Mollie Taylor, 105 High street, who has been confined to her room for two weeks. The white orchestra of Columbus, O. played at the Thanksgiving Dance at Hotel Roanoke. It was the best music rendered for such an occasion. Moors, Arnett Holland, William (Sig) Calloway, Tiffiny Toliver, Dr. u. D. Downing went to Washington. D. C. share the they witnessed the At Hotel Anderson: Mr. Robert Bowles, Williamson, W. Va.; Mrs L. E. Green and daughter, Bluedel, W. Va.; Mr. L. F. Ford, Blackburg, Va; Masters Cobin Silier, Salem, Va.; R. H. Smith, Jordache; Ben Calloway George Watkins, Jem Smith and wife Ruffin Bolling, all of Virginia. Mrs. Ada Williams died early Sunday morning, after she weeks of illness. She was a devoted member of the church, and minister of High Street Baptist Church. Her funeral was held from above name church, Monday morning. Bob J. H Burke officiating. The body was taken to Lynchburg for internment. She leaves a loving husband and two young sons. Mrs. Martha Pointexeter, of. 228 Patton avenue, N. W. is improving from a two weeks' illness. Mrs. Page, of Farmville, attended the funeral of Mr. Van Luces. She was accompanied on her return by little Van L. Page, who will spend a few weeks with her. Dr E. Rieks returned to the city Thursday, after spending a week in the Capital City. Thanksgiving Services at the First Baptist Church were largely attended on Thursday, at L. A. M. The choir was present in full and the Minister, Rev. E. E. Rieks seemed to be full of the spirit of the day. Many pounds of provisions, together with can goods, jars of preserves and fruit were brought by the members and friends which were distributed to the needy poor. A small sum of money accommodated each basket sent out Large and enthusiastic audiences were present at both morning and evening services. The Minister commenced a series of sermons on the Lord's Prayer which will be delivered at the morning service each Sunday until the series shall have been completed. The improvements in and around the church continue. The rallying at the front has been extended and gates have been placed so that the front may be protected. The painting has been completed. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allman, 211 Glimmer avenue, N W. and left a fine 10-pound baby last Tuesday. Mother and baby are getting along fine. Mrs Edward Williams has entered Burrell's Memorial hospital. Miss Agnes Bratton, of Big Hill, Va. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Booker, of Wells area. Mr T. Walter Halo is confined to big home. Mr. William Hicks of Cincinnati is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean, 109 Wells avenue, N. W. Mrs. Susie Green, of Bluedfield, W. W. was called to the city to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Emily Cuff. Mr. William Harper has been sick for some time, but is improving. but is improving. The funeral services of Brother Van Buren Lucas, took place Sunday, December 3rd. Rev James H. Burka, D. D. delivered a beautiful eulogy. The young men "of High Street Baptist Church have organized "The Minist Club," for the purpose of a clear unity with the church. They hope to accomplish much good. A mass meeting for men is called for Sunday, December 3rd. J. W. Ewell, president; A. D. Taylor, vice-president; C. G. Valentine, secretary; H. W. Jones, assistant secretary; J. C. Gales, treasurer. A prize will be given to the three largest purchasers at the Gainabore Cooperative Merchant Store, corner Gainabore and Fourth avenue, beginning December 1st and closing, December 30th. Thomas E. Gregory is manager. The grocery firm of Mr. Thomas Dillard, of Fourth avenue, N. W. will give a fine set of china dishes to the largest purchaser at his store, beginning December 1st and closing on the 22th. It is reasonably supposed that the people of our race should patronize their own people. SIR DAVID BEATTY New Commander of the British Grand Fleet. M. Photo by American Press Association. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander of the battle cruiser squadron has been appointed to succeed Sir Joan of the commander of the British grand fleet, known to many Americans through his role to Miss Ethel Field, daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, last May. --- Award One Battle Cruiser The navy department has awarded a contract to the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock company, of Seattle, Wash. for the construction of one of the four battle cruisers for which bids were opened recently. The cost is $4,975,000. All other bids were rejected. Standard Oil Buys Steel Company. The Hydraulic Pressed Steel company, of Cleveland, has been sold to the Standard Oil company interests for $276 a share, part cash and part stock, it was announced. Sir Hiram Manier, to Dund. Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the automatic system of firearms, died at the home in London. [Image of a silhouette of a person's head and shoulders, with no visible features or clothing.] JOHN D. ARCHBOLD DEAD President of Standard Oil Company Bucupaea After Operation John Dustin Archbold, capitalist president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, and officer of director in various other enterprises died at his home in Tarrytown, N. Y. after a two weeks illness, subsequent to an operation for appendicitis. He was sixty-eight years old. His wealth is estimated at $100,000,000. Funeral services will be held Thursday forenoon, attended by relatives and many of his personal and business friends, including John D. Rockefeller and William Rockefeller and their families. During the services Tarrytown's various industries will suspend operation as a memorial to Mr. Archbold's democracy in the village of his residence. Mr. Archbold is survived by his widow, a son, John F. Archbold, of Thom asville, Ga., and two daughters, Mrs M. M. Van Beuren, of Newport, tt. I. and Mrs. Armar D. Saunderson, of Lyndhurst, England. John D. Archbold was almost as closely identified with the history of Standard Oil as John D. Rockefeller himself. Of the first nine trustees of the "trust" formed in 1882 he alone remained in this capacity until its dissolution in 1911 at the order of the United State. supreme court, and it was he who was named to engineer the dissolution, after which he became president and director of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. He was the most active and aggressive fighter in the oil combine, and invariably resented the Standard Oil on the witness stand in the numerous hearings in connection with the government's suit to dissolve it. SHOOTS WIFE. INJURES CHILD Man Barricades Himself in Room and Fires at Constable. Wilson Bressler of Shamokin, Pa., shot his wife, injured his daughter, Goldie, and tried to kill Michael Dorner, a cop肚徒. Mrs. Bressler is in a serious condition from a wound in the hip. Bressler commanded his daughter to turn over to him her weekly pay received at a silk mill. The girl refused and her father struck her in the face with a brick. When his wife remonstrated with him for his brutality, Bressler shot her. When Dormer, attracted by the shooting, reached the house, Bressler shot at him and then fled upstairs, barricading himself in a room. Dormer started up the stairway to the second floor and Bressler fired five shots at him in rapid succession. As Bressler had then emptied his revolver, Dormer burst in the door of the room in which Bressler had taken refuge and after a hard struggle overpowered the desperate man. LIVED LIKE WILD MAN Victim of Thugs Found on Mounting In Prevaracious Condition. A man giving his name as Thom as Jordan was found living in a cave in the mountains near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He was without a silken of clothing and had all appearances of a wild man. He said that he had been attacked by a gang of several days ago and that they took his clothing from him, forcibly to seek shelter in the cave. He suffered greatly from exposure and it was necessary to remove him to a hospital. The police are investigating. Crawled Under Safety Cates; Killed. Thomas Lederick, which hurrys over the Reading tracks in South Bethlehem, Pa., was struck by a train and instantly killed. It is said that the deceased, in his efforts to reach his home from work as soon as possible, crawled under the safety rates. Mascal Men Rob Bank of $6000. Two masked men entered the Park Bank and Trust company at Memphis, covered the cashier with revolvers and compelled him to turn over $5000. They escaped in a waiting motor car. Declarees 95 Per Cent In Dividends. The, Mercules, Power company of Wilmington, Del., declared a regular quarterly dividend of two per cent on common stock and an extra dividend of 1/2 per cent, both in each. It then, declared a special dividend of 67% per cent in Auto-French bonds at 95. This made a total of fifty-five per cent in dividends for the year. RYE- FLOUR--Firm, per barrel. $7.90@8.50. WHEAT—Quilet: No. 2 red, $1.71 1.74. CORN—Quilet: No. 2, yellow, $1.12 1.16. OATS—Quilet: No. 2 white, $60 60 oz. POULTRY—1 lice, steady; hens, $1 $17c; old rosters, 136 lice. Dressed, steady; choice towls, 23c; old rosters, 19c. BHWP - Wek. Wothers, 98/7/9; Jambra, 97.75 < 12.60. Boear Law Called to Form a New Ministry. Liberal Cabinet Falls After Crisis With David Lloyd George Over Conduct of War Problems. The British government crisis found a solution which, up to the hour of its announcement, was considered least probable of practical alternatives. Herbert H. Asquith resigned the premiership, which he has held through eight stormy years of domestic and foreign history. The Unionist leader, Andrew Bonar Law, was summoned to the palace immediately after Mr. Asquith had departed, and the king offered him the prime minister's commission, which he had just accepted from Mr. Asquith's hands. No announcement regarding Honor Law's decision has yet been made, and there are some doubts whether he will accept the heavy responsibility. If he declines, it is considered certain that the honor will fall to David Lloyd George. The continuation of, the coalition cabinet, with some changes in its membership, and the speeding up of the war management, will be the policy in either event. The preacher's decision to resign and advise the king to summon Andrew Bonar Law to form a cabinet was taken after a day of extraordinary political excitement and activity. There were constant comings and goings of the political leaders between Downing street and the various government departments. Mr. Asquith met several Unionist leaders in consultation, including Earl Curzon, Lord Robert Cecil and the Earl of Berby. Noticesable absentee from this conference were A. J. Balfour, who is ill, Andrew Bonar Law, J. Austen Chamberlain and Walter Hume Long. The precise reason which determined Mr. Asquith to the power is not yet known, but it is surmised to be the insistence of the Lord George faction that he relinquish the real direction of affairs into the hands of a small cabinet directorate. It is now remarked that when Mr. Asquith was asked in the house of commons if a food dictator had been appointed, he replied sharply: "I don't like a food dictator." There is much talk of the possibilities of a general election. Mr. Honar Law would be the first to form a cabinet if he takes office, as it is necessary that the government be carried on, and then appeal to the electors for ratification of his administration. There is strong opposition, however, to any political campaign necessarily which must divert the country's energy from the war work while it last ed and the new government may decide to go ahead with the approval of the house of commons only and not of the voters. Herbert Henry Asquith became Premier of great Britain in 1905, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell Hammersman. HORSE SHIP SUNK Twenty-five Americana Aboard Vessel Torpedoed by Submarine. The Italian steamship palmer, with twenty-five Americans on board, has been torpedoed off the Spanish coast. One sailor reported to be an Amer- can, was wounded by a shell, and lied in a hospital at Palafuccel, Spain, where the survivors were landed. Three others were seriously wounded. Ship Was Armed The Palermo left New York November fifteenth for Genoa and Spelaia and was last reported as passing, Gilbrator November 25. She carried no passengers, but had on board forty-seven American horse tenders. In a addition to horse she carried a general cargo. The vessel was of 9203 tons gross. The ship was armed, it was sailed at the New York offices of the agents, with two three-inch guns, mounted aft. These it was added, were to be used for "defence only." spills Conscience in two. Not knowing whether to send his "conscience balm" to the treasury at Was' ington or to the port of New York, where he evaded customs duties, an unknown bootlec contributor cut $500 in bills in half sending one half to each place. The treasury will receive the duplicate halves. They are redeemable. Fillomans Lodonne. five years old, of Roseto, near Easton. Pa. was accidentally shot by her brother. Alphonis Lodonne, six years old. The children were playing in a bedroom. The boy found a revoiver pointed it at his sister and it was dis- charged. She died in thirty minutes 113.309.28 in United States The population of continental United States on January 1, 1917 will be 102,826,800 and, with five outlying possessions, 113,209,285 the census' bureau estimates, upon the increase as shown by the federal censuses of 1900 and 1910. Treasury department statisticians, using a different method of calculation, estimated the population of continental United States as 160,002,000 on November 1. JACK LONDON Characteristic Picture of Author in the Woods. THE FATHER OF THE WORLD Photo by American Press Association. Killed in Motorcycle Race. Harold D. Glacken, nineteen years old, was killed and Lawrence Koya, twenty-one years old, was injured seriously when a motorcycle and a side car on which they were riding downhill at high speed separated at Bedford, Pa. Their machine was second in a 200-mile race and they were attempting to overtake the first car, a mile ahead. Both lived in Pittsburgh. Glacken landed head first on a stone and died instantly. Michael Guldash, twenty-two years old, of Homestead, third in the race, was injured perhaps fatally, when his motorcycle dashed down a steep embankment soon after the first accident. Frederick W. Eleitz Dead Frederick W. Fletz, formerly deputy attorney general in and a leader in Republican politics in the state, died in a hospital in Seranton, Pa., following several operations that were necessitated by an injury to his hip. Mr. Fletz was forty-nine years old. Mr. Fletz served for a time as journal clerk and reading clerk in the House. He was appointed deputy attorney general by Governor Stone in 1899, and was reappointed by Governor Pennypacker in 1903. He was president of the State League of Republican can clubs. Mr. Fletz was married in 1891 to Miss Clara A Mitchell, daughter of former Superior Court Judge John I Mitchell. Jack London Is Dead. Jack London the author, died at his Glen Ranch, near Santa Roa a Cal., a victim of urticile poisoning. He was taken ill the evening before, and was found unconscious by a servant, who went to his room to awaken him. London's condition at first alarmed his sister, Mrs. Eliza Shepard, who summoned physicians from Santa Rosa. It was believed that the author was a victim of plumineous poisoning, but later it developed he was suffering from what his play tells. Dr. J. Wilson Shields, of San Francisco, described as a "gastrointestinal ail of urticile." His wife was with him when he died. Pottaville Gots Carnegie Donation. The Pottaville Gots School board has entered into an agreement with the Carmel of New York, by which the latter is to donate $2000 for the free public library building to be erected upon a site in the heart of the city which has been offered by the Free Public Library association. The school board under the agreement is bound to ap propriate $3000 annually for the main tenance of the library. President Opposed to Embargo. It is known definitely that President Wilson is opposed to any embargo on foodstuffs, but is gathering information through government departments on which he will make a special address to congress on the high cost of living a little later in the session. N. Y. Exports Gain $62,266,921. Exports from the port of New York in October exceeded the same month in 1915 by $12,266,921. It was announced here. The outward movement reached $235,976,859 in that month. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR - Quotet want $3.75/g; 6.99 city mall; $9.75/9.75. BUTTER-FL_n; fancy creamery: 426 pat lb. Live Stock Quotation CHICAGO. - H' GS - Slow. $10.10; 99.10; t. $1.65; $6.55; milo. $10.10; hevy. $7.65; $10.10; rough. $3.40 $5.55; p. $2.25; $8.25; CAT77 E--Weak Native beef steak 807762720 western steaks $6.99 $10.99 codex $4.99 775; rows ap1 buffers $3.99 calves $7.75-12.50 IVE BEEN ADVENED TO SEEK A HANDWRAPPED LOCATION CAN YOU TELL ME HOW YOUR TRANS RUN? YEAH—BUT DON'T LET ON I TOLD YOU SUMPINS BUSTED ON THE ENJINE SO THEY CAN'T STOP ANY MORE—PASSANGERS HAVE TO JUMP ON AS SHE PASSES THE BAGGAGE CAR DOOR WILL BE OPEN-ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS JUMP IN SAY—IVE BEEN STANDING HERE ABOUT THREE HOURS—HOW MUCH LONGER DO I HAVE TO WAIT? NOT MUCH LONGER THERE COMES THE CONDUCTORS LITTLE DOG DOWN THE TRACK NOW ```markdown ``` HOWARD IS DEFEATED HOWARD IS DEFEATED (Continued from First Page) before he was cut down. Lawson then hit the line for 3 yards. Then cama a fumble which was covered by a Howardite. Colman, of Howard, breezed off tackle for 10 yards. Straton followed with a 15-yard run. At this point Meadows took Lawson's place. Hampton held the "Collegians" for downs. The ball was now in Hampton's care. "General" Harvey sent "Jelly" Mendows through tackle for 4 yards. Higney then made 4 yards, being followed by Harvey, who made the remaining 2 yards. Howard's line was wavering before the charging "Iron Men." Jelly made five yards more. He was followed by Harvey and "Abe" Mundy for 3 and 2 yards each. Then came another fumble, but "Big Bob" Robinson was on the job and covered the pigskin for the "Seasiders." Hampton's machine was making rapid progress towards its goal. Harvey made a pass of 20 yards to Mundy, who was downed in his track. The "Harvester" was now within 20 yards of the goal. "Jelly" slipped around the right end for 10 yards, being led by a powerful interference. After a few plays the "Seasidern" wore on the 5-yard line, but Howard's line and backfield failed to let the Virginians cross the goal on three downs. Harvey attempted to drop-kick from the 15-yard line, but the oval went outside of the goal. The quarter ended with Howard over the ball. HARD PLAYING CONTINUES. Howard tried a trick pass behind the line to start the second quarter, but it resulted in a fumble, which was covered by a Hamptonian. Another pass to "Abe" Mundy a distance of 10 yards started the "Harvester" on her fight toward the goal. Howard hold the "Seaiders" for downs only 5 yards from the goal. Straton punted to Harvey, who brought the ball only a short distance up the field. After a few line plays, Harvey attempted to make a forward pass, but was downed 5 yards behind the line. Dorsey punted and Howard advanced the ball only a short distance. Ponderhughes, the star full-back of Howard, rolled off a "pile up" for 15 yards. Howard was now on their 25-yard line, so Ponderhughes attempted to drop-kick, but failed to do so. The ball was then put into play by Hampton on the 35-yard line. The "Capital City" boys held fast, so the "Seaiders" were compelled to punt. The kick was received and brought down the field for 20 yards. Coloman gained 8 yards for Howard, but the aggregation was penalized 15 yards for holding. The "Collectane" punted to the 5-yard line. Harvey fumbled the punt and covered it 1 yard from Howard's goal. With the backfield men 2 yards behind Howard's goal, the Hamptonites plunged through. Howard's line for 8 yards and then advanced the ball to the 40 yard line. The half ended without either side having scored. HOWARD MAKES FIRST SCORE Howard, kicked off to Hampton. The ball rolled over the goal and Rigney, brought it out 2 yards over the goal line. Hampton failed to make first down, after gaining 8 yards. Howard covered the ball, but Hampton held them for downs. Dorysey punted to the center of the field. Howard fought her way down to the 30-yard line, from which Penderhughes drop-kicked a goal, making the score 3 to 0 in Howard's favor. Hampton received the kick. Harvey rushed the ball down the field for 25 yards. Dorysey breezed off tackle for 5 yards. Rigney followed with 5 yards more. The "Great Machine" was now getting into working order for it marched down the field without much trouble, until it reached the 10-yard line. Abe Mundy, during this period, slipped off from Olmore and received a 40-yard Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers HAMPTON'S TOUCHDOWN. Howard had weakened by trying to play a strong defensive game after making their 3 points. The "Harvester" was now in fine working order and it drove the "Collegians" like horses. Dorsey advanced the pigskin 5 yards and Rigney carried it the other 5 yards, making the score 6 to 3, since Hampton failed to kick goal. Howard's old regulars, such as Gilmore, Randall and Straton, were all in and fresh men were substituted, but they, too, failed to stop the charging "Seasidors." CAPTAIN DORSEY'S TOUCHDOWN Hampton kicked to Howard, but the runner was brought down in his tracks. The "Seasiders" were at this time desperate, and the Howardites were unable to stand the driving of the "Iron Men." Another veteran, Wheaton, was then removed from the game. The "Virginians" held them for downs. The ball was then placed in Hampton's pasture, and the backfield men walked through Howard's line at will. The sticks moved three consecutive times for first downs after three plays. Dorsey hit the line for 5 yards for the second touchdown. The "Seasiders" failed to kick goal. Hampton kicked to Howard, whose players were helpless. Ponderhughes was the only man able to show any fighting spirit. Howard so worked on "Big Red" that he had to be taken out "Red" played a wonderful game and he is to be congratulated on the good spirit that he showed throughout the game. When the whistle blow there ended the greatest battle in the history of Howard and Hampton. Hampton was the victor to the tune of 12 to 3. Much credit is due the "Scensiders," for they were playing on strange grounds before thousands of Howard sympathizers. Yet they proved that it is not the crowd that wins the game. A fresh grave has been made for the Howardites to remain in until next year. Hampton broke the record by using 13 men to defeat Howard, while the Howardites used 20. Hampton (12) Howard (3) Dabney c. Young Dawson r. g. Randall Thornton r. t. Matthews Dorsey (C) r. e. Green Robinson l. g. Marshall Paxton l. t. McCain Dixon l. e. Ollmore Mundy r. h. Coleman Meadows l. h. Grimmage (C) Rigney f. b. Pendorhughes Harvey q. b. Stratton Referee—G. C. Wilkerson. Umpire—H. E. Howell. Timekeeper. piro—H. E. Howell. Timekeeper. —H. Douglas. Time of quarters, 15 minutes. Touchdowns -Dorsay and Rigney. Field goal—Penderhughes. Better Teachers for the Rural Schools (By J. L. McBrien, School Extension Agent, U. S. Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior.) No man of prominence has ever emphasized the value and importance of professionally trained teacher with better logic than did J. Sterling Morton. Secretary of Agriculture in President Cleveland's Cabinet, when he said: "We demand educated educators We demand professionally trained teachers, men and women of three proachable character and well-tested abilities. We demand from our legislature laws raising the standard of the profession and exalting the office of the teacher. As the doctor of medicine or the practitioner at law is only admitted within the palate of his calling upon the production of his parchment or certificates, so the applicant for the position of instructor in our primary and other schools should be required by law to first pre-duce his diploma, his authority to teach, from the normal schools "We call no uneducated quack a charlatan to perform surgery upon the bodies of our children less they may be deformed, crippled, and maligned physically all their lives. Let us take equal care that we instrust the development of the mental faculties to skilled instructors of magnanimous character that the mentalities of our children may not be mutilated, deformed, and crippled to halt and limp through all the centuries of their never-ending lives. The deformed body will die, and be forever put out of sight under the ground, but a mind made monstrous by bad teaching does not, but stalks freer among the ages, an immortal mockery of the divine image." This plan of Mr. Morton for professionally trained teachers was made the platform of the first national conference on teacher training for rural schools, which met at Chicago in September, 1914, in its nation-wide campaign for professionally trained rural teachers. THE END. AT THE BIJOU ALL NEXT WEEK. Want Investigation of Exorbitant Prices of Newsprint Paper. Tentative plans for the conservation of the newsprint paper supply of Virginia and North Carolina; suggestions for the conservation of the paper used for wrapping purposes in mercantile houses in the two States, and the starting of a nation-wide movement to bring the print paper problem before Congress in a forcible manner, was the work accomplished yesterday afternoon at a joint conference of the executive committee of the Virginia Press Association and a committee representing the North Carolina Press Association. P. T. Way, of the Gold Leaf, Hen- erson, and J. L. Horne, Jr., of the Telegram, Rocky Mount, represented the North Carolina Press Association and pledged the support of that or- ganization as well as of the North Carolina Association of Afternoon Newspapers to the plans adopted by the executive committee of the Virginia Press Association for conservation and redress. The North Carolina publishers explained in detail the seriousness of the shortage of print paper in that State and the inability to renew old, or make new, contracts, while Major Allen Potta, of Richmond; L. E. Pugh, of Newport News; Rorer A. James, of Danville, and others from Virginia told of the situation which confronts the Virginia publishers, which at present is not quite as serious as the North Carolina situation. However, intervening months may place Virginia editors in the same predicament. EACH STATE ASKED TO SEND DELEGATION. Secretary James L. Hart, of the Virginia Press Association, was authorized to ask the secretary of the press association in each State in the United States to send a delegation to appear before the Federal Trade Commission in Washington on December 12, at which time the print-paper problem will be gone into. The Virginia Press Association also passed a resolution urging every member of every press association in the United States to wire and write their representatives in Congress to take such action as will bring relief to the publishers, who openly confess they face a monopoly of gigantic proportions. The following letter was addressed to Virginia publishers last night by the executive committee of the Virginia Press Association: "Such a crisis confronts the weekly and daily publications of Virginia on account of exorbitant prices of white print paper and the threatened advance, that the officers of the Virginia Press Association feel that your urgent attention should be called to the personal danger which confronts you. "Paper which sold a year ago at $240 per 100 pounds is now selling at from $6 to $10 per 100 pounds, and there is no promise of any decline in prices, but a greater probability of increase, and perhaps an inability to provide paper at any price. URGE ECONOMY - AND APPEAL FOR REDRESS "Your executive committee and of fewers strongly urge the following action by the papers of Virginia: "First—Economy. "Second—An appeal to Congress for redress. "By economy is meant the cutting off of free copies to advertisers, ex- changes and nonpaying subscribers and reduction of size of papers as far as possible; cutting all deadhead ad- vertisements and free notices and features which can be eliminated without injury to your publication. This is advocated so that the consumption of white print paper will be reduced and there will be left on the makers' hands a surplus, which should reduce the cost to the consumer. "Editorially tell your readers how the paper makers have arbitrarily advanced the price of print paper, not only to the publishers, but to merchants and all persons who use paper in any form. This arbitrary advance in paper means an increased cost to all the people on whom the final burden will fall. "You should write a personal letter to your Senators and Congressmen urging them to take suitable action against those paper makers who are demanding, and receiving, exorbitant prices in restraint of trade and to the injury of all those who use print paper or paper in any form. "Prompt action on your part now will remedy the cell which confronts all of us. Do not delay. The Federal Trade Commission meets December 12, 1915, and your letters should be received by your representatives in Congress before that date." MIDWINTER SESSION TO BE HELD AT UNIVERSITY. Leon G., Whipple, professor of journalism at the University of Virginia, presented an invitation from President Edwin A. Alderman, offering the university as the meeting place for the midwinter session of the Virginia Press Association, and offering the services of the School of Journalism in gathering data on any subject the publishers of the State may desire from tome to time. "I bring to you gentlemen." said Mr. Whipple, "the best regards of President Alderman and the offer of the university's help in any possible n way. It is your university—your School of Journalism—and we ask that your midwinter meeting be held at the university this year. We will furnish all of the facilities for the meeting, assist in selecting the spe- kers and arranging the program and promise you a practical business se- tion. The executive committee unan- nously accepted the invitation, and President E. G. Moseley instructed Secretary James L. Hart to issue a call for the midwinter meeting at the university on Thursday and Friday, January 18 and 19. President Moseley indicated his pur- pose to invite President E. E. Britton, of the North Carolina Press Association, to send at least ten delegates to the meeting to be held at the university. The executive committee names Roger A. James, of Danville; W. McDonald Lee, of Irvington, and John Stewart Bryan, of Richmond, a committee to appear before the Federal Trade Commission when it begins the hearing on the print paper problem on December 12. This hearing, however, is not expected to be final, and it was the consensus of opinion that only a nation-wide movement to bring the matter before Congress would bring the relief sought by the publishers not only of Virginia and North Carolina, but of the entire United States. Times Dispatch, Dec. 6, 1916 Readjustment of Postal Rates Washington, Dec 9. The ways are now being greased for the launchment of the movement for the readjustment of postal rates in the next session of Congress. This problem was to have been taken up in the last session but had to be deferred on account of the consideration required by railway mail pay. Since it has been disposed of the committees are prepared to take up the matter of placing the various postal rates on a more equitable basis. A zone system of rates for second class matter is being prominently urged to take the place of the present flat rate which was adopted nearly forty years ago. The present rate has for some time been regarded as a discrimination against the newspapers in favor of the great national magazines. Like the parcel post the proposed zone rates would be based on the length of the haul. The postal committees have been besieged by petitions bearing millions of names and several hundred thousand letters from individuals urging a readjustment of postal rates with a view of making possible one cent letter postage. A survey of the situation indicates that sufficient changes will be made in the various rates to permit the granting of a one-cent rate on local delivery letters in the next session of Congress. Chairman Moon of the House Postal Committee, today said: "I think that the Committee will take up this second class mail matter at the next session and press it to a conclusion at once. While I cannot speak for the Committee, this is my desire in the matter. I do not know what kind of a bill we will pass, whether it will have a zone feature attached to it or not. This view has been presented frequently in years past, and sometimes received favor and sometimes not. As to what shape the legislation will be in I am not able to say, but I am sure the Committee will give it the best possible shape in the public interest." Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, a prominent member of the Senate Postal Committee, said: "I do think the time has come when the people who write and mail letters and pay postage ought not to have quite so much of this burden of the price of transporting and handling the mail matter of the various national magazine publications or their shoulders." Representative Carl Vinson, of Georgia, said: "When letters can be carried all over the country, and to certain foreign countries. For two cents, and return a large profit, it is quite evident that the profit on local or the so-called drop letters, must be reimbrittant. The reduction will mean no falling off in the revenues as it is generally regarded that the volume of mail will practically be doubled immediately upon the installation of the new rate." Representative Britt, of North Carolina, former assistant Postmaster General and now a member of the House Postal Committee, says that "one cent will much more than pay the cost of handling local delivery letters and the creation of such a rate will be a powerful stimulus to urban business and local correspondence. A glance at the postal statistics will show the rate to be easily feasible. I am encouraged to believe that the day of equitable adjustment of our postal rates, and one cent letter postage is not far distant." TROY LETTER. Troy, N. Y. December 5, Miss Glenna Jones of Glens Falls and Misses Berth, and Blanch Wicks, of Greenwich, N. Y. were the ghost of Mrs Richard S. Harder, of 2169 6th avenue for the Odd Fellows' reception and spent Thanksgiving with her. Mrs. Mable Mayberry, new Jones, spent the day with Mrs. R. S. Harder while enroute to join her husband at Galveston, Texas. Mr. Richard S. Harder has gone to Schenectady to work. Mr. Walter Harder and his bridenee Lovett passed through Troy enroute to Pitts Field. Miss Aunghalf of Poughkeepsie N Y spent Thanksgiving in this city. Mr. George Whitbeck broke his leg while at work in Cahoes, N. Y. last week. Mr Hayward, on Congress Street, near Fifth Avenue, has been confined to his room for eight weeks. Mr James Abeal, on Huddon St., near Ninth, this city, has been very unwell ever since she came out of the Lamord Hospital last Summer. Miss Cora Duncan, of Harrison Place is now sick in Troy Hospital. Mr William Walters has been in the Lamord Hospital of this city for some time. The Rev J A Taylor, of 2850 Fifth Avenue was in the city of New York, November 26th and preached for Dr Strus, pastor Union Baptist Church, 204 West 63rd Street, at 11 A. His subject was "The Love of Man." Text. I John 3:11. He preached for Dr Haynes, pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, at 11 P. M. Subject, "Temptation." Text. Cor. 16:12. Rev Taylor was much delighted at both of these churches and had a good time with the brethren and their people of the Lord Jesus. We have not been in all the colored Baptist Churches in the city, but we think the Mt. Olivet must be the finest one of them all. The pastor, Dr. Haynes told Rev Taylor it cost about $100 to put this church in good order. It is certainly a good piece of work. --- AMPHIONS CELEBRATE SILVER ANNIVERSARY. Justice Terrell Presides at Washington's Musical Organization Festival. The Amphion Gloe Club, which was organized September 21, 1891, celebrated the Silver Anniversary with appropriate exercises December 1, 1916. The musical and literary feature was conducted with Justice Robt. H. Terrell, presenting, and he related many personal experiences connected with the early days of Prof. J. Henry Lewin, the founder and director of the Amphions. Dr Wilson Bruce Evans, was received with a royal welcome by the many citizens present, and he responded in a very happy vein. Miss M. A. D. Madro also made an address. The program of vocal selections given by the Amphions was very highly commended. The audience was composed of the elite of the National Capital. C. A BARBOUR, Secretary. WORK AND SAVE UP PLANET COUPONS AND GET AN UMIERELLA OR A PHONAGRAPH—BOTH ARE GOOD. SEE ADVERTEMENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND START TO WORK IMEDIATELY. ALL ARE ```markdown ``` The Yellow Claw Copyright, 1834, by Lippincott's Magazine. Copyright, 1834, by McBride. Nast & Co. Fire. It chanced that at about the time, within a minute or so, of the American lady's leaving the hotel and just as red rays, the barbingers of dusk, came creeping in at the latticed window of her cozy workroom Helen Cumberly laid down her pen with a sigh. She stood up, mechanically rearranging her hair as she did so, and crossed the corridor of her bedroom, the window whereof overlooked the square. Not venturing to turn on the light, not daring to look upon her own face in the mirror, Helen Cumberly sat before her dressing table, trembling wildly. She wanted to laugh and wanted to cry. But the daughter of Baton Cumberly knew, what those symptoms meant and knew how to deal with them. At the end of an interval of some four or five minutes she rang. The maid opened the door. "Don't light up, Merton," she said composedly. "I want to tell Garnham to go down to Mr. Leroux's and put the place in order. Mr. Leroux is dining with us." The girl withdrew, and Helen, as the door closed, pressed the electric switch. She stared at her reflection in the mirror as if it were the face of an enemy, then, turning her head aside, sat deep in reflection, lifting her lip and toying with the edge of the white dolly. "You little traitor!" she whispered through clenched teeth. "You little traitor—and hypocrite—wobe began to rise in her throat—and fool!" She had begun to comprehend the nature of her feelings for Henry Lenox. Five more minutes passed in a silent conflict. A knock announced the return of the maid, and the girl reentered, placing upon the table a visiting card: DENISF. RYLAND. Ataller & Rua du Cog d'Or. Montmartre. Paria. Helen Cumberly started to her feet with a stiff exclamation and turned to the shald. Her face, to which the color slowly had been returning, suddenly blanched anew. "Dames Ryland!" she muttered, still holding the card in her hand. "Why, that's Mrs. Leroux's friend, with whom she had been staying in Paris. Whatever can it mean." "Shall I show her in here, please?" asked the maid. "Yes, in here," replied Helen absently, and, scarcely aware that she had given instructions to that effect, she presently found herself confronted by the lady of the boat train. "Miss Cumberly!" said the new arrival in a pleasant American voice. "Yes, I am Helen Cumberly. Oh, I am so glad to know you at last! I have often pictured you, for Mira, Mrs. Laronx, is always talking about you and about the glorious times you have together. I have sometimes longed to join you in beautiful Paris. How good of you to come back with her!" Miss Bryland enrolled the Scotch murder from her throat, swaging her head from side to side in a wort of muriously trotchest manner, quite peculiarly her own. Her deep hazel eyes were fixed upon the face of the girl before her. Indefinitely and immediately she hled Helen Cumberly, and Helen felt that this strong looking, vaguely masculine woman was an old intimate friend, although she had never before met eyes upon her. "Him!" and Miss Bryland. "I have come from Paris"—the punctuated many of her sentences with wages of the head, as if carefully weighing her words—"especially" (pause) "to see you" (pause and wag of head). "I am glad—to find that—you are the thorny tough sensible—kind of girl that I had imagined from the accounts which—I have had of you." She nested herself in an armchair. "Had of me from Mira?" asked Helen. "Yee—from Mrs. Laroux." "How delightful it must be for you to be her with you so often! Marriage, as a rule, puts an end to that pertinent sort of good time, doesn't it?" "What! I see red, you mean that Mr. Leonson knows I like you? I can't believe you!" From the soccer you believe it the better. "We can only be that he does not know you properly." "He has no wish to know me properly, and I have no desire to cultivate the friendship of such ailly being." Helen Cumberly was conscious that a flush was rising from her face to her brow and tingling in the very roots of her hair. She was indignant with her self and turned aside, bending over her table in order to conceal this timed embarrassment from her visitor "Poor Mr. Loroux" she said, speaking very rapidly "I think it awfully good of him and sport to allow his wife so much liberty." "Sporty!" said Miss Rymond wagging and moaning distended in scorn. "Idiot! I should call it!" "Why?" Helen Cumberly, perfectly composed again, raised her clear eyes to her visitor. "You seem so thoroughly sensible except in regard to Harry Leroux, and all women, with a few exceptions, are fools where the true character of a man is concerned—that I will take you right into my confidence." Her speech lost its quality of syncopation, the whole expression of her face changed, and in the hazel eyes a deep concern might be read. "My dear"—she stood up, crossed to Helen's side and rested her artistic looking hands upon the girl's shoulder. D. B. C. "It means, monique," he said, "murderer!" —"Harry Leona stands upon the brink of a great tragedy, a life tragedy." Helen was trembling slightly again. "Oh, I know," she whispered; "I know"— "You know!" There was surprise in Miss Ryland's voice. "Yes; I have seen them, watched them, and I know that the police think"— "Police: What are you talking about—the police?" Helen looked up with a troubled face. "The murder!" she began. Miss Ryland dropped into a chair, which fortunately stood close behind her, with a face suddenly not in an expression of horror. She began to understand, now, a certain restraint, a certain omnious shadow, which she had perceived or thought she had perceived in the atmosphere "of this home and in the manner of its occupants." "My dear girl," she began, and the old nervous, jerk manner showed itself again momentarily, "remember that I left Parts by the first train this morning and have simply been traveling right up to the present moment." "Then you have not heard? You don't know that a murder—has been committed!" "Not any one connected with Mr. Leroux; no, thank God! But it was done in his flat." Miss Ryland brushed a whisk of straight hair back from her brow with a rough and ungraceful movement. "My dear," she began, taking a French telegraphic form from her pocket, "you see this message? It's one which reached me at an unearthly hour this morning from Harry Leroux. It was addressed to his wife at my studio. Therefore, as her friend I opened it. Mira Leroux has actually visited me there twice since her marriage." "Twice!" Helen rose slowly to her feet, with borrified eyes fixed upon the speaker. "Twice I said, I have not seen her and have rarely heard from her for nearly twelve months now. Therefore I packed up posthaste, and here I am. I came to you because from what little I have heard of you and of your father I judged you to be the right kind of friends to consult." "You have not seen her for twelve months?" Helen's voice was almost inaudible, and she was trembling dreadfully. "That's a fact, my dear. And now what are we going to tell Harry Leveux?" It was a question the answer to which was by no means evident at a glance, and, leaving Helen Cumberly face to face with this new and horrible truth which had brought Denise Ryland botfoot from Paris to London let us glance for a moment into the now familiar room of Detective Inspector Dunbar at Scotland Yard. He had received a report from Deter- five Sergeant Bowery of Scotland Yard respecting the late Mrs. Ver- non's maid. The girl, Sergeant Bowery by declared, was innocent of compil- ety and could only depose to the fact that her late mistress took very little ingrage with her on the occasions of her trips to Scotland. With his note book open before him upon the table, Dunhair was adding this slight item to bla- na notes upon the case when the door opened and the uniformed constable entered and stared an envelope in the ingrage. "From the commissioner," said the giant fervor displayed in the paws around a dark mounster, and brittle hair and a bracey, brittle mounster. With paused face, Dumbar opened the envelope and withdrew the commissioner's note. It was very brief: "M. Gaston Max of the Paris palace is joining you in the Palace mansehold murder case. You will co-operate with him from date above." "Max' I said Dumbar, gait astonishedly at his subordinate. Certainly it was a name which might well account for the amazement written upon the Inspector's face, for it was the name of admittedly the greatest criminal investigator in Europe. "What on earth has the case to do with the French police?" muttered Sowerby, his ruddy convenience exhibiting a whole history of wonderment. The constable, who had withdrawn, now reappeared, knocking deferentially upon the door, throwing it open and announcing: "Mr. Gaston Max, to see Detective Inspector Dunbar." Bowing courteously upon the threshold, appeared a figure in a dazzling check travelling coat, a figure very novel and wholly unforgettable. "I am honored to meet a distinguished London colleague," he said in perfect English, with a faint American accent. Dunbar stepped across the room with outstretched hand and cordially shook that of the famous Frenchman. "I am the more honored," he declared, gallantly playing up to the others' courtesy. "This is Detective Sergeant Bowerby, who is acting with me in the case." M. Gaston Max bowed low in acknowledgment of the introduction. "It is a pleasure to meet Detective Sergeant Bowerby," he declared. These polite overtures being concluded then and the door being closed, the three detectives stood looking at one another in 'momentary silence. Then Dunbar spoke with blunt directness. "I am very pleased to have you with us, Mr. Max," he said, "but might I ask what your presence in London means?" M. Gaston Max shrugged in true Galilee fashion. "It means, monsteur," he said, "murder—and Mr King." TO BE 'CONTINUED. STEEL MAGNATE KILLED IVE After Tumble From Horse. David Benjamin head of the Penn sylvania Quarrying, Stripping and Contracting company, and predeat of of the Benjamin iron and Steel works at Hastings. Fa, was killed and his son, Harry, seriously injured in an accident at the Elvereale operations of the firm. It had been the habit of Mr. Benjam min to make his inspection trips or horseback. He fell from his mount through the breaking of a saddle stra and suffered a slit abrasions of the neck. Advised to go to the office at the works for first aid he and his son mounted a small coative, frie which the older Benjamin toppled and was crushed when with a falting spell. His son was hurt trying to save him. P. H. Morrissy Dead. P. H. Murray is the president of the T.T. and Quin-y rall-a-l an former I.o of the B.B.o.d.o.T.m. men, die after a pro-posed I.ne Killie Bear With Knife Joseph, Norcavage, of Gilberton, Pa., brought home a 255-pound bear that he killed in Sullivan county after a desperate battle. The sportsman says he fired three shots, the last of his ammunition, at his bearship, when the maidened brain savagely attacked him. After a fierce struggle he finally vanquished the bear by plunging; the blade of a large hunting knife into his neck. Chemical Explosion Kills Three. An explosion on the Armorcite Chemical company plant, at Newark N. J., killed Stanley Pennock, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a partner in the concern, and injured another partner, Chaunee Loomis, of New York city. Two workmen were killed. The explosion, which occurred during a test wrecked the plant. Daylight Robber Gets $260. A hold robbery occurred at Alpha N. J. near Easton, Pa., when a man went into the office of the Alpha Supply company and at the point of a revolver held up the girl cashier and rifled the cash drawer of $260. Before committing the riot, he cut the telephone wires. The man escaped. EFFECTO HAIR POMADE THE GREATEST OF ALL HAIR FOODS will positively soften the most stubborn hair and compel it to grow from one to six inches in as many weeks. A single application will convince you. What has been done for thousands of others will be done for you but the one of this wonderful pomade. Agents wanted everywhere. 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Positive information was received by United States government officials at El Paso, that Chihuahua City has been evacuated by General Trevino, the Carranza commander, because of a shortage of ammunition. The information was said to have been conveyed by courier from Tala loaps, south of Chihuahua City, to Tarrasas and thence by telegraph to Juarez. Villa, the same report said, was in possession of the city and the Carranza forces had been forced to abandon the artillery. Many of Trevino's in fantasy forces have gone over to Villa according to report. Friends of the Americans and other foreigners who remained in Chihuahua City, are worried over the safety of these foreigners as Villa was reported to have declared he would kill all forigners when he captured Chihuahua City. There are believed to be six Americans in the city. They started to come to the border on the last train, it is said; but were advised to remain by friends, who fear ed the bandits would stop the train and execute them. - Information regarding the evacuation of Chihuahua City was obtained through Lauro Corillo, brother of Mrs Jacinto R. Trevino, high government officials said. Corillo, it was stated had received word to inform Mrs. Trevino her husband was safe. Mrs. Trevino denied she or her brother had received any word from General Trevino since Saturday. Carranza Consul Bravo and Inspector of Carranza Consulates Andrea García, denied any such message had been received. The information about the fate of the city is born out by the admission of a Carranza official in Jujurus who admitted the possibility that General Troying had been forced to evacuate Calcutahua City because of a shortage of accommodation. Recommendations for General Troying are being assembled in some stations thirty-two miles north of Calcutahua City, and will be led toward the city. BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OF AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- D WITH A MOTOR GUARAN THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER D. RICHMO 4th St., - by General Francisco Gonzales, commander of the Juarez brigade, left Juarez with a train loaded with men and munitions, it was officially announced at military headquarters in that city. According to the officers in charge of Carranza headquarters in Juarez General Francisco Gonzales will have 2500 men when the garrison troops in northwestern Chihuahua, which have been ordered to move immediately, assemble at Sauz. General Gonzales was expected to arrive at Sauz at noon and to lead the movement to Chihuahua City at once. He was at Laguna station, twenty nine miles north of Sauz according to a message received over the federal line, which is in operation to Sauz. CLERK STOLE $125,000 Invested in Cigar Stands in Saloons and Liquor Saloons With the proceeds of peculiations amounting to $125,000 Adolph J. Loeffler, a twenty-five dollar a week grocery clerk in New York organized a chain of clear stores in a loons and on the earnings of these lived in a fine apartment, owned an automobile and employed a chauffeur, according to his confession after his arrest on a charge of forgery. Loeffler, thirty years old and married, is accused of falsely raising the amount of a bill of lading in connection with large grocery exports being made to belligerent nations by the wholesale firm which employed him. His thefts were in small amounts covering two years. Later the man amplified his confession before the district attorney and volunteered to surrender furniture in his apartment, which he said was worth $25,000, a life insurance policy for $15,000 and two automobiles. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA. — FLOUR — Quiet. Winter clear, $7.50 @ 7.75; city mills, $9.75 @ 10.00. LOUR—Firm, per barrel $7.90 @ 8.50. WHEAT—Quiet: No. 2 red, $1.78 1.87. CORN—Firm: No. 2, yellow, $1.14 1.17. FAITS—Quiet: No. 2 white, $6.24 62c. FOULTRY—Live, steady; hens, 18 @17c; old rosters, 12d @14c. Dressed steady, choice fowls, 23d @1c; old roc tent, 12d. BUTTER—Firm: fancy creamery 15c per lb. BOGS—Firm: selected, 58 @ 61c; nearby, 49c; western, 49c. Live Stock Quotations CHICAGO - NOODS. bighter Mixed and butchers. $9.30/10.25, good beer. $9.30/10.25, coug. h away. $9.30/10.25, light. $8.65/9.25; $8.65/9.25, butt. $9.35/10.15. CATTLE - 100/15c higher. Beer. $7.50/12.00; corn and heifers. $8.75/12.00; peckers, and frelkers. $7.75/12.00; vumma. $8.25/10.00; calves. $8.25/10.00; Nailty. Nailty. and wood. $9.10/12.50; lumber. $9.10/12.50. ```markdown ``` $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons ONLY THREE BODIES FOUND Man, Wife, Mother-in-Law and Four Children Die When Home Burns Blame Wood Range. The family of Lewis Wilson, an employee at the Bethlehem Steel Proving Grounds, comprising six persons besides himself, was wiped out of existence by the burning of their home on Stimpson's lane on the northern border of the village of West Cape May, N. J. Those who were burned to death were: Lewis Wilson, thirty-eight years old. Mrs. Margaret Wilson, his wife, thirty-four. Mrs. Katherine Gibbon, mother of Mrs. Wilson, sixty-eight years old. Gertrude, eleven years old. Thomas, nine years old. Lillian, six years old. Beatrice, two years old. It is supposed that burning wood fell out of the stove to the floor. The family used wood stoves alone for heating the home which was a two and a half story frame house with a chinney in the center. The father and mother slept on the second floor and the grandmother in the attic. The first person who ap parently saw the smoke, or blaze was Charles Jacquette, who lived across the road about 500 feet from the Wilson home. He hurriedly ran to the place and when he could get a window open, bound the house thickly. filled with smoke and the flames of fire burst forth with the opening of the window. He saw no signs of life. A brother of the fire victim, Arthur Wilson, who lived just beyond Jacquette's home, was the next to arrive and he confirms Jacquette's story, but said that as he looked in he saw the second floor hall and what he believed were the bodies fell with it. It is believed the intense smoke affected the inmates and they were unable to escape. They seem to have burned in their beds. The people of the neighborhood arrived quickly, but the loss to save any thing, as ever, particle of the house and contents was refused to escape and the only thing left sitting was a part of the chimney that was in the center of the house. The worst part was borrowed books and house cart was a soldier's bed. from the scene of the fire and no protection was available. Neighbors formed bucket brigades in vain. Coroner Wilson A. Lake took from the rains three charred and unrecognizable bodies, which he said were the trunks of the three adults, but no remains of the children could be found. Man Robs Store While Miss Midred Wilson, cashier of the Alpha Supply company, at Alpha, near Phillipburk, N. J., was in the store alone, a man came in, pointed a pistol at her and riffed the cash drawer of $260. Before committing the robbery, the man had cut the telephone wire, preventing Miss Wilson from phoning an alarm after the burglar had disappeared ed through the rear door. When Miss Wilson saw the revolver she began to cry, and the man exclaimed, "Stop crying, or I'll shoot you." No Typographical Error Getsby Our Proof Room. The one shown in reading proof by diabolistic of the same directed to all phases of our work. SATURDAY...DECEMBER 9, 1916 The Real Story of the Beautiful Statue that Marks the Grave of Mrs. Henry Adams in Rock Creek. Cemetery and Why St. Gaudianus Refused to Give a Name to His Masterpiece. (By Frank P. Morso.) A face turned to the west and unseeing eyes that seem to penetrate the vell of the great beyond; spiritual beauty caught by the deft-fingers of a great artist and frozen into stone; a figure that silences the chatter of tourists and voices the solitary of the home for those whose life stories have been told—there are but a few who master what has given the industry a capital its most interesting mystery. Many Washingtonians have seen, again and again, the monument in Rock Creek Cemetery that marks the grave of Mrs. Henry Adams Wollin-formed visitors curtail their rounds of sightseeing in the home of the American government to make a pilgrimage to this world-famous work of art, few of the thousands who have studied it know the story of the baffling face that guarda an endless sleep. The Adams memorial is not generally known by that title. If you, a Washingtonian fanfairer with the things that interest the tourist, were asked the name of the silent figure whose fame has spread around the world, you would call her "Saint-Gaudens." Status of Grief: That smugly 'apt description of this modern and wonderfully beautiful aphixr who has been feared to tread, Saint-Gaudens never found a name for the sculpture that has placed him in the ranks of the immortals. IT IS 29 YEARS OLD. The Adams memorial was erected in 1887. It was conceived by Saint Gaudens in response to the request of Henry Adams, whose wife, sleeps in the shadow. Mr. Adams, who makes his home now in Paris, again in his home in New York, travels to the museum and H streets, is a great-grandson of President John Adams and a grandson of President John Quincy Adams. His father, Charles Francis Adams, was the United States Minister to Great Britain. He was making a tour of the world, the time Saint Gaudens finished the painting of knowledge photographing, written on June 23, 1891, he said to the sculptor: "As far as photographs go, they are satisfactory; but I trust much more to the impression produced on John Hay, who writes me he has been to Rock Creek to see the figure." This impression was recorded in a letter from Adams by a grant Secretary of State, and which contained this paragraph: "The work is indescribably nobile and immoing. It is to my mind Saint Gaudena's masterpiece. It is full of poetry and suggestion. Infine wisdom and past without beginning and a future without end, a repose after limitations, experience, a peace to which nothing matters—all are embodied in this beautiful face and form." NEVER QUESTIONED ITS, MEAN ING. It is interesting to know exactly what Henry Adams thought of the wonderful memorial to his dead wife. Fortunately his impressions are a matter of record. In an autobiography, privately printed, he says of the Saint-Gaudens status, speaking of himself in the third person: "His first step on returning to Washington took him out to the cemetery known as Rock Creek to see the bronze figure which Saint Gaudens had made for him in his abdance. Naturally every detail interceded him, every line, every touch of the artist, every change of light and shade, every point of relation, every possible doubt of Saint-Gaudens' correctness of taste or feeling; so that as the spring approached, he was apt to stop there often when the figure that was new, but, in all that he had to say, he never once thought of questioning what it meant. He supposed its meaning to be the one commonplace about it—the oldest idea known to human thought. He knew that if he asked an Anatistic its meaning not a man, woman or child from Carto to Kamchatka would have needed more than a glance to reply. The interest of the figure was not its meaning, but in the response of the observer. As Adams sat there numbers of people came for the figure seemed to have become a tourist fashion, and all wanted to know its meaning. Most took it for granted, but those who were vacant-minded in the absence of a personal guide. None felt what would have been a nursery instinct to a Hindu baby or a Japanese jindkisha runner. The only exceptions were the theroy who taught a lesson even deeper. "One after another, brought companions there, and, apparently fascinated by their own reflection, broke out passionately against the expression they felt in the figure of denial of atheism, of denial. Like the others the priest saw only what he brought Like all the gr at artists, Saint-Gaudens held up the mirror and no more. The American layman had lost sight of Ideas; the American priest had lost sight of faith. The American layman, the sculptor of Saint-Gaudens, is claimed by three nations. He was born in Dublin on March 1, 1848, and was beheaded to the United States when 6 months old. He died at Coventry, N. H. on August 2 1907. Although he was born in Ireland and his mother was an Irish woman, Fraser, his father's native lindy, claims the great sculptor, partly at home on a Shillef product. Both the British and French Ambassadors presented the memorable american hold the Capital of the United States at the Capitol on Art on December 16, 1908. And the United States regards Saint-Gaudens as America's foremost artist. . NEITHER PAIN NOR JOY. Saint-Gaudens was once asked what he called the mystifying figure. He hesitated, and then said, "I call it the mystery of the afterward." "Is it not happiness?" was the next question. "No," he said; "it is beyond pain and beating." A further clew to what he intended to represent may be gained from an entry in a scrapbook that belonged to the sculptor. It read: "Adams—Buddha—mental 'repose, calm reflection in contrast with the violence or force in nature.' Information is to be found in the Bible, distinguished father, written by Homer with the Adams memorial, sava: "Through his life I never heard Saint-Gaudens venture an onion on this monument when he could escape doing so, while I have watched him elude questions about it time after time. Hence his conception of Mr. Adkins' desires must always remain vague. To my mind in the beginning Saint-Gaudens sought to embody a philosophic cam as contrasted with shock, full of painful suffering, whatever lay in the futuro. So as the first step he modeled a high relief sketch of Socrates, a photograph of which still exists. "I immediately Stanford White, and, indeed, all Saint-Gaudens' friends took excerctions to the idea until he gave up, the scheme and turned his attention to a number of large photo cases of the war of the country, he himself could not model a Budda. But form the conception of "Nirvana," no produced, he attempted the present, figure for which sometimes a male model posed, sometimes a female model posed. His thought rapidly broadened into the more inclusive and universal. IT DELIGHTED THE ARTIST "The voiled face of the Adams figure surely gave him much delight to dwell upon. The ultimate technic in the figure express Saint-Gaudens' desire. I am sure for once, only a few years agen when standing with him before the monument, he said to my mother and me; I wish I could remodel that fold between the knees. It makes too strong a line." And then after a pause, he added, "I guess that would be the only thing I would do." And thus, we see. It is useless for the mere observer to attempt an answer to questions that have puzzled countless thousands. The man for whom the statue was made believes each observer should read his own anew to the riddle. The man who made the statue refused to confine its suggestions in a single phrase, is interesting however, to note the way in which representations placed on the expression of the battling face by thoughtful onlookers. James Hay Jr., voices on this page an eloquent description of what may be gleaned from the bronze features. Here is a contrasting thought, woven into verse by Hildagerde Hawthorne: Yeah—I have lived, pass on. And trouble me with questions never more. I suffered. I have now a solemn peace. My sorrow nevermore. Leave me in silence here; I have no hope, no care. I know no fear. For I have borne, but nevermore can bear. Nor love nor hate can keep me awake. Though I have sought—I care not to find. If I have asked—I wait for no re- ply. My eyes with too much seeing have grown blind. I am not dead--yet do not need to die. Pasa on—you cannot reach me any- more. Pasa on, for all is past. Hush—allence settles ever more and more. Silence and night at last. DONORA. (PA.) NOTES. (By Annabelle Pease) Mrs. P. Clatter, of Mononghaela, and Mr. and Mrs. B. Griggs of Finely ville were Sunday callers at the residence of Mrs. W. E. Arch. Mina Eva Saundera is on the sick list. we all hope her a speedy recovery. The remains of Mr. Henry Rhodes were laid to rest in the Mononghaela cemetery by the B. P. O. E of W. Mr. Rhodes death was the first to be witnessed by the B. P. O. E of W. since its setting up in Donora. The burial given Mr. Rhodes by the lodge was very creditable an one to be long remembered by all those who witnessed the ceremony. Rev. Gorggins, of Mononghaela, was a caller in Donora Monday. Mrs. Rosa Morgan is still in the Hospital her condition is very serious and Mr. John Parker, of Mononghaela, was visiting friends here Monday. Miss Mary Davis, Mrs. Anna Martíf, and Mr. R. Morgan made a trip to Koepsoert hospital to visit the bedside of his wife Rosetta Morgan. Mrs. Annabelle Johnson, of Beleveron, spent Sunday with her daughter in Beleveron. Mr. Geo. Wilson was visiting friends in Beleveron Sunday. WON'T BE AMERICAN LONGER. Helena Mont., Nov. 24.—The Rev Francis von Clanbeek, of Tillamook, Ore., has sent his naturalization papers and a letter resigning his citizenship to the district court clerk here. The letter in part said that to "see a man returned to power after an administration and policy such as we have seen during the past four years in too much for me." The Planet office is simply equipped with the necessary machinery to execute all kinds of printing in a neat manner and with computers. The prizes are consistent. Years. THE NORTHWIND PLANET, NORTHWIND, VIRGINIA MISSIONARY NOTES (By L. G. Jordan) This old world is lost and must be saved. When it is saved by the preaching of the Gospel, it will build great schools, hospitals, naylums and what not to keep it saved. It is possible that one of the most successful, far-reaching and inkingfrips trips we have made was to the Georgia and Alabama. Conventions. The Georgia in both these great states made pledges that they would have their churches make an offering on Sunday, December 17th for Foreign Missiones, thus enabling the four missionaries—Rew, and Mrs. Payne for South Africa, Dr. Sykes and Rev. Houston, and Secretary Jordan for the West Coast of Africa—to sell. we spent last Sunday in Danville, Virginia with Dr. S. A. Moses. We are, nounced in the morning the need of securing a peek of buttons—pants but shirt buttons, and dress buttons. At the shirt service the good people brought to the nearly a half peek. Those added to those a friend the friend in August, Montgomery and Atlanta make quite a peek. The were buttons cut from old clothing and made a splendid contribution to missions. Any friend could send us a few buttons; a bushel will not be too many. The High Street Church, Dantville Va., Dr. S. A. Moses, pastor pledge quota a hundred dollars a year on the support of Dr. Sykes, Dr. W. H. Moses of this city came before the Board and he will be thanked. The will it take to fit out and build Dr. Sykes. We told him it would require between $700.00 and $1,000.00 for the first year. In answer to this Dr. Moses said, "The Moses Brothers will be responsible for $500.00 toward the building and equipment in West Africa, and $500.00 toward the salary and benefits of Dr. Sykes. The Board thanked Dr. Moses. The Board With the Metropolitan: Church and Dr. Brown caring for Rev. and Mrs. Pave Ebenezer Church, Dr. Austin, pastor caring for Rev. and Mrs. East; the New Jersey Baptists looking after the salary of Miss Delany, and this new pledge of support, the burden on the Board is greatly lightened. The bill will be paid for the feeding and clothing of children in the academy in West Africa are burdens that the whole army of pastors must get under with us. The Modern Decies Conference to be held at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church on Friday afternoon – December 8th at 3 P. M. promises to be an unusual affair. The pastors in and about the city of Philadelphia have been invited and urged to be present as this is intended absolutely for pastors. The indications are that Rev. and Mrs. Perry will sail on December 16th instead of January 8th, as we found steerable conditions for our journey. It will be twenty six days journey by sea. Five people go that way because of the long journey, but conditions may force our ministries to take that route. They will my goodbye to the friends of Philadelphia at 8 o'clock on the night of December 8th at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church. Miss N. H. Burroughs, the princess, is among women speakers will talk to reenact "A Vision Neared." The friends in and about Philadelphia are urged to attend this meeting. REVIEW AND OUTLOOK (New York Wall St. Journal.) Nov. 29, 1916.—There is an extension of authority in the pronouncement of the Federal Reserve Board with regard to banking investments and foreign obligations. Like British Treasury notes, which requires immediate attention. There is no need to question the authority of the Federal Reserve Board of services to the banking community and those the bankers serve. But there are some implications which call for explanation. If local banks making loans upon cotton bills of借款 choose to discount short-term Treasury bills received by the sellerg of cotton, from the authority has the Federal Reserve Board in the matter. It is true that it may properly aid vise against the discounting of French Government paper of ninety days with the option of five renewals for like periods. But the British Treasury bills will be paid on their due date, if only foreign government purchasers concerned, is antifactory to the seller wheat here, and will presumably be paid at a short maturity, why should the Federal Reserve Board attempt to regulate an entirely proper transaction, based upon sound credit? It is true that the Reserve Board if self has called that credit in questions by suggesting that the banks who count short-term notes may be obliged to accept long-term obligations in their place, an unwarranted and inadid lous attack upon friendly business credit. That credit has not been questioned elsewhere. The essence of the option is with no right of conversion, is in the ability of Great Britain to pay its way. Allowing that the Federal Reserve Board may offer counsel to the banks which is capable of being construed as a request or even an order, what power has it to instruct the investor in his purchase of foreign securities or the bankers and exporters in their trade relations or of overregulation that it tends to raise more problems than it solves. --- Dentata Agree With Dr. Depenw Thai The Missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ Observe the Rules of Health. New York, Nov. 26. — Chauney Mc Depew told the members of the New York Academy of Medicine recently that thousands of people have died prematurely just because King David fixed the duration of human life at three score and ten. Mr. Depew, as an alert physician and mentally as he was twenty years old, said King David died in the early seventies because "he had led the life." A man can live to be 100. Mr. Depew added. Proof Irving Fisher of Yale University, who is chairman of the hydrangea Institute, board of the Life Extension Institute, said he agrees with Mr. Depew that persons who lead simple, healthful life should live to be 100 and ultimately may do so. "I have but no opinion as to King David," added the Anglo-scientist of political economy, who is regarded as the ablest lay authority on health problems in the country to day. "We Americans have inherited medical indifference to the human body. Prof Fisher continued. For that reason the average duration of life in the United States is 60 years. This is three times longer. We were a mighty era when I was a member of Roosevelt's conservation board and made reports on national vitality. CENTURY OF LIFE POSSIBLE "Then I placed the average duration of life in the United States at 47. The life of mammals other than man is five times the period of growth. Now man attains his full growth in about 25 years. It seems reasonable, there is hope that our life period may be prolonged to 70 years at least when the rules of mental and physical health are generally understood and followed." Prof. Fisher had come to New York for a meeting of the Life Extension Institute, which has William H. Tatt for chairman of its board of directors and numbers on its advisory board the leading scientists and health authorities of the United States, including M.J. Gen. William C. Gorsan, Surgeon, Rupert Blue, of the United States public health service; Herman M. Biggs, health commissioner of New York; Alexander G. Hammell, and C. B. Davenport, director of the cengage-record office at Cold Spring. The Institute was founded by Harold A. Ley, a millionaire philanthropist, Prof. Fisher. Its purpose is to diffuse knowledge of the principles of brython living throughout the country. FIFTEEN RULES TO PROLONG LIFE. "In collaboration with the scientist who are members of our board," Proof Fisher said, "Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk and I have prepared a book of which we place the rules of health at fifteen. They are: 1. Contigitate every room you occupy. 2. Wear light, loose and porous clothes. 3. Seek out-of-door occupations and recreations. 4. Sleep out, if you can. 5. Breathe deeply. 6. Avoid overeating and overweight 7. Eat sparingly of meats and eggs. 8. Eat some hard, some bulky, some raw foods. 13. Keep the teeth, gums and tongue clean. ALCOHOL CALLED POISON. At the risk of being a joy killer must add that Prof. Fisher includes alcohol among poison which must not be allowed to enter the body. And remember that his opinion is not one man power, but has the backing of the leading scientists of the country behind it. "Alcohol is not a real, brain stimulation," Prof. Fisher said, "but acts by nerve, the wakes of consciousness. The man who wakes under alcohol is really going to sleep, under judgment and reason are concerned. Complete abolition of consciousness is brought about by sufficient doses, when other or chloroform is taken. "Under moderate doses muscular efficiency is at first increased a little and then lowered, the total effect being a loss in working power." "My good deal to live." At what do you think it most desirable to marry?" "Between 25 and 30, when the period of growth has been attained," Prof. Fisher replied. "I believe that as soon as men and women acquire the knowledge that their choice of a mate will determine whether or not their physical and mental faults and virtues will reappear in children they will feel a sacred, responsibility, toward marriage." HOW TO SELECT A MATE Here are some of the rules for the selection of a mate put forth by the Life Extension Institute: Learn to analyze individuals into their inheritable traits—physical, mental and moral. Differentiate between socially noble and ingenuous traits, between social and emotional veneer and sterling inherent capacity. Do not expect physical, mental and moral perfection in any one individual but look for a majority of agerling traits. Join your family line to one which is strong in respect to the traits in which yours is weak. But remember also that injuries can be inflicted on offspring by unhealthy living. In addition to the rules of health and ofugenes, Prof. Fisher told me that he wants to live long should avoid the very health, should cultivate a religion, should learn to control the attention should moderate their desires and should cultivate the habit of happiness. "I know a very wise physician who prescribed to a business man worrying over his financial responsibilities over himself each day by saying over to himself five times. We don't give a hang; I don't give a hang!" Prof Fisher concluded. So here we are—together now! If we want to live long and prosper hygienically, we give a hang. We won't give a hang." Union Univ. Winner Over Lincoln Stubbornly contending each inch of ground, the virile variety of Lincoln University succeeded to the faster and more versatile eleven of Virginia day via the university here. Thanksgiving tide was at 12:00. The fight on the whole was one of the toughest ever witnessed on Hovey Field. Lincoln's determination to win seemed to double itself in each succeeding quarter. It was simply a case of two minutes here, there and everywhere during a variety of plays which almost bewildered the visitors. Lincoln's attempts at fakes bordered on the indignous Union's veteran custain. Purveyor almost every time killed the inbound pudo play in its infancy, off Both of Union's touchdowns occurred in the first half. This scene was characterized by tests of strength by the respective teams. Archer and Hulley repeatedly toed the pikeplank up and down the field for their respective eleven. Each time, however, Hulley evidenced the superior ability and the Union combine slowly crept to Lincoln's goal line. When the latter Lincoln's line was reached, Hulley escaped a successful pass to Jackson, who bolted away for the first touchdown. The next quarter was decidedly Union's Gregory and Bowie skipped either end for awaoping gains, while Woods. It literally, butted his way through the Line of the Pennsylvaniaians for gains of five and ten yards. Lincoln, finding the opponent's line improbable, attempted a forward pass from Chamberlain to Baumgartner, but Bowie evidently forgetting printed the pikeplank promptly appricated the pikeplank in the final after a brilliant bit of broken field offfiting, was tackled the instant he crossed the goal line. Summary: Touchdowns Jackson Bowie Goal from touchdown-Hu cles 25-10 Tint of Lynchburg Bowie-Pr. Dr. Rhumb Heal Hinesman-Barco-Hampton LEESBURG (VA.) NOTES Leedsburg, Va.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Wicks, of Washington, were the guests of Mrs. Geo. W. Jackson Sunday, 26th inat. Mrs. Emily Dorsoy, of Washington, was reside with her daughter Mrs. Geo. W. Jackson this winter. Mr. Henry Robinson for Washington the week-end, where he will reside this winter. We were glad to see Mr. Jno. Lankford out again, after a week's illness. Mr. Tilhman Neal and Mrs. Fannie Johnson were happily joined in wedlock last Saturday evening, which was quite a surprise to their mary hands. We hope for them a long life. Miss Irone F. Bailey left Wednesday morning for Orange, N. J., where she will be the guest of Mrs. J. C. Atkinson for the winter, Mrs. Saran A. Whiting, her mother, accompanied her as far as Washington Mrs. Garner Diggs and Mrs. Robbins for Baltimore, where they will be guests of Miss Charlotte Randall for a week or ten days. Mr. Calverton Neal, of Alexandria was the knight of his sister Sunday. Mrs. Elizabeth Walker's lost boy Master Clarence Randolph, left home more than a week ago and hasn't been located yet. Lincolnville Rev. Frederick Hall, of Washington, will be at the Baptist Church Sunday. ALL are invited. THE STAR HAIR GROWER— A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSING & GROWER One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell The Star Hair Grower This is a wonderful preparation. 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The ground on which the refusal was based was that the Austrian and German ambassades and neutral countries have so far exceeded their legitimate functions that it is impossible for the entente powers, to accede to the request. Several courses are open to the United States. First, it may present the request in its own name. It was thought that while England might have refused the request on the ground that it came from an enemy country it would not refuse one directly from this country. There is the possibility that count Tarnowski might start without a safe conduct and with the challenge to remove a diplomatic officer accredited to the United States. The United States has no diplomatic immunity, and any violation probably would involve this country in a dispute. TWO ZEPPELINS LOST British Destroy German Alrships Ir London Attack. Two Zeppelinia which raided the northeast coast and the north midland counties were brought down and destroyed by British airmen, and it is understood the crews of both perished London, Nov. 29—Two Zeppelinia which raided the northeast coast and the north midland counties were brought down and destroyed by British airmen, and it is understood the crews of both perished. The raiders dropped 100 bombs. One person was killed and sixteen others injured. The one killed was a woman who died from shock. Seven women and four children were among the injured. Thirty-five houses were damaged. Shortly after noon news spread rapidly through London that a German airplane was over the town dropping bombs. The raider, for the news proved true, flew at a great height, crowd gathered quickly at points where the bombs fell. Four persons were injured, one, a woman, seriously. The material damage was slight, consisting largely of broken windows. Six bombs were dropped. 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After election of Grand Officers, the following committees were appointed: Finance Committee, J. S. Hyman, Mrs. Claud Blackwell, W. M. Silier, Committee on Resolutions, P. K. Keloy, G. C. D. M. Brown, Henry Moses; Committee on By Laws, J S. Hyman, Mrs. A. M. Jenkins, M. L. Foxworth; Committee on Investigation, James Goldon, Mrs. Virginia Evans, C. Lacy; Committee on Service, E. M. Jenkins, B. L. Harrison; Committee on Memorial, Mrs. Robesca Davis, Mrs. Sallie Brown; Committee on Degrees, W. S. Gulles, A. Judge, R. N. Moses, D M. Brown, J. S. Hyman, M. L. Foxworth, Roma James M. Brown, D. L. Foxworth. The Society will meet at Marton during the month of November, 1917 if the Lord is willing. The S. J. A. Society has been organized for more than sixteen years in Florida, with headquarters at Jacksonville, and in this State for eight years. It now has a national membership of more than 150,000 members, and still growing. At its annual meeting here, just closed, it was a love feast. The best of order prevailed, and each member left with the determination to do more for the Society than ever before. The Society is fortunate in having at its head a man of sound judgment, of good reputation. Mr. Kelley is a steward of Trinity A. M. E. Church at St. Mary, and trustee of both, his church and school, and at all times is ready and willing to give advice and render assistance to those of his race who need it. During the busy tobacco and cotton season, as a first class farmer, he is found among those who traced business on large scales. Rev. A. W. Heywood P. E. of the Dilhill District A. M. E. Church has had new territory added, and now has one of the finest districts of the A. M. E. connections in the State. You, nothing short of a fine report for 1917. Rev. J. M. Carson passed through the city recently on route to his new field of labor, Lake City, S. C. He came from the A. M. E. convention, Johnston, S. C. Rev. F. W. Anthony, of Sumter, S. C. has come to Charwax, S. C. to his new A. M. E. Z. appointment. Miss Amanda G. of Tumphouse, S. C. has gone to Pleasant Grove public school, while her sister and Miss Hain are the instructors. Rev. H. L. King of Dartington was ordained at the A. M. E. annual conference recently. Dr. T. Gallant, the dentist, is interested in the meeting of the Alumni of Biddle University at Sumter, S. C. on Tuesday, December 26. The officers are Dr. C. W. Maxwell president; Dr. Jeff Johnson, secretary, and Dr. T. Gallant, treasurer, Florence. Rev. H. E. Wilcox is quite busy contracting house building near the city. He is planning to purchase a horse and burgey, and thinks he sees his way. Our old friend from Richmond, Mr. D. F. Walker, is on the Pavetteville Richmond run, to the satisfaction and best wishes of his friends. He is A. C. L. porter on trains 25 and 29. Mr. Carrey Allen of Dillon, S. C. sold a bale of cotton recently for $103 20. He runs a two horse farm. He will make 150 bushels of corn and plenty of meat, potatoes, etc., to do him another year. Mrs. Annie Wilson, of Florence, died Friday, December 1, and was funeralized Sunday at 3:20 at Trinity Baptist Church. Mr. Oo McClary has gone to Hartford, Conn. On December 14, he is to be married to Miss Mary Bethen, of Latta, S. C. Rev. McClary is pastor of the C. M. E. Mission Church at Hartford, Conn., which is flourishing. Miss Maggie Herring, of Darlington, spent Thanksgiving with friends at Timmonsville, S. C. Miss Willie Gadsden, of Nichols, passed through the city recently en route to Columbia, S. C. Mrs. Sarah Trinpper and little brother, of Georgetown, S. C., have gone to New York, their new home. Miss Edna R. Faulkner, of Dillon S. C.. has gone to Sumter and Camden. S. C. Miss Anna Douglas and sister spent Thanksgiving with relatives at Darlington. Mr Peter Johnson spent Thanksgiving at Wadenaboro, N. C. Mr. D J Thompson, of North Florence, is suffering from a broken foot, caused while at work at the A. C. I. Railroad soon recently. Miss Rubele M. Webster visited home recently from her school at Clausen, S. C. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, of Richmond, Va., passed through the city recently on route from Darlington to Richmond, Va., their home. Mr. W. W. H. Myers, of Pampilco, S. C., raised through the city, recently, returning from Columbia on route for his home. Mr. G. W. Covington has returned from his work as master of St. Daughters M. H. Church at Dillon, S. C. He will move from Suntar to Rev. J. M. Jackson, pastor of the Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church of this city, is anxious to see Rev. W. H. Carson in reference, to a certain church. Rev. A. R. Reeves and wife, Mrs. Della, have gone to Sumter, S. C., to witness the dedication of McGowan building at Morris College Rev. Reeves is pastoring two of our leading Baptist churches, viz. Friendship at Nichols, S. C. and New Hope, at Malery, S. C. He is wise awake and looks to the best interests of his people. Mrs. Lydia Thompson and Mrs. Sarah Burnett spent Thanksgiving at Palmetto and Darlington respectively. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Postled passed through the city recently on route from Washington D. C. to their old home, Society Hill, S. C., with the tour children. Mrs. Lasse Shields has returned from a pleasure trip to Marlton, S. C. It was much enjoyed. Mrs. Ann Wilson died recently, and was funeraled at Trinity Baptist Church Sunday evening last. Rev C T. Taylor, pastor. She will be much missed by her friends and neighbors. Kindness was an everyday habit of her. Mr Willett Wilson, her son, is employed at the Southern Express Company's office, and doing well. Mr Prince Wilson, her husband, is at the old homestead, and well. Mr S. G Thompson, of Effingham, S. C, just returned from a business trip to Columbia. S. C where he went to market 150 bushels of peanuts. He planted five acres, and he cleared $476 on his tobacco. Miss Winey Dyers of Moyen, N. C, has gone to Rocky Mount, N. C., to attend school. Mrs. Flora J. Alkins, her sister, Mrs. Emma L. Bryant; brother, Mr. George D. Dargan, and stepfather, Rev J. A. Gibson, of Andrews, S. C. have gone to Darlington, S. C. to settee the estate of their mother, Mrs. Anna Gibson, Mrs. Flora Annis came from New York. News W. H. Garner and R. C. Liff- ridge, of Brooks County, Ga., and Faceville, Ga., respectively, with Mrs. Ever Liffridge and two youngsters, Dave and Fred Sibley, passed through the city recently en route to James City, Pennsylvania, and Jersey City, New Jersey. Mrs. Julia Jordan and Mrs. Silana Cox McTray visited Darlington, S. C. recently. Miss Vioa Deashes opened public school at Mt. Pisach recently. Mrs. Silina Caine, after attending her sister's funeral, left the city recently for her home at Pampilo, S. C. Mrs. Rosa Vaighan and daughter, Sede Lee, with Rev H. L. King, little Sadie's grandpa, came over to the city in their automobile Monday, to visit the Inmary, where Mrs. King is taking treatment. Mr. P. K. Kelley, Grand Chief of the S. J. A. Society, is numbered among our best citizens and energetic. He always reading Neora Literature. On Saturday afternoon about 8:00 p.m. while Mr T. C. Capert and nine of were taking at the corner of Darwin and Drift Street, at E. J. Pemberton's store on the city auto truck database by us up Darwin Street, then in a few seconds the two department store warrants and horse from some dashing by. Lots had not been without warrants, a briefed of Tewayne, worked on, and without any detainees knowledge of the place of the first car up Darwin Street behind the first car up Darwin Street behind the first car up. Both sides of the street were with people and on the people wait in an upward. People began to serve amble for the People who remembered when Darren Street was a howling wilderness and they had never seen each time. The pony first tried the street, then he leaped to the sidewalk, the hungry on a "feathersail" then the pony took to the "tail grass". Finally, like hornets on a pipe predation, the bewildered inhabitants had cared to the brittle sense to the horses head, others to the wheels. During this three the wheels of the pony were beating the air equal to gaiting guns near the border. At last the wild beast saw that further effort to reach the fire before too late was futile, and consented to the gentle treatment, after which all shock hand and congratulated each other on having a broken limb. My old friend Caps and myself had forgotten our test and soon led each other on. Many of our employees were reliable at the time of the time. Mr. E. Derrison Brown Paul Reed Jr. C. Coxel E. Pool Alex Reed the Murray Jews M. S. Sweet, Horse Sweet D. Watson Dr. T. Gallant Dr. W. C. Strother Dr. Alex Strother W. M. Thomas W. M. Peterson, Mrs. W. M. Peterson, Willie Pranks, Deacon Thompson, Hey J. M. Cornell, Mrs. Lydia Thurston, Rey E. Hain, of Tumecawille, Mrs. Ponder Smith, Mr W. M. Leag, Lydia Wright, Rey Daniel Rebbleson, Samuel Wal- love, Mr. Brookington, T. C. Capers, and E. B. Webster The Emancipation Day Association will meet at Trinity Baptist Church Tuesday night, December 5, to arrange for the celebration of Emancipation Day Monday, January 1, 1917 E. B. Webster, secretary. Large numbers of colored laborers continue to pass through the city en- route for the North. Miss Mamie McLendon, of Sparta, Ga. informs that she reached her new home, Chester, Penn. safe and sound, and that the weather is not too cold and that she is well and doing fine. Respectfully. E. R. WEBSTER WHY FEEL BAD When you can come to TRYON, in the Mountain of Western North Carolina and spend a Happy Stay and return home Feeling Young Workers gain Wealth. Tourists gain Health in this REALM OF CONTENT-- The Royal Palace Hotel is an ideal place in which to spend your stay. In Tryon. High class service. Special attractive to guest and visitors. For further information, address ROYAL PALACE - HOTEL. C. S. Hannon, Manager. Box 111. atching Beauty—Clean Comedy—Song Successes. The La Salle Company Presents step Lively'." ARRIVAL OF SONG, DANCE AND JEST I Johnson, Billy Wyse, Clyde Long, Geo. P. Watson, Little, Stella Donahue, Broadway Four, Naomi, Cel- irl Violinist, "The Inimitable 1916 Beauty Chorus." Segred Chorus Under Full Speed. 35-PE0PLE-35 Bewitching Beauty—Clean Comedy—Song Successes. A CARNIVAL OF SONG, DANCE AND JEST With Hal Johnson, Billy Wyse, Clyde Long, Geo. P. Watson, Florence Little, Stella Donahue, Broadway Four, Naomi, Celebrated Girl Violinist, "The Inimitable 1916 Beauty Chorus." A High-Geared Chorus Under Full Speed. NEXT WEEK "THE OLD HOMESTEAD" Do Your XMAS Shopping at ME 21 WEST BROAD STREET Where You Get BIG VALUE FOR LITTLE our XMAS Shopping at MEYERS 21 WEST BROAD STREET You Get BIG VALUE FOR LITTLE MONEY Do Your XMAS Shopping at MEYERS 21 WEST BROAD STREET Where You Get BIG VALUE FOR LITTLE MONEY PRECIOUS STONES JEWELRY BILVERWARE CLOCKS ELGIN WATCHES A. Few Gift Suggestions Attractive SOLID GOLD SIGNET RINGS SOLID GOLD BRACELETS SOLID GOLD RINGS GENTS' GOLD WATCHES LADIES' GOLD WATCHES COMR. BRUSH AND MIRROR SETS GENTS' MILITARY SETS WATCH BRACELETS AN IDEAL AMAS GIFT—A BIG SLAVING SETS We have on display many other sur- the range of any purse. It will E. C. MEYER JEWELRY CO Gift Suggestions Attractively Priced D GOLD SIGNET RINGS 85.00 Up D GOLD BRACELETS 5.00 UP D GOLD RINGS 2.50 UP ES GOLD WATCHES 10.00 UP ES GOLD WATCHES 10.00 UP ES BRUSH AND MIRROR SETS 5.00 UP ES MILITARY SETS 5.00 UP ES BRACELETS 5.00 UP DEAL AMAS GUT—A BIG BEN CLOCK. 2.50 UP ING SETS 1.00 UP On display many other suitable gifts at prices within range of any purse. It will pay you to shop here. EYER JEWELRY CO., 21 W. BROAD ST. A Few Gift Suggestions Attractively Priced SOLID GOLD SIGNET RINGS 85.00 UP SOLID GOLD BRACELETS 5.00 UP SOLID GOLD RINGS 2.50 UP GENTS' GOLD WATCHES 10.00 UP LADIES' GOLD WATCHES 10.00 UP COMB, BRUSH AND MIRROR SETS 5.00 UP GENTS' MILITARY SETS 5.00 UP WATCH BRACELETS 5.00 UP AN IDEAL ANAS GIFT—A BIG BEN CLOCK. 2.50 SHAVING SETS 1.00 UP We have on display many other suitable gifts at prices within the range of any purse. It will pay you to shop here. E. C. MEYER JEWELRY CO., 21 W. BROAD ST. Make Yourself A Xmas Present of This Victrola Make Yourself A Xmas Present of This Victrola Present ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT Balance in convenient sums—weekly or make every member of the family happy of these splendid instruments today. Or $25, $10, $50, $75, $100, $150 and $200 —NOW. Rountree Cherie FURNITURE CENTER ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT DOWN convenient sums—weekly or monthly. If you want to member of the family happy this Christmas—order one endid instruments today. Other styles of Victrolax at 10, 875, $100, $150 and $200. Let us show them to you Rountree Cherry Corp. FURNITURE AND CUSTOMS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT DOWN Balance in convenient sums—weekly or monthly. If you want to make every member of the family happy this Christmas—order one of these splendid instruments today. Other styles of Victrolax at 825 $10, 850, 875, $100, $150 and $200. Let us show them to you—NOW. 111-113-115 WEST BROAD Day Phone, Ran. 4903 N. VALLEY BURIAL FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND Spacious Rooms for Meetings and Office and Warren 700 N. 17TH STREET, RICE Thos. D. Rodgers, Pres. : W. A. Price, Troa I CAN TURN YOUR DOLLAR TATE, OR YOUR REAL ESTATE Call to See Me and B. A. CEPH REAL ESTATE AGENT 535 R. Ran. 4903 Night Phone, Ran. 5712-J BLEY BURIAL COMPANY MERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Us Rooms for Meetings and Entertainments. Office and Warerooms TH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Reprs. Press: W. A. Price, Troas: Nathaniel Roy, Manager BURN YOUR DOLLARS INTO REAL ES- YOUR REAL ESTATE INTO DOLLARS Call to See Me and Get Particulars B. A. CEPHAS STATE AGENT 5351/2 N. SECOND ST. AS CARDS E. T. POLLARD FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Spacious Rooms for Meetings and Entertainments. Office and Warerooms 700 N. 17TH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Thos. D. Rodgers, Proe: W. A. Price, Troas: Nathaniel Roy, Manager I CAN TURN YOUR DOLLARS INTO REAL ESTATE. OR YOUR REAL ESTATE INTO DOLLARS Call to See Me and Get Particulars REAL ESTATE AGENT 5351/2 N. SECOND ST. CHRISTMAS CARDS Send twelve cents in stamps and receive the most elegant assortment of Xmas Cards on the market. Packet contains Postals, Booklets, Seals and Tags. J. R. MILLER, JR. 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 1400 N. St. Philadelphia, Pa. | 1400 N. 1st St. Phone Num. 2600-3 ALL NEXT WEEK Matinees—Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Prices: Nights. 15c-25c. Mats., 10c-20c $15 that's all it costs—and you don't even have to pay all of that now. It's a genuine Victrola and plays all the thousands of band and orchestra, vocal and instrumental selections, perfectly. Also plays the latest dance music for those happy home dances. Piano and Pipe Organ Lessons Paintings in Crayon, Pastel and Oil.—Illustrating and Designing A Specialty. AT SAME OLD CORNER 7th & Marshall Sts. BEST DINING ROOM AND SERVICE FOR COLORED PEOPLE ANYWHERE Good as the Best for Any People. Better than the Best Anywhege. A Cordial Invitation to Inspect Our Place. Come and Be Convinced that We Have the Best Place, Post Services and the Most Reasonable Prices. EVERYTHING GOOD TO EAT AND DRINK. Safe A Waz. "It was confined to the room with a hose, not that" "It is need to be lay nowadays, it is considered not to leave a window" St. Louis Post Dispatch. Plague on Himal The chap that I would like to stay. Although I know that murder a wrong. In he who always has his way With allows the joy a happy thrill. Jeffries No.1 COUGH MIXTURE NO.1 TRADE MARK GUARANTEED PURE AND RELIABLE COUGHS, COLDs, HOARSENESS LEAD TO BEDNCHILLS PNEUMONIA AND WEAK LUNGS ALL DRUGGISTS, 25C-5C-71.00 Especially recommended to Snorkers and Singers. It relieves the Tinnor and strengthens the Voice. If your Drugtest hasn't failed to THOMAS TABB JEFFRIES Manufacturing Pharmacist 214 E. BROAD ST. RICHMOND, VA Enclosing Stamps or Money Order and the goods will be sent to you by parcel post or express. FREE TO COLORED WOMEN OUR 1916 STYLE BOOK. We are the largest print manufacturer of colored books, magazines, and a order to introduce our goods were we and ing free our latest book buying styles for colored women, in the latest hair dressing. Every colored woman should have one. We guarantee every article we sell or money refunded, and we will provide couponing and tailoring the same as your own. We manufacture a BITRIALIITTENNEN COMB with a 10 cm wide, 10 cm high, suitably the best and most serviceable made, fully guaranteed. With each comb we sell 100 cots, we give a lamp cup brew. Bead our cots, we give a cupcake cup today. Postpaid 50 cots. A FULL LINE OF Hair Brushes, Notes and follet Articles is illustrated and can be brought for less than offered elsewhere. Need two (2) hairbrushes today. AGENTS WANTED. HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY. DEPT. 01, ISLAND-PARK-ROW, NEW YORK Whereabouts of Relatives Wanted. Wanted, to find the relatives of one John Hover or Hoover, who was found dead in a house in Phillipsburg, N. J. Sunday night, September 17, 1916. It is, reported that he has a sister living in Richmond, Va. Address Rev. F. P. Diggs. 37 N. Green Street, Easton, Fla. WANT8 TO FIND THEM. Mrs. Roxie White, at Cherokee, Alabama, Colbert Co., R. F. D. No. 3, Box 5 wants to find the relatives of her husband Jordan White, deceased. He was of Richmond, Virginia and left home about 1880. His father was Sprat White, two sisters, Emma and Fannie White, two brothers, Chatman and Jim White. Whereabouts of Sister Wanted! Wanted—To find my sister, Bethelia Davis, who married Samuel Hodges. When last heard from in 1915, she was living in Richmond, Va. If she will write to her sister, she will learn something to her interest. Any one knowing anything of her please write Mrs. Mattle Dayn, caret. Worthing 51. EXCELSIOR SCALP FOOD Excelsior Hair Gloss.....35c. per box Excelsior Medicated Shampoo Soap.....25c. per cake Excelsior Tetter Salve.....50c. per box Excelsior Temple Food.....35c. per box EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 265 S. BLAND STREET BLUEFIELD, W. VA. ROBERT C. SCOTT, Funeral Director FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 010 N. First St.—Shop in Rear.. Phone, Randolph 2166 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. WANTED WANTED—25 Men and Women to sell Sick and Accident Insurance, on commission. Apply Mechanics Bank Bldg., Room 304—2nd floor. WANTED—50 GOOD RELIABLE WOMEN to come for work as Cooks, Chambermaids, Waltresses and General Houseworkers. Good wages, good home, to the right parties. Write SYLVIA L. MITCHELL. Employment. Agency. 666 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, N. J. Wanted a Deputy to work the State of Virginia for the faithful Sirs and Ladies of Harmony. A good inducement for a good and faithful worker. For further information write. GEORGE B. PAXTON, 614 N. East, St. Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED—Agenta to handle Salline, Wonderful Salve for Healing Purposes. Good proposition. Write Salline Manufacturing Company, 912 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. WANTED: An all around colored me chanicle, (including horse shooing) on my farm in Charlotte, Co., Va. Good wages, with comfortable dwelling and firewood free. Address (stating experience, age, family wages expected and reference). W. Cabell Bruce, 1730 Munsey Building Baltimore, Md. VIRGINIA: In the Hustings Court, Part -II, City of Richmond, November 21, 1916. William Cowan.....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery Maggie Cowan.....Defendant It appearing to the Court from an affidavit filed in this cause the object of which is to obtain a decree for a divorce. A Vinculo Matrimonii by the plaintiff for the defendant on the grounds of willful desertion and aban- dement for a period exceeding three years that the defendant Maggie Cowan is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and that her last known address or place of abode was in Manson, N. C. It is therefore adjudged, ordered and decreed that the said defendant, Maggie Cowan, do appear here within here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order in the Richmond Planet, a newspaper published in the City of Richmond once a week, for four successive weeks, and do what may be necessary to protect her interest in this suit, and the Clerk of this Court is hereby directed to mail a copy of this order of publication when entered to the last known place of abode of said defendant and certify the same as the law directs. A COPY—TESTE: W. F. DU VAL, Clerk. C. MIMMS, p. q. COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR A Hair Grower will promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also maintain the Strength, Vitality and the Roast of the Hair If Your Hair Is Dry and Witry Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dan druff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a jar of East Indies Hair Grower. The remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulate the skin, helping nature to do its work. Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for heavy and beautiful Black Eyebrows, also restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price Sent by Mall, 50c, S.D. LYONS, Gen. Agen, 814 East Second St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 100 extra for postage. HAIR BECOMES STRAIGHT, SOFT, CLOSSY, LONG BY USING HEROLIN HAIR DRESSING NEW DISCOVERY NOT SICKY FOR CURRY. It acts quickly on the hair and pains. You may have a habit of clenching your hair and pains over a month or two. It can be a concerned one, but it is without a concern. Herolin is the best and the best fast, long and heavy, and having dustr and ticking of the hair and laging hair over a month or two. PRDVE IT FOR YOURSELF. Rem 150 (clamp or calm) for a big can of Herolin. America, Wanland. Write it always. HEROLIN MEDICINE CO. Atlanta, Ga. The Negro Agricultural & Technical College of North Carolina (Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Obtained Race) GREENBORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers INVENTORY Annual Session JUNE 26-JULY 29, 1916 Many forms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For classes or study, address by R. J. N. Jones, Brother, Send $1 and service helping in advance. JACK R. BURLEY, President Greenboro, N. C.