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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30

j. B. Elan and Joseph c. Taylor.
trustees. to Nellie w. Ward. lot s,
block NJ, Ginter Park: $2,S75.
F. Sitterdins ct ais, trustees, to Jo-
hanna A. Vessel. 23x125 Ia feet east
line Twenty-third Street, 1859 feet
north OF 8 Street; $1,425.
Chewing q Boxley, trustees. to Ida
v. Dickerson. 23x10O feet west line
Twenty-frst Street. 30 feet south of
Broad Street; $S52.72.
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RICHMOND GRAIN EXCHANGE.

tWholesaIe Quotations on Caange.)
WHEAT--Car Lots:
Ne. , Red. Wsstssn... = 17S
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Mendes Brauer to Stuart Bcws,
trustee. lots - - - and vest Aalf
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RICHMOND STOCK MARKET.
(From Caskie @. Burch & Coz
Richmond. Va. Dec. %. 1918.
state Se-nrities.
Railroad BOnda

Btreet Hallway HOnds.
n. ana P T.. Co. IS. 1896. Sc
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The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-01-27
Opening A Nations Eye.

America, like the newly born
kitten, has been sleeping many
years, with eyes closed and the
possibilities of the future an i'm.
penetrable blank.
But to-day the national eye is
beginning to open and the light
Of reason is sinking in.
The president, a sincere advo-
cate of peace, reluctantly admits
that the overturniug of the old
world by the sword and the shell,
and the lust for blood and con-
quest which permeates nearly
every nation of the earth, has
placed the United States in the
most precarious position of its
history.
The president wants the Ameri-
can people to prepare to defend
themselves against the invader
when he appears. That is, Mr..
Wilson would have large num-
Der of citizens throughout the
country enlisted in an army re-
serve, fully equipped, ready to
take the field following the forces
of the regular army aud the ma.
tional guard.
We all love peace and want
peacs, but we fear that in the
present temper of the word the
only positive guarantee of peace
is to possess the means of thrash
ing the other fellow.
The presidents ideas along this
line are good.
Let US have great army Of
chromosomes, men who are
willing to acquire some knowledge
OF the dates of a soldier before
they are called upon to perform
those duties in the face Of an
enemy.
The safety of our country to.
day depends upon the strong arm
OF its citizeuship-upon you, and
upon US, and others of our class
The national eye his been
opened, with the result that w
will have safety without the ours
of aggressive militarism.
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bait" had stricteSt orders
against firing, especially sucn
irrelevant firing, as at game of
any kind. On this particular
morning the patrol ran spank
into two lions, a lioness and her
cubs. AS the female of the
species was more deadly, ETC."
the lioness charged the nearest
man. Luckily for him, his mule
''froze stiff with terror and so
startled the lady lion by his I'M
expected symptom of bravery
that she stopped short and gave
the man the instant he needle
TO leap from his mount and to
stand ready to fire.
And yet th3re he was between
the devil and the deep sea. If he
fired he would open up the ma
chine guns Of the Germans up
on the patrol, then in an exposed
position, and if he didn't, well
There was the lioness, Three
times the beast cireled 30 und
the man, three times she charg-
ed and yet three times she
changed her mind at the last
moment. Finally she drew off a
little distance and contented her
self with following the party till
broad daylight. The mans iron
nerve had permitted him to hold
bis fire and had saved himself,
bis party as well as the lioness
herself a very bad quarter Of an
hour. Such is life in war time
/ Africa.
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Booker 7. Washington Is
Dead.

This master and mind Of a
child of slavery has passed away
but his work still goes on. We
are publishing bis own story of
his life and work with a tinanI or
closing chapter by Albor Il. HoI-
sew, a member Of the Executive
Staff of Tuskegee Institute.
This memorial volume contains
over 800 pages, fully illustrated.
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profit to Agents, Agents maxi
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boo; also 100 page catalogue Of
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the book by Frederick &. Drink
er. Price 500. Same terms to
agents. Both outfits for 15c.
Address Southern Bible House,
029 Plymouth Place, Chicago, LII.
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A Bit of Nerve.

We are growing more than
weary of usual episodes and vel
come one that is different. At
the beginning Of the conflict the
shrek of shrapnel and the shat.
ter of the great Shell thrilled US
in the telling; when this grew
stale there came the pictured
tefrors of trench warfare with
it's unseen dangers of the belst-
Iy little whisper an inch of the
left ear" the boyonet charge
and clash Of cold steel. Even
these paIIeu in the time and we
had to go into the ar or beneath
the seas for fresh thrills, which
in turn became the common
places of warfare and so usual
that we read them without a
quickening pulse and passed on
to the little local happening in
search Of a new whip to the emo
tions. The Lusitania gave US q
weeks excitement but after that
what could minor outrages do
for US?
So it remained for Africa to
add a touch of novelty to the sit
uation and inject an element not
to be found else where in any Of
the other war fronts. Yes, there
are war fronts even in Africa
it seems nard to realize that, for
somehow in the wilderness white
men should be friends and not
enemies stalking one another
| like wild beasts and rivaling the
savagery Of Basutes and Malta.
b'es.
! Tie story is told by the Lon
| don Times in extracts from a
letter written by a signaler OF
the East African Mounted Rifles
a command raised locally at
Nairobi among the young set
tiers, He tells at length the
usual story of war, the spit o.
the machine guns" etc, but to-
ward the END adds the "loca
, color as our novelists would
call it. The hero of the episode
was a member of what is cheer
fully called the bait patrol
This, as its name loosely sug
gests, is small patrol sent out
at dawn to see, if possible, where
the enemy is planning to attack
and perhaps to draw him to al
attack at the, for bin. least de-
rtsirable point. AS usual tn
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General News items IN Brief

On uona If the major fronts in (
r7,,rano ara notable moves being
made BY opposing armies.
ARRANGEMENTS were made at
pnrlin for A. series Of dinners at
which col, House. personal rep
rqsqntatjve Of the President, will
n7pat leaders in Germany,
- ,o Aror;.
o,n cowhv confo3scd and will be
.oxoontad
:. c, hon,h
O'''o"90 p ,3 ao,,ao+od with
p''',' ~ 1.,;o, o,,ortor
0|>t'AO''
Col. OoetnaIo lS0U0" quay
A'T''' 90 " cow inct
li''' '''r. II ,o oman
"i'e'' wv " CIV WY
,oo;,,oa ranort
: - tn.r;ow with tbe pone in
5 orToo.
" '-'0 ,4[ ,,ood ,,nt;,
tbaro was assurance Belgium
wo,7Id receive its rights.
eu h,,;,aor Of
;aouoo thot
steamer which caused the deaths
Of hundreds at Chicago last sum
mar was built for speed with 50<
ahoard-Oot the $500 she carried
when she capSlzed.
Six persons we're killed wher
an avalanche overwhelmed I
train in the Cascade Mountains
,,o,ood n Joc,. ..,
that persons there were receiving
nac],aoas Of liquors at the rate O
2OOO a. month,
oo,a;,otc
for governor. endel his campaign
at DonaIdsonville. and eXpresse,
himself as confident Of victory.
,,oo3
~ w. 49, ,
which tho local "roou]ars' close
thair camnaipn for Col Pleasant
ln0 1>0'1 y "''' =,
" W ''s'''' J., - e,,;,, nno r. thr
Tho Nav Or]aans mort TO fora,p,
countries
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-01-27
Things You Don't Know.

We of today often admire the
knowledge displayed by our
friends and our neighbors, and
occasionally we may entertain a
slight conception of that which
we ourselves possess.
But We arc not prone to
speak Of or to admit of those
things Chat We don't know.
For instance
You don't know when the war
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will end.
You don't know which side

will END. :.
You don't know which side
will be the yict)ra.
You lon't know what condl'
tons will prevail in Europe after
it is en lei. You may slrmIse'
but yoa don't know.
You don't know what effect 1t
will have on this country when
Europe gets down to business
again.
You don't know whether the
end Of this wal will mark the be-
ginning of a world Of peace, or
Whether, it is but the torerunner
ola greater and more deVaStat,
ING conflict which will be Wageo
between the old world and the
new-between a combination OF
European nations on the one
side, and North, Central and
South America On the other.
You don't know, in the event
Of such a war, whether the
Americas would continue to be
free and self governed countries
or whether they would become
mere overseas possessions OF the
kings and emperor5 Of the ole
world. You may poo hoo, an'
swell out your chest, and let the
eagle scream, but you dom
know.
You don't know what congress
will do in the matter Of prepared
ness for this country. You don:
know whether it will do anything
at all or not--for truth to tell
congress is all muddled up an'
don't know itself, for it dom
! know what you think or wha
you know.
Fact is, brother, we don't i'm
h ag1ne any Of us know much {
anything about this phase OF OF
national existence, for we hav
been too busy grubbing for do
lars to give much heed to tn
: present or future welfare of OF
country.
And, too, we don't know whs
| the penalty of our indifference
7 and neglect is going to be.
Now do we?
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-01-27
rine3 that sank the Persia.

Dispatches affirmed Germany .
had offered separate pe&ca -
Belgium and the offer would b.:
accepted, but this was denied
emphatically on high diplomatic
authority.
The plans for sen plane pa
troll Of the entire United Statoa
coasts were made public.
Dreadnoughts and other war
vessels are to 90 to the Pacific
coast, and probably some Of the
largest ships will remain there.
\ passenger gave a thrilling
account of rescuing passengers
from a railway croach that was
burning after being swept away
bv an avalanche in Seattle
WASHINGTON.
Military honors were accorded
at the funeral of State Senator
Thomas NJ. Bsnkston, in Amite
Ia
co D1,o r.
&c.,, wi, ~ aon++o tina
Mississippi Senate this week, i,
was expected,
e7 TIA ho7,, of q
,. oo,>,
~,;t.oa s,,ioi1a IN tho wood.
'" ', +,o On1aao ooro1
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1916-01-27
Methodist Church

Rev. J, A. Mccormack Pastor
Preaching every 2nd and Atm Sunday "U IL d.
n, and T p N.
Sunday School at 9.45 weekly. o,.o.
PRAYER meeting and EpwOrth League alIer'
Mating Thursdays at p. III, ,-
WOman's Missionary SO ''ety WeoneS'
aySa p, m.
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Woodmen of The World.

w. NJ. Wood, c. G.
l. f. Pope, Clerk. ~,
Meetings every End Saturday Night and Atm
Tuesday Nights,
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Woodmen CircIs

Mrs. !. N. Magee, Guardian.
Mrs Ella WEIGH, Secretary,
Meetings Second and Fourth TueSday at
D. m.
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Eastern Star.

Mrs B. Pierce, w. N.
W.M wood, w. p
G. G. WEIGH, Secretary. .,,.z
Meetings First Fridays at 3 80 D. m thlfe'
FRIDAYS at .. II.
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LODGE DIRECT TRY

Masonic-F. & A. NJ, No. 101.
O. H. Carter, w. NJ.
r. H. Bateman, Secretly, :,
MeetingS-First Saturdays at 10 a. M thira
Saturdays at 7.3O p. m.
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Notice-I am applying for
pardon.
Tom Woodland.
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Advertisements and subscriptions
will be continued at regular rateS un'
til all past Indebtedness is PAID up
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sunday School at g. IS Il. m. every sunday
PRAYER meeting at p, III. Wednesdays,
WOmen's Missionary Tn at 4 p. H. 1huto-
days. ,.,
Snnheams at3p, H. every md and 4th Satur
day,
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Frankiinton La, Jan. ~, 1876
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Address all Communications TO
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
Baptist Church
Rev. J. J. Walker, Pastor

Preaching every Sunday at II a. m ana ?
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Advertising Rates on Application
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Entered as second class matter April 5, 1917
at the postoflicc at FranMinton, La ul"e'
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
Knox Denounces "Scuttling"
Policy; Prestige Is Lost

Cincinnati, Oct. 90. - p. C. Knox,
of Pennsylvania, spoke here Saturday
at Republican mass-meeting. He
said, in part:
II take for my text this evening
the following extract from a speech
delivered by President Woodrow Viii.
son at Kansas City, February 2, 1916:
Let no man trifie with these rights
of humanity which are in Americas
keeping, and let no American hold
back from making this nation ready
upon the instant to vindicate those
rights of humanity which are intrust-
ed to our keeping
"The purpose of my remarks will be
to show how the Democratic party
and its candidate for reelection to the
presidency of the United States have
trifled with those rights of humanity
which are in the special keeping of
America; how they have not only held
back from making effective wise and
humane policies for the advancement
of the civilization of more than three
fourths of the population of the earth
inhabiting two hemispheres; but, when
this nation was ready and had joined
hands with the other civilized powers
of the earth to assist in bringing weak
er nations of the world to fuller life
greater hope and a higher civiliZa-
ton, they ruthlessly and cruelty abar-
doned our duty and reversed the poll
cies having these beneficent ends.
1t manifestly' is impossible, within
the time permitted for a single ad-
dress, to make specific narration of
the facts that justify the charge that
this administration has trified with the
rights, of humanity which are in the
special keeping of this country. These
facts relate to this Administration S
refusal to go forward with the policies
of the last administration designed to
assist the more backward countries of
Central America in rehabilitating
themselves through the discharge of
their enormous pecuniary obligations
to foreign powers, a policy whose con-
summation was prevented by the Dem
ocratic party holding up the Nicara-
guam and Honduran loan conventions.
the clauses of which were recognized
in those countries as a guarantee of
peace and q basis of future prosperity
and good order"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
GET THIS DIET BOOK

Food is as important to the sick per.
son as medicine, more 30 in most cases.
A badly chosen diet may retard re-
covery.
In health the natural appetite is the
best guide to follow, in sickness the ap-
petite is often tickle and depraved.
Proper food and a good tonic will
keep most people in good health. DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are the most popular tonic medicine in
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girls who become thin and pale, for
pale, tired women, for old people who
fail in strength DR.. Williams' Pink Pills
are an ideal tonic. To enable those
who give these pills a trial to observe
intelligent care in the diet the DR.. Will
]iams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.
Y, will send on request a free diet
book, "What to Eat and How to Eat"
It is full of useful information and
whether you are well or sick it is q
good book to have. A postal card re-
quest will bring it. Send for your copy
today.
Get DIR. williams Pink Pills at the
nearest drug store. If they are not in
stock send fifty cents to the above ad-
dress for full-size box. -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
WOMEN CAN SAVE
SIS IN AN HOUR
Says gasoline dry cleans dresses,
coats, silks, gloves,
draperies

You will never again pay enormous
prices for dry cleaning after trying
this. Any woman can clean and re-
new the appearance of yokes, ribbons,
satins, laces, silks, furs, shirt
waists, Swiss, lawn, organdie and chif-
fon dresses, kid gloves and shoes,
neckties, children's clothes, suits, caps,
woolen garments, fancy vests, draper
les, rugs, in fact, any and everything
that would be ruined with soap and
water.
Get two ounces of solvite at any
drug store and put it in two gallons
of gasoline, where it quickly dissolves.
Then put in the goods to be cleaned.
After a little rubbing out they come
looking bright and fresh as new. You
will find nothing fades, shrinks or
wrinkles, requiring no pressing.
You would have to pay So at dry
cleaning establishment for the clean
ing which can be done at home as
easily as laundering. Any grocery or
garage will supply the gasoline and
your druggist will sell you two ounces
of solvite which is simply gasoline
soap, then a large dishpan or wash
boiler completes your dry cleaning
outfit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
Merida Had Crew of 24
When She Left Buffalo

Buffalo. n. Y, Oct. 23. The
steamer Merida cleared from Buffalo
with "a men, but so far as known
her captain. II. l.. Jones' was the
only member of the crew from this
port.
Captain Massey, of the steamer
Briton, the last vessel known to have
sighted the Merida, fears she is lost.
"The Merida was rolling so badly
and taking over such big seas that I
feared she would founder" he said.
'She was 25 miles off the southeast
! shoal when ] saw her Friday and the
gale was getting worse. I made Cedar
Point and remained there until Sat-
urday night. If the Merida had gone
behind Long Point she would have
made Buffalo this morning. I saw
nothing of her on the way down, al
though 1 kept a sharp lookout"
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CONTINUED From First Pagel
largest calendar in the county's his
tory.
In the same colorless way in which
Mrs Specht described how she had
toiled 'jes' like one o. the hands in
the field'' from the time she married
Specht, twenty-three years ago, she
mentioned some of the other high
lights of her married life with the
man from whom she is finally seeking
her freedom; how she had been kick
ed and beaten, how she had been
ruthlessly torn from her bed in the
dead of night and flung headlong to
the foot of the stairway; how she
had been cursed, how she had fol-
lowed the raging husband across the
snow-covered fields one winter and
begged him not to hang his son to a
tree in the woods back of the house
while the 15-year-old boy trudged pa
tiently along behind his father with
Il rope around his neck; how the
angry father once threw n double
edged lumbermans axe at his son;
and then finally how, when the hus-
bands infidelity had placed him be-
hind prison bars, he had written to
his beloved wife" to beg her assist
ance in obtaining his release on bail.
The Crime Sinister
Except for q catch in her voice as
she told it, the fact that the gray
haired libellant's own daughter was
the "other woman" was related as
colorlessly as the rest of her testi-
mony.
The daughter, it appeared, accord
ing to the Investigations of the dis
trict attorneys office, is happily mar
ried now and no longer lives in Dau-
phin county. Her son-the son of
her father-is living.
Why?
why did your husband treat you
so?" asked w. j. Carter, her counsel.
why? 1 don't know. That time
that he dragge dine out of bed, threw
me down the steps and jumped on me
and then raced me behind the barn
as got up to run to the woods, L
begged him to tell me what I'd DONE"
explained the witness monotonously.
"Hhe just kept on a-beatin' me with
a piece of plank and said he'd learn
me-he'd learn me-"
THAT was the same when he put
q rope around my boys neck and
started off to the woods with him one
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23
ICE CREAM BAN
SOON TO BE LIFTED

continued From First Page]
tain that the big epidecic was nearing
an end, and that probably only ten
or Twelve new cases will be reported
this week.
Ice cream and milk samples which
nave been tested during the last two
weeks are almost up to standard. The
report of tests made of ice cream dur
ing the week ending October IA, show
that n1ne OF twenty samples contained
no disease germs. The nine manu-
Iacturers whose ice cream passed the
requirement that week We're: w. A.
cartwright, E. w. Case, ID. n. Gekas,
Greek-American, Hershey Creamery
Company, John A. Rose, l.. f. Swartz.
ID. f. Walker. c. r. Wolf.
The other eleven samples contained
alsease germs, ranging from 1,7OO to
$1,000 per cubic centimeter These
manufacturers were l.. S. Brenneman
George Collins (2). George Conner,
{. Dettltng. Harrisburg Candy Kitchen,
Logan drug store, +. w. McNeal, Russ
Brothers, Joe Spagnoli, John S. Wilson
condemned and confiscated).
Five samples We're taken of cream
which was TO be used in the manufac-
ture of ice cream. One sample of the
Golden Seal Drug Store, and one of
the ID. f. Walker plant contained dis
ease germs and were confiscated.
These samples, however, were taken
at the request of the manufacturers,
who thought the cream might be bad.
The milk supply showed a big i'm
provement so far this month. Only
eight of the twenty-seven samples
contatnued disease germs, ranging in
number from 200 to 10000 per cubic
centime eter.
Dealers whose samples contained
disease germs when tested, follow c.
b. Hassler, Pennsylvania Milk Pro-
ducts Company (9, b. IL. Taylor,
Samuel Smeltzer, l.. B. Smith and
Philadelphia Quick Lunch (confis-
cated).
AT the Harrisburg Hospital 81 pa
tienarebtsRCD,F Fer; bccSCtW Luefata
tients are being treated. Two hundred
cases of typhoid were reported in Har-
risburg in October, but during the last
week marked drop in the number of
new victims, indicated according TO
health authorities. that the epidemic
will end soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-23

night. I asked him what he was
a-going to do.
We'll, guess I a-goin' to hang
im," he said
I'VE all followed, me and the chill
dren, some of us in our night clothes,
a-beggin' him not to do it and askin'
what the boy had done. He just said,
he'd learn him. "
Other Stories
There were other tales, too. Mar
garet e. Lewis told Judge McCarrell
how she had gone to Hagerstown with
Allan Leiws and her mother to be
married, how they had returned to
live, each at their homes, how one
night when her baby was dead and
she was lying a-bed, too ill to raise
her hands, the youthful husband had
gone to her room, kissed her and said
good-by. He never returned. That
was nearly four years ago.
Mary l.. F'leck who asked President
Judge Kunkel for a divorce told of
the ugly temper of her husband, AL
fred M. Fleck, of his stinted praise
OF her cooking - except when the
neighbors were around - and of how
he finally deserted her. Mrs. Della
Hartman, from faraway Maine wrote
a cryptic little note to her husband,
hiram, in which she cody told him
that he was all wrong when he be-
lleved her happy and contented in
ms nome. She wanted never again
to share him or his home, she wrote.
lie told Judge Kunkel that little story.