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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
rHE sIcHMoED YInaINIAN-sAruRpAY gERrEMBER u 1917

drive, ana t~houghtiessIy attempted "a
teach . young girl to drive on the
narrow concrete roadway. He offered
hts services to Mr.. Rogers In any
manner demanded, requested that
Mrs. Rogers be given every care. Of
fering to become personally responsi.
BILE for hospital and doctors bills and
repairs to Mr.. Rogers car, which was
considerably damaged.
The action of Mr.. Carter was con-
sidered by -Mr. and Mrs. Rogers az
highly commendable and Mr.. Rogers
will regret as much AZ Mr.. Carter
does. any harsh criticism Of the young
driver OF the car. II was just one
Of the many pure accidents which oc-
cur t o inexperienced drivers OF cars
Mrs. Rogers is resting comfortable to
day. She will probably be able Il
leave her room in a few days.
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Mnklne Yara With ice.

Take a srnootn, clear, curving piece
o. Ice. one not too thicR. and hold II
in the rays % The sun 30 that X VIII
bring the light to II sharp focus just
M villa lens IA q reading glass. The
ice win NOT last long enough to burn
! pasce Of paper. but II the focus rests
IN Q apsck OF gun cotton 1t Will cause
eonbust,on and a fame will result.
Arctic explorers have built fires often
NTH this e~xpedient when matches
were absent aud flint and rock not
handy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
Petersburg
VISITORS PLEASED WITH
WELCOME GIVEN BY CITIZEN


Petersburg, Va, Aug. 31.-The
manner in which Petersburg has ar
ranged to accommodate the army ON
GERS stationed at Camp Lee and the
response of Petersburg people TO the
appeal for accommodation for the Of
.lcers' wives and children has ELECTED
the admiration Of hundreds of the
strangers who never knew of Peters
burg before.
Camp Lee war Council, an organi-
cation formed here at the instance OF
the war department, contemplated
some weeks ago providing for the
coming of the wives and families OF
the onicers and among the, numerous
steps taken was the establishment OF
an information bureau. where rooms
flats. suites and apartments could be
listed, in order that all necessary ar
rangements could be perfected I'm
r|mediately upon the arrival of the Of
icers.
- Fer some days It appeared as though
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Never Without Il.

"Your threat to slap Reggie an III
wrist was merely 8 Bat Of sarcasm. I
supposs!'
Perhaps"
"You couldn't have done much dam
age that way"
smashed his wrts. watch"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01

DR.. D. C.. Goldbsrg. arrsgeao
Phiiadelphia . few days $50 Tor ~
Petersburg authorities, upon : Nqe~
amt charging him with forgfng -
name OF ". r. Burgs. to . ncte -
SIS, which ne succeeded n hav1GUi
discounted n a local hank, hae tu1m0k
ed his bail bond and his ~whsreAoe~o4
are unknown. Detective Aldridgo -
turned from Philadelphia last nao1rk
with this information.
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The conceited One.

II can't bear that young leading
an he's SO conceited. How do you
manage to get along with him?"
- always talk to him about him.
self for a while. and then he talks to
me about himself."-Life.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-01
SON OF FTTZ. LEE
STATIONED AT CAMP LEE

Northumberland Fitzhugh Lee,
son of General Fitzhugh Lee. of the
Confederacy and afterwards governor
of Virginia. is one of the many we'll
known army officers who Will be sta
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accommodation for the scores Of new
families could not be arranged
through this means, but during the
past few days every demand has been
met. Saturday It became known that
the officers quarters at Camp Lee
would not be ready for the reception
Of the officers for a day or two and
with only FIVE or six hours notice,
arrangements were made to care for
the men In the city.
Accommodating so man men and
their families, on such short notice,
IA a tremendous undertaking. but
the hospitality of Petersburg people
manifested itself to the fullest degree
and the result was hat not only the
two thousand officers found accom-
mediation, in comfortable quarters,
but in many cases arrangements
were made within twenty-four hours
to care for the wives and children OF
many.
1t was a splendid example of vir-
ginia hospitality and cooperation or
the part of the public with Camp Lee
war council.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-06
ssTHE GREEN SEAL"
By Charles E. Walk Copyright. 1914, by A. c. McCug Co.
NEXT WEEK, "OVERLAND RED" BY HARRY HERBERT KNIBBS
Squirrel Food

CONTINUED From Our Last Issue)
To account for the foregoing
conditions, 1t Is necessary to take
up the narrative OF James Strang.
otherwise Samuel Willets.
1T was not Steve trying to muir
der me that made me light out"
Strang began his story. 1T was
this way: My father was a renter
on q tract o. land among the
San Pedro hills about Los Angeles.
Steve an I'd Just about reached
fryin-size when we both fell in
love with pretty Mexican girl.
He paused and chuckled reminis-
Gently. Gosh! I've even forgot
her name. But at that time |
thought the end O. the world had
come, so | up and lit out.
II drifted to China, but for the
past six years I've stuck pretty
close to the Straits Settlements.
I've made my pile. and. If do say
II myself. I'm one o. the rich, in
fluential men o. the lower PENN
gula."
His alliance with my father
came about in the most natural
way imaginable. Both men we're
young and enterprising; Strang
had a knack of digging up oppor-
tunities for financial profit, and
he had the time; my fathers time
was pretty well taken up by his
business. but he had some capital,
which Strang lacked. Besides.
father never learned to speak
Chinese. which, Strang told us,
Steve and l picked up as easy as
swearin'."
Lao Wing Flu, the two learned
to know through various business
deals.
For several years, while | was
making Hongkong my headquar-
tiers, was still Samuel Willets.
But, like the bad penny he was.
Steve turned up, an about the
first thing he does is land me in a
peck o. trouble with the British
authorities. 1t was a matter o.
opium running that | needn't go
into here more than to say II was
the first lot I ever shipped to old
Beef Hardwiek at Honolulu. He
used to run II into Frisco in the
hold of his old schooner, the Mary
kenton. That was a good many
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years ago, but see how all these
things are mixed up together.
Mary was the daughter o. Beef's
partner, Anthony ]. Kenton, an
old time Frisco merchant, an she
married Beef. She was Mary
Hardwick's mother. Anthony j.
an Beef founded what is now the
Kenton- Hardwick Company. Beef
an old Anthony's both cashed In
long ago; but own nearly half O.
the Kenton-Hardwick stock, be-
sides looking after the Eastern
end o. the business.
But the points this" - he
chuckled: meyer Hardwick's for
tune smells o. opium, an he'd
sooner have anybody think his
father'd been a pirate than to have
that found out.
II had to light out o. Hong
kong. There's some parts o.
China where I'm still remembered
as Sam Willets; but for the most
part I'm Jim Strang.
Major Hector Sylvester was a
crony o. your fathers. though I'd
never got acquainted with him till
the time o. the Tibet expedition.
The time came. though, when the
two o. them together had use for
me.
ut came about in this way: For
years, off an on, I'd been hearing
about a whale of big diamond
that was said to be somewhere up
in the Khan country. 1t was kept
as sort o. fetish in one o. their
lamaseries. 1t was rough stone,
but worth the pickings of a prov
ince.
For a time I could dig up moth
ing more definite than the fairy
stories I'd already heard. I was
still under cover for the Hongkong
matter, boarding with a friend O.
mine named Lucy Chang.
Zone night Lucy came to my
room to tell me there was a man
in the shop who might tell me
something about my diamond.
What's the chaps name?' l
asked. LAO Wing Fu,' says Lucy.
"Y' see, | already knew Lao as q
pretty shrewd young chap who'd
had some dealings with your faith
er as we'll as me.
HE told me he'd heard in one
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way an another about my interest
in the stone, an that circum-
stances were such that he might
help me to lift I'd help him to
something he wanted.
! Where is this amazing dia-
monde | asked him. It's at Tao
full, says he; an as far as getting
at 1t was concerned, he might as
well've said the North Pole.
| "There'd been talk of the Eng
fish Government sending an ex-
ploring party into Tibet. Lao said
he had it straight that II the expe-
Idition ever started, Sylvester
would be in command He an his
wife had big regulations as ex-
plorers, an in the nature o. things
they were bound to get somewhere
lclose to Tao-fu.
I " What is 1t you want?' by an
by asked Lao.
" 1t is like this, Illustrious One,
he says. When the expedition
starts | want to go with it. Your
friendship with Kwan Ferris can
get me a billet as interpreter.
know the dialects
That ought to make It easy,
them | told him. But why you
want to go at ALL | says, is be-
yond me-
He sat studying a bit; then his
answer made me sit up an pay
strict attention. Says he: There
are things in this world greater
than diamonds; the greatest of
them lies at the lamasery o. Tao
flu. | want it,
Not unless you're a pretty big
gun among the Tao-fus,' said,
can you ever hope to succeed In
such crazy undertaking.
There Is much he says, that
must remain unspoken between me
an you. Tao-fu is far out o. the
| world to be the source o. spiritual
guidance for the Thrice-blessed
Ones children. | hold a commits
sion. But this must remain a
secret between u.s.
Enough I says. I'll get word
to Kwan Ferris at once
six days later Peter B. Ferris,
Lao Wing Flu an l were sitting
with our heads together In my
room.
We'll, the upshot o. the whole
thing was that when the expedition
started Lao an I went with it. II
he got the diamond, the four of us,
includin' Major Sylvester, was to
have equal shares in it."
Strang's narrative of the expedi-
ton into Tibet would fill a vol
ume. but 1 am obliged to confine
myself to those details that are
necessary to make everything
clear.
For centuries the Tao-fu lama
sery had been the shrine of the
sect's most sacred relic. This was
a ring of great antiquity, which in
reality was nothing more than an
ingenious instrument for making
assassination safe and easy. 1t
was venerated in a phrase that sig
nified The Kiss of the Silent
DEATH" and whenever a victim
was marked for punishment, a
Bearer of the Kiss" was chosen
by lot and sent forth to Garry out
the decree of the order.
It was this ring. investing its
possessor with leadership, which
Lao Wing Flu had been empowered
to wrest from the remote and all
but inaccessible lamasery of Tao
|fu.
During the first days In which
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from the first to expand It's lungs
When you battle the child lay II
on It's back and rub its torso soft.
ly and rythmically, and you will
see how quickly 1t will inhale and
sxhale its breath in long sighs q:
contentment. 81
My baby at three weeks wodld
do this until I would laugh az iti
purely animal enjoyment. WHAT
ever else my baby will have, II
will have plenty OF fresh afr. for
/ know that Is the breath Of life.
Another article By Billie Burke
will appear in The Times Monday.)
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the expedition, or what remained
of it. rested at Tao-fu, Lao was
treated by the lamas with all the
Difference his standing as Tao-fu
leader entitled him to. Thus he
had ample opportunity to perfect
plan of seizing both the ring and
the diamond.
Masquerading as one of the In
| terpreters was young fellow VINO
was a skilled carver in ivory
none other than the present old
man had encountered at the
bazaar-who was set to manufac-
turing a number of replicas of the
Ireliquary in which the ring was
kept. When the plot was perfect
ed one of the replicas was given
to each of fixe different messen-
gers; Lao seized both ring and
diamond, and the five messengers
were sent out of the country over
as many different routes, their
purpose being to keep the pursuit
on a false trail as long as possible.
Because my box had the dia-
mond in it," Strang whimsically
observed, looked like poor pay for
trying to get out o. that hornets
nest But, by heck, l did it! Three
o. the five got thru, all told
Meanwhile Lao was having his
hands full persuading the lamas
that he was blameless for the de-
spelling of the lamasery OF it's
sacred relics.
Thus it was that every member
of the party except Lao and three
of the five he contrived to save
by sending away with the boxes,
were slain by the frenzied priests.
1t was true that Major Sylvester
entrusted his daughter to Lao
Wing Fu-iust as one in an ex-
IRENE emergency will leap at the
only chance, however hopeless, of
"a way out.
James Strang shall be allowed
to tell in his own language the
most important disclosure of all.
where any white man would
have been as helpless as the baby
that had been thrust on him, what
does this darn Chink do but DELHI
Ierately try to get back to civiliza-
tion with his burden! He forced
q couple o. Jyade women to
abandon their own babies, an he
an the two women and the baby
started east in the hope o. making
Ching-too in the See Chuen coun-
try.
Nearly three years went by be-
fore | even learned that Loa Wing
Flu had won through, an it was
my scamp of a brother who
brought me the news at Hong
kong. He'd learned about the dia-
mond from Loa, an say, the ques-
tons he asked me about it would
we given a lawyer points. Your
father an l had Just got back
from Amsterdam with it, where it
had been cut and polished.
Remained now to find Lao
Wing Flu, market the stone, an
divide the proceeds among three
instead o. four, poor Sylvester
being out O. our calculations.
Law was at Chlu, oICNO lOlu
me. We sent word to Lao at Pekin.
Your father an | started from
Hongkong with the diamond. He
an l arrived safe an sound, but
the diamond was missing. So was
Steve.
while we were pretty certain
Steve was implicated in the stones
loss, we always halfway believed
Lao was at the bottom of it. An
him he thought we two had
cheated him out o. his share. For
years he held it against us.
80 it came about that through
all the years since the dia nond
was lost, Lao Wing Flu has kept his
mouth shut about Marian Sylves-
ter"
I turned and stared at Lois. She
was regarding me with a wide
eyed, frantic look.
I heard Strano chuekIiu0 In biob
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First Need of Baby Is
Fresh Air and Quantities
Of 1t, Says Billie Burke
BY Billie Burke
Copyright, 1016.)

Nature has made some instincts
and some emotions in the human
race much greater than reasoning
power, and I must here repeat that
which you have probably heard
before. that there is no Joy known
In this world that can compare
with that which comes to a wom-
an when her first babe is laid in
her arms.
Then 1t Is that she makes
the plan of her baby's life q
beautiful story, and 1t Is un-
fortunate that In many cases
her energies and practical
knowledge are not equal to
carrying them out.
A mother must first look to the
physical needs of her baby, and
the first need is fresh air and
plenty of It.
Have, IL possible. a room with
plenty of windows in which your
child may sleep, or better, wrap
her up warmly and let her take
daytime paps out OF doors. Even
whep Temperature 10 below
- JASON why .
warm with
Dl1th. the Windows
IN mothers learn the
poftanoe Of fresh air 70 the
penlth Of the child. there win
- much less Of the 'sGreas
White Plague"
0nildren who are always kept n
|ar OF cold and are housed A
Rriy ventilated rooms never nee
lungs % the fullest extent
q teach your chfld almost
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The diamond all this time was
safe in my deposit box. ultimate
ly sold it, and the fortune It
brought netted over $4,000 each
for Lois, Strang' and myself.
THE END.
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51s.71 1873 SAT 1886
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LEGAL NOTICES.
LEGAL NOTICES.


BY VIRTUE OF WARRANTS will
9TH Street Pacific said city at 10 o'clock the Sth
shall have been redeemed said
Districts Nos s4 M s tg s7s So 4Oo M SAT and
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the install
penalty and costs attached
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
KES CLEANUP in STATE HIGH MEET
HARRISBURG WHITEWASHES STARS
Connie Mack Protests
Saturday Game at Detroit

Detroit, May 2S.-Manager Connie
Mack has protested Saturdays game.
and until President Ban Johnson or
the American League makes a deci-
sion the score cannot be counted as
legal. according to baseball authori-
ties.
Mack has very good reasons for
protesting Detroit's victory. In the
eighth innings Harry Coveleski took
the mound for Detroit, replacing Car
roll Jones, who had given way to a
pinch hitter. 1t was so dark that the
writers in the press stand could not
see to write their copy.
Umpire Silk O'Laughlin halted play
before Coveleski pitched a ball. Sew
eral minutes later. the heavy rain
clouds began to pass and the UNI
pires decided it was light enough TO
finish the game. AS the teams re-
sumed the field. Ehmke, instead of CO.
veleski, walked to the mound.
The Athletics did not score on
Ehmke and Detroit's three-run lead
held good. Coveleski had been an
nounced as the pitcher. had taken his
position on the rubber and, under the
rules. should have pitched to at least
one batsman before he could be re-
placed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Williams Signs Contract
to Meet kid" Herman

Philadelphia, May 2S. - Peter
(Kid) Herman, bantam champion,
and Kid Williams, the deposed king
of the little fellows, have been
matched to meet in a special show at
Harry Edwards Olympia A. A, on
Wednesday night, June 1S. Both
boys agreed to make lis pounds
ringside. No guarantee was given
and the combatants agreed to fight
for a percentage of the receipts.
Herman won the title from Kid
Williams on a referees decision in
twenty rounds at New Orleans last
January. Since that time Williams
has been trying to get return
match with his conqueror and TINS
will be the first meeting between the
pair since the championship engage
ment. Outside of a Kilbane-Leonard
battle this should prove TO be the
best match of the season.
The match would have been
clinched a week ago If the question
of the referee could have ben de-
cided. williams named his man and
Herman selected his, but the rival
managers could not agree and they
even objected to Edwards choice,
Pop O'Brien. But yesterday when
they agreed to the terms that de-
cided to permit O'Brien TO otticiate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Marysville Leaders Lose
to Duncannon Sluggers

Marysville, Pa, May 2S.-In a
slow game Duncannon won from
Marysville in a Dauphin-P Perry league
conflict Saturday by an s to 8 score.
The nine innings required two hours
and thirty minutes to be played.
Duncannon in their nifty new uni
forms with an American flag on one
sleeve, pounded Davis delivery for
eleven hits, three of which We're
doubles and two triples. These with
seven free tickets. one hit batsman,
and two wild heaves, netted eight
runs.
MarysVille showed n pitiful lack
of spirit after DunCannon secured
two run lead in the fourth. List
less playing on the part of the entire
team followed and Duncannon easily
increased her lead. Marysville got
to Brenner's delivery in the eighth
for four runs, which partly revived
the spirit. In the ninth the champs
went right after him again.
Davis famed seventeen batsmen
and Brenner thirteen. However,
Brenner did not walk a man, hit but
one. and did not make a single wild
heave. The score by innings:
Duncannon 90 l 0 . 02 2 Is IL 5
Marysville 90 0 0 0 0 0-5 s 2
Batteries - DunCannon, Brenner
and .Dearolf; Marysville, Davis and
Hippensteel. Time, 2.30. Umpire,
Frazier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Ty Cobb Is on Outs
With Jennings Team;
Breaks Up Team Work

Detroit, Mich, May &c. Unless
Owner Navin or Manager Jennings
acts Immediately the Tigers will
never rise up out of the second di-
vision and the reason for all the
trouble is Tyrus Raymond Cobb. the
so-called Georgia Peach. 1t is no Sc
terms with a majority of the De-
troit players and things have reached
such pass that Jennings no longer
makes any suggestions to Tyrus
about haw he should bat or field.
When Cobb quit the Tigers cold in
the series with the Giants he decided
too, that he would no longer stay
with the Tigers and had his grip
packed and was ready to join Cincin-
natl before he informed Jennings,
but right down deep in his heart Jen-
ningS was mad.
1t is said that Cobb in his endeavor
to gain on iris Speaker in the batting
race has thrown all teamwork to the
seven winds and he is going up there
with only the idea of getting that hit.
This, at least, is the charge made by
Cobb's teammates. on the bench the
Cobb and very few words pass be-
tween the Georgia Peach and Jen-
pings.
Rumor has it-but it is only rumor
that Cobb wants the managers job,
as well as his own, but this is not
taken seriously by Detroit players.
The enemies of Cobb ON the team say
that the Southerner has decided that
he'll play the game to suit himself.
Speaker beat him out last season
for the batting crown and that hurt
the Georgian's pride. He is working
under a contract that expires this year
ed or not. Yet Detroit is made to sur
fer because of Cobb's actions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-28
Stage Is Set For Big
New York Battle Tonight

New York, May 2S.-One of the
most important ring fights staged
here in weeks will take place tonight
when Freddie Welsh, lightweight
champion of the world, meets Benny
Leonard his principal rival in a ten
round bout before the Manhattan A. =.
Kid Mcfarland, the man selected as
referee, has been undergoing a spe-
cial course of training himself.
Welsh's work in the recent bout
with Johnny Kilbane at the Manhat-
tan was so disappointing that ma
iority of the fans expect to see Leon
ard either score a knockout or at
least outpoint the little champion by
so wide a margin that Pollock himself
will admit it.
Welsh will probably outweigh
Leonard by several hundred karats.
He is more likely to tip the beam
around the 13S-pound mark than at
1856, while Leonard figures to come in
n bit below the lightweight limit of
1873 pounds.
With Mcfarland in the ring to
keep the boys on the high" all the
time, Welsh will not get a chance to
do so much hugging and clinching as
usual, even IL he is so inclined. But
the Pontipridd lad declares that this
time he is going out to do his bit with
Leonard, and that he is gong to keep
Benny so all-fired busy that the Bronx
boy will look like a man with a honey
shampoo swatting flies In the sum-
mertime.
Leonard has been putting the skids
under all his opponents during the
last half dozen fights he has had. the
last four going down for the ten
count, and he seriously believes he
will help carry Welsh to his corner
before the bell clangs for the last
| round.