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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

NE sTlHUai State CONVENTION OF
Post Office Clerks WAS held in this
CITY today with delegates present from
petersburg, Salem, Norfolk, Roanoke,
PORTSMOUTH and Lynchburg about
twenty-five IN number. The convention
was welcomed by Postmaster J. y
Johnston, and the response was made
ny IT, \. OVerton. OF Norfolk The
delegates were taken on n trip 10
Camp Lee and other points o. interest.
and were otherwise entertained by the
local men.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
Mrs. Mary r. Collier.

S7ecial 70 The Times Diera,ch
PETERSBURG W. MAJ a0-Mrs
n+yN z Collier, 7-itc Of James \
Collier died yesterday in her hone
N FaTTsr Street She was In her
ti1tT-!our,H Wear. and haG been y,
6sc.irins health for some time The
.lns!al service was Held =, tn. grave
- b.a nfford Cemetery this afternoon
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
ALLEGED BIGAMIST CAUGHT
George Ella. CoIored, Held n, Mar.
boursviIle, w. Va, for Rich-
mond Police

~ GORGE Ellis, colored, wanted hare
By the police on a charge OF hicany
was arrested yesterday at Barbours
Vile. W. Va, and held for the local
authorities Sergeant Whitiock OF inc
Second District Station. VIII leave 10
day 10 bring back the prisoner for trial
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
PLANT HONOR TREE
f'Aercfscs In Warrington so,,r 4,
Memoir! of SOuth.Ide Men
Who Died

ped!catsd o the men Of tre South.
soc "h' gave their lives for thew
.oanlI3. memorial tree was planted
square ""'''s 'oh
~ narads preceded the exercises
nunn rtdS Of people thronged the souare
Ernest H. Wells - '""s
~" rcc vas planted by Troop No
o. ne roy scouts a; the concIu-
h 'i@Y .. INC CEREMONY a scout bugicr
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
DEATHS IN VIRGINIA
Mrs. Martha kei.ter.

ia RFlSpNBCRt;. VA. May 3n-Mrs
Martha kclster mother OF Superin-
tsndent OF city Schools " " kaistrr
died I her home in Mcdowell High
and County. Wednesday morning fol
iioWlne stroke Of paralysis suffered
last saturday, She was seventy yaare
oid and is survived by several children
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
The Hopenejl Fir..

!as I've Dtn VINO AZ. oe!nE nd a.,
no2ereu II connection v!.h N. IRE
~ sst Scaday o. when tnree per
Sons !oHi tHe:r !t"eG, are 20 De give n
preliminary hearing ;omor-oz Thev
gave employed counsel :o- their de-
,eHse J. IS reported .ha. one Of me
men has offered 70 ,urn states 60
dence II given immunity. bu. th!. has
not been promised
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

- NCH BC RIG, Man 3O-Mrs. Hare,
An!Sal tracker. fftN-two Years OF age
WIte q, w. +. Fracker died las, nigh,
a. the Lvnchhurs Hospital sac w7s
natlve ~ South Port. DOM
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

y meeting of the ministers Of the
city VIII be held Monday morning in
the v: NJ {. A for the purpose OF
recording an earnest and solemn pro
test against the inhuman treatment o.
call for the meeting Was issued hv
the Rev. Or. Charles r. Striblinc
pastor of Tabb Street Presbyterian
Union 80
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
yvaOn EarI Caah

HARLoTT ESN1LLE VA Nav 80
LaPson Ear Cash. aged sixteen son
or Cash, % Eucteyeiand died
yesterday - local hospital af,.r
f"rr DAYS illness OF appendicitis
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
National Memorial DAY,

National Memorial Day was generally
observed mere. Business, in large part
pie went to the cemeteries in inwic
die and AT City Point 10 attend tho
exercises and scatter flowers and
eyergreens on the graves o. the dead
OF LEO
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

Rankcrs OF Eichmond meet Monday
afternoon at $50 O'Clock a. tho call or
John NJ: Miller. Jr.. president; OF the Fist
National Bank, 20 consider the completion
of the $4,000 welcome homo fund The
fund Sti!l lacks $4,000
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
Police Ares, &. ". snund.r.

G. W. Saunders Ir. % 9I7 Soutn
Cherry Street vas arrested vcsterd.v
hy The polio" charged with nrocurinr 9
thret aNlomobilc tres under false
prst"nscs, from a downtown agto.no-
bile tire company.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

{. w. Evans. charged with selling black
berry Juice containing more alcohol than
allowed by law. and who was indicted By
a grand Jury. will get hearing this morn
ing in Judge Wells court.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31
Richmond EUents
in Paragraph Form
Current Local NeVs Told
Briefly for Benefit of
Busy Readers.

Corporal George r Peers. son OF Mrs
Charles s. rc.rs. eos North Rowland Street.
mas arrived in New York with his out.
H. Rattcry A. Que Hundred and Eleventh
Field ARTILLERY
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

PoStmsster Thornton has been no;incd
inSt the PoSt-pfCc Department. At wash
:nsion has s,aniGd leave of absence TO ali!
noStma:ic-S in Virginia 10 attend the con
rcntion OF nc Virginia Po.tmastc-s' Asso-
cation, which viii be he'd =; Roanoke on
juno - and -.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-31

Undcr the join; auspices Of The Order
OF Fsternsl americans. the Daughters o.
,aher!' me Patriotic Sons Of America. the
Junior crdcr ~ United American Me-
ghanics and ,ScNoral other societies. !. re-
union Coz soldiers IL being planned in Fores;
lin Park. Z. Il. Wharton is chairman OF
ihc committee. No date has been ST..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

That now await my coming-But blend
them all with dreams Of when,
With thy warm hand clasped close in
this of mine,
We cross the floating bridge that soon
again
Will span the unfathomable CULTS
OF neither air twixt this vale Of strife
And my most glorious realm Of ehangeles1
peace.
We stint not our Investigations to
Our worlds alone, but query still beyonSI
For now, our goolores say, below these
isles,
A million, million miles are other worlds;
And / myself have heard, at dawn of
moon,
A liquid music filtered through my dreams
AS though 'twere myriad of sweet voices!
Thou art not all of earth. o, angel one!
Nor do | far miswonder me and thou
Have peered above the very walls Of
Heavenp
In these days there was a certain woman,
Mrs. Herbine, whom Gruelle, Riley and
several other seekers visited often. 1t
may be of interest TO note that Mrs Her
bine is for the past eight years the wife Of
a Dr. Mock, and in that time has been
working with the Physical Research Sc
ciety of London. / am personally aware
of one incident worth repeating.
A book, Lost Letters from Lesbos, by
Mrs. Milburn, appeared upon the market
and purported to- be hitherto undise0v-
cred poems by Sappho. was told Mrs
Herbine had been the instrument of Mrs
Milburn's direct communication with
Sappho. / visited Mrs. Herbine with "A
double slate containing small pencil
wrapped and sealed with the indianapolis
.SentiHel's seal.
After a visit in which there were no
darkened windows, no possible Opportu-
mites for charlatanry, the slate was opened
AT the Office. It was covered with writing
in four cOlors.
We sent for Demarcus Brown, profess
sor of Greek at Butler University. In two
days he brought translations as follows:
One column in Sanskrit, one column Sn
Babylonian cuneiform. one column IN
Coptic, one column in ancient Greek verse
signed "Sappho."
So to Mrs Herbine went Riley and in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

dulged MS thirst for sight behind the
veil. / am certain he obtained much
nepenthe He often talked about the fu-
ture life with me-and his eyes would
shine and his hands clasp and unclasp.
eve may consider this Efe our first
stairway to immortal life, which we can
feel sometimes see,' he once said
10 me.
had the privilege of an interview with
Riley the second evening before he died
in July, 1916. He was, I felt, disih-
tegrating before my very eyes. Never had
l felt such terrible sense of being a wit
ness TO death.
He smiled and murmured, "Voices Of
children" as he had in my presence many,
many times. Then he said, "I'm glad to
see you again, old friend
We talked about the past and the flu
ture and the great cloud Of warmth
felt apprehensive of the effect Of my stay,
and made to go.
will you como again, Charles, next
Tuesday, he asked in childish voice,
giving me his hand.
"Yes, l shall come again. | promised.
Next Tuesday the nation was mourning.
am prompted to add one statement he
made on my last visit in Lockerbie street.
''Tn the whirling crystal ball of life
he declared, 1--WE sometimes see the trail
of soul break at an odd angle from the
straight and narrow way of its conven-
tional predestination, wander afar into
undreamed, mysterious complexities of
travail and distress, but finally emerge
upon some mighty mountain Top, where
its satation of the eternal truths is IN
bounded by any horizon.
THE adventure from the straight road
has no marks Of the plans men make. The
labor and affection into which the bypath
leads are impossible of human anticipa-
ton. Nor is it possible, by mortal design,
TO conjure the wonder scope of beautiful
truth in life visible and understandable
from this great eminence.
"This exalted tenancy is but by way of
work and suffering. These things are only
of mans soul and in his soul he exults
in the vision given him through their Bit
ter pain and their SURPRISING moments Of
JOY"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
A Three-Hour Story
That You Will Want
To Finish at One Sittino
THE
WEB

By FREDERIC ARNOLD HUMMER
1t moves. 1t captures the
interest instantly. 1t never
loses its hold for a moment.
1t carries you through fasci-
mating mysteries, thrilling
dangers. And there is
charming love story. Second
printing. An Bookstores, $50
THE CENT URY CO.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

The small FRY, converting Tuesday.
heard Vachel Lindsay tell about Andrew
jackson, Daniel in the lions den and the
sea serpent. Lindsay was introduced in a
discriminating speech by Harry Kemp.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23
James Whitcomb Riley's ''Maggot'
BY CHARLES VIRGIL TEvIs.


wi songs Of James Whiteomb Riley
are beloved, who remember the hesitant
but thrilling voice of the reader in the
days when the poet strobe the lecture plat
form, picture only genius Of letters and
man wise in the common things Of life,
It was given to the writer to know a
different Riley-a man VINO found solaee
and at times inspiration in his belief in
spiritualism.
As a cheerful boy in Greenfield, Ind,
James Whitcomb Riley was a Pbilistine
about school, except two of the Rs-read-
ing and writing. To his mother his knowl-
edge of these was mainly due.
He was eager to read everything in the
family library. Among books of the
usual sort were several on the subject of
spnitualism. They were the choice OF bis
father from whom the poet claimed, IN
later years. to have, inherited ''maggot'
in the brain.
In early manhood Riley, pulsing to
write, did something always to be regret
ted He wrote Le0HaiRie, which was pub
ished in Kokomo paper, as ''by Edgar
Allan Poe Feel the wizards touch IN
these lines:
"Leonainie, angels named her,
And they took the light
OF the laughing stars, and framed her
in smile of white. '- 80 ''.,.-,
And they made her hair of gloomy
Midnight, and her eyes of bloomy
Moonshine, and they brought her to me
In the silent night
air a solemn right ef summer.
When my heart Of gloom
. Blossomed up 10 meet the conner
Like a rose in bloom;
All foreboding that distressed me
/ forgot as joy caressed me
lying JOY that caught and pressed me
In the arms of doomD
@0nly spake the little lisper
In the angel tongue;
Yet listening, heard her whisper
Songs are only sung
Here below that they may grieve you,
Tales but told you to deceive you,
So, must Leonainie leave you,
While her love is young
sThen God smiled, and it was morning,
Matchless and supreme;
Heavens glory seemed adorning
Earth with its esteem
Every heart but mine seemed gifted
With the voice Of prayer, and lifteo
Where my Leonainie drifted.
From me like a dream"
A word from Longfellow, 10 whom the
young singer mad, in an impetuous mo-
ment, sent a number of his verses, raised
his spirit to great heights. Iongfellow
wrote that the songs showed the true
spirit of poetry. Riley went to the capital
CITY of Indiana and a desk on the old
Journal
He made many charlottesville, the
artist; Meredith. Nicholson, Hit, Martin
dale, Bill Nye, Joel Chandler Harris,
Frank Stanton, Booth Harrington, DR..
MTlbun and many others. Possibly the
most intimate of these was Grueile-and
to the artist fate gave the mission of re-
awakening the ''maggot" of spirituatsp
in Riley's mind.
Gruelle, called by some preseienee, was
with the singer when he wrote The Flying
Islands of the Night at the old Denison
Hotel. Gruele, and Riley as well, later
were authority for the word that the room
was full of sounds of reeds and that
vague forms foated here and there. This
excerpt from the poem is Illuminating:
I'VE talked
OF all the past, ah, me, and all the friends
-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-23

Henry Blackman Sell Of the Chicago
DAILY Ne~s has been technically stopping
at the Vanderbilt this week.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01
North Dakota

.nut necessary TO maintain the
law. I can be as severe as Napoleon
Bonaparte and as cunning as Satan, If
I have to be-"
w.nlle twas milking the deacon sat
on a bucket in the doorway of the
stable and snored until 1 had finished.
He awoke when I loosed the COW and
the constable went back to the pasture
with me, yawning with his hand over
his mouth much of the way. The dea-
con leaned his elbow on the top Of
the pen and snored again, lightly,
while I mixed the feed for the pigs.
Mr.. Hacket met us at the kitchen
door, where Deacon Binks said to him:
eff you'll look after the boy today
I'll 20 home and get a little rest"
"God bless yer soul, We had a busy
night said the schoolmaster with a
smile.
He added as he went into the house:
"I never knew a mar to rest with
more energy and persistence. 1t "a
a perfect flood O. rest. It kept me
awake until long after midnight"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01

sacks. mat dorie, I covered the floor
again and the thump Of the fail eased
my loneliness until in the middle OF
the afternoon two Of my schoolmates
came and asked me to go swimming
with them. The river was not forty
rods away and a good trail led to the
swimming hole. 1t was a warm, bright
day and / was hot and thirsty. The
thought Of cool waters and trlendly
ccmpanionship was too much for me.
1 went with them and stayed with
them longer than / intended. l re-
member saying as I dressed that L
should have to work late and go with
out my supper in order to finish my
| stint.
1t was almost dark when I was put
| ting the last sack Of wheat into my
| cart, in the gloomy barn and getting
ready to go.
A rustling in the straw where 1
stood stopped me suddenly. l heard
stealthy footsteps in the darkness. 1
stood my ground and demanded:
"Who's there?"
I saw a form approaching in the
gloom with feet as noiseless as q cats.
I took q step backward and, seeing
! that it was a woman, stopped.
tits Kate" came in a hoarse whis-
per as I recognized her form and staff.
l run, boy-they have just come out
! O. the woods. I saw them. They will
take YOU aWay, Run"
She had picked up the fail, and now
! she put it in my hands and gave me
"a push toward the door. I ran, and
none too quickly, for I had not gone
fifty feet from the barn in the stubble
when I heard them coming after me
whoever they were. I saw that they
were gaining and turned quickly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01
A PARTY and-My Fourth PeriI7

It was a rainy Sunday. In the
middle of the afternoon Uncle Pea
body and I had set out in our spring
buggy with the family umbrella-a
faded but sacred implement, always
carefully dried, after using, and hung
in the clothes press. We were drenched
to the skin in spite Of the umbrella.
1t was still raining when we arrived
at the. familiar door in Ashery lane.
Uncle Peabody wouldn't stop.
He hurried away. We pioneers rare
ly stopped or even turned out for the
weather.
GONE ill.," said the voice Of the
schoolmastes at the door. ''There's
good weather under this roof"
He saw my plight as 1 entered.
"I'm like a shaggy dog that's been
in~swimming," I said.
"Upon my word, boy, we're in luck"
remarked the schoolmaster.
I looked UP at him.
michael Henry's clothes !-sure,
they're just the thing for you'll"
I followed him upstairs, wondering
how it had happened that Michael
Henry had clothes.
He took me into his Dom and
brought some handsome, soft clothes
out of a press with shirt, socks and
boots to match.
"1here, my laddie buck" said he
"put them on"
"Theae will soon dry on me" L SAID
"Put them on-ye laggard! Michae
Henry told me to give them TO you
rs the birthday night O little Rutn
nv bow. There's a big cake with can
dies and chicken pie and jellled cooh
les and all the like O. that. Put then
on. A wet boy at the feast "oui'
dampen the whole proceedings.
I put them on and with a grea
sense of relief and comfort. me!
were an admirable fit-too perfect To-
an accident, although ut the time
thought only Of their grandeur as
stood surveying myself in the looking
glass. They were Of blue cloth n
saw that they went well with m.
blond hair and light skin. l was put
ting on my collar and necktle whel
Mr.. Hacket returned.
We went below and the table wa
very grand with its great frosted cak
and it's candles, In shiny brass sticks
and its jellies and preserves with III
CLEAN of polished pewter among them
Mrs. Hacket and all the children, say
Ruth, were waiting for us In the din
ing room.
"Now sit down here, all o. yc, Wiz
Michael Henry" snid the schoolmns
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01
~w1cRednesS or e

w1cRednesS or men.
I thought of old Kate and her broken
silence. For once I had heard her
speak. I could feel my flesh tlngle
when I thought Of her quick words
and her hoarse, passionate whisper.
knew, or thought I knew, why she
took such care of me. She was In
league with the gallows and could not
bear to see it cheated of it's prey. Fol
| some reason she hated the Grimshaws.
I had seen the hate in her eyes the
day she logged along behind the old
money lender through the streets of
the village when her pointing finger
had seemed to say to me: There,
there is the man who has brought me
to this. He has put these rags upon
my back, this fire in my heart, this
wild look in my eyes. Wait and you
will see what l will put upon him."
I knew that old Kate was not the
irresponsible, witless creature that
people thought her to be. I had begun
to think of her with a kind of w as
II gifted above all others. One by
n the things she had said of the
future seemed to be coming true.
AS we were going into the house the
schoolmaster said:
"Now, Mary, you take this lantern
and go across the street to the house
O. Deacon Binks, the constable. You'll
find him asleep by the kitchen stove.
Arrest his slumberS, but not rudely,
and, when he has come to, tell him
that I have news O. the devil"
Deacon Binks arrived, a fat\ man
with a big, round body and a very
wise and serious countenance between
side whiskers bending from his temple
to his neck and suggesting parentheses
OF hair, as if his head and its acces'
series were in the nature OF a SIDE
issue. He and the schoolmaster went
out of doors and must have talked to-
gether while 1 was eating a bowl OF
bread and milk which Mrs. Hacket hao
brought to me.
When I went to bed, by and by,
heard somebody snoring on the little
porch under my window. The frs
sound that reached my ear at thu
break of dawn was the snoring O.
some sleeper. I dressed and went be
low and found the constable in hi
coonskin overcoat asleep on the porcl
with a long-barreled gun at his side
While I stood there the scboolmaste,
came around the corner Of the hous'
from the garden. He put his hand OF
the deacon's shoulder and gave hin
a little shake.
awake, ye limb O. the law" he de
manded. Prayer is better thar
sleep"
The deacon arose and stretched
himself and cleared lis throat and rs
sumcd an air of alertncss and said
was a fine morning, which it was not
, the sky being overcast and the al
{ dark and chilly. Mr.. Hacket removed
his greatcoat and threw 1t on the stool
, SAYING
"Deacon, you lay there. From nov
, on I'm constable and ready for any &c
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-05-01
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Barton Baynes, orpha::,
is taken to live with his uncle, Peabody
Baynes, and his Aunt Deel on a farm on
itysplit, about the year 1926. Barton meets
Sally Dunkelberg, about his w age, but
socially of a class above the Bayneses,
and is fascinated by the pretty face
and fine clothes.
CHAPTER .II-Barton meets ruv,ns
Kate, known in the neighborhood as the
Silent Woman." Amos mo G r. tha tH,uyy oppn;g
is a visitor at the Baynes home, and
Rowing Kate tells the fortunes of the two
boys, predicting a bright future for Bar
R 4 D for an act Of boyish mischief
Barton runs away, intending to make his
home with the Dunkelbergs. He reaches
the village of Canton and falls into a
sleep of exhaustion on a porch. There
he is found by Silas Wright, Jr., promi-
lent man in public affairs, who, knowing
Peabody Baynes, takes Barton home af-
ter buying him new clothes.
CHAPTER I1I-Barton and his uncle
n aunt visit Canton and lear Silas
Wright read a sermon.
much interest in Barton, and sends a box
of books and magazines to the Baynes
home. TIL election of Silas Wright to
h United States senate is announced.
CHAPTER v-When Barton is twelve
years old he becomes aware of the ex.
istence of a wonderful and mysterious
power known as Money" and learns
derful thing Grimshaw is the most power
full and greatly dreaded man In the com
munity, most of the settlers being in his
debt. After a visit to the Baynes home
velope, which Barton is to read on the
first night when he leaves home to at
tend school.
CHAPTER Wharton is asked t.
drive a load to mill. arrives safely, bu
in a snowstorm, unable to see the road
wheel of the wagon is broken; Uncl'
Peabody manages to get togethe
enough to satisfy Grimshaw and obtail
an extension.
CHAPTER p rI2R vIImMcG n,a: :: 1 Ms s PtsHis:
ton. on the way they meet a rider, an
the three journey together. They ar
held up by a man with a gun, who m a
the meno hig n woyr ms !. de p11Jia r1 or away
while thes stranger draws a pistol. but be
fore he can use it the robber shoots an
kills him. Barton's horse throws hin
over the stranger Barton throws a ston
which he observes wounds the thief, WI
makes off at once, but not until B bsdto
NdO noted tIldC HE gun " Who =
in a peculiar manner Search of tn
neighborhood for the robber is %unavailin
and the stranger is buried.
CHAPTER V~III-Barton leaves home t
attend Michael Jackets school. Amc
Grimshaw is arrested charged with tt
murder of the stranger.
CHAPTER 1x-Grimshaw seeks I
bride Barton to be silent about h
/wounding the murderer Of the man kille
on the road. The offer Is spurned.
CHAPTER x.