Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) 1914-Current
December 12, 1914

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SUNDAY WANT ADS PAY Brteg your copy ty a special dep- j utatlon, the Inauguration of a move inent to suppress the exploitation of war stories In fhe hlHtory courses of i tin* public school* of the country, and tho creation of u new commission on church and country life, featured the j concluding session of the Federal Coun cil, of the Churches of Christ in Amcr- lea yesterday morning- Nearly 200 delegates, representing thirty or more Protestant denominations, attended the annual meeting of the council, which j began Tuesday morning In the audi- I torium of the Central Youns Men's Christian Association Building. When final adjournment came yesterday j morning at '11:30 o'clock the place fori holding the next annual meeting had not been selected, although It 'was stated that the executive committee of the council will probably designate' Ix>s i Angeles. Cal. ithe gathering place In 1915. WAXT HISTOID SO TAIOHT AS MIT TO (JI.OHIKV W All The report of the commission on Chris tlan education was accepted yes- j terdaj' morning with the recommends- lion that a movement be launched at once with a view that history be taught 1 In the public schools of the country In such o way that war may not be glorified. Th?- report also recommended that special lessons on the subject of International peace be taught In tlfe Sunday schools, and that a system be Inaugurated In the public schools of the country whereby pupils may absent themselves from regular classes a por tion of.- the time In order to be given instruction on religious subjects by pastors of the congregations represent ed in the schools. No recommendations regarding a change In the system of textbooks now used In the public schools was nontaln?d In the.report. Tfca "r establishment by the, council 'jeaterday. morning nf a new colnmls- I "Ion. to be known as the commission nn cojuntry llf*. yvlth Clifford Pinchot chairman, and Charles O. Olll, a well known religious* worker and a former stfcr on Vale'is football squad. Is re garded as ono of the most Important J actions taken during the annual meet ing. The work which will be under- taken by the new commission has here- j tofore been carried on by a committee on church and country life, composed I of the same men who now forAi the J commission. STt l)Yl.\(i CONDITIONS OK tOl'XTllV I.IKK During the past year a large amoum of correspondence was carried oil. with ministers In rural soctions all over the United States, and a mass of lit erature was fvnt out with a view to bettering religious and social condi tions In remote country districts. Dur ing the past summer Mr. Gill took up his residence at Columbus, Ohio, and there established an office of the com mission for the purpose of directing a rural investigation o? ifoe entire. State of Ohio. Ohio State authorities have heartily co-operated in the work, and It was at their suggestion that the commission established headquarters at Columbus. In accepting the report of the com mission on social service, the council strongly recommended old age pensions for all Federal employes, and when the report of the commission on Sunday observance, wab submitted it was stated that a bill has been prepared, which will be Introduced before the present Congress, asking for a diminution of working hours on the part of all Fed eral employes on the Sabbath. KRSOI,t)TIOXS OK SVMI'ATHV WITH JKWmi I?EOI?I,K The following* resolution, introduced l>y Bishop B. It. Mendrlx, of the Meth odist Bpisropal Church. South. Kt. liOuis, Mo., was adopted by the council: "That, as representatives of the Christian chuiches of America, we de Biro to expVesB oiir profound sympathy with; and. pur prayer for, God's ancient people, who throughout the earth are enduring peculiar privations and suf fering' as u result of the present waf. "We recommend to our churches such practical expressions of their sympathy as shall help iri the relief of their suf fering; and we pledge our advocacy to the cause of our Hebrew brethren as they seek for Juat and equal considera tion by. all governments." Dr. Shaller Mathews, president of the council, and dean In the divinity school of the University of Chicago, speak ing at the session yesterday morning, urged tho necessity of uniformity In references to the council. He said that Inaccuracies, such as referring to the organization as the "Federal Churches in America," sometimes tend to an tagonize church members, for the term, he said, tends, to denote a loss of de nominational Identity. "The council," he continued. "Is simply a council of individual denominational bodies."' l.YCRHASKD lOKFH'JKNCY OF. WORK OF, COUNCIL. He also spoke of the increased ef ficiency of the practical.work achieved by the councll^durlng the pant year, and Its increased effectiveness as evi denced by the reports of Its commis sions. He sr\ld .that this Increased practical efficiency has been noticeable during the past year, but Is really loss Important than the general oducatlohal taik,. 6f accusto'm'irig the Protectant ch'ur.che's ,to .thJok .collectively concern ing their common problems, and ae eustoijilng them to a sense of unify "In wjilCV theological jtnd political differ ences shall, be subsidiary. "Thpre are many h'oneat and earnest people, who d&.not understand that this Is possible while prosorvlng nhsojuto denomlna tlonal independence," he said. "Let iis, i? "~T (Continued~on Eighth" PageT)~~~ ATTRACTIVE AM) KNJOYADLE /Tmp. To llaltimore. via YorJt Hlver" Line, .6:10. P. 41,; Sun. t2;M one wfcjr; J1.W R,_ T. PAYNE FUNERAL IN HOUSE All Offlrlal Waablngton Invited to Cere mony on Sunday. December 11.?The 8unrtov.?^ Re*,r03enta?ve8 will meet on Sunday to mourn the denth of Serono 1 a>"ne, for thirty years a Congress flli? ?|0m ^eW York- H will he the first time In fifteen years that the fln?nUw !\f? hC,1'1 n Publlc funeral to pay final tribute to a dead member ail i ,?n?. pnH8ert to-day Invited nil official Washington to the cere vr?r;, President and his Cabinet the A ice-President and the Senate the umir?tr T'Vn ??PlomatV? C.rp2 SSV^w.S'J.SSf'K SI"" l'"nra'?e. to ?H ItrZonl': The services will he entirely religious -a- ^.^.Arss^.a: take'n* tothA???"CrV,cC.H thc hod>' will be ?s5?. T-i,y ITALY GIVES PEOPLE WORK Government Coniitructlon Initiated fo* That Pnrpone, Saym Premier. HOME, December 11.?Premier Sal. ",1'.ra' ln the Chamber of Deputies ??n supported the approprli inFtZSZI? bV U'e government S 1,.K (|,0"|wllln|f th? approval the budget for next year. Thc gov ernment proposals were approved l?v i vote of 309 against 29. PPr?Ve t,lc unem Although the crops of '.914 tlon nf i? ,h0 arincl of which was more numerous than ever. Other measures were In course of execution, the Premier said, but he would not specify them, as he did not desire to give a clue to specu lators of the government's Intentions. UNDER EXPLAINS ABSENCE Judge IteniltN Order Declaring Ills $>1,000 Horn) Forfeited NEW YORK, December 11.?Judge Malone. of the Court of General Ses one. remit ted lo-day his order de .Marlng forfeited the *1.000 bond of H D. Under upon binders fallurp to an poar yesterday to plead to the Indict ment charging him with revealing con ou" hv let"?Pr1P"lc message sent out b> the Associated Press to thf '?irk O,obe- wl?ere Under was employed a:? n Postal Telegraph Com pany operator. binder explained his failure to pre sent himself yesterday was due to th.? misunderstanding of his lawyer, who had Informed him It would not be r.ec i.?ri h'm t0 nI>pfiar ,n Person, h i'a'one was satisfied. and re bond previous forfeiture of the A -hew, bond>of n.ooo was prepared. TO HHVITE ALL NATIONS American Peaee Soolely Will Proceed I ith riein fop CongrfM. W AHHlWiTQN. Decemhcrle ?*ecut've committee of the so t!,V;mee!lnge.,eCl th.? ",nc? "n" STOPS SHIP TO GET TOBACCO Hrltlah Maa.of.War .Supplied In Mid Ocean by the Antonla. i December 11.?it was o clock In the morning. and the N.wTor,?"*"""- '-"v.rpoo! Vork, seemed to have'the entire rtLvi, suddenly shot across her decks, and* the dim outline of a BriH?h CtZ?rl,rreP'y Aas in the affirmative. Cigarettes and tobacco were placed in Sva>a hr*t!f,ht recePtacle and passed shW riS dc; A boat the war liMh! H m Up- Soon the voice the ^?rt^lp"Vteari^d>*iwayt8andanthe vwee- W? FOR RELIEF OF BELGIANS Flour Mod Clothing; Kcndy for Shipment From Danville. [Special to The Times-DisDatch.] DANVILT.E. VA? December 11.? Over $1,200..worth of- flour, making: one carload, and ten large boxes of cloth ing;, most of. It new, were to-day packed In .freight cars and soaled up and ready for shipment to Norfolk to be placed in the Virginia Belgian relief qhip. For the past three weeks tbe subscription campaign has been going on! The Fifth District commissioner has so far received $645 from the neighboring counties, and in addition to this money many boxes of supplies have been fent to Norfolk .for ship ment. DECLINES CHRISTMAS TRUCE Ruvfttn Not Willing to Agree to Pope Benedict's l'7opoiiol. BERL.IN. Docimber 11 (by wireless). ?Pope Benedict's proposal for a truce anions the warring nations during tho Christmas holidays has been declined by Russia, according to tho Gorman of ficial press bureau. ?Tho Gorman press bureau previously announced that Germany was willing to'agree to a'Christmas truce, if the other nations assented. BRYANS guests of honor Southern Society of ^Vashlngton (iiTrai Reception and Ball. WASHINGTON, December 11.?The Socrotar.v of State and Mwv Bryan wore guests of honolr to-night at the inter national reception and ball, given un der the .auspice* of the Southern So 1 olety of Washington. Diplomatic, of ficial apd realdent. members of tho so ciety attended. IF ARE EXPLAINED Dr. Thomas Walker Page Expresses Confidence in Virginia Legislature. STEARNES TELLS WHAT STATE IS ACCOMPLISHING National Society for Promotion, of Industrial Education Closes Convention. R E I) F I K Ij I) IS RE-ELECTED Would Amend State Constitution liaising Compulsory Attend ance Age Limit. The Constitution of Virginia as it relates to compulsory education should j be amended, declared A. 1'iosscr, j secretary of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, at the meeting- of that body last night, so as to Include all children fourteen yearn of age. instead of limiting the age to twelve, and there should be com- pulsory attendance upon continuation schools If industrial training Is to ef fect the good which is desired and ex-' pectcd of It. Me said that Virginia I does no.t reed more legislation, that the local communities can begin the I work of industrial training without waiting for state aid, and that the State Hoard of Education can super vise the wor'.t. He pointed out the need of a separate department in the 1 State hoard to supervise industrial training. Superintendent of Public Instruction R. Stearnes discussed the prob'em a? Its affects Virginia. I?:-. Thomas \\alker Page, of the department of economics of the University of Vir ginia. adopted a rather critical atti tude, naying that it was not necessary to decry the present system nf educa tion in order to assure the new. and that money for additional needs could be obtained froin the Legislature if the need were fairly ,-,nd thoroughly e\ plained. ftKDFIKI.T) n K-Mljucirni) rilBSiniOT OK KOf'IKTV i \vn!i.1!!M,Unin^S session held at noon W i11 inin i Uedfield, Secretary of Com merce, w.m re-elected president: Chces 'V Horrlck. president of Olrard College vice-president, and Frederick I Pratt, secretary of the Pratt Insti tute treasurer. The following were elected to tho board of managers: Mrs. wl,?nck Woolman, Frederick A. o. uvii ,v. vv ntte, Dr. J A C f.hnndler and Ivrnest M. Hopkins. Nom WCre n,n:!e bv committee KK- '5 ,or. A. Uneo'n Fllene. Isai.cl c p m J" the gathering and caused the detention overnight by the inilitnry authorities og V. O. Rlckmnn, general manager of the Dominion Chain Company. Frank PfeifTer, also an official of the com pany. was held temporarily. The com manding omcer to-day released both men and apologized for their deten tion. The dinner wan for employes of the company, and was attended by city of ficials. Rlckman, as toastmaster, called on an associate for an address, and he responded with the German Bong. A city official objected, saying that to sing the song would be unpatriotic. The war argument that followed broke up the banquet, and the city official appealed to the ofllcer in charge of the troops to act. CHARGES "AGAINST SULLIVAN President May Sfml Special Invextl Kntor to Hnnto Domingo. WASHINGTON, December 11.?Presi dent Wilson conferred with Secretary Bryan to-day relative to sending a special Investigator to Santo Domingo to Investigate charges brought against James II. Sullivan, the American min ister, by Walker W. Vlck, former col lector of customs. I'aul Fuller, of New York, who re cently went lo Mexico on a special mission for the President, probably will be asked to make the Investigation. The President hnB requested a thor ough inquiry Into the charges. WORK.OF WAR RISK BUREAU Inxtiritncc Amounting to Written From September to December. WASHINGTON, December 11.?In surance amounting to 515,251,281 wan written by the War RlBk Bureau from September 2 to December 1, according to the first statement of Its work, made to Congress to-day by Secretary Mc Adoo. PFemlutn'q received amounted to |298,751. No losses have been paid to date. Claims entered amount to $5,00.1. Of the insurance written, a little more than $10,000,000 was on hulls, and I nearly $5,000,000 on cargoes. RUSSIANS CHECK GERMAN ADVANCE pjyron T.J'Tzir'ric.k- lyron T. Herrick, fbrinei Kiuuassatfor to KiJinccv nntl Mrs. derrick ar rivea in New York on Wednesday on board the Hochanibeau. When they left Paris,Mr. and Mrs. Herrick received'an ovation at the Invalides Station such as has seldom been given tu a diplomat from any nation. The geti nine grief of prance at losing him was displayed in many ways. On their arrival in New York, when, they posed especially for this picture aboard ship, they were .mel by u committee fro mU?e Ohio Society, a citizens1 com* itiittee from Cleveland, and J* New York committer, goaded-by Dock Com-. liifssiofier Smithy The, crajsul-aenernl .of. X10 by flie Republicans. U. S. Nivr STRDNG ENOUGH TO DEFEND BOTH COASTS Panama Canal Furnishes Way for Quirk Movement From One Coast to Other., DANIELS UK FORE COMMITTEE Secretary of Navy Discuses Dlflicul ties of Constructing Satisfactory Airships and Submarines?Thinks Government May Build Warships. WASHINGTON, December it.?Al though the Pacific Coast is..not ade quately protected for war, the Atlantic Fleet .could be rushed through the Panama Canal, while any hostile fleet would be delayed by the necessity of reducing Manila and Honolulu. In the opinion of Secretary" Daniels, wh,o con tinued his testimony to-day before, the House Naval A/fairs Committee. In the course of an all-day. examination the secretary also discussed the dif ficulties of constructing' satisfactory airships' and submarlnes.Vbut expressed opposition to "Extravagant? appropria tions" for cither of these branches of the service. He predicted" that ulti mately the government must buJld Its own warships. While Mr. Daniels was bofore, the committee the question of military preparedness was again under discus sion on the lloor of Congress: Sepator Weeks, of Massachusetts, declared In' a speech In the Senate'that there was too much publicity of'military secrets. He pointed to the secrecy observed by the nations now at war as an object lesson. Secretary Daniels frankly told the committee that thci'e were no Dread noughts or llrst-class battleships on the Pacific Coast. The" only battleships there, he. said, was the Oregon, ,a twenty-year-old vessel. The active naval strength on the Pacific ho gave as nine cruisers, two gunboats, one transport, one torpedo flotilla, five tor pedo-boat destroyers, three submarines and one tender. The reserve fleet, he added, comprised five armored crulpers,' four torpedo-boat destroyer*) and two submarines. Vfc5SR!,S NOW IN PACIFIC NOT ADKaiJ VTK PItOTKCTlON "Do you think thqse vessels' are ade quate protection to the Pacific Coast for war?" asked Itbpresentatlvo Ste phens, of California. '?No." replied the secretary.' "You would not commission the Ore gon a3 a. first-class battleship, would you?" "No." "You wouldn't consider the Pacific Coast sufllclently protected In ho far :\s the naval arm of the government Is concerned?" "I would not put it that strong. If we wore to have trouble with any na tion we would send a Meet through the Panama Canal." "You do not think ahy very material damage could be dpne before, the fleet could arrive on the Pacific Coast from the Atlantic ..Coast?." "I think the odds are the other waf. Ope of the reason*, porhaps, a chief reason, why we built the Panama Canal was to make it posslblo to have a .fleet to defend both coaHts." "Havatoh,l MEXICO CITY-, December 1 (vja El Paso, Texas, December. 11 delayed).? The Moxlean navy has repudiated Car (Continued On Eighth Page.)

KAISER'S ARMIES _ FORCED TO RETIRE AT SOME POINTS Column Nearing Warsaw Repulsed After Energetic Offensive. WAS WITHIN 15 MILES OF POLAND'S CAPITAL Servian Victory Over Austrians Appears Fully Con firmed. BOTH SIDES ACTIVE IN WEST Sturdee Reports Remarkably Small Ijoss In Recent Naval Engagement. Pendulum Swings Back in Favor of Russians THE peoduliim of war npparcntly linn finuDK Imfk ngnln In favor of the Hussinna In tli* eastern wsr ?one. An official report from Pelrogrnd dfi'lnrfH the Russians have repotied two units of Field Marshal von Hlndrnburc'fi army, near Mlnwa an<l IiOitIm, adrolnlnttrluK enormous casualties and taking many prlson rr? and Run*. At some places oq the Mlann front, and before Lowlca, the Hussions assert that the Ocr-, innnN mode fierce nttacks, bnt that these were repulsed, and thnt (be licrmann retreated In disorder. Near I,owic?, according to the Kumtlan statement, the Muacovllei permitted .the tierm?u?a to approach their trenches and then put them to flight with a galling Are. Successes', .also are claimed, hy .the .Russians. aouth of Cracow, where; hoover, the Herman*. arc ?aid' to he stnbbornly resisting. y That i.ermaliy realised thflt FleiA Mar?l.al von Hibdeutourg's brilliant manoeuvre, whlph brought the tifr man* almost before Warsnw ngnln i after they had been thrown back to the East Prussian frontier, wan not a decisive victory was acknowl edged In n statement of the tJer i man ofllclal preaa bureau. Dealing with the situation In theviclnity Of Iioda, the ntatement aald Russian resistance "la by no meana broken," and that "much yet remnlna to lie done before the Ruaalana can be considered definitely defeated." j The Servian* continue to clalth they linve administered a crushing defeat to the Auntrlana, and have token large numbers of prisoners nnd great quantities of war ma terial. Oa their'aide the Austrians say no new material events have occurred in Servla, nnd that the re organisation of the Austrian forces is progressing without heavy bat tles. Fighting continues In France and In Ilelglum, and claims of advant ages ore maile by both tpe con tenders. After having admitted the loss of trenches in the region of Ypren, the latest French report de clares these again are occupied by the allies. i With the return of the French government) to' Paris from Bor deaux, n squadron of aeroplanes Is doing scout duty over the capital to ward o(T possible attacks by hos tile aircraft.

In France -100,000 youths of the class of .1015 have gone Into train ing In the military camps and bar racks. It Is expected they will be. ready for the campaign In the spring. Iterlln advices, which previously announced that Germany had agreed to Pope Benedict's suggestion for a truce during the Christmas holi days, say Russia has declined to agree to the proposal, Unofficial advices record that Em peror William's condition continue? to Improve. Ills temperature Is normul, nnd to-day he sat up for a few hours. LONDON. December 11 (10:40 P. M.). ?Of the five Austro-Oorman columns which for some clays appeared to be making steady progress In their In vasion of Poland, threo have suffered checks, according to to-night's official report from Russian headquarter!}. The column making a downward stroke from Mlawa, on tho Kast Prus sian frontier, reported in-one dispatch from Petrograd to-day to be within tlftoen miles of Warsaw,, was repulsed nfter an energetic offensive, and,' under counterattacks from the Russians, was compelled to retire at some points. The attacks of tho main German col umn, which had Its front on the line between Lodx nnd L.owlc?, and which came down, diagonally from Thorn, wore dollvored with great force, but according to the Rusalan account, were repulsed with heavy losses to the In vaders. That" the Germans attached great Importance to the success of their, attack hero is shown by the fact that during the two days they faced the Russian trenches Beven tltne^ and we're driven back by a murderous Are. (JEllMANS lOSR AFTER TENACIOUS HKSISTANCB Tho other column which has suffered is thot composed of German and Aii? trian troops which had been trj'ln# to outflank the Russian left south of Cracow. Invthis case, the Russians assumed the offensive, and they clftlm;:f that after a -tenacious resistance Xajtr T

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Germans Suffer Enormous Casualties, Is Ru ssian Claim defeated the Germans, taking several rone and J.OOO prisoners. Of the Gorman column operating In the rftglon of Plotrkow, and that ad vancing from Csenstochowa, there Is no ncwn except tho Russian that 4,on other parts of tho front thero have been no substantial changes. A check or ropulsc of any opo of tho columns, however, in the opinion of military critics, must affect tho whole Oermnn plan, which was a formidable movoment aiming at tho capture of Warsaw and the roliof of Cracow. For this purpose largo reinforcements \yero sent from tho west, and operations wero pushed wUh great resolution against a determined opposition. it probably will take some days to de termine. however, whether tho checks have upset this plan. The Servian victory over the aus trlans appears fully confirmed by tho occupation of Ushltza and ValJe\o. The Servians havo regained most or their territory toward the Bosnian frontier, and they also havo defeated the Austrlans advancing from the north. VICTORY DUE ENTIRELY TO BRILLIANT LEADERSHIP Up to December 8 the Servians had captured about 55,000 prisoners, 11?? guns of all kinds and great quantities of war material. The Servians claim viclorv was clue entirely to brilliant leadership and the morale of their, troops, most of whom wore veterans I fighting in their third war. These Qualities, they say, overcame the r r numbers tho Austrlans had on their j side. In the west, both tho French and tho Germans claim they have made prog- ress in tho Argonne region and in Flanders. It Is evident the Germans, in an effort to Btop tho allies' advanco In Flanders, attempted an offensive In the vicinity of Ypros. and took 0110 trench from tho French. The latest French official communication says this trench was recaptured. Elsewhere along the front, thero havo been ar tillery duels with occasional infantry attacks by first ono side and then the other. Vice-Admiral Sturdee reports to tho admiralty that the British suffored a remarkably small Iosb In tho naval en- gagement off tho Falkland Islands. Only seven men wore killed and four wounded, according to his report. This Indicates, officials believe, that tho Germans were completely out ranged, and possibly not more than one shot reached tho British ships. Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of tho Admiralty, replying to a cablegram of congratulations from Japan, regarding tho naval victory, ohowa that Japanese and Australian ships arc co-operating in tho Pacific, and declares that tho defeat of Admiral von Spee completes tho expulsion ot Germans from tho East. GERMANS ARE ACTIVE IN YPItES VICINITY PARIS, December II (2:41 P. M.).? The official statement given out In Paris this afternoon Bays that tho enemy yesterday was actlvo In the vi cinity of Ypres. Throe of his attacks were repulsed, but ono of the import ant French trenchoe was reached by the forces of Emperor William. Never theless, French troops continue to make progress In tho direction of tho enemy's linos, according to tho official report. Artillery engagements are reported i In tho region of ArraB and In tho Vosges, as well as In tho vicinity of V^rennes and on the heights of tho Mquso. In the Argonne the French advanced several of thotr trenches. FRENCH REPULSED IS GERMAN CLAIM BERLIN, December 11 (by wireless to London. 3:05 P. M.).?In the official communication issued to-day by the German army headquarters staff, tho Germans claim to have niado progress OBITUARY Joseph Tovtnutnd Moore. Joseph Townsend Moon*, eighty years old. and one of the most promi nent cititens of Sandy Springs, Md., died earlv yesterday morning at a hos pital In New York, after a long Illness. He wau the father of Thomas L. Moore, of Richmond, a member of the firm. Warner Moore Co. Joseph Townsend Mooro was former ly one of tho most prominent bankers of Maryland. For a time lie was'presi dent of the bank at Sandy Ridge Springs, and was a director on a Bal timore bank. He hnd onco represented Montgomery County, Maryland, in the State Senate. Ho loavos a widow and three sons?Thomas L. Mooro. of Rich mond: George and Frederick Moore, of New York; and two daughters. Mrs. Bancroft and Mrs. Joseph Tilton, of New York. Captain Alien M. I<Ton. Captain Allen "M. Lyon, one of Rich mond's oldest cltliens, tiled at IiIh resi dence. 1422 Park Avenue yesterday morning' at 10 o'clock. He was born In Richmond on June 27, 1834, and has beet) Identified with hla native city over since. He served hla country during the war of 1861-5 as captain of tho Walker Light Guard, succeeding1 Cap tain John Stewart 'Walker In the com mand of thut company, and surrendered at Appomattox. He fought from Bethel to Appomattox, find was a most courageous and faithful oftlcer and soldier. He was long identified with the tobacco trade of Richmond, having been engaged with hla brother-in-law the late John K. Chlldry, In business. Later In life he has been with the 'Merchants National Bank until more recently compelled to retire on ac count of .the Infirmities of age. He was the oldest member of Centenary Methodist Church In point of mem- I bershlp. He Is survived by three children, Mrs. R M. Levemy, of Baltimore; Charles L Lyon, of Saint Augustine, Fla., Mrs. Wallace Cox, of Richmond, and one sister. Mrs. John K. Chlldry. The funeral service will bu held at Centenary Methodist Church to-mor row afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. DEATHS BIZER.?Bled, at Indian Neck. Va.. on December 6, 1314, DR. MILTON D. BIZER, aged seventy-three years. LYON.?Died, at his residence, 1422 Park Avenue, Friday, December 11. 1814. CAPT. ALLEN M. LYON. Funeral from Centenary M. K. Church SUNDAY at 3:30 o'clock. CARLTON.?Died, at her residence, 414 North Lombardy Street, MRS. J. W. CARLTON, at 12:30 yesterday (Friday) morning. Funoral services will be conducted by Re\'. W. S. Long, of Chapel Hill, N. C., from the residence TO-DAY (Satur day) at 12 o'clock. JOHNSON.?Died, at 12 o'clock mid night at the residence of O. O. Fried hoff. 8816 P Street. December 10. FREDERICK JOHNSON, aged seventy two. Ho leaves one son, Oscar M. Johnson, and one daughter, Mrs. Hat tte E. Dlckerson. Funeral THIS (Saturday) MORNINfl f.t 10:30 from the residence. Interment n Oakwood. WALTHALL.?Dlod, 'December 11 at 6:65 A. M.. LINTON RAY WALTHALL age fourteen years. Funeral from residence, 2204 'Dela ware Avenue. Richmond, Va., THIS (Saturday) AFTERNOON at 3 o'clock. Interment In Maury Cemetery. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY WANTED, first-class watchdog: house broke. H. 206. care Times-Dispatch. on both sides of {ho Argonne forest and In Flanders. and to havo repulsed French attacks In the Woevro region. MARKED I.MFKOVBMENT IN KAISER'S CONDITION LONDON, December 11 (7:06 P. M.). ?A dispatch to the Evening Nowa from The Hague Bays: "According to Information reaching here through prlvato sources. Emperor William's condition to-day showed marked Improvement. His tempera ture this morning was normal. His physicians allowed him to sit up for a few hours." OPERATIONS IN CARPATHIANS SATISFACTORY TO AUSTRIAN'S AMSTERDAM, December 11 (via Lon don. 10:25 P. M.).~Tho following Aus trian official statement has been rn cclvcd from Vienna: "Operations In the* Carpathians are progressing according to our plan. The enemy yesterday fought mainly rearguard actions, which were re pelled. "In Qallcla there Is no decision. Przemsyl Is only Burroundod by the enemy, and Is not being attacked. The garrison makes dally sorties, which keep the enemy at a respectful dla tnnco from the fortress zone. "Quiet reigned In Poland yesterday nlong our front." VIOLENT (iERMAN ATTACK REPULSED IIV FRENCH PARIS, December 11 (10:40 P .M.).? Tho French official communication Is sued to-night says: "In the region of Ypres a very vio lent German attack has been repulsed. "In that samo region those of our trenches which wero reported In tho official communication of 3 o'clock this afternoon as having been taken by the Germans have been recaptured by us. "Upon tho rost of the front there Is nothing Important to report." NO NEW EVENTS IN SOUTHERN WAR THEATRE VIENNA, December 11 (via London, S: 11 P. M.).?The following official statement was Issued by the Austrian army headquarters to-day: "No new material events have oc curred In tho southern war theatre (Servla). The regrouping of our troops generally 1b progressing without heavy battles." COUTINHO UNDERTAKES FORMATION OF NEW CAIUNET PARIS, Dooembor 11 (7:16 P. M.).? A Havas dispatch from Lisbon says that Victor Coutjnho, presldont of the Chamber of Deputies, has undertaken tho formation of a new Cabinet in place of tho ministry which resigned on December 6. STATES-GENERAL ADOPTS DUTCH GOVERNMENT LOAN LONDON. Decomber 11 (7:18 P. M.).? Router's correspondent at The. Hague Bays tho Dutch government's proposal for an emergency loan of 250,00(1,000 florins ($100,000,000) was adopted to day by the second chamber of the States-General. AMERICAN STEAMER DETAINED AT FALMOUTII LONDON, December 11 (8:60 P. M ?Tho American steamer George Haw ley, which left Now York November 15 for Copenhagen, and reached Falmouth November 80, Is among the vessels "whose cargoes, or part of them, havo been detained," according to official an nouncement in the London Gazette. Tho George Hawley Is recordod in shipping registers as belonging to the Boston and Virginia Transportation Company. INVALUABLE NAVAL ASSISTANCE OF JAPAN LONDON, December 11 (9^55 P. M.). ?Replying to his congratulations on the victory of the British squadron over the Germans oft the Falkland Islands, Winston Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, to-day cabled the Japanese Minister of Marino as fol lows: "With tho sinking of the Bcharn horst, Gnelsenau, Leipzig and Num bers, tho whole German squadron which had its bane at Tslngchau at tho outbreak of tho war has been de stroyed, and the base Itself reduced and captured. "This event marks the conclusion of active operations, in which the allied fleet has been engaged In the Pacific for four months. Though it has fallen to a British squadron in the South At lantic to striko the final blow, it was largely owing to the powerful and un tiring assistance rendered by tho Jap anese fleet that this result has boon achieved. "Had the enemy turned west again, the honors would have reBted with the Japanose and Australian squadrons moving forward In the general com bination. V "Tho peaco of tho Pacific now, for the time being, Is restored, and. the commerce of all nations can proceed with safety through the vast expanso from the coasts of Mozambique to those of South America. The expulsion of tho Germans from the East Is com plete, and with good and vigilant ar rangements by all a return by them should be rendered extremely difficult nnd hazardous. "I take the opportunity of Your Ex cellency's cordial message to express on behalf of the British apd Austral ian navies earnest recognition of the invaluable naval assistance of Japan." Itl'SSIANS REPEL SEVEN ATTACKS BY GERMANS PETROGRAD, December 11.?Tho following statement, from the general staff from tho Russian commander-in chief, was issued to-night: i "In the direction of Mlawa file Ger mans on December 10 kept up a strong i ofTenslvo fire through the day and night, but we succeeded In repulsing them. Our troops themselves, taking the offensive, gave chase to the Ger man columns, which. In some placos, retreated In disorder. "In the region to tho north of Lowlez tho enemy made some attacks on the night of December 9-10, and throughout tho wholo of tho following day. We rcpulBod these attacks and Inflicted enormous losseB on tho Ger mans. "We repelled. In all. sevon attacks, during which some of our units per mitted tho ehemy to approach very near, and tlion put them to flight with a murderous flre. "In tho roglon to the south of Cra cow, on Decoinber 10, we were still continuing our offensive with succoss in splto of the stubborn resistance of 1 fered by the Germans. "We captured several guns and mitrailleuses and as many as 2,000 prisoners. "There has been no important chnngc on tho remainder of the front." SEVEN KILLED, FOI R INJURED IN UATTIiE OFF FALKLAND!) LONDON, December 11 (9:17 P. M.). ?The admiralty has recolved a cable dispatch from Vice-Admiral Sturdee, of tho British r.qundron, stating that in tho battle off the Falkland Islands, in which tho German cruisers Scharn horst, Gnelsonau and. Leipzig were sunk, the British Bacualties totaled seven men killed and four wounded. No officers, tho dispatch saya, wore either killed or wounded. PROTECTED FROM FIRE IN HILLSIDE CAVERNS Men, Horses and Supplies of German Annies Occupy Former Stono Quarries. ON1/Y 200 YARDS FROM ENEMY Soldiers Smiling and Well Fed?No Indication That Nerves Are Break ing Under Strain?Health Condi tions Remarkably Good. HEADQUARTERS OF A CERTAIN GERMAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Decem ber 11 (forwarded by automobllo courier to Berlin, thenco to London, 4:11 A. M.).?A correspondent of tho Associated Press In tho field of opera tions 1ms been the guest of General von Heorlngen, formorly War Mlnlstor, and now commanding tho Hevex\th Army; Gonoral von Zwehl, tho capturer of Maubeuge, itnd General von Eramlch, conqueror of L,lege and Namur. Soveral hours wero spent In the tronches In a plcturesquo old town where Gorman riflemen and French leglonalres play grim practical Jokes of war upon each olhor from positions a scant 200 yards upart. Moti, horses, supplies and hospitals were housed In hillside caverns, formerly stone quar ries. absolutely protected from oven tho most powerful sholl fire. The morning was passed in an artil lery observation stand opposlto Rhelms, whore a powerful stereoscopic tele scope. through which tho flro of tho artillery Is directed, brought the ob server within 100 yards of the city and the cathedral, and enabled him to see that tho cathedral and its towers wore standing fairly Intact, although black ened by fire. SOLDIERS FODN'I) LlVIVG IN COMI'AUATIVE COMFORT Inspection was made of a labyrinth of field fortification approaches along the Alsne at Its nearest point to Paris, where tho lines are normally 200 or 300 yards apart. The soldlors, even In tho foremost trenches, were found living In comparative comfort. They are well supplied with blankets, food, water and clothing, and are In good spirits. De sultory infantry firo is always in prog ress hore. and occasionally the rattlo of machine guns breaks out. Tho artll lory on both sides has thrown tons of iron dally, but there have been no great fights of late hereabouts. Of all tho Impressions of tho trip, one of the most striking Is that left by the countless stacks of unthreshed grain, Btretchlng for miles In, every direction throughout thlB granary of Northern France. More than 100 Ger man threshing machines aro working in the region occupied by tho army, and six now ones wore encountered to-day plugging forward to reinforce the others. The army is not only liv ing on supplies of flour and moat de rived from this section of tho country, out Is actually Bonding wheat and Hour back to Germany. The German soldier at tho front Is smiling-and well fed. as he has one more warm meal dally than in peace time. Tho lean greyhounds seen aftor the dash on Paris are again rounding out Into portly Germans. NO INDICATION THAT J NERVES ARE nilGAKINO Tho normal soldier at the front does not Blng as much as formerly, partly perhaps because he has sung himself out, nnd partly because singing In .tho immediate vicinity of tho enemy Is apt to draw fire, but ho is neither discour aged nor exhausted. There Is no In dication whatever that his nerves are i breaking under the strain. Health conditions are remarkably good, the surgeons state, even bettor i than In peace times. There has been 1 considerable ty pljold, but this is now I well in hand, owing to the vigorous] use of the antityphoid serum. The medical departmont now Is cleaning out three villages In the immediate vi cinity of headquarters, which wero found to be typhoid centres. The sur geons are Isolating or vaccinating the Inhabitants of suspected villages. The Germans evidently are propar ing for an extended occupation. French I peasants, under the supervision and to j a certain extent tho mild compulsion of the Gflrmuns, liavo planted winter i crops, and aro working In the fields. I Important bridges destroyed during tho j occupation operations are everywhere holng permanently rebuilt with Bteel from Germany. The roads are being maintained as usual by French labor, and in some cases factories aro being reopened. SHIP IN DISTRESS RESCUED Revenue Cotter Tow* Schooner Into llnnipton Honda. NORFOLK. VA., December 11.?-The revenue cutter Itasca at 6 o'clock this aftornoon picked up tho schooner Mary W. Bowon, twenty-six miles northeast j of tape Charles Lightship, c.nd took the vessel in tow for Hampton Roads. Thq schooner was bound to Hump ton Roads from Portsmouth, N. H., for |a cargo of coal. Site was reported in distress by the schooner George D. Edmands, and the Itasca was sent to her assistance. Tho Itasca reports that tho Bowon was unable to anchor, hav ing broken her windlass. CLEAR FOR MEMBER BANKS Federal Hexcrve Hoard and Governor* DIncunm UaeMloit. WASHINGTON, December 11.?How far Foderal Reserve banks shall go in exercising the function of clearing house associations was discussed to day by tho governors of tho banks and tho Federal Itesorvo Board. It was decided that for tho present the reserve banks shall only clear chocks of member banks In their par ticular districts. The question of clear ance for outside banks was turned over to a committee, which will re port next month. The board has power to direct clearances outside any dis trict. KERN CALLS CAUCUS Wnnl* Democrat* io Avoid Neceaattjr for nn Kxfrn Srimion. WASHINGTON, December 11.?Sen ator Kern to-day called a caucus of Democratic, Senators for to-morrow afternoon to discuss tho legislative program. The aim Is to so frame, tho program that thero may be no neces sity for an extra session after March 4 next. President Wilson has told adminis tration leaders that he wishes tho wofk of tho Sixty-third Congress com pleted when March 4 arrives, and lead orS in both houses are unanimous In their Intention to avert another extra session. SERVIANS RfclN FORCED IIV RUSSIAN REGIMENTS AMSTERDAM (via London), Decem ber 11 (midnight).?Tho Frankfurter Zeitunnr eays tne Serviann ljave been reinforced by flv? Russian regiments which left Archangel October 27 and arrived at Antlvan. November 29. GERMANY ADMITS DECENT EOSS III SOUTH ITliTIC London Confident That the Dresden, Sole Remaining Unit of Squad ron, Is Accounted For. LATEST REPORT FROM 6TURDEE None of British Ships Injured; Sev en Men Killed and Four Wounded. Teuton Casualties Will Reach Ap proximately 8,000. [Kpcclal Cable to Tho Times-Dispatch.] LONDON, December 11.?Berlin Is ready to concede tho loss of the Dres den. the boIo remaining. unit of tho Gorman squadron destroyed" by Vice Admlral Sir Frederick Sturdee off the Falkland Islands. In tho tho South At lantic, last Tuesday. The -Imperial Press Bureau, from which emanates all ofllclal Information given for publication, In ..a statement Issued apparently before the destruc tion of the Nurnbcrg became known there, says, after recording the sink ing of the Scharnhorst, Gnelsenau and Leipzig and the escapo of the Nurn bcrg and Dresden In the main en gagement: "In view of tho superiority of the enemy's lloet, which consists particu larly of big, fast, well-armed ships, there seems little chance that our two cruisers can long evade pursuit. We must, therefore, also reckon with the loss of both these ships." London also Is confldont that tho Dresden has been accounted for, but the official announcement*" Is awaited with great patience, as Is also the an nouncement by the British admiralty of tho composition of the BHtlsh fleet which won this signal victory. Admiral Sturdee's latost command was the second cruiser squadron at tached to tho home floet. This In cluded the cruisers Shannon, Achilles, Cochrano and Natal, with a number of light cruisers, a torpedo flotilla, col liers and transports. Of these tho three laBt named were sister ships, laid down in 1903 and 1004, of 18,680 tons, an average speed of 23.5 knots, and carrying six 0.12 lnch guns, four 5.7s, and four three pounders. The Shannon is a cruiser of 14,600 tons displacement. Her speed is 22.4 knots, and her armament con sists of the same typo of guns, but more numerous. Each ship carried about 700 men. ADMIRAL STURDKE'S MOST ItECENT COSIJUND In view of the admiralty's stringent policy with relation to revealing the whereabouts of the units of tho fleets now on the sea. It Is only permissible to say that this was Admiral Sturdee's most recent command. Reference to the prosB bureau of tho admiralty of tho report repeated here from Buenos Aires that tho British fleet lost three ships in the engage ment With Admiral vpn Spec's squadron, caused a reiteration of the olllclal statement quoting Admiral Sturdee to the effect that none of the British ships had been lost. The preas bureau added that tho rovUed reports of the casual ties on tho British Bhips during the engagement showed seven men had been killed and four wounded. No casualties were reported among the ofllcers. Tho Buenos Ayres dispatch quotes private German sources as admitting that the German losses would reach 3,000. According to tho same sources, tho Dresden was sunk eight hours after the sinking of tho Nurnberg.' There is no official confirmation of this, nor of the statement that a Japanese squadron acted with the British fleet, trapping the Germans between the two squadrons and forcing them to scatter. The Inaccuracy of this information is betrayed by tho passage in tho dis patch which states that a number of British wounded have been taken to Montevideo. This does not square with tho official statement that there were but four men wounded. Those natural ly would bo attended In the sick bay of the ships to which they are at tached. llSXPISCTED TO ACCOUNT FOR TIIK KARL.SRUIIIC Admiral Sturdee's fleet Is looked to now to account for the German raider, Karlsruhe, still at large, and fast build ing for Itself a reputation second only to that of the Emden. With the Dres den disposed of, It is thought Admiral Sturdeo will then devote his energies to sweeping tho South Atlantic In search of this Indefatigable destroyer of commerce. The Kronprinz Wllhelm, a German converted cruiser, also hold ing a roving commission, is reported to bo in South Atlantic waters, and on the Pacific side, the Prince Eitel Frederich still Is at large. Japanese cruisers even now aro in pursuit of the Eitel, oft the coast of Chile, according to dispatches from Tokyo to-day. Tho Prince Eitel Is tho converted North German Lloyd steam ship which recently sank the British steamship Charcas oft Port Corral, Chile. England confidently believes Admiral Sturdeo will have cleared the seas of these commerce raiders by the first of tho year. Indeed, they already are reported to be seriously hampered by the loss of their supply ships and colliers. De tails as to the location and time of the destruction of these supply auxiliaries are lacking, as also Is official con firmation of the report. DFEADNDIIGHTS REMAIN BACKBONE Of THE IU Officials Not Swayed From Belief by Success of Submarines in Present War. DANIELS SUBMITS REPORT His Building Program Follows Policy of General Board'a Recommenda*! tlons, but Reduces Number of Ships of Each Class Asked For. WASHINGTON, Dooember 11.?Star tling successes of submarines In the European war have not swayed United States Navy officials from their be lief that all big-gun battleships of the Dreadnought typo form tho main dependonco of any boh powor. Tho construction of two suoh ships next year was rocommended by Secretary Daniels in his annual reportr-submlt tod to-day to President Wilson. The Navy General Board urged the build ing of four. The complete building program for the coming year rocommended by Sec retary Daniels comprises: Two Dreadnoughts, six destroyers, eight ,or moro submarines, one to be a large, Bea-golng craft and tho others of smaller srfe for coast defense opera tions: one gunboat and one fuel oil ship. If this program is followed out, Mr. Daniels says, "tho Increase will be notworthy and will givo us a well roupded navy equal, if not superior, to that of any navy In the world, ship for ship and man for man." REDUCES NUMBER OF SHIPS IN EACH CLASS Secretary Daniels's program, ho states, follows the policy of tho gen oral board recommendations, but re duces the number of ships of each, class asked for. The board recom mended tho construction of tho fol lowing as the 1916 program: Four Dreadnoughts, sixteen destroy ers, three sea-going submarines, six teen coast-defenso eubmarlnca, four scout cruisers, four gunboats, two fuel oil ships, ono destroyer tender, ono submarlno tender, one navy transport, one hospital ship, one supply ship and a $5,000,000 appropriation for navy aircraft. The board was acting on Its policy looking to the completion In 1919 of a fleet, tho main lino of which would be forty-eight battleships. In lta report, transmitted to the secre tary, It Is stated that the presont situ ation of the batleshlp fleet Is ten ships behind that program, the total of those In commission, under construc tion and authorized for completion in 1019 bolng thirty-seven. Submarines coma in for extended discussion by the secretary and the general board, "ltecent developments in naval warfare," Mr. Daniels says, "have strengthened faith In the efficacy of the submarine. The department urges, therefore, the construction of an increased number of submarines and the larger utilization of this wea pon of warfare, which has demon- i strated Its effectiveness. There are many (very many more than a few weeks ago) who believe the time has come when tho advice of Sir Percy Scott should be taken. Months ago that able English officer declared that the Qubmarlno wne the most effective ship of.the navy of the future, and advised a cessation In the rapid con struction of Dreadnoughts and the utilization of the money thus spent in building large numbers of submarines. The lay mind has accepted this view ??f the policy, but the trained naval I ifllcers mnklng up the general board j nre convinced that, while the subma rines have a lafgo part to play in naval warfaro, they do not replace the larger craft. These naval statesmen1 hold to the opinion that the Dread nought remains the central and chief fighting force of a well-proportioned navy. STRONGEST SEAGOING SllirS ARE BACKBONE OF NAVY "Tho general board reiterates the opinion it has always held that 'com mand of tho sea can only be gained ond hold by vessels that can take and keep the sea In all times and in all weathers and overcome the strongest enemies that can be brought against them.' It declares 'other types are valuable and have their particular uses,' but 'the backbono of any navy that can command the sea consists of the strongest deagolng, sea-keoplng ships of Its day, or, of its battleships.' "Tho department feels that It Is upon safe ground in looking to the board to prescribe the character of the ships to be constructed. The large increase in submarines is most desirable, but nothing In the present war haB dis proved their faith In the modern Dreadnought. Tho fact that there has been no encounter between these powerful ships doos not Justify tho j conclusion that their further construc tion should be discarded in favor of tho smaller qraft, which liao aston ished the world by its ability to sink cruisers and other craft, giving its severest and most fatal blows before Us presence is discovered. It may be that naval engagements later on will teach lessons that will change expert opinion, but as long as the bulk of tho ablest naval ofllcer believe the increase of tl^e navy should embrace, In fair proportion, tho Dreadnought, tho destroyer and tho submarine, the secretary would not feel warranted In recommending a widely different pro gram of construction. "However, In view of the demon ^VX)U can't tell much about A the kind of ainjine a automobile has-by th' way th' varnish shines. An' some fine dressed folks ain't got much of a mental magneto. can be no criticism of VEL "dresa;" only praise for and that aged in the wood mello^nees which Is VELVET'S own. 10c tins and metal-lined bags. irrr^rrir ^idJ strated power of the submarine, I would Imprests upon Congress the Importance of making a largor Increase In the submarine craft, appropriating gener ously therefor without reducing the ap propriations for other craft. The esti mates for theso wore rcduced to the minimum. liUILDING OF SUBMARINES NOT NECSMSCTED JIY NAVY "That our navy hats not neglectod the construction of submarines will be seen by a comparison of our strength In this craft with that of foreign navies. It Is roughly estimated that thore are built or building for the varl ous navies the following number at submarines: England, 84; Prance, 76; United States, 51; Germany, 81; Japan, 17. This estimate was mado In July of this year. "When" the relatlvo sizes of the fleets of the great rations enumerated above are considered, it will bo seen that the United States has a submarine flotilla relatively and actually very powerful. England's fleet is more than twice as great as ours, yet she has but little more than lial( us many more sub marines. France has a considerably largor submarine fleet than ours, with a smaller navy, but she has In the past taken tho lead In submarine building. Some years ago she abandoned the Dreadnought policy to acquire large numbers'of submarines, but In the last two or three years has. made unusual exertions to repair her deficiency In Dreadnoughts. England has overcdme this lend, und wo are on that road, having, in addition to tho llfty-one ships already mentioned, eight or more authorized by last year's bill, on which work will shortly commence, and we are asking for eight or more this year, which will swell our total to at least sixty-seven in tho next three years. Germany, with a larger fleet than ours," has less submarines, and Japan, with a fleet smaller than ours in strength, only half as many submarines. "What wo have dono, however, In submarine construction If but an earnest of what must bo done In the futuro. When we shall have a division of seagoing submarines In commission, we will havo added to the battleship fleefa strong fighting unit which must be of large Importance In any oversea operations. MtllMAItlNES ON PAR WITH ANY IN WORLD "As far as the submarines them selves are concerned. It Is believed that ours are on a par with any in the world. In the appropriation made by the last Congress, two types for the first time were Included?one of high surface speed, to accompany tho fleet, and one for coast, and harbor def-'inse. In' the building of two such distinct types, we are In accord ,wlth what foreign countries are doing, and submarine flotillas In the futuro will probably be composed of vessels of these two types. Of aviation, the secretary says: "Aircraft have demonstrated In tho presont war In Europo that no mili tary arm Is complete which lacks them. They will not replace vessels of war, but will extend the flold of operations to the air, as well as on the surface of and underneath the water. They provide the best means for discovering submarine mines, and have now become an Indispensable naval adjunct. "We are but In the Infancy of air craft. The development In the manu facture of these craft livthlB country neodu to bo etlmulated, and the suc cess of this arm of the military ser vice abroad will bo a mighty atlmulus to American manufacturers. "Orders were given early In the year for some foreign-built aeroplanes. In addition to larger orders for aero planes made in this country. Unfor tunately. tbo war made it Iraposslblo for the orders placod abroad to bo filled, and tho trial of such craft must be postponed. The best types of Amorolan manufacture have been or dorcd, and the department wilt develop this modern branch of tho naval ser vice steadily and rapidly." The Renoral board does not tak? the fame vUw. Its report refers to its recommendations in 1-913, which* "brought to tho attention or the de partment tho dangerous situation of the country In the lack of aircraft and airmen In both the naval and mllltarv services. At tho present time the total number of aircraft of any kind ownod by the navy consists of twelve aero planes, not more than two of which are of the same type, and all roported to have too little speed and carry capacttv for service work. "In our present condition of unpre parednous, In contact with uny foe pos sessing a proper air service, our scout ing would be blind. "We would bo without tho means of detecting tho presence of submarines or mine fields or of attempting direct attack on tho enemy from the air, while our own movements would be an open book to i him. Tho general board cannot too strongly urge that the department's 'most serious chpught be jtlven to thin matter, and that Congress be asked I for an appropriation of at least 15, 000,000 for the purposo of establishing Ian elllclent air service." Financial conditions resulting from i tho European war have caused tne de partment to rofraln from asking this year for an Increase in personnel, Sec retary Daniels states, but says a plan will bo presented to Congress next session for the organisation of a com petent naval reserve force from the men who receive honorable discharges from the navy. Tho general board lays great stress on the qucstlon.of personnel. "The board,"/the report says, "cannot I too strongly nrgo the ropeated recom mendations to provide the fleet with a personnel actlvo list and trained re servo, equal to the manning of the 1 lleet for war. In the opinion of tho general board this la a matter of even moro serious Import than that of con struction, for it cannot be too often repeated that ships without a trained personnel to man and fight them nro useless for tho purposes of war. Tho ?:oneral board recommends legislation or an active personnel, officers and enlisted force, capable of keeping In full commission all battleships under flfteon years of age from date o? au thorization; all destroyers and sub marines under twolve years of ago from authorisation; half of the cruisers and all gunboats, and all tho necessnry auxiliaries that go with the aotlvo fleets; and of furnishing mlcleus crows for all ships In the navy that would be used In time of war, and tho neces sary men for tho training and other shore stations." Hecrotnry Daniels again urges that the grades of admiral and .vice-admiral bo restored, and giving considerable Hpace to tho occupation of Vera Cruz by United States naval forces pays i tribute to the nineteen men who lost their lives there. The eijtlre record of Vera Cruz, th?j secretary states, is "a remarkable demonstration of the all around efficiency of the navy." Tho report discusses at length many other subjects with which the depart ment has been engaged, including tho manufacture of powder, Investigation of tho coHt of armor plate manufac ture, construction details of new ships, Ithe antlwlno mess order promulgated this year, the educational work for en ltstod men for which the secretary ex presses great enthusiasm and reports pleasing results, and the work of tho relief snips, North Carolina and Ten nessee, still In European waters watch ing over American Interests. In con clusion Secretary Daniels says: Piles Cured in O to 14 Days. Drurslats refund moner If PAZO OINT MENT folia to cure Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles. First application give* i relief. S0c.?Adv. Great Values For Men and Young Men $15.00 Suits and Overcoats naturally head the list, because they are great values 52 weeks in the year. No store with a limited buying power can equal the quali ties we are able to offer. 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STOCK EXCHtNEE WILL RESUME THINE THM j IilHt of Unrestricted aud xxeatrlcted Issues In Which Dealings Will He Permitted. CLONED MINCE JULY 30 LAST Condition of international List Im proves, as Is Hliown in Minimum Prices Quoted?These Are on Busls of Quotations of July 80. NEW YORK. December 11.?The New York Stock Exchange to-day mudo public u list of unrestricted and re stricted stocks. together with minimum prices in Hie case of restricted stocks, In which trading will be permitted on the floor of the ijock Exchange, be kI?iiIiik to-morrow. This 1b the Mrat time that Btocks will have been traded in on the floor of tho Stock Exchange since July 30 lust, when the exchange was closed hecauue of the European war situation. Re stricted trading In bonds has been per mitted for two weeks. LISTS OK IlKSTItlCTHD AND UNUKSTHICTFID STOCKS The following are the lists of re stricted and unrestricted stocks: Restricted stocks: Alaska Gold, 19; Allls-Chalmers Manufacturing Company preferred, 31; Amalgamated -Copper, 47; American Beet Sugar, 19; American Beet Sugar preferred, 73: American Can, 19; Amer ican Can preferred, 78: American Car and Foundry, 42: American Car and Foundry preferred, 108; American Cot ton Oil, 31; American Cotton Oil pre ferred. 89; American Hide and Leather ipreferred, 17; American Ice Securities, '19; American Linseed preferred, 24; American Malt Corporation preferred, |30; American Smelting and Refining, '42; American Smelting and Refining preferred, 93; American Smelters sec ond preferred, series "IV 78; Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph, 112; American Tobacco, 210; American To bacco preferred. 100: American Woolen preferred. 71; Atchison, 86; Atchison preferred. 96; Bethlehem Steel, 30; Bethlehem Steel preferred, 79; Brook lyn Rapid Transit, 78; Brooklyn Union ;Gos, 118; California Petroleum, 15; California Petroleum preferred, 47; Central Leather, 28; Central Leather preferred, 95: Chicago Great Western preferred, 24; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. 82; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul preferred, 126; Colorado and Southern first preferred, 37; Colorado and Southern second preferred, 29; Consolidated Gas. Ill; Continental Can Company, 40; Continental Can Com pany preferred. 80; Corn Products pre ferred, 96; Erie Railroad Company, 19: Erie Railroad Company preferred, 23; Krle Railroad Company second pre ferred, 26; Federal Mining and Smelt ing preferred. 26; General Electric. 135; Getieral Motors Company, 58; Gen eral Motors Company preferred, 76; Goodrich. 20; Goodrich preferred, 86; International Agriculture Corporation preferred, 20; International Harvest of New Jersey, SO; International Harvest of New Jersey preferred, 112; Interna tional Paper preferred. 30; Intcr borouKh Metropolitan preferred. 50; Kansas City Southern, 19; Kansas City Southern preferred, 49; Lehigh Valley, 119; Louisville and Nashville, 125; Miami Copper. 16; Minneapolis and St. Louis preferred, 27; Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway preferred. 26; Na tlonnl Biscuit. 11S; National Biscuit preferred, 120: National Enamel and Stamping preferred. 76: National Lead, 39; National Lead preferred, 103; Now York. New Jluve'n and Hartford, 49; New York. Ontario and Western, 18; Norfolk ami Western, 94; Norfolk and Western preferred, S3; North American, 62; Northern Pacific. 96; Pacific Mall Steamship, 17; Pacific Telegraph and Telephone, 20: Pacific Telegraph and Telephone preferred. S7; Pennsylvania Railroad, 102; I'eople Gas. 104; Pitts burgh Coal. 15; Pittsburgh Coal pre ferred, 78; Railway Steel Spring, 19.: Railway Steel Spring preferred. 86: Ray Consolidated, 15; Republic Iron and Steel, IS; Republic Iron and Steel pre ferred, 75; Reading Company, 136; Reading Company first preferred, 84; Reading Company second preferred. 80; Ruinely preferred, 21; St. Louis, South western, 136; St. Louis, Southwestern preferred, 36: Seaboard Air Line pre ferred. 46; Sloss Sheitlfld. 18; Sloss Shefllcld preferred, 80; Southern Rail way. 16; Southern Railway preferred, 64; Tennessee Copper. 23; Texas Com pany, 110; Third Avenue Railway, 32; Union Bag and Paper preferred, 18; United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foun dry preferred, 29; United States Rub ber. 42; United States Itlbber first pre ferred, 94-: United States Rubber sec ond preferred, 70; United States Inde pendent Alcohol. 15; United StatCB In dependent Alcohol preferred. 75; United Railways investment preferred, 29: Utah Copper, 44: Vulcan Detlnnlng preferred. 20: Western Maryland pre ferred. 29: Western Union, 52; West inghouse Hlcctrlc and Manufacturing, 62; Westinghouse Electric and Manu facturing first preferred, 116. Unrestricted: Allis-Chalmers Assets Realization Company; American Hide and Leather; American Llneeed; American Malt Cor poration: American Woolen; American Writing Paper, preferred; Chlcapo and Alton; Chicago and Alton, preferred; Chlcapo Great Western; Corn Products Refining: Denver and Rio Grande; Chi cago find Rio Grande, preferred; Dis tillers' Securities Corporation; Dulutli S. S. and A. Railway; Duluth S. S. and A. Railway, preferred; Federal Mining and Smelting: Inspiration Continental Copper, International Agricultural Cor poration; International Mercantile Ma rine; International Mercantile Marine, preferred: International Paper Com pany; International Steam Pump; In ternational Steam Pump, preferred; In terborough Metropolitan; Iowa Central Railway; Iowa Central Railway, pre ferred^. Lake Erie and Western; Lake Erie and Western, preferred: Minneap olis and St. Louis; Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railway; Missouri Pacific Railway; National Enamel and Stamp ing; National Railways of Mexico, sec ond preferred; Nevada Consolidated Copper: Peoria and Eastern Railway: Quick Silver Mining; Quick Silver Min ing, preferred: Rock Island; Rock Is land, preferred: Runiely; St. Louis and San Francisco; St. Louis and San Fran cisco, first preferred; St. Louis and San Francisco, second preferred; sal.; Texas ?nd Pacific Railway; Toledo, St. I.ouis and Western Railway; St. Louis and Western Railway, preferred; Union Rag and Paper; United Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry; United States Reduction and Refining; United States Reduction and Refining, preferred; United Rail ways Investment; Vulcan Detlnnlng; Wabash; Wabash, preferred; Western Maryland; Wheeling and Lako Erie; Wheeling and Lako Erie, first pre ferred: Wheeling and Lake Erie, second preferred. IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITION OK INVESTMENT LIST That the condition of the Interna tional list has Improved appreciably. Is shown, however, In the latest list of minimum prices quoted by the ex change. These are on the basis of July 30 quotations, hut in a number of Important Instances actual aalen made to-day were two to five points above that lovel. The new minimum prices follow: American Agricultural Chemical, 48; Anaconda, 24: Atlantic Coast Line, 112: Baltimore and. Ohio, 67; lialtlmorfc and Ohio, prefcrrod, G9; Canadian Pacific. 163; .Chesapeake and Ohio, 40; China Copper, 31; Chicago i?nd North westorn, 122: Colorado Fuol, 20: Delaware and Hudson, 135; IIIImoIb Central, 102: lia Clode Gas, 82: Minneapolis. St. Paul and Salt Ste Mftrlc. 100: Now York Central. 78:PIttHburgh. Cincinnati. Chi cago and St. Louis. 04; Presncd Steel Car. 32, Pullman, 150; Southern Paclllc, 81; Union Paclllc, 111; Union Pacific, preferred. 70: United States Steed, IX; United States Steel, preferred, 102; United States Realty, ft 1: Virginia Carolina Chemical, 20. U. S. NAVY STR0NGEN0IIG H TO DEFEND BOTH COASTS (Continued From First Page.) "Not at the same time, but there Is hardly a possibility of our being attacked on both sides at once." "An enemy," in- added, "has got to run tiie gauntlet of our submarines In the Philippines and Hawaii, and wo could delay them a good deal with the tieet we have there now. until the real large llect comes. H would take about eighteen days, roughly, for the Meet to go from New York to San Francisco, provided the canal Is open and un obstructed." MOKK S|t 11.11 A It IXlis \VI I,|, UK SKNT To I'll 1 I.IIMM.VKM "l'o you think the submarines now In the Philippines would offer any serious hindrance to the navy In the Paclllc Ocean attacking us?" "We are going to send more over there, and we are asking for more now?" The secretary made a veiled illusion to emergencies during the Vera Cruz occupation which might have led to taking half the men off the Atlantic Fleet to join the army in proceeding to the Mexican capital. In reply to a question as to the use of battleships where gunboats would suffice for the naval necessities of the situation, he Bald: "For instance, when the first Mexi can trouble occurred, in January, 1913, we sent battleships to Mexico. Some said the United States should have sent gunboats, and saved the battleships for other purposes, but the gunboats would not have done as well. If we had had to blockade all the Mexican ports, all the battleships would have been needed. If we had gone to Mex ico City we would have had to take half the navy with us." Asked If he agreed with the recom mendation of Captain Bristol, in charge of aviation, for a $1,000,.TOO appropria tion for airships, the secretary said that was not too much "If wo could get the aircraft, but It was too much as the airship situation Btands." Captain Bristol had advised the com mittee that, from the best Information available, the United States had only twenty-three aeroplanes. including those privately owned, while France had approximately twenty-two dirigi bles and 1,400 aeroplanes; Russia, eighteen dirigibles and 800 aeroplanes; Great Britain, nine dirigibles and 400 aeroplanes, and Germany, forty dirigi bles and 1,000 aeroplanes. Secretary Daniels said the difficulty in this coun try was that manufacturers had not yet made an aircraft suitable for the navy. Chairman Padgett intimated that the committee might later add a substantial sum to the navy bill to provide for airship development. NAVAL WAH COI.M2UK GIIKATLY STRENGTHENED Secretary Daniels told the committee that the Naval War College had been greatly strengthened. He declared "the strongest thing In the navy Is the practical instruction and technical training aboard ship." He said the time was past when more naval officers wanted shore berths than sea service. "If Congress should pass a bill to provide a considerable Increase In the number of submarines, you'd be glad of it. wouldn't you?" he was asked. "Yes. If It wouldn't Interfere with our program. 1 wouldn't advocate, however, an extravagant Increase of submarines." He advised against building any more seagoing submarines than the one authorlcd last year and the one asked this winter. "The seagoing submarine," he added, "is still an experiment." "We tried to get a satisfactory type of aircraft, and have failed," the sec retary said, adding that the United .States Is only at the commencement 1 of aircraft development. Contracts for aircraft had been made In Ger many and France. He agreed that it looked as if the United States would have to organize a department of avia tion "and build our own machines." OVERLOADED WITH WORK I'lnn fur inorrnnlnK Mrmlipriililp In I nilcr Consideration. WASHINGTON. December 11.?legis lation to regulate issues of railroad securities which passed the House last season may he held up in the Senate and n plan for increasing the member ship of the Interstate Commerce Com mission and dividing it to enlarge its working capacity tlnally incorporated in it. The bill would empower the commission to regulate issue of se curities. President Wilson feels that the In terstate Commerce Commission is al ready overloaded with work, said j Chairman Newlands, of the Senate*| Commerce Committee, to-day. The suggestion has been made that when securities legislation is consld- j ered there be formulated some plan j whereby Die commission could be en- j larged and divided into departments and it would not be necessary for the commission to sit as a whole on all matters. To frame such legislation undoubtedly will require considerable time, and the President is very eager 1 that nothing be attempted now which j will necessitate an extra session of Congress. URGENT APPEAL FOR AID i Tllankenherglte, In Went Klnndrrs, He- i portn All Funds Exhausted. LONDON. December 11 (8:20 P. M.). ?"If somebody does not come to our aid, Ood knows what will become of j us," writes two leading residents of j Ulankenberghe. West Inlanders, In an j appeal to-day to the representative at Itottordam of the American Commis- slon for Relief in Belgium. Blankenberghe. the appeal says, has recolved no contributions from any j source, but has contrived to feed l.tiOO persons daily. Now the funds of the community are exhausted. Declares It Wuuld lie Unchristian llko ami Immoral to Stop Fight inj; and Theu Resume It. l?KKliS SOHKV FOR THE KAISKK llelieves That Military t'astc In C!er inany Is Responsible for War, and That Emperor Was III When Hos tilities Rroke Out. WASHINGTON. December 11.?An drew Carnegie, a White House caller j to-day. expressed decided opposition to i a Christmas truce In the European war. It would lie unchrlstlanllke and Im- I moral.. he said, to stop IIkIUIiik and I then resume It. He added he could not believe that any nation which adopted such a HUKKeHtlon was doiriK It sin cerely. Mr. Carnegie wave it an his opinion that the military caste In Germany was re sponsible for the war, and that at the time hostilities broke out the Kaiser was 111 and opposed to t'ne war. ?The Kaiser has told me that he took the greatest pride in the fact that he re'gncri for many years without bolng involved in war," said Mr. Car negie. "But he was surrounded by a ring of militarists who were eager for war at any price." Mr. Carnegie said he hoped that the world would be so horrified over the war that permanent peace would fol- low. Mr. Carnegie showed some Interest at a suggestion that he might be called upon by the President to help bring about peace when the time came. "1 will do anything I possibly can," he said. "I believe Mr. WIlBon earnest ly desires peace." GltKATKST SYMPATHY FOR MEN IN TRENCHES For "the men in the trenches" Mr. Carnegie expressed greatest sympathy. "They had nothing to do with bring ing about this terrible conflict." said he. "All they can do is obey orders and shoot each other down. It Is ter rible that so many wldo'ws and orphans a-e being made because a few. men wanted to .go to war. It Is terrible that all the scientists and other men of culture In Germany are not allowed to advise the Kaiser Instead of the small clique of military men. "I do not see how there can help j being a great reaction after this war l Is over. Private individuals used to S flRht when they had differences, but new they go to court. I sincerely hope to see the day when nations will settle their differences in the same way. There can be an International peace force created to enforce the de cisions of The Hague tribunal Just as police officers now enforce decisions of the courts.'" Speaking of Germany's part In the war, Mr. Carnegie said he believed the J Emperor was 111 when the conflict I broke out, as he Is now. He expressed I jjreat sympathy for the Emperor, and i said he knew his "heart must be j broken" over the break In his peaceful reign. L.ater Mr. Carnegie called on Sec retary Bryan. "It seems to be Incongruous; In fact, an Impertinence," he said afterward, "that the nations should pray to the Prince o( Peace when every day their men are killing each other." Asked If he had heard of any de velopment looking toward peace, he shook his head regretfully. H. K. BROOKS ADVANCES nine* From Xewnbojr to Vlc?-Prt!(ld?n Delights in the Garment Department To-day WITH ALL WINTER BEFORE YOU IN WHICH TO ENJOY THEIR POSSESSION, WE ARE OFFERING MANY OF OUR' BEAUTIFUL SUITS, COATS AND DRESSES AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. These garments, both in fabric and design, show the latest demands of fashion. If there were any advantage in waiting till January, we might advise you to do so, but when you can have4 these stylish garments NOW, wear them all of December, and pay next January prices, then it is surely an advantage to buy in this preliminary clear-away. Bear in mind?Every garment is perfect in every way. The ^latest winter styles and fabrics, trimming, linings and tailoring; each expressing individuality?a becoming style for every figure. The prices speak of bold price reductions. $22.50 Suits for $30.00 Suits for $22.50 Dresses for $12.50 $17.50 $10.00 $30.00 Dresses for $17.50 Coats for Silky Zibeline Coais A "Treat" for Sunday Breakfast Order This Morning HOLSUM PAN BISCyiTS are delivered fresh and HOT to your dealer twice a day. Leave your order to have them delivered TO YOU this evening H-O-T. Then Sunday morning a few minutes in the oven will bring them to your table crisp, brown and piping hot?SIMPLY GREAT. Try it. "HOLSUM." Pan-Biscuits Pat. June, 1914. In Glassine Bags At Your Dealers Made Clean?Sold Clean?Delivered Clean Nothing like it ever offered Economical enough for ..0_, the women of Richmond. So fLJj C lunches, breakfast, between meritorious that letters patent meal snacks?delicious enough were granted by the IT. s. Gov- for the finest table in the coun ernment June, 1914. Brand- try. Order some early from new flavor, brand-new process, Your your dealer's. HOLSUM PAN brand-new quality at a brand- BUSCUITS are so good that new price. U63ier S they are sold out E. 10 South Jefferson Street, Your Dealer Will Supply You?We Sell Only THE PURITY CO Tel. Randolph 1861.

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jti jloggia LUU JJ ii. RICHMOND WILL GET BALTIMORE ORIOLE'S FRANCHISE FODTSALL BflTTLE TO BE STAGED TO-MY Scholastics and Church Hill Athletic Club Teams to Decide Amateur Champlonsltlp of City. BOTH ELEVENS ARE READY Additional Week Given to Training Has' Put Players In Tiptop Form iot Hard Contest?Receipts to Be Turned Over to Belgian Fund. To-Day's Line-Up Chnrcli Hill Kcliolaitlc*. Position. Athletic Club. ItanMotne.. .left end R.Bell Hemlne. .left tnckl*..... .A. Bell Wiltshire, i.. .left guard Miller Locke centre Sterling Penlck rUrht Runrd Dudley fiarrlng... .rlcht tackle Cnson lncy,.i. r I Klit end :Qunrlen Hart quarter back. .Perkins Parker. .left half bnck. Humbnrd Gee '....full hack Stutm Molts rlRlit half bnck... W. Bell Substitutes Scholnntlc*! Honn, Davison, Umlnuf. Church Hill A. C.i Cosby, Hoy, Thacker, Mnhooe, Pollard and Anderson. Nothing short of a blizzard Will atop tha Belgian Benefit Game to-day at Broad Street Park between the fool ball teams representing the Chur?-h Hill Athletic Club and Scholastics f6r the Independent championship of Richmond. This contest was post poned from last Saturday, owing to the i*;clcmerit weather, hut neither team IB lh a frame of mind to allow' anything to come between" them and playing this afternoon, and the gfcfrie will start at 3 o'clock. Scholastics, through Its manager, W. W. Gee, announces that they are In form, and can see no reason why the varsity football olterfed to the win ner should hot adorn thfe walls of their clubroom this winter. A satisfactory practice was held list night on Gamble's Hill, and from Locke, the dlmihutivo centre, to Deii; nls, the rangy half, the whole team was at Its best, and expectB to annex the long end of the score. This optimistic spirit pervades the boys from Church Hill. Their full squad-was out last night, ftnd had a spirited workout. The shift of W. Bell to right half and PerklnB to quar* ter has provon to be a wise move, and the team seems to feel that its efficiency has been greatly Increased therebyi When seen last night, Cap* tain Quarles was confident of winning. He was of the opinion that the team getitng the Jurrip would win, and Bays that his men are going into the game to get this jump at the start and-to Keep it. The Church Hill team will lriiet at Jenkins's Book Bindery, ?>ri West Broad Street, at 2:30 o'clock, arid Will pioceed t;> the park in a body, Accompanied by a contingent of their fcupporters. There is no question but what the Spectators will witness one of the aorappiest exhibitions seen at Broad Street Park this season. There has been no break in the intense feeling existing between the squad, and they are going to bo at each other from the start. Owing to examinations at the .aerril* nary, Hughes and Harr have found it impossible to olficiato In to-day's con tent- Dorsey Tyler, former Richmond College and Medico star, has been ae* cured to act as umpire, and with Witt. V. M. L, Referee, It will be well han dled. As has been stated, the proceeds Of this game will be turned over to Col onel H. M. Boykin, State Commission er of the Belgian Fund, as a contribu tion to the fund which ho Is raising. As an accommodation to the public, tickets have been placcd on sale and can be found at the following places: Straus Cigar Store. Tenth and Main; Crenshaw's. Elevneth and Main; Mc (Joy's, Eighth and Broad; Springers Pharmacy. Twenty-third and Venable; Partln's? Pharmacy, 2505 East BrOad Street; Williams's Pharmacy, T wen* ty-first and Marshall, and Farley a Pharmacy, Third and Main. All tickets sold for the game last Saturday will be good to-day. CHARLESTON RESULTS First race?maiden!^ two-year'-old ill* lies, five furlongs?Andromeda, 1 i3 (Hoffman), 2 to 1. 4 to 6, B to 6, Arst: Kopje, 112 (Tehan), 11 to 5, 4 to 6, 3 tt> D, second; The Lark, 112 (Pool), 12 tt> 1, 5 to 1, 5 to 2. third. Time .1:02 8-6. Peg, Relna Hindoo, Llda Earl, Fair Margaret, Emma J. S., Virginia Hal"), May Ipps also ran. Second?sellIn?U-threq.-year-olda and up, six furlongs?-'Queed,-' 115 (Hlnphy), 10 to 1, 6 to 2. .feVeft. first; Gold Cup, 115 (Murphy). 3 to 5, 1 Co 5, out, second; Ghllla, 115 (Vanduesen), 6 to 1, 6 to 5. 3 to 5, third. Time, 1:18. Laird o' Kirkcaldy, Anna Konneday, Jessie Lioulse, Spohn, Carlton O. also ran. Third?selling, three-year^oldd and up. six furlongs?Miss Bar Harbor, 105 Lafferty), 7 to o. 1 tb 2, and 1 to 7? rst; Fred Levy, 106 (Shilling), 9 to 1, to l, 7 to 5, 6ecoi1d; Batwa, 115 (Nlck Ifeus), 5 to 1, 2 to 1, 4 to 5, third. Time, 1:16 2-5. Inferno Queen, Loan Shark, Sir Caledore. Michael Angelo, Water Lad, Joe Knight also ran. Fourth?selling, thrcc-year-olds and up, one mile?A1 Bloch, 113. (Lllley), 18 to 5, 8 to 5, 4 to 5, first; Yello\V Eyes, 102 (Ural), 7 to 1, 3 to 1, 8 to 5, second; Astrologer, 112 (Tehan), 5 to i, 2 to 1, even, third. Time, 1:43. Husky Lad, Patty Regan,. Col. Holloway, Naplor, Gerard also ra'n. Fifth?selling, two-year-olds, flvo and one-half furlongs?Mrs. Campbell, 103 (Pool), 2 to 1, even, 1 to 2, flrBt; Fair Jielen, 106 (Lafferty), 13 to 5. 6 to 6, 3 to 6, second; Dixie, 108 (Troxler), 10 to 1, 4 to 1, 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:OS. Mabel Montgomery, Racy, Hectograph, Harlequin, Voluspa, Fenrock, Black Earl, Long Reach also ran. Sixth?selling, three-year-olds and up, one mile?Beaupeare. 101 (McTag fart), 3 to 1, even, 1 to 2, flrst; Heart eat, 101 (Shilling), 10 to 1, 3 to 1. 6 t6 5, second; Rulsseau, 107 (Troxler), 6 to 1, 2 to 1, 4 to 5, third. Time, 1:45 2-5. Scarlet Letter. Fool o' For tune, Kins McDowell, Tom Hancock. Nadmas, Moonlight also ran. To-Day'a Card. First race; purse 5300; all ages; sell ifig; five furlongs?'Miss Flossy, 97; Jack Hanover, 9S; Peggy L, 98; ?Yemassoe, 109; Bevel Luiz, 109; Eu nice, 110; 'Tiger Jim. 113; Beda, 114: Bull Dog, 115; Sordello, 115; Sir Mar it>n, 117; Pat Gannon, 118. Second, purse $300; two-year-olds; six furlongs?Time Piece, 102; Sir Char eot. 102; Shrewsbury, 102; Stubborn, 104; Aimed* Lawrence. 109; Proctor. ll2; Carlone, 115; Colonel Tom Green, 116. Third; purse 1300; all ages; selling; fiVe furlongs^'Holland, 106; Salvadora, 107; ?Skeets, 118; 'Billy Collins. 113; ?Elizabeth Harwood, 113; Shadrach. 114; Black Chief, 114; Mordecal, 115; Metropolitan. 117; OOohre Court, 118; Sure Get. 11S. Fourth: St. John Hotel: selling Makes value $1,200; two-year-olds; five hurse $300; three-year-olds Ahd up; selling; one mile?'Impression 'Progrejslve, 3 01.; 'Bushy Hend, lei; Nash, 103; Towton Field, 104; Fox cfaft, 106; Orperth, 107; Joe Delhold. l6#| Charller, 112. ?^?Apprentice allowance claimed. BALTIMORE FEDS VOTE TO INCREASE STOCK Carroll Rasin Re-Elected President at Annual Meeting Yes terday. OTHER 'OFFICIALS NAMED Optimism Pervades Session?Secre* tary Goldman Praised for Landing Plank and 6ender?-Knabe to Con fer With Doolu. BALTIMORE. MD? December 11.? Carroll Wilson Rasin, of the Baltimore Federal League baseball club, was re-elected president at the annual meeting held to-day. President Rasin announced that the club had voted to Increase Its capital stock from $300,000 to $600,000, and was considering a plan to increase the board of governors from twelVe to twenty members. In addition to Rasin, the list of offi cers electcd for the ensuing year fol lows: Gustav L. Stewart, vice-presi dent: John S. Wilson, Jr., treasurer: Harry Goldman, secretary. These offi cers, together with the following, con stitute the board of governors at pres ent: Edward Hanlon, George Schleunes. Harrs- Buslck, Philip L. Poe, G. Whar ton Smith, Walter Katzenstein. Stuart S. Janney and L. Edwin O 'man. Proxies were sent out to ??rly COO stockholders, and half of it.coc were returned. Optimism Over the future of the Bal timore club and of the Federal League, prevailed at the gathering. All the stockholder^ present expressed satis faction over the showing made In Bal J>fXE CIIAftLEY D0OIN, Will% Play In Football Game for Benefit of Belgian Fund I I. .1 0, ,1- 1 ,1 .'i Ht.l, If I i ED. WHITE HAS WRESTLER READY TO MEET HEAVIES CHICAGO, December 12.?Ed White, local wrestling promoter and man ager! has returned from the Bast and announced that he signed up a heavy weight wrestler, who he claims is one of the world's best. White refuses to disclose his champion's Identity at i thla time, for fear some of the top i notchors will refuse to meet him, but offers to back his man against any of the title claimants up to $5,000. I "I am confident that I have a great Wrestler, and am ready to back up my I el&iin with rfeal money," said White. "1 will absolutely refuse to announce i my man's name or nationality, and l.cliallenge all American and European heavyweights now in this country." I "To prove my man's ability, I ain ready to match him against Holler, Amerlcus, Westergard, Ordeman or Hussanc on a winner take all basis and a good-size side bet. For con venience, L will call my grappler, "the mystery. tVlnlnin Negro Took Coal. John Young, colored, a driver for E. P. Murphy Sons, was arrested last I night by Patrolman Duffy on a warrant charging him with the theft of 1,730 pounds of coal. GENERALS' FOOTBALL SEASON FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL December 11.? Ton and r 0tbRU SeUS?n ?f Ashing-, clailv \f? WflS a Kreat BUC?ss finan^ clallj. Manager S. O. Loughlin r? ZTanT1 n bU,anCG ?f w? nl m Q expenses Incurred dur The tmnf 8?aSOn Wero oftsGt re?'Pta amounted to ,4.536. ,4. including f 1,400--40 per cent the campus tax?while all the ex ?2.799.Di4nCUrred dUHnff the Sea8?n The announcement that the receipts had exceeded the expenditures la, IS6 ,he ?cco?rt t'me in the ath tV? h, StA?ry university. m ftion'ev T?8fir Ij" R- Hanna made on the fourgames nla^l ?f V'01.3'50 Roanoke' "t"s??ra? Vifr'V",0 Richmond was the mo^?e?rt'Gtow," ln stage, costing8 o5lrn$O706 eXPThl,Ve to I penses of the Went vt!Li i,c ex* I the battle in Norfolk 5r? R.nrne an*?gm?" for several of the positions All lm tic^ gain"iml(l8eaS?n ro''rn ,n the prac cJ&'&W? /Uex'andVr T.uPrac"' Csrricll. ,,ar?**? 'downSSVrankk Tnci 19F2?hl;SXc!;?er?!fyceoCUne and h"f n?wrJoSUition 00mS t0''U eooah i&Mmm K/?p2S3fv;'E?S substitute guard Derth at ?hf;%y?p?onrs. i schedule nVn opening gome of the p 1 aycd aboTit the m id(f|e^of )VIL l>e Sunt who will be the Baptists' first! schedule within a few davs iSKREBWSSW PREAS REINSTATED BY i LA. A. COMMITTEE 9MSI g&WMM athlete, and has tw??* an all-around Kion becai.L 'VJen under suspend the" association s iMf.riolat,2" hients. na eligibility requires Oolwr'il.y""^ "vjKS; V.nderbilt I ss srthri-AtS?v '.".w'a nT'^x p*?? w??? xst? play on \he VandVrhmt",nllow?'l to j found not guilty in n*leil' was :5t,rnt?6"6p"?" ssisij SIXTEEN BASKETBALL GAMES FOR VIRGINIA $eas6n Will Operi With George Wash ington Jan. 11 in Fayorweatlier Gym, at Charlottesville. Start northern Tftit* ^kb. 2? Schedule Largest EVer Arranged for Any blue and Orange QUlnt. Equal dumber of Cofitests to Be Featured Home and Abroad. CHARLQTTEBVlLLE. VA., DeCem* her ll.-^PractloMly nil of the leading college squads In Virginia, North Car olina, Maryland and the Ulstrlct of Golumbla have Been scheduled to op pbse the Virginia basketball team this senHbn, Which promises to be the friftSt successful In the ahhals of the spoft at the Unlver'Sity 6f Virginia. The schedule Is the largest ever ar* ranged for a Virginia team and em braces sixteen gambe, half bf which Will be staged in the FAyerweather Gymnasium at the university. There Ife one open date on the schedule, Feb uary 20. There will be two games each with George Washington University, Cath olic University, Leyola College, North Carolina and Trinity. Each of these, quints will be seen on tho home floor. The first homo contest will be with George Washlhgtoh on January 11. On the 16th the quint from West Vtr? gliila Wesleyan is scheduled. This will mark the first meeting of these teams, and tho contest will be looked forward to With Interest. The team will start on Its southern trip February 6, meeting Washington aha L66 Unlverslly In Lynchburg that bight and going thence to Raleigh, N. C., where parties will be played with the UhlV.cl-fllty of N6rth Carolina and Trinity CGllege. Last year's battle wltli Washington and Lee attraoted nearly 1,000 people, perhaps the larg* fest. crowd ever at a basketball game In Virginia. The northern trip, Which starts Feb ruary 25, will close the season, Ganies Will be played with George Washing Ion and Catholic University, In Wash ington, and with Leyela College, In Baltimore. In tho game with Leyela In Baltimore last winter, the Virgin ians won out hi an exciting contest, the sooi'e standing 34 to 33. The schedule:. January ll?Gebrge Washington, at Charlottesville. January 16?West Vltglnla Wesley an, nt Charlottesville. January 18?Randolph-Macon Col lege, at Charlottesville. January 33?Virginia Military In stitute, at Ktaunton (pending). January 26?Rohnoke College, at Charlottesville (pending). January 30?Catholic University, at Charlottesville. February 1?Trinity College, at I Charlottesville. I February 6?Washnlgton and Lee University, at Lynchburg, Va. i February 8?North Carolina, at Ral elsfh, N: C. February 9?-Trinity Colloge, at Ral eigh, N. C. Fobruai'y 13?Leyela College, at Charlottesville. February l$-*-North Carolina, at Chfirlottesvlllo. February JO?-Open. February 26?Gatholic University, at Washington. February 26?Georgo Washington, at Washington. February 27?Leyola College, at Baltlm6i*e. VAN BR0CKLIN RESIGNS AS CAPTAIN OF A. M. SQUAD WEST RALEIGH, N. 6.,' December1 ii,^-"Red" Van Brdcklln, who was elected captain of the 191B football team of tho North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College Inst Wednesday, re sighed yesterday. Van Brocklln gava nb reason for his reslghatlon, hut he I stated to the team that he wished to be. relieved of the duties. H. H. Winston. A Junior, who has j.played the last twe years on the team at guard, Was elected to suoceed Van Brocklln. Winston l? an all round j pthiete. He is already oaptalp of tho lf?16 baseball'team and la the best coN lege catchol- In the State. Sevtral big league teAms, Including the Washing ton Americans, have been lifter Winston to sign with them, but ho states that lie will finish hift collece course before going In for league ball. JUAREZ RESULTS First race?five furlongs. purse, two year-olds?Nobleman, 112 (Small), 3 to 6, 1 to 3, out. first; Charity Ward, 106 (Gross), 100 to 1, 25 to 1, 10 to 1, sec ond; Helen Raybould. 108 (Collins), 7 to 2. even, 2 to 6, third. Time. 1:01 2-6. Gertrude JR.. Ida, Flossie, Viva, Bar barita also ran. Second^sejllng. three-year-olds and up, one mile?Gordon Russell, 112 (JacksoA), 5 to 1, 7 to 10, out, first;1 Weyanoke. 108 (Mott), 7 to 10, out, second; Fort Sumner, j05 (Orirtes), 10 to l, 5 to 2, out. Time, 1:40. Judge1 Sale. Spindle also ran, Third?five and one-half furlongs-"? Orlmnr Lad, 110 (Fceney), 7 to 1, 5 to 2, 6 to 5, first; Toy Boy, 110 (Small), 6 (o 5, 7 to 10, 1 to 3. second; Annual In terest. 110 (Rice). 20 to 1, 6 to 1, 6 to 2, third. Time, l!06 8^5. Tight Boy, Senator. James, Frieda Johnson, Arho haiko. Parnell Girl, Auto Maid, Asura, Panhachlp. Netmaker, LaCat'aefUlora, Hesitate also ran. Fourth?five furlongs?Joe Blair, 98 I (Eesonson), G to L 8 to 5, out, first; Ulpay Love, 118 (Small), 6 to 5, out, secohd; FathoiVi. 100 (Callahan). 15 to j 1. 2 to 1, out. third. Time, :59. Othello, Florertce Rohers also ran. Fifth?five and one-Half furlongs? Chnrmeuso, 107 (McDonald) 8 to 1, 2 to 1, 4 to 5, first; Orb, lis (Gross), 3 to 1. 7 to 10, B to 5, second; Mater, 107 .(Callahan), 7 to 2, G to 5, 3 to 5. third. Time, 1:06. King Worth, Osaple, Sa* Ion also van. Sixth?one mile?-Transact,, 105 (Gross). 5 to 1, 2 to 1, 4. to 6,. first; POllh, liO (Taylor), 2 to 1. 7 td 10, 1 to 3, second; Fairly. 101 (Carter), 4 to 1, 7 to 5, 3 to 5. third. Time, 1:40 2-5. Melts, Ambrla. Acumen, Ltlke Van-* zandt, Yankee Tree, Otilo, Hahnls also ran. To-Ilny'# Card. First rac6?selling, two-year-old fil lies, five and one-half furlongs?Marie O'Brien, 1 oo; Ida Plnaok. 108; Oerthel ma, 105; Wheat. 105; May .Maid, 105; Finalee, 107; Yailaha, iv>, flVe and one-hair furlongs?*Fred Drew, 107; *En\7, 107; Tempest, i07: G61d Finn, 108; Bob Lyridh, 112; Light Knight, 112; Genimell, 112; Kenneth, 112. Fifth?selling, thre6-year\ 126 North Sixth Street, re* ported that his house had been entered by eecohd story Window/ and olbthlhg stolen. Mrs. M. Salmonaky, 2384 Went GrAce Street, notified the police that Ahe had surprised a man with a flashlight In her hallway. He was frightened oft without obtaining any booty. Edward M. Schaff. 607 East Clay Struct, reported that his shop had, been entered through second story wlhd6\v and $28.60 In cash stolen. REDUCTION OF WASTE Speaker* at Credit Men's Itnnqwet torge Elevation of Standard*, Reduction of waste In business methods and a continued elevation of the standards of ethics In the world of Commerce were reforms urged last night by President Tredegar, Of. the National Association of credit Men. Speaking at a banquet given at the Business Men's Clubby members of the local chapter of the organisation. "We are detefmlnod to reduce th? waste of this country, whether human or econOimc," he said, making the point that tne national organization by eh> couraglng comradeship Among busi ness men tends to ollrhlnate wasteful methods In competition. Mr. TredggAF briefly traced the history of the credit men's organisation, and told of the work It hopes to aeoomnllsh. J. H. Cohen, of Now York, Secretary and treasurer of the national organl intlot), spoke Ifiterestlngiy 6f the VA* rlous legal problems with WhlOh hufil? ness men are obliged to deal during th& present times. He said that business men art more and more coming, to realize that their work Is one Of publlc servlCe, and that they are alio realise ing that In order 16 make the greatest success they muAt co-operate, not 6nljy with other business men, but with per sons In all walks of life. Honesty as a principle In all business transactions was urged by the speakers. Child Says He Was nobbed. Carlton Chappell, eievon yeafs Old. eon of David P. Chappell, 2508 feast Leigh Street, reported last night that ho had been held up and robbed of cents by two white men. The boy as serts that his hands were tied And he was gagged by the highwaymen. T1H holdup, he told the police, occurred al &:ir? o'clock on JefTorsOn Avenue bo tween Twenty-third and Twenty'fourth Streets. The police wero unable to find any trace of the alleged assail ants. Ilallroad Heads Will Speak. The regular meethinp of the Rloh Siond Railroad Club will be held on londay night, December 21, In Mur phy's Hotel at S:30 o'clock. Georgo W Stevens, president of the Chcftapenki and Ohio Railway Company, and Wlb Ham M. White, president of the Rich mond, Fredericksburg and Potom&t J Railroad Company, are expected to b# present. RICHMOND LEAGUE TKNPINS ON PALACE! RV'Nfi. Superior*. Team. 1 2 Elliott 124 lih jct by ban tamweight fighters will be offered by a local prornotor, according to an nouncement here t6-nlght. The promoter, in his announcement, charges that Kid Williams, of Balti more, bantamweight champion, has an nounced his Intention of entering: the featherweight class, and has declined to defend his present title. The belt will bo awarded to the win ner of the Frankle Burns-Chick Hayes fight hero ftext week. AMUSEMENTS Colonial?Ornyeo Scott Company, In "The Girl From Out Yonder," matinee and night. Empire?Lnellle La Verne Company, la ''Mr*. Temple'* Telegram," matinee and night. Lyric?Popular vaudeville, miitlnee and night. Bijou?''The Charming lVlflowi," bnr lestiue, matinee aud nlglW. Leave a standing order-^HOL&UM Pan Bisouita. "A cigar is like a aoidier. Neither one ii proved until under fire.'' Take tirtie to enjoy your Portuguese Cigar. It's surely a treat to find such satisfying flavor and mildness at a price that is fair and square. Maae in the handsome "Club House" fthape.

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DEIIEII5 OF BOOKS II NEWS OF PUBLIGIIIIONS "The Three Sisters" Literary Achievement, but a Most Un pleasant Story. HOOK BY AUTHOR OF KMM V LOU Unceasing Grumbling of Discontented Group of Girls Unprepared for Life and Without Training Wears on Header's Patience. In spite of the artistry that dis'ln- I guiishes the work of May Sinclair, or. perhaps. because of It, her latest hook, i "The Three Ulsters' (Macmillan). Is distinctly unplcarant. Whllo It Is marked by every evidence of a close study of human life and human nature, j the result of which Is Imparted by an admirable use of Buggesl ion, rather than statement, and In. therefore, to be regarded as a literary nohlevament,' the book is a revelation of a very sor did side of humanity. A"nd to repeat in words?what bus already been sug gested, the high literary quality of the work Intensifies the gloom of the story. The title Is not fanciful, but Indicates. In a broad general way, the nature of the novel, which Is a study of three sisters of different types. They are the daughters of an English vicar, in charge of a small parish in tho cou'n- j try, to which lie has obtained a trrns-| ftr from a far better living because j of a scandal that has touched one of the slstors. At the time the story begins, the threo sisters nrc waiting i dismally for something, for anything. I ?o happen, and It soon transpires that I all of them aro wnlting for the satin: i man. tho doctor of the village. Two i of tho young women are unpleasant, j and the* third, whom the doctor tlrst j thinks he loves, is made to suffer through self-sacrifice. Heredity Is made j by the author to play a conspicuous part In the Interpretation and devel- 1 oprnent of certain of the clisranters in j tho book, and the particular trait stresHt-d as having descended from the vicar 1b one that Is rarely discussed In' books other than those of a scien- j tlflc, cr pseudo-sclcntltlc. nature. Not lhat the subject Ik discussed in "The Three Sisters," but it Is very clearly suggested. On the whole, there Is lit- tic more to be sold, within the con- ?ines of a brief review, concerning Miss Sinclair's story than has already beer. bald here?that It is a literary, achieve- i merit, and a mos)/'unpleasant story. Another fale of ar unhappy family, nlao In England, Is to !?o found In Shei- j la K aye-Smith'a "The Three Kurlong ers" (Llpplncott). a story, however of j another and lower rank tlinn Miss Sin- clalr's. The principal characters of i Miss Kaye-Smlth'a novel a:c also three j In number?two brothers and a sister j ?and one of them also lias erred. Hut In this case It is ope of the brothers, 1 who returns to the farm after having served three ycarH In prisoii for hav- j lng been Involved in a fraudulent pro- j motion scheme. It is to reO-eem him- I self before the eyes of his neighbors j that he sets himself. But ho falls In lovo with a young girl, nd the con- I sequences of his trouble foiP-.w him. i Then the sister yields to a lover. who doserts her; also the g'.. brother tiles. The wicked sre rewarded, and the only brightness that lies !n the j future consists In tho probabiliti that i the ex-convict brother will make a j name for himself us a violinist. j Ten more examples of W. \V. .lacobs'sj delightful hutnor appear In n new j volume entitled "Night Watches" e situated at some point on tho Canadian border. The Harvard Architectural Quarterly has published Thomas Jefferson's origins! drawings for Monticello. which were discovered among- tho papers of the late T. Jefferson Coolldgc, Jr. Now for the rtrst time It is possible to study Jefferson's place In the American classical revival. Ills drawings show a marked affinity with certain plans and elevations by I'alladlo and Glbbs. which are nlso published -with the ar ticle by Sidney Fiske Kimball, in structor In architecture at tho Uni versity of Illinois, which forms tho entire number. Tn "The Story of Our Navy" (Har per's), the author. William O. Stovens. tells us that tho first submarine to sink a ship In warfare was tho David, of the Confederate navy. Sonje of tho Confederate naval officers looked upon submarine warfare as cowardly, but the men who volunteered to go aboard the curious little craft and blow up tho Jlousatonlc were as bravo a crew, says Professor Stevens, as will ever he found. Tho David's propeller shaft was turned by the crew of eight men with tholr hands, and the captain, sit ting forward at tho wheel, handled tho ropes controlling a spar-that proleoted beyond the nose of the boat and held u torpedo at .the end. "Blabeth," by Margaretlie Mueller, and. "Genevieve," by T>aura Spencer I'ortor. have been added to the "lit tle Schoolmate" series (DqUon). The fil'st-named describes, in story form, the home life of the Gorman people, telling how they work and play, how they love their countrylsand their fond ness for Christmas and other festival duvs. Tho words and music of popu lar German songs and hymns are given, adding to the attractiveness of a de lightful little book, "Genevieve" deals xcith like charm with a little, girl's life in a French school. James B. Connolly's splendid, short atory, "Tho Trawler." tvhlch recently won llrst phioo In a competition for] cash prlxes. has been printed separate- ly by tho Soribnors In their series of famous stories and essays. t In on Intorvlew recently published Ip the New York Sun, Israel Zangwiil dis cusses the Kuropenn situation from tho standpoint of the Jewish race, ventur ing to lndicato what. In hia opinion, I the attitude of hl.H people should be toward tho different combatants.. Mr. i Zangwilt argues that he Is particularly;j well qualified to speak 011 thin subject i impartially,' havinu dealt In no unccr- j lain fashion in several of his books! with social and governmental condi tions in the nations at present involved In war. "During the Boer War 1 i wrote 'The Mantle of Elijah,' he says. "an indictment of the British. A few j years (Igo 1 wrote an indictment of everything that Kalserism and I'rus sltm milltailsm stand for, 'The War) God,' which, in the light of events, was j prophetic In detail of this present at-j tempt of Germany, to imposo Its ar-' moriMl domination upon tho world. My j earlier play, 'The Melting Pot,' was, among other things, a sweeping con damnation of the Busslan Pharaoh of! to-day." Mr. Zangwill's conclusion Is! that. "Placed* between the devil and I llio deep seH. the .lews of tho world must hope for the triumph of the ul- lie." und their caupe, not because they 4 l:ute UusHia less, but because they hate j Prussian reaction and militarism more. 1 The question for Jews everywhere to I consider is this: What is the Interest I J the hlaher civilisation In this war? We should not approach tills question' purely from the standpoint of Jews by I race. We should weigh it unselfishly'I Horn the standpoint of Jews by spirit." I "Japan to America" (Putnam's), com- piled by Professor Naolchl Musaokl, Is; a book with a message, prepared on the j understanding that we ought to know more about our friends in Nippon. At I lesent, it Is declared, they, know morel about us than we know nbout them, j Htale'jmcn and other leaders of thought] in Japan have contributed to the book. 1 They tell tho state of thinKS In their progressive jountry, and show how wej have helped them in many things. "He-j side those who were students in other j countries." writes tins odltor of the j volume, "our American-made men are j mere active, rtioro independent and more enterprising." lieutenant Bilse's "Life In a Garrl- son Town" ,(Luac) is going into new edition, on account of the public in terest In every thing German. -It will hi remembered that the book, which is nn exposure ot' the character and train ing of Prussian olllcers and of their treatment of the soldiers under them, created a sensation all over the world, i and aroused so much resentment in Germany that the author was imprls- j nned. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS END BEST CONVENTION .Ministers and Laymen 1.naulmou> In Declaring It Without l?qual In Zealous and AfcKresslve Work. It A LKIG1I, N*. December 11.?The hundreds of ministers and laymen here for the Baptist State Convention, which adjourned this afternoon, are unani mous In declaring that North Caro lina Baptists never held one its equal in zealous and aggressive work, or that promises no much in denomina tional advancement for the coming yea r. An efficiency committee was named this morning, with ltev. W. C. Barr?itt as chairman, to formulate a revision of the work of tlie convention, three divisions of work as proposed busing mission, education and social service, w I to boards for each of these department's, and headquarters of the board of education to be at Durham, and that of social service at Greens boro. The report of the committee'on tem perance Indorsed the work of the State Anti-Saloon league; ur?ed that there be the'fullest possible attendance on the State Anti-Saloon League Convert- tlon, called for Balelgh January to press upon the Legislature aun.i.d j rr.ents to temperance laws to eliminate liquors as a beverage ln?thls State. Bev. Thco P. Davis offered a resolu- 1 tlon that the convention ask the Leg- liftaturo for a law that will stop the j manufacture and sale of hard cider, but it was voted down. The report on the Baptist ministers' relief board showed thirty-seven needy ministers aided during the year through a fund I of |5.00S raised, a gain of $500 over the previous year. PLANS TO AID ENGLAND '?Patriotic l.engue of Ilrlton* Overseas" I Hub Prominent Members. i LONDON, December II.?An organ- j ir.ation called "Tho Patriotic League j of Britons Overseas." composed of British subjects residing outside Brit-j I ish dominion, has been formed under i the patronoge of King George. Its j I central commltlee is headed by Lofd Selborne, and its members Includo Lord j Curzon, of Kedleston, Lord Mllner, Ad- j I mlrai Lord Charles Bcresford, Sir Mor- timer Durand and other prominent per i sons. The primary object of the organiza tion is to provide a warship for the nation. It is hoped that after -the war the league will become permanent, with tho idea of providing voluntary flnan- l clal assistance for the defense of the empire. Forrcnill Virginia?Cloudy Satnrday, .Sunday nD*rtdt4, probnbly rain or NDOK. North Carolina?Partly cloudy Sat urday i Sunday cloudy, vrlth probably local ralna. Local Temiirrntai-e Yeaterday. 12 noon temperature 39 j 3 P. M. temperature ?,S S P. M. temperature 34 Maximum temperature lo 8 P. M.. .'.9 j Minimum temperature to 8 P. M. 34 Mean temperature 3t> Normal temperature 42 Deficiency In temperature yes t onlay 6 Deficiency in temperature since March 1 i...... 200 I Accumulated deficiency In temper ature since January 1.....J.... 2191

Lorn! Italnfall Yesterday. Rainfall last twelve hours 02 i Rainfall last twenty-four hours... .06; Deficiency in rainfall since March j l ll.U 1 Accumulated deficiency in rainfnll since January 1 .10.81 I Loral Observation* at 8 P. M. Yesterday i Temperature, 34; humidity, 95; wind, i direction, southwest; wind, velocity, 2; j weather, snowing and sleeting. CONDITIONS IN IMPOHTAKT CITIES. I (At 8 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.) Place. Ther. II. T. L. T. Weather. Asheville 2S 28 21 Snow Atlanta 32 34 28 Clear Atlantic City.. 38 4ft 30 Cloudy Boston 34 4ft 28 Clear UufTalo 26 28 26 Clear Calgary 4 4 .6 Clear Charleston 12 48 34 Cloudy Chicago 30 22 Clou.dy Denver 28 32 4 Clear Duluth 16 2S 12 Clear Galveston 48 48 38 Cloudy Hattnras 47 50 42 Clear Havre 2 0 1 2 Snow Jacksonville 42. 50 36 Cl^ar Kansas City.. 22 24 18 1*. cloudy Louisville 30 ,32 28 Snow Montgomery 38 44 34 Clear New Orleans.. 46 48 44 Cleat New York 38 42 32 Cloudy Norfolk 40 44 38 P; cloudy Oklahoma 26 26 14 Cloudy Pittsburgh ....30 34 30 Snow Raleigh 34 40 3p P. cloudy St. Louis.. 26 "28 ,34 Cloudy San Francisco. 48 62 44 Cloudy Savannah 40 46 34 Clear Spokane 28 28 18 Clear Tampa- 46 .50 42 Cle^r Washington 34 36 34 Snow

MIMATURB AliMAKAC. December 12. 1014. HIGH TIDE: Sun risen.i .7:18 Mprnlng-.11:58 Sun sets. 4:61 Rvenln*..,. .18:4* PETERSBURG PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF StiHOOL CHILDREN Doctor* of Their Own Selection Will Look Into Health of Peters ImrK Pupils. W. O. W. KLECT8 XKW OPKICEKS Committee to Conduct Campaign in Behalf of Proposed "Citj- Manager" Plan Will Organize to Map Out Program Next Week. PETBICSBUJIO. VA? December 11.? J The school board of Petersburg has directed that ull the pupils in the i?ub- J lie schools must, undereo a physical examination by physicians, the parents j being accorded the privilege of select- j ing their oivn doctors. Tin" members of the medical faculty have volunteered J to do this work h! thuir offices 1 fee i of charge, Thfe examination will be confined to tho eyes, earn, nose, throat and skin j and will not Involve treatment. Any i defects will be reported to the parents and guardians of the children. All j children newly entering tho schools, j and at all future sessions of the schools, all pupils will have to present j certificates' of health from practicing physicians. i Woodmen'* 4)111 rera. At the regular meeting last night of i Oak wood Camp, No. 1. Woodmen of the World, officers for the ensuing j year were elected as follows: consul j commanded, K. ?'Jreen: adviser- lieutenant, T. T. tlibbs; banker, H, B. ?lonen; clerk. W. I). tforthington: escort. It. S. Ramey: watchman. .T. K. llardv; j se.ntry. S. K. flogvvood; manager, C. II. j Godsey; physicians, Drs. It. II. .Jones. W. E. llarwood. ,T. 11. Burke and C. K. ?lollf-h. "City Manimet" Plan. Tlie committee of the Chamber of j Commerce appointed t conduct a earn- j paigti of education In behalf of the oronoseel "City Manager" plan of gov- I Brnment for Petersburg, as approved j and recommended by the Chamber, will meet on Tuesday evening next to j organize and map out a plan of pro- j ctdure." The committee is a large one. j and includes the names of many prom- j inent cltlzenu. The Chamber of Com- j merce is very earnest ir> this matter. and will bring the iletailv of the pro- j posed change in the form of govern-I ment fully before the people. The plan, j In lirlof, proposes a chanue from the j present hl-Cuineral system to that of a fmslness manager, who shall be se- j lected from within or without the city, J and bo under the supervision or con- trol of a small Council or commission, j to he chosen from the city at large, j Will Attend Conference. Secretary W. M. Martin, of the Cham- bcr of Commerce, will attend the In- veatlgntion conference to be held in Washington to-morrow in the interest 1 of placing desirable Immigrants from the war era of Kurope or Southern farms. .T. F. Kolar. a prominent citizen of l'rince OeorKe, will also attend, and will deliver an address on the "Slavs" of South side Virginia. There is a large i colony of Slavs in the three coun ties adjoining Petersburg. They are honest. industrious and successful j farmers, and have added much to the 111 icultural progress of these counties. Mr. Kolar has been instrumental }n bringing many of these Slav families to tlie Southslde. OIBcern of Hllile ClaMcn. The Barac-a and Philathea Bible Classes of Grove Avenue Baptist Church have elected the following: of ficers for the ensuing year: Rnrncn CIbhm. President. LeRoy Brock well: vice president, Warren Crowder; secretar'-os, j W. K. Blanton, \V. H. Johnson; troas- urer, Gerald T. Willis; press reporter, j T. C. Crowder; llbarlan. William' Belcher; teacher, Stanton- Plleher. rhllntbm ClnMN. President, Miss l^elia Ilite; vice-presi dent. Miss Kmma Cousins; secretaries. Misses Nettie Dance and Addle Wil liamson; treasurer, Miss Daisy .Smith: librarian. Miss Matte Crowder; teacher, Mrs. II. 11. Martens. \otalilc Reception. The reception of the Ilev. Richard son Wilkinson, D. D., and his family by the congregations of Wjishington Street M. K. Church to-night In the i Sunday school room of the church was j a notable one in the attendance, the j cordiality and the attractive program. From 8 to 10:30 o'clock the room was crowded, and members, as- he or she arrived, were Introduced to the family. All the Methodist ministers in the city were present, and joined in the wel coming exercises. General \olc?. The funeral of the late R. Boiling Wilcox, Sr.. of "Flower de Hundred." j Prince George County, took place this j afternoon from St. Paul's .Episcopal Church, and was largely attended. The burial was in Blandford Ceme tery. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Southsble Virginia Fair Association will be held on Tuesday evening next to hear the reports of the association's affairs, elect ofliccrs and j transact other business thai may come up for consideration. Dr. M. P. Stone, of N?w York, was a j guest at the banquet given to the Dinwiddio Medical Society last night, I and read an instructive paper on the J "Surgical Treatment of Fractures." I The Kmpty-StOcklngr Club, composed of charitable women of Petersburg, is working actively for donations from the public, in order to fill the stock ings of the poor children with toys and good things at Christmas. The elub did splendid work in this respect ldst Christmas. Workman Undly Injured. By the falling in of an addition j which was being added to the trunk factory of Rogers Brothers Kcvan. on Guarantee Street, late this evening. Frank Seal, a white carpenter, was in-; juced seriously internally. Several; other workmen escaped with slight In- j juries. I. C. Corley, a white employe of the Dupont Powder Works, was brought to the Petersburg Hospital suffering with a fracture of the right leg sus tained by a fall. TROOPS STAY IN COLORADO Governor Refuse* to Accept Responsi bility by Requesting; Withdrawal. WASHINGTON, December 11.?Be cause of Governor Ammons's refusal to accept responsibility by requesting ttyU all Federal troops in the Colorado strike districts ho withdrawn, Presi- dent Wilson ,to-night decided to await further developments before ordering the troops away. The troops wero sent at Governor Ammons's request. At an hour's conference to-day .with Seth Low, Patrick Gllday and C. W. Mille, his new Colorado strike commis sion, the President outlined his efforts to restore industrial peace In Colorado. The commission will to-morrow formally organise. The President named the commission prior to ths settlement of the strike, that it might be ready to act In any future disagree ment*. SOUTH RICHMOND 11 HBII1MINS SENT TO LiREl REFORIUIATORY i

Youngsters Who Stole Horse ?mi Hukk.v Behave Badly in Court. .1 i i FA.LDS IHOM SCAFFOLDING L. C. Bosser Injured While at AVork on Southern Hallway Arch?Will j Celebrate Ht. John's Day?Funeral j of Linton II. Walthall. Deonard Haines and Raymond .ten- t kins. (!;icn rr>?irt?f?*it years old. wore convicted by Justice Crutchlleld vh terday morning in the Juvenile Court (if the chargi of stealing a horse and buggy belonging to W. A. island, a! colored farmer, and sentenced to tho reformatory. Both of the boys ha vol servtd time in the Laurel institution.1 and Jenkins, whose lior.ie is ill Swans- j boro, recently escaped from there., Jenkins's former escapade was tli?-' theft of a horse belonging to J. T. Wll- lard. Justice Crutchfleld was inclined to; show clemency to the boys, but they 1 were not repentant of what thev hail 1 done. Young Haines made sport of] his grandfather when lie came into the courtroom to help htm. Captain James' Lipscomb, o? the Third Police Station.; testified that li? cauKht tho boys on. a Petersburg car near Bellwood. After taking the buggy In South Richmond. they were chased part of the way by Detective Tinslev. Injured h.v Kail. L. C. I Josser, of Chatlm Street, was j badly hurt yesterday morning at ill o'clock, when a piece of scaffolding on which he was working In the con-; .vtructioii of the Southern,,Hail way Com-, puny's arch at Seventh Street, gave way. He was thrown about tifteen feet.1 and suffered a severe scalp wound. !Josser was treated by Ambulance Sur geon J. irJ. Walker. To CHrhrntc St. John's Day. Something different from the usual i celebration of St. John's Day willj be held this year by Manchester Dodge, Xo. 14, Ancient. Free and Accepted Masons. Instead of the former stag affairs, a big open meeting will bo held on December 2S, to which the wives and friends of the members and i Manchester Chapter, Order of the Kast-j ern Star, will be invited. Before the 'possum feast an interesting musical program will be rendered. Dyrn Din- i ton Is in charge of the committee on j arrangements. Kujoyable Mimical. Aii enjoyable social was given last night by. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Holt, of' 8 Kast Ninth Street, in honor of their, waughter. Ducille. After game*, re- freahments were served. Music was I rendered by MJss Alma Goodman. Miss Annie Rowland and Henry Holt. Wil liam Holt. Mr. Vauscr. Mr. Clay and Kdward Williams. Among the guests who attended were Misses Pearl Vest, i Helen Xunally, Saddle Sutton. Mamie Wright, JCllen Toney, Thelnia Holt. Mildred Holt, Vernell Ilugue and Mlsx Kthcl McCann from Petersburg, and Miss Callle Bobertson from Xorlh j Carolina; Mclvln Mnrlln. Graham .Dee ter, Jolin Vest. Patrick llannier, Rrnest Garnet. I.con Dlvisay, Melvin Haddock. Berly Haddock. Deroy Fouth. Montrel Williams. Josephy Galloway. Paul Hood, William Brown. Alvin Divesay. Graham Gurber. I-Jrnest Smith and Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Holt and Mrs. Minims. Weather Itetnrds 'oust ruction. Magistrate D. W. Cheatham was un able to hold court In hi* new court ?liouse at Stop 4, Petersburg Turnpike, yesterday morning, as was planned, owing tri the weather conditions which retarded the construction work. The building is expected to be ready, how ever. on Friday of next week. Magis trate Cheatham had a bare criminal docket yesterday, and disposed of only a few civil cases. Ijfuton It. Walthall. I.lntou Bay Walthall, fourteen yeurs old. adopted son of J. W. Walthall, of 2204 Delaw.are Avenue, died yesterday morning at fi:55 o'clock in Ills home. The funeral services will be held this afternoon at .'J o'clock from the resi dence. Interment will be made in Maury Cemetery. Two XfRnifii lifnrhril, 8HREVKPORT, DA.. December 11.? Charles Washington and Breard Hen derson. negroes, who, according to the police, last night killed and robbed Cyrus Hotclikiss, white, near Moorings port. T?a., and were brought here, were lynched late to-day about five miles from Shrevcport while being trans ferred to Mansfield, Da., for safe keep ing. NEW YORK STATE SEEKS EXTRADITION OF THIHN I Request Taken Under Consideration j by I*. S. Supreme Court After i Oral Arguments. Jl'DGKS ASK MA W QUESTIONS; Commonwealth Wants Matte?w*n j Fugitive to Answer Indictment j Charging Conspiracy to Obstruct j Justice?Mother in Courtroom. j WASHINGTON. December it.?The J request of the State of New York for extradition of Harry K. 'i'huw from j NewHampshire to s.'i??cr an Indict-; ment charging conspiracy to obstruct justice by ??scaping from Matteawan Asvlum was tak^it under cugsideratlon to-day by th?. United .States Supreme Court after oral argument?. Members of the court nsked Thaw's j uttornoys many questions about yarl- j dun points in their contentions. fhev 1 did not interrupt William Travers Jerome, however, during bis argument j that Thaw was a fugitive from justice, j nor challenge the argument 01' Krank- j 11 n Kennedy, deputy attorney-general of New York, that the law under j which Thaw was committed to Mat- j tea wan after the killing of Stanford White was constitutional. Chief Justice White a liked his .flrst question when Philander C. Knox, former Secretary of State, appearing for Thaw, argued that only those who had committed crimes could be extra dited. and that New Vork courts bad 1 held in iive decisions that Thaw had commltteed no crime becauhe. he was insane. The Chief Justice suggested .suggested that a man might be de- elated insane one day and sane the next. Mr. Knox replied that tbe pre sumption Was that Thaw remained In- sane. j William A. Stone, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was interrogated closely by most of the Judges during Ills argu ment that the indictment of Thaw for conspiracy was not valid. The ques tions led Mr. Stone to the position that he could not commit a crime. "Does the Indictment state.Thaw Is insane?" Inquired Justice McKenna. "It says he was in ail insane asylum." Responded Mr. Stone. "If Thaw's automobile had broken down on his Journey, could he hAve' been indictel for stealing another?" insisted the justice. "Not If the indictment set out lie was insane." Justice Pitney suggested a person might be in an lnsano asylum and yet have l.ucid momenta. "The burden is on tbs State to ?h0i? he bad bsconio fATie declared tne at T Of City. MOT HE 11 OF TIIAW I1BAA1S ARGUMENTS Mrs. William Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, sat for three hours In tlio courtroom to-day listening to the ar 1 giiments for and against her son's lib erty. She leaned forward in her" seat as Mr. Jerome," whom she has termed "her son's "X?-mesis," look his place as the chief of counsel against Thaw. The courtroom was crowded with spectators, and scores of lawyers oc cupied the seats reserved for the bar. Mrs. Thaw, attired in black, relieved by touches of white, was visibly ner vous. Several times as,Mr. .Tetome at tacked the brief tllel with the court in Thaw's behalf by former Secretary of State Knox, Mrs. Thaw evinced emo tion. Broad smiles' dispelled the Judicial j (JiRhlty of the Justices when Mr. Je 1 rome gave a somewhat dry and hu morons account of the litigation which lias ensued blnce the murder of Stan ford White and the flight of Thaw Into Canada, niul subsequent happenings in Vermont and New Hampshire. Mr. Je rome became slightly confused 'In this I last part, and sa|d "Massachusetts," but was audibly corrected^ by tho dep uty attorney-general of New Yorlt. The decision will not be handed down for several weeks. As the matter now stands, it appears likely that the court will order Thaw's extradition to New York for trial on conspiracy, but thut i if he 1b confined In Mfttteawan as a lunatic and not tried ou-the conspiracy charge, he can start a new fight for liberty by habeas corpus proceedings. Order early?HOLSUM Pan liiscuits. They will appreciate a chair, a desk or a table, and it will last a long time, and give lots of real service. We have a wonderful display of children's furniture of every description, all of it of very best quality. Bring the children in to see the display. A Few Items: Chairs, 50c up. Settees, $2.75. Tables, $2.25. Rockers, $1.00. lligli Chairs, $1.50 up. Costumers (brass), $2.00. Couches (leatherette), $,*1.50. Chiffoniers, $5.T5. up. Dressers, $5.75 up. Desks, $4.75. The above in -white enamel, large enough for child's use. Doll Beds, Doll Cnibs, Doll Carriages (genuine F. A. Whit ney make), 4-post Colonial Beds. Play House, covered with hand-painted burlap; screen door; tall enough to stand in?large size. Price, $18.00. Grocery Store, with hand-painted burlap front, sign, etc. Open window, counter and awning; everything perfectly life like and high enough to stand in?large size. Price, $22.00. x See our children's window at the corner of Grace and Seventh. Give the Children Furniture This Christmas No FinQr Furniture? Store In All ^Arn eric SYDNOR HUNDLEY, Grace 7th St?. AGGDEGSTE Of S2S.253.535 FnOM INCOME TIX LAW First Complete Compilation in Com missioner of Internal Reve nue's Report. VERY FEW CASES OF FRAUD Returns From 357,1598 Individuals. Con>orntionH Number 3171,810,185. WASH 1NGTON, December ll.~The! tlrst complete compilation of return* under the Income tax law was made public to-day In th? annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Itovenue. It Allowed ruturns for the collection year of 1913 by 357.59R Individuals, paying their aggregate >28,253,535, an follows: Number N'et Income. Returns. $1,000,000 and over 41 1500,000 to $1,000,000 91 $400,000 to $000,000 44 $300,000 to $400,000 S. Incomes of more than $20,000 a year and subject to tax protluccd $15,025,497. The figures show that most of the individuals with large net Incomes live in districts near the cjtles of Now York, Chicago, -Philadelphia, Haston and De troit. More single women, as well as moro single men paying the tax, were found In New York than anywhere else. Married women made separate re turns in every collection district ex 1 copt In the Fifth North Carolina. Fteturns wore Hied by 1,436 Ameri cans residing abroad, representing a total net income of $19,843,399. and 425 returns were made by nonresident a\iens. representing incomes amount ing to $7,317,842. There were 316,909 corporations doing -business in the United States during the fiscal yfar ending June 30. They reoprted capital stock aggre gating $64,071,319,185, an increase over the. previous year of about W.IC.OQO* 000, reported by :k)5.33? corporation*. The net Income of tho corporations for the yea,r was 94,339.5.*>0,0Jb, or nearly 7 per cent on their capital, with bonded and other Indebtedness amounting to 1*7.136.215,096. The net InopnTo report ed foe the year showed an Increase of more than JDOO.OOO.OO". The commissioner announced that failures to make proper returns were few. and cases of false or fraudulent returns still fewer! The commissioner pointed out thHt "bootlegging" had Increased to a marked degree in States with prohibi tion laws. EFFORT MADE TO BOTTLE I UP INDEPENDENT OPERATORS Further Testimony In Snpport of i niarcpx Afrnlnnt llic Southern lie fore Senate Subcommittee.

j WASH I N? JTO.V, December 11.?Kur 1 ther testimony in support of charges j that the Southern Railroad discrltvl I natcd against Southern coal operato s I ami Southern poi ts In favor of the I Northern operators and ports includ ing Norfolk, was given before th? (Senate subcommittee to-day by Frank 1C. Wright, an expert engaged by tho I committee to investigate conditions, j .Mr. Wright compared freight rates fiom Kaut Tennessee, East Kentucky j and Southwestern Virginia coal fields i to South Atlantic ports with those t from Pennsylvania Holds to New York, i Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk, to support his claim that an effort had j been made to bottle \ip Independent ?coal operators of the Appalachian coal ?district. Coal rates from this district to Norfolk, Charleston, Wilmington, i Savannah and Jacksonville were quotV od at from $1.50 to $2.35 per ton. while rates from Pennsylvania Holds to Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, (?Norfolk and Charleston were given at j from $1.40 to si.HO per cent ton. j Wright said the committee had a 'letter showing that since the Southorn Tin 11 way acquired the Virginia and j Southwestern, there was a division of i rates allowing the Virginia and'South? western 72 1 -2 cents a ton on business to North and South Carolina and East Georgia points delivered to tho South ern at Bull'* Gap* *0 cents on business afterward delivered to the Atlantic Coast Line, and TO cents on business for Ohio Klver points and St. Louis. "Where did the* committee got those figures'.'" asked A. P. Thorn, counsel for the Southern. "From the Department of Justice," said Wright. "And where did the Department of Justice get them?", he was asked. "From the flies of tho Southern' Railway," he replied. Fnvor Merchant .Mnrlne. NEW YORK, Docember 11.?'The council of the Society of Naval Ar chitects and Marine Engineers In ses sion here to-day Indorsed President Wilson's plan for a merchant marine, and the services of' the' society were offored In behalf of It. values we offer for to-day. Suits For Men and Young in Sizes For Every Type These Suits are made of fine wool serges, cheviots and worsteds, in all the newest and best shades and patterns, superbly tailored'and perfect in lit; English, semi-English and conservative models, well made button-holes, felled lapels and collars?in. fact, these Suits are bound to meet with your approval, both as to price and perfect quality. MEN, SHOP HERE TO-DAY FOR SATISFACTION AN1) SAVINGS. Clothing Message of Vital Interest to Men and Young Men. Our prestige, our buying power, and our utmost facili ties have ,been taxed to the limit to obtain extraordinary values for this great event. That we have accom plished our purpose is amply attested in the wonderful Men's Overcoats and Balmacaans Wonld Be Considered Good Value in Other Stores at $15.00. Two big deals consummated last week came just in time for this big event, enabling us to offer values tliat will further the reputation of this good store as "Richmond's^ greatest value-giving store." The Overcoats are made of high-grade chinchilla and fancy mixtures, with wide storm collars, French facing, with same materials and some have velvet collars, well tailored and perfect fitting; all sizes. The Balmacaans are made of beautiful imported cloths that are Priestley cravenetted to shed water, wide lapels and collars that button high in the neck; large, roomy pock-, ets and cuffs, well tailored; all sizes and perfect fitting. Weisberger's Street Floor.

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THE T1MHS. KomW.... THE DISPATCH, Konnded 1SRS 1860 PahlUhtd eTcrr d?7 the year by The Tlmea Dlapatch Pnbllablnv Company, Inc? A?dr**a alt eommuuleatlona to TIIW TIMKS-D IS PATCH, Ttmn-Dlipntch llulldlnff, 10 South Ttntls Street, tltchmMd, Vii I fBLEPHONK. KANDOIiPH 1 Publication Office 10 South '^nth Street South Richmond :'i J t'cirrnhars 100 North Sycamore * nil HAVEN is on our side. With 11 Clod we shall achieve a prolonged peace;" thus snlth the Gorman Emperor Similar declarations have come from the mout lis of statesmen and makers of war of the other nations, side by side, with cable dis patches describing the mowing down of human beings by machine guns and gigantic shells, the dropping of bombs on women and children in towns only technically fortified,' ihe "dead lying in heaps in the trenches.'! How much of this sort of talk Is intended as a devout acknowledgment of divine leadership, real or fancied, and how much is gallery play, none may tell. We have heard county politicians on tho hustings blatantly claiming th&.-leaderst'ip of tho Almighty, and in rather colorless" or too colorful causes. Let them light if they will, all of thorn; lot them shoot and cut and hack and mow down their brothers of many colors and tongues. But the high-sounding claim that any of them arc doing it under the direction of God is calculated to make more skepticB than converts to a religion which counsels peace, and cannot counsel slaughter except by the interpretation of howling fanatics. Servia Kefuses to He Crushed IT was only a few days agO, following tlio taking of Belgrade by the Austrian forces, that the world was talking of Servia as a second Belgium, certain to be overrun by its enemies, certain to bo most sternly gov erned. certain to bo. required to pay heavy indemnities to its contjiierors. All the sus ceptible hearts were pained by this prospect, and every benevolent eye shed a few pre liminary tears. It now appears, according to the reports sent out by the Servians themselves, that these heart throbs and tears were entirely unnecessary. Not only has the arrny of King Peter not been crushed, still according to the reports, but it lias intlicted a heavy defeat on the advancing and too-confident Austrian's and thrown them back in confusion, taking many guns and thousands of prisoners. There must be a lesson in this*. For the Austrian* it has regard, probably, to the un wisdom of counting chickens before they are hatched, and for us in this country, per haps, it is that we should not do any weep ing or heart-throbbing until we are asked, or at least until wo know what we are weeping and throbbing about. The National Security League ITIs an odd commentary on'llie workings of representative governments that In most matters of national concern self-ap pointed bodies seek to guide the representa tives elected by the people, While it may not be so intended, the organization of the National Security League, in New York, nec essarily conveys a covert intimation that the men sent to Washington to serve this natlou are not alive to the country's military needs. Jt .is the business of Congress to see to it that tho republic fs guarded against the pos sibility of invasion or of being bullied by any other power. Self-olectod bodies have no excuse for existence unless and until our government shows itself unablo or unwilling to take tho necessary action. The great war has inevitably turned our I minds to a consideration of our own mill--; tary condition. It has boon demonstrated I tbat unpreparednesB for war does not as sure pcaco, although It has also been proved that readiness for battle is the surest incen tive for drawing tho sword. It is not un likely that tho American pcoplo would ap- j prove the spending of tnonoy on u stronger navr and ou h worG comprobcnsivo fcystoni of military training, such as hsa been sug gested by prominent army and navy officers and indoraod by tho President. It seems a bit fatuous, however, for a prlvato organiza tion to assuiho tho burden of bringing tills about. The league will probably organize branches throughout tho country. Therefore, it Ib to bo hoped that those who profit commercially through preparations for war are oot and will not be tho motlvo forcc behind the league. The American people will not knowingly toloruto anything that smacks of Kruppism. and many of tliom aro awaro that avowedly patriotic organizations abroad have found devoted friends. If not parents, in tlie makers of tho tools of war. How Long Should the Franchise Last? STATEMENTS made Thursday night at tho mass-meeting of East End citizens by Henry \V. Anderson, vice-president and general counsel of the Virginia Railway and Power Company, confirm Tho Times-Dispatch In an opinion long held and expressed more than once on this page?that tho compauy really did not expect some of the requests and statements contained in its appeal for a new blanket franchise to be taken in any other than a Pickwickian sense. i Little details of the proposition, like the million dollar valuation on the aqueduct and park transfers to the city, tho tontative sug- j gestlon for increased fares aud, in general, j the naive theory of that document that Rich- I moiul should give uiucli and get little, obvi- ously never were intended for serious con- I sideration. It was, as Mr. Anderson now ox- j plains, a mere diplomatic pourparler. It is true that no progress toward a just j solution of the' problem will be mado by citi- j zens and company throwing bricks at each t other, but it ought also to be said, in defense of such indulgence in that pastime as citi zens havo permitted themselves, that tho company is guilty or contributory negligence. It certainly erected a mighty tempting glass house. When Mr. Anderson discusses tho queBtlon j of the duration of the proposed franchise ho is on far safer ground. Tho fact is as ho states it?that a great public service cor- j poration cannot be linanced adequatclj and economically when Its right to do business is i to be terminated at. tho end of ten years Moreover, there is in such cases the fixed certainty that service and equipment will bo allowed to deteriorate as the franchise term nears its expiration. Theso arc general considerations. Speclii- cally, thero is no reason why tho Virginia Railway and Power Company should consent j to accept a ten-year franchise, as the priiy cipal ones it now enjoyB havo fourteen or fit- j teen years to run. and some of tho less im portant run forever. Thirty years may be too long a period for a wise franchise grant, but ten years certain ly is too short, perhaps thu conferences Mr. Anderson suggests and experience in dorses will solvo this problem along with the others that are Involved. Continuation Schools for Richmond RICHMOND should givo closest study and wisest, consideration to the recom mendations made by tho survey committee of tho National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. Tho committee urges that the city take over Mechanics' Institute, operate it under tho general direction of tho School Board, add day classes to those Con ducted ut night, and make It the centre of si broad system of industrial and vocational training. What obstacles, if f.ny, stand in the way of tho execution of this program will be de i voloped by investigation. There may bo sound reasons why it is not practicable. Un doubtedly, however, it presents an inviting prospect of large advantage and substantial usefulness, the way to which should not bo I barred save upon mature retlection. Richmond's large manufacturing indus tries, many of which invite the labor of the youth of both sexes, make an institution like Mechanics' Institute a special need and give it a special valuo in this community. The institute is now operated only at night, and its potential advantages are ^not realized in fact Open in tho daytime and more llberal ly supported, it would add In enormous meas ure to the industrial efficiency of Richmond's working population. The continuation schools that the commit too recommends are needed here as they are elsewhere in this country. In Germany, where they have been l'or yearn an estab lished part of the educational system, their value is unquestioned. In Leipzig, especial ly. they have a firm place in public favor, and employers are glad to give their young em ployes reasonable opportunity to corn limb their studies. The schools aire intended, as their name implies, for boys and girls yrho are forced to go to work at a comparatively early age. The classes meet for four or five hours each week. There is Instruction on general subjects, but pupils also receive spocial instruction of an industrial character in the field they have al ready entered. Schools of this type would mean much for Richmond, and the taking over of Mechanics' institute mny solve tho problem of how to attain them. If the average man would put away $2 a week, $10-1 a year, $1,040 in ten yearn, $2,080 In twenty years, with compound interest added, he who started at twonty would not be in want at forty. The proposition to create a huge standing army might meet with favor, providod the first recruiting were among useless members of legislative bodies. Now York is angry because Chicago's I'.oard of Trade wunts to change the local time to agree with New York's by setting hack the hands of the clock. Some peoplo will spend years planning what they are going to do, when they stop planning and begin doing something. When the small boy looks at the calendar he wonders what any one can mean by "un lucky Friday." After a long silence, Count von BernstorfT has arrived in port with a cargo of dumdum bullets.

SONGS AND SAWS The Llmll. This world's 1 world of griof and woe: Pain's always upon our track; But most times we can make j a show Of ondurlng Fftto's attaok. Tot thero Is otlll one deadly thins That wilt, stir Us Up to fight? Juat lot a fat HopranO sing: "Oh, Whoro'S My Hoy To?NtglitV" The PMnltibt Haya: Manufacturers of arms and armor ought to ho willing to open their honrts and contribute K?ueroukly to tho support of tho National Security league. If it in successful In its ambi tions, it will add security to their hank accounts, at afly into. v Xo l)l?olatiou Yet. Ho?Ard wo supposed still to bo engaged? She?Oil. yes. Alt engagements mado in tho summer aro understood to continue In l'orco until after Christmas. Youth'* RetriiderMcnt. "Say, dad!" "Yes, my son?" "You bellovo in Kanta ClaUs, don't you?" "Why, of course I do." "Hut you don't like him, do you?" "Certainly, t ltko him. Why do you ask?" "Because I heard you tolling Mr. Jones tlmt if that old fraud wasu't more reasonable this year, you wore likely to land In the poorhoufio." Turning the Table*. Htubhs?Your friend, Subbubs, is one of tho most unmitigated bores that 1 have over en countered. Orubbs-?What inakes you think that?. Stubbs?-I met him on the street to-day, and started to tell him about the attack of measles from which iny littlo Willie is Just recovering, and ho insisted on my listoning to a long- story of his boy's whooping cough. Compenaatloii. Tho ancients had some blessings Wo do not think about; Thoy woro n6t left in darkness by Tho current popping out. THtt TATTfjlHt. Chats With Virginia Editors Saya tlio Portsmouth Star: "Ohio haB a law which compels newspapers to toll the truth. Texas has a law which compels them to sup press it." Which proves nothing cxcopt that there are inoro men in Ohio who can afford to have the truth published. Tho Petersburg Index-Appeal comments with h tinge of Irony: "Of course, tho navy is in fine shape, as Secretary Joscphus Dalilols says. Tho grog has been abolished, 'Tipperary* has been cut out, and nothing is left to render it ineffective save tho rations of tobacco, and thftSo probably have been marked for abolishment." Tho heart of tho sallorman Is glad, however, for tho ban is not upon his beloved hornpipe. Hut the reel is barrod. lloar tho cheery chirp of the editor of tho Halifax Gazette; "No, there's no use Wailing hard times to us; wo refuse to bo eonvlncsd. Our name isn't Cashinbank, and probably won't be for some tinio to come; but wo have three squaro a day, a placo to sleep and a big jar full of tobacco, so we should (as the slnngints sa.v) worry!" There's truo philosophy for you. "Poor and content is rich, and rich enough," i "Four Kings on the battlollold? VTcs, but at a safe distance from tho firing llivo and with moans at hand of making a quick getaway in ease of emergency," nays tho Bristol Herald Courier, from which comment wc deduce that, in (ho opinion of tho Hcrald-Courlcr man, four jacks would hold out a stronger bluff. In tho last?beg pardon! most recent issue of I he Wise County News?for Hill Hade, editor and publisher, advises us he will keep the paper go ing until November, 19lf?~tho list of governor ship candidates is again enumerated and ap praised. l?ditor lllll lOads stales frankly that ho doesn't think much of tho available timber. Ho intimates his suspicion that a dark horso is looming upon the political horizon of Virginia, and ho indicates that while the Identity oi the dark horse is not known to the editor of tho News, tho editor of the News is for Mr. Dark horse. If llie expected entry is scratched at the post, then 1)111 loads is for the candidate desig nated by him as "the feathered songster," mean ing Richard Evelyn Iiyrd. Hut Dill Eads rises to remark?and his language Is plain?that he prefers men whose Christian names can be pro nounced in a monosyllable. Hoilectively, the war critic of the Newport >"ews Times-Herald remarks; "One of tho great est problems of tho war in Europe is how to take care of prisoners. It is all that each of tho bel ligerent nations can do to take care of its own sioldlore." Belligorents, aa a rule, l'eftl that they have protty well solved the problem when they take care that the prisoners do not get away and arc not overfed. Food for thought, served in the best style of the paragrapher of the Norfolk Lodger-Dispatch: i "Since tho war began crime has decreased 30 j per cent In London, even with the lights turned out every night." Easily explained, however, i Tlic "lure of the white lights" eliminated. .Secretary McAdoo's annual re- j l>ort w,n ftl?'n>"? i'?nk as a his- j torical document of great value Service ju the nnnais or American finance to Nation because it tells the ofllclnl story of iho financial operations in- i i cldcnt to the outbreak of the world war of I 1014, from the government point of view. On f the purely financial side, tills administration is destined io bulk large in history for two roa- j sons: the new federal reserve banking system j is one; the unprecedented financial crisis causcd by the war ia the other. The Secretary of tho j Treasury, in this report, reviews episode after j episode since August I that combined will hero nfter make ono of tho most memorable chapters in the history of tho Treasury Department. Kutut-e students of this period will marvel that the Wilson administration was bitterly de nounced asi "hostile to business" while it was scoring"a great triumph In carrying the burden i of tho most extraordinary emergency known to j modern finance. There Is still almost no rerog- i illtion of tills fact by the people,, least of all by bnnkers and business men. .Many novel expedients were adopted in meeting the crisis, i some of them being of the utmost importance. Tho government through it all has led, rather i than followed, with the Federal Unserve Board, t Instead of some Wall Street banker, pre-eminent I in expert guidance. If mistakes bave been made, i they have, not boon vital. Tho great out&taml j lug fact is that this country has weathered ono of tiie most critical years in its financial history in a manner highly creditable to its administra tlon, and the dark year ifow York World. War News Fifty Years Ago (Prcm tho Hleluncnd Dispatch, Dec. 12,18U4.) General Longstraet, with two divisions, made a vigorous reconnoissanco beyond tho left of our i lln^a on the Bntcrsbuftf front to fltul what the j Federals wero up to, Ho found thorn defonded by only pickets. He mdt-ched over thoai and pdshsd his efforts as far an JCowmarket, where j tho enemy wcro found 10 force, and also With i n large* fort, covering', with tho outworks, more than an acre of ground. Goneral Longstrect"'; decided to mal;o no demonstration against title'j tort, and returned to his orlKlaal position. In tills demonstration, which was successful as far aw It went, our loss was only two killed and live wounded. Tho Federal loss was nlrt? killed, twelvo wounded and thirty prisoners. At 2 o'etor.k yesterday morning the Confed erate mortars near lOlllott's 111 11 opened oil. Fort Harrison. Tho Cneriiy replied only twice, with a ulnglo gun eaoh ttmc, and tired solid shot both times. Thon thoy took to their bomb proofa and fired no more. Under dato of yesterday. General Leo reports to tho Seoretary of War as follows: "About noon yesterday tho first division of the Second Corpa of tho enemy, supporting their cavalry, foroed back our cavalry pickets on tho Vaughan j Road south of the Appomattox and advanced towards Dlnwiddio Courthouse. To-day our cavalry, reinforced by our Infantry, drovo them back across Hatcher's Hun, capturing a few prisoners and ro-ostAbliohlng -our linos." Tho force Which General Grant sent off on a prodfttory and bridge-burning expedition towards the Meherrln Rives- consisted of tho Fifth Army Corps. with cavalry and artillery, alt under tho command or Major-General Warren. Tho enemy robbed tho pooplc of Sussex County without moroy, and destroyed the courthouse, but, fortu nately, tho county records and papers had been previously removed' to a placo of safety. General Leo officially reports that General Wade Hampton met and intercepted tho raid of General Warren and drove that marauder and all of his troops linCk. Hampton headed Warron off before he reached Uclinold, which soonis to have been Warren's objective point. The laut advices from Georgia are to tho effoot that Sherman lu advancing on Savannah by three parallel lines. However, Uofturegard, Uardeo and Smith arc there to meet him, and tho chances aro that tie will nevor see tho Inside of Savannah. General Jlraxton Bragg, with a force that seems to bo utile to hold the situation, la re ported to be In good position at Augusta. and the advance of the enCmy lias been checked. At the opening of the Confedorate States Henate yesterday morning tho Row John R. Kdwards, of the Methodist Church, led In u most forvont prayer, which developed Into an eloquent patriotic address which commanded the rapt, not to say tearful, attention of all who heard It. In tho House of Delegates of the Virginia i Legislature yesterday, Mr. Raymond, of Marion, submitted a resolution that tho Committee on j Finance Inquire into tho propriety of approprlat- i Ina a sum of money sufficient to pay General 't Robert 15. Loo for his military service rendered j to the State of Virginia. The resolution oon- j talned a reoltal ol" the sacrlflcea General Leo j made In answering tho State's call in the tlrst instance. Mr. Kclley, of Petersburg, proposed a substitute requiring the proper ofllccr to Issue at oneo a warrant on the State Treasurer for $100,uOO to compensate Ooneral Loo for tils para- t mount service to tho Htato of Virginia and to j tho Confedorate States. Mr. Raymond opposed tho substitute taklnc; tho form of a present to j General l.eo. He aald tie know tho general, and knew-'lio would not accept it. It was only a j year ago, said he, when some sood people of Richmond, hoaded by that patriot, John Stewart, a merchant prince, offered General Leo a pala tial honiflMn thiH city, and, although ttie goncral Wf uncertain voice. I'ractloally all bodies of wctv, in the professions and the pursuits followed by I them in any great numbers, and in tho iftdus- J tries that como undor tho head of organized J labor, arc on record n? favoring shorter hours. j So that suffragists have this practical refison for their action. Also, since tho decision of the j Supreme Court of tho United States in tho .famous Oregon case, which upheld the consti tutionality of the ten-hour day; and wo bslicvn that ten hours is tho maximum for women in industry. Suffragists may reel that far from "rushing in where angels fear to tread," they aro following tho most augiiHt footsteps. That the j number of States having ten, nine and eight- hour laws is steadily Increasing, Is proof of j the gradual acceptance of the reasonableness of 1 their demand. It may be said that tho problems ol* seasonal j occupation and of unemployment aro not to be j solved by the ballot nionc. I would request j "Observer" to nolo that suffragists aro working i to obtain the ballot "on equal terms with men," and that "practical understanding of business and political situations" and "ability to grasp thom in their entirety" is not the qualification i required of the malo votor. It. W. University of Virginia, December f>, J014. The Bright Side of Life HIk Talents. "What makes you think Daubbcr will succeed I as a painter?" "Ho has the soul of an artist and tho porsever- I ance of a hook agent."?Philadelphia ledger. j The Test. "Is lit a good lawyer?" "I Should say ho Is. He's acquitted some of our most notorious criminals."?Detroit Tree" Press. Rnfnoan. Crawford?I hear it was a had failure. Oralis haw?Very. Even the receivers didn't make anything out of it.?Puck. PmkIdk Judgment, Producer?The comedians seemed nervous. What they needed was life. "Critic?You're too severe! Twenty years .would be enough.?Judgo.

THE RAINBOW One of the Dajt'b Best Cartoons, LOOK lir, MAN", LOOK CP! From the Knahvlll* TcunoMeaia. DECIDES BELGIUM WAS NEUTRAL The pamphlot, "Truth About Ger many." sponsored by eminent German scholars, asBcrtod that Great Britain, by demanding that Germany respect the neutrality of Belgium. simply "asked that Germany should allow French ami Belgian troops to form on Wolffian territory for a inarch against oar frontier." Tho profcBttor of history at Gottln K?>n university, writing to the Nation on this point, paya: '.'There Is now ample documentary evidence for tho statement that France and Knglund planned to attack Germany by tho way of Belgium, and that Belgium was a member of tho ontetHe." f'rof. A. O. Xiovejoy, of Johna Hop kins University, writes to the Nation that this now evidence In presumably tho documents found by the Gorman* In the War OlJlce In Brussels, of whleh an account wan published In tho Ger- I man newspapers. This evidence, as given In the Norddeutscho Allgemolne ijcltunt* of October 13, ho professes to have examined with care, lie says: "It not only falls to prove the as sertion made In 'Trtith About Ger many': it clearly tends to prove tho contrary of that auBcrtlon. "What Is publlsherl consist* of two parts: (a) A summary, with a fow scattered words of textual citation, of certain eorrespondonco exchanged In 1000 between the British military at tache at Bruaselfl and the Belgian gen eral staff. relating to arrangements to be carrtcd out in tho event of the Bending of an Rnglleh expeditionary corps to Bolgium; and (b) part of a letter by Bnron Grelndl. for many years ltelginn atnbasnador at Berlin, written In 1911 to the Belgian Foreign Mlnlater. In tho former part of this evidence, ?supposing it to bo genuine, them In nothing to show that tho arrangements for posniblo action In Belgium by lCnn- land -wero other than defensive pro- i visions against the contingency of*n violation of Belgium's neutrality by i Germany. Subsequent oven is have not made this contingency pooin one for which It was unwise to make provl- alon. "Furthermore, Baron Grci lull's let 1 tor, aij Wllhclrnetrasse. Baron Grelndl complains (I translate tho Norddoutscho Allgemeine Zoltung*s paraphrase) 'that tho plan of the Bel gian general staff for tho protection of Belgium's neutrality In a Franco German war, which had been trans mitted to him, deals only with the question of the military measures to be taken in case Germany should vio late Belgian neutrality.' To Belgium's representative In Berlin it scorns that tho hypothesis of a French or English attack upon Qormany through Bel gium 'has Juot an much probability In Its favor.' "To prove that possible dangar lien on this side alno, ho argues at eomc length. On this point, however, the I letter shows no mora than that tht I ambassador hart loarned In Berlin to look upon Albion and all her agents art 'perfidious.' Hut ho constantly Im plies that the arrangements made with rctorcnco to tlio ponslbla landing of an Hnglish lfllf?armoe were, so fai ns the Belgian government was con cerned, purely dofenslvo In their pur pose. "The concluding sentences quoted by the Oonnan Journal are especially Hlg i nMeant. Therts Is a rink, Baron Grclhrtl writee, that the Hnglish, If Involved I in a war with (lornmny, may land at Calais ami Dunkirk ami enter Bol plum from the northwest. -That would give them the advan tage of being ftblo to brlhg on an action at onco, and of meeting the I Belgian unity In a region whore we i should bo unsupported by any fortress, j in cauo we should ehooso to rink a j b.Mtlo: It would In any case make It possible for thorn to hamper our mobl Haatlou, or to pormlt It only after we had formally bound ourrclves to carry It out solely for the advantage of lOngtawl and her ally. It In. thore fore, Imperative that a plan of battle j lor the Bolgian army bo drawn up In advance, with u view to thin oven i tuullty aliio. ThlH Is required in the j Interest alike of our military defense and of the conduct of our foreign re j l.-itioriH In the rvent- of u war between j Franco and Germany.* "Hero, manifestly, the Belgian dip lon.at Ik writing' to his government. In n way which would have beicn absurd. If I hero had existed anything approach ing an alliance between his country j and l-'nglund. Me assumes that Bei i gium is not bound to favor Knghwd I or France any moro than Germany. Ho takes it as a matter of courso that if an Knglish army should attempt to pans through Belgium (without a prior violation of Belgian neutrality by art other power), it would have ftrfct to j moot and overcome the Belgian army, unless the invasion were so auddon as to anticipate tiic Belgian rnoblllza tlon. "He urges merely that the chance of such n conflict with the powers of tho entente has been underestimated in j Brussels, ami that Insutllclent military preparations hnvo boon made with u view to it. Jt would bo hard to iir.ag ino better evldcnco than Baron 1 Grolndl'n lettor that it was n settled j principle of Belgium's: policy that t\?e i Inviolability of her territory was to i be defended against all Tomors and by all available moans. Yet It Is appar ently upyn tlio ground of precisely th|s evidence that wo are Informed that "Iielniuni was a member of.tho entente.' and meant to Join I'ngland and Franct i In a raid upon defenceless Germany." PRINCE OF WALES AT OXFORD The president o( Magdalen, in an" ai'ttelc In the. London Times, writes: Tlio war cut short many things. Amongst thorn it cut short tlio Prince of WhIcu'h Oxford lime. the ]>rlnc? arrived, at a little over eighteen, well forward In tlio studies and training of the navy?moral, physical and intel lectual?-but naturally .somewhat newer ro r.nd Irsj directly prepared for unl '??lty life :md studies than the pub l:ool boy. fiMv wee It h, however, lie bepran d h,'a feet and develop rapidly, the first he took to his own lino, ocjua't modesty and flrnmoss, do :;ilned If: bin own mind that he uld be really par inter pare; that mi would seek and accept no tribute exeopt In his merits; that ho would take (in habituul and an assiduous troubln to avoid dofcrunco or prefer ence an others take to cultivate it, desiring, as the old Itoman poet put it, "that men should give what he wanted, but that they should be free t<? dony": quodquo darl volult, volult slbi posse negari. His natural dignity and charm, and, it should bo added, the pood sense and pood feeling of his college companions, and of Oxford gen erally, that democratic aristocracy, enabled him to go far in this resolve without mishap or untoward i'csult. Onco having started upon It, ho pur sued this narrow, nice lino with in creased conildence, until it seemed tlio most easy and natural and uncon scious thine lu the world. Took Interest lu Sport*. IIo played football, lawn tennis, golf and squash rackets: ho motored; he ran with the college boats, ho ran a great deal with tlio beaglos, he shot at various country houses round Ox ford; ho rode, for exercise, and to hounds. In this last accomplishment ho started at a disadvantage; but by real perscvcroncc and pluck soon made up for it and bocamo quite proficient, though among ono of tlio gonuirio losses involved by the loss of another winter-at Oxford la the missing of yet further days with the Oxford hunts. Ho was withal a punctual and dili gent member In the ranks of tho 0? T. C. Ho drilled, ho marchod, ho went into camp like any othor private. As to Ills otudies, his time was short. It was not clear at tho Drat that ho would have the socond year; tho eareor for which li? was to prepare was a unlquo one. Strlot educational "econ omy" had to bo practiced. .French, German, jind English,, especially tho. command of literary expression In his own languago, wore necessary for him. History, political oconomy, political Hclonoa "and constitutional law were dOBlrablo. For'this last study he was singularly fortunate in having at hand one of the first living authorities and. per haps, tlie ih'Kt living tencbor, In the late Sir Will hi m Anson. Young hirtj self in mind and body to tho laat, u country gentleman ami sportemun, as woll lib a groat Jurist mid publicist, and singularly happy in bin relations with undergraduates, Sir William An ton at onco put tho princo at hlu caae. and tlicro sprung up between thom u friendship which grew and strength ened every term. Together, beginning with tho Britlali systitn, they went through the constitutions of tho world, If not from China to Peru, yot literally from Switzerland to Japan, the prince reading and writing and taking notes, Sir William talking and expounding. It la interesting to notlco how his command of all thrco languages (Eng lish, French and German) proceeded together and how ho acquired a sense of literary stylo, as rcgardB both ur jangement and form, in both English and French, at much tho samo rate, liitj essays, which at llrst wcro con scientious reproductions and compila tions, became more and mora his own, both in thought and expression. In tho end, though not yet twenty, and only at tho ago when many sixth-form boys nro just beginning Oxford, he ac quired a considerable mastery. Gifted with a good verbal memory, a fi'esh ness of view and decided independ ence of character, his essays, if not exactly lltorary, became moro and nioro interesting, and again and again were striking and eloquent, if only In their genuine sincerity and simple honesty. 'I'lie l'riuw'H <*nnlltleN. Bookish ho will never bo: not a "Beancle'rk," still less a "British Solo mon." Kings, perhaps fortunately, seldom are this last. That la not to bo desired, but the Princo of Wales will not wont for power of ready and forcible presentation, cither In speech or writing. And nil the timo ho was learning more and moro every day of men, gauging character, watching its play, gelling to know what Engllbh men aro like, both Individually and still more in tho mass. If tho 10I0 of princes in a constitutional country is to guide rather thun to dominate, to persuade rathor than to compel, to Inlluoncc by tho attraotlon of character and personality, and $ho oxafnple of chivalry of modern days, and of duly, steadfastly and eagerly If unostentatiously pursued, ho stands on the threshold of life to-day wanting roithor lir natural gifts nor In such preparation In Its \noro modern form as It has been tho privilege of Eng land's ancient and historic schoola and seminaries of "tru? religion anil use ful learning" from ago to ago to con fer uport each succeeding g-ehefatlbh of her sons.

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7" Household Interests -SOCIETY Personal Notes MISS ANNE KEITH ROYALL VISITING IN DANVILLE Weekly Ounce to He HtlO lit Country Club ot Virginia This KTcnlng, I^oIIovtIbk Dinner. Ml?s Anno itoith Royall Is leaving town to-day for Dtuivlllo, whcl*o aho i will visit friends for some time. Miss J Itoyall is golhg to Danville to nttund I I ho wedding of MIbm Grnco JoitoB next Week, at which ceremony nho will act r,H maid of honor for tins brldo. Mish ionco hftn BoVOrnl times visited Miss HOyall In ltlehmona, and liaa a grout inany friends In this city. I.eavlngc for Iii'Dchlinrg, Mias Elizabeth Clemmer, of Middlo brook. who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. John D. Clothier, here, will leuvo In a few days f$r a visit to frlenda In Lynchburg, whero a number of Inter eating functions have boon planned in her honor. Miss Clcmmer will later fro to lscxiiiKton, wlitfo who expects to attond tho Christmas dance* Riven by ho cadetM at tho Virginia Military lu Htltute. Miss Clemmer inaOo hor debut in Richmond two h.casons ago, and Homo charming affaiip wcro incident to her com Ins out. ln(?rrfitlng Affairs. Thero will bo the usual weekly dance at tho Country Club of Virginia tliln evening following dinner. Nu merous tables have been engaged for tea thle afternoon as well as fur ilin ner In the evening, and several hun dred members of the club with their guests will bo In attendance at the dance there to-night. Tho dansanta at the Richmond Hotel will be resumed this evening in the ballroom. The affairs of thlp kind that have been given nt tho lllchrnond :?11 fall have been most Interesting, and j a number of well-known people will dance thero this evening. Xcflrar?WiitUIn* Wedding. Tho home of Mrs. Mnrthn Ellen Wat kllis, 2310 East Marshall SttOftt. was tho scene of a urotty wedding Wed nesday (ilternoon at 4 o'clock, when Mlea Hannah Ellon WatklnB, daughter j of tho late Edmond and Mary Aeroe Watkinv, of King and Queen County, i becamo tho bride of Earlo Eggleston Segar, of Middlesex County. I'alniK and ferns formed an effective back ground for the flowers and lighted candlos UBOd to decorate the p.rrlors. and tho ceremony, was performed by tho Rev, Ashton Jenklna, of Calvary UaptlBt Church. Tho brldo wore a liauduome traveling suit of bluo broad- j cloth with a hat to match, and carried I a shower bouquet of llrldo i'ohcb. She J entered with her brother, Joseph Wat kins, who gavo her away, and hor mntd of honor and only attendant waa Mlas Mabol Watklnn, Miss Watklna was gowned In pink c.rcpo do chlno trimmed in lace and chiffon, and sho carried a bouquet of Klllurney roses tied with streamers of pink tulle ribbon. The groom's boat man was Charles i'rcalon Anderton, of Haludn. Tho wedding inarches wore rendered by Mrs. Hod don Watklns, nlKter of the bride. The brldo baa many relatives and frlundn in Richmond, and the groom la a prominent business man of Middlesex County. Mr. and Mrs. Hegar loft Im mediately after tho ceremony for Hay I'ort, on the Rappahannock River, where they will make their homo. The bridal party was entertained the evening before the ceremony In the homo of tho bride's aunt. Some of the out-of-town guests attending the mar riage Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. Uoverty Hegar, of Haludn. parents f the groom; Misses Sarah Temple, c;c? tie and Virginia Hegar. Mr. and Mrs. Beddon Watklna, Miss Ethel Chftnnlng, Miss Elolse Hadlcr, Miss LJesslo llrookc Davlo, Joseph WatkltiB, I'reaton Ander ton and others. I.oth?Vondcrlclir. Announcement has been made of the marriage. In Washington, on Monday of this week, of 1). Aubrey Jerc, is now improving. Miss Rublnetto Leo hau returned to Irvlngton, after attondlng tlio Rlnnton Kunt wedding in Ashland. Miss Grace Mallory, of LawrcncovlMe, is spending some time with friends In lllehmond. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trevctt, of Rich mond, havo been recent quests of fflonda at Glon Allen. Mrs. O. B. Short has roturned to Lawroncovlllo, nftor an extended visit to her daugiitor, Mrs. F. I. Crcatli, in this city. Miss Camilla Itodman has left for Norfolk, after spending some time with Mrs. Archibald Pleasants Cono, huro. Rev. W. \V. Stanley, of Suffolk, Is spending several days with frionds in this city. Mrs. James Martin, who has boon visiting in Richmond, lias roturned to her homo In Chatham. T. II. Jones, of this city, Is stopping at the Montlcollo Hotel In Norfolk for a briof stay. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Potts at tended the Oray-Saunders wedding in I Cllon Allon this wook. Granvlllo R. Swift, who has boon In llichmond for a short stay, roturned to Fredericksburg on Thursday. MIpb Gills, of this city, has returned to her home, after visiting Mrs. R. C. Horry, in Roapoke, for a wook. Mrs. D. 1* Tratlor, who has boon at St. Luke's Hospital hero for treatment, hau returned to her home in Farmvlllo, much Improved. T. H. Marsh, who has been spending several days as the guest of friends In Harrisonburg, has roturned to Rich mond. WOMKJPS MEETINGS. Tho Chesterflold Juniors, U. L>. C., will havo their December meeting thl* afternoon at 3 o'clock In tho homo of tho president, Mltis Mildred Snelllngs, Renounces Kaiser and Russianizes Her Name The Oraoit Duclimn of Mecklenburg-* Soliwerln, motbcr-ln-Imr of the Crovrn i'rlnee Frederick WIlllatH, has re nouoocil lier licrnuia nationality uud resumed (lie nationality of her lilrth, which in HumkIuu. ltercnfter she will lie known ns the Grnml Uucliexo Milvnlcvitnvli. She l? the Ciar'n cousin nntl HlNter of the Cirnnd Dukes .Vkkoln* and Michael. She Iimm given her brau tlful villa on the lUvlera for the nne of Hie wounded n*ldlers> J 2116 Hull Street, Houtli ltlchmond. A full attendance is desired as much in?- poMont work is to be attended to ut i this time. Public Manners IIV IiIIortion of the face. Tlioy are. veritable betrayers of condition. Every J person should uso a mild eyo wash with I !un eye cup twleo a day. Dust will! gather In tho oyos, form into lines, which deepen tlin soft skin and pro-1 duce wrinkles. A soft sponpo dipped in a solution of boric acid and water' I should bo applied over and under tho I eyes after every walk or motor ride. Mrs. W. 11.: If yon will send me a I stamped, addressed envelope, f shall; gladly send you formula for tho skin I food with instructions for facial mas sage. Tho skin must bo healthy to pro serve tho bodily visor, and as Its nutri tion depends oa these minute, liairlikc blood vessels, called capillaries, it is essential that tlioy be kept, up to their, work. Exorcise flushes fiieso vessels by means of Its action on the heart, which sonds the blood coursing morel rapidly through its circuit. Almost all) tho means employed to improve tho looks aro based upon this fundamental I principle. These minute blood vessels,' I besides nourishing the skin, bring mi -1 I trition to the sweat glands, tho oil I glands and to tlvo hair follloloB, so that if they arc in good order the whole skin will bo hoalthyvand in fina C9ndl tlon, the complexion will bo fair, tho' lialr will grow well, and tho black-, heads and pimples will bo baniehed. Massage rightly applied iu ono of tho best methods of accomplishing this. T. A. It.: All that is necessary for tho proper control of the voice is to. cultlvato a habit of thinking just tho! small fraction of a second before utter-, ing a word or giving expression to a thought. Think just "how tho voice should bo used, so as to pcrfcctly suit tho subject and the occasion. Ethel: Tho girl who lives and sleeps in an ill-ventllatod room, who goto less than nino hours sleep a night, who is allowed to lndulgo herself in sweets l>y the pound and to feed whon and how slio llkep, will assuredly degenerate in health and physical appearance. She wl\l become anaemic, and it may take months to resloro hor to health again. 1 Stto will tow tho seeds of dyspepsia and ?neurasthenia, and will in all Ukollhood have to P*V thd penalty inter In yearn of ill health. If more ntl^tlon ^er. paid to tho needs of tho "hoolalt-l tho number of nftUrotle, Kfcml'lrtYalhi fcolMh In tho world would be roductd by one hall". N. NV. Hy all mentis drlnlc water during the day. Ohe should df|*|k about two qliiirts of Water a- dtty. nUl hetwMh meals. Water should iwv?i ho taken With m?alfl. Water Irt as necessary to keep tho system and coin plexlon In good condition as food. Take a oup of hot water every morn ing before breakfast, and so\eral glnsfles of water between meals and ono before retiring. Dr Brady's Health Talk The Itching to Become a >ur?e. Abotft every second woman, at one potnt In her caroer. Is sel*Od with t ho Itching to hccome a nurse. Thin ali ment develops most bovcreU In girls Of tho romantic, ugo of twentj. in ubout DD'J cases out of 1,000 the ailment runs ItH cOvlrno In u few wcoks and tlio Klrl decides to get married and 1I\0 happily ever afterward. The Call to Service. I Another form of the disease attacks young women who have devoted somo years to other work and Brown wears i of loni; hours, poor pay and lack or op- portunlty for promotion. A fair of theso canon prove chronic, and most Of tbum refuso to be cured until tlu.> try a fow months of probationary woi k In the hospital. There they dlncox or that long hours, poor pay and slow promotion are much In evidence ?t|ll, but If thoy have the stamina and cour* ago to Ftlck It out till they get a cap and become regular pupil ""rW,tln* duties which at first seem so irksome and so mean bec ome in time mcchanl- oal and routine, and then there; i plenty of hard work to keep the pupil from wlBhlrtff oho had become a stenog rapher or something easy The I.aten* Yearning. I Hi 111 another form of the disease at- j taCKii women who have taken a hand at practical nursing on their-own re snoiislhlllty, and thus acquired a tatlto for more oi it- Many of these women, if they can afford the throe years of hospital studv. become Ideal nuise. Other,, unable to dcvoto threO yearsi to k elf Improvement, or perhaps leciint, that they Va? take a short cut ttnd save tim' subscribe to a correspondence course In nursing. The result of such i .1 course varies with the nArnomilltv of tho woman; Ir BUG ih in S3s"22K clean, healthy and ebeerful the stvidy of mail-order instructions, coupled with her practical knowledge of how to make a Patient may add considerably to l^er aniiit. ami value as a nurse, though It t.an never qualify hor to do surgical nurs '"a nurse's work In the hospital is hard onough, but In prlvato practice It la atill harder. 8he certainly earns hor pav, and her services are worth ovcry cent she asks. Her hours of leisure and of rest are such as she can *nntou I "mix. vourficl V9 on the advice of J**1 Ul*l I known person; There are scoros of I them, many harmless enough, some in jurious. You had better a\ old them all. ?J. probably seborrlioca?dandruff. It so it will be relieved by rubbing In n "little alcoholic solution ofresorclnand salicylic acid (each 2 pet cent), ^>tn menthot (1 grain to the ounce). U?e it dally. Mahto ft.: Can you tell tne if mer collsed wax. advertised an u complex ion peeler, is beneficial? Roply?As it contulns about 10 per cent of ammonlatedi mercury it will peel most anything if freely used, but U should advise you hot^I\eel un less by nature's method?sunburn. I, A. T. writes at length, and we re produce the gist of his contribution: L?o you mean to say that when one Is suf fering with an acute catarrh of tne head, or coryaa. ho should expose him* -nlf to col.i air out of doors? Vou must he homeopath with yengea..ce! How does ono talc cold in tlio Jlrst 1,1 ifeply?1. What wo are trying to teach is this: The victim of any re spiratory mucous membrane inftcllon, whether It bo coryra, pneumonia, oon sumptlon or what, not, Khotjld nothing- but outdoor air, the colder the better apparently, llut ho should not uff or 'discomfort?he should bo warm hlr.No, the principle len't homeo pathic. The vaccine treatment for theso Infections Is homeopathic, tlio cold fresh air treatment Ih really allo nathlo^?prophylactic?of1 rather coin mon sense. Indoor, artificially heated air enables tho victim to catch hl" hr?' faction from another case or a carlei. outdoor cold, fresh air discourages tho Reims and stlmulntos the natural re? t l8n.'^Through' his own carolessnesH or the'careloflrnoss of tlie individual who int'ecls him. ___ Holiday Cakes BV MARTHA WKSTOVKR "Aunt Sally Dabncy always baked our Christmas fruit cakc. In fact, the cousins, and oven fur-distant kin, got their holiday cako from her. In tho old days Hho ^avc it to U3 as her gift of tho merry-making season. but V There's Nothing Will [l Make a More Acceptable }v Xinas Gift Than a i I Bromm Fruit f Cake U If you don't think so, IJ ask any boy or girl in your/(J family. A And Christinas, after all, S is primarily intended to K make young people liappy. 5; We're experts in baking C\ Fruit Cakes; have been for Si fifty years. Fli 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6-lb. sizes. 30c and 85c lb. |l. bromm |BAKING CO.! 510 E. Marshall Street.. l?01 West Broad Street. later, when dear Aunt fcnlly Could nb longor glvo moro than good Wlfchos, w? all bought oUr cakes. and It holpod eke out her llttlft lAnOmo. Now I doubt If any of us could buko a really goad ono, and there Ih bo milch dentlment Attached to the Christmas plum pud ding or rrblt eako that wo feci as ir "mother" or Koine dear ono should i bako it for tin." Now x know thfe woman who ex pressed herself Just in that way last i week, ami her name is Legion. lsor her, In Richmond, I have a mCseago of oncer, rer In thefce transitional days. when the old-school cooks are giving i place to the domestlc-sclcnc" grad- I uateM, some of us fool Ju*t a little bin it WO did not belong In either nchool. J Vewtorday Miss Mary 'Lancaster Kmlth, the young domestic sclchuo teacher of the Young Wbmah'a Chris tian Association, announced that on Tuesday and Wednesday of next witk ?that 'is. lot mo nee, UecCmbcr 1& And 1C, isn t it?-?nlie will dovoto both classes, from Ji to i o'clock, to teach ing outside women to bake fruit cukes. You muBt apply to Miss Wmlth on Mon day, and nlie will tell you at>ovtt irta- tcrlalo and all that Is necessary for I ou to know, and then on Tuesday you bo right to tho Young Women's Christian Association administration building, on Fifth .Street above Main, and bttko your calto under her direc tion. Won't It be a lovely surprise for tho family to havo you bake it? And then, too, you will have tho satisfaction having compllod with all tho pure-food requirements, and could almost afford to have your "name on everv piece," I for it will bo practically proof against holiday indigestion. j WHY KOMI'! PASTRY IS lMIIGliKTlOLii I And. by the way, 1 Just want to say a word on tho subject of cakes af?d pastry, ho When you tell Johnny he I may not havo another piece of cake, I you will be familiar with tho real rea son. "why," and not put the child oiT with tho very insufficient one given by many mothers, "Hocauno mama says so." That in no answer for an In telligent child, and all normal children aro intelligent until average mothers make them average, Pastry i? mostly nour and fat, and in hUl*d to digest. becauso the fat wrflps itself about tho starch grains In the Hour llko a little coat, and neither water nor digestive Juices Can got into contact with the starch. vStarch, you know, must bo ehungod into sugar be fore It is of any uso to the body, and unless tho Juico of the stomach and mouth have n ehuneo lo act upon it. the necessary chango does not take place. Starch gives heat and energy to the body, but does not build tit'sUes. When wo Bay "starch," it must be re membered that (lour Is not wholly starch. Wheat flour Is about 70 per edit starch; tho othef food principles are contained in tho remaining 2C per cent. The beginning or starch digestion Ifl 1,1 mouth, so cAke bread, cereals and tho like should bo well masticated. ?o that tho ptyalln in the mouth begins tho action of turning starch to sugar. IT you are going to try your fruit cako ill homo thie is a vory irood ro- i ripe, nhd will keen for any length of t} X. 1 Probably bo better even at has tor than at Christmas! Fruit Cakr. One pound of flour, ono pound of flugur, ono pound of butter ono-half pound candied citron si iced, four pounds of currants. four pounds i of raisins stoned and chopped, nine eggs, ono tablespoohful i.f around cinnamon, ono tableapoonful of mace, one tabieapoonful or nutmeg. three I Kills of brandy. Cream butter and NURiir together. Add beaten egg yolks, j then whipped whltcN and brajidv. To this o:ld flour well silted, and last or all tho fruit which has been mixed to-i Brother a lid floured with a portion ofi the ono pound of flour used In d'oolno. Put mixture in ttvo largo tins llnod I with double paper and bake in inoder lato oven three hours. If preferred add I slices of citron in layers a.s mixture In .poured Into pans. It can bo varied by i substituting a pound of almonds fori i on'- of tiie pounds of raisins. j T1 Year Cftkrs. 1 ,'ou' three eggs very thoroughlv and add one and one-fourth pounds of I brown augar, then boat ugain. Add one cup of chopped walnut meats, a toa spoon ot around cloves and two of I cinnamon, also a cup or flour, fstir a j teaspoon of baking soda in a little hot 1 n'jl,Ur ii"*1 ad?J to tho butter. Then add sufficient flour to rolU cut in tiny rounds ami bake quickly on greased 1 tins. These cakes will keep for weolsp. Prince of WttM Cnkr. One cupful of choppod raisins. onp cupful of butter, ono cupful of brown j sugar, two or three eggs, one tablo spooufol of black niolassos, one cupful of buttermilk or sour in ilk, one ieft spoonful each of nutmeg-, cinnamon, soda and cream of tartar: enough tlour to 'make a batter stiff enough to drop easily from the spoon, Liake in lay ers. Kor the Icing boil ono- cupful of j >}ugar until it spina a thread, bpat tho I white of one egg, then udd to it tho boiled sus??" and a half a cupful of j chopped raisins. W'lilte Cuke. An Inexpensive but satisfactory white caUrt is made au follows: One scant cup of butter, two cups of pul verized sugar, one cup of milk, two I cups of flour, one-third teaspoon of wait, two teaspoons of baking powder, Whites of seven eggs. Chocolate Loaf or Layer Cakr. Ono and ono-lialf cupa of sugar. one half Cup of butter, two eggs, one cup of milk, one teaspoon of vanilla ex tract, two cups of flour, ltvo teaspoons Extr ordinary Bath Robe Values $5.00 and $6.00 Robes, in A of j this season's best patterns. Spe i cinl sale price $2.85. t 500 Handsome Four I in-Hand Ties Vuluea up "to 60c, each in a handsome Xinaa box. Special to day, 20c. Phoenix Silk Hose Tho world's best wearing silk hose at 50c un MKNttM k-'Olt THK FIRST OP TIIB W'KUK Monday. BREAKFAST Sliced ItananaH Molted llleo With CrGaan Poached Eggs Toast Coffee J.UXCH EON Creamed Codfish Stowed Tomatoes Drati Bread Cl-caiO Cheese Toustcd Crackers Tea DINNER Brown Potato Soup Breaded SmeltB Mashed Potatoes Peon Splnueh Lemon Meringue Pie 1311 DAK I'A.ST Jinked Bananus Tried Bacon StoWfed Sally Dunn Cafe au I.alt LUNCHEON Chicken Kalad Potato Chips Hot Rolls Stowed Apples Tea Or Chocolute DINNER Vegetable Soup Oyster Pie Lamb Chops Baked Lottuco Mayonnaise Floating Island Ulaelt Coffee NEWS OP ASHLAND ISpcoial to Tho Times-Dispatch.] ASHLAND, V A., December 11.?Dr. Douglas Freeman, of Richmond. made a splendid talk before the members Of tho Young Woman's Literary Club and their tfu?KtH on Thursday afternoon in the Ilanovor Club rooms. Dr. Free man's subject was "'Municipal Govern ment," nnd ho dwelt partloularly on children, theft- health and oducation. Mrs. Hall Cnrtor was hostess for the evening-, and was assisted In serving refreshments by Misses Marguorlto Wlghtman, Mary Goodwin and Anno Doswcll. The Hearts Club was delightfully en tertained by Mr#. Jamos llowlson on Thursday night. Six tables played, and tho prizes were won by Mesdames John Addison and Leslie Ellis and Mrs. Schoolor Fox and DrJ Hugh Russell.' Mrs. llowlson was assisted In serving a salad course by Mrs. J. It. Rlddlck and little Miss Margaret llowlson. Those piny In {i were Mr. and Mrs. W. j t*. Blnnton, Mr. and Mrs. Scholar Fox, Dr. and Mrs. Huijli Russell, Mr. and Mrs. James Chenory. Air. and Mrs. H. \V. N'owmnn, .Mr. and Mrs. Jamoa Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Hunt; Musdames W. 11. Hammond, John Addison, Frank Wright, Leslie Ellis and. A. P. Gullbort: Misses Ilolen llcllor. Sue Reeve Wright, Augusta Nixon; Messrs. 15, M. Shep herd and Allen Chohery. Miss Eleanor Montgomery, of For don. Is visiting Miss Stuart Blnnton. Misses Rublnetto IjCo, of Irvington; Isabel RicluuMs, of lloulton, Mo., and Rhoda Dell Modburg, of Ohio, returned to tliolr homes on Thursday, after being guests of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Hunt at Gwathmoy for tho Hunt-Blunton. wedding. Mrs. Frances Marsh was hontcps for tho Matinco Euchro Card Club on Wod? nesday. Misses, Julia Welsigor and Kathorlno Marsh nuslstod In sorving refreshments. -jMIsb Lou Rodd won thu guost prlxc, and Mrs. William Hudd the eJub prize, and tho consolation prlsso was presentod to Miss Augusta Nixon. Tho Hanover Chapter, U. D. C., held tho logular monthly historical meet ing on Thursday afternoon In the homo of Mrs. Thomas Jones. Tho program I consisted of interesting selections and papers read by Mesdames 11. It. i Smithoy, Henry Carter,, Thomas Jones and Miss Anne Cox. .Mrs. Mam It. Carter and children will leave noxt weok for Sumtor, S. C., to spend some tlmo with Mrs. Carter's parents, Colonel and Mrs. Richard Lou, Mrs. I*. 13. Blaekwell loft Thursday j to visit hor daughter, .Mrs. Fred Mos- sick, !n Auburn, Ala. IJtks UuJpjr Dutch Supper. Moro than 2C>0 members of t ho Rich mond Dodgo of Elks onJoycd the Dutch supper given by the lodgo Thursday night. Exalted Ruler William Perl stein presided as tonstmnstor on tin* occasion, tho Toast being Bproad at the Elks' Home. Tho amateur# who took part In tho Elks' Mlnwtrols, given rocontly at tlie Academy of Music, wore guoats of honor. Tho evening was spent In! feasting, song and story. Several mombors of the "Charming Widows" burlosquo company, from the Dijon Theatre, entertained with a series of dances. Conoe Potatoes i I I Cream' 1

Potatoes Quality Pays When you pay a little more for better quality hosiery, you tret much more value than the difference in price. There's more real silk fibre, better grade of silk, and more stitches to the inch ?a finer weave. Pl*CaUtim Silkjrtosier^ Vou get greater brilliancy of fabric, beauty of weave and much more btrength to resist wear. Try it for yourself. Sold at the B*?t Shop* Send for our unique ty>oklet,"You Just Know She Wean Them.** itttCaHum $)osferp Co. Northampton, Mam. Safe Tea first Me Cfinsfrnas Sfo/e of the Sensc6(e Gift. We Submit for the Thoughtful Consideration of Christmas Shoppers a Speeial Event in \L] H1CH offers splendid values ill quality Gloves of unimpeachable reputation. Purchasers who consider the end and I -t-?W\ jl" the means to the end will scan well the quotations V "Oheco," a trade-marked name identifying the first quality products of Claude 11. Evans Co., of Millatl, France, is known in every great city of the world as a guarantee of supreme satisfaction. We offer the ?'Checo" first quality Lamb Glove, in all colors, with self-embroidery backs?also Pigale?the new Shade of yellow?with black embroidery backs. Black and white, with contracting embroidery backs. Special at $1.0,0. Two-clasp Real Kid Glove, with wide Contrasting embroidery backs and kid welt at wrist. Special at $l?o0. A Fancy One-clasp P. K. Glove of real kid, with three-row heavy embroidery back of contrasting col ors, finished at the wrist with kid welt?in Pigale? embroidered self and black?white embroidered self, black, green and Pigale. Special, $2.00. A very exceptional value in a 10-button fir^t qual ity "Checo" Lamb Glove, manufactured in Mlllau by C. II. C. Co. Full cut arm and Cleo. button, in white only. Extra special, $2*75. Misses' two-clasp Real Kid Glove, made in Milan, Italy, in white and tan?sir.es from 5 to special, $1.00. DRINK i ^\\ve^ii\\vos^//^ I EDISON FACTORYi Destroyed By Fire 1 December 9th?Loss $7,000,000 I Will Rebuild at Once We have on hand- machines and rec g ords sufficient to supply any demand. C. B. HAYNES CO. No. 121 West Broad Street W\\v\\\v/v\\\\w///////?^ ri'.v.CWiB

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Must Perfect Our Workers, if We Would Compete With Other Nation*. FAVOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING Society for Promotion of industrial j ?Kdt.cntion Closes Its Annual Kcs- si0n?Delegates Will Visit llttinp ton Normal School To-I>ay. I ??The whole future of this (.oiuHry j depend* upon h u 1 u s t r i a l .uy: j .aid .1;iiu- aw'Senea j cause the;. ha\*AH education jco the necessity or sucn the children. Vnrli Julius Henry Oohen. of discussed ^he !)Krocnients." I trt?,1 'Vha t' in a 11 c r s which ultimately X v?J?V i ?v, v nmiiiovo nve uciiiu and the eiuplo. nBr,.Cinent known by means of a 3 coming ,u 1,0 the that In pome Industrie, the recognized that n?|lould ho as iralnins of tl10 agreement as nutcii hours of libot. ac" oti,0r thlnps. "nce. 1 usVafson superintendent of vhe hexvis tiuMur.ui Mocha meal u.vM U?..kV Trades, St. education for r?"?n.Vco,">?>-?? xbcitiokm. at Which were Sertlona 1 ni -J ^^id l,e discussed thi. sunj industrial courses tfiught in nrer"raVorv schools I for boys and girls. pr?mrai p anrt co-operation between and the voc'ai?"\r.oii An Informal I durin* tho "fton oV!oclc In tho I dinner was hcld at hcW "Business Men 8 "'^.^^uon and a conference C;1"1U1.?. Anions f training of vocatlo D n.u.voy, pres the ciieiiKcrs institute. ilenomoiilc. ?ass. ?jss-rut i ESS heads of departments OL the r institute and delcKaUs ni 1 SCHOOLS CAN GET MONEY IF NEEDS ARE EXPLAINED> Mjc-.tlimlf.l From Hlrrt _ r ~i f."lart: "We art to, dove-lop a Stfttej system ?>f schools thnt will make ono r?ol as confident of finding the program agroed on for the State carried out In the weak mid remote country school as lie Is confident of finding the program agreed upon for a city carried out In the average or "Q Street" city school. In other words, we do not want a few vhow sjehools with every spot neglected. "Tins Richmond survey has shown] what Industrial and vocational work Is I being done here; how much we have In the way of manual training, domestic science, shop work, commercial courses,i prevocational training and contlnua-! tlon courses. Speaking for Virginia at lnrge, I wish to aa.v that of our twenty cities eleven give courses In manual Training and domestic science, and five in commercial training, two have con tinuation and trade classes in evening schools, two have courses that make journeymen or near Jorneymon, and one, Richmond, has a prevocational school. Among the 100 counties we llnd thirty with manual training and domestic science classes, fifty-nine teaching agriculture, thirty-six With corn clubs, and nearly or quite forty with canning clubs. TISACHIXt; COI.OHIin ('HI I.DIt KV TAHI.K M A V.VKltS "Amon^ the colored people In forty counties the hoys and girls?if 1 may nnploy tl>. quaint grouping of words found in the reports of the negro su pervisors?are taught canning, cooking, sewing, cutting, fitting, basketry, mat making, whitewashing, veneering and ta'hle manners. "The National Society for tiie Promo tion of Industrial Education has de voted its attention to the shop rather than the farm. Vocational education from a State standpoint must place agriculture first, but we shall do well to make the shop a close second. I am glad to hear the committee reject t it e idea of expensive trade schools even in a city of this size. The com mittee stresses the importance of con tinuation classes in city life, and now the Slate must bring the farm and the shop closer togi-th- r We must ?;et more out of our manual training courses in towns and small cith s than now experience. I can think of half a dor.en smaller places where even ing continuation classes could be in troduced to great advantage. I'OXrUKTKll MO\ KMF.VT TO IIV.MSH IM,|TTCH\rV "I have spoken of otir supremo de cide to develop a State system of schools. We have tested the develop ment of that svstem in tv-o ways since .July, The first test was- along sanitary lines. Our eecond test was a 'carefully planned, united and con tor tod movement to get the children In the schools, and banish illiteracy. If the enrollment during the present session equals the estimates mad* by the dlvl- j Rlon superintendents. on the basis of j the October and November enrolment. our total enrollment at tho close of j the October and November enrollment, an Increase of 70,890, or 17 por cent in throe years, or an Increase of more than 38.000 In one year. l>urlng no ton-j'ear period in recent years, prior to 1912-IS, did the increase In enroll- tnent equal tho actual increase during j the pant two years, or the probable increase during the present session. "Under these circumstances I feel that the best legislation to promote j vocational training throughout the borders of this Commonwealth would j be four or Ave lines In our appropria- tion bill, giving us enough money to J put tho work on the same basis as our j high school work or graded school j work under the special acts, providing I State aid to all schools In which cer- tain work is introduced, or certain i equipment provided. This, as 1 have j before indicated, wotild^stimulate local' initiative and local levies in both cities and counties. Of course, the vocational j l'und should be made available in cities as well as counties, and I have faith to believe that our tax commission will provide sources of State rovenue that will cnahlo us to take this advanced step. SHOII.II IIA VR STATIC SCIIOOI, INSPECTION "Under all the circumstances of the case, my keenest regret is that we have no State school inspector?no ex pert, whose duty it would be to study and direct the vocational side of our school life. That Is an immediate need, ..s it seems to me. Tho special in- j specters of certification of teachers, of high schools, of agricultural and nor- I mnl training courses in high schoots and of negro schools are doing such splendid work that one can almost see in advance what the inspector of in dustrial training would accomplish, j The only question with tho Statu board j is one of ways and means. Our system of organisation is so responsive to wholesome stimuli, and the spirit of our educational leadership is so catho lic and progressive that it really seems reinarkablo to''me that some American millionaire does not endow the State system with a' permanent fund of. say, 130.000 or ft0.000. IIAVK noon LAWSi OXIjY \KKD MONEY "Virginia's Wtest and best statute on vocation education reudH as follows: '1. He It enacted by tho General As sembly of Virginia, That the State Hoard of Education Is hereby author ized and directed to invetitigalc and to assist in the Introduction of indus trial. agricultural, household arts and commercial education: to aid local school authorities to initiate and su perintend tho establishment and main tenance of schools and departments of schools or other agencies for the afore said forms of education; to Inspect such schools, departments and agen cies, and to allow to such schools and departments as are approved by said board, the moneys to which such schools and department?! may bo en titled from time to time out of funds appropriated by tho lieneral Assembly for tho benefit of such forms of edu ca lion. "'2. Any school district may, through the district school board thereof, es tablish all-day, part-time or continua tion or evening clusses giving indus trial, agricultural, household arts or commercial education and provide for the support thereof in the same man ner as for the regular schools of said j district. Such education shall be of j less than college grade and he de- i signed to meet the vocational needs of I persons over fourteen years of nge who j are ablo to profit by the instruction offered.' "Considering the broad powers of our I State Hoard of Education, 1 feel Chut! ttiis statute, suggested by your dis tinguished secretary, Mr. l'rosser. com pletes the circle of goneral statutes which was needed. We, have tho .law and we have tho will: wo need the en lightenment that expert Hupcrvlsion will give and the, quickening influence of more money." FIRING ACROSS BORDER AT NAC0 IS UNCHECKED ((Continued From First Page.) ran*n and doclared for the government of convention. Two high officers of tho navy arrived hero to-day, and pre sented let t ern bearing the signatures of the captains of the ship" and prac tically the entire .lint of officers offer ing their services to the convention government. President Gutterres at once ordered an attack on Vera Cruz and Tamplco and forwarded $50,000 to the ships for th? paymont of the wages of the sail ors. Persistant hut unofficial. reports reach President Guiterrez that Venus j tiano Carranfea and his Cabinet arc I about to leave Mexico and sail to-day I or to-morrow for Central America. I Ysldro Fabela, Foreign Minister in tho Onrrnuza Cabinet, has already left Vera Cruz, sailing yesterday for France, via j Havana. If tho report of the Carranza exodus i Is true, a llfteen-days' armlsttco will j he declared by the convention, and I restoration of peace without further bloodshed is assured. Colonel Hoque Gonzales Garza, president of the con vention, is authority for tho statement that the. armistice will be declared. Meanwhile preparations for the waj lnir of a vigorous campaign against Carranza proceeds. General Villa loft i to-night for Guadalajara at the head of 32,000 men. The attack will not be made for six or seven days. A large bridge across the Ilio Grande between Irapunto and Guadalajara has been I blown up, and will have to he replaced j before tire troops can cross. The river I is so high fr.om recent lloods an to I make fording Impossible for the artil lery. j General Villa promises to take the town Is one day. It Is said to be strongly defended. J 5BAHATA AXNOUNCKS Altltl V A I, AT PlKni.A A dispatch from General Zapata to I .night announced his arrival before Ftiebln. Me asks for S,000 more men I and SO.00(> rounds of rifle ammuni i tlon. The attack on tho city will com 1 mence as soon as tho reinforcements, which have been sent, arrive. everal changes are to be made In the Guiterrez Cabinet, to meet the wishes Of the Zapatistas. .lose Vasconcelos will he replaced us Minister of Public Instruction: Manuel Palafox, Zapata's j private secretary, will become Min i Ister of Fomento; Valentin Gama, uncle 'of Aiitoni Soto y Gema, tho present j Minister of Fomento, wiM become, Min- I l ister of Foreign Itelatlons. j Five thousand persons attended the Madero 'memorial services lu the little j French cemetery and heard "General 1 Villa, leader of the north and conqueror I of Mexico City, eulogize the martyred i President. General Villa broke down t with emotion before lie had finished his address. and was supported on either i side by Generals Itaoul and Gabria Ma j delo. brothers of the lato Francisco 1. Madero. Jr., and the three Htood weeping over the grave as the a.? I semhled legions of troops and crowds J of friends bared their heads in silent II rlbute. I (ioiirjre F. Mnnlry, GOHDONSVlMiE, VA., December 11. j ?George F. Manley, son of George H. j Manley, of this place, died at his home i i in I'll ft on Forge, on Tuesday. His re mains were brought here on Thursday morning and interred In Maplewood j Cemetery, fienide his father, he is sur vived by his wife and two children; three brothers, Charlie, lid and Porter Manley, and one sister, Mrs. Hiram Taylor, of this place. Mr. Manly was al out forty-neven vears of age, and was nn employe of the Chesapeake arid Ohio ltallway. 1-illd Comes at His Homo as Result of Fall Down Flight of Subway Steps. CI .OS IS FRIENDS AMONG RICH Hut He leaves Little Memory of the Picturesque or Personal Glamour Which Surrounded Others of His Class?Was "Huslness" Gambler. (Special to Tho Thnes-Dispatch.] XKW YOKK. December It.?Richard A. Canfield. practically tho last sur vivor of American's one-time "kings of chance," tiled to-day at his homo as a result of fall down a flight of subway j steps. He stumbled al the top of tho stairs leading' to the Fourteenth Street sub ?wa.v at .'J o'clock yesterday afternoon. Falling clear to the bottom, he landed on his chin, striking with such force that his skull was fractured at the base. For twenty-four hurs he lay in a stupor at his house, 508 Madison Ave nue, and the end came at 3:15 this af ternoon. Can tie Id's death ^ill be mourned by many friends in the "100," as well as in the -sporting classes. In the heyday of ills prosperity he catered almost ex clusively to the very rich, and a taste for art, as well as a general air of culture and education, enabled him to make some close friendships in the ranks of American's leading million aires. Hut ho leaves behind him very little memory of the picturesque and almost none of Hie personal glamour which hail surrounded other noted American gamblers who preceded him across tho river. There was nothing; in his person ality to compare with tho open-handed heartiness of Pat Sheeilv for Instance, or with the gentle "squareness" of ".Mike" McDonald, or with Thil Daly's keen zest for pigeon shooting. Can field was' a "business Rambler," and while he might have had a list of pharltlcs as long as n bishop's (and there is nothing to show that he had) his principal motto when his games were operating is remembered as "if you haven't got the money, you needn't come around." His early life was shrouded in mys tery. He used to assert that he was a graduate of Harvard, within a few years of Theodore Roosevelt, and his family home was in Providence, R. I., hut except for the fact that he was fifty-nine years old, little else, is known of him. It Is believed that Canfleltl died possessed of a fair-sized fortune. Although several years ago he was rated as a millionaire, he spent moro than $000,000 in a losing fight to pre vent District Attorney Jerome from driving him out of business, lie had for years been a connoisseur of Whist ler's painting and drawings, and last March lie sold to M. Knoedler r. Sidney L?. Gullck, of Poshishu University, To kyo, Japan, follows: "To tho brethren of the Church of Christ In Japan?greeting: "The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America lias delegated two of our most honored and beloved representatives to convey to you tho assurance of our love unfeigned and oi our prayers in your behalf. "Professor Shaller Matliows, 1). D., Is the dean of the divinity school of the. University of Chicago, an author wide ly known among us whose standing will bo immediately recognized when it is remembered that he is att his time I the president of the Federal Council. "The ltev. Sidney I,. Culick, 1). D., scarcely needs introduction to you, for he has been a professor in the Poshl slta University of Japan for years. Since his return to America, however, he has been invited to our most prom inent pulpits, lias secured a hearing I for the cause of Japan by the foremost I men of our nation, and returns to you not only as your brother, but intrusted with the duty of representing, with l>r. Mathews, the millions of Protes tant Christianity In America. We are sending to you those who by right of intellect and spirit are well qualified to sneak for us. "We beg to assure you, dear breth ren. of the Interest with which we have noted the recent progress of Japan, that ancient and venerable nation, in all the arts ami sciences. Wo have marked the quickening of your intel lectual life. With eager hand you have grasped what other peoples could offer for the enrichment of your thought, and i*i turn you have con tributed to the thought life of the I world the Inspiration of ethical desire also, ami in the elevation of your mo ral life have realized the transcendent significance of moral values. In these fields of your activity, industrial, intel lectual. moral America has noted your uiiswerved ami purposeful progress, hut the deepest profession of our in terest and sympathy has been reach ing out of eager hands to (?od. JAPAN'S PROCltKSS TOW A It II CHRISTIANITY "Beyond nil else the spectacle of Japan in its seeking after Christ has moved and still moves our hearts. "There was a day when toleration roomed Iho ideal relation of those whose creeds were not phrased in the same forms of speech. If Japan has made progress, so, too. has America. For all who accept the lordship of Christ, whatever may he our minor differences, our attitude is not now one of mere tolerance, chill and aloof, hut of sympathy, tender ami ardent. It Is with sympathy toward you. beloved brethren, that wo send our messengers to you. "We arc persuaded that Chris tianity makes Its largest possible con tribution to the peace and prosperity of the world, not when it undertakes by her organized ecclesiastical bodies to solve the complex problems of civiliza tion. "She does better far, when she leads j men to her altars and as best she may helps them to learn the privilege of absolute trust in Christ her Uord, and the obligation of uttermost devotion to Mini in such loyalty as shall find inter pretation in holy and unselfish minis tries to humanity. We shall not un deitako to set In order the points of our religious agreement or the spe cific objects of our Christian purpose j wo yearn for the enlightenment and enrichment ot our brethren across th? ms. "Wo pray that In your land as In ours faith shall have Its satisfying' vision of our I,ord, that shall bo sanc tified by Ills fellowship; thai life shall he broadened In Its sympathies and beautified with Ills likeness, and we are sending these. our brcthron, to toll you, as no written word of ours cun toll you, tho eagerness of our doslro. ih?j sincerity of our affection and tho steady persuasion of our hope that wo all, of the Uast and of tho West, shall he one In Jesus Christ. You will re I celvo our brethren for the sake of the i churches that send them, yea, rather j for the snko of tho Christ who has made them, brethren, able ministers of the glorious gospel. You wHl hear I their words. You will feel the lnspl i ration of their presence, and wo pray that even as they bring to you our loving message, the God of love niny unite our hearts in the bonds of holy fellowship, bringing us all to thoso uplifted levels of thought and pur pose. 1'KTITION FOII PKACK AND lMtOSlUOHITY IN HOTII NATIONS "In all the homes of your Japan may peace and prosperity abide. May your achooli be centres of Intellectual light, and your churches centres of spiritual power, where wo shall feel not only tho Joy of fellowship one with another, but nlso that dlvlnor fellowship 'with tho Father and with the Son our Saviour/ In all the homon of your Ja pan may peaco and prospority abide? may your schools bo centres it Intel lectual light, and your churches cen tres of spiritual power?may believers be multiplied and all your land bo blessod by lllm who In tho Light of the World, tho Uodeemor of men "Now unto Him that Is able to koop you from falling and to presorve you faultloss before tho presence of His glory with exceeding Joy, to the only wlso Ood our Bnviour, be glory and majesty and power both now and for ever. Atnon. "We remain, your brethren In Christ." COCIVCII. KXPRRSSICS ITS THANKS TO CITY Immediately before adjournment was taken resolutions were passed by the council, expressing thanks to tHb city of Richmond, tho local press, the Young Men's Chrlsi|an Association and mem bers of the local committee on ar rmiKoments and entertainments f6htt 11 [courtesies extended. Neurly all of the j delegates attending the annual meet* liiK left for their homes yesterday. IlrltlMli Mlolnttr to Votlcnn. j LONDON, December 11 (11:10 1?. M.). I ?omeinl announcement In made of'the appointment of Sir Henry Howard utt i British minister to the Vatican. Cotton on AVay to Japiu. j SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, J>ecember IJ.f! ?A truinloud nt cotton, consisting oft 1,500 bales, left Taylor, Texas, to-dayS on Its way to spinners In Japan. I" J* IntfrMtfO In WIlHon'n IMnn. WASHINGTON, December 11.?W. L.r Saunders, of Now Yorlc, chairman of* the merchant marine committee of th: American Foreign Trade Council, con-5 forrcd with President Wllnon to-day. about the pending administration blir i for xovernincnt-owiu'd merchant ship*.? Mr. Saunders sahl that ship owners* and exporters wore deeply Interested In the President's plan. DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS Sec that your packages are expressed early, and each bears a sticker furnished you by the Southern Express Company, which bears the warning: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CHRISTMAS Avoid the delay and dissatisfaction due to the Christmas rush in sending off packages at the last minute, by doing your Christmas SHIPPING early. Ask four express agent for these stickers and shipping instructions. Rates Low?Service Standard?Absolute Security Southern Express Company "Serve the Public'' Phones: Randolph 3680, 8681, 3682, 3688. FREE CITY DELIVERY. Bad Weather? SHOP BY PHONE! Phones: Randolph 3680, 3681, 3682, 8688. FREE CITY DELIVERY. Union Stores Bargain Grocery 7tmcnHMONDl,lvA!s SPECIAL PRICES FOR SATURDAY MORNING .Celery, medium >c .Celery, jumbo.... He Lemons, dozen 14c .Grape Fruit 5c and He .Onions, per quart lie Cranberries He .New Dates, package Oc Large Figs, package 11c Pie Pumpkin, can 12c .Oranges 15c, 20c and 2.1c .Irish Potatoes, peck 20c .Monogram Oats Oc .Quaker Oats Oc .Quail Oats Or. .Johnson Apples, peck 20c .Choice Almonds 25c .Shelled AlmondB 40c .Walnuts 22c .Brazils 15c .Pecans 10c .Filberts IHc .Mixed Nuts 14c .Citron Peel, Candied 20c .Lemon Peel. Candied 17c .Orange Peel, Candled IHc .Tello, assorted Oc .Baker's Cocoa Or, 14c and 20c Postum 14c and 23c .Instant Postum 20c and -IHc .Baker's Chocolate 10c and 35c Lownev's Cocoa Oc and 20c .Full Cream Cheese 22c Xmas Candy 10c, J5c and 20c .Becker's Flap-Jack Oc .Keystone Mince Meat 10c .Egg Plants 1 Oc and 15c Lettucc 5c .Anger's Macaroni 5c and Oc .Anger's Vermicelli 5c and Oc .Log Cabin Maple Syrup 47c Libbey's Marmalade Oc I,iltf>ey's Canned Beef. .23c and 44c .Libbey's Hamburger, 12c, 23c and 44c .Lihbey's Veal Loaf 14c .Libbey's Ham Loaf 1-lc .Libbey's Sausage Meat 17c Fresh Shelled Cocoanut. 15c Raisins, Loose Cuscatel He Raisins, Sultana Oc Hominy, pound 3c Hominy Grits, pound 1c Good Rice, pound Oc Carolina Head Rice."' He: Fine Package Rice Oc Prunes Oc, 11c and 14c Evaporated Peaches He Sweet Potatoes, peck 30e Yams, rfeck 35c Malaga Grapes 10c Grated Pie Pineapple Oo and 14c Sliced Plncnpple 23c Campbell's Pork and Beans Oc Campbell's Soups Oc Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Oc 13c Van Camp's Spaghetti Oc and 13c Van Camp's Milk 5c and Oc Cobb's Best Bluing 4c Rum ford's Baking Powder, 13e 23c Davis's Baking Powder Oc and IHc Boyd's Baking Powder IHc Durkeo's Spices 5c and He Pound Cakes. Fruit Cakes and Pies cooked to order in our splendid cafe. We have two of the best cooks in the city. Try the home made delicacies. Eat lunch with us some day. Delicious hot bread served 11 A. M. till 2 P. M. free with lunches. (OFFICES. Our Coffee expert says we can stand right up and vouch for the blends we advocatc. Our electric, grinding machine, operated by h professional, is one of the finest in Virginia, and is quite a factor in the fume of our Coffees. Arbuckle'a 22c .Union Fine Santos. i 2-lc ...Brownie, a wonder 25c _ Boscul Mocha 20c Aragon 35c ...Java and Mocha Blend 42c TEAS. From a multitude of samples submitted from all parts of the world, u choice selection was recently made by our buyer. We feel confident you aro getting the finest values in Teas obtainable in this city. English Breakfast 30c Special Mixed 47c Oolong 47c Oolong A A 57t: Gunpowder 47c Gunpowder AA ...57c Gunpowder AAA. .72c FAMOUS PACKAGE TEAS. Morrara, >4 pound 15c Temple Garden, 10c, 14c, 2Hc and 55c Llpton's Dollar OHc Lipton's Yellow Label. .10c and 35c MEAT DEPARTMENT. At a cost exceding $3,000 we have installed a refrigerating plant, anil can guar antee finest cuts at lowest prices in prime condition. Expert meat cutters will follow, your instructions. Try lis now for service. Rib Roast Beef I?c Round Steak 20c Log of Lamb tOc Dressed Chicken 20c Sirloin Steak 1 22c Porterhouse Steak 25c Fresh Hams 18c Smoked Cured Hams 20c Lamb ('hops 20c Fancy Country Bacon ,20c .Smithfield Sausage 22c Eggs, just received 30c Sangamon Butter 35c Blue Valley Butter a?c Snowdrift Lard, 10c Pure Leaf Lard V...16c Oleomargarine ..25c Wesson Oil 28c Xmas Notice.?A few manufacturers have sent, us some goods to dispose of at factory cost. Possibly some of these bargains might answer your purpose for holiday presents. You can see them in Bargain Basement any day. Among tlieni are beautiful $1.00 and $1.50 Ladies' Waists for 39c and 79c; Cut Glass, China, Bric-a-Brac, Smoker's Sets, Tea Sets and household necessities at unheard-of low prices just to unload them for the factories. Come in and browse around. You'll stumble onto bargains galore. Fine Box Candies. We also have Cigars by the box for him. Union Stores Bargain Grocery FREE CITY DELIVERY Co-Operative Store?2,600 Shareholder* Seventh and Franklin Streets, Richmond, Ya. Store Open Saturdays Till 9 P. M. Telephone Orders Received All Night. FREE CITY DELIVERY

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II! lODFIMPNCTS1 j j [l.'ngalnly Fourth Clay, Ban? 6f Election Nights, la Split I in Two. VIIREE NEW ONES IN MADISON Eighth, On Bouthside, Gets Swans boro, and Ninth includes Wood land Heights and *yreit HU1. Hecommended tO Committee. MAdieon and Clay Ward mombers of l?he City Council. at separate meeting* jlfcet night, V6l*d to recofnlheild to thO Ispecial Joint committee on rcdlBtrlot ling a rearrangement dt the preolrtet lllheg of the two wards, which will ad?l IrtVe new preolnctB 16 the eleven which' llhe two wards now contain. I The Clay Ward delegation voted 16 Uollt the ungainly fourth precinct into I two, and to add new p'redlnot lhVthfc I fai* BdUthwest, embracing most of the jniw territory^ that Was added to the I ward by anrteKatloil. Tha-sFOUrth f're l? Inct of Clay Ward. befefeUse of Its ltd* jinenBlty, haft f6r years been tho bane lot election nights, often delaying the Iflrtal complete returns for hours after [every other t>r6clftct in the Glt'y had I reported. Its division has long been planned by the Cloy Wixrd delegation. I In Mfedlson Ward It 18 proposed to ladd a new preolnut ndrth of tho river land two heW precinetB south Or rIVcr. |V)ne of the new south preolftcts will leirtbrafte WOOdland heights and Forest T.mil, and th6 other will contain Swans fhofo and the new territory adjacent, i PltlSCmtfCT BOUNDARIES i IN MADISON WAHD i The boundaries Of the Madison "Ward nr^c^nctB as established last night fol? 116Wj I First Pr4clncts-?Br6ad Street on the noutii, corporation llhe ort the north, j Flrrft Street On the weBt, and Fifth Ktroet on the east. Voting place. Third j and Marshall Streets. Second iPreeinot^-beglnnlng at Fifth j Street and the corporation line, south aldrtg Fifth Street to RrOad, eafct nlonp 1 BrOad to Ninth, north alohg Ninth tn Leigh, east along Leigh to Eleventh. wlonfe Eleventh to L.owhdos, along (>6Wndta t6 the starting tiOlnt on the I orporation line. Voting f>laee, Eighth and Clay 8treets. Third Preolnct-"Broad Street on the north, First Street on the wfeit to Main, efcst along Main to Third, couth on Third to the rlvor. eastward alone the river to Ninth, northward on Ninth t6 BrOad. Fourth Preeinet*?All of Madison Wr.rtl north of the river between Ninth Ptreet on the west and Seventeenth eft on the e&st, rtOt Inoludod In the .second Preclnet. Voting plaee, Four teenth and Broad Btreots. Fifth Precinct^ James River on the north. Tenth Street on the south to the eorporatl6n line oa the east and \*'72,957.15. From the clamming Industry, $596 was received. From licenses issued to crabbers and Crabhousc, a totnl of $2.262.Go Was re ceived. Licenses to fishermen with nets and pickers of fish roe brought In $16. ?96.68. Amount received from fines Imposed chiefly for violations of the oyster laws, $2,404.01. Total gross collections from the various industries, $98,516.34. The net amount turned in to the Stat6 Auditor aftor deducting commissions IS $85,407.16. The oyster planting Industry, the report says, is not increasing. The number or aoreB abandoned in the past few years exceeds the acreage of new assignments. The increase in the amount received from this branch of the fishing indus try, nays the report, IS du6 td the ac tivity of the Inspectors In making col lections, especially In regaining the payment of delinquent oyster ground rentals. Total expenditures of the commis sion during the year for salaries, ex-. tiensfts, office rentals, surveying to re ocato the Baylor lines, m&intainlng rtollde boats, etc., afrtOuntlnu to $26, *67,06, frOm March 1 to October 1. The report says further: "It will be seen that the great bulk of the money spent is for police protection, and unless sortie of the police can be dispensed With, or unless the salaries paid the pojlce are extesSlve, the ex penditures of the commission Cannot be materially reduced." Tho opinion fs expressed, however, that tho laws cannot be enforced properly If the po lice forde Is reduced. The oyster police fleet consists Of the following Craft: Steamers Commodore Maury and Phillips, and launches James River, Saxle, Wicomico, North fnipton and Fancy Anne. In addition several small boats were employed In the service during the year. The report says that a police force three times as large as the present forco would not sufllcc to stop all vio lations of the flsh and oyster laws, but that the laws are enforced to a reason able extent. school children will BE SEATED ON PLATFORM Glveb od Ford Lot. ro?mAl*th'*r ofcora8??t8ihf?r5 wh6 *m Christmas trie ?Ubrftti^ ?imiSM!ty tnha Eve. win b? V^vf-.rt oh Christ form above the 30i E?p? lor?d).,r'Ct X?- Baker School (col I B ^?^eCn. 1003 AVeB*t^Marshall'' MrS' J" 1 S do bo, It would be consenting to wast" under the termA of the mortgage, wfcMh would bd a breach of tho covenants thereof. NE^b TRUSTEES' CONSENT FOR ANY COK^VanCE! "It might not bti InApprOprlato for me to explain that the recent offer of the company to convey these viaducts to the. city In part consideration of a new franchise, as set out in tho petition. Of the company to the City Couftoli,' necessarily Involves the consent 6? tho trustees under the mortgage, who WOUlfl be authorized to consent to thA convey ance of shid viaducts and the surrender of the stocks thereof for ah adequate Consideration, such AS a new blanks-, franchise. This statement would be applicable to all thrSA of these VIA* ducts." ?The boar A voted to addfess a OArtH rrtUnlfcatlon to President wheelwright asking him to name a fix eel iriodthly rental, In consideration of Whi4n tft* city would be alldwed the free Hi? 6f j the Marshall fctrefct Viaduct. Strict Obsruervers Elects OMcen. in the annual, election of offlOejr# dt the Richmond MAsonio Lodge of Strict gbfefervers, Not 207, held last night, of--. eers to serv* during the dhsUlng yeAi1?2 Were elected as follows: Charlis Mll er, worshipful master; w. JforVAU Voodward, senior wardens J. A., StUbii junior warden; John Fi Mayert .treas urer; J. G. Sellihger, secretary! Wt E. GiMggft, fcehior dteAAon: R. D. FOfd, jun ior deaCOh', Rev. J. F. Gi'avatt* chafo laln: W. .T. Lyhan, tyler. George 15. Mayer Is retiring worshipful mister. RotieraOn?CJrlflle. DtJRfiAM, tt. C.,. December ll.-^ThA marriage of Miss Helen dHffle to Dr. t"0y R6berson In the PrAfibyteftAft Church last evening, wAe OnA of the prettiest church marriages s?en Ifi D\ktf? ham fdr many seasdns. Mr?. GUriiotrA' Waird ttryant sang "I LovA You" and "For You." The ceremdhy WA? pA** formed by Dr. E. R. LftybUrrt, pasto* of tho Church. The ushArii WerA ??AW feftde Tomllnson, A. M. Wdfth, Dir. ICernAs and J. L. Morehead. The BlfldAcr IhAlds were Miss Nellie RoberSOn, tit ter of the groorfi, of 6hApdl Hill; Miss Doufclas Hill, Miss Cecelia rifehf-y. Mary 8a66er, of Durham. ThA gfrd6fiVi-' mAh Were S. O. 6harrihe^i artd 6. w. spafgfer, of Durham: br. JaoOcka. 6f Raleigh; Dr. MohJldeh Of 6hApal Hill. The dame Of HrtnOr was Si B. pierce, of WelAdrt. tha bast Tdfch was WestcOtt RobersOn, Of High PblAt, brother of the groom. Mr. And Mrs. RbttersOn left 111 Ah automobile for ftaieigh, wherA they took a midnight train for a bridal trip to Northern eltie*. illi f 111 .iVlt.l.il-i Johnson City Plant Barns. BRlSTdu Va., December il.=<4?h? Hlce Manufacturing Company's plant At Johnson CJlty, Tenn., fof the mirtu* faotUrA Of Wagon nnd carriage dlrtion slOh BtOttk, Was burned this ihornlrt#, entailing a lotis of *66,000. the iniUf ance was $13,000. The company was considering plans to double ltd cap&O' ity. A treat for tea-^HOI^SUM Pan bli^ cults. Baby's Morning Dip /GOODNESS KNOWS,", says grandmother, 'what we'd do without this Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater." "If I'd only had one when you were a baby, you'd have been saved many a cold and croupy spell. For warming cold corners and isolated upstairs rooms, and for countless special occasions when extra heat is wanted, you need PERFECTION SMOKELESSLOm HEATERS

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FEAR ABANDONS TRENCHES; RETREAT IS LIKE A ROUT Buyer?" Hope to Anticipate Effect of Return of Public Con fidence. HEAVY BUSINESS TRANSACTED Difficulty In Securing Stocks, Al though Bids Are Advanced Sharply Above Recent Quotations?Bond Market Is Strong. IIY 11ROADAN WAM. NEW lOBK. December U.?When cheer fulness takes the aggressive, fear abandons Its trenches. The retreat to-day turned Into h rout. Selling orders wero canceled, and J buyers, hopini; to anticipate the cffcct of a return of public confidence, found difficulty In securing stocks. although their bids were advanced sharply above recent quotations. Attempts to buy stocks through the clear ing- house to-day resulted In the heaviest business since the close of the exchange, ami the Stock ExchntiR" found It necessary to Issue orders that nil transactions to-day. as well as those made to-morrow, must be nut I on the eloarlng-house sheet and clearing In the usual manner on Monday. The bond market was strong with activity j in the speculative Issues Missouri Pacific I 4s were a feature, advancing to 43%. a gain of 1\ Other Missouri Pacific Issues wero I strong on the belief that a readjustment of I the finances of the company can be con- ducted without serious, loss to bondholders. Missouri. Kansas and Texas Issues wero firmer, the first ts advancing to 79 bid. j and the second 4s to r.) bid. while the first j refunding 4s. which recently uold at 45, were F.} bid. Krle Issues were strong on -the hope that an increase In Eastern freight rates will bo j granted. Krle cons, "lis'' went to 62V4 bid, and the con. "A's" rose to 61^4. Were an i Increase In freight rates granted these bonds I would no doubt be speculatively at tract've. t The heavy oversubscription of the Chicago, j St. l.ouls and New Orleans equipment trust j certificates guaranteed by the Illinois Con- I tral and the heavy advance subscription to j the Chicago and Northwestern General I mortgage 5 per cent bonds brought u prompt j losing of tlie books. It was rumored that i the Hockefcller Foundation bought tJ.'X").- j Ofrt Chicago. Northwestern r.s, and 3 per cent I premium was bid for the bonds. Stocks were strong. Heading was active at US; Pennsylvania. IOC bid. and Distillers' Securities. !3\ bid. with the last trans action at U^a. California Petroleum, pfd., ?was 54 bid. with the previous sale at 50. and Colorado Kuel. IS1* bid. after selling at 21 Va Copper stocks were In good demand In re sponse to an advance In the metal to 13V*c per pound. Tennessee Copper sold., at 30Vi. Nevada was strong between lOVfc and 11. ami Utah Copper changed hands at 46v?. Kock Island Issues were steady. President Mudge Is quoted as saying. "Hock Island Is in better shape now for the winter than over before." Business will be resumed upon the floor of the Stork Exchange to-morrow under more favorable conditions than seemed prob able four months ago. Weak accounts have been strengthened or eliminated, and spec ulation lins been reduced to a minimum. New business will be carefully scrutinized, and manipulation prohibited as far as possible. Transactions for cash or dealing on un usunlly wide margins will be the only form of trading encouraged. Some of the old-time favorites are still de barred from the floor. Dealings In Canndinti Pacific. Chesapeake and Ohio. Baltimore and Ohio. United States Steel, t'nlon Pu- rifle. Southern Pacific. Creat Northern, pre- I ferred. and New York Central must still be conducted through the clearing-house under1 the close supervision of the committee of i five. NKW YORK. Deeember 11 -Closing mer- I cantlle paper. 4V??MVi: sterling exchange. steady; sixty-day bills. Jt.SI.V): for cables, 1 JI.SS; for demand, $1.4750. Bar silver. j NKW YORK, December 11.?Stock nnd bonds showed greater firmness to-day be- cause of the proximity of the reopening of' the local exchange for opening dealings In stocks. Some shares were I. to 3 points up. and several of the more active bond and note I Issues manifested corresponding strength. j Clearances of stocks through the exchange to-day were estimated at t'/i.OM) shares. The list of minimum prices Issued to-day for open trading showed that allowance Is to be inn I" for dividends declared on listed stocks during the past four months Kor Instance. Reading, which closed at 110 in July and sobl up to 142T!, to-day. was quoted at 130. the- parity of its July price plus two dividends of 2 per eerit. This same ruling applied to other dividend Issues. The number of t;r. or lower priced stocks, which are to be offered without restriction to-morrow and thereafter. Includes some threescore railroad anil Industrial Issues. I A farther break was reported In the mar- I ket for Uelrhsmarks. Kxihange on London vap stronger, with rabies at while francs were* steady. Banks were inclined to restrict their of ferings of money The cash loss of local banks to the ?nibtreasury was reported to be about but rat"* for call and time loans ?. SI t f(! A1 lis t "lin! in (is AlHs-Clia I m ??j i-. American 1-o AnicrU.in Cotton oil Amrr. Cotton 'II pfd 'Amer 11 tfl t ri 1 l.eai.l?er .Ain. llldo I.euthrr. pfd. Amor Ivrni'i Chesapeake and Ohio... I0V? C. G. W pfd Consolidated c.as corn' Products Corn Products, pfd 01% i uhan Amor. Sugar ST'*, Clilno Cupper 81^* :3 111?, .11 111 ::u, 101 no :tci; -?r.i. 101 ii'i 3s 315

w: Big Four. !HIk Four, pfd C F 1 23?i Jienver. com I Atehlson I'i Bethlehem Slio-i in "Bethlehem Steel, pfd IS. T ?-,i... i.i i. ..hi Krle, >t pfd Ctneral Motors M\i G? nei I Motn-s-, pfd v* Lehigh Valley IS'.'-i General Klectrlc 1ST Croat Northern Ore '.'.V-i JlomeM.iki ll.'i I ntiplr i Moii 1". Inter II* rv\ Knn> South, pfd. r. 1,ikim W; '.'T'v Distill' rs 3\ I aUOdrll t'l1 2 Goodrich. pfd 91'* ?;uirK?'iill? tin 4 1 lllliio en t r a I IOC, Missouri I' t 1 Tic* 5T? N"-??ad Copper Nortl -r:. I* Cine Pi ii Ml-II. Pacific Tpp, 1'tnh Copper 10 AVepi. Maryland i-4 On curli 1? ioi 07 SIS'* 17 :o? 10 l.lUj 9S 12 7T| 123 100 100 11/. 7 "I BOND LIST Atlantic coast l.lne l?t (hid) S7--4 Atlantic Coast l-lnc?Ij. and N*. -In Atiaiidc Count L>lno cv. ia (In Haiti more) i bill I ChrMP(ah? ami Ohlft oonv. 4V4? I LftigtU ml Myers I.I((Ott ami Myers in...... LorlttarU Company l.orlllard Company 7t? isiVi Norfolk mml Nveiitwrii conv. 4Hh (bid)., S91* Seaboard Air Lino stamped (bid)... $9 Si'hboaril Air Line adj. 5a K4V* Southern Pacific cv 4* SOS Southern Hallway 4* 65^4 Southern Hallway 5s 99 Southern Hallway ?l|v. scrip tbld) SI United States Steel 2d 5s J00 United States Ueglstered 2a. 1930 (bid).. 95*? United States Registered 3m. 1318 (bid).. 93% United States Registered 4s (bid) lOS'.i United States Panama 5s 1951 (bid) 9SVi Vlrglnla-Brown Brothers ctfs (bid) r>r. Va.-Car. Chemical 1st 5s (bid) 91 Va. Ry. and I'oiver Company 5s (asked) 94 Wabash deb. 4? 37 Wabash-Pltts. Term. 1st 4s S IIICIIMOM) STOCK MARKET. By Caskle O. Burch Co. (Stock and ijond Brokers. 1015 IS. Main.) Richmond. Va., December 11. J914. STATE ShCURlTlES. Bid. ABkod. Virginia 3s. old C and It.. 1932.... S3M, Va. Centuries, 2 3. C and H.t 1991.. S2S4 j h'rttLtT IIV. STOCKS. Par. Va. Ry and Power Co.. pfd ICO 92*? i Va. Hy. nnd I'ower Co.. con)... .100 44 45 HANK AND THUST COMPANY STOCK. Broad Street Bank 2."> 4S 52 M ISC U1(|,A N UUl'S. Va.-Car. Chum., pld. S p. c 100 90 I COTTON MARKETS NEW YORK. December 11.?The selling1 movement Inspired by yesterday's big crop figures was renewed lis the cotton market to-day. and prices made new low ground, with the close steady at a net decline of 0 to 21 points. Private cables reporteil considerable call- i Ing by spinners In the ISngllsh market, and Liverpool did not fully meet yesterday's i local decline, but. after opening steady at a decline of 1 point to an advance of 2 points, prices here quickly weakened. De- j ceinber notices, estimated at about 4.000 bales, were reported In circulation, and cvl- dentl.v caused liquidation, while there also appealed to be some fresh selling of the near months presumably against cotton pre viously held here as an Investment or to j be shipped here from the South. The weakness of the near positions helped to unsettle the general list, and trailing was more active during the morning than at any previous time since the reopening of j the market. At a net loss of about 23 points on December and of 6 to 10 points on later months, the selling became less active, but demand also tapered off, and the market was comparatively quiet later In the day. The close was steadied by covering, but wllhln a point or two of tho lowest. It Is reported that great difficulty Is still being experienced In securing enough In surance to cover the risks on both hulls nnd cargoes In the cose of vesstls sailing for Germany, and that a vessel which recently cleared from a Southern port for Bremon has put Into Boston. Spot cotton, quiet; middling, uplands, T.25; gulf. 7.5"). Sales. 200 hales. Futures closed steady. Open. High. Low. Cloit. I January 7.02 7.04 6.SS 6.SS March 7.16 7.18 7.0S 7.09 May 7.36 7.37 7.25 7.27 July 7.52 7.52 7.41 7.42 October 7.77 7.78 7.7") 7.70 NEW YORK. December 11.?Middling. 7.25. Stock, i3.491 bales. Total to-day at all ports?Net receipts. 74, ^245 bales; exports, 29.746 bales; stock, 1,314 61 bales. Total for week?Net receipts, 373.792 bales; exports. 264.79S bales. Total for season?Net receipts. 3.47S.710 bales; exports, 1,740.67S bales. NEW ORLEANS, December 11.?Cotton fu tures lost 6 to 10 points as the result of to day's trading, closing at practically the lowest. January sold as low as G.S7. Mod erate liquidation of long cotton, together j with hedge selling and speculative short selling, put the market lower In the morn- ing, and later the softness of Southern spot markets completed the work. A steadying Influence was the export move- ment. which, for the week, was 261,79S bales, the largest week's shipments to foreign I countries since the outbreak of the war. Ex- ports thus far this season now ainouut to 1.740.C7S bales. Local spots were quoted easy at 7 cents for middling, a loss of Vfcc, compared with yesterday. The total stock hero now Is 2S2.114 bales. Spot cotton, easy. Sales on tho spot. 173 bales; to arrive. 2.750 bales. Cotton futures closing: January. 6.fc6: March. 6.95; May. 7.IS; July. 7.S0; October. 7.61. NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET. NEW YORK. Doeovnber 11.?Raw sugar, steady: molasses. 3.24'(i3.30; centrifugal, 3.95; relllned easy. Butter and cheese, steady i I and unchanged. The spot coltee market was I steady at 7>,*c for Rio 7s arm lOlio for Santos j 4s. Cottonseed oil was higher on scattered cov- j crlng by those who 3old on yesterday's cot- ton report, together with support from rellners and local buying on the lard linn- IICBB. Crude markets, on the other hand, were j a shade easier; final prices were o to 10 points net higher; sales. 12.300 barrels. The I market closed steady. Spot, NJf.?.V9.">; De- ceinber. 5. S4ft."i.Xfi; January. 3. !?)? 120*? Dei-ember M C3*i i>2*i 021i May fi3's 6S>, tWt 69 O vT.~?l'or bushel. December I7>? 47*i -t7'jrtT K l BS?Her to* lbs. .Innuary 9 73 9 72 9 7."> 9 75 May 10 02 10 07 10 02 10 07 Cash grain: Wheat. No. 2 re: MARKKT. WllOl.USA 1,11 (}l"CITATIONS ON 'CHANGE. Rii'hmond. Va., December 11, 1911. V IIUA'i ar lots. No. 2. red. Western fi? 1 3) No. 2. red. Virginia fi*7.?: mixed, $6,075. 218?H. K. Pollard. Jr., trustee, to Luwson Jones, 20x140 foet at the south east corner of Twenty-sixth and S Streets. December S, 1914, $159. 224?J. M. Purcell, trustoo, to J. I*. Miller et als., 2C feet 9 1-2 Inches west line Fourth Stroet, 77 feet north of Arch Street. December 3, 1914, $253.70. HENRICO IlKliKASK DEEDS. Thre? llclease Deeds. Amounting to IM.H70. 35?Charles E. (Jarrett, trustee, to T. H. Benson, 10 acres on north side of Mill Road near Taylor's CrosslnK. No vember 14, 1914, $400. 39?John C. Easlcy, trustee, to Paul and Stove Wallo, 185.15 acres about twelvo mllos southeast of city. De cember 11. 1914, $2,050. 40?J. J. Leake, trustee, to John M. Spence, 60x30 feet 1 Inch at the south east corner of Broad Street and Park Drive. October 30, 1914, $2,360. V. S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. The United States Circuit Court of, Appeals reconvened yesterday morning: i at 10 o'clock, with Circuit Judges I Knapp and Woods and District Judgo! Waddill In attendance. Ci.se argued yesterday: No. 1303, B. F. Baker, bankrupt, ap pellant, vs. Bishop, Babcock-Becker Company, Strother Drug Company and Koblnson, Tate Co., apj)ellees: ap peal from the District Court at Blue field, W. Va. In bankruptcy. Argued by L. J. Holland ami Joseph M. San ders, Bluefleld, W. Va.. for the appel lant. and by E. K. French. ltluelleld, W. Va. and Robert 10. Scott, Rich mond, Va., for the appellees, and sub mitted. Conference Day?Saturday being Conference Day, there will be no ar gument of cases to-day, and the court will go Into conference upon eases i heretofore argued. Cases In call Monday: No. 1306, William Walace Anderson, appellant, vs. Benjamin Mackenzie An derson, in ills own right and as exe cutor of Mary Virginia Anderson, de ceased, et al.,' appellees; appeal from the District Court at Charleston. S. C. To be argued by Mitchell it Smith, Charleston, S. C., J. A. Edge, Lexing ton, Ky., and Hill Carter, Richmond, Va., lor the appellant, and by Lyles Lyles, Columbia, S. C., for the ap pH lees. No. 1292, Dominic Farris. plaintiff In error, vs. Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company, a corporation, defen dant in error; error to the District Court at Charleston, W. Va. To be argued by Maynard F. Stllc-s, Charles ton, W. Va., for the plaintiff in error, and by George S. Couch, Jr., Charles ton, W. Va., for the defendant in er ror. Admitted to practice?Lucius J. Hol land, Bluefleld, W. Va., was admitted to practice as an attorney and coun sellor in this court. HUSTINGS COfllT, I'ART II. A verdict In favor of the -plaintiff for $500 was returned by a Jury in the Huntings Court, Part II., yesterday In the case of Clarence Garrett against the Virginia Railway and Power Com pany. Motion was made to have the verdict set aside, and was continued. Clarence (Jarrett was suing the com pany for $5,000 damages alleged to have been sustained when a street car struck a wagon in which he was riding at the coiner of Fifteenth and Main Streets. MAltltlAliE LICENSES. A marriage license wns Issued by Deputy Clerk Breeden, of the Hustings Court, yesterday to Arthur O. Rob erts and Minnie H. Reid. ELECTRIC PERMITS. The following electric permits were j Issued by the Electrical Department j yesterday: W. H. Jenks, for Kaufman Levy, 200 East Broad Street, six fixtures. Same, for Murphy's Hotel, Eighth i and Broad Streets, one fixture. Same, for J. T. Anderson, 90S West Franklin Street. el?ht fixtures. Same, for Miller Rhoads, Sixth j and Broad Streets, one fixture. Martin Myers, for Eyrlc Theatre, Ninth and Broad Streets, 0110 electric sign. Tri-State Electric Company, for Mil ler Rhoads, Sixth and Broad Streets, changing telephone system. It. It. Cosby Electric Company, for Simon Travis, 1228 East Broad Street, j four outlets. Edgar M. Andrews. for Colonel James R. Branch, 3 East Franklin Street, seven tlx lures. Same, for T. D, Newell, 215 Mayo Street, four outlets. Same, for Spotless Company, 120U East Car.v Street, three outlets. Same, for John C. Easltiy, Meadow Street and Kansas Avenue, nine fix tures. Same, for Cameron Stove Company, Twenty-second and Decatur Streets, three outlets. Martin ?\L- Myers, for city of Rich mond, market at Seventeenth .and Main Streets, install feeder set*vice. I'LniUlMi PERMITS. The following plumbing permits were issued yetserday: F. S. Dalton Co.. for A. J. Monta gue, 1111 Grove- Avenue. Dallas S. Bruce, for Mrs. F. C. Lard ley, 015 Spring Street. Pemberton and Benson, for P. II. Hudglns, 318 West Marshall Street. CHARTERS ISSUED. Charters were issued yesterday by the State Corporation Commission to the following: Sam O. Walker Co.. Incorporated, 'Pocahontas. Capital stock, $10,000 to j $50,000. Heal estate business. Sam FIXAXCIAIj. I Confidence in the Improvement in financial con ditions leads to the opening of the Stock Exchange. f Discriminating Buyers /will accumulate a line of stocks at i prices below their real value. We Offer our service as Brokers and invite correspondence. Miller Company, 200-202 Travelers' Building, K. Ij. RODEX, Manager. Members New York Stock Exchange. 10. Walker,, president, Welch, W. Va.; I C. O. High, secretary, Pocahontas, Va. Virginia Residence Corporation.- Nor- 1 folk. Capital Htock, $5,000 to $10,000. Real estate business. R. Baldwin Myers, president; A. Love, secretary, both Norfolk. Alpha Pocahontas Coal Company. Incorporated, Lynchburg. Capital stock, $85,000 to $125,000. Coal busi ness. Frank M. Lee, president, Wright, W. Va.; O. H. Wllklns, secretary, Lynchburg. Amendment to the churter of the Walter C. Michael Corporation, Roa noke, Increasing the capital stock from $20,000 to $50,000. Amendment to the charter of the Orpheuni Stock Company, Incorporat ed, Norfolk, changing the name to the Amusements Operating Corporation. Weekly Cotton. NEW YOIIK, December 11.?The Fed eral government's eMlmnto Indicating the largest cotton crop In the history of trado was followed by lower prices In the market thin v.-;ek. The official forecast of 15.9?C.OOO balm, excluding I Inters, was several hun dred thousand baled above average expecta tion*. Till# falling off In ginning operatlonn had led some to suppose that fully the average percentage of the rrop hue been ginned before the beginning of tliln month, but, according to the government'^ estimate, unless it Ik a question of average bale j u-elielits. the proportion ginned to December 1 this year does not seem to have been over j S2. comparing with HJ.C. the average for the three preceding yearn. The talk around the i ring lias shown a more bearish average of sentiment, owing to apprehensions that the 1 big figures would shake the determination of Southern holders and lead to Increused offerings, while, at the same time, they would encourugo buyers In a policy of pro- I crastlnatlon. Trading has been more active j In the decline of about to (3 per bale, j from the recent high level, and. while there has been moderate selling of near months. the market lias received support on a scale down from trade Interests ami Investors. Hester's Weekly Cotton Statement. Comparisons are to actual dates, not to i close of corresponding weeks: In sight for week, 073,'W bales; In sight same seven days last year, 53S.OX) bales; In sight ior mouth, fO9.')0) bales; In sight same I dale last year, 9IS.OOJ bales; In sight for season. li,097.000 bales; In sight same date last year. S.912.00) bales. I'ort receipts for season, 3,179,000 bales: port f receipts same date last year, 6.3)5,000 bales. Overland to mills anil Canada for seuson, Slj.OvO bales; overland to mills and Canada for reason same date last year, 500.000 bales. 1 Southern mill tuklngs for season. 1,33)1.000 bales: Southern mill takings for seuson uamo duto last yeur. 1.421.00) bales. Interior stocks in excess of August 1..1.0C5,- I 000 bales; Interior stocks in excess of August I 1 last year, 710.0>V) bates. Foreign export for week. 263.000 bales; for eign exports for same seven days lust year. 30:v>;o bales: foreign export for season, 1.711.- j 000 bales; foreign exports for season same j date last year, 1.377.00) bales. Northern spinners' takings and Canada for week. 79.000 bales; Northern spinners' takings and Canada for same seven days last year. 101,030 bales: Northern spinners' takings and Canada for season, 930,000 bales: Northern spinners' takings and Canada for season to same date last year, 1,331,000 bales. Kank Clearing*. NEW YOIIK. December 11.?Bank clear- I Ings In the United Slates for the week end- Iiik December 10 aggregate $2,770,163.0)0 against J3.C97.0S5.0V) last week, and 13,191.- 3)9,000 this week last year. Following are the returns from the principal cities for flits week, with percentages of change from this week last year: New York. $l.t:'9.?79.0?; decrease. 17.6. Chicago. |.'9>tj30.> 0; decrease, 1.7. Philadelphia. J'.39.3GS,00); decrease, 15.5. Boston, $120,339,000; decrease. 19.7. San Francisco, MS.!-9l.0)9; decrease, 3 3. St. I.ouls. $75,590.0/); decrease. 3.S. Halt I more, I35.1>33.??); decrease, 12.2. Cleveland. $20.63).Cl p i n k to support his moth er and throe other children, his brothers and sis ter. Who knows but tliul his family onco had an es tate which was unwisely adminis tered':' How about your children? You cannot stay with them always. Appoint this company your ex ecutor. Our attor neys will prepare I lie will, free of all expense to you. Capital One Million Dollars We Solicit Personal and Savings Accounts, subject to check without notice in the usual way and al low 3 per cent interest. Out-of-town accounts receive prompt at" tention. Virginia Trust Co. "The Safe Executor," Richmond, Va. Established 1892. employment la calculated to restrict buying in nil but thobe favored cereal-producing I regions that ar? enjoying high urlces. and an a general proportion retail dealers an ticipate u smaller turnover. Incidentally, tiie buying movement witnessed in pig Iron during tho previous fortnight waned this' week. I.umber Is dull, coal likewise, and It is estimated that not more than two-thirds of tho uvuilabtn boot and shoo capacity is employed. Dut in the general situation various cncouruglng signs are seen: the reopening of the Stock Exchange, still lower rates for money, activity In demand for com mercial paper, further retirements of emer gency currency, and clearing-house certifi cates. some evidences ofa pent-up Invest ment demand being manifested, und. all ill all. improvement In collections. HELD FOR GRAND JURY Harry Krar.er Charged With Burning Store In Portsmouth. Stato Commissioner of Insurance Joseph Button yesterday received from tho chief of tno detective bureau of the department tin oNlcliil report tell ing of tho result of tho preliminary hearing in tho case of Harry Frazer, a Portsmouth business man. on the charge, of hurtling Ills Instalment furni ture store, Ellington und Columbia Streets, Portsmouth, on tho night of November 16. Immediately after tho fire. Colonel Button referred the matter to tho sleuths of his department. On In Informatlon obtained by tho detectives. Frazer was arrested and the charge of arson entered ugainst him. lie was given a hearing in Police Court and held for the grand Jury, which will bo convened by the judge of tho Corpora tion Court of tho cTty of Portsmouth on February 18. AUCTION SAIjES?Future Days. HY RUFFIN/& SLOAN, Real Estate Auctioneers. TKUSTEKS' AUCTION SALE. By virtue of a certain deed of trust, dated February 13, 1914, and recorded In the clerk's ofilce, Ulchmond Chan cery Court, In D. B. 32C-L), page 11G, to the undersigned trustees, default hav ing been made In the payment of the debt therein secured, and being re quired so to do by the bcneflclary, wo will sell at public auction, on the premises, on MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1914, at 4 o'clock P. M., that very desirable corner lot, situate at the southeast corner of Leonard and Tllden Streets, fronting twenty-flvo C?5) feet on Leonard Street, and ex tending back one hundred and fifty (150) feet, more or less, to Kensington Avenue, and having a frontage on said avenue twenty-five (25) feet. TERMS: Cash as to so much of the proceeds as may be necessary to de fray the expense of executing this trust, and to pay a note of $U7b, with interest from October 13, 1914, and any balance at six and twelve months, to be secured by a deed of trust on aald property, or all caBh, at tho option .of the purchaser. This sale Is made subject to two prior deeds of trust, each securing $43".2D and Interest thereon. E. LORRAINE IIUFFIN, JOHN SLOAN. Trustee. TRUSTEE'S AUCTION~ SALE OF A VALUABLE FARM, WITH A FINE QUANTITY OF GOOD TIMBER THEREON, IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. VA-, NEAIt DRY BRIDGE, AND ABOUT ONE MILE OF SOUTH EBN RAILWAY. In execution of a certain ?le?;d of trust ilittecl April 6, 1314, and recorded In the.clerk's ollice of Chesterfield County, j V;i., In L>. B. 130, page 338, default huv- inK been made in the payment of the debt thereby secured, and being direct ed so to do by the beneflcinry of said deed of trust, I will sell at public auc- tiun, on the premises, THURSDAY. DECEUHBR 17. 1914, at noon, the following described real estate? to-wit: All that certain tract of, with tho improvements thereon. In Chesterfield j Countv, Va., lying and being about ono mile rrom the Southern Railway, and about four miles from Midlothian Pits, containing six hundred nnd ninety-two (GUI!) acres, more or less, and being the property of Alvln Saylcs, and being the same land conveyed the said Alvln i Say lea by J. H. Blair and wife by their deed dated February 15, 1S84, and re corded in the clerk's ofllce of Chester field County, Va., In D. B. 75, page 4S3, and reference may be made to said deed for a more extended description of the said land. TERMS: This property will bo. sold subject to a deed of trust now on the said land for 15,000 and interest payable thereon semi-annually the principal amount of $5,000 being payable on March 12, 191G, which said principal and interest are evidenced by notes: Subject to said deed of trust, which may be asstimed by the purchaser, the terms will be for cash autliclent to pay off the costs of executing this trust and to pay oil ami discharge notes aggre gating $2,SOU.1(0 and interest thereon from April 14, 1914, said Interest ag gregating about JIGS.GO; the terms for tho residue of purchase price will be announced on d*?y of sale. Tnis is a valuable farm, with a brick dwelling thereon, and a very flno lot of timber, estimated to cut about 4,000,000 feet. J. M. TURNER, Trustee. R. B. CHAKF1N CO.. INC., Auctioneers. AUCTION 8ALKH?Futur? Days DY RICIIESON A CRUTCHF1EL.D, Real Estate Agents und Auctioneers. TRUSTEES' AUCTION SALE OFi FOUR FRAMI5 DWEWilNQS, NOS.i 1120-1122-1)24 AND 112C NORTHI SIXTH STREET. In execution of u cortaln deed of trur,t to the undersigned trustees. dated November 11, 1912, recorded In the} Clerk's Ofllce Richmond Chancery Court In D. B. 219-A. page 199, default j haying boon made In the payment ofy a part of the debt therein secured, .and being required so to do by the holder) thereof, wo will sell by public auctlou on thu promises, on MONDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1914, At 4 o'Clock P. M., that part of the real ostate described' In *ald deed as follows: "All that certain piece, parcel or loti of land, with Improvements thereon 1 fronting sixty (GO) feet on the west' lino of Sixth Street, and bounded as follows: Beginning on tho said west 1 line of Sixth Street, one hundred and thirty-eight (138) feet north of Cro'ich Street; thence running northwardlv and fronting thereon sixty (60) feot; thence extending hack northwardlv between parallel lines, one hundred and twenty-fivo (125) feot, to an alley In common." TERMS: Cash sufficient to pny tho expenses of executing this trust, ull taxes, levies and insurance premiums, now duo, and also ratable proportion of 'the tuxes and levies (or tho year 1914, and to pay the following notes: one for $1,381.53 and one for $20.72, both with interest thereon from No vember 11, 1914, and also six notes for $20.0ii each, with Interest thereon from July 7, 1914; August 7, 1914; Sep tember 7. 1914; October 7, 1914; Novem ber 7, 1914, und December 7, 1914, re spectively, also a noto for $35.00, with interest thereon from July 7, 1914. sub ject to a credit of $4.60; nlso a noto for $35.00, with Interest thereon from October 7. 1914, and on a credit suf ficient with interest thereon to pay the sum of $220.00 In monthly instal ments of 520.00 each on the 7th day of each month, the llrst to become due January 7, 1915, niul on a credit suf ficient with interest thereon to pay tho sum of $840.00. In quarterly instal ments of $35.00 each on tho 7th day of each quarter, the llrst to bccomo due January, 7. 1915. and the residue. If any. In e<iual instalments at one and two years from date of sale for notes with Interest added, or at the option of tho purchaser, cus'n as to all of said residue, or any part thereof, all credit payments to he secured by deed of trust on said property. H. T. RICHESON, P. L. CRUTCH FIELD, Trustees. by McVeigh a- glinn, Real Estute Auctioneers. TRUSTERS' AUCTION SALE OK FOUR FRAME DWELLINGS. NOS. r.17. 519. 521 AND 523 NORTH NINTH STREET. By virtue of a certain deed of trUBt to the undersigned trustees, dated Juno 3, 1911, and duly recorded In the clerk'a office of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, 111 I). B. 212-13, page 94. default having been made, and hulng required Ho to do by the beneficiary, we will sell, on the promises, on THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1914. at 4 o'clock tJ. M.. the real estate described in said deed of trust* to-wlt: "All that certain lot, piece and par cel of land, with the four frame tune-, ment dwellings thereon, designated a* Noa. 517. 519, 521 and 523 North Ninth Street, lying' and being In the city of Richmond, Vn? on the east side of Ninth Street, between Clay and heigh Streets, and bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the said east line of Ninth Street, distant oiie honored and forty-six (14C) feel four (4) Inches south of the south line of I.eigh Street, thence running southwardly along the said cast lino of Ninth Street, and fronting thereon eighty-five feet ten and one-half lnclien more or less, to a point opposite tno centre of ih?: partition wall between tenement No. 517, and that on the south thereof No. 515, and extending back from said front eastwardly between nearly parallel lines, the southern lino passing through the ccntre of said partition wall 120 feet, to the alley In the rear." TERMS: Cash sufficient to pay the cost and expenses of executing Shla trust, including a trustees' commission of 5 percentum, also a ratable propor tion of the taxes for the calendar year and a note for 128.59. with interest on same from September 3. 1914 to the day of sale, and a note for I2S.59 with Interest on Manx: from December 2, 1914. to day of sale, and a note for 11,906.25 with Interest on same from December 3, 1914 to day of sale, and a credit as to two notes for $28.59 each, due respectfully March 3, 1915, and June 3. 1915. and one note for j 1,906.25. due June 3, 1915, and the residue in* equal Installments at one and two years from date of sale for notes with interest added and secured by a trust deed on said property, or for ail cash as to said residue at the option of the purchaser. I,. W. McVEIOH. \V. P. GLINN, Trustees. McVeigh glinn. Auctioneers. The above sale is postponed on ac count of Inclement weather until MONDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1914, at 4 o'clock I*. M. i,. \v. McVeigh, W. I'. OLINN. Trustees. FINANCIAL.. are so foolish that, they seem to have had their origin only on the tip of the lips?without the slightest brain-start THE REMARK, "It's no time to talk to me about life insurance," is in this foolish class. The agent can well reply, "It's no time to be without life insurance." Life Insurance Company of Virginia Organized 1871. The OLDEST, the LARGEST, the STRONGEST Southern Life Insurance Company. Richmond, Va. MAIN AND NINTH Capital and Surplus Deposits Resources Over Established 1865,

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