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THE RICHMOND PLANET A NORTHERNER OBJE@TS. HE DOES NOT LIKE JACK JOHNSON MATTER. "ENOUGH AS GOOD AS A FEAST"—IS AGAINST ANTI-KINK PREPARATIONS. Wants Negroes to be Negroes—An Attempt to Correct Existing Abuses—Editor Mitchell's Reply. VOLUME XXVII, NO. 38. A NORTHERN HE DOES NOT LIKE JAC "ENOUGH AS GOOD AS ANTI-KINK PR Wants Negroes to be Negro Existing Abuses—Ed Chicago, Ill., Aug. 9, 1910. The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Dear Sirs: I subscribed for your paper and have been reading it carefully since I have received it, because I desire to understand the efforts the Negroes are making for their improvement. I am white, but I am sincerely in earnest in wishing the greatest possible advancement of the Negro in every possible way. It is for that reason that I take the liberty to call your attention to one or two features in the paper, for which I can find no justification, if your policy is, as mine is, to do all that is possible to advance the Negro. TOO MUCH JACK JOHNSON. It has been something over a month since the Johnson-Jeffries fight. Your last issue contained six or seven different articles either directly on the fight, or indirectly in reference to Johnson because of his victory. These articles would take up somewhat more than one page of the issue. Both before and after the fight, I have held that it is unimportant to the Negro and to the white whether Johnson or Jeffries win. I can understand, however, that Johnson's victory might cause some temporary feeling of pride in the Negro. OTHER PAPERS LET UP But certainly the best negro papers have dropped the matter now for weeks. I cannot see how your policy in that respect is going to help the Negro at all. It looks to me to be blatant, and blatant, besides, in regard to a thing for which there is no reason to be proud. Continually holding up such a victory before the Negro will never do much to develop him, or to inspire him. KEEP HAIR KINKY. Another thing at which I have been somewhat surprised in your paper has been the amount of material in the advertising columns on hair pomades, hair straighteners, etc. If the Negro should be urged to ape the white in appearance, that sort of advertisements would seem to be the right kind. If the Negro should be urged to develop along his own line, and not spend their money on such things as those hair-growers such advertisements will do no good. INJURY NOT GREAT. I realize, of course, that in both of these regards the injury is not great when compared with many of the other injuries which the Negro suffers. My point is that here are two points in which the attention of the Negro can be directed in a way that will prove more profitable to the Negro. The Negro journals can do and are doing a very great deal in my opinion, to direct the attention in the proper way. THE WASTE OF ATTENTION The waste of the attention is the thing that keeps the development from going on. I believe that in regard to the fight many of the other good Negro papers are already far ahead of you; in some of them there has been no reference either directly or indirectly to it for three issues. Many of the Negro journals, also, have much fewer advertisements of the sort to which I refer. I hope you will take these remarks in the friendly spirit in which I give them. Sincerely yours, E. H. SUTHERLAND. 114 Maroon Heights. Wants to Find Them. I am desirous of locating some of my mother's people as follows: Mrs. Rachel Williams, Mrs. Aritha Ann Taylor, Mr. Benjamin Suckers and Mrs. Kittle Ross. Mrs. Williams had a son named Powell. There was also another sister, Mrs. Amanda Johnson, wife of Mr. John R. Johnson. They are both dead. They had two children, Mary E. and John R. Johnson, Jr., both of whom have been teachers. I think Mrs. Ross lives in Hallifax County. Address all information to JOHN M. DORSEY, 331 T Street., N. W., Washington, D. C. Miss Pearl B. Rowe is visiting friends in Washington. She will extend her trip to New York. Richmond, Va., Aug. 11, 1810. Mr. E. H. Sutherland. Mary A. H. I desire to thank you for your esteemed favor of the 9th inst., embracing as it does an unfavorable criticism or some of the features of the journal, which the undersigned has the misfortune to edit. When you state that you are white and that you desire to know the efforts the Negroes are making for their improvement and that you have selected The Planet as the best means of taking an observation and securing this information, I concede that I feel fattered. CRITICISM INVITED. You are justified then in taking the liberty to pass upon some objectifiable features that you have observed in the columns of The Planet. It is only by such criticisms that we have been able to make improvements. My policy is to do everything in my power to advance the interests of the Negroes of the United States. You may be able from your view-point to see matters in a way that I have not seen them and to vouch-safe me information which will prove highly beneficial in our march upward and onward. AN UNIMPORTANT PROPOSITION. You are absolutely correct in your view that it was unimportant whether Jeffries or Johnson won, so far as the effect upon either race is concerned. I have expressed this opinion in the editorial columns of The Planet. I have looked upon the matter just as I have looked upon a race between a black and a white horse. The promoters do not look at the color of the contestants, but at the color of the money that will come to them. To this end, as you have no doubt observed, I have advised our people to be careful of their conduct. ALL WHITE MEN'S COMMENT. The news articles which have appeared in the columns of The Planet were all Written by white men and not by Negroes. They were published and are now being published in compliance with a public demand by colored people, just as column after column of matter has been published by white journals concerning Jeffries and had he won, they would have yet been published. As you no doubt have been advised, had he won he would have made a tour of this country and Europe and columns of matter would have been given to the readers of this and other countries. NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM You will see then that it is well to look on the side of human nature sometimes and to realize that after all there is no difference save for the color of the skin between the relative appetites and desires of a white man and a Negro. As strange as it may seem to you, down here in this portion of the Southland, there is no feeling of resentment on the part or white men because of Johnson's victory over Jeffries and white men of the better class and type look with amusement upon the acts of "glorification" on the part or some colored people on account of the success of one of the members of their race. And right here it may be well to state that the better class of southern white men in contravention to those of the hoodlum type have more patience with the short comings of the Negroes of the average type than have the northerners and westerners of the more phlegmatic strain. A HUMOROUS VIEW. For this reason, they laugh with them over the Jeffries and Johnson fight and turn it off with the remark that a white man, who would lower himself to fight with a Negro should get a licking for his pains. Couple this with the fact that many white men bet on Johnson and many Negroes took a chance on Jeffries, the matter is evened up and peace and harmony prevail in this portion of the Master's vine-yard. Still this does not properly answer all of your objections and I grant that prize fights in this country are on a par with bull-fights in Spain and Mex. THE TOPMOST ROUND. Still there is one good side to the (Continued on Fifth Page.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1910. POLITICS THE CITIZEN'S HERITAGE 10th Henry Adams American Syndicate Co., St. Augustine, Fla. A Colored Man Has Narrow Escape. A police officer saw a colored man go into an alley between Broad and Grace on Third Street last Tuesday night. He followed him, but he had disappeared in one of the yards. He searched the yards in that neighborhood, but could not find him. After waiting for some time he heard a gate slam and he saw the man. He called upon him to halt. He then fired at him. When he came out he saw the man standing and both of his hands raised above his head. He was a colored man. He explained that he had been on a committee to run an excursion to West Point and the train was late getting in. He went into the lot to see his sister. The officer carried him back and found that he told the truth. The colored man lived on West Leigh Street. It seems too that several persons were injured in a fight that took place on the excursion train to West Point. Holds Up Auto at Pistol Point. J. E. Tignor, a white man, living in Henrico county, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Special Police man' Tiller, on the charge of disorderly conduct. Tignor was bailed for his appearance before Magistrate Puryear today. Yesterday afternoon Tignor was driving in the county, north of Richmond, when he met an automobile in which was a number of people going from Brook Hill to Laburnum. With no apparent provocation, Tignor is alleged to have a drawn revolver and demanded that the colored chauffeur stop. Before any harm could be done, the machine was gotten beyond Tignor's range. The chauffeur reported the matter to J. St. George Bryan, who summoned Special Officer Tiller, and went with him to where the hold-up had occurred. Tignor had not gotten very far, and when he saw the car returning, he again prepared for stopping it. He stopped his buggy and standing in the road with drawn revolver, demanded that the car stop. It was stopped, and Officer Tiller put Tignor under arrest. Tignor claimed that his horse was very much frightened by the automobile, and that he was determined to make the chauffeur in both instances stop until his horse could be gotten by. To test the statement, officer Tiller got out of the car and held the horse while the chauffeur drove by several times. The horse showed no signs of fear, and Tignor was taken to the county jail. There he gave bail for his appearance before Magistrate Puryear to day—Times Dispatch. August 12, 1910. Carle Cooke Comedy trio are playing at the Casino Theatre. Hylands, N. J. next week and Asbury Park, N. J. to follow. Dr.Booker T. Washington Speaks. ABLE ADDRESS BEFORE THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, THE TREND OF BUSINESS EVENTS. COLORED PEOPLE'S PROGRESS. Address Delivered by Booker T. Washington, President of the National Negro Business League, at 11th Annual Session, Palm Garden, New York City, August 17, 1910. New York, August 18, 1910.—The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League met yesterday in Palm Garden, this city. Addresses of welcome were made by Hon. Geo. A. McAneny, President of the Borough of Manhattan, and by Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York. A very full program for the three days session has been arranged. Booker T. Washington, President of the organization, last night delivered his annual address. He spoke as follows: "Before uttering a single sentence regarding any other subject, I wish to express the deep obligation which the National Negro Business League is under to the Negro press of the United States for the generous and unfailing interest which it has taken in this and in previous meetings of this organization. Were it not for the generous space given to the affairs of this organization in the form of editors and news items without question and without cost, it would have been impossible for it to have attained to its present degree of success. Let no one doubt or question in the future the value and influence of the Negro newspaper. Though it may be a seemingly small and insignificant sheet with a limited circulation reaching the people only in one community, nevertheless this Negro paper has its influence. More and more in the future than has been true in the past, I plead with all the earnestness that I can command for the generous and constant support of the Negro press. This support should come not only from the masses of our people, but in the especial degree it should come from the man who is engaged in some business enterprise. Such support, in an increasing degree, I believe the Negro (Continued on Third Page.) —Miss Joannette L. Forrester, of East Leigh Street has returned to the city after having spent six weeks visiting friends in Farmville, Va. Niagara Movement The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Niagara Movement, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, General Secretary, will be held at the Gordon Sea View Hotel, Sea Isle City, N. J., from Saturday, August 27th to Tuesday, August 30th. All railroads grant reduced round trip rates to New Jersey sea side resorts during August. Advantages can also be taken of the greatly reduced "week end" rates. Inquire of your local ticket agent. Board, furnished room, electric lights, etc., $1.50 per day or $10.00 per week, two persons to a room. Special rates for one person to a room or for families. Rooms may be engaged in advance by writing Jasper Evans, Gordon Sea View Hotel, Sea Isle City, N. J. The hotel is directly on the board walk. The usual amusements and recreations of the sea side resorts. Women and children welcome. Rev. Thomas' Son Injured A white man drove over the eight year old child of Rev. William Thomas, last Monday afternoon. The boy whose name is Sylvester, was badly bruised by the vehicle. The driver whipped up the horse and made his escape. Dr. E. R. Jefferson is attending the child and hopes to have him on his feet again. White Boy Drowned Henry Rucker, Jr., white, age, 9 years, was drowned in the canal under the trestle of the R. F. & P. R. R. between Fifth and Seventh Streets last Tuesday evening. A Murder Here: Waverly Coles, colored, of North Carolina, cut Edward Fuller, colored, over the forehead and shot him twice, one bullet entering the breast and the other penetrating his side and splitting his liver. The affair took place in what was formerly known as Manchester. Coles is quoted as saying: "We had been going together," said Coles, "I lent him a dollar and as I wanted to go to Richmond Saturday evening I asked him for my money. He refused to give it to me. He had his money and I asked him to give me only fifty cents. He said I could not have five cents. When he shoved against me I shot him twice." The blade of the dirk with which the murder was committed was about seven inches long. Fuller was found in the tan-yard bottom by the officers and told the name of the man who assaulted him. An operation was performed upon him, but he died as a result of his injuries. EMMETT C. BURKE'S RESIDENCE, 806 North Sixth Street, Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Burke is Cashier of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and has occupied this cosy home for several years. 5TH ST. BAPT. CHURCH. Located, Cor. 5th and Jackson Sts. RICHMOND, VA. Weekly News Column. REV. W. F. GRAHAM, D. D., Pastor, Residence: 108 E. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, Editor, Office: 1215 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. (Last Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock Supt. Prof. B. H. Peyton opened Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School. The officers and teachers were in their respective places. Miss Annie Brown presided at the place and Mr. R. H. Fauntleroy, at the organ. Everything was cheerful. The teachers taught their classes thirty minutes. Didn't we have a good time at the picnic last Wednesday? was the general conversation of the scholars after school closed, Rev. Dr. Samuel, of Philadelphia, addressed the school. He gave the school good instruction which was gladly received. The officers and teachers are intensified and are determined to accomplish greater results—Estelle Ward.) At 11:30 o'clock church services commenced. The choir was out in large numbers and sang many choice hymns. Pastor Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham introduced Rev. Dr. Samuels or Philadelphia, and stated that as Dr. Samuels was in the city visiting friends he had asked him to preach for him this morning. Dr. Samuels delivered a fine discourse from Matt: 5:1—5; his explanations were fine and weighty; he gave food for meditation. His lessons took deep root upon the congregation who seemed to have been well pleased. Dr. Samuels will preach next Wednesday night. Come out in large numbers and hear him. Pastor preached Sunday night. Remember B. Y. P. U. meets every Friday night at 8:30. Attend these meetings, they will help you. On Tuesday morning August 23, 1910, a large delegation will leave the city to attend the National Baptist Sunday School Convention which will meet Wednesday 24th inst. in EMMETT C. BUF 806 North Sixth Street, Mr. Burke is Cashier of the occupied this cosy home for severa Charlottesville, Va. Among the delegates will be Rev, Dr. W. F. Graham, Prof. B. H. Peyton, Mr. R. H. Fauntieroy, Rev. M. H. Payne, Rev. Dr. D. Webster Davis, Mr. John W. Howard and Joseph Matthews. Dr. Graham has been laboring hard collecting funds for the Lynchburg Seminary. He has met with great success thus far, and it is hoped the Charlotteville conventions will contribute not less than $500 for the Seminary. It is hoped that each school will send up a large sum for this fund. Those who went with the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School to Fulton Park Wednesday, 10th inst., enjoyed a rare treat. Peace, pleasure and jollification reigned. Not a cross word was spoken nor a sad countenance seen. About 600 persons were present, all peaceful and gay. There seemed to have been but one regret that was, Pastor W. F. Graham was away attending a board meeting of the Lynchburg Seminary. All were as merry as marriage bells. The barbecue was a great feature of the day. The sweet savory odor from the barbecue shot revived and PRICE. FIVE CENTS strengthened the appetites of all and when he had gotten barbecued that shoat stood no more show than would a hundred chickens before a convention of preachers. Base-ball was another great feature. In the morning a game of ball was played between two male teams which was interesting. About noon two teams of young ladies played an interesting game of five innings. The game was then called off until 6 o'clock. Promptly at 6 o'clock the two lady teams repaired to the baseball field and found the young men in possession playing an interesting game. The ladies demanded that they give way for them, but the boys refused, whereupon the young ladies said they wont let us have the grounds because they are afraid we can beat them playing. Their the captain of the white caps, l. e., one of the lady teams challenged the young men for a championship game. The men immediately accepted, the field cleared, and a championship game commenced between the ladies' team called White Caps and the young men's team, the Red Stockings. The ladies took the field and an extra fine interesting game ensued. The pitcher on the female team was a little girl about 16 years old. She soon became the center of attraction, as all the players. This female pitcher could throw a strong curve which the boys couldn't knock outside the diamond. Three innings there the boys had two on base; the young man at the bat knocked a high fly, two of the young made for it and striking against each other they missed the ball and the boys made two runs. The girls became excited and by a wild throw endeavoring to cut the runner off on the third base the boys made another run. Their pitcher, however, seemed to possess herself and began throwing stronger curves. The fellow at the bat knocked a grounder, the pitcher made a professional pick and out ran him to the first and then cut off the boy going in home. Side beating out, the girls took the bat. The pitcher had the third strike, two were on base; she hit the ball knocking way in the field making a three bagger, bringing in two on base and she on the third. So well did she play her base the boys couldn't get her out. She played her way home from the third eluding the catcher. Pitcher, shot-stop and third baseman who were trying to put her out between RKE'S RESIDENCE, Richmond, Virginia. St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and has al years. the third and home. It was almost draw straws, the unpire said she was safe. The boys got scared and called the game. At the calling the score was three for boys and three for girls with two out on girl's side. A fine game had been played thus far. The boys admitted that he girls could play ball. The young ladies claim they won because it was a tie score and only two were out; and four innings had been played by each. President Hill Here Rev. Daniel W. Hill, president of The Clifton Forge Normal and Industrial Institute was in the city last Monday en route to Clifton Forge. He is installing steam heat, toilet and bath in the new building. Rev. Hill has been very successful in his labors. Miss Hattle Allen of New Kent County, Va. is visiting Sir Norman Bowers and wife of 1808 Dance St. CHAPTER NIN MEDIATELY following Kirby's dramatic declaration Adele had given a little cry and promptly fainted while her brother attempted another throffful assault upon his enemy. With difficulty he was bundled out of the room by Aaron and M Venduire before blood was shed Kirby being in numb to stand further insults from his accuser. Then Adele was escorted from the room by old Mammie Lena Croup's wife, while Judge Pleydell required to the bafflement and dismissed the attack. Dawningly the pane dispersed, gone even returning to New Tjernie, while the indefatigable old judge retired in doors and sought his three friends leaving Kirby and Bunce in undisputed possession of the ground floor "Well, gentlemen! began Pleydell in a businesslike vee. "there is only one thing to be done and that is to adhere to our original plan. It is no time now to deplore our mutual blindness. The fact remains that that d—d low gambler has claimed the plantation, as we expected, though I admit he took an unlocked for and devilish roundabout method of doing so." "If I had had any help he would, be here now," interrupted Tom Run dall sullenly, glowering at Agron and M. Vendryd "I'll fix him yet" "Not you alone, but the four of us corrected Pleydell "and we'll give him a fairer chance than he deserves in the meantime Tom. you must control yourself and keep out of his way until the ladies have left the house for no violence must be indulged in in their presence. Your poor sister has stood about all she贝贝, be reckon, though I'm gind she discovered in time the true character of that designing villain" "You mean to insinuate that he dared to pay his addresses to Adelaide" cried Tom, springing to his feet in a fresh access of fury M. Veyadurh a restraining hand upon his arm "It is that. I do not think Mr Kirby has acted as other than a gentleman to a lady," he said practically, glancing significantly at Pleydell. "Gentleman!" sneered young Randall. "As if he knew the meaning of the word." But if he had dared to address Adela I would go down now and—" "You must learn to control yourself, sir," interposed the judge, somewhat testily, irritated at the boy's mad outbursts. "I think you can safely leave the honor of the family in the mature and capable hands of your cousin. You have misinterpreted my words," he added, ignoring the other's shrug at the mention of Anron's supposed ability for Amatole is quite right. The Kirby did clearly and long vibrate knows his limits—and your sister is not one to be impressed by such a character even if masquerading under such an honorable name as Colonel Morean. To return to the real theme, it is agreed, then, that we adhere to our original plan? As Tom saltly refused to speak, Anron asked gravely "You mean that the ladies go to your plantation, Judge Pleydell, while we remain for the ostensible purpose of formally handing over the estate to—to that man? The ladies are to be kept in ignorance of the "I'd about him and be done with it." "I sniffed young Randall. 'Hell slip through your fingers again—see if he doesn't.'" "Yes, the ladies are to be kept in entire ignorance," agreed Pledyell, ignoring the boy's observation, "likewise Mr Kirby and that fat secondro who accompanies him—no warning, mind, for they are desperate characters who hostage at nothing. Miss Adole will naturally abhor the idea of remaining under this roof one minute mind, for they are too poor. To complete our ostensible purpose inform the servants we are leaving, never to return, and let Miss Adole pack up and take with her such things as belonged to her mother and upon which this scoundrel can have no legal claim. By the way, we must assume charge of Colonel Moreneu's portmanteau, with such effects as it may contain. It is our duty to inquire if he left any next of kin and to return his belongings to them. Poor gentleman—so honorable, chitrous and courageous. I regret that I had not the extreme honor of meeting him while he was as in quest of the portmanteau, Aaron entered the deserved drawing room Kirby, pacing the balcony, halted him from the window "Mr. Randall, if you think that exertable young cousin of yours is ready to listen to me there something I've got to tell him," he said quietly, mastering his irritation. "It is our intention that you shall see him, sir, as soon as the ladies have gone," replied Aaron, with a significance lost on the other. "When the ladies have gone?" echoed Kirry, entirely without comprehension, for he had never contemplated such a move. Mr. Randall nodded. "Mr. Kirby" he said coldly, "in their sense of honor to the dead man who lost this place to you his children do not oppose your possession. But you can certainly imagine they would. ANIMLEE MAGAZINE COMPANY willing to pass the light under this roof once you had cigamed it" Without comment Kirk returned to the balcony. He looked old and carewn, for the words had stung him to the quick. Twice within the past hour he had sent a request for an interview to Adole, and as yet she had made no answer. This, then, was the explanation. Evidently he was deemed too unclean a thing even to look upon. He did not greatly worry, for he could have been the memory of her body looked and cry when the mask had fallen and the bad prince stood reveald. After all, the penalty for his remaining had been immeasurably great than he had anticipated Meanwhile Aaron had bent over the portmanteau, which still lay open upon a chair as Judge Pleydell had left it. In searching for Colonel Moreau's Derringer the contents of the suit case had been somewhat disarranged, and the methodical Aaron moved in, carefully coiled up, intending to fold it neatly before reducing it. As he did so a red mug begs fall from one of the pockets. Aaron about to return it, suddenly started and held it under the light of an adjacent lamp, for the inscription on the lid which had arrested his attention was "Margaret Randall to her husband, John Randall." Margaret Randall that was Adele's mother was exciled in wonder. "What is that?" asked M. Weadau entering the room and noting the other's interest. "Something that fell from Colonel Moran's pertinent rumour," replied Aaron opening the box and examining its contents. "You see it is the miniature of Adèle's mother that that gambler won the night he won the plantation," nodding to the balcony where Kirby could be heard pacing back and forth. "You know he got even my poor cousin's jewels. This is set with diamonds. Look-belt of them are gone." "To the pawshaw, eh?" ventured M Veaudry. "Let you found it in Colonel Moran's pertinent rumour? It is very strange. How has it come there?" "No one knows but Colonel Moran, and he can't answer anything now," said Aaron solemnly. "You better give this box to Tom." Like his older brother the General has proved an unwilling participant in Judge Playdle's maneuver. The child strongly disappeared of the idea, for he was now summarily hauled out of bed and forced to exchange the known comforts of that article for the doubtful accommodations of the drawing room sofa. What for do they make me get up in the middle of the night? He sleeps low demanded as group made up the intimacy bed in the now deserted room. What for do they dress me again? "Ye gwine to Judge Pleydell's plantation, honey," patiently explained the old servant for the tent time. "Dey go'n pack up all yo' all clothes an all dem toys yo' had when yo' was a baby Dey ain't gwine to 'sturb yo' so much hyah" "But I don't want to go to Judge Pleydell's plantation," perfectly protested the child. "Arn't we wo' ever come here or again?" "Nom! I come here hardly so, so, so! marse." Dey 'kain't stay no mo' hyah, honey, an' ole Croup kain't go nowah wy'll呐 no mo' Ole niggah got a new marse now. Yo' must sleep, honey I wake 'when ye dey ready, ill marse. Heah, honey. heah!" And Group lightly tilted from the room as the General needed drowsily and then closed his weary eyes. And thus Kirby found him. As if conscious of the other's gaze, the boy instantly awoke with a start and sat bolt upright, throwing off his impromptu "I've got to have a talk with you," he said gravely. "No: I won't go to "THEY ALL HATE YOU, DON'T THAT?" sleep, and if you leave I'll get up. I want some more light. I'm going to have some things the way I want them." Recognizing that flight was useless and that the child was in deadly earnest, Kirby obediently turned up the lamp. "It strikes me," he said mildly, "you'll come very near getting a good many things the way you want them." "You come and sit here," peremptorily ordered the General, pointing to a stool beside the sofa. And grain the man observed. For a someone's child was silent, gravely contemptuous his pseudo man. "What It's 'a—low gambler?' he noddedly inquired. "It's what some people call me," replied Kirby after a pause. "I'm sorry they do it before you." "They don't like you any more do they—especially Dale!" They all hated you, don't the kids. Ivy knew they cursed out to be the bad prince," said the boy, outgoing solemnly. Again the other was silent. "General," he said at length, "there's something your sister never got quite straight in the stories she read you. Sometimes the good prince is half bad, and sometimes the bad prince—is half good." "No; there was never anything like that in the books," reflected the General, greatly appurred. "And sometimes," added Kirby, "there are just one man—half good and half bad." "Both just in one person?" "Yes. And when that person-half good prince and half bad prince, remember—get into a mysterious underground passage, say and the adventure takes him to where the people are good why, then he tries to be all good too." The child pondered over this truth, little comprehending those strange contradictions and complexities of the soul, of that dual personality which has mystified older and wiser boys than his has baffled age and scientist alike and will battle them to the end of time. "Then are you trying not to be a bad prince now not any more at all ever?" he finally asked. "Not where you and your sister are," said Kirby, his voice trembling. "But you'll turn out bad again when we go away?" suggested the child. "I don't know just what will happen then," confessed the man staring duly at the floor. Slipped down. Then the child sighed. "I'd like to know the end of that story." The man echoed the sigh smiling wanly "I'm afraid I can't tell you the end." Although no herald of intrusion had been apparent, he was suddenly consoled that some one had entered the room before the General had expressed his wish. Hissing he discerned Adèle Trudie and ignoring him, assumed a protecting attitude over the child, as if to shield it from an infinitely contaminating presence. She appeared the same as on the first occasion of his meeting with her-pale, ad, dressed entirely in black, hopelessly emotion less and uncompromisingly hopeless. length, ignoring her attitude, "I have something for you. Several times I have sent one of the servants to you requesting an interview. I don't want you to regret all your life the fact that you refused to listen to me." Without a word or a glance she turned to the General and took him by the hand, the child struggling with all his small strength. "Please don't make me" he implored. "Dele, he trying not to be bad like they said. And, don't you remember, I promised to be his trusty friend. Can I even talk to him?" "Miss Randall," quietly interposed Kirby, "there isn't a slave on this plantation you wouldn't listen to if he asked to be heard before you punished him. Won't you—" But she had gone, half carrying the still ineffectually struggling General Kirby remained grimly crying a slip of paper he had withdrawn from his pocket. It was his last card—the deed to the plantation. Throwing it on the table, he sank into a chair, a prey to the most hopeless dejection. CHAPTER XIV. I "You see how you stand with her, don't you? he said quietly. "I won't say she ain't a fine enough woman to make any man act the fool about her But, Gene, you've got to hold up your head and get it over it. It's too late for you to start your life again, and you can't drag her into it. Take one good look at yourself, Gene Kirby, then take another at her But, say, she wouldn't take you if you was an angel stepped right out of the first front door of heaven. What could you ever be to her? Nothin' but a d—d gambler. I seen the way she treated you. "That's because she doesn't know what I'm going to do." replied Kirby, striving to convince himself. "Look at her. Bunce examined the door, then turned indigently upon the signer thereof. "I've seen you give some pony young feller his money back after you won it, but I never knew you to do it if the feller slipped in the face first, she said witheringly. "The girl won't stay long enough in the same room to wipe her shoes on you. Don't that hurt you?" "It won't hurt so much after this," replied Kirkley indicating the paper. "When the fool maker made you rocken he quilt work. He knowed he reached his high water mark," commented Bunce, with a despairing shrug. "Now, I'll make her speak to you." Kirkby shook his head, his relaxed figure stiffening with sudden resolution. "No," he said quietly. "You and I will get out of here. I won't see Miss Randall again." But the other, giving no head to the wounded left the room, while Kirkby reminded seated at the table abstractionally toying with the card, utterly oblivious to surroundings. His fistling resolution had already resumed. His grip on the present had relaxed. He felt singularly hopeless, heartstick and utterly alone. He did not know—nor, knowing, would greatly have cared—that Judeg Plethyll plan was about to be executed. He did, not know that Mime, Davacz, Miss Plethyll and the General wars already in the carriage were He scratched himself at the table and, as was his wont in moments of abstraction, began to cut the cards. Bunco diplomatically ignored the tribute. The mad escapade had terminated far better than he had expected. He was a man of consequence his native fund of good humor had been abundant (re-snapped. "What do you suppose she'll think of it tomorrow? Think she'll remember what I am, perhaps?" "Mebbe she won't think of it tomorrow," said Bunco hopefully. "But what about that young Venury? She never have to think of anything she'd done—or was," pursued Kirby. "Pretty square sort of a fellow, Larkin. Looks to me like I owe him a clear field to himself" "I don't deny'burt' what he acted a gentleman to you, Gene. But now'a the time you got to think of yourself" "Looks to me you're considerable of a turquoise smiled Kirby, picking up me and saying my lying to me about this. There's no better for or worse too long ago for a woman to come between us now. And what else was that you said? Oh, yes—Take one good look at yourself, Gene Kirby; then take another at her" Bunce fudged feebly. "I've kind of changed my mind since I said that, he mumbled, "Headies," consulting his watch, "it was a long time ago. It was last night now." Silence came, and with it the white dawn, and as still the men sat, one mutely eying the cards, the other his fingers, a fugitive beam, herald of the morning, stole into the room to shame the smoky yellow of the lamp. In the sunbeam's golden wake there followed a faint breeze that stirred the curtains and sent a current of cool, pure air swirling through the stagnant atmosphere. Then there fell upon the alence, with a softness so impalpable that it seemed merely a progression of the hush, the sound of distant singing. For some time strain and source were alike indistinct, a to be submitted to their ungrateful disturbance, waiting for the coming of them, who had been illiphrionically delayed by the last points-delayed by Buncee, who was putting every threatening all in one breath. In a poetical attempt to bring her back to the drawing room, to make her grant a thankful interview to his partner. At length, in the midst of his brooding appearance from the window attracted the attention, and, lately, he banalized the discarded young Randall and Playdell, Aaron and M. Veasley, all surprising him intently, with a look there no misinterpreting. They considered the ladies safely away, and the time had now come when a juvenile murder might be persecuted. Before he could begin, Kirby fathomed their purpose, but no hint of cognition was evinced in his manner. He rose leisurely and with the courtesy of guest to host rather than with any intention of self defense, alarm or even interest. And for a space and in silence the four men surveyed the one. Then young Randall spoke ominously and, for him, with admirable restraint. "It's pretty dark outside, Mr Kirby—too dark to shoot straight. Shall we settle it here. We are ready to give you a chance to yourself ready to take it blanked quick unless you prefer to be shot like a rat." "If you leave it to me," said Kirby mildly, "I prefer not to be shot at all." "Do you realize that in giving you a fair show we do a common gambler an honor?" returned the boy, struggling hard against his passion. He resented Kirby's serious composure, for against it he was placed at a humiliating disadvantage. "I am deeply sensible of your kindness to one of my profession," observed the "common gambler," bowing with courteous formality. "You seem to be making quite elaborate preparations, gentlemen, but I think you’re putting yourselves to unnecessary trouble. Mr Randall, you and your sister"— "Don't you dare mention the name of any lady of my family?" menaced Tom. "But that is necessary, sir" suavely murmured the other "because you and your sister, Miss Adcle Randall"— "You wolf" anarried the boy, and be struck with all his strength. The alert and pacific M. Veendy caught the descending arm, and before the outraged and now thoroughly incensed boy furious at Kirby's delirate repetition of Miss Randall's name, could wrest himself free and renew the attack Adela herself had entered the room, followed by the successful Bunce. Her presence instantly prohibited further hostilities, and young Randall sullyly turned away raging against her delayed departure and unexpected intrusion. The self satisfied and beaming glance cast upon him by the portly veteran Bunce did not improve his temper, although in a measure it afforded an explanation of Adela's presence. "I have glided to this gentleman's room and said the girl stoily, waving an ironic and contemptuous arm toward Bunce, while her eyes looked curately through the top of Kirby's head. "I grant your interview. What is it you wish to say? Kindly be as explicit and tense as possible." He handed her the slip of paper which before this he had sought to offer "I fear your brother may be too exited to read it," he said indifferently. She eyed it wonderingly, scanning it twice over and yet again before digesting its brief contents. In silence she handed it to her brother, and be after a long, incredulous stare, exclamating, "He gives it back to buy his safety." "Read the date," commanded Kirby, addressing the girl. In the same mechanical manner she obeyed, spelling it out as if it were written in some strange language with which she was but vaguely familiar. "He wrote that the first day the doctors let him set up to a table after Jack Moreau shot him," sharply explained Bounce, angered at the reception recorded what he considered a generality, forbearance and salinity. Slowly Adela raised her eyes from the paper and looked steadily at the "common gambler." "This was in remorse-for my father!" she whispered. "No." It was said quite simply and emotionlessly, as if the question were too absurd to seriously consider. He would have employed the same tone in refuting the statement that he was a Chinaman. "That doesn't agree very well with Colonel Morrone's story," meowed young Handail, loath to credit such an enemy with one worthy motive. "You bet your bottom dollar it don't." agreed Bunce. "That will do, Larkin." said Kirby shyly. "There's nothing more to be said. Were you ready?" Despite Addlees earnest request to remain and the plea that she had the right to know the meaning of this straight contradiction of evidence, he resolutely turned to leave the room, the partner obediently following. But once again M. Veaudry, sinking his own interests in those of justice stepped forward, and detained his sometime rival. "Make him speak, Tom!" he cried turning to young Randall. "This miniature of your mother we found in Colonel Moran's portmanteau." And he handed the cover the red morrow box. "But—but my father lost it to you," exclaimed the bewildered boy, turning to Kirby. "No, not to me, Mr. Randall." Again that same patient, emotionless to truly devoid of resentment or even in terror. "If—if we've been in the wrong, tremoniously whispered Adela, raising her head proudly, but pleading communication speaking strongly from her eyes, you will set us straight, you will be fair." A long moment Kirby beastified then finally inspired to the now eager waiting boy. "Mr. Randall," he said, with elate rate reply, "the question involved in my conduct is so purity professional that it may be almost impossible to chat up to the satisfaction of a lawyer. Mr. Bruce, being one of the brothers, would, comprehend me, perfectly, but I shall have to point out that he is not a lawyer, cates, both high and low, each controlled by its own standards." "You accuse Colonel Morgan of being a gambler?" said young Randall as the other paused. "I regretfully admit that he had some claim to the title," replied Kirby with interlocational elegance of manner. "for the group to which the colonial countenances certain practices, such as the information of opponents and the elimination of chance in the fall of the cards, and this, we feel, shows a lack of foretight rending to bring discredit to the entire profession, which might in time drive its followers from their legitimate field of industry. For that reason, when he deposed and the Colonial Moravian I private asteroom of the Shootwell despoiling a gentleman who was—who was not himself, I took charge of the despoilation of what remained, intending to make restitution in the morning when the victim should be in better condition." Young Randall being one who cherished his hatreds and affections and renounced them with difficulty, this now and obviously accurate version of his father's suicide left him in a state of mental fog. Where Adele was not too willing and eager to believe the boy was loath. To the girl Kiryu has once appeared all that woman could think of man, but to her brother had over been the personification of evil. Tom had blindly nourished his hated. Now he felt strangely bearded, self distrustful and unclean His credibility had been shattered with his self respect. He flushed hotly at the thought of how implicitly and on such meager evidence he had believed the specious and totally unscrupulous Moreau, how from such a tissue of falsehood he had carefully erected his elaborate feud. He had even stopped to the unutterably foul act of averaging a murder upon this man, who, with his father's sole friend, had his father's sole friend. To him it was difficult to relegate unto himself a new viewpoint with the "common gambler" as an object for admiration rather than vilification, to disinter and truss for the halo which Moreau had calmly appropriated and taken with him to the grave to the criswell master rogue, this arch feud titles for which his name of Cimoo Kirby had been a "women" he meant to protect my father" he learned at length "For the honor of the profession," said Kirby "That's all right." Mr Randall" he added gently as the boy, utterly crushed and filled with a bitter self hatred, strove to verbally interpret his object thoughts, to frame some sort of fitting apology "If you lend me a horse to get back to the call it square I'm ready Larkin." He held out his hand, and young Randall, fushing hotly, grasped it firmly, then turned away, and, slinking into a chair, buried his face in his arms. Adele, placing her hand on her brother's shoulder as if he wero a child, raised him gently and escorted him from the room, where she so turned, already Kirby "You waited for me this afternoon when there was danger," she said tremulously "Won't you wait for me now, when there is none?" CHAPTER XV George, Geno, it looks to me like you'd get the girl and the plantation, too," exclaimed Bunce when it "B Y George, Gene, it looks to me like you'd get the girl and the plantation, too," exclaimed Bunce when at length the two were alone. "What was that you called me awhile ago?" returned Kirby quizzical, but with an undercurrent of great seriousness. "Nothing but a—what it was? It seems to me you said something mighty pleasant about me, you being my oldest friend and therefore complimentary. Oh, yes nothing but a damned gambler." That was it." *Take Mita Randall while you can *touch the top of the bottle *to tophole of your bottle* *a snobber* "Hobbe she won't think of it tomorrow row." said lince hopefully 1712 mere setting to harmonry the charm of the young morning. And then it arose like a sweeping curve of beauty until it received itself into the throaty, melodious chorns of "Mississippi River" Kirby shivered, and his eyes came back from the great beyond, while Bunce shook himself like a great dog leaving the water "There's the niggers coin' out to the cane," he said lacoonically. "The mornin' in here Well, Gene?" "Well, Larkin?" The other hesitated, fortifying himself with a cheroot, which he contented himself with chowing. Finally he arose, offering elaborate signs of departure. "I hate to see a man lose out on everything," he tentatively observed "Well, I'm gain," Gene. I reckon they'll let me have a boss now. Mebbe I betters have two saddles, eh?" "Well, what do you think?" parried Kirby, slowly lifting the deck of cards from the table. "Is that my wife? I turn back to the old river road with you, or do I—" He lifted his head with brightening vision. "Have two saddled," he added quietly, with bitter finality. Bence nodded slowly, understandingly. Gene Kirby remained at the table, staring and seeing not. "Take one good look at yourself, Gene Kirby, then take another at her," he mused mechanically and with dull monotony reiterating the phrase. "Take one good look at yourself, Gene Kirby." I might never have thought that I have been so busy looking at her. As he sat there face to face with the future, striving to learn renunciation without embitterment, the General, now dressed in nightclothes, tiptoed softly into the room. "He had to bed again," he whispered, triumphant at his evasion, while he cuckolded against the man's extended arm. "I want to know the end of that story. Tell me." Kirby strove to assume his wonted gayety of manner. How long ago it seemed since in the closed carriage he had prompted that light hearted laughter: "So you made another hairbreadth escape, General." he commented lightly: "And you want to hear the end of the story--about the bad prince who was half good? I--I don't know if I can tell you the end." "Why? Hustn't the end happened yet?" "Yes, it's come." "But it ended all right, didn't it?" persisted the General, with all youth's confident optimism. "Yes," said the man; "it ended all right." "But I want to know if he's still a mixed prince—n mixed good and bad prince." He pressed a worry hand over his throbbing forehead. "I guess he's pretty much mixed," he confessed, still smiling bravely. The child pondered over this statement until at length he began to nod "Did—Did he go away?" he murmured drowsily, inquisitiveness battling nobly against outraged nature. "Yes—he went away," whispered the man, his arm tightening about the small form. "You're sleepy, General." "I not," protected the child, with great earnestness, opening wide his eyes only to promptly close them after an ineffectual struggle. "I—wanted to—he gave a vexed, protecting sigh; then his breathing grew deep and regular. "Your sister will tell you the end in the morning," said the guide. Hiding, he gently laid the now sleeping child on the sofa and with clumsy tenderness covered him with a rug. For a long time Kirby stood looking down upon the faithful little General, who of them all had from the first given his full pleasure of unsurveying loyalty and devotion without question and without price, and this despite the influence of family pressure, the venom of lying toughs or the speeches of circumstance. He know only that he loved: that was faith and trust sufficient. As yet he was only a very small juvenile member in life's boy brigade, but still he had his own dim notions of standing true to the colors. When at length Kirby turned away it was to find himself face to face with it. How long also had been standing, and how long had he been in the sunseam had long since vanished, as it heartily aspaigned of taking precedence over its majestic prognitor, and the room was now suffused by a dull, rosy glow. For a space girl and manured each other in alpine, both waiting for the other to speak. Finally she whispered: "Am I to tell him the end of the story?" nodding to the sleeping General. "But hell want you to." "I'm afraid it won't be fixed so that I can. Miss Randall. You see, I was only waiting to say goodbye to you." "And you are supposed to be ventured, with a painful attempt at compose." "And-you are only waiting to say goodbye." He nodded, willing wanly. "You remember that story I told you of the rosebush and the playing cards?" "Are you and I like that?" "Just like that," he said. "But some times—She breaks off, making a bopeless pleading gesture, 'Tell him when he awakes,' said Kirby, taking a great breath and holding high his head, the sad is that for one great day, from sunrise to sunrise, the mixed price was with somebody so good that he went away to try to make himself all over. And if he can—" He faltered and stopped) then, taking courage from her eyes, began again, "And If He can—" "And if he can," she prompted, a great wave of color surging to cheek and neck. "And if I should wait for that—that wouldn't be the end?" "No, I wouldn't be," she whispered, holding him with her eyes. "Just the beginning, after all." 90 MILLIONS CENSUS GUESS THE COST IS $15,000,000 Over 1800 Clerks Are Busy Compiling Returns From the Seventy Thousand Districts. By the middle of October, but scarcely before, the people of the United States will know their own number, as revealed by the thirteenth census. The figures will not be given out until the count is entirely completed and minutely verified, and by that time the number will know the total for himself, for the details for all such sub-divisions as states, cities and counties will have become known previously through the census office announcements. Some think that Director Durand practically knows now the exact number of the population, but he declares 'really and truly' that he does not. If so disposed, he could accept appropriate approval to the number of people somewhat in advance of his announcement to the public. This could be done by means of the preliminary count of the schedules which is made necessary for the payment of the enumerators for their services. The enumerating districts for each supervisor's area are numbered, and it is intended that each of them should contain 100 names. As soon as these are received they are turned over to counters and a virtually active database is created to date the names in more than 58,000 of the 70,000 districts have been counted. The process is moving forward rapidly and when it is completed the population of the United States could be easily determined by footing up the totals arrived at Mr Durand is not having the figures totaled, and he says that it is his purpose not to do so. He is not curious as to the outcome of his work. Nor will he make a change as to what the result should be. It is not clear to him that the data generally fall in with the idea that there are about 90,000,000 people in the United States. Between the census of 1850 and that of 1900 there was an increase of about 13,000,000, and only a slightly larger increase would now be necessary to bring the figure up to the 90,000,000 mark. This result is arrived at by a purely arithmetical calculation, and not by any compilation of the figures recently taken. The first announcements will cover only enumeration figures, and these will continue for the next two months and a half. The sociological and industrial figures will come later and will be combined with the bulk beliefs prepared by the bureau itself. So far about $6,000,000 have been expended upon it, and it is probable that 'the total cost will be about $15,000,000.' Of this sum $12,000,000 has been appropriated by congress. Big Revenue From New Farm. The Payne-Aldrich tariff law has produced in its first year a revenue greater than $74,000,000 and collected in any year in the country's history, except the banner year 1907, according to treasury department figures. The second year of the operation of the new tariff began Monday. During the first full year, ending Saturday night, the total ordinary receipts, including customs, ordinary internal revenue, corporation tax and miscellaneous, aggregating $78,850,816, exceeded disbursements by $20,214,029. These ordinary receipts were greater by $15,000,000, approximately, than in 1907, and the 1907 receipts exceeded those of any other year on record by almost $30,000,000. The deficit of $68,744,835 in the ordinary expenses in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, there was a surplus of more than $20,000,000 in the year ending on Saturday. The corporation tax revenue was $27,000,000, which is only $207,000 less than the amount assessed. If the government were reimburced for the Panama canal expenditures of $38,339,001 during the tariff year by proceeds of the sale of a part of the authorized issue of Panama bonds the treasury working balance, it is claimed, would be increased to $150,000,000. Slays Wife, Shoots Himself. Frank Walkinsbaw, a brother of V. V. Walkinsbaw, director of public safety of Lorain, O. shot his wife himself, inflicting a wound from which he may recover. Mrs. Walkinsbaw fled a petition for degrees a week ago. ```markdown ``` Dr. Booker T. Washington Speaks. (Continued from First Page.) press will have. There are few agencies which, together with the church and the school, have exerted a greater influence in the uplift of our race than is true of the Negro newspaper, and often this influence is exerted at the price of poverty hard work and self-denial on the part of the publishers. As each delegate and visitor to this League returns to his home, I hope he will carry with him a resolve that in the future he will see to it that his local Negro newspaper has his hearty support and co-operation It is a serious matter to bring from all parts of our country as many men and women as are present at this meeting of the League. Each one has come here at considerable cost in time and money. These meetings will fail of their purpose unless each individual comes here with a serious purpose, comes not only with the idea of getting out of each meeting that which will improve him as an individual but even more important that which he can take back and use for the betterment of his own community. Each one should come with the idea of getting information methods and inspiration that will enable him to return to his home and teach the people how to start additional industrial and business enterprises and improve those which are already in existence Upon each delegate here gathered, I repeat, there rests a serious responsibility But to the text I have chosen "To him that hath shall be given." These lines spoken, by the Master strike the keynote for individual success, and equally so for racial success. The chief object of the National Business League is to teach the Negro the value of the opportunities that he possesses as well as the value of the opportunities that are before him. Let us convince the world that we have opportunities and are conscious of them, and more opportunities will come to us—more openings for our growth will appear. "To him that hath shall be given," is the law of life. On the other hand, if the world becomes convinced that we have no opportunities, that there is no future before us, despair and death will follow and the opportunities that we have will disappear. The world is interested in the man who is succeeding. The world is interested in a race that is succeeding. In the United States there are two millions of Negroes and there is a normal increase. Ten millions of people living under the same government, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, with the same history back of them, of the same color with varying shades of difference, united, banded together or moving in the same direction can be made a great power for usefulness and righteousness. Ten millions of people mean a population larger than the whole population of Canada, nearly as large as that of the Republic of Mexico. We have as many colored people in the United States as there are inhabitants in Norway, Sweden and Switzerland combined. I repeat that one of the objects of the National Negro Business League is to emphasize among ourselves and before the world that which we possess in the way of actual ownership and id opportunity. "To him that hath shall be given." The world today seeks the Japanese, it seeks the Canadian, it seeks the white man in Oregon, in Alaska and in the Southern States to pour into their laps riches, more opportunities, because they possess something and because they emphasize their possesions. On the other hand, let any group of people, or race, make a business of advertising their want of opportunity and their poverty or possession and the world passes them by or flees from them. I do not overlook the wrongs and injustices inflicted upon the Negro, nor do I excuse them or lightly pass over them, but we as a race will find that we will get what we are entitled to as American citizens more by emphasizing and seizing our opportunities than by advertising our difficulties and troubles overmuch, for from him that hath shall be taken away even that which he accums to have Practically all the fundamental conditions for industrial and business success are before the Nrogro in America, and here I speak of prevailing conditions, not of the exceptions. There is the right of domicile. The Nrogro under law and under custom can reside in any part of the United States that he chooses. What a change in fifty years? The Nrogro can own property in any part of the United States, another tremendous change in our condition within a half century. The Nrogro has a greater opportunity to get owner ship in the soil in this country, especially in the Southern States, than any ten millions of people in the world who are in the same relative stage of civilisation. No one can travel through this country as I am constantly doing, without being proud of the fact that the Nrogro is using this chance to get hold of the soil. Another fundamental condition for business and commercial success on the part of my race is the opportunity for the masses of the race to find work. Speaking now of the ten millions of colored people and speaking of the Southern States where the great bulk of the race lives, I would remind you that we have the advantage of having plenty of labor for the masses. For the most part, labor the man instead of the man having to seek labor. As compared with any ten millions of people in the old world, the price received for our labor is three and four times higher than that received in many of the old countries. Let us never forget that the success of the man in business is dependent upon the success, the happiness and prosperity of the laboring classes. Let us advertise, then, the fact that the Nogro is in demand as a laborer rather than place too much stress upon the exceptional cases where the Nogro cannot get work, for here again my text applies "For to him that hath shall be given," for no one wants to employ the man in the course of the man in the course of the lazy man. No one cares to employ the lawyer who has no clients or the physician who has no patients. Again, to the Negro in business, especially in the Southland, in the matter of freedom of trade there is a golden opportunity While in other directions there are restrictions. In the business world there is a freedom and an opportunity that have rarely come to any race so recently out of slavery The Negro retail merchant can buy his goods from the wholesale dealer on as favorable terms as the white retail merchant can The Negro business man can borrow money at the local bank just as readily as the white business man can The best white people in the South are just as ready to purchase from the Negro merchant as from the white business man. With all that I have mentioned in this country the Negro enjoys freedom of opportunity to get education freedom of religious worship, to a degree not afforded any similar group of our people in the world. With all of these fundamental elements favorable toward our industrial and business success, as a race in the United States let us not I repeat, make the mistake of dwelling over much upon the things that we have not but rather glory in the opportunities that we possess for the making of the most of these opportunities will bring us more openings and more opportunities. The more we advertise to the world that discriminations are made against us, the more will discriminations multiply. Let us as in some degree representing the present prosperity and the future hope of our race, go out from this meeting at extremes that each of us will missionary this community—a missionary in teaching the masses to get property, to be more thrifty more economical and resolved to establish an industrial or business enterprise whenever possibility presents itself. To him that hath shall be given To him that hath influence will be given more influence To him that hath power will be given more power or To him that hath credit in the financial world will be given more credit. To him that hath money will be given more money To him that hath land will be given more land To him that hath houses will be given more houses To him that hath stores and banks will be given more stores and banks. To the race that hath many business enterprises will be given more enterprises Let us go out then to start everywhere the direction of getting not with the idea of selfishly keeping, with the idea that in proportion as we secure the substantials of life we shall be in position to add much to the larger life of our race. I have referred to the importance of keeping the bright side of our race before the public. In what I now say I may be guilty of seeming contradiction, nevertheless the matter is so important and so fundamental to industrial and business success that I cannot fail to call attention of the public to it. I have referred frankly and plainly to the duty of the ten millions of colored people in fitting themselves for industrial and commercial usefulness I want to be equally plain and frank in referring to the responsibility resting upon those whose duty it is to enforce the law- to protect life and property, for there can be little progress in securing property or in business unless life and property are safe in every part of the Nation. I call attention to the murdering of colored people at this time because the habit has so grown upon the nation that a murder or lynching of this kind attracts little attention. Be it remembered, too, in connection with these recent murders, that not one in ten has any connection with alleged assaults upon woman I speak with sorrow and with a sense of shame and humiliation when I call attention to the fact that with in a period of thirty days during the present summer no less than twenty six colored men were wantonly murdered by mobs—shot down or hung as if they had been so many wild beasts In one case, that near Palestine, Texas, the sheriff of the county, a Southern white man, says "Men were going out killing Nokroes as fast as they could find them, and so far as I could learn without any just cause. Titos Negroes had done no wrong that I could discover." What a blot upon our Christian civilization does such lawlessness indicate. What a blush of shame does such barbarous acts bring to every American citizen Let this truth never be forgotten, that whatsoever a man or Nation sows, that it shall also reap. The white man who murders a Negro today and goes unpunished is likely to murder a white man tomorrow and go unpunished. There is but one remedy that will stand the test of the centuries, the enforcing of all laws in every section of the United States without regard to class, race or color. These outbreaks on the part of mobs and murderers not only result in the moral degradation or the whole people, but disturb and serve a backdrop to business in an growing degree among both races. I plead everywhere for equal and enactment of the laws, not only in the interest of the colored race, but in the interest of all races, for without law enforcement, our civilization will disappear, and 'we shall as a Nation, become an object of sideline at the hands of other nations. We are making progress. Perhaps never before have the Negroes added to their wealth so rapidly as they are at present. The Negroes of Georgia, during the present year, added 47,704 acres to their land holdings, and increased the value of their land holdings $63,532. During the past year the Negroes of Georgia bought over $60,000 worth of city and town property. They paid taxes last year on 1,536,766 acres of land. Through their real estate purchases and other means they added in twelve months $1,430,000 to their taxable property. Negro property in Georgia was as assessed in 1909 at $28,272,500 The Negroes of Virginia also during the year 1909 added 63,452 acres to their land holdings and increased their land values $175,740. They bought $360,000 worth of city and town property, and increased the total amount of their property holdings during the twelve months $971,994 The Negroes of Virginia are now paying taxes on 1,617,500 acres of land and last year paid taxes on $26,600,280 worth of property. From the recorded progress that is being made in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, where records are kept of Negro property) owning it is conservatively estimated that the Negroes of the United States are adding from twelve to fifteen millions of dollars to their wealth each year and that their total wealth is now not far from $600,000,000 Besides, using a very conservative figure, I think it is safe to say that the colored people in New York and Brooklyn own real estate valued at more than three million dollars and in addition to this have over two million dollars deposited in the banking institutions of Greater New York. As indicating a very small proportion of the business enterprises that have been started by our people with in a few months I mention the incorporation of the Lee Wholesale Chemical and Drug Co. of Albany and Atlanta Ga. In the same connection I mention Ashburn Brothers of Franklin Va. who have recently started a shirt manufacturing company with a capital of $20,000 and employing forty persons with a daily capacity of fifty dozen shirts. At but hum N. C a textile mill for the manufacture of hosiery has been started with a capital of $50,000 in November last the Rocky Mount Silt Manufacturing Company, at Rocky Mount N. C with a capital of $50,000 began the business venture of manufacturing silk. Ten years ago before the starting of the Business League there was not a single Negro bank in the State of Mississippi. At the present time Mississippi has eleven Negro banks. When this Business League was organized in Boston ten years ago there were only four Negro banks in the United States, at the present time there are fifty six Negro banks. But while we are making progress while we are organizing business enterprises of one kind and another there are not a few signs that indicate that the time has come when we must speak plainly regarding certain mutly practices which are too fast multiplying among our people in the organization of these business enterprises I refer to the dispositions on the part of certain individuals and certain organizations to try to get something without paying the price the price of hard, carnest, honest effort. The fundamental difficulty in many cases is that individuals are not satisfied to begin in a small, humble simple way and gradually develop their business into something that is larger, that is to grow naturally and logically. It is many times better to start in the humblest way, the simplest way and gradually gathen experience as one grows in business than it is to start with a big flourish of trumpets a complicated business enterprise that can only live a few days for want of capital or want of experience. There are too many organizations sprouting up here and there that have for their object the deception of the public the cheating of the public, and especially the common, ignorant masses, out of their hard earned money. This deception is usually practiced by individuals or by organizations parading themselves before the public as representatives of the enterprise to make poor people rich people within a day or year, that are in short going to make something out of nothing. It is a practice that is too fast growing, that of selling worthless shares of stock and other securities that have nothing back of them except promises and talk. It is a practice that should be condemned by all honest people. Every time one of these false and deceiving organizations gets a dollar from the masses which is either squandered, stolen or never returned to the investor, it is made harder for legitimate business enterprises to succeed. That practice of promising to pay large dividends on money invested in these fake enterprises should cease. If it does not our people will be retarded many years in their business and industrial progress. We must make it understood from this time forth that the members of the Business League will stand for nothing but that which has an honest and straightforward purpose back of it. At our session held last year in Louisville, Ky. an effort was started to bring about the celebration in 1913 of the 114th anniversary of the freedom of the race. The bill recommended by President Taft providing for a preliminary commission to investigate and report upon this subject failed of passage at the last session of Congress. Those in charge of the measure promise at the next session of Congress to get a bill through making a direct appropriation toward the expenses of a celebration of some character. Whether such a bill passes Congress or not, the agitation of the subject on the part of the Negro Business League and other organizations as well as by individuals has accomplished great good, and whether Congress assists or not, in some form, in some manner, we as a race should not fail to call attention in 1912 to the progress that our race in the United States has made during its fifty years of freedom. At our last annual gathering, recognition was made of the fact that the secretary of this organization. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, had been made a member of the American Commission to Liberia. It is now fitting that this League should rejoice with our race over where that as a result of the work and recommendations of the Commission to Liberia and as a result of the deep interest and practical help of President William H. Taft and Secretary Knox of the State Department, plans have been matured by which Liberia is to receive a loan of a millipop and a half dollars from this Department, which it will believe will result in putting firmly upon its feet financially, and we hope in other constructive directions. In the last analysis the fitness of a race for freedom, the ability of a race to make progress is tested by whether or not individual members of the race have the ability in their own communities, in their own surroundings, to sink personal, solitary ambitions in the interest of bringing about the general good and larger progress of the whole people. Too often progress is delayed and blundered by reason of the fact that the strong men and women in each community and it impossible to throw aside to put their feet upon their personal views and petty quarrels and enter into strong constructive, progressive work for the benefit of their whole community. Let us every where teach the world this lesson that the individual members of the Negro race may differ in personal matters in social matters in political matters in religious matters, but at the same time that we have the ability when the time comes to sink all of these and unite on any project that has for its purpose the best benefit of the whole community or the whole race. Army to Have 87,000 The consisted strength of the regiments of the army during the present fiscal year has been fixed approximately at 87,000 men under the arrangement of estimator by Major General Leonard Wood chief of staff and approved by President Taft. General Wood's plan is to use the army appropriation for soldiers and materials and make reductions in other directions. The new chief of staff wants an army of fighting men equipped for business and says he is willing to make sacrifices in other ways to obtain it. Refused Kiss, Shot Girl Twice. Ruth Richa ds aged eightteen years, daughter of a farmer at Warren Cornerors N Y. is lying dangerously wounded from bullets fired into her mouth and left lung by Frank Ranney, of Buffalo The girl and Ranney went riding to together. They quarreled Ranney said, and he accused the girl of attempting to break their engagement to marry because of her fondness for a rival. Ranney confessed that he then put his arm around the girl's neck and tried to kiss her and when she resented his action he shot her, first in the mouth and then through the lungs. After the shooting the girl, afraid to tell her family, crawled to her room, where she was found Ranney drove to Lockport and gave himself up to the police. Fatally Shot Chum Jesse Lewis sixteen years old, of Deansboro, N Y is a dying at the Utica hospital of a pistol shot wound accidentally inflicted by his chum, Lee Hamilin, eighteen years, while the two were debating the penetrating power of bullets fired from pistols and rifles Lewis had a rifle and Hamilin a revolver 'Both weapons, supposedly, were unloaded, but when Hamilin pointed his pistol at Lewis and pulled the trigger a bullet penetrated the latter's chest near the heart --- 96.071 People In Reading Reading Pa. has a population of 95 871 according to figures enumerated for the thirteenth census made public by Census Director Durand. This is an increase of 17 110 or 217 per cent over 1900, when the population was 78 961 The population of Allochtown Pa. is 51 913, as enumerated for the thirteenth census. This is an increase of 16,497 or 46.6 per cent over 1900, when the population was 35 416 Cut Child Bride's Threat. Ten days ago Marie Ursao, a thirteen-year-old girl, was taken to Chicago from Gary Ind, by her parents and was forced to marry Joachim Daviso. Wednesday she appealed to Mayor Knott's saying she was forced to marry and she did not wish to live with her husband. An hour afterward Daviso inet her on the street and cut her throat with a razor. She is dying at the Merry hospital and Daviso is in jail. Drops Dead Returning From Funeral. Dr. Abraham S. Radebushin aged sixty nine years a physician of Reading dropped dead of heart disease in the Philadelphia & Reading railway station at Pottstown Pa. He was returning from the funeral of his preceptor, Dr Henry Groff of Harleaville. He was waiting for a train and just before falling called to his wife. I feel that I am falling "Death was instantaneous Joe Gans. Dying. Rescues Home. Joe Gans, former champion lightweight pugilist returned to his home in Baltimore on Friday in the last stages of consumption from Prescott, Arkansas, where he went several months ago in the hope of regaining his health. Gans, realizing that he could not live much longer, started for his home in Baltimore to see his mother before he died. Hard Work Employer—What's the matter with you? Muddled (Clerk—Tired; tha's all. "Tired, eh?" "Yesh; I been workin' like a horse." "Ah, I see; Carrying a food, eh?"—Philadelphia Record. CHARGES HOLD-UP IN INDIAN DEAL Congressman Sald to Have Demanded Money as Loans. Choctaw Explains How $3,000,000 Land Lawyer Got Signatures—Tribe Angry Over Government's Delay. Jacob L. Hamon charged that Congressman Charles E. Creager Republican of Oklahoma, under the gudge of loans, had attempted to obtain large sums of money from J F McMurray after Creager had introduced a bill in congress providing for a sale of the Indian lands. Hamon brought his charges in demanding the recall of Creager to the witness stand before the congressional investigating committee at MacAlester Okla. for cross examination. I want to show said Hamon that Creager demanded large sums of money from McMurray after that bill was introduced by Creager." The bill Hannon referred to provided for the sale of surface lands to private individuals and for the sale of the mineral deposits to the government Under the arrangement McMurray with his contracts it was asserted would have obtained 10 per cent of the money paid by the government. How the contracts were procured by which according to Senator Thomas P Gore of Oklahoma $300,000 in "in attorneys fees was to be made out of the sale of lands given to the Indians by the government was related before the investigators. W T Hollman a Chotaw Indian testified he had been employed by J F M-Murray holder of the contracts, to go out among the Indians of Okla homa and induce them to sign the documents. At the same time Hollman related he was paid a dollar a head for obtaining contracts appointing McMurray to act in tax cases in this way McMurray procured 10,000 contracts to sell land The terms were 10 per cent 'atorney fees' or $3000 profit for McMurray and his associates. To promote this deal in congress Senator Gore contends he was offered a $25 000 or $30 000 bribe by Jacob L. Hamon Hollman testified; that he himself had signed the 10 per cent contract because he in common with her in Indiana had been discouraged over the government's promise to sell the land I would have given 2. per cent to McMurray and Holman if he could have got us the money quickly. He said he believed some of the Indiana would be willing to give McMurray 75 per cent McMurray Makes Reply. In a statement to the committee and without going on the stand, McMurray declared that the contracts came to him originally against his desire. He said the Indians at a war council had demonstrated their impatience at the government's alleged slowness in the selling of the land and had called upon him to take the job at 10 per cent which he did with reluctance. McMurray will go on the stand later. Questioned further Hollihan testified if was the belief of the Indians that their property was worth from $30,000 to $10,000 and the understanding that McMurray was to get 10 per cent of this. "It is actually the belief among Indians that they have to pay somebody else to get what the government and rightfully belongs to them." That has brought the belief that they have to give up a good portion of what they get in an uneasy fee. D C McCurtain a Chicopee Indian and attorney for his tribe went on the stand and reiterated his charges that McMurra in 1996 in the lobby of the Raleigh hotel at Washington offered him a $2500 bribe to withdraw trivial opposition to old contracts which were disapproved by President Roosevelt. Hamon's Testimony Attacked Jacob Homan again figured momentarily in the testimony. He had been charged by Senator Gore with having offered a $25,000 bribe in Mc Murray's behalf but in his own testimony said he went to Washington concerning Governor Haskell's indictment in the Muskogee town lot cases and had nothing to do with, Mc Murray. C B Stewart testified he was at torney for Governor Haskell and he had not heard of Hammons being so employed. As indicated by Green McCurtain chief of 18,000 Chuckaws and by Holl man the Indians have taken the position that they signed the contracts he cause they had become discouraged with what they call the tardiness of the government in disposing of the land and giving them the proceeds so that they might purchase farm implements and improve the allotments on which they live. The mineral wealth of the extra land was estimated by the United States geological survey at $160,000,000. One old Indian who favored the 10 per cent McMurray contracts said, "Are you going to let us since just because we have agreed to give a white man a piece of our pie? Gave Wife Too Much Medicine The Dewey Back at Work. The drydock Dewey was placed in commission at Manila. The collier Alexander was docked "So you are a professional burglar," said the policeman with the stubby mustache. "Well, I thought I was, replied the subject of the interview, but the way you fellers got me makes me believe I am only an amateur. Mr Jinka Preacher preached a sermon on political grafting today and the choir sang a selection that was very appropriate. Mrs Jinka What was it. Mfs Jhinks "What was it?" Mfs Jhinks "I have to steal a while away" Fair Chorline You can travel over a long road much faster in an auto Yale Record Violating Professional Courtesy First Tramp- What time is it? Second Tramp- Come off. I'm a thief myself - Fliegende Hairter The Hawki Hair Growers The Hawkins-Price Co. 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Foltered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter THE MAYOR AND THE LAW The situation at Newport News Va. where colored residents were or dared to move by unknown persons, who placarded the property of these colored people with crudities giving them so many hours in which to move back over the dead line established by these self-constituted authorities is interesting to say the least. It now seems that these colored people did not cross this dead line on their own motion, but were induced so to do by white property owners who had vacant houses on their hands. The report from Newport News says that Mr Moss Shepherd, white owner became so much aroused by the warnings given the colored tenants that he called at the office of Mayor Jones and asked him to protect these colored citizens. He replied that there was nothing that he could do and he advised him to consult a lawyer Mr Shepherd then called on City Attorney Mussie and he was told that the matter did not come within his jurisdiction as City Attorney and he would have to look elsewhere for aid. This is rather an embarrassing condition of affairs and it presents a question that demands an answer. In plain words, it means, to what extent is a Mayor of a city responsible for the safety of the lives and property of citizens of a community and how far can he go in preserving the order within the confines of the municipality over which he presides? It seems to us that under the laws of this state the City Attorney is the legal adviser of the Mayor as well as of the City Council and when the Mayor informed a taxpayer and a property owner that he should consult a lawyer as to his rights in the premises, that he took a "short cut" in telling him that he did not choose to interfere in the matter or aid him in his embarrassing predicament. In all of the cities of this Commonwealth, the Police Department is under the control of the Mayor and the Chief must obey his orders. Where lawlessness is rampant or mob law imminent the Mayor has the right and the authority to direct the Chief of Police to assign special officers for this special service and to prevent a threatened outbreak. We do not look to the Constitution of the United States any more for our rights. The Bill of Rights, of Virginia, and the Constitution of this state and expounded by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia are good enough for us. Article 1, Section 1 reads: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or direct their posterity, namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." It seems to us that this cover the Newport News case. As Mayor Jones is sworn to support this section of the Constitution of Virginia it was his duty to find a way to do it and not to send a gentleman of Mr. Shep bird's sand and cabbage to hunt some to tell him his rights. I the promises. But then Mayor Jones knows more law than the writer certat. He should know more and we are interested to know by what process to hopes to protect the lives of the colored citizens and the property of the white citizens in his community. Section of this same constitut total get it ready. That was the merits or ought to distribute for the common benefit the protection and security of the population or community of all variations modes and forms of gov- ernment that is lost which is ca- lled of producing the greatest de- tail of affairs, mass and safety and most officerally secured against the damage of insidiousiation and we also government shall be proposed a majority of the com- munity to indulge in amenable and defensible rights to reform all that so the Newport New cow. It is of the cotton re- views of the color is recognized to of primary importance. Let us know whose parties had practiced the dresses of the white women in the fashionable part of Newport News. Suppose that com- plaint had been made to the Mayor and the city attorney who be- loves that he would have told these counsors to act a lawyer or consult one. The first thing these white men would have done would be to employ a repeating rule and a repeating shot gun, and the next present found peering houses with threats of the destruction if the white citizens fell. I prove out would have got the contents of one or both of the two who can blame them. This is the way that white men and this is why the race today stands at the top of the ladder of keeping it people of the civilized world. Self-liability is a good asset. Those colored folks who decided to remain on the other side of the dead time in Newport News, especially when white people invited them to remain there and other white people invited them to get out will aid in solving a let it happen. We do not advise this whole sale moving into white lofts for the sake of causing trouble. There is no noise in doing this but where living conditions are such as to necessitate the broadening out of the residential lines in a community and white men encourage it let colored people and their ground and give and take the consequences. If the Mayor of the city cannot find a way to protect the black as well as the white residents of a community the law permits either class to protect themselves. Any lawyer removal as much as three degrees from a shuster knows this and it only requires a little nerve and practice to sleep as soundly in one of these houses on one side of the "dead line" as on the other. A Good Offer WANTED A Good Farmer A Good Middle-aged Farm hand can find good paying employment (even with his wife by applying to W.P. MARSHALL, Rio Vinta Va R F D No 2 The Richmond PLANET can be so cured from Mossa. Young and Olda agents 1519 South Street, Philadelphia pha Pa WANNEF A Registered Pharmacist in this state wish a position as clerk or manager of store. For particulars with N T PANNELLI, Staunton Va. Jack Johnson A handsome photo of Jack John son Heavyweight Champion will be sent to any address on receipt of price 25 cents W M JOHNSON, Box 151. Chambersburg, Pa. For Awhile. "He vows he is tired of living." "Well?" "I must restrain him from doing anything rash" "Why restrain him? Let him go to boarding if he wants to." The Final Prize Gunnner - I am where an English cigarette company is offering a tombstone for the return of 10,000 coupons. Gunnner - 'H-m!' I guess any smoker that got away with 10,00 packs would need a tombstone. DOCTOR ENDS LIFE AS WOMAN DIES Suicide Follows Fatal Result of Illegal Operation. Double Tragedy Startles New Germantown, Pa. When Bodies Were Discovered by Neighbor of Woman. The bodies of Dr Russell Campbell and Mrs Ira Morton were found at the home of the Morrisonis in New Germantown Perry county Pa. Monday morning. A neighbor discovered the body of the woman living across the front door step and further search revealed the body in his room. Husky examination showed that the woman had died from internal hemorrhages resulting from an operation. The theory is that Dr Campbell performed the operation some time during the night and on discovering the fatal result killed himself. His death was due to exsude of potassium. Dr. Campbell was twenty four years old and a graduate of the Medico Chiurgical college in Philadelphia. He was a son of Dr. Hans Campbell a well known physician of Path Valley Franklin county. A few months ago the young man went to New German town and set himself up in practice taking a room at the home of the Ira Morison a local dealer in cattle. Morison went to Dry Run fourteen miles two and a half hours on Saturday to attend a cattle and to cattle and remained a Sunday. He hastened home when notified of the tragedy. About the clock at night David Kramer a newbie thought he heard meaning in the Morrison house as he passed but as no light was visible he could hide he was mistaken. At 6 o'clock in the morning Luther Hog passed the Morrison home and saw two bare feet protruding from the hat of open from the Rent with the he was horrified to find the body of Mrs Morrison in her clothes and bathed in blood. She died of Hurry on to the house. Ray found the body of the young doctor in his room dead on the floor. Beside him was a partly empty vault of potassium. Dr Campbell hands were bloody and his shirt was spattered with blood. The instrument with which the operation had been performed on Mrs Morrison was found in such condition as to have no doubt of what had taken place. A comber's jury was hastily summoned and word was sent to District Attorney Rose who hastened to the court from New Bloomfield. The jury found a warrant to the effect that Mrs. Morrison had died from the 34 deaths of an operation and that Dr. Campbell had died from poison taken with suspicious intent as a result of the disastrous outcome of the operation. Mrs. Morrison was thirty-five years old. Dr. Campbell had been practicing at New Germantown only about six months. During all of that time he had boarded with the Morrison. Steel Cage for Millionaire Baby. Bar Harbor Mc Aug 16. A steel cage on wheels cannonly wrought by a skilled craftman and safeguarded by locks of the most complicated design, for the morning's role of Vinson McLean America at $100,000 baby is the latest and most startling novelty which the fond parents have taken to protect the little crossus against kidding. This steel crambulator has followed as a result of the recent attempt of burglaries to break into the mansion of the McLeans at Bar Harbor. The McLean baby is now as carefully guarded from all save his nurse and Detective Warders as if he were a little prison held as hostage. 125 000 000 Gold 128,000,000 Gallons of Whiskey Used The following figures announced by the internal revenue service show that in the fiscal year ended July 31 the citizens of the United States drank 128,000,000 gallons of whiskey and 39,000,000 barrels of beer and ale. They smoked 8,000,000 cigars and 7,000,000 cigarettes. Uncle Sam profited by these facts to the extent of $289,728,011 the total collected as internal revenue. Playing cards contributed $567,524 in revenue and gleamargerine produced more than a million dollars. A New Trotting Record Driven by Charles Tanner of Cleveland C K G Billings black gold ing Ubian established a new world's record by traiting a mule at the North Randall track near Cleveland O. without a wind shield in 158¾. bearing Lou Dillon's record in 2¼ seconds and coming within one quarter of a second of equalling the record made by her with a wind shield Oct. 24, 1905 when she trotted a mule at Memphis in 158¾. Salesman Weds Rich Wbman. Mrs Mary B Train who gave her age as seventy, years, her home as San Diego Cal and estimated her wealth in the millions was married in Chicago to James Dilus, of New York a Byrian Linen salesman, aged twenty three years. Mrs Train said that her income from rents alone was $2600 a month. R. R. Officials Charged With Fraud. Bensational disclosures involving former high officials of the Illinois Central railroad in a conspiracy by which the Memphis Car company defrauded the railroad of hundreds of thousands of dollars, were made in Memphis, Tenn. The disclosures came when a decree was issued in the chancery court. H McCourt, general superintendent of the Southern lines of the Illinois Central and W. B. King, general superintendent of the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad, it is stated, have made voluntary restitutions of $13,000 in cash. Mentioned in the decree as stockholders, also were the names of Frank B. Hardiman, general manager of the Illinois Central, William Renshaw, until May 1, 1908 superintendent of machinery; Joseph E Huker, assistant superintendent of machinery, and John M. Taylor, general superintendent of the Burnside shops Chicago. That a settlement had been made between the Illinois Central Railroad company and the Memphis Car company was evidenced by the entering also of the record of a deed in the register's office by which the car company transfers to the railroad all its property in this city. This transfer it is understood is about $200,000. The railroad guel for $300,000, alleging large fraud in the charges made against it for the repair of care and alleging that men in the road's employ had been in collusion with the Memphis Ca company. It is understood that criminal prosecutions will follow Risked Life to Avert Accident Walter A Brookins the youngful pup of the Wrights who on July 6 climbed to the record height of 6276 feet at Atlantic City and then coasted safely to carin with his power shut off, crashed to earth from a height of about fifty feet during the first hour of the opening of the tunday aviation meet at Ashbury Park N J This is the first time since aviation began to draw big crowds of outlovers that an airplane has tumbled down on the spit tauts. Seven persons touched Brookins were injured one of them a fourteen-year old boy name I George Burnett of Spring Lake was crushed beneath the framework of the lower part of the main planes of the machine and had his skull tracutured and his hip broken. He was removed to the Long Branch hospital in an amd mobile. The boy will probably die. King Allisona Visits His Aunt King Alfonso who has been witness ing the yacht racing at Cowes Isle of Wight, paid an unexpected visit to Ostend upon the Spanish royal yacht Gralda. He came to call upon his past archduke hess Isabella wife of Archduke Frederick of Austria and sister of the queen mother of Spain. Receives Nine Knife Wounds A Big Land Dcei One of the largest land deals in the history of the state was closed at Delhart, Tex., in which the famous J. Ranch of 212,000 acres was sold by E. B. Nelyt to Pratt Brothers of Kansas City Mo for $120,000 cash it will be divided into farms and colonized. Express Train Kills Three Boys Three boys were killed and one in injured near East Greenwich R. I by an express train bound from Boston for New York on the New York New Haven & Hartford railroad Parts of the bodies were strewn along the tracks for 200 yards. Killed by Fist Blow Angered because of an alleged infusion to his sister Zed Hudson aged eighteen years of Washington Ind., struck James Buckley aged fifty with his flat, fracturing the man's skull Buckley died without regaining consciousness Clergyman Discovers Comet. The discovery of a comet by Rev Joel H Metcalf of Taunton Mass was announced at the Harvard observatory Cholera Scourging Russia From July 21 to Aug 6 20,668 cases of cholera have been reported through out Russia. There have been 8679 deaths GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR arm, winter clear, $4@ 42.5, mills mille fauc, $68.57 FLOUR RYE FLOUR steady at $4@ 410 per barrel OAT8 quiet, No 2 white 42$\textcircled{2}$43c, lower grades, 41c FOULTRY Live firm beng, 16® FOULTRY choice fowls 15c, Dressed steady, choice fowls 15c, old roost UFERUF steady extra creamy 31c per lb EGGS firm, selected 28/30 nc nbar by 24c, western 34c POTATOES quiet at 59c @$1.65 per barrel as to quality Live Stock Markets - BUFFALO (Union Stock Yards) - CATTY choice 375 7 80 prime 7 10 7 85 SHEEP firm, prime wothers, $4.20 @4.50, culls and common, $2.30, lambs, $4.50?7, vocal calves, $9.25 HOGH firm, prime heavies, $6.00 8.65, musclemen, $20?9.35, heavy Yorkers, $4.00?9.45, tight Yorkers, $9.25?9.60, plga, $9.65?9.70 roughs, $7.75.80. Man. Dief While He Is Joking. While walting for a train John Davis, aged fifty years dead in the Pennsylvania railroad station at Newark, Del. He was a car builder and was employed in Wilmington making the trip to and from that city every day. He was joking with some friends, when he suddenly throw up his hands and fell to the ground. - Dreams of Snake. Paralyzed Going to bed after a hard day's work. George Georgopopulus, a candy merchant of Slatington, Pa., dreamed that he had a fight with a big black snake. He dreamed that it had encircled his leg and arm and was about to bury its fangs in his body. He awoke with a start to find that his left side was totally paralyzed. $5.50 RESCUE CURSES WEAR MEN—FREE Send Name and Address Today You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worm and nervous mon right in their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his manly power and virility quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study or men and I am convinced it is the surest acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOTOI CHING remedy ever devised and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this Dr A E Robinson, 3895 Luck Building, Detroit, Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $300 to $500 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. PRESIDENT MONTT. Chilean Executive Died Suddenly In Bremen. PRESIDENT MONTT DEAD Chile's Chief Executive Succumba Suddenly in Bremen President Pedro Mont t of Chile who was a passenger on the stormer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse from New York Aug 6 died in Bremen from a recurrence of heart failure due to a recent attack of angina pectoris President Mont left New York last Wednesday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse on which Mayor Gaynor was shot by a would be assassin Senor Mont was sixty four years old a son of Manuel Mont who was president of Chile from 1851 to 1861. For thirty five years he had been a prominent political figure in his country GIRLS CHASED UP A TREE BY BULL With a party of prominent Trenton people it wasn't Has Any body Here Seen Kelly? but rather it was "We've All Seen Kelly's Bull" for Kelly a bull chased the entire crowd across a field a couple of fences and made it essential for a pair of pretty girls to demonstrate that climbing trees under compulsion isn't so very hard. In the party were Miss Grace Bullock, Miss Helen Howard John R Howard Miss Emmy Robinson, Miss Rachel South Mra H Klagg, Miss Margaret Alpangh Mr and Mrs Henry Hulse and infant daughter Fred Bohlinger and Mrs John Bohlinger They all live in Trenton or upper Bucks county and the incident happened on the estate of Magistrate Robinson where they had been spending a day Going home the party cut across a meadow on the P. L. Kelly estate In this meadow was a bull whose love of the aesthetic didn't include fame colored parasols. He lowered his head and went head down and tall up, right at the party. Men and women "heat it" over the field and a fence. Two of the girls grabbed the child of Mr. and Mrs. Hulse and made for a nearby tree. One girl swung herself up into the branches, reached down and took the baby. and the second girl followed. Later residents of that section arrived and several pistol shots fired at or near the bull quieted him. 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Men don't understand women because they can't; women don't understand men because they don't have to.—Exchange. Many Misfortunes Attached. The gods hard attached almost as many misfortunes to liberty as to sorvitude.—Montequieu. Regular Subscription Price $3,00 a Year 215 Bowery The Reason. COPYRIGHT: ILLUSTRATION BURD Florence Nightingale, the famous organizer of nursing in the Crimean war, died in London, Eng. She was ninety years old and has been continued to her home for years. Florence Nightingale was the first woman to follow a modern army into action as a nurse, and in the Crimean war gained the title of "Angel of the Crimea." She was born in 1820 and in 1840 entered the famous institution at Kaiserwort Germany, to fit herself for a hospital nurse. She had just returned to England when the Crimean war broke out. She at once organized a corps of volunteer nurses whom she led to the east. At Scutari she founded a hospital and until the end of the war she was constantly at work administering to the troops, either in the hospital or in the field. Three years ago King Edward be- stored upon her the Order of Merit, exclusive distinction in the British sovereign. The of the order is limited to and in it at that time men as Lord Kitchener ryce. John Morley. George dith. Admiral Fisher. Sir Alma Tadema and Sir William Huggins who died on Miss Nightingale's birth day. Woman Seriously Accused. Mrs. Helen Barnhart, of Shireman town near Carliell, Pa., was arrested, charged with sending poisoned candy through the mails. The arrest was made by Postal Inspector Lucas and Detective Ibach of Harrisburg. Candy poisoned with strychnine was mailed to Miss Beulah Mountz, of Harrisburg, last week. The girl ate some of the candy and was made very ill. Prompt treatment at a hospital saved her life. Brooke Barnhart husband of the woman, left his home some time ago and has been living with his sister Mrs Frank Mountz in Harrisburg where Miss Boulah Mountz also resides. The theory of the police is that Mrs Barnhart blamed her sister in law for separating her husband from her, and that the deadly candy was intended ready for Mrs Mountz. Virginia Wardlaw Died in Prison. Miss Virginia Wardlaw, a woman of middle age who, with her two sisters is under indictment for the murder of Mrs Geyr Wardlaw Martin Sneed—in the bath the mystery—died in the house of detention at Nowark. N. J. Her death, it is said, will materially affect the prosecution of her two sisters. General decline is given as the cause of death Miss Wardlaw at one time was a resident of Tennossee. Recently it was said that Miss Wardlaw law was suffering greatly from debility due to her age and to confinement in prison. On the strength of representations made to the New Jersey courts she was a few days ago transferred from jail to the house of detention, where she could have more attention and medical care. Numbers have been circulated that she deliberately starved herself, but they are authoritatively said to be entirely baseless. Girl. 13. Bralne Youth. Catherine Bottl, aged thirteen years, of Pittsburgh, Pa., seized an ax and, creeping unaware upon Pasquale Bolpe, aged eighteen years as he stood in his doorway, crushed the youth's skull killing him instantly. The girl hysterically cried to eyewitnesses that she had "avenged her wrong." Surrendering to the police, she was placed in the Wiltmording fall, charged with murder Child Swallows Pennies After swallowing eight pennies little Dora Storic, of Minerraville, Pa. lay at death's door until the dead weight of the coles in her stomach was relieved by an emetic. The pennies had been laid aside for church, and none of the family knew what became of them until the little girl was seen swallowing, the last one. [Name] REV. DANIEL WEBSTER HILL, B. A.; B. D. The President of the Clifton Forge Normal and Industrial Institute (Formerly People's High Industrial School) and Pastor Smith Chapol, Hot Springs, Va. The subject of this sketch the Rev Daniel Webster Hill, B A. B. D., a native of Virginia, graduated from the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institution, in the Spring of 1838, and was a diligent worker in the "College Y M C A" during his collegiate course situte, which is (short cut) with ten minutes walk of the station Applications for admission are requested to be sent in during the Summer months and not later than October 1, 1910, unless otherwise prevented. In the Summer of 1895 he founded, with the aid of Mr R N Smith, the church and the Excelsior Literary Society of Hot Springs. Va his student-missionary work resulted in the erection of a new edifice for the Lord called Smith Chapel. This church house being free of debt was by Mr Hill dedicated to the Lord August 1899. He took his first year in theology at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., in Fall of 1898 and graduated from the Newton Theological Institute Newton Center Mass, June, 1901. He was ordained during session of the New England Baptist Missionary Compensation, held at Bridgeport, Conn June 15, 1901. Rev Wm T Dixon, D W then president Mr Hill and Rev W A Howard were ordained jointly being the only two candidates upon record ordained by that body at and in the place of its full setting Mr Hill desired a more graduate course at the Union Theological Institute, New York City, which he completed May 1902. At the completion of his post graduate course he was engaged by the New York Baptist Church Mission Society, (Rev R G Boville, B D, then Secretary) to do mission work among baptist churches and to organize and teach a vacation bible school, having the Abyssinian Baptist Church (Rev C S Morris, pastor) as head quarters. Out of ten bishops the Abyssinian was the only one represented, and the first in which, during the history of colored baptists in the State of New York, such an organization was ever instituted. Mr. Hill was the only colored mull out of thirteen student workers representing 45,000 Negroes of Manhattan. He was appointed (January 1903) Missionary and Field Secretary of the Colored Baptist State Convention of New York State (Rev C. T. Walker, D. D. L. L. D then president and Rev L. L. Joseph Brown, D. D then Corresponding Secretary) His duty was to visit and strengthen free churches, Institute Sunday-schools where needed, and. In congested districts, organize churches where the work would warrant success. July 1903 Mr Hill resigned the above mentioned missionary work to accept the position as Financial Agent of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum (Rev J. H. Gordon, Supt.) There he made, as Financial Agent, the record of restoring to the confidence of the public that once defunct institution. Rev Hill indeed during his period of service booked more engagements with churches of all denominations, white and colored, of Greater New York and vicinity and various parts of New Jersey, than during any other period of the Asylum The Asylum, under the superintendency of Rev Gordon, then restored to a firm working basis Mr Hill resigned to enter more fully into the ministry. He was called December, 1904, to the pastorate of the Shiloh Baptist Church, Jamaica, N.Y. Notwithstanding the field was hard to develop, spiritually and numerically. Dr. Edwin Richmond, pastor of the First Baptist Church, (white, of Jamaica said "The field was a hard one, yet Mr Hill did a good work during his time of service." Mr Hill resigned the church at Jamaica and instituted a church September, 1906, in East Brooklyn, which he organized November, 1906, and was named The Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church. In this field Mr. Hill's love for God and humanity was well tested, for he labored in the above mentioned church four years when the Lord saw fit to change his field or labor, then he received a call to the First Baptist Church, Milford, Conn. to another and the church at springings and the presidency of the Clifton Forgue Normal and Industrial Institute, Clifton Forge, Va. The latter church and school he accepted and entered upon his work June 10, 1910. Mr. Hill is now, therefore, busily engaged with the board of directors of the above named institution in planning the opening of the same October 1, 1910. The location is well up in the bosom of the mountains overlooking the city of Clifton Forge, undoubtedly one of the healthiest locations for a seat of learning anywhere in the State of Virginia, if not in the South. The Advantage of Clifton Forge as an Educational Center. 1. Its mountainous elevation, lying between two lofty ranges of the Alleghany, makes it healthful and less liable to germinal diseases. 2. Its one of if not the leading Railroad centers of North Western Virginia, with its frequency of trains going to and from the South, East and West; with an addition of three trains daily to and from the great Metropolis, including Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. 3. Students, upon arrival, have no additional expenses in reaching the In. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. situte, which is (short cut) within ten minutes walk of the station Applications for admission are requested to be sent in during the Summer months and not later than October 1. 1910, unless otherwise prevented For further information write the President P. O. Clifton Forge, Va TESTIMONIALS "The Rev D W Hill was — pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of this place. The field was a very dffhult one vet Mr Hill did a good work He helped the church financi ally and otherwise He is a man of culture and education and of most excellent character I gladly com mend him EDWIN RICHMOND Pastor First Baptist Church Jamaica N O October 13, 1905 I endorse the above recommendation C D CASE, Pastor Hanson Pace Baptist Church Brooklyn, N. Y. To Whom It May Concern "This is to certify that I know of and am interested in the work of Rev Daniel W Hill he has had ex- cellent training for the work of the Christian ministry and has already proved himself a good soldier in Christian service" Sincerely yours, R. B MacArthur'R Calvary Baptist Church, New York City October 14, 1905 "The board regrets very much his intention of resigning as Financial Agent (For fourteen months ending October 1, 1904) of the Brooklyn Howard Colored Orphan Asylum and returning to active pastorate. For it was by his personal efforts and force of character that the defunct institution was restored to the public confidence." "L. JOSEPH BROWN. 1) D Pastor Berean Baptist Church Brooklyn. N Y — September 30, 1904" "Rev Hill is a honest, educated, Christian gentleman and I commend him to the good will and confidence of the Christian people." HENRY ARTHUR BOOKER. Corresponding Field Secretary Col- ored Baptist State Convention of New York - October 17 '95 MAINE DEER TAKES A BUGGY RIDE Horse Objects and the Vehicle is Wrecked. Francis F Mitchell a New York man vacationing in Maine had the surprise of his life while driving along a road a few miles from Bangor. He was sitting back in the seat enjoying the beautiful scenery when he was startled to see a frightened deer spring from the forest at the road side and leap into the carriage falling between the dashboard and the horse. The litter kicked until the vehicle was demolished. After both the horse and deer hade kicked about for three minutes the child of the forest man aged to extricate itself and ran back into its retreat apparently gone the worse for its experience BIRD-MAN BEATS BIRDS Aviator Wins Race Against Pigeons in France. The first aerial race between the birds of nature and of man a production took place in the course of the great aerial cross-country competition at Zimlens. France and was easily won by man Forty-seven carrier pigeons were released at Doulat at the same time that Le Blanc in his Furman biplane started from the mark on his fifty mile flight to Amiens. Rushing without a tremor through the calm air, the biplane soon out-distanced the birds, and when Le Blanc reached Amiens the birds were not yet in sight the first pigeon arriving six minutes and twenty seconds after Le Blanc before the last of the flock had come in Legagneux, who had started at the same time as Le Blanc, but consumed nine minutes more on the trip, arrived boating the last pigeon by twelve minutes. False Tetah Choke Her to Death. While she was sweeping. Miss Lillie Kunts, of Loufville Ky., accidentally dislodged her false teeth. They became lodged in her windpipe and she was strangled to death. affair and that is that 'the Negro in whatever field or accession he may find himself should strive to reach the top-most round or the ladder. It is in this sense that I see some good results in 'the Jeffries Johnson fight and' it has been along these lines that I have endeavored to in spire the rising generation of the Negro race. It is not to be prize fighters but to excel in their respective fields of legitimate endeavor. I must admit though that in reading the reports of the skill, ingenuity, power, consummate ability and square-dealing as shown by Jack Johnson in his great fight with James J. Jeffries, one cannot fall to have much admiration for this full development of the Negro race along mythistic lines IT THRILLS THE SOUL It thrills just as the bravery shown upon the field of battle stirs the blood. It may be brutalizing to the rising generation, but then it is not as much so as the horrible lings accounts of which mar the columns of our daily papers from time to time Still for the sake of the future and with the belief that you, distinguished sir, may be able to see even beyond my horizon. I am willing to follow you along this line. If you have observed the columns or The Planet closely, you have no doubt noticed that my editorial columns contained but slight references to the event and what I did say was along the most conservative lines THAT HAIR STRAIGHTENING PROPOSITION. Your attack upon the disposition of the Negro to straighten out the kinks in his or her hair is not new. Many estimable colored people object to these same advertisements. But no one has as yet produced any argument to show that the use of the hair straightening preparations is wrong or immoral. I have never used any of these preparations upon my own hair and although the texture of it, when it grows to any length, makes it very embarrassing to me to use the comb of ordinary fineness. I have preferred the hair that nature gave me without any cultivating irons or preparations. But then a white man cannot understand the average Negro's embarrassment under ordinary circumstances. SAD MEMORIES OF THE PAST I remember now the days of my childhood, almost with tears in my eyes when my mother used to use the proverbial fine comb bringing out much surplus hair at every pull she made through the stubborn growth. I am frankly confess that could I have reached out and purchased some of these straighteners that would have given me a white man's comfort when he sits down in a bar's chair or a white child's happiness when her hair is dressed by its mother I would have spent the last dollar for the privilege. THOSE WHITE NEGROES But then my distinguished friend has never had any Negro's hair upon his head and he therefore knows absolutely nothing about the torture endured in combing it. This is the reason that there are thousands of happy headed boys and girls through out the Southland identified with the colored race, not including those of course who were fortunate enough to have mothers who won the amities of the white men of the Southland and as is usual in such cases the poillarities of the fathers were transmitted to the children, even to the third and fourth generation I then lay down the basic principle of journalism from a financial standpoint and that is to supply such unobjective matter as the readers desire and in such quantity as their appetites seem to demand. You argue that this appetite should certainly be satisfied, after the consumption of the "hogheadhead" of information upon the Jeffries Johnson fight that we have supplied through these columns. We agree with you. You state that we need New York Journal do business as we have seen fit to permit to be represented in our columns. We argue that the principle is the same, that to admit one is no worse than to admit many and vice versa. However, I thank you for your friendly criticism and shall strive to profit hereby, at the same time reaffirming you that I am directly responsible for the tone and moral standard of the matter appearing in the editorial department of The Planet and that the news matter and advertisement departments. We do not affect the policy of the party or indicate the purposes of the publication. If fraudulent advertisements appear or falses are given recognition, then the moral tone of the journal is correspondingly injured. With best wishes, I am. Vory truly yours. JOHN MITCHELL, JR Attendant—It's no use, your high- ness, can't get it hot enough for that fellow. Satan—flow's that? Attendant—He was in the Turkish bath business before he came down. SHOOTS WIFE, THEN KILLS SELF Accused of Robbery, and Fearing Arrest, Young Foreigner Committed Double Crime Two children aged four and six years saw Bartko Bednarsky fire two shots into his wife Manie and then kill himself in the third story back room of the house at 827 North Franklin street Philadelphia. The six year-old boy picked up the ugly blued steel weapon fully twelve inches long and of 44 calibre with which the shooting was done and was holding it in his hands when rPoliceanna Regan of the Teenth and Buttonwood streets station burst into the room. Iyling across the floor c. the little room where Mrs Bednarsky died was her body blood pouring from a two-inch hole at the back of her head and from the wound in her breast made by the heavy stings. In a room to the rear of this was the murderer and suicide fighter upon a bed which was deed red. He had blown half of his head and all of his face off shooting himself in the throat directly under the chin the bullet smashing through his head to the ceiling above where it looked. Three weeks ago Mrs. Bednarsky went to the Franklin street place which is run as an apartment house by Max Shadowsky. She had known Mrs. Shadowsky who has the first floor in Galicia before she came to this country in months ago. Mrs. Bednarsky took the third story back rooms to tell her friends that her husband had become a criminal and was wanted for his role robberies in Buffalo. She had hit that city because she could no longer and his was of obtaining a living. But she wrote from Franklin street to him telling him that if he would be honest and get work he could come to this city and start again. He answered her招呼 to her proposal and said he would come to this city as soon as he could go to work and earn the necessary money. At this time he was living in Buffalo with a man named Carrol Fabian with whom he was very fondly. On Saturday afternoon he rang the bell at the Franklin street house and was admitted by Mrs Wittewiskey Husband and wife met joyfully but when he left after a two hours stay Mrs Bednarsky told her friend that she was not happy as she did not know where he had obtained the fate to this city Bednarsky came again on Sunday afternoon and again Monday afternoon Carrol Fabian came from Buffalo to her and said that Bednarsky had stolen $133 from him which he had stolen in a car in the back yard. He asked her to get the money back. Bodnarski came to see his wife who he had been pleading with her to go to housekeeping with him saying that he would work and support her. She told Mrs Witzelski that he was a bad man in Galicia and had been in trouble there. She knew he was armed and would not hesitate to shoot. At least she told her friend that she was afraid he would some day kill her. Therefore when he went to the third floor Mrs Witzelski was also upstairs. Her three children Stanley, aged six Stephana aged ten and Lilly four years old were playing in the Bodnarski rooms. Stephana left when Mrs Bodnarski told her husband of the visit of Fabian. "I will not live with you unless you return the money you stole, she said clearly. I can't do it he answered according to Mrs Witzelski. "I have only $29 left. I paid $14 for a reolver in Buffalo." Then followed hot angry words. She told him her opinion that he was not fit to live with a decent wom an and that she preferred to go to work to support herself rather than be bound to a criminal BULL FIGHT FOR CHICAGO Country Club Announces One in Face of Suburban Mayor's Protests. A genuine bull fight, announced by the Ridge Country Club Chicago as the leading feature of its annual fair which will be held on Friday and Saturday has attracted the attention of the authorities in the village of Morgan Park near which the proposed bull fight is advertised to be held. The promoters of the affair in the Ridge Country Club insist that they will be able to hold the bull fight on schedule time in spite of the authorities. The posters which Mayor Ney refuses to allow displayed in Morgan Park have a brilliantly colored picture of a mounted knight. The reading matter is as follows "No need to go to Spain to see a bull fight. The Ridge Country Club, regardless of expense will have the real thing. An imported, rampaging, ferocious Andalusian bull. You will hear him roaring on the grounds. No police interference. --- Found a Petrified Tortoise. Found a Petrified Tortoise. A petrified tortoise which may have been crawling about the vales of Virginia during the day of Noah, has been discovered at Orkney Springs, Va. by two Wanington men. The petrified animal, which weighs about four hundred pounds, will be presented to the Smithsonian institution. LINCOLN HAIR POMADE MAKES KINKY HAIR SOFT REMOVES DIRRISH KEENS HAIR FROM OVERCROWDS OFF LINCOLN HAIR POMADE KEEPS SCALP FRESH CLEAN AND WHILE SOME MAKES HAIR GROW LONG AND LUSTER WHICH HAIR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE YOUR HAIR—SOFT AND LONG, SO FAST YOU CAN PUT IT UP IN THE LATEST STYLE ON SHORT AND KINNY There is no other preparation on earth to equal Lincoln Hair Pomade in producing soft, beautiful hair. Lincoln Hair Pomade is a natural hair cleanser—a natural promoter of growth and naturally reduces the hair to a straight and combable condition; but also supplies the hair with a silky sheen and gloss. No matter how rough or heavy your hair is now, no matter how hard or curly it may be, the use of Lincoln Hair Pomade will give you hair that can well be the envy of others. Lincoln Hair Pomade is the only highly recommended preparation for this purpose on the market. It is Lincoln Hair Pomade you want, so refuse weak and inferior substitutes. Do not take anything that is claimed to be just as good, but insist on getting the genuine. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Write for particulars. If your dealer does not keep it, send 20 cents in stamps or silver to THE LINCOLN POMADE CO., Department B, Norfolk, Va., and we will send you a bottle by return mail. Young Man, Golden Opportunity Knocks at Your Door to-day. If You Would Enjoy Some of the Eldh Blessings Opportunity Is Offering You, Write at Once to the A. & M. COLLEGE for Catalog and Learn How You Can Become Independent as a Scientific Farmer, a Skillful Mechanic or an Experienced Teacher. Board, Lodging and Tuition $7.00 Per Month. For Free Tu- Wife of William E. Corey Financier, May Appear as Katherine in "Taming of the Shrew." Again the glaze of the footlights is said to have attracted Mahlele Gilman the wife of W E Corey the millionaire president of the United States Steel corporation. According to advice received in New York by friends from London Mrs Corey who was a stage favorite under the name of Mahlele Gilman before her marriage contemplated a return to the stage. Her intended return it is understood is to be for a short time and to satisfy her desire to one more appear on the stage. If satisfactory arrangements can be made she will appear next May in The Taming of the Shrew. She is said to be anxious to play the part of Katherine and to have Mr Lewis Walter portray Petunia. According to reports Mr. Walter has been approached about the possi- bility of the presentation of the production and it is said he regards it as a good idea. Mrs. Cory wishes the place to stage next May Mr. Walter it is said to make a report to her on the matter this week. If Mrs. Cory appears in The Taming of the Straw it will be a new century for her because she has shown been associated with musical comedy. Those friends of her in New York declared that they are not supplied over the report that she wishes to venture on more serious lines. They said that she always had an ambition to become an emotional ac- tress and felt convinced that she had the necessary power to make a suc- cess in that role. No matter what success Mrs. Coryy may attain if she returns she will not make a tour of the United States. In fact it is said she is determined not to leave London. Girl Throws League Baseball 187 Feet Adam Paintin age fifteen throw a league by hand by feet at a baseball game at Lowry In. She was trying to break the record of 187 feet at legged to be a world mark set by Myrch McMullan of Owl Park III in July Civil War Veteran Dead John Newland a notorious farmer died at Sahagun in Pottstown Pa aged 12 years. While appear entirely good health he told his wife he would join the and a few hours later he taken ill. He had a splendid Civil War record Mme. L. C. Parrish Hair Culturing, Manicuring, and Scalp Treatment THE MUSEUM OF ART AND COLLECTIONS The largest manufacturer of Hair preparations in hosting Dealer in Purple Human Hair for growing hair on hair heads and hair tuples use Parrish's Never Fat Hair Food Per jar 50c. For growing hair not beautifying the skin use Parrish's Tough. Flower Skin Food Per jar 25c. For growing hair from the skin use Parrish's Lustful Powder 50c. For growing hair from the hair use Parrish's Wax Hair Tumor Per jar 50c. For growing hair from the hair use Parrish's Lustful Powder 25c. 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The Colonial Bank of New York SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 19 JESUS NEARING JERUSALEM Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 21, 1910 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TENT Matthew 20:14 Memory Lesson GOLDEN DINI The Seal of Man can hold the power to prevent but to minimize all negative effects of a random for many Matt Jans TIME Mar. 4 & 5 In the last month of Jesus' ministry, the raising of Lazarus is the LAKE Suggestion and Practical Thought An Example. The Splendid Heroism of christ V. 1. 70 The company of disciples led by the Master were now drawing gourd to Jerusalem Jesus with a chariot of all that was before him was going steadily on with majesty and to rejoice to the terrible accurses of the key rejection and crucifixion with which were close at hand The heroism of christ was the greater because He was perfectly at the same the pain and death to which he was going Thinkest thus he said to Peter that I cannot now pray to my father and he shall presently give me more than twelve leg of angel's March 26. 53 They gave him rest from falling but they didn't get it Therefore do his father love me because I am) down in my life that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I am it down of me. self I have power to take it down and I have power to take it again John 19 17 18 He gave himself for the greatest and most worth) a cause in all history A Warning Two Ambitions Young Men Va 2023 Who wish to be heroes but set out in the wrong way However at length they became great er men and greater heroes in Christ's way than their highest dreams at this time 20. The mother of Zehudaeus children Not little children but sons From comparing Matt 2' 15 58, with Mark 15 40 16. it appears that her name was Salame. The sons were James and John Mark 10 35. According to Mark the sons came making the request for themselves. This agrees with Matthews for also came with her sons. The Request and Its Motive What wilt thou? It was best for them to spread out in the clear light their secret thoughts and hopes. Such a statement is often more than half a cure. Grant that these my two sons may sit the one on the right hand and the other on the left in the kingdom. That is in the two chief places of honor. The first place of honor was the right hand of the sovereign, the second the left hand. Ye know not what ye ask. They knew not the greatness of the favor they asked how blessed beyond their highest dreams it was to sit on the right hand of the Son of God how radiant the glories of that kingdom were to be 'Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of' Have you counted the cost? Can you pay the price? "They say unto him We are able" The language of assurance somewhat overweening for it was the assurance not wholly of faith but partly of ignorance of themselves and of the future They fed with the other disciples, in the night of the arrest. Jesus showed them the only true way and turned them from the path they thought led to the desired good, but which led them away from the goal. They drank the Lord's cup. Judas alone took the wrong way, and utterly failed of his hopes. True Greatness How to Make the Most of Life - Va 24 28 "And when the ten heard it they were moved with indignation" This shows that they had the same feelings as the two brothers. It is our own faults that we most condemn when we see them mirrored in others The selfish think others are selfish, the feeble think others are in bad temper They were all in one boat They all alike needed the instruction which Jesus proceeds to give "But Jesus called them unto him" Their controversies in the last verse had been carried on askle and apart from Jesus. Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles I.e. this is the plan in the worldly kingdoms in distinction from his spiritual kingdom "Exercise dominion over them. Lord it over them, exercise tyrannical and arbitrary power. Not for the good of the governed, but for the advantage of the rulers themselves as the French king said, voicing the old idea of kingship "I am the state" The Need of Opened Eyes - Va 29 34 There is not room to enter upon this section of the lesson in detail, and to do so, even if we could, would detract from the great lesson we have been studying Jesus and his disciples have crossed the Jordan and reached Jericho on the way to Jerusalem. The True Greatness 26 "that it shall not be so among you." The whole principle of Christ's kingdom is the exact opposite of the usual worldly plan. Nearly all the etils that have come to the church have come through a disregard of this command—a desire to be honored and to rule, rather than to serve and help. "Huii whosoever will be great among you" Jesus does not forbid the desire to be great; but only the desire for selfish greatness. The wish to be greater than others is a wrong ambition. The wish to be as great, as good as possible is right, but has its dang is A GIRL'S WARDROBE ALWAYS NEEDS SOME ADDITIONS IN MIDSUMMER Dame Fashion Decrees That the Children Shall Not Be Too Elaborately Dressed in Hot Weather or White Frocks A growing girl's wardrobe always needs some additions in midsummer time, for the hot weather. If nothing else demands a change of style and material. The mammas have to look up reasonable effects for those supplementary dresses which fast- 25 growing up in fall on vacation or for golf games at the beginning of summer or the mail box, we will do well to consider the last trend of fashion. This is the classic boots, yellow shoes and with the distinct of wash materials or even more sticks of a child for school. That shalt not be too fine. Is Darry Fashion a first command in the weather to the child's lower waist placed White frocks in the darkest flavor or also she proclaims a course of a flower dellacy and a cinnamon trimmings and would be cut in on a smaller scale, for dolls. The boots are purple doll and hats are now distinguish all the heat garments in every department worn by well dressed little girls In both wash materials and summer silks there are now fabulous bargains to be found in the shops, some of these in the very newest textures, whether shown in remnants or in the piece. French perleis in a soft, fine weave have dropped to the low price of 15 cents a vard silk warp dotted chiffons likewise a cotton material are going at 25 cents swiss pen ginette which is an English fabric much used for the little imported frocks also sells for 25 cents. This is 45 inches wide so a very small quantity would be needed for the simple little frock Polka dot handkerchief muslin sometimes with delicate flower sprays over the dotting which is a delight fully cool fabric in 18 cents a yard, and there are silk and cotton crapes of French manufacture which may be made most attractive with ribbon trimmings, priced 28 cents the yard. These are in every color of the rainbow, and they may be trimmed with white lace or have the ribbon garniture match. Indeed there is no excuse for miasy not having a fine little hot weather frock if her mother can see for all the models are simple to an anatom fishing degree, and with a little taste a very small expenditure will turn out the right thing The dress shown in the illustration which has a Gibson bodice with Dutch neck and a skirt in box plaits is here made of a blue and white percale with a little white linen treated to simple hand embroidery on the bodice. Allover Hamburg embroidery how ever could very well be used here, or the waist trimming could be made in a plain color. For a girl of ten 6½ yards 22 inches wide would be required and since very fine little percale may be had for 12½ cents, and really beautiful in section for 15, it can be seen how cheap the dress would be. A heavy linen or a silk with some body would likewise respond to this treatment lace or a contrasting silk trimming the latter texture and Hamburg embroidery the former. Mary Dean Panama Hata Panama hats have charms that insure their long continuance in the land so long as the climate remains as it is, for they seem to exhale the spirit of relaxation and peace that makes summer enjoyable. This year for their adorning, there are new hand painted India scarfs that are beautifully delicate in tone, besides an endless variety of lovely printed fabrics. NEW IDEAS IN TABLE DECORATION AND PLACE CARDS. How the Hostess May Easily Evolve Something Attractive for Lunch-cons, Teas and Dinners Connected With Marriage Every hostess takes pride in investing novel and pretty decorations for her luncheons teas and dinners, and she takes special pride when the guest of honor is a young bride or bride-to-be. It is never a difficult matter to evolve something attractive for a festivity connected with marriage, for there are so many charming designs that can be used emplids, hearts wedding bells, wedding rings and the like At a recent hambone given for an engaged girl the color scheme was pink and white pink being the favorite color of the bride-elect. The hostess was the latter a closest friend and all the guests were intimates of the two which made the hambone a very jolly affair. The hambeller above the table was fainted with pink and white tulle, and suspended from it was a large golden hoop simulating a wedding ring. From the hoop streamers of pink and white ribbon stretched to each cover held in place there by tiny cuffs each cuff bearing a card with the name of the guest to whom the place had been assigned. Bride roses filled a cat glass bowl in the center of the table were clustered in vase and bowls on sideboard and mantel and nodded in banks from the low window seats. Yellow lunch boxes are very appropriate when the gift of honor is a bride's yellow lunch box sunshine. At each luncheon in early summer last year a wedding ball covered with folded daisies with yellow hearts and black eyes S balls with yellow petals long above the table. A big flat dish of old brass dish with yellow lady's slippers good in the center of the table and a wreath of daisies and sunflowers at the center of the table just inside the party lady's festoon stretched from the center to the four corners of the table and daisies and black eyes S balls and tall feathery grasses were tucked on the man's elbow and tucked in earthworm pots of quaint and unusual shapes. The place cards at this luncheon were they yellow sash slippers filled with ripe the little card with the name on it half hidden in the rhyme. Other pretty place cards for an agreement or bearded ladies are hand painted dresses showing a girl's head turned to the right with a girl's peeping through a design or twin hands. They are arrows. A woman with a skirt in watercolour and a coat in a miniature invention can be painted the center for a lunch conversation and knot the tie and fanes of her dress. A little person along the table will sit on the lunch conversation. RAFFIA TRIMMING THE VOGUE Gives Extremely Effective Touch to Many of the Season's Styles in Mulinary Many of the new hats in the looser weavers of straw are being trimmed very effectively in colored raffia and white flowers; the raffia being covered with part of the same shade and arranged like a coat. Raffia comes in nearly 2 shapes and where an unusual color may be matched, the white or natural color can often be dressed to the exact one girl tried for days to attain exactly a rather bright blue raffia and after falling with all sorts of colors and dyes cared by diving the natural colored grass in order to wash blue With the help of oil and norvery modish hats, tildes can be trimmed entirely at home for even the velvet flowers can be made with practise by the amateur (offen the raffa and net will match the straw of the hat, with the flowers in another shade or in black or white. The variations are endless, and all are pretty) DAINTY TULLE WAIST This daffy waist is of white tulle with embroidered dots. It made with tucks and trimmed with bands of souffle embroidery. The yoke and coffin are of plains tulle made with fine tucks For Elderly Women Elderly women's costumes in dark or black suitman or bengaline are among the latest to be shown with severe tailor finish. They are exceedingly rich when made up with narrow flat band trimming of satin, and finished with inch buttons of crocheted silk. Harper a Lazar Dangerous Enthusiasm Sometimes enthusiasm borders on hysteria, and then it is dangerous instead of useful. Lettuce an Ancient Food Plant. Lettuce as a food plant has a record of being eaten by Persian kings more than two thousand years ago. SMARTNESS OF SIMPLICITY Secret of the Woman, Whose House, Appearance and Conversation Create Best Impression. Think of the woman whose house, whose appearance, whose conversation creates the best impression and you will realize that absolute simplicity is the secret. Remember this in select- ing your summer clothes, or furnish- ing your summer home also when you meet strangers on your summer vaca- tion. Unfortunately, simplicity is not cheap. You will pay more for the bat of simple lines, the stock that is of exquisitely dainty embroidery and sheerness of material, than you will for something more ornate and dashing. If you wish to pass a woman who knows, you will no more overload your back than you will your digestion. Better a few things of irreproachable cut and quality than an elaborate wardrobe of faunting finery. It will doubtless mean having your clothes made to order or weary rounds of the shops in search of the simple, but it pays. It is not always possible to have the house simple. If you rent your landlord's taste is sure to be fancy and the fixtures and decorations will wring your heart. The furniture is up to you. There are nowadays so many good copies of artistic old pieces that there is no excuse for the hideous display of houses furnished in the middle of the last century and later. Adopt a simple scheme of decoration for your entire house and make everything bought conform to it. This does not need the training of a professional decorator any woman who makes a study of simplicity and keeps her eyes open for bargains in that line can achieve it. These three rules go far in the right direction. Stick to good lines of the period chosen do not over-read and buy only the best though it must be a piece at a time with long wait be tween. Simplifyity of manner is the crown- ing touch—the real you. The rest is but the outer shell a matter of train- ing or perhaps of a skilled decorator or clever modiste. Do not post, do not be affected, above all do not boast You may not realize it, but in meeting strangers the simple easy, sincere manner makes a much better impress- on with the right people than alas much manner or great assumption of place and power FROCK FOR YOUNG GIRL 1 This dainty frock for a young girl of about sixteen years is of white muslin in princess style elaborately made with fine tucks, English embroidery and valenciennes lace. It is finished with a deep flounce of the English embroidery. The attractive hat is also of muslin, the soft crown entirely fashioned of the embroidery with draperies of soft pink satin ribbon. Utilizing the Dutch Collar A pretty way of using the deep, round lace or embroidery Dutch collars is to renovate shirt waist with them. Blouses always wear out around the neck first and are often discarded solely on this account. When this is so, put on the waist aft or cutting away the band collar only and then lay on the deep collar Have some person pln all around the lower edge of it to the walat. Then baste and carefully sow. Afterward cut away the material undermouth the collar and sow hooks and eyes to the edges in the back. A stock collar may be added if preferred Fashions for Boys. An occasional suit in heavy ponyes is seen, even for the boy of ten, and this, too, is self-trimmed and finished with the strictest tallow effects, as a first-class outing shirt for a man would be. The waist which older boys are best pleased with has a center box plait, and one or more pockets. A heavy leather belt, with large buckle and a soft tie, often a Windsor, are the usual accompaniments to such suits. Low, rolling collars are provided for the boy of 5 of 7, but a high turn-over form is preferred for the older boy—Harpor's Bazar. Noose Bleed. Nose bleeding is a symptom and while not in itself alarming should be watched if frequently recurrent. Bevere cases often amount to hemorrhage and a doctor should be seen. Plugging the nostrils is often necessary and a recumbent position. For ordinary nose, blood try a rapid chewing motion of the faws, also soaking hands and feet in very hot water. knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Graud Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty males are required to organize a new lodge. The benefits paid constitute one of its strongest features, but the principles are greater than anything else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charity and established on Benevolence, the respectable, upright people of the state will find it an order worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of of $200.00 for all ages. 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ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS SATURDAY.....AUGUST 20, '10. JOE GANS Is No More. PLIGHT AGAINST DEATH TOO HARD FOR GANS Picturesquan Negro Prite Nigher Succumbs to Tuberculosis—Career of Great Boxer and Ring General— Model of Consideration and Po- liteness. RING RECORD OF JOE GANS. 1900, February 9—Spike Sullivan, Won, 14 rounds. 1900, March 23—Frank Erne, Lost, 12 rounds. 1900, May 26—Dal Hawkins, Knocked out, 2 rounds. 1900, August 31—Dal Hawkins, Knocked out 8 rounds. 1900, October 2—George McFadden, Decision 10 rounds. 1900, October 49—Spider Kelly, Won 8 rounds. 1900, December 13—Terry McGov- rn, Knocked out 2 rounds. 1901, April 1—Martin Flagerty, Won 4 rounds. 1901, May 1—Bobby Dobbs, Knocked out 7 rounds. 1901, September 30—Joo Handler, Knocked out 1 round 1902, May 12—Frank Erne, Knocked out 1 round 1902, June 27—George McFadden, Won 3 rounds 1902, July 24—Rufo Turnor, Knocked out 15 rounds 1902, October 13—Kid McPartland, Knocked out 5 rounds 1903, May 13—Tommy Tracey, Won 9 rounds. 1903, May 29—Willie Fitzgerald, Knocked out 10 rounds 1903, December 8—Sam Langford, Lost 15 rounds 1904, January 12—Willie Fitzgerald, Won 10 rounds. 1904. February 2—Mike Ward, Won 10 rounds. 1904, March 25—Jack Blackburn, Won 15 rounds. 1904, June 14—Sammy Smith. Won 14 rounds. 1904, September 30—Joe Walcott, Decision 20 rounds. 1904, October 31—Jimmy Britt, Won on foul 5 rounds. 1905, September 16—Miko "Twin" Sullivan. Decision 15 rounds. 1906, January 19—Miko Sullivan, Knocked out 15 rounds. 1906, March 17—Miko Sullivan, Won 10 rounds. 1906, July 3—Dave Holly—Won 20 rounds. 1906, September 3—Battling Nelson, Won on foul 42 rounds. 1907, January 2—Kid Horman, Knocked out 8 rounds 1907, September 9—Jimmy Britt, Decision 5 rounds. 1907, September 27—George Momslo, Decision 20 rounds. 1008, May 14—Battling Nelson, Lost 21 rounds. 1909, March 13—Jabes White, Knocked out 10 rounds. Baltimore, Md., August 10—Joseph Gant, better known as Joe Gans, the colored fighter, who was once champion Lightweight pugilist of the world, died at 8:08 o'clock this morning or tuberculosis, at the home of his foster parents, 1026 Argyle Avenue. The old master, after battling three months against death, wont gamely to his fate. Gans was conscious until a half-hour before he died. The ex-champion spoke his last word to Kid North, the California fighter, who helped condition him for most of his championship battles. At 7:30 this morning Joe called the "Kid" to his bedside, and grabbing his hand said: "Kid, be good; Martha will teach you to-morrow what to do." With this Gans closed his eyes and began gasping for breath. North, seeing that the end was near, immediately sent for Dr. Jay, the attending physician. The ex-champion passed away before medical aid reached his bedside. PICTURESQUE FIGHTER In all the annals of pugilism there is no record of a more remarkable or picturesque fighter than that of Joo Gans. For nearly twenty years he was almost constantly in the prized ring, and up until his final defeat by Battling Nelson in 1805, was justly Hooded one of the most scientific, aggressive and game fighters that ever donned the gloves. Gans often declared he did not know his exact age. He rocked that 1874 was about the year of his birth. He began fighting in an amateurish way about 1880. For the following ten years he engaged in over 125 battles, easily defeating men of minor reputation. Had he been directed night at the time he would have easily forged to the front and became champion years before he finally achieved that coveted distinction. The trouble, was, glans, became mlr, ed up with his mansager, in a series of 'laydown', or fake, light, in which the might, routely, live; gnasal the victory, but in which—as he a wary said, of his mansager, to tollle tion—the deliberately permitted himself to be beaten. In consequence for a period the fighting public would have none of him. Try as hard as his might, to sign up a fight, there was always a anger and a suspicion that he would throw it. About five years before his death however, he did such excellent and palpably, "square" work that the animals against him had in a great part vanished, and his great victories were received with the entire approbation of the ring fans. MEETS BATTLING NELSON. At the age of thirty-four—at least eight years past the time when most prize-fighters have received their quits—Gans fought within the one year the two most bloody battles of his career—his two fights with Battling Nelson. For gameness and skill, these fights stand without a parallel. Gans, after having been knocked out by Terry McGovern eight years previously, surprised the entire fighting world by a "come back" that has often been declared impossible. After that defeat, during the years 1901 and 1908, he mowed everything down that stood before him in the pugilistic field. Frequently he weighed down to 133 pounds, although it was a turrice strain, but was always willing to try to make the weight in order to not miss the fight. At one time he was both lightweight and welterweight champion. He was considered by the greatest analyzers of prize fighting to be the best combination of hitter, boxer and ring general that over essayed the game. Although a negro of humble origin, he was a model of consideration and politeness. He never sought the limelight, kept among his own race and was the personalization of cheerfulness. He began his bread-winning career in a Baltimore fish market. He saved a good part of his ring earnings and invested profitably in a Baltimore hotel, which he said frequently paid him all he needed. After his last battle with Battling Nelson Gans wont West, and reports came East almost immediately that the beating he had received and the strain to train down had undermined his constitution Gans denied the reports, but sporting men who met him declared him to be but a shadow or his former self. Promoter Declines and Bout Arranged With Kaufman Is Called Off. Philadelphia, Pa., August 11.—The six-round contest between Sam Langford and Al Kaufman, scheduled for tonight on the grounds of the Philadelphia National Loosau Baseball Club, was today called off, because of a disagreement over the division of the receipts. Langford, who refused to fight, forfeits $250 which will be divided between Kaufman and Harry E. Edwards, of this city, the promoter or the bout. After the bout was postponed last evening, Joo Woodman, Langford's manager, notified Edwards that Langford would not fight Kaufman tonight, but was willing to sign again for a bout next Wednesday night. The reason given was that Langford would not be in the best condition after a lay-off of twenty four hours, and that his reputation was too valuable to risk that way. A hasty conference was held, and when Billy Delaney, Kaufman's trainer, ridiculed the excuse given, Woodman stated that the negro would agree to go on tonight if guaranteed $7,650. The men had agreed to fight for a percentage. Edwards asked time to consider the matter, and today announced that he would not agree to the proposition, and called the bout off. An effort was made to have another heavyweight meet Kaufman, but Edwards would not listen to it. Edwards was incensed at the turn in affairs, and declared that Langford deliberately crawled out of the match. HAS LANGFORD GOT ONE CHANCET Johnson Has Weight and Everything Else Against Him. What chance has Sam Laugford, a diminutive light heavyweight, with Jack Johnson, a full-sized champion, weighing 210 pounds at his best? That's the next question right now raised because of the persistence with which the dummy Boston black is chasing Johnson for a battle. When all things are considered, H does not look as if any small man—small in a comparative sense—is ever going to win over Johnson. And Langford is too small in all ways to be regarded as rest contours or dreadful skill. All it brings is a strength skill, taking power and all the rest—it will take a man as big as Johnson and a rough worker to even begin to beat the man from Galveston. Johnson met Langford once. The match was rought off in Chelsea, just outside of Boston, on April 20, 1906, and went the full limit of fifteen rounds. At the finish Johnson was given the decision because he had earned it by something like a city block. Langford was but a child in the big black's hand at that time, two years ago. Sam could not do a thing to him because of the size of his opponent and the length of the defense that stuck out in front of Sam's face when he attempted anything. What gives Joe Woodman, Langford's manager, the impression that Langford will 'do any better now than he did two years ago? JOHNSON MUCH IMPROVED. Langford has improved, he may tell us. Yet so as Johnson, and, better than all the improvement in the world, Jack has all the confidence in the world at the present time, and that with him means everything. It means the championship for a long time to come. Sam can hit a hard blow on a small weight. These same blows would not be so forceful and The Goose Girl By Harold MacGrath Better than "Graustark" or "Truxton King" HRENSTEIN is a mythical land but Harold MacGrath has breathed life into this story of love, adventure and romance. The Goose Girl, from tending her flock, is plunged into a whirlwind of plots against monarchs and monarchies. Carmichael, the dashing young American Consul, falls in love, and many are the complications that result. You will fall in love with The Goose Girl yourself. The Best Romance We Have Ever Given You To Commence in the Issue of the 27th, Page 2. a heavyweight, with the latter's great resisting powers. Jack can sting like an adder, sting big follows into quick and decisive defoat. These blows would be even harder landed on Langford, because of Sam being so much lighter and with decreased powers of resistance in consequence. The Johnson punches, which didn't look so much, cut and tore Jeffries until one eye was completely closed. Such blows landed on Langford would be fatal in a hurry. It might take Johnson longer to land on Langford because of his extremo shittyness, but he would get him sooner or later and get him hard. JACK HAS GREAT DEFENSE. The Johnson defense is perhaps the greatest thing ever witnessed in the prince ring. Most of the prominent negro fighters of the day have this system of boxing down to some perfection, but none has it or can use it like Johnson does. It seems to be purely mechanical with him, so precise and machine-like is the working of those huge clibs and fists and shoulders. Johnson "picks' em off" almost before they are started from an opponent. Liku Joe Gana at his best, he has developed that system of constantly keeping an opponent off balance by reaching in and merely tapping him on the arms. There seems to be no such thing as an opponent setting for Johnson. Jack will not stand for it. He blocks with the open glove in marvelous fashion and is either inside or outside of the range all the time. Langford is a great little man, although he looks to weigh at least 175 pounds, and it is quite possible that he can beat any other man in the world—anybody but Johnson. Honors and Roles. Honora come by diligence; riches spring from economy.—John Francis Davis. Common Difficulty. The common difficulty of all such as work for their fellow-men is the temptation to discouragement. Many Cancer Experiments. Home 50,000 cancer experiments are made every year in England. Eagle Eats Monkeys. The harpy-eagle of Brazil feeds exclusively on monkeys. Norwegian Fruit Imports. Norway imports over $1,000,000 worth of fruit annually. Johnson and Jeffries It is indeed a great thing to perform an act by which thousands of persons are benefited, and all manner of literature tell us, "the world at large has been unquestionably benefited by the deeds of great men." Some of them have left an everlasting impression upon their nation's history. Yet it does not seem to matter how wonderful a man's achievement, how widespread the flattery showered upon him following his success, or how satisfactory the applause of an enthusiastic world, the glamor wears off after a while, the reality seems to lose some of its attractiveness, and the triumph some of its brilliance. So it has been with the champions of the past, and must some day be the same with the champions of the present and the future. Why then, should there be so much malicious criticism, such bering condemnation of the present champion, the much talked and read of Jack Johnson? Officers and citizens of numerous cities have vied with each other in their efforts to prevent the presentation of the moving pictures, for fear of arousing racial bitterness; but who has taken up the fight against the innumerable pictures, being shown continually, porfraying every conceivable manner of plot and plan of the most heinous crimes? Who fears the result when all sizes and ages of youth are taught to steal and pick-pockets, while burglar, arson and murder share conspicuous places in the question? Write through daily paper, declared "the Fourth of July, the day of the birth of American Independence had been deacreated." Is the Fourth of July more sacred than the Sabbath? He deplores the fact that a prize-fight occurred on that day, yet, judging from his writing, that same individual would carry a malicious heart to church on the Sabbath, and refuse the Holy Communion if administered to him, by, or with his black brother. Another writer said "Johnson proved his superiority only in endurance and brute force. How absurd Johnson proved his superiority through points. It would have been well for Jeffries to have remembered in the beginning, specially the difference in their ages. No white man should become alarmed at the elevation or evolution of the black man, since no honest person of sound judgment, can justly doubt his ability to rise, and eminence is not governed by complexion. The Negro cannot rise, because he is black, neither can the white man stay on top because he is white, but by intelligence, industry, integrity and moral worth must every man rise. Let the white man rise as high as he can provided it is not done by wrong doing, others, and the world will numro him. Let the Negro rise as high as he can without injustice to another, and nations will recognize him. Johnson won the championship because of his practical judgment, his undeniable energy, his cool headed conviction which he had the courage to follow. His achievement brought joy to thousands of anxious adherents, who were deeply intertwined in his undertaking, and hopeful of his success. Among them his own dear mother. Deeds, not words, must prove the verdict of the Negro's capability and Johnson was aware of the fact. Heredity. The Doctor (after examination)—You have an exocodingly bad case of tobacco heart The Patient—But I never use tobacco The Doctor—But your father did—I knew him well Home Grown. "BILL, let's go into this slideshow. There's a man in here with a beard five feet long" "FIVE feet long! O. rats!" "No, it ain't. Bill; it a all his own beard." 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He challenges the World to compete with him in causing a smelly marriage with the one you CAPTURED AFTER HOT CHASE Fight in the Stable of Luck & Smith May Result in Fatality --- Joseph Allen and Ryland Hicks, both colored ex-convicts, were arrested Sunday morning shortly after 4 o'clock by officer B. F. Puryear and W J. James for fighting in the shod of the Luck & Smith livery stable, Scott's addition, West Broad Street, where they were employed. Hicks's skull was fractured in the fray and on account of his nervous condition, it is not yet known when the trial will be held. "Squire J. T. Puryear was called from his downy couch about 4 o'clock Sunday morning by a telephone message from W. J. James, who lives near the livery stable in Bristol, telling him that there was trouble, and plenty of it, going on at the stables and an officer was very much in demand. "Squire Puryear called his brother, B F Puryear, who is an officer of the law, and together they went to the scene of action On arriving at the stable, they found Mr. James holding the two grooves at bay with a shotgun. As soon as the officer appeared Allen made a dash for the back window of the shed in which the fight occurred, jumped out, leaped two fences and took to the tall timbers. Several shots were fired at Allen by the officers and after a chase of three hundred yards or more they captured him. He was then sent to Hertford county jail, and Dr. Marvin Nuckols was called to examine Hicks. Dr. Nuckols found that Hick's skull had been fractured by a large rock with which Allen and struck him. The wound is a rather serious and aggravating one, but Dr. Nuckols says he does not think it will provoke fatal Hicks will not be in condition for trial for some time, how ever, and in the meantime awaits in Hertford jail with Allen. 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He always succeeds when others fail. This is the chance of a life time. Don't let it pass you. Office hours: $ A. M. to 8:30 P. M. Sunday: 8:20 to 7:10 P. M. N. B.—Our consultation Fee is 60 cents. Sittings. $1.00. All letters containing $1.00 will be answered in full. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 8th Street. Philadelphia, Pa. PLANET "LET THERE BE LIGHT." (A Hymn) O. Lord, let there be light To guide my erring feet! Yeah, but a star, to-night. Will be a blessing sweet The sunlight of Thy smile Is ever abroad, I know But off false lures beguile And blind the way I go Faith view my eyes to brook All intervening cloud. That I may sense Thy Book Through every nameless shroud O. Lord let there be light, And heal my eyes to see Thy beacon Lamp so bright That leads the way to Thee LUCIAN B WATKINS ST FAUL LAY Sermon. By Evangeline. Saul of Tarsus was born in Tarsus a city of Cilicia. It lay on both sides of the river Cydus, whose cool and swift waters were the pride of the city and bore traffic to and from the port of Rhema. Cilicia was an ancient division of Asia Minor now included in the Turkish province of Adana. It was made a Roman province by Pompey in 67 B. C. Saul's parents were of the tribe of Benjamin, and he inherited from his father the privileges of a Roman citizen. His native city Tarsus, was highly distinguished for learning and culture and it is therefore reasonable to suppose from his after career that he had been well instructed in his home city before his parents at a suitable age, sent him to Jerusalem to enter the school of the renowned Gamaliel where his education was completed Gamaliel was one of the most distinguished Rabbis of his age Saul profited by the instruction of Gamaliel and became learned in the law He elected to be guided by the principles of the stristest sort of the Pharisees and became a force defender of Judaism. So much for his early history. When apparently about thirty years of age we find him at Jerusalem, seemingly enjoying the full confidence of the leading men of the nation. The first glimpse we get in the Bible of this man Saul of Tarsus or St. Paul as he is best known to the Christian world is in the 25th verse of 7th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. This 7th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles describes the stoning to death by the Jews of St. Stephen and the circumstances leading up to that most notate tragedy. Here we see Saul apparently directing the assault upon St. Stephen and standing guard over the superfluous clothing of his assassins. Next we see this young man Saul in his zeal for Judaism or the Jewish church as it was before the coming of Christ, entering the quiet homes of the followers of Jesus and halting men and women, enclosing them into prison. Acts 3 $ Finally he goes to the high priest and requests of him Jetters to the synagogues of the city of Damascus giving him authority, if he found any who believed in Jesus Christ, to bind them and bring them to Jerusalem to be prosecuted according to the Jewish law. But, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform". On his way to Damascus with a company of horsemen to enforce his authority and execute his mission Saul was met in the way by that great and mysterious power which he sought to overthrow. It overthrew him and all his designs and compelled the wrath of man to urge him. How the Lord Jesus met Saul on his way to Damascus is fully and graphically described in the 9th chapter of the Acts or the Apostles See also the 22d chapter of the Acts for St Paul's personal description of his own most miraculous conversion See the 25th chapter of Acts and read St. Paul's defense before King Agrippa, which is one of the finest specimens of oratory recorded in the Bible. This is a mere synoptical sketch of the life of this truly great man who, after his conversion to Christ Lianity became as zealous for its promotion as he had formerly been for its overthrow. He was honest in his support of Judaism because he believed it was right But when he became convinced to the contrary he was just as honest in his belief in and support of Christianity It would require many volumes to be adequately set forth in detail the mighty works of St Paul, his missionary travels, his preaching, his miracles, performed in the name of Jesus Christ, his epistles, his almost superhuman reasoning—proving beyond the peradventure of a doubt that Jesus of Nazareth is very Christ, the Son of God and that salvation is obtainable only through faith in Him and repentance toward God OUR CALENDARS FOR 1911. We have a complete line of Calenda dare for 1911 from the J. W. Butter Paper Company of Chicago, Ill. They are the latest designs and will meet with favor from every one who will take the time to examine them. Call at our office and see them. —We carry a fine line of visiting cards. Send your order to us. Mr. Johnson Wants Fair-play—Both Political Parties Against Us—Independent Action Demanded. New Orleans, Q.A., Aug. 14, 1910 Editor Richmond PLANET After reading your special correspondence on "Breaking from both political parties." I cannot but congratulate you and your paper on such headlines, that sooner or later will cause us to stop and think in those United States about our present and future conditions. Why in the southern states ex-humans who have driven Republic cans from their homes, some killed and murdered, some whipped to death, some sent to parts unknown by the cause of men who have the death of a Republican party in the South in their hands more especially in the State of Louisiana OFFICES GIVEN THEM Our post offices are all filled by Democrats. Has the Republican party gotten down to where it must stop to Southern Democracy after seven years of Rooseveltism? With a Republican Senate and House of Congress with enough majorities to inquire into the condition of affairs. Why have they placed us in a more precarious position than we ever were before. NORTHERN HELP WANTED I call upon the States of New York, Illinois Ohio Indiana, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to resent the insult that has been offered and produced to us under the Roosevelt and Taft dominations in these United States I earnestly hope and desire that at the next National Convention that we will have enough colored votes to demand the seeing of the platform and to demand a hearing on the conditions of affairs Political educational or property qualifications are no good in the South, not in Louisiana any way Where are the Lincoln Grant Logan Blaine, Douglass, Garland and Hanna Republiana? PLAIN QUESTION Is the National Republican Party ready to turn over its destiny to the Southern Democracy exclusively as it has done in Louisiana? We have white Republicans in this state. If they want to build up a white Republican Party give them the spoils. But when we see them given to Democrats we know then the party is routed to the cure. I call upon the colored voters in the states named above to resent the insult offered us by our own party as our party has shut their eyes against what is being done to the Negro wing of it in the South REPUBLICANS RESPONSIBLE A Republican president house and Senate for nearly nine years have shut their eyes against what is being done in the southern states as against the disfranchisement of the Negroes in the Southern states. Our race holds the balance of power in the states of Illinois Indiana Ohio, New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Why not use it to some benefit rather than for a few political jobs that are not worth having. Let us make them come clean this Fall and also in 1912. Let us in this age lay a future foundation for our children. We are not treated as good as cattle by either political party. Let us make them both Root Hog or Die" Send all Independents to Congress this Fall. Encourage an Independent party for it is needed for the Republican party has grown to be a more bitter enemy to the Negro than the Democrat. Let us call for a hearing. Justice demands it Innocent spilled blood in the Southland is crying for Justice. Let our leaders in the North and West get active in building up a more prominent state of affairs. Our position is critical and in the language of Patrick Henry "Give us liberty or give us Death." Yours, H. H. JOHNSON 2214 Fourth Street New Orleans, La ```markdown ``` SOUTH RICHMOND STIRRED BY CRIME Fuller in Critical State From Wounds Inflicted by Coles. Practically everybody in South Richmond turned out yesterday afternoon following the capture of Waverly Coles, colored, who was caught by Captain Wright and Policeman Waymack fifteen minutes after he had perhaps fatally wounded Edward Fuller, also colored. The shot was fired from the rear, the ball passing through the lower part of the rear jacket, and the bullet was taken to the City Home Hospital, where he was operated on by Dr. C. R Robins, after receiving ambulance treatment by Dr. Harshburger. The wound is not necessarily fatal, but is very dangerous. Late last night the negro was roeding easily Captain Wright and Policeman Waymack happened to be near the tanyard at the further end of Twenty-second Street, when they heard the reports, and they immediately started an investigation. They found Fuller lying not far in the place where he had been shot, and there was just enough life left in him to point in the direction in which his assailant was endeavoring to make good his escape. He mumbled the name of his assailant, who is well known to the officers in South Richmond, and in a remarkably short time the fugitive was located under a house about half a mile from the scene of the shooting. Coles claims that Fuller owed him money, and that when he asked him for it he made a motion to his hip pocket. Coles insists that his pica will be self-defense. The pistol with which the shooting was done was found near the scene. Nelson's Hair Dressing can be secured from the agent, Mr. Joseph Evans. 2802 Webster Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bulletin, No. 4. A fourth reason why you should buy your Furniture from SYNOR & HUNDLEY is that you get it in perfect condition. We buy in car load lots and receive all goods as fresh as the minute they pass through the factory door. The small dealer, though the best of fellows, must of necessity buy in small lots and have his Furniture arrive in broken shipments and often scarred. Think it over and then write for blue prints (photographs) and prices. Sydnor & Hundley, Incorporated, Richmond, Va. FURNITURE FOR THE HOME BEAUTIFUL. Phone, Monroe-2686. Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. SURGEON DENTIST Office: Mechanics' Savings Bank Building, Rooms 201-5, 2nd Floor. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. VIRGINIA--IN VACATION In the clerk's office of the Law and Equity Court, City of Richmond, this 17th day of August, 1910. Eliza Johnson. Plaintiff vs. In Chancery. Anderson Johnson. Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an amlahavit having been made and filed that the defendant. Anderson Johnson is a non-resident of the State of Virginia it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy - Teste P P WINSTON. Clerk. Anderson Johnson. You'll take notice I shall on the 20th day of October, 1810, at the office of Phil H Sheil, Room Number 6. Chamber of Commerce Building situated Southwest corner of Ninth and Main Streets in the City of Richmond Va. between the hours of 9 o'clock A M and 6 o'clock P M of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond Va. wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day or if commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded J Henry Crutchfield, p q. Office 1215 East Brond St. Richmond, Va VIRGINIA. IN VACATION In the clerk's office of the Law and Equity Court, City of Richmond, this IH Day of August, 1810. Maria Garrett, . . . In Jeff Liffert . . . In Chapage. vs In Chancory John Garrott. Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a vinculo matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an amdavit having been made and filed that John Garrett is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever is necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy—Teste. P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. John Garrett You'll take notice that I shall on the 20th day of October, 1910, at the office of Phil B. Shold, Room Numbered 60, Chamber of Commerce Building, situated Southwest corner Ninth and Main Streets, in the City of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M. of that day proceed to take the deposition of witnesses to be read as evidence in my bohalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Va.; wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, for any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if, commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day, or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been completed. J. Henry Crutchfield, p. q. Office: 1215 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va. CK JOHNSON, Champion of the World. HIS STATUE. 18 Inches High Finished in Bronze. The Mechanics' Savings Bank. NORTH-WEST COR. 3rd and CLAY STS.. RICHMOND, VA. Money Loaned on Real Estate or on Satisfactory Negotiable Notes. The Mechanics' Savings Bank Is Now Open to the Public Under the Enjoy Yourself There Under the Moor Just as You Prefer. 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It is fairly convenient to the at it may be expected in the now continues to build up as it is no and School right at it, and also road, owned by the occupants prosperous, law-abiding citizens to secure a home in this quiet be free from the temptation which is no use for a Mr. Crutchfield warm late afternoon and note that seem to pervade that section payable $5.00 cash and $5.00 cash and $7.50 monthly for two. To industrious, economical extended them in building home up all the money for a $1500 on Take Highland Park Car go west about half mile. E. A. C Nothing on earth is so valuable as a bun at warm late afternoon and cost, and more is the polishing that the schools can give it. The best youth. Who would choose a poor physician to And who would choose an inferior school to increase the strength of character and of moralness! Dormitory, Virginia Va. Union B Offers the Best High COLORED YO IT HAS A FINE COLLEGE COURSE course includes completed common school subjects. IT HAS COLLEGE COURSE is broad, and co-college as those of any college for white youth the Carnegie Board. IT HAS THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for many applied schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the rogues. One hundred students for the school. IT HAS GRANITE BUILDINGS, its facade 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its far other rabes. For further information, address the President. Evidence Park LOTS let it, if you don't secure one or more of these location is eminently respectable. The sur- that could be desired. Highland Park is on one side, and Brookland Park and Ginter convenient to two car lines, and railroad right used in the not distant future, if that section up as it is now doing. There is a Church it, and also a nice little village across the the occupants of the houses, who are quiet, building citizens. You owe it to your children in this quiet neighborhood where they will impitation which besets them in town. There Crutchfield in this locality. Go out some and note the quietude and contentment me that section. Prices $75.00 and $120.00, and $5.00 monthly for one lot, or $10.00 monthly for two lots. economical purchasers, assistance will be building homes, but don't expect me to put a $1500 or $2000 house on a $75.00 lot. D Park Car line and go to its terminus; then mile. Providence Park LOTS You will regret it, if you don't secure one or more of these lots forthwith. The location is eminently respectable. The surroundings are all that could be desired. Highland Park is growing toward it on one side, and Brookland Park and Ginter Park on the other. It is fairly convenient to two car lines, and railroad right at it may be expected in the not distant future, if that section continues to build up as it is now doing. There is a Church and School right at it, and also a nice little village across the road, owned by the occupants of the houses, who are quiet, prosperous, law-abiding citizens. You owe it to your children to secure a home in this quiet neighborhood where they will be free from the temptation which besets them in town. There is no use for a Mr. Crutchfield in this locality. Go out some warm late afternoon and note the quietude and contentment that seem to pervade that section. Prices $75.00 and $120.00, payable $5.00 cash and $5.00 monthly for one lot, or $10.00 cash and $7.50 monthly for two lots. To industrious, economical purchasers, assistance will be extended them in building homes, but don't expect me to put up all the money for a $1500 or $2000 house on a $75.00 lot. Take Highland Park Car line and go to its terminus; then go west about half mile. E. A. CATLIN, 16 N. 8th St. valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the give it. The best education is not too good for a promising poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? 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The best education is not too good for a promising youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger? And who would choose an infertor school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger usefulness? Va. Union University Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN completed common school subjects. THE COLLEGE COURSE is broad, and complete. Its requirements and standards are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. ITB THEOLOGICAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries are here. One hundred students for the ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. 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