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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 16. The True Reformers Are Quiet. GRAND MASTER HOLMES APPEAL ING FOR HELP. Contending Factions Marking Time. Attorney Newsome Doctares He'll Find Assets. There have been no new, developments in the True Reformer situation. Grand Worthy Master A. W. Holmes called up The Planet editor Friday, the 10th instant, and stated that he thought the last issue of the paper had done the Order much injury, and promised that he would make a reply thereto. As the matter contained was authentic and was secured from True Reformer official sources, we did not see that we had done the organization an injustice. We offered to him the columns of The Planet for any correction that he might deem it advisable to make, and he said that he would take advantage of the offer. MR. HOLMES' COMMUNICATION He delivered to us a communication appealing for money, which communication we are publishing in another column of this issue. It does not relate directly to any assertions made in our issue of the 4th instant. It indicates that he is not disposed to enter into any controversy with any one, but that he will continue his course of raising money to save the Order. It would seem that he is pursuing a wise policy, and we hope that the public will aid the Order with liberal contributions. PECINIAR ASTICS Some of the members and subordinate employees have shown a disposition to criticize and condemn every one who has not seen fit to approve of the methods in vogue around at the True Reformer office and while begging on the one hand were abusing somebody on the other, but these people are gradually being muzzled, we believe, and the outside contribution baskets. Mrs. F II James, who had charge of the True Reformer Hotel, has decided to return to Washington to liv. THE NEW TREASURER. Dr. John E. Meriwether, the treasurer, has given the required bond and is safely located in office. The Receivers are standing by their action in looking after the interests of the Savings Bank and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors has not reversed its action in giving deeds to the property of the Order to the Receivers of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United States Attorney for the Order, Mr. J. Thomas Newcome, he still adhere to the opinion that this action on the part of the Executive Committee should not have been taken. ATTORNEY NEWSOME HOPEFUL Attorney Nowcome continues in an optimistic frame of mind, and he believes that he can show to the Bureau of Insurance sufficient assets of the Order-of-True Reformers to have the ban removed and the license to do business restored. The members are working steadily to raise the thirty-seven thousand dollars as required by the Bureau of Insurance. It is now evident that no money will be realized in the immediate future by any voluntary action on the part of ex-Grand Worthy Master William T. Taylor, who has been asked to refund twenty thousand dollars or aboutheads of the money paid to him on salary. DYING, WHISPERS NAME Virginia Fox, Stricken With Apoplexy Passes Away in City Hospital. Virginia Fox, an aged colored woman, was stricken with apoplexy at Seventh and Leigh streets at 8 o'clock last Tuesday morning, and died a few hours after being taken to the City Hospital. People in the neighborhood saw her fall and carried her into a nearby doorway, where she was kept until the arrival of the city ambulance in charge of Dr. Turman. She was but half conscious, and her name was caught from her lips just before she died. Coroner Taylor was notified, but deemed an inquest unnecessary. Commends The Planet's Policy MR. LANKFORD SPEAKS. Wilberforce, O.. March 6. 1911. Hon John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of The Richmond Planet, Rich- mond, W. Va. mind, ve. My Dear Friend Mitchell,—I must take care to write you that you want to congratulate you upon the makeup, editorialists and general articles of interest which you publish week after week in your Planet. Several of the college professors and myself read the Planet together and discuss your manner of writing on politics, social questions and your criticisms of Dr. Booker T. Washington and Dn Boils. We seem to agree that you are perfectly fair to them both. Now, about your long journey: We have read with pleasure your entire trip up to this date, and we are of the opinion that a vivid description of this kind, so well written, so full of the natural scenery of the West, the habits and customs of the Mormon's, the description of that wonderful temple and doxene of other points of interest to your old book-lover, gives them a place with Stoddard's Lectures. Allow me to give you a friendly suggestion: Print them in panphilet form so you can distribute them to the institutions of learning throughout the country, and to those who love to read and have the power to discriminate good reading from bad. Hoping you much success for the great work you are doing, BISHOP COPPIN HERE. Arounds Great Enthusiasm In This City—Mastacias Mercer—Fine Bishop L. J. Coppin has occupied the centre of the stage in this city during the last few days. A series of exercises have been conducted at the Third-Street A M E. Church, under the auspices of the local committees and the general supervision of Dr. E. H. Hunter, the able pastor of the church. All seems to have been impressed. Dr Coppin's sermons have aroused great interest. He is a scholarly pulpit orator and a student of the highest order. He has also demonstrated his interest in the plain people, for he holds made trips to the missions and to the country, where he could come in direct contact with the humble laity. The exercises last Monday night were heartily enjoyed by those who went out to hear him. He was assisted in the exercises by Dr W. E. Graham, the well-known, of the Fifth-Street Baptist Church, and by Dr. D. W. Davis, the humorist and lecturer. Hcv Dr Hunter is about to leave for Conference and there was a panky feeling less the Bishop should see fit to remove him to another field. His offerts here have been crowned with success and he unified the members in a way that they have soldom been unified before. The outlook is bright here for his ministrations another year. Last Sunday night Mr. Walter D. Jones read a fine paper, and Mr. John Mitchell Jr., spoke eloquently. Mr. F. L. Dray, a gration by reciting one of his race poems and the Glee Club gave absolute satisfaction, and Billy Smith's Quartette added to the happiness of all. MEMORIAL In loving remembrance of my dear bushband, Alexander Brooks, who departed this life March 14, 1910: A light is from our household gone A voice we love is stillled. A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. We cannot tell who next may fall, Beneath Thy chastening rod; One must be first, but let us all Propre to meet our God. ANNA BROOK8. From Huntington, W. Va. Mr. Scott Mullor, of Waynedotte, W. Va., died on the 8th instant. He was a Knight of Pytian. His funeral was preached by Rev. G. A. Thurston, pastor of the 16th-Street Baptist Church. "Question of Leadership" Mr. Harris Speaks Plainly-An Ablo Discussion-No One Great Leader Possible. Editor Richmond Planet In your issue of March 11th you write a long, interesting editorial on "The Question of Leadership." You ask, "Can Dr. Booker T. Washington attain the position of leader of all of the colored people of this country?" You want to know what about the query, "If not Booker T. Washington, who can be chosen to lead up?" You then present the names of affectionable brilliant Nogrews, one of which number might be "named to the position of unquestioned leadership of the colored people of this country." Without the multiplication of words, I will say that the question of absolute leadership of the Americas is unstable, impracticable and impossible. HOPE NOT TO BE REALIZED. The American Negroes have developed to that stage of civilization where it is impossible for their hopes and fears, their ambitions and aspirations, their theories and beliefs and their general viewpoint of human relations to be represented by any one race leader, or by any one type of race leadership. Science teaches us that the higher in the scale of creation an animal is the more complicated and elaborate is its structure. Development in itself is but some kind of complication and elaboration. When a race of people is in the first stages of its racial infancy, it is both possible and desirable that it be led and be represented by some strong, able, fearless individual, reason guild and an infiant, bound and not represented because such a race cannot, and therefore, does not think for itself. Such a racial condition is unfortunate. It makes no difference how intellectually and morally strong its one man representative. It is better, however, for such an infant race to be represented by one strong character than not to be represented at all ONE LEADER IMPOSSIBLE But when a race of people has advanced to that point where a countless number of its members views life and its relations from different angles. It becomes both impossible and undesirable for that race to be led by any one man, or be represented by any one type of race leadership. It was quite easy for Mr Frederick Douglas and a few others to be race leaders 20 years ago. The reason is plain. Twenty years ago the Ameri- tists lauded him for his thinking for themselves. They readily believed that their race leaders taught them—both true and false. It is different now. Negroes do not now believe everything their preachers preach, or what their professors teach outside of the textbook, or what their politicians shout from the stump. The Negro masses have begun to think for themselves just as the white masses in most white civilized lands think for themselves. The more the masses of a race think for themselves the harder it is for that race to be led or by any one type of race leadership. It would be utter folly for any one man to attempt to lead the Americans or the Englishmen or the Frenchmen or the Germans. A DRASTIC CONCLUSION Show me an intelligent people who are led by any one man, or whose racial policies are shaped by any one type of race leadership, and I will show you where tyranny, and despotism prevail. I hold that the American blacks have arrived at that point in their racial career that its absolute control by any one man, or by any one type of race leadership would be detrimental to their best interests. This fact is too plain to require substantiation. The American Negroes largely think for themselves, and thinking for themselves individually, Negroes view life and its relations from different angles. Therefore, to place the Negroes of this country under the leadership of any one man, or to set up any one type of race leadership to shape the policies of the Negro, would but load to racial wrangling and confusion. DR. WASHINGTON CANNOT DO IT. Dr. Booker T. Washington cannot weld the American Negroes under his leadership; not because he is not a great man, because Mr. Washington (Continued On Eighth Page.) Does Not Like the Liberal Expressions.—No Infant Race for Him. My dear Editor of The Planner. Will you please allow me space in your splendid paper to say that the sentiments and statements charged to your paper of January 29 by the Professor of English of Bali, Brazil, is a mistake, for I saw the statement in a white paper; but I must confess that it does sound like the utterances of some of the colored editors, for some of them often try to set up a defense for the white race when there is no need of it, for the white race needs no defense from the colored editors. I feel like a good many other colored people feel it is time, for the colored editors to stop trying to cover up the dirt of the white race. It is time that the colored editors stop saying that the lives and properties of the colored people are as sacred and safe as that of the white man's, for it is not true, especially in the Southern States, for a black man in the South is not protected at all, and you and all of the colored editors know it to be true that they murder them at will, at all times, just for being charged with the crimes of which the white men themselves are guilty. And much defense you colored editors try to set up for the white race only amuses them, and at the expense of your intelligence at that NOT AN INFANT RACED You colored editors often refer to the Negro race as infant race. If he is an infant, he is an ideal infant, for he has, and is, doing more than any other infant ever did under such conditions. They so often refer to the colored race as being an inferior race. That is decided wrong. Who ever saw an infant and inferior race make the progress that the Negro has made in 45 years? Thirty two years ago the Negro appealed to the Government for protection under the law. They told the Negro whenever he did something and contributed to the Government like the white man he would he protected. He is treated worse since he has had the something before, and the Negro pays more taxes for what he does own than any other race. But I don't hear you colored editors denouncing these wrongs very often. You often say that the Negro is aware under this Government. I know it is a kind of a policy to speak to FULTON PARK LOTS I have just had placed with me 500 lots at Fulton Park, which we hope to convert into a colored set- tlement. These lots are high and dry, and we are offering them to early purchasers at the small price of $50 00 per lot. For particulars Apply to B. A. CEPHAS, 602 North Second Street Negro Drops Dead. Charles Harris colored, of 618 St James street, died suddenly at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the plant of the Duplex Envelope Company, where he had long been employed. Dr Turman, of the city ambulance corps was summoned, but Harris was dead before the physician arrived. Death was said to be due to heart trouble Rev. A W Clarke of Cardwell, Va., was in the city this week. Madam T D Perkins, of Denver Colorado, was in the city this week and called on us. Mr. Arthur J Riggs, of Springfield, O. was in the city last Wednesday and was shown the sights of the city. He left the same day for Jacksonville, Fla. J. L. Murchison, Chief Diver of Son, is estimating on a long contract for a railroad firm in the South. Mr. Murchison has had a large experience in diving, and will make work for many laborers. Mr. Murchison is vice-president of a large firm in New York and stands well with one of the accident life insurance companion in New Jersey City, and will make work for many newspapers. Mr. Murchison was born in Savannah, Ga. Acclaim Fortune. Cash Testimonial Great Editor at Abessina. An audience entirely unworthy in point of numbers, was present at the notable occasion on Thursday evening at Abyssinia Baptist Church, when Collector Charles W. Anderson in behalf of Dr Booker T. Washington in and other leading colored mea thorough the country, gave to the great veteran editor, T. Thomas Fortune, $115 as tokens of their esteem. The audience was composed almost solely of members of the church, and so comparatively few were they that were not the circumstances explained New York's colored population would appear entirely ungrateful' of the friendship and services of the fearless journalist who was largely responsible for the abolition of "Jim Crow" schools in the State and many other church presidents. But for some unknown reason the date, place and other features of what was to be New York's tribute to a popular champion were uneccountably withheld from the public. The arrangements for the meeting, it seems, were entirely in the hands of Fred K. Moore of the New York Age, which Mr Fortune founded and built into its position of power and prominence of a few years ago. Save for a short and obscure notice in last week's issue of that paper, and for a few throwaways sent to four churches three or four days before the meeting, the public was entirely ignorant of the notable occasion in their life "up until within the next few months some of the speakers who were to be Collector Anderson, Rev R M Bolden and James H Anderson were not even asked to participate. But the few people who chanced to send or hear of the meeting were present, and by their enthusiasm made up in quality what the meeting lacked in quantity. NAMES OF THE CONTRIBUTORS The widely, known donors to the fund for the present contributing editor of The Amsterdam News wrote D A Hart, editor of the Nashville Globe W A Attaway of Greenville Miss M J Capler of Nashville Robert R Church of Memphis, J W Strong of Waco, Texas W M Davis of Washington D C S H C Owen of Natchez, Miss D Webster Davis of Richmond Va. W M Hunton, of Brooklyn Major R R Moton of Hampton H J Richardson of Huntsville Ala Dr T W Burton of Springfield, O. T Madison Vance of New Orleans Dr C V Roman, of Nashville Dr Marus F Wheatland, of Newport R I, C W Peters, of Mobile Ala Wm Jenson of Snow Hill Ala R Wright, of Gaitha Mchelle, J of Houston, C J Joseph L. Jones of Cincinnati B F Alley of Jefferson City, Mo Thomas H of Jefferson City, Mo Thomas W C Gordon, of St Louis, Dr C W West, of St Louis, Dr C W Twine, of Muskogee, Qkin Joseph A Booker of Little Rock Ark, Mrs Belle Davis, of Indianapolis Ind. W Scott, of Edwards Miss. G H Lewis of Boston, Mass. Wm Richard Carroll, of Columbus, S C H Proctor, of Atlanta, Ulysses Mason, of Birmingham, Ala Dr B J Morgan, of Terre Haute Ind Mark A Thomas of Atlanta, Asst U S District Attorney S Lalang Williams of Chicago, George W Moore, of Nashville, Tenn. Dr W S Scarborough of Wilberforce O C H Parish, of Louisville, Ky. J C Thomas of New York Dr R F Boyd, of Nashville, Sol C Johnson, of Savan E C Moren, B G Davis, of Atlanta C M Bone, of Helena Ark., Rev L G Jorff of Louisville, W R Pettiford, of Louisville, W R Pettiford, of Chicago; O W Warrensess ga of Chicago; O W Warrensess ga of Chicago; R S. Lovinggood of Austin, Texas; O W Lawson, of Washington, D C, Dr H R, Butler of Atlanta; Rev W, H Brooks, of New York; Blahop George W. Clinton, of Raleigh, N C, and Col Chan of Raleigh, N C, C W William of Oklaon, Miss; S H W. Washington, Montgomery, Ala, and Colone Charles W Anderson ONE OF RACES BRAVEST CHAMPIONS. The eloquent New Yorker in presenting the fund, add "Ladies and Gentlemen," I regard it as a great privilege to be permitted to take part in this testimonial to one of the bravest champions the race has ever produced—Mr. T. Thbmas Fortune. In this day of many Caesars it is extremely difficult to determinate precisely what measure should be rendered unto each of them, but I think it will be agreed (Continued On Eighth Page.) From Los Angeles, Cal. Collector Cottrell Speaks—Is Lectured by Mr. Alexander—Caustic Criticism. At The Forum.—The Sunday Forum on March 6 enjoyed a visit from Collector Charles A. Cottrell, of Toledo. Collector Cottrell is onroute to Honolulu, to take charge of the revenue office at that point. He stopped in Los Angeles to pay a visit to his friend, Robert Owens, and also to get a good view of this thriving and beautiful metropolis of the Pacific slope. Collector Cottrell spoke to the members of the Corporation in a clear, able manner. He talked about its trials, its hopes, its possibilities. His remarks stamped him a man of sound mind, kindly of heart energetic and thorough. Those who heard Collector Cottrell were satisfied of two things—first, that President Taft has selected the right man second; that Collector Cottrell will conduct himself in his new office in a manner that will reflect credit on himself and on the Negro race. The meeting was not without an amusing incident. After Collector Cottrell had spoken, Mr. J. A Alexander arose and proceeded to "afr" himself at great length, Mr. Alexander, a recently appointed cashier in the revenue service here, took upon himself the great and difficult task of "tutoring" Collector Cottrell in his new task. Novel Ideal! Amusing it was indeed to hear Mr Alexander talk of his months, going at length into all the gossip, scandal and mismanagement" of the Honolulu office. Telling Collector Cottrell what to do, what not to do—how to "run the job" Our Limited knowledge of the training of collectors forbids us speaking absolutely. But we should think that the Treasury Department at Washington would furnish Collector Cottrell with needed Instruction. It seems strange that an employee of a few months should bore a large and intelligent audience and plush enbarrass a stranger within our gates by attempting to publish tutor and lecturer him on the duties of enbarrassing that we may be wrong. Perhaps this is part of Mr Alexander's duties as a government employee. Perhaps not. But next time we have his instructions to visiting collectors in our city will take place in private. We are sure the collectors will agree, and the Forum will gladly welcome any course that will avoid a repetition of the disgrave exhibition Mr Alexander gave us Sunday. Mr J. L. Edmonds editor of The Liberator of Los Angeles, California has been III for some time at his home in Sawdell. The Daughters of Literary Society has been organized at A. M. E Church and is doing a great work among our young people of this city. They have a crowded house every Friday evening. The very best of literary programs are rendered." The Literary Society of the Socio- and Baptist Church has been re- cently organized, in which Miss Ella Kinard is president. The society is doing excellent work. Their pro- grams are very good. There has be- come a tradition of giving proposals society. You are invited to attend every Thursday evening. Very truly yours, A. D. LACEY ```markdown ``` The Du Bois Lycée of the Virginia Union University will hold the annual public program Friday evening March 24th, at 8 o'clock. The program will represent a scene in the United States Senate, in which that body is, considering the enshrinement of women. The discussion will be instructive and interspersed with such humor as will make it seem more engaging. All are invited to be present. Admission free. TRIED TO STOP RUNAWAY. Edwin Lyons, Colored, Collides With Another Man. In an effort to stop a runaway on last Tuesday morning, Edward Lyons colored, of 149 Mayo street, was painfully hurt in a collision with another man, who was attempting to do the same thing. Both man ran towards the horse, but neither saw the other. Lyons was thrown heavily to the ground, and was severely cut on the head. The other man was not hurt. Lyons was treated by Dr. Turman, of the city ambulance, and then went home to nurse his hurt. No other damage was done by the runaway, and the horse was boon caught. Reports are Encouraging Grand Worthy Master Holmes' Rally—Many Sending Money to Help—Will Save the Order. The interest manifested in the operation of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers has not abated in the heat. The actions of the Special Session are being approved generally through out the Brotherhood, and an investigation of the records in the office show increased financial returns from all of the branches. The special tax levied at the Special Session and which has been ordered to be placed in a special trust fund for the payment of past due death claims is being reported. The Grand Master, A W Holmes, is receiving daily additions to the Special Loan Fund in sums from one dollar upwards. Voluntary contributions to the Redemption Fund members of the Organization and by interested friends of both races are being received in considerable amounts. There appears to be a openness of purpose, not only on the part of the subordinate members of the organization, but on the part of every official as well. It is the purpose of the officers and Board of Directors to protect the interest of the Grand Fountain and its members at all hazards, and at the same time to do justice to the bank and its depositors. Up to the present time the officers of the Grand Fountain, the receivers of the Savings Bank, the Commissioner of Insurance and the newly-appointed attorneys are working to the best interest of all concerned No official report has been made as yet by the receivers On account of the recent appeal sent out by the organization from headquarters the News Leader has this to say After a long and serious struggle against the accumulated debt from mismanagement in unprofitable ventures, the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers begins to see light In an appeal published elsewhere in this paper signed by A. W Holmes, the chief executive officer, the public of Richmond and Virginia are urged to come forward and help who poorly colored organization From the plea it seems that $37,000 is needed to lift the ban placed upon the organization by Insurance Commissioner Button, and the True Reformers through their officers, state that if this money is raised they will be able to begin business again and take care of those who are now unable to get insurance in any other company In speaking of this matter, a gentleman who had followed the efforts of the True Reformers to re-establish themselves, said Who Is the Devil. Anyhow? Prof D Webster Davin will give his lecture, "Who is the Devil Anyhow" at Fifth Street Baptist Church, Tuesday night, March 28, 1911 at 8:30 o'clock In addition to this new lecture, a literary program will be rendered by some of our best talent. Admission, 10 Cents. Come on time. Doors open at 8:00 P. M. GRAND LECTURE At First Baptist Church by Prof. D. W. Davis, D. Day Subject: "Moonlight, Music, Lights and Flowers." Monday night, March 20, 1911, under the Home Mission Society and church, No. 126 the above named church, Deacon Bowl, Mission President; H. G. Carter, Manager, Admins on, 10 Conte. --- "Alias Jimmy Valentine" Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play by PAUL ARMSTRONG Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association as a sinister omen of impending doom. He had heard a story of his old grand- THE PACK OF GEORGE DOTEN APPEARED IN THE DOOHWAY mother's when a young ind, that of SYNOPSIS Warden Handler of Bing, Bing prison and Detective George Loisse endeavor to proclaim on jill Avery the prisoner and prisoner on the pal, a young inmate known as Jimmy Valentine. Avery refuses, and the prisoner is held by him. Valentine and a back of opening safes solely by the sense of touch. Avery goes. Lieutenant Governor Fay Lowe recognizes from the women workers in a resuscitation mission the prison. Warden Handler bears Rose Lane tells him she is bereaved from thief on a train, and he is armed at a coincidence. Convict Jimmy Valentine. No. 129 is brought into the warden's office to open the safe. The warden recognizes and Rose recognizes him as the man who saved her from the thick Cotton. The safe contains Handler. The lieutenant governor and Rose talk with Valentine. Rose pleads with Fay to aid the young prisoner who is handeven in Bing Blog safety. Pay promises for Rose's sake to ask the governor to pardon Valentine. A storm occurs between Handler and Valentine. Valentine waits patiently in prison for news. Finally he is pardoned and goes to Governor Fay and Rose. Valentine refuses positions offered by the rescue mission workers. To his amusement, Valentine and a former coworker, Red Flanagan. Red and Avery try to disguise Jimmy Terry's identity, and Red and Avery hide. Boyle wants Valentine to tell him where Avery is, for he wants to rearrest him. Valentine departs, threatening to send Valentine back to Sing Sing prison. Avery now tries to kill Valentine. Boyle tries to "nock it down" again but a note from Rose brings him back to his former determination to cooperate. Rose precludes his father from giving Valentine a position in his bank in Springfield, ill. Red and Red go to work in the bank. For several years Valentine works extremely and rises to be assistant canter. He and Rose love each other, but Valentine does not tell her of his affection for her. A mysterious Mr. Cronin turns out to be old Jill Terry, now reformed and a man. Valentine receives a telegram from Boyle. He tells Red how he has planned to kill Jimmy Terry, by means of a cleverly conceived alibi. CHAPTER XVI THE room in the Fourth National bank of Springfield, IL, in which the new vault had been constructed, was a large, some her inclusion, with a door at one side, opening from the assistant cashier's office, and one directly opposite, which opened from the new hallway opening into the main hall. Along this narrow hallway were doors opening into the offices of various officials of the bank. The vaults in which were kept the currency and negotiable papers, bonds, stocks, notes, etc., were on the floor below, and the new vault built against the wall at the rear of the room was designed as a receptacle for the bank's books of account. Therefore it had a larger interior, with a more comfortable shelves and not yet been built in there were several feet of free space inside, which would be occupied by books and records later on. The huge steel ribbed door had been left invitingly open by the workmen engaged in adding the finishing touches, and consequently it afforded an unequaled kitty of delight to Bobby and Kitty, whose active imaginations readily converted the interior of the wall into the cave of daring amigurumi who, presumably gone on a desertec enterprise, had left descented their secret cabin and the precious conduit beneath. Kitty assured Bobby that unwillingly to be in. So what was there for a high spilt little girl to do, when her brother, who never failed at asserting his superiority over a mere girl and the superiority of the "men folk" in general, insisted that she go first into the drawing blackness of the big-safe; surely she must maintain the tradi- Hons of the fearlessness of her sex as she knew them and "take the dare" which Bobby forced upon her. Slowly into the steel bound shadows she went, her waxen faced dolly clutched tightly against her throbbing bosom—yet in she went. Suddenly the huge door scraped shut. All was blackness. As she aroused in her fright she heard the click of the metal bars as Bobby playfully turned the han dies. Then all was silent, save for the means of the little girl as she lurched blindly toward the door of the safe and scratched the metal thicknesses with her thy nails. The dolly fell to the floor, the ends of the soft little fingers began to bleed from frozen contact with the barm that ribbed the interior of the safe door, and after a few moments the wee girl a form sank lukily to the bottom of the vault, where she gasped consolently to breathe in the air that was gradually losing its life supporting qualities. Not many minutes would elapse are she had consumed all the previous oxygen in the suffocating interior of the necessarily air tight vault. As Jimmy Valentine dashed into the vault room he ried to kill Flungan, who was all he knew. "Go get one of the clerks to run for some sandpaper. Pumice stone is too soft for this job. My fingers are not in shape for a trick like this. Go Run!" Red turned and darted away on his urgent errand. Well he knew just how necessary it was for Jimmy Valentine to have sandpaper to rescue Kifu if it were true that the skin on his fingers had grown calloused or had reached even its natural thickness. Jimmy Valentine pulled manfully at the handles of the vault door. Perhaps, after all, the combination had not been turned and only the door's weight held it in place. But the metal barrier would not move. He pressed his ear to the hatlike crack. He heard the sound as of a little body falling to the floor and the faint mounds of the prisoner calling, "Bobby, Bobby Bobby." Valentine bent over the combination, paused sharply at it. Then began to touch the cylinders gently "aqued and then back he knock the knob. No, it was of no use. Nothing could be done until the sandpaper arrived. His fingers had lost their sensitiveness and hence their cunning, and in the meantime Valentine well knew the prisoner was consuming whatever of the priceless air that remained. The door leading from his office awaing open, and again Red Flannagan darted in. He dung himself on the vault room floor directly below Valentine's knees and held his car close to the crack of the safe door. "Think you can make it, Jimmy?" he gasped. "Guess so never failed on a look like this. Wry, in God's name, don't that fool come with that sandpaper?" Valentine was desperate at the delay "He's gone to a here he is" cried Riley the bearded features in the assistant mahors's office. Red jumped to his feet and into Valentine's room. He asked the roll of sandpaper from the messenger's hands. "What are you going to do with it?" naked the investigator clerk. Red shoved him away and darted back toward the vault room. "None of your business," he cried, "and keep out of here." "Give it here. What is it?" exclaimed Valentine as Red run to him. "No. 4." "That's best. Is the bank empty?" "Yes, thank God. Mr. Lane has gone. There no one to pipe what we'doin—and even if there was we'd just naturally have to go through with it—for that girl Kitty—" "Bhint up" cried Valentine nervously. He bent over and rubbed his fingers briskly across the gritty surface of the wall. He looked which Red had handed him—cribbled until the white drab showed pink. Red stood and watched him breathlessly. The sound of Valentine's fingers scraping back and forth across the face of the sandpaper seemed to his fierce brain the physical demonstration of an evil being, appalled him mother's when a young lad, that of ten when a person was going to die a mysterious tick, tick, tick, tick would be heard in the fated house, the sound coming as though from a mysterious watch comedied, in the wall—the "death tick." As the sound of the scraping fingers continued the zip, zip, zip, zip schumed from the walls and sandy into Red's ears and into Red's shoulder of that long forgotten tie. And stranger's enough. Red's premonition of the presence of an unseen noose was not without foundation in fact. It may be that this actuary in the underworld had developed in him that stath sense of the habitual tick which sometimes gives him warning of approaching dangers. As Red stood there fasteningly watching the raid play of Valentine's fingers the door leading into the narrow hallway godlessly opened—opened just enough to allow the sound of the tick to press against the crack between the door and the jam. A few inches more of spade and the face of George Doyle appeared in the doorway. As the door on opening swung toward the rear of the chamber toward the vault Doyle, sheltered by it, was enabled to put one foot over the sill and stand half within the vault room. Pressing himself close against the door, he could watch in the darkened, shadowy room the operations of Red Lee Handall, alias Jimmy Valentine. He saw the sheet of sandpaper tilt to the floor, he saw Valentine lick his fingers with his tongue to ease the burning pain that throbbed through them, he saw Red Flinnagan drop on his knees and crush against the door of the giant sane he saw Valentine step forward, seize the combination with the tips of his fingers, press his ear against the vault and gently, coaxingly ever so gently, twirl the shining nickel knob of the combination. George Doyle had his dearest wish gratified. At last he saw the great Jimmy Valentine at work CHAPTER XVII FTFR a few moments Valentine shook his head angrily and drew back a step from the safe "Red, got a handkerchief?" he snapped "Yes." "Well, get moving. Come on-blind fold me so that I can't see, so that every nerve will be centered on hearing the tumblers click--you know—the old gag" "Sure thing." Red curbled to his feet and has yelled at a handkerchief tightly around him, completely covering his eyes. Valentine stepped back to the vault, and it crouched again at his feet. Definitely, intently, the ex-contract man nipulated the intricate mechanism of the vault. "Hurry, Jimmy, that kid." urged Red, to whom the suspense was be- coming unbearable. "D—in you, he quiet! If you say another word I'll knock your head off— my bands are the leather of his fingers. "Xenom bleeding" acclaimed. Red "What of it? returning to his task. "Don't talk. I tell you. I heard it click. I missed it again." turning the combination slowly-"but I felt it that time-I felt the doggie vital- ness that time-I felt the doggie vital- ness that time excited." Red, there it fell! Hurry with a match! Red, well acquainted with the du- ties required of him, by reason of the thorough education he had recei- ved from Valentine in the past, had been waiting expectantly with a match ready for the stalking. At the word he illuminated the combination's dial with a tiny flame. "What is it? cried Valentine. The other stretched himself upward and pressed it at the numbers on the male sancer. "It points to twenty-one!" he ex- claimed. Valentine again drew away from the vault. "Bandpaper!" he cried. Red handed him another sheet. He rubbed his fingers softly across it. His new, bleeding flesh could not stand more than the elightest contact with the scraping surface. "I'll feel every jar clean to my eyeballs now." he added. He turned the dial back and then forward and then four complete reverses revolutions. "That's the way to get them Red," two move to want revolution—half back—twirl, throbbing nerves—a toothache in every inner end—eh. Red—there-match!. After a moment: "Fifty-two!" "How many belts did this door have?" asked Valentine. "Did you notice?" He wean on turning the diap "Twelve." "Thought so," jollily. "Can you hear her any more, Red?" Red's ear was pressed against the crack of the wont door: "No. And knows I don't want to Honest, Jimmy, I don't believe it!" "Oh, yes, you do." So long as she calls we know she's alive—turning the dial slowly back—hey we are again. If this slovenl eoven I know this old rotation—munch! "Elephant" abhreaked Red joyously after a moment of racking suspense. "We got it if she got it" cried Valentine. "If this is it, Red—reversing the dial again—she's ours in another minute. Match." Red struck another match. "Tob" he cried. A half turn of the dial forward. Valentine's sharp ear detected the sound as though another bolt had drawn back. "Here we are against Match." "borty two," exclaimed Red. "That's it—forty two—what it should be. Do you hear Kitty now?" "No. Good glue, Jimmy, suppose, after all, she's dead?" Two more turns of the dial "Keep your nerve, old pal—there match." To George Doyle, standing in the doorway, the scene was one of gripping interest. The consummate, at most uncanny, skill of Jimmy Valen that was something to cause in the detective, experienced even as he was with resourceful and intelligent crunches, a thrill of genuine admiration. No wonder Valentine had proved the despair of the safe makers, the banking officials and the slants of half a dozen states. And a demeaning governor had pardoned him" As Doyle surveyed intently the operations of Red Climaggan and Jimmy Valentine in their superhuman effort to rescue their beloved little playmate, Kitty Lane, from the sitting clutches of a man who had a sudden though very slight change in the darkened room of which opening into a shaft gave at most no aid at all to inquisitive eyes. He glanced across the room to the point from which the light seemed to A A GIRLISH FIGURE APPEARED come and saw that the door leading from the mustard cashier's office had been partly opened. Next, to his utter amusement he saw a plumed hat thrust forward into the opening, and the figure gritish figure appeared. The figure battled and turned its face to ward the vault where Ired Flanagan and Jimmy Valentine were at work. In practically the same position as himself, though at the opposite side of the room, Dey recognized that the girl could watch the operations of the two expert crackmen without detection unless either of them should neglect his work and glance in her Direction, and as he thoroughly appreciated both Valentine and Flanagan were too intent on their mission of rescue to turn for an instant from their task. As Red struck the match at the latest command of Valentine Doyle saw the girl bend forward to better gain a view of the proceedings. The side of her face was illuminated by the light in the assistant cashier's office, and—could it be true—yes, Doyle was positive that the form of the witness in the opposite doorway was none other than that of the young girl who had seen Jimmy Valentine in Warden Handler's office at Ring St. and who had prevailed on the lieutenant governor to obtain his release. Doyle's memory had not betrayed him. It was Hose Lane, who, returning to her lover's office in quest of him, had opened the door of the vault room and, just as Doyle had done, caught him "red handed." She moved forward a step, as though to speak but her "attention" be directed by her, moved slightly. And as him moved to his lips, coping silence. The girl therefore stood, watching the man she fondly loved "cop the gopher" in the bank that between them she and her father owned. "One," announced Red as the match barred into a, blue bright sulphurous gloom. "That's it! That's the old rotations!" cried Valentine anthemically. "Ten ```markdown ``` "BIE'S DEAD," he CHOOKED off the first—turning the combination—then one—two—and three—turning the dial on the reverse—then back. Match! "Twenty-one!" was Red's frenzied response. Valentine tossed his head back triumphantly. "Twenty-one, that's it!" he almost tilted. "That's it. I've done the trick." Valentine tore the bandage from his eyes and, gripping forward, gripped the handles of the vault doors in his hands. He threw his weight back and tugged mightily. At first the eight inch steel barrier refused to move. Red, who had lunged to one side out of the way of his superior, gazed apprehensively at Valentine, fearing that after all there had been some mistake. He dropped the罐 in the black, sheer, 18bbidding face of the great safe widened, and Valentine's body, tensely set, fell back as the pen-door dog swung open. And as it did so a woe, white clad body, couching against the heavy door, rolled out on to the raft room floor and lay limp and apparently lifeless before Red Flanagan and Jimmy Valentine. He that did哭" cried Valentine to Red Flanagan's out, but I think she will need. She needs air and a doctor, quick!" With these words the ex convict, almost overcome by the ex element and the nervous strain under which he had been laboring, leaned exhaustively against the cold steel walls of the ruin. Red hurried forward, seized the motionless form of Kitty in his arm and clutched it to his breast "She's dead," he choked, looking down into her white, drawn face, her elbow from the lip from which the blood had fled. "No shell be all right in five minutes," instructed Valentine with as much force as he could master "Take her to the doctor on the corner." Red straightened and with his help less burden dashed through the door of the assistant cashier's room-only to come face to face with Rose Lane Impala and drawn back into the office, barely knowing what to do. CHAPTER XVIII Liam, the dream him endeavoring to gain firm control of himself As for Red, on being confronted by Rose Lane he stopped short and grapped in alarm. "Then you saw us do it--you saw Valentine at work" The girl cut him short with an upraised hand "Kitty, hurry, hurry" she warned him in a low voice. Red continued on his way "Don't worry, miss. She'll be all right in a few minutes" he cried over his shoulder. The girl moved again toward the doorway whence she had retreated a moment before. She looked still obvious at the nearness of the door, and waved her hands along the edge of the vault door, his back toward the entrances leading to the room. "I beat you! I beat you and saved the little girl from you" he murmured. Up and down he pressed his hands against the enamed metal. "I beat you! I beat you." Slowly he turned away, and as he raised his eyes they met the implacable, scornful gaze of George Doyle. Valentine started back. In the shadoy vault room he thought his eyes had played him false, that he saw only a vision conjured into a temporary existence by overwrought nerves and a correspondingly disordered brain. He pressed his hand to his forehead. Then the "vision" moved toward him. Yes, it was George Doyle. The ex-convict stood transfixed, as though an unwilling witness of a terror impairing tragedy. And to him the denouncement was all of that. Doyle stood, his hands clasped behind his back, waiting for the other to speak. Valentine worm out by the strain of the "eye" he was in mood to continue the fight against the cool, calculating, time abiding detective. "So this is the end, Doyle," he finally said, with a wan, forced ammonia on his drawn limp. "The fig is up. I'm not that about it." The detective moved closer to the human prey for whom he had so long and so patiently and, so far as the government was concerned, had so expensively sought. "Looks that way to me, Jimmy. But, remember, back there in Albany, I told you I'd get you some day unless you would do me a favor or two. Allways remember that I gave you a chance to keep out of the 'pen' and you turned it down." Valentine Bung his head. Yes, he would never cease to remember the alternative of becoming a "stool pigoon" that the detective had offered him the alternative of "peaching" on old Dill Avery and going scot free—scot free until Doyle should command him to "turn up" some other friend and companion. He made a quick job of this, was his answer. "You win job after all, I'll go without!"— The detective interrupted Valentine by inclining his head and pointing to one side. The ex-covict turned—to see Rose Lanc, in whose affectionate embrace he had lingered but a few midutes before on that memorable afternoon. A deadly pallor overspread the girl's checks. She drew near to the two men, her hands chapped nervously against her hearing boom. The distracted young assistant cashier, peering searching at the girl, and with an involuntary, twitch of his oblow indicating the opened vault. Nodded her head gratefully, stared at the man she had loved and then at the threatening form of the detective. Valentine strode to her, clutched a pink rose from a bouquet fastened at the girl's girdle. He pressed in both his hands. "I don't mind my having that flower. I know." he and brookly. "I am going—to be gone a long time—and this I want you to know and remember through the years—my life for you—is the only clean thing I ever knew. It is complete, and it will never—never end." As he concluded he wheeled to face the detective. "That's all, Doyle," he said in hardly audible tones. The central office man saw the real significance of the situation. No one with the slightest morsel of intelligence could doubt that the beautiful girl before him was suffering as only a true woman can when the one she loves is torn badly from her forever. As for Valentine—well, there must be something good in him after all, reassured Doyle if a girl like the banker's daughter could venture her whole life in happiness on the chance of his "going straight." The detective shifted unsteadily on his feet as Salon time turned to him. "Do you have an an- en- gesure—this young lady" he queried hesitating. Rose caught a ray of encouragement in his tones. "Yes" Yes" she cried springing forward her cheeks now aglow with the inspiration given by a newborn hope "and it was an engagement that means my happiness my love, my life and his life." She reached forth her hands hesely toward Doyle. The officer glanced quickly behind him and around the room, making sure that there were no other witnesses to his words. "Then" he hesitated—"then I guess we'll just cheat the state of Maxacha gets" Valentine grasped the arm of his long time foe. "You mean you mean just what, Doyle?" he examined excitedly that the lady needs you more than anyone else. He had me game all right for awhile there today Jimmy. But just to retain your respect don't think that I fell for that double negative photograph." With an altruist Good day "the deter the young around and did appear through the door by which he had entered went out forever from the life of Jimmy Valentine Valentine addressed the girl with justifiable respiration "You understand" - indicating the doorway through which Doyle had made his exit "you know who—what he was?" Rose Lane dung herself into Valentine's arms "I only know I love you" she cried passionately He held her in forlorn embrace. "And knowing the truth about me that I—" "Perhaps I always knew," she whispered fondly. "But if a woman loves she reflects that which does not fit into her dream, but if she loves as I—" Valentine anothered her words with his kisses. Then, raising his lips from hers for a single moment, he exclaimed in a voice that rang with the determination of a man who would yield his life are he broke his sacred promise: "I live for you, lose all for you, And you'll learn that I am a man once more—a man among men of honor." THE END. Ninety Parish In Fire Ninety persons, many of them children, were burned to death, and forty others injured in a fire that destroyed a moving picture theater at Bologna Russia, a small place in the southern part of Novgorod province, on the Nikolii railroad. The flames started while the exhibition was in progress and quickly spread through the building, cutting off every avenue of escape. Futile attempts at rescue were made by those who happened to be close to the exist when the first started, and by those from the outside, but the fury of the flames drove them back before they could reach the shrieking victims, who in their efforts to get out of the building fought desperately among themselves. Delaware Legislature For Taft in 1912 Of the total of thirty-one Republicans can member of the Delaware legislature, epiphenae are in favor of nomination of President Taft in 1912, while the remainder are opposed or do not give an opinion. Ten votes are recorded against the president, while two will not discuss the question. The greater opposition to the president being nominated to succeed himself next year comes in the lower house, which has twenty-two members. Eleven are for Taft, nine admittedly are against him, and two are silent. In the Senate Taft is in favor, for slight of the nine members of this house favor his renomination. SENATOR BAILEY Reigned Seat In Huff and Then Withdraws Ultimatum. Lorimer Wins Flight For Seat The senate, by a vote of 46 to 40, refused to unseat William Lorimer, of Illinois. This action brings to a close, at least so far as the present session of congress is conceived, a fact that has been waged for almost a year against the Illinois senator upon the charge that his election to the senate was accrualled by bribery. Lorimer was accrualled by the votes of men who will retire from the senate on March 4. Nearly every one of the "lamo ducks" voted for him Here is the list of the rotating committee whose insured Lorimer's hold on his seat Bulkeley, of Connecticut, Burrows, of Michigan; Curtler, of Montana, Depow, of New York, Dick, of Ohio, Hale, of Maine, Kean, of New Jersey, Piles, of Washington, and Scott, of West Virginia. Lorimer's opponents apparently do not intend to end their fight against this action by the senate. Some of the new testimony will be produced in the next session of congress and an attempt will be made to reopen the case upon this. Montana Elects Senator. Henry L. Myers, Judge of the district court of Ravalli county, was elected United States senator by the Montana legislature to succeed Thomas H Carter who resolved every Democratic vote or a total of fifty three votes, as against five live for Carter and three scattering Republican votes Burcolara Blvd. Bank, Dafn Burglar entered the People's bank, in Windfall, Ind, where they blew off the outer doors of the safe, obtaining about $400 in silver and $400 worth of postage stamps, left by Postmaster Sholty for safekeeping. They were unable to get into the inner vault, which contained about $400 in currency. Bank Robbery Get $3000 The Farmers' State bank, of Matthews, ind. was entered by robbers, who blew open the safe and seized $3000. A horse and buggy were also stolen from a farmer near Matthews, and in this the robbers escaped with their plunder Jurist Found Dead in Bed. Charles Brown Lore, chief justice of the Delaware courts for fifteen years, was found dead in bed at his home in Wilmington, Del He was nearly eight years old SUICIDE OVER HAREM SKIRT Father Killa Himself Because Deaughter Wear New Conceals. The hargest skirt is directly responsible for the death of one of the most prominent men in Rome. The victim was Major Rosah, a high municipal functionary, who committed suicide. His friends announce that he ended his life because he was killed with shame and disgust because his two daughters, aged twenty-three and nineteen respectively, adopted the trousers skirt as a part of their everyday costumes. DECLINES $50,000 OFFER Cannon Wires "Too Busy" to Proposition to Lecture. "Five hundred dollars a night for 100 nights," was an offer telegraphed from a western lyceum bureau to Representative Cannon, of Illinois, the rotting speaker of the house, in Washington. "Too busy," was in substance the reply telegraph back by Mr. Cannon. The offer prescribed that Mr Cannon could name his own speaking dates on the circuit. Open Well Costs $25,000. Violations of an ordinance requiring that wel holden he covered at night will cond Edward Behnert, of New York city, $22,000. A vordict for that amount was obtained against him by Mrs. Charles C. Kruger, who has band, a dept. of chief, was drawn from a well held who fighting a fire in Behnert's premises. Son of the Kalauer Has Appendixe. Prince Adalbert, third son of Emperor William, in ill wilt happened in Berlin The attack is described as a light one. 1 Edgar Stirling, who has been for five years the chief of police, of Bavillo, Vu, under the name of R. E. Morris, was arrested here as an escaped murderer from the Atlanta, Ga. prison. In 1897 he was tried for murder, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. His escaped pennant is Stirling's confessional. Stirling confessed his identity when requisition papers were read to him. JESUS PRESENT Woman Driven Insane by Death of Her Sister. Griven insane by Grief Over Death of Sister, Miss Joanette Lewis Gave Parent and Nephew Cyanids—Police Suspect Suicide Pact. Joanette Lewis, twenty-five years of age, of Philadelphia, placed some cyanide of potassium into a glass of water and then induced her mother and her nephew, Edward Midlon, Jr., nine years old, to take a drink from it. Both died instantly Then Miss Lewis drained a glass of the poisoned water. The murders and the suicide occurred at the Lewis home, 57 West Philenea street, Germantown, in the heart of the fashionable suburban district. The motive for the crime, the police say, was melancholia over the death of a sister, the mother of Edward Midlen, Jr., who died in the German hospital, following an operation for gall stones. It is said the police have information that Mrs. Lewis entered into a suicides pact with her daughter. According to the report, when the boy rushed into the bathroom Sarah Polhamus, the maid, went to his assistance, the child still held the glass containing the poison in his hand. Miss Polhamus tried to take the glass from the boy, but his grandmother, who tagged after him, cried "No, let him drink it!" Let him drink it!" It was also said that Mrs. Lewis tried to find the eight-months-old baby of Mrs. Midlen, with the intention of poisoning it, but she was unable to accomplish her purpose, because the infant was on the third floor in custody of its nurse. Miss Lewis was devoted to her married sister, and during the latter's illness in the Germantown hospital she was dally at Mrs. Midlen's bedside. An operation was performed, and it was thought at first that Mrs. Midlen would survive. Monday she suffered a relapse and died. When word was sent to the Midlen home Miss Lewis became almost frenzied in her grief. Her brother-in-law, himself struggling under the burden of his sorrow, sought in vain to soothe her Miss Lewis refused to go to her room, and through the hours of the night until daylight she walked about the house walling "My sister is dead; she is dead!" Telephones For Poison. After the sorrow stricken family had partaken of breakfast Miss Lewis went to the telephone and called the drug store of Dr C D. Lowe. According to Dr. Lowe the young woman represented herself as Florence Snyder, the trained nurse in charge of the infant. She said that she wanted an ounce of cyanide of potassium and would send for it. When asked the reason she replied that she wanted the poison for medicinal purposes. To dissolve the drug it would have been necessary to soak it in water for a long time or else pulverize it. It is believed that when Miss Lewis received the drug she must have gone into some room unobserved and there crushed the crystals into a powder. Undetected she then emptied the pulverized poison into a glass of water. By some artifice she induced the nine-year-old boy, who was nicknamed "Peach," to take a sip of the drugged water. Then on another protest she handed the glass to her mother and watched her take a drink of the lethal potion. Whon she saw that the powerful drug was having its effect upon her nephew and mother, she went to her own room She lay down upon the bed and drained the glass of all but a few drops. The first intimation of the grim tragedy was given to Sarah Polhanan. She was cleaning in the bathroom on the second floor when the little boy, gasping and apparently in agony, staggered into the room. Grandmother and Boy Fall Dead. "Peach! Peach! What is the matter?" she cried. The boy was unable to make reply. As Sarah Polhamus advanced to help the child, his grandmother, suffering intensely and exhibiting the same symptoms as "Pench," followed him into the room. The domestic renched for a glass of water, but before she could place it to the child's lips he fell to the floor unconscious. The girl turned to Mrs Lewis, but she, too, lay limp on the floor. The domestic ran into the hall and shouted "Miss Lewis, where are you? Your mother has felited." There was no response, and the girl rushed into Miss Lewis' room, where she was found unconscious upon the bed and apparently dead. Mr. Midden was in the parlor on the first floor and Miss Snyder, the nurse, was on the third floor. Both hurried to the second floor in response to the tries of the terrified domestic. Mr. Midden, not realizing that the three were dead, rushed to the drug store and cried out to Dr. Lowe that three members of his family hadainted. He asked the drugged to return to the house with him. The two hurried back to the house, and Dr. Lowe, upon seeing the bodies, realised that they had been poisoned. TROOPS RUSHED IN HASTE TO TEXAS It Is Believed News From Mexico Prompted Mobilization. QUARTER OF ARMY MASSED Government Asserts That It Is Only For Mancuvers, But Rumors In Washington Are That Great Britain Threatens Mexico. An army of approximately 20,000 men, representing all branches of the service, is mobilizing along the Mexican border of the United States. It is officially stated, and the administration made special efforts to substantiate the statement, that the sole purpose of this unusual mobilization was only for the training of officers and men. There were persistent rumors, however, that the government was preparing for more serious ventualities. Confidential reports from Mexico encourage the belief that conditions in the Mexican government are far from being as satisfactory as official assortions seek to indicate. Immense foreign interests are at stake in Chihuahun, for example, and their owners have been very uneasy as to what would happen to them in the case of widespread disorders. There was a report in Washington that urgent representations had been made to the state department that unless the United States government immediately made adequate preparations to protect American and foreign interests in northern Mexico, appeal would be, if it had not already been made, to Great Britain to do so. The report could not be definitely confirmed, but it was simultaneous with the official announcements that an army was already concentrating within striking distance of the Mexican border. Official Explanation. The White House itself gave out a statement after the meeting of the cabinet in explanation of the passing of troops, and reading as follows "The war department is mobilizing a division at full strength at San Antonio, Tex., for the purpose of fold training, of officers and men, and for the further purpose of holding maneuvers involving possible operations against Galveston. There will be assembled at Galveston a force of three regiments for the defense of that place against the attacks of the navy "On the Pacific coast the mobilization will involve a brigade of infantry in the Los Angeles district for the purpose of defending San Diego and San Pedro against possible attack by the navy. The mobilization of those troops will furnish an excellent opportunity for the instruction of a number of senior officers in the elements of higher command "It will also put to a practical test the preparedness of the staff department for the mobilization of troops. Major General William H. Carter will command the provisional division. The brigades at San Antonio will be commanded by Brigadier Generals M. P. Maus, F. A Smith and Ralph W. Hoyl." "The troops at Galveston will be under the command of Brigadier General A. L. Mills. The troops in the Los Angeles district will be commanded by Brigadier General Tanker H. Bliss." Reproducing as nearly as possible war conditions involving hostilities in advance of a formal declaration of war, the president gave the word, and within a few moments messages were flying all over the country by wire ordering the assemblage of 20,000 troops in the department of Texas. This is virtually one-fourth of the entire army of the United States, including troops in the Philippines and other insular possessions. Navy to Take Part Also. The navy is to play its part, and a formidable fleet of armored cruisers, supplemented by auxiliaries necessary for the maintenance of a hostile naval force on the coast of an enemy, will take its place off the Texas shore line. The military force will establish its headquarters at San Antonio under command of General William H Carter, assistant chief of staff, assisted by several brigadier generals, who will command the brigades into which the grand division will be divided. Orders so far issued contemplate the assignment to General Carter's command of fifteen regiments of infantry, five of cavalry and two or three of field artillery. In addition two full regiments of coast artillery will be transformed into infantry, which will be a novel departure in military practice. It is the intention to have this entire force assembled in Texas within five days. Busch Glyca $10,000 to Charity Adolphus Bishch, it was announced in New York donated on the occasion of the celebration of his golden wedding $5000 each to the German Chil drena hospital. In New York, and the German Foramen's home, at Hoboken, N. J. --- West Virginia Must Pay The sum of $7,132,567 was held by the supreme court of the United States to be the proportion of $33,000,000 old Virginia state debt which West Virginia is under obligations to bear. The court left the final determination of the matter, including the question of interest, to the states, to be decided by conference. The President, In Accepting Resignation, Calls Secretary Ballinger Object of "Most Unscrupulous Conspiracy." Richard A. Ballinger's resignation as secretary of the interior, dated Jan. 19, was accepted by President Taft, and Walter L. Fisher, of Chicago, was appointed as his successor, his commission being signed immediately by the president. Congress has not acted on the Ballinger-Pinchot report, but in the next session, where the administration will have little say, it would certainly have come up. It is hardly likely he would have been exonerated Walter Lowrie Fisher, who succeeds Mr. Ballinger as secretary of the interior, is a lawyer living in Chicago, where, since1906, he has acted as special traction counsel for the city of Chicago. He was born at Wheeling, W. Va., July 4, 1862, and was educated at Marietta college, Ohio, and Hanover college, Indiana, graduating from the latter in 1883. In 1888 he was admitted to the bar in Chicago, where he has since practiced, being a member of the firm of Motz, Fisher & Boyden. Mr. Fisher has been one of. Gifford Pinchot's staunchest supporters in the matter of conservation of natural resources. He was president of the Conservation League of America, and is now vice president of the National Conservation association, which succeeded the league, and of which Mr Pinchot is president He has always taken a deep interest in conservation and has been identified with the reforming of the Republican party. He was instrumental in the formation of the Municipal Voters' League of Chicago, and was its president in 1906 Health Poor. He Says. Secretary Ballinger tendered his resignation in a letter of Jan. 19, basing it entirely upon the condition of his health The president replied at once, expressing his confidence in Secretary Ballinger and his reluctance to accept his resignation, and requested the secretary to remain in office until the close of the session of congress. Immediately upon the adjournment of congress Secretary Ballinger renewed his request that he be relieved at a date suited the president's convenience, but immediately if possible President Taft in a letter formally accepted the resignation The correspondence between the president and the secretary is not voluminous, but displays beyond question the confidence which Mr Taft has reposed in Mr Ballinger throughout the long siege and the indignation with which he has viewed the attacks upon the secretary's personal and official integrity "I have had the fullest opportunity," the president says in his letter accepting the resignation, "to know you, to know your standards of service to the government and the public, to know your motives, to know how you have administered your office and to know the motives of those who have assailed you. I do not hesitate to say that you have been the object of one of the most unscrupulous conspiracies for the defamation of character that history can show." And in conclusion, this letter the president declares that every fibre of my nature rebels against such hypocrisy (referring to the attacks upon Ballinger's character) and nerves me to fight such a combination and such methods to the bitter end, lest success in this instance may form a demoralizing precedent. But personal consideration for you and yours makes me feel that I have no right to ask you for a further sacrifice. The president goes on to declare it evident that he has been himself the ultimate object of the attack, and says that to insist upon Mr. Ballinger a remaining in office "with the prospects of further efforts against you, is selfishly to impose on you more of a burden than I ought to impose." Four Killed by Explosion Three children and a man were killed and six other persons injured when a boiler at the Blackburn Gambill distillery, on Howard's creek, Breasthill county, Ky., exploded. The victim were playing about the distillery when the explosion occurred Brown Defeats Wolnast. Knock Out Brown, of New York, defeated Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion, in a six round fight in Philadelphi. Brown carried the battle to Wolgast in every round. He was wonderfully strong and aggressive and Wolgast took many hard knocks. It was Wolgast's stamina and ring generalship that proscripted Brown, from knocking him out, but at that on several occasions the champion was hard pressed. Largest Sunday School in the World. The enrollment of the First Methodist church Sunday school in Brazil has reached $300, which is said to make it the largest Sunday school in the world. The next largest, according to local statistics, is in Brooklyn, with an enrollment of $300. French Army Officer Killed. B. Mangin, Chief of the French military mission at Foz, Morocco, was killed by the son of the Moorish minister of war because the French officer had caused the execution of two native soldiers. Pittsburg 'Millionaire Offers $500,000 For "The Mill." 100 It is reported in London that H C. Frick is the American who offered $500,000 for Lord Lansdowne's famous Rembrandt, "The Mill." Lord Lansdowne has had several offers for this picture and P A B. Wildener went up to $350,000, but without avail. It is said Lord Lansdowne has offered the National Gallery the option of taking the picture at the price-offered by Mr Frick. Sir Charles Holroyd, director of the National Gallery, said that the marquis had offered the nation the refusal of the work and promised $25,000 towards its purchase. Sir Charles, however, despaired of raising the sum necessary unless some millionaire was prepared to pay the bulk of the sum, as in the recent case of Holbein's "Duchess of Milan," when $250,000 was given by an anonymous contributor. It is said that an American collector has offered $500,000 for "The Mill." COUNTRY ROAD'S IMPORTANCE All Raw Materials and Food Products Must First Be Hauled Over It. Facilities for transportation to market are essential to every kind of agricultural and industrial development. When we speak of transportation, however, we often use the word in too narrow a sense as applying to carriage by railway or by water. We think of transportation as beginning at the railway station or the steamer wharf. These are, in fact, but points of concentration in the transportation system of the United States. This concentration is effected by transportation which, as to farm products, begins at the farm itself, and as to manufactured commodities, begins with the carriage of the raw materials to the factory, said W W Finley, president of the Southern Railway company, in Well Kept Macadam Road. an address delivered before the Southern Appalachian Good Roads association Every improvement in a highway be it a waterway a railway or a wagon road means an enlargement of the opportunities of all those engaged in any kind of business contiguous to it. In the development of both agril culture and manufactures the wagon road plays an important part. What ever may be the ultimate destination of farm products their first movement is over the country roads. The same is true of the raw materials of many important industries and in the concentration of food and supplies for an industrial or commercial center and in the distribution of commodities from such a center through the surrounding agricultural regions the wagon road is always an important factor. The farmers who does his own hauling does not always realize the amount that it costs him but the expense is there nevertheless. It is made up of the additional time of himself and his team, the wear and tear on his wagons and the harriers. Furthermore, with bad roads, his hauling must all be done when weather conditions are most favourable, thus keeping him and his team away from farm work at times when that work can be most effective. Bad roads which necessitate the farmer running his products to market while the weather is good result in overloading the market and breaking down prices. They also result in the concentration of such large quantities at shipping stations at at times to agree the carrying capacity of the railways, producing freight congestions and car shortages. They make necessary the storage of large quantities of grain in elevators and of other farm commodities in warehouses and the imposition of storage charges. A good road increases the value of farm lands within the zone of its influence not only by reducing the cost of hauling all products to market, but The cost of a good operator during the average life of a Typewriter is Several Thousand Dollars And remember that no operator can do the most work or the best work except on the best machine. 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A large range of commodities such as dairy products and meat products and vegetables cannot be produced successfully unless they can be marketed in a fresh state. They must be brought to the market town or to the shipping station from which they are moved in refrigerator care before they have time to deteriorate. It is plain the industry farmers and all the people are interested in the conservation of resources and energy in the construction and improvement of wagon roads and in keeping down the burden of taxation. Shelter For Heat A very important matter is our stress but our growing is a good shelter for while other animals do the farm may appear to be content to remain in the cold with the big, occasionally colds in the warm dry grass. So for the good of this animal do not go continently to have it warm and compel him to expose itself to the cold, sometimes but enable for him a comfortable warm and dry bed. Storage of Late Caboose The host way to store late lettuce for good keeping is to place the heads in the ground and the roots up in a trench in the ground. Look down straw among the roots, but leave the roots extending down, cover the roots with soil and cover the trench with straw and found. Soong them in the seller is object to an amount of very dehydrated soil if delivery sets in. Improvement In Hierarchy Men whose experience extends back half a century can discover a great im provement in both draft and road horses. The riding is rapidly passing State Stallion laws are largely resp onsible for improved conditions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Hla Scruples "Why do you suppose he got married by a justice of the peace?" --- A Good Head For Business. "I want a hatpin, said little Mary of four years as she gazed eagerly at the cushion full of sparkling ornaments on the milliner's showcase. "How much is it?" she asked after making a very deliberate choice and laying her purchase money, a bright penny, on the counter. "Oh, nothing," returned the kind hearted Mrs. Briggs, as Mary's mother was one of her regular customers. Imagine her amusement as the little "bargain hunter" said most eagerly, "I'll take two, then." Dellnerate. Regular Subscription Price $3,00 a Year for which please send me 1st Six Months mention The PLANET WOMAN'S BITES KILL NURSE Blood Poisoning Follows Lacerations by Maniac's Teeth Miss Lillian Light, a professional nurse who for some time was a district nurse in Lebanon. Pa died at her home from blood poisoning resulting from being bitten by a depleted woman Mrs John Killmoviski whom she was nursing. Miss Light was battles in the chosse and on her hands and arms ending in blood poisoning due probably to her run down condition from overwork A sister Miss John Roberts, lives in Philadelphia. CHEESE KILLED HIM Farm Hand Ate a Pound and Died of Acute Indigestion. William Thomas a farm hand, who was employed at Gardinetown, near Newburgh N.Y., and who evidently had taken the advice of Secretary of Agriculture Willon to eat lots of cheese came to Newburgh bought a pound of cheese and returning to the farm, made a meal off it with some crackers. It resulted in an attack of acute in digestion and left medical assistance could be received he was dead Thomas was thirty years old Jefferson Davis Monument Unveiled New Orleans invaded a monument to Jefferson Davis in the boulevard recently named for him. A shaft of granite supports a bronze figure of the president of the Confederacy Phone. Monroe-2036. Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. Office: Mechanics' Savings Bank Building, Rooms 201-5, 2nd Floor. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. JOHN POINDEXTER and Company Practical House and Sign Painting. Shop, 1112 N. First Street. All Work Guaranteed. Put your ad. in The PLANET. STRAIGHT DISTILLERY WHISKEY 3GALS. $450 4½GALS. 675 EXPRESS PAID. AT DISTILLERY PRICE. When away Distillery Whiskey, we must be. We do not handle compounds and chemical mixtures. If the goods you buy from us are not as we represent, and better than you ever bought at the price, return them and we will REPAY and your money. YOUR CHOICE OF CORN, RICE OR GIN GALS 3 GALS. 6 GALS. 12 GALS. $4.50 $6.75 $3.00 $5.50 Express Paid to any office of Adame or Southern Express Company STONEWALL DISTILLING CO. 1453HULLST.RICHMOND.VA STONEWALL DISTILLING CO. 1453HULLST.RICHMOND.VA RAILROADS. ACCOMMODATION TRAINS - WEEKDAYS Leave Bydri St. Ns. 1.50 M. P. For Frederickburg. Arrive Bydri St. Ns. 1.25 M. P. For Frederickburg. Arrive Bydri St. Ns. 1.25 M. A. M. From Frederickburg. Arrive Kirkha Ns. 6.30 M. 6.30 M. P. From Abaklan. * Daily: 1 Weekdays, 1 Sundays only. All trains to or from Bydri Street Station except trains leaving 4.50 m. a.m. and arriving at Bydri Street Station departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. N. & W. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL USE TO NORFOLK Schedule in Feb. First January 10, 1911 Leake Birl Street Station, Richmond, FOR NORFOLK 9'00 A M 3'00 P M 4'10 P M FOR SCHIHNER, AND THE WEST: 9'15 A M 9'00 A M 3'00 P M 9'20 P M A M 9'20 P M 9'20 P M From the West: 9'00 A M 11'00 P M From the West: 9'00 A M 12'00 P M 12'15 P M 8:00 P M 9'00 P M at Sunday Sunday only, Pollinator, Parlor and Sleeping Pops, Cafe Dig tions: C H ROSLY, W H BHVILLE, D P. A, Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE THANKS LEAVE HARVARD DAILY M and 8 15 A M M and 7 35 P M * 10 30 P M For Norfolk 9 00 A M * 3 00 P M, 6 12 P M For N A W & W West 6 15 A M, 8 00 A M 3 00 P M and 9 20 P M For Petersburg 1 00 A M * 6 15 A M, 8 18 P 9 00 A M * 12 00 P M, 8 00 P M 4 10 P M * 6 40 P M, 7 30 P M, 9 20 P M, 11 45 P M For Goldhoffo and Farettellee * 4 10 P M, James arrear Ruben and 7 27 A M * 7 27 A M, 8 47 A M, * 10 45 A M, 11 40 A M * 7 00 P M, * 10 45 A M, 11 40 A M * 8 00 P M, 9 00 P M, 11 30 P M **I accept Sunday ** * Farett Monday ** * Sun- law only Time is arrival and departure and con- sence not guaranteed C S CAMPELL, D P A Southern Ry TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. N B - Following schedule figures published information and not guaranteed 6 10 A M Dally. Local for Sanctile Charlotte Durham and Haleigh 10 48 A M - Dally Limited. For all polls with Drawing Room Battery Sleeping Car to Memphis, via Amherst and Chattanooga. 8 00 P M Ft. Sunday Local for Durham and intermediate stations 8 00 P M Kerrville Locah 11 48 P M —Lally Limited, for all posts South Pallman ready 8 00 P M YORK RIVER LINE 6 80 P M -Px Friday To West Point,合 sitting for Baltimore Mon, Wed & Fr 6 00 A M Px Sun and 2 15 P M -Mo, Wel, and Fr. Local to West Point. TRAINS ARRIVE BICRMOND From the South 4 00 A M. 8 00 P M. dally 1. K. Eau. Burkay. 12 50 P M. Eau. Burkay. 2 P M. From West Point. 9:00 A M. daily; 11:35 A M. Weil and F. 4:00 P M. Er Sunday. R. E. BURGERS, D P A. 9:00 Fast Main Street. Phone. Madison-488 C. & O. 9:00 A Daily Fast trains to Old Point. 4:00 A Newport News and Norfolk 5:00 A Daily Local to Newport News. 5:00 P Daily Local to Old Point. 5:00 P Daily Louisville and Cincinnati 11:00 P Pollmann 18 19 P - Week days Local to Glenmorlie. 18 20 P - Week days Forge 18 21 P - Week days To Spinchibon TRAINS ARRIVE HICHMOND Local from East -8 25 A M. 7 50 P M Local from East -8 30 A M. 6 55 P M Local from West -8 30 A M. 6 55 A M. 7 20 P M ROURSS bf leo! © de airy bush SS eer ae ene ee Reins ene eee cae etn Biya eee cs [a eG es Aenea ec nee uae: bee ican Atte are See unos Pubtubel every Satuntay by -FONN MITCH, Beat? Fourth bucet letra, Ve JOHN MITCHELL, 3, . 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ON St BSC RIPTIUSS, TUE PLANET te test week The guleeryy dion ie Stee me al ie cane Se ee EE oan eae Oy ae cad Bas aa ans Sloe ty fuck “Chece of Tend ran baie eee Lae I sae ee SLO Mites trae Have Gun ase No ea a any acs real tne Wate oe te eeamten Coed See aut shad US aca eludel ee ie cent GAAS wasn y tia 4 van be btaine oa eae iret aames Citi aoe Cea Baer Sie Nee, Raat A Lanes Sele ete sss leanne ne ee Be ES TE Recess NTETUN STM oes on he eee PERS AS teh Pee se ait ton Rumney ae phe eee ae! manner at our tek * 1 eae thy ater oN tua one eeu eee Mies see we tee dat sia beer rT Sa nat tee eee ik | TYNE ALS FTE AE so ats not wart Tn Sea Oe ih ean eae Penge ogre roped ete ue neeee She Pirate of tive for wtiste We has town pant are | abe a irr fer uct We tate ee a ee ee ate Teel | TR WR RRE TN wile seria otherwise we vagiet. vi Sout natur OF Sete? TTR: ye aNUIEEaS. 48 oer to change ctebi (a tty 9 int at ie Mtr Sat Se occa tha et Vatenst at the Pet Othe at Kibment Va | Oe ae a 1 SATURDAY MARCHE 1K, 1911, ee Some peonle prea h tho gospel of hope und wome heaves Me dire sesente . Home people are so mest Chane the decelt and Jealon y from within buses out'the pores of the sath Worry paraly ges (he netlon of the heart and prevents one from doing a full day's work Dont forget that : o si Marriage citer eteadies a man or MC puta him vit of busines! We won der sometines why fH puts so many amen out of bualness Colored, folks should be polite and obliging to both white und colores people, It will win If the whert well ag tn the,Jong run Tet tun be hopeful nad not down hoartgd It tn time cnongh to grieve over troubles aftor they have ar rived at the camping ground Colored folkx ate having a hard time on account of rome of tho Ne grohating white folkx Imt If even these were nol active, the fusx-mnk- ing colored folks would start up and cause almost as much trouble aa they are canaing Home folks have ty take a Iittte whiskey to make theni feo! good, and then they take a little more to make thom feel etter, and then they take a Sittle more to make AJl tho good: fooling come back again, and thos find that thoy aro put out of ner- ‘vice, When thoy come around again they find that they have to pay a hogshond full- of trouble tor a barrol of pleasure, .. We do not take a gloomy view of the outlook for tho colgred people ta thiscountry, Viewed trom any stand polmt, we can sce the rain-bow of promiso in the Heavens, Young men, Who expect to Jeap into the full onjoyment of hil of their rights and priviloges should shut thomsofres up ins Ubrary and read historical ro- cords of conditions existing prior to 1865, They will come out rejuvenated men and will exclatin with us that there have been darker Unies than the present ‘eattncemzemnsi i oeemee na | | The arrest of Fxgar Stripling conyleted murderer, who had boet | werviug us Chief of Poire of Danville | Virgioin, nnd who way then actin Tin that capacity shown "to wou jlemgths men will Ko to Mido the evt dences of thelr crimes Me sought ‘retreat in an omen where hls enemies ould vast expuct to find bin We “could not understand why he did vot respect the fevlings of thoxe who had Hoyntty stood by tm during all Of thear years Wo the extent of tuk ing off the Jnsiguia of the office whieh Uy his actions, he bad xo. shsnatly Alsgriged Ms record shows that he his Killed two men, whe white und the other colored sine he wecaped frou Georgia In other wads by Jeaving Pilson, tt has cont this ser tion of the Country Just Ovo more human lives Hix own statement of the ertne SHOWS con tuatyes that he Georstt Jury dif not err tn tts findings He ts ullts of murder dn the fret de gree SUI, even tis wil not form a bar to hts jardin The Jury whould dev Its diity und If there are extent wing «freuixtanees the pardontng power ean be Invoked and perbspn induced to cotne to ie relief | The tone of Stripling = Wtters ts fisgnsting many people He seems te Nave no AHAME NO IW AMeHEL setISe oF propriety He thinks enly of tin elf and family and not of the publie | oF ot the hundreds of bis former | Trends tm Danyile whe tise ben | mumiiatedgan Petatartansed by thes | apOnute The leon wait not he | mt We hope and clint wh no! wubt be voaehsafed in use te eat! red folks jut aa nue aw aw at ts” eg evtenbed to white anes £ 5 A TRICK ORDINANCE fo That tne erdigntes far the ay [ren pat tion of twin vib. te tho be a ie ola hs aitlane wt dread ices. inieltieniecaied cite Uighig fir gil es been page nut oduceley thw heed ob atiormes if wecareste: ques bv tneie aston fast ronan) Siu Wa BAe seas Jeni tale in able cian BAG Ree cle bebh(WLGTPSIN a the Geena W Maio dad sbecuineln mene from thelr aworn duties by Oe crles of the demagogues, whe by the ap fost to-sune: prejuatees eneanng te sit aN} BIL Ok oe Liles Fe sre oh Sioeclly sterancst ana tie ivione aH MutaaKt ae EPSEAL nis "whi aes vod eto Uo Testor fait thar feeling he teat Gatto ieriMatute ta Ghé Selebienaen Ar li (ites Coe Vala hae i In ona lebanon esting em il plement; ail whem thes. te te tl ie wt eaealen Teli ue mabe trvgnry: 8 CHO Yo AE cd Dir eats vee RINGO Molt take hineael detriment of one hundred NU UMY gmaadi” eto: nite oO - V QUESTION OF PARTY Colored omen in the doubrtal Northern and Weat®n States ure Jeaying the Republican party dnd al- Aying themnelvex with the Remocratic arty The outlook 14 x0 gloamy for President Taft and his aupporters that he as ninking strenuous effort to chock the exodne which may en danger Ropnbtiraa xugrere inthe hext nattonal election Rbeht In the midst of Nils here coms x Demo. cratle newspaper reputed, to have tore colored renders thar any other dally paper tn Michmond we refor to the News Lender wud openly ad Youle the dental to the colared peo wle here of the vented right’ of ow- nermbly It In xo virulent nnd re Jontloen tn ttm attnckn that It even Tinks the rights of white people and ankn them to yleld up thelr vented Tighta In ordor that a fow Negro-hnt Ing white people on Clay atreet may bo benefited thereby Tho frenk ordinance not only af fect# conditions on this particular stroot. but practically Interforos with {rlondly nnd pencoable conditions over tho entire clty ‘The club te hold not onfy over the Board of Al- dormen and the membors theredt, but over the Mayor of tho city, all of whom are threatonod with dofoat At the’ next élection if they,do not rush poll-mell aad grant the uncon. stitutional request of these race-' strite breeders. So tar ne the col ored prople are’ concerned they have prevonted digaified protests, ‘The! * THE: RICHMOND: PLANET CRICHMOND: VIDOINTA DS: Dotter class of them” hare ho dosing to oncroack upon the territory, where thoy rg not wanted, and if the mat. tor le loft to thom can settTo tho mat: ter very quickly by not purchadlog any more property or occupying apy tore property in the nelghborbood in which objections are being made. We think tUmt we spoak advisedly, too, whon we say that Sf thix stroet 1s "God's chosen avenue” for these INegro-batlog whito folks that we will well out our holdingw there ut its actual value and give the white folks undisputed possession of this street Inatead of purchasing the aunes at over a million dollar cost to the city, let thts money be utilized im buying up the holdings of the co} ored folks, and they will go ola: where and spend thelr money and Uve in peace. This will be w felons) tary uct on their part and will not come Jn the category of a forced exo diew Jat a committee of white property owneru,on Clay street meet and bus up the property of the colored Clay- Ktfeet property-owners und they can then be haygy. As the matter now stands, (hose who have sold to cot ored prosle have realized enough money ty buy palatial rewldences In he West End We can buy property for lees money on Purk and Grove ‘entes Chan we can on Clay wtreet.| 2rt ux all WOFK In Darmony and atog | his everlasting agicuion about these | waeetal colored folns wo are hind |! watt aud would nut do any ot} hew white folks any harm ! ies ) We ate aratitied tor kaw that th Howes of Aderinn at ite regula J ertha lant Tuesday mht saw ft totaly Chat freak sore getton at dinare offered on betalt of a fey Tite praverty owners in Chay street (HAG of whom have ven tying See thar property ty colored pooph Mt thelr prteos ant have been unabh se teddy They have been frnst rated Hn Thor efforts to bar culoret pool trom Chay street hy a duchgon of th Chaaeers Comet of the vlty of Meh Shomnd ard then they provended te Juvehe Che abl of thee politielans and under wip and spur? drew the Fue strife ineasire Unt ough the Com: tion Connell Thes Nese already Injured the eetoted pengie to at Ineateatatte es Tent by atsertistigt then all over the fonts vd een in forehen coun Ties as uadesiratle clttenns, as stelte Feeder as 1 people amutous to force tena tes In where they are hot wanted Aw a anatter of fact the Site Gd More people have ansre Fated themmoe Ives and 1 he a Adie alt PARE We Rete olf respec ttn sal (OA Le sot tee muse inter au exe dae Seek white netttbarhond — Those Shs Moe sete tnto Chay tract lt me ss a matte of Mere ty Wane Pe Oy Dende E faar tieseedvens antes be Ons ty and tad ttt Sete ttt whe i Peano the! Fede em et te catted quarter Wee dle Ce aT ated Geet ter bing ind te ent > 6 of them reluctantly moved HH Tes cise mere rout was needed, sud not ner uine they dealred to eu harass thet white nelghhors There hus hewn no chistes ax tho. rewult | The most fete uilly forltnss elses” bee reer those white peste vine | ‘Hint (rivbally te colured ones Even he IT white tots pay ow thete| ule of (he street and the Hele cal soenly te naseite® aking white) worl atid somettnen the UrStite | Heeling colared ones that eaune the): aft unpltacantness The bate Fements of bath riees have Jearned [ ox le deal with beth We ston tf yt Oe coloted people the progres. I Ise ettizens ndvertised ty the wortd || snot xetting along with the better] t lint af White poople “ft If the white folke do not win ual! sorupy more property on Cluy|t treet AC Will pt he nevexary for hem CO past unconstitutional pral {5 aures to prevent our doing ao The! oneersative colored people of thie] s mnmuntty can exersie enough In|] nenee to present thelr ao doln Tho t x WHIT be on the white folkn and * ot on the colored ouen The prop-|\ “itlon to provide a place in the|t rizhborhoud of the Virginia Unton|r niveralty as a quarter for colored | d ople tu ridleulous The coxt would | f ered nm mifiifon of dollars, and all] f the white folkx on“Ciny street] tl ould Secept that amount of money| i their property and give the co! |! red folk undtyputed —possonrton |7 loreover, colored folks are not In- Innk or Mexicana or Chineso ‘They| re American citleens, and you can-|* ot lawfully segregate a cltten, They | re acgresated now tn obedience to| A unwritten Inw, voluntarily roc] nized hy both of tho contencting|t nrtlon 7 ¢ We have insinted that wo had nol ar of tho ordinance ax onacted for| tl Ne ronson that ft would only ro-]t uiro tho sorvices of q Rood lawyer, tcked by Kome-Rood money, to put |r 19 ordinanco to elesp” soon atter its] rth; but we do not wish to havelo ni blood aroused: and i11-tooling en-| 0 dered on tho part of both races. ence and happiness aro esnential to| ¥ © success bf thin muniefpality, and lo this end we lope that all colored] 8 opto will bo conservative In‘ thelr] a language and ‘chvepalat thate “son: duct, We hope that'the time has not jot come when tha‘ professed white frlonds of the ‘colored people wilt Fide rough shod over the unsnt: ‘mous protest of an buthble and good- natured people who aro doing all in their powor t deservo the goodwill of thelr white, associates and who Intend to demonsitate thoir abitity to be worthy Woalth-producing uaits of this community, ——__. 3 THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP. - | aud curbarrassing one. A man is ty {lstinctively lender. provided. ho | [born with the clengats of leuderaht in him Ho gravitates to the top ani }to hear blu expound the wtadon [and the knowledge. which his min .|!» Supponed to contain But there ari Jaifterent degroea of leadership |Some men cun lend « company, atv thoy will make a failure f-they at team to tead a attation Bom men can Kad a battalton and the) WHHL mane a fallure if (aey attenip fo lead a regiment sane nen cat leat a regiinent umd they will make & fallure 1 they attempt to lead a brigade So IC Iw $n eet und goelal [iife We anust xelect wen according Ito their several abilities, and when & man hay failed Me should be went to (We reur in order that he may Mutke Tepm for woe one who may fone ved | Hts not altogether a question [either shy Wo whether the man whe ts leading Je making milstukes, Tee uwestion te ean you elevate a man fo the position orsupied by htm, whe Will make fewer tintahes? If We ae HOt enreful Im matters ot thin hind we shall go from ad to worse Het easy to Unter a an whe $4 Kolns through with «iment pure formance ft fy hard to pat yourselt Hh js plas and Avot the mistices Which yen allege That te msde in the dishlay befdre Ce pata The fundstuentel and yital question 1s Hoew athe leader suean rigtt’ Is hs beart right, and Is he duing what hv believes to be to the best tutetest of te people whom he repress nts” These questions Wa presented hemselyes 0 UR us We hive” an | mained the Unpleanatht tank of spies at with reference to Dr Bouner ‘T Washington's Iwadershiy His say yortora and devotees aie utlextu- | hat he wan the premier of the race } und for that reason Le should hive cen advice In all quatters, — both ducational aud pollthal We dol, rol nee IC Im that Ifshe We are off he opinion that If be tad expertone |} 1g vineo Of mind aud undergone], exeneration of heart in the mutter |, f polities, Uellevigy that celored nen should engage tn pontics, Ue] huuld hase publidy aunvum ed bof hange of position and te shoutd] J ave placed the world on notne Hey howl nat haveyielded ta the siren y nie of a Roosevelt buts ould have} a Hnalied loyal to the peti tiles en] wtated is hon for mere than alg narter of a century k SUI, We may be alstuken, but wel a We only expressing y matter of opin |g nm What bas bere the reautt™ Hes w= been hoauded amd vitiled they] 1 se charged hn with all of theft Ox In the deealogue wo to xpeak {*P Wd have made tor the object ot {tt Hui'eration and ridicule unJostly {1 ney have taken advantage of every | tt istake made by hii ny have tale | ay Hed Is many truly gevat acitere: [eh ents During all of these yearn} a Heyl 18H few personal friends he. m uot divulged the seeret that “hel te im POULT referee fora Rowub | w itn President until he aude the ad-| to sion over hfs own signature in| it 6 Workin Work We say Litt at{ he unfortunaw and it hue caused] ty ne Wp ty the hearte of came hin mowt ardent admirers to For ten seara at Jenst he han anade | F Uremwes whieh have been mo.teds| sn "ete hifd> Me tax prem hed the |e wpel of tequ and he hun sought tit po Cup and lusplre the fatten During| wi ridatkest days of ont racial adver |r ¥ the cheering voles of Hooker ‘f | ro wrbington haw been heard above| in; y roar of tho tempext For thin won we have Never Joined In the] te muncintion of him for nny alleged | ya Mt. We helleved that te meant {ax HW that he was confronting conat |r ny whieh would atagger nin lth of atich an optimintte teinpers-| tin nt an the diatinguished soge of | do nkexee . Tho quostion that naturally pre | dt itn Iteelt to up today tn, if wel a mlonto hiin as m factor, in the #0 |co: 1 and educational and industrial} an MN of tho taco, who can tako tial Ho ce? Ia thero @ man now upon! he horizon af raclal progress whol wh 1 Recura the ear’ of the white man|at the South of of the white man in| of North? Is thero a man amongst] tto who can cey’atoud and sparo not.| is oan voice will axtand hawand éh.! “iat tote" gbeuns bit a'aq backed” | the higher public sentiment which | )/now dominakt th tbe ontlon, |} It we repudiate Dr, Washingtor ‘|whero can We Sod a‘inan who wi javold the tfalts Which ‘are said t have beaot lls pathway and where ! the man who will how out a cours | wen will lead this down-trodde: {Peopto Tato the avenues of prosper 07 and to tho tablo-land of polities independence? Wea tho man” 1 Bamed, then {t will bo time to wut Jeet hin to the tosts, to seu if he wil measure up to tho standards set b; Dr Wavhington’s mout ardent ertt es. Tits distinguished “loader ha been meok and lowly of boart. Hi shows no viuiblo {rritation at tho at tacky made upon him, and hin satis faction nt woclag his opeintes discon: Ntvd Is oxpressed tn tho privacy o his own room Ho ta now at the head of ono of the moxt powerful economte bustneas machines, whieh haw xubsorved the purpose of 1 polit esl organization that has ever been huown In this country At ts composed of tho “cream” at the colored rare. Its membervhip ombraces a cithzensbiy) of a cullbre that hun wetdom been equated and hover surpamiod among colored men It strotches from the Atluntic to the Pacttte wud from Canada to the Gulf In Ith orguntzation and in ite suc- cena Dr Booker T AVahlugton han given evidence of his traaxceudent powers of leadershiy Meu who on pose htm ether from jealousy or (rom (ho underlying Bellet that he tx proving to by an Injury to the raco which he roprosenta will have to’ reckon With this phase of ge atl jet and ndrena gaeThes oust hin from power, abithey come unto nis win that they muNt then oe the hye t of attack on the part of te nen teen Of the National Negro Bus- nese Leagne, which organization AHL bw sure to take up the cudgel n dehalf of the inost remarkable heracter the colored people of this vuntry have ever produced We might add now that br Wash | tony Influence doex net stow ere He rontrols a large proportion { the colored prow just ax hed) butrols a larKe proportion of the! olored people Hi orgamtzers, elth|| r for the Nattonal Negro Buwiness || CURE OF bly orgaulzers of savingel Auk ure devotees of thin qeeatly efGyp whe i naw xententiously rstxndtied the premter of the eole|) red rave Who ty powerful enougis| dethrone him, unless he elects tof vdethroned and being now in the Ime of Ifo he shows no tnelinution| "stepping upon the shelf aud tying]! rn in the place, whlch his eritien| We asstgord to Ulin Wha, we ask {t m come to the front ay the man} Wwerful enough to wreet from hin|f «leadership which he has secured] f Wily commumimate absiity and thee We of the white men of the coun | . u Can Henry Lawota donnsane ot] ashington retire btu fn the mat [It of polities? ‘The nomination af! € Napier, of Tennessow and thal ® mination of Wm If Lewis, of] weaa@Busctls, woul seem to give alt gutlve anawer Can Edward Hi | rrhn, the Uiwtiugulyhed Chicago at [TF ‘wes aud wealthy cttlzen of the|/ ‘at State of Imola, do It, backed, tl be clatux to bo by the hordes ot [i d Fellovx, who sxarin from one| Hon of Uitx country 10 the other? | Me delivered the funeral dite over SUHHoRd Te-nalox of Dr Hooker| ™ Mashington and up to that time|\ seetned that President Taft hud| ¥) ted to be the tuneral director at| &F obaeqites, it thoge Mettning- {© arbolntmeuts made at almont| W twelfth hour ncem to gle the atIve answer = ‘ouple with tht the seputenrut an |B mement from New — Orleans,|t rte Walter L. Cohen wire suppoxed | 1 be wittsin the window of tia po-f “al tomb xtating that he was] be Hox on yet ux the Register uf ite Land Ome, und hin betiet oft] D™ teow 16 Nt Hooker T Washing and President William Heward | ( would Indiate that nothing. "a polltiea! revolution whieh wit rid breadth of character in tbo poll i foal feld extended itself to the o {tent of bis subordibating his persone foollngs to the better judgment | deciding the qualification of th ) prospective camdidato solely upon bi } morit? If ho bas done this, then th! , is ahother “nafl tn the coffin” ) thaso whq havo poralatontly an - faithfully, opposed him. , ily most implacable enomy | | William Monrvo Trottor, of Bostot Massachusetts, Ie no doubt di MUkes Dr. Washington in a way tha rivals to batrod of poraons of th modioval yerlod of history, Hot Jam@ilated with the Niagara Move Nmont and he not only attacks Dr ‘Booker T. Waybington, but all wh Iutand ax sponsors for him We ar jot the option that he returns th jcomplient Iu another way, and It { only necessary for a Trotter head Ue shoved up In order for sone ono o! Mle ddhorents to “hit" St As for Mr Trotter, be does not walt for the Washington head to be shoved up he trikes them whed (bey are down, and bo ‘iy ineretiews in bis mothouy of attuck. . Can the reprowentatives of these varlous organizations meet together uod wrrange an armistice? Can they find shelter under the same tent and receiv orders from the wane head- quarters? IC tw vitally necessary that Ukey should do so, but how can & divided race, torn by factiouat Jewfountes unite under one lender? Max God created a man who com vines within himucif the healing alin to south the sore places? ‘This is the question which demands an aniwer That Dr Wastington baw Jone untold good along educational, nancial and industrial lines, hardly admitx of & question No ono who will visit Tuskegie Inatitute, at Tus Kegee, Alabama —unlesn permeated with prefudlee agulnst him, can full 0 do fronur to this great achteve- ment He has put inspiration into hie breasts of the youth of the race ind the womunbood of a down-trod- len people watwine his portratty with uurels Aga politician and a referee t mist by admitted that he hus wert a divmat fiilure Me could not, should not have hoped to have wen anything else Our advance- neut along material Unes hae In- reused (he frletion along politi al hen have decreased {2 politieal in uence Wo are of-the opinion that the representatives of the Nationa’. e#F0 Business Longue, which orka f ization xives Dr Booker T Wash-f, ston his title to Negro leadership}, ere to meet In a national conven |: on with tho other organizations,}! Mel are not vo wtrong and power) i, no bagi of agreement could be| rmulated which would be vitally| sential to absolute harmony — ‘The| uth bout the whole matter tn? " colored folas. the more his abt {¢ y ts Increaned to rulke disnension|1 Ml to create strife Why thin ts 80, > have not an yet been able to un | Tatand It would hardly be wise} - Uisplace one leader, who fs Hot ne- pable (0 a lurge number of the ce. Uy another who inlght be more! * race und xo wo must have an!A Krexntion of leaders, each with bis| fn coterte of xupporters, hin own,” ay of followers * it makes ux appear ridiculous and niinizes our efforts to do good. g aln We propound the question, 0 In to wucvend the briliiant South. er, who has essnyed to lad the A ored people all of theke yearn | ™ vat inan I offorod. and whit 18 bis. siifcation for thin chief place ih #0 many brilliant colored men 4, uid seek? We desiro an answer th these questions, But to our mind, FP ‘uly one who can give a satin © Lory uMwer In He who never alin: nor aloe and wiia holds the Uny of races and nations in Hin = a w JOUN C RESSELL DEAD. | Wilken Barro, Pa Join © Russell, tor many yearn n seilatel qmntare Ser manyranen Cotnpany, departed this Ite Tuesiay morning. March 14, after n lingering Rinesn “of Beighi’w divense Me Ruwselt_ wan formierty n renldent of Richmond Va, nnd hie wife. who nurviven him. war Miia. Anna Evens of Richmond. ‘Va. until thelr mae: ringe. about 16 yenrn ago? Wo leaves hie wife ani three chit dren, who res{de Ih this cliy, two vrothers—Thomas Russell, of Rich, mond. and Rdward Rumoll, of der roy City, NJ: tq alstorn ites, Hattlo D. Davis, of Now Rorhelic, ¥. nnd Mins’ Pocnbontns Russell, of Epringfiold, Maan ‘The decensed wan well known and highly ronpectod In. this community an wall ax among his offcinis of tho Putiman Company. Tho funeral nervicen were held at othe! A. ME Church Thuraduy at 2D. M. conducted by Dr Pk, Srott, the pnstor DETECTIVES BOT RY Mon. Wounded Whilo Guarding Nonunion Raitrond Figemen, Somerset, Ky. March 14,—Chan Sworts, a Bt, Louls dotective, guard- {og nonunion fromen on passenger {rain No, 8, of the Cincinnatl, New Orteana-and Texas Pacite Rallroad, was brought here today auftoring from & bad gunshot wound. received Rear Btearna, Ky., thirty miles south of here. Swarts attempted to hold back a crowd that attacked Bei lonossotive and tried tojresah:'n ni O ;fitomari- An sistent of yaa fl rie: and. tho detective wasiebat i tae % Ik te reported the}: the: arias, waa killed abd that Soraya J othersnogre, firomen werd” lynghi Rar the ‘Ten- neasee ling, Ths, howavor, could hot. pe verified, . SEGREGATION i8 DELAYED, . Aldermen Defer Action On Vooler- ichr Color Line Measare, (MUchmond, Va., Nows Leader, March 16, 1911) Tho whexpected happenod fast night when tho Board of Aldermen tabled the Vonderlehr race segroge- tion ordinance. Tho genoral predic- tlon was for apovdy concurronco in the monsuro The aldermen decided, however, that the ordinanco was too” import- ant and far-rouching to bo hurried, nb ordered it printed for distribution: Alderman Qrundy, who favored this procedure, sald’ that if tt eame tow vote he would voto for ft. But he ‘argued for the tabling proposi- tlon, Aldorman Marx Gunst, on the oth- er hand, directed attention to the fact that the ¢rdinance committee hod given a full hearing to all in Snteroated partles, thut tho ordinance hud been twice printed in full In the howepapors and that thoro was Do Fenxonable cause for delay. Counciiman Vonderlehr was aston- ished at tho unvxpectod obstruction, Ho was unable to comprehend ft aad many other members of the board were mystided it developed that the arm of Woodward & Son, had veut a commu nieution to every membor of the board, pleading against action. “RE CAUTIOUS.” says VONDER- LEI Ariscunsing the situation week tho wueting of the alderuien, Counclimag Vonderiehr wald “I would Ike to caution every por: ‘on owning property in etrects hreatened with Invusion by colored reople. and who have contemplate? elling or renting thelr property to vekroes, to Walt awhile longer, “Dont well your property within he next thirty days, ‘Thia warning s Intended for all who contemplate viling because of tho unnatistactory onditions due to negro Invasion.” The motion to table and print wax dopted by u voto of 13 to '9, aw tor owe Ayes - Monirs Adams, Atktason, jutton. Cowardin Donalioe, Mitchell erdue, Powers, Renuolds and Whit. or—13 Noes Mesurs Bennett, Biltey, ou Leavy, Gilman Gunst, Kala, fore, Nelson and Patranr—g, Ordinaneo providing for a special int committee of Ave membore to Weutigate and roport what action howld Ue taken by the city In order Felleve the congested condition of 'e ‘colored population of-the city, ow mainly domiciled between Clay Feet on the south, Bacon's Quarter ranch, on the north, NiBth strest i the enat. and Bowe stroct on the oHt, #0 ax to facilitate und promote w , Hronosed sqgrogation of the hite and colored popitation. tn aking to this resolution Mr dams sald tbat tho report should "Prevented heforo the woKregution dinanty ts adopted-—that the city unt provide a place for the colored ople before enforcing a sogroca mn act | We cin prove Egymian Pomade Cream utraightens halr Sent pout. bald, 30 cante |, Address Peterson “Bron , 674 Third Avenue, New York City WITHDRAW WARSHIPS Sea Patrol Abolished at Mexico's De- tire, Within twenty-four hours alt the American naval yeusele in Moxlean waters will bo withdrawn, This action wus taken In necord ance with orders sent out by Bock man Winthrop, acting necrotary of the navy, following a formal proteat to tho xtate dopartment made by Benor Franctacy Leon de Ia Barta, the Sox! can ambassador In Waahlogton. The actlvity of the American naval ventolt war obnoaigus to the Dinz gor erninent, and Ambessador de Ia Barra wax instructed to ask that they be withdrawn ‘The diaputehine of the naval vosavls to Mexican watera waa for the two. fold purpose of Raving them avaliable in cane It he- caw nerensary to proie:! American and foretsn proporty nnd alto to gathor aecuate Information of tho real conditions in Mexico Te wns never intended, It wan ex plaiurd to etihiish a permanent pa trol of the arttic and Gulf coaatn of Merico ‘The fave department took those AlepR te obtain information not only of conilitions in Mexica, but also of attempted Mibustering expeditions. th view of the complaint of the Mexican povernment, however, thesd investiga: Hons Will be abandoned anit the vox sola withdrawn —e “Buftalo BI” For Renata Teds romiomecially stated Int Tucson, Ariz, that Colonel William P. Cody known to fame ax Buffalo HIN,” plann {8 round out his catoer by becoming Orst Unlrod Staten senator from Ar! wona. The colonel does tiot, deny the Tumor “Ho han estnblinbed & home to Tueron and n \wrinanent camp tn the mountainy | Cattle Worth $240,000 Burn. Almont two reas of atock sheds were burned dawn In Fort Worth, Tox. roasting to Goath hetween 610 and 190 head af horros, sheep ant hogs and reriousty boming four mon ‘The value of the dead antinale fe 9. timated at abont $360,000 and tno Droperty lors $30,000 ‘Celebrated 100th Birthday Anniversa Phinean Williams, the oldest rest dont of Stadioun county, N. Yu at bis home In Eaton, celobrated the 100th aonivergsry of bis birth. --- DRAMATIC STORY OF CRIME AND HIS ESCAPE FROM JAIL TOLD BY DANVILLE CHIEF Pausing now and then while a great job of uncontrollable anguish shook this frame, Edgar Stripling, otherwise known as R. E. Morris, chief of police at Danville, Va., told a representative of The Constitution in a cell at the Tower yesterday afternoon the first complete story of his escape from the Harris court fall in March, 1898. After he had been sentenced to life, the term in the penitentiary was the murder of W. J. Cormnett and included in the narrative to the circumstances leading up to the commission of the act and the course of his career after he escaped from fall. When first approached in his cell Stripling was half reclining on the narrow couch, and while tear drops blurred his eyes, was trying to write a letter to his wife, who is left he blind him in Danville with several children to provide for in the absence of her husband TRYING TO WRITE HER "I don't mind talking to you," said he, "but I was just trying to write a little message to my wife it all happened so sudden that I hardly know what to say to her," and as he laid aside the scratch pad and the pencil a spasm of pain twisted the stolded features of the police officer into a picture of object woe Then, as quickly as he had lost it, Stripling recovered his composure and sharpened my penelit? he asked. You know I'm not allowed a knife." And then the man whom the new-closer closing eye of the law has sought out after fourteen years and torn abruptly from the midst of his family and friends, told the story of his life, told it freely, told it without prompting except as to dates, and told it as a man who is supremely confident that nothing but justice can be meted out to him and that justice, in his own mind, can be nothing short of a pardon. INSULTED MY FAMILY "I shot Cornett, he began," because he had offered insults to members of my family and because he had repeatedly made threats against my life. I lived in fear of him, not the fear of a coward. If you will pardon that, but in the fear that a man experiences when he knows that a desperate man is hunting for him and will 'get' him just as soon as he can "On the night of September 4, 1897, when I shot Cornett through the window at his home I had not gone there to look for him. I had been to Chilley that day to swear out a peace warrant against him. When I got to Chilley I found the justice of the peace had closed his office and had gone home. It was night, and on the way to my house I had to pass the house of Cornett I was armed, because he had made many threats against my life and had said he would shoot me down the moment he saw me. I did not dare go out without a weapon, I knew that on that very afternoon he had been to my house, had asked for me and had stated to parties that he was looking for me. As I approached his house, I saw him pass the window by the light on the inside. It seemed to me that he renched up for something, what it did not happen but on the impulse of the moment and impelled by the threats he had made against my life, I shot him from where I stood. I am sorry that I did not meet him in the road. Then, perhaps, it would not have been so bad. HUFF WAS NOT QUALITY: "My brother-in-law, Terrell Huff, was jointly indicted with me for the affair and both of us were given life sentences. In spite of the fact that I told the jury that Huff had nothing to do with it. He was used to shield some one else." This last statement of Stripling's caused the reporter to ask if he was alone when he shot Cornett. "That is a question I would rather not answer," he said. "It probably doesn't matter." Then Stripling resumed the story and told of his escape from the Harris county jail in March, 1898, while he was waiting for an appeal to be taken to the Supreme Court. "On the night that I escaped," said he, "a negro in the jail broke out. I thought I might as well roll out, and I did." "That night I walked about three miles to the home of an uncle, and from there the next day I tobk a private.conveyance from Ohiplay to Griffin. Then I went by rail to Abboville, S. C., went to a hotel and as it was Sunday, I went to church that night. SUPERINTENDED A FARM "From Abbeyville I went to Whitmire, B. C., where I superintended a farm for a man named O. S. Spearman." Thon I went to Southern Pines where I secured employment until the fruit season was over. "In November, 1898, my wife and three children (we have ten now, you know). Joined me at Greensboro, N. C., and we went to Danville, where I worked awhile as a carpenter. Later I went to Raleville and was employed in a mercantile house; then I went back to Greensboro and secured employment as special agent for the Southern railroad I awoke sent back to Danville by the elephant to break up a gang of boots who had been robbing the Southern, and after succeeding in that mission I was offered a place on the police force of Danville in the early part of 1905. I had been one year in Danville as special agent of the Southern. "Well, I accepted the place as patrolman, and nine months later I was elected chief. The salary paid then was only $75, but in a short while, when I was offered $80 to go back to the Southern, the police commissioners raised my salary to that sum, with the promise of more. "The salary was soon increased to $100 per month—" and lore the voice of the speaker broke, and for a moment the only sound away up on there on the fourth floor of the grim and silent Tower was the half-subdued sobs that torrow through the aspect of outward calm and made speech impossible. TO BE RE-ELECTED TONIGHT "And," he continued, after a moment. "I was to be re-joled chief of police tonight, and it had been provided that soon after my election the council would raise my salary to $1,500 or $1,800 a year." "Do you have any idea who disclosed your identity, chief?" asked the reporter. "Yes, I know, or think I do," he regled, after a pause. "But, we won't say anything about that. It wasn't any of the people who have known me long. Why, there in Danville," and his eyes brightened at the thought. "there were two men who had known me in my boyhood. They knew I hadn't been given a square deal, and they never spoke a word through all those years." Then the footfall of the turnkey sounded through the corridor, and, as the fading sunlight glinted for a moment on the invigilance of his office as chief of police of Danville, which he still wore upon the left lapel of his coat, the chief that once was hastily brushed a hand across his eye and, with a wan smile, turned again to his scratch pad and pencil "Now I guess it is too late to write it, but it looks like it is so dark I can't guess, he said. NEGRO REALTY CO. PROBE. Metropolitan Mercantile Concern's Secretary Arrested. (N. Y. Sun, March 10, 1911) Complaints against the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, which District Attorney Clarke has had under investigation in Brooklyn for some time, resulted yesterday in the arrest of Llowellen C. Collins, colored, of 172 West 133d street, Manhattan, secretary of the concern, who is charged with having swindled Robert Stewart, colored, out of $475 in a real estate transaction. The company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of $1,000,000. It is alleged that during the ten years of the existence it has had the responsibility of fraudulent devices from colored folk in New York and various parts of the country. About two weeks ago the attention of District Attorney Clarke was called to the matter by Rufus L. Perry, a negro lawyer, and several specific charges of fraud have been made against the officers of the company. Other arrests are expected Attorney Perry says that the company opened handsomely furnished offices at Eighth avenue and Forty sixth street. "No wonder," he said "that the colored people fell for it. The officers declared that they were going to open a bank for negroes would conduct a great grocery store and would even build a magnificent church. But the greatest asset of all was the promise that they would buy land attuned to the heart of the city but right in the heart of the fine residential section, where the negroes would own homes and live in equal social equality with the white people around them. When dividends were due on stock the company would pay with more stock." On the arraignment yesterday of Collins the secretary, before Maglrate Gelsamar in the Adams street court Attorney Perry appeared as counsel for the complainants and Assistant District Attorney White directed the prosecution. Collins, as alleged, sold Stewart a slice of ground of the company holdings at Stahway, N. J., declaring that it was free and, on Stewart's paying $475 the deed was passed to him. He soon found that the property was mortgaged for $8,800. Collins was held for examination on Monday. Maglrate Gelsamar refusing to accept bail Perry says that there are about 500 names of Brooklyn negroes among the stockholders of the company and that their losses aggregate probably $100,000. The books, he says, show that in 1909 the company receipts amounted to $135,509 and that it once took in $22,000 in a single day WANTS TO LOCATE RELATIVES Mrs. Minty Bell (formerly Miss Allen), of Knonner, La., would like to locate her relatives, whom she left some thirty-five or forty years ago in Wargenton and Front Royal, Va. The names of her relatives are Harry Allen, her father: Ann Allen, mother; Henry and Thomas Allon, Charlotte, Ellita and Gracy Allon, brothers and sisters. If any of these are located, please notify MRB, MINTY BELL, Knonner, La. J. O Box 137 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLORED WOMEN. For Five Dollars we will set you up in a good paying business of your own. Large profits. We have helped others; why not you. Call & write for particulars SOUTHERN HAIR GOODS CO., 510 North Second Street Richmond, Va. WHEN IS A CAUCAHASAN NOT A CAUCAHASAN. (N. Y. Independent) This is a conundrum which is no joke. It is a very serious matter with many of the first Creole families of Louisiana. To us outside who look on it is absurdly amusing, as the antics of those who make mools of themselves always, are, no matter how serious to the participants. Louisiana was settled by the French. The French used to have less fear of race admixture than English settlers. Many Greeks, like Cubans, have a dark complexion, and have been suspected of negro blood, which they angrily deny. Louisiana has an elaborate terminology for the successive dilutions, from the mulatto and the quadron downward—or upward—which we printed some weeks ago. When the dilution reaches the sixteenth fraction it is almost indistinguishable, and at the sixty-fourth no test can discover it. For all practicable purposes the man is a Caucasian—but not for Louisiana law. Of all States, Louisiana ought to be the last to enact a law forbidding intermarriage of a white person with any one who has the least infusion of nigro blood. There is no knowing where it might hit, for in Louisiana beyond doubt many pass for white in a nigro blood research would discover few of nigro blood. Such a case has lately stirred up the State A young woman of a good family, a graduate of a fashionable ladies' seminary in New Orleans, was killed by being run over in the street. A newspaper spoke of her as colored. That was a mortal offense. Her brother brought suit for slainer, and the editor, by referring to ancient records, showed that one of her ancestors was recorded as colored. That put the whole family into a horrible plight. They had always thought of themselves as white and had associated only with white people. Now nobody would associate with them. They must sink, the visibly white to the rank and caste and associations of negroes. Hitherto they had been good enough to associate with anybody. Now with no fault of their own, and no change in themselves, they were thrust, with all their whiteness into the outer blackness. The dead girl had a sister happily married to a man of German origin. There was no question that he was a full Caucasian. But he had hulled the Louisiana prejudice and terror of invisible and infinitesimal magnitude. He discovered—and his wife did from the newspaper account that she had this bar sister. He could not continue to live with such a banned woman besties, the law forbade it. He was liable to imprisonment for maintaining marital relations with her. He appealed to the court to have his marriage annulled, and the court could do no less. So she was sent adrift with the rest of her family. Thus in this case two legal maxims had illustrations, one by its truth, "Summa lex, summa injuria," and the other by its extreme contraction, "Do minimis lex non curat." The law does care a great deal for the smallest things. It cares in Louisiana for what is so attenuated as to be invisible. Now such a law and such an enforcement is barbarous beyond expression. It puts a suspicion in multitudes of families. It is against all common sense as against all Christianity. Who knows where, through personal malice, it may strike next? The story is told in Sun- very likely so, of a simile him in one of the parishes. A suit for murder was brought for calling a family colored. The sheriff looked up the records and found the charge sustained. As the investigation amused him, he looked farther and found one of his own ancestors recorded as colored, but a fortunate fire soon after destroyed the proof. Now, what should be done? Louisiana must maintain its infamous law against intermarriage. It should at least set a line where the prophet negro blood is to be held as washed out. Set it at one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or one-hirty-second, or simply both, but at least set it somewhere. We do not misremember. South Carolina has such a law. It is adding stupidity to cruelty to allow the taint to go on forever. And once more we advise all white negroes in Louisiana, or any where else in the South to change their residence and leave their pedigree behind. There is such a case now in Baltimore, where the doctors can't tell whether a girl is white or black. Let them leave as white people and be received as white people. We do not doubt there are thousands of such people both North and South, who have, by changing their home, changed their race and color. We have known such cases, and not all Creole. Thus, as the bleaching process goes on, the conundrum will cause to concern them. When is a Caucasian not a Caucasian? KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS. Anniversary Exercises The lodges of Knights of Pythias, N A, S A, E, A, A and A will observe their anniversary in this city Sunday, March 26th, at the First Baptist Church at 1 o'clock. The Uniform Rank will take part and the knights will assemble at the Pythian Castle, 727 North Third Street, at 12 o'clock, preparatory to matching to the church. Rev W. T. Johnson, D. D, the pastor, has been invited to deliver the sermon. At 4 P M the anniversary oeraches of the subordinate courts, Order of Calanthe, will take place at the First Baptist Church. The members will assemble there at 3:30 P. M Rev W F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the Fifth-Street Baptist Church, has been invited to deliver the sermon. As the First Baptist Church is centrally located, it will be readily accessible to any of the members in any part of the city. All members will wear the regalia of the Order. A NEW LIGHT ON THE SOUTHERN WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. (Atlanta, Ga., Constitution, March 9, 1911) The negro problem is the South's "skeleton in the closet;" its quiescent, but ever-menacing, volcano; its riddle that must be solved in the right way or the rulined way. To the most thoughtful Southerners attending the Southern Commercial Congress. The Constitution presents a suggestion flowing from a recent phenomenal experience Atlanta has had with the problem in the concrete. The $600,000 enlargement campaign for the Young Men's Christian Association, has just reached a successful conclusion. The reconstruction that success brings to the men's department, the boys' department, the women's department, is important and far-reaching. But the most significant disclosure of an analysis of the campaign is the light it throws upon the capacity of the negro to respond to influences assuming his good citizenship rather than his instincts toward criminality. That result stands out emphasized in amazing bas-relief, qualified with a feeling of pathos among those workers who know with what an anxious eagerness the negroes labored to more than fulfill their part of the compact. From the total of $600,000, $100,000 was to be set aside for the improvement of the branch devoted to the negroes, and a Chicago philanthropist, Mr. Ben Rosenwald, contributed $25,000, conditioned on the remaining $75,000 being subserved. Of this $100,000 the negroes were assigned to raise $40,000 in ten days. They did that, and more'. At the expiration of the ten-day period they had raised $57,000, in addition to the equity in their present building. That did not satisfy them. They hammered, and the tooth-combed, and persisted until when final was written to the campaign, they had pledged the sum of $67,000 or— 'Twenty seven thousand dollars in excess of the amount required of them' And they are still subscribing' The details of their campaign are nothing short of marvelous The total number of negroes subscribing is placed at 5,500. In proportion to the givers among the white people, and in ratio to the white and negro population of Atlanta— The ratio between the white and negro subscribers, in proportion to population, is about three to one with the predominance in favor of the negroes. Their organization was perfect. Their contributions ranged from 25 cents to $1,000. They approached the most and least important of their own people. Their bands hung to the task with the persistence of bengale hounds, obstinate and conscientious as installment collectors, representing to the reluctant contributor that the pride of the race was at stake and the failure would deal a blow at racial prestige The result stands for itself. It disproves the misgiving, first entertained by the committees in charges of the campaign, that the ngroes would need help from the whites to complete their quota. Autate students of the negro have emphasized his lack of race consciousness and cohesion as the main premises for misgiving. Both indictments were sweepingly dispassioned by the Atlanta campaign, the explanation is simple—but portentous. The negro was assigned a task that assumed citizenship, manhood and the possession of possibilities inhering in both. Too often they that deal with the negro problem approach the negro as foreordained to lack of initiative, violence, the impulse of the criminal. The Atlanta experiment proves which is the more effective attitude. Should it not hold a lesson for the Southern people? The motive of the question is not precisely philanthropic It is economic, self-preservative There are more than 8,000,000 negroes in the South Whether or not we like it, we can not escape the contagion of the evil influences that make them poor, independent workers, that riddle their ranks with disease that send forth from their mass streams of criminals The superior civilization the white man bears the burden Is it for Atlanta, for Georgia, for the South, to analyze the lesson of the achievement of the negroes in the Y M C A corporation it shows that it pays to help make decent, law-adding citizens of the negro, instead of taking it for granted that the whites must be taxed to treat them as criminals Dr F. L. Hall filled his appointment at St Michael Church Sunday, it being rally-day, preaching - Trum Acts 16:31. Rounds are now being macadamized in the county, which makes it much better for travelers. The work is being done principally by convict labor. The principle roads in the lower end of the county have been completed. The camps were moved last week to the upper end, near Cullenna, the Virginian Railroad from which much of the work was done, he worked to Charlotte Courthouse. En route to Cullenna the man wearing the stripes passed through this city, the sight of which brought forth many expressions of sorrow. The patrons of Organ Hill School met Tuesday night last, the object being to raise money to build a high school. Mrs. Dr. Hall presided pro tem. F. R. Banks was elected permanent president, Henry Brooks secretary. The president, secretary, to the president, then elected as banking committee. No bank was decided on, but one of the committee is a True Reformer. $25 was subscribed to the fund. The club meets every Tuesday night. The many friends of Leigh-Street M. E. 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Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. —Nelson's Hair Dressing can be secured from the Agent, Mr. Joseph Etans, 2602 Webster Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. SATURDAY... MARCH 18, 1011 RAILROADS LOSE FREIGHT RATE WAR MUST RETURN TO OLD RATES Increased Tariffs by Both Eastern and Western Lines Must Be Withdrawn After March 10. The interstate commerce commission has decided against the railroads in the important increased freight rates cases that have been pending for several months. The decision of the commissuring is sweeping beyond all anticipation, even by the shippers. It declines to allow a single increase by the 600 or more railroads in the east and the middle west. It throws aside as unsubstantiated the contention of the railroads that they must have increased revenues to meet the increased cost of equipment and operation, and by its decision cuts off between $20,000,000 and $50,000,000 a year in revenue which the railroads had expected to realize from the proposed increase. On the other hand, it means an annual saving of that amount to the shippers of the country. The commission orders the carriers to cancel the proposed increases by March 10, and notifies them that in the event of failure an order will be entered continuing the present rates for two years, thus preventing the carriers from making any changes in that period. The railroads may now appeal to the newly created commerce court, and it is the opinion of many of their lawyers that this step will be taken. The text of the decision says, with reference to the eastern roads "We disable to tie up by hard and fast orders these commodity rates, and we have concluded as to all the rates involved in this proceeding to simply require the defendants to cancel on or before March 10 their advanced tariffs on life and restore their former rates which are the rates now in effect. If this requirement is not complied with the proposed rates will be suspended, the necessary findings of fact made, and the usual two years' order issued as to all tariffs involved." In the western the decision says: "We do not say that the carriers may not increase their in income. We trust they may and confidently believe they will. If the time does come when through changed conditions, it may be shown that their fears are realized or apprehending realization, and from a survey of the whole field of operations there is evidence of a movement that makes against the security and last ing value of legitimate investment and an adequate return upon the value of these properties this commission will not institute to give its sanction to increases which will be reasonable." "It is the law that tariff rates shall be just as reasonable and alike to all for the railroad service. "In construing this law the courts have given general direction in a number of cases and by all standards that have been set this commission all of its members concurring, finds the proposed rates to be beyond the limitations placed by law upon the carriers. We shall ask the carriers to withdraw the proposed tariffs forth with through their agents and attorneys in fact, who have filed them If such action is not taken on or before March 10, 1911, the commission will further suspend these rates, make an appropriate finding and issue an order directing the maintenance of the present rates for a period of two years from that date." --- Woman Robbed of $130,000 in Gema Mrs. Maldwin Drummond, who was formerly Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, was muchurtured after she awoke in her suite on board the Hamburg-American line Amerika, coming to New York from Hamburg, when she discovered that her precious white, black and pink pearl jewelry, valued at $130,000, had vanished over night from the drawer of a writing desk in the bedroom of her suite. The police have little, hope of getting the thief, and the officials of the Hamburg-American line say that unless the police solve the 'inystory it is likely to be forever unsolved. The Hamburg-American line disclaims all responsibility on the ground that passengers leave jewels in their stateroom at the owner's risk. To the police Mrs. Drummond described the missing jewelry as follows. Two strings of 273 pearls each. One string of 283 pearls. One large black pearl ring set with diamonds. One large white pearl ring set with diamonds. One pair large pearl earrings set with diamonds. One black pearl brooch; set with diamonds, with a black pearl, peach-shaped, pendant. A wireless message sent from the Amerika as she coated port summoned detectives down the bay in a tug. They learned from Mrs. Drummond details of the theft and began a combing of the ship and a search of the crew. But not a trace of the jewels was found. Mrs. Drummond explained that except at night she had worn the jewels almost constantly on her person, but had kept them under her waist and had not displayed them at any time, even while during On retiring she placed them in a cabinet drawer of the stateroom, as she had done each night during the voyage. No one had access to the stateroom, she added, beside her husband, herself and her maid. The maid she holds above suspicion Gives Delaware 103-Mile Road. That Delaware will have a highway 100 feet wide, running from the Pennsylvania line on the north to the Maryland line, 103 miles, on the south, costing $1,000,000 an absolutely free gift of T Coleman Dupont, was the report brought to Dover by Governor Penwell and Colonel A R Benson, who had a conference with Mr Dupont at his home in Wilmington and received the proposition. Previous) Mr Dupont had offered $1,000,000 for the construction of the road, with the proviso that he be repaid with the mortgage in taxes, following the jump in the valuation of real estate by the building of the road. This condition he eliminated entirely in his conference with the governor and Colonel Benson, it is said, and asked only that the state maintain the road after it is constructed and presented an absolute gift. Senator Charles R. Miller, of General Dupont a district, immediately gave notice in the senate, accepting the gift of $1,100,000 or $1,500,000, whatever the cost may be, and appointing General Dupont or the commissioners whom he may name to proceed and build the boulevard. It is doubtful if any state or country in the world has experienced such an offer. There was some criticism of General Dupont's first offer to 'advance' $1,000,000, 'which doubtless prompted the outright donation ```markdown ``` Three Faint Robbers Caught. Three of the five bandits who held up the United States fast mail on the Southern railway near White Sulphur Springs last Saturday, were captured in loth mountains of Lumpkin county, near Dahlone, Ga., by Sheriff Sargent and posse. The three men were captured after a running fight, in which many shots were exchanged, but no one was injured. They were found around camp fires in the mountains and run when they saw the others. Rowards angrieving over $2000 have been offered for their arrest. Railway Caught by Cave In. The main tracks of the Central Railroad of New Jersey between the towns of Ashley and Mountain Park, Pa., were considerably affected by a serious cave in a locomotive and several cars were derailed The cave in covers an area of nearly half a mile and is over the abandoned workings of an old mine Until the damage is repaired all trains on the Central will be run over the Lehigh Valley railroad Eloper Gets Four Years. William J. Firth the Chester, Pa. ticket agent convicted in December on three counts for his elopement with Ethel May Pierre, a fifteen year-old girl, who committed suicide in Alexandria, Va., when detected with Firth, who is a married man, was sentenced to four years in the Media, Pa. jail. Nine Stain In Indian Flight In a battle sixty miles west og Tuscarora, Nov. eight Indians and a policeman weer killed and other members of an Indian band were captured. The battle took place at Kelly creek, Humboldt county, twenty five miles north of Golconda. Sixkyear H Catherine Kugler, of San Antonio, Tex., has come to live with the family of former Council man V E Gogher in Woodbury, N J. The little miss never saw snow before until she came east, and thought it would make a nice living for cake. Dr. H. W. Wiley Weds. Dr Harvey W Wiley, of pure food fame, acquired as chief of the bureau of chemistry, and Miss Anna Campbell Kolton, the daughter of the late General Joseph C Kolton, U S A., were married in Washington House Passes Appropriation Bills. Three appropriation bills, authorizing expenditures in excess of $142,000,000, were passed in jig time by the house of representatives. The measures were the naval bill, the diplomatic bill and the fortifications bill. Fright Kills Woman. Mrs David Thomas, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., stricken with a sudden fear that her husband was dead or dying, was overcome at his bedside and died a short time later Her husband had been ill with bronchitis for some time and she was nursing him going to his bedside she asked how he was. He tried to an answer, but his cold was so deep that he had lost his voice. Pante-streken, his wife cried he was dead, and fell unconscious. Canada Bara Negroes The Dominion government decided to stop the immigration of colored persons from the United States and stopped at the boundary at Winnipeg a party which intended to go to western Canada. They were stopped because they were regarded as undesirable citizens. German Census 64.896.881 German Census 64,896,881. The official census concluded in December last shows the population of Germany, to be 64,896,881. The figures in 1905 were 60,641,278. The population of Prussia, the chief state of the German empire, is 40,157,512. JUDSON C. CLEMENTS. Georgia Democrat Who Is Head of Interstate Commerce Commission [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. Supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp during the night, two boises at Onedla, near Hutleton, Pa., occupied by Gabriel Gerotsky and Michael Slovak, Hungarians, were burned and two members of the Gerotsky family lost their lives in the flames. Gabriel Gerotsky, the father, his daughters, Annie, twelve years old, and Mary, aged eight years, and his sons, Michael four years old, and Gabriel, two years old, were burned to death. Mrs Gerotsky and John, a crippled son, escaped. The crippled boy was awakened from his sleep by the crackling of the flames. He and his mother went downstairs to investigate, but could see no fire, and returned to the second floor to go back to bed. When they reached the top of the stairs the flames which originated in the Slovak home, had eaten their way through to their home and shut off the sleeping members of the Gerotsky family and they could not be reached. The Slovak family was awakened in time and escaped from their home in safety. Big Landslide In Panama Canal. Without warning and upsetting all theories and all estimates, 600,000 cubic yards of rock and earth slid into the Pioneer cut, just opposite the town of Culebra, in the Panama canal. It is one of the worst slides the canal commission engineers have had to contend with, and it is worse than any previous slide from the fact that the others could be explained, even were predicted. The latest avalanche of dirt changen canal plans materially. It makes it seem necessary that the entire prism shall be enlarged sufficiently to prevent any occurrence of the sort after the completion of the canal. Thero seems to be no doubt that all of Gold Hill will have to be removed. In itself a considerable undertaking. And 335,000 yards of the side itself represents waste. 1 His Heart Split In Two A Hungarian baker, named Kavaro, first name unknown, died suddenly at his home in New York. The man's body was sent to the morgue and Dr O Hannon found that the man's heart had split in two. Dr O Hannon says that this proves that those who say a person cannot die of a broken heart are wrong. His found loss of tone in a muscular tissues due to insufficient blood supply. A strong emotion might cause the break in the heart in this condition. Kavaro was sixty years old. Brown Defeats Wolgaet. Knock Out Brown, of New York, defeated Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion, in a six round fight in Philadelphia. Brown carried the battle to Wolgast in every round. He was wonderfully strong and aggressive and Wolgast took many hard knocks. It was Wolgast's stamina and ring generosity that prevented Brown from knocking him out, but at that on several occasions the champion was hard pressed GORE BRIBERY FAILS House Finds No Evidence in Indian Land Cases. The house committee which investigated Senator Gore's charges of attempted bribery in connection with J P McMurray a Indian attorney contract in Oklahoma, made its final report to the house. The committee found no evidence to show McMurray was involved. Girl Given $10,000 Heart Balm. Mike Henrietta French, the pretty South Dakota girl, who sued David H. Decker, Jr., a wealthy young civil engineer, for breach of promise of marriage has been awarded a verdict of $10,000 by a jury in the supremo court in New York. Justice Erlinger reservoir decision on motion to set the verdict aside, declaring it was "extremely excessive." Girl Student Bulldogs Lona Gobhardt, seventeen years of age, a member of the senior class at the Englewood; N. J., high school, dled a victim of a bullet which she admitted firing, herself. Her eyes were falling and she was afraid she would not be able to graduate. Pooe Bee Aeoplane Flight: Pope John Aeliphanus flight The popo for the first time saw an aeroplane flight. Aviator Fischer, starting at Capanella, two miles outside of Rome, circled the dome of BL Peters and returned to his starting point. His holiness wabbed the flight from a library window. Chemist Calls Us a Nation of Drug Flands. © 1910, by American Press Association. Calls U. 8. Nation of Drug Flends. After Dr. H. W Wiley, the noted chemist of the department of agriculture, had declared in New York that we are a "mation of drug flends" and are wasting billions of dollars owing to careless regard for health, Dr Eugene H. Porter, commissioner of health of New York state; Professor A. C Abbott, of the department of hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania, George L. Flanders, president of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments, and other eminent men at the luncheon of the Republican club made insistent demands for a national health board "We don't seem to care anything about our health, said Dr Wiley. "We are the drug habit nation. We don't feel satisfied unless we take something for everything. We are a country of drug flends, drug slaves. The present indiscriminate sale of drugs threatens the public health fully seriously as does impure food." Archbishop Ryan's Funeral. One of the most imposing funeral services that ever took place in Philadelphia occurred when the body of the Most Rev Patrick J. Ryan, archbishop of Philadelphia, was interred beneath the high altar of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St Paul. The services began with the chanting of the divine office. The until phonaricians who performed this offe included Cardinal Gibbons, surrounded by his assistants in gorgeous vestments. With the end of the services the officiating 'lergymen refitted to the sacristy, where the procession for the pontifical mass of requiem was formed. Last came the officers of the mass, including Cardinal Gibbons, who presided, and Bishop Prendergast, auxiliary of this archdiocese, who was the celebrant With them walked Monsignor Falconio, the papal delegate to the United States, representing the pope, and Archbishop Glennon, of St Louis, who reached the funeral sermon. With the return of the cortex to the cathedral the body of the archbishop was conveyed to the crypt Hat Pin Wound Kille Man. Captain Andrew England, who was one of the best known cea captains on the New England coast, is dead in Boston as the result of a jab from a hatpin. With his wife, he was riding in a crowded trolley car, when a wo man standing beside him turned her head suddenly and he was jabbed by a plin in the check. He thought nothing of it for two weeks or more, and then his face began to swell and he was taken to the City hospital, where he died of blood poisoning Find Girl's Slayer Dead. Michael Lillek, who shot and instantly killed Miss Alice Hyland, nineteen years of age, in Pottsville, Pa., because she objected to his attention, was found dead on the mountainside about a half mile from the scene of the murder He shot himself through the head. Three shots were fired when Miss Hyland was killed, the two first ones in quick succession, and the third a few moments later. It is supposed that in his excitement in putting the pistol away Lillek accidentally shot himself in the hip He was traced by bloodstains for three-quarters of mile until his body was found by a state police. He probably became exhausted as a result of the loss of blood, and rather than submit to capture, shot himself Wouldn't Tell Her-Why on earth do they call him the paging teller? Him-Because that's his job. Her-But it isn't. I asked him how much you had in the bank and please to give it to me, and he wouldn't tell and he wouldn't pay.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not His Fault. Her Father—Young man, I do not object to your calling occasionally on my daughter, but you mustn't stay so late. It was 12 o'clock last night before you got away. Young Man—"Got away" is very good, air. I either had to stay or get my coat torn. Joynes—I tell you what it is, Singleton; you don't know the joys and felicities of a contented married life, the happy flight of years, the long, restful calm of—Singleton—How long have you been married? Joynes—Just a month. Wedded 91 Years, Woman Dies. Mrs. Francis Easper, 108 years old, said to be the oldest woman in Colorado, died in the arms of her 111-year-old husband from burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open grate at her home in Florence, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Keper had been married ninety-one years. Knights of Pythias, This organization is one of the most powerful progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Diction over all of the cities and counties in are required to organize a new lodge. The best of its strongest features, but the principles are else. Founded on Friendship, based on Charisma, nevolence, the respectable, upright people of worthy of their heartiest support. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of pays $4.00 per week sick dués. The badge is only necessary regalia. For information concerning main office. The Courts of Calantia Department of the Order. It requires a member to organize a court. Its members are pledged to excise Harmony and prove Love one for the other, and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per dayly expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents for funeral occasions. ation concerning special rates of membership in the John Mitchell 311 N, 4th worth is so valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the schools, can sacrifice. The best education is not too good for a promising chooses a poor physician to save a few cents when health is in danger. Choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will length of character and of mind for life and prepare sons for a larger This organization is one of the most powerful in the country and its progress has been phenomenal. The Grand Lodge of Virginia has jurisdiction over all of the cities and counties in this state. Thirty mason 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. It pays $4.00 per week sick dues. The badge costing 75 cents each is the only absolutely necessary regalia. For information concerning the organization of lodges apply at the main office. only absolutely necessary reg apply at the main office. The Court Is the Female Department of thirty persons to organize a c Fidelity, exercise Harmony a an endowment and burial be dues. The only expense for a rosette, costing 25 cents for For all information concerning John 3 Nothing on earth is so valuable as a at great trouble sell cost, much money is polishing that the schools can give it. The youth. Who would choose a poor physician And who would choose an inferior school to increase the strength of character and of usefulness! The Courts of Calanthe The Courts of Calanthe Is the Female Department of the Order. It requires a membership of thirty persons to organize a court. Its members are pledged to exhibit Fidelity, exercise Harmony and prove Love one for the other. It pays an endowment and burial benefit of $150.00. It pays $3.00 per week slick dues. The only expense for regalia is the cost of the badge, 50 cents and a rosette, costing 25 cents for funeral occasions. For all information concerning special rates of membership in the lodges and courts, address John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. 4th Street. Nothing on earth is so valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a promising youth. We would choose a poor physician to save a few weeks when health is in danger, and who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare sons for a larger usefulness! Dormitory, Virginia Union University. Va. Union Offers the Best H COLORED V F. BAS A FINE ACADEMY course in completed common school subjects. ITB COLLEGE COURSE is broad and as high as those of any college for white of the Carnegie Boards. ITB THERMICAL COURSE has for me Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all th are given here. One hundred students for of the school. ITB NINE GRANITE BUILDINGS, a of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its University to offer colored, young men an of other races. * For further information, address the Pre VIRGIN UNION UNIVERSITY mars the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN. NE COADEMY course including manual training for those who have not yet completed the COURSE is broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating board. CAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored newberw, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Seminaries the hundred students for the ministry are billed in different departments. NITE BUILDINGS. We easily equipped science laboratories, its library its able faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia-Union colored, young men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored information, address the President. * completed common school subjects. * ITB COLLEGE COURSE is broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as high as those of any college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carrière Board. ITS THIRDLOGICAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored Baptist Schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjectyxgiven in Northern Bermalies are given here. One hundred students for the ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. ITB NINE GRANITE BUILDING, We hereby equipped science laboratories, its library of 12,000 volumes, its able faculty and its full sources of study, enable Virginia-Union University to offer colored, young men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of race. 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Eleven of the conservative Democratic senators, most of them follow or of Bailey in the senate, signed a telegram to Governor Colquitt urging that Bailey remain. Those who signed this telegram were Bacon, Foster, Overman, Talia form, Payter, Bankhead, Percy, Johnston, Taylor, Watson and Fletcher. Of this list, Bankhead, Fletcher Foster, Johnson, Payter and Watson, a majority of the elves, voted to enable Loginer to retain his seat in the senate. The progressive Democrats of the senate and house were in the utmost jubilation when they learned that Bailey was going to quit. They look on the Texas senator as the great obstacle in the way of progressive Democratic legislation in congress. They fear that in the train and other matters he will take a stand that will prevent them from going into the campaign of 1912 with a record for progressive legislation that will appeal to the country. Senator Bailey's decision to quit the senator was caused by his realization that his power in that body was waning and that a growing and more aggressive body of senators on the Democratic side was getting ready to go ahead without consulting him. Senator Stone, of Missouri; Senator Owen, of Oklahoma; Senator Culberson, of Texas, and one or two others are formost in this group. The immediate cause of Bailey's action was his anger because, on Senator Owen's resolution for the approval of the constitutions of New Mexico and Arizona, all but three of the Democrats voted favorably. This Bailey construed to be approval of the initiative, referendum and recall, which are features of the Arizona constitution. As a matter of fact the real issue between the two wings of the Democrats in the Senate is much broader than the initiative, referendum and recall, which Balloy says he cannot stand for. It is a question of whether the Democracy shall pursue an ultra-conservative and reactionary course, or whether it shall be progressive. --- Clever Thieves Get $86,000. Aaron Bancroft, a broker, eighty six years of age, was robbed in New York city last Thursday afternoon of securities valued at approximately $55,000, but he did not discover his loss until Monday. The theft was committed in the vestibule of the Produce Exchange Safety Deposit and Storage company. For twenty-five years it has been Mr. Bancroft's habit every Thursday afternoon to deposit the firm's valuables in a box rented by them from the Deposit and Storage company. The distance from his offices to the vaults is not more than 200 feet, and any one making the trip is in constant sight of the office windows. Last Thursday Mr. Bancroft placed his securities in a large envelope, tied with tape, and with the firm's name printed upon it. A flight of steps leads from the street level entrance to the vaults. As Mr. Bancroft reached the bottom of the steps he noticed a young man, whom he only remembers as "rather underfized," loaining against the corridor wall. Just as Mr. Bancroft was about to turn the corner, at the end of the corridor, a tall man came running in the opposite direction and came into collision with the aged broker. The shock throw: Mr. Bancroft off his feet, and in falling he dropped the envelope. That was the cue for the "under sized" young man. He stopped up to Mr. Bancroft, assisted him to his feet, and was so sollicited as to tuck the envelope under the broker's arm. At least Mr. Bancroft thought it was the envelope that fell. He went on to deposit it in his box as usual. Monday when his son, George Bancroft, unlocked the box he found that the only envelope there contained three old newspapers. A clever subtitle had been effected. Fergus Appleseed to Carnegie. Josee Beaver, aged twenty years, a former theological student, who was placed under arrest at Lima, O., and brought to Richmond, Ind., to an answer, to a charge of passing forged check on Earlham college, was sentenced to the state reformatory for from two to fourteen years. He pleaded guilty. Soaver said he was prompted to use fraudulent methods to obtain the funds in order to pursue religious studies. He told the court he had obtained about $600 from various colleges during the last few months, and he had with him a complete record of his transactions. Soaver also said he had appealed recently to Andrew Carnegie to assist him in order that he might pay back money he had obtained unlawfully. Jail For Huston is Court's Decree. The judgment of the Dauphin county court in the case of Joseph M Huston, architect of the state capitol, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the state, was amended by the superior court in Williamsport, Pa. The lower court sentenced Huston to from six months to two years in the eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500 and costs. The decision means that Huston must serve the prison sentence and pay the fine imposed by the lower court on his conviction of the charge of defrauding the state in connection with the construction of that building unless it is overruled on higher appeal. Taft Calls Extra Session. Because the senate ignored his request that the bill carrying into effect the reciprocity agreement with Canada be passed, President Truff called an extra session of congress, to convene on April 4, "to determine whether or congress shall by necessary legislation make operative the agreement." The president and most of the Republicans wanted the session to begin on an earlier date, and the finaly was set as it was to please the Democratic leaders, who will be in control of the new house. WALTER L FISHER. Succeeds' Richard Ballinger-as Secretary of Interior. JOHN H. $200,000 CROWN FOR MRS. BUSCH What is said to be the most elaborate ato golden wedding anniversary was celebrated in Pasadena, Cal., with Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch as the central figures: The most beautiful and costly of the presents was the diadem presented to Mrs. Busch by her husband. It is a crown of gold, studded with diamonds and pearls, and valued at $200,000. It was made in Frankfort, Germany. At the wedding feast at the Busch mansion Mrs. Busch was crowned and given a seat beside her husband on a miniature throne. The presents received by the couple are valued at half & million dollars. The children presented their parents with a dozen full sized dinner plates made of solid gold and valued at $25,000. A solid gold flower basket gualed at $15,000 was received from the grandchildren. President Taft sent a $20 gold coin of the new St. Gaudens design in an ivory case. Theodore Roosevelt sent a solid gold loving cup and there was a gold loving cup from Emporor William. A magnificent loving cup was received from citizens of Panadena. The wedding fanet took place at "The Blossoms," the Busch winter home. The floral decorations are valued at $50,000. BRYAN AT SWARTHMORE Nabraka Democrat to Lecture to Students Saturday Evening. William J. Bryan is scheduled to deliver an address at Swarthmore college on Saturday night. The distinguished Democrat is to speak upon the invitation and under the auspices of the threo literary societies of the college, the Dolphin, Bunomian and Somorville. The subject of Mr. Bryan's address has not been announced, but he is expected to speak on some phase of modern politics. Oregon "Plan" in New Hampshire. An act framed on the Oregon plan of "instructing" the legislature as to senatorial candidates was passed by the New Hampshire house, 263 to 70. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. RICHMOND, VA. W. H. White, 581 W. Leigh Street. Peter Thompson, 422 E. Marshall Street. R. B. 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He always succeeds when others fail. This is the chance of a lifetime. Don't let it pass you. OFFICE HOURS: 9 A. M. to 2:30 P. M. Sunday: 2:30 to 7:20 P. M. N. B.—Our Consultation Fee is 50 cents. Sittings, $1.00. All letters containing $1.00 will be answered in full. All Letters Must Have a Two-Cont Stamp. MAIN OFFICE: 510 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Industrial Union Training School and Orphanage for Boys and Girls. Normal, Preparatory and Orphanage Departments. We have a vacancy for a few smart girls in our Domestic Department where they can earn money while going to school. Write at once to INDUSTRIAL ENION TRAINING BSCIOL, Box 205, Southern Pines, Missoula, N, C --- 6ATURDAY MARCH 18, 1911 SATURDAY Acclaim Fortune. (Continued From First Page) that, among our many excellent fournalists no voice has run louder or truer for the past- well, I won't say how many years than the voice of him whom we greet tonight. He has won a place more prominent and more enduring in the hearts of our men and women than any editor who has wielded a pen during our generation and he has won it by his joyful, his dogged determination, his unconquerable grit and his rare and extraordinary capacity to face hostility and even hatred in defense of his beliefs. While other worthy men have been given offices of honor and emulation in recognition of their services to their race and party, he has had to be content with thanks thanks, the exchequer of the poor, but through it all he has remained a force which had to be reckoned with and one that was stubborn and unbending for right and justice. Thine of him what you will, you must condec that among the sale that man has made the stars of our public life. Tom Fortune is a solid and vigorous personality of course, he is no saint, nor has he ever pretended to be one but he is and always has been thoroughly genuine and wholly without artifice or sham. He hates peace. His God is the God of battle and he appears to see Him only in the avalanche and seems to hear Him only in the thunder. He is a militant man but his friends love to feel that if he strikes hard blows they are far ones and are always to his burning sympathy and intense convictions. I hold that the race is well served when she is served by such a man Our great leader Doctor Booker T. Washington with that considerate kindness which is his invited a few of Mr Fortune's old friends to make a small contribution toward a fund for the purchase of some token that would express our regard for him but it was subsequently decided that it would be better to present him with the purse than to unload on him the conventional but useless loving cup and the pleasant duty of presenting that purse has been assigned to me. I therefore, present this purse of $317 to Mr T Thomas Fortune as a slight token of the high esteem in which he is held by the race and wish him health and hapness upon the arrival of that day which I hope is far distant when shall assist his younger hands. And when his work is all finished and his words all spoken it is my firm belief that the spirit will still survive to guide the younger men and that the patk he has blazed will be broad and straight for the march of younger fact. Mr. Fortune was much moved by the presentation and flattering elucidation of the speakers and contributors and expressed his thanks to them as well as to the subscribers of the testimonial Of Dr Washington he said that he was in no wise surprised that he had undertaken the subscription, as it was not in his nature to do other than generously and magnanimously to those who had served as he thought his race worthy. The personal relations and close friendship which had existed for two decades between Mr. Washington and himself, he commented had been one of the most helpful and notable in the history of the Afro American people and was one of the happiest experiences of his life. MR PORTUSE MAKES STATEMENT Mr Fortune authorized the following statement in regard to the meet e Mr Fortune who had refused to have anything to say one way or another as to the propriety of asking for a testimonial declaring that he was willing to leave the responsibility for it to Dr Washington, who proposed it, and the friends co-operating with him, objected to the manner and time of holding the testimonial presentation in New York, which was in the hands of Fred. R Moore, of the New York Age. Mr Fortune based his objection to the manner of making the testimonial a public function at the time advertised, on the ground that proper advertisement of the gathering had not been made, to ensure a representative ap preciation by New Yorkers of Mr Fortune and his work of thirty years in New York, the notice having been made and speakers asked to participate all within two days of the proposed date of meeting, and because the meeting was scheduled to be held on a date after all of the race papers in New York, except the Amsterdam News, will have been in- sued for the week current. A small notice of the meeting was published in The New York Age of last week, but none was sent or printed in The Amsterdam News or the other two race papers in New York. At a meeting held at the law offices of Willford H. Smith, 150 Nassau street, Tuesday afternoon, at which Mr Smith, Mr. Moore, Hon. Charles W. Anderson and Mr Fortune were present, Mr Fortune stated his objections. After the matter was thrashed out by all concerned, Mr Fortune agreed to attend the meeting on the ground solely that he did not wish to embarrass those who might attend the meeting on the strength of such notice as had been made of it. DR. WASHINGTON PAYS TIMBUTE. Dr. Washington, who was unable ```markdown ``` Today at 5 P. M. you are invited posting to be present in the city at the meeting, sent the following letter to Collector Anderson: "My, dear Mr. Anderson,—Enclosed I send you New York draft for $300, together with the names of the contributors toward the T. Thos Fortune Testimonial Fund. "It was thoroughly understood by the donors and all concerned that this money is given not because of its intrinsic value to Mr Fortune, but simply as an indication of the race indebtedness to him for his long and hard service in behalf of the progress of the race. No one was asked to make contributions. After considering the matter carefully and consulting the others who have contributed toward the fund I have thought it well to entrust this money to you and let you and other friends in New York decide upon the manner and place of presentation of this fund "I wish to say that it has been a real pleasure to be the means of getting this fund together because of the large number of individual persons who were glad to express in this way their high regard for Mr. Fortune. I am sure some letters of people who responded to this request I thought that these letters might prove something that Mr. Fortune would like to keep and hand down to his children. Yours very truly BOOER T WASHINGTON." CORNEL VOTES TO (Richmond 8, Time Dispatch, March 7, 1911) Without a dissenting vote the Vonderlehring segregation ordinance was adopted by the Common Council last night as recommended by the Committee on Ordinance Charter and it form. It broadly provides that no colored person may dwell on any block the majority of the inhabitants of which are white and that no white person may live on any block the majority of the inhabitants of which are colored excepting servants and employees, and making no effort to disturb existing leses of present residences of either race. Mr Blake pointed out a defect in the ordinance in record to vacant property where a syndicate either of white or colored people might buy the majority of any block and make it of either race, but Chairman I must report that the measure pass at once. We should drive a dog right here he said. Then if defects are found we can cure them as they arrive. Mr I mayah thought that in an application the law would be every home a majority ruling. It might work a major ship or some he said, but the majority would be helped. There was no discontent on the that vote. ENLARGE COLORED SECTION Later, the patron Mr Vondlerich secured the adoption, under suspension of the rules of a resolution providing for the appointment of a special committee of five two Alders and three Committees, to investigate certain and report what action should be taken by the city in order to relieve the congested conditions of the colored population of the city now mainly dominated between City street on the south Bacone Quarter Branch on the north Ninth street on the east and Howe street on the west so as to facilitate and promote as far as possible the domestic segregation of the white and colored population. It is believed that the resolution looks toward the annotation and improvement for colored people of a section immediately surrounding the Virginia Union University, on Brountpike. D M C A. NOTES List Friday evening was a warm hour with the Blues and Reds. The light is on and the Blues are ahead. The program by the Blues has cast a cloud over the Reds. General Bouldin is not asleep. Prof I W Harro was happy to see so many out to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson last Saturday. He invites you to come again Last Sunday was a full day for the Association The meeting for the workers of the Y M C A was well attended at 9 30 A M The meetings in the City Home at 10 A M were a blessing. One inmate accepted Christ. The committee was busy At 10 30 A M in the City Jail the committee did excellent work 22 prisoners were led to accept Jesus Christ as their Personal Saviour The meeting for men at 3.30 P. M. at the Third-Street Methodist Church under the auspices of the Men's Day Organization of the Church and the Y M C A, was a great success. Bishop Coppin gave an address that will ever anger with the men, and much fruit will be gathered. The music by Colonel Thomas M. Crump, Dr Q W. Moone and the South Richmond Quartetto gave much life to the hour. The men of Richmond are anxious to hear the Bishop again, and will work hard to give him the ear of Richmond. We thank all for their help in this great effort. President W J. Cary at 4 P M. gave the boys a special address. They were a happy crowd. Here He Is The Hon. Senator Sagebrush. A Story of Political Trickery and Love, of Action, High Purpose and Real Thrills Author of "Red Butte Western," and Other Successful Books Take Time to Read This Story No Matter How Busy You Are It Is Being Talked About All Over the Country Comences next week on Page Two. to the Y. M. C. A. to hear the exp planation on the Sunday-School Lesson. Bring a friend. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work, and the other man 9 3 0 A M Workers' Meeting at the Y M C A 1 F M at the building a special meeting for boys Mothers, send your boys Rev W H. Sturpell will address the men Sunday at 5 30 P M at the museum. Mr Joseph Brown will ship. He on坐, men, and bring the other man Watch for the date of the Greater Meetings A special meeting for women will be held very soon Watch for the date that Governor Mann will speak to men only The M ( ) still needs your prayer. The light is on between the Blues and the Blades The great member ship contest Here The Horse A Story of Politics High BY Author of "Red Take Time to Read It Is Being T Comences "Question of Leadership." (Continued From First Page.) is a most wonderful man, but rather because the American Negroes have advanced beyond their racial, infant stage, and therefore it is not in the nature of things for them to be welded under the leadership of any one man. If our race cannot be welded under the leadership of Mr. Washington, because of its impossibility, it would be folly to try to wield them under the leadership of some other prominent Negro. Such an attempt would be the most foolish racial blunder we over made. The entire civilized world would point out such an attempt as a positive proof that we are but an emotional childlike race, that should be controlled by the white race, aided by some intellectual "Niggar Driver" recommended by the white people. CANNOT DEPOSE HIM. It is nonnaean to talk about, booing Mr. Washington as he racks leader. "If you nonsense to attempt to convert a fact into a falsehood. It cannot be done. Mr. Washington is a race leader. He is a wonderful, powerful race leader. Tunkgee institute and the great work it is doing stand as a shining proof of his great powers as a race leader. 'Mr. Washington is not a Moses. He is not infallible; but he is certainly one of the greatest characters this age has produced. We do Mr. Washington a great injustice to expect Dr. Washington to be infallible or to be perfect. There is no such thing as an infallible man. The greatest and the keenest of men look upon the world with a limited range. We all see "as through a glass darkly." There is no such thing as a perfect man. The best of men are but erring children. NEED MORE LIKE HIM We need more Booker T. Washington. We need them to emphasize the practical. We need such men to proclaim to the Negro his duties as well as his rights. We need such men to hammer into the black man's mind the opportunities that he all around him as well as the obstacles that block his every pathway. We also need such men as Prof Du Bols, Editor Trotter, Bishop Walteres and Editor Mitchell of the Richmond Planet. I believe I state facts when I say that Du Bols, Trotter and Walteres and also most especially men like Editor Mitchell represent the hope, the fears, the aspirations and the ambitions of the Negro masses of this country to the same extent as does Mr Washington Du Bols and his type of race men are doing a glorious work for the American Negroes. We are patriotic, brave and fearless. They work for the future. The hearts of the Negro masses are with them more than northern He tical Trickery and Purpose and Real BY FRANCIS LYNE Butte Western," and Other S This Story No Matter Talked About All Over next week on whites imagine. A TRIBUTE TO DU BOIS. We need more men like Du Bois to plead for the higher education of Negroes; to proclaim aloud the wrongs to which American Negroes are subjected; to plead for equal manhood rights of the black man. Of course, the work Du Bois, Trotter and Walters are doing for us is not popular, among the whites, for obvious reasons, but thief noble, glorious work for us is bound to prove effective in the future. We who constitute the Negro masses do not expect Mr. Washington to plead for us along the same lines chosen by Professor Du Bois and Mr. Trotter. In Mr. Washington's position, fact and diplomacy are essential. We look upon Du Bois, Trotter, Walters and Washington as some of our generals. We believe it would be folly for a gourelal to expose himself to the open fire of the enemy. Now, Mr. Editor, we need three types of race leadership. No one of these three types is sufficient. We need race lenders to preach to the American Negro, his duties, his responsibilities, his opportunities. We need such leaders to encourage the blacks, to inspire them with hope and courage. We need such leaders to bring about as friendly relations between the racists as possible under existing conditions. I suggest the name of Dr. Booker T. Washington as the chief leader of this type of race leadership. Really, Mr. Washington is already such a race leader, and as such a race leader he cannot be displaced. OTHER TYPES NEEDED. We also need leaders to teach the Negro genuine race respect; to cry against caste distinction; to set before the world the actual humiliating condition of the American Negro; to plead for equal manhood rights of the Negro; to teach us that it is our duty to strive to be real man as well as to strive to be well fed and well clothed animals. I suggest the name of Dr. Du Bios as the leader of the type of race leadership. Dr Du Bios is the most fitting American Negro for this position of race leadership. There is another type of race leadership, that we need Is Sagebrush. Love, of Action, Thrills DE Successful Books How Busy You Are for the Country Page Two. all, Jr., Editor of the Richmond Planet, to be the chief leader of this type of race leadership. Just as no one kind of food can support life indiscretely because it 18 otalok sthdl etalok shdluk lacks some necessary food ingredient, so it is impossible for our race in its present development to succeed in this country under any one type of race leadership, because no one type can consistently and fully represent all of the varying interests of the American Negro. As development proceeds differentiation takes place. That the Amer- blacks are beginning to differ in their race question is a happy omen. It proves that our progress is real and genuine. We are doing well. Let us not become discouraged. Let us not expect for our follow-men to think as we do on all subjects. Let us always remember that "doubt is the bonoon of the wise." JOHN E. HARRIB, Sfatesville, N C. March 14, 1911. —Old papers at The PLANET Office at 15 cents per hundred. EARLY CLOSING HOUR The following letter from the Clearing House Association of Richmond and our reply thereto will explain why our closing hours were changed. Bank which did not desire to comply or declined so to do were required to withdraw from the Clearing House Association. Our Board of Directors decided to change the hours. Permission was afterward given to the Broad-Street Bank to keep open until 8 o'clock on Saturdays and so we enjoy the same privilege. Our Saturday Closing Hours are from 9:00 A. M. to 8:00 P. M. CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND Richmond, Va., Dec 30, 1910. Mechanice's Savings Bank, City Gentlemen.—We beg to advise that the following amendment has been made to Article XXX of the Clearing House Association, changing the business hours of the banks, 9 to 3, to 9 to 2 o'clock, to go into effect February 1, 1911. The first paragraph of the Article was amended to read as follows: "The business hours of the members of the Association and Banks and Trust Companies clearing through members shall be uniform from 9 to 2, except on Saturdays, the hours shall be from 9 to 12, subject to change by a three-fourthnote of the members of the Association." Under separate cover we are sending you a copy of the Articles of the Association. The attorneys advise that this action of the Clearing House be confirmed by the Board of Directors of the several banks Please have your bank take this action as soon as possible Wainond, Va. Jan 9, 1911 Mr J. Wainond, Clearing House Association, City Dear Sir - In reply to your esteemed favor of December 30, 1910, we beg leave to state that at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics' Savings Bank held Friday night, January 6, 1911, the action of the Clearing House Association of Richmond in changing the business hours of banks from 9 to 3, to 9 to 2 o'clock, same to go into effect February 1, 1911, was confirmed and our officers directed to notify and advise you accordingly. Very truly yours. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. President Thomas M. Crump Secretary Criticises the Editors. Criticises the Editors. (Continued From First Page ) suit the white man, but it is not a good policy to speak to him unless he is fair in his dealings. I don't see any reason to "soft-soak" along or mince in the true condition of things, for the Negro must work out his own salvation himself. POINTED QUESTIONS We are not asking for anything more than to be allowed to live under the Government that we helped to establish and are helping to support. Why should the Negro be any more a footman under the Government he helped to support than any other man. Just because he is black, or he would be black if the white man would stay on his own side as he wants the Negro to do? They do the colored editors sugarcane the words just to make things sound like the white man likes to have them used. It is time to stop saying the white race is a friend to the Negro race, for he is not, and he doesn't want to be called the Negro that it is unpopular to called the Negro friend, for if he were his friend he could, and would, stop the wholesale slaughter of the Negroes in the Southern States. You argue that it is done by the dirty class of white men. Well, we all know if the better class were not pleased to have it go on, they would stop it in less than three months. But he, the better class, gives his consent to murder by sitting still and not stopping it THE WHITE HRESS8 POWERFUL The white newspapers can stop as well as start anything. Why, the newspapers stopped what they called 'the White Slave Trade in New York City in three months' time. It was even because a Negro was accused of making money of it. Well, why do not the white papers denounce the Black Slave Traffic that is going on in the South, and why don't you colored editors call their attention to it, if they are the Negro's friend as you all claim? Why such broad-minded journals as the New York World and the Independent could stop any wrong done the Negro race if they were his friend, as is claimed by the colored people. Nothing of those great journals wish to go on record as being the Negro's friend, hence they sit still and hardly denounce these Southern outrages. Now, dear Editor, call upon the colored press to do their duty to wards the race, for we are dependent upon you to do it. We can't hope to get justice through the white press, and you know it. I do not mean to attack my white friends, for which I am thankful, but want you to come with the straight goods, and be more of them; and for God's sake also speaking of the white people as being the Negro's friend, for you decry as many of them. We all have good friends in or among the white race; for I have good ones; but as a whole the white race is no friend that the Negro race. There is no friend that will-willfully destroy his friends. I am your most humble servant, a subscriber to The Planet. —Put your ads. In The PLANET. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 15. 1911) Unexpected opposition developed in the Board of Alderman last night to the proposed race segregation ordinance for the separation of the races, several members saying that so far-reaching a matter should be given more study and consideration than has yet been accorded it. In the end the paper was tabled and ordered printed and distributed among the members. Alderman Grundy said that if the matter came to a vote, he would vote for it, but it was his motion to table and print, as he thought it should be more fully considered. Mr. Gunat defended the Ordinance, Charter and Reform Committee, which he said had given a full hearing to all parties desiring to be heard. The text of the ordinance, he said, had been fully published in the press, and he saw no reason for any delay. MAX BE AMENDED 0 . . . . Mr. Powers favored delay, saying that there were important amendments to be offered which should be cast in proper form. Mr. Perdue said the matter was not of an emergency character, and that there was no reason for haste. As it stood, he was not prepared to vote for it, and would be unwilling to vote against it. The motion to table and print was adopted 13 to 9, by the following roll call: Messas, Adams, Atkinson, Butler, Cowardin, Donahoe, Grimes, Grundy, Hobson, Mitchell, Perdue, Powers, Rennold and Whittot—13 Noes—Messas, Bennett, Billey, Don Leavy, Gilman, Gunst, Kain, Moore, Nelson and Patram—9. PAWNING OF PISTOLS. The ordinance prohibiting pawnbrokers from receiving or offering for sale any dirk, pistol or similar weapon, also met with delay, notwithstanding an opinion from the City Attorney setting forth that the ordinance had been prepared after consultation of the City Attorney, the Commonwealth's Attorney and the Committee on Ordinance, Charter and Reform, and was designed to lesson an evil complained of in a special report of a recent grand jury The City Attorney said that there was "no reasonable doubt as to its legality." On objection of Mr. Hobson that the ordinance discriminated against certain licensed dealers, it was recommitted with the accompanying opinion of the City Attorney and report of the grand jury STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK OF RICHMOND, LOCATED AT RICHMOND, IN THE COUNTY OF BENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS. THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH, 1911 MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION Resources. Loans and discounts $36,034.67 Overdrafts, unsecured. $2,126.95 Bonds securities, etc. owned including premium on sane 2,630.09 Banking accounts and lot 37,457.61 Other real estate owned 103,782.97 Furniture and fixtures 15,629.31 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings 799.72 Due from National banks 10,131.99 Paper currency 3,446.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 348.27 Gold coin 842.50 Silver coin 1,206.36 Total $214,236 34 Linabilities. Capital stock paid in 41,680.00 Undivided profits, loss amount paid for interest, expenses and taxes 844.24 Individual deposits 33,804.58 Time certificates of de-posit 120,973.08 Cashier's checks out-standing 234.49 All other items of liab-ility. 16,800.00 Total $214,236 34 $214.236 34 I. Thomas H. Wyatt, do solemnly sweet that the above in a true statement of the financial condition of the Mechanic's Savings Bank, located at Richmond, in the county of Honrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 7th day of March, 1911, to the boast of my knowledge and belief. THOMAS H. WYATT, Cashier Correct—Attest. THOS. M. CRUMP, JOHN T TAYLOR, D. J. CHAVERS, Directors State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Thomas H. Wyatt this 15th day of March, 1911 J. THOS. HEWIN, Notary Public. My commission expires April 12, 1911 A SPACIOUS SUBURB. WITHIN TWENTY MINUTES OF RICHMOND. in being divided into half-acre garden lota and sold to colored people. This broad domain possesses such preliminary improvements as lawns and groves and roadways, and is now ready for Afro-American who desire to build their homes in a lovely spot which unites city and advantage with the charm and whole soness of country life. For a description of this enterprise, write to CAPTAIN GUUSSON, The Founder of Glen Alles, va.