Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET CASHIER R.T.HILL DISAPPEARS. Leaves Home and Friends for Parts Unknown Believed to be in Washington. The True Reformer Situation. Attorney Newsome Determined. Insists upon Following the Policy Outlined. Receivers to Report Next Week. MANY APPREHENSIVE—DEPOSITORS IN THE BANK TO BE GIVEN FIRST SHOW—OFFICIALS STILL HOPEFUL VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 18. CASHI DISA Leaves Home Unknow The True Reform Determined. In Outlined. Re MANY APPREHENSIVE- SHOW The disappearance from this city of Cashier R. T. Hill, of the defunct Savings Bank, Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, upon the eve of the time for the receivers of the bank to make their report to the judge of the Chancery Court of this city has created profound interest. The news spread like wildfire and there were many who at first were loth to believe the report. An investigation of the rumor developed that the rumor had been given the "wings of the morning" from the fact that the official's family was foremost in making enquiries concerning him. LEFT WITHOUT WARNING It seems that he left home Friday morning as usual. Nothing was thought of this until he failed to put in appearance there Friday night, and then no tidings of him were heard Saturday morning. As he has always been a faithful husband and father, observing scrupulously his family duties, his family became alarmed and made enquiries concerning him. This was followed by an appeal to the Police Department of Richmond and to the daily newspaper, *The Times*, published (Va.) thispatch published an extended account of his disappearance in its issue of the 26th ult. Other publications followed in its issues of the 27th and 28th ult. WENT TO WASHINGTON The only information obtainable was that Mr. Hill had left Friday morning for Washington, D. C., Attorney Gilles B. Jackson stated that attorney Gilles B. Jackson stated that the missing man had told him two or three days before that he was going to Washington. The failure of the True Reformers' Savings Bank was thought by some to have unsuilt his mind, but he gave no evidence of this condition to those who had talked with him recently. An investigation, however, brought out the fact that as treasurer of the Lott Carey Baptist Convention he had about $1,490.00 of the convention's money and of this amount, $1,340 was money belonging to the Foreign Mission Board of that body. COELDN'T RAISE MONEY. He had received the bulk of this money, so it is said about the first of last September. Repoated efforts were made to collect it, but he gave various pretexts for his action and failed to produce the money. Reports from South Africa, where Rev. F. B. Modona, the African missionary employed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Lott Carey Baptist Convention told of the embarrassments he was undergoing as a result of the failure to receive the salary due him. He was even threatened with arrest. This spurred the Foreign Mission Board, of which Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., of this city, is chairman, to action, and a sub-committee, consisting of Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D. and Rev. Evans Payne D. D., both of this city, were appointed to collect the money. MANY PROMISES. Repeated efforts failed and 'many promises made. Even Attorney Hundon Cary was unable to do any butter until finally he brought matters to a focus by getting a final date sat for the payment of the money. This was Friday, March 24, 1911, at 1 o'clock, it is said. Mr. R. T. Hill had made attenuous efforts to have some of his friends endorse a note for some fourteen hundred dollars. He found on Thursday night, March 23, 1911, that he would not be able to succeed, inasmuch as he had no collateral other than groceries whatsoever of the defunct time. He reformed. Savings Bank, and this was problematical. WANTED PEACE OF MIND It was on the morning of the day that he was to raise the money that he quietly left his home and this city for parts unknown, to seek in some other locality the peace of mind for which his heart longed. Rev. C. S. Brown, of Watton, N. C., is president of the Lott Carey Convention, and Rev. W. M. Alexander, of Ballymore, corresponding secretary. Upon the news of the disappearance of Mr. Rouben: T. Hill disappearing 'the Reuben T. Hill the board of the Colored M. C. A. of this city called in special mention at the building, Third and Lloigh Streets, and on last Monday night, Mr. John S. Powell, deacon of the First Baptist Church, was designated as acting president until further developments CHANGED OFFICERS. Mr. R. T. Hill is president of the Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention. He is president of the Capitol Shoe and Supply Co., member of the Board of the Richmond Bonecal Insurance Co. He was succeeded as treasurer of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformors by Dr. John E. Merlweather and as treasurer of the First Baptist Church by Deacon Thornton Wyatt, now as president of the Y. M. C. A. by Deacon John Powell. He with his son had fixed up attractive offices on Second Street in conjunction with Lawyer J. C. Robertson, and it was understood that he would go in the real estate business. MANY SYMPATHETIC He was a man of a type who made many friends and much sympathy is expressed for him. He was treasurer of the Jamestown Expedition Colored Department, known as the Negro Development and Expedition Co. He was connected also with the colored fair here and other similar enterprise in which he no doubt invested heavily. Many throats were said to have been made against him in connection with the failure of the Saving Bank, Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers. WANTED HIM TO ENDORSE NOTE One prominent citizen stated that he met Mr. R. T. Hill on the corner of Second and Clay Streets last Tuesday, a week ago, and he told him that he was having much trouble and that the missionaries of the Lott Carsey-Convention were to be in fall on account of the failure on his part to produce the money which he had as treasurer of the convention; that he could show them that he had put the money in the True Reform-Party, but that they had put the matter in the hands of a hot-headed lawyer, who was going to bring guilt, and he wanted him to endorse a note for thirteen hundred and some dollars. he did not remember the exact amount. DECLINED TO DO SO. He had declined to endorse the note on account of Mr. Hill's financial condition, although this was the first time he had denied him any request. He had not seen him since. The information given out is that Mr. Hill has not been definitely located, but there is a growing impression that some of his close friends have decided upon his place of seclusion, where he will get needed rest. The receivers of the Savings Bank, Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, will make a report to Judge Grinnan of the Gancsey Court-of this city next week. They have agreed that the depositors, or KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—FINE SERMONS. Dr. Graham's Efforts—Imposing Parade. Last Sunday was the anniversary of the Knights of Pythias, N. A., B. A., E. A., A. A. & A. and of the Order of Calanth. The Uniform Rank and the subordinate lodge members had been ordered to assemble at the Pythian Castle, 727 North Third Street, and march to the First Baptist Church. At about 12:45 the line moved off, and it was a slight worth seeing as the many knights formed and marched down Third Street, and finally to Broad Street Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. and his staff led the procession. He was accompanied by Colonel D. A. Faguson of Drocco C. Mitchell Colonel R. S. Nelson of Monell Egg Smith, Major John J. Bly, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Wyatt and Captain W. Henry Jones and Colonel E W R Glenn INTERESTING EXERCISES Ex-Brindleader General W R Green also joined the procession. The subordinate lodge members made a fine showing, and the number who responded to the call emphasized their interest. Reaching the church, the members entered at once and filled up the edifice. The Scriptures were read and prayer offered by Rev. J. H. Fauntleroy. Music was furnished by the choir, under the leadership of Mrs. Rosa K. Jones, Mrs. Nannie Cobb, organist. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., the pastor, delivered an able sermon. He told of the duties of knighthood and gave interesting information and valuable instructions to the knights assembled GRAND CHANCELLOR SPOKE. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., also snook upon the work of the Order. He gave information concerning its work during the past year and exhorted all to be faithful and hold out to the end. He announced that complete harmony existed throughout the Grand Jurisdiction, and all official orders had been suspiciously obeyed. His call for a collection was liberally responded to by the congregation. The names of the lodges that had paid the anniversary fee were road, and it was shown that a liberal response had been made. A GRAND PARADE The parade then started as soon as the congregation had been dismissed. The staff officers never showed up to a better effect. Capt. Adolphus Jackson was acting major, Euroka Co., No. 1. Capt. W. F. Weaver, commanding; Planet Co., No. 8, Lieutenant Loroy Brown, commanding; Blooming Lily Co., No. 11, Lieut W. Willis, commanding, and two divisions of the Pythian Cadets, under command; respectively, of Capt. James Ammons and Capt. Jerome Davis, followed by the subordinate lodges, made a most imposing sight. Adjutant D. H. Payton, accompanied by Borgean R. H. Fountleroy, was much in evidence. THAT MUNICIPAL BAND: The Municipal Band, with noticeable additions, and its stately stately GOV. MANN SPEAKS. DELIVERS ADDRESS AT AUDITORIUM. Rally to Help True Reformers, Others Speak. About 20 white people and between 200 and 300 colored people attended the meeting at the auditorium last Wednesday night in the interest of the True Reformers. After advertising the affair for wooks, the meeting was a sad disappointment, when the attendance is taken into consideration. The conspicuous character at this occasion was Governor Mann, Dr. W. E. Graham, who was to deliver the invocation, did not show up, neither did Miss Alice Smith, who was on the program for a selection. LAWYER BUFORD ACTS. Lawyer A. S. Butford, who noted as Master of Ceramies, in opening the meeting, in part, said: "Such meetings as these are substantial illustrations of the good feelings that exist in this community between the races." He said that he had been informed that between eight and seven thousand dollars had been raised for the redemption fund of the Order; and, speaking about the bank, he said that he was informed that $200,000 was the amount on deposit when the bank closed its doors. NQT, AQA1YBT, US Mr. George McD. Blake made a few remarks, and told his colored audience that the legislation of the State worked out in interest of all the people. He said that a recent (Continued On Fifth Page) CARD OF THANKS. The family of Dr. and Mrs. R. F. Tancil express their thanks for the many letters of condolence, floral tributes and the kindnesses of the host of friends who extended their sympathy in the bereavement of our beloved sister, March 25, 1911. May God's richest benediction rest upon each of you. A CARD OF THANKS. Rev and Mrs S. P. Robinson, of 1103 West Leigh Street, desire to thank their neighbors and friends for the valuable assistance rendered them when their home was burned, firefaced 23 times, to all for what was done and is yet being done to aid them in their hour of distress. May the rich blessing of God rest upon one and all. Closing Exercises of Hewlett Colored Public School. Hewlett, Va. March 27, 1911 Amid the blue breeze of an ideal spring's night, under the blue canopy of heaven, beddecked with myriads of shining stars, a host of people in brilliance, a host of people, many white friends included, wended their way to Mr. Salom Baptist Church Monday night, the 20th instant, to witness the closing exercise of the Howlett Colored Public School, Mrs. Bassio E. Rockor, teacher. A highly entertaining and instructing program, consolating of prologues recitations, motion songs, concert recitations, dialogues, valedictories, torspersed with beautiful chorems and songs, was tendered, Misa Suate B. Ellott, of Doowell, acting as organizer. Many eloquent addresses were made by patrons and friends, Misa Ellott included. NEW PASTOR THERE. Rev. J. W. Waters, Jr., of Llewis- burg, W. Wn., has been appointed as pastor of Leigh Street M. E. Church, this city, and will occupy the pulpit Sunday, April 2d, morning and night. Property owners who want good tenants and want their statements without trouble would do well to see me. You get the best service and your statements are sure to comp on you. B. A. CEPHAS; Agent, 602 North Second Street. BLOOD STREAMS FLOWED FREELY Murdered in Cold Blood. Leslie Yarbrough Killed in Undertaker Office. Thomas Harris Admittedly Guilty of the Crime. Sent on to the Grand Jury. THE TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES—RINGING TRIBUTES TO THE DEAD DRIVER This community was shocked by the news of the murder of Leslie Yarbrough Thursday evening, March 28, 1911, at Mr. W Isaac Johnson's undertaking establishment, 711 Brooko Avenue. Death was almost instantaneous. Thomas Harris is admittedly guilty of the crime. A RENOWNED ARTIST HERE. Prof. Amohamed Milal, a Hindoo, who is now residing in Orange County, is in the city, and will remain for some time. He was born in Madrid, Spain, and lived in India until about 18 years of age. His father was a Hindoo and his mother a Spanish LOS ANGELES NOTES. The Juvenile Stock Company played before a crowded house last Tuesday evening, March 14, 1911. Mr Wm. Pleerson, who is the young playwriter, staged one of his play called "The World's Eye." Blk Hall was crowded with spectators. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The coroner's jury hold an inquest Friday, March 24, 1911, at 207 North Foushee Street, where Undertaker W. I. Johnson's main office is located. Those present, in addition to Coroner Wm. H. Taylor, wore C. W. Tyler, P. J. McCarthy, E. J. Kline, J. B. Talmay, E. Donahue and J. W. Gibbons. The inquest was continued until Saturday, 26th. THE MURDERED YOUTH. Leilei Yarbrough, was the son of James and Addie Heath, and he resided at 510 North Adams Street. He was 19 years of age, unmarried and was a driver for W. Isaac Johnson. He was murdered at about 7:10 on Thursday evening. The only injury noticeable on his body was a cut about two inches long on the right side of his neck. There were patches of skin abrased on the left cheek and behind his left ear; WM. PRITCHARD'S STATEMENT. Wm Cornellin* Pritchard, colored, being sworn, deposed my follows. I live at the corner of Roane and Goldin Street. I work at 711 Brooke Avenue. About ten minutes to six, in the evening of day before yesterday (23d) and several other men were at 711 Brooke Avenue when Tom Harris came in and began a quarrel with a person named Lee O'Neill. He said that William Lewis told him he must stop or go out. That led to a fight between them. After the fight Harris went out. HE CAME BACK After a while he came back and shook the door. He couldn't get in, and he went to the lattice gate. He wasn't allowed to come in there, and then he returned to the front door. None of us would let him in, but John Badler went to the door, hoping to get him away, and opened the door partly. Lonnie Yarbrough was sitting on a bench close to the door. Harris didn't come in, but reached over. Sadler's shoulder with a knife and struck Yarbrough in the neck with it. STRUCK THREED TIMES. I think he struck at him three times. I think this was about a quarter to seven. Neither he nor Yarbrough said anything to one another. I don't know whether they were engaged in the fuss that had occurred before. After Harris did the (Continued on Fourth Page.) BAKER MOTHERS' CLUB. The Baker Mothers' Club will hold its regular monthly meeting the first Friday, April 7, 1911, at Baker Building, at 4 o'clock P. M. Miss Ada Harris, assistant superintendent of the Kindergarten and Primary Departments of the schools will address the meeting. All members and friends are requested to be present. Mrs. Nannio C. Johnson, who has been so ill, is much improved, under the treatment of Dr. John E. McNeirweather. WANTED—Neat colored boy with some experience for porter. Wages $3.00 to $3.50 per week. Applies to ELI G. MISTER. Receiver, $17 E. BROAD GL. A RENOWNED ARTIST HERE. Prof. Amohamed Milai, a Hindoo, who is now residing in Orange County, is in the city, and will remain for some time. He was born in Madrid, 18 years old, and lived in India until about 18 years of age. His father was a Hindoo and his mother a Spanish lady. He was educated in Berlin, Rome and London. He is an artist, devoting himself to religious subjects. He has letters recommending him highly. One of these is from Mr. L. E. Johnson, president of the Norfolk & Western Railway. He has also one from Dr. C. T. Walker, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga. His artistic creations hardly ever pissed up $600, and he has painted subject costumes for $2,000. His conversational ability is marked, and it is only now and then that his for ign accent and trailing can be detected. HARRIS. Died at the residence of her son, Mr J W. Harris, 1609 Taylor Street, Thursday morning, March 23rd, at 11 P. MRS, GABRIELLA HARRIS, wife of Rev T. P. Harris, in the 83d year of her age She died in the blessed insurance of receiving the regard of a faithful Christian soldier in the Master's cause for about 55 years as a member of the First Antioch Baptist Church, Powhatan County, Va. She leaves to mourn their loss a faithful husband, one son, J. W. Harris, one sister, Mrs Susan Jasper, one brother, Mr Harry Jasper, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn their loss Her funeral look place at the residence in which she was in the custody to visit Rev Dr. Z D. Lewis preached an able and elegant, sympathetic son from Revolutions "Blessed are they that die in the Lord, etc." Sunday, March 26th, at 8 30 A M. at the residence of her son, in the presence of her relatives and friends. The word pictured by the Rev Doctor of the beautiful life and character of the old Saint was most beautiful indeed. The remains of Sister Harris were ingen to the Cheapeake and Ohio depot at 10 o'clock A. M. and conveyed to her late home in Powhatan County, Va., and laid to rest in the beautiful old homestead Beautiful floral designs covered the black cloth casket with long silver bar handles. Parewell to all my family and friends. My onward flight is with angels to attend. Good-bye to all. I am going home. And hope to meet and reunite around the throne. Honorary and active pall-bearers Rev. F Davis, Capt. W. H. Carter, Klah Johnson, Jackson Funn. --- Pratt. Mrs. Georgiana Woodson's fundrail took place at Sharon Baptist Church on Monday the 27th, at 4 o'clock P. M. She died as she had lived—a true friend and a Christian soldier in the cause of Christ, her Master Peace to her sage. COUNING: LAWSON. The marriage of Miss Mattie H. Lawson to Mr. Ira C. Caundis, of Richmond, Va., will take place at No. 726 North Third Street, Wednesday, April 12, 1011, at 9 o'clock P.M. Friends are invited. No cards. HUCLESS—PERVALL The marriage of Miss Florence A. Pervall to Mr. John Huculless of Columbia, Va. will take place at 809 N. 11st Street, Wednesday, April, 12, 191 at 10, 30clock at 10, 30am at 10, 30am April 16, 1911 at 4 to 10 P.M. at their residence 21 W. Jackson Street. Friends are invited. No cards. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. EAMS REELY Leslie Yar- naker Office. City of the Crime. Jury. ES TO THE DEAD DRIVER LOS ANGELES NOTES. The Juvenile Stock Company played before a crowded house last Tuesday evening, March 14, 1911. Mr Wm. Plerson, who is the young playwriter, staged one of his plays called "The World's Eye." Elk's Hall was crowded with spectators and good wishers of Mr. Plerson and his company. The young writer is 18 years of age, and is attending the high school. The proceeds of the concert were given to A. M. E Church. A sacred concert was given at A. M. E Church Sunday evening, March 18th. It has been the custom of Rev. Jesse Peck, since his pastage of the A. M. E. Church hero to have a sacred concert once a month. Some of the very best talent are secured by the choreographer to appear. At 7:30 when the church was crowded, and those great tunes "people turned away. There was not even standing room. There was not number of participants were the Williams Jubilee Singers, who rendered one of their selections. This program was one of the best that has ever been given. Great praise is due to Professor Bynum in the great improvement he has made on the choir. Annual Meeting. 6 the Royal Members and Friends to the Secretary of State Convention Greetings Within two months we shall have in session in our annual meeting. The great Fifth-Street Bantam Church of Richmond, Va. with our great Dr. W F Graham as its precious leader will greet and entertain every worker and loyal friend attending the meeting. They are looking begging and longing for you to come. Let us go up in large numbers taking Richmond by storm. Let us go prepared to show that the Old Convention is still a great fighting force, prepared to stand up for those principles which were so dear and precious to Hayes Fox. Williams, Madison, Dixon and a host of worthies who have crossed the swollen Jordan Remember that "the who contends for the truth, even though dying, will be a hero in the land of eternal victories. From the far off land of sunshine and song our departed champions are looking down upon us, and anxiously awaiting the coming of the day when Richmond citizens will hear the voice of the heroes left behind. Men of the convention let me urge you, in the name of our great leaders who are gone to come up to Richmond. Our school at Lynchburg is in a real fine condition, but needs your financial help. Our missionary work is in great need. Come, with your purse filled with money, ready and willing to give to the work. Often have I called upon you in the past. Often have you cheerfully answered the call. The president, Dr. Digg, a man of great intellectual power and moral worth, has called upon us to come to the church. We will let $1000 to be laid upon the table in the Fifth-Street Church in Richmond. If the men and women of the convention will do as well as they did at Potterburgh, it will be done. Let us hear from you, find grant every man and woman tiny do his or her duty. Our beloved corresponding secretary, Rev R C. Wood, B D. has done, and is doing, noble duty for the cause. But none of us can succeed in our labors if the rank and file of our forces refuse to serve faithfully. God grant that the fire of other days may stir us up to full duty for God and the convention. Come up to Richmond loaded down with money. Miss Arsenia Robinson, who has been seriously indisposed for the last four weeks, is greatly improved and able to leave her room. --- The A FALSE MEMORIES. As a chirurgical fate decreed it turned out that Blount was not to have country for a travelling companion beyond Chicago. On the second day of westward faring the railroad man, whose business followed him wherever he went, had instructions to meet Mr. Hardwick McNickar, his vice president, in the Illinois metropolis, and on the morning of the following day Blount continued his journey alone. Twenty-four hours later the expatriated westerner had crossed his Rubicon, otherwise the clay colored stream of the Missouri river, at Omaha, and had entered upon scenes which ought to have been familiar—should have been and were not, so many and great were the changes wrought during his fourteen years of absence. In the smoking car he fell into thik with a prosperous looking man whose thin, hawklike face was so out of keeping with the air of prosperity—a lone passenger who had boarded the train at Omaha. At first their conversation was baldly desultory. The hawk faced one, it seemed, a mine owner whose property, vaguely located somewhere "in the mountains," was involved in litigation. It was the reference to the litigation which first drew Blount beyond the commonplaces, the awakened interest being wholly professional. Oddly enough, since he had never expected to use it, he had specialized somewhat in mining law, and before many miles had been clicked off under the drumming trucks of the Pullman he found himself giving opinions and laying down plans of procedure for the man who, investing in mines, and apparently purchased more trouble than profits. Into the cleft thus opened by the ax of business the hawk faced man inserted a wedge of cautious inquiry. In addition to his mining properties, he had been making investments in timberlands—bad investments, he feard, since the government had laterly taken such a decided stand against the cutting of timber in the new for est reserves. Again Blount was good naturally helpful. One of his classmates in the law school had been preparing himself to enter the legal branch of the forest service, and Blount had acquired at second hand a working knowledge of the forestry situation in the west and of the legal status of the western timber pirates. Moreover, he had very clear and decided opinions upon the question of the conservation of the nation's timber resources, and he was frank enough to express them emphatically. If he had been less unsuspicious he might have remarked the quickened attention of the prosperous looking person who seemed so willing to take advice from a chance acquaintance "If you were a government man yourself you could hardly put the case stronger." was the smiling commentary of this person, who was as yet nameless to Blount. "How do you know I am not a government man?" said the expatriate, willing enough to play the game as the cards should fall. "Because you are not travelling on government transportation," was the ahewd reply. "You can't tell anything by that," Blount said, laughing. "A good many XB "EMBROILLY IF THEY RUN TRAVELING ON A BOOKMART MISSION." "MERCERALLY IF YOU RAN TRAVELING ON A BROOKET MISSION," civilian employees of the government travel on regular tickets like other people." "I know they do," admitted the other, and them, with a sharp side glance which Blount missed. "especially if they are traveling on a secret mission." "You needn't be alarmed. You have just told me anything the government could make use of." returned Blount. Honorable Senator Sagebrush Copyright, 1910, by Street a Smith carrying the jest one necessary move further along It was precisely at this point, as Blount remembered afterward, that the forestry subject was dropped. Later on after the talk had drifted back to mining and from mining into politics, the hawk faced man announced his intention of going back to his section in the body of the car to take a nap. A little further along toward evening the great range which had been visible for hours in the west began to define itself in peaks and high, bold shoulders of wind swept means, and Blount was glad to find some stirrings of the homecoming wanderer's quickened pulse answering to the near view of the mountains At the dining car dinner, which was served while the high peaks of the main range were still reflecting the crimson and gold of the sunset, Blount missed his lunchon companion. Now that he recalled it he remembered that he had seen nothing, of the hawk faced man since the early afternoon. But the absence of companionship was a relief rather than a deprivation. Almost without knowing it he found himself hastening through his dinner so that he might return to the Pullman window. When at length he had the longed for sight of a bunch of cattle, with the solitary night herd hanging by one leg in the saddle to watch the passing train, the call of the west was once more trumpeting in his curs. At a small timber shipping station well within the mountains where the logs were shot down to the mills in a trough-like water chute from the wooded heights twenty miles distant there was a longer step than usual, and Blount got off to make inquiries. There was a freight wreck at some point a few miles farther west, and the train would probably be delayed for several hours. By this time Blount was on well remembered ground. Forty miles away in a direction somewhat east of north lay the Blount home domain, where he had spent his happy boyhood. An hour's gallop to the westward the level rays of the setting sun would be playing upon the little station of Painted Hat which had been the shipping point for the home ranch. And halfway between Painted Hat and the Cinder Claw lay the horse corrals of one Dobblebly, a hermit of the mountains and the boy Eran a earliest schoolmaster in the great book of nature. Since Blount could not go on by train, what was to present the taking of an immediate and delightful plunge into the land of heart stirring recollections? Arranging with the Pullman conductor it have its hand luggage left in Gentry's office at the capital, Blount crossed quickly to a livery single opposite the station bargained for a saddle horse bargained a pouch and a pair of leggings and presents with the squeak of the saddle leather making sweet music in his ears had broken velcords for the moment at least with all the civilized traditions. He would go to see Dobbleby drop in upon the old rancher without warning and thus got his first taste of the household unmixed with any of the disappointing changes which were doubles awaiting him at the real journey's end. Now it chanced that the Iverry stable was an adjunct to the single hotel in the small sawnmill town, and as Blount swung up into the saddle he was a little surprised to see his companion of the Pullman smoking compartment standing on the porch of the hotel in corset talk with three drivers who from their appearance might have figured either as "timber jacks" or cowboys. Blount was on the point of speaking when he rode past the porch on his way to the northward trail pointed out by the Iverryman, but a curious feeling restrained him. He was almost sure that the prosperous looking gentleman with the bird of prey eyes was making him the subject of his corset talk with the three men of doubtful occupation Quite naturally this impression deepened into a conviction when he looked back from the road crossing of the railroad track and saw that all four of the men on the porch were watching him. After leaving the railroad Blount found himself crossing the broad mosa, with the eastern mountains near at hand, and the Lost river range struck out sharply in its sky line against the sunset horizon. On this mosa the trail disappeared entirely, but so long as he was sure of the general direction Blount let it go and gave the dreaseless little broncho a loose rein. Dobblebly's rainy lay among the footballs of the distant western range, and he was quite sure that he could ride straight to it in the dark if need be. It was some little time after he had left the shoulderings of the eastern range behind that a curious thing happened. Far away to the right he heard the sound of galloping hoofs. Though the mormon was nearly at lot full and the THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. freeze landscape was bare of any kind of cover, he could not see the horseman who was evidently passing him and going in the same direction. At first he thought it was some one who was making a detour to avoid him. Then he smiled at the absurdity of the thought and concluded that he himself was off the trail. This conclusion was confirmed a little later when two other travelers, announcing themselves to the car as the first one had done and also, like the first, invisible to the shiny pearce sweep of the brown plain, passed him at speed. After that he had the solitude and immensities to himself, and it was not until the broad mead had been crossed and the broncho was pleasing its way among the hogback bills of the west arm range that the boyhack thing he had been led to do took shape as a venture which might have discomforting consequences, for after the broncho had wandered through many canyons and had climbed a good half score of the hogback hills the young man from the east rimetally) admitted that the boyhack memories were altogether at fault in the deceptive moonlight. He was very thoroughly and painstakingly lost CHAPTER IV THE HIGHWAYS WHEN the three men who had pulled him from his home and bound him had with drawn to the farther side of the campfire to wrangle morosely over what should be done with him Blount found it difficult to realize that they were actually discussing, as one of the expedients, the propensity of knocking him on the head and flinging his body into the canyon. The difficulty lay in the crude incredibility of things. Five minutes earlier he had been riding peacefully up the trail, wondering how badly he was lost and how to farther it was to Debbiebys, then at a sudden turn in the canyon bridge path, he had come upon a campfire and had found him self looking into the muzzle of a leveled. Winchester WILLIE JONES From that to the unhorsing and the blinding was but a rough and tumble half minute, since he was unarmed and the surprise had been com- plete, but the in- credibilities remained. FOUND ON MISSION LOOKING IN THE MUSIC OF A LITTLE WIND IN THE WIND FOUNDING WESTLEY That some r looking at the diluious mistake MIZZOU ALIYA had been made LID WINCHELL seemed to be the only possible explanation. But when he remembered the three invisible horsemen who had passed him on the broad mea he was not so sure about the mistake. Most naturally, his thoughts went back to the little episode on the hotel porch. The passing glance he had gri en to the three men with whom his smoking room companion had been talking did not enable him to identify them with the three who were calmly discussing his fate at the nearby fire but the conclusion was fairly obvious none the less. Thus far he had been either too busy or too bewildered to think of asking questions, but when the more murder out of the expedients seemed actually about to prevail he thought it was time to try to find out why he was to be offered. "I don't want to seem to interfere with any arrangements you gentlemen are making" he called across to the group at the fire, "but if you will kindly tell me why you think it necessary to murder me I should be immensely oblited." "You know mighty good and well why there is one too many of you on Lost river just at this stage of the game" said the hard faced brigand who had held the Winchester while his two accomplices had unhorsed and bound the victim. "But I don't insisted Blount good putteredly. So far as I know, there is only one of me-on Lost river or anywhere else." "That'll do for you. It isn't your put in, nohow." was the grunt decision of the court. Blount was too good a lawyer to be gilenced that easily. "Perhaps you might not especially regret killing the wrong man, but in the present case I am very sure I should. Who do you think I am?" "The loss knows who you are, and that's enough for na," said the spokesman of the three highbinders. "The boss?" questioned Blount. "Fans; I said the boss. Now hold your jaw." Blount caught at the word. In a cash the conversation with Gantry flicked into his mind. "There is only one boss in this state," he said coolly, "and I am very sure he has not given you orders to kill me." "What's that?" demanded the spokesman. Blount repeated his bit of information, adding, "Perhaps you'd better ring for a better connection and ask your boss if he wants you to kill the son of his boss?" At this the tall man came and stood over his prisoner. "Say, comrade, it isn't my night for kiddin', and it hadn't ort to be younur', he remarked grimly. "The boss didn't say you was to be rubbed out—they never do. But I reckon it would save a heap o' trouble if you was rubbed out. You don't git over into them woods on Upper. Fork coast with no papers to serve on anybody. Soe?" A great light dawned upon Blount, and with it came the discomforting chill of a conviction overthrown. As a theorist he had always scolled at the idea that corporations, which are creatures of the law, could afford to be open breakwaves. But here was a very stridling refutation of the charitable assumption. His smoking room companions of the Palman car was doublesome one of the timber pilgrans who had been cutting on the public domain. To such a man an agent of the national Forest service was an enemy to be disposed of as expeditiously as possible, and Blount saw that he had only himself to blame, since he had allowed the man to believe that he was a government employee. Having the claw to the mystery, however, his course was a little easier to steer. "My name is Blount, and I am the son of ex-Senator David Blount of this state," he asserted. "Now, what are you going to do with me?" "What's that you say?" grated the outlaw. you dear what I said. Go ahead and hear me into the canyon if you are willing to stand for it afterward." The hard faced man turned on his heel without replying and went back to the other two at the fire. Blount caught only a word now and again of the low toned, wrangling argument that followed. But from the overheard word at two he gathered that there were still some leanings toward the sound old maxim which declared that "dead men tell no tales." When the decision was reached he was left to guess what it was. Without any explanation the thongs, were taken from his wrists and ankles, and he was helped upon his horse. When his captors were also in mounted the new status was defined by the hard faced man in curt phrase. "You go along quiet with us, and don't you make no bad breaks. I more half believe you been lynn to me, but I'm goin' to give you a chance to prove up. If you don't prove up you pass out, that's all. Now git in line and bike out, and if you're tempted to make a break just recollect that a chunk o' lead out of a Winchester kin travel a heap faster than your cayuse." For the first few miles the trail was so difficult that speed was out of the question, but later in crossing a high lying valley the horses were pushed and ten or twelve miles were covered at a gallop. When the canyon trail came out upon broad uplands and became a country road, with ranchs on either hand, watered by irrigation canals into which the mountain torrent was diverted, there, were no familiar land marks to tell Blount whether his captors were lending him. As he was able to determine by holding his watch face up to the moonlight, it was nearly midnight when the silent cavalcade of four turned aside from the main road into an avenue of huge cottonwood trees. At its head the avenue became a driveway, and fronting the driveway a stately house with a massive Georgian facade and colonnade porch, during its black shadow across the white gravel of the carriage ap proach. There were lights in one wing of the house, and another appeared behind the fanlight in the entrance hall when the leader of the three highblinders had trumped up the steps and touched the bell push. Blouet had a feeting glimpse of a black head with a crown of snow K. E. "WHERE ME INTO THE CANYON IF YOU AND WILLING TO STAND FOR IT AFTERWARD" wool when the door was opened, but he did not hear what was said. Then the negro disappeared, and there was a little interval of waiting At the end of the interval the door was opened wider, and Blount had a griff order to diamount. What he saw when he stood on the doormat beside the hard faced man with the Winchester merely added mystery to mystery. Just within the luxuriously furnished ball, where the light of the ball lantern served to heighten the artistic effect of her dark red house gown, stood a woman, evidently the mistress of the Georgian manage. She was rather small and dark, with brown eyes that were almost childlike in their winniness, a woman who might be twenty or thirty or any age between. "What is it, Bart7?" the little lady asked, turning to the man with the gun. The reply was direct and to the purpose. "Excuse me, but I jest wanted to ask if you know, this young feller here. He allows he is—" "Of course," she said quickly, coming forward without hesitation to give her hand to the dazed one. "Please come in. We have been expecting you." Then again to the man with the Winchester, "Thank you, Barto, for showing the gentleman the way to Wartrace Hall." It was all done so quietly that Blount was still awkwardly holding the hand of welcoming when his late captors were riding away down the cottonwood shaded avenue. When he realized what he was doing he was as nearly embarrassed as Patricia Anners' lover could well be. But his impromptu hostess quickly set him at ease. "You needn’t make any explanations," aba hastaged so say, ambling up at him and gently dispengaging the hand which he was still forgetting to reallign. "Of course I knew that you were in trouble of some kind and that your safety depended in some sense upon my answer. What can I do for you? "I was on my way to the capital when these men held me up," he stammered. "They—they mistook me for some one else, I think, and for reasons best known to themselves they brought me here. If you could direct me to some place where I can get a night's lodging." "There is nothing like a tavern within in twenty miles of here," she broke in, "nor is there any house within that radius which would refuse you a night's shelter. Mr." Blount made a quick dive for his cardcase, found it and hastened to introduce himself by name. She took the bit of cardboard, and since she scarcely glanced at the engraved line on it he found himself wholly unable to interpret the smile she gave him in return. "The card is hardly necessary," she said, and then, to his complete bewilderment, "You are very like your father, Mr. Blount." "You know my father!" he exclaimed. She laughed softly. "Every one knows the senator. And I can assure you that his son is very welcome under this roof. Uncle Barnabas"—to the ancient servant man, who was still hovering in the background"—"have Mr. Blount's horse put up and the blue room made ready." Blount followed the hostess, who was still unnamed to him, obediently when she led the way to the lighted library in the wing of the great house. "Uncle Barnabas will come for you presently," she explained. "In the meantime let me make you a cup of tea. I am sure you must be needing it if you have ridden far. Take the easy chair, and we can talk while the kettle is boiling. Are you new to the west, Mr. Blount? Or is this only a return to your own? The senator is always talking about you, but he is so proud of you that he forgets to tell us the really interesting things that we want to know." The serving man took his own time about coming back for the guest, so long a time that Blount forgot that it was past midnight, that he was a guest in a strange house and that he did not yet know the name of his entertainer. For all this forgetfulness the little lady with the dark brown eyes, was directly responsible. Almost before he knew it Blount found himself chatting companionably with her and finding her charmingly responsive in what ever field the talk happened to fall. The white hired old butter came at last to show him the way to his luxurious lodgings on the second floor of the mansion. With a touch of hospitality which carried Blount back to his one whirl in the north the hostess went with him as far as the stair foot, and her "good night" was still ringing mentally in his ears when the old negro lighted the acetylene in the guest room, put another stick of wood on the small fire that was crackling and snapping cheerfully on the hearth and hobbled and bowed his way to the door. Blount saw his best chance for better information vanishing for the night and once more broke with the traditions. "I only Barnabas suppose you tell me where I am before you go," he suggested. "Whose house is this?" The old man stopped on the thresh old, chinkling gleefully "A ain't you know dat, sah? A ain't Mis' Honoria done tell you dat? You's at Watrace Hall, Mahatche Miah's country house Yes, sah dat's whish you is—kee, hee" "And who's 'Master Major?' "pressel Blount whose bewilderment grow with every fresh attempt to dispel it "A ain't she tell you dat? Kee, hee' Ebody knows Mahatche Miah; yes, sah Ef Mis' Honoria tell you oe巴Nabanasn't gwine to. No, sah. Ab'b bring you o'all's coffee in de mawn'i; yes, sah Good night, sah Kee, hee" And the door closed silently upon the wrinkled old face and the bubbling head Having nothing else to do. Blount went to bed, but sleep came reluctantly Whither had a curiously tricky fate led him? Where was Warrtrace Hall, and who was Mahasteh Majah? Who was the winsome little lady who looked an if she might be twenty and who had all the wit and wisdom of the ages at her tongue's end? These and kindred speculations kept him awake for a long hour after the door had closed behind the ancient morgue, and he was just dropping off into his first loss of consciousness when the familiar purring of a motorcar aroused him again. There was a window at his bed's head, and he reached over and drew the curtain. The view gave upon the avenue of cottonwoods and the circular carriage approach. A touring car, with its powerful headlights palling the white radiance of the moon, was drawn up at the steps, and he had a fleeting gillpee of a big man, swathed from head to heel in a dust cont, descending from the tonneau. "I suppose that is Mahshib Majah," he mused sleepily. "That's why the little lady was sitting up so late and why she had the tea things out. She was waiting for him." Then to the stronging querie, threatening to return and keep him awake: "Scat! Go away! Call it a pipe dream and let me go to sleep!" Mrs. Mether Gunny of Murray. The jury in the case of Mrs. Edith Melbar, in Albany, N. Y., charged with the murder of her four-year-old son last January, brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree, after being out two hours and nineteen minutes. Justice Howard immediately sentenced the woman for an indeterminate period of not less than twenty years' imprisonment at hard labor at Auburn prison, with life the maximum. Noted Negro Educator Was Assaulted In New York. COLUMBIA DAILY NEWS Steel Business Shows Increase. The annual report of the United States Steel corporation for the year ended Dec. 31, 1910, shows a volume of business done by all the subsidiary companies during that period of $703,691,414, as compared with $640,382,251 in 1909. Expenditures by the corporation for its main subsidiaries included about $16,000,000 for the Gary plant, about $3,000,000 for the Tennessee Coal and iron properties, and for all other properties a total of $33,000,000, making a grand total of expenditures for additional property, extensions, construction and development work at mines of approximately $33,000,000. The average number of employees in the service of the corporation and subsidiaries during 1910 was 218,435, an increase compared with the previous year of 22,935. The aggregate amount of payrolls for the year was $174,555,139, an increase of $23,291,745, or 15.3 per cent over the previous year. Murder Suspect Arrested. Frank E. Heldmann, a German, twenty seven years of age, was arrested on an Atlantic City express just before it pulled into the Red Bank station, charged with the murder of Martie Smith, the ten-year-old school girl, who disappeared on Nov 9 last, and whose mutated body was found four days later in the woods along Deal Lake. Heldmann was taken from the train, placed in an automobile and hurried to Freehold, where he was placed in a cell in the county jail. In a confession alleged to have been made by the young German, he declares the murder was deliberate, and that his employer, Max Kruschek, had absolutely nothing to do with the crime. It is understood that Heldmann says the crime was committed where the body was found. Details of the confession haven't yet been made public. Toll of Death In Mines. It cost the lives of 115 men to mine 221,564 tons of coal in the state of Pennsylvania last year, according to the report of the chief of the state department of mines, which gives the following statistics Bituminous coal produced, 118,696, 776 tons persons employed, 187,711, killed, 527 Anthracite coal produced, 83,269,294 tons persons employed, 167,927, killed, 598 Loss of life in the bituminous districts for every 1,000,000 tons produced was 3.54 in the anthracite districts, 7,18 Cleveland Fund Co It was announced in Princeton, N. J., by the committee having it in charge that the balance of the $100,000 for the Grover Cleveland memorial tower had been raised. Saturday marked the seventy fourth anniversary of the birthday of Mr. Cleveland and had been set as a limit for subscribing to the fund Subscriptions from all over the country have made it a national one. The tower, which is to be erected at the southeast corner of the graduate school of Princeton university, will rise 165 feet above the plain on which the battle of Princeton was fought. Bby Frozen Along Road. Marshall, a nine-year-old son of J. Frank Vanhaskirk, was frozen to death near Lowstown, Pa. The boy had accompanied his father in moving household goods from Lowstown Junction to Alfarata, when a spring broke on the wagon. The boy was left with the wagon while the father proceeded to Alfarata with a borrowed wagon. On returning he found the boy unconscious from cold. The boy died shortly after reaching Alfarata. 1500 at Bryan Banquet Nearly 1500 men joined in the celebration of William B. Bryan's fifty-first birthday, sitting down to a dollar dinner at the Auditorium in Lincoln, Nob., and later listening to a dozen speeches from distinguished Democrats. The event was principally intended to convey to those who have again been burying Bryan that they must postpone that interceting ceremony. Riders Renew Ralts; Burn Barn. The night riders, who 'struck terror to the hearts of tobacco growers during the big tobacco, war four years ago, have reappeared near Paris, Ky., burning, a big tobacco barn and destroying 15,000 pounds of tobacco. The victim of their visit was J. C. Keller, a wealthy farmer, who has opposed, the movement, for an elimination of the white buries crop this year. AT SAN ANTONIO. Aeronauta Ready to Make Flight; Troops on Parade Ground. USES RAZOR TO SLASH SON TO DEATH Insane Mother Horribly Cut Lad After Tieing Hands and Feet. Only recently returned to Pottsville, Pa., from a private hospital at Lebanon, Mrs. Hunjamin J. Grunger, aged thirty years, a close reader of the Albany child murder case, went suddenly insane and killed her only son, John Edward Granger, aged seven years/ The woman was discharged from the hospital apparently cured of her mental trouble, but her sister has kept close watch upon her. The mother took advantage of the temporary absence of her sister to carry out the crime. The unfortunate boy, a bright lad, had been at school. After the midday meal the mother took her boy but to an isolated section known as "The Pines." There she tied his hands and foot and stuffed a handkerchief down his throat to stop his cries. Using a razor, while he lay helpless, she cut his throat from car to car. The sharp blade was then used to slice the child from the neck down his chest to his abdomen. The boy made a vain fight for his life in his struggles he wrenched one hand from the ropes, with which it was pinched. Just as the police and hospital authorities arrived the mother was apprehended in the vicinity of a public school house. Her face and clothing were covered with blood. The woman shrieked and screamed. She proved a terrifying spectacle to several hundred children as she ran up and down the street. BABY-SICK SHE SHOUTS FIRE Woman Sends In Alarm to Get Aid For Choking Infant. When baby becomes suddenly ill send in a fire alarm. This was effectively tried in Chicago by Mrs Mary Rothschild when her baby had a severe coughing spell She rushed into the street shouting "Fire!" and the neighbors sent in fire alarms. Two companies responded When a battalion chief asked where the blaze was, the reply of the bother was: "Never mind the fire! Baby's choking! Don't stand there doing nothing; help me!" The fireman called a doctor and baby was somnolence again. CARNEGIE TRUST CO. DIRECTOR INDICTED Charged With Larceny of Over $200,000. Three indictments against Wm. J. Cummins, one of the directors of the Carnegie Trust company in New York, were handed down, charging, among other things, grand larceny in the first degree. It is understood that the three indictments-relate to the alleged larceny of a sum of money said to be between $200,000 and $300,000 from the Carnegie Trust company in April, 1910. It is said that the transaction in point relates to the loan of $300,000, which was made to the Carnegie Trust company by the Nineteenth Ward bank and the Van Norden Trust company. This loan was made in the form of a slight draft, for which the lenders were responsible. It is charged that when the sight dratts came into the Carnegie Trust company they were indorsed in proper form by Robert L. Smith, vice president of the bank, and turned over by him to be placed to the account of the trust company. Instead of which, it is said that another officer of the bank used some hocus-pocus and directed a clerk to credit the $200,000 to his personal account. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have.a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board, Wedding Stock. in fact, Every thing in the Printing Line. --- (Now York Sun, March 23, 1911) Booker T. Washington's lawyer, Wilford H. Smith, of 150 Nassau street, said yesterday that he had discovered the real motive for the assault on Dr. Washington on West Sixty-third street on last Sunday night. He said that Mrs. Albert Ulrich, the woman who says Dr. Washington spoke to her, mistook him for a negro who had tried to steal her ten-year-old daughter two or three weeks ago. She told her husband, so Lawyer Smith says, that "that name negro" was hanging around the apartment house on Sunday night, and the batting followed. Lawyer Smith asserted also that on the strength of new evidence he has regarding the episode he will ask District Attorney Whitman to try to have Ulrich indicted for felonious assault. He said two or three witnesses would swear that Dr. Washington did not enter the apartment house at 11 1-2 West Fifty-third street beyond the vestibule and, therefore, could not have attempted to peep into anybody's flat, and that at least one witness will tell about the boating as she saw it from an upper window of the ammo house. Who these witnesses are Mr. Smith said he would not reveal. Felonious assault was the original charge against Ulrich that Dr. Washington made in the police station. When the case came up in the West Side court on Tuesday the felony charge had been dropped for one of simple assault and Ulrich was lot in $600 bail. The kidnapping story as Dr. Washington's attorney gets it runs this way: Mrs. Ulrich's little girl is Dolores Alvarez. She is the daughter of Mrs. Ulrich's former husband, a man of Spanish birth and of the name of Alvarez, from whom she is separated. In a letter that Dr. Washington got on Tuesday from A. W. Abbott, agent of the Children's Aid and Protective Society of the Oranges in New Jersey, it was said that Ulrich's right name is Henry Adam Ulrich instead of Albert, and that he has a wife in Orange who charged him with desorption in the Domestic Relations Court in this city on February 21 last and got a court order directing Ulrich to pay $5 a week for the support of her child and $23 a month for her rent. Alvaroz, so the story goes, had threatened to take his child away from the flat in which his wife was living as Mrs. Ulrich, and she feared that he would do it. Two or three weeks ago, Lawyer Smith says. Alvaroz appeared with a negro at her door and said he was going to take Dolores away. The mother locked herself in with the child and presently Alvaroz and the negro departed. She told Ulrich about the attempted "kidnapping" and both of them were on guard against another demonstration: Then Dr. Washington 'happened along looking for D. C. Smith; the Tuskegee auditor. In the dim light of the vestibule Mrs. Urichh thought he was the negro of the previous counter and ran to Urichh with the inflaming news. Thus the circumstances as they appear to Dr. Washington's lawyer. When the kidnapping theory was reported yesterday to James I. Moore of 306 Wost Flirty-fourth street, the lawyer from Texas who is defending Ulrich, he said it was the first he had heard of it. He said Mrs. Ulrich had visited him in the foreonow and that both the Ulrichs called at his office in the afternoon when he was out, and that neither of them had mentioned any threat or attempt to carry off Dolores. He did ask Mrs. Ulrich about the letter from the Children's Society agent in Orange, he said, and she told him only that her child was living with her. She said that many threatening letters had come to her and Mr. Ulrich since the Washington affair, and she asked the lawyer's advice about keeping Dolores in the public school on the West Side which the child has been attending. There are many negro children in the school and the mother was afraid somebody might harm the girl. Lawyer Moore told her he guessed her fears were exaggerated. Last night Mr. Moore stopped on his way home hoping to see the Ulrichs to confirm his own belief that Dr. Washington was not mistaken for a child stealing nogro. He found so many curious persons about the front door, he said later, that he decided not to go in. He was positive, he said, that neither Mr. or Mrs. Ulrich had left the city and that he would see Mr. Ulrich today. All who inquired yesterday at the faint in which the Ulrichs have rooms were told that the couple were out of town. Mr. Moore said that this was because he had told them on no account to talk about the case with anybody but himself. To the reporters who called yesterday Dr. Washington showed a letter he received from Edgar B. Hammond, written from the Hotel Earlington, 49 West Twenty-seventh street: Dear Sir, A white Virginian, who has spent most of his life in Bedford county, desires to express to you his sympathy, his condolence and entire confidence in your innocence. As the horrible thing was prosecuted each of us is glad it did not happen south of the Potomac river. Then Dr. Washington said to the reporters: "I want you to make two things very plain. They cannot be made too strong. First, I had not taken a drop of liquor. Do I look like a drinking man? Second, I did not speak to a soul—man, woman or child—in that house. The whole thing is absurd. Do you think I would go to a house and do anything so foolish? Do you think I would speak to a woman on the street?" Dr. Washington was feeling much better yesterday. He went for a walk in the afternoon and slept from about 4 o'clock until it was time to catch the 6:20 train for Madison, N. J., where he talked last night to the students of Drew Theological Seminary on the progress of the negro race. Among his victories at the Hotel Manhattan yesterday were Bishop Greer and Horace White. This morning Dr. Washington is Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business 2 Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Posters, Handbills, Placards. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. to speak at the Staten Island Academy. New Brighton Tonight we will speak at the home of Wm. J Schieffelin, 5 East Sixty-sixth street, at a meeting to be held in aid of the movement for Christian associations among young nerro women "STRIPLING NOT FEARLESS, BUT COWARDLY ASSASSIN" Chipley, Ga., March 20 — 'It's all right for Edgar Stripling to talk and rant about his Christianity, his church membership and the good name he has built since he broke out of jail at Hamilton fourteen years ago, but this has no bearing on the crime for which he was convicted' said Mrs. George M Nelson, wife of William Cornett. As she gave her version of the tragedy Mrs. Nelson showed force and animation. A woman of more than ordinary intelligence, of good education, a rather fluent tailor, she became more and more interesting as she went into the story. "Edgar Stripling's wife and sisters have been brought into this," she said. "But what is being said now is quite different from what was said before. Fourteen years ago it was not so much the good names of these women as it is now. The truth is Billy Cornett's death was not due to anything of that kind. There were other reasons. "Charley Langford can tell as much about this assassination as anybody except Edgar Stripling," says Mrs. Nelson. "Langford can tell more than Terrell-Huff can. I don't believe Terrell Huff was there when poor Billy was killed. Thora had been transactions between my husband, Billy Cornett and Langford and Mr. Cornett had threatened to go before the grand jury and tell what he know. Had he done so there would have been trouble for Langford, and he know it. At that time Ed. Stripling and Langford were friends, Chummy they were. Everybody in Harris county knows all about it. Now while Stripling is having it easy up there in the Columbus jail talking about having atoned for his crime, and what a Christian he is, why don't he talk about that old Langford matter That might throw some light on the situation. "No. Ed. Stripling is' not that brave, fearless man he has been pictured. He's anything else. He'hu proven himself a cowardly assassin. Didn't he alip up to the window and take poor Billy's life without giving him the slightest chance? Why, Ed. Stripling might have shot a man aileow with no less fear than the way he shot Mr. Cornell. My husband didn't have the slightest chance on earth for his life. If Edgar Stripling is so fearless and brave, why didn't he meet Billy Cornell in the highway and shoot it out there. No, he was afraid of Cornell—and I believe he is afraid of him yet. "If that man is given a pardon there is no justice in this good old State. But I don't believe he'll get a pardon. Not yet." You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. (Atlanta, Ga., Constitution, March 21, 1911) Mrs. Georgina M. Nelson, of Chipley, widow of W. J. Cornett, who was killed by Thomas Edgar Stripling, in Harris county in 1897, has sent The Constitution a letter she received from W. B. Jamerson, of Danville, Va., regarding Stripling's case, and in which he states he is glad she is letting the public know the facts surrounding the killing of her husband Jamerson states in his letter that Stripling, who served several years as chief of police in Danville after his escape from the Harris county jail, had told the people of Danville that Cornett was running a blockade still and he expressed the belief that Stripling, told that "because the church he had gotten into and this dry crowd was bitterly opposed to liquor." Jamerson's letter is of especial interest in view of the fact that Stripling's application for pardon is to be heard by the prison commission next week. It is as follows: "Dear Mrs. Nelson I read your letter in the paper which I believe to be the facts about Stripling killing your husband. I was proud to know of your taking an interest in letting the public know the facts in the case. Stripling has told the Danville people that your husband was an outlaw and was running a blockade distillery, which I believe he did because the church he had gotten into and this dry crowd was bitterly opposed to liquor, and if it is the case, I hope you will write the facts for the paper. "If I wore in your place I would publish in papers regular the true facts. I know to my own certain knowledge that Stripling has killed two men—one white man and one colored, and crippled, another; also shot one, beat an old Confederate soldier with his billy and was fined by the mayor's court for it. "It is evident to good and honest citizens of this town that he shot the colorad man to keep him from telling on him, because he was a stranger here, and no one know him. I have been told that Stripling met him in the railroad yard and told him to come to his home that night, and when he went he shot him and said he was breaking in on him. "If you are disposed to do so, you can publish this statement in the Georgia papers. "You're very truly, "W. B. JAMESBON. "406 Clint Street, Danville, Va." JACK JOHNSON'S THICK SKULL X-Rays Show His Dome Knotted With Three-quarter Inch Arch of Bone San Francisco, March 23. —Champion Jack Johnson visited the German Hospital today to see his younger brother, Chrissie, who is being treated for larcinated blindness. The Best Typewriter That Money Can Buy Remington 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 Compare your outlay for the machine with your outlay for the operator and you will see why it is true economy to buy the n Remington Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated) 600 F. MAIN ST. RICHMOND, VA. While experts were taking X-ray pictures of Charlie they suggested that the champion alt down and have an X-ray mado of his head to discover the thickness of his skull. Johnson accepted and the result showed that it required five and a half minutes for the rays to penetrate, thus proving that the champion has a skull ranking from one-half to three-quarter of an inch, which is more massive than the skull of a Texas steer. While it took five and a half minutes for the rays to penetrate Johnson's skull they go through an ordinary human head in from five to fifteen seconds. The result of the X-ray exposure amazed all the medical experts at the German Hospital. All declared that Johnson's skull surpassed in thickness any which they had seen and proved that he could not be knocked out by a blow on the head. Binga as He is Hung. Pittsburg, Pa., March 22. -Singing the hymn of his childhood as he walked between two guards through the corridors of the Allegheny county jail, Slave Music was hung for the murder of Mrs. Bata Domboy, whom he shot Jan. 18, 1810, as she joy beside her sleeping, husband and babies, because she refused to accept his attentions. The strong full notes of the song continued during the march to the gallows and while the noose was being adjusted and weed only stopped when the trap was sprung. We Do Press Work for the Trade. 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He has a way of ingratiating himself in the favor of the people, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. While we hope that he may live an hundred years, it is evident that whenever his great soul shall leave its tenement of clay, a mighty throng will follow him with tears, increased by the thought of the many heaven-laden hearts he had soothed and the many countenances brightened by the mellifluent strains of a voice whose melody will be remembered even beyond this vale of tears. ACTION POSTPONED. The action of the Board of Aldermen in postponing action on the segregation, ordinance and the laying of the same on the table until its provisions could be carefully scanned and considered show the necessity of having a conservative branch of the city government. Colored citizens all over the country are now "up in arms" so to speak against the Republican Party, and the indications now are that they will be important factors in the doubtful States in determining the political complexion of the next President of the United States. This kind of legislation would serve the purpose well of driving them all back in the ranks of the Republican Party. What better argument could be used than that a Democratic Council in the Capital of the Old Confederacy had declined to humiliate its progressive colored citizens and had defeated the segregation ordinance, which was designed them; We went to this Democratic Council in person in the belief and hope that the racial rancors of the past had gone forever. We were sadly disappointed at the meeting of the Committee on Ordinances, Charter and Reform and in the Common Council, and we may be in the Board of Aldermen, but the injury to us will react upon others. This segregation ordinance has no torrors for the colored people of this city, for they are already segregated, and they have no desire to encroach upon the white people of this community. Their actions are voluntary and they do not wish to be limited or restricted in their movements by law. The action of the low branch of the City Council has done us much harm. It can only be neutralized by the action of the Board of Aldermen. As to the constitutionally or the ordinance, we have to ask Can a citizen of the United States he denied the right of living in his own house? Can a citizen be arrested and punished for living in his own house? Is there a lawyer who will not agree that this is an abridgement of the rights and privileges of a citizen of the United States? Will any one of the members of the bar argue that a healthy, peaceable law abiding citizen can be arrested for residing in his own house, and that he can be ejected from his own premises? To ask the questions is to answer them. The ordinance is unquestionably unconstitutional under the Virginia statutes, and even more unconstitutional under the Federal statutes and it can according) be called the unconstitutional ordinance devised to do an unconstitutional thing. It embarrasses and humiliates an humiliate race of people without accomplishing its purpose. If this law could have been put into effect it would be in operation throughout the Southland. The very fact that the one passed in Baltimore is now out of commission on account of its unconstitutionality should suffice to check and precipitate action on the part of the City Fathers of Richmond. Colored people should not conduct themselves in a manner to offend any of their white neighbors. It may be that commonsense will take the place of foolishness and that conservatism may find an abiding place in the upper branch of the City Council of Richmond. It may be well to remark that we have a Mayor, who has always had the courage of his convictions, and who will hardly be swept off his feet by this appeal to race prejudice. Let us have peace O THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP. In the discussion of the question of leadership, some of our respondents seem to labor under the impression that the issue involved the selection of the leader, who would not meet with opposition or criticism from any of the members of the colored race. This is a misunderstanding of the position taken and of the question propounded. There is no one who could be named as leader of our people who would not only be criticized but condemned. It would be utterly impossible for a human being to be considered who would not be the object of merciless attacks from certain quarters. Even the disciples of Jesus Christ murmured at times. The point is, can we find a man who would be universally recognized as the logical leader of the colored people of this country, and while disagreement him and his policies would accept him as the acknowledged leader of the Negroes of this country. Would the leaders of the race agree upon one man to lead them? This is the brunt of the whole discussion and along these lines we hope that our correspondents will express opinions. We already have minor leaders. We have a mighty array of them, many of whom are able and worthy. We overlooked Hon. H. C. Smith, of Ohio, in our previous discussion, and many now to know if Dr ers. We who know how to handle Booker T. Washington, the leader of leaders, the one colored man who is recognized by the white people of the country, North and South, East and West, Democrats and Republicans, as the leader of the colored race will be accepted by the conflicting elements, which have waged a practically ceaseless warfare upon him and his policies. For our own part, we have made what may be said to be a merciless analysis of his short-comings as viewed by those who have been forward in criticising him, and on the other hand we have gone far over to his side of the contention by quoting facts most strongly in his favor. We do not desire to find a man who will not meet opposition. We want to know if there is a colored leader who could be named who would be recognized for the time being by the National Negro Business League, the Niagara Movement, the Independent Political League and all the colored Republican organizations throughout the country as the leader of the corrupted people of this country. The sum and substance of the opinions which have already, been expressed seem to be that this will be impossible. Still the discussion should result in good, and it will go far towards establishing the status of the dintinguished sage of Tuskegee, who is now regarded the world over as the "uncrowned king" of the Negro race. Parruee was the unquestioned leader of the Irish during his day and generation, although he had bitter opposition in his own ranks. Frederick Douglas was more universally recognized as the race leader or rather the leader of all the colored people, just after the Civil War, and he had bitter opposition. His marriage to a white lady broze from him the last vestige of enthusiastic support which he enjoyed among the rank and file. Many leaders of the colored people object to the white people naming and designating leaders for them, and yet it is only by this method that colored leaders of note have come into prominence. Slavery left a bad breath in the race a disposition to kill off every colored man of prominence and to enunciate the doctrine "If I can't, you shan't." It is this racial jealousy among colored leaders, which sharp and skilful white men have played in the game of one Negro leader against the other until position after position. Office after office have been lost to the race. Mr R H Ball of Lawrence, Massachusetts, began this discussion, and it has already led to soite very able communications upon the subject. Dividently we might say that Dr Becker T. Washington's most remarkable article which has been designated as "a confession" which appeared in the World's Work, not only attracted attention, but produced amusement that any one not excepting the distinguished Theodore Roosevelt could have induced him to forsake the position of a lifetime and engage in politics to the extent of dictating political appointments among the colored people of this country. That he made a failure must be admitted in the face of the facts. Even the recent appointment of Hon Win H Lewis as Assistant Attorney General of the United States was made at the cost of well nigh every Federal appointment held by colored men in Southern States and it took untold energy) and work, re-load this position. If Dr. Washington though, can continue along this line he will restore past failures and stand out in the time light as snatching victory from defeat and with having secured a reversal of an anti-Negro position assumed not only by ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, but by President Wm H Taft as well. We have said enough Let able race leaders enlighten us and the public upon "the question of leadership." Blood Streams Flowed Freely. (Continued From First Page ) cutting he ran away and Sadler ran after him JOHN W. SADLER'S STATEMENT John W. Sadler was sworn and deposed. I live at 1636 W. Grace Street. I saw Tom Harris cut Leslie Yarbrough. It happened about ten minutes to seven night before last. I was in the office and Leslie Yarbrough was sitting on a bench. I heard some one at the door trying to get in. I went to open it, but some one said 'Don't.' I opened the door just enough to tell the man (who was Tom Harris) to go away. I told him to go away, but just then he reached over my arm and stabbed Yarbrough. CUT HUM TOO He did not come into the office. He then ran and I ran after him. I caught him and then he cut me, and I let him go Yarbrough lived about twenty minutes. I don't know what was the cause of the trouble AQREED WITH THE OTHER Lee Johnson was sworn and deposed; "I live at 711 Brook avenue I was present at the quarrelling in which Tom Harris was engaged and at the utting of Yarbrough. I have had the testimony of William Cornellus Pritchard read to me, and I agree to what he says about the quarrelling and cutting." William Lewis and John Ligson both colored, agreed that Pritchard's statement was correct. THE PAWN BROKER'S STORY. Mear Friedman, white, being duly armed, deposed, as follows: "I live at 565 Brooke 'Avenue. About half-past six day before yesterday evening Tom Harris came to my place and wanted to buy a cheap plat, but I told him I didn't have one. He thou bought a knife with it. It was a large pocket knife, similar to the one here shown." A PREVIOUS QUARREL. This concluded the testimony. The evidence seems to be that Harris had a row at Johnson's undertaking establishment with some of the men employed there. He seems to have gotten the worst of it, and that he was put out of the place. He went away and visited the pawn shop at the corner of Brook Avenue and Leigh Stroets, south-east corner, where he tried to purchase a second-hand revolver. THE DEADLY WEAPON. Falling in this, he bought a large pocky knifte, had returned to the scene of the previous encounter. Being dealed admittance, he reached over Sadler's arm and stabbed Leslie Yarbrough to death. There is no direct evidence that Yarbrough was concerned in the other quarrel. Yarbrough was in a manner crippled. He is said not to have had any toes on his feet, and this won for him the name "Nubby." UNSAVORY RECORD! Harris is said to have an unsavory reputation, having been both in jail and in the reformatory. The unfortunate affair is generally regretted. Harris has good, family connections, however, and if it is highly probable that a determined effort will be made to save him from the electric chail. We visited the undertaking establishment of Mr. W. Isaac Johnson last Tuesday and made enquiries concerning the killing of Leslie Yarbrough by Thomas Harris. Miss Lella Robinson, youcafed the information that Yarbrough was one of the best natured employees on the place. He did not harm her, and was generally among the stable-men. Mr. James Frayser was also accused in praise of "Nubby" who he was called. Thomas Dunson was present, and that he was there when the fuss commenced, but he left before it was over. ORDERED HIM OUT We then went out to the stables of Mr W. I Johnson 711 Brook avenue, and there saw the place where the tragedy occurred. The office is not more than seven feet wide by about ten feet long. The bench on which Leslie Yarbrough sat was still there. We were told that about seven persons were in the office. Thomas Harris first came around and was ordered out. Those named were John Sadler, Dunnson and William Cornellius. Richard was seen. He is a black smith and he did not stop to talk until he had finished his job of showing a horse. MIGHT HAVE KILLED HIM "I was there," he said, "from the beginning to the end. This fellow Harris came in the office and Lewis told him to go out. He then began curling. He acted like he was drunk or loured up with cocaine. I had been sitting behind the stove reading a paper, and if the door had been open he might have come in and killed me. We had locked the Ward and also locked the hatch gate and we do not use it this time. His had no hand here. He was just sitting there. He rattled at the front door so hard and shoved against in such a way that it seemed that he would break it down. THAT DEADLY BLOW John Sadler came in from the street, having been out on his carriage, and he heard Harris at the door. He did not know that there had been any trouble before. Some one told him not to open the door, but he went to the door to tell Harris to go away. He opened the only partly Yarbrough was seated on the bench right at the door Harris tried to get in. He saw Yarbrough made a hunge at him. Yarbrough up in order to get out of his way and as he did so he came in reach of Harris who reached over Sadler's arm and stabbed him in the neck. WILL STATE FACTS He made three attempts or passed at him. It was just awful. The boy bled awful. A doctor was 'phone'd for but he died in about twenty minutes. The office floor in there was just covered with blood. I expect to tell the facts just as I saw them and no more. I was there from the beating of the affair until the end, I did not know whether any one struck Harris when he was in there the first time or not. He had a bruise on the side of his face when he came back he had no business around here no way. He is just a bum and he works no jobs, so far as I know. TROUBLE AT A BAR-ROOM Yarbrough was playful and he was a harmless boy. He did all kinds of work anything that came to hand. He drove the black wagon. He sometimes drove the hearse. One of the other drivers stated that Harris and gone to the bar-room at the corner of Brook avenue and John streets that night and asked for a drink. When he called for the drink the bar tender knew that he had a knife up in the sleeve and he would not sell him a drink. INVITED HIM OUTSIDE Harris then made an insulting remark and told him if he would come outside he would show him what he would do. He went away then it was after this that he killed Yarbrough. There were no signs of the awful happening in the little office of the Mr W Isaac Johnson. It had been thoroughly cleaned. Mr. W Isaac Johnson entered himself as we were about to leave and stated that he was at his main office when the affair took place. He came as soon as he could. He was much wrongly up over the affair and felt outraged that an outsider should have come on his premises and commit such a crime. --- $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Berkley, Va., March 23, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A., E. A., A. and A. ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. in payment of the death claim of Brother William Sheppard, who was a member of Bruce Lodge, No. 31, of Berkley, Va. Signed:—— ELEXZINA SHEPPARD, Beneficiary. Witness:—— C. S. Burke, G. C. K. S. Goodson, K. of R. and R. B. C. Small, M. of F. M. Isbell, D. D., G. C. drum-major, made a marked impression upon all who saw it. Its enlightening airs caused many, compliments to be paid, both the band members and its leader, Capt. Moses Johnson. The Sir Knights wore the regulation uniform of the Uniform Rank, while the cadet bge wore the white and red hats, blue beads and white gloves. The line of march along Broad Street to Brook Avenue, to Leigh Street, to Third Street to the Pythian Castle. THE COURTS MEET, TOO. It was 4 o'clock when the Second Baptist Church choir, under the leadership of Colonel Thomas M. Crump; Mr. H. B. Burrell, organist, set the opening hymn for the courts of the First Baptist Church. Rev. J. H. Fauntleroy read the Scriptures and offered prayer. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Street Baptist Church delivered the anniversary sermon, and he interested the ladies in a way that won for him many responses from the congregation. He gave practical instructions as to how to live. At the conclusion of his remarks, Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr. explained the purposes of the Order and also gave information concerning the new regulations adopted by the last Grand Court. He expressed his appreciation of the fine showing made by both departments of the Order IDEAL EXERCISES The order at both of the meetings had been ideal, and the interest shown beyond all praise. He expressed his gratification at the perfect manner in which everything had been arranged, and complimented all for the excellence shown in preparing for such an occasion. It was 5 45 when all fled out, praising the exercises and commending Rev. Dr. Johnson and Rev. Dr. Graham for the rare oratorical treats vouchsafed those who had been fortunate enough to hear them. The Grand Lodge will meet on the third Tuesday in June in Petersburg, Va. INTERESTING INFORMATION Circulars distributed showed that the total amount paid out in Virginia on death claims in the male department during last year was $13,650 and in the female department Order of Calanthe $5,050.00, making a total amount of $18,700.00 paid out in one year. The approximate amount of $6,000.00 having been paid out in burial benefits by the lodges and courts would make a grand total of $24,000 with departmentals in 12 months. The folders distributed were embossed and were finished in colors and in gold and silver. They were generally retained as souvenirs. --- One of Our Advisors of the Colored Face P J Dorman M D physician and surgeon. Professor of Gynecology and general practitioner of medicine. Mantee Okla. P J Dorman is a graduate of the University of West Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn. He is a logger of his race and he is said to be second to none as a position, of human diseases. It is said by the leading colored and white citizens of Oklahoma that he is a credit to the race. The Doctor says that some of the people are going to Canada and some are going to Mexico, and some are standing and wondering where must we go. He says that is not bothering our coolness. Very little else also holds that setting a large amount of property within the bounds of the United States or any other government, except that of our own race govern ment. He also holds that it is favorable to our enemy to split up the race, because we always heard that together we stand and divided we fall. We should stay together and fight. We should stay together and fight for the entire race, and that place is Liberia. Some say get property, but the Doctor says property without representation is not worth a penny. He holds that too many intelligent colored people in the United States to be disfranchised. He says it would be wise for them to emigrate in a civilized way. Without emigration war will surely come between the two races for recognition. He also holds that in the next issue they may try to pass such laws that will force white guardians upon us. Let us see if civilization is growing stronger. First, let us define civilization. In the Doctor's estimation, civilization means to love all the races, and the most oney one to establish a government of their own; also such society that will advance all races to know and to adore (not which means to blot out hatred concerning races or color. In his day civilization has been on a decline for more than two hundred years, those who seek to keep us down. Among high civilized people they desire to see all races better their President of the Emigration Association to Liberia, now in operation at Mantee, Okla. Richmond, Va. March 29. 1911 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia. Order of Calanthe ($100.00). One Hundred Dollars, payment, the death of John Jannette Jackson, who was a member of America Court No. 44, of Richmond, Va. Witness:— Mrs. A. G. Thompson. Anna Taylor. North Tasawell, Va., March 26. He develops today that Henry Morgan, alias "Shine," the negro who, it was stated in recent dispatches, had been lynched near here yesterday afternoon for the murder of Grover Lambert, escaped the mob at the last moment and is still at large in the mountains. The information last night was thought to come from a reliable source. Today's report says that the robber was arrested about two miles from Pounding Mill; or about four miles from where the murder occurred. He was surrounded by a pose of sixty-five men. While one of them was hunting a rope to hang him, it is said that he made a dash for liberty and was lost in the darkness. In a few minutes another pose of 150 men he fought, and it is reported he fought that he has been surrounded again in the moment his fate is unseen. If he is captured it is generally conceded he will be either hanged or shot to death. hanged was reported here this morning that the negro had been hanged and his bbody thrown in the river. The report is said to have been sent out that he had escaped to proven the officers from making an inven tigation as to members of the lynch- party --- MORGAN IS TAKEN TO TAZEWEWJ JAIL (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Tazowell, Va., March 27. John Morgan, the negro who was reported to have been lynched near Pounding Mill on Saturday night, was brought to the Tazowell jail under heavy guard this morning. The negro is charged with the murder of Lambert, u white man, u watchman for the Indian Creek Branch of the Norfolk and Western. The first reports that were recalled here on Saturday night stated that the negro had been hanged and his body riddled with bullets. The facts in the case were far different, however. The negro shortly after shooting Lambert was captured in a "shanty" in one of the camps on Indian Creek by a mob that had been searching for him in the mountains. His whereabouts was divulged by other negroes, who were present when he rushed into one of the "shanties" and hid himself. The leader of the mob captured him and tied his hands in front of him, and after marching and down in front of the negro quarters of the construction camp a suitable tree was placed to which he could be hanged. Preparations were under way for the execution, the place being under a large walnut tree, with many strong limbs overhanging, and some members of the mob had climbed the tree and were affixing the rope, when suddenly the negro made a dash for liberty down a forty-foot umbrement, and into the brush and thicket. He disappeared. The mob fired upon him, but the "bullets went wild, and the negro was soon" swallowed up in the mountains. He remained in the mountains the rest of Saturday and all day-Sunday, and the night, proached Sunday, and soon sleek hungry and under cover of darkness broke into the camp, where friends, and asked to be protected. On account of a wound in his leg he was unable to prolong his wandering in the mountains. The superintendent of the company and others who held obedience to law far above the gratification of personal vengeance, took care of the negro until after midnight Sunday, when he was quietly taken through the mountains to the hotel on the railroad, where he was heavily guarded until this morning, when he was brought to Tazewell. The negro strongly protesta his innocence of murder, giving as an excuse for his shooting Lambert that Lambert others had shot at him first, and that Lambert had shot him while running for freedom. The affair has caused a great deal of excitement in this-community, especially where the dead man is well known, and a lynching would be no surprise. IDENTIFIED BY MISS BRUCE. Miss Roxie Rose, a pretty young Bluefield stenographer, created quite a surprise and no little excitement here this afternoon, when she was positive of her identification of John Morgan as the negro who handed her round the house of Lady Bluefield in Bluefield, on last Tuesday. The negro who was suspected of the crime, John Gray, alias John Bull, was released, the young woman stating positively that he was not the man wanted. In connection with the crime for murder for which Morgan was brought here this morning, the charge of homicide on his girl girl seventeen years old, unprotected, will almost surely land him in the electric chair. HUNTINGTON (W. VA.) NEWS. You are cordially invited to attend a birthday social to be given Thursday day evening, March 30, 1911, for the benefit of the Sixteenth-Street Baptist Church, Huntington, W. Va. Kindly place in the bag a penny for as many dollars as you can, and on persons over 40 years of age lunchoon ice cream and cake will be served. Miss M. L. Mangrum is president. $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va., March 29, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of the Order of the Order of the Holy Ghost ($100.00). One Hundred Dollars, in payment of the deathchalion of Sister Lavinia Lewis, who was a member of Narcissus Court. No. 229, of Richmond, Va. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor; weakened manhoo; falling memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drashes, or the fallies of youth, that has curbed so many worn and nervous men right to their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man, who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This grand old body will meet with the Fifth-Street Baptist Church Wednesday, May 10th, at 9:30 A.M. It is expected that about 400 delegates will be present and many distinguished visitors. The convention will be welcomed by Dr. D. W. Davis and addressed by His Excellency, Governor Wm. Hodge Mann. The committee will be composed of members from the various colored churches of the city making preparations for the care and entertainment of the convention. They met last Tuesday night at the Fifth-Street Baptist Church and will meet again at the same place Tuesday night. April 6th, when it is expected that the General Committee will be out in full. Pastor W. F. Gratam, his successor, members, feel very pleased with the progress on last Tuesday night. It is expected that all the churches will see to it that their committees will be on hand at the next meeting. --- Committee: REVS. W. T. ANTHONY, M. H. PAYNE, E. D. LEWIS, W. M. STEVENS, REV. C. H. PHILLIPS, D. D. L. A. GREEN, J. J. WOODSON, W. F. GRAHAM, (Chairman) D W. DAVIS, Secretary JAS H. CHILES; Assistant Secretary If your property is for sale or for rent, tell me about it. I have a list of persons who are looking for property, and yours may suit. Act at once. B A. CEPHIAS, Agent, 602 North Second Street DRAKES BRANCH NEWS The question of better schools here continues to be a perplexed one. The reason is apparent. North, one mile from the center of town and is St. Michael Church neighborhood is Miss Wilson, with an enrollment of close to 100 pupils, and south from the center, one mile, in Orran Hill Church neighborhood, is Miss Hall, a one-over-crowded school. A four-hour, one-hour drill in the center of Drakes Branch, two 2-room schools at the ends, this must be decided before assistance can be gotten from all concerned. The school board is ready to give council and what money at its disposal to assist, but the patrons must do their part. Patrons lack interest in the situation, and this should be aroused. They don't have time to visit schools in session, and few can attend even the closing exercise. A most important school is the schools the other day, but it was to rip the teacher up the back for allowing a neighbor's child to lick her child. What is wanted is one thousand dollars ($1,000) by the first of July. To present this amount to the board at that time would mean better schools for the coming school year. Instead, it would be last night, and $86 was subscribed. It was suggested that each parent give according to his number of children, say one dollar per head, when a St. Michael member said then his amount would be fifty dollars, and he was ready to give it when assured his children could attend. With the six other fifty-dollar members from -St. Michael the amount would be soon raised. Drug Store. For particular write Pannell Brothers, Staunton, Va. WANTED—A Typesetter. Addres H. D. SAMUELS, 21 Oak Street, H. Orange, N. J. Cashier R. T. Hill Disappears (Continued From First Page) rather the outside depositors of that institution, are entitled to first consideration out of the assets of the defunct concern. They will report that the bank does not owe the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers anything, but that the Grand Fountain owes the bank. it is further reported that they will place much blanks on the directors of the bank, who permitted the unsatisfactory condition to continue. HOPEFUL OF THE OUTCOME. The officials of the Grand Fountain are hopeful of the outcome and they claim that the rally money which is expected to come in during April will change financial matters materially. It is reported on reliable authority that the receipts during the past month have been very unsatisfactory, but this is explained away by the previous announcement and great things are expected during the next few weeks. Attorney J. Thetter, the official, might light for Washington, D. C. His mission there is as much a mystery to the officials of the Order as to everybody else. NOT IN HARMONY Enough is known to justify the assertion that he is in close touch with Chief W. R. Griffin. Mr. A. Humbles, of Lynchburg, who is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, is in the city. He seems to have been unaware of the fact that somewhat puzzled by the turn affair have taken. R is evident that the Executive Committee and the officials of the Grand Fountain do not take kindly to Attorney Newsome's plans and policies, and he is in the predicament of one who may feel that at any time he might be taken him. Still he is going ahead and pursuing the course of action which he and his associate counsel have mapped out. WOULD OUTVOTE HIM. It is evident that on an untrammeled vote and without the interference of the Bureau of Insurance he would be outvoted in the Executive Committee, regardless of the fact that he may be outvoted in the Bureau of Fountain representatives and the public at large. All parties to the controversy are handicapped by the lack of money. The Washington property contention calls for twenty-five thousand dollars more to save and this in outside the three-seventh dollars, which must be raised before the Order will be permitted to do business. ALL KINDS OF RUMORS. The disappearance or flight of Cauhler R. T. Hill has complicated matters and has started all kinds of rumors. It has been reported that his books were not in a satisfactory condition when he left home, and charge, it is unclear are no facts to charge, a charge of down-right disonesty—that is, so far as the public is advised from confidential sources. What a closer investigation will reveal time alone can tell. That the issue of the Planet of last week created a sensation and expressed it it was read, expressed it both white and colored people. The officials of the Grand Fountain seem to be in a condition of being prepared for anything and are simply waiting to see what will happen next. Newport News, Va., McMahon 15, 1911 To Whom It May Concern:— J. Thomas Newsome has been a successful practitioner of law at the bar of the court over which I pre- side for some twelve or more years. I doubt if there is a colored law-yer in the State that is in all respects, and I feel satisfied he has not a superior. His success has been as much due to his trustworthiness as to his ability, I think. I have found him very careful to make good to court and bar any un- undertaking he might make, self or his client. He is zealous and industrious, representing the in- terties of his clients; but, so far as I have been able to see, lets not his zeal trespass upon his honor. He seems to throw his influence on the side of the bottomment and up- lift of his race. Very truly. T. J. BARHAM, Judge Corporation Court of the City of Newport News. Denbigh, Va., March 13, 1911. To Whom It May Concern: I take pleasure in bearing testimony to the excellent character of Attorney J. Thomas Newsome, a member of the bar of this court. He has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession before me as judge of this, the Fourteenth Circuit of Virginia, for the past seven years, and I have always found him a sober, industrious, reliable attorney—a man of high intelligence and a good citizen. Given under my hand this 13th day of March, 1811. I concur in the above as to char- acter, etc. Governor Mann Speaks. (Continued From First Page.) act of the city fathers should not be construed by the colored citizens to be against them. His utterances were in defense of the laws which are now claiming the attention of the race in various sections of the country--affecting their right to live in communities where their hoath is preserved. Mr. Buford excellently introduced the Governor, who began his address in a comprehensive manner. · HAD TO COME NEARER. The crowd being so small, the Governor had them to come nearer to the platform so that he could give them a plain heart-to-heart talk. He said: "It is my duty to look after the interests of all the people in the State, and that is the reason I am here tonight." He pleased the officials, especially, of the organization when he exclaimed: "Failures often prepare men for success"; but when the organization is the kind of foundation necessary for success he reached the vital parts of the organization which are now being observed closely by people who think along judicious lines. HONEST PRINCIPLES NEEDED. "Honest principles you must have to entitle you to the confidence of the people," said the Governor, when he was revealing to his audience in plain language what is absolutely essential for any organization he supports. He has put pressure on the emphasized was the character of the officials and the members. Every sentence uttered by him showed that the True Reformers, as well as any fraternity, needed men who are capable of mastering the affairs of the people, and students of conditions affecting the lives of its members. SHOULD ATTEND TO HIS WORK. He said that he believed in a man if he is a preacher, attend to his work, as he couldn't well be a preacher and be tied up in affairs that claim his attention to the extent that one interest will have to suffer from it. He said too many things. This he said was applicable to men in all vocations. As an economic student, the Governor well established his reputation. He again emphasized the fact that if a bank had competent officers who had the ability to manage and receive good security, for loans and saw that the books were properly kept, and that such men had strong characters, a bank would hardly ever fall. PRACTICAL ADDRESS His address was practical 'and wholesome, and revealed the fact because a man knew the signs of the organization and nature had not fitted him for leadership, should not be at the head of any movement like she did. Captain Frank Cunningham and Mrs. C. B Gilpin encraptured the audience with their solos, and they received several encores. The choir of Ebenezer Baptist Church rendered two selections. Prandi, a bishop Master A. W. Holloway made a few remarks, which were mainly anecdotes. He failed to give the people what they wanted to hear. K A Word to the Brotherhood. Staunton, Va./March 28, 1911 To the Brotherhood of the Virginia Baptist State Convention We are again asking you of thee to reinforce your desire to accomplish The conventional year is rapidly closing, and the time for the Richmond meeting is rapidly ap- proximating. Without a doubt most of the brethren have reached some conclusion as to what they will do financially for the work. Very prob- ably a number of the money in hand some about have it, and it is reasonable to suppose that all are earnestly endeavoring to get it We bellow that the indications are good for the conventional work generally. We see no reason why such should not be the case. There ought to be a large attendance of delegates because more and more extremity far from any point in the State, and as to that matter not far from the other States. The class of men that help carry on the work of the convention and the denomination in and out of the State are men who do not rockon the distance as barrier, but men who see the work and therefore ought to carry it on all hazards. The great Baptist constituency of this great and grand old body ought to assert themselves in no uncertain tones. Speak out brethren. Let the world know our position on the great purposes we have espoused. Speak where we have spoken. We must constitute that speech by your report at the convention. We are proud of the cause we represent and we must manifest that pride now. WHAT THE CONVENTION REPRESENTS. The Virginia Baptist State Convention stands first and last for an active Christianity. Being a confederation of Baptist churches, it stands generally for all they stand for locally. It is intensely and fundamentally Baptist. It believes in the power of the people. Not a part of the people, but the people. It believes in the rights of the people. It does not believe that some men ought to go up and others down; but it believes that all men ought to up. That all men ought to right to progress, and that no race has a right to keep another race down. And for that reason as well as the great Christian reason, it advocated manhood rights. Dear me, my brother, when I say to you that the future of the Norro rests largely upon the success of such institutions as the Virgins Hospital State Convention: it repte- Wishes to Announce Their Removal from 404 to Howe New Quarters 501 EAST MARSHALL STREET, CORNER FIFTH. Custommade Hats, Stetson Styles, Hat Repairing Needly Done, Cleaned, Blocked, Fyc. Full Line of Hats and Caps Constantly Kept on Hand at Rock Bottom Prices: Get Under a MARSHALL HAT and Smile. THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENEL Mailed Anywhere in United States for $1.00. Send Money by Post Office Money Order. It will Straighten Curly Hair without Injury to the Hair or Scalp. Its use increases the Growth of the Hair by Keeping the Scalp Free from Dust, Dandruff and Grease. When the Hair is Shampooed it will Dry in 20 Minutes. Agents Wanted. MISS. LOTTA JAMES HOLLOWAY, Agent, sents our hope for progress along material as well as spiritual lines. Negroes may assail it, but they are assailing themselves, their children, their hopes, their institutions and their all when they do it. It advocates justice and fair play for all men alike. And in this day of high-handedness and mobocracy the race needs such an advocate. It is not treason for a race to stand for its rights. ITS POSITION DEMANDS OUR MORAL SUPPORT We are obligated morally, yes financially obligated to stand by the work. Because it is a racial organization representing as much as anything else the business acumen of the race. And if it were to fall the race would be charged with inability to the God would be responsible to the God had no executive ability. But it will not fail. God lives. And God is the God of the Negro as well as the God of any other people. And God will stand by institutions that enunciate the doctrine "The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man." Jesus taught us to say "Our Father" and we have ood neighbor in common. And we are going to believe it until He shall order it stricken from the Lord's Prayer. And such will never be for heaven and earth will pass away first. God has placed the work upon men whom He has selected to carry it on and they are owed to us owe convention to stand by our guns because these cardinal principles represented by it. HOME MISSIONS The Baptist family needs more home mission work. We need a good live missionary on the field to sit in the State and to look after our interests. But this year and at this convention, we need most along with others like us to be involved and more money to facilitate these objects. The money ought to be forthwith coming. The brethren must of necessity see this. Now, then, brethren, we earnestly urge the workers generally to do a good part by the Home Mission Board in the State that can be and ought to be done by this board, but the board must have the means with which to do it. FOREIGN MISSIONS What we do for foreign missions largely determine the character of the church. We often refer to ourselves as "Missionary Baptist" or as "Regular Baptist" To be such we must do real foreign mission work. We pride ourselves as a denomination in the truth that we believe the Bible as it is. The word as it is, is our fortress. Thus the Bible is in plainer or no joke. It is on our mission "Go into all the world" is the ringing declaration of Jesus. It lies at the base of universal salvation. The great commission has it, and the Lord's prayer teaches it. The redemption of Africa largely rests upon the Negro. The other great boards doing mission work have largely directed their means to China, Japan, India, Russia and other mission points, leaving Africa with her teeming millions of hedonism in the shoulder that we ought not, be angry, but ought to feel that it is a heritage from God. So pray and work for our foreign mission cause. The needs are great, so let the responses be just as great EDUCATIONAL WORK We have every reason to be proud of our achievements along educational lines. We own and operate solely so, a plant worth between eighty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars. The women of the State are laboring to eject a dormitory at a coat of twenty-five thousand dollars, which will bring the value of the institution approximately one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. This represents the brain and brawn of the Negro. This is a history in itself since "Up From Slavery." In addition to this thousands of dollars have been raised for the running expenses of the work. We have an able president and faculty there at that institution. Every available space is used with esteem young and helps preparing themselves for life's duties, and every Negro Baptist, you more yet, every Negro ought to give something for the Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Because of what it teaches and what it inspires its students to do, we are expecting unlimited dollars. Awake O. Zlon. We are receiving many encouraging letters about the work. Thank you brethren for the word. We will mention some of them in next letter. Your humble servant, R. C. WOODS, Corresponding Secretary Va. Baptist S. Con. We can prove Egyptian Pomade Cream, straight hair. Salt. Post phone: 614-232-2222. Address Peterson Bros. 614 Third Avenue, New York City. Fifth Baptist Church Troubles. To All Members of the Fifth Baptist Church, Colorid, who are entitled to vote under a decree of the Church, Richard, Richmond, entered on the 17th day of March 1911, in the cause theroin pending under the short style of PRANK DAVIS, who sues, etc. vs. W. H. DOBBINS, Pator. TAKE NOTICE That, pursuant to the said decree, an election will be held in this church on the 6th day of April, 1911, at 8 o'clock, under the direction of a Special Commissioner of the said court, at which election there will be submitted to the votes of those of the congregation, who under the said decree, are entitled to vote, the following matters: First Do the members of the Fifth Baptist Church desire at this time to declare any offices in the church vacant? If the majority vote in the affirmative on the first question, then the next questions shall be resolved by members of the Fifth Baptist Church desire at this time to declare the office of pastor vacant? Third Do the members of the Fifth Baptist Church desire at this time to declare the Board of Trustees vacant? Fourth Do the members of the Fifth Baptist Church desire at this time to declare the Board of Deacons vacant? Fifth. Do the members of the Fifth Baptist Church desire at this time to declare the Board of Deacons vacant? Sixth. If any vacancies have been declared, the Special Commission shall submit to the members whether they desire to fill such vacancies as have been declared, each vacancy no declared being submitted separately. Seventh. If the majority vote to fill any vacancies the Special Commission shall entertain the nominations and proceed to the election of the members as has been declared in the previous votes the desire of the members to have filled at this time. Eighth. If the majority vote in the negative on the first question no other questions will be submitted, and the present pastor, Board of Fraternities, Board of Deacons and Finance committee will remain in control. Upon the matters indicated each person entitled to vote will indicate his vote to the said Special Commissioner and a majority of all the votes shall determine the issue. A list of the votes embodied in the said decree by reference to the list filed on February 18, 1911. In the papers of the suit (Signed) JOHN B. LIGHTFOOT, JR. Special Commissioner A true copy—Toaste: IAS. O. SAVILLE. Clerk of the County Court of the City of Richmond Prof. Miller Speaks. ____. I have just read your stunning editorial on "Oriental immigration" in The Outlook for January 14, and was greatly surprised at the sweeping character of your conclusion. "No nation is large enough for two races represents a dogmatic finality is strangely out of consonance with your country unmonitored and seasoned editorial utterance." "nation" in this sentence is used in gloss and uncertain sense. According to the best lexical usage, a nation consists of peoples who are hold together (a) by bonds of blood, (b) by common language, customs or religion, and (c) by governmental or legal life. If you intend the word in the first sense, your statement is clearly unmonitored. The second, it is contradicted by history and observation, as the Mohammedan situation will show; If the third, it is at variance with contemporaneous judgment and policy of the great nations of the present time. If peoples of different blood cannot be held together by a common government, then England, France, and the United States, in their colonial policy, merely fighting against nature, after the manner of the ancient giants. If your doctrine be sound, then Hawaii is not large enough for native and American occupants; the various South American States are not large enough for the Indian, Latin and Spanish components of their population, the United States is too small for the European. What is to be the outcome of the race problem if this doctrine is to prevail? Have American institutions lost the great assimilative power at one time attributed to them? Do you mean to infer that Christianity has lost its proclaimed power to allay the frictional strife among men, and thus usher in the reign of peace and good will, on earth? Is this a conflation of Christianity is inferior to Mohammedanism or concrete brotherhood of—man? Mr. B. L. Pataina, Weale, is his recent book, "The Conflict of Color," do disease, that Christianity has no influence or effect upon the race question. It is certainly disappointing, not to say surprising, to find that the religious traditions, has shifted to this unhappy position. I am sure it will not be considered unmannerly to call attention to the inconsistency of your position. It is universally understood that The Outlook, is a firm and enthusiastic supporter of Dr. Böcker T. Washington, whose policy is based upon the harmonious adjustment of the races in the United States, each maintaining a separate and distinct racial identity. Hence this be bored for if "no nation is large enough for two races." Those who profite to deal with questions from a moral point of view may expect to be held to a line of moral consistency. The moral influence of The Outlook, as is well understood, has been on the side of those who are heavy laden and overweight, ever, gives aid and encouragement to those who breathe out hatred and slaughter against the weak and the defenseless. Your dogmatic dictum will doubtless be widely quoted by the rabid race agitators in the United States, who will be glad enough to shelter their propaganda of race tree under the shadow of the authority of influential a journal as The Outlook. It may, indeed, be advisable in the particular case under consideration to have the birds of a feather flock together; it may be well that the Oriental and the Occidental should forever remain each on his own side of the Pacific; but this by no means infuses the sweeping judgment that "no nation is large enough for two races." PROF KELLY MILLER. Howard University, Wash. D C In Memoriam. In loving memory of my brother Charles Hamilton Smith, who depart ed this life March 20, 1911 at Phoebus, Va. To die.—to sleep. To sleep perchance to dream, a) there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coll! 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If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need ```markdown ``` BOOKER T. IN BOW. --- Washington Heaton on Head in New York Vestibule. New York, March 19 — Upon complaint of Booker T. Washington, the well-known negro educator, a man was locked up by the police tonight charged with assault upon Dr Washington. The latter received so severe a blow on his head from a club that he was at the Flower Hospital for more than an hour late tonight having the wound dressed. The trouble occurred in front of a sixty-third street house at which Washington called about 10 o'clock tonight to see a friend, but no one answered his repeated calls on the door bell. Thinking the man he wished to see might appear any moment, Washington walked up and down in the vicinity for more than half an hour, when his walk was interrupted by a man who emerged with a big club in his hand, according to the complainant, and struck Washington. RETURNED DLOW WITH FIST Washington said he returned the blow with his list. The man acted, according to Washington 'as though he thought I was a burglar.' The alleged assailant, who is a large German, gave his name as Albert Irich a carpenter. Ulrich told the police that he had found Washington peering through a keyhole in an apartment at that address. This is the story as Ulrich told it to the police tonight. He said that his wife had left her room at about 9 o'clock to give que of her dogs an airing. She found in the hallway Washington, who smiled at her as she passed out. He was well dressed, and bowed as she passed. He was still sitting when she came back again. Browning who said Mrs Ulrich presently set out again with another dog, and as she passed the negro he again smiled, she thought, and when she came back he addressed her in a familiar manner. When she got inside she told her husband what she had seen. Ulrich put on his coat and passed out of the apartment on to West Thirty-third street Washington was still in the hall. He talked a few minutes with some friends on the street. After a few minutes he returned, and then Ulrich told the police, he found Washington peering through a keyhole into the apartment of Frank Reetz, a chauffeur, who has rooms on the ground floor. "What are you doing here?" Ul "What are you doing here?" Uh rich says he asked him PURSUIT ALONG PARK Washington he says, made no reply, but struck out, barely missing Ulrich. Then he ran past him out into West Sixty third street. A number of Ulrich's friends who were still in the street, took up the chase. Washington ran toward Central Park West and then started north, with the crowd after him. He fell once, picked himself up, fell again, and then a third time Policeman Klierney took the chase and overtook Washington and escorted him to the West Sixty fifth street station house, Ulrich also going along Ulrich wanted to make a charge of unlawful entry against Washington. In Flower Hospital it was said that the patient had a cut over his left ear, but that he was able to leave the hospital soon after he was cared for. Hooker T Washington is staying at the Manhattan Hotel. He had not returned at midnight. Ulrich was held on a charge of assault. At the police station Washington told Lieutenant Quinn, who was at the desk that he had been in town since Saturday. He said that he received a telegram today from the auditor of the Tuskegee Institute, D. E. Smith asking him to go to the home of Smith's cousin also named Smith, at 11 12 West Sixty third street. FORCED TO TELL IDENTITY Washington at first made no admission of his own identity, and when he was forced to do so the officers at the station house were told to believe him. Urich demanded the colored man's arrest, and it was not until Washington had proved his identity by cards and letters and a full explanation of his presence in New York that the distinguished educator was allowed to go. Washington was so afraid that exaggerated reports of the affair would reach the newspapers that he called up a press association, and rather be littled the incident. "Were you badly hurt?" he was asked, over the telephone. "Not really hurt at all," was his reply. "May we ask where you are speaking from?" "From the Flower Hospital." This is the only admission Washington made of his injury, but at the hospital later it was said that he had suffered two lacerations of the scaph, each about 4 inches long; that his right car was split, and he received several body bruises. WENT TO CHURCH FIRST He said that this morning he first went to church and got to the Fifty-third street address about 8:15 M. He said that he looked at the name of the bell in the vestibule of House, and was unable to find any one named Smith. He said that he may have stayed in front of the apartment for a few moments, and that he went back several times to look for Smith. Then he said that Ulrich ran out of the apartment house vestibule and came at him with a club. Washington said he ran east to Central Park west and then ran north a block on the park side of the street with Ulrich close behind beating him. He positively identified Ulrich as the man who assaulted him. Before Washington was taken to the Flower Hospital Mrs. Lola Ulrich appeared in the station and said that Washington was the man who had spoken to born in the hallway of the apartment house. She said that Washington had said: "Hello, sweetheart" and the said that she had seen him walking up and down in front of the house for some time before this happened BOOKER WASHINGTON'S BAD LUCK. (Richmond, Va., Times Dispatch, March 21, 1911) Booker Washington will be more inclined than ever to stay among "my own people" down South after his experience in New York Sunday night, when he was hit with a club by a carpenter who was under the impression that Washington had been importment to his wife. There is a "flat" building in West Sixty-third street Washington went there on Sunday night to see a cousin of D. C. Smith, the auditor of Tuskegee College. The surroundings were unfamiliar, and in looking at the names on the letter boxes in the hall of the house he was observed by the carpenter's wife, who funnicated that the negro, whom she did not know, had offered her insult. She told the story to her husband, who went after the intruder with a club, and with the result that Hooker Washington was run down by a policeman, after failing several times in the street in his efforts to escape. His identity was not discovered until he had been taken to the station house, whence he was sent to the Mary Flower Hospital for repairs. Sixteen suitcases were required to close the rent in his scald made by the carpenter's club and after the doctors had finished their work he went to his apartments at the Manhattan Hotel. Yesterday he was suffering so much from a hemorrhage from one of his ears that he could not appear in court and his assailant was held in $1,500 bail on the charge of felonious assault. Washington was reported to have said yesterday that his visit to the "flat" house in Sixth-third street was perfectly legitimate and that he had been the innocent victim of a most atrocious assault. We take his word for his good in tentsions and his injuries show that he was, assaulted It is a pity and only shows that Southern negroes must be very careful how they move around in "the host governed city. In the world" as some American romanceans have described New York. Booker has been going about his business all over the South for years without anybody to molest him or make him afraid, always conducting himself, so far as we have heard, with the greatest self-respect and without offense to any one. It is an unbelievable thing that after all these years and his wide acquaintance among the best people of New York he would offer an insult to any one in Sixty-third street and subject himself to the painful experience through which he has passed. We don't believe that he insulted anybody, that he made any improper remark to any woman at the scene of Sunday night's affair and if he were "down in old Alabama" he would be able to prove his good character by his white neighbors, who respect him for his work and without attacking him for his color. It is different, however up North and especially in New York. We are really sorry for him and would advise that he stay at home hereafter, or at least that he keep in touch with his own white folks. . LEWIS TO TAKE OFFICE SOON. (Washington, D. C., Post) Boston, Mass., March 19 - Wm H. Lewis, assistant United States district attorney for Massachusetts, declared today he would accept the recess appointment as Assistant United States Attorney General made recently by President Taft. This definitely sets at rest the reports that Mr. Lewis, a colored man, had declined the offer following the failure of the Senate to confirm his appointment The President at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday declared he had offered Mr. Lewis the recess appointment, and that as far as he knew, it had not been declined. This was followed by Mr. Lewis' statement tonight that he had accepted the appointment and had so written to the Attorney General at Washington. A recess appointment does not carry any salary without a specific appropriation from Congress. Mr. Lewis has concluded to rely on a congressional appropriation for his salary, which is set at $4,000 a year. Boston friends of Mr. Lewis and their names are legion, all agreed that his acceptance is quite the proper move and that a congressional appropriation for his salary will, without question, be made. Mr. Lewis, it will be remembered, was one of the aled football players in America, being one of the greatest players in Harvard's history ALL READY FOR LEWIS. (Washington, D. G., Post, March 21, 1911) When Wm. H. Lewis, the Boston colored man, who has accepted the position of Assistant Attorney General, arrives in Washington, he will find that all the plans for taking care of him on his arrival have been completed by the department. A letter from Lewis, addressed to the Attorney General, is on file in the department, but in the absence of Mr. Wickorham, none of the officials would reveal its contents, although the Boston lawyer already has made his acceptance public. The new Assistant Attorney gen- Edited by W. M. BURGHARDT DURBURG Circulation: November 1,000; April 10,000. Ready March 27. Cover in Three Colors Articles by Charles Edward Russell; Oswald Garrison Villard and William Stanley Bralthwaite. 10 CENTS A COPY OR $1.00 A YEAR. 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ADAMS AND BROAD STRINGS ```markdown ``` (New York Sun, March 23, 1911) The report of the elementary schools committee to the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday relative to the charges against Principal Bernard Cronson of Public School, 3 at Grove and Hudson streets attired up the meeting as nothing has done for several months. Chairman Abraham Stern of the committee submitted the report, which ended in a resolution that the principal be declared guilty of the charges of gross misconduct and inefficiency and be fined four months' pay. The fine is equivalent to $1,300. The principal was charged with kissing some of the womens teachers in the school. His trial was held in secret and the debate at yesterday's meeting brought out a part of the testimony for the first time. Miss Martha Draper stood up as soon as the report was read and made the first extended speech of any woman member of the board. "I do not believe that the imposition of a fine of four months' pay is sufficient to atone for the gravity of the charges of which this principal was found guilty," she said. "Such a man as this principal is unfit to be in charge of a school. I move that instead of being fined he be dismissed." Dr. Maye said he quite agreed with Miss Drapor in regard to the necessity of carefully guarding the morals of the public school. "Only last night a teacher gave me information about her experience that made my cheeks burn with shame, think that we had destroyers in our school (am) he said. Chairman Stern said that so far none of the facts had come to in regard to Cronson's trial so the previous speakers wore hasty in judgment, in his opinion. "Far be it from me to defend the principal on the charge of undue familiarity with women teachers," he went on. "But there was some doubt as to the sincerity of the women who accused him, based upon the time that elapsed between the date of the alleged offence and the time of complaining. "In one case a woman teacher says that away back in 1903 the principal smiled at her and stroked her hand with his hands." "In 1907 he attempted to kiss her, she says, and in 1908 he actually did kiss her, she testified. "It took him five years. * * * But it was three years ago that he bussed the woman teacher, and the terrible insult was not made known until recently. Why didn't she resent the familiarity at the time. "There was another complainant, a woman teacher, who said that four years ago the principal tried to kiss her. But he didn't succeed. "All that was why the committee did not consider dismissal just." "This long silence was evidently for good reasons," said Arthur Gomers of Brooklyn. "There seems to have been two in this affair—the kissed and the kisser. A silence of several years over the violence done to the proprieties involved two persons. If one is to be dismissed does not justice demand that the other should also." "I call upon Mrs. Post, who is a member of the elementary schools committee and heard all the testimony at the trial, to enlighten us as she can show us the woman's heart and the woman's mind as affected by the evidence." Mrs. Post arose and said, "I think his conduct was most reprohensible, but under the circumstances I do not think he should be dismissed." "As a member of the elementary schools committee I don't believe we should diamiss this principle," said Commissioner Cosgrove The impression at the trin was that the women teachers did not seem to think they had suffered much by the kissing. This you well understood when one of the teachers that had come in for some of the principal's playfulness acted declined to be transferred from the school. She said that Mr. Cronson was always a gentleman and acted like one. A vote was taken on Miss Draper's amendment, calling for dismissal. It was lost by a large majority. The resolution to fine four month's pay was then adopted, and the many teachers in the gallery and at the back of the room went out. HUMAN NATURE ALIKI THE WORLD OVER (Atlanta, Ga., Constitution) Without regard to the merits of the case, or the guilt or innocence of the accused, The Constitution is glad that the recent incident in which Booker Washington was the principal actor happened North instead of South. Washington has done great work for the uplift of his race and we hope that he will be able to completely clear himself from the ugly charges made against him and to prove that he was the victim of unjust suspicions. If not, his really worthy and important work will suffer, and he himself, unfortunately, will labor honour forth under a severe handicap. More than that, his whole race will suffer. 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Positively no attention paid to letters without one dollar included. of the past few days had been set in the South! There would have been a howl that would have reverberated from Fanuell Hall to the Mormon Temple at this "Southern outrage." Even the newspapers of Illinois, forgorful of the mob that raged in Springfield around the tomb of Lincoln, would have had surcastic things to say about the lawless and negro-batting South. But the time and the place make a difference! A Northern man, catching an unknown negro in what he believes to be a pernicious act, chases him through the streets of New York, and with a mob at the heels of the running fugitive, polio and of those but still he fails fainting at the statue of Columbus. The unknown negro is disclosed as Booker T. Washington, the most conspicuous member of his whole race! The investigation of the alleged act and the verdict must rest with the court. The Constitution has nothing to do with that. 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Whittle, P. Q. --- IG PLANET Question of Leadership Mr John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of The Richmond Planet: Sir,—May I use a few inches of your valuable space in discussing "Race Leadership, etc." "Children may be strangled, but deeds never; they have an indestructible life, both in and out of our conscious nose." The Editor of The Planet struck the keynote in a recent issue of The Planet, when he said: "A man is instinctively a leader, provided he is born with the elements of leadership in him. He gravitates to the top and groups of men will gather about him to hear him expound the wisdom and the knowledge which his mind is supposed to contain." Lenders are born, and they are as sure to attract followers as the magnet is the needle. PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS. Volumes may be written upon the subject, and leaders selected, but unless the person selected is able by the magnism of his personality to attract the discordant elements or antagonistic interests his leadership will be questioned by his opponent. Has a race during the period of the world's history, from Adam to the present, produced a single leader that had no opposition, and was the unquestioned leader of the whole race to umpire every question, etc." The history of the nations, sacred and secular, as well as the biography of the nation's great men, from the Bible days until now, is a record of security, suddenly emerging into the arena, enough followers to harbor his name, if it may have been in the sanctity of the Church, the public forum of State, or some noted battlefield. In the diversified avenues of human endeavor, there have been loaders, and the Negro is no exception to the rule. Another chronicled fact is that those loaders had opposition, often their motives were misinterpreted; many crossed Jordan via fagere tree, sword, bullet and hemp rope for two; and later generations have seen the endorser their course, and when it cannot be enjoyed have pronounced upon them the benediction great. A WORD ABOUT MOSES. Moses, a fugitive from the Egyptian court for murder, was called to lead a people out of a sorffom, of 400 years' duration, the last stages of which "brick was made without straw and the male children killed, had a hard task in getting his people started, although aided by Divinity, and he failed to reach the Promised Land, because he lost patience with his followers, who doubted his ability to lead and was constantly murmuring and clamoring against him. After reaching the Promised Land the Jews tired of Prophets and judges as leaders, the outcry "give us king, the Jewish history is a story of rivalry and conflict until scattered over the world without a home. The ruins of Greece, her deserted temples, and the unkempt apuphlems of her statesmen, philosophers and generals are silent testators that rivalage of those leaders supported by their separate factions was the cause of her decline. CAESAR WAS SACRIFICED Brutus made vacant an executive chair by a cruel suit, which he was never able to occupy in peace, though supported by the greatest of orators, Cleero. He nor his cause could rally the great majority, and thus a little later the scene of an Anthony and a Cleopatra is presented, helping to make up the procession of another Caesar on his triumphant entry into Rome. Rome's history after this "is a tale that is told." Lafayette set in motion a revolution in France which made him a prisoner. Yale with a widow before her husband's death, a poor widow, a foreign strand in search of friends. Why inflict punishment upon a leader "who is the living embodiment and exponent of the higher strivings, etc.". Invitably the answer reverberates lack of confidence and opposition. Washington had his Cabal during the Revolution and his Genet during the civil administration. Within his own official family had grown a spirit fostered by a sect which was to change the compulsion of the administration four years after his retirement. LINCOLN AS AN EXAMPLE. If Lincoln had nothing to plan for but the civil strife he could have wept over the bloody defeat at Chancellorsville and prayed for the victory which came at Gettysburg and gotten some rest in slumber, but to be misinterpreted by his enemies who cursed him, and his motives questioned by his friends was heart-rending. The writer remembers how the story of Tuskegee's wizard's life touched him, when he read of his tramp across two states in search of training. Not like a Hampden of England, whose father left plenty, which secured him his education and position. But this 'young man had not the "wherewithall" to pay for a night's lodging. Destitute of riches, no financial backers, but by push, energy and a determination gives himself a practical training which he has utilized for the good of his race. He did not go North, but South, to the masses of his people; he heard O the "Macedonian" and carried, to them the gospel of the three Rx, coupled with industry, and if he had not delivered the memorable address at the Atlanta Exposition, in which his text was hope or "Lot down your buckets where you are," he might have only been known among his immediate workers. AUDED BY SOUTHERNERS. He was lauded by the Southerners which was something new under the sun, and the skoptical Negro could not understand how a negro of the South could be lauded by Southern white men who had not leagued with them, to take from his brother in black his rights, etc. His motives were misunderstood, and upon many occasions he has stated his position on those questions, yet his critics use them as a cudgel to be his head, by widening conditions, who will not allow prejudice to get away with judgment, will accord Dr. Washington the palm, when it comes to accomplishments. There may have been mistakes of policy, but who doubts that his heart wasn't right. A TRIBUTE TO DR. WASHINGTON. When Dr. Washington began to preach the gospel of the three R's and industry to our people he did not dream that it would become fixed in the system of education throughout this country. That of itself is an evidence of his leadership. The great educators of the United States coming from colleges like Harvard and Yale have threshed out the question of industrial education and decided it was a good thing, and a person's education wasn't complete without one—and all up-to-date high schools have gotten or are getting apparatus. Whether the Negro accords Dr. Washington the place of wood and drawers of water, go down his history as the father of industrial education as promulgated today. Not industry simply to be 'hewers of wood and drawers of water,' but to make better home builders and be better prepared for life's work, for our earning capacity is increased. AN EDITORIAL LEADER. Another leader appeared on the scene a little later than Dr. Washington. This is our Editor He was fighting to get some persons out of State prison. He was a fighter against lynch law. He was called a radical by his people and a fanatic by the other. But he fought and only occasionally can be heard of lynching in his State—Virginia. Another fight in which he made enemies that would curse a newboy for offering a paper of his for sale, was against the representatives of an organization that had blind cuidipity, and the writer was about to say stupidity, dump funds into the lap of an official which should have been kept in common as an offset against disaster, and a healthy balance to tide over a financial depression, a "Jack Johnson smile," with which to meet the requirements of a cold and calculating business world, add possibly the order should never have had its present financial embarrassment. COULDN'T SWAP ARMOR This leader appeals to the writer in a different manner to Dr. Washington. Neither could swap armor and kill Gollath. The writer is a worshiper at the shrine of this editor, fighter, banker. These leaders will have followers in proportion as their lives become familiar to the masses and their deeds tell. From a political standpoint, no leader will be able to focus all rays upon himself and receive the "plaudit of good and faithful servant on this side of Jordan," and it is a question if he will not have to shake hands, bow, grin and slip something into the hands of Brother Peter, gate-keeper, on the other side he gets an entrance. It is doubtful if any of the politicians would have referred as well as Dr. Washington. All of them except the outs fell down at the genial smile of "our President." And the Editor of the Planet, who is a retired politician, said he was between the "Devil and the deep blue sea in the last campaign." OTHER POPULAR LEADERS. There are other popular leaders in church, school, State and business. But no name is so popular with the musses as the wizard. He is better known. If the colored spellbinder forgets to mention him, the local white orator will make it his theme, the newly elected presidents to industrial colleges will use it as the magic word to unlock the coefors of the philanthropists to get funds, with which to run his school, the politician uses it as a means of exerting political power in unwilling administration, though apartments are smaller and force less, it is the climax in the graduating boys' oration. It is the school yoll of the farmer lends away off in the back woods, everybody knows Booker and his story. If all of us can't yoll heartily to keep up in the gang, let us crank Booker. JAMES L. HILL, Bluefield, W Va --- Anniversary Exercises at Pleasant Grove The anniversary exercises of the Knights of Pythias and Court of Calantha were held Sunday, March 26, 1911, at Pleasant Grove, Va. There was a large out-pouring of the knights and the ladies of the courts. An excellent program was rendered, and the members and friends were enthusiastic. Prayer was offered by the prelate, Sir P. H. Smith. The welcome address was delivered by Sir William Randolph. Recitation, Miss D. Galines. The anniversary sermon was delivered by Rev. J. H. Binford. The members were well pleased with his sermon and so expressed themselves. Mrs. Anna Taylor, D.'D., G. W., spoke on the progress and benefits of the Order. Rev. R. C. Quarles, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Charlottetown, Va. called on us. of Richmond's Prettiest Suburb. "Soon the oceans will be united, the West Indies will find peace beneath our flag, and our leisurely classes will make their home by following the seasons in their courses. A midway rest between New England and the tropics will develop on the Link which unites North and South, the chosen point for development doubtless centering amid the spacious woodlands of Glen Allen." Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Blues were very active last Friday evening. They rendered an excellent program. The Rods were out in large numbers. The contest is growing very warm. Watch for the end. Last Saturday the class for the explanation on the Sunday-School Lesson was well attended. Last Sunday was a very busy day with the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. workers' meeting at the building. The interest was high. The inmates of the City Home at 10 A. M. were made happy by the work of the committee. 10:30 A. M. committee was very busy in the City Hall. Four prisoners were won for Christ. The Boys' Meeting for last Sunday was a very successful effort. They are now receiving special instructions under the directions of President W. H. Cary. Editor Lorenza Johnson beloves in the boy. Rev, J. J. Woodson gave the men a very strong address at 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. on "Chasing the Butterfly." The men were out in good numbers and were helped. Do not forget that you and your friend are invited to the Y. M. C. A. today at 5 P. M. to hear the explanation on the Sunday-School Lesson by Prof. J. W. Barco of the Virginia Union University. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work, and bring the other man. The workers' meeting at the building at 9:30 A. M. Be on hand. A special, meeting for boys at 4 P. M. Mothers, send your boys. Dr W. H. Hughes will give the men a special address Sunday 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building, Men, do not fail to hear the doctor. Doctor Q W. Moona will sing special songs. Be a committee for this meeting. Speak to the other follow. See that he comes. Be on time. Watch for the launching of the greater meetings. Dr D. Webster Davis will deliver a special address to women only. Subject: "Ruth and Jesebel." Watch for the date. Tell the other woman. Governor Mann will speak to men only under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. W. F. Graham will introduce the Governor to the men. Watch for the date. A great meeting for men is being planned for the men. South Richmond. Watch the papers. Dr D. Webster Davis is the speaker. The Membership Contest is almost to a close. A hard battle is being fought between the Blues and the Reds. Do not stop praying for the Y. M. C. A. FROM CAPE CHARLES, VA. Editor of The Planet: Sunday, March 26th, was a great day in Cappo Charles. The K. of P.'s Lodge, No. 174, had their annual sermon at the First Baptist Church at 3 P. M., which was crowded. Rev. P. B. Mitchell, of Portsmouth, Va., preached a sermon which will not only be remembered by the K. of P., but by all the people who heard him. Rev. Mitchell, while in our city, was the guest of Sir T. D. Jefferson, Master Exchogue, who is chancellor of the University. We feel very grateful to Sir R. F. Evorett, M. W., who worked up the K. of P.'s in this city and who is still working in behalf of that noble Order for the rest of the peninsular. Mrs. John G. Hoffman, spent a few days-last week at Townsend, Va, visiting friends. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Richmond, Va. Marcb 29, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knight of Pythias, J. A. Birgisha, A. A. (A. A. 5500) One Hundred, and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother George Adams, who was a member of Newport Newa Lodge, No. 74, of Newport News, Va. Signed: MRS. LEVERNER ADAMS. Daneddavt. Per W. J. Adams. Witness: Eva O. Dalia. In the disposal of this property the founder of Glen Allen will have no transaction with real estate agents. He will sell direct, and to Colored People only.