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RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 19. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1911. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. WHY DID CASHIER HILL LEAVE RICHMOND? Much Speculation as to His Whereabouts. His Family Worried. No Tidings of the Missing Man. Police Search in Vain. True Reformer Situation Improved. Must Raise $37,000 by Next Friday. Attorney Newsome’s Salary. The Receivers of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers have again postponed the time for making a report to His Honor, Daniel Grinnan, Judge of the Chancery Court. Attorney William M. Moncure and Attorney Edwin M. Pilcher, the Receivers, were in the Chancery Court last Tuesday, and this led to a report that they were prepared to make a report. A visit to the Clerk’s Office brought out the fact that they were there in another case in which it was estimated that about twenty lawyers were interceded. comes to receiving it he is there to represent the Order. Dr. John E. Merlweather, the Treasurer, stopped long enough to say that they had a fine meeting Friday night, March 31, 1911, and that the $37,000 would be raised "in a breather." Why, he said, "only a partial report was made, and it showed that over $500 had already been received. The office force has raised $600, and the amount raised in Richmond alone would be one thousand dollars. The money is now in the hands of the Richmond Division, but when it has all been raised it will be turned over to me as treasurer." This was encouraging news. MANY RUMORS. Mystery still surrounds the disappearance of Cushler R. T. Hill. He has disappeared as absolutely as though the earth has opened and swallowed him up. That his family is genuinely alarmed now admits of no question. There have been all sorts of rumors. Some were that he had been seen returning to Richmond over the Seaboard Air Line. Another humorous rumor was that he was really hiding in the attic of his home, and the rumors were "run to the ground" to speak. His family reported that one of his sons had been to Baltimore and Philadelphia and as far North as New York with no word from the missing man obtainable at any of these points. A LACONIC RESPONSE. The son of the missing cashier simply gives out that they have heard nothing definite, whatever that may mean. Many here believe that he is dead, and it is recalled that Richard P. Swan, who committed suicide at Buckroo Beach some time ago on the eye and his marriage had good eye, has the other being a glass eye, Cashier Reuben T. Hill lost the sight of one of his eyes many years ago, since which time he, too, has worn a glass eye. He, like Swan was rarely without his glasses. Whether this similarity will extend to the point of self-destruction is the question. Attorney Giles B. Jackson, with whom he was on the hook, has destroyed himself, although he is unable to give any reason for this POLICE SEND WARNING A visit to the office of Chief of Police Lois Werner resulted in the securing from Captain Thomas J. McMahon a copy of the circular which is being sent to the loading cities throughout the United States. It contains a picture of Cashier Hill and reads as follows: Missing. $2.60 reward will be paid by T. A. Hill for any information that will locate his father, R. T. Hill, who disappeared from his home in this city March 24, 1911. Description.—Brown skin, small moustache, age 65, height 5 feet 2 inches, weight 170 pounds. Blind in one eye and wore gold spectacles. When last seen wore dark clothes, black derby hat. Very short man, short legs, very stout. Search all-court records and hospitals, as this man may have been picked up on a charge of being of unsound mind. LOUIS WERNER. Chief of Police. UNDER HEAVY STRAIN... Cashier R. T. Hill had been under a terrific strain over since the failure of the bank in which he had labored so long. He was with the accounts and the Recovers, explaining the system by which he had kept the accounts of the institution. He had been met on the streets by many who had lost their money in the defaunt concern, and he had undergone both abuse and criticism to such an extent that no one believed that he would weaken at this critical moment. It had been charged that he R. T. HILL. Cashier of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain U. O. True Reform ers (Defunct). Left his home here Friday, March 24, 1011, and has not been seen since. His family discards all knowledge of his whereabouts. oath to the State Corporation Com- view to deciding the status of the mission, which would have been a missing cashier and reasons for his mysterious disappearance without no penitentiary offense, but there was no specific evidence to substantiate the charge, and it was not considered seriously. A SENSITIVE MAN. OTHER ALLEGATIONS Then, too, it was alleged that the criminal statutes had been violated in receiving deposits after the bank was known to have been insolvent, but even this phase of the situation was relieved by the able attorneys, if not entirely eliminated. Cashier Hill took the position, too, that the Order owed the bank and that the bank did not give the Order. This would have sustained the position subsequently thken by the Receivers. All of the affairs of the bank seemed to have been in a way of quiet settlement to the satisfaction of the depositors and to the salivation of the Order, and the criminal action did not and a grand jury investigation would not be necessary, when suddenly Mr. J. Thomas Newsome, General Counsel for the Order, appeared upon the field of action and swung the Order out of the agreement, much to the discomfiture of all concerned, and in the words of General Secretary W. P. Burrell, "queered things." STILL DISAGREEING. In plain words, it was impossible to tell just where "the cat would jump" or what would be the end of this most remarkable tangle. There is now no doubt but what this now phase of affairs has strained the relationship between certain ordinals of cats and humans. The tortory Newsome now represents a client which at times is not disposed to "goe braw" at his command. As he is proceeding no further than he can get the cordial support of the Bureau, of Insurance, he necessarily feels that he is pure to come "right side up with care" in the long run. These facts are being cited with a view to deciding the status of the missing cashier and reasons for his mysterious disappearance without notice from home and friends. A SENSITIVE MAN. It may have been that the Lott Carey Convention money, which he could not produco, was the direct cause of his leaving so unceremoniously, but there was much other money which promised to be equally as pressing and annoying to the sensitive man, who seemed forced to confront all of his troubles at once, and this, too, after many of his friends had already advanced him financial help, with the hope that it would like him over his troubles. He was now down to tears when we obtained from the photograph gallery of Mr. George W. Brown, 603 North Second Street. The one of the cashier is the last taken of him. The palatial residence which he and his family occupied is located at 1401 Wont Leigh street, and ranks at the head of the residence owned by colored people. MADE A MISTAKE. The feeling here is that Mr Hill made a mistake. In leaving at this time, and there are none so radically of this opinion as those True Reformer officials who have been associated with him for so many years. Another humorous turn to the affair was given when it was reported that the body of the boy lost. This was answered, though, by the appearance on the streets of the men, who were said to have fled the city. They claim that they have done nothing to cause them to leave, and that they will remain and see the whole thing out. There is no information obtainable at the general offices of the Grand Fountain. Grand Worthy Master Holmes is "past master" at the business of "saying nothing." THE TREASURER HOPEFUL He can ask for money and when it comes to receiving it he is there to represent the Order. Dr. John E. Merlweather, the treasurer, stopped long enough to say that they had a fine meeting tonight, March 31, 1911, and that the 37,000 would be raised in a breeze. "Why," he said, "only a partial report was made, and it showed that over $500 had already been received. The office force has raised $500, and the amount raised in Richmond alone would be one thousand dollars. The money is now in the hands of the Richmond Division, but when it has all been raised it will be turned over to me as treasurer." This was encouraging news. The time limit set by the Bureau of Insurance is August 14, 1831, but this time may be extended. The total amount to be raised is $171,000, and the immediate amount required to be raised in one year is $148,000. It depends on a large extent upon the loyalty of the Fountains outside of Virginia. There is no definite financiering plan in operation further than the collection of the assessment upon the membership and the importing the public for help. Many fountains are damaged and the amount in their own treasures, not having confidence enough in the new regime to send it to Richmond. It is hoped, though, that those people will be induced to get in line and send the money into the general offices. A VETERAN TRUE REFORMER. Rev. J. T. Carpenter, the veteran True Reformer, who has been affiliated with the Order for so many years, is now working for the Improved Order of Shepherds, led by Attorney J. Thomas Hewin. He has spent all of his life apparently in the service of the True Reformers and has been a point of his feeling in his ill treatment by the last Grand Fountain, when he was turned adrift with no means of livelihood. Attorney J. Thomas Newsome will soon be able to determine his status, when pay-day comes around at the Grand Fountain for salary. The amount is only one hundred dollars per month, but there has been some talk of it. The reformer has been tasked the ground that he has not removed to Richmond as required by the Grand Fountain. NO PENALTY CLAUSE. As the Grand Fountain did not engraft in the resolution a penalty for his failure to do this, it will be asked if any one else or any other power has the right to supply the deficiency, inasmuch as he has entered upon the duties of his office. It is presumed the salary will be paid, as the officials are hardly in a position to engage in a legal tangle over such a point of law. The judge, Andrew Jackson Montague is no longer retained as special counsel, but that ex-Speaker Byrd will continue to act in that capacity. WILL CONTEST RECEIVERS. It is evident that the position of the Receivers will be the subject for future discussion as the position of the attorney is that the Order should have a showing in the division of the assets of the bank. In the meantime a veritable swarm of lawyers are representing the claimants for past due death claims, and the indications are that some of them are being off by by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the True Reformer officials, supported by the Bureau of Insurance. It is also becoming painfully apparent that if the support of the Bureau of Insurance were withdrawn for a moment, a collapse would take place at once. A BALTIMORE TIMES REPORT. The Richmond correspondent of the Baltimore (Md.) Times stated that for a week prior to the flight of Cashier R. T. Hill threats to MR. HOLMES CLEARS HIM. The Reformers' Old Folks' Home Accounts Finally Adjusted—End of Long Struggle. [Communicated] It will be remembered that shortly after Thomas W. Taylor was retired from office as Superintendent and Manager of the said Old Folks' Home a committee in the parens of S. W. Johnson, and J. Henry Crutchfield was appointed to examine the accounts, etc., of the said Taylor, and who, after working on the records nearly two months, filed their report with A. W. Holmes, the President. in which they charged Taylor with a shortage and discrepancies together, amounting to more than $2,500. MR. TAYLOR PROTESTED Taylor protested against this enormous sum, 'on the ground that the report was erroneous and based upon prejudice. The whole matter was later submitted to arbitration.-Mr. Charles L. Cook, an expert account ant and clerk for the receivers of the Savings Bank, G. F -U. O. T., R. was ```markdown ``` THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN CASHIER R. T. HILL'S RESIDENCE. This palatial brick structure is on the southwest corner of Kinney and Leigh Streets. Built by Contractor D. J. Farrar. selected by A. W. Holmes on the part of the Home, and Thomas W. Taylor on the part of himself to go over the same record from which this special committee made their report, and whatever his funding could be accepted as the true amounts due and whose decision would be the end and full settlement of all dispute between the parties. COUSINS—LAWSON. The marriage of Miss Mattie L. Lawson to Mr. Irn C. Cousins, of Belford, Va., will take place at No. 725 North Third Street, Wednesday, April 12, 1911, at 9 o'clock P. M. Friends are invited No cards. MI COOK'S REPORT. Mr Cook, after making a careful examination of the same, said record failed to find any shortage in Tayler's accounts whatever, but did find the small sum of $241.31 under the head of discrepancies and legal bills, which Taylor admitted in the outset. This amount, being much smaller than was even thought of by the plaintiff, it is rumored that the Hon. A. W. Holmes consulted the committee, who agreed not to advise the special delegation of the true authority of the L. Cook. Hence the whole delegation was kept in the dark regarding the Old Folks' Home matter. Recently the rumor has it that Mr. Holmes, after consulting able counsel, failed to find an avenue through which he might repudiate the said award of Charles I. Cook. Therefore, the special committee's report was finally rejected and the award accepted and the whole matter settled as evidenced by the following receipt of A. W. Holmes, President $241.31. Received Richmond Va., March 31, 1911, of Thomas W. Taylor, two hundred and forty-one dollars and 31 cents, in full settlement. The award deed on demand of whatsoever nature or character due or claimed to be due by said Taylor either personally officially or otherwise to the said Old Folks' Home, and the same being also in full settlement and demand of an award made, by Charles I. Cook under arbitration papers dated Jan. 5, 1911, said paper being dated Jan. 18, 1911. President Old Folks' Home. MRS. WARE HERE. Mrs. Ela C. Ware, of Bremo Bluff, Va. was in the city last week to visit her cousin, Mrs. Salle B. Johannn, of 611 St. James street, who has been very sick. She spent a week visiting her friends in Chesterfield county and South Richmond. She was the recipient of much attention, and on Wednesday last was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Heen at a dinner given in her hometown, their residence, 1301 St. John street. Mrs. Waro has returned home much delighted with her trip, as well as with friends whose acquaintances she formed while here. ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK Amelia, Va. April 4 — An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank here last night. Some party broke into the building and endowed to cut a way into the heavy brick vault, but no one was off. This is the second attempt of the kind. There is no clue. ```markdown ``` COUSING—LAWSON. The marriage of Miss Mattie B Lawison to Mr. Ira C. Cousins, of Richmond, Va., will take place at No. 725 North Third Street, Wednesday April 12, 1911, at 9 o'clock P.M. Friends are invited. No cards. HUCLESS—PERVALL The marringe of Miss Florence A Pervall to Mr John Hucless of Go Columbia, Va will take place at 809 N 11st Street, Wednesday, April 12, 1911 at 8 30 o'clock P. M. A home Sunday, April 12, 1911 from 10 a.m. at their residence 21 W. Jackson Street. Friends are invited. No cards ONLY 7 DAYS TO EASTER Every man and boy will want a suit of clothing, hat or jacket. Don't forget us when you are out looking for your supplies. Our store laden with everything in our line for boys' and men's wear. Men's suits from $5.00 to $20.00. Boys' suits from $1.25 to $7.00, made up in the in jeans and knicker bocker pants. Please call us. The only clothing store in Richmond owned and controlled by colored people. Dr. S. L. Llangon, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been in our city about a week. He will return to Brooklyn today. Little Florence Marteal Smith, the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Thos. Smith, has been indisposed for four weeks. She is out again. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Dabney, of Thirtieth street, Church Hill, was brightened on March 25th by a little baby boy sent them. The mother is improving greatly. 314 East Broad Street. I. J MILLER. Prop EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION. Rain seemed to have destroyed all hope of even a respectable, semblance of a parade on the part of the two wings of colored people where who have been obeying the fall of Richmond with an unimpeachable celebration. As early as a decade two hands completed Petering and the other from Varina District, under the leadership of Captain V. M Gwathmey, were rendering selections to the delight of the small boys in front of Price's Hall. The orgwd of paraders came not, however. It had been reported that the country brethren had nice white breeches washed and framed with the hope and expectation that they would see Richmond and be inspected during the parade. A CHEERLESS PARADE. The cold rain evidently kept them around the log fires. It was about 1 o'clock when the parade reached Broad street. There were just 17 men mounted, two bands and 18 carriages and one wagon. The address was delivered at the Broad-street Baseball Park by Rev Dr E. H. Hunter. Weather conditions made a good attendance impossible. Shortly after, the carriages down Broad street, with no one following it, but with two carriages and one wagon and proceeded to Fairmount Park, where a few people had gathered. The rain continued all day with but slight intermission. IN MEMORIAM. South Richmond, Va. April 4, '11 HICKMON—In sad but loving remembrance of our mother, MARY R. HICKMON, who died April 4, 1910. "Thou art gone but not forgotten. Never shall thy memory fade; Pleasant thoughts shall always linger Round thy lonely grave "When you ment our hearts went with you All we that we loved best. God, bless you bless you mother But your daughters loved you best HER DAUGHTERS A Card of Thanks. Mrs. Mary S. Cole and son through this channel leave to return their thanks to the many friends who rendered such kindly service during the slickness of the husband and father Robert A. Cole, Br., and who sent many remembrances after his death. May God his richest benedictions rest upon them and theirs. MRS. MARY S. COLE AND SON: SPECIAL EASTER MUSIC The choir of the First Baptist Church, under the leadership of Mrs Rosa K. Jones, will render an Oratorio Easter Sunday morning. REV. DR. TAYLOR RESIGNS. Rev Wm L Taylor, D. D., resigned the pastorate of Jerusalem Baptist Church, Dowell, Va., after serving that body for eighteen years. The church edifice was partly rebuilt twice during his administration and was clean of debt at the time of his severance of his connection therewith. Put your money in Real Estate. It's better than life insurance, because you get the benefit of it while you live. It's better than banking, because there is no failure. $100 will start some good properties that I am offering. For particular, apply to B A CPPIAS. Real Estate Agent. 602 North Second Street. HAD BOTH OF THEM. Funeral Director A. D Price had two hearsees in commission last Thursday morning with two bodies evidently shipped to this City. We did not have time to investigate as he passed The Planet office. —There is much friendly rivalry at the Fifth St. Baptist Sunday School between the males and the females for the largest attendance on Sunday mornings. So far the females are in the lead. --- The WHEN Evan Blount opened his eyes on the morning following the night of singular ad ventures the son was shin brightly in at the bed's head window, a cheerful fire was cracking on the hearth, and his father, a little heavier, a little grayer, but with the same rugged face and kindly eyes, was standing at his bedside. "Evan, boy," and "Father" were the only words of greeting, but the mighty hand grip that went with them was for Evan a renewal of his boyhood and a sufficient promise for the future. Followed instantly a rush of mingled emotions, of astonishment that he had recognized no familiar landmark in the midnight faring through the hilla or on the approach to the home of his childhood, of something like a keen regret that the old had given place as thoroughly and completely to the new of something bordering on chagrin that he had been surprised into accepting the hospitable advances of a woman whom he had been intending to avoid and for whom he had cherished—and meant to cherish—a contemptuous disregard. But at the hand gripping moment there was no time for a nice weighing of emotions. He was in his father-house, the homecoming, some phase of which he had vaguely dreaded, was fact accomplished, and the new life—the life that was to be lived with our Patricia—was fairly begun. Also there were arrests to be brought up. "Did the little or did Mrs. Blooms tell you that I was here?" "She did, but she couldn't tell me much more. How on top of earth did you happen to blow in at midnight with Jack Barto for your hard leader?" "It's a fairy tale, and you won't be lieve it of a Blount," was the laughing reply. "I left Boston Monday and should have reached the capital last night. But my train was laid out he bind a freight wreck at Arcus just before dark, and I left it and took to the billie-horseback. Don't ask me why. The smell of the sagebrush was in my nostrils, and I had to do it. I know where I was, and I thought I could ride to Debleblybis, so I hired the broncho and pitched out. I think I kept the general direction all right until I got lost among the Lost river horkacks, but after that I was pretty successfully lost." "And Barto found you?" queried the senator. "Who is this unhiquitous Barto who goes around playing the holdup one minute and the good angel the next?" "He is a sort of general utility man for Hathaway, the head pusher of the Twint Buttes Lumber company. He is supposed to be a timber cruiser and log scaler, but I guess he doesn't work much at his trade. Down in the lower wards of New York they'd call him a boeier maybe. But you don't mean to tell me that Jack Barto robbed you, son?" "No, he was merely discussing with his two fellqw holdups the advisability of knocking me on the head and dropping me into Lost River canyon; that was all. Of course I knew they had fallen upon the wrong man, and after awhile I succeeded in making Barto accept that hypothesis. At least he accepted it sufficiently to bring me here for identification. Since he wouldn't talk and I didn't recognize the trail or the place I hadn't the slightest notion of my whereabouts—not the least in the world." The big man was leaning against the foot rail of the bed and frowning thoughtfully. "Talked about dropping you into Lost river, did they? Hm! We'll have to look into that a little, I guess. Who set them on, son? Get any idea of that!" "I have a very good idea—a man who came across in the Pullman with me from Omaha; tall and rather slim and with a hatchet face and swell eyes. I didn't learn his name, but he said he was interested in mines and timor." "That was Hathaway himself," was the fastest decision. "His company has been cutting timber in the Lost river reserve, and he probably thought you were chasing him. You didn't know Honoria." "No; I wasn't expecting—I-you may remember that I had never met her," stammered the young man, who had risen to his elbow among the rollows. The father walked away to the window and stood looking upon the distant mountaining for a full minute before he turned to say gently: "We may as well run the boundary lines on this one time as another, son. You don't like Honora. You've made up your mind not to like her. I'm not going to make it hard for either of you if I can help it. This is her home." Honorable Senator Sagebrush Copyright, 1910, by Street @ Smith but It is also yours, my boy. Do you reckon you could?"— Evan Blount made haste to stop the half pathetic appeal. "Don't let that trouble you," he interposed. "T-Mr. Blount is a very different person from the woman I have been imagining, and if she were not I think we are both sufficiently civilised not to quarrel." Then "Have you breakfasted yet-you and Mrs. Blount? But of course you have long ago." "Breakfasted? Without you? Not much son. And that reminds me I was to come up and see if you were awake, and if you were I was to send Barnabas up with your coffee." "You may tell Bernabus that I haven't acquired the coffee in bed habit yet." laughed the lazy one, sitting up. "And you may make my apologies to Mrs. Blount and tell her I'll be down pronto." There, doesn't that sound as if I were getting back to the good old sagebrush Idman! Great land: I haven't heard anybody say 'pronto' since I was knee high to a hoptoad." In all his forecastings Evan Blount had never pictured a homecoming like this. In each succeeding hour of the day the edges of the chasin of the years drew closer together, and when finally his father put him on a horse and rode with him to a corner of the vast home farm, a corner fenced off by sentinel cottonwoods and watered by the small irrigation ditch of his boyhood recollections, rode with him through the screening cottonwoods and showed him, lying beyond them, the old ranch buildings of the Circle Bar, untouched and undisturbed, his heart was full, and a sudden miracle before his eyes to dim the picture. "The kept it just as it used to be Evan" his father said gently "I thought maybe you'd back some day and be sure enough disappointed if it were gone." The younger man slipped from his saddle and went to look in at the open door of the old ranch house. Everything was precociously as he remembered it—the simple old fashioned furniture, the crossed quirks over the high wooden mantel, his mother's rocking chair—that was the final touch. He sat down on the worn door log and put his face in his hands, for now the gaping chasm of the years was quite closed, and he was a boy again. Later in the day there were ambling gallops along the country roads, and the father explained how the transformation from quilt raising to agriculture and fruit growing had come about, how the great irrigation dam in Quarretano canyon had put a thousand square miles of the fertile mesa under cultivation; how with the inpouring of the new population had come new blood, new methods, good roads, the telephone, the rural mail route and other civilizing agencies. Evan groaned. "I know," he said. "I've lost my birthland. It's an extinct as the megasaurian lizards whose bones we used to find sticking in the gully banks on Table Meas. By the way, that reminds me. Are there any of those giant fossils left? I was telling Professor Anners about them the other day, and he was immensely interested." "We're all fossils, we older folks of the cattle raiding times," laughed, the man whom Richard Gantry had called the "super governor." "But there are some of the bones left, too, I guess, and if the professor is a friend of yours we'll get him a state permit to dig all he wants to." "Yes, Professor Anners is a friend of mine," was the younger man's half absent admission. "as much of a friend as his daughter would ever allow him to be." The qualifying clause was not thrown away upon the senator. "What has the daughter got against you, son?" he asked mildly. "Nothing very serious," laughed Patricia's lover. "But I think she is jealous of any one who tries to sharon her father with her. Next to her career." "That's Boston, isn't it?" interrupted the ex-cattle king. Then he added, "I'm right glad it hasn't come in, your way to the yourself up to one of those 'careers,' Evan, my boy." The young man felt better after he had told his father his love story. It was highly necessary that he should tell some one, and whom better? David Blouston listened with the faraway look in his eyes that the son had more than once marked as the greatest of the changes chargeable to the aging years. "Think a heap of her, do you, son?" he said when the ambling saddle animals had covered another half mile of the homeward journey. "So much that it went near to spoiling me when she finally made me realise that I couldn't hold my own against the 'career,'" he made answer. Then he added: "I want work, father. That is what I am out here for; the hardest kind of work and plenty of it; something that I can put my heart into. Can you and it for me?" "There was the wisdom of the gen- turtles in the gentle smile provoked by this unhamed lover's appeal. "I wouldn't take it too hard, if I were you, son," said the wise man. "And as for the work, I guess we can satisfy you if your appetite isn't too blk. How would a state office do?" "Politics?" queried Blount, bringing his horse down to the walk for which his father had set the example. "I've thought a good bit about that, though I haven't had any special training that way. The schools of today are turning out business lawyers—men who know the law and are trained particularly in its application to the great business undertakings. That used to be my ambition—to be a business adviser and perhaps after awhile to climb to the top of the ladder and be somebody's corporation counsel." "But now you have changed?" "I don't know that I have. But there are other fields that are also attractive. No man can study the politics of America today without seeing the need for good men—men who will administer the affairs of the state or the nation without fear or favor; men who will how to the line under any and all conditions." A 'quaint smile was playing under the drooping mustache of the Hon. Senator Bagebrush. "I reckon we do need a few men like that, Evan—need 'em mighty, bad. Think you could fill the bill if you had a right good chance" The potential hewer of political chips smiled. "I'm not likely to get the chance very soon," he returned. "Just at present I am still a legal resident of the good old commonwealth of Massachus setts and a member of its bar, eligible to office there and nowhere else." "You'd be a citizen of this state by the time you could get elected to an office in it," suggested the senator. "I know the required term of residence here is ridiculously short. But you forget that I am as unknown in the sagebrush hills as you are well known. I couldn't get a nomination for the office of poundkeeper." David Blunt was checking softly "Sounds right funny to hear you talk that way, son" he commented "Mighty near everybody will tell you that the slate hangs up behind the door at War trace, and I don't know but some people would say that old Sagebrush Dave himself does most of the writing on it. Anyhow, there's one place on it that is still needing a name, and I guess yours would fit it as well as anylessly." The young man, who was so lately out of the well considering east, gasped. "It wasn't," he exclaimed. "You're not considering me as a possibility on the state ticket before I've been twenty four hours on the ground, are you?" "No, not exactly as a possibility, son. We'll call it a sure thing if you want to. Is it this way. We're needing a political house learning pretty bad this year. We have good enough laws, I guess, but they are winked at any day in the week when somebody comes along with a barrel. The fight is up between the people of this state and the corporations. It was up two years ago and the people got the laws all right, but forgot to elect men who would carry them out. This time I think the voters have got their knives sharpened. We've been a little slow catching step, but the marching orders have gone out. We're going to clean house this fall." "Not if the state hangs behind your door or any man's door, father," was the theist's grave reminder. "Theform doesn't come in by that road." "Hold on, steady go cay's the word. Reform comes in by any old V. L. L. "YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE BIT LONG ON THEORY, BON." trail it can find mostly and thanks its lucky stars if it doesn't run up against any bridges goo or any mudholes too deep to ford. We've got a good man for governor—not any too broad, maybe, but good—church good; he's a minister of the gospel and the president of a church university. No man has ever said he'd take a bake, but he isn't heavy enough to sit on the lid and hold it down. Alice Gordon, the man who is going to succeed, him next fall, is all the things that the present governor isn't, so that is fired." "How fixed?" queried the young man, who, though he was not from Missouri, was beginning to fear that he would constantly have to be "shown." "In the same way that everything has to be fixed, if we're going to get results," was the calm reply. "After the governor the man upon whom the most depends in the attorney general The present incumbent, Dortscher, is one of the candidates, but we've crossed his name off. The next man we considered was Jim Rankin. In some ways he's fit; he's a hard fighter, and the man doesn't live who can bluff him. But he's poor, and he wants to be steal, and I guess that let him out." All this was directly subversive at Even Doug's ideas on the conduct of affairs politicized like free country, but he was willing to hear more. "Well" he said. "What we want, take time is one of your how to the life" men, son. Rockon you'd like to try it." The young man who was less than a week away from the atmosphere of the law school and its theories was fairly agitant. That his father should be coolly proposing him for a high office in the state to which he was as new as the newest emigrant seemed blankly incredible. But when the incredibility began to subside the despotism of a machine which could-propose and carry out such inward of things loomed maleficient. "I'm afraid we are a good many miles apart, father!" he said, unconsciously using one of his father's favorite speech forms, when the proposal had been given time to sink in. "America is supposed to be a free country with a representative government. Do you mean to say that you and a few of your friends can set aside the will of the people so far that you can nominate and elect anybody you please to any office in the state?" The farseeing eyes were twinkling again. "Oh, I don't know about our being so far apart," was the deprecatory protest. "You're just a little bit long on theory, that's all, son. When it comes down to the real thing somebody has to head the stamped and turn it, and if we do not do it the other bunch will." "What other bunch?" "In this case it's the corporations—the timber people, the irrigation companies and, most of all, the railroads." "Gantry seems to think that the railroads are persecuted, or his railroad at least." The senator pulled his horse down to a still slower walk "Who did you see Dick Cantry?" he demanded. Evan told of the meeting on the veranda of the club, adding the fur fact of the college friendship "Just happened so, did, it." queried the senator, "that getting together last Saturday night?" "Why, yes! I suppose so," Dick knew I was in Boston, and he said he had meant to look me up." "I reckon he did," was the quiet comment; "yes, I reckon he did. And he dilled you up a hook full of Hardwick McVickar's notions, of course. I guess that's about what he was told to do. But we won't fall apart on that, son. Tomorrow we'll go down to the city, and you can look the ground over for yourself. I want you to draw your own conclusions and then come and tell me what you like to do. Shall we leave it that way?" Blount acquiesced, quite without prejudice to a firm conviction that his opinion when formed was going to be based on the merits of the case, upon a fair and judicious summing up of the pros and cons. He felt that it would be striking at the very root of the tree of good government to allow himself to be the candidate of the machine. But, on the other hand, he saw instantly what a power a fearless public prosecutor could be in a misguided common wealth where the lack was not of good laws, but of men strong enough and congenious enough to administer them. He would see. If the good to be no compulsed was great enough to over balance the evil—it was a temptation to compromise, a sharp temptation, and he found himself longing for Dr. Trials, for her clear sighted comment, which, he felt sure, would go straight to the heart of the fangle. It was that thought of Patricia and his need for her that made him distrait and abschminded at the Warrace Hall dinner table that evening, and the father, looking on, suspected that Evan's taciturnity was an expression of his prejudice against the woman who had taken his mother's place, and when the son, pleading weariness, retreated early to his room the suspicion was confirmed. "You'll have to be patient with the boy, little woman," said the master of Wartrace when Evan had disappeared "I shouldn't wonder if Boston had put some right queer notions into his head." The little lady looked up from her embroidery frame with a whimsical smile wreathing itself at the corners of the sensitive mouth "He is a dear boy," she said, "and he is trying very hard to hate me. But I shan't let him, David." Paris, April 1.—After several postponements, the 20-round fight between Sam McVey and Sam Langford, the American colored heavyweight purgilists, was pulled off tonight in the Clirque Paris. The fight ended in a draw, although Langford, who holds the heavyweight championship of England, completely outclassed his opponent. The hall was crowded to the limits, many persons of fashionable society being among the spectators, and when the referee declared the contest a draw there was a noisy demonstration of disapproval. For nine rounds Langford landed on McVey as the plumbers, and the latter showed signs of distress; but he came up freest in the tenth, and from there on managed to drag through the contest. There was a great deal of ingesting, and the referee was constantly forced to intervene. The faces of both men showed signs of severe punishment at the end. The fight was for a purse of $10,000. STARRED HIM. Frank Randolph, colored, was badly stabbed in a free fight in Ponti- tary Bottom last Sunday morning. A woman is said to have been the cause of the trouble. Willie Branch, who lives at 12th and Broad streets, was arrested, charged with the crime. Whether Booker T. Washington or some other equally prominent Negro be the acknowledged leader of all civil, social, religious and financial organisations among Negroes in the United States seems to be greatly agitating the Negro press and pulpit throughout the country. Why not forget it and let it adjust itself? What's the use of an acknowledged leader? Of what good purpose could such leader be to the Negro in general? Does not the success of a class, race or sect of people depend more on the general uplift of the whole people than a few successful individuals? Why not let every Negro in his own quiet way be a Booker Washington? Is not the train porter, who conserves his earnings and then invests them in real estate or in United States bonds, and thereby lays the foundation for financial independence, a more useful citizen than a hundred and one "A. M.'s" and "L. L. D.'s"? It one has the ability to lead it doesn't require any public proclamation on the part of the whole or a part of the people to make the fact known, for it will assert itself in spite of opposition. Whatever your hands find to do, endeavor to do it better than the same kind of work has ever been done before, and, if you do, like Booker T. Washington, you will sooner or later, occupy the center of the stage with an admiring public for an audience. A leader is not so much a moulder of willful oppressions as a moulder of willful objections which the ideas of all the people are regulated and distributed for mediation and modulation. Great men differ and for ten or twenty millions of people to protend to select one man as a leader is not only persecuted, but without a historic precedent. A Negro leader living in Alabama or New York could have no idea in the world what is best for the Negro in Alaska. Washington or California to do. It is absurd to think there will ever be a distinct Negro race in the United States; and for an alleged leader to encourage the Negroes to so work that only Negroes will reap the reward of their labors is but inviting extermination by bloodshed and violence instead of by gradual absorption as must and will be the final outcome of the Negro in the United States. Salary and Commission to Deputies Write Right Now for Full Particulars to the SOLID ROCK UNION, 1920 Dickinson St. PHILADELPHIA; PA. 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STREET CAR KILLS LESLIE H FOLKES Body Hurtled Fifteen Feet and Wrapped Around Light Pole. Surprised from his slumber between the car tracks, Leslie H. Folkes, of 601 West Clay street, sprang into the side of enstbound Broad and Main street car No. 901 about 6 o'clock last Sunday morning, and was instantly killed. The accident occurred on Broad, street, between Cedar and Allison streets, about half way between stopping points. As the heavy car rushed on, the body was hurled against an iron light pole, and one leg was twisted around the pole. C. C. Eddleton was in charge of the car, and F. C. Jones was the conductor. It was not yet light enough to see objects clearly, and the car passed on without either man seeing the body, or knowing that some one had been struck FOUND AN HOUR LATER The body was not discovered until a Lakeside car, running from the barns a few minutes before 6 o'clock to begin work on the First street line, came up nearly an hour later. Motorman J. W. Turner saw it lying between the east and westbound tracks, huddled up and around the iron polo, and called the attention of the conductor, J. L. Tucker, to the fact that a dead man was lying near the car. Just then the headlight of, the "owl" car, which did the killing came into view, and the Lakeside car stood by. None of the two crews knew then how the man had come to his death, and they notified the office and the police, and in turn, Coroner Taylor was called to the scene. Several theories as to how Feltos had come to his death were advanced, but examination of car 906 after it had reshed the harms, showed that it had brushed the man aside as he evidently sprang forward from his sleep and literally battered him to death, breaking nearly every bone in the body. FATHER IDENTIFIES BODY. Mounted Officer Krug, who had been a schoolmate of the dead man, who had seen Folkes an hour before the accident only two squares away, was the first to identify the body, and a message was sent to his home. Mr. Folkes, father of the young man, knowing that his son had not been home during the night, went to the scene, and identified the body as that of his son. He was taken home on the verge of collapse, and conveyed the news to the other members of the family. They themselves knew little of the supposed details of the accident, and were unable to discuss it. Captain McMahon and Detective Sergente Wiley and Kellam investigated the case, and with officials of the Virginia Railway and Power Company, reached the conclusion that Folkes was asleep between the tracks, probably against a tree box, when he was aroused by the noise of the passing car and sprang to catch it Traces of blood and a strand of hair were found on the left rear journal box, and dirt was found to have been rubbed from the beam in front HURLED FIFTEEN FEET There was much blood also between the tree box and the light pole around which the body was hung, a distance of about fifteen feet, and it is supposed that the body was hurried from one to the other. It was started by one who knew the young man that he was sometimes in the habit of falling asleep on street corners while waiting for street cars. It was not until after 7 o'clock when Coroner Taylor had finished his examination and detective and street car officials were satisfied that Folkes had been accidentally killed, that the body was removed to an undertaking establishment. Young Folkes was thirty years old, a native of Richmond. He was omployed as assistant foreman by H. W. Rountree and Brothers' Trunk and Bag Company. He was unmarried. He is survived by both parents, one brother, Hunter B. Folkes, and two sisters, Mrs. Leslie Perrin and Miss Maggie Folkes FROM HALIFAX COUNTY. South Boston. Va., March 29 The courts in my district held their anniversary last Sunday and I never witnessed a grander time. Everybody seemed well pleased, and I think much good will be done in the future. Although the weather was bad, the people turned out just the same. They are all in harmony. You're in F. H. and J. FANNIE L. COLEMAN, D. D., W. C. DENY FORCING RACE ISSUE. (The Washington Post) Ithaca, N. Y., April 2.—Disclaiming any intention of trying to obtain social equality with the white women students, and denying that they are in any scheme to enforce the race question to an issue at Cornell, Miss Rosa Vassar and Pauline A. Ray, two young colored women whose efforts to get rooms in Sage College have caused great aide among the other coeds, have issued a statement explaining their position. Miss Vassar, whose home is in Lynchburg, Va., is a junior in the college of arts and sciences. Miss Ray, who comes from Gonova, N. Y., is a sophomore in the same college. They deny that they have consulted with any other nongro students or taken any advice as to their course. They say they are not trying to force the race question to an issue. 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Interested at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. provide mail matter A CITY EMPLOYEE'S PREDICA MENT There was almost a tragedy near the city limits last Monday night which has somewhat of a humorous aspect. There has been much potty thieving going on in this locality and naturally colored folks are supposed to be the ones guilty of it. It seems that upon receiving the information by telephone that some one had broken into Mrs. Dollard's store on the Hermitage Road Mr. Flaggman sent his man Jesse Graves over there with a revolver to apprehend the guilty party. A colored man had shot all officer there some time ago when he was caught with a basket-containing goods supposed to have been stolen Mrs. Dollard is a white lady and it was presumed that another colored man would be apprehended Anyway Jesse Graves got two white men to accompany him, but he held the revolver. When they peeked in the store they saw a thief, the color of whom could not be determined. When the thief heard the noise at the window he dropped his bag and he came through that window bringing with him sash and all Graves fired and the ball went through the leg of the man guilty of the crime. He escaped, however. He was later arrested and when arraigned was found to be a city employee, a white man in the pay of the city, and his name is given as James Higgins. This has created a sensation, and there is no talk of arraigned Graves who seems to have offered instructions and to have arraigned the thief. _____ THE NEW YORK SITUATION. Hon William Barnes Jr. Counsellor of the Republican State Committee of New York, has openly advised the Republican members of the Legislature of that State to vote for a conservative Democrat in conjunction with the insurgent Democrats of that State, in order to break the sonatorial deadlock, and this, too, in the face of the fact that the Republicans have already selected a causes nominee. It seems to us that this indicates the deterioration of the Republican Party. It means that party designations are but a name and that powerful financial interests are controlling the leading men of both of the political parties. This charge has been repeatedly made by Hon William J. Bryan and also by the labor leaders and this latest announcement seems to bear out this contention. President William H. Taft has not only adopted this policy, but has appointed leading Democrats to political fires both in the North and in the South. There is a revolution in political conditions now taking place. The Republican leader in New York State does not even propose that a conservative Republican be selected but he opply announces that a conservative Democrat be made the choice of the Republican members. This may be a Robin for an Oliver as in the case of the Illinois Legislature where Senator William Lortner was chosen over the regular Republican nominee. Still it goes to show that no longer a popular man be organized or condemned by Republican leaders when they do the same thing in the face of these developments which mark the changing of political conditions, and the possible renaming and real ending of political parties. DR TM HAMER'S RETIREMENT s Reynolds P. Tatafero or the well-known Baptist dystopia who has been a power in defenemntal circles for years or more seems to have come upon hard times if report from Philadelphia data to be a noted He has host count of of the Banner Publishing Company of which he was the founder and practically the power behind the throne. It is us that the shift was sent to the colonies of the continent The Christian Banner which has been constantly weathered some of the worst than all towns is about to go on the rocks to speak Rev Dr Taraktero took a long step forward when he established a printing establishment in Philadelphia and followed this up with a modern equipment, expecting the Baptist people to support the same Ten men will put into such an enterprise just about as much as one man should put into it and then wonder where the money has gone. To be plain a concern that is hardly sufficient to support one man will be started with more than one hundred men and also expect a profit on the investment. Even the Baptist Pub Hishing House at Nashville which has enjoyed marvellous success has had its troubles and it is still having them It is said that if Dr R H Royd wore to collect all the money actually due him by the concern and to which he is justly entitled there would be a howl in Israel. But Dr Talaferro has also lost his church. He has tendered his resignation Talaferro and Holy Trinity Baptist Church. It seems difficult to call one name without repeating the other Talaferro and Holy Trinity some to be synonymous. The trouble no doubt is that Dr Talaferro tried to do too many things with little or no capital and he no doubt was forced to use money of one concern to finance the other. Men in other callings have done the same thing. Some have succeeded and others have failed. We note that Dr W F Graham is scheduled to presach at Holy Trinity tomorrow. Suppose those colored folks up there should take it into their heads to call him and he would stop to consider the same. There would be some talking down here. It is enough for us to say that we do not know anything about the merits or demerits of Dr Tallafenro's departure. We do know that he is one of the most resourceful diffens in the United States, and that if he is not called to something he will start something himself and then it will be sure to call him. 0 RACE DISCIMINATION AT WASHINGTON It is asserted on reliable authority that three weeks ago or thereabouts every colored clerk in the Post Office Department at Washington who received a salary above $1,000 per annum was reduced to a salary of $1,000 per annum but one and that in a lot of promotions aggregating 150 not a single colored employee was included in the number at Washington. The deductions were for alleged inefficiencies and those reduced in Washington were in the same division. It is alleged that this attitude is assumed in other departments at Washington. It is further alleged that an colored clerks are being drawn from the eligible Civil Service Register, and those who are being drawn as laborers and who afterwards pass a clerk's examination are never appointed to clerkships. We are reliably informed, too, that this rule as to clekkships is being followed in the Post Office here in Richmond. It is further alleged that all of the Departments at Washington have lunch rooms, and in none of these can colored employees be served. If a Republican administration will permit such racial discriminations at the National Capital, what must be required in the part at the country? It seems to us that Dr. Booker T. Washington, the political referee of the administration at Washington, should be able to bring about a change in these conditions. We at least hope that he may be able so to do. One thing is certain, we cannot succeed in battering those conditions without a vigorous protest and the agitation should go on until some one is made to hear, who will either change these conditions or demonstrate to a wondering constituency that they do not exist. 0 THE NEAT NOMINEE. The Washington D.C. Post in its issue of the 1st all pays Senator Bourne head of the Republican Progressive League has let the rat out of the bag. He has given out interview up Boston way where he is trying to organize a tea party with a view to throwing President Taft overboard. The league after all is against Taft although every State convention controlled by insurgents indulred Mr. Taft What has happened since last year? Were the leagues inhreaten then or are they insincere now? It would have been well for the Post to have sought for information further and to investigate as to whether or not that brilliant able and energetic prince of politiカン Hid Theodore Roosevelt is at the bottom of the movement. Certainly some is a bo-on friends are from and for lost in the agitation and have been "dog " missionary work" in Ohio. When asked to explain on what grounds the progressive would oppose Mr. Taft, the Oregon Senator advanced a single reason only. He decided that the President had shown no favor for the fundamental of government. Then why did they endorse him? Was this it do or not? He was an attempt to curry favor with the people? Was it as shallow a sham as the progressive demand for tariffs? Rejection which balked when President Taft gave it a chance to vote for Canadian recipients? This is rather a brusque way of side-tracking the able Senator from Oregon. It continues The truth is that today President Taft stands hand and shoulders above any other man who may be considered by the next Republican national convention. Who is the man who stands, near him? As the situation looks today the nomination of President Taft for another term promises to be made unanimously. There is no one else in sight. Of course anything may happen in politics, but the slight progress made by the progressive league is sufficient evidence that the people are in no hurry to trust the 'fundamentals' of government to the men who today turn and rend the President they recently indorsed and who skedaddle when asked to vote according to their own demands on the tariff. It seems to us that this is a diplomatic way to announce the funeral drive of Hon Theodore Roosevelt as a political quantity in the history of the nation. It means that the chauk between Hon Wm Howard Taft President of the United States, and Hon Theodore Roosevelt, the Dictator of the future policies, of this Republic has perceptibly widened, and that the underhanded effort now being made by his friends to rehabilitate him in the affection of the people and the influence of the polifolians will die a burnin if the Post is to be accepted as a criterion upon the subject. We believe that the Washington Post has told the truth. There is no statesman in this country who has enough influence to supplant the present occupant of the White House in the effect of the next National Republican Convention. He will be nominated and there comes the rub. Can he be elected? The Progressives who will look like pgrgiles in the National Republican Convention will loom up like giants outside of that great political gathering. They will be able to "chock the wheel" so to speak and send to the presidential chair a man more in line with their position upon great financial questions. The Post is evidently sincere. It says It is only too easy to carp and criticise, and harsen at the heeds of men in office who are trying to give effect to the will of their party, and the people. At such a time it is easy to demand big things, such as a wholesale revision of the tariff. But when the test comes, and the carpets are asked to vote as they preach they show as little courage as other bogus reformers. What have they done to prove that they could do as the man they already in office. Who is the man they want to persuade and wherein would he be superior to Mr Taft in devotion to the fundamentals? President Taft has had the grit to suggest and insist upon progressive legislation demanded by the people without regard to the effect upon his personal fortunes. He has stood the brunt of battle, and the people know where to find him. Until the so-called progressives prove their mettle by acts equally courageous, the Republican party will not pay much attention to them. They will never make headway by more captious criticism of Mr. Taft, while they themselves dodge and quibble when the test comes. The above comment reads as though it was inspired. It indicates that the so-called Progressives will be read out of the Republican party and barred out of the National flea- FOR EASTER SHOES IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES AND FINISHES SEE Capitol Shoe & Supply Co., 210 E. Broad St., First. 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It must be a man of the Woodrow Wilson or Judson Harmon type and he must be able to the same interests which are now backing President Taft. He must be a man of the Grover Cleveland type. With such a man in the field, all of the dissatisfied elements in the Republican Party and those outside of it will come together. We have noted a radical change in the Democratic Party as at present constituted and it may be that the House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Champ Clark will wreck the fondest hopes of that great political organization Regardless of the outcome the colored people of the country will have little to fear for the reason that the Republican leaders seem to have inhibited the spirit of bourbonism and to have hasked in the smiles of the Anti Negro element of the country. During the next presidential election the voice of the Afro-American politician will be heard in the land, and his efforts will not be confined to any one political party. The colored citizens are thinking deeply, and their votes will be divided in a way that never has been seen before. The Republican Party and its leaders have certainly extraged the colored voters and it will only require another presidential election in order to make the average party politician and candidate thoroughly aware of that fact. The outlook for the colored man in the North is not as encouraging now as it is in the South. If we are to judge by two recent happenings which will be noted with interest by the conservative observer Dr. Boorer T. Washington was brutally assaulted in the city of New York by a white man, who is known as Albert Ulrich. He had committed no offense against the peace and dignity of the laws of the State of New York. He simply went to a residence there and was inspecting the names on the bells in the vestibule of an apartment house. He was well dressed and his carriage was that of a gentleman. He did not speak around the rear of the but not break through the rear of the house. He was at the front door on the front steps and he walked up and down the pavement. This is admitted, and there can be absolutely no ground for the allegation that he 0 OUTLOOK GLOOMY Recently purchased 200 working shoes for men they were made to sell they last--our price, Special prices and Laws See Our Easy Capitol Sho 210 E. B RICHMOND Special prices on little Gents' and Ladies' Shoes. See Our Easter Window Display. was thought to be a burglar or even a disreputable character. His every action negatized the idea. He was not ordered away. He was not warned. "He was beaten and chased through the streets of New York like a common thief This was had enough but it seems that even at the Police Station he was accorded but scant courtey. After having been beaten, with blood flowing from his wounds and in the face of the evident fact that he was a candidate for the hospital rather than for the cell-space in that Police Station he was in imminent danger of being committed to prison like a common vagrant. In vain he protested and made stalements to impress the officers that he was the injured party and had meant no harm, the cynical smile which greeted this well dressed Negro frightened him, and in a moment of abject fear and untold embarrassment he revealed his identity to the officer in charge. Even then an incredulous if not contemptuous smile overread the countenance of the officer and he waited for further proofs before he would accept the colored man's statement. He then accepted the word of Booker T Washington the educator and leader where a moment before he had declined to accept the declarations of Booker T Washington the Negro. Urlich the white man was at once discredited and arrested and Dr Booker T Washington released Now in San Francisco a white man was arrested for speeding his auto mobile and a black man was arrested for the same offense. The white man was fined $50 and the black man who proved to be Jack Johnson, the weekly heavy weight 'champion of the world,' was given 25 days in jail by Acting Police Justice Treadwell his excuse for this action was that Johnson had been fined before. This was done in the face of the fact that it is a well-known rule of evidence that previous conduct in another case shall not be used to one's detriment in a case then under trial. These Negro haters under the plan that Johnson had pleaded guilty to speeding took advantage of a technicality and denied to him the right of appeal Johnson's attorney has been required to make all kinds of legal motions in order to save himself from the ignominy of a jail sentence for a misdemeanor. It is a well known fact that the jail penalty is intended only for aggravated cases of speeding where perchance some one is injured by criminal carelessness. In this case, advantage was taken of Johnson's honesty in pleading guilty whereas when he was guilty, he could have exhausted the legal resources left to him by the law. In the southern States colored man of stamling are treated with special consideration in large cities. It is a rare thing that any of them ever reach the fall or penitentiary, except in instances where they have demonstrated their right to go there. But up in these communities a colored man is never sure of his ground. He thinks he is in God's country. SPECIAL FOR LADIES. 400 pairs Ladies' Co for $4.00--our p 500 pairs Ladies' price, $3.50--our 500 Velvet Pumps ular price, $3.00 es on little Gents' dies' Shoes. ater Window Display Oe & Supply Co Broad Street, D, - VIRGINIA 400 pairs Ladies' Oxford made to sell for $4.00--our price .. $3.00 the pair 500 pairs Ladies' Oxford, regular price, $3.50--our price ..... $2.50. 500 Velvet Pumps, tan @ black, regular price, $3.00--our price .. $2.00. for the Negro, when we may be in the Devil's dominions for the black man. It shows that we are having an uphill fight all around—that education, refinement and money have multiplied our troubles and increased our woes. That with the sweet has come the bitter, that with the happiness has come the sorrow. We have reached the higher atmosphere of the citizen and we see below the clouds of race proscription and race prejudice, trying to rise and again envelope us before we reach that tand of eternal pleasure where the rights of citizenship are untrammeled and the bliss of heaven undisturbed. 0 THE NEWS LEADER'S ANTAGONISM. The Richmond (Va.) News Leader from being the most liberal Democratic Journal in this State, in its dealing with colored people, has won the distinction of being the one most influential to the interests of this same class of people. We presume that this has been due to the change in its management. When a newspaper strikes at the vital rights and privileges of a citizen or a class of citizens it places itself far outside of the pride of friendship for the same class of people. The fundamental rights of a citizen are embraced in the right of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. The man or set of men who encroachs, upon the rights and privileges of any of these become deadly enemies to the people, whose rights are thus encroached upon. When a newspaper attacks the citizens in his own home and says to him that he shall not exercise the right of ownership to the house and land purchased then he violates the fundamental rights of the citizen, so that citizen white or black. It is with regret that we find it necessary to characterize the action of one of the leading white dailies in all of the South-land. Certainly the editorial staff of that widely circulated journal is aware of this fact for they have stuilted history and they are well acquainted with fundamental law. Why they should hound the better class of colored people in this community is a mystery to us. We have always dealt kindly with them, and we see no reason why they should not extend the same favor to us. They are now in the business of arousing race feeling against the colored people of this community. They are not copient with permit-link the popular branch of the city government to do its duty, but has undertaken the task of instructing the Common Council and of lecturing the Board of Aldermen and of dictating to the Mayor of this city. If any of these three branches fail to accept the dictates of this journal it is at once held up to ridicule and threatened with defeat at the polls. We do not know just how far this code of procedure can go and to what extent these gentlemen, who have their own consciences to guide them, will be awed by this unwarranted interference on the part of these mischief makers. Suffice it to Oxford made to sell price $3.00 the pair. s' Oxford, regular or price $2.50. s, tan @ black, regu- 00--our price $2.00. ```markdown ``` say, the colored people will live through it all Even Mr A L. Vonderlehr, the patron of the segregation ordinance is employed in the office of the News Leader, and it is too much to say that he influences the News Leader and it would no doubt be unkind to say that the News Leader controls him. These remarks were caused by the editorial in that journal of the 4th instant. It says: The council ten days or two weeks ago passed the companion ordinance to Mr Vonderlehr's segregation ordinance and it has been approved by the Mayor This companion ordinance directs the appointment of a committee to look into, select and provide for securing adequate residential areas for the negro population of Richmond. The council has thus already adopted a measure to remove any just cause of complaint charge of injustice or unfairness to the negroes. The News Leader knows as well as any one that the mere passage of a resolution to make arrangements for the feeding of a starving man and to report on the advisability of purchasing food to appease him does not satisfy his hunger it knows that the resolution to restrict the area of residence for colored people should not be passed until some definite steps have been taken and the property purchased to relieve the congestion of which complaint is made The News Leader plainly states that it does not intend to urge the establishment of adjacent territory for the colored people until after it has forced through its unconstitutional "constitutional" segregation ordinance. It was admitted that even under the segregation ordinance, colored citizens can purchase a block in Monument Avenue and set up a Negro colony in the heart of Lee District. These colored people would be segregated, and yet the result would be ridiculous. This is the ordinance that the News Leader in its haste to do something for a few property-owners in Clay street, many of whom have already offered, to sell their property to colored people. The News Leader says So soon as the Vonderlih ordnance is passed the committee will doubtless be appointed and will forth with begin its labors. Of course there is no occasion to appoint a committee until the other ordinance bow pending in the board of alder men is adopted. There is now no good reason for further delay, on the contrary, it is important that the primary measure should be taken up and acted upon at the earliest possible Experience has taught us that the principle involved in this ordinance or segregation is essential to peace and good relations between the race; it will work no hardship or injustice to other; it will apply alike to both, and it will in a measure prevent that friction, or worse, which all good citizens depricate and should take measures to provide against. And this statement is made, too, in the face of the fact that there is no dental of the fact that under this ordinance colored people could purchase a block^b in the heart of Lee District if they felt so disposed and could live there. This would upset ```markdown ``` conditions for the benefit of the Negro-haters in Clay street, who have been living adjacent to colored people all of their lives. It goes so far as to quote Abraham Lincoln as favoring segregation. We would like for it to quote any law that he ever recommended in this country to carry out any such purpose. The races are already segregated for the reason that the humble colored people never wish to do their white neighbors any harm and always respond to any appeal for help that may come at any time of the night from their white friends. It then takes a fling at the colored people who are opposed to the ordinance in the following language. Some of the negroes may be unwise enough to oppose this ordinance just as they have opposed all such regulations tending to recognize the distinction which nature has made between the two races that are domelied here. The separate car saw, which has been an infinite blessing, has been bitterly denounced by many of them, and this. In spite of the obvious fact that it is perhaps one of the most beneficient laws over enacted in the South. The policy of segregation will necessarily be pursued and extended. it is idle for the negroes to oppose it, and it would be infinite folly for the whites to fail to insist upon it The above is a matter of opinion, and in our judgment, very poor opinion. It is a different proposition to regulate a corporation which gets its franchise from the city and from the State to regulating an individual whose private rights are protected by two constitutions—that of the Constitution of the United States and that of Virginia. It is a well known fact that even police powers do not extend without restriction to the confines of a citizen's home, and an officer must enter only by due process of law in order to serve even a legal process of a court. It seems idle to argue with gentlemen, who seem to be either intentionally or unintentionally ignorant of the fundamental principles of constitutional law, and who in order to carry a point will not stop at depriving white men of vital rights in order to strike down a few inoffensive Negroes of this community. Still we know that there is a God that rules in the affairs of men and it is to Him that we should look in time of need. Slowly, but surely, these Negro-haters and persecutors of our race are stiffening out for the tomb, and the solemn toiling of the funeral dirges and tramp of the pill-bearers tell us that the unseen power is at work and that it yet holds the destiny of nations in its hands. Colored people should not be discouraged. There are liberal-minded, kind-hearted white men left in this South-land, who will find some way to help us and at some time when least expected the dark clouds of race prejudice will be lift ed and the sorrows of this day and time will pass away forever Why Did Cashier Hill Leave Richmond? (Continued From Page Number) ONE. criminal prosecution had been made against him on account of the money of certain religious and charitable institutions which he is allogated to have had in hand, and which amounted to over $11,000. He claimed to have deposited this money to his personal account in the True Reformer'Bank which institution went into the hands of receivers. Mr Hill paid some of these obligations. 'SEEN IN PHILADELPHIA, TOO. The Washington correspondent of that same paper states that he was seen Saturday 25th ult. at Florida Avenue and T street, and the Philadelphia correspondent of the same journal reported that he was seen in the vicinity of the Christian Tanner office on the following Tuesday morning. Still another report located him in New York. It was no doubt in trailing those rumors that his son made the trip previously noted. There is no criminal warrant out for Cashier Hill here, and there is no positive evidence at this time that he is guilty of any criminal act or that any warrant will be sworn out against him. --- FROM LOS ANGELES, CAL. A Texas Club was organized on Wednesday, the 29th instant, and all persons hailing from the Lone Star State were invited to attend the meeting. The meeting was called to order at S o'clock sharp, and Mr. J. Alexander was elected president by a unanimous vote. Mrs. K. Stovall was made secretary. The meeting was well at- Thurston!!! A. tended, and great interest was manifested. We have all reason to believe that the organization will do an effective work in the community at large in a moral, intellectual, and social way. A large number of the colored population of our city hall from Texas, and it is hoped that this organization will be the means of bringing about better results. The members meeting was held at the Y M C A on the evening of the 29th instant, and a large number of men were present to consider a campaign which will last ten days, beginning April 3d, at which time they hope to secure 250 men, bringing their membership up to 600 making the largest enrollment of any colored Y M C A in position. We are glad to note that there is an increase in the attendance at the Forum Sunday afternoon. We have not been able to comfortably accommodate our visitors for the last few Sundays, but it is pleasing to know that we are growing in interest and in number. Mr J W Coleman, who has been seriously ill for a few weeks, is again able to be at his post of duty A. D. LACEY --- ANNUAL REUNION UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS, LITTLE ROCK, ARK, MAY 15-18, 1911 Very reduced fares from all points --- on Southern Railway to Little Rock, Ark, on account of the above reunion. Tickets on sale May 13, 14 and 15, 1911, and limited to reach original starting point not later than May 1911 unless extended. For complete information, call on nearest Southern Railway Ticket Agent, or write S. E BURGESS. District Passenger Agent 920 E Main Street. Richmond, Va [Image of a man with dark hair and a serious expression]. The theatre is like a tonic; it has been recommended by physicians, especially for those whose nerves and general system are run down. But as the doctor will tell you, take a tonic, he will say be careful of the kind. After being surfeited with a long list of so-called comedy and the over lurid drama, Howard Thurston, the world's greatest magician, comes as a relief to really help our jaded selves. Different in every way from the usual theatrical entertainment, Thurston's performance may be compared like that of the Genii in an Arabian Night's tale, really overwhelming in the majesty of its new creations, amazing in its lavish splendor. Much could be written of his wonderful tricks and illusions. WOMAN'S DAY SERVICES AND GRAND CONCERT. On Sunday, April 9, the women of Third-Street A. M. E. Church will have charge of the services. The pastor, Rev E. H Hunter who will soon leave for his conference will preach a special sermon to them at 12 o'clock. The afternoon and evening services will be wholly in charge of and participated in by women. A spendid program is announced for each service. Much enthusiasm is manifest among the ladies of the entire community and friendly rivalry exists as to which circle will make the largest financial returns. There are 15 circles, named after the Bishops of the church. On Sunday evening the younger women and girls of the church will give the last literary musical and social event of the season. A rich program has been arranged and a treat is in store for all who attend. All these events have in view the closing of the present conference year in good shape. BERGLAR THERE. Last Sunday night the wife of Dr J W Jackson heard a noise at their residence, and finally suspected that a man was in her bath-room. She telephoned to the Police Station. The man escaped, however, and later the officers arrived. He had stolen some of the silver and had not the alarm given to him, he would not be taken out much wrought up when he was notified of the affair at his pharmacy, Graham and Leigh streets His residence is 1012 West Leigh street ```markdown ``` Lawyer J Henry Crutchfield will open the Greater Meeting Easter Sunday Subject 'I Have Thought More About It Lately' Watch for the hour THE NEW YORK TIMES without doing justice. Sufficient to say, in all honesty, the entertainment is amusing, surprising, startling, mystifying and really instructive. In fact, every man, woman and child can ill afford to miss seeing wonder after wonder performed, followed by mystory bordering on which might be said to be the supernatural. This season, not being satisfied with his own remarkable entertainment, Mr. Thurston has specially engaged Theo. Bamborg, recognized as Europe's greatest Shadowist, coming to this country for the first time direct from Paris. 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Orders by Telephone or Telegraph filled. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686 Residence in Building. NEWS FROM STAUNTON Staunton Va. March 26 1811 Sunday, though it was a dwindown of rain was a busy day with the Knights and Ladies of Calanthe the occasion being the anniversary sermon "Promptly at 2 30 o'clock District Deputy J H. Allen called the meeting to order, and after a few chosen remarks the marshall Sir R H Southall, was ordered to form the procession The Uniform Ranks, under Captain Carter, took the lead, and proceeded to the A. M E Church, the place appointed for the services. A large crowd was present awaiting the arrival of the lodge After the usual ceremonies a servant prayer was offered by Rev R C Wood, pastor of Mt. Zion Church Sir Knight J M Morris, was introduced and made a splendid address on Pythianism. The master of ceremonies then introduced Rev B J Hargraves, pastor of the church to preach the sermon. His text was taken from the Book of Proverbs and he preached a noble sermon. The assembly felt benefited. Rev Dr Panell then invoked the divine blessing and the choir sang. While Sir John Parks Barts, J F Hackney and Wm Ellis lifted the collection of $18 00 Closed by singing "God Be With Us" 'Till We Meet Again,' and the procession returned to the Castle Hall in the same form. J H Alfen, C C, and M L Brown Master of Ceremonies MONROE SCHOOL The principal of Monroe School, Prof H G Carlton has reported to Dr J A C Chandler superintendent the following list of pupils on the roll of honor for the month ending March 31, 1911. Honor pupils are those who have obtained the rating A on scholarship based upon the work of the entire month who are perfect in department and who have no unexcused cases of absence or tardiness against them. Fourth A Grade William Willis Sangue Knight. Emma Garnett Renetta Jackson and Ida Beverly. Third B Grade - Irma Matthews. Third B (21) Grade George Mitchell. 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PENSIONS! PENSIONS!! If you ever served in any of the Wars of the U. B. You are Entitled to a Pension. If You are now Drawing a Pension of less than $12.00 per month, If You are over 62 years of age, You are Entitled to an Increase. If you are the Widow or Dependent Sister of a Deceased Soldier, Sailor, or Marine You are Entitled to a Pension of $12.00 per month. If You Want a Pension, or an Increase, Write me the Facts, and I Will File Your Claim and Secure Your Pension or Increase. HERMAN W. GRANT, Att'y., Room 609, F St., N. W., Wash., D. C. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405, MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone Monroe- 2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET- SHOP IN RHAR. Phone, Monroe- 2160. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. SATURDAY, ... APRIL, 8, 1911 BURGLARY CHARGE LODGED AGAINST CITY'S EMPLOYE (Richmond Nr. Times Dispatch, April 1, 1911) By a peculiar and fateful arrangement of circumstances and by good police work James Higgins, an employee of the Street Cleaning Department who sought the help of Hylecce Officers Tiller and Reid on account of a bullet wound through his leg was later arrested last night on a charge of having broken into and attempting to rob the store of Mrs. Annie Dollard, on the Hermitage road just across the city limits. Jesse Graves, colored, who was sent to Mrs. Dollard's store on a telephone call, did the thing. Identified Higgins as the man he wounded when the latter is alleged to have sprung through a window when surprised behind the counter in the store Higgins was seated in the Second Station at the time, and Graves was ordered by the two officers to make a close scrutiny of the man under suspicion. CERTAIN IT WAS HIGGINS "That's the man" he said. "I threw one at him as he jammed through the window, and I backed away behind the store in case he threw one back at me." Higgins who is a man of family, lives at 1611 Beverly street. He accosted Officers Tiller and Reld on Lombardy street, between Grace street and Allen avenue saying that he had been shot. He first passed them a few feet and then returned, and as the words fell from his lips he clutched at Reld's shoulder for support. Blood was spurting from the wound. "I've been shot, boys," he said. "Take me to Dr Hillsmith." He was taken to the offices of Dr. Hillsmith, Park avenue and Lombardy street, and there the wound was examined and dressed "Whoever shot you" said Dr Hillsmian, "fired at close range." The bullet had passed through the left leg just above the knee. GOT NEWS OVER TELEPHONE All that Higgins would tell the officers at first was that he had been shot while walking along the street. They sought further information, fearing some crime had been attempted. Higgins insisted that, he didn't know who shot him, and that he didn't remember where it happened. He said that he didn't realize that he had been wounded until he felt blood trickling down his leg and became weak from the pain. Finally they got from him that he had been to the store of J H Plageman on West Leigh street and got half a pint of whiskey, and also that he had been into Rossegeck's brewery. They telephoned to him, and one of them had heard of a man being shot Mr Plageman answered that he thought a burglar had been shot as he escaped from Mrs Dollard's store. Dr. Hillman finished dressing the wound, and Higgins was taken to the Second Station, to be held, until the officers could procure further evidence which might justify an arrest. They learned that Higgins had gone into the Shepandon Flats and asked for a match, remarking to a clerk that he had been shot, and asking the way to the office. Dr. Hillman, with a polish little attention to the man as he appeared to have been drinking. Then it was learned that Mrs. Dollard's store had been broken into and that the escaping burglar had been fired upon and was probably shot. GRAVES SENT BY PLAGEMAN Jesse Graves, of 818 Moore street, was summoned to the station, and he told his story. A man passing by Men. Dollard's store noticed that a side window was smashed, and that a man was inade. He telephoned to Mr. Plageman's and the latter sent the negro Graves. "Here, Jesse," he said to the negro, "take this pistol and go out and see what the trouble is." Graves went to the store and called to two white men in Rosemork's brewery to accompany him. As they reached the side of the store all three men not tired that the window was broken, and saw a man crouched down his blind the counter with a heavily loaded bag on his shoulders. Creeping close to the window, Graves drew his revolver and yelled at the burglar. The latter made a dive for the window and went through, carrying the cash with him. Graves fired as the burglar struck the ground, and the latter fell to his knees. He was within five feet of the man when he shot, and believing that he had hit his mark and that the burglar might return the fire. Graves jumped behold the store, and the intruder, crawling on his hands and knees for a short distance escaped. The bag had been, dropped behold the counter. It was found afterwards to be filled with cans of sardines, marks of tobacco, cigarettes and groceries. HIR WIFE NOTIFIED. Higgins, who was identified by Graves as the man he had shot, must have walked the whole distance from the store to the point on Lombardy street, where, he approached the two officers. But he never made any admissions, and always insisted that he did not know where he was shot or who shot him. Detective Sergent Wiley, who was informed of the shooting, went to Higgins's home and asked Mrs. Higgins what she knew of the case. She had not been informed of the occurrence, and did not know who her husband was. She was greatly distressed. She was informed later that her husband had been arrested. It was in front of Mrs. Dollard's store that Policeman 'Krouse was shot by an unkown negro (two years old) who took his store, and then fired when Krouse went to make an investigation. He was shot from his horse and the negro escaped. He has never been caught. JOHNSON SICK OF JAIL. Says He Will Leave California If He Is Released. San Francisco. April 2 — Jack Johnson can't get out of, of jail to get out of the State of California. He'd like to, but both the State supreme court and District Attorney Fickert are obdurate. As soon as the black prize fighter learned that the supreme court had ruled that he must serve his 25 days' sentence for automobile speeding he obtained a short respite from cleaning stables and had to carry his "time off" in hurrying with a deputy sheriff in his car to the district attorney's office, where he informed Fickert he would leave California if liberated. The district attorney turned a deaf ear to the pugilist's appeal. NICKS ON BILL OF FARE "I don't like the coffee and beans they give me out threer." Johnson said to Flickert. "That will do you a world of good. You need to reduce your weight," the district attorney answered. "But if I could only have a little chicken just a leg." Johnson appealed. Flickert told Johnson that the taxpayers would pay only for coffee and beans with corned beef on Sundays. "I'll get out of the State. If they will let me go" the fighter pleaded. Flickert proved obdurate and would not listen to Johnson's pleadings, so the pistol finally gained permits so to visit his sick brother and some friends. Johnson however, thinks the menu at the fall is monotonous and he wishes an electric fan in his cell to improve the air FIGHT PUZZLES FANS Can't See Why McVey Is Given Draw With Langford. New York, April 2. Was the Langford McVey fight in Paris Satursday night a frame up? Sporting men who were surprised today to learn that the much talked-of twenty-round hut had been called a draw, in spite of the fact that Langford appeared to have much the better of the milling, were inclined to believe that something had been arranged beforehand. Several of them received letters from London last week warning them to make no bets on the fight, and intimating that there was a frame-up made necessary by McVey's sudden attack of cold feet when he saw Langford hammer Bill Lang into obscurity. In these letters it was stated that McVey positively refused to meet Langford, when promoter McIntosh first suggested a match that after much bucking and shouting McVey finally agreed to go on for the twenty rounds but that nobody could say just what persuasive methods McIntosh had employed. Meanwhile Langford's manager, Joe Woodman, sent word to friends in this city that Sam Langford would do his heist to put McVey to sleep, and that the latter could not win. The details of the fight show that Langford handed out a terrific baiting for nine rounds but that he let up then, as he discovered that McVey was bent upon saving himself by chuckling and running. It would also appear that Langford evidently believed that he had the victory safe when he began to ease up and that he was visibly shocked when "the reforce called the fight a draw. K OF P IN HANOVER Fine Time There—Deputy John G. Smith In Charge. Peaks Turnout Postoffice, Hanover County Va. March 27: 1911.—The anniversary of the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Georgelown, and the Coirta of Calanthe of the same place was observed here March 26, 1911, at the Chestnut Grove Baptist Church of which R. J. L. Brown's pastor and R. H. Tinsley clerk Rev J L. Brown preached a fine sermon. A large number of members participated. District Deputy Major John G. Smith, of Richmond, was with us. He accompanied the Knights to the church. Deputy Smith was accompanied to Sir R. H. Tinsley's residence, where a regent was spread, after which he took the 6 45 train for Richmond. Rev Sir J L. Brown paid a high tribute to the lodges and their grand officers, and also tendered a ringing tribute to Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., the Grand Chancellor of Virginia. SIR WM, H. MARTIN, C. C. SIR R. H. TINSLEY, K of R and S. ELIZA ALLEN, W. C. E. F. BROOK, R. of D. WANT COLORED SOLDIERS NOW. 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Setting out who reasons for the strike of firemen on the Cincinnati Southern railway, the general committee of the strikers today issued a statement in which they declare that the race question is the only thing that figures in the trouble declaring that the management of the railroad broke its contract with the brotherhood in placing negro firemen on preferred runs. PROVISIONS OF. THE CONTRACT They say that the contract was signed July 1, 1910, giving white firemen preference to "work, runs and promotion"; that the contract was broken in November, 1910, but that when the attention of the superintendent was called to the violation the negro, who had been promoted was taken from the preferred run and a white man put in his place. The next violation, they say, was committed January 3, 1911, and that their protest received no attention at the hands of H. Bähler, general manager of the road. Continuing, the statement says: "The committee patiently waited Mr. Baker's decision for a period of two weeks and then, hearing nothing from him, they took the matter up with the firemen's general committee on February 3, 1911, at which time Mr. Baker stated that it was an intention to give negro firemen rights over white firemen, as he was oldest in the service of the company and he considered the negro firemen the equal of the white firemen in merit and ability and some were better than the white firemen." APPEALED TO PRESIDENT FINLEY. The decision of Mr. Baker being sustained by T. C. Powell, vice-president of the company, the firemen appealed the matter to President W. W Finley, who sustained the ruling of his subordinate officials. The statement continues: "Obtaining no redress by these appeals, the committee then voted the white firemen on the road on the question of a strike to secure their rights under their contract, and all white firemen, realizing that the policy announced by the railroad company meant their entire displacement from preferred runs, because such runs would be filled by negroes, voted unanimously for a strike." "The white firemen left the service of the company on March 9, 1911, and the strike is still in effect, and it is a fight to secure to young white men of the south an opportunity of following the occupation of locomotive fireman without being compelled to go north or west to secure employment." Negro Takes Another View of Assault Philadelphia., March 26.—Booker T. Washington, the negro educator who was attacked and beaten up in New York last Sunday night after it had been charged he was prowling around the hallway of 16' 1-2 West Sixty-third street and for which alleged attack Albert Ulrich, a resident of the apartment house, has waived a preliminary hearing today emphatically declared that he beloved Ulrich was justified in attacking him under the circumstances. After making this admission Washington intimated that all future proceedings against Ulrich would be dropped, but declared this was a matter to which his lawyers would attend and he could not be sure that they would allow him to retire from the prosecution. WHAT WASHINGTON SAYS. "In looking upon the attack after 7 days from its occurrence," said Washington. "I believe that Mr. Ulrich was justified in attacking not only me, but any other man under similar circumstances. I was in the hall of the house and was pearing at the name plates on the doors in an effort to find one of my business acquaintances. After the charges had been brought I learned that Ulrich had a daughter and that several offers had been made to kidnap her. There seems to be little doubt but that Ulrich thought I might be a kidnapper. If he did hot was perfectly justifiable in attacking me. No man could have done otherwise under the circumstances. I have no personal feeling against Mr. Ulrich. To my mind he did the manly thing." "But will you continue the prosecution?" Washington was asked. NOT PEERING THROUGH KEYHOLES. "That is something I cannot answer. The whole matter is in the hands of my attorneys. They may feel that the case should go to the end to prove that I was not peering through keyholes as has been intimated." Washington spent today here as the guest of John S. Durham, a neoglawyer. He also delivered an address at the Broad-Street Theatre on "The moral development of the race; Obstacles and progress." He was very cordially received and in the course of his address declared that the negro was an absolute necessity to the white man and that they must take their places side by side and co-operate. WASHINGTON HATES NO MAN. In closing his address Washington said: "Never until the last few days did I know I had so many warm earnest, devoted friends among the white people of the North and South, not to mention the hosts of those of my own race. It has left me with a new feeling for all my fellowmen and better than ever before I can say I have hatred for no man." BOOKER T. IN SWELL COLONY. (From the N. Y Herald) Within a stone's throw of where the Duchess of Marlborough made her summer home on Long Island, and in the midst of the homes, of many families of wealth and prominence, Dr. Booker T. Washington, educator, has purchased two and one half acres of land and a new house containing twelve rooms, and hereafter will occupy the place as his summer home. The place is at Fort Salonga, in the town of Huntington, and commands a beautiful view of a long stretch of Long Island Sound. It was once the property of J. Cornell Brown, who purchased it some years ago because of the picturesqueness of the site. The land is a knoll, and besides commanding the sound view, has an outlook over Smithtown Bay and Crane Neck Point. As his nearest neighbors Dr. Washington will have Francis B. Swhyne, a prominent lawyer, Miss Farman, who is a niece of Bishop Potter; Dr Killette, widely known as a physician in Manhattan; C. O. Wetmore and H. D. Tremain. There are scores of other families of equal social prestige and wealth who live within a mile or two of the place on estates of considerable size, and which they have owned for many years. It is said that at one time there was a tacit understanding among the property owners of the town that no one would sell to an outsider with out the consent of the others, but the agreement has not been in force in recent years. While some of the land has fallen into the hands of persons who were not altogether acceptable to the other residents as neighbors, there have been no negroes in the locality, excepting servants, who lived in the small tenant houses on the estates of their employers and who were few in number. While living there for a certain period each year, so that she might retain her rights as an American property owner, the Duchess of Marlborough set the pace for her neighbors in the matter of keeping the estates in good shape, and keeping the locality exclusive. Included in the territory is the celebrated Indian Head farm, once maintained by H. C. Brown, on which thouroughbred horses and ponies were breed, and it was there that the society folk went to play polo. MR. ELLIS' CONGRATULATIONS Chicago. Ill March 15, 1911 The Honorable John Mitchell, Jr Editor of The Richmond Planet Richmond, Va My Dear Mr. Mitchell.—Mrs. Barnett was kind enough to send over to me your paper of March 11th instant, and at the same-time calling my attention to your editorial upon the leadership for the colored people of the United States. I must confess that I am under some obligations to my friend, Mrs. Barnett, for this courtesy, as your editorial was a most illuminating and comprehensive contribution to this discussion. I very much appreciate the fairness with which you state the facts involved on both sides and the wise conservatism which characterizes your conclusions. It is indeed encouraging to us little fellows to see our leading men approaching grave questions with such dispassionate consideration, with such large vision and in such liberality of spirit. That you have been able to discuss this question in the manner in which you have in a very hopeful sign in the development of journalism in its higher and finer phases, and I am dropping you this little line in commendation with my regret that I hardly feel able to pay your editorial such a tribute as I feel it so richly deserves, in the light of so many other discussions upon the same subject. GEORGE W. ELLIS. Residence 3262 Vernon Avenue. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Ashland, Va., April f. 1, 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., EI., A., A, and A. ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother Cary Robinson, who was a member of Scotland Lodge, No. 119, of Ashland, Va. AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. RICHMOND W. H. White, 501 W. Peter Thompson, 45 Street. R. B. Sampson, 523 E. D. Sampson, 804 J. J. Nixon, 406 W. Whn. H. 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Edwards, 1908 An NEW ORLEANS, A. O Smith, 202 S. Rum ASBURY PARK, Rouzeberry Bell, 925 L. NEWARK, N. E. W. Russell, 82-Stone PLAIN FIELD ATLANTIC CITY, N J. S. Edwards, 1908 Arctic Ave. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Smith, 202 S. Rampart St. ASBURY PARK, N. J Reberry Bell, 925 Lake Ave. NEWARK, N J. T. Russell, 82-Stone St. BLAIN FIELD, N J. of Richmond's Prettiest Suburb. And the Chosen Home for Permanent Residence. "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." Four Good Reasons Why Everybody Is Joining SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC. 1. It is the only Insurance Company that issues perpetual paying sick benefit policies Policies that protect every week. 2. It has the largest assets over its liabilities of any Industrial Sick Benefit Co. in the State. See Annual Report of Insurance Department of the State. 3. It invests its net earnings each year in good paying real estate and bonds, furnishing additional security to its policy holders. 4. It is managed by men of experience, good standing and reliability economical and conservative management guaranteed. Read For Yourself and Be Convinced. The originals of these testimonials are filed in our office for inspection: Paid Mrs. Mary F. Anderson $490.83. Her case one of paralysis and rheumatism. Read her own statement. PAID MR. Geo. Williams $164.50 On Account of an Accident. Auburn Mills, Va., (Glen Allen) February 28, 1911 Dear Sir:—Yours to hand. Yes I thank you and the Society for what you have done for me; for you have been so patient with me in my long illness. I appreciate it and will say to every one that the Society has done wonderfully well for I have been sick a long time. From your friend, MRS. MARY F. ANDERSON Read Her Own Statement Read His Own Statement #602 West Leigh St., Richmond, Va. February 27, 1911 #320 South Lombardy St., Richmond, Va. February 27, 1911 SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC., City. SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA.. INC.. Gentlemen:—This is to certify that I sent you notice of my illness January 7, 1910, the following week, January 14th, your representative called and paid me my sick dues and every week since until to-day, February 27, 1911 you have sent my money to my bedside. When I think of how long I have been on your sick list and the amount that you have paid me, $367.50, I cannot find words to thank you for your kindness. Sirs:—Nearly three years ago I fell off a cart and injured my hip but did not pay any attention to same for several days, and when it pained me I thought I had the rheumatism. I sent for the doctor and reported to you my illness just as I did to the other companies. They paid me for awhile and stopped, but you have paid me from the time I sent my report to you until to-day February 27, 1911. Please let every one know what a joy and help your Society has been to me. You have my permission to publish this testimonial so that others who are not members of your Society may know what a blessing it is to have a Southern Aid policy. Thanking you for your great help to me, I am Very truly yours. GEORGE WILLIAMS. Virginia Williams, Witness. Yours respectfully, MARTHA J. WINSTON. Sophia Miller, Witness. MR. WM. JOHNSON, FORMERLY ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR CLERKS IN THE RICHMOND P. O. READ WHAT HIS WIDOW HAS TO SAY OF OUR MANNER OF PAYING SICK AND DEATH CLAIMS: WE PAID MRS. COLUMBIA THOMPSON CONTINUALLY FOR NEARLY ONE YEAR. READ WHAT SHE SAYS: #1900 Short P St., Richmond, Va., February 27, 1911 #535 N. Second St., Richmond, Va. February 24, 1911 SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC.. SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VA., INC., Sirs:—I take this opportunity to say to you and the public that I am entirely satisfied with the the treatment accorded me by your Society. My husband, Mr. William Johnson, joined your Society in January, 1909; in April, 1910 you paid him 4 weeks sick dues. He died January, 1911. The next morning after the burial you sent me a check for $250.00, the full amount due me on the policy. that I am entirely satisfied with the the treatment accorded me by your Society. My husband, Mr. William Johnson, joined your Society in January, 1909; in April, 1910 you paid him 4 weeks sick dues. He died January, 1911. The next morning after the burial you sent me a check for $250.00, the full amount due me on the policy. With best wishes for your success, I am Yours respectfully, MRS. C. L. JOHNSON. Dear Sirs:—I thank you for your kindness to me, I have been on your sick list since March 14, 1910. You have paid me promptly each week; now that I am better I shall not expect further help from you. Wishing you greater success each day, I remain Gratefully yours, COLUMBIA THOMPSON. Be Sure to Insure with Southern Aid Society; Be careful about the name—as we have evidence of imposition being practiced by some other companies. We have agents and offices in nearly every city in the State. Sick and Accident Benefits from $1.25 to $10.00 per week. Death Claims from $15.00 to $250.00. Good, Live, Hustling Agents Wanted in Every City and County in the State.