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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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Whether or not you get a single vote for leadership, if you do your duty as a man and a patriotic citizen, you will stand as high as he who through flattery and enloyery is unanimously voted the leader. --- Dr Washington is a man with a wonderful mind and along educational lines it is almost without a peer in this or any other country With a mind it is perfectly natural for him to be considered authority in his profession by all races, and perfectly natural for the Negro to point with pride to him. To that extent he is the real leader of the Negro as well as the less fortunate Caucasian. If a Woman have long hair, it is a Glory to Her: I Cor., 1115. Every Woman Can Have that Glory if She Wishes It. This is for you. No more ironed hair, but soft, long, beautiful hair that need not be put on the dresser on retiring. Do you want this kind of hair? If so, write for particulars to Madam T. D. 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We will also be Flessed to Quote you Prices on Exterior and from Old Photos, A Specialty. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. His lawyer said today: "Ulrich feels that his action was justified under the circumstances. In fact, I have been informed that Washington, himself, has admitted that his conduct appeared suspicious, and that, under those circumstances Mr. Ulrich acted in a natural manner. "Ulrich has given up his apartment in the West 63d street, house, storing his furniture and going to a boarding house. The fact printed on another of Ulrich's books shows that I admit, surprised me at first, but of late I have heard explanations that show Ulrich in a better light." Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice Entertainment. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band. 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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. They say that their first application to have rooms assigned to them in Sage College was made a year ago, and renewed recently, because they wanted to live near the Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business @ Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Posters, Handbills, Placards. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational @ Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. campus. The rooms they are occupying now are about a mile and a half from the university. The trustees will meet within a week or so and they will have to decide this question, as a petition protesting against allowing the girls to room in Sage College has been filed with them. The petition has been signed by more than 200 coeds, a majority of the number in the university. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Roonoke, Va., March 31, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythia, N. A. S. A. E. A. A. and A ($150 00). One Hunded and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother K M Rohlmann, who was a member of Columbia Lodge: No 100 of Roonoke, Va. Signed -- A. B. COLEMAN. Administrator Witness -- Dr. H J. Moseley Dr I D. Burrell, D D, G C THE RICHMOND PLANET is the leading weekly journal in the State. Send in your subscription today. It costs only $1.50 Per Year in advances. DRUGS. A REPORT Is in Circulation that RICHARDSON'S DRUG STORE, Corner 17th and Venable Streets does not cater to the Colored Trade and Prescriptions written by Colored Doctors. I want to Contradict this and Say Most Emphatically I Have Always Given Colored People My Courteous Attention and Most Sincerely Desire Their Patronage. RESPECTFULLY, W. W. RICHARDSON. Phone, Monroe-2638. Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. 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SEABOARD AIR Northbound train scheduled to: leave Richmond daily: F110 A. M.-Local to Norton. 1126 M.-Elsewhere and coach, Atlanta, Birmingham. 1126 P.-Missouri. 1126 R. I. P. 1125 P.-Missouri. 1125 P.-Florida. I amled, daily, except Sunday. 1126 P.-M. -Elsewhere and coach, Baltimore. 1126 P.-M. -Elsewhere and coach, Dwrlingham and Memphis. Northbound trains daily. except Richmond daily: 5:22 A. M. 5:28 A. M. except Monday. 5:28 P. M. 5:45 P. M. The PLANET is read all over this country and in foreign lands. TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND. YORK RIVER LINE TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND. ieee Sheets aoa a PER ‘Oyo ese Sa 3 an rs, Can rear. ha Pees oa . Denese aas | ar gat Lemenpengmeeeteto ! SATURDAY, v.00, {APRIL 8, 1015 conditions for the boneft of the Ne _sro-hatérs In Clay atroet, who bave bepn Hving adfacent to colored pée: ple All of thelr lives. ft gocy x0 far as to quote Abraham ‘Lincoln a favoring segregation, We would like for It to quote any law that he ever recommended In thls couutry to car . FY out any such purpose. The races are already sogrogated for.the roason thet the humble colored people nev er wiab to do thelr white neighbors any harm and always rospond to apy appeal for hol that maz come ot any time of the night from thelr white friends, It then takes a filng at tho coloted people who are op: posed to the ordinance In the follow: igg lungusge Some of the negroes may be un- wise enough to oppose thls ordinance Just as they have opposed all such Togulations tending to recognize the dixtinetion which nuturo bas mado etwapn the two races that sre dom Iellod There ‘The saparato car daw, woteh has been an Infinite blessing, has been bitterly denounced by many of them, and thle, In spite of the ob- vious fact that it ts perhaps one of the most benofclent laws over on- acted in the South The policy of negregution will uecexsarily bo pur- mued and extended. It Is Idle for tho negroes to oppore It, and it woukl be Infinite folly for the whites to Fall to smalit upon tt ‘The above tn u mattor of opinton, and In our judgment , very poor opinion It In a different prosfition to regulate a corporation which gets its ftanchtse frou: the elty and from the State to regulating ait Individual whose private rights are protected by two constitutlots—that of the Con- stitution of the United States and that of Virginia. It Is a well known fet that even police powers do not extend without restriction to the con fines of a citizen's bome, and an of ficer must énter only by due process of law In order to serve oven a le- gal process of a court It seems tdle to argue with gentlemen. who seem to be elther Intentionally of untn- tentionally Ignorant of the fundamen tal principles of constitutional law, and whovin order to carry a polnt will not stop at depriving white men of vital rights in order to strike down a few inoffensive Negroes of this community. Stil! wo'know that there Is @ God that rites {n the affairs of men and {t in to Him that we should look in Ume of need. Slowly, but surely, thes Negrohaterr and persccutors of our race are stiffening out for the tomb, and the solemn tolling of the funeral airges and tramp of the pall-bearers tell us that the unseen vower {9 at work and that it yet holds the destiny of nations In ite hands. Colored people should not he dlscouragod. There are tberal- minded, kind-hearted white men left tn this South-land, who will find some way to help us and at some time when least expected the dari clouds of race prejudice will be Itt ei and the sorrows of this day and time wilt pags aay forover Why Did Cashier Hill Leave , - Richmond? { (ontinued From Pace Sumber) criminal prosocution had been made axainat him on secount of the money ‘of certain raligious aud charitable {n- Atitutions which be 1s alloged to havo had {a hand, and which amounted to over $11,000. He claimed to have deposited this money to bin personal Account in tho True Reformore’ Bank which Institution went into the hands of recalvers Mr HIM patd some of thead obligations i “SEEN IN PHILADRLPHIA, TOO. ‘The Warhington correspondent of that same paper atnten that ho was seon Saturday 26th ult. at Florida Avenue sind T atreet. and tho Phil- Adolphin corraspondeat at the samo fournal reported that. he was geen tn tho vicinity of the Christian Banner office on the following Tuorday morh: Ing. Still another roport located him in Now York. It was co doubt In varing those rumora that Mis son made the trip previously noted. ‘Thera 1s no criminal warrant out for Cashier Hill here, and thore fs no Ppaltivo evidonco at this time that he fn guilty of any eriminal act or that any wherant will be sworn out agninet hint FROM 108 ANORLES, OAL. A Texans Club wan organized on Wednesday, tho 29th Instant, and all persons halling from tho Lone Star State were invited to atlend the mect- ing. . ‘The maoting was called to order at 8 o'clock sharp, and Mr. J, Alexander wan olocted prosident by a unanimous vote, Mra, K. Stovall was made-nec- tetary. .The mesting was well at- “>i teen dl WEEK COM. APRIL 10th. Thurston!!! | THE GREAT MAGICIAN, f Se = ee pete AEN mex N.S 3 ' yo ee ee - Se ee Se Se Sah eS eat > . a fi BO ve}. o&€ Sona es .: Bie ae , : Rec: ae : Recents: YAR Cee basta tea | ae ee eae | cy Cece: ee 7 Peetu : BRS 2 abraetie a eee _ i AR re ieee reraaiina 252°" ‘ «| yO Re ti een icc a" \ pales es See am . ae ee Pe ees : is See entree lt! 2 S Pa eS RL Og i, : Br Ree tine Son ’ eet. ° beat em: eee nani ie : Panes eu oe cern pete, eee . a ee es Pee ES SAAC pn 5 tS Weneriee SAE ees ORME RC RMR ECM. Wearing OTR . tended, and great Interest was mant- feasted. ‘We have all reason to belleve thnt the organization will do an effective work in the cotnmunity at forge In a moral, intellectual.and soctal way JA large number of te colored por ‘ulation of our city hall from Texaw. jand {t 18 hoped that thls organization will bo fhe nieans of bringing about better rosuite Tho members wiketing wax held at the Y M CA on the evening of the 29th Instant. and o large num ber of mien were préstut to conslder ja campaign which will Inst ten days. Degtoning April 3d, nt Which tine bey hope to accure’ 250 men, bring: (ug thelr membershiy up to 600 making the largest enrollment of any colored Y MC A in Amoriea We are gind to note that there ts an Increase 1p the attendagge atthe Forum Sunday afternoon. We have not been able to comfortrbly accom: modate our visitors for the last few Sundays, but {t fy pleasing to cuow that we ‘are growing In interest und in pumber = Me JAW. Coleman, who haa been nerionsiy 11) for u few weeks, If ugaln able (6 be at bis post of duiy A.D, LACEY ANNUAL REUNION UNITED CON FEDERATE VETERANS, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., MAY 15-18, 1911 Very reduced fares from all pots on Southern ‘Rallway to Little Rock, Ark. on account of the above re- union. Tickets on sale May 13, 14 and 15, 1911, and limited to reach original starting point not tater than May 2%. 1911, unless extended. For complete Information, call on nenrent Southern Tallway Tteket Agent, or weito 8. E BURGESS. : District Passenger Agent 920 E Main Street, Riepmond, Va |} ‘Tho thoatro fa like a tonic: it has hoen rocémtonded by physicians, s- pecially for those whose nervos and Konoral aysten aro.run down. But as the doctor will toll you, taxon fonle, he will may be careéd of tho kind. After bolng surtelted with n long Mat of so-called comedy and the over lurid drama, Howard Thurston, .the world's greatest mugiclan, comes as ft tellof to renily help our jeded nelves f Different In overy way from the usual theatrical entortainmont, ‘Thuraton’s performance may be com- mred Uke-that of the Gonil in an Arablan Night's talo, really over- wholming In the majesty of its now creations, amasing Io its lavish “of splendor Much couhl be written of his wonderful tricks and [usions, SCTHES RICHMOND: PLANET: RICHMOND, “VIRGINIA; WOMAN'S DAY SERVICES AND GRAND CONCERT. On Sunday, April 9, the wonren af Third-Street AM. E Church wil have charge of the services The pax tor, Rev EM Hunter who wf woon leave for his conference — wil preach a special sermon to them at Teo'elotk The afternoon and even Ing services Will be wholly In charge of and qartletpated | in by women A wplendtd program ts announced for ench wervice Much enthusinsm iy ananttent among the ladles of the entire con munity and trieny rivalry exists ax to which circle will make the lar: kext finuncial returne ‘There ro 1 clreles, named nfter the Bishops of the church ‘On Monday evening the younger women and girhe of the church wit rive the Inst Iiterary musieal and so: cial event of the easton. A rich pro: gram has been arranged and a treat Ie in store for all who attend All these events have in view the clon Ing of the prenent conference Year i Rood whape BURGLAR THERE. | Last Sunduy night the wife of Dr JW Jackson heard a noise at their realdence, and finally suspected that aman vege fo per bathroom She telephonetP to the Police Stutlon. The man tscaped, however, and later the lofiicers arrived. He had stolen yome Jot the sliver and hud not the alarm been given he would have no doubt taken much more. Dr. Jackson was much wrought up when he wax no- tiled of the affair at hie pharmacy. Graham and Leigh streets Hix reuldence Ih 1012 West Leigh street Lawyer Jo Wenry Crutehfeld wit Joven the Greater Meeting Easter Sunday Subject “1 Maye. Thought More About It Lately " Wateh for the hour without doing justica, SumMclont to say, tn al] honesty, tho entortainment {s amuaing, surprising, startling, mystifying and really In- atructive, + In fact, overy man, woman and child can't afford to misa solng wonder after wondor performed, fol- lowed by mystony bordering on which might be aid to bo the supernatural. _ This season, not boing satiefed with hin own remarkablo entortaln- ment, Mr. Thurston has specialty en- gaged Theo, Bamborg, recognired as Europo's gremtont Shatowlet, coming to this country for the firat'time dl- tort from.Parls. : ‘The audtences -aro auro to he amazed at thé Groat Abbott-Detroit 30 Automobite Mystery, and ‘The Lady and the-Lion, besides forty new Speen ee ape te perry ; ¢ The<merican Hat Co. | : Wishai'to aie yTuelr Memoval from 404 to thelr Now Quarters | 4 castoneet a ROEAL, SLHES. CoRR FIFTH. pone, | tomrmade Has, Stetson a lat ring Neatl; Cleaned, Blocked, Best Full Lins of Hats end. Cane Constantly." } Gg Kept on Hand at Rock Bottom Prices. Get Under a $ € (MARSHALL WAT and (Smite, 5 Cee area ar wee arate ergeea wi Wren ure Weer eeNeRe p25 2 S288 ae aN a8 288 PO BP NARS Za GO ZA ANIA a aS PR a i ALUMINUM COMB. : e Z THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, f Mailed Anywhere in United States for $1.00. Bend Money ey Post § Onice’ Money, Order, It will Bteaighten Curly Hair withont Injury 5 § to tho Halr or Bcalp, Ite nse increases the Growth of the Hatr by 3 Z Keeping the Scalp Free grom Dust, Dandroff and Qroase. When & the Hal ts Sham ill Dry in 80 Minutes, Agents Wanted. 4 MUS. LOTMA JAMES HOLLOWAY, Agent, & : 1020 St. Sdn Btreet, Richmond, Virginia. % By aye ye wae aye age ake gee Age er ye Sue ae eee ee oc. Se UN PS Tae W.; I. JOHNSON, | Funeral Director and. Embalmer, Office & Warerooms, 207 N. Foushee St. Cor. Broad. | HACKS FOR HIRE. Orders by Telephone or Telegraph “filed. Weddings, Suppers and Entertainments promptly attended. Telephone, 686. 7 Restdence mm Building. ha tes apr TRA URNS GEE TT: er ee a ee a Stunaton Va, March Ju 1st Sunday, though it was a d6wnpour of rain was a busy day with the Knights and Ladios of Cylunthe the oceuston boing the annivereary Ker mon ~ Promptly at 2 30 o'clock Dix- trict Deputy JH. Allen called the, meeting to order, and after a few chosen remarks the marshall Sir R H Southall, was ordered to form the pravession "The Untform= Ranke, 1m der Captain Cartor, took the jead, and proceeded tothe A. ME Church, the place appointed for the nervices A.large crowd’ was present awalting the arrival of the lodge Af ter the usual ceromontes a fervent Prayer wan offered by Rev RC Wood, pastor of Mt. Zion Church Sir Knight J Mi Morris. was intro. duced ond made a splendid uddteas on Pythiantem, The master of cere- monies then introduced Rev BJ Hargraves, pastor of the church to preach se sermon His text wax ta- ken 9th tha,Book of Proverbs and he preaced a‘noble xermon The as- sembly felt benefited. Rev Dr Pan nell then Invoxed the divine blessing and the cholr sang. Shite Sir John Parks Barts. J F Hackney and Wm Bille ifted the collection of $18 00 Closed by aloging “God Be With Us “THT Wo Moet Again," amd the pro- cesuton returnod to the Castle Halt tn the same form. 3-H Alfen, © C,and ML Brown Master of Ceremonics : IMA MONROE, SCHOOL, The prinetpal of Monroe School. Prof HG Carlton has reported to Dr J A C Chandler superintend ent “the following Mat of puplis on the roll of honor for the month end ing March 31, 1911" Honor pipils are.those who have obtained the rating A on scholarship vased upon the work of the entire month who hre perfect in deport- ment and.who. have no Unoxeured jeanes of absence ar tardiness against them Fourth A Grade William Willis Snngue Knight. Emma Garnett Tte- neta Jaekwon and Ida Beverly Third W Grade -Irma Matthews Thint W421 Grade George Mitchell ‘Third A Grade Albert Ford and Vincent Townes, Cornolia Meade Second B Grate -- Manel Hanks Gertrude Daniels Eva Di kerson, Ea- ther V Taylor, Charlotte Frazier, Mertrude Tagan and Violn Logan Firat Bo Grade-—James Mealy. Mover White, Ellza Collins, Maric Harrix and Cora Wootfoll. $3.50 Recipe Free, - For Weak Men: Bend Namo and Address Tovay— You Can Have It Froo and Be Strong and Vigorous. ee eee I have in my possession fs preverip tlon for dervous dobility, lack of vig- or, weakenod manboo-, falling mem: ory ang, lamo back, brought on by oxceasét, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured 60 many worn and norvous mon right to tholr own homes—mtthout any addi- tonal belp or medicine—tbat I think ‘ovary man who wishos to regain his manly power and #irlilty, quiekly and quietly, should have a copy. So T havo \Wetormined to sond a copy of the prescription treo oY chargo, in platn ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. ‘This prescription comes from a physician who bas mado a special study of mon and I am convinced {t {a the sureatadting combination for the cnre of désclont manhood “and vigor fallure ever put toxether. T think I owe it to my fellow man to sond them a copy In confidence sa that auy man anywhere who Ls weak and Wlecouraged with répoatod fall. uros may stop dragging himself with barmfu) patent modidines, secure what I belleve fs the quickest-acting restorative, tpbullding, SPOT-TOUCH ING Remedy, ever devised, and’ 20 cure himself’ at home qufetly and Jautckly. Just drop mo a line Uke thia: DR. A. H. ROBINSON, 3896 Lnck Bulfaing, Detrott Mich. and 1 Will «oad you A copy of thie'splendid réotpe tn a plaja ordinary: eavalone, free of Share, :A great, many Aoo- tote woubt charge $3,00 to $8.00, for ferely writing out « prescription tike ‘this—but F send jt entirely free. PIVES @ream of Grand Rapids. 18 KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND IN COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS HERB - YOU CAN SELECT IT JN PERSON OR ORDER BY MAIL AS YOU MAY DESIRE, WITH PERFECT RESULTS % WRITE US FOR PRICES AND PICTURES. } a Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E.-Broad St, RICHMOND, VA, ' Furniture For The Home Beautiful. © Ce ; ; | OFFICES FOR RENT. — : WELL LIGHTED, WELL VENTILATED OFFICES . FOR RENT IN THE NEW MECHANICS’ : SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. LIGHT, HEAT AND JANITOR SERVICE INCLUDED AT A } RENTAL OF FROM $6.00 PER MONTH UPWARDS. ,THIS IS OND » OF THE MOST PALATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN THE CITY AND THE SERVICE RENDERED IS FIRST-CLASS. ; Apply to the AGENTS, or to 3 ; MECHANICS’ SAVINGS BANK, 3 , 214 East Clay Street, . Richmond, Virginia. : ta a a a : READ What The PhANET’s Ad 4) vertisers guy" and promt theroby “Pleaxe mention us waeu Suswering them “Phone, BICETES S100; RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Isham [lann Co. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. Fino uneral Supplies, Fine Hacks and Hearses, First Claas Service, HIGH GRADE CASKETS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. All Orders Promptly Attended—Elther Day or Night. Wall for Meetings and Entertainments, | NO. 2. EAST DUVAL STREET. RESIDENCE—118 East Loigh Street. . FOR SALE. FOR SALE. tt Drug Store For particulars write Punvell Brothers, Stauaton, Va We can prove Egyptina Pomade Cream straightens Bair Sent post- paid. 30 cents Address Peterson Bros, 674 Third Avenue, New York City MAKE YOUR OWN ¢ AT HOME. Complete instruction for $1 00. Makes better product than the kind you buy, costs only a few pennies: | Fequires no special apparatus. Abso- lutely lawful and delicous. Sond one dollar right now. Money back If not delighted. Address J. F CLATUK, "Conway, Ark. ere <a me tee ee: NG) Zee SA Ca ROL Ces ae ie eee ee - HAIR-VIM CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. {Succossor to Columbla Chemical Company, of Newport News, Va.) -Manofacturers of HAIR-VIM, HAIR-VIM SOAP, LIQUID HAIR- VIM, BRAU-TE-VIM OREAM AND OWL CORN SALVE. ARE EA AD ONL cone en Beware of Imitations and Imposters Advertising the Goods from Nowport News, Va., the Old Homo Office. Good Agonts Wanted, Liberal Cummssions Paid. Write today, ae ee | MRS. J. P. H. COLEMAN, Phar, D., President-Manager. 643 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Long Distance Phone, North 8259-m. ‘Summer School and Chautaaqua of the Natlonal Religious Tratning School, Durham, N.C. The National Relletous Tratning School opens the Summer School aad Chautauqua July 6th and closes August 13th Teachers and lectur- ers who are epocialiste in thoir particular Hines will be In chargo of the Inetruction and lectures, Rare advantages offered tn theology. tonch- ers’ courses. 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Thin broad domain possosses suctt prolini- jnory jmprovomonts as lawns and groves and rondways, and ts now ready for Afro-Americans who de- sro to bulld thelr homes In a lovely spot which unites city nd- vantages with the charm and wholo- somehoss of country life. For a do- acription of this onterpriso, write to CAPTAIN CUSSONS, Tho Founder of Glon Allen, Va. 2 DENSIONS! DENSIONG f PENSIONS! PENSIONS!! If you over served in any of the Warn of thé U. 8, You are Bnuued fe Pension. If You are now Drawing # Vension of loss than ‘s $12.00 per month, if You aro over GS yoars of age, You are Ratitled to an Incteaso. If you ate the Widow or Dependent Sister of » Deconsed Soldier, Sailur, or Marine You are Entitled to @ Pension of $12.00 per ménth. If You Want » Pension, or an Increnae, Write mo tho Facts, and I Will File Your Claim and Secure Kour Pension or Incretan, HERMAN W. GRANT, Att'y., Room 609, F 8+, Nv W., Wash., D. 0. Oe aa WANTS: TO LOOATE RELATIVES, ‘Mrs. Minty Bell (formeriy Mics Allon), of Kenner, La., would Iiko to locate ber relatives, whom abe loft somo thirty-Yo or forty years ago in Warrenton and Front Royal, Va. “Tho pames of her relatives are Harry Allen, her father: Ann Allen, mother; Henry and Thoitas Allon, Charlotte, Eilex and Gracy Allen, brothers and sisters. If any of these are located, please notify J MRE, MINTY BELL, Kenner, La, P. 0, Box’ 187, . ; . a CPOLOCODEPPOSIDEOSOEPOOEISOSODOSEVEESOTEOTOSEOEECOOES D. J. PARRAR, Contractor ano Buiter. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. : OFFICE ROOM, NO, 405, MECHANIOS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING . ‘Phone Monroe- 2637.- a RESIDENCE, 610 N, FIRST STREET—BHOP IN RBAR. Bpecial Attenttor ald bo tho Sat f Contracts i Ballding of lon 4 ing of a for of + Aky Btyle of Architectare. Job Werk a Specialty, pri, siren ap enn ee OLD-PAPERS tefsi'a BX ee eespesp oa Ee ae RES ee eres sy atin ae te LA SE SOR See Re ee) SATURDAY, .. .. APRIL 8, 101t BURGLARY CHARGE See nun Wits (Uetmond Vu, Times Dispateh, April 1 1910) Ry a peculiar and fateful ae rangement of elrvumstances and by xood pole Work James Higgins,.an cinploye Cf the Street Cleaning De- Vartment vho sought the help of Meyele Oteers TMer wud etd on account of a bullet wound through Min tog wae dater arrested Yast night on a Charge of having broken into amd attempting to rob the store of Mrs. Annie Dollard, on the Hermi taze road_ Suct atross the elty limits Jeene Graves, colored, who was keat to Mrs Dollard’s store on a telephone wlarn and who djl the shooting, tWentifed “Higgins ax the man he wounded when the Intter Is alleged to have sprung through a whidow when surprised behind’ the counter In the store Higgins war seated In the Second Station at the time, and Graves was ordered by the two officers to mane a clore serutiny of the man under euspicion —< CERTAIN IT WAS HIGGINS ‘That's the man” he eald 11 Mtew ono at him ashe Sainped through the window, and 1 backed Away behind the store In case he threw ono back at me” Higgins who {6 a man of family, Hives at 1611 Beverly street The accosted Officers Tiller and Itesd on Jambardy street, between Grace street and Allen avénue saying that he had been shot Te first jmssed them a few feet and then returned, and as the words fell from his Ips tre clutched at Reld's shoulder for support Blood was spurting from the wound : “Eve been shot. boya! he said Take me to Dr lillsman ” He was taken to the oificcs of Dr, Millsman, Park avenue and Lombardy street. and there the wound was examined and dreased “Whoever shot you” kald De Hilisman, “fred at close range” The bullet had passed Urrongh the left leg Just above the knee. gy GOT NEWS OVER TELEPHONE AML that Higgion would tell the omicers at frat wan that he had been shot whfle walking along the street. They sought further Informatton, fearing somo crime had been at: tempted —Higgina Insfated that he didn't kHow who shot Mu, and that he didn't remember where It hap: pened Hee eald that hin didn't rea- Uze thatyhe had been wounded unttt he felt blood trickling down hia lex anil became weak from the pata Fin. ally they got from hin that he had ion lo the store of JM Plagemnan on West Loigh street and got halt a pint of whisker, and also that he Uad been Into Roseneek's brewery | They telephoned to Plageman’s atore aking {f any one there had heard of a tnan being shot Mr Pingeman anawered that he thought a burglar had been shot as he escaped from. Mrs, Dollard’s store “Dr, Allisman finished dressing the wountl, and Higsins was taken to tho Second Station. to be held, in- U1 the officers could procure fyfther evidenco which tight Justify an ar reat ‘They lentned that Tgatns had kone Into tie Shenandoah Flats and asked for a match, roniarking to a clerk that he had been shot, and ask ing the way to the offlco of Dr Hills: man The clerk pald Uttle attentton to tho man aa he appeared to have been dMinking ‘Then {t was tearnes that Mri Doliard's store had been Yroken into and that the escapttr burglar had been fred upon and was Twhably shot. GRAVES SENT BY PIAGESIAY Jesse Graves. of S18 Moot street, wax atimmoned to the station, and he told his story. A, man passing by Men, Dollard’s store noticed that A wide window was smanhed, and that 3 man was Inside. Ie telephonod to Mr. Plageman’s and the latter sent the nogro Graves. “Herd, Torso," ho raid to the ne- kro, “take this plstal and go out and sce what tho trouble Jn" Graves went to the atore nnd called to two white men In Rorcnogk's brewery. to accompany him As they reached the aldo of the store all threo mon no- tired that to window was. broken, and saw a man crouched down bo- hind tho counter with a heavily toad: pd bag on his shoulders Creeping clone to the window. Graves drew fils revolver and yelled at the bure- lar. The latter matic a dive for tho window and wont through, carrylog the cash with him, Graves fired as tho burglar rtruck tho ground, and the lator foll to his knees, Tlo.stag within fivo fect of the man whon he shot, and belloving that ha had bit his mark and that the bure- lar might return tho fire, Gravos Sgmpoed bobind tho store. and tho intruder, crawilog on his hands and noes for B short distance escaped. Hi8 WIFE NOTIFIED. Higgins, who was tdontified by Graves os tho man ho had shot, must have walked’ the whole dis- tance from the store ta the point on Lombardy — atrost, where: he Ap proached the two officors. But he pever made ay admissions, nnd al- aye tneiated. that ho did-not know where he was abot or who shot him, Dotective Sorgeant Wiley. who was, ipformed of the shooting, went te ftgetos's Bome and asked Mrs ikgine what she ‘new of the cave, Bhe had not been informed of tho occurrence, and did not kaow whore her husband was, Sho was greatly distressed. Bho was -(aformed later that her hudband had een arreated It was in frontof Mrs. Doltard’s store that Pollceman’Krouse was shot by an unkhown negro two years ag0. Tho store had been robbed and then fired. when Krouse went to make an investigation. Ho was shot trom hls horse and the negro et caped Ite hos never been gaught. JONNSON KICK OF JAIL. oe Spore eenes San Francisco. April 2 —Jacl Jonson can’t get out of Jail to ge out of the Stute of Cailfornia, Ho" Wke to, but both tho State suprem: court and Districe Attorney Flicker! ure obdurate. ‘An soon as the black prize Aghtet learned thut the supreme court bad ruled that be must nerve bis 25 days’ sentence for antomobllo speed ing he obtained a short respite from cleaning stabler nt the county Jail. Ho willized his "time oft” tn bur- rying with a doputy sheriff tn die cir to the district attorney's oftice, where he informed Fiekert he would leave California If liberated, The dis- trlet sttorroy turned a deat ear to the pugilist’s appeal. KICKS ON BILL OF FARE Se | tT dan‘t ike the cotfes und beans they give me out thgre," Jobnsor sald to Fickert, “That will do you a world of good You nevd to reduco your wolght.’ the districe attorney answered | + Hut if f could only have a Mttle chicken Justa leg” Jobnson ap pealed "-Fickert told Johnson that the tnx: payers Would pay only for coffee und beans with corned beef on Sundays “EM get ont of the State, If they MHL Jet wie RO" the Mghter pleaded Fichert proved obdurate and would hot listen to Johnson # pleadings, 89 the puxiiiat finally gained permis alon to visit his sick brothor aud sore friénds — Johnson however, thinks the menu at the Jall {a mo- notanas and he wishes an electric fan tn lus coll to Improve the att FIGHT PUZZLES FANS Can't See Why MeVey Ix Given Draw With Langford. | New York April 2 Was the Langford Me¥es fight in Parks Sat jurday night a frame up? Sportiog men whe Were surprised tolay to Hearn that the much talked-of twen- tyeround bout had been called a ira. Iu spite of the fact that Lang- Tord appeared to have much the bet ter of the milling, were Inclined to Helleve that something had been at- ranged beforehand. Several of ,thom recelved lottors trom London’ Inst week warning ‘them to make no bets on the ght, and intimating that there was a frameup made necessary by Me- Vey'e sudden attack of cold — feet ‘when he sax Langford hammer Bi Lang Juto obscurity _ In these letters 1c was stated that McVey positively refused to meet Langford, when Promoter MeJntosh first auxiested a match that after much bucking and Miling together with some delay Me- Vey fnatly agreed to go on for the twenty rounds but drat nobody could aay Just what perauagive methads Me: Antonh had employed Meanwhile Langford's manager, Joo Woodinan, seat word to friends in tis efty that Sam Langtord woutd do big beat to Mt MeVey te alec Jand that the Jatter could not win, ‘The detaits of the fxht show thn’ Langford handed out a torrific bent Hing far nine rounds but that he let up then, ax he dincovered that Me [Wey was bent upon saving himsen ‘hy clinching and running It would Vulva appear that Langford evidently Uoilered that he had the victory safe Ixhen he hegan to ease np and that hoe was viable shocked when * tne referee «ilted the fight w draw K OF PIN HANOVER Fine Time There—Deputy John @. Sintth In Charge. aaa Veaks Tarnont Postomer. Hanover County Va. March 27: 911,—The anniversary of tho Knights of Py: (hla Lodge of Georgetown, and th Caiirte of Calanthe of the mime place wax observed hore March 26, 1931 at the Chestuut Ogave Baptist Churet inf which Rev J 1, Brown'tk'paatol and RoW Tinsley clerk yf-~ Hey J 1 Nrown preached a fo ermon A large number of mom hers partieipated District Deputy Major John G Smith, of Richmond. wap with un, He necompanicd tho Knights to th church. Deputy Smith waa accom ranted to Sir RH. Tinsley's test dence, where a ‘renat was pread after which he toox the 6 45 tratr for Richmond. Rev. Sir Jf. Brown pald a high Urtbute to the lodgen and ther graay oMicern, and also tendered a ringing tribute to Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. tha Grarid Chancellor «ft Virginia, sit WM. H. MARTIN, C. C. SIR R. 1 TINSLEY, K of ana 8 ELIZA ALLEN, W. C. B. F. BROOK, R. of D. 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OJL-CLOTHS . And in fact everything thet a needed in house fumbhingss -” RUGS AND . | CARPETS sf 8 Of description; alsg tha ink ni ROCKERS and-special CHAIRS «| Ee Biolerey bee conte C, G, JURGEN'S SON; |Avaxés Aims Broa Sanaa! Second Assassination Within Three Days Somerset, Ky., March 23. The second assassination within three days in connection with the strike of white firemen on the Clancinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad, occurred this afternoon at Helenwood, Tean., G. B. Street, of New York, a fireman working as a strike-breaker, being shot from ambush. The injured man was hurried to Somerset, where he died. Chattanooga, Tenn.. March 23. 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. Scott, 2218 Miss Ruth Cary, 100 N. Winston, 537 B. J. B. M. Singleton, Road. James Faulkner, 300 J. T. Thompson, 148 Washington Ward. C. D. Griffin, 224 S. 2 Mrs. Edley Green, 3 Washington Ward. William B. Smith, 31 Tom Bird. Thomas Page. R. G. Booker, 619 N. A. Ferguson, 1500 N. Virgil Minnis, 532 N. LONG BRAND Jesse W. Sbroaves, 8 HACKENSAC D. H. Hassell, R. R. A. SALT LAKE CITY Charles Ludwig, P. C. PITTSBURG Jos. Evans, 2602 Wet T H. Harrison, 1310 PHILADELPHIA W. Schure, 1218 Pine. E P. Mackens, 1116 James E. Warwick, 2 Mrs. Lavinia Aldridge Street. Young & Olds, 1606 Rev. W. Honrj Robins Street. NEWPORT NEWS Freddie Smith, 1358 O J. Harris, 1128 300 DANVILLE, Harry A Clark, 117 C. PROVIDENCE Douglass A A., P. A., ter Street. NEW YORK, E A. Williams, 200 W. J E. Schmidt, 263 W. Anthony Burrell, 131 LOUISVILLE, Jesse E. Brown, 1216 BALTIMORE. Mrs G H Carter, 502 BUFFALO, N. A. Conley, 7 Potter St. ST LOUIS, B. W A. Price, 5 N. 14th HUNTINGTON, W. Wm. C Claybrook, 822 DRAKES BRAND Clem Green. WASHINGTON, Charles L. Barnes, 10 N. W. LOS ANGELES, A. D. Lacey, 790 San B. L. G. Eggleston, 812 M. FREEMAN, W. RICHMOND, VA. W. H. White, 501 W. Leigh Street. Peter Thompson, 423 E. Marshall Street. H. B. Sampson, 523 N. 2d St. E. D. Thomas, 304 St. James St. J. J. Nixon, 406 W. Leigh St. Wm. H. Scott, 2218 E. Main St. Miss Ruth Cary, 1018 N. 2d St. N. Winston, 537 Brook Ave. W. M. Singleton, 28th and 9-Mile Road. James Faulkner, 309 N. 1st St. J. T. Thompson, 1409 Hull Street, Washington Ward. C. D. Griffin, 224 S. 2d St. Mrs. Edley Green, 303 Hull Street, Washington Ward. William B. Smith, 3 W. Leigh St. Tom Bird. Thomas Page. R. G. Booker, 619 N. 2nd Street. A. Ferguson, 1500 N. 28th St. Virgil Minnis, 532 N. 2d Street. LONG BRANCH, N. J. Steve W. Broaves, 88 Liberty St. MACKENSACK, N. J. D. H. Hassell, R. R. Ave. Nr Clay St. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Charles Ludwig, P. O. Box 1776. PITTSBURG, PA. Os. Evans, 2602 Webster Ave. H. Harrison, 1310 Wylie Ave. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. Schure, 1218 Pine Street. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine Street. James E. Warwick, 254 S. 11th St. Mrs. Lavinia Aldridge, 621 S. 12th Street. Bung & Olds, 1606 South St. Rev. W. Henry Robinson, 420 S 11th Street. NEWPORT NEWS, VA. Freddie Smith, 1358 29th St. J. Harris, 1128 30th St. DANVILLE, VA. Barry A Clark, 117 Craghead St. PROVIDENCE, R I. Douglass A A, P. A., 910 Westminster Street. NEW YORK, N. Y. A. Williams, 200 W. 63d St. E. Schmidt, 263 W. 35th St. Thony Burrell, 131 W. 63d St. LOUISVILLE, KY. Jesse E. Brown, 1216 W Green St. BALTIMORE, MD. S. G. M. Carter, 502 W Biddle St. BUFFALO, N. Y. Conley, 7 Potter Street. ST LOUIS, MO. A. Price, 5 N. 14th St. HUNTINGTON, W. VA. N. C. Claybrook, 821 18th St. DRAKES BRANCH, VA. Am Green. WASHINGTON, D. C. Charles L. Barnes, 1020 U. Street, W. W. LOS ANGELES, CAL. D. Lacey, 790 San Pedro St. G. Eggleston, 812 Maple Ave. FREEMAN, W. VA. Lungston H. Thompson. ATLANTIC CITY, A. E. 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.