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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 28. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1911. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. CASHIER R. T. HILL'S SHORTAGE INCREASES==WILL EXCEED $50,000. Many Missing Notes.===The List as Filed by the Receivers. Dramatic Scenes in First Baptist Church—The Missing Deacon Removed from Office—Mrs. Reese's Case Postponed—General Counsel Newsome Issues Statement—Consults with Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes—Will Press Prosecution of Guilty Parties. It is now generally admitted that the report of the receivers of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers was equivalent to declaring the Order of True Reformers insolvent; and if confirmed would make it absolutely necessary for the appointment of a receiver, either by a State or a United States Court to wind up the affairs of this great organization. Treasurer R. T. Hill came in for a regular "ox-roan." The recollection of the $2,557.09, which he left on the books of the True Reformers' Bank as being due the bank by the church, when the church did not owe the money, and the predicament in which he left the First Baptist Church Sunday-School, when it was charged with owing to the books $219.80 when it did not owe the books of our Patriarch by his time mony and labor and Wheels. In our plans we based so much hope for future success on his (Major Thomas F Williams) advice and counsel together with his presence with us, as usual, there fore he it. Resolved First That Company A First Regiment Patriarch Militant has lost in the death of Major Thomas F Williams, extends her sincere thanks and unbounded interest. He will paint a large size series of paintings on the crucifixen and Will Paint Great Picture Here. In Memory of Maj. Williams. THE MISSING NOTES DRAWER. DATE. TIME WHEN DUE. AMOUNT. ENDERSFER. Mrs. Major Thomas F Williams widow of the late Major Thomas F Williams, extends her sincere thanks and unbounded interest. He will paint a large size series of paintings on the crucifixen and Will Paint Great Picture Here. COMPROMISING ACTIONS The action of Mr. A. W. Holmes, Grand Worthy Master, and his associates in declaring under oath that the Savings Bank was indicted to the Order of True Reformers, known as the Grand Fountain to the amount of about $150,000 and then subsequently acknowledging that this statement was not correct by deeding to the True Reformers' Bank many pieces of real estate to wipe out, or at least, reduce the indebtedness of the Grand Fountain to the True Reformers' Bank, coupled with the announcement that the Grand Fountain is in debt to the bank to the amount of over $200,000 00, is one of the most remarkable features of what now seems to be "a comedy of errors." CAUSED MUCH TROUBLE This action on the part of these officials has given General Counsel J Thomas Newsome and the able array of white lawyers no end of trouble, and it seems to give the receivers a clear path to the success of their recommendations. The Bureau of Insurance, which has done so much to help the Order, is also embarrassed and handicapped, and the indications are that it will be but a short time unless conditions change, that it will be compelled to remove the weight of its influence and step aside North Carolina and New York have already set up Grand Fountains for themselves and are proceeding to do business under the authority of the Bureau of Insurance in their respective commonwealths. WILL CHECK THE FLOW This will stop the flow of money so vitally necessary at this critical stage of the Order's existence. Should other States follow suit, the entire weight of the Order would rest upon Virginia and the collage would follow at once. Attorney Newsome does not accept the receiver's findings, however, and he insists that the bank owes the Order and that the Order does not owe the bank. He also insists that it will be shown that the Order is solvent. The trouble of it all is that the officials of the Order have made damaging admissions, which leaves the general counsel in the position of going one way and his clients the other. A PECULIAR SITUATION The action, too, of the bank's receivers in holding the officials of the Order responsible for the loss of the money and for the demoralizing conditions existing tends too to complicate matters, for these men are now in charge of the Order, which they are practically charged by the receivers with wrecking. As it is only about twelve weeks from this time to the meeting of the Grand Fountain, it may be that matters can be bled over until that time. Grand Worthy Secretary W P. Burroll has at last decided to talk, as a long communication in a recent issue of the Reformer shows. He defends his attitude and explains why he has been so secretive. THAT INTERESTING CHURCH MEETING. The regular meeting of the members of the First Baptist Church was one that was as interesting as it was practical. Treasurer R. T. Hill came in for a regular "ox-roast." The recollection of the $2,557 09, which he left on the books of the True Reformer's Bank as being due the bank by the church, when the church did not owe the money, and the predicament in which he left the First Baptist Church Sunday-School, when it was charged with owing to the books $219 80, when it did not owe the amount caused no end of bad feeling. BROTHER SMITH EMPHATIC. Ex-Deacon Harrison Smith was easily the leading speaker, and his vitiperativo language could be heard in all parts of the sacred vowel as he reminded all present that it was R. T. Hill who had secured his removal from the deacon board of the church when he had done nothing to justify such action. No one com­mitted his assertions, but several others spoke in a similar strain. Finally on motion Mr R T Hill was removed from the deacon board of the First Baptist Church. This step is said to be preliminary to his suspension from the membership of the church IN GOOD CONDITION It may be well to state that the First Baptist Church is in a good financial condition, and that while the reports and embarrassment have annoyed the officials and members, they are prepared to prove that the First Baptist Church is not in debt to the True Reformers Bank. An amusing phase of the meeting is the report that Harrison Smith smoke five times. It is most surprising that Cashier Hill should have left the church which has so legally supported him during all these years in such a condition. It is natural to suppose that he would have protected it. Instead of leaving it an apparent debtor in the parent body and its branches of nearly two thousand, eight hundred dollars MRS REESE'S CASE POSTPONED The case of Mrs. Agpea Reese was called last Tuesday and it was continued until the July term of the court. It is probable that the case will continue to be carried over until it is definitely ascertained that Candler R. T. Hill cannot be apprehended. One peculiar feature of this failure is the report of missing notes, a list of which is being published in this issue. It seems that these notes cannot be found in the bank, and no record is shown where the money due on them has ever been paid to the bank or has been deposited in the vault of the corporation. THE MISSING NOTES It may be well to state that when a note is not forthcoming the person is released from paying the same as payment can only be demanded upon the production of the note. This means that if a person has a note in bank and he can get an employee of the bank to steal the note or to destroy it, he saves just that amount for he will not have the amount to pay. On the other hand, a person may pay a note and the note turned over to the person who pays the note. If the cashier fails to credit the amount upon the cash hook of the bank, then the cashier or teller can put the amount of the note in his own pocket, and it's just the same as though he stole that amount from the cash drawer. WHO GOT THE MONEY? In the list of missing notes, the presumption is that these persons who made these notes paid them and that Cashier Hill took the money and appropriated it to his own use. Still, there are evidences that notes have been stolen from the True Re- (Continued on Page Number) THE MISSING NOTES In Memory of Maj. Williams. Mrs Major Thomas F Williams widow of the late Major Thomas F Williams, extends her sincere thanks and appreciation to the First Patr archae Regiment G U' O of O F. headquarters Washington, D C W. C Gray, colonel commanding, Ham ilton N Hayes, regimental adjutant and also to Patrarchie, No 3, head quarters at Petersburg, Va for their resolutions of condolence, words of praise and fond numbers of the asst concerning the deceased They also furnished consolation in their words of comfort, making provision for the living as well as the dead, brought with it oil the balm of Glideau, calculated to heal and soothe the broken heart. But I must stop here. Yours in K. L. and T. Yours in F. L. and T. (Mrs.) MAJ THOS WILLIAMS Headquarters First Patriarchie Reg iment G U O of O F, Baltimore Md March 24 1911 To Patriarchie No 6 C Co B, G U O F In Memory of Major Thomas F Wil liams, First Regiment. G U O F To the Various Officers and Members of the Various Patriarchies Com- prizing the First Regiment Whereas, It is the melancholy duty to announce to you, Patriarchie the deaths of our late distinguished officers of the First Regiment Brevet Major Thomas F. Williams, of Richmond Patriarchie No 6, who departed this life Tuesday March 21 1911, and Regimental Hospital Steward and Lieut Simon A Chase, of Williamton Patriarchie No 20 who departed this life Sunday March 19 1911. Whereas, In the deaths of the two distinguished officers of the regiment the regiment has lost two true and loyal Old Fellows, nothing that the regiment can say that would add to the characters of the two distinguished soldiers, their labors in the regiment for its advancement are known to all who had the honor of their acquaintance in life Brevet Major Thomas F Williams and Regimental Hospital Steward Lieutenant Simon A Chase were earnest soldiers to the military department, honest and faithful, no one ever believed them unfaithful either to their family or lodge or the regiment—and, above all, their Creator These characters prepared the two comrades, and the Providence of God developed the hour that they were called from labor to reward, be it further Resolved. That we, the officers and members of the various patrician chiefs and of regimental department of the First Regiment, G I C O F extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family of the deceased. In the great loss that they have sustained, in the and hour of their afflictions. Resolved, further. That the usual badge of mourning will be worn upon the sword' hilt for the period of 30 days. Done by the order of W C GRAY. Colonel Commanding. Hamilton N. Hayes. Regimental Adjutant Whereas, In His Allie Providence it has pleased Almighty God, the Ruler of the Universe, the giver and preserver of life, to call to the Grand Patriarchal Assembly our beloved and esteemed friend and brother Thomas F. Williams; and Whereas, Major Thomas F. Williams devoted his unselfish and indefatigable efforts to, and in behalf of our Patrisharle by his time mon- ey and labor and Who can, in our plans we based so much hope for future success on his (Major Thomas F Williams) advice and counsel together with his presence with us, as usual, therefore he it Resolved first That Company A First Regiment Patrisharle Militant has lost in the death of Major Tho- F Williams a most valued asset and a worthy and esteemed commander. Resolved, second. In token of our respect for Major T F Williams our churche be cryed for the space of six months, ending September 19 1911. Resolved, third, That a copy of his likeness he procured and caused to be placed on the wall of our Castle Hall. Resolved, fourth, That a copy of these resolutions he sent to the widow of Major Thomas F Williams a copy he sent to his Richard Patrisharle No 6 and a copy he spread upon the minutes of our Petersburg Patrisharle No 3 Adopted at a special convocation of Patrisharle No 1: the first Wet- nesday in May A D 1911 JOS E RUTCHER Capt Commanding Co A First Regiment Pat Militant 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. The Grand Lodge of New York Wins It seems that Supreme Chancellor S W Green proceeded to set up another Grand Lodge in the State of New York after the Grand Lodge had suspended Grand Chancellor R C Simmons, and as a result much ill-feeling exists. The case was carried to the Supreme Court in that State and as a result a decision has been handed down ruling against the Supreme Chancellor, S W Green and decreeing that the regularly incorporated Grand Lodge which acted is the only one which has a lawful existence. As a result, the original Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias N A, S A E A and A and the members thereof are jubilant. The matter will now be transformed to the floor of the Supreme Lodge at Indianapolis in August. New York True Reformer Hold Big Meeting --- (New York Baptist Herald) The Afro American True Reformers of the State of New York held a mass-meeting last Wednesday night in the Mercy Seat Baptist Church. The meeting was well attended. Dr S W Timms, the president, called the meeting to order, and after some brief remarks, introduced Counselor W Delarte, who presented the certificate of incorporation, authorizing them to do business in New York and other States. It was an enthusiastic meeting. A membership meeting will be held Thursday evening. June 8th, at 5:59 Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y, at which time all old True Reformers may join by the payment of $1 50. Children's Day at the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School. All are cordially invited to be present next Sunday, June 11, 1911, at 9:30 o'clock. Children's easy exercises will take place at the Fifth Street Baptist Church from 9:30 to 11:15 A. M. An excellent program will be rendered. You are asked to bring a friend. Will Paint Great Picture Here. Prof Amohamed Mihan is in the city, having just returned from West Virginia, where he completed a painting which created a profound sensation and unbounded interest. He will paint a large size series of paintings on the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This magnificent oil painting will be on canvas. He will begin work about June 15, 1911 and the process from the exhibition of the painting will be for the benefit of the Negro Baptist Old Polks' Home. It will be completed about the latter part of July. This celebrated painter comes recommended highly and the people here will be in an expectant mood until they see the result of his effort. New Pastor For Third Street Baptist Church. Rev George W Carter, of Richmond Va has been called to the pastorate of the Third Street Baptist Church. His installation will be announced later WINES—HAYNIE Mrs Emily Hayne announces the marriage of her daughter, C Brancho to Mr James A Wines Wednesday evening June 14, 1911, at 8 P M. at 20 West Leigh street Reception From 8 to 11 P M Friends are invited. No cards Wanted—A position as Matron in a School or Asylum. Address "II" care Planet Office, Richmond, Va. --- 5 or 4 doses "066" will care any case of Cifers and Fever. Price 25. Lawyer D Robert Tomlinson of Washington D C and Mr W F Denny, called on us Mr W E L Smith of 109 E 7th St South Richmond Va has been elected Captain of Richmond Patriarchale, No 6 All persons owing our agent Mr. Jos Evans, 2815 Webster Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa will please settle with him at once Lawyer Jas Alexander Chiles of Lexington, Ky, was in the city a few weeks ago to see his daughter. Miss Lilliam M Chiles graduate from Harttahorn Memorial College He hopes to finish his legal business in Kentucky and be back to locate here soon Preaching at First Presbyterian Church Sunday, June 11. The Rev J. Mosely, pastor of the New Baptist Church, will preach at the First Presbyterian Church next Sunday June 11, 1911, at 3:30 P.M. in the interest of the repair fund. The congregation of the new church will be present, and the choir of the visiting church will render the music. The Rev. Dr. T. H. Lee will introduce the speaker. A service of rare interest is anticipated. * or a doses "060" will cure any cause of Chills and Fever. Price, 250. PROLOGUE English detective stories have their waxing and their waning in public favor; their American imitations hold the roaders' attention for a time; French and German acuteness in the devising of original plots engages our interest until the tales of newer Vidocqs are told, but Anna Katharine Green's detective stories, based on incidents of American life, are perennial bloomers. They know no permanent rivals in American liking. In the writing of stories with originality of plot, skilful depiction of character, interest of incident, intricacy of mystery and boldness of denouement no foreign novelist can hope to compete for American favor with this American woman writer. Read "The House of the Whispering Pines," a story of love and crime and mystery, told in her best vein. We warrant it to be one of her best and therefore one of the world's best. CHAPTER L THE moon rode high, but ominous clouds were rushing toward it-clouds heavy with snow I watched these clouds as I drove rocklessly, desperately over the winter roads. I had just missed the desire of my life, the one precious treasure which I coveted with my whole undisciplined heart, and, not being what you call a man of self restraint, I was chafed by my defeat or beyond the bounds I have usual set for myself I rode on hardly conscious of my course, till the rapid recurrence of several well known landmarks warned me that I had taken the longest route home and that in another moment I should be skirting the grounds of the Whispering Pines, our country clubhouse. The season was over and the clubhouse closed, and when the great stack of chimneys coming suddenly into view against the broad disk of the still unclouded moon, I perceived a thin trail of smoke soaring up from their midst I realized with a shock that there should be no such sign of life in a house I myself, had closed, locked and barred that very day. I was the president of the club and felt responsible. I turned in at the lower gateway. For reasons which I need not now state there were no bells attached to my cutter, and consequently my approach was noiseless. I was careful that it should be so, also careful to top short of the front door and leave my horse and sleigh in the black depths of the pine grove, pressing up to the walls on either side. I was sure that all was not as it should be inside these walls. Our clubhouse stands, as it may be necessary to remind you, on a knoll thickly wooded with the ancient trees I have mentioned. These trees—all pines and of a growth unusual and of an aspect well high hoary—extend only to the rear end of the house, where a wide stretch of gently undulating ground opens at once upon the eye, suggesting to all lovers of golf the admirable use to which it is put from early spring to latest fall. Now links as well as parterres and driveways were lying under an even blanket of winter snow. No other building stood with a half mile in any direction. I felt the isolation as I stepped from the edge of the trees and prepared to cross the few feet of open space leading to the main door. In some moods I should have paused and thought twice before attempting the door, behind which in the dark lurked the unknown with its naturally accompanying suggestion of peril. But rage and disappointment, working hotly within gun, had left no space for fear. Rather rejoicing in the doubtfulness of the adventure, I pushed my way over the snow until my feet struck the steps. Here instinct caused me to stop and glance quickly up and down the building either way. Not a gleam of light met my eye from the smallest scintillating pane. Was the house as soundless as it was dark? I listened, but heard nothing. I listened again and still heard nothing. Then I proceeded boldly up the steps and held my hand on the door. It was unlatched and yielded to my touch. Light or no light, sound or no sound, there was some one within. The fire which had sent its attenuated streak of smoke up into the moonlit air was burning yet on one of the many hearths within. I proceeded to enter and close the door carefully behind me. As I did so I cast an involuntary glance without. The sky was inky, and a few wandering dikes of the now rapidly advancing storm came whirling in, biting my cheeks and stinging my forehead. Once inside I stopped short, possibly to listen again, possibly to assure myself as to what I had best do next. The silence was profound. Not a sound disturbed the great, empty building. My own footfall as I stirred seemed to wake extraordinary echoes. I had moved but a few steps, get to of the Whispering Pines my heightened senses the nudge seemed loud enough to wake the dead. Indirectly I stopped and stock stood still. There was no answering cessation of movement—darkness, silence everywhere. Yet not quite absolute darkness. As my eyes grew accustomed to the place I found it possible to discern the outlines of the windows and locate the stairs and the arches where the side halls opened. I was even able to pick out the exact spot where the great utensils spread them selves above the hat rack, and presently the rack itself came into view, with its row of empty pugs, yesterday so full, today quite empty. That rack interested me, I hardly knew why, and regardless of the noise I made I crossed over to it and ran my hand along the wall underneath. The result was startling. A man's cost and huns from one of the pugs. Would this hat and coat identify the intruder? I would strike a light and see. But this involved difficulties. The gas has been turned off that very morning, and I had no matches in my pocket. But I remembered where they could be found. I had seen them when I passed through the kitchen earlier in the day. I began to move that way and presently came creeping back with a match box half to four of matches in my hand. But I did not strike one then. I had just made a move to do so when the unmistakable sound of a door opening somewhere in the house made me draw back into as quiet and dark a place as I could find. This lay in the rear and at the right of the staircase, and as the sound had appeared to come from above it was the most natural retreat that offered. And a good one I found it. I had hardly taken up my stand when the darkness above gave way to a faint glimmer and a step because audible coming from some one of the many small rooms in the second story but slowly and with evident hesitation. The light steadily increased with each logging but surely advancing step. Then the uncertain step paused, and a sol came falitary to my ears, wrong from lips stuck with human anguish. The sound of the sigh struck shudderingly on my ear, followed by the renewal of the step and the almost immediate appearance on the stairs of a beautiful young girl of seventeen holding a candle in one hard and shielding her left cheek with the other. Nothing could have prepared me for an encounter with this woman anywhere that night after what had RARIE R. A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL BUILDING HER LEFT CURLE. A BEAUTIFUL FOOTGIRL SHIELDING HER LEFT CHEEK, passed between us and the wreck she had made of my life. But here in a place so remote and desolate I had hesitated to enter it myself, what was ' to think? How was I to recouche so inconceivable a fact with what I knew of her in the past, with what I hoped from her in the future? It was evident that some grisly fear, some staring horror, had met her in this strange retreat. Simple grief speaks with a different language from that which I read in her distorted features and tuttering, slowly creeping form. What had happened above? She had escaped me to run upon what? My lips refused to ask, my limbs refused to move, and if I breathed at all I did so with such fierceness of restraint that her eyes never turned my way, not even when she had reached the lowest step and paused for a moment there, oscillating in pain or uncertainty. Her face was turned more fully toward me, and I had just begun to discern something in it besides its tragic beauty when she made a quick move and blew out the candle she held. Then there came a crash, followed by the sound of dying feet. She had flung the candlestick out of her hand and was hurriedly crossing the hall. I thought she was coming my way and instinctively drew back against the wall. But she stopped far short of me, and I heard her groping about; then gave a sudden spring toward the front door. It opened, and the wind soughed in. I felt the chill of snow upon my face and realized the tempest. Then all was quiet and dark again. She had slid quickly out, and the door had swung to behind her. Another instant and I heard the click of the key as it turned in the lock, heard it and made no outcry, such the spell, such the bewilderdment, of my faculties! Then I felt all lesser emotions give way to an anxiety which demanded immediate action, for the girl had gone out without wraps or covering for her head, and my experience of the evening had told me how cold it was. I must follow and find her and rescue her if possible from the snow. Thriving myself against the door, I THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. If was immovable within me But beyond the ever accusing, protuberant stare, those features told nothing, end, spelling myself to the situation. I made my observation I could of her condition and the sur- BARON rounding circumstances, for this was my betrothed wife. Whatever my intentions, however far my love had strayed under the spell cast over me by her sister—the young girl who had just passed out—Adelalde and I had been engaged for many months. Our wedding day was even set. But that was all over now—ended, as her life was ended, suddenly, in comprehensibility and by no stroke of God. Even the jewel on her finger was gone, the token of our betrothed. This was to be expected. She would be apt to take it off before committing herself to a fate that preclaimed me a traitor to this symbol. I should see that ring again. I should find it in a letter filled with bitter words. I would not think of it or of them now. I would try to learn how she had committed this act, whether by poison or— It must have been by poison. No other means would suggest themselves to one of her reduced sense. But if so why those marks on her neck, growing darker and darker as I stared at them? My senses rebel as I scrutinized those marks. Small, delicate, but deadly, they stared upon me from either side of her white neck till no nature could endure no more, and I tattered back against the farther wall beholding no longer room nor lounge nor recumbent body, but in a young girl's exquisite face set in lines which bellied her seventeen years and made futile any attempt on my part at self deception when my reason inexorably demanded an explanation of this death. As suicide it was comprehensible, as murder not, unless— And it had been murder! I sank to the floor as I fully realized this. SENORA DIAZ. Who Flees From Mexico With Her Husband. © 1911, by American Press Association. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, came out in a letter strongly indoring Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, for the Democratic nomination for president. Wilson's friends look on the Gore letter as added evidence that the progressive Democrats of the south and west are rapidly turning to the governor. Gore is recognized as one of the progressive wing of the senate Democrats. Färmer Kills-Wife and Himself. O. P. Fairchild, a farmer, fifty years old, killed his wife by shooting her in the head, and then shot himself in the head, both dying instantly, at the Fairchild home, ten miles west of Harrisonburg, Va. Domestis troubles caused the tragedy. a book it violently. It was immovable. Then I flow to the windows. Their fastening yields readily enough, but not the windows themselves. One had a broken cord, another seemed glued to its frame, and I was still struggling with the latter when I heard a sound which lifted the hair on my head and turned my whole attention back to what lay behind and above me. There was still some one in the house. To find Carmel Cumberland alone in this desolation was a mystifying discovery to which I had found it hard enough to reconcile myself. But Carmel here in company with an unknown another at the very moment when I had expected the fruition of my own joy-ah, that was to open hell's door in my breast, a possibility too intolerable to remain unsettled for an instant. Leaving the window, I groped my way along the wall until I reached the rack where the man's coat and hat had hung. Nothing now hung from the rack. The wall was free from end to end. She had taken these articles of male apparel with her, she had not gone forth into the driving snow unprotected, but—I did not know what to think. The groping she had done had been in this direction. She was searching for this hat and coat (a man's hat, a derby, as a had been careful to assure myself at the first handling), and in them she had gone home/as she had probably come, and there was no man in the case, or if there were—The doubt drove me to the staircase I began my marry ascent. I had not the slightest fear. I was too full of cold race in that. The arrangement of rooms on the second floor was well known to me. I understood every nook and corner and could find my way about the whole place without a light. I took but one precaution, that of slipping off my shoes at the foot of the stairs. I wished to surprise the intruder. I was willing to resort to any expedient to accomplish this. The matches I carried in my pocket would make this possible if once I heard him breathing I held my own breath as I stole softly up and waited for an instant at the top of the stairs to glisten. There was an awesome silence everywhere, and I was hesitating whether to attack the front rooms first or to follow up a certain narrow hall leading to a rear staircase when I remembered the thin line of smoke which, rising from one of the chimneys, and first attracted my attention to the house. In that was my clew. I knew that there was but one room on this floor where a fire could be lit. It lay a few feet beyond me down the narrow hall I have just mentioned. Why had I trusted everything to my cars when my nose would have been a better guide? As I took the few steps necessary a slight smell of smoke became very perceptible, and no longer in doubt of my course. I pushed boldly on and entering the half open door, struck a match and peered anxiously about. Emptiness here just as everywhere else, a few chairs, a dresser—it was a ladies' dressing room—some smoldering ashes on the hearth, a lounge piled up with cushions, but no person. The sound I had heard had not issued from this room, yet something withheld me from seeking further. I pursued just in side the door and when the matel went out in my hand remained shivering there in the darkness, a prey to sometimes more nearly approaching those of fear than my I had ever before experienced in my whole life. Why I did not know. There seemed to be no reason for this excess of feeling. I had no dread of attack. My apprehension was of another sort. Besides, any attack here must come from the rear - from the open door way in which I stood - and my dread lay before me. In the room itself, which as I have already said, appeared to be totally empty. I had for gotten the intruder. The interest which had carried me thus far had become lost in a fresher one of which the beginning and ending lay hidden within the four walls. I now stared upon unseeing. Not to see and yet to feel did that make the horror? If so an other lighted must help he out. I struck one while the thought was hot within me and again took a look at the room. I noted but one thing new, but that made me reel back till I was halfway into the hall. Then a certain dogged persistence I possess came to my rescue, and I re-entered the room at a leap and stood before the lounge and its pile of cushions. They were numerous—all that the room contained and more. Chairs had been stripped, window seats denuded and the whole collection disposed here in a set way which struck me as unnatural. But at this point my second match went out. Thoroughly roused now (you will say by what?) I felt my way out of the room and to the head of the stair- case. I remembered the candle and candiestick I had heard thrown down on the lower floor by Carmal/Cumberland. I would, accure them and come back and settle these uneasy doubts. I had a hunt for the candiestick and a still longer one for the candle, but finally I recovered both and, lighting the latter, felt myself for the first time more or less master of the situation. Rapidly regaining the room in which my interest was now centred, I set the candiestick down on the dresser and approached the lounge. Hardly knowing what I feared or what I expected to find, I tore off one of the cushions and flung it behind me. More cushions were revealed, but that was not all. Escapeing from the edge of one of them I saw a shiny trees of woman's hair. I gave a grasp and pulled off more cushions. Then I fell on my knees, struck down by the greatest horror which a man can feel. Death lay before me-violent, uncalled for death-and the victim was a woman. It was she-she indeed. Dead-Adealde, the woman I had planned to wrong that very night and who had thus wronged me! For a moment I could, take in nothing but this one astounding fecit; then the how, and why woke in maddening curiosity DEATH LAY BEFORE ME. Gore Out For Wilson. Färmar Kille: Wife and Himself. One Man Killed and Four Injured in Bitterly Contested Struggle at Indianapolis. Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon 32, is the winner of the international 500-mile automobile rate at Indianapolis, ind., and when Starter Joe Wagner waved his "flag over Harroun as he passed under the wire, thus declaring him the winner, the crowd went wild, rushed out on the track, took the driven from the car and carried him about the course on their shoulders. Ralph Mulford, in a Lozler, was a close second, and David Bruce-Brown in a Flat was third Wishart in a Mercedes, was fourth, Do Palme, in a Simplex, fifth, Charles Merz, in a National, sixth, W. M. Turner, in Amplex, seventh, Harry Cobe, in Jackson, eighth, Fred Betcher, in Knox, ninth, Hugh C. Hughes, in a Mercer, tenth, Lee Frazer, in Firestone, eleventh, and Gil Anderson, in Stutz, was twelfth The time for the 500 miles was 641.8, an average of close to seventy-five miles an hour for the entire race As the contest drew to a close only twenty-eight of the forty cars which had started remained in the race One after another they had become disabled and dropped cut. The man who was killed in the race was S. P. Dickson, mechanician for Arthur Greiner, of Chicago, driving an Angloex car. He lost his life in an upset on the back stretch in the thirtieth mile of the race Greiner sustained several broken ribs and a fractured arm. He is expected to recover. The accident was due to the car casting a front tire Greiner could not hold the car to the track and it skidded to the infield and whirled completely around, tearing off both back wheels Dickson was thrown twenty feet against a fence His body was terribly cut and bruised Greiner was hurled to the track Sets New Record. Bruce Brown, in his Flat, who was leading at the end of the first 150 miles, but who was displaced soon after, established a record for the distance, 159 12. The old mark was 201 10, set by Dawson at Atlanta last year. The cars were strung out behind the leaders all around the course. The scorching pace burned out the tires and most of the cars had stopped one or more times at the pits for the changes. Several of the older drivers apparently preferred to keep up a steady grind two or three laps behind the leaders. There were few sensational brushes for leadership in the field. Atkinson, in a National, was the first to get away. In the first lap the cars strung out all around the course Atkinson held the lead, with De Palma (Simplex) second, and Wishart (Mercedes) third. At the end of fifty miles Atkinson held the lead. His time was 41 minutes and 7 seconds. Bruce Brown was second, De Palma third. After the fifty mile mark was passed Bruce Brown slipped into the lead. The first car to stop at the pit for repairs was the Buick, driven by Arthur Chevrolet He had throttle and lost a few minutes making a change. Wistar (Mercedes) blew a front tire and went to the pit He was off again in a minute. Harry Grant, twice winner of the Vanderbilt, was forced to withdraw his Alco car at the end of the 108th mile because of a burned-out hearing. Dave Lowis, mechanician in a Lozler car, driven by Teddy Tetzlaff, austalged a fractured leg when the car blew a tire in the home stretch in the 170th mile, and ran into a Pope Hartford Tetzlaff was uninjured and the crew of the Pope Hartford also escaped Louis Disbrow was driving the Pope-Hartford. The Lozler was overturned and the rear truck was torn off the Pope-Hartford in the collision Both cars were taken out of the race. Mix-Up In Front of Grand Stand. 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Both letters contained strong and earnest protestations of his innocence of the serious offence with which he was charged, and each stated that he had borne up against the aspiration on his character until his fortitude gave way. Doglett lived with one of his brothers in a second-story flat. He came home at the pausal time, between 6 and 7 o'clock, yesterday morning and retired to his room. Then nothing was remarked as to his general appearance, and there was no talk of his coming trial. The next few hours were evidently spent in writing the two letters and in preparing himself for suicide. A few minutes before the clock struck the noon hour others in the house heard the sound of what they took at first to be the explosion of a punctured automobile tire in front of the house. But a small boy discovered the meaning of the sound, and gave the alarm. FOUND BY HIS BROTHERS. Three of the brothers, who were in other rooms, one of which adduits the room of the dead man, rushed in and found him lying on the bed with a gaping hole in his right temple and blood streaming over the bed clothes. By his right hand lay the revolver, a slight puff of smoke curling up towards the ceiling Doggett lay on his wounded side, the blood streaming over the pillow. He was dead, death having been instantaneous, but a member of the household ran out and telephoned for the city ambulance, and Dr Turner responded. Patrolman Lloyd also responded to the alarm, and at once took possession until the arrival of Coroner Taylor. Dr Turner pronounced the man dead, and also waited for the coroner CLEAR CASE OF SUICIDE Dr Taylor after a short examination of members of the household declared it to be a case of suicide and turned the body over to the family with permission to have it prepared for burial. He read the fare well letter Doggett had written to his mother, and returned that also to the family, that it might be forwarded to Mrs Doggett. The letter contained a heart broken outburst of feeling, a protestion of innocence and a wailing cry that he could no longer bear up against the serious charge "I call God as my witness that I am innocent," Doggett wrote, "and I am going before His bar of justice to prove my innocence." The letter was written onooksep paper and covered five sheets. It was signed "your heart broken son, Harry." The letter to the young woman, whom none of the other members of the family know, was filled with a piece of string, and was placed under his watch. It was forwarded to the address given. This, too, was a declaration of the writer's innocence and a plaintive appeal that he be not judged too harshly. His brothers said that they did not even know that he had been paying attention to any one WOUND NEAR RIGHT EAR When found, Doggett was partially undressed. He was clothed in his shirt, trousers and socks, and was lying on the coverlot. The revolver had contained a full round of cartridges. The wound was just in front of the shoulder of the bullet penetrated to the base of the brain, killing him justantly. Doggett was born in Caroline county where his parents live, and had been in Richmond about six years. He was employed as a car inspector by the Richmond, Frederick lickburg and Potomac Railroad and worked at night. He worked as usual Saturday night, and appeared, it was said, to be in his usual frame of mind when he left to go to his labors. He had given no intimation that he contemplated suicide, though he had been anxious to have the charge against him heard as soon as possible. He was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Henry James, the colored girl's father, on May 21, and was admitted to bail in the sum of 1,000, with Henry Ford, of Glen Allen, as his security. WORRIED BY POSTPONEMENT. The hearing had twice been postponed on account of the absence of his attorney, L. O. Wendenburg, and this postponement is said to have worried him considerably. The hearing was scheduled to have come up this morning before Magistrate T. J. Puryear, of Henrico county. from the beginning. The Henrico county officers were not familiar with the evidence James was to have introduced against Doggett in the preliminary hearing, and he did not discuss the case further than to doollar that he was not guilty. Doggett is survived by both parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Doggett, of Caroline county; by five brothers—William of Ashland; Owen, Frank and Herman of Richmond, and Thomas, of Caroline county, and by two sisters—Mrs. Nannie Poatress and Miss Stella Doggett—both of Caroline county. The funeral arrangements will be announced later. The services will be held probably at the family home (Richmond, Va., News Leader, May 29, 1911) Dear Ma: You have no doubt heard of the crime I am charged with, which I am innocent of, did not even see the negroes the morning the crime was committed, so I cannot bear the thoughts of it any longer. Although it may be a mistake on my part to do what I am about to do, but you know I have tried to live as a man ought to, and have been falsely charged with this which you know will be the downfall of any man. So I have decided that death is the only thing that will relieve me of such troubles. Although I know this will almost kill you. I hope you will not think hard of me for so doing, and truly hope that you may learn of my innocence from others, which I am just as innocent as the angels in Heaven of this crime. The thought of this thing and the way my name will be used by law has brought me to this. I have just been thinking this thing over this morning. This is the first suicide in my family, or the first I ever heard of, so you can just imagine how I feel about it. You can plainly see my name is ruined, and there is nothing more for me to live for in this world. I will again say I am innocent of the crime charged against me, and will call on God as my witness. Your heartbroken son HARRY CALLED HIM DOWN. Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, is one of the strongest men intellectually and morally, on the Federal bench. He possesses a judicial breadth and fairness that have distinguished him in more than one in- stance. On Saturday Judge Speer was holding court at Macon. A peonage case was being tried, Thomas B Felder, of Atlanta, being leading counsel for the defense. Felder is a prominent lawyer in Georgia, very probably a university graduate, a man of large experience. In his pre liminary address to the jury Mr Felder used very forceful language, re- peatedly using the words "nigger" and "He" in a most unpleasant way. By the way, Mr Felder is looked upon as the next attorney-general of Georgia. While Mr Felder was talking so heatedly about the "nigger," Judge Speer interrupted him, saying "Mr Felder, don't you think the future attorney general of the State of Georgia can spare us this 'nigger nigger nigger'? It sounds so unworthy of a great court of justice and unworthy of your own position at the bar to be alluding to these poor unfortunate creatures constantly in lowest terms of degradation." With characteristic bluster, Mr Felder replied "Your honor, please. I think I know my duties and rights as a lawyer, an American lawyer practicing in an American court" Hear Judge Spencer's ringing rebuke to Mr Felder "The court thinks you are exceeding those rights and if you continue on this line and insist upon using this language, which is nothing but an appeal to the lowest race prejudice. I am very much afraid I will have to sever your relations, not only in this case but in all cases of this court. I do not believe the American judicial will tolerate the use of such language in the presence of a court of justice on the part of a gentleman who, as a condition precedent to his admission to the bar, has sworn to support the Constitution and laws of the United States. Now I do not wish to do anything of the sort, but I beg of you to use the language of which I know you are capable. the language of a cultivated gentleman, and save us that neverending 'nigger, nigger, nigger.' I want you to act as becomes a lawyer in this court." There is no doubt that Judge Speer was right. It is all too common to go into the courts and hear this very sort of appeal to the passions and prejudices of judge and jury. We know of lawyers, really cultured men who not only do this but who also intentionally "murder the King's English," so as to try to away the jury towards them. And Judge Speer ruled Mr Felder out of court for contempt it is unlikely that the latter would have been unheld by a higher court on appeal. This use of language, which no cultivated or dignified man should use, by those who know better, is unjustifiable and worthy of the most severe condemnation. Appeals to race prejudice have no place in any court. They do not become a member of any bar anywhere. They reflect upon the intelligence and fair-mindedness of the jurors, and should in all cases be promptly ruled out by the presiding judge. Judge Speer has set an admirable precedent and example for other courts. ond, Va., Times-Dispatch, May 20, 1911) THE RICHMOND PLANET is the leading weekly journal in the State. Send in your subscription today. It treats only $1.50 Per Year in advance. After she had been shadowed to and from the First Baptist Church, where she sat alone in a pew, Miss Annie Fattillo, alias Miss Louise Boisseau, alias Mrs. H. L. Boisseau, alias Miss Nefille Ford, thirty-four years old, was arrested last night on three warrants, charging her with obtaining goods from merchants under false pretences. The goods were obtained on chocks allogged to be worthless, which were placed in the hands of Sergeant Wiley and used by him as the basis for the warrants. The arrest was made quietly though Miss Miss Patillo at first attempt ed to deny her identity and, according to the detective and B. H. Bear who identified her as having defrauded ed Mrs. Julius Boar, she finally con fessed that she had passed the worth less checks and was the woman for whom they were searching. SHADOWED BY DETECTIVES. Miss Patillo was seen by M. H. Dorfman, an employee of Julian W Tyler (Inc.), on the street, as she was on her way to church. He stopped her, and asked her if she were not the woman who had passed a worthless check on his firm. She indignantly denied the imputation, but he was sure that he was right in his identification, and he immediately notified Sergio Wiley. The detective shadowed her into a Broad street restaurant, where she spent more than an hour over a supper, which she picked at scantily and appeared not to relish. The detective sat at a nearby table, and ordered a cup of coffee. He made the coffee last until Miss Patillo arose to pay her check and passed out. He had made mental notes in the meantime, and felt satisfied that he was on the right trail. Leaving the restaurant, Miss Patille walked leisurely down Broad street, with the detective following on the other side. He saw her pass into the First Baptist Church and noted the seat she took. She was so placed that she commanded a view of the entire congregation and of the three entrances. WORE STRING OF PEARLS Occasionally, as if apprehensive that she was being followed and watched, she glanced at the door through which she entered, though giving, apparently, due attention to the services. As her pew was at the far end of the church, she was among the last to leave. A; she stepped out, Sergeant Wiley followed and beckoned to Mr. Bear, whom he had summoned during a brief absence from the watch, and though she was apparently all unconscious of the fast, Miss Patillo was followed to Ninth and Broad streets, where she turned south. On her neck a pretty string of pearl heads was strung. A saleswoman in one of the stores which Miss Patillo had visited had taken particular notice of these beads on account of their perfection and beauty, and she was able to give the detective a good description of them. The heads played an important part in the identification. Mr. Bear recognized her, and, from the description which had been given to him by others Sergeant Wiley was able to recognize both woman and beads. At the corner of Ninth and Grace streets, under the lights of the Richmond Hotel, he stepped in front of her, and politely lifting his hat, asked that he might speak to her. TOOK ARREST CALMLY "Pardon me" he said, "but are you Mrs. Holiseau?" She replied that she was not of that name, and nervously rubbed her lips with her handkerchief, hiding the trembling which she could not control. "Then are you Miss Nellie Ford?" he asked. "I don't want to create a scene," he said, suicidly, as she attempted to brush past him. "I'm a police detective, and if you attempt to run away from me it will be necessary for me to hold you and I don't want to do that here on the street." Though she tried hard to put a brave face into the officer's eyes, she was visibly nervous. But there was no outcry, no hysteria no female outburst. Sergeant Wiley suggested that they go into the hotel to talk the matter over for a few minutes and she consented. There she finally admitted it was stated having bought goods from Mrs Juffa Beat from J H Mosby & Co and from Julian W Tyler Incorporated. Though she admitted having obtained the goods of which the officer had a description, Miss Patilio dented having given cheeks in payment. Then Sergeant Wiley left her with Mr Bear for a few moments. She recognized him and seemed to feel that it was useless longer to deny the charge. SEARCHED HED ROOM "I know you," said Mr Bear; "and why don't you tell me the truth?" Finally he said, the brave front dissolved, and she admitted her identity and admitted having given him a worthless check. Then, when the detective returned, she admitted, the officer stated, the three charges. He asked permission to search her room, suggesting that it would be better than making an investigation by means of a search warrant, and she gave permission, requesting that she be allowed to accompany him. Her room was at 100 'Beat Main street, on the second floor. The house was dark when she entered by means of her latch key, every body having either gone to bed or gone out. A handsome hat she had purchased from Mrs. Bear with a check was found. The original trimming had been discarded, 'however, and now trimming substituted. A black dress, said to have been purchased from the J. B. Mosby Company, was also found, and both were confiscated. On a wardrobe were several other hats, packed in boxes, but they were not touched. SAYS SHE IS SALESWOMAN The room was spick and span. Miss Patilla stated that she had been rooming there since September. Later, in the station she said that she home is in Mecklenburg county, where, now live two brothers, both farmers, and a sister. She has been in Richmond two years. For the past few months she told the police, she has been employed as a saleswoman by the Cohen Company, first as an extra employ, working Mondays and Fridays, and now permanently. She begged hard that she be not arrested until this morning, but the officer told her that, disagreeable as it was to him, he was forced to place her under arrest, then and there, and by street car, a courtesey afforded her, she was escorted to the First Station. But she was allowed to sit alone, and none of the other passengers knew that she was a prisoner HOW CHECKS WERE DRAWS. The first alligned worthless check passed by Miss Patillo, dated April 17, was drawn on the Capitol Savings Bank for $15, and was made out to M H. Dorfman, of the Julian W. Tyler firm. The second was dated April 20, and was drawn on the First National Bank of Richmond for $54, being made out to J. B. Mosby & Company. The third check, drawn on the same bank as the second, was for $14, and was made out to Mrs. Julius Bear on May 2. It was found to be worthless on the same day it was tendered Miss Patillo said that she now has no money in any bank, though when she first came to Richmond she was supplied with funds, the proceeds, she said, of the sale of her share of a farm in Mecklenburg county. She stated that she had never been in trouble before, and that she could give numerous good references in Richmond, however, she has few acquaintances. When an officer turned the key on her in one of the upstairs cells reserved for women prisoners she took, it calmly, and seemed resigned to meet whatever fate may be in store for her. To one of her alleged victims Miss Patillo is said to have stated that she lived in Chester. Inquiry elicited the information from the postmaster there that two letters adressed to Mrs. Boliseau were in his office as an advertisement, in his letter were written by the man seeking the information. Miss Patillo's name does not appear in the City Directory. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday evening, May 26, at 8:30 o'clock, a very large audience was at the Sharon Baptist Church to witness the twentieth closing exercises of the Y. M. C A Night School. The program was as follows Song, America—By the congregation Invocation Prof P J Henry Solo—Mrs Druclia Marks Gilpin Welcome Address Richard E Brown. The Men Who Miss the Train—Robert Bolling. The Answer Book—John Neblett Press On—Miss Mary Burton Brotherhood—Robert L. Pervall Solo—Madame V. Hawkins Johnson My School—Miss Mary A. Harris My Wireless Telephone—Fitzhugh Carter Sights For Companionship—Rufus W Crawley Woman's Sphere Miss Lenn Hailey Floquence--Richard E Brown B. Floquence Solo--Dr A C Johnson The Address - Dr J A C Chandler superintendent public schools of the city of Richmond Awarding prizes Certificates were presented to the following students by President Jno S Powell Prof J H Rheuer's class for scholarships. Richard E Brown David Fitzgerald Rufus W Crawley, John Nebbitt Robert L, Pervall, Miss Mary A Harris, Jesse Pryor, Miss Lena Haley Fitzhugh Corter, Georgo R Burrell A D Price, gold medal for scholarship Richard E Brown, Prof J H Rheuer's silver medal for spelling Richard E Brown Dr E R Jefferson's gold medal for physiology David Fitzgerald Musical Directress—Miss Nannie B Jones Duet Madames Carter and Spotts wood Miss Columbia I William Clar for scholarship Mrs Mary Wright Mrs Fannie Rivers Miss Marie Gregor Miss Mary Burton, Bessie Thomas, Solomon Brooks Robert Bouldin George Tyler Mrs Louise Brown Joseph Johnson Mrs Bettle Ford Edgar Ransome Charles Billings Charles Anderson Harold White, Halle Brown Dr D A Ferguson's Silver Medal for scholarship Solomon Brooks Mrs Nannie Wain's Silver Medal for Spelling Robert Bouldin The Bible class taught by General Secretary S J Burrell, Boys Class certificates for scholarship W H. Cary, C H. George R. P Burrell, Robert L. Pervall, Geo. Howell Rev A Hobbs pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, gave the class a valuable set of books for the interest which was manifested by the members The Men's Class Hezodiah Walla, Douglas Edwards Jr., Wm. Garden, S D. White, Floyd Berkley. First Honor, an Oxford Bible - Hezokiah Walls Second Honor, Douglas Edwards, Jr. The year's work was a success through the kindness of both white and colored friends. We thank you, Repolition, Prof J. E. Jones. Left alone for more than a week, and too feeble to move or to make outcry, C. F. Whittle, a colored lawyer, living in 100 East Leight street, was found in his room yesterday morning by Bicycle Officer Samuels and saved from death by starvation and exhaustion. Whittle had been missed by Jesse Williams, from whom he rent his quarters, and yesterday morning Williams made an investigation. He found that Whittle's door were locked from the inside and that all of the windows were fastened. Fearing himself to force entrance, he communicated the facts to the Sec and Police Station and Policeman Samuels was sent to the house. Finding his way barred by a locked door he broke in through a sido window by forcing the fastening. He saw Whittle lying on the bed, with only an undershirt on, and thought at first that the man was dead. But Whittle groaned weakly and made a slight movement. Soeing that there was life Samuels called Dr Turman, of the city ambulance, and the physician administered restoratives. After recovering a little strength Whittle said that he had had nothing to eat for a week, and had become so exhausted that he could not sit hand or foot. He often heard people outside talking about him and expressing wonder as to where he was, but he could not call out to them. Finally he sank into a comatose condition and all idea as to time was lost Dr Turner, who thinks that the man is suffering from a temporary aberration of the mind, turned him over to Williams and Dr Q. 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A colored man calling himself, "Captain John E Simpson" and at times sailing under other names has been persistently swimming both white and colored people in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and Phobos his Plan has been to re- present that he has money in a col- ored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr. President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Rich- mond. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been toot near Thimble Light off Buckroo Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swindling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter be sent to him in care of the person who advances the money. He never comes back to see if the money comes as he directs. 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In the meantime practice the same kind of politeness towards each other. () - - THE SEGREGATION LAW --- The latest abuse of the segregation law was shown in the trial of a recent case. A law was arrested on St John street for moving his family over his store in a block occupied by colored people. Although he had violated the law his case was dismissed with the understanding that he move from the neighborhood. Now he must pay rent elsewhere for his family and have the rooms up over him vacant, or else rent the rooms to a Negro family. There is no law prohibiting a white man from doing business downstairs and a Negro family from sleeping upstairs in a colored neighborhood. The more the law is being worked the more the white folks who are being handicapped and embarrassed are "cussing". One afternoon this week we saw a car coming on the Clay street line and colored people were in the rear, as it had evidently been occupied by white people, who had left the car. A fringe of white people sat in the rear. When the colored people got on these white people had to get up and move to the front to make room for them, and they were about as "angry as hornets," while the colored folks were smiling. This is the law which our esteemed white contemporaries say has given general satisfaction. God's ways are past finding out, but he makes all of these mischievous schemes of the Negro-haters return to plague the in renters. President William H. Taft was right in rebuking Colonel Joseph Garrard for his rank exhibition of race prejudice in the case of Joseph A. Bloom, a soldier of Jewish persuasion in the regular army. It seems that Bloom first attempted to secure an appointment to West Point. He was unable so to do, and he was advised to enlist and work his way up from the ranks. This task is exceedingly difficult. In a letter addressed to him, among other things, after disapproving of his taking the examination, he said From an experience of many years I have found except in few cases few communities where Jew are received as desirable social as clates." While we do not doubt that Col Garrard told the truth, we fail to see why this fact should affect the situation one lota. It is not presumed that in official matters social conditions shall affect the rights of a citizen. Still we cannot understand why President Taft could not see and understand that Colonel Garrard was proceeding in accordance with a rule of conduct which President Taft had set. He had followed this rule of conduct in every Federal appointment in the Scotland, although it was established in dealing with colored men and not with white ones Yet President Taft in his letter says It is difficult for me to read the endorsement of Colonel Garrard for forth in this letter with patience and without condemnatory words that had better not be written. His indignation seems to be around only in the case of Jews and not of Negroes. We hold that this language should apply to all citizens and to all races. He seeing disposed to single out the races to which this application should be made. In this he leaves the high pedestal of statesmanship; to stand upon the narrow platform of the politician. President Taft says further The statements made by Colonel Carrard are not true with reference to the standing that laws have in this country and I resent as commander in chief of the army and the navy that any officer of either should permit himself in an official document to give evidence of such unfounded and narrow race prejudice as the continued in this indorsement. While the inference is that way he does not deny the truthfulness of Colonel Carrard's assertions which relate to army posts and not to the country at large. But what difference does it make whether the prejudice exists in either the army or the country at large? The point is that it is wrong and that race prejudice should be eliminated so far as official action can eliminate it. President Tatt has recognized the existence of the color line in his bill of rights, and he has barred civil citizens from advancement in official appointments on account of their prejudice against a man who is not a citizen on the Hon W. D. Dutton. Another civil general to be appointed is that away kind of W. A. is a result of this prejudice, and if we mistake not Hir J. C. Nabler is in Washington from the same kind of race prejudice. The official reprintand issue) by the War Department will furnish more light upon this all important subject. The inspired communication reads as follows: Colonel Gattard has been told that he had not the moral right to ever influence in his official position to bat the advancement of a courageous and efficient young man simply by cause that man was of Jewish race, that such procedure indicates not only prejudice that should not be found in an officer of his position and experience but amounts to a failure to justify and fairly consider the merits and claims of the applicant as shown by his efficient service and excellent standing in the mental examinations. Colonel Gattard has been admitted to avoid a repetition of the action taken in this case. It means that President Taft is out "gunning" for the Hebrew vote and that Colonel Garrard has done him a signal service by making himself eligible for a vouch rebuke with the understanding that this is all that he can or will receive in the premises. It reads hypocritically, though to the impartial observer who has been careful enough to note that the chief cornerstone of the present administration is race prejudice. Those colored folks who see in this ruling hope for some of their people will no doubt be rudely undeveloped. If we are mistaken in our predictions we shall be graffitied. The present Republican administration is a political "what is it?" so far as the citizen of color is concerned. As for the Democratic Party, it was against us in the beginning, and we shall be mightily surprised if it be for us in the end. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD. ATTORNEY AT LAW Law Office 1215 E. Broad Street Richmond, Virginia All Business Frommly Attended To formers' Savings Bank during the past nine months. The matter was never thoroughly investigated. Those whose notes appear there as missing and who have been asked about them allege that the amount has been paid. Their words must necessarily be accepted as there is no requirement that they should be required to reproduce these notes, as many busi-ness men destroy all but trustee notes at the time of payment CASHIER HILL AND HIS CLERK Cashier R' T Hill will, therefore, be chargeable with these missing notes aggregating $9,607 77. With the other claims which are now being made against the missing cashier, the amount of his abortions will exceed fifty thousand dollars. Another phase of the situation is shown by the list of erasures, changing of amounts and deposits and substitution of figures. These aggregate $31,000 44. The amount of the shortage of Mrs Agnes B Reeves, which was caused by similar tactics, will reach $1,401 28. The claim in her case will be set up that she is guilty only of petty larceny as the amount in each case is less than fifty dollars, but the Commonwealth will hold her for much larger amounts which she gave to R' T Hill by falsifying his accounts. A THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK A check for one thousand dollars which R T Hill gave to her is also figuring in the affair and this check has not as yet been satisfactorily ex-plained so it is said. Before leaving Richmond Last week General Counsel J Thomas Newsome consulted Commonwealth's Attorney Mintree Foleys. The nature of this consultation while not known, may be presumed. A betaled report of the amount of money collected during the recent rally of the True Reformers is now expected and may be given to the public shortly. It is reported that no record can be found as to what was done with the money realized by the long list of mortgages put upon the properties of the Order and its branches as published in our last issue NOT IN THE LIMELIGHT NOW In all of his discussion Mr. Thes W. Taylor and the Old Folks' Home have not been considered and no legal steps have been taken to recover the money it is alleged that he hewed the Old Folks' Home, although Mr Taylor holds a clean bill" from (and Worthy Master A W. Holmes lawyer J. Henry Crutchfield is not talking these days although any reference to the affair causes him to snuffle blandly COLD NOT GET IT The Grand Fountain through in attorneys was not able to stop the sale of the True Reformers' Hall at Lansburg by injunction although they had the papers made out to take the case on an appeal to the Supreme Court at Worthingville. The movement was dislodged and the banks took to the new institution possession of the assets to which they have set up a claim. It now seems that the receivers delayed the solar powers blow as long as possible in order that they might not seriously handle an the organization until it had a fair chance to get upon its feet again. NOT INCLUDED It now seems that all of the present officers with the lone exception of Dr John E Metwweather and such other officials who have for the first time accepted office will be held responsible for the condition of the Order of True Refiners Grand Worthy Master A W Holmes' declaration that he had only been in office a little more than one month is discounted by the fact that he has been a director of both the Grand Fountain and of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain U O True Reformers for many years and the receivers are holding the direct or responsible as well as the present officers. It may be though that Grand Master Holmes will be able to relieve himself of this alleged responsibility. GRAND WORTHY MASTER STEADY Grand Worthy Master Holmes has kept a level head so no speak and has shown no disposition to resent anything which has been said concerning him and his administration. The management has been criticized for its disposition to continue to refuse to take the public into its confidence and to disclose the true condition of the Order from an official standpoint. The creditors of the Order continue to be patient realizing that to press for settlement of death claims to the 'breaking point' would lead to the ending of the present regime and the winding up of the affairs of the Order THE ITEMIZED LIST The following itemized list of the populations of Cashier It T Hill as copied from the original report of the receivers of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain. U O of True Reformers, will be interesting to the uninhibited and a source of wonderment to those skilled in book keeping. The latter will be surprised to learn that he presumed that such barefaced frauds would not be discovered, unless he thought that as usual only committees from the Grand Fountain would examine the records in a portuatory manner and take his statement as to their correctness at its face, value. It will be observed that he would not charge some checks to his own account. This would be the same as taking the amount of the check from the cash drawer. Under date of May 16, 1806, he entered a check of $ 1379.50 as $ 379.50. This was equivalent to taking a thousand dollars out of the vault, of the bank for his own use. It is charged that 'in Shortage $40 15/16 The total of the account due is Lager $710.04 Seller $41 70/12 THE DEPOSIT SIDE On the deposit side of his account it will be noticed that Cashier R T Hill under date of August 10, 1904 placed $75182 to his own credit without having put a payment in the bank. This was just the same as though he had stolen that amount of money from the cash drawer Under date of August 14, 1906 he deposited in the bank money to the amount of $14500 but when it was entered up to his account on the ledger it was $1,4500, and this was just the same as though he had taken one thousand dollars of the bank's money out of the cash drawer Under date of September 2, 1906 which was Sunday, he placed $7500 to his own account without having deposited the money in the bank This is the same as though he had taken $7500 out of the cash drawer The same tactics are alleged to The same tactics are alleged to have been resorted to by Mrs Agnea B Reege Memorandum of False Entries made in the account of R T Hill on the Deposit side of his account to the Books of the Barrings Bank of the Grand Fenland, United States of True Resolutions of Louisiana. Remission of Labe Litters made in the account of Agnes B. Brown on the Deposit Sale other account on the Books of the Savings Ration of the Great Foundation United Order of Trust Refunders of Virginia 1907 July 6 Increased Deposit $ 10.00 $ 5.00 1907 Feb 2 Not on Day Book 30.00 1907 Jan 4 Not on Day Book 30.00 Feb 6 Not on Day Book 20.00 April 1 Increased Deposit 30.00 15.00 April 16 Increased Deposit 10.00 6.00 May 5 (Sun) Not on Day Book 20.00 June 7 (Sun) Not on Day Book 40.00 Sept 3 Increased Deposit 20.00 15.00 Oct 7 Not on Day Book 27.00 Dec 4 Not on Day Book 20.00 1908 Jan 8 Not on Day Book 15.00 Feb 5 Not on Day Book 20.00 March 14 Not on Day Book 25.00 June 2 Not on Day Book 15.00 July 25 (Sun) Not on Day Book 40.00 Aug 6 Not on Day Book 25.00 Sept 7 Not on Day Book 25.00 Nov 8 (Sun) Not on Day Book 28.00 Dec 6 Not on Day Book 45.00 1909 May 20 Not on Day Book 30.00 June 7 Not on Day Book 30.00 July 10 Not on Day Book 18.00 1910 Oct 20 Not on Day Book 15.00 ... $ 418.00 783.28 TOTAL AMOUNT.....$410.28 Editor The Planet: The receivers' report in the Savings' Bank matter is now public property. Discarding general statements, the report, in brief, emphatic language pronounces the Grand Fountain insolvent. In support of this conclusion it goes on to call attention to voluntary admissions made by the present officers of the Grand Fountain and points with defiance to certain deeds executed by the Grand Officers of the Grand Fountain actually conveying all the property of the Grand Fountain to the bank, except certain equities held up after a protest from me and members of the board of directors. HAVE NEVER CONCURRED The receivers, who are gentlemen of the highest character, will, I am sure (though I have talked with neither of them concerning it), gladly inform the public that I have never concurred and do not now concur, in the position assumed by them, but on the contrary, I have 'protested against their attitude, and do now assure the public that in my humble judgment the Grand Fountain is solvent—has always been—that acts done by its officers not contemplated in its charter or authorized by amendments, are ultra vires (beyond the power), and only blinding upon the individuals who attempted to usurp authority which in law and equity belongs alone to the stockholders, or duly accredited DOURTS THE LEGALITY There are in fact grave doubts as to the legality of nearly all the transfers made by the officers of the Grand Fountain for the right to sell property held in trust and belonging to corporations such as the Grand Fountain is attended with more for malities and restrictions than the right to buy property for such corporations. The assumption by the receivers that the Grand Fountain is indebted to the Savings Bank rests not alone upon the records, but more particularly upon the acts admissions and conduct of the present executive of officers. Whether or not they acted in good faith, time alone can tell. FACTS CITED The facts are as follows: When the Grand Fountain was in extra session last February it was generally understood that it had only two properties—the hall on Second Street, Richmond, and the Reformers' Hotel in the same city. I questioned the truth of this assumption on the floor of the convention as delegates will remember. It was then that we heard considerable about resulting trusts" and "legal titles in one individual or corporation and the beneficial interest in some other individual or corporation." Nevertheless I continued to ask questions, until the whole delegation coming from twenty-seven States and the District of Columbia, began to grasp the situation. My election, as general counsel followed, as a "result of the position I took although I came to me (as I think the delegates know) as a complete surprise EXECUTIVE BOARD SELECTED Immediately following the adjournment of the extra session, upon a motion offered by Mr W P Burrell an executive committee was appointed composed of seven members of the board of directors five of Richmond and Mr A Humblies, of Lynchburg and W R Griffin, of Washington D C. The board will remember that the reason for the selection of these gentlemen as members of the executive board was that Mr Humblies could reach Richmond in four hours and Mr Griffin in three hours in case any matter of importance required action. Menwhile I had asked the board that Mr J. C Robertson he allowed to remain in and around the office until I could get from him an idea of its operation, and the board will remember that I used this language "I must get my hands on the man chinery of the office," and to Rev W T Johnson, a member of the executive committee, and the only gentleman present that I knew, I wrote that I wished it understood that I took charge of my office at once. I am sure he will be glad to bear testimony to this fact THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE Now here is where, the trouble he gan. The board of directors had scarcely reached their homes when this executive committee was convened and a resolution passed an thorizing the deeding over to the bank all the Grand Fountain's property except the hall and hotel. I am informed that Mr Robertson, who knew that he had no power in matters of so grave a nature, advised the board to take this action. Mr Robertson was a director of the defunct bank and under certain conditions might be personally liable. This was also true of two other members of the executive committee—i.e. their property might be liable. Neither Mr Grifun or Mr Humbles was notified. DR. MERIWEATHER PROTESTED In this connection it ought to be recorded that Dr. John Mwerweather showed himself a real hero and lover of his people. Although he was a large depositor and members of his family and patients who trusted their money to his judgment were vitally interested in the Savings Bank, nevertheless he questioned the legitimacy of the transfer, and it was only after the most positive assurance that the failure of the committee to deed the property would result in a number of aspirate suits, entailing large expense, that he consented to vote for the resolution. Dr. W. T. Johnson. As soon as I found that the grave blunder had been made, I retained the firm of Montague & Montague and Hon. R. E. Bryd to assist me in an effort to undo and repair the damage, done all, of which, I can show from my records. We still claim the property thus conquered as the property of the Grand Fountain. We deny that the Grand Fountain is indebted to the bank, and in support of this contention we call attention to the fact that the Grand Fountain was always the largest depositor of the bank, and even if the bank lost money. It was in great measure the Grand Fountain's money; and it is ridiculous to say that we owe another man because that man happened to lose our own money. 1 The receivers are in honor bound to protect all the depositors as far possible, and protecting their interests, the Grand Fountain will get its due. DIRECTORS ARE LIABLE If the directors are liable—and it certainly seems that they are—they will be rotentlessly pursued, and no earthly power can prevent the present attorney from keeping the people advised as to the exact status of affairs. We are paying off death claims at a marvellous rate, under the circumstances. The Insurance Commissioner, with extraordinary zeal and enthusiasm, is lending us every aid possible, and the loyalty of the brotherhood is one of the wonders of the century. WILL HUNT DOWN THE QUILTY. Investigations are being pushed to ferret out the guilty, and suits will soon follow thick and fast, and it is even possible that there will be many criminal actions begun. The courts in Virginia are exceptionally honorable and just, and we stand to have our rights fairly determined and absolute justice done. The present board of directors, with few exceptions, are men of independent livelihood, men who stand for much in their community, and the people need fear no secrecy or understand dealings from them, but may be assured that the board will regard their office as a public trust and not as private property J THOMAS NEWSOME. COTTALAND PENNINNIE HOLLAC. BAILEY DEFENDS SECESSION Saya Jefferson Davis Was Less Responsible For War Than Any Other Man. Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, while addressing the Confederate vet pranks in Washington in observance of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, said Davis was less responsible for the conflict between the states than any other man, and was the last man in all the routh to abandon the hope of a reconciliation "The truth of history was with the Confederate people," said the senator "The fathers would never have formed this Union if they had not believed it could be dissolved for cause, if the southern people believed that they could not remain in the Union with honor and safety they had a right to secede." Senator Bailley presented an aged colored man, James A Jones, who served as Mr Davis body servant. "He is the only man living," said Senator Bailley, "who knows where the seat of the Confederate states is and he won't tell." MAINE'S DECK EXPOSED Wreck of Battleship Comma Into View After Thirteen Years. The work of pumping the water out of the cofferdam which was built around the wreck of the battleship Maine in Havmna harbor, was resumed. The water had been lowered a total depth of three feet, two inches. At that time the top and sides of the wreck's afterdeck were beginning to come into view and the sighting hood of the afterturret on the port side was just awash. The greater part of the afterdeck is now clearly visible, showing the confused masses of wreckage covered with marine growths. The forward part of the ship, upon which the greatest force of the explosion was exerted, is still submerged. It is the intention of the army engineers to proceed slowly with the pumping until the level of the water will have been lowered five feet, and then suspend all operations upifl the arrival of the board of American army officers. After the American officers arrive the work of removing the water from the cofferdam and preparing the wreck for full inspection will proceed rapidly. Sn SITE OREN Pee Se ra or a En eee eo RS RR Sea Sn ena ou CONES HO aera TONES ERT RCS CT aE TN MRCS ene TIL SiO tn MOCAN ATR ROA Sian Bp) TL CaRueE cesT Ree re SAV DCO On Verto Sree i RUTAC EE ay Dic Coe SED CES SACL SER Ge ay cared aa PAB AR OND? UATE Re ER pe OR a ENS SEAT aCe NIE SUE eee is MOND: PLANER RICHMOND, VIRGINIAN cc Ue ns ee eee VIRGINIA: Be Sed AG, ca Ne VS [ROR AL SARS A nls MANET Se RARE SCR nN ere Se Bae Cae t OSS. re Soe . vag Ae: ‘ ‘a a sane at tes ore nee * Rec VS getaas fan — SATURDAY .........JUNE 10, 1014 ‘TAFT DENOUNCES RACE PREJUDICE Leterly Reprinands Army Onicer Who Displays tt. | Washington, D, C., June 5.—Pres tdent Taft created something of & sensation when ho rebuked Colonel Soseph Garrard, commanding tho cavalry post at Fort Myor, Va., for dluapproving Privaté Frank Bloom's offort for promotion because of Bloom's Jowlsh jurentago. Colonel Garrard’s Indorsoment charactorized Jews as not “desirable social nss0- clates." ‘and tho Proxldont Imme- Gately directed the Secrotary of War to Inventigate tiie matter The Prev {dent stamped the oxpresiions as “hose of narrow raca,irejudice.” He rnlwo aid It was bard to deal with the miattor ¢with patience and without Condepnatory words that had better nat be mritten ‘The War Department pointed out that there have beon many Jows aimons the arniy officers Notwithstanding the _ PRsident’s Inquiry directed to tho SecretafY of War, as to what shold bo done to Giscipifne Colonel Garrard, the incl dent has beon practically closed with the rebuke. ‘The department decided that there was no ground for a court: inartial, an officer being at Itborty to express’ his actual tollet ae to. tho avalinbility’ of any candidate trom the ranks, It was concluded that the President's purpos wonld be Dest rerved by the publication of the correspondence and with the delly. ery-of copy to Golonel Garrard with 2 letter from tho Secretary of War duly admontaning him not to repeat tho Indorsemgat. LIKE “TRUE AMERICAN SOL- DIER." = The young soldler involved In tho controversy Is Ffaak Bloom, n pri vate in Battery FP, of the Third Fiela Artillery, und ie now on duty on. the Mexican border. Several Fears ago Bloom wha urged for AW Dolntment to West Polat.” Prosldent Rodeovelt. not boing In a position at the time to mako the appointment, suggested to Bloom that ‘be onitst And "like a true American” nent hi ‘ny up fmm the ranks. ‘The ‘youn man took the advice, ektered the ar- ing whare he fe sad to have mada a kood record and recently took his {iret eaamination for promotion It Iw said that Bloom failed in this ex Ainination put In vlew of the pref tudlce browsht about by Colonel Gar: rard's Indorsement. Bloom willbe ordered up for Gnal examination Suain ineSeptembor On thin polnt, President Taft in a totter to. Simon Wolf, of thin city, entd: “1 shall tako stepa to nee that the examination to which Private Bloom Tx subjected ts one In which he vill be xlven a falr chiinee and not be ex yosed to any unjunt- prejudice" Colonel Garrard’s indorsoment on Moow'n papera, to which President Tatt vo strongly ahjected when Brought to hie attention, was ae fol lows “Phe applicant tir a son of Joseph A. Bloom. of Jewlsh persuasion, sho ix now and tine bnen for n number of years, n tailor at this post Ite inwoclntes ne far ay 1 know. und that of his family have boen with eu: Usted men. and thele fhinslles. anil hate been rerpectatlo The young man Is undoubtedly honest gad. up- Hight, ambitious and probabld deser ving.” but for the reanonn stated Wottid not desire hin tn iny command ax an officer and a social und pernan Ul asnovinte The prerenco of | the Applicant's Tamfly atm military pos would be subversive of discipline and Thelt. probable treatment a Rouree of ‘nortifieniian to them and frequent cause of trovblo to ronmanding of ficers Prom an experience of many yeara 1 have found excont In few cases, few communitios whore Jews fre récelved ax desirable social as socintes.” + TAPT'S LETTER TO SECRETARY In directing the Secretary of War to Inqitire into tho matter, Preal dent 'Tatt wrote “My ‘Dear Mr. Secretary | “I Inclon’ herewith a letter from Simon Wolf, a lawyer and a very Prominent and respected citizen of Washington’ ‘This giver to tho rtnte- mont ho makes avery. presumption of accuracy and truth It Is dlfenlt tor me to read tho indaraement af Coln- nel Garrard, set forth In thin Jeter, with pationce and without condom Natory words that had better not be written, T wish you would examine the record and verify the qtatomenin of Mr Wolf, and: if he ban not been ninipformed.-and nin letter -actn forth the factn—-direct that this young man do admitted to examina: ion fora Moutonancy In the nrmy ‘Tho statéments made by Colonel Gar- rard are nol true with referencd to the standing.that Jews havo In thie country: and I rosent, a8 communior- inchlet of the army and tho navy. that any officer of elther ahould por. mit Mmaelf tn an-ofisiat dooumont Sate Rivne, 1: Sh Ona! Cnonmnent * THR REPRIMAND, Words of the roprimapd {asuod trom the White House today was an follows: ‘ “The President Weects the Socro- tary‘of War to {nform Colonel Gar- ratd that. his aititade In thie matter tbe (strongly ‘disapproved: as contrary ‘to: the ideals" and. principles of this country, **#'Cojonek> Garrard has been told dhat he had not the morat right tc foxert Influence i hia official position to, bar the advancement of a courage ‘Gag and offctent young. man simply deckuse that man was of Jowlsh race and that such procedure indicates not only projudice that should not be found in an oMfcor of his position and exporionce, but amonnts to fatlure to justly and fairly consider the morits and oluime of the appli ennt showh by his ofictent and ox fellent standing {n the mental oxam- nations, “Colonel Garrard has been ad monished to avoid & repetition of the action teken In this case." | FROM LOS ANGELES. Seal Garden will open on’ May 30, by the Order of the Elks Soctoty, to be run as a pleasure resort uifger thele management for the people of their race. This ts tho firat timo in the bistory of {.08 Angeles that such preparation as this have been mado. In the past year the Nogro had to take hin ebances on hiring such ro- sorte that he could get for tholr plonsure during the summer scuson. There bave been sevoral attempts made ly our busineus men to secure places for thelr own pooplo, but hhuye always met with failure. ‘The [lke In making thefr solection of ISenl Garden was indeod a wise move ‘on thelr part The garden te located Jon Long Beach line, Just onteide the ity limits 20 minutes’ ride trom ‘the city will take you to tho on trance The park Is beautifully dec Jornted with palm trees and ts latd joft wit} beautiful flowors, and to gethor with Its many amusoments JIN make one of the most Idea! pleasure resorts known for the pleas ura of the people. | ‘The soctety hus already spent $500 for Improvements, and we have al reason to belleve that the park will he conducted 1m the very boat order 1g there will bo absolutely no atimn lants sold on the grounds at any time 1,500 peopla enjoyed thomselve: immensely at the new pleasire Tresor! on May 30th Great credit Is duc the organization for the move whick hag been mage > Don't fall to visit Seal Garden where plenaure and order are com bined Memorial exerclees were held ot Memorial Day (May 39) at the Mt Zion Baptist Church. The exereixe: were witnessed by more than flv hundred persons, Lieutenant Wil Mama delivered the oration, whict wan well received by all. ‘Dr Hil ie much olated over tie all-arouné muectss that attended the aftale | . A D LACEY News From Staunton. Staunton, Va. June -5 1911 Editor The Richmond Planet The police justice tries some onc nearly every day for drunkenness in thie dry town Somebody wuat have found another “Mary in the well.” for three or four were tried this moraine for helng drunk | A petition Ia being circulated to ask the judge of the Hustingg Court to call an election vome time in July Tho worse tornado that Staunton has ever witnested awent over the town yerterday afternnon Hun: roofed housew and churches aud shat tered windows. tore treen from thelr roots destroyed. crops, killed ponitry And did all sorte of damage to other property The lows to the city Is heavy nnd the loss to the connty tn crops {e exttmated nt one million tol Inrk and only one fitni In Staunton Ik Insured agalnat storme The winds atryck from the northeast. 1x {eal the alement of heaven were Toore ‘The writer was looking through the window and eaw a great motion with: a pleture of m atorm, white misalies, ranging In size front fa enmall niarble ton gooKe MK We have had many disasters Sep tember, T870 Staunton waa badly flooded, in the summer of 1895. we had an epldeinte of small pox, in September, 1896, we had our bixkest flood Jn August, 1919, we bad our isnstroux envein. and In Mareh. 1911 our blxgent fire June 4. 1911, came our frst tornada~and yet_we are still forging away and rejole Ing that It war no wore There were no Hvew lust and no one wax Intured, go far ax known Qu Inst Thursday ovening tho Int form Tank helt thelr xecond outing at Wighland Pork and realized a good mum You knéw thes are pre: paring to meet you at the Grand Lostge in Petersburg Your paper te a Kreat favorite Mra, Amanda Ross, who went 6 Charlottervilie evernl weeka Ryo with Dr St W. Pannell to undergo A very: werious operation, returned to the city lant Saturday greatly Im- proved Allan Inte Snekson, who paid a twoweeks’ visit to her mother, Mra, Sarah Jackson, left Iaat night for her home In Chiego * IMA Summer Rehool and Chautauqua of the National Religious Training : School, Durham, N.Y , ‘The National, Noligious Training Schoo} Spons.tho Summer School aad Chantauqua July 6th and closes Augnat 13th. Teachors and lectur- ers who aré specialists In thoir particular Naoq will bo in charge of the Instruction and lectures, Mare advantages offered in theology, toach- ere’ courses, IMterary, domestic rctoneo, business and Industry. Many evltcations alroady fled. Last sum- ror’s auccoss tolls 18 we will not be thle to accommodate all of ocr appll- ‘carts. FI) your anovlication with us how, Bulletins ready after March 1, 391i, annonneine, all features, For fgll particulars, address NATIONAL RELIGIOUS ‘THMINING SCHOOL, : Durbw 1, N. O. Jas. F, Stepatd, President. Metropolis — Allon’s Nutfonal News Bureau, : New’ York City, May 22+ 1911. Rov. Dr. C. T. Whlker,“of Augus- ta, Ga., who starfed the. ¥. -M. C. A. in Now York ton years ngo when he was pastor, was the principal spoak: erat the tenth anolvorsary oxerclecs of tho Y. M,C. A,, held fast Sunday at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, He spoke on the Y. M. C. A. as an im* portant factor In race development. Di, Walkor thrilled the sudlence, whfch was the largest gathoring acon at Mt, Olivet {n youre, Besides tho 400 young mon who ropresonted the entire jjemberabin of tho association, fully 000. were present. Rev. Dr. W. Hl. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark’s M. E. Church, presided, and called on Rev. Dr. W. A Byrd, editor of the Rochester Son- {inel, who gave the fovocation. Spe: eMn-aqle wore nung by J. W, Price and Miss Ireno Noorman Dr. Brooks made a brief introduc- tory address, in which be pralsed Dr. Hayes, tho new pastor, and pre sented Dr. Walker, calling him a world-wide traveler, o resownod preacher and great lecturer. Dr ‘Whilker made a characteriatic address in which he told of the work of the Y.M C. A, In its early struggles He quoted statistics furnished by the nec: retary of the Apsoclation that Jus tied the existence of the Ausocla thon. At the conclusion of Dr Walker's addrose a stieclal collection was ta kon. which amounted to $500 Mr [Bett, the secretary. sid a movement In on foot to havo a new building to cost $300,000. 4 NEW -YORK ANNUAL CONFER- ~ "ENCE MEBTS. ‘The New York Annual Conference of the A. ME Church met at Bethe ALM EB Church Inst Wednesday for a week's seasion Bishop J Wesley Gaines prealded at the conference. 1A large attendance of viaiting pir tors and visitors were present at the opening session The onference wa: formally opened lnxt Wodnesday morningp- In the ovening a roception was tendered Bishop Gaines by the conference {The evening sessién hogan with Rev A Te Arnett, of Philadelphia reading Hymn 210; Rev W. H Da (vie offered prayer. Roy Dr RC Ransom, pastor of Bethel. made the address of welcome Counsellor J L. Curtis spoke on behalf of — the chureh Rev. Dr W. 1 Brook: spoke on behalf of the churches Fred R_ Moore, editor of the New York Age, spoke on behalf of the citizens. Other aparkers were Rey |atires, Rev C. C Wileon. Rev A R Cooper, Walter Mason and Rev. J {M Henderson. |" at the concinston of the adsregae: [Bishop Galnes waa sendered a recep tion, |The conference closed Sunday eve rning | At Mt Olivet Bartist Church las |Sunday Rev Dr Hayes the new pas tor, prenchai at both servicer. Th attendance was nnuatally Inrgo ane the services Interesting. Tho au ject of Dr. ayes’ xermon In th ‘morning wae" Witnenses For Christ pate Rosetta Lawson. of Washingtor was present and spoke | PLANETSCORRESPONDENT OFF TO NEW HAVEN. Flevoland G Allen manager of Alletts News Dureaw and. correspon Ment for, Ihe Richmond Planet loft Twesluy for New Maven Conn to fever {ut New. England, Contorence ofthe AMR Zon Church Hes SO send news af the conference Us The Planet |The Mlchmond Planet Ie one of the most popular parwrs tn the Metra alls GENEMA\L NOTES Dr Torker T Washington by ee yeetesl to tor Maryland goine time In Infy. Your corroupondent In ex [pected tn accompany Wm Pe Cot Walker, of Augusta Gn . in im Sew York lle Inept peaking engagements WoW Hucleda of Portsmouth Va. te among the visttars tn the Mofropolie The Southera etudente are arrty- Ing In New York they represent every Southern college and. univer mtg De WD Gray, a recent graduate lof Meharry Medical “Calleges "Fn Sew York CLEVELAND GALLEN. ‘Correspondent True Reformers Reorganize—New York Diviston of the Grand U. ©, TM. Geta Rack Charter—Hend quarters to Ho ip Nrooklyn—Ite- organization of New ¥ork Divinton —No Oppesition to Grand Foun tain of CO, TR. (Sperlnl to The Richmond Planet) ee ay Cleveland Gi-Altes 7 ee oe ee New York City, Juno §, 1911. | Al A meeting lant Wednesday even ing at Merey Baptint Church, char. acterized by much eathuslasm, the [New York Disialon of the Grand Unt tod Order pf True Reformers held an Intorerting meeting at which time f complete reorganization wan — per: fected and a now charter prosenied permitting the organization to con tinue to do business In New Yark ity bnd State, "The new organization. which will operate under tho namo of the Afro ‘Amorican True Reformers of New York, I incorporated under the Btate lawe of New York with a stronger fintracint becking than the former or- ganteation. Tp an Interview with Chief J. Mor- kan Taylor, formor chief of the Now York Division of the G..U. 0, T. R. ho anid “that he -wanted thit undor- stood—that reorganization of the New York Division was not an oppo- sition to the Grand Fountain of U. 0. T. R., with headquarters In Rich. mond, but simply an effort to hold the people of tiris State together In order to form a strong organisation to, do. business ln New York." “Tho atinoyncemont of the meeting of the True atorssnin brought. .out an enthuslestto audipice, ‘who pleds- od thelr euppart as 'loyal-trus Ro- formers to the ‘ndw organization.” ‘The meeting ‘was addressed , by prominent men and women of ‘the Order, who urged the former mom: ers to como back“in the Order and unite with atnonger forces to build ug the work of the True Reformers, J. Morgan Taylor, formor chlof of the New York Division of tho Grand U. 0. T R., presided, ond tn a ro markablo addross told of tho plans of tho now organization, Other speakers wero Rev. §. W. Timms, of Brooklyn: James H. Craw loy, former ehiof of the Brooklyn DI vloion of tho Grand U.O T R, and Counseltor Delsarte, who preseuted the organization with the new char tor, Counsellor Delsarte congraty luted the organization on stomutnx the tide agafast auch opposition and beginning anew a work 40 well Lo- gun Tho Intention of the New York Division to reorganize was looked forward to with much dolight here In the motropolfe, where the organt zation bad wivlded such a wide in- fluence. | 3) Morgan ‘Taylor and bly torees were determined that the organiza tion would not go down, and silently went about their task ‘to resurrect the unme of the organtration Tho new officers of the arganiza ion aro men of tnsogrity and worth and are the following Prealdent Rev S WL Timms, Vieo President J Morgan Taylor, Secrotury, Jame W Patterson: General Manager. Jus. Crawtey and Rev Powell, pastor of the Rethany Baptist Church of Brooklyn The headquarters of the new orca nization will be at 553° Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn. ‘The new organization ix making special Inducements to former mom bers of the Order to,como in the nev organization, Tho foorganization 0 the New York Division of the Gran¢ UO T. R. Is in keeping with th general awakening sea among Tru Reformera throughout the country News comes from Richmond, tha the general organization with hend auunrters there IK recovering from It misfortune and will continue to dc business ‘The news of the awakentnk tn tht gixantic organization fk rerelved b: ‘Afro Americans — throughout th country with cheerful hearts TARTSHORN MEMORIAL, COLLEGE Commencement Exorcisex—A Suc coxstul Seaston. Hartshorn Memorlal College 1m der the able management of Rev 1. 1 Tefft and his able comp of Instruc tare, cloned one of Ite most success (ai weestona, May 18, 1911, at 8 1 in the College Chapel. The exercise: erg Infetoating and Instructeve Many af the graduates named on the Normal program ore excused ‘The exercises were as follows ! eae ere Chorus -- Unfold, Ye Portals Gounod ‘The President's Glow Club Prayer Antitem Regua Terrar Roo Mise ‘Tharps and First Stnscing, Class Essay --Mastery of Our Mothe | Tongne Mog Mary Maud Bassett Hampton Fexay That Whieh ts Best In Life Miss Hostolle Vircinta Jonox Richman Anthem A Spring Sense Minsat ‘The President s Glee Club” Escav. What We Owe to Coming Generations, Mise Julia Geraltine Morgan Cheistianstorrie Essay The Mrral E'ementy ina Snecussful Life Mise Ellen Coliforsta MeGuinn Phobias Quartette Rolls Marttey Missex McQuinn ston Wood | etiand Jotnagn * COLLEGE PRET \VRATORY Fycay The Cost of Fiherty. Mis Luey Wit Johnson Fredoriekstarg Bexay A Word Filly Spoken Miss Ora St Clair Williams, Danville Anthem 1 Wil Lif Cp Mine Eyes Lutkin Tho Prestdent’s Glea Club. Muele Diploma Mise Revell Hughes, Huntineton Wo Vn AD GRADUM RACE ALATREL IN ARTO = Eseay—-Auguatine and August! -ntanism, Min Pauline Elizabeth Dinkins, Selma, Ali Proparatory Divlomas » COLLEGE DIrLOMA, Soxtette Re Glad, Lave and Lad 1 Gumbert Mises MeGuinn ‘Tharpa, Alx- ton, Wosdaon tohneon * . ‘and Wiben Nortial Diplomian AWARDING OF PRIZES | x | Chorna-* Hall, Morning Voices, | Ashford Quartette and Firat Singing Class The twenty secani annual reunion and colebration of the Alwinnno AK noriation took plc May 39th at 21 POM Mrx AW Hunton, of Drooklyn, N ‘Yay wan the speaker for 1911. Tho anbject wax “The For- ward Movement Amonk Colored Wo: men" Mise fora # Kirby, | Ue SVeTePeeseeesecereeey . Residence, 1823 12 8t, N.W. | ; "Phone, Main 2824.) ; } MEANNETTE GARTER } PENSION AND CLADE ATTY, | ; NOTARY PUBLEO, : Phe Vourhers Exocnted, ; > it, N. W—Fitat Floor. ; : Washington, D.G." - ; * 8g 100 Pounds of Ice on His | Back AND TEN POUNDS ON HIS HEAD. ye He sald the weathor was so hot ho was trying to keep cool. After talking with tho gontloman, wo sald to him, {f you go to 314 B. Broad Street aud buy “ono of those cool \lapacn or Serge Coats you will throw away your Icy burden, as theso goods will keep you cool while the weatbor fs hot, You wiN find there an up-to-date lino of underwear tn Balbriggan, B. V. D, and Porosknit, short or long sleeves, ranging in prico from 60c, to T6c, and $1.00 por suit; and also tho Popperell Joan Drawers, elastic seams, 36c, and 50c, per pair. We bavo ainglo summer coats fn Sorges, Alapacas aod Worstods, from 50c, up to $6.60, Our Straw Hat Department for boys and mon is up to dato in all shapes and styles, from 50c. to $3.00 por hat. ‘Alves a call, wo will teoat you right, atid do you good. 1. J. MILLER, Prop., 314 E. Broad, stréet. Near Corner Third Strect. (Wrong Shite) NATION'S HEADS & HONOR CARDINAL ‘Attend Qual Jubilee “For Gib bons In Baltimore, TAFT AND HOOSEVELT THERE Remarkable Tribute Paid to Church. man on Fiftletn Anniversary of His Prtesthood and Twenty-fitth as Car dinal. Gathered (rom the four ends af the land, distinguished mon of ali creeds assembled at the Pith Regiment ar. niory In altimore, Md, to participate Ja the most potable und remarkable tribute ever pald to a churcbwan In Amertea. With one mind and with ono pur pose thin concourse of people whe Med the great bulldlng came to do honor to James Cardinat Giobons fn Commemoration of a life of good worl.s, ‘which was crowned by the ad vent of his Afteth anniversary aan priest and the twenty Mth uoniver Jeary of tg elevation to the car d.natate The chief eaccutive of the Matlod himself came to laud the deeds of the Venwrable aud universally loved pre late "With him were the vice prest deut of the Caited States, rep orentn: Uyes of every branch of the nstiapal Eovernmeut, Justices of the suprene ‘court and wenibers of the daplomatte corps The governor af the state presiled over te oesesnbiage ‘The tit promt hebt representatives of every Creed, priests, pasturs, recturs, elders, rabbis [and otber ¢lilidien of churches oC all denominations swelled Uerurrang and Jolued thet ones in peuine ‘of the exghiphaiy Iie ut hes coworker for the good of manklod Such a xpontn neans demonstration war never be- fore seen on ty wemephere Mob ably the worklaser wite-wd a more Revers outlast of snthuswsm for ane w1t% Sbose theslogt al prtne tples many ‘ul the particiants wre at vark ane Telexiams an} special delivery tet Terk from Kovernors of atates tn tho Vited States and finm every mom- her of the senate and house of repre sentatives who coukd not attend the deimunsiration were revetved by the cardinal, while from faretsgi diplo: tats, aichbiniops and bishops trom Al aor the World came mex ARES Of congratn'ation TC was a great day. tu many way Tt brought together for the Hirst tae tn many mons Pres dent Tat and former President Rooke: Yell, und the inveting was Ko condtal that even Che atald congrosemen and senatura, who had uot hee altogether certain of the retarione of One two men, were musprised + OF the xpeorbea made, thors of tho president wnd Colonel noses elt, nest to that of the caritinal commanded the greatest attention, and hat dealt WH religions Lberty and toleration The fo mergresident mase a ido Wed Ait and was cl cored’ again and again when In the course of lus address he fald the tine wuld comé when there would be Catuolle preshients as well as Protentuite aut Jews would be Presidenta ax weil na Gentiles Ht wan a really jovial event, tn whieh American good nature fund ttn bent and broadest expression For three hours over 18,000 meq women aud children atoin, for there were no nents on the mnin floor of the armory, In tening to the apeochien and applauded, Gtrikers’ Wives In Jail. Whilo singing “Tho (inion Forever." twelve wives and daughters of ntrii Jug miners of Westmoreland City were roturned to the county Jall at Greens ‘burg, Va Two af tho woinen took thele fotents Ith ther They porsiated In “rerenading” tho non-unlon miners by beating on Kettles and other kitchen utensils and by ringing bells, although they recently were released trom fall on hall. atter boing aentenced for the amo offchee. Diax Balls For Europe, Thé Hamburg-American lino atoam: er Yplrangs, having on board ox. [Prenidont Porfird Diar of Btoxico and hie party, sallod from Vera Crus, Moz, for Havre, Sratice, ‘The steamer goes to Europe by the way of Havana. General Diat's prew ‘ont Intention {6 to make bls home In ‘Bpaln. WILRERYOROH GH78 von naar. Qovd Work of Superintendent Joiner For the ©. N. and I. Departmont, | Wilberforce, 0., Juno & 1911, After a stormy ‘wosslon, the 79¢h Assombly of tho Obto Legislature hag Just adjourned. Aluwet overy In stitution In the State recelved a more or leas nevero shock, Witherforce aloe coming aut without a xerutel There are twentyulx State natty tloox for which the legisiatuge wus required to make aypropriations Out of the twenty-alx all but one suffer ed cuts In their estimates for ti" neil two years. * ‘On taking charge test fall, Mr Ww A Joluer, Installed a new and tw proved system of accounte for the achaol, and suggested change tn the method of subsuitting estimates for the appropriations. with the re sult that the appropriavion for 1911 and 1912 almost double that obtain ed for 1909 and 1910 There are four educational institu Hons in the State, for which the lex Islature appropriates — Wilberfor-s “fs one of these Institutions Tho thre¢ white colleges had their aypropria ‘tionk more than cut In haif, while the amount asked for Witberforsé was allowed to tho lant cont ]__ The spectal appropriations amonnt gp $9).22009. the pro rata of thy Kenorai levy due Wiiberforce for the two years will) be $46,600 This added to the special appropriation, makes for Wilberforce $127,720 8% for 1911 and 1912 > ‘Some of the notable tnereasen ar jag follows «The appropriation to 1910 wax $8,000 for 1911 $12,600 appropriation for Industries for 191) war $4.000 for 1911 It was SEA1T 86. Dut probably the most tmpertan increase, both as to amount and sip nifieance to the plant nt Unis. tim Is the Increase in, the amonut obtatn ed for repairs and linprovements which are badly needed upon th butldings and grounds The avers Jprtation for such purposes for th Hiwo preceding years wae ebghtee hundred dollars the amount carrie by the present appropriation for sn [purposes ts selghteen thonsand dol lara, of Just ten times the amoun |which was avullable for the frist tw: Ayenrs Many of the buthtings ur Ritch tn need of repair and much tn Jptovenent on the roundel Hmade porsible Rac the work has nor all theo Jaone on the outslde every teache [eho In now receiving less than 3) Hier month has heen slated for an tn lerense for weet year | TC CARTER Sey YOM © A NOTES, J The ¥ MCN fiterars was a ‘live number last Priday evening The }depate was Of a Kret Interest: Every man wag on the wate } ‘last Sunday was a day for much hard work | 9 to at the binding a speetil pra rin wos renilered by the workers ‘onthe YOM CA Seng Serinture Toon prayer Duet by Mosers Cars sud Johnson A xtwelal address (¢ The workers General Secretary +64 Hurrell Report far the sear by Crs iieting wae excelent made by thy secretary George Ro Burrell Sos tal pravers wore offered for the goad (he work Song West Me the The Sone fle MiP Hold Me Fast 4M pitted for work Con ME tn the City Home the Pauipitten was estromely use One fumate wax won for Chitst LF prisoner dn the eity Jall at 1 A Wotveepted Jose Christ ax thet personal Saviont trough the work of Che conuulttes Ss tw POM at the Tote Reformers Mall & great menting was heh) for men Row Manes Lake gave the men a staalelt address from the shout dor One man arceptel Chrtst The 'solox severed by Mr Toserh Drown were (row the rol wid all were Thetwed ‘These greater meetings hase ioe crowned WH unetected x ergs Thee shaw What ran be done fwhien we let Gad lead We praise the Lord and thank every man for DMs help Tn this spoetal ef at The mens teething WUT be at the YOM CoA tsery Sunday at son PM auto awe hone "PhS men of the Y MC 8 WHT detfver some pee tit addressex We are hoping for the Loe ot resale Trly God he finite) apun the work of thie YM CA im Haimond ) Men be on tine Sunday realy for hard ork and the other man Workers’ aneeting at the YW C A ate to M 1PM at the buttdny a spertal menting. far bayx | Mothers sepa your bows : Vn open meeting For en Sunday aw Marthe YMC Sun fort Service” Wari ringing. Come Bnd bring the other man To not stop praying for the YM ec. Reonens Lorimer Case, By a vote of ts to 20 the senate adopted a rosulution to revpen tho Jovestlxation of charger of bribery tn connection with Ulin election of Sone tor Lorimer, of Ilinoin The resolution directa the regular elections committee tu make tho in- qvirr Five More Postal Banks For Penna, Postmanter General Hitchcock haa designated seventy four mora aveund clnan perstoficgs, catered In forty: ono sintes, an postal atvinrx depost- tortor, effective June 27 Thoso Ia Ponneylvania follow Brownsville Connellsville, Johnsonburg, Ridgeway 4nd Shenandoah Few Dle From Smallpox. In nearly 20/100 canca of amalipor teported ta the United Btates during 1909 there wero only alnety-two deaths, making tho avorago mortality ‘rate lens than ono-halt of ono per cont. ‘The public health service statiatics apnounced show that eren this dimin- faned number of casoe by comparison with Inst year was excessive, AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. sate ppnenyst RICHMOND, VA. W. H. white, 601 w, Delan strest, Peter Thompson, 423-5, Marshall Street. R. B. Ssmpson, 623 N. 34 Bt. J. J. Nixon, 406 W, Leigh Stw Wm. H. Scott, 3218 E. Maio St. Miss Ruth Cary, 1018 'N. 34 St S: Winston, 837, Brook “Ave, J. S. M. Singloton, 28th aud 9-Aiile Rona. CD, Grist, 234 8, 2d Bt. William B Smith, 3 SV, Leigh St. Tom bird Tiomay Pago, 815 Stato Strect. R.G Douker, 619 N 2nd Street. cee meee Cte a Seer Virgil Minnis, 632 N. 2d Btreot James L. Stewart, 436 Brook Ave. ‘A.W. Vago, §21°N 30th 8t. 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DEMOPOLIS, ALA, Mixa Aunto 1, Spencer Nox 224 cNCAGo Hee ROM Harvey 1924 Stuto Streot. * DANVILLE, VA Clarence Galloway CAPE CHARLES, VA. JL. Cabnoiss ‘ WINSTON, NC : Lemuel Danks, $267 1-2 St. DALLAS, TRXAS Glimere & Baltimore, TIT Falemount Atrect + CINCINNATI, 0, UD “Brooks, 610 Y. eh’ St. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN MG Ruticdgs, Sr. 214 8. 84 BL. WASHINOTON, D.C... --- The Convict Lease System Deplorable Conditions----A White Lady's Plea--Mrs. Clarisga O. Keeler Makes Startling Disclosures. SIX (Continued From Last Week) Some disclosures made by the press on investigating committee showed political favoritism, etc. etc. All newspaper men were excluded from the room during testimony on familiarity in the pen, says the Wheeling Register. One of the charges made by the Parkersburg Dispatch was that money was received from convicts for neglecting to push them at the whipping post. One of the charges says the Wheeling Intelligencer was the finding by the doctor of the shone pro formally from Washington Walker (the negro) was put in the dungeon and when found was in a dying condition clothes wet, even almost police. He died eight days later. The doctor inferred that the man had been very roughly treated "etc. When he was received from Washington at the prison he walked with a lupus and was weak minded. The evidence showed that Walker's punishment had been hand-cuffing him up to the cell door for three hours at a time with his hands up the water core requiring the man to stand haken and have the water turned on him from a hose the man been given five days in the dungeon for having a dangerous knife. No note was taken of the case or report magisterial bright out in the testimony. The Wheeling Register in an editorial, denounced the whole work of the investigating committee as a force that not one-tenth of the utterness will have been exposed. The pentagonary revenue officer at the rate of $1200 for the last two years 1887-1889. And this is one of the pentagonaries where the nation's capital has for years been sending its consular reloges. Colonel Grimith J. Grimith of Los Angeles Cal. who told of his pride on life before the National Prison Congress held in Seattle Wa. August 1899 said. I took a pack of letters to twenty months at San Quentin to ceil my diploma from the Governor in December 1899. It was while serving my two years sentence there that I saw this free philosophy of reservation translated into idiosyncratic realist facts. I wish I could make it convincingly clear that the prison can never be reformed to be wrenched. * * In insanity conditions at San Quentin served their inmates, their theummatism, and other conditions and result in men who entered the pentagonary in perfect health emerging so physically disabled that they are necessarily burdens on society I have shown the over crowding and the degenerate views to which it gives rise—a matter that should enlist the immediate attention of every mother. The entire system is designed to break the constrict will and I have pointed out the unpleasant stings of turning this broken will into the world with the odds of against him and not really without an enemy in his pocket. Colonel Griffith, deserves the moral effect of the murder of several prisoners as the worst scary able. Torture was in constant use. Men went insecure from solitary confinement and would be more easily to transfer, then into other cells their appearance was so shocking as to produce a suspicious pathburst of indignation from the convicts who witnessed the transfer. MISFORTUNE TRIATED AS CRIM Congress Griffith tells of the work of the Griffith institute, machinery as applied to those who were only suspected of crime as he saw it on the Los Angeles county jail which is located in county jails in many other States which I might mention Hevas. I have known the jail to be crowded with men who assured me that their only offense was that they were out of work and money and were traveling in search of employment. When I came to examine the matter and I have my facts and figures from the court records I found that there were several classes of officials—deputy sheriff county constables and justice of the peace who had a direct financial interest in lodging as many men in jail as possible. Charles Edward Russell in his article on prisons in Hampton's Magazine of October 1909 tells the following story He says: "Columbus (Ohio) pentitentary, that grimy old dungeon has housed many desperate prisoners, and concoled many appalling cruelties, but of alibis prisoners of all times Ira Marlatt is conceded to have been the most desperate and the cruelties he suffered to have been the most savage. "I wish I could so tell their story," says Mr Russell "that every man and woman in this country would be compelled to read it for here is the heart of the whole matter, this is the perfect epitome of the prison problem and of the punishment problem." "Marlatt was a long-term convict. He was assigned to work in one of the shops. This shop was operated on the aluminic contract system. He became convinced that for some reason he was discriminated against. He complained to a guard. Result: He was or dered to be paddled for insolence. "The man had a powerful constitution and a powerful will." He "had been unjustly treated and then unjustly beaten." "When he went back to the shop he refused to work. They paddled him until there was no place to paddle. They had torn the skin from him. Then they hung him up in the bull's rings. Then they gave him the water cure. He could be embubled only to make him unconscious. All the force of prison authority was aroused. here was a prisoner whose spirit must be broken * * * To break it they beat the man within an inch of his life, and he nearly killed six guards * * * He made long a kelled looking stabbers of wire * * * One day he turned on the guards and with his wires sent two of them to the hospital * * * The others hurried him to the water cure and all but finished him * * * This time having exhausted upon him all the prison resources of beatings with a sanded paddle of bull rings and water cage the authorities had constructed for him a separate steel axe which he was thrust like a wild beast then forth to dwell alone. This gave was referred to as the 'Demon's Care' and Marlatt as the Demon. The guards amused themselves and took their revenge by biping at * * * their now insulted enemy. Mr Russell here tells how the prisoner sought revenge, and was sent to the inmate asylum. When he returned he was locked up in the demon's age * * * The guards took no chances with him * * * and passed his food and drink to him on long jobs. Some years he lived thus as a caged byen. One day Sealer Rose of Market to a noted public man and new member of the Board of Prison Managers came to the pentitary and asked for Murlatt They showed him the Deon's Cage. He asked for the key Guards and depot's role. In standby and protest. "He'll say if you go near him." "He's a be or I'd like to be in the sea or if I've the door." So he asked the dept. and Mr Rose asked Mr. The Sq. of the "Cage" dept with a letter he said to Mr. The Deon in two the preferred land in the "Sog" now. "Mr. Rose is a steele down. I want to tell you what he said." "The dept does so by side and he's a very good dept. It was the first time we were here," he said. He decided to take a visit to the town by a city's top city centre near the AP. He said he'd been in position to discuss and review and had given the life shows in the Department. No one had even left, and he had not kindly written, "We're the best of the wall I've got so much the warden." The man went to go to work said Mr Rose. "From that time on there was no more than with Marlatt." "You can see him in the prison now. He is one of the trustees janitor of the hospital, a model prisoner. Mr. I think the one of the pentitary is whose Washington his been sent The following story traces from the day 14, 1922, of Curtis Worldwide but the account of beauty of 1922 is of little value. times which I might give Very few victims of these camp torture were to be found in the Russian law who was rescued by the law and then won a world for a sum of money. The record is deferred to be placed this time. The writer says. The case of tallas is recent. The court for which Caitlin was handled to the overseer with his rights and his whiteness was unimprovement. This case is personally known to this paper. From his own view, the story of his wanderings and suffering, and Writhe Horgan rescue which took him, from bond are in accuracy. He was sitting his way across the country from New York to Florida at the year of an annual moment for years. New York Little Rivers, NY Calais was standing at the railroad station. A man applauded and offered a reward to his forehead. Who are you and where are you going? going 'I am looking for work.' Callas answered 'Have you any money?' Ten cents You are arrested He was looked up in a barn and the men they hired ten dollars and all expenses of the unemployed had been gathered in. After the trial the men were chained led to the railroad station and shipped to a small town in southeast Arkansas. What the men ate while traveling and the provisions the detectives guarding them were charged to the prisoners **** the debt of each prisoner was $90 although the railroad fare was $6.40 Calls say. As soon as we left the train we were surrounded by six negroes armed with rifles. We were neated in a wagon and went slowly through the forest. In front of the wagon rode a negro on both sides were negroes and behind us rode Mr. Simpson, the whipping boss, and Mr. Gentry, the superintendent. All were armed. "O'argirat at the labor camp they asked the men already there about the place. "You'll see for yourself tomorrow row" and one of them. "It is worse to live here than in hell Men are flogged and shot down." " DRIVEN BY THE LASH " "The next morning we formed two lines in the yard." *There were eight-five men white and black.* *"In front of us are two nongroes armed with rifles behind us the same, and on one side rides the overseer. To his saddle is attached a large whip with a heavy wooden handle, and a strap three feet long, three inches wide and one-quarter inch thick. The rear of this procession is brought up by a negro leading a pack of bloodhounds designated to THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "We stopped before a field sown with cotton. Bags were tied to our backs and we wore togather cotton. * * * Behind us was the overseer scolding and cursing us. He was particularly angry with one of the comrades Schmidt. Calling, he said, 'Are you going to gather cotton or not?' "I work for the first time," answered Schmidt, "as soon as I become used to it I will work faster, but I can't now." "You can't!" I'll teach you. "He dismounted and took his whip. "The overseer called two negroes 'Lie down,' he shouted to Schmidt. * * * At a distance stood the sentinels with their rifles and watched the proceedings. "The negroes threw Schmidt on the ground. One of them held his head the other his feet. The overseer took his whip in both hands shook it in the air looked around and then struck Schmidt on his naked back. * * * Schmidt cried out with an inhuman voice. The overseer became still more enraged and struck him. * * * Steven (times Schmidt arose with great difficulty and staggered to his place to work. Simpson * * * called out two more men and gave them five blows each. After that all worked faster. Before my arrival to the peanage * * * one of the white men tried to escape but * * * was shot down by a negro sentinel. During that time was also shot a negro and raced to death a white man. He was given twenty five blows of the whip, after which he died HUNGER AND DISEASE We were put to different work. We gathered cotton we felled trees cleared fields, etc. There was not one day in which somebody was not flung. Two or three were flung every day and sometimes the number rose to ten. Very often Mr Geny would become intoxicated. He would punish the sluggards him self and he flung them with all his strength with rage on the back, hood or any place where his hush could reach * * * * For the first two months of my life in the promage the number of white, we increase to forty-five out of the negroes to one hundred * * * * We were always hungry. Ex hated, felt off, we could find no rest even at night. Wash lash and hanger lash and work such our life and this miserable eviction was undermenting my health * * * * We forty-five men were lodged in one small room with four tiny windows. Along the walls stood bunnies for sleep two stories high * * * * The Sunday we stayed in bed all day under dirty of vermin like Mary of us become slack. From the first of January of this year the visitor was discharged * * * * He was taken by Mr Nil, an older man than Mr Simp so. He diked the negroes so that it gave him real pleasure in them. If a negro would say word in him he would beat him on the back with the handle of his whip. Calls had written letters which were forwarded to the State depart point at Washington PRISON FINEMENTS IN KEN TUCKY One of the first to traffic in the blood and blood of kentucks convicts after taking the keys of the prison called the prisoners before him and said, Men I am a man of few words and prompt action. I can do it to make money and I will do it if I kill you kill. A responsible man of the white race who had a thorough knowledge of the inside workings of the prison, said to the witter. Men fell at their work, work from dogging and when taken to the hospital died before morging from pneumonia and the strap Six days in the week the sash of the strap and the howling of the vitreus ring through the prison often the whole day long. Men took poke on others hung themselves, some cut off their hands and others cut their throats to escape the hudden thirst on them. This man said the informant who was a Christian minister "made $2000 in four years and literally killed 200 consuls out of an average of 570." The following extracts are taken from a statement of George P Chilin whose service as warden of the pen-Hontary at Frankfort Ky. began June 10, 1907. He says "I found it to be the custom to instruct guards to sign all charges made by the various foremen against the prisoners and that punishments in the brown shops especially had become so severe. And frequent that several prisoners had deliberately cut off their own fingers rather than he again whipped for not completing their daily tasks. I found that I was expected to continue the same system." "I issued a new order to all the guards that they were not under any circumstances to sign a foreman's charge unless they were convinced that it was just I was in formed that Midigan, the guard who by special order was in control of about 300 prisoners in the shop shop and had been the chief advisory of Acting Warden Hawkins in regard to punishing prisoners, was drawing a salary from the Hoge Magetometry Company in addition to the $75 a month from the State. It was then I refused to accept reports from Midigan." "But visited the shops in person each day." I found the prison record showed that while Acting Warden Hawkins with Madigan as chief adviser, war in control, from January, 1907, to June 2, 1907, 6,240 lashes were ad ministered to the prisoners, an average of more than 1,200 a month and * * * rapidly had the rate increased * * * in the month before it was app pointed. I found that a great number of these lashes were given for phishing tasks, and work, etc. On several ornamental prisoners were given twentyslashes for having money on their persons for business, talking in the dining room and many other minor offenses. I found on investigation that there were two staps used for whipping prisoners, both securely fastened to heavy wooden handles, and one made of very heavy leather with straight sharp edges and square ends. The latter strap was covered with blood. I found that the prisoner to he whipped was handcuffed, gagged by stupping a sheet into his mouth and securely bound to a board in a remote part of the cell-house strapped around the body and both legs, with paths down, while a gownful man administered twenty lashes on the naked skin: * * * With such conditions as these, with the report that Madigan was receiving pay from the company, can you wonder that I refused to accept his report: * * * I would not whip a prisoner unless I was satisfied no other punishment would answer. * * * "I was called to New York in October, and during my four days' absence they severely whipped a woman * * * I was cheerfully granted a leave of absence, as this exactly suited the plans of the commissioners. * * * On the day of my roturn to Frankfort nine prisoners were handcuffed to the board and given 180 lashes with a newer and heavier strap, and I had ordered the old strap trimmed down until it would not draw blood. I am informed that the new strap is covered with blood, and another finger has been cut off in the broom shop." Of course, Chinn was removed (See Shoe Workers' Journal for June 1988) The Louisville (Ky) Times of July 26, 1909, tells of the testimony of a former guard in the Kentucky penitentiary at Frankfort. When he was questioned by the State Inspector the guard said that at the beginning of his work, which was that of whipping the contracts, he whipped twenty persons one morning. During the one and a half years that he did the whipping he whipped on an average of five per day, except Sunday morning "He had whipped many men until the blood would trickle from them from the hips up to the heels and would splash from the strap a distance of several feet. He had to whip severely to hold his job" In the spring of 1909 Mrs. Caroline of Kentucky, made a report of inspection in the interest of the State Board of Health. The following few extracts are taken from her report. She says of some of the tells visited. These jails **.** are unit places in which to house human beings for any length of time. When, to the darkness and glom is added untidiness and filth these places become hotbeds of disease and contagion. There are some good jails in Kentucky **.** The general indictment of Kentucky jails is, sad to say, an indictment which holds against most jails everywhere that they are hotbeds of contagion and schools of crime that the prisoners spend their days in idleness that there is scarcity any classification of prisoners **.** Children used six to ten years have been for days or weeks housed in your jails in intimate association with adult prisoners. Women in this jail are waited upon by men prisoners, who unlock their doors **.** unattended by the jailer in person I found no matron in any jail visited by me **.** The women of this country should unite to protect womenhood from such a situation as this **.** I have found presumably modest women from the mountains serving sentences for moonshining **.** There is small hope that these women, committed to the charge of men sometimes men prisoners and associating with prostitutes will return to their homes as good as they left them **.** "Frankfort has the best conducted workhouse in Kentucky. At Lexington a most outrageous condition was found. The men and women prisoners occupy cells directly opposite and in full sight of each other the water closets in each cell being in full view. The women were worked alongside of men pounding stone. In your State prison at Frankfort I found a boy said to be fifteen, in stripes. It was said there was no room for him in the Industrial School. Another boy said to be eighteen * * * * * serving a life sentence. There is no school room for the prisoners." Mrs. Craig states a harrowing account of the treatment of unfortunate in the almshouses and insane asylums in the State and says, What is needed is to take all the State institutions forces out of politics to put some expert medical men upon your Borders of Control of such institutions." AL ARAMA CONVICTS DRIVEN LIKE SLAVES IN COAL MINES A correspondent of The Kentucky Post writes from Birmingham, Ala. under date of September 4, 1968. "To see a slavery with all its revolting cruelties, it is necessary only to visit one of the convict operating coal mines. The Pratt City mine near this city is one of these. It was with an air of pride they showed me through. The system had been somewhat changed, and I was to see how well it worked I saw the men, their quarters, what they ate where they worked and slept the four foot leather trace-strap with which they were whipped when their armed koon-creed taskmasters said they shirked, the rifle-arrying, square jaws guarded with their packs of bloodhounds kept always ready to track man down—I saw it all * * * "That leather bludgeon keeps coming to my mind. Each man is assigned his daily task, and if he fails he is strung up and whipped." "But," explained my guble. "A State man has Limited the strokes to twenty-one." "Can't they kill a man with that many blows?" "No, I should judge not. But they can cut him up pretty bad" "Four tons a day is the task required of an able-bodied man . . ." A man rated in the second class must mine three tons, and a third rate man two. Those who can mine more than four tons a day are supposed to get paid for an excess borer this amount at the rate of 25 cents a ton. "There were at the Pratt City mines about 1,000 men. About half were convicts of the State—long-term men; the others were the county's men, sent here for misdeemners. The latter class are leased to private mining companies at an average of $18 per head a month." "The State (felony) convicts are now worked by the State, and the companies pay the State so much a ton for coal delivered. The present rate is 17 cents paid by the Bloes concern for coal delivered at the heading, while The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company pays 74 cents a ton delivered above ground. Probably the worse feature of computer with free labour In February, 1909, the New York Globe sent a special correspondent to make an investigation of convict conditions in Alabama who gave a lengthy description of what he considered the good treatment of the convicts and said: "The State has made its penal system a great school of instruction." Quoting from the last report of the Convict Bureau, he says: "The State received for the labor of her 2,347 felony convicts about $500,000 as net profit." The not receipts received by lessees are known to themselves. The Globe representative, in describing the convicts worked by the Island Lumber Co., says: "Their prison is a long woodshed structure where the beds in rows are swung from the ceiling in rope slings. All men are together in one big room. * * Every Sunday those who do not care to do any special work for which they are specially paid, gather in groups, some swapping stories, others playing cards and many of the devout listening to one of the minister murderers preaching a sermon. There are four negro murderers who are preachers. * * The men are locked in the prison on Sundays." The editor of the Mobile Register in commenting on the story published in the Globe, said in part: "The Globe representative has decided that we are all wrong, that convict camps are the State's pride; that Alabama's penal system is a school of instruction . . . This is very surprising to the people of Alabama who have been here a long time and who have been reading in the newspapers about the numerous escapes from convict establishments, of murderers and other felons occupying positions as 'trusties', and that abuses of the system were at one time almost weekly occurrences, that men have been beaten to death for not performing their allotted tasks in the mines, that minor offenders committed for misdemeanors are more harshly treated in the lumber and turpentine camps than confirmed criminals, that these camps and the convict working mines are hotbeds of tuberculosis . . . " The subject could be continued in detail and the details would make horrifying reading "Against this knowledge of the people of Alabama, who have been observing the system for years, the New York Globe representative places the observations of one week in one lumber camp. He made a local investigation in half a day and spent Sunday in a convict leasing lumber mill north of Mobile . . . The facts remain which were not told to the correspondent that two murderers committed from Mobile escaped from the place in one year . . . * * that a negro murderer who got away from the camp just year stole whiskey, amus and ammunition before he left, outraged a white woman in a nearby settlement escaped from a mob bent on lynching him and is still at large. The legislature upheld the system and is partly responsible for it." FLORIDAS PRISON SYSTEM A correspondent of a Western paper writing from Jacksonville, Fla. on November 30, 1907, corroborates the statement of others in his description of "prisoners taken to isolated turpentine and lumber camps to slave under merciless overseers." He says in part, "One of the most aggravating of the Florida statutes is the vagrancy law. It means of this law any person of any color without apparent means of support, can be arrested at any time hailed before a justice of the peace, and sent to the chain gang for a period of from thirty days to one year. The person arrested may not have committed any crime * * * and may have been diligently seeking a job at the time of his arrest. Oftentimes, as the records prove, young white men from the North with money in their pockets have been arrested on suspicion and subjected to the brutal provisions of the vagrancy law. Florida has no pententary and her towns are poorly provided with jails and other places for the retention of criminals, a conviction invariably means that the offender is forced to work out his fine in some turpentine or lumber camp. Describing the work for turpentine operators, he says, The months of June, July, August and September are devoted to the boxing of trees and gathering of gum. It is a hot, unpleasant labor, and the camps are usually attainted milies in the forest near some milas mastic creek or swamp where mosquito tsoes sand files and repipies are prolific. Common labor is difficult to secure. In nearly every justice and police court in Florida agents for the turpentine and lumber camps lie in wait. A batch of vagrants, white and black are arraigned for trial, convicted and sentenced to the chain gang for six months by arrangement of the court, the agent steps up to the convicted prisoner and agrees to pay his fine if the prisoner will sign a contract to work out the amount in some turpentine or lumber camp. Ninety nine times out of a hundred the prisoner signs the contract and is transported to the forest. The court winks at the procedure * * because he is handed a bonus for every conviction. The officer who makes the arrest says nothing * * It is almost a universal practice for the operators to pay the officer five dollars for every person he arrests off the vagancy charge. As a result of this stimulated ambition there are few idle negroes in Florida outside of the large cities, and a white tramp is almost totally unknown. "Suppose a young white man attired in the humble garb of a mechanic sets out to walk from one town to another in search of employment. 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RICHMOND PLANET. ```markdown ``` TOBACCO TRUST MUST DISSOLVE Supreme Court Gives Government Great Victory. American and British-American Tobacco Companies are a Monopoly and Are Given Six Months to Reorganize. Evasion Strictly Guarded Against. The American Tobacco company and its accessories and subordinate corporations and companies, including the English corporation, the. British-American Tobacco company, were held by the supreme court of the United States to be co-partners in a combination illegal under the Sherman anti-trust act. The court sent the case back to the lower court with directions to hear further the parties so as to ascertain whether a new condition could not be re-created in harmony with the law. At the same time it specifically guards against any evasion of the decree. Justice Harlan concurred in part with the court's opinion and dissented in part. The decision was handed down by the chief justice, after a day devoted to clearing the calendars for adjournment till next fall. It comes as the end of a long fight, second only perhaps to that of the government against the Standard Oil, the decision in which was handed down two weeks ago. The court decreed. "First—That the combination in and of itself, as well as each and all of its elements composing it, whether corporate or individual, whether considered collectively or separately, he decreed to be in restraint of trade and an attempt to monopolize and a monopolization within the first and second sections of the antitrust law. "Second-That the court below, in order to give effective force to our decree in this regard, be directed to hear the parties, by evidence or otherwise, as it may be deemed proper for the purpose of ascertaining and determining upon some plan or method of dissolving the combination and of recreating, out of the elements now composing it, a new condition which shall be honestly in harmony with and not repugnant to the law. "Third-That for the accomplishment of these purposes, taking into view the difficulty of the situation, a period of six months is allowed from the receipt of our mandate, with leaves, however, in the event, in the judgment of the court below, the necessities of the situation require to extend such period to a further time not to exceed sixty days. "Fourth—That in the event, before the expiration of the period thus fixed, a condition of disintegration in harmony with the law is not brought about, either as the consequence of the action of the court in determining an issue on the subject or in accepting a plan agreed upon, it shall be the duty of the court, either by way of an injunction restraining the movement of the products of the combination in the channels of interstate or foreign commerce, or by the appointment of a receiver, to give effect to the requirements of the statute." Pending the bringing about of the result, directed by the court, each and all of the defendants, individual as well as corporations, are to be restrained from doing any act which might further extend or enlarge the power of the combination, by any means or device whatsoever. Rev. Grant Gullity of Heresy. Rev. Dr. William D. Grant, of Northumberland, Pa., who was tried on heresy charges before the permanent judicial commission of the 123d general assembly of the Presbyterian church, in session at Atlantic City, N. J., was found to have "laught doctrines contrary to the word of God as contained in the Bible and the Presbyterian Confession of Faith," by the report of the commission, presented to the assembly. The commission held that Dr Grant was guilty of an offense, under the rules of the Presbyterian Book of Discipline and recommended that he be suspended from exercising the functions of a minister until such time as he could "convince his own presbytery, that of Northumberland," that he has renounced the errors he has been found to hold and to satisfy the presbytery of his purpose to no longer teach them." A motion to adopt the report and confirm the judgment of the commission was put to a vote without debate. It was carried overwhelmingly, only a few scattered "nones" coming from widely separated sections of the assembly hall on the steel pier. Woman and Son Lynched. News was received in Muskogee, Okla., of the lynching of Mrs. Mary Nelson, colored, and her eighteen year-old son at Okepah, Okla. An armed mob battered, down the door of the county jail, bound and gagged Jailer Lawrence Payne, took the two negroes to the Canadian river, six miles away, and hung them to a bridge. The affair was kept very quiet and citizens of the town didn't know what had occurred until a farmer drove to town and reported the two bodies hanging to the bridge timbers. At the fall Payne was found bound and gagged. Two weeks ago Deputy Sheriff George H. Loney was shot and instantly killed while searching the Nelson house for some stolen goods. The woman and her son were arrested and confessed that they had dollerbally laid a plot to kill Loney. Glass, Eye, Explodes. Building Inspector Frank R. Minner, of Allentown, Pa., was the victim of an accident, the cause of which physicians wore unable to explain, having never heard of a similar occurrence. Inspector Minner met with a mischief twelve years ago which resulted in the loss of an eye, and since then he has been using a glass one, which he changes every year. While Minner was engaged in conversation with a man at his office in the city hall, the glass eye suddenly exploded with a report like that of a pistol shot. Minner fell over dazed, and his companion was at a loss to know what had happened until blood began to sport from the inspector's eye. A physician found the socket of the eye badly lacerated, and it is feared that particles of glass penetrated the brain, in which event serious results are feared. One physician advances the strange theory that the eye was made of celluloid instead of glass, and that the natural heat of the body caused it to explode. Murdered and Robbed. In a little fringe of woods on the edge of Paradise creek, near Norfolk, Va., a murder was revealed when a party of searchers out scouring the country in quest of J. L. Benton, a merchant, who had been missing from his home on Deep Creek shell road since last Friday, found him with a gaping wound in his face. Robbery was undoubtedly the rulling motive of the crime and a shortgun was the weapon. Industrious and possessed of a large family iy to care for, Mr Benton had accumulated considerable money, which he carried about with him wherever he went. He had in his pockets when he left his home on Friday morning nearly $500. When his pockets were searched the money was gone. Mrs. Emerson Wins Divorce. A degree of divorce has been signed for Mrs Isaac E Emerson in her action against Captain Emerson, the millionaire drug manufacturer in Baltimore. Captain Emerson first instituted action against his wife, making statutory charges, and this was followed by a cross bill. A second bill was later filed by Mrs Emerson asking for a divorce on the ground of derention, and the decree was signed on this action Mrs Emerson was awarded ed alimony to the amount of $28,500 annually and the family home in Eustaw Place. CHARLES W. MORSE. [Pictorial portrait of a man with a mustache and a suit. The background is black with white dots. The man's face is centered, and his hair is neatly combed. The suit is dark, with a high collar and a buttoned front. The man's expression is serious and contemplative. The background is plain black. The portrait is a black-and-white image.] Pardons Denied Convict Bankers. President Taft denied the application for pardon of Charles W. Morse, the former New York banker, serving a fifteen-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., and John R. Walsh, the Chicago financier, who is serving a two-year sentence at Leavenworth, Kan. Permission is given by the president to Morse to roone his application for pardon after Jan. 1, 1913. As Walsh is eligible for parole after next September, when he will have served two-thirds of his sentence, the president refused to take any action whatever in his case. In deciding against Morso and Walsh, the president has resisted the most powerful influences that have been brought to bear upon him on any subject since he entered the White House. In his memorandum announcing his rejection of the applications he refers to the influential and prominent persons who have petitioned in behalf of the prisoners, and adds that they apparently fail to appreciate the high importance to society that such criminal breaches of trust as Morso and Walsh are guilty of should be severely punished. Falls Dead at Ball Game William Dunkelberger, aged about fifty two years, a retired coal-operator and prominent in county politics, dropped dead from heart trouble while witnessing a ball game in Tamaqua, Pa. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Attention! K. of P. Richmond, Va., May 15, 1911. To the Subordinate Lodges of the Grand Jurisdiction of Virginia—Greeting: In accordance with Article II, Section 14, which provides that the Grand Lodge shall be a migratory body and shall meet on the third Tuesday in June (as amended) and the Grand Lodge at Bristol having chosen Petersburg, Va., as the next place of the meeting of that body. I hereby notify this Grand Jurisdiction that the next session will be held Tuesday, June 20, 1911, in the city of Petersburg and continue in session four days. Each subordinate lodge is entitled to one grand representative for each fifty members or part thereof. All past chancellors better known as masters of work, are entitled to membership. All officers of new lodge who have served twelve months from the date of instituting the new lodge, with the exception of master at arms, inner and outer guard and trustees, are entitled to past chancellor degree. The Supreme Lodge law is as follows. "The Vice Chancellor, Master of Exchequer, Master of Finance, Keeper of Records and Seal and Prolate of new lodges serving one year shall be, by virtue of their office Past Chancellors" It will be necessary, though, for them to furnish a certificate to this effect under seal of the lodge and daily attested by the officers of the lodge of which they are members. The Grand Lodge degree will be paid by the member receiving the degree. Lodges sending up Grand Representatives who have not attended the Grand Lodge and received the degree must pay $200 for each and every representative sent. All subordinate lodges, in order to be entitled to representation must have paid the sent annual tax ending December 31, 1910, and the endowment tax for June 30, 1911. The emergency tax must be paid to the Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. All chancellor commanders will have the roll of the lodge called and collections for the Pythian Relief Fund lifted. When the amount of $3,000 is raised this department of the Order will be put in operation. Lodges, that have not taken out stock in the Pythian Calmite Industrial Association should do so at once. A statement of the condition of this department of the Order is rendered at the session of every Grand Lodge. Grand Representatives will address Sir Elw Wood, No. 321 West St. Petersburg Va and secure lodging places in advance. Assignment cards have been printed and Grand Representatives and visitors will be assigned in advance. The rates are very reasonable, being only $1 00 per day. The Improved Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan will confer the degrees at this session and all Grand Representatives should come prepared to take the same. It is only $2 00, and the annual dues are $1 20. This department is sufficient to make all fun lovers happy The Uniform Rank will go into camp at Petersburg and remain four days, getting the benefit of the military experience incident to such outings. Sir Knights can avail them selves of the advantages of camp life at 75 cents per day, with everything furnished. Companies expecting to take advantage of this arrangement will communicate at once to Col R. C. Mitchell, Assistant Adjutant General. No 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Credentials of the Grand Representatives should be sent to-Colonel Thomas M Crump, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. No 611 North Third Street, Richmond, Va. One set should be given to the Grand Representative. Given under our hands and the seal of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, in the city of Richmond, May 15, 1911. Thomas M. Crump, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal P. S.—Grand Parade Wednesday June 21, 1911. ATTENTION! COURTS OF CALANTHE. Richmond, Va., May 15, 1911. To the Subordinate Courts of the Grand Court of Virginia—Greeting: Pursuant to the provisions of Article II of the Constitution that the Grand Court shall meet at such time and place as the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and that body having decided to meet Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 20; 21, 22 and 23, 1911, in the city of Petersburg, Va., I therefore announce the convening of that body at that time and place at 10 o'clock. Each subordinate court is entitled to one Grand Representative for each fifty members or part thereof. All courts must have paid the semiannual-tax for December 31, 1910, and the ondowment tax for June 30, 1911, in order to be entitled to representation. The emergency tax should be sent in if this order of the Grand Court has not been already obeyed. Courts sending up Grand Representatives who have not before attended the Grand Court and who have not received the Grand Court Dogren must pay $1.50 therefor. All Grand Court Representatives must wear Grand Court badges, which can be obtained from Mrs. Harrief R. Thompson, No. 104 W. Jackson St., Richmond Va., for $1.25 each. All Past Worthy Counselors are entitled to wear this Badge. Board and lodging can be obtained 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 $5.00 PER MONTH UPWARDS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PALATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN THE CITY AND THE SERVICE RENDERED IS FIRST-CLASS. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN. Fine Funeral Supplies, Fine Hacks and Hearses, First Class Service. HIGH GRADE CASKETS AT THE LOWEST PRICES. 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The Calanthe Rellof Fund tax is 25 cents on each member. This tax is compulsory. A grand time is promised. The banquet will be a grand affair, and the exercises highly gratifying to all the devotees of the Order. For further information, address Miss M. L. Chiles, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds, No. 114 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. Given under our hands and the seal of the Grand Court, this fifteenth day of May, 1911, in the city of Richmond. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Grand 'Worthy Counsellor (Miss) M. L. Chilos. Grand Worthy Registor of Deeds. Wants To Find His Sister. I have a sister living in the United States, just where I cannot say. She married a man by the name of Henry Wright, from the South. Her name is Anna Z. Wright. During 1876 she lived on Twenty-fourth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenue, New York city. She was a member of Rov. Spellman's Church, of New York city. Any information in regard to her whorebouts would be very satisfactory to her brother. WM. J. KELLEY. 26 Bruce Street. Port Jervis, N. Y. AVIATOR FALLS 150 FEET Escape With a Few Bruises, But Macchine Is Wrecked. Henry Moore, of Union Hill, N. J., flying in a Curtiss biplane at Homestead, N. Y., fell over 150 feet, and his only injuries were a few scratches and bruises, his machine being a total wreck. Moore had climbed a cross country flight and was between 150 and 200 feet in the air, when his motor suddenly stopped. He fell like a shot to the ground, landing in a cabbage field Woman's Throat Cut. When John Stevenson was awakened in his home, Webster, Pa., and went downstairs to ascertain the reason he fell over the body of his stepdaughter Mrs Sigian Wrenz aged twenty which was lying across the foot of the stairs with her throat out. A door leading to the outside staircase but there was no trace of the slave Stevenson said that Mrs Wrenz was all right when he and I wife refried, but the couple is being held pending an investigation. Nicholas Miller was killed in Frank Wilkes's fatal attack when the elevator at the Flatiron hotel in Wilkes Barre, Pa., fell from the roof of the building to the pit. Wilkes and Miller were repatriated the elevator which the accident occurred. SEVEN RESIDENTIAL COLOR LINE. This DEED Will Start You on the Road to A Fortune Ask for Particulars. B. A. CEPHAS, Richmond's Real Estate Agent, 602 N. 2d Street. Local and Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-588. An ordinance providing for the further segregation of the races in Richmond has been prepared by Councilman A. L. Vonderlehr, of Henry Ward, and will be introduced in the Common Council next Monday night. The measure is designed to preserve order, protect property values and draw the line between residence sections for white and colored people. The full text of the measure is as follows. Do it ordained by the Council of the City of Richmond — 1 That it shall be unlawful for any white person to occupy as a residence or to establish and maintain as a place of public assembly, any house upon any street or alley between two adjacent streets on which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences by colored people than are occupied as residences by white people. 2 That it shall be unlawful for any colored person to occupy as a residence or to establish and maintain as a place of public assembly, any house upon any street or alley between, two adjacent streets on which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences by white people than are occupied as residences by colored people 3 That no person shall construct or locate on any block or square on which there is at that time no residence, any house or other building intended to be used as a residence without declaring in his application for a permit to build, whether the house or building so to be constructed is designed to be occupied by white or colored people, and the building inspector of the city of Richmond shall not issue any permit in such case unless the applicant complies with the provisions of this section 4 That nothing in this ordinance shall affect the location of residences made previous to the approval of this ordinance, and nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the occupation of residences by white or colored servants or employees, on the square or block on which they are so employed. 5 Every person either by himself or through his agent, violating, or any agent for another violating, any one or more of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars, recoverable before the police justice of the city of Richmond, and in the direction of the police justice such person may, in addition thereto be confined in the city fall not less than thirty nor more than ninety days. of Real Estate Development and therefore withdraw my property from sale to COLORED PEOPLE John Cussons, Glen Allen, Va. 6 This ordinance shall be in force from its passage City Attorney Pollard has reviewed the proposed ordinance and pronounces it constitutional and legal in every way Richmond Va News Leader, Feb 4, 1911 - Nelson's Hair Dressing, can be secured from the Agent, Mr. Joephe Evans' 2802 Webster Avenue, Pitts burg, Pa D. 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It is sold throughout the country to both white and colored. It has been adopted by the State Board of Education of Virginia, which consists of the Governor, Attorney General. Super- intendent of Public Instruction and Professors of the leading white colleges of Virginia, as a text book for the colored schools. Other states have strongly endorsed the book and are expected to adopt it. This is sufficient evidence to prove our claim that this is the greatest book now upon the market, and every colored person should have a copy in their library. Agents are wanted in every State. County and Town to sell the subscription edition Write or apply to the INDUSTRIAL HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY, 511 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. for terms and information. 血 Wanted Lynchers Punished COMMITTEE MAKES PLEA TO THE PRESIDENT, Special Mention Desired In Next Message—Explanation of Visit. Washington D. C. June 1, 1911 The Editor The Richmond Planet: My Dear Sir and Brother A committee of representative men and women of the race called on the President yesterday and presented a memorial against lynching. At the close of the reading of same the President stated that he could not send a special message to Congress concerning the matter but that he would mention the subject in his next general message. He expressed himself as being strongly opposed to lynching and lynchers and condemned both in severe language and said that he thought we were right in seeking to create public sentiment against the crime of lynching. One of the private secretaries of the President stated that the President's reply would be given out from the papers from the White House and the response two representatives of our committee called on all the Associated Press Bureau and several private correspondents in this city and supplied them with copies of the memorial and stated that the President's reply would be sent them from the Executive Mansion. These newspapers promised to give full reports of the affair and you can imagine our surprise to find only a brief mention in the morning papers on words to leave the impression on the President's say in the committee. This was evidently inspired by some one at the White House. We hope you may see your way clear to publish the enclosed copy of the memorial and call attention to the unfair treatment we received. Wishing you success and good health, I am For Equal Rights and Opportunities for all American Citizens. J MILTON WALDRON Senator Charles Cortis from Kansas secured an audience with President Taft this afternoon for a committee of ladies and gentlemen representing the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York city to present the following memorial Washington D. C. May 11, 1911 To His Excellency William Howard Taft President of the United States Honored Sir, The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People composed of white and colored citizens of the United States do most respectfully call your attention to the alarming increase of lynchings in our country. During three days last week eleven persons of color (one a woman and one a youth) were lynched not one of whom was even suspected of committing or attempting to commit the nameless crime against woman. The lynching of colored persons, now averaging one for almost every day in the year, is committed in the most atrocious and brutal manner. And the mob engaged in this nefarious business are composed of many of "the leading" white men and women (and even children) of their various communities, who make sport of murder and laugh at the cries of anguish and pain of those whom they hang shoot to pieces or burn to age, sex or position is a bar to lynching men women and children, the laborer, the teacher, the physician, the man of means, the pauper, and even the minister of the gospel full easy victims to the Negro-hating mobs whenever their savage passions are aroused by any designing man who is willing to lead its bloodthirsty hoards in their quest for murder and carnage. Repeated appeals have been made to Governors. State Log salaturas and sheriffs to prevent lynchings, but to no avail. The spirit of murder and lawlessness has spread to such an alarming extent in this country until human life—if it be that of a black person—is not safe anywhere in America. The people in numerous communities of our beloved land are fast becoming transformed into hoards of thugs, outlaws and murderers and America is fast becoming a hissing and a by-word upon the lips of civilized peoples everywhere, and the very foundations of our government are being undermined. We would remind Your Excellency that there is no occasion for the lynching of any colored person anywhere in this country, for all the laws of the State and National governments are made by white men, and the judges and other authorities charged with their enforcement are all white; and there is no danger of a colored man who has been proven guilty of any crime being able to escape just punishment for same. We believe that the time has come when the Chief Executive of the nation, into whose hands have been committed the enforcement of the laws and the preservation of the rights of all the people should call the attention of Congress to this awful reign of lawlessness and murder, and recommend that appropriate legislation be enacted for the protection of life, liberty and property in every part of the United States as the state governments seem impotent to render such protection. And we would urgently implore Your 'Excellency to send a special message to the Congress, asking that such action be taken as will remove this foul blot which impaches our civilization, our Christianity and the honor of our nation. With assurances of our high regard, etc., we are Very obediently yours. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE The members of the committee were Rew W A Sinclair of Pennsylvania author of "The Mermouth of Slavery" Hon Archbold H Grimke of Massachusetts author of "The Life of Charles Summer" in the Statesman's Series and ex Minister to Santo Domingo Dr Murreux F Wheathand of Rhode Island president of the National Medical Association Rev Benjamin F Foster ex Auditor of the State of Kansas, Rey J Milton Waldron D D of Washington National Organizer of the National Independent Political League Dr I L Ross pastor of the Metropolitan A M E Church Rev Dr R K Harrell pastor of the Israel C M E Church W D Naylor pastor A M E Church Garfield Wm H Harris Esq Mrs Mary Church Terrell member of School Board of District of Columbia and Mrs Carrie W Cifford member of the Executive Committee of the Nagara Movement all of Washington The memorial was indented by the National Independent Political League J R Oxford Esq of West Virginia, president James L. Nellil Esq, repairing secretary and by the Constitution League of New York city Hon John W F Mithfield president Dr W A Similar field agent. A similar memorial was presented by the same officer to the Senate of the United States, and to the House of Representatives. MONROE SCHOOL Second B Grade Gertrade Daniel Eva Dickerson Edith Kutchel and Esther Taylor Second A (1) Grade Victoria Foster Layla Peterson Mary Ruth Scott and David Dunn Second A (1) Grade Sarah A Harris Potethy Pondester John Spitters Mary Brown Aloe Boole Jo Winston O'Dell Taylor Ethan Lowe and Alen Love First B Grade James James Ford and William Rooster First A Grade Frang Kroger Clayborn Dickerson Pirk Holton Sharon Jackson Ophelia Boeker and Hattie Gray MOORE SCHOOL. The principal of Moore School Mr. H. G Carlton has reported to Dr. L. A C Chandler, superintendent of schools the following roll of honors for the month of May Sixth B Grade Rosetta Mines Richard Winston Reginald Jackson Ruth Pemberton Sixth A Grade F Elinn Jackson Ardell H Jackson Fifth B (1) Grade Mildred Johnson Gladys Robinson, Lillie Dalney and Louise Jackson Fifth B (2) Grade --George Staves, Jessie Brown Margaret Minor and Dalsy Stokes Fifth A (2) Grade—Carrie Randolph and Katie Seay Fourth B Grade -William B Harris Fourth A (1) Grade—Sadie Carter (2 months). Fourth A (2) Grade—Arthur Randolph and Reginald Whitley Third B Grade—Esther Johnson (2), Joanie Kelly. Third A (1) Grade—Sarah Johnson (4), Harry Polindexter (3), Lucetra Wells, Irma Guyther, Ruth Randolph and Lillian Allon. Third A (2) Grade—Joseph Mallory and Annie Hicks. Second B Grade—Sarah Anderson, Bettie Brewer, Regesta Coles, Iner Greene, Lillian Greene, Jennie Venable John Fields, Maurice Liggine, Washington Norrell and Samuel Walker. Second A Grade—Williana Bradley, Blanche Smith, Eva Bassett, Arcta Waller and Thomas Johnson. First B Grade—Beverly Bray, William Green, Lorenzo Hill, Carrie Toler, Jessie Herndon, Charles Tinsley, Dolia Epps and Pocahontas Whitley. First A Grade--Augustus Banka Anderson Jackson, Arthur Kenney Aua Bolling, Hinsel Harris, Lillian Pemberton and Inez Taylor DO YOU KNOW HIM? I desire to know the whereabouts of my son, Noah Brown. He was last heard from in Newport News, Va., in 1900. He forbly lived at Eworth, King William county, Va. He was a laborer at the time heard from, and was thought to be employed by the, C. & O. Company. He has the following brothers: Thomas, Malachi John Samuel, James Bonjamin and Robert Andrew. His sisters are Mrs. Marilam Parker and Maria Brown. Any information will be thankfully received by his parents. MRG. ELZA BROWN, Eworth, King William County, Va. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Reason Why. (Charlotte, N. C., Advertiser) The receivers have hauded in their report on the True Reformers Bank $^{3}$ The Richmond Planet, true to its promise, has given report to the public through its sample columns, the chances are that The Planet will be the only newspaper to give this report in full. It is evident that the receivers enforced to do their full duty in their search for facts. It is alleged that the cashier is short in his accounts that certain of details have been grossly negligent. Amounts, altogether reaching into several hundred thousand dollars Why has it been possible for such a state of affairs to exist so long? Now out of a thousand reasons that might be assigned we give one namely. The newspapers through out the land heralded the report that the True Reformers a Negro bank had cash in its vaults during the panic to pay Richmond school teachers when white banks with millions of assets had not such cash. How many hundred times have we heard if said the Reformers Bank had money when the white banks had none. The credible public depositor stockholder etc has been bolstered up by the above quoted statement. There are still time hundred and ninety nine other reasons which you may get from time to time by reading The Planet. Since the receiver report many of the gree have stretched their eyes and examined. I did not know there were such rich pickings in the hand for business. The Question of Leadership ( N Y Amsterdam News ) Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond Planet a very strong man in journalism and in business, who has been discussing exhaustively an adversely the leadership of Dr. Rooker T. Washington waves away the suggestion that he take the lead on himself. The causes of their have always been modest no who distinguished the honors they gave to themselves. Editor Mr. bell says He deserves, or rather great trades, born and not made. Too bad Moses was to smash after he lost Aron Joshua bounced up on Caleb, and Ben Hur and after the five of them failed and passed on in land wett to desolation and abomination in David and Solomon. Dr Washington has had from the beginning a difficult task to lead his people, and it is a thought worthy geo-science reflection that while as an individual he has succeeded beyond the dreams of Frederick Douglas, the race has relatively failed to maintain the position of influence which lost in 1876 as a result of following blindly to death, their pet flag leaders in politics and the two tools of them they used in their business of political fraud and corruption. Politically the Afro-American has lost ground steadily since 1876, but Dr Washington did not become the leader until after his Atlantic address in 1895. HATS OFF! To John Mitchell, Journalist, Banker Etc. (Peregrino's Spectator, Cape Town S. A. May 1, 1911) For any man to have succeeded in breaking through the barriers and limitations of obscurity and poverty and by sheer dint of pluck and application to succeed in the prime of life to be admitted on equal terms with other members of one of the most influential commercial systems in the world is a great accomplishment. But when such a man is a member of a proscribed and persecuted race and in a community wherein the intensity of the hatred of that race takes on the most acute form, then such a man should be brought to the front and held out, as an inspiration to youth, and an example to others. The wonderful experiences of John Mitchell, Jr., Editor Richmond Planet and President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of that city, a member of the American Bankers' Association, in a recent tour with that body through the west reads more like the imaginary production of the forlieve brain of a novelist, than a tangible and a demonstrated fact. The story should be brought out in book form, and thus proserved pour encourager les autres. SCHEDULES AND THROUGH CAR SERVICE TO ASHEVILLE, N. C. "LAND OF THE SKY," AND "THE SAPPHIRE (COUNTRY)." The Southern Railway announces greatly improved through car service to the glorious Western North Carolina country for summer season, 1911, effective June 4th. Summer excursion tickets are now on sale. There is no section of the country more attractive for the summer than Western North Carolina. Consult nearest ticket agent, or write S. E. Burgeson, D. P. A., Richmond, Va., who will furnish copy of summer resorts folder. FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—Nine Room Brick House with Large Lost Suitable for Raising Chickens or for a Garden. Corner Carter and Jacqueline Streets. Rent only $12. 50 per Month. For particulars see BUTTON & CO., 16 North 9th Street, City. READ What The PLANET'S A. vortexes say and thereby. Please mention us when answering them. The Missing Notes. Running Comment of That Prince of Journalists—The Planet, and its Edition—The Racial Situation—A Review of Existing Conditions— Hope Ahead. Hon John Mitchell Jr. Richmond, Va My Dear Mr Mitchell,—I am to thank you for your courteous note of May 29th, in which I am advised that you have received both my letter and the mime which I sent you a few days ago. I am very much gratified to be told that you will use the latter at a convenient season for its acceptance is an indication that it at least has some merit. The Planet is not a newspaper. It is a great journal, and it has educated its thousands of readers up to the point of reading the message (no matter what its length) which it has to deliver. I read no other Negro publications with so much interest and profit and pride as I do The Planet, and Inoubi Crisis both of which are of the race race. The Negro newspaper a magazine that models itself after the white man's news or magazine beyond the point of typographical and editorial clearness and cleanse is not going to exist longer than we use publications that think black, that teach the gospel of racial fitness and care for the doing of any great thing that any other race variety has done and can do. NO COLOR IN INTELLECT Man is mind and as such is neither black nor white. Government has always been, is today and ever will remain under the direction and control of the few. These constitute the competent and they will only pass on authority and power to other competent men. Thrift tact common sense and good discrimination would aide find some of their number among these overrides helping to give direction to the thought and policy which should govern and control booker T. Washington brick house and bank account formulae is not the complete remedy for present economic disadvantages. The true remedy, in my humble judgment is to be found in economic equality. INTENSIFY RACE PREJUDICE Good clothes automobiles, brick houses, racial cohesion and fellowships can only breed more prejudice and intensify racial antipathy. Humility without obsequience is the thin edge of the wedge which the Negro must use to break through the barriers, which now hedge him about. We must use our eyes, more than we do our mouths. The white man knows more about us than we think he does—that's his business. John Plairpont Morgan has more books about the Negro in his private library in New York. I am told by one who knows, than any individual Negro Bibliophile that you or I know perhaps; and white people haunt the second-hand book stores of New York city and other cities and buy up all good books by Negro authors, or white authors about Negroes. I was surprised to be told in New York recently in a second-hand book store where I went to purchase the History of Negro Insurrections, which I had been gold was hidden in a far corner of a top shelf back, "that there was a great demand by white people for all second-hand books about Negroes, and that be had a standing order from the president of a big college (white) for all pamphlets and books of substance on the Negro. PECULIAR SIGNIFICANCE The significance of this sudden intolerance in we 'uns is not hard to be understood. We are more than a problem. We are an enigma, and the white man is beginning to realize that there never was such a thing as color in the domain of intellect. In the past he permitted his complacent egotism to deceive his better judgment as to the Negro's proper place in the social and intellectual progression of the race. He has discovered that the Negro is really a human being, possessing all the characteristic tastes, feelings, passions, ambitions, hate, love, etc., etc., of the average man, and that after all there is only one great race—the human race—and that it hath but one great end. Doelnet Bob Ingersoll once told me that black people were really somebody, and that white people were just folks. This proud Anglo-Saxon (?) (sic) Aryan (?) (sic) race—the former is extinct, and the latter never existed cannot go back two thousand years and show us a single monument or temple or statue it has raised anywhere on earth. If there ever was a hybrid race, its name is white man. AFRICA'S ACHIEVEMENTS. African can boast his sphynx, pyramids and splendid temples. 'Her black philosopher prigin, Tertullian, Cyprian and St Augustine and her mighty men of valor in war. The white man we know best dates his orign from the time Gehnazi lied to Naaman and the prophet his master got the shekela and his miserable leprous white skin as a result of his cunning capulet and avarice, and he has not changed n hit, he 'he' Possibly this is one reason why your Southern Democrats are such bitter enemies of Negro education. Hey, Mr President! Good night Sincerely yours, J EDW, BRUCE. J. S. C. GOODWYN. JEFFER & OPTICIAN 734 N SECOND ST HICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Slxty Davi For Sixty days on the state convict road force is the penalty that Robert Smallwood, of Harrisonburg, Va., must pay for swearing that his bride Miss Christina Hagerdown, thirteen years old, was more than twenty-one years of age. Oswell Johnson, who accompanied Smallwood and Miss Hagordown when they obtained the license and who made the same false statement, also will serve sixty days. The youthful bride collapsed when she saw the officer arrest her husband, and later, when she was informed that her marriage would be nullified on account of her extreme youthfulness, again collapsed. Huston In Jail Joseph M Huston, architect of the capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., entered the eastern penitentiary in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon and began serving the sentence imposed on him by the Dauphin county court on his conviction of having conspired to defraud the commonwealth in the furnishing of the $13,000,000 structure. The sentence is for not less than six months nor more than two years. Although the wheat crop will not be ready to cut for two or three weeks, Kansas farmers have called for 12,000 harvest hands Charles Harris, director of the state free employment bureau, said that the bureau expected to ask for 15,000 to 18,000 men this year. Parachute Jumper Has Narrow Escape Fiorella Lorenz, a triple parachute performer, after accidentally cutting the wrong parachute rope, fell from a height of nearly 1000 feet at Ashville, N. C. Her parachute got caught in some electric wires, which saved her life. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR dull; winter clear, $2.35@3.50; city mills, fancy, $6.25@6.75. VIEW CLOSE. RYE FLOUR firm; per barrel, $50 5.26. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red. 92¾³³ CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow. 61½¾³³ COIRN OATS steady; No. 2 white, 42½¹/₂ 43¹/₂, lower grades, 40¹/₂. FOULTRY: live firm; hess, 14½¹⁰ 16½¹⁰; old roosters, 101¹⁰; Dressed steady; choice fowls, 15¹⁰; old roosters, 10¹⁰. PENTET firm; extra creamery, 24¹⁰. EGGS steady; selected, 20¹⁰ @ 22¹⁰; nearly, 17½¹⁰; western, 17¼¹⁰. POTATOES steady; old, per bushel, 68¹⁰. 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The steamer "Columbia" is now filling the run on the York River Line, between West Point, Va., and Baltimore, Md., leaving West Point, Va., on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. This is a palatial steamer, refurbished throughout, and has wireless service. Every convenience is afforded patrons on this line, which is extremely popular during the summer season. Stateroom reservations can be had by applying at the Southern Railway office, 920 East Main street, or writing S. E. Burgess, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. $100,00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Danville, Va., May 24, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($100.00). One Hundred Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Sister Lucy E. Rohinson, who was a member of Golden Chain Court, No. 98, of Danville, Va. Signed:— NANNIE ROBINSON, Administratrix. Witnesses:— U. S. Cunningham, 8. J. Holbrook, Deputy $100.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Danville, Va. June 2, 1911. 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(Wrong Side) $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Newport Nows, Va., May 22, 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., B. A., E., A. A, and A. ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the deathcaskm of Brother Robinson Brown, who was a member of Star of the East Lodge, No. 58, of Newport News, Va. Bigned: ANNIE E. BROWN. Administratrix. Witness: W. T. Hill. Edgar Keeve. Henry Edmonda. J. C. Allen. D. D. B.