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THE RICHMOND PLANET DO NOT WANT THEM IN OFFICE Ask A. W. Holmes and W. P. Burrell to Resign. Positive Demands Made by the True Reformers. Grand Fountain Meets Next Tuesday. Stormy Times in Sight. Bureau of Insurance Will Make Report. MORE WARRANTIES TO BE ISSUED—TRUE REFORMERS' HOTEL TO BE INVESTIGATED. VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 38. DO NOT THEM Ask A. W. Ho Resign.—P by the Grand Fountain Times in S MORE WARRANTIES The indictment of the six prominent True Reformer officials and ex-officials by the grand jury of this city created a profound impression. While some expected it, others were disposed to believe that it would not be done. The pressure brought to bear by the prosecuting committee was continuous. The great surprise was the including of Grand Worthy Master Holmes in the list. This has caused a demand now for his resignation. He has another year to wait for the two-year limit, but it is openly declared that an attempt will be made to declare his office vacant and to elect his successor. WILL NOT RECOGNIZE MOTIONS Whether this movement will be successful is not known, as stops are said to be under way by the present regime to refuse to recognize any such motion or to admit the legality of such a proceeding. It is assorted that an attempt will be made to indict Lawyer Giles B. Jackson at Newport News for the gerrit he took to press him on the True Reefers' Hall at Newport News, Va. The papers in the case have already gone forward, and the prosecuting committee seems secure of success in this movement. WILL MEET NEXT TUESDAY The Grand Fountain will meet in this city at True Reformers' Hall next Tuesday morning, and Commissioner Joseph Button will no doubt make known his purpose to again revoke the license of the Order, unless some radical steps are taken along financial lines. The employment of additional counsel in the case will also be considered. The main ordeals charged with felonies seem to be in good spirits, and they assert that they will be able to clear themselves of any violation of the law. Rev. Wm. L. Taylor was cheerful as to the outlook, and harring the expense of defending himself, seemed to have no fear as to the outcome. Rev. O. Paul Thompson delivered a fine sermon at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday morning. Rev. W. L. Taylor, who had been previously invited into the pulpit by one of the deacons, prayed a feeling prayer. He gave evidence of his feeling during his remarks referring to the evil things spoken of a true child of God. A good collection was lifted --- Chief W. R. Griffin hold a large meeting in Washington, and he will be down with a large and influential delegation. He seems to be about the only one in sight for Grand Worthy Master, provided Grand Worthy Master Holmes is deposed. Grand Worthy Master A. W. Holmes has retained Speaker R. Evelyn Byrd to defend him. As this brilliant attorney is also counsel for the Bureau of Insurance, this action is significant. Mr. H. M. Smith, Jr. will represent Messrs. W. P. Burrell, Edward Ellis, Jr., J. C. Robertson, W. L. Taylor, D. D. and L. D. Phillips. He is also counsel for T. W. Tipple. He will耐心 explain this by paying that those gentlemen have been his clients and friends for twenty years and he thinks it is no more than right that he defends them. Mr. Wm. A. Monchure, receiver for the True Reformers' Savings Bank and law associate of Mr. Smith, makes no secret of the fact that conditions on Second street are "rotten." ASK THEM TO. RESIGN. Wa. Aug. 11, 1811 communication of the Reformers, held Aug. falling, preceable and resolutiona were unanimously adopted. Whereas, Mr. A. W. Holmes, G. W. M., was president of the True Reformers' Bank when said bank went into the hands of the receiver (and for the past six years a member of the Executive Committee); and Mr. W. P. Burrell, G. W. S., who held office since its origin, and the oldest member of the Order; therefore, he it Resolved, That Mr A. W. Holmes and W. P. Burrell's connection with the organization have caused by their action to be the culprit, who shoiled and covered certain evidence, which would convict and bring the wreckers of said bank to justice. Therefore, we, the committee of the Alexandria Division, U. O. of True Reformers, for the best interest of the Order and the community at large, request Mr. A. W Holmes and W. P. Burrell cause to have authority and management over said institution and accept the following resignation. Done by the Alexandria Division, U. O. of True Reformers. 107 PARK RENEGAD TROLLA BREELTON, MOSS STEPHENS, W. N JACKSON, MAURICE ROUSELLE. LILLIAN GRAY. ONE TO MR BURRELL. Alexandria, Va., Aug 11, 1911. Mr. W P Burrell, G W S, U O of T R. Dear Sr.---We, the Alexandria Division, U O of T R, do hereby request you (Mr W P Burrell) to tender your resignation as G W Secretary at your earliest convenience, because we believe you are withholding certain evidence which would convict the culpits who wrecked the Reformers' Bank at Richmond and put the U O-of T R in its present condition. THOS. SHELTON, W N JACKSON, MOSES STEPHENS, MAURICE USELLE, LILLIAN GRAY. LETTER TO MR HOLMES Alexandrin, Vau. Aug 11, 1911 Mr A W Holmes, G. W M, U O C. W. H. Dear Sir—We, the Alexander Division, U O of T R., do hereby request you (Mr. A W Holmes) to enter your resignation as G W M. at your earliest convenience, because we believe you are withholding certain evidence which would convict the culprits who wrecked the Reformers' Bank at Richmond and put the U O of T R in its present condition THOS SHELTON, MOSSES STEPHENS, W, N. JACKSON, MAURICE ROUSSELLE, LILLIAN GRAY Committee CHUEF R088 SPEAK8 St Louis, Mo. Aug. 14, 1911 Mr John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of The Richmond Planet: Please allow me a space in your paper, to say a few things concerning the Grand Fountain, U. O. T. R. First, I must thank the editor of The Richmond Planet for the bold front that it put on in playing its part in bringing about geocognition to the Order of True Reformers. I will write briefly by publishing the truth, and the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. For this we feel much obligated, as The Planet turned light on the whole subject of the defunct Order. The members of the brotherhood indorse every step that The Planet (Continued on Page Number) Ret. Dr. Presley Mentally Irreponsible - Calls For Help. To Whom It May Concern - in it is sure success. This is to certify that Rov. J. H. Presley, my husband, having been weakened, both physically and mentally, on account of illness, the nature of which was paralysis, due to repeated attacks of African fever contracted while a missionary in that country, I write this (from the suggestion of our family physician, Dr E. T. Connor, No 1 Main street, Clifton Forge, Va., with whom you can communicate if desired), to warn the public at large that he is not capable of entering into or forming contracts, and any one forming such contracts with him will do it at their own risk. Hoping that all who may see this may take notice and act accordingly, I do hope for the purpose of self protection. I further ask that the ministers do what they can for him in his travels, as he is not capable of caring for himself. Respectfully, MRS J. H. PRESLEY, Clifton Forge, Va. 21 Pine street If you want to buy or sell real est ate you want to see me. IN CPHIPH. Real Estate Agent. 602 North, Second St. --- Aug 21 is the day when Mount O. makes her gotaway to Buck Roe. 5 or 6 doses "600" will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25s. Shot By An Assassin: Edward Griffin, a member of Orange Lodge, No. 160, Knights of Pythias, of Orange, Vn., was shot and instantly killed at his home Wednesday night. Aug 2 1911, by unknown parties. Not in Virginia. (Philadelphia Pa. , Trilune) We see that a company of men were foolish enough to look in Virginia for Mr R T Hill, the ex-cashier of the True Reformers' Bank Gentleman, Mr Hill has shook dust of Virginia off, his heels long ago. Marriage Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. Overton Harris and pounce the marriage of their daughter, Virginia, to Mr. Leroy Frazier Wednesday, August 9th, at 8 P. M. Reception Monday, August 21st from 8:30 15:10:30 P. M at 318 S. Linden street. Friends are invited. No cards. POPULAR FULTON PARK. Plenica For Next Week. Monday, August 21—Manhattan Social Club. Tuesday, August 22—Ushors' Union picnic. Wednesday, August 23—Daugh- ter of Carnegie Beneficial Club. Thursday, August 24—Mrs. Brooks' Coinslake. Friday, August 25—Musicians' Union. Special dances Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings. TROUBLES AT FIFTH BAPTIST WAS NOTIFIED. As to the action of River View Baptist Church in making the call for the said council, this church (River View) did again a committee to visit the Fifth Baptist Church and ask that said Fifth Baptist Church, with the River View Baptist Church agree to come together and council as to what was best to do to bring about peace between her aggreived members and the said Fifth Baptist Church. The writer states "The Fifth Baptist Church did not represent at the Moore Street Baptist Church, but sent a letter to be resist it the ex-party council, etc." After the aggrieved parties had been heard of Fifth Baptist Church was called for, Rev. W. H. Dobbin, pastor, arose to speak Rev. Dr. Williams, chairman of the council asked Rev. Dobbin was he there to represent the Fifth Baptist Church Rev Dobbin's replies that he was. "Myself and Dearens Chantham and Alexander, but Deacon Alexander is not here, but Deacon Brown is here to take his place" We have these statements full weight for truthfulness and so stated in our report The letter says the above statement is not true, which is telling the truth. LEAVE IT TO THE PUBLIC We leave that to a charitable public to decide. The council acted upon the same idea that Rev Dobblins and Desearne Cheatham, Alexander or Brown were sent by the Fifth Baptist Church as her legal representatives. At the same time the letter was held secure) in the possession of Mr S A Cheatham. We suppose this is the same brother who read the letter to the council as coming from the Fifth Baptist Church. As to the legal or illegality of the existence of the council or their action in the matter before them, we purpose not at this time to discuss. We venture to say we are confident every member of that council will practically stand by all the council did, and if they (the council) think the letter worthy of note they may be heard from. This letter also proves that union does not have the present membership of the Fifth Baptist Church for it is true that Rev R. H. Bobblins Cheatham and Alexander Brown were elected to the Council as they said they were, they must have a following. On the other hand if what the letter states is true as signed by S A Cheatham, then there is another following also. CITING THE SCRIPTURES The letter also tells the public of the scripture that justifies them in "difellowship" the nine members without trial indeed the public doubleness is anxious to read it. Now that the Fifth Baptist Church has put herself in the limelight at the bar of public opinion by the official publication of a letter duly signed, we venture to ask the letter-writer or his church what caused those nine (9) members to be at court? If a sworn out who got the warrants? We shall not press you for an answer for in the light of your letter to a counsell of Christian brethren assembled, representing about 95 per cent of the entire Baptist brotherhood of Richmond and vicinity. We are informed that some of the excluded members applied to the Fifth Church at their regular business meeting for their letters. They were given to understand they could not get them until they asked pardon—counsel or no council, they cared When in need of a Notify Public, call PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Rev, Walter H. Brooks, D. D., of Washington, D. C., called on us. Mr. V A Carter, of Clifton Forge, Va., was in the city on business last week. Rev Dr. Evans Payne is slowly recovering, but he is still a very stick man. Mr. Fred W Riggs, representing The Advocate of Cambridge, Musk, called on us Mr Jos J. Yancey, of New York city, has been in attendance at the annual session of the St Lukes that convened in this city this week The ice famine has been as alive a proposition on Church Hill as the drought. And it is still such, for it is really difficult to procure ice; and as to buying it in small quantities, say two or three cents' worth, as the poorer people are bound to buy it, one's request would hardly be considered On tomorrow Rev J W. Waters, pastor of Leigh-Street Methodist Church, will preach on the subject, "Go Forward." One must really hear this divine in order to appreciate his ability as a pulpit orator. Go and hear him. It will pay you to do so Rev W H Dean, formerly pastor of Ligh-Street M E Church, of this city, but now of Lynchburg, where he is stationed at Jackson-Street Methodist Church, spent several days in our city last week. The citizens generally and his old flock especially gave him a hearty welcome. He left for his home in Lynchburg last Friday, the 11th instant. The new street car line connecting Bacon's Quarter Branch with Fulton, was in full operation last Sunday. Cars going in each direction were crowded to their full capacity. They were liberally patronized by our colored citizens. It was noticeable with what politeness and consideration they were treated on both the old and the new lines. Competition- what is it that's said about competition? Mrs W H Dean, wife of Rev W H Dean, pastor of Jackson-Street Methodist Church of Lynchburg, Va. has been spending a month or so with her sick mother, Mrs Green, of Baltimore. Mrs Dean has been in our city for the past week visiting her old Richmond friends. She stopped with Mrs Anne Brown of Hospital street, while with us. She, with her three children, and Rev J W Waters and wife, dined with Sir O. M. Stewart and family at her residence, 2818 street, last Thursday and left for her mountain home yesterday, accompanied by Mrs Brown on her way as far as Petersburg. She spent an enjoyable time with her friends of this city, who visited with each other in efforts to make her visit a happy one. If it's anything about real estate call on B A CEPIAS, Real Estate Agent 602 North Second St Y. M. C. A. NOTES The fellows were out in full last Friday evening to the literary meeting. President G B Gaston led the conversation on the use of simple words. Every man was interested by special request the same will be repeated. Last Sunday was a day crowded with much work 9 30 A M at the Y M C A worker's meeting A two hour The City Home Committee at 10 A M held special meeting in the home. One inmate accepted Jesus Christ as his personal saviour. 10 A M the jail committee was busy in the city failing to help their brothers 18 prisoners were won for Jesus Christ. The boys enjoyed the meeting at 4 P M at the building Come again The open meeting at 5 30 P. M at the Y M C A was a good one Every man took a part Subject "Be Steadfast and Unmovable" The singing was extremely helpful. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man Meeting for the workers at 9:30 A. At the Y. M. C. A. A special meeting for boys at 4 P. M. at the building. Mr. Bernard L. Alien will speak to the men at 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Come and bring the other man. Do not forget the voluntary rally Sunday, September 20, at 3:30 P. M. Let every man take a part. Do not stop praying for the worldwide effort for the salvation of boys and men. Monday, Sept. 26th, at 8 P. M. the Y. M. C. A. night school will open. Everybody who needs help is invited to come. I. O. ST. LUKE HERE. Large Delegation—Encouraging Reports—The True Reformers—The Savings Bank. The Right Worthy Grand Council I O of St Luke has been in session here this week at the Fifth-Street Baptist Church. It has a large number of delegates present, and is presided over by Mr A. F Angel, R W. Grand Chief Mrs Maggle L Walker is secretary. The reports show a prosperous condition of the Order, and harmony has marked the deliberations. There was a little ripple there when Mrs E Giles, chief of the True Reformers, thanked the Order for having expressed sympathy for them, and for not having permitted anything to be published concerning them in a derogatory manner in the St Luke Horald. LAWYER NEWSOME THERE, TOO This was all right until Lawyer J Thomas Newsome got the floor and expressed the opinion of those True Reformers who were endeavoring to purge the Order of dishonesty and of dishonest officials. This changed matters, and a certain leading dishonest reformer, the grand council may have gone just a little too far in expressing sympathy. Mrs Walker's romarks concerning the Order were conservative and diplomatic. LARGE CROWD THERE The City Auditorium contained a large crowd last Wednesday night. The occasion "I was a very able address by the brilliant pulpit orator of Washington, D. C., Rev, Walter H. Brooks, D. D., who spoke on "Race Possibilities." He created a profound impression. Many white persons were present, and the countries extended were among the features. The session coming close up on the heels of the failure of the True Reformers will tend to give visitors a different impression of the city many presuming that other financial enterprises were totering when as a matter of fact, they are stronger than ever. THE NEW BANK The St Luke Penny Savings Bank, a beautiful structure on the southeast corner of First and Marshall streets while not completed in time afforded an opportunity to the visitors to see what is being done along financial lines. Mr Charles T. Russell, the architect, has been highly complimented for the beauty of design and excellence of his work Messrs Moore and Archer are the general contractors. --- "6 or 0 doses "000" will cure cases of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c --- If a herring and a half cost a cost and a half, what will a ticket to Buck Roof cost with Mount O ? Ans Adults, $1 00 children, 50c. --- Theatre and Dinner Party Mr. W R Johnson of Ninth street gave a delightful theatre and dinner party last Tuesday evening in honor of his two cousins Mrs. Mildred Evans and Clarice Coleman, of Bayonne, N J who are visiting here this summer. Those who assisted were Mrs. Alice Woodson, Mrs. Fannie B Johnson, Miss Ruth Starrs, Miss Ellen Mann, Mr John Thomas and Mr William Pearson. A feature of the evening's entertainment was Mr. Pearson's eccentric dancing and Mr Thomas' droll stories. They leave next week for their home. "Mount 0. to Buck Roe, Aug. 17 Plus 4." We invite the generous public to note that the Mount Olivet Baptist Church will run its annual excursion to Buck Roe Beach Monday, August 21, 1911. Train leaves on time - 9 A M. Fare Round trip, adults $100; children under 12 years of age, 50c. We are struggling. Help us to our foot again by taking a trip with us. REV. J ANDREW BOWLER. Pastor. --- "SHALL THE TRUE REFORMER LIVE!" A ballad sent to any address for 10 cents. A. R. SMITH, 518 North Second Street, Rhishmand, Va. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL. In Session Here. August 15, 1911. The forty-seventh annual session of the Supreme Grand Council, I. O. of St. Luke, was held at Samaritan Hall on August 8th and 9th. There was a splendid delegation from the councils—only four councils, not having one or more delegates. While many of them came with sorrowful hearts, when they thought the federal church which had been severed by the hand of death, yet they bowed to the will of God, and like true and tried children, acknowledged His supremacy and sovereignty. MINUTES WERE READ After opening in duo form, the first session on August 8th was devoted to seating the delegates, hearing minutes of the last session, the reports of Grand Chief J. W. Martin and Financial Grand Secretary Mrs. Belle Christian, and Grand Treasurer Mrs. Faunio D. Dumnalle. The above mentioned reports were full and comprehensive. The officers—the Grand Chief and Secretary-Treasurer—were highly complimented for the painstaking and intelligent manner of dealing with conditions during the past year. REPORTS REFERRED The reports were turned over to the proper committees, who examined and reported everything correct and as presented. The Executive Board, through the Board of Directors, made a full report of the year's work. Everything was made known to the whole convention. Nothing was kept in reserve. It was their right to know and judge the actions of those who served them. The afternoon of the first day and the morning session of the second day were given to expressions from delegates and reports from deputies. The general impression provailed that God had tried them by death, and they had suffered other trials, but though they had been weighed they were not found wanting in their faith in God, nor in the principles of the Supreme Grand Council. 1 O of St Luke WILL STAND FIRM Hence the vote was taken to stand firm and hold on to the staff, though the old flag may be tattered and torn We can only say, "Where there is no will there is a way." "God helps those who help themselves." When the members who were present of the meeting, we hear them make these pronouncement "God war in our meeting" "it was the best session we have had for five years" HAS MET ALL OBLIGATIONS The best thing we can say about it is that the Order has met every obligation, and does not owe anybody one cent. All old deputies were reappointed and many new ones appointed. Delocales were eager to serve as deputies. The afternoon session of the second day opened with memorial ser vice. OFFICERS ELECTED The Committee on Nomination made the following report, which was adopted R W G Chief.-J. W. Martin. R W. G Vice-Chief—Rev H M Henderson R W G Financial Secretary - Mrs Belle Christian R W G Recording Secretary Rev D J Jones. R W G Treasurer—Mrs Fannie E. Dumnalle R W G. Chaplain—Rey Thomas Harris R W G. Senior Conductor—Brot T V Williams R W G. Junior Conductress Miss Mamie Spencer. R W. G Noble Father—Rev. E. B Gilliam R. W G K. of W --Brother Frank Orange R W G Inside Sentinel—Brother J T Bolling. R W G Outside Schtinel—Bro J. R. Jonos Right and Left Supporters to R W. G. Chief—Sisters Etta Funn and Ocle Smith Right and Left Supporters to R W. G. Vico-Chief—Sisters Mary J Henderson and Rosa D. Brooks. Fast R. W. G. Chief—Brother C W. Simms. Bronwil L. of Directors—Brothers J. W. Martin, D. J. Franklin; Brothers Bolo Christian, Vora Bolling, M. B. Holmets, R. D. Bowser, Athelina Hill; Lizzie Smith, Fannie Dammallis and Brother W. Grey. The officers were duly elected and installed into their respective positions. TWO I HAD always loved her—that I knew even in the hour of my darkest suspicion—but now, I felt free to worship her. A change took place that night in my whole nature, in my aspect of life and my view of women. Fate—I was more in cleded now to call it providence—had shown me the heart of a great and true wongen, and I was free to expand all my beat impulses in honoring her and loving her, whether she ever looked ed my way again, received or even knowledged a homage growing out of such wrong as I had done her and her unfortunate sister. The next day being Sunday, I had ample time for the reaction bound to follow hours of such exaltation. The desire to see her, to hear from her—if only to learn how she had endured the bitter ordeal of the day before—soon became unbearable. I must know this much at any cost to her feelings or to mine. After many a struggle with myself I called up Dr. Carpenter on the telephone. From him I learned that she was physically prostrated, but still clear in mind and satisfied of her brother's innocence. "Doctor, I cannot approach her—I cannot even write—it would seem too PUBLIER AND I DID NOT KNOW THE MAN. presumptuous. But tell her, as you find the opportunity, how I honor her. Do not let her remain under the imp expression that I am not capable of truly feeling what she has borne and must still bear." "I will do what I can," was his reply, and he mercifully cut short the con- versation. This was the event of the morning. In the afternoon I sat in my window thinking. My powers of reasoning had returned, and the insoluble problem of Adelaide's murder occupied my mind. With Carmel innocent, who was there left to suspect? Not Arthur. His fingers were as gullible as my own of those marks on her threat. Of this I was convinced, diffi- cult as it made my future. The secret man of guilt might yet come to light, but how or through whose agency I found myself unable to conceive. I had neither the wit nor the experience to untangle this confused web. And so the afternoon passed. With the coming on of night my mood changed. I wanted air, movement. The closeness of my rooms had become unbearable. As soon as the lamps were lit in the street I started out, and I went—toward the cemetery. It was a cold night, and there were but few people in the streets. On the boulevard I met nobody. As I neared the cemetery I passed one man; otherwise I was to all appearance alone on this remote avenue. The effect was sinister, or my mood made it so. Yet I did not hasten my steps—the hours till midnight to be lived through in some way, and why not in this? The cemetery gates were shut. This I had expected, but I did not need to enter the grounds to have a view of Adelside's grave. The Cumberland lot occupied a knoll in close proximity to the fence, and my only intention had been to pass this spot and cast one look within in memory of Adelside. To reach the place, however, I had to turn a corner, and on doing so I saw good reason, as I thought, for not carrying out my intention at this especial time. Some man—I could not recognize him from where I stood, had forecalled me. Though the night was a dark one, sufficient light shone from the scattered lamps on the opposite side of the way for me to discern his intent figure, crouching against the iron bars and gazing with an intentness which made him entirely oblivious of my presence at the very spot and on the very grave which had been the end of my own pilgrimage. So motionless he stood and so motionless, so myself, be of the Whispering Pines Grief deeper than mine spoke in those laboring breaths. Adoldea was meared by some one as I for all my remorse could never moor her. And I did not know the man. Was not this strange enough to rouse my wonder? I thought so and was on the point of satisfying this wonder by a quick advance upon this stranger when there happened an uncanny thing which held me in check from aberastonishment. I was so placed in reference to one of the street impels I have already mentioned that my shadow fell before me plainly along the snow. This had not attracted my attention until at the point of moving I cast my eyes down and saw two shadows where only one should be. As I had heard no one behind me and had supposed myself entirely along with the man absorbed in contemplation of Adelaide's graves I experienced a curious sensation, which without being fear, held me still for a moment with my eyes on this second shadow. It did not move any more than mine did. This was significant, and I turned. A man stood at my back—not looking at me, but at the fellow in front of us. A quiet "Hush!" sounded in my ear, and again I stood still, but only for an instant. The man at the fence, aroused by my movement perhaps, had turned and, seeing our two figures, started to fly in the opposite direction. Instinctively I darted forward in pursuit, but was soon passed by the man behind me. This caused me to slacken, for I had recognized this latter as he new by as Sweetwater, the detective, and knew that he would do this work better than myself. But I rocked without my host. He went only as far as the spot where the man had been standing. When in my astonishment I advanced upon him, there he wheeled about quite naturally is my direction and, accosting me by name, remarked in his genial offhand manner: "There is no need for us to tread our legs in a chase after that man. I know him well enough." "And who"— 1 began. A quizzical smile answered me. The light was now in our faces and I had a perfect view of his. Its expression quite disarmed me, but I know, as well as if he had spoken, that I should receive no other reply to my half formed question "Are you going back into town?" he asked, as I paused and looked down at the umbrella swinging in his hand. I was sure that he had not held this umbrella when he started by me on the run "If so, will you allow me to walk beside you for a little way?" I could not refuse him; besides, I was not sure that I wanted to. "You are quite welcome," said I, and again cast my eye at the umbrella. "You are wondering where I get this," he remarked, looking down at it in his turn. "I found it teasing against the fence. It gives me all the claw I need to our direct footed friend. Mr Tanneagh, will you credit me with good intentions? I ask a question or two which you may or may not be willing to answer." "You may ask what you will," said I. "I have nothing to conceal since bearing Miss Cumberland's explanation of her presence at the Whisper Pines. "The question I am going to ask, he continued presently, "one which you may consider unpardonable. Let me first express an opinion. You have not told all that you know of that evening's doings." This called for no reply and I mad none. "I can understand your reticence if your knowledge included the fact of Miss Cumberland's heroic act and her sister's manner of death at the club house." "But it did not." I asserted, with deliberate emphasis. "I knew nothing of either. My arrival happened later. Miss Cumberland's testimony gave me my first enlightenment on these points. But I did know that the two sisters were there together, for I had a glimpse of the younger as she was leaving the house." "You had. And are willing to state it now." "A assuredly. But any testimony of that kind is for the defense, and your interests are all with the prosecution. Mr. Moffit is the man who should talk to me." "You are interested, then, in seeing young Cumberland freed!" "I must be; he is innocent." The man at my side turned and shot at me one glance which I met calmly. "Mr. Ranelagh, will you tell me why, when you found you self in such a dire extremity as to be arrested for this crime on evidence as startling as to call for all and every possible testimony to your innocence, you preserved silence in regard to a fact which you must have then felt would have secured you a most invaluable witness." Then it was I regretted my thoughtless promise to be candid with this man. To answer were impossible, yet silence has its confidence, too. In my dilemma I turned toward him, and just then we stepped within the glare of an electric light pouring from some open doorway. I caught his eye and was astonished at the change which took place in him. chill sitting and shake me, and hear, people, say, may, express when uttering the common expression, "Some one is walking over my grave, when I heard these words, delivered in the plow, and but slightly raised tones with which Mr. Dickat invariably began his address. May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, my learned friend of the prosecution has shown great discretion in that so far as appears from the trend of his examinations, he is planning no attempt to explain the many silences and the often forbidding attitude of my young client by any theory save the obvious one—be natural desire to hide the room in her endeavor to refill the tasks afflicted upon her by her master be giants over a death which will give him independence and glits; also with every evil thought which could blind him to the plausible aspects of a tragedy such as few men in this world could see unmoved. A brother! But this is not the worst. The awful cup of human greed and hatred is but filled to the brim. It has not yet overflowed. Carnel leaves the room. She has a telephonic message to deliver. She may be gone a minute; she may be gone many. Little does he care which. He must see the dead, look down on the woman who has been like a mother to him and see it. JOIN THE Solid Rock Union (20th Century Secret System) THAT BENEFITS IN LIFE, HEALTH & DEATH. Salary and Commission to Deputies Write Right Now for Full Particulars to the SOLID ROCK UNION, 1920 Dickinson St stand, the situation now, and you shall never regret that you met Caleb. Sweetwater on your walk this evening. Will you trust me, sir? A detective who loves his profession is no gobbler. Your secret is as safe with me as if you had buried it in the grave." And I had said nothing. At the next moment he was half-way around a corner and in another moment was out of sight. CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARROW OF DEATH. IN my first glance around the courtroom the next morning I sought first for Carmel and then for the detective, Bweetwater. Neither was visible. But this was not true of Ella Fulton. She had come in on her father's arm, closely followed by the erect figure of her domineering mother. The entrance of the defendant cut short my contemplation of any mere spectator. The change in him was so marked that I was conscious of it before I really saw him. Every eye had reflected it, and it was no surprise to me when I noted the relieved, almost cheerful, aspect of his countenance as he took his place and met his counsel's greeting with a smile, the first, I believe, which had been seen on his face since his sister's death. The caller announced the opening of the court, and the defense proceeded by the calling of Ella Fulton to the witness stand. I need not tinger over her testimony. It was very short and contained but one surprise. She had stated under direct examination that she had waited and watched for Arthur's return that whole night and was positive that he had not passed through their grounds again after that first time in the early evening. This was just what I had expected from her. But the prosecution remembered the snowfall, and in her cross examination on this point she acknowledged that it was very thick much too thick for her to see her own gate distinctly, but added that this only made her surer of the fact she had stated, for, finding that she could not see, she had dressed herself for the storm and gone out into the driveway to watch there and had so watched until the town clock struck 3. This did not help the prosecution Sympathy could not fall to be with this young and tremulous girl, hero in her love, if weak in other respects, and when on her departure from the stand she cast one deprecatory glance at the man for whom she had thus sacrificed her pride and, meeting his eye fixed upon her with anything, but ingratiate, flushed and faltered till she with difficulty found her way the sentiments of the onlookers became so apparent that the judge's gavel was called into requisition before order could be restored and the next witness summoned to testify This witness was no less a person than Arthur himself. Recalled by his counsel, he was reminded of his former statement that he had left the clubhouse in a burry because he heard his sister Adelaide's voice and was now asked if here was the only voice he had heard. His answer revealed much of his mind. "No; I heard Carmel's answering her." This satisfying Mr. Moffat, he was passed over to Mr. Fox, and a court cross examination ensued on this point. "You heard both your sisters speaking." "Yes, sir." "Any of their words or only their voices?" "I heard one word." "What word?" "The word 'kiwood.'" "In which voice?" "In that of my sister Adelaida." "I immediately" "I leaving your two sisters alone in this cold and out of the way house?" "I did not think they were alone." "Who did not think was with them?" "I have already mentioned the name." "Yet you left them?" "Yes. I have already explained that I was engaged in a mean act. I was ashamed to be caught at it by Adolide. I preferred flight. I had no premonition of tragedy—any such tragedy as afterward occurred. I understood neither of my sisters, and my thoughts were only for myself." "I had not this younger sister even enjoined accretion upon you in asking you to harness the horse?" "Yet you heard the two, together in this remote building without surprise!" "No, I must have felt surprise, but I didn't stop to analyze my feelings. Afterward I curried it over in my mind and tried to make something out of the whole thing, but then I was far out on the links. They were having it out, I thought, in the presence of the man who had made all this trouble between them." "And you left them to the task?" "Yes, sir, but not without a struggle. I was minded several times to return. This I have testified to before." "Did this struggle consume forty minutes?" "It must have, and more, if I entered the hotel in Cuthbert road at the hour they state." Mr. Fox gave up the game, and Mr. Moffat rested his case. There was no testimony offered in rebutual, and the court took a recess. When it reassembled I cast another anxions gaze around. Still no Carmel nor any signs of Sweetwater. I could understand her absence, but not his, and it was in a confusion of feeling, which was fast getting the upper hand of me that I turned my attention to Mr. Mofat and the plea he was about to make for my youthful client. I felt a sudden slow and creeping chil' s name and what he was, and heard, people say, may they explain when bittering the common expression, "Some one is walking over my grave, when I heard these words, delivered in the flow, and but slightly raised tones with which Mr. Monat invariably began his address. "May it please, the court and gentleman of the jury, my learned friend of the prosecution has shown great discretion in that so far as appears from the trend of the examinations, he is planning no attempt to explain the many silences and the often forbidding attitudes of my young client by any theory save the obvious one—the natural desire of my brother to hide bias only remaining sister's connection with a tragedy of whose details he was ignorant and concerning which he had formed a theory derogatory to her position as a young and well bred woman. "Fear for a loved one, even in one whom you will probably be described as a dislabeled man, of self tendencies and hitherto unbrotherly qualities is a great miracle worker. No sacrificio seems impossible which serves as a guard for one so situated and so threatened." Here Mr. Moffat recapitulated those events, but always from the standpoint of the defendant, a standpoint which necessarily brought before the jury the many excellent reasons which his client had for apposing this crime to have resulted solely from the conflicting interests represented by that fortuitously passed note and the visit of two girls instead of one to the Whispering Pines. It was very courting: At the proper moment Mr. Moffat said: Gentlemen of the jury, you have seen the point after point of the prosecution's case demolished before your eyes by testimony which no one has had the tenacity to attempt to controvert. What is left? Mr. Fox will tell you—three strong and unassailable facts: The ring found in the murdered woman's casket, the remnants of the telltale bottle discovered in the Cumberland stable and the opportunity for crime given by the acknowledged presence of the defendant on or near the scene of death. "But are these points so vital as they seem? Let us consider them and see. My client has denied that he dropped anything into his sister's casket, much less the ring missing from that sister's finger. Dare you, then, convict on this point when, according to count, ten other persons were seen to drop flowers into this very place, any one of which might have carried this object with it." "And the bit of broken bottle found in or near the defendant's own stainless beo to be convicted on the similarity it offers to the one known to have come from the clubhouse wine vault, while a reasonable doubt remains of his having been the hand which carried it there." No. Where there is a reasonable doubt no high-minded jury will convict, and I can. At my client has made it plain that there is such a reasonable doubt. "My distinguished opponent would have you believe that the defendant did not fly at the moment declared, but that he waited to fulfill the four deed, which is the only serious matter in dispute in his so nearly destroyed case. I bear as though he were now speaking the attack which he will make upon my client when he comes to review this matter with you. Let me see if I cannot make you hear those words too." And, with a daring smile at his discriminated adversary Alonzo Moffat launched forth into the following sarcasm: "Arthur Cumberland, coming up the kitchen stair, hears voices where he had expected total silence, sees light where he had left total darkness. He has two bottles in his hands or in his large coat pockets. If they are in his hands he sets them down and stands forward to listen. He has recognized the voices. They are those of his two sisters, one of whom had ordered him to bitch up the cutter for her to escape, as he had every reason to believe, the other. Curiosity—or is it some nobler feeling?—causes him to draw nearer and nearer to the room in which they have taken up their stand. He can hear their words now, and what are the words he hears? Words that would thrill the most imperious heart, call for the interference of the most indifferent. But he is made of ice, welded together with steel. He sees (for no place save one from which he can watch and see—namely, the dark dancing hall—would satisfy any man of such gigantic curiosity) Adelaide fall at Carmel's feet in recognition of the great sacrifice she has made for her. But he does not move; he falls at no one's feet; he recognizes no nobility, responds to no higher appeal. Stony and unmoved, he crowes there and watches and watches, still curious or still feeding his hate on the sufferings of the older, the forbearance of the younger. "And on what does he look? You have already heard, but consider it. Adelaide, despairing of happiness, decides on death for herself or sister. Both living one man, one of the two must give way to the other. Carmel has done her part: she must now do hers. She has brought polson; she has brought glasses—three glasses for three persons, but only two are on the scene, and so she fills but two. One has only condil in it, but the other is, as she believes, deadly. Carmel is to have her choice. But who believes that Adelaide would ever have let her drink the poisoned glass? "And this map looks on as the two faces confront each other—one white with the overthrow of every earthly hope, the other under the stress of suffering and a fascination of horror sufficient to have, laid, her dead without poison at the other one's feet. This is what he sees—a brother—and he makes no move, then or afterward, when the die cast. Adelaide succumbs to her fear and falls into a seemingly dying state on the couch. "Does he go now? Is his hate or his capidity satisfied? No. He remains and listens to the tender interchange of final words, and all the late precautions of the elder to guard the younger woman's good name. Still he is not performed and when, the critical moment about the room in her endayer. We tell the tasks enjoyed on her by her water he goes over a death which will give him independence and gluts himself with every wish thought which could blind him to the pitiful aspects of a tragedy such as few men in this world could see unmoved. A brother: "But this is not the worst. The awful cup of human greed and hatred is but filled to the brim. It has not yet questioned. Carmel leaves the room. She has a telephonic message to deliver. She may be gone a minute; she may be gone many. Little does he care which. He must see the dead, look down on the woman who has been like a mother to him and see if her influence is forever removed, if his wealth is his and his independence forever assured. "Sate in the darkness of the gloomy recesses of the dancing halls; he steals slowly forward. Drawn as by a magnet, he enters the room of seeming death, draws up to the pillow laden couch, pulls off first one cushion and then another till face and hands are bare and." "Ah, there's a movement! Death has not, then, done its work. She lives—the baited one lives. And he is no longer rich, no longer independent. With a clutch he selts her at the feeble seat of life, and as the breath censes and her whole body becomes again inert he stoops to pull off the ring, which can have no especial value or meaning for him, and then, ripping the cushions over her, creeps forth again, takes up the bottles and disappears from the house. "Gentlemen of the jury, this is what my opponent would have you believe. This will be his explanation of this extraordinary murder. But when his eloquence mots your ears, when you hear this arraignment and the emphasis he will place upon the few points remaining to his broken case, then ask yourself if you see such a monster in the prisoner now confronting you from the bar. I do not believe it. I do not believe that such a monster lives. "But you say some one entended that room—some one still hated the futtering life still remaining in that foble breast. Some one may have, but that some one was not my client, and it is his guilt or innocence we are considering now, and it is his life and freedom for which you are responsible. No brother did that deed. No witness of the scene which hallowed this tragedy ever lifted hand against the fainting Adelaide or choked back a life which kindly fate had spared. "Do further for the guilty perpetrator of this most human act; he stands not in the dock. Guilt shows no such relief as you see in him today. Guilt would remember that his sister's testimony, under the cross examination of the people's prosecutor, left the charge of murder still hanging over the defendant's head. But the brother has forgotten this. His restored confidence in one who now represents to him father, mother and sister has thrown his own fate into the background. Will you dim that joy—easily this charge of murder? "If in your sense of justice you do so you forever place this degenerate son of a noble father on the list of the most imaginative and hate drive criminals of all time. Is he such a demon? is he such a madman? Look in his face today and decide. I am willing to leave his cause in your hands. It could be placed in no better "May it please your honor and gentlemen of the jury. I am done." If any one at that moment, felt the arrow of death descending into his heart it was not Arthur Cumberland {TO BE CONTINUED.} Woman Worked as Laborer. Workmen employed on the construction of a reservoir at Drock's creek, near Hazleton, Pa., discovered that a woman, dressed in men's clothes and laboring as hard as any on the force, was engaged on the job for over a week. Her identity, which she concealed by means of a huge straw hat, was revealed during the noonday meal, when she thoughtlessly removed her headgear. She gave her name as Anna Rabitz, of Stockton, and said that her father had dressed her up as a man and compelled her to work. She was sent from the job. --- May Promote Hebrew Soldier. Private Frank Bloom, Battery F, third field artillery, at Fort Myer, Va. has been found qualified to enter the final competitive examination for promotion to the grade of second lieutenant. His commanding officer, Colonel Garrard, objected to the young man's promotion on the ground that he was a Hebrew. He has been ordered to proceed to Fort Leavensworth, Kan. to take the examination. Bank Teller Missing; $3000 Short. Walter A Snowden, of 5725 Pine p街, Philadelphia, who was assistant to the teller of the Trust Company of North America, is a fugitive from justice, a warrant having been issued for his arrest, charging him with the embezzlement of $3000 belonging to the trust company. According to rel- atives and friends the young man, who ranked as a clerk, lost the money in gambling. Mud Bath is Fatal to Hogs. A mud bath proved fatal to six of a drove of seventen hogs, who fell asleep in the drying mud of a wallflow on the farm of Harvoy Finlay, near Tecumseh, Nob, being held prisoners for two days. WhEn found by the owner six of the hogs were dead and it was necessary to dig the remainder out of their causing of dried mud. Flying Glass Kills Child During a heavy thunderstorm in the town of Punzunutawney, Pa., a pane of glass was blown from a kitchen window of the home of George Kunz, striking his five-year-old daughter Stella and covering her jungular vein. She died in a few minutes. 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TOGO PUTS HIS HEAD IN A 14-INCH GUN Admiral Togo, unbeliedly amazed, stood at the muzzle of a new 14-inch gun at the Washington navy yard, the first to be conplotted of the twenty-four most powerful rifles in the world with which the giant American battleships Texas and New York are to be equipped. The Japanese admiral stuck his head into the breech of the gun and looked through a glistening barrel of 52½ feet, the longest the United States navy has as yet attempted. Admiral Togo's ordinary expressionless face plainly relaxed, and he looked enthusiastically at the latest product of ordnance genius. He continued with acute interest his visit through the yard, and though he, moved around rapidly, he received a vivid impression of the resourcefulness of the United Navy. When he put on smoked glasses and watched the ox acetylene process of welding and casting metals, a sight that usually is not shown to visitors, he marveled at the ease with which the workmen toyed with metal. He passed through all the machine shops and found les, and inspected carefully the model basin, used for determining by mathematics and model hulls the power required for big battleships. The admiral complimented Captain Bennett on the cleanliness of the yard and the extensiveness of its equipment. As he left the yard nineteen guns were fired in salute, a Japanese flag being hoisted on a staff nearby. KILLED BY A BUG Man Swallowed Insect Which Ate Away His Intestines. A Porto Ilican bug which he had swallowed years ago while on a trip to California caused the death of Will Ilam Thompson, thirty-five years old, of Roselle, N. J. Nine years ago, after his return from a trip to the well, Mr. Thompson son was selzed with a astringent illness, which baffled a gore of specialists. After he had undergone two operations his case was diagnosed by a noted specialists as one of a few exceptional cases on record. The bug which he had swallowed had eaten his intestines away. Midshipmen Sall for Home. The American practice squadron, consisting of the battleships Iowa, Indiana and Massachusetts, sailed from Glbaltar for Annapolis The squadron, under Commander R. E. Coontz, of the naval academy, and having on board the midshipmen, sailed from Annapolis on June 5 for a summer cruise to European ports, covering about 7000 miles. The voyage will end on August 28. 100 Drown When Boat Sinks. A bont overlonded with natives on their way to attend a fair at Dousk, near Alexandria, Egypt, foundered in the Nile. Nearly 100 persons were crowned. Thirty-six bodies have been recovered. Bishop Fitzgerald, Dead. The Right Rev. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Montagle, Tenn. aged eighty-two years. FLYING CHISEL KILLS MAN Plunges into Employee's Side When Knocked From Another's Hand. Manuel Monto, twenty-eight years old, an employee of the Midvale Steel works, Philadelphia; was instantly killed there in a most peculiar manner. Monte was at work on one side of a large room while on the other side a gang of men was smoothing off a big steel plate with a giant chisel and a steam hammer. The hand of the man holding the chisel slipped, the hammer struck the chisel at an angle and the heavy stool snail crossed the room and plunged, dagger-like, into Monte's side. The man fell to the floor with a scream of agony. Fellow workmen rushed to his assistance, but he was already unconscious, and died before a physician could be summoned. Sexton Hanga In Church The body of Andres Anderson, aged sixty-three, was found banging in the Mormon church in Logan Utah, of which he had been sexton for twenty years. Before going to the church Anderson read his favorite hymn, a renunciation of earthly glory and wealth. Postal Savings Are Named. One hundred additional postal savings depositories were designated. Including these, 1450 second class post-offices and forty first class offices have been made postal depositories. Made College President Dr. Alfred E. Craig, of Wilmington, Del., was elected president of Morningale College at Sloux City, Iowa, to succeed Dr. Luther Freeman, resigned. --- Woman Dies From Hookworm, Mrs. Albert L. Hall, thirty-five years old, died at her home in the village of Hamilton, near Ullsace, N. Y., Wednesday, a victim of the hookworm disease. This is said to be the first death in central New York from the hookworm disease in many years. Taft's Cow to Be Exhibited. President Tift is to be an exhibitor at the International Dairyman's Exposition, which is to be held in Milwaukee, Wise, next October. He promised Senator Isaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin, to send "Pauline - Wayne," the White House cow, to the show. --- THAT TRAGEDY IN CHESTERFIELD A Father's Pathetic Story Will Not Believe Son Guilty Grand Jury Finds True Bill. CHARGES HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR., WITH THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE. COURT DENIES PLEA FOR DHLAY AND OCAE MAY NOW SOON BEGIN long and tollsome. Next week will on your soil—some act of valo humanity or self-sacrifice see a difference. From the surrounding country, might we count that ovent to Unless future representations alter the present attitude and disposition of the court, Henry Clay Beatle, Jr., alleged wife murderer, will leave his cell on Monday morning to begin before the Chesterfield bar a spectacular fight for his life. At the close of a session distinguished during the morning by the formal indictment of the prisoner, in the afternoon by the ineffectual attempt of the defense to secure a brief continuance of the case, and throughout its length by a blistering heat that lay heavily upon the stuffed court room, Judge Walfor A. Watson, presiding, tentatively determined the single doubtful issue of the day, directing that the much-heralded trial be set for a hearing one week hence. Reluctant to appear as if unduly hastening the ordeal that means life or death to the young husband, the court paused to explain at length certain physical limitations defined by other important dates within the circuit which made it necessary either to begin at once or also delay for many weeks. Choosing what he regarded as the lesser of two evils, the judge theroupon for the time being fixed the early date, the defense in the mean while noting vigorous objection, and indicating plainly that it would further resist when the proper moment arrived In this manner the first skirmish came, and ended without a definite assurance for either side. The odds are with the prosecution for the instant, but more will probably be heard in the same connection before the trial actually begins: In all likelihood Monday will see the beginning of the end, but it is not without the bounds of the possible that the case will yet go over to a special term. The court, while desirous, and in fact, under the necessity, of speeding the trial as much as possible consistent with a due regard for the interests of its prisoner, is in no sense disposed to take advantage of the defense, and will give counsel every consideration that the unusual circumstances will permit. CROWD ALERT AS CHIEF WITNESSES ARRIVE The indictment was a perfunctory condition that yet consumed more than two hours in the performance. The grand jury, Chesterfield men of solid station and more than ordinary intelligence, went with some detail into the well-known circumstances surrounding the murder, and then board the Commonwealth present its case. The prisoner was not present, but spent the day in his cell puffing his intermittable cigarette and reading newspaper descriptions of the scenes being enacted fifteen miles away. Paul Beatty, cousin of the accused, and chief witness of the State, strolled leisurely about the court green, chatting pleasantly with any one who had a word for him, and evidently enjoying to the full his brief hour of freedom. He did not enter the jury room during the day. Beulah Binford, suddenly grown dumure and modest, hid himself from the gaze of mankind and shrank into a small courthouse room, where she stayed five hours, coming forth at last only to be whisked away to jail again. The jury heard nothing from her, either. She fainted under the oppressive heat, but quickly revived, and once offered, for the sum of $25, to show herself to the photographers. The proposition was not accepted. What the jury learned of the case came from Thomas E. Owen, who described the events of the night of the tragedy; T. P. Pettigrew, who witnessed the discovery of the murderous gun; J. G. Loving, coroner who presided at the inquest and L. L. Schorer, chief detective in charge of the case. Not the least impressive feature of the day was the court's charge to the inquests, brief but olquent and well put. The crowd, large and orderly to a notable degree, heard it in profound silence and then and thereafter in the direction of the remalder of the session recognized in the court a firm and skilled hand that thoroughly realizes the gravity of the pending cause, and that will permit no trifling and no unseemly conduct from any quarter. Near the close of the afternoon the defense demanded and secured from the court an assurance that the obstreperous Henrico jailer would no longer be allowed to interfere with its free and unwitnessed communication with its client. This ended the day's work, and before sunset a majority of the visiting spectators were racing a thunder cloud back to Richmond. THE DAY IN COURT AT CHESTERFIELD. Daylight found a few wayfarers abroad, and the sun was barely in the sky before newspaper men and telegraph operators were on the ground preparing for what might come. Thirty countrymen were lined up with vehicles of every shape and date, ready for an outpouring that certainly did not measure up to their expectations. As a matter of fact, the Richmond contingent was small, consisting chiefly of lawyers, newspaper writers and photographers. There was no reason to expect a sensational day, and the road was long and tollome. Next week will see a difference. From the surrounding country, however, came several hundred people, chiefly mon, an occasional child, and only here and there a woman who hung far in the background and not once ventured into the courtroom. Long before the hour the court green, flanked with bugles and automobiles, was strewn with people, displaying an evident and keen interest in the case, but nothing that even remotely resembled excitement. In fact, whatever Chestorfield may think and feel of the tragedy that has brought it into such motorcity, it is plainly disposed to give Battle a respectful hearing. There are even those who say it will be able to furnish the trial jury. PAUL BEATTIE ENJOWS THE AIR OF FREEDOM. After an hour or two of almless wandering beneath the great courthouse trees the first stir came with the arrival of a motor car carrying Paul Beattie and a group of officers. The crowd at once gathered itself into a rush to the front of the little building and watched curiously while a slim young man, smiling pleasantly, neatly dressed, stepped out, took in the surroundings with a glance, and pulled out a pack of cigarettes Paul Was anything if not composed. There were no signs of hysteria now. In fact, a few weeks in fall seem to have made a new man of him. He is looking better and stronger than for a long time—not an insignificant detail since he will likely be the storm-centre a few days hence. Not less interested in the crowd than the crowd in himself, he strolled about the grounds, inspecting the courthouse and its surroundings, posing for several photographers, exchanging pleasantries with anybody who came, and evidently relishing the breath of freedom once more. With him in the can were Detectives Wren and Wiltshire, of the Richmond force; County Officer Jarrell and J. R. McBryde secretary of Detective Scherer, who carried a satchel containing a full typewritten and completely indexed record of the Commonwealth's case BEULAH BINFORD ARRIVES UNDER GUARD. It was shortly after 10 o'clock when the first car arrived, and a half hour later another dashed into the courtyard, and, followed by the crowd, sped on to the clerk's office, where it halted to let Beulah Tinford alight. Neatly and handsome, but not conspicuously, dressed in blue with a big, becoming hat, she was for a moment the unchallenged centre of attention, and apparently did not relish the experience. She went at once to the courthouse and secluded herself for the remainder of the day. No communication was allowed with her except under the eye of the Commonwealth officers. His car was driven by Hazeigel, its owner, and carried in addition, Sher-W. C. Gill of Chesterfield; Judge J. M. Gregory and L. O. Wendonburg, attorneys for the Commonwealth; Detective Schorer and Jos. Lynn deputy sheriff of Henrico In the meantime the swarm of newspaper men, hailing from various sections of the country, was endeavoring to adapt itself to limited accommodations, telegraph operators were getting busy, cameras were clicking, and the courtroom was filling with people. Shortly before 11 o'clock Judge Watson entered, and a few minutes later rapped for order. Sheriff Gill shouted "Oyez." demanding silence, and the ancient ceremonies done, the work began. The courtroom atmosphere was exceedingly oppressive, and the crowd was ordered back from the windows so as to admit such chance browes as might be attiring. spectators until then comfortably enclosed on the widely separated benches were also, directed to stand in order to give as much room as possible for others clamoring for admission. The room is extremely small—a relic of a hundred years ago. The dignity of the court would not permit the removal of coats. Altogether, it was a hot beginning. CHARGE TO GRAND JURY. The jury was called and the foreman took the oath, the others carefully listening. Then four at a time the others were duly swned. Gray-hafed mon—as the formalities required—assured the court that they were over twenty-one years of age, and none were found who were constables. Keepers of oak or otherwise among them disabled class. The mahupy were above sixty years of age, but waived the exumption. "Gentlemen of the jury," the judge declared as he charged the nine men, "it is painful for your judge to have to announce that since your court has sat a domestic tragedy of uncommon cruelty enacted in your midst has attracted the attention of not only the people of this Commonwealth, but of all portions of the outside world. "Such is the curiosity of humankind and so great are the modern means of communication, gentlemen that a quiet country road in Chesterfield has become more widely known for the time being than Wall street, in your country's metropolis, and the name of your dounty is pronounced in the furthermost parts of your country. Had public attention been attracted by great deeds done THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. on your soil—some act of valor or humanity or sofa-sacrifice—well might we count that event fortunate which had thrust you thus under the scrutiny of your fellowmen, but as it is we have the unavailble fame which follows in the wake of great crime. "To say that the public peace has been shocked is to say what is known of all men. Gentlemen, had I the power this whole tragedy should be blotted out. The young mother should return to the babe of her bosom, the prison doors should open wide to her husband, the anxiety should be lifted from the heart of a stricken parent and the family restored unbroken to the happy reside, and all the assembly of your people gathered here would disperse to their homes contented and happy. "But after all, gentlemen, how impotent is human government, code, constitution. Statutes may redress a civil wrong, but they cannot recall the fleeting breath and they cannot make the life come back to its dead. "But, gentlemen, of the grand jury, this great Commonwealth is able to uphold the majority of its law, is able and can and will, protect the right and punish the wrong, so I charge as the first guardians of that law to diligently inquire at whose hands a respectable and defenseless lady came recently in our midst to her untimely death. "If the witnesses for the Commonwealth shall present testimony to satisfy you that a great crime has been committed, and with a reasonable certainty to identify the perpetrator of the crime, it will then become your duty to place that party on trial in this court and let him answer the offense charged in this Commonwealth. And so, gentlemen, with charity toward all and malice 'toward none, I charge you to present to the court the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God." GOOD MEN ON GRAND JURY The jurymen filed out and mounted the stairs to a small room under the slipping roof. The foreman was George E. Robertson, a retired merchant and present justice of the peace. The other eight were, Hinton A. Wells, a lumber manufacturer. John A. Lester, farmer, Ellis P. Martin, farmer, Horschell Goode, lumber manufacturer; J. M. Dunstan, justice of the peace; John S. Taylor, justice of the peace; Walt Holoy Cole, farmer. The latter is a son of Holoy Cole, the matriarch who issued the warrant in the famous Wormley murder case of a half century ago. Following the retirement of the grand jury, the four witnesses—Thomas A. Owen, J G Loving, L. L Scherer and T. P Pottigwore—were called and swore. The failure to summon Paul Beattio and the Binford woman was a source of evident disappointment to the crowd, which, however, philosophically comforted itself with the hope of seeing them brought into court later—a vain hope as it proved. "Take the witnesses- to the grand jury, Mr. Sheriff," the judge finally directed "Sure," said the sheriff briskly marching them off and busily gnawing a hypothetical quid represented by a rapidly disappearing straw GRAND JURY FINDS TRUE BILL. It was about 11:20 o'clock, and the crowd expecting an early return did not budge. Mr Wendenburg went to answer a telephone call Mr. Smith, of counsel for the defense, consulted with the court. Judge Gregory, of the prosecution, with the clerk, and other lawyers, moved about here and there. A half-hour passed and there was no sign from the upstairs room Heat and discomfort began to clear the courtroom, and the crowd drifted out to the lawn, sandwich stall and the pop-bottle counter. The local hotel sent forth a man ringing a dinner bell, and it lured not a few. Cameras were soon clicking again and everything in the neighborhood went into the pictorial record. Paul Beatle walked about freely, but there was no sign of Boulah Blinford and no news from her until shortly after noon. Dr. J. F. Ragland hurried into her room. The girl hadainted, the close quarters and intense heat being too much for her. For a time there was a ripple of excitement but she quickly recovered and was soon able to enjoy a dinner consolating of her sandwich and a bottle of ginger ale. Soon after this the court made a dash for the court room, under the belief that the jurymen Were about to report. It was a false alarm, however. The event was nothing more than a court guardian for one Norman Johnson, a lusty six-foot twenty-year-old infant an black in the ace of shades. WENT DEEPLY INTO CASE. In the meantime the jurymen were going into the investigation with unusual thoroughness. The men had evidently studied the case with some care, and not only attentively heard the witnesses, but had many questions to ask them. Mr. Owen appeared before them first, and about a half-hour describing the events leading up to and immediately following the tragedy. Mr. Pottigrew followed, and told of the finding of the gun. He was in the room about twenty minutes. After him went Dr. Loving for a quarter of an hour, and finally Detective Schoer for nearly Nothing on earth is so valuable as a human mind. If a diamond is worth polishing as great trouble no man can remove it by mind of a key, weaving much more than including that the pachy can give it. The best education is not too good for a promising person. The would choose a poor physician to save a few dollars when health is in danger! And who would choose an inferior school to save a few dollars when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare one for a larger misluck! ITS COLLEGE COURSE is broad and complete. 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THE INDICTMENT The indictment reads as follows: In Chesterfield Circuit Court, Aug. Term, 1811. Commonwealth of Virginia, County Virginia. Upon the testimony of Thomas E. Owen, T. P. Pettigrow, Coroner J. G. Loving and Luther L. Scherer, who were duly sworn in open court and sent before the grand jury to testify. FIXING DATE OF TRIAL At 2:45 o'clock Judge Watson returned to the bench, the jury was again called, and the business of the court proceeded. The jurymen soon retired to consider several minor cases, and the court thereupon entered without delay upon the matter uppermost in all minds. In response to an inquiry from the bench whether counsel desired to submit any motions with reference to the Boattle trial, Judge Gregory, Commonwealth's attorney of Chesterfield and briefly expressed the wish of the prosecution to secure an early hearing. In the opinion of Judge Gregory Thursday of this week would admirably fit the conditions, allowing the defense two days in which to give the final touches to its case, two days for the court to get a jury, and a beginning of the trial proper bright and early Monday morning. Things were not to sail so smoothly, however. Though various statements had been made from time to time, the attitude of the defense was not precisely known, and interest was keen when Hill Carter, of counsel for the prisoner, arrose. Commenting on the fact that a case of such importance is seldom tried at the same term of court, he declared that ordinarily one continuance at least might be reasonably claimed. By continued labor and great diligence the defense might be able to prepare in two weeks, he thought, but not earlor. It, therefore, asked this much, and he considered it very little. DEFENSE WANTED TIME. "We have been hampered by methods and means we need not discuss here," he wont on. "Personally, I have an important matter before the State Democratic Committee which may keep me busy two or three days. Independently of this, however, it will take us at least two weeks to prepare our case. We do not ask the usual postponement until the next term of court, but we do ask that the case be taken up not earlier than the first Monday in September, or the court may set a special term for it. If it is bogun on the first Monday in September it will in all probability be ended within thirty days after the indictment is returned, and surely this will be sufficient dispatch to satisfy all." Mr. Smith, chief counsel for the defense, declared that he had nothing to add to the statement of Mr. Carter. The defense, he said, wished as speedy a trial as possible, and was not trying to throw obstacles in the way of the court. It, however, absolutely needed further time in which to complete its case. Even at that the trial would be completed within six days after the tragedy had occurred by any means. He also called the attention of the court to the fact that September will probably bring cooler weather and greater comfort in the crowded courtroom. STATE URGED SPEEDY TRIAL Speaking for the prosecution, Mr. Wendenburg opposed the continuance until September, declaring that Friday of this week would be a more appropriate time. The character of the alleged crime made it important to have a quick trial, he thought. Two weeks' delay would carry the case into another term Counsel for the defense had already had ample time in which to prepare. The prosecution was ready, and yet its task had been far greater and that of defense. In the break of whose moment hocked all the secrets of that July night. The administration of justice must be speedy and swift, he declared, and a continuance would be exceedingly unfortunate. The court considered the matter carefully, aided by the calendar and a consultation with the clerk. Finally the discussion came tentatively fixing August 21 as the date. Judge Watson evidently wished to show every consideration to the defense, and declared as much in words, stating, however, that he was limited by conditions he could not control. The Nottoway term, within his circuit, must begin on September 6, or lapse, and it would be impossible to have a special judge sent to that point since the law did not permit a court to be in session at two different places at the same time. Following immediately upon the Nottoway term would be one of considerable importance in Amelia with a capital case involved. 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At Farmersville, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 12, 1911, Commodore Jones, a colored man, got no nearer to a white woman than a telephone, and is said to have used insulting language to her. A mob regarded this as a crime, and forced him to climb a telegraph pole and then placed a rope around his neck and forced him to jump from the pole. This was murder pure and simple. Although the murderers are known to the police no effort has been made to either arrest or punish them. A colored man is alleged to have attacked and shot Mrs. Redden Campbell at Durant, Okla., and he was shot and killed by a mob and his body burned to ashes. This colorful man died fighting. Pennsylvania furnishes a case of burning at the stake, which for disflendish rivals anything that has ever been charged up to Texas Zacharias Walker, a colored man of a lawless type, shot and killed Edgar Rice (white), special officer of the Worth Iron Mills, Saturday, Aug. 12, 1911. He was captured and carried to a hospital. The mob took him from the hospital on the bed to which he was strapped, carried him to the place where he shot the officer, set fire to the bed and burned him to ashes. This occurred at Coatesville, Pa., about thirty miles from Philadelphia, and the murderers are known. Here is a foudish crime perpetrated in Republican Pennsylvania, which now in barbarism vies with Democratic Texas in the solicitation of the lowest place in foudish barbarism. How long will the Christian people of this nation stand for these species of barbarism? Who will come forward with a drastic remedy which will ensure the existence of future peace? The nameless crime does not figure in any of these cases cited, and there is no reason to believe that the law would not have acted spadely had it been allowed to have its course. Under these circumstances prisoners have no other recourse when arrested but to die fighting. --- --- PRESIDENT TAFTS PREDICA MENT. That President Wm. H. Taft has hopelessly divided his party is evident to the most casual observer. No sooner had he forced the reciprocity bill with Canada through Congress, riding rough shod over the majority of his party in both branches of Congress than a combination of Democrats and insurgent Republicans was affected by which free trade measures were forced through Congress. As these measures are in keeping with his past policy, he is not only handicapped, but embarrassed. He must now yield what he has previously announced he would approve. The Democrats are holding together, and they are displaying rare judgment, both in their combinations and in the measures that they are passing in Congress. If they* show as much sense in the selection of a candidate for the presidency, than Mr. Taft's days in the White House are numbered. The following telegraphic dispatch shows that Mr Taft's influence is on the wane. Disregarding a telegraphal request from President Taft For a contrary course, the Senate committee on foreign relations yesterday agreed upon an amendment to the British and French arbitration treaties, eliminating the provision conferring special powers on the proposed joint high commission. In this form the treaties were not approved by President's wishes that action be postponed until next December were set at naught. The Senate almost immediately gave two hours to consideration of the treaties during which the danger of Old World dominance on any joint high commission was discussed. The general opinion among Senators seemed to be that the treaties would receive very little. If any, further consideration at this session of Congress. The telegram from President Taft was sent from Beverly and received by Chairman Cullom prior to the session of the foreign relations committee. It was addressed to the committee and requested that if the treaties were to be amended that action should be postponed until December Before leaving Washington President Taft made strong representations to individual members of the committee urging as vitally important the retention of the provision giving to the joint high commission the right to determine disputed questions without reference to the Senate. Both President Taft and Secretary of State Knox have taken the position that the paragraph which the committee on foreign relations purposes to amend is necessary to the proper operation of the agreement. The President gave senators to understand that he would not yield without a severe struggle, and his friends express doubt whether he would not prefer the failure of the treaties rather than ratification With the paragraph eliminated The suggestion has been made that the President may even go so far as to withdraw the treaties but some of his closest friends are authority for the statement that instead he will undertake to defeat the suggested amendment. This shows that the President of the United States is as radical in his bullying policies as was his distinguished predecessor, who, within the quiet precincts of Sagamore Hill, at Buzzard's Day, is enjoying the retirement which the people of the country have forced upon him. It may be that President Taft will stem the tide and check the popular disapproval which is steadily setting in against him, but to us it seems that if he cannot secure Democratic support at the polls of the same volume and intensity that he mustered in Congress, then his defeat in the next national election is a foregone conclusion. He will go down in history as "The President without a Party." This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A., E. A., A. A. ( $115,000 ). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother David E. Hawkins, who was a member of Cascade Lodge No. 99, of Hot Springs, Yn. Durant, Okla., Aug. 13.—A mob of 500 whites today captured and shot to death an unidentified negro, who yesterday attacked and shot Mrs Reddon Campbell, near hore, and afterward burned the negro's body. The negro was killed after a running fight lasting more than an hour, in which he exhausted his ammunition: returning the fire of his pursuers. When he fell, volley after volley of bullets were poured into his body by the advancing mob. It was then taken to the home of his victim. Nearly dead from her injuries, Mrs. Campbell identified it as that of her assailant. The mob then burned the corps. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Do Not Want Them in Office (Continued From Page Number) has taken, together with Chlof W. R. Grifun, Adolphus Humbles and J. Thomas Newsome, attorney, for presenting the wreckers of the Reformer Trust, that this Order can be saved by the assistance of its members and friends. MEETINGS DID GOOD. We admire the pluck of the committee who worked against odds to get evidence against the wreckers of the True Reformers. It is known by the brotherhood by the name that Grand Master A. W. Holmes refused to let the committee have the True Reformer Hall in Richmond for public meetings. He said the public meetings were doing no good. But the committee told him that the people in the United States and its possessions must know the truth and the true conditions of the Order. The committee was composed of four men—namely, W. R. Griffin (chairman), Floyd Ross, Adolphus Humbles and J Thomas Newsome, attorney, who has caused the indictments of W L. Taylor, Edward Ellis, Jr. W. P. Burrell, R. T Hill and A. W. Holmes and Thomas W. Taylor to be presented to the Henrico county grand jury. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. The next question is who will take charge of the Grand Fountain's affairs. Will it be men who conceal law violators or will it be men who condemn the law violators? If the Grand Fountain is saved we will have to save it on Tuesday, the 22d of this month. There is no getting around it. They used to sing to you that it does not yet appear. What it would know when it shall appear would know when it shall appear if you condescend that the whole brotherhood snows now just what they meant by singing the hymn. WILL PROTECT THE BROTHERHOOD. The hymn of itself meant all right al, but what did the singers mean? Just to the opposite, and the conditions of the Order show it, but what shall the harvest be with those men who have caused so many old men and women whose heads are bloomed for the grave and are too old to get into anything else for protection? This is slinging against the Holy Ghost This is a shame to mankind, but we young members of the Board of Directors shall endeavor to do all that we can to protect these old men and women who have spent their life with the Grand Fountain With best wishes to the brotherhood, I am: Yours in U T and C. FLOYD ROSS, Director WILL INVESTIGATE HOTEL REFORMER The Prosecuting Committee has arranged to investigate all departments of Hotel Reformer when in charge of Manager A W Holmes, who is now Grand Worthy Master. It is reported that the Bureau of Insurance or its representative may advise him to resign his present position. Warrants for the arrest of Mr T. W Taylor for alleged foliages were said to have been sworn out last Thursday. Temperance Ind. and Collegiate Inst. Wants 25 honest, polite Industrious and thoughtful poor girls, who wish to work their way through school Wants 25 honest, polite. Industrious and thoughtful young men who want an education and who are willing to work their way through school Such young ladies and young gentlemen can enter The Temperance Industrial and Collegiate Institute at Claremont Va. at once Special arrangements will be made for such pupils who wish to work Each pupil must pay $ 8 60 entrance fee upon entering the institution. All such working pupils can enter school September 18-28, and can get work during the school year, 1911-12 by writing to Prof. John J Smallwood, Ph. D., president. All who wish rooms and work should write the president before August 15th $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va. Aug 16, 1911 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A, S A, E, A, A and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother Nicholas Norman, who was a member of Old Dominion Lodge, No. 8, of Richmond, Va. Signed..... THORNTON R SCOTT. Executor. Witness ..... R R Clark. Philip H. Pollard Robert Gray, D. D. G C 5150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond..Va. Aug 11, 1911. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Phyllas, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Mack Jones, who was a member of Acmo Lodge, No. 148, of Richmond, Va. Signed: A. D. PRICE. Assignmeo. CURRENT SPORTING GOSPH. More than twenty heavyweights who are willing to be called "white hopes" have promised to be on hand at the St. Nicholas Rink tonight to take part in the Twentieth Century A. C.'s tournament. The National Sporting Club will conduct another tourney next Thursday night and will accept entries from boxers who win at least one bout at the St. Nicholas Rink arena, which may be carried over until tomorrow night in order to dole the final scram. It is seldom that big follows of no reputation and unknown statice ability have chances to pose before the public, and they would probably remain in obscurity were it not for the fact that Jack Johnson holds the championship in various parts of the country are holding these white hope contests with the idea that a heavyweight with natural fighting ability may be unearthed. This widespread search for talent has caused unusual interest and wherever such contests are held big crowds turn out to inspect the material in hand. It has been the belief for many years that outside of the ring are numerous big fellows capable of whipping professional fighters but unwilling to give up business for a career in the ring. With club promoters offering money for the services of white hopes it appears that many inexperienced heavy weights are now willing to see what they can accomplish. The heat promenade white heavyweights are Tony Ross, Carl Morris, Porky Flynn, Carl Morris, Al Palzer and others, not one of whom is regarded as a formidable antagonist for Johnson. But a white hope winner must be a pretty hussy proposition to be able to wade through this bunch before earning the right to challenge the big negro. Among the Wounded champions who are ready to cross arms with one another tonight are Sailor White of Newark who recently knocked out Al Benedict, Al McCoskey, of Elizabeth, Soldier Dellney who has won impromptu scrape in the army, Jim Carroll of Camden a 200 pounder, Jim Clark of Allenhurst, said to be a hard hitter, Jim Reagan,ack Mailley and Bill Hans, local lights; Billy Madden and Jim Stark, of Philadelphia, Dan Henry of Gladstone, Pa, Arthur Polky of Cliope, Mass, who is fairly clever; Barney Feeney and Jim Mahr of Ireland; Joe Puge, astonish and really Englishman, and half a dozen others Harry Polok of the Twentheth Century A. C., said this yesterday of the proposed Langford-O'Brien match. "I have signed up Jack O'Brien to box Sam Langford at the Twentieth Century A C at any time that may be suitable to the latter within the next three weeks, providing the Bostonian is willing to make the light heavyweight lift of 168 pounds. It was upon Woodman's assurance that Langford would make any weight that was suitable to O'Brien that I wont after the match but nowwithstanding this pledge upon Woodman's part he has apparently run out on his own proposition. I wired him three times and made him a very handsome offer, but as yet have not been even favored with a reply Langford is unfortunely a great fighter, but it is a safe bet that he weighs fully 160 pounds, and as I understand he has made a match with Jim Smith it looks as if he wants to pick out all of the little fellows that he can and at the same time go into the ring himself a good-sized heavy weight." Inequalities of Justice (Rhidmond, Va. Evening Journal, August 5, 1911) The inequalities of justice—that is to say, the verdicts of Virginia juries is an interesting study. On the day that Gregory was given three years for the embezzlement of $25,000 from a railroad company attention was called to the case of an old negro sent to the penitentiary from one of the counties for seven years for the theft of three hams, which were recovered. Discussing a similar line of thought, the Norfolk Leder-Dispatch says. So rapidly are criminal cases forgiven that it is not often that people have the opportunity to contrast the sentences for similar crimes in different localities, and especially to note to what extent friends and influences help. Here are two cases that are worth considering from the standpoint above mentioned. In one case a man gets three years for embezzling $25,000, and in the other the man gets four years for forging a telegram for $25. Both plead extenuating circumstances. In Richmond Froight Agent Gregory embezzled $25,000 and fled to the West under an assumed name. He was caught, brought back, plea guilty with "oxonuating circumstances," and was given three years in prison. The "oxenuating circumstances" plea that his salary was too small for a man handling as much money as he did—in other words, that he should have been paid more to he honest. This plea alone ought to have added to the sentence. This man was at home, with friends and connections, and got off easy. In Suffolk a young man from Brooklyn, N. Y., forged a telegram for $25. He was in a strange town and without funds. He expected a remittance, and anticipated it by the forgery. The remittance came, but was stolen by the jailor of the post-office—the jailor who stole the money got twelve months in jail. He only forged the telegraph for the sum he expected by mail, but evidently was to make money in the penitentiary, while the jailer who actually stole the remittances got twelve months in jail. Governor Mann should look into this cag. of Brownall, of Suffolk. --- H. A. Spain (white), mailing clerk of the Petersburg postoffice, was arrested that night shortly after 9 o'clock by Postoffice Inspectors C. H. Saffell and Martin on a charge of robbing the mails. Confronted by the inspectors with the accusation of stealing, Spain confessed his crime. He was at once turned over to the city authorities of Petersburg and locked up. He will be given a hearing this morning before United States Commissioner Roper. In the arrest of the clerk the inspectors believe they have uncovered a systematic plan of thieving has been in progress for months, though the accused has only been in the service of the government for about a year, complains as to letters containing money have been frequently made to the Petersburg postoffice authorities. INSPECTORS AT WORK. The matter was turned over to the department's secret service. In the past two weeks lost letters became more frequently reported. Not until two days ago was suspicion placed upon Spain. The inspectors yesterday afternoon left Richmond for Petersburg. Three decoy letters, addressed to firms known to be constantly receiving small sums of money through the open mail, were posted, and the two officers took their place in the postoffice "lookout." They kept their attention riveted upon Spain, and saw him remove the three decoys and slip them into his pocket. It was immediately afterwards that the cork was accused. He was told that he had in his pocket Seeing that he was clearly trapped, he did so, and it is said, admitted stoaling them and others. The case will be presented to the Federal grand-jury, which meets in Richmond in October. Spain he about forty years old. He has a wife and three children. For the past year he has been making his home at Ettick, Chesterfield county, opposite Petersburg — Blenmond (Va ) Times-Dispatch. Aug. 12, 1911 Free School for Colorful Deaf and Blind Children. The middle of September next, the Virginia State School for Deaf and Blind Children, at Newport News Va., will open its third session; last session 54 pupils were admitted and for next session the authorities are very gossipful of admitting 100 pupils. The trouble has been that the existence of the school is not generally known by the colored people. There are nearly 200 deaf or blind colored children in Virginia, as shown by the State's School Census, as well as by the U.S. Census. The spreading of the information of the existence of the school (the only one in the State) among the colored people depends upon the readers of the county papers. Of the 54 admitted to the school last session fully half of them were sent by white ladies of the State. In the city of Richmond the census shows that more than half a dozen colored deaf or blind children who should be in the school at Newport News, where no charge whatever is made. Besides given a good working education, the deaf boys are taught carpenter work, sheeamaking, farming etc., the deaf girls, plain and fancy sewing, the making of dresses, garments, etc., cooking, laundering and housekeeping generally. While the blind get a good education which enables them to read countless books and newspapers printed for their use in this country and which the goo-goo boys are free of cost, thus brightening their lives. The blind boys are taught trades by which they can make a comfortable living, such as mattress making; broom making and chair caning. Music also has a prominent part in their training. Governor Mann, of Virginia, who visited the school last spring, was agreeably surprised at the splendid fancy work shown made by the blind girls. This session the making of dresses, aprons, etc., will be taken up by these girls and the superintendent is considering the introduction of chair caning by the blind girls also. You know any of these people, or any others, do a good thing at once by going to see them and telling them of the great boon that awaits them at the new school at Newport News. Address Wm. C. Ritter, Superintendent, Newport News, Va. Louisa County News. Frodericks Hall, Va. Mrs Martha Payne departed this life August 6, 1911 at 10 o'clock P.M. M she leaves three daughters, two sons-in-law, one slater, 23 grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn their loss. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we love is stillled. A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. FROM HER CHILDREN. AN OLD CITIZEN OF LOUISA COUNTY. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID Lynchburg, Va., Aug. 12, 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 death claim of Brother Spott Henry, who was a member of Pioneer Lodge. No. 28, of Lynchburg, Va. U. S. Fetters, D. D., G. C. W. H. Payno, C. G. W. J. Wells, K. of, R. and S. W. H. Higgsonbotham. Negroes and the City Auditorium (Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch) Rank absurdity is the fabric out of which was woven the contention that the colored people of Richmond may not use the City Auditorium for their legitimate purposes. No sane imagination could be stretched far enough to admit, the view that the Vondorelor ordinance as to race segregation prohibits the use of this municipal building by the colored citizens of this city. To say that tax payers, because they are colored, cannot have the use of a public building which was erected and is maintained out of funds of which they paid their part is a ridiculously absurd position. Acting City Attorney Anderson declares that he never authorized the statement that the Vondlerh ordinance forbids the use of the City Auditorium by the colored people of Richmond. The Council Committee on Grounds and Buildings, which tactly took the position that colored citizens might not use the auditorium, was grossly ignorant of the law governing one of the chief objects of the committee's own care. The ordinance in question prohibits a colored person from using as a residence or establishing and maintaining as a place of public assembly a 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. But the colored petitioner for the use of the City Auditorium on August 16 seeks neither to establish nor maintain a place residently. The city established this building in 1871. The ordinance does not prevent the casual use of a building, wherever situated, by colored people—in fact, the ordinance has nothing at all to do with the City Auditorium or any other, public building. The whole trouble is that the Council Committee on Grounds and Buildings has always handled the rental of the auditorium loosely and discriminately. There has been a good deal of juggling with this building. No fixed schedule of prices for its use has been insisted upon, and some have secured the use of this city building for less than others. The committee has assumed large discretionary powers, which it does not possess, with the result that the auditorium has been managed very much as a private affair rather than as a public institution. There can be no justification for a refinement of the use of this ball for the purpose named by Maggie L. Walker for the opening of August 16. The lecture then appears to be given pertains to the moral financial betterment of the colored race an object which is commended by all intelligent people. The Council Committee on Grounds and Buildings ought never to have shuffled this problem off on Building Inspector Beck, who appears to have acted under a complete misunderstanding of the law in the case. As the next scheduled meeting of this committee will take place after August 16, the date desired by the colored applicants, it is only fair and right that the committee should meet immediately and pass finally upon the question. Chairman Batkins ought to call a special meeting of this committee at once to act upon the matter. If he fails to do it, then three members of the committee should act upon their own initiative and call it themselves. If the committee is going to deny this hall to the colored people it ought to meet and formulate a reasonable excuse, if, indeed, one of them found. To let things stand as they are unjust, to allow a mistaken idea of the law to operate as a valid justification for a groundless discrimination is inexusable. That the committee will deny the use of the hall to these colored people is unimaginable. (Times-Dispatch, Aug. 10, 1911) At a special meeting of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the City Council last night, the petition of Maggie Walker, head of the organization in Richmond for the City Auditorium for the convention of the Order of St. Luke to be held in Richmond next Wednesday, Aug. 16, was granted. We wish to applaud the team of the committee and to thank it for the wholly proper and reasonable view it has taken of this matter. The Independent Order of St. Luke is a benevolent society composed of colored people striving for the improvement of their race in the better things that will promote their civilization and their destiny as citizens. It is national in its scope and good in its purpose, and it should have such encouragement in its work as the stronger and better white people can give. There was some question as to whether or not the Vendorior ordinance providing for the segregation of the races in this town applied in a case like this, and there was a disposition to deny the request of the Order for the use of the auditorium; but the better and more reasonable judgment of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds determined the matter last night in a spirit which will have the approval of all good people in Rohlmond, white and black. It is said that there will be a thousand delegates in attendance upon the convention next week. They will come from all parts of the country, and we are glad that they will have a comfortable hall in which they can conduct their business, thanks to the Committee of the city council. It would have been a sad reflection upon the good faith of the controlling element in Richmond had the petition of the Order been denied. A very large number of the respectable, property-holding, tax-paying negroes of Richmond are connected with this Order, and they are entitled to the consideration which has been extended to them in this instance. The more they can be encouraged in their own efforts to elevate their race, the better for the white people among whom they live and in whose success they should be interested. FROM DRAKE'S BRANCH, VA. Shot: From Amber. Starting off to take her vacation, Miss Lucy Miles was shot Friday evening on the Courthouse road, one mile from here. The ball struck a split in her corset, coursed downward, leaving a long surface wound under the right arm. When the party arrived at the Koysville Crossroad, Miss Lizzie Crutcher asked Miss Miles to spend some time with her. Others in the wagon asked her her name. When a short distance from the wagon Miss Miles had to speak to a passerby and a pistol shot was heard. The girl was carried to her room, where the wound was dressed by Dr. Lucker, and it is hoped she will recover. So secret has the affair been kept, the officers said this morning they had been unable to get sufficient evidence to make an arrest. A social party was given at Mr. Whitehead's residence Saturday night and a large number of young people was in attendance. Singing, organ playing and a nice supper were the principal features. Aside from a misunderstanding between Miss Ruth Taylor and Miss Ethel Arrington, which caused some little excitement the affair was enjoyable. Some of those present were: Misses Mildred, Flossio and Edna Green, Gortrude and Emma Dupes, Allie Carter, Gennie Roberts, Clara Taylor, Gennie and Aryll Saddle M. Haskins, Sue Morgan, Kate Brodgon, Corine Brodgon, Mary and Seal Jackson, Gracie Mason, Sarah Barnes; Messrs. Robert Smith, Abson Moore, Jessie Dally, Maskins Spencer, George Dupce, Jr., W. H. and Milton Hewbanks, Zellie Ellis, Arthur Torrell, Cleveland Read, Thos. Lee and others. Miss Mary Galimore, of Richmond, insisting her son, L. G. Galimore, ATTENTION! ARRESTED! But "Geo Gush!" (By J. J. Shepperson) GREAT! A good advertisement is one whose headline arrests the favorable attention and holds it until the reader is shown by the text why the article or service offered is better, more lasting, more desirable, etc., than offered by the competitor. Disrobey yourself of the advertiser's mantle and assume the prospective's position. Read the ad. you've running and see if you can, if there's anything to cause you to become a customer or continue your patronage. This may seem commonplace, but it is the business end of advertising. I chance to see in a paper a few days ago this headline: "Where is the Dead?" Of course, I thought some one was offering a book treating on the soul after death. Imagine my surprise when the text described well-cooked, well-seasoned bread, ples, etc., of a well known baker. This headline was used no doubt to attract attention, and while it served well that purpose, its failure in results was due to the fact that the attention was not favorable. Most women (and it is women this ad seeks to interest) would throw away such ad, disguised at the idea of associating the dead with broad Askied why she advertised under a blind headline, a prominent manufacturer of hair vigor said: "I never heard of a blind headline." As to results, she thought she could do more business if she had it. Why not sit down, take an analysis of the business or the service, arrange the selling points and write copy so attention compelling as to fairly drag the crowds your way—not by the nose, but by the hand and head. People like to be convinced through reading where and why they can get good bargains and economize in spending their money. But when an attempt is made to pull them by the nose the ad is inoffe- --- Say what you may, to get results (and results are) what progressive business men want) you must advertise, and your success will depend on your ability to article or service oxplotted, plus skill and judgement put in the copy. FIGHT IS K. O. BROWN'S. Baltimore. Aug. 7.—"Knockout" Brown, in making his Baltimore debut, easily outpointed Joe Ferguson, of Philadelphia, in ten rounds tonight before the Washington Sporting Club. Ferguson gave Brown a good fight, but that was all, for the much-heralded Gotham lightweight heat the Quaker in every round except the third, when Ferguson held the crowd in amazement by rushing Brown around the ring with repeated blows, and once sending him staggering to the ropes with a well-ground hand that he laughed. It was the only time during the battle that Ferguson really had a look-in with Brown, who fought like a tiger. The longer the mill continued the greater load did the Gothamite open. LOSER CAN STAND PUNISHMENT. Ferguson was a marvel when it came to receiving punishment. Time and again, throughout the ten rounds, Brown kept that famous left hand on Ferguson's fist, and while it landed on his knee, force that it could be heard almost all over the house, Ferguson never inched, but stuck it out. Brown was always alert to score the wallop which would have enabled him to live up to his sobriquet in pugilism, but to the crowd Forguson seemed to be a man with an 'iron jaw. For Brown's blows on the Philadelphian's vulnerable spots had no stop-producing effect whatever. —Old papers at The PLANET Office at 15 cents per hundred. --- NEGRO VICTIM OF MOB TAKEN IN HOSPITAL Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 13.—Zacharias Walker, a negro desperado, was carried on a cot from the hospital here tonight and burned to a crisp by a mob of men and boys on a fire which ignited about a half mile from town. The negro, who had shot and killed Edgar Rice, a special polifeman of the Worth Iron Mills, last night, was first dragged to the scene of the shooting, begging piously for mercy. He had been arrested by a posse late this afternoon after a search which had stirred the countryside. When the posse finally located him he was found hiding in a cherry tree, and with the last bullet in his revolver shot himself in the mouth, falling from the tree. He was removed to the hospital and placed under police guard. A few minutes after 9 o'clock a crowd numbering almost 1,000 persons appears at the hospital. The leaders were unable to gain admission, but quickly smashed the window frames and crawled through the corridor. A policeman who had been placed on duty to watch Walker was the only person in the building beside the nurses and patients. The law enforcement officer over the policeman's eyes while others who had entered the building set about to take their man from the hospital. When Walker was taken to the hospital he was strapped down in order to prevent his escape. The mob, seeing this, gathered up the bed and placing it on the shoulders of four men, started for the country. They left the town by way of the Towerville road, and when half a mile from the hospital stopped at a farm house. Hero they entered a field and quickly gathered up a pile of dry grass and weeds, placed the bed containing their victim upon it. The negro was begging pleasously to be released, but his pleadings fell upon deaf ears. A match was placed to the pile of grass and the flames shot up quickly, entirely enshrouding the screaming victim. That not a vestige of the murderer be left, the mob tore down the fence along the road and piled the rails upon the burning negro. After waiting for half an hour the mob dispersed as quietly as it had come. A curious feature of the burning was the fact that there were almost as many women in the crowd as men. During the march from the hospital to the scene of the burning of the negro, a distance of less than three-quarters of a mile, not a politician was encumbered by the determined mob. Even the man on duty in the hospital made no effort to stop the fifteen or more leaders who had gained admittance to the institution. The only mask worn by the members of the mob were handkerchiefs drawn loosely over their faces. That the burning of the negro was designed and carried out by love-headed men there can be no doubt. It was not the work of men whose nerves had been wrought up to the danger point by overindulgence, but rather that of a body of determined men who were ready to take any kind of a chance to avenge the death of a respectable citizen who had been shot down in cold blood. Coatesville is a town of about 10,000 persons, and is located on the main line of the Pennsylvania Rail-road, thirty miles west of Philadelphia. SMITH NOT DISPOSED TO PARDON STRIPIANG Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 15.—Thomas Edgar Stripling former Danville, Va., chief of police, now serving a life sentence in the Georgia pententillary for the murder of W. J. Cormott in Harris county fourteen years ago, may expect no clichency from Governor Hoke Smith. While the Governor has not assumed the attitude of prejudging Stripling's case in advance of the filing of any application for pardon, it 28 eta eta eta ahr eta eta is stated with authority that he has given no encouragement to friends of Stripling who have approached him with reference to the case, and they have gone away convinced that the filing of an application for clemency would be a waste of time. When Governor Brown declined to pardon Stripling a few months ago, just after he had been arrested in Danville as the man who escaped from the Harris county jail in 1897 after a sentence of life imprisonment had been passed upon, Stripling's friends declared their intention of laying the case before Governor Brown, and assumed the office to which he had had attached, and it was stated with considerable confidence that Governor Brown's decision in the case would be reversed by the new Governor. Although he was not in office at the time the case was presented before Governor Smith followed the data closely, and is perhaps as familiar with it as was Governor Brown, when he turned down the recommendation for clemency made by the prison commission. As Governor Smith must resign within a few months to assume the duties of the office of United States Senator, to which he has been elected, it may be that those who hope to see Stirling pardoned will lay the case before Governor Smith's successor in the gubernatorial of All the bartenders do not live in the South. On Saturday night a nego named Ezekiel Walker killed Special. Policeman Rice, who discovered him while he was engaged in robbing one of the miners in the neighborhood of Coatesville. The community was terribly aroused by the commission of this crime and started on a hunt for the murderer, who was captured on Sunday after a long chase. Anticipating the fate probably awaiting him, the negro tried to take his own life by shooting himself in the mouth. His alm was bad, however, and he was taken to the local hospital, where after receiving medical attention he was bound to a cot and placed under the special guard of another policeman. Sunday night a mob composed of 400 men battered down the doors of the hospital, seized the negro and carrying him out of the place on the cot dragged him to the place where he had killed Officer Rice, and there put him to death with the most flendish cruelty. Manacled to the cot, his executioners heaped piles of old fence rails and other easily burning material over him and roasted him alive. This is the brief account of the horrible scene as described by the New York Sun: The lynching was accomplished only after the negro mad from pain had leaped from the blasting fagots piled over him and tried to escape, dragging the bed to which he was bound by his handcuffs. A crowd of 2,000 watched the mob leaders beat the negro with fence rats and force him shrinking back into the flames. Three times he bounded up and three times was thrust back, until finally his quivering body fell into the fire. Only then was the mob satisfied. The account given in The Times says that when the poor wretch attempted to escape from the mob they thrust him back into the flames with pitchforks and the Apaches could not have invented a more terrible death. Contesville is only about forty miles distant from Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love," and was probably a station on the old Underground Railroad; it is certainly in the heart of one of the great Stutes, which boasts of the civilization of its people, its churches and Sunday schools, its Young Men's Christian Associations, its general plety and respect for law. The mob did its work on Sunday night, one of the reports representing the people running out of the churches to keep up with the progress of the event if not to assist in the burning of the negro. The funeral pile was set in the presence of 2,000 people who stood and gazed at the fearful spectacle, and not one man in the whole company protested against the atrocity. The whole community is said to have stayed awake the whole night expecting trouble with the colored people, and ready to do still further violence upon the slightest provocation. No lynching ever committed in the South was attended by acts of greater barbarity, and while we cannot and do not defend our own crimes we can at least point to this affair in Pennsylvania as 'exceeding in the art of cruelty any act of the mob that has stained our annuals and brutalized us in the eyes of the world. Only a few years ago one of the most brutal lynchings in American history was committed in Delaware. Negroes have been slain by the mob in New York, in Illinois, in Ohio, in Indiana and in other Northern States, and all to the shame of the American people. The outrages committed against property, the loose methods, the law laws are passed and laws are administered ning to have their effect upon the security of life. What will Pennsylvania do about this awful crime? Nothing. The mob, which was strong enough to defy the law will be strong enough to defeat the law. —Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch BLACK GENERALS General Antonio Simon, son of the deposed President of Haytti; General Antoinio-Pierro-Paul, who was private secretary to the black executive, and Generala Ferdinand Petton and Emile Presson, all of them minus the tropical glory of uniforms, arrived here yesterday on the Hamburg-American steampain Allesmania from St. Marc so burdened in valises and pockets with gold coin that they were badly listed and purpured as profusely as cottonfield hands. They did not declare the value of the coin, which is not dutiful, but Deputy Surveyor Raskiewicz guessed that among them they carried between $15,000 and $20,000, or from sixty to eighty pounds. Young Simon had the lion's share. 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The short promptly secured quiet and Mr Carter arrose to note an exception to the ruling of the court in the matter of the trial date Judge Watson called attention to the fact that no record was kept of the proceedings at hand, and stated that he would bear further objections and exceptions when the prisoner is assigned next Monday. The defense intimated strongly that it would continue to resist, and the judge again said that the order was tentative, and that he would make every concession possible. KICK ON GARNETT Reference was made by Mr. Carter to the action of the Henrico authorities in the person of Deputy Sheriff Carnett in refusing permission to counsel for the defense to confer with the prisoner except in the presence of the jailer Mr. Wendenburg promptly disclaimed any part in this remarkable proceeding, and declared that he had long ago given his permission for free access to the cell. "We do not ask permission," said Mr. Smith. "We demand it as a right, and desire an order from the court." The court promptly disposed of the matter and incidentally of Deputy Garnett, declaring that it would give explicit instructions to the superior of Hentico. At the same time counsel for the defense were reminded that while they would be permitted to consult the prisoner and carry other witnesses to the cell without the presence of the jailer, they would be expected to exercise the functions of this official during the time. Mr. Smith took this for granted. It appears that Garnett, assuming a greater knowledge of the law than courts or counsel, peremptorily denied the ordinary rights of a lawyer with reference to his client, and, moreover, emphasized his authority with some rudeness. Declining to enter into a discussion with the deputy, Mr. Smith simply withdrew, making the best he could of the situation. The court clearly sustained him, and there will probably be no further trouble from Garnett. This practically concluded the day's work, and the crowd rapidly dwindled. Judge Watson ordered Imal Bastite back to Hancock jail under the same bond. He did not recognize the presence of the Binford wojan as a witness, and she simply returned to Henrico jail in custody of officials of that county. After disposing of a few minor matters, the majority of the lawyers left the courthouse, with the grand jury still deliberating upon its other cases. Automobiles and street cars were soon whirling the Jichmonders cityward. Followed by a flock of camera-snappers Beulah Binford covering her face with a piece of cardboard made a dash for the waiting motor car and was soon hiding herself behind a back seat. Screens were pulled down and the car hurried off. Half way to Jichmond it was overtaken by a, downpour of rain, but, along with the machine carrying Paul Beattie, made the trip without further incident. MAS YET BE POSTPONED Though the odds appear to be favorable to an actual beginning of the trial on Monday it must not be understood that the matter is beyond peradventure. The defense was manifestly displeased with the turn of events and Mr. Smith declared later in the day that while he would now be forced into court in a week, he would not feel that he had had adequate time in which to prepare his case. What the final outcome will be it is impossible to say with certainty. There is a feeling in some quarters that the trial will yet go over perhaps, to a special term. The prosecution is proceeding, however on the assumption that the big struggle will begin in earnest on Monday. Of one thing however, there can be no doubt. Whenever the trial occurs there will be no need of militia or special constabulary to preserve order in Chesterfield. The torment of the crowd yesterday was excellent. Beattle will get a fair deal, not only in the court, but at the hands of the spectators. Interest in the case is unquestionably great, but there is no show of unusual excitement. The county may even furnish the jury, though this is somewhat questionable. Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Aug 15, 1911 (By R W. Simpson) Heartbroken, but steadfast in the undying certainty of his boy's innocence Henry C. Beatty, Sr., unfolded last night a story of that same boy's life which makes the charges against him unbelievable. "I don't care how strong this evidence of the Commonwealth may appear," he said, as his eyes filled quickly with tears. "I can no more believe in his guilt than I can believe that I will be stricken dead at this very moment." Calmly, then, "without passion, without feeling except that of utter grief, he went back to the time of his boy's birth, describing his habits, his gradual development into manhood, his work, his loyalty to father and home, concealing nothing and without attempt to paint a halo about his head. It was simply an old man's word for his child. 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Why, years ago, when he was attending McGuire's University School, he sought and secured employment during vacation season. When I asked him if he did not want to take a course in higher education, he told me that he was determined to become a business man, that he believed the practical experience he would get in the next three years would better equip him for a business career. He has been in the store with me for eight years now and he was prepared to carry it on if I should be forced to drop out. Why, when he decided to buy an automobile with his own money he would not do that until he had consulted me. We wore very close together." Regardless of what opinions they may have formed of the murder, the people of South Richmond, where Mr. Beattie has lived for years, cannot think of it without the utmost sympathy and pity for the gray-haired man. Indeed, those nearest him will not discuss R. It hurts too much to think of all that has come about in these exciting weeks. And they know that the son in fall grieves most because of those fears which fall continually upon the grizzled cheek of one at home. Out of a sense of common decency no effort has been made by this newspaper heretofore, to have Mr. Beattie discuss a tragedy which he can never forget. But out of a sense of justice he was asked if there was not some word he wished to speak on behalf of the child who bears his name. There was no desire to invade the privacy of his home, no desire to have him take up or contradict that wealth of evidence which has been kept broadcast—which has pictured Henry Clay as a cruel, a deliberate, a ghastly murderer. The old man knows that the public has rendered its verdict; unhappily, he known the verdict. But it has not awayed him one lota from the view formed long ago. DECLARES THAT HENRY MADE ONLY ONE STATEMENT IN JAIL "I hate to think of it," he said, "and yet I can think of nothing else. I hate to speak of it, yet I feel that I would not be loyal to my son unless I did. And so many, many cruel things have gone forth. Take, for instance, the statements and interviews credited to him. He did say that if the detectives would endeavor to find the real murderer with the same amount of zeal with You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-2213. which they had endeavored to fasten the crime on him, his name would soon be cleared. He said that after he had been placed in the county jail with the brand of the coroner's verdict upon his brow. And that was the only statement he has made. Why some of them have put words in my mouth I could not utter, but I could not deny it and have the public feel that I doubted his innocence. I have tried not to read the newspapers. But I have no feeling of resentment toward them." Once in the midst of the talk Mr. Benttle was interrupted by a telephone call, but he came back and picked up the thread where it had been dropped. "Henry Clay," said Mr Beattie, "is twenty-six years, old. Fifteen months after he he was born we were blessed with twins—two little girls —and any mother can understand the care and attention they received. Naturally in this circumstance, I began to look after Henry with more interest. I watched him grow up, played with him, and was the one upon whom he mostly loaned That companionship broadened as he became older. He was fond of outdoor life. He loved his little friends. 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But I must say this: Henry was frank with me at all times. The idea that he was afraid of me is preposterous when you come to know how freely we had mingled, hoy companionable we had always been. In his dillings with me he was absolutely truthful. If I asked him a question which a boy might hesitate in answering to his father, he came out like a man. He never, to my knowledge, told me a lie. I can say that truthfulness was his strong characteristic as boy and man his friends and business associates know this, and have often remarked upon it." As he related incident after incident, Mr. Beattie's strong, honest face had stamped upon it the marks of unutterable woe. Sometimes, knowing that a talk of this kind with a stranger was painful—his tears were mingled with a smile. You could not sit there and look in his eyes without a wild desire to forget that crime. Some reference was made to Henry's nerve. "He was naturally a strong, athletic boy," said the father, and "I have seen him in close places while driving his automobile when he had to act quickly and decide between two or three moves. But he was cool, clear-handed and he never took the life of the boy. It was that way when a boy he would ride down a railroad embankment on his bicycle in a manner which made me a bit nervous, but he never did it with any desire to be spectacular. "The consideration which he always showed me in particular, especially since he has grown to manhood brought my heart closer to him. But that was his nature. He was kind, lovable. Please don't understand that I am trying to put him up on a plankle. It is not that. Maybe he wasn't a model young man, as we use that term. Of course, he has his faults, but can't you put yourself in my place in the midst of all this and realise how eager and anxious he was at all times to lighten my burden And suspect him even of it. It was too much Every muscle in the old man's face was making clear the suffering he endured. He moved in his chair, ran his fingers through his white hair, then came back to a point from which he had been unexpectedly diverted. DIDN'T REALIZE MEANING OF TRIP "There is no use denying the fact that I was surprised and grieved when I heard that Henry and the Binford girl had seen each other again. When he told me one day in the spring that he wanted to go down to the Norfolk races I suggested that he ought to go—that a little trip would be enjoyable. "I never dreamed that he would see her there. Then it has been printed that he was seen in his machine in Chimborazo Park on July 18, joy riding with some girl whose name has never been mentioned. There isn't a word of truth in it. Henry stayed in the store the entire day. We had been having a special sale and were very busy. Almost without a single interruption, he remained at the store every day until we closed; we were there until 6 o'clock on week days and until 10 o'clock every Saturday night. These are facts for which I can vouch, and every one in my store knows it is true." After those tragic, four years which hastened the snow upon his head, Mr. Beattie frankly admitted that somehow he had taken a new lease on life with his son's marriage, and especially after the birth grandson. No one could doubt the devotion in his heart for Henry's wife. "One day Henry came and told me that he was going to be married, and truly I was glad." Mr. Beatte continued, "It meant so much to me. His sweetheart was a dear, lovable girl, though I did not appreciate the depth of her character until I had been brought into closer touch with her. We discussed the date—Henry said he thought, the wedding would be in the spring, but at my request he readily agreed to defer it until August. We discussed his plans for the future, and I wanted him to come and live here with us because there was simple room and we were comfortable. Louise—his wife—simply found a place in my heart and dropped there. I loved her, and while Henry by nature was not demonstrative, he was devoted to her, and I tell you as a man, I never heard a cross word between them or never heard of one. There is absolutely no foundation for the unjust, cruel charge that they were nahappy or could not live in peace. "And then came the birth of the chilN—a very happy occasion in my life. Just as soon as I was permitted, I went to the room and told Louise that she had brightened my life, that she had made me very happy. As Louise began to improve and got on her feet something was said about taking a trip, but I suggested that they had better abandon that idea, that the baby would receive the best, treatment at home. Louise said she thought it was "Thursday the baby's birth as I sat at her bedside holding the baby in my arms, and told her what happiness she had brought to my heart, she gave me a grateful smile and remarked that she was just as happy as she cared to be. "When Louise got stronger she was invited over" to Tom Owen's. She went there on Tuesday, I think, expecting to stay until Friday, but some of her relatives were coming to visit her and as my sister was ill, Louise had them come to her uncle's near Forest Hill. LAST TIME WE SAW LOUISIE ALIVE. "On Sunday afternoon, after Louise had been at the Owens' not quite a week, Henry drove my little girl and myself over there and we stayed about two hours that afternoon. When I started back Louise came out to tell me good-by. I made some affectionate romark, and I shall never forget her girlish beauty and happiness. This was the last time I ever saw her alive. "No matter what has happened, no matter what is said I believe she spoke for her heart what she referred to her happiness and those words will always be a comfort to me." Though it was evident that Mr. Beatle's thoughts were leading up to the tragedy that has broken his heart, he spoke with the manner of a man who has steeled himself to bear even more. The interviewer followed him without asking questions—without the grating sound of a pen, the words are still fresh to the mind of the man and writes. He was just preparing to tell for the first time his story of that fateful night "That Tuesday evening I saw Henry as he drove away in his car," he said. "After sitting on the porch for a while I came back into this room where we are sitting, read the news and then decided to go to my room. I had shaved myself and was just preparing to "disghebe and take a bath when I heard the telephone. Douglas answered It. His voice was lifted to my room, and from what he was saying I quickly gathered that there had been an accident, and that Henry was seriously hurt. He could not get any definite information, and I called to him to ring up the Owen home, which he did. I was still under the impression that it was Henry who was hurt "I determined to go to Mr. Owen's home. Douglas said he would 'phone for a taxi cab, but I remarked that it would take too much time, that we could walk over to the Forest Hill car line. We got there very quickly and found the place in the midst of excitement. SHOCKED BY NEWS OF DEATH "I remember walking into the house and seeing Henry lying on a couch in one of the rooms with blood on his face and on his clothes. As quickly as I could I ran over, kneeled down by him and asked him if he was seriously hurt. He said no, he knew how now the accident had happened, my first thought being that the car had been wrecked. "Seeing that Henry was not hurt I thought of Louise, as I was not sure that she had been driving with him 'Haven't you heard about Louise?' some one asked, and then I was told that she was dead. I uttered some exclamation, and said 'Well, that is worse, and now I hear that that remark has been construed to have another meaning.' As he went over the details of that terrible night, Mr. Bentle showed the most intense emotion 'He was silent, for a time, and then he told of his conversation with Henry and of Henry's account of the killing, from which the son has never varied. There may be doubt and uncertainty and mystery, but there can be no doubt of the real affection which Henry Bentle's father had for the murdered girl It was touching to hear him speak in the kindiest terms of her. She hid come into his life to soften it. He has never forgotten — he never will forget—those crushing four years of long age. And now, when misery is heaped upon him, his hair is growing whiter, the lines in his honest face are becoming deeper, and his walk loss steady. But his heart, broken though it is, beats unceasingly for his boy, who is branded with a crime, the very thought of which is inconceivable. He is rounding out his fifty-seventh year, and while he is gamely holding on, he is the one painful figure in all this thing. HEARD SUSPICIONS FROM FRIEND. There had been a moment or two of silence, broken finally by the one question of the night. "When did you first hear that Henry was suspected of the murder?" he was asked. "I first heard the suspicion on Thursday night," he answered, as his face darkened. The funeral of his daughter-in-law was held that day. "I suppose 100 friends called during the evening. One of them took me aside and asked if I had heard who the officers suspected. I said I had not. Then he told me that Henry was suspected, and that in all probability he, would be arrested the next morning. I was stunned. Such a thought had never crossed my mind. This friend suggested that as Henry might be arrested it was proper that he be represented counsel talked the latter over Henry, taken from him his account of the shooting, which was identical with that he had given me two nights previous. Henry evidently told that he was under suspicion from the questions which the detectives had asked. Of course, I have found since that it had been common gaspil since Wednesday, but not until that friend THE RICHMOND PLANET; RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. spoke bad I dreamed it. "You can't imagine one part of the torture through which I have passed. I have lived, in this town for many years. I know the people and they know me. I know that they feel for me; that they know what it is for a father to face a crisis like this, and for me to know that they hate to discuss the case out of sympathy for me and mine is a comfort, the full nature of which I cannot express. HIS VIEW NOT SHAKEN. "Yet I know: that the public has formed its opinion — that it is against my boy. I don't care how strong this evidence of the Cogimonewealth may appear I can no more believe in 'Henry's guilt' than I can believe that I will be stricken dead at this moment. He is not that kind of a boy. He had everything to live for. "He was as proud of his son as I am; he seemed to be happy. I just cannot believe that he deliberately planned that horrible crime and perpetrated it as they have charged. And you could not believe it if you knew him as intimately as I have known him for all these years. I have been silent when he has been denounced. Why, words which wore put into my mouth and printed—words which I did not speak—brought to me a letter signed Justice, condemning me for believing that I misunderstood. There have been those I misunderstood. That I knew the truth, that I knew my boy was guilty. God knows I don't, and He knows that I can't believe he did anything, so brutal. There must be some terrible blunder. If I could only find the truth, I believe it would be as Henry said." SYMPATHY FOR FATHER During all these exciting days, when the public was being fed upon rumor, when the case of the Commonwealth was being presented equally, with such eloquence, each strength. There had not come one word from the defense. There was hope in a multitude of hearts that guilt would be placed elsewhere—that would turn away from a man charged with the murder of one he had sworn to cherish and love. And this hope is strongest in the heart of those who know the father There are sisters and brothers and others bound by ties of blood, but somehow Henry Beattie, Sr. stands high as the figure around whom the growing waves of sympathy must attrike. One could but be impressed with the utter shallowness of this insanity talk after an hour with Mr. Beatie. One could not have the nerve to ask him. It was simply a case where a part of the public, at least, had reached into the air to pluck a fleeting theory. Not once was the name of Paul Beattie brought into the conversation. The fact was suggested to Mr. Beattie that something about that gun could not be grasped — the thought that Henry if he had deliberately planned the murder as charged, would just as deliberately put a chain around his neck and leave the other end dangling at the feet of Paul. But Mr Beattie was not asked to outline the position of the defense. He was simply given an opportunity to say a word for his son—to take those who have condemned him into his confidence. He did not make any morbid play for sympathy. But the fact stings that with this public verdict there has come no word to controvert it—no word except an old father's unswerving faith and an old father's loyalty to one who is sorely tried. LOYAL ALWAYS TO SON In all the years that he has lived in Manchester, now a part of this town, there has never been a stain upon the Beattie name. Mr. Beattie has lived a clean and righteous life. He is a Christian by nature. For twenty-old years he has been an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He never lost faith in his God when affiliation came upon him before, he has not lost it now. No man stands higher in the estimation of his neighbor—those sharp, exacting judges, who make and break. Not in the whole Southside can there be found one who would spoke of him; not in the whole Southside can there be found one who would deny him that sympathy he richly deserves. He said last night that he didn't think there was any one who had suffered so much, but he said it quietly—as quietly as he would have said his morning prayer. There is no doubt but that his days will be made shorter, but he will go to his end gamely, loyal to his son—convinced eternally that he has been unjustly accused. His kindly face shows the grief that shakes his breast. There is no bright light in his eyes. Even if his son should come forth vindicated before all men—even if the bearded highwayman should come forth and confess his guilt—that old gentleman's heart is broken. No jury, however merciful can bring joy to his soul again. Taft Names New Horse "Reciprocity", President Taft got a new riding horse from West Virginia shortly after the Canadian reciprocity bill was passed. Mr Taft took one look at him and called him "Reciprocity". The new steed is sixteen hands high and dappled iron-gray --- Phipps, Carnegie's Old Partner, Qead, Major W A Phipps, multi-millionaire of Pittburg, and former partner of Andrew Carnegie, died in Los Angeles, Cal., at the age of fifty-seven years. He is survived by a widow and a brother. Bong Writer Drowns Himself. Robert Cole, the great colored song writer, author of "The Girl With the Dreamy Eyes" and other popular melodies, committed suicide by drowning at Catakill, N. Y. Oliver Breake Neck. William H. Tuora: twenty-one years old, of Bergenfield, while swimming near Njack, N. D., yived in two feet of water and broke his neck. He goo diel. LARGE CROPS IS OUTLOOK Yields of Grain Will Be Smaller Than Last Year, But Large Considering the Lack of Moisture. The Commercial National bank, of Chicago, has issued a summary of its annual crop and business report and gives an optimistic expression as to the conditions of crops, and the coming harvest The report in part says: "Considering the general widespread lack of rainfall compared with the average of years, the surprise is the large crops that have been and will be gathered on this continent. "On the plowed lands, the grain crops of the great agricultural region of the west were excellent in yields, but the grasses requiring more moisture to feed the larger root area were the chief sufferers from the drought. "The cat crop over the entire country falls below the average yield, its losses bearing a direct proportion to the rainfall. "Our reports show a total wheat production of $42,000,000 bushels, comparing with the government's final yield of 695,000,000 last year, which is equal to a ten years' average production and 50,000,000 more than the country requires for bread and seed. The aggregate yield of oats is 824,000,000 bushels, nearly 300,000,000 bushels less than the government's final estimate last year, and only 25,000,000 less than a ten years' average production. Corn is in the making and while estimates at this period are subject to great changes in the actual, our correspondents show an aggregate promise of a crop of 2,828,000,000 bushels, which is just 10 per cent under last year, and 100,000,000 bushels over a ten years' average. The hay crop is estimated by our correspondents at 43,000,000 tons, of 17,000,000 tons under last year, and 25 per cent under the ten year average. The minor grains show a variation, barley as much as last year, rye 10 per cent larger, rice, one of the best crops in years, and flax problematic, depending upon rainfall in the northern state, where it is now chiefly raised. "Though the northern and western sections of the country have suffered, the south has been significantly blessed with a great productivity. Its yields of all grains, except corn, have been above the average, and its cotton production promises to make a record yield. The only danger now confronting this great stall, which provides so large a part of our export trade, is too much rain. "On a similar condition in 1904 the south made 13,800,000 bales on 31,000,000 acres. Our correspondents report a crop promise now of 14,700,000 bales "The vegetable cutture has been of footed by the drought, and there is a falling off in many of the principal articles of consumption, notably potatoes, which last year furnished a crop of 280,000 bushels, but which this year is likely to fall under 200,000 bushels, the heaviest losses being in the western and central states, northward the crop has been fairly good. The temato crop is promising, and the bean crop central around the lakes is up to the average. "The net agricultural yield of the country is sufficient for the requirements of the people, and for the maintenance of the stocks, and feeding animals, but there will be no increase in feeding operations or preparations for increasing herds and stock such as marked last autumn." Blow Safe to Hide Evidence. At the end of a grilling examination in the office of Captain Richards in the Seventh street police station, Jersey City Samuel Brown, the cashier for the Long Dock Millinery company, whose office, 68 Pavonia avenue, had been set on fire Sunday night, lost his nerve and told bit by bit to the deceptives how he had been stealing money from the firm for months, and how, becoming desperate, he had hired a man to break into the office and destroy the books, which would soon tell of his guilt. He was short about $2500. 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Of life—the door To heaven's sweet store' With soul to soul, attuned with May Ordained of God! We'll wend our way To Paradise This will suffice Vow me thy soul! LUCIAN B. WATKINS ```markdown ``` (By Edward W. Turner, ex-Correspondent of "The Reformer.") In this age of material progress the world is looking for men and women who are producers of results. Doubt, uncertainty, fear of failure, are the enemies of mankind. No man ever yet accomplished a great deed with doubt clouding his mind. The miracles of civilization have been performed by those who believed in themselves. In spite of ridicule, incredulity and abuse, they maintained unwavering faith in their power to accomplish the tasks to which they had set themselves. BORN IN VIRGINIA John W Lewis was born in Care- line county Va., the 30th day of August, 1867, of very humble and poor parentage, which deprived him of an education. Ten dollars a year and a suit of clothes was the first money earned, and this went to the support of his old and depren- grandmother, who raised him. Embarrassed by these surroundings, he made up his mind to better his condition, and excel his associates and neighborhood boys. At sixtoo years of age he secured a job at a saw-mill, earning $6 per month, which greatly satisfied his cravings and inspired him to push forward, and seek more inviting climes. AN IRON WORKER. TOO. In the spring of '86 he took his departure from native soil, not as the prodigal without hopes, but with great reliance in God and a will to succeed, he entered Harrisburg, Pa., and soon found employment at the iron works and made himself friendly with the 2,000 workmen, who invited him to join their organization. Mr Lewis was elected one of their representatives in labor conventions, where he was placed on Committee of Arbitration and rendered valuable service in settling disputes and complicated questions in the interest of labor, bringing about such adjustment that the employers and employees were all satisfied. His popularity so extended that his services were in demand in the States of Delaware and New Jersey JOINED KNIGHTS OF LABOR When the Knights of Labor was organized in Pennsylvania Mr. Lewis was a chartered member, and gave much of his time as an organizer and promulgator of its principles. Thus he was forced to feel the need of an education, that he mightdd more successful work, employed a private teacher, and was prepared to enter night school, where he received excellent training to enable him to carry on his business. Mr. Lewis came to Washington, D. C., May 2, 1864, and worked as a hod carrier; if was here he saw his associate, workmen, receiving their wages every Saturday night, and before Monday morning they were bonhilies, their money away, away in some rum-mill or common dive of the city. ORGANIZED HIS PEOPLE. This alarming condition appealed to Mr. Lewis, and after a conference with a few of the better thinking men, plans were perfected, and the "Lod-carryers Union" was organized for fraternal and mutual protection. So effective was this move that great results were observed in the homes, wages soon increased from $1.50 to $2.50 per day, better health and full dinner paths were enjoyed. Many commenced to save a part of their earnings and deposit in some bank, others were buying homes in small payments. All this was due to the good judgment and leadership of John W. Lewis. BECAME TRUE REFORMER In 1898 Mr Lewis joined the United Order of True Reformers, and became an active worker in all its departments, was elected a delegate to represent the Washington Division at the annual sessions of the Grand Fountain, Richmond Va. Hero has met the leading business and professional men, people of every class and condition in life. Such contact and association from 42 States in the Union was helpful and an inspiration to any progressive mind. After working faithfully for the advancement of this organization for eight years, President and Grand Worthy Master W L. Taylor rewarded Mr Lewis by appointing him custodian of the new hall, southwest corner Twelfth and U streets N. W Could Not Stand The Oppres sion He filled this position for eighteen months and resigned. The discrimination and oppressive sullings made at headquarters against the Washington Division were more than he could tolerate. The protest against the ills we have unfortunately fallen hir to the centralizing of power in the hands of the few (known as the executive committee) and tyrannical bossion, which ignored or failed to respect the opinions of those who demanded an open fair and square deal, to all such were branded disloyal by this regime and either driven out of the Order, or compelled to take the back seat to satisfy that class whose prevailing sentiment was 'the less they knew the better they will obey.' This reminds us of the fact that we stood up in the annual session of 1901 and protested against the adoption of a constitution which was railroaded through and has caused the present chaotic condition of this organization founded by that master mind and financier, W W Browne, and has made an unparalleled record in the world's history for a quarter of a century. I wonder if we can still sing "I will guide thee" "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again." STILL ORGANIZING John W Lewis has the happy faculty and good judgment of keeping in touch with the masses. After resigning as custodian of the hall, he commenced to think out plans for a new organization known as the Laborers' Building and Loan Association. This was a gigantic undertaking while the echoing sounds were ringing in the ears of the people of the Capital Savings Bank. Douglas Building and Loan Association and other co-operative business enterprises which had failed in this city. Mr Lewis plans were ridiculed and he was called a fanatic, yet he determined not to give up. He called around him five faithful persons. Aug 20 1906 organized the Laborers' Building and Loan Association, with cash capital of $1400. The phenomenal success success since its organization is an assurance that it is meeting a much-needed demand of the laboring men and women of this city, upon whose shoulders rest a great part in solving the financial condition of the colored population in this city. A LARGE MEMBERSHIP The association has a membership of 700 with real estate valued at $40,000 has just declared its second dividend of 6 per cent to the stockholders. It has passed the experimental stage, and has become a fixture in the community, with its books examined and O K'd by the Comptroller of Currency. United States Treasury Department, its business methods endorsed by the most reliable business men in this city. Mr John W Lewis is a conundrum strictly in a class to himself, his popularity for honesty and a square den has been established among the people, even his worst enemy will acknowledge that he is among the few of whom it may be said "A good name is more to be preferred than great riches, and loving favor more than silver and gold." He has no diploma or title from any school or college, neither does he possess any commanding flight of rhetoric as an orator -but one thing he may be said His principle is not for sale. When he speaks to the people his thoughts are full of wholesome advice, and receive a ready response. The speech he delivered before the Negro Business League at Louisville, K. Aug. 1909, will ever live in the memory of that convention as a full exponent of the Negro needs and advancements in this country WILD TELL THE TRUTH Whenever Mr. Lewis was spoken he has convinced his hearers that he will tell the truth as he sees it, in a good common sense practical manner, which has done much to unite and encourage the masses to have a bank-book, with a good balance to their credit, to purchase a farm or home free of debt and stop renting. Mr. Lewis' life work has been an open book. He was married in 1888 to Miss Amy Fortune, of Caroline county, Va. She has been a great power of strength, standing shoulder to shoulder in all his undertakings; he says if he has accomplished anything in life he attributes it all, to his wife. They have two sons, who are a comfort and credit to them. Mr. Lewis is an active member of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, takes an active part in every departure. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ment of the church. As a member of the Ushers' Board, he can be seen every Sunday welcoming visitors and passing the basket for general collection. STOPPED SALE OF BUILDING. Since the True Reformers have been in such a dilemma, it should be known that Mr. Lewis has neglected his own organization, made frequent trips to Richmond to find the true status of affairs and provide a remedy if possible to save the institution for the benefit of the decrepid mothers and fathers. When there seemed no power to save, and our boned $80,000 hall was advertised for sale in March, 1911, John W Lewis came upon the scene and influenced a leading banker of this city to become interested. This gentleman went to Richmond, conferred with the receivers of the True Reformers Bank. Immediately satisfactory arrangements were perfected and the sale cancelled, which was a great disappointment to our openness; other organizations and real estate dealers who were waiting their time to buy this mammoth building. This would have been a living disgrace to the Negroes of this country and a shamful humiliation to the members of the Order. MEMBER OF BUSINESS LEAGUE Mr Lewis left the city a few days ago to be present at the National Negro Business League at Little Rock, Arkansas, August 16, 17 and 18, from there he will attend the annual session of the True Reformers at Richmond, Va. August 22-26 This is a very important session much will depend on wisdom and conservative judgment of the delegates, that the organization may be saved from the rock of eternal destruction. We would counsel those who would save the institution to follow these conservative leaders, who will be there to legislate in the interest of the masses, who have no favorite class, but they believe we should get down to the root of this evil—one of the greatest frauds or embezzlement that darken the pages of history. How to the line, let the chips fall where they will or may", no guilty man who is a part of this transaction should escape MUST SAVE GRAND FOUNTAIN Let the motto be. Save the Grand Fountain at all hazards." If this policy is adhered to, we shall unveil in our opinion the greatest high- hand robbery and maladministration over perpetrated upon a people since the day the Freedman's Bunk closed its doors and was declared insolvent. Mr Lewis with others, will endeavor to turn on the searchlight at this annual session and let the world know the truth, and who has grown so rich and lived so sumptuously by misappropriating the people's money WILL CONTINUE GOOD WORK At the close of this session Mr. Lewis will return home resume his work as president of the Laborers and Mechanics' Realty Company, with bright anticipation of making this one of the strongest and most useful financial institutions for the race in this city which will reflect credit to the son of toll throughout the country, as well as a terror to civil-dozers. May it be said To you the glorious work has been assigned To lift a people, as all nations have been raised. Halsing the Tune Editor The Planet "Brother June please raise the tune!" "Brother Pace. I can't find the place!" This repatriate is said to have taken place in one of our churches in ye olden time, when choirs were not so much in vogue Then congregational singing in the churches was the rule, and choirs the exception. Today it is vice-versa. The choir is certainly a good thing, but too much of a good thing is anything else but good. The choir has evidently cultivated a taste for good music among the people, and good music tends to refinement, and for that reason the choir ought to be encouraged. But when it is allowed to go so far as to usurp the province or privilege of the congregation, then it causes to be useful. The worship of God in His holy sanctuary consists of three distinct services—prayer, preaching and praise, but the sweetest and most generally entered into by all the people is praise. Read the 67th Psalm and see what the sweet singer of Israel says on the subject "Let the people praise thee, O God, let all the people praise Thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase, and God even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him." Again, read the 150th Psalm, where he says "Lot everything that hath breath praise the Lord!" How dare we, then, so conduct the services of God that the least of His children shall be estopped from joining in the praise of God? When prayer is offered it is by one man, and the rest of the congregation can only join in it by saying amen to that part of it which is in unison with their own feelings. When the preacher branches, it is the same. A service by one man with the consent of some. But when praise is offered, if it be properly conducted, every one, from the least to the greatest, may join in and make the welken ring with the praise of our God. Grand cantatas and operatic salvos by the choir are very well in their place. They are very entertaining, and I love to listen at them. But I think that at least at the opening and closing of each service of the obach the singing of the praise of God should be so conducted that every one who wishes to do so may participate. The allafter Van De Vyver College, ought to line out the hymns for these two services and require the choir to use such plain and familiar tunes as will admit of every one taking part. This may be called old foggyism, but Christ said. The poor ye have always with you. The time has not been, and will not be, during the militant age of the church when all the members of any save the most aristocratic and erudite congregations will be able to join in the praise of God without proper and adequate assistance. What's the matter with "Old Hundred Antioch" "St Martin," "the Coronation" and such? These tunes are classic they suffused for our ancestors, and why not for us? Let the hymns also for these two services as well as the tunes be plain and familiar. Unless this be so, how can we ever conscientiously coincide with the immortal Doctor Watts, when he says: Well crowd thy gates with thank- ful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise. And earth, with her ten thousand tongues. Shall all thy courts with sounding praise. And, when the minister, at the conclusion of the services, gets up and says Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Let not the choir break out with 'Nearer, My God, to Three,' or some other that suits its fancy but sing the Doxology as lined out by the minister. Yours for the simplification of the praise of God in His holy sanctuary O M. STEWARD SR. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va., Aug 9, 1911 This is to certify that I have received from John, Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the "Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Rythias, N. A., S. A.,'E., A, A. and A. ($150 000), One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, in payment of the death claim of Brother Thomas Blake, who was a member of Crystal Lodge, No. 166 of Richmond, Va. Signed:— CARRIE BLAKE, Administratrix. Witness:— R C. Mitchell, C. C. FOR SALE! All the materials in the stable on the roar end of Lot No. 726 N. Fourth street, which must be moved from the premises at once. Apply to Southern Rail Society of Va. (Inc.) 537 North Second street. Rich mont. VA. (Richmond Virginia) That Christian people in this age of brotherhood and sympathy should carry race prejudice so far as to protest against the rights and privileges of negroes to participate in a great religious movement seems beyond belief. Yet that is what the organized white Bible classes of Norfolk and Portsmouth have done. If the reports published in exchanges are to be credited. It seems that the negroes have organized burial classes in their Sunday schools and desire affiliation with the national organization of the movement. In several places this connection between the local classes and the national organization has been effected. Hence the Tildewuter brethren urge their protest, that the officers of the organization grant no more charrts to negro classes We are far from understanding that such privileges accorded to the colored people could infringe upon the rights of the white classes or invade the social well-being of the white people. As we understand it, the national organization is for the purpose of lending information and inspiration to local efforts to gather men and women into organized bodies for the purpose of Bible study. No apparent reason suggests itself why negroes should be forbidden the same help in their endeavors to uplift their fellows and build the race up in moral and religious character. Far from seeking the exclusion of the negro, the stronger race, whose obligation to the weaker is manifest in the very relation of things, should encourage and assist him to the full extent of its knowledge and power if we have superior advantage in spiritual progress and moral enlightenment, every claim of our religion makes us debtor to the needs of the inferior race. Only by the recognition of this obligation and the seizure of the opportunity to help, can we hasten the coming of the day when the truths and principles of our faith shall everywhere prevail. No loss do we fail to appreciate the spirit of the white people, whose exclusiveness would push from the field of religious activity the negro, whose need of enlightenment and encouragement inspires the appeal for a helpful and desirable connection, with the sources of information and inspiration. It appears to find its source in a narrow race prejudice, which is absolutely indefensible in spiritual matters. If the broad platform of Christian charity and sympathy be the right one. If we have rightly interpreted the spirit of the Gospel, it demands sympathy for, and helpfulness toward all men, regardless of color, glass or condition. The question of social equality is involved only by the most indirect processes of thought, and only in the most remote degree. What is involved is whether the white race, superior in its intellectual resources and in its religious equipment, shall place those resources and that equipment at the command of colored men who desire the moral progress of their race. We think there can be no reasonable motive why the move should be excluded. Va. Business College. Business Arithmetic. Short Hand. Typewriting. Gen'l Dictations Legal Forms and Business Practice. Penmanship. Book-Keeping. Commercial Law Spelling and Business Correspondence. Law Music and Domestic Science. 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