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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. 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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His plan has been to two prophets that he has commissioned in a colored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr. President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty *ollans or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Richmond. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Thimble Light of Buckraq Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swindling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter be sent to him in care of the person who advances the money. He never comes back to see if the money comes as he directs. We have written continuously to the people, who send these letters, but we have had quite a time to keep up with him. Keep clear of Captain John E. Simpson or anybody who looks like him. 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THE WORK OF THE MOD, The wpread of lawlessnevs In tS worst form ts one of the startling results of the condoning of evil In ail gectiona At Farmersville, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 12, 1911, Commodore Sonos, a colored man, got no nearer to a white woman than a telepbone, and 49 ould to have used Insulting Jangunge to ber. ‘A mob regarded this as a erime, and forced him to clin a telegraph pote and then pliced a rope around his neck ant forced hin to Jump from the pole. G ‘This was Taurder pure and sit ple. Although” the murderora are known to the pollte no effort has been made to elther arrest or pun- ixh thom. colored man {s alleged to have attacked and-shot Mrs. Red- den Campbell at Durant. Okla., and he wae abot and killed by 2 inob and bis body burned to ashos. This col- ored*man died Oghting. Pennbylvanta furnishes a caro of purnidg at the stake, which for flendishneas rivals apything that: hay ever been charged up to Texns Zacharias Walker, a colored man o! fa Saivlens type, shot aod killed Ed. gat Rico (white), special ofMeer 0 the Worth fron Milfs, Saturday, Aig 12, 1011, Mo Wiis captured ond car ‘rled to a hospital. The mob too} him from the hospital on the het to which, ho. was strappod, carried film to the place where he shot the omcer, act fire to the bed and burns: hin to aghes, ‘This occurred at Contesville, Pa. about thirty milo from Philadolpbia, and tf murder eru aro known, a Here {s q dondish crima porpotrat od in Republican Pennsylvania whleb now In barbarism vies witt Dotsoeratle Texan in tho roloction o the lowoet place In fonwish barbar tant! How Tong will tho Christies peaple of this nation stand for (hes spocios of ‘barbariam? Wha wil como forward with a drastic remod; which wilt enmuro tho oxistonce 0 futuro, peace? + The namotess crime does not fx ure in any of theso cases cited, an there if do roason to belloro that th Jaw would not-have acted spocdl) had {t beon allowed to bavé tt course. . Undor these clrcumatenco cgrbganers have no other recourse ‘when drrested but to die Dshtiag. PRESIDENT’ TAFT'S PREDIOA. ENT. . fent to the most casual observer, No sooner hal he forced tho rociprocity pUL with Canada through Congress, rding rough shod over tho major- ty of his party In both branches of Congress than x comblvation of Democrats and insurgeilt Repuvh- cans was affected by which free trade moasures were forced through Congress, As those measuros are ‘In koopIng with hia past policy, bo 1s not only handicxpped, but owbarrassed. He muat now vetd what ho has previous- ly announced he would approve. Tho Democrats are holdits togethor, and they ure dinplaying rare Judgment, both In thelr combinations and In the measures that they are passing tn Cougriss If they*" show ag much enve In the dlection Of a candidate for the presidency, “then Mr. Taft's Jnyw In the White House are num- bored ‘The following telegraphic dispatch shows that Mr Taft'n tnituence ts on the wane + Disregarding a telographoid request from Prewident Taft "tor a contrary course, the Senate committee on forcixn rolotions yesterday agreed upon un “amendnient to tho British und French arbitration treatter, alfai- nating the provision conferring ape- clal powers op the proposed joint hich commitasion, In this form the troutles were repagoed to the Sen- aie-and the Prosident’s wishes that artion bo jostponed until next De- comber were set at naught. The Senate almoxt immediately xuve two" hours to consideration of the greatlen during which tho dan: ger of Ohl World domluance on any Joint high commission was discuss, os. : ‘The xeneral opinion among Sena. tors Kecmied to bo that the treaties would Fecelve very Ute, IT any, fur ther conslderation at this session of Congrens The telegram from President Tatt was sent from Beverly and recetved hy Chalrman Cullom prior to the ses: son of the foreign rolations com: mittee IC was addronsod to the con niltteo and requested that If the trea Ues were to De amonged that artior should bo postponed Gntll Decomber Before leaving Washington Prest dent Taft mado strong. reprecenta tions 10 Individual members of the committee urging as vitally: Import ant the retention of the proviston niving to the Joint bish commisaton the right to determine disputed qnes tions without reference to the Sen. ate Hoth President Tate and Secretary of State Knox have taken the posi- lon that the paragraph which te committee on forelen relations pur- Hoses tO amend I¥ necessry to the proper operation of the agreement. The Hrealdent ave senators to un. derstand that he would not ylele without a severo xtragxlo, and hi frlpnds express doupt whether he would not prefer tho tullure of the (rete rather than ratification With (he parhgraph elliminated : The suggestion has been made that the Pronident’ snay oven go. xc far av to withdraw the treutios bul some of tix closest {rlenux are au. thority for the statement that in. Mead he will undertaxe to defeat the muxgested amendinent, This shows that the President o the Uatted States fs as radical in hi bullying policies ay was hix distin guished predecessor. who, within th duict precinets of Sagamore UII, a Burzard’s Day, 4% enjoying the ré Urement whlch the people of tt country have forced upon him, | It may be that President Taft wil ‘stem the tide and check the porntla dluapproval which fa steadily ret ting In against him, but to us ti seems that If he cannot.secure Dom ocratic gupport at the polly of the same volume and Intensity that [mustered In Congress, then his de feat In the next national election 4 A forexone conclusion, Ho will down in ‘intary as “The Presiden withotit a Party" + 8150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID, ° Naltimore, Ma. 1911 This ts to certify that 1 have re- celved from John Mitebell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Py. thins, NAR ASE Aw A and A, 15160 00), One Mundrod and Fitty Doltara tn payment of the death. elalm of Brother David %, Hawkins who was a member of Cascade Lodge No 99, of Hot Springs, ‘Va, Slened ~~ : & MATTIE SPENCER, Bonofictary Witenes -- Robert G Urown, Attorney tor Mattle Spencer. FrankMayweathor, 1229 N Carey St Lynching {1 Oklahoma, Durant, Okla., Aug. 12.—A mob of 590 whites today eapturad and shot to denth an unidentified nogro, who yonterday attacked” ond shot Airs Redon Campbell, near boro and afterward burned ‘the negro’ body Tho negro wan killed after 6 rinning Oght taating more than an hour, {0 which ho oxhausted his am- munition: returning the fita of hie purauera, When ho fell, volloy ator voloy of bullets wore poured, tnto hia body hy tho Advancing mob. It was thon taken to tho home- of his victim, Nearly dead from hor Injuries, Mra Campbell Identified it ae that of har arxallant, : ‘The mob thon burnbd the corpse.” __! THE: RICHMOND : PLANET) :RICHMOND,; VIRGINIA, Do No t Wan t a ounces cossiP,' MAILING cua ¢ d-cnansAthimy bea’ is . Them In Office vit wits SRG Nts (Conmt Pag, pee Heater RNERIE Sch aN Ce aa ce ONE date nave inctha Twentieth Century o'clock by Posto™ Sn Ne ee a a ae. R. Griffin, Adolphus Humbles aud i. fhomas Nowsome, attorney, for presenting the wreckers of the ‘Tru Reformers’ defunct bank to the pub- lic. We believe that this Order can be waved by tho assistance of ite members and friends, ‘MEETINGS DID GOOD. We ndmiro the pluck of the com- mittee whp worked against odds to get o¥idonce against (be wreckor# of tho Truo Heformers. It Is known by the brotherhood by: thin, Nmo that Grand Master A. W. Holmes retused to let thv committee have the True Reformer Hall In Riehmond for pub- Ne meetiags. Ho sald tho pubite meetings were doing no good. But the committee told him that tho poople in the United States and ite pomwousions must know the truth and the true conditions of tho Order. The courmlttes Was composed of (our men ~namely, W. R. Grima (chatr- man), Floyd Rovs, Adolphus Hun- ies and J Thomas Nowsomo, attor- ney, who hes caused tho Indictments of WL. Taylor, Edward Eilts, Jr. WP Burroll, RT Hi and A. WW Holges and Thonay W. Taylor to be proxented to the Henrico coun- ty grand Jury. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. ‘ ‘The next question I¥ who will take charse of the Grand Fountaln's af: fairs, WAL i¢ be amen who concotl luw violators or will It be men whe cadomn the lay violators? If tho Grand Fountain {% vaved we will have to save It on Tuertay, the 22d of thik month. Zhore ‘It no getting around Ut, ‘They uxed to-xing to yor That it does not yet apnea what tt whull be, but they raid that you Would kniow when ft ahall appear | am confident that the whole brotier- hood Knows now Just what they ineant by slging OT hymn, WILL PROTECT TIE BROTHER. . NOOD. 4 The hymn of itself meant al Fight ah, but what did the singers mean” Just to the opponite, and the ronditians of the Order abow It but what shall the newest bé with tivse men who have caused #0 oan old men and women whose heads arc Moomed for the Krave and are tor old to got Into unything else for ro: tection’ ‘This ix slanting against the Holy Ghost. Thix ik a shame to mankind, but we young mombers of the Hoard of Directors ehall en. deuvor to do al that we can to pro tect these old men and women who have spent their life with the Grand Fountain = With best whhes to the brother. hod. Tam: Yours In UT and C, FLOYD Ross, Director WILL INVESTIGATE HOTEL i. REFORMER. arranged 10 Invextigate ull dopart- ments of Hotel Reformer when ta charge of Manager AW Nolmes, who ix now Grand Worthy Master. Ie is reported that the Bureau of in- surane or Ite reprementative may advive htm to resign his present po- sition : Warrants for the arrest of MrT. we Taylor tor alleged felonies wore auld fo chave, been xworn out nat Theres © Temperance ING. BAG TOCA SAPS. Wants 25 honest, polite industrious and thoughtful poor gitia, who wish to work their way througif acboal Wants 26 honest, polite. industrious and thowestful young men who want ‘an eiueation and who aro willing to work thelr way through acho! Such young Indiok and young gentle- men ean enter The Tempersnco In- duatrial and Cologinte Institute at Claremont Va. dt once Special or- rankements will be made for such puplis who wish to work Each pupll murt pay $8 60 en- trance fee upon entering the Inatt- tution. All ‘such working pupils ean enter gehool Reptember 18-28, and ‘ean ket work during the school year. 1911-12 by writing to Prof. John J Smatiwood, Ph. D. president. All who wixh roomx and work should write “the preatdent before August 15th $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Richmond, Va, Aug 16. 1910” ‘Thin te to certify that T have re: colvel from John Mitchell, Jr Grand Chancellor of the Grand’ Lodg of Virginia, Knishta of Pythias, N A.S-AVELA, A and A. (3150 00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars. {1 payment of tho death claim of Dro ther Nicholas Norman, who wan member of Old Dominion Lodge, No &, of Richmond, Va. Signed ~~~ TUORNTON R SCOTT. * Executor. Witnene — ROR Clark. + Philip H. Polined Robert Gray, DD. 0 8150.00 KNDOWMENT PAID. Riehmond,.Va. Aug 14, 1911. ‘Thin ta to certify that [ havo ro- celved from Sohn Mitchell, Jr.. Grand Chancellor of tho Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Py- thins, N.’A., S. As, Bay Ae Av and A. (4160.00), Ono Tiundrod and Fitty Dollare in payment of tho death- einim of Brother Mack Jones. who was # membor of Acmo Lodgo, No. 148, of Richmond, Va, : Signad:— : « A.D. PRIOH, + . ‘Assignee. CURRENT, SPORTING GOSSIP, Dore than,tWenty heavywelghis who are willin ro ‘be called “white hopes” have prpaiiog to be on hand at tho Bt. Nicholas Rink tonight to take part.in/the Twentieth Coutury A. Ga, toupsxment:! Tho National porting -Olub’ will conduct nnothor tournoy:nextiMuuraday night aud will accept eutriig, trom boxers who win at least’one bout at tho St. Nichols Wink atfairegwbich may bo carriod over until tombrrow night In order to decide thewnnal acrnp. it S9" sol- dom that big felitwa of no reputation and cunksown' fistic abllity have chuuces to poe deforo Tio public, and they, would probably tomain tn obucurity® wors it not for the fact that Jack Johnson bolde tho chaw- wloashlp of the world. Fistic promo- tore, in vdrious parts of tho country are holding theso white bopo contexts with tho Idea"-that @ hoavywolght with natural Oghting ability may be unearthed. we ~ This widespread search far talent has Causod, unusual interest unt whorevér such contests aro held big crowds turn out to Inspeet the ma- torjal in hand, It hax been the be- Wet for many years that outside of the ring ure nuinerous vig. fellows eapadlo xf whipping professional Hghtors but unwilling to Elva up bus: iness for a career in the ring. With club promoters offering money for the services of white bopes it ap- peur? that many tnexpertencod heavy wolgtts are now willing to see what they"tan accomplish Tho hest pro: feunlonal white heavyweights are Tony Ross, Jim Barry. Jim Flynn, Porky Flytin, Carl Mortis, Al Palzer und others, not one of whom Is re- garded ay q formidable antagonist for Johnion But a white hope win- ner must be a pretty hussy proposl- tion to be ablo to wade through this buneh before earning the right to challenge the bie negeg + ‘Among the oui champion who are ready to croftems with one ‘auothor tonight are Sallor Whity of Newark who recently knocked out AL Benedict. Al MeCloshey. @f Ell: tubeth, Soldier Delaney who has won impromptu scrape in the army, Fim Carroll of Camden a 209 poun- der, Jim Clark of Allenhurat, sald to be a hard hitter. Jim Regan, cack Malley and” BM Haw, Jocal lights: Billy Mudden and Jim Stark, of Philadelphia, Dan Henss of Girards. vile, Pa. Arthur Pelky of Chicopee. Muss, who Is falrly clever: Barnes Feeney and Jim Maber of Irelapd Jor Page, atongh and reuly Enke Ushmon, and half a dozen others Marry Pollok of nin ‘Twentieth Coutury A.C. sald this yesterday of the proposed Langford-O'irien mateh, {have algned up dark O'brien to shox Sam Langford ut che Twentleth Coatury A” Cat any date that may he wultable to the latter within the next three weeku. providing the Ros. tontan "willing to niake the te heavywetght Tinie of 16% pounds It was npon Woodman » asaurance that Langford would make any weight That was suitable to O Helen that I peentenfter the miawh but notwith- Hatunding this pled upod Woot man’s part he has apparently rut out ‘on hls own proposition 1 wired lw three times and made hun nw very handsome offer. but na yet have not ven even fnyored with a reply Langtord is ‘undoubredly a grent fighter. but It fs a wate bet that he welghy fully 180 pounds, and ant understand he has uiade x match with Jin Smith it looky as If he wanty to pick out all of the tele pfellows that he cin and at the xtwe thne xo Into Ge ring himself a Kooi-ilzed heayy welght Encquatitien of Justice. (ihmond, Va Evening Journal, ie August 6, 1911) | The Inequalities of Suxtice-—that Ik Co wy, the verdicts of Virgtolit Juries is wn interesting study. | There wax a noteworthy exainplo in thix city somo yearn ago when the principal ina murder wan givon five years aud q noRro boy {n iten- rico county vourt was on the same any «lven fe years for stealing a alt | On the day that Grogory was giv- jon threo years for the embezzlement of 325,00 from a rallrond com ‘pany Attention was called to the jraxo of Gn old negro sent to tho pon- Mtentiary froin one o& the countion jfor seven years for the theft of ‘three hams. which wero recovered. | Discuwsing =n simiinr tno of thought, the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch aye | So rapidty are criminal eases for- gogen that tt Is not often that poo- ple have the opportunity to con- trast the rentences for aliuilar crimes In different igcalities, and eapectally to note to. what extont friends and Influences help. Hlere are two caren that are worth considering from the stand. point above mentioned [fn ono care a man getx three youre for omboz. rling $25,000, and In the other the man Rota four years for forging a tolegram ‘for $25. Both plead ox. Aenuating circumstances. In Wichmond Froight Agent Greg: ory embezziol $26,009 and fled ‘te the West undef ab assumed name He was caught, brought back. pled Rullty with “oxtenuating clreum- atancen," and was given threo years i prison.” Tho “extenuating circum. stancon” plea wan that hia ralary wns too small for a man handling ns much monoy a8 ho did—in other words, that ho should have beer wald more to he honost. This pTos alone ought to have addéd to the jrontence. ‘This man was at home, witt frionda and connections, and got of onsy. In Suffolk’ a young inan tron Brooklyn, N.¥., forged a telexran for $25. Ho was in g strango tow! ‘and without fonds, fo expocted romittance, amt antielpated It by ti forgery. Tho romittanco camo, bu wns ktoinn by the Janitor of the post jJomee—the janitor who” stole th .fmonoy got twelve monthn In jail, | He only forged the telogtam fo {tho aum he expected by mail, ba evidently was to make the $25" good Jyot ho got (dur. years In the pent tontiaey, while the Janitor who ac tually stole the remittance got twelv months In jail, 2 |. Governor Mann whould look Inti this cang, of Brownell, of Sutrdtk, MAILING CLERK - : ~~ AOCUSHD OF THEFT H, A. Spain (white), aalling clerk of the Petersburg postoflice, was ar- rested Inst ntght shortly alter -9 o'clock by Postoflice Inspoctors O. H, Gaffell and Sfartin on a charge of robbing tho malls, Confronted by the Inspectors with thé accusation ot stealing, Spain confossod hie crime, He was at onco turned ovor to the elty authoritles of Petersburg and locked up. He will bo given & heo¥- ing this morning before Unitow States Commissioner Roper. In the arrest of the clerk the in- upectors bellevo they have uncover- ed a ayatomatic plan of thieving whieb haa been In progress for months. Though tho accused Naa only been in the service of the gov- ernmont for about @ year, com- pluints aa to letters containing mon- ey have been frequently nade to the Petersburg yostoftice authoritles. INSPECTORS AT WORK. | the matter wan turned over to the department's secret service. Tn tho pant two Weeku lost letters be- ‘came more trequontly reported. Not until two days ago was suspiclon wlaced upon Spain. | The Inspectors yesterday —after- noon left Richmond for Poteraburg Thrve decoy lettors, addressed tc firms known to bo constantly — re: celving small sGms of money throuzh the opon niall, were posted, and the two officers took thelr place 1a the postofiice “lookout.” They kopt thol attention riveted “upon Spaln, and saw him remove the three decoys ant slip thom {nto his pocket. | It wan Immediatety afterwards that the clerk waw accused, Ho wat jtold to give up the lottera he had fn Ms pockets Seeing that ho was clearly trapped,” be did eo, and I im antt, admitted stoaltng them anc others, | ‘The ease will be presented to the Federal grand -fury which meots 17 Richmond tn October. [reciiale) Im about forty years old Hw hax a wife and three cbildrch [Fer the, gut year he hat boon, max ing Wily home at Et{rick, Chesterfield county, opposite Petersburg —Riea mond (Va) Times-Dispatch. Aug 12, 1941 Free School for Colores] Deat and Bind Children. The ‘niddie of September next, the Virginia State School for Deaf and Blind Children. ut Nowport News Vn. will open its third session; last Sevsfon $4 pupils were admitted and for next nexefon the authorities arc very oovlrtour of udmitting 100 pu- pls The trouble han beon that the existence of the sehool te not gen- erally knowa by the colored people There ure nearly v0 deaf or bind colored children” in. Virginia, as shown by the State § School Censu. ax well ns by the US Census The spreading of the information of the existence of tho school (the only one In the State) among the colored people depends upon” the readers of the county papers — Of the Gt admitted to the wehoot task fsewsion fully halt of thent were sent hy white Indies of the State Pim tbe elty of Richmond ne. con- sus shows that more than halt dozen colored deat or blind chil- dren wha should be In the shoo at Newport News, where no charge whatever In made Besides lve a Rood working education, the deaf boys aro taught carpenter work, nbocemaking, farm- ing ete., the deaf girls, plain and fancy sewing, the making of drosses kurmeats, etc, cooking, launderjng und housekeeping generally. While the blind get @ good education which enables tiem to read countless book and newspapers printed for thelr use in -thix country and which tho gov: ernment transmits through the matt froe of cost, thus brightening — thet! Uvex The bifid boys are taugh trades by which they ean make comfortable Uving, euch as mattrosi making: broom making and chal taneing, Music also hag a promt nent part In thelr tralatite, Governor Mann. of Virginia, whe viaited the «hool Tast spring, wa wgreeably surprincd at tho splondlc funcy work shown mado by tho blinc girly. This session tho making 0: Grenses. aprony, ote, will be taker up by Cheso gitis and tho soperin tendent Ja considering tho Introduc tion of chair caneing by the biin< lela also, If you know any of these people jor any others,~“do a good thing a jonce by going to soc" thom and tellin; thew of the great boon that awalt them at the new school at Newpor News Address Win. C, Ritter, Su perintendent, Newport News, Va, ; Houten County Nows, Frodericks Hall, Va. Mra Martha Payne departed this lite August 6, 1911 at ¥0 o'clock P. M. ‘She Iraves three daughters, twe nons-in-law, one sister, 22 grand: children and a host of friends te mourn thelr lors, A precious: one from us in gono. A volce wo love is atillod. A placé Is vacant In our homo Which never can bo Miled. PROM HER CHILDREN. AN OLD CITIZEN OF LOUIBA COUNTY. <b 8150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Lynchburg, Va., Aug. 12,/1911. » ‘This In tocortity that 1 have re- ceived from Jolin Mitchell, J. Grand Chancaltor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythiag, N. Aw, B, Av Bu Au A, nd A, (4160.00) Ono Whndrod and Fifty Dollars, 0 payment of tho death claim of Bro. ther Spott Henry, who was a mom- bor of Pioneer Lodgo, No. 28, of Lynchburg. Va. sigue :— AUGUSTA V. HENRY, Administratrix, AWytoese:— U, 8. G. Patterson, D. D., G. 0.” + W. Tt Payne; 0.0. = : W. J, Wolls, K. of R, and 8. W. Tl. Higgsnbotham.. Degroce and the Otty-Aydtoriuse, (Richmond, Va,’ Mmesipiagateby Rank absurdity 1a tho fabrjo /oist of which was wovon the contontion that the colored people of Richmontt may not use tho City Auditorhim for thelr legitimate purposds, ‘No sane Imagination conid be sirotshed, far oriough ‘to admit tho view that the Yondorlehr ordinance an to race sex- rogation probibits the yso of | this munteljal building by tho plored citizens of this elty, To say that tax payors, because they are colored, can- not havo the use of publlo build- tog which waa orected and fs matg- talnod out of funds of which they pald thelr part te a ridiculously ab- surd poaltion. Acting City Attorney Anderson de- Slures that ho nevor authorized tho statoment that tho Vondorlehr ordt- nance forbids tho uso of tho City Auditorlum by the colored people of Richmond. The Council Committee dn Grounds and Buildiogs, which tacitly took the position that colored citizens might-not uso tho audito- rium, was grossly Ignorant of the Jaw Boverning ono of the chief ob- Jocts of tho committee's own caro. ‘The ordinance in guestion prohibits a colored porson from using an a ree- Idenco or establishing and matntain- Ing usa place of publie assembly a hotise upon any stroet or alloy bo- tween two adjacent utreets on which @ grentor number of houses ato oc. cupled a8 restdonces by white peo- ple than aro occuplod us -restdences Uy colored people, But the colored petitioner for the uso of tho City Auditorium on August 16 seeks nel ither Co establish aor maintain a place of assembly. ‘Tho clty cstabiished thix bullding and maintalas it. The ordinance does not trevent the oc: caslonal uso of a, building, whorove situated, by colofed pooplo—in fate, tho ordinance has nothing at all te do with the City Auditorium oF any other publie building The whole trouble tn that the Counctl Commttes on Grounds and Dultdings has aiwaya handled the rental of the auditorium loosely anc dixcriminatingly, There hay been a good deal of Jugeling with tbls build: fog Nofxed schedule of prices fo its use has beon Inslsted upon, ani some havo secured tho uso of thie ‘city building for less than othors The committes has assumed — laree dixcretionary powers, which It does not possess, with the Fesult that the anditorium has been managed vers much as a private affair rather thar as a public Institution, ‘Thore can bo no JuatiNeation for ¢ refusal of the uso of this ball fo the purposo named by Maggie L Walker for the evening of August 1G Tho tecture then proposed to be xlven pertains to the mgral and finunetat Detterwent of th colored face an object which ts commendet *by all intelligomt people, * The — Counell Committee on Grounds and Butldings ought never fo have shuffled Unis pfoblem off oF Building Inspector Beck, who ap bears to have acted under a comptet inisunderstanding of the law in. the came As the noxt scboduled meoting of thle committee will take plac ufter August 16, the date doairet by the colored applicants, ft Is onls fair-and right that the committe should meet Immediately and. pase Anatly upon tho question, Chalrmar Batkins ought to call a special moot ing of this committes at once to ac upon tho matter.e If ho falln to Uc Mt. then threo members of the com mittee should act upon their own Inf tative and call tt themecives, tho committee Is going to dony thi hall to the colored peoplggit ough {o meet and formulate a roasonabl Yrense, If, Indéed.. ono can bo found To let things stand as they aro i unjust; to allow a mistaken Idea the law to operate ag a valid justi firation for s groundiesr discrimina tion {s inexcusable. That the cout mUtae will deny tho uso of the hal fo these colored propia ts uniniagin able The Auditorium and the Colored , People. + | (Tinea-Dinpateh, Aug. 10, 1911) | a | At a special meeting of the Com- mittee on Buildings and Qrounds or the City Counell last night, the pe-| (lon of Maggto Walker, hoad of the organization ta Richmond for. tho! City Auditorium for the convention of the Order of St. Luke to bo held, in Richmond next Wednesday, Aug.’ 16, was granted. Wo wish td ap- piaud tho action of the cominittos and to thank it for the wholly prop- er and reasonable view it has taken of this mattor. | The Indepondent Order of Bt, \Fauke t a bonevolont society compos- ad of colored poople striving for the ‘Improvement of thelr race in tho hotter things that will promoto their civilization and tholr deatrability as citizens, St Ia national in its scopo ‘and good In {ts purposo, aid it should Ihave auch oncouragement {n ite work ‘ae tho stranger and bottor white peo- plo can give, Thoro was somo ques- ton as to whether or not ‘tho Von- derlohr ordinance providing tor tha jsogrexation of tho racos in this town jappliod tn a caso Ike this, and thore ‘was n disposition to deny tho request fot tho Order for tho to of the au- ditorlum; but tho bettor and moro Fonsoiablo Judgmont of tho Commit- feo on Bulllings and Grounds do- torminod tho matter lant night In A fapirit which will havo tho approval of all good people in Richmond, white and black, J Mt fe sald that thoro wil} bo a thousand delogates in attondanco upon tho convention next week. Thoy will como from all partssot the coun. try, ‘and wo aro glad that they will hayo a comfortable hall in. which they can condact their bustnean, thanks to the Committoo of the city counell, 38 would have beon a and "reflection upon the good faith of the controlling olomont In Richmond had the potitton of the Order been do- Mod. A vory largo numbor of the Tospectable, proporty-holding, tax | paying nogroos of Richmontl are connected with this Order, and tho) are entitled to tho conslderatior which hes boon extoniled to theta In Uhia instance, The mofe they ean be encouraged in .thoit own offorte te clovgta thor race, the bettor for the while people among whom thoy liv and in whose auctess they should b inthrestal, «0c ‘ PROM DRAKE'S BRANOM, VA <LaBEAES voitae Sassi ¢ SPREE eR Si SBS Starting ‘dm -tovtake her vacation, Miss Jjucy ‘Miles was stot” Friday evening on the Courthouse rostl, one tile. trom Hore,.”: Be ‘Tho ball’ struck a epllt in fier cofiet, coursed downward, loaviig a long surface wound under the fight ann, od _ When. tho party arrived "at the ‘Koyavillé Cronsroad, Miss Lizzie Crutehor asked Miss ‘Biles to apend somo time with her. Others in the wagon asked her not.’ Whoh a short distance from, the wagdn Bliss Miles turned to speak to a passerby and a pistol aot Was board. | The gir] was carrled to her room, whoro the wound was dressed by Dr. Lucker, aud it 18 hoped she will re- cover. « "go secrot has the affair been Kept, tho oftcors safd this morning they had, been unable to get audlclent oyi- "donco to make an arrogt. | A acelal party wae given at Ar. Wiitohead's residence Saturday night and a largo number of young people wos Io attendance, Staging, organ playing sind a nice suppor woro tho principal foaturos. Asido from a min | understanding botweon Miss Ruth Taylor and Miss Ethel Arrington. ‘whitch caused somo little oxeitement the attalt was enjoyable, | Zan at those propant ‘ave: Misses Mildred, Flossio and Edan “Groen, Gortrudo ‘and Emma Dupee. ‘Allie Carter, Gonnle Roberts, Clara Taylor, Gennle and Arty Elits, Sa- Wo M. Haskins, Sue Morgan, Kate Brodgon, Corine Brodgon, Mary and Soal Jackson, Graclo Mason, Sarah Barnes; Messrs. Robert Smith, Abson Moore, Jessie Dally, Masking Spen- cer, George Dupee, Jr. W. H. and /Milton Hewbanks, Zelile Ells, Ar- ‘thur Terrell, Cleveland Read, Thos. Lee nnd _oshors. | Siseiry Gailmore, of Richmond, Misiting her son, L. G. Galimore. ATTENTION! ARRESTED!. But “Geo Gushi" * Se: Se ee cheat! Drake's Branch, Va. A gooil advertisement 18 ono whose headline arrosts tho favorable at- tentlog and holds {t until. the reader is shown by tho toxt why tho article or service offered {a bettor, more Tasting. more deatrable, ete., tha that offered by the competitor. Disrobe yourself of tho advertis- er's mantle and assume the proapec- Uve's position, Fead tho ad. you've icon, running and sco if you can, If thoré"Is anything to causo you’ to Uecome a customer or continue your patronage. This may seem commonplace, but it ts the business en¥ of advertis- ig. : T chance to ree In a paper’ a few dayn ago this headline “Wherd Je fhe Dond? Of course, 1 thought some one was offering a book treat- {ng onthe soul after donth, Imag- tng my" surprise when the toxt do- scribed well-eooked, well,soasoned bread, ples, atc., of a well known baker. Thin headline was used no doubt to attract attoation, and while it served well that purposo, ft failure In results was wie to the fact that tho attention was net favorable. "Most women (and It ts women thle nd seoke to Interest) would throw away auch att, disgusted at tho Idea of nasociating the dead with broad ° Anked why she advertived under a biind headlige, i prominant —mann- Facturer of hatr vigor said: “I ‘never heard of a-blind beadiine” As to roaults, who thought sho could do more business 1f she bad tt. Why not sit down, take an analy- ‘sls of the business or of the sorvico, arrange tho nelling pointe and write copy 30 attention compelling na. to fairly dirgg the crowds your way— not by the noe, but by tho band and heart. People ike to be convinced through roading whero and why they can got food bprgalas and econo- mize In, spending their monoy. But when sn attompt Ts mado to pull them by the nose the ad te tnotfec- tive. . | Say what you mas, to got results: Itand’ reaulte are what. progronsivo hunineat men want) you must adver- Itiae, nnd your sucegaa will depend lon’ the value and merite of tho ar- Uclo or sorvice exploited, plus skill Jand Judgmost put in the copy. FIGHT IS K. 0, BROWN’, Baltimore, Aug. 7.—“Knockout™ Brown, in maklog his Baitimoro do- but, enally outpointéd Joo Ferguson, of Phitniotphin, in ton rounds to- night bofore tho Washiogton Sport ing Clud. Forguson gave Brown a good fight, but that was all, for tho tuch-heralded Gotham lghtwotght heat tho Quaker In every Found ox copt tho third, when Ferguson hold the crowd in fibazoment by rushlog Brown around the ring with ropoat- od blows, and onco sonding him atag- gering to tho ropes with a woll- timod right-hand punch. to the jaw. Ttwas tho only: timo during tho battle that Forguson rostly had a Wook-In' with Brown, who fought Itko a tiger, ‘Tho longor the mill cok- tinued ‘tho greater Iad did tho Gothamits opon. LOSER CAN STAND PUNISHMENT, Ferguson was a maryol whon It camo to rovolving punishment. Timo and again, throughout the ten roynts, Brown kopt that famous loft [working on Forguaon's jnw, and ‘while It landod with auch torriblo foreo that ft could bo heard al- ‘most all ovor the hotise,” Ferguton wovor Machod, but stuck It out, |, Brown_was ‘always ‘nlort to score ‘tho wallop which woufd have enablod (him to tive yp to ile sobrlaitet fa ‘Dugilisma, but to tha crowd Forguaon aeomed to bo & man with an ~ fron Jaw, for Brown's blows on tho Phil. Adoiphian's vulaorablo spots’ had no “sloop-prodiieIng olfect whateyor, | —Cild papers at Tho PLANET Of. fiée at 15 conts por hundred, . ‘ea a ERR aa ate Rarer aha ae iat hae a a “4 4 aq s F a LP * SPARE SEC : SATURDAY. ....AUGUST 10, 1012. NEGRO VIOTDE OF MOB ‘TAKEN IN HOSPITAL Scoala ete Er aes rlag Walker, @ nogro desperailo, carrlod ou % cot from, tho hospital here tonight’ and burned to a erisp by a mob of mon and boys on a fro which the¥ Ignited about a halt mile from town. ‘Tho negto, who had shot and killed Edgar Rice, a spo- clal politeman of the Worth Iron Mills, last night, was first Oraggod to tle scono of tho shooting, bes- glog piteously for mercy. He had deon arrested by a posto late this afternoon after a soarch which had stirred the countryside. Wien the posse finally located him bo waa found biding in a cherry tree, ant with tho last bullot in his revolver shot bims@if In the mouth, falling from the treo, Ho was removed to tho hospital and placed under police guard. ‘A fow minutes after 9 o'clock a crowd numbering almost 1,000 por- sons appears at tho hospital. Tho Joaders were unable to gain admis- sion, ‘but quickly smashed the win- Pow frames and crawled theptgh tho corridor. A policeman who trad boot placed on duty to watch Walker was the only person In tho building be- side the nurecs and patfonts. Tho londor of the mob placed his bands over the pollcoman’s oyer while oth- ers who had ontered the building set sbout to take their man from the hospital. When Walker was taken to tho hospital no was strapped down in order to prevent his escape. The mob, scotng this, gathored up the bed ‘and placing it on tho shouldors of four mon, started for tha country. They Ieft the town by way of too Towervitle road, and when -half a milo from the hospital stopped at a farm house. Hero thoy ontered a fleld and quickly “gathered up a pilo ‘of dry grass and wedds, placed tho bed contaiaing thelr victim upon It. ‘The negro was degging pitoously to be released, but his ploadings fell upon weaf onrs, A match was placed fo the pile of ‘grass and tho flames whot up quickly, ontirely enshrouding tho sereamiog ‘victim. That not vestige of tho murderer bo loft, tho mob tore down tho fence long tho fond and piled (he raile upon the burning negro. : Aftor walting for half an hour the mob dispersed as quletly as it had come. ° A curious fonturo of the burning was the fact that there were almost as-many womén in<tho crowd a8 mon. Durlog tho march trom the hospital to the steno of tho burping of tho negro, a Wistance of lesa than three-quarters of a mile, not a Do Heoman was oncountered’ by tho, do- termined mob. “Even tho man on duty in the hospital made no offort to stop the Oftoon or more: loaders who had gainod autuittance to tho {nstitution, ‘Tho only mask worn by the mom- bers of tho mob woto handkerchiefs drawn loosely over their faces. ‘That the burning of the _ negro was designed and cartied out by love)-teaded mon there ean bo 20 doubt, It was not the work of men whose nerves had beon wrought up to the darigor point by overindulg- ence, but rather that of a body of determined mon who wore ready $0 take any kind of a chance to avenge tho death of a respectablo citizen who had been shot down In cold blood. Coatestilio is a town of adout 10,- 900 persons, and 1s located on tho main Uno of the Pennsylvania Rall road, about thirty miles west of Philadelphia, SMITH NOT DisroseD — * TO PARDON STRIPIANG. AUlonta, Ga., Aug. 15.—Thomas Edgar Stripling formor Danville, Va., chief of police, now serving a ife sontenco in tho Goorgta ponitenttary for tho murdor of W. J. Cornott in Harria county Yourteen yearn go, may ¢xpect no clomency from Gov- ernor Hoke Smith, While.the Governor has not as- sumed the attitude of profudicing ‘Stripling’s caso In advance of tho fil- Ing of any application for pardon, ft 28 . ¢toa ota eta shr eta otao Js stated wittf authority that ho has Rivon no oncourtgemont to friends of Stripling who havo approachod him with referonce to tho case, and they have gone away convinced -that ‘tho filing of an application for clem- oncy would bo a wasto o{ timo. When Governor Brown, declined to pardon Stripling a fol months ago. juat’after ho had ‘been arrested in Danvillo as tho man who escapod from the Harris county jail.in 1897 after a sentence of Ifo imprison- mont had peop sees, upon, Btrip- Vdg's friends declared thoir jnton- Uon of Inying the caso before Govor- aor Smith when ho assumed the of- fice to whith ho had beon then oléct- ed, and it was stated with consider- ablo confidenco tbat = Gorernor Brown's decision in the caso would be reversed by tho new Govornor. ~ Although he was not in-office at tho timo the caso was prosontod bofore Governor Smith followad. tho dots! sjosely,-and.ts perhaps as famillar with ft as was Governor Brown, whon ‘ho turned down tho rocbmmiendation tor-clomoncy mado by the prison commission, , As Governor Smith .muat , tosign vwithin A fow months to assumo the dutfes of tho oMce of United Statos Senator, to which ho has been slect- jd, it may bo that those’ who hope 0 :poe Stripling pardoned will lay thé ‘caso befors Govornor Smith's mncceasor, in: the gubernatorial _of- MOSSE a Ss Na SE ee dt ene et St \!The>Sfake in‘ Pemssylyaaia, Sri ie badtiarians ‘do’ wot’ tive ts ‘fhe’South, On Saturday night a no- gro named Ezoklel Walker killed Special. Policemmn Rico, “who dis. ‘covered him while ho.was engaged 4n robbing ope of the minora in the Deighborhood of. Coatesville, Th community was terribly aroysed by tho commission of tbls crinio and started oa a hunt for the murderer, who was capturod on Sunday after & long chaso, -Antloipating the fate probably awalting him, the negra trled to take bis own life by shoot- ing bimsolf in the mouth. His aim was bad, however, and he was taken to the Tocal hospital, whore after rocolving medical attent{on 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 tho‘ doors of the hospital, solsed the negro and carrying him out of the hospital on tho cot dragged him to the placo where ho had killed Officer Ricd, and thore put him to death with the most flondish cruelty. Manacled to the cot, hls executioners heaped piles ot old fence rails aid othor easily burning, material over him and roasted him alive, This {s the brief account of the horrible sceno as de- seribod by thé Now York Sun: The lynching was , accomplished only after tho negro mad from pain had leapod from tho blazing tagots pilgd oyer him and tried to escape, drBpeing tho bed ta which he was botind dy his handcutts. : A crowd of 2,000 watched the mob loaders boat’ tho nogro ~ with fenco ratls and force him shricking back tnto tho flames. | ‘Three times he bounded up and threo times was thrust back, until finally bls quivering vody fell into the fire, Only then was the mob satisfied, | ‘Tho account given In Tho Times says that whon the poor wrotch at- tompted to escape from the mob thoy thrust him back into the flamos with pitehforks and tlie Ayaches could not have Invented a moro - torrible death. | Contesville {s only about forty miles distant from Philadelphia, tho “City of Brotherly ‘Love.” and’ was probably a station on tho old Ua- ‘derground Rallrond; it {s cortainly in the heart of one of the groat Stutes, which boasts of tho clvill- zation of Its peoplo, Its ‘churches and Sunday schools, its .Young Men's Christian Associations, ity genoral plety and respect for law. The mob Aid Mts work on Sunday night, ono of the roports representing tho peo- plo running out of the churchos to keep up. with tho progress of tho evant If not to assist in the burning of the negro. Tho funeral pile was set In the presence of 2,000 pooplo who stood and gazed at tho fearful spectacle, and ot ono man in the wholo company protested against the atrocity. Tho wholo community {s sald to have stayed awake the whole night oxpecting trouble with tho col- orod peoplo, and ready to do still further viplonco upon tho slightest provocation. No lynching ever com- mitted’ Jn tho South was attonded by acts of greator barbarity, and while we cannot and do not dofend our own crimes wo can at loast point to this affair In Ponnsylvanta as ‘ox- cocding tn tho art of cruolty any act of the mob that hes stained our an- nals-and brutallzed ua fm the oyes ot the world. ' Only a fow years ago one of the most brutal lyncbings In Amorican Bistory was commllted In Delaware. Negroos bave boon slain by tho mob fa Now York, in Illinois, in Oblo, in: Indiana and in other Northern States, and all to tho shame of tho Amorican people, Tho outrages com- mittod against proyérty, the loose methods by which Inws aro passed and Justico administered aro begin- ning to have thelr offect upon tbe security of life, What will Ponnayl- vania do about this awful trimo? Nothing. ‘The mob, which was’ strong enough to defy tho Iaw will bo strong onough to dofeat the iaw. —Richmond (Va.) ,Times-Dispateh. BLACK GENERALS : : GOLD LADEN | Goneral Antoine Simon, son of the deposed Prestdont of Hayt!; General !Antoino«Pierre-Paul, who waa pri- ivate secretary to tho black exocu- ve, aud Genorala Ferdinand Potion and Emile Presson, all of thom min- us the tropical glory of uniforms, arrived here yesterday on the Ham- burg-Amorican stearhsbip Allemania from St, Mare so burdened In va- lsca and pockets with.gold coin that they wore badly listed and porapired as profusely ns cottonfleld hands. They did not ucclaro the value of the coin, whieh fs not dutiablo, but Deputy Surveyor Racsklowlcz guess- od that among thom they carried bo- tweon $15.000 and $20,000, or from sixty to olghty pounds. Younk Simon had the Ifon’s sharo. As nobody among tho roporters: or customs men spoke tho French of Hayt! and as Simon knew nothing of any othor dinloct, {t was hurd got- ting much out of him oxcept through an Interpreter whose English was not altogother clear. As Interproted young General Simon sald that bis {ather had been cruolly troated and that the whole trouble was uo to Americans who had got railroad con- cessions on tho Island. Ho 1s going to Paris to live, JSfo maid that his fathor, who In in Jamaica, might fol- low him. Simon and his compat- Hots look much Itko ordinaty black mon of the Wost Indios, | Othor ‘passongors by tho Alloma- nia wore Evans R, Dick, tho Wall Strest broker, who solo the steam yacht Amorlca to tho Simon govorn- mont to, be convotted into a war- ship, and Capt. and Mra, Oharlos D- Palmer, who accompanied bitn to HHaytt. "Mg. Dick brought back a Inrgo cocoanut woodsenno, arhich ho sald wan’the sort ‘ugod by Haytian gonorals-inrhiet to snbduo major and minor gonorila and the plain and lonesome privates. When the army showed a tenddncy to robel tho genorals Insteall of drawing swords, almply brand{sbod cocoanut canes, amiting the army on tho co- coanut and.taking its gung and ple- tots away from it. ‘This usually ro- stored & spirit of disciplins. No goneral ever waht without #-cocon nutcano, 4 VHE RICHMOND - PLANET.” RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ‘Wien Mr. Dick xot down to Caps Haytien on July 19 the Simon .gov- ernment was on its last.Jogs. The revolution: bad been scheduled to atart at“l1 A.M. that day... At this ‘hour the American ‘fred a salute. The roevalutionists thereupon got acared and‘resolved to put off ro volving until later in tie day. At 8 P. BM, fring wax ‘heard on shoro and missiles originally prosectet heayonward foll in showers on the yacht, forcing the akipper to put up bis awnings. Thero was disordor the next day, duo, it was anid, to bandits coming into the -clty and getting drunk, Tho sere and. Gorman residents sont out their wo- men and children, fourteen In all, who stayed aboard the yacht ovor- night and returned to shoro in tho morning. Tho rovolutionists and the government forcas chased each other around in-a musical comedy spirit, shooting boles in tho air. After x whilo tho generals-In-chiet came out with tholr cocoanut canes and restored tranquility. Mr, Dick sald his tittlo bull terrier spread moro torror among revolu- tlonists and tho government forces than even the cocoanut canes, Wher- over the bull torrior saw. a palr of black legs sho would bite ‘om, and whole compsaios of warriors fied at her approach. What tho governmont really needed to quell revolutions were bull pups, and tho next timo Mr, Dick gees to Hayti he will take doge—regular dogs of war—instoad of steam yachts that tho Haytlans oxpoct- to run without coal, Another Haytian, Charlos Fouch- ard, arrived by the Hamburg-Amor- {ean Nnor Amerika. He was former- ly Minister to Berlin. 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To tho Edltor of Tho Times-Dispatch: Bir,—I note from Issue this morn- Ing that thore fs to Uo an invost- gation of tho “porpotration of al- Joged frauds In connection with the ‘Nogro Dovoloymont Company, of which Giles B. Jackson was. presl- dont. and 1. T. HIM aocrotary,” which aro alleged to have beon com- mitted in Nowport Nows. Now,. the foctathat I was hat president of tho Nogro“Development Company, but was director-genoral of tho Nogro Denartmont of tho Jamestown Ex- position, of which R, T. Hill was troasuror, and which was promotod by tho sald company, to which Con- gréss gavo $100,000, { would like to atnte that the ‘Tforcéntonnial _Com- tilssion, tonslating of tho Hon. Wm. H. Taft, thon Bocrotary of “War: Hon, Leallo M. Shaw, thon Socrotary of tho’ Treasury, and Hon. Victor Hi. Metealf, secrotary, appointed a committes to fully investigato this company and {ts management under me a3 diroctor-genoral.. 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Monroe-2213. -—<c_—m- NS SRSUSESE DES SE SB UNIS CRONE CESS CEEtASS CERN SR eRS So SENS SeUSSSCeENeEsGeKuNesereseeEEaeterseredesesecRtesecteeceeeescerNeessseesysreesceseeesvessedseseeesa: CCCSSKOHEREREDEHESE HEGRE LHEEERSERTELARS EERE HE SS ERHES SEEHSSESSSECEHSETECES SE SSETESRESERERSSOETI SEES SOEHER EERE ESSER GSES STRHSOREESERF ONES HOES MESHTESHLO SOS 2x That Tragedy in Chesterfield ternative but Co Ox the Bentgio trial for one week hence WARTER NOTES EXCEPTION The order was entered and the courtroom buzzed for an instant. messenger boyy ucurrying away with bulleyne, asd the crowd taking the opportunity to stretch ita cramped and weary legs, The sborift pronipt- ly secured quict and Mr Carter itrose to note an exception to the rullng of the court {o tbo matter of the trial date Jadge Watson called attention to the fact that no eecord was kept of the proceedings at hand, and stated that be would bear further objections and oxcep- ona when the prixgner 1a agcatgned next Monday, The defense Intimat. cd strongly that it would continue to reetst, and the judge again sald that the order was tentative. and that be would make every conces- alon possible. * SICK ON GARNETT Reference was mado by Mr Car. ter to the action of the Henrico au: thorities in the person of Beput) Sheriff Garactt in rptusing pariwls ston to counsel for the defense tc confor with the prisoner oxcept ft tho presence of the jatler Mr. Wen. denburg promptly disclatmed — any part in this remarkable proceeding and declared that he had long ago given bis pesmisaion for free access to tho cell “We do ot ank permission,” sald Mr. Smith “We demand it aa n tight, and desire an ofder from the court” The court promptly dixposed of the matter and tncldontally of Dep- uty Garnett, déclariag that (t would give explicit Instructions to the wperttt of Hontico At the same time counsel for the Wotense wore remind ed that while tey would be per- mitted to consult the prisoner and carry other witncercx to the cell witbout tho presence of tho Jailer. they would be expected to érerciac the functions of thie oMcial during the time. Mr. Smith took this for Rrantod. It nppoars that Garnett, assuming a gréater knowledge of tho law than courts ar counsel. peromptority dented the ordinary rights: of if Inwyer with roforence tb hig client. and, morcover, omphasizod ‘his av- thority with some radenoss. Declin- ing to enter into a discussion with the deputy, Mr, Gmith sleaply with- drew, making the best: he could of the sitaation, The court clearly sus- tained him, ail there will probably be ne further trouble from Qar- nett. This practically concluded tho day's work, amd the crowd rapidly drindled. Judge, Watson ordered Paul) Beatie back to, Henrie jail tinder cthe’ agme toad: fie did not recognize the presence of the Bln- ford wogian as a witness, and she slinply returned to Hearieo jail in custody of officinix of that ¢ounty After digposing of a few minor matters, the majority of the lawyers lett the courthouse, with the grand Jurs stil deliberating upon tts other aren Automobiles and street vars were soon whirling the Juch- monders eityward ~ Followed by a Hoek of camera-snappers Beulah Binford covering her face with a piece of cardboard,,made a dash for the waiting motor car ‘and wax soon hiding herself behind a back seat Screens were pulled down and the car hurrted off Walt way to Iich- mond St was overtaken by a. down- pour of ruin. but, along with the tuachine carrying Paul Beattie, made the trip without further Incident, MAS YET BE POSTPONED Though the odds appear to de favorable to an sctnal beginning of the trial on Monday it must not be understood that the matter is be- yond peradsventure The defense was manifestly displeased with the turn of events and Mr Smith declared later In the day that whe he would Jnow be forced into court in a weok. he would not feel that he had had adequute time in which to prepare hin case What the final outcome will be it Ix imponsible to aay with certainty There ta n fooling in some quarters that the trial will yet go over perhaps to a special term. The prosecution Is proceeding, how: rer on the assumption that — the big struggle will begin in earnest on Monday Of one think however, there can ve no doubt. Whenever the trial oc: curs there will be no need of mill. Un oF special constabulary to pre. serve order (n Chesterfield The tom- per of the crowd yeaterduy wan ex. cellent Benttle will got a fair deal, not only in the court, but nt the hands of the spectators — Interest In the case fe unquestionably great, but there Ix no rhow of ununuat oxcite- ment The county may even furnish the Jury, though (hin Is somewhat questionable Richmond — (Va.} “fimes-Dispatch Aug 25, 1911 (Hy RW. Simpson) ~ Heartbroken, but ateadfast in the undylng certainty of hin boy's tone cence Henry C Beat, Sr, unfold- ed Inxt night a story of that samo hoy'a Mite which maken the charges ngainat him unbellevable “I don't care how strong this evi- dence of the Commonwealth may ap- bear.” he sald. ax hia oyes filled quickly with tears, “I can no more belleve in hie Rullt than I can balievo that T will be atricken dead at thin very moment.” | Catmty, then,’ without passion, without fegling except that of utter grief, he wont back to the time of his boy's birth, describing his hab- ite, bia gradual developmont into manhood, his work, Kis Toyalty to fathor and-héme, concealing nothing ani! without ‘attempt to paint a halo about bis heal, Jt was simply an old qnan’s word for his obild.. —~ .For two, hotirs WMie 3 pat. with She NE ee ene eae. See. ee onre was his voice rafsed In anger. CUT BY PURLICS VIEW OF HIS SONS CRUELTY Sp many crucl things baye been aatd ‘and printed about Henry Clay.” he remarked. “that you can't under- stad TOW T hurts, you cant realize how St cuts Into the heart. Because he I< my boy does not mean that he ts perfect’ But he is misrapre- aented ‘They have called him a spendthrl(t, a term which no more fits him than tt would the thrittest man that ever ved Why, years ago, when he wax attending McGuires Vniversity School, he sought and se- cured employment during vacation xenson* When I asked him if @ did not want to take a course in higher education, he told me that he was determined to become a businesa man, that he belleved the practical expertonce he would get in tbe next Urea yours would better equip hint Tra business career He bas been Tn the store with me for eight years now and he was prepared to carry it on if 1 whould be forced to drop ont Why, when he decided to buy an antom@pily with bis own money he would not do that until he had consulted me We wore very close together Regardioss of what opinions they may have formed of the murder, tho Beople of South Richmond, where Mr Heattle han lived for years, can- not think of It without the utmont xympathy and pity for the gras-balr- ed man” Indeed, those noarost him wlll not discuxs 1. IC hurts too much to think of all that has come about in these exciting weeks And they karow tnat the fon in fail grieves most becaure of those fears which full continually upon thea grizzled chek Of one at hoine Out of a Renae -of commom ae cency no effort has been made by M8 nowapapor heretofore.to havo Mr Reattlo discuss a tragedy which he can never forget But out of a sense of Juntice “he was anked If there war not nome word ha wishod to wpeak on behall of the child who bears his name. There was no desire to Invade tho privacy of hla home, no desire to havo him take up or con- tradict that Wealth of evidence which hin been sgnt broadcant—which has pictured Honry Clay as a cruel, n do- Mberate, a ghastly murderor. The old man knows that the pubtlc ban ren- dered ita verdict; unTappily. ho known the verdict But it bas not wayed him ong fota from the view formed long ago. DECLARES THAT HENRY MADE | ONLY ONE STATEMENT IN JAM, “Lt hate to think of it,” he sald, “ond yot | gan think of nothing else. T hate to apenk of it, yot T feel that 1 Woult not be loyal to my son unipss I did. And so mary, many cruel things have gone forth. Take, for Instance, the statemexta and in- torviows crodited to him. Ho did nay that If the detectives would ens deavor to find the real smurderer with the.name amount’ of zeal with which they had endeavored to fasten the crfme on him, bis namo would soon be cleared. ‘Hy said that after he had been placed In the county jail with the braad of the coroner's ver- dict-upon his brow. “And that was the only statement be has made. Why some of them have put words In my mouth { could abt utter, but I could not deny it and have the public feel’ that I doubted bts fnnocence. 1 have (ried not to read the newspnpers, Rut 1 have no feeling of resentment toward them ” Once in the imfdst of the talk Mr. Reattic was interrupted by a tele phone call, but be came back and picked up the thread where it had deen dropped _ "Henry Clay," sald Mr Beatle, “in twenty-six years. old. — Fifteen months after he was borm we were blessed with twing—two little girls ~and any mother can understand the care and attention they received. Naturally tn thin circumstanre, I be- Ran to look after Henry with more Interest 1 watched him grow ap, played with him, and was the one upon whom he mostly leaned That companionship broadened on he be- came older He was font of outdoor life He doved ble Uttle friends FOUR YEARS DF GRIEF THAT HE CAN NEVER FORGET “When ho was thirteen yonrs old there came upon me four of the moat heart-breaking years that any man ever had to face. In that period the twink, my wife and my aistor died. 1 was forced to move in from ‘Dup- dee,’ which T butlt, so ns to give my businoss closer attentiot. In those days of grief 1 bad Henry Ho wae not a bad or vicTous boy, We got to he mighty good friends He loved to go with the girin ard boya, he wax what you might call an outdoor boy, fond or that kind of life He had ono of the firat bicycles; and Chon {ator on he wanted a motor car, but he wouldn't buy tt—with his own savings—without my approval. “When he went {nto the atoro eight yonré ago he Immediately took a frm gry on tho buainosh altua- tion there,. Up to tho time that 1 wont to the hospital. a year and a half ngo, I had been tn tho habit of nuing down every morning to opon my atore. Honry Clay took that off my shoulders then, and has opened the store over since | can bent ex- plain how close we were by Lae atatoment that wo alwaya wont back and forth togethor Ile geve very strict attention to the business, gradually dropping Into the buying. T alwaya found thnt while he took a Benera} Intorost {n evorything, ho avo his tue and onorry to tho shoo and gentlemen's furnishing dopart- ments, which wero directly under his control. ‘Thoro was never any question ay ‘to salary, for, an I ex- vininod to him, be would come in eventually for a large individual share of the,buniness, and 1 thought it best to tovest the ‘profits rather than pay him big wages,-which would be pnt In the bank, instead of growing concern of which we wore the owners; .This was thoroughly . (CONTINUED: ON 7TH PAGE.) pe ears Oe 5. W. ROBINSON : 19 & 21N. 18TH St. | : Dealer tm 4 | Fine: Wines, Liquors, | Cigars, d&c ALL BTUCK SULD ‘ AB GUARANTEED, 2 » PROMPT ATTENTION, , Yorr Patromago fs Respactfully Bolicteed. € {THe Iwverewosr was founded in 1848 2 a Weekly Maga- | tine to secure the freedom of American slaves. In the sixty-two | years that have followed, it has always been the friend and champion of the Negro Race. 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Mr. Joseph Evans, 2602 Webster Avonue, Pitts —Send In your Bubsoription tor burg, Pa. ithe PLANET to-day, : SUBSCRIBE TO THE RICHMOND PLANET. © ellie: 2 ithe 2s TR ssi eee _Scieiific American, Hits artal ```markdown ``` That Tragedy in Chesterfield (CONTINUED FROM 6TH PAGE.) satisfactory to him, and the salary question was never mentioned again. I might call a rich man. I made it *point* to give the boys a certain amount of spending money every week, and though I never asked what was done with it, I impressed upon them the importance of living 'uprightly, remembering always who they were. TELLS HOW HE WAS CRUSHED BY GIRL AND HENRY. "There was, of course, one incident in his life which hurt me, as it would have hurt any father, yet I realized that Henry was not unlike many other young men in this day and time. 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. The man who did the job, Frank Walsh, who had been known to the Newark police for years as a tough character, died in St Francis' hospital, Jersey City, where he had been taken, frightfully burned, after a crude attempt to conceal his crime by arson. It was partly the fact that Walah's death had been laid to him and partly that the detectives had confined him and led him from one conflagrating statement after another that finally made Brown break down and make his written confession to the police. The statement involved also Patrick J Timmins, a public accountant in Newark, and for years a friend of Brown Captain Richards, with a detective, went to Newark and arrested Timmins 433 Members in New House. The senate, without a division, passed the bill repositioning the membership of the house of representatives. The measure fixes the membership of the house after the sixty-second congress at 433, instead of 391, as at present. 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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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