Richmond Planet

THE RICHMOND PLANET WORLD PEACE ANTHEM. (By Lucian B. Watkins) Come, Peace! World Peace! O dove With mytle branch of Love Touch man and earth! Cleanse now the flag of strife And glorify a life With every blessing rife— Anew in birth. We love thy name, O Peace! We pray that war may cease Fiercely! Come, Peace and tune the string g Brotherhood to ring O Peace, sweet Harmony! To God we bring this plea— Our sacrifice: We're weary of the years Where human blood appears, And woman's guiltless tears Must pay the price! We'll lay our armour down, Renounce the hero's crown Of battle fame! Upon one great camp-fire We'll cast all evil fire And every wrong desire That lead to shame! O. Father, grant us peace! O. bring this grand release To bless our god! If 'tis Thy holy will, O. speak the "Peace be still," And every heart shall thrill— Amen, O God! UNDENIABLE DISAGREE Wants Price of Embalming—Funeral Arrangements Indefinitely Postponed—Dead Man at Johnson's Morgue. An amusing, but gruesome, condition of affairs is now in evidence in this city. It seems that Mr. R. D. Brown, who is in the 'undertaking business, and who conducts a branch for Mr. W. Isaac Johnson, was given the authority by some local person or relative of the deceased to go to the City Home, better known as the City Almshouse, and get the body and bury it. This was on Tuesday, October 3, 1911. EMBALMED THE BODY No relatives had come to claim the body. The remains were carried to the morgue of Funeral Director W. Isaac Johnson and entahued, while the work of securing the polly- and the money was begun. In the meantime a relative from Petersburg Va., came to the city and engaged Funeral Director A. D. Price to bury the body. The policy was for only $24.00, it is stated, and Mr. Price secured this amount. WOULDN'T GIVE IT UP. When an effort was made to secure the body, Mr. Johnson demanded $10.00 for embalming and $6.00 for hauling. This will leave Mr. Price just $9.00 for burial purposes, and there is no evidence that any undertaker can put a body under ground for any amount like that. In the meantime Funeral Director Price is under an agreement to bury a body, which up to, this time he has been unable to secure. A QUESTION OF PRESERVATION. Funeral Director Johnson is so certain as to the preservative qualities of his enmimbing fluids that he claims to be able to shield the body for an indebted period. Having just removed to his new structure, where he has plenty of storage room, and knowing that a dead man gives but little trouble, except when another undertaker than himself wants to bury him, he is patiently waiting for Mr. Price or the relatives, who seem not to have any money, to send him that fifteen dollars. BURIAL PERMIT ISSUED. As a burial permit has been secured and the money paid Mr. Price, the family is wondering when they will be notified to attend the funeral. As Mr. Price did not contract to bury the remains on any given date, the presumption is that he regards next Christmas or next summers as plenty of time for him to perform his part of the contract. If the disagreement continues much longer and the weather becomes warm, it is an open question as to whether Mr. Price will not want double the amount to handle the remains. CANNOT ENTER CHURCH. permit them to be brought within its doors, and that no hall would be habitable for some time after the funeral. As the matter now stands at this writing, Mr. Johnson holds the corpse and Mr. Price holds the money. The relatives have consulted counsel to force Mr. Johnson to give up the body, but as the cost of counsel will be more than the cost of embalming and hauling, it is easy to see that Mr. Johnson will be seen first. It is a tangle, the like of which has not been seen for a long time. FROM FARMVILLE Evidences, of Progress—Churches and Hinduism Men. Farnville, Va., Oct. 9, 1911. Editor The Planet. We have three churches in our town—two Baptist and one Methodist. The First Baptist is shepherd by Rev. R. G. Adams. The Second Baptist Church is pastored by Rev. A. Bland, and the A. M. E. Church by Rev. Flood. Mr. P. B. Hairston, grocer, is noted in our town by both races as "hold-sale." He is doing a good business on Main street. Mr. Charles Blue is located on High street, and is the leading merchant on said street. Bland & Sons are on Ely street, and seem to be holding their own. R. W. Moore, and O. R. Bullock are looking after the Restaurant business, while Thomas Jeffress is running his pressing club. F. W. Holmes is the beef man on Second street. P. H. Hilton, J. D. Miller, contractors, in the carpenter business. And Brother Charles Brown & Co. come next as remodelers of homes and fences. Our two colored insurance companies are managed by Rev. P. M. Robinson and Jackson Geese. Both are sold to be doing a good business. Mr. A F Farrar has been given a position as agent for the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, and is located at Blackstone, Va. Miss Aunce Redd, who represents the Richmond Bonoffel Insurance Company, is always on the alert. Dr. J. A Baker and A. S. Mason are prepared for the epidemic should the scarlet fever come here. Mrs. Hattle Gidding, of Winchester, Va., is visiting Mrs. R. H. A. Brown. Mrs. Mary Palge, of Race street, under the care of Dr. Baker, was taken to the Richmond Hospital. A birthday party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Ward, in honor of their little daughter, Edmonsa. Mrs. White and Brother Simon Taylor of Grace street, pro ill. Mrs. Sarah Eliza McDinnell is successful in her business caring for the hair and scalp. To find out what your people at home and the outside world are doing, read The Planet. The Religious Book Supply Company. No. 408 East Marshall St. Rev. F. J. W. Williams, of Norfolk, Va., was in the city this week and called on us. The Book Supply Company. For all kinds of Books. No. 408 East Marshall Street. Mr. Clam ' Green, of Drake's Branch, Va., was in the city this week, and called on us. Mr. Luko Jones, who has been spending some time at Warm Sulphur Springs, Va., has returned home, after a very successful summer. Rev. R. K. D. Garratt, presiding elder of C. M. E. Church, and who is in charge of Bethel C. M. E. Church, called on us, in company with Rev. A. J. Wood. The Article on Page 3. Column 3 should read "Mr. Boyden on the Political Question" instead of "Mr. Webster on the Political Question." Mr. Bernard Hatcher, who has been sick for the past two weeks has recovered. He was under the skillful treatment of Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr. Mr. Hatcher returned to Shaw University last Monday. NOTICE! Dowell, Va., Oct. 6, 1911. The colored public school. No. 7 will open Tuesday, October 17th, at 9 A.M. REGINALD N. HILL, Teacher. TRUE REFORMERS. North Carolina Commissioner Ieents—May Open, Office There. NMBIGH, Oct. 6, 1971 James R. Young, Insurance Commissioner binder. Mr. W. R. Griffin, Richmond, Va.: .Dear Sir,—Referring to your interview with me today in regard to the Grand Fountain, Order of True Reformers, and their doing business again in this State, I would say. First, I appreciate the fact that you and your associates are attempting to relocate this society and get its affairs in proper shape, but I cannot at this time agree to give your society a license to solicit membership in North Carolina and carry on generally the business of the society. I do not ablk the progress you have made so far in getting the society in proper condition would justify this. CONDITIONS NAMED. Second. I am willing to allow you to have an office in this State and collect up from those of your members who desire to continue with you the amounts they would have paid in death benefit fund during the time that they have been kept from making payments. Of course, those those who do not desire to pay up these amounts and continue will be dropped. Third. The fund so collected is to be held as a trust fund for the payment of all claims now due to your membership in North Carolina. I understand your membership was $8,000 and that you now live in this State, say $8,000. The only amount that can be used of this fund so collected is the cost of expenses must be what is absolutely necessary to collect and distribute the fund. CAN ACCEPT ARRANGEMENT. Fourth. It is understood if the arrangement as outlined above is accepted and taken by you, then each person who was in good standing at the time of the breaking up is to be allowed the privilege of continuing his membership on the payment of the amount that should have been paid to the death benefit fund, which I understand from you is $3.80, and all persons who have died and were members at the time are to be paid the claims, deducting from it the amount the members should have paid to the death benefit fund. I have thus, at your request, outlined the conditions upon which I can allow your society to operate in North Carolina at this time. The details, such as management, supervision, etc., can, of course, be arranged by us hereafter. Very truly yours, JAMES R. YOUNG. Insurance Commissioner. (Exact Copy) Chief of St. Louis Division Speaks St. Louis, Mo. Oct 3, 1911 John Mitchell, Jr. Editor The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Mr. Floyd Ross, Vice-Grand Worthy Master and Deputy General of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, under the above management of W. R. Griffin, Grand Worthy Master and the honorable staff of moneyed and business men as board of directors, I predict the future success of the Grand Fountain will be good, as the people in the United States' have regained their confidence in the-Order, and it will only be a matter of a little time until the Grand Fountain can boast of her eighty thousand members regained and her great increase in Finance. The New York Age newspaper wishes the new staff success. The St. Louis Advance and the Central Aero-American Tobacco the most successful. Tobacco credit cannot be given to The Richmond Planet for the part it played in the wholesale outlaying of the old officials who wrecked and ruined the race for more than a quartet of a century. This credit belongs to The Richmond Planet, because The Planet was at Griffin, Ross, Humbles and Newsome's service at all times. Vice-Grand Master Floyd Ross asks the hearty co-operation of the ministers of the gospel throughout the United States to help us restore confidence for the Order, as you did once before when we wore laying the foundation. Wm. Washington Brown, the founder of the Grand Fountain, has been called from labor to re-engineer our work we've forever more. Ministers are now saving the greatest, fraternal business organisation that ever existed in the United States. Again, don't you remember that this Order is based upon religious principles? Therefore; you have no fear in speaking a good word for it in your church morning, noon or night. We sincerely ask your assistance. Believing that you will help us in this great struggle, we ask the prayers of the entire community. Mr. Walter R. Grifin, the man who we have elected for the head of our Order, is an honest man and a Christian man. We would like to be truthfully said of Hoh. J. Frank Douglas, Grand Secretary, and Dr. John Merlweather, Grand Treasurer. So we have nothing to fear along the line of dishonesty. It would not be right if I did not commend the Hon. Adolphus Humbles, the wealthy man of Lynchburg, Va., who came to Richmond and assisted Mr Griffin, Ross and Newsome in getting the evidence to punish the wreckers of our grand and noble Order. Too much praise cannot be given to him, but he was for the advice which he gave the grand jury committee—W, R. Griffin, Floyd Rose; Adolphus Humbles and J Thomas Newsome. Can the True Reformers Come Back? Professor D. Webster Davis, our noted lecturer and author of the volume entitled "The Life and Public Services of Wm. W. Browne, Founder of the Grand Fountain, U. Q. T. R." will lecture on the above named question Monday night, October 30, at 8 o'clock, at Third Street A M. R. Church. Benefit the Reformers' Honor Roll Rally of Richmond Division. The vested choir of the church and the Harmony Quartette will furnish music, for the occasion. Admission, 10 cents. M A. Browne Smith, Manager; Dr. W. H. Smith, Assisting Manager and A. Beverly, Chief of the Division. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 7, 1931. To All My Brethren and Sisters in the Lord: Believing you would not get word about my being confined in the hos- pital in this city, and knowing how so many thousands of you have, for the work's sake, followed me with your prayers and interest all these years, herein this notice. I have been here nearly a week, almost a nervous wreck, with a very weak heart. But, thanks to Him whom I love and serve, I am much improved, and hope to be out and at my post in Kentucky by the 15th, where I shall be glad to hear from any of you. Pray for me, and the work of "world wide missions," which we all love. Yours in his name. I. G JORDAN. ADVERTISERS' FOOTLIGHTS Truth and Definiteness Essential to Success. (By J. J Shepperson) Drake Brane That form and uneasy theorems have taken their way into copy, have taken the place of truth and defini-ness is evidenced by the fact that nowadays many advertisers have become discouraged and can't see where it pays to buy space. They have used copy they thought would fit their business instead of using copy written from points gotten by analyzing their business. Copy that will suit everybody's business won't suit anybody's business, and when copy of this general class is used it is almost sure to lack truth and defini-ness. Although engaged in the same line of business, in most every case points may be gotten from one not possessed by the other. If you wish to succeed, your ads must contain the truth, first, last and all the time. If you can afford to tell the truth as a result of an analysis, then you had better "cut that business" because your success will be only temporary, after which you won't need glasses to see its decline. Advertisers should keep in mind that the rise or fall of their business will be in proportion to results from advertising; and to get maximum results every department of their establishment should bespeak their advertising messages. Meeting For Men at St. Luke's Hall. The. Y. M. C. A. will hold its meeting for men Sunday, October 15, 1911 at 2:30 P. M. at the St. Luke Hall, instead of True Reformers' Hall. Hon. Jacob 'Umlauf will address the men. Subject, "The Man 'That Wits." Colonel Thomas M Crump will sing. BISHOP HANDY'S FUNERAL. Great Diving Laid to Rest. Baltimore, Md., October 11.—The funeral of Bishop James A. Handy, who died here Thursday of last week, after a long illness from progressive paralysis, took place yesterday from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was this church that the dead prelate had served as sxton, Sunday-school superintendent, steward, class leader, pastor, presiding elder and bishop. The principal eulogy was delivered by Bishop Lee, of Wilberforce, Ohio. Brief eulogy were also delivered by Bishop Benjamin T. Tanner and Wen D. B. Berick. Others who took part in the program included D. P. Seton, who delivered the opening hymn, Rev C. Herbert, who delivered the invocation; Bishop Wesley J. Galnes, who read the 90th Psalm, Rev John Hurst, who lured out "Lead, Kindly Light"; Rev B. F. Watson, who sang a solo; Rev J G. Martin who read resolutions from the Baltimore Preachers' Meeting, Rev J. W. Norris, who said the Benediction, and Bishop Lev J. Coipin, who presided. Interment was in the family lot at Laurel Cemetery. The active pall-bearers were Revs J. A. Briscoe, P. W. Wortham, R. E Ford, Joseph Gwynh, T. R. Sinkfield, C. H. Young, all of the Baltimore Conference* and Rev Alfred Young, a personal friend of the dead prelate. The honorary pall-bearers were Rev. John H Dickerson, of the Central Florida Conference; A L Murray, of the New Jersey Conference; U G Leeper, of the Baltimore Conference; R C Ransoni, of the New York Conference; R H Leak, of the Western North Carolina Conference; T W. Henderson, of the New England Conference; John W Holmes, of the M E Church; Harvey Johnson of the Baptist Church. Besides visiting ministers from all sections of the country, delegations from the Scottish Rite Masons, the Maryland Grand Lodge Masons and the Order of Nazarets with which the deceased was at one time prominently connected were present. Bishop Handy was born in this city December 22 1825. The only chance he ever had to attend school was during the winter of 1835. He was given private lessons by the late Bishop Daniel A Payne, and was admitted into the ministry in 1866. He was missionary secretary to the Nazi Church from 1874 to 1881, later from 1882 to 1885, serving until his elevation to the bishopric in 1892. He was a man firm in his dealings with men but extremely charitable. He was superannuated in 1908. He was married three times. His third wife (Mrs Mary F. Handy), who had been the constant companion of her husband during their nearly 65 years of life, survived her nearly 65 years of children, a niece and a nephew who survive. MACEO CLUB. the ninth annual meeting of the Maceo Club was held at the clubrooms, 123 West Leigh street, Tuesday night, October 19th. The report of the manager and the recommendations of the Board of Governors were received and unanimously adopted. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year President—Joseph N. Hanks Vice-President—Charles Faulkner Secretary—George Preston, Jr Treasurer and Manager—T. T. Winston. Directors—William Shelton, John B. Jones, Charles Munford, James H. Scott, William Tomlin, Phillip Cheatham, James Storrs. Attorney—J. R. Pollard. After election and installation the entire membership enjoyed an abundance of refreshments, provided by its general manager, Mr. T. T. Winston, who was unanimously re-elected to his position of manager and treasurer. FOR SALE Choice brick properly on Sixth Street, between Duval and Baker Streets. We have made the price low for quick sale. Preaching at Fifth Street Church. Rev. B. C. Manuel, D. D., the great revivalist, of New Albany, Ind., will preach at Fifth-St. Baptist Church Sunday, Octber 15th., morning and night. What Beattie Says. "I'll show them how a man should die if that's what they're waiting for." "The electric chair? Bah! What's that? Nothing I tell you." "If the lever on the switchboard is near enough to me I'll turn on the current myself." "When a man's got to die, let him do it like a man, without a whimper." "But there's the Supreme Court it's still got to act on this case before everything is over." "I suppose some people are glad that I'm in this fix." Thus does Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, the convicted wife-murderer voice of influence of the grim prosecution that he shall die in the electric chair November 24, according to a friend who visited him in his cell at the city jail. When seen today this man said he had conversed with Beattie a number of times since the trial was concluded. "Henry," said this friend, "exhibits no sign of fear over what the future holds in store for him. In discussing his conviction and sentence to die, he said to me. "I'll show them how a man should die if that's what they're waiting for. The electric chair? Bah! That's nothing. I tell you. If the lever on the switchboard is near enough to mo, I'll turn on the current myself. When a man's got to die, let him do it like a man, without a whimper. He's got to act on this case before everything is over. I suppose, though some people are glad that I'm in this fix." Physically Beattie seems in better condition than at any time since his incarceration following the slaying of his wife in Mollothian Ternpike the night of July 15. He has a good appetite for the meals that are taken him every day from his father's home in South Rhondda, and his sleep is regular and unbroken. The mental attitude of the 19-year-old husband, whom a jury of twelve Chesterfield county farmers declared was an uxoricide is entirely at variance with the supposition that he will sign a confession before explaining his crime. "Beattie isn't going to confess" asserted a man who is seen him frequently. He isn't that kind. When he rode home with his wife a dead body in the automobile he said a bearded highwayman killed her, and to his dying day he will not deviate oneota from that statement." Beattie has always stoutly maintained his innocence and today he feels as strongly as ever that he's the victim of circumstances. In a considerable measure he has become thoroughly resigned to his fate. He is not blind to the fact that the supreme court of appeals rarely interferes in homicide cases and consequently does not deceive himself in believing that this tribunal will readily grant him a new trial. The doomed man insists that if the law is allowed to take its course and the State demands that he forfeit his life in the electric chair he will demonstrate that he is not afraid to die. "In the case of Henry Beattie there is an admirable opportunity for invoking the perogative of mercy, said a well-known lawyer today. "I believe the sentence should be commited to life." He continued by explaining the dangers of conviction based almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. "If in five or ten years, or at any indefinite time in the future, it should be discovered that a mistake had been made in passing judgment on this defendant, it certainly would be the source of much gratification. If the opportunity still existed, to make restitution to the accused." Other lawyers who are familiar with the legal aspects of the case express the opinion that Beattie's chances for securing a new trial are by no means hopeless. Judge Walter A Watson has already signed the bills of exception prepared by Beattie's lawyers, Hill Carter and Harry Smith, and certified them to the clerk of the circuit court. There were seventeen bills of exceptions. The transcript of the evidence has also been examined and filed with the clerk after being approved by the presiding judge. The Supreme Court of Appeals will convene its autumn session November 8. The work of preparing the petition to this tribunal for a new trial for Henry Beattie will be begun this week. The bills of exceptions will be reviewed in the petition and law and proceedings will be cited in the plan for a reversal of the lower court's decision. Should the court grant a writ of error it is unlikely that a hearing will be had before the January term of the court. If the writ is refused there is possibility that the court will render its decision on November 16, its first 'opinion day.' Richmond (Va.) News Leader, October 9, 1911. Another "confessor" of the murder of Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie in Midlothian turnipke the night of July 18 has come forward and, as if speaking from the grave, seeks to free the husband of the slain woman who is under sentence of death in Richmond city fall. The letter from the daughter of the "confessed murderer" reached Mayor David C Richardson this morning from Lynchburg. It is written in illiterate style and rambles about in no definite manner whatsoever. According to the daughter's story, her father "confessed to her his death from a knife she has just now come forth with the letter. Unlike most of the hundreds of letters received from self-styled "slayers" of Mrs. Beattie, the "confession" recites that the killing was an accident and that the intended victim was Henry Beattie himself. Following is the letter, in exact copy of its spelling and punctuation, as received by the Mayor this morning. The Mayor does not place much crenidence in it, be it said by way of preface. Lynchburg, Va., Oct. 7, 1911. To Mayor of Richmond. Dear Sir, The man you hold in prison for wife-murder is not guilty. My father killed Mrs. Beattie, but it was an accident. He meant to kill Henry. She is the one that is confessing his crime. Father has been dead four weeks, and when he was dying he asked me to write and confess, what he had done. Please believe me if it true. If you want the pictures of my paper in the Lynchburg papers, I live in Roanoke. My right name is Bessie Harcourt. (Signed) BESS H. —(Richmond, Va., News Leader, October 9, 1911) Dead In Bed. Living in bed in a stable in the rear of a dwelling at Redd and Coaker streets, D. J. Jones, apparently about sixty years old, was found dead last Tuesday night at 6 o'clock by Policeman Flournoy. The attention of the officer was called to the fact that the man had been missing since last Friday and he was informed that he made his home in the stable. This information was given by Ben Taylor and F W Tucker, who lived in the house behind which the stable was situated, and who furnished the fact that Jones owned the home and rented it to them, and that he preferred to be in the outhouse. Flournoy upon a police investigation, found that the stable door was locked. It was necessary for him to forcibly open it. He entered to find the old man dead. Coroner Taylor was summoned. He viewed the body and ordered it turned over to a local undertaker. Very 'Near a Race Blot. Two white boys met two colored boys coming from school the other day. The white boys said to the colored boys: "Where did you get those nice-fitting suits you have on?" The colored boys said: "We bought them from 314 East Broad street." The white boys said: "We don't believe it, they fit too good to come from a colored man's store." The lie was passed, and a fight was on. The fine was $5.00 or 30 days in fall. Please don't forget that we have more of those nice school suits left that caused the fight. You can get your little boy's nice school suits, all-wool, knickerbocker style, for $219 $2.50, to $8.00. We are head, quarters for school shoes and caps. Please give us a call before spending your money elsewhere. We guarantee fit and quality, or money refunded. Don't forget the place, 314 East Broad street I. J MILLER, Proprietor. WANTED---At once an Artistic Printer. One who is not afraid of work, strictly honest and reliable, permanent position to right party Board range from $8 to $12 per month. Would like to have references. Write The Crescent Printing Co., Columbia, B. C. --- WANTED — International Bricklayers. Long job for good mechanics. Prep. Plate Glass Co., Plant. Toilets, Co. Plant. King Co. CHATTANOOGA A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORY BY F A NITCHEL. Copyright, 1892, by American Press Association. SYNOPSIS Private Mark Malone, U. B. A., sent a spy to Chattanooga by General Thomas, is saved from guerrillas by Bourt Black. He is a countryman, Mark starts for Chattanooga. Squire Burley, Mark is to send Bourt bar red handkerchief if in peril. CHAPTER III. MARK and Jakey trudged on. They met no one on the way, but at one part of the road running through a thick wood they saw a light in the distance to the right in the thickest part. They halted for a moment and then advanced cautiously. Coming to a place where they could get a view of what the light revealed, they saw several men in "butternut," whose horses were picketed near by, lying around the embers of a fire. "Guerrillah," quoth Mark. Not caring to disturb these villains, who had no more respect for Confederates than Unionists, they passed on stealthily. About midnight they came to a rivulet, and Mark concluded to bounce there. They turned in among the trees beside the road. "Jakey," said Mark, "before we go a step further, or do anything, in fact, we must fix this money." He pulled his roll of bills from his pocket. "Take off your-boot," he said. Jakey pulled off his boot and handed it to his companion. Mark took a number of bills, and ripping out the lining of the boot put it back in its place with the bills under it. Smoothing it down, he handed the boot back to Jakey and told him to put it on again. They took a bite of the snack Souri had prepared for them and drank from the rivulet. Then they laid down, resting their heads against the root of a tree. It was not long before Jakey was asleep and Mark drew his head over toward himself and laid it against his own breast. Thus the two rested. Mark slept at intervals; Jakey with all the soundness of healthy, irresponsible boyhood. At the first sign of dawn Mark waked Jakey, and after they had both thrown the refreshing water of the rivulet over their heads they started in search of a house, at which they designed to "happen in" at breakfast time. Fortunately they soon found such a place. Turning into the gate at the first farmhouse, a farmer's wife received them kindly and gave them what for that time and country was a palatable meal. Refreshed by their breakfast, they walked on. Various people - country men, groves, Confederate soldiers and occasionally a squadron of cavalry passed them on the road but they were not questioned or interfered with by any one. About sunset they reached a large place set back on to the left of the road. The premises were more impingent than any they had yet passed, and they judged by it that they were in the environs of Chattanooga. The house was a large, square, old fashioned building, with a very high basement. In the rear were the negro enchanters and the barn. Mark determined to ask for food and shelter for the night here. Turning into the gate, he followed a straight road leading for perhaps a hundred yards to the house. A young girl robed in a white muslin dress of a very simple pattern, and a pink sash, stood on the veranda watching them as they came on. When they reached the steps lending up to where she stood, Mark saw a pair of black eyes looking at him, which, conscious of the deception he was about to practice, seemed to read him through and through. Indeed he was sufficiently confused to take off his hat to the girl with all the grace and manner of a polished gentleman. "If you please, matam," he said, as summing the dialect of a countryman, "me'm my leetle brother's goer ter Chattanooogy. My brother, he's walked a right smart show for such a younker. Could I give us some supper and a place ter sleep all night?" "You can come up here and sit down, and I'll see." "What a musical voice," thought Mark. The traveler went onto the veranda and sat on some wooden benches ranged along the rail. "Have you come far?" asked the girl, who regarded them with evident curiosity. "From our leetle farm on the Se quatchle." "Your brother does look tired, Aro you hungry, little boy?" "Is it a-gitten dark?" "Why, yes," she said, surprised. "What has that to do with it?" "I'm hungry jest as sartin," and Jakeye little gree glissened at the thought of a hot supper. The young lady laughed and went into the house. "Mamma, there's a young countryman and his little brother out on the gallery. They want some supper and a bed for the night." An elderly lady, with two white puff curls on either side of her face, looked up from a book she was reading. Her appearance was dignified and refined. TWO you know how we are situated; your father and brother away and no man in the house, we can't let strangers sleep here. But they may have something to eat, and perhaps it might to let them sleep in the barn if they look right." "Where shall they have their supper?" "Have it put on the hall table down stairs." The daughter paused a moment and thought. "Do you know, mamma, I can't exactly feel satisfied to put the elder brother in a place given up to the serrants." "What nonsense, Laural! We are taking a great risk to let them into the house at all. Heaven grants that the borons are not all taken before morning. The man may be in league with a band of guerrillas, for all we know." The daughter withdrew, for the moment quite impressed with her mother or's prudence. As she stepped out on the vetanina Mark rose respectfully and stood looking "into her black eyes with his blue ones. Our mother's can cloaked away before that honest count tenancy. "You can have some supper," she said, "if you care to eat it in the lower hall, and you can sleep—you can sleep"— Mark was howing his thanks. "Would you mind sleeping in?" She paused grain "The barn? Certainly not." "You know these are troubious times," she said apologetically, "and we are alone. I mean we haven't many men in the house," she quickly added: conscious of having made known the housebill's weakness to a stranger. "We will sleep anywhere you choose to put us. Leastaways we isn't particular." The first sentence was spoken in his natural way, the second in dialect. Mark's manner of speaking to her was singularly mixed. "I suppose your men are fighting our battles," he remarked to relieve an awkward cause. "Tapa is away" "I have you no brother?" "Yes, one, he is fighting for the Con- federacy" "And your father—is he at the war?" "No, papa does not care—much about the war" "Perhaps he's a Union man" "Well, yes. Papa is Union." Mark concluded to hazard a surmise "Was he driven out?" he asked. frown. "He's gone north, though." She did not like to tell the whole story to a stranger, who was gradually getting a good deal of information Her father had come to Chattanooga from the north years before, where he had married a southern woman After the opening of the war, on an account of his pronounced Union sentiments, he had been warned several times to leave, and his family were much relieved when he was well away from the danger that threatened him "You are divided," said Mark, "as we are. Now, my little brother hybr'a a Union boy I am Confusedate." There was a pause, and the girl, remarking that she would see about their supper, turned and went into the house. house. It was quite dark before supper was announced. The mistress of the house came out, and as Mark saw her lying them both he knew that she came to have a look at them. Fortunately for him, the darkness prevented her getting a good view of him. Mark at once commenced to probe a mother's heart by dwelling on the tired condition of little Jakey, and kept it up till the lady was quite unwilling to send the boy to sleep in the barn. She inwardly resolved that the child should have a comfortable bed. Jakey ate a hearty supper—the hearter for the dolly—and the two wayfarers were shown up stairs to a large room with a big bed in it. A few sticks were lighted on the hearth to dry the dampness, for the room had been long unused, and there was a general air of comfort. Jakey, who had never seen such luxury, colled his little eyes about and wondered. But he was too tired to waste much time in admiration. He was soon in bed and aaleep. Mark took his pipe and went down to the yard to have a smoke. Going back to the barn he entered into conversation with an old darky sitting on a barrel by the stable door and evidently master of the horse. "Fine night, uncle." "Yes, bery fine night, sah." "That's not very good tobacco you're smoking, uncle. You'd better take some o' this hyat." "Thank y', sah." "Do you hear any news, uncle"— "Dan't. My name's Dan't, sah. No. sah; I don't git no newn 'cept do joers is getting mighty thick at Chattoo- ny." "Do you know how many are there?" "I reckon 'bout free hundred thousand." Mark laughed. "You're not much at figures." he said. "No, sah, I can't not laren." "Ucicle, I shu'tt want anything of you, while I am, amy, but you must have someone to remember me, by call this same," and Mark but a new crier. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. A. PADCAE "WHO' NUFF. I AIN' NOT OWINE TO TELL NOBODY." dollar greenback in the old man's haul "Bress de Lo'd, you is de fines speermon ob a po' white gentleman I eber had do facillitude at meoten." "Well, don't spoil it all by tellen'tother hands. Keep it to yourself." "Sho' nuff. I ain' gwine to tell nobody" Mark left Uncle Daniel chuckling on his barrel and stroiled about the grounds. "Presently he found himself walking near the front of the house. The mother and daughter sat on the veranda 'in the moonlight. Presently the daughter came down the steps and advanced to where Mark was loitering." "Mamma says that if you like you may--she would be pleased to have you come up and sit on the veranda." "Thank you!" Mark was about to lift his hat in his usual deferential manner, but suddenly remembered that he was not supposed to be a gentleman. He followed the girl up to the veranda, and she placed a seat for him near where they were sitting. "Your brother is a good deal young or than you," said the mother when Mark was seated. "Oh, yes, m'am, he is ten years younger." "You don't resemble each other at all. You are light and he is dark." "He seems to be a peculiar child. "Has, Jukey, he is peculiar, very be cular, unau." "You haven't told us your name yet," "said the mother" "Slack 'I'm Farmer Slack's son.'" "How many hands does your father own?" "Father, he don't own no niggers at all. We're just only poor whites." "You're very frank about it," said Laurn. "Wah, there ain't no use makeen pur tensions" "And you go to Chattanooga tomor row?" asked the mother "Yes, amun. I call late ter do some traden that" "And you will return this way?" "I reckon I'll be along byer in a few days." The mother grose and walked with all the statelliness of a southern bich born matron into the house. There she resumed the book she had been reading earlier in the evening. Mark had kept up his assumed character very well during her presence. Now that he was left alone with the daughter he was put to a much severer test. He had been so used from his childhood to meet a refined-bearing with one equally refined that he found it difficult to avoid doing so now. "Don't you love to look at the stars, Mr. Slack?" asked the young lady. "Word me, Mice." my name is Linda Palm. "I he always been fond o' the science of—" He paused; he suddenly remembered that poor "white trash" were not usually versed in any of the sciences. "Astronomy," she supplied. "What, yes." "How did you come to learn astronomy?" "Oh, I don't know nothen 'bout it," he said quickly. "I hear a man at Jasper talked once. He said a heap o' quar things." "What bright star is that?" pointing. "Venus, I reckon." "I wonder how far it is from us?" she said musingly. "Venus? Why. Venus is sixty-eight millions of miles. I rocken." Mark suddenly became conscious of having forgotten himself. He recollected his critical position and resolved to proceed with greater care. "How far is the moon?" asked Miss Fain. "The moon's a hundred million miles. I reckon." "Oh, no. You're far out of the way there. It's only about two hundred and forty thousand miles." "Wasn't now?" exclaimed Mark in well felled surprise. She looked searchingly at him, but Mark looked as if he and simply received an interesting piece of information. "Do you like poetry?" she asked, changing the subject. "Somen't." "My favorite poet is Tennyson. Is he yours too?" "This was dangerous ground for Mark. He had a special fondness for poetry, and was more likely to betray himself on this than on any other subject." "No," he said: "I love Shelley best." "Why, Mr. Black, how can you understand Shelley? I can't." "What, he is kinder obscurelike." "Do you remember any of his poems? If you do I would like to hear you repeat it." "Waal, [ mough! ] give you a 'few lives' of the oak 'to the Knifft' of Na ture." "Please do." Mark would have done well to let the "Ode to the Spirit of Nature" alone, but with a beautiful girl beside him, the half moon slinking in the west and all nature in propose, he momentarily forgot his assumed character entirely. Suddenly he awoke to the conscious ness of having given the whole poem in his natural tone and with his ordi nary accent. "Mr. Black," said his listener when he had finished, "did you learn that from a man in Jasper?" "No—no 1—wawl," he stammered, "I read it in a book." He stole a glance at his companion, but failed to detect any unusual expression on her face. He took courage "What do you raise on your plantation?" she asked. "Oh, we put, in some potatoes and corn and straw this year." "No, no, not straw." Mark was as little conversant with the farmer's art as he was familiar with the poota. "I mean hay." The girl looked at him and smiled. "The wheat was all gotten in early this summer. I am told," she remarked casually. "Yes, we got it in ourn early. We jest finished up before I kern away." "Why, Mr. Shack!" Mark knew that he had blundered again. "What is gathered in July," she in formed the young farmer. "I mean the corn," he said wildly. "The corn comes later. It is ripening now." Mark felt it was all up with him so far as deceiving Miss Fain as to his being a farmer, but he struck out boldly to undo some of the mischief. "Wah, you see, Miss Fain, to tell the whole truth, dad he don't reckon much on my farmmen. He says I oughther be a 'perfessor or somep n that sort." "A gentleman for instance." Mark made me imply. For the first time he detected truy in her tone. time he detected truy in her tone. "Mr. Shack- if that is really your name, which I don't believe-you are certainly not very complimentary to my sense of perception" "How so?" "I in trying to make me think you are not an educated gentleman" Mark saw the futility of keeping up the sham with Miss Laura Fain any longer. He resolved to give her so much of his confidence as was neces sary to keep her from betraying him. "I will be frank with you. I am not what I have greeted, but I am not here to injure you or yours." "Are you a Union man?" "Yes." "At northerner?" "Yes; but let that suffice. You won't regret it if I should conglide anything more to you. Yet from this brief inter view I have learned to trust you still ciently to place my life in your keep ing." She thought a moment. A faint shud- der passed over her. "I don't want to know your secret." "Will you tell your mother what you have discovered?" asked Mark anx- lously "Not for worlds." "You suspect"—He paused and looked at her inquiringly. "I shall go tomorrow morning. I shall always hold you in grateful remembrance. You are a splendid—a lovely woman. I owe you"— "Yes, yes; go-go early." She rose and went into the house. In a few minutes a colored boy came out and told Mark that he would show him to his room. As Mark had been there before he knew this meant that he was expected to retire for the night. As he went by the parlor he glanced in. The mother sat by a lamp on a "center table" reading. Miss Fain's face was also bent over a book. It was white as the margin of the page she precluded to read. CHAPTER IV. GLOBIQUE PERFID. WITEN Mark wont down stairs the next morning, followed by Jakes, they were invited into the breakfast room. Laura Palm was there, but her mother was not. Mark looked at Laura, but she avoided his gaze. He asked after her mother. "Mamma scarcely ever gets up to breakfast," she said as she poured out a substitute for coffee. During the meal she said but little, and that was only on commonplace subjects. She seemed to have more on her mind than the soldier who was taking his life in his hands, and sturdily avoided looking at him at all. After breakfast Mark followed his hostess through a door-opening into a sitting room on the opposite side of the hall from the parlor. "Miss Faint," he said. "I know too well the station of your family and southern customs not to accept as a gift the hospitality you have afforded. I can only express my indebtedness, and the hope that some day the war may be over and I can come down here and show my gratitude for something of far more moment to me than a night's lodging." He paused, and then added: "May I ask n' question? Are you a Union or a Confederate girl?" "Confederate" Mark looked at her uneasily. "I inferred from what you said last night that you will not betray me." "Miss Palin, he said, 'you may be doing wrong, you may be doing right. At any rate you are acting the part of a woman, and this act makes you in my eyes the lorelest woman that lives.' The words were carefully spoken when the muscles of the girl's face contracted into an expression of horror. Mark could not understand why his speech had no infected hair. The natural 'u' certainly of his position impelled him to 'look about him for the cause. Glancing out of the front window, he saw an officer in gray uniform on horseback in the act of reaching down to open the gate. "Come quick!" she said, seizing his arm. "No. no! Mammal She doesn't know. Oh, what shall we do?" "Mark took her by the hand and spoke to her coolly, but quickly. 'Call Jakey for me, and we will both go down stairs and from there to the barn. We can then go out without meeting this officer, for he is doubtless coming in. There is no especial danger. We shall meet plenty of soldiers before we return." She flew out of the room to find Jakey. While she was gone Mark watched the approaching horseman. He was a fine specimen of a southern man-tall and slender, with long black hair, mustache and goatee and a fine Pamela. black eye. He looked, as he came riding up the roadway, the impersonation of the southern gentleman. Before he had dismounted Mark and Jakey were on their way to the barn. Laura Fain opened the front door just as the officer was coming up the steps. "Why, Cameron," she exclaimed, "how did you get away? I thought you told me you were to be officer of the guard today." Was there a special reason? "Certainly I positively couldn't stand it another day not to see you. Besides we are momentarily expecting orders to cross to this side of the river." "But you will be nearer to us then, won't you?" "I am afraid not. Once on this side we'll not stop nearer than Dallas or Poe's. We may join Colonel Forrest near Spartan, or wherever he may be, doubtless somewhere in the enemy's rear. He seldom troubles the Yankees in front. But you are not listening, my darling, and you are pale. You are not ill?" "Certainly not." "You are sorry that I came?" "Why, Cimarron, what do you mean? You know I always want you to come." She led the way into the sitting room, from which Mark had disappeared but a minute before—a minute is a long while sometimes. Mrs. Fain entered and received the guest most graciously. Captain Cameron Fitz Hugh was a young Virginian a graduate of the University of Virginia law school, the son of wealthy parents, whose acres and negroes were numbered by thousands. He had known the Palms before the war. Mrs. Pain having been born and reared in the Old Dominion. During a visit of Laurn to his people, shortly before the breaking out of hostilities, he had fallen in love with her, had proposed and was accepted. Both families being agreeable, the two were engaged to be married. "This is an unexpected pleasure, captain," said Mrs. Pain. "I did not sat pose I could' get away today." "Everything is unexpected in these times. We never know who is coming to us. Last night I slept uneasily for fear that we harbored a guerrilla in the house." "How is that?" asked Captain Fitz Hugh. "Where are the strangers, Laura?" "I think they are gone, mamma?" "A countryman and his little brother," said Mrs. Fain to the captain. "Laura thought him quite a gentleman for one so poorly dressed." "But I changed my mind, mamma," said Laurn quickly. "And what was the occasion of so sudden a boulevement?" asked the captain. "Why—why, when we were sitting on the veranda after, you went in, mamma!" "Batting on the veranda with a countryman!" exclaimed the lover. "Well, yes; mamma said to invite him up. But I was going to say—" Laurn's inventive powers had gained time to act by the interruption—" I found that he was only an ignorant farmer after all, for I asked him how far the moon was, and he said he reckoned it was a hundred million miles." "That doesn't prove anything." Fits Hugh renounced. "I don't believe there's an officer in my regiment knows that. But it becomes us to be very careful. The commanding general has made it known, unofficially through his staff officers that he is especially desirous of concealing his intentions. One any penetrating for even a day at Chattanooga, might frustrate all, his plans. If the enemy knew that, we are concentrating there, and how weak we are, there at present, he would or at least he should come down with a large force and drive us south." man was a spy." "Cameron," said Laura. "I wish you wouldn't talk so to mamma. She will be suspicious of every poor beggar that asks a crust. The man's name was Black. There are plenty of Blacks among the poor whites about here. I have a slick family of that name on my hands now not a mile up the road." "Has the fellow gone?" asked Fits Hugh. "I think I would better see him." "Gone! Of course he's gone," said Laura, with a heaviness bosom. easily overtake him on horseback." "Nonsense," said Laura, with a pout; "you have kept away from me for-a week, and now you are going as soon as you've come." "But, my darling, would you have me?" Mrs. Fain, seeing that some cooling was coming, wisely withdrew. "And what, sweetheart?" "Tell me what I love to hear," she said softly. "I've told you that so often you should certainly be tired of it by this time." Fitz Hugh looked inquiringly into her face as he smoothed her hair. He was used to those requests to repent his assurances of affection, but there was a nervous something about his glance this morning that puzzled him. His back was toward the window, while she was facing it. Suddenly she clasped her arms tightly around him. "Now go if you can!" she said, af- "You don't love me," she whined. "Love you, pet. You know I do." "Then why do you not so?" "Act how?" "You never come any more but you want to right away." "But as a heart—a half dozen times for exclamation points—"I only intend being a little white." "If you once start out to follow somebody you don't know anything about you'll be gone all day, and then you'll be ordered away, and maybe I'll never ace you any more." Never was a lover more enarmed at such evidence of woman's affection, and never had this lover less cause to be charmed at the evidence of his hold upon Laura Fain. Had Captain Fitz Hugh seen what Laura Fain saw from the moment she put her arms around him and held his back to the window—Mark and Jakkey going down the walk to the gate—be would have excalmed; "Oh woman, the name is perdulc." "Oh, woman," the departing soldier would have responded, "thy name is indeed perdy, but how glorious thy perdy!" "Jakey," said Mark as they passed behind trees that hid them from the house. "I don't like that officer coming to the Fain plantation just at this time. There'll surely be some mention of us, and it is possible he may want to have a look at us. You know, Jakey, we're only poor, modest people, and don't want to be stared at." "We ain't got our store clothes on, and don't want to make no acquaintances." Jakey observed solemnly. Mark had noticed Laura Fain's agitation when she caught sight of the officer at the gate, and knew there was good reason for it. He did not fear that she would betray him intentionally, but that she might be led to do so from her very anxiety to keep his secret. "The first chance we get, Jakey, we'll take to the woods. We told them we were going to Chattamoga, and if this officer takes it into his aristocratic head to escort us with true southern politeness a part of the way he'll expect to find us on the Chattamoga plike." "N' twoundn't be perilite fo' ter git in his way." They had gone but a trifling distance when they came to a creek sowing—as a wawrfer they met told them through a moosin gap. The road crossed it by something between a hedge and a cultvert. Mark let the way from the road up the creek and began to climb the hills, on which there was sufficient growth of timber to afford concealment. At last they came to a but occupied by an old negro. "Good morning, uncle!" said Mark. "Morgen, sah." "Hey y' seen anything of a colored boy 'bout eighteen years old go by hyar this moment!" "No, sah." "He's my boy Sam, and I'm a hunter him. He run away last night. He'll git a hundred of I ketch him." "I ain't saw him, sah, 'n I tell yo' what, maratr, ef I had saw him I wouldn't inform yo' ob do fac." "That's the way with you niggers since the Yankees turned your heads. But it won't last long. Our boy's drive 'em so fur no' pretty soon that your darkles' hov to stop runnen away." "Now don' yo' believe dat so sarten." "Do you really believe the Yanks can whip us?" "Do Lod hca sent 'em to toto his colored people out o' bondage." Mark was satisfied with this preliminary examination that he could trust the old man. "Uncle, I'm no seacsh. I'm a Union man. I want to stay with you today and travel tonight. Keep me all day, and I'll go a way as soon as it is dark." "Po' de Lo'd. I knew yo' won't no south'n man all do'time." "How!" "You' can't got de south'n man's way of taken. You' did hit well enough, but yo' can't fool me." "Well, will you keep us?" "Reckon I will." "What's your name?" "Hendolph's my name, sah. Jeffson Randolph. My marry said he gib me a mighty big union, but hil didn't do good. Doy always call me notten but Jeff." "You're as well off as the president of the Confederacy, in that respect," said Mark. "I guess we'll go inside." "Mick go in dar. Keep dark." Mick and I waited for the day to pass, and ask if they had any means of amusing; themselves; it passed very slowly; Jakay played about the crook; for awhile, but both were glad when the darkness came and they could get away. Before setting out on his expedition Mark had carefully studied a man of the region, preferring to fix it in his mind than to carry it about his person. Upon leaving Jefferson Randolph's but he made direct for the Tennessee river. Once there, he knew from his remembrance of the map that he was not far from Chattanooga, and that between him and that place was Mocassin point, formed by a bend, or rather loop, in the river, the point putting out southward for more than two miles, with a distance of nearly a mile across its neck. But he knew the ground was high on the east shore of the peninsula, and he did not know the proper place to strike inland and, cut off the distance around the river's margin. There was no one near to inform him, so he kept on by the river. It was late at night when they reached a point where the river took a slight turn to the cast, and about a mile from the quick bend around Moccasin point. Mark was anxious to enter Chattanooga either late at night or soon after daylight, hoping to meet few people, that his entrance might not be noticed. He cast his eye about for some means of crossing the river Noticing a skiff moored just below a hut, he surmised that the skiff belonged to some one living in the hut. Going to the door he knocked. "Who's thar?" "Do you uns own the skiff on the river below byar?" "Waal, supposen I does?" "I want to cross." "What d' y' want ter do that fur at this time o' night?" "Father dyen. Just got word a spell ago." "What'll . . . give ter get over?" "Five dollars." "What kind o' shinplasters?" "Greenbacks." "What'd y' git 'em?" "From some people es got 'em traden with the Yunkee sojers at Battle Creek." "All right, stranger, but it's a sight o' bad times ter be called ter a man's door at night. You uns go down tor the river 'n I'll cover y' with my gun tel I know yer all right." "I won't mind a small thing like that if you'll put me 'n my leetie brother across." Mark and his companion went down to the river. Pretty soon a wild look ing man, with a beard growing straight out from his face like the spokes of a cart wheel; came cautiously down, covering them with a shotgun. "Got a pass, stranger?" "No." "Reckon they won't let y' land when y' get over thar." "These army fellers are like a rat trap," said Mark; "they ain't so particular as to go in; it's the goo out PACER "Fur how much?" "An extra river." "Greenback?" "You ain't very patriotic. Won't y take Confederate bills?" "Not when I can get green uns." "Y ain't a Union man, are y'?" "No. But I know a valyble thing when I sees it." They could see campfires of guards on the other shore. Once, getting too near a river picket, they were seen and challenged. "Who goes thar?" "Oh, none o' your business?" said Mark jokingly. "Pull in hyar or I'll make it some o' my business." "Oh, now, see hyar! We can't stop every five minutes to please a guard. How do you know but we're on army business?" "Well, pull in hyar and show your napers." Meanwhile the ferryman was keeping the oars moving gently, and the boat turned at an angle with the current, which was taking the boat toward the east shore. "Now pull away hearty," whispered Mark, and the boat shot out of sight of the picket in a twining. A bullet whistled over their heads, but wide of the mark. "Golly!" orcified Jakey. "What a purty tune it sing!" They were now of Moccasin point, and Mark began to look for a landing place. Just above he noticed a camp first and above this was a place where the bank was low, with overhanging trees. Mark directed the ferryman to pull for these trodals. He slipped a handkerchief in one of the rowlocks—the only one used in turning the boat into shore—so as to mume the car. The coast seemed to be clear for a landing but as they drew near they proceeded cautiously and listened for the slightest sound. The boat's nose --- touched without noise. Mark handed the wild whiskered ferryman the crisp ten dollar note, which he clinched eagerly. "Yer puty well ter do, stranger, conilder yer close." "Didn't y' byar what I said to the guard 'bout business for the army?" "Yas." "Waal, don't say nothin' 'bout it. Th Confederate service pays or it goes." Confederate service pays or it goes. The ferryman cared little whom he pulled if he could make ten dollars in one night, and dipping his oars in the water rowed away from the shore. Mark turned to look about him. His first move was to get under the trees. From there he proceeded inland for a short distance, looking for something "Ah, here it is!" he said presently "Now I know where I am." He had struck the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, which runs close to the river bank for about a mile near where he landed. He knew he was about two miles from the town. "Now, Jakey," he said, "we'll biv- ounce right here. As soon as it is light we must set out. Are you sleepy?" "Am I? Rockon I am!" [TO BE CONTINUED.] From Brazil. Foreigner and the Gee Case. Bahin, Brazil, Aug. 24, 1911. Mr John Mitchell, Jr., Banker, Editor and Publisher The Richmond Plabet, Richmond, Va., U. S. A.: Dear Sir—We have a very striking example of what things are coming to, when we consider the disposition made of the Gee's case. I mean with regards to George Saunders. As we can clearly see that this man, in order probably to save his life, was compelled to tell a lie union himself. I truly hope that from a little all may seg what a great deal would mean. This man was forced to do this thing simply because he had no one to bendlend him; yet -you all were right there. Oh, but the thing is that you have been too apt at learning and practlcing what the great leaders of the race have been want to teach. You have been too willing to trust your last rights into the hands of others, who are after all mere men. By what they are constantly doing proves that they are, very poor specimens at that. WILL BE MADE SLAVES. You can see here without my showing it to you, that if you do not make yourselves active in all means of self-protection, by taking a very active part in making, regulating and enforcing the laws of your people you by the law will again be made slaves. What could you do now if it were decided to confiscate all that the Negroes had in your State? Why, I know. You would take up your cash money and go somewhere else. Yes, if you would be allowed to do so, for if they can make one law they can make two. You all have had gone pretty good examples of this fact recently. Furthermore, you are not only losing your rights as a people, but you are likewise losing the respect of your own people POINTED QUESTIONS. If you can, please tell me what respect can any Negro thereafter fully demand from Saunders? Here is just a slight reaction of your hooker T. Washington's doctrine and an example of the effect of the opinion expressed in that. Du Bole letter. Very wise indeed. Now, as a knight to a greator knight, what is the duty of a knight? And what does knighthood mean in a case like this? A knight to the saviour of his country. They are, according to our prince and master, "the salt of the earth." "And if salt has lost its savor, what is it good for?" Mon cast it out as dung. Now, was this man not keeping the Washington's golden rule? And had he not as well been the biggest disgrace your race over knew? Would he not have been more respected had he made himself a tool for the whites. In knowing your businesses? Yes, they would have called him a good Negro. And the coloured would have thought him a leader because that he could always keep on the good side of the whites. I say again, knights, what right have you to exact an oath from another, if you have none to keep yourselves? If knightfood has so greater duty to perform than to look after, the sick and bury the dead, you or we are doing nothing more than deciving ourselves, and others with our outside shows. DECEIVING OURSELVES. I say this in all one respect to those who rank as such. Otherwise, if a knight cannot, and will not, do any more than any other man, pray tell me why as he better? Think not to say unto yourselves that you have Abraham to your fathers, for God is able from these stones to raise up children unto Abraham! Let us all put more confidence in our universal grand chancellor, Jesus For. He has said: "Behold, what greater love hath a man than this to lay down his life for his friend!" We are keepers of the Lord's garden, dear brethren; and if we care not for the tender plants, we deserve to be treated as slaves, which will be the case if we do not watch onl- Loveth thou me, then feed my ansep- One does himself no greater honor than to succor his distressed neighbor. If I thought that it was sure death from what I could see, and I was told to jump, and I knew that it was His command—yes, I would jump. ERS. Life or anything else is not any good without the favor of God. What is worth to a man if he gains the whole world and lose his own soul? What we need in this world is more of the human rights and less of his money. Life has ever been the price of liberty. You must really demand and take part in governing your country, no matter what it costs—or else you had better get out or you will without doubt' be made slaves. It does not matter what men tell you. I am yours ever for absolute equal rights among all men, under similar conditions. For this I will live or die. ISAAC S. MOORE, Bahia, Brazil. 26 Run dos Capitains. MITCHELL BECOMES CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANT Is One of Fourteen Applicants Whose Certificates Are Issued By the Governor On Board's Recommendation. (Charleston, W. Va., Advocate) As a result of examinations held by the Board of Examiners for Certified Accountants, Governor Glasscock has signed certificates for fourteen who stood the test. Of the successful applicants one is Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia Colorod Institute, who thus becomes the only certified accountant of his race in the United States. This is signal honor, but one which he deserves and is the result of hard work and fitness. Mr. Mitchell is a graduate of the Boston Commercial College and of the International Business University, with the diploma of which goes membership in the International Accountant Society. Before coming to West Virginia he conducted a business college at Richmond, and is now head of the commercial department of the school at institute. Mr. Mitchell has found use for his training as auditor for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias, besides holding like positions in various Orders in the State Toledo, Ohio, Notes Rev. Samuel Nelson, pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church, opened his farewell sermon with prayer Rev. Moore requested everybody to sing the old familiar him entitled "Rock of Ages, Clef For Me," and reminded us that the best of friends must part. Rev. Nelson requested Rev. Moore to read the 16th chapter of Peter, and Mr Moore said in his reading that "A fool hates religion." Rev. Nelson asked former pastor Rev Jones to make a few remarks, and Mr Jones expressed his desire to be connected with the Trinity Baptist Church, and said that he did not favor sprinkling in a Baptist Church but believed in the old-time baptism. He also encouraged everybody to attend the Sunday-school convention. Rev. Jones said "That the Angels didn't believe that the mongers in this church had time to pray, and condemned one of the deacons of the church, who is sixty five years old, and a member of the church, took his text from the 5th Book of Moses, his subject being about an Engle. Rev. Nelson said that if men want to be like this eagle they must fight like an eagle and stand up for the Church of God. Rev. Nelson spoke about how the Baptist Church had progressed since he was pastor. It being only six months ago when he came here from Richmond, Va. Rev. Nelson advised the church members to treat all other ministers a little better than they have been treating him, and said he hoped the church would push forward instead of backwards and would succeed. He concluded his surnum by advising everybody to get right with God. Rev. Nelson also added that he favored more personal workers in the church, and said he thought the church would then have better success. He spoke of Rev. Moore as a model personal worker and asked him to speak a few words to the congregation. Rev. Moore spoke of the downfall of the Trinity Baptists in Toledo, and said there were not enough personal workers in the church, and asked everybody to stand up for Jesus. From Florence, 8. C. 223 Mariboro St., Florence, S. C. October 4, 1911 The farmers have been quite busy trying to get their cotton picked. Early before, dawn the wagons are heard on every side. The town people are carried for miles to the cotton fields and brought back at night. About 4 o'clock they begin to arouse them. You hear them calling, "Get ready! Get ready!" Business has suffered to sbme extent on account of the low price paid for cotton. Very little is being sold in this market. The Atlantic Coast Line is doing a large amount of business here. At train time there is always a rush. Many of our young people are leaving for college this year—some going to other States. The colored graded school opened September 11th, and is being well patronized. It has a fine corps of teachers. Many of the teachers are Mrs. C. E. Godbott and her mother, Mrs. L. W. Gadadeen, recently purchased a fine furnout and are running a hack for the convenience of the public. It is all smile, too. We recently visited Latta, S. C. Master Robert Webster accompanied us. We very much enjoyed the trip. Dr. Strother has opened a drug store on Dargan street, and is being well patronized. The store is crowded on Saturdays. The city churches report encouragingly their success in their meetings this summer. Many new members have been added to the roll. Mr. Webster on the Political Situation. Editor Richmond Planet: Dear Sr.,—May I ask a question through your columns? What about 1912? But let us first pray. O, kind Jesus, we implore thee to bless all mankind and to help us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Deliver us from all that's evil by Thy precious blood, and take us all to dwell with Thee in eternity—Amen! Dear editor, I wish to appeal to you in the interest of every black man in these United States. Please insist on every black man, deaconers, preschools, doctors, lawyers and all mankind that want life and liberty to be careful not to make the mistake they made last year by voting the Democratic ticket. I notice the office-seeking element of my race advised to divide the ballad for what no same man can see. They say we can get recognition if the Negro divides his votes. How silly! We get enough of the certain brand at all times, but to encourage such a division is the height of folly. They argue that times are not like they used to be, hence we should divide the votes. I agree with them; the times are not like they used to be or ought to be, but to divide will make things worse than they are today. Here is one good reason. Every sane man knows that the Democratic party is no friend to the Negro. We all know that. Every plank in the Democratic platform is too rotten for any Negro to attempt to walk on. We all know that the Democrats discourage every attempt that has been offered to give the Negro the rights as other citizens. The Democrats don't deny his part in the game, either. Now, who would think that the smartest preachers in the face would advise a division of the colored votes just because the Republican party violated their onths, violated the law of the Constitution; and last, but not least, the laws of God, when they joined with the Democrats to rob the blacks of their rights. The fact that they did wrong is no reason that the black Republican should do what they know to be wrong. It doesn't make things any better for any one, for we all know that the willful wrong-doer shall be beaten with many strikes. I am aware of the fact that modern times call for different remedies for the modern complaints, but God never intended for man to do what he knows to be wrong in these modern times any more than He did in ancient times. So we have no excuse to vote the Democratic ticket under any dreamstances. Why it is slickening to see one of our leading New York weeklies devoting whole columns of their precious paper discussing the achievements of the Negro Democrats in this and in other parts of the country. I can't see any good in being a Democrat. They only get a few jobs. What do jobs or money amount to when there is no law to protect your life. We all have more money, property and all kinds of material wealth than protections. This same weekly went wild over the appointment of W H. Lewis—for what? The appointment of Mr. Lewis has cost the race more than 60 lives, and has caused the whole race their liberty. There is no one who admires the ability of our great men more than I do, but as I told you last winter, the appointment of one colored man once six months in a position where he can't do any good was to help to the masses, who look up to our great men for help. We have thousands of colored men holding good positions, but does that do the masses any good in the way of protection? All we have is at the merces of the hoodium class of the white race. Well, how are we going to help ourselves? Stick to the right principles, the principles that God respects Whether the white Republicans come back or not, if they don't come it is not our fault. You remember when the Negro first landed in 1619, he baptized himself to the white man's religion, though it was a crude brand of civilization. He adopted it and improved the brand by trusting God, and for the sake of the praying Negro God set the black as well as the white sinners free in '62. And He still blesses the country on account of the praying Negro. He blessed the Negro, to the extent that we are worth more than 600 millions—but because we turned fool, because the white people wont wild over the silly things of the world, that God kept us without the slightest protection of our wealth. You see to it that we turn unto God and live and, don't be a fool any longer. Where are your eyes? Can't you see that justice is destroying the wealth of this country-as well as the lives of the oppressor. Yet he does suffer us to be carried down with our enemies. It's all because we have forgotten the true God. Do you see that there were 11,500 people white people I mean, destroyed last year in different kinds of wrecks and fires. It's all because of their sins. But we are none the less sinners, for we do everything they do, and call it smart; but justice is taking account of the smartness of the sinful world. You take notice, every time they kill one Negro there is a train wreck or fire or flood or something. Just take notice. We are so sadd that is a Nothing or merit is as valuable as a human mind. If a dianond is worth polishing, polishing and maintaining it is the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the school can give it. The best patience is not too good for a promising youth. Who would choose a poor physician to save a few cents when health is a 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 machine? Va. Union University Offers the Best Higher Education to COLORED YOUNG MEN ITS COLLAGE COURSE is broad and complete. Its requirements and standing are as follows: The university college for white youth in the State, according to the rating of the Carnegie Board. ITS THKOLOGIICAL COURSE has for many years been the standard course for colored diploma schools. Hebrew, Greek and all the regular subjects given in Northern Bengalies are one hundred students for the ministry are enrolled in different departments of the school. ITS NINE GRANTE KBUILDINGS. Its first equipped science laboratories, its library of materials, its able faculty and its full courses of study enable Virginia Uton University of colorado young men an education equal to that enjoyed by the favored of other races. Just God, who will get slimmer with a slinner—matters not how rich he is—but he will only defend us according as we be faithful. Why, I notice so much being sale about James K. Varduman going to the United States Sonite Well. I the colored people will vote right talk right and do right. Varduman Tillman, Smith, Graves, Dixon and all the rest of the Negro family element can't hurt us, for the United States Senate is the best place for such men, where they can show how big a fool they are—where they will end their usefulness to the damnable crowd in which they belong. But remember, we must stand up for what we know is right. There are 10,000 of good white people North, West, East, and still more in the South, that will help us to get justice if we will show a disposition to get our rights. A white man only respects you when you stand up like a man for your rights. There are some men telling the black man to surrender. God will bring things around. God refuses to help any man or that will not fight for his rights. Fight for it—if you don't get it, it is not your fault. If you die fighting, die like a man. Any man is a fool to stand up and let another man kill his brother, under the pretext that he (the slayer) is his superior. That's all foolishness. There is no superior race on earth. There are superior and inferior people in all races. The churches have done more to help us to get our rights than has come from any other source. But the preachers that do not vote the Democratic ticket are saying nothing, but trying to get all the money they can to live easy. Since his family and John's family are not burnt up, they seem to be satisfied. But, above all things, Brother Mitchell Jr., to discourage a division of the colored votes to divide will only weaken the already rotten Republican party—then the hell with the Negro. What we need are representatives in city, county, State and the national body. Then, and not until then, can our great men do us any good. You know this as well as I do. What is the use of going wild over the appointment of three or four Negroes in the whole United States in positions that he can't protect his own salary. I see that the President was disappointed at Canada's refusal to mix with us. Whoever thought that Canada was too enough to mix with a people that will not do fair with their own citizens. O, the folly of such a thing May God help you all to do your duty. Go in peace and shn no more. Thanking you for this space, I am your most faithful servant. Morristown, N.J. October 2, 1311 CARE OF BOAR IN SUMMER Succulent Feeds, With Addition of Grain, Will Keep Him In Good Condition. The feed of the boar when not in service may be of a succulent nature, mainly pasture and cut green forage during the summer months. A boar cannot be sustained on this alone, however, and some grain should be allowed to keep him in condition. This should be nitrogenous in character, consisting of mill feeds, such as shorts, middlings and bran, some oilmeal and the leguminous grains, with a little corn. As the breeding season approaches the feed should be increased: so that the boar will be in good condition. While not in service ample exercise should always be insisted upon. Exercise is productive of well developed muscles and general thrift. With these two conditions activity and soundness of reproductive organs will usually follow. During the breeding season it will be possible for the boar to get the same amount of exercise, and accordingly care must be taken that his energies, are not wasted by unnecessary service. Careful feeding will do much to counteract this disadvantage. It must always be remembered that the strains on a boar during service are severe, especially if fifty or sixty sows are served. This requires ample feed, with as much exercise as possible, and, with care in this treatment, will bring about good results. A fully matured boar should not serve more than two sows daily, probably one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and be can serve fifty or sixty a season without difficulty. Comfort For Hogs Means Profit. Success in pork production is largely affected by the attention given to the health and comfort of the brood sow. She should always be housed in a warm, comfortable place. Preferably this will be a cot well supplied with straw and having a door which swings both ways, always closing when the sow passes in or out. This cot may be located at some distance from the feeding place, so that she will get the necessary exercise in running to and fro. Her food should consist of bulky foods, which will keep her in good condition without fattening. As farrowing time approaches the bulk of feed should be cut down, less water should be given and more protein and oily feeds should be fed, so as to keep the sow in a laxative condition. She should be disturbed as little as possible. If she is allowed to get nervous or excited the effect may be seen on the litter in an excitable temperament, which lessens the rapidity of their growth Bamboo Trees. The bamboo tree does not blossom until its thirteenth year, when it produces seed profusely and then dies. 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He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr., President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Richmond. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Tulmile Light off Buckroe 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. Subscribe to The PLANET. FOUR Published every Saturday by JOIN MITCHELL, JR., at XII N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. 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CHANGE OF ADDRESS - In order to change the address of a mail carrier we must be sent the letter as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second mail matter Progress in any people may be gauged by the ability of their leaders The colored folks hereabouts will have no wrangle this year. They had no fair. The automobile favor is at its height and a few colored men have caught it The harmony in nature is emphasized by the lack of harmony in the individual Permanent success can only be attained by the recognition of established right principles Genuine merit and transcendent ability will show itself in a person without a word being spoken The past history of the Negro is a dark background, which makes all the more brilliant the silvery present The colored people of the country are striving to improve their condition and to better their surroundings, but they are having a hard time doing it. The Coastsville, Pennsylvania, lynching and the subsequent inability to convict any of the mob guilty of the crime of burning to death a helpless, unarmed inmate of a hospital, emphasizes the fact that the time to punish the lynchers is when they are engaged in their murderous work. If the officers of the law will arm the intended victims, it may be that this will afford the solution of a very embarrassing problem. One or more funerals of some of the loaders of every mob will do more towards sobering them up and towards causing them to respect the law than all of the Puritanic Gissortations upon the sanctity of the law and indictments by grand juries. The way to stop lynching is to shock down the lynchers while they are engaged in their nofarious practices. As the jurors to punish them seem to be drawn from the members of the mob, their relatives or their sympathizers, convictions are practically impossible. A WRITER'S TRIBUTE. One of the leading writers of our race in this country, if not the best, writes to us as follows. I must thank you also for a rare treat in the current Planet—an exquisite poem by Mr. Lucian B Wattkins, whose fugitive verses I frequently see and read in The Planet. This latest creation of his discovers the fact that he sustains a commerce with the Muses, and your editorial comment on its literary merit, that he was a Boswell who knows poetry, I am clipping his bon mot for the society's scrap-book Mr. Wattkins should begin now to gather the harvest. He has written some good "stuff" and he owes it to the race to put in form for future reference. Our society will be very glad to be entered as the first subscriber to his first published collection of poems. The deer old Planet, "God rest its soul" like old wine, improves with age, and it is doing yeoman service in behalf of the race. It is one Negro journal of views and opinions that doesn't appear to be ashamed of the race or afraid to stand up and speak out for it. We have endeavored to deserve all that this able writer has been kind enough to say. We have felt that during this era of weakness on the part of our leaders, swerving from the paths of rectitude, duty and manhood in order to profit financially thereby that it was necessary to have one outspoken representative of the people which would 'cry aloud and spare not'. We have demonstrated that we can discuss subjects important and that we can accord recognition and space in our columns to those who do not from time to time arrive with our conventions. We realize that truth fails nothing but truth. MR BRYAN AND THE PRESIDENT Hon William J Bryan has elicited President William H Taft to make public the written and verbal recommendations on which he appointed Justice White (Democrat) to the position of Chief Justice over Justice Harlan (Republican), and the recommendations written and verbal on which he appointed the justices whom he placed on the Supreme Bench. President Taft has not accepted the challenge Mr Iryan thus emphasizes the point that President Taft owes his past election and his future political career to rested interests better known as the Trusts more so than he does to the Republican Party and his leaders who are supposed to have placed him in the White House. When the test came he set aside a life long Republican who stood for the law as it is written and elevated to the third Justinian, a life long Democrat who stood for the trusts and for the law as it is not written. The Commoner in commenting upon the subject says "he knows that" Mr Bryan has only reiterated the criticisms contained in the dissenting opinion of Justice Harlan and in the report of the Senate Judiciary Committee filed by Senator Nelson three years ago. Justice Harlan and Senator Nelson pointed out that the amendment written into the law by the Supreme Court practically nullified the criminal clause of the anti-trust law Relieving on the authorities cited by Justice Harlan and Senator Nelson Mr Bryan has asserted, and asserts again that it will be found practically impossible to consult a trust magnate in a criminal court. Does the President believe a criminal conviction possible? If so why does he hesitate to prosecute the officials of the Standard Oil and Tobacco companies? Mr Bryan challenges him to make public the written and verbal recommendations upon which he appointed Justice White to the position of Chief Justice over Justice Harlan and the recommendations, written or verbal, on which he appointed the Justices whom he has placed on the Supreme Court. Did he know how they stood on the trust question, or was it purely accidental that all of his appointees took the trust side of the question? Mr. Bryan and The Commoner give the only common sense view of the situation. Under President Taft, all Republicans are expected to support Mr Taft, regardless of party. Under this same distinguished leader, only himself can vote for Democrats. Mr Bryan does some good talking at times, and this is one of the times that he is doing some good talking. We have received "Gold Coast Native Institution, with thoughts upon a healthy imperial policy for the Gold Coast and Ashanli." The author is Casely Hayford, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, Barrister-Law, and of the Gold Coast Bar. We take it that he is an African. Certainly no one else could display such intimate and far-reaching knowledge of the tribal conditions on the Gold Coast without being connected by the tie of nativity with some of these truly remarkable people. We have read chapter after chapter with steadily increasing interest, and according to this accomplished and patient writer, a system of government exists in heathen Africa closely akin and in some respects the equal of that of the civilized white man. The work is a powerful plea for justice and practical conservatism on the part of Great Britain, better known as England, in doiling with the Africans. Certain it is that we have been astounded at the magnificent tribal organizations herein described, as well as charmed by the language used by this distinguished barrister-at-law in presenting his argument. He impresses us with his earnestness and convinces us of the truth of all that he says. The book is free from all rancor and ill-feeling and breathes a spirit of fairness and conservatism supplemented by facts, which not only give the attention, but wins the reader over to the writer's way of thinking. He pays a ringing tribute to the great influence of the late Queen Victoria in "allaying irritation and preserving peace among her dusky subjects and allies on the Gold Const." Mr Casely Hayford explains why he obtained this information, concluding that it subserved its purpose, and the objectionable Lands Bill' of 1897 was defeated He says Now, the sources of information in regard to the Gold Coast are so meagre, and in parts, so unreliable, that the intelligent reader may justly inquire how I have come by the facts recorded in this book. I shall satisfy that curiosity, and I do the more willingly as I am desirous that the reader should have the opportunity of testing the truths herein stated for himself In the fall of 1897 I was requested professionally by the Executive Committee of the Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society to prepare a brief for the Western Tribes of the Gold Coast Protectorate, dealing with the new line of legislation then introduced by the Colonial Government, with particular reference to fundamental grounds of objection to the famous 'Lands Bill' of 1897. Early in that year the public mind of the country had been deeply agitated by reason of the introduction into the Legislative Council of the said Bill and it was sought to prevent its becoming law by appealing to Her Majesty in Council in the most effective way Mr. Hayford pays Now, I know of no more thankless task under the sun than that of criticism. Why a sensible man should criticize at all it is sometimes difficult to tell. Surely it is far more agreeable to take things as they come than to be called a fool by one's friends by assuming the role of a critic. Yet, what would become of government politics and even religion itself without criticism, fair and fearless? Barrister Casely Hayford in discussing "The Administrative Problem," says Africa I believe, has been compared somewhere by Dr Ryden in his writings to the Spinbok of old, which sitting by the wayside calmly propounded riddles - Trouble and confusion to the nation European or otherwise, which would attempt to read them without her aid. It could only mean disappointment, bitterer than Jordan apples. The anatomy holds good with regard to the attempt on the part of Great Britain successfully to administer the Gold-Coast and Ashanti without the co-operation of the sons of the soil. Indeed, the very difficulties which beset the path of the British Administration can be correctly Indicated sometimes only by the intelligent ones of the country and the method, if not the means, of solution must also be with them. I venture to indicate the problem The able writer continues. It is desirable, at the outset, to clear our minds of certain impressions which recent writers upon the Gold Coast have sought to create. It has been assiduously incubated that the only object of Great Britain in the Gold Coast is trade—legitimate trade. If you please it is then argued that, since trade follows the Flag, and civilization trade, the Aborigines of the Gold Coast cannot but be benefited by the presence of the British upon their soil. This is true to a certain extent; but let me point out in what way it is not wholly true. He then explains as follows: There is a keen pleasure in the sense of possession. My land, my house, as contra-distinguished from your land, your house, will remain till the end of time, worthy objects of ambition. As with the individual man, so with the individual nation. That being so, when you come across professions in the part of writers upon the Gold Coast, and others that Great Britain is on the Gold Coast for trade and no more, do not take them seriously. You may assent to the proposition, if you please, that her only reasonable ground for occupation is the free expansion of her trade. But that is a different matter. Whether you call them spheres of influence, territories, possessions, protectorates or colonies, there is hardly a European power which will not fight for their acquisition, even though there is derived from holding them not one farthing's worth of print, taking the outlay it involves into consideration. I believe Mr. Andrew Garnett has shown conclusively in an able article how comparatively unprofitable for purposes of trade are some of the colonies and protectorates of Great Britain, let alone the so-called possessions in spheres of influence. There is, in some cases, an insane threat for territorial acquisition, cost what it may. Mr. Hayford continues: To state the proposition broadly, it is simply the primitive instinct of acquisitiveness in man which operates in the case of nations, no matter the extent of their boasted civilization. Primitive man in primitive society says: "I will have your land or your hut, if you will give it to me. If not, I will take it. When I have taken it, and you cannot retake it, of course, I will keep it." The civilized nations of the world are today like unto primitive man, else international courts of arbitration would more frequently be sitting in European capital or another, and the weak nations of the earth would have a little peace, if not a little justice. This is a plain statement of the proposition, and gives in a few words the basic principle of the white man's covetousness It originates, they say in primitive man, and is emphasized and assorted by the civilized one. Barrister Hayford says: If you are inclined to deny the foregoing proposition, then I ask you to accept this, that commonly there are two ethical sanctions to the fact of possessions. In the first place, you must come by your possession honestly; and, secondly, you must bear manfully its responsibilities, which two sanctions are generally not observed, if recognized at all, by the great nations of the earth. Since, however, the world is as we know it to be, since the weak must go to the wall, and the fittest survive, irrespective of what is right and wrong, fair or unfair, it is, I confess, but practical philosophy that the weak should side with the strong. This may be as Mr Hayford states it practical philosophy but how does it stand in the realm of moral philosophy, better known as the "kingdom" of ethics? Will this reasoning hold good in working out the great moral questions which have confronted the world for many centuries? Is it not true that the weak by continual agitation and super-human efforts have become strong, that great principles with a few followers and champions have become triumphant with many followers and champions? Mr Hayford enlarges upon his view of the situation, and unintentionally portrays a condition which exists in the United States of America today. It sounds, though the bell of hope the toast of success at the conclusion of a portrayal of conditions in Africa, which are as staggering to the average African patriot no doubt, as it is disheartening to their brothers beyond the sea. He says. From this point of view, always remember, the Aborigines of the Gold Coast triumph in the wave of imperialism, which at present swains the public sentiment of Great Britain. It may overwhelm them, and play havoc with all that is dear to them of law, custom and practice. It may reduce them to the condition of bondmen and captives in their own fair domains it may denationalize them and make them a people of no reputation a by-word and reproach among men but for all these things they would rather have the lilies that they know of than fly to others that they know not of. It is nothing but common sense. What is more, they know what evils there are such that they can cope with and that truth being on their side they will triumph in the end. Could closely Hayford: the barrister at law, have described in more terse and emphatic language the feeling 'the fear, the hope and the belief in the final triumph of eternal justice than is herein set forth in this truly remarkable book which he has sent forth to the public? "For Truth shall conquer at the last, As round and round we run. And ever the Right comes uppermost And ever is justice done" We detect in the language of this African writer a manifest intention "to stoop to conquer" Care should be taken though not to stoop too low, less he find himself too far down to get up again and maintain a manly walking posture, But read the diplomatic plea of this shrewd African, educated under Great Britain's laws. It is the language of the Negroes of this country when they tell of the two hundred and fifty years of slavery, the financial results of which have caused the Southland to "bloom and blossom like a rose." Here is what he says: Now, since we have the British with us, and the object of an enlightened government should be to promote the healthy national development of the governed by conserving, and not destroying the institutions of the people; and slue in the past the tendency has been toward disintegration rather than toward conservatism, we have the right to say to them: "You have disorganized our institutions, you shall help to reorganize them; you have en-riched your homes, with the luxury that the Gold Coast has afforded, you shall help us rebuild our homes; you have made primarily fortunes, you shall help us to live peaceably in our vineyard, and under our own fig trees." It is about time. I hold, that the authorities at "Downing street, confined themselves more to external administration, leaving the internal government of the people to develop upon the natural lines of their own institutional. Will the public opinion of Great Britain insist upon this being done, or will it allow the work of spoilation to proceed? This African, this barrister-at-law, grows bolder as he proceeds. His manhood asserts itself, and from the language of a peon, a vassal, he emerges to speak with the voice of a scholar, a subject of Great Britain, a native of Africa, and to use Paul's language, he proclaims, not "I am a Roman citizen," but that "I am a full-blooded African." Here is what he says: The people of the Gold Coast observe that for nearly a century you have been trying to mould for them their institutions, and that you have most significantly failed. They see in the civilisation you offer much that is fair, but cannot fall to perceive the weak spots and blemishes in the same. They say to you, "We are anxious to take part in the race of nations towards the attainment of higher ideals, if you will only give a chance to work out our own salvation." But no, you will continue to regard them as innocents, and they, the pymies, must march with you, the Colosang, whether it is expedient or not. This is not right or fair. It is not common sense. Therefore, with all earnestness, I humbly urge that forthwith the Aborigines and their protectors should adjust themselves respectively to their proper spheres of work. Let them do this and the problem of a century will be readily solved. This then is Mr. Hayford's plea. It is only the preliminary remarks to a great argument. But enough for this week. This book, cloth bound, contains 415 pages. It is published by Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, of London, England, but may be obtained through J E Bruce Yonacers, N Y, who holds the agency for this country. KILLED BY ICE CREAM TRUCK Sad Happening at the Fair Grounds With his chest crushed in from a collision with a heavy automobile truck belonging to the Purple Ice Cream Corporation, Edward Turner, of 111 West Clay street, was picked up in a dying condition last Wednesday night at 30 o'clock 200 yards north of the grand-stand on the road immediately back of the race-track at the fair grounds. He died a few minutes later. Witnesses of the accident assert that the man was knocked down and run over by the big truck, and that the driver of the machine skipped as soon as he saw what had happened DRIVER ARRESTED Chaujour W M Steward of 206 South Belvidere street, driver of truck 3213 of the Purity Ice Company, was arrested and taken to the Henrico county jail. At the time of the accident he had with him in the truck Burgess Ramos, of 1402 Floyd avenue, and James Allman, of 1429 Beverly street, both of whom have been summoned as witnesses. Further examination of the clothing late night showed that the collar had a laundry mark in red ink "R L. T." leading the county police to the belief that the body might be that of R L. Turner, a carpenter, living at 3211 West Cary street, the address given by the boy as that of his uncle, Eddie Turner. Another brother, R M Turner, is employed as a special policeman during the fair and it was he who identified the body at Billey's undertaking rooms. The truck of the ice cream corporation was engaged in making deliveries at hoops in the fair grounds, and was entitled to go on that portion of the track at that hour. Mr Turner is survived by four brothers and three sisters. No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral. Ordination Council Meets With the By invitation, the churches of Richmond and vicinity met in council Tuesday, October 10th, to examine and take under consideration the advisability of ordaining the Rev. E. W Browne to the work of the ministry. An organization was perfected by electing the Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., moderator, and the Rev Z. D. Lewis, D. D., catechiser. After a lengthy examination, the council unanimously voted to ordain the candidate. Monday night, October 16th, at 3:30 P. M., was set for the "laying on of hands." The ordination sermon will be preached by the Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D. pastor of Second Baptist Church. The charge will be delivered by the Rev. W. H. Stokes, D. D., Ph. D., of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Bible will be delivered by the Rev. A. S. Thomas D. D., and the hand of fellowship extended by the Rev. H. R. Williams, D. D. STRICKEN ON CAR Samuel Oliver, of 220 South Hollydore street, was stricken with apoplexy on a street car last Wednesday night returning from the State fair grounds, and died within a few minutes. Mr. Oliver, was about forty-five years of age, and was in his usual good. health apparently during the day. He left, the fair grounds in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. Mason, between 9:30, and 10 o'clock. While running along the long stretch from the fair grounds, Mr. Oliver was seen to roel forward as though falting. Mr. Mason asked that the car be stopped, but the conductor said his orders were to make no stop until reaching Robinson and Broad streets. At that point Mr. Oliver was lifted from the car, and there were still signs of life. He was put into a passing automobile and hurried to St. Luke's Hospital, where the physicians said that he was already dead. Booker's Great Secret of the Mind. The secret of every human being is the power which they possess to influence and control others. It is important that you should know just what powers for good you possess, and the time that you are ignorant of this power may be considered lost time and opportunity, as "time and tide wait on no man." Learn all you can and understand that knowledge and wisdom is power. Isn't it worth trying for? Be frank, send for the secrets, you will find; them just what you need to cultivate a charming and pleasing personality. You have got to have some way of attracting people. Do not let the present doubt and darkness obscure the light that is waiting to shine on you, and will shine on you all the balance of your life if you take my adyice. We take the Bible as our guide. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, and there are differences of administrations, the same Lord. For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit. To another faith by the same spirit, to another the gifts of healing by the same spirit. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. By studying the secrets which I possess lovers are brought together; broken-hearted wives are relieved of their jealous forebodings, the separated are united and many bad habits cured. 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Everywhere the distinguished educator received overwhelming demonstrations of regard and affection, mingled with exultant pride on the part of the Negro people. Equally cordial was the reception given him by representative white men in various places, notably, the conference with Mayor Callaghan in San Antonio, the presentation free of cost of the City Auditorium, a building seating more than 7,000 people by the mayor of Houston, the more than cordial address by Mayor T. P. Wooldridge of Austin, the address of welcome by City Superintendent J. C. Lattimore at Waco and the perfectly frank, yet friendly address of introduction by Hon. Chessley Adams, former county superintendent of public schools, at Marshall. MANY WITH HIM As on former occasions, Dr. Washington was accompanied by a party of distinguished Nogroos, among them being Emmett J. Scott, his secretary, Booker T. Washington, Jr. Dr. J. A. Kenney, resident physician, A. R Ammons of the Institute Battalion, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; W. T. B. Williams, Agent John E. Slater and Joana Fund Boards, of Hampton, Va. Bishop I. B. Scott, Bishop of Africa, the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. H. T. Kealing, president Western University, Quindoro, Kan., Dr. E C Morris president National Baptist Convention, Helena, Ark. Charles S. Tador, representing the New York Evening Post, New York city; Dr. R. E. Park, magazine writer, Boston, Mass.; Horace D. Shatter, general newspaper correspondent, Hopkinsonville, Ky.; A. P. Betou, official photographer, New Orleans, La. Walter L. Cohen, former register U. S. Land Office, New Orleans, U. S. B. Bell, capitalist, Texas, U. S. Texas, R. A. president Texas Negro Business, Longwood, Waco, R. C Houston, Jr., president Provident Savings Bank, Port Worth, Texas, Dr. E. M. Griggs, president Farmers' Bank and Trust Company, Palestine, Texas, Rev. L. L. Campbell, president General Baptist Conist Convention, Austin, Texas, Dr. M W. Dogan, president Wiley University, Marshall, Texas; Dr. E. L. Blackshear, principal Prairie View State Normal School, Prof. W. C. Rollins, treasurer Prairie View State Normal School and others. SPEAKS AT EL PASO Coming into the State from Arizona points, the first address on Texas soil was made in El Paso, where Dr. Washington had an immense audience, two-thirds of whom were white people. On account of the comparatively small number of colored people in El Paso, the white people of the city made up 85 percent of the expenses necessary to hire the theatre in which Dr. Washington spoke. The welcome and reception given the distinguished educator in San Antonio, where the party mobilized, in a very commendable way set the pace for all other cities, in its cordiality, the Second Baptist Church, counselulay Which the Negro Business League under the leadership of Dr. J. T. Walton was able to make. Fully three thousand people, about one thousand of whom wore white filled every available seat in the Heethoven Hall, crowded in the windows and stood around the walls and ables to hear the famous Tuskegee negro educator speak. PEOPLE CHEERED: The big audience cheered the speaker at almost every utterance, and at his own request, the negro members sang two old-time negro plantation songs, "Lord I'm Climbing Up Jacob's Ladder" and "The Old Time Religion." On behalf of the choir of the Second Baptist Church, Dr. Washington was presented a sofa pillow with the Bolson In "the spirit of the heroes picture of the Alamo on it by J. C. of the Alamo who thought so little of life as to die for a principle. In the afternoon Dr. Washington spoke to the negro school children at the Second Baptist Church, counseling them to make their education worth while in their every-day lives and to take their mothers and fathers in their training with them. "Don't let people discourage you," he said on this occasion. "Do not listen to such talk that will make you despondent or dissatisfied. People will tell you that you are poor, are two are black and members of a desiated race. Take them to foreigners who come here, the direct poverty, paddles bananas on the streets, then rise to owners of small stores, and afterwards to directors in banks. Begin now to say your pennies and help your mothers and fathers in your own support." THE MAYOR'S WELCOME Dr. Washington was met by a reception committee and taken immediately, to the residence of Dr. J. T. Watton, where he was entertained during the day. At 11:35 o'clock he and his party went to the City Hall, where he paid his respects to Mayor Callaghan. "I am pleased to meet you," said the mayor. "Your name is known throughout the world and I have great respect for your great work at. Tuskegee." He was greeted in a manner equally cordial by Alderman Maerum ann. Wickeland. He expressed great satisfaction over the friendly relations existing in San Antonio between the races, adding that when away from here San Antonio negroes were loud in singing the praises of the city. "We are fair to our colored citizens," declared the Mayor, who was invited, by Dr. Walton to attend the meeting at Beethoven Hall. The Mayor then greeted young Booker T. Washington, who was clothed in the uniform of an officer of the Tuskegee Institute battalion. CHILDREN'S WELCOME. The welcome given Dr. Washington at the Douglass High School, where he was entertained at lunchon, was unique and cordial, the luncheon was unique and prepared by the Domestic Science class. The children of the high school arranged in tiers on the steps and singing "Our Leader" as he approached the building. Just before being seated, they again sang, "We Welcome You" a song especially written for the occasion by Principal S. J. Sutton of the high school. All the negro school children of all the schools are addressed by Dr. Washington for two short minutes at Second Baptist Church, many of the parents crowding into the church to hear him. Some 2,600 people in all were crowded into the building. Emmett J. Scott was none the less welcome. B. being formerly a Texas boy, who went to Tuskegee fourteen years ago, he was -busy all day receiving the congratulations of his former friends. "That boy was raised up right under me," said one man who stopped a carriage to shake his hands. His success and rise has been phenomenal, except that it is the result of painstaking care in the prosecution of his arduous duties as secretary to the Tuskegee educator. None the less responsible is his work as corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business League, which is the most forceful and fruitful organization in the negro race. His one great distinction came by reason of his appointment by President Taft as one of the members of the recent American Commission to Liberia, through whose investigations and subsequent recommendations much valuable territory has been saved to the negro republic. MANY WHITE PEOPLE THERE. A large number of white people were in the audience, and to them as well as to the negroes did Dr. Washington address sane and safe counsel with reference to the color question in the room. His address was filled with sparkling gems of olence and many pungent witticisms and at all times he was able to hold his audience by some remarkable anecdote aptly told. Dr. Wetland was presided over by Dr. J. T. Wetland a local negro physician, who delivered an address of welcome. Dr. Walton paid a high tribute to Dr. Washington, and said in part: "This great race question must be solved from within, where the white man and the black man live side by side. The negro race, shot like a catapult into a civilization all new, and for which it was all too little prepared has gong for half a century, misguided, buffeted about by designing politicians and over ambitious would-be negro leaders, until Booker T. Washington arose to point the right way. Who is it among us of clear mind, unprojudiced heart and right habits will say that Booker T. Washington is not right in counseling his people in the way of industry, enlightenment and morality, and in soliciting the aid and sympathy of the white man in his uplift movement? Declaring that few living Americans had made such an impression upon public opinion, removed so many prejudices and awakened-greater helpfulness in relation to the solution of a problem, Dr. W. M. Drake introduced Dr. Washington to the audience, who rose to speak amongst defenancing applause. He paid a high price to the Southern white man, who indeed, counseled and encouraged the black people in their efforts to make him by name several prominent white citizens of San Antonio, among them George W. Brackonridge, Albert Steves and John T. Wilson. WRECK DELAYS THEM. A wreck on the Southern Pacific made the train seven hours late reaching Houston and much of the program mapped out by the local committee had to be curtailed. Here Emmett J. Scott received another ovation, this being his home place, and the point from which he joined Dr. Washington fourteen years ago to become his secretary. Fully 2,000 white and colored people crowded to the station and lined the sidewalks on the way from the South Pacific station to the home of the Organization, to which place Dr. Washington immediately repaired and made a short march to Iuan informal way he told the nongro business men to cultivate friendly relations with the white business men, and congratulated them upon the remarkable showing made. From the office of the Orgen company, Dr. Washington and his party drove immediately to Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, where the colored school children had assembled to hear him. City Superintendent P. W. Horn and County Superintendent Pugh had made arrangements whereby the entire force of colored teachers and students could hear the distinguished negro educator. Speaking for about ten minutes, Dr. Washington gave a whole lot of common sense advice to the children, ex-couching his remarks in such language as could be easily understood by the smallest child in the big assemblage. been planned was abandoned owing to the lateness of the hour, and the Washington party was conducted to the home of J. B. Bell, 2121 German street, where dinner was served the party. A feature of the dinner was disclosed in the fact that it had been prepared entirely by the female students of the Langston school in the domestic science department. Besides the men of the immediate party, there were present at the reception Y. U. Jones, Thompson, Texas; C. N. Love, editor of the Texas Freeman; Rev. G. A. Das Landes, Prof. David Abner, R. W. Walker, Rev. F. A. Light, Prof. F. W. Gross, George W. Jenkins, J. Leon Jones and Campbell A. Gilmore. From the residence of J. B. Bell the party was entertained by the trustees of the Carnegie library at the residence of Dr. J. B. Covington. The reception was largely a tribute to Dr. Washington and his secretary, Emmett J. Scott, who more than any other individuals, were responsible for securing the donation of a library for the colored people of Houston. The trustees entertaining the party were E. O. Smith, John Adkins, J. B. Bell, W. E. Miller, L. J. Splvey, D. J. Johnson, Andrew Parr, Richard Lockett and Nat Q. Henderson. CROWDS GREET HIM As early as 6 o'clock in the evening, before the lights were lit in the big auditorium, colored people began to file in and take possession of the most desirable seats. By the time that the place was lit up a large portion of the seats were already taken long before the opening of the meeting, there were available seat was occupied and there were a large number standing. When Dr. Washington stepped on the platform he received an ovation. To one side of the platform were a number of Tuskogee alumni, and they greeted their former chief with the college yell. Dr. Washington acknowledged both gracefully and took his place on the platform. With him on the platform were a number of leading negro professional men and the following white men; L. L. Pugh, county superintendent of schools; Adolph Boldt, Rev Peter Gray Sears Rev. Stephen F. Power, Rev. G. W. Strong, Prof. J. A. Brown, Judge Lock Myrdan, Judge T. W. Ford, Lewis R Bryan-and G. Van Amemgen. One very interesting and pleasing feature of the Houston engagement was the address of Emmett J. Scott, who was repeatedly called upon by the people for a speech. With evident embarrassment, born of his well known modest and retiring disposition, he in a few short words accepted the greetings from his fellow-townmen, saying: A TEXANS TRIBUTE "It is the commonplace, the tribute the quite bromide thing to say that I am glad to be here tonight with Dr. Washington in this matchless city, the place of my birth, the queen city of the Lone Star State. The years have not flown too fast to tull my memory of the greatness of Texas, nor have the duties and responsibilities of the advancing years serviced, nor forget the radiant glory of the golden crown which on circles her imperial brow. No matter where I find myself, I am first of all a Texan! "These minutes, however, are too precious to be used except for the purpose which has brought you here; I must use but few of them. We have made educational pilgrimages similar to this one through the States of Oklahoma, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia. I have constantly said to Dr. Washington. "Walt until we get to Texas; wait until you have seen something of the progress of the Negroes of Texas, and of the more than friendly relations that here exist between - the races" I have said to him over and over again that in State the Negro and the whites were literally seized upon the pregnant mothers of his epok-making Atlanta addresses and are working out the destiny of both races side by side, "separate as the fingers as he has phrased it, in all matters purely social and yet one as the hand in all matters that concern the moral and material well being of this, our common section. NO RACE: PROBLEM "In Texas we practically have no race problem, for there can be no problem in any section where blacks and whites alike acknowledge and appreciate the fact that races and men not only have dulles toward each other, but responsibilities as well. "And then quite naturally I have wanted you to know him better. I have wanted my old friends and neighbors to have full opportunity to see face to face the man whose life has been spent for a race, and whose work has everywhere won the unstinted plaudits of the fair minded and the doof. Do you recall those oft quoted words from Emerson: 'If a man write a better-book, or preach a better sermon, or make a better basket than his neighbor, the' he build his house in a wilderness, yet will the world make a beaten track to his doof.' This truth has been proven in his own great unselfish life—it is the philosophy which, underlies all of his teachings and all of his work; for to every Negro the message he brings is that if a man make a better basket than his neighbor, make his life permanently useful, he will not go unrecognised or long be denied those opportunities which are withheld from no man anxious and willing to prove himself worthy of good citizenship. And that is why I am glad to be here tonight, why I am glad that Dr. Washington is here, that you may hear him deliver his own message of hood and good choer." AN ORIGINAL SONG. Singling an original song dedicated to Booker, T. Washington, eight hundred negro students of the Prairie View Normal and Industrial Institute trained up in two rows, gave the famous negro educator a royal welcome here this morning, when he and his party approached the institute grounds. "The regard and affection with which Booker T. Washington is held by the young people of the county, many of whom have been inspired by his teachings and writings, was fully shown in the remarkable demonstration. "What's the matter with Washington," they sang, "if we are our leader loved and true, he, large of heart and broad of view. Then Rah, Rah, Rah, for Booker T.; he's the man for me." College yells, one for Prairie View and the other for Tuskegee, came in rapid succession, while prominent individuals making up the party were singled out for the attention of the students, those from Texas claiming the larger portion of their acclaim. The venerable Bishop I. B. Scott, the only negro bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, received a remarkable tribute, as did also R. L. Smith, the negro farmer's friend in Texas. Emmett J. Scott. Dr. Washington's secretary, here as at Houston, received a remarkable ovation and was repeatedly called upon for a speech. As soon as the party could break away from the frenzied young people, they were taken to the home of the members of the faculty, and later to luncheon at the mess hall A ROUND OF INSPECTION The entire party, led by Principal Blackshield and Dr. Booker T. Washington, weft on a found of inspection of the industrial divisions Here he spoke to about 5,000 farmers of both races. The address at Temple was made at midday Saturday, when hundreds of country folk, white and black, were in town for their week-end shopping and other business errands. The audience was composed of more white than colored, the speaking taking place in the open air on the public square. That night at Austin the following night, Dr. Washington spoke in Wooldridge Park in a natural amphitheatre formed by the rise of the hills on each side of the speaker's stand. Fully five thousand people heard his address here. He was welcomed to the city by Mayor Wooldridge, in whose honor the park had been named, and who said in the course of his remarks. "I have very great pleasure in presenting to you a really great colored man, distinguished in learning and ability, distinguished in the great service which he has rendered our common country, and the great services which he has rendered both races in the South in making them known to each other. "To the white people here, I wish to say that I do not bestow too much praise in saying that his life is consecrated to making his race better understood by the white people and to bringing about more harmonious relations between the races. To my colored friends, I simply speak of him as your great leader, worthy of respect, worthy of your love, and worthy of your admiration. "Dr. Washington, I would say to you, as speaking from Texas, the greatest democratic State in the United States that our people are a liberal-minded people, they want to see your race prosper, they want to see them become more contented and happy." COLORED PEOPLE LAW- ABIDING 'As to the colored people, I have known them ever since my early manhood, and I am glad to bear testimony to their good character and their worth. I am glad to say that for the most part, the colored people around here are a law-abiding and self-respecting class of citizens. They are not by any means a burden upon their-white, friends and neighbors. "It is a pleasure to welcome Dr. Washington here, largely because of his personal worth, and by reason of the great race which he represents, I have heard about him. I have talked about and I have road from him in many of the magazines. He is not only a man of learning and ability, but a man who is peculiarly devoted to the welfare of his race and to bringing about harmony and peace between the races in their contact here in the South. That is the one supreme passion of his life. He believes in teaching his people the truth that the world is a industry, industry and dependableness, and, am glad to say that I know they are beginning to be vory prevalent. He stands for the best interest of his race, and we are glad to have him here because he stands for those principles that make him worthy of the respect and admiration of white and black alike. A LARGE CONSTITUENCY "He represents a constituency considerable in numbers, considerable in wealth. There are about 12,000,000 negroes in the United States, fully one tenth of the entire population. In our own community fully one-third of the population is colored. This number of colored people have property, of which the assessed value will equal $1,000,000." "I welcome him here because of his personal worth, his service to his race, and I also, welcome him here because of that vast constituency of which he is pre-eminently representative." Here at Austin the whole party went through a round of festivities. having breakfast at the St. John Orphanage, dinner at Sam Houston College and luncheon at Tillotson College. At all places where there were institutions of learning, Dr. Washington was pressed into service for short addresses to the students. A NOISY WELCOME. Waco, the home of R. 4. Smith, president of the Texas Negro Business League, gave the party the noliest welcome and the biggest relative crowd all the station that had been encountered up to this point. Many of the train arrived several hours before the train arrived several hours before the Young people, old people, people of all ages and conditions shouting themselves hoarse when Dr. Washington came into view. Every man, woman and child had an American flag which was being waved high in the air, while the band played "Dixie." One enthusiastic man, evidently returning from his work, pressed a new, shining silver dollar into Dr. Washington's hand. With difficulty the party accompanying Dr. Washington wended its way to the waiting carriages. A woman grasped his hand, shouting "Praise the Lord!" while still another man, perfectly contented that he had seen his leader, went off declaring "Now I see him and shuk his ban!" he satisfied." The students of Central Texas and Paul Quinn colleges gave him a joyous reception, and at night in the baseball park, while he was being introduced by city superintendent of schools, the Prof. F. C. Lattimore, the entire student body, male and female of Baylor University, a well known Southern College for white youth took seats on the grand stand. Prof Lattimore in his introduction surplured Dr Washington by giving a detailed account of the sights he witnessed and the impressions made upon him in a recent trip to Tuskegee Institute. Dr Washington was warmly greeted by Dr S. P. Brooks, president of Baylor University, Prof. Lattimore, Samuel Sanger, a Texas merchant prince, and other well-known white men of Waco BELATED TRANS. A debated train greatly inconvenienced the waiting throng at Fort Worth, which in many respects is one of the most important towns from a Negro standpoint in the State White the party was scheduled to reach Fort Worth in the afternoon and Dr. Washington was to have spoken at 3 o'clock, the audience of about 5,000 persons, a large portion of which were kept their "seats in the theatre until 9 o'clock when the train finally reached the city. The reception by reason of the tardiness of the party, was none the less vigorous, and was in many respects a great tribute to the remarkable esteem in which R C Houston, the Fort Worth leader, is held by his fellow townsmen. Despite this handle and the fact that the Fort Worth engagement was on Sunday night, all the prominent Negro business houses were open for the inspection of the party, the most interesting features in Negro life in Fort Worth being the Masonie Temple, erected at a cost of $50,000 and the Negro High School, which is considered the best in the South, and the large number of business establishments of various kinds conducted by the colored people. A large number of people heard Dr Washington at the State Fair grounds in Dallas on Monday. A SMALL TOWN'S GREETING In the matter of enthusiasm and spectacular display, the small town of Marshall outdid itself in the demonstration given Dr. Washington. The local Negro Business League had chargo of the arrangements and with more than ordinary acumen, dispatched Dr W M. Bogan to accompany the party within a few days of Dallas. Whatever Dr Bogan saw at other places, he was able thereby to have Marshall surpass all other places. A parade, more than mile in length, in which the various industrial divisions from Wiley University and Bishop College and the Central High School were represented on tastefully decorated floats, girls from sewing classes, were at work on the floats from the printing divisions, the domestic science departments, and so in all departments, emphasizing more than any other one thing that the Wizard's doctrine of industrial education had taken root firmly in Texas. Small boys from the wood working departments dressed in overalls, carrying their tools mule driven teams drawing street cleaning and street building apparatus, followed, while the parade was headed by the Wiley University brass band and the local Business League. As at other points visited the people who attended the meeting seemed to be of the very best element, well dressed, well behaved. The singing by the Wiley University Globe Club was a highlight of the occasion. Dr. Washington was in trodued by Hon. Cheesley Adams, former county superintendent of public schools, who paid a high tribute to Dr. Washington and the Negroes of Harrison county. In the course of his romarka Mr. Adams said: A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION "You have made a remarkable demonstration. In honor of the distinguished citizen who is your guest, and I am glad to welcome him to our city in the name of every citizen, white and black, whose love for humanity has been tested, whose broadminded conceptions have been proven to have been the best for the educational moral and spiritual uplift of the people. "I know of no great public leader whose advice to his people has been more helpful, more hopeful, and of greater influence than that of Dr. Booker T. Washington. I present him to you as one of the greatest men and most forceful educators of the day, and the one great leader of his people. The policies advocated by him, in their effectiveness mark him not only as a great teacher, 'but as a statesman. I present him as the greatest living character the negro race has yet produced. in this or any other clime. I would to God that every Negro in East Texas stood within reach of his voice and listened while he responded to them out of Should Be in Every Negro Home. If Encourages Race Pride and Inspires the Colored Youth. Send 25 Cents for One and $1.00 for (6) Six. Send $2.00 for One Dozen. It is a Great Opportunity for All. Send all Stamps, Post Office Money Order and Registered Letters to Car Load Lots of Beautiful Fall Furniture Now coming in. You are cordially invited to write us for free partic- ulars, photographs, descriptions, etc. You can save money And Offer the Wide Range to Choose From. Sydnor & Hundley, Inc., 709-711-713 E. Broad St., RICHMOND, VA. his righteous judgment "In presenting you to Harrison county, I present to you the best element of Negroes in the world. They are intelligent, peaceful and law-abiding, largely because of the influence of these two schools Harrison county rightfully claims the best Negro citizenship in the State of Texas. "I have always believed that the education of the Negro would make him a better citizen. The South has been for a long time burdened by a great mass of brute ignorance, make a great mistake when it continually carry a pistol to intimidate and dominate your neighbor." HORACE D. SLATTER. Editor Clifford's Opinion. (Martinsburg, W. Va. Pioneer) The Richmond Times-Dispatch philosophy relative to Booker T. Washington chartering a Pullman car to ride through Texas, rather than to be Jim crowed, is very failacious. Its position is that Mr Washington is above his own people, and that such a position is wrong from the fact that he should stay with them Mr Washington is a great Negro mixer and would not have done that had not the Times section of country classed his people as stock It is one of the best things Mr Washington ever did—even if he did urge a social separation of white and colored people in that hurtful and hateful Atlanta, Ga., speech. Such papers as the Times are the worst foes the race has to deal with. It reminds us very much of Tillman and the late Senator Morgan of Alabama. The former was an outspoken foe for money and popularity, while the latter was a secret foe—most highly educated. He in substance told Tillman that he was hurting the South's cause and helping the Negroes, that he should put them on their heads till he got them his way, and then pour vitilium on them, and that is the Times' plans. The Times' gospel is in line of the misuse and abuse of the gospel of Jesus Christ proached from thousands of Southern pulpits before the war that God made black men and women to be white people servants. All children are born unloved brothers and sisters and would have remained so had it not been or the preaching and teaching of such a gospel. That gospel brought on a bloody war, and the doctrine the Times is preaching will bring on another. Our advice to the Times is to preach the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and to do that is to fail to death all the black laws in this our God-blessed country. Brother John Mitchell Jr., don't be deceived in the belief that the Times is fair, and our best friend, for the editor of the Timps, and all sense of pride of the South who now that millions of white babies have wooed and cooed on and tugged at black women's breasts, and that they were then, and are now, their best friends, and that they are spitting in the face of a Just God, who is our abiding friend, when they preach such a devilish gospel. NELSON BAPLY BEATES. Boston. October 3 — Young Saylor of Indianapolis, gave Battling Nelson, former lightweight champion of the world, one of the worst defeats of his life in twelve rounds of interesting boxing at the Armory Athletic Association last night. Nelson met a man who was his superior at his own game of fighting. In the first three rounds the men were in a constant clench, with both working body punches to good effect. Nelson felt that he was broken apart from the clinches, and Saylor mat every rush of the Battler with swift left and right swings. Nelson landed few clean punches. Saylor had the best of over round, and was given the decision. STOPS THE BATTLER'S BUTTING. In one of the early sessions the Battler started to use his head like a billy goat. Saylor came back at him with some butting of his own, and showed the Battler a new one. Saylor stepped in quickly, and putting the heel of his glove under the Battler's chin, he nearly sent Nelson's head off his shoulders After that everything was along peaceful limbs, neither, boxer attempting to violate the rules' A number of times it looked as if the Battler would be put down, as Saylor sept rights and lefts to face and jaw in rapid succession, and then generally got away without any return In every round Saylor kept piling up his points, but it was not until the last few rounds that he let himself out. Then he gave an exhibition of fast and clever boxing, and had Nelson in a quandary. Nelson was trying hard all the time Greenville, S. C., Oct 10 — A telephone message reaching here at midnight from Honea Path states that Willis Jackson, a negro, who was accused of assaulting a 11-year-old girl at that place, was taken from a sheriff's posse near here this evening and hanged to a telegraph pole his body was riddled with bullets. The negro was being taken to Spartanburg in an automobile to escape ten autos full of men who were bent on lynching the man. The negro was rushed from Anderson by officers after his attack on the little girl. They beat the mob into this town by ten minutes, transferred their prisoner to another machine, and departed. We have hundreds of bundles of old papers. They be be be be be to center per bundle—142 to the bundle. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. 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PRES RTEEEEROEE RENT RET Bee rac clita cee ee Oec eee rene OCOORe een eOeee SODA TOR OUOOO DES EOS SORES Cee Neer e tetra eee ce eentee ne ee hc ceescn ences cee neeeneocesael EMEA ERASE EERE ER TTR RERA MERTEN ER ERDH EER TERE ERIRER EERE ER EL ERE ARRAS EHH RES GAGE RED AEGRRERRARE OTRREERRESARARRERER SAAS AEARAR ERE RORAE TRS SSR ERE ADMIRAL SCHLEY DIES SUDDENLY Ruptured Blood Vessel in Brain Causes Death in Hew York, AALS ON THE. SIDEWALK Noted Sea Fighter and Hero of San- trago Passes Away Before Medical Ald Can Reach Him. Rear Admired Winflel) Bott Setvey retired, fell in Ferts fourth street, Just weat of Fifth avenue, New York, jnd died very seon alter in the arme of Herman Snyder, a teacher of phystea’ culture A ruptuted blood vessel in the brain Bad cauved him to pitch farward tn forehead striking the curh | A fra: tured shull undoubtedly bastened ht- death, the doctord sald He died before ahedical ald could roach im, Admiral Schley bad been out ol town over Sunday and on his returs had gone to the New York Yacht clut on West Forty-fourth street After 1 abort stay at the club Admiral Srhley Jeft tho ctutt house and started t walk along Forty-fuurth street toward Fifth avenue, when be was taken sud denly MA hurry call waa sent for physicians avd, an ambulance, but bo fore aid could ‘reach him the admiral was dead ‘As Admiral Schley walkod along the atroot a chauffour of n taxicab, whe stood alongalde “the curb, bowod to hit and then turned to a follow chaut: feur and remarked how Wall the ad: miral was lvoking Near the Borkoley theater Admiral Schley turned across tho street, and a8 he steypod up on tho curb staggered and fell. Several persons rushed to his ald, and trafe pollcomen sent {n & hurry call for phyaiclans and an ambulance. When tho ambulance arrived physt. cians sald that Admiral Schloy was dond, Tho body was placod in tho am: bulanco and driven away. ot Admiral Winfleld Scott Schley was por ia 1839 of ono of the bost Mary: jand families, He rocolved his appoint sment ag naval cadet in 1856, and was wgraduatod from Anndpolls with honor. Ho fought on board the frigate Poto. mad all during the tampalgn under ‘Grknt which "fed to the capture of Port Hudson, Schley wad mado Houtenant ‘commander In 1862, and was placed in copithand of. tbo steam guntoat Wa toreo, Ho was at varlous times, sta. tloned{a the Pacific, Asfatio and South Atlantic’ waters, and also taught, at the naval atademy..He was raised’ to the,rank:of commander June 10, 1874, ‘and Ip 1877-and 1878'was' id command DE the third rate’ Raabe! From: 1880 to FPR ee ay Be Re eae er ee Te ke ae fe commander at the es PEM Tat fe ened the saeviy oe a the mntertinace Grecles cxpedtitter that Selev'e name became kpews thrometout tar civilized weetl When He Tate! States government gat read) are tof expeditt n te sed nartts Schley votunteeted boa se vice He seE ont from New York am April tse, and Wath him wet the hopes of won Hon He Tal fice slaps the flagahy Then Oe Ve and the Tear Fo his servives in reseutme Grveles An! mix =. cvera Sthiey was award CP u geld ote and at vate of thank: by the Marstan ' legtelatare and a get medal teem the MassucLusetts: Hu tmane se Wty Fee 1984 40 1489 Hohtiy ve edit! of {he bureau of equipment and fron ISM to Tye2 he Was in ¢manan to the Halt mere Following thar he we A member of te board ob tuspe He and survey and chatrman of the lisht house board When the war with Spain tren Schley was put in command of the - Aying Squadron, and te lim: way popilarle Riven the credit of wrontns the battle of Santlagn, when Cervera t Meet Was destroved ia The publicattn fa history of the war ty Edgar Stanton Maclay pre ctpitated an oMetal inquiry inte the ariion at Santiagy Marlay a veroty denounced Schley x conduct during and after the battle An oficint court of Inquiry heard testimony presented to uphold the rival aime of Schley and Admiral WoT Sampson Taft Dofends Bio Business. President Tatt faced the middle west at Waterloo, fa, with an appeal to cheek’ unjust prejudice axatnst the business enterprises of the country The president advocated progrens 10 tho movement te prevent the aluses of monupoly and undue advantage, but declared that the thne had come to call a halt to hoatitity to business and to more prosperity or success He as sorted that generally the Inws now enacted wore suMfctent to assure tho correction of those ovlig and counscled only bolpful logistation tor the future At the same time he emphasized his fietermination to enforce thoso laws ‘The attorney géneral, he said, wan act: fog under hls ordars In the pfosocu- tion of the trusts and had no discro- tlon whatovor to stay the hand of tho governmont, ond 89 long n8 such com. ‘binations existed they would be prose. ‘cuted under thy law. | He pointed out that the evils which the Interstate commeree In¥ and the antitrust law had boen adopted to cor. rect wore tn process of being’ reme legs that blind anger agninat tho tar it because It Was oxcewalve was dau- gorous; that the public Jatoreat do- manded the adoption af a scfentific currency eystom ‘in which the mor- chants of tho country could’ have. con Adencs, and declared that “thore was how enough restrictive Jogislation to vectirs the’ prevention of abusos by monopoly and that the people of tho codntry ‘should work together In an etfort-to restore busingss tranquility. ‘The presitent alackel the radical political declamations, uf the proxces Bive politicians ef (he mbidle west, faxerting that specehes made arouse prejudi © in the peaple of one For tion of the country against the buw- {ncaa of another were made by the Diindext of men He said that the time had some for the prople of the coun try to realize the folly nnd danger pt Jegisintion engendered vy sectional prejudice and declared that the peo plo whould nut allow any Ket of men, Betuated by thelr polltical ambitions, to mislead them Into hostility against the prosperily of other se tions uf the country, for (his woul! certatnty work Injury to all the nation | Stabe Father to Save Mother. Charles Sune mn Mts eheht yeara of fare fx In the Pasaavant hospltal tn Pittaburg, Pa in a very criti nl condt ton from n° stab wounl unter the heart, alleged to Qave been Infiieted by his daughter Mav sixteen yeara old The girl wae arrested ) Tt tk alleged that SUnsen semrned to Ws heme ant began abusing hie wife and the girl, who xaw blood rin ning fram hee mothers larerated kealp, plched up a butcher knife and stabbed her futher tn defense of her mother The polten xay that when thes ques: Maned Stinson In the hospital he told them that he wag at (nult- and exon: érated lita daughter from blame for bis Injury. Mob Lynches White Man. Breaking Into the county Jail at ‘Dumas, Atk, and overpowering the oMcern In charge, & mob of 100 mor took Charles Malpans. Sr, a white man, toa water tank and lynehod him. The lynching followed a battle at the home of Malpans, In whteh WD Preston, sheriff, Barnoy Stel, deputy sheriff, and two sons of Malpass wore Killed and Malpass wounded OMcors havo gone to tbe Malpass home to ar: rest the sons. Tho wife of Charles Binipara, Br, a colored woman, and Malpans’ younger son escaped during the fighting Prepare to Bury Beattie, Tt has just becomo known that tho cemotorion cotimittes of the Rich- mond, Va., elty council, 10 a socrot sosalon a weok ago, took a special ac- tfon to permit the family of Honry C. Boattle, Jr, to bury bis body In tho Mnury cemotory in Richmond If ho !s electrocuted on Nov, 24 for the mutder of his wife. 7 ‘Tho Deattie famtly ves In*South Richmond, but thetr burial plot ts tn the Richmond comotory, and thore fe a city ordinance which prohtbitd tho burial of non-realdtnt thore, : : _—_—_— * Soldiers Killed In Exploalon, Corporal Rowland Qeverly atid Pri vato Howard W. Gam, of Batery A, Fieldt. Artillery, of Cleveland, were Killed at the government manouver camp at Sparta, Wis, by.an explosion of shrapndl. Privates John Cutchton and Karl A. Snydor, of: the Cleveland battery, were sertously Injured in the ‘explosion; 7” ww REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY. | Noted Naval Officer Who Dropped | Dead In New York. BQ? (xe, ES a Kon) me Bes, NA Se. Te sogil ah WA ae FN 2 EN ae Ae 2 Be ite Dy . oS ‘ SU ott, French Warship Blown to ss A Uun solps company Waa Grawn up on tho deck of the battleship Suf fron, In the. harbor at Toulon, Franco to answer the roll callqof tho cres of tho {ll fatod Liberte, which was do: atroyed by oxplosion nud fire twenty: four hours carlior An official statemont giving tho cas: unitios In the uss of tho Liberte places tho dead at 233 and the Injured at 88, with one man missing. ‘Tho preliminary oxplosions gave tho men warning and many of them threw themsolves into the sea and wero picked up by small boats aud taken to the other ships of tho squadron or ashore, * Soverai small boats which tind ono from the other warships to tho ald of the Liberte sank when tho final ox plosion occurred. ‘Twenty men’ ware killed and fifty Injured on board the Domoeratte and thore woro fatalities on tho Verite and Republique. ‘Tho Republique was damaged by 2 flying plece of ,the Liberto’s armor and was obliged to dock taatity. _ ‘The force of the oxplosion was s0 great, that hugo fissurcs wore.oponol in“ tho gtoel armor and framework of tho warsbip, A pleco of atmorplate was hurled agalost tho ctulaer Re. publique with great force, damaging bor plates and causing hor to dock burriodly:« = Scores of bodies wore buried high {nto the-alr, with hugo fragments of framowork, armior, burating shells and the saffobating smoke from tho or ploded magasidos, . Hedgers’ Aeroplane Faille In Indiana, . Caught-In n-auddert gust of wind, 0, P. Rodgers’: neroplane dived-to: eartti fost-aftorhé,had startel, from Hunt. fogton, Ind; toward. Chicago. ‘The me chine was.wrecked und Rodgets. paln- filtv-orusck’ °°’. 7 *« OUST M’CABE IN PURE: FOOD FIGHT Solicitor Retired Because He Antagonized Wiley. In a suddvn succession of orders, an Initial move im the expected rour: ganization of the department of ag: ricuituro at Washington, Sdlicitor Gcorgo P_ McCabe wax retired from the pure food and drug board; Asao- cinto Chemist FL. Dunlap, closely {entifed with McCabe, was allowed a leave of absenco until the resiaentg return, and Chemixt Harvey W. WIiGy wns left apparently In suprome com: ninod Af the board. Dr. R. B, Doolittle, of Now York, was temporarlly appoint: ed to the board to succeed McCabe. These changes were announced by Secretary Wilson, following a confer. once with Dr. Wiley, who bine been on along vacation They were deemed In- evitable In view of the official and personal antaxunism aired beforo a congressional committoo the past sum- mer and Dr Wiley's oxonoration by President Taft, after Attorney General Wickersham, witb.ytevs allgned with thone of Secretary Wilson and Bolics- tor "McCabe, had recommended. Dr. Wiley"s removal from office as head of the chomintry bureau becauno of & technical {yregularity “in appointive methods, the responsibility for whicl ho denied. : ‘The pure food and drug bonrd ts the agency which pisses upon many Important cancs arising under tho on: forcement of the pure food Jaw. Dr. Wiley declared that he was usually outvoted and made a number of son- sational statements in tho investiga. tion of tho controversy. Smarting un- der the froquent, overruling of his views, wherein ho bold food products delotertous to hoalth, be told a con: gressions! committee that he regarded his associate, Dr. Dunlap, as his ad. perlor officer. - Molten Metal Sears Eight. Elght men wero sorlously, probably fatally, burned when a ladle of hot metal exploded at the Edgar Thomp- ton Bteol works at Pittsburg, Pa, _ - The Malne Gives Up Dead. * Le geal ae a et oe ee Ten mote boding have beon rocov- ered from the. wreck of the battloshtp Malno {n:Hayana harbor, > Bix bodies were taken from tho en: gine room and four from the quarte of:the, petty, amcers, Other-bohew hay, deen: sighted, ee! .: Théro hed boon a temporsry chock ‘In the work, ot clearing away the:mud from about’ the: wreck, owing ’to..tha fact? thats waiter ‘which bad -béen ‘al, ‘Towed’ to! atiter the eotferdam .dc-nb, ti Uqulty the “mud bes broken’ thidagh thd temporary bulkhead suet forward of the midahip section, constructed for the purpase of enabling workmen to descend and explore the laterlor of the undestroyed part of the ship ; Man, Wife and Child Murdered. William-E Dawson, his wife and thelr one daughter wake found. dead In thelr beds et Monmouth, U1, the skulla of each crushed in, Dawson was tho carstaker of the First Presbyterian church, and when he failed to open ‘the building for ervices four men ‘went to bis home and fdind tho dead ‘bodies Thero were no ovidences of a atruggle and the myrderer fs belleved to have killed car: with o alogla blow, Tho police have -c clew. « Bear Season Opens, Tho hear season tn +Pennsstvanta has opened officially, and tho shooting of Brain wilt be tegal' until Jan, 1. Un- der the new-state Inw no traps may be usod Tho senson for wooucock is nfo open and will run until Dee. 1. Not moro than ten may be shot Iu a day, Aviator Falls to Death, Cromwell Dixon, who flew ‘across the Rocky mountains Inst Satarday fell 100 feet at the Iotorstate Fair grounds at Spokane, Wash. and Ry ceived injuries which caused hie deat! Hains, Affinity Slayer, Pardoned. Govornor Dix, of New York, has signed @ pardon for Captain Peter C Halos, Jr, who killed Willlam E, An nis at the Bayside; L. 1, Yacht club house In Anguat, 1908, . $0 2994009 0900009900 00004: 5. W. ROBINSON : 19.& 21 N. 18TH St. ; Dealer ts : Fine Wines, Liqors, ; Cigars, dc, * ALL -STOOK SOLD 3 ASGUARANTEED, PROMPT ATTENTION, : Your Patronage a nese Alpheus Scott Sa <0 5 SS atten EE OOO HP §.° Othee Phdne, mee Te 5 ei a cai Laat eget eA A ld Peasy 9088) HS? ot Ah bet WANFS TO LOCATE BER MOTHER 1 would Hke to know the where- abouts of my mother, Beadle Allen, She went away In 1892 from Oberlan, N. C., two miles from Raleigh, N. C. She was last hoant from last October. That was the first timo sinca she went away, Sh6?bas five children, and 1 am the youngest daughter that Is trying to locate her. My name is SUSIE ALLEN, 913 Walaut Streat, Philadelphia, Pa. A. Daves, Ofico and Ware-Rooms, 727 NORTH SECOND STREET. . -Resldouce, 725 N, 2nd Bt First-class Hacks and Caskets of All Descriptions, I have a Spare Room for BODIES when the Family ‘have not 8 suitable Place, Ali coun- tty Orders sre Given Special Atten- tion. Your Special Attention {s call- od to tho New Style OAK GASKETS. Cal} ahd Seo Mo amt You shall be ‘Waited on Individually, "Phone, Mattson 2748. SEE WM. CARTER <3 ‘ fd ance 721 N: Stconp St. For Correct Plumbing, | Steam and Gas Fitting. , —Phohe, Monro tate, JOHN M. Sterne H eo... s.. : Higgins, 2 DRALEI ty, “CHOICE: GROCERIES, | : ~ WINES, LIQUORS. PS : -_ifando Cl PSO ar hee eat See eae name 2 ere Neds OM aoe thet.) By NE OMIOND ec VENMTAL | Ua AES RISB Ur COE states He Drie oe Pfanes 5608: Wabater:-Avenuey: Pitts; ```markdown ``` SEARCHING RUINS FOR AUSTIN DEAD 500 Men Working to Recover Bodies From Wreckage. Thirty-six Bodies Have Been Found and Fifty-four Persons Are Reported Missing—Dr. Dixon Appeals For Food For Survivors. It now looks as though the lid would be really lifted from the scandal of the Bayless dam at Austin, Pa., and the story told of how the dwellers in the Sinnemahoning valley, before their homes were given over to flood and fire, lived in constant dread of the ill-constructed concrete barrier that for two years alone intervened between them and death and ruin. Harry W. Nelson, of Coudersport, the district attorney of Potter county, said that he would exercise the power of a coroner and would hold an inquest on Friday at Austin, which would be tantamount to a searching investigation of the causes which led up to the breakup of the dam. Governor Tenor is here to personally inspect the broken dam and the five miles of valley over which the wreckage of two towns was suddenly spilled last Saturday. While the state and county authorities are preparing to summon expert engineers and others whose attention before and after the flood has been directed to the faulty construction of the dam, Dr Samuel G. Dixon, the state health commissioner, and his associates are confronted with a grave problem of their own for which they are bending every effort to find a solution. Starvation stares the 500 families that the state authorities are trying to care for in the face, for Dr. Dixon plainly stated that unless food supplies soon begin to arrive it will be impossible to feed the homeless men, women and children that have been suddenly thrust upon the mercies of the commonwealth. The cry for food is going up from Austin, and with less than $10,000 contributed, Dr. Dixon declared that the situation had become so serious that something must soon be done if hunger is not to add to the sufferings of the survivors Thirty-six Bodies Found. A force of 500 men are at work clearing the ruins of Austin. Seven more bodies, a charred skull counting as one, were dug from the ruins, making a total of thirty-six bodies recovered since the rescue work started on Sunday morning. A total of eighteen was discovered on Monday, while Sunday's search yielded seven. The missing are placed at fifty-four. The flooded district showed that 167 homes had been washed out and wiped away, with sixty-four stores, four hotels, five churches, five factories and the shops of the Buffalo & Bunquehanna railroad. The property loss in the valley is estimated at upwards of $6,000,000. Advenice also were received from Contello, Pa., that no immediate help was needed there, that the community has several warbuses filled with supplies, plenty of money, but that clothing for women and children was needed Dr. Dixon will take stops to furnish these necessary and also will send men to aid in the restoration of the town if asked. A large steam log roller was used in the attack on the wreckage along the tracks of the Buffalo & Susquehanna railroad, and a lane had been cleared so that trains may be run and the debris carried away. Beneath one building three bodies were found. They are those of a mother, infant and a child about five years old. All were terribly mutilated. One body was recovered and identified as Mrs. Preston Wolcott. A charred skull also was recovered, but it was in such condition that it was impossible to determine whether it was that of an adult or an infant. The body of a woman that had been at the morgue for two days was identified as that of Mrs. McCollins, a sister of State Senator F. E. Baldwin, whose father's body was one of the first recovered on Sunday. The state police have arrested ten persons, charged with pillaging in the ruins. Fifty-five state police from the Pottsville and Wilkes-Barre barracks are on the ground assisting in patrolling and in searching the ruins. The dam, which split into eight pieces, was a milfo and a half west and 300 feet above the town, and it hold thirty-three feet of impounded water, more than 500,000,000 gallons, due to heavy rains. It was a great structure, 580 feet long, spanning the little valley formed by Freeman run, and rising to the height of forty-nine feet. It was of concrete, thirty-two feet thick at the base, and said to be constructed after the most approved plans of modern engineering. The state physicians and nurses, who came supplied with bandages and medicines, have found nothing to do. They have turned their efforts to feeding and clothing the population that had every grocery store and meat market wiped, away. The break in the dam FLOOD SCENE IN AUSTIN. Showing Houses Piled Together In Center of Devastated Town. ```markdown ``` that brushed off the one business street and crumpled up four churches did not injure or malm. It stamped out life or left those men, and women untouched. The manner in which the people of Austin lost their lives is typified in the case of the family of State Senator Frank E. Baldwin, of the Callin commission, now investigating Philadelphia. His 'sister, Mrs. M. C. Collins, had a few seconds more warning than many Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Baldwin, were in their home in Turner street, which lay between the jam and the chief thoroughfare. Mrs. Collins thought immediately that her father was crippled and that her mother was infirm and almost blind. She ran to the house, roused them and started along the sidewalk that led to one of the cross streets to the hilla. Their way was past the Presbyterian church, and as they passed this building the approaching column reached them. There is not the slightest doubt that Mrs. Collins could have saved herself. But she died with her father and mother. Senator Baldwin's wife also perished. The senator himself was badly hurt in escaping. Herotam was displayed on all sides. Mothers saved their children and gave up their own lives to rescue their offspring. Families were torn aound by the catastrophe. Mothers were drowned, while fathers escaped; children perished, while parents were saved, and in some cases the children survived, while their fathers and mothers went to death in the terrible flood. The territory where the greatest flavor was created is a plain one half a mile long by one-third of a mile wide. This lies in the valley that swings through to, the hills in the shape of a gigantic letter S, and then sweeps onward from end to end of the town. Turner street bounds the northern part of the devastated district, with Main street on the west, Ruguhar on the south and the paper mill property on the east. Turner street was despoiled utterly, the fringe of dwellings that made this thoroughfare one of the prettiest of Austin were swept away. Here and there is an isolated structure, saved by a buttress of cord wood. On this street alone heroic rescues and martyrned deaths in the number of scores took place. One could not fail to recognize in the recital of these plain tales hero fam as sublime and deaths as great as those that characterize the ancient immortals, whose praises have been hymned and pooled for posterity. Bad indeed was the case of a family named Comesky. There were six of them in the family, all laborers and all employed in the paper mills in night work. Asleep in their beds, the floods found and drowned them before they could awake to their porch. Fourth Attempt to Burn Scottsdale. through the business section of Scottsdale, Pa., and caused a loss of about $125,000. Fifty guests were routed out of the Central hotel before that structure went down, but all escaped unhurt. Two fires were discovered within a short distance of each other at the same-time and the flames quickly spread to adjoining buildings. This is the fourth attempt to burn the town within the past three months. Three Subpoena Servers Killed. Trying to subpoena witnesses wanted in a murder trial at Gibson Station, Va., two sons of James Collins were killed and the father fatally wounded. The subpoenaes were to have been served on women whose names have not been learned. The officers met resistance, and when they attempted to force their way into the homes of the women they were shot. Snake Chokes Girl Choked into insensibility by a five-foot blackanake, Lillian Porcher, eight years old, is in a serious condition at her home at Port Washington, near New Philadelphia. O. The child was playing in the schoolhouse, whom the snake directed from the rafters upon her hee. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. THE MARKED DOWN SALE. SHE started out to buy a ball of yarn for darning socks, A paper or two of safety pins And a ribbon for baby's frocks. And as for buying more than this She never had a thought. But the "marked down" tickets caught horse eye. An opera cape, Twelve yards of crape (You can tell when you need some), Slik hairs on lively (Such perfect lively), And books (one haw to read some), Some furs (real sable), Small tail coat, A set of Hailwood china, A turquoise ring (The sweetest thing!), A novel by Olive Schreiner, A good two As good as new (And worth at least ten dollars), An evening gown Marked way, way down, Some pictures by collars, A music rack, A dressing dress, A pair of pillowahams, A curvier, Some new back hair, More essays (this time Lamb's), An oak bookcase, Tiffany vase, A lovely bamboo shade, Some lingerie, A rubber tree— I really am afraid To tell you all the things she bought As she landed, on from block to block In quest of a paper of safety pins And a ribbon for baby's frock. Rank In Kentucky. "Yes, sir," said the Kentuckian as they sat by the stove, "you can tell a man's rank in this state thusly: If you see a man with his feet on top of the stove he's a general. If his feet are on that rail about halfway up he's a colonel, and if he keeps them on the door he's a major." "Ah, yes," said his companions. "That's good as far as it goes. But how are you going to distinguish a captain and a lieutenant?" "Stranger, we don't go no lower than major in Kentucky." — Lippincott's. FARM and BEES TEXAS HONEY BELT. Thousands of Pounds Shipped From There Annually Bring Great Profit to Farmers. Honey by the ton, honey by the car load, honey by the train load, may seem like honey enough to satisfy the sweet tooth of the nation. But, no odds how great that amount is, it is shipped from the "honey belt" of Texas by tons, car loads and train loads. It is the one natural product of the state that is perhaps bringing the farmers more clear money than any other. The profits from honey making in the territory tributary to Uvalde have induced other localities to follow the honey line for profit, and a number of localities are meeting with excellent success. Lately Devine, in Medina county, shipped 4,000 pounds by express direct to St. Louis markets. This was the first shipment of the year from that locality, but the honey growers say they will ship seventy tons more within a few days. Honey producing has been tried with more or less success in all parts of the south, but at present Texas leads, particularly that portion of the state known as the "honey belt." It is not uncommon for farmers to have 500 to 1,000 stands of bees, and under ordinary conditions these usually yield a net profit of $3 per stand. J. A. McFarland of Dulve, one of the leading business men of that city, says the time is not far distant when the honey crop of that locality will equal in value the cotton crop. ICELESS REFRIGERATOR. Made of Shelves Set In a Frame Covered With Canvas Kept Wet by Natural Process. Where ice cannot be removed on the farm a device such as is illustrated herewith in a highly desirable thing to have. It is much better than putting butter, eggs, milk, etc, in the well to keep cool, and it is almost as good as a refrigerator. Any one can make it. It consists of a box of convenient size, with shelves at various distances apart. In the drawing the upper shelf is about three inches from the top of the box, which is about 12 by 13 inches square. The bottom shelf is three inches above the floor, the second Iceless Refrigerator. shelf twelve inches, the next elvon, then ten, then nine. On the top shelf a pan is placed and filled with water. The box is kept where there will be more or less movement of the air, so as to encourage evaporation of the water, which keeps a curtain of heavy duck wet all the time. This curtain completely envelops the box. It is tacked on two sides and on the back, but left loose in front. Only two lengths need be used, one which starts near the floor on one side, extending loosely over the top and down on the other side, the second extending from the floor behind to the top and fasten at the sides, but left above and down the front. The front should have bottom holes to go over pegs at the side. When the pan is filled with water the duck should rest in it, so that the water will flow by capillarity in the floor. Very little should actually reach the floor, because most of it should be evaporated by the air. This method will keep the temperature inside the box considerably cooler than that outside. "If it is also set in a cool place so much the better, Giving Small Ones a Chance Giving Small Ones a Chance. Two or three feeding coops or pens should be provided for the chickens and other poultry at this time. Each of these coops should be provided with different sized openings for the admission of the different sized young. The young will soon learn to run to their own coops at feeding time and thus will not be trampled on by the older chicks and growp. fowls. Many chicks are made lame and not a few killed when all the flock is fed together. Apply Menure Judiciously: Keep up with your work in saving and applying the manure from your animals. The amount and kinds of feed that will be available for them next year will depend largely upon the manure applied to the farm. CARE OF PREGNANT SOWS. Tendency to Overfeed Animals Too Prevalent—Feeds That Are Nourishing to. Sow and Litter. Very many of those farmers who keep pure bred stock for sale fall into the error of keeping the brood sows too fat. This is largely due to a pardonable ambition of the breeder to have his herd always in show shape for the admiration of visitors. A sow that is fed liberally on fat forming food, as corn, while pregnant, lays on a great deal of fat and becomes very heavy and awkward. Not only does it cause her pigs to come weak, puny things, unable to get out of the sow's way and frequently having not enough strength to suckle, but the sow is more likely to be feverish and restless and too innert to get on a pig if she lies on it. And this does not mean either that a sow should necessarily go hungry to keep her from getting fat. But the kind of feed given should be that which will cause her to flesh rather than fatten, a feed that will nourish the embryonic pig and cause it to be born with lots of vitality. It is best to furnish pregnant sows a bulky appetite that will satisfy their appetites without causing too much fat or heat in the body. In summer, where the brood sows have the run of a good clover pasture, no other feed is necessary till the plums are farrowed, although it will be no disadvantage to feed them night and morning a couple of cans of corn. In whites whole bran is excellent, with a few roots and a little clover hay, and an ear of corn twice a day will balance it up still better. Following is the result of a series of experiments conducted for the purpose of determining the effects on the offspring in the feeding of the brood sows on scent and full balanced and unbalanced rations: The feeding of a ration, although balanced, yet insufficient in quantity to prevent the sow losing flesh for a time before and at breeding time, seemed to cause her to fail to come in heat, while the feeding of a ration deficient in bulk or in essential nutrient seemed to cause the sow to be especially difficult so get with pig and when she did get with pig to coexcelive only small litters. On the other hand, the sows that for some time previous to breeding, up to and after farrowing, were continuously fed upon a well balanced, bulky ration, consisting of succulent feed and of meat in some form in addition to the regular grain ration, accompanied by an ample supply of water and plenty of exercise, farrowed large, uniform litters, every member of which was big; strong and healthy. Four old sows and three sows with first litters with such treatment produced seventy-eight big, strong, well developed plops. Nos. 1, 2 and 3, with their first litters, produced nine, eleven and twelve plops respectively. Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 were old sows and produced twelve, twelve, eleven and eleven respectively. It was interesting to note that sows Nos. 4 and 5, that farrowed twelve pigs each with this special care, and for seven litters previous for each, under less favorable conditions, farrowed not to exceed nine pigs in any one litter, and in one or two instances had farrowed only five. This series of experiments demonstrates that the number of pigs in the litter and the quality of pigs are very much influenced by the case given the sow not only before and at breeding time, but even the number and quality of living pigs at farrowing may be very much influenced by the care and food given during the period of pregnancy. Ration For Young Perkers The hog grower of the future du pork production as a business proposition and not using hogs merely as savengers in the field lot must take cognizance of the fact that the young pligs up to the age of six months need a growing and not a fattening ration and that their feeding must be tempered with judgment. LIVE STOCK NOTES It is conductive to health to feed hogs where they can have the range of the pasture field. Newly broken colts should not be worked too hard in spring. They are apt to overtrain themselves and be injured for life. Pigs should not be too fat for the first six months. 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This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men, and I am convinced it is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure ever put together. I think I owe it to my follow man to send them a copy in confidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOT-TOUCH ING Remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop line like DR. DR. EDDONSO, line like Luck Building, Detroit Mich., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. log. Fully as often as you get more you will have to take less than the price at shearing time. After they have lost their wool cold storms or even cold winds will almost surely chill the sheep. It is a good plan to get them in and house them during such storms. If your wool is hairy don't expect to get the full price for it. Might as well lay out the hairy bunches first as last. And, say, lay out the sheep that grow that hair. They are poor property. It is the farmer who keeps sheep for a number of years that finds them most profitable. Some years they will return a much better profit than others, and it is hard to sell and buy at just the right time. HARVESTING GRAINS. The Time to Cut the Crop Is When the Stalk Indicates Full Maturity. The proper time for harvesting farm grains, such as wheat, oats, barley or any other cereals, is immediately after their kernels have been fully matured. When the green color of the straw just below the head changes to yellow the grain, be it ripe or unripe at the time, cannot afterward be more fully developed. When the upper part of the stem is disorganized, frequently shown by its altered tone, then the supply of sap to the head is cut off, and development ceases, as the head of the grain does not possess the power of absorbing nutriment from the air. It is evident that the final act of vegetation is the production of seed, and after the performance of this function many plants perish. The grasses which include the corals are annuals, or plants which have but a year's existence. Conspectively their development ceases as they have produced their seeds. When oats, wheat and other corals attain this final point in their growth the circulation of their sap ceases, their color changes from green to yellow, and they undergo certain chemical changes which destroy their power of assimilating mineral water and consequently widen them no longer capable of increasing their weight. When the final processes which are increasingly going on in the growing plants are brought to a close the purely chemical forces come into operation. If the seed be perfectly matured and allowed to remain ungathered it is attacked in wet weather by the oxygen of the air, a portion of the carbon is burned off, some of its starch is converted into sugar and in extreme cases it germinates and becomes malty. Not only is the seed liable to injury from the elements, but also is exposed to the ravages of the sprouts and gophers. It is not necessary that ripe wheat should be cut as soon as possible, but it is sometimes desirable to reap it before it becomes fully matured. When the grain is intended for consumption as food the less bran it contains the better. The bran, as is well known, forms the covering of vital constituents of the seed. The bran of the kernel is the last part of the organ to be perfected. There can be only one object attained by allowing the seed to fully ripen itself, and that is also insurance of its more perfect adaptability to the purpose of reproduction. When covering is thick it best protects the germ of the future plant, insofar it from the ordinary atmospheric influences until it is placed under the proper condition for its germination. In conclusion it may be said that a great many farmers are in favor of early thrashing of grain for the reason that they have met with severe losses when grain was allowed to remain, in the shock or stack until the rush of the season was over. A good plan is to engage a machine very early in the season to begin thrashing just as soon as the grain is in condition, to store. Shock, thrashing is cheaper than stacking and afterward thrashing. Of course unfavorable weather may increase the cost of shock thrashing, but it is a satisfaction to see the fields cleared and the grain safely stored. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. 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Poetry— The language of love and the song of the Soul The profound speech of the Universe, the Divine tongue of the Intelligence and the eternal eloquence of the Ages. Poetry— The message of Nature sanctified in the heaven of silence Poetry— The Holy Communion of the Muses Poetry— Ablations of the strings of the human heart in tune with the Infinite Poetry— Percas of Thought tipped with Immortal Glory Poetry— Gems of Truth set into Sublime Sentiment Poetry > life individed with the light of creation. Poetry Blows of power moving upon the waters of the Great Unknown - Lucdn B. Watkins PASSING OF THE NEGRO JOCKEY The death an impoverished circumstance of, Soup, Perkins at the Hamilton (OnT) Jockey Club course recently emphasizes the practical extension of the negro as a race rider. Three decades ago the negro was in his zenith as a jockey. At that time the majority of owners of thoroughbred horses were in the South, and the negro was the natural attendant of the horses. Gradually with "fooling of the sport to the South, the negro became a condendancy. The white boy became the preferred one, and today a colored race rider is as rare on the tracks as is a gray horse. Of the great negro jockeys leane Murphy was the peer in conduct and in judgment of any white rider, "Lonny" Chayton and his brother both were well behaved well dressed and competent jockeys, "Pike" Harnes rode himself into the list of inmateats by winning the first Futurity with Proctor Knott, beating the great Salvator, Willie Simms the great Sting, and the country and in England, then the "Coles" Stone and Tony Hamilton, "Soup" Perking, who later made his debut in the East with Henry of Navarre, and Joe Harris, who was the star rider in California in 1907. The majority of these riders are dead. The others are poor. Those who are not dead have passed away from the turf. Isaac Murphy, the dean and the idol of the black race, as he was the pride of all horsesmen, died in Louisville practically penultimate. He was crushed by the accusation that he was drunk when Tea Tray in the midsummer of 1890 defeated the great Prentze. He was suspended for 30 days by the stewards and ordered to be sent to an unjust verdict if he had been drugged, as was generally understood. Perhaps the association did not care to have its great new park saddled with what promised to be the gravest scandal on the American turf. That practically ended the turf career of Murphy. He was tubercular, and in addition developed stomach trouble from his efforts to keep down to weight. This latter aliment was added to by his fondness for champagne. It was, he contended, the only liquor he could take that would strengthen without fattening him, and his chance to become a bimale were equal to all his other living openness, and he lived well. He spent about $12,000 a year for 10 years for he had a number of camp followers. "Pike" Barnes for a time promised to maintain a high place in the jockey ranks, but a fondness for night life dulled his judgement. An accident, too, brought on a timidity that he could not seem to be able to shake off. He was riding in Chicago in a race in which a boy named Abbas fell. "Pike" horse strode on the boy and literally crushed the life out of him. Barnes' nerve was gone forever after. He rode, one or two good races subsequently notably his victory on Tenny in the Brooklyn handstand—but practically his career ended, with the accident. It was said ```markdown ``` Mr. Adolphus Humbles of Lynchburg, Va. "The Virginia Theological Seminary and College, under the presidency of Rev R C Woods, is succeeding and the increase in attendance is gratifying. 125 new students were registered on the first day, which is unprecedented in the history of the institution. Mr A Humbles the member of the Executive Board and the Board of Directors has been in charge he could not be induced to sleep in the night time sitting up until daylight then to fall asleep until it would be time for him to go to the race. Of course, such a life meant ruin. Burnes had the good sense not to dally about the trucks and become a wreck. He took with him what was left of his savings and started a saloon in Chicago. He lasted only half a dozen seasons. None of his race has since attained the eminence he achieved. Some may question this latter statement and point to Willie Simms, but Simms was a consistent jockey rather than a sensational one. He earned large fees when he rode for Michael Dwyer and Richard Croker. But money seemed to flow from him. He had at one time, or it was so reported, bank account of generous proportions and some land on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, but it has gone. The trip which he made to New York in 1895 with Dwyer and Croser Invasion of 1895, it was said, was responsible for the bulk of his losses and it probably was. He and Mr Dwyer it was believed 'stood a tup' on Harry Reed in the Stewards' Cup when that fast house was left at the post. Be that as it may Simms has passed from the saddle and has taken with him nothing of the fortune that once was his Tony Hamilton was another of the great black riders. Friends rescue his body from a paparazzi grave and give it devent burial. He must have earned at least $100,000 in 10 years. He had no particularly large vices but he never had the slightest appreciation of the value of money. He was without education and except in the saddle was perhaps the most important man that ever passed through the gate of a race course. He could neither read nor write, and it was difficult to understand what he said. No trainer ever was certain Tony understood what was said to him. He was, however, a natural horseman, alert in the post, a fair judge of parole and a powerful finisher. Most jorkees have a habit of talking to their mounts when on the way to the post but Hamilton kept up a constant kind of glibber that was always a source of amusement. Most of the money he carried he gave away. He had a sort of mushroom growth, springing in a short time from an understated exercise boy with a cot in a stall to where he could earn hundreds of dollars in a day. Perhaps it is little wonder, under the circumstances that he didn't, appreciate money's value Champagne and diamonds were his weaknesses. The $1,000 diamond that he would wear today would be the property of his valet or his favorite tomorrow. A "bank roll" to him was merely a bank roll. It might be $1 notes or of $50 or of $100 notes. It was good just for so long as it lasted. If it were of $1 notes it probably lasted him as long as would one compose entirely of $100 notes. It was pathetic at times to see the way in which the black boy was parting with his money, but he apparently did not realize it and it was not until his money was all gone and necessary for bread and shelter and medicine pressed him that it came to him how valuable a little saving might have been. The Claytones—Lanny particularly—lasted perhaps better than any of the other boys riding, for the reason that they took good care of themselves, but the white boys outstripped them, and they had sense enough to retire while they still had some of the money they had earned. One of their contemporaries was Thompson, who rode many a "good thing" for Jack McDonald and the coterie of smart horsemen who made money in the days of Clifton and of Gutenburg. He was a strong fighter, but his career was short. He could not stand the climate or the reducing necessary, and passed away, with no one of his color at these tracks, to succeed, him. If Harry Jones be accepted. But Jones lacked brach. He was just as illiterate as Hamilton, and there for 25 years. He laid the first block on the building, and has been instrumental in having a new steam heating plant installed, costing $2,350. The electric car line now runs within half a block of the school. A new baseball park has been arranged for the students, and everything done to make the stay of the students there healthful and comfortable. The building has been wired and electric lights will be a feature of this session. Mr. Jenkins expects to leave the city today. He has unraveled the institution from its infamy, and its existence today is due to his tireless energy and his ready money. He carried its mortgage for many years. his season was a brief one 'He was not treated generously and he became sour and heavy and finally met a deserved discipline for some suspicious work. He had no ambition afterward, and drifted into the submerged Penn shone for a time with the stable of A H. & D H Morris, but he rapidly went the way of the others Joe Harris, who was better known in the West than in the East, having ridden for Richard F. Carman in the season of 1907, when he was a premier jockey at Ascot Park, was the best of the late colored riders. He was killed in Texas two years ago. He called on a young woman in his native town and took her for a drive. A rival warned him not to do it again. He not only did not heed the warning, but went to the stable where his rival took a horse, told the Hermann man he had been sent for the horse. It got to the man's own and after returning her to her home took the horse back to the stable. The rival with an automatic pistol killed him before Harris could reach for his gun. (New York Press) FALLS TWENTY FEET. David Cross Slips From High Wall and Sustains Only Sprained Ankle. David Cross (colored), of 1723 Buchanan street, fell twenty feet from a brick wall on a building being erected at Fifteenth and Main streets Tuesday afternoon, and his only injury was a sprained ankle. Cross slipped as he was walking on top of the wall and fell clear. He was knocked into a bookhouse and tried to walk. There was that discovery that he was hurt. He was attended by Dr. Hugh etnocno was attended by Dr. Hulecher, of the city ambulance dr. FELL OUT OF A WINDOW In an attempt to raise the screen in the window of his room, S. H Dillard, a traveling salesman of Lynchburg, fell from the third-story in the Lexington Hotel at 8:40 o'clock last Wednesday night, and was instantly killed. He landed on a hard saphalt pavement his face turned to the ground, and Dr. Watts, of the city ambulance, who responded to the emergency call, stated that his neck was broken it is probable, too, that his skull was crushed, for an ugly looking wound, from which a stream of blood flowed, showed in his head. L. C Dotson, of Clinton, Ga., a fellow traveling salesman, was in the room with him at the time of the accident. The two had been for a walk together, and Dillard, complaining that he felt a little unwell, asked Dotson to go to his room with him, WANTED AIR. When they got in, Dillard made immediate preparations to retire. While Dotson was turning back the sheets and making the bed comfortable, Dillard went to the window, already open, and raised the fly screen. Dotson remarked that it was unnecessary to raise the screen, but Dillard answered, "I want as much air as I can get." He returned to the bureau and proceeded to finish disabling. The screen felt, and he went to the window again. Dotson called to him, but it was too late. As he turned his head, Dotson saw Dillard lurk forward and then go out. A dull thud resounded, and Dotson immediately ran out and gave the alarm. A passby saw the body fall from the window. He ran to the dying man's side, and rubbed him. But his pulse ebed away, and within a few seconds he was dead. Just beside him lay the screen, which he had harried with him in his fall. North First St., Richmond, Va. OPENED OCTOBER 2nd, 1911. THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT will prepare its Students to Take up the Study of Law, Medicine and Journalism. THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT offers a thorough training in Book-keeping, Commercial Law, Stenography and Typewriting. THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT will be in charge of the best Teachers in Dressmaking, Millinery, Housekeeping, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT will embrace Vocal Culture, Piano, Vocalion and Pipe Organ. AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT will fit a limited number of young men as Chauffers. Automobile School Opens October 15, 1911. For particulars and terms apply, REV. CHARLES HANNIGAN, President, 709 North First Street, Richmond, Virginia. Constitute a Feature, and Persons Cannot do Better to Let the little Ones to Join. Children received from Two to Twelve Years. BENEFITS—$1.40 to $1.50 per week when sick and $10.00 to $40 PICTURESQUE SCENES AT TRIAL Attacking Leading Witness. George E. Taylor, former stamp clerk at Station B of the Richmond postoffice, was acquitted last Monday in the United States District Court of a charge of stealing $30. At the request of Assistant district Attorney James J. Court instructed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty, which was done without the jurors leaving their seats. When the defendant was held blameless his side had introduced no witnesses, and Frederick W. Schick, superintendent of the station, chief witness-for-the government, was still upon the stand. Schick had admitted that he played poker in the carriers' "swing room" at the Federal building, and to have wrongly used transfers of the Virginia Railway and Power Co. These facts came to light under the questioning of State Senator E. C. Folkes, counsel for the defense. PROSECUTION WEAKENS It was at this juncture that Mr. Talley arose, and explained to the court that it was not his wish nor that of Postoffice Inspectors Saffell and Martin that any one be convicted on the evidence of a man who admitted that he had misused street car transfers and gambling. Taylor was accused of taking $30 in marked bills from the cash drawer of the superintendent. They were inter found by the inspectors in his cash, which had been deposited for the night in the office safe. It was shown that it would have been an easy matter for the decoy notes to have been given to Taylor by Schlock when the former having been stolen. The proceedings were brief. Court opened at 10 o'clock, and Taylor was acquitted noon. The defenses had many witnesses, including former Governor Montague and several ministers, who were to have testified to the accused's good character and reputation, but it was not necessary, for them to go upon the lie stand. Schlock followed Inspector Saffelf and Martin on the witness stand. Dn. on examination Senator Folks sake! SIX DEPARTMENTS. DEPARTMENT will prepare journalism. DEPARTMENT offers a Stenography and Typewriter Science DEPARTMENT will cater, Housekeeping, Cooking DEPARTMENT will embrace STRUCTION DEPARTMENT Automobile School Op. and terms apply, HANNIGAN, President, 70 High Class. Single Prices. One of the Public by Our Strict One of All of Our Pledges. AND Men's and Boys' the utmost Satellite and Examine tables. BUILDING OUT-FITTERS. SERVICE. PROMPTLY ATTENDED. Andy Co., Main St., VIRGINIA. Calanthe Cannot do Better to Let the little lived from Two to Twelve Years. Check when sick and $10,00' to $40 on all Localities. For organizationiculars, write West Hill Street, Richmond, Va. will prepare its Students to Take up IT offers a thorough training in B and Typewriting. DEPARTMENT will be in charge of the best keeping, Cooking and Fine Laundry W will embrace Vocal Culture, Piano, DEPARTMENT will fit a limited num School Opens October 15, 1911. President, 709 North First Street, Rich "Do you ride on a street car pass when you go to lunch each day?" "No, sir." "Do you not admit that you were handed transfers by Taylor's successor at your station, and that you atole those rides from the railway?" (J H Newell is Taylor's successor) "I did use some transfers procured in that way," replied the witness. "Don't you think," the attorney roared, "that a man who would so deverously alip transfers on the street car company would alip over $30 in marked money?" "Which responded that this was not necessarily true." Senator Folkes then took up the question of poker-playing on the part of the witness. "Did you ever participate in any games of chance, especially draw poker, for money, in the postoffice department of the Federal building when you were a clerk at the main office?" "Yes, slu. There were several of us. We played for a 2-cent limit." The witness gave the names of several of his fellow-gamblers. In postoffice circles the trial created a fairer, and the seminal developments may lead to an investigation on the part of Postmaster Edgar Allen, Jr. The latter, who is president of the Virginia Postmasters' Association, which is now holding its fifth annual convention in Richmond, was not at his office yesterday. Friends of Taylor have started a movement for his reintroduction, and will. it is understood, enlist the aid of Senators Martin and Swanson and Congressman Lamb. There is the greatest indignation in his neighborhood over the charges, especially in view of the utter collapse, of the case. Gets Latter After 47 Years. John Nadden, a resident of Towanda, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who was a member of the Third Pennsylvania heavy artillery during the Civil War, has just received a letter which he wrote to his wife while stationed at Fortress Montrose forty-seven years ago. Where the letter has been all these years he does not know. In the letter he urgently requests his wife to get him a pair of pants. TROUBLE AHEAD. HOT TIMES, THERE. Greek Fire On Colored Citizen Cross Warrants. Because he had remonstrated with children of Reuben Logan, colored, forty-six years old, of 7 South Linden street, Philip Seta, a Greek con- fessional at Linden and Cary streets, was attacked Monday afternoon by the colored man. The latter struck the Greek upon the arm with a heavy fence rail, inflicting a severe wound. Seta grabbed a revolver and started after his assistant His daughter grabbed him in an effort to prevent him from attacking Logan, and he seized her about the throat and threw her aside, according to those who saw the affair. Logan ran to his home and was followed by Seta. The colored man rushed into his house and slammed the door. The confectioner attempted to follow, but being unable to do so contented himself with firing three shots, the bullets passing through the panels, doing no harm. The neighborhood was greatly excited by the event. Police headquarters was notified that a riot had taken place and Officers Samuel, Angel, Moore and Smith were hurried to the scene. Upon their arrival things had quieted and the colored man and white man swore out cross-warrants charging each other with assault. They were taken to the Second Police Station, and later released on ball. Miss Cora Harbold Becomes Wife of Army-Officer. Miss Cora McK, Harbold, of Dillsburg, York county, Pa., was married to Brigadier General Ralph W. Hoyt, U S. A., in Philadelphia. The ceremony was performed at the home of Thomas E. Richardson, 423 East Wister street, Germantown, where Miss Harbold visits when she is in Philadelphia. Rev Mr. Long, pastor of the Dillsburg Methodist church, officiated. After the wedding trip General Hoyt and his bride will live at St. Paul, Minn Defec Steel Investigation Because Chairman Stanley and other members of the house 'steel trust' investigating committee will be engaged in politics at their honeys until after the November election, the hearings before that committee were postponed from Oct. 16 until the middle of November. Many Hurt In Wreck Twenty-one persons were hurt when a Seaboard Air line passenger train, from Holena to Columbus, was partly derailed cast of Cordale, Ga. Building Falls; Three Men Lose Lives Three men were killed and one injured in the collapse of a five-story brick building under construction at Battery and Hanover streets, Boston. WANTED—Information. Mrs. Mary Meadows, formerly Miss Mary Alexander, when last heard from was living in Philadelphia, Pa. She can learn something of interest to her by addressing Reese Bracken, 533 South Adam Street, Poorla, Ill. 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The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce, a venuio matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant. And an amdavit having been made and filed that diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plaintiff to ascertain in what county or corporation William Purdio, the defendant, is, without effect, and that she don't have his will it is ordered that the said William Purdio defendant, appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order, and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A copy—Teete! W. E. DUVAL. Clerk. By H. G. Duval, D. C. William Purdle; You will take notice that I shall, on the 38th day of November, 1911, at the office of Phil B. Shield, room No. 211, American-National Bank Building, situated S. E. corner 10th and Main streets, in the city of Richmond, Va., between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. M., of that day, proceed to take the depositions of witnesses, to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery-depending in the Hustings Court (Part 2), city of Richmond, Va., wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if commended be not concluded on that day, the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from day to day or, from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. A Copy—Teste Walter Evans: You'll take notice that I, shall, on the 16th day of Nov., 1911, at the office of Phil B. Shield, room No. 211, American National Bank Building, situated S. E. corner 10th and Main streets, in the city of Richmond Va. between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M., and 6 o'clock P. M., of that day, proceed to take the depositions of witnesses. 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