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THE RICHMOND PLANET EXPERIENCES IN LOUISIANA. Editor Mitchell Tells of a Visit to New Orleans. Friends Welcome Him. The Scene in St. Charles Hotel Many Questions Asked Colored Banker from Virginia. VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 1. EXPER IN Editor Mitche Orleans.. The Scene in St. Asked Colo It was a tiresome trip with the coming of the shades of night. I rested my head on a pillow which the porter had kindly provided for me and "dropped off" in a troubled sleep. The train was nearing New Orleans, and after "freshening" myself in the lavatory, I was ready to meet the happenings in this faraway Southern city. I went out to the platform. A porter took my luggage, expecting the usual tip, while I waved a farewell to the Pullman carporter, who seemed sorry to see me go. FRIENDS GATHER THERE. As I was ushered through the gates I saw the familiar and well-known Mr A O Smith, propriator of the Chicago Hotel, 202 South Rampart Street At his side stood Attorney J. Madison Vance and J. A. Hardin, M. Dr. one of New Orleans leading physicians, also his Banks Dr. Hardin and his automobile in waiting and a few moments later went on a route to my stopping place I had requested that I be carried first to the St Charles Hotel, the headquarters of the American Bankers' Association A TRIP TO ST CHARLES I notched that there was not over much enthusiasm among my newfound friends at the idea Dr Hardin responded promptly, however, and in a few moments I was being rapidly whirled up the brilliantly lighted Canal street. It is at least a hundred feet wide, possibly more, and it reminded me of the wide thoroughfares of Salt Lake City, Utah. We soon entered St Charles street and later stopped before that magnificent palatial hotel. Electric lights swung across the streets, while a large banner had been stretched across the street with the words "Headquarters of the A. B Association." A CONGREGATION OF BANKERS. There was much surprise on the countenances of the white people standing around. They could not understand it white the colored folks seemed to dumfounded. "Come in Mr Vance." I said. No, we the reply. I'll stay out here and look after the car. You go, Doctor. "All right" was the response. Now, Dr Hardin looked more like a Spanish than he did like a cither. In fact, he could pass for a member of the white race. Upon entering this palatial hotel I saw that it was crowded with white bankers. A SCENE OF TRANSCENDANT DEATH I wended my way upstairs and made inquiries concerning the location of the headquarters of the American Bankers' Association It was on the second floor, and to this room we welcomed our way. The spacious hallways, with the palms and flowers were strikingly beautiful. In addition to this reception and hall to the members of the Executive Council were well under way Magnificently gowned ladies fitted to and fro, while millionaire bankers attired in evening dress, moved to and fro. Floating on the air came the strains of sweet music. It was a scene to dazzle the eye, stir the emotions and move the heart. COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT We reached the registration room and there were about a dozen pretty white lady typewriters. As we entered they looked surprised. An inquiry was made as to whether the registration books were open oiled an affirmative response. Although I had asked the question, the young white gentleman who came forward asked Dr. Hardin if he desired to register. He told him that Mr. Mitchell, pointing to me, desired to register. Then came the climax. The young man seemed to be upset. The image shows a large crowd of people gathered in an outdoor setting, likely during a public event or ceremony. The crowd is densely packed, with many individuals standing in rows facing a central point. The background features a cityscape with tall buildings and flags, suggesting an urban environment. The overall atmosphere appears to be one of anticipation or celebration. THE AMERICAN BANKERS' ASSOCIATION IN SESSION IN THE ATHENAEUM, NEW ORLEANS, LA., TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1911. The Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., was represented by its President, John Mitchell, Jr., who is the only colored banker ever admitted upon the floor of that financial organization. The combined assets and surplus of the members of the Association have been estimated at fifteen thousand million dollars. I asked if Mr. Farnaworth was there went on the outside, breathing a in this section of the country and Gabbrella Jasper preceded him to the grave about seven months. No, he was in the hall-room. A sigh of relief as the cool air did make the journey query concerning Mr. Fitzwillison much to restore me to a normal condition, after the crucial experience. OFFICERS WANTED TO KNOW New Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Md. This was a great shock to Rev. Harris from which he never fully committee of the Baltimore JUST WANTED TO KNOW I handed my card to the young gentleman. He looked at it and inquired if I represented that institution I replied in the affirmative. "Are you a member of the American Bankers' Association," he asked. "I am," was the response. "Do you desire to register?" "I do," was the reply. He reached for a card and approaching a lady atenographer, handed it to her. She wrote down the detailed information while her associate atenographers exchanged glances and smiled. They did not expect to note the favorable cultivation of the colloquy, and when I had been formally registered and the hedge and official buon and invitations handed to me, they were amazed. In company with Dr. Hardin. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911. went on the outside, breathing a sigh of relief as the cool air did much to restore me to a normal condition, after the crucial experience, through which I had just passed. I had been attending the annual seasons of the American Bankers' Association for seven years, but had never been under such a fire of questions as I noted upon this occasion of my visit to Louisiana. It had been customary for me to pick up a card, many of which were laying around, and fill it out, or to pass up my own card to a lady stenographer, who filled it out. The official badge and the invitations followed. A BIBLICAL COMPARISON But in this case it might well be said that "another king arose, who knew not Joseph." Certain it was that this young man did not know that a coloured man had ever been formally admitted to active membership in the American Banker" Association. With that button upon the lapel of my coat, all fear vanished, and the thought of further serious embarrassment passed away It was no longer the colored man John Mitchell, Jr.—it was the rejuvenated member of the American Bankers Association from Virginia, who held the right of way WAS TOO MUCH RISK I was here in Louisiana, in a State where race prejudice is intangent, and the antipathy to the segregation anything related to him will known of all men. I knew that many of my friends had doubted the adaptability of my making this trip into the "darkest South," especially in view of the unsettled conditions existing in the Southland. I must admit that this logic had some effect upon me but not enough to cause me to cancel my engagements and when the Board of Directors of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Rhumbond Van-deed that I should attend this session I determined to trust the Democrat white men of the upper class SESSION IN THE ATHENAEU is represented by its President, J assets and surplus of the member in this section of the country an make the journey OFFICERS WANTED TO KNOW This was a week of pleasure for the wh to bankers. What would it be for me? We found Attorney Vance and the chauffeur waiting on the other side of the street. The chief of detectives and the police officers wanted to know about it, and their amazement was all the more pronounced when they were told that it was the Negro banker from Richmond, Va., who had entered the Chilco Charles Hotel. They wanted him come out, and he was in the automobile, and as we drove to the Chilco Hotel Dr. Hardin told with a few about our experiences, but a few minutes before. I was soon at the Chicago Hotel. I discussed with friends the recent events, retired to my room, and soon was in the land of dreams. · PECULIAR THOUGHTS When daylight came: I hail bees (Continued on Fourth Page) A FATHER IN ISRAEL HAS FALLEN ASLEEP. Rev T P Harris Has Answered the Last Roll Call-He Was a Great Leader of the People-A Faithful Gospel Minister of Christ. Rev T P Harris died Friday November 10, 1911 at his late home Powhatan county Va. Rev Harris had been in declining health for several months, and much of his time in the last few years was spent at the home of his only son Mr J. Wm Harris, 1809 Taylor St. this city, who tenderly administered to the old soldier of the cross Rev Harris not long before the Angel Death came for him expressed a desire to go to his country home in hope of improving his health but shortly afterward, being surrounded by his loving friends God call his soul to rest where sickness and sorrow are felt and feared no more. The Riveredens wife wife Miss UM, NEW ORLEANS, LA., TU John Mitchell, Jr., who is the on- ers of the Association have been Gabbretta Jaaper preceded him to the grave about seven months. This was a great shock to Rev Harris from which he neverly recovered. Rev Harris was about 80 years old. He died in the blessed assurance of receiving a crown of life in that home where love peace and happiness rule as Lord and Master. Rev Harris was a faithful gospel preacher and greatly beloved by thousands of people. He was the honored pastor of three hapat at churches — Antioch, Powhatan county, for about 40 years. Mt Zlon, Smith's Cross Road, Powhatan county, for over 26 years and Ebenoah Goochland county, 18 years. While Rev Harris pastored these three churches he was loved and respected until the Angel Dosth called him from labor to reward. During all these years thousands of souls professed faith in Christ and were added to the church under his ministry. His advice and good council were sought after by hundreds of people (Continued on Fourth Pane). WILL BE HANGED TODAY White Man Must Pay Penalty For Murder of Negroes. St Mary's Ga. Nov 26. For the murder of a negro woman and her daughter, near Kingsland. On for the purpose of robbing them, J A O Berry, a white man will be hanged here tomorrow. This probably will be the first time a white man in Georgia has been executed for killing a negro TimesDispatch Nov 27, 1911 ```markdown ``` WANNED Agents, Males and Females if you are looking for clean profitable work you can earn $2 to $4 per day sell, our practical household necessities, the fire hose, a toilet, a car wash, Mirage Win 0 Hurley Novice Co. 0 214 407 470 Arctic Avenue Atlanta City, N J TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1911. only colored banker ever admitted estimated at fifteen thousand New Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Md. A committee of the Baltimore Presbyterian consisted of Rows J & R. Comping Superintendent of Missiones E. H. Robbins D. D., and Elder Welch organ red a new Presbyterian church in the chapel corner Mullinik and Spring streets Baltimore. Mid Supday night Nov 19 1911, at 8 o'clock. The name of the new body will be known as the Mt Hormon Presbyterian Church of Baltimore. Mid A select choir under the direction of Prof Fessonton, repaired choice music. Messara Samuel Distance and Wm Marshall were elected and installed as olders. Her Thomas H Lee Ph D, whose term of service ended with the First Church (Presbyterian). Richmond, Va., last July is acting as pastor. It is thought that the new church has a great future. Subscribe to The PLANET. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. Mr James E Chick, of Mangoblek, was in the city this week, and called on us Miss Nina E Smith is spending Thanksgiving in Washington, visit- ing relatives and friends Mr and Mrs Stephen Christian, of Ocean Grove N. J., are spending the winter here the guests of Mr. Christians sister, at 1013 N Fifth street We have received an invitation to the marriage of Miss Laurn Washington to Mr John O Crosse, Dec. 6 1911 at 525 N Second street, Richmond Va Rev Dr Walter H Brooks, D. D., preached able Thanksgiving sermons at the Sixth Mr Zion Baptist Church last Thursday. We went to press too early this week for a more extended import The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of which Rooker T Washington is principal has just received a legacy of $10,000 from the estate of the late Maria Blanche- l of Philadelphia Pa We return thanks for an invitation to attend the third annual banqu of Williams Lodge, No. 11, at Prince Hall Wednesday evening, December 6 1913 Mr C W Young Exited Ruter, Mr James T Carter Master of Ceremonies Mrs P M H Bodge of Darrille, Va who came here to be in attendance at the Perkins-Jones nuptials, returned home last Monday She was many friends while here, and they regret that her stay was so short --- Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan's House Warming. The palatial new residence of Mr. and Mrs H F Jonathon, at 740 N Fifth street was the scene of a brilliant assembly of friends and acquaintances the occasion being in the nature of a surprise and housewarming. The affair was conducted by Mrs Wim H Isham and Miss Carrie D Isham. It was a success in every particular. Many presents were sent and one in particular was presented to the host and hostess. The happy couple have a large family but the members of it were not particularly noticeable on account of the many people who thronged the doors. It was host midnight when the ass obligation dispersed after expressing their appreciation of the entertainment and hope for the continued prosperity of the well known citizen and his family. Basic mathematical skills are needed to comprehend the above. CARD OF THANKS We take the means of chanting the truth) friends who have so abound autil) of their sympathetic and sor- vices in the death and at the fun- al of our loved one Christine E Weste (engined) MR and MRS E R GILES ROBERT C JONES NOTICE: Mrs Sarah A Hinton of Rich- mond Va. is daily authorized to moth- fund funds or any other artworks that can be used in Industrial Union Or- ganization Southern Pines, N. C. REV JAS M HENDERSON, M. M. Principal Drakes Branch (Va.) News. Whether or not the late H. C. Brattle electrified for wife murder is saved, has become a subject of general discussion here. Sometimes the argument gets so high a looker on suspends blows will follow. S. S. Powell, Clem Green, J. P. Gatto, Armfield Brown and others have gained local prominence by this unfortunate incident. Why not he sat afixed with the lesson, axod such acts and conclude that he is in the hands of a just God? H. C. Terry who came here from Richmond slack is out again Mr. and Mrs. George Pough, of Charlotte Courthouse, have returned from a visit in Hailfax county this week. Miss Lizzie Crutcher is improving, having been sick a few days. Mr Walter Watkins, of Bureaux, was here on business this week. Mr A A Lee has carried his store a story higher. On the second floor there will now be rooms to let. A restaurant in the back and a store on first floor in front. The addition helps the looks of the town. It is rumored that John Pollard will soon take for himself a better bath. --- The Fighting Hope SYNOPSIS Anna Granger, devoted mother of two small children discover that her husband is a weak character and that he has lied to her about a woman. THE OBSTINATE TEMPLE "SEE here, Temple," said Craven, coming windily into the Library, waving a sheet of foolscap. "Here's a little statement I two just prepared. He's been a wolf, went fessor in never so slight as a spasm of weevetness, but he said shortly enough "Fire ahead. I'll listen. Only you, you see, you're up to so many little statements," Craven "Hang it. man, I warned the lawyer "One would think it was a matter of difference with you when you were put in innocent of this crime or not. That's one of the reasons you opinion is so against you. You so apparently un concerned about the whole affair. Why, you walk along your head in the air, your claw, saying to the world 'Take a pun bit if it you can' and the next thing you know they'll bear you down and they'll be during which Craven had his friend and lawyer it's a tamer case had been the first in the order over which they had differed. But then, it was the first time that Tempel had been personally attacked. He tried now to put the personal expiration before his friend "You see dear traven" he said in explanation for his apparent difference. "I appreciate your statement which I wish to indicate on long suffering jobs but don't you feel the little fact that your friend happens to be the victim of their assault on which causes all this worry on your part. For example, presuming you were my place, would you still endeavor to compromise to explain?" "Explain to me" I'd never say. "Precisely" laughed Temple, leaning back in his chair, "precisely" you. I'm right, old friend, and you were wrong. You admit you wouldn't do it yourself in your own ease. Clearly and logically, what I must do is to wait till I get some tangible proof of my innocence. What's the use of trying to vindicate myself if the proof faces this. This New Yorker I don't see still. word till I can make good. Some where among Brady's papers, I will my life, there is a letter or a chap strip or something. There always something and I am counting on the young detective Come wi m I go in Brady's office to put it. "Sure. That's all very well" across Craven. "But some of these do not get any pay off." "I should pose you never got pay off?" I say. You, your so-called friends are beginning to disbelieve in you. The papers are offended but you refuse to talk. Now be reassemble. Here's this little statement which I prepared to be sent out over your sigature. He opened the copy. "I're ahead," said Temple indulgent by bending down to pat it a lot. "He the public," began Craven stoutly. "Dankey No. 1," I mentally commented the man opposite to him, slowly lighting cigar. "In view of the widespread feeling against me regarding the Gotham Trust company Granger case I wish to make a statement of the facts"— "Savers of a Sunday school appeal for funds for a pink midsummer pie-nie-eh, Ceto?" Interposed, Temple, adding merically, "Donkeyism No. 2." —"Cornpluss Brady and myself are co-trustees of an estate Mr Brady wrongfully made use of part of those" WILL. JONES "WAK-WAK AS DISWATER!" CHIRD TEMPLE. trust bonds, I by this act becoming equally responsible with him for making up the loss. At the time of the panic Mr. Brady asked the Gotham Trust company to certify a check to the amount of $700,000. This I refused to do, not feeling justified in making the trust company responsible for Brady's check. Thereupon Brady went to Robert Granger, the cashier, and provailed upon him to certify the check. "Hishy, hishy, hishy!" execuated Temple, puffing leisurely at his elight, "Since the trial and conviction of Granger," pursued Craven unmovedly, "it has become known that Brady, my co-trustees, used that check to make good his unlawful appropriation of the fund of which he and I are trustees. Naturally it appeared that I profited equally with Brady, in the use to which the check was put. It is be- WILLIAM JONES. cause of my apparent profit that I am supposed to have given the order to Granger." "Weak—weak as dishwater!" ried Temple, spurning up. "Craven, it's no good, I tell you. Craven caught myself believing myself a thief while you read it. It is futile to explain—hopelessly futile. till we can present some proof that Craven did of his own resolution certify that check. Oh, I'll trust in Crane a little more." "Oh, Craven, there was nothing in the room for a few moments while Temple smoked. Craven turned to a gray muscach in a quarry and Cato scopt. "What did you say?" asked Craven anxiously, looking over his glasses. "I did not say." "I want you to Confound it, you don't take life seriously enough." "You have perhaps observed that I don't make the mistake of doing so in some matters I hardly think I am grown up. I am, for example, quite content to remain a boy so far as the muddles of life are concerned, continuing with youthful cheerfulness to tremble; do profundas clamavit into 'out of the depths I have clamas, chom'; jeopardize as I did when I held the forest at the foot of the best form in Latin." "You're too pigheadedly brazen in your play with public opinion, that what you are my boy,"cried Craven hotly "Public opinion has already conceived you." "So?" said Temple serenely, lifting his eyebrows in that quizzical way of his. "Public opinion is very abused. I protest against it. Take one厚此厚ly ignorant man Who regards his opinion or considers his judgments as vital. Put together all the thoroughly educated men who are told that the sum of their stupidity is to be reverenced, regarded with awe." "The value of the people" broke in Craven. "Diahlin finished his client 'the public of today has gone mad with a mukrake in its hands,' it's too rationally ready to believe that those in high places" "Are Iikyd dyed soundrules—don't I know? be he in Grave?" "And that what they are taking you, one of the kid glove glazers, one of the mukrake any table thieves" "Templeton, he had caught the portrait of his mother over the mantel. His mood suddenly offered to downright cry" "Criven' offered crane $10,000 to get some untied proof from Bradley's office. But I did give a million. I give every cent I get to stand clear and be rescued as honest. I tell you, I tell you it's hell. I tell you I've worked, worked all my life, worked hard to build up my career on honest clean lines. You know it. I've turned my back to crooked ways when they were easy, accessible and now I am accused of being a thief, the distract sort of a man the man who shoulders his time on another" "The muscles of his naughty swift a bit; he felt his control slipping away, so he turned abruptly on his heel and averted his face. The grim lawyer crossed over to lay his hand with almost a woman's tenderness on the big shoulder of his friend, and his voice broke with a suspicion of huskiness as he mutted: "Steady, old man, steady, Well kick clear of it all yet." When Temple spoke again it was in his customary tone "Craven, it seems to me that if Granger credited that check he didn't do it for more love. Must have received something in return, eh?" "Something in return" and the lawyer dryly "Sure, and a big something at that. It was worth it." "What do you suppose he did it with, then?" The lawyer shrugged his shoulders. "The papers said he had a wife, I remember. Ever see her?" "Never did," said Graven in inconclusive, "Suppose she's extravagant?" "Superstious question," grunted Graven. "They all are." Graven was ally and a bachelor by instinct, one might even say by heredity, for his father had succeeded in escaping material possessions. Temple smiled indulently and began elaborating his new idea. "It has occurred to me that if we could establish that Granger has been spending or increasing large sums of money laterly it would help our cause. That's why I mentioned his wife." Before he vouchered to reply the cynical old lawyer walked across the room, and himself to a pug of brendy and soils. "Your premise is all right, Temple" he sneered, "but your conclusion is soppy, saddle. We'll try to find out THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. If no spent money, aside. But we won't waste time in trying to find out if he spent it on his wife. The great trouble with you is that you're romantic." Temple nodded comprehensively, the odd, quirky, boyish upilch coming to his eyebrows again notwithstanding. "Dare you you're right," said he simp. "Of course; it was a noble and high minded supposition, on your part, grinned the back shoulder, 'and, having the marriage germ in your system, it to be expected. You haven't a wife, so you naturally fancy the money would be spent on one. Granger has a wife. He naturally spends it on somebody else. Each man turns to the thing he does not possess." Temple nodded again. "Well, when you go into town on Monday, get the still hunt started for the woman, will you?" "Sure, you bet your life. But," he called back over his shoulder, as he was leaving the Westfield, N. J, where Granger's home is; we'll hunt for her in West Fort third street. New York." "And this temple of Granger's," murmured Temple, left to himself, "I suppose she has faith in him, they all have. I dare say it's she who's working behind this plan to get his pardon, doubtless she's somewhere now, praising for him, waiting for him to come back to her, vindicated, an honest man and a man. Well, I nighting to her and I will. We are you are! Queer little muddle it is, after all, this play of life. I wonder sometimes if the great Eye mustn't get tired of it and the great Ear worried of it. I wonder!" A light, firm knock at the door caused Temple to wake from his reverie. His new secretary entered, ready for work. From the first days of his association with the Gotham Trust company in an inconsequential capacity to the later days when he had risen to his presidency, allies and rivals had in Burton Temple a personal humility that he cherished, undoubtedly in qualities that were terrible. He had the gentleness of a lamb and the strength of a lion Immediately Anna Grunger had recognized the second of these qualities. Now, after some weeks of daily work with him, in the gradual unveiling of the man's personality, she was coming to a sense of the first. Her judgments about her husband were beginning to threaten her mind with an energy that she possessed powerless to arrest. They did not make her happy, far from it, but they quickened and intensified all the acts of thinking and living. Usually, however, she succeeded in recapturing herself, in beating back the thoughts which, like troops on a doofful field, appeared to be carrying her husband through life and strong, holds of an energy; she was impatient and scornful of them. As to Temple himself, maybe he didn't know it, but already he was in the way to fall as completely in love with his new secretary as Amadis of Gaul or Aucassin of Beaucaire or any other hero of romance you may choose to mention. Even in the first few days he had found himself thinking that he had ever thought of any woman. He was not the fashion of man to whom women in general appeared—not that he was wanting in a certain admiration for them or in reverence, but his early life had been devoted to his mother and to his career, so that during the days when a man usually chooses a wife Temple had been too occupied to seek for one. Later—well, somehow he had not met with any one who had quickened the romance that was in his heart this cool, collected man of finance was romantic. He was more, he was an idealist. He was the sort of man who would husband to his original mate or none. Unconceivably he made constant little discoveries in Anna—most charming yields of new regions of intelli- gence, now points of humor, unexpected fountains of humor, unfathomable depths of womanliness. Her eyes and her hair pleased him; her slim, firm, delicate hands—No; he repudiated that. It was herself—her inimitable self. And as he felt the excellencies and beauties of her nature more and more he Yolt the absorbing power of his own manhood to make them his own. She bloomed for him the flower of fauces, but the seeds lay in his own heart; she seemed an exhalation from his own hidden sources. His mother possessed the same ladyhood. At Anna's age his own mother must have been like her, his thought, the stirrer in his passions, the ally of Others. Life with the陪伴 with such women promised not gratifications merely, but satisfactions. Life partnership and love! They were thoughts now for noo nor her presence. With a man like Burton Temple everything had its time and place. He must clear his good name first. That was the imperative duty on hand. As the result of the gradual recognition of the state of his own feelings, there had come about increased activity in his work against Granger. The reward to Crane, should be succeed in securing some scrap of evidence from Birry, had been raised to $25,000. The detective bureau had been offered a fabulous sum for proof that Granger had invested any large amount of money; that he had been a big purchaser of stock in any company, er that he was tangled up with some a daring, shoved fighter could use had, been overlooked. And so, all once unceasingly—oh, the little pathetic game of hungin' cross purposes 'at, which fate, the finty hearted, insult smile—Anna Granger had become arce—once her husband's champion and foo. She, for tenderness toward him, was here in Temple's house, fighting desperately to find some evidence that would clear him. Temple, for the vindicated honor which he hoped to lay 'at his lady's feet, was fighting with equal desperation to keep in prison as a branded thief the man whom he had sent there. But, as yet, the fight had fetched nothing to either of them. CHAPTER V. "MRS. MASON," sighed Anna weanily one day. "Here I've been for nearly a month and I've found out nothing. I don't believe I ever will find out anything of myself against Mr. Temple." The housekeeper started and eyed her curiously. "Even if you don't find out anything, dearle, she said stolidly, "you may be pretty certain that your husband will be set free Mr. Temple may be indicted now any day, and everybody, all the papers, say the circumstance of your death, he must be convicted." He's surely guilty." Mrs. Mason, as all who knew her were aware, once having formed an opinion, held to it. "I don't want Robert cleared on circumstantial evidence," protected Anna. "That's not what I'm making this fight for. I know what public opinion is. It's fake; it cries 'Hosannah' on Palm Sunday, it cries 'Cruelty' on Good Friday. I know the sway of the press can make or unmake a man. Just now it's making Robert and breaking Mr. Temple, but after the clamor will come doubt. I want the proof of Robert's innocence in my own hands. I don't want any sentimental mediation for the father of my boy. I want father of her born. Yes, it had come to be just that. Unappreciably she had said it. I to keep herself to her duty she had fallen back on that last reserve of a woman's strength, her mother love. And how hungry she was growing for them, these boys of hers "Oh, I need them," she exclaimed in a end, den outstretched "I need them." Do you know, without them even in my prayers have come to be stricken and paled things. Without them the great scheme of the universe seems to have got grotesquely mixed, irrationally jumbled. With a child in her army a woman feels always less like a speech of sand under the eye of the infinite, the Incomprehensible. It is the unbreakable link of the Human Son binding us to the feet of God. I suppose. Anna leaned forward over her machine and buried her head in her arms. A light was dawning upon Mrs. Mason—a light which she dreaded. She came over and stroked the buried head. "What beautiful hair you have, child" she said furiously, not knowing what else to say. "I thou!" murmured the young woman whimlessly "It's pleasant to feel soft and smooth, isn't it, not offering a slight resistance to stroking? It's modern, independent hair." This mood would never do. The prim New Englander saw it, "I say, Anna, what you need is to have a little wilt with your children. Mr. Temple will excuse you for a day, I know. You can run out to see them, and," "Oh, but I can't—I can't, you see," cried Anna in an extremity of desire and duty. "A day? Why, just in that very day the evidence I am seeking might come—a letter, a telegram, a telephone message. Look here, in the room, in the kitchen, in her desk, she took out a handkerchief. One corner of it was tiled in a hard knot over many tiny papers of paper. "As Mr Temple was leaving the room just before you came in he tore up this letter and threw it in the waste-basket, you understand? You ask me often why I am so mute in the mornings when' come down to breakfast. Well, it because I haven't slept. It's because I've been passing the night trying to piece together just, much scraps as these. Always—always with no result. "Nothing works against him. Every thing--every little bit of evidence works for him. A little side light on his splendid fighting qualities here; another on some unknown patrician set of kindness to some fellow being in the middle of a fight. I say, the whole of life seems to have got mixed-jumbled. Yet I must go on helping against hope for the children's sake." "Dearie, I know what I'll do. I run out myself tomorrow and see them and fetch you back direct word. Would you like it? For reply, in an abundance of gratitude, Anna drew, the older woman down to her and kissed her again and again. That afternoon, taking a stroll in the garden, Anna's heart felt lighter, and her dimples stirred incipently, remembering Mrs. Masqa's promise. "Tomorrow," she said softly, stopping for a second before a roosub and leanning her check down to one of the Glorie do Dijon triumphs. "Oh, tomorrow, please come quickly!" A thorn caught her skirt as she was in the act of moving on. "May I help?" naked Burton Templar asked. Burton had been reading in the lilith vine covered pagan, opposite, Cato, at his feet. Together, they extracted the skirt, a fragile texture transparent with lace, a faint perfume in it. It noticed that she wore a porte bouche on her arm with a turquoise in it. It made the blond look white, it made him look like a poorly composed broke the smell of formally which usually existed between them in the library. "Are you going farther down the path? May I walk, with you?" he asked, and, having received the assent of the judge, nudged unchallent. "If you wish," he beams. WILL JONES TOOHER THEN EXTRACTED THE SKIN. "Do you know what I was thinking about, Miss Dale, as I sat there in the pagoda? I was wondering where I had met you before. Since the very first day you came I have often wondered that. I have seen you before—oh, no, there is no doubt about it—where I can't recall." "In some other incarnation, I daze day, hugged her and it when you saw him shuffle from trees or not so long ago as that? Could it—yes, she would tempt the fate and be downright contemptuous—could it have been in the days when I was in the Exchange building. One meets so many—" "The Exchange building? Ah, precisely. I recall it all now, and how I used to find myself unwittingly looking for you after that first day. But I was called upon, and when I came back you had vanished." He spoke more. "The first day? I don't quite understand, opened she "I was coming down in the elevator, harried to death my mind in a frightful state of turnoff. I found you watching me from some crowded corner, and I looked directly into your eyes." She studied her now with a smile serious and tender "I looked, and it was like bathing one's face in water." After a hot journey "she ended simply. It came back with such unmistakable vividness to Anna that she spoke spontaneously." "You did look worried." "Oh, you remember, too?" he cried, "I can't tell you how good that makes me. I couldn't get you out of my mind somehow. You see, I never did get you out of my mind. Some faces stay with us. You's stayed." The woman beside him had become very grave, feeling the heat of her pulse quicken with the distant arge of a strange joy, a joy indistinct as the tremor of an unison哭, yet all pervasive. Realizing her danger, defy she weared her mood. "Yes, I passed our old elevator boy on the street a few months ago," she remarked casually, stooping to pat the face, though it had been over a decade since I saw him. The man's face was rueful as he nodded appreciation for her tacets. Below them was the broad expanse of the Hudson, scintillating as a saphire in the glow of the summer afternoon. A sailing party steaming up river waved hats and handkerchiefs at them in pure good fellowship. It seemed good to be alive. Temple pulled two chairs under the shade of the trees, and they sat down. In the distance the cliffs of the Palladine rose and beckoned alluringly. "Do you know what I used to call them, those cliffs?" said he, seeing his companion's eyes upon them. "My enchanted palaces. When I was a child the palace of cimentment meant the future, the mysterious, inofficable future when I should be grown up, when I should be a man, when the world would be my garden, the world and life and all their riches mine to possess, and the people by whom the world and the future were inhabited, the caravailing knights, the lovely princesses. Love and glory and all manner of romance. I had their for the wishing. Did you ever have such an enchanted palace, Miss Dale?" he asked he whimily. "Yes," acquiesced she softly, falling in with his mood, the sympathetic bond which always asserted itself when she was not on guard, drawing her once again. "Oh, yes! i, too, had my enchanted palace, a mang, pinnacleled built of gold and silver, ivory, alabaster and mother of pear; the foundlings in its courts ran with perfumed waters." Her voice trailed off dreamily, and Temple thrilled with the music of it. "And its pleasance was an orchard of pomegranates. One had no need to spare one's colors, you know." She turned to him with an I know you. "He was at one with her now, responding intuitively to the play of her emotions." "And the stars left their courses to fight for you, and the winds of heaved vied with each other to prosper your galeons—want it like that?" He looked at her; she was learched listening; she was watching the sunlight catching on the tops of the Paladines. It was just as well; he was safer in his inspection of her so. "U-buh! Like that," she said, her arms mechanically following his words. "I dare say," she went on musingly, "must he that we pass the enchanted palace while we are asleep. Surely, at first, it is before us—we can see it glintening in the distance, like the peaks yonder. We shall reach it tomorrow, next month, next year. And it will be behind us. We must up and it and it is behind us. We must and we can't turn back. We must go. Her voice-ended in a little half sob. The sight of a tear trembling on her lashes cost Burton Temple a hundred conflicts with himself. He felt a sudden warmth behind his eyes and in his throat. "All he did, however, was to look big, his tongue and envy the dead their enforced responsibility, "I'm not often agitated," said Anha, raling, with an aid "slary, smile, "and you must person me that display or overdress it." But before he could have spoken, "I must really go in now." I've promised Mrs. Mason to play a game of pachiai or cribbage, or something," she faltered. So Temple, elaborately commissuring, escorted her up the red gruel path. Anna was growing excessively uneasy. For quite two hours now she'd been unexcited expecting Mrs. Mason's return from Westfield. What could be the matter? At the very least it must be the messies. Finally, however, her elder friend came in smilingly, disarming all fears. "And how's the new nurse getting on with them? Does she make Robbie wear his rubbers on wet days? Is his cold quite gone? Is Harold's finger well again? Have they did that horrid penkite?" Anna was untying Mrs. Mason's veil and pouring out her questions in a torrent. Mrs. Mason assured her that the boys were both well and happy, that the new nurse was doing beautifully and that, except for a few hours when the rascales had her locked in the chicken house, she was having a fine time. "Oh, she won't mind an inconsequential thing like the chicken house," laughed Anna, handing Mrs. Mason her well plops, "when once she's used to those boys." They locked their mother in one door and to speak them. "Little dears, Oh but I'm sick with lounging for them-sick" "I know, dearle," soothed Mrs. Mason, putting her on the back. "But I've something else to tell you. You couldn't guess why I was so late coming back? No? Well, I've been up to Robert." "You have!" Anna started no so slightly. "Is- is he well? Is he keeping up? What did he think about my being here?" "Oh, he's well, and he's keeping up. They're all very good to him. They are there through a miscarriage of justice. They treat him kindly. They're made him what they call a "grus." Anna was listening with strained attention. "You explained to him, didn't you, Mrs. Mason? You made it clear just why I left home? You made him understand that I am in a position here to find out the truth that will convict you, Mrs. Mason. Mrs. Mason plucked several imaginary threads off her skirts to hide her confusion. "At first, you know," went on Anna, "I thought it best not to let him know about my having left home. I know he would worry about the boys. But a few days ago I managed to get him and now, what does he say." Mrs. Mason still faltered. Her conscience would not permit her to tell less than the whole truth; nevertheless, she longed for some fashion in which to put it gently. "Well, he said, dear--he turned white and said he didn't want you to remain in this house. Said it didn't matter. You said you home with the children than here in Temple's house." Anna smiled "indulgeably." "Poor boy! He afraid the work will prove too hard for me. It won't. I fasten the crime yet, though it may break my heart." The final words were almost choked. She walked across to the window and stood staring out at the grim prison there. It was a little trick she had learned whenever she wished to steel herself in the fight she had undertaken. Presently she turned back—a dumb, pathetic perplexity in gray eye. "Oh, if I could get back to the condition, in which I entered this house to the clear air where there are no obscurities, no mysteries"—She spoke half to herself, but the woman in the little whips on Mrs. Mason's curtains. "What obscurities, what mysteries are you talking off?" she said sternly, "I don't understand." "No more do I—no more do it" Anna twisted and untwisted her hands in silence for a moment. "Only this I know," she said at last. "When I came here I could harden my heart and come to wage war. I could continually remember his responsibility for Robert's imprisonment. Oh, I could fight fairly and squarely. But now—" "It's strange," she went on reflectively—"strange. Now I always have to bring myself up with a deliberate effort. I have to think to hate him—I don't hate him intuitively any more. I have to think that I would voice softer oddly—"I can't describe it. He's strong, somehow. He's big and deep and earnest and illimitable strong. He draws one." CHAPTER VI. DUTY AND DESIRE. "ANA GRANGER, I'm ashamed of you, ashamed! I could tell you what the trouble is. Oh it's a degenerate age! Duty and messed me up till you don't know which is which. You can shuffle them to suit your conscience—if by reason of a few decent ancestors a person happens to have a conscience! Don't you think I've seen this thing coming. Anna? Don't you think I've been deploring the situation, doing my best to straighten it out? Why have I been harping on the children, the children, the children? Because I saw you the only king's head left to fall back upon; because I saw you were already forgetting your poor martyr husband. Oh. I've seen this man's eyes following you with the lock that can only mean one thing! I've seen"— "Mrs. Mason, it isn't true, it isn't true" Anna recooled in horror. "Is it kind, is it bearable that you should say such things to me? I have not deserved them: No, no. I have not! What right have you? I can't protect myself, I can't escape you. But—" Angela's voice flickered with passion of anger, pain, isolation and yet something else, the note of something newborn and transforming. "What right!" repeated Mrs. Mason in sharp tones of satanism: "The right of duty, the right of one-honest woman speaking to another who also wishes to keep honest. The stern old Pastor, housekeeper had made Robert Ganger stand for a leading principle. She was a woman of little individuality, quite away from her own gender identity, the one she had been taught to embrace, and the principles over her armor, who automatic impulses, dating, back to her foremothers. She had been brought up with the view that all behavior was right or wrong, correct or incorrect, as if it were not much else besides, as if it between black and white there were not many colors, all the colors of the spectrum. In fact, (1) And so to the bowed young woman before her she continued with her oracular motuces on right living and sure results, plain, one sided duty. Anna was vaguely conscious that Life Oracle was still in among the living. She heard no particular word, just the patterning murmur of word upon word ponderously delivered. "A letter for you, sir, brought by messenger," said the butter, presenting an envelope to Burton Temple. "From the detective bureau," commented he, teaching it open. And Gra- WILL JONES! "BLICK PEW!"—$90,000 IN NEW YORK CENTRAL ven, who had been pacing up and down the library excitedly, blurted out "Read it. Tell it. Nothing can come too soon, I tell you. Your indictment is hanging over your head like the sword of Damascus attached by a hair." "We have discovered," read Temple hastily, the woman for whom party has spent large sums of money, dating from time party is supposed to have been held in Rose Fanchon. Party spent a good deal of money on her but large part invested in New York Central. Securities held in party's own name, but the dividend order makes the dividend payable to the woman. Are preparing other evidence and expect to have something of greater importance soon. Hoping our work has been satisfactory and that we shall speedily be in a position to give you everything you desire, very truly, etc., "rattled off Temple. "You know," commented Craven, rubbing his lean jaw with apprehension, "follow Granger. Slick pup--$80,000 in New York Central and the dividend only to Rosie. Kepten big, stout rope on his benefaction, didn't he?" "Looks good, eh?" said Temple cheerfully, tapping the letter. "Looks good, yes, but you've got to have something that *Does* more than 'look good, old man.' You've got to have a knockout piece of evidence. Brady's going to go on the stand and perjure himself; you need a perjure somebody else if he could invade the crime," agreed Temple bitterly. A bitter mood, however, could never endure long with Burton Temple. The boy in him would never be downed. He crossed to his pipe neck, extracted his favorite mechamcham and was soon leaking back luxuriously in his chair while Craven scratched away with his goose quill. "You know, Craven, he said, 'there's no use crossing a bridge till you come to it, and, somehow, I think my luck is going to be better than that, my new secretary is responsible. She infuses me with that indomitable quality called 'hope.'" "She's a capable woman," agreed Craven grudgingly. "You'll miss her common sense and same, businesslike ways when Miss Grannith returns." "Oh?" asked Craven, coming back from his space staring with a start. Then he laughed infectionally. "Oh, yes, I shall miss her common sense and businesslike ways"—puff, puff, puff, from his pipe. "Never married, did you, Craven?" "Still same, thanks," contemptuously, while the goose quill ran a race with the pipe puffs and outdistanced them. "Fair of oldools, you and I"—puff, puff. "You know, Craven, that girl has a delicious life. If she sang it would be a mozo." Craven looked up over his glasses in disgust. "What in thunder are you driving me, the crieed." Craven laughed to Craven. "I hope there's driving at happiness. Craven, there's one thing I'll tell you straight. If this case turns out right and my honor's vindicated I'm going to marry, provided, of course, she will have me," he added teerily. Some few weeks earlier the grim lawyer would have starred, eyed and mouth wide open, at such an announcement. Some few weeks earlier he would scaffold at the notion of such a thing coming to pass, and would have demonstrated reason for the war that was impossible for Burton Temple, with his keen knowledge of the world, of the innumerable vanities and whims of womankind, ever to go the way of all flesh. But the problem, like the puzzle of the Elastic philosophers, had solved itself, "Achilles cannot catch the tortoise," but he does. It was impossible for Burton Temple to faint in love. He could not. He could head his heady admiration. "Are you ready to dictate your letters, Mr. Temple?" Folding lights, peer the threshold, a dolcate upfight on her lovely brows, the lady of his vi- SATURDAY...DECEMBER 2, 1011. alons waited. Cruven frowned. Temple smiled. Craven left the room, and Temple rose. "Letters," said be. "Oh, no, thank fortune, there are no pressing letters to dictate this afternoon; we can put them off till tomorrow." "No?" said Ann quizzically. She bowed slightly and was retreating when Temple said in that humble, mesmeric way of his: "I never knew before, Miss Dale, that you sang. I heard you in the music room a little while ago. How it would please my mother!" It had been merely a simple little lullaby, full of pretty sarcastic childings to a wakeful child, a favorite lullaby of her children. At the moment when she sang it she had felt the need of it somehow "Oh, I've no drawing room accomplishments," laughed she. "I had no early training. At home I used to mend the house linen and the down the jellies." She caught her under coral lip with bewitching sedenteness. "Your little song gave me very real pleasure nevertheless," said he, smiling. "It had a bit of removed content about it, such as might have belonged to the enchanted palaces we were speaking about the other day. Remember? Sit down, won't you, and talk to me a little? I'm lonely." Instead of sitting down Anna reached out her hands seductively to Cato, who came and pushed his big, honest nose confidingly into them. "I dare say," amused she apologetically, "those enchanted castles of ours were rather vague things wrapped in a good dewl of rosette haze and of an architecture that could scarcely have been reduced to ground plans and elevations. This is a very practical age, you know, Mr. Temple." "I know," said he, watching her with grave eyes. "Still, I'd like to hear a little about—about the prince of your enchanted palace. We hadn't got to that, you see. What must your ideal man be like, Miss Dale? Do sit down?" "My ideal man!" echoed Anna, with never so faint a touch of surprise. Then, yielding to a mood of recklessness, she sank into a low ottoman and looked straight out before her. "Well, he must be like a buoy at sea, firmly anchored to the bottom, but taking the surface as he finds; swirling with waves, not braced against them and only seeming to drift. You understand? Never floating with the current, anchored. How's that?" she answered, with a fleeting dimple. "That's good," he said earnestly, watching the slim, firm hands clasped round the woman's knees. "And the princess of your enchanted palace, Mr. Temple? What must your ideal princess be?" Still she looked out dreamily before her. "I think," said he slowly, "your definition of the prince would fit in with mine of the princess. A little lighter dancing on the surface, perhaps, a little less anchor rope, but pretty much the same." "I thank you for my sex," she murmured softly, with lovely, melting eyes. "There does seem to be a good deal of the vixen about us often," she went on, "but one thing is sure, the man who calls for the ideal in a woman may be disappointed; but, at least, he'll get more than had been in her before. His calling for the ideal will create it. The woman will try to become what he thinks she is." "Precisely," nodded Temple, "and I suppose that is why so many marriages fall—the man doesn't call for the beat?" "His business takes him in hand, that's all," commented Anna lightly. "It's the old truth about man and woman, I darenay. 'Her heart is a home, and his but an inn.' They come that way into the world, you know—the women, with the husband already in their hearts. Sometimes, in appearance, they are unfathiable to him, marrying some one else, but"— "I think it's, like that with some men, too," said he, seeing that her sentence had trailed off, vaguely into silence. "There are some men who will wed only the prototype in their heart with which they were born. There are some of us who wait and wait until she comes." He was looking down at her with that pathetically patient smile, that always demoralized her. His voice, with the wonderful music in it, was upon her. She shivered and with a deliberate effort leazed forward so that she might catch a glimpse of the prison walks across the river. "We shall know her when we meet her, don't you think?" the low, mesmeric voice went on. He had risen now and come close to the ottoman. "Her?" She pretended to be mechanically following his words, her eyes still fixed resolutely upon the prison walls, the blood within her surging hotly. "Oh, the ideal princess? Why, yes, hit. Temple, if she ever comes your way I hope you'll know her. But just think what a pedestal you've raised for her to stand upon!" The strident little laugh, almost hysterical, jarred Temple's mood horribly. In patient amazement he lifted up his eyes. He crushed to his skid and, gritting a pencil, began to sharpen it. "It was only in a general way that I established the princess' qualities" he continued, with assumed lightness. "So it isn't fair if you to poke much fun at my standard. Miss Dale. Bested, your standard, for the prince was just as high, wasn't it?" Maybe it was. But I don't believe difference, you see. He must have—oh, all sorts of impossible things." Again that ringing laugh with a jerk in it. And the jerk snapped some odd thing in Temple's simple, honest heart. "For example?" he said, in a quiet, kind way. "Oh, honor, for example, and"—A sudden understanding took him. He winced and hesitated. "And?" he pursued steadily, laying the sharpened pencil upon the desk and closing up the knife slowly. She was desperate. She was making her last tiger fight. "and a pennknife." "At least you will admit the pennknife, Miss Date." The pain in his eyes, the gentle dignity of the man's bearing, struck home, making her heart cry out. She made a quick, positive, uncontrolled little move toward him. "I—I beg your pardon. I was unwarrantably rude." An ungovernable little sob caught her breath. "They should have gone to the Scriptures for your name, Miss Dale," said he with dry lips. "You should have been called Jael. I used to wonder what the woman could have been like who had the heart to kill that poor devil Sisera. She'd have done it looking just as you do now and have done it in just the same precise way. It was always a puzzle to me how she hit the nail so straight. Women mostly fumble on the heads. I know now, Jael could kill Sisera precisely and methodically without turning a hair, and I daresay when she'd finished she cried her heart out for the job that was put upon her. I daresay she protected that poor chap's body from the jackets for the rest of that day." "I am horrible," she said brokely, "And, oh, I would have you believe me I am sorry, sorry." He looked at her again. It struck him of a sudden that there was someth- ing very childlike about her, very eternal and large. "As for my honor, Miss Dale," he said to her in a low, concentrated tone that compelled her attention. "I have nothing to say at this moment. I hope I shall have soon. But if you could trust me now while it is dark, while the tide is against me, you'd never regret it, norer in God's world." The last sentence was spoken quick- ly, passionately, the man's ordinarily calm voice quivering, never below the breaking point, dangerously near the edge of it at the close. The wild jangling of the telephone bell broke the tension of their strained emotion. Anna, being nearest, took up the receiver. "This is Esterbrook & Esterbrook," came an excited voice from the other end. "Get Mr Temple to the phone at once without delay." "Your attorneys," said Anna, handling Temple the receiver. "Yes, it's I-Temple. What—indicted? You say I'm indicted?" He was trembling like an naked leaf. Rooted to the spot as in a dream the woman heard the agitated talk at Temple's end of the wire. She heard the particulars as he gathered them. The grand jury, it appeared, had just returned an indictment against him for compulsivity in the matter of the screeching of the Gotham Trust company and the overcorrification of the check for $700,000 drawn by Cornellus Brady. A warrant had been issued for his arrest. She heard him arranging with Esterbrook over the phone for ball. Ball! That word brought her to her senses. That word broke the spell. He, the big hunter, would get ball. He would not know a prisoner's cell. He wouldn't even have to go to court until the time came to face his charge, and then—money again, and more, more money! [Name] Photo by American Press Association. Nelson Hoff, aged eight years, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hoff, residing near Pattenburg, N. J. was shot and instantly killed by his sister, Edna Hoff, aged about eleven years. During the absence of their parents the children began amusing themselves by playing "shooting chickens" in their home with their father's shotgun. When the play bogan the weapon was not loaded. Atter a time the boy, unobserved by his sister, secured a loaded shell from his father's hunting coat and placed it in the gun. He then told his sister to shoot, and when she did so the lead entered the boy's face near the mouth, killing him instantly. Edna, frightened at the horrible spectacle, hastened to the home of nearby neighbors for assistance. When the neighbors arrived they found the boy lying dead upon the floor. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. NEGRO ATTACKS WHITE WOMAN Coatesville Greatly Excited Over Latest Assault. Mrs. James Campbell Struggled With Him on Lonely Road and Beat Him Off Until Help Arrived. Mrs. James Campbell, thirty-eight years old, of 30 Chester avenue, Coatesville, Pa., was attacked by a nogro while walking along a lonely stretch of road about two miles from Coatesville. A posse of police and citizens is hunting for the nogro. Mrs. Campbell's assailant throw her to the ground and struck her twice, but she fought him off until the approach of a man and a woman from opposite directions drove him to flight in the woods. Mrs. Campbell was little injured by her experience. As soon as the alarm was spread scores of citizens turned out to aid the police in tracking the fugitive. Among the hunters—only the most picturesque and most dangerous element that has ever participated in a manhunt in this part of the country—were a number of cowboys who are employees of a wild west circus which is now in winter quarters in Coatesville. For the second time within a few months Coatesville public sentiment was stirred to the depths and threats were openly made that the assailant would not be allowed to reach jail alive if the police were behind at the capture. Mrs. Campbell, the wife of an iron worker, who has lived in the borough for many years and is well known, was on her way from her home to that of her brother, Frank McClese, in the country. She was walking up the Black Horse hill, about two miles from Coatesville, when she first saw the colored man. The road at that point runs through a stretch of woods which extend on both sides for long distances, and the neighborhood is particularly isolated and lonely. The colored man suddenly stepped out of the woods, where he apparently was lying in wait for a victim, and threw his arms about Mrs. Campbell. She screamed and struck him in the face. He thereupon throw her to the ground. She struggled upright and he struck her in the face. Again she arose and once more he knocked her down. Mrs. Campbell was screaming continuously, and Miss Johanna Irwin, who was driving along the road in a carriage, heard the cry, whipped up her horse and soon appeared close at hand. At almost the same moment Lovil Millinger, of Coatesville, appeared from the other direction, and the negro, who was stockily and powerfully built, fled into the woods. Miss Irwin took Mrs. Campbell into her carriage and drove rapidly to Coatesville, where she placed Mrs. Campbell in care of a physician and notified Chief of Police Umatd. Chief Urmsted at once summoned every policeman he could reach and started on the trail of the assailant. News of the attack spread quickly and soon mon singly and in groups were leaving town, many of them being armed, and taking up the trail of the negro. Some person telephoned to the headquarters of the wild west show, and the cowboys, nothing loath for a little excitement, mounted their bronchos, colled their lariats and, with enormous "six-guns," or revolvers, on their hips, set off at a wild gallop in search of the man. The negro's described as being very large and having a very black skin, with a scar on his face. This, it is hoped, will aid in quick identification. Miss Irwin, who rescued Mrs. Campbell, declarates that about a year ago, while she was passing the same spot on the road, a negro fired a gun at her, but did not hit her, and she escaped. Later another hold-up by a negro was reported to the polico. Mrs. Fred Russell, of Oak street, was stopped while driving to Contesville from Erickdillon, directly opposite the place where Zach Walker was burned, by a negro who in some respects answers the description of the first negro. Mrs. Russell whipped up her-horse and got away. The negro shot after her. 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ONLINE PARK Schedule in Effect May 14, 1911 Leave Hyrd站 station, Richmond, FOR NOHFOLK: b10 A. M. *9:00 A. M. a5:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHFOLK: b10 A. M. *9:00 A. M. a5:00 P. M. FOR LYNCHFOLK AND THE WEST: *9:00 A. M. *10:00 A. M. a5:00 P. M. *9:20 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: a1:40 A. M. b15 A. M. *9:35 P. M. b10 15 P. M. *11:20 P. M. *9:35 P. M. b10 15 P. M. b15 15 P. M. *9:00 P. M. *9:00 P. M. *daily, afaily except Sunday, Sunday only, Pulliam, Parlor and Sleeping Car, Care Dating Car* D. P. A. Richmond, W. W. D. BEVILL, G. P. A. Richmond, W. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE JULY 2, 1911 TRANS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A. M. and 7:35 P. M. 1:00 A. M. Charleston. For Norfolk: **"8*10 9:00 A. M. "8:00 P. M.** for N. W. W. P. 9:00 A. M. 10:00 for N. W. W. P. 9:20 A. M. For Petersburg: 1:00 A. M. 6:15 A. M. **"8:10 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 10:00 A. M.** for 4:10 P. M. 6:05 P. M. **"7:00 A. M. 7:35 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 11:45 P. M. For Goldberg on 4:10 P. M. 14:10 P. 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Birmingham, polite. 11:12 P. M.-Florida Limited, daily, except daylight. 11:35 P. M.-Sheepsen and coaches, Savannah. 11:45 P. M.-Florida Limited, Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive Rickmond daily: 8:32 A. M.-Local to Norrilla. 8:36 P. M.-6:00 A. M.-6:46 P. M. except Monday, 8:06 P. M.-6:46 P. M. The PLANET is read all over this country and in foreign jails, Always Losing His Boat A colored man calling himself, "Captain John E. Simpson" and at times sailing under other names has been persistently awfulilling both white and colored people in Nortor- Portsmouth, Newport News and Phoebus. His plan has been to re- present that he has money in a col- ored bank in this city. He gets his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr. President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some like amount at once to the person who is writing the letter-or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Blohm. He alleges that he is captain of a sailing vessel, which according to his letters has been lost near Thimble 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 M. Simpson or anybody who looks after him. RE PLANET Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL, JR., at All N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., ... EDITOR all communications introduced for publication should be sent as to reach us by Wednesday. 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The court has decided that subscribers to newspapers who do not send money for another period of time for which it has been paid are liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discount. COMMUNICATION - When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address otherwise we cannot find your name on leaves. CHANGE OF ADDRESS — In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent the banner as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second-class matter. BATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 1911. We know our racial weakness and we are getting some knowledge of our racial strength. We must continue to improve our financial condition, and this will ultimately lead to the restoration of our political power There is no use worrying about trouble, keep going ahead, good times and happiness will come again after a while We are in the position now where individual friendships cultivated with white men in this section of the country will aid us much. We cannot afford to countenance the disreputable, dissolute, trouble-breeding, insulting members of our race. They injure us as much as they do themselves. When the colored citizen had the right to vote there was no talk about separate cars and the segregation of a colored citizen. The politicians were afraid to even make such a suggestion. Colored folks should remember that, when they lost the ballot they lost their right to many privileges of a citizen. A voteless citizen is very much like a cur dog—every one is kicking him around. Teach your children politeness colored mon, and instruct them carefully in the rules of good breeding Bad manners and boorishness will injure them and handicap us. The disfranchisement of the colbrd citizen is now leading to the denial of the right of franchise to the white citizen. Thousands of poor white men are as voteless as the nogroos, whom they have been abusing. There are thousands of noble-hearted white people in the Southland who believe in us, and who will do every reasonable thing in their power to help us. We cannot afford to estrange or 'offend them. THE EXECUTION OF BEATTIE. The execution of Henry Clay Boste, Jr. Friday November 24th in the Virginia Penitentiary and his confession that he was guilty of the murder of his wife show that crime is not confined to any one race or to the ignorant and the violace. This act was so "incomprehensible that thousands of people believed in his innocence because they could not bring themselves to believe in his guilt, despite the damaging evidence to the contrary We followed every phase of this remarkable case. We saw Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. at Chesterfield county courthouse and looked at his father, whose placid countenance involuntarily awakened sympathy. We could not see any loop hole by which he could escape Detective Scherer and the Richmond, Va Police Department and the corp of officers led by the one and the other had gathered much additional evidence which, while it could not be used at the trial, nevertheless could be considered by His Excellency, William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia. For example, the blood hounds, when carried to the scene of the murder immediately after the crime was committed never left the spot, but actually jumped up into the automobile in which Beattie had been seated. It was a relief then when Beattie himself admitted his guilt. There are sentimentalists, individuals who do not believe in circumstantial evidence, who artically believed thrown out all it that Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. was the victim of a terrible mistake. All of that talk is now stopped forever. Governor Mann comes forth in a light, not seen before by many, and necessarily feels gratified. No one looking at Benttie would have singled him out as a murderer. He looked to be a "good timer" who would not harm a 'chick or child'. He was the petted child of forgune and in a measure, the very indulences a corded him by a loving father were the cause of his undoing. He spared the rod and he spoiled the child'. Henry Clay Benttie, Jr. is the least injured of all of them for he has darkened a home forever and he has thrown a pall over every member of an honored family They must live on, suffering the torture of disgrace, which to a high-spirited person is worse than death while the lone babe which he made motherless and the stern power of the State has made fatherless will live in shame, being unable to change its name or to lose its identity in this world. The action of the Virginia authorities has been highly creditable. It may not be out of place to remark that the follies and fobiles of the colored folks are intensified by the actions of white people of the Beattie type. It is this class of white people that many of them prefer to imitate and their high social standing and good relationship to some of the best families in this State would seem to justify them in pursuing the same policies which they pursue. They should guard against this however and pursue the narrow path of virtue and correct living remembering that as the electric current raced through the mortal frame of Henry Clay Beatle in the mystic electric sign before his eyes flashed out the words to him. The wages of sin is death. He has gone the way of all the earth and if his going will tend to awaken the dissolute white and colored young men to a realization of their dangerous position and cause them to lead lives of rectitude, then this young man will not have yielded up his life in vain. The District Court of Chesterfield, the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, the Governor of Virginia have done yoonman service to check crime. I let an hope that for a decade at least, we shall witness no such barbarous act as the one which has disgraced the young degenerate and plunged the citizens of his county in the direct shame. The law has been vindicated and Justice beatified THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK There can no longer be any doubt as to the antipathy, not to say open rupture, now existing between President William Howard Taft and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. There is some doubt in some quarters as to whether the latter will content himself with simply bringing about the dofeat of the distinguished occupant of the White House or will appear again upon the earnest solicitation of friends as a candidate against him. We are of the opinion that he will not come out as a candidate unless he is sure that his nomination is a foregone conclusion. There is one thing certain, and that is that if Hon. Theodore Roosevelt can encompass the dofeat of Hon. W. H. Taft as a candidate, then Hon. W. H. Taft can bring about the dofeat of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt as a candidate. Both distinguished statesmen have powerful hacking. It is an open question, too, as to whether the business interests of the country can be brought to the support of Mr. Roosevelt. His recent utterances may well be regarded as a bid for their support, and if he would "stay bitched" he could rely upon the support of this powerful factor in any political campaign. It may be, though, that the very thought of the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt will drive these interests back to the support of President Taft, who may decide to change front and steer a course which would take him out of the category of the reactionaries, who would disturb business. If Governor Woodrow Wilson would prove to be another Grover Cleveland, the situation would be amplified, or if Governor Judeon Harmon was sure of a nomination at the hands of the Democratic party, an amusing condition of affair would present itself. Governor Harmon would be deserted by the radical Democrats of the Champ Clark and William J Bryan type, but would be supported by the business interests which would lend to make up for the large slump that would be the logical result of the disagreements in his own party We regret to say that President Tatt has done more than blunder. His attitude has been humiliating and embarrassing to the rank and file of his party. He has in many instances acted like a ship without a rudder, a mariner without a chart. He has forgotten apparently all about the Constitution of the United States and the fundamental principles of his party, yielding in the goodness of his heart to this one and that one until he has invited the derision and contempt of thousands of his own devoted followers, who would otherwise have supported him. (By Bruce Grit) Rather than use the power of my office in deterring white men from punishing that nigger bruto. I would have done to lone path and led the mob. The above statement is said to have been made by Governor Blease of South Carolina recently in response to request made to him to use the power of his office as Governor to prevent the lynching of another burly negro. Gov Blease is a democrat, a member of the same political party as W J. Bryan, Champ Clark, Senator Jeff Davis, Gov Harmon of Ohio, Gov Dix of New York, Hardman and all the rest of the democratic notableities and clerks. Do Negro Democrats in the Northern and Western States like this sentiment coming from the Democratic Governor "a Democrat State"? How can Negroes in the North and West consistently endorse and support a party which holds their race in such contempt? And how is it possible for any Negro democrats to defend the Democratic Party from the charge of being the implacable enemy of his race? In New York City, Vankers and other cities and towns in this State at the last State election white Northern Democrats bought Negro votes at from $2 to $5 a piece and bought them in droves, be it said to their eternal shame and disgrace. There are thousands of black men in every Southern State where disfranchisement laws are in force who would esteem it a high privilege to be permitted to vote, and would seize to sell their bridge of citizenship—the ballot for nordid gold. Some of the Negroes in New York and other Northern and Western States are originally from Southern States and have relatives in these States who cannot vote because of the aid and encouragement colored Northern Democrats are giving to the Democratic Party in State and Nation, to keep it in power. It is a dirty bird that fouls its own nest." The leader of the Democratic Negroes in Yonkers is a former student at Hampton, and by his own confession a Democrat. His parents were slaves in North Carolina and they represent in their old age, the evil genius of the Democratic Party which left them in ignorance and poverty and want. Their son represents the New Negro with all his aplaid possibilities and yet his face is turned in the wrong direction and his name is Ichabod. When Judas had betrayed the Christ for 30 places of silver, he went out and hanged himself. The Negro to-day is hanging upon a cross of suffering as a result of the craft of the white man and the treachery of black men. I will never forget a conversation I had in Baltimore. Md. some fifteen or more years ago, with General Bradley T. Johnson. C. S. A., who was then practicing law in that city, I was publishing a weekly newspaper there at the time, called The Commonwealth. Though born in the State I was a stranger to Baltimore and for the first three or four weeks needed a chaperon familiar with the city and the haunts of prospective subscribers. In the late Joe Briscoe of that city the man I needed. He knew everybody worth knowing and was well known to politician on both sides of the fence. Through his good offices. I met Col. Charles M. Marshall, who carried the message from Leo to Grant at Appomattox, also a prominent attorney in that city; S. Tookle Wallig, another and a greater lawyer than either of the former, and an author of note. I told those gentlemen that I was publishing a Republican weekly news paper and that I knew they wore Democrats, that the subscription-list was open and the tariff was $3 per. Every one of them, to my surprise, subscribed, and wished the venture success. On meeting General Johnson in his office, I was somewhat horrified by the vulgar of his language. and the variety of his cuss word (and he could cuss some.) He was a grunt and hearted man, a typical Southern man, frank, honest in his convolutions. After he had cursed a page or two out of his vocabulary of double-ribbed adjectives, he pulled out his heath or wallet and produced the price of a year's subscription, saying as he passed the money over to Joe Briscoe "If ah was a Nigra ahd' be a radical republican and ah don't blame you follows for 'being republicans. You can be nutt, n else, and be honest. Ah'm a democrat and ah'm proud of it by gad, sah! Ahu it to keep you Nigra in slavery. Ouah side loot, your side won and you are now all free men. Ah' shi got a blankety blan't bit o' use for a Nigra democrat. Nigra can be a democrat 'thou being hat and most of them are graffers and mah. Ah can understand why he Gnats can be a republican. He Gnats can be an admirer that party and he would be an admirer to desert it. But I can understand how any Nigra can be a democrat knowing that oush party is again all his inspirations and ambitions and doesn't really need him or his vote. There aint no place in the democratic party for Nigras." I have often thought of this con- versation when reading the loud and bombastic declarations of our colored democratic friends who think they are democrats and vie with white men in that party in professions of loyalty to its principles. How white democrats must laugh at the oral gymnastics of their black and saffron hued brethren Thomas Moore was one of the of a has the and his his til on- ot- se S. 14 REV. T. P. HARRIS A PATHER IN ISRAEL HAS FALLEN ASLEEI (Continued From Page Number) ONE. in business religion and societies Roy Harris leaves only a son, Mr. John Wm Harris, of this city. 1 The funeral services of Rev T P Harris were held at Antioch Baptist Church, Powhatan Co. 2d Sunday in November, where the old servant of God had labored and held his membership for over 50 years. It was here Rev. Thomas Green, of this city was seen at his best. The Reverend brother preached a very logical, instructive and sympathetic sermon. The people seemed to be greatly edified, and gave God the glory. Rev. Green and Rev Harris had been closely allied and great friends for many years. Several other pastors, brothers and sisters, made short biblical addresses. Hundreds of people came from many miles to do honor to the homeland of God's chosen shepherd. In many friends from this city were those. The St. Lakes were out in full and paid marked honor to this dear old member. "Servant of God, well done; Rest from thy loved employ. The battle fought, the victory won. 314 Enter thy Master's joy, etc." The grand old oak has fallen-- Pence to his ashes W. H. C. Make your spare Profital We require a representation is in touch with its best citizens THE CRISIS, the national work is dignified and profitable. ADDRESS THE CRISIS, 20 Ves Make your spare moments Profitable. We require a representation in RICHMOND who is in touch with its best citizens to take subscriptions for THE CRISIS, the national Negro Magazine. The work is dignified and profitable. ADDRESS THE CRISIS, 20 Vesey St., New York, N. Y. BASKET BALL The Dunbar Technical Athletic Association, viz, D. T. A. A. SQUAD, NO. 1 vs. D. T. A. A. EQUAD, NO. 2. Miss MARY B. AMMONS, Capt. Miss PHARL L. BLAUND, Capt. Followed by the D. T. A. A. MEN'S SQUAD, R. E. T. WALHER, Capt vs. V. U. U. BASKET BALL, TEAM, A. F. STEPHENS, Capt. Squads No. 1 and 2 will be called to Order by the Referee at 8:15 P. M. DOORS OPEN at 7:30. A Grand Recognition after the Games. Music Furnished by the University Orchestra. Tickets on Sale. SEE PLAGARD. J. ANDERSON DAVER W. L. MARSHALL. (and sweetest of Irish poets, and he some-gruff times dipped his purl in vitrol. One typical instance of this is shown in a poem st in which he wrote on the "American Flag." I will quote only a few two stanzas: I live-thought Who can with a patience in a moment see he the motive) times of pride and miseryisce Of whips and charters, murmacles and dical you Of slaving blacks and democratic Yo' host. And all this plobald policy that d of you In free confusion o'er Columbia's lost, plains. To think that man, thou just and kelly! gentle God! Should stand before thee with aHOUT are O'er crucible like himself with dor-der-re Yet unto be of perfect liberty th' Away, away, I'd rather hold my in- un- By doubtful tenure from a Sultan's o a bock, y is in chines, where liberty has scarced tons been named this Nor any right but that of ruling the claimed Than thus to live where boasted con- Freedom waves and her funatian flag in mockery over red slaves, they Where motley laws (admitting no white degrees) of Betwist the basely slaved and madly white free, oral Allike the bondage and the license suit The bravo made ruler and the man made heute! (TO BE CONTINUED.) Man found Frozen to Death He sold his tobacco but failed to buy for himself one of those warm 96 cents Undersuit and one of those long, all-wool Overcaps for $6.50 So he died a horrible death. We now warm those who are living to go and see the clothing doctor and get your winter supplies for yourself and family. You will find there heavy fleece suits for boys and girls 50 cents and 60 cents per suit, same things in men and women, 80 cents, Boys' school suits from $1.50 to $6 and $7. Men's suits all-wool, from $6.50 to $18.00, made up in the pog log style. You will also find there a good line of Working Pants and Heavy Shirts Pants, from $1.00 to $1.98. The Farmers and Hard Working People will make a big-mistake by not patronizing this store. We figur you can save from 10 to 20 percent on the dollar by trading there and at the same time you will be building up one of our race. Please call and see him before spending your money elsewhere. All goods guaranteed or money refunded I. J. MILLER, Prop. 314 E Broad St (Wrong Side) Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Daniel W. Adams of this city will locate in Petersburg, Va., where he will enter the Real Estate field. share moments table. Station in RICHMOND who ents to take subscriptions for normal Negro Magazine. The table. Vesey St., New York, N. Y. Experiences in Louisiana long expecting it. I thought of home, of friends and wondered what the day would bring forth. The amazement of my friends, as well as their gratification over the result of my last night's experience, had sad me to thinking. I was now in the hot-bed of racial intolerance, a locality where a colored man had but few rights a white man was bound to respect. And yet I know the Southland, its charleshed traditions, its remarkable prejudices, its better class of white men and had been during all of my lifetime well acquainted with the better class of white ladies. WHERE DANGER LIES But it was the outsider that some seemed to Tear, the Negro hater from the parishes of Louisiana, the plains of Texas or the morasses of Mississippi. The feeling was but momentary. It passed away, and after breakfast I was ready to find out what the day had in store for me. I went to Canal street, and after walking several blocks was directed as to how I could reach the Athenaium, the meeting place of the American Bankers' Association. I saw Lee Circle and Glen Lee Monnouton. It consists of a stone column standing about 150 feet high, on which is a bronze full-length figure of Major General R. E. Lee. He stands as if in life, wearing the well-known slouch hat of the Confederates. POLICE OFFICERS PRESENT The fine building in which the American Bankers' Association men was also a feature. A dotail of police officers, wearing the "spick and span" uniform of the service, attracted attention. As I walked up to the entrance they eyed me curiously but respectfully. I walked into the building, then up the stairway where the meeting was in progress! Messenger boys thrust literature into my hands and others accorded to me all of the privileges and considerations of any other delegate. A colored employee, Mr. Craig, had charge of the checkroom, while two colored malds stood at the other side eyeing in amazement the advent of the only colored banker ever seen in New Orleans, Louisiana, during all of its history, within the confines of such a palatial establishment and associating with gentlemen owning the wealth of the nation. MAGNIFICENTLY DECORATED. A white messenger approached the glanced at the pin and emblem on the lapel of my boat and asked "From what State?" He wont with me and showed me where it was located Virginia bankers had arrived I nodded a respectful recognition to those whom I know and then sat down. The hall was decorated from the stage to the door. Flags bunting, palms and flowers could be seen. In the galleries sat the ladies and visitors. As a rule, ladies are not allowed upon the floor of the American Bankers' Association. There was many an eye strained in order to see the one peculiar individual in this association—and that was the Negro banker from Virginia. THE WORK OF THE SESSION The people knew of the Negro In connection with and associated with poverty. Thousands of them had never heard of him in connection with and associated with wealth. To them this was a revelation, and as for the object of their amusement he saw them and didn't see them. He heard them and didn't hear them. President F. O. Waltis of Nashville, Teen., called the meeting to order, and after prayer the work of the association began. All of the bankers stood while the prayer was being delivered. The importance of the session was due to the fact that ex-Sonator Nelson W. Aldrich, as chairman of the Monetary Commission, was to make a report at this session. This commission, at the earnest suggestion of the American Bankers' Association, had been appointed by President Wm. H. Taff, and it had been studying the question of currency for several years, visiting all of his leading countries of the Old World. RAPID INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP. They had embodied their idea in a report entitled "Suggested Plan for Monetary Legislation." This was subject to such modification and amendments as the body might see fit to offer. President Watts stated that the membership of the association when it met in New Orleans nine years ago was 6,354. Its present membership is 12,253. There had been an increase of 827 since last year. The general secretary, Col. Fred E. Farnworth, was complimented upon the thoroughness displayed in the discharged of his duties and the general efficiency of his department. He declared that he was of the opinion that "it is not the police power or detective agency that is a terror to criminals, but it is the power behind them—in other words, it is the American Banker" Association and its proven determination to apprehend that deters criminals from committing deprudations on its members." THE LINE OF SUCROSSION. The death of Mr. William Hanhart, the efficient secretary of the Savings Bank Section was referred to. He was thoroughly imbued with the spirit of progress, and his death was a great gift to that department. President Watt's did not fail to express his disapproval of the actions of the so-called insurgents who were endeavoring to break the line of succession in electing a president and vice-president of the American Bankers' Association. As the matri- tor now stands, a member must be first elected so the Executive Council. He then the year following be- comes vice-president, and then he is the next president of the great financial organization having had the neces- sary experience and training so seasonal to his elevation to that im- portant office. MUCH MONEY COLLEQTED. It was brought out in the report of Chairman Charles H. Hutteg, of the Executive Council, that the American Bankers' Association is the greatest and strongest organization of its kind in the world. Secretary Farnaworth's report showed that the total income of the Association during the past year was $205,728.94. Then followed the report of the treasurer. It may be well to state that the Association met at 10 o'clock each day, took a recess at 1 o'clock and met again at 2:30 P. M., adjourning for the day at 5 P. M. JOHN MITCHELL, JR DR. WASHINGTON CARRIES NEW ENGLAND Addresses Crowded Meetings in and About Boston — Enthusiastically Received by Harvard Students. Boston, Mass., Nov. 29 — During the past week Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Institute, has been in and about Boston and Now England busily engaged in delivering a series of addresses, and bringing to thousands a message of hope and optimism regarding the failure of the Negro in America. The leaders of thought and opinion in this section have been thrilled by the eloquence and agnerness of his utterances, and everywhere he has been enthusiastically received. Thursday night, October 23d, Dr. Washington spoke to a cultured audience in the large Colonial Theatre at St Johnsbury, Vermont. Arriving in Boston on Friday, he spoke that evening under the auspices of the Brotherhood Club of the West Medford. Congregational Church, one of the most fashionable houses of worship in that wealthy suburb. On Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock Dr. Washington was the guest of honor at a luncheon given at the Twentieth Century Club, an organization composed of the most prominent business and professional men in the Hub City, and one which just two days before had entertained President Lowell of Harvard University. At 2 30 o'clock that same afternoon Dr. Washington spoke under the auspices of the Heptopean Club, the most exclusive women's literary organization in Somerville, Mass., and one of the largest women's clubs in New England. The elimax of Dr. Washington's series of triumphal meetings was reached Monday night, October 27th, when he addressed the Harvard students at the Harvard Union Clubhouse, 16 Cambridge, Mass. The large living room of the union was packed with students, professors and their friends, and standing room was at a premium. The subject of Dr. Washington's address was "Negro Progress." Taking the figures of the last consus, he showed the wonderful progress made by the Negro in the last ten years. His talk was full of wit and wisdom, and time and again he was cheered to the echo, and at the conclusion given an ovation such as only college students know how to give. A Harvard professor who was president was heard to say "Dr. Washington's address tonight was one of the finest I have ever heard anywhere, and I have heard all the great orators of our time. In the matter of holding an audience and arousing their enthusiasm, I consider Dr. Washington the peer, if not the superior, of any living orator." 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 advice. We take the Bible as our guide. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but 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 joyful forebodings; the separated are united and many bad habits cured. My sabrata teach you how to control others; how to speculate; how to succeed in business; how to gain health, wealth and happiness. Just follow the instructions and success and power is yours to have and to hold. Positively no attention paid to letters unless one dollar is enclosed. "Address all communications to M. Booker, 806 Wylie avenue, Pittsburgh, ```markdown ``` From New York AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS. (Allen's National News Bureau.) New York City November 27—Thanksgiving, the national holiday was fittingly observed in the Metropolis. Various entertainments, dinners and religious services made the day notable and will be a long time before Afro-Americans in the Metropolis will forget the day. New York known for its hustle and bustle took the day off and joined with the Nation in rendering thanks unto the Lord for his many blessings. The poorer families of the Metropolis notably those who live in the East side and who ecko out a living from year to year had cause to be thankful for ample provision was made for their comfort. At the Young Men's Christian Association, as well as the Y. W. C. A. and other institutions, special Thanks giving dinner was served and an open house was kept for visitors and strangers. Various other house socials and other events added to the significance of the day. The annual union Thanksgiving service of all the churches was held at St Marks M. E. Church in West 53d Street. The service was a notable one and a large attendance was noted. Special Thanksgiving music was rendered by a Choir representing the various churches who joined in the service. The annual Thanksgiving Sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. W. R. Lawton, pastor of the St. James Presbyterian Church and one of the most noted pastors in the Metropolis. The sermon of Dr Lawton was optimistic and a review of the progress the Negro has made during his 40 years' existence as free men. Dr Lawton said although the situation of the Negro was critical, we had something to be Thankful for. The sermon of Dr. Lawton was one of the best discourses heard on a similar occasion. Other noted divines present and who participated in the services were Revs. W. H Brooks of St. Marks M. E. Church, G. H. Simms of Union Baptist Church, H. A. Booker of St. Paul Baptist at Church, W. P. Hayes of Mt Olivet Baptist Church; F. A. Cullen of Salem M. E. Church and Rev. Blahop of St. Phillips, P. E. Church. The Union Service is a movement which began among the clergymen several years ago and has since become the custom. The aim of the meeting is to bring all the churches together once a year in annual Thanksgiving and talk over the general progress that has come to the race during the year. Since the inauguration of the Union service much has been accomplished to bring the churches together. MEMORIAL MEETING FOR WEN DELL PHILLIPS. Afro-Americans of the Mot洛朋ts went down on record in honoring the memory of Wendell Phillips, the noted Abolitionist and champion of human cause. Two notable meetings were held in the Mot洛朋ts in honor of Phillips and each of them was largely attended and noted for the unbound enthusiasm of the gatherings. Perhaps the most notable was the one held at St. James Presbyterian Church under the auspices of the New York Historical and Literary Society. This meeting was interesting from the large number of prominent men and women attended and the list of well known people dressed the meeting. A feature of the meeting was the singing of antebolium songs by a picked quartetto, Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, who often been called Andrew Carnegie's double and who has long been identified with national life neglected. In an address characteristic of the Ex-Governor the life and works of Phillips were reviewed and the audience heard how he sacrificed his life for the liberty of the Nogro and how he helped to create a favorable sequel in his behalf. The principal address was delivered by Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, who has recently gone into journalism. The address of Col. Simmons was in keeping with his general reputation as an orator. Mrs. Ardello Mitchell recited several poems appropriate for the occasion. Others present and spoke were Dr. A. S. Reed, President of the Society and A. M. Robinson a graduate of Yale College. The meeting was a notable one. THE SECOND MEETING The second meeting in honor of Wendell Phillips was held at the old Henry Ward Beecher Church in Brooklyn. The meeting which was attended by a large number of whites was held under the auspices of the National Association for the Advance mont of Colored People. The speakers were Rev. Dr. R. C. Ransom, pastor of Bethol A. M. E. Church; W. E. B. DuBois of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Oswald G. Villard of the Evening Post and Rev. Dr. John Hayes Holmes, pastor of the Church of the Messiah. Like the meeting at St. James, a feature was the singing of ante-bolium songs by a choir of trained colored singers. PROF. MITCHELL IN THE METRO-POLIS. Prof. Arthur W. Mitchell, one of the most prominent of the younger educators of the race and who is the Principal and Founder of the West VAN DE VYVER COLLEGE 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. Alabama Institute at Parnola, Alabama, while was recently destroyed by fire is in the Metropolis in the interest of rebuilding the school. Besides erecting a new school Prof Mitchell aims to build a Negro colony in the Alabama section of his School. The Colony is to be a model Negro community to be controlled entirely by members of the race. Although the loss to Prof. Mitchell was heavy, he has come North confident that he will raise the amount necessary to carry out his plans. $50,000 is the amount Prof. Mitchell hopes to raise and he has already been promised aid by the influential white citizens of Alabama if he are willing to bring a certain amount. The proposition states that if he raises $7,50,000, he will be give an additional $26,000 and his plans will be realized. Prof. Mitchell has set about to raise the amount and is meeting with considerable encouragement. A large Mass Meeting in the interest of the movement at which many prominent men will speak will be held at St. Marks M. E Church in the near future. Prof. Mitchell has an interesting career and his story of a hard struggle in working his way upward. He graduated from Tulane University and shortly after graduation founded the West Alabama Institute-for-young men and women. The School has had a fast growth and was becoming a noted educational center. COLONEL SIMMONS BACK IN JOURNALISM. Col. Roscoe Cockling Simmons who recently resigned his post as editor of the New York Age has gone back to Journalism. He will edit a national weekly in New York and aims to make it one of the strongest newspapers of the race. The news of Mr. Simmons' intention of remaining in the Metropolis and edit a weekly will be received by his many friends gladly. As an editorial writer, Mr. Simmons has come into much prominence. He has a large number of friends who are anxious to see him succeed. He made a tour of Virginia recently and was greeted on all sides. The news service of the now weekly will be furnished by 'Allen's National News Bureau. BISHOP WALTERS HEADING HOMEWARD. Bishop Alexander Walters, the noted Zion Churchman and race champion and who has been in the South holding his annual conferences is due to arrive in the Metropolis about December 6th. Information reached this bureau that while South Bishop Walters made many notable addresses and was the recipient of much attention. The Bishop has much ahead of him this year and will be one of the speakers at the large mass-mooting to be held at Mt Olive Baptist Church December 12th in the interest of the "On to Washington Movement." Bishop Walters promises to give out some interesting statements on reaching the Metropolis that will be presented over the largest conference in the connection, the North Carolina Conference. In the Metropolis Bishop Walters wields considerable influence and is regarded as one of the most prominent Churchman in the country. His Episcopal residence in the Metropolis is the scene of many brilliant and intellectual gatherings. The rumor sent out from Thompson's National News Bureau some time ago of Bishop Walters' intention of giving up his residence here created much air in the Metropolis. The Bishop denied the rumor, who was good news to his friends in the city. Bishop Walters stands high in professional circles and is easily the most distinguished prelate in the race. At the great Ecumenical Conference held at Toron to Canada a few weeks ago, unusual honors came to Bishop Walters. DR. CORROTIERS AND THE BISHOPRIG. The minds of Zionites are centered on Charlotte, N. C. the scene of the General Conference, which meets in May, 1912. Besides the general officers which are to be elected, the most interesting feature will be the election of the three new Blisshops Prominent among the candidates in the Rev. Dr. S. L. Corrothers, the noted Washinholt- divine and pastor of the Gathralth A. M. E. Zion Church at the Mount of Olives, made up of record as a Churchman and stands high in the National affairs of the country. He has been endorsed by the New England Conference which recently THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SIX DEPARTMENTS. DEPARTMENT will prepare Journalism. DEPARTMENT offers a Stenography and Typewrit SCIENCE DEPARTMENT will mery, Housekeeping, Cook DEPARTMENT will embrace STRUCTION DEPARTMENT Automobile School Op nd terms apply, HANNIGAN, President, 70 met at New Haven and other religious bodies. The opinion is that Dr. Corrothers would nobly grace the chair of the Bishopric. SOME INTERESTING WOMEN OF THE RACE. The race has many interesting women, many of whom have achieved a national reputation. Among the interesting women of the race are Mrs Mary B. Talbert, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is the president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Talbert is an unusually accomplished woman and is a graduate of Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio. While at Oberlin she made a high record and was one of the commencement speakers. Mrs. Talbert is the only coed woman a member of the Collegiate Alumnae Association and represents her alma mater—Oberlin. Mrs. Lolita Walters, wife of Bishop Walters, is distinguished in many directions, and is a prominent club worker and speaker. She is in an especially brilliant conversationalist, and takes a keen interest in matters pertaining to the race and its problems. At the recent session of the Woman's Home and Forign Missionary Society Mrs. Walters was made life matron of the society—an unusual honor. Mrs. Walters presides over her home with a true womanly dignity. Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall, of Washington, D. C., and president of the Washington Conservatory of Music, is one of the most accomplished musicians of the race. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was formerly a teacher of music in the public schools of Washington. Mrs. Belle P. Coleman, of Chicago and now of Buffalo, is a young woman of rare attaintments and a brilliant conversationalist. She will take up her studies soon at Froderick Douglas-Hospital at Philadelphia. M. M. C. Lawton, of Brooklyn, is a woman of great papar woman of much ability. She is a member of the staff of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Union. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS Your correspondent addressed a meeting at the Y. M. C. a last Sunday afternoon and told about his trip to Toronto, Canada, at the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols spoke before a large audience at Lenox Casino last Friday evening on the "Economic Status of the Negro." On to Washington seems to be the slogan. The movement is getting into shape. Rev. Dr C. T. Walker, of Augusta, is due in the city in the near future. The Georgia State Fair at Macon was said to be a howling success. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. Correspondent. Farmville (Va:) News. Farmville, Va., Nov. 27, 1911. The revival services at the A. M. E Church, conducted by Rev. Jacob Reynolds (Rov. Flood pastor) will continue through this week. There has been one conversion during these meetings. Rev. Jones, of Prospect, preached an able sermon at 8 P. M. Rev. R. G. Adams, pastor, administered the Lord's Suppor at First Baptist Church at 11:80 A. M. The committee on Thanksgiving dinner at First Baptist Church is in laboring hard to bring success. Many thanks given by the church to the oyster suppor at Elv Street Church in the benefit of insurance of First Church. Mr. Robert Mayo, baggage agent at the N. and W. station, is in New York city for a few days. Mr. J. R. Hughes has moved from South street to his now home on Budd's Hill. Mrs. Jones, of Marietta, Ohio, who has been visiting Mrs. Thomas Bolding. of Ely street, will return home this week. She seems to be delighted with her visit to Farmville. The little child in the car of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Mason, was burned in their home last week, died, and the body was illuminated from the home by Rev. Adams. Mr. Thomas Jeffress, after a few days' illness, was seen on Sunday. Farmville is a good field for a good teacher in vocal and instrumental music to locate. It is also a fine field for several business enterprises among our people. Diving to its location, it is in easy touch with three countries, from which work --- are its Students to Take us a thorough training in I writing. will be in charge of the best baking and Fine Laundry W ince Vqcal Culture, Piano, NT will fit a limited num opens October 15, 1911. 09 North First Street, Ri CAPE MAY CITY Finest Equippod hotel for our and Winter Rates. Table Unsurpa modorate. Booklet Great Combi Send us $2.00 and s and The Crisis for one year The Crisis is the magazine Association for the advanceme Make money order Company, etc. CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY. Flinest Equipped hotel for our people in this country Special Fall and Winter Rates. Table Unsurpassed. Private Baths En suite. Prices modorate. Booklet E. W. DALE. Great Combination Offer. Send us $2.00 and secure the Richmond Planet and the Crisis for one year and thereby save 50 cents. The Crisis is the magazine published by the National Association for the advancement of colored people, etc. Make money order payable to Planet Publishing Company, etc. can draw on a large number of our people, who are willing to patronize those of us who may go into business on safe basis and will treat the people with the courtesy duo them at the same price of articles that can be bought elsewhere in this vicinity. Our people must learn that if we make ourselves a power in this country we must support the business enterprises of our own. Dr. J. A. Baker, M. D, came here a little more than eighteen months ago, saw the bright prospects for a good physician, located here, and now is satisfied he did not make a mistake. Since that time Dr. A. S. Mason, knowing that this is his home and that he had a right to assist in looking after the needy, has also located here on the corner of Main and High streets. Mr P. B. Hairston is adding to his grocery department a stock of clothing. We wish him much success in his new business departure. Mr. P. W. Moore was called to Richmond on account of the illness of his sister. The counsel, called to take under consideration the advisability of going on a Bible tour, Mr. Polonius, the gospel minister, will meet December 6th in the First Baptist Church. Los Angeles (Cal.) News. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 21, 1911. Rev. Mrs. Dollie Lewis has just closed a ten-night revival in Pasadena and of Scotts Chapel, with great success. She has now returned to Los Angeles and has opened meetings at the New Hope Baptist Church. She preached the first sermon Sunday evening, November 19th, to an overwhelming audience, and the pastor, Rev. C. H. Anderson, is very much enthused over the beginning of the revival. The Western Amusement Club of L. A. has volunteered to give an all-star concert for the benefit of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church on Friday, December 1st, at T. M. A. Hall, 231 South Spring street. The proceeds of this concert will go toward the increase of the great rally funds which begins on December 3d. It is indeed commendable to the club to give their concert for this worthy cause. We trust you will remember December 1st and give us your patronage. Dr. H. K. Walker, pastor of Emanuel Presbyterian Church of our city, addressed the young men's meeting at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon, November 18th. His address was highly appreciated by a large enthusiastic audience. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH The little three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of 414 E. Third street met her death from being forlornly burned. The child had found a match and struck it, and in some way her dress caught fire. The little dear ran out or the front porch and when the fire began to scorch her skin she screamed, and the mother, who was in the kitchen preparing dinner, came to see what was the matter, and found her baby enveloped in blazes of fire. The mother's screams drew the father from the rear yard, who was successful' in catching the child, who had become so frightened that it ran, and the mother, being a very large woman, could not run fast enough to catch it. When the doctor wont to dress the wounds, it was so burned, that the flesh would drop off. The baby was conscious to the last and told the doctor of her striking the match. She died on the even- Hotel Dale NEW JERSEY. people in this country Special Fall issued. Private Baths En suite, Prices E. W. DALE. nation Offer. secure the Richmond Planet and thereby save 50 cents. line published by the National int of colored people, etc. payable to Planet Publishing ing of the same day, November 20, and was buried Wednesday, November 22d. The Literary Society at the Wesley Chapel First M. E. Church had a very successful meeting Tuesday, November 21st. An excellent program was rendered, after which refreshments were served. MAYOR ALEXANDER ADDRESSES WOMENB. SUFFRAGR CLUB. On Monday evening, November 20, about three hundred women crowded the lecture room in the A. M E. Church to welcome their guest, in the person of Mayor Alexander, who spoke to them on the importance of how to cast their ballots in the coming election of December 6th. In part, he said: I am no stranger to the colored citizens of Los Angeles. I have been acquainted with the foremost colored citizens for a number of years. I have watched them as they have grown in prosperity and number. Your race has accomplished great things in this city, because of their loyalty to support the party that has stood for upright and clean government of Los Angeles. You all know that I am your present Mayor, and also know that I have spared no pain in trying to keep our city clean in order that all law-abiding citizens might be protected against all evils and lawlessness that have been trying to force their way into our beautiful city. I am not running for the office for the sake of the salary of $300 00 a month. I would' rather give my time to the city for nothing than to see it turned over into the hands of cutthroats, thugs and holdings. With all due respect for Mr. Harriman, the candidate for Mayor on the Socialist ticket, a man whom Los Angeles knows nothing about, who came to our city about four years ago. Some time after his arrival he began to practice law, and has succeeded in buying his office furniture and pays taxes to the amount of three hundred dollars a year. This is the extent of Mr. Harriman's personal property in the city, as he does not own any real estate. Now, then, are the people of Los Angeles going to trust their millions in the hands of a man who has no real personal interest, in the city? I will admit I have not done all the people expected of me, but will endeavor to do more to try to please the city of future that we have. We are all happy with our present condition, and with the expectation of greater things in the future. Lot is return to our offices on December 6. If you vote right, we will. I am told that the whole socialist party in Los Angeles is worth less than six thousand dollars. Everyone present seemed to enjoy the Mayor's address. The Mayor is now in his 73d year of age. After the Mayor's address instructions how to cast the ballot were given by Mrs. Galliph, who explained the ballot in detail and answered questions pertaining to it. This concluded the program for the evening. Twenty-four Hours Quicker Time to California. 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Conway, Ark. ex, aims er schon er, ea ISLAMASAFACTORIN WEST AFRICAN CULTURE (Continued From Lagt Week) Among the Black Sudanese races couters of loatutag were extablivties in whigh rhytoriv, logic, eloquence diction Gud the principles uf the ho: rau were tiught te the theologlaus eyo secording to Mulahito mua a intte writing were given to the Ju riaty There were regularpourses 1y hykione, medicine, graniMar, pto- sody. philosophy, ‘etunoxraphy —stu- ste wind axtronumy A Humber of for their writings on traditions bia Black althore arose’ distingulshed for choir writhicx on traditions, biographies, annals, iy, muste, ns: tory aud theluxs Mack Afsicun wholars rvuled thelr Arabian ni tors, Near the ineayue of Saukore, ft ly wuld that their apartments were fo Timbucty, the “Queen of the Su- dan." what the Quartler Latin” tq to Parly Among the distinguished marabute and emitent Black Afr can acholar# aud writers M- Du Hols mentiona Mobaman Kati ahd Abmen Baba, tho former the author at Fatasst, a hatory of the singdonn of Gavata, Songhal ‘and tho City of Timbuetu. and Te latter Uie author of moro than twenty Known Looks. Baba'a library contained the fewest books of all his friends, and yet ho had 1600 volumes ‘The learning and acholarship of the Sudanese Blacks were genulue find xo Chor- ough that during thet™sojourns ta tho foreign universitien of Foz, Ti- nls, aud Cairo they astounded the most leaTaed men of Islgm by thelr erudition That hese Negroes wero on a fovel with the Arablan savnnts fa proved by the Fact that they were Installed as profesxurs in Morocco and Keynt. ULEMENTS OF CULTURE AMONG THE AFRICAN VAIS, It ts, therofore. mainly from the Iarned’ Sudancrot Blacks and a few Arabs that Islam and Arablan azts and culturo wore extended through- out Woat Africa, In which movement tho mombera of tha Mande fnmsly Aiguro prominently. The Mandinxos aro perhaps tho most widely and fa- yorably known of th'n eshnle group Thelr industry, dignity, culture end tho breadth of thelr Mukommudan scholarship bave made them so {m- preestvo that they are universally regarded and termed by tholr nelgh- bors as the “Gentlemen of “West Afrien." It is from thoir rank tkat come the most ominent mara- dats, schoolmnsters, priests and doc- tors of the Muslim faith . Dolooging to he kame ethnic branch tho Vals havo whared in the Mubammudan attainments and rep- utation of tho Mandingon And fuat as tho Mandingos fro called tho “Gontlomen of West Africa,” the Vals because of thelr own distinctive development along different and the wame Hnea aro often referred to a tho “Romane of West Africa.” It ts not to b8 undorstood that every Mandingo and Vai Buhammudan ix deoply cultured, any more than every person residing in Chrivtian States (s highly cultured tn the prin- elples of Christian civilization. Tho great masues of the greatest natlons, with all the advantages of improved mach{aory, sciences applied to all forms of industry. printing presses, tho boat Hterature in cheap editions, and the grot eonobling Influonce of tho Christian Church, havo tiot a8 yet tigen above the moro struggle for broad. Blost of tho books In Africa among tho Vale aro written by hand Tho Inck of modern facilities for printing and making, books, not only mako thom toar bit scarce as well, Yet under all tho diffculties many of tho Vala read and write Arable fluent- ly: but with thom ag“with other peo- ples high culture Sod deop scholar- nlup nro reserved for tho few who aro willing to pay in tlme and Inbor thé prico for thelr acquisition. ulturo Is the result of knowledge, tho asseace of digosted facta, Aw It obtain -among the Val scholars it uaa two fundamontal phasos Know!- edgo which baa ccmo to them through the Introduction of Mubam- mudaniem, ote., and that which they havo acqulred from gxporienco and study uodor under tho pressure of African conditions. From Arabian and other foroign sources Vai Mal- lams Uko Murtey, Vabnor, Gorlit, Mambroru, Vahnoy Soule, Boma Dado and Momora Deciny possess 0 rich and varlod fund of Information that {a as admirablo as St 1s nstonish- ing, Bosldes thotr familtarity with Iola, Arabian args, lettors and Ioaraing, thoy apoak of the countries ami cities of tho East ns wo do of Hurope. Thoy aso Iikowlso acquain- ted with tho goncral geography of the Woat. No doubt the Jncroasod communication with Europe and tho founding of tho Ropublle of Liborla by cltizons of he United States with tho afd and effiction of the Amorican rovoramont materially fncroased tho googrgphic Intorost which had al- ready’ boon ‘awakened by tho slave teamic on the Wost Goadt rome cons turlos betoro. s From Arabian and ofter foreign sourcos Val scholars and West Atri- cans gonorally bave socurod value ablo (aformation on statecratt and tho art of war. Arabian and East- orn modols may be soon tn hp cut of gical trlumph gil upy country, Thi: tay vem nneredibie, but whun yo fee at African doctor wash on mans haud Ia @ medieal solution, se the same hand theust into oiling pala ol 10 Uhe bottom of a icettl With the sume eusis with whieh th hund may be put into coht water ane withdrawn withgut ether jain, oF Ingury and when you attempt to pa your hand i withwut Uns prepara Hon yen And you can scarcely ap. proach the hette on uccount of thy ettirenie heat, something suggests t the strongest incredulity that per: haps these people have learned some- Ceng which has not yet intererted nwo fern mnedteal erence som@SAT1VE ELEMENTS OF Val + CULTURE, Verhaps after all the most Import. ant phase of Val culture ts the na. tivo element, for It was because vf Us element on the one hand that Mujatmudanism found such fort soit in Africa, and on the other thi the black races wero ablo to attain such Hattering — helghts In Islamle wholarshiy Like other telbex of the Afrwan races the Vals have mucl uative knowledge and skill In. the judustrial arts, From wood, Iron, grass, Koh and silver they” have Known for seuturles how to fastton products fur useful aud decorative purposes ‘They weave. manufactiitg and dye cloth In varied figures und beautiful desixne Thoy possess con- sldvrable knowledge regarding the it hey of vines and the _ medicinal bropertien of roots and ~ herbs for many Afrlan disedisea and comi- plaints They have men famillar With great systems of law founded tn equity and @ith the great alm uid philosophy of Kovernment They un- derstand the ultimate wocial ins fluence of institutions, and thétr final Importance and social value In terms of ethleal culture They have a writ- ten language, originated and In- vented by 9 Vat man. ~Momorn Don- Ia Mukure—with an alphabet of aout two hundred characters In their traditions, myths. legends, fle- Hon. folklore, Kongs sind tales of romance, they have an African Mter- stare Of the numerous Val writings. in ravoling through the Vai country. ome may be scen in manuscript form and othors writtes on wooden ablots, Perhaps” the oldest and mont Intereating of theso Val writ- ings 18 the autodlographs. of Ndole Wono So far an known it la the maxtorpicrs of Vat Mterature dt contalus an accoynt of Wono's wan- ieringe Into thBAinterlor, hia roman: He adventure with a princess, and concludes with a tragic deseription of his mother’ death. It ts Indeed 1 thrilling story and Justified the mnbjication given to It somo Afty odd years ago by the Rev S."W_Koelle, 1 distinguished Ungitst of London, «ho visited the Val country during fhe lifetime of Bukere—the Yat In- ventor They are famlline with the great Utorature of the blacks and Arabs m the Sudan and in Arabia, Young Val students and schofars are sent to Musardu, Timbuctu, and other con- ‘ers of African learning in search of he broadest and deepest African culture If we consider “that the Vals havo a written language and Mteratarc, that thefr scholars and he rcholara of other tribea have mantered their native literature: have roramitied the Koran almost to mem- ory. nre familar with the Holy Bi- blo nnd phases of its higher crit: jelam, are the authors of songs and stories of charm and brond humap interest, spoak bostdes Arable 8 number of natlyo tongues: and pos- nossa fund of information upon a varlety of subjects and thelr physical environment, We cannot condemn too revorely the critle who termed these wwople the “Romans of West Af- fen” SOME AFRICAN OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIANITY Ig In the opinion of the groat Christin churches with missionary Silerationa In Africa that ultmatoly tls gredt continent will be rodcor- od by the blood and spirit of Christ. And during the last half a contury Chirlstian churches have made some very important: religious conquosts among the wiftoront African races Ja difforont sections of tho continent I will only pauao to mention the work of tho Methodint Eptscopal Church of (ha United Staten on tho Wost Afri. can coast and In othor sections of Africa undor Bishops Taylor, Hart- roll and Scott, and the special work of the Protestant Episcopal Church of tho United States among tho Grobos of Capo Palmas and tho Vals of Grand Cape Bfount, under Bishop Ferguson. ‘And whlld wo may hope to rodeom Africa and can point to many nd- vances mado by Christian mission- nvlen, attested “by many flourlabing missfonary atations on tho East and West coasts, from whoso Influence thousands of the African races have embraces tho roligion of Christ and accepted na the criterion of thotr ven the standard of tho Western and can recall tte different parts ans recite frou It gontlauously for hour without apparently didleulty, Upor this book they are familiar with nu inerous cowmentutvrs, black und white and can discuss Its tenets {1 the Isht of the most critical Intor pretutlon o€:the profoundest Isami scholarebip. Many of them — bave Arybic coptes of the New Testament, know the thrlllog story of the Ife and practice of Jeaus and aif the e. partial aphactptes of tho Chrtstiun faith 2 More and more the students of the African gltuat on are coming to the Conctuston that in Africa natural anil roctetary conditions are so dls stinfint to those obtaining mong Western peoples. thot the only ro- demption of the African races that 18 worth while ts that which Instead of aitempting to wholly westernize tho blntk racey In Africa, endeavors. to develop the, Afriean jn harmony With the laws of his own betny and nature under the soctal aad physical forces which for centurles have brought In- to eaimtonce tho great body and form of African Ife and dewtiny. St best in Atuien they any they can bo mado unt Myr Europeans, thes prefer to ve sKod and grout Africans, In sup- planting Islam and destroying Af. rican fouchiam it ts not enovgh to amply tako care of the African’s To- Uxgious Ife, for bis social und po- litical Institutions must te suppited and austained hy xanctlons as strong and ag effective ax zhoxe of which ho has heen deprived. or we may leave che Afciean unable to live our life and In a moro helpless state than bis own , In other, words, It Ix necessary to) ingerpret Christinnity to the African) ind and s'tuatioh In some euch was] ns President Hall would have It fitted] 19 the oreidental. We certainly need today a great aster fortified with wodern learn ing, charged with the poaltive Insplr- utlon for orlgingl roconatruction and} ile to Featate Ghristinnity na way] © AL the occidental cultivated mind] n Pal adjusted It to the Jeaders of Mf Greek cites ‘The church oughy 10 beiféve that other Pauls aro stil] yousthie nnd that they may one day irrive and free the Chriatlagy world| rom the bond of doxma and wont ind extend itm quint-ceseatial Fe yuirements of loving and servingl Yad and man to the utmost bounds| of the carth. 3. The African mind finds serious! nd confuning WiMenltios in necept- ng Christlanity with all Its heated: ontroversies and rivalry over de? uminational dogtrines and Iinos. And the progress-of Christlantty $a Afrien will bo very much acrelerat- “I when Cbristian denominationr ‘hull agree upon and come to a con mon understanding about cortain undamontals of tho Christian faith, in the advocacy of which all do nominational differences and doc. ine shall bo forgotton. Other writers, but Dr Blyden in particular, have’ pointed out cortaln ndditional objection: on tho part of he Afrienn to Christianity: (1) That st han a disintegrating: Influonco upon tho African femily and state: (2) because of Its caste distinctions based upon differonces of race: (3) and bechuso the Hquor traffic fs car rled on to the shamo and degradation of African trees by the great elvitlz- nd gpd Christian nations, 5 F tho most part theso conditions should not bo-charged to Christian- ty. for thoy are Independent of and axiat in spite of it. For wiitle Chris- Hanity ax presented may tend to dis- integrate tho African faintly and state, founded upon polygamy, yet { properly prosented It would be o grent fatextating and socializing fac- jor for tho African peoples, anslat- ing thom gradually to found thoir rally and alate npon tho standard af tho highest domestic principle. Tho history of tho human race, at- ented by tho grandest achlovements, Jemonstrates that tho polygamic farlly {# Inconsistent with the bigh- eat domestic, docin) and spiritual do- velopment of mankind. This obsec- on a atready passing away and will complotely disappear whou miasion- ary lendora are Instruqed by broad~ ot knowledgo of tho particular mis- slonary flelds andcby clonor contact with tho naturo and magnitude of tho rollgtotis probloms Involved. 80 far-ns tho objection to Chris- Manity {s concerned, op account of caste distinctions tase purely on rnéo differences it cannot bo sus- rained against tho theory and prin- ciples of Chilotianity, but it 18 too moll founded aa against tho practice. For in dealing with tho African the white raco has shown itself amating- y Incompetent to think witout projudice, or to act upon just and equitablo’ principles. ‘To tho sroat dotrimont of both races phyalcal and athor dliferoncos have beon invdriab- 1¥ and orroneoualy iniataken for ovl- donces of ‘natural inferjorily. Chris- Man, clviltiation has’ dono much to correct this error, but as yet it has not boon ablo to wholly eradicate IL Anit in 80 far as tho discrimina~ Hon of Chrintinns ogainat Africans fs roncerned, it almply tisclosea that . - ck ae tan com is o« Zé Additional Fast Trains is é2=5 to @ from Washington 4s The R., F.& P.R.R.and W-S, Ry. announce the operation of two new fast trains, with parlor cars, between Richmond and Wash- ington, commencing Monday, November 27th, 2 2 on the following schedule: ti ¥ NORTHWARD Leave Byrd Street Station, 3:50 P. M., except Sundays. Duc Washington... . . 6135 P. M., except Sundays. SOUTHWARD Leavo Washingtos . . . 4:05 P.M, except Sundays. Duc Byrd Street Station. 6150 P. M., except Sundays. - . Both trains stop at Elba Station. Immediate connection at Washington to and\from principal’ Northern, Eastern and Wenern cities ‘; These new trains are merely added to the already excellent schedulg maintained by the Richmond-Washingron Line, and wall doubtless make its servige all mote Popular with the traveling public. “ = W.P, TAYLOR, Traffic Manager. y Behe cae eee ne tous and subjects to engage in this destructive and damaging — trado, ‘They do not comprohend that under our freedom may who are not Chris- tans are willing to brave tho public xcorn and suffer tho social ponalttos of thelr Christin follows to accuro the profits of the liquor bustuoss. Its prohibition ts porsible, but the ap- petite for strong drink Is so steady und universal thut It ts at least ox- ceedingly dMeuit to? nccomplish, No doubt We Hquor trudy Is a curse and bught to Afrte, Int it 18 Improperly charged (0 Christianity It te on evil of woclety Just as slavery was In America and oy polygamy 18 now fn Africa, Apd they will oll dlunppoar in tints as American slavery did. when the different branches aud Members of the human rage hava evolved throush the social and re- gious agencies of civilization to that stage whero thelr abolition aro denianded. And yet with all tho advantages which Islam haw had for centuries nud all tho dimculties under which uiiyalonaries Inbor In Africa, tho Chirtutlan church has Netle or nosrea- son to be discouraged — For moro and more the nations of tho earth are belng brought closer and closer to what was once the drenm of unl- versal brotherhood, Upon the Initiation of tho Prest- dent of tho-Unlted States of Amer- fen for tho rst tive In the blatory of the world, the represontatives of all the universally recognized gover- elgns of tho earth gathored ja Juno, 1907 1m open and froo discussion at Tbe Hague. ‘Tho , International Court was established, —thirty-fivo out of forty-five states wero com- niltted {0 the high principle of ob- lgatory urbitration: and Tho Hague Tribunal was transformed from. a directed to o solf-govgyning. body of all of the world soverelgntics with power to define its own Imits and determine Its dostiny. Fifteen othor soparnte and Independent and pow- erful international bodies, working in evory sphero of international in- terests, ethler, economics and soclety have organized apd combined to de- clare that tho Interest of all the na tons Is ono and that tho internation- at business of the world is to be transacted In harmony, unity and peace. Tho spirit of the Christ ta abroad among tho nations, and In countless ways ond subtle forms It Je tnfluencing the world affairs of ‘mo# as It novor Wid before. ‘Tha Christian prospoct brightens and ns wo look over tho fold wo find it dif- ficult to roslst the thought that ono day even In Africa th’ Crescent must wano boforo the.Cross, —* In tho presonce of this thought I am rominded of 8 mastor painting at Porls which I’ novor can forget. whoso tenderness and boauty distin- gulsbod {t from all the rost . It was & picture of Ipht and love, and rop- revonté an Immortal aceno In Deth- Iehorn. Early morn can Just bo seon droaking tho glad news on tho Wis tant, misty mountain tops. In an old stable a happy mother fondtes in her arms her Intant Dabo. Car- rying fu a basket two Httlo turtle dover a beautiful shepherdess gazos with atlmiring wonder upon this In- fant Child, whoso-Iifq ts still ttum- fnating tho world ad his Body thon Aightod tho feces of those who stood about, astounded and amazed. Like ® poasant before a Xing with o com- mon ntick in bis hand hero stands an old nhopberd, “And just beyond Js a young hardaman, with one hand on tho manger and the other on a large dog, watebing In ecstatic Joy a bovy of angols talaticlag ‘thewsolvos up- fon a clow,"and from whoro hooyed Mpa thers toomoed to come thin awoet retrain: Peco on oath and g00d will to mon, At tho bottom of tho pletare are theso almplo and improssive words: ‘Tho Prince of Pence, tho Light of the World, z ‘THE END. -¢ JOHN M, . HNESIMNsS, cncick’ GROCERS s6i0 tee Pinar shod J eo? pene Pays Death | Penalty. e ALE ANN Beaty Nerve Cobiiten (Times-Dispateb, Nov. 25, 1911) Malntaining a firm and selt-nos- sevsed demeunor to thy last, Henry Clay gattie, | Jr. whe murdorad Louise Own Beattie, bls young wito on July 18, 1911, pid tho extrouo ponnity gf the law in tho Stato pent- lentinry Yestorday morning. It was officially announced that he was pro- nounced dead by Surgeon’ W. T, Op- pouhinior at 7:23, only throo ‘min- utes after tho Orst clectric shock which sent a human soul from the Into otoralty Buttressed by tho opinion of tho Supreme Court of Appeals that the Judgment of the Circult Court of tho county of Chesterfield was plaluly right, and further fortified by the CUNFRSSED NOV. 9. Before the court of Inst resort bad oven oxamined the patition for a writ of orror, Boittlo had admitt- cd his guilt to’ Rev. Bonjamin Don- nis, ono of tho m'nisters who has attonded him tn the Joath coll. Tho strain of the long confinement bo- tweon tho verdict amd sgntonea and the compotion of the appeal had ov!- dently shaken tho prisoner's rosolu- ton to the point where ho folt tm- pollod to sharo his horrible secrat with another, which ho Wid on No- vember 9, placlog his confidonco whore he know It would not be bo- trayod. But Mr, Donnts folt that In fustico to. all who havo had to do with tho progecution and with the carrying out of tho deeroos of the courts of tho Commonwoalth the public should bo Informed of Boattlo’s ailmission that -te committed tho prosieditated Killing of tho wifo who- was algo tho mother of his child... Ho urged that a writton alatomont bo mado, to be publishod after tho oxecutlon. At Inst the prisoner consented to this, and seomed to roalizo its Justice, Bo tho old fathor and Rev. Joba J. Fix, tho other attondicg tuintator, ‘wero aesemblod, and it was agrotd that ® confession should bo propared. It was Gnally signed, am indleated by The Timos-Dispatch in its tesue of yestorday morning, on tho day pro- ceding the oxccution, ‘Thin was, howover, fourteen days aftor Béat- tlo had frat told Mr. Donnis that bie story of the bogrdod’ highway- man, rolated under onth at tho trial, was taleo, and that .ho was, In fact, tho mardoror, as charged In tho In- dlctmont. DETAILS ARE ‘MISSING, No dotatis whatovor arg given In Bonttio's .confession, But’ st fs to- garded a» roasonably certain that he wont Into particulars with Mr. Don. nls, for he sthtes ‘that “much that was published contorning the: \o- tails was not truc.” ‘This {s the only atatomont, soy tho officiating minis- tora, that cnn and will bo mado pub- Mo by thom, ‘They. resolutely decline to discuss the oase any ‘furthor, aay- Ing that «they: have Deeltlvaty. Ut torod tho last-word :with reference to, Deattlo’s gullt, ‘The sccrot of tho contersianal will‘die ‘with thé il Iatere” of, the:-noapel;, whot, ‘duty’ {t was to:presch repentance and cén- feralobs tothe, mah‘ who had cm: mitted“aiterrible-erime, — * +1 But:somethings, ‘may: be adduced from, Beattle's attitude and utterane- es atiother: times: sHli demeanor’ at the: hearing “ofcertain pf the sev iehes cagiinats Atm ‘sony: properly: be conshterad: (ine thin’ emai si oh an, Fi fonllb sehen: ba Min tm fea: sasimind tthe whet 'tettewe be mere ‘surmise; baeed ’ on etree metan- tal evidericontt ts thought probable thatthe ‘conderoned. "sabi admitted Paul Benttfo'satory of the gun 3nd Topudisted “his: cousin's statomen| about the confession. of guilt “sup. potoa to have! Deon ‘made to, Papi at the home in South Richinond. Further, It ts thought nét tmproba. dle that, ho denied having treated tho Ufeldss body of his brido with indignity during the ride trom’ the scene pf tho murder on tho Lonely Chesterfield ‘road to the homo of her uncle, Thomas §. Owen. Hie roln- tons: with, Boulab, Binford haying deon admitted by Bonttié on’ the stand, {it is not supposed that ha elaborated on them to any oxtont. PUBLIC IS RELIEVED. The confossion of Boatic, made public yestergay morning by Mr. Donnis In the Jobby of Murphy's Ho- tel, was recolved: with watversal fool- ings of rellof throughout tho city. Thero are nlwaya-some who do not think a caso hes boon fully made out, while thero are others, with n half kuowledgo of the facta, who will write letters to persons in authority and, to. nowapapora in behalf of a crnf\nal. “Thoso. ae, it-uppenrs, have no ground for any sort of erit- lclum against any poraon connected with the “prosecution. Detectives who woro uelive in procuring ovl- dence ngainyt the man thoy belloved to be gullty, the jurors and the court which tried and gondomned him, and higher appeliute tribunals called up- on to Interfere, can now be abso- lutely nesured that thoy were correct in thalr fudgthent and that they bavo only alded fo carryiag out thé oian- dates of the law and in protecting society against criminals who might otherwise bave hopos of ovading pun- ishment. : Virginia has won golden opinions from the presr and people of tho entire continent In the celerity with which this case has beon handled. It In tho generally exprossed opln- lon that the example has done much nw a deterrent to laxbreakora and As R bencon jight for other States a fellas. WORK OF MR. DENNIS. | GRIM TRAGEDY IN PRISON Tt was thon not dtmeult to prevail upon him to sign a contosslon which would aot the merits of the trial end: tho death popaity right before tho eoyrts and the public forever. Nothing whatover occurred in tho grim tragedy of yosterday* morning: to distingulsh it from'the othor oloc- trocutions which havo procodod It sava only the tntensé yublle inter est. Boattlo arose at tho usual hour, was dromed in tho partial array which 1a thost conventont, and spont tho remaining minutos of his }ito in roligfous devotion with Mr. Denals and Mr. Fix. Tho twelve witaossos summoned by Guporintodout Wood ‘woro aif at the ponitontlary by 7 o'clock, tho appointed hour. ‘They wero conduéted. to tho death cham- bor aml thero seated. ; WORK QUICKLY DONE, | Pet 1 DIS EEE Vee tate oh Was Derhiltted:ioimake ady state- FOR) CRS Gee OF She, Associacod: Mress, ’ siinontioing 1EAt the’doath*took placo at 7183. Other news’ seryloos, tt was stated, wwére, sorved with &-guoss, but ) the, Asfoclated \Press’ bad tho frat -facin, * A’apectal reprosontalite of tha - organ{zation was in walting In ‘Tho Timos-Diupatch . office, and immo- diatoly gont out'a bullotin, ‘This In- formation was especially desired by }inorning nowspapors published on the Pacific slope, whoro, becavae of ,the differenco In ‘timo, the news was patie In sogular city editions. ® LAW OPENLY VIOLATED. 1 stata’ sis, of con, 20 way to provont those who witnessed tho exo- cutlon as wituossos from rotating the dotslls of tho grucsome scqno, and Information was * onsy of acces throughout the day from this sourco. Te {s alniost cortain that the oyents of yesterday will result in a ponal clatigo belng. added to the statute on tho subject of olectrocuttona, which forbid tho publication of the detkills of tho execution of erimin- als. Sono nowspnpers went tnt complete statements. of tha ovont in tho doath chambor, rolying upon tho falluro of the Ggneral Assombly to imposo punishment for vlolntion of the rule which that body Intend. ed to make, Goyornor Mann intimated yostor- day that ho’ woifld call the attontion of the Gonoral Assembly to tho nocd for such an amondmont to tho law us will provide adoquate punishment for those who will not othorwiso obey {t, The statute says: “No Rewspaper or persons shall print or publish thp dvtatls of the execution of criminais under thls act. Only the fact that Abo criminal yas executed shalt be printed or published.” FAMILY NOT AT PRISON, | So membor of tho Beattlo family wont near the penitentiary yesterday. |Tho goodbyes of Thuraday afternoon Between the prisonor and tho father brother and sistor were faal, aga it ‘was untdorstood that they wouldnot moot, again. ‘The ministera of the gospel woro the only persons presont who might bo considered as ropra- sonting the family. ‘Te oxecutlon over, the commn- nity was relleved of Its tension. The finis of tho tragedy was genorally discussed, and the poople wont about the atroots spberly—glad that all was over. Everywhoro it scemed that tho Yonsion of thd past few wooke had Ween lifted, and cepecially im view of the cosifossion thero was a fcol- ing of rolfof that all wai over. Whilo Richmond has galnod a notoriety Virginfa bas won a reputation for tho prompt admioistration of justice, which ts anything but tasteful to hor oltizons, Judging from tho genorally exprossed opinions. ‘Tho ontite pro- gross of tho case, from tho murder to the electrocution, has been re- garded as pecullarly unfortunate for tho community, But If the public ts ploasod with the confession, the faollngy of oy- ernor Mann may bo Imagined. Dom- varded as bo has beon with lottors and telegrams besceching him to at least Interfere to tho oxtont of a Toprieve, und knowing that ho bold the life of Henry Clay Beattio,, Jr., 1n the hollow of his hand, bis position has been unenviable. GOT RPMARKABLE LETTERS. This bas Yoon tile first oxporionco with @ caso of the frst magnitude, and not for years, If ovor beforo In tho history of tho State, haa thoro boon an cceasjon which called for encll a manifestation of all that ts grotesque in the human viewpoint of ‘sith a crimo and tts punlshmont. The oxecutlvo has given the mont carstul study to tho ovidenco and the wetalle of the trial, and bocamo absolutely convinced of tho prison. er'a guilt. Yet 136 letters in thirty- six hours, piling up ou overy mall, and couched In all sorts of Inngungo from tho excruciatingly pitiful and tie.qeeullnnly | @andlin te the Norcoly denunelatory, are not, con- ducive to the ponce of mind of ono chargod with gravo rosponslbility. Somo of,"theso lettors wont so far ag to donounco tho Governor as a mutderer, it ho fallod {p commute tho fontence, and pointed to his hands.. which would bo statnod with blood. Bonttlo wan pictured as a bgh-mind- ed young man, with horofe courage anid spotless virtue, the victlm of hired villdors and tho picked scayo- gont for the alus of othors or tho machinations of detectives. . Just bow théso writors fool foday aftor roading tho positive contesdion of this quondam horo that he killed his young wifo in cold blood, in a matter of speculation to the Gover- nor, . : ‘Tho number of confessions which have beer sent to tho Governor aro also a aubjoct of Intorost. Whon.x score of Individuals in widoly scat- trod parts of thé country all assert that they ‘aro tho guilty partios, It becomes ovident that somobody ‘Is mistaken, Whon’the man under son- tonce pf death saya fn tho face of bis excoution that ho did It, the vordlot MADH PUBLIC AT HOTEL. Pollowlig the appearance of Tho Times-Dispatoh yestorday, Indicating that a contossion had béon made and signed by Roattio, tho many nows- papor mel in tho olty wore on the qul vive. Ag soon'as the eloctrosu- tlon was ovor they sought Interviews with the two mlniaters, Mr. Donnis mado tho statemsnt ‘that be ‘would appoar in:ths lobby of Murphy's Ho- tol nt. 21 o'clock with auch matorlat as ho and’Mr, Hoattlo and Mr, Fix desited .to:gite, to the: public: “Tho minister, was also thoughtful mough’ to call fp Jecal newspaper omoes to. make-sure*that they~would not fall to.shareiju’thetnformation; . > ‘Wheh ‘ho appeared..it?the lobby, Atteen' Sinutes, Jate,,he'was Imme- Wintely.jmurrodhded? by: at? least a score’ of preen’-represeutatives. Tak- ing:mre ot Joel: papers first, Mr. Donnie’ then dletributed typewrltten- hoes ito /theliremainder;: nd -tar’ ak ther WaNld wornriis nat = ‘He then briefy, bald that the edns, +, AOcmthteed om Might Page!) 05 THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Colored Men Acquitted in Buckingham Tragedy. WILLIE JACKSON IN VIVID WORD PICTURE Buckingham Witness, Tale of the Murder—Tells of the Awful Death of the Poor Stuart Brothers. The second day of the trial of Edward Jones, colored, of Buckingham, charged with the murder of the Stuart brothers in that county in April, 1909, began in the Corporation Court today. The Commonwealth continued its presentation of evidence. W. P. Ellis was first called, and on being handed the brass butt of a gun cartridge, taken from the scene of the crime, said that it was the same which he had picked up and had given to the officers. Robert W. Spencer, who lived in the vicinity of the murder and robbery, told of going to the place on Sunday morning following the murder and the burning of the house. He described the location of the bodies, and said that one of the bodies was minus the head, logs and arms. He told of his dealings with the Stuart brothers, who were customers for years. He said that the head which had been savored was filled with shot and one gentleman remarked: "This is what did the work, boys." This is so showed a clean cut, which had been charred by the fire. Mr. Lee asked the witness a question as to the location of the bodies. Witness said that the headless body was close up to the hearth, and the other body was at the end of the room in the opposite direction. The Roy. J. H. Harris, on his way to a church appointment, passed the scene of the crime, saying he stopped for a moment bodios. He know nothing further. € WILLIE JACKSON CALLED. Willie Jackson, colored, told of going to the house of a man named Johnson. A colored man played the banjo, and he and another negro danced. Willie told of the coming to the home of Johnson of Eddie Jones, Richard Perkins and Dallas-Wright. All of them had guns, and as they stopped up on the porch the charges were taken from the guns and later the charges were put back in the guns. A statement was made by Eddie Jones to the effect that the party was going over to the Stuarts to have some fun. Witness was told that if he said a word he would be killed and he was forced to go along and to keep watch at a rumbl tree within fifty yards of the home of the Stuarts, and Aylett Johnson was posted for a similar purpose near a bridge. He said he heard a rumblift in the house and then a gun was fired. Witness continued: "I then went to the house, where Jones, Perkins and Wright were. I saw Eddie Jones tipping the larger one of the Stuarts on the head with an axe, telling him to say where his money was. Mr. Stuart told where the money was. It was given to Eddie Jones. Eddie gave each of the men $50. Richard Perkins cut off the man's head." The witness said that he was not given a cent of the money, nor was Aylett Johnson. They were told that if they said a word they would be killed. Jones said that they had "fired" the Stuarts. After the man had been killed oil was poured on the bodies and the place set on fire. Witness had told a Mr. Carter of his knowledge of the burning. The matter had, he said, preyed on his mind and he was forced to tell some one. IN JAIL TWO YEARS. Willie Jackson said that he had been in jail in Buckingham, for two and a half years. He denied, in reply to questions, that not one of the lawyers on either side of the case had ever discussed the matter of the crime with him, unless in company with officers. He denied that he had been offered any reward or promises of any kind in connection with the case. Witness said: "Jones and Perkins came in while witness and Aylett Johnson were dangling. The two men, Jones and Perkins, did not dance, they being members of the church." CROSS-EXAMINED BY LEB. Mr. Lee took the witness in hand and began to ply him with questions. The questions came with rapidity and force, but the witness stuck to his original story. He made negative replies to most of the interrogatories, and it was to impress these denials that the questions were aimed. "Soon after Mr. Wright arrived at the home of Charity Johnson, he said to Jones and Porkins: 'Come on, boys.' All three of the men said to him and to Johnson that if they did not go along they would be killed." That was what witness said in reply to a question from Mr. Lee as to what took place at the home of Charity Johnson. For a considerable time there was a fixing of locations and distances. Witness said that the night was awfully dark, and that when the party got to the home of the Stuartia the mon told him to go on to the chory tree, and that if he heard any one coming to whistle, and to whistle loudly. Just as he got, the chicken house he saw the mon make a light. He declared that the only reason he did not run was that he was scared. Johnson said that he was standing at the cherry tree when the gun went off. Mr. Lee here took up the printed record in the former trial and read from the cross-examination of wif- ness. On that trial he is quoted as saying that Eddie Jones fired the gun. Today he declared that the stenographic report was incrobb. LOOKED THROUGH THE WINDOW. Just as soon as he heard the gun fired witness ran to the house and looked through the window. The larger Mr. Stuart was standing up in the floor and Eddie Jones was picking him on the head with an axe. When Mr. Stuart told him where the money was Eddie Jones took up the stope in the hearth and got the money. Eddie Jones put the money in his pocket. When they had gotten the money Eddie Jones and Dallas Wright soiled Mr. Stuart and threw him down, and Richard Perkins took the axe and completely severed his head with one blow of the weapon. Witness said that Eddie Jones was nastride the man above the waist, with Dallas Wright at the feet. He was positive of this. The other Mr. Stuart was lying on the floor already dead. Witness did not hear Mr. Stuart say a word or plead to be spared. RECOURSE TO RECORD. Mr. Lee asked the witness if he had said at a previous trial that Dallas Wright was sitting on the man's breast and Jones at the feet. He declared he had made no such statement. Then Mr. Lee again read the record in the case, certified by the court as correct, and which is to be found in the printed record. Witness said that the record was "a big mistake." Witness said that the men, after pouring the oil on the floor and on articles in the house, lit the oil with a match. The record shows that at the first trial the man had used matches, and at the second trial he said it was fired by using a miner's torch. Today he said matches were used. WILLIE IS CONFUSED. As to Aylett Johnson, witness declared that he saw him peep through a crack. The record shows that witness says he saw Aylett Johnson come up, and today he says he saw Aylett Johnson peeping. He now says that he did not see the man come up, whereas on the previous trial he declared that he saw Aylett coming up before he began to peep through the crack. Witness said that there was under the stone in the hearth $150 in cash —paper, gold and silver. There were three gold pieces. The money was counted near the bridge, a single match being used to furnish the light while the count was being made. He said that, he left the men and went home. Witness declared that he had not talked with a Mr. Rice and stated to him that all he know about the case was what Mr. Eddie Carter had told him. He said that it was not true that Mr. Carter had said that he would see that he and Aylott got $60 each. Witness had never talked with Mr. Rice in his life. (Both Carter and Rice have died since the last trial.) OFFERED HIM $ONEY Willie Jackson created something of a sensation when he declared that Jail Guard Hillard, of Buckingham, had come to him, and offered to give him $60 to change his testimony at the next trial. He had refused the offer. Witness said that the offer of $60 had been made to him the day following his being removed from the cell in which he and Aylett Johnson were confined. They had had a fight. It w. he shown from the record in the former trial that witness had said to him that he (witness) had been offered money in connection with his testimony. AYLETT JOHNSON CALLED. Aylett Johnson, another of the boys who had been stationed by Dallas Wright, Richard Parkins and Eddie Jones to act as guards when they went to the home of the Stuartes, was called. He narrated many incidents of the evening, tallying with what Willie Jackson had said. He declared that Dallas Wright had said to him that if he did not go along he would be killed. He did go, and when he got near the Stuart home he was posted to keep watch and to make an outfit in case anyone was seen or heard coming in any direction. Commonwealth's Attorney. Hubard, for the State, asked if Dallas Wright was in the habit of visiting the home of the mother of the witness. Defense objected and the objection was sustained. Witness said that he had told Mr. Frank Spencer, of the matter of the burning, and did so of his own accord. He had not been threatened or promised any reward for making his statement, which was made to Mr. Spencer the Sunday following his arrest. He denied that he had been promised anything for testifying in connection with the case. TAKEN BY DEFENSE. Mr. Leo, for the defense, took witness in hand, and began a skillful line of questioning. Witness said that when he got home, he found Willie Jackson, Eddie Jones and Richard Forkins already there. Dallas Wright came up in about fifteen minutes. Witness said that Willie, Richard and Eddie and himself all danced. Willie Jackson said he had come to go fishing, and insisted that they go. Finally witness went with Willie and cut the holes and placed them in the chimney corner. Willie's kuffe was used. This part of Johnson's testimony is in direct conflict with Jackson's testimony, who said that they did not cut any fishing poles that night. The record shows that witness had, at the former trial, said that only Willie Jackson, Richard Perkins and Dallas Wright had been at his house twenty minutes before witness and Jackson went to go to get the poles. Today he declares that Wright came a few minutes after he and Jackson had gotten back from the quest for the poles. Witness said that Dallas Wright had a double-barrelled shotgun, wheron Jackson said it was a single-barrelled gun. STARTIING CONTRADICTIONS. At the last trial of the case Johnson said that he saw a light in the house before the men entered, and therefore before the shooting. Today he said there was no light in the place. When the shooting took place he ran nearly all the way home and then came part of the way back. There is another conflict with Jackson, who says that Johnson did come up to the scene of the killing and that he saw him pooping through a crack. Witness said that the money was counted by Edulie Jones and that Richard Perkins struck three matches. Jackson says that only one match was struck. The witness failed to remember many details of the former trials, and made repeated contradictions, many of them conflicting with the records MR. WOOLDRIDGE DELIBERATE. James J. Woodridge, of Buckingham, told of the finding of the bodies. He said that the heavy timbers were still burning. He spoke with considerable deliberation. He said that one body was found under the bed, under the stairway, and was pulled out by one of the men who had gone to the fire. That was about 8 o'clock n the morning. At 1.30 o'clock the court took a recess until 4 o'clock. (Richmond Journal, Nov 22, 1911) Lee's Charge as to Buckingham Murder Evidence Sharply Resented by Hubard. In his opening statement before the jury in the trial of Edward Jones, colored, charged with complicity in the murder of the Stowart brothers in Buckingham county, Attorney John L. Lee, of the defense, yesterday charged that unfair methods had been used in procuring evidence for the Commonwealth against the negro. He said that he would put on the stand a witness who would say that he overheard Ayllet Johnson and Willie Jackson, star witnesses for the prosecution, wrangling over the murder case, and that Jackson admitted to him that the testimony he gave against the accused was false. Mr. Lee went on to say that this witness would say that Johnson told him he was coerced into giving his testimony, and that Jackson was induced to give false testimony by the offer of a part of the award. The allegation was judgiciously denied by E. W. Hubard, Commonwealth's attorney of Buckingham county, where the crime was committed, and for a moment there threatened to be a clash between the two lawyers. They were called sharply to order by Judge Witt, and Mr. Lee went on with his opening statement. Later he further charged that one of the men was strung to a limb in a vain effort to force him to make damaging confessions. Much delay was consumed in getting a jury, which was not completed until 1 o'clock. Richard Perkins is accused jointly with Jones, but the man will be tried separately. They come up now on second trial, the verdict of guilty in the first trial having been set aside by the Supreme Court. Feeling in Buckingham county after the murder and arson ran high, and a change of venue was granted. The negroes are represented by Mr. Lee, former State Songtor Aubrey Brodo and Judge A. S. Hall. Commonwealth's Attorney Hubard is being assisted by Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes. Dallas Wright, a white man, who was tried and convicted and sentenced to death, is now in the Henrico county jail awaiting the result of the trial of the two negroes. Acquittal of them would probably mean favorable action in his behalf, as they were all charged jointly with the murder of the Stewart brothers in April, 1908. (Times-Dispatch, Nov. 22, 1911) White Man In the Stintt Murder Case to Be Pardoned—In Hustings Court. Dalhia Wright, white, and Eddie Jones and Richard Porkins, colored, all of the county of Buckingham, twice sentenced to die in the electric chair for the Stintt brothers murder in that county more than two and a half years ago, will go free. A jury in the Hustings Court today found a verdict of acquittal in the case of Jones and Porkins after a trial lasting for three days. Governor Mann will pardon Wright. Eddie Jones was the man on trial, he having been granted a new hearing by order of the Supreme Court of Appeals. The jury acted today on the advice of the attorney for the Commonwealth. Misstest Felkus who declared that he had followed the case from the beginning with all the care that he could command. He declared that he was an officer, and that before he could ask a jury to convict a man of murder in the first degree he must be convinced in his own mind that murder was the nature of the evidence as to carry that belief. In this case he did not that such evidence had been adduced. He could not ask that the jury convict, but left the matter wholly in the hands of the members of the jury. That body took just five minutes to write the verdict acquitting Jones, who, when ordered to stand up and heard, the verdict read, grinned and said: "I thank you, sir." JURY AGREED LAST NIGHT After the verdict had been read and the formal proceedings ended, the members of the jury stood in line in front of the judge's bench and informed the judge and the attorneys for the prosecution that they had reached a verdict last night—that returned today. Third were just two witnesses of consequence in the case — Willie Jackson and Aylett Johnson. They had made all sorts of conflicting statements before the jury, had contradicted each other, had denied the accuracy of court and stenographic records and could not remember essential facts regarding themselves NOI, PROS, PERKINS CASE . Immediately following the acquittal of Jones the attorney for the defenses called attention to the fact that Richard Perkins was also a party to the case; that he stood on all fours with the case against Jones, and asked that an order be entered dismissing the indictment against him. The attorney for the State agreed to this; saying that the evidence against Perkins would be nothing more than that which had been presented to the court in the case against Jones, and so the formal order was entered, and so the afternoon Richard Perkins will walk from the city jail a free man for the first time since April 17, 1909. WILL PARDON DALLAS WRIGHT Dallas Wright will be pardonal today by Governor Mann. He is in the Hennicoe county jail. He was convicted in the cases along with the two negroes, but because of an error in the record and in the certifying of the exceptions and appeal noted his case could not be reviewed by the Court of Appeals, and so he's sentence of death stood against him, and the negroes were given a new trial. The Governor is cognizant of these facts, and he granted a stay in the case of Wright ill such time as the cases against the negroes had been disposed of. He declared that whatever the final courts did in the cases of Jones and Perkins he would see was visited on Wright. the same evidence having been employed to convict him that had been used in the cases against the negroes Just as soon as the court had ordered Richard Perkins released the attorneys for the defense—Messrs John L. Lee, Aubrey E. Strode and Judge Hall, the latter of Buckingham—went over to see the Governor and to lay the facts in connection with the Wright case before him. THE EVIDENCE TODAY. Today the State began the presentation of evidence in rebuttal, and called several persons who had testified before. Sherif Lewis Williams was called to the witness stand, and the statement, in part, of W. J. Hollard, made yesterday. Mr. Hellard, who had been a guard at the Buckingham county jail during the incarceration of Johnson and Jackson, testified to having heard the two negroes quarrel, when Jones stated to his partner that he know nothing of the murder and was not going to tell his story because he had received no payment. It was related that Johnson had said that the authorities told him they would kill him if he didn't stick to his story. After the quarrel Jackson was placed in a cell to himself, from where he would be taken to the jail, and stated on the stand that he informed the jailer of what had transpired between the two negroes, and was told to keep his mouth shut. Then he stated, he went to see Commonwealth's attorney: Ed George W. 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After life's fitful fever, Henry Clay Bountie Jr. self-confessed and penitent wife murderer, sleeps well While the sun was yet low in the far horizon, and with only a few of his own beloved about the grave, they laid him to rest at 7 30 o'clock yesterday morning. Frost lay upon the ground, and there was a biting chill in the air. Stark, gaunt trees held up their leafless branches in Maury Cemetery, where the boy now sleeps and along the sad driveway the grass had turned into its autumnal sheen Above a few clouds red-dlening in the dawn, streaked the sky, and here and there a few birds twittered mournfully from the boughs. The morning was bright and clear, and except for the few who had come to mourn and pay their last respects to the dend, there was no hint of sorrow in the dawning day BRIEF SERVICE AT HOME It had been planned to lay Henry Beattie to rest at 7 o'clock. It was half an hour later when the last sad rites were performed and the body settled into the bosom of eternal night. The pall-bearers and a few near friends gathered in the Beattie home shortly after 6 o'clock. Rev John J. Fix, who had accompanied the boy and consolled him during his last days on earth, read the short funeral service of the faith in which Henry had sought his last refuge. About the casket stood the gray-haired father, the faithful brother, the young sister, the two quants who had never forgotten the erring youth, and some of the friends of his boyhood. The short services over, the coffin was placed in a hearse and slowly the cortege moved to Maury Cemetery. A few women of the neighborhood. Keeper Jones and two police officers in plain clothes were waiting. The hearse stopped opposite the Beattle section, and the seven carriages containing the family and pall-bearers halted on either side. A light wagon, loaded down with flowers, had preceded TRANSFERRED TO GRAVE It was but the work of a moment to transfer the casket to the open grave. At its foot stood the immediate members of the dead boys family. All heads bowed as Mr Fix bent his brow and prayed over the body from which the soul had fled. His face haggard, drawn and deeply lined with the furrows of unutterable sorrow, the father clutched his daughter tightly by the arm and remained still, with his eyes fixed upon the grave. At the right stood the two nuns. On the left stood the brother. Relieved of their burden, the pill-bearers stood on the east side of the grave. Several of them - those who had been l belong friends of the dead youth - wept openly. One among them was he who had sacrificed his all to save his friend, he who had blackened his own character to spare stigma from the other's name. TEARS IN PREACHER'S EYES Though his voice was steady, Mr Fix could not keep back the tears. He had frequent recourse to his handkerchief. In the solemn stillness of the morning, interrupted only by an unsuppressed sob here and there the minister of God repeated the sacred words of burial His lips clenched tightly and with his arm clasped close to the girl by his side, the aged father listened to the comforting words said above his son Grim, unutterable grief was there, and about that never-to-be-forgotten picture of woe the hand must be drawn No eye was dry on the comma was lowered into the pit. It was an exact duplicate, silver braided, of that in which wife had been held to her eternal rest. They sleep side by side. At the head of the young wife's brave stands a granite memorial to her husband's mother. There is as yet no memorial to her name. At the head of the other grave are erected memorial stones, to a twin sister and brother of Henry Bontille. On the comma were inscribed the words, in a silver plate, "Henry Clay Bontille, Jr., twenty-seven years of age." 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And some of those young men who had been Henry's best loved companions, and one who had been his chief attendant when he was wedded to Louise Wollford Owen, sobbed aloud in uncontrollable grief. Tears coursed down the cheeks of others who had never known the dead boy. It was no inexpressibly sad that none may Torget the day. SOUND OF FALLING EARTH As the fast words were said, men in charge stepped forward hurriedly and then came the drear sound of falling earth. It was soon over. The little mound was smoothed. Two little heaps of earth mark one the last resting place of Henry Beattie, the other that of the wife and mother he slow. Nothing divides them now. Their troubled fortunes are done, and in peace they slumber side by side. It was comfort to those who knew and loved him best that Henry confessed his sin before he went to the throne of God, and they left that double tomb with something akin to peace in their minds. As the last words were said, and just as the sun was more cheerily beckoning to an awakening world, the father and his young daughter passed around the grave. They stepped behind the stone erected to the memory of the dead youth's mother and at last, his Spartan stoicism broken, the aged father gave vent to an anguished sob. It was more than THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Capitol Shoe & Supply Co's Store, 210 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. If You are Looking for Bargains Don't Miss This Sale. Beginning Friday, Dec. 1st, 1911. Shoes for the Whole Family. Lady Attendant. Phone, Madison-4964. ```markdown ``` the silent spectators could stand, and they turned their heads so that they could not see the grief pouring from his breaking heart. He was immediately placed in a carriage, and the return to a cheerless and lonely home was begun. BEATTIE NAMED PALLBEARERS The pall-bearers remained behind for a few moments, and then they, too, wont away. They were Henry's best friends. 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