Richmond Planet

VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 13. Policemen Called in by Republicans Worring Postmen. Hold Separate Meetings Amid Disorder. A critical situation, which almost reached the proportions of a riot, and which accumulated a hurry call for the police and required interference on the part of officers to prevent serious trouble, took place hard night at Baldridge Hall, where a mass-convention of the Republican party of the city was scheduled to be held for the purpose of electing a city committee and delegates and alternation to the district and State conventions. It was the climax of the fight of opposing factions, which has been in progress for more than two years. Two distinct and separate meetings were held. Two committees and two sets of delegates to the conventions were elected. Which action acted within its rights will be a question probably for the State Executive Committee to determine. CHARGE POLITICAL TRICKERY. Both side charged the other with property trickery. One side contended that it might to prevent a packed meeting of local Federal officeholders, while the other contended that it had been duped by a high-handed proceeding which was a gross violation of human and property rights. At a meeting of the City Republican Committee about one week ago, O. Ridgway Moore, chairman, was directed to lease Balvidere Hall for the purpose of holding last night's main meeting. This was done in due form. Mr. Moore leased the hall from 8:30 o'clock for the remainder of the night. Melvin Flegelheimer, former chair man of the committee, and who was retired more than a year ago, by the unrelated offending fraud, later joined to the rental agents to lease the hall for last night from 6:30 until 7 o'clock. This plan was carried out. When Mr. Moore and other members of the party appeared to hold the meeting at 8:30 o'clock it was found that the hall was occupied by nearly 1,000 cheering men, whoaxed its capacity to the utmost. POLICE CALLED IN. The police were called to elect those who occupied the small auditorium, and LeRoy Brown, of J. Thompson Brown & Co., rental agents for the hall, was notified. Mr. Brown and Bargeant Shoemaker and Officer Lejsen responded to the call, but were unable to make any one leave. Leaders of those present said that a call had been issued for a grass-convention, open to all Republicans, and they were there to witness the proceedings, and intended to remain. When the hour for calling the meeting to order arrived George A. Hanson who stands with Joseph P. Brady, clerk of the United States District Court, and Mr. Fleigenheimer, as a leader of the faction opposing Mr. Moore, Postmaster Edgar Allen, Jr. and Royal E. Cabel, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, read the call which had been sent forth for the meeting, and demanded that Mr. Moore call the meeting to order. As there was no response from Mr. Moore, Mr. Hanson announced that in the absence of the chairman he would ask M. L. Salomonsky, a member of the City Committee to act as chairman. Acting in that capacity, he called the meeting to order, amid loud cheers from the supporters of the Fleigenheimer-Brady, Hanson faction. Routine work was entered upon and Mr. Fleigenheimer was unanimously elected chairman amid loud applause and cheers. Members of the committee and delegates and alternates were also elected. BRADY ATTACKS MOORE Mr. Brady was given the privilege of the door and made a sharp attack upon Mr. Moore, whom he characterised as a stool pigdon for Mr. Cabbell. With a law remarks Mr. Hanson said that it was the purpose of the meeting to perfect a reorganisation of the Republican Party in Richmond and that they had not assembled there to cast aspersions upon any one. After the election of the delegates given below and the adoption of the following resolutions the meeting adjourned. Whereas, it is the sense of the Republicans of the city of Richmond, in many-convention assembled, that our greatest power, strength and influence may be manifested in all such cant by our delegation chosen to attend the district convention to be held in the city of Richmond, on Saturday, February 13, 1912, and that our convention to be held in the city of Richmond, Pt., on Tuesday, March 19, 1912; and they are hereby instructed to vote as a unit on all matters coming before said district and state con- ventions, as a majority of said delegates may declare. "JOS. P. BRADY. "JOHN L. GRUBB. "R. L. MANALEY." "Committee." CONFIDENCE IN TAFT. "Be it resolved by the Republican of the city of Richmond, Va., in mean meeting assembled, at Delaware Hall in cold city, on the 12th day of February, 1813, pursuant to the call of the City Committee: "1. That we renew our allegiance to the Republican Party, and express our confidence in the patriotism of President Taft and his administration. "2. That we heartily indorse the present Republican State organization of Virginia, and commend our chairman, Hon. Bacouch C. Sleep, for his able management of our party affairs, and pledge him our earnest support. "3. That we give to Hon. Alvah H. Martin, our unqualified indorsement as the Republican member of the national committee of this State, and pledge our best efforts to have him continued in his present position in the councils of the Republican Party of the nation. "JOSEPH P. BRADY, "JOHN L. GRUBBS, "R. L. MAHALEY, "Committee." DELEGATED NOMINATED. "We, the undersigned committee on nominations for the mass meeting held at Richmond, Va., on this 13th day of February, 1912, beg leave to report and do hereby report and nominate as delegates and alternates to the Republican District Conven- (Continued on Page Number) Jedries Plan for Return Rattle With Jack Johnson. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 10.—James J. Jeffries, beaten by Jack Johnson once is preparing to challenge the Nero champion again in the hope of winning back the title that he missed at Reno. This is the positive statement made today by a man close to Jeffries, and printed by the Examiner, which claims to have corroborative evidence of the truth of the statement. It is said that the former champion has been contemplating this action for some time, having become convinced that had he trained concientiously for the Nevada bout, he would have been returned its winner. He is prepared, if a suitable purse is immed up, and Johnson will agree to the match, to undergo a long and proper season of preparation. HAS TRIED HIMSELF OUT For some time past Jeffries has been living an abstentious life, getting himself in such condition that hard training would be possible. He has done considerable work in the hills. Oftensibly, he was on hunting trips, but it is said that he was really testing himself to see how much of his old strength and stamina he has left. Result, it is reported, have been satisfactory to him. There are hints that Jeffries has consulted at least three of the leading trainers of the country at different times in the last three months for a private and confidential opinion of his condition, and that each after a thorough examination, pronounced him in fit shape to begin a long siege of training work. Chicago, Feb. 10.—Jack Johnson, despite his anger at the stories printed about his domestic affairs, was inclined to be amused at the statements from Los Angeles that Jeffries would again challenge him to a battle left for the championship. "Well, that's rich, isn't it?" exclaimed Johnson, over the telephone. "Coming back for some more, in he? Well. I don't object. "Of course, I can't make any reply to such a thing off-hand. I would want to see what conditions he imposes in his challenge. If the money could be shown me, I wouldn't mind boxing Mr. Jeffries again at any time. He's the easiest thing I know, so why not?" Rev. W. P. Gibbons Dund. Rev. W. P. Gibbons, pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, of Washington and brother of Mrs. A. D. Price of this city died at his home Friday morning at 2:58 after a long illness. His funeral took place in Washington and he remains were converged to his old home, Charlestonville, Va., where they were interred. He was well-known throughout the country and was very popular. Paternal H. roster A. D. Priss, priest Monday to attend the funeral. Remarkable Choir. Rev. Dr. Brooks Speaks Here, Too. The Choir of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. scored a decided triumph and carried Richmond by storm upon the occasion of its recent visit to this city. The members reached the city last Sunday and gave renditions at the Second Baptist Church Sunday evening and at the First Baptist Church Sunday night, which aroused the interest to fever heat. As a result the Fifth Street Baptist Church was packed last Monday night. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. gave a short lecture after which the choir for about two hours gave renditions which were enthusiastically enriched. Invocation, Rev. & C. Manuel, D. D Piano Solo, Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher. "Over the Fields at Early Morn." Globe, Choir. "The King of the Vikings Am I." Mr. Phillip E. Jacobs. "Andante from G Major Concerto, G. Goltermann, "Scheryo," D van Goens, Mr. Henry Leonard Jeter, "Cello, "Breezes of the Night," Lamothe, Male Chorus. "Rose in the Bud," Forster, Miss Alta B. Scott. "Lost Rose of Summer." Mr. Henry Leonard Jeter. "Cello." "An Arabian Romance," Concheis, Mr. A. D. Smith. "Timbucco," Uphard, Male Chorus. "Many the Wreck Below," Bishop, Mrs. I. E. Hawkins. "Bill of Fare," Male Chorus. "Because I Love You, Dear," Haw ley, Miss I. M. Fillmore. "Go Burry Thy Sorrow," by request Mr. Henry Leonard Jeter, "Cello, "The Merry Miller." DeKoven, Choir. The members of the Choir are as follows: Soprano—Mrs. Norah Dinguid, Mrs Estelle Cooper, Mrs. Alberta B. A-mos, Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, Mrs. Evelyn Folsom, Miss Parthenia Woodson, Miss Maybelle White, Mrs. Cora E. Scott, Mrs. Mamle Plitt, Mrs. Ethel Cutch, Mrs. Ida M. Fillmore, Mrs. Ethel Graham, Miss Rebecca Warre, Miss Sophia Durwall, Miss Alta B. Scott, Mrs. Frances Lucas, Mrs. Carrie Kenney, Mrs. Bessie Scott, Miss Edna Herndon, Miss Julla Collier, Miss Martha Porter, Miss Louise Washington. Contralto—Miss Margarette Harris, Miss Carrie Campbell, Mrs. Noran Drew, Mrs. Mary Brooks, Miss Spyll Miller, Miss Ena Price, Mrs. O. V. P. Scripli, Mrs. Julla Scott, Miss Anna Morriss, Miss Alice Martin, Miss Florence Parnell, Mrs. L. E. Hawkins Tenor—Messara, J. H. Morriss, David Worrell, Primus Simmons, William Mitchell, Joseph Mosby, Edward Wilson, Frank Johnson, John Braxton, Benjamin Jackson, Parnell Jefferson, William Willace, Frank Wilson. Base—Messas, William A. Young John White, Thomas Walker, Phillip E. Jacobs, E. V. Wright, Dr. J. B. Williams, Jesse Herndon A. L. Alexander, Edward Tolliver, W. R. Wickham, Richard Drew, A. D Smith. Dr. James T. Walker, Cholmaster, Mrs. Lena H. Ware, Organist. The party left early Tuesday morning for Washington, after a most pleasant stay in this city. If Washington has another choir to excel it, there are hundreds of people here who would like to see it as a need has ever been here in any of our churches to get anywhere near to the high niche in the musical temple that this singing band occupies. The entertainment was given under the management of R. W. Mors, J. B. Page, John Beard, B. H. Poyton, R. H. Fountieroy, R. C. Mitebell, Meadames Callie D. Brown, Jennie Chestam, Emily Smith, Martha Townes Lillie Hardy, Cordella L. Manuel and Lissie D. Howard. Rev. D. Webster Davis was Master of Ceremonies. Duahar Society to Meet The Dusher Literary, and Historical Society will hold a public meeting in the Third St. A. M. B. Church next Thursday evening, February 29th, at 8 o'clock. At this meeting Mrs. A. W. Hunton of New York, international emissary of the oriental branch of the Young Women's Christian Association will be present and will give a talk to the Society on The Finding Play which she witnessed at Obernau-megrop during the three years' travels abroad. The public is carefully invited to be present. The change will be made. Our Presidential Possibilities Series ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE FARLIEST in the field among "Progressive" Republican candidates was Robert Marion La Follette, senator from Wisconsin. His pennon- ality as a fighter and "miser" is sufficiently indicated by the nickname of "Battle Bob," by which he is known among his constituents, a sobriquet which he earned early in his political career. He has been thrice governor of Wisconsin and has served in two congresses as representative. He was elected senator for the term 100-11 and re-elected for the 1911-17 term. He led the movement to nominate all candidates by direct vote. Prominent among his supporters for the 1912 presidential nomination is Gifford Pinchot, who was the close friend and advisor of President Roosevelt during the latter part of his administration. Senator La Lapte received twenty-five votes for the nomination in the last Republican national convention. FROM OAKLAND, CAL. MAY HAVE NEGRO ON TEAM. Oakland, Cal., February 12.—In Michigan Likely to Be Represented December, 1911, Rev. Dr. W. H. J. by Laptey, of Portland. Brown of Pokatella, Idaho arrived in this city. After some weeks' study, Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 18.—For of the colored people of the city he the first time in the history of Michigan got the idea in his head that he could ignan athletes, from a track stand start a Y. M. C. A. and make it a point, the university may be re-success. He therefore began to work presented on the track team this on his idea about the first of Jan.-season by a colored sprinter, 1912. He selected his assistant, L. Brown, Laptey, "12 Lt.,agt who he wanted to work with from Portland, Oregon, is the name him. He and his assistant worked of the youth, and his ability as a earnestly and hard in getting his runner is undisputed. plans before the public. On January 23rd, last, he invited Mr. Wilcox, the General Secretary of the (white) Y. M. C. A. to hear his views on the plans of the colored Y. M. C. A. Mr. Wilcox did not give them any encouragement to go ahead in their work. Mr. Wilcox advised them to wait with patience until the time is sufficiently ripe for such a thing, although he advised them that they could organize a club instead of the Y. M. C. A. With both Horner and Craig now out of the way, it seems certain that the Portland lad will be on the Michigan track team. The feeling among the students seems to favor the carl- Dr. Brown at once caught the idea of such suggestion and at once changed the name from Y. M. C. A. to Y. M. C. L. In other words the Young Men's Christian League. Under this head he is now working and in the future they will take the original name, Y. M. C. A. We as a people and a race should show to the public that we are capable of maintaining our integrity and content for that which is right and not be damned by other people's ideas, but take them as a suggestion. By doing this we will be recognised anywhere and everywhere and among all nations and not on equality as a race. But if we are going to be blemished and to fro by any little flow of wind that may come against us we will be of no use to ourselves or any one else. We ought to be as firm as the Week of Ornament. The first devotional service of the Y. M. C. L. was held on Sunday, February 11, 1913 at Bath Brom, Baptist Church. Rev. T. M. Burt was the principal speaker, subject to Wesley Litt. Piano by Herman A. R. Dufresne of Washington and a vocal by L. A. Browne. It is time that our wars should be stopped and immortalized when they are over. MAY HAVE NEGRO ON TEAM. Michigan Likely to Be Represented by Lapey, of Portland. Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 18. - For the first time in the history of Michigan athletes, from a track stand point, the university may be represented on the track team this season by a colored sprinter, L. Brown, Lapaley, '12 Lit. from Portland, Oregon, is the name of the youth, and his ability as a runner is undisputed. Whether Michigan would be represented on the track by Lapaley was a much axiated question last spring, when Joe Horner was captain of the track team. The question never came to a crisi, as Lapaley was defeated in the preliminary elimination meet. With both Horner and Craig now out of the way, it seems certain that the Portland lad will be on the Michigan track team. The feeling among the students seems to favor the colored boy. In Memory. JOHN P. HARRIS—Sacred to the memory of our dear father and husband, who departed this life February 24, 1911. Just one year ago you left us. Lonely are our hearts to day. For we often sit and wonder Why the Lord took you away. More and more each day we miss you. Friends may think our wounds are healed. But they little know the sorrow Lies within our hearts concealed. The happy home we once enjoyed. How sweet the memory still. But death has left a loneliness The world can never fill. The National Fish Survey provides Baltimore Presents and Demonstrates the Risk. For more by all Groups, From the Washington Bank Building National We SLANDER SUIT AGAINST PASTOR GOES BY DEFAULT. Court Orders Sheriffs' Jury to Declare How Much Rev. Mr. Huclen Shall Par. Justice Donnelly in the City Court of New York today directed a Sharer jury to assess damages against the Rev. Marcelus Huculus, pastor of the Baptist Temple at No. 445 Lenos avenue, in a suit for slander started against the minister by Andrew W. Battle, an officer of the church. Battle said that, acting as agent for the church, he negotiated for the purchase of some real estate and incidentally spent some of his own money. He presented one item for $15, which he said he paid out, of his own pocket to a man named Moore. January 8th the vestrymen of the church met and he asked them to repay him. He said in his complaint that the minister arose and said: "I know what my friend, Brother Battle, paid Moore that $15 for. It was paid Moore to help Battle defraud this church. It is a pure case of malfeasance, embezzlement and defaulcation on his part." All of which, Battle declared, was false and damaged his reputation to the extent of $5,000. The Rev. Mr. Huculus did not answer the suit and Justice Donnelly signed an order for the jury to answer the damages. Mr. Carter's Tribute. To the Editor of The PLANET Dear Sir—While reading in your issue of February 3rd, the article on "Men and Things" by Mr. John E. Bruce (Grit) I thought of the duty and support I owed the leading Negro weekly of Virginia. Space of your columns will not permit me to comment at length on the praiseworthy ideas Mr. Bruce embodied in his commendable article. But no race can be a people without literary productions. It is there fore highly important that you should read and support race journals, read and study books by colored authors. And likewise professors of learning and authors of the race should so conduct themselves by investigation that the present and the future generation will feel it an honor to refer to them in support of an opinion or of a principle, as many of our scholars now feel it a pleasure to refer to white authorities. In his "Plea to the Negro, young and old." Br Bruce says, "We should read more of the race's past and present." A timely pleading for the social uprise of the race and for its intellectual advancement; a plea that should be heeded by all who want to improve their mental condition. It is good to know of the past as well as the present status of a race, who the white man refuses to recognize in his history other than to degrade. We can learn much of our intellectual condition at an early period of time as well as be informed of our social standing of today, by reading such as Mr. Bruce's articles and editorials in leading colored weeklies and books by colored authors. ROBERT W. CARTER. Brookline, Maine. 2-11-12. BOYS WITH BRICKS ASSAULT COLORED MAN. Doctor Finds Him Unconscious With Finger Cut Off—Assailants Escaped. After being chased for several blocks by a gang of bad white boys Thaddeus Allen, colored, of 13 North Thirty-second Street, was finally corralled at Twenty-sixth and M streets about 8 o'clock last night, and assaulted with bricks. He went down under the first opalight but the boys still continued to throw bricks until, an officer appeared, when they ran. The city ambulance was called, and Dr. Watta, who responded, found Allen in bad shape. He may have sustained a fracture of the skull, as he was unconscious, with his heart badly cut in several places where the bricks had landed. One of the fingers of his right hand was cut off as neatly as though amputated with a knife. After dressing the man's wounds Dr. Watta carried him home in the ambulance. The police are at work endeavoring to discover the identity of Allen's assailants—Richmond Virginia, Feb. 17, 1912. Python Anniversary. The anniversary exercise of the Knights of Pythia, N. A., S. A., R., A. A., and A. and the Order of Cal- beath will take place Sunday, March 26, 1912. Arrangements therefor will be made by the District Depa- tition furnished by compilers from the re- servate indexes and sources. In Mahomet, the exercise will be held at the First Baptist Church, Rav. W. Y. Johnson, pastor. The subject provides for that occasion will be ac- counted later. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. FRIENDS WHO CALL US "BILL." Hy Lucian B. Watkine. "Tis nice to know we're "Mr. Smith." "The Honorable Jones," or "Gov- ernor Brown." "His Excellency, The President,"— Of winding fame from town to town. "Tis nice,—But, oh! the one who thrill Us most are friends who call us "Bill" "Tis fine to feel our force for good Wide-sweeping in its range of power.— Lo, swaying human hearts as winds Shake out the perfume of the flower.— Tis fine,—Yet, go where'er we will We long for friends who call us "Bill." "Tis grand to sit upon a throne Thank God for friends who call us "Bill." Yes, after all is said and done And naught is left of worldly worth. When I have basked in the golden Heat Again my own! ...ah call me "Bill" Mrs. Cocillia J. Smith, who has been very sick at her home is somewhat improved. Mr. George H. Johnson, of West Leikh Street, is still confined to his room. Mrs. Courtney Booker is still very sick at her residence, 819 W. Franklin Street. Mr. R. T. Coghill, Sr. continues very sick at his home, 1017 Hull St. South Richmond, Va. Mr. Norman Wesley, who has been seriously ill at his residence, 707 E. Franklin Street is somewhat improved. We regret to learn of the serious indisposition of Mr. S. W. Robinson, Sr. of this city, who is now under treatment in a hospital in Washington, D. C. The outlook for his recovery, said to be bright. Mrs. Rosa K. Jones, leader and Mrs. Mildred Cross and Mrs. L. A. Hong are reported to have resigned and withdrawn from the choir of the First Baptist Church. It was caused by some minor disagreements between members of the choir. "The Beautiful Valley of Dry Bones." Rev. S. C. Manuel will preach the above named sermon Wednesday night Feb. 2nd at 5th Street Baptist Church at S. clock, benefit of S. S. Rally, Dr. Q. W. Moone and Prof. Joseph Matthews will sing. Silver offering Odd Fellows to Honor Peter Ogden The Odd Fellows will celebrate the 69th birthday of Peter Oden, the founder of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Friday night, March 1, 1912 at Third St. A. M. E. Church at 8 P. M. The members of the different departments of the Order are earnestly requested to attend. An excellent program has been arranged. Mr. Chitman White Must Move. Mr. Chitman M. White had a fire in his establishment. While not in itself serious, yet so injured two frame structure in which he is doing business as to cause the Building Inspector to condemn the same and to require him to vacate the premises by March 1, 1912. Thebana Hold Tenth Anniversary. The Theban Beneficial Club celebrated its Tenth Anniversary last Wednesday night at Johnson's Auditorium. West Leigh Street. The hall room presented a scene of beauty as the ladies with their beautiful powns and gentlemen attired in full evening dress moved to and fro. It was one of the main social events this season. The dining hall was beautifully decorated and the menu which was served in courses was excellent. The ball was under the management of the Entertainment Committee, Monser, Chitman M. White, Chairman, Lennuel V. M. Eggleston, Frank Miller, Dr. Roccos C. Brown, Joseph B. Dabney, William W. 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I'm an old blockhead to think that you were having an attack of ghosts. But we'll solve the riddle shortly, and then we shan't have any trouble with our alarm-bells," with a significant glance at Fitzgerald. "Well, Mr. Brettmann, suppose we take a look at the work? Laura, you show Mr. Fitzgerald the gardens. The view from the terrace is excellent." Fitzgerald stood silent, nursing at the girl's side. To dwell in a haven like this—no care, no worry, no bother of WILL JONES "BEE! NOTHING LESS THAN A CHIRSEL COULD HAVE OUT THE MORTAR THAT WAX." grubbing about in one's pockets for overlooked colna, no flush of excitement! "You must think me an odd girl." "Pray why?" "By the manner in which I brought you here." "On the contrary, you are one of the few women I ever met who know something about scoring a good joke. Didn't your friend, Mrs. Coldfield, know my mother? And wasn't your father a great friend of my father's? As for being odd, what about me? I believe I stood on the corner and tried to sell plaster casts just to win a foolish club wager." "Men can jest that way with impunity, but a woman may not. Still, I really couldn't help acting the way I did," with a tinkle in her voice and a twinkle in her eyes. "Convention is made up of many idiotic laws. I suppose that's why I am always happy to leave convention behind, to be sent to the middle of Africa, to Patagonia or sign an agreement to go to the north pole." "The north pole? Have you been to the artic?" "No, but I expect to go up in June with an Italian explorer." "I'm it terribly lonely up there." "It can't be worse than the Sahara or our own Death Valley. One extreme is as bad as the other. Some time I hope your father will take me along on one of those treasure hunts. I should like to be in at the finding of a pirate ship. It would make a boy out of me again." His eyes were very handsome when he smiled. Boy? he thought. He was scarce more than that now. "Prince gold! What a here it has been, is and will be! Blood money, brvr! I can see no pleasure in touching it. But humanity has gone on. The pirate is no more, and the highwayman is a thing to laugh at." "Thanks to railways and steamships, it is beautiful here." "We are nearly always here in the summer. In the winter we cruise. But this winter we remained at home it was expanded. The snow was deep, and often I joined the village children on their beach. I made father ride down once. He grumbled about making a fool of himself. After the first lie, I couldn't keep him off the hill. He wants to go to St. Martin next winter." She hugged joyfully. "I shall take the arctic trip," he said to himself irreverently. "Let us go and pick some apple blossoms. They just such a little white, and they are so pretty on the table. So you wore in Nagasawa's tomb that day! I have crushed over the king of Rome's toyn. Did my Brethren receive these more in battle?" "Ok, so! It was a phase of this student life in Meiji. But he has been under fire. He has had some head lice." He wanted to add, "Four Grass." "This taught with Goosey!" "Four." "How that country always comes our sympathy! but there a little too much poverty and not enough with it." "There in it I fought with the Greeks because I defended them less than the Brits." "And Mr. Brettmann?" "He smiled. 'He fought with the Turks to chastise Greece, which he loved." "What adventures you two must have had! To be on opposing sides like that!" "Opposing newspapers. The two angles of vision made our copy interesting. There was really no romance about it. It was purely a business transaction. We offered our lives and our pencils for a hundred a week and our expenses. Rather serried side to it, it. And a fourth rate order or two." "You were decorated?' excitedly. 'I am sure it was for bravery.' "Don't you believe it. The king of Greece and the sultan both considered the honor conferred upon us as good advertising." "You are laughing." "Well, war in the Balkans is generally a laughing matter. Sounds brutal, I know, but it is true." "And this Mr. Breitmann has been decorated for valor." And yet today he becomes my father's private secretary. The two do not connect. "May I ask you to mention nothing of this to him! It would embarrass him. I had no business to bring him into it." She grew meditative, brushing her lips with the blossoms. "He will be something of a mystery. I am not overload of mysteries outside of book covers." "There is really no mystery. But it is human for a man in his position to wish to bury his past greatness." From his window Brettmann could see them plainly. "Curse those scars!" he murmured, striking with his fist the disfigured cheek which upon a time had been a source of pride and honor. "Curse them!" [TO BE CONTINUED.] WELL REGULATED SCHOOL TRAINS FOR LEADERSHIP. WELL REGULATED SCHOOL TRAINS FOR LEADERSHIP. Spelman Seminary Foremeet. In Work Among Young Women. Atlanta, Ga.—Spelman seminary had its beginning April 11, 1881, in the basement of the Friendship Baptist church in this city. Father Quarles, the good pastor of that church, was on his knees praying that the Lord would send women from the north to help the women of his race. He arose and opened the door of his study to admit Misses Packard and Giles, who were seeking advice about the location for the work to which they felt called of God to enter upon. Today Spelman seminary is one of the largest and best equipped schools for colored girls and young women to be found in the south. It has furnished to the different communities of the south at least 7,000 young women prepared to be of help to the several communities—hundreds to do good work in the settlement, church, school and home. Teachers are sent to both public and private schools and to do all grades of work from primary to the college. Among those especially appreciated are our nurses. When the city of Atlanta needed a physician and a trained nurse for the work in the public colored schools two of Spelman's alumnae were given the work and are rendering most acceptable service. Five have answered the call from the foreign field and have gone to Africa as missionaries. The school is sending out printers, milliners and decasmakers in large numbers well trained to be helpers in the various lines of industry wherever their lot may be cast. The institution does well to send out skilled workers—the world is calling for such—but it does better, far better, in making its first endeavor the training and sending forth an army of Christian young women to become the home makers of our people. This is Spelman's special province. The home is the foundation of all else in the civilization of any people. Besides having an able corps of teachers for the various departments, the school is fortunate in having Miss Lucy Hale Taplay as president, Miss Edith V. Brill dean, Miss Lise H. Upton general secretary and Miss Angie E. Kendall treasurer. Meets of Karnaline Institute Principal J. A. Myers of the Kansas Institute at Benson, Ala., is meeting with much success in his efforts to raise funds for the immediate needs of the institution. The new buildings erected in the place of those destroyed by fire a few years ago are in need of heating, lighting and water equipment. An effort is now being made to raise $10,000 for this purpose. The New York trustees of the school are Mr. Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee and Trust company; Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Evening Post; Miss Emily Howland, Miss Imbel C. Barrows and Mina Alice Lawrens. Future Scout of Historical Society. County Hayford, a prominent harrier at law on the Gold Coast of Africa and author of "Gold Coast Native Institution" and "Although Unknown," will quail for the Society for Historical Research in Tennesse, N. T., while in this country this spring, whether he comes to attend the international conference on the Negro to be held at the Tennessee (Ala.) institute for three days, beginning on Wednesday, April 17. BILL PROVIDES FOR $250,000 Major R. R. Wright and His Associates Hold Successful Conference With Senate Committee on Industrial Expositions—Convincing Facts by Dr. Wright, Du Bois and Rose. Washington. A committee of prominent colored citizens appeared before the senate committee on industrial expositions in Washington recently in behalf of the bill introduced by Senator Bradley of Kentucky providing for an appropriation of $250,000 for an exhibition of the progress of the race since emancipation. Senator Root of New York presided, and Senators Crane of Massachusetts, Taylor of Tennessee, Newlands of Nevada, Payter of Kentucky, Stephenson of Wisconsin, Jones of Washington, Works of California Gronna of North Dakota and Swanson of Virginia were present. The speakers representing the Negro Emancipation association were Major R. R. Wright of Savannah, Ga.; Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, Philadelphia; Professor W. B. Du Bois of New York and Rev. N. Ross of Washington, each having assigned to him a particular phase of the discussion. After Senator Root opened the meeting Senator Bradley introduced Major R. B. Wright, who told the object of the exposition, the success he had had for the past six years in exhibiting the progress of the Negroes in Georgia and reasons why national aid should be given this exposition. He stated that since 1876 the government had appropriated over $25,000,000 for expositions. He now asked for 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. only 1 per cent of that amount, $220,000, which is only 2½ cents for each Negro inhabitant in the country. Major Wright then introduced his son, Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., who would show the committee what progress the Negroes had made which would warrant an exhibition. This was done by a comparison between the condition of the race in 1800 and in 1910. Dr. Wright said the population had more than doubled, being 4,500,000 in 1920 and 10,000,000 now; the illiteracy had been cut in half, being 90 per cent in 1800 and 44.5 per cent in 1900, possibly under 40 per cent today. Public school attendance had risen from practically nothing to 3,000,000 in labor Negroes have risen from farm laborers to the control of 917,000 farms and the ownership of 250,000 farms. They have held their own as farm laborers, besides developing other trades. New occupations, unknown fifty years ago, have emerged. There are 00,000 Negroes in professions today. Negro physicians, lawyers, etc., unknown in the south to the generation before the war, are now in every city. Negro teachers number 25,000. Negro property holders have emerged. No accurate count has ever been made. Fully 500,000 homes and farms are owned. Wealth of the Negro is estimated at $1,000,000,000. Negro literature, art and music tell a story of progress. There are over 200 newspapers, 500 Negro authors. Some of the most popular music of the day is written by Negroes, and Negro musicians have appeared on every principal American stage, and Negro artists exhibited in our leading art galleries. Dr. Wright told of the growth of Negro banks, insurance companies, real estate operation, etc.; also of Negro organizations, their towns, churches, secret orders, saying that, whereons the race fifty years ago was not organized, today organization is the rule rather than the exception. One above twenty one year of age is organized. These these represent some of the facts of our program a story which cannot but interest and encourage all who have at heart the programs of our country. The committee showed special interest in the social of the program. Most Senator Crane introduced Dr. W. R. B. Dill of New York, who told the plan of the expedition. It is to be held between Jan. 1, 1858, and Jan. 11. There are to be first, second, Sigma, picturn, modus, etc., representing African and African industry. There would also be exhibitions of, second, the Negro physique third, Negro population; fourth, Negro education; sixth, Negro organization; seventh, Negro in civics, Negro cities, etc. There would be awards and medals for mortorious exhibit. A grand historical pageant, a musical festival and finally a permanent exhibit. Dr. J. N. Ross, pastor of, the Metropolitan church, Washington, made the closing address on the good such an exhibition would do. His speech was pronounced one of the most eloquent and pointed five minute speeches ever made before the committee. Dr. Ross said in substance: "Such an exposition would show the real significance of the American form of government and the meaning of American opportunity. "Second.—It would be an inspiration to millions of our people who do not know the opportunities that are theirs and who are deprived because of ignorance of the progress made by their race. "Third.—It would inspire hope and respect in the whites. That would then see a side of the Negro which is not usually seen and would be brought to respect him more, thus bringing about a more friendly feeling among the race. "Fourth.—It would also show the world that America has interest in all her people." Senator Bradley then made a few remarks, and Major Wright thanked the committee, which went immediately into executive session and after a short deliberation decided to report the bill favorably, which has since been done and also placed on the regular senate calendar. --- Foreign Educator Visits America. Andrew G. Fraser, president of Trinity college at Kandylon Coyon Island, was one of the noted visitors at the recent celebration of the birthday of General S. C. Armstrong at the Hampton (Va.) Institute. Professor Fraser's visit to the United States is for the purpose of studying educational methods and aims such as are in vogue at Hampton and Tukegego institutes for the betterment of his own work in India. 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COLORED VOTERS NOT WANTED The recent political fight in this congressional district between the two wings of the white Republican officeholders, sandwiched here and there by other white men of alleged Republican persuasion, who do not hold office, will prove to be of peculiar interest to genuine Republicans everywhere, when the newspaper records of the proceedings are read and discussed. Mr. George A. Hanson, in pursuit Mr. Joseph P. Brady in nomination as a delegate to the National Repub- lican Convention is quoted as having made a violent attack upon the colo- red Republicans of the district. The language accredited to him and prac- tically confirmed by every daily newspaper is as follows: Mr. Hanson then proceeded to pay his respects to the Moore-Allan faction and their methods. He descri- bited this contingent as a grasping, ng. office hoisting element; and intimated that, headed by Roy G. Cabell, they were making overtures to the Negro. We would like to know the difference between drawing legitimate salary as an employee of the United States government for legitimate service, rendered and the drawing of large fees from political lobbyists in order that a certain political faction may be successful in the country. Mr. Hanson's financial affairs are not in such a condition, if the financial reports thereon are to be secured, as to permit him to live without work or to serve the Party without compensation. He has been a persistent candidate for office and therefore has endeavored to secure the very emoluments, the reception of which he criticises in others. The Republican Party has repeatedly exhanced the platform and issued a declaration of principles in favor of the rights and privileges, equal in character of all men before the law and condemning any and all discriminations on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Mr. Hannon is quoted further: Wild was the enthusiasm when Mr. Hannon said in connection with the black man: "We ask for no support—we receive no support from the Negroes of Richmond. I don't want you to infer that I desire to deprive the Negro of any right. But I beholden in the principles of the party, he will take the place and work where he best way to insure its success. We call upon him to get behind and push—the place where he rightfully belongs. (Applause) His place is not in front. He doesn't equal the white people socially, and the moment he forces himself to the front he will bring odium to the party to which he attaches himself. This is plain, strong language, voiced by a politician who was once a candidate for Congress upon the Republican ticket in this district. Mr. Hanson's platform is the same as that of Hon. Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina and his politics is extracted from the bung of the same political barrel used by the Negro-haters of Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. He is serving out bourbon Democratic soup in a Republican ladie. The newspapers assert that his views were enthusiastically endorsed by his short-sighted followers, practically all of whom, including himself are candidates for office. We do not know of a candidate for the presidency, either Democratic Republican, Prohibition, Socialist or any other political party who would openly announce that the support of the black man is not wanted. It is charged that the Republicans have appropriated the principles and policies of the Bryan wing of the Democratic Party. It can be alleged with equal truth that Mr. Hanson and his followers have appropriated the Negro-batting principles and policies of the bourbon Democratic Negro-hating contingent of the Southland Office-socker George A. Hanson is a curiosity. He would be repudiated by ex-President Roosevelt and not recognized by President Taft upon any such platform as he has himself enunciated. Mr. George A. Hanson's declarations were surprising, but Mr. Joseph P. Brady's declarations were dumbfounding. He glorifies in the fact that he was in a white man's convention. Two golfered citizens who were in the hall were asked to retire, although the meeting was an open one to all citizens. Democratate white citizens could come in, but Republican colored citizens were required to come out. Mr Joseph P. Brady is now clerk of the United States District Court, whose salary has been recently reduced some fifteen hundred dollars by the abolition of one of the courts. He is also a candidate for more salary. For the benefit of those who do not know Mr. Brady, it may be well to state that Mr. Brady has been holding government office through the efforts of loyal white Republicans and devoted colored ones ever since he had sense and age enough to wield a pen. His father was one of the ablest politicians this State has ever produced and was beloved by the army of Negroes who supported him through evil report as well as good. We have no recollection of his ever having said that he did not want this support. His son now rises up after having grown fat and good-looking in a political office, the occupancy of which the Negroes made possible, to say that he is glad that he is in a white man's convention and that Negroes are not wanted. If the leading citizens of color stand for this kind of action on the part of this debased politician, we shall be surprised at their actions. For our own part, we shall assume any position which our intelligence and money will entitle us to occupy. White men of the Hammond-Brady type are to be sent to the year. No party could afford to stand sponsor for either one of them or for any of their followers. Plain, straight-forward, honest Southern democrats are candidates for office are far better as candidates than are these breaks now strutting about in the stolen plumage of the Negro-hating Democrats of the Southland. Ex-President Roosevelt will hardly care to subscribe to their tenets or to endorse their principles and President Taft cannot afford to support them in their mat race for office. It would be well for both wings of the Republican Party to turn the political house upon these political monstrosities and retire them to that part of the political barn-yard where their cacklings will not disturb the public. The address of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt delivered last Wednesday at Columbus, O. before the Constitutional Convention will have a pronounced effect upon his future career both as a politician and a statesman. His fundamental declarations were so radical as to place him and Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska upon the same platform with no sign of a division between them. It may be said of the latter that he is more consistent in squaring his actions with his words than is the former and that the entrance of the distinguished Nebraskan into the White House as President would not be attended with so serious results as would the distinguished citizen from New York. We are of the opinion that Mr. Reservoir has not strengthened his candidacy inside of the Republican Party for the nomination. We believe though were such a thing possible, he could be accorded the Democratic nomination with a whoop. The Eastern states or rather the controlling financial elements within their limits will not "stand for" the radical doctrines which this great statesman advocates. When Mr. Roosevelt insists upon breaking down the very bulwarks of conservatism which the fathers of the Republic with far-seeing vision erected and would turn over to the multitude, not only the judicial department of the government, but the decisions thereof, without permitting sufficient "cooling time" on the part of the electorate, to our minds, he becomes an extremist, worked up to a frenzy by the lash of injustice perhaps on the part of somebody. He is liable to do more harm than good and to destroy some of the foulest and most valuable heritages in a moment of passion and resentment. Mr. Roosevelt has strengthened himself in the West. It will be a surprising thing if he can command the support in the National Republican Convention of his own State. him. He is erratic, impulsive and not disposed to hear the other side save with an expression of suspicion and doubt upon his countenance. We are of the opinion that this speech of ex-President Roosevelt will place him in the category of the extremists and will link his name with the socialistic theories and doctrines which he has in times past criticized and opposed. In his declarations at Columbus, he has taken no middle ground, but has left great basic principles, so far as they relate to this Republic far in the rear. He and his distinguished successor have accertained the opinions of jurists elevated to the Supreme Court, before they would consent to name them, going so for as to ignore their political opinions and policies in so doing instead of, ascertaining their judicial fitness and temperament and their conscientious devotion to great principles. So far all the colored people of this country are concerned they have the greatest reason for being in favor of the recall of judges in view of many of the outrageous decisions and evasions of the expounding of fundamental law in its relation to human rights. And yet we do not know of a citizen of color of prominence who has gone so far in his political and public utterances in connection with the judiciary as chronicled in the utterances of the able statesman from Oyster Bay, New York. If an President Roosevelt does crimes and poliohes were put into active operation, they would produce a revolution in our form of government. The effects of which complaint is made should be corrected and they are being corrected, but not by any such methods as are proposed in this forbid speech by the greatest citizen in all of this world. President Tatt has not been weakened by this latest abolition of his predecessor in office. On the other hand we are of the opinion that it has made his re-nomination an object necessity and will result in the rallying to his support of all of his enemies, who while bitterly opposing him on account of his vace flating policies and his lack of conservation in many instances, will welcome him as the one conservative force now before the country to whom an appeal can be made. If President Tatt's renomination would mean the Republican Party's defeat, ex-President Roosevelt's nomination would mean its Waterloo Even Ohio cannot be carried upon the platform which the Democratic majority in the Constitutional Convention is virtually drafting. Governor Judson Harmon, the only Democrat who has even a slight hope of carrying Ohio has virtually said so. Should Mr. Roosevelt and his followers capture the machinery of the National Republican Convention at Chicago, the result following would be closely akin to that which followed the stampede to Mr. Bryan in the National Democratic Convention. There is no conservative stateman upon the horizon who is qualified to lead the Republican hosts along the lines laid down by the Fathers of the Republic. "Peanut" politics seems to be uppermost in the nation and great, justice-loving fearless statemen seem to have disappeared from the earth. President Taft and his lieutenants hold the machinery of the Republican Party-of the nation and they will not, yield it up without a struggle. Ex-President Roosevelt is the only great leader, who can cause them any serious opposition, who stands serious uneasiness or who stands even a slight chance of disempanating them from their saddles. We see a chance for the repetition of the light in New York, where Mr. Recorcat and his supporters were finally routed at the polls. History is repeating itself. Colored men will be found in both camps from this time aaward. But so far as we are concerned, we deplore the departments of present day leaders and await with interest the result of the polls. The moneyed interests will figure in the context and to our minds, the protected and the unprotected interests as reflected in our protective tariff policies will line up behind either Taft or Roosevelt, just in proportion as they have been attacked or protected. The people who are deceived by th plattitudes of the various political candidates, should read their Bibles and go down on their knees in prayer for this wicked generation and its leaders practicing deception, while with their mouths they easy to deceive the people all the time. tion to be held at Richmond, Va., on the 12th day of February, 1812, and to the Republican State Convention to be held at Roanoke, Va., on the 12th day of March, 1912, the parties heroinlafter set out, the same delegates and alternates to represent the Republicans in the State Convention: "Delegates—Joseph P. Brady, Walter W. Morton, G. A. Hanson, Joseph W. Stewart, R. L. Mahalay, Oscar Hooker, Melvin Flugenhelmer, F. J. Mitchell, John Minsheimer, J. W. Hous, Dr. B. A. Hord, V. Donat, Bernard Shaughnessy, Mark R. Lloyd S. L. Clarke, James L. Shelton, R. E. Froeman, H. F. Waldrop. "Alternates—Eiw, L. Lovy, C. M. Appard, J. H. Lyman, A. J. Wolverton, H. W. Waldron E. R. Powers, Joseph Smith, W. H. Noble, T. D. Frey, E. R. Woolgers, J. B. Stewart, A. Clarke, Ernst Eubank, John G. Grubls, James Duffy, R. A. Dyson, M. Salomonys, B. C. Outlaw. "J. W. STEWART. "V. DONATI. "F. J. MITCHELL. "Committie. SECOND MEETING CALLED When the hall had been almost cleared of the supporters of Flegenheimer-Brady-Hanson, Mr. Moore took charge and called a second meeting to order. Many of the other faction remained to see what would happen. Many of those present at the second meeting were local Federal officeholders and about fifty Negroes, many of whom are government employees. Mr. Cabell, who was present, was called upon for an address. He characterized the previous meeting as a force and a vaudeville show; merely an amusing incident, he said. He took occasion to say that he had never announced himself on a candidate for election as national committee from Virginia. The committee on nominations made the report, and urged that Charles B. Cary he elected chairman of the city committee which was done, with the election of the committee from each of the wards. TAFT AGAIN WHEEL The following resolutions were adopted: "We, the Republicans of Richmond Va., in mass meeting assembled on the 12th day of February, 1912, heartily indorse President William Howard Tatt for renomination, and each and every delegate elected at this mass-meeting to the Republican District and State Conventions is hereby instructed and pledged to vote for no delegate or alternate to the Republican National Convention who is not instructed and pledged to vote and work for the renomination of President William Howard Tatt. "Resolved, That the delegates and alternates voting as delegates and pledged to vote as a unit on all questions as a majority of said delegates and alternates voting as delegates shall decide." Before the meeting adjourned Mr. Brown made an explanation concerning the rental of the hall and declared that those who participated in the first meeting were guilty of a high handed proceeding and had no right to be present. He said they were guilty of trespass and that it was the first time in the history of Belvidere Hall that its name had been connected with a scandal. TALKS OF LEGAL AUCTION. In an interview later Mr. Brown said that it was very probable that he would take some legal action against those who, he said, had turned a political trick. The presence of Sergenn. Shoe maker and Officer Leiss prevented any serious outbreak on the part of either of the warring politicians. Opinion was divided as to which of the two factions acted within its rights. It was held by some that the first meeting was illegal, while others maintained that Chairman Moore and other members of his side were present when Mr. Hanson reQUESTED him to call the meeting to order and did not do so. Therefore they explained, under the party plan it was perfectly proper for a member of the committee to call the meeting to order and proceed with the usual business. Which side will be upheld by the State committee is a question upon which no one would express any opinion. If the first meeting and its actions are sustained, then those who have awayed the party for the past few years will meet political death, temporarily at least, while if the second meeting is upheld its promoters will be no worse off than they were at first. SOME MORE DELEGATES Delegates elected at the second meeting were as follows: District Convention—R. R. Cabell C. R. Moore, B. C. Cary, Marcus Mc Mc Kay, Leoile M. Dewy, A. G. Rogers, John B. Kilden, J. J. Bedmond B. W. Manuel, Leo W. Stetson, Ouser R. Phillipson, A. A. Fugue, J. C. Brustow, J. W. Brusel, John A. Murphy, Bdgar Alam Jr., M. M. Williams and B. R. Arnold, Allanrue—B. A. Lewison, P. J. Allan, John W. Ar Baldwin, W. N., Arrowsay, J. Andrew, H. H. Hancock, C. H. Fryman, C. A. G. Crowley, M. W. Barclay, W. B. Brink, N. H. Ferguson, I. J. M. Boulak, Ralph Glidden, R. R. Middleton, C. P. Carson, Paul H. Ingo and Warren J. Trimmage. State Convention—C. R. Moore, Leslie H. Drew, O. E. Phillips, John A. Murphy, K. E. Cabbell, C. B. Cary A. A. Pare, Lee W. State, J. C. Bri tow, B. W. Manuel, J. H. Cavedo, John B. Kidd, J. J. Redmond, B. B. Arnold, M. M. Williams, Edgar Altan Jr., and Marcus McKay. Alternates —B. A. Leighers, W. E. McLaughall, John W. Arnold, M. E. O'Belrine, Joseph Naeagle, W. P. Arwood, C. H. Trpllett, H. W. Barker E. R. Brink, R. W. Gary, Paul E. Inge, Warren J. Timmons, O. R. Phillips, J. W. Sargent and B. R. Eldridge. Which of the two sets of delegates will be recognized in the district and State conventions is another matter of doubtful opinion which led to the expressed belief that some quick action will be necessary. If this is to be docked before the district convention which takes place next Monday at noon at Leader Hall, South Richmond. At a meeting yesterday of the Republicans of Chesterfield county President Taft, National Committee-man Alvah H. Martin and C. Bascom Slemp, chairman of the State committee, were each indorsed. B. L. Graveon was elected county chairman to succeed P. H. Arnold. MEDILL M'CORMICK. Manager Roosevelt Headquarters In Washington. 1 SAYS ROOSEVELT IS CANDIDATE Medill McCormick Makes the Announcement. TO INFORM HIS FRIENDS Declares the Colonel Will So Express Himself In Speech as to Leave No Doubt In Mind of Anyone. "Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for the presidency, and his friends will be an informed," said Modiil McCormick, manager of the Roosevelt headquarters in Washington, in a statement. Mr. McCormick made this statement on his return to his desk after an absence of several days. When he left Washington Mr. McCormick went first to New York, where he held a conference with Mr. Roosevelt. Later Mr. McCormick went to Chicago and conferred with the Roosevelt leaders in that city. Mr. McCormick said: "I have read Mr. Roosevelt's speech to be delivered before the constitutional convention at Columbus, O. Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for the presidency and his friends will be, so informed. That he will declare himself in so many words as a candidate for president I will not say. I will say, however, that within the next week the Roosevelt backers will begin work in earnest all over the country in their fight to secure the instruction of delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago pledged to the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt." In the course of the Columbus speech Mr. Roosevelt, while giving his views concerning his attitude on public questions now uppermost in the mind of the people, will so express himself as to leave no doubt in the mind of anyone that he is not only a receptive candidate for president, but that he expects his friends to work for his nomination from now on until the meeting of the Chicago convention. Another incident in connection with Mr. Roosevelt's forthcoming announcement on the presidency, which adds strength to the statement of Manager McCormick, was the visit of J. H. Little, of Charlotte, N. C., to the Roosevelt headquarters. Mr. Little was secretary of the Republican "conference" which met at Chicago some weeks ago, and declared in favor of the nomination of Senator LaFellotta. We said: "The people all over the country You are ruthless, and unjust. 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Others Promoted—Ashley Anderson, Eva Bassett, Julia Cheatham, Ruth Cheatham, Russell Elllett, Viola Ellen Ellen Hart, Augusta Herndon, Leslie Hicks, Henry Holmes, Howard Johnson, Louise Johnson, Mary Lewin, Sadie Lewin, Robert Mosby, Carrie Peyton, Ellise Preston, Cyrill Rold, Samuel Roane, Hillard Shelton, Ruby Smith, Virginia Smith, Roland Williams, Elizabeth Greene, Harvey Jasper, Albert Mason, Robert Washington. 2A GRADE—First Honor—Della Epps, Jesse Herndon, Lorenzo Hill Others Promoted—Rosa Bookor, Ella Bland, Irene Bryant, Louise Brown, Viola Epps, Ollivia Hobson, Lillian Johnson, Katie Johnson, Susie Johnson, Sadie Kyer, Edith Rudd, Ida Scott, Carrie Toler, Pocahontas Whitley, Helen McClain, Beverly Bray, James Cheatham, James Jackson, Cornellius Minor, Alfred Pleasants, Dorsey Rice, David Taxewell, Harry Thompson, Emmett Winston, Clinton Anderson, William Lyttle. 1B GRADE—First Honor—Augustus Banks, James Chiles, Levi Clayton, Madeline Garrison, Hazel Harris, Arthur Kenney, Anderson Jackson, Viola Wilson. Othem Promoted—Luetta Bacon, Ada Rolling, Rosa Davis, Rosa Johnson, Lillian Johnson, Mande Oatney, Cora Rose, Lucille Rice, Viola Wilson, Joseph Brandon, Andrew Dudley, Willie Minor, Marshall Nelson, Ernest Pearson, Roy Pollard, Henry Randolph, Samuel Randolph, Henry Randolph, John Robinson, Julius Harris, Arthur Smith, Robert Wilson Charles Washington. MA GRADS, NO. 1—First Honor—Evelyn Brown, Charlie Bailey, Gertrude Ciles, Lacy Davis, Robert Brent, William Cook, Catharine Davis, Wheatland Grimes. Others Promoted—Malachi Dawson Elizabeth Cooper, Brantine Ella, Auretha Green, Edith Green, Janet Jackson, Nami Lowa, Maggie Lowa, Lewy Purham, Cortine Stewart, Iles Wheatson, John Branach, Randolph Dawson, Olivia Fields, Mary Green, Henry Huntley, Bowyer James, Spartina Lowa, Willie Morse, Winda Hish We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational A Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. 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After being prepared for burial and apparently devoid of life for two days, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mahollehek, who live on a farm near Black Duck, Minn., was discovered to be alive as the burial services were about to be held. Several days ago the little girl fell in a bucket of water in a supposed faint, but she failed to regain consciousness, so the parents had her made ready for burial. Some of the neighbors came in to the funeral and one of them noted that rigor mortis had not really set in and that moisture was gathering off the glass of the tiny casket. The body was hurriedly removed, and by the use of powerful stimulants the spark of life was fanned back. It is one of the strangest cases of suspended animation ever brought to notice in this section of the country. Hang Five On Same Gallows. Ewald and Frank Shilfawski, brothers, were hanged in the county jail in Chicago. They mounted the gallows together and were followed immediately by Philip Somerling and Thomas Shultz, the other members of the Shilfawski gang who murdered Fred W. Guelsso. Their necks were broken. The brothers showed no emotion as they marched from their cells to the scaffold. They were accompanied by Father O'Brien. Both assisted the executionors in adjusting the straps and both prayed constantly as the final preparations were made. Three juries of fourteen physicians each witnessed the hangings. Thomas Jennings, colored, was next hanged. He was convicted of the murder of Clarence Hiller, a railway clerk. All the executions went off without a hitch. United States Circuit Court Judge William Morshon Lanning, who has been sitting for three years past in the United States circuit court of appeals for the third federal circuit in Philadelphia, died at his home in Trenton, M. J., of heart disease, a victim of overwork. Suffering from a collapse which came some time ago as he was attaching to his judicial duties in Philadelphia, Judge Lanning headed for his weekly alternately hospital of re covery, and then in doubt. Thursday his condition was so serious that the family did not make any effort to disguise the apparent fact that the end was near. Mrs. Lanning and Judge Lanning's younger son, Robert S., were with the judge when he peacefully passed away. Leaps From Brooklyn Bridge Leaps From Brooklyn Bridge. Frank Law, the aeronaut, who a week ago leaped from the apex of the Statue of Liberty, aided by a parachute, leaped from the middle span of the Brooklyn bridge at New York. The wind carried the parachute about 3000 feet down the river before it struck the water. Law, apparently uninjured, was picked up by a tug. Georgia Delegates For Taft The Georgia Republican state convention, in their season in Macon, indorsed the administration of President Taft and instructed its delegates to the Chicago convention to cast their votes for his renomination, "first, last and all the time." President of Bridge and Structural from Workers' Association PETER H. Four Killed, 67 M hurt, in Wreck. The Pennsylvania Limited, east bound, one of the fast Chicago-New York flyers, was wrecked at Warriors Ridge, four miles west of Huntingdon, Pa. A dining car and eight steel Pullman sleeping cars left the track and plunged down a thirty-foot embankment to the edge of the Junata river. Of the 102 persons on board the train, four were killed and ninety-seven injured, several of these mortally. The dead are: Harry A. Mann, New York; Mra. John K. Tavenner, Washington; Alexander Servant, colored, and Mra. M. D. Hall, New York. 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But few times in commercial history, especially in agriculture, have we records of such magnificent and continuous growth as this industry has shown. Fortunes were made—and lost. Troubles and setbacks were often overcome by the power and stability which large profits give. Formerly grazing was free or very cheap; in fact, for many years nearly every sheep that could walk and graze showed profit. But times have changed. No longer is grazing free or even cheap, while everything the sheepman buys, from labor to salt, is high. There is no profit nowadays with poor sheep, and in some seasons even the good ones lose money. Almost every breed of sheep and every conceivable cross has been tried on the range. One man insists that rams of a certain breed should be used entirely, another favors some other breed, and so on. The range breeding work of the department of agriculture was started in 1901 for the purpose of breeding a sheep best adapted to the range. The experiment was originally in conjunction with the Wyoming experiment station. Fifty-nine ewes were bought in the range country of the A Ranger. northwest and thirty in Nebraska. This foundation flock was largely Rambooullet, but partly Delaine. In 1907 158 more ewes were purchased. The discouraging feature before mentioned came with the rams. Some of these were secured in the east and some in the west. Two failed to breed. One was killed by lightning, another by dogs, while one was injured in transportation so that he later died from his injuries, and one died of disease. With all of these troubles it has been hard to have the lambs come when it, was intended they should, and it has been difficult to carry out the breeding work as planned. It is hoped these trials are well over. The experiment is now entirely a department project, as the Wyoming experiment station is no longer interested in it. The sheep are run on a ranch nine miles from Laramie, Wyo. Here the government sheep run on the range the year round, being feel grain and hay only when storms necessitate it and during lambling. They are really "range" sheep and not "farm" sheep. The stock now consists of 280 ewes of breeding age, 270 lambs of 1911 and The stock now consists of 380 ewes of breeding age, 270 lambs of 1911 and six stud rams. What some advancement has been made in the work with this stock may be shown by the fact that in 1008 the ewes sheared 10.5 pounds and in 1911 13.1 pounds per head. The yearlings show splendid size and fleece and are great rustlers and hardy. It would seem that a range ewe weighing 150 pounds, shearing fifteen pounds of combing wool and doing well under ordinary range conditions is a pretty good standard.—Bulletin, Department of Agriculture. Pruning and Blight. In fruit growing sections where the pear blight is prevalent it is well for the orchardist to reduce his pruning work during the winter and spring to a minimum, an cutting at these times greatly augments wood growth. This means a greatly increased number of new shoots, whose tender tips are especially liable to infection by blight germs from the feet of ants or other insects that happen to alight on them. More than this, the app moves very rapidly in this young growth, which increases the chance of an infection of the large limbs or trunk on which the shoots are growing. Moderate pruning may be done during July and early August, and this will not only induce the growth of these shoots, but will cause the tree to produce fruit buds for the following year. The writer had some experience along this line not long ago and knows wheered he meeks. A Bit of Good Advice "America has the largest list of native trees of any country in the world." And don't leave the world till you plant a few of them at least. This generation will respect you, and the next will think of you as a mighty good fellow." The above is from S. H. Madden of Pennsylvania, in the Rural New York. PLAN FOR THE NEW SEASON. Winter is not too early to begin planning farm work for the coming season. There are the many stormy days, when outside work cannot be comfortably done, which can be most profitably and indeed pleasantly spent in making plans for the new season and thinking over the problems which the past year's experience has brought home to us for solution. I heard a successful farmer remark the other day that it requires a good deal of thinking to conduct successfully even a small farm, but a good many farmers do not appear to recognise this truth and simply follow the beaten path to which they have been accustomed from year to year without expending any considerable amount of thought as to whether their regular routine could not be improved upon and their business made more profitable by a little timely thought and study. Examples are not uncommon in almost any neighbourhood to prove that such would be the case, but the habits of a lifetime are hard to break. I think one great trouble with most of us is that we do not have sufficient faith in farming to make the necessary investment to reach the highest success, whether that investment be in the capital or the effort that we put into our business. Farm Progress THE VALUE OF STRAW. Worth.More on Farm in Winter Than Anything Else but Feed—Can Be Utilized All Over. Next to feed for the farm stock straw is probably the most useful material about the farm in winter. In the first place, we always use plenty of it for bedding, says a correspondent of the National Stockman and Farmer. It makes the stock more comfortable. All the farm animals appreciate a good soft bed of straw. It keeps them clean. The horses have fewer yellow statins; the cows have less foreign matter clinging to them. An abundant supply of straw, beats any new trap ever invented for taking care of the liquid manure. Straw and liquid manure have a special helpful influence upon each other. The straw absorbs the liquid. In turn the liquid manure starts the straw to decaying. To get the straw to decay partially so that it would really act as manure was always a serious problem until we began to use two or three times as much of it for bedding as we formerly had done. A great deal of straw can be utilized in the feed yards or other stock from lying upon the frozen ground. The most successful steer feeder the writer ever knew used load after load of straw in his yards every winter. Recently he remarked that in hauling manure from his yards in the spring and the summer he had found manure and straw in alternate layers to a depth of four feet. Yet his yards are never soft and muddy. The straw keeps the soft manure and mud from working up into mud. Another successful feeder builds an immovable stack of straw in his feed yard. He has it fenced to prevent the steers from wearing it down. It sets as a windbreak, no matter from which direction the wind blows. He pitches straw over the fence from time to time in all directions to keep a clean bed for his steers. Usually the steers prefer the shelter of this straw pile to that of the big open sheds to which they have access. Some Cow's Milk Tea Bi BAME COW MILK TOO RICH. Foods that are too rich cannot be safely fed. An instance is reported by a western dairyman that for several years he lost the calves of his best cow because her milk was too rich. After he discovered this fact he gave the calves of that cow milk from cows that was only medium in quality, and further loss from that source was stopped. LIVE STOCK NOTES It is very desirable that the ewe lambs exercise daily. Keeping comfortable goes a long way toward making cheap pork. A hog cannot sleep comfortably in a draft of wind. It will catch cold very easily. Well drained yards and pons will help to keep the hog more thrilling and profitable. Sheep need plenty of fresh air, and they certainly are more warmly clad than we are. To do their best sheep should either have free access to salt or else be salted once a week. Sheep a year old or more-ordinarily gain faster on corn when they have only dry roughage, especially clover or alfalfa. If a hog misses a feed watch it. If it misses the second feed remove it from the herd and thoroughly disinfect where it has been. The device when selecting a ram of the Dawns or other herdens heads of sheep should be very careful not to suspect one with stubs—mature herd. Our Presidential Possibilities Series CHAMP-CLARK BACK of the speaker's presidential cratic member of the house of popular on both sides of the c. pleasure, so far as personal predilect leagues. Mr. Clark (who originally by the way, has been in continuous sentative, with the exception of one pleasing orator. He enriches his spee sions and interrugs his arguments wi ing of the soil. BACK of the speaker's presidential candidacy are the majority of the Democratic members of the house of representatives, and, indeed, he is so popular on both sides of the chamber that his nomination would give pleasure, so far as personal predilections are concerned, to most of his colleagues. Mr. Clack (who originally bore the Christian name of Beauchamp, by the way), has been in continuous congressional service as a Missouri representative, with the exception of one term, since 1883. He is a forceful and pleasing orator. He enriches his speeches with Scriptural quotations and allusions and interruptions his arguments with droll and humorous absurdities smacking of the soil. HE.LIVED THERE ALL RIGHT Father Got a Side Light on Son's College Habits. ARTHUR LEFEVRS, the well known Texas author, said in Victoria apropos of the Texas prohibition campaign. "That reminds me of a happening at the University of Virginia during my student days in St." "There was a Baltimore freshman at the varsity whose father got several letters about his boy's wild ways - about his fondness for pench and honey and such like heavy drinks. These letters grieved the old man to the heart. He wrote to the freshman and in reply got a general dental of all the charges. "Evidence, however, continued to pour in, and finally the father decided on a secret journey to Charlottesville. He timed himself to arrive late at night. It was, in fact, 2 o'clock in the morning when he rang the bell of his son's boarding house." "In response to his ring a woman in a yellow bathrobe appeared, lamp in hand. "What do you want? she demanded, peering suspiciously into the darkness. "Madam,' said the amateur detective, 'is this the residence of ----? and he mentioned his son's name. "The woman's grim relaxed, and she answered indifferently. "Yes, he lives here. You can carry him right in.'-Kansas City Star. An. Early Culprit. Teacher-If the earth were empty inside it would resemble- Scholar-A rason. Teacher-A rason? Why, Teddy? Scholar-Because it would be hot low ground.-New York Mall. "What did you do about that flying machine you ordered?" "I concluded I don't need it," replied Mr. Cumrox. "I can make all the altitude tasks I want with the elevator in our skyscraper office building."—Washington Star. The Morning Quarrel. "You forget something," called his wife from the window. He came back. "What did I forget?" "You forget to show the door." He stunned it.—Washington Herald. On Second Thought. The Morning Special al candidacy are the majority of the Demon- sion of representatives, and, indeed, he is so sechamber that his nomination would give actions are concerned, to most of his col- bore the Christian name of Beauchamp, congressional service as a Missouri repre- nent, since 1803. He is a forceful and teaches with Scriptural quotations and allu- with droll and humorous abecdotes smack- Not the Pliable Kind. "I can twist my husband around my little finger," said the Crescentian beauty. "That's all right," replied the fat lady, "but if you had married the ossified man inward of a contortionist you could him a harder customer to deal with." Chicago Record-Herald. "Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!" wrote the poet. "Still," he reflected, growsomely, "some giant headed politician or wild eyed reformer will get the credit of having originated the recall." Chicago Tribune Through French Eyes. How the American millionaire marks his billiard score. Pete Miele. Cutlery Family "I call 'em the cuttlefish family." "Why so?" "Well, the daughter spoons, the father forks out the money, and the mother knifes the other guests"—Washington Herald Honeymoon Over. Mrs. Newedd (pointing--You are not like Kate's husband. He won't let his affe do a bit of heavy lifting. Newedd--But I can't always be at home when you take your bread out of he oven.—Boston Transcript. POULTRY NOTES These bright days make work in the poultry yard a real pleasure. The success of turkey raising depends upon the kind of care given for the first five or six weeks. Geece fatteed wholly on pasture or with the addition of a little corn make a tender, juicy article of flesh not to be equaled. Chickens will not scratch when they are overfed nor when there is no feed in the litter. The idea is to keep them scratching. The successful feeding of poultry depends largely on the ability of the feeder to meet the condition of the chickens on feed. The material from which eggshells are made is carbonate of time, and there are many forms in which this may be furnished. Hence that are not laying these days can be caused sometimes by feeding a small amount of cut bone or soft meat in form. --- Credit Lost POLLUTION EGGS FOR HATCHING. Matter of Food For the Layers Is One of the Most Important Requirements. On the verge of the hatching season it will be well to consider a few conditions governing the production of furtile eggs that will hatch vigorous chicks. Recall to mind the success and failure of past seasons and endeavor to profit by knowledge gained at those times. Let an effort be made to avoid the hatching of weak chicks that soon pine away and die and endeavor to make a marked improvement in this year's crop. In years ago, when hens were used for hatching, the eggs were never set until vegetation had begun to grow in the spring, and the hen was able to Let the Hens Forage. hustle about and obtain the things that were necessary to provide material for fertile eggs. Since the advent of the incubator and the strong market demand for early broilers the hatching season begins early in the winter months and at a time when the eggs are poorest for producing strong chicks. A supply of green and animal food is necessary if the hen is to furnish egg that are best suitable for hatching, and when nature does not furnish these in the form of growing vegetation and insects the keeper should provide a substitute. Plenty of clover, beets, turnips, cabbage and such things should be given for green foods and cut bone and beef scraps for animal food. Rabbitts are excellent for supplying this last part of the ration. Dress and hang where the fowls can pelt at it, but be careful that it remains in fresh condition. It is well to lessen the supply of mash and feed more grain. Place it among litter, where the hens will have to work to get it. When fed one thing alone a hen will produce few if any eggs at all. She must have a ration that contains the elements that are necessary for producing eggs, and if the eggs are to be used for hatching still other elements are required to render the egg fertile. It requires some knowledge of these things on the part of the poultryman to secure eggs in winter and still more to get fertile ones. A little more attention given to the eggs laid in cold weather will have a good effect upon the percentage of the hatch. Visit the pastes several times each day and gather the eggs. It is not often possible to put them into the incubator at once, and during the time that they are kept they should be turned each day. Handle them carefully and avoid jarring. Keep in a cool place, but not cool enough to chill. After all is said it remains that each poultryman must work out plans after his own ideas, for the conditions and requirements of each locality are entirely different. The materials at hand for feeding and the climatic conditions render a course of procedure necessary in one locality wholly impracticable in another. Spring Feeding. Apoplexy among fowls is generally confined to the overfat birds, and generally the heavier breeds are subject to it. It is therefore necessary that the keeper should not feed any great quantity of fat forming feeds to his birds, especially to the heavier breeds. In the spring of the year more than any other time of the year the birds should have a variety of feeds, and especially a great deal of feed reasonably rich in protein should be included in the ration. Soft shelled eggs are usually produced in considerable numbers at this time of the year. The reason for this generally lies in the fact that the birds do not get the proper feed. To form an eggshell the proper materials must be present, and if they are not present the soft shelled egg is the result. Lime is one of the necessary materials needed in the formation of an eggshell, and at this time of the year, when the bens are beginning to lay, a liberal amount of lime should be present at all times where they can partake of it when they desire. In providing any kind of food, whether it be vegetable or animal feed, be sure that it is pure and wholesome. Many grains and rotten meats will cause sickness many times when the stock is in perfect health. Approved Philip was a conceived youth. One evening he called upon some friends and placed up the new Webster's Unabridged Dictionary which lay on the table. "What do you think of it, Philip?" asked the host. "Weil," was the reply, "so far as I have looked, it seems to be correct."—Success Magazine. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, kind of vigor, weakened manhood, falling manery and lame bank, brought on by emaciation, anatomical drains, by the fallion of youth, that has caused so many worn and nervous men right to their own homes—without any additional help or medicine—that I think every man who wishes to regain his many power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the prescription free of charge, in a plain ordinary sealed envelope to any man who will write me for it. This prescription comes from a physician who has made a special study of men and I am convinced it is the correcting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure wear not together. I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in condidence so that any man anywhere who is weak and discouraged with repeated fall arrest may stop dragging himself with harmful patent medicine, ensure what I believe is t.'s quickest-saving automotive, upbuilding, SPOT-TOUCH ING. Remedy ever developed and cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: DR. A. E. ROBINSON, $399 Lock Building, Detroit Mish., and will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. FERTILIZER FACTS. Nitrogen (or "ammonia") encourages strong leaf, vine and bush growth. Potash makes firm tuber, bulk and fiber. Phosphoric acid makes blooms "set" and seeds and seed pods form abundantly. If the wild growth on your farm is profuse and your tomato and melon vines ruft to leaf your soil is rich in nitrogen. If trees do not thrive, onions seem soggy and tomato vines lack sturdiness of stalk the soil needs potash. If your tomatoes, melons, grain and cotton fail to "set" plenty of seed and fruit phosphoric acid is called for. If you expect to take from your land a progrish in leaf, as lettuce, increase the proportion of nitrogen in your fertilizer. If potatoes or onions are de- sired provide plenty of potash. If abundant corn, wheat, cot- fon beans, melons, peaches, straw- berries or tomatoes are wanted use to the phosphoric acid— Farm Press. CARE OF YOUNG CHICKS. Use of the Incubator Should Not Be a Very Difficult Task—Temperature Troubles. Raising chickens with an incubator should not be a difficult task provided common sense and care are exercised. As far as possible efforts should be made to imitate the hen in her methods of hatching and caring for her brood. The nearer you can come to nature the better. In raising chickens artificially the mortality is said to be about 50 per cent, which is entirely too high. It is not so much the fault of the incubator as it is the fault of the one who runs it. If the breeding stock is in good condition, properly fed a balanced ration and the chicks have been properly hatched, either under good hens or in a good incubator, they will be strong and vigorous and ready to grow. "Well begun is half done," and as the natural tendency of the sturdy chick is to live, thrive and mature all we have to do is to encourage this tendency and help nature do her work. With comfort and proper food and exercise very few chickens should be lost. When they die during the first ten days it is a sign that something was wrong with the incubator because hatched chickens will stand quite a lot of roughing. The little chicks should have plenty of room. The brooder should have not less than nine square feet of floor space, and not more than fifty chickens should be put in any brooder. Where there is crowding some will be killed and others stunted. There should be plenty of fresh, warm air, but no drafts. In buying a good brooder select a good lamp, one that can easily be kept clean and will throw off uniform heat. Keep the center of the brooder warmer than the sides. This will give the chicks more room and prevent crowding. As to temperature, the actions of the chickens will tell you what to do. The cold chick will not sleep, and if too warm the chick will move about uneasily. Individual brooders should be applied with sand and on top of this should be a litter to a depth of two inches, so that they can get exercise by scratching. The soot should be kept clean and, new litter applied when needed. Always buy a good oil and never take chances of the wick burning out. When possible the brooders should be regularly sunned. The temperature of the brooders should be 90 degrees on sunny days and 85 degrees when the weather is cool and cloudy. At the same time be sure that the brooder house is well ventilated. The temperature should be gradually lowered till at the end of the third week it is about 80 degrees. The late Judef Brown was guilty hag over a civil case in which one of the important witnesses was a poor doctor named William. The defendant was a very small man with a weak tickle voice, and the counsel on both sides, so well as the court and jury, had great difficulty in hearing his testimony. During the cross examination the counsel for the plaintiff became em- parated and began to prod and harry the little man. "Dr. William," he shouted, "if we are ever going to get anywhere with this case you must speak up so the court will hear you! Speak up loud and strong, sir!" The small stool veterinary tried, but it was evidently no use. Whether from embarrassment or inability, the sound would not come. "Well, your honor"—began the counsel insignantly, when Judge Brother stopped him with a gesture. Leaning over the beach, he said in his kindly tone: "Mr. Attorney, you must be patient with the doctor. He cannot help it. Years spent in the sick room have apparently made speaking low a second nature with him."—Green Bag. Willie's Way. "Annie Y." "Mother says that I shan't ask for cake." "No, Willie, you mustn't." "But, amuse, don't think it would be impostite to refuse if you should offer me some." No Fear At a well known club in New York the other day one of those bored who are the bane of all clubs draw his chair up to Robert W. Chambers and medically: "Chambers, you are writing at the rate of two and sometimes three months every year, to say nothing of your annual sheaf of short stories. Are you afraid that a time will come when you will have written yourself out?" "My dear sir," Mr. Chambers replied, "I have no such fear. Just look at your own case. You have been talking for more than sixty years, and yet you haven't talked yourself out, have you?" - Washington Star. Teaching by Example William Dean Howells is a stout ponent of those novelists who, under the pretext of reforming their readin- g, write books about vice. "Such wrjtern," said Mr. Howells at a luncheon at Kittery Point, Me., "mind me of a lad whose mother said to him: "Why, Johnny, I do believe youve teaching that parrot to swear." "No, I'm not, mother," the boy applied. "I'm just telling it what it mustn't say."—Los Angeles Times. Compulsory Changes. After marriage the self made man often finds it necessary to make extensive alterations. — Life. An Autocrat's Relaxation. "You seem to get a great deal of pleasure out of business." "Yes," replied Mr. Dustin Stax; "after I have freed over a golf match there's nothing rests me up like getting back to my desk, where I can have everything my own way."—Washington Star. Was Willing. Tramp—Mister, would you give me a nickel for a meal? Pedestrian—For a glass of beer, more likely. Tramp—Wotterer you say, hee; you're payin' for it—Boston manuscript. Studies of the Vermacular. "Sayin', beaten?" said the girl at the notion counter. "Hoosoo!" appertied the girl at the glove counter. "Jenna mifow diddono!" "Lookseermin, wotcha mean?" "Fewdon't knowlin, wotchahhunhun-bent!" "Aintabushin!" "Tartes!" "Minjones yunebetter!" "Bwat yurf!" "Heojoe mean, anybow!" "Pullenpoke wennypans cheercom- ter." "Didduncee anyfelter." "Diddunterlin, either, didja?" "Oearmot." "Awahnuned!" "Bayoedda!" interrupted the fiddle-walker, "quitcherchininner I'M repor- cha!"—Chicago Tribune. Afterward. A man doesn't really know how much he can do until somebody else does it first, and then he's more that he could have done it better. — Dimitri Poulos Proust. Born Portfolio Hot. "Would you call me an editor?" "No, an amateur, editor." — Banting Banting. By Rev. KARL KRETZMAN. Pastor Church of Our Saviour, New York. "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest in ripe." The import of these words, spoken through the prophet Jeal unto the children of Israel, has perhaps never come home to the church of God as in our day. Wherever we cast our eyes the mission fields of our God are "white to the harvest." In every country of the globe the harvests of the Lord are at work. The ever-hunting gospel has been translated into more than 500 languages. "Put ye in the stilek, for the harvest is ripe." This call of the Lord is come also to us. Not only are there, according to recent statistics, more than 50,000,000 unchurbed people in this our own country, but also from beyond the plan, from England and Germany and Denmark, from Brazil and Argentina, from Australia and New Zealand, from India and other parts of the world, where the eminence of our church are at work, there comes to us the cry, "Send us more men, sharper our sickles and strengthen our hands." And if we read aright the signs of the times the Lord may open other doors to us in the near future. The church in our day is in a bad way. The lines of demarcation between the various churches are being more and more obliterated, not because they are really getting closer together on the basis of the divine truth as revealed in the Bible—would to God that they were—but because they are driving farther and farther away from their old confessional mooring, which contained at least some of the essential truths of Holy Writ, until they have nothing left but a code of morals and a few phrases about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. This, of course, forms a basis on which all respectable men, no matter whether they call themselves Christians, Mohammedan or Jews, can unite, but it certainly is not Christianity. And the more we realise this state of affairs, the greater becomes our responsibility and the more urgent our duty to stem the tide, to stand up for the truth as revealed in the Bible and to bring the gospel of salvation in its power to all within our reach. Thousands of upright Christians are becoming disgusted with the spiritual brakes on which they are being fed and are earnestly seeking for wholesome food for their sons, surely the harvest is ripe, and it is time for us to put in the sickle. But what is there to do first? If anything should be accomplished in any branch of work there must be men who are able and willing to undertake the work. Where there are no preachers and no missionaries no preaching and no mission work can be done. If we would be true to the 'charge of the hear, "But ye in the sickle, go and preach the gospel," we must, above all things, cherish and foster those institutions which the church maintains for the trailing of preachers and missionaries—namely, our Christian colleges. It is this thought I wish to emphasize. Preach the gospel, put in the sickle, is the lord's command to his church and to each individual member thereof, and every Christian will heed the command of the Lord according to the measure of strength and grace given to him by trying to bring others under the influence of the gospel that they might be gathered into the heavenly garrisons of the Lord. But if the harvesting for the Lord is to be done in a systematic way there must be men specially trained and equipped for this work. Our Saviour says in our text: "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Pray. ye therefore the Lord that he would send forth laborers into his harvest." In saying these words Jesus sees, as it were, the whole human race lying like a mighty harvest held before him. The harvest should be gathered in. Men should be brought to the knowledge of the truth that on account of their transgression of God's law they are by nature under the curse, but that Christ, the eternal Son of God, has atoned for their sins and that all who believe in him should have eternal salvation. For such work harvesters, preachers and missionaries are needed, men who make it their life work to gather in the sheaves for the Lord. Jesus bids us pray the Lord for such men. The men who are to work in the harvest of the Lord must come from him. He must give and send them. They are his servants, and he wants them to acknowledge him alone as their Lord and Master. For the calling of a preacher or ministerion only such men are really us as are truly converted unto the Lord. Only a sincere Christian who has experienced the truth and power of the divine word in his own heart will be able to speak with conviction of the bliss and happiness to be found in Christ. Only such a man as believes in the inerrancy of the Bible and trembles at the word of God will be inclined "to bring into creativity every thought to the oblateness of Christ" and to point out the only true way of salvation to others. Only a grateful child of God, who is filled with a few virtues of the heavens, will be ready to carry himself and to embrace the truth, hardship and forgiveness with peril. Genea Records of Work Done by the Cortton Avenue Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn For Men and Boys During 1931. New Features of Larger Work. Brooklyn.—The first year of the employment department of the Cortton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association in this city as a registered agency under the employment agency laws of New York proved successful. Good paying positions were secured for 154 men and boys. Mr. Arthur L. Comisher, the assistant secretary of the association, has charge of this department. The need of such a department had been apparent for some time, and on Dec. 20, 1910, the department was opened with an appointment to the Standard Oil company, New York city, and since then it has done substantial service for the unemployed. The work done in the department has been systematic. The ability of every applicant is ascertained with care and accuracy. It has been the chief motive of the employment department to bring the colored men and boys whom it handles up to their greatest efficiency in the various positions now opened to them, together with finding and opening new opportunities for them. It has put forth special effort in the way of se- ARTER & COURT curing new employment for them knowing that there are many positives in which the colored man or boy is seldom if ever given a chance to even prove his worth. The utmost care has been exercised to make sure that the first applicant sent to a position file it creditably. The idea of making the best of the positions offered the colored man and boy and the efforts to open new employment for them have both worked out well. A great deal of time has been spent in counseling disatisfied employees, advising them to be painstaking and thorough with their work, impressing upon them "to work well means to advance," to be patient with trivial annoyances and to be punctual. On the other hand, frequent conferences are held with employers regarding reasonableness of hours, wages, etc., and frequently the department has made peace between employer and employee where both may have become excited over some small indiscretion. The department has also had the chance to prove to a few firms that there are colored men who can fill the clerical and executive positions. It has helped men and boys in the most stringent circumstances. Young men, poverty stricken and without homes have been helped to employment and thereby given a start. The head of the employment department has made a study of the employment conditions for colored people in Greater New York, particularly regarding employment for men and boys, and sees in the development of this work a boon for the colored man and boy. This year the department has taken on some new features with the idea of creating a larger work. It has employed the services of a solicitor, whose duty it will be to call on employees and explain to them the kind of service the employment department is rendering in order to assist reputable young colored men and boys to position. Every effort for making the work more concrete and of greater benefit to the people in being put forth. Lincoln and Douglas Jointly Honored Joint celebrations of the one hundred and third anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the ninety-fifth birthday of Frederick Douglass were held by Afro-Americans in various sections of the country during the week beginning Feb. 12. Golden Hill Fashion Making Headway The MILI cotton mill, a manu- facturing establishment near Delhi, Tus., is making good headway in the manufacture of cotton fabrics, rope, twine, maps and other useful articles. The concern is operated entirely by Abr-America. NEED BETTER $EEDS. Garlicle Production in Some Places Illustrated by Case of Growers of Muskinton. In telling of "the great need of better seeds" the Country Gentleman suggests one of the weaknesses in general farm practice. Quoting our article previously printed, the paper says: "The molasses are pulled as soon as they are ripe and are heated in wagons to the seeder. Here they are broken and thrown into a large hopper, where rollers crush the pulp. The pulpy mass passes to a cylinder with a coarse screen through which the seeds drop out. The pulp and rind are need for cattle feed. The seeds are spread on long drying pane, run through a fanning mill for cleaning and macked, after which they are sent to the seed house." Now, without reflecting upon the Kansas molson seed growers one may safely say that almost any molson grower can by the exercise of a little care and skill produce at home much better. ```markdown ``` Bood Malong. ter seeds than these. He cannot do it for 10 or 15 cents a pound, but he can almost certainly do it at a profit. In the man who grows even a small patch of melons keeps an eye on his vines with a view to selecting seed from the one producing the most melons of desirable shape, size and flavor, in there any reason why he cannot in a few years breed up a strain of melons much superior to the average variety? It would certainly pay the man who grows only a few melons for his own use to do this, and it would just as certainly pay the man who grows melons on a large scale. Nor would it pay in the case of melons only, but in that of most other field and garden crops. There is not much really good seed to be had. Too many gardeners think that they are necessarily getting seed of high quality when they buy from a seedman, but a little investigation will show that most commercial seeds are grown with a view to cheapness rather than quality. There is great need of more workers in seed selection and plant breeding—not only skilled scientists who devote their energies to the production of new varieties by hybridization and scientific selection, but also plain garden and farmers who know how to select the best specimens of established varieties and who will give due attention to purity, vitality and trueness to type. Local varieties need to be developed. INDOOR PARSLEY. Methods Recommended For Growing This Vegetable Under Glass. Plenty of Light. Parallely can be grown beautifully under glass—in fact, it can be done so well as to rival the finest ferns, axy Gardening. The mistake generally made is to stick the parallely under bouches or along walks or in some shady corner. The best method is to give the crop full light in a good house. Sow the seed as early as possible in good garden ground in drills fourteen to sixteen inches apart. Thin the plants to four inches in the rows; keep them absolutely clean and cultivated down to Sept. 1 and house about that time the same as carnation growers house their plants. Remove most of the foliage, plant a little closer than in the field and treat much like lettuce. This method allows the formation of a powerful root system before cold weather, which is necessary. When cutting commences break or cut every mature leaf as you go and do not jump here or there. A cleaning up of yellow or decayed foliage follows, and the cut section is run on the dry side until new growth is active. Parallely responds to nitrate of soda or any other method of feeding. The bunches are stood in water for some time to strengthen them for market exposure. Another method followed by some is the renewal method. This is somewhat along the line of forcing bulbs. Keep the Tub From Bursting For sixty years I have put a pine stick, about like a fence picket, in a water tub in my blacksmith shop to keep the tub from bursting when froze, says a writer in the Farm Journal. One end of the stick must be above water. Trying to Save the Chestnut. Increased and vigorous efforts to stay the ravages of the chestnut hurt damage, which already has destroyed $55,800,000 worth of valuable timber in the eastern states, are being made by the department of agriculture. Early Start With Lettuce. Lettuce is one of the earliest vegetables to reach the table. Prepare your lettuce bed by making a deep seed bed and applying harnyard manure liberally. It may be started in the cold frame if desired. Not on Horse Side A little boy who was very much pummed over the theory of evolution questioned his mother thus: "Mama, am I descended from a monkey?" "I don't know," the mother replied. "I never know any of your father's people." Cotton feed. It is unlikely that this year will be patterned after the one just closed, but it may present adverse conditions in other particulars. Spurred by the sting of defiant, the man whose yields locked last season should make a thorough study of means for surrounding the next crop, with every possible advantage. — Breuer's Gazette. FEEDING BEES IN WINTER. Operation Must Be Performed Only With the Greatest of Care. Several Supplements. Beekeepers frequently find it necessary to feed a few colonies during the cold months in order to save them from starvation. It is a difficult task at best to feed bees in cold weather, although cases are common where such practice seems advisable. As a rule, the beekeeper who extracts honey too late in the summer finds it necessary to supplement food during freezing weather to ward off heavy loss. Bees that have had their winter supply of food reduced from too close extraction are badly weakened for future use, no matter how well supplementary food is supplied. Feeding bees in cold weather must be done with the utmost precaution. Uncovering the cluster is very apt to leave openings through which the warmth of the colony passes off and lowers the temperature of the hive. On several occasions I have had colonies die when I attempted feeding in cold weather, and I have always thought it was from this cause, says a correspondent of the New England Homestead. It involves painstaking care to remove the cushion over the cluster when the temperature is near the freezing point without either chilling the bees or reducing the temperature of the hive to such an extent as to cause heavy mortality. There are several methods of feeding bees in cold weather that reduce the risk considerably. If the colonies are stored in the collar, where the temperature is above the freezing point, the cover may be removed, a hole cut through the cushion and the feeder placed so as to close up the opening. This method, while satisfactory, is not considered as good as feeding from below, especially if the colony is weak. Experienced backpackers are firm in the opinion that frames of scaled honey are the very best food for winter feeding of bees. --- Winter Care of House Plants. Besides the watering which their roots need, winter house plants will not thrive well without some moisture for their leaves, and this may be supplied by placing each day a bowl of boiling water on the shelf in their midst and by at least once a week spraying the foliage generously both on the upper and under sides of the leaves. They can be laid on their sides in bath tub or sink and the water applied with a watering pot or a shower hose. - Farm Journal. Convenient Boost A good roost is a 2 by 4 scantling placed broadside over two twelve-inch boards. These two boards form a platform, which catch the droppings, and these are worth from 75 cents to $1.50 per foot. Do not place the roosts too high, for the hens will jump and in so doing will have leg weakness or perhaps bumblefoot. FARM NOTES A liberal use of paint means a great deal to the farmer. Telephonic communication with the market is a great advantage. Keep all the tools that are used around the barn in convenient and safe place. How much does it cost to have that machinery standing out in the weather? Shedding is cheap. Many a new and valuable implement is left out all winter more through carelessness than anything else. Before laying a cement stable floor care should be taken to have the ground below properly drained and the foundation well constructed. Lime is generally considered one of the most efficient disinfectants because it possesses the ability to destroy cement matter as well as bacteria. HE CHANGED HIS MIND It Made a Difference Whose Head Won on My Shoulder. After he had roughly shaken off the head of the third balleted passenger who had tightly repose on his shoulder the giant man prostrated in a video head enough to be held by everybody by the arm that the next time anybody What to sleep with his hand passed on his shoulder he would give that head a good punching, that's what he would do. This is a sample text. The actual content may vary. The stout man's wife said, "Fa-ah ah, James. Don't get so violent." ```markdown ``` At the next station two women came in and found seen, near the stout man. Presently the younger and prettier of the two began to nod. Lower and lower trooped her head, and soon it found a substantial resting place. The stout man sat still; so very still did he sit that his wife wondered what had happened to him. She leased over and looked past his bulky frame of find out. Her face flushed. "Why, James," she said indignantly, "Don't you remember what you said a little while ago about punching heads? There's a head on your shoulder how." "Is there?" said the stout then moanily. "I had not noticed it." It was apparent then that if there was any head punching to be done somebody besides James would have to do it, also it was apparent that somebody was perfectly willing to undertake the job. "James," said the stout man's wife significantly. He wrigled uneasily until the head was gently dislodged; then the stout man and his wife changed places—New York Times. THE hen remarked to the muller cow (That is the hen cackled): "I'm fun had pet. And not when eggs were high." Bands of Calanthe Constitute a Furniture, and Persons Omitted do Better to Let the little Ones to Join. Children received from Two to Twelve Years. BENEFITS—$1.00 to $1.50 per week when sick and $20.00 to $40 at Death. Matrons wanted in all Localities. For organization of New Bands and All Particular, write MRS. ANNA TAYLOR, W. M., 130 West Hill Street, Richmond, Va. The multry cow remarked to the hea As she maniastated her cur (That is, the cow old): "Well, what then? You quit and your name is mud. I'm good for six gallons of milk each day, And I'm given my stable and grub. But the parrot gets that much—anyway All the gobble—and what does she pay? Not a dribble of milk, the dub!" But the hired man remarked to the pair: "You get all that you're to pay! The pooch does tricks, and the parrot him agear, Which is better than you kin do. You're necessary, but what the use of beowail's your daily part? You're necessary, but what the use Can't do nothin' but jee' produce. What them fellers does is art." PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, at a More Modern Picture than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Enlarging and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be Planned to Quote you Prices on Exterior and from Old Photos. A Specially. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. opera Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and also entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Daggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral suppliment. "Mother, you promised 'not to punish me if I told the truth." "All right, I won't." "Then I must tell you I told a lie this morning"—New York Mail. --- Hard Luck. "This is a peculiar world," sighed Harry the hobo. "I've always noticed, that the poorer cook a woman is the more liker she is to have some cold vittles left for me when I ask her for them!" -Toledo Blade. OFFICES FOR RENT. WELL LIGHTED, WELL VENTILATED OFFICES FOR RENT IN THE NEW MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. A Disgrace. There is in Washington an old "grouch," whose son was graduated from Yale. When the young man came home at the end of his first term he exulted in the fact that he stood next to the head of his class. But the old gentleman was not satisfied. LIGHT, HEAT AND JANITOR SERVICE INCLUDED AT A RENTAL OF FROM $6.00 PER MONTH UPWARDS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PALATIAL AND CONVENIENT STRUCTURES IN THE CITY AND THE SERVICE REBENDED IS FIRST-CLASS. "Next to the head!" he exclaimed. "What do you mean? I'd like to know what do you think I'm sending you to college for? Next to the head! Why aren't you at the head, where you ought, to be?" At this the son was much crest-fallen, but, upon his return he went about his work with such ambition that at the end of the term he found himself in the coveted place. When he went home that year he felt very proud. It would be great news to the old man. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 466, MECHANIC SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Thorne Macro' 8027. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Phone, Macro-6106. Special Attention Fold to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Speciality. When the announcement was made the father contemplated his son for a few minutes in silence, then with a shrug he remarked: "At the head of the class, eh? Well, that's a fine commentary on Yale university!"—Lippincott. Determined to Get Next. "One of these days you'll see business is going to the dogs," said the cheerless person. "I don't believe it," replied Mr. Dustin Star. "But if that time comes you'll find me running one of the biggest kennels on earth."—Washington Star. Plenty of Company "Yes, she went crazy over bridge." "A and cove." "Oh, no great harm done." They put her in a fashionable antiquarium, and she's playing a better game than ever now."—Lockville Courter-Journal. About Sensation. Minesty per cent of the men we know would give anything if they could make a good after dinner speech. The rest of us would be enlisted if they couldn't try — Detroit Free Press. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1918 An Instructor of President Smallwood "Lincoln's Day" Speech, delivered before the Tuscarora, Friulia and Victoria, "Bingham Hall" Temper- ance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute, upon the 1630th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12, 1912, Charleston, Va. President Smallwood said in part: "Color has always had its place in history, and among all the Nations of the Earth, Color-prejudice, is an natural as it is for the agars to fly upwards. Among the more ignorant the human jealousies and the awful display of political prejudice, where the more politician is not a reader nor a thither but a more fraff-political tool, who is used by the more silent and discrete office seeker. "There is no fear of 'Social Equality' here at the South, nor at the North. No intelligent American believes that there is any such thing as 'Negro political rule', or 'Negro social and political-domination'. No sensible man wants to go into any place, where he is not wanted, naturally-upon social grounds, no man who is sensible, wants to be placed in a position where his political influence will be cut and ruined based upon Race-prejudice and racial-human-hostility to color. Mr. Lincoln had all of this in his great mind when he wrote his famous Emancipation Proclamation, which freed 4,500,000 human souls. We meet this day, not as White American Citizens, not as English-born Americans, not as Irishmen, not as any of the races claiming for themselves, a natural superiority, but we do meet as grateful American Negroes, to do honor to the great Abraham Lincoln our late American Hall-pitter, "Merchant," "Canal-mule-driver," Legislator, Lawyer, Honest Citizen, Congressman, President and Emancipator. (Great Applaure.) It is therefore but just, that upon the 12th of February of each year, that the Negroes, all over this land should lay aside their usual vocations and labor of all men and women, should tease, and the Negro Race should gather themselves together in their school chapels and in their churches and halls, with song and prayer, and sermon and speech-making, giving thanks to Almighty God, for the birth and the life, and the great native usefulness of Abraham Lincoln. HOW THE NEGRO CAN HONOR LINCOLN. Races are known, believed, and trusted and feared, just as individual manhood is esteemed, feared and loved, in so far as that Race or that man, keeps pace with the times and develops with the advanced times as they go by. The Negro is not a general exception to this question, what is expected of the white man is also expected of the Negro, by the unprejudiced and the thinking student. "The white man who celebrates Washington's Jackson's and Lee's birthday, look upon the Negro as an infamous ingrate when he falls to open his heart and up-lift his intelligence to praise his Emancipator and truest political friend, the great Lincoln. (Great Applause.) The Negro however, need not wait for February 12th of each year to show that he honors Mr. Lincoln. He honors that great man who gave his life for the race, by living every day in each year, the life of an absolute honest Raco-Pride-Loving Negro, by letting the world know that he owns for himself a home that he pays his honest debts, that he respects the women of his race, that he lives day by Jay a Negro, and that he will never deny that he is a Negro. "The Negro can honor Mr. Lincoln by doing his duty just where he finds it to be done, and to do it so well that no living soul can do it better than he. Color has naught to do with the performance of honest duty, and with the purity and dignity of honest labor: Mr. Lincoln is honored every time a Negro performs his duty to that extent that the world is compelled by intelligent and prejudiced observation to acknowledge that, what he has done, is done well. (Proposed 'anplause. Let the Negro husband learn to love, honor and respect his own lawful wife and let him protect even at death's door, the virtue and the charmity of his daughter against any white man, who preaches Racial-separation in our legislative halls and, then sanctions immorality under the cover of the dark. (Applause) White men have no more right to intrude upon and insult the dignity and purity of the Negro home, and ruin the character of a Negro woman, who he claims is his human inferior, than the Negro has the right to insult the well-fed rules and laws of the best families in any community. "Every time a Negro yields to his human lust, and disobeys the laws of man and God, he has just so much disdained the life and works of Mr. Lincoln. We can honor Mr. Lincoln by entering into a race union everywhere. If Negro women are good enough to be our Misters, our Mothers and our associates they are good enough for the Negro man to marry. (Great applause.) KEEPING PACE WITH THE TIMES When Mr. Lincoln wrote the great Banishment Proclamation and gave the Norse his freedom, he exported the Norse to keep pace with the times to secure the famous pilgrv of freedom, for we all know that freedom brings with it an earth-respons- ability and in order to do justice to Mr. Lincoln and Walter Freedom we must keep pace with the times. We have been told that our sur- vival of the American Revolution made to the Norse freedom. The Norse must be exported to and for the Norse nation. The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated screen with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. REV. JOHN J. SMALLWOOD, Ph. D. President, Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute. Claremont, Va., (seated) and his Secretary. purpose, as well as our daily paper, magazine, books and everything that will make his mind clear, his character and ambition left, and his usefulness beyond question, to both the State and Nation. Intelligence, security, religion and Race pride are the true basis of Negro political and business success and the Negro must understand that in, so far as he profess something in his community, that the White people respect and want; He or She who will do this has given an impetus to that which is classed as real, true Citizenship. "The Negro must also keep pace with the times in doing the 'Little Things'; that will develop into a prominent consideration and a glorious preparation for the great things of life. (Great applause.) Whether we are permitted to vote or not, under the existing circumstances, we must obey and honor the Majesty of the Law, and at the law-makers and the Executors in bringing to Justice, every criminal in our community, be he white or black, rick or poor. "Our general improvements must be made independently of Caste Legislation or of Charity as such. Our manhood must be sustential and not artificial. We must inform ourselves upon the great advancement of agriculture and the care for stock and for farming implements. We must improve our homes, be it a log cabin or a palatial stone or brick residence or a wooden structure. "We must regard the American Sabbath as our Christian Sabbath and disgain to make the Sabbath of this our own fair American-land in character, the Sabbath of Mexico, France or the general European Sabbath. The Negro must play his part in helping to perpetuate the glory and honor of the American homes, American Institutions, the American Churches and the American Sabbath. Let us as a Race keep pace with the times, in spite of Race and Color prejudice. "In this our own Southernland, let us set the example of Race and Religious patience. Grant that we do feel ourselves ostracised, grant that we do feel the sting of Chatelegista- REV. JOHN J. SMA President, Temperance, Industri Claremont, Va., (seated) tion, let us hear our burdens like men. Let us obey the law, build up homes and schools, even under this seemingly difficult and unjust treatment. Refine and purify our homes, sustain and dignity, and build up a cultured Society, and a pure and God-fearing religion and a strong bank account, based upon Truth, Friendship and Honesty and Race-pride. RACE PRIDE. "Mr. Lincoln also expected of in the great princeps and its value of absolute Race-pride, common sense, and real bus news-tact, that would make us a race worthy of his great Emancipation and his unselfless friendship. Mr. Lincoln expected that the Young Negro would become an educated, a well-informed Negro citizen, and that they would protect the dignity, of Negro Women, and help to protect the stability of the Government. This is practical Race-pride, and it is expected of every man on demand, he be white or black. "The Negro in order to cultivate Race-pride, must stop trying to make and draw a color line himself. Let the color of the skin go. let the character of the man and woman remain. Let the influence of all Negroes for good be sustained, and do not try to compel every Negro in this land to accept the dictation of any one man: (Great arguement) right has any one man or any set of men, to seek to kill the usefulness of another man because that one man does not elect to walk in his or their path? Race-pride produces a variety of thought, an honest difference of an express opinion and a manly state of an honest purpose. The Negro must cultivate Race-pride to the extent that he is willing to see the good in the other honest deserving men of his race, as well as the self advertised leadership of the man, who by virtue of his peculiarly attained position, for selfish agrendance meant, and tyrannical motives, who is willing to kill the influence and usefulness of all men who do not say "Amen" to his advice and his way of thinking. (Great appliances) THE NEGRO MINISTRY. God is my sacred Judge, that I have the greatest respect, love and care for the Christian Church, our valentine affection. I love the Magnus Ministry. The Missions of my life have been grounded in a great ordinary, our people have been and are being blessed by that Ministry and through that Great Ordinal, through which our Negro Ministry are already missed. But we as members and ministers must keep pace with the times. "The Ministers who will not read, who will not subscribe for a newspaper, who will not seek to inform himself as to the Social, the Moral the Industrial and the Religious advancement of the Negro race and the White race as well, must expect to fall. Men want to hear something that will impress them when they go to Church. "The Minister should be the leader in Race-pride. He should be so well informed and so free from human jealousy, that he is able at all times to advise the masses of our people, as who is worthy, and of the Enterprise that is wry of confidence and support. The Negro Ministry has as much right to encourage the Negro Banker, to give his moral support to the Negro Newspaper Man to encourage the Merchant, to help the School Teacher, and to give good cheer, to the honest efforts of the Noble. Self-denying woman of the Negro race and the honest working man of bur Race, as he has to preach the Gospel to the very people who he discourages in their lofty ambition, by his profound silence on the one hand and his secret opposition on the other. (Great applause.) "The Minister must be the man to advise his people, all about honest politics, all about advanced and special business pursuits and the dignity of an independent manhood. The Minister who will not read, who expects God to open his mouth and fill it, is an enemy to the Negro Race, and a dangerous public leader in any community who bets upon lung power, rather than brains, study, prayer and ministerial business and labor. "The Negro who buys a farm, who projects his wife, raises his children, cotton or from 50 to 350 bags of peanuts yearly, who educates his child dren, and who improves his farm lands, preaches a most powerful sermon, and the Gospel Minister, must MALLWOOD, Ph. D. Industrial and Collegiate Institute. (ated) and his Secretary. be broad enough, active enough, and man enough to find him out and to picture him side by side with the planters and the reapers of the "Bible Times." "The Negro who succeeds as a Merchant under the existing circumstances in running his store, buying and selling goods, who is making money, should be sent the greatest possible encouragement. The Banker, the Editor, the Leaders of our great organizations, the Builders of our institutions, the Faithful School Teacher and the hard headed, honest and very useful Blacksmith; should find lodgement in all of our hearts." Let the Negro Minister, study to be a leader. Let him study his people, not as the Negro of 1865, but as the New Negro of 1912, as a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Banker, a Merchant, a Land Owner, Contractor, a Carpenter, a Sailor, a Farmer the Inventor, the Scientist, the Educator, and as a Man. Let the Minister see the need and understand what is meant by 'Advancement. "What the Rev. Dr. Z. D. Lewis of Richmond has done for himself as a well informed minister. What Dr. Chas. S. Morrilla and Dr. Rt. H. Bowling of Norfolk have accomplished for themselves as Christian Ministers, so every Negro Minister can do or at least, approach the accomplishments already found in these ministerial gentlemen. No leader is fit to lead unless that leader thinks for his followers and is able to give them at least in a while a variety of thoughts expounded from the pulpits. "Men are made better when they are made to think. The minister must see that something good is being done for the race outside of the Pulpit. Let the Negro Minister be more of the real Christian Brother. I appeal to my fellow ministers to let us find in the next decade a more sympathetic and a greater and a more loving, co-operative ministry, and let us drive away from our pulpits all of that class of men 'Who Pull Strings' to get the other fellow's pulpits, who wish to blacken his brother's character just to see him fall. (Applause.) Old blood from the Negro Ministry and love us from being an ignorant and an impure minister or a decorated minister. OUR DEAD LOVE. "Lettuce and Cucumbers, we must draw a Dead Line between the respectable and the deserving Negro and the infamous." MYRTE GROVE The most beautiful suburb for colored people in the South. A limited number of Lots will be sold cheap while a car line through the center of the property is being projected. Lots beautiful for home sites. Lots which will double in value. Terms: $10.00 down and $5.00 per month. FOR PARTICULARS, VISIT OUR OFFICE. St. Luke Bank Building T. A. HILL, SALES AGENT. out, lay, idle, good-for-nothing Negro. The woman who washes the soiled linen for. her family who keeps her house clean, who cares for her lawful husband who disciplines her husband's children, who cooks for her family a careful prepared, briskfast, dinner and supper. The woman who attends to her own business, who is true to her self and her calling as a wife, as a lady must be protected in our societies against that class of Negro women who have no regard for Poiltones, modesty, and the laws of virtue but who bet upon the clothes they wear and the feathers that are found in their hats, whether bought by honest earned money, obtained by honest toll, or by the soiling of the human moral. (Great applause.) "The Negro man who pays his debts and his taxes, who attends faithfully to his duties, who attends church and lives up to his profession who maintains a home and supports his family and who respects the moral, social, and civil laws of the community, State and Nation must be so up-held and respected as to make him a tower over and above the idle, the vulgar and that class of Negroes who try day by day to get away from their own race, and who by various unbecoming deeds and the unprofitable lives that they lead reflect discredit upon our boat women and our more useful men. "Mr. Lincoln had all of them in mind when in obeying God's great call of him to the Presidential Chair, from which chair he sent an elicit that stirred the Nation and Emancipated our Fathers. It is not true that all Negroes are lodgers, in great things, and the sooner we as a race recognize that fact, the better it will be for us as a race. FRED. DOUGLASS "Thank God that in Mr. Lincoln's darkest days he had a man of our own race to stand by him, whose eloquence was board all over this country, who himself rising from under the cruel hand, of human slavery, sought to co-operate with all of those who plead for the Black Man's Freedom. He was sound in his judgment pure in his morals, sincere in his Race Pride, noble in his culture and hearing, pleasing in his manner, great in his thought and powerful in the use of great natural eloquence, Fred Douglass, the Scholar, the Orator the Diplomat, the Race's Greatest Negro ever born upon American Soil. (Great and prolonged applause) The Negro of to-day honors himself when he pauses amid duty and burden to honor the name and memory of Fred. Douglass. Mr. Lincoln's life was blessed by the active life of Fred. Douglass at a most opportune time. JOHN HAY. But Mr. Lincoln would never have been the man, the President, the statesman and the Emancipator that history now hands down to us in describing his great acts, had it not been for, the late Hon. John Hay. Lincoln's private Secretary in those trying days, John Hay, the scholar, the lawyer, the diplomat, the statesman and America's greatest Ambassador in the Courts of St. James and Secretary of State. (Great applause) "Lincoln thought, but John Hay wrote. Lincoln would say, but John Hay would plan, and it is but fair and just that the Negroes of the land should always associate the immortal name of John Hay with the immortal name of our Great Lincoln. John Hay, who would stoop to pick up an individual Negro from the streets and give him a start in life, backed and encouraged Mr. Lincoln in the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation which started millions on life's journey. "John May was always the Negro's friend. Thank God, black men and women, for John Hay's place in the 'White House' of the Nation at the time that Mr. Lincoln was President of the United States. He was a factor for our Race's good. (Great applause.) APPEAL Have you ever thought of it that the majority of colored renters come to me first? Why? Because I am the nearest agent, and because my office is open when the other fellows are closed. You can do business with me on your way to work and from work, or a telephone call will bring me to your home. If you have anything to rent or sell, tell me about it, and I will do the rest. Don't put off, but see me to-day. B. A. CEPHAS, 602 N. Second St. where and under all circumstances, upon all Negroes. "The Negro does not want 'Social Equality.' He does not want to 'dom inate in politics,' and he does not want to 'rule,' not as a Negro, not because he is black, but because he is an American and a man. He appeals to the best white people of the Nation, for Justice, for Fair Play and for an equal chance in the Race of Life. All that the Negro asks for, to be let alone, by the mere politician, and to be given his rights. This does not imply, nor does it mean 'Social Equality'; nor Negro Domination in Politics; but it does mean self respect, right and common sense in request. "I appeal to my white friends everywhere to rise up against the lyncher and let the Negro be tried by the laws of our State and Country. Not to allow the life of a Black Man accused merely without evidence of his guilt be taken by an unlawful mob. I appeal to Christian white men for Christian Justice. (Great applause.)" "Let us honor Lincoln, Hay and Douglas. Let us honor our Country and sustain ambition. Let us be that class of men, who will die rather than to deny his race or be ashamed of his color." The National Hair-Grower prevents Baldness Protects and Beautifies the Hair. For sale by all druggists. Room 304, Mechanics Bank Building Richmond Va. BRAKEMAN HELD AS TRAIN BANDIT Was Captured Maar Scene cf B. & O. Hold-Up. A man, calling himself F. A. Becker was placed under arrest near Al amont, W. Va.; in connection with the robbery of the Pullman car passengers on the New York and St Louis express of the Baltimore and Ohio. The man had $133.37 in money, four watches said to correspond to those taken from passengers, and two revolvers. He was lodged in jail at Keyser, W. Va. He claimed that another man gave him the money and valuables. The young man boarded the train at Keyser, or Piedmont, and while the train was slowly climbing what is known as seventeen-mile grade, made made his appearance in the rear of the sleeper. Calmly drawing a revolver from his pocket he covered the Pullman conductor, the negro porter, and the flaxman, who chanced to be in that part of the train. He compelled the flagman to walk in front of him and arouse the sleeping passengers, of whom there were fourteen. Quitely he demanded their valuables. Frightened and scarcely awake, they freely gave him all they had. Those who heritated were politely reminded that time was short and that it would be wise to comply with his request without unnecessary formality. The man worked quietly but without haste. He had fired his revolver when he entered the train, and a number of women failed when he approached them, but he robbed them as quietly as he did the men, and gave me head so their condition. The National Hair Growth Program National Products and Services the Hair. For more info call 800-254-8888. Page 501. Mediabetes Health Monitoring Phone Monroe S88 BROWN'S SUBMISSION. 5 Minutes Walk From Our Home. Own your own home and step paying rent. I have 42 beautiful lots located at the head of 28th Street, $100 each to be sold on easy terms, $5.00 cash, $60 cents per week, no taxes, no interest. After the lot is paid for we will build you a home. You pay for name in rent until house is paid for. For further particular call and see M. BROWN, 920 B. MAIN STREET, Second floor front. The National Hair-Grower prevents Baldness Protects and Beautifies the Hair. For sale by all druggists. Room 204, Mechanics Bank Building Richmond Va. Watch This Space. Witchcraft Notice of Removal. CHAMLEE'S MILLINERY STORE. Mrs. L. Barnett, Successor. Beginning March 1st I will occupy National Clothing Co. Store. No. 528 East Broad Street, near Sixth and Broad Streets. I cordially invite all my friends and customers to visit my new Store for their Spring and Easter Millinery. Be sure to see me this Spring. I will have the most fashionable and stylish Millinery in the city, at most reasonable prices. CHAMLEE'S MILLINERY STORE, (L. 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We have a big line of underwear in fleece and rib. In camel's hair and scarlet that we are now offering to the public at a great discount. This is no fake sale but a genuine deal as we must vouch the promise. If you want to save money now is your chance. Please give us a call. I. J. MILLER, Prepriest, 314 E. Broad Street, (Wrong side) Richmond, Virginia. The Richmond Planet is the leading weekly journal in Virginia. It will be sent right to your door for only $1.50 per year in advance. Now is the time to send in your subscription for the year. A. Hayes, Office and Ware-Rooms. 727 NORTH SECOND STREET. Residence, 725 N. 2nd St. First-class Hacks and Caskets of All Descriptions. I have a Spare Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Place. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is enclosed to the New Style OAK CASKETS. Call and See Me and You shall be Waited on individually. These, Madison-2726. 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