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MAR 30 1912 ATTORNEY-GENERAL WICKERSHAM SPEAKS PLAINLY--QUESTION OF COLOR Constitution of the American Bar Association Violated United States Official Barred from Membership Detailed Statement of the Controversy. Will Appeal to Great Organization The Issues Plainly Stated Will Himself Resign if Illegal Action is Confirmed. Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis the Storm-centre. VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER 16 ATTOR SPEA Constitution o Will Appeal to Gr ```markdown ``` The remarkable action of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association and the able and patriotic action of Attorney General George W. Wickersham in upholding one of his lieutenants and his determination to protect him from the illegal action of this subordinate body of that great organization led us to write to both the Attorney General and to Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, the innocent victim of this racial discrimination. Attorney General Wickersham has since declared that he would tender his resignation as a member of the great organization, if its members should ratify the illegal action of its committee. The correspondence is as follows: A LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Richmond, Va., March 5, '12. Hon. Geo. W. Wickersham, Attorney General, Washington, D. C. My dear sir: I have you willarden many times and many times, but I have voted with genuine delight, your admirable attitude in dealing with the narrow action of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association. Your declaration in this morning's dispatches that you are ready to resign yourself as a member of this great organization if its position is reflected to the extent of sustaining this illegal action, savors of true greatness and emphasizes the fact that in the warfare, fundamental right can make no compromise with fundamental wrong. With assurances of sincere regard and the deepest respect, I am, air. Very truly yours, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL ADDRESSED, TOO. Richmond, Va., March 5, 1912. Hon. William H. Lewis. Dear Sir: I am much pleased with the attitude of Hon. George W. Wickersham with reference to the prejudicial action of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association. I have taken the liberty of writing to him upon the subject. I shall be pleased to have one of your latest photographs. If you have a "cut" of yourself, kindly forward that also. MR. LEWIS' REPLY! DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, March 2, 1912. John Mitchell, Jr., Bq.,. 211 N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir:—I thank you for your letter of March 5th, informing me that you had written to the Attorney General, commending his action in the matter of the attempted expulsion of myself from the American War Association. It is certainly a source of great satisfaction to have your approval of his course in the matter. I dislike very much the nervosity and embarrassment attending the residing of such an law, but there seemed to me to be a principle involved, which ought to be fought for a finish. OFFERED HSE SERVICES When I want to the Attorney General with the subject, I simply asked permission to fight for myself and be said, "All rights, go through. Let me use the development." After he had read this subpoena, he said, "Now you just kill it alone. Let this have the whole thing. I will return to it." myself and also one for a "cut." haven't any "cut" myself. A REFERENCE TO THE PAST. You may know it, but I recall hearing you speak in Peterburg, either in the city or at the institute over twenty years ago and I have followed your course in connection with the publication of The PLANET and in business with a great deal of pride and pleasure and have been hoping as I do now to meet you personally at the earliest opportunity. Believe me, Sincerely yours, WILLIAM H. LEW18. WAS EDUCATED HERE, TOO. It may be well to state for the benefit of the public that Hon. William H. Lewis is a Virginian and that he is a graduate of the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute at Burlicka, Va. of which Principal J. Hugo Johnson is the official head. He continued his studies at Harvard University and graduated with high honors from the Law Department of that great institution. While at the University, he made a reputation on the football team that has not been equaled and which gave him a country wide reputation. His correspondence disclosure will have special interest for all Virginians and magnetically attract attention among the members of our race throughout the length and breadth of the United States. Office of the Attorney General. Washington, February 5, 1912. To the Members of The American Bar Association. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. MARCH 16, 1912. GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM The Republican Party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color; we declare once more and without reservation for the enforcement of the letter and spirit of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and adjustment of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disenfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and antiquity to the supreme law of the land—From the Platform of the National Republican Convention adopted at Chicago, June 18, 1858. Dr. D. Webster Davis will lecture at Third St. A. M. E. Church, Monday, March 18th. Subject: "The Downs and Outs." Miss Arsena Robinson is quite sick at the residence of her parents, 707 E. Franklin St. Mr. Nat Bolling, who has been spending some time at Hot Springs, Ark. has returned to the city. Miss Annie M. Vann, the travelling correspondent of the Journal and Guide published in Norfolk, Va. is in the city for a few days. Explanatory Lectures on Catholic Doctrine. The Rev. Francis Klauder and the Rev. Peter Wartinger, Redeminist Fathers of Annapolis, Md., will deliver a series of lectures to Catholics and Non-Catholics at St. Joseph's Church, North First and Jackson St. at 2 P. M. Monday evening and each --- evening during the week. Monday.—Nature and Necessity of Religion. Tuesday.—Establishment of Church. Wednesday.—Why Confess Our Sins to a Man? Thursday.—The Lord's Supper. Friday.—The Life Beyond the Grave. Saturday.—Christ's and Church's Attitude Towards Our "Fallen Nature's Solitary Boast." Sunday at High Mass.—The Catholic Act of Sacrifice. Sunday P. M. (close)—Why I Am a Catholic. Dr. Ferguson, Dentist, Moven Office. Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Dentist, has removed his office from 609 N. 3rd street to The St. Luke Bank Building corner First and Marshall streets, (third door front). His office is upto-date with all modern electrical appliances with which he is better prepared to continue to give his patrons first-class treatment. Office hours by appointment. Phone, Monroe 228v. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated document. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. WANTED—A good religious lady with a fair education to look after my wife and do the cooking. No objection to one with a family. Address, REV. C. THOMPSON, Rondeau, Ontario, Canada. —Sir Robert Gray, District Deputy Grand Chancellor is indisposed at his residence, 1017 N. 8th Street. —Mr. R. T. Cogbill, Sr. continues quite sick at his home, 1017 Hull St., South Richmond, Va. —Mr. Thomas Brown, who was recently hurt in a railroad wreck in improving slowly. —Lincoln Giant vs. Richmond In dependents, Friday and Saturday, March 22and 23, Broad St. Park. In Memoriam. Danville, Va., March 5, 1911: In loving remembrance of my dear mother, Mrs. Louisa Barksdale, who departed this life one year ago today March 5, 1911: Far beyond the rolling river In the city of the bleast, God has taken my dear mother And I know she is at rest. Up in the beautiful mansions, In that bright home above; My precious loved ones are waiting For one they truly loved. Mrs. P. M. B HODGE, Danville, Va. DIEHL—John L., infant son of Ator torney J. E. Byrd and wife, Wednesday night, March 6, 1913. Age 14 months. The funeral took place from the residence, Friday, March 8th, 3:30 P. M., Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D. officiating, assisted by Dev. D. W. Davis, D. D. H. L. Harris, Jr., M. D. and J. H. Blackwell, M. D. were pall bearers. Funeral Director A. D. Price, officiated. "Heaven gives its favourites early "Heaven given its favourites early death."—Byron. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Johnson announces their Twentieth Fifth Anniversary or Silver Wedding March 29, 1012 of their residence, No. 2050 G street, from 8 to 12 P. M. Fountain and acquaintances are invited. No charge. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. Barred from ion is Confirmed. United States. Mr. Lincoln and Slavery. Warren, Tenn., March 4, 1912. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Dear Editor and Brother--Will you please allow me a small space in your great Negro paper to ask a few questions for information about President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. As so much has been said about Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation freeing all the Negroes, I think the time has come that we should set before our children the truth. I claim that his proclamation did not free all the Negroes according to histories. President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only declared free all slaves in the seceding States if his aim was to free all the slaves why did he, when Freemont proclaimed martial law in Missouri and declared the slaves of rebels free men, a declaration which the President modified so as to restrict its operation to slaves actually assisting the rebellion. Also General Hunter issued a proclamation declaring South Carolina, Georgia and Florida under martial law and clauses in these States free. This declaration the President overruled as he had done in the case of President's proclamation in Missouri. Now, I claim that the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution which was proposed in 1866 and was adopted in 1866, in what freed all the Negroes. Mr. Editor, I wish to get the view of our who once landed on this most important question as our roses is an early divided on this question. Poems for the race. May the dead of peace help no to teach our children the truth. A SPLENDID HAZARD BY HAROLD MACGRATH SYNOPSIS In Paris Fitzgerald meets Karl Brettman, a mysterious adventurer, and sees beautiful American girl, who interests the Britman dream of securing Lille-Drone. Forced a French detective and butterfly collector, is shadowing Brettman for France, whose safety he impales. Germany is also interested in Brettman. In New York Fitzgerald meets Calebwa. Fitzgerald on a wager poses as an Italian young woman asks him to call at a home in Dalton. The house is owned by Admiral Killgriew. The beautiful young woman, Miss Laura Killgriew, asks him to become her father's secretary and clear up a mysterious taped house. A burial alarm never have been tampered. Brettman instead of Fitzgerald is enclosed as the admiral's secretary. Hunting pirate's treasure is the admiral's bobby. His ancient home had been owned by a French exile. Laura tells Brettman about the strange noise in the big chimney of the house. Fitzgerald and Brettman plan to trap the pirate who is seeking something in the chimney. Some one has been tampering with Breitmann's trunk. Fitzgerald and Breitmann and loosened brick in the chimney and a chalk diagram. The admiral partly dismantles the chimney, and Breitmann finds paper describing how he in Corseau by soldiers of Napoleon to aid his return to power. The admiral plans to take his daughter, Fitzgerald, Breitmann and others to Corseau on his yacht. Catheve and Hildegarde von Mitter are invited. Barraud meets the admiral and gets an invitation. Fitzgerald learns that Breitmann has died to him. Both are in love with her. Fitzgerald accuses Ferraud of having explored the chimney. Ferraud admits that he is a French detective. Hildegarde still loves Breitmann, who has filmed her. Catheve loves Hildegarde. Breitmann and Catheve quarrel over Hildegarde, of whom Breitmann speaks in complimentary terms. The admiral calls for Corseau on the treasure hunt. CHAPTER XIII. THE yacht Laura, sleek and swan white, her cushion and colors folding and unfolding, lifting and sinking as the afternoon breeze stirred them, was making ready for sea, and many of the villagers had come down to the water front to see her off. "Wonder what poor devil of a pirate is going to have his bones turned over this trip?" said the station agent to Mr. Donovan, who, among others on the station platform, watched the drab anchor as N clanked jerkly upward to the bows, leaving a swivel and a boll on the waters which had released it so grudgingly. "I guess it isn't goin' to be any of pirate this time," replied Mr. Donovan with a pleasurable squeeze of the pocketbook over his heart. "III. There she goin' Good luck!" cried the station agent, swinging his hat with gusto. The voyagers were gathered about the stem gall and a handkerchief or two buttered in the wind. For an bour they turned there, keeping in view the green wooded hills and the white cottages nesting at their base. And turn by turn there were glimpses of the noble old house at the top of the hill. And some hooked upon it for the last time. "I've had a jolly time up there," said Fitzgerald. "The gulls swooped as they crossed and recessed the milky wake. "Butter time than I deserved." "Are you still worried about that adventure?" Laura demanded. "Dismiss it from your mind, and let it be as if we had known each other for many years." "Do you really mean that?" "To be sure I do," promptly. "But Mrs. Coldfield had given me a guarantee before I addressed you." There never was a girl quilt like this one. He partitioned a sliding glance at her. The rich pigment in the blood mantled her checks, and in her eyes there was still a bit of captive sunshine. He knew now that what had been only a possibility was "You are shrugging!" she cried, not noting the expression, for if he was secretly observing her she was surreptitiously contemplating his own advantages. "Did I shrug?" "Too certainly did." "Well," candidly, "it was the thought of money that made me do it." "I detest it too." "Good heavens, I didn't say I detested it!" What I shrugged about was my own dreary lack of it. "Hackers do not require much." "That's true, but I no longer desire to remain a bachelor." The very that that saved him was the added laughter, forced, miserably forced. Fool! The words had slipped without him thinking. "Grievous! That sounds horribly like a proposal." She beamed upon him. merdir. And his heart mank, for he had been earnest enough for all his blunder. Manlike, he did not grasp the fact that under the circumstance merriment-was all she could offer him if she would save him from his own stupidity. Then of a sudden the red rim of the WILLI JONES "GRACTOUS! THAT BOUNDNS HORRIBLY LIKE A PHONOAL" sun vanished behind the setting landscape, and all the grim loneliness of the sea rose up to greet them. "It is lonely. Let us go and prepare for dinner. Look!" pointing to a bright star far down the cast. "And Corsica lies that way." "And also madness!" was his thought. "Oh. It rooms not quite true that we are all going adventuring as they do in the story books. The others think we are just going to Funchal. Remember, you must not tell. Think of it. A real treasure, every frame of which must tell a story of its own—love, heroism and devotion." "Beautiful! But there must be a rescuing of princesses and fighting and all that. I choose the part of remaining by the princess." "It is yours." She tilted back her head and breathed and breathed. She knew the love of living. "Lucky we are all good sailors," he said. "There will be a fair sea on all night. But how well she rides?" "I love every beam and bolt of her." Shoulder to shoulder they bore forward to the companionway, and immediately the door hanged after them. Breitmann came out from behind the funnel and walked the deck for a time. He had studied the two from his shelter. What were they saying? Oh, Fitzgerald was clever and strong and good to look at, but—Breitmann straightened his arms before him, opened and shut his hands violently. Like that he would break him if he interfered with any of his desires. It would be fully twenty days before they made Ajacello. Many things might happen before that time. Two or three of the crew were lashing on the rail canvas, and the snap and fap of it jarred on Brettmann's nerves. For a week or more his nerves had been very close to the surface, so close that it had required all his will to keep his voice and hands from shaking. As he passed one of the sailors dotted his cap and bowed with great respect. "That's not the admiral, Alphonse," whispered another of the crew, chuckling. "It's only his private secretary." "Ah, I hate mistake!" But Alphonse had made no mistake. He knew it it was. His mates did not see the smile of irony, of my ridicule, which stirred his lips as he bowed to the passer. Immediately his rather handsome effeminate face resumed a utidial vulture. His name was not Alphouse. It was a captious offering by the crew, which on this yacht never went further than to tolerate the addition of a foreigner to their mess. He had signed a day or two before sailing. He had even begged for the honor to ship with Captain Flanagan, and he gave his name as Pierre Flard, to which he had no more right than to Alphouse. As Captain Flanagan was too good a sailor himself to draw distinctions, he was always glad to add a foreign tongue to his crew. You never could tell when its use might come in handy. That is why Pierre Flard was allowed to drink his soup in the forecaste mors. Brittman continued on, oblivious to all things save his capitulations. He swung round the bridge. He believed that he and Kathie could henceforth proceed on parallel lines, and there was much to be grateful for. Cathwe had quiet, but, deep, and, he Britman, had knocked about among that sort and knew that they were to be suspected. In all he had made only one serious blunder. He should never have permitted the vision of a face to deform him. He should have taken the things from the safe and vanished. It had not been a master bit compunction. And yet, he was human, whatever the dream might be! And he loved this beautiful American girl with all his heart and soul. It was not in wives love, but in wives romance. When the time was fine he twined Him. Only a little while now he waited. This course had smoothed only the skin that was easy. The man in the chair had no longer bothered him. Woman and whatever he was, he had not that his belt soon enough. Hildegarde von Mitter—was also to be the Saw in the chain? No, no; there should be no regret. He had studied his heart against any such weakness. He had been necessary, and he would be a feel to pause over a bit of sadnessality. Her appearance had the organised his nerves; that was all. Fearing into his watch, he found that he had only half an hour before dinner. And it may be added that he dressed with singular care. So did Fitzgerald, for that matter, and it took Cathewe just as long. And this night Hildegarde von Mitter was meditating on the last throw for her hopes. She determined to cast once more the full sun of her beauty into the face of the man she loved, and if she failed to win the fault would not be hers. Never again would the splendor of her beauty burn as it did this night. Laura, alone among them all, went seriously about her toilet. She was young, and love had not yet spread its puzzle before her feet. On the bridge the first officer was standing at the captain's side. "Captain," he shouted, "where did you get that Frenchman?" "Picked him up day before yettidty. Speak fair English an' a bit o' dage. They're allus handy on a pleasure boat. He'e can keep off the riffle boatmen. Ab' you know what persistent cusses they be in the Med'terranean. Why?" "Oh, nothing, if he's a good sailor. Notice his hands?" "Why, no." "Soft as a woman's." "X' don't say. Well, we'll see 'm tough enough before we sight funchal." There was one vacant chair in the dining salon. M. Ferraud was indisposed. He could climb the highest peak, he could cross ice ridges with a sheer mile on either side of blim, with never an attack of vertigo, but this beating mystery under his feet always got the better of him the first day out. He considered it the one flaw in an otherwise perfect system. Thus he missed the comedy and the tragedy of the eyes at dinner nor saw a woman throw her all and lose it. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked Fitzgerald, venturing his head into M. Ferraud's cabin. "Nothing. Tomorrow it will gill be gone. I am always so. The miserable water?" M. Ferraud drew the blanket under his chin. "When you are better I should like to ask you some questions." "My friend, you have been very good. I promise to tell you kill when the time comes. It will interest you." Fitzgerald shut the door and returned to the smoking room. Something or other concerning Breitmann—he was sure of it. What had he done or what was he going to do that France should watch him? There was no doubt in his mind now. Breitmann had known of this treasure and had come to the Pines simply to put his hands on the casket. Then M. Ferraud had tried to foreseal him. This much of the riddle was plain. But the pivots upon which these things turned: There was something more than a treasure in the balance. Well, M. Ferraud had told him to wait. There was nothing else for him to do. A little rubber at bridge was in progress. The admiral was playing with Mrs. Coldfeld, and Catheme sat opposite Hildegarde. The latter two were using. She was ordinarily a skillful player, as Catheme knew, but tonight she lost constantly, was reckless with her leads and played carelessly into her opponents' hands. Catheme watched her gravely. Never had she seen her more beautiful, and the apprehension that she would never be his was like a hand straining over his heart. How many times he stood on the precipe during the dinner hour Brettmann doubtless would never be told. A woman scorned is an old story, still, the story goes on, retold each day. The red tueses of revenge danced before Hildegarde von Mittert's eyes, blurring the spots on the cards, the blackness of depair crowding upon each fash. Let him beware! With a word she could shatter his dream-age, and so she would. What-alt there and let him turn the knife in her heart and receive the pain meekly? No. It was the thoughtless brutality with which he went about this new affair that bit so polygantly. With all her beauty, intellect, genius and generosity, she had not been able to stir him as this young girl was unconsciously doing. She held no animosity for the daughter of her host. She was clear visioned enough to put the wrong where it belonged. "It is your lead;" said the admiral patiently. "Pardon me," contritely. The gentle reproach brought her back to the surroundings. "It is the motion of the boat," insnared Catheme as he saw her lead the ace. "I often find myself losing count in waiting for the next roll." "Mr. Catheme is very kind," she replied. "The truth is, however, I am simply stupid tonight." Brittmann continued to speak lowly to Laura. "He was evidently amusing, for she amided frequently. Nevertheless she amided as often upon Fitzgerald—never a glance toward the woman who held his fortunes, as they both believed, in the hollow of her head. Brittmann appeared to have forgotten her existence. When the rubber was finished Cthowe came into the broach by suggesting that they two, he and his partner, should take the air for awhile, and Hildagde thanked him with her eyes. They trumped the post with anything nothing, but thinking much. The firm was under no such bar, and he could feel the cushion grip them also untied, as when one stills out them any further. Ah, to hold her close and to adjust her, but a stiller arm may get lowererview history the latest and the pane that he knelt. He knelt he knew all things and knew every thing in his imagination, knowing he thought was of darkness. He knew what his purpose and to do it was with their body handed. She had been supported in the art of motion, but not in the art of dimming light. She had been of the world without having been worldly, and consciousness she was of frank and simple in a child. And wordless makes a bed in times like these. Catherine thanked God for his own shell, toughened as it had been in the war of life. They paused by the rail. Without warning she bent swiftly and kissed his hand, which lay upon the rail. "How kind you are to me!" "Oh, pahw!" But the touch of her lime shook his soul. Oathew was one of those sure quiet men, a staff to lean on, that a woman may find once in a lifetime. They are as a usual thing always leaving deeply and without success, but always invariably cheerful and buoyant—genuine philosophers. He knew that the whole heart of Hildagarde von Mitter had yielded to another. But it had been thrown, as it were, against a wall. There was this one hope, dimly burning, that some day he might catch it on the rebound. "Why are not all men like you?" she asked. "The world would not be half so interesting. Some men shall be fortunate and others shall not. Everything has to balance in some way." "To have met you," childishly. "Don't talk like that. It always makes me less and than furious. We'll go on as we have done in the past, good friends. Call me when you need me, and wherever I am I shall come." "How plifully weak I must seem to you." "You would be no happier if you wore a mask. Hildegarde, what has happened? What power has this adventurer over you? I cannot understand. He was man enough to say that you were guiltless of any wrong." "He said that? turning upon him sharply. She could forgive much. He could not see her face, but by the tone of her voice he knew it had brightened. "Hildegarde," and he pressed his hand down hard over hers. "I could find a priest the day we land if you would love me. You will always remember that." "As if I could ever forget your kindness! Much as I know him there are still some unified pages. I would call him a grounded did I not know that in parts he has been a hero What sacrifices the man has made and with what patience." "To what end?" quietly. "No, no. Arthur! I have promised him." He took her by the arm roughly. "Let us make two or three rounds and go back. We shan't grow any more cheerful talking this way." "He loves her. I saw it in his eyes, and I must stand aside and watch!" "So must it," he said. "Aren't you just a little selfish, Hildegard?" "I am wretched, Arthur, and I am a fool besieged. Oh, that I were cold blooded like your women that I could eat out my heart in secret, but I can't, I can't!" "But you have courage. Only use it. If what you say of him is true rest easy. She is not in his orbit. She will not be impressed by an adventurer of his breed." "Thank you!" with a broken laugh. "I am only an opera singer, here on sufferance." "Oh, I did not mean it that way. Let us finish the walk," savagely. On the afternoon of the second day out tea was served under the awning, and Captain Flanagan coudescended to leave his bridge for half an hour. "Say," said the captain, drinking his tea, but because he liked it, but because it was customary. "I've got a character forwards. I'm allus shippin' olds and ends. Got a Frenchman, hands like a lady." Breitmann leaned forward, and M. Ferrand sat up. "Yes sir," continued the captain, "speaks Italiano an' English. An' if WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH SIR HANDSY ANKED THE ADMIRAL. I ever meet a lady with long, soft hands like his I'm for a pert talk straightway." "What's the matter with his hands?" asked the admiral. "Why, commodoore, they're as soft as Miss Laura's bore, an' yet when th' big Swede who handles th' baggage was a foolish' with him this morrin' it was the Swede who bags off. Nary a callous, an' yet he bowls th' big one round th' deck like he who a liner bels' placed by a many tag. An' what gets me is he knows every bolt from stem to stern, air, 'n all around good earl lock, th' burgain, an' it does not take me more a twelve hours' find that out. Well, I'm off-' th' bridge. Good day, ladies. Brittannia runs promptly and commuted servicing within it. Perused angled down in his rage again. The women entered into a game of duck winning. But it. Perused was not so ill that he was unable to meet from his side half after half without sleep. the second time he wore a shirt. It hung on his neck and he looked about the door with the shirt on his neck. It was the proper way to wear it. He and his fellow guests from the wish. One he knew and expected. Brettman's. Of the other he was not sure. Though the French he spoke was of elastic smoothness. M. Brettman was consistently interested. He had been waiting for this meeting. Only a phrase or two could be heard distinctly. But words were not necessary. What he desired above all things was a glimpse of this Frenchman's face. After several minutes Brettman went aft. M. Brettman stepped out cautiously, and luck was with him. The tailor to whom Brettman had spoken so earnestly was loiling against the rail in the act of lighting a cigarette. The light, from the match was feeble, but M. suffered the keen eyes of the watcher. He gasped a little. Strong hands indeed! Here in the garb of a common sailor was one of the foremost Orientalists in France! CHAPTER XIV LIKING IS NEVER LOVING; BREITMANN and the admiral usually worked from 10 till luncheon unless it was too stormy, and then the admiral took the day off. The business under hand was of no great moment. It was rather an outlet for the admiral's energy and gave him something to look forward to as each day came round. Many a morning be longed for the quarterdeck of his old battleship. Since his country had no further use for him and as it was as necessary as air to his lungs that be tread the deck of a ship he had purchased the Laura. "That will be all this morning, Mr. Breitmann," he said, rising and looking out of the porthole. "Come in, Laura, come in." The girl stood framed in the low doorway, a charming picture to the old man and a lovely one to the secretary. She balanced herself with a hand on each side of the jam. "Father, how can you work when the sun is so beautiful outside? Good morning, Mr. Hibbittmann," cordially. "Good morning." "Work is over, Laura. Come in." The admiral reached forth an arm and caught her, drawing her gently in and finally to his breast. Brettmann would have given an eye for that right. The picture set his nerveswitching. "I am got in the way?" "Not at all," answered the secretary. "I was just leaping." And with good foresight he passed out. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," murmured the admiral. "Fudge!" And she laughed. "We are burgling a fine voyage." "Splendid! Why is it that I am, always happy?" "It is because you do not depend upon others for it, my dear. I am happy too. I am as happy as a boy with his first boat. But never has a ship gone slower than this one of mine. I am simply crazy to drop anchor in the gulf of Ajaccio. I find it on the tip of my tongue every night at dinner to tell the others where we are bound." "Why not? Where's the harm now?" "I don't know, but something keeps it back. Laura," looking into her eyes. "did we ever cruise with brighter men on board?" "What is it you wish to know, father?" merrily. "You dear old sailor, don't you understand that these men are different? They are men who accomplish things. They haven't time to bother about young women." "You don't say!" plinking the car nearest. "This is the seventh day out, and not one of them has ceased to be interesting yet." "Would they cease to be interesting if they proposed?" quizzing. These two had no unshared secrets. They were sure of each other. He knew that when this child of his divided her affection with another man that man would be deserving. "I would rather have them all as they are. They make fine comrades." He sighed thankfully. "Arthur seems to be out of the race." "Mather say I am!" with laughter. "Why, a child could read Arthur Cahowne's face when he broke at his. Isn't she simply beautiful?" "Very. But there are types and types. What do you think of Mr. Brettmann?" soberly. "He is charming sometimes, but he has a little too much reserve. Doubtless he sees his position too keenly. He should not." "Do you like him?" "Yes." frankly. "So do I, and yet there are moments when I do not." The admiral filled his pipe carefully. "But your reason?" surprised. "That's just the trouble. I haven't any tangible reason. The doubt exists, and I can't explain it. Flanagan will tell you." The girl grew studious and grave. Had there not been an echo of this doubt in her own mind? Immediately she smiled. "We are talking nonsense and wasting the sunshine." "How about Fitzgerald?" "Oh, he's the most sensible of them all. He proposed to me the first night out." "What?" The admiral dropped his pipe. "Not so loud!" she warned. And then the clear music of her laughter penetrated beyond the cabin, and Fitzgerald, wandering about without purpose, beard it and passed. "You minz!" growled the admiral. "To scare your old father like that!" "Dearest, weren't you asking to be scared!" "Let's get out into the sunshine. I never could get the best of you. But you really don't mind"— "I really do not. He's too bony tail me the plot of this novel he is going to write to make love to a girl who doesn't want more than one man to the family, and that's her fostered and father." And they went outside, arm in arm, together like the good ones. mind they own. Pearson viewed the thin brown shadow. But when he saw it, A. M. had heard he had lightened the shadow, with a single spark of light in it. It foul for his skin. He hardly gathered with wooden magnifying luggage for land. He could not get away from this rock. On head they would have been a hundred straight lines to the woods and the fisherman's philosophy. "The villain?" He was moved suddenly out of his dream, for the object of it stood making at his side. A wisp of hair was blowing across his eye, and she was enervating to adjust it under her cap. "The villain?" making a fine effort to remarkal his thoughts. "Yes. We were talking about him last night. Where did you leave him?" "He was still nursing. I believe." She propped her elbows on the rail. It was a seductive pose and came very near being the young man's ending. "Dogs it seem impossible to you." she said, "that in these priceless times we are treasure hunting? Must we not wake up and find it a dream?" "Most dreams are perishable, but in this case we have the dream tightly bound. But what are we going to do with all this money when we find it?" "Divide it or start a soldiers' home. I've never thought of it as money." "Heaven knows, I have?" "Why?" "Do you really wish to know?" in a voice new to her ear. "Do you wish to know why I want money, lots and lots of it?" She dropped her arms and turned. The tone agitated and alarmed her strangely. "Why, yes. With plenty of money you could devote all your time to writing, and I am sure you could write a splendid story." "That was not my exact thought," he replied, resolutely polling himself together. "But it will serve." By George, he thought, that was close enough. She did not ask him what his exact thought was, but she suspected it. There was a little shock of pleasure and disappointment, the one rising from the fact that he had stopped where he did and the other that he had not gone on. And she grew angry over his second expression. She liked him. She had never met a young man whom she liked more. But liking is never loving, and her heart was as free and unburdened as the wind. One day, they dropped anchor in the sapphire bay of Funchal, in the summer calm, hot and glaring—Funchal, with its dense tropical growth, its cloud wreathed mountains, its amethysty sisters in the faded southeast. And for two days while Captain Flanagan recooled they played like children, jolting round in the low bullock cart, climbing the mountains or bumping down the corduroy road. It was the strangest treasure hunt that ever left a home port. It was more like a page out of a boy's trolic than a sober quest by grownups. That danger, menace and death hid in covert would have appended to them (those who know) as ridiculous, impossible, obsolete. The story of cutlens and plato and high boots had been molding in archives these eighty odd years. Dangers? From whom? From what direction? No one suggested the possibility, even in jeet, and the only man who could have advanced with reasonable assurance that danger, real and serious, existed was too busy apparently with his butterfly net. Still, he had not yet been consulted. He was not supposed to know that this cruise was weighted with something more than pleasure. Fitzgerald waited with an impatience which often choked him. A secret agent had not no adroitly joined this expedition for the pleasure of seeing a treasure dug up from some reluctant grave. What was he after? If indeed Breitmann was directly concerned, if he knew of the treasure's existence, of what benefit now would be his knowledge? A share in the finding at most. And was Breitmann one who was conditioned of such easy stuff that he would rather be sure and share than to strike out for all the treasure and all the risks? The more he gave his thought to Breitmann the more that gentleman retreated into the fog, so it were. On several occasions he had notified signs of a preoccupation, of suppressed excitement, of silence and moroseness. Fitzgerald could join certain squares of the puzzle, but this led forward scarcity a step. Breitmann had entered the employ of the admiral for the very purpose for which M. Ferraud had journeyed sudely into the cellar and beaten fultily on the chimney. It resolved to one thing, and that was the secretary and arrived too late. He was sure that Breitmann had no suspicion regarding M. Ferraud. But for a casual glance at the little man's hands neither would he have had any. He determined to prod M. Ferraud. He was well trained in repression. So, while he often lost patience, there was never any external sign of it. Besides, there was another affair which overshadowed it and at times engulfed it. Love. The crossides of sense and sentiment make a pretty disturbance. And, still further, there was another countertide. Love does not necessarily make a young man keen sighted, but it generally highly develops his talent for suspicion. By subtle gradations Breitmann had shifted in Fitzgerald's mind from a possible friend to a probable rival. Breitmann did not now court his society when the smoking bouts came round or when the steward brought the whisky and soda after the ladies had retired. Breitmann was moody, and whatever variance his mooda had they retained the gray tone. This Fitzgerald man and dilated upon, and it ranked when he thought that this hypocritical adventurer. had rights, level and equal to him, always supposing he had any. In this state of mind he droppedilly over the rail as the yacht drew out of the bay the evening of the second day. "Way my耳," said Catherine, snapping affectionately against Pinggong, "here we are, raised over again." "What?" Catherine dwarfified & above with his WILL JOYES "AM I WALKING ABOUND WITH A HIGH ON MY BACK?" singer laxily. "Oh!" said Fitzgerald, listless. "Another day more or less crowded into the past doesn't matter." "Maybe. If we could only have the full days and deposit the others and draw as we need them, but we can't do it. And yet each day means something. There ought always to be a little of it worth remembering." "Old parson!" cried Fitzgerald with a jab of his elbow. "All bally rot, eh? I wish I could look at it that way. Yet when a man mopes as you are doing, when this sun set—" "New one every day." "What's the difficulty. Jack?" "Am I walking around with a sign on my back?" testily. "Of a kind, reel." "Suppose," said Ritzgrand in a low voice, "suppose." But he couldn't go on. "Yes, suppose," said Cathewe, taking up the broken thread, "suppose there was a person who had a heap of money or will have some day, and suppose there's another person who has but little and may have less in days to come. Is that the supposition, Jack?" "That's the supposition." "Well, money counts only when you buy horses and yachts and houses. It never really matters in anything else." "It is easy to say that." "It is also easy to learn that it is true." "Can't there a good deal of buying these days where there should be giving." "Not among real people. You have had enough experience with both types to be competent to distinguish the one from the other. You have birth and brains and industry. You're a decent sort of chap besides." genially. "Can money buy these things when grounded on self respect as they are in you? Come along now, for the admiral sent me after you." When one has journeyed for days on the quiet sea, a touch of land underfoot renews. Ancestors, one's strength and mental activity, so a festive spirit presided at the dinner table. The admiral determined to vault the enforced repression of his secret. Inasmuch as it must be told, the present seemed a propitious moment. He signed for the attendants to leave the salon and then rapped on the table for silence. He obtained it easily enough. "My friend," he began, "where do you think this boat is really going?" "Marmollies" answered Coldfield. "Where else?" cried M. Ferraud, as if diversion from that course was something of an improbability. "Corsica. We can leave you at Marseilles, M. Ferraud. If you wish, but I advise you to remain with us. It will be something to tell in your old age." Cathewne glanced across to Fitzgerald as if to ask: "Do you know anything about this?" Fitzgerald, catching the sense of this mute inquiry, nodded affirmatively. "Corsica is a beautiful place," said Hildegarda. "I spent a spring in Ajaccio." "Well, that is our port," confessed the admiral, laying his precious documents on the table. "The fact is, we are going to dig up a treasure," with a fourth. Laughter and incredulous exclamations followed this statement. "Just a moment," the admiral requested patiently. "I know it smells baby. Laura, go ahead and read the documents to the unbelievers. Mr. Fitzgerald knows and so does Mr. Breitmann." Laura unfolded the story, and when she came to the end the excitement was hot and Babylonic. Napoleon! What a word! A treasure put together to rescue him from St. Helena! Gold—French gold, English gold, Spanish and Austrian gold—all mildewing in a rotting chest somewhere back of Ajacillo. It was unbelievable, fantastic as one of those cinematograph pictures, running backward. "But what are you going to do with it when you find it?" "Findings is keepings," quoted the admiral. "Perhaps divide it, perhaps turn it over to France, providing France agrees to use it for charitable purposes." "A fine plan, is it not, Mr. Breitmann!" said M. Ferrand. "Findings is' keeping" repeated Brettman with a pale smile The eyes of Hildergarde von Mitter burned and burned. Could she but read what lay behind that impasive facial! And he took it all with a smile. What would he do? What would he do now? kept recurring in her mind. She knew the man, or at least she thought she did, and she was aware that those existed in his soul dark corveus which she had never dared to explore. Yes, what would he do now? How would he put his hand upon this gold? She tumbled with apprehension. And back, when she found the couch to put it in, she looked briefly, he agreed with a bang of law and yet saw that she she drew away mine into his arms. FOR FREE SUGAR AND INCOME TAX TAX INCOMES OVER $5000 Expect to Raise Nearly $80,000,000 to Partly Make Up Loss From Sugar Revenue. The Democratic caucus ratified the sugar bill and the income tax or excise bill presented by Democratic, Leader Underwood, with the endorsement of the ways and means committee. Both bills will now be presented to the house. In reporting the free sugar, bill to the caucus, Chairman Underwood also submitted a bill which in effect would provide an income tax in the United States. It was proposed that the present corporation tax be extended to include "individuals and co-partnerships doing a business of $5000 a year or over." Mr. Underwood stated that this practically would accomplish the purposes of an income tax, and at the same time comply with the supreme court decision against the constitutionality of an income tax. The proposed tax would be one per cent. Chairman Underwood made a statement to the caucus that he had been directed by the ways and means committee to submit a bill to place sugar on the free list and another bill extending the present excise tax, now levied by law on corporations, to individuals and co-partnerships having an annual income of more than $5000 a year. In explaining the effect of the bill Mr. Underwood said: "The bill removing the taxes levied at the customs houses on sugar, imported into this country, will have the effect of reducing the price of sugar to the consumer about 1½ cents a pound." The statement further says that in the opinion of the ways and means committee, the large profits made by manufacturers and refiners of sugar have been due to the customs tariff and that placing sugar on the free list would not destroy the industry in the United States, but would result in a saving to the American people of $107,000,000. "The purpose of the excise bill presented to the caucus," Mr. Underwood said, "is to extend the tax on doing business by individuals and co-partnerships." He then said: "The special tax will accomplish the same result as would have been accomplished by an income tax if it were within the power of congress to enact an income tax law so far as raising revenue is concerned, but at the same time the bill keeps well within the principles laid down by the supreme court in its decisions affecting the constitutionality of the corporation tax law." "The bill does not in any way alter, amend or repeal the corporation tax it was it now stands on the statute books," Mr. Underwood said, "but provides that every person, firm or partnership shall be subject to pay annually a special excise tax with respect to carrying on or doing business by such persons, equivalent to one per centum on the entire net income over and above $5000 received by such person from all sources during each year, and further provides that in computing the income of any person there shall not be included the amount received from any corporation, joint stock company or association, or insurance company, if the special excise tax of one percentum now imposed by law has been paid by such corporation, or stock company or insurance company or association." Arrest Father For Murder of Bohann Arrest Father For Murder of Mason After an investigation covering a period of two weeks, the police made an arrest in the poison mystery which caused the death of two children and made ill the entire family of John Lewis, colored, of 1788. Oakland avenue. Atlantic City. N.J. The father has been jailed and Richard Whales, captain of detectives, has made a charge of murder against him. It developed that two other children had died suddenly of mysterious alliances during the past year, but because they were no small, Dr. Hawkins, who attended them, gave little thought of mystery and gave as the reason acute indigestion. One of these died within an hour after being taken ill. The symptoms, however, were the same as those suffered by the other members of the family on February 11, when neighbors, responding to screams, found the entire family, with the exception of the father, who had gone to work as a wheel-chair pusher on the Boardwalk, lying on the floor, in the greatest agony. Elmer and Rutil, the smallest of the six children, died in the City hospital soon after being admitted. The rest have recovered. Eating spotted oatmeal and milk, which caused potionic poisoning, was given out as the cause. The police were satisfied with this theory and practically closed the case when the prosecutor, Goldenberg, be State National Board of Trade. President Telfin has taken the imminent in a movement to bring business items of the country into touch with the government for advice and counsel in the administration of laws, the enactment of new statutes and the development of commerce. Virtually the president proposes a national board of trade broadly representative of the commercial and industrial organizations and of such character as the government may property recognise by a charter from congress. As one of the first steps in this plan, Secretary Nagel, of the department of commerce and labor, by direction of the president, has called a convention of delegates from commercial organisations in all parts of the country to meet in Washington on April 15 for discussion and to plan the organization. In a statement President Taft outlines the purposes of such an organisation. It would give to the government the opportunity to consult the business world on all problems of trade supremacy, it would afford cooperation in the expansion of commerce at home and abroad, and would provide a means by which government officers charged with the enforcement of laws could become acquainted with the complexities which surround their administration in the business world. Further than that, congress in framing new statutes affecting trade and commerce would have first-hand advice of an official nature. Wins 840,000 Heart Balm. The United States circuit court of appeals has sustained a decision by a lower court in St. Louis; awarding $40,000 to Miss Ellen R. Day, of Monominee, Mich., for breach of promise and loss of service. Miss Day said that James, S. Samborn, of Pukwana, S. D., had broken a promise to marry her and for that asked $25,000. She said also that she had worked for Sanborn without compensation, believing she was to become his wife. For this service she asked $15,000. The jury gave her the full amount, $40,000. JOHN G. A. LEISHMAN. His Small Dewry to Daughter Drove Away German Count. Her Dowry Too Small. It has been learned in German military circles in Berlin that Count Graf Pugue had proposed for the hand of Nancy Leishman, but withdrew his proposal on learning the amount of Nancy's probable dowry, which is reported as not being sufficient. In American circles, while awaiting confirmation of the report, it is supposed the ambassador may have placed the figure lo was a polite way of refusing the count's offer. Dog Saves Baby From Drowning. A dog was the hero of the rescue of a year-old baby from drowning in the Hudson river near New York. Willie Blake, child of Captain John Blake, of the canal boat Mary Ann, tipped up on the Jersey City side of the stream, was playing in a big clothes basket on the deck, when baby and all worked over the side to land right side up on a cube of ice. A terror which had been playing with the baby gave the alarm by barking furiously, and after attaching the attention of the baby's mother, jumped overboard and swam faithfully on guard beside the ice cake as it floated down the river. It was still on duty ten minutes later when a steamboat crew, whose attention had been attracted by the dog's barking, put out a skiff and revived the chilled but unarmed bail, and the nearly exhausted dog. Died After Hold-Up Harvey Granley, a blacksmith, died in Allentown, Pa. He had returned to his home from Philadelphia Sunday night, and said that he had been beaten up by thugs on Teeth street, in that city. He was dazed and unable to give any connected account of what had happened to him. Nothing is known concerning his wandering while in Philadelphia, nor is it known whether or not he had any large sum of money on his person when he was attacked. He had gone when he. reached his home. The police in Allentown have communicated with the Philadelphia authorities, in an effort to find out whether or not they can tell where Granley was attacked. Rural Malt Carrier Killed by Train George W. Brill. of New Oswego, Del. was struck and killed by a truck on the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania railroad while at his work as a rural mail carrier. His Chivalrous Behavior Gains Him a Position as Chauffeur to a Widow. Value of Railroad Experience in Automobiling. WAS being borne over the Moon-shine route in a freight car all by myself and was shivering with the cold for the want of a fur coat when I says to myself, says I: "Checkerma, you are no gentleman. You were born to be, but the hobo business has switched you off. You are a disgrace to yourself and the constitution of the United States to be beating your way in a freight car." That's what I said, and after a bit I asked myself: "But how am I going to be a gentleman? I never met but one bob who was a gentleman, and eighty-four . "FIVE MILES MORE." empty freight cars ran over him be fore he had honored the purfesh four weeks." I was pummed for awhile, and then it came easy. I dropped-off at the next town and was walking around and keeping my eyes open when a lady comes running out of a house and cries out to me: "Oh, sir, there's a man in the house!" "Yes; I take you to be a married woman," says I. The intruder, "But I'm a widow." "And have no chaperon?" "No. And the man won't go out." "Then he must be made to. I'm free and easy with railroad presidents, mum, but when it comes down to social etiquette I stand on my dignity. It's inconvenient for a gentleman to remain in a widow's house after being ordered to take a skate." "Ob, if you could make him go out!" says the widow as she wriggs her hands. "But I can, mum. That's why I was built this way for. Show him to me and then see me prance him." I followed her into the house to find a great big tramp helping himself to luncheon off the sideboard and otherwise acting as if he had lived on velvet all his life. "Hobo," says he as I come upon him, "don't monkey with me, for I am a dangerous man and armed to the tooth." "I'll run for help," says the lady. "Don't do it, mum. Jest stand by and see a bit of that Japanese work they call litmigtyon." With that I gives the tramp a cuff on the ear to distract his attention and let me get a neck hold. When I had got it I walks him to the door and jumps him straight out twenty feet before he lands on his ear. When he gets up he knocks down a whole panel of the picket fence in his haste to say adieu. Reward of Chivalry. "How brave of you!" says the lady after the trump had vanished. "But yours must be a chivalrous nature." "Somewhat that way, mum. I have let the firemen of passing locomotives poll me with coal and never paid 'em back by throwing rock!" "I do so admire a strong, brave man! How can I reward you?" "I'd like to start in as a choffer and grow up to be a real toff." "How grand! And what a coincidence! My chauffeur has, just run away with the cook, and there is an opening for you. I shall be delighted to be driven about by a hero. You have had experience, of course?" "None to speak of, mum, but when a man can steer a freight train of thirty four cars for fifty miles on a down grade an apto isn't going to bother him much. There may be a few expert mentors at the grist." "I shall doate on them, and I know you will always save my life if it is in need." I entered upon my duties next day. I drove the widow out, and, after poking along at a walk for a mile, she says: "Jessam, we will have a little more romance." Efforts Appreciated. I struck a piece of fifteen miles an hour and ran over a dog. I hit 'or up to twenty and knocked a church door clear across the street. Then I made it five miles more and took the wheels off of two wagons and imported down a policeman who was impatient where the devastation would come. Not a fall from the officer. On the encounter, when we had carefully been entered by a huge and unmistakable crowd, she turned to us still. "Your brave and gallant! I did not know that chieftains had such noble titles of character." "Joeen, I want to be at the head of the social Four Hundred in this town." "Yes, mum. That's where you orter be." "And it ain't money nor dress nor pedigree that counts. It's your buzz wagon and the gait it can hit up. Do you think we can get 100 miles an hour out of mine?" "A thousand, if you say so." "How noble! How grand! Jeams, you are a jewel of a choffer. Let it be 800 miles an hour. No one has struck even 800 here yet." I started from the gate at a pace of 200 miles an hour and then gradually hit 'er up to 900. It beat riding on the bumpers by forty miles an hour. Doing Some Execution. As we went up the right hand side of the boulevard we carried home blocks, telephone poles, lampposts and baby carriages with us, and now and then we knocked an ash cart around a corner and piled it in a heap. There was a great running out of houses to see. When ready to turn around the lady says to me: "Jeems, I believe that my social standing is now assured." "But have you any doubt of it, mum?" I asks. "Just a little speck. You see that mansion down there with the long randa? Well, my only rival lives there. Do you think you can share that randa clean from the house?" "Dead easy." "Then you might do it. Her choffer upset my horse block the other day and she's around bragging about it." I knocked down a fat woman carrying a parrot in a cage, ran over a colored minister and scraped all the tables from in front of a grocery as a starter, and then we seemed to rise in the air and fly. There were ladies and gentlemen on the veranda, and when they saw us coming they called out to keep away. I never awerved a hair's breadth. Crushing a Rival. There was just one awful crash ago the thing was done and we were speeding down the street with the veranda riding on the boiler hood. We left it in front of a street car, dodged a score of police and 100 brickbats, and as we reached home the widow clasped her hands to exclaim: "Oh, Jeems, the mobility of your char acter is beyond words to express." He my choffer until death do us part! I repiled that I would be, but ere another mouth had passed I found myself saying to myself: "Checkers, it isn't in you to be a gentleman. It's straining your whole system and making a mental wreck of you. Go back to the old purse and be healthy and happy again." And a few nights later I skipped the house and went south on an oil tank car, and as soon as the conductors and engineers and firemen along the route heard that I was back at the old stand they hung out flags and cheered me. A railroad without life hoobes would be a lonesome thing. Almost an Ovation. "The bill met with an ominous reception," said former Mayor Baehr of Cleveland, discussing a measure that had failed. "Its reception was, in fact; as ominous as that recorded to the Christmas melodrama in the two night stand. "A melodrama, 'Murdered at Christmastide,' was to be given for two nights in a small town. The first night there was a fair audience, but when in act 3 the senior victim said to the junior, 'Hint: Are we alone? a voice from the gallery growled: "No, Hamfat; not tonight, but you can bet you'll be tomorrow night!" — Milwaukee Wisconsin. Promises. A man usually wants the preacher to furnish proof that what he promises is going to come true, but he is willing to take the gib promoter's word for it-Chicago Record-Herald. The Dish Breaker First Cook I went to the old ladyville show last night an' there was a juggier there who broke at least five shillings' worth in dishes in ten minutes. Second Cook (indignantly)—Faith, I'd have walked out! It's a fine attate in affairs whin an honest, hardworkin' cook lady don't attain a thayter widout beln' caricatured by some chapper performer'—London Telegraph. Laundress—Sure. it will because of her not 'tendin' to Fido. She let him get into th' room where little Miss Bessie had th' measles. —Judge. BUSINESS LEAGUE NERALD. New Monthly Publication to Represent Business Man Generally. At the annual meeting of the Alabama State Business League, recently held at Tuskegee, the first number of the Negro Business League Herald was issued. This paper is published monthly by the National Negro Business League. The edition is Bempsett J. Good, corresponding secretary of the National league, and Charles H. Moore, national organizer. In its announcements the editors say: The Negro Business League Herald is published, as its name states, in behalf of the Negro in business. It does not regard itself as the official organ of the National Negro Business League. or any organization. " Its major interest is helping to advance the business and economic condition of the Negroes of the United States. It certainly hopes, to begin with, that it may have the eager support of state Negro business leagues and local Negro business leagues as well as of all persons, who are in any way concerned with business enterprises among the Negro people." Noted Speakers at Abyssinian Church The three weeks' special meetings held by the Abyssinian Baptist church in New York recently resulted in the addition of ninety new members to the church. The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Pow- ell, pastor, was assisted in the series of meetings by Dr. W. Bishop Johnson pastor of the Second Baptist church in Washington. Another series of speci- sional soul saving meetings will begin on Friday, March 1. to run for three weeks. The first week will be devoted to Bible study under the lead of Dr. S. N. Vass and the next two weeks Dr. Charles T Walker of Augusta, Ga., will lead to the revival work for soul saving. AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. RICHMOND, VA. VAUX HILL, N. J. William Matthews, P. O. Box 82. BUTLER, PA. Walter Millp, 204 Mulberry St. CAMDEN, N. J. C. N. Green, 821 Kalighn Avenue. PETERSBURG, VA. E. H. Evans, 258 Harrison St. HARTFORD, CONN. C. H. Cully, 28 Warren Street. ST. PAUL, MINN. W. J. Utley, 94 E. 5th Street. NEW YORK, N. Y. V. W. Anderson, 2162-5th Avenue. Anthony Burrell, 131 W. 53rd St. Mrs. Leanna Hamilton, $ 135th St. Edward Gibson, 114 W. 135th St. Samuel Hobbs, 228 E. 127th St. E. A. Williams, 200 W. 65d St. J. E. 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City Council adopted an unconstitutional provision for the increase of the pay of the teachers in the elementary grades over the protest of the City Attorney, the Finance Committee and the Richmond City School Board. When passion and sentiment away a body of men in this manner, it indicates that the teachers were young and good-looking and that the City Fathers are better suited for spooning and love-making than for the more important responsibilities of transacting the city's business. Those citizens who have been advocating a Commission form of government will find the strongest argument here in support of their contention. MR. BOOSEVELT AND WALL ST. In speaking of the candidacy of Hon. Theodore Roosvelt, the New York Wall Street Journal says: Last week Mr. Roosevelt announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, on a platform which conservative Democrats would regard with distrust and alarm. There is something overwhelming in the former President's enormous exotism. It is of such magnetic quality as to sweep other bodies with it in its meteoric course; and it is impossible to say it is juncture what the consequences will be in the next four months of agitation. There is unquestionably an element in Wall Street which thinks the Roosevelt movement means so menacing as the Wickersham and the memory of Mr. Bonaparte still fear it is not surprising to find that this section of public opinion believes that the disturbance of business by experimental prosecutions would not have been tolerated had Mr. Roosevelt returned to the White House after the completion of his last form. These are considerations of only minor importance to the public wet fare. They represent no principle, but merely the lack of one, and there can be no sound government without it. Nevertheless, the political situation is not really disturbing business quite so much as many people would have us believe, and the tendency of markets in all directions is to cut loose from the influence. This is indeed an optimistic view of the situation and it seems to indicate that after all, Mr. Reavestvalt has powerful financial influences behind him which are providing his nomination will still be a positive re suit, even though he should not secure the honor at Chicago. It is exceedingly likely that if Col. Roseveil could secure the kind of endorsement he desires before the people, without the influence or intervention of machine men, he would land triumphantly in the White House at Washington. He has unquestionably upset all previous calculations and rendered exceedingly doubtful the result of the impending contest. A compromise is the only way out and it remains to be seen whether or not this can be accomplished in the time allotted. Breathe softly, oh, my Upon her pure white Above my lonely world My lute attuned with While I make music her Swing low upon the And listen with thy heart The 'one sweet, gold Fain would I touch the God's mysteries of me I lift my eyes above, to To thee—oh, darling Here in the silvery sea of With stars as witness Ah, love! deep down w There're naught above From occupying the same positions he held when Col. Roosevelt left, President Taft shifted to middle ground, where he has since remained until Col. Roosevelt seeing that he As the matter now stands, even should Mr. Taft be re-nominated, he has the new sevelt brand of "N. G." on his administration and this will be a serious handicap in his contest with the Democratic Chieftain who will be nominated at Baltimore. MR. LINCOLN AND SLAVERY. We publish a communication from Rev. Isaac Persons of Warren, Tennessee relative to the emancipation of the colored people of this country. He says there is a division upon this question and he states just what the proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln said and meant. He is correct in his statement of facts and we are unable to see that it is open to argument. All histories agree upon this statement of fact. We are not in a position though to criticise President Lincoln. He was elected upon an anti-slavery platform and he was known to be opposed to the institution of slavery. His plan of gradual emancipation was a part of a great scheme to weaken the South and to save the Union. He said and he meant what he said, his primary motive was to save the Union and not to abolish slavery. He wanted slavery abolished, but if it were necessary to retain slavery to save the Union, he would do it and if it were necessary to abolish slavery to save the Union, he would do it'. His idea and purpose were not to extrange loyal Southerners in the rebellious States by confessing their property, which consisted mostly of land and Negroes. This is the human way to look at the matter. President Lincoln was constantly invoking divine guidance and he got it, due to his own prayers and those of the four million colored people whom he was enfranchising. The Congress of the United States by appropriate legislation, which was subsequently ratified by an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States really abolished slavery from every foot of ground in this country. President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation furnished the impetus for as he well said this Republic would not continue to survive half slave and half free. In setting aside premature proclamations by some of his zealous commanders, he gave considering conditions as a whole and doing all within his power to throttle the rebellion which threatened the life of the nation and endangered the very executive chair which he at that time occupied. Abraham Lincoln was a great man, but he was human and history records the fact that his death was in a measure opportune, saving him as it did from charges of supinely surrendering to the leaders in the South who but a short time before had borne arms against the national government at Washington He would have embarked upon a policy of conciliation, which would have defiled him in the minds of those who had been his bitterest enemies. As the matter now stands, thousands of Southerners, who later became conversant with Mr. Lincoln's intentions and purposes are now disposed to give him a place in the temple of Fame opposite to that and on a level with the great immortal George Washington. It was openly asserted at the Republican State Convention at Roanoke that the Republican State Committee had made a rule that only white men shall govern party affairs in Virginia. This is drawing the color line with a vegegrante and it has caused no end of comment. National Committeeman Alvah H. Martin is said to have concurred in this view of the situation and with his support, it is asserted that Mr. Melvin Flegenheimer will be chairman of the Republican City Committee here. This policy is being pursued in the Southern States. We deemed it advisable to cite these Republican Negro-haters to the plank adopted in the platform of the National Republican Convention at Chicago. June 18, 1988 and which plank is binding now. Here it is: The Republican Party has been for more than fifty years the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his note-worthy programs in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. By LUCIAN B. WATKIN softly, oh, my soul!—my lady sleeps her pure white cloud of dreams, a-wing my lonely world of song that keeps me attuned with love in every string. make music here beneath thee, dear, flow upon the winds' swift winding way in with thy heart of hearts and hear the sweet, golden, story of my lay. Did I touch the tenderest tone of all mysteries of melodies divine; eyes above, to-night, and call —oh, darling, let me call thee mine! the silvery sea of night I kneel ears as witnesses to hear my plea;— deep down within my soul I feel me naught above me save the heavens and thee. Breathe softly, oh, my soul!—my lady sleeps Upon her pure white cloud of dreams, a-wing Above my lonely world of song that keeps My lute attuned with love in every string. While I make music here beneath thee, dear, Swing low upon the winds' swift winding way And listen with thy heart of hearts and hear The 'one sweet, golden, story of my lay. Fain would I touch the tenderest tone of all God's mysteries of melodies divine; I lift my eyes above, to-night, and call To thee—oh, darling, let me call thee mite! We demand equal justice for all men without regard to race or color; we declare once more and without reservation for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, which were designed for the protection and advancement of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim his disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American and repugnant to the supreme law of the land. These white Republicans in this district, specifically known as Melvin Flegenheimer, Joseph P. Brady and George A. Hanson barred colored Republican voters from the Republican meeting and openly announced that their action was based upon and was for the reasons of color alone. Are these gentlemen inside of the Republican Party in their actions or outside of it? The mandatory declarations in that platform leave no ground for misconstruction or misunderstanding. It was on the strength of this plank that tehs of thousands of Republicans throughout the country remained true to the Republican Party and aided in the election of Hon. William Howard Taft, President of the United States. It would be well to furnish these misguided alleged Republicans copies of this extract. They belong in the ranks of the bourbon. Negro-hating Democratic Party and inadvertently have put on the wrong uniform. The colored voters were in the Republican Party before they came into it and will be there a long time after they are put out of that great organization. The "illy-white's" of the Southland should study this extract from the platform of the National Republican Party. There is something grimly humorous about ex-President Theodore Roosevelt's predicament at this time. Four years ago, he had undisputed control of the machinery of the Republican Party. He used it ruthlessly upon his opponents, both inside and outside of the Republican Party. With Postmaster General Hitchcock as Major General, commanding he instituted what is known now as the "steam roller," which is another way of saying that right or wrong, if the delegate is for the administration, he will be recognized. FACING HIS OWN ARTILLERY. Col. Roosevelt had built up one of the most powerful political machines in the country. It annihilated all opposition and its effectiveness was admitted without question. When he went to Africa, it was with a feeling of satisfaction that he left his personal friend, Hon. William H. Taft at the helm. He trusted him implicitly and as he had virtually nominated and elected him to the presidency, he felt sure that his personal friends would be looked after, his policies faithfully observed and when he returned, his orders would be as absolutely obeyed as they were when he himself occupied the presidential chair. A poet has said, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and another rhymer added, "Fonder of the other fellow." This seemed to have been the case in this instance, for ex-President Roosevelt had not reached the wilds of Africa before his enemies began to dance with glee and they approached President Taft with the siren song. They led him into one blunder after another. Ex-President Roosevelt's friends protested and when President Taft did not heed their objections, they became outspoken relative to his change of policy. This resulted in their being ousted from office. had been practically betrayed made it impossible for him to hold neutral ground and took steps to drive him over into the depths of the enemy. This situation of affairs upset the Colonel's calculations and when he got ready to storm the breast-works, he found that he was looking into the frowning muzzles of his own artillery. He could have returned to the White House with ease provided the Republican machine and its artillery had been in the possession of his friends, but it was now marred by his enemies, who are holding their sides while they indulge in laughter. His intimate friend is in charge and he refuses to abdicate or surrender and so the dreary procession will take up a march to Chicago, where President Taft is to be re-nominated and defeated unless terms are made with this remarkable statesman of Oyster Bay, New York. While they are grimly looking at him from behind his own artillery, he is equally as solemn in declaring that he will meet them at the polis in November. If President Taft is defeated next November, who but Roosevelt can bring victory to the party four years hence. There is a deep political game being played. Col. Roosevelt's actions are puzzling the people of the country. The meeting at Chicago may serve to bring some light to the average citizen, but the outlook is certainly gloomy for success at the polls. --- STARTLINE DISCLOURES. We publish elsewhere in these columns the entire correspondence relative to the arbitrary action of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association in practically excluding from membership Hon. William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. It will richly repay a perusal and it shows to what extent the taste system has secured a foot-hold in this country..... The Constitution of the United States specifically provides that no discrimination shall be made against a citizen on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude and yet the leading jurists of the United States have gone on-record as violating this provision and of openly disavowing the spirit of it. The case has even a more serious aspect in that the President of the American Bar Association, Mr. S. S. Gregory has virtually agreed with the Executive Committee and addressed a letter to Hon. William H. Lewis advising him to submit his case to the Executive Committee. We cannot see that there was anything to submit. The Executive Committee based its objection to him upon the ground that he was of the colored race, it was for Hon. William H. Lewis to prove, that he was descended from an Indian or was the representative of some Latin race. Not being able to do this, all argument along the lines mapped out by the prejudiced committee was at an end and attendance at its deliberations would have been humiliating. There is another phase of this interesting situation. It is from the membership of the American Bar Association that the jurists of the country are drawn, including those selected for membership of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the President of the Association and the Secretary thereof, including the members of the Executive Committee plainly and widely visits the constitution and laws of their own organization, as has been shown in the able and unassuming agreement of Hon. George W. Whitsherman, Attorney General of the United States, what may be expected of them as judges upon the bench? the United States, and only by insurrection and other question. The slave trade better than the police, but how these burdens are apportioned and just how their decisions are affected in the interstate that secured their appointment. This line of reasoning tends to cause one to lose faith in well-might everything human. Race prejudice has permeated everywhere and every thing. The Golden Rule is made to apply only to white people and not to colored ones. How and we hope to win then upon appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the questions of human rights are concerned! How can we expect to get justice in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, if the very men who have been elevated to the bench are impregnated with that kind of virulent race prejudice so startlingly shown in this correspondence? Attorney General Wickersham has taken high ground. He may not win today, but he will win tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then the day afterwards. Error has always retreated before Truth and the victory may be delayed; but it will come after a while. COLORED MEN TO THE REAR. The Republican State Convention at Roanoke, Va., unceremoniously seated the Hanson-Fleegheimer-Brady delegation for the Third Congressional District of Virginia and thus legalised and recognised the ruling made by the "rump" convention in asking every colored Republican, voter out of the convention hall. It also set its seal of approval upon Hon. George A. Hanson's declaration that colored citizens are not wanted in the party organization except to push behind and are entitled to no equality of representation and rights in a Republican organization. Mr. Molvin Plegerheimer, whose family record is so interwoven with the holding of federal offices as to be inseparable openly announced this new doctrine and declared that it was the policy of the Republican State Committee to unload citizens of color. That he was correct in his statements cannot now admit of any question. The question that arises and is forced home to every colored voter is, "What are you going to do about it?" Is this view of the situation to be accepted and is this army of office seekers to be permitted to ride rough-ish over the prostrate bodies of the Negro electorate? We shall see. So far as we are concerned, we shall oppose it with all of the energy and power which we possess and men of this calibre and stripe should be outlawed by an enraged colored electorate in every conceivable way. In this district, with its multitude of property owning colored people, the color line was drawn by both elements and an absolutely white delegation sent to Roanoke after the same kind of a delegation had been sent to the District Convection. Hon. Alvah H. Martin and Hon. C. Bascom Slemp, who controlled the delegation under the instructions of Hon. William B. McKinley, President Taft's political manager at Washington confirmed the declarations that the colored voters regardless of standing or influence were not to be recognized and these same people are now making appeals for colored votes at the polls, not only in the South but in the North as well. Again comes the question, "What are you going to do about [t]?" We are of the opinion that this attitude is not confined to the Taft forces or to the Roosevelt forces, but extends to the organizations of both of the contending factions. It seems to us that this is about the time to begin a crusade for human rights, for "a square deal," to the extent of ascertaining just how far this wave of race prejudice will go and in what way its mighty force can be checked. It should not be forgotten that Right is eternal and that wrong flourishes only for a Httle while. DOWNING'S DREAM Rev. L. L. Downing of Boonoke, Va. has the fact of always getting off the story about a dream that he had and he varies it to suit the occasion, never falling though to land in heaven before he completes his narrative. It never falls to create unbounded amusement and to bring down the house. The daily papers tell of his using it with sledge-hammer effect upon the Negro-hating William Flegenbommer after he had delivered his address to the Fifth District Republican Convention. The report is as follows: Mr. Pflugheim said he had been locked out of a Republican meeting recently in Richmond; that he was present with a delegation of white men, as opposed to a black and ten African-American commander. The White organization to have won the party shall be governed by white. Then he asked the South District to Quinacomb A Cush made of specially prepared metal or go to retain the slight degree of heat. That is conglomeration with Quinacomb will remedy the curl from and straighten the hair. Tube 30 Cush. 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SIX DEPARTMENTS THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT WILL Prepare its Student Medicine and Journalism THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Offer a Thorough Taste Hair, Stenography and T THE DOMESTIC SCHOOL DE WILL be in charge of the Military, Resettlement. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT WILL Handle Vocal Orche- AUTO SCHOOL INSTRUCTION WILL be a limited number SPEDIAL EXPERT CLASSES in the Grammar and Art men and women for a Pa For particulars and terms apply. REV. CHARLES I 709 North stand by him. His remarks were coldly received. Undoubtedly he exhibited courage, although his friends think his judgment poor. Theropon ausepause Downing, the Negro, and told of a dream in which Mr. Fleguenbauer was pictured with Woodrow Wilson and Judson Harmon as standing close to the throne of the Alenighty, because he was afraid to let them out of His sight. The conversion was said by Downing to be on the outskirts of heaven, because the Lord could trust it. Rosevett's name was vociferously cheered to-night, but Taft will get the votes to-morrow. As Rev. Powning is of a very light complexion, evidently Brother Flegenheimer thought he was in a convention composed altogether of white men. Mr. Flagstemheimer's declaration that the Republican State Committee has ruled that the Republican Party in Virginia shall be governed by White men is interesting to say the least. What does President Taft say about it, and what is Hoe. William R. McKinley doing about the matter? This is an issue that should be met right now and the sooner the better. Sold Algrettes: Pixed 2002 The Golders department was in Trump, N.J. was given a fine of $500 by Justice of the Peace Kear for offering for sale and selling agreements in violation of the law passed at the last session of the legislature. The firm pleased not wait and paid the fine, with the undergirding that it preserved the right to obtain the constitutionality of the law for burglaring the site of plumage. The sigrams were issued in the MENT ants to Take up the Study of Law, am. MENT learning in Book-keeping, Commercial Typewriting. DEPARTMENT the Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. DEPARTMENT Home, Plane, Vacation and Pipe Organ. DEPARTMENT of young men so Chandura. Academic Grades. We prepare young Presidential Course in our night school. HANNIGAN. President, with First Street, Richmond, Va. Child Swallow's River; Dice. Having swallowed a steel rivet she was playing with, Ethel Anderson, colored six years old, of Pottsville, Pa. Paided in the Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. The rivet had lodged in the little girl bronchial tubes and she was unable to breathe. She had been in the hospital several weeks and underwent an operation. Two Boys Lost in Fire. Two boys, seven and eight years old, sons of Albert Butters, who lives near Canton, Pa., were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their father's home. Their mother and a young baby were seriously injured when the wounded jumped from a second-story window with the child in her arms. More Present In Color of Ice The morgue ambulance in Pittsburgh, Pa. was temporarily carried in to an wagon. Its cargo was a huge calf of he taken from the Ohio river. Prawn in the ice was a man's body which was discovered by two ferry men. It is thought the ice and body came out of the Allegheny when several gorges went out a few days ago. Bought Cleveland's Birthplace. The Freedylphian manne of the First Presbyterian church at Caldwell, N. J., the birthplace of the late President Gouver Cleveland, has been purchased for the Cleveland "Memorial association, which will hold it as a memorial to the former president. The purchase price was $20,000. Aged Distiller Gully. George T. Gombrill, former great great of the Rochester Distilling company, was found guilty in Appalachia, Id. ob obtaining money under prostitution. Gombrill, an old man, at $1,000 for guillotine wareworks responsible for whisky. ATTORNEY-GENERAL WICKERSHAM SPEAKS PLAINLY. (Continued From Page Number) of the Secretary of the Association, and upon the written nomination of the Vice-President and members of the Local Council of the State of Massachusetts in conformity with the provisions of Article IV of the Constitution. He qualified by making payment of the annual dues as required by Article V. The term of office of the Executive Committee expired, and a new Com- mittee was elected at the annual meeting in 1911. Two of the Members of the Committee so elected had not been previously members of the Committee; the remainder had con- stituted part of the former Commit- In January, 1912, the new executive committee undertook by resolution to cancel the election of Mr. Lewis and place his name on the list of persons proposed for membership to be voted upon at the next annual meeting, bearing this action upon the statement that when he was elected the Executive Committee did not know he was a colored man. Protest was made on Mr. Lewis behalf, but the committee has declined to reconsider its action. A copy of correspondence with the Secretary is hereby annexed. THE OBJECT OF THE .ASSOCIATION. The object of the Association stated in the Constitution to be "to advance the science of juris- prudence, promote the administration of justice******* uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial inter- course among the members of the American Bar." "Any person" is declared to be eligible to membership "who shall be, and shall for five years most preceding have been a member of the Bar of any state, and who shall also be nominated as heroinafter be- vided." The action of the Executive Committee would in effect, arbitrarily amend those provisions by adding a provisio to the following effect: that the election of any member may be cancelled by the Executive Committee whether the Committee who elected him, or one subsequently chosen, whenever a majority of its members object to the race, color or other characteristics of such member, no matter when those members may ascertain the facts concerning such characteristics. DOES NOT COMPLY WITH CONSTITUTION. It can hardly be contended that such action tends to "uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the bar." It certainly does not tend to promote the administration of justice. Under the circumstances, Mr. Lewis only redress is to appeal to the membership of the Association to protest against the injustice done him in their name by the committee which has arrogated to itself a power not conferred upon it by the Constitution or By-Laws, in order to gratify a race prejudice entertained by some of its members. As the head of the department of the Federal government in which Mr. Lewis holds an honored position, and as a member of this Association, I beg every member who disapproves of the course of the Executive Committee to sign and mail the enclosed postal card, and to take each other steps as he may think proper to prevent the proposed unlawful expulsion of Mr. Lewis from the Association. THE LETTER TO THE SECRETARY Washington, January 26, 1912 George Whitelock, Bq. Secretary, American Bar Ass'n. 1407 Occidental Building, Baltimore, Md. Dear Mr.: Assistant Attorney General William K. Lewis has committed me with reference to certain action taken by the executive committee of the American Bar Association with respect to his status as a member of the Association. The person which he submits to me show the following facts: Under date of June 5, 1911, you addressed Mr. Lewis, asking that he permit you to present to him an invitation to join the American Bar Association, and stating that his name had been passed upon by the local council of his State, and that he had been recommended for membership. After setting forth the advantages of membership in the Association this communication associated with the request that he sign and return the enclosed request, upon which his name would be presented to the executive committee for discussion, so that he might be in a position to attend a meeting at Boston, Massachusetts on August 29-31 (then) presume, on a member. COMPLIED WITH ALL REQUIREMENTS and return the enclosed parcel that his acceptance might be received and his bill amount and correct address obtained; and also request him to remit to the treasurer (Bri Wodhane) the annual dues ($5.00) for the year ending August, 1912. Mr. Lewis signed and returned the card and resumed the dues to Mr. Wiegama, from whom he received, by mail, a receipt bearing the serial No. 23244, dated August 8, 1911, by which Mr. Wiegama, an treasurer, acknowledged the receipt of $6.96 in payment of Annual Dues of membership in the American Bar Association for the year ending August, 1913. It was further stated that the receipt was issued to "Hon. William H. Lewis, Esq., Boston, Mass. Wash. D. C." The word "Hon." and the words "Whah, D. C." are written in with a pen. ATTENDED THE MEETING: Mr. Lewis attended the meeting in Boston to the extent of listening to the reading of a portion of one paper. He did not attend the annual banquet. I am informed that some of the members who object to the presence of colored men in the association took great offense at his membership, and the opposition raised by them led to the sending of a letter by Mr. G. B. Gregory, President of the Association, to Mr. Lewis under date of December 23, 1911, informing him that— "some question has been raised as to the validity of your election to membership in the American Bar Association by the Executive Committee of that body." and advising him that the committee was to meet at Washington on the 4th of January, 1912, and that if he desired he might apply to the committee to be heard in the matter. To that Mr. Lewis replied, under date of December 27, 1911, informing Mr. Gregory— that I have never been advised directly or indirectly, officially or otherwise, that any question had been raised as to the validity of my election to membership in the Association. I have, however been given to understand by two members of the Executive Committee that I would not have been elected to membership had it been known that I was a colored person and that my membership was causing certain unpleasantness and embarrassment to the committee and others. "I think that the records will show that my membership stands on the same footing as to validity and regularly with that of other members elected at the last meeting of the Association. At this writing I expect to be at my post in Washington on the 4th day of January, next, and can be reached at any time by telephone through the Department of Justice. If I can be of any service to the committee, I shall hold myself at its disposal." ILLEGALLY OUSTED THE NEW MEMBER. The executive committee met in Washington on January 4. It did not not communicate with Mr. Lewis; but under date of January 8, the secretary transmitted to him a copy of the resolution of the committee, passed January 4, 1912, reading as follows: "Whereas, this Committee, in ignorance of material facts, did vote to elect as a member of this Association Mr. W. H. Lewis of Massachusetts; be it, "Resolved, that the action of this Committee in so voting on the nomination of Mr. W. H. Lewis of Massachusetts for membership in the American Bar Association be reconsidered and rescaled, and his name be restored to the list of nominees to be acted upon by the General Council at its next meeting; and be it further. - "Resolved, that the dues of Mr. Lewis be either refunded to him or retained pending the action of the Council on the nomination, as he may elect; and that the Secretary send to Mr. Lewis a copy of these resolutions." THE RIGHT OF PROTEST As a member of the Association had this action book brought to my attention concerning any other member. I should have protested against it as being wholly outside of the powers conferred upon the executive committee by the constitution or by laws of the Association. But I am especially moved to make this present, because Mr. Lewis is an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, holding, as I do, the commission of The President of the United States, issued to him by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. It may be that some of the members of the Association prefer to have a coerced man as a fellow member. But the constitution of the Association makes no such discrimination. It provides that: "Any person, shall be eligible to membership****who shall be, and shall, for five years, next proceeding have been a member in good standing of the Bar of any State, and who shall also be nominated as hostmaster provided." A GRADUATE OF HARVARD Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Harvard University, and has been a member of the bar of the State of Massachusetts for more than five years, and in excellent standing. There he was an Assistant Un' ed States Attorney in that State prior to his appointment as Assistant Attorney General of the United States. He was presented to the executive committee by the written nomination of a majority of the members of the executive committee who voted for him did not know his color, or his age, or any other fact about him. It was because, instead of making inquiry, they relied upon the recommendation of the local counsel boy. Nowhere in the constitution is there concerned upon them power to cust a member, after he has been received into full membership in the Association, simply because, having forborne to make inquiries concerning him, they subsequent to his election, discover that he is colored. SHOULD REALIZE THE INJU TICE. I am quite satisfied that, on reconsideration, the committee will realize the injustice of any such action and the impossibility of an impossibility of an association composed of representatives of the American Bar being content to stand on any such arrogation of power in order to do an injustice in support of a prejudice. At all events, as a member of the Association, and as the official head of the Department to which Mr. Lewis belongs, I have to protest, as vigorously as I can express it, against such action; and to notify you, on his behalf, that the action is entirely illegal and nagulatory; that Mr. Lewis is a member in full standing of the Association precisely as he was before the resolution was passed; and I have to request that you bring this letter before the committee, that it may reconsider its action and thus render it unnecessary to take any further steps to protect Mr. Lewis against any abridgment of his rights as a member of the Association. Very respectfully yours GEO. W. WICKERSHAM. REFERRED TO THE PRESIDENT. American Bar Association. Organised-1-378. Baltimore, January 26, '12. Hon. George W. Wickersham, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I am in receipt this morning of your favor of January 25th, which shall have attention in due course after I have heard from the President of the Association, to whom I am communicating the contents of your letter. Yours very truly, GEORGE WHITELOCK, Secretary. OFFICIAL HEAD PREJUDICED American Bar Association. Organized 1878. Baltimore, January 30, 1912. The Honorable George W. Wicker- ham. Department of Justice. Washington. D. C. Dear Sir: I have heretofore advised you of the receipt by me of your favor of January 24th concerning Mr. William H. Lewis, and having since consented with the President of the Association, I am prepared to reply thereto. The admission of members of the American Bar Association is governed by Article 4 of its Constitution, which provides a method of election after nomination by local council of the applicant's State and approval by the General Council, whose favorable report is an election, unless a member of the Association demands vote, in which event, it is taken by ballot and five negative votes are sufficient to reject. THE LAW CITED The last clause of the same article (adopted as an amendment in 1938) provides an alternative method of election as follows, viz: "During the period between annual meetings members may be elected by the Executive Committee upon the written nomination of a majority of the Vice-President and members of the local council of any State." Thus it appears that while the General Council merely approves and reports to the Association the nominations of the local councils, the approval of nominations by the General Council is not final, but its action is subject to review by the Association. On the other hand, the action of the Executive Committee, under the amendment of 1893, in voting for members between annual meetings, is final and a vote of that committee in favor of the nominee elects him to membership in the Association with out action by the Association itself. Indeed, since 1893, each annual report of the Association has contained two lists of new members; the first headed " elected at the " annual meeting;" the second headed "Meeted by the executive committee between meetings of and —" The name of William H. Lewis was acted upon by the Executive Committee in pursuance of the power conferred by the amendment of 1893 under the following circumstances: vis: THAT FORMAL INVITATION. A formal invitation was issued by the Secretary on June 5, 1911, under authority of the committee, to many thousands of members of the Bar in the United States (Including Mr. Lewis), therefore approved by the respective local councils in the different States. Mr. Lewis thereupon accepted the invitation so extended, and transmitted to the Treasurer his book for one year's data; reciving, in due course, the receipt mentioned in your letter. Neither the Secretary, nor Treasurer, nor any other member of the executive committee, had knowledge until a letter date, of the fact that Mr. Lewis is put of the white man. In the long history of the Association no person whatever of another race has been elected to membership there. The committee having been subsequently advised that Mr. Lewis is a Presidential Possibilities Series JOSPH WINGATE FOLK YOUNGEST of all the men who are prominent in the race for the presidential nomination is Joseph Wingate Polk, former governor of Missouri. He is forty-two, almost years the junior of Missouri's other "favorite son." Champ Clark, and was only thirty-one years old when he was elected to the circuit attorneyship of St. Louis, the office in which he by his successful prosecution of the grafts of the city he earned a national reputation. His nomination and election in 1904 as governor followed. He has been considered as a candidate for the United States senatorhip. Like-Sonner-La Fellatta, an-Governor Polk is well known to the people of the country by reason of his successful lecture team. "MOMMER, I'M SCARED!" colored man, his status in the Association was carefully considered at several meetings, and finally on January 4, 1912; the resolution to which you refer was adopted in the City of Washington, where Mr. Louis then was. He had been thereafter notified and afforded an opportunity to appear at the meeting, but had written me on December 27, 1911, that he "did not care to apply to the Committee to be heard in the matter at present." BARRED BY COLOR. The Committee was of the opinion that the race of Mr. Lewis was a material circumstance which should have been communicated to the Committee before action should be taken on his nomination, and inasmuch as the Committee had acted without knowledge of that circumstance, and in the belief that Mr. Lewis was of the white race, the Committee felt that it could not do less than reinvader and rescind its own action so inadvertently taken. The Committee did not, however, decide entered men to be ineligible to membership in the American Bar Association but, as the Committee's vote to elect between meeting in exclusive and final, the Committee was of opinion that it had no right, without prior authority of the Association to declare eligible to membership through a entered person, see trany to invadeable president. It is to be borne in mind in this connection that the American Bar Association is a purely voluntary and largely moral organization, not parental, and that no one has the absolute legal right to admission theory. In such Associations methods are applied for the selection of most members only as well, in the indisposition of the barbers, best suited. the welfare of the organization. A HINT TO: ATTORNEY GENERAL WICKERSHAM. If, upon further reflection, you are disposed to advise Mr. Lewis to adjournence in the action of the Committee and to permit the General Council to determine whether or not to recommend him for membership, it may be unnecessary for the Committee to report to the Association its proceedings in this regard. But if on the other hand, you are of opinion that the action of the Committee isugatory and that Mr. Lewis is a member of the Association by vote of the Executive Committee, an opportunity to present these views to the supreme authority within the organisation will be afforded when the report of the Executive Committee is laid before the Association at the next annual meeting, and if the Association should then hold that the Committee could not rescind its action when once taken, and that Mr. Lewis is now a member, that decision will control. COPIED TRANSMITTED. I have already transmitted copies of your letter to the members of the Executive Committee, and your letter will receive, at its next meeting, the consideration to which your high professional standing and your membership in the Association entitles it: but Mr. Gregory requests me to say that he has accumulated, after careful inquiry, that it is impracticable to reconvene the Committee at this time. Yours truly, GEO. WHITELOCK, Secretary. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S REPLY. Washington, February 2. 1913 George Whitehook, Bag. Secretary, American Bar Asn'.n. 1460 W. 10th St. Building. Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir: I have your favor of 30th ultime, and I note with regret the position which you advise me is taken by the Executive Committee in response to my letter of January 24. You do not attempt to meet the facts which I laid before you. The case, then, in a nutshell, is this: The name of Mr. Lewis was recommended to the Executive Committee by the Local Committee. The members of the latter committee knew perfectly well that he was colored. They knew also that he had been appointed an Assistant Attorney General of the United States. If the members of the Executive Committee did not know these facts, it was because they made no independent investigation, but accepted as conclusive the recommendation of the Local Committee. You, as secretary, addressed to Mr. Lewis an invitation to join the Association. He signified his willingness to do so. The Executive Committee thereupon elected him a member. He paid his dues. Now—six months later—an executive committee, one-third of whose membership has changed since Mr. Lewis was elected, without the faintest shadow of authority in the Constitution or By-laws of the Association, assumes by its vote to cancel the election and to place Mr. Lewis' name on the list of persons proposed for membership. This action is taken at the instance of certain your members who object to the membership of a colored man in the Association. NO WARRANT OF LAW There being nothing in the Constitution or By-Laws of the Association to limit its membership to white persons, they, nevertheless, arrogate to themselves the power to cancel a previous election had in conformity with the organic law of the Association, because the person so elected is not white, and to remit any discussion of the question to the next annual meeting of the Association next summer, meantime depriving Mr. Lewis of all rights as a member. In the face of such outrageous action Mr. Lewis can only appeal to the body of members of the Association and invoke their sense of fairness to protest effectively against the unconstitutional and unauthorized proceedings of the Executive Committee. Neither he nor I can believe that the action of the Committee will be approved by any considerable number of the members of the bar who constitute the Association. JUSTICE SHOULD BE DONE Under these circumstances, in order that justice may be done to Mr. Lewis, and that he shall not acquire in this flagrant violation of his rights as a member of the Association, I propose, therefore, to send to every member of the Association a copy of the correspondence which I have had with you, in order that the members of the Association may themselves determine whether or not the arbitrary act of the Committee shall be sustained. I cannot believe that the American Bar will sustain your Committee in the deliberate violation of the fundamental principles of right which is involved in its action. I am. May 1, 1911 May 1. 1911. John Mitchell. Jr. Editor 16.1 Editor of Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va.: My Dear John Mitchell, I—have been trying to locate John Richmond brother of William Richmond, a colored American who died here about three weeks after his arrival of malignant malaria, called the black water fever out here. William Richmond registered in this office an an American citizen, giving as his nearest kin, John Richmond, whose post office address in America was given at Pembroke Store Postoffice, Campbell county, Va. I addressed a dispatch to the State Department, reporting the death of William Richmond, requesting that they assist me, in locating the brother of the deceased. The department acknowledged the receipt of the dispatch. I wrote John Richmond, sending the letter to the above address. The letter was returned marked unacalled for. The property of the deceased, consisting of traveling bag, clothing, money and bank book are in my possession. I am anxious that his effects reach his brother, or if he be dead, satisfactory proof of the same must be furnished in order that I can proceed in settling the estate. I know no one better qualified than yourself to whom I can turn for assistance. Will you help me to the heir of William Richmond? I take this opportunity to congratulate you upon the splendid showing of the Mechanics' Bank in its achievements in the field of finance. If industry, honest endeavor, perseverance, determination and intelligent management are essentials of success (and they are) then your future and the success of the great financial institution of which you are the honored head is assured. Many Americans, white and colored, come out here and lead careless lives, disregarding advice as to the care of their health, and quickly pay the penalty in an early grave. Your obedient servant. WM, D. CRUM. American Consul-General Liberia, Africa. 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We have, all along, since his arrival from his African trip, believed that he would be the next Republican nominated and the next President of the United States. We believe that Mr. Roosevelt's position is absolutely correct, and the Republican party and the people, of the United States are calling upon him to carry out the policy that will give an equal distribution of justices measured to all the people, regardless of station in life. We don't believe that there is any misbalance of unfairness towards Mr. Taft in Mr. Roosevelt's effort. The Democratic party has gained more ground politically and in popular sentiment during Mr. Taft's administration than any other time during a Republican administration. If we are to live under Republican form of government, then we are to have a man who is willing to shape conditions and things in conformity with Republican principles. Mr. Roosevelt is the man who is actually the most skilled leader, with a machine strong firm and lasting, holding to Republican principles with soil dog tenacity than any man in the country. The colored people will make me a colorful throughout this country when they rally to his support. There is not a shadow of doubt but what he will be nominated and elected. The people want Mr. Roosevelt the acting tattoo maker places for the laborers want Mr. Roosevelt. They need rest a kind of rest that will bring equal prospectivity to the dominant factor and the wage earner. It seems that Mr. Taft is a student of the constitution and adheres in part to the letters of the law. A Democrat can do this. A Populist A Lily White a Progressive a Stand Patter in a Heart Party can all do this, but it takes a man with a back bone and a been for eight far beyond the ordinary jurist to take care of a corresponding deputy and keep a corresponding deputy with both a cooperation and a earner. We believe Mr. Roosevelt is the man who can do it and will do it when the sort of Chicago gives a chance. Enough of Taff. (Philip Pa. Spiral Rock Herald) It might seem that the creation is not greater than the creation who bought it. The President Kowell down President Taft where he was upended about four years. There was a "working agreement between them at the time the thing was done to that effect" but the changeable Mr Taft swains the agreement extended four years. Today say NO and we say all (Cadiz, K.: Informacion.) If President Taft is nominated as nominee, he will he, then he is surer of election than any of his opponents. If he can not be, then it is certain no other Republican has a ghost of a chance for bing elected. If Mr. Roosevelt is nominated, as certainly he can not be. But if he should be, the third term argument would be used against him as one of the most effective weapons until it would result in his defeat. But as the campaign progresses, President Taft will steadily get more strength as the people become more intellectually informed of his record. But as it now stands, Mr. Taft's enemies have nothing to offer against him an endeavor to find an issue but utterly without success, they are against principle for individuals and not for principle. It takes more than seven governors to nominate a President for ninety million people. The man relying on them will learn this ere many weeks have rolled around. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is too when a man to be misled by such a delusion. ( Seattle, Washington Republican ) Teddy the Terrible has gone and done it and now the devil will be to play and Taft will have the time of his life to save enough of his bacon to remember he also ran. It is the concensus of opinion that Theodore Moore will carry every western state for the convention and capture enough of the eastern states to make Taft look like thirty cents with a hole in it. There is hardly any doubt in the mind of the person who thinks, but that Taft is one of the ablest presidents the United States has ever had but, he is no leader. Instead of soulding public opinion he does a commendable act and sits down to wait for the public to pass judgment on it, while Roosevelt does a commanded act and instead of sitting down and sitting for the public to commend him, adds them up to approving of his acts and that too in a very short time after he has done it. It can be said without fear of suc- cessful contradiction that Theodore Roosevelt is the most popular man is all the world now, and has been for the past ten years. In all that time he has done nothing either as a public servant or a private individual, which did not seem to meet public approval, and but add another brilliant star to his already illustrious crown. Possessing as he does the utmost confidence of the people it is perfectly natural that he listen to their appeals and say to them. If you want to nominate me for the presidency of the United States I will not decline the honor. He is perhaps the only man the Republican could put up at this time that would have any show of winning and we believe the Republican leaders all over the country see the hand writing in the wall, and will desert. Taft like rats do a shaking ship and seek refuge on the rocks of tomosse. The only man to the Democratic party, since the recent withdrawal of William Jennings Bryan from the presidential race that could possibly give Mr. Roosevelt anything like a battle in Woodrow Wilson and he would have more chance in a hundred of getting long-concluding votes to nominations. Should Remember Brownsville (Christopher Pa. Allen) The law of the universe teach her motives, and those of society teach friendliness. Unlike there are relations of friendship existing between human beings; there is little change for birthdays. Since Theodore Roosevelt is on conveying to come back, making herself chief Amputee of his club, she is seeking the nomination for the President. The related votes have to remember that whether of her he has been then friend and that harmonize matter in the coming campaign. The chief Ministers of the world today owes his life to black men. Although he has the courage of a Sportan and his features as a Lion he has not had the moral courage to tell the world how the North and Tenth Sikh Empire black men saved his Life. His courage does not require much courage to give praise where it is just due. It does require much bravery to speak the Truth. Yet if these elements of human nature failed to exhibit themselves in all men as they did with Roseswell in relation to that black thief philanthropy at San Juan Hill they would be lost to mankind. Colored men like Roseswell is notinated remember San Juan Hill. His attitude of selflessness and hostility toward the colored soldiers does not have a few years later he had a great opportunity to even deeply show love to a man and a band of gentey or cowardice to the slave and horrified of the colored soldiers, but did he do it? When the fifth town of Brownsville, Texas was shot up as it was claimed by the Negro soldiers stationed there. Roosevelt, without试 or jury dismissed without honor eye of them from the army without a chance to abstain. The whole country knew what was the brought on between him and those who would befriend those helpless colored soldiers. The Hon. Joseph B. Coraker, the champion of these men's rights, lost his seat in the United States Senate by the chancery and intrigue played by the master hand of Roosevelt, because he dared to defend these men. Later when Senator Penrose introduced a bill into the Senate making it possible for these men to re-entrust into the service Roosevelt stated that if the bill passed he would not run it, and if Congress should pass it he would veto. he would not enforce it. Now this is the man that comes back for years hence as a candidate for a third term and if he gets the nomination will ask the Negro voters all over the land to vote for him. If Roosevelt gets the nomination, Remember Brownville. As the chief Ananias of his club, switching, denying and straddling his former statements and policies, he comes out with new ideas of progressiveness of the Republican Party, enunciating his form of pure democracy, characterized by the initiative, referendum and recall. With the recall of judges and the decisions of the courts, what hopes would the Negroes have of getting justice or a favorable opinion from the judges in a community where popular clamor was against them? The fact that the judges would know that their stay in office would depend upon rendering a decision satisfactory to the mob, would make it impossible for a colored man to get justice at the courts. Like Pontius Pilate who found no fault in Christ, was afflicted him upon the cross to satisfy the frensled mob. How long would Judge Butler have remained upon the bench after declaring that the lynchers of Zack Walker of Contestville were guilty and should be punished if they had the power to recall him? Wouldn't the very thing itself defeat all attempts for justice if the declarations of the Supreme Court are taken away and made valid by men who know nothing about law? - If Roosevelt should be nominated remember his policies! A man who has become much a world-wide dictator, such a demagogue who parades his own honesty by attacking the integrity of them, disagrees with him, or with his disagree with someone to disagree, is likely not to be so involved. If Kosevelt should be nominated, remember him at the polls! Rosevelt Should Be Preferred. (Catro, HI. Baptist Truth.) Mr Taft has contended that for commercial reasons the solidity of the political South should be amphibilized. To bring about this he was not only willing to trade his colored brother, who put him in power, but did likewise to his white Republicans. He encouraged the Lil White "amount in the South" that should include $400 million Americans to fill many offices and went hunting for and found Democrats who are now enjoying the spoils of Republican victory. For a friendly and social relation with the South he has traded with whole Republican party both socks and boots for reasons given above, while Republican victors, supporters, allies, etc. are idle, his party principles demolished. Some good Republican must redeem the grand old party in November. But, Mr. Taft has the unprecedented nerve to ask the Reublican party to re-nominate and elect him. Why does he not go to the same source now that he went when appointing office holders? Theodore Roosevelt, though a man of quick and strong action is one hundred times a better Republican than Taft and should be prefaced as the nominee. The Republican party is up against this proposition: Roosevelt and Victory at the November election of Taft and defeat. A RUSTER OF "WHITE HOPES" TITLE HANDED TO JIM FLYNN. Man Who Will Fight Johnson for Heavyweight Championship has Blasted Ambition of Many Aspirants for Honors in THIS Class. Every age of jousting has had its trial horses" men who have occupied unique positions in prize rides circles. Being "near champions" they have stood between the title holder and those ambitions ones who were clamoring for the crown, being used as "trial horses" against whom those fighters who covered the champion pignishment were first compelled to show their class before they could be considered to line for a battle with the champion. In the role of "trial horse" these "near champions" have seen more active service and participated in more battles than any other fighter in the ring if being considered necessary for every young ambitionsighter to come in contact with these "trial horses" before promoters felt justified in offering a purse for their services if a championship fuss and the trial horse" eliminated the majority of these ambitions once before they reached the championship class. CHOYNSKI TRIAL HORSE In the old days it was Jas Joe Choiwka who was used as the 'trial house' for those who coveted the heavyweight crown to show their stuff against while later it was Tom Shattaye, and today it is Jim Flynn, buster of 'white hopes' who stands as a barrier between each budding 'hope' and the crown of Jack Johnson. These are the men whom the champions of the past two decades have looked to as they informed each new challenger to 'lick high first and I will give you fight.' All of these "trial horses" have only been kept on of the championship themselves through misfortune in the matter of size and weight, being too heavy for the middleweight class and too light and small of stature to class with the big men of championship caller. Yet, in spite of their handcap in this respect, each was considered of such class that the heavyweight title holder has always been compelled to accept a challenge issued by any fighter who has given these "trial horses" a good fight, while they have knocked out and thus eliminated as championship possibilities many big men who were pounds over their weight and had been freely advertised as coming champions. BUSTER OF "WHITE HOPES" Jim Flynn, the present "trisk horse" and "barrier champion" has been prominent as a "buster of white hopes" since that historic affair at Reno, when a black man won the world's heavyweight championship. Considered an impossibility as a "white hope" himself, inasmuch as Jack Johnson, the present champion had in the past simply toyed with him in the ring until he got good and ready to knock him out, and Sam Langford had likewise turned the trick on two different occasions. Flynn's spectacular work as a "buster of white hopes" recently marked him as now being the best of that brigade and the only white man now in the ring who could give Jack Johnson a battat. This recognition Flynn has won through his recent decisive victories over Al Kaufmann and Big Carl Morris, in both of which he showed a decided improvement over his former work, and emphasized the fact that he is able to cope with men much larger, and heavier than himself. Accordingly, Jim Flynn, through his elimination of the two, proclaimed that he "should" country has won the right to be the first man to take a crack at Jack Johnson's laurels since the black giant knocked out Jeffries at Reno two years ago. The battle is to be a real championship altruist to a finish and, will come off in Nevada next July. FLYNN GETS IN LIMELIGHT. Thus Jim. Flynn. who has been playing in the role of "buster of white hopes," has again stepped into the spotlight of the pugilistic world as a "white hope" himself. Through the fact that in 1907 Jack Johnson toyed with Flynn for eleven rounds and then knocked him out, and that in the forthcoming battle Flynn will be giving away 30 pounds in weight and 3 inches in height with its corresponding reach. Flynn may not be considered a very hopeful "hope" in some quarters, especially when it is taken into consideration that this time he will be giving a tremendous class to man, in admittedly the class of the prize ring, but Flynn has proved himself the best of the "white hopes" and the only logical white opponent of the black champion. Besides, Flynn has shown his ability to come back and wallop big men who have swallowed him before while his recent fights have shown him vastly improved over the form he showed at the time of his last meeting with Johnson. As ring experts have declared that the next good wife man who freed Jack Johnson in the ring would master the black champion, who knows but it may happen in Nevada next July, and that man may be Jim Flynn "buster of white hopes". Jim Flynn is tough as iron, a hard puncher, and as game as the make 'em. He was just as tough and strong when Johnson knocked him out in eleven rounds out in Frisco on November 2, 1997, but he knew less about boxing then than he does now, and on that occasion he found it impossible to penetrate the black man's marvelous defense. Johnson simply toged with him for eleven rounds, and then knocked him out. Flynn has also been an easy victim for Sam Langford on two different occasions. Langford putting him to sleep in the first round four years ago and two years ago knocking him out again in eight rounds. From this it would appear that it is a case of leading the lamb to slaughter again, but Flynn today is a much improved fighter from the Flynn of four or even two years ago. Flynn first attracted attention to his best form when, on May 5, 1911, he knocked out Kaufman, always considered the leader of the "white hope" class in Kansas City in ten rounds. Kaufman outweighting Flynn 20 pounds and topping him 3-12 inches in height. Flynn followed this up, with seven consecutive knock outs during the past year, and then gave Carl Morris, who outweighed him 50 pounds, and 6-1-2 inches taller, an unmeritiful whaling in ten rounds in New York. These performances eliminated both Kaufman and Morris from the "white hope" possibilities, and left Flynn standing all by his lioness heap of the "white hope" heap, so in love with a white opponent for the black champion it was but natural that Flynn should fall into the job. While we must confess that there is no occasion for the white race to grow wildly excited over Flynn's chances of beating the black champion, still, we must also confess that if Flynn can't, there isn't a white on earth who can. And Flynn has a chance. The masterful way in which he recently handled Morris and Kantman, both much bigger and heavier than himself shows his ability to man him like big men effectively, and he has always shown that he is game, tough as ice, and lugging a kick in his fist that meant "good night" to the biggest man when it lands. If Jim Flynn carried 30 pounds more in weight, and had three inches added to his stature, we would call upon the white race to get up in massa right now and hust the blue canopy of heaven wide open with glad hosannas over his chances of eliminating the black race from one championship next July. In the coming battle, Flynn will weigh about 14 pounds, and stands 5 feet 9 1/2 inches, while Johnson will weigh between 215 and 240 pounds, and stands 6 feet 1/2 inch. HIS CAREER IN RING Jim Flynn's right name is Andrew Chirlignon, and we don't blame him for changing it. If he ever crawled through the ropes with that name tagging after him he'd trip over it in the clinches. Flynn's father died was yet training on a milk-bottle dish in his step-father, an Italian, brought the milk-chirlignon into the Flynn family, and pressed it upon the future "white hope." Flynn, who was born in Brooklyn, December 24, 1879, has had a remarkable ring career. Not because of his great number of victories, but because of his persistence in sticking at the game after being beaten so often, and the ability he has shown to upset ring traditions by "coming back" and beating men who once beat him. Jim Flynn started his ring career in 1901 by winning his first three games by a knockout in four, four and two rounds, respectively. He fought to earn players without a reverse, when he lost an eight-round decision to Jack Redmond. Then went two years more without a verse, when he went up against Tommy Burins, in Los Angeles, and was knocked out in 15 rounds. After this he had a string of victories, knocking out George Gardiner in 18 rounds and Dave Harry in seven. On November 2, 1967, he met Jack Johnson in Pride, and was invited to play in 11 rounds. A month later he played in the traitional heavyweight, and trained Squares for 30 years. He then best Boltzmann Zelma twice in 10 rounds, where it took him Voyard 20 SHOWS "COME BACK" ABILITY Flynn was then knocked out him self by Al Kaufman in nine rounds and by Sam Langford in one round. Then, just to show that he was not afraid of either man, he fought Langford a ten-round no-decision contest, and then was again knocked out by Sam in eight rounds. Flynn then went against Al Kaufman again and showed his "come back" stuff in Kansas City on May 6, 1911, when he knocked his former conqueror out in ten rounds. Closely following this victory over Kaufman, Flynn handed out the sleeping position to four more opponents and then handed Carl Morris an awful facing in ten rounds in New York. "There is no denying Jim Flynn's courage and confidence. He is afraid of no man alive. The confidence with which he has gone up against good men who were much heavier and bigger than he is, and the way he has taken the gaff and come back for more and frequently reversed former decisions, is guarantee enough for his courage. Flynn possesses sturdiness and a stout heart, and, in spite of the great handicap in size and weight and the vaunted cleverness of the black champion, he has an inherent belief that he can beat Johnson, down and bring out the "yellow streak" that experts say exists but which no man has ever tried to penetrate to. But whether Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, step into the championship next July or not, there is one thing certain: he will fight as long as he has a foot to stand on, and if defeated, he will still remain the "barrier champion" over whom future "white hops" must semblance to reach the entrance to the championship class. Washington Foot OUR DUTY. Editor of The PLANET Is not every man, woman and child under some obligation as to the race's welfare? If this is true, what is the reason that so few of our people care so little for each other's welfare? Why is it that so few are willing to send articles to our weekly papers? Is it because it costs something to get their articles in the press? Should one year's subscription keep valuable information from the public? Here are our race graduates just from the schools of the highest learning to send out to the world two true paths of life for we all need, a guide to lead aright, and we have many well informed other people who would be a power for good should they point the proper way to go, and not fall in danger. These teachers can inform the public as to how many children who do not attend school or if there is money enough to pay for their schooling. "Can the city people help along the cause?" Such articles as these will inspire our hearts to action. It is very important that these articles mention the way in our weekly journals and the cost for one year's subscription is nothing when you consider the great blessings you send to others. Mr. Moore of Brazil has already filled the hearts of many by his wonderful power, of telling 15,000,000 of Ethiopians of the great opening that is for us if we only take it. His articles in this journal place him as one of the best writers of modern times and I have in this article asked you to write to our journals. But now I respectfully beg another favor of you, and this is of the greatest importance. When you write to me in name colored people or the Ethiopian race. These titles will at once impress your readers with keen respect for you and your subject which makes your letter clean and sweet to be read by people of all races. And right here let me say, the reason why all the world points the finger of scorn at us is because we ourselves allow the standard to go too low, and the sooner we learn that we must hear one another's burdens, the sooner those who hate us will become our best friends and some steps must be taken to strengthen the prestige of the Ethiopian race. While money is a good thing to have, the prospect from all people is still better than money. Can we be progressive Ethiopians? THE A. M. E. ZION GENERAL CONFERENCE. Two More Bishops to be Elected. Editor, PLANET... Permit me the privilege of this communication. The A. M. E. Zion General Conference will convene in its Quadrennial session May 1, 1912 in Charlotte N. C. Representative men and women from North, South, East, West of the United States, and from Africa and Israel, of the sea will gather in this to be one of the most memorable summons ever known since the organization of the Church. It will be memorable because of the many vital issues now apparent in the ranks of the Church that charged that an associate statistic will show that the Church has not been assumed for its maintenance according to its numerical working basis. It is further charged the estimation of certain edicts in the informogram of the General Conference has been done without warrant Then there is a spirit of discontent and unrest which cannot be overlaid and complete of the very smooth and pleasant cost of the most optimistic. These muttertieries will not cease. These and many other things will be brushed out in the General Conference. But perhaps the most interesting feature of that august assemblage will be the election of two more Bishops and the heads of the various departments for another-four years. The man they mend in the race who really deserves recognition if for no other reason, they should be promoted for their long and faithful service. There is a constitutional law upon the statute books of the Church that prohibits the elevation of an infertant minister to the Episcopacy under 40 years of age and who has travelled 20 years in regular work. It is said that this law will be set aside during this General Conference because the candidacy of two or three very prominent men—young men—who aspire to Episcopal honors. But the A. M. E. Zilon Church enjoys the respect and confidence of any and all Churches of the Methodist families for 1.5 years firm and supportive of all its constitutional laws and basic principles of its polity, and we do not believe there will be any abrogation of law to gratify the ambition or aspiration of a few young men who can so easily afford to wait. In the galaxy of men who appear, emerging from the forest where "Bishop Timber" is carefully picked, are many grand and worthy men, pipe and seasoned by long service to the Church, strong pulpeters, veritable crucifix and honest to a fault. If we should attempt to enumerate them, we should indeed tax your time and space. But among them all, towering like a little giant, is the Rev. R. S. Rives, D. D. of Knoxville, Teen., indeed I might say Tennessee's choice first, last and all the time. Dr. Rives is in the 50th year of his age, active and vigorous, both physically and mentally. He is a great "preacher and has but few peers as a pastor. He has seen nearly 40 years of active service in the Church. He is scholarly and dignified, yet very affable and approachable. He is a firm a presiding officer as the Church affords being possessed of unmatchless executive ability. He will be elected without doubt as his stock continues to soar upward as the General Conference draws apace. We have been important to stand for Editorship of The Star of Zion — the official organ of the connectional interests. We have consigned to allow our names to go before that body, not unmindful of the prejudice against us because we were not "Born in Zion." It would astonish the outsider to observe to what extent this prejudice goes. And it is not only rife among the less informed, but it is extant even among the best informed and a fellow coming to the A. M. E. Zion Church from some other denomination has a steady row to hope. But I'm But I'm in and expect to stay in until the Church notifies me that it has no further need of my services. Then I quit and while I in its work working for its maintenance and perpetuity I expect to aspire for everything in sight, above that watch I have already been. vices of Tennessee have lined up for President, Col. "Teddy," but you would be amazed to see how the Taft "road-roller" has flattened them out. Newall Sanders, the State Republican Host passed the word long that a Taft delegation must go to Chicago in June and—well they are falling in line, and, climbing on the Taft bandwagon in a hurry. But not a single Negro as yet has been elected as a delegate to the National Republican Convention from this State. Maybe, President Taft may order that the Hon. J. C. Napier of Nashville, go, as Napier is one of his federal office-holders. The federal office-holders are running the machine in Tennessee and they are really consigning the Negroes to the "Down and Out Club." Well, such is politics. Very respectfully. E. M. ARGYLE. 1 Park Avenue. Chattanooga, Tennessee. HONOR ROLL—MONROE SCHOOL Monroe School, through its Prin. Chiefal, Prof. H. G. Carlton, has res. ported to the Superintendent, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, the following Roll peo. of Honor for February: 1B GRADE—George Mitchell, Mattee Jawser, Louise Jones. 4A GRADE—Theresa Howard, Lilie Smithers, Martha Washington. 2B GRADE—Vivia Robinson. 2A GRADE NO. 1—Alice Booker, Dorothy Poindexter, Horace Jackson. 2A GRADE NO. 2—James Jones, Annie Booker. 2B GRADE NO. 1—Charles Freeland, Laura Higgithbothom, Elizabeth Green, Elizabeth Smith. 2B GRADE NO. 2—Irene V. Parson, Ethel Pierson. 2A GRADE—Eva Gray, Ada Taylor, Minnie Taylor, Bessie Wattz, Sherman Jackson, Joseph Hoosen. DE, NO. 1 - Nina Chappell Elizabeth A. Annie Washington. James T. Carter. $100.00 Windowed Fold Sutherlin, Va., Feb 28, 1912. This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the whi- Grand Court of Va., Order of Calan- the, (8100.00) One Hundred Dol- de in payment of the death-claim for Bister Josephine Marable, who the was a member of Lenhaw Court, No. 143 of Minoa, Va. Signed—Riger Marable. Administrator Witnesses: Pannie Betts. Ididella Betts. Alice V. Dudson. Newport News, Feb. 28, 1812. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the, Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., W. A., E. B., A., A., and 858 of Delaware District payment of the death-claim of Brother W. Z. Francis, who was a member of Lily of the Valley Lodge, No. 40 of Newport News, Va. Signed--Junius Francis Beneficiary inneses: Major B. F. Jackson, C. C. Anderson Goodle. H. L. White $150.00 Endowment Paid. Norfolk, Va., March 1, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John, Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythiaa, St. A. R. A. and 150.000) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother Charles B. Goodwin who was a member of Pythiaa Lodge No. 21 of Norfolk, Va. Signed- Clara Goodwin. Beneficiary. Witnesses: John H. Dagner, C. C. William L. Christian. Walter R. Henry. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Bristol, Tenn., Feb. 28, 1812. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A., and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Richard Lowls, who was a member of Lovely Mt. Lodge, No. 57 of Radford, Va. Signed--Lula Hall. Beneficiary Witnesses: E. M. Higgins, D. D. G. C. E. B. Brown, C. C. A. D. Henderson, K. of R. & S. $150.00 Endowment Paid MOLLIS, V.A., 1912. This is to certify that have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. ($150.00). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother B. F. Smith, who was a member of Modella Lodge, No 160, of Louisa, Va. Signed: Ella E. Smith. Executrix. Witnesses: F. G. Perkins. William Hammister. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Randolph, N. Va., Feb. 26, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A. A, and A. ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother John Flournoy, who was a member of Randolph Lodge, No. 163 of Randolph, Va. her Signed - Bettie X Flournoy mark Beneficiary Witnesses: George L. Coleman, D. D. Standhope Flournoy. William Carrington. Walter Coleman, C. C. From Newark, N. J. Newark, N. J., Feb. 25—Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, although not completed is doing a great work towards upholding God's kingdom here on earth. During the last two weeks we held a successful revival led by Rev. Andrew Jones, better known throughout the country, as Prophet Jones, during which time ten souls were converted. Through the great efforts of our pastor and his ability as a leader and Christian gentleman, on last Tuesday the 20th, he laid the foundation of a great plan through which we expect to raise not less than $1000.00 by the 21st of April, with God being our helper to complete our church. REV. E. FLOWERS, Pastor. W. J. PIERCE, Church Clerk. Information Wanted. Takoma Park, D. C., March 3, 1812. Mr. Editor: As your paper has done so much in the behalf of the brotherhood of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers at the time that the brotherhood was in the dark and the outside world was at a wonder what had happened, you gave the light and thoughts that we made another step, and partly rallied our forces. We want more light and for that reason I ask you to publish this as news that some one will answer; as some others are interested to think as I do and that every one should know whereby we are assessed one cent throughout the brotherhood for every deceased member with no record of the name of the deceased or the name of the Fountain, or the number of the Fountain to which the deceased be urged. But just get a notice of so many dead members and they are accused for the same without knowing who they are or to which Pountain they belonged. We should know their names and the Pountain and the number and date of said member's death that the Messengers may be able to give a true light to the various Pountains. A MEMORIER. spk age Pe he ttt ung He” gu eee, eae nemenme Vee | ' st * - TREATS OME STORY OF HIS SOUR POLE DRGR Captain Roald Amundsen, First Man to Reach the South Pole. ; i nN pt et a ¥ ES ae av ives ye ey Lage 7 Ee ‘ ince” ll Pe Pe Pavia Cane ess Vite g. ae oe Heit feat 7 tLe ee ioe i ped te fy Bae de : Bot ek Ff i . 7 i . Aa nbs by Pie Fiee : a: eee F oS z ale ¥ , Aue SNS Ie ses 7 | Wheto by American Press Arseciation. a an Roald Amundeon, dieseverer ef the couth pele, ea besheler, forty yeore old, and a native.ot Nerway. tle first taste of exploration wae in ‘207, when he waited oe fret oMleor of Gertech's Belgien sevth polne expe: ditien, He fe the first man ts accomplish the long attempted feat of tak- tng a alvip from the Atlantic te the Pacific essen by wey of the Northweet paceage, This he accomplished in WS and 1808 The Explorer and Four Companions With Fifty- mee eee New Range.ol Meustaine Lecated. + BY ROALD. AMUNOSEN. Copyright, 1812, by the New York Timer : Company. {AU rights reserved.) ‘OBART,: Tasmania, Siarch & 11:20 a, m—On the 10m of February," 1911, we' commenc ed -to work our way towan’ the south, from that dey to the 11th of April entabliishing three depots, swhich: in’ all contained a quantity of Provistons of about 3,000 kilos, One thousand six hundred kilos, incloding 3,100 kilos of seal meat, were cached tm 80 Gegrees, 700 kfloe.In 81 degrees and 800 Kilos.in £2 degrees south lat!- tate. : Aa -no landmarks were to be seen, there depots were marked with fags earen KMometers of each aide in thy easterly and wenterly directions. The ground and the state of the bar rer were of the best and specially well adapted to driving with dogs. On Feb. 15 we had thus traveled lout a bon- dred kilometers. The weight of the sledges wan 30) kilos, and the number of dogs wan six for each Kledge. The surface of the barticr waa amooth and fine, with no noxtrugl The crevices were very local and were found dan- Kerourtn only two places. For the Feat—lodg, xmoath undalatfons. | ‘Tho weather was excellent--culu: or a light breeze, The lowest temperature on these depot trips wax minux 45 Cele mlur or centigrade (49 degtecs below yery F.). On the 4th of Murch, on our return fromthe fret (rip beginoing on tho Sth of February, we toyed out that the Fram bad alrendy ‘left un. With pride and delight we heard that her mtart captain bad xuccecded 11 sailing her farthest south and there holating tho colors of bis country. A glorious moment for hin and hin com radew—the farthext north and the far: theat south—good old Fram! The high eat south latitede attained was 78 64- grees 41 minetes, : Before the arrival of winter we hed €,600 kilos of seni meat ta the Gepots, euvagh for ‘carsetves apd 110 dogs. Might Gog houses, a combination of teats and snow hots were bulk. ‘Winter om the Ice Borrier. , Waving cared for the dogs, the tert oe oe peng A pe ar Ae a we oe > pes co ga Seren a A ct: : a4, Py , ae ee ‘aie to use our, solid Hitle But it was almost eorely covered with snow by the middle of April. First we, bad to get light and air. The Lux lawp. pias bad a power of 200, standard ‘candies, gave un a brilliant light and Kept the seuperature up to 20 degrees Celains (68 degrees F.) throughout the = and our excellent tentilation ayatem gave ux all the ait-x@wanted. In direct Senin wi the hut. and dugout on the batder wero workshops, packing roomn, cellare for Provisions, cod!, wood and oil, 2 pinin Dath, @ xteam bath and observatories. Thus we had everything within doort if the wenther should be too cohl and stormy, “ ‘The sun Ieft ux on the 22d of April and did not return -unut four monthy later. Tho winter was xpent In chabg- ing our whole ontit, which on the de pot trips waa found to be too clumxy and solid fur the smooth surface of the barrier. Reside this, ax much eclentific work an poxsible wan done, and some axtonishing meteorological observations were taken, . Open Water All Winter. ‘There was very little snow, and there wan open water clone by through: out the winter. For the same reason higher tempcrature had been expected. bat it remained very low. Tn Sve montis there were observed temperatures between minus 50 and © Searese Ceixius (36 and 16 Gegrese Delew sero F), the lowest tempers: tare, om the {3th of August, being Minne 50 degrees Ceinius, It wea thee calm. On Aus. } the tomperatore wae Utes 58 déarore Celstos, and there Ware sii meters of wind. Tho meee fyumperatere for the year weg mises The Pele Surrounded by = Vest Plates Memed In King Heskoa's --Hoacr. Three Days ‘Spest at Peiat Farthest South. “Devil's Dancing‘ Room.” Ya auatralts tn all directions. ‘The sanitary conditions were of th Dest all the winter, and whea the sui returned on Aug. 24 we met the mei sound in mind and body, ready to se About the tak that bad to"be solved. | Already, the day before, we ha Drought our sledgea to the atartin, place for our march toward the south Only in the beginning of September @id the temperature rise to such a1 extent that there was any question © -eetting out. First Start For the Pole. ”~ On Sept. 8 eight men, with sever sledges, ninety dogs and provinione fo four months, started, Tho ground was pelfect. The temperature was not bad ‘The next'dny it appeared that we bad started too earls, an the temperature of the following daya fell and was kept steady ‘between minus 30 and 60 Cel: slus (8 dexrecs and 76 degrees below zero F.). Peronails, we did vot aut. fer at all feom (hty cold. Our good Ture Protected ux. Hut with our doxy it-was a different matter. It would cantly be geen that they khrunk from day to day. and we understood -pretty soon that ‘thes could not xfand tho long run. to our dhpot at HO dezrven nouth, Wo agreed on returning and to walt for the arrival of spring. The provi slona wore cached, and off we went for the fut. With the exception of the lona of n few dort and a couple of frozen Leels oversthing was all right. | Only in the middle of October xpring came tn earnest. Seale and birds ap peared. ‘The tempernturo wan ateads| between 20 and 0 Celslun (68 degrees and’S6 degrees F.). ‘The original plan that all of us should xo towurd the nouth hnd been changed. Five men had to do this work, while the other three were to start for the| eant and cinit King Edward VIT, land This last mentioned, trip was not tn- cluded in onr prograii, but owing to the fact that the English had not reach- ed {t at Tenet (ix anmnmer; ax was thes tatention, we agreed that the best thing to do was nino to minke thin trip. On Oct. 20 the xoutHern party atarted —firo men. four nledses, Afty-two dogs and provinious for fout months--erery- thing In excellent order. * The Journey to the Pole. We had made up our minds to take the first part of the trip ay eaally aa possible in order to give ourselves and he doge # rational training, and on he 23d we niade our depot in 80 de- rors xouth, We went right ahead. In spite of the denne fog an error of wo to three kilometers happened once n awhile, and we werr caught by the lag marks and found (hese dn our way cithout difficulty. aving rested and fed the dogw on 11 the xeal meat thes were able to ent, re started again on the 2éth, with the emperature steadily het ween minus 20, nd 30 Celsius (4 degrees and 2 ée- Teer below zor F.), From the xtart 1¢ wan the fitfgsmon ot to drive more than thirty kilo- jetern.a day, but It appeared that this ax too ttle for our strong, willing aimals. At 80 degrees south we began ) bull snow catrnx of a many height, | J order to have marks on «ur return ip. On the Sixt we teached the dept [ PRL degrees and topped there one |! ay and fed the dogs ont ay much pem- |! fean ax they wanted. We renched the depot at 82 desteen f! ithe Sth of November, where the dogs | Fthe Inst thine got all they wanted to it. On the Sth, southward again, with |] daily march of 50 kilometers, ‘ In order to lichten our heavy sedges | * e extablixhed depots nt each degree |? wouth latitude, bs Like a Pleasure Trip. 7 The trip from 82 degrees to & de: | C ves beenme n pleasure trip—excellent | # ound, fine sledzing and an even |, perature, Everything went like a | ! nee, r On the Oth we eighted Sonth Vie- |! Ha land aud the continuatiorof tho | f yuntain Fanke which Kir Ernest fackleton mentioned In hix chart ay | ¢ aning toward the southeast from the | 4 ardmore glacter, nnd on the vame | # y we reached 83 dexrees and estat | 4 hed here depot No. 4. On the 11th] * + made the Interesting discovery that > Hore burrier terminated ina bight | ° wart the southeast nt 86 degrees |” nth latitude wt 163 alegreca west | 2 Ritute, foriued between the south: | ° Mt Dionintaln rune running from | ® ath Victoria Isud and g,rango on y opposite Aide running fn a sot. | aterly dircetion- probably a continu: | P oa of King Edenrd VII. tant > m the 13th wo reached Si dexrees, {£9 ere we eatabifhhed a depot; om. thes © h we were at S5 degrees, where alan | made 2 depot = from oar winter quarters, “Fram. | im,” 78 degrees 38 minates south lat- de, we hag been marching doe] * sth. On the 17th of November, at 66 | Se reed, we arrived at a place where | se , land and berrier-were connected. | le ‘The lant under which we. ley and; " Wateh. @e now had to attack Webel x tmnponing. The nearest enmanti the barrier bad 0 height of fem 2000 to 30,600 feet. but spvepal other farther south were 15,080 feet or more ‘Tho ‘sent. day we began the climb. The fret patt of It was an eery teak— Hgbt stops ‘and well: Qed mountain aiden. It did not take a long time, for our willing dogs, wortapd thetr way up. Farther vp we met with some emall dat very steep alacters, Here wo bad te harness tweaty dogs tu each sledge and take the four sledges in two torus Tp some places it was 0 steep tbat it was difficult enough to use our skie. | Bome big crevices forced us from time to time to make detours. The frst Say we climbed 2,000 feet, the next Gay moetiy up some smail glaciers, camping at a height of 4,000 feet. The third day we were obliged to no down on m mighty glacier, “Axel Helberg’s glacier,” which divided the coant mountains and the mountains further south, ‘The next day began the longest part of our climb. Many detours bad to be made in order to'avold broad cracks and open crerices. These were appar ently mostly filled op, as the glaciers tn all probability bad long ago stopped mioving, but we had to bo very care- ful, never knowing for certain bow thick wan the layer that covered them. Our camp that night lay in very pie turesque surroundings at a height of 5.000 feck. ‘The glacier here wan nar- rowed in vein wo 15,000 feet high mountains.xhe “Friftjof Nansen” aud the “Don Pedro Chrictophernen.” From the bottom of the glacier rose Mount “Ole Engixtad.” a big snow cone 13,60 feet bigh. ‘ Day's Splendid Work. ‘The glaclor was very much broken 1 this comparatively narrow pass, The migbty crevices xeemed to stop us from going farther, but 1¢ was-not xo nerioux wR st appeared, Our dogs, which vp to hin time had covered.a distance of about 7 kilometers, the last day's ; ib Photo by American Press Association CAPTAIN NOMTHT N. MOOT, AMUNDAEN'R S Nauti Mawake very hard work, ran thiv day ehtrty- five kitometers, the ascent beltig 5,600 feet, an alinust ineredibte record, Lt towk us only fons days from the badtler to get up ou the vant tnland plateau, + a . We Amped that tis! at a helght of 10.600 fect. Here we had ty ki Owen: te-foue of one beave companions and xeep vightewa, six for ete df onr throes pledges, 4 We stopped here tote dhys on ac count of bad weather. ‘Mra of thts, We net ont on the sth of November, On the Se 8. a fore Diizzerd ant to a dense sfowdrift, ahvotutely noth: fog was to be seen, but we felt that, contrary to expectatlus, We wero KO- Mpg fast down hill... The hypxometer gare uy that day a desent of G00 fect, We contiltued our march the next day in a gaic, and n denso snowdrift got our faces badly frozen. We could fee nothing. We reiwhed that day 84 degrees; dead reckoning. The byp- pometer Indicated a fa!! of 800 feet. The next day wos similar. The weather cleared & little et dinner time and exposed to our view a mighty mountain range to the enxt and not far off only for a moment, nnd then ft dis, appeared in tho dense snowdrife. On the 2th ft ented down and the gan shone, though it was not the only pleasant .surprivo he Kare. In our coorse stretched a bic glacter running toward the south. AC its eastern end wee the ®@entain raoke golag in a soathearterly directioa Of the weat-| sm part of It no view to be had, It 1g hidden in tho Uenge fom. At the of this giacter, the Devil's glacier, : for six dnyn was extabiiahed, at th latitude, ‘The hyp eaneter fod 8,000 feet above pra evel. . | a Qplendid Mountain View. OB Nor. 30 we pegan to climb the- acter. The lower part of it was vary euch broken and dangeroms. Mere Wer. the anow brides very oftan burst, | prom ear camp that night we hed @ plendid view over the mountain to | he’ east. There wee “Hetmar Has gu's remintt.” the most remarkable © thea oft: 1c was 12050 'feet high | ad covered with such beehen siacters Hiat tm al provabiiity. no. foothol’ ‘was to be found. “Oscar Wisting’s' ; “Bverre Hasely" and “Olay | Hjan and's" moentrine aleo lay bere, beau tifally Duminated'in the rays of the [Btetitewn | : “In the distance, and only alternately ‘to be tiewed in the fog, appeated from time to time “Mount Nielsen.” with its summits and peake-mbout 15,000 fect high. We oaly saw the vearcet sur. roandings. -It took us three days to xurmount the Deril's glackr, always in misty weather. : On the 1st of December we lett thix broken glacier, with holes and crevices without number, with {ta height of 9,100 feet. Before ux, looking in the mist and snowdrift like a froten seo, appeared a light, sloping ico plateau filled with small hummocks. ‘The walk over this frozen sca wan ‘Rot pleasant. The ground under us was quite hollow, and It sounded a@ thougb bebe were walking on the bottoms of empty barreln, Asit was, a man fell ‘through, thei a couple of dogr. We ‘could not use our akle on this pol- tnbed ice. Sledges bad tho bent of It. _ The Place got the namo the “Devil's Dancing Room." This part of ovr match wan (he mot unpleasant. On Dec. 6 we got our greatest height, ac- cording to the bsfsometer and anc. Told, 10,70 feet, at 67 degrees 40 min- ‘ute nouth. On Det" wo came out of the bad weather. Once again the wun amiled down on us. Once agnin we could get an observation. Dead reckoning and observation were extctly allke—88 de: recs 83 winutes 169 neconds south. Beforo us Ins an absolutely plain piateau, only here aud there marked with a Uny xastrugl. Tn the sfterneon we paxsed 88 de: grees 23 minutes (Shackleton's farthest routh was 8% derres 25 minutes), We camped and establistied our last depot. depot No. 10, From $0. degrees 25 min: utes’ Lhe platen began to slope down rery gently and guonthly toward the otber side, * t On the Lh of December we reached RSeRreOs HY rufntites; ea Dee, 10, SS legcees 36 minutes; Mee. 11, 80 degrees IS inlonter: Doe, 12, 8) deszree 20 malt tea: Dee. 18, 80 decrees 45 unites! Up to this thine the observations and lead reckoning cagteed remarkably cell, and we mnade out that we Sughe fo ba at the pole on Der. 14 fh the aff ‘The Pole Attained. That day was a beuntiful one a iene breeze froin noutheast, the teasperature minus 22 Cette Het degrees below goto Fu), nid the grant and olodglis were perfert. ‘The dy went along a aul, and at sip. mi, we minds a halt, Acconting to our reckoning, wo had reached our destination, 821 of us gathersd around the eslore a benutl ful silk fag. alt hinds tukto hata of ft and planiticig tt, The vant platean an whiten the pote fs ntanding got the une of the “Hing Tpaken Vil. plateau” It Inn vast plain, alike {n all dirwtions, Mile att. er mille during the wight we circled uround the eainp, _ Tn the fine weather se spent the fot lowing day taking @ scties of observa. tlons from Ga. m. fo7 p. im. The te ault gave wn SO degrees 55 mulaute, In arder to observe the jail ay tlove as possible we traveled ax tear noutl as pomible the ronigtuing nite komme ten. : * On Dee. 10 there we eainped. Te whe an excellent opportunity, ‘There wan 5 sUrlittant can Four ofits took obser vations every hour of the fy" tet: ty-four hours. The exact result. wit Be the matter of a profestonal private: report. (This tush fe ceftain-that we ote rerved the pole as clove ne iN tn hu inno power to do tt with the tnstta ments we bad, a sextavt and un arth celal bortzon On-Dec, 17 eversthing wes In order on the spot. We fastened to the grout a# Uttle tent we bad brought along, a Norwestan fag and the Pram pendant on the top ef It. “ The Norwegian home at the south pole was called “Pollet.” The distances from out winter quar fers to the pote way about 1400 kile meter. The agernze march a day warm twenty-five kilemetees, The Return Journey. We started on the retum trip on th Ith af December. Unnwualty favor able Weather made ote way hotne com siderably easier than the Journey. te the pole. Wer arrived at our winter quarters, “Frantheta,” on the 25th 01 January, Wit, with two sedges and eleven dogs, atl well, The dally werage spect on the re turn try was thirty.stt kilometers Tho lowest temperature wos mings 3! Celsius (ZEN degrees below gery Po the highest unlios 3 Colstus O28 degrees abore zero F, Among the reeulta nre the determina tion of the éxtent and chatietor ¢f the Troan barrivr and thy diacorery of the connection of Sonth Victoria land apd probably King Edward VIL. kind, with their continuation fn the mighty moun. faine ranning towne ihe southeast Wbich wer observed Sosfar an S8 de grees sith, but whieh to all probatil ity continue seross the antarctle cont nent. Tho cntire length of the nowly div cotered mountains Im mteiit 80 kilo meters. Thes have been named “Qaeen Maud’ range.” The expedition to King Blward VIL Jand, under the vommand.of Ttenten- ant Presid, hay given exatlent re. suite. Neott’x iltcoverion have been ednirmed, and the survey of the Bay of Whalen and of the barrier dome by the Prentud party arc of great interest. A mood geological ‘eolletion from King Edeart-¥15. and ‘Routh. Victoria land ia being brougkt hore, ‘The Fram arrived at the Bay of Whalen onthe Mh of Jacuary, She had perrr drinyed by the “Roartag Forties” em account of the easterty wieds. - On Jan. 16 tbe Japanese expedition eretred af the Nay of Whales and lend, efi ca the barrier hear eur whiter guar. jere. We left the Bay of Whelts on Jem. 30. It was a long venga with pentrary winds. All are well ROALD AMUNDGEN. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RICHMOND PLANET. Nothing on earth a so valuable as a Human Miod. If « diamond la worth polishing At grrat (weuble tm cont, much ery la the mi of Dey oF Young aa Corte aie neueng at Go aces can he Tae bk cincniw See wd fe preg Youth. 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He pian ime been to re- ‘presqnt that Be hes money ta a col cred bank im phie ofty, Hoe gets his Yietim to write to Joha Mitehefi. Jr., President an tel! him to send hie six hunéred and fifty 4olla.e-or some Wke amount at owes to the persca who is writing the letter or ‘advane ing Bim a amall sam of money watt! bo bas wotten his money from Rick Ho alleges that he ts captain of s walling vessel, whieh accordicg to his letters hae been lost sear Thitble Light off Buckroe Beach and as he bas been carrying on. this kind 0” swindling for about two years,. thai boat is preegmably wrecked every two or three weeks. He aske that xe letter be sent te him te’ bare of the pereoa who sdvaness the money. He never comes baek to ese if the mosey comes sp be Gives We Rave written contigsenaly to the people, whe send these lettem, but Sy pare nae wiles time eo keep up Kecp clear of Captain John B Stmpeom or anybody whe leaks are him, 3 S. W. ROBINSON 19 & 21 N. 18TH St. Denier tm Fine Wines, Liqeors, Cigars, &c. ALL STOCK SOLD AS GUARANTEED. PROMPT ATTENTION. iS - Your Patronage te Respecttuny ```markdown ``` LOS ANGELES; CAL. NEWS The Fight In On. About six months ago Miss Light foot put in an application at the County Hospital for entrance as trained nurse. A few days later she received a reply from the matron, stating they did not admit colored girls. Some days after this a committee called on Mr. Prittman, the superintendent of the hospital and be referred them to Mr. Butler, the chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Mr. Butler stated that he did not believe that the white nurses would be willing to work with a colored nurse in the hospital and that if the Board of supervisors would admit a colored girl in the training school that all the white nurses would walk out, and the patients would be in danger at the hands of the colored nurses. This statement did not meet with favor by our colored citizens and they at once took the matter up as a body and the Sunday Forum wrote a set of resolutions to the Board of Supervisors protecting their decision. NO ANSWER FORTHCOMING. There has been no reply up to date and the colored people feel that they have been unjustly treated and are making further effort to have organized a citizen's committee with Attorney Paul M. Nash as chairman, and this committee will investigate the matter and learn whether or not the Board of Supervisors has a right to discriminate. Mr. Butler stated some time ago that inasmuch as the County Court House and the Street Department employed a large number of colored men he thought they ought to be satisfied. We have one woman as Licensed Recorder in the person of Mrs. Laura Young. She is the only representative of our race filling any position in the county. If this matter had come to a vote in the Board of Supervisors, it is believed that Miss Lightfoot's request would have been granted. The colored people of Los Angeles are 16,960 strong and can furnish a number of colored girls if the opportunity was given them. The colored people are paying taxes on eleven and a half million dollars a month in taxes on all the northwest and they feel that taxation without representation as an injustice to both them and their children. WILL TEST IT IN THE COURTS In this we have the support of the entire colored population and they mean to win. If necessary they are preparing to take the matter to the Superior Court. We have ten colored lawyers who will render their service. His Lighthouse is twenty-two years of age and he graduate from the High School of Raleigh, N.C. her home, She spent fifteen months in the training department of the Dixie Hospital at Hampton, Va. Negro Accused. Mrs. Mary Fuller of 1222 Santee St. when in her room was surprised by the entrance of a man who choked her unconscious and on hearing foot steps in the hall made his escape. Mrs. Fuller declared he was a Neo-t and when questioned by an officer her statement was that she did not see him and hands were rough and nobody else could do such a thing but a nigger. Mrs. Bertha Scott Glenn of 1511 Essex Street is seriously ill and has been for over three weeks. A D. LACEY. Los Angeles, 3-7-12. FROM FARMVILLE, VA. Farmville, Va., March 11—Sunday was an ideal day for church-goers the best we have had this year. The Sunday School and Church-goers were delighted to enjoy the fine weather. Notwithstanding the heavy snow Tuesday and Wednesday, Dr. R. C. Richardson exhibited his morning picture show again with success, for the First Baptist people. Dr. P. F. Morris, General Field Agent for Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention filled the pulpit at First Baptist Church. Sunday at 11 A. M. The Dr. as usual, gave an excellent discourse. Rev. C. H. McDaniel, Johns, and P. M. Robinson were present while Rev. P. Ellis presided at the organ. Mrs. Agnes Farrar of Second St. has been sick for several weeks. We are glad to learn she is improving. Mr. Jesse Logan of Virginia St. is ill. The Republican Fourth District Convention met here this week passed resolutions endorsing President Taft for re-election. It was one of the most harmonious conventions I ever saw. Everything was "cut and dried." No objections related to anything. I now a few colored men present, one of those guy in nomination committee (white of control) for District Commissioner. No colored man was corresponded to State or National Convention. Now about it. "Remember" he promised to give some of the reasons why the political status of our people is not what it should be. Ist. He said the high estimate put upon morals to influence a community to imbibe and breathe some atmosphere must emanate from the life and character of the modern in that community in every avenue of life. In the business circle, there should be men in business could unite the people and organize them into business projects for the good of the whole community, "Unfortunately," said Mr. "Rambier," "he had not been able to find such organizations." 2ad. - He said when you find in a community men and, women who are able to and are actually laboring to unite the people and bring good results, elevating them to a higher plane of life financially and socially, such leaders are not only leaders, in the financial and social world but they are leaders in the Christian work. The leaders in the, great enterprises, most especially among our people, are men and women who be believe in God, honor his cause, give to its support and are church-goers. Mr. "Rambler" said that men and women who will not carry out the injunctions laid down, by the Lord are not fit subjects to be leaders in any community and the attempt so to do, the moral standing of that community will be lowered by them, and all who follow them. There are men who we are watching, Mr. "Rambler" and the good citizen who found the note book. We intend to find out all we can about them. Mr. "Rambler" we learn has been here five or more weeks making notes. Dr. D. Webster Davis will lecture here March 10th. Subject, "Hobble Skirt." Look out for Mr. "Rambler" next week. DRAKES BRANCH, YA. NEWS. The shooting of Sam Howell of Charlotte Court House at Phoenix a few days ago will not surprise those who know Sam. Howell has a way of stepping people and running his hand in his blind pocket as if drawing a gun. This was all right at home here. Howell was known, but not known by those who know him. The person, whose name and identity could not be learned fire times, one ball entering Santa's right breast, penetrating the lung and lodging in the spine. Howell, who does not carry a gun, is in a critical condition. No arrest has been made. How or why what political party to cast their vote is being discussed at length here. It is known that the Republican Party will be abandoned. Conclusions are that recognition only when there is an as to grim is not true recognition. From New York Negro School Valued at $80,000. Dedicated at Louisville—School Has Historic Past—Mrs. Lella Walters, Wife of Bishop Walters, First Principal of the school in the Early Day—Some Idea About the Early History of the school—Dr. Washington Coming—Truckcars to Delivery—Special Message—Negroes Lining Up for Boosts Afro-Americans Declaring for the Colonel—Bitter Against Taft and the Administration—Suffragettes Hold the Port—News the World Over Gathered by the Correspondent. (Allen's National News Bureau, 252 West 3rd Street) Information reaches this bureau of the recent dedication of the handsome new colored school at Louisville Kentucky the valuation of which was $89,600. The school is full of historic interest and was founded by a group of patriotic race women who were pioneers in the educational life of the city. The dedication of the new school marked a new era in the educational uplift in the race in that section of the South. Mrs. Lella Walters, one of the most accomplish women of the race and wife of Bishop Alexander Walters was the first principal of the school and played a conspicuous part in the early history of the school. As the first principal of the school, Mrs. Walters did much in the pioneer in working out a system of education in working away much towards shaping the future lives of the boys and girls of Louisville. Like most great institutions that grow to gigantic proportions, the school started in an humble way until it outgrew its cramped quarters and demanded larger and more com modious quarters. Seeing the necessity of a public school for the colored children of Louisville, Miss Jackson, a well known young woman of the city called a few women of the race together and demanded to begin the work. Small quarters and the first public school for colored children in the city of Louisville began. Among the early workers in the movement and among the first teach ers were Mrs. Mary Hicks, Mrs. Carrie Anderson, Mrs. Louis Gibson, Mrs. Gibson Roberts and Mrs. Anna Gibson, Mrs. Lesia Walters, then Miss Lilia Brown was called to the first principality of the school. With the co-operation of a splendid corp of teachers the school had a rapid and unbeckered growth which were remained as the principal of the school nine years, during which time the school record. the parents of pupils passed. Walters for her pioneer upfit in the educational upfit in Lennville Mrs. Walters resigned in the year 1894 and shortly afterward married Bishop Walters, the noted Bun churchman and rose champion. Since her resignation she has maintained a team interest in the school. When the new school was established a few weeks ago the occasion was a pleasant incident in the life of Mrs. Whitney, who was among the pioneer women in the early history of the school. Mrs. Jackson, the founder of the school is one of the most visible $3.00 Recipe Free For Work Men Send Home and Address, Number You Can Have It Free and Strong and Vigorous. 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The dedication of the new school recently was a red letter day in the life of the colored people of Louisville and in the educational life of the city. The members of the Board of Education were present and spoke in a highly complimentary manner on the excellent service the school had rendered the city. A great appliance came from the army of the Civil War, the history of the school was told and the names of some of the pioneer workers were mentioned. The dedication of the school in the opinion of many is one of the greatest race movements in the history of the race. The editor of the Baptist Herald published in Louisville in an editorial on the incident suggested that the school be named after a noted man or woman of the race. In the opinion of many the school should be named the Brown Jackson school the Marian school who founded the school and Mrs. Walter, then Miss Brown who was the first principal. Dr. Washington Coming The announcement of the coming of Dr. Booker T. Washington, the noted educator to St. Mark M. E. Church Sunday afternoon, March 17, is being watched with keen interest by the large personal following of the educator in the Metropolis. It will be the first appearance of Dr. Washington in the Metropolis for a long while and it is thought that the great Tuskegeean has a special message to the race in the Metropolis and in country. The meeting to be a notable one and is being arranged by Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Marks M. E. Church. The distinct purpose of the meeting has not been fully as certained but it is believed that the meeting is being called to talk over grave matters affecting the race. Bishop Derrick the picturequeen Bishop of the A. M. E. connection and the great face champion will preside. Along with Dr. Washing-ton, he has some of the noted speakers of race. Dr. Washington has a large personal following in the Metropolis and a large audience will doubtless greet him. Negroes Lining Up for Roosevelt. The announcement a few weeks ago of Col. Theodore Roosevelt's intention of accepting the nomination for the Presidency, has caused many influential men of the race to signify their intention of supporting the Colonel. A personal canvass among the influential men of the race has revealed a concerted movement to support Roosevelt in the coming campaign. In the opinion of many, Roosevelt would do much in providing an administration that would give the Negro fair play. Among the strong race men who has signified his intention of supporting Roosevelt is the Rev. Dr. W. P. Hearn, a Baptist Church when at his residence last week, Dr. Hayes said to your correspondent: "I am a Roosevelt man and will support him in the present campaign if he is nominated. I believe he is the best candidate the Republicans could nominate and the only man who could save the party." Dr. Hayes had some bitter words for Taft and called his administration a blank failure. The prevailing opinion is that the administration of President Taft has been a dowryful failure and that his administration will work to the best interest of the people. It is the intention to open colored headquarters here in the McDonalds soon. Just what effect this attitude will have upon the national election remains to be seen. NonFragments Hold the Part. A notable meeting in the interest of Woman suffrage is being planned to be held in the antiquities of the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening, March 18th. The meeting is to be a notable one and many, interesting phases of the suffrage question will be discussed. The session will be some of the most important women in the law. 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. Mechanics Savings Bank OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, on the North-West corner of Third and Clay Streets applies to you open the banks of local pride. HAVE YOU inspected this structure and opened an account there? HAVE YOU rented a SAFETY-DEPOSIT BOX or secured one of the latest style nickel banks which you can take home with you and see the MONEY grow? CALL and SEE the Counter or TALK to the Pipe- ident. They will give you much information. Visit the potential Building House and make yourself at home. try who are champions of the cause. Among the speakers will be Mrs. Henry Villard, wife of the editor of the New York Post and Mjas Ines Millholland, the brilliant young Suffragette speaker who has won a national reputation as a champion of the cause. Mias Millholland is a graduate of Vasar, College and the daughter of Mr. Millholland the millionaire friend of the Negro. Considerable interest is being taken in the meeting and he meeting is said to be one of the most important of the Suffragette meetings. News the World Over Gathered by the Correspondent. Considerable controversy is following the announcement of the discovery of the South Pole. Matthew Henson who went to the North Pole, has placed on the market an interesting book telling of his travels to the far North Pole. The Metropolis is getting ready for the Men and Religion Forward Movement. The campaign will begin in earnest in a few weeks. Further reference to the movement will be mentioned in another issue of The PLANET. The handsome new Zion church will be dedicated Sunday, March 17, with special exercises. Bishop Alexander Walters, the resident Bishop will be the principal speaker. The PLANET Correspondent is still receiving praise for his news letters. Your Correspondent will be one of the Correspondents to report the proceedings of the Zion General Conference which meets in Charlotte N. C. in May. Rev. Dr. J. M. Connor of Little Rock is still looming for the Bishoprie in the A. M. E. Church. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is getting ready for its annual meeting to be held in Chicago the middle of April. The Negroes of the Metropolis are lining up for Roosevelt. Dr. C. T. Walker, the noted preacher is expected in the Metropolis. The Metropolis is still caught in the throes of Winter. At this writing snow is falling heavily. Dr. Brooks, for fifteen year pastor of St. Marks M. E. Church will resign his charge the first pillar. 'GLEEVELAND ALLEY' Correspondent. Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School Halfway to be Reserved Sunday. The Rally of the Reds and Blues of the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School will terminate Sunday evening, March 17, 1912 at 3:00 P. M. The following program will be rendered: Devotional Exercises, Rev. S. C. Manuel, D. 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