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JAXEL Virginia Baptist State Convention Large Delegation There—Much Money Raised. Salem, Va. May 13.—The most successful session ever held in the history of the Virginia Baptist State Convention closed here last night and the Queen St. Baptist Church, Hampton was selected for the next annual session. From the opening to the closing of the convention peace and harmo ny prevailed It was like a family reunion All the old officers were re elected. Dr. R. H. Bowling, the leader of the Baptists in the State was elected president for another year, and when his name was men- tioned he was given an ovation. His safe leadership is highly regarded. "As a race we must do something for ourselves," declared Dr. Bowling in his annual address, "and must not set down and expect others to do for us what we should do for ourselves. The white man of this country has his burdens, his troubles, and we should not load ours on him. Many are calling us a baby race in civilization." and if this is true then there is something wrong with us, because we have enjoyed freedom nearly a half century, and it only requires twenty-one years to develop a full grown man. take my place in this world not as a baby; but as man and want to be no regarded. This baby cry has taken from us many of our manhood rights. The ballot has been taken from our people in some of the states, because of the baby race cry, for no one feels that a ballot is safe in the hands of child, and I do not blame them. "The Virginia: Theological Seminary and College, at Lynchburg, says to the world that the Virginia Baptist Convention "akes the manhood position, and shows what we are striving to do for our own race. This counts for something." There were many prominent visitors present, among them were Rev. W. G. Parks, first vice-president at large of the National Baptist Convention, and pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Philadelphia; Deacon Samuel H. J. Mayes, Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Philadelphia; W. F. Graham, D. D., pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Philadelphia; J. C. Brown, D. D., Flushing, N. Y., Granville Hunt, New York, the Rev. Dr. Sims, New York City; Henry Allen Boyd, A. M., assistant secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Tenn., W. H. Moses, D. D., Knoxville, Tenn., Charles Stewart, Chicago, Ill., and a number of others. Rev. R. C. Woods, B. D., who was elected President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College Lynchburg, one year ago, made a flattering report, which was highly commended by all who heard it. Dr. Woods-made a strong plea for the training of the mind, holding that man was mind and not brute strength or physical size. Man was able to rule the world because he was the mind of the world. The Rev. Dr. T. H. White, of Clifton Forge, Va., one of the most aggressive young men in the convention was elected corresponding secretary of the convention. Deacon A. Humbles, the pillar of the convention, delivered a strong address, pledging his support to the work, and declaring that as long as he was on earth and had a dollar, Virginia Theological Seminary and College should not go down, and that he would stand by Dr. Woods. "He is our son, and a graduate from our school." The address of Rev. Henry Allen Boyd, attracted much attention. He told about the work of the Pub. lishing Board and the National Baptist Sunday School Congress which will meet next month in Tukegee Institute. Also, he concluded his address by reading a telegram from his father, in which an invitation was extended to Dr. R. H. Bowling to deliver the main address at the Sunday School Congress. The invitation was accepted, and Dr. Bowling will be present. The collections for the work of the convention will reach about $4,600. The sermons were preached by Rev. C. R. Jones, D. D., of Newport. News, the intradictory sermon, B. W. Ashburn, Blackstone, documentary, and W. H. Mason, D. D. missionary. They were all able sermons provided by young men. A number of addresses were delivered by representative man. Dr. Henry Allen Boyd was the only representative of any of the National Association Boards present. Dr. Boyd introduced the whole conference. J. F. H. A. Oyre was made the member of the convention. He made of his oldest workers. ODD FELLOWS ANNIVERSARY. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows observed their sixty-ninth anniversary in this city last Sunday. The members assembled at Price's Hall and at about 3 o'clock, marched to the Moore Street Baptist Church. P. G. M., R. W. Anderson was Chief Marshall. The choir of the Moore Street Baptist-Church furnished music. The Scriptures were read and prayer was offered by Rev. Turner. Mr. W. H. Jones, P. D. G. M., was chairman of the meeting and delivered a practical, but brief address. He declared that the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows was the greatest colored organization on earth, having a membership last year of 427,941, and he was confident that the number had been augmented by 50,000 more. Mrs. Lucy C. Scott, P. N. G., read a fine paper, after which a collection was lifted by Deacon Peter Shackleford, P. N. F., and Mrs. Betty Brooks, H. H. of R. A solo was sung in a charming manner by Mrs. Carrie C. Hawkkins, P. D. M. N. G. Rev. R. O. Johnson delivered an excellent sermon, well suited to the occasion, after which benediction was announced. DIVORCE GRANTED On May the 9th, Mrs. Otella J. Harris was granted a divorce from her husband, John Y. Harris, Jr., in the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond. The ground being desertion. She was formerly of this city, but now a resident of Washington, D. C. She will resume her former maiden name, which was Miss Otella B. Johnson. Mr. Alfred E. Cohen represented the plaintiff. A Pleasant Evening A very pleasant entertainment was given Friday night, 10th inst. at No. 320 E. Franklin St. in honor of the two little Misses McGwyn's—Ruth and Elizabeth. The ladies were beautifully gowned in evening attire and the guests enjoyed them selves in dancing and minor parlor games until the small hours of morn. Among those present were Misses Carrie Gaston; Mary Goshen, Sarah Brooks, Catherine Taylor, Mary Johnson, Mary Simms, Fannie Nunnally, Nannie Simms, Julia Jones, Belle Little, Lula Tilman, Martha Payne, Nannie Johnson, Margret Tinsley Mattle Lomax, Sallie Brown, Rose-ta Tolliver, Maria McGwyn and Mrs. Belle Johnson. Refreshments were abundantly served to the satisfaction of the in ner man. — Mrs. Fannie Johnston has been quite sick at her residence in North Third Street. — Mrs. Bertha Hughes Hatchett is visiting her mother, Mrs. Martha A. Hughes and brother Lr. William H. Hughes, 546 N. Second Street. Mrs. Hatchett's mother has been quite sick but is now rapidly improving. M. T. Bailey, of Chicago, Ill. President of the Alumal Association of the V. N. and I. I. of Peterburg, Va. passed through the city this week en route to Peterburg to attend the Alumni meeting. While in the East he will visit New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston. You are cordially invited to attend the marriage of Miss Sallie Lee Harris to Mr. Robert Jones. Wednesday, May the twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve at 2:00 P. M. at 2:120 East Main Street, Richmond, Va. Friends are invited. No cards. The couple will leave at 2 P. M. for Blackstone, Va. A Card of Thanks. Please accept our most cordial thanks for the assistance and many tokens of remembrance, rendered during the illness and subsequent death of Mrs. Amanda Thornton, who died at her home in North 7th Street Saturday, May 11th, at 10:25 A. M. May God bless her many friends, one and all. From her mother and sister. MRS. MARGARET MINGLETON. MRS. MARIA STROTHER. Borax Coast at Hotel Date Rev, G. W. Kemp, Mr. Warner Williams, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. J. J. M. Johnson, Javaris B. Griffin, Michael Green, Atty. I. H. Nutter, J. A. Lightfoot, R. H. Brown, R. A. Tuesney, R. B. Carber, C. Clay Lewis, B. Allen, W. H. Puge, Sr. T. S. Boutne, W. C. Henry and W. Klyne, Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Smith, Wild wood, N. J. Min W. B. Presser, Pittsburgh, Pa. 14th Annual Session. 14th Annual Session. General Association at Norfolk. Meeting of the Fourteenth Annual Session of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, held at the Queen Street Baptist Church, Rev. W. W. Williams, pastor, Wednesday morning, May 8 1912. 9 to 9:30—Devotional Services. Dr. E. Payne of Richmond, Va., and Dr. L. D. Bruer of Gordonsville, Va. 9:30 to 11—Address of Welcome. 1. On behalf of the Church, Dr. Young, M. D. 2. On behalf of the City, Mayor Riddick. 3. On behalf of the other denomination, Rev. C. I. Witrow. 4. On behalf of the other church ca. Rey, P. I. Wallace P. D. c. Rev. P. J. Wallace, D. D. Response, by Rev. J. H. Randolph, B. D. Rev. P. F. Morris D. D., and oter remarks were made by Rev. D. N. Vassar, D. D., and Rev. Charles S. Morris, D. D. 11 to 11:30—Enrollment of Delegates. 11:30 to 12—Rev. G. W. Goode D. D., President made his report and his recommendation that the churches take a decided stand against dancing, theatregoing, intemperance and gambling and worldly amusements. 12 to 12:30—Appointment of Committees. 12 to 1—Reports of the Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Statistician, made the following report. That the number of churches in the State 522, total membership 155,484. Churchly Schools 522, total membership 3,721. Pupils 35,852, Circles of the Women's Work 223, Members 3,236. Total amount for Home, Foreign and Education raised by Baptist in the State $17,398.29. Net gain in membership 3,721. Devotional exercises at night. 8 P. M. Prayer, Rev. Collins, hymn by Rev. P. F. Morris. Reading of the scriptures by Rev. Mr. W. B. Brown. The Introductory Sermon by Rev. J. A. Bollis of, Accomac, was a wonderful sermon pointed interests full of the spirit and was an able sermon as has been delivered before the Association for many years. Prayer, by Rev. W. M. Moss, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Address by Pres. R. E. Clay of the B. Y., P. U., pleading for more interest by the pastors in the young men and women of their churches. Pres. G. W. Goode has refused to longer act as president and the election of officers will come up tomorrow, Thursday. The program for Thursday, A Paper. The breadth of Education in our Higher Institutions, by Rev. J. E. Jones, of Richmond, Va., at 10:30. 12:30—A Paper on Prayer, by Rev. R. G. Adams, of Farmville, Virginia. The following well-known divines are attending the meeting as delegates: Rev. Evans Payne, A. Bings, Jr., Z. D. Lewis, W. T. Johnson, Nelson B. Brown, T. J. Mosley, J. J. Carter, W. H. Stokes, R. C. Quarles, A. A. Graham, J. E. Jones, A. P. Perkins, C. H. Johnson, F. W. Williams, J. H. Hughes, G. E. Read, L. O. Lowis, W. M. Mace, P. J. Wallace, G. W. Goode, H. L. Barco, R. O. Johnson, Wm. W. Thomas, G. D. Pinkney, T. C. Campbell, D. N. Vassar, G. S. Redis, J. M. Armistead, P. F. Morris, E. W. Brown, A. D. Daly, Charles S. Morris, Frank Mitchell, A. Jeffries, M. E. Gerst A. Hobbs, A. Trustt, R. G. Adams, A. L. Johnson, C. T. Martin, J. A. Collins, Wm. Cousins, and R. E. Clay, T. C. Walker, Nelson Williams, Jr., B. P. Vandervall and many other delegation numbers between 125 and 150. 8 P. M. -Misalonary Sermon, by Rey. Z. D. Lewis, of Richmond, Virginia. Very interesting papers to be read and discussed during the remainder of the session. The sessions of the General Association are being held in a new church erected in the pastorate of Rev. P. W. Williams, who found a congregation about fifty active members and in a church much out of repairs. The membership has been increased to 800 active members in seven years and the old church put on the rear of the lot and a new office costing $29,000 of which $11,000 has been paid off having a balance of $11,000 the office is equipped with combination gas electric furnaces, hard wood shulds inside, steam heat that heats the new and old church, electric fans and venting vents to carry all impurities. This building would be a credit to any city in Virginia. The new store of the Association have been well attended by the public here and grant interest in shows. The poor set by Rev. C. Collins in his manner tonight, has whisked the appetite of all for the coming of tomorrow night, when Richard great pulplit orator will present Your corre. apendent and Prof. Nelson Williams, Jr., are being taken care of by Mr. and Mrs. Minus of 115 Liberty Street. More than 100 laborers were digging the foundations for the new St. Laurence Hospital building at 485 W. 193d street yesterday, when at the moon hour it became a question of who should start a hole, with his pick for one of the caissons. Most of the laborers weigners had been told they would meet quicksands if they dug deep enough, and none of them volunteered for the caisson job. "I'll do it," said Sam Moyer, a negro, of 477 Morris Avenue, the Bronx. "I'll do it if you give me tomorrow afternoon off with pay." The foreman accepted Meyer's offer, and the muscular black started to dig the hole for the trussion. He had gone down several feet, when at 2:30 the foreman heard a scream. Meyer was sinking. Sand was lifting in upon him. The foreman threw him a rope, and the negro made a noose and placed it under his shoulders. Then he laughed. HAD TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE. "No quickman can break this rope," he said. "Pull me out!" The labors strained at the rope until Meyler screamed from pain. "You're pulling me to plece," he shrieked. Two scaffolding men placed on the rope and screwed them a ladder was fixed. The rope was tied to the ladder to prevent Meyler sinking farther. Then scared workmen ran from the foundation pit and refused to return. Poffice reserves came from the West 152d Street station, but the bluecottas did not know how to rescue the imprisoned man. Men were lowered on ropes, but as fast as they dug sand away from the negro it rolled back. Meyer was holding his head high and stretching his neck to keep his nose and mouth free when men from hook ad ladder Company No. 34, in West Sixty-third street, arrived. The firemen lowered their ladders to the hole, but had to grab them quickly to keep them from being lost. The negro had been in the sand for more than two hours when James L. Quinn, a young fireman, said, "I'll go after him." A rope was placed about Quinn's body and he was lowered. Fireman Max J. Welman and Joseph Ml. lasch took places on the scaffoldings over the hole. For half an hour Quinn at the end of rope dug and dug. He burrowed with both hands. Finally he got hold of Meyer's right ankle. About it he tied a second rope. The noose slipped up to the thigh. The workmen above pulled on that rope and on the one under the negro's arms. Slowly Meyer was pulled from the quicksand. He was landed on the street after he had been in peril three hours. Dr Pensler, of Washington Heights Hospital, took charge of him. Meyer had much difficulty in breathing at first, but finally he got to his feet, looked about him and grinned. "Boos," he said to the foreman, "I couldn't dig that hole, but there ain't no one who could. Do I get tomorrow off!" "You sure do," said the foreman. Meyer hurried home. Except for bruises under his arms, made by the rope, he was unhurt. New Base Ball Park Open The Colored Athletic Base Ball Park of South Richmond is now completed and the ground is in perfect condition. This Park is situated on the corner of 14th and Beverett Sts., only 3 blocks from Hull St. car line. For further information call on or addresm Milton L. Threat, 9 East 19th St., South Richmond Mr. Paul Micklew Passes Away Paul Mickela, formerly of Farmville, Va., departed this life last Wednesday morning. May 1st, at 6:30 o'clock in his home on Sherman Place. He was born in Prince Edward County, Va., during slavery and has lived in this city over thirty years. He was a good Christian man and was loved by all who knew him. His life will be a witness for Christ. FOR RENT—A few small houses, of three stories each. Charge rent. Apply to B. A. CHIPPED, 693 N. Second Street. A Grand Showing. NORFOLK HONORS GRAND CHANCELLOR. Brilliant Display in the City-Fine Address Delivered-Large Crowd Greet Him-Uniform Rank Makes Fine Showing. Norfolk, Va. May 14. 1912. With band playing, led by Col. Archer Drew, and commanded by Major L. N. Colthrop and Major Wm. H. Tyler, with a corp of staff officers, the First and Second Batalions of the Second Regiment, Uni-form Rank, Knights of Pythias N. A., S. A., E., A. and A. did honor to John, Mitchell, Jr., Brigadier General and Grand Chancellor of that great organization. He in company with District Deputy Grand Chancellor W. R. Henry was escorted to the First Baptist Church on Butte street where a large appreciative crowd had assembled to listen to an address by the distinguished, Virginian. ORDER'S DIGNATARIES WEL COME. The program had been admirably arranged and the dignitaries of the Order in this section were everywhere in evidence. Even Mrs. Fannie Ash, D. D. G. W. C. of Portsmouth was present and Mrs. Fannie Cooke, District Deputy Grand Worthy Counselor of Norfolk occupied a prominent place. The meeting had been originated by Mrs. Emma Cherry and Mrs. E. V. Kelley. The Grand Chancellor was the guest of District Deputy Henry and it was at his residence that theUniform Rank assembled. At the supper last evening were Col. Archer Drew, Major Lee N. Colbrop, Major, Wm. H. Tyler, Sir Wm. H. Thorogood, Sir George Williams, Sir M. Isbell, Sir B. J. Macklin, Dr. F. G. Elliott THE PLACE OF MEETING District Deputy Walter R. Henry was presiding genius. The palatial First Baptist Church with its myriad of electric lights showed to fine advantage. The able pastor, Dr. R. H. Bowling was not present, being out of the city, but this did not in any manner detract from the servor of the entertainment. The rostrum presented a picturesque scene as Grand Chancellor Mitchell sat there surrounded by his corp of officers, out of whom wore the showy and costly gold embroidered uniform of the Knights of Pythias. District Deputy W. R. Henry was Master of Ceremonies, and the exercises were begun by the singing of "America." The choir of this magnificent church was at its best. Prayer was offered by Rev. F. W. Williams, the brilliant pastor of the Queen Street Baptist Church. Sir Knight B. J. Macklin delivered the address of welcome in a most benefitting manner. A FINE PROGRAM Sir Melvin Digex delivered an admirable address on "Pythianism." Mrs. E. V. Kelley's address on "Woman," elicited much applause and her earnestness and defense of woman, even in the Garden of Eden awakened much enthusiasm and elicited much applause. A fine remound of a duet by Messy. C. W. and D. Johnson was a feature and the solo by Mrs. Milfred Land was fully appreciated. Mrr. John Mitchell Jr. Grand Chancellor. Grand Worthy Counsellor and President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Richmond, Va., delivered an address, entitled, "The Hand-writing on the Wall." For some time as he cited from the Scriptures from memory, and described that fateful feast, he impressed some as deliver-ing a sermon. Hja practical application of it though to both the Order and every department of life was forceful and impressive. SOME WORDS ABOUT FINANCE He explained the principles of finance and exhorted his hearers to save their earnings, or at least a part of it. He was of the opinion that colored people ate and slept too much. At times he was interrupted by applause. His remarks were listened to with rapt attention and at no time was there any disposition of any of the audience to leave. He cited facts from the work done by the Pythian Calanthe Industrial Association of Virginia. This is the property-holding department of the Order. He showed that the total amount collected in that department had been $35,041.21 and the amount expended, $32,486.22, leaving a balance of $8,555.00. A 6 per cent. dividend has been recently depleted and $1,147.38 paid on this count. He said that there were 11 lodges and 7 courts in the city of Norfolk. He had as representative of the Endowment Department paid to the female department, during the past year and up to the present $900.00 in death-claims and to the Knights, he had paid $2,000.00 in death claims, making a total of $2,900.00. A FINE BANQUET TOO. Mr. Mitchell brought with him figures showing what each lodge and court had paid to the Grand Lodge and he gave much interesting and valuable information to those who were fortunate enough to hear him. At the conclusion of his remarks, a collection was lifted and all required to the hall on Church street where a banquet had been spread in honor of the guest of the evening. The place was filled to its utmost capacity and Mr. Mitchell expressed himself as being delighted with the welcome extended to him here. He left this morning for Richmond. FELL TO HIS DEATH A shocking tragedy took place Monday, May 13th. in front of 518 N. Third Street, when Augustus Davis, a hostler and conchman plunged head-forcemost from a tree to his death. Mr. Davis conceived the idea that he wanted to prune the tree in front of his house and remove a large limb which extended over his premises. He secured a ladder and got up in the tree and with a saw he began the work of weakening the limb. His actions were noted and members of his family endeavored to dissuade him from his dangerous and risky undertaking, but he would not need them. FRIGHTFUL INJURIES The Himb was rotten and under his weight, suddenly snapped where least expected and he lost his balance and fell to the brick pavement below. The sight was sticking a moment afterwards. His skull was crushed and his arm broken at the wrist. He dled almost instantly. He was carried into the house. The coroner viewed the remains and deemed an inquest unnecessary. For some time, he has been working at night at the stable. During the day, he did odd jobs about the house and this was one of them. He was husband of Mrs. Nannie B. Davis, father of Mr. Walter Thomas Davis, paying teller at the Mechanics Savings Bank and also of Miss Eva G. Davis, chief clerk at the Planet office. THOSE LEFT BEHIND He leaves a wife, two daughters, and four sons to mourn their loss. His remains were interred last Thursday. He was well-known and had labored for some of the most influential and wealth white families influential and wealthy white families in the city. Mr. Royal Davis arrived Wednesday night from Columbus, O... to attend the funeral. EXPRESSION OF THANES We take this method of thanking our many friends, the neighbors, the Y. M. C. A. and the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., for the attention shown during our re- cent illness. Gratefully yours. ISAAC CRUMP. 603 W. Leigh Street. HAIR TREATMENT. Our remedies are guaranteed and we will refund your money in case our treatment fail to improve the growth and quality of your hair. Send stamp for particulars. KEYSTONE HAIR REMEDY CO. Coatesville, Pa. Passed Away. Mrs. Sarah Banks Bell, daughter of Addis and Joshua Banks, de- parted this life April 20, 1912, in Merchantaville, N. J. The funeral took place from Fountain Baptist Church. The sermon was conducted by the Rev. J. Andrew Bowler, to whose church she was a member, assisted by the Rev. Brans Payne and Rev. Lake. Rev. Bowler delivered a most pathetic discourse, telling of her Christian life from childhood. She is survived by mother, father, husband, two children, three brothers and five sisters. GRAND RECEPTION A grand and magnificent reception was given by the Baptist Temple, No. 159 W. 162nd Street, New York City, in honor of their beloved pastor, Dr. M. B. Hucless, who has just compiled his first year's work with great success. The church was filled not only with the faithful members, but busy pastors in large numbers of the various denominations. Lawyers, doctors and professional men were handsomely gowned beautiful women were present to add dignity and honor to this most praiseworthy occasion. Dr. S. W. Timms, President of the New York State Convention provided as Master of Ceremonies with his usual grace and ease. The choir rendered sweet music. The pastor's annual report showed marked progress along all lines, but especially in property getting. The present location of the church being one of the most popular in New York City. His report was concurred in by a representative of every department of the church in neat little speeches, which showed that unity and love existed. The ministers and visiting friends spoke in the highest terms of the churchers' success. Amid all of this however, the climax was not reached until six handsomely attired heles, white winged angels of joy and good will like a queenly bridal partly quietly corroded the alate up to the altar. In appropriate language, they presented the pastor with a heavily ladened purse accompanied with beautiful flowers, which were gladly received. God be with you tell we meet again, was sung as a conclusion and all retired to the specious dining hall below, where decorated tables ladened with all the defiances of the season to satisfy their hunger. Dr. Huccle leaves this week for his old home, Richmond, Va., to visit relatives and friends, also his former charrers at Suffolk and Hobson. He will be gone about two weeks, returning the first of June. A CARD OF THANKS Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Barks take this medium to extend thanks to their neighbors and friends for their Kindness at the time of the death of their daughter 2 To the Citizens of Richmond Prof. J. J. Smallwood and the un designated committee cordially invite you to attend the dedicatory exercises of Lincoln Hall at the Temperance, Collegiate and Industrial Institute at Claremont, Va., May 19th and 20th, 1912. The palatial Pocahontas has been chartered to carry those who wish to make this most notable educational effort a success. Don't miss this splendid opportunity to see the beautiful James to visit the very spot where the Negro history in America was recited as well as to witness the dedication of a building to one who abolished the institution of slavery. Boat leaves Sunday May 19th, at 7 A. M. Returning will arrive at 8 P. M. Boat leaves Monday, May 20th, at 7:30 A. M. Returning at 8 P. M. Meals served on the boat at minimum prices. The company promises cars in time to reach the boat. The following program will be rendered: Rev. Chas. S. Morris, Norfolk, Va., will presch the Bucalaureate at 11 A. M. Rev. Prod M. Estes, of Boston, Mass., presch the dedicatorial sermon at 2:30 Monday, May 20th, His Encoulery, Gov. Wm. Hodges Mann, of Virginia will speak and introduce His Excellency, Gov. Chas. S. Demon, of Springfield, Ill. Gov. Mann will be introduced by Hon. W. Stanley Burt, attorney and member of Virginia Legislature. Tickets on sale at the St. Luke's and Mechanic's Savings Bank. Fare for the round trip, 75 cents. Protection and order guaranteed. Committee—A. D. Price, chairman, W. D. Jones, J. R. Poulard, Dr. P. B. Ramsey, R. H. Thurston, W. H. Walton, Dr. Walter Brown, Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Wm. H. Jones, Prof. C. T. Russell, Dr. J. O. Dawson, Dr. E. R. Jefferson, T. H. Wyatt, E. C. Burke, D. J. Parrar, Prof. J. J. Smallwood, Dr. Wm. H. Hughes, Wm. H. Miller and J. E. Harris. WANTED—I have a great demand for renting property. If you have any vacant property, or any that you expect to be vacant, communicate with me at once. B. A. C. PHAS, 402 N. Second Street FOR RENT—A few modern flats of three and four rooms. These properties are in first class condition, and are located in a most desirable neighborhood. Apply to R. A. CEPHAR, 602 N. George St. P SYNOPSIS John Cowles of Virginia kisses his neighbor, Mia Grace Rheaton, and meets Gordon Orma, a mysterious Englishman. Cowles whips a man for affronting Grace. Grace challenges him to a wrestling bout. A contest follows, resulting in a draw. The south is threatening to seize Cowles, save Grace from an infuriated host and becomes engaged to her. Cowles' father, who is involved in a big land deal, is robbed and murdered. Cowles starts west to see Colonel Meriwether, his father's partner in the deal. In St. Louis he again meets Orma, and they are matched in a pigeon shoot. At St. Louis, ball Cowles meets a masked girl named Kendra Cowles, forgetting Grace, tells Ellen that some day he will in her heart. He does not know her full name. The pigeon match begins. Discovering the brutal sport, Ellen Meriwether stops the pigeon shooting match. She is Colonel Meriwether's daughter. She is stormed to a wrecked her. Resembles Mandy McDowiver and a girl. Cowles and Aberbury, a plainsman, move to the warpath. Cowles is overrun by Orma, Mandy, the girl and soldiers. The girl is Ellen Mertwether. Cowies fall in love with her. Orme teacher-ably aboats a Sioux chief. The Sioux make an attack. An arrow penetrates Cowies' neck. Orme, with Cowies' consent, cuts out the arrowhead, eaving Cowies' life. Orme, when Cowies has learned to dislike, displays wonderful power as a magician. Ellen sees Cowies' company. She distracts and avoids Orme, who tells Cowies he prepares to marry her. The man becomes open enemies. Cowies and Ellen become separated from their party and are lost. Indiana near by alarm them. Ellen becomes ill. Ellen murts film and aboats a buffalo for food. Cowies slowly gains strength, and his love for Ellen grows. Day and night they are together. He tells her of his love, but she holds him at a distance. He is a marriage contract but not to be consummated. He takes her name one lefthandedly. He pleads forgiveness. He praises her father, with Cowies. for the first time of his arrest, bids him leave her and Merkweather says she is suspect Beanah. Cowies CHAPTER XVIII. The Yoke. WEN we started to the south on the following morning I rode far at the rear under journey toward Laramee save that afte a day or two we aweing out from the foothills into a short grass country and so finally struck the steep up- ward sweep of a railway along which lay the great transcontinental trail. I do not know whether we traveled two days or three or four, since all the days seemed night to me and all the nights were uniform in torture. Finally we drove down into a dusty plain and so came to the old frontier fort. Here, then, was civilization—the stagedoche, the new telegraph wire, men and women, weekly or daily touch with the world, that prying curiosity regarding the affairs of others which we call news. To me it seemed tardy, sord worthless, after that which I had left. The noise seemed insupportable, the food distasteful. I could tolerate no roof and in my own ragged robes stept on the ground within the old stockade. I was still guarded as a prisoner. I was approached by none and had conversation with none until evening of the day after my arrival. When I ate it was at no gentleman's table, but in the barracks. I resented judgment, sentence and punishment, thus executed in one. Evening gun had sounded, and the dag had been furled on my second day at Laramie, when finally Colonel diertherwere sent for me to come to his office quarters. I looked at him a time silently, hating not him personally as much as I hated all the world. But presently I asked him, "Have you no word for me from her?" "Miss Moriwether has no word for you," he answered merely, "nor ear will have. You are no longer necessary in her piano." "Ah, then," said I, "you have changed your own mind mightily." He put his life together in his grim situation. "You," said he, "I have changed my mind anxiously. I have just come from a very trying interruption. It is not necessary for me to THE WAY OF A MAN Copyright, 1987 by the Guild Publishing Company explain to you the full nature of it”— “Then she has sent for me?” "She will never send for you, I have said." "But listen. At least I have brought her back to you safe and sound. Setting aside all my own acts in other matters, why can you not remember at least so much as that? Yet you treat me like a dog. I tell you I shall not leave without word from her, and when I leave I shall make no promises as to when I shall or shall not come back. So long as one chance remains." "I tell you that there is no longer any chance, no longer the ghost of a chance. It is my duty to inform you, air that, the proper suffer long ago applied for my daughter's hand, that he has renewed his suit and that now she has accepted him." For a time I sat staring stupidly at him. "You need speak but the truth with me," I said at last. "Colonel Meilwether, I have never given bonds to be gentle when aloof." "I am telling you the truth," he said. "My daughter, Miss Meriwether, is engaged to Lieutenant Lawrence Belknap of the Ninth dragons! You feel your honor too deeply touched? Perhaps at a later time Lieutenant Belknap will do himself the disgrace of accommodating you." "If I killed him," said I finally, "how would it better her case? Moreover, before I could take any more risk I must go back to Virginia. My mother needs me there most sadly." "Yes, and Miss Grace Sheraton needs you there sadly as well!" he retorted. "Go back, then, and mend your promises and do some of those duties which you now begin to remember. You have proved yourself a man of no honor. I assignate you now as a coward." "You speak freely to your prisoner, Colonel Meriwether." I said slowly at length. "There is time yet for many risks—chan as for many things. But now I think you owe it to me to tell me how this matter was arranged." "And she asked? Ellen Mertwether accepted him on such terms?" "It is arranged," said he, not answering me directly, "and it removes at once all necessity for any other arrangement." As for you, you disappear. It will be announced all through the army that she and Lieutenant Beklamp were married at Leavenworth before they started west and that it was they two and not you and my daughter who were lost." "And Beklamp was content to do this?" I mused. "He would do this after Ellen told him that she loved me." "Stop!" thundered Colonel Mertwether. "I have told you all that is necessary. I will add that he said to me like the gentleman he is, that in case my daughter asked he he would marry her and leave her at once, until she but her own free will will ask him to return. There is abundant opportunity for swift changes in the army. What seems to you absurd will work out in perfectly practical fashion." "Yes," said I. "in fashion perfectly practical for the ruin of her life. You may leave mine out of the question." "I do, sir," was his reply. "She told you to your face, and in my hearing, that you had deceived her, that you must go." "Yes," said dully, "I did deceive her, and there is no punishment on earth great enough to give me for that—except to have no word from her!" "You are to go at once. I put it beyond you to understand Belknap's conduct in this matter." "He is a gentleman," I said, "and fit to love her. I think none of us needs praise or blame for that." He choked up. "She's my girl," he said. "Yes, all my boys in the army love her—there isn't one of them that wouldn't be proud to marry her on any terms she would lay down. And there isn't a man in the army, married or single, that wouldn't challenge you if you breathed a word of what has gone between you and her." It seemed to me so unappreciated, sad, so incredible, that one should be so unbelievably underestimated. "Now, finally," returned Colonial Merri- wether, after a time, ceasing his walking up and down, "I must close up what remains between you and me. My daughter said to me that you want to see me on some business matter. Of course you had some reason for coming out here. "That was my only reason for com- ing." I rejoined. "I wanted to see you upon an important business matter. I was sent here by the last message my father (a) a son—by the last word he spoke in his life. He told me I should come to you." Well, well, if you have any favor to ask of me self with it, and he and it all as it one sitting. "We!" I asked. "I must see you damned forever before I would ask a crest or a cup of water of you, though I were starving and burning. I have heard enough." "Orderly!" he called out. "Show this man to the gate." It was at last horn in upon me that I must leave without any word from Ellen. She was bedeged by all the stern and cold machinery of an army post, out of whose calculations I was left as much as though I belonged to a different world. I cannot express what this meant for me. For weeks now, for months, indeed, we two had been together each hour of the day I had come to expect her greeting in the morning, to turn to her a thousand times in the day with some query or answer. I had made no plan from which she was absent. I had come to accept myself with her as fit part of an appointed and happy scheme. Now, in twinkling, all that had been subverted. It was thus that I, dulled, bereft; I having lived, now dead; I, late free, now bound again, turned away sullenly and began my journey back to the life I had known before I met her. As I passed east by the Denver stage I not hurryring throughs always coming westward, a wavelike migration of population now even denser than it had been the preceding spring. They came on, a vast, continuous stream of hope, confidence and youth. I, who stumped that current, alone was unlike it in all ways. One thing only quickened my tag gard heart, and that was the all prevalent talk of war. At last, after weeks of travel across a disturbed country, I finally reached the angry bive of political dissension at Washington. Here I was near home, but did not tarry, and passed theme by stage to Los Angeles, Virginia, and so finally came back into our little vey and the quiet town of Wallingford. I had gone away the victim of morfune tune; I returned home with a broken word and an unimbed promise and a shaken heart. That was my return. Finally there came a shuffling football and the door was opened, but they stood before me no one that I recognized. It was a smallish, oldish, grayish man who opened the door and smiled in query at me. "I am John Cowles, sir," I said, hesitating. "Yourself I do not seem to know—" "My name is Haddiday, Mr. Cowles," he replied. A flush of humiliation came to my face. "I should know you. You were my father's creditor." "Yes, sir, my firm was the holder of certain obligations at the time of your father's death. You have been gone very long without word to us. Meantime, pledging my action—" "You have moved in." "I have ventured to take possession Mr. Cowles. That was as your mother wished. She waived all her rights and aurrendered everything, said all the data must be paid"— "Of course"— "And all we could wallow upon her to do was to take up her quarters there in one of the little houses." He pointed with this euphemism toward our old servants' quarters. So there was my mother, a woman gently reared, tenderly cared for all her life living in a cabin where once sliver had lived. And I had come back to her, to tell a story as mine: "I hope," said he, hesitating, "that all these matters may presently be adjusted. But first I ask you to influence your mother to come back into the place and take up her residence." I smiled slowly. "You hardly understand her." I said. "I doubt if my influence will suffice for that. But I shall meet you again." I was turning away. "Your mother, I believe, is not here, she went over to Wallingford. I think it is the day when she goes to the little church"— "Yes. I know. If you will excuse me I shall ride over to see if I can find her." He bowed. I was hurrying down the road again. It seemed to me that I could never tolerate the sight of a stranger as master at Cowies Farm. I found her at the churchyard of the old meeting house. She was just turning toward the gate in the low sand stone wall which surrounded the burying ground and separated it from the space immediately about the little stone church. I knew what it was that she looked upon as she turned back toward that spot—it was one more low mound, simple, unpretentious, added to the many which had been placed there this last century and a half; one more little gray sandstone headmark cut simply with the name and dates of him who rested there, last in a long roll of our others. The slight figure in the dove colored gown looked back liltingly. It gave a new ache to my heart to be her there. She did not notice me as I slipped down from my saddle and fastened my horse at the long rack. But when I called she turned and came to me with arms. "Jack!" she cried. "My son, how I have missed thee! Now thou has come back to thy mother." She put her forehead on my shoulder, but presently took up a mother's scrappy. Her hand stroked my hair, my moustache heard, took in each line of my face. "This has a bait from thy root, she said reportedly. "And what is this near on thy seat; thou did not tell me when thou wrote, Jack, what else thee?" She begged at me closely "Thee is changed. Thee is older What has come to them, my son?" "Come," I said to her at length and her toward the steps of the little church. Then I broke got bitterly and railed against our ill fortune and cursed at the man who Would allow her to live in servants' quarters—indeed, rallied at all of life. "Thee must learn to subdue myself, my son," she said. "It is only so that strength comes to us, when we bend the back to the furrow God sets for us. I am quite content in my little rooms. I have made them very clean, and I have with a me a few things of my own—a few, not many." "But your neighbor, mother, the Sheraton"— "Oh, certainly, they asked me to live with them. But I was not moved to do that. You see. I know each rose bush and apple tree on our old place. I did not like to leave them. "Besides, as to the Sheraton, Jack," she began again—"I do not wish to say Pallor "Thees is old. What has come to thee, 'my son?" one word to hurt thy feelings, but Miss Grace" "What about Miss Grace?" "Mr Omee the gentleman who once stopped with us a few days?" "Oh, Omee, he here again? He was all through the west with me. I met him everywhere there. Now I meet him here." "He returned last summer and for most of his life has been living at the Sheraton." He and Colonel Sheraton agree very well. And he and Miss Grace "I do not like to say, these things to thee, my son, but they also seem to agree." "Go on." I demanded bitterly. "Whether Miss Grace's fancy has changed I do not know, but thy mother ought to tell thee this, so that if she should fill thee why, then" "Yes." I said slowly. "It would be hard for me to speak the first word to a release." "But if she does not love the nurse, she will break that word. So then she goodbye to her and set about the hurtness." We rose and walked down to the street of the little town, and at the tavern bar I secured a congratulation which took us both back to what had once been our home. It was my moth's hands which at a blackened old fireplace in a former slave's cabin prepared what we ate that evening. Then as the sun sank in a warm glow before the old Blue Ridge and our little valley lay there warm and peaceful as of old I drew her to the rude porch of the whitewashed cabin, and we looked out and talked of things which must be mentioned. I told her-told her all my sad and bitter story from end to end. "This, then," I concluded, more than an hour after I had begun, "is what I have brought back to you—failure, failure, nothing but failure." We sat in silence, looking out into the starry night, how long I do not know. Then I heard her pray, openly as was not the custom of her people "Lord, this is not my will. Is this Thy will?" After a time she put her hand upon mine. "My son, now let us reason what is the law. From the law no man may escape. Let us see who is the criminal. And if that be there then let my son have his punishment." But one thing I know, she concluded, "thee is John Cowles, the son of my husband. John; and thee at the last will do what is right, what thy heart says to thee is right." CHAPTER XIX. THE next morning at the proper hour I started for the liberation mansion. This time it was not my old horse Satan that I rode. My mother told me that Satan had been given over under the blanket chattel mortgage and sold at the town livery stable to some purchaser whom she did not know, who had taken the horse out of the country. I rode the little pitch from the trough road and pulled the gate latch with my riding crop. And then, as though it were by appointment, precisely as I saw her that morning last spring—a hundred years ago it seemed to me—I saw Grace Sheraton coming down the walk toward me, tall, thin. Alas! she did not fill my aya. She was elegantly clad as usual. I had lied deeper down of stairs. Her dignity beckoned on the gravel. A specimen would not. I throw my rain over the book at the low arm of the stone g妒 pillar, and, hat in hand, I want to meet her. I was an old man now. I was done with wiping and lighting, and the blinding of country girls all across the island. I did not present Greece Shannon against the stone g妒 pillar now, and then her against her will wait she be caught willing. All I did was to lift her She was changed. I felt that rather than now it. If anything, she was thinner, her face had a ginger olive that, her eyes more dense, her presence was gay, fervorish, yet not natural, as she appeared. What was it that sat upon her face—mimidactly, or fear, or sorrow, or recruitment? I was never very bright of mind. I do not know. "I am glad to see you," she mild at length, awkward. "And I to see you, of course." I misdoubt we both lied. "It is very end, your home coming thus," she added, at which clew I caught gladly. "Tee, matters could hardly be worse for us." "Your mother would not come to us. We asked her. We feel deeply mortal Sed. But now we hope you both will come." "We are beggars now, Miss Grace." I said. "I need time to look around to hit upon some plan of life. I must make another home for myself and for'- "For me?" She faced me squirrels) now, eye to eye. A smile was on her lips, and it seemed to me a bitter one but I could not guess what was hid den in her mind: I saw her cheek flush that was usual with a Sheraton girl. "For my wife, as soon as that may be," I answered, as red as she. "I learn that you did not see Colonel Merwether," she went on politely. "How did you know it?" "Through Captain Orme." "Yes," said I quietly. "I have heard of Captain Orme—much of him, very much." Still I could not read her face. "He was with us a long time this summer," she seemed presently "Some two weeks ago he left, for Charleston, I think. He has much business about the country." "Much business," I assented, "in many parts of the country. But most of all with men of the army. So Captain Orme—since we must call him captain and not minister—was so good us to inform you of my private matters." "Yes." Again she looked at me squarely, with defiance. "I know all about it, but I all about that girl." So there it was. But I kept myself under whip hand still. "I am very glad. It will save me telling you of myself. It is not always that one has the good fortune of such early mission gers." "Go on," she said bitterly; "tell me about her." "I have no praises to sound for her. I do not wish to speak of this if you prefer to hear it from others than my self." She only smiled enigmatically, her mouth crooking in some confidence she held with "herself," but not with me. "It was natural," she said at last slowly. "Doubtless I would have done as she did. Doubless any other man would have done precisely as you did. That is the way with men. After all, I suppose the world is the world and that we are as we are. The girl who is closest to a man has the best chance with him. Opportunity is much—very much. Secrecy is everything. "Why should you not both have done so?" she resumed bitterly. "We are all human." "Why should we not have done what—what is it that you mean?" I demanded of her. "Why, there was she engaged to Mr. Belkam, as I am told, and there were you engaged to a certain young lady by the name of Grace Sheraton very far away. And you were conveniently lost—very conveniently—and you found each other's society agreeable. You kept away for some weeks or months, both of you forgetting. It was idyllic—ideal. You were not precisely babes in the woods. You were a man and a woman. I presume you enjoyed yourselves after a very possible little fashion. I do not blame you. I say I might have done the same. I should like to know it for a time myself—freedom. I do not blame you, only." she said slowly. "In society we do not have freedom. Here it is different. I suppose different laws apply, different custom." "Miss Grace," said I, "I do not in the least understand you. You are not the same girl I left." "No, I am not. But that is not my fault. Cannot a woman be-free as much as a man? Have I not right as much as you? Have you not been free?" "One thing only I want to say," I rejoined, "and it is this, which I ought not to say at all. If you mean anything regarding Ellen Meriwether, I have to tell you, or any one, that she is clean-mind, body, soul, heart—as clean as when I saw her first brother." "Do you know, I like you for saying that! she retorted, "I would never marry a man who knew nothing of other women—I don't want a milksoap; and I would not marry a man who would not lie for the sake of a sweetheart. You lie beautifully! Do you know, Jack, I believe you are a bit of a gentleman, after all" "But tell me, when is the wedding to be? This last with obvious effort." "You have not advised me." "Oh, I beg your pardon. I meant your marriage with Ellen Meriwether I supposed, of course, you had quite forgotten me." "Ellen Mortwether is already hair- ried." I said to her, with a calmness which surprised myself. But what surprised me most was the change which came upon her face at the words—the finish—the gleam of triumph, of satisfaction. I guessed this much and no more—that she had had certain plane, and that now she had other plane, changed with lightning swiftness, and by reason of my words. "Lieutenant Lawrence Balknap and Mim Mortwether were married I presume, some time after I started for the end," I w went on. "But they were never engaged before our return to the settlements. It was all very gradually arranged." "How little a story brook! he be forget her little incarnation with you all summer—by side-day and night! How romantic! I don't know, that could have done so much, that I bore a man, and myself not guilty of the same incidents. At least, he kept his promise." "There had never been any promise at all between them." "Then Captain Crime was quite min taken." "Captain Orme does not trouble him, always to be accurate." "At least, then, you are unmarried Jack?" "Yes, and likely to be for some years." Now her face changed once more. Whether by plan of her own or not I cannot say, but it softened to a more gentle—shall I say a more breeching look? Was it that I apologized at her side, that old associations awakened? Or was it because she was keen, shrewd and in control of herself, able to make plans to her own advantage? I cannot tell as to that. But I now her face soften, and her voice was gentle when she spoke. "What do you mean, Jack?" she asked. If there was not love and care in her tones then I could not detect the counterfeit. I reiterate, if I should live a thousand years I should know nothing of women, nothing. We men are but toys with them. Had it been left to my judgment to pronounce I should have called her emotion now a genuine one. Mocking cynical, contemptuous she might have been, and it would have suited my own mood. But what was it now on the face of Grace Sheraton, girl of a proud family, woman I once had kissed here at this very place until she blushed-kissed until she warmed, until she— But now I know she changed once again, and I know that this time I read her look right. It was pathos on her face, and terror. Her eye was that of the stricken antelope in dread of the puruer. "Jack," she whispered, "don't leave me. Jack, I shall need you." Before I could resolve any questions in my mind I heard behind us the sound of approaching hoofs and there rode up to the gate her brother, Harry Sheraton, who dismounted and hitched his horse near none, saluting me as he pushed open the great gate. It was the first time I had seen him since my return. "Am I intrudling?" he asked. "I'm awfully glad to see you. Cowles. I heard below you were home. You've had a long journey." "Yes." I answered. "longer than I had planned by many weeks. And now I am glad to be back once more. No," in answer to his turning toward his horse as though he would leave us. "You are looking well. Harry. Indeed everything in old Virginia is good to see again." "Wish I could be as polite with you. Have you been sick? And, I say, you did meet the savages, didn't you?" I knew he meant the scar on the side of my neck, which still was rather evident, but I did not care to repeat the old story again. "Yes," I answered a bit shortly, "rather a near thing of it. I presume Captain Orme told you? I turned to Miss Grace, who then admitted that she had heard something of the surgery which had thus left its mark. Harry seemed puzzled, so I saw it was news to him. Miss Grace relieved the situation somewhat by turning toward the house. "I am sure you will want to talk with Jack," she said to him. "And listen, Harry; you must have him and Mra. Cowles over here this very evening. We cannot think of her living alone at the old place." I was still an engaged man. Evidently nothing otherwise had been discussed in the Sheraton family councils, if any such had been held. If never author in Old Virginia rode up in sorrier case than mine that morning as I came to call upon my fiance certainly did never one depart in more uncertain frame of mind than mine at this very moment. I presume that young Sheraton felt something of this, for he began awkwardly to speak of matters related thereto. "It's awfully hard," he began, "to see strangers there in your own house. I know it must be hard. But I say, your father must have plunged heavily on those lands over, west in the mountains. I've heard they're very rich in coal and that all that was necessary was simply cash or credit enough to tide the deal over till next year's crops." "My father always said there was a great fortune in the lands," I replied. "Yes, I think another year would have seen him through, but that year was not to come for him." "But couldn't funds be raised somehow, even yet?" I shook my head. "Well, I'm not so sure," he went on, embarrassed. "My father and I have been talking over these matters, and we concluded to ask you if we might not take a hand in this. At least, we have agreed all along that—in this case you know—you and my sister—we have planned definitely that you should live in your old place. We're going to take that over. The redemption time has plenty of margin, and we can't allow those people to come in here and steel one of the old Virginia places in that way. We are going to arrange to hold that for you and my sister, and we thought that perhaps in time something could be worked out of the rent of the property in the same way. That is, unless Colonel Meriwether, your father's partner, shall offer some better solution. I suppose you talked it over with him?" "I did not talk with him about it at all," said I duly. For many reasons I did not care to repeat all of my story to him. "None the leem, it seems very generous of you and your father to take this interest in me. It would be very charismatic of me if I did not appreciate it. But I treat nothing has been done as yet"—"You treat not? Why, Cowies, you speak as though you did not want us to do it." "I do not," said I. "Oh, then." "I know our family will speak." "That's true. But you won't be of found if I suggest to you that they two slide to thin, and two guide All the country known of your argument, and now that you have rewritten it will be expected that my do- he will get the day before long. Of course, we should never bother to bring him for dinner. He'll. Covin, you know, will be there. "I must come," and I will be slowly. "That means that your elder should alter to her friend this explanation that the change in my furniture no longer leaves desirable. This alliance with my family?" "Do you support that?" "I have not done on." "Has she suggested it?" "We have not talked of it, yet it might be hard for your sister, to share a lot on humble and so uncertain." "That I presume will be for her to durden," he said slowly. "By Jove!" he broke out at length. Sucking as he turned to me, "It is hard for a fellow to tell sometimes what's right, isn't it? Jack, you remember Jenniss Williams, across under Catecina?" "I thought you were going to make a match of it some time." I said. "Prettiest girl in the valley," he annotated, "but her family is hardly what we would call the best, you know." "Then why did you go there so often all last year?" I asked him. "Jack," he said. "It's all through. I want to ask you. I ought to marry Jennie Williams, but"—Now I looked at him full and hard and guessed. Perhaps my face was grave. I was beginning to wonder whether there was one clean thing in all the world. "Oh, she can marry," went on Harry. "No difficulty about that. She has another bean who loves her to distraction and who doesn't in the least suspect—a decent sort of a fellow, a young farmer of her own class." "Aid in your belief that wedding should go on?" He shifted uneasily. "When is this wedding to be?" I asked. "Oh, naturally, very soon." he answered. "I am doing as handsome a thing as I know how by her. Sometimes it's mighty hard to do the handsome thing, even mighty hard to know what is the handsome thing itself." "Yes," said I. But who was I that I should judge him? "If you were just where I am." asked Harry Sheraton slowly, "what would you do? I'd like to do what is right, you know." "Oh, no, you don't. Harry," I broke out. "You want to do what is easiest. If you wanted to do what is right you'd never ask me nor any one else. Don't ask me, because I don't know. Suppose you were in the case of that other young man who loves her? Suppose he did not know, or suppose he did know. What, would be right for him?" "Heavy end of the log for him," admitted he grimly. "That's true, sure as you be born." "When one does not love a girl and sees no happiness in the thought of living with her all his life, what squares that, Harry, in your opinion?" "I've just asked you," he rejoined. "Why do you ask me? You say one ought to know what is right in his own case without any such asking, and I say that isn't always true. Oh, dash it all, anyway. Why are we made the way we are?" "If only the girl in each case would be content by having the handsome thing done by her" said I bitterly. CHAPTER XX. The Uncovering of Gordon Orms. It is not necessary for me to state that dinner in the Sheraton hall, with its dull malangy and its shining silver and glass, was harbored better than a nightmare to me, who should have been most happy. At least there remained the topics of politics and war; and never was I more glad to plunge into such matters than upon that evening. In some way the dinner hour missed. Miss Grace pleaded a headache and left us, my mother asked leave, and presently our hostess M. I Saw Him Plainly. It Was Gordon Ormel and boot departed. Harry and I remained to star at each other moody. I admit I was gidded when finally he announced his intention of retiring. A servant showed me my own room. My restlessness grew upon me so that, some time past midnight, not having made an attempt to prepare for sleep, I arose, went quietly down the stair, and out at the front door, to see if I could find more peace in the open air. By this time every one of the house held retired. I was surprised, therefore, when I saw a niftle strunk of light from one of the windows flush out across the lawn. Not wishing to intrude, I changed my position. As most at that moment I saw the new of a man appear from the chapelyard and walk directly across the house, apparently handed for the window from which escaped the light. I wrestled him in bedside, and when I saw him this night the family burst into the room and up to his personal gallery. I felt confirmed in my conviction that he was a burrow. Approaching still ```markdown ``` fully in the shadow, I made a rapid run at him, and as his head was turned at the time, managed to catch him about the neck by an arm. His face, thus thrown back, was illuminated by the dare of light. I saw him plainly. It was Gordon Orme! The light disappeared. There was no cry from above. The great boose, lying dark and silent, beard no alarm. I did not stop to reason about this, but tightened my grip upon him in so fell a fashion that all his arts in wrestling could avail him nothing. I had caught him from behind, and now I held him with a hand on each of his arms above the elbow. No man could escape me when I had that hold. He did not speak, but struggled elently with all his power. At length he relaxed a trifle. I stood close to him, slipped my left arm under his left along his back, and caught his right arm in my left hand. Then I took from his pocket a pistol which I put into my own. I felt in his clothing and finally discovered a knife, hidden in a scabbard at the back of his neck. I drew it out—a long bladed, ivory thing I found it later, with gold let into the hilt and woven into the steel. He caused himself in my grip as much as he could, waiting, as I knew, for his chance to twist and grapple with me. I could feel him breathing deeply and easily, resting, waiting for his time, using his brains to aid his body with perfect deliberation. "It's no use, Orme," I said to him. "I can wring, your neck or break your back or twist your arms off, and I've a notion to do them all. If you make any attempt to get away I'm going to kill you. Now come along." I showed him ahead of me, his arms pinioned, until we found a seat far away in a dark portion of the great front yard. Here I pushed him down and took the other end of the seat, covering him with his own pistol. "Now," I demanded, "tell me what you are doing here." "You have your privilege at guessing," he answered in his easy, mocking way. "Have you never taken a little adventure of this sort yourself?" "In Virginia we keep the shotgun for men who prowl around houses at night," I said. "What are you doing here?" "You have no right to ask. It is not your house." "There was a light," said L. "For that reason I have a right to ask. I am a guest, and a guest has duties as well as a host." "If I give you parole," he asked, "will you believe me and let us talk freely?" "Yes," said I slowly, "You are a ilar, but I do not think you will break parole." I threw the pistol on the seat between us. "What is it you want to know?" I asked. "And again I ask you why are you here when you are supposed to be in South Carolina?" "I have business here. You cost me my chance out there in the west," he answered slowly. "In turn I cost you your chance there. I shall cost you other things here. I said you should pay my debt." He motioned toward my neck with his alim finger. "Yes, you saved my life," I said, "and I have hated you for that ever since." "Will you make me one promise?" "Perhaps, but not in advance." "And will you keep it?" "If I make it." "Will you promise me to do one thing you have already promised to do?" "Orme, I am in no mood to sit here and goose like an old woman." "Oh, don't act ugly. You're done out of it all around, in any case. Belknap, it seems, was to beat both you and me. Then why should not you and I try to forget? But now as to this little promise. I was only going to ask you to do as much as Belknap, or less." "Very well, then." "I want you to promise to marry Grace Aberration." I hugged in his face. "I thought you know me better than that, Orme. I'll attend to my own matters for myself. I shall not even ask you why you want no pleasure a promotion. I am much of a mind to smoothe you. Tell me, who are you, and what are you, and what are you doing in this country?" "Do you really want to know?" he smiled. "Assurely I do. I demand it." "I believe I will tell you, then," he said quietly. He mummed for a time before he raised his head and went on. "I am Charles Gordon Orme, marquis of Bute and Rayon. Once I lived in England. For good reasons I have since lived elsewhere. I am what is known as a black sheep—a very, very black one." "You, are a retrograde, a renegade, a blackguard and a murderer," I said to him calmly. "All of those things and much more," he admitted cheerfully and calmly. "I am two persons or more than two. I can't in the least make all this plain to you in your grade of intelligence. Perhaps you have heard of exchangeable personalities?" "I have heard of double personalities and double lives," I said, "but I have never admitted them." "We will waive your admiration. Let me say that I can exchange my personality. The Jews need to say that man of certain mentality were possessed of a devil. I only say that I was a student in India. One phrase is used as another. The Swami Hama, then was my teacher. I am a raja peshu. I have taken the eight mystic begin. For years even here in this In history I have kept up the sacred ex- stances of breath, of posture, of thought" "All that means nothing to me." I said. "No; it means nothing for me to tell you that I have learned Tama, Niyama, Asena, Pranayama, Pratyabharana, Dharana, Dhyaana and Samadhi. Yes, I was something of an adept once. I learned calm, meditation, contemplation, introspection, superconscious reasoning—how to cast my own mind to a distance, how to bring other minds close up to me. But"—he smiled with all his old mockery—"mostly I failed on Pratyabharana, which says the sentence must be quelled, subdued and not aside. All religions are alike to me, but they must not intrude on my own religion. I'd prefer die than not enjoy My religion, I say, is to play the great games—to adventure and above all to enjoy. That is why I am in this country, also why I am in these grounds tonight." "You are playing some deeper game than I know?" "I always am. How could you be expected to understand what it took me years to learn? But I suppose in your case you need a few practical and concrete proofs. Let me show you a few things. Here, put your hand on my heart." "I obeyed. "You feel it beat?" he said. "Now it stops beating, does it not?" And as I live, it bad stopped! "Feel on the opposite side," he commanded. I did so, and there was his heart, clear across his body, and beating as before! "Now I shall stop it again," he remarked, calmly. And I swear it did stop, and resumed when he liked! "Put your hand upon my abdomen." he said. I did so. All at once his body seemed thin and empty, as a spent coot. "I draw all the organs into the thorax," he explained. "When one has studied under the Swami, as I have, he gains control over all his different muscles, voluntary and involuntary. He can, to a great extent, cut off or increase the nerve force in any muscle. Simple tricks in magic become easy to him. He gains, as you may suppose, a certain influence over men, and more especially over women, if that be a part of his religion. It was not with the Swami. It is with me!" "You are a strange man. Orme," I said, drawing a long breath, "the most dangerous man, the most singular, the most immoral I ever knew." "No," he said, reaching for his cigar case. "I was only born without what you call morals. They are not necessary in absturse thought. Yet in some ways I retain the old influences of my own country. For instance, I lie as readily as I speak the truth, because it is more convenient; but though I am a liar, I do not break my word of honor. I am a renegade, but I am still an English officer. You have caught that distinction." "Yes, I would trust you," I said, "if you gave me your word of honor." He turned full upon me. "By Jove, old chap," he said, with a queer note in his voice, "you touch me awful close. You're like men of my own family—you stir something in me that I used to know. The word of a fighting man—that's the same for yours and mine, and that's why I've always admired you. That's the sort of man that wins with the best sort of women." "You were not worth the best sort of woman." I said to him. "You had no chance with Ellen Meriwether." "No, but at least every fellow is worth his own fight with himself. I wanted to be a gentleman once more. Oh, a man may mate with a woman of any color. He does all over the world. He may find a mistress in any nationality of his own color or a wife in any class similar to his own. He does all over the world. But a sweetheart and a wife and a woman—when a fellow even like myself does himself honestly go like that—when he begins to fight inside himself, old India against old England, renegade against gentleman—I say that's awfully bitter—when he sees the other fellow win. You wom". "No," said I. "I did not win. You know that perfectly well. There is no way in the world that I can win. All I can do is to keep parole—well, with myself, I suppose." "You touch me awfully close," he mused again. "You play big and fair. You're a fighting man and a gentleman and—excuse me, but it's true—awful as all in one. You're such an ass I almost bestate to play the game with you." "Thank you," said I. "But now take a very stupid fellow's advice. Leave this country and don't be seen about here again, for if so you will be killed." "Precisely," he admitted. "In fact, I was just intending to arrange a permanent departure. That was why I was asking you to promise me to—is short, to keep your own promise. There's going to be war next spring. The dream of this strange new man Lincoln, got in the west, are going to come true. There will be catastrophic here. That is why I am here War, one of the greatest games, is something that one must sometimes cross the globe to play. I will be here to have a hand in this one." "You have had much of a hand in it already," I hazarded. He smiled frankly. "Yes," he said. "one must live. admit I have been what you call a secret agent. There is much money be hind me, big politics, big commercial interests. I love the big games, and my game and my tank, my duty to my masters, has been to split this country along a clean line from east to west, from ocean to ocean, to make two countries of it. You will see that happen, my friend." "No one will ever see it happen," I said to him sobly. "Under which flag, then, for you?" he asked quickly. "The flag you saw on the frontier. Crime," I answered him. "That is the flag of America and will be. The frontier is free. It will make America free forever." "Oh, well!" he said, "the argument will be obvious enough by next spring—in 'April, I should guess. And' what- Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 R. 1st Street. Richmond, Va. Will positively remove all Dandruff and cure the scalp of all impurities. 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I imagine old England will be in that with you or with one of you if you make two countries here. But I may be a wandering Jew on some other planet before that time." He sat for a time, his chin dropped on his breast. Finally he reached me his hand. "Let me go," he said. "I promise you to leave." "To leave the state?" "No, I will not promise that." "To leave the county?" "Yes, unless war should bring me here in the course of my duty. But I will promise to leave this town, this residence, this girl—in short, I must do that. And you are such an ass that I was going to ask you to promise to keep your promise—up there." He mentioned toward the window where the light lately had been. "You do not ask that now?" I queried. "You are a fighting man," he said suddenly. "Let all these questions answer themselves with thick thunder. After all, I suppose a woman is a woman in the greatest of the games, and one takes one's chances. Suppose we leave the debt unsettled until we meet some time? You know you may be claiming debt of me." "Will you be ready?" I asked him. "Always. You know that. Now may I go? Is my parole ended?" "It ends at the gate." I said to him and handed him his pistol. The knife I retained, forgetfully, but when I turned to offer it to him he was gone. CONTINUED Bureau of Plant Industry, to Aid Tillers of the Soil. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently announced that during the present year the farmers' co-operative demonstration work of the bureau of plant industry will have thirty-two colored agents in the field. These agents now have enrolled as demonstrators and co-operators something like 3,500 farmers. The list will probably be increased to 4,000. In addition to this work, having for its object the aiding of the colored farmer in the south, a number of colored farmers are also enrolled under the white agents, of whom there are now 881. Altogether it is estimated that there will probably be between 10,000 and 15,000 colored demonstrators and co-operators on the lists working with the department's agents the coming season and that in addition to these another 10,000 will be indirectly reached, making 25,000 colored co-operators in all. WESTERN UNIVERSITY NOTES. Ward Hall Was Named For Bishop and Pioneer Educator. Ward hall, one of the largest of the group of buildings at the Western university, Quindaro, Kan., which was recently destroyed by fire, was named for Bishop T. M. D. Ward, under whose supervision the school was permanently established. The institution had its beginning nearly forty years ago, when the Rev. Eben Blatchty, a Presbyterian minister, conducted a school known as the Freedman's university in the town of Quindaro. The plan for the present university was perfected by the African Methodist Episcopal church. 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In session four hours at the Hotel Earlington, endeavoring to reach an agreement as to the next move. State Senator William H. Green, of Ohio, delegated as spokesman for the union during the illness of John P. White, issued a statement in which he said that negotiations with the operators had not been broken off. Senator Green said: "We have not broken off negotiations with the operators, and will meet them again after the convention of miners. We hope to reach an agreement." T. R. Renounces Moss. Decl.ates Refusal of three of the Massachusetts delegates at large to abide by the decision of Colonel Roosevelt to renounce his claim in favor of President Taft to the delegation at large of eight members has added to the complications in the first presidential preference primary held in Massachusetts. The returns showed that eighteen delegates had been instructed to vote for the renomination of President Taft, while an equal number were chosen on the Roosevelt ticket. All the Taft delegates were district delegates, while those, of Colonel Roosevelt were ten from the districts and the eight delegates-at-large. Despite the fact that the eight delegates-at-large were elected for Colonel Roosevelt, the state gave President Taft a plurality of 3605, and this, according to the Roosevelt statement, prompted him to renounce his claim to them. The Republican voters by the plurality of 3605 plainly expressed their preference for President Taft, but through the intricacy of the ballot failed to record this preference for him in the delegates-at-large. 40,000 New Graves to Decorate. Forty thousand new graves of the veterans of the Civil War are to be decorated on Memorial Day, May 30. A more handful of the men best A mere handful of the men, beet and grizzled and weakened with age, a pitiful remnant of the hundreds of thousands, who marched to the defense of the Union, are left to pay the sacred tribute to their dead comrades. These facts are included in the general order for Memorial Day observance which has been issued from the headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic. The five-minute pause for "to remember" will be observed throughout the country at the same moment and all Grand Army veterans will stand with uncovered heads while the beils are being toiled. In closing the order sets forth: That the posts make arrangements associate with them Women's Relief Corps, Sons of Veteran, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Daughters of Veterans, and invite all other patriotic societies, especially the volunteers of the Spanish War and the Philippine insurrection, to take part in the celebration of the day. It is further ordered that as a part of the public exercises bells be toiled from 12 to 12.05 o'clock, that flags be placed at half-mast and that comrades stand with uncovered heads while the bells are tolling. 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The following telegraphic report will no doubt be read with interest: Jefferson, Ga., May 10. "Soap" Lockett, a Negro fireman on the Georgia Midland railroad, plunged head first from the pilot beam of a moving train near here yesterday and saved the life of a white baby girl. The child who is the 2 1-2 year old daughter of John Potter, of this place, was seen on the railroad track by Engineer Adair. Lockett, comprehending that the engine could not be stopped in time, dashed along the running board, dived from the beam, and rolled off the track with the child in his arms. There are numerous acts of heroism on the part of the better class of colored people that are never recorded. Colored men are constantly doing favors for white men and their families and will continue so to do. They are not thinking about a reward but only desire the heartfelt approval of the better class of white people, whom they love so well. A ROOSEVELT LANDSLIDE The fact that the presidential preferential primary in California has resulted in an overwhelming victory for ex.President Roosevelt, emphasizes the fact that President Taft is no longer available as a presidential possibility and that all hope of defeating the distinguished New Yorker along the present lines must be abandoned. If victory is to crown the anti-Roosevelt hosts at Chicago next month. The present occupant of the White House has gone from one blunder to another. After maintaining a dignified silence with reference to his old time friend, he now comes out and uses language which amuses on the one hand and disgusts on the other. It is apparent that he is deser- perate and thoroughly scared. His democratic friends, whom he has so signally honored with appointments are unable to help him. Over the entire Southland, he has established an official "dead-line" within which no citizen of color can hope to obtain an official appointment at his hands. In plain violation of his oath of office as President of the United States, he has recognized the color line and as a result colored men are ostracized and humiliated in every section of this great country ours. He has offset this by a few good appointments, but the "festering sore" of official ostracism remains. So bold has his supporters become that they have openly barred colored men from Republican meetings and insulted them in Republican conventions. There is not a United States building from Pennsylvania to the gulf in which there may not be noted some form of racial discrimination in plain violation of the Constitution of the United States. As a result, every self-reporting, independent, tax-paying citizen of color has revolted. Now that the day of calamity is at hand, they are turning to some other statesman or to some other party for relief or are sulking in their tents. Col. Roosevelt may or may not be nominated at Chicago, but one thing is almost certain, the fate of the present occupant, unless all signs fall is sealed, if not at Chicago; then at the polls in November. THE CANDIDATES AND BROWNS VILLE. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States and now an active candidate for the Republican presidential nomination at Chicago is so certain of his success that he has taken the risk of breaking his long silence on the Brownsville affair. His political opponents having imported into Ohio certain members of the 'Black Battallion,' noticeably Mingo Sanders of South Carolina to campaign against him, and evidently with some success, he has been forced to open his mouth upon the subject when 'it would have been well for him to have kept it shut so far' in the contort of his black political followers is concerned. It is noticeable though that in the use of his language, he hurt himself, some he takes pleasure in hurting President Taft much. He sheds some light upon the subject by alleging that the summary dismissal of the colored soldiers was not an original idea with him, neither was it proposed from the White House, but was submitted by Hon. William H. Taft, the Secretary of War for his approval. This is what we call "a back-handed liek" and it places the distinguished occupant of the White House in a most embarrassing position. Moreover, he asserts that President Taft can now, whenever he so wills restore to the roster of the army every colored soldier so unconcernedly discharged. This shifts the responsibility directly to President Taft's shoulders and comes in the nature of a booze-rang. We have never been able to see how any one could relieve President Taft of responsibility in this matter. He was "tarred with the same stick" in this matter. We do believe though that the Negro-hating bureaucracy, the War Department of Washington was really responsible for the whole business. Col. Roosevelt's candor though will win for him much favor even though every thoughtful man knows that he was wrong and is now wrong in his position with reference to this matter. He punished 167 colored men, the known innocent with the alleged guilty and insists upon his right so to do. This is Lynch-law, and it is in violation of every principle of fundamental law, now in operation in this country. He and his associates did it because they had the power to do it. But what, did Col. Roosevelt say? He is quoted as follows: Dayton, O., May 16.—In the opinion of Theodore Roosevelt, the campaign for the Republican nomination for President has now been decided. He dictated this statement tonight: The number of delegates necessary to nominate is 539. Of the delegates already elected, without counting the contested delegates, I have more than 500. Of the delegates yet to be elected I am confident I will receive enough to insure my nomination on the first ballot." Colonel Roosevelt's claim was based upon a table of delegates prepared by his secretary. The table, he added, did not take into consideration the chances of obtaining delegates from Ohio or New Jersey. In speaking at Kenton, Colonel Roosevelt said: "Of unconfused delegates that have been elected we now have a considerable majority over Mr. Taft. On the present showing it would be impossible to say how many unfairly and improperly seated delegates there are who have no possible claim to sit in the convention." It will be noted that the greatest citizen in all of this land was flush-ed with his success and buoyed up by the thought that victory was already within his grasp. At no time during his spectacular campaign has he given voice to such exultant predictions. He considers now that he Let this same report give the answer: In his address at Springfield, Owl, Roosevelt criticized President Taft "A certain Lorimer. Congressman from Arkansas. Mr. Taft is his chief, Senator Lorimer, did, has come into Ohio, bringing a number of members of the two companies of the colored regiment which were discharged on account of the riot at Brownsville. These men are brought here by the Taft managers to assail me for what I did at Brownsville, to try to get our colored fellow-citizens to vote against me. "I did take the action at Brownsville, and my judgment has been ratified over and over again by every competent man who investigated the matter—by tribunal after tribunal. I am not taking back by one finger's breath any action of mine. If I should lose every delegate in every State in the Union by taking it, I would take that action over again." There is no mistaking his position in this matter. He is as bitter against the colored soldiers, both the innocent and the alleged guilty as he was the day "the, upon the recommendation of the War Department "booted" them out of the service without honor and practically without a hearing. He "rubs it in" by saying that he would pursue the same course again. This carries us back to the remarks made by him in North Carolina that he would split this Solid South, that he would have Southern States in the Republic column again. This is the first step taken to get them there, but it was not taken until he was safe of success at Chicago. The colored voters of the country can support him or not, just as they please. He defies them in the open and tells them to do their worst. He is on the crest of a triumphant wave to victors, and what cares he? Col. Roosevelt did not stop here how ever. He is quoted as follows: Colonel Roosevelt declared that "the Taft managers, at a time when Mr. Taft is in the State himself, without one word of protest from him, are trying to use that incident to my discredit and to his advantage. Now I acted on the recommendation of Mr. Taft when he was my Secretary of War." Colonel Roosevelt then read an extract from the annual report of the Secretary of the War for 1906 in which reference was made to the Brownsville affair. Col. Roosevelt thus by a stroke of diplophyte maneuvering shifts the whole Brownville affair to the shoulders of President William Howard Taft and then in order that he might not appear to be "getting from under," so to speak says: "There is Mr. Taft's own report upon which I acted." "I do not shift any responsibility upon Mr. Taft. I take it all. But Mr. Taft should be responsible for his action, too. Mr. Taft recommended to me, as I have read to you from his report, that these men should be dismissed for a heinous crime. Does Mr. Taft now say that when he made that report to me and submitted it to Congress he said what was not true? If he says so, let him give his reasons for his change. More than that, he has for three years been President, and he could have reinstated every man of that regiment if he thought that the action I took on his recommendation was wrong. Mr. Taft in my judgment, cannot and will not affirm that his action then taken was not proper." This reply made by him is practically unanswerable by either President Taft or by his managers. It shows that the Taft people made a mistake by injecting the Brownsville affair for the campaign. If it is discreditable to Col. Roosevelt, it is more so to President Taft. For our part, it is enough to make respectable people sick of the whole business. We regard this last utterance of ex.President Roosevelt as being brutally insulting. It is an open note of defiance levelled at every colored man in the United States. It shows that, whenever and wherever candidates achieve overwhelming victories, they regard the colored continent with contempt. Col. Roosevelt could have stated his position in this matter in a less offensive tone and with a statement of the facts in the case which would have in a measure explained away his astounding enunciation of a doctrine which is contrary and antagonistic to every principle of law in our modern civilization. Some colored people are never better satisfied than when they are being insulted and kicked around by some member of the dominant race, who by favor of position occupy a prominent place in a niche of the country's fame. For our part, ex-President Roosevelt was wrong before and he is wrong behind. If he can again enter the White House defying the conservative colored citizens of the country and spewing out of his mouth with contempt all that they have been bold enough to say, he is welcome so to do. He may be nominated at Chicago, but he has to be elected at the polls in November. No man, great or small can ride rough shod over the principles of truth and justice and live. Sooner or later, his downfall will be at hand. The heard in the land and this growing act of injustice will not "down" at any man's bidding. The "stifl neck" of the distinguished Roosevelt can be made to bend in time and the prayers now being sent up to God's throne from every hamlet and village in the Southland will reverberate from the heaven's bye and bye. We are staggered by the audacity of his utterances and humiliated by his frank admissions upon the patriotic bill of Ohio. Roosevelt and Taft, Taft and Roosevelt. These are the offerings to the colored voters of the country in nineteen hundred and twelve. Truly may it be said in the language of the Scriptures: "Colored men, choose ye this day whom ye will serve; the 'devil' or his 'chief lieutenant.' Choose!" $150.00 Endowment Paid. Stanton, Va., April 29, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythons, N. A. S. A. E. A. A. and A.( $150,000 One hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death statute of Brother James a Logan, who was a member of Brotherly Love Lodge, NWTS of Stanton, Va. A MUNIFICIENT OFFER. Special interest has been aroused in Young Men's Christian Association work throughout the country by the munificent offer of Mr. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago to give $25,000 to every city in the United States that will raise $75,000 for an association building for colored men. Not only have the men in larger cities been stirred to action but those in smaller cities as well. The association work in educational institutions has also received a strong impetus and special efforts are being made to train competent Christian young men for leadership in this rapidly advancing movement. One new and important step in the development of the work is the Student Conference that will be held at King's Mountain, N.C. May 20-June 2nd which will be attended by a large number of teachers and student delegates from the District of Columbia to the Gulf. Many of the most able speakers of both races will participate in the program and the full ten days will be devoted to the training of leaders for student association work. The problem of leading more of our best educated young men to devote their lives to the Christian ministry and to Foreign Mission. Work will also receive special attention at this conference. Among the speakers expected might be mentioned. Bisonop J. Albert Johnson, recently returned from South Africa, Dr. C. T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga., President S. C. Mitchell of the University of S. C., Dr. P. O. Connell, Professor of the Theological Department of Howard University, Dr. S. G. Atkins, Educational Secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Dr. W. H. Sheppard, Missionary to the Congo Free State and others. Every effort is being put forth by the Secretaries of the International Committee to make this conference of student young men the most valuable contribution to the social and religious life of our people. ASTROLOGY If in doubt about the future consult Professor Lee, spiritual advisor on all affairs of life gets true results. He tells of friends and enemies. Life's mysteries revealed, delineates your character by the stars and Planets is consulted by the best people. Special low rates. Come early. PROF. DOUGLASS LEE. 716 East Franklin St. T. R. CARRIES CALIFORNIA His Plurality Over Taft Will Be 40,000 to 50,000. Roosevelt carried California by a plurality that will amount to 40,000 to 50,000, and he has also carried San Francisco, but not by so large a vote. Returns show that Roosevelt is leading everywhere, and that in the southern part of the state he has polled more than the combined vote of Taft and J. Foillette, and in many places, supposed to be Republican strongholds, he has beaten Taft by three to one. This tremendous vote was scored in Pasadena, Riverside and Santa Barbara. Clark is sure of the Democratic preferential vote, as he is running far ahead of Wilson. CHILD PERISHES IN FIRE Mother May Die and Fireman Is Overcome by Smoke. Stanley, the eight-year-old son of Frank Laden, a restaurant proprietor at East Greenville, near Pottstown, Pa., was suffocated; Mrs. Laden is in a pritual condition and Harvey Goughler, a fireman, was overcome by smoke as the result of a fire in the Laden restaurant. Mr. Laden is suffering severely from the shock, while his wife may not recover. Goughler found the mother and son lying in a bedroom unconscious. He carried Mrs. Laden to the street and collapsed. When the boy was taken out he was lifeless. Supreme Court Recess. The United States supreme court has taken a recess until May 27, when it will need to announce decisions. NEW JERSEY "How this presidential beinm' de upset home tiel! I hain't hardly seen nothin' of my man sense we were jined." PENNYPACKER GETS FAT JOB Selection of Former Governor Was Big Surprise, and is Regarded as Personal to Governor Tener. Samuel W. Pennypacker, governor of Pennsylvania when the $13,000,000 capitol, with its resultant mandates, was gotten under way, a collector of pots and kettles illustrative of the art of fashioning other things less costly, but useful; sometimes a judge in Philadelphia; always a farmer and a constant exponent of the don't worry philosophy in political affairs, has come back into the pay of the state. Pennypacker was appointed by Governor Tener a member of the state railroad commission, a job that is worth, to the man who gets it, $8000 a year, or $40,000 for the five-year tenure that attaches to it. Pennypacker, who succeeds the late Charles N. Mann, of Philadelphia, was appointed to serve until the senate meets in 1913. If confirmed, he will serve the full term of five years. Mr. Mann, who was one of the original commissioners, was reappointed several months ago by Governor Tenet. Mr. Mann was the personal selection of Edwin S. Stuart, the governor in whose administration the act creating the commission was passed and signed, and it was in compliment to him that Mr. Mann, was reappointed. Ever since Mr. Mann's death it was expected that the appointment would go to Philadelphia. The selection of the former governor was a big surprise about the capitol. The appointment of Mr. Pennypacker adds another former judge to the commission, the president Nathaniel Ewing, having been a federal judge when called by Governor Edwin H. Stuart to assume the duties of commissioner. He was designated as the president of the commission, and his term will expire next year. The third member of the commission is Milton J. Brecht, of Lancaster, former superintendent of schools of that county, who succeeded John Y. Boyd, of Harrisburg, last year. The appointment of Pennypacker to the lucrative commissionship is regarded as a personal one with Governor Tener, who is known to be very friendly to the man who sat in the executive chair from 1903 to 1907. On many occasions the governor has shown his partiality for Mr. Pennypacker, and the appointment, while a surprise to many when viewed from a standpoint of politics, is not so startling when one knows the personal relations existing. The governor considers the former governor as experienced in judicial questions which come before the commission. Aside from the governor's evident desire to make the appointment a personal affair, it was thought the $8000 salary would be very acceptable to the appointee. His law practice is understood not to be very extensive. The selection of Pennypacker is believed to sound the death knell of the organisation's hope of getting much consideration in the appointments to the fire marshalship, insurance department and other places. RICHESON IN DEATH CELL Will Pay Penalty For Murder Unless Speedy Action Is Taken Clarence V. T. Richeson, the former minister, who is under sentence of death to the next week in the electric chair for the murder of Avis Linnell, was removed from the Suffolk county jail to the state prison in Boston, where the death sentence will be executed unless speedy action is taken by the executive council. When Richeson left the jail he was handcuffed to the jail clerk, who, with a court officer and a deputy sheriff, rode inside the van with the condemned man. On the sent beside the driver was Sheriff Quinn. When Richeson appeared in the court yard of the jail he kept his head bowed and his features could not be seen by those outside the gate. Upward of 200 person were on the street outside the jail at the time the van left. There was no demonstration. Alleged Embezzlers Arrested. Alleged Embezzler Arrested. George S. Wilson and DeForest Moores, manager and teller respectively, in the savings department of the Stanford, Conn. Trust company, were arrested, charged with embezzlement of funds of the trust company to an amount close to $58,000. Political Ambition of George H. White In speaking editorially of the political ambition of ex congressman George H. White of North Carolina the Dallas (Tex.) Express says everywhere the colored man is giving evidence of in determination to "come back" politically. He refuses to die and cannot be legally eliminated. The Hon. Mr. White recently announced his intention to become a candidate for congress next fall. He is now a resident of Pennsylvania. HARRY K. THAW. A Lower photo by Marissa; upper copy illit by American Press America Lower photo by Marissa; upper copyright, 1912, by American Press Association. 623,262 Converted in M. E. Missions. "This board began its work four years ago without a Sunday school missionary in any field," was the opening statement in the report of the board of Sunday schools, presented to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Minneapolis, Minn. "It has sent out many missionaries into all parts of the United States and into other lands. As a result of such extension work, the following facts are noted," the report continued: "New schools established, 1128; enrollment in these schools, 42,000; church organizations resulting, 204; new churches actually built, 17; value of these churches, $220,650. The spiritual results of the work for the four years ending in 1912 is 623,262 conversions." The enrollment of pupils, officers and teachers in 1912, in Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools is 4,002,410. Food Prices at Highest Point. Prices of commodities have reached the highest point ever touched in the records kept by Bradstreet Journal in New York, which for years has tabulated prices of all classes of commodities, and found an "index number," which hits a carefully compiled average of prices, month by month. The figure for May 1 shows an index number of $9.2746, a figure which exceeds any previous figure during the twenty years that the index number has been compiled. It shows a rise in prices of 1.9 per cent since April 1 of this year, and a rise of 9.7 per cent since a year ago. The previous high record, made Jan. 1, 1910, was $9.210. "Comparison with May 1, 1909," says Bradstreet Journal, "reveals an increase of 11.7 per cent, while" contrast with the like date in 1906, when quotations were suffering from the effects of economic depression, displays an advance of 16.4 per cent." they had been in the army, was sentenced to death for mercy and long prison time. 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Just drop me a line like this: DR. A. R. ROBINSON. $$$$ Luck Building, Detroit MICH., and I will send you a copy of this splendid recipe in a plain ordinary envelope, free of charge. A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00. For merely writing out a prescription like this—but I send it entirely free. MONROE SCHOOL—HONOR ROLL Through its Principal, Prof. H. G. Carlon, has reported to the Super. intendent, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, the following Roll of Honor for April: 4 B Grade—Mattie Jasper, Louise Jones, George Mitchell. 4 A Grade—Theresa Havard, Lillie Smithers. 3 B Grade—Viola Robinson, Rustle Brown, Eva Dickerson. 3 A Grade 1—Dorothy Poindexter, Alice Booker, Horace Jackson. 3 A Grade 2—Annie Booker. 2 B Grade 1—Charles Freeland, Charles Hilgginbotham, Charles Johnson, Grace Flournoy, Laura Hilgginbotham, Elizabeth Smith. 2 B Grade 2—Ethel Pierson, Irene V. Parson. 2 A Grade—Sherman Jackson, Minnie Taylor, Eva Gray, James Conway. 1 B Grade 1—Littan Braxton, Willington Morris. 1 B Grade 2—Flora Logan, Gertrude Wilson. 1 A Grade—Zenobia Fraysier, Mary A. Knight, Alexander Belling. $50.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., May 3, 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., ($50.00). Fifty dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother Lewis Robinson, who was a member of Navy Hill Lodge, No. 131, of Richmond, Va. MRS. MATTIE ROBINSON Benedicary. Witnesses: R. W. Moss. Robert Gayy, D. D. G. C. DO YOU KNOW HIM? Consul General Crum's Letter. May 1, 1911. John Mitchell, Jr., 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 as 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 must be 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 uncalled 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 find the heir of William Richmond? ..... I take this opportunity to congratulate you upon the splendid showing of the Mechanic's 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 benefited 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. I am, sir. Your obedient servant, W.M. D. CRUM. American Council-General Liberty, Africa SATURDAY . May 10, 1912 NO WEDDING BELL FOR HOSTLER SAM Negro Arrested Ten Minutes Be- fore Ceremony, White Bride- to Be Looked On. As he was putting the final touches to an elaborate toilet at his home 1110 North St. John Street; last night shortly before 8 o'clock, Samuel Christian, twenty-three years old, a hostler, who was pre- paring to lead his intended bride, Sarah Johnson, to the home of a parson, was pounced upon by Detective-Sergeant Kellam, and instead of starting on a honeymoon spent the night in the Second Police Station. Christian was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mary Johnson, no relation to the intended bride, who alleged that he was about to leave her in the lurch. According to Mary's story, Christian had promised to marry her, and he pleaded his devotion to her as late on Monday morning, he said she was not only shocked, but mortified, when she saw him Monday afternoon haunting a marriage license, which he had just obtained in the office of the clerk of the Hus-tings Court, to wed Sarah. He even went so far as to say, she said, that he had engaged to Rev. R. V. Peyton, pastor of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, to perform the ceremony at 8:16 o'clock last night at his home, 1015 St. James Street. Though she said she had lost faith in all mankind she vowed that she intended to make him keep his promise, and hurriedly sought Magistrate Purdie and swore out a warrant for Christian. It was placed in the hands of Detective Wiley and Kellam only a few minutes before the wedding was to take place. Kellam hurried to Christian's home, while Wiley sought the minister. Kellam pounced upon the dusky groom as he was tying his cravat, and to aggravate the situation the arrest was made in the presence of the bride, who was bedecked in all manner of finery even to the bridal veil. Despite sobs and protests, the patrol wagon was summoned and the near-husband was taken to the station house. FARMVILLE (VA.) NEWS. Rev. A. C. Griggs filled the pulpit of First Baptist Church, Sunday, while Rev. Adams was attending the General Association of Virginia. Rev. Griggs preached a Thanksgiving sermon to the Odd Fellows at 3 P. M. Rev. Adams returned home Tuesday morning, giving glowing accounts of the meeting of the General Association. It was one of the most harmonious meetings during its history. Dr. Willis Brown secured the service of Rev. Adams to accompany him to Smithfield, Va., to preach for his people. The severend states that he had a delightful visit, and that Dr. Brown has good people who are loyal to the Master's cause. Mrs. George Price is still confined to bed. Mrs. Pokey Hobson and Miss Margaret Griggs have been reported ill. Mrs. Pattie Bowman of Pittsburg, Pa., with her two little girls are visiting their parents. Rev. P. M. Robinson and family on Bridge St. Mr. James Holmes of Norfolk, Va., is here visiting his mother and family. The Married Ladies' May Queen will take place Tuesday, the 21st at First Baptist Church. Mrs. Julia Womack has returned from an extended trip to California. Dr. Nelson Jordan seems to be de-lighted as to the success of the State Convention. It is now an admitted fact, that we have two great bodies in this State destined to do a great work in lifting fallen humanity morally, intellectually and spiritually. We understand that Mr. Rambler was seen in town the other day and informed a friend that he would say something next week. He intends to expose all in the note books before he leaves. He has been looking after things that effect the nation directly, such as the "shooting up the court by the Allens in Carroll County, Va." and the sinking of the "Titanic." Look out for next week's issue. No Other Hopes for the Ethiopians. Editor of the PLANET: Just now we are facing the vital question of four years more, and out of 100,000,000 souls in these Unit ed States, our cause is the greatest. for we are at the mercy of all parties and the most important thing for us to consider is the welfare of sixteen million Ethiopians. But it is to be regretted that in some part of the Union that a few dissatisfied colored men are doing their best to turn us from the Republican Party. These men stand in the way to prevent progress and not one of them would dare to point out any other Party that has done more good for the Ethiopian people as the Re. publicans have already done, and if we are allowed to guage the future, Mr. Receivest will pilot the ship of this nation as no other man on earth can do and will yet see that justice is done for the colored people Our hope is with the Republican Party and as a member of the Ethiopian race I appeal to the leaders everywhere to consider our welfare as a whole by uniting with that Party, that framed four million slaves and these persons who have found disinformation in the Republican Party we have hope they will no longer advance our progress as we must go ahead and not stand still. The Republican Party is today the greatest factor for progress of any party known to the human race; yet all people make mistakes. This should be allowed. Yet in the face of these mistakes, our opportunity in the Republican Party is nine out of ten in our favor and what is needed with us are just the wants of a new life and to have this new life is to get all to unite for the good of all. We have been the under dog a mong all nations. This is so be- cause there are some in the race who see no good in that which is for our interest, and if we only had the voice from Editors, Lawyers, Doctors, Preachers and Teachers in our race, some good and true man would be a national leader of sixteen million Ethiopians today. Yet there is much objection to this point, but for what reason does not appear either from the South, East, West or North. The power of uniting all parts of the union on some good and true man can be done by the editors of our race publications. Mr. Roosevelt believes that the merits of men of any race should have a square deal and our people have shown these merits in all parts of the union. Will you name some good and true man to be our guide in the future? The whole race, please is our alm. R. H. BALL, Lawrence, Mass. 9 SUSAN'S HAPPENINGS. Susan, P. O., Mathews Co., Va. May 13, 1912. This community has been very much shocked recently. On Tuesday, April 30th, Capt. Alex. Tallferro was drowned on his way to Norfolk. On Thursday, May 9th, Mrs. Tallferro's nephew, Frank Hudgins was out helping Captain Tallferro's son search for his body and he was drowned from the same boat. Captain Tallferro's body was found and identified Saturday and laid to rest in home lot, Sunday, May 12th. He was a man very widely known and greatly liked by both races. He was a deacon of the Antioch Baptist Church. He leaves a wife, two sisters, four sons, two daughters and eight grandchildren to mourn their loss. The family has the sympathy of the community in this, their hour of be reavement, but we all known that "Jesus doeth all things well." Frank Hudgela was a young man probably twenty or twenty-one years of age. He leaves a mother, three sisters, two brothers and numerous other relations. His body is not yet found. F. S. BROWN. BOWBOATS USED TO CONVEY HOSE. Black Aboard Barge in James River Gave Department No End of Trouble. Clyde Gregory, colored, of Gillman ton. Va., was probably fatally burned last Tuesday night shortly before 6 o'clock, when he put a lighted match into a barrel of gasoline while aboard a barge of the Richmond Cedar Works, which was moored at the company's wharf. The explosion which followed caused an ugly fire in a cargo of logs, which had arrived on Saturday. A general alarm was turned in from private box No. 47. Firemen were greatly handicapped by the flood in the James River in reaching the burning vessel. The wharf alongside of which the barge rested was more than eight feet under water. Finally, with the aid of rooftops, two streams of water, one from engine No. 8 and the other from a private plug of the plant of the Cedar Works, were stretched to the blaze. However, the first stream to be poured into the hold of the lighter was from the tug Mary Steele, also owned by the company which was fortunately alongside. Under the direction of Chief Raffo, firemen of Company No. S fought for hours before the blaze was finally put out. The money loss will reach several hundred dollars, according to a statement made by T. Kirkpatrick Parr, rish, secretary of the Cedar Works. THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE LIQUOR Gregory was employed aboard the barge as a dackhand. Because of the swollen river it was impossible to unload the vessel yesterday, and he was idling about the boat when he noticed a barrell floating in the stream close by. He succeeded in pulling it aboard, with the aid of several others. It was found to be filled with some liquid. In the hopes that it might prove to be something which might tickle his palate, Gregory knocked in the head, and in order to get a better view, struck a match, and peering into the cask, put the fanning bit of wood into it. Great fames instantly shot into the air. With a scream Gregory leaped into the water, but fellow boatmen instantly grabbed him and saved him from drowning. The City Hospital was notified and a whirlwind drive was made to Fulton. It required less than twenty minutes for the automobile ambulance to speed from the City Hospital, pick up the injured man and rush back to the Retreat for the Slick. He was rendered emergency treatment by Dr. J. J. Hulcher, ambulance surgeon. Though feightfully burned, it was said at the hospital last night that he had a chance to recover. Gregory has since died. Have You Seen Him. Would like to find my boy. He left home Monday, May 6th. Wore blue suit, brown cap, yellow satin shirt, tan stockings, black shoes. Complexion, brown skin, large eyes and very heavy, eyebrows. D. Author Kwell was his name. Please inform his mother, Josephine Kwell, 513 N. Graham Street or Police Station: 24 This is to certify that I have re- ceived from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth- las, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Bro. James Goode, who was a member of Royal Lodge, No. 26, of Richmond, Va. Signed: MRS. SALLIE P. GOODE, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Andrew L. Woolfolk. R. A. Preston. Robert Gray, D. D., G. C. $150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Pulaski, Va., 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Knights of Pythlas, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A., ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Bro. Wyatt Jones May 8th, who was a member of Peak Knob Lodge, No. 64, of Pulaški, Va. Signed: LEANA JONES. Beneficiary. Witnesses: C. C. Cooteas, Wm. Mabe, M. Calender. James Buford, D. D., G. C. # 150.00 ENDOWMENT PAID. Emporia, Va., May 7, 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-calm of Brother Benjamin H. Taylor, who was a member of Emporia Lodge, No. 157, of Emporia, Virginia. Signed—IDA E. TAYLOR. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Chas. D. Lundy, C. C., W. H. Weaver, K. of R. & S. A. B. Batts, D. D., G. C. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Elmo Va., April 30, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100,00). One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death claim of Stetter Bette. Edmunds, who was a "member of Lebanon Court. No. 143 of Elmo. Va. Fannie F. Betts, Alice V. Dodson, Isabella Betts. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Danville, Va., April 29, 1912 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Sister Carrie Jackson, who was a member of North Danville Court, No. 146, of Danville, Va. U. S. Cunningham, Mrs. A. H. Lee. S. J. Holbrook. $100.00 Endowment Paid Pulaski, Va.. April 14, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the deathclaim of Sister Sophia Gordon, who was a member of Pulaski Court. No. 69 of Pulaski, Va. Signed—Mrs. Beauregard Langbon Asigneuse. Witnesses: tithes: Mollie Scott. Maggie Canady. $100.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., May 8, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe, ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death-calm of Brother O. M. Steward, who was a member of North Star Court. No. 72 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Sarah A. Stoward. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Ida Farrar. Anna Taylor. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., May 8, 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 O. M. Steward, who was a member of Blooming Mly Lodge, No. 15 of Richmond, Va. Signed—Sarah A. Steward. Beneficiary. Witnesses: Robert D. Brown. Charles E. T. Steward. Robert Gray, D. D. G. C. School and Chautauqua Extends a Corridal Greeting to be the Guest of the School 1019 and closing July 18, 1819 following and kindred Quest. What is the moral condition is crime on the intrigue? If not, What is the sanitary condition made to improve the sanitary Is the death rate increase operate with the Civic Improve Has settlement work been community, and with what rest the Temperance Organizations. To what extent has the w A. been effective in your co. What is the general fitness of f What has been the attitude the Church and Sunday School condition, of your people? Rev. Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Hurlbut & in charge of the expository fea Ministers who intend attending known at an early date, address Training School, Durham, N. C. for them. There will be no ch Conference. The Summer School and Ch Training School will open Ju weeks. The most complete and Colored Race in the United S address President JAMES E. SH What is the moral condition of the people of your country on the increase? If not, what is the cause of it? What is the sanitary condition? What effort, if any, to improve the sanitary conditions? What death rate increasing? To what extent do you with the Civic Improvement Leagues? Is settlement work conducted to any extent, and with what results? What has been the appearance Organizations, and have you co-operated with what extent has the work of the Y. M. C. A. and effective in your community? Do you approve the general fitness of the city and country schools that has been the attitude of the day school teachers and Sunday School? What is the real need of your people? Revivals, how conducted? Dr. Dr. Jesse L. Hurlbut and Rev. Dr. W. Y. Chapman of the expository features during Conference with who intend attending this Conference should be an early date, addressing the President National School, Durham, N. C., so that reservation can be there will be no charge while in attendance. Summer School and Chautauqua of the National School will open July 3, 1912, and continue the complete and up-to-date Summer School Race in the United States. For particulars and President JAMES E. SHEPARD, Durham, N. C. Extends a Corollary Greeting to the Ministers of all Denominations to be the Greets of the School for One Week, beginning July 6, 1912 and closing July 18, 1912, for the purpose of discussing the following and kindred Questions: What is the moral condition of the people of your community? Is crime on the increase? If not, what is the cause of its reduction? What is the sanitary condition? What effort, if any, has been made to improve the sanitary conditions? Is the death rate increasing? To what extent do you cooperate with the Civic Improvement Leagues? Has settlement work been conducted to any extent in your community, and with what results? What has been the effect of the Temperance Organizations, and have you co-operated with them? To what extent has the work of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. been effective in your community? Do you approve them? What is the general fitness of the city and country school teacher? What has been the attitude of the day school teacher towards the Church and Sunday School? What is the real religious condition, of your people? Revivals, how conducted? Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Hurlbut and Rev. Dr. W. Y. Chapman will be in charge of the expository features during Conference week. All Ministers who intend attending this Conference should make it known at an early date, addressing the President National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., so that reservation can be made for them. There will be no charge while in attendance upon the Conference. The Summer School and Chautauqua of the National Religious Training School will open July 3, 1912, and continue for six weeks. The most complete and up-to-date Summer School for the Colored Race in the United States. For particulars and terms, address President JAMES E. SHEPARD, Durham, N. C. 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And an amdavit having been made and filed that due diligence has been used by and on behalf of the plain tiff to ascertain in what County or Corporation the defendant Jeff Pow ell is without effect, and that she does not know his whereabouts: it is ordered that the said Jeff Powell appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy. Teste: P. P. WINSTON, Clerk To Jeff Powell: You'll take notice that I shall on the 29th day of May, 1912 at the office of Phil B. Shield, room No. 700 Travellers Insurance Building, situated on North side of Main street, between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth streets in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's manufactured by the Oceanwood Oat Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. --- AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS ON TITANIC DISASTER. Many Expressions of Sympathy For the Unfortunate. While it can be safely calculated that no members of the colored race lost their lives in this painful catastrophe owing to certain conditions over which we have no control, nevertheless "one touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and our sympathy goes out to the benefited friends and relatives of the unfortunate who went to meet their Maker as singly and unexpectedly.—Solid Rock Herald, Philadelphia. The collision and sinking of the most modern and mightiest stealthship that was ever constructed with the loss of over a thousand lives instead of hundreds challenge the attention of the world to the stern fact that there are yet grave dangers in water navigation to be overcome. Those who lived and left their loved ones to go down to a watery grave will probably suffer most. It would seem that death would be sweetest under such circumstances. Let us hope there will never be a repetition of this monster disaster--Detroit (Mich. Informer). The captain of the Titanic had seen more than forty years of service. His experience proves his undoing, for he became overconfident, and the largest and costliest steamship in the world now rolls at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean -- Richmond (Va.) Planet. One clear and unmistakable lesson from the sad tragedy is to turn the thoughts of man godward more than earthward. The work of all work to be wrought upon the earth is righteousness, the lifting up of those who are down and the magnifying of God upon the earth. The Almighty is not mocked, and, even though it be a "grass" that raises us, yet the eternal decree is "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Nothing but profound sorrow should energize the breasts of mankind the world over in view of the awful calamity. At the same time, all should be quick to draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to them Baltimore Afro-American Lodger. Railroad Firemen Present Demands. The firemen employed on the eastern railroads have followed the example of the engineers and made a demand for an increase in pay. This is what the railroad managers expected would happen. Now they are waiting for the trainmen, conductors and other railroad employees to stop forward and ask for more money. The differences between the railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have been left to a board of arbitration to adjust. As the railroad managers figured it out, the demands of the firemen, if granted, would mean a yearly increase of between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 to the expenses of the railroads. The engineers asked for about $8,000,000. Among other things the firemen ask in addition to more pay is that there shall be an assistant fireman on coal burning freight locomotives. They also ask to be relieved of cleaning engines. In substance those are the demands of the firemen. There are 14,600 engineers employed in the freight service of the railroads affected, and the managers figured that at $2.50 a day for an assistant fireman on each freight train the salary lists of the railroads would jump over $10,000,000 a year from this item alone. Aviator McCauley Hurt J. B. McCauley, a young aeronaut of Harrisburg, Pa., fell from his machine a distance of forty feet and was badly injured. He was taken to the City hospital. The machine was demolished. McCauley, who was a Curtiss aviator, was expected to make a flight to Norristown carrying a message from the mayor of Harrisburg to the burgee of Norristown congratulating the latter on the centennial celebration in the Montgomery county seat. Killed by Falling Rock. Harry Laden, a young Catawauqua contractor, died at the Allentown, Pa. hospital from injuries received while supervising the digging of a well. Laden had descended eighteen feet to the bottom to inspect the work, when a bucket was being raised by a windlass. The bucket began to swing, and near the top struck the side, leeening a heavy rock, which fell on Laden's head, fracturing his skull. Loose Eye Playing Golf. John F. Whalen will lose his left eye as the result of being struck by a golf ball on the links of the Bwanoy Country club at Mount Vernon, N. Y. The ball, which was propelled by Whalen, struck a tree and rebounded, splitting the eye. Defendants Agree to Dissolution Plan as Submitted to Court by Government Attorney. William A. Glasgow, especial assistant to the attorney general of the United States in the government's prosecution of the so-called powder trust, together with counsel representing the defendants, submitted forms of proposed decrees to be issued by the United States circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia. The proposal was that the nineteen plants operated by the E. L. Dupont de Nemours Company of New Jersey, the alleged trust, be distributed geographically among that company and two new companies that are to be formed out of the holdings of that concern. The purpose of the distribution is obviously to create a condition of competition in the gunpowder and the dynamite trade. It is proposed that these two new companies be formed out of the Lakeland & Rand Powder company and the Eastern Dynamite company, the new companies to be given the right to as assume the charters of the old company at their option, otherwise, the old companies to be dissolved and new charters issued to the companies to be formed. Provision also is made to transfer to the new companies for three years a fair proportion of the lodgings in explosives throughout the United States, and for these companies to have free access to the records in the trade bureau, and all other facilities now enjoyed by the Dupont company to familiarize themselves with trade conditions and to conduct experiments. It is also proposed by Mr. Glasgow that the present injunction, which is confined to the United States alone, shall be extended to all foreign agents of the trust. The proposition of the government for the disintegration of the powder combine are acquiesced in, in all respects by the company with the exception of the provision to extend the injunction to foreign trade. Former Senator Spooner, chief counsel for the defendants, opposed this amendment to the interlocutory decree upon the contention that the proofs submitted by the government had showed no violation in European transactions. The defendants conceded a vital point to the government in agreeing that three companies are to be created out of the dissolution of the combination. For many months the parties were deadlocked on this point, and the prospects of a consent decree were dubious. The first company's factories are to be situated in New Jersey, Michigan and California; the second in New Jersey, Michigan, Missouri and California. That Nemoura Powder company, under the plan, is to produce from Missouri, Wisconsin, Washington, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Colorado, New Jersey and Alabama. Four Shot In Mine Blot In a pitched battle between the state police and a crowd estimated at between 2000 and 3000 men at Minersville, Pa., four men were shot and three were probably fatally wounded. It is believed that a dozen or more others were also struck by bullets, but were not seriously wounded and did not seek medical attention. The men who are thought to have been fatally hurt are: David Davis, who was, shot through the body. Two foreigners, not identified by the authorities at this time. Another foreigner was shot through the leg and was seriously wounded. The fight occurred on Fourth street in the central part of the town and came as a result of a crowd assembling in front of Ulmer's garage, the old electric light plant, to prevent the superintendent, George W. Kelser, of the Pine Hill Coal company, from taking two men in his automobile to his colliery. Three officers, who make daily patrols of that section, arrived on the scene and shortly after were reinforced by four more from the Pottsville barracks. They ordered the crowd to disperse, but their orders had no effect. Under their guard the automobile was then taken from the garage and was being cranked, when some one in the crowd threw a brick. It struck a policeman on the head. It seemed to be the signal for an attack and immediately there came a shower of stones, followed by several pistol shots. The officers then fired a volley into the ground. The crowd paid no attention. Raising their pistols, they twice fired into the air, but the only effect it had was to draw shots from the crowd. The officers then turned their weapons into the crowd and commenced firing. Sergeant-at-Arms Raids Ball Park. Determined to command a quorum during consideration of dust-dry private pension legislation, the house ordered its sergeant-at-arms to raid the American League ball park in Washington. The orders were carried out. More than a score of congressmen whom the officers found were "rooting" for their favorite team. A flotilla of taxicabs brought the prisoners back to the house, where they were subjected to a bashing by their more dutiful colleagues. "What's the score? Why didn't you stay to see tomorrow's game?" was demanded of the first batch when they appeared on the floor in custody. 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 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.—From the Platform of the National Republican Convention adopted at Chicago, June 18, 1908. I note that it is stated in the daily press that Mr. Melvin Flegenheimer asserted that it is the rule of the Republican State Committee that white men must rule and govern the affairs of the Republican Party in this state. Please advise me if this is the actual position of the present party management and whether this is the policy of the organization of which you are the official head in its movement now being made against the Democratic organization and its policies in the Old Dominion. I have your letter of the 13th inst. and note what you have to say. I think Mr. Flegenheimer must have been misquoted by the press, as I do not know of him having made any such statement as you indicate. The Republicans of Virginia operated under the call of the National Republican Committee and so far as I have been advised, all the calls were made in pursuance of the national call. I know of no effort to exclude colored people from participating in the meetings and I have never favored any such policy. I happen to know that in some sections of the state the colored voters did participate in the meetings and had delegates at some of the conventions. As I have before stated, we have endeavored to strictly comply with the call of the National Republican Committee. I hope this explanation will be satisfactory to you. Washington, D. C., Dear Sir:— I note that it is stated the rule of the Republican State Republican Party in this state. agement and whether this is the movement now being made again Mr. John Mitchell, Jr.. Richmond, Va., Dear Sir:--- I have your letter of the must have been misquoted by the indicate. The Republicans of V and so far as I have been advised of no effort to exclude colored pe such policy. I happen to know the meetings and had delegates a ored to strictly comply with the c will be satisfactory to you. ment, attending to our official congressional duties," retorted one of the "prisoners" with apparent indignation. Something fell from his hat as he waved it in protest at his persecutors. It proved to be a "rain check" issued at the park entrance. The trouble started during consideration of a private pension bill when Representative Roddenbery, of Georgia, Democrat, offered an amendment providing for the segregation of colored Civil War veterans and the erection of "Jim Crow" soldiers' homes for their accommodation. It was voted down by the slim gathering in the chamber. Two Boys Killed In Mine. Pottsville, Pa., May 11.—Two boys were killed and three others seriously injured on the outskirts of Mount Carmal by a fall of coal in an abandoned mine working which they were exploring. Since the suspension of the mines miners have been taking coal out of this shaft for their own use. They fired a shot and retired for the air to clear. While they were gone the five boys entered the drift. At the spot where the shot had been fired the roof gave way. John Keretis, aged fourteen years, with a broken leg, crawled to the mouth of the drift, where he notified several men, who came along. They found James Bessloch, aged eighteen, with a broken arm and leg, and Frank Thursick, aged fifteen years, with a broken-leg, both pinned down by the coal. John Mellish, aged fourteen years, and Frank Sketulla, aged thirteen, were found under the mass, their deaths having been instantaneous. Fainte at Sight of Gallewa. As a result of being shown how the gallows works, Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace, under indictment for shooting her husband, was thrown into a faint in the Atlanta, Ga., jail and is still in a hysterical condition. Mrs. Grace was lonely and asked the jailer to show her over the prison. The well meaning official, trying to cheer her, took her to the gallows room. Here he exhibited the black cap and showed her how the noose is adjusted. For her benefit the trap was sprung and she was held low with the pulling of the big lever the condemned man's body falls six feet into space, bringing up with a jerk, which nine times out of ten breaks his neck. As the jailer sprang the trap Mrs. Grace screamed "Ob, I can't stand it," and fell in a faint. Physicians were called and revived her, but she is hysterical, claiming the picture of the gallows is fixed in her mind. Famous Fourier Dead. Ed Callahan, who was shot from ambush last Thursday morning while he was at work in his store at Crockettville, Ky., died of his wounds at the Witherspoon hospital at Buckhorn, in Breathitt county. Callahan was shot through the left lung, and at first it was thought he would recover, the hall having passed entirely through his body and the wound had drained well. Last Friday morning set in and he EDITOR MITCHELL'S QUERIES. Richmond. C., quoted in the daily press that Mr. Melvin F. State Committee that white men must rule at. Please advise me if this is the actual posi tive policy of the organization of which you against the Democratic organization and its Richmond, Va., March 13, 1912. that Mr. Melvin Flegenheimer asserted that the men must rule and govern the affairs of this is the actual position of the present party mention of which you are the official head in organization and its policies in the Old Dominion. Very truly yours. CHAIRMAN SLEMP'S REPLY. House of Representatives. Washington, D. The 13th inst. and note what you have to say the press, as I do not know of him having made Virginia operated under the call of the Nation. Used, all the calls were made in pursuance of people from participating in the meetings and that in some sections of the state the color at some of the conventions. As I have been the call of the National Republican Committee AMP'S REPLY. Presentatives, Washington, D. C., March 19, 1912. What you have to say. I think Mr. Flegenheim, now of him having made any such statement as you over the call of the National Republican Committee, made in pursuance of the national call. I know in the meetings and I have never favored any of the state the colored voters did participate in. As I have before stated, we have endearned the Republican Committee. I hope this explanation Yours very truly, THE PLATFORM PLANTS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM DON'T BOTH WITH I'M BRYAN —Bartholem THE PLATFORM BUILDER. SPECIFICATION'S MATIC PLATFORM DON'T DON'T DON'T ME WITH THEM I'M BUSY! BRYAN AMN'T DEMOCRACY —Bartholomew in Minneapolis Journal. PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM DON'T DOTHER ME WITH THEM I'M BUSY! BRYAN MINISTRY DEMOCRACY continued to grow worse. The famous feudist made his will, and gave a statement of his belief as to the identity of his accusations to the members of his family gathered about him. The names he divulged to them, however, are kept secret. Five Killed in Explosion. By an explosion in the blast furnace of the American Steel and Wire company, in Cleveland, O. Thursday, five men were killed, eight probably fatally hurt and four more were seriously injured. At the time of the explosion the men were inside one of the furnaces taking out a blow pipe, as the furnace was to have been shut down. It is believed that accumulated gas was ignited by a torch carried by one of the men. A sentence of ten years in the penitentiary was imposed on Edward E. Myers, of York, Pa., in Washington for the violation of the white slave traffic law. Myers was convicted of bringing a woman into the District of Columbia for immoral purposes. He brought her to Washington twice, according to the evidence, and on the second occasion kept her here against her will. 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Peters, of Riveride, California, addressed the large delegation on April 25th and assured them they were welcome to the city and its accommodations. Somehow I am always glad to meet the colored people in their religious and fraternal organizations. Your people as a race are moving on rapidly to success. You have all reason to be proud of yourselves, you have less than we have to be ashamed of. I trust that you may have a pleasant stay with us and that you may return soon again. Attorney N. R. Taylor, of Los An. Angeles made the response and met approval of the large audience. Rev. G. W. Hearts of San Bernardino, conducted the memorial services. The conference convened in the Riveride Second Baptist Church, Rev. F. W. Cooper, pastor. Mrs. David Turner of Denver, Col. left last week for her home after spending five pleasant months in Southern California, where she found many old friends and made a host of new ones who were lothe to part with her and looked eager for ward to the time when she may return again. CARD OF THANKS Editor of the Richmond Planet We wish to think through the columns of your valuable paper, the friends for their sympathies and attention upon the loss of our beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Margaret Markham. We are doubly thankful to the U. B. F. and S. M. T Society for such a manifestation of fraternal love, and for the floral offerings sent on the day of the funeral. Respectfully. H. C. MARKHAM, ME. A MRS. H. W. MARKHAM. Dr Shepard Captures the West Dr. James E. Shepard, of Los Angeles, Cal., the president and founder of the National Religious Training at Durham, N.C., spent just five days in the State of California, five of the busiest days of his very active life, the last of April. This was his first visit to the Pacific Coast and the people proved themselves profoundly appreciative of his worth and character as an educator and a man. Dr. Shepard was the recipient of much attention during his brief stay in Los Angeles, Mr. Harry Mitchell, the real estate dealer, took him on an automobile tour of Los Angeles and Pasadena on Saturday, visiting the great ostrich farm and stopping long enough at the friends quarterly meeting to deliver an address. On Sunday, April 28th, he spoke at the South Park Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. G. W. Palmer is pastor and at three o'clock in the afternoon, he spoke before the Colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. T. A. Green, Secretary and at night he delivered an eloquent sermon in the great Pasadena Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Robert Freeman is pastor. At each one of these places great crowds greeted the orator. On Monday, Dr. Shepard spoke to the Methodist preachers in the morn- ing and in the evening at a great educational mass meeting in the Wes- ley M. J., Church, of which Dr. E. W. Kinchen is pastor. This was the most enthusiastic meeting of the kind ever held in this city. The throng which greeted the speaker was extremely demonstrative. There were distinguished white and colored citizens on the platform. Dr. Shepard spoke on Wednesday, May 1st, at the luncheon of the Federation Club and in the evening at the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church He left the city Thursday morning May 2nd. Dr. Shepard is regarded as one of the safe ledgers of his race and by training and experience he has demonstrated great executive ability. Such men as Governor B. R. Glenn, of North Carolina and Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, ex-United States Senator, have devoted several weeks of their time visiting the New England States in the interest of the great school which was started by Dr. Shepard. The famous Dr. W. Y. Chapman, pastor of the great Presbyterian Church at Newark New Jersey, is one of the school's most enthusiastic supporters. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt claims for the National Religious Training School that it is one of the most patriotic and helpful influences among both the white and colored people of the South, now in operation. He says: "Dr. Shepard is doing a really fine work. There could be no finer or more patriotic purpose than the object his school has in view, and the good it would do would be no more to the white as to the Negroes themselves." There is not a man in the state of North Carolina who commands greater influence, for good or who is more highly commanded by all classes of citizens than Dr. James B. Shepard. The National Religious Training School is in operation. tional and is to both sexes of the colored race. The objects are to train ministers and leaders, social settlement workers for home and foreign fields and to furnish means for industrial training in the various useful handicrafts, enabling those who go out from the school to make themselves useful, self-recreating and self-supporting citizens. This school was opened to students a little over two years ago. The property already acquired is conservatively estimated to be worth $110,000. Ten buildings have been completed and are now occupied. Two of the buildings on the school grounds are steam heated lighted by electricity and well supplied with water, are valued at $17,000. Seven buildings, lighted by electricity and supplied with water, are valued at $30,000. The land was given by the white people of Durham and is now worth $12,000. The school has an ideal location just outside of the city of Durham. The school owes in bills and notes but $26,000. The current expenses are but $2,700. The needs of the school are urgent. A $20,000 Theological building is needed, $25,000 for social settlement work and $25,000 for other buildings. The most urgent need is an endowment fund of $2,000,000. The institution is now taxed to its utmost capacity. It is conducting seven departments with 156 students. The present enrollment of the Summer school of teachers and Preachers is 250 representing seven States. Dr. Shepard is a wise leader, a preacher of power, an eloquent lecturer and man of broad vision. He says there are 30,000 Negro preachers in the United States in the various denominations and that but 10 percent of them are well trained in the work in which they are engaged. The need of religious training is therefore obvious. The Virginia Baptist State Convention Much Alive-Large Attendance-A Big Collection. Editor of the Richmond Planet It has been my pleasure and joy to be a member of the Virginia Baptist State Convention since May, 1892. I have only missed three sessions in these twenty-nine years. One who has watched the proceedings for so long a time may lay some claims to the right of passing judgment upon the various sessions. This year the forty-fifth annual session was held with the Shiloh Baptist Church of Salem, where we must fifteen years ago. The attendance was large and some ten or twelve new churches including the great Fountain Baptist Church of Richmond, the talented H. R. Williams, D. D., pastor, were received. Dr. Williams made an address which clearly set him forth as a man possessed of the true elements of leadership for his race. He gave much encouragement to the brethren. During the whole session of the Convention, but a single point of order was raised. The delegates came to do the work of their Master. The reports from the churches showed that thousands had joined by baptism and otherwise, they further showed that the churches composing this great Convention are in a State of most satisfactory growth and prosperity. Notwithstanding the hard winter through which all have passed, there was laid on the table in hard cash exclusive of Sunday's collection, $3,629.00 of, which amount $2,400.00 was sent up for the school in Lynchburg. From New York came such distinguished men as Drs.: Granville Hunt, J. C. Brown and Dr. Sims of the great Union Baptist Church. These brethren made our hearts glad with assurances of support to Virginia Seminary. From Pennsylvania came Drs. C. C. Scott, W. G. Parks, James Moses and your humble servant, all of which accounted for themselves in a hand, some way, financially speaking. Dr. A. R. Robinson and C. C. Scott and Deacon S. J. H. Mayes were made members of the Board of Trustees for Virginia Seminary. Dr. G. L. P. Tallaferro, a long standing member of the Trustee Board was present and showed himself a willing worker for the success of our work. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, of Washington, D. C., was a most welcome member of the convention, and while Dr. Walter Brooks was not present, yet the great Nineteenth Street Baptist Church was heard from with a large financial report. We missed very much the presence of such men as Dr. G. B. Howard, Dr. Wilbanks, Dr. Harvey Johnson, Dr. Holland, Powell and a number of others who were not present in person. The educational department was shown to be in a healthy condition. Dr. James H. Burks makes a wine lender of the trustee board, Dr. R. C. Woods seems born for the position of president of the Seminary, Dr. Bernard Tyrrell was requested by vote of the State Convention to take charge as dean of theology and all know well what that means—a well trained, up-to-date young ministry. Ix. Thomas H. White, of Clifton Forge, now becomes the alert corresponding secretary of the Convention and will therefore contribute much to the interest of the educational work. It was shown that the college at Lynchburg was brought through the severe winter with every teacher, the President, and all current expenses paid up in full to the first of May with more than $400.00 in treasury. It was shown that the school had on roll during the year 300 students, of which number 62 are preparing to preach the gospel. The school buildings are now fitted up with modern appliances—steam heating plant, electric light, grano- lithic walk ways and other improvements necessary for the proper conduct of the schools. Our property is worth $75,000.00 while our mortgage debt is $5,000 Deacon Adolphus Hubies a gentleman worth our $200,000.00 has his whole soul and heart in the work. Court Street Baptist Church and Diamond Hill, supported by White Rock, Mt. Carmel, Fifth Street and Pitmanment and all the rest of the Baptist churches roundabout Lynchburg are in harmony in the prospect of the work. Dr. H. H. Bellinger who has been THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. President for thirteen years, and all the other officers were re-elected by acclamation, and so, the work moves on. This year, Dr. Bowling's church led in the amount of money, given, they brought $400.00 in hard cash. Others of us followed on in less amounts, but large and commandable. The sermons preached this year by Revs. C. E. Jones, B. D., R. W. Ashburn, B. D, and W. H. Moses, D. D., were up to high water mark. The unwelling of the monument to the lamented Dr. R. C. Fox was an important occasion on the third day of the convention. Next year the convention will meet with the Queen Street Baptist Church, Hampton, Va., where we expect to raise $10,000.00. Three Rear Coaches of Norfolk and Southern's "Newbern Flyer" "Turn Over" Norfolk, Va., May 12.—Norfolk. Southern train No. 2, known as the "Newbern Flyer," was wrecked half a mile south of Hickory Ground this afternoon while en route to Norfolk. Nineteen people were slightly hurt. The wreck was caused by te rear truck of the mall coach leaving the rails, causing the three rear conches to turn over. The track was torn up for a hundred yards. The accident occurred at 2:18 o'clock this afternoon while the train was en route to Norfolk. The following statement was is audited by officials of the Norfolk and Southern: Train No. 2, engine 127, consisting of mail car, two coaches and parlor car, due to leave Newborn 9:25, due to arrive Norfolk 3:35 P. M. in charge of Conductor Ferebec, Engineer Fields, two coaches and parlor car derailed and turned over. The coaches turned completely over on side; parlor car partly over; rear truck of mail car derailed, about one-half mile south of Hickory Ground. Accident occurred 3:18 P. M. Train due to leave Elizabeth City 2:14 P. M. was on time; schedule calls for about thirty-two miles per hour. Exact cause of accident at this time not definitely determined; supposition some defect developed with forward truck of leading coach. No. 247, as it was known to be first to leave the track. No one seriously injured. The injured were brought to this city on a special train and sent to St. Vincent's Hospital. Most of them were discharged tonight, and all of them will leave the institution tomorrow. It was stated. List of injured follows: Mrs. Spivey, Hertford, N. C., anglbrushed. M. C. Hortford, Massachusetts, arm hurt. Dr. Dissoway, Plymouth, N. C. right leg wrenched. C. E. Sutton, Norfolk, arm brushed. M. O. Connell, Winchester, Mass. wrist brushed. Emma Bass, Elizabeth City, N. C. side bruised Conductor Ferebee, in charge of train, side bruised. Conductor C. H. Upton, cut on forehead. J. F. Brinson, Newbern, N. C. bruised. H. Owens, Harbinger, N. C. bruised. W. A. Graham, Jr., Richmond, bruised. L. H. Islop, Norfolk, hand, injured. Mary Taylor, colored, Edenton, N. C., back hurt. The following colored passengers, all of Norfolk, were hurt: Mary E. Ward, Oscar Bolt and child, Claudia Bell, Josephine Wiley and child, Emma Nichols and Mary E. Paly. Bonita, Ariz., April 24, 1812. Editor Mitchell. Dear Sir:—Please allow me to advise you to let the Fort Brown and Brownsville troubles with the Twenty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry rest for the present. We now have some thing more important for the race to take up, and that is to begin organizing throughout the country among men and women who wish to better their own condition by returning to their own country. When a dog is driven from home, there is always another door open to it, and that is the way the black race stands in this country. Our men and women are constantly being lynched and burnt alive by the American white people and there seems to be no authority to stop it. Col. Roosevelt when President number of the lawless classes, including some peonage cases. But spoke against it, and prosecuted a President Taft has been very weak on this issue, and we have never seen or heard of him speaking a word against the Negro lynching, and therefore we call for judgment on his administration being responsible for these crimes. Should Mr. Taft remain in the white house, there would be no change in crimes against the poor Negro. Col. Roosevelt will not let anybody run over Him, therefore the Negro should note his way, and take chances on just rule. Mr. Editor, I have just received a long letter from a white pastor of a tabernacle in this country, and he advises that God does not intend for the black race to return to Africa. This seems like what the old white preacher said to the Negro slaves, if you all will work hard for your master and stay at home of nights, you can enter into the kitchen of heaven. If we stay here until we are all launched and burned to death, there will not be any of us to go back to Africa. Please make our petition public, many of the Governors favor the move. CAPITOL SHOE & SUPPLY Co's STORE 210 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, - - VIRGINIA. Remember, if They Fail to Please--Your Money Back--Every Pair is Guaranteed. This is our REMOVAL SALE, as on June 1, 1912 we will open up at our new store, 700 N. 2d St. 100 Pairs' Ladies' White Pumps, were $1.50, now ..... $ .98 100 Pairs Girls' Vici Kid Pumps, were $1.50, now ..... $ .76 100 Pairs Girls' 1 Strap Pat. Pumps, sizes 9, 10 and 10 1-2, were $1.75, now ..... $ .98 200 Pairs Ladies' Pat. Pumps, were $3.00 and $3.50, now (all sizes) ..... $ .98 100 Pairs Childrens' Roman Sandals, Pat. sizes 8 to 11, were $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00, now ..... $ .99 100 Pairs Misses' Roman Sandals Pat. sizes 11 1-2 to 2, were $1.75, $2.00 and $2.50, now ..... $ .98 One Job Lot Ladies' Pat. Vel. and Gun Metal Pumps, were $3.50 and $4.00, now ..... $ 1.88 100 Pairs Grown Girls' Roman Sandals, Sizes 2 to 6, 9 straps, were $2.00 and $2.50, now ..... $ 1.16 200 Pairs Odds and Ends, Ladies' Pat., Tan., Gun., Vel., Suede, White Canvass Pumps, Ox. Ties, Straps, and High Top Shoes that sold for $2.50 to $4.00—To Close Out This Lot now ..... $ .79 150 Pairs Men's High Top Shoes, Gun. and Pat., were $3.50 and $4.00, now ..... $ 2.61 This is positively the greatest cut price sale of good quality shoes ever offered in Richmond. Phone. Mad. 4964. 人 HAIR PARLORS. To the Friends, Customers and the MRS. ROSA E. WATSON IN St. James Street. You can be a formations and Pompadours. Co- on short notice. Straightening Straightening Combs, Ornate and preparations of all kinds for 842 ST. JAMES STREET. ACCOUNTANT—Experien- firms. At present emplo- est references. Correspon- "AC Colored Man Injured—Died Under Operation. To the Friends, Customers and the Public in General: — MRS. ROSA E. WATSON invites you to her Hair Parlors, 512 St. James Street. You can be supplied with Braids, Puffs, Trans- formations and Pompadours. Combings made in Braids and Puffs on short notice. Straightening and Shampooing a Specialty. Straightening Combs, Ornaments for the Hair, Hair Greases and preparations of all kinds for the skin. Phone Monroe-3874. 842 ST. JAMES STREET, BICHDON, VIRGINIA. ACCOUNTANT-Experienced wint both white and colored firms. At present employed. Desires to change. Highest references. Correspondence invited. Address "ACCOUNTANT," Care Planet. Joseph Crass, colored, twenty four years old, whose home was said to be in the rear of 103 North Third Street, was found unconscious and in a dying condition yesterday morning about 6 o'clock at Central and Broad Streets. Whether he had been hit by a passing freight train or whether he was the victim of an assault could not be determined. He was removed to the City Hospital, but despite all efforts of Dr. R. E. Watts to save his life, he died at 11 o'clock. Apparently Cross had been lying in the street nearly all night. His clothes were soaking yet, and he had been drenched to the skin by the heavy downpour of rain. He was found by a negro, who reported the matter to the First Police Station. In a period of consciousness at the hospital, Cross paid that she was assaulted by an unidentified man and robbed of $36 in cash and a gold watch. In his clothes were found a pawn ticket, dated May 11, for a pair of trousers and 70 cents in cash. The evidence apparently does not bear out his statement of having been held up. His injuries included a compound fracture of the small, a broken nose, and his left arm was broken. The prison began an early investigation of the case. Little information which might lead to the facts was obtained. Corner Tyler viewed the body and canned it insulted — Times-Democrat. 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