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JUL Virginia Christian's Appeal for Clemency In The Petition of Virginia Christian, Convict, to His Excellency, William Hodges Mann, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for Commutation of Death Sentence to Life Imprisonment. Your Petitioner, Virginia Christian most humbly represents to Your Excellency that she is awaiting execution for the murder of Mrs. Ida Belote upon a judgment pronounced by the circuit court of Elizabeth City Co. Virginia, on the 9th day of April, 1912. Your Petitioner, by her counsel, will herein place before Your Excellency a brief history of the crime, in order that Your Excellency may intelligently pass upon what will subsequently follow in this her final prayer for her life. SYNOPSIS OF CASE. About a week prior to March 18th 1912, Your Petitioner was accused by the deceased, Mrs. Ida Belote, of larceny of a skirt and was given until the morning of the tragedy to pay the sum of five dollars ($6.00) for it. On the 18th day of March Your Petitioner went to the residence of the deceased, a feud white lady weighing about ninety-one pounds, in compliance with a request from her, where the homicide was committed. Under Your Petitioner's outer garments, in a bag tied around her waist was found a pocket book, the property of the deceased, in which was found money and a ring belonging to the deceased's little daughter. Among the many horrible details of the tragedy, the most shocking was the ramming down the throat of the deceased, a towel, a broom-stick being used (in the opinion of the physician) to force it into her mouth and throat. There are numerous details not necessary here to record, which doubtless influenced the trial court, jury and appellate court in their action taken in this case. Your Petitioner will spare Your Excellency the tedium of a review (Continued On Eighth Page.) Mrs. A. D. Price has been visiting in Washington, D. C. Mr. William Miller is taking his vacation. Mr. R. T. Cogbill, Sr. of South Richmond is improving slowly. Mr. C. H. Gibson of Tuskegee Institute, Ala. passed through the city last week. Miss Cicely J. Diggs of Washington, D. C. is visiting Mrs. Nellie Scott of North Third St. Miss M. L. Chiles and Miss Margaret Brooks have returned to the city. Prof. J. H. Hill of Washington, D. C. is in the city visiting his relatives and friends. Misses Pearl and Robbie Brown and Algernon Pryor of Washington, D. C. are visiting friends and relatives in the city. They are the guests of their cousin, Miss Sarah Brown, North Third St. Rev. John B. Pharr, B. D. and bride have been spending their honeymoon at Asbury Park, N. J. Rev. Pharr has been called to the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church, Ann Arbor, Mich. FOR SALE. 11:12 6-room house, St. John St., $1500.00 6-room house, St. Peter St., $1100.00 2 small houses, St. Peter St., $1400.00 6-room house, Chaffin St., $1500.00 8-room house, Beverly St., $2250.00 3-room house, Taylor St., $850.00 7-room House, Ninth St., $1700.00 6-room house, Jackson St., $2160.00 6-room house, Seventh St., $2160.00 6-room house, Catherine St., $1550.00 4-room house, Byrd Street., $950.00 2-room house, Fifth Street., $2550.00 Bore & dwelling, St. James Street., $2750.00 Knights of Pythias. Lynchburg, Va. Thursday, 20th ult. The Grand Lodge met at 9 A. M. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. presiding. The reports of the officers being the order of business, Sir Mitchell proceeded to read his annual report, being listened to with rapt attention. He told of his rulings and made recommendations for the betterment of existing conditions. His references to the Suprime Lodge attracted much attention and was the subject of much comment during the session. He stated that the combined membership of both the lodges and courts in this State was 10,006. MUCH MONEY COLLECTED The amount of money received in the Endowment Department during the past year in the Grand Lodge was $17,241.00 and—this disbursements were $16,982.27, leaving a balance of $2,218.83. The grand balance in the hands of the Grand Master of Exchequer from all sources was $16,626.26. Adding to this the stock held, the total assets of the Grand Lodge amount to $25,000.00. The report was impressive and in some parts of it awakened much sympathy. At its conclusion, the usual motions were made. The rules were suspended and Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. was unanimously re-elected. THE CONTEST FOR FRIZES The Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Col. Thomas M. Crump made his report and then Grand Master of Exchequer H. F. Jonathan made his report. Never in the history of the Order in the State has such an opportunity been, given for the Uniform Rank display, which was made possible by the liberality of the city officials in granting the City Auditorium for that purpose. The spacious edifice with its highly polished floor was packed in the galleries and on either side of the main floor. The Municipal Band, now known as the K. of P. Band of Richmond, Va., under the leadership of Capt. Moses Johnson discussed lively airs to the delight of the audience. Blue conted officers could be seen peering in the door-ways, interested in the exercises, but with absolutely nothing to do. The order was perfect. On the spacious rostrum, sat Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr., clad in a fatigue uniform of spotless white, surrounded by his staff, while the First Regiment officers surrounded Col. Thomas M. Crump, commanding and Lieut. Col. Thomas H. Wyatt, and Cql. Archer Drew commanding the Second Regiment was similarly situated, the officers from Tide water making a brilliant display. THAT BATTALION DRILL The battalion drill by Pythian Cadets in two companies from Richmond, attired in their white shaccos, with crimson flaps, gold tassels, blue dress coats and white duck pants with boys ranging in ages from 8 years to 16 years, set the house wild ac to speak. They were admirably drilled by their officers and when they marched out the applause was deafening. Then came, the Company drills, participated in by companies from Lynchburg, Roanoke and Richmond. They were applauded as they executed the various movements. The judges selected were Captain Staff of the United States Army retired, Capt. B. A. Graves of the United States Army Volunteers retired and Col. Crump. SUPERB MANEUVRES. The Pythian Cadets were the favorites and the two companies drilled with, regularity that won golden words of praise. The Cadet Drill Team, which moved by whistle was also a feature. Assistant Adjutant General Roccoe C. Mitchell had active charge of this and when he appeared attired in his regulation blue cap, blue: fatigue cost and white trousers, there was much ap- THE Plause. Then came the special team wearing pluses, with United States colors about the waist and with white trousers and white rubber sole shoes. The sight had never been witnessed outside of the military the plays at the Supreme Lodge under the direct command of Major General R. R. Jackson. The ample precision shown by the team occasioned no end of favorable comment and when they filed out the the plause was deafening. The prizes were awarded to the Pythian Cadets and Eureka Co., No. 1 of Richmond. THIRD ANNIVERSARY. Gov. Mann Speaks—Interesting Programme. The Third Anniversary of the Young Men's League of the First Baptist Church of South Richmond was observed last Sunday evening at 3:00 o'clock in the main auditorium of the church. The large and spacious edifice was packed to its seating capacity to listen to the well arranged program of the committee and especially to see and hear His Excellency William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia. On the rostrum were: Mr. W. L. Deane, Mr. W. E. L. Smith, Rev. A. Binga, Jr., D. D., Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., Prof. J. H. Blackwell, Sr., Prof. John J. Smallwood, Rev. J. Walter Harris, Mr. Welford Finney. The following program was rendered: Organ voluntary, Mrs. M. V. Nelson, Singing by 1st Bapt. Church S. S. Choir, S. H. Johnson, director; Scripture reading, J. Walter Harris; Prayer, Welford Finney; Song, Jenkin's Quartette; Remarks, William L. Dean, President; Recitation, Miss Eather Bennett; Solo, John Marshall Ross; Introducing the Governor, Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr.; Address, Subject, "Man." Hon. Wm. Hodgens Mann, Governor of Virginia; Song, Harmony Quartette, Mesara, Gilpin, Hill, Gaines Matthews; Remarks by the Pastor, Rev. Dr. A. Binga, Jr.; announcement; solo, Miss Mallissa Kinney, doxology, benediction, W. E. L. Smith, Master of Ceremonies. All acted well their parts and gained new laurels on this auspicious occasion. Gov. Mann seemed to have been at his best and his address was well received as he portrayed the beautiful and interesting qualities of "Man." The Governor spoke for fully an hour and fifteen minutes, and a silent wave of applause seemed to float over the entire gathering at his conclusion. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr. introduced the Governor in a befitting manner. His remarks were interesting as well as benefiting and seemed to have struck the hearts of his hearers. It may be well said that he is destined to become a great speaker and a public benefactor. — Prbf. John J. Smallwood, President and Founder of the Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute at Claremont, Va. was present and spoke a few words of encouragement. WANTED—Light Complexioned Colored Barber. Sober. Guarantee $10.00. Will send ticket. B. and O. R R. 75 miles from Walthington, D. C. GEO. L. MOXLEY. Rub-My-Tism will cure you. 1 Heavyweight Champion of the World, Surrounded by a Group of Admirers. -Deleated "Jim" Flynn Thursday, July 4th, 1912, at Las Vegas, New Mexico. It Happened in Richmond. A lady on a certain street in Richmond raises chickens in her back yard. One night last week she discovered that a rat had gotten into the coop and was annoying her chickens. The gentleman who lives next door came over and offered his services as a "white hope" to make the ducky rodent "bite the dust." A goodly number of neighbors had gathered and it was supposed that the rat was still in the coop. While the neighbors, armed with broomsticks, rocks, shovels, etc., were guarding the front entrance, the "white hope" armed only with his trusty right foot, crept around the coop to the back. A battle of wits ensued. Finally he thought he saw the rat, emerge from a hole. He raised that right foot and with a mighty sweep he vanished the foe. Great rejoicing. A light was procured and carried to the bloody scene and to, there lay a poor, innocent little chick, flat as a pancake. The gentleman from next door made a tragic disappearance. The management of the Bijou Theater, Richmond's coolest amusement resort, has arranged a show for the coming week that is bound to prove itself a winner from the opening at Monday's matinee. The main feature of the new program is to be "Edna," the Mysterious This remarkable female is said to offer one of the greatest acetal novelties in vaudeville existence and a genuine mystery through and through "Edna" has been the sensation of two continents with this remarkable stunt of hers of which it is said that even the theater employees have been unable to fathom her method of accomplishment. Billy Dunlap is to be another of those present on the bill. He will offer a turn of blackface comedy that will be a surprise and delight to those who are ever on the lookout for what is good in the vaudeville world. In addition to the two acts mentioned these are to be three more classy features shown, making in all, the biggest ten cent offering that has ever found its way to Richmond. At the matinees the prices will be five cents—ten cents at night performances. SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES Pee Dee Section Complaining the Coun- tice of Chesterfield, Marlboro, Darlington, Florence, Marion, Dilton, Hewry & Georgetown Florence, S. C., July 5.—When the time comes to open the court the presiding judge directs the order to openly announce the same. When the teacher wishes to speak to the school he says, "Let me have your at tention." People's attention is dis- rected to certain objects in various ways. The Israelites after being delivered from bondage in Egypt in the course of time became great idolaters. In order to direct their attention to the fact that he was greatly dis- pleased at their manner of living, God told the prophet to say to them that a great eagle with great wings carried off the tender bows of a cedar of Lebanon to a far country. Forestelling the carrying away of the Jews to Babylon. For many years the capitalist, the philanthropist, the teacher and the minister seemed to have preferred working on the coast of South Carolina or in what is known as the "up country." As a result Eastern Carolina was made to suffer. But as I write to-day, living in one of the cities situated in Eastern Carolina or better known as the Pee Dee section of South Carolina, I see with my mind's eye fertile fields of cotton, corn and tobacco, with here and there broad fields of grain and neatly kept vegetable farms. She has many flourishing towns and villages. We mention Cheraw, Society Hill Dovesville, Hartsville, Bennettsville, Darlington, Timmonsville, Marion, Mullins Sellers, Latta, Dillon, Clio, Little Rock, Pee Dee Cartersville, Lamgr, Lumber and Florence. In all these towns we find schools and churches for the elovation of both races. Members of the Negro race have not forgotten the fact that the day of opportunity is at hand. We find him from a clerk in the post office to the bed side of the sick as a trained nurse or a practicing physician. In many places we find him holding his own. He hands out the mall at the post office and serves meals at his own restaurant to the weary travelers. He may be seen on a delivery wagon or as the "star occupant" of an automobile. In Florence where the railroad shops are located few, if any engines ever leave the round house without "this master's words." During train time the Negro is in evidence as a helper in "local" and "transient" commerce. Often it is that he is the first to present the local editor with a first column bloom. Frequently he secures a higher price for his produce than his neighbor, who may have owned his land for years. When the price of cotton goes down he stores the fleecy staple away until there is a satisfactory rise. In his barn during Christmas time you will find stands of lard, hams, sausages and pork to spare. Every year many of our young men and women are sent out as graduates from the public graded schools and colleges of the State, Chaffin University, The State College, Allen University, Avery Institute, Browning Home, Benedict Col- lege and Morris Collego are acting well their part We are gind to say that where the Negro has proven himself to be truthful and industrious the white man has shared with him in the uplift of the Negro race. Revs. F. W. Prince, I. W. Williams, B. F. Humphrey, W. R. Reece, R. L. McFarland, J. R. Brooks, P. A. Callaham, A. R. Bucote, C. W. Law, S. J. Rice., J. G. Gregg, E. Ham, Charles T. Taylor, H. C. Cooper, D. J. Johnson, George Coker, A. J. Stieler, E. R. Roberts, J. J. Rance L. R. Robinson; C. W. Williamson, W. M. Howard and A. L. Wilson. These are the names of many of the ministers who are engaged in the work of evangelizing this part of the Master's vineyard. They will visit the Sunday School Convention. Profa. N. C. Spark, W. T. Singleton, J. L. Caine, S. Lattimore, N. T. Bonner, Butler and E. B. Webster are among the leading male teachers of this section. The people at Red Hill Church are planning for a series of meetings in the near future. On Sunday the Home Mission Society was addressed by E. B. Webster of Florence, S. C. Friends and relatives were very much pleased to see Miss Ellen Dixon return home, who after the closing exercises of the State College at Orangeburg, S. C. spent some time visiting her friend, Miss Marion Goodwin at Western, S. C. On Sunday afternoon many of her friends called and were treated to cake and cream. Among them, Messrs. Reese of Bennottsville, and E. B. Webster, of Florence, S. C. Miss Mary Dixon, a student of the State College assisted. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon were away at Newberry, S. C. The State Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. meets at Darlington on Wednesday, July 18th. Rev. H. M. Moore is President and Prof. Finley of Chester is Secretary. The Convention promises to be a success. We will all be there. The good people of Darlington know how to care for strangers. Most of our leading divines of the State will attend. Revs. Kemp, Gandy, Durham, Baylor, Watkins, Brayley, Johnson, Robinson, Walker, Carroll, Bythwood, Cheek, Penson, Garret, Kershaw, Carter, Sims, Earl, Malloy, Whites, Neal, Boykin, Leak, Bowens, Hannaham, Gansaway, McPhall, Gillmore and many others. On Thursday, July 4th, thousands of people visited Darlington, principally from this section. For many years they have spared no pains to celebrate in an attractive manner the glorious Fourth, consisting of a fitting display of fine stock, such as horses, mules and colts. Prizes are given for decoration, speed and quality. We think it would be difficult to find white women more interested in handling the "trotter" than at Darlington. No one present has ever seen a crowd that acts more friendly. But Darlington is noted for this. We spent the day quite busy conversing with old friends and news papering it. We were glad to meet Revs. W. M. Howard E. Lang, C. W. Williamson, Prof. J. L. Cane, Messrs. Lowis, Bacote, Jenkins, Dumkan et. al. on the street. Many Florentines spent the day at the sister town. We mention Dr. W. F. Holmes, W. P. Rogers, Henry Heart, May Williams, Dr. Strother, Brown, E. B. Webster and others. There are many well-to-do colored citizen families in the town and county of Darlington. As the Dixons, Wines, Bacotes, Brocks, McCray and Purcells at Society Hill. S. C.; E. H. Dews, King Sandiors, Rev. P. A. Callnham, Kelths, Howard, Humberts Dunkan, Moses, Bacchus', Ezekiel, Dargan and Brockington of Darlington. W. Notice! The installation of the officers of subordinate courts will take place Tuesday, July 16, 1912 at the First Baptist Church at 7:30 P. M. and the installation of the officers of the lodges will take place Tuesday, July 16, 1912 at 9 P. M. at First Baptist Church. Notion Richmond, Va., July 8, 1912. Richmond Consistory Scottish Rite Mason: You are hereby notified to meet at the Masonic Hall, 511 East Clay street Sunday, July 14th at 6 P.M. Business of importance. J. F. WRIGHT, Commander W. C. SCOTT, Deputy. Notice to the Public. M. Mmo. M. E. Holmes, graduate Scalp Specialist, and Hair Culturist of No. 16 W. Leigh St. is now open for business and prepared in every way to take care of her customers and the public in her special line of work. A high grade of scalp and skin foods for sale. For engagements call up 'Phone Monroe' 1275. WANTED-General Agent for the National Real Estate Association. Address J. A. MOORE 625 Franklin St., Johnstown, Pa. --- SATURDAY.....JULY 18, 1912 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM The Tariff Is Made the Issue. FOR REVENUE ONLY. Republican Protection System Is Denounced. TAX DOES NOT RAISE WAGES. High Cost of Living Declared to Result From High Tariff—Declaration In Favor of Enforcing the Criminal as well as Civil Law Against Trusts and Trust Officials—Favors Income Tax and Popular. Election of Senators. We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States in national convention assembled, rest firm our devotion to the principles of Democratic government formulated! Thomas Jefferson and enforced by long and illustrious line of Democratic presidents. Tariff Reform We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the democratic party that the federal government under the constitution has no right or power to impose or collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of government benetary and economical administered. The high Republican tariff is the principal cause of the unequal distribution of wealth. It is a system of taxation which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Under its operations the American farmer and laborer man are the chief sufferers. Or raises the cost of the necessities of life of them, but does not protect their product or wages. The farmer sells largely in free markets and buys almost entirely in the protected markets. In the most highly protected industries such as cotton and wool, steel and iron the wages of the laborers are the lowest paid in any of our industries. We denounce the Republican pretence on that subject and assert that American wages are established by competitive conditions and not by the tariff. We favor the immediate downward revision of the existing high and, in many cases, prohibitive tariff duties, insisting that material reductions be especially made upon the necessities of life. Attention entering into competition with trust controlled products and articles of American manufacture which are sold abroad more cheaply than at home should be put upon the free list. We recognize that our system of tariff taxation is intimately connected with the business of the country, and we favor the ultimate attainment of the principles we advocate by legislation that will not injure or destroy legitimate industry. We denounce the action of President Taft in vetoing the bills to reduce the tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and chemical adjectives and the farmers' free list bill, all of which were designed to give immediate relief to the masses from the exactions of the trusts. The Republican party, while promising tariff revision, has shown by its tariff legislation that such revision is not to be in the people's interest, and having been faithful to its pledges of 1808, it should no longer enjoy the confidence of the nation. We appeal to the American people to support us in our demand for a tariff for revenue only. High Cost of Living. The high cost of living is a serious problem in every American home. The Republican party in its platform attempts to escape from responsibility for present conditions by denying that they are due to a protective tariff. We take issue with them on this subject and charge that excessive prices result in a large measure from the high tariff laws enacted and maintained by the Republican party and from trust and commercial conspiracies fostered and encouraged by such laws, and we assert that no such substantial relief can be secured for the people past import duties on the necessities of life are materially reduced and these criminal conspiracies broken up. Anti- trust Law A private monopoly is indepen-dent and intolerable. We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the crimi-nal as well as the civil law against trust and trust officials and demand the enactment of such additional leg-liabilities as may be necessary to make it impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United States. We therefore designate the law of We favor the declaration by law of the compulsions against which corporate shall be permitted to engage in侵犯 trade, including among other acts the prevention of holding companies of interlocking directorates of stock watering, of discrimination in price and the control by any one corporation of so large a proportion of its industry as to make it a monocontrollable condition. We condemn the action of the Republican administration in comproting with the Standard Oil company and the tobacco trust and its failure to invoke the criminal provisions of the anti-trust law against the officers of those corporations after the court had declared that from the undisputed facts in the record they had violated the criminal provisions of the law. We regret that the Sherman antitrust law has received a judicial construction depriving it of much of its efficiency, and we favor the enactment of legislation which will restore to the statute the strength of which it has been deprived by such interpretation. Rights of the State. We believe in the preservation, and maintenance in their full strength, and integrity of the three co-ordinate branches of the federal government—the executive, the legislative and the judicial—each keeping within its own bounds and not encroaching upon the just powers of either of the others. Believing that the most efficient results under our system of government are to be attained by the full exercise by the states of their reserved sovereign powers, we denounce as persecution the efforts of our opponents to deprive the states of any of the right reserved to them and to enlarge and magnify by indirection the powers of the federal government. We insist upon the full exercise of all the powers of government, both state and national, to protect the people from injustice at the hands those who seek to make the government a private agent in business. There is no twilight zone between the matter and the state in which exploiting interests can take refuge from both. It is as necessary that the federal government shall exercise the powers delegated to it as it is that the states shall exercise the powers reserved to them, but we insist that federal remedies if the regulation of interstate commerce and for the prevention of private misapplied shall be added to and not substituted for state remedies. Income Tax and Popular Election of Reporter We congratulate the country upon the triumph of two important reforms demanded in the last national platform—namely, the amendment of the federal constitution authorizing an income tax and the amendment providing for the popular election of senators—and we call upon the people of all the states to rally to the support of the pending propositions and secure their ratification We note with gratification the unanimous sentiment in favor of publicity before the election of campaigns contributions, measure demanded in our national platform of 1908 and at that time opposed by the Republican party and we commend the Democratic house of representatives for extending the doctrine of publicity to recommendations, verbal and written, upon which presidential appointments are made, to the ownership and control of newspapers and to the expenditures made by and in behalf of those who aspire to presidential nominations, and we point for additional justification for this legislation to the enormous expenditures of money in behalf of the president and his predecessor in the recent contest for the Republican nomination for president. Presidential Primaries The movement toward more popular government should be promoted through legislation in each state which will permit the expression of the preference of the electors for national candidates at presidential primaries. We direct that the national committee incorporate in the call for the next nominating convention a requirement that all expressions of preference for presidential candidates shall be given and the selection of delegates and alternates made through a primary election conducted by the party organization in each state where such expression and election are not provided for by state law. Committeemen who are berefter to constitute the member ship of the Democratic national committee and whose election is not provided for by law shall be chosen in each state at such primary elections and the service and authority of committeeen, however chosen, shall begin immediately upon the receipt of their credentials respectively. Campaign Contributions We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law prohibiting any corporation from contributing to a campaign fund and any individual from contributing any amount above a reasonable maximum. Term of President. We favor a single presidential term and to that end urge the adoption of an amendment to the constitution making the president of the United States the candidate for election, and we pledge the candidate of this convention to this principle Democratic Congress At this time, when the Republican party, after a generation of unlimited power in its control of the federal government, is rent into factions, it is opportunity to point to the record of accomplishment of the Democratic house of representatives in the Sixty second congress. We indorse its action, and we challenge comparison of its record with that of any congress which has been controlled by our opponents. We call the attention of the patriotic citizen of our country to its record of efficiency, economy and constructive legislation. It has among other achievements revised the rules of the house of representatives so as to give to the representatives of the American people freedom of speech and of action in advocating, proposing and persecuting remedial legislation. It has passed bills for the relief of the people and the development of our country. It has endeavored to secure the high taxes downward in the most of the commercial business to reduce the high cost of land. It has proposed an amendment to the federal constitution providing the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people. It has secured the admission of Arizona and New Mexico as two sovereign states. It has required the publicity of campaign expenses both before and after election and fixed a limit upon the election expenses of United States senators and representatives. It has passed a bill to prevent the abuse of the writ of injunction. It has passed a law establishing an eight hour day for workmen of all national public work. It has passed a resolution which forced the president to take immediate steps to abrogate the Russian treaty. And it has passed the great supply bills which lessen waste and extravagance and which reduce the annual expenses of the government by many millions of dollars. We approve the measure reported by the Democratic leaders in the house of representatives for the creation of council of national defense which will determine a definite naval program with a view to increased efficiency and economy. The party that proclaimed and has always enforced the Monroe doctrine was sponsor for the new navy will continue faithfully to observe the constitutional requirement to provide and maintain an adequate and well proportioned navy sufficient to defend American policies, protect our citizens and uphold the honor and dignity of the nation. Republican Extravagance. We denounce the prodigate waste of the money wring from the people oppressive exaction through the laxity appropriations of recent Republican congresses, which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the people's toll. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which lent a democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people. Railroads, Express Companies, Tele- graph and Telephone Lines We favor the efficient supervision and rate regulation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone lines engaged in interstate commerce. To this end we recommend the valuation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone lines by the laterstate commerec commission such valuation to take into consideration the physical value of the property, the original cost, the cost of the production and any element of value that will render the valuation fair and just. We favor such legislation as will effectually prohibit the railroads, express, telegraph and telephone companies from engaging in business which brings them into competition with shippers or patrons; also legislation preventing overissue of stocks and bonds by interstate railroads, express companies, telegraph and telephone lines and legislation which will assure such reduction in transportation rates as conditions will permit, care being taken to avoid reductions that would compel a reduction of wages, prevent adequate service or do injustice to legitimate investments. Banking Legislation We oppose the so called Aldrich bill or the establishment of a central bank, and we believe our country will be largely freed from panics and co-requent unemployment and business depression by such a systematic revision of our banking laws as will render temporary relief in localities in which such relief is needed, with protection from control or domination by what is known, as the money trust. Banks exist for the accommodation of the public and not for the control of business. All legislation on the sub subject of banking and currency should have for its purpose the securing of these accommodations on terms of abolute security to the public and of complete protection from the misuse of the power that wealth gives to those who possess it. We condemn the present methods of depositing government funds in a few favored banks, largely situated in or controlled by Wall Street, in return for political favors, and we pledge our party to provide by law for their deposit by competitive bidding in the banking institutions of the country, national and state, without discrimination as to locality, upon approved securities and subject to call by the government. Kural Credits Of equal importance with the question of currency reform is the question of rural credits or agricultural finances. Therefore we recommend that an in investigation of agricultural credit so societies in foreign countries be made, so that it may be ascertained whether a system of rural credits may be devised suitable to conditions in the United States, and we also favor legislation permitting, national, banks to loan a reasonable proportion of their funds on real estate security. We recognize the value of vocational education and urge federal, appropriations for such training and extension teaching in agriculture in co-operation with the several states. Waterways We renew the declaration in our last platform relating to the conservation of our natural resources and the development of our waterways. The present devastation of the lower Mississippi valley accentuates the movement for the regulation of river flow by additional bank and lion protection below and the diversion, storage and control of the flood waters above and their utilization for beneficial purposes in the reclamation of arid and swamp lands and the development of water power instead of permitting the floods to continue, as hereforest, means of destruction. We hold that the control of the Mississippi river is a national problem. The preservation of the depth of its water for the purpose of navigation, the building of levees to maintain the integrity of its channel and the prevention of the overflow of the land and its consequent devastation, resulting in the interruption of interstate commerce, the disorganization of the mail service and the enormous loss of We will properly, because of objection which there can be discharged by the general government. We maintain an adequate depth of water the entire year and thereby ensure water transportation in a communication worthy of legislative attention and present an active national character in the character of the forcement and the Democratic party pledges itself to the enactment of legislation leading to that end. We favor the co-operation of the United States and the respective states in plans for the comprehensive treatment of all waterways, with a view to co-ordinating plans for channel improvement, with plans for drainage of swamp and overflowed lands, and to this end we favor the appropriation by the federal government of sufficient funds to make surveys of such lands to develop plans for draining the same and to supervise the work of construction. We favor the adoption of a liberal and comprehensive plan for the development and improvement of our inland waterways with economy and efficiency so as to permit their navigation by vessels of standard draft Post Roads We favor national aid to state add local authorities in the construction and maintenance of post roads. Rights of Labor We reject our declarations of the platform of 1808 as follows: The courts of justice are the barkwolf of our liberties, and we yield to none in our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our party has given to the bench a long line of rules that we must respect to the respect and confidence in which this department must be jealously maintained. We reject the attempt of the Republican party to raise a false issue respecting the great body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the courts. It is the function of the courts to intercept the laws which the people unlawfully and if the laws are unlawful, injustice and political or political injustice is our duty to change them. The only basis upon which the integrity of our courts can stand is of unawareness of justice and connection of life with justice. Judicial processes may we abuse we should guard them against abuse. Experience has proved the necessity of a measure to injunction and we relegate the pledges of our platform of 1808 and 1809 in favor of a measure which passed the United States Senate in 1808 relating to contempt in federal courts in 1809 by jury in cases of indirect contention. Questions of judicial practice have arti- som, especially in connection with industrial disputes. We believe that the parties to the dispute should be able to deal with with rigid impartiality and that injunctions should not be issued in any case in which an injunction would not issue, if no industrial dispute were involved. The expanding organization of industry should be able to be no abridgment of the right of wage earners and producers to organize for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor conditions to the end that such labor conditions and their members should not be regarded as illegal combinations in restraint of trade. We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law creating a department to administer the president's cabinet, in which department shall be included the subject of mines and mining. We pledge the Democratic party, so far as the federal jurisdiction extends, to an employees' compensation law providing adequate indemnity for injury to body or life of life. conservation We believe in the conservation and the development for the use of all people of the natural resources of the country. Our forests, our sources of water supply, our arable and our mineral lands, our navigable streams and all the other material resources with which our country has been lavishly endowed constitute the foundation of our national wealth. Such additional legislation as may be necessary to prevent their being wasted or absorbed by special or privileged interests should be enacted, and the policy of their conservation should be rigidly adhered to. The public domain should be administered and disposed of with due regard to the general welfare. Reservations should be limited to the purposes which they purport to serve and not extended to include land which unsettled therefor. The unnecessary withdrawal from sale and settlement of enormous tracts of public land upon which tree growth never existed and cannot be promoted tends only to reard development, create discontent and bring reproach upon the policy of conservation. The public land laws should be administered in a spirit of the broadest liberality toward the settler exhibiting a bona fide purpose to comply therewith to the end that the institution of this government to the landless should be as attractive as possible, and the plain provisions of the forest reserve act permitting homestead entries to be made within the national forests should not be nullified by administrative regulations, which amount to a withdrawal of great areas of the same from settlement. Immediate action should be taken by congress to make available the vast and valuable coal deposits of Alaska under conditions that will be a perfect guarantee against their falling into the hands of monopolizing corporations, associations or interests. We relied on the inheritance of mineral resources unequaled in extent, variety or value and in the development of a mining industry unequaled in its magnitude and importance. We honored the men who in their hazardous tail underground daily risk their lives in extracting and preparing for our use the products of the mine so essential to the industries, the commerce and the comfort of the people of this country. And we pledge ourselves to the extension of the work of the bureau of mines in every appropriate for national legislation with a view to safeguarding the lives of miners, leasing the waste of essential resources and promoting the economic development of mining, which along with agriculture, must in the future even more than in the past serve as the very foundation of our national prosperity and welfare and our internal commerce. Agriculture We believe in encouraging the development of a modern system of agricultural turbines and a systematic effort to improve the conditions of brake in farms from one state to another, both the opposing THE FOLLOWING. And do all the useful means to this end we offer the amendment by congress of legislation that will apprise the parishionals practice of gambling in agricultural practice by organized exchange or others. Morrhout Marina We believe in fostering by constitutional regulation, of commerce the growth of a merchant marine which shall develop and strengthen the commercial republic which blinds us to our sister republics of the south, but with out additional burdens upon the people and without imposing bonuses or subsidies from the public treasury. We urge upon congress the speedy enactment of laws, for the greater security of life and property at sea, and we favor the repeal of all laws and the -abrogation of so much of our treaties with other nations as provide for the arrest and imprisonment of seamen charged with desertion or with violation of their contract of service. Such laws and treaties are un-American and violate the spirit if not the letter of the constitution of the United States. We favor the exemption from tolls of American ships engaged in coasar wise trade passing through the Panama canal. We also favor legislation forbidding the use of the Panama canal by ships owned or controlled by railroad carriers engaged in transportation competitive with the canal. Pure Food and Public Health. We affirm our previous declarations advocating the union and strengthening of the various government mental agencies relating to pure foods quarantine, vital statistics and human health. Thus united and administered without partiality to or discrimination against any school of medicine or system of healing, they would constitute a simple health service, not subordinated to any commercial or financial interests, but devoted exclusively to the conservation of human life and efficiency. Moreover, this health service should cooperate with the health agencies of our various states and cities, without interference with their preoperative or with the freedom of individuals to employ such medical or hygienic aid as they may see fit. Civil Service Law The law pertaining to the civil service should be honestly and rigidly enforced, to the end that merit and ability shall be the standard of appointment and promotion rather than service rendered to a political party, and we favor a reorganization of the civil service, with adequate compensation commensurate with the class of work performed, for all officers and employees; we also favor the extension to all classes of civil service employee provisions of the employers' liability law. We also recognize the right of direct petition to congress by employees for the redress of grievances. Law Reform We recognize the urgent need of reform in the administration of civil and criminal law in the United States, and we recommend the enactment of such legislation and the promotion of such measures as will aid the present legal environment and expense and uncertainties incident to the system as now administered. The Philippines. We reaffirm the position thrice and amped by the Democracy in national conflation assembled against a policy of imperialism and colonial exploitation in the Philippines or elsewhere. We condemn the experiment in imperialism as an inexecutable blunder which has involved us in enormous expense, brought us weakness instead of strength and laid our nation open to the charge of abandonment of the fundamental doctrine of self government. We favor an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose to recognize the independence of the Philippines islands as soon as a stable government can be established, such independence to be guaranteed by us until the neutralization of the islands can be secured by treaty with other powers in recognizing the independence of the Philippines our government should retain such land as may be necessary for coaling stations and naval bases. Arizona and New Mexico We welcome Arizona and New Mexico to the waterhood of states and heartily congratulate them upon their amphitious beginning of great and glorious careers Alaska. We demand for the people of Alaska the full enployment of the rights and privileges of a territorial form of government, and we believe that the officials appointed to administer the government of all our territories and the District of Columbia should be qualified by previous bona fide residence. The Russian Treaty. We commend the patriotism of the Democratic members of the senate and house of representatives which compelled the termination of the Russian treaty of 1832, and we pledge ourselves anew to preserve the sacred rights of American citizenship at home and abroad. No treaty should receive the sanction of our government which does not recognize the equality of all of our citizens irrespective of race or creed and which does not expressly guarantee the fundamental right of expatriation. The constitutional rights of American citizens should protect them on our borders and go with them throughout the world, and every American citizen residing or having property in any foreign country is entitled to and must be given the full protection of the United States government, both for himself and his property. Parcel Post and Rural Delivery. We favor the establishment of a parcel post or postal express and also the extension of the rural delivery system as rapidly as practicable. Panama Canal Expedition Poname Canal Exposition. We hereby express our deep interest in the great Poname Canal exposition to be held in San Francisco in 1919 and favor such encouragement as can be property gives. Protection of National Uniform. We command to the several states the adoption of a law making it an Affirmate the the propagation of public public assurance and encouragement to disseminate against the uniformity of the United States similar to the law passed by congress applicable to the District of Columbia and the territories in 1911 Pensions We renew the declaration of our last platform relating to a generous pension policy Rule of the People. We call attention to the fact that the Democratic party's demand for a return to the rule of the people expressed in the national platform four years ago has now become the accepted doctrine of a large majority of the elector. We again remind the country that only by a larger exercise of the reserved power of the people can they protect themselves from the misuse of delegated power and the assumption of governmental instrumentalities by special interests. For this reason the national convention insisted on the overthrow of Cannonism and the inauguration of a system by which United States senators could be elected by direct vote. The Democratic party often itself to the country as an agency through which the complete overthrow and extirpation of corruption, fraud and machine rule in American politics can be effected. Conclusion. Our platform is one of principles which we believe to be essential to our national welfare. Our pledges are made to be kept in office as well as relied upon during the campaign, and we invite the co-operation of all citizens, regardless of party, who believe in maintaining unimpaired the institutions and traditions of our country. Leng Expected Volume, Dealing With the Struggles and Achievements of Afro-Americans In the Keystone State, Ready For Distribution. Scholarship of Author In Evidence. BY N. BARNETT DODSON. Philadelphia—included in the June output of periodicals published by the A. M. E. Book Concern in this city is Dr. R. R. Wright's long expected volume, entitled "The Pennsylvania Negro—A Study In Economic History." The book is the result of Dr. Wright's sociological investigations made while he held the research fellowship in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. The book contains 250 pages, is neatly bound and shows the excellent handwork of the Book Concern. Filled with facts and figures showing the marvelous progress of the Negro through many years, it ought to be in the home of every family of the race. The author treats after the careful manner of a thoroughly trained mind the various present day problems of the Pennsylvania Negro from the point of view of his historical development. He not only asks, for example, what is the amount of crime among Negroes, but what is the history of Negro crime in the state and what are the various agencies tending to produce crime. The chapters are: "Slavery In the Colony of Pennsylvania," "The Abolition of Slavery," "The Free People of Color In Pennsylvania Prior to 1800," "The Negro Population Since the Civil War," "Occupations of Pennsylvania Negroes," "Their Business Enterprise," "Ownership of Property," "Churches and Secret Societies," "Education of Pennsylvania Negroes," "Negro and Crime," "Poverty Among Negroes," "Interracial Contact and Social Progress." Illustrating the method and material used by Dr. Wright, the following quotations are to the point. Under the chapter of "Slavery in the Colony of Pennsylvania" he says: "When the colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, Negro slavery was a recognized institution in the new world. The Dutch and Swedes who settled along the Delaware had slaves. But whence they came is not exactly known. "It is known, however, that as early as 1638 an offender, one Colonisee, was sentenced to serve along with the blacks of South river (the Delaware), and in 1677 one James Sunderlands is said to have been a slaveholder in the Delaware neighborhood. * * * The Penn colony arrived in 1682. Though there is no record of any of them owning slaves at that time, it is probable that slaves were early procured by many. "James Claypool, an Englishman upon deciding to come to Pennsylvania in 1862, wrote, 'Adise me in thy next what I might have two Negroes for.' William Penn, himself owned slaves. The Pennsylvania colonists procured their slaves chiefly from the West Indies." Summing, up his chapter on slavery, Dr. Wright says: "On the whole, as compared with other slaves, slavery in Pennsylvania was child. Yet there was a distinct status." Dr. Wright's discussion of the Negro slave's legal status is exhaustive and exceedingly scholarly. He concludes by pointing out some of the legal differences between Negroes and whites: "As to morals, for example, it was taken for granted that the Negro had but few and was punishable for offences against morals only when whites were involved. For adultery a white person was imprisoned one year and died 150, but there was no penalty for Negroes committing this crime. * * * Negroes were punished by death for five offences, whites for only one. Negroes were usually whitened for minor collisions with other objects. The most striking feature of these is the flare of the Fire Brush shower, where the flame is almost entirely surrounded by color of dusty air, in all these solvents and their filaments to a higher plane of civilization. In introducing chapter 4, Dr. Wright says, "The civil war marks a distinct break in the history of the Negro population of Pennsylvania, causing a decided change in its character." There was a less selected kind of Negro immigration from the south. Newer avenues of labor and opportunities for self expression caused the better class of Negroes to remain at the south. Apother influence was the neglect of the northern Negro by the northern whites, who were so busy attending to the needs of the southern freedmen that they forgot the brother at their doors. The Negro population, however, grew very rapidly after the war, the Negroes congregating in the cities. More than half of Pennsylvania's Negroes live in the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Discussing causes of immigration, Dr. Wright suggests the hope of higher wages and more personal freedom as the main reasons. His detailed comparison of wages and conditions of work in the north and south is highly enlightening. WON HER SPURS AT ITHACA. Miss Clarice A. Jones Returns to Washington With Honors. Washington-- Miss Clarice A. Jones, who graduated in June from the Ithaca (N. Y.) Conservatory of Music, has been the recipient of marked attention since her return to this city. She is regarded as a valuable addition to the musical life of the city and has already received several offers to teach in prominent southern schools. She is a graduate of the high school of this city, being one of the youngest pupils that ever completed the public course course here. During the four years she was a student at the conservatory she marked ability as a mudd A MINN CLARICE A. JONES dan attracted to her many influential friends in both races, and she was in great demand at museums. In a recital in May she took a prominent part and was enthusiastically applauded by the large audience present. She also played acceptably the organ in one of the Catholic churches of Ithaca. Her graduation was attended by her parents, Attorney and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, whose hearts glowed with pride as Miss Jones took her place at the piano during the exercises. She won the plaudits of the many who had come from far and near to witness the commencement exercises. Attorney and Mrs. Jones were the recipients of marked attention while in Ithaca. Mr. Jones is one of the most successful and best known lawyers in the country, and his beautiful home at 1001 Tenth street northwest is the Mecca for the most prominent people in the city. His younger daughter is a student at Pratt institute in Brooklyn. T. R.'S CONVENTION AUG. 1 New Party Will Hold Conclave In Chicago, Save Senator Dixon. The national convention of the new Progressive party will be held in Chicago on or about Aug. 1, it was announced in New York by Senator Dixon after a conference with Colonel Roosevelt and a number of Roosevelt leaders. Senator Dixon said the formal call would be issued in New York in a day or two by the temporary committee on organization. New Trial For MacFarland. By a vote of 9 to 5 the New Jersey court of errors and appeals in Trenton reversed the verdict of conviction on which Allison M. MacFarland was sentenced to die for killing his wife with poison at Newark. The court orders a new trial. The man has been in the death house at the state prison in Trenton since late in the winter. He was sentenced to die in March, when the stay came by appeal to the highest court in the state. : Dragged to Death by Cow While Dolly Dominick Boll, eleven years of age, of Waterville, Albany county, New York, was leading a cow by a rope the animal became frightened by the headlight of an approaching car on the Schenectady railroad. The animal ran directly in front of the car, dragging the child with it. The boy was crushed to death beneath the wheels, his body being terribly mangled. Wolgent to Flight Attell. "ADT" Woolgast and Abe Attell will light in San Francisco. Cal. early in August at 133 pounds ringside. Billy Neiman, manager for Attell, says he will paint a side box for $10,000. PROTECTION AFFIRMED. Recall of Judges Is Called Unnecessary and Unwise. MORE ANTI-TRUST LAW ASKED Also a Scientific Inquiry Into the Cause of High Cost of Living. The Republican party, assembled by its representatives in the national convention, declares its unchanging faith in government of the people, by the people, for the people. We renew our allegiance to the principles of the Republican party and our devotion to the cause of Republican institutions established by the fathers. It is appropriate that we should now recall with a sense of veneration and gratitude the name of our first great leader, who was nominated in this city and whose lofty principles and superb devotion to his country are an inspiration to the party he honored, Abraham Lincoln. In the present state of affairs we should be inspired by his broad statesmanship and by his tolerant spirit toward men. The Party Record. The Republican party looks back upon its record with pride and satisfaction and forward to its new responsibilities with hope and confidence. Its achievements in government constitute the most luminous pages in our history. Our great advance has been made during the years of its ascendancy in public affairs. It has never been either stationary or reactionary. It has gone from the fulfillment of one great pledge to the fulfillment of another in response to the public need and to the popular will. We believe in our self-controlled representative democracy, which is a government of laws, not of men, and in which order is the prerequisite of progress. Confidence in the Future The principles of constitutional government which make provision for orderly and effective expression of the popular will, for the protection of civil liberty and the rights of men and for the interpretation of the law by an untrammeled and independent judiciary have proved themselves capable of sustaining the structure of a government which after more than a century of development embraces 100,000,000 of people scattered over a wide and diverse territory, but bound by common purpose, common ideals and common affection to the constitution of the United States. Under the constitution, the principles visualized by it, the United States has grown to be one of the great, civilized and civilizing powers of the earth. It offers a home and an opportunity to the ambitious and the industrious from other lands. Resting upon a broad basis of a people's confidence and a people's support and managed by the people themselves, the government of the United States will meet the problems of the future as effectively as it has solved those of the past. Legislative Program. The Republican party is now, as always, a party of advanced and constructive statesmanship. It is prepared to go forward with the solution of those new questions which social, economic and political development has brought into the forefront of the nation's interest. It will strive, not only in the nation, but in the several states, to enact the necessary legislation to safeguard the public health; to limit effectively the labor of women and children and to protect wage earners engaged in dangerous occupations; to enact comprehensive and generous workman's compensation laws in place of the present wasteful and unjust system of employers' liability, and in all possible ways to satisfy the just demands of the people for the study and solution of the complex and constantly changing problems of social welfare. Dealing with this question. It is important that the rights of the individual to the freest possible development of his own powers and resources and to the control of his own legally acquired property so far as those are compatible with the rights of others shall not be interfered with or destroyed. The social and political structure of the United States rests upon the with history of the individual, and for the protection of that liberty the proper right to liberty in the general and other constitutions per divine Institution upon themselves and upon their international officers and agencies. To enforce these limitations, to secure the authority and coherent exercise of governmental powers and to protect the rights of even the humble and least favored individual are the function of independent courts of justice. The Republican party renders its intention to uphold at all times the authority and integrity of the courts, both state and federal, and it will over insist that their power to enforce their process and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. Duty of the Courts An orderly method is provided under our system of government by which this people may, when they choose, alter or amend the constitutional provisions which underlie that government. Until these constitutional provisions are so altered or amended in orderly fashion it is the duty of the courts to see to it that when challenged they are enforced. That the courts, both federal and state, may bear the heavy burden laid upon them to the complete satisfaction of public opinion we favor legislation to prevent long delay and the tedious and costly appeals which have so often amounted to a denial of justice in civil cases and to a failure to protect the public at large in criminal cases. Against Recall of Judges. Since the responsibility of the judiciary is no great the standards of judicial action must be always and everywhere above suspicion and reproach. While we regard the recall of judges as unnecessary and unwise, we favor such action as may be necessary to simplify this process by which any judge who may be found to be decellect in his duty may be removed from office. Together with peaceful and orderly development at home the Republics party earnestly favors all measures for the establishment and protection of the peace of the world and the development of closer relations between the various nations of the earth. It believes most earnestly in the peaceful settlement of international disputes and the reference of all justifiable controversies to an international court of justice. The Anti-monetary Law. The Republican party is opposed to special privilege and to monopoly. It placed upon the statute book the interstate commerce act of 1857 and the important amendments thereto and the anti-trust act of 1890, and it has consistently and successfully enforced the provisions of these laws. It will take no backward step to permit the re-establishment in any degree of conditions which were intolerable. Experience makes it plain that the business of the country may be carried on without fear or without distrust and at the same time without resort to practices which are abhorrent to the common sense of justice. New Trust Legislation. The party favors the enactment of legislation supplementary to the exerting anti-trust act which will define an criminal offences these specific acts that uniformly mark attempts to restrain and monopolise to the end that all who obey the law may have a guide, for their action and that those who aim to violate the law may the more surely be punished. The same certainty should be given to the law prohibiting combinations and monopolies that characterise other provisions of commercial law, in order that no part of the field of business may be restricted by monopoly or combination; that business success honorably achieved may not be converted into crime and that the right of every man to acquire commodities and particularly the necessaries of life in an open market uninfluenced by the manipulation of trust or combination may be preserved. Federal Trade Commission. In the enforcement and administration of federal laws governing interstate commerce and enterprises impressed with a public, use engaged therein there is much that may be committed to a federal trade commission, thus placing in the hands of an administrative board many of the functions now by necessity exercised by the courts. This will promote promptness in the administration of the law and avoid delays and technicalities incident to court procedure. The Teri Plank We affirm our belief in a protective tariff. The Republican tariff policy has been of the greatest benefit to the country, developing our resources, diversifying our industries and protecting our workers against competition with cheaper labor abroad, thus establishing for our wage earners the American standard of living. The protective tariff is so woven into the fabric of our agricultural life that to have a tariff that would destroy many industries would throw millions of our people out of employment. The products of the farm and of the mine should receive the same measure of protection. We hold that the import duties should be high enough, while yielding a sufficient revenue, to protect adequately American industries and wages. Reduction Recommended. Some of the existing import duties are too high and should be reduced. Readjustment should be made from time to time to conform to changing conditions and to reduce excessive rates, but without injury to any American industry. To accomplish this correct information is indispensable. This information can best be obtained by an expert commission, as the large volume of useful facts contained in the recent reports of the tariff board has demonstrated. The Tariff Board The pronounced feature of modern industrial life is its enormous diversification. To apply tariff rates jointly to these changing conditions requires closer study and more scientific math Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 N. 1st Street. Richmond, Va. Will positively remove all Dandruff and cure the scalp of all impurities. It will restore Hair on clean Temples and Bald Heads where the Roots are not dead. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. PRICE, 35 CENTS PER BOX. 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We condemn the Democratic party for its failure either to provide funds for the continuance of this board or to make some other provision for securing the information requisite for intelligent tariff legislation. We protest against the Democratic method of legislating on these vitally important subjects without careful investigation. Democratic Bills Criticised. We condemn the Democratic tariff bills passed by the house of representatives of the Sixty-second congress as sectional, as injurious to the public credit and as destructive to business enterprise. The steady increase in the cost of living has become a matter not only of national but of worldwide concern. The fact that it is not due to the protective tariff system is evidenced by the existence of similar conditions in countries which have a tariff policy different from our own, as well as by the fact that the cost of living has increased while rates of duty have remained stationary or been reduced. The Republican party will support a prompt scientific inquiry into the causes which are operative, both in the United States and elsewhere, to increase the cost of living. When the exact facts are known it will take the necessary steps to remove any abuses that may be found to exist in order that the cost of the food, clothing and shelter of the people may in no way be unduly or artificially increased. Banking and Currency. The Republican party has always stood for a sound currency and for safe banking methods. It is responsible for the resumption of specie payments and for the establishment of the gold standard. It is committed to the progressive development of our banking and currency system. Our banking arrangements today need further revision to meet the requirements of current conditions. We need measures which will prevent the recurrence of money panic and financial disturbances and which will promote the prosperity of this country by producing constant employment. We need better currency facilities for the movement of crops in the west and south. We need banking arrangements under American auspices for the encouragement and better conduct of our foreign trade. In attaining these ends the independence of individual banks whether organized under national or state charters, must be carefully protected, and our banking and currency system must be safeguarded from any possibility of domination by sectional, financial or political interests. Loans to Farmers. It is of great importance to the social and economic welfare of this country that its farmers have facilities for borrowing easily and using the money. It is important that financial machinery be provided to supply the demand of farmers for credit. Therefore we recommend and urge an authoritative investigation of agricultural credit societies and corporations in other countries and the passage of state and federal laws for the establishment and capable supervision of organizations having for their purpose the loaning of funds to farmers. The Civil Service We reaffirm our adherence to the principles of appointment to public office based on proved fitness and tenure during good behavior and efficiency. The party stands committed to the maintenance, extension, and enforcement of the civil service law, and it favors the passage of legislation empowering the president to extend the competitive service as far as practicable. We favor legislation to make possible the equitable retirement of disabled and superannuated members of the civil service in order that a higher standard of efficiency may be maintained. We favor the amendment of the federal employees' liability law so as to extend its provision to all government employees as well as to provide a more liberal scale of compensation for injury and death. Corporation Campaign Funds. Corporation Campaign Funds. We favor such additional legislation as may be needed more effectually to prohibit corporations from contributing funds, directly or indirectly, to campaigns for the nomination or election of the president, the vice president, senators and representatives. congress. We nearly approve the recent act of congress requiring the fullest publicity in regard to all campaign contributions, whether made in connection with primaries, conventions or elections. We rejoice in the success of the distinctive Republican policy of the conservation of our national resources for their use by the people without waste and without monopoly. We pledge ourselves to a continuance of such a policy. We favor such fair and reasonable rules and regulations as will not discourage or interfere with actual bona fide homeeakers, prospectors and miners in the acquisition of public lands under existing laws. Parole Poet Recommended. In the interest of the general public, and particularly of the agricultural or rural communities, we favor legislation looking to the establishment, under proper regulations, of a parcel post, the postal rates to be graduated under a some system in proportion to the length of carriage. We approve the action taken by the president and congress to secure with Russia, as with other countries, a treaty that will recognize the absolute right of expatriation and that will prevent all discrimination of whatever kind between American citizens, whether native born or alien and regardless of race, religion or previous political allegiance. The right of emigration is to be neither surrendered nor restricted. For an Adequate Navy. We believe in the maintenance of an adequate navy for the national defense, and we condemn the action of the Democratic house of representatives in refusing to authorize the construction of additional ships. We believe that one of the country's most urgent needs is a revived merchant marine. There should be American ships and plenty of them to make use of the great American interoceanic canal now nearing completion. The Mississippi Floods The Mississippi river is the nation's drainage ditch. Its flood waters, gathered from thirty-one states and the Dominion of Canada, constitute an overpowering force which breaks the levees and pours its torrents over many million acres of the richest land in the Union, stopping malls, impeding commerce and causing great loss of life and property. These floods are national al in scope, and the disasters they produce seriously affect the general welfare. The states unassisted cannot cope with this giant problem; hence we believe the federal government should assume a fair proportion of the burden of its control so as to prevent disasters from recurring floods. We favor the continuance of the policy of the government with regard to the reclamation of arid lands, and for the encouragement of the speedy settlement, and improvement of such lands, we favor an amendment to the law that will reasonably extend the time within which the cost of any reclamation project may be repaid by the land owners under it. Rivers and Harbors We favor a liberal and systematic policy for the improvement of our rivers and harbors. Such improvements should be made upon expert information and after a careful comparison of cost and prospective benefits. We favor a liberal policy toward Alaska to promote the development of the great resources of that district, with such safeguards as will prevent waste and monopoly. We favor the opening of the coal lands to development through a law leasing the lands on such terms as will invite development and provide fuel for the navy and commerce of the Pacific region. Philippines Policy The Philippines policy of the Republic party has been and is inspired by the belief that our duty toward the Filipino is a national obligation which should remain entirely free from partisan politics. Immigration. We pledge the Republican party to the enactment of appropriate laws to give relief from the constantly growing evil of induced or undesirable immigration which is illusory to the progress and welfare of the people of the United States. Safety at Bom. We favor the speedy enactment of laws to provide that someone shall not be compiled to endure involuntary servitude and that life and property is not shall be safeguarded. Republican Accomplishment Republican Accompaniment The approaching completion of the Panama canal, the establishment of a bureau of mines, the institution of postal savings banks, the increased provision made in 1012 for the aged and infirm soldiers and sailors of the republic and for their widows and the vigorous administration of the laws relating to pure food and drugs, all mark the successful progress of Republican administration and are additional evidence of its effectiveness. We commend the earnest effort of the Republican administration to secure greater economy and increased efficiency in the conduct of government business. Extravagant appropriations and the creation of unnecessary offices are an injustice to the taxpayer and a bad example to the citizen. We call upon the people to quicken their interest in public affairs, to condemn and punish lynchings and other forms of lawlessness and to strengthen in all possible ways a respect for law and the observance of it. Indifferent citizenship is an evil from which the law affords no adequate protection and for which legislation can provide no remedy. We congratulate the people of Arizona and New Mexico upon the admission of those states, thus merging in the Union, in final and enduring form, the last remaining portion of our continental territory. Republican Administrations We challenge successful criticism of the sixteen years of Republican administration under Presidents McKinley Roosevelt and Taft. We heartily reaffirm the indorsement of President McKinley contained in the platform of 1800 and of 1804 and that of President Roosevelt contained in the platform of 1904 and 1908. We invite the Judgment of the American people on the administration of William Howard Taft. The country has prospered and peace under his presidency is in vogue. We appeal to the American electorate upon the record of the Republican party and upon this declaration of the principles and purposes. 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The courts have decided that a newspaper who order their paper discontinued at the expiration of time for which it has been paid are held liable for the payment of the subscription up to date when they order the paper discontinued. COMMUNICATION—When writing to us to renew your subscription or to discontinue your paper, you should give your name and address in full, otherwise we cannot find your name on our books. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—In order to change the address of a subscriber we must be sent the former as well as the present address. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va., as second-class matter. NATURDAY... JULY 13, 1912. It has been announced that the attempt to circulate a petition for signatures asking President Taft to retire from the presidential context is not meeting with favor from either himself or his managers and that the failure of the plan is evident before it has really been fairly considered. Ex-president Roosevelt is so disgusted with the idea as to decline to even discuss it. Some people will naturally be wondering why the ticket led by Col. Roosevelt is called the "Bull Moose ticket." When the district,铆ished New Yorker was about to leave Oyster Bay for the National Republican Convention at Chicago, some one asked him how he felt over this situation. His reply was, "I feel like a bull moose." He answered the call of his managers and headed at once for the scene of political trouble. This newspapers of the country took up the statement and "when he decided to put up a third ticket, they at once designated it as the "bull moose ticket." --- WANT HIM TO WITHDRAW. A peculiar report comes from Washington, but which is nevertheless vouchered for by the Associated Press. It asserts that there is a nation-wide movement to petition President William H. Taft to withdraw as the Republican presidential candidate, for the reason that he faces certain defeat unless the breach in the party is healed prior to the November elections. The men concerned in the movement are said to be office-holders, members of State legislatures, which will elect Senators, State and county office-holders. If the movement to have President Taft to retire is successful, then a similar petition will be presented to ex-President Roosevelt. The idea is to have both candidates withdraw in favor of a compromise candidate and the hope is to have the matter adjusted prior to the meeting of the convention of the National Progressive Party, while meets in Chicago, August 5, 1912. The movement is asked to be in the hands of several well-known members be added by many extreme Roosevelt Republicans. This is said to be putting the fate of the Republican Party up to President Taft. It places him in a most embarrassing predicament. Can he step aside now unless the people who nominated him request him so to do and will a majority of those people join in such a request? This is the proposition, plain and simple. Surprising things are happening now-a-days and this is one of them. We shall wait and see what shall happen. Yes, we can afford to wait and see. COL ROOSEVELT'S PREDICAMENT Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt has no doubt many times thought about his utterly indefensible approval of the recommendation of the War Department dismissing without honor about 161 colored soldiers in the United States Army, belonging to Companies B, C and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. There was an amusing happening in New York City, Wednesday, July 3, 1912 which upon a small scale bore a striking similarity to the Brownsville affair, which for so many years has agitated the country. Here is what the New York Sun Here is what the New York Sun says: A few evenings ago Col. and Mrs. Roosevelt passed along Jackson avenue. Woodside. In the Colonel's automobile on the way to Oyster Bay. When the machine had regoped Fifth street a small boy threw a stone which struck Mrs. Roosevelt. The stone was small and she was not hurt. The brakes on the ex-President's car were quickly set, the machine came to a sudden halt in front of William Bendelbach's hotel and the Colonel jumped out. Going to the hotel his patrol out a crowd of barefooted, dirty faced urchins who were scampling away. "One of those little rogues threw a stone into my automobile," the Colonel is reported to have said, "and he ought to be spanked." A laborer who had recognized the Colonel came up and added that what the boys most needed was a thorough licking. LB and the former President started down Jackson avenue in search of the culprit. They rounded up a knot of stockingless behemoth small boys in a corner and the Colonel drove the issue home with a direct question as to which of them had thrown the stone. Not one of them would own up or admit that he knew who it was. As a general spanking of everybody in sight seemed unadvisable, the Colonel tramped back to his car, leaving the wrong unavenged. When this incident was recalled to Col. Rojosevelt at Oyster Bay last night he did not deny it. "Too triflicant an incident to make any comment upon," he said. It should be noted that these were white uarchins. Still it was too frilling an incident to make any comment upon. He did the only thing that any one else would have had to do—leave them alone. He did not know who threw the stone but according to his ruling in the Brownville case and the decree of the War Department, every one or the war. Department, every one of those ushings should have been spanked, the innocent with the guilty. That he did not do it in this case, emphasizes the fact that he should not have done it in the other. But then it was "too trifling an incident to make any comment upon." and so it goes. SHALL COLORED MEN SUPPORT WILSON? The question which is presenting itself to the colored men of the country is, "Shall We Support Wilson?" In answering this question, colored citizens should, first of all, ascertain his past relationship in dealing with the public. It should be the aim of every one interested to find out if Gov. Wilson has an antipathy to citizens of color and whether he accepts in good faith the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and willingly lives up to their drastic provisions. There can be no question as to Gov. Wilson's pleasing personality and his attitude towards white men, the question is. How does he stand in his relationship to colored men? True he was born at Staunton Va. which produces some of the best stock in the United States if we may so designate it. White men from the Piedmont Valley are known for their liberal views, their liberality and their disposition to accord equal and exact justice to all men, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Iras Hison. Woodrow Wilson changed during his travels over the Southern and Northern past. over the Southern and Northern part of this country or is he a broad minded economist upon this as well as upon other questions? When these queries are answered, then it will be in order to take up the platform of the Democratic Party in which Senator Newlands of Nevada endeavored to have engrafted a plank calling for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It may be well to state that his proposition seemed to have met with but little consideration at the hands of the convention, although it is known that many Southernners favored the proposition. The Northern colored vote however made such a proposition out of the question By Lucian B. Watkins. O trembling string of melody! Sweet lay That hulls the care-worn world! thou blessed boon!— Whose was the hand that struck thee into tune And 'woke thy music in this heavenly way? Whose heart responded here unto the sway Of Fancy's wand tipped with the gold of June? Whose soul here shed its glory as the moon Spreads o'er the sleeping earth its silver ray? Unknown! We may not ever know whence came This beam of beauty; and may never trace Upon the sallow sands of time the name That bore this treasure to the human race.— Yet, from the lives of men its worthy fame Eternity itself can ne'er efface. LINES. By Lucian B. Watkins. The swimming creatures and the winging throng That melodize the heavens with their song: The truest pattern of the grandest tree. The vales below and all the hills above.— There's nothing perfect—save the girl I love. when it is known that colored men are actively affiliated with the Democratic Party of the nation and it was reported that there was at least one Negro delegate there. From a political standpoint, the Democratic Party is no place for the colored people as such. True, a few of our people may find admission there, but the history of the party, negatives the idea of any considerable number of our people enlisting under its banner. This campaign though will afford a rare opportunity for the colored voters of the country to make their voting power felt and appreciated. It can hardly be doubted that thousands will support the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. Many thousands will support Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft will find a loyal guard of colored men doing all in their power to bring about his reelection. But shall colored men support Gov. Woodrow Wilson? This is the question which will attract most attention and when his manager has been chosen and the "school-master" candidate for President has been interviewed upon the subject, then will the rank and file of our people be in a position to answer the burning issue, and decide upon a course of action in the pending campaign. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The Ex-President In a Char- actertistic Campaign Aptitude. 1912 by American Press Association. Ad Wolgast, the lightweight champion, was given the decision over Joe Rivera in their fight at Los Angeles, Cal., in the thirteenth round of their fight. Rivera and the beat of the fighting much of the way and the outcome of the fight was unpopular with the record crowd people. Referee Jack Welch gave the decision to Wolgast on a foul. All beta were declared off by the referee. Wolgaet Wins on Foul. melody! Sweet lay worn world! thou blessed boon!— and that struck thee into tune in this heavenly way? and here unto the sway hoped with the gold of June? and its glory as the moon ing earth its silver ray? not ever know whence came y; and may never trace of time the name are to the human race.— men its worthy fame eer efface. NES. the brightest day, of the whitest night, of beauty to the sight, clouds of shadows gray, laughing of the gay, of purest white, which our souls delight selves some way. any things I see.-- fatures and, the winging throng gavens with their song: the grandest tree, the hills above.-- save the girl I love. FOUR STRIKERS SHOT IN FIGHT Furnacemen at Palmerton Zinc Plant Walkout. A THOUSAND ARE IDLE Stackade Has Been Erected About the Works and Armed Men Are Now on Guard. Following the inauguration of a strike of a thousand furnacemen at the plant of the New Jersey Zinc company, in Palmerton, Pa., serious riots occurred there. In a pitched battle between a mob of foreigners and a force of deputies under Sheriff Hegel, of Carbon county, four foreigners were seriously wounded. They are John Morell, Steve Warnack, Joe Baston and Cyril Wassuk. The last named was taken to the Palmerton hospital and is reported to be in a critical condition. The other three are being concealed by their friends. The trouble began last Saturday, when the foreigners, in addition to demanding the reinstatement of seven men, asked for an increase in wages. It seems as if it cochampion were determined at all hazards to keep its other plant going, although earlier in the trouble a threat was made to close that also. A stockade has been formed around the west plant, with guards at entrances and along the lines, and the workmen who were inside are being kept inside. To furnish them meals, provision trains have arrived from New York with cooks, and cots have also been secured. The rioting began when it was proposed to make the shift. Rocks were thrown and officers retaliated. Sheriff Begel was sent for and he is on guard with twenty-five men. Searchlights were put into service during the night, and when strikers came in sight the guards chased them. At midnight there was an inter-change of shots between the guards and the strikers, but nobody was hurt. A dead line was established by the aberliff, and whenever plicking is attempted the strikers are driven off. During one of these clashes the four men were shot by the deputies. The foreigners are leaving in scores and trajna were fairly packed with them. At the Palmerton station Constable E. F. Bach, of Lehighton, serving as a deputy, was knocked down by a handcuffed striker whom he was going to take to fall. Before the constable recovered the prisoner had been helped across the canal by friends and he made his escape, the handcuffs being amached with stones. STRIKING MINERS RIOT Homes of Non-Union Men Are Riddled by Rifle Fire. As the result of wild rioting among the striking coal miners in the Paint Creek field near Charleston, W. Va., orders have been issued to the two regiments of the national guard to hold themselves in readiness for field service. It is known that the striking miners received 400 additional rifles, mostly Winchester, the latter part of last week. The man have been on a strike since April, and it has been only a few weeks ago that coal detectives and miners engaged in a pitched battle, in which several were wounded. A NEW BUILDING is to be erected on the present site of RICHMOND HOSPITAL as soon as the contributions are sufficient to warrant it. There are 40,000 Colored People in Richmond and we are asking for ONE DOLLAR at least from each one. Send it as soon as you read this to our DEPOSITORIES—The Mechanics' Savings Bank, The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank or to Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Secretary and Treas. (Over St. Luke P. S. Bank, Corner First and Marshall Sts. MEMORIAL ROOMS—The old patients of Dr. J. C. Ferguson, Dr. S. H. Dismond, Dr. Sarah G. Jones, Dr. A. W. G. Farrar, Dr. Charles White, Dr. Charles E. Wilder will have an opportunity to contribute to a Memorial Room in honor of each of the distinguished dead physicians. The old friends' away will please send money direct to the Banks indicating the room it is for. The old friends in the city will please give to the President of the Clubs, (if not conventient then send to the Banks and get receipt). Dr. Dismond's Club, Mrs. Ello O. Waller, Pres, Mrs. Martha Harper, V. Pres.; Dr. Sarah G. Jones' Club, Mrs. Mary E. Carter, President, Mrs. Eva Bowler, V. Pres.; Dr. A. W. G. Farrar's Club, Mrs. V. H West'Gilles, Pres.; Dr. Charles White's Club, Mrs. R. S. Patterson, Pres.; Dr. Charles E. Wilder's Club, Mrs. G. V. Williams, Pres.; Dr. J. C. Ferguson's Club Mrs Antonette Ferguson, Pres. Contributions not limited to $1.00. Send as many more as you please. DO IT NOW! Any information desired by those who wish to contribute will be furnished by the Hospital, Banks, or the ladies in charge of each proposed Memorial Room. THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($3,000.00) HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBSCRIBED. Several hundred miners, who were armed, scattered along the hillsides at Mucklow and opened fire on the homes of non-union men; but none of the occupants was injured. Several hundred shots were fired and some of the houses were fairly riddled. 65 ENGLISH MINER'S DIE Many Met Death In Attempt to Rescue Comrades. A double explosion in the Cadeby colliery at Sontsbrough, Yorkshire, England, caused the death of sixty-five miners. Many others are missing, and the officials of the pit think that the total death roll will reach eighty. Among the victims are three government inspectors of mines. Many of the men met their deaths while engaged in an attempt to rescue their comrades, who were cut off in the galleries by the first explosion. During their search a second and more terrible explosion occurred, which killed most of the rescuing party. The two big explosions were followed by three minor explosions, but despite this party after party of rescuers went down the pit to attempt to succor their comrades, only, however, to find them dead. The deaths were all instantaneous. Most of the bodies were mangled by the force of the explosions. An accumulation of gas which was ignited by the firing of a shot is believed to have been the cause of the disaster. Victim of Christian Science A Victim of Christian Science. Coroner Iles, of Yonkers, near New York, is investigating the death of thirty-nine-year-old Helen Esther Whipple, daughter of Manager Clayton J. Whipple, of the American Multigraph company, of Yonkers. The girl died of scarlet fever, and had no medical aid, according to her own father, who is a Christian Scientist. —Let THE PLANET be your weekly companion. Only $1.50 per year. "Thon Shalt Not Steal." Two thieves broke in the store at 309 N. 2nd Street and stole therefrom a lot of Summer clothing. They took away 10 suits of our beat 50 cents per suit underwear. Not being satisfied with these they looked around and spied our cool alapaca and serge coats that we sell for $1.25, $2.00 and $3.00 and they grabbed up 12 of these. They were arrested and convicted and fined $10 each but the judge reuced the fine to $5.00 each if they would pay for the goods. They agreed to do this as the goods were so cheap for the price and kept them so cool during the hot weather that they concluded that they had a bad gall. Now they advise you to go to 309 N. 2nd St. and get your Summer underwear and a serge or alapaca coat that will only cost you $1.25 $2.00 $3.00 or $3.50 without being disgraced by stealing them and save the cost in police court. They would also advise every preacher in this city and county who has to preach so hard every Sunday trying to warn sinners to die from the wrath to come to go there as early as possible and get one of these cool alpaca or serge coat 42 inches long that will only cost you $2.50 $3.50. Best grade $5.00 and $6.00. You will also find there an up-date line of collars ties and socks. They handle the best 25 cent silk sex in all colors in the market. Don't forget them when you are in need of a nice serge suit for yourself or boy. All the $15; $1 and $20 serge have been reduced to $7.50 $8.00 and $10.00. Boys suits made from worsted fabrics from $1.50 to $3.00 and $4.00 per suit. 500 pairs single men's pants from $1.25 - $2.50 to $3.00. Original price $2.00, $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per pair. 500 pairs boy's knee pants, knicker bocker style ranging in price 25 cents to $1.50 per pair. They handle boys knee pants in sizes from 4 to 18. They also have on hand a nice line of boys crash hats and caps from 19 cents to 39 cents. Please do not forget these people because Mr. Hook the city inspector ran them off Broad St. and caused them to move on a side street at 295 N. 2nd St. about 75 feet from Broad Van De Vyver College, North 1st St., Richmond, Va. OPENED OCT. 2nd, 1911 SIX DEPARTMENTS. THE ACADEMIO DEPARTMENT Will Prepare Its Students Medicine and Journalism THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Offers a Thorough Truth Law, Stenography and T THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Will be in charge of the Millinery, Housekeeping. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT Will Embrace Vocal Cultus AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION Will at a Haitian Women SPECIAL NIGHT CLASSES in the Grammar and Ac men and women for a P For particulars and terms apply. REV. CHARLES 709 North MOTHER KILLS TWO CHILDREN AND SELF West Chester Woman Turns on the Gas. Will be in charge of the Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Millinery, Homekeeping, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT Despondent from fear of a return of a malady from which she was supposed to have recovered, Mrs. Florence Boyd, aged, forty-one years, the wife of Edward Boyd, of West Chester, Pa., killed her two children and herself with gas. The family, who lived at 124 Linden street, came to West Chester last April from Kennett Square, where the husband and father had charge of a large estate. He found work, on the West Chester Traction line as a motorman. After he left home, Mrs. Boyd, having prepared breakfast for the children, May, aged seven, and Noble, aged five, went upstairs to a secondary room where they slept. She closed the doors and windows, stuffed the crevices with paper, turned on the gas and lay down beside the little ones to die. Women, neighbors noticed as the day wore on that the Boyd children were not about as usual, and fearing something was wrong began an investigation. No being able to enter the Boyd home, they became alarmed and noised their fears about. They called Dr. Oscar Dick, and he succeeded in entering. He found the woman and two children dead. They had been lifeless for several days. S. B. Russell, deputy coroner, who investigated the tragedy, was of the opinion that the case was plainly one of murder and suicide, due to the woman's state of mind. The husband, when informed og the affair, was prostrated. HOBOES PLAY BASE BALL "Swat" Sphere So Lustily Burgess Lets "All Go. Thirty tramps, rounded up in Plymouth, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., were trotted out on a baseball field by Burgess Morris and divided evenly and told by his honor that the winning aggregation was to be fed and ordered from town, while the losers were to go back to the lookup and remain prisoners for two days, putting in their time pounding stone. The burgess called one set the "Never Works" and the other the "Toll Fearers." Heumpired. The "Never Works" were first to bat, and they pounded the leather so fiercely that twelve runs came over. The "Toll Fearers" had a chance to --- MENT Institutes to Take up the Study of Law, Law. MENT Training in Book-keeping, Commercial Typewriting. DEPARTMENT the Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. TEN Train, Piano, Vocallon and Pipe Organ. DEPARTMENT men of young men as Chambers. Academic Grades. We prepare young Professional Course in our night school Y. HANNIGAN. President, North First Street, Richmond, Va. awing their clubs, but they went after the sphere like a baby for candy before they were retired. All the Weary Willis entered into the contest with a vim and they played as if not only their liberty, but their lives as well, depended on the result. The third inning was a repetition of the others, the "hoboes" responding to "rough house" tactics to get enough runs to win the game. The fourth inning was a hummer from the start. It waxed warm throughout and they played all sorts of tricks to get over the runs. When they got back to fail the burges fed them as he promised, and, to the surprise of all, declared that the game had been so hotly contested he believed one was as much entitled to victory as another, and released every one with the understanding that they leave town in ten minutes. Three Dead From Poisoned Food. Three are dead and thirty-seven ill as a result of eating poisoned food at the home of Mac Canady, near Garfield, Ga., on the Fourth of July, according to information reaching here. Mystery surrounds the wholesale poisoning of the Canada family, who had gathered for a reunion. Boy Drowns at Shore Gus Schultz, of Philadelphia, lost his life in the ocean off New Jersey avenue, at Atlantic City, N. J., while thousands of persons congregated on the beach and boardwalk watched the thrilling attempt of the life guards to get to the drowning lad. It was the first drowning of the season. Eats a Torpedo: Dles. Andrew Hoffman, of Appleton, Wis., who ate a torpedo, mistaking it for candy, died. He had some caramels and torpedoes, both wrapped in red and white paper, in the same pocket, and chewed a torpedo by mistake. His face was blown away. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for hard stabborn and curly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your dreggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Owenland Ug Marrow Company, Chicago, IL. 7 oe eds .° Pere, ee eee a eae yes SATURDAY. .......JULY 18, 1012. CHARLES 0. HILLES. eS Taft's Secretary Chosen to il Manage Campaign. HILLES TO. LEAD TAFT FIGHT President's Secretary Heads National Committe 7 nenous.” & seaeum Geveral Names Presented For Treat urer, But No Selection Has Seat Made. £ . Charles D. Hitles,“of Ohlo, privat secretary to the president, was made gational chairman of tne Taft organ! gation by the sub-committee of the na Uonal committee after a covference with the president. James B. Reynolds, of Musnachu setts, m momber of the tariff board wan choten ‘secretary. in Chairman Hilles end the full na tonal committee will mest on Friday, July 19, at the Waldorf-Astoria In New ‘York to appoint a treasurer, exccutive committee and advisory committee. Otto Bannard, of New York; Charles G.. Dawes’ and David R. Forgan, of Chicago; John Wanamaker, of Phila. delphia; &. F. Swinney, of Kanwas City, and John. Hays Hammond, of Washington, were consldered for treas- uror, but not oven a tentative decision was reached. . . Mr. Hillea will resign as secretary to the preatdent on Saturday night. it is thought Mr. Taft will turn the dusitfess of the executive offices over to tho two assistant secretarion, Ru- dolph Forster and Sherman Allen. Headquarters of the nattonal com: mittea, aro to ‘be.opened in New York the first of next week. | Tho opening of headquarters at Chi- cago and at Portland, Ore., was prac- Ucally decided upon. Ralph E. Wil Uams,* former Ropublican national committeeman for Oregon, {s to take charge of the far western offices. Willlam Barnes, Jr, the New York state chairman, who demandod the placo fn return for hia work at Chicago} in jamming through the renomination of Mr. Taft, was rejected. No secret 1s made of the fact that ‘Mr, Taft and-the sub-committee agreed to eliminate Barnes for foar that ho would be a dead weight to the Taft forces, particularly In the west. It was aiulmitted that his selection ‘would be tantamount to flaunting before the voters the methods by which the Taft nomination was managed. The committeemen were reluctant to select Daugherty, of Ohio, the pres!- dent's personal choice, and Hilles was reluctant to leave his berth in the White House. ' . . Pad y : RESORT FIRE-SWEPT IN ST. LAWRENCE Thousand Island Park early & fire’ has, practically wiped out ‘Thousand Island Park tn the St. Law. reace rivor. * ‘The Columbian and Wellesley hotels ate in ruins, as are almost all tho other buildings 1p the business pert of the park. Many cottages have been de- atroyed, and the fous, early placed at more thay $200,000, will'run far be- yond that xomunt, although difficult at present to catimals.” . 2 The fire wrarted In” HaVer'n dapari- Ment storm. A strong wind quickly agreed the flames. mntil netgkboring @tores’ were In flames. A telohone @iarm wes immediately sent to both ‘Alexsaéria Bay amj Clayton.“ .° id Bo quickly did the sames spread (usin on howr'the Colombian hotel’ - ® “SE a ie at os . . es . e i , ¥ . Jack Johnson, .- was fn rung, the New York state edu: cational building bad been destroyed and the postofiice. the chapel and oth- er buildings were burning. . With the catching of the Wollealoy hotel, the fire spread throughout the park. Probably 200 cottages and boarding houses wi!l be consumed be fore the flames are conqacred. NOTED AIRMAN JS KILLED Rene Bedel’e Monoptane Is Capsized by Striking Telegraph Wires. Rene Bedel, one of the most experl: enced alrmon of France, met death In sight of thousands of treopx at Mour- molos-Le-Grand, France. Bedel, who had conte fn his mono- plane from Villacoublay, near Paris, to participate in mancuvers, Wax about to descend, when ‘his mvnoplano struck telegraph wirew. Hix machine capsibed. Bedel was hrown, to the ground and the motor fe!l on tm. “Moviea” to Show American Beauty. For the benefit of Europeans unadle to come fo the United States to see the natural beauties tr boasts, this scenery fa to be taken to them. It will be shown fn the farm of moving: pleturan, now belng taken In Yellowstone, Youe mite, Mount Ranier an othor national parks of the Went. 20 Penntes Everybody's Share. ‘Treasury officals cxt!mate that thero are now 1,952,131,5%1 peantes in lr. culation. This {x twenty cents for each of Uncle Sam's nincty odd suillions of people, : Destructive Hail In North Dakota. Hail and wind storms awept over northeast North Dakote, doing great damage to growing crops. One storm jewent clean a distance of three miles wide and clght miles long north of Grand Forks. Hall waa banked along the rogdsides a foot deep. ~ Civil Service For Navy Yard Mechanics Ton thousand navy yard mechantca will pass ander the protection of the eivilrervice law when President te signs the oxecutive order now bein! prepared by-the navy department of finle in’ conjunetion with the civil gor. tice commissioners. Lightning Strikes Seven Guardemen. Six officern and one private of the First regiment, Hlinola national guafl, Were injured when a bolt of lightning atruck @ tent {n which they sought sdelter from a severe storm in Spring- field. All will recover. ———9 ——_— $100.00 Eadqwmeant Paid. Roanoke, ‘Va., 1912. This is to certify that I have re- cetved, from Jobn “Mitchell, Jr., Grand’ Worthy Counsellor. of Mie Grand_ Court -of--¥irgints,-Order--of Calanthe ($100.00) One Hundred Dollars in payment, of the death- claim of Sister Lacy R.- Tate, who was a momber of Magic City Coert, No. 83 of Roanoke, Va." _ . Signed: —~W, A. Tate, - Beneficiary. Witness: . i Jolie & Caeseer - FARMVILLE (VA) NEWS, Farmville, Va., July §.—The whee! of time te still revolving, bringing tc us in current history many expect- ed and unexpected events to be pinced upon memories calendar for the present and future generations. The political anpect In thin country at present, presenta a condition {0 which our people are placed by both the Republican and Democratic Par- iles which causes much thought by tho tenders of our people. ‘Noither of the two great parties seem to care of them would be glad to have bim for the Negro, in fact {¢ seems both eliminated, Wo are looking to the launching of tho veasol of a new party and seo what inducoment they will offer to our people. z Rev, R. J, Butt, pastor? of tha Beu- lah A. 3M. E. Church arrived Friday with his bride of Winchester, Va. We wish them much success. Misa Mary Llzrlo Robinson came home last week from an oxtended trip to Florida, She wan greeted, by her many friends. Mina Josephine Yqung, who has been visiting hor sinter In Now York City returned homo last week look- ing well as usual. . Misa Hattle Cousins lett for New York City. . Mr. Stanley Clark of dur town will be married to one of Richmond’s| fair maids on Taosday. Mra, Wille Auattn of Grove atroot in on the aick lat. x Mra. Maggie Watkins of Sonth St. in reported Il. Tho Firat Baptint Church fixed her Summer Rally Day on First Sunday in Auguat. This rally will be man aged by twelve young ladies. Suc- cean is the watchword. -. ‘Mra, Delmo Lucas Paige who has been visiting parent in Roanoke, Va. has returned and as usual fited ber seat in the Church. { Teoabarg, Va. News. Sunday was an ideal day. The M F, Church was open al) day. A ten days’ revival was started. Rov, Mut ray “will he quite busy. We hope they will kavo abundant success. Not having, nervice in two Suntays every one Was giad to hear a soed ,sormon. |The colabrated: “Baby St.""Goncert ‘at the M. E. “Church last Friday night was exceedingly pleasing ta the large audience that attendod. We hear it in to bo repeated. ‘A few of Iseabure’s elect enjoyed ploanant social at the Odd Fellows Hall. Tho night of the Fourth. We had a sane Fourth, The Baseball nino went to Alex- andria today to play ball. We hope they will win. 4 : Mr. and Mra, James Thompson df Washington spent a few days fast week with Mra. Robert Williams, - + Mise Virginia Craven of Alezaa- dria ia spending a month with ber punt, ‘Mrs. Robert Walker’!n Wost wae Ste : We are sorry to hear tbat Mra. Noble” Adams {s ‘quite sick in her horas. . is ‘The ladies of the Provideat Bap- tlet Cherch held a very successful Laws Party ‘on the Church green Seturday night. | - | Rvery one will be pleased to see Rev. Tyler next Sunday. . . $50.00 Endowment Paid. | > Roanoke, Va., July 4, 191 This Is to certify that I have re celved from John BMitchell. Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth: lan, N. A., S. A. En. A. A. and A., ($59.00) Fifty Dollara tn payment of the death-claim of Brother Georgo locklayer, who was a member af Magic City Lodge, No. 181 of Roaa- oke, Va. Signed—EMa Locklayer, Bonoficiary. Witnesses: : Dr. lL. D. Burrell, D. D. G. C. Sir H. J. Moscley. Sir W. G. Taslor. —— » —__ $150.00 Endowment Paid. } Richmond, Va., July 3, 1912, Thin, in-to certify that I hare ro ceived from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of’ the Grand Ledge of Virginia, Knights of Pyth fas, N. A. S.A. En. A. A. and A.. ($150.00) One Hunured and » Fifty Dollara in payment of the death- claim of Brother Lowis Fox, wha was a mertber of Georgetown Lodge, No. 159 of Peakes, Va. : her Slgned:—Emeline x Fox, _ ‘ mark : Beneficiary. Witnesa: Anderaon Fox Witnesses: J. G, Smith, R. Hi. Tinsley, K. of R. and S. 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WashingtoS, Honoraty President... The Sixth Me. Zion Bapt. Charch wishes to take. all ts members aad friends on the above Wate and have them enjoy this one day of oxcep uonal recreation. The excuralon will be manayed b7 as cfclent com mittee, thie aswiTing every ona & trip of comfort and plessute. Chit- dren and ladies without pxcorts will be looked after by special commit tee. Best ordor will bo observed on ‘the train, Refreshments will be sold on board by & committee of courteous ladles apd gentlemen. Bo on time an wel Teave at 9:15 a. m., shorp—Raln or Shine. “ - Fare for the round trip, adults $1.00: children under 12 yearn, 50c.. Tickets can bo secured any time from July 1 to date of-excursion. Apply to Quinn Shelton, 1301 N. Ist Bt; Joneph N. Myers, 2 E. Baker} St. Rev, RV. Peyton, 1015 St. Jamon street. % Committco of Arrangements—Rob ert Gray. Chairman: N. W. Boulding Secretary; Joseph N. Myers, Quinn Shelton, Oliver Thompson, Alfred Exelestan. George Walker, R.A. Preston, Solomon Woodron, W. HI. Woodson, Charles Branch, Charles Lane, P. H. Winston, Walter ,Pota- dexter, Moses Cheatham, Samucl Trent, Henry Robinson, George W. Gilea, James Straus, James Burton. DO YOU KNOW HIM? Consul General Crum’‘s Letter, + May 1, 1912: John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of Rich. mond Planet, Richmond, Va.: My Dear John Mitchell.—I aave deen trying to'locate Joba Richmond brother of Wiliam Rtchaiond, a cot ored American who died here about three weeks after hin arrival of ma- Mgnant malaria, called the black wa- ter fever out here, Willidm Rich- mond registered In this office ss an American citizen, giving as his near- eet Kin, John Richmond. whore post office addrene i= America was xiven at Pembroke Store Postumice, Camp- bell county, Va. ‘ T addressed a dispatch to the State Department, reporting the death of Willlam Richmond. requesting that they aasist me in locating the bro*her of the deceased, The department acknowledged the receipt of tho dis- patch. I wrote -fobn Richmond, sending the letter to the above ad- dress, The letter was returned marke] uncalled for. ‘Thy property of the Weceaned, con sisting of traveling” bag, clothing. ‘money and bank book are ii my possession. I am anxiovs that bis effects reach his brother, or if he be dead, satisfactory proof of the snme muat be furnished tn order that T can proceed In settling the estate. I «now no one Detter qualified than yourself to whom I can-turn for as- alstance. Will you help me find the belr of William Richmondteeeeees 1 take this opportunity to con- Rratulate you upon the splendid nhowing of the Mechanics’ Bank In tts achievements in ‘the ficld of f nance. If industry, honest endenv- or, perseverance, determination and inte.ligent mauagement are essen- tials of nucceas (and they aro) theo your future and the success of the Kreat Qnancial {natitution of which you are the honored head Is assured. 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If too cold it must be heated. It is a bad plan to bring the cream into a warm place to stand overnight. It may be already quite sour, and during the long slow heating process it is developing more acid and deteriorating in quality. Nor should it stand on or near the stove. One portion of the cream is sure to become overheated, the fat melts, and the curd toughens and appears later in the butter as white specks. The proper method of heating cream is to set the can in a vessel of warm water at a temperature of about 120 degrees. Stir the cream constantly, watching the thermometer, and when it is within one or two degrees of the required heat lift it from the water. The necessity for the constant use of a reliable thermometer must be emphasized. The finger as atherometer is not the least bit of good. I might say here, in buying atherometer have several placed in a glass of water at about 90 degrees and take one which gives a medium reading. Suppose they, read 61 degrees, 59 degrees, 57 degrees. I would pick the 59 degrees as likely to be the most correct. Cheap thermometers are often quite inaccurate. Temperature Must Be Studied. No definite temperature for churning can be given. That is ascertained only by studying varying conditions and noting the temperature and time of previous churnings. Aim to make conditions under your control favorable to a low churning temperature. It insures better butter and a more exhaustive churning. With right conditions a temperature which brings butter in from twenty to thirty minutes is correct. A range of temperatures of from 54 to 59 degrees for summer and from 54 to 64 degrees for winter meets usual conditions. The cream should always be strained into the churn through a fine wire sleeve or a dipper with a performed tin bottom. When necessary add just sufficient butter color of a reliable brand to give the butter a clear yellow tint. From two to four drops per pound of butter is sufficient. It is not necessary to stir the coloring in. Just rinse off the spoon in the cream and put on the lid. The revolutions of the churn depend on the amount and richness of the cream. The poorer the cream and the less of it the greater the speed. Churn just as fast as you can no longer as the cream drops. After the butter breaks keep up the speed and watch the slight glass to see how the butter is gathering. If the gathering process is coming on quickly add a couple of quarts of water several degrees lower than the cream. We often have the water very cold if the churning has been too quick. This water retards the gathering, lessens the likelihood of over churning and gives a more exhaustive churning. When Water May Be Added. If conditions are normal the water may be added just before the churning is completed, revolving the churn rather rapidly after it has been added. The water thins the buttermilk. This gives the butter a better chance to float, and the buttermilk runs off more freely. When the butter is the size of wheat grains it is sufficiently gathered. Locally, at the inside of the churn lid. When no tiny specks of butter and only a few large ones are seen or it the churning is usually finished. Other signs are the butter standing out well on top of the buttermilk with foam bubbles over it and when no particles of butter come with the first drawn buttermilk. These are noticed if the buttermilk is allowed to run through the strainer dipper placed over the pail for catching the buttermilk. Any butter which may escape with the last drawn buttermilk is caught in the dipper and returned to the churn. Make a drain through the butter in the bung hole and rinse the butter with a little of the wash water. This makes the washing more effective, as it carries off a great deal of the butter termilk. An exhaustive churning should not leave over 2 per cent fat in the butter termilk. There are many good reasons for having the butter in granular form rather than in large joints when finished churning. First - There is no extra loss of fat. Second - The buttertermilk can drain away better and may be more than easily washed out, as no much of it Third. All portions of the butter are equally chilled with the wash water. Fourth. The salt may be more evenly distributed. Temper the wash water in winter, having it from 50 to 56 degrees, according to the condition of the butter and the temperature of the room. In hot weather the wash water may be as cold as possible. The water must be pure or it will The water must be pure or it will spoil the butter. Use as much water as there was cream and strain it into the churn through two thicknesses of cheese cloth. Immediately revolve the churn rapidly about a dozen times, then draw off the water, letting it run through the strainer dipper to arrest particles of butter. The more butter is washed the more it is robbed of its flavor. Good butter should be washed at once. If the butter has an objectifiable flavor or has come soft or is to be packed for winter use it should then get two washings. Should the only water available not be cold a cup or two of salt added to it slightly lowers the temperature and helps to draw the buttermilk from the butter. Balt = Matter of Teate Balt in butter is a personal taste, and the amount to use should be determined by the consumer rather than by the producer. Use nothing but the best dairy salt. Buy it in quantities and keep it in a clean, dry place. If the butter is for immediate use and is sailed on the worker three-quarters of an ounce per pound of butter is usually sufficient. If you sait it in the churn use an ounce, as not so much is incorporated into the butter. For the high class trade this would be too heavy salting. This trade calls for three things—light color, delicate flavor, little salt. I strongly recommend saiting in the churn. Have the butter evenly spread over the bottom of the churn. Flift on part of the salt. Tilt the churn forward to cause the butter to lap over, sift on more salt, then tilt the churn backward and pet on the remainder of the salt. For a large churn a strong, large wooden fork is convenient to mix the salt in and also to take the butter from the churn. After salting put on the lid and very slowly revolve the churn until the butter forms in several lumps. If too firm it will be slow at gathering and the lumps will be small. If too soft it will quickly gather into one large lump. The butter may now be taken out and immediately worked, but it is much butter for it to stand for an hour or two in the covered churn to allow the salt time to dissolve, then give it one good working. Do not allow it to become too hard or too soft. If salting on the worker take the butter from the churn, weigh it and allow three-quarters of an ounce of salt per pound of butter. Spread the butter evenly over the wide end of the worker, sift the salt on evenly, fold the butter over the salt and begin working. May Make Your Own Butter Worker. For the farm dairy there is nothing nicer than the V-shaped lever butter worker. It is not expensive and is a great server of time and strength, besides preserving the grain of the but- BUTTER WORKER. ter. A person handy with tools can make a better butter worker than is turned out from a factory. Butter should be worked just enough to expel the excessive moisture and thoroughly distribute the salt. The brick shaped pound printer is the most popular form in which to market local butter. Make the rubber of the butter level and press the print or down into the butter until the mold is well filled. Cut with a butter spade the surplus butter from the bottom. In taking the butter from the printer place the thumbs on top of the handle and the fingers under the ledge at the ends and pull up, but do not press down hard. Pressing down bulges the print of butter at the sides. Wrap the print neatly in good parchment paper which has been previously wet in clear cold water. Good paper should be clear in color, fairly heavy and tougher when wet than dry. It is the right thing to have printed on the paper the name of the farm or the maker, but it must be done with the proper ink or it stains the butter. This trademark is often the means of securing a choice trade. A little printer's ink used in the right place brings in good interest. Have on hand some plain paper in case a churning is below standard. Sell it for what it is worth, but risk not your reputation by putting inferior butter, up in your printed wrappers. Be sure the print of butter weighs at least sixteen and a quarter ounces when freshly wrapped in the wet paper. At each churning it is well to weigh a print. A slight allowance must always be made for evaporation. Keep the butter in a place where the atmosphere is cool, clean and not too dry. If the place is dry the moisture rapidly evaporates, lessening the weight and bringing the salt to the surface, where it crystallizes and gives the butter a poor appearance. Get the butter, after it has firmed, as soon as possible to the consumer. Butter quickly loses its delicate, fine flavor. It always pays to cater to the best trade. Such people are willing to give more for butter of extra quality, and when they become need to a certain choice flavor they will take no other brand. —Subscribe to The PLANET. Look Out For the Opening Chapters Of Our Next Serial The Taming of Red Butte Western Author of "The Honorable Senator Sagebrush" Read this story in which a coward tackles the most hopelessly demoralized railroad west of the Rockies and its crew of outlaws, makes a real man of himself and substitutes law for chaos in the Red Desert. THE BOLIN CASE SETTLED National Association's Part In Big Civil Action Noted. Drops Into Well Twice, but Is Saved. The three-year-old child of Albert Stepp, living two miles from Canton, Tex., fell feet foremost into a thirteen Large Sum For Association Work. Besides the large aunts secured for the work and maintenance of educational institutions among Afro-Amer Big Civil Action Noted. No one can follow closely the work of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People without being convinced that it came into being for a specific purpose. The association was organized to combat the spirit of persecution and prejudice which confronts the colored people in this country. The organization also exists to assure to the race every right, privilege and opportunity to which every citizen of the United States is entitled. Theoretically all but those most limited with race prejudice grant the justness of those principles for which the association contends. The July issue of the Crisis is an educational number. It contains special news about our colleges, with illustrations, and also has a number of other articles of timely interest. It also refers to the now famous Bolin case as follows: From time to time we have reported the progress of the Bolin case against the Palisades (New York) Amusement park. Last summer Mr. Paul C. Bolin, organist at St. Philip's P. E. church, New York, together with his brother, Mr. L. W. Bolin, his wife and some friends, went to Palisades park, where several of them were refused admittance. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People became interested in the case and tried to get a criminal indictment. The local district attorney was dilatory, and nothing was done. Then on advice of our attorneys a civil suit was brought. The company saw no escape and, having no defense, promptly came to terms by paying the Bolins $300 cash for damages and giving the family a free pass for the season. If there is any further color discrimination at Palisades park we should be glad to hear of it. —If you answer any of these Ads, please mention The PLANET. BY FRANCIS LYNDE "The Honorable Senator S with a coward tackles the most h ockies and its crew of outlaws, law for chaos in the Red Dese Drops into Well Twice, but is Saved. The three-year-old child of Albert Stepp, living two miles from Canton, Tex., fell feet foremost into a thirteen inch bored well sixty feet deep. But through the use of a mirror the child could be seen; and the little follow was constantly crying and calling to his grandpa to come and get him. The grandparents and parents were wild with excitement and overcome with grief at their inability to afford immediate succor. Forty or fifty men and women were soon gathered, all anxious to get a loop over the child to draw it out, but with no avail. A negro boy twelve years old was let down, and, getting the child by the sleeve, both were drawn up halfway. The sleeve gave way and the child fell back to the bottom. All were horror stricken for fear the fall would certainly kill the child. Then they tied a rope to the leg of the negro boy and let him down head first. He put the loop of a rope about the child's body, and then the two were drawn out separately. The miraculous part of the incident is that the child was only bruised a little and not seriously injured. -Christian Herald. Risks Life For a Dog Dangling at the end of a rope 100 feet down the edge of a sheer bluff. Arthur Wilson, a prisoner at the St. Louis workhouse, risked his life to rescue a little fox terrier which had fallen over the cliff and had been caught in the branches of a tree growing out of the declivity. While he clung to the rope with one arm he was compelled to fight the dog with the free hand, and finally, after the dog had torn his wrist, he managed to get the end of the rope around the animal's neck and climb back at the top of the bluff to the cheers of his fellow prisoners. Wilson volunteered to rescue the dog. He had been a sailor for many years and on a rope had the agility of an long trained in the navy. The rope end was held by prisoners and guarded at the top—New York Times. In Part I From Half of Snake Half of a copperhead snake seriously threatened the life of W. W. Steele while he was cutting ginseng in a self-sear Morgantown, W. Va. Steele discovered the reptile and cut it in half with the box. The front half, however, immediately gave battle, and Steele had difficulty in protecting him self before he could crush the snake's head. -Detroit Free Press Nothing on earth is so valuable as a Human Mind. If a diamond is worth polishing at great trouble and cost, much more the mind of a boy or young man worth all the polishing that the schools can give it. The best education is not too good for a premature youth. Who would choose a poor physician or a poor cook when health is in danger? And who would choose an inferior school or a poor dollar when a better school will increase the strength of character and of mind for life and prepare our for a larger success! Dermstory, Virginia Union Unit PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Enlarging and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be pleased to Quote you Prices on Exterior and from Old Photos, A Specialty. Geo. O. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, 603 North 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Large Sum For Association Work. 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Battered, but still fighting, bathed in gore from head to foot, and with a knockout his evitable finish, the man-eating Pueblo fireman lost to John Arthur Johnson, king of all heavies, in the ninth round. Police interference one minute and forty-five seconds after the closing period started brought the titular clash to a sudden finale while both men were milling at a terrific pace. A short, powerfully-build wing of the law, Captain "Fred" Fornoff, of the New Mexico mounted police, is the man of the hour. Packing a 44 that spoke louder than words, this official horned through the flag draped ropes to perform his duty, and quickly. As he later stated, the bout had ceased to be a contest of boxing skill. Instead, wholesale butchery was being committed, with the dusky monarch slowly but surely pounding Flynn into the land of god. Both fighters had resorted to foul tactics, though Flynn was the first offender, buttling, clawing and sweating like a madman and repeatedly disregarding the warnings of the referee. "Ed" Smith. Eight times during the abbreviated run of this heavily boosted combat the third man paused Flynn, on each occasion threatening to disqualify him if he again slammed his blonde bean against John Johnson's golden smile. Five times Smith "called" the champion for holding and locking his opponent's rapid fire arms, in ahort, both parties were guilty: John son's bear hug applied at close range robbed the chunky Flynn of the use of his most effective weapon, in-fighting, and to tear himself free from Johnson's clutches "Jim" resorted to PREPARES FOR NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE PREPARES FOR NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Local Organization in Chicago Takes Time by Forelock. Interest is now being directed toward the coming meeting of the National Negro Business league to be held in Chicago for three days beginning on Wednesday, Aug. 21. It will be the thirteenth annual meeting of the league, and the sessions will be held in the Seventh regiment armory. The local business league in Chicago is actively engaged in working out every detail of arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors who will come in large numbers from every section of the country. Mr. W. D. Neighbors is secretary of the local league and is prepared to register the names of delegates and visitors in advance of the meeting. It is the aim of the local league as well as it is the desire of the executive committee of the national organization to make the coming meeting purpose that of last year in Little Rock, Ark. Besides the meeting of the business league there will be held the fourth annual meeting of the National Negro Press association, the National Bank association, the National Financial Directors' association and the National Negro Bar association. The usual reduced rates on all railroad will be allowed to those attending the convention. Special Public THE BOXING GAME butting. In this way he got in bad with the New Mexican authorities. FLYNN'S NOSE BROKEN EARLY. As on the occasion of Johnson-Burna's quarrel at Rush Cutters Bay, December 26, 1908, the police part of the entertainment, was the right and proper solution in to-day's fight. Flynn early awakened to the fact that his chances were slender and grasped the only alternative, that of roughing it. As a rough house miller, the Puebloan is finally entitled to man cases may be had upon application where a sufficient number of persons desire to travel together. Many speakers of note will address the various organizations during the three days' meeting. Scholarship For Layton J. Wheaton. In the recent competitive examination at Storer college for a free scholarship in Lincoln university Layton J. Wheaton, son of Attorney J. Frank Wheaton of New York, was the victor. Young Wheaton is fond of outdoor sports and has carried first honors many times in the great athletic contests of the school during his student residence at Harper Ferry, the seat of Storer college. Mr. Wheaton will enter upon his studies at Lincoln university when the school opens next fall. Record For U. & Cola. The highest price ever paid for an American coin, and possibly the highest ever given by a collector for a rare coin of any mintage, was $8000, which Henry C. Chapman, of Philadelphia, paid for an American half-eagle that is the sum of the collection gathered by George H. Earle Jr., of Philadelphia, and now being ammended by Devin & Harvey, $10 Walnut street. Only one other coin of the same pattern, and that an inferior specimen, is in the possession of the United States government. The specimen bears the date of 1790. Three of the pattern, were minted, and the third never has been recorded in any collection. It is believed to have been either lost or destroyed. all the medals. His nose broken from a terrific right hand uppercut in the fourth round, another long silt in his left cheek and both eyes glassy from the effects of Johnson's brand of punishment, the fireman surely looked the part of a rank out sider when the gun man burst upon the scene. But Flynn was far from through. Outweighed as he was twenty-two pounds and with the past master of his art towering head and shoulders above him, Flynn never slackened pace. Head down and with his jaws ROOSEVELT TO HEAD NEW PARTY Progressive Convention Nominates Him For President. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for president as an independent in the dying hours of the Republican national convention in Chicago in which he had met defeat. The followers of Colonel Roosevelt gathered in Orchestra hall, less than a mile from the Coliseum, and pledged their support to the former president. In accepting the nomination Colonel Roosevelt appealed to the people of all sections, regardless of party affiliations, to stand with the founders of the new party, one of whose cardinal principles, he said, would be "Thou shalt not steal." The informal nomination of Colonel Roosevelt was said to be chiefly to effect a temporary organization. A call is to be issued for a state convention in Illinois, the work of organization will be pushed forward rapidly, state by state. At a later time, probably early in August, it is intended that a national convention shall be held. Colonel Roosevelt, in congratulating the nomination, said he did so on the unwinding that he would willingly stop aside, if it should be the center of the new party, when organized, to select another standard bearer. protected after his own crude style. the challenger was incessantly boring in, playing, in vain, most of the time for Johnson's midriff. It was while thus engaged that Flynn assimilated the bulk of his whaling. Then came the sudden wind up. That Flynn lingered to the ninth was through no fault of his own. As early as the second stanza Johnson presented his title seeker with a series of bone crushing clouts that all but stiffened the lion hearted Flynn. Then, as if playing the part of the cat that kidded the mouse, John "The Progressive Party" was the name chosen, and it was the announced purpose of the leaders to take over the machinery of the Republican party in states where the organization is in control of the Roosevelt men. In such cases the Republican candidates for state offices may be indorsed, if they do not wish to go through the form of bolting. The plan suggested by William Finn, of Pittsburgh, of turning over the electoral votes of such states to Roosevelt, whoever the Republican candidate for president may be, will be followed if it can be accomplished. Burns Herself to Death. Saturating her clothing with coal oil at her home in Lewisburg, Pa., Mrs Harry Diefenderfer, aged thirty years, set fire to them and then ran screaming into the yard. Member of a fire company next door to her home ran over and rolled her, in blankets, but not before she was literally roasted alive. She was dead when carried into the house. Temporary insanity is given as the cause of the terrible act. Four years ago her father, Brady Marsh, committed suicide by jumping into the Bus quebanna river. 22 Murderers at Sing Sing. Three murderers will be executed in the death house at Sing Sing prison, N. Y., on July 5. They are Gul seepo Ciprelli, George Williams, a nen, and Zanta Santa. There are now twenty-two murderers in the death house in Sing Sing, the largest number of condemned men ever kept at that institution at any one time. Arthur resumed his comedy sketch joking awhile with the assembled populace, which totalled up about 4,500 strong, then occasionally rocking Flynn's sky piece with sledge hammer jolts, released at short range. Not until the fireman called upon his butting proclivities did John soon really warm to his task. THREE TO ONE ON JOHNSON. Confidence percolated from Johnson's every pore throughout the bout while Flynn was the picture of agony MOUNT BETHEL BAPTIST TO MEET IN WASHINGTON. Cosmopolitan Church Selected For Annual Session Aug. 20. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Mount Bethel Baptist association will meet in Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 20. The sessions will be held in the spacious auditorium of the Cosmopolitan Baptist church, of which the Rev. Simon P. W. Drew is the founder and pastor. The churches within the jurisdiction of the association have greatly increased in membership during the fiscal year. The attendance of delegates and visitors will therefore be larger than that of previous years. The committee of arrangements has the matter of entertainment well under way and will be prepared to accommodate the throngs which will be in attendance. The annual sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. Winn of Baltimore. At the evening session of the first day the feature will be the doctrinal sermon, which will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. Watkins, also of Baltimore. Some of the noted musicians and vocalists of the city will be heard at the various sessions of the association. The large territory covered by the method association makes it possible for it to do its full quota of missionary and educational work. While the denomination should not neglect its missionaries on the foreign field, attention is called to the fact that there is a aggressiveness and determination. All the odds were against the tin cared fighting man, and despite his months of conditioning and storing away of sheer grit there was not a ghost of a chance for his elimination of Johnson. Betting folk boosted the odds to three to one on John Arthur long before the bell clanged, and the coin was paid over, as under Smith's ruling the wagers go. Johnson made good the bulk of his plunging bets. In fact, the only money-mad gamblers who missed connection were those who wagered that pressing need for an increase of funds for home mission and educational work. YOUNG ARTIST AIMS HIGH. Success of A. J. Franklin at Herron Institute Attracts Attention. The work of young Arthur J. Franklin, student in the Herron Art Institute, in Indianapolis, Ind., has attracted much attention in the educational circles of the city. Mr. Franklin is naturally fond of drawing and painting and shows unusual ability in the use of the brush. In the arrangement of colors and the selection of subjects he manifests rare skill and delicate taste. He has only been a student at the Herron Art school for about nine months. His crayon and oil sketches, however, bear the mark of a finished painter. Being directed by experienced teachers who are deeply interested in his promising career, young Franklin has devoted the greater part of his time to portrait painting in oil from life since he commenced his studies at the institute. While the various professions seem to be crowded with workers, Mr. Franklin believes in the survival of the fittest and that there is plenty of room on top. He is young, well reliant and persistent. With these necessary essentials to succeed, coupled with his love for his chosen calling, he has made up his mind to make the best of his opportunities —READ THE PLANET— "Jack" would flobr "Jim" before the fourth round. There was not a knockdown at any stage, not even a trip up, yet both were battling savagely, with Johnson always exercising discreet caution in striving to block Flynn's attack on the red, white and blue belt line that encircled "Jack's" light blue war regalia. Flynn's head was always the softest kind of target for the champion's uppercuts and crosses, which darted in and landed flush more than fifty times before the curtains were drawn Occasionally the trip hammer jolls were shelved, according to Johnson's wishes, and then his sure-shot left hanged against Flynn's dripping probots, stimulating, as it were, the flow. On form displayed by the Negro foody, his title will not be given into another hand for two years, or at least so long as he backs away from the challengers of his own color. All the exports who inhaled rosin and dodged gore this afternoon are agreed that a championship combat between chony hued giants won't draw a corporal's guard. So, for the present, "Jack" will place his laurels in a safety vault and blossom out an mine host at his new cafe on Chicago's southside. CHALLENGES FOR BOTH WINNER AND LOSER A telegram addressed "Referee, Ringwite," was delivered Just before the fight. It was signed McMahon Brothers. New York, and was a $20,000 offer for a Joe-Jenette Johnson match in that city. Another message from New York asked that Johnson be challenged from the ring for Jenette. It added that Victor Breyer of Park offered Johnson $30,000 for a thirty round contest there with Jenette. "Al" Palzer wired a challenge to the winner, saying he had posted a $5,000 forfeit in Cincinnati. Luther McCarthy wits. Flynn a win or lose challenge, the sight to be in New York if arranged. Up Cliff to Save Woman. Attacked by vertigo in a perilous climb up the cliffs near Hunter's inn, one of the beauty spots near Ilfracombe, England, an American woman visitor was rescued by Robert Gregory of Barnstill, England, who saw her predicament. She reached a point where she seemed unable to go forward or retrace her steps. Mr. Gregory ascended the cliffs and found her clinging to the rocks in a state bordering on collapse, and below a sheer drop of 250 feet. Mr. Gregory with difficulty brought her to safety. -New York Times Lightning Unseats a Girl In an electrical storm at Owosse, Mich., a bolt of lightning knocked a chair from under Miss Hazel Vankirk, aged sixteen, and sat her down on the floor unharmed. The chair was hoisted to a sofa, several feet distant. The Vankirk family was at supper. The bolt of lightning struck the roof directly over the dining room, split the rafters and ripped up a lot of shingles, then apparently shut down one side of the room and along the floor to where Miss Hazel was sitting. New York World. Soldiers May Engage in Business. Members of the Ninth United States cavalry have earned up $110,000, which they wish to invest in wholly legitimate business in the interest of the race, says the Dallas (Tex.) Exprom. They contemplate the establishment of a department store to consist of a bask- ing system, millinery and dry goods, shoe, drug, grocery and restaurant departments. --- Virginia Christian's Appear for Clemency. (Continued From First Page.) and retrial of this case and will continue her prayer for clemency to "such matters as have occurred since the trial," and to such other matters as will appear to Your Excellency were impossible to be put in the precinct. First of all, the crime proven to have been committed by Your Petitioner was executed with such violence that the community was considerably stirred by the tragedy and the Honorable Clarence W. Robinson Judge of the Circuit Court of Elizabeth City County, Virginia, to avoid any excuse for a resort, to summary punishment against Your Petitioner, impanelled a special grand jury and Your Petitioner was indicted and put on trial from the commission of the offense, and while the execliment caused by the news of the tragedy was yet un abated. Great throngs of people, far more than could be accommodated in the court room, pressed for entrance to the trial, and the feeling manifested was intense. As above stated the deceased was a widowed white lady, small at stature and frail, an old resident of the community, and the mother of a cultured family composed of five grown sons and several refined daughters, who were present at the trial; and she, Your Petitioner, was a Negro girl, ignorant, uncouth, and not by any means prepossessing in appearance. Under these trying conditions and contrasting circumstances Your Pettitioner, faced a jury represented by two colored lawyers who reside in this community and who seek to use their influence and position as counsellors-at-law, to present friction and maintain the very cordial relations that exist between the two races in this community. Under their advice, therefore, and over Your Pettitioner's most earnest protest, she was not allowed to go on the stand to testify in her own behalf. Your Pettitioner's Counsel in the best of faith, as she verily believes, impressed upon her the serious consequences that might result from a detailed account of the mutual combat which Your Pettitioner would swear took place between her and the deceased, and fearing that it might not only result in inflaming the mind of the jury against Your Pettitioner, but that your might have fallen ignorant. Your Pettitioner's girl, in wriven in the language of police address, that might have precipitated a crisis somewhat, akin to the Hillville outrage which had occurred just a few weeks prestously. This fear was heightened by the fact that there was present in the Court room a large number of the personal friends of the deceased, including her five grown sons. There was too in addition to these, the class of persons, both white and black, that is usually attracted to the trial of cases of this sensational character. Your Petitioner, therefore, who as Judge Montague, the Commonwealth Attorney, eloquently said in his closing argument, was the only living person who could tell what naturally went on in the Belote home on that eventful day, sat silent while the blood stained garments, broken crockery ware, and the tell-tale strands of hair said to have been torn from the head of the deceased, spoke eloquently against her. Your Petitioner prayed and begged her attorneys to allow her to go before the jury and tell exactly how the homicide occurred, but their final word to her was that they were there using the very best JCR testimony that they were of资格, that they were cautiously and diplomatically hoping and believing that they could not only save Your Petitioner's life, but could bridge the gap that the crime had rent in the hitherto unbroken friendly interest that one race in this section feels for the other. Your Petitioner yielded to the advice of her counsel and heard the verdict of murder in the first degree and received from the lips of the court the awful words sentencing her to the death chair, where she would have before this time explained her crime, but for the clemency of Your Excellency, who expressed by the respite granted her a willingness to bend the ear of this great Commonwealth to hear the cries and petitions of a girl, ignorant and friendless the she be, with nothing to offer either to Your Excellency or the State but the gratitude that comes from a poor worm that is allowed to live. Your Potitioner would humbly represent to Your Excellency that upon her return to her cell, when the awfulness of the sentence completely overwhelmed her, and her mind was distressed beyond the power of language to tell, she sought ease for her conscience without further consulting her counsel and without their knowledge by, making a full confession of her guilt with all of the extinguishing circumstances surrounding it. She therefore sent for the Rev. J. W. Patterson, and to him in the presence of Sherif Curtis and Mr. Charles M. Pace, the Hampton representative of the Daily Press she made the voluntary writing which was reduced to writing in his own language by the said Mr. Pace and published in the issue of the Daily Press, filed with this position as a part of it and prayed to be taken and read by Your Ex. colleague as such. The confession was substantially as set forth in the paper above referred to. Your Potitioner submits to Your Excellency that part of her Potition haretofore filed with the Court of Appeals, as a ground, for a writ of error which refers to premeditation. The Petition said: "Your Petitioner submits that even if all the, evidence produced at this trial was true, as she does not in any sense admit, yet the Commonwealth has failed by any, witness or circumstance to show a -case of wilful, delibrate and premeditated murder. The evidence shows conclusively that Your Petitioner was at the home of Mrs. Belote on the morning of the tragedy in answer to summons from Mrs. Belote, to hear theiraughter, as apparently we were there Monday to work and that there was nothing unusual in her being thore on the day of the tragedy, and it also shows that a settlement for a skirt which was alleged to have been stolen, was to have been made on the day of the homicide. The conclusion therefore is inevitable that unless Your Petitioner, was in a position to settle and did so, that a quarrel ensued between her and the deceased. And even the such might not have been the fact, yet the burden was upon the Commonwealth to show premeditation for it could be justified in the case. It was not in the province of the jury to guess at or surmise that there was premeditation, but it was the duty of the State to prove it. And Your Petitioner submits that the absence of the proof of premeditation was absolute. Your Petitioner submits to the Court that murder is murder without reference to how it is committed except that certain forms of murder is murder of the first degree. All other murders are murders of the second degree unless they are willful, deliberate and premeditated, and to establish that they are such is the burden of the Commonwealth. And Your Petitioner submits that in this there is no proof what ever of premeditation. While it is true that this Court, has said time and again that no specified length of time is necessary for the premeditation or deliberation, yet it has never said that in murder of the first degree premeditation was not an essential of the crime." Your Telefonier submits to Your Excellency that her confession which is in every particular true, shows no higher grade of crime than murder in the second degree. If indeed shows more than voluntary man- Your Petitioner would further represent to Your Excellency that great stress has been laid upon the manner of the execution of this offence. White admitting that there are indeed evidences of violence which are shocking in the extreme, yet, Your Petitioner would not do more than remind Your Excellency that these acts of violence do not of themselves constitute the essential element of murder in the case, to-wit, premeditation. The lay mind will now look upon the physical execution of the crime of murder as proof positive of premeditation, while such acts in themselves frequently show to the furst such as Your Excellency the utter act of premeditation necessary to constitute first degree murder. Homelices by certain means in themselves accompanied by no overt act of violence are made by law murder of the first degree, for instance. Sec. 3662 of the Code, Virginia, makes murder by poison, lying in wait, impoundment and starvation, murder of the first degree. Implied being a question of these instances. Express mail is a question of fact. Harrison's case, 79 Va. 377. In Realt's case 98 Va, the Court said that self control determines malice and as long as self control exists the crime is murder of the first or second degree to be determined by other facts than the varying degrees of provocation. Your Excellency will see that malice is necessary both in murder of the first and second degree, but that to make it murder of the first degree there must be premeditation. And the Court has said in Hill's case 2 Grat. 594. "That a mortal wound given with n'd deadly weapon in the previous possession of the slayer, without any or upon very slight provocation, is prima facie willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing and throws upon the accused the necessity of proving extenuating circumstances." Conversely, where the evidence discloses, as it did in this case, that such weapons only were used as were found around the room and about the house, the burden is upon the Commission wealth to override the presumption that all murders are murders in the second degree. Your Petitioner represents that there would have been far less violence done the deceased if she had poisoned her food or lay in wait and killed her by one blow or starved her to death, and the community would not have been so aroused as it was on account of the brute force used by her, yet in the instances first referred to there could have been no question of the crime being murder in the first degree. In mutual combat, however, where one has become thoroughly enraged and his anger has taken possession of him, it is a matter of common knowledge that great violence is often used, but where passion has subsided and nothing is left in the bosom of the slayer but the dregs of hatred and revenge, then it is that his ingenuity is taxed, and he seeks to be rid of his victim by the most subtle means possible and at the same time to do the act so as to prevent detection. Your Petitioner in view of he above would ask Your Excellency to commute her sentence of death to life imprisonment; but even should Your Excellency find no merit in any of the contentions above set forth to you, yet Your Petitioner appeals to the great heart of the State of Virginia, now represented in the power reposed in you, to grant her to live; not only because she stands almost at the dawn of life, being a mere child not yet seventeen years of age, a child of ignorance, new to life, of life in the other paralytic, reared in a home that was lacking in discipline that comes from proper environments and home training, a wolf so to speak, allowed to drift untrained into the channels of vice and licentiousness of humble origin, and lacking in elevating traditions, but because a life of hard labor in the services of the State for a child such as Your Petitioner is. in more in keeping with the spirit of the law as set forth in chapter 289 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, Session of 1910, approved March 16th, 1910, than death in the electric chair would be. Your Petitioner cannot believe that the State of Virginia thirsts for good people, is its deity quality of good that is made her justly renowned wherever the heart of man beats and his tongue proclaims the Golden Rule. And finally, Your Pettitoner says to Your Excellency that even if there be no merit in anything said above and that she is asking now for what she refused to Mrs. Ida Delote, yet magnanimity is not half so much an element of mercy when there are extenuating circumstances as it is when it comes from a great heart, touched as was our Saviour's, by the appeal of the thief on the Cross, when the in mortal agony Himself, he turned to him and said, "This day thou shalt be with Me in Pardise." And although standing in the very shadow of death with nothing of merit to command her to the great heart of great Christian Command, yet your Pettitoner commands her feeble black hands with one final cry, "Grant me to live," and by a life of faithful service to the State, imprisoned too she be, she shall without a murmur meet the fate she in a moment of uncontrollable anger, brought upon herself. With feelings of the deepest concern, and with the highest consid eration for Your Excellency and The State, she begins to sign herself, Your most humble and obedient servant, VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN, By George N. Fields, J. Thomas Newcome, NOTES. 1. Affidavit of Mr. Pace append ed hereto. 2. Copy hereof has been served on Hon. E. Montague, Commonwealth's Attorney. 3. Copy has been handed to the Hon. Charnice W. Robinson, Judge of the Circuit Court of Elizabeth City County, Virginia. COLORED LIFE AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS. Columbia University Opens Big Summer School—Many Colored Students in Attendance. (Allen's National News Bureau 252 West 32nd St.) When the Summer School of Columbia University opened last Mon day morning, fully three thousand students coming from every section of the country had registered. The campus has taken on the activity of the regular college season, and the courses offered this season will be the greatest number ever offered at the Summer School. Most of the students at the school are principals and school workers who are taking special courses leading to the various degrees. A large number of women students have registered for the new course offered this year in medicine. During the six weeks' session of the school much ground will be gone over. It is interesting to note the large number of colored students in attendance at the school, most of whom are young men and women teachers from the various colored schools and colleges of the South. Newport is colored like the South is represented by the student delegation. The colored students represent the pick of the race, and are an earnest body of young men and women who are out for their degrees. The colored students are registered in every department of the University and many of them get degrees at the close of the session. The colored students have come as far West as Kansas City, Mo. and as far South as South Carolina. Owing to the fact that a large number of colored students (but not arrived at the writing, your correspondent will not give the names of the colored students in full until the next week. Columbia University is an ideal place to study during the Summer. The University is situated in one of the most attractive spots in the city overlooking the beautiful Hudson River. Grant's Tomb can be seen from any of the class rooms on the West side of the campus. 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Hinton appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his in terest herein. A Copy. Teate, P. P. WINSTON, Clerk. To Charles Hinton: You'll take notice that I shall on the 15th day of August, 1912, at the office of Phil B. Sheilad, room No 701. Travelers Insurance Building, situated on the North side of Main street, between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth streets in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 6 o'clock A. and 6 o'clock P. 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