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AUB Dr. Drew sounds clarion call—National Organizer of Counselled Republicans and Independent Clubs issues call for National Convention—Tuft, Wilson and Receives to speak before Convention. Colored Democracy in the city all ready for Wilson—Robert N. Wood leader of Colored Democracy says Wilson is square on the Negro question—Hold conference with the Governor at San Girls—Some Presidential Democracy—Dr. Walker says the race is on the decline. Noted Baptist Divine delivers possible address—A good word for Tuft—Richmond educator in the Metropolitan—General News. (Alten's National News Bureau, 252 West 53rd street.) Rev. Simon S. P. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church of Washington, D. C. and National Organizer of the Consolidated Republican and Independent political club is in the Metropolis making preparation for a national convention of the organization to be held here September 18th to 20th at the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in East 132d St. The purpose of the meeting will be to get a national expression from the men of the race to who in them will be a worthy candidate to support, and to discuss vital matters pertaining to the political and civil welfare of the Negro in this country. Some of the subjects discussed will be the restoration of Companies B, C & D 26th Inf. to the army, the urging of Negroes to run for Congress, and the denunciation of any unjust discrimination of the race in this country. The convention will be free from any partisanism, but Republican and Democrat will meet on a common level, and take up the issues as they face the race. One of the subjects that will receive much attention from the convention will be the urging of Negroes to run for Congress, especially in districts where a large Negro constituency reside. During the session Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt will make addresses and set before the country just where they stand on the Negro question. The convention will be one of the most notable gatherings of Negroes ever held in this country, and will be, epoch making in the political and civil welfare of the race in this country. Fully 2000 delegates representing all political faiths, and from every section of the Nation promise to be present. Some of the most prominent men in the life of the country will be present and make defenses. The appearance of Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt before the convention will be one of the most interesting features of the convention. Prominent politicians in the Metro polls are looking forward to the convention with considerable interest, and will be ready to contribute their share to the success of the convention. Rev. Drew, who will be large the moving spirit in the working up of the convention; is one of the best known men of the race. Few men wield greater influence in the city of Washington than Rev. Drew. He is personally known to most of the senators in Washington and enjoys the friendship of President Taft. He is a notable figure in the Nation's capital and figures largely as a preacher. He has been the security for his race. He is the founder of the St. Stephen Baptist Church in New York and the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church in Washington. It is one of the largest churches in the country and has a membership of 2000. The Mount Bethel Baptist Convention, one of the largest, of the Baptist Conventions will meet in the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church from August 26th to 28th. President Taff will address one session. Dr. Drew is one of the most wide ly known men of the denomination. He has established headquarters in New York at the Hotel Maceo, and (Continued on Page Number) REMOVAL NOTICE. "I wish to announce the removal of my office from 602 N. 2nd Street to 588 N. 2nd Street, at the Southwest corner of 3rd and Lehigh St. Kader Jeremiah Here. Elder Jeremiah of Kordfan, Africa called on us in company with Rev. O. G. Jenkins, pastor of Zion's Ta-baracle. He will preach at the 6th Mt. Zion Church Sunday morning. He will speak at the True Reformers' Hall Sunday night. Personals and Briefs. —Dr. P. B. Ramsey has returned to the city. —Mrs. W. H. Isham, who has been quite sick at her residence, 809 N. 5th St. is improving. —Miss M. E. Jackson and N. V. Sparks of Providence, R. I. passed through the city enroute home from the National Association of Colored Women. —Dr. and Mrs. Albert A. Tennant are spending the month of August at Oklahoma City, Oklah. They will also visit Truskegee Institute, Ala. —Mrs. Anna J. Adams of Covington, Va. visited our office in company with Mrs Bannister. —The installation of the officers of 5th St. Baptist Sunday School will take place Sunday morning, August 4th, 10:00 o'clock. —Rev. J. B. Tynes, D. D., Presiding Elder, Richmond District will preach Sunday at the Third St. A. M. E. Church. Public cordially invited to hear him. —Dr. Robert A. Deane of West Bake St. passed successfully the Va. State Board of Medical Examiners and expects to begin his practice here in September. Secretary Burrell at the Penitentiary General Secretary S. C. Burrell addressed the women of the penitentiary at 10 A. M. 5 were led to accept Christ. Our Secretary made his usual Sunday visit to see Virginia Christian whom he found perfectly satisfied and waiting patiently for the day of her execution. She is ready and willing to die. This has been her condition from the beginning of her imprisonment in the penitentiary. God is good to her and she is getting the very best of attention. Dr. W. H. Stoken, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with our Secretary has kept a very watchful eye over this young woman. BASEBALL Newport News, N.J., July 20.—The Weldon Giants of Baltimore, Md., arrived at Newport News Tuesday morning for a series of three games with the Champion Blackstockings at Cunningham's Park. The Champions took three straight games from the Weldon Giants and they were some of the greatest battles ever seen at Cunningham's Park this season. In the first day's game the Champions took the game by outbatting the Weldon Giants by the score of 10 to 3. In the second day's game, the 17th Champions defeated the visitors again by score 6. 6. Third day July 18th the Champions took the great honors again by winning out in the last three innings by score of 7 to 6. Weldon would have won but their pitcher weakened in the last three innings. SCORE BY INNINGS R. H. E. B. S.—0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 x-11 12 3- W. G.—0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1-3 5 2 Batteries Brown and Grant: Evans and Wise—Time. 1 hour and 49 min utes—Umpire, Mr. Taliaferro. Second Game: R. H. E. B. S.—0 0 1 1 0 2 2 x—6 11 6 W. G.—1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1—5 10 2 Batteries, Smith and Hill; Wattis and Wise—Time. 1 hour and 55 minutes—Umpire, Mr. Nelson. Third Game. B G — 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 — 7 12 4 W O — 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 — 6 11 2 Batteries, Sparrow and Hill; Watts and Thomas—Time, 1 hour, and 88 minutes—Umpire, Mr. Nelson. Saturday, July 5th the Champion defended the Tigers by score 11 to 2. Full details of the game between the Richmond Independents and the Champion Blackhawks will be given next week. The Blackhawks captured two of the three games. The 'most successful Summer School over had at the A. and M. College, Greenbriar, N. C., came to a close Friday evening July 19th with a great banquet, over two hundred people being seated at the table, which was followed by a most unique and interesting programme, consisting of elocutionary and musical numbers which were higher than the ordinary. In all an evening not to be forgotten was had. The attendance this year was unusually large surpassing all other years, but the high scholastic stand reached this year at this school marks a turning point for Summer School work in the South for artistic and pedagogical attainments and class work presentations. The work is graded into a four year Summer School course, upon the completion of which will receive the diploma of the college. The addresses this year were by some of the most prominent educators and speakers in the country. Dr. W. S. Rankina, Secretary of the State Board of Health, delivered a series of four lectures on different health topics, each of which was largely attended and interesting. Prof. R. D. W. Cunner, Secretary of the State-Historical Commission, also delivered a very brilliant and instructive lecture using as his subject Charles B. Aycock as an Educational Governor. Among the other prominent speakers were Hon. J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Hon. C. H. Mochek, Secretary of cational Campaign Commissar Prof. M. C. S. Noble, University of North Carolina, Rev. H. H. Proctor, Atlanta Ga., and Dr. Charles H. Bauer, Sr. Augustines School, Raleigh, N. C. All lectures were designed especially for the educational and social benefit of those attending the Summer School. The large attendance at each lecture attested their value and popularity. The Summer School Faculty was the strongest the school has ever had. Aside from the regular school instructors the president was fortunate in securing such prominent instructors as Dr. O. Faduma, Principal of the Peabody Academy, Prof. T. R. Fount, Supt. Gullford County School;s: Dr. D. J. Jordon. Ex-President of Kittrell College: Prof. F. M. Kennedy, President, Slater S. Normal School; Prof. P. W. Moore, President, Franklin School; Prof. N. Norman School; Dr. E. E. Smith, President State Normal School; Prof. J. J. Wheeler of the Baltimore High School; Prof. J. H. Branch of the Raleigh Graded Schools; and others of like prominence. President James B. Dudley has the happy faculty of calling about him in his school work men of educational standing who are potent factors in the building up of the race and who understand how to imbate into their students those fundamental principles which make for the best citizenship. The Fall Term of the regular school begins the first of September. Already an unusually large number of applications have been received from young men who are anxious to become skilled mechanics and trained farmers. The excellent equipment of this school is designed to give the best training possible with the least amount of cost to energetic young men. Knights of Pythias Enjoy Themselves—Grand Chancellor There. Norfolk, Va., July 30.—A new lodge of Knights of Pythias, N. A. S. A., E., A., A. and A. was instituted here last night at the Samaritan's Hall by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. He arrived here at 6:30 via C. O. R. R. in company with Dr. E. R. Jefferson. They were met at the wharf by District Deputy Grand Chancellor W. R. Henry and a few moments later were being whirled over the city in an automobile, much to their satisfaction. At 7:30 they arrived at the N. and W. R. R. station to meet Dr. I. D. Burrell of Roanoke, Grand Medical Director. His train was 25 minutes late. While there, the party met many of the excursionists from Richmond, who had come down the night before. OFFICERS INSTALLED. When Dr. Burrell arrived, the party went to the residence of Dupuy W. S. Henry, where the ladies soon had supervised and the great heartily enjoyed Champlain. Later Mr. William H. Throop arrived and with his grand nieces welcomed all. Afterwards all went to the hall and proceeded to institute the candidates into the murders and pleasures of Pythiasmen. The hall was packed. The following officers of the new body, which will be known as Springfield Lodge, No. 184 were installed: Master of Work, Frank Moss; Chancellor Commander, Chas. W. Mosley; Vice Chancellor, Joseph Murray; Prelate, Preston Falesen; Master of Exchequer, Dequeut Allan; Master of Fiascer, Trussel Keeper of Records and Seal, Amos Haynes; Master at Arms, Jesse Monsmons; Inner Guard, John House; Outer Guard, James Hinton; Trustees, D. J. Smith, James Smith, Chas. Hackney. VISITORS HAPPY. After the initiation a fine collation was served. A terrifying electrical storm prevailed during the initiation and the rain fell in torrents, but it did not disturb the workers on the inside and when they had concluded the exercises, and the cupper had been enjoyed, no rain was falling and all left delighted with the night's entertainment. The Grand Chancellor complimented Sir Henry, upon his work. The Chancellor was delighted. They were delighted with the treatment accorded them here. The indications are that another lodge will soon be ready in Portsmouth. Leesburg, Va., July 29.—Mrs. Mary Adams, after a long illness of complicated diseases died. Thursday night, July 25th, at the age of 64. She was a member of the Methodist Church and was buried at three creeck from the same, by two well known ledges of the town, viz. Good Samaritans and Daughters of Nath. Rev. Murry officiated. Mrs. Adams leaves a husband and two children to mourn their loss. Mr. Daniel Jackson leaves bed from a sun stroke. We all wish for him to soon return to his health. Mrs. Catherine Sims of Market St who was taken very sick Sunday while attending Mrs. Adams' funeral at the Methodist Church is much better. Mrs. Lewis Gallagher of Washington is spending some time with her aunt, Mrs. James Dove on Vinegar Hill. Mrs. Harrietta Johnson keeps her bed but that good nursing being administered by her daughter, Eleanor of Phillipsburg, Pa. will soon bring her out. Miss Beasle Jones, after a short visit to her parents in West Market St, was returned to New York City. Mrs. Wesm, Waterford, N. apart several weeks in our town nursing her cousin, Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Emma Jordon is in town visiting her brother Mr. Steven Ward. Mr. Wedd and wife spent a night in town with his brother, Moses and returned to Washington, D. C. next morning. Mr. Richardson, the moving picture man is in town for a few days showing at the Baptist Church. His good show and lectures bring out a good crowd. Mr. W. A. spent the day out of town Sunday among his friends at Purcellville, Va. The Gild apples turn out at Gloucester庄 was well attended by the Leesburg patrons Saturday. Music was furnished by two bands, one of Waterford, Va. and one of Lincoln, Va. Everything went on lovely and everybody had a good time. The speakers were Rev. Doracy of Middleburg, Va. and Mr. Denist Pierce of Purcellville, Va. Owing to the hard rain storm on Wednesday the 24th the Baptist Sunday School was hindered in having its picnic on Thursday, so he begged well At the 3rd. Mr. and Mrs. Walker and son of Washington, D. C. have completed their beautiful home on West Market St. and moved in to spend the St. and moved in to spend the The Van De Vyver College announces that the Music Classes will begin August 15, 1912 (with same professor as last year). Classes in Piano, Pipe Organ, Voice and Musical History. For terms apply to the President, Van De Vyver College, Richmond, Va. Mr. Oakley M. Goode Passes Away. Newport News, Va.—Mr. Oakley M. Goode, the manager for the Star Publishing Company of Newport News, Va. who was fatally hurt in an automobile accident Monday night June 17, 1913 died July 14th of his injuries. Mr. Goode was a culprit more than three weeks and his domin in a shock to his relatives and his many friends. He leaves a loving wife and a devoted son to move their low. 9 Bub-My-Tim will care you. News From South Carolina Florence, S. C., July 28, 1912. "Qite often the expression, 'If the weather is favorable' is heard in reference to some future action. There are many things to be in this world but will never be a success unless the weather lends a helping hand. Church workers desire that every sabbath be bright and fair, while the farmer prays for rain on certain days. On Friday morning, July 26, at a very early hour there were evidences of a fair day. During the night there was a soft breeze blowing from the South, enabling the toller to enjoy the sweet repose of a night rest. No rain had fallen for several days and the drooping plants had begun to beg for moisture. Long before the sun had disappeared in he occident the sparkling peared in the occident the sparkling leaf and flower and ere long before the rays of a new day were seen in the orient one would have thought that a copious shower had fallen from above. It was Friday morning, July 26th, an ideal day for picnic' reception, exposition and public gatherings. An invitation had been extended to the public to shake hands in Cheraw on this day. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company offered exceeding low rates to the public. At a very early hour we were on our way to the post office in search for mail. From the office we went to railroad station and hurriedly purchased our ticket. We found a train of 12 cars ready and waiting. With our "publications" we boarded the third car in the rear. Just then looking out of the window we saw Meenan. H. H. Parker, Yardmaster and H. H. Coles, trainmaster, having the sniffing "touch" put on the extra from Florence to Cheraw, S. C. via Coast Line. At 8 o'clock Capt. H. H. Parker, Yard Master with pencil and tablet in hand waved to Conductor W. R. Johnson that the time for engine No. 335 carrying the extra train to Cheraw had arrived to commence its journey to Cheraw. Engineer Coxe and Fireman Meadora were ready and at once the sound of steam and ringing of the bell were heard and the monster from horse with its rile started on its journey out of Cheraw. In a few minutes the extra had disappeared "beyond the hill." The first stop was at Palmetto. S. 15. Several passengers were taken up here. The next stop was at Darlington. S. 35. The platform was literally covered with people. And after stopping at the water tank at the crossing our train "struck bodily out to sea." In just a short while we found ourselves at Floyd's. 3:20. About one mile to distance was seen an object on the railroad to the left of the main line. It proved to be the Hartsville extra consisting of four loaded cars. After coupling on two of these cars and taking on other passengers we left for Doveville, S. C., arriving there at 9:36. A very large crowd awaited the arrival of the extra. The twelve cars were being rapidly filled and when we left for Society Hill at 9:38 there was little room to spare. At 9:50 we arrived at Gandy's crossing. The next stop was at Society Hill reaching there at 10:05. On glancing over the crowd at the station would readily conclude that there was nothing in sight but a break down. But the "new corners" were "tucked" in and once more the extra was seen leaping westward. We reached Cheraw at 10:55. The crowd at once made their way to the center of the town where there were enough people and some to spare. We spent the day pleasantly in the town of Cheraw, shaking hands with our old friends and doing business. We met Measur J. E. S. Williams, Covington Dean, Rev. D. W. Williams. The town of Cheraw has made con additionible improvement since 1906, when we received several new brick buildings and other signs of material progress. Cheraw is situated on the great Pee Dee River in Chesterfield county. On both sides of the railroad from Florence to Cheraw as far as could be seen, fertile fields of corn, cotton, peas, potatoes, tobacco and millet met the sight of vision. When I was a boy the farmers in this part of the State know little about raising corn to what they know now. Twenty bushels to the acre was supposed to be an excellent yield but now many farmers gather from 100 to 150 bushels per acre. The idea is to plant deep, and stunt the stalk, thereby increasing the quantity of corn yield. Roy, and Mr. Charles F. Gandy, of Charleston, S. C. passed through the city recently carote for Society Hill the home of Mr. Gandy. Liliana K. Gandy, their baby having been quite ill it was thought that a change of climate might prove beneficial, but on Wednesday morning, 164th hall. it died at the home of Mrs. Brock, its grandmother. We extend to the bereaved family our deepest sympathy in the loss of their dear little one, Lillian K. Gandy. Rev. and Mrs. Gandy were blessed with three little ones. Master Charles F. Gandy, Alma Gandy and Lillian K. Gandy. Rev Gandy is pastor of Central Baptist Church Charleston, S. C. and Mrs. Gandy was a Miss Brock of Society Hill. one of the finest young women of purse state. She is blessed to have a Christian helper for a husband and they live happily together in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Gordon B. Hancock of Newberry is visiting her parents at Society Hill. Mr. Joe Dickerson, Misses Mary & Ellen Dickerson are to return to the State College this Fall and resume their studies, but any young friend, visiting Society, Hill will do well to call and see them. No one knows better how to trent "us" than they do. Prof. Wilkerson, President of the State College at Orangeburg and G. Pogues of Benedict College visited Society Hill recently, stopping at Miss Ellen Dickerson's parents' home. On Sunday, July 28th inst. we spoke at Central School House. Rev. E.Kelley accompanied us. On our return we stopped at the Wallace's near town. The girls are looking one NEWS FROM FARMVILLE. Farmville, Va., July 31.—A brilliant wedding took place last week few miles from town. Mr. Jose Bolden and Miss Lillian West were the contracting parties. Miss West is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Natanahal West, who are successful farmers owning the plantation upon which they reside. Mrs. Sarah McDaniel Robinson was bridesmaid, assisted by Miss Bolden. Dr. J. A. Baker, best man was asked by Mr. Jackson Grace, the ceremonian, who formed by Rev. R. G. Adama. A large number from town and country attended the wedding. There seems to have been no end to fried chicken and the best of country ham. The particles of atmosphere were put in motion the other day and a roused the admiration of the citizens of this community when the news reached here that a daughter of one of the wealthy colored citizens of our town had married a white gentleman. "Mr. Rambler" said he is still taking notes, looking after the moral status of our people. It was thought at one time the statue of Virginia; at another the statue of Washington; brought to play its part, but owing to the fact they were married in Washington, D. C., the heavy hand of the law was stayed. It was soon found out that the laws of Virginia would not even allow them to live together in the State. The contracting parties and their friends seem to decide the best thing for them was to seek new quarters in a state where they would not be debarred by the law in living together. They left last week. This is an object lesson from which we can learn many things and while theorizing reach a conclusion based upon undisputed facts. There is a great moral question confronting the people of this country, relative to the intermarriage of the races and it is the opinion of many thousands that the statute law, unless it is in accord with Divine law, is not the proper law to regulate this matter. Mrs. Dr. Cooper of Roanoke Va. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Palge of Race Street. Annie Payne Clark of Richmond, Va. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn of Main Street. While here Mrs. Clark will give one of her lite rary entertainments for the benefit of the Sowing Circle of the A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Mattie Bullock McDaniel is home visiting parents. Rev. P. M. Robinson preached at the West End Mission at 3 P. M. for Rev. C. H. McDaniel. Rev. Adams' officers and congregation asisted in ordaining a deacon for the Zion Baptist Church. The First Baptist Sunday School will have their picnic upon the Bolden School grounds, eight miles from town. Quite a large number are expected and a good time is anticipated. Mrs. Gusie Robinson of South St. lost by death her infant babe which was buried from the home. Revs. R. J. Butt and R. G. Adams officiated. AGENTS—Make $5 a day handling our up-to-date line of quick selling household articles. Send for catalogue today. THE BROOKS SPECIALTY CO., 51 Church St., Hartford, Conn. PRICE, FIVE CENTS Champion Wants $30.000 (N. Y. Journal, July 26, 1912.) If Billy Gibson, manager of the Garden Athletic Club, will lay $30, 000 in Jack Johnson's lap the champion will mingle with our own colored brusser, Joe Jeannette, here on Labor Day. The promoter and Johnson had a little gag fist over the long distance phone yesterday afternoon. "Artha chirping from the Windy City end. "What will your price be for a ten round fight with Joe Jeannette?" Gibson asked. "Thirty thousand dollars. Mr. Gibson," came the reply. "That is a little too steep for me, but if you make it $20,000 you are on. No." said Johnson, "I must have my price, or otherwise I will accept the offer of Mr. McIntosh for three flights in Australia. I would not waste time stopping here for a smaller amount and then you have pleaded a tough man for me. Manager Gibson asked for a little time to figure the big demand as he thought the amount was a bit too much for the battle, and did not want the club to go in a hole after having a fairly successful season. During the conversation Johnson asked Gibson how Al Palser would do for a drawing card. Gibson told the champion that Palser was not seasoned enough to be given a chance, and the public would not look upon the match as anything like an even thing. It is generally understood that Boxing Commissioner O'Neill is opposed to a white man fighting Johnson here in New York fearing that it would put the man in a bad mood. Dan McKettrick, manager of Jeanette, and Billy Gibson will leave for Chicago today where they will hold a conference with Johnson and possibly a compromise will be made, and Gibson will come home with the training articles. If he is successful the bat will take place on Labor Day, Monday, September 9. Johnson and Jeanette have battled seven times. The best the latter could do on these occasions was to get a ten-round draw with Johnson when they boxed at Portland. Matine. In one of their Philadelphia boutts Johnson lost on a foul in the second round. Jeanette claiming that Johnson hit low while the men were at close quarters. Little chance is conceded Jeanette in a short bout with the champion, even though Johnson, is not quite as fast as he was when the men fought their other engagements. Jeanette is not wonderful endurance and ability to assimilate hard punishment would give him a chance, but as ten rounds would be the limit here in New York many close students of the game give Jeanette little chance of coping first money. Guest at Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J. The following are the guest at Hotel Dale, during week of July 27. Mrs. Emma Mahand, Mrs. A. Foster Sermon, Mr. Julian Myers, Mr. Herman Crossman, Misa Mary Johnson, Mr. Joseph R. Underhill, Mr. C. W. Crook, Mr. J. B. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Jones, Mr. J. B. Lowe and wife, Mr. E. W. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gaskins, Mr. and Mrs. William Lee and wife, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Y. S. Smith, Mr. T. F. Small, Mrs. William Scott and little daughter, Ruth, New York, N. Y.; Mr. L. E. Toomey, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. A. M. Lynch, Newark, N. J.; Mr. I. E. Cooper, Mr. T. P. Cooper, Merchantville, N. J.; Mrs. E. B. Smothers, W. Chester, Pa.; Mrs Virginia P. 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The meh derisively ball him "Collars and Cuffs" to Lidgerwood, master mechanic, warns Hallowock, chief clerk, to "let up" on Flemlister, a mineswoman. Hallowock and Flemlister are enemies. Lidgerwood finds discipline very slack. Lidgerwood's train is wrecked for carelessness, and Lidgerwood leaves for life. He retains Hallowock who says Lidgerwood wished to be a trainee. Trainmaster McHuskey, Lidgerwood and Gridley are called out on a wreck. Gridley tells Lidgerwood he has tackled a hard proposition. Gridley conspires with Flemlister. He plans to force Hallowock to help them defraud the railroad. Lidgerwood brains enfouging discipline with an iron hand, but writes of daily occurrence. CHAPTER VII HALLOCK bound still farther over the deck end. "If I do youll get what you are after and a good deal more Again I am going to ask you if it is worth while to throw me overboard?" "You've had my last word, Hallock, and all this talk about consequences that you don't explain is beside the mark. Get me that statement from Plenister and do it soon. I am not going to have it said that we are fighting graft in one place and covering it up in another." Hallock straightened up and buttoned his coat. "By all the rules of the game-the game as it is played here in the des BENETTON "In it was written to think very much about the process." I tried to be trying to be more fine here to get out of power. We told each of the first to do it. But to do it is so much. You never can. For the reason, not limited, that is the result of the change. "I think that's something that's not the result of the change," said the man in a few minutes to take notice that he added "I'm not a man who'd already be in it. And that is what I want to say up here today, not that the man had been to our desk's last day." For a short time after the door had farmed to the starting behind Hell's Lildersed Set for his desk, filled about a few months ago. Today we'll be in the drowel he pulled out a small drawer under the roll top and made as if he would take up the weapon to contain it, and each time he closed the drawer to break with the temptation to put the piled into his pocket. Later, after he had forced himself to go to work, a door slammed somewhere in the dispatcher's end of the building, and automatically his hand shot out to the closed drawer. Then he made his decision and carried it out. Taking the nickel plated thing from its hiding place and breaking it to elect the cartridges, he went to the end door of the corridor, which opened into the unused space under the rafters, and firing the weapon to the far thirst corner of the dark left. Lidgerwood had found little difficulty in getting on the companionable side of Dawson, so far as the heavy muscled young draftman had a companionable side, and an invitation to the family dinner table at the Dawson set tage on the low mess above the towel had followed as a tacot of course. Once within the home circle, with Benson to plead his cause with the meek little woman whose brown eyes held the shadow, of a deep trouble. Lidgerwood had still less difficulty arranging to share Benson's permanent table welcome. Lidgerwood's acceptance as a table boarder in the cottage on the meeting is hospitably prompt the was coming and going as regularly as his over sight of the 300 miles of demoralization permitted before the buffoonery of the Red Blite Western suddenly laughed itself out and war was declared. In the interval he had come to concur very heartily in Benson's opposition to Gridley as Faith Dawson's possible choice. There was little to be done in this field, however. Gridley came and went, not too often, figuring always as a friend of the family and usurping more of Mim Dawson's time and attention than she seemed willing to bestow upon him. Lidgerwood saw no chance to obstruct and no good reason for obstructing. At all events, Gridley did not furnish the reason. After the storm broke there were no more quiet evenings on the cotting match for a harassed superintendent. Dexie Midwife came and went as before when the family were of weeks did not keep him out of the line, but inerapiously left the蕴ibles behin him when he climbed to the cottings on the moon. Quite nature his silence on the one toge which was stirring the Red desert from the Crescent hills to Tianmeng and connecxed a poor task. The increasing gravity of the situation wrote itself plaintly in his face and Faith Johnson was sorry for her giving him short seriously unmedicated not wholly unaccepted. The town talk of Angela, what little of it reached the cottage, was harply condominatory of the new superintendent. After the mysterious disappearance of the switching engine, mystery still unsolved and apparently unsolvable, he struck fast and hard, searching politically for the leaders in the rebellion, repenting, suspending and discharging him in addition to the evil of short handing the lead he was filling. Angels with a growing army of exemple purposes, despair and rises for anything. "I could sit up, Mac," was his in variable repay. "Unless they put me out of the light I shall go on as I have begun staying with it until we have a raided in fact or a forfeited barter. In the best you can but let it be plainly and distinctly understood that the man who light with us is against us, and so then who is against us going to get a chance to hunt for a new job every time." Who reposes the transformer's honest face would take on added forciveness of distress. "That is all right. Mr. Littlewood That is worth a word, and I feel talk a right and I am not desiring that you move a very word of it. But they'll murder you." "That is so terrible they for there what they will do to the man. I hardly them that will do to the man, but they wanted the man to kill. The man got buffalo and he will have a buffalo never to be killed. The man thought to run away and kill the man. Who it is, indeed, but he is laying off." "What is the matter with him either?" "No, I don't mind." "I want to have a single seller in the town where he lives, please." "Well, I must make sure of doing it the way I want, and finally I must have a seller for the town." "Never mind the distance. Now what has been done with dolphin that could be who turned in $1 as the total cash collection for a hundred and fifty mile run?" "I've had him up. He grimmed and said that that was all the money there was; everybody had it." You don't believe it "No Granity, the superintendent of the Ruby mine, cared for a Johnston's train that morning and he registered a kick because the Ruby Gulch single-agent way out of bed in time to submim a thief. He paid debtion on the train, and that one fare alone was $500." Lidderwood was adding another minute separate to the penalized checker board on his died better. "Discharge debtion and hold his time check. Then have him arrested for speaking and write the legal department at Denver that I want him presented." Again McCoskey's rough east face became the steward presentment of a soul in anxious trouble. "Call it done and another stick of dynamite turned loose," he anguished. "Is there anything else?" "Yes What have you found out about that missing switch engine?" "Nothing yet. I'm hunting for proof." "Against the man you respect? Who are they, and what did they do with the engine?" McCookey became dumb. "I don't dare to say part of it until I can say it all. Mr. Lidgerwood. You hit too quick and too hard. But tell me one thing: have you had to report the loss of that engine to anybody higher up?" "I shall have to report it to General Manager Frisbie, of course, if we don't and it." "But haven't you already reported it?" "No—that is. I guess not. Wait a minute." A touch of the bell push brought Hallock to the door of the inner office. "Hallock, have you reported the disappearance of that switching engine to Mr. Frisbie?" asked the superin-tendent. The answer seemed reluctant, and it was given in the single word of asent. "When?" asked Lidgerwood. "In the weekly summary for last week. You signed it," said the chief clerk. "Did I tell you to include that particular item in the report?" Lidgerwood did not mean to give the inquiry the tang of an implied reproof but the fight with the outlaws we beginning to make his manner inclive. "You didn't need to tell me. I know my business," said Hallock, and bibone matched his superiors. Lidgerwood looked at McClosker and at the trummaster's almost imperceptible nod, said "That's all," and Hallock disappeared and closed the door. "We'll" apported Lidgerwood sharply when they had privacy again. when they did privacy again. McChousey was shifting uhously from one foot to the other. "You've got a man for your chief clerk who has kept this whole town guessing for two years, Mr. Lidgerwood. Some say he isn't all to the bad, some say he is a woman killer, but they all agree that he's as spiteful as an Indian. He wanted your job. Supposing he still wants it?" "Stick to the facts, Mace," said the perpetuant "You're theorizing now you know." "Well, by gravels, I will," rasped McChousey "Hallock puts in his daytime scratching away at his desk on there. But when that desk is shut up you'll find him at the rooftop, over in the freight yard round the swift shuttles up at Riggs' an where he can get his a drey of the man to gather. I haven't found a man yet that I could trust to keep tab on him, and I don't know what he's doing, but I am guessed." "Is that all?" said Lidgerwood quietly. "No, it isn't. That switch engine dropped out two weeks ago last Tuesday night. I've been prying into this locked up puzzle every way I could think of ever since. Haliback knows where that engine went." "What makes you think so?" "I'll tell you. Robinson, the night crew engineer, was a little late leaving her that night. His crewman had gone home, and so had the yardman. After he had crossed the yard coming out he saw a man snacking toward the shifter, keeping in the shadow of the coal chutes. He was just curious enough to want to know who it was, and he made a little sneak of his own. When he found it was Haliback, he went home and thought no more about it till I got him to talk." Lidgwood had gone back to the penel and the holding pod and the making of squares "But the motive Mac" he questioned without looking up "How could the theft or the destruction of a possessive serve any purpose that Hallow might have in view?" Mr. Lidgwood did not mean any disgust to be superior either when he retreated "I'm to cyclepoll. There are lots of things I don't know. But unless I tell it off I'm going in to a few rows of them before I quit." "I don't sell it off. Mac. Find out what you can. But I can't believe that Hallow is heading this organized robbery and robbery." "Somebody is heading it to a dead moral extensity. Mr. Lidgwood. The It is are coming too straight and too well timed." "Find the man. If you can, and well eliminate him. And by the way, if it comes to the worst, how will Hallow burn, the town marshal stand?" The criminator shook his head. "I don't know. Jack's got plenty of sand, but he was elected out of the shops and by the railroad vote. If it comes to a showdown, against the men who elected him"— "That is what I mean," nodded Lindgowel. "It will come to a showdown sooner or later if we can't tip the ringleaders. Young Rufford and a dozen more of the dropped employees are threatening to get even. That means train wrecking, mishaped switches, as soon anything you like. At the first break there are going to be some very striking examples made of all the wreckers and loaders we can land on." Where had McCloskey fallen upon the idea that this carefully baundered gentleman, who never missed his daily plunge and scrub and still were immaturelate him, locked the confidence of his opinions and conclusions? The traimaster know and he thought Lidgerwood must also know that the first blow of the vengeful ones would be directed at the man rather than at the company's property. "I guess maybe Hephurn will do his duty when it comes to the pinch," he said finally. And, the subject having apparently exhausted itself, he went about his business, which was to call up the telegraph operator at Timanoyi to ask why he had broken the rule requiring the conductor had engineer, both of them, to sign train orders in his presence. It was after dark that evening when Lidgerwood closed his desk on the percolated, blotting pad and groped his way down the unlabeled stair to the Crowa Nest platform. The day passenger from the east was in, and the bocker had just coupled engine 260 to the train for the night run to Red Butte. Lidgerwood marked the engine's number and saw Dawson talking to Williams, the engineer, as he turned the corner at the passenger station end of the building. Later, when he was crossing the open plam separating the railroad yard from the town, he thought he heard the drifftsmans' step behind him and waited for Dawson to come up. The rearward darkness, made black Bernie A FLASH OF RED LIGHTING. er by contrast with the white beam of the Sea's headlight, yielding no one and no further sounds, he went on past the tar paper covered hotel, past the flanking of saloons and the false fronted shops, past the Arcade with its crimson sidewalk eye setting the danger signal for all who should enter Redlight Fanny's, and so up to the mesa and to the vaultage of 7 o'clock dinners. His hand was on the latch of the door and gate when a man rose out of the gooom out of the ground at his feet, as it appeared to Lidgerwood—and in the twinkling of an eye the night and the starry dome of it were effaced for the superintendent in a flash of lightning and a thunder-clap louder than the crash of worlds. When he began to realize again bawns was being hit to his feet, and the draftsmans mother was calling anxiously from the door. "What was it?" lingerwood asked, still dazed and half blinded. "A man tried to kill you," said Dawson son in his biggest matter of fact tone. "I happened to get lost in time to juggle his arm. That and my quick drop del the bumps. Not hurt, are you? Lingerwood was gripping the gate and trying to study himself. A chill, like a vision of agony, was shaking him to the bone. "No," he retreated, mastering the chattering touch by the superimposed effort of will. "I thanked to you I guess—I'm not hurt. What w was the man?" "It was Ruffled. He followed you from the Crow's Nest. Williams saw him and put me on, so I followed him." "Williams? Then he isn't?" "No, you have been, andipping the query, the he is with us, and he is swaiting the best of the engineers into line. But come onto the table and let me give you a drop of whiskey. This thing has got on your knees a lot—and no wonder." "Ruff, oh, you said. You mean the discharged engine operator." CHRITTER VAIL I was on the morning following the startling episode at the Dawes institute that, he so, later arrived from the west on train 10, came into the superintendent's office with the light of discovery in his eye. But the discovery was brief to wait. "What's this they were to teach me down at the lunch counter just now about somebody taking a pet shot at you last night?" he asked. "Tooth-erty said it was Ruffard. Was it?" Ladderwood confirmed the guest with a nod. "Yes, it was Ruffard, so Dawen says. I didn't recognize him, though. It was too dark." "Well, I'm mighty glad to see that he didn't get you. What was the row?" "I don't know definitely. I suppose it was because I told McCheskey to discharge his brother awhile back." "A pretty close call, wasn't it, or was I辱恫害 only putting on a few frills to go with my cup of coffee." "It was close enough," admitted Lidgerwood, half gluttony. He was thinking not so much of the narrow escape as of the fresh and humiliating evidence it had afforded of his own watched unreadiness. "All right; you'll come around to my way of thinking after awhile. I tell you. Lidgerwood, you've got to heal yourself when you live in a gun country. I said I wouldn't do it, but I have done it, and I'll tell you right now when anybody in this blasted desert makes monkey motions at me I'm going to blow the top of his head off spiked." "Hassit, it ever occurred to you, Jack, that I am the one man in the desert who cannot afford to go around? I am supposed to stand for law and order. What would my example be worth if it should be noised around that I too, had become a gun token? "Oh, I'm not going to argue with you," laughed Benson. "But I didn't come up here to wrangle with you about your theoretical notions of law and order. I came to tell you that I have been hunting for those bridge timbers of mine." "Well," queried Lidgerwood, "have you found them?" "No, and I don't believe anybody will ever find them." "But you have discovered something?" "Partly yew and partly no. I think I told you at the time that they vanished between two days like a puff of smoke, leaving no trace behind them. How it was done I couldn't imagine. There is a wagon road paralleling the river, over there at the "Dinner," as you know, and the full thing I did the next morning was to look for wagon tracks. No pet of wheels carrying anything as heavy as these 12 by 12 twenty-four had gone over the read." "How were they taken then? They couldn't have been floated down the river, could they?" "Yes. After I got the work started again with a new set of timberms I spent three or four days on the ground digging for information like a dog after a woodchuck. There are some prospectors panning on the bar three miles up the Gloria, but they knew nothing or if they knew they wouldn't tell. That was the case with every man I talked to on our side of the river. But over across the Timanyon, nearly opposite the mouth of the Gloria, there is a little creek coming in, from the north, and on this creek I found a lone prospector, a queer old chap who bails from my neck of woods up in Michigan." "Go on," said Lidgerwood when the engineer stopped to light his pipe. "The old man told me a fairy tale all right," Benson went on. "He was as full of fancies as a fig is of seeds. I have been trying to believe that what he told me isn't altogether a pipe dream, but it sounds mightily like one. He says that about 2 o'clock in the morning of Saturday, two weeks ago, an engine and a single car backed down from the west to the Gloria bridge and a crowd of men swarmed off the train, loaded those bridge timbers and ran away with them, going back up the line to the west. He tells it all very circumstantially, though he neglected to explain how he happened to be awake and on guard at any such unfortunate hour." "Where was he when he saw all this?" "On his own side of the river, of course. It was a dark night, and the engine had no headlight. But the loading gang had plenty of lamps, and he says they made plenty of water." "You didn't be it rest at that?" said the superintendent. "No, no indeed! I put in the entire afternoon that day on a handkerchief with four of my men, to pump it for me, and if there is a foot of the main line, tie troops or spurs, west of the Gloria bridge that I haven't gone over I don't know where it is. The next night I crossed the Timisoara and tackled the old prospector mine. I wanted to check him up once if he had forgotten any of the little falls and details. He hadn't" On the contrary, he was able to add what seems to me a very important detail. About an hour after the designation of the one our train with my bridge timers he heard something that he had heard many times before. He says it was the high pitch of a circular saw. I asked him if he was same. He grimified and said he hadn't been brought up to the Milk warehouse without being told to report that it was wrong to be right near." "Where come you went hunting for swimmers?" I asked, and if there is one within a hearing distance of the old man's cabin on Quarry Creek, I couldn't find it. But I am confident that there is one and that the thunder whoever they were, but no time in sawing or beating timbers up on board timber, and I felt a hot breath $5 against a no account yellow doe that I have seen those boards a dozen times within the last twenty four hours without knowing it. "Didn't see any thing of our switch engine while you were looking for your bridge timbers and sawmills and other things, did you?" queried Lidgerwood. "No," was the quick reply, "no, but I have a think coming on that too. My old prospector says he couldn't make out very well in the dark, but it seemed to him as if the engine which handed away our bridge timbers didn't have any tender. How does that strike you?" Lidgerwood grew thoughtful. The missing engine was of the "saddle tank" type, and it had no tender. It was hard to believe that it could be hidden anywhere on so small a part of the Red Butte Western system as that covered by the comparatively short mileage in Timanyou Park. Yet if I had not been dumped into some deep hole in the river it was unquestionably hidden somewhere. "Benson, are you sure you went over all the line lying west of the Gloribridge?" he asked pointedly. "Every foot of it, up one side and down the other. No; hold on. There is that old Spur running up on the eastern side of Little Butte. It's the one that used to serve Pleinster's mine when the workings were on the eastern slope of the butte. I didn't go over that spur. It hasn't been used for years. As I remember it, the swister connections with the main line have been taken out." "You're wrong about that," said Lidgerwood definitely. "McClouse thought so, too, and told me that the frogs and, point rails had been taken out at Silver Switch, at both of the main line ends of the Y, but the latime I was over the line I noticed that the old switch stands were there and that the split rails were still in place." "Say, Lidgerwood. I'm going back to the park on exert 71, which ought to leave in about the minutes" and then she hurriedly. "Tell me half a dozen things in just about as many seconds. Blaemer used that spur since you took charge of the road? "No." "Have you ever respected him or being mixed up in the looting?" "I haven't known enough about him to form an opinion." Benson stopped to the door communicating with the outer office and closed it quietly. "The tour man Hallock sat there—how is he mixed up with Flemiaster?" "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day before yesterday when I was on the Little Butte station platform talking with Goodloe L saw Flemiaster and Hallock walking down the new spur together. When they saw me they turned around and began to walk back toward the mine." "Hallock, bad business with Flemiaster—I know that much—and he took half a day off Thursday to go and see him," said the superintendent. "Do you happen to know what the business was?" "Yes. I do. He went at my request." "H'm!" said Benson. "Another string broken. Never mind; I've got to catch that train." "Still after those bridge timber?" "Still after the boards they have probably been sawed into. And before I get back I am going to know what's at the upper end of that old Silver Switch Y spur." The young engineer had been gone less than half an hour and Lidgerwood had scarcely finished reading his mail when McCloskey opened the door. Like Benson, the trainmaster also had the light of discovery in his eye. "More thievery," he announced gloomily. "This time they have been looting my department. I had ten or twelve thousand feet of high贵 insulated copper wire and a dozen or more telephone sets in the storeroom. The wire and all those telephone sets are gone." "Well?" said Lidgerwood evenly. The temptation to take it out upon the nearest man was still as strong as ever, but he was growing better able to resist it. "I've done what I could," snapped Metlocksey, seeming to know what was expected of him, "but nobody knew anything, of course. So far as I could find out, no one of my men had had occasion to go to the stateroom for a week." "Who has the keys?" "I have one, and Spurlock, the line chief, has one. Unlock has the third." "Always Hallock" was the half important comment. "I hope you don't suspect him of stalking your wire." "That's just what I do. I've got him dled to rights this time. He was in that situation on day before yesterday, or rather, night before fast. Callahan saw him coming out of there." Lidgerwood sat back in his chair and smiled. "I don't blame you much, Mac. This thing is getting to be pretty binding more so than it is. But I think you are mistaken in your thinking. Hallock has been making an inventory of material on hand for the past week or more, and now that I think of it I remember having seen your wire and the telephone sets included in his last sheet of telegraph supplies." "There it goes again," said the train master sourly. "Every time I get a half hitch on that fellow something turns up to make it slip." "Try to be as fair to him as you can." Litterwood advised. "I know you dislike him, and probably you have good reasons. But have you stopped to ask yourself what possible use he could make of the stolen material?" "I can tell you one thing, Mr. Lod perwood. Flemmer has just put a complete system of wiring and telephones in his home, and if he had the stuff for the system shipped in over our road the agent at Little Butte does know anything about it." "That proves nothing against Hailok, Mae, as you will see when you cool down a little," he said. "I know it doesn't," wrathfully. "Nothing proves anything any more. I suppose he got to say it again-I'm all in, down and out." And he went away, growing to his bolt hum. Late in the evening of the same day Benson returned from the west. He sought out Litterwood at once and made his report of the day's doings. "I have and I haven't," he said, beginning in the midst of things, as his habit was. "You, were right about the track connection at Silver Switch It is in. Flemister put it in himself a month ago, when he had a carload of coal taken up to the back door of his mine." "I told you go up over the spur?" "Yes, and I had my trouble for my prints. Before I go any further, Lid P. P. "TOLD THEN TO CONTAINRIGHT TO BLASZ g术器, I'd like to ask you one guest tion—can we afford to quarrel with Mr. Pennington Fleming?" "Benson, we shan't hesitate a slig gle moment to quarrel with the big great mine or freight shipper the side of the crosswater hills if we have the right on our side. Spread it out What did you find?" Bernard sent a little blower to his chair. "The best thing I found was a couple of armed guards, a pair of tough, holding officers, with great urging of their bate, bending around the Wire driver here down. There is quite a little nest of buildings in the old仓仓 to the Wire driver, and a stockade has been built to increase them. The old spur runs through a gate in the stockade, and the gate was open, but the two lengths wouldn't let me go inside. I wrenched with them first and tried to bribe them afterward, but it was no go. Then I started to walk around the outside of the stockade, which is only a high board fence, and they objected to that. Thereupon I told them to go straight to blazes and walked away down the spur, but when I got out of sight around the first curve I took to the timber on the buttleslope and climbed to a point from which I could look over into Fleming's carefully builtclosure. "Much or little, just as you happen to look at it. There are half a dozen buildings in the yard, and two of them are new and unpainted. Sizing them up from a distance, I said to myself that the lumber in them hadn't been very long out of the mill. One of them is evidently the power house. It has an iron chimney set in the roof, and the power plant was running." "You say two of the buildings are new. Did you make any inquiries about recent lumber shipments to the Wire Silver?" "I did." said the young engineer merely. "So far as our station records show, Flomister has had no material save coal shipped in over either the eastern, or the western spur for several months." "Then you believe that he took your bridge timbers and sawed them up into lumber?" "I do as firmly as I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow. And that isn't all of it. Lidgerwood. He is the man who has your switch engine. As I have said, the power plant was running while I was up there today. The power is a steam engine, and if you stand off and listen to it you'd swear it was a locomotive pulling a light train up an easy grade. Of course I'm only guessing at that, but I think you will agree with me that the burden of proof lies upon Flomister." Lidgerwood was nodding slowly. "Yes, on. Flomister and some others Who are the others, Benson?" "I have no more guesses coming, and I am too tired to lautent any Suppose we drop it until tomorrow. I am afraid it means a fight or a funeral, and I am not quite equal to either tonight." [TO BE CONTINUED.] BANK CLERK IN JAIL; TWO HOMES SORROW McCracken Admits Theft of $15,000. The arrest of Charles I. McCracken, bookkeeper and clerk in the People's National bank in Norristown, Pa., who is charged with misappropriating $15,000 of the bank's funds, has brought sadness and despair to two homes in the borough. In a modest two story brick dwelling at 1272 Arch street, in the out skirts of Norristown, the wife of the arrested bank clerk is proclaimed behind one blind and a locked front door, with her four children, the oldest just six years old. At 225 East Main street Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCracken, parents of the priests, are broken hearted. "I don't know whether I will go his hall or not," said Mr. McCracken. "What good would it do? He has admitted his guilt to me. The only reason that I might enter bond would be to give some slight consolation to his wife. She is prostrated and seems unable to realize that the charges are true and can be substantiated. "Charles admitted it of me immediately. Even he did not realize that it had grown to the amount of $15,000. We thought it could be settled, and I was willing to settle it. The bank had no animosity, and was willing to settle. As far as his salary company was concerned, a settlement would have saved them money also. But the case was in the hands of the federal authorities and we learned with dismay that it could not be settled." McCracken was arrested by a United States marshal and taken before Commissioner Craig. He was committed to jail in default of $10,000 bail. The charges were preferred by Charles S. Chapman, bank examiner, who alleges that he embezzled $15,000 of the bank's funds, covering the deficits from time to time with false entries in the books. Burne His Home and Hangs Himself. William J. Winkleman set fire to his home in Pittsburgh, Pa., in whih his wife and family were asleep, escaped from the police who caught him in the act, and three hours later his body was found hanging by his suspenders from a tree in Riverview park, near his home. Winkleman is said to have been despondent over the loss of his employment. Plan For "Beef Trust" Probe. Immediate inquiry into the existence and ramifications of the so-called "beef trust" was agreed upon by the judicial committee, with the reservation that there might be an obstacle if the senate took up the impeachment proceedings against Judge Archbold. Bishop Warren is Sororally Ill. Bishop Henry W. Warren, of the Methodist Episcopal church reading in Denver, Colo., who was stricken with pneumonia a few days ago, is in a serious condition. Bishop Warren, who is more than eighty years old, was retired by the general conference in May. --- THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSE DELEGATES Roosevelt, Contests Instigated to Deceive the Public. ALL BUT 74 WERE ABANDONED An Examination of the Feets Shows That the Tribunals Which Desired These Contests in Favor of Mr. Taft Were Right In Every Instance—The Remaining 164 Contests Were Privileous, and Their Prompt Abandonment Refects Upon the Genuineness and Validity of the Remainder. Washington, July 29.—Here are the facts in relation to the contested scena in the Republican national convention. It is a summary of a detailed-statement going carefully into all of the cases, a statement so thorough that it takes up 150 pages of printed matter. This statement is signed by Mr. Victor Rosewater, chairman of the former Republican national committee; by Mr. J. H. Devine of Colorado, chairman of the committee on credentials of the Republican national convention, and by Mr. Charles D. Hille, chairman of the present Republican national committee. The total number of delegates summoned to the convention under its call was 1,073, with 540 necessary to a choice. Mr. Taft had 561 votes on the first and only ballot and was declared the nominee. There were instituted against 238 of the delegates regularly elected for Taft contents on behalf of Roosevelt. These contests were easily instigated not for the purpose of really securing seats in the convention, not for the purpose of adducing evidence which would lead any respectable court to entertain the contests, but for the purpose of decliving the public into the belief that Mr. Roosevelt had more votes than he really had, as the conventions and primaries were in progress for the selection of delegates. This is not only a necessary inference from the character of the contests, but it was boldly avowed by the chief editor of the newspapers owned by Mr. Munsey, who has been Mr. Roosevelt's chief financial and newspaper supporter. The 238 contests were reduced by abandonment to seventy-four. The very fact of these 104 privilious contests itself reflects upon the genuineness and validity of the remainder. The seventy-four delegates include six at large from Arkansas, four at large from Kentucky, four at large from Indiana, six at large from Michigan, eight at large from Texas and eight at large from Washington, and also two district delegates each from the Ninth Alabama, the Fifth Arkansas, the Thirteenth Indiana, the Seventh, Eighth, Eighth and Eleventh Kentucky; the Third Oklahoma, the Second Tennessee and from each of nine districts, the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Fourteenth of Texas. Arizona In the Arizona convention there were ninety-three votes. All the delegates—six in number—were to be selected at large. The counties were entitled to select their delegates through their county committee or by primary. In one county, Marticopa, a majority of the committee decided to select its delegates and a minority to have a primary. In other counties there were some, contests, and the attae committee, following the usage of the national committee, gave a hearing to all contestants in order to make up the temporary roll. There was a clear majority of the Taft delegates among the uncontested delegates. The committee made up the temporary roll and then there was a holt, sixty-four remaining in the hall and twenty-five withdrawing therefrom. The case of the Taft majority was so clear that it is difficult to understand why a contest was made. Indiana. In Indiana the four Taft delegates at large were elected in a state convention to which Marion county, in which Indianapolis is situate, was entitled to 125 votes. A primary was held in Indianapolis, at which Taft polled 6,000 and Roosevelt 1,400 votes. This gave Taft 106 delegates in the state convention from Marion county, and if they were properly seated the control of the convention by a large majority was conceded to Taft. Attempt was made to impeach the returns from Marion county by charges of fraud and repeating. These charges were of a general character, without specification except as to one ward out of fifteen wards, and then the impeaching witness admitted he could not claim fraud enough to change the result in that ward. The national committee, upon which there were fifteen anti-Taft men, rejected the Roosevelt contestants and gave the Taft delegates their votes by a unanimous vote. Senator Bornhold and Mr. Prank B. Kellogg, both Roosevelt men, made speeches in explaining the votes in which they said that the case turned wholly on the Marion county primary, and as there was no evidence to impeach the result certified, the title of The Tault delegates was clear. This is the convention where proceedings called forth such loud charges of theft and fraud from Mr. Roosevelt. Kentucky. In Kentucky a contest was filed against only three of the four delegates at large. The fourth Taft delegate's seat was uncontested. The three contestants admitted they were not elected by the convention which sent the Taft delegates or by any other. They only contended that if the Roosevelt force had had a majority they would have been elected. There were 2,356 delegates summoned to the convention by its call. There were 449 of those whose seats were contested. If all of these had been conceded to Roosevelt it would have made the Roosevelt vote 267 votes less than a majority. The appeal to the committee on credentials from the decision of the national committee was abandoned, as it ought to have been. Michigan In Michigan the state convention had in it about 1,200 delegates. There were only two counties in dispute or contest. One was Wayne county, in which Detroit is situated, and the other was Calhoun county. The evidence left no doubt that the Taft men carried by a very large majority Wayne county, but it was immaterial whether this was true or not, because, leaving out both Wayne county and Calhoun county, the only counties in contest, the Taft delegates outnumbered by several hundred the Roosevelt delegates, and they had a clear majority out of the total number of votes that should have been in the convention. The contest was so weak to hardly merit recital. Texas In Texas there were 249 counties, or which four have no county government. The 245 counties under the call of the convention were allowed to have something over 1,000 delegates, representing them, who were given authority to cast 248 votes. Of the 245 counties there were ninety-nine counties in which the total Republican vote was but 2,000, in fourteen of which there were no Republican voters, in twenty-seven of which there were less than ten each and in none of which was there any Republican organization and in none of which had a primary or convention been held. It was shown that Colonel Occlil Lyon, to whom had been assigned as referee the disposition of the patronage of the national Republican administration for ten years in the state, had been in the habit of controlling the Republican state convention by securing from two federal officials in each of these ninety-nine counties a certificate granting a proxy to Colonel Lyon or a friend of his to represent the county or as if regularly conferred by a Republican county organization. The national committee and the committee on credentials and the convention after the fulfilment investigation decided that these ninety-nine counties in which the Republican vote was so small and in which there was no Republican party, no convention, no primary, no organization, was not the proper source for a proxy to give a vote equal to that to be cast by the other 146 counties in which there was a Republican organization and in which primaries or conventions were held. The two committees therefore held such ninety-nine proxies to be illegal and not the basis of proper representation. The two tribunals who heard the case decided that they should deduct the ninety-nine votes from the total of 245 and give the representation to those who controlled the majority of the remainder. The remainder was 152 votes, and out of that the Taft men had carried eighty-nine counties, having ninety votes. This gave to the Taft men a clear majority in the state convention and with it eight delegates at large. WASHINGTON. The contest in Washington turned on the question whether the Taft delegates appointed by the county committee in King county, in which Seattle is situated, were duly elected to the convention or whether a primary which was subsequently held and at which Roosevelt delegates were elected, was properly called; so that its result was legal. Under the law the county committee had the power to decide whether it would select the delegates directly or should call a primary. In some counties of the state one course was pursued and in other counties the other. In King county the committee consisted of 220 men, the majority of whom were for Taft, and that majority, acting through its executive committee, selected the Taft delegates to the state convention. Mean time the city council of Seattle had redistricted the city. It before had, 220 precincts. Now substantially the same territory was divided up into 381 precincts. The chairman of the county committee was a Roosevelt man. He had been given authority by general resolution to fill vacancies occurring in the committee. A general meeting of the committee had been held after the city council had directed the redistricting of the city, in which it was resolved, the chairman not dissenting that representatives could not be selected to fill the 381 new prescincts until an election was held in September 1912. Thereafter and in spite of this conclusion the chairman assumed the right by his appointment to add to the existing committee 131 prescinct committees, and with these voting in the committee it is claimed that a primary was ordered. There was no much confusion in the meeting that this is doubtful. However, the fact is that the Taft men protested against any action by a committee so constituted on the ground that the chairman had no authority to appoint the 131 new committees. They refused to take part in the primary, and so did the La Follette men. The newspapers reported the number of votes in the primary to be something over 3,000. The Roosevelt committee showed by affidavit the number to be 100 out of a usual total Republican vote of 75,000. The action of the chairman of the committee in attempting to add 121 prescinct men to the old committee was, of course, beyond his power. The resolution au Hawkins-Johnson MANUFACTURING CO., Hair Grower and Restorer, 616 R. 1st Street. Richmond, Va. Will positively remove all Dandruff and cure the scalp of all impurities. It will restore Hair on clean Temples and Bald Heads where the Roots are not dead. THE HAWKINS-JOHNSON M'f'g Co's Hair Grower and Restorer is now being used in this State and other States with phenomenal success. Its reputation for growing and restoring hair leaps into prominence wherever it is used. MADAM HAWKINS-JOHNSON is known as the Hair Grower. 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No lawyer will say that such action by the committee thus constituted was legal. Therefore the action which the lawful committee of 250 took in electing Taft delegates who made a majority in the state convention was the only one which could be recognised as valid. CONTESTED DISTRICT DELEGATES Ninth District The Ninth Alabama contest turned on the question whether the chairman of a district committee had power to fill vacancies, whether a committeeman who had had his resignation to take effect only in case he was not present, being present; should be prevented from acting as committeeman, and, third, on the identity of another committeeman. The written resolution under which the right of the chairman to appoint to vacancies was claimed showed on its face that the specific authority was written in its different writing and different colored pencil between the lines. A number of affidavits were filed by committeemen who were present when the resolution was passed to show that the resolution contained no such authority. This gave rise to a question of fact upon which a very large majority of both the national committee and the committee on credentials held that the lead pencil insertion was a forgery, that the chairman did not have the authority therefore to appoint to the vacancies, and therefore the action of his committee was not valid. This made it necessary to reject the contentants. The committee decided the two other issues of fact before them in favor of the Taft contention, although the first decision was conclusive. Fifth District In the Fifth Arkansas the question was one of the identity of one faction or the other as the Republican party. This convention followed the example of the convention of 1908 in holding that what was known as the Redding faction was not the Republican party, that it was a defunct organization and had only acquired life at the end of each four years for the purpose of using it in the national convention. The contestants were therefore rejected. It was shown that the other or Taft had been in active existence as the Republican party, had nominated a local ticket and had run a congressman. CALIFORNIA Fourth District The Fourth California presented this question: Under the state law the delegation, two from each district, was elected on a general ticket, in a group of twenty-six. Each delegate might either express bias presidential preference or agree to vote for the presidential candidate receiving the highest number in the state. In the Fourth district the two candidates from that district on the Taft ticket expressed a preference for Taft, but did not agree to vote for the candidates having the highest state vote. These Taft delegates in the Fourth district received a majority of 200 more than the Roosevelt delegates in that district. The national call forade any law or the acceptance of any law which presented the election of delegates by districts. In other words, the call of the national concession was at variance with the state law. The state law sought to enforce the state unit rule and required the whole twenty-six delegates to be voted for all over the state, assigning two to each district on the ticket to abide the state wide election, while the Republican national convention has insisted upon the unit of the district since 1890. That has been the party law. This convention recognized the party law and hold it to be more binding than that of the state law and allowed the two delegates who had been elected in the Fourth district to be larger than their two opponents assigned to that district, to possess delegates in the convention. This was clearly lawful. For a state has no power to limit or control the basis of representation of a voluntary national party in a national convention. The fact that President Taft by telegram approved all the twenty-six delegates as representing him is said to be an estoppel against his claiming the election of two of those delegates in their Fourth district. What is there inconsistent in his approving the candidacy of all his delegates and the election of two of them? Why should he be thus estopped to claim that part of the law was inoperative because in conflict with the call of the convention? INDIANA Thirteenth District. In the Thirteenth Indiana there, was no question about the victory of the Taft men, because the temporary chairman representing the Taft side was conceded to have elected by one-half a vote more than the Roosevelt candidate. This one-half vote extended through the Hototous proceedings, and although it was not as wide as a barn door it was enough. The chairman put the question as to effecting the Taft delegates, and after continuous object-laiting three hours declared the vote carried. The Roosevelt men thus prevented a roll call and then boiled. KENTUCKY. In the Seventh Kentucky district the total vote of the convention was 155. There were contests from four counties, involving ninety-five votes. According to the rules of the party in Kentucky, where two seats of credentials are presented those delegates whose credentials are approved by the county chairman are entitled to participate in the temporary organisation. On the temporary roll the Taft chairman was elected by ninety-eight votes and forty-seven votes were cast for the Roosevelt candidate. The committee on credentials was then appointed, consisting of one member named by each county delegation. The majority report of the committee was adopted unanimously by the convention, no delegation whose seats were contested being permitted to vote on its own case. As soon as the majority report of the credentials committee had been adopted, the Roosevelt adherents bottled. There was not the slightest reason for sustaining the content for Roosevelt delegates. Eighth District The Eighth Kentucky district was composed of ten counties having ten votes, of which eighty two were necessary to a choice. There was no contest in five of the counties, and although the Roosevelt men claimed that there was one in Spencer county no contest was presented against the seating of the regularly elected Taft delegates from that county. This gave the Taft delegates eighty-four votes, or two more than were necessary for a choice. In other words, assuming that the Roosevelt men were entitled to all the delegates from the counties in which they tied contests in the district convention there remained a clear majority of uncontested delegates who voted for the Taft delegates to Chicago. In the Third Oklahoma district the question of the validity of the seats of the delegates turned on the constitution of the congressional committee which was made up of twelve Taft men and seven Roosevelt men. The chairman, Cochran, was a Roosevelt man and attempted to prevent the majority of the committee from taking action. The chairman was removed and another substituted, and thereupon the convention was duly called to order on the temporary roll prepared by the congressional committee, which was made the permanent roll, and the two Taft delegates to Chicago were duly selected. Every county in the district had its representation and vote in the regular convention, and no person properly accredited as a delegate was excluded or debarred from participating in its proceedings. Cochran and his followers bolted after his disposition. Assuming that all the committee who went out with him had the right to act on the committee. It left the committee standing twelve for Taft and seven for Roosevelt, so it was simply a question whether a majority of the committee had the right to control its action or a minority. The bolting convention which Cochran held was not attended by a majority of the duly elected delegates to the convention. It did not have the credentials from the various counties, and the membership was largely made up of bystanders. who has, not been duly accredited by any county in the district. Its action was entirely, without authority. In the Second Tennessee district there were fifty nine delegates untested out of a possible total of 108 in the convention. There were forty nine contested. The Roosevelt contestants in the forty nine refused to abide the decision of the committee on candidates and withdrew, leaving fifty nine untested delegates. These fifty nine delegates, part of whom were Roosevelt men, remained in the convention, appointed the proper committees, settled contents and proceeded to select Taft delegates. There can be no question about the validity therefore of their title. TEXAS. First District The only remaining districts are the nine districts from Texas. Of these the First district was composed of eleven counties, each county having one vote except Cass county, which had two. The executive committee, composed of one representative from each county, made up the temporary roll, and in the contests died from two counties sent both delegates with one-half vote each. The convention elected the two Taft delegates, giving them ten and one-quarter votes. Each county was represented in this vote. A minority representing one and three-quarter votes bolted the regular convention and held a rump meeting. The national committee by unanimous vote decided the content in favor of the Taft delegate. Second District In the Second Texas district there were fourteen counties. Two counties were found not to have held conventions and one county to have no delegate present. The convention was then constituted by the delegations that held regular credentials. The report of the committee on credentials was accepted upon roll call, and then the representatives of five counties withdrew from the hall. The representatives of four of these counties held a pump convention. 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AUGUST 3, 1912 There are few Southern white men who secure a stronger hold upon the esteem and affection of the colored people than did Judge S. B. Witt of this city, who was laid to rest last Monday afternoon. He was uniformly fair to all and his friendship for the better class of colored people was known of all men. When he died, many of our people mourned and their grief was as genuine as that of those who had labored for months at his bedside. When the final word is spoken and the fast tide on earth is broken, we hope to meet him again. From the reports coming in from the various states, it is evident that the Roosevelt movement, now known as the Third Party movement is assuming huge proportions and the defections from the Republican Party steadily on the increase. The recent meeting in New York of the county chairman revealed the fact that every county in the State was represented. Many officials in the government service are resigning their commissions to take up the battle for the remarkable leader and statesman of Oyster Bay, New York. While Col. Roosevelt has been outspoken in his condemnation of political bosses, he has collated in his service some of the shrewdest politicians in the country. The State convention in New Jersey was a record breaker and a strong platform was adopted and an enthusiastic delegation elected to the National Progressive Convention at Chicago, which has for its purpose the nomination and election of President Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States. The dark cloud upon the horizon seems to be coming from the direction of the Southern States. The Progressives in Georgia, Alabama and Virginia have split upon the race question. The white supporters of .Col. Roosevelt in Georgia barred out the colored voters and denied them representation. These colored voters, together with their white allies met and elected delegates to the Chicago convention. The situation in Virginia with reference to the National Progressive Party and sometimes called the "bull moose" Party is puzzling. It has caused much annoyance and untold uneasiness among the colored men, who thought they saw the opportunity of a lifetime for a return to those political conditions which existed here just after the Civil War, when colored men were recognized upon the basis of their political ability. Mr. Thomas Lee Moore of Rounoko and the recognized committeeman in this state called a state convention without consulting Attorney J. R. Pollard and his white state chairman Mr. Newcomb of Petersburg, Va. The result was a largely attended state convention of white men exclusively, with the colored voter absolutely in the background. It was further stated that this action was taken with the assent and consent of Senator Dixon, ex-President Roosovelt's campaign manager. We are not surprised. We have week in and week out told the colored people of the country that Col. Roosevelt was not the ideal proposition that he was, represented to be when it came to the race question and the rights of all American citizens rewardless of race, color or blood. He may believe in all of these things from a personal standpoint, but he is not disposed to force his views upon his political friends and associates. Time is demonstrating the truth of these assertions. The instructions state that in Southern States, where the demand of the colored people are practically arrestable for the reason that the white representation is not sufficient to justify right, and down-right recognition, separate conventions will be held and separate organizations maintained with the hope that temporary harmony may be restored. "SHALL COLORED MEN SUPPORT WILSON?" Bishop Alexander Walters seems to have found a political haven and a democratic resting place, at last if we are to judge by the reports sent out by our correspondent at New York. The able Bishop no longer affiliates with the National Independent and Political League. He claims to have found congenial surroundings not only at Gov. Wilson's cottage at Sea Girt, N. J., but also at the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore, Md. If he did, he is "mighty easily" satisfied. We have never been able to see how any colored leader working for the interests of the race can "square" himself with the principles as unquainted by the Democratic Party. In Northern states and very far North, too, this may be done, but as a rule, it cannot be done without a sacrifice of principle. We can see how colored men can support some Democrats as individuals, and be better off in a personal sense than they would be had they supported the Republican candidate. For our part, we are disgusted with the attitude of some white Republicans hereabout and would just as soon support a "horned" Democrat as to march up to the polls, and support some of them. Still, when the question of party principles is at stake and the issue of manhood rights is to be decided, we must look once or twice and perhaps three times, before we vote once. If Gov. Wilson in his address accepting the nomination will give voice to broad, statesmanlike utterances, which can be construed to cover all people, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude, we shall then be in a position to assert that the learned Bishop, builted better than he knew and that it may be time for colored men to follow his leadership into the Democratic Party, where they shall have an opportunity of being something else than "bowers of wood and drawers of water." --- Rev. J. Milton Waldron, D. D. of Washington, D. C. and former National Organizer of the National Independent and Political League published a defense of his conduct and asserted that the colored Democrats were not anbubled by the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore and by its managers. Explanation is made that the reason the colored Democrats were not admitted in a body and did not have seats assigned to them as an organization was due to the fact that they were late in arriving at the Convention Fall. It has often been said that "some excuse is better than none," so we accept the explanation of the colored Democrats at its face value. Dr. Waldron's explanation as to the purpose and mission of an independent organization is correct. Still, we cannot understand how he could have marched in line with the colored Democrats as he said he did, until his organization had heard from the platform committee of the National Democratic Convention and the status of the colored Democrats definitely deckled. As a matter of fact, he was a pronounced Democrat, at least for this campaign at Baltimore and yet he went to Philadelphia to attend the annual sessions of the National Independent Political League, of which organization, he was then the National Organizer. The purpose of the meeting, it seems to us was to decide which one of the political parties was entitled to the support of the independent colored voters of the country. If the National Organizer of the League had already decided this question for himself, what was the use of the meeting at Philadelphia so far as he was concerned? Dr. Waldron admits that he has already identified himself with the National Democratic Party to the extent of openly showing his approval of it by marching in line with the rankest type of colored Democrats. Still, he is also one of the leading officials in the independent movement and is now pledged to submit to Gov. Woodrow Wilson these questions: "Are you in favor of or at rights and opportunities for or rule of citizens and will you contend for them if elected?" "Are you opposed to mending and lawlessness, and wit, if elected labor to make lynching a crime against the national Constitution punishable by Federal Government?" "Will you use every effort to have Jim Crow' car laws, and disruptions amendments to the State Constitutions abolished?" Let us presume that Gov. Woodrow Wilson should answer these questions in the negative or refuse to answer them at all. What will Dr. J. Milton Waldbroon do in the premises?" These may be embarrassing questions and the learned Doctor may reply that he does not care to "cross this bridge before he gets to it," still, as he is a public man, operating in the interest of that part of the public known as the colored people, we hardly think that it is out of place here to attempt to secure information for those people, whom we represent. --- CANDIDATES AND THE RACE QUESTION. The ever-recurring race question is still worrying the candidates. The white enthusiasts of the distinguished resident of Oyster Bay, New York, in the Southland are seriously embarrassing him by announcing that they will not slay in the same convention upon a basis of equality with the citizen of color. They are insisting upon their right to nullify the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the fundamental principles of the Republican Party. In this connection, it may be well to quote the telegraphic report sent from Oyster Bay, N. Y. It says: Senator Dixon said It was his understanding that in most of the contests in Southern States between whites and Negroes for seats in the Chicago convention, the white delegates were the ones selected under the official arrangements made by the members of the provisional national committee. These contests would be decided, he said, by the committee. He made it clear that an effort was being put forth to build up the party in the South largely under the leadership of the whites. He said he had just received a letter from Mississippi to the effect that the movement was making rapid progress in that State under white leadership. This statement coming from Senator Dixon, manager for ex-President Roosevelt, is very significant and will be in the nature of "a wet blanket" to the hopes and aspirations of tens of thousands of colored Roosevelt supporters, who had pictured him the greatest statesman the country has ever produced and as being the unblemished champion of fair-play and political equality for the "brother in black." They might have known that what Senator Dixon said was what Col. Roosevelt said and that the one would not go any further than had been indicated by the other. But they could not believe that Senator Dixon had it right, so they journeyed to see the Colonel himself and "they saw the Colonel." Here is what the telegraphic reports say: The attitude of the national progressive party on the race question was inquired into today by a delegation of Negroes, which called on Col. Roosevelt in New York. Representatives of three States were in the delegation. New Jersey sent Dr. C. R. Branch, the Rev. Jbhk C. Love and James Churchman. James H. Hayes came from Richmond, Va. and the Rev. W. P. Hayes, J. R. Gleed and Isaac B. Allen were the representatives of New York. Col. Roosevelt assured them that he would do all in his power to secure for the Negro his full rights under the Constitution. The question of the "illly white" movement in the South was brought up, but Col. Roosevelt postponed a definite answer as to this phase of the question, saying that in a few days he would make a public statement of his ideas of the attitude the national progressive party should take. To any man with ordinary intelligence, it would be apparent that the same. Col. Roosevelt promised these colored men, what practically every candidate would promise them, namely,—that he would do all in his power to secure for them their full rights under the Constitution. As he has no power under the Constitution to do anything, the promise is about an empty—as an empty creek during a dry spot in the summer time. Every one knows or should know that the power rests with the Congress and the States. But when it came to the machinery of the new party, which Col. Roosevelt absolutely controls, for the final Progressive Party is Roosevelt and Roosevelt is the National Progressive Party, the report says that ex-President Roosevelt "postponed a definite answer as to this phase of the question." Is it possible that colored men will not see? Are they still so blinded by their wishes and dulled by their desires, as not to see that the great Roosevelt is tired of them and intends to relegate them to the rear, adopting the policy of the Southern, moss-back, Negro hating Democrats in dealing with them? But we may be a little too fast in drawing our conclusions and it may be best to wait for his definite answer as to this phase of the question. Gov. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat nominee for President of the United States, like ex-President Roosevelt, is also having his troubles in dealing with this embarrassing race question. The report from Sea girt, New Jersey says: Later in the afternoon he talked with E. E. Grossup, democratic state chairman of New Jersey; J. Taylor Ellyson, Democratic State chairman of Virginia; Louis Nixon, Robert S. Hudspeth, A. Mitchell Palmer, and half a dozen other visitors who had made no appointment to meet him. He also assured a delegation of Negroes representing a New Jersey organization, that they would find, before the campaign was many weeks older, that he was not only in sympathy with the ambitions of their race, but had no prejudice against the men of any race. This is a clear-cut statement of his position. It is in striking contrast to the equivocal position assumed by the distinguished ex-President. He does not promise to do all in his power to enforce the provisions of a Constitution, which he cannot enforce but he declares in the open that he is not only in sympathy with the ambitions of the colored race, but that he has no prejudice against two men of any race. It would seem that Bishop Alexander Walters did have positive assurances from the distinguished Democratic presidential candidate relative to his attitude towards the colored people of this country and this fact will be a most positive one in discussing the question, "Shall colored men support Wilson?" The political situation is becoming an embarrassing as it is complicated. President Taft has drawn the colorline on colored men in the Southern States. Ex-President Roosevelt, through his Chairman, Senator Dixon has done the same thing and now the Democratic nominee of the Democratic National Convention openly announces that he has no prejudice against the colored people of the United States and that he is in sympathy with their ambitions. Consider in this connection, the adoption by the Democrats of this State, a primary plan, which admits colored men and enables them to stand on a basis of equality with white men in the Democratic organization and we come to the conclusion that truly, "the world moves" and the people with it. God has a hand in all of this. He has promised that where one door closes against His people, another one shall open. We see a literal demonstration of this fact and we call the attention of the thinking colored people to a most remarkable display of God's power and demonstration that all things will come right in their own time. DRASTIC NEW DRUG BILL House Committee Favors Measure Drawing Lines Tightly. A blow at the readers of quack patient medicine was a ruck by the house interstate commerce committee when it favorably reported the bill of Representative Stirley, Democrat, to amend the pure food and drug act. The measure "prohibits" "false and fraudulent" curative claims for patent medicines upon labels, under penalty of prohibition from interstate commerce. The Stirley bill seeks to meet the decision of the supreme court in the Johnson case, where it was held that false and extravagant claims as curative powers of medicines was not in violation of the pure food law. 1600 North 80th Street. CONFECTIONERIES, ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER. Meals served At All Hours. A. PRESIDENTIAL, Proprietor. You are hereby notified to..... Being on there:—MUCKLOW, GREEN CASTLE, WACOMA, BURNWELL, STANDARD, HICKORY CAMP, DETROIT, TOMSBURG, all on PAINT CREEK in KANAWHA CO., W. VA. Also at the HICKORY ASH COAL CO. MINES on INDIAN CREEK and PEYTONA, also at the LEWIS COAL & COKE CO. MINE at CABIN CREEK JCT., and KNICKERBOCKER, on COAL RIVER. Those who have been deceived into going into this section are cruelly treated and practically held in peonage. Trouble exists there and several persons have been killed as a result of these disturbances RICHMOND HOSPITAL'S CAMPAIGN 406 E. Baker St. $40,000 NEEDED AT ONCE. $40,000 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 $0,000 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. Diamond, Dr. Sarah 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 convenient 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 Bewler, V. Pres.; Dr. A. W. G. Farrar's Club, Mrs. V. H West Giles, 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, Free. Contributions not limited to $1.00. Send as many more as you please. DO IT NOW! Any information desired by these 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. ST. AUGUSTINE'S SCHOOL, RALEIGH, N. C. UNDER THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH CO-EDUCATIONAL. COLLEGIATE NORMAL INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES Founded 1867. Thirty Teachers Excellent Library Property Valued At $200,000 Moderate Expenses Electric Lights Spring Water for Drinking Resident Physician For Catalogue and further information address REV. A. B. HUNTER, Principal. A. Hayes, Office and Ware-Rooms. 737 NORTH-SECOND STREET. First-class Hacks and Oaklets of All Descriptions. I have a Spare Room for BODIES when the Family have not a suitable Piece. All country Orders are Given Special Attention. Your Special Attention is called to the New Style OAK CASKETS. Call and See Me and You shall be Waited on Individually. Phone, Madison-6788. Van De Vyver College, North 1st St., Richmond, Va. OPENED OCT. 2nd, 1911 SIX DEPARTMENTS. 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There was a alight rally in the patient's condition Sunday, but this failed to hold. Every resource known to science was used by the attending physicians to hear him over the crisis which they knew to be at hand, but the stimulants administered to strengthen the heart action had no effect. The empress and crown prince were with the emperor when he passed away. The dead ruler's wife was led weeping from the room when she was told by the physicians that all was over. Throughout the night crowds had belledged the palace for the latest news from the sick room. Thousands of men, women and children prayed in the streets for the recovery of their emperor. The emperor had been ill for several months, but the first intimation that his condition had reached a critical stage came in an announcement published in the Nichl Nichl at 12:15 on the afternoon of July 20. The news was a tremendous shock to the people of Japan. It spread rapidly through the empire and within a few hours of the first announcement up until his majesty passed away spent most of their time, visiting, shrines and praying for their ruler. While the throngs in front of the royal palace had been waiting for hours in breathless expectancy and had seemingly been prepared for the announcement of the end, an audible wall arose from the multitude when that announcement came. The last moments of the mikado were most impressive. Surrounding the deathbed were the empress, the crown prince, who will reign as Emperor Yoshihito; his wife, and the young princes and theologians, together with a few heads of the state. Yoshihito was greatly affected. Recently ill himself, he was by far the palest one in the room, and his thoughts were plainly on his dead father and not the exalted station his father's death has thrust him into. The Emperor Mutahito was born in Hoto on Nov. 3, 1952. He was the second son of the Emperor Komel. He succeeded to the throne in 1867, and in 1885 overthrew the rule of the Shoguns, who were de facto sovereigns for 700 years under the theoretical rule of the mikados. From 1868 to 1899 Mutsuhito ruled as an absolute sovereign, though reforms granted in 1882 and thereafter in practice limited his power. In 1899 a constitution was promulgated, and since that time the emperor has ruled as a constitutional sovereign. The crown prince, who will succeed to the throne, was born in 1879. Mutsuhito ascended the throne as the 121st mikado. He married, on Feb. 9, 1899, the third daughter of Ichihiro Tadaka, a noble of the first rank. His wife was born in 1859. She is known as Her Imperial Majesty Haruki. throne is Yoshihito, the third son of Mutahabito, who was born Aug. 31, 1879. He was nominated heir apparent in 1887 and proclaimed crown prince in 1899. Prince Yoshihito has served in the army and navy of his country, and in 1909 he became both a lieutenant general and a vice admiral. On May 10, 1900, he married Princess Sabako, fourth daughter of Prince Kujo Michitaka. The crown prince has three sons, the youngest of whom was born in 1905. Three-Score Dead In Floods. Over ninety lives were claimed on Wednesday by floods and cloudbursts in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and hundreds of homes and business houses were destroyed. Uniontown, Pa., leads the list of the known dead with fifteen. At Wheeling, W. Va., three were drowned; at Lomont, Pa., four were drowned; at Ellenwood, Pa., three persons were drowned, and thirty six lives are reported to have been lost in other towns of the two states. Uniontown, Lomont, Mount Braddock, Connellaville and Dunbar, Pa. were inundated. In Turtle Creek Valley the damage is enormous and scores of families are homeless in the upper Youghigheny Valley. Hundreds of families deserting their homes in a mad rush for safety on the mountain slides sought shelter beneath improvised shacks and tents, toward the construction of which every available piece of debris was turned to account. Shivering women and children gassed over a acone of desolation in the upper Youghkenghoven Valley, and as the waters recode it turned dwellings, shattered buildings and crushed plies of mortar were held in a mass by a railroad bridge or trestle. At Evans Station, three miles north of Uniontown, Pa., a cloudburst sent patrons raging into the mouth of the Superba No. 2 mines. Fourteen men were drowned like rates in a trap, while thirty-seven others had miraculous escapes from a similar death. A low miles away at 1.000 mine No. 2 three other men are reported to have drowned in like fashion. Steel Mills Short of Labor Urgent pleas have been received by steel car manufacturers in Pittsburgh, Pa., since the middle of the month that delivery of cars ordered during May and June be hastened. Shortage of labor has interfered with the putting on of more capacity in the past fortnight notwithstanding declarations of the railroads that delays in deliveries of cars ordered early in the summer will aggravate the most severe car famine in the history of the country during the coming fall. Unusual expedients are being resorted to by the railroads and car manufacturers. One southern railroad is financing a Roanoke, Va., bridge and structural company in the installation of car building machinery, because it is unable to get prompt deliveries of steel cars in the north. Millions are being expended in the Pittsburgh district for improvements and additions to steel plants, and it is expected that this year's record of money spent will exceed that of any other year in the district's history. The figure is close to $30,000,000. Two Dead In Mine. Two miners were killed and three others injured by an explosion of gas in the Hillman slope of No. 1 colliery, operated by the Delkware & Hudson company at Plymouth, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The dead are: John McGuire, forty-five years old, married; Michael Morrisey, forty-three years old, married. Their bodies were horribly mangled. As far as can be learned, the explosion was caused by one of the men igniting a body of gas with a naked lamp. Bishop Warren Dies. Bishop Henry W. Warren, of the Methodist Episcopal church, who was retired from active work by the general conference last May, died in Denver, Colo. The bishop was stricken with pneumonia a few days ago. Immediate relatives and the bishop's physician were at his bedside at the time of the death. The widow, who had been in constant attendance upon the noted divine since his illness, was prostrated and is under a physician's care. Horse's Kick Killa Baby. Kirked by one of the heavy horses attached to a local brewery wagon, the sixteen-months-old daughter of Felice Dilasrott, of West Berwick, Pa., was instantly killed. The child's neck was broken and her skull fractured at the base of the brain. No one saw the baby until she was under the horse's heels. Tiny Vessel Crossing Atlantic. The thirty-five-foot motorboat Detroit, Captain Thomas Fleming Day, eastbound across the Atlantic, was spoken on July 22, 800 miles east of Boston light by the steamer Arabic. The Detroit reported all well. She has four men aboard and is the smallest power boat that has ever tried to cross the Atlantic. Killen Sixty-Year-Old Mrs. V. J. Hartwell, of Mecklenberg county, killed her sixty-year-old husband near Charlotte, N. C., Friday. She explained that she was enraged at the conduct of her husband and her daughter by a former marriage. The Hartwells had been married for twenty-five years. Two Hang For Killing Three Persons. George Sheldon and John Bailey were hanged in Nashville, Tenn., Friday for the murder of Bost Pettigrew, an old negro, and his two children. As Pettigrew and his children came along the road they were shot down. Dispute over land is said to have been the murder motive. Girl Has Fasted 23 Days. In an effort to reduce her weight, Miss Lizzie Griffin, of East St. Louis, ill, bowed on a diet of cool water for three days. Since June 2, she has lost 100 lb. her weight from 21. May 1, 1911. John Mitchell, Editor of B John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of Richard Planet, Richmond, Va. My Dear John Mitchell. I have been trying to locate John Richard brother of William Richmond, a colored American who died here about three weeks after his arrival of malignant malaria, called the black water fever out here. William Richmond registered in this office as an American citizen, giving as his nearest kin, John Richmond, whose post office address in America was given at Pembroke Store Postoffice, Campbell county, Va. I addressed a dispatch to the State Department, reporting the death of William Richmond, requesting that they assist me in locating the brother of the deceased. The department acknowledged the receipt of the dispatch. I wrote John Richmond, sending the letter to the above address. The letter was returned marked uncalled for. The property of the deceased, cos sisting of travelling bag, clothing, money and bank book are in my possession. I am anxious that his effects reach his brother, or if he be dead, satisfactory proof of the same must be furnished in order that I can proceed in settling the estate. I know no one better qualified than yourself to whom I can turn for as- sistance. Will you help me find the heir of William Richmond?******* I take this opportunity to congratulate you upon the splendid showing of the Mechanics' Bank in its achievements in the field of finance. If industry, honest endeavor, perseverance, determination and inteligent management are essentials of success (and they are) then your future and the success of the great financial institution of which you are the honored head is assured. Many Americans, white and colored, come out here and lead careless lives, disregarding advice as to the care of their health, and quickly pay the penalty in an early grave I am, sir. Your obedient servant, WM. D. CRUM, American Consul-General Liberia, Africa. Do You Know Him? Columbia, Va., March 19, 1912. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr.. Richmond, Va. My.Dear Str. I see published in your valuable paper the letter of Consul General Crum May I, 1811 stating the death of William Richmond any trying to locate John Richmond. I wish to say that I had a brother by the name of William Richardson, born in Cumberland, Va. and reared in Columbia, Va. He went to Richmond, Va. and lived there many years. He left Richmond, Va. on the 8th of September, 1896 and I have not heard of him since. I could not tell if he was dead or alive. He had a scar on the right cheek and he had a scar under the right eye and one on the chin. All three of the scars are visible and will last him to the grave. He was about five feet ten inches and weighed about 175 or 180 pounds when I saw him last. I also send you the piece that I clipped from the paper or 'The PLANET.' Please find him if you can for me. Yourss very truly. JOHN J. RICHARDSON Address: Columbia, Fluvanna Co. Va. 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THE TEMPERATURE COLLEGIATE Opens Upon Its Two On Monday September ment building, 133 1-2 and heated with steam ment at a cost of $49.0, for the reception of lad "Old Bagley Hall" II and equipped with eve reception of male pupils The Temperance, In within three-fourths of the "Ancient James Fri- climate delightful," from Malaria and Chil- tions in the country. pupils must pay $9.50 on September 27th. 288 at once. Those who who add all money by Post Pupils coming from a Steamer "Pocahonta" Saturday of each week. can take same steamer mond, Va., Monday We land at the John Hay Y foot of the hill. The Institution is a Moral, Religious and Farming, the Carpenter and Fancy Sewing with and general Domestic S "Old Bagley Hall" lighted with electricity and heated with steam and equipped with every modern improvement, will be open for the reception of male pupils Sept. 26th, 27th, 28th and 30th inclusive. The Temperance, Industrial and Collegiate Institute is situated within three-fourths of a mile of the Claremont village and fronts the "Ancient James River" and is seventy-five feet above its level, climate delightful, with the best Artesian well water and is free from Malaria and Chills. One of the best religious Institutions in the country. $9.50 must be paid as an Entrance Fee, all pupils must pay $9.50 per month. Pupils desiring to enter school on September 27th, 28th and 30th should send in their applications at once. Those who make a romittance for entrance fees should send all money by Post Office Order. Pupils coming from the South, by Norfolk can take the U. S. Mall Steamer "Pocahontas" at Norfolk on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week. Those coming from the North by Richmond can take same steamer at the foot of Main (East Main) St., Richmond, Va., Monday Wednesday and Friday of each week. All can land at the John Hay Wharf right upon the school grounds, at the foot of the hill. The Institution is non-sectarian and non-political, but strictly Moral, Religious and Industrial. Students are taught Scientific Farming, the Carpenter's Trade; Harness and Shoe Making; Plains and Fancy Sewing with Dressmaking, Cooking and Laundry Work and general Domestic Science. BOARD AND TUITION, PER MONTH. $9.50. Extra charges are in them their own laundry work institution's Laundry at of Intoxicant Liquors. Bless. Impoliteness will influence scoring scores. Extra charges are made for Music and Elocution. Girls must do their own laundry work. Boys can have their laundry done in the Institution's Laundry at $1.00 per month. Swearing, Smoking, use of Intoxicant Liquors, Making Debts in the Village; Idleness; Laziness. Impoliteness will not be tolerated once in any pupil. All students dealing rooms should write to the President at once. Each student can work out from $3.50 to $4.50 per month. 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DuPont Road BILL Valid. The Delaware supreme court gave its decision in the action brought to test the legality of the boulevard act, under which T. Coleman Dupont began the construction of a highway to extend the length of the state. The court upholds the legality of the act, deciding that it was passed properly by the legislature and that condemnation proceedings can be followed under it. Relative to the occupancy of the highway by a trolley lino or other public utility, the opinion holds that this is legal, provided the public utility is constructed within a reasonable time, the court to decide later, if called upon to do so, what constitutes a reasonable time in each particular in stance in which the point may be raised. The act has been attacked on various grounds, one being the contention that the act was in conflict with the constitution, in that the constitution prohibits specific road legislation, for particular roads. It was also contended that the act did not legally pass the legislature, in view of the fact that the senate and house journals did not show that a bill of the same title passed both houses, and that the land bought was not for a public purpose as supposed. Judge Hanford Reslons. United States District Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, of Seattle, Wash., whose conduct on the bench has been under investigation for almost a month by a sub-committee of the house judiciary committee, telegraphed his resignation to President Taft. Judge Hanford given ill health as the reason for his resignation. In a statement to the public Judge Hanford says in part: "In the investigation which has been conducted by a sub-committee of the house of representatives much of timony has been given by witness who know me and by others who do not. A judge is never so sure of being right as when his work has been critic closed fairly." The charges were the outgrowth of Judge Hanford depriving Leonard Olson, of Seattle, of citizenship because he was a Socialist Congressman Herger, the Socialist member from Milwaukee, started impeachment proceedings, charging the Judge "with high crimes and misdemeanors, a long series of corrupt and unlawful decisions, and with being a habitual drunkard." Later it was charged against Hanford that he allowed an orobitant fee of $140,000 to Kerr & McCard, attorneys for the receivers of the Pacific American Fisheries company and the Pacific Packing and Navigation company. Again Catch Murderer. Sheriff Begel, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., received a message from Luke Noahman, sheriff of Butte, Montana, asking it he was still looking for Martin Leckowski, the jail breaker and convicted murderer. Begel promptly wired back to hold Leckowski. Leckowski, who was convicted of killing his bourbond house mistress, Mary Yantechik, at Lansford, on Jan 15, 1904, walked out of jail on March 29 that year in the absence of the sheriff, J. H. Rothermel, having taken the keys from the sheriff's wife. He went to Butte, where he was arrested on Feb. 22, 1909, for beating his wife. The complaint was made by his sister-in-law, who told of the murder. He was brought back to the Mauch Chunk jail by Rothermel and was sentenced to be hanged. Laskowski made his second escape July 19, 1929, just three years ago, by sawing the lock bar of his cell, forcing it, sawing the bars of a rear window and lowering himself by a blanket over a wall. Guthrie Elected State Chairman. After having been divided for a year the members of the Democratic state committee met in a harmonious session in Hattersburg, Pa. All factions were represented, and the two men who have claimed the chalemmanhip, former Mayor Guthrie, of Pittsburgh, of the "reorganization" faction, and Walter E. Ritter, of Williamsport, of the Guffey "regular" faction, sat beside each other on the platform. Practically every member was present, together with many of the leaders. Just before, adjournment the committee adopted a resolution putting fusion in the hands of the executive committee. The resolution called for fusion "in districts with other parties in sympathy with Democratic alms and principles." Secretary Wilson Denise Secretary Wilson before a house committee categorically denied Representative Atkins's charges that his son, Jasper Wilson, was drawing $10,000 a year from a western irrigation project because of the secretary's influence. Secretary Wilson said he had done nothing to get the position for his son and the government had not given a cent to the company Representative Rucker, Democrat, corroborated the secretary. Lightning Kills Four. A bolt of lightning killed four in a family of seven and dangerously shocked the others in a violent electrical storm at Hibland, in Polaski county, Mo. The bolt struck the home of Joe Paddy. The current toro Paddy's shoes from his foot and threw him into a corner, dead. Three children were killed, their bodies being stripped of clothing. --- Governor Mann, of Virginia, has refused to commute the death sentence of Virginia Christian, a negro, to a life term. She is under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Ida Belle, of Hampton. He ordered that a respite of two weeks be issued. She will be the first woman to be electrocuted in Virginia and the first to be executed for forty years. Pork Poison Been. Three persons are fatally ill and four other persons are in a serious condition in Passale, N. J., as the result of eating pork. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kantor and Michael Doback, a boarder at their home, are dying, and four children of the Kantors, in age from six months to six years, are in St. Mary's hospital. Girl Shot by Playmate. Bellah West, nine years old, the daughter of James West, of near Piney Grove, Md., who was accidentally shot by her playmate at her home while playing with what was thought to be an empty shotgun, died in the Salisbury, Md., hospital. The entire gun load lodged in the child's body and she died from loss of blood. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.50@4.75; city mills, fancy, $3.75¼c. RYE FLOUR quiet, at $4.40@4.60 per barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 96¢@96¢c. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, 81¢@ 82¢. OATS firm; No. 2 white, 58¢; lower grades, 55¢. 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Rosevelt fellow of Pennsylvania and all "the Progressives of Pennsylvania, without regard to previous party affiliations," are invited by the Progressive national committee for Pennsylvania to participate in the Pennsylvania Progressive state convention to be held in Chicago on the morning of Aug. 11. The national Progressive convention opens later on the same day in Chicago. This invitation, signed by the Progressive national committee for Pennsylvania, E. A. Van Valkenburg, William Fligh, Gifford Phibot, former chief forester of the United States and William Draper Lewis, dean on the University of Pennsylvania's law school, announced also that at the Pennsylvania mass convention the delegates to the national Progressive convention would be selected. These national committeemen announced that, while Pennsylvania would be entitled to but thirty-eight votes in the national convention, a larger number than that might be selected as national delegates, each delegate to have an equitable voting power. Muddy Killed by Fall. After a successful effort to climb to the topmost of the Hartford, Admiral Parraquette's old flagship, now moored at the naval academy wharf Annapolis, Md., and pierce his car with a spike which adorns the highest point, thus fulfilling the academy tradition thought to be a necessity for all newly entered midshipmen, William L. Hullock, who entered the institution only six weeks ago, fell 100 feet to the deck while attempting to descend and broke his neck, dying instantly. Bullock was with his roommate Middalman Alston, also from Texas when the fatal accident took place. He reached the highest point of the main mast without serious difficulty and transfixed his cap on the spike at the top. In attempting to descend Bullock tried to slide down a single rope and his hands were evidently burned by the rapid descent. He attempted to grab the mast of other ropes and lost his hold completely. Bullock struck the crossbars, and it is thought he may have received fatal injuries. He struck the deck, too feet below. Nine Swept to Death By Wall of Water It became known in Jacobs Creek, Pa., that nine persons had been brought in Barron run on the farm of John Raymond. The dead are Mrs. John Raymond, Mike Rovinsky, brother of Mrs. Raymond, Mrs. Rovinsky, mother of Mr. Raymond, six children of Mr. and Mrs. John Raymond. During a heavy storm which swept through this section, Raymond went from his house to the barn, located in a rainy near Batten run. He did not return, and after waiting for two hours, the wife, her children and the other members of the family became frightened and went in search of him. As they reached the rainy a wall of water swept down and carried them away. Raymond was safe in the barn and escaped. The bodies of four of the Raymond children were found a mile and a half down the stream from where the home had stood. The house, too, was washed down stream and crumbled into debris against a clump of timber. Man Drowned on Roof. Robert Kinsella, employed by a corp set company, was drowned on the torr of a twelve story building in New York city. Kinsella had gone to the roof to release a foot and a half of water, which had collected there when the drain pipe became clogged up with some rubbish. He ran his right arm down into the drain pipe after he had cleared away the rubbish from the mouth of the hole, when the suction of the rushing water caught him. He was drawn into the pipe up to the shoulder. Despite the efforts of three companions to pull him out the suction held him firmly and his head was drawn into the water which still remained on the roof. In plain sight of them looking up at them through a few inches of water, which covered his face, he was drowned Commite Suicide With Alarm Clock. Miles J. Reinnick, formerly a clerk to Senator Gugkenhelm, killed himself in a hospital in Washington by cutting the veins in his throat with the glass dial of an alarm clock. —If you answer any of these Ads please mention The PLANET. (Continued From Third Page.) call. One county; Haines, chose an uncontested delegation, and that one was for Taft. The other four counties sent contesting delegations. The contesting delegations appeared before the congressional executive committee to present their claims, but the committee arbitrarily refused to hear anybody. Having exhausted every effort to secure a hearing, the four contesting delegations, together with the only uncontested delegation of the convention, withdrew to another place and held a convention and elected Taft delegates to the Chicago convention. The congressional convention which elected the Taft delegates was composed of more than a majority, and, indeed, of practically all the regularly elected delegates. The national committee held the title of the Taft delegates to their seats valid by viva voce vote without calling for a division. Fifth District The Fifth district of Texas is composed of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Bosque and Rockwall counties. Dallas county cast more Republican votes than all the other counties of the district put together. The call for the congressional convention allowed each county to send not to exceed four delegates, but made no reference to the basis of representation of the respective counties composing the district. There was a contest from Dallas county, but the Taft delegates were seated. Taft delegates were seated on the temporary roll from two counties, and Rosevelt delegates from the three counties, and the representation in the convention was fixed at one vote for each county without regard to the number of delegates in the convention or the number of Republican votes cast in such county. A minority report of the district committee was presented, protesting against the ratio of representation adopted. The chairman of the convention objected to the presentation of this minority report. Falling in this he abandoned the platform and left the hall. The convention thereupon elected a new chairman and a new secretary, appointed a committee on credentials, which recommended the seating of the Taft delegates from Hill county and the adoption of the minority report of the district committee as to the basis of the representation in the convention. Both these recommendations were adopted, and Taft delegates to the national convention were thereupon elected by a vote of eight to three. The Roosevelt men thereafter retired to the south end of the hall, where they organised a meeting at which it was claimed the Roosevelt delegates to the national convention were elected. The Republican vote for the district for 1908 was as follows: Dallas county. 2068; Ellis, 804; Hill, 414; Bosque, 201; Rockwell, 38. Both the national committee and the committee on credentials sustained the Taft delegates. Seventh District The Seventh congressional district of Texas is composed of the following counties: Anderson, Chambers, Galveston, Houston, Liberty, Polk, San Jacinto and Trinity. Polk, San Jacinto and Trinity were without proper party organization. In Texas county chairmen must be elected by the voters in each party. No such election was held in any of these three counties. In two of them Colonel Lyon assumed to appoint chairmen, which he had no right to do. Lyon himself had classed these three counties as unorganized and without party organization. The convention met in Galveston. The executive committee met prior to the meeting of the convention to make up the temporary roll of delegates. The executive committee had before it the question of having the three unorganized counties represented in the convention. The executive committee refused to recognize them. When this action was taken by the executive committee a delegate from Houston county and the alleged representatives from the three unorganized counties withdrew from the meeting and proceeded to organize another convention, and upon this is based the contest, which was rejected by both committees, the national committee and the credentials committee. Eighth District. In the Eighth congressional convention a split occurred over the majority and minority reports of the executive committee as to the temporary roll. The Rosevelt followers controlled the executive committee, but did not have a majority in the convention, which adopted the minority report and gave Taft five and one-half votes and Rosevelt two and one-half votes. This resulted in the election of the Taft delegates, who were seated by both the national committee and the credentials committee. Ninth District. In the Ninth district the district committee was called by Mr. Speaker a member of the committee, and not by the chairman. The chairman refused to convene the committee because he claimed that all the delegates from Texas to the national convention must be elected in the state convention, that Colonel Lyon, his superior, had thus directed him. The district committee was called. Seven members attended the meeting. The district convention was called on May 15. Eleven counties out of the fifteen responded to the call and took part in the convention. Three counties were not represented, and in one of these there was no election. After this convention had been called the chairman of the district committee changed his mind and called a meeting of the committee for April 17. This committee called a congressional convention to be held on May 18. But there was no publication of the call, which had to be thirty days before the convention, until April 21. The Taft convention seems therefore to have been duly and regularly convened. while the Roseveart convention was not. The Tift delegates were sent. Tenth District. In the Tenth district the decision turned largely upon the bad faith with which two members of the district committee voted in the seating of delegates and upon the bad faith with which one of them used the proxy intrusted to him. The Taft delegates in this case bolted and left the ball and immediately in the same building organized another convention which consisted of delegates from six counties. Proceedings were regularly held; a permanent organization effected, the report of the committee on resolutions adopted and delegates pledged to Taft were elected. The undisputed evidence indicated that a disgrant attempt had been made to deprive Taft of this district, to which he was justly entitled. The national committee sustained the title of the Taft delegates and alternates by a practically unanimous vote. Fourteenth District. In the Fourteenth district there were fifteen counties in the district. When the executive committee met at San Antonio to make up the temporary roll there were ten members of the committee present whose right to act was undisputed, of whom six were, for Taft and four for Roosevelt. There were four other Roosevelt men present whose right to vote was disputed and who were clearly not entitled to represent their county at that meeting. One of them held the proxy of the committeeman from Kendall county, who was dead, and the proxies from three other counties were held, two by postmasters and one by an assistant postmaster, while under the election law of Texas no one who holds an office of profit or trust under the United States shall act as a member of an executive committee either for the state or for any district or county. The temporary roll was made up by Taft members, having a clear majority without permitting these men to act under their proxies. There was a contest over the delegation from Bexar county, which contains the city of San Antonio. Full consideration was given to this contest, but the testimony was overwhelming that Taft carried the county by a vote of four or five to one. On the proper basis the total vote in the district convention was sixty-seven, of which the number instructed or voting for Taft was thirty-seven and one-half, the number voting or instructed for Roosevelt twenty-eight and one-half, not voting one. The Taft delegation was therefore seated at Chicago. CONCLUSION. The purpose of this resume of the contests in which there was any shadow of substance has been to inform those who have not time or inclination to read the longer and more detailed account of them contained in the larger pamphlet. It is not essential to make Mr. Taft's title indisputable that all men agree on every one of the issues raised. They were decided by the tribunals which uniform party usage had made the proper tribunals to decide such contests. If those tribunals acted in good faith mistaken judgment would not invalidate their decisions. As a matter of fact, an examination of the facts show that the tribunals were right in every instance. There is not the slightest evidence that they were moved by other than a mere desire to reach a right conclusion. On the other hand, the notion of the Roosevelt men in bringing 120 contests that they promptly abandoned strongly tended to show the lack of good faith in the prosecution of all of them. Those who support President Taft can well afford to stand on the record in this case and to answerate without fear of successful contradiction that the delegates whose seats were contested were as fairly contested in this convention as in any in the history of the party. THE ECONOMY 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING CLEANING, DYING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE. PROPRIETOR. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will satisfy the Lover on the Night Kind of Bismuth. Special Price We Have All Grades of Good Lb quers, Oignay and Robusta. Call and See Us. ISAAC STRAUS & CO., 422 R. Broad St., Richmond, Virginia H.. F. JONATHAN. FISH OYSTERS PRODUCE 114 N. 17TH ST. JACKSON, VA. 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He gave his victim to write to John Mitchell, Jr. President and tell him to send him six hundred and fifty dollars or some amount at once to the petition who is writing the letter or advancing him a small sum of money until he has gotten his money from Richmond. He alleges that he is in England of a mailing veneer, which according to his letters has been lost near Thunberg. Light off Ruckree Beach and as he has been carrying on this kind of swindling for about two years, that boat is presumably wrecked every two or three weeks. He asks that the letter be sent by him, or sign of the person who affords the money. He must submit back, by mail if the money cannot be delivered. We have written condolences to the people, who send these letters, but we have had quite a time to keep up with him. Keep clear of Captain John R. Simpson or anybody who looks into his Why Not Now? Eventually: Imported & Domestic LIQUORS S. W. ROBINSON Mail Order House, Richmond, Va. 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AUGUST 3, 1912 From New York (Continued From Page Number ONE) at 21st West 15th St. Rev. Drew will be in and around New York until the time of the convention. COLORED DEMOCRACY ALL READY FOR WILSON. Your correspondent made a visit to the headquarters of the United Colored Democracy at 122 W. 136th street last week and found things lively at the headquarters. Splendid quarters have been fitted up and everything indicates that a lively campaign will be handled from the headquarters. Robert N. Wood. President of the local Democracy, and the leader of the colored Democrats of New York City and State, and one of the most prominent men in the political life of the country is enthusiastic over the candidacy of Wilson. Mr. Wood who has just had a conference with Governor Wilson at Seagirt, said he was received in most respect and was assured by the Governor that he would stand by the Negro in the event of his election. Mr. Wood said that every phase of the Negro question was discussed and that the Governor showed a keen interest in everything that was brought up by him. Mr. Wood in talking to your correspondent said, "It is safe in saying that Mr. Wilson if elected with stand by the Negro. In talking to him, I appealed to him from the standpoint of a Southerner who knew the situation of the Negro in the South. Mr. Wilson appealed to the importance recognizing the Negro votes and I feel that he is sincere in this matter." "I would not support any man," said Mr. Wood, "who would not pledge his support to the race." The Negro Democrats are solid for Wilson. There are 46,000 colored Democrats in the State and 5,000 who are in New York. Mr. Wood stands high in the political field. He is found to be on the side of honesty and square dealing. He represents the highest type of the politician. Few men know the political situation as affects the Negro better than Mr. Wood, and wield greater influence. SOME PROMINENT DEMOCRATS It is interesting to note the person nell of the colored men who are supporting the Democratic party. They are men of wide training and character. F. Q. Morton, who has been supporting the Democratic party since 1909 is one of the brightest young men in the race. He is a lawyer by profession and has been effective as a campaign speaker in several campaigns. He is a graduate of Harvard University and while in college made a notable record as a debater. James L. Curtis another prominent lawyer with offices at 5 Beckman street is a national figure among colored Democrats. He is the secretary of the Ex. Committee of the Northwestern Democratic League and will direct the annual palm among the Negro voters of the country. He was educated at Lincoln University, and the law school of the Northwestern University. J. Frank Wheaton is one of the most prominent of the campaign speakers of the Democrats. Mr. Wheaton is well known as a lawyer. 8150.00 Endowment Paid. Graham, Va., July 25, 1912. This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythia, A. S. A. E. A., A. and A., 11th Degree, S. S. Humboldt and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother John Bailey; who was a member of Metropolitan Lodge, No. 165 of Graham, Va. Signed —Alex. Steward, Benefectary. Witnesses: O. E. St. Clair, Atty. for Alex Steward T. P. Wright, J. E. Bucker, J. E. Adama, S. L. Brown, M. of F. D. C. Johnson, D. D. G. C. Harry K. Thaw, in the eyes of the law, is still insane and must remain in the asylum where he was placed on Feb. 1, 1908, after he had killed Stanford White. Justice Martin J. Keogh, of the New York supreme court at White Plains, denied Thaw's application for free dom. The court took the ground that Thaw's release would be dangerous to public safety. The decision of Justice Keagh deny liberty to Tawh in his third effort to escape from the madhouse was brief. It held that the applicant had not proved his sanity. Justice Keagh said: "My whole duty is fully performed when I decide the single question presented for decision, namely: Is Harry K. Thaw at present nane or insane, and would his release be dangerous to the public peace and safety? Having listened to all the testimony and seriously considered it, I am of the opinion that Harry K. Thaw is still insane and that his discharge would be dangerous to the public peace and safety. The writ, therefore, must be dismissed on the merits and Harry K. Thaw be delivered to the authorities at Mattewan." BECKER CHARGED WITH MURDER New York Police Lieutenant Is Under Arrest. Rose, Webber and Vallon Declare Becker Ordered Rosenthal Killed and Promised Protection. Lieutenant Claus Becker was arrested in New York city and held by Judge Mulquenon for murder. In the first degree, after Jack Rose, Becker's collector for gambling money, had contended that the police lieutenant had ordered to have Herman Rosenthal killed. The arrest and arraignment of Becker followed swiftly after Rose's confession and the confessions of Bridgely Webber and Harry Vallon, who corroborated Rose in every important particular. District Attorney Whitman, questioning the three parishioners for four hours, pounded one against the other until they all broke down and said Rosenthal was shot down in front of the Metropole by a direct gang because Becker wanted it done. The grand jury acted specially. With their confessions warm on their lips, Rose, Webster and Vallon went before the grand jury, put their hands on the Bible and swore that they had told the whole truth. Within an hour the former commander of the strong arm squad was in a cell in the Tombs. But the men who placed him there did not dare to leave the district attorney's office. Shaking with fear, they begged the district attorney to keep them for the night in his office. And there they stayed, under guard of four of Mr. Whitman's detectives. Rose's confession, the most vital of the three, details how Hocker six weeks ago told him that Herman Rose enthalid had lived too long, that Rose enthalid had to be put out of the way, and that the men who did the job had nothing to fear, because he (hecker) was a power in the police department. So Rose went out and spread the word that the string arm commander said that Rose enthalid must be killed. He dropped hints here and there. He did more. He sent for big Jack Selig and held a conference with that torturous gang leader of the East Side. The four men who pitied Rose enthalid by this arrangement were White Lewis, Letty Lewis, Dagge Frank and "Gypy Blood." Rose admits that he rounded them up and saw that they were pitted for the crime. It was for this purpose that the gray car of Libby was used. Rose is not sure that they escaped in the gray car, but he points to Hocker's promises of protection as a proof that the murderers did get clear of the police. The general manager of the Milling, Jack Reeker, called Becker up by phone a few minutes after Rosenthal was dead on the sidewalk in front of the Metropole. He told Becker that it was a bit terrifying. He said it was more than he expected. He was frightened clear to the heart, and he was afraid to stir without a word of confidence from his master. And Becker was over the game, while Rose was making preparations for a hurried trip down to the Tenderloin. "Oh, don't worry. I will protect you. There won't be much fuss over this." A few minutes later, in the shadow of the Murray Hill baths, Lieutenant Becker, calm and collected, and with perfect confidence in his reassurance to the moviegoer and frightening Rose, bid. "Don't you be worried over this matter. I see you that none of the boys are into it." The bald cameraman, who included in his conversation a frank statement that for a long time he had been collecting money for legislation, not only for Lieutenant Becker, but for officers higher up in the police department, swears he did not know that murder was to be done the night he hired shots met at Bridge Weberk and sat there waiting for the signal that Rosenthal, the squealer, was about to leave the Hotel Metropole. Rose says he knew something was to be done to Rosenthal, but that he would have finished from the task if he had known that pistols were to be used against the informer. Bridge Weberk, the host of the murder conspirators, backed up Rose, and told of what was said when he and Rose met Becker up town a few days before the murder. Becker was hot for the killing. As for Harry Vallon, his confession was the least important of the three. But, the Weiner, he supported Rise in a substantial particulars. Denying that he was present when the murder was committed, Vallon admits that he was at the door a few minutes previously, and that he was cognizant of the arrangements. Rose said also that Becker had told him that $2,000 was the yearly police graft from gambling, disorderly houses and other forms of blackmail. Rose swore that Becker had confided to him that the loot was divided among four police officials, Becker himself, two policemen of higher rank and a minor official who does not wear a uniform. "Jark," said Becker, "the rake off is so good that my own shave wag $800, 900, and the others got the same." Beckers collector, having handled a good deal or the money himself, does not think that he receives any individual pocketed $2000 in any one year, but that hecker and his connections were distributing agents and that the $600,000 each received was subdivided. There is just one chance for he to have himself. The district attorney may conclude to deal leniently with the lieutenant. If he can and will tell the truth about who also received the THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Lieutenant Becker, Charged With Murder, and Jack Rose. THE POLICE OF NEW YORK Photo by American Press Association profits of blackmail. There was not the slightest indication that Becker would turn Informer. On the contrary, a man with whom he has talked in the past twenty-four hours said that the Leutenant's defense would be that Rose and Bridgley Webber and Harry Vallon had lied about him for the purpose of saving themselves. As the case unwinds its folds it will be foiled, if the statements of Rose and Webber stand up, that the four men who killed Rosenthal were not paid any large amount of money for the crime. The tale that as much as $2000 was paid is denied by the men who are alleged to have paid it. The quartet of gangsters moved to murder were inspired entirely, it is said, by fear of what Becker could do to them if they failed to obey orders. Each of them had blood on his hands and each had been engaged in the commission of crimes for which no punishment had been met out. All they got, if the information given the district attorney is correct, was a few handouts, as it were, of five, ten or twenty$^a$ dollar bills. This was partly "booze money" and partly "getaway money". The incentives are now with out funds except such as are provided by their pals, and their early capture is regarded as a certainty. Police inspector Hughes said that he had information as to the whereabouts of the slayers of Rosenthal and that they would be arrested soon. MARKET FOR BEDBUGS Will Pay Five Cents Each For Live Cases For Experimental Purposes. There has been found a man who not only wanted to help, but was willing to pay one cent each for them it deceived above. Lisa O'Connell demand comes from G. M. Zimmerman, president of the Ung- iversity, who is in the experimental study of Virginia. He has hung out one of his wristbands. 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Jones, who was a member of Friendship Lodge No. 1 of Norfolk, Va. Signed: Eva Jones. Administratorx. Witnesses: W. J. Peele. *150.00 Endowment Paid. Amendible, N. A., 1912. This is to certify that have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. A. ($150,000). One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Brother William A. Merchant, who was a member of Golden Star Lodge, No. 48 of Lynchburg, Va. her Signed: Mrs. Clarence x Merchant mark Benedictary. Witnesses: U. S. G. Patterson, D. D. G. C. Zack Matthews W. B. Moorman. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Richmond, Va., July 29, 1912 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias, N. A. S., A. E., A. A. and A., ( $150.00 ) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death- claim of Brother Charles Baker, who was a member of Maceo Lodge, No. 25 of Richmond, Va. Signed: India Baker. Beneficial. Witnesses: Fred Gardner. Robert Gray, D. D. G. C —Let The PLANET be your weekly compassion. Only $1.50 per year. Do You Know Him? Gate City, Va. July 22, 1912 Editor of The Richmond PLANET. I write these lines in hope of finding some of my father's relatives. My father was born and raised in Albemarle county, Virginia. He belonged to one Dr. Farrar. When about 15, he was taken to Richmond, Va. as a slave, where he remained for some time, until purchased by a gentleman of this town by the name of Henry S. Kane. He was brought to Gate City, Va. with several others by Henry S. Kane about the year of 1849. His name was Daniel Rack, he so loved his father, that of Daniel Rack. He had some brothers and sisters. I know not how many. He had one brother named Warwick. If I am not mistaken he said this brother was sold into Missouri. His brother was also older than he. My father died when I was but an infant in 1859. I know nothing of him except what I have heard my mother say. She having died some years ago deprives me of any information, which I might be able to get from her were she still living. If there is any one living in Albermarle county or any.where else that can give any information that will enable me to find any of my relatives I should be glad to have it. I am more than 50 years old and have more knowledge to find any of my father's people. Very respectfully, WARKWICK D. MORISON Do You Know Her? Information is wanted of the whereabouts of Miss Josephine Cooks When last heard of she was living at Elk Aton, Va. Her mother died some weeks ago in New York City and her uncle Mr. Adolphus Cooks Cooks where she locates at Press J. E. SCHMIDT, 263 W. 35th St. New York, N. Y. Claims to Know Him. 113 E. 16th St. So. Richmond, Va. July 22, 1912. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Sir: Seeing in your paper, The Richmond PLANET, of July 20th inst, a notice of the demise of William Richmond in Liberia, Africa, I must beg leave to say that I, Young Richard, has he name of William. He has been gone for over 28 years. We have been unable to get any trace of him after leaving home. I am a first cousin of William Richmond, also John Richmond, his brother er. When last I heard from him he was living in Durham, N. C. Will you kindly ask the American Counsel General, Mr. William D. Crum to withhold the settling of his estate and I find his bachelor Richard and ascertain his wishes as to the winding up the estate. Wishing to hear from you soon, I am Yourrespectfully. YOUNG RICHMOND. Notice to the Public. Mme. M. E. Holmes, graduate Scalp Specialist and Hair Curator of N16 W. Leigh St. is now open for business and prepared in every way to take care of her customers and public. A linen line works. A hair art line and skin foods for sale. For engagements call up Phone Monroe 1275. "Thou 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 best 60 cents per suit underwear. Not being satisfied with these they looked a coat and spied on a collapsed 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 bar gain. Now they advise you to go to 309 N. 2nd St. and get your Summer underwear and a serge or slapse cost 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 proach so hard every Sunday trying to warn sinners to flee from the wrath to come to go there as early as possible and get one of these cool alpaca or serge coats 42 inches long that will one cost you $2.50 $3.50 Best one for $4.00 You will also find there an up-date line of collars ties and socks. They handle the best 25 cent silk sox 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; $18 and $20 serges 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 $1.50 $2.50 to $3.00. Original price $2.00 $5.00 - $4.00 and $5.00 per pair. 500 pairs boys' knee pants, knicker bocker style ranging in price 25 cents to $3.50 per pair. They handle boys knee pants in sizes from 4 to 18. 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It is ordered that the said defendant, defendant, George Banks, appear here within 15 days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy, Teste, P. P. WINSTON. Clerk. To George Banks: You'll take notice that I shall on the 10th day of September, 1912, at the office of Phil B. Sheilb, room No. 701 Travellers 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 9 o'clock A. M. and 6 o'clock P. 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THE SALON IS AVAILABLE AT 10:00 AM FOR PERSONS AND FEMALE GIRLS ONLY. PONADE IS AVAILABLE FOR SCORE DEVELOPMENT OF HAIR DEVELOPMENT OF HAIR. GET THE GUIDELET AT 20-24 AND 24-30 DAYS WITH CHARLES FURS'S EXPERT PACKAGE. TRY FORD'S NORMAL WASH SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION UPON APPLICATION WILL NOT INSTITUTE THE MOST BILICATE SKIN, UNDERSTUD FOR BECRIMA, SALT BROIL, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND PRINCIPLES. • SAIL BY INSTITUTE. • WITH N. T. THE BEST OF THE BROILING PRINCIPLES AND BROILING PRINCIPLES. SINCE THE GONZOED OR MARROW CO. LAST SIX YEARS, OCCASIONAL AGENTS WANTED. Learn Algebra or Shorthand Writing during your spare Time. Complete Course either one by mail, $14.60, book furnished. $2.60 down and then $1.00 a month until paid. We can accommodate 200 by mail. PERNINS BEMINARY, $20 S. 10th St., Birmingham, Ala. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pemada. Do the best thing I ever need for making one's hair loose. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mr. Louise H. Hayes of Pineville, S.C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for hair stubborn and unruly hair and Puffy Royal White hair Lotion for the completion. Ask your draped for them. He soaps and puts the pomade (Puffy) manufactured by the Grovings of Marysville, Ohio.