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PIANO VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 19. A Word From the Philippines Orderly Sorgeant S. W. Taliaferro, formerly of Lynchburg Va., but who has won renown in the service of the United States government as a noncommissioned officer in the army, is now stationed at Parang, Moro, Philippine Islands. Under date of January 26, 1913, he writes: "I received your letter several weeks ago, and it is needless to say that I was glad to hear from you, and I consider myself especially favored by a personal letter from such a distinguished citizen of the Great American Republic. I have been a more or less constant reader of The PLANET from early childhood, and today I consider it the best race paper published. The advice given in this paper is the very best and every line of instruction contained therein shows the hand of experience DEPLORES MISFORTUNES "I deplore the misfortunes that have befallen our Great Financial Organization, The Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, but look with hope toward the rising sun of the Mechanics Savings Bank, and wish them abundant success. The Mechanics Savings Bank has one great advantage and that is it is officered throughout by business men of intelligence and experience. It is impossible for us to guard against all dishonesty, but when a concern has a board of directors of intelligent and experienced men dishonesty can not make much headway. When the American Negro will come to the front with some business concern of note that can be pointed to as an assured success. I have taken special interest in race enterprises all of my life, and all that I can say today is that I have lost every cent that I have invested in them. STILL TRUSTING. My latest venture is a 25,000 Peso share in the Fraternity Hall Association of Manila, P. I. They have not failed yet. I am deeply interested in the welfare of my race, and I long for a change for the better. "Now I guess that you are anxious to hear what the Negro is doing in the Philippines, and what are his chances for the future. Well there are not many American Negroes in the Islands, except those in the government service. Of the few that are here those that want to do anything are doing very well, but the trouble with most of them is that they do not care to do anything. Those Islands are full of natural opportunities for entertaining young men, with small capital and the Negro can come in here and do as well as anybody if he wants to do so. The population of this town is about 1000, mostly natives and Chinese. There are about ten Americans; five of whom are Negroes. COLORED MEN PROGRESSING. Two American Negroes in the military service, and three civilians. One is a blacksmith, one is a saddler, and the other is Chief of Police. This is not so bad for this little town. This is a "nice farming and cattle country, and I would like to see more American Negroes of good character come in here and settle. The Japanese are coming in by the hundreds. The Chinese are here in great force. The American Negro is waiting for the country to get settled up and then he will come running in, grip in hand to be kicked off the sidewalks, just as he is served today in Australia. NOTABLE AMERICAN NEGROES IN THE ISLANDS AS PERMANENT SETTLERS "In Luzon: Somewhere in the Cagayan Valley of Northern Luzon, is Dr. Warmaley, a practicing physician. In Zambales, Prof. Hart, school teacher. At Dasol, Mr. Hill, rice planter. At Bayomhong, Mr. Logan, rice planter. At Olongapo, Mr. Rufus Scott, planter. In Manila, Mr. Bonds, gon't clotheter; Mr. Vance ahoeontre; Dr. Fitsbutter, practicing physician; Dr. Schields, practicing physician and druggist; Mr. Q. E. Campbell, attorney-at-law; Captain Loving, Mr. Wood and Mr. Mayers, in the Constabulary; Mr. Andrews, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Graham, Mr. Grier and Mr. William W. Williams civilians in the employ of the government. --- LARGE ORTTLLEMENT. There is quite a large colored settle meet in Maui, with several lodges of Odd Fellows, Masons and K. of Fr. In Oahu, Lester Island is Mr. Wha- noy, merchant and liquor dealer, estimated to be worth P 20,000 or $10,000.00 gold. In Zamboanga, Mindanao is Mr. Eubanks, merchant, wholesale and retail family grocer, capital from ten to twenty thousand pesos. Mr. Stovall, assistant to city engineer. "Mindanao, the second island in size, and the least populated one is the best one for American settlers. It has the best soil and the most favorable climate. Cottabati Valley which is one of the most favored pieces of agricultural land in the world is on this island. This island is good for rice, corn, rubber, coffee, tobacco, kapok, coconut, bananas and cattle. The mountains are well timbered and rich with minerals. "This island is principally settled by savages called Moros who roam over the country much as did the American Indians, the worst age. The civilized Filipinos from the north stand in great fear of these Moros, and for that reason foreigners have a fine chance here. NOT VERY DANGEROUS The Moros are not half as dangerous as American Indians, they easily civilize, and when properly handled make good workmen. They are Mohammedans in their religious belief, and recent bitterly any attempt of Christian settlers to convert them, or their children. They do not eat hog meat, or anything that has lard or the fat of hog in it. "So I give this little tip to who ever may come among them. Do not try to interfere with their religion. Do not try to make them eat hog meat. Pay them promptly for what they do for you, and you will find them the best savages in the world." VARDAMAN SEEKING NEGRO LEGISLATION. Mississippi State Plan Cower Oney in Washington and to Repeal Amendment. Washington, April 1.—Senator James K. Vardaman intends shortly to introduce bills providing for film crew care in the District of Columbia and separate schools and other means for separating whites from blacks. Discussing the matter today, the senator from Mississippi, who made the race question a prominent issue in Mississippi, said he would take no action at the extra session because he believed the extra session should be confined to the tariff question. TO REPEAL AMENDMENT. Later the senator from Mississippi will not only issue his jim crow bills, but intends to offer a resolution repealing the 15th amendment to the Federal constitution and modifying the fourteenth amendment to deprive the Negro of the elective franchise or the right to hold office. "They have called me a Negro-hater," said Senator Vardaman. "But I believe I am one of the best friends the Negro has. During my term as governor of Mississippi there was but one Negro lynched in the State. I went out of my way to put a stop to lynchings and have traveled across the entire State to suppress a mob which the police could not subdue. In one instance I rode my horse into the midst of a mob of one thousand men who had just battered down a fall door and taken a Negro from the fall at Jackson. Miss, with the intention of lynching him. RESCUED MOR'S PRISONER "I rescued him from the mob and protected him and secured him a fair trial with the result that he was found to be innocent of the crime of which he was charged. "In taking the course I intend to take in regard to legislation on the race question. I am simply trying to deal with the question of the greatest moment in the only way in which it can be solved and sensible men both North and South will in time be compelled to agree with me if they do not agree with me now." His Majesty, King of the Hellenes. By the death of His Majesty, the late King of the Holmes (Greece), the news of whose assassination on the 18th inst. has been received with universal regret, the Society has lost one of its Honorary Royal Members. His Majesty was elected in 1905, when on a visit to this country.—Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, London England. Bishop Coppin at 3rd St. A. M. K. Bishop L. J. Coppin, D. D. of Philadelphia, scholar, theologian, lecturer and South African Missionary will speak at the Third St. A. M. H. Church, Friday 21st. April 11. at 8:30 P. M. Subject: What's the Master with the Family? Admission tree: Silver offering token. Anniversary Exercises. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND COURTS OF CALANTHE. A Large Gathering—Fine Program Excellent Sermons The Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A., A. and A. with the Order of Calanthe observed their anniversary last Sunday afternoon 2:30 at the First Baptist Church. The unique feature of the affair was the holding of two services, one after the other. The Uniform Rank under command of Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. left the Pythian Castle shortly after 2 o'clock. The K. of P. Band under the leadership of Capt. Moses Johnson discoursed live airs. The staff officers in line were: Col. John R. Chiles, Col. R. C. Mitchell, Col. R. S. Nelson, Col. Willis Wynt. Major J. J. Carter, Major Adolphus Jackson, Lieut.-Col. Thomas H. Wyatt, Captain B. H. Poyton, Captain W. H. Willis, Captain R. H. Fauntleroy. First Battalion: Maj. W. F. Weavor, commanding, Lieut. Alex Jackson, Lieut. A. A. Tennant, Sergt. Maj. F. H. McKenzie, Capt. David Allen, Eureka Co., No. 1: Capt. Edmund Smith, Lieut. Isaac Bray, Lieut. John Wilkerson, Planet Co., No. S: Capt. Leroy Brown, Lieut. Charles McClalborne, Lieut. James H. Ammons, Jr. Pythian Cadet Battalion: Capt. Jerome Davis, commander, Adjutant Charles H. Watkins, Quarter Master Leslie Green, Company A, Captain John Dabney, Lieut. Joseph Givins, Company B, Captain Robert Green, Lieut. Robert Smith. The rostrum was beautifully decorated with palms and flowers and with Pythian and Calanthe colors. Mrs. Nannie Cobb presided at the organ. All left delighted with the afternoon's entertainment. The church was filled to overflowing. Reports of the Anniversary Exercise of the Knights of Pythian of the various sections will appear in our next issue. Bishop Salter Dead Philadelphia, Pa., March 26—Bishop Moses B. Salter, 21st Bishop of the A. M. E. Church died Tuesday, March 25th at Charleston, S. C. Bishop Salter was born February 13, 1841 converted in 1856, licensed to preach in 1865, ordained in 1866, elected Bishop 1892, retired at the last General Conference 1912. Had been paralyzed for more than a year, Funeral March 28, Bishop L. J. Coppin, presiding. Bishops and General Officers and prominent ministers all ver the State will attend. R. R. WRIGHT, JR. President Matthew W. Gilbert, A. M. D. D. of Solma University, Solma, Alabama, will deliver his famous lecture, "Lessons From Neuroscience of the Past" at Virginia Union University, April 11, 1913 under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, Dr. Gilbert ranks among the strongest leaders of the race, both as an accomplished scholar and especially as a public speaker. Mrs. Jones Lead to Row. The funeral of Mrs. Pattie Jones, widow of the late Stephen D. Jones took place last Monday afternoon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.. She dled Thursday night, 27th ult. after an illness of about twenty minutes. The funeral party entered while the choir sang "Rock of Ages," Hymn, "There is a Land of Pure Delight" was lined by Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson. The Scriptures were read by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Prayer was offered by Rev. Evans Payne, D. D. Communications were read from the various organizations. Those read were from the Ebenezer Ald Society, Unity Fountain, No. 138, U. O. T. R. Richmond Chapter No. 1. Eastern Star, Julia's Tent. First Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. "Some Sweet Day" was sung by Madame Gilpin. It created a profound impression. On the rostrum were Rev. Nelson B. Brown, Rev. T. J. J. Mosby, Rev. Evans Payne, D. D. Rev. W. H. White, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. Rev. S. C. Burrell, Rev. C. H. Phillips, D. D. Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D., Rev. R. J. Bass. Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church preached from the text. He that overcometh shall not be burt of the second death."—Rev. 2:11. The eloquent divine paid a glowing tribute to the virtues of the deceased, who had been one of the veritable "pillars" of the church. The floral offerings were numerous and presented a cheerful appearance in the midst of this scene of death. The pallibearers were: Honorary Thomas H. Wyatt, Rev. J. J. Carter, Dr. H. L. Harris, W. P. Eips, Dr. George A. Thompson, W. Henry Walton, Emmet C. Burke, John H. Braxton, William H. Isham: Active H. J. Moore, G. S. Richardson, Chas. A. T. Briggs, C. T. Rissel, George W. Dawson, Cornelius Blama, E. T. Sully, G. Wae Ella. The casket was steel grey, figured plush cloth covered, extension handle, Funeral Director A. D. Price officiated. The church was filled to its utmost capacity by friends. Rev. J. J. Nickerson Called to the First Baptist Church, Williamsburg, Va. Rev. J. J. Nickerson, a progressive and hustling young minister of our city has been called to the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg. Rev. Nickerson's ability as a preacher of the gospel is well known throughout Richmond and vicinity and many sections of our State and we predict for him a great future and compliment the members on the judgment of their choice. This church has had but two pastors since the war, and its second pastor Dr. Dawson, D. D., who is now well stricken in age, has recently celebrated his 47th year as pastor of the above named church. He was one of the first educated ministers to come to the State after Lee surrendered to Grant at Armatox and represented that district for eight years in Congress; but as all flesh must fall and decay, he is now unable to do the work of the church, and the present membership has super-annuated him on a salary. This church had a membership of two thousand back in the seventies and is thought to be the oldest church among the colored Baptists of this State and supposed by many to be the oldest in the United States, but on account of the declining years of its pastor, Rev. J. M. Dawson, D. D. this once great church has largely dropped out of the minds of those who once know of her fame as a power for good in our State, but the members hope that with the guidance of Rev. Nickerson and his ability to work, that this mother of churches will again rise up and let her children know that she still lives and that many years of activity will not be seen of body. 810 A Day and More to Live Agents. 100 percent, profit; sells to every colored man and woman on earth; this is the quickest kind of easy money; send 15 cents, stamps or coin for 50 cents sample and terms; money back if not satisfied at first glance. INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTIES CO., Republic Bldg., Chicago, IL. —Rev. George D. Jimmerson Presiding Elder, Portsmouth District, preached at the Third S. A. M. B. Church last Sunday at 8 P. M. He called on us in company with Rev. S. S. Morrie. —The Athletics of South Richmond will cross bats with the team from Va. Union University, Saturday, April 5th. 8:30 P. M. - Athletic Base Ball Park, 14th and Everett St. Admission 15 cents. Fifth Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Phila., Pa., April 23-25, 1913. --- Places of Meeting—Kenneth Israel Temple, Friends Meeting House, Witherspoon Hall: April 23, Evening, Temple; April 24, Evening, Friends Meeting House; April 25, Morning and Afternoon, Friends Meeting House; April 25, Evening, Witherspoon Hall. TENTATIVE PROGRAM Opening session on the night of April 23 in the Temple. This session will be an introductory meeting. The following have been asked to speak: Hon. James Bryce, Dr. Du Bots M. Villard, Rabbit Krauskopf, Mayor Blankenburg. Mr. Moorfield Storey will preside. APRIL, 24 Two sessions, afternoon and evening. Both these sessions will consider facts in regard to the economic condition of the Negro. The subject of the afternoon session will be The Struggle for Land and Property, with the following speakers: President John Hope (colored), Atlanta Baptist College, who may tell us something of the crises in Northern Georgia: W. Ashleie Hawkins (colored), the attorney for the Baltimore Branch, who has been doing remarkable work in fighting segregation and other kinds of discrimination: "Friend" Henry Wilbur of Philadelphia, who will probably speak on the land problem in the South; Mr. John Mitchell (colored) President of the Mechanics Bank, Richmond; and a representative from St. Louis. EVENING SESSION. The subject of this session will be The Problem of Work and Wages. Dr. DuBois will prepare a lecture and an elaborate chart. Other speakers will be Dr. Hayne of Fisk University Kelly Miller and a representative of the Labor Union, probably John Mitchell. Bishop Coppin will provide. APRIL 25-MORNING This will be the executive session of the Conference and will be largely devoted to the work of branches and other matters of importance. AFTERNOON. This will be devoted to The New Southern Attitude. Suspended speakers are: Mrs. Hammond, Dean Sutton, Mrs. Beverly Manford, Dr. James H. Dillard, Mr. W. D. Weatherford, Mr. Joseph C. Manling, Mr. Arthur Little and Dr. M. C. B. Mason, Mr. Moorfield Storey will preside. The idea of this meeting is to bring out the spirit of the New South toward the race problem. The real need of the South is, as Dr. Dillard says that "the people of good will in the South should speak out." As Prof. Spingarn says, "Here is an opportunity for our Association to allow the Southerners to answer the Blesses and the Vardamans." If they should play us false at this session, we could answer them the following session if need be. EVENING This session will be devoted to The New Abolition Movement. The following speakers will be invited: Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, Senator Robert L. Follette, Senator Moses E. Clapp, Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Judge Wendell P. Stafford, Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Mrs. W. A. Hunton (colored), and some representative colored man from Philadelphia whom we have not yet decided upon. Mr. Millholland will preside. This meeting should be the climax of the entire Conference. If this material is properly handled in the press—and we are making a great effort to get the right publicity—our Conference should be able to deliver a message of national importance to—the entire country. If we can get representative Southerners (to take part, it should mean notice in the Southern press.) The list of speakers given, of course, is too long. We intend to have three or four to each session as some will refuse and some drop out. We have made an alternative list. WANTED—A COLORED ACTRESS to work on shares. Experience unaccentary. Address: Prof.-TOSH BRANCH, R. F. D., No. 8, Box 4, South Richmond, Va. LEESBURG (VA.) NEWS ITEMS Majority for the Dry- Leeburg Vossen Decide for No Idea. One of the most hotly contested elections ever held on the question of license or no license for the sale of intoxicating liquor, Tuesday resulted in a majority of thirty-five votes for the drys. Prayer meetings were held, lectures were delivered by Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama and Seaborn Wright of Georgia. Hon. T. C. Walker was in town Monday eye looking after the education of the widows. Hail! hail! Rev. Dr. Tyler left on 25 for Calc Rev. Dr. Tyler left on 25 for Cal- verton, Va. Mr. William H. Roberts had a flying trip to D. C. last Monday. Mrs. F. Stanton is on the sick list. We hope for early recovery. Miss Mary Bryant is on the sick list. Dave Waldon. drunk and disorderly went to fall in default of $1.00 fine, Monday 24th. Mrs. Lucy Bryant was stricken with paralysis this week. Miss Mary Curtis and daughters of Atlantic City are visiting in town. Atlantic City are visiting in town. Sunday 31st...Mr. William Cal very who read the ceremonies over a noodle dog the other day is known as "Parson Calvery." Ha! ha! Mrs. Jarde Harris was taken to the Hospital Friday for an operation We pray for early recovery. Mr. Calvin Neal of Alexandria is in town. So the lady was looking very bright last night. Mr. Joseph Richards of Orange, N. J. is visiting friends in town, looking after the ladies. Mr. Lucy Bryant of Baby St died last night. She suffered two strokes of paralysis. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Helma was operated on yesterday at the hospital here. Bunday was a live day at M. R. Church. The church served up with the pastor, Rev. Washington Murray. He leaves for conference today. Everybody is happy. Master Willie L. Jones is at his post very busy repairing shoes. Call and see him. An Appeal to the Churches of the Virginia Baptist State Convention From the Foreign Mission Board of the Same. Greeting: The pressing need of funds to carry on the work of mission in foreign fields make it necessary for us to appeal to the various churches composing the Convention for funds to carry on the work. In May the Convention will be in session at Hampton, Va. and we sincerely hope each church will put forth special efforts to send up a large contribution. We feel that it would not be out of place to request each church to lift a special collection for foreign mission. Should you forward any money directly to the National Board, please furnish our State Board with the amount forwarded, that the latter may get credit for all monies raised for foreign mission; though it is prefetred that all monies raised for foreign mission be forwarded through our State Board, since our Board is the only authorized agent for foreign missions of this State. Done by order of the Foreign Mission Board Boy C. H. Phillips D. D. Chattman Roy C. H. Phillips, D. D. Chairman, 814.1-4. North, Fourth, St. Rey, W. T. Anthony, D. D., Secretary 1720 W. St. So. R. Richmond, Va. The Society Minstrels The Annual Spring Festival of the Minstrels Minstrels will be held to the Hippodrome. Second and Leigh St. beginsning Thursday. April 17th to 19th. This will be the only appearance of Minstrels this season and those performances will surpass anything ever seen in Richmond in the line of Minstrels with local talent. Messrs. Lennard Eggleston, George Johnson Andrew Bowler, Ben Deane Arthur Dyson, Chill. White, Dare Alexander, with the Acca Four and Harmony Quartette will appear in star roles. The latest ragtime hit by Prof. Charles T. (Glipy) Smith. "Will Hard Luck Follow Me All My Days" will be sung by Mr. George Johnson and Mr. Bell Deane will sing. "I Wonder If She Thinks of Me" his greatest sentimental composition. The management will endeavor to accommodate the many friends of the Minstrels, with three performances. Tickets will be on sale Monday, April 14th at the office, Dixie Theatre A Man Wanted An Insurance MAN, one that can fill the bill, broad experience, wide- awake Man. Wages guaranteed and laboratory. Apply Mechanics Savings Bank Building, 4th Floor, W. H. WHITFIELD, 4th Man. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. DRAKES BRANCH (YA.) NEWS Despite the bad weather a number of delegates representing various churches in the county met Sunday at St. Michael Church and after a lengthy discussion organized a temporary body with Dr. Hall as Chairman and Lee Fears of Meherrin, Va. as Secretary. There was no dissenting argument, the only difference being some delegates favored a permanent organization while others did not. Another meeting was set for the Fifth Sunday in June. Mercy Baskerville has arrived home from West Virginia. M. M. Lee is in Richmond on business. Most people think it will end in his taking for himself a better half. Miss Lottie Read, a charming young girl of Gif Gaf Va. has returned home after spending some weeks with her cousin, Miss Lizzie Crutcher. Miss Lizzie Crutcher who has been indisposed is out again. Miss Susie Jackson is better after a long spell of sickness. Mrs. Mary Goodo of Richmond is here looking after the Order of St. Luke. Miss Scallia Morton went home to Saxe, Va., where sickness detained her from business here. A. A. Lee, Jr. is recovering from a severe attack of measles. Pocomoke News. Pocomoke City, Md., April 1.—Sunday, March 30th being the anniversary day of the Knights of Pythias, the members of Mt. Herald Lodge, No. 167 had gathered at the Mt. Snail Baptist Church at 1:30 P. M. They were expecting Rev. Richard Ashe of Newport News, Va. to presach the annual sermon, but owing to this condition he could not be with us. The Lodge was called to order by C. C. Leonard Norithan. Sang hymn 350 "Come Ye That Love the Lord Ete." Scripture lesson Lev. 23:1-6. Prayer by the Prelate. Second hymn 319. "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood, Ete." The Pastor of the Church. Rev. John W. White, formerly of Laurel, Del. he being also a Sir Knight, preamble a most touching sermon from Psalms 37:23. The steps of a good man, Ete. He was at his best and went deep in the mysteries of Knights of Pythias. The members wore the regalia of the Order. D. D. G. C. George H. Wheaton had the members to form the line of march and marched from the dwelling to the church. There was a large attendance at the church and a few Magonies were present. This was the grandest occasion of the kind on the shore. The Ladies Auxiliary Circle turned out with the Sir Knights. They wore Rosettes of blue, yellow and red ribbon. 3. Last Sunday was Easter and Miss Marine Phillips, the public school teacher at New Church rendered a beautiful program on Easter. The Ladder Auxiliary held a festival at the Mt. Sinal Baptist Church on Easter Monday and cleared $10.10 The Sunday School Union met at Horntown March 30th and Mt. Sinal Baptist Sunday School represented with $3.75 and 3 delegates. Sunday, April 6th will be rally day at Mt. Sinal Baptist Church. —Rev. T. H. White D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Clifton Forge, Va. called on us. —The wife of Rev. S. C. Manuel, D. D. is improving at her real longe 215 E. Clay St. —Rev. R. G. Adams, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Farmville, Va. was here on business this week. HASKING—GOODMAN The marriage of Miss Norma Goodman, to Mr. Richard Haskins was solemnized at the residence of the bride's parents, 517 N. Third St., Wednesday evening, April 2nd, at 8 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. S. Morris, pastor of 3rd St. A. M. E. Church. The license was brought in by Mr. Nevermon Goodman, brother of the bride. The groom marched in with Mr. Eddie Ward, Best Man. The bride marched in inning, upon the arm of her brother. Mr. Mercer Goodman. Miss Irma Davis was Male by Honor. The Bridemaids were Miles Janie Royal, Marie Walker, Rachel Lemas and Annis Goodman, sister of the bride. The following gentlemen served as Ushers: Meersa, Bradford Johnson, Willie Ward, Ashby Lucas, Carroll Broady. The bride was very handsomely gowned, as was also the bridemaids and maid of honor. The gentlemen were full evening dress. Reception was held immediately after the ceremony. SHEMANDOAH By HENRY TYRRELL Founded on BRONSON HOWARD'S Great Play A Stirring Story of Military Adventure and of a Strange Wartime. Wooing Copyright, 1912, by G. P. Putnam's Bona SYNOPSIS Bendrugard is ready to fire on Port St. Lucie. Frank Haverill, General Haverill's progeny son, is hiding in Charleston. Edward Thornton annoys Mrs. Haverill. Leontanus Karchival West protects her home. Karchival is in a deed. For堡ster is fired upon. Haverill unjustly suspects West. He sends Frank a miniature of Mrs. Haverill to help reform him. Frank enlists in the State army. Captain Robert Ellingham, Confederates Madeline West, Lieutenant West, soldier Ellingham. Lieutenant West is routed at Bull Run. Ellingham is with "Bonewall" Jackson in the valley of Virginia. Gertrude decides to return to the Ellingham home at Bali Bouquet, in the valley. She gets through the Union lines as accompanied by Helle Boyd, a Confederate. They meet Thornton, who is a prisoner. Thornton escapes, captures Lieutenant Olive and takes from him Mrs. Haverill's care. Bodice is Frank Haverill. He is taken to Libby prison, Marle Mason finds her, Captain Cox. Six Union officers selected as hostages to protect Confederate prisoners threatened with death are returned to Libby threatened. Diospyros leaves Libby prison. McClellan, Burnside, Halleck and Hoover are successively leashed by Lee and Jackson. "Stonewall" Jackson is killed. Grant takes supreme command of the Federal armies, and Sheridan invades the valley of Virginia. Gertrude loves West, but disappears before she leaves West. Gertrude recognizes Dedos as Frank Haverill. General Haverill, not knowing Dedos is his son, sends him on a dangerous mission. Gertrude is captured by West's soldiers. West takes Mrs. Haverill's miniature from Thornton. Hedelius is wounded and Thornton Hedelius is exchanged to Kingingham for Hedelius. Thornton takes West. Haverill finds the miniature on West's person. CHAPTER XVII. SMALL, boy hanging about 1h front of the Logan House in Winchester watched for General Sheridan to make, his appearance and then asked: "Please tell me, general, for my grandma, where you are going?" With his mind full of the trouble caused by Confederate spies and informers, Sheridan replied gruntly: "Tell her that I am going to Richmond or Petersburg or heaven or bell." The boy ran away, but came back half an hour later and called out from the sidewalk: "General Sheridan, my grandma says you can't go to Richmond because General Lee is there, and you can't go to Petersburg because General Heuregard is there, and you can't go to heaven because General "Stonewall" Jackson is there." It was the evening of Oct. 18. Sheridan, on his way back from Washington via Martinsburg to rejoin the Federal army at Cedar Creek, had arrived in Winchester late that afternoon. The confers who came up from the front to meet the general reported everything quiet at Cedar Creek and the adjacent Fisher's Hill and, furthermore, that General Haverill's brigade of the Nineteenth corps was to make a reconnaissance on the right early next morning. This was sufficiently reassuring. The commander decided to take the night's rest in Winchester and proceed to the front next morning. When he was called at 6 a.m., faint sounds of irregular drug were heard in the distance to the southward, doubled the result of General Haverill's reconnaissance. The dring did not cease, however, and after awhile it was more distinctly beard, augmented by cannonading. Breakfast was ordered, and Sheridan's bold black. Rendel, together with the horses of the staff officers and courtiers, stood pawing and champing before the door. It was nearly 9 o'clock when the gen- eral got away. Then he hit the pike at a fairly good clip, not liking the sounds of sudden battle ahead, and somewhat netted at the jeers and taunts of women in the doorways along the route. It was plain they had beard something by "graspive telegraph." What they heard soon be came apparent as the horsemen went over the rise at Mill creek, a couple of miles south of the town. There, as far as the eye could reach, up the long line of the valley pike, stretched and straggled the appalling spectacle of an army in broken retreat. Baggage wagons, wounded men, miserable horses and soldiers without guns told all to plainly a tale of pain and rout. "Where are you going?" abutted Sheridan. "You should be facing the other way. What has happened?" They told into the army had been surprised, defeated and all broken up and was in full retreat. Biberdan did not rip about, swear and thunder—as yet. He was the caliphate chief of his party as he rode forward, awake at first, thinking what he should do. The signal message, *swe*, will crott Biberdan's army, *received* to his mind with stressing force. But would the army suffer it to be crushed, even in his temporary absence? He could not and would not believe it. The strutfulness, brine literally questioned, described the offence as "wrath." "That means nothing from a pack of owls who were the first to run away from the battlefield," declared Sherman. "Ocean. We'll also and not the otherwise. This potent wound never have happened if I had been here. What I want to find out now is where ```markdown ``` by Review of Reviews company. "On the right, general," sheuted Major William McKinley. Wright and the Sixth corps are and what the Nineteenth is doing. Wherever they are it's all right or we'll soon fix it right." Sending a courier back with a hurried order that the troops at Winchester should be deployed across the valley and that all positives should be halted and sent back to the front again, he now gave Rileau his head. The gailman Morgan colled need no spur. But the plike was so cluttered up with wagons and convoya of wounded soldiers and groups squatting around fence rails cooking coffee as a substitute for the breakfast of which Early's superior had deprived them that long detours through the fields at one side or the other had to be made. Nearing Newtown, about halfway between Winchester and Cedar creek, General Sheridan found numerous companies of uninjured and misarmed men, with their officers, who needed only a word or the mere sight of "Little Phil," their magical commander, to turn about with cheers and march back toward the enemy. Among the first he recognized was an officer from his own state-Ohio- Major William McKinley of General Crook's staff. "Where is the Nineteenth corpor?" 'Sheridan. right general—in the woods yonder" was the reply as the young officer sprang upon his horse, and, with a loud cheer, dashed away to spread the inspiring news of the chieftain's arrival on the field. A couple of miles further on, in the year of General Getty's division near Middletown, a whole bunch of regimental flags seemed to rise up out of the ground. These proved to be the colors of the main body of Crook's troops, which had not retreated at all but reformed after the surprise of early morning and were now holding the line to the west of the turpike. In one of the brigade commanders here Sheridan recognized another stanch Ohio, whom he knew. This was Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes. The meeting, in quick succession, of McKinley and Hayes under such momentous circumstances naturally impressed the general as of encouraging portent. Yet how little could be, or they, guess that within the span of a single generation both of these promising young Ohio soldiers, fighting shoulder to shoulder with countless others of equal or more promise, were to become presidents of the United States of America. Far other and more immediately pressing concerns occupied them on this day of the battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel-of was it already general- Hayes was able to answer more definitely the oft repeated inquiry for the Sixth and the Nineteenth corps. "Here are two divisions of the Sixth corps intact. General-and on their right are Havelfill's and Enroy's divisions of the Nineteenth. General Crook is on the extreme left with Mer CURE YOUR COUGH The quicker you rid yourself of your cold, cough or grip the better—because many tigres they are the fore runners of more serious illness. JEPPRIES NO. 1. NO.1 TRADE MARK COUGH MIXTURE. Get Jeffries No. 1 Gough Mixture today. It's a guaranteed remedy. It never fails. Will relieve immediately. For throat and lung trouble it has no equal. A sure preventative for pneumonia. SEE, the trademark on every battle. Price $35. Sold by all draggists. If your druggist hasn't it phone, write or call Thee. Tube Jefferson. Std R. Broad Street. Richmond, Va. "I can't rest anyway. I'm going on. Josephus will follow me. You girls will be all right—won't you, dear?" "Where are you going?" cried the other two ghast. "On to the ford, and then to Fläber's hill, or Strasburg, or wherever they have gone. Don't mind me. I'll bring you comforting news, or I won't come back at all. Good night." And before they could persuade her—that was what she fed from now, as from unbearable torture—she rude off exultantly into the darkness of the mountain shadows like another Valyrie bearing her stricken warrior's soul to the glorious and billed Valhalla. Belle Rosquet was deserted. For miles around stretched the heart sickening panorama of fences, trampled Selda, ruined farms and empty granaries. For Sheridan had accomplished only too literally the fearsome task assigned him by General Grant: "Is pushing up the Nebuchadnain valley *y* " It is desirable that nothing abould be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, formage and stock warrants for the use of your rith's cavalry. All that they want is to know that you're here." "And all I want, by —" cried Sherman, "to get those men up that went to the rear. We'll whip these rude ramps back and sleep in our old capsule tonight." He now came full upon the newly forming Federal line of battle. It was as if an electrical thrill had been shot through the entire army from the moment of theirian's arrival on the field. Cheer after cheer rang out, to be taken up fright and rear and far around before the real came was known. Had reinforcements come? Yes. Little Phil was scorching down the pike, and he was a host in himself. Sure, enough there was his energetic small figure on the big horse, his eyes fashing and his face glowing as he galloped along, hag in hand, just to show himself to the troops. "It's all right!" he shouted. "We're holding them, and we'll lick them yet!" The general rode on with his staff and secrut, and in a minute more they were a distant, confused mass of dust and flying hoofs. Suddenly from the weatherd came another rolling cloud with a thunderbolt in its midst—the yellow haired, boyish Custer, the youngest general in the whole Union army, a dashing cavalry leader whom the enemy hesitated to shoot at, declaring that if he was not a southern cavalier he rode and fought like one. Custer, now at a touring gallop, flew up to Sheridan, threw both arms around him and kissed him on the cheek in an inexpressible burst of boyish enthnaisum, then was off again like the wind. It was not yet noon-Sheridan had come up at 10:20—and now the whole 100 ® by Review of Review company. "Sheridan recognized another Ohioan, Colinel Rutherford B. Hayes." stream of men on Winchester turpillar was flowing southward instead of the other way, full of sight again. Another tense hour sped by—two hours—and still Sheridan was busy reforming and rearranging his lines, passing the whole front of his infantry in review, until satisfied that their shattered morale was sufficiently restored to be relied on once more for aggressive work. The enemy's fire had noticeably slackened, but this was a sign to be acted upon with extreme caution until its significance could be definitely ascertained. General Sheridan was still obsessed with the idea that Early's aggressiveness must be accounted for by heavy re-encorrections and that possibly Longstreet had joined him, after all. When toward the middle of the afternoon the Confederates made a bold, though unsuccessful, early against General Haverill's division and the right of the Sixth corps, commanded by General Buckthorn, the auspense became unendurable. Buckthorn received a note from the commanding general conveying an order, which he promptly transmitted to General Haverill, as the latter occupied the position from which the movement could be most effectively made; "Send Lowell's cavalry after that exposed battery at the edge of the woods, with the object of bringing in as many prisoners as possible. "Colonel Lowell has just fallen. Will send his command under new leader, to be chosen at once." A cavalry officer with haggard face and bloodshot eyes, bareheaded, jackless, his shirt open to the throat, rested in a shirt to the east of Middletown after a hurried inspection of his troops to the left of the Union line. The colonel of a New York regiment rode up, proffered a sask and said: *Colonel West, have a drink with me before you go in again. You mean is --- © by Bertow or Bertows company. General Philip H. Shordan Wearing the Very Hot He Waved to Rally His Bride on His Famous Ride From "Winchester," Twenty Miles Away." good it and I expect at this rate you'll All these men or in glory these men have been known." "Customer to the perpetrator, habit and prejudice to the criminal. We want the family to protect a full set of men's rights in a safe environment as a 'snowy' or if suddenly compromised by a threat he is facing and his safety and liking to him with the sound cry of 'fight for the chase' had the enemy in a baited scene across the funicular windows and at the time of strongly word to the advanced Confederate battery still attached forth distance. There was no withstanding such impetuosity. The charging troopers came back with flying colors, several captured guns and a score of prisoners—first herald of the turning tide of, victory. But now their wild leader was not riding at their head. No one had seen him fall. Whoever knew what had happened to the individual forgot it in the jubilant excitement over the general result achieved. The Federal line was now invincibly re-established. At 4 o'clock Sheridan ordered the grand charge, which was begun under his personal direction by the Nineteenth corps on the right and taken up by the successive commands along the line to the left, the cavalry on the flaunx charging at the same Confederate base, opened up, and, with the splitting crash of exploding shells mingled with the force roll of the musketry. Colonel Robert Ellingham, in the southern ranks, wondered what was happening at Belle Bosquet. In the foreonow he had swept with his men past the old place, facing northward, and seeing everything in sight ahead, capturing prisoners and recapturing their own men who had fallen into Federal hands, including the elusive Edward shorenton. Now the Confederates were passing the same point again, hurrying and still more hurried in the opposite direction, driven from the field they thought they had won, in the worst rout of which poor Bob had ever been a part. "By the great horn spoon," said General Buckthorn to General Harelliv. "We're going to have as much trouble in holding our men back from charging the enemy now as we did to stop their retreat this morning." It had been the intention of General Sheridan to hold back his left after the enemy had been dislodged and by advancing his right to force the Confederates to the east of the valley pike, thus cutting off their retreat to Stimburg and Fisher's hill. But, even as the veteran linkthorn had whimically remarked, the troops were so sent upon avenging their reverses of the morning that there was no restraining them, and the whole line pressed on irresistibly until the old camps on Cedar creek had been regained, together with enough prisoners, guns, wagons and battlecages to turn previous mortification into rostory joy and make matter for a nousing dispatch to send to Washington. CHAPTER XVIII WILLIAM Early's troops were still running and Sheridan's reveling, the customary and truce was declared in order to permit the removal of the wounds from the field and the decent disposal of the dead. Not only soldiers, but civilians from far and near flocked upon the mouse. From Winchester Kernatown, Newtown, Middletown, up from the valley and down from the mountains came men and women searching amid the heaped up horrors where late the battle lines had stood. Bome came for lows and some-alas for loot. Sunset reddened the ghostly field; then fell the inky pall of night and the lanterns of the ghostly mind. trants twinkled in the gloom far beyond the circling camps. Gertrude Ellingham, Madeline West and Jenny Rockhorn, led by Bergenant Barket and followed by the faithful Josephus, made up one of the most indefatigable groups of rescuers. They had ascertained that Kerechral West was not among the living Federal troops, either in the celebrating camps or in the hospital tent. Now at last they sought a pitiful, uncertain comfort in satisfying themselves that he was not among the dead on the field. "General Haverill told me," said Gertrude, "that although our—I was the southern—troops were defeated they managed to carry off a considerable number of prisoners. I believe Colonel West is among them." "I know Captain Heartsease is," murmured Jenny forlornly. "If nothing worse has befallen my brother than that," added Madeline, "I suppose I ought to be thankful, as at least be will now be out of the awful fighting. But it is a cruel injustice if that wicked wretch, Captain Thornton, is still to be at large." They rode on in silence—for General Bockhorn had seen to it that they were provided with mounts—until at last Gertrude exclaimed: Humboldt, such as concern to commend of duty." The name destination that compelled Harry to retreat for as far Newfoundland, forty miles south of Cedar Creek, to supply and rename the towns Cedar County once provoked Sherman into following them into this region. His cavalry, however, during this pause in the movements of the main army was not about a campaign against the guerrilla bands of Liberty and Gilmore. It was not until a fortnight after the battle of Cedar, Creek that Gertude Millegam and the small party of friends and neighbors who journeyed with her and likewise followed the path of necessity, as well as of duty and affection, in moving southward after the army, came up with the corps that had been General Ramseur's and which included her brother Robert's regiment. But General Ramseur had been killed, the cavalry was for the most part dismounted, and Colonel Ellingham's precise whereabouts could not be ascertained. He had gone out on a raid with the irregulars who were harassing Sheridan's rear to prevent his carrying out General Grant's orders to cut Lee's railroad communications by which supplies were brought from the south for the Confederate army at Petersburg. "And what has General Early done with the prisoners he brought here?" Gertrude inquired, with sinking heart. "Bent them on to Dauville, maybe to North Carolina, and the officers probably to Richmond." was the vague reply she got. "You see, miss, it's hard enough scraping now to feed our own men." Kerchival West was among these prisoners, and so was Captain Heartase, and both were seemingly in condition to bear transportation. This much information was elected on trustworthy authority, and it compensated for the hardships and anxieties through which the dauntless Virginia girl had passed. From Simpson she sent these reassuring tidings to Jenny Buckthorn, who remained with her father at Winchester, and to Madeline West, whom General Haverill had sent with an escort to Washington. Love alone must guide her in her search, Gertrude declared, but she had the courage to resolve that love should win. Her home was broken up, the valley desolated, and the cause upon which all had been staked was narrowing down to a deadly crisis where mere self interest, fortune, even life itself, had to be thrown unhesitatingly into the balance. While she waited at Jafstunton for some clew, some enlightenment to determine what direction her pilgrimage should take now that the winter was about settling in, a detachment of the wild mounted troops came up the valley from a successful mid on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in West Virginia. A bearded savage rushed with a glad cry at Gertrude—and she was laughing and crying in her brother's arms. "Oh, Rob," she faltered, "I was beginning to think I should never see you again nor any one else I loved." "Don't give up, sir," he enjoined, but his tone was worried and serious. "We are not beaten yet. If we have to leave the valley the enemy can't stay here either. He is trying to prevent us from joining General Lee at Petersburg." burg, but in the meantime we are keeping him and an army bigger than all our forces put together from gadget to help General Grant, who, after all, is no nearer to Richmond than McClellan was two years and a half ago." "Oh, never mind the armies now! Where can I find those two poor prisoners?" Bob shook his head and paced the floor in troubled silence. "Where is Thornton, now?" asked Gertrude anxiously. "To my certain knowledge be is keeping in touch with Mosby at Leeburg or Uppierville. It is not at all likely he even knows that Kereghul was captured at Codor Creek. But he is such a vindictive devil that I suppose he will always be looking out for the satisfaction of his private revenge before the interest of the service." In the Federal camps at Kernstown and Winchester the battle of confidence activity and a general air of hopeful expectation were as marked as the spirit of grim, dogged determination was behind the scenes at Confederate headquarters. At the beginning of the new year one of the two divisions of the Nineteenth corps, under General Buckthorn, was sent to Petersburg, reducing the effective force of the Army of the Shenandoah to one division of infantry and three of cavalry, General Haverill's among the latter. General Haverill's mood of somber reserve was a matter of inquisitude to his friends and a puzzle to those of the army who knew him only in his soldierly capacity. He went about his military duties in the silent, disprised manner of a fatalist. Not a man in the army dared to formulate the question that was in the minds of many. Did the general suspect that the heroic Lieutenant Bedloe, who sacrificed his life at Three Top mountain, was his own disgraced son? Those who knew best declared that he did not—and the famous dispatch to Washington in praise of Bedloe's deed was adduced as confirming evidence. When Gertrude Ellingham wrote for particulars as to Kerkalh West's violation of the order of arrest to participate in the battle of Cedar Creek, the general replied with formal brevity that he must disclaim responsibility as well as any special knowledge in the matter. When Jenny Buckthorn questioned him, personally in the hope of getting some clew that might aid in finding Captain Heartseason, wounded and captured in Lestenacht Bedsoe's raid upon the oesmy's signal station, he was scarcely more communicative, except on one point—that Captain Heartseason, following the practice of Major Young's scouts, had worn a Quattroquarter uniform, which would put him in the category of a secret service officer or spy and therefore prejudice his status as a prisoner of war. Driftily General Haverill had but little comfort to give to others, and it will continue to be active for himself. The state of administration, from the unrecognized duel of Baruchiel West and Edward Theroux of Charleston, to the recent happenings in which Baruchiel's name was still coupled with that of Mr. Constance Haverill, culminating in the damning fact that the baltic miniature portrait given in a trying hour to young Frank Haverill had turned up three and a half years later in the possession of Colonel West, bound a proud and sensitive nature like that of the general to disdainful silence. General Sheridan's work in the Sheenandoah valley was now practically completed. He was now ready to plan a junction with General Grant at Petersburg, convinced that a decisive Federal victory there would open the gates of Richmond and close the war. Here in the beleaguered capital Ibov received the first direct word from his sister Gertrude that had come to him for many anxious weeks. She had left Danville after a long and hurrowing search there which disclosed the fact that Kerchival West was among a convoy of sick and wounded prisoners lately "sent on," presumably to Richmond. Thither Gertrude herself was now making her way an best she might, attended by the unshakable Josephus. The Surrender. IT was a lovely Sabbath morning of springtime—the 2d of April, 1865. The church bells of Richmond had rung out the summons to divine service. At St. Paul's Episcopal church the usual large and aristocratic congregation listened attentively to the earnest discourse of the Rev. Dr. Minnigroser, Jefferson Davis, the chief executive of the southern Confederacy, occupied his pew in the middle of the central aisle, nearly opposite the new vacant one belonging to General Robert E. Lee. An orderly in uniform entered the church somewhat preciately, yet without disturbance, and delivered a telegram to Mr. Davis, who quietly rose and went out. The occurrence was noticed, but attracted no special attention among a congregation who during the four years past had grown accustomed to sudden alarms and untimely notice of threatened attacks. It was the day after the battle of Flye Forks. The dispatch was from General Loe announcing his withdrawal from Petersburg and the consequent necessity for the immediate evacuation of Ribbond, "immediate evacuation" meant getting out by 8 o'clock that night. The news spread on only such newcomer. Women prayed, men wept and cursed and defied; children wondered negroes rather enjoyed the excitement, especially after the issue of a proclamation to the effect that all who wished might come to the commissary department and get free provisions. As for the middle, they had their orders from General Lee: Troops were to leave their lines everywhere at 8 o'clock that evening and take up the line of march for Amelia Court House, a small Virginia village on the Richmond and Danville railroad; some forty miles southwest of Richmond. Early in the afternoon Colonel Robert Ellington hastily dismounted from his horse in front of a house in Franklin street and sprang up the front steps. Before be reached the door it saw open and Gertrude, freshly dressed in white lawn, extended both hands in eager welcome. Beside bar, in black civilian clothes, stood what looked like the ghost of Kerkival West. In the background appeared another familiar phantom of the far past—none other than Dr. Ellingham of Charleston, now white haired and more aged looking than the lapse of years alone should have called for. "Sister! Kerkhalv, old boy! Uncle!" panted Bob, full of excitement. "Were you prepared for the news? What do you think you'll do?" "Kerkhalv and I are going to be married right away," answered Gertrude, with the astonishing imperturbability of one who had arranged and settled everything. "Married!" gnashed Bob, instinctively clutching the air, as if for support. "Now—at such a time? Don't you know that I am under marching orders and that President Davis and the cabinet are to leave for Danielly by the evening train and that the Federal army will be occupying Richmond by this time tomorrow?" "Yes. Robert. We were in church this morning when the news came. Kerkival and I have figured it all out, and the doctor agrees with us—that as Richmond has fallen and Kerkival has been released from Libby on parole and uncle is here from Charlotte the only way for us two to guard against separation again is to get married now so that I can be with—with my husband, whatever happens. So we have sent for the Rev. Dr. Minigerode, and, now that you are here, the ceremony can be performed and you be off to join General Lee in half an hour's time, for I suppose he will need you now more than ever." So they were married, Kerkival and Gertrude, and Colonel Lehmight left them immediately after the ceremony radiantly happy together in the midst of the climatic converging of all the storms of war. President Davis and his cabinet had left Richmond by special train for Daville. Colonel Robert Ellingham had hurried away on horseback in the opposite direction immediately after the marriage ceremony to join the army of General Lee, now marching out of Petersburg up the north side of the Appomattox river toward Amelia Court House. The only people who remained in Richmond were those who were poor and could not go away, or those who, like the Ellinghams, had home interests to hold them there and no other place to go to should they leave the city, and those others who, like Colonel Corchival West, were in soldiers in Confederate prison camps. At the same time General Jackson was sitting into Petersburg through its spectral places between towns of chosen 1827 WEBBLE. The next day he starts with his army after the departing On狄蒙顿, his command moving west of the Appalachian pass in Low route north of that stream. He has © by Patriot Publishing company. Petersburg's Closed and Silent Houses Foregone that Lee in his retreat would endure to reach Amelia Court House, where his separate columns coming from Petersburg and Richmond could unite and where he might expect to receive supplies. Two days later, the retreat continuing, Sheridan descended with a large force upon the Confederate rear guard at Sallor's creek, a small ribbitory nowing north into the Appomattox, and overwhelmed the commands of Generals Ewell and Anderson, capturing these and several other high officers, including General Lee's eldest son, General G. W. Custia Lee. On April 7 the Confederates stopped at Farmville to teast, having come up with the first provisions that had reached them since leaving Petersburg, and to fight again. This time, they succeeded in battling off Sheridan's cavalry and pushed on another standoff around Lynchburg. But the once great army of Northern Virginia was now reduced to two small corps of infantry, and the cavalry corps under Generals Fitz Lee, Gordon and Rosser, for the one time commander of the Laurel brigade of the Shenandoah valley had rallied a new mounted force and was now doing man's service in an all but hopeless campaign where laurels were sourced, but where loyalty and courage did not go unhonored. Colonel Robert? Ellingham was with Gordon, whose cavalry corps, after fighting all the way from Petersburg as rear guard "or the wagon train, was now transferred to the front. "My corps is worn to a frazelle," said the gallant Gordon at the campfire councell on the night of the 8th, "but if the force beyond Appomattox Court House is Sheridan's cavalry alone we can hold it until Longstreet comes up and then cut through." The attack was made at daybreak. There was a moment when it took on the factitious look of a victory as the Confederate lines charged, cheering wildly, and redoubled their fire as the Union cavalry slowly fell back. They did not know that Sheridan already had the game in his hands and was now only skirmishing for a wind-up without incurring any more loss than should be absolutely needful. No sooner had the cavalry disappeared from their front than Lee's troops saw the solid infantry lines of the Army of the James massed before them, ready for an attack. 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"The war in Virginia is over," said Sheridan to General Haverill, passing as the latter's troops still advanced, until a white flag of truce appeared in the distance, approaching like a reluctant dove of peace. "Now there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant," General Lee had said. "Oh, general," came the protest of his lieutenants, "what will the world say of the surrender of your army in the field?" "Yes, they will say hard things of us, I know. They will not understand how we were overwhelmed by numbers. But that is not the question. The question is, is, it right to surrender? If it is right then I will take all the responsibility." The note brought under flag of truce to the Federal lines was General Grant's reply to an earlier communication from General Grant. The proposition had been made and accepted for a suspension of bollitudes pending negotiations looking to the surrender of Lee's army. During the interview accepted by these arrangements a stately, gray bearded general officer approached Colonel Ellsworth, who had been sent by General Gordon with the flag of truce, and drawing something doubtless a down- SATURDAY.....APRIL 5, 1918. ment—from his side pocket said: "Colonel: I have been requested, while waiting to extend to you the courtesies of this side of the line"—at the same time proffering the supposed document, which proved to be a silver flask. Then Colonel Ellingham recognized General Haverill—the Mexican war comrade of his father under the old flag, and his own and Gertrude's guardian until the great, sundering of sacred ties by the awful outbreak of civil strife that now had spent itself after laying the country and its homes and industrice desolate. "We meet under difficult circumstances, General Haverill," faltered Bob, "but—I trust there are no hard feelings?" "None. Robert, my boy—quite the contrary. It is time, God knows! How are Gertrude and—" "She and Kerchival were married last Sunday," answered Bob. He saw the general's face alter strangely, and his whole attitude stiffen, as if his heart had suddenly frozen. So he hastened to add, "But we have not been able to locate Captain Heartsease, and I hardly dare to speculate as to what has become of him." "On that point I can give you welcome news," said General Haverill, recovering his old cordiality. "He escaped while being transferred from Danville and came to us at Peterburg to rejoin the corps. But he was in no condition for campaigning, so I sent him on to Washington, where I have no doubt Miss Jenny Buckthorn will succeed in nursing him to recovery." In due time, word was received from General Grant that he was coming on immediately to discuss terms of surrender with the southern commander. General Grant's courier found, General Lee, near Appomattox Court House, lying under an apple tree upon a blanket spread over some rails, whence originated the report about Lee's having surrendered "beneath the apple tree of Appomattox." The historic meeting of the two generals really took place at the house of Wilmer McLean, a Virginian, who, before and during the first battle of Manassas, had resided at McLean's ford, over Bull Run, and who had removed themselves to Appomattox expressly in order to be out of the war's way. ly in order to be out of the wars way. General Grant, accompanied by Generals Sheridan and Ord and several other officers, including General Haverill, presented a striking contrast to General Lee, who, with a couple of staff officers, awaited him in the old secluded parlor of the McLean residence. Grant, forty-three years old, medium sized and somewhat stoop shouldered, wore no marks of rank except a general's shoulder straps on his blue channel blouse. His trousers were tucked in his boots, and he bead neither spurs nor aword. Lee, a dozen years older than his late adversary, had the stature and bearing of an old knight crusader. His hair and beard were silver gray. He wore a plain but handsome uniform of 'confederate gray, top boots with spurs, gruntlets and a dress sword. This uncustomized side arm was a splendid blade engraved on one side with the motto 'Aloe tol et Dieu faldera,' on the other side with the inscription, reminiscent of the cam- 福 by Review of Reviews company. "Lee had the stature and bearing of an old knight crusader." "Lee had the stature and bearing of an old knight crusader." paign that had ended at Antistam, "General Robert E. Lee, from a Marylander, 1803." The terms of surrender discussed and reduced to, writing at General Lee's request embraced the parole of officers and men "not to take up arms against the government of the United States until property exchanged;" arms, artillery and public property to be turned over to Federal officers, this latter provision not embracing the side arms of the Confederate officers nor their private horses or bargage. Before this draft was copied in ink for signing General Lee took opportunity to remark that his cavalrymen and many of the artillerymen owned their horses and asked whether these men well as the officers would be permitted to retain them. "I suppose," said (lrant sympathetically, "that a great many of the men in your ranks are small farmers when they are at home and in that case will need their horses now, so put in crops to carry themselves and their Sandhills through next winter. Well, then, we will have it set down that man man who claims to own a horse, or which may retain the animal and take it home with him." That will have a very good effect," said Leo, much gratified. The Union commander acted with good grace in his own disposition and at the same time was in perfect accord with the expressed wish of President Lincoln at Richmond, when General Waltim had asked what he should do in regard to the "conquered people." "Oh, if I were you I'd let 'em up easy!" was Mr. Lincoln's reply. "I'd let 'em up easy." Indeed, the behavior of Grant at Apomattox touched the heights of true poetic chivalry, springing from a kind and marmionious heart. He neither demanded nor accepted Leo's sword, as formal military custom might have justified him in doing, but actually apologized for not having his own, which in the hurry of departure he had left behind in the wagon. [TO BE CONTINUED.] TORTOISE SHELL GLASSES: CAN stand for the chap with the monogramed shirt. And the boy with the trousers upturned. And the man with the hat made of plush, I assert. I can stand, though the fad I have spurned; I can stand for the guy with the white in his vest And not even grin when he passes. But I snicker and smile when I gaze on the while The guy with the tortoise shell glasses I don't mind the man with the rakish green hat With the bow in the back nor the fellow Who trims off each shoe with an up to date spat Not another whose gloves are bright yellow. The fur coated geek I don't quarrel with now That garb is being worn by all classes. But I'm ready to flee when that dandy I see- The guy with the tortoise shell glasses. With a row of pearl buttons and note In silence the man (though I secretly grieve) With the braid on the edge of his coat; The man with the handkerchief worn to be seen No longer my feelings harasses. But do you envy to smile with my left and my right. The guy with the tortoise shell glasses. —Datalock Free Press. Rebuked. He gave palpable evidence of weighing in the neighborhood, of 240, and he towered six feet four inches into the air. He looked as if the champion heavyweight of the prize ring might go down before him like a reed before the wind. By his side stood a little woman five feet ten and possibly ninety pounds in weight. She had the meek and subdued look of a woman who had borne much. While they waited for their car on a corner a passerby heard the giant say: "Can't you let me have a quarter, Jennie?" Jennie's voice cut the air like a blade as she said: "Now, see here, Jim Haggas, didn't I tell you before we left home that 10 cents was all I intended you should have to spend? I sure did, an' I should think you had been married to me long enough to know that when I say a thing I mean it! I think I see you havin' a whole quarter to fool away on seegars an' such stuff! Now, you make any more fuss an' you'll stay at home the next time I come to town!"— Judge. His Gift. A young man was, deeply in love with a beautiful girl. One day she told him that the next day would be her birthday, and he laughingly said that he would send her a bunch of roses, one for each year of her life. That evening he wrote to his florist, ordering twenty-four roses to be sept the young woman on the first delivery the next day. The proprietor of the flower shop, looking over the mall in the morning, saw the order and said to the foreman: "John, here's an order from young Mr. Flint for twenty-four roses. He's a mighty good customer, so put in a dozen extra ones." And the young man never knew what made the girl so angry with him.—New York American. ```markdown ``` Bookseller (having taken an order for note paper)—Have you read "Pebbles," air? Had a wonderful sale. The Author of "Pebbles"—Has it? I think I could write as good a book myself. Bookseller (always prepared to meet with a customer)—Do you? Well I really believe our boy could, air.— How dangerous ignorance may be is apparent in the fact that where a woman doesn't know how pretty she is she is just that much prettier.—Puck And Returns With Disastrous Results. Also a Batter Knowledge of Bees. He Meets a Peasant, an Ace and an Unpleasant Earthquake. By M. QUAD. (Copyright, 1915, by Associated Literary Press.) ONE day the king of Persia and ruler of the earth took it into his head to wander out into the country alone and have a chat with some of his bonest subjects. Coming across a peasant at work in his field, the king halted to say: "I have heard a traveler to say that in the fields where the grass is thick and tall there dwelt a species of bird which made and stored up honey. Hath seen a flock of such birds around here? "I don't think I have," replied the peasant. "The tale of a traveler may Pcargn be true, but the birds are evidently coy and shy." "He described them as about the size of my thumb." "Haven't seen any." "With yellow lines on their backs and many feet." "Haven't heard 'em singing around here." "But they singeth not," protested the king. "Instead of a song they make a noise as of up-m-m-m." "And do they sometimes light down on a log?" "Truly they do." "And the man who sits down on one imagination he has a bradawl for a cuckion?" "Now you are hitting it. Even so did the traveler relate. Let me see those birds at once." "You'll find a nest of them over by the gooseberry hush," said the peasant as an grin spread over his face, "but I'd leave a few young ones for seed if I was you. A nest of 'em makes the place seem homelike, you know, and their bites keep the boys from getting lazy." The King Explores The king climbed the fence and waded through the grass to the spot, and his yells and antics soon proved that he had found the birds. After galloping three times around the meadow and rolling over it once he got rid of their company, and, limping up to the peasant, he said: "Hath a name for these birds?" "And, knowing this, you still let your king place his life in peril! Caitiff, the ax of my executioner awaits thee!" "I let thee go forward, O king, not knowing that thou wert king, but instead of deserving the ax thou shouldst reward me with a bag of gold." "S'death! But how so?" "Because, O king, thou hast never had a circus within thy realm, though often longing for one. Here is one ready made. Let thy suit of a hundred follow thee out here tomorrow, and when all are assembled send them into the meadow to find the nestlings." "Biggish, if I don't do it!" exclaimed the king as his frost disappeared and a balmy smile stole over his face, and next day the performance came off as advertised and was reported as an unprecedented success. One day as the ruler of all Purpura and a large slice of the root of the world was riding out with his courtiers he came across a pousant who was pulling hard at a rope attached to the neck of an anse. The anse was sagging back on his haunches, and it was a question whether he would be pulled ahead or have his neck pulled off. . He Interferes "By the corn of my grandfather, but what a fool that man is!" exclaimed the king as he came to a halt. "Ho, thou idiot! I would speak with thee." The penant let fall the rope and came forward and rubbed his nose on the earth to prove his humility, and the king continued: "Do my eyes deceive me when I see a man of fifty pulling to get an ax along? In all these years haven't you learned that the way to treat an obliterate beast is to push from behind?" I dare not push on account of his acts, O ruler," he told the men. "But what have been with it? They, are on springing with wind and beneficent, and are apt to fly upward at a touch." 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The King is Jarred. "O king, but I am afraid of a far," said the peasant, with alarm in his face. "Please poke him with a fence rail when you look for springs." "Not by the but of Sardanapalus! Here, you old beast, get along with you! Now, then, heave, oh, heave!" Twenty minutes later the mighty ruler opened his eyes to find ammonia at his nose and lie on his stomach, and when he asked if the earthquake had killed anyone his grand secretary replied: "O high and mighty, but the heels of the ass were on springs, and the springs worked!" "In other words," said the king. "I've been kicked into the middle of next week by an ass." "That's about it. O king." "I see. An I pushed he kicked. Well, I can't let things go this way. Grand secretary, for not knowing more about asses you are bounced from your position. Peasant, for not knowing all about 'em you shall receive fifty lasheal!" "But we ask for justice!" cried both men together. "Then you shall exchange places." "But it was the ass that did it!" they chorused again. "Then he shall die." "O ruler," said the peasant, "if you had kept away from the ass' heels you wouldn't have been kicked." "Ah, that's something like," replied the king as he rose up. "As it now transplies that there were two asses instead of one and as it is hard to tell which ass was most to blame, we'll call the whole thing off and go over and look at those pumpkins. I want to know how the asss get inside 'em." Misunderstood. On a farm in South Africa there was a Kaffir whom the men used to call "Coalscuttle." He milked the cows morning and evening, but one day the boss came to his hut, bringing a three legged stool. "Here, Coalscuttle, is a stool from home," said he. "You can use it when you are milking." "Yes, boss," said the man. That evening he went a-milking as usual, holding the stool at arm's length and looking a trifle bewildered. A full hour elapsed and he did not come home. At length he arrived bruised and battered, the cans shaped and not a drop of milk in them. "Why, Coalscuttle, what's wrong?" the boss, appearing. In a said the servant, shaking his "him berry good stool, masser cows won't sit on it"—New journal. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE BOOM, NO. 492, MACHINICS SAVINGS BANK BUILDING Thomas Murro-2067. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Phone, Murro-2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specially. Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or mail, Halls rented for meetings and also Burial ceremonies. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Plans for Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Baggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand five funeral supplies. 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A mercelless voice came from the gallery. "Pawn yer ring, Charlie!"—London Tit-Bits. Antwerp. Nearly all the exports from the United States to Belgium enter the country at Antwerp, but as this port is the great distributing market for north western Europe, as well as a depot for raw products, it is doubtful if correct figures relating to the district alone have ever been or ever could be compiled. Force of a Hurricane A hurricane of 100 miles an hour represents a force of 40,200 pounds a square foot. Dawn of Manhood. The time to worry about a boy is when he, leaves the house without slamming the door.-Detroit News. A. Blank Check. Many a man puts his money and his faith in a speculation and later on draws out his faith.—Walter Fulitzer. Of Course. "What did your lawyer say when you stated your purpose to him?" "He said it was feasible."—Boston Transcript. D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACT ALL KINDS OF CAR OFFICE BOOM, NO. 466, MECHANICS' 'Thane Murrow-2 RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STRE Phone, Murrow-2 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Any Style of Architecture. Job Colonial Fear of Lawyers. In the columns of the New York Gazetteer of Sept. 8, 1780, there was a paragraph lamenting the increase of lawyers as threatening to the future prosperity of the community and degrading to freemen. "An honest trade in former days," said the writer, "was all that people of common ability and education were ambitious of, but now no profession is genteel but the lawyer and the merchant. The lawyers are now crowding into every post of importance and thrusting themselves wherever there is a vacancy. Our congress, our assembly, are crowded with them, and even in our great commercial convention there are five lawyers to one merchant." Hard Luck. Servant-Heirens! I have knocked the big flowerpot off the window ledge, and it struck a man on the foot. Mistress. What my beautiful majoliea? London, Oxford. THE ECONOMY 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING CLEANING DYMING AND REPAIRING. CBITMAN M. WHITE, Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club, PURE WHISKEY Will Satisfy the Lover on the Right Kind of Stimulation. Special Prices We Have All Grades of Good Liquor, Ogars and Johnson. Call and See Us. Richmond, Virgini H. F. JONATHAN. FISH OYSTERS PRODUCE 114 N. 17th Street, Richmond, Va. All Orders Will Receive Prompt-Attention. Long Distance Phone, Madison-753. TRACTOR AND BUILDER. CARPENTRY. NINOS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 2007. STREET—SHOP IN REAR. Pros-2166. ing of Contracts for Building of Job Work a Specialty. *Daily. | Weekdays. | Sundays only. All trains to go from Byrd Street Station take the Trolley. All hired and departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. N. & W. HORWOLF ONLY ALL RAIL, LINK TO HORWOLF. Echoin in Bristol May 14, 1911. Leave Byrd Street station, Richmond, PUF HORWOLF: 8:10 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 8:50 A. M. FOR LYMPHURD: 8:10 P. M. 8:30 P. M. A. M. 8:30 A. M. 8:50 P. M. 8:50 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Byrd: 8:10 A. M. 8:30 A. M. 8:50 A. M. B1:10 A. M. 8:30 P. M. 8:50 P. M. 8:50 P. M. B1:20 A. M. 8:30 P. M. 8:50 P. M. 8:50 P. M. B1:25 A. M. 8:30 P. M. 8:50 P. M. 8:50 P. M. *Daily. alldaily except Sunday, including only Pallman, Parler and Sleeping Cave, Onlh Biling Cura. C. H. HORWOLF, D. P. A. Middleton, Van. W. B. BRYTHL. S. F. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFICIENT FULY R. L. TRAIN LEAVE RUSSEHD DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:15 A.M., and 7:36 P.M., 1:00 A.M. Charleston. For Karloh: 9:20 P.M., 9:00 A.M., 9:00 F.M., 4:10 P.M., 7:07 P.M. For N.A.W.R.Y. West: 8:30 A.M., and 4. M., 9:00 P.M., and 9:20 P.M. 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A person who will not work should not eat,—sick folks excepted. Of course, you must be really sick. Cultivate good feeling towards your white neighbors. Be friendly. It will richly repay you in the long run. People who are making large salaries, as a rule, are the slowest in paying small bills. Don't forget that. The Negrohaters' occupation is well-nigh gone. Let us frown upon the lawless elements of our race and we can complete the job. --- The death of Hon. J. Pierpont Morgan in Rome, Italy, should cause all of the wealthy colored men to look around with some apprehension. Ex-President William H. Taft arrived in New Haven, Conn. last Tuesday where he will enter upon his duties as a professor in State College. When the men are good for nothing, they seek out some small church with the idea of enter- --- ```markdown ``` Published every Saturday by JOHN MITCHELL JR., at El K. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., . . EDITOR all communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. One Copy, per year ..... $1.56 One Copy, eight months ..... 1.08 One Copy, six months ..... $0.80 One Copy, four months ..... $5.40 One Copy, three months ..... $4.00 Single Copy ..... $0.05 For one inch, one insertion.....$ .54 For one inch each subsequent insertion.....$ .44 For two inches, three months.....$ 6.00 For two inches, six months.....$ 10.00 For two inches, nine months.....$ 14.00 For two inches, twelve months.....$ 26.00 Marriage and TruAlent Notices, one inch.....$ .50 Oh, yes there are "plenty" of Negro Democrats in Washington now. Another remarkable thing has happened there, too. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson has stopped talking and the "busy" sign is always in evidence during business hours now. You can't lose that Georgian when the time for silence is at hand. He'll hold the job as long as he can and return to Georgia when he cannot help it. Hon. Fred R. Moore of New York has tendered his resignation and American Minister to Liberina. He was appointed and confirmed during the closing days of President Taft's administration. That statesman is alleged to have remarked that Mr. Moore would no doubt be required to take the next steamer and return home after reaching his post of duty. President Woodrow Wilson has accepted the resignation and we understand that Attorney Francis H. Warzen of Detroit, Michigan is there ready to discharge the duties of that office and to take the next steamer, out-bound for the Liberian Republic. Our energetic friend, W. Calvin phase, Esq. is unquestionably relieved TERMS IN ADVANCE ADYKHTHING RATER *COTAGE STAMPS OF A HIGHER DENOMINATION THAT ARE NOT RECEIVED ON SUBSCRIPTION.* THE PLANET is bound weekly. The subscript number is 110000 years in days. tion price is 8.15 per pound, which money can not be bid at mail or our risk: In a Post Office Money Order, by Bank Check or Draft, or an kepure Money Order, and when goods can be bought, they can be given. --- --- men are good for they seek out noms with the idea of enter ing the ministry. That profession was never intended for the good-for-nothing loafer. While every other statesman is trying to add new amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Senator James K. Vardaman is now trying to take two of them away. He announces that he will endeavor to secure the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. He may be able to succeed if the Democratic House of Representatives and Senate will agree to submit the proposition to the American people. As the matter now stands though, he'll have "in hard road to travel." The people of the country have gotten tired of the race question. It was agitated in order to get the Republican leaders out of office. Now that they are out, the issue is useless, being very much like a spent bullet. The Negro-haters in Mississippi sent Mr. Vardaman to the Congress upon the promise, no doubt that he would secure the repeal of those amendments. Just as those from South Carolina sent Hon. B. R. Tillman to the United States Senate for the same reason. Both are now in office and they should be satisfied. Let the Negro-haters in Mississippi sweat and "cuss" and let Senator Vardaman look after the vital interests of all the people. The struggle of the colored people to secure a footing in the financial world has not been abandoned on account of financial failures. Colored people are as determined as ever to remain the ground which they have lost and to achieve success upon the rains of their former failures. Thurston, the world's greatest magician, will appear at the Biljou all next week starting Monday night, presenting a new program of mystic novelties, which like last season, was the talk of the city for weeks. His big surprise this season are "The Daylight Ghosts," "The Vanishing Dervishers," "The Hunted Window," "The Chair of Asia," "The Bankok Bungalow," and "The Sinnesmose Cabinet." Mr. Thurston has also engaged Haga Hamid's Group of Arabs as a special added attraction. Entertainment at City Auditorium The Grand Plantation Jubilee and Flags of all Nations, which was to have been rendered February 24th, 1913 will be given April 7th at the City Auditorium for the Benefit of the Friends Orphan Asylum. Admission 15 cents. Mrs. Lula B. Vandervall, Mrs. Lizzie G. Brown, Managers We train reliable colored men by mail to become Pulman Car Porters in 30 days; positions everywhere; big income in salary and tips; a chance to see the country; if you're making less than $25.00 per week write to day for free booklet; learn during spare time. AMERICAN-SERVICE SCHOOL. Dept. O. 80 Fifth Avenue. New York City. 4t Reports of the Anniversary Exercises of the Knights of Pythias of the various sections will appear in our next issue. The prevailing disposition in the past to give dishonest leaders the right of way is being antagonized and men and women of starling integrity are pressing forward to redeem the business world as represented by colored business enterprises from the ridicule and condemnation which has been cast upon them. The violation of well established financial rules and customs is being discontinued. Richmond has been the centre of business activity among colored people and we see no reason why it should not continue to maintain its supremacy. WHITE FOLKS WANT THE JOB The following item from the Washington D. C. Post will be read with interest by Mr. James A. Ross, leading Democratic candidate for the position of Recorder of Deeds. Members of the National Democratic Association of the United States at a meeting last night at 9:12 Tenth Street. Northwest, adopted a resolution requesting President Wilson in selecting a recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, to confine his field of selection to the District of Columbia, and to appoint a white man to the position. Lorenzo G. Warfield was indorsed for the office. If the Democratic party owes the Negro anything, it is declared, the debt is national, and should not be paid with a District office, since there are not 20 Negro Democrats to be found in the 80,000 members of the race living in the National Capital This is a peculiar declaration and we doubt the correctness of the statement that there are not 20 Negro Democrats to be found in the Second members of the race living at the National Capital. It can only be based upon the theory that a colored man cannot be a Democrat. Certainly there was a host of colored men in Washington "rooting" for the election of Hon. Woodrow Wilson, and a tally of those men now in the government service would no doubt result in surprising disclosures. WILL NOT GO TO AFRICA now that President Wilson has done what he could not get his friend, Hon. William Howard Taft to do. We congratulate our good friend, Fred R. Moore upon his declination to go to Africa with a commission, which virtually carries upon its face the death mask of Hon. William D. Grum of South Carolina. As for Hon. Francis H. Warren, he has the constitution of an African elephant and the vitality of an American ox. He has the "horse sense" too, to come back here when he gets danger to his health in that African Republic. Let Editor Moore go back to work in the New York Age office. He is badly needed in this country. YALE MEN WELCOME TAFT Three Thousand Students Meet Former President at the Train mer President at the Train. Three thousand Yale students, headed by a band, raided a welcome to former President Taft when he arrived in New Haven, Conn., from New York to take up his duties as Kent professor of law at the university. As Mr. Taft stepped from the train he was presented with a huge bouquet of violets. The former president smiled broadly and dotted his hat to the continuous cheering of the crowd. The procession headed for the college buildings and Mr. Taft received an ovation all the way. The Bulgarian Schlipka regiment won the honor of being the first to enter the city. Shukri Pasha, the Turkish commander, it is reported, killed himself. The entire carriage was captured. Following soon after the breaking of the deadlock in the Illinois legislature and the election of James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, to the full term of six years in the United States senate, the secondary deadlock broke and Lawrence W. Sherrman, Republican, was elected for the short term. Sherman will fill the vacancy caused by the outing of William Lorimer from the senate. His term will, expire March 2, 1915. Lewis was the democratic-primary choice for senator and Sherman was, similarly endorsed by the Republicans. Wilson to Toas First' Ball. President Wilson will throw the first ball in the opening game of the American league base ball season in Washington on April 10. Benjamin Minor, the president of the Washington club, called to request that he accept a box for this game and that he perform the ceremony referred to. Mr. Wilson accepted the invitation. He also accepted a season pass to the games. Mother Teresa Undertaker. The congregation of Christ Lutheran church in Easton, Pa. was completely surprised when their pastor, RUNAWAY AT FUNERAL Casket Is Broken and Child's Body Thrown Out. During the funeral of the three years old baby box of Ambrose Elsenhour, at York, Pa., the horse attached to the hears can away, and the tough box containing the casket was thrown into the roof. The box and the casket burst open and the child's body fell out. The horse was so badly injured that it had to be killed. Charles Ellicker, of Rosaville, the undertaker, and his young son, Robert, were severely injured. Ellicker was driving the horse, and in an effort to avoid striking the minister's buggy ran the team into a fence. Treasurer Burke Takes Oral Former Governor John Burke, c. North Dakota, took the oath of office as treasurer of the United States, succeeding Carroll A. Thompson, who turned over $1,425,425.25 1920 Thurston at the Bifou Next Week. One of the brightest philosophers of the world, Dr. Paul Carus, has said that in his opinion modern magic should have a place in the educational program. "We should all," he says, "know something of the general methods of magic, and some times in our lives witness the extraordinary feats, bordering on miracles, with which a prestigious tutor can dazzle our eyes and misguide our judgment. The boy who has studied magic will not be so apt in later years to take up with every new end of mysticism and will not be so easily duped." FLOOD AREA CLEARING Conditions in Western Pennsylvania Are Slowly Improving. Western Pennsylvania is slowly recovering from the effects of the most general and disastrous flood in its history. Greater damage than ever before was done to property, more lives were taken and more homes made desolate. Now that the danger is past the vast flood-submerged section is gradually clearing of waters. Many persons are counting and burying their dead, reliving the homeless and destitute, gathering up fragments of ruined property and planning for the future. Pittsburgh's monetary loss is at least $1,000,000. The steel industry is paralyzed for the time, many plants being submerged. Two months will pass before all operations are again resumed. The property loss in Wheeling, WI. Van. is estimated at $3,000,000. The loss in Youngstown, Ohio, is approximately $2,000,000. The Shenango, Mamarang, Peaver and Ohio valleys show great clenking scenes of desolation. Long rivers and smaller streams are down the wreckage of homes and apartments, many of whose owners, at a severity of labor to accumulate a pension, must start out penniless each. Very wooden bridge in the flooded town has been washed away, and many steel spans are weakened. Telephone and telephone wires are down. GRACE-.SUCCEEDS SCHWAB Is Elected President of the Bethlehem Steel Company. E. M. Grace was elected president of the Bethlehem Steel company, succeeding Charles M. Sebwab The following compose the Colored Committee for soliciting Funds: Mrs. Rebeker Violet Crawford, Manager of the Home; Mrs. Adelalde G. Thompson, Mrs. Mattie Howlin, Mrs. Harriett-Page, Mrs. H. R. Johnson, Mrs. Anna Hunter. Will you be one of the two thousand to contribute $1 or more? If so, please forward it to Mrs. J. C. Stewart, 1031 West Grace street. We thank the Public School Children for $65 as an offering. We have heading our coloured individual contribution list. Dr. R. E. Jones, $5.00 and Mr. Nelson Williams, $2, WHO WILL BE NEXT? ```markdown ``` COLORED PRODUCTION HAIR. We are the largest manufacturers of colored people's hair. 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Brown, cashier of the Barnes States bank, at Barnes, Kan., was shot and killed by a man who robbed the institution. Later a posse of citizens shot the robber to death as he was trying to make his escape with a bag of $600 in gold. Brown had just opened the bank and was at the counter when he was confronted by a masked man, who pointed two revolvers at him. Brown ducked, seized his own revolver and had emptied it without effect before a bullet through the head killed him. The thief gathered into a bag $600 and ran from the bank, but citizens alarmed by the shots, were in pursuit before he had covered a block. Within three blocks of the bank he fell before a volley of shots, still clutching the gold. Sikaran Ailes Take Adrianople. Adrianople has fallen. The Bulgarian war office in Sofia gave out that information. The fall of the Turkish holy city, which probably will speedily end the long Balkan war, followed a general assault by the Bulgarians and Servians. According to the report the Third Bulgarian division entered the city and took formal possession. Before they surrendered the Turks blew up several powder magazines and fired houses. It was reported that Adrianople was in flames in a dozen places and that the inhabitants were fleeing in every direction. There was danger that the city would be destroyed. Accounts from the front said that the Bulgarians bayonetted hundreds of Turks, who were engaged in firing houses and blowing up powder magazines. The Immigrants and Servians entered the city after hours of desperate fighting and a display of valor seldom emplied in modern warfare. They rushed the last works of the Turkish defenders in the face of a terrific fire and won their way into the city in hand to hand encounters. Sherman Elsted Rev. Elmer E. Bayer, announced his resignation, to take effect May 11. After the services he explained that he intended to retire from ministerial pursuits and would enter a local undertaking firm. after the 1913 5 12 19 26 Van De W College North 1st St., Rich Reopens September SEVEN DEPARTMENTS THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Will Prepare Its Students to Talk Medicine and Journalism. THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Offers a Thorough Training in H Law, Stenography and Typewriting. THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Will be in change of the Best T Museum, Housekeeping, Cooking and THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT Will Embrace Vocal Culture, Piano, AUTOMOBILE INSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT Will fit a limited number of young THE PAINTING DEPARTMENT Offers a Complete Course of Carrie Hardwood Finishing and Frencoling. SPECIAL NIGHT CLASSES in the Grammar and Academic Grad men and women for a Professional Service in our Night School. For particulars and terms apply. REV. 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Pa., former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, who was convicted for abstracting funds and under a fifteen-year sentence, left the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Ks., pardoned by President Taft, one of the last official acts of Mr. Taft as president. He departed immediately for Pittsburgh Papa Mill Worker Co. Paper Mill Worker Smothered by Rolls John Grovanis, thirty years of age employed in a paper mill in Bogota, near Hackenack, N. J., was caught between two rolls of paper and was smothered to death. A wrinkle in the paper roll caused one of the men to investigate and Grovanis's legs were found protruding from between the rolls. The plant was closed after the accident. 1913 APRIL 1913 S M F W T F S | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | | | | Breaks Arm Catching Ball. The season's first ball accident at Potowville, Pa., occurred to Theodore Leib. In pulling down a fly he drew his arm too far backward, while on the dead run, and the bones were snapped CENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR dull; winter clear, $4 & 4.25; city mills fancy, $4.50 & 5.20. RYE, FLOUR. OUR steady; per barrel $3 100@3.65 WHEAT meat; No. 2 rel. $101@1.02 CORN steady; No. 2 yellow. $82@1.02 (1115) firm. No. 2 white, 39% 39% c; oier grade, 32% c. POULTRY Lily steamy, hess. 11G ; old roosters, 12G; dressed from chateau fowls. 12G; old roosters. 11G BUTTER steady; fancy creamy; 41 hr; EGGS steady; selected, 20 gt 22c; nearby, 10 hr; western, 10 hr; POTATOES steady; bush, 20 gt 22c Live Stock Markets - CATTLE strong; choice, $870.00; prime, $40.00; 8.50. slicer, slicer, primit wothers, $7@ 7:25, ycal calvans, $11.09, $69.29, ycal calvans, $11.09 10.12 HOGS higher; prime heavier, $10.25 ¥10.40; medium; heavy Yorkers, light Yorkers and plums, $10.40 ¥10.50; roughs, $50 ¥50.2 NOTICE It has been found necessary to buy and properly equip the home for homeless and dependent Colored childREN, located at 1613 Taylor street, known as the Working Woman's Industrial Home and Day Nursery, that moved from 516 Third street in July, 1910. In order to make the Home perpetual and purchase it, we must appeal to the generous public for help. All interested in this work can help by contributing freely through the Mite Boxes and envelopes already distributed, which will be called for by a committee wearing a badge containing the words "Children's Home." Contributions can be sent directly to Mrs. J. Calvin Stewart, 1031 West Grace street, who is the Treasurer of the Building Fund. No fund can be too small to help. Please do not give money to anyone except those soliciting and wearing the "Children's Home" badge. This work is approved by Gov. Mann. Mayor Anille, Dr. J. T. Mastin, Rev. James Buchanan, Judge Richardson and a Committee of Ladies. The work is also enforced by the Colored Ministers' Conference of the City. Agricultural & Mechanical COLLEGE. STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOR COLORED TEACHERS of Both Soxes. 14th Annual Session will begin June 23, 1913 and continue five weeks. Board, Lodging and fees for the entire session $14. Limited Accommodations. Send $1.00 and reserve lodging accommodations in advance. Write at once. STATE SUMMER SCHOOL DATE SUMMER SCHOOL. A. & M. COLLEGE, Greensboro, N. C. — Subscribe to The Richmond PLANET. $1.50 per year. 1. 1. De Vyver College, Richmond, Va. September 16, 1912. DEPARTMENTS. PEDENT Students to Take up the Study of Law, Law. DEPARTMENT Training in Book-keeping, Commercial, and Typewriting. DEPARTMENT The Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Cooking, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. Culture, Piano, Vocallon and Pipe Organ. DEPARTMENT Number of young men as Chauffors. ENT Course of Carriage and House Painting, and Precoiling. Academic Grades. We prepare young students for Professional Course and the Civil School. HANNIGAN. President, 10th First Street, Richmond, Va. Van De Vyver College, North 1st St., Richmond, Va. IN BOOK-KEEPING, Commercial Law, Stenography and Typography THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Will be in charge of the Best Teachers in Dressmaking, Military, Housekeeping, Cooking and Fine Laundry Work. 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On the third floor are nine bed rooms, making a total of 13 bed Fine, Large, Strong, Solid Oak Morris Chair, Upholstered in Leather- ette, Tufted Back: Handlesome Machine Carved, in a Bargain you don't see often at $49.99. See it in our window. We have other Morris Chairs as high as $54. You Can Pay Your Bill. February 5th and Save Your Discounts. JURGENS' ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CLEARANCE FURNITURE $100,000.00 Worth of FURNITURE AND RUGS Reduced 20.25.,33 1-3,& 50 percent. Not only do you save big money by making your purchase at this sale but when you get your Christmas presents of us you are giving something sensible and useful. Our furniture is noted for its lasting qualities. ADAMS AND BROAD STREETS rooms in the building, all of which are occupied at this time. I will rent this entire building with all of the furniture and fixtures to any reliable person for twelve months or longer if desired, the rent being payable monthly or I will sell it on reasonable terms to any reliable person for cash or on terms: the purchaser giving bonds renewable every four months with interest at 6 per cent. Any person or persons wishing to rent or purchase this valuable piece of property may receive all information as to terms by writing to W. P. TWEEDY, Box 148, Hot Springs, Va. Medicines. --- J. P MORGAN DIES IN ROME Financier Succumbs After Month's Illness. Physicians Say He Had Nervous Prostration, Followed by General Collapsst—One Biames "Money Trust" Probs. J. Pierpont, Morgan, master of hundreds of millions of dollars and the greatest financial and commercial power in the United States. died in his hotel in Rome. Mr. Morgan would have been seventy-six years old, on April 17. The body of Mr. Morgan is to be embalmed and sent to the United J. P. MORGAN. Latest. Picture of the Dead Financier. ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association States. A funeral service will be held before its departure. Italian troops will assist at the ceremonies. It is said that Mr. Morgan has left his art treasures to the United States government. Dr. M. Allen Starr, of New York, called into consultation in connection with J. Pierpont Morgan's illness, attributed the financier's breakdown to emotion caused by the investigation carried out by the Puo committee at Washington into the operations of the so-called "money trust," of which Mr. Morgan was considered the head. A statement giving the full history of Mr. Morgan's illness has been cabled by his physicians to his son in New York. The statement recapitulates the symptoms of Mr. Morgan's malady since it first developed in Egypt. It qualifies his illness as nervous prostration, but says that his intelligence remained normal until Easter Sunday. When the death of Mr. Morgan was seen to be approaching rapidly, Professor Gluseppe Bastianelli and Dr. George D. Dixon forced Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, son-in-law and daughter of the financier, and Miss Helen Hamilton, a niece, who had been in constant attendance, to leave the room. Mrs. Satterlee had been with her father from the time he left New York, and Mr. Satterlee had joined them in Egypt. Mr. Morgan toward the end showed he was suffering internally only by a movement of his right hand. Otherwise he displayed no sign of vitality except by continuous heavy breathing. Mr. Morgan was unable to assimilate nourishment artificially administered, and his physical weakness was extreme. Heart tonics were injected, but these had no effect, and for several hours before his death he was in a state of coma, unable to respond to any questions or to recognize any of those at his bedside. John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Conn., the son of Junius Spencer Morgan, a banker. His mother before her marriage was Juliet Pierpont. Both of his parents were from old and well known New England families. Hall Morgan so chosen he might haveerved the rights of the rich rich. THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD 1973. by American Press Association. his father left him $10,000,000, but his was a will to work, and work he always did in a thorough-going, mastery manner. He was educated, first in the public schools of Hartford, later graduated from the Boston English high school and finished his studies at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He entered the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. as a clerk in 1857. Because United States agent for the London banking firm of George Peabody & Co., of which his father was a member, in 1863. Married Amelia Louise Sturges in 1861, who died in 1862. Married Louise Tracy in 1865. Had one son and three daughters. Became member of the respective firms of Dabney, Morgan & Co. and Drexel, Morgan & Co. in 1864 and 1871. The latter firm became J. P. Morgan & Co. Flouted bond issue of $62,000,000 during President Cleveland's administration. Organized and floated securities of United States Steel corporation 1901, capital $1,100,000,000. Secured American subscriptions to British war loan of 1901, amounting to $50,000,000. Controlled 50,000 miles of railways, large American and British ocean transportation lines and English traction railways. Gave $1,500,000 for site and buildings for lying in hospital in New York. Other benefactions total millions. Twice won the international yacht races with the yacht Columbia, which he caused to be built to defeat Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, the Shamrock. Checked a disastrous panic in 1907 by personally taking hold of the situation and dumping millions of dollars into the New York stock exchange. Testified before the Pujo committee in 1913 that there was no "money trust," and could be none. Made famous collections of paintings, bronzes and antique art, including the famous Gainsborough painting, which he later turned over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. Floyd Allen and his son, Claude S. Allen, were put to death in the electric chair in the state penitentiary in Richmond, Va., for their part in the Hillsville court house murders. Other members of the notorious gang are serving long sentences in the same prison. The Allens were put to death, after a dramatic eleventh hour attempt to save them had been thwarted by Governor Mann's unexpected return to the capitol, thus preventing Lieutenant Governor Ellison from acting upon a request for a respite or commutation of sentence. The old mountaineer, once the terror of a whole section of the Blue Ridge, and his strapping young son died within ten minutes of one another. Father and son, occupying separate cells, heard the death warrants read. Tears were in Floyd Allen's eyes as he looked upon his boy. There was a pathetic, farewell as the old mountaineer, bent and feeble, was led away. Two minutes after he entered the death chamber the signal was given and the current was turned up. When the prison surgeon announced that Floyd Allen was dead the body was hastily removed and the guards went back for Claude. Floyd Allen was mourning a prayer as he was placed in the chair, Claudia showed no trace of emotion. Rev. George W. McDaniel, spiritual adviser to the Allens, had to be lifted into his car as he left the prison. J. "Ham." Lewis Elected Senator. James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, was elected United States senator for the long term when the deadlock was broken in the Illinois legislature at Springfield. A senator for the short term to succeed William Lorimer is still to be elected: James. Hamilton Lewis, usually known as J. 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Subscribe to The PLANET. ```markdown ``` BIG GATHERING OF CHURCHMEN FOUNDED FIFTY YEARS AGO. Oldest Religious Organization Among Afro-Americans Connected With the Methodist Episcopal Church. Its Numerical Strength and Steady Growth, List of Committees. "The marvelous growth of the work of the Methodist Episcopal church among Afro-Americans will be brought prominently to the fore at the annual sessions of the Delaware and Washington conferences the first week in April. It will be the fifth annual session of the organization. "The Delaware conference, which is said to the oldest, was founded July 28, 1861. The Washington conference was founded in the same year. Previous to this there were no colored conferences, the colored churches belong under the supervision of white conferences. Following the organization of these two conferences and with the culmination of the civil war the denomination started to grow among the race in the south. There are about twenty conferences in this country and several abroad. Nearly two dozen schools and colleges and many ministers and other race leaders, along with more than 500,000 members, attest the great work that the denomination has and is doing for the race. There are also missions and schools maintained in Africa. The session of the Delaware conference will open at Zoar church, Philadelphia, April 3. The anniversary celebration will take place on Friday, April 4. Bishop Joseph F. Berry, who will preside over the conference, will bring the greetings of his denomination. Rev. Jehri Pierce, the only auraring founder, will tell of the early history of the conference. The Rev. C. A. Tindley of Calvary church, Philadelphia, will read an original memorial poem, while Mrs. Amor REY, DR. STUHL & JOLLEY. Jia Brinkley of Berlin, Md., will represent the women, and H. N. Wilson, a sorbent of Fairmount, Md., and delegate to five general conferences of his denomination, will represent the lairy. The Rev. J. H. Scott will give the historical address, which will be responded to by the Rev. N. M. Carroll of Annapolis, Md., one of the founders of the Washington annual conference. The celebration is in charge of a commission of ministers and laymen, as follows: The Rev. Storer S. Jolley, Cambridge, Md.; W. C. Butler, Montclair, N. J.; H. Herman, Milford, Del.; J. H. Scott, Philadelphia; J. R. Brinkley, Bristol, Md.; J. H. Blake, Centerville, M. W. S. Brown, Sumerville, Md.; J. H. Holland, Chester town, Md. and Messrs. W. F. Morgan, Philadelphia; Harrison Jenkins, Chest Rev. Dr. Jolley, president of the commission, is pastor of Waugh church, Cambridge, Md., a man of rare intellectual attainments, and a pulpit orator without a superior in this section of the country. He is in great demand as a lecturer and is prominently connected with the Maryland grand house of Knights of Pythia. He is a graduate of Morgan college. Dr. W. C. Jason, secretary of the commission, is a man of scholarly attainments. He is an alumnus of Allegheny college and Drew Theological seminary. He is president of the Delaware State college, the leading institution for the higher training of the race in Delaware. UPLIFT FOR RURAL SCHOOLS. Booker T. Washington Shows How to Do It Most Effectively. In large sections of the south the parents of most of our rural children are ex-slave folk, whose lives have been spent wholly on the farm, says Booker T. Washington. They know little about proper cooking or proper housekeeping and not much about rules of health. They have no idea as to how a home should be kept. Broken chairs, floors with holes in them, broken windows, leaky, roofs, soiled dishes and table linen—all these are about the child from infancy. Seeing this, it early became clear to us at Tuskegee that if we really wished to do dormant school work into the real life and for the uplift of the people something more than the abstract teaching of cube root and the conjugation of verbs must be imparted in the classroom. To solve the problem we hit upon this plan in Macon county, Ala. We determined that to be of the greatest service to the child, to combat his environment, we must not simply provide a special classroom, but must make everything surrounding the child serve as school. As an experiment we constructed a building on the order of our southern cottages, containing rooms for a family and in addition a large assembly room. We then secured a family, in which both parents were teachers, to live in the building. Following this, we made the understanding that every room in that house and everything about the house should be a schoolroom; that the front yard, the back yard, the stable, the horse, the cow, the garden and the little farm adjoining should have their place in the day's schedule of teaching. The dining room, the kitchen, the bedroom, are all open daily to these children, who are shown how to clean and keep them, actually doing the work. The girls of a certain grade take turns in doing the cooking. They leave home in time to prepare the morning meal for the teachers and family. This is served properly in the dining room, which has been set in order by another group of little girls, the aim being that all shall learn the best methods of doing things. All this is done under the vigilant eye of the mother teacher, who is thoroughly competent, having been trained at Tuskegee institute, mastering trades as well as academic work. The girls in the higher classes are taught cooking, but all the girls do gardening, housecleaning and sewing. The boys come more directly under the eye of the man of the house and care for the small farm and do in addition a certain amount of farm carpentry. CARLTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Brooklyn Institution's Good Work For Men and Boys. The Carleton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association, Brooklyn, recently hold a three night's entertainment from which it realized over $750. The literary program the first night included renditions by the well known Academy quartet and the Y. M. C. A. Guitar and Mandolin club and a magnificent clown drill by boys of troop No. 55. Boy Scouts of America. The program for the second night was given by the Spartan Girls' Athletic club, which has earned a city wide reputation for the high character of the literary entertainments provided by it. The last night, was given over to the high school boys of the Y. M. C. A. Spanish club, which produced an amusing farce comedy entitled "Balm For a Wounded Heret." The play was produced in English and was accompanied by superb minstrel features. This institution is arriving to meet a situation which exists and is being developed to meet this situation more completely. The branch has a membership of 221 men and is doing an organized work for seventy-five boys. Religious, educational and physical work is conducted successfully for men and boys. Musical clubs, physical clubs, a Bible class, etc., are maintained. Open house is kept every day and evening for men, especially for those who need companionship or encouragement. A fine troop of boy scouts is attached to the branch, and a room is provided for boys in the building. During the first nine months of the present fiscal year thirty-eight meetings for men have been held, with addresses by men who could instruct and insure. For boys, thirty-six meetings, each followed by a social, have been held. The employment department has furnished positions for 135 men and seventy-eight boys. A handsome new building costing $100,000 is in sight. The committee of management is putting to the fullest use the present building and equipment and asks from the general public support for the maintenance and development of the work. Mr. Ruffus M. Meroney of Texas is secretary of the association and Mr. Arthur L. Comither of Brooklyn is his assistant. They Wanted to Hear It. "Now, children," said the teacher, to her kindergarten class, "I want you all to be quiet, no quiet, in fact what you could hear a nin drop." Everything had quieted down nicely and the teacher was about to speak when a little voice in the rear of the schoolroom quaked forth, "Go ahead, please, teacher, and let her drop."—Fun. FEATURES OF THE COURSE. Booklet Containing Valuable Instruction For the Masses in Rural Communities Prepared by Miss Amelia A. Cooke, issued Frees—Demonstrations and Exhibits Given at the Institute. Hampton, Va.—A thirty-nine page bulletin on "Housekeeping and Cooking Lessons for Rural Communities" has been prepared for general distribution in the Hampton leaders series by Miss Amelia A. Cooke, who is in charge of the domestic science department at Hampton (Va.) institute. "A class in housekeeping and cooking gives the teacher a splendid opportunity to offer suggestions about the personal cleanliness and clothing of the pupil," says Miss Cooke in her suggestions to teachers. The housekeeping lessons cover sweeping and dusting, caring for table tops, lamps, the cooking store, dish- A. MISS AMELIA A COOKE. washing and soapmaking. General rules for cooking are given in clear cut English. Miss Cooke's bulletin for rural teachers and homemakers contains an excellent collection of recipes that are suitable for families having moderate incomes. Beverages, vegetables, soups, cereals, batters and doughs, eggs, oysters and fish, meats and diabes from leftovers, ples, candies. These are the classes into which the recipes fall. General rules for table setting, rules for waiting on table and dining room etiquette are also given. The final section is devoted to cookery for the sick. An index is printed with the pamphlet and makes possible the finding of all the useful material which Miss Cooke has carefully assembled. The Hampton leenders are now issued by Hampton institute four times a year. Any twelve may be obtained free of charge by any southern teacher or superintendent. The domestic science department of Hampton institute from time to time arranges interesting exhibits in glass cases so situated as to attract the attention of both students and visitors. The most recent exhibit is designed to present graphically to the students the evolution of foods, and to show visitors the methods and results of the work at Hampton. One case shows raw materials, such as ten, cocon, coffee, pepper and spice. Another case shows oils and lyses used in making soaps of different kinds and many other useful household necessities. A third case contains dried, preserved and canned fruits and vegetables. The last case is filled with the results of class work in the housekeeping and cooking courses and exhibits soap, orange and lemon extracts, baking powder, dry yeast, bread, custard and samples of biscuits shortened with the various shortenings, such as butter, lard, etc. NOTES ON. BEN BANNEKER. Southern Colored Man Who Invented Clock became Well Known Scientist. Benjamin Banneker was born Nov. 9, 1731, near Elliott Mills, Md. In 1770 he constructed a clock to strike the hours, the first to be made in America. From 1752 to 1858 he calculated and published annually Banneker's Almanac. He also assisted Major L'Enfant to lay out the streets of Washington, being quite proficient in knowledge of civil engineering. Banneker was also a member of the French Academy of Sciences, being made a member on the recommendation of Thomas Jefferson, who esteemed him highly for his scientific knowledge and who said in a letter to him asking the receipt of a copy of his almanac that "his race should have an opportunity to vindicate its color." Jefferson was a Democrat of high character. Sons of Veteran Annual Reception. The first annual reception of the General Robert Avery camp. No. 143. Sons of Veteran, New York, division United States army, will be held at Summer ball, Brooklyn, on Thursday evening, April 5. The occasion will afford a merry gathering of military men from many points in Greater New York. Charlotte, N. G.—There is a keen interest manifested by the Afro-Americans in this city for good literature. This unanimous mental activity is a conspicuous evidence of the trend of the race here to become influenced by great Christian agencies that have molded other progressive races. There are hundreds of public libraries throughout the southland, but Afro-Americans are denied the use of them for such knowledge as they might wish to obtain through book lore. One can readily appreciate existing conditions that have impeded the Afro-American's material advancement in the realm of good literature. The class of books that will inspire our youth is not so easily procured in many sections of the country, and because of such there is a mental degeneration in too many instances, and a poor conception of ennobling ideals is also the result. Hence it is quite obvious to the average member of the race to understand the motives of any race in giving its members such excellent opportunities for mental culture. The Carnegie library at Biddle university, this city, is a regenerating influence that is really proving our people's claim, which is just, to become an integral part of everything that is in direct touch with good influences. It is encouragingly true that the mature members of the race in Charlotte are exhibiting a remarkable disposition, which is also an indication of hope long deferred, to accept every opportunity given them by this good institution of learning which has molded hundreds of young men for a life of useful service. The library is equipped to meet the peculiar exigencies of a reading public that lives upon pure literature and was dedicated at the last commencement session of the university. The presidium that is himself fooling with the ghost of recent antipathy should visit the school and the library and see how the students and general public make use of the opportunity. Dr. H. L. McCroery, president of the university, and those assisting him in bringing Biddle up to its present standard of efficiency for the work of developing a race along the right lines are now the enclosures of the better element of both races in all sections of the country for giving our people such an excellent chance for self help. HOW TO RETAIN PHYSICAL ENERGY MOST IMPORTANT Summer Solstice In Life Comes at Thirty, Bays Dr. C. V. Roman. In an address to the Knights of Pythias of Tennessee not long ago Dr. C. V. Roman, the "image" of Nashville, Tenn., said in part as follows: "Physical energy is the basis of worldly success, and the primary need of our people today is to conserve their physical force. Our educated people must live long enough to pay back with interest the price of their education. "The college bred man who dies at graduation or soon thereafter dies in debt to society. If he dies through his own ignorance or carelessness he absconds without paying his board bill. He throws away other people's money." "Our successful men must live until their successors are qualified if we are to hold our own and advance. The thirtieth birthday marks the summer solstice of the average man's career. He should have at least thirty active years from that date to make and keep his rewards. "A high birth rate is not a full compensation for a high death rate. The energies of the race are exhausted in merely trying to live, and no strength is left for improvement. How much land could a farmer till if he broke fresh horses every morning? "He could make no headway even if the horses were given him, and a race that loses its prepared men and women prematurely cannot find compensation for the less in a high-birth rate. The drain must be stopped. How? By teaching our people to utilize all available opportunities to improve their physical condition. One illustration will suffice. "Davidson county, Tennessee, has built a modern tuberculosis hospital, equal accommodations for colored and white. Although there are more deaths among the colored than among the whites from tuberculosis, there are fewer colored patients at the hospital than whites. "The average colored person stricken with tuberculosis would rather remain a burden to his relatives and finally die than go to the hospital and get well. "To enlighten our people along these lines is a great opportunity. Let us hope that our fraternal leaders may see that 'the good of the order' consists in embracing promptly this opportunity." Virginia Baptist State Convention. The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Virginia Baptist state convention will be held at Hampton, Va., in the Queen Street Baptist church, Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Short, pastor, beginning on Wednesday, May 14. The Rev. Dr. R. H. Bowling, president of the convention, is rapidly recovering from a severe illness of several months. Dr. Bowling is urging the members of the convention to work zealously to raise the amount needed for missions and education by the time the convention meets. Be Generous of Him "No poor old Jobson has failed. Too bad! He promised me something yesterday, just now in his trouble I won't hold him to it." "That's very generous of you. What was it?" "His daughter's hand in marriage." — Chicago News. WORK OF SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL Kansas Institution Training Young Lives For Service. NAS MANY UNIQUE FEATURES Purpose, of Board of Education More Than Realized in Efficient Group of Instructors Headed by Professor J. M. Marquese — Wireless Telegraphy and Music Given Special Attention. Kansas City, Kan.—One of the best high schools in the country for the training of the boys and girls of the race is the Summer high school, located in this city. This splendid institution is attended by 247 boys and girls, who are preparing for usefulness in life. It has been the aim of the school board, headed by the superintendent, to secure the best trained men and women as instructors. At the head of the school is one of the leading educators of the country, Professor J. M. Marquese, a native of Helena, Ark. where he got his foundation at the Helena normal school, and from there to Fisk university, where he graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1902; thence to Dartmouth college, where he pursued a higher course. From the schoolpup the young man was then fitted to start life. So right into the schoolroom he wont again, not as a student, but as an instructor. There is always a place for a well prepared man or woman. Professor Marquese' first work was at Shorter college, North Little Rock, the same year he completed his work at Dartmouth. Two years he worked at this school, rendering good service and making his mark as a teacher. A man must get a foothold somewhere, so Professor Marquese did not overlook the little things in life, but each opportunity was used to render service for his people. It was in 100G that he heard the call from Kittrell college and packed up and moved there to continue work, remaining there but two years, when he was extended the call to the Sun- PROFESSOR J. M. MARQUES. ner high school. Feeling that it was an opportunity to do some real work for his people, Professor Marques accepted. Taking hold of the school in 1008, he found 178 pupils and eight teachers. "Advancement" was his motto, and soon there was an increase in pupils and teachers. The school now has 247 pupils and twelve teachers, with the prospect of an increase in the number in 1814 and another building. The Summer high school work has been steadily on the increase from every viewpoint until today it is well equipped, doing work like that of some of the colleges elsewhere. A graduate of this school is accepted by the University of Kansas without examination, also by other schools in Iowa and Nebraska, and it is now in line for such recognition by the University of Chicago. The domestic science department is second to none, and in connection with it is a lunch room seating 120. One of the best teachers in domestic science in the country has full charge, and the girls are rendering good service. Professor Marquess has reorganized the departments of English and physical sciences, bringing about better results, and the department of manual training has been enlarged. One of the features emphasized is the department of music, vocal and instrumental. It is an entertainment at any time to hear the children sing. There are some fine voices in the school. It is the only school in the country for the training of the race with a wireless station, and this is taught the young people, thereby preparing them for a new field. 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George Edmund Haynes discusses most ally in his study in economic progress. "The Negro at Work in New York City," published in the Columbia university "Studies in History, Economics and Public Law." Dr. Haynes is the director of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. New York, and professor of social science in FliK university, Nashville, Tenn. In his studies dealing with Afro-American wage earners in New York city he collected a valuable set of facts relating to the Afro-American population, the general condition of wage earners, among them occupations, wages and efficiency of breadwinners. Dr. Haynes in his search for the truth tried to link his enthusiasm of reform with reliability of knowledge. With clearness and rare skill Dr. Haynes shows that members of the race have moved into the cities for very much the same reason that white people during the past two or three decades have left the will and gone into the commercial and industrial centers. Indeed, the Afro-American, bearing the call of higher wages, has left his home in the country to face most trying conditions in the city. On account of insultary conditions which prevail in the city settlements the death rate of the city Negro has been unusually high. Then, too, city Afro-Americans, through no fault of their own, have been compelled, through economic pressure, to live in neighborhoods into which rice has been allowed to come without much municipal interference. The bad effects of this situation, especially among growing boys and girls, cannot be adequately measured. "A large number of Afro-Americans are employed in occupations of domestic and personal service," says Dr. Haynes. "This is partly the result of a prejudice on the part of many white workmen and employers, compiled with the inefficiency of Negro wage earners for competition in occupations requiring a higher order of training and skill." Dr. Haynes has made a real contribution to current literature dealing with the mce problem. He has employed a sound method of securing a variety of facts on a limited topic. His conclusions are most same and suggestive. WHY AFRO-AMERICANS ARE LEAVING THE SOUTHLAND Economic Conditions and Presence of Certain Perils Principal Causes. In an article recently published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger Mr. Henry W. Wilbur gives the following as some of the reasons why the colored people are leaving the rural districts of the south in such large numbers. Mr. Wilbur says: Whatever may be thought about some of the special pleading at the Lenten meeting in Holy Trinity church the other day the opinion expressed that the Negroes should remain in the south and mally on the soil is sound. But the matter needs some explanation and will have to be more carefully studied than it has been before the point of real elucidation is reached. At the present time there is an exodus of Negroes from the rural districts along two lines of outlet-first, from the agricultural districts of Dixie to the southern cities, and, second, from corresponding sections to the already congested commercial centers in the north. The natural question is, Why should there be any exodus at all? It must be remembered, however, that the Negro emigrates in obedience to the same motives which took the Israelites out of Egypt and brought the Portians and Quakers to America. That motive was and is a very living desire for an improved condition. It may be taken for granted that this exodus cannot be stopped by mere preachments. The Negro will not be kept on the soil unless the causes which lead to his leaving are removed. In the absence of proper economic inducements and in the presence of certain perils and persecutions the most energetic Negro will leave many of the agricultural regions of the south on the first opportunity. The whole case is not covered when we talk about educating the Negro. The whites also need educating. In using this word we mean family more than the removal of literacy, but rather the education both practical and so humane that the representatives of both sides think as they are and so their prospective. Hawks and the Vixter in Bookbasket Game. The championship basketball game played twenty between Howard university and the Monticello Athletics of Iittalburgh at Manhattan casino, in New York, was an interesting contest. The Monticello started in by making a foul goal, but Howard, came quickly to the front and held the lead throughout the game. The first half of the contest resulted in the score of 11 to 5 in Howard's favor. At the end of the hostilities the score was: Howard, 33; Monticello, 17. Relton Henry, who saw the game, says that Howard's star player shot forth with a collective radiance and perched on a peg at the head of the championship faternity. 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He never took any special interest in athletics or sports of any kind and was quite content to be left alone. His one thought was aeronautics. When he was eighteen his father died, causing him to shift for himself. But Cliff, however, was an expert machinist for his age and soon landed a job in a garage. The garage had formerly been a livery stable, but the advance of time had converted it into a fair sized machine shop. Mack, the boss, took a great interest in Cliff because of his expert workmanship, his honesty, and his cheerful disposition. One night he said, "Well, Cliff, what do you say to coming around for supper tonight?" It was with beating heart that Cliff dressed in his attic room that night. Five minutes to 7 found him at Mack's house. He hesitated before AIRPLANE singing the bell, and when he found attention to do so Mack's daughter Martha opened the door for him. Wha how do you do, Mr. Brown. Papa told us you were coming, and I am so glad. May I take your hat?" Cliff redened. He had never been called "mister" before. After dinner Mack took the boy into his study, and after they were seated he said: "Cliff, I am interested in you and would like to see you make good. Tell me, my boy, what is it you are always thinking about?" Gradually Cliff disclosed his hopes and ambitions and also mentioned the fact that he needed financial backing to carry out his ideas. Mack, being a mechanical engineer, saw the boy's possibilities and offered to back him in making his first machine. Next morning Cliff brought around drawings and estimates of his proposed machine, a monoplane of new design that had many new improvements, and they went over them together. Mack suggesting alight changes occasionally. Winter changed into spring, turning the fields to green and the sky to blue. The aeroplane was nearly finished, and when one fine day the powerful motor arrived and was installed Cliff announced he would "try it out" next day. Cliff and Mack stood looking at the finished machine, their eyes noting the graceful lines of the wings and body. The boy's face was radiant with hope, the older man's with pride. "Well done, well done," he murmured. Morning dawned. The day was ideal. Already people were flocking to the field back of the shop in hope of seeing "Brown's folly" and having a chance to jeer at its expected failure. Nine o'clock found Cliff still working on his new machine, "tuning it up." The crowd was getting restless. Then the big doors were swung open, and the great white bird was wheeled out. The crowd forgot to jeer. All eyes were glued to the graceful body. Marion, standing by her father, blushed as she read her name on the bow. "Cliff was nice," she told herself. Willing hands held the machine from behind, while Mack "spun" the propeller. The engine started with a terrific noise and struggled to be free. Cliff raised his hand. The men released their hold. The crowd jumped back in alarm, for the machine had shot ahead with lightning speed and had gracefully taken the air. The crowd was mad. Hats were thrown into the air, and people were shouting and clapping each other on the back. Cries of "She's off; she's off!" filled the air. Swiftly the machine faded into a little speck, and then it disappeared over a high mountain in the distance. The rangers in the mountains saw and wondered, but Cliff, with muscles tense and gripping the wheel like iron, sededward. The motor purred softly. His heart was light, and for a good reason. He had won. Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business & Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Handbills, Placards. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. 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When a man is his own worst enemy he is usually willing to forgive and forget—I puck. Mount Athos. There are 7,000 inhabitants of the sacred mount of Athos in Greece, but no women. Two Rules. To win success your first rule should be, "Get busy," and your second, "Keep busy!"—Somerville Journal. --- DEAD IN OHIO LESS THAN 500 Fatalities in Dayton Not More Than 150. CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW Forty Thousand Persons Must Be Fed and Sheltered For a Week and 20,000 For a Longer Period. Investigations tended to confirm the estimates of fewer than 500 deaths in the goods that swept over a score of cities in Ohio and Indiana last week. As the waters receded from Dayton, Columbus and other places, leaving a thick conting of mud, alarm was caused by a rapid rise of the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers, inundating parts of cities along their banks. There is not much danger of loss of life in these places, however, as the inhabitants have bills to flee to and are used to floods. Revised reports indicate that the number of drowned in Dayton may not exceed 10, although there are those who say the number will be much greater. The death list at Piquan, Ohio, fell off from the estimate of fifty to twelve known dead Conditions In Dayton. With the water in the flooded rivers rapidly falling to their normal stage, Dayton, Ohio, has a tremendous task on hand. The officials say the death list will not reach 500, while those in charge of the morbous estimate the dead at 250. Other equally familiar with the situation, especially those active in the rescue work and the search for bodies, insist that the number of dead will not exceed 150. Here is the problem presented to Dayton, as summarized by George P. Burha, secretary to Governor Cox, and representing the latter in Dayton: Forty thousand persons must be fed, clothed and housed for a weak more. Twenty thousand persons must be cared for indefinitely. These are persons who lost their all when their household goods were swept away. They must be provided with a few necessary household articles, such as bedding, pots and pans, stoves and a few dollars. A half million dollars could be used in this way by the relief committee. Fifteen thousand houses and other structures, or what remains of them, must be pulled down. Thousands of tons of debris must be removed. Following are some of the accomplishments since the flood broke over Dayton: The water works pumping station is in operation, but the distribution of water is greatly refarded by open pipes in wrecked houses. The pressure is feeble, but growing stronger as leaks are checked. The main sanitary sewer is in operation, although many of the laterals leading from houses are clogged with mud and backed up water. By order of Governor Cox the reign of martial law over Dayton was extended to take in the whole county. The flood did more than sweep away property, for it swept away the city administration, temporarily at least, and brought in what amounts to a commission form of government. Hundreds of persons still looking for relatives, passed along the lines at the morgues, fearing they should find their loved ones there. Only a few bodies have not been identified. Emerging From Flood. As in other Ohio cities conditions in Columbus as a result of the Scioto river floods have been greatly exaggerated. The death list will run from 75 to 100 in all probability. The property loss will exceed $1,000,000. The water has reached to a point where nearly all the inhabitants of the hundred sections, whose homes were not completely destroyed, may return to them. The district affected embraces a large extent of territory to the west, and southwest of the state house, where mostly working people live. Hundreds of homes were swept from their foundations and some were carried down the river. The floods will require the rebuilding of thousands of other houses. The diner residences and business sections escaped damage. Thousands of people were taken from perilous positions and hundreds of herole rescue are reported. Sixty-five Dead In Indiana. Sixty-five lovers are known as lost in the Indiana floods, which have almost disappeared in the central portion of the state, but still threaten Evansville and the smaller cities along the Ohio river. Verified reports show that fifty six persons were drowned and four are known to have died from exposure. Flood devastated Indiana cities reported, authentically, wealth lattes as follows: Peru, 20, Brookville, 16; Fort Wayne, 6; Terre Haute, 4; Washington, 4; Frankfort, 2; Logansport, 1; Live Wire Story From a Live Wire Play Hawthorne of the U. S. A. Novelized by Albert Payson Terhune From the Great Play of the Same Name by James Bernard Fagan Every one should read how a young American saves a tottering European kingdom and wins the hand of a princess. Rushville, 1; Muncle, 1; West Indianapolis, 5; Lafayette, 1; New Castle 1; East Mount Carmel, 1; Shelburn, 1; Peru and Brookville death lists are those of drownings, but two deaths at Terre Haute, one at Fort Wayne and the only verified fatality in West Indianapolis followed exposure suffered by the refugees. Undoubtedly the list will be more or less extensively augmented during the next few days, indications being that the river channels still buried by high waters hold some bodies. Thus far there are fifteen known dead from the flood in Chillicothe, O. The waters have receded, but the afflicted districts are badly in need of relief in the form of food and clothing. The looting problem is one of difficulty for the authorities. Notwithstanding their efforts much looting was reported. The town of Richmond, having a population of 250 inhabitants, was literally wiped from the map. Jesse Brandon, who was plowing in a field, was swept away and rrowned. Ten other lives weer lost in the village and vicinity. Near Omega, a few miles south of Chillicothe, Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield and seven children weer drowned when their home, barn and all their other buildings were swept down before the rapidly rising waters. Piqua Slowly Recovering. Pliqua, O. is slowly recovering from the flood, said to have cost fifty lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars' property damage. West of Main street the town is again normal, but East Pliqua, a residence district around which the Miami river curves, and over which the flood waters surged, is a tangle of demolished houses. Wilson to Visit Panama. It became known in Washington that President Wilson has made up his mind to take a trip to Panama immediately after the close of the special session of congress. President Wilson has hopes that the extra session will be ready to put up its shutter by Aug. 1. Horse Polisher Sentenced. Joseph Toblinsky, head of the East Side gang of horse polisers, or the "Yiddische Cammora," in New York, a sit is sometimes called, was sentenced to the full ten years in Sing Sing by Judge O'Sullivan in general sessions. HOTEL DALE CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative. In construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE, Owner $100 00 Endowment Paid. Petersburg, Va., March 12, 1913 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Galanthe ($100,00) One Hundred Dollars in payment of the death- cause of Sister Martha Branch, who was a member of Arneta's Court, No. 72 of Petersburg, Va. Signed—James Branch, Beneficiary. Witnesses: M. H. Fitzgerald, R. of D. Adalade Wilson, W. I. Victoria L. Holloway, Deputy. $150.00 Endowment Paid. Newport News, Va.. March 27, 13 This is to certify that I have received from John Mitchell, Jr. Grand Worthy Counselor of the Grand Court of Virginia, Order of Calanthe ($150.00) One Hundred and Fifty Dollars in payment of the death claim of Sister Charlotte Yearby, who was a member of Pride of the East Court, No. 56 of Newport News, Va. Signed—Nannie Carter, Beneficiary. Witnesses: Julia Pugh Haywood, R: of D. Mattie B. Creath, P. W. C. Lillie D. Byrd, D. D. G. W. C. .. Services Wanted. An investigating agency in New York City, desires the service of tactful Colored Men and Women in each community. Write in plain envelopes stating your age and qualifications. Where employed now or in the past. If we are favorably impressed with your letter we will communicate with you, if not it will be destroyed. INVESTIGATING DEPARTMENT, Room 7, 166 Lawrence St., Brooklyn N. Y. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 1, 1913. To the Brotherhood of the Virginia Baptist State Convention— Dear Co-workers: There remaineth yet three months in which to make preparation for the Forty-sixth Annual Session of our Great Convention which is to meet in the historic city of Hampton, with the Queen St. Baptist Church, Dr. Thomas H. Short pastor, Wednesday after the second Lord's day in May, and it is hoped that we will be able to report the greatest year's work of our history but in order to do this it is necessary that we begin now an aggressive campaign, arousing the people and interesting them for the work of our Convention, is a work for the people by the people. First of all I thank the Blessed Lord for my present condition. I have passed through a terrible ordeal. He brought me, as it were to death's door, but I waited patiently and he has delivered me from the grave. Physically I feel practically well. My greatest trouble now is from nervousness and this I think is well under control. The Star of Hope still hangs before me and I feel that the Lord will spare me to do further service for his Kingdom. The many letters of sympathy that I received from the brethren during my illness and the interest manifested were a source of much consolation and I assure you all, that they were greatly appreciated. CHANGES. I notice that several of our brethren have changed fields during this conventional year and I regret that some of them have left the State, but this need not work any ill to our Convention nor the principle for which it stands for we realize that neither membership nor interest in our Convention is limited to Virginia but we look with pride, to our brothers, both North and South who delight in the work that was so dear to our Fathers. Two special features claim our attention this year, viz., Foreign Mission and Education, Dr. L. G. Jordan, Foreign Mission Secretary, is continually making appeals for fund to further prosecute the foreign mission work. Let thoro be no falling off in interest. Our brothers and sisters across the waters are groping in darkness, ignorance and sin hungering and thirsting for the word of life. Let's not forget them. Our Foreign Mission Board has moved its headquarters from Louisville, Ky. to Philadelphia, Pa. and this should not only serve as a convenience to us but as an incentive to greater effort. EDUCATION. Our school at Lynchburg is in splendid condition. Dr. Wood is indeed bringing things to pass. Its greatest need is more money not to bring the school up, but to keep it abreast with the times. Dr. Wood has injected in the work the progressive idea and this must be lived up to by the use of modern conveniences and improvements throughout the buildings and grounds. I appeal, therefore, to the constituency of the Convention. Let's march on to Hampton prepared to meet the situation for we are well able. I write unto you fathers because you have known from the beginning. I write unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abldoth in you, not only so, but providentially the Lord has so distributed you that you have become the special representatives of the State. Drake and others at Harrisonburg, Hubbard at Bedford City, Wynn at Crew, Austin at Staunton, Boll at Lynchburg, Jones at Newport News, Moses at Danville, Brown at Petersburg and others at Roanoke, Char lotterville and in the best city and country churches in the state and our big hearted Graham and Hall with their associates in the North will play their part as they have always done. Let the entire brotherhood rally to the flag. The Battle Cry is Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000). Every individual who gives as much as one dollar will have their name appear in our minutes. Trusting that I shall see you all at Hampton I am as ever. All representatives to the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pyllas which will meet in Newport News, Va. in June, 1913, will please communicate with District Deputy Grand Cancellor C. G. Davis, 617-27 st. St., Newport News Va. or W. F. Clarkson, 753 Hampton Avenue, Newport News, Va., Chairman of Home Committee. Do You Know Them? Denver, Colo., Jan. 24, 1913. To Whom It May Concern, or the Pastor of the Church: Dear Sir: I am trying to locate a Mrs. Vicky Powell or some of her children. I wish to inform them about her son, Daniel Laurence Powell. If you can find any relatives of Daniel L. Powell in Richmond, Va. please let them communicate with me immediately. I know his relatives live in Richmond but I don't know their addresses. I wish to inform them of something important. I am respectfully yours. DANIEL L. LAYTON. 3528 West 6th Ave.. Denver, Colo. Society Minstrels HIPPODROME, 2ND AND LEICH 3-NIGHTS-3 THURS. FRI. SAT. April 17th, 18th, 19th. Admission: 25, 50, 75ct. Box Seats, $1.00 SEAT SALE, MONDAY, 14TH. BOX OFFICE, DIXIE THEATRE. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of March, 1913. Fannie Tabb.....Plantiff. vs. In Chancery Thomas Tabb.....Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Thomas Tabb, is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that the said defendant Thomas Tabb, appear here within fifteen 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 J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. To Thomas Tabb: You'll take notice that I shall on the 28th day of April, 1913, at the office of Phil B. Sheld, 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. M. of that day proceed to take the depositions of witnesses to be read as evidence in my behalf in a certain suit in Chancery depending in the Law and Equity Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, wherein you are defendant and I am plaintiff, and if, from any cause the taking of the said depositions be not commenced on that day, or if, commenced be not concluded on that day the taking of the same will be adjourned and continued from ady to day or from time to time, at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. Office: 1215 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. Do You Know Them? I desire to know the whereabouts of Beattie Giles, the mother of Susan Green. She lived in Potersburg; Va. She belonged to Billy Moody. Her husband's name was Henry Giles. She had four other children. Their names were Joshua, Rachel Jane and Martha. Any information will be thankfully received. R. D. DAVENPORT, Newberry P. O., S. U., R. F. D. 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