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PLANET A VOICE FROM FAR AFRICA. VOLUME XXX, NO. 26 Editor Peregrine server of A Cape Town, Africa.--It is so long ago since I had the pleasure of addressing the thousands of the readers of the dear old PLANET and so much water has, in the intervening period, flowed under London Bridge, or in other words, so much has been added "to the galley of nations" or inversely to the cursedness of mankind when dealing with the other fellow especially when that other fellow fails to measure up to the regulation color, as to the hue of his physiognomy that it is really difficult, in the multitude of subjects clamoring for the attention of a people to select a theme. A PERSONAL REFERENCE. Therefore I pause at the threshold to wish a long deferred, but I hope none the less welcome Happy New Year to the readers of The PLANET and to my dear old friend and defiantigible John, who has lo! these many years, through good and ill reports, amid the envious machinations of the jealous, the fierce fire of opposition and hatred, fanned by race rancor and despite the assaults of the enemy, within; and the Region within has stood boldly at the holm, and who has so gloriously demonstrated to a wondering world, that the Negro is not only a mouth worker, (though we have heaps of 'em) nor only the wielder of a facile pen as a chronicleer of insipid "small beer" but that he is also a real door of things, from projecting a newspaper scheme in a modest way, covering through all the sea. ALL HAS BEEN PROVEN. Is paraparable from such a venture, considing the source, the times and the surroundings until it has today attained such proportions as to challenge comparison with the best. I say it has been proven that as a door all this can be achieved and to finally crown with the successful establishment, encountering all difficulties and rising up to the rigid requirements of the law and meeting all the conditions of a Bank. Brother Mitchell, let no man grow green with envy when I say, "Some have done excellently, but you have exceeded all." THAT JARRING NOTE. And yet amid all these achievements and other victories I note a carring note, a missing link, something left undone which should have been done and here is an indispensable desideratum. Report says Thou still dwell in the uncongenial depths of bachelorhood. Thou art not married What! And with all the wealth of attractive and lovable femininity with which the Old State is peculiarly blest, and which surround thee? Surely, the fastidicity of a Chesterfield may here stand appalled, and be constrained to cry, "Captive, come up to the heights man!" But perhaps in the midst of such wealth, it is difficult to select for fear of offending others. And Christianity and due regard to decency forbid and taboo-polygamous contractions! Well, select one and be happy. AFTER COLORED DEMOCRATS. I notice in THE PLANET of March 15th now before me your interesting article, "The Charge of the Light Brigade." I notice that the colored man is right to the front of the pie-counter. This is as it should be under a system, whereof the shib-boleth is, "To the victor belongs the spoils." Under our "superior British system, we are too politically holy for that sort of thing. There are no victors that is among the plebs, so, courage no spoil comes to them. The voter possesses no rights that the blue-bloods need respect. Theirs but to vote and work. CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. The junior sons of the favored few for there are reserved the political jobs and if there be one who displays unusual capacity in the direction of being 'unfit or who perhaps entertains somewhat hazy actions as to 'meum at tuum' such a one is, packed off to the col- REFERS TO BISHOP WALTERS. This action upon the part of Secretary of State Bryan occasioned great surprise when it became known here to-day. The reason for the surprise lay in the fact that while Mr. Bryan was in California John Bassett Moore, counsellor and then acting Secretary, declined to interfere when appealed to by Guatemala. He adhered to the decision of the last Administration, which was that it was not the part of friendship to either party for the United States to prevent Great Britain from obtaining her just ones or to encourage Guatemala in continued defaults on her obligations by interceding against it. onies to boss the blacks. Poor colonies! Poor Africa! And so we have the spawn and the residuum of a bad system quartered on Africa West, South or East, eating up the land to the undoing of the original owner, an incompatible disregard of the injunction contained in the Eighth Commandment. NOT THE MANUAL OF THE CROWD. But then the Bible is not the manual of this crowd. It is only designed as being the means for the enforcement by the hands of the missionary of due obedience on the part of the blacks, and to teach them "to be subject unto the higher powers which are ordained of God." But, I notice in the report of The PLANET AND in those of others of my exchanges that Bishop Walters of the A. M. E. Zion Church is the distributor of the political loves and fishes to the hungry democratic claimants for pie. Somehow, there has always been associated in my mind the Church with higher and nobler things and the bishopric with a soul of reverential dignity and respect and the occupant of that office should be placed beyond and above contact with the vulgar, scrambling, screaming and the oft almost indocean clamor, which is inseparable from such association. I would amplify the ceremony of the consolation of Bishops. And the Bishop shall be a man of no particular political party, but the calm, dignified and sedate father and counselor of all his people admitting him who goes astray, supporting and cheering the weak and helpless and bestowing his heredication on all such as strive into the right path. Such is my conception of the prelatal character and attributes. F. Z. S. PEREGRINO. Capetown, Africa. April 15, 1913 Louis H. Peck Pardoned at Last. All honor to Gov. James M. Cox. He has pardoned an innocent man—Louis H. Peck—who has served 12 long years of a life sentence (at hard labor) for a "crime" that was never committed at all. It was the vicious, false charge of criminal assault on a little six year old white girl that caused the Akron riot of 1903, during which two people were killed and the city hall burned. Immediately following the vicious and false charge of assault large mobs formed in Akron streets. Officials became frightened and, when Peck was arrested he was rushed to Cleveland for safe keeping. Believing him to be in the city prison, the mob broke into a saloon secured two barrels of brandy, poured the contents on the floor of the city hall building, in which the prison was located, and set fire to it. During the riot two children were killed and 18 people shot. The militia was called out. A week later Peck was taken back to Akron from Cleveland on a special train. The train was stopped behind the fail and Peck was taken, in the back entrance. He was arraigned, scared into pleading guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary—all in two minutes—was rushed back to the train and was on the way to the penitentiary in Columbus—all within eight minutes. Former Warden Jones and the members of the state board of administration are of the opinion that Peck is innocent and, because of the fact that he was given little opportunity to establish his innocence, they urged that he be set free. Peck was "rabbithood" to the penitentiary. He was coerced into pleading guilty and accepting a life sentence, while the mob was clamoring outside the court room for his life. During the past few years Peck has acted as valet for the warden of the penitentiary, and practically has had his liberty as a trusty. The one thing that moved Gov. Cox to pardon Peck was a letter written by Dr. Fouzer of Akron, coroner at the time of the alleged assault. Dr. Fouzer examined the little girl and swears, as he has for twelve long years, that there were absolutely no RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913. evidences of an assault by Peck or any one else. The child was not harmed. Lead by Dr. Starr (white), exchplain of the Ohio penitentiary and now connected with the Y. M. C. A. at Columbus, a number of us in Cleveland, Akron and Columbus have for years labored, almost unceasingly, for the liberation of this innocent and long suffering man whose imprisonment is an outrage and blot upon the escortbeam of the great state of Ohio. Considerable praise for this final result should go to the vegetable Judge Kohler of Akron, who years ago built, the foundation on which the final successful effort to secure Peck's release, was made. All hon or to Gov. Cox, and praise for Dr. Starr, Judge Kohler, Ex-Warden Jones and all who in any way, during the past twelve years, contributed toward the long-standing and finally successful effort to regain for Louis H. Peck his liberty—Cleveland, O. Gazette MR. PHILLIPS WINS HIS CASE. Ten Million Dollars Involved—British Warship Enforces Collection Hon John Phillips, the representative of British capitalists in London and representative and patron of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation of Richmond, Va., after two year's effort has at last succeeded in having Guatemala, the Central American republic settle the ten million dollar claim of his British clients. The following extract in this connection will be of interest: Washington, May 14.—With a British cruiser approaching its shores with only twenty-four hours left in which to comply with the British demands for a settlement on their twenty-year-old debt, the Guatemalan Government yielded to-day and contracted to give the British all that they were asking. News of the capitulation by the Guatemalan Government on the eve of the expiration of the time-limit set in the British ultimatum was received here to-day. The Guatemalan Government has agreed to apply to the interest on the bonds of its $10,000,000 debt to British subjects the major part of the proceeds of the export tax on coffee. This tax is one dollar and a half per quintal and it is agreed that $1 of the tax on each quintal of coffee shall be applied to the service of the British bonds. When the loan upon which this debt is based was reorganized in 1895 the Guatemalans performed to pay the interest with the coffee tax funds. They did so for three years, but since 1895 have not paid a cent on interest or principal. Almost simultaneously with the receipt of news that Guatemala had yielded to the British demands came the announcement that Secretary Bryan on Monday had yielded to the request of the Guatemalan Government to use his good offices and had asked Great Britain for an extension of time. On the same day that this request was made the British Government ordered the cruiser 'Avoulut' from Jamaica to Guatemala to enforce its demands if settlements were not provided for by tomorrow, and likewise on Monday the British Minister at Guatemala city served a new notice upon the Guatemalan Government. A CRITIC And His Criticisms. To the Editor of The PLANET: Criticism or fault-finding is not very pleasant, therefore I do not wish to appear in the light of a article in what I have to say in this article, as what I seek to do, is to call the attention of the public school authorities of Richmond to a few things in connection with the colored schools and with which the colored citizens of Richmond are satisfied. In the main, the colored people of Richmond are a contented people; they believe but little inagination and believing that the majority of the whites of Richmond are their friends, they had rather prune the even tenor of their way than articulate, trusting, that in the end things which they desire and for which they hope and pray may come their way. Last year, along to the Commencement, in an article to one of our weekly papers, I took occasion to speak of conditions that prevailed at our Colored High and Normal School. To this article the principal of the school replied comparing the then course of study with what it was seven years ago, but the reply did not touch upon the complaint which I made. I am venturing to touch the subject again through your widely circulated and widely read journal, with the hope that my complaint may reach the eye or catch the ear of Richmond's public school officials. Last year the colored people of Richmond were assessed and paid taxes on about three and a half million dollars worth of real and personal property, notwithstanding the fact that they have learned like some other people the art of tax dodging by undertaking their personal property and the income. In addition to these taxes, by our labor we created a material percentage of the wealth union which all other taxes were levied and from which public revenue were drawn, then we have a perfect right to expect and to ask for a fair share of the benefits to be derived through the public free school of this city. It is an admitted fact that the man who bears most of the heavy burdens of taxation : the man who has no property; for every one knows that the man who pays the property is the one who pays the taxes as well as the rent and the cost of wear and tear. This taken in consideration with what the colored people pay in taxes directly should entitle them to better school facilities than what they have. I shall not speak in this article of the failure of our school authorities to provide a single kindergarten for the colored children of the city, thus making it impossible for them to enter the schools until they are seven years of age. Nor shall I speak of the overcrowded condition of the primary and grammar grades which necessitate the doubling up of many of them and the crowding into three and a half hours the work that calls for six hours of instruction. Nor shall I complain that, other than to take the place of old and condemned fire-traps which were com pelled to be razed, there has not been erected a new school building in Richmond for colored children since Moore School was built more than a quarter of a century ago, notwithstanding our growth in population. Nor shall I speak of Sidney, with its thousands of colored children, which have no school building save the old wooden shanty which the city took in from the county several years ago by annexation, and, which at the most can accommodate but two hundred and fifty pupils with its double grades. Nor shall I speak of the giving over to the use of the colored children old Leigh Street School (white) after a little remodelling for the High and Normal School after it had been declared unfit for school purposes. Nor shall I speak, of the injustices which was done the Colored High and Normal School years ago when the apparatus which the students had from time to time purchased with funds they had raised by giving concerts, etc. was taken from the laboratory and carried to the white high school, where it has since remained. What I wish to speak about is our High and Normal School and the purposes it should serve. The pre- ent. I believe, is a most opportune time for an expression on this subject. The City School Board has but recently been reorganized, officers relected and committees appointed. The present superintendent has been reappointed for another four years, thus assuring us that the schools will be practically under the same management another session as has been the case for the past four years. In the early weeks of the present session Superintendent Chandler, in a report to the City School Board said the enrollment in the Colored High and Normal School was 206, of which number 61 were boys. This enrollment was 32 less than the enrollment at the same period the previous session. He further stated that "to give the pupils in this school the best possible advantages;" that is, "an education that will fit them to earn a living," courses in cooking, sowing and general housework had been introduced for the girls. The boys were also to be taught cooking, and in place of sewing and housework, were to be given a course in carpentry. "Statistics," he said, "showed that about two-thirds of the boys who graduate become changers." It was therefore his intention to introduce a course in practical mechanics—special courses to be given to the operation of the various types of the gasoline engine. Teaching our girls domestic schools is all right, and to the which no parent or guardian objects, for it is what our girls are taught at home from Monday morning till Saturday night, with a little thrown in before Sunday School Sunday morning. When Dr. Chandler puts into operation the teaching of practical mechanics, that too, will be all right and will be welcomed. But there are many of us who question the correctness of the "statistics" that show that two-thirds of the boys who graduate from this school become chauffeurs. Diligent inquiry by the writer has failed to find a SINGLE graduate in Richmond who is a chauffeur. "The best possible advantages—an education that will fit them to earn a living"—is it possible that our superintendent, the members of the City School Board and the principal of the Colored High and Normal School have not known or heard that here in Richmond the colored people own and operate two saving banks whose total resources were $350,193. 75 as made under oath to the State Corporation Commission at the close of business September 4, 1912, a few weeks before Superintendent Chandler made the report, referred to above, to the City School Board. That the presidents, cashiers, assistant cashiers, tellers, book-keepers and clerks of these banks are graduates of this very school and that to secure the necessary business training to do them for their duties they had to have private instruction in business and commercial courses, for the reason that these courses are not taught in the Colored High School? Do not these gentlemen know that there are insurance companies in Richmond owned and operated by colored men; eight large fraternal organizations, national scope, with headquarters in Richmond and which employ more than three hundred clerks, many of whom are non-residents, brought here to do the work which our boys and girls could do but for the very fact that our High and Normal School does not give the business and commercial training to its pupils "that will fit them to earn a living." Then, again, there are scores of colored persons, business and professional in Richmond who need the services of competent stenographers, typists, book-keepers, etc. who are compelled to put us with interior service because the Colored High and Normal School cannot supply their needs and never will be able as long as the course of study remains what it is today. To the inability to secure competent clerks and accountants, I believe in a large measure, was due the partial collapse of the great True Reformer organization, at one time the strongest colored fraternal-financial organization in the world. Had commercial and business courses been included in the curriculum of the Colored High and Normal School, the probabilities are that the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain would not have failed, nor the life of the entire organization nearly destroyed. The mismanagement of this great organization was due greatly to a lack of the knowledge of business affairs necessary in the conduct of such an organization and ignorance of the banking and insurance laws of the State; and several of the high officials of this institution and scores of its clerks were the products of the Colored High and Normal School. We have been told by the principal of this school if the colored people of Richmond feel that they need business and commercial courses taught in this school and petition for VIRGINIA Baptist State Convention. Four Thousand Dollars Raised Every Body Happy Rev. Dr. Bowling Again President. Wednesday, May 14th, 1913, at 8 A.M. in the absence of President R. H. Bowling, who is ill in his home at Norfolk, Va., Rev. W. T. Hall, D. D. First Vice President, opened the forty-sixth annual session of this pioneer body of Baptists with as much ease and grace as would have a bishop who had presided for a quarter of a Century. The whole-one addresses of welcome from the Mayor and other dignitaries of Hampton were responded to by Rev. Dr. Walter H. Brooks of Washington, D. C. who in his characteristic eloquence told the people of Hampton the mission of the Convention there. The session was the most harmonious in the conventional history. The annual sermon was preached by Rev. A. A. Spencer of Virginia; Doctrinal sermon by Dr. A. R. Robinson of Philadelphia; Missionary sermon by Dr. G. H. Simms of New York. Eliminating a long comment, we will say, for gospel truths logical sequences of thought and spiritual eloquence, the sermons rose from the speeches to the genius. Many strong and eloquent speeches were delivered by the brethren in advocacy of the principles for which the Convention stands and in fostering the work entrusted to their hands. In the election of officers, Rev. Dr. Hall, who had despatched business with such regularity and parliamentary precision as to keep up to the minute, with the logical order of the program, declined recollection as he is now pastoring outside of the State and Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D., was elected First Vice-President with official power to act as President during the inauguration of President Bowling. At the close of the Convention Sunday night, Dr. T. H. Shorts, Chairman of the committee on finance announced that four thousand dollars in cash had been collected at this session. This closed one of the grandest sessions held in the history of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. The three hundred and one delegates adjoined to meet in the First Baptist Church, Roanoke Va., Rev Dr. W. R. Brown pastor, on the second Wednesday in May, 1914. A. A. GALVIN, D. D., Acting President. THOMAS H. WHITE. Philadelphia, Pa., May 19, 1914. 1631 Christian Street Editor Richmond PLANET: I am sure you will rejoice with us when I tell you that the annual session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention just closed of Hampton was one of the best I have attended during the last thirty years. The attendance was large, the order was superb, the Christian spirit was inspiring, the interest was deep and profound. Never did a more determined set of consecrated men and women assemble to do the work of their Lord and Master. We are more determined than ever to carry out the principles enunciated at Lexington in 1899. We know we are right and God is with the right. At this last sitting we took in some fifteen new churches; we raised up to Saturday morning $2840. I am sure it ran up to $4000 by Sunday night. Next year we go to Roanoke. Some of the old war horses were with us and by their speeches moved that great body on to new conquests. Such men as Drs. Walter H. Brooks, J. Anderson Taxlor, W. Bishop John son and many others told the younger set to be faithful unto death. We made no mistake in placing that young giant, R. C. Woods at the head of Virginia Seminary. Under his wise leadership backed by an able faculty the school is bound to succeed. Dr. Byrard Tyrrell is at the head of the theological department, and that in great part, accounts for the large attendance of so many young preachers. Like good old Dr. G. M. P. King of Wayland Seminary fame, whenever Dr. Tyrrell polishes up a young man that man is bound to succeed. The Richmond PLANET came in for its share of the glory for helping to make the Conventional year one of great success. A special vote of thanks was tendered its distinguished Editor. I am proud to say that The Holy Trinity Baptist Church of which I am pastor, closed its rally yesterday with $1295 given by our good people. We have now added 700 new members to the church in 18 months. Navy Hill Lodge Holds Big Initiation On Friday night, May 16th, 24 candidates were initiated into the mysteries of Pythianism via Navy Hall Lodge, No. 131, Knight's pl. Pythias. The initiation was in charge of District Deputy Robert Gray. Among those who assisted were Col. R. C. Mitchell, Col. W. Henry, Jones, Maj. W. F. Woover, Capt. W. H. Willis, Sirs W. H. Johnson and Willie Williams. After initiation a banquet was served by the following committee: Sirs John J. Penner, Jr. Chair; William Johnson, R. W. Moss, Joshua Perry, Aaron Bolling and J. N. Dunn. Many Lodges were present. Rev. B. P. Caffee, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Salem, Va., called on us. Dr. J. Seth Hills of Jacksonville, Fla., called on us in company with Dr. Hughes. Mr. W. B. Isham has been critically ill at his residence, 809 N. 5th St. He is somewhat improved. Mrs. Berasenia Nash of South Carolina is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Brown of 512 N. Third St. and other relatives. Mrs. Florence Isham Graham, of Phloxburg, Va., and Mr. Charlet Isham of Hampton, Va., who were called to the city on account of the illness of their father, returned home this week. Prof. W. Philip Dabney of Cincinnati was in the city recently. He is now a resident of Cincinnati, but he has all of the musical and artistic fire of other days. Major J. B. Johnson was stricken with paralysis last Wednesday at his home in Chesterfield Co. Va., near Bon Alon. Mr. Robert Johnson was called from New York to the sick bedside of his father. Rev. Archer B. Smith has passed away. His funeral took place last Wednesday from the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church. --- Dearon's Union of Lynchburg and Victoria. The deacon of the Baptist Church is of the city of Lynchburg and viability, meet monthly on the third Sunday in each month in their Union where they discuss live and vital topics which are of far reaching import to their churches, denomination and race. In this Union are many unique characters who go to help make up Lynchburg's splendid citizenship. In their last meeting, which was held at Virginia Theological Seminary and College, they voted to represent in the Virginia Baptist State Convention which met last week in Hampton. They appropriated a good sum of money for our educational work, to be sent through the Convention. This Union meets from church to church in the city and goes also into the Rural Districts. It is a live organization and devised to do much good. The men in it are stirring characters of great worth to their churches and community. In one of their meetings last year, they gave Virginia Theological Seminary and College fifty dollars. Deacon Thomas M. Coles is President; Deacon E. A. Romburant, Secretary; and Deacon Adolphus Humbles, Treasurer. With these good men as officers and a large number of good deacons as members, the organization is sure to live and do good service for Christ and humanity. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythas of Virginia, N. A., S. S., E. A., A. and A. will convone in its annual session. Tuesday, June 17, 1913 at Newport News, Va. and continue in session four days: The Grand Court will meet at the same time. The encampment will be a feature and compassions from Staunton, Lynchburg, Danville, Petersburg, Richmond, Charlotteville, Suffolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk are expected to take part in the grand parade. Wednesday June 18, 1913. An excursion train will leave Richmond Wednesday morning. R. A. M. The fare is only $1.25 for the round trip. HEZEKAH SYNOPSIS Hardy: Wiggins is in love with Cecilia Hollister. Her friend Arnold Ameets meets an elderly lady at the Aslando tea rooms. She is Cecilia's Aunt Cetiava, an eccentric woman of wealth. She invites Amees to Hoppenfield Manor. Amees is fascinated by Francesca, a tea room girl. Amees sees Wiggins meeting Cecilia, re- ceiving at Hoppenfield Manor. Aunt Cetiava hever in the potential influence of No. CHAPTER IV. 1 Fall Into a Brier Patch. I HAD been sitting on a stone wall watching the shadows lengthen I rose now and followed the wait toward a highway along which wagons and an occasional motorcar had passed during my reverie. The sloping posture was rough and frequently sent me along a trot. The wall that marked the boundary at the roadside was hidden by a tangle of raspberry bushes, and my foot, turning on a stone concealed in the willdgrasses, I fell clumsily and rolled a dozen yards into a tangle of the berry bushes. As I picked myself up I board voles in the road, but should have thought nothing of it had I not seen through a break in the vines and at most within reach of my hand Cecilia Hollister talking cornerly to some one not yet disclosed. She was battles but had flung a golf cap over her shoulders. The scarlet lining of the hood turned up about her neck made an effective setting for her noble head. "Oh, I can't tell you. I can't help you! I mustn't even appear to give you any advantage. I went into I with my eyes open, and I, in home bound not to tell you anything. You have said nothing—nothing, remember that. There is absolutely nothing between us." "But I must say everything. I refuse to be blinded by these absurd restrictions, whatever they are. It's no fair. It's inviting me into a game where the cards are not all on the table. I've come to make an end of it." My hands had suffered by contact with the bristles, and I had been ministering to them with my handkerchief; I fell back upon the slope in my astonishment at this colloquy. Cecilia Hollister I had seen plainly enough though the man's back had been, to ward me, but anywhere on earth I should have known Wiggin's voice, protest that it is not my way to become an enveloped volunteer, but to disclose myself how was impossible If it had not been Wrights—but Wiggins would never have understood of forgiveness, nor could I have explained plausibly to Cecilia Hollier that I had not followed her from the house to spy upon her. I should have made the noise of an invading army if I had attempted to effect an exit by creeping out through the window of cries leaves in which I lay, and to turn back and ascend the slope the way I had come would have been to advertise my presence to the figures in the road A "You must go—please!" There seemed nothing for me but to keep still and hope that this discussion between Cecilia Hollister and Hartley Wiggins would not be contended within earshot. To my relief they moved a trifle further on, but I still beard their voices. "I cannot listen to you. Now that I'm committed I cannot honorally countenance you at all, and I can explain nothing. I came here to me you only to tell you this. You must—please! And do not attempt to see me in this way again." I was grateful that Wiggins' voice sank in the inky that I did no Copyright, 1918, by Meredith Nichols Bell it, but I knew that he was pleasing hard. Then a motor flashed by and when the whirl of its passing caused the voices were insultible. Bus a moment later I healed a light, quiet step beyond the wall, and Cecilia pressed hurriedly, her face turned toward the house. The cape was drawn tight by about her shoulders, and she walked with her head bowed. I breathed a sigh of relief, and when I felt safe from detection, climbed the slope. Fausing on the landscape, I saw a man, wearing a denim hat and a light topcoat, leaning against a fence that inclosed a pasture. As I glanced in his direction he moved away hastily toward the road below. The feeling of being watched is not agreeable, and I could not account for him. As he passed out of sight still another man appeared, emerging from a strip of woodland farther on. Even through the evening haze I should have said that he was a gentleman. The two men apparently右 no relation to each other, though they were walking in the same direction, bound, I judged, for the highway below. I had an uncomfortable feeling that they had both been observing me, though for what purpose I could not imagine. Then once more, just as I was about to enter the Italian garden from a fallfield that hung slightly above it, a third man appeared as mysteriously, as though he had spring from the ground, and ran at a sharp dog trail along the fence, headed, like the others, for the road. In the third instance the stranger undoubtedly took pain to hide his face, but he, too, was well dressed and wore a topcoat and a fez dotted at current style. I did not know why these gentlemen were ranging the neighborhood or what object they had in view, but their real appearances had interested me and I went on into the house well sated that events of an unusual character were likely to mark my visit to the home of Miss Octavia Hollister. Cedric sat reading alone when I entered the library shortly before the dinner hour. She put down her book and we fell into talk. "I took a walk after ten. I always feel that ants are best seen from the fields. You can't quite do them justifier from windows," she began. She seemed presupposed. Wiggins was in her recollection of the glowing landscape. I was scouted of this, and Wiggins was even how wandering these hills, no doubt, breaking upon his trousers under clear October stars. Dinner was announced the moment Miss Hollier entered, and I walked out between them. Miss Octavia Hollier was a surprising person, but in nothing was she so delightfully wayward as in the gowns she wore. My ignorance of such matters is immense, but I tainy that she deserved her own rament and had her ideas were there on carried out by a tailor of skill. At the Aeschinde, and when we had met at tea in her own house, she had worn the sweater of tailored gowns, with short skirt and a coat into whose pockets she was fond of thrusting her hands. Tonight the material was lavender silk trimmed in white, but the skirt had not lengthened, and over a white silk waist she wore a kind of cutaway cut that matched the skirt. An agitet in her lovely white hair contributed a plump note to the whole impression. As we passed down the hall she talked with great animation of The Hague tribunal, then holding a prominent place in the newspapers for some reason that has escaped me. "The whole thing is aburd, perfectly absurd. I know of nothing that would contribute more to human enjoyment than a real war between Germany and England. The Huge idea is pure sentimentalism—if sentimentalism can ever be said to be pure, I will go further and say that I consider it positively tumoral." She had ordered dinner in the gum room, but I thought this merely a turn of her humor, and I was taken aback when she led the way into a low, heavy ruffled room, where electric scenery of an old type were thrust at irregular intervals along the walls, which were otherwise hung with grims of many sorts in orderly combinations. They were not the litter of antique shops, I saw in a hasty glance, but rifles and guns of the latest patterns, and beside the stiletto stood a gun rack and a cabinet which I assumed contained still and perhaps deadlier weapons. But for the presence of Miss Cecilia, who was essentially typical of our twentieth century American woman, I think I might readily have yielded to the illusion that I was the guest of some eccentric chateau where I vited me to time with her in a bastion of her fortress before ordering me to some chamber of horrors for execution. No reference was made to the character of the room, I felt, in fact, that Cecilia rather pleaded with her eye that I should make no reference to it. And Miss Holstor remarked apiece casually No though in comment upon my thoughts. "Consistently has figured its the sands and habit its tens of thousands. We should live, Mr. Ames, for the changes and chances of this troubled life. Between an opera box and a villa at Newport many of my best friends have perished." Thus, with startling abruptness she put down her fey and, bending her wonderfully direct gaze upon me, asked a question that caused me to struggle on a bit of aparaguan. "I imagine, Mr. Ames, that you are a member of some of the better clubs in town. If by any chance you belong to the Hare and Tortoise—the name of which has always pleased me—do you by any chance happen to enjoy the acquaintance of Hartley Wiggin's? Cecilified her head. I saw that she had been as startled as I. I crossed my mind that a dental of any acquaintance with Wiggin's might best serve him in the circumstances. But I am not, I hope, without a sense of shame, and I responded promptly: "Yes, I know him well. We are old friends. I always see a good deal of him during the winter. His summers are spent usually on his ranch in the west. We dined together two days ago at the Hare and Tortoise, just before he left for the west." "You will pardon me if I say that it is wolly to his credit that he has forsworn the professions and identified himself with the honorable calling of the husband." "We met Mr. Wiggin's while traveling abroad last summer," interposed Cecilia, meeting my eyes quite frankly. "Met him! Did you say met him Cecilia? On the contrary, we found him waiting for us at the dock the morning we sailed," corrected Miss Hollister, "and we never lost him a day. In three months of rapid travel I had never met him before, but I can not deny that he made himself exceedingly agreeable. If, as I suspected, he had deliberately planned to travel on the same steamer with my two nieces I have only praise for his conduct for in these days, Mr. Ames, it warm my heart to find young men showing something of the old chivalric ardor it their affaults of the heart." "I'm sure Mr. Wiggin's made himself very agreeable," remarked Cecilia col orlessly. "For myself," retorted Miss Hollister, "I should speak even more strongly. He repeatedly served us with tacit and delicacy. I had formed so high an opinion of Mr. Wiggins that I learned with sincerest regret that his ancestors were Torties and took no part in the struggle for American independence. There are times when I seriously question the wisdom of the colonists in breaking with the mother country, but certainly no man of character in that day could have hesitated as to his proper course. Then, as though by intention, Miss Hollister dropped upon the smooth current of our talk a sentence that drove the color from Cestil's face. "Hezekiah and Mr. Wiggins were the best of friends," was Miss Hollister's remark. Cestil's eyes were on her plate, but he resent went on in her bittest fashion: "You may not know that Hezekiah is another Cecilia's sister. She was named, at my suggestion, for my father, there being no son in the family, and I trust that no unusual name in a young girl does not strike you as indefensible." "On the contrary, it seems to me wholly refreshing and delightful. As I recall the Sunday school of my youth, Hezekiah was a monarch of great authority, whose unimity toward Semachhera was justified in the fullest degree. The very name bristles with spurs and is musical with the trumpets of Israel. Nothing would make me happier than to meet the young lady who bears this illustrious name." "As to the your knowledge of ancient history, Mr. Ames," began Miss Hollister as she helped herself to the cheese-sweets, I noted, were not included in the very ample meal I had enjoyed—it is clear that you were well taught in your youth. I am not surprised, however, for I should have expected nothing less of a son of the late General Ames of Hartford. As to meeting my niece Hezekiah, I fear that that is at present impossible. While Cecilia remains with me Hezekiah's duty is to her father, and I must say in all kindness that Hezekiah's ways, like those of Providence and the custom house, are beyond my feelable understanding. In a word, Mr. Ames, Hezekiah is different." "Hezekiah," added Cecilia, with feeling, "is a dear." "Please don't bring sentimentality to the table," cried Miss Holmster. "Mr. Wiggins once informed me in a moment of forgetfulness—it was at Fontainebleu, 1, remember, when Hezekiah persisted in reminding a one armed French colonel who was hanging about that we named cities in America for Bismarck—it was there at the inn that Mr. Wiggins conduced to me his belief that Hezekiah bears a strong resemblance to the common or domestic peach. As a single peach at that place was charged in the bill at 10 francs, the remark was ill timed, to say the least. But Mr. Wiggins was so contrite when I rebuked him that I allowed him to pay for our lunch—no small matter, indeed, for Hezekiah's appetite is nothing if not robust." Miss Holliester gave so many trips to the conversation that I could reach no conclusion as to her feeling toward Wiggin or Hezazah Holliester, and as for Cecilia, I was unable to determine whether she was a prisoner at Hopefield, Minor or the willing and devoted companion of her aunt. In this bewildered state of mind while we lingered over our coffee, the servant appeared with a card for each of the indies. I saw Cecilia start as she read the name. "Mr. Wiggin! How remarkable that he should have appeared just as we were speaking of him!" said Miss Holliester. "He sure the gentleman is comfortable in the library. James. We shall be in at once. Mr. Ames, you will of course be delighted to Subscribe to The Richmond PLAN ET. Only $1.50 per year in advance died in Westchester county, and I must say that he appeared to advertise in Miss Hollister's library. He had got into his evening clothes somewhere, perhaps at a neighboring inn or maybe at the house of a friend, for he could not possibly have motored into town and back since his interview with Cecilia in the highway. He had impressed the clock at the Hare and Tortoise with the idea that he had left New York for a long absence, and he had apparently camped at the gates of Hopefield to be near Cecilia. When he had paid his compliments to the ladies he turned to me with an almost imperceptible lifting of the brows, but he was cordial enough. If he was surprised or disappointed at seeing me his manner did not betray the feeling. "Glad to see you, Ames. Rather nice weather this." "Even Dakota couldn't do better," I affirmed with a grin, but he ignored the fling. Cecilia stirred reslessly, and I felt decidedly ill at ease. Miss Hollister crossed to the fireplace and poked the loga. Just what part Hezekiah Hollister played in the situation was beyond me. If I had not witnessed Wiggin's clandestine meeting with Cecilia matters would have been clearer to my comprehension, but his appearance at the house after the colloquy I had overheard from the brier patch was in its self-specifiable. Miss Hollister's singular references to Hezekiah—a person about whom my curiosity was now a good deal aroused—added to the mystery that infolDED the library. Responsive to Miss Hollister's energetic prodding, the flames in the fireplace leaped into the great throat of the chimney with a roar. She turned, her back to the blaze, and looked upon her guests benignantly. "If all your faces draw like that one they are not seriously in need of doctoring," I remarked. "Flues are nothing if not erratic," replied Miss Hollier. The subject did not appear to interest her, nor bad she, by the remotest suggestion, referred to the object of my coming. I had sniffed valuily in the halls above and below for any trace of the stale smoke which usually greeted me at once on my arrival at the house of a client. "The house was built, you may not know, for a manufacturer of umbrellas, who died before he had occupied it, in circumstances I may later disclose to you, which accounts, Mr. Ames, for that figure of Cupid under a pink parasol on the drawing room ceiling. At the first opportunity I shall remove it, as baby Cupids are recolliscible with the militant lovemaking I admire. I consider umbrellas detestable and never carry one when I can command a mackintosh." "When I'm on the ranch I wear a sticker," and Wiggins. "It's bullet proof, and that I have found at times a decided advantage." We discussed mackintoshes for at least ten minutes with far more sprightness than I had imagined the subject could evoke. Then Miss Hollister, after a turn up and down the room, paused beside me. "Mr. Ames," she said, "would you care to join me in a game of billiards? I'm not in my best form, but I think we might profitably knock the balls for half an hour." I acquiesced with alacrity. I assumed it to be Miss Hollister's purpose to leave Cecilia and Wigginia alone. I should be rendering Wigginia and Cecilia a service by withdrawing, and I was glad of a chance to escape. "It's quite cool tonight, and I don't believe you might to use the billiard P. P. I Seized the Tongs and Poker and Began Adjusting the Logs. room until the plumber has fixed the radiator, until Cecilia. "And if you knew Mr. Amer' game I'm sure you wouldn't care to waste time on blink" piped Wiggins, whom I had frequently vanquished in billiard souts at the Hare and Tortoise, where. I may any modestly. I had long been considered one of the most formidable of the club's players. Both he and Cecilia had risen, and we stood. I remember, just before the hearth during this exchange. At this moment a singular thing happened. The fire that had been sweeping in a broad wavelike curve into the chimney was checked suddenly. I had repeatedly remarked the admirable draft, the little grave of the family is still well maintained. The occasion of the wife was identified by way of those dispossessive sympathy by which a de- spired grief was wrought of evil intima- tion. The accrued amount of air had called swiftly and without apprehension. We were all aware of a chained griping in the deep fire, which could not be accounted for by any minute struggle. Incident to chimney—the disgusting of mercy or a packing of soot. The former was hardly possible and the house was not old enough to make the latter furniture plausible. From my survey of the due on my arrival in the afternoon I judged that this par- ticular chimney had been little used. My unloved and less displeased hare in my preoccupied supper- ture, a stray moment of repose, haven't brought the afternoon battle, however, that your guilt a good deal on my behalf. But me may have been able to a wipe "Please don't imagine that your gift has not been appreciated by me." This presented. "Mr. Smith in quar- quefluid of holding a chaperon to his home. The next year I believe, as Arundinia, I hope you understand that it is only because I am in deep tren- Mr. Amm. trouble of the grave mature, that I have rested to ap- pear to you in this way of my aunt, whom I have all respect, and affi The smoke now rolled out in billows and drove us back from the hearth. I seated the tongs and poker and began readjusting the logs, without, however, any hope of correcting a difficulty that lay patently in the upper regions of the fire itself. The smoke, after a courageous effort to rise, encountered an obstruction of some sort and ebbed back upon the hearth and out into the room. My efforts to stop the trouble by shifting the logs were futile, as I expected them to be, and I retreated quickly, making, I fear, no very gallant appearance as I mopped my face and eyes. "Well," exclaimed Miss Hollister, who had rung for a servant to open the doors and windows, "this is certainly most extraordinary. What solution do you offer, Mr. Ames?" "The matter requires investigation. I can't venture an opinion until I have made a thorough investigation. The night is perfectly quiet; and the wind is hardly responsible. I think we had better abandon the room until I can solve this riddle in the morning." The prompt opening of the windows and doors caused the slow dispersion of the smoke, but the lights in the room still shone dimly as through a fog. "It's beautiful!" ejaculated Wiggins, coughing. "I didn't suppose Pepper, tonwould put a fue like that into a house. He was so fortunate," said Miss Hollister, "that Mr. Ames is on the ground. He now has a case that will test his most acute powers of diagnosis." The logs that had burned so brightly before the chimney choked still held their flames stubbornly, and I had advised against pouring water upon them, fearing to crack the brick and stone work. We were about to adjourn to the drawing room. Miss Hollister and the others had in fact reached the door, leaving me alone before the hearth. Then, as I stood half blind watching the smoke pour out into the room and more puzzled than I had ever been before in any of my employments, the chimney, with a deep intake of breath, began drawing the smoke upward again. The flames caught and spread with renewed ardor, and when the trio still lottering in the hall returned in answer to my exclamation of surprise, the due had recovered its composure and was behaving in a same and normal manner. "A swallow undoubtedly fell into the chimneypot and then got itself out again," suggested Cecilia. "The lora must have been wet. The sap hadn't dried out yet," proposed Wigginia. "The wood was as dry as tinder, averred Miss Hollister, not without irritation. "And one swallow does not make a summer or a chimney smoke. It must have been a changing current as reading a book on balancing the asher day and it is remarkable how the air currents change. "That is quite possible as the air cools rapidly after sunset at this season, and that is bound to have an effect on the quality and resistance of the atmosphere." I respliled angely. "Perhaps," suggested Miss Hollister, with one of those fashions of animation that were so delightful in her, "it was a ghost. The presence of a ghost in this house would give me the greatest pleasure. I should look upon a ghost's appearance at Hoodsfield Manor as a great compliment. If any reputable, decent ghost should be any chance take up his residence in this house I should give him every encouragement." Miss Hollister seemed to have for gotten the proposed game of billiards. The chimney's lawless demonstration had, in fact, given a new turn to the evening. We discussed games for half an hour, and then, without having enjoyed any opportunity for a simple private word with Cecilia, Wiggin's rose to leave. He shook hands all around and bowed from the door. It was in my mind to follow, making a pretext of walking with him to the station or of helping him find his car, but nothing in his good night to me encouraged such attentions, and as I pondered the outer door closed upon my resolution. At the stroke of 10 Miss Hollister rose and excused herself. "We breakfast at & Mr. Ames. I trust the hour does not conflict with your habits." I assured her that the hour was wholly agreeable, and she gave me her hand with great dignity. When I turned toward Cecilia she had moved to a seat close by the hearth and was gazing dreamily into the fire, now a bed of glowing coals. "It was odd," I remarked. "You mean the chimney?" "Yes. It was quite unaccountable. I confess that I never knew a chimney's mood to change so abruptly." She sat silent for several minutes and then she lifted her head and her eyes met mine. "Pardon me, Mr. Amen, but did my aunt ask you here to examine the chimneys? I didn't quite understand. We have been here only a week; the weather has been warm, and I believe this fire had not been lighted before today. You will pardon my frankness, but I can't quite understand why my aunt invited you here if you came professionally. I thought when you appeared this afternoon that you were a guest—nothing more—or less." "You had heard nothing of any trouble with the fireplaces? Then I am in the dark as much as you. As I understood it, I was called here to examine the flues; but, but that I think of it, she did not say any explicit that her chimneys were behaving badly, though that was, of course, implied. I natu- He affirmed and I followed him in my pursuit. I was a good friend of his. He had been through the difficulties I am known to have faced. He paid me a good deal of my help. He added that he have been able to a wink. "Please don't insult your own hair and have an appreciation to me." On his presence, "We need to give enable of having a change to the house. She not yet, I believe, at the Ankinocho. I hope you understand that it is only because I am in deep trouble. Mr. Aman, trouble of the gravest nature, that I have ventured to speak to you in this way of my aid, for whom I have all respect and affection." She had never, I was sure, been lovelier than at this moment. Her eyes filled, but she lifted her head proudly. The trouble might be I was sorry for it on her own account, and if it involved Hartley Wright my sympathy went out to him also. On an impulse I smoke of him. "I was surprised to meet Hartley Wiggins here. He's a dear friend of mine, you know. I thought he had gone to his ranch. He left the Here and Tortoise very abrupt a few nights ago just after we had dined together. He must be stopping somewhere in the neighborhood." "It's quite possible. And there's an inn, you know. I fancy he drove over from there." "I hadn't thought of that—the Freescott Arms I suppose you mean." She nodded, but she was clearly not interested in me, and when I found myself falling dismayly to divert her thoughts to cheerful channels I rose and bade her good night. The servant who had previously attended me appeared promptly when I reached my room, bearing a tray, with blacuits and a bottle of ale. He gave me an envelope addressed in a hand I already knew as Miss Octavia's, and I opened and read: The following. I either detest or distrust, a blindly remain from mentioning them while given of Hopeful Manor; Automobiles. Mashed potatoes. Whiskers. Chopin's Concerto in E minor (op. 11). Bishop's Condujor. Cata. OCTAVIA HOLLISTER Before I slept I throw up my window and stepped out upon a narrow balcony that afforded a capital view of the fields and woods to the east. The night was fine, with the sky bright with stars and moon. As my eyes dropped from the horizon to the near landscape I saw a man perched on a knoll in the midst of a cornfield. He stood as rigid as a sentry on duty, or like a forlorn commander counting the spears of his tattered battalions. I was not sure that he saw me, for the balcony was slightly shadowed, but, at any rate, he was sharply outlined to my vision. His derby hat and overcoat gave him an odd appearance as he stood brooding above the corn. Then he vanished suddenly, though as he retired toward the highway I followed him for some time by the shaking and jeeking of the corn stalk. I determined to make every effort to give Wiggins the next day and learn the exact status of his affair with Cecilia Hollister. [TO BE CONTINUED.] FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM. Northern Paper Tells Why History Should Aid In Big Celebration The remarkable series of events of worldwide interest, such as the birth of the Chinese republic, the downfall of the Turk in Europe, the approaching completion of the Panama canal, the rapid growth of social democracy at home and abroad and many other movements of almost equal importance, have accounted in part, probably, for the comparatively little attention thus far shown to the year 1913 as being the semicentennial of the emancipation of some 4,000,000 of Negroes in this republic, says the Philadelphia (I.n.) Ledger. Important as are each and all of the great movements referred to, the Public Ledger believes that the American people cannot afford to be indifferent to the claims of the nearly 100,000 colored people in this City of Brotherly Love and the more than 10,250,000 persons of Negro descent who now reside within the borders of this republic. Fifty years ago such noble philanthropists as William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Horace Mann, Henry Ward Boecher, Phillips Brooks and Bishop Matthew Simpson were pleading the cause of the black man. It required no small degree of courage at that time to espouse so unpopular a cause. But those men believed with Lowell that they are slaves who dare not be. In the right with two or three. Every thoughtful student of the last two decades has been brought face to face with startling facts, so many and so appalling at times as to raise the question whether our country has not been undergoing more or less of a complete revolution of feeling toward the emancipated slave and his descendants. But however strong may have been that elbating tide the splendid careers of such men as Booker, T. Washington, Dr. Du Bois and scores of other local leaders in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, together with the cheering facts as to the great decrease of illiteracy and the steady increase of real estate holdings, sound the true note of hope. But why this apparent neglect on the part of both races to give some fitting expression to this semiential year? Ought not the more highly favored white race to take the initiative in calling attention to the gains and also to the danger signals which confront the colored people today? National Farmers' Congress Notes. The citizens of Birmingham, Alabama are turning their attention toward plans for the meeting of the national Negro farmers' congress, which is scheduled to open in Birmingham on Friday, July 4. Delegates from nearly every southern and western state will be present if the plans of the committee are carried out. EFFECT TO DRAVE NO GENERAL FUND Institutions For Higher Education to Receive Aid. OUTLINE OF PLAN AND SCOPE American Missionary Association Launches Great Financial Movement In Honor of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, C. A. Hull Heads Committees. New York. At the sixty-fifth annual meeting of the American Missionary association, held in Buffalo in the fall of 1912, the society passed a unanimous resolution to undertake the raising of $1,000,000 for higher education under its supervision. The effort is to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of emancipation. The plans, for such a fund were referred to the executive committee. The resolution voiced the deep conviction that the hour is at hand for greater emphasis upon phases of education, the practical training, of the great mass of the Negro youth and the white young people of the highlands and lowlands for the industrial struggle of the day and the thorough preparation of the few for leadership in the higher lines. The American Missionary association desires to take advantage of the ennciption jubilee to advance its higher educational institutions. The need of this advance is very great. Their rapid growth and enlargement for the past few years, with very little money for necessary extension and almost nothing for endowment, is a serious embarrassment. Under such circumstances it has not been altogether possible to measure up to the present day standard of educational efficiency. The executive committee now sends out its appeal for this $1,000,000 offering and asks all pastors and laymen to rally to the aid of the educational work of the association. This jubilee endowment fund is not subject to the apportionment plan, therefore the special plans of the executive committee are commended to the favorable consideration of every pastor and of every layman. Communications should be addressed to Mr. H. L. Simmons, associate secretary, 287 Fourth avenue, New York.. Mr. Charles A. Hull, chairman of the executive committee, in concluding his remarks concerning the importance of the work says: "Standing upon the threshold of the fifth anniversary year of the emancipation of the colored race and of the enforced assumption of responsibility upon it, we have confidence that there is a great advance in our higher educational work just at hand. The opportunity and privilege are here. The call is imperative. The Christian and patriot will not fall to meet the need." The institutions coming under the immediate supervision of the association in the distribution of the fund to be raised are Fisk university, Talladega college, Tougolau university, Straight university, Tiltonon college and Piedmont college. Should the organization succeed in raising the full amount the above named schools will receive a proportionate sum ranging from $150,000 to $200,000. Fisk university, in Tennessee, is a college both in spirit and in achievement. It meets the great need for advanced training in education among the colored race. Forty-six years ago, when there were no colored teachers and no schools in which to train them, this college was established, and it has given to Tennessee and other states 530 teachers for the public and normal schools, including supervisors for both country and city, thereby demonstrating the utility of Negro teachers' training. Fisk is also training those who become the men of power in the churches of the various denominations and those who are most useful in the various branches of industry, 100 graduates altogether. The student body numbers 538. Talladega college, in Altham, is the high grade institution of the state. It furnishes all around, practical and Christian education to the colored youth of that great state—manual training for academic students, trade school for those manifesting some degree of skill in handcraft, technical studies for the more scientific as a foundation for general intelligence and material prosperity, college and professional education for all who can attain it. There are fourteen main buildings, besides a number of cottages and farm buildings. There are 768 students. The graduates are making good in nineteen different occupations. Tongaulo university, in Mississippi, is in the center of the Mississippi black belt, located in the country, and draws its students mostly from the plantations, the population most ignorant, most needy, most important, most hopeful. In the uplifting character of these youths lies a large hope for the Negro race. A distinguished citizen of Mississippi says that "Tongaulo is possibly the most potential factor in developing the colored people of the state for the high functions of useful citizenship." Wood working and iron working, wood turning, printing, agriculture, nurse training, cooking, housekeeping and sewing is taught. Anniversary Calibration at Hampton. The Hampton Institute, in Virginia, celebrated its forty-fifth anniversary in Friday, April 25, with appropriate exercises. The Armstrong association from New York was represented by a party of 110 persons, which included professionals, former students and friends of the school. SATURDAY.....MAY 24, 1918. MILITARY WORK AT PRAIRIE VIEW WELL QUALIFIED TO TEACH. Admirable Record of Former Second Lieutenant In Spanish American War as Expert In Military Discipline. Won Over Thirteen Competitors In Examination For Naval Academy. Prairie View, Tex.-Captain George W. Austin, military expert and disciplinarian, who did more than any other individual to develop the high standard of military discipline among the boys at Tuskegee Institute is prosecuting the same work at the Prairie View State Normal college here with vigor. Captain Austin came to Prairie View at the beginning of the school term and brought with him all the essentials necessary to place the discipline of the institution upon a firm basis. Mr. Austin is in every way a military expert. He was born and reared in Chicago and received his education in that city's schools. In 1907 he was appointed a competitor by General W. B. Shattue, congressman from the First Ohio district, in the entrance examination for the Naval academy. Dr. F. B. Dyer, now supervisor of the public schools of Boston, was chief examiner and declared young Austin to have won over thirteen other contestants, he being the only Afro-American among them. Captain Austin was denied an appointment to West Point on the ground that he was then forty-five days over the age limit of twenty years. In 1808 General Shattuck had Austin appointed second lieutenant by President McKinley in the Spanish-American war. He was engaged in teaching in Kentucky when he was recommended for second lieutenant in the Philippines by Governor Bushnell of Ohio. Upon recommendations from Mr. Washington, Dr. Dyer and others Senators Foraker and Burdon of Ohio urged Mr. Austin's appointment as lieutenant in the Philippine scouts. General Bell, then chief of staff, put the matter up to President Traff with the sole objection that Mr. Austin was married and that the president must waive that rule if the appointment was made. Of course the rule was not waived, but all this shows that Captain Austin possesses remarkable ability in his special direction—the enforcement of military discipline where large numbers of young men are congregated. In bringing about many department with due respect for one's superiors and in placing boys and men upon their honor as well as merit no one will gainay the advantages of military discipline. Prairie View has never done a wiser thing than institute such discipline, and in Captain Austin the institution has a man who is without an equal in any of our schools in his line. Flattering letters of recommendation from government and army officials have been sent to the school concerning Captain Austin's ability as an instructor of military tactics, but the record which he made at Tuskegee and the remarkable work which he has done at this big school in Texas in a short time are the best evidence of his worth as instructor and leader of wide experience. Military instruction for the young men of the race, whether in school or out, is of great physical benefit to them. Schools like Wilberforce university, in Ohio; Hampton institute, in Virginia, and the Tuskegee (Aln.) institute give special attention to this feature of exercise among its male students. Those receiving such instruction are easily distinguished from students of schools not having such a feature. GOOD_YEAR FOR VIRGINIANS. Auxiliary of Sons of Old Dominion In Fine Condition. With the April meeting of the organization, the ladies' auxiliary of the Society of the Sons of Virginia in Brooklyn closed another successful year's work. The receipts from dues of members amounted to $500. The membership is still increasing, and the society has a cash balance in bank of $1,000. The newly elected officers, who were installed by the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, are the following: Mrs. Jennie Stewart, president; Mrs. Harklen, vice president; Mrs. Lottie Henderson, recording secretary; Mrs. Alice Scott, assistant-recording secretary; Mrs. C Robinson, financial secretary; Mrs. Hattie Martin, assistant financial secretary; Mrs. Annie Durrell, treasurer; Mrs. Amanda Hill, chaplain; Mrs. N Banks, doorkeeper; Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Bidwell, endorser. Government Library The library of congress at Washington is the third largest collection of books in the world. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Foods that contribute to our great national disease, indigestion, are not breads, meats, cereals, cheese, blackberries and dates. Foods that have the opposite effects are generally accepted, though some physicians disent from this conclusion, to be raw cereals, potatoes, pens, beans, spinach, turnips, cabbage, onions, prunes, figs, apples, peaches and olives. Foods which are of average value in this respect are nuts, crusts of cold bread, toast or twice baked bread, eggs, cold milk, oranges and lettuce. Oulons are of special value to those persons of heavy movements, lethargic temperaments and muddy complexions, for they are, like temons, a liver tonic. These and apples clear the complexion because they first clear the blood, driving out the excess of uric acid. Colery is a tonic fool, upbuilding the nervous and sufferers from rheumatism. To make fresh, pure blood should be the aim of every one, and this much eating of beets and carrots does. Both are rich in iron, which they transfer to the blood. The kidneys have no better friend than dandelion, spinach and asparagus. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Fruit Diet. Fruits should not be cooked, but eaten raw and upon an empty stomach or combined with nuts. Cooking ruins many of their most valuable properties. It will be found that the texture and the general coloring of the skin will improve upon this diet. The complexion will become clear and the eyes will become bright. Fruits exert a very cleansing and purifying effect upon the system. Their medicinal value should not be omitted from consideration. Were a fruitarian diet followed humanity would escape nineteenth of the lils from which it now suffers. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY Rest Before Eating The importance of resting after eating as a necessary condition for perfect digestion has been emphasized, but it is equally important to rest, physically and mentally, before eating. Dogs that had run an hour before eating and others that had been resting were fed the same reasons, and it was found that those dogs that had been rested before eating digested the meal much better than those fed while tired. Usually a dog will refuse to eat if very tired, and a man who has a natural appetite will feel little inclination to eat until after he has rested, following physical exercise. The practice of hurrying from the office or shop to the dining room and eating without resting and then hurrying back to work is one of the means by which the digestive and nervous systems are gradually though imperceptibly broken down HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Shampoo. A good champagne for oily hair is made of green soap, one-quarter ounce; cologne; two dramas; yolk of one egg, well beaten and stirred into one-half pint of water. Apply to the scalp with a tonic brush, then rub it well over all the hair, and rinse in warm water. Dry with warm towels or in the sun. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. HEALTH HINT FOR TODAY. Flat Foot Declaring that proper footwear will cure most cases of flat foot, a well known New York physician says: "Boots or shoes must be the shape of the foot, but it is not necessary to wear boots of an ugly shape to secure this primary essential. To ensure that the big toe is not pushed out against the other toes the inner side of the boot where it lies is kept straight. The soles should be a sixth to a fourth of an inch thick and the heel broad, an inch or less in height. If the degree of flat foot be anything more than the most trace mechanical means are utilized to throw the weight of the body, distributed down the leg, slightly outside the center of the ankle joint. To effect this the sole and heel of each boot must be thickened along its inner side by a quarter, one-third or half an inch, the amount depending upon the severity of the case; the worse the case the greater the thickening." Mozart Society, Rendere "Hiawatha." The Mozart society of Flik university gave an interesting rendition of S. Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha" in the Fisk Memorial chapel, Nashville, Tennessee on Friday evening. May 2, Professor Harry T. Bardighi of New York, was the special baritone solist for the occasion. STUDYING CHILD LABOR. Investigation by the Armstrong Association Reveals Much Information. Philadelphia.—The working opportunity and wages for colored children leaving school in our northern cities have recently been studied locally by the Armstrong association of this city. Dr. Brumbaugh, as superintendent of schools, has been particularly interested in a comparative study, and therefore two schools, one of white and one largely of colored children, about which the children live under similar environmental conditions, have been studied. All of the children in the schools of fourteen years of age or over were investigated. Among the colored there were seventy-four boys and 109 girls and among the whites seventy-one boys and sixty-three girls. The economic conditions of the families of both groups were such that the financial aid of the children was needed by them during the summer, yet 63 per cent of the white children become breadwinners during the summer or immediately after in comparison with only 41 per cent of the Negroes. The kind of work done by the colored boys and girls varies little, whether they have simply taken a job for the summer or whether they expect to keep it permanently. Among the white boys, however, the difference is noted that those not expecting to return can get positions in factories and offices, whereas those returning become errand boys. The factories and offices are largely closed to the colored, and, whether returning or not returning, they become errand boys or enter domestic service. The colored boys worked as follows: Ten in domestic service, twenty errand boys, three porters, three drivers, four newsboys and five miscellaneous. The white boys, as follows: Servanteen in factories, fourteen office boys, fifteen errand boys and eight miscellaneous. Of the colored girls twenty-one became domestic servants, three strippers in a tobacco factory, where the wages are low, but more freedom is possible than in domestic service, and three entered miscellaneous occupations. Among the white girls nineteen entered factories, two stores, two domestic service and three miscellaneous. As the ages of the boys and girls advanced the wages rarely showed a parallel advance. This is partly due to the fact that the figures studied are comparatively small, and therefore special cases make irregularities in the tables, and partly to the fact that the last years in school age not especially adapted to fit the children for their vocations. What can be said with regard to the advancing wages can also be said with regard to the advancing grades. There is practically no difference in the wages of the white and colored boys. The wages of the boys varied anywhere from $1.50 to $7, averaging, as a rule, between $3.20 and $4.50, including, in some cases, an allowance made of $3 for board and $5 for board and lodging. OPPOSITION INCREASES BUSINESS IN THIS CASE. OPPOSITION INCREASES BUSINESS IN THIS CASE. Proposed Law Against Secret Orders Cannot Stop Their Progress. The old saying, "It is an ill wind which blows nobody good," is strikingly true in the case of the Central Regina company, Cincinnati, of which Joseph L. Jones, vice president of the National Negro Press association, is the founder and head. Since the introduction of bills in congress and in several of the state legislatures against many of the older fraternal orders among Afro-Americans Mr. Jones' business has had a remarkable increase. This shows that fair minded white people are just as much opposed to discrimination on account of color or race as are the colored people themselves. The hearty support the officials of the various fraternal organizations are extending to this concern by giving it their own trade and as much from other sources as they can get is another indication of the growth of cooperation among our people, which is bound to result in good to all concerned. Then again our secret and benevolent orders should feel proud of the fact that a-member of the race has the facilities for manufacturing regalia suitable for its use. Colored Americans have no fear or misgivings as to the continuance of their crafts, such as the Knights of Pythias, Old Fellows, Masons and organizations of similar object and aim for mutual betterment. In this particular it would be well to consider the fact that the race is free from the will of the oppressor and that caste legislation has no part in the makeup of the men and women of character and thrift who constitute the great body of Afro-American secret and benevolent organizations in the United States. New Baptist Publication Launched. The General Association Headlight is the name of a new paper recently started by the Baptist General Association of Virginia. It is neat in appearance and bears the etmarks of careful editorial supervision. Thrifty Afro-Americans Making Good. The total population of both races in Guilford county, N. C., in 1910 was 60,447. About 15,000 of this number were credited to the colored people. The number of acres of land owned by the colored people in the county is estimated at 16,000, not including town lots. In 1900 the colored population was 11,108. There has been a steady increase in both numbers and property ownership within the past decade, and this is continuing, with much credit to the more and proud to the commonwealth. For Annuities Amount to the number of 70,000,000 are billed poorly for the entire of their term. Goldbricked. Rags the Alley Worker—An' den I traded me good rough catin' route for one dat backed up to a big boardin' house an' a hotel. Napoleon the House Dog—That seems like good business, my friend. Rags—But it was a vegetarian boardin' house and de hotel was a sanitarium—Chicago News. Possibly. "Why do they call lawyers' briefs so?" "Because they make their clients short."—Pittsburgh Press Market Language. "How are the chickens today?" "I ain't heard a one of them complain ing, air."—Chicago News. Shifting the Blame. "Please, air, it wasn't me."—London Punch. Willing. Mr. Gaysport—How much does that rockless son of mine owe you for all embroidering you're done for him? Miss Sweetly—Only his love. Mr. Gayport—Well, I've never complained about paying his debts.—Chicago News. Cause For Sprinting. IT'S ME FER EM. Deliberate Dowson—Hey, what's yer burry? Tryin' to beat Weston's record? Flothful Stevens—Naw; ain't yer beard? I'm bound for the flood district. Thousands of barrels of whisky have been washed away, and I'm tryin' to best 'em to New Orleans.—Chicago News. Lemon Peel. Lemon peel should be pared of limoness very thinly. The pith end the yellow, bitter and not need at all in cookery. Only the thin yellow rind and juice should be used. neyman. They are paid 41 cents a week for the first year, 01 cents the second, 81 cents the third and $1.2 the fourth. They get gratuities from customers beaded. Austrian barbers object to the American barber chinns because they compel a barber to stand erect while shaving a customer, when they are used to stoopling over. In Praigne the charges are for a shave 4 to 12 cents, hair cut 8 to 22 cents. Keeps the Light Going. Ingenious mechanism in a lighthouse in Germany that uses electricity as an illuminant switches on a new lamp and moves it into focus should the original lamp be extinguished. Moscow's Barber Shop. In Moscow, Russia, the average income of the ordinary barber shop owner is $2,000 to $1,400 a year, and the charges for services are 6 to 10 cents a shave, 5 to 20 cents for a hair cut, 15 to 20 cents for a shampoo and from 25 cents up for massage. Pike's Peak. Although test the highest mountain Pike's peak is probably the best known peak in the United States. There was at one time a weather bureau station on its summit, and it now has a national railway station at the terminus of the highest railway line in North America. . Ammonia. Ammonia, a strong whiff of which will knock a man down, is composed of hydrogen and nitrogen, neither of which has any color. Moths and Carpets. If moths have attacked a carpet work powdered borax into the carpet wherever there is a sign of the insects and scatter it under the furniture. Argentina Bachslers If an engaged man in the Argentine Republic dallies beyond a reasonable time in leading his fiancee to the altar he is heavily tined, and if a resident of the republic should fall to marry he is taxed until he reaches the age of eighty. Pondarous Title: The chairman of the canary blet group of an ornithological society in Germany rejoices in this title, which ornaments his visiting cards: "Kamari envoigement wirststand." A Case of Casts A German professor praised American democracy at a Boston dinner. "You have equality here," he said, "and the gods. I am sure, look down on you with grave nails of approval. "But how the gods must laugh at the silly social distinctions which prevail abroad. I know, for example, of a cabinet minister who on an electioning tour was invited to dine with two village political lights—a garbage man and an ash man. "The minister accepted the invitation with pleasure, and the garbage man also said he would be there, but the ash man spatiled everything by refusing to sit at table with a garbage man." Exchange. HOTEL HOTEL DALE THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located beautiful seashore resort in the western improvement, superlative in service, and refined patronage. Path houses, tennis, etc., on premise to ladies and children. Send for E. W. D 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 D. J. FARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF CARPENTRY. OFFICE ROOM, NO. 405. MECHANICS' SAVINGS BANK BUILDING 'Phone, Monroe—2637. RESIDENCE, 610 N. FIRST STREET—SHOP IN REAR 'Phone, Monroe—2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. 'Phone, 577. Richmond, Va Funeral Director, Embalmer and Liveryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or telephone. Halla rented for meetings and also Entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Piece or Band Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand for funeral supplies. Ross Indered For Recorder of Deeds Leading Democrats of New York Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and other states in congress have indored James A. Ross of Buffalo for the position of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. Mr. Ross also has the in- dorsement of the Hon. Norton E. Mack, chairman of the Democrati- national committee. It is well known that Mr. Ross has been a-consistent Democrat for nearly a quarter of a century and has put in some good work for the party. Latin American Universitica. Six universities in Latin-America countries were established before the first one in the territory that afterward became the United States. The universities of Mexico and Lima were founded in 1531; Santo Domingo, 1555; Bogotá, 1572; Cordoba, 1613, and Sucre, 1623. THE ECONOMY, 316 North Third Street. FINE TAILORING CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITE, Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. 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. ISAAC STRAUS & CO.. 422 E. Broad St., H. F. JONATHAN. FISH OYSTERS PRODUCE 114 N. 17th Street, Richmond, Va. All Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention. Lo. Since 'Phone, Madison-752. DALE C. 7:30 A.-Local 8:15 A.-Local 9:00 A.-Exp 10:00 A.-Local Cliff 12:00 Noon-East 12:15 P.-Exp 14:00 P.-Exp 14:00 P.-Local 15:15 P.-Local 15:15 P.-Local 16:40 P.-Lounge 11:00 P.-Exp Nepersons 2P TRANM Aft East: 9:45 A. East: 11:30 A. Local from West and 7:20 P. M. M and 8:30 P. James River I *Daily Except SRABOA stated in the heart of the most world; replete with every mod- in construction, appointments, e. Orchestra daily. Garage, omissions. Special attention giv- for booklet. DALE, Owner Schedule in Effect September 30, 1912. Leave Bird Street Station, Richmond, FORT NOHOLKL: "2:00 A. M., 3:00 P. M., 4:10 P. M. 9:30 A. M., AND THE WEST: 6:15 A. M. 9:30 A. M., 10:30 P. M. Artie Richmond from Norfolk: "11:40 A. M. 10:35 P. M., "11:30 P. M. From the West: 10:40 A. F., "11:40 P. M., 51:40 P. M., "0:05 P. F., "2:00 P. M. TRAINS LEAVE, ENCLOSED DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:18 A. M. and 7:26 P. M. 1:08 A. M. Charlotte. For Florida: 8:10, 9:00 A. M. *8:00 P. M. 6:10 P. M. *7:00 P. M. For N. & W. Ky. West: 8:18 A. M. *8:00 A. M. *8:00 P. M. and 8:10 P. M. For Petersburg: 1:08 A. M. *8:26 A. M. *8:26 A. M. *8:18 A. M. *9:00 A. M. *20:00 P. M. *2:00 P. M. *8:00 P. M. P. M. *7:55 P. M. *8:00 P. M. *11:00 P. M. For Goldsboro and Payetteville: *8:18 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 8:18 A. M. *8:26 A. M. *8:26 A. M. *8:18 A. M. *9:00 A. M. *20:00 P. M. *2:15 P. M. *9:00 P. M. *8:00 P. M. *11:00 P. M. 0:00 P. M. *10:28 P. M. *11:00 P. M. *Except Sunday. *Bunday only. Time of arrival and departure and commute. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Baham and Raleigh. 10:06 A. M. Charleston and Raleigh. 10:06 A. M. Charleston -for all point south. Drewitt. 8:00 P. M. Knoxport. 10:06 A. M. Adrienneville. Drewitt. 8:00 P. M. Knoxport. 10:06 A. M. Du. Institute station. 8:00 P. M. Atlanta and Mirmingham electrice-Lake station. 8:00 P. M. Atlanta and Mirmingham electrice-Lake station. 8:00 P. M. Limited- all point at 9:00 P. M. **YORK** 4:00 P. M.—Ex. mday—To West Point, sending for friday. 4:00 P. M.—Ex. mday—To friday. 4:00 P. M.—Ex. mday—To friday. 4:00 P. M.—Monday, Wednesday and Friday to West Point. **TENNIS ARBOR BOUNDARY** From the South: 8:00 A. M.; 8:00 A. M. 8:00 P. M.; daily: 12:06—Excursion Sunday; 8:00 A. M. daily: 12:06—Excursion Sunday; 8:00 A. M. daily: From West Point: 8:00 A. M. daily: From West and Friday; 4:00 P. M. Excursion Sunday. S. H. BURGOS, D. F. A. 967 Host Male Sailor, 'Phoca, Michigan-681. C. & C. 7:30 A.-Local-Daily-Newport News. 8:15 A.-Local-Daily-Charlotteville. Except Sunday Thurson. 21-6) A — Express — Daily — Norfolk. OLI Point. 21-9) A — Express — Lynchburg, Lexington, Gilton Fargo. *12:00 Noon—Expre-Daily—Nortolk, Oil Point, 2:15 P.—Expre-Daily—Cincinnati, Louvaille, 4:00 P.—Expre-Daily—Nortolk, Oil Point, 5:00 P.—Local—Daily—Newport New, Old Point, 5:15 P.—Local—F. Sunday—Gorbanville, 5:35 P.—Local—F. Sun.—Lynchburg, 6:40 P.—Limited—Daily—Cincinnati, Chicago, 11:00 P.—Expre-Daily—Cin., Louvaille, Sleepers, Parlor Care, TRAIN. ARHIVE RICHMOND—Local from East: 9:45 A.M., 7:40 P.M. Through from East: 11:30 A.M., 2:05 P.M. 6:30 P.M., Local from West: 9:50 A.M., 2:25 A.M., and 7:20 P.M. Through: 5:20 A.M., 11:50 A.M. and 3:20 P.M. James River Line: 9:35 A.M., 7:10 P.M. Daily Exert Sunday SEABOARD AIR LINE Southbound trains scheduled to leave Rich- mond daily: 9:00 A. M.-Local to Norlina. 9:00 A. M.-Local to Birlingham. Saltemish, Jacksonville, P. M. Birmingham, Mephi- phia. 1:00 A. M.-Slepers and coaches, Jack- sonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily: 8:35 A. M., 7:40 A. M. 5:00 P. M., 5:00 P. M. Local. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer- OPEN, DAY AND NIGHT. Office, 3006 P. St., Phone Mad. 2337 Residence, 1015 St., James St., Phone Mad. 6619 Paraphernalla, Material and Service of the Beat, Reliable Service, Moderate Rates. MADAME SCOTT, Embalmer for for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. OLD PAPERS JOHN M. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. PURSE GOODS. FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. Leave Richmond *1.20 A.H. Byrd St. Sdn. *1.60 A.H. Main St. Sdn. *7.50 A.H. Main St. Sdn. *10.25 A.H. Byrd St. Sdn. *12.01 S.Nn. Byrd St. Sdn. *2.00 P.W. Byrd St. Sdn. *2.50 P.W. Byrd St. Sdn. *3.15 P.W. Byd No. Sdn. *3.15 P.W. Main St. Sdn. *4.00 P.W. Byrd St. Sdn. *11.17 P.W. Main St. Sdn. *12.45 might Bvrd St. Sdn. *12.50 might Main St. Sdn. ACCOMMODATION TRANS - WEEKDAYS. Loveke Ryd Nr. 7.28, Nr. 8.25, Nr. 9.28, F. Nr. Anbels. Artrite Ryd Nr. M. 7.28, R. 8.25, A. M. From Produktionkraft. Artrite Ryd Nr. M. 6.28, A. M. 6.28, A. M. From Anbels. *Daily,* *Weekdays,* *Sundays only,* *All trains depart from Byrd Street Station* *atop at Kibe. The 6 of arrivals and departures* *not guaranteed. Read the signs.* ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK. Daily a DAILY Fr. Sunday, SUNDAY Only. W. R. 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SATURDAY.....MAY 24, 1013. Money that comes easy, goes the same way. The tatter and the fatter are still abroad in the land. You cannot buy everything you want and save money We may do wrong to today, but we shall pay for it tomorrow. Colored people should support each other both in business and in politics. Our aim should be to treat every person just as we would have that person treat us. Race pride among colored people is the only hope for the future prosperity of the race. When race leaders betray the race the outlook is dark for themselves and the people they represent. Some colored folks are in favor of the Negro, but they themselves are the only Negroes they favor. With some people, the more money they get, the more money they spend. Their last condition is no better than the first. Honesty is the best policy. When combined with politeness and good manners, it pays a heavy dividend on the investment. Proximity is all right, but we should be careful and see to it that "our heads are not turned" by the prosperity. Some colored folks rather have a white man's smile at the back door than a colored man's sponteness at the front gate. It is a racial weakness. God rules the destinies of men and oil, strong duty. His own children welcome home to your touch to our direction and embassement. Have you ever seen a ship portrait of a man in charge of them should do the things that will cause them to fail? 81.50 1.00 .30 .24 .20 .18 .16 .14 .12 .10 Have you ever seen a twenty-five dollar bill in a banknote made as money who was twenty two hundred twenty and the form now really allows it to be bought too. Have you ever seen a lot of our work done. They were so surprised and excited to report each other. They were so heartfelt portrait of our own poor that handled and restored our process. --- We have received a copy of the letter and with annual report of the Board of Managers of the Pittsburgh Journals Memorial Hosp ipal soft Practice School at Phila- thale Dr. Nathan R. Mossell the Mo- d. Director and superintendent for a work Dr. William A. Scholars of Finance Secrety. It is ascertained that the maximum penalty which Jack Johnson can receive five years in the penitentiary or a time of $10,000 or both. It may be that the one will be the penalty and not the imprisonment. Judge Paterson is the one to decide the sentence and the cost of the sentence suffered the sentence. The Detroit Informer says that Bishop Walters resigned the presidency of the local Democratic League but announces that he will still president of the National Democratic League. The question is up to the Washington, D.C. Bee. That journal announced that he resigned the presidency of the National Democratic League. --- The Chicago Colored Men's Business Association is the name of a new organization in the windy city. The office is Jesse Binga. President R. A. Lobson. Vice-President. M. T. Beller. Corresponding Secretary: C. D. Bell. Financial Secretary and W. A. Wallace. Treasurer. It reports a membership of 82 and it keeps out of politics it should prove to be of great benefit to the class of men in whose interest it was organized. The Lexington Ky. Weekly News says that the colored members of the Progressive Party, known as the Bull Moose Party have been denied recognition by the District Committee. Under the present rules, colored men are denied the right to actively participate in the deliberations of that party. This attitude has been virtually condoned by the brilliant Archibald it. Grimke. We have been unable to see upon what grounds a self-reporting citizen of color can recognize and countenance any such racial discrimination. Gov. Iffram Johnson has signed the anti-alien bill passed by the California legislature. He did this despite the protests of President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State William J. Bryan. It is but fair to state that he claims that the treaty rights of the Japanese have been safe-guarded in the legislation. The question is now up to the Administration at Washington and the Japanese government at Tokyo. It is hardly a cause for war but issues less important have produced it. We can only wait and The Cleveland, O. Gazette is altogether right when it says that we "waste-stepped" in commenting upon its criticism of Dr. DuBols' conduct of the N. A. A. C. P. We did this because we were forced no to do. The questions asked could only be answered from the headquarters in New York or by the distinguished leader himself and we would have been no match for our distinguished contemporary in a contest of this kind. The Planet's editor may not have indicated that it saw the point but he nevertheless saw it just the same. We thought then and believe now that the questions submitted were intended for DuBois and New York and not Mitchell and Richmond. Our esteemed contemporary has confirmed our conclusions. Senator Kern of Indiana offered a resolution in the United States Senate, providing for a Federal investigation of conditions in the West Virginia coal fields. In doing this he placed his democratic colleagues in a most embarrassing predicament. They have opposed these Federal investigations on the ground that they were an infringement of state's rights. Now one of the leading apostles of democracy and a one-time candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States virtually recognized and endorsed the formerAttorney of the Republican senators in the United States gagate. Truly men and things change. We have received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture its Berkeley No. 227 on "The Muscandine Grapes" by George C. Husmann and Charles Dearling. "The investigations were conducted in North Carolina. The report is valuable in that it gives detailed information relative to the planting and cultivation of the grapes and the commercial use of them after they are cultivated. The illustrations are very fine." --- We have received the Third Annual Report of The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Indication of the Hook-worm Disease. The report shows that a total of 228,755 persons were treated during 1912. The hook-worm disease is said to be particularly if not directly responsible for larciness or the disinclination to work a trait that is so noticeable in the Southern States and tropical countries. A total of 19,600 person were treated in Virginia. We hope that the Commission will ophage upon the street-boaters and eradicate shooters in the neighborhood. The statistics do not show the face and color of the persons treated but the course of halfstone pictures displayed give practical and visible evidence of the beneficial effect of the method of treatment. Colored people are shown in the pictures and the Commission is demonstrating that the money expended is proving a blessing to suffering humanity in the great country of ours. GUATEMALA SETTLES WITH THE Hon. John Phillips patten and representative abroad of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation has finally won out in his contitions with the government of Guatemala, Central America. The United States government declined to interfere and the British cruiser started to enforce the collection of the ten million dollars due Mr. Phillips' clients. Before the cruiser reached its destination the President of Guatemala decided to settle with the London hikers. Mr. Phillips is expected soon in Richmond to be present at the opening of The Anglo-American Finance Corporation. DR GRIMKES POSITION. We have received a copy of the annual address of Archbald H. Grimke, published by the American Negro Academy of Washington, of which our esteemed friend, Prof. John W. Cromwell is a representative. The subject is, "The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments." The address is an able and scholarly discussion of an important subject, marred however by a compromise which shows that the author is not guided altogether by great principles. His advocacy of the Progressive Party and its principles and his apology for Col. Theodore Roosevelt in his position in dealing with the colored people of the Southland tend to show that even this distinguished race leader is far behind in measuring up to the standard set for all great leaders. The condoning of evil that good may come is a temporary expedient seldom resulting in any permanent benefit. Ex-President Roosevelt stooped when he should have walked upright. He compromised when he should have stood and advocated great principles. As a result, he met defeat and, politically speaking "Went down to rise no more." Right can make no compromise with wrong. One or the other must triumph. When ex-President Roosevelt consented to a discrimination against American citizens on account of race and color, he stepped down from the high pedestal which he had hitherto occupied, and brought to himself the scorn and contempt of right thinking people in all parties. "Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour."—Pope. "Kelly Miller's Monographic Mag术" is the title of a monthly publication, issued by the great scholar. He discusses, "The Political Plight of the Negro" in the issue for May. Prof. Miller declares that the last presidential election completely served the ties which bound him hand and foot, to the old Line Republican Party. He estimates that sixty per cent. of the effective colored votes went to the, Progressives and the remaining forty per cent. was about equally divided between the Republican and Democratic rivals. Well so much the worse for the sixty per cent. Our observations, though have been, if the colored press of the country is to be taken as a criterion that the distinguished educator is a little high in his estimate of the colored vote given to the Bull Moose Party. There is no doubt whatever, but what the colored people were disgusted with President Taft. There were thousands who did not vote at all. It should be remembered that eighty per cent. of the colored citizens of this country do not vote at all, from one cause or another, but primarily from racial disfranchisement. Prof. Miller is of the opinion that the slaty-six colored delegates from the Southern States who made the nomination of Hon. William Howard Taft possible voted for their own political doom and for that of the two million voters whose exponent they were supposed to be. He drew Hon. William J. Bryan at Baltimore as having transended the instructions imposed upon him by a lawful constituent and censures these colored men for not being guilty of a similar act of pernity. We are unable to understand how Prof. Kelly Miller can descend to any such a forum of reasoning in the light of the ethics, which he has been for years exposing. If Col. Roosevelt deserted us at Chicago in the face of the loyal colored men who had stood by him, simply on the demand of the Negro-haters of the Southland, what would he have done, had a similar demand been made upon him after his nomination by a Republican convention at Chicago. He is "starred with the same stick" as was used upon Hon. Archibald H. Grimble and Prof. Kelly Miller. They are using the weapons of the politician rather than those of the statesman. They triumph to lay, but they look out tomorrow. They take their places with Rutherford B. Hayes who betrayed us in the Southland. Theodore Roosevelt, who deserted us at Brownsville, William Howard Taft, who attempted to carry out the Roosevelt policy of eliminating us in the Southland as an office-holding equation. All of this goes to show that the truckling traits of slavery are still inherent within us and that manhood pure and unalloyed cannot find a healthy habitation within the breast of the average colored leader in this country. This has been Dr. Booker T. Washington's weakness and it is along this line primarily that the new day leader, W. E. B. DuBois is making the greatest inroads among a class of people who will take the time to think. Of course, we all necessarily yield to conditions and to force which is overpowering, but it should be done only under protest, and like a spring when it is confined by pressure to close quarters noverthelless expands again when the pressure is removed. And yet Prof. Miller seems in another part of his thesis to subscribe to the very doctrine which we are enunciating when he says: "The Negro who is a conservative, expresses thereby he is a simpleton. He cannot be satisfied with the present status of things. If, under the pressure of his present lot, he fails to feel the restlessness of a divine discontent, he will thereby prove that he lacks the stuff which constitutes the true American citizen." This is "as true as preaching" but it is not consistent with his previous utterances. Prof. Kelly Miller describes ex-President Roosevelt in the following magnificent language: "Politics in war, in which many of the standard regulations of society are laid aside under the exigencies of political necessity. Besides all this, our religion, ethics, and laws, all fall in their logical rigor and consistency when applied to the race problem in the South. Roosevelt looks before, and after, with equal range of vision in both directions. He has political imagination and can penetrate as far into the future as the ordinary politician can see into the past "If he seems to become different things at different times to different men, under different circumstances." It is only in order that he might promote his ultimate aim of social salvation. An aristocrat by lineage and rearing, he has become the tribune of the people; he is a South-erner in the South, and a Northerner in the North, but an American everywhere. If he adopts some of the measures and methods of the Socialists, it is only to save the nation from socialism. Militant by instinct and outgivings, he holds the Nobel prize for promoting the peace of the world. If the rich man follows in his train, it is not in order that he might sacrifice, but safeguard his richs. If the eratwhile boss is attracted by his personality and preachments, it is only that he may be weaned from the evil of bossism and turn his talents to wise and salutary leadership. Although Mr. Roosevelt may appear to agree with his adversary, in the end it will be found that the adversary is in agreement with him. If he seems to be catering to the white South, it is only that he might lead the South into the larger vision. While these may seem to be madness in his method, there is method in his seeming madness. To the man of superficial judgment and short-sighted vision, it seemed that Mr. Roosevelt belied the gospel which he so loudly preached by denying its application to the people who needed it most. "The politician is not likely to offend any element of the people whose support is essential to the success of his project. Compromise is a handy tool for the practical statesman or crafty politician, but it is a dangerous instrument for the preacher of moral regeneration. But with more than Pauline facility, Roosevelt, becomes all things to all men, in order that he might win them to the right view of things. His method is redeemed from the reproach of charlatanism and demagogy only by an underlying moral consistency oftentimes too deep-seated for casual discovery. This is a phillipic describing a politician and not a statesman. The one dabbles in the slime of corrupt ward politics, the other breathes in the upper atmosphere of the gods. We call men of this type chameleons, for the reason that they assume the color of anything upon which they slight. They are indeed all things to all men. When Theodore Roosevelt was elected, he was not a man of this type. He received the colored man upon an equal basis of citizenship. He was elected upon this platform. When he assumed the Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde attitude, he was defeated by over two million votes. On the other hand Woodrow Wilson, who announced his principles and his platform and refusing to how to the elamor of the women suffragettes when he doubted the wisdom of their enfranchisement was overwhelmingly elected. Even Colorado, the hotbed of the women suffragettes and controlled by them gave Wilson a plurality of over twenty thousand to the lasting embarrassment of Toddore Roosevelt, who had openly championed their cause. The meaning of this is that honest people despise a trimmer and a man who is one thing today and another thing tomorrow. They prefer a devil in the rough to a hypocrite in disguise. It should not be forgotten that Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for Hon. William Howard Taft. The failure of this jurist was due primarily to the man who made him. We are of the opinion that the Progressive Party cannot permanently succeed until its basic principles are made to conform to those of the Holy Writ. We live not for today only, but for tomorrow and the next day, and the day thereafter. We may support one party or another as the lesser of two evils without exposing the principles; but when it comes to accepting their tenets and championing or apologizing for fundamental shortcomings such as those described we prove ourselves devoid of manhood and unworthy of the citizenship which the Constitution of the United States confers. 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The approval of the measure, against which the Japanese government has made vigorous protest and in an effort to sidetrack which Secretary of State Bryan traveled across the continent, will place on a more certain basis the negotiations between Japan and the federal government. It is understood that President Wilson and his advisors, although informed of Governor Johnson's intention of signing the Webb measure, had intended to await the actual approval of the legislation before delivering the government's reply to the Japanese protest to Viscount Chinda, the Japanese ambassador in Washington. Governor Johnson had said he would wait a suitable length of time before signing the bill to give the president time to outline any further objection to the measure. As no communication from Washington was forthcoming, he gave his executive approval to the bill. The next step, so far as California is concerned, probably will be the circulation of petitions for a referendum vote by the people on the act. If 29,000 signatures are obtained the petition will hold up the law till it has been passed upon at the polls a year from next November. Unless held up by a referendum the net will go into effect ninety days from date, or on Aug. 17. Governor Johnson, after signing the bill gave out the following statement: "I repeat what I have before said: That California for the first time in its history has an anti-alien law. Any man who wishes another kind of law may consistently invoke the initiative. No man who really wishes an anti-alien law will sign a referendum as to this law. "If another law is sought it may be presented by means of the initiative and in the meantime the present law will be in operation. To tie up the present law means no law until November, 1914." --- Yegglen Blow Wilmington Safe. Dynamiting the safe at the plant of the Union Macaroni company, in Wilmington, Del., "Yogas" made away with $2000 worth of loot in currency and jewelry. The loot included $1000 in American money, $800 in Italian currency, $50 in Canadian cash and numerous checks for large amounts, together with jewelry valued at $1000, the property of Mrs. Raffaele Julian, wife of the president of the company, and of her daughters. The jewelry included ten gold watches, diamond earrings, diamond rings, necklaces, lockets and bracelets. The jewelry had been placed in the safe about a month ago. The fact that the safe, contained such a large amount is explained by the fact that Mr. Julian did not go to the bank on Saturday, and on Saturday night he received large sums from Italians for whom he had secured drafts to be sent to relatives in Italy. All of this was stolen. The thieves were probably "yegg men," judging from the nature of their work. On the office floor were found steel drills, a cold chisel, strips of fuse, percussion cape, a hand flash light and two extra batteries. Parents Milamed For Social Evil. "Three hundred thousand babies a year is the sacrifice laid on the altar of parental ignorance," said Mrs. Frederick Schoff, of Philadelphia, president of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher Associations, in her opening address at the seventeenth annual meeting of the congress in Boston. Proper education of mothers and fathers would save more than 60 percent of this infant sacrifice, Mrs. Schoff estimated. "At the root of the white slave traffic and the social evil," the speaker said, "is the absolute neglect of parents to educate their children in the laws governing life and the proper use of their God-given functions. The present condition is but the result one can properly expect from such neglect." In referring to a need for change in the administration of justice in the cases of the wayward and erring children, Mrs. Schoff said: "The sacrifice of infant lives is nothing in comparison to the sacrifice of children to a life of crime by mis-taken, methods of dealing with child offenders." She added that "inefficient homes are largely responsible for bringing children into the courts." explosion of gas in the Imperial mine of the Gates Coal company at Belle Valley, near Zanesville, Ohio. Superintendent Dudley and fourteen men had entered the mine to lay an excavation of some tracks into the mine after the regular day's work was over. They were about one and a quarter miles from the entry when there was an explosion and the workmen were blown in all directions. Some bodies were found over 300 feet from the spot where they had been working. Rescuers entered the mine and found Roy Yeager about 300 feet from the scene of the explosion. Yeager, who was alive, was unable to rise on account of a broken leg, and he probably owes his life to the broken leg. Lying on the floor, he did not inhale the fumes of the afterdamp. The party carried him to a mine car and started toward the entrance, One of the rescue party, Henry Flair hourst, was overcome by afterdamp. He was placed in the car with Yeager, while the others in the party crawled on their hands and knees to the entrance, pushing the car ahead of them. Fairhourd died a short while later. --- Lad Nearly Drowned in Bucket John Talure, a boy of Germantown, near Centralia, Pa., foll headfirst into a bucket containing several inches of water. His head stuck fast. His mother found him several minutes afterward. When released he had no pulse and was declared dead. A young man who had received first aid instructions at the mines applied restorative methods and after working five minutes was rewarded by seeing the boy begin breathing. A physician finished the work of producing artificial respiration and the child was later pronounced out of danger. Killed by Crossed Wires. Paul Acken, a mine foreman, is dead, and Dr. C. B. Jones is dying in a hospital in Johnstown, Pa., as the result of an electric feed wire crossing a telephone line. Acken went to the telephone to make a call and was instantly killed. Dr. Jones was called when Acken's body was found, and, unaware of the cause of death, went to the telephone to summon assistance. The physician was knocked senseless, and, falling to rogain consciousness, was taken to a hospital, where it is reported he cannot live. John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, has decided to accept a so-called recess appointment as state labor commissioner of New York. Mitchell was nominated twice for this office by Governor Sulzer, but was rejected by the senate. The governor holds that he has the power to name Mitchell for a term to expire twenty days after the convening of the legislature next January. With a view to reorganizing the labor department, Mitchell conferred with the governor. Accused of Killing Wife and Daughter James L. Bacon, member of the Colorado legislature from Teller county, was arrested in Cripple Creek on a warrant charging him with the murder of his wife, Ida Bacon, and his stepdaughter, Josephine Davidson. The women were killed in an explosion that wrecked the Bacon home on April 28. Wins $416,253 For Finding Silver Mine Charles D. Flynn, a mining engineer, won his suit in New York city against the King Edward Mining Syndicate to recover $416,253, on the ground that he discovered the company's silver mine in the Cobalt region in Canada, and under an agreement was entitled to 10 per cent of the company's profits. Bank Official Stole Cloars Grant Stanford, vice president of the bank in Winfield, Kan., accounted one of the wealthiest men in Winfield, was convicted by a jury on five counts charging the theft of cigars from local dealers. Testimony was that Stanford on seven occasions took more cigars than he paid for. Sentence was deferred. Grief Killa Boy Pitcher. "Had I pitched my school would have won the pennant, but it's too late now; we've lost." Willie Lipser, fourteen years old, champion pitcher of the St. Paul, Minn., grade schools, sobbed these words, buried his face in the bed clothing and died of a broken heart. Dies Grieving For Son. Grieving over the death of his son, John W. Bollinger, aged sixty-nine years, a Pennsylvania railroad foreman, of Palters, near Altoona, Pa. died. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR dull; BROOKLYN @ 4.40; city dull; PASADENA @ 5.50; city dull; PASADENA @ 5.50; city dull; RYE FLOUR arm; per barrel, $3.50 @3.75. POULTRY: Live steady; hans, 17½ ¹8½¢; old roosters, 12¢. Dressed arm; choice fowl, 19½¢; old roosters. 14¢¢. BUTTER quiet; fancy creamery, $1c per lb. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yards) Choice, $2.35; $2.40; Belle, $2.60; $2.30; SHEEP lower; prim weathers $6.50 @ 5.66; culls and common, $2.50@ 3.50; lamb; $4.50@ 7.75; veal calves, $9.50 @ 10. HOGS lower; prime heavies, $7.70; mediatas, heavy Yorkers, light Yorkers and pigs, $5.75$8.50; roughs, $7@ 7.60. HEBURY M. FLAGLER. Noted Capitalist Who Died at Palm Beach, Florida. THE MEMORIAL OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN HENRY M. FLAGLER DIES IN FLORIDA Henry M. Flagler, builder of the oversea railroad on the east coast of Florida and an important factor in the oil business, died at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., after an illness of several weeks. He was eighty-three years old. Several weeks ago the multi-millilianaire tripped on a rug and fell, breaking his hip. Mr. Flagler's second wife, who was Miss Mary Lily Kenan, daughter of a Confederate soldier, was with him when he died. Flags are at half-mast throughout the state as a tribute to the benefactor of Florida. More than $50,000,000 was spent by by Mr. Flagler in building the railway and developing hotel and other properties in Florida. At the time of his second marriage, Aug. 24, 1901, the millionaire was seventy-one years old. Miss Kenan was then thirty-five years old. Mr. Flagler's first wife had been incurably insane for years and was maintained in a New York sanitarium at a cost of about $25,000 a year. The Florida legislature passed a law making Mr. Flagler's divorce possible. His fortune is estimated at $100,000,000. ROSES SIGN STRIKE ENDS Flowers Dropped From Skyscrapers In Place of Missiles From the uppermost floors of a skyscraper in Cincinnati, Ohio, where on last Saturday strike sympathizers had bombarded a street car manned by imported men by tossing braces of steel, tags of cement and barrels of plaster upon it, the strikers and sympathizers took a unique way of announcing to the citizens that peace once more reigned. Thousands of roses and carnations supplanted the steel and plaster and fell upon the heads of thousands of those who had gathered to see the display, as well as the hundreds of passersby. It is even said that the very men who a few days ago were the burlers of the agents of destruction worked for fifteen minutes scattering flowers from the dizzy heights. Street car traffic was resumed, pending arbitration. T. R. TO HUNT IN ARIZONA Colonise's Libel Suit Against Michigan Editor Starts Monday. Theodore Roosevelt announced in New York that he expects to spend his vacation this summer in Arizona. He will leave New York early in July, taking with him two of his sons, and will hunt four or five weeks in the southwest, most of the time in Arizona. The trip is to be purely a pleasure trip. Colonel Roosevelt expects to leave New York on Saturday for Michigan. The purpose of the Michigan trip is to attend the trial of his Libel suit against George Newett, publisher of the Ipheming Iron Ore. The suit is scheduled to come before Judge R. C. Flannigan, of Marquette, Mich., on May 26. Police Guard Jewels Rescued From Fire Fire swept through the Park avenue: mansion of. Mrs. Charles T. Barney in New York, widow of the former president of the Knelckerbocker Trust company, and licked up paintings and other art treasures valued at $75,000. Mrs. Barney escaped with part of her jewels—enough to call for a guard of four patrolmen as she stood outside in the street—and firemen recovered the others. Rushing Work on Canal It is said that unless slides interfere to a greater extent than is expected the great canal will be finished by Oct. 1. More laborers are to be brought from the West indies and the work of completion is going forward under full steam. Banker Commits Suicide. Isaac Hecht, forty-eight years old, president of the Havre de Grace, Md., Bank and Trust company, reputed to be one of the wealthiest men of that place, committed suicide by hanging. His body was found suspended from one of the rafters in the garage of the Havre de Grace Taxi cab company. CARNEGIE REAL BAR TO BIG POOL Schweb Says Ironmaster Fear- ed the Trust. GOT $100,000 ON A BLUFF Declares Carnegie Company. Was Not In a Position to Compete For Certain Trade and They Put Up a Good Front. Andrew Carnegie stopped a proposed rail combination because he feared the formation of a "trust." So testified Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, and first president of the United States Steel corporation, when he was questioned by Judge Jacob M. Dickinson, government counsel in the suit in New York to dissolve the United States Steel corporation. Judge Dickinson read a minute of the Carnegie Steel company, of which the witness was president before it was absorbed, tending to show that the Carnegie company had entered a pool agreement with the Illinois company and the Cambria Steel company on rails in 1887. "I have no recollection of that specific agreement," said the witness. "I think it likely, because we did have agreements of that kind. I cannot say that this specific agreement was consummated, but my recollection is that we did have such an agreement with the Illinois and Cambria companies." The government attorney then read a minute which set forth that English rail manufacturers proposed to allot 100,000 tons of rails to the Carnegie company in England and Canada. "You say you never heard of an international steel rail pool. What was that?" he asked. "That didn't appeal to us," said Mr. Schwab. "It was not big enough. I never considered the proposition. Russia, Germany and France all made rails and would have to be dealt with in making such a pool." "There were pools going on all the time, weren't there?" "Yes, all the time." "But when the United States Steel corporation was formed they stopped?" "They started to stop." There was a laughed at this. Another minute read, by Judge Dickinson indicated that the Carnegie company had agreed to stay out of the girder rail market for one year for a consideration of $100,000. "We stayed out chiefly because we were not in a condition to compete," said Mr. Schwab, "but we put up a good front and got the $100,000." Judge Dicksonin spent considerable time in reading to the witness minutes of meetings of the, Carnegie Steel company and asking Mr. Schwab, who frequently attended, what they meant. One such minute referred to the plan to form the Empire Rail company. This company was to sell all the rail products, but the scheme was abandoned by direction of Andrew Carnegie, who declared it would be a trust and therefore open to attack. The presidents of the main companies had agreed to the plan to have the Empire sell their goods. All had assembled in Jersey City to sign the necessary papers, but when Carnegie withdrew the pool fell through. MENOCAL GOES IN AS CUBAN PRESIDENT New Head of Republic Was Educated in America. With the inauguration Tuesday in Havana, Cuba, of General Mario G. Menocal as president, in succession to President Jose Miguel Gomez, and of Dr. Enrique Jose Varona as vice president, the Cuban republic entered on a new phase of its existence in a spirit of high hopes for the preservation of peace and the establishment of the prosperity of Cuba. President Menocal on taking office contented himself with the declaration that he would devote all his energies to giving the country a clean business administration which will foster the industries of the island and develop its splendid resources, which will welcome foreign capital and immigration and maintain friendly relations, with all nations, especially with the United States, to which Cuba is so closely linked by bonds of mutual affection and interest. The new president of Cuba was educated in the United States at Cornell and speaks English as perfectly as the Spanish tongue of his native land. FIND AGED: HERMIT DEAD Gold, Silver and Paper Money Found Stuffed in Crevices of Hut. When John C. Kratz, a hermit, did not appear at the bi-weekly service of the Mennonite church at Franconia Square, north of Norristown, Pa., on Sunday, a search was instituted- and the aged man was found dead in his hut. In his clothing was found a roll of bills. Besides this money other papet money, as well as silver and gold, were found tucked away in crannies and crevices, in all a couple of hun- dred dollars. Emma Goldman Arrested Emma Goldman and her manager Dr. Ben Reitman, were arrested in San Diego, Cal., and lodged in the county jail. They were taken from a Santa Fe train at 4 o'clock in the morning when they arrived from Los Angeles. ACCEPT LIPTON'S YACHTCHALLENGE Races For America's Cup to Be Held Here Next Year. NEWS GIVEN OUT IN LONDON Rules So Long Objected to as to Measurements and Style of Craft Will Govern Contest. The New York Yacht club cabled to the Royal Ulster Yacht club in London, Eng., definitely accepting Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for the America's cup. The races will take place in September, 1914, under the New York Yacht club's present rules as to measurement, time allowance and racing rules. Sir Thomas considers that the conditions of acceptance of his challenge by the New York Yacht club are a great victory for him. He says they will enable him to build a good seaworthy boat. It is still a question whether Sir Thomas will be allowed to tow his yacht across the Atlantic. "It doesn't really matter much," he said, "whether I am allowed to tow or not. Anyway, I should not want to tow except in the case of a bead wind or a dead calm." Asked whether he thought the defenders would meet him with a larger boat than the challenger, he replied: "That does not give me the least worry. They have always treated me in the most generous and sportsmanlike spirit." Charles E. Nicholson, the yacht designer, of Gosport, Eng., is already working on the plans of the boat. The New York Yacht club's acceptance of the challenge says: "The races are to be called as suggested in your cable under our present rules of measurement, time allowance and racing rules, it being understood that the rule requiring a yacht to rate at the highest limit of her class in certain cases, shall not apply to this match." 80,000 LOADED CHICKENS DYING Crops Were Stuffed With Sand to Make Weight. Twenty carloads of live chickens 4000 chickens to the car, were being held in Jersey City because angry jobbers in New York city had refused to receive them. Hardly a live chicken was handled by dealers. The trouble arose over a recent complaint of jobbers that receivers were stuffing the chicken's crops with weight producing sand and gravel to make up for shrinkage sustained in transit. Until receivers agree to abandon the practice the dealers say they will boycott all live poultry. Ordinarily about 125,000 live fowls are handled daily. Hundreds of chickens were dying their crates and it was said the attention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had been called to the matter. The situation is blamed by the wholesalers on the jobbers and by the jobbers on the western shippers or live poultry. "The shippers are the guilty parties," said one of the loading receivers. "They send caretakers along with their stock with instructions to keep the birds hungry all the way to Jersey City. Most of the poultry comes from as far west as Missouri. The day the chickens are to be sent across the river to our market the caretakers feed them great quantities of bread and meal, mixed with sand and gravel. "Each chicken gets about a quarter of a pound of additional weight stuck in its crop, and when you figure there are 4000 birds to a car you can easily see what a big proposition this feeding up process is." Accused of poisoning his five-weeks old baby girl, while its mother was out of the room, Abraham Waldmann of Philadelphia, was held without bail for the coroner by Magistrate Gorman in the central station. The child died in Mount Sinai hospital. Railroad Raises Wages An increase in wages of from 4 to 5 per cent has been granted by the Southern railway to several thousand employees of its shops. Man Witn Ten-Pound Heart Dles. Ernest Hantam, a small man with a ten-pound heart, died suddenly in Atlantic City, N. J. He was picked up unconscious and expired in a patrol on the way to the Atlantic City hospital. There is much scientific curiosity on the part of the physicians in the autopsy, as it is believed the heart is a record-breaker for size and weight. President's Aunt Dies at Denver. Mrs. John Woodrow, an aunt by marriage of President Wilson, died at her home in Denver, Colo. An acute attack of bronchitis caused death after an illness of only a few days. 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Usually when a citizen was taken in arms, being brought before the officer in command, after a few words as to the case, he would say: "Take him away. I don't ever wish to see him again." This was understood as an order to take the prisoner away and shoot him in one occasion when a citizen was captured and thus executed the Confederate commander on the other side of the line, taking the ground that the man who had been shot had recently been enlisted, resolved on retaliation by shooting one of his own prisoners of war. "Take one of those two men captured this morning," he said, "and shoot him." "Which one, general?" "Whichever you please, I have no time to attend to trivial." This sounds harsh, but in wartime human life is very cheap, and the re- A "ONE OF YOU IS TO BE SHOT." sponsibilities often resting upon the shoulders of a commander are a great strain upon him. The officer, not wishing to decide such a question, approached the two men, undecided as to what to do. He was not proseciled, as was the general, by other duties. It was too cold blooded for one in his softer senses. Then he be thought himself that he had only a verbal order for what he was about to do, and, turning, he went to the chief of staff and naked him to write out an order to shoot a prisoner in retaliation. The chief of staff rather than trouble the general with the matter consented, asking what name to insert in the order. "Leave it blank," said the other. "I was ordered to shoot one of two men, and I shall decide which is to die by lot." Having received the paper, Captain Claybourne, the officer who bore it approached the men it concerned. They were sitting on the ground just outside the guard tent whirling away the time playing cards. Soldiers usually carried cards with them during campaigns as a preventive against homesickness or ennul when unoccupied. "I am sorry to announce to you two men," said the captain, "that one of you is to be shot in retaliation for one of our men, accused of illegitimate warfare and shot by your people on the other side." The two men looked up, for a moment not realizing what the speaker meant. When they did a slight shoulder passed over both. They were Walter Treadway and Sergeant Knowlton. They had lived in the same town before the war and had enlisted in the same company, though Knowlton was in years Treadway's senior. "Which?" was the lascotic reply of Knowlton, who drat found his voice. "That is to be decided by lot. I will put a white and a dark stone in a hat. One of you, blindfolded, may draw. If he draws the dark stone he loses. If the white he wins." Trendway was unable to speak. However he tried to say something. His response was: American Press Association "If you will permit we will play a game of seven up, the loser to die, the winner to live." "As you please," said Captain Claybourne. Knowlton took up the cards and dealt them Treadway took up his hand, trembling as he did so. It required a great effort to control himself sufficiently to sort them Claybourne stood looking on. As Treadway lost nerve Knowlton seemed to gain it. They were to play two games, the loser of three to be the loser in the game of life. While Knowlton had the self control to play the games fairly well, it was soon evident to the Confederate looking on that he was playing to lose. Once when the sergeant purposely played the wrong card Claybourne essayed to stop him, but a look from Knowlton deterred him. Knowlton won the first game; Treadway won the next three. The winner could not repress a long drawn sigh of relief, but relief accompanied by pain that his company must die instead of himself. Claybourne marched Knowlton between two men to an unoccupied tent, where he suffered him to make preparations to die. The prisoner told the captain that he wished to write a letter to a girl in the north to whom he was engaged. Materials were furnished, and he wrote, stating the manner of his approaching death, making no mention of the fact that he had voluntarily given his chances for living to a companion. Claybourne received the letter, agreeing to take every precaution that it should reach its destination. Then he said to the man who was about to die: "Were it not that my general is no mentally expecting to be slaughtered by your people I would make an effort with him to save you. When not uniser the strain of war he is as tender hearted as a girl. But with the welfare of his troops and the cause ab sorbring his whole nature he seems brutal. To intercede for you now would only accrue to my detriment and be of no service to you." "I understand you perfectly," replied the other. "Goodbye." Half an hour later a volley was heard in a wood near by, and the body of Sergeant Knowlton was buried where it fell. Yet the volley was followed by a second—not customary in such cases—fired by Captain Clay-bourne's order over the grave of a soldier who has died without disbonor. Some months later Treadway was exchanged, and, having, in addition to his shock, been ill in a southern prison, he was no disabled that he was discharged from the military service of the United States. When he reached home he was welcomed with tears by his family, while one of his sisters held him in her arms and looked at him with a strange, faraway look without tears. Presently she kissed him and went away by herself. It was she to whom the man who had died for him had been engaged Captain Claybourne in transmitting to her the last farewell of her lover and indored on it. "This man purposely became a lover in the game of life between him and his friend." Not till after the war had ended did Treadway learn from his sister of the sacrifice in his behalf. Then he went south, exhausted the body of the man who had made it—the grave had been carefully marked by Claybourne's order—and brought it north. After it had been deposited in its permanent resting place brother and sister for years made it an object of pilgrimage on every Memorial day. The brother, whose health had been undermined by his experiences in the south, lived but a few years. The sister, now a very old woman, continues on every Memorial day to place flowers on the grave of her soldier hero. There could hardly be a brewer act, no greater heroism, than for one, unspired by the drum, the rattle of mundykry, the boom of cannon, in cold blood—so to speak—to give his life for another. Yet today the only expectable honor accorded on Memorial day to Sergeant Knowlton is the homage of the woman who inspired the act. Burybodion. It would be a much, much progressive world if we reduced the time we give to other people's benediction—Puck. ONE FLAG A Memorial Day Poem By JAMES ARTHUR Copyright, 1991, by American Press Association By J Copyright Colonel J. L. Glem. Civil War Veteran. In Active Service MEMORIAL DAY, 1913, sees but one Union officer who fought during the rebellion now on the active list of the United States army. That one is Colonel John L. Clem, famous during the civil war as the "Drummer" Boy of Chickamaugh. Colonel Clem obtained the unique position he now holds among veterans with the retirement of Major Daniel W. Arnold nearly a year ago. Colonel Clem served as musician of Company C. Twenty-second Michigan infantry, from May 1, 1863, to Sept. 10, 1864. He entered the regular army as a second lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth infantry in December, 1871. He is a native of Ohio, born on Aug. 13, 1851. He still has more than two years to serve on the active list. The colonel was asked by the war fever before he had finished his tenth year. He begged to go to the front as a drummer boy with a regiment passing through his native town of Newark, O. On account of his youth he was rejected, but he was determined and followed the troops to Cincinnati, where he offered himself to the Twenty-second Michigan regiment, only to be declined again. But he persevered and was allowed to accompany the regiment in its subsequent movements till he found himself at Shiloh with Grant. On this field his drum was amused by a piece of shell. But it was at Chickamauga that he won the sobriquet of the "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga." In the summer of 1803 he had been allowed to exchange his drum for a market, shortened especially for his use, for in his own words he did not like to stand and be shot at without being able to shoot back. He blazed away like a veteran. At the close of the day, when the army was falling back on Chickamauga, his brigade was surrounded, and a demand tumished nation— One flag, one hope, one need, One destiny for liberty. One purpose and one goal— In grateful recollection Of those who wilted fast For surrendered bands, with ostretched bonds Gives blessings for the past; Beg high their greaves with garlands Until they bloom as bright He does the fame that writes each name In flames of love and light, And let the floral message Our gratitude dictate, While the perfumes that bank their bombs Breathe like a prayer. If love very but a bloom And beautifulness a wreath The mountain high would reach the sky Cheese dead should sleep beneath, Or if a nation's blessings In mourn were expressed The age long would be a song About their place of rest. Chrys served the first republic The centuries gone birth, And that shall be a prophecy Of one that belts the earth. Chrys died to lift from bonyage A race beneath the ban, And that shall shine a dead divine As long as man loves man. COLONIAL 19TH L. CLIM was made for his surrender. Johnny did not fill back as quickly as the rest, and a Confederate colonel, having summoned him to surrender, came forward with drawn sword and used language that the little soldier resented. The boy raised his musket, shot the colonel and then fell as though shot himself. Here he lay till dark, when he managed to rejoin his comrade His exploit, being recorded in the papers, gave his family the first knowledge of his whereabouts. For his gallantry General Rosecrane made Clem a sergeant and attached him to the Army of the Cumberland. After being captured and exchanged he was attached to the staff of General Thomas, whose firm friend he remained until Thomera death. He fought at Shiloh, Perryville, Resaca, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta and Nahville. Since the war he has had various posts and was in the Philippines for some time. There is an interesting story told of the way Colonel Clem got into the regular army. In the early days of General Grant's first term as president Clem, without aid, gained an audience. "What can I do for you?" asked the president. "Mr. President," said Clem. "I wish to ask you for an order admitting me To West Point. "But why," said the president, "do you not take the examinations?" "I did, Mr. President, but I failed to pass." "That was unfortunate," said the president. "How was that?" "Why, Mr. President, you see I wins in the war, and while I was there these other boys of my age were in school." "What," exclaimed the president—"you were in the war?" "Yes, Mr. President," said Clem, who was now scarcely eighteen; "I was in the war four years." Then he related his experiences, after which the president wrote a note and told him to take it to the secretary of war. Clem thought it was an order to admit him to West Point, but instead it directed the secretary of war to make him a second lieutenant in the regular army. The Dead Drummer Boy Midst tangle roots that lined the wild ra- vine. Where the fierce light raged hottest through the day And where the dead in scattered heaps were seen. Amid the darkling forest's shade and sheen, Speechless in death he lay. The setting sun, which glanced athwart the stalking lines, like amber tinted rain. Fell sidewise on the drummer's upturned face. Where death had left his gory fingers truce In one bright crimson stain. The silken fringes of his once bright eye Like like a shadow on his cheek so fair. His lips stitched by a long drawn stitch. That with his soul had mounted to the sky On some wild martial air. No more his hands the fierce tattoo shall heat The shrill revile of the long rolls call Or sound the charges when, in smoke and heat Of fery onset, foe with foe shall meet And gallant men shall fall. Yet master in some happy home that one, A mother reading from the list of dead, Shall chance to view the name of her dead son And move her lips to say, "God's will be done, And bow in grief her head. PROVIDENCE SPRING IN AND DERSONVILLE PRISON. MANY believed that a miracle was performed at Andersonville prison during the war. About 25,000 men were confined there, and the only water obtainable was polluted. Things looked bad when lightning hit the prison and uncovered a spring, which ever since then has been known as Providence spring. Exciting Time. Mrs. Jones ran out the back door and sped across the lot to the dividing line. "Mrs. Beckett-oh, y.Mrs. Beckett, come out! Come out quick! There's something happening at Mrs. Nowwed's across the street!" "For the land sakes, what is it? bubbled Mrs. Beckett, hurrying toward her neighbor. "Well, I just can't make out," shrilled Mrs. Jones, "whether it's a baby or her first cake."—Judge. 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"An enemy hath done this," answers the broken hearted husband. "While men slept my enemy came and sowed the tares and went his way. May his days be shortened." "Ah, Jaren-Jahns," concludes the Master, "the ears which God hath bestowed their boasts, but the devil's darnel stands brazenly, proud as Lucifer. How bold is guilt! Let he till harvest, then separation." Today by the sonnine Jesus tells the story of the tares in a parable. Two Bowers—Two Crops. The problem of the tures is the problem of evil in the world. Night shade, thistles, poison ivy, are among the flowers. Back in Eden the good Sower began to scatter his good "Sons of the kingdom" were the plants. Then came the evil one, the shape of God. By stealth he enters the garden and sows tares. Hate, violence and malevolence spring up in his path. If there be no personal devil this parable is meaningless and the Nazareth is simply perpetuating a bugbush. If there be no devil does God do evil? Evil and devil, god and good, are strangely similar. How can count for centuries of poverty and pain, cruelty and crime, sorrow and sin? It's a mighty puzzle, the culpa of the ages. In the world's field there forever a mixture of wheat and tares. They grow in the same soil. There's a rift in the late, a discord in the music. The heart is a Noah's ark with creatures clean and unclean—Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the demon and the angel forever at war on our souls' battlefield. The gold lies not in massacre but in sand or quartz. While Men Slept. Yet the kingdom is positive as well as negative, invisible as well as visible. When tadpole turns to frog, the skeleton says it is a miracle of nature. When grince turns Samuel Hadley from sinner to saint he calls it "psychical hysteria." The color of the diamond changes with the angle of vision. But we often need the taunt of the Philistine. The kingdom of God ought to be as much concerned with Tenderton tenements as heavenly mansions, with crying children as with choir surplices. Wake up, slumbering church! There's something characteristically devilish in the expression, "while men slept." The good sower goes out in the gray of the morning; the evil one waits till the sun sets. The church rests; this malignant spirit tires not. While the church mounders over mode of baptism, style of confession, order of succession and denominational standing, this modern sower of tares is starting "furnished rooms" in the red light district, populating Reno, protecting "white slaves," legislating for the political and corporation robber and selling cocaine to school children. While parents sleep the enemy sows tares in the lives of their school children with vile literature and obscene pictures. While young people sleep the enemy sows evil habits of profanity, drink and licentiousness. While the nation sleeps the enemy sows the tares of evil customs. The fathers of the republic warned against Sabbath breaking. Now the desecration of that old rest and worship day is on the increase. Tares of easy divorce threaten to crowd out the wheat of wholesome married life. The nation's field is being sowed rapidly. Souls are ruined, homes are broken up, nations are humiliated. The Two Harvests. "Let both grow together." Pay no attention. Ingersoll was puny the Gladiatone noticed him. Pull up evil thoughts? No; leave them alone. Try thinking good ones. How conquer bad habits? Make New Year's resolutions? It's hardly worth while. Conquer vices by cultivating virtues. Men are ever for radical measures. Even the church has tried to mot out indulges and heretics; hence Sacaurola is dragged through the streets of Florence. Hum and Jerome blaze at the state. Calvin Jerome Survives. Puritan persecute the Quakers; the rock, the thunderblow, the wheat, are used to pull up the trees. Athletes in the world sometimes go. elites more intreed in the church than immorality. Oft it has been so busy pulling up tares that the wheat has been quite forgotten. Separation is at the last. A sowing means a reaping. "Whatsoever a man (or a church or a nation) soweth." Consequences are unplying; Wheat shall be garnered; tares shall be gathered. Good shall stand forth in its beauty, evil in its horrible deformity. The tares shall be cast into the "furnace of fire." Literally? They are the Master's own words. They had better stand in all their fearful suggestiveness. The "how" we may not know; the fact only is sure. "Weeping and gnashing of teeth" is but another image of horror to indicate the terrible state of the lost soul—the indescribable ruin; the incomannable grief, the important ruge of the children of darkness. Mercy. O Christ! The other picture, quick! "Then shall the righteous suffer forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." FISK UNIVERSITY NOTES. Noted Institution For Higher Education Faces Serious Situation. Fisk university, the most noted Negro institution for higher education, is facing a serious crisis in its attempt to raise an endowment fund. The institution was offered $90,000 more than two years ago by the general education board on condition that it raise $240,000 in addition for liquidation of accumulated indebtedness of about $50,000 for repairing and rebuilding buildings, for the installation of a heating and lighting plant and for endowment. An amount of $500,000 was to be raised, two thirds of which was to go for endowment. The institution has run all these years almost entirely through the support from year to year of white friends in the north. About 200 of these white friends have contributed toward the present endowment effort, but the total amount given leaves $104,000 yet to be raised. The time limit of the initial offer of the general education board expires June 1, and the university authorities have no assurance that this time limit will be extended. The alumni are carrying on a loyal rally to raise $25,000 as their share in the fund, but there will still remain nearly $100,000, which must be secured from other friends. The white friends of the Negro have contributed generously to this fund and now are asking what the colored people propose to do. The authorities of the university are making a nation wide appeal to the colored people to rally to the rescue of this institution, which for forty-seven years has offered all that is highest and best in education. Garbarge Slag. Blag from garbage incinerating plants is valuable for filling between ceilings and floors of storage warehouses, as it is sterile and contains no sulphur to injure stored goods. Curious It is said that in Smith's "Wealth of Nations" the word "nation" appears only on the title page. Money Matters. Day dreams are all very well, but the young man of today must be able to turn them into cash.-Florida Times-Union. If they're only going to impose the tax on incomes of over $4,000, most of us can qualify in the I should worry class.-Indianapolis News. The reason it is harder to live on $15,000 a year than on $15 a week is because it is so difficult to get the $15,000.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Tales of Cities. Philadelphia this year has 2,164 Hewlett-salons, a loss of one since 1912. Chicagoans are demanding a separate prison for women, to be run by women. San Francisco promises a moral cleanup in advance of the opening of its expansion. Cleveland's 200 women rapsters have been declared by the state factory inspector a menace to public health. Current Comment. Time is now flying, and the day is not far off when you will have to knock the fly out of time—Chicago Record-Herald. At a society dance in New York the dancers danced down a stairway. What sort of steps will they take next? Cleveland Plain Dealer. On the latest and greatest staircase just launched there are lifebooks for 5,200 persons. With the proper thing for a ship to do with lifebooks is not to need them—Chicago News. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK THE PLANET is the Leading Journal in the Country JOHN MITCHELL, JR., 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. Long Distance Telephone, Monroe-2213. We Do Linotype Work for the Trade. We print CALENDARS. Our prices are as low as is consistent with First Class Work. We furnish Invitations for Balls, Weddings and Special Entertainments. We have a Stock Room here in which we carry Book Paper, Bond Paper, Flat Writings, Manilla Paper, Envelopes. Card Board, Wedding Stock. in fact, Every thing in the Printing Line. How W. A. Rayfield Is Proving His Qenius In Special Field. Birmingham, Ala.-W. A. Rayfield, the well known architect, who has offices in this city, is prosecuting his work in this southern field with a vigor that is the characteristic of success. He has made the plans for and supervised some of the best buildings erected by Afro-Americans in the south. He is winning his laurels and gaining in public favor. Mr. Rayfield, like all of our young men who would succeed, has to work hard. He has traveled adversity's road for a long time. Working in a pioneer field, he has had to bear with the questioning attitude of the very people whom he would serve and demonstrate to them again and again his ability to accomplish the work he sets out to do. As is perhaps well known, Mr. Rayfield is a graduate of Atlanta and Howard universities, of the department of architecture of the Pratt Polytechnic institute and of the same department of Columbia university. In W. A. RAYFIELD. addition to this training, Mr. Rayfield did some special work at the London (England) Polytechnic institute. Practically ten years were spent at Tuskegee institute, during which time Mr. Rayfield placed the architectural division on a firm basis and did some real constructive work at that institution. It was during his time and largely under his direction that the buildings at Tuskegee took on a better time and a higher aspect in so far as their architectural beauty is concerned, thus paying the way for a group of buildings that in their architectural design and permanent usefulness is most commendable. When Mr. Rayfield determined to go Into business and extend his sphere of usefulness no place appealed to him like Birmingham, "the New York of the south." Here he has worked with a fixed aim and has made it possible for other members of the race to secure work of this kind which they formerly could not get. He is the official architect of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Connection and in this capacity has made plans for some of its best buildings. In addition to this distinction Mr. Hayfield is the general supervising architect of the Freedmen's Aid society of the Methodist Episcopal church and will have to do with most of the building done in the society's twenty odd schools. PUSHING ON IN BUSINESS. Build Success Upon Ruins of Former Failures, Says Mitchell. The struggle of the colored people to secure a footing in the financial world has not been abandoned on account of financial failures, says Editor John Mitchell in the Richmond (Va.) Planet. Colored people are as determined as ever to regain the ground which they have lost and to achieve success upon the ruins of their former failures. The prevailing disposition in the past to give dishonest leaders the right of way is being antagonized and men and women of sterling integrity are pressing forward to reclaim 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 center of business activity among colored people and we see no reason why it should not continue to maintain its supremacy. Miss Hallie Q. Brown's Coming Lecture Members and friends of the Avery mission, north side, Pittsburgh, are busy with arrangements for a lecture to be given at the mission on Thursday evening, May I, by Miss Hallie Q. Brown the widely known locutionist. The committee is charge of the arrangements is headed by Mrs. Thomas H. Johnson and Mrs. Mianlo Watson as chairman and secretary, respectively. Public interest in the affair is increasing daily. Federal Office For Samuel H. Thompson When Attorney General McReynolds on April 15 made known his intention of appointing Samuel H. Thompson of Denver to the position of assistant attorney general, to have charge of cases before the court of claims, it was regarded by politicians in Washington as indicating the probable course to be pursued by the new administration in regard to Afro-Americans holding federal positions of the higher class. Bill-Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Envelopes, Business 2 Visiting Cards, Policies, Medical Blanks, Insurance Blanks, Financial Cards, Lodge Books, Labels, Checks, Check Books, Minutes, Pamphlets, Whole Sheet Handbills, Placards. We have a supply of Fine Commencement Folders for Graduates of our Educational Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. AGENTS FOR THE PLANET. RICHMOND, VA. Mrs. Annie Walbarrow, 4th & Broad. W. H. White, 501 W. Leigh Street. Peter Thompson, 716 N. 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We have a full line of the Finest Stationery to be obtained anywhere in the United States. We supply Mourning Paper and Envelopes. Misinterpreted. Lord Macaulay passing, one day through the Seven Dials bought a handful of ballads from some street folks who were bawling out their contents to a gaping audience. Proceeding on his way home he was astonished to find himself followed by half a score of urchins, their faces beaming with expectation. "Now then, my lad, what is it? " said he. "Oh, that's a good 'un," replied one of the boys, "after we've come all this way." "But what are you waiting for?" said the historian, astonished at the lad's familiarity. "Walting for! Why, ain't you going to sing, saviner?"—Life. Mrs. Hannah L. John 516 N. HARRISON ST., E MADISON 7165. RICHMOND HADGES AND REGALIA OF EVERY DESO FolloWS and Household of Ruth Bodges A Furnished Lodges Entirely Free of Cost or PHONE MADISON 7165. 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In Sweden barber shops are as numerous as in the United States, and their owners take pride in keeping them neat and clean, but they are not as lavishly furnished as are most American shops. Opportunity has all her hair on her forehead, but when she has passed you cannot call her back. She has no tuft whereby you can lay hold on her, for she is bald on the back part of her head and never returns.—Francois Rabelais. She (angrilly)—Hero's some fool man saying that all women are naturally dishonest. He—Well, dearie, aren't you always stealing our hearts?—Baltimore American. L. Johnson, RISON ST., RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. EVERY DESCRIPTION. Both Badges A Specialty. Free of Cost or Obligation. OPPORTUNITY. Flattery. ```markdown ``` A Critic and his Criticisms. A Critic and his Criticisms. (Continued from First Page.) It, that it might be granted them under certain conditions. Are the school authorities of Richmond blind to the needs of its colored citizens? Can they not look around and see what is needed? Do they not know that a business training for colored children is as important as the knowing how to fry pancakes, mend old shoes or to white-wash? It is rather the unusual for the patrons of the public schools of a progressive city to have to go to a progressive school board and ask that subjects be placed in the curriculum of its high schools that will fit the students for a business career in life. The colored people of Richmond know that the school authorities of this city are fully alive to the needs of its high schools. As proof of this look at the course of study in the white high school; then compare the courses in this school with those of the colored high school and the deficiencies in the latter school are readily seen. To supply these deficiencies, the colored people who are entitled to better school facilities than they have, have to go down in their pockets and out of their scant and hard-earned wages pay to send their children to Hart-horn College, Virginia Union University, Van de Vyver College and other private institutions to source an education that will fit them to earn a living." I have interviewed the heads of our banks, insurance companies, formal organizations and individual business and professional men, our preachers and many parents, and they are all of the unanimous opinion that the education of the colored children of Richmond will be incomplete and wholly unsatisfactory until thorough and complete business and commercial courses are taught in our High and Normal School. Mr. Superintendent and Gentlemen of the Richmond City School Board, the colored people of Richmond, who share the oneorous burdens of taxation and who are interested in the education of their children pray you for this business course. Gentlemen, it is the failure on your part to give us these courses that has caused nearly all of our boys to drop out of "Old Normal." Gentlemen, it is the failure on your part to give us these courses that has caused a falling off in the enrollment of the present session, when the inflow from the district schools should have greatly increased the attendance. Gentlemen, if you would not longer or make the term "high school" a misnomer when applied to the Colored High and Normal School, you will hear the prayer of the more than 50,000 colored residents of your city, patrons of the public schools and tax payers. Gentlemen, if you doubt the needs and desires of our people, you can find them first hand if you will call a conference of the leaders in the colored people or a mass meeting of the business and professional men and women of the race and hear them tell their needs. GEO. ST. JULIEN STEPHENS. Richmond, Va., May 19, 1912. LEISBURG NOTES. Leesburg, Va., May 19.—Mr. Roy has put in a phone at his place of business' where he can be easily reached. Quite an improvement. The surprise party at Mrs. James Walkers to Mrs. Frank Talbert was very fine. Mrs. Williams of Ashburn, Rev. Spots Brown and Mr. John H. Douglas were the guest of Mr. William Neal Sunday. Miss Julia Glenn visited Mr. and Mrs. Redman at Clarke Gap. Miss Ione Robinson has returned from Richmond where she has been attending school. Mr. Thomas Robinson of Washington was visiting in town Sunday. Mr. Henry Blue of Washington was visiting in town Sunday. Mr. Cory Elgin has returned home from the hospital. We hope for him an early recovery. B. W. Murray is acting for the National Art and Crayon Company, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Calvin Neal of Alexandria, N.A. visited his sister, Mrs. Robert Walker. He sure is getting fond of sister: Quite a large crowd gathered at the Primitive Baptist Church Sunday to hear Elder Brown as the funeral of Mrs. Greenleave was to be held. Next Sunday will be Rev. Dr. Tyler's day at Providence Baptist Church. All are cordially invited to hear him. Mr. W. L. Jones left on 14th inst. to visit his brother at Bowling Green Caroline County. After spending several days of rest he returned home on Sunday. In an altercation with a little colored boy and white boy on Sunday, a white man, after seeing the colored boy was getting the best of it, jumped in and flogged the colored boy, after which the colored boy used a stone on his head. He went to fall but was released this morning. $3.50 Recipe Free. For Weak Men. 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VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Tourt of the City of Richmond, this 14th day of May, 1913 Florence Edwards.....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery Joseph Edwards.....Defendant The Object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Ninculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff against the defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an afflaw having been made and filed that the defendant Joseph Ed- wards is a non-resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that the sold Joseph Edwards appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to pro- tect his interest herein. A Copy. A Copy. Tete, P. P. WINSTON. Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, 19. To Joseph Edwards: You'll take notice that I shall on the 14th day of July, 1912, at the office of Phil B. Sicilies, Room 701, Travellers Insurance Building situated on the North side of Main street, between (11) Eleventh add (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 day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. Respectfully. FLORENCE EDWARDS By Counsel. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. Office: 1215 E. Broad St. Richmond, Virginia. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, this 14th day of May, 1913. Clarn Williams.....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery Harrison Williams.....Defendant The Object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce, a Vinculo Matrimonii, by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the ground of Doxertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant Harrison Williams is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that the said Harrison Williams appear here within fifteen days after publication of this order and do whatever may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. Harrison Williams: 'You'll take notice that I shall on the 11th day of July 1912, at the office of Phil B. Shelda. Room 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 HELLER'S Established 1856. Oldest $2.00 Transformatio...n.....$1.50 50c $1.50 2-stem Switch.....,$1.00 $1. 39c Wavy. Banges:.....25c $1. 50c Double Plats:.....25c 35c 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, where 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 day to day or from time to time at the same place and between the same hours until the same shall have been concluded. Respectfully, CLARA WILLIAMS. By Counsel. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD. pq. Office: 1215 E. Broad St. MOUNTAIN EXCURSION TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1018, Via SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Fares from Richmond to Ashville and Black Mountain. $8.00 Hendersonville, Hot Springs and Waynesville. $9.00 Lake Toxaway. $10.00 Rates in same proportion will apply from all stations West Point to Danville and Keysville to Clarksville. Tickets good on all regular trains of May 29th, in either Pullman sleeping cars or Day Coaches. An unusual opportunity to spend Ten Days in the Beautiful Mountains of Western North Carolina—The Land of the Sky—the Balsams—The Beautiful Sapphire Country. For particulars and copies of booklets on the Western North Carolina Country, see nearest Southern Railway Agent, or write S. BURGESS, D. P. A., Richmond, 'Phone, South 1845-M. MRS. S. E. JONES EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Wants First Class Cooks (both sex) Male and Female Waitresses, Chambermaids, Housekeepers, Landress, Farm-hands, and Laborers. Apply at West Point House, 29 F. Lee St., Baltimore, Md., 1-2 square from Richmond boat landing, where you can also get Boarding and Lodging at Reasonable Rates by Day or Week or Month. A. JONES, Proprietor. Colored Porters Here's Your Chance A Good Pullman Car Porter makes more money than any man on his train. We can fit any colored than In 30 days to fill that position. 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We invite Clubs, Societies, in fact organizations of all kinds to patronize us. We shall be glad to give you advice on financial matters and show you through our palatial Banking House. Our President is under Bond. Our Cashier is under Bond. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is insured against loss by burglars. Our Building is insured and the bulk of our funds invested in desirable Real Estate. Our Tellers are under Bond. Our Banking Hours are from 9 A.M. to 2 P.M. and Saturdays from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. THOMAS H. WYATT, Vice-President. WALTER T. DAVIS, Cashier. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Secretary NORTH-WEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. TIRI Every one of these new developments is an evidence of the perennial leadership of the Remington Typewriter. Illustrated booklet descriptive of all recent Remington improvements, seat on request Typewriter Company (incorporated) for Less Money. We Weave the Goods we sell, therefore sav man's Profit. Hundr Dressers are our cust to our list. A Suit from A Select Made $15 Style, Fit and Work Give us a Call, whet ENGLISH WO Corner Second a Female E We Weave the Goods and Tailor the Clothes we sell, therefore saving you all the Middleman's Profit. Hundreds of Richmond's best Dressers are our customers. Let us add you to our list. A Suit from Any Pattern You Select Made to Measure for Style, Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed. Give us a Call, whether You Buy or Not. ENGLISH WOOLEN MILLS, Corner Second and Broad Streets. Female Embalmer. MADAM LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madam Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States, Embalming and Conducting Funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely: Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of G. 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April 21—Sir Andrew Taylor, Orange Lodge, No. 150... April 21—Sir Lewis Wingfield, Virginia Lodge, No. 6... April 28—Sir Henry Trumwell, Fulton Lodge, No. 42... April 28—Sir E. D. Carter, Buckner's Lodge, No. 149... April 29—Sir Roland Young, Virginia Lodge, No. 6... April 29—Sir William W. Hill, Royal Lodge, No. 26... April 28—Sir George E. Lipcombe, Capital Lodge, No. 81... April 28—Sir Jesse Murphy, Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15... April 28—Sir C. C. Lottler, Peak Knob Lodge, No. 64... Amount Paid by Grand Lodge..... $17,000.00 Amount Paid by Grand Court..... $ 0,000.00 and Tailor the Clothes ing you all the Middle- eds of Richmond's best promers. Let us add you My Pattern You To Measure for 5.00 manship Guaranteed. other You Buy or Not. DOLEN MILLS, and Broad Streets. mbalmer. The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated area with no discernible content. 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