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KLEEMOND PLANET DR. BOOKER, WASHINGTON. Great Meeting Here. Improvement in Existing Conditions. Dr. Booker T. Washington the Central Figure. Splendid Address at Auditorium. VOLUME XXX. NO. 50. Great Improvement Dr. Booker T. Splendid The Negro Organization Society, Major R. R. Moton, president met last Thursday at 10 A. M. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The religious exercises were conducted by Rev. J. M. Jeffress of Charlotte county, Va. Major Moton called the meeting to order and called on Mr. T. B. Williams to speak. President Moton stated that the meeting was informal and any one could say anything he planned, provided what he said was proper. Prof. John M. Gandy discussed, "How the Negro Organization Society Is Meeting Fundamental Needs of the Negro." It was a symposium of his efforts in conjunction with others in improving the living conditions of the colored people in various parts of the State of Virginia. He concluded amidst anlausue. Mayor George Ainalie entered. He was introduced in a happy vein by Rev. W. H. Stoker, Ph. D. Mayor Ainalie declared that he regarded the personal and active interest taken by citizens who were financially, independent in bettering the condition of the colored people was especially gratifying. Talk is very good. There comes a time when action should follow talking. I have never been able to understand why I should not be interested in the standard of citizenship of every member of the community in which I live. It does not matter as to his race, creed or color. He spoke of the "clean-up" movement inaugurated in this city. His Honor explained in detail his efforts to improve the living condition of the colored people here. President R. R. Moton in the most solicitous and complimentary language introduced Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor of The PLANET, who he asserted really needed no introduction. Mr. Mitchell paid a glowing tribute to Mayor George Ainalie. He complimented the organization upon its work and created something of a sensation by declaring that the organization was proceeding in the right direction, but he believed that the low vitality and high death rate were due to insufficient food for the tolered people. He declared that the food wanted at the hotels and private residences in this city would feed half of Richmond free of charge. "Many children" he said. "went to school hungry and many others but only bread and molasses for breakfast. The high cost of living made good food prohibitive." made a most pleasing r sponse and as usual "brought down the house." Rev. Dr. B. W. Tyrrell was also felicitous in his response. The special guest retired and the Organization proceeded with its routine programme. Thursday night, Prof. Kelly Miller was the speaker of the evening. He was preceded by President R. R. Moton, who delivered his annual address. The explanation of the aims and purposes of the organization was timely. Mrs. A. W. Holmes stoke, and Dr. A. A. Graham delivered a stirring address on "Methods and Value of Co-operation for Negro Uplift in Virginia." Rev. B. W. Tyrrell, D. D. introduced the speaker of the evening. Prof. Kelly Miller discussed, "The Fundamentals of Race Loyalty." His algebraic comparisons brought forward in the consideration of every day problems were a feature. He was thoroughly at home on the rostrem and won the fixed attention of the audience at the start and held it to the close. He has a most pleasing style of oratory and in his impressive manner and witty allusions robs the information given of all solemnity and weariness. His language is chaste and (Continued On Fifth Page.) Thanksgiving Banquet There will be a grand Thanksgiving supper at the Pythian Castle, November 27th. The ladies are arranging to have a grand time. The Knights of Khorasan will be out in full force. A large attendance is expected. Editor Fortune to Lecture at Third St. A. M. E. Church, Nor. 24th. Editor T. Thomas Fortune, formerly of the New York Ago will speak at 3rd St. A. M. E. Church, Monday November 24th on 'The Black Man's Burden.' Editor John Mitchell, M. R. S. A. will introduce the speaker and Editor J. W. Poe will serve as master of ceremonies. Special financial effort for Building Fund at 3rd St. A. M. E. Church, Sunday. All captains are requested to report. The Loss of An Interpreter. (Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch, Oct. 25, 1913.) Richmond is poorer today by the passing from its community life of a man who served the splendid duty of being an interpreter for the Negro. Webster Davis, educator, minister and author, had earned the respect and admiration of his own race and of his white friends by his simplicity, sincerity and unselfishness. The Times-Dispatch regrets this loss, yet hopes that the example of this service may show others how to bring the white race and the Negro closer together in a common sympathy and understanding. No good man is lost if his work lives after him. Every thoughtful Southern man or woman realizes that the reconciliation of race differences depends upon knowledge. The Negro must be taught to believe in the justice and kindness of his fellow-men. The white people must be informed of the needs and ideals of the Negro. In an almost unique way, Webster Davis fulfilled this function of bringing many diverse minds together for common labor in a common cause. He was respected by his own race and held himself free of the potty factions and jealousies that stultify much of the Negro's desire for advancement. His understanding of Negro problems made him of great service to the people of Richmond who worked for better life among the other race. It is not easy to estimate the good such a personality has done. For thirty-three years Webster Davis had taught in the public schools. He had lectured both in Virginia and beyond. He had extended his statement of Negro problems and conditions to the larger audiences of readers in three books. He taught wisely and reverently from the pulpit. His work was of peculiar service to the cause of charities and corrections. Recently he has been the representative of his people on the governing board of the Society for Better Housing and Living in Richmond. Here his knowledge of local conditions and the crying evils in the present housing conditions of the Negro population has guided the Investigation and helped suggest the remedy. We trust that his work will not be forgotten, and that his plans may some day be carried out. INVENTOR TAYLOR PLANNING TO FLY. Has Built Bird-like Structure—Han discapped by Lack of Funds. Machine About Ready. Mr. A. C. Taylor, the colored inventor has gone from one degree of improvement to another. He has succeeded in patenting several of his inventions some of which he has disposed of at a substantial profit to himself. His extension ladder is of a unique design and is now on the market. He has also patented and marketed a costumer, which is bring ing him a steady revenue. His work shop and office at 606 N. Second St. is a place of interest. PECULIAR AIR CRAFT. Of lato he has been devoting his time and energy to the building of an air-ship, known as an aeroplane and he has succeeded in interesting several prominent citizens in the venture. The one he has rigged up is now in the frame structure on the south-west corner of Second and Jackson streets. It measures about 32 feet from tip to tip and is about 25 feet from front to rear. It is made of light but substantial wood, wired and covered with brown canvas, which looks like khaki. MONEY WANTED FOR ENGINE The seat is no placed as to accommodate one person, the operator, but Mr. Taylor says that he can easily arrange it for two persons. What he wants now is to get the thing to make it fly. This will be an engine of sufficient motive power to work the propellers and he thinks that one thousand dollars will be sufficient for this purpose. Mr. Taylor is confident that the machine will fly all right. WILL SECURE AVIATOR He contemplates getting a man to do the dying in the machine, although PROF. J. M. GANDY Executive Secretary of the Negro Organization Society of Va. he will make short flights near the ground, himself. He claims to have studied air-currents and the effect of the movements of the various parts of the air-craft and that it will work all right. No one who will examine this peculiar machine will doubt Inventor A. C. Taylor's sincerity. He hopes to be ready to make flights in the neighborhood of the Fair Grounds within the next three months. Should the engine reach him any time within the next week or so, he can be ready to make flights within a comparatively short time. The Clerk Club Orchestra The Clof Club Orchestra under the management of Mr. James Reese Europe will never lack for an audience in Richmond, if one is to judge by the enthusiasm evoked and the satisfaction given at the City Auditorium last Thursday night. The programme was of a high order including masterpieces in the musical art. The performers were skilled in their profession and accomplished in all that they saw fit to render. They were enceded again and again and at a late hour the hundreds of people who had paid the price to "see the show" filed regretfully through the exits, being even then desirous of remaining at that late hour to hear again the rendition of some of the charming musical selections. To go into detail with reference to the programme might be monotonous. It is enough to say that it is one of the best musical treats that has ever been put upon the billboards in this city. THE MISSING MEN OF THE WORLD An Appeal to the Race Loving Women Rev. Dr. Graham Returns Thanks and Men of the United States. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2, 1913. The Constitutional League of O. L. 1631 Christian Street. Lahoma with Lawyer William Har Editor Richmond PLANET: rison of Oklahoma City as its leading attorney is contesting wit hagor the you and that large host of friends "Jim Crow Laws" of Oklahoma. He made up a nice sum of money will, the last of November or the first and sent it to me a nice sum of money of December bring before the United for the rally that began in the Holy States Supreme Court the case of Trinity Baptist Church last Sunday, McCabe et al. vs. The Atchison To. It came in time to give life and thrill peka Santa Fe Ry. Co. et. al. We are informed that jurists say congratulation. The rally will go on that the Oklahoma case is the best each Sunday in this month, prepared of its kind, of any case yet put before the United States Supreme Court, and that it will now have to meet the issue squarely. There is one feature of this case that will be settled, which will affect all of the Negroes in the United States and that is the Interstate Passenger Law. If he succeeds it will put an end to all "Jim Crowism," so far as Interstate Passengers are concerned. They will not then be subject to the intra-state laws of the South. Hence, we hereby appeal to every liberty loving woman, man and friend of the Negro race in this country to make a contribution to the expense of fighting this case. We think it is high time. If Negroes want liberty, they should be willing to pay something towards it. A few race loving men and women in the Oklahoma Learn, led by the Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., who is now pastor of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., have made great sacrifices to bring the case through the lower courts to its present stage and Mr. Harrison has practically given his service for nothing; but must be rewarded. We are informed that two able Constitutional lawyers of Boston and New York will assist in this case. Therefore let every one who is interested sen. at least $1.00 All contributions to be sent to Rev W. H. Jernagin, D. D., 420 Que St. N. W. Washington, D. C., who will receipt you for the same. He is a reputable, straight forward Christian gentleman, and will make an honest report of all money sent him. If persons making contribution do not object, their names will be published in the leading papers of their State. Yours for Justice, S. W. LAYTON, Phila., Pa., President Womans Convention, Auxiliary National Baptist Convention, NANNIE H. BURROUGHS, Washington, D. C., Secretary Womans Convention, Aux. Nat. Bapt. Con. NEGRO MAYOR IN LONDON? His Election Is Declared to Be Pro nable in Battersea. J. R. Archer, a Negro, is the progressive candidate for the mayorality of Battersea. He is married to a woman of his race, and if elected, as seems probable, will be the first colored mayor in London. Archer has been in business as a photographer eight years, but has lived in Battersea twenty-four years. MAJ. R. R. MOTON. President Negro Organization Society of Virginia. Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 3, 1913. 1631 Christian Street. Editor Richmond (PLANET: I want to express my thanks you and that large host of friends who made up a nice sum of money and sent it to me a nice sum of money for the rally that began in the Holy Trinity Baptist Church last Sunday. It came in time to give life and thrill for inspiration to my members and congratulation. The rally will go on each Sunday in this month. A GOOD START. We made a good start Sunday $750 we made up the day's collections. We are trying to raise $2000 during the month. We are putting in pews, painting, altering and phoning a bea- fful polplot set laying rich carpet. You and your Richmond friends will remember how bare our church was when you were here. Our church will now be a thing of beauty. We shall be very glad now when our friend comes to see us. And best to tell that Richmond has a hand in it. RAISED MUCH MONEY HERE You remember I paid off a $12,000 debt from the Fifth Street Baptist Church and then made repairs and decorations to the amount of $3,000 and left it a thing of beauty, besides baptizing 1500 persons during my pastorate there. I have been there two years; paid off $100,000 of an $18,000,000 debt, added 4,000 (one thousand) members, and am now spending about $5000,000 beautifying Holy Trinity. I know my good people of Richmond will rejoice when they hear this good news. STILL PREACHING I am still preaching race pride race enterprise and self help. I am still working for Virginia Seminary and our great Publishing Board at Nashville Tennessee and you know that I am in Richmond once a month looking after our great Mechanies Savings Bank over which you preside with honest business like vigilance, and that I am having a ten thousand dollar building going up at 613 N. 2nd Street, Richmond, for the American Beneficial Insurance Company of which I am still president. In that Company we are giving work to some 150 young men and women. WANTS TO DO SOME GOOD I was borran slave, but I am trying to do some good before I say good bye to the world. My personal debts are all paid up, my credit is first class among white and colored people. Once more I thank the members of 5th St. Church and those of the other churches for the money sent to help me in my rally. Your friend. W. F. GRAHAM. —Subscribe to The PLANET. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. of Virginia. Marriage Announcement Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bolseau request your presence at the Announcement Reception of the marriage of their daughter, Inell A. to Mr. Joseph Richardson September 1, 1913. Reception at 1218 N. 32rd St. Tuesday. November 11, 1913. S to 12 P. M. WANTED BRIGHT YOUNG LADY Mankourist for Barber Shop. Good wakes to right party. W. K. PHELPS. The Altamont Barber Shop. Bluefield, W. Va. WANTED—A GOOD ALL AROUND Printer at once. Apply or write GEORGE R MOORE, Carn New Century, 700 Queen St. Norfolk, Va. Real Estate For Sale Four choice properties on Second and Fifth Streets. These are all high class properties and prices range from $3,000 to $4,000. For particulars apply. B. A. CP- ELAS and Leigh Sts. Mr. James E. Chick of Mangohick, Va. was in the city this week. Rev. Charles Bright of Selden, Va. was in the city and called on us. Mr. Mary E. Earley of Glen Jean, West Virginia, called to see us. Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. continues quite ill at his residence. Mrs. Mary Jones Helps of Brooklyn, N. Y. who has been indisposed for the past few weeks is convalencing. Mrs. James Hayes of Washington D. C. visited the Southside last Sunday, the guest of Prof. and Mrs. J. H. Blackwell. Mrs. Maude Hickmon Lee of Lancaster Co., Va. who has been confined for the past month is improving slowly. Mr. D. J. Chavers left this city last Monday morning at 9 o'clock to enter the National Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va. He arrived there safely and improving. Messam. Kelly Thompson and George Bennett, formerly old Manchester boys were with The Clof Club of New York, which played here at the City Auditorium Thursday night. They were looking well and in the best of spirits. Deacon Armstead Wnashington, of the Second Baptist Church is out again. He has been treated by Dr. R. A. Deane. Mr. Washington's many friends are happy over his recovery. He will be at his post of duty Sunday after having been indoposed for four weeks. ~~’ ' = = ei ty . <2 Me ictameasr eet t ee . 7 - —_ : woe nm ee Slanned, for 1am v0 seed up, 00 dlatradt- , : 2 tbe Bio) “ane s 4 & picture pone enrd of the Maxonic } Qa that { cannot write 1 Dhoush I haved | eee op anywhere this sie of t .[ Tt wan mere thao a moment, mes . : Dutlding aa thia here letter.” fried twice Tam at the end of my cour agree mons, but he’can gome: be can gome.” ae fo,batt anchors. Kewn of dyan:| yrer, hetore the niet wan Alatnenadt “Victor-it's Ike thin: I have got holt | axe end everything, and If we don't «natch ~<ZE=, Laying bie ‘hand on Matt's shoulder, Mite. barrels of bref nnd pork. and 19:1 “there, thure=” exciaitind CRrin, + |] foe a ttle ptece of a big accret nome pat our happiness now we anal! love tt for- Es be Indded: “Old south sen captains | DUmerable bolts of Rally printed cot} y- pecullar tarriag miied borane } thing, extraordinary, fnoxpitenble, 1n-| Wicked wicked, wicked! Lat Flexner 40] ASC eesti sheeld stand tomether. You'd bave| frm | 7 se milage anya pectin eo Yolving the bewt friend 1 bare fn the | all the taining til you unaersiand, Dea'\| PR MES Wr e Gene.the same fur me, and dat ls all] "Hat what oo ree ae rat ieiotiy anaiton as Are come me-. world, amt I ain on my honor to film to | think rhe tn tevoted. It's because I prom- a oeeeel there is to 11" _ | thowe ix, to whom| chinery bad been motion. Bet OF SOME Keep my mouth abut, If it waan't for | et NT 29 Gols, anc thay We a fortune etait “Fila wife's along.” tnterjected Cole | * #8 Hop was a norelty. ft was too irreciiar for machinery that promise I'd toil rou eversthtins | sortie down snd yodel for the reaver her . ae men, winking at Matt. “ond a corking | Mell spe fo the mene anrage nt 200} and | bad an. indescribable ehetilieg You get that letter of to Farelly nn] daye She te very sharp, so be cavtour bes }-| young woman abe {a too. Sings splen. | PT cent profit.” returned Schwarta | quailty that Matt way at a loas to ac IMPORTANCE |ls8ex" Ser | Sad ree ant | Nein sole oe ae ne aes oe He ning n Pie of use, att, Stently | Ht Hove 3c and ae will ahow 36 - will be dandy of a moonlight night to | “Tut what ate thone cans over there] it. It was an fuo as the lash of @ and truly, Mare Broughton, tt ain't a] "PR e When fahal have paid the 10} F{ pie on the posp and bear bers for tu the mek?” . J whip and'ns vicious, as tt acemed to aes Dit of tae” ave ineinte cu In advance febail have 85, i Pr].} You wot « wife’ asked the cap-|, “Te shoot bim if he nin‘t satiated [ating the alr. Matt Kéaped trom the ny “De Het ote res angen" i cuter a moment ent weal tain, appersauiy much ploaned. say, | "DAF To A tricks lot Siw Bronghton, | hunk, despite Chris’ entreaties, BY SAM right. Murse Hroughten; though | Matt qenlered m inoment a ol a : Ant’ will be One! Yoong, sho ts” lend, Nke all fo teddy to| Gerke, bo wan going LLOYD ‘OSBOURNE _ |}fcoutti' sou cnt one nein of tive tunes | Mnaulent, “You are Flexner? . atl | ““rwenty-three." repliod Matt. Beek Joe down ea they de eaten 's | Waa! Follow Schwartz and find qut ble pe? PVR Re ae game ed P| echwarts looked happier than évee. | tieen It was an antoushing algbt that met Not a tlte of it Yon welte it gust | “WHE sen please give me your mew les |] *xou come on to Malaite,” ho sald | ‘Chris ahrnk a ittlo closer to Matt, {DIR Kaze. Forward of tho forewmast r the way Mt fs nnd tion deave it at tin | Ane et ig ‘fe. Tam married. too, and ‘got two] who renneured her by remarkiog thar | 24" nort of hut constructed of mat- Copsritht, 19112 by ihe Hoddamernitt |] Tnoure tontitt ™ “My rune tidy shes to do n very |} SES Pie | leetle bodies, 20 bigh—overstblng One. | their ixinnds sould not be Ike that. | 'Feraes, forining a windbreak or shield, : Company ‘hie nett merous Matt trestet im | feels thins." sail Flexner, with | WSS EY | tne, but my wife sho ls very lone | “yuure mover told, ime where yon | Pen only to the forenatle. Within tt elt to the Invury wf getting ap tee fUmapnresing ured of her mouth. | SSSA S| game for white aoclety. I think #ho | want to ko." put in Kcbwarts, “Vere seated on a box, was Herman, bent Sa fe tate, tated. thot Dasesunuet bout | PS wants sou ores oeay Ah ee | eg fiom for tor to nce another young | iy that detigtttul pince so aiderent| OTe? 62 apparatus nnd causing tt by. SYNOPSIS alrendy cone. teav ing te message. But | fOmerreNy Tens Oe mobile and | (<a) | White lady. And I’ get you @ gvot | trom the Solomonn?”, ‘Teane of a small brass handle to emit Matt Brourhien tnaves the service ot Sete Morton a Paciae inland to return t Biverion. Mort xives him n valuable Fing Broughton prom'ars £1 aay nothing ano he mysterinta Movt and hie woman com. panioa. He le shipwrecked and” mum Fratton te Ban Franctacg om the wae Raising £1.08 on the ring, to be renal Broughton returne to bin Olt home ai Manarwan ‘He thinks nC gcing into. the wale, Dusinean with Victor Deeancourt Srostored werege eoner Trouchton Mistisd by the local editor, who calle him ‘The “ing ta due to a “fans” newspe- per story stout Urwugiiten's aAvedtaree tn Ghe Peeine. At a rhurch fale be meets Chisstine Marehati, staugiter of m Tocal magnate State fatla in love with Chrie, who eens Rim'to call on her Tnewnncone te ane. Swan to guage Wie start in the mule Bual bees tm Kentucs, On hla way tu the Murahaite’ Matt ts Getained vy an ta.sesctat nto ntranger, but Mattie Inte and anc tliten to him, Me talte bie hove to Chirie Cherie wins favea Matt The atranaer, whe catia Wisner? Kes. some Mate an Bd poctradt sof Sturt urd «ere bien WOO? for Information moot bir, Wot Sat Pee muinecsvyat Tha ring ts flawed, Matt hore from flan Francie nih fe wort pAC RO ay Palpes bie nie tis fis baa pativoad coe and viowe Ait tue rie Ch ieave he and Rin cinplnyerm gre) aware Matt knows Bort Matt austen refises artets attached, but sevages Hie Gaile ches merit Morte nea Cartier Ges ty tepertincat the tangs Ch eie peonanes te rinery Mee ne z ae tagete mw tint eocte ef watucte date , CHAPTER XI, Pca inert lee bptel sam PAE Ute Foe ascend, ain interest fing es pation. tefere bien me Ao prtiarehiy wheneter ethse be taker ot he felt that as Mas Unabes Were covet tet that ht font nt lant Wate ots the Hakler of tne Betebenee Mes Wan tie a atom uf eo tentuiwtt atl keeed i Te wae son, Laven “when It camne t on cud the evening after muppe Tageatossttt otoeok MARE Gone ih feud Wath gots Bected ebepte cote ah th feast tye” ARE esis tee 4 foots tnt $5.7 fa quay ered Yon kien, P started the Must hess nt tettane four phate se atl Ye crowend G2sene nt Puccio, the toons Jeanter New texts ta owinien gfe ter tol sanse ei Detect thins, Ont wf Gaede aay ted wattecit (tec teunt Warn ug, JOaE we te we Witt the reed fn oiuy ute wath fevbten perl Rave fect ts thot €2ser, Metin, and WEL ask So be tanne an teanaettste tettionent’ Lo maat "Mate Patel, That Isc fate Ws teed seve ne. teak feo't fide, mead Leger tw dite ato Mt than Teoh 26 Phot hie fattles with bts fountun pen aud ativks it Taek nest caref it in tts teat pooket apd says, “Shen yuitil have tw got cae : a “And ditn't Ty make ang explanar ton LMatey nttentica waa disturbed bya thiuaht that grew aud grew more fa- Mintent ay the wiuiatto poured out oe tale of Farelty's ainazint pertts. Ho SSS YES sinzntar dismbven! | From the Yo Sf CA and, tterettita Pe Mt omilaht seem, nsked htineett Whether there Was NOt swine Conner, thon hetwren Ig and thls unexpected catasteghe and whether bebtid bet there was test sameliw or other a mmyaterloue craciertion with Mz. Kas. “He dide't give te ay much ann pia hate te crawl tiraueh.” Dagganeort suntinied explostiely, “hot mB Week's grace—nettre ML Delteve Lean get son ont of this, mild Matt. "It nay te crazy, but lets trey Here, EU weite It an the back of nn envelage” Victor was astontoted: tn face, as withered aq od leather, merewet ttsel? UP fate as Ceti weltkles. “TES what 7 he demanded . “You sft down sat copy this det and Rave It tn by letter tax Inside of an hour: + “Dear Me Par tty= Leaking back on our interview, I fear L was ut 10 2 state boat Awerpaia Me grorneroue condition af the garage or how reuily Unwine It wrouid te Sn yoir oxen inivrenie ta. tereninate. Ty Connection with Ie The fact wae that T a Vers much unset Uy anuther matter tose Dad had with my demenstentor shartiy ature serv eaine tn Thie fellows Hrouetinn acted shorninatiy, and 1 hed to threaten hin wath a. constable Before he weoct} go, und afterward ho came back Aisin nd tried to clean out the. shop with's uece of lead pine. Isxcuse me tor Pothorine yeu with all this, Dutt am sure that I jou wus let. tne Deine you toe Looks and shew you how well the garage Se corte you will recanpider jour win 9 call tn the note. Our agency trospects are Sery ‘bright, andthe sale of two Jones: Tnotdice tn iaghieen Gaya speaks tor Noell Teel positive L can satiety you in rexard to everything If you with only be #0 very Kint''ae to tet me come and go over the Agures Wespecttulls youre, “VICTOn ‘bacoancount * And To to write fm that?” anked the molatto “Sikee alive, Marve Broughton, what tu the amie of good eas do son want tie to do tt fori” “Reendwe think T kowwe what's the matter with Mr. Vvrelis. domay be wrong. Litt | belie # the wiicie rehierie fa Mapis to get ime ont ef ay Jubb That's vty fat tte the tend plpe ant al that- ment main veo otic k te tt Ve we. for nit-ven'se wart : Smut wht ston Ponery de nat Reuse qe, Mere Height met se are nil ot Pmalyht ae wet seed bea & pleture pose card of the Maxon Dutldtng na thin here letter.” “Victor, it's like thin: I have got hol of n little ploce of a big sceret—xome thing, extraordinary, fnexpltenble, 10 volving the bert friend 1 bare fn :th world, amt Iam on my honor to fim ti Keep my mouth xhut, If it wasn't fo that promise I'd tell you eversthins You got that letter of to Farelly 9 ‘quick an row can.” “It ain't a Mt of use, alr, Steatly and truly, Morse Broughton, it ain't 2 Bit of He” “Do tt to obtize me. anghow." AM fight, Murse Hrcaghton: thoust couldn't Sou cut ont meine of the hue ble ple? Not a tlte of Ht Yon welte 1 Just the way ft is mid tion deave tat bin house tontitit™ The nett morules Matt treated hin elf to the Invury ef getting up fnte= 0 Inte, indeed. that Dazganewurt tied alrendy gone, waving ue weseaxe. fut he tetiietest seen with the thine that the letter thd been unraculousty ene cessful. Yes. old Pureily, ater 9 pre tere of examining the books, tad pire feaned hituse?f entirely nuthetled: thos utes wore int to he etel In: every SIEGE ae eo ean ta helabes ake gurage was saved! : “What elinetest i war when 1 sat Ta have to Biel another bwanting place." added Taxganconrt, with 0 puckered griu: “std Ewan afraid t6 top where seu was, tay the Ler forgive me, Tortieet'a cake, get awns froin tere, Marve Hestehton, oF worms imag coe of ft Get away aqutek, and hore’n £1240 Fetzow set the bane Matt pasted the money Iuek, “No, no, Victor” tie exetatted: “Vi goin to xtick thant Daun gen te stay tu Monnswan If It reins wlitents™ | After fecing tie mete positions ehretits thee minchinations of hls ys terloum fos Matt aneriesfes) fh getticns Jaton the water front Wit what te had nat reckoned wit tse Hor overt: tering, eristite fathone that made It fingeisctbite ts Keep It A tints wnimeeum toned to Revere sind profenzed manual Inter tine Witte etanew on The doekn Matt. worh!og ute dae sind after: eee Perstine for (ier edettent every Gere ty Bnd lowe Kins etosteg ment Sattivan, the fees ateretores toll tim the Monn tain View qnarry was te be opened ap with forty Hana ciaan any that te Nae rsomitivtetiad Matt far gata furenan | of tad pines Vente te dette ant vail Studies merning sit tath fever"? sand! Retinven | We joys wes a tote ett tad Matt, senting trarhie, tek Degcan with, aby atte, tee roewtiannes iad a ietcun for et “Etwe quarry wire tewertesl, leit they femnd we Lixhwas BANS Poeek et the grote stot harried WAY Gis fest 8 Elie mart Linn atin cord ge The poke Whateter fe Wm wed faded whet tha EERE ct pratense cre Wath sand bts prted eta aiiets Miles igre Matt and tow Fiona tei food fegf Tite hon, Sint hrie, tidtna testi! ber futher, nine See ae a wa = ee Ip 7 GA Ys, Ste Sra 3k mee ee dS Suddenly There Was a Fiash of a Whip. 7 pPast. Mate found biinseif hedding het Leit'y, tithing and Hetentng “wit Yrenttitess auiination, She bad no Keen able t atay away tonger. Sb Invest hitn and woutd way 4 before th word, promiay GF no premise Tt had teen unbsuzuble, aiid abs wee twenty. three and her own misteres, and, ob Lint he sueveedel ty what they had Hanwd? Na, he had not. It wan a Miter confoentin, But he had not They had got hin out of one thing aft ef moether: lid forced tim to hb see He bad bern persecuted and Danted UE ke wae well wlkh crazy Over all was another vulee abridentis crying: “Let go my daughter's borve. eS Tig. son hear, sr? Tet go: ny Anughter's home!” a. volee Ubetiog [with pansion and get tenant Faiatant itt na unvonsidered un the ‘drone of a want Suddenly there were a fish of n whip ‘and a atinging blow cut aero Matt face. Another flash, 9 nerentn, and he hind wrenchet the whip fromm wrin- Kled old band and war about to Inah out with te himeelt on that convntaive and foging fume, To tie dying day he was thankful be threw it from bite fnsteud, dlatils refratnin ax he real fred Mt wan Chel! father avd that he mus not ertke an old nnn Then the two hurws took fright and bolted, huriing, Mutt to the ground, from which he looked after them on one elbow, oblivious of ererything bat Chris nufery. Rut aie wan an 00d @ Hider nx hier father and on spirited an her own thoroughtred, She was keep: Ing her nent tu that bendiong gallop and. leaning tick Ike a little sockes. wan Jerking manfally at the curb. Tat nothing could have checked those horus ‘They were uncontrollable to thelr tetror. Stralning perk mul neck. they diintniened seal disappmared, leay. Ing Matt afk with four. « Chetatine wae tet Infured, and that eventing w pinth, anldtte aged woman Fame to the mordting henme and gate hin this cate , My Dartins <1 am sending vou this by my Maton naif Fleanee whnny Gin't trust fe mesh, Pee set tet you what | eas _ pat our happiness now we shall lose it for "| ever. It wae’ wicked of him to strike you | Wicked Wicked, wicked! Lat Flexner 4 -] all the tolxine tHT you understand. Dea || think ote ta devoted, It's because I prom | ised ner’ Reed dole. and tha) wa fortun in her country, where T suppose she wil settle down and pode) for the re«tot he |] Saye ‘Be ta very sharp, so be cavuour Oh, te Tcould only tale to you myeelt Mae T love Jou, and she will ahow yo how much Adie Cun. Tr So When aha have pald the #0 oslo tnsiate oir I avance T ebail have #5 fete Aintt portered nm tnement and thet inquired, “You re Blexuer? Yes, ale SAW! Sou please glye me your mew sage? “My young tidy wishes fo do a very foolind thie.” wall Flexner. “with Ataupproving pursing of her mouth Sstie wants son to run away with her tonwmrrow iauriting You are to get a enrringe, of, better, an automobile and Dek her np teterrow morning at 4 orelok at the Tate Onke entrance. Froviaie'y 1 xball have packed 9 amall Fertmantea ated pinced tt outside the oun, aust Gl ext day T will Inform her father that she Ie fi! and. cannot [ be asturted My thie menne sou reach Middleborough without trouble bi get marries, nav then take the tiaty to New York From New York you wil travel te San Franctaco, and there you say, ua anatter bow poor, hosp staying, UM he opportunity ar Hroa te go ta that place where you have e frend a very rleh, queer inn = whom once Jou Kerved and who wil take you tack In employ rent” “Julio Sort" aatd Matt te Dineelt, whe nays it tiie be new oF not at all, for aho canyot be xu brave twice, Bhe myn desperate penpte have te teke Gespernte chances. She asks you to! nawer yen of 90.” Matt inate a basty calculation, Me Dad alniost_m hundred dolines. This, With Chris’ $82, would ensily get them to California, with womethins to spare, He toht Meruer Gat hi miawer wan Yes" anal jut Into the word a warmth that he tiejeal abe would enrey to. hee Unieteows Xe Was to nay thet tee had SF tind Quast carey ont his tnmtrae. Hens teylienty; won rise te aay that roe was the pideklent piel ts Ohe World At halt gost S$ Mate nnd Daxguncourt were at the gates uf Fale Onkn, There wi a seitnd Of tnbes, of foot Tunis, cof muted exelanvattona tn Ue lk OA siNt Beare minrinured Pabtnes. SOR, Matt, fe dt pane? wind Hig tehin Invan testant thes were! preestis ¢ fiarena:te Che story dette aga Casts teat th the nteht OAPEES fevedtection of hw etopement was eth stramgety Riurtent tl SHricce y tient Me wae teed ty exe hooste tial Se Mas Chet Nething! | Seed keep then long awaka tet event oe stass of Medrat teagethion Yet that), fate Was the test mpwrishable meme| sry oof Lew dfe an be tked dawn otf eet kestiod besble hii, with thef Hees castes felugiine her cheeks, Sie anal Mor ips ese civd aeatiet |! Feser gael cheer att when he whind! ered Mwae thee wedlins dag. ! Tiey Sag tespensitauty geavitates tof | ester ere Rt te hear it In thie se the stouhters were Peccan | ourt's. und Los wae the Mreeting aple || Lo Mecteat eheeged tinsel? with the! Miele tusiess ated had theucht out al ' on ef ersnpeattn In whlch the athers bere ioere'y beat what they were bid f | eg ald res nieekty, Bees tutered ara | Sop) at thle fresh “Instance af the PM bets last and the fast ret, The stg wae bought, the Heenne ob: Mist. dtet a Lertenamt font reetted | | ie nar rKe corey cin Am Mt L nslor. Vitor sttpysd a” ten anlar | te In tila et unwiTiing hand, aod, ne couply left the mutts partorcaar. |} nt ‘ ‘ At Claremont ther caught the New fy otk expren, aul Daggancourt, whel ud taken the tekers, hurried them]; ireugh a Tutlinan to the rompart-l f ent he hnd reset red Is “Mow do we stand, Vletor?” Matt kel, “Trea for the license, ten furl « ft. Whatdgecalt tm, and, oh, you | i Hug=that'n Ave nore, neventern—| ¢ nl the auto, T insist upion paying tor atmand the Cekets. For heaven's] 9 ke, be quick about 1¢ or they start] f tenn!” Ve “Maree Rronghton, sou aren't asl it cl Axed ny seu oughe to be." wit 1 uggancovrt, “und-and wo T think! 4 ell Aut let It stand over tf you don't | ind.” : © "Stand over? f rhould say pot! ere, take thirty-fve and call it] rt ninco!" “It con never be that between you] ty i me,'str." returned Victor, with a] + oop of the loxcer Rp that-made him | hy OK the embadiment of gail * I'm | e werful fond of you, Marae Hrough: | th n, and—and it would be n gteae f2-| pe Pf you would Junt iecept it—tem- | h rary. Idke you hight from a shite | w an,” he added wtuummertisely. “only mporary, til you mort of get wet | “i, and” — w “EI take sto) Matt gata brokenty | pe cl To won't pregend tt teu itt | pe CHAPTER XIN. A Friend Drope From Heaven. ARIS, KbO wan xitting on the bed In a cheap rooming bouse in San Francisco, looked up and said with x strange earn eatnees; “Matt, 1 wrat to tell you something.” “Why. what is it? he asked care Jeonty. : “We were followed all the way op from the ferry.” 7 “Followed? “Yea. n-wen followed pa: I'm pos. tive of It" She rose, and golng to the window, looked out “Ob. Matt. there be ts now! she cried. “Come quick.” _—— ae eae oe hy ii = P f P) oe (ee | a _ SSS sy —— = a \ She Opened Her Eyes and Nestled _ ‘Gibne. 1] satcon. 1] Matt had intended go go to Svo0 1] & Margrentes sia, demanding an Dianation af ticlr wutraxeous condue force them tu xettlement. THe pon p] Hon wax uiasnatintte, I¢ they oul sbge hua tring and he know the JFK not base t-te could threats | tiem wie te pwiee aud prea her to the wat! Iiut the unwixdom c such fm course grew more nnd more Af Jourent. Tt weubt be tantamount t Jaunouncing le neetval tw eMr. Koy |] with unfore-conbie dangera and con sequencer rte Jas a taat rect, mle to be braved. fi | the extrend:y of udefortune, Instead J state woute wake the round of th Dustneme hese with which he ne formerty det on Jolin Mort's bebal and dorm suttictene, money, If hh could, for 2 steerage pasange In the mall steamer ts Samoa, Chria nee joanted ties, Tt ven a Mustertog, indy day, Meak ani cheetlom. 4 1 sweiiied te berate Menker iid tere chevrlons atlll ns Matt was iicttet at one often after Another, MW way the tet uf. by: gone weal. of bygane Inyatty and hen. exty, Howeser tightly the hit xpent hin own noes, be bad always ben a hard bargain wtiere Jol Mottin was concerned, Heat retuarselowsdy: that 3 ber cont far mat tae rome I snd meat agaturt tity that “ean do et for at Turner's” or whatever It was 40 being de 1 the prow : By 4 e'etwok te tind ta confess tin: Rolf benten Twspt for a ally chandler nt the foot of Market street, the Hat of Pestle fendere wis extant. Mut ho hed never ut much busdiness 10 thtn romn's way. whose Inst tame be had fenue trouble In feniemterting, Yew, Coleman, that wae ie doe Colonia, a faltg wd Bugtislcein me round ae a tun Cotenian ateeted ten heartily we lyartl’y that Mart cos astagined of the SSnrpetso the wie stent tee sptiae “Vora better Wwe eneeta dot te SA wR a wzettend ettort mt a ame, “Pon en ey urbe: eat every slake Wf my hated iss wot ye Soe CAVE, well eu ued ecteman tn Siaui trepiatien “Ieew st dawn on that barred and fove ne cap Meee Senn, fad it's Me ML tthe toe mone gu arain" > Joe was a eon a etd fellow, Bat iy tebit goed Abt stat sympathy were tore wartins Putin at hi el gar iid leaning agu net ay anchor, be tot Mate "to get an with hi tale et weed! Mart oberoil, but with recorvattong, ite ated fatled ntl wanted tu FetUrn tot the tandn, I “That's sees wit Coleman, Xo new) to De ra bine atone it. Ey goat (ota hundred doliar. Yalwayn Uke) Fou, Hroaghton. and when Tike a mann it don't mtope at the trousers pocket. Itesx sonF Larheine face, it dont AL yeu'ee to div 14 to catch the moll reat und make a tww Ine for the co connate and the grin” “Lhage mine with me, Joe. Yn mare ted." "On, PRAY! Coleinan exeinimes, ra- ping hls chin and locking worted. You've been going ft. haven't you? A, punidred dollars tx about ans limit, ronldivt xo more than a hundred, and hat’ WHAL thes. charge for a single passage to Samon, Mold op, though, T yave Ht Ship steward or work your way and let wifey te the passenger.” Coleman suddenly dnebed to the jor and grabbed the arm of a man who nd stopped for a moment to necr In, He wan a short thick -act permin of A neafaring cut, with the ap pearanceyot a north German of = Seandinavinn and popping Mue exe hat danced with good bumor, He eax effusivels tntreduced to Satt as captain Rehwartz of the schogner Es- mernida > “1 fancted sou had up with.the rand- yuk and clenred a month agom erted Dolerman. ‘ “No. much Inek." growled Captatn | cchwarts In @ strong German accent. Everybody beblud: everybody bum- wagging: doable, drouble, dronble all he time.” “Here's some more.” anid Coleman heerfally. sadteating Matt. “He's Ko- ng with you. and stten may be come board? He's a roath mea cantata ike ourself and ban lost bin ship.” “Ship? Vat abin?" tnqatred Sebwarts, | weakening to tuterent. 7 “The tonuail schooner North Star.” nid Matt in a shiver of expectation md hope “He's atick bere without a. cent” ot im Coleman. “nnd it don't water 6 bi much where son lend him as ong ma Mt te nomething dry, with a aim tree on tt and cold aulsstonary a the #idetmnrd ‘They all lunzted at thin, and then chware wi! "2 wnanit meaning tof. sop anywhere this skle of the Bolo mons, but he'ean gome: he can gone.” Lastog bia ‘hand on Matt's shoulder be Indded: “Old south sen captain ebeeld stand tomether. You'd bave tome. the same fur me, and dat ts al there is to 11" , “Bile wife's along.” interjected Cole man, winking at Matt. “and a corking [young woman abe ts too. Sings splen- id and plays the mandoleen, and 1t will be dandy of a moonlight night to ait on the poop and bear ber.” “You got a wife?” asked the cap- talo. apparcatty much pleaned. “Say. bat dat’ will be One! Young, she ts?” ““Dwenty-thres.” repliod Matt... Schwartz looked happier than éver. “You come on to Malaita,” ho sald. ‘aMe. Tam married. too. nnd got two Jeetlo babler, 20 high—cverstbing One, fine, but my wife sho Is very lone. nome for white noclety, I think she Jamp for Joy to nce another young white lady. And I'H get you 8 goot Posection on the plantation or In the ‘company's store” - * - ‘Then nothing would sattaty Bchwarts Dut that he sbould return with Matt and bo present when the great nows was broken to Chris. Saylug goodby to Coleman, they started walking aru tn arm, Uko n pair of crontea; for the Esmeralda was to anil tho next day, and Schwartz had promised bipr the owner'n cabin, ns well as tnviting bim and Chrix to dine on board that very night. By wny of celebration Matt bought a bonch of roxew and a box of candy. and It wax fn this gala faxbion and With overfowing xpitite that he inounted the tate of No, 7 and kuockes! at Chris’ door. “Shake tnnds with the best and kindest fellow tn the world," he -ex- clatined a she xheank at tho alght of a ntringer. “Chirin, thts i Captain Behwartz, of the rchooner Exneraldn, who ban dropped from heaven to Tes cue ti” “Din 14 the first timo 1 was ever re ported) from henven,” anid Schiwartz, nughlng explosively. “Delighted +to nect yort, Mes. Hroughton, No, thaak yon, F vill sot ait down. 1 weeshed nerely t kive my tnvltation fn person yd extent the courtenes of my ably 0 mo chinemntug a hudy." “The cuptain wante un to dine on want tonight." Matt explained, “and omorrow we nail with hin to the Ia muda!” Juxt think of ft, Chrin—we're ailing tomorrow, netunily sailing to- erro! : @ Anywhere you lke, old chap.” put | n Schwartz ruyally. “though if you AM Mater ty me, Mra, Broughton, you Hil go on to Matatta, where my wife} "and the captain can get a g00d po: J’ setts “Aud we're ( have the owner's] shin, Chris.” erted Mutt. “Did you | he oS Bs ra i Se r (wr aie IN i pever heag the lhe Gf that! Isat that Kitt, thousii? fant that wetnterfut! Isn't that Ampptas fre heaven?” Clete ow exedted: ten, sudatted Chat fe Was, wad willy ating exen rexaed el the man to whom they owed x0 inne They took street ene to. the Watertrunt, where thes walked atoms on fot antl they rearhed the whart where the Evgwralda wns Ising. In contrast with the towering “clipper whipe al aboot her the Exmersida appeared to be a tos. and x0 diminu- tive that they had fo descend to her deck by n ladder, Sho wasn tspteal pouth xen xchooner, bullt on sharp and yacht Hike Mnow and hearty xparred for her alte. In the Ittle tant enbin they were made acquainted with Mr. Brandeis. the mate. who was making up ble ac- counts at the table, with emall piles ‘of Kold and allver coin atacked on the various Milin Mr. Brandeis was 2 very fair, irritable looking nian of ofty or no, with a Innk mustache, who spoke no Engiian, and shook bands solemaly at hin auperior’e bidding. “A Root chap.” sald Captalo Schwarts, ‘smiling. laying bis band on the mate's shoulder. “‘Ieads booke—all the time be reads, booke—and: never talk ex- cept to contradlet you, and say sou are & liar op page 7, or a fool on page "208. Some day I'll throw him orer- Doard and shoot bis books after bim and say: ‘Go and prove ft to the fecabl* : Beyond the captain's, and reached Dy & narrow passageway: was the “owner's cabin"—another cubical witb barely room! for « couple of bunks. superitapored. “This fa, where yoo will Nive.” said .the captaia to Chris, who was regan. ing everything with much curioalty. “apd If you wish fo Go any sbopping, T hope you will not forget our old es tabliabment peezivess!” As be’ spoke he opened the door opposite and asb/ ered ber Into the trade-Foom. a vert. table Goadax shop. with » counter and shelves, scnica and primitive show. cases. It contained everything under tbe son. fron brass wedding rloge cheap watches. tools of all kinda. Jewsbarne and dints for fintlock moe kets. to bot anchora, keen of dyna ‘mite. harreix of bref and pork. and to umerable bolts of gally printed cot tonn . “Hut what do’yon want with al those things?” naked Chris, to whou @ sea nhop wana norelty. ~ “Rell them to the noble anrage nt 3X Per cent prog.” returned Schwarta laughing. “Rut what ate those gans over there for tu the mek ?* = “To shoot him If he aln‘t satisfied. They aro a tricky lot Xfru Broughton, and, Mike all customers, are reddy to beat you down. only they do it with a cloob." Chris nhrank a Uttlo closer to Matt, who rennsured her by romarkiog thnt thelr falnnds srould not be Ike that. “You'se never told mo where yon want to go.” put in Schwartz, “Varo fs that delistitful pinco 30 ditforent from the Solomona?” “Really. captain, ¥ don't want to tnke you out of your course,” return ed Matt werlounly. “The Gilbert tr Innds aro in sour way. Drop us thers answhere. The ‘Tokelaus would sult me best” “The Tokelaus? Vare te dem?” “Well, the Uplon tnlands—to call them tho namo they hato on moat coarte.” “The Union tniands! Yaar, 1 know the Union tulands. A Iittle south, but what's that?) Old routh aca captains should, stand tozetber—thnt'a what" I anys g “Oh, captain, Tl never be able to thmik you enough!” z “Rata all foolinbness. Broughton. You wonld do the anme for me” CHAPTER XIV. A @tarttine Dlecever, AT BD J Golden Gato and with thre CEJ tootn ot farewell lett them & J anift for, themselves ten dase 0 heavenly pence, with the anile scarce: J touched and rutting softly before a Juntatiing Urceze. In all there wer seven men forward, who might hav. deen neven authors. from tho amsidy one way they rend—grave, oldish mer for the most part, atwensa glucd. te books under that tarpautto to th Nalst Herman wae the only yout ninong them=tall, whftey-blond Her man, who trind to make frlends witt tho pamsenzers Ull te wae aquelebed by the mite. Schwartz, though lean of reader than Rrandeis or the others, very soon ran dry xn conversntionniiat, He be came bottled up and uncommunteatire. spending tioure at a thine tn bis cabin or walking up and-dowa the poop tn. n drach stinly none dared to dlaturb. This wae the onty prerogative of n cap: Inin Chat be treatal Wiensetf to, beyond taking Is plare at the head of the ta. Mo, Mr. Reanitely took all the obser= vations, gave all the ordera, shortened wall of nin ap kitex without even go fie trough the form of consulting Bis superior, Te wan the virtual com. nander ef the lip and made very Little pretense tut he was not, Matt noted that Si fewarte atl no watchs | Bit atiowed tis to be taken by the ace: ond mite. «puters Mdlvidial ot AINtY, WIth white aide whiskers, who Was eatted Krantz tad berthed forward ANU Cy Bs ‘This fonelarity between eftieere and men was new to Matt Mr, raudets Nar not above natvting wlth thea ane Ger te tarpattit aid whine le elgar and tek te that, sprawling elrete Matt toot tee nattt that the mate did het aptett te Ink antte fn cones arte “ON the Fost, he wae trent elit) great respect. sind Hernan tn parthular never falled te spring ap at fi saprete Thee two dathawese, Youtta, the stews ne, and Fuh the ¢onk, Were not be hindbiawt, ether, ns render An tulenoatte suapleton wax begin: ning to creep into Matt's mtod that there wax mmmnetiiiae wrong with the Hin, The transformation of Schwartz froin nn anniabie, tatkative. friendly Mt- We man Into the tacituen ereatare who paced the poon or wrote for hours tn six cali wtnick willy on Matt's atten- Hon. The gru mate wae gruffer than ever and showed an Increasing dixin- cHination to let Mate neo the chart ay the Teasel'a coun wan plotted from las, to day. Ant thene white and whiakered patriarchs? Was ft a doat- Ing old men’s home or what? The hamoroun view with whieh theao ings were at firnt regarded changed mpercentinis ag time wore on. Who wan this atmange Schwartz and this strange Henodels, and what brd been phe nceret of the former's Impuinire sood will In San Francieno? Nothing, now waa heard of old south sea cap- ins wtanding together. The amazing rect downed on Matt thet Scherarte was no reaman at all, but # landamaaa paxquernding ax the-master of the ver cl. Wra ft posible that they were prisoners on thin singntar ahip—com-| ortabile, well fed, poiltely treated pris. ners? To incrense Matt's mixgivings, Chris, who warn lighter slecper thon bim- elf, bad been hoaring: “natnen™ to. the middle of the night. She described hem ne “faony, snapping sounds that commenced after Schwartz bad pnascd helt door and looked In, ae thongh to \anure himaeif that ther were asleep. She wens no positive of chin that Matt Ietermined to wins awake one aight sud nee amd bene for himself. If It ere fanes on Chris’ part the nconer he wan uindecelted the better, for abe an neccons not frichtensd and had moments of pacsionatels wishing ther 1nd never eet foot an the aineraldn, Midntent xtrock—sleht bells, fale ftee midilzhe--one bell. One oclork twa hells Hnif nfter 1- three belle Te gre drowelot and druwster. Sad: jens Clirle clutched bin “Ae'n cuming sho wehitarro, “Matt, ee coining =I henrd the door.” Matt held-his teenth Kehwenrte wax Iptocinz past thelr donk. No. not past p for the inn stopped on ie seas and Rat a quick cinnce withip. Fe wae a hin ralamus tlle face wae n study f fartivene-s and eantion Then be intorel wh nixd wis ween no More. “Didn't F tell yom?" warwured Cora Inn moment the notaen will hesta.” “fb @ nT returned Math “RB-b-T It wan mere thao a morbent. mwas deer, before the qniet wan dlecnenert. “There, there” exctaited Chris,” a pecullar faring sinnd borane feintiy audible a though some me- chinery bad deen pet in motion. Bet it was too irre«ular for machinery and, bad an. indescribable thrtiling quaily chat Matt was at a loss to ac” count for. ‘The chbiu abivered with it. It was an uo aa the lash of @ whip and'ns vicious, as ft scemed to Ring the ale, Matt Kéaped trom the hunk, deepito Chris entreatien, By George, be wan going to nee what {6 wan! Follow Schwartz and find qut. It_was an natouahing algbt that met hin kaze. Forward of the foremast wan n sort of hut conntructed of mat- trexaes, fortning a windbreak or shield, ‘open only to the forenatle. Within tt wwated on a box, was Merman, bent over ap apparatus and causing it by, raennn of a atmal! brass handlo to emit that astoundiug buzzing as well ax an Incesaant mputter of mparke aud fasb- cn. There wax no Hstlensncss now 17 that gniks youth. fis expresstom wax keen: ix hand moved the key with ighentug preciaton: he bad ap untuistakable alr of mastery and skilt nw of a man eugaged in something he excelted tn. i Wireline! Of courte it Was tho wire lena. Matt had read of it, but bnd nov- er seen It before in action, 2i—e— rintzizi—nt—al-zi-ei.xt 21! ‘Tho braxs lev- er darted vp and down, Hogered and eiapped noid n xplutter of wparks and Aaahen: the captain, holding h sheaf of papers with hin thomb, reeled off sen- tence after kentence in low, vibrant rolce: fhe lantern light filckered” over ihe yellow mhects, over Herman's bent end encased Inn curlour harness, nver the gleuning apparatus, Occt- sionally Schwartz wan wariiad £0 atop. The mimchine no Jonger transmitting, would recelse. 4, eizl, xt-xt-xlrl—with nis ime Herman repentlix, wont by sort, the gprnsage thin myxtertouly urhe, tb apace, whtle, Sobwarte Iatenied darkly, with prewccupation, colug the unseen, welxhing and ane leratandtinge whist wan being told Bim. Mute returned aw he Ind coins, snore encerned than ever tot to betray hit: wif, The dixcovery tind’ daunted bin: We Sean in the erty of terror Me was 0 agitated that he cab scarcely peak, ax Chein, on ghard nt the door, hut it behind tiny mat Breathlensly ket whnt he hint nse “They're workin m wireless npyriem: 80" hie annwered AWirelome, Matt! You don't mem a “reloan telezrah 7 Yeu. Heriinn's oqernthiis at, and chwarts fs sending nesses” “Yow actually maw them” Yea, Inalile a het of aiattressie toy is Pecutaas bcdicatow. the sein Ce a i \ course, ant keep us from hearing. We're priseners on this stip. Chri, they'ce kidnaped un" “But tsn't that a terrible thing to aor" “For us—yea" “But couldn't they all bo puntahed and aent to prion?! “Poestbly. If the Oregon ranged alongside, But where ts your Ore gon? Chety, this whole nbip and the whole crow wiuxt hare been waiting for-ua in Ban Francisco, Ike a lot of apldern for (wo Mttle fies, ‘Tokelaus! We'll never nee any Tokelaus, That wax all part of the ncheme to bood- wink eto get un away.” “Rot what could they want with us?” + “Want with us! Why. they want Jobn Mort!” tO, Matt “Yen, The same people who are ronning tht ablp are the same that Grove’ me ont of Manasyen, Deiblog the failed, force failed, but they were cunning emough to know that rather thru starve I'd double back to the Ie lands. So there was Schwartz all ready. with hin ship and his biarney and bis spidets web actpna the road “L wan Lound to take.” “Why hnan't’ the captain tried to make yuu tell—tried to force you to tell?” “Thut'e coming. As sure as I am allve that's couilng when we reach the people who are answering our wire lees. ‘There's troable abead, Chris.” “Well, io that case, you'll simply have to take the only way out.” “IN never do that—nover.” . “Tut, Matt, they might— Rather ‘than have sow hurt Tl tell everything myself.” You aban't ‘ ei with, Matt. 1 wills” | “You don't koow where this inland ia You det know ‘we bearings, What song vou tell them that they don't knees : Kte whtapered nomething beck Ghee: woe Min fnew Fantonnt hte wan ettent, Tt hed fe see Go hea that thelr devilery | Ses ha sai Chet, pairs (To Be Continued) a SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1918 BOWSER CHOPS. --- Mrs. B., as Usual, is Skeptical of the Success of His Undertaking and Is on Hand With Arnica and Bandages Bowser Limpa Home. 8v M. QUAD. (Copyright, 1913, by Associated Literary Press.) WHEN Mr. Bowser came down to his breakfast the other morning Mrs. Bowser noted that he had an old suit on, and as he made no explanation she queried: "Aren't you going to the office today?" "Not this forenoon," was the reply. "You didn't say anything about it last night." "No? Must a husband tell everything he knows?" "But you are not going to stay home to do any thinking. I have just got everything in fine order, and I don't want you prowling around. As the files have disappeared, you might take the screen doors off." At that moment a boy rang the basement bell and left a new ax for Mr. Bowser. "What possessed you to buy an ax?" demanded Mrs. Bowser. "Please speak a little more gently when you address me." he reproved. "But we have got three or four old axes lying around the house." "I know it." "And yet you go and buy a new one! That ax cost at least $1, and I needed the money for stockings!" "Mrs. Bowser, if worst came to worst you could go barefoot in the A BE FRECKED AT THE TREE WITH LIGHT STROKES. HE FRECKED AT THE TREE WITH LIGHT STROKES. house for a few days, but if worst came to worst with me we wouldn't have a dollar coming in." "What do you mean by that?" "Haven't you noticed for the last week that I could hardly raise my hand to my mouth at table?" "No, sir, I haven't noticed any such thing." Got some new alliment. I suppose? Wife Always Wants Sympathy. "If a wife has a pain in her little toe she expects her husband to condole with her, but a husband may have one foot in the grave and what words of sympathy does he get?" "Both your feet are a long way from the grave yet, but if you think you need the exercise, why, go and chop." "Of course, I need it, and it so happens that I didn't think this." "Then who did it" "There is a man named Tinker lives a few blocks below us," explained Mr. Bowyer. "He owns two or three vacant lots and on one of them is an old dead tree. He's a one-armed man and can't cut it down." "And you are kindly going to do it for him?" "Yes, I shall tackle that old dead tree and half an hour from now that neighborhood will be ringing with the merry sounds of the merry woodsman's ax. I haven't chopped down a tree since I was a boy." "If you are awkward with the ax"—"Who said I was awkward with the ax? If there's a man within five miles of us who can handle an ax better than I can I'd like to see him." "Father used to say that an ax was a very dangerous thing." "Yea, it was so dangerous that he used to sit by the fire and let somebody else use it." Mrs. B. Shirke Blame. "Well, don't blame me if anything happens." alged Mrs. Bowser. "I'll get the armica and the bandages ready and if there is any life left when they bring you home I will try and save it. It you cut off a foot I will not be able to grow another in its place, but you've limped so much that it will be no novelty to you." Mr. Bowser smiled a pitying smile and then shouldered his ax, propped his mouth and went away whistling. As a matter of fact he had never handled an ax for five minutes in his life, but he had once a farmer hosting corn and had once seen a thrashing machine at work, and he, therefore, believed he knew all about shopping down a tree. When he reached the tree he divested himself of coat and vest, tied his suspenders around his waist and gleefully exclaimed: "Woodsman, to work, to work, and the hum of the flying chips shall mingle with the merry ring of the bounding axi. Here she goes!" He squared off, uttered a "Hat" and made his first stroke. He rather expected to see the ax sink to the eye of the wood, but it didn't do it. He who so far away that he just grazed the trunk, and the ax kept on and sunk in the earth at the roots. As he had a good gulp on the handle, Mr. Blowser was brought to his know by the force of the blow, and his head came into collision with the tree. Bowmar Sees Stars. He saw suns and moons and stars for a moment. Then he slowly got up and rubbed his eyes and looked in the direction of the house. Mrs. Bowser was not to be seen, and he mentally thanked heaven and added: "I was all right, but the blamed tree jumped back just as I struck. Meble I'd better go slow and practice a little before I rush things." He went slow. He stood off and peeked at the tree with light strokes for a few minutes. Somewhat to his surprise it stood still, and after five minutes' work he, now one small chip fly away. This delighted and ensured aged him, and growing bolder, he uttered a sort of war whooop and swung the ax for liberty or death. It was an upward blow, and the old tree was as hard as iron. As the ax glanced and went over his head Mr. Bowser took a tumble and brought up with his nose deep in the soil. Just as he got up Mrs. Bowser arrived to say: "Well, I see you have made a begin- ning. Were you after roots down there?" "W-what are you doing here, woman? he exclaimed as he rose with red face and blazing eyes." Came to See Fun. "I came to see you chop and be on hand when the accident happened. I see you have made a mark on the tree." "Got" he hoarnely whispered as he pointed to the house. She went slowly away, and when he had seen her vanish he picked up his ax and growled: "I've come out here to cut this tree down, and I'll do the work if it takes no a hundred days and night! The blamed thing must have jumped at me instead of backward that time. I'll get on to the trick this time or know the reason why!" There were wariness and caution in Mr. Howser's actions for the next ten minutes. He kept one eye on the tree all the time and was on guard. He got the "hang" of the ax and released two more chips, and was finally ready to deliver a telling blow. He didn't deliver it however, until he had made three or four false motions and found the tree firmly rooted in place. Then he got his teeth, got a farmer hold of the ax and struck with all his might. He had forgotten about distance, and the blow was too far over. The ax handle struck the tree, and as the ax flow away the end of the handle hit Mr. Bowner in the pit of the stomach. The whole world, including Alaska and the Sandwich islands, went whirling around with him for a few seconds, and then he seemed to be falling through space. Comes Back to Life. Ten minutes later he opened his eyes and know that he had not been buried alive. Sounding soft and low and far away, he hears Mrs. Bowser's voice saying to a boy: "No, my son, he is not dead, but merely resting." "Will he cut the tree down after he gets rested?" asked the boy. "I do not think he will—not today. He may try to milk the cow—build a rail fence—clean out the well or use a scythe, but he won't tackle that tree again for several days. How do you feel, Mr. Bowser?" "Is—is that tree still there?" he faintly asked. "Oh, yes—right there." "And it didn't kick me in the stomach?" "No." "Then you did. You were determined I should make a failure of it, and while I was busy you sneak up and—" "Mr. Bowser, are you convinced?" she interrupted. "You betcher life I am," he abouted as he sat up. "And can't you recall that it was a furniture van that turned in here and ran over you?" Mr. Bowser looked at her suspiciously and then got up and throw the ax over the fence and followed her home, limping in all his legs and arms and stomach. Our Actor "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "basball is a great thing, isn't it?" "Yes, but what makes you think so?" "Without it some of our leading vaudeville entertainers wouldn't have any occupation in the summer months." -Baltimore News. A Blow Crop. Reggie Callow-Yes, I'm trying to raise a mustache, and I'm wondering what color it will be when it comes out. Miss Keen-Gray, I should say at the rate it appears to be growing.-Pick Me Up. Great Invention. "Noddies is the lizzie man I know. He has an invention fixed so that by merely pulling a wire in bed he can light the fire, but that doesn't seem to improve matters." "Why not?" "He's too lazy to pull the wire." Spokeman lowers. Agitation of Soil Ownership Is Not the Special Propaganda of Any One Individual or Race, but the Common Privilege of All—South Has Abundance of Idle Territory. By RALPH W. TYLER. Owensboro, Ky., who "back to the farm" movement, which a few years ago was the pet hobby of Dr. Booker T. Washington, has now become a vertable stogan with the whites of this country. Quite recently prominent white men, members of boards of trade and chambers of commerce in the large cities of the south, appeared in Washington as a committee and petitioned the commissioner of immigration to turn the tide of foreign immigration servicing daily in New York form the great west to the southeastern states. This indicates that the whites want the vast area of unimproved farm lands in that section developed and they welcome the Italian, the Greek, Russian Jew, Slav, Polo or Hungarian immigrant to the south for that purpose. Once the tide of foreign immigration is diverted to the fertile southeast it will continue until all of the more than 78,000,000 acres of unimproved farm lands in that section are taken up and made to enrich the tillers and to supply the country with farm products, the insufficiency of which at present contributes to the high cost of living. What are termed the southeastern states include Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, states whose colored population at present is 6,500,000, nearly two-thirds of the entire colored population of the country. Of this 6,500,000 in the southeastern states fully one-half is crowded into congested quarters of the large cities, where they must battle fiercely amid insinatory surroundings and prejudiced labor unions for an existence which promises no rosette future. "Back to the farm" is no longer the exclusive propaganda of Dr. Washington. Every state in the Union is emphasizing it by maintaining one or more splendidly equipped agricultural colleges, in which scientific farming is taught the young white men and women. It is emphasized by big white syndicates buying up farm acreage for speculation in anticipation of the realization of this assured "back to the farm" movement. Alabama has 11,038,731 acres of unimproved farm lands, Florida 3,448,130 acres, Georgia 14,655,396 acres, Kentucky 7,834,500 acres, Mississippi 1,702,373 acres, North Carolina 13,623,073 acres, South Carolina 7,414,023 acres, Tennessee 9,151,173 acres and Virginia 9,625,578 acres. There is now a splendid opportunity for a co-operative movement among our people which will have for its purpose the purchasing of much of these more than 78,000,000 acres of unimproved farm lands in the southeast and to convert them into productive fields of truck crops, waving grain, stock ranches or rice and cotton plantations. Mississippi's soil will yield 121 bushels of corn to the acre, and South Carolina's soil has yielded over 200 bushels of this much demanded grain to the acre. Wheat, long considered the monopoly of the north and west, has been grown in Georgia and North Carolina, with a yield of fifty bushels to the acre, and in the southeast oats, another crop long considered exclusively indigenous to the plains of the north and west, have yielded sixty bushels and more to the acre. A false notion, too long building him in fetters, has caused the Negro to regard the farm as the rightful sphere of the mututored and the crowded city the proper haven for those who have scurred a smattering of the dead languages and a faint understanding of the Pythagorean theorem. The result has been that into the crowded cities Negroes have rushed only to and in most instances they can hardly have elbow room; that race prejudice increases in proportion as their numbers increase, and that the dreamed of future of wealth and ease is, after all, but a mirage which leads on to a maelstrom in which many ultimately founder. The opportunity of a lifetime for cooperative purchase of much of these more than 78,000,000 acres of unimproved fertile farm lands of the southeastern states knocks loudly at the door of the race. It remains to be seen whether it will throw wide the door and admit this golden opportunity or lethargically dream on only to awake after, the unstored but industrious horries from sunny Italy, the bleak plains of Russia or the congested areas of Germany have pre-empted these millions of acres. Unless the Negro awakens to and seize the opportunity before him he may be forced—that is, the great majority of them—to repeatedly: Clean hath a million acres—not a penny I MAKING GOOD IN NEW FIELD. Fine Record of Mise E. Leola Hudson, Winner of Chamberlin Prize. Brooklyn, N. Y.—Making good in a northern school, attuned by new conditions, new friends, and in a new line of work. In but always an easy task. But this is being accomplished by Mise E. Leola Hudson, the daughter $ 5000. REWARD FOR THE ARREST OF JOE BARSON WARNED FOR MURDER FOR PENTECHAL BAND WITHIN THE LAW We are going to publish serially "WITHIN THE LAW" A stirring novelization of the most successful play produced in New York in a decade Be on the lookout for the opening chapters of Professor and Mrs. R. B. Hudson of Selma, Ala., who is here attending Pratt Institute. Miss Hudson is perhaps one of the most remarkable students that have entered Pratt, notwithstanding a long list of exceptional talent that has been found from year to year in this institution. While she comes from distinguished parentage, her father being secretary of the great national Baptist convention, secretary of the Baptist state convention of Alabama, treasurer of the endowment board of Odd Fellows of the state of Alabama and one of the secretaries of the Sunday school I MISS R. LABOLA HUDSON. Songress and for the past twenty-three years principal of the Clark high school of Selma, Miss Hodson has individualities and accomplishments that are distinctively her own. She finished the normal course at Selma university in 1908 and won high honors as valedictorian in a class of fifty-two. After leaving this institution she went to Atlanta, Ga., and finished the college preparatory at Spelman seminary in 1909. She graduated with honors from the college department at Moorehouse college, formerly Atlanta Baptist college, Atlanta, Ga., from which she received a scholarship prize. She also finished from the domestic science department at Spelman seminary. She will specialize in household science. In order that she may be more thoroughly prepared. Miss Hudson preferred to do this before taking up her profession of teaching. For two years in succession, 1912 and 1913 she won the Chamberlain Scriptural confessor prize at Spelman. Since Hudson has been offered more scriptural confessor already, but will remain here in London to finish the prescribed course and then go back D. J. PARRAR, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ALL KINDS OF GARPENTRY. 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. A. D. PRICE, Funeral Director, Embalmer and Livcryman. All Orders Promptly Filled at Short Notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and also Entertainment. Mostly of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Places on Bind Wagons for Hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Durham, Durham, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. No. 212 East Leigh Street. (Residence Next Door.) OPEN ALL DAY AND NIGHT—Situated on Duty All Night. south, where she expects to render service to her people. CRIME IN PORTLAND, ORE. The Advocate Finds That Afro-Americans Are Not the Perpetrators. The Portland (Ore.) Advocate in its issue of Oct. 11, speaking of crime in the city of Portland, says editorially: "A wave of crime has struck Portland the like of which outrages anything for downright brutality in its history. School children are being assaulted, women's money purses and rings wrenched from their hands and the victims roughly handled, and men are being beaten and robbed upon the streets and in some instances in their own homes. And the perpetrators of these outrages have not been apprehended. "The police force and the newspapers have done their very best to fasten the crimes on colored men, but after an investigation they have realized their mistake and that the doeds are the work of white men." 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The sad bereavement by which the Madame lost her mother under such distress occasions merits the condolence of their friends everywhere. JACK JOHNSON AND FRANCE. It is reported that Jack Johnson has become a citizen of France. We hope that the report is true. The gay life of Paris is known the world over and offences which would be regarded with disdain here, hardly merit passing notice here. There he can gratify his taste for white women and if his white wife can stand Paris and Mr. Jack Johnson's love of pleasure, certainly the people of this country can stand it. We do not believe that Johnson got justice in this country, and we do not believe that he accorded to his own people justice. If he had done so, he would not have been chargeable with having done more to injure the colored people in this country by his ill-advised actions than any public leader before him has done in a generation. He could not divorce Jack Johnson, the individual from Jack Johnson, the leader, and as a result he paid the penalty of his folly. Other men could have done and are doing what he has done and it occasions only passing notice, but he had reached the zenith of his glory in the pugilistic world and he at once became the target of all of his jealous competitors. Jack Johnson a Frenchman! Farewell Jack Johnson! The election last Tuesday seems to have indicated that the Republican Party, is "coming unto its own again." Those people who prophesied that the defeat of President Taft by a plurality unheard of in the Republican Party's history meant the party's death knell, can now take note of the fact that victory is again in sight for this great political organization. Wise management and skillful leadership and essential to bring about this result. An examination of the election returns discloses the fact that New York and Ohio, two states essential to any political party's success went Republican last Tuesday. Hon. John Purroy Mitchel, the Fusion candidate for Mayor of New York City, explained his victory in the following language: "While President Wilson has been friendly to me, and I have no doubt that he is pleased with the results, neither he nor anybody connected with the national administration took part in the city campaign. If the President had taken part in the campaign we would not have had the cooperation of the Republican party." Union vs. Va. Theological Seminary at Richmond, November 27th. It is hoped that the city of Richmond will support athletics at Union this year in a better way than ever before. This can be done first of all by assuring the football management a full attendance at these games. The Athletic Association is working for a permanent coaching system, a force around Hovey Field and hopes to see in the near future a gymnasium erected on the campus. One of the hardest fought games of the season was played at Broad St. Park last Tuesday afternoon when the Olympia Athetics of Richmond and St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Va. played their annual game. This game brought out one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a football game in this section. The first half started with a rush. Near the end of this half Skinner, St. Paul's quarterback crossed the goal line for first touchdown but missed an easy goal. This half ended with the ball in the middle of the field. After three plays in second half He admits that the active support of President Wilson would have proven to be a handicap rather than a benefit. The Republicans elected their judicial ticket and carried the lower branch of the legislature by a majority of twenty over both the Democrats and Progressives. Both branches of the legislature at the present time are Democratie. The election in Ohio resulted in a landslide for the Republicans. Cincinnati has returned to the Republican fold and the entire city government will be under Republican control. Thirty-one cities in Ohio elect of Republican mayors. The result in Pennsylvania is equally significant. Philadelphia gave a Republican majority and Pittsburgh virtually did the same thing, while the vote in other sections of that great state emphasized the fact that the much abused Republican leader, Senator Boies, Penrose will again lead the Republican cohorts to victory. The situation in Massachusetts where the Democratic candidate for Governor was elected and also carried the lower branch of the legislature showed that the Progressives are all powerful in that state. They have not forgotten old peers. Had they united with the Republicans, the Democrats would have been defeated. It is alleged too, that New Jersey, which went Democratic has stood by its favorite ion. This is as it should be. The combined vote of the Progressives and the Republicans would have made the fight interesting with the probable result that the Democratic candidate would have been defeated. Maryland went Democratic. Viewed from any angle, the "sum and substance" of the contest show that the Republican Party will return to power four years hence. It also shows that while the Progressives are on the wane in some states, they constitute a factor that should be restored with in any future contest. If a working agreement with their leaders could be launched there is no doubt of success at the polls. Despite all of this, the Republican Party has been chastened. With New York Republican by about sixty thousand and Ohio Republican by an equally emphatic vote, no one can doubt but what the Republican elephant will go lumbering into the presidential ring four years hence, with every indication of success. EPOCHS IN RACE PROGRESS. Year Book Tells of Afro-Americans' Achievements Since Emancipation. What use has the colorist race made of its fifty years of freedom? What are the signs of progress? What are the economic and social conditions that have important meaning not only to the race, but also to the white man? What educational agencies are at work for the improvement of the whole southland? Again, what important role is the race playing in the drama of agricultural development? What does the latest federal census indicate regarding the movement of the Negro from the country to the city and the relative mortality of our people on the land and in the congested districts? What is the extent of the influence of the Negro press? These vital questions of progress and present day welfare are strikingly answered in the "fifteenth anniversary edition" of the Negro Year Book, which has been compiled by Monroe N. Work, who has charge of research and records at Tuskegee Institute. Within 350 pages, befitting with thought provoking facts, there is told a wonderful story of the development of the colored American during fifty years of freedom-years of opportunity, struggle, perseverance and faith in God. While figures cannot adequately convey the real meaning of the advancement of a people who have suffered much and won important victories, nevertheless they do indicate, on the basis of established facts, the present economic, social and religious trend of the race. Farmville, Va., November 3.—Sunday was a high day at First Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. R. O. Adams baptized qiute to a number at 11:30 A. M. At 3 P. M. the pastor and a large number of citizens attended the funeral of Bro. Champ West, who lived four miles from town and who was a member of the First Baptist church, Farmville, Va. His family connection was very large. At least fifty or sixty of the family were present at the funeral services. Rev. Adams officiated. Brother West was a member of the Knights of Pythias and was one of the chartered members. The Church and lodge both have lost a faithful member and the pastor a devoted friend. All of the West family are devoted to the Christian Church. This faithfulness, it seems, was hand down from the older heads. His body was laid at rest in the home grave-yard. At 7:30 P. M. The pastor was found at his post of duty in the pulpit of the church ready to conduct Communion service. After giving the hand of fellowship to thirty-three new members the Lord's table was spread. The largest attendance to prayer service during the pastorate of Rev. Adams was on last Wee Tuesday night. Truly the Lord is working in souls of many. The Public Schools opened on last Monday with Mr. Hewlett Coleman of Richmond, Va., Principal, with the usual quota of teachers, Mr. Coleman was born and reared here, but moved to the big city three years ago. We now welcome him back and wish him much success. Mr. Robert White had t. very sorrious accident with a colt. He had a leg broken in two places and is now in the hospital. The meetings at the Baptist Church are moving along nicely. They will be continued the next two weeks. The M. E. Church has taken on new life. They had a warm meeting Sunday. Mrs. E. P. Diggs and Mr. Tison made confessions of faith. Rev. J. E. Doteon took the words "To whom shall I go." as a subject. We are asking everybody in the county to give something towards the new hospital, colored. Brother W. R Manly who preached at Lincoln, Va. yesterday, preached for us last night at the Baptist Church from the text, "Whooover will. He discussed it well. Mr. Drexell Washington was in town Saturday visiting his parents. Mrs. Leanna Washington. Morgan's Lunch Rooms are doing a rushing business with barber room attached. On corner Market and Wirt St. West. Farmville (Va.) News. Mrs. Annie Carter and brother have returned from New York City where they have been visiting friends for several weeks. Mrs. Emily Logan of 109 Virginia St. received a severe bruise on the leg by a fall. She has been under the care of Dr. J. A. Baker. Mrs. Salille Anderson who has been ill for many weeks was out Sunday and attended Church. Mrs. E. Hairston comes home every Friday from her school and is here Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Amanda Branch has a fall and sustained a bruise of the shoulder but has not again. Mr. and Mrs. Packson Watkins of South St. Mrs. Jane Green of South St. Mrs. Susie R. Foster of Grove St. and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hughes of Budd's Hill Ave. extended, and Revs. Adams and Paul Monroe, the pastor and examiner, accepted an invitation to take tea at the several homes mentioned. Several invitations were turned down because of the short time Rev. Monroe had to remain here. FOOTBALL Union played its first game of the season on Friday, October 31st and rolled up a score of 26 to 6 against Virginia. Theological Seminary at Lynchburg. Both teams throughout the game showed excellent form and spirit and several times Union's goal was in danger of being crossed by the Seminary boys. The first score was made in the first quarter when Union came down the field on straight football. Howell making the touchdown in two final shots from Lynchburg's 10 yard line. In the second quarter Lynchburg braced up and for six minutes Union's goal was much in danger when final by the ball went over to Union on downs. On the first down McCraw successfully forward passed to Thompson who made a spectacular run of 50 yards for a second touchdown. His exhibition of stiff arming was a feature of the game. The third quarter developed into a kicking duel in which McCraw had the better of his opponents. No touchdown was made in this period. The last quarter was a sad one for Lynchburg as Union made two touchdowns and kicked two goals. Howell and Duckwilder respectively carrying the ball over both goals. The principal features of the game were the splendid defensive work of Union's entire team, but especially of Billardz, Wright and Purgey and the offensive work of Howell, Duckwilder and Thompson. The success of the team is generally attributed to the effective coaching of Dr. Fisher of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fisher was for merely half back and end on the Lincoln University team and later end on the 1909-11 Varsity football team of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fisher is popular among the men. Owing to the increase in the number of the student body this year the coach has a larger number of men from which to make selections. The entire University is looking forward to the following games with interest : Union vs. St. Paul Lawrenceville, November 5th. Union vs. Howard at Richmond November 15th. Union vs. Hampton at Richmond, November 22nd. Olympia 7, St. Paul 0. DRUGAREE QUEEN AP CLAREMNS BY DRUGAREE OF MORRITT, N.Y. Ammons sent Hargraves over for a touchdown on a delayed pass which tied the game. Baby Aytes kicked an easy goal, which won the game. From then on the ball was in the middle of the field and neither goal was in danger of being crossed. A GREAT MISSIONARY CONTENT AT THE CITY AUDITORIUM Monday Night, Nov. 10, 1913, at Eight O'clock. Given under the auspices of the following named churches: First Baptist Church Foreign Missionary Society, Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Fourth Baptist Church, New Baptist Church, Second Baptist Church of South Richmond and Second Baptist Church of Richmond. Don't fail to witness the great Comedy in one act entitled, "Mr. Brown and His Friend Jones." Also the famous little Jenkins' Quartet, of South Richmond. The church selling the highest number of tickets over 250 will receive a ton of coal; and the church selling the highest number of tickets over 200 will receive a barrel of flour. Admission to all parts of the house only 15 Cents. Managers: H. G. Carter, Charles E. Stevens, J. M. Edwards, Henry Robinson, S. Alexander, Susie A. Jordan, Secretary. 21th Anniversary of Y. M. C. A. Gov. Mann Sinclair. The 20th Anniversary Exercises of the Y. M. C. A. were held at the 1st Baptist Church 3:30 P. M. Singing by the congregation led by the Male Chorus. Scriptures read by Mr. B. L. Allen; prayer, Rev. Read; Music by the Male Chorus; remarks, Pres. John S. Powell; report for the year, Gen. Sec. S. C. Burrell; annual address, Gov. William Hodges Mann, subject, "The Y. M. C. A. and 'Hor Work.' Lawyer J. Henry Crutchfield introduced the Governor. Report for the year: prayer meetings 52, gospel meetings for boys 51, gospel meetings for men 50, meetings in the city jail 242, meetings in the city home 195, workers' meetings 52, meetings of the Bible classes 86, visits to the penitentiary 153, visits to the sick 1602, meetings for women 2, mixed meetings 6, converts 455, socials 10. The Treasurer's report: Total in hand for the year $1688.2S. disbursements, $1688.10, leaving a balance of 18 cents. The amount needed for this year's work beginning Nov. 1st 1913 ending October 31st, 1914, $2400.00. A special canvass will be made by officers and members. Let no one refuse to lend a helping hand. We thank everybody for the help which they have given. Leesburg (Va.) News Killis Girl and Himself. 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We used to belong to Jacob Woodson. When I saw them just it was in 1862, fifty years ago. If they are not living they may have children and if I find them it will be through colored people taking the paper. A. D. Johnson, formerly of Mack. lenburg county, Va. is reported to have died at Nowata, Oklahoma, Sunday, August 24, 1913. He was 76 years of age and it is desired to know the whereabouts of his -children. He had not heard from any of them for many years. He spok of one of his children as Etta Johnson. He left some property. Send information to J. J. Rose, Nowata, Oklahoma. GEORGE CRAWFORD Robertson Co., Heating, Texas ```markdown ``` GRAND LODGE Knights of Pythias of Virginia. N. A., S. A., E. A. & A. A GRADUATED ENDOWMENT of $30,000 for Only $3,000 Per Year. It Pays From $3,000 to $4,000 per week SICK DUES and a BURIAL BENEFIT of from $2,500 to $50,000 for Only $6,000 per year additional. It has a STRONG TREASURY and owes Much Property. District Deputies and Special Deputies will give information concerning the organizing of New Lakes in Virginia. GRAND COURT, ORDER OF CALANTHE IT PAYS $150,000 ENDOWMENT. The Cost Is Only $300 Per Year. It Pays SICK DUES of $300 Per Week and a BURIAL, BENEFIT of from $250 to $50,000. For further information apply to JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Grand Chancellor, 397 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. THOMAS M. CRUMP, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, 511 North Third Street, Richmond, Va. or to MISS M. L. CHILES, Grand Windsor, Va. 114 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. Female Embalmer. MADAM LUCLE 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 Conducing Minerals. 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He was rapturously applauded at the conclusion of his remarks and congratulated upon the masterly handling of the subject under discussion. Music was furnished by the Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir and Harmony Quartette. A large crowd was present at the City Auditorium last Friday night to listen to the address of the noted orator, instructor, economist and humanitarian, Dr. Booker T. Washington. His coming was under the auspices of the Negro Organization Society, Major R. R. Moton, President. The local committee from the Council of Colored Women had direct charge of the management. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, chairman; Mrs. Ora B. Stokes, secretary; Mr. John H. Braxton, Manager. Roy. A. Blinga, D. D. delivered the invocation. President R. R. Moton delivered an address which was well received. Mrs. B. B. Munford, the philanthropie white lady who has interested herself in improving civic conditions in general and who has taken a personal interest in the colored people in particular, discussed "How White People Can Aid This Movement." Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute introduced His Excellency William Hodges Mann. Governor of Virginia. This popular official held the audience spell-bound as he discussed the needs of the people of the state and demonstrated his interest in the material well-fare and advancement of the colored population. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, in her most entertaining, and impressive manner introduced the speaker of the evening. Dr. Booker T. Washington. He said in part: "The Negro race in Virginia is going forward, in my opinion, in all the fundamental and substantial things in life faster than he himself realizes and faster than his white neighbor realizes. I say this not withstanding there are many weaknesses and much still to be accomplished. "Virginia Negroes have been fortunate for a number of years in having at the head of the government governors with vision, liberality and courage; governors, and superintendents of education, and other state officials who have considered the interests, prosperity and progress of all the people regardless of race or color. "I have watched with the greatest satisfaction the interest which Gov. Mann has shown in the education and uplift of all the people in Virginia. Governor Mann in the highest degree is a model executive. "It is because of the leadership and guidance of such state officials as you have that the Negro in Virginia has gone forward as fast as he has. "Then, too, the Negroes of Virginia are blessed with the leadership and guidance of such loveloved, conservative, unscathful and ablo colored men as Major R. R. Moton, the leader of this organization, and dozens of others whose names I could call. "I have always noted the character of the colored race in any community or state is patterned very largely after the character of the white people in that community or state. COMMON INTERESTS OF VIRGINIANS. "The Negro Organization Society has for its object the unifying and focusing all the organizations among our people in Virginia on certain fundamentals of life such as education, health, cleanliness. It is not the purpose of the Virginia Organization Society to seek to interfere with the special work and purpose of each individual organization represented, but it is the purpose to cooperate with these organizations to promote education in its broadest sense, without which there can be no permanent prosperity. The work, which it is doing under the general direction of Major R. R. Moton, Prof. J. M. Gandy of Petersburg, Rev. A. A. Graham of Phoebus, and of others equally interested, is worthy of all praise and encouragement. The work of this Society is fundamental. It touches the life and interests of every white citizen in Virginia. I have watched the growth of this Society with a great deal of interest and believe that it is one of the most potent factors for our uplift Here is a great example of cooperation. It is sometimes said that black people cannot get together and work for the general improvement of a community, but we have here an example of where Negro organizations of every sort in a great state, with diverse interests, have been able to get together and co-operate for better schools, improved farming, better homes, better morals and better health. "I find that that educational improvement in Virginia during the past year that this Society assisted in raising money for the building of schools to the value of $10,000; that in one county you aided in raising $000 for school improvement and extension of school terms; also that a larger number of schools were inspired to make adequate provision for ventilation, to have individual drinking cups, sanitary outhouses, and in every way improve surroundings. "I am especially interested in the efforts that you are making for better morals among our people. You are laying special emphasis upon the idea that parents should devote more time and thought to the rearing of their children, that they should inculcate in their offsprings correct habits of morality. The circumstances surrounding the case were so unusual that it was deemed best by the police to make a thorough investigation. Wiltshire and Wiley were satisfied there was nothing suspicious in the death "One of the greatest things that you are doing is the improving of the health of the masses of the black people of Virginia. At the last meeting of the National Negro Business League, I was particularly interested in the report that your Secretary, Prof. John M. Gandy, gave concerning the work of your Society. Among other things, he told us about the Clean-up Day that you had on the 14th of last April when I understand, 100,000 Negroes were influenced to observe the day. I am especially pleased to know of the hearty response and sympathetic co-operation that were shown by the white people, and especially the white papers in reporting your state-wide Clean-up Day. I was particularly pleased to note the editorials in the Times-Dispatch and other leading white papers of the state commending the efforts and calling upon the white citizens to use their influence with the colored people in their employment to get them to observe the day. I was equally gratified to observe the great interest that the colored people themselves manifested and the large amount of work they did in cleaning up Virginia. PROGRESS THROUGH COOPERATION. The Bible tells us that cleanliness is next to Godliness. When the colored people in a great state like Virginia all get together and cooperate for a general housecleaning the whitewashing of their homes, homes, their outbuildings, and begin cleaning out their wells and springs and see that their schoolhouses and homes are properly ventilated, this people is making progress, not only along health lines but also along educational and religious lines as well. Through the Organization Society the Negroes of Virginia are contributing not only toward their own improvement but toward the improvement of the state as a whole. "Virginia is setting a great example for the remainder of the South in the matter of showing how the white and colored people may cooperate for general improvement. I find that not only have the efforts of the Virginia Organization Society received the hearty support of the white people of the state, but likewise special lines of endeavor have received their most cordial support. This is particularly true of the matter of education. Virginia was the first state to have a State supervisor of rural colored schools, and by so doing set an example for the remainder of the South. The work of Mr. Jackson Davis for improving the Newrochs schools of Virginia is an indication of how the best white people of the South are ready to give their time and talent, for the betterment of conditions among Negroes. "It has been my pleasure, under the auspices of the Hampton Institute, with Major Moton and others, to make several trips recently through the tidewater counties of Virginia, and in each one of these counties I was most gratified at the evidences of progress on the part of our race in getting land, building better houses, establishing schools and churches and in contributing their part toward law and order and the higher and better civilization. In Gloucester County, for example, we found that there was not a single individual of either race in the county jail. That is a record which can be mentioned by few counties, North or South, or anywhere in the United States. STORY OF VIRGINIA RASDOLPH "Here in Henrico County you have one of the most famous colored women in America. She has acquired fame by going out into the country, over twenty years ago, and taking a little one-room school, as she said, with hardly enough scholars to make an average. She dedicated her life to building up the community in which she cast her lot. After years of quiet, patient, unassuming toll, the world came to know her. Now Virginia Randolph's work is known from one end of the country to the other. The Henrico plan has been a model in rural school education. PROGRESS OF VIRGINIA NEGROES "In this state there are about 675,000 black people, and I find that they are making considerable progress along religious lines. They are building up-to-date churches that cost from $10,000 to $40,000. In connection with the material progress of your churches there is also improvement intellectually and morally. You have here some of the most capable and intellectual ministers among our people. There are in the state about 2000 colored church organizations with a membership of over 300,000. Another evidence of the progress that is being made is the growth in Sunday School work. There are in the state over 2000 Sunday Schools with 12,000 teachers and officers and 115,000 pupils. The value of church property owned by colored people of the state is over $4,000,000. "Perhaps in no other section of the country is there a body of Negroes who, on the whole, are more progressive than the Negroes of Virginia. Here in Virginia the first Negro bank was established. There are more banks operated by Negroes in Virginia than in any other state. Lunderstand that you have altogether twelve such banks. Richmond has the distinction of having the first Negro bank in the country that is run by a woman. "Along other lines of business you have made great progress in the past few years. There are to-day more Negroes than ever before in your state who are operating grocery stores, undertaking establishments, real estate, and other business enterprises. In practically every city in your state where there is any large number of Negroes, there are business blocks owned by them. "The most notable progress of the Negroes is Virginia has been along agricultural lines. Thirty-four per cent of all persons engaged in farming in the state are Negroes. Almost one-half of all the Negroes in the state are engaged in farming. There are 48,000 Negroes in the state who are operating farms. They are operating twenty-four per cent, of all the farms in the state. Although Virginia from 1900 to 1910 gained only 10,000 in its Negro population, or a little more than one per cent; in the same period the number of Negroes owning farms increased twenty per cent. Something like 2,250,000 acres of land in the state are under the control of Negroes, that is, owned or rented by them. The Negro farmers in Virginia control over $5,500,000 worth of farm property. This is 123 per cent. more than they controlled ten years ago. Oil quiet, at 13$00 3.60 per barrel. WHEAT steady: No. 2 red, new. 50% of 91c. CORN steady: No. 2 white, 81$0 81$1c. CATS steady: No. 2 white, 46$0 46$1c; lower grades, 45c. POTATOES steady: per bushel, 70 85c. NEGRO FARMERS IN VIRGINIA. The Negro farmers of Virginia along with Negro farmers in other parts of the South, are using more and more machinery in their farm operations. Ten years ago they owned $1,000,000 worth of farm machinery. Now they own $2,000,000 worth. There are 32,000 Negroes in the state who own land. No other state has so many. Mississippi is next with 25,000 farm owners among her Negro population. The Negroes of Virginia own over 1,000,000 acres of land, which is over 300,000 acres more than they owned ten years ago. The remarkable thing about the Negro farmers of Virginia is that they own over half the land they cultivate. Except Kentucky, this is true in no other Southern State. I find, according to the census, that in the ten years, from 1900 to 1910, the value of land and buildings owned by the Negroes of Virginia increased from $10,000,000 to $28,000,000, or 150 per cent. WHAT IS EDUCATION In the matter of education you are making progress but, as in most of our Southern States, much remains to be accomplished. It is true that a large percentage of the colored population of Virginia cannot read or write. We must not, however, be deceived by the mere fact that a person can read or write. Unless he has received that broader training which enables him to show the object of education, the uses of education, unless he receives that broader training which will make him realize that book education without character, without industry, without the saving habit, without the willingness to contribute his part toward law and order and the highest and best in the community, his more book education in many cases means little or nothing. THE NEXT STEP "It is the object of the organization under whose auspices we are gathered tonight to help the colored people of Virginia to digest their education, to utilize it in the common ordinary affairs of life for the benefit of white people and black people. "In the foregoing remarks I have merely hinted at some of the instances of progress that have been made in this state. I have done so to show what can be done, but one must not get the idea that all the work is done or that the Negro race is on its feet. In Virginia, like other Southern States, we are just beginning to each the Negro how to make progress and the two races how to cooperate with each other. "Under the leadership of such men as Major Moton and such institutions as Hampton Institute, under the leadership of Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, and others, we shall soon leave behind all doubt and uncertainty as to the future relationship of the two races here in the South." Leak in Gas Pipe Kills Woman and Cat After Workmen Pumped It Out. (Times-Dispatch, Nov. 4.) Mrs. Mary Ann Payne, colored, said to be ninety years old, was overcome by ga yesterday afternoon while alone in her home, 1418 Ross Street, and died a few minutes after she had been found in an unconscious condition by her son-in-law, Thomas M. Crump. Detective-Sergeanta Wiltshire and Wiley, who made careful inquiry into the case, said that death was due to accidental asphyxiation, due to a leak in a gas pipe, which has yet to be found. THE CORONER'S STATEMENT Coroner Taylor said last night that he would require an inspector of the Gas Department to make a thorough investigation. "On account of her advanced age," he said, "death may not have been due to gas. I will examine her blood to see if gas was the cause of death." The detectives were certain death was due to anphyxiation, for a cat which was found dead in a hallway, apparently from the same cause. A daughter of the dead woman told the officers that for several days the gas in the house refused to burn, and yesterday morning workmen from the department pumped out the pipes. Shortly afterward a strong odor of gas was detected, but gradually disappeared after windows had been opened. The daughter left the house shortly before 4 o'clock, but before going out she closed all windows and doors, satisfied there was no further danger from gas. The old woman was left alone with the cat, which was a pet. Crump returned home about half an hour later. He opened the front door and, found his mother-in-law lying prostrate upon the floor. She had evidently tried to open the front door when overcome. The dead cat was a few feet away. The odor of gas was suffocating, but Crump hastily opened windows and carried the woman upstairs. She died without regaining consciousness. The gas in the house was later turned off. THE RICHMOND FLAKER, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIELDER ELECTED IN NEW JERSEY Democrat Chosen Governor by 30,000 Plurality. WILL CONTROL LEGISLATURE HELLER'S Established 1856. Oldest YOU CAN HAVE STRAIGHT HAIR This maille SPECIAL THIS WEEK Circles Transformation S. W. ROBINSON & SON DEALERS IN HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. PHONE MONROE 2313. 19 and 21 N. 18th St., Richmond, Va. Fall Term begins. September 1, 1911. Best Opportunities, for Negro Youth. Board, Lodging and Tuition. $7.00 per month. JAMES B. DUDLEY, President, A. AND M. COLLEGE, Greensboro, N. C. The Result is Construed as a Great Victory For President Wilson's Policies. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 5.—The returns from New Jersey indicate that Fielder will have a plurality of 3,000 and the legislature will be Democratic. This will properly be construed as a great victory for President Wilson and President Wilson's policies. Fielder carried Hudson county by 20,000, with Stokes, the Republican candidate, running second, and Colby, the Progressive, far behind. Fielder carried Monmouth county by 200; Hunterdon by 500; Union by 200; Cumberland by 200. Stokes carried Passaic by 10,000 over Fielder. Stokes also carried Atlantic county. Cumberland county went Democratic for the first time in many years. Next to the contest for governor the hardest fight was made in the state for control of the legislature which will meet next January. In the last session for the first time in many years, with the aid of Progressive at the polls, the Democrats had a majority in each house. An entire house of assembly with sixty members, as well as eight senators, was elected. Thirteen senators hold over. To control the senate it is necessary for the Republicans to elect five, or Democratic success in three counties will give that party a majority of one. It would have been easy for the Republicans to recruit the senate if Progressive candidates had not appeared in every one of the eight counties to spot the normal Republican can vote. In Atlantic county, where Senator Walter E. Edge, Republican was elected by a large majority over Joseph L. Shaner, Democrat, and to help son, Assemblyman Charles M. Egan Democrat, had a walkover to the successor in the senate of Mr. Eckler. Mistaken "That fellow is so general." "I never saw anything generous about him"—Baltimore American. Send Name and Address Today You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. 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Philadelphia, Nov. 5.—The entire Republican ticket in this city was elected by pluralities of about 25,000. Samuel P. Rotan, for district attorney, defeated George Wentworth Carr, the fusion candidate, by about 30,000. The city loan providing for subways and elevated street railways was passed by a large majority. Armatrong Mayor of Pittsburgh Manhattan mayor or Pittsburgh. Pa. Nov. 5.—After one of the most sensational mayoralty contests in the history of this city, Congressman H. C. Porter has lost out to Joseph G. Armstrong. So close are the figures that the most optimistic supporter of Armstrong will not admit that his final majority will be more than 1000. Porter was the advocate of "home rule" and "anti-bossing," and was backed by Mayor Mayo, former Senator William Finn and the other Bull Moose leaders. Armstrong was backed by the Oliver Peterson supporters and Bompadour or parted style Real Human Hair in Brown, Black or Sandy—a real $3.50 value. 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McIntosh, secretary of the Republican county executive committee, has defeated R. H. Jackson, the Republican nominee for district attorney. McIntosh ran on the Washington and Democratic tickets, losing the Republican nomination at the primary election. Hans Schmidt's Friend Gets 7 Years. "Dr. Elmest Muret, the friend of "Father" Hans Schmidt, was sentenced in New York to seven and a half years. Imprisonment in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for counterfeiting. Muret appealed to Judge Hunt to asap sentence, saying that he wanted to go back to his home in the many any spend the balance of his life with his mother. Judge Hunt could have imposed a sentence of thirty years, but as the prisoner is a victim of incipient tuberculosis he was lenient. HUMAN HAIR STORE 712 7th St., Washington, D.C First Hair Store in the South. IF YOU WANT IT. Is $1 size "Queen" Electric Comb allied to you for 60c in 2c stamps. SPECIAL THIS WEEK Creole Switches A. 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BPS: 8f fst, whe ee et ove Bee pers poe eee reteatth anant eh ae tie dur 8 dle Wael [tee hee Wane eee ott or Uy aeenat eta wn ho wn dnestiy even ters 10): Stecvetsbez Ee aemepte arn ef te feed ti bnee Oth « ferongh George To Moos ei ran of ties mtutt ett tvace ef the arranienients fr tng cetetastion, pre dated Vue hyn, Lave Devt, AM Tove Pyetting 9 favnrite ‘ot Me. Moweler, Sos sung, atu the favevation wae Rly; euhy Rev Dr Molacd Powell The ‘wpadal tomdle for the occasion wes or \ feo a wy ca Pr . Re Es all ’ puis Hae wang by a chofr made up of singer fruw the various ebureh cholr, unde the dire ten of Mei Albert Myers Aniong the nuthems aung by the cbotr which were alw favorites of the noten preacher, were “Who Are These Array ed In White Robes?" (Statners, “Tht Lamb of Geog" (Waxnery and "Oye That Lave the Lord (Coleridge Tay fons. General Uoratlo GC. Kips, clerk of Pigmodin church for many yearn tinde the address of welcome tnt Drtef but turtiling story of rome of the Distortion fete cunnected with the chap h woth ened during Mr. Bewehers pustarite of forty yearn “General King « reference to "Phukle,” The HtGe wave ght whose freedom wan beight by Msmouth: church, wax Bont Interesting am pathett. He anid Cthat the macht on whi “Finkle was mild Mr. Hew her ful the baskets pas oS to rife the Eve to meet the re quiretuents of the bil of sale, the chuvets nsed Site, pald the slave owner, give “Pluate” her freedom and the rest of the imeuey fo “PInkte’s” smather. The sperkers of the evening were Mr..A| Wo Lenten of tis cfty and Veofeanur Kelly Miller. dean of the. college of arts and «ienees, Howard univendty. Mne Hunton reviewed the work of Beecher ax a preacher, anti? xlavery agitator wed Jeader of thought fn Wa day, She quoted many passages: from bin xpevctus avainat alavery and, noted hie deedy-of kindness as a Chris- tian warrior, The speaker pela = glowing tribute not only to Mr. Beech- er, but t the member of Plymouth church and otter hermes of human rightn whe fought that the colored race migtt have (ts frewtom an God Intended St abould hare. ‘i Ar. Hunton was lout in praise of the wonien of the race, who, abo #aid, had stood losnlly by the men, xiving them encourngement and hope through the Atty yearn of feecdom which the race Ik now celebrating. ‘The progress which the colored people hare made under the moxt crucl and unfatr treat: ment ever moted ont to a people tn # ctyileed. country calied Christian, waid Mrs. Hunton, folly Juntifion all that Mr. Reecher and men and women of bie fas aids ; Professor Kelly ‘itiiier tn his address made the application of the teachingr of Mr. Beocher to tho present condl- tion of the race in a maaterly end eeholarly production of facta. Ho based bie disceurmo on the: lite of Meses tm Gealtag with the children of Teracl and what would Lave bappenct hed Meses'ytelded to the seisiai? notions of the leaders at the king's court In- stead of casting the positive aldo of hiv fe with bts own people, > ‘Professor Miller emphasized ‘The need of the right Rind of edocation-and the duty of the educated to the rank and file of the race. Thic thourht the speaker Sivatrated by calling attention to the postiive und negative xigna to aigebra, Mr, Miller, te powtlve In hin delief that were Mro Beecher allve the great humanttncian wold fzht agatnat race wegregntion In nll of Ite phanes Jurt na valiantly ne he dk agntnxt the Injuetice of human «livery, RESEARCH SOCIETY MEETS. Venhere Organization Nears: Mats African Discuss Dignity of Race. Tn the course of an able and acholir. Ty address Defore the, embers, and frlents of ster Negro Soclety For FU torleal Research, Yonkers, N.Y. 9 cently, Dr 1G, Granviile Sutton of Serra Lewne, West Afrien, poke on the aubjst “rhe THentty of Being a Negro” After etl bin hearer what the ently Africans had contributed to eWilizazion and retighn he meuttoued nome useful disowvertew and Inventlons mandy by Nestues ant appropriated by the rtronger race whet have been of Inating benedit to the world. | Among the earttest umd ost usetol fof these was (he common rowing nee: dle, which he kid wan Invented by @ Sponish Nexoe tn (is and wan ex- posed for sale at Chenyable, tn Landon, The inventor refused to divulge hh we eret, ‘The esliapsitve umbreita and the etachutle or Mmehelurw button are the fuventtens af Wack men, Ue said our Thaakssiving day ong: inated tn New Cagtand, that the whites there wets on the potnt af starving to death when Nece siives were brought there te Hl thelr Mekts nnd innke thet crepe” The tine'y arrival ef thee Blanka saved then, and ty celebmnon: of Ue erent Chey tnstiguted: Thanks: sWving day. A Nezre peiyeh an, an AG Teva, dele T Perey. etectd a etre af the Dest case af pechegea fie thle con Cy, A disease hte has eansed se faeh fee assem the seblte peuple: af the suuthers stetes, ate lamh at the: Wie nf white Plast bins cecarating tt he eerety ffi ire aid of tuberen tote te wet heats te Afrtena tnedienl tram, sal Per Suthte MroPerty Meat feet afféred hy dn. terested persns fy Washinstin $2.05 for bis feriin'a, hat he Slettned the nffer nv tees stitast | Tle wanted $2.00. oy and a half tntereat tn the eon pany that manefactared it. While bin pragemition was bulma conddered te died and with him his keerot. Rut Africans have a untive eehoot df meiliciie und enn ente any of the mo salle incurable daenwen, Theg do tot Meulge te white men thelr medical Mecrots, thaugh for yeary white men pave fried ty And them nat. Ite made interesting alitston to the Pun So fety For Met and the Ronda Soctety For Women and bredy aketehed the sbjeote for which thes are formed “They are” he eld. “as old og the his ory of Africa” “You Anecteane are etngsing euren on today with considernble real, none Fit misapplied ‘The Africans for more ban a thousand vent have known all Hout thin tmpartnit xelence You jon't Know everything in Amerie, Af: fen can atill tench your minieh” nad Te, Sutton. sh The teaker anlicung nists things f equal fmpertance and Interest which || In not prudent to discuna here. The ienity of being a Negro was dem: |, untented by many hiktertest ettations nit proofs of the Nesro'a rervive to | wiltzation and the worl. The only |, copie in Awerien who dincretit the | egT are the Negrona whi do not | now the Negro. |: ORGANIZATION SOCIETY it) HOLD MEETING IN RICHMOND Promoters Eager to Perfect Better School and Health Conditions. Richmond, Va.—Govornor Willian Hodges Mano and Dr. Booker T Warhington will speak in the Rich mond city auditorium on the night o! Nov. 7 before the Negro Organiza tion Soctety of Virgiaia at ita fret an nual meeting. “Hetter achools, bette health, better homes, better farma"— thix tn the motto of the organization whicb alma to federate all tnterents that trend to promote the welfare of the maasee AD interesting program bas been arranged for Nov. 6 and 7. Reports will be preaented on co operation with the Virginia ststo health department In reaching the masaca of our people tn the rora) districts and 1a the cltlor: bealth campaigns waged through four countien of Virgtula; popular odtuca- tion for better health and improve ment In rural schools. Lectures will also be given on co operation in agriculture and co-opera- tion in business. A report on the re- cent southern “noctologiont congr will also be prenented. Delegates frow many organizations will be present to represent the health rnd educatfonal lotereats of retigiogx bodies, Sunday schools, secret societion nnd civic an: sectations. % AU organtzatiovorare eligible to mem> bership tn tho Orgnntzation nocicty amd may send delegates’ to the Rich: mond meeting. Robert I. Moton, com- mandant of Hampton institute, i the president. Jolin Sf. Gandy of tho Btnte Normal achool at Petersburg i the executive necretary. Delegates who cr- pect to attend the-meeting are anket to notify (net Inter than Nev. 1) Pro. fexnor Ginny or Mrs. Maggie 1. Wal- ker, St. Luke'n bank, Richmond, or Mra 0. B. Stokes, 8. John street, Richmond... The Virginia Ktnte Negro Business league will hold It annual meeting In connection with. the Negro Organiza | tion society. The officers of the Btate Rastoces league are working among the local leagues to: bare a large at: tendance at the forthcoining meeting. Suptios wa Remedy For Color Prejudice Todge Marcus Cavanagh of ‘the m perior conrt in Chicagy advocates the appointment bf = national commision fo combat prejatice arainnt the colared people qnd Winely enecents that the remedy’ for ‘the emdication of auch prejndice is nimple Justice, —_———_—- —@ubseribe te The PLANET. MRS, WILLIAM HITT. Bhe Wae Mise Katherine‘ Elkins, Daughter of Late Senator Elking. . Re. < ; 22 Sy Katherine Ets.on Weds “Billy” Hitt Mine Katherine Hains, diumhter 0 Cthe date Sonar Steptea I. Etklas was qearted fu bikie, Wo Vay te vais Vhe Wobbic Is the, culnanation 0 Routan eet mwcet yearn, dat Wel Mi (Eline wo ardently wad by beth Mr Hitt att the Deke of (he Abty, 2, cord of the kat of Maly Tue anty ones wesent atthe wed Bing were ev Senater Davis Blktos, of Morgantown, brother of the bride; Mra Ethins, netter of the frida; ex Sehator Heney CL Davis, of Elking, groudtather of the bebte, Mr and Mra iatue Ehins, of Mencantawn, brother and aisietin law of the bride: Colonel Hichard Elkins, of Philadelphia, a brother of the bride, Mra. Chonter P. Barnett, of Fort Meyer, Va, couslt at the bride. and Mixa Katteriay Britton, of Washington, a friend of the bride All the guexts brave heen attending @ house party at Hallieburst for more than a week, Mr. Hitt belug among We Rilents : ExSenater Davie Eking was the: beat man and Mins Elkinn was attend: ed by Mra ‘Iinine Elkton, Owing to the sudtentess of the whole affair no attention wax pald to drews, and the ceremony, which wax performed by Rev. Frederick Gt Marron, pastor of the Davis Memorial Presbyterian church, was most informal, DIAZ’S FLIGHT DRAMATIC (eee Ee ee te For Protection. General Felix Dinz, who was one 0 "the prastdenttal caudidater In Sanday’ Jetection, applied to the American con fulate tn Vera Cruz for protection and wenn taken on toned the Uolted States gunboat Wheeling, Jore Sandoval and Ceetilio Ocon, Mexicana, and Alexander Williams, on | American newspaper correspondent, who bad made nimillar applicatioa to the consulate, were taken on board the Runboat with General Diaz. TL. lum, an Aterican borseman, who bad arcompanted the Diaz party from Havana to Yorn Cruz, was ar. rented Diaz's tight, accompanied by Ocon and Sandoval, was dramatic In the ex: treme and caused a gteat senaation when it berame known, the three mea taking the risk of an oxcurulon over the root of the German hotel adjoln- ing the American connulate, despite the fact that the authorities had ata toned armed guards on the lwkout on the roof for just much a break. | When they artived Inside the room they asked that the conaul, William W. Canada, be balled, Apparently auf. foring from great excitetuent, they as- sured bim that their liven were ta Im- minent danker, They declared they bad knowledge that, orders for their arreat bad been Ineued and they bes: ged for his protection. In reply Canada potnted to the wa ter front some yu yatda dintant “There's a launch there,” be said. “You'a better make a run for It.” ‘The fuxitieves healtated to make the Venture, aa the street In frost of the American condulate wan patrolled by detectives. When they finally loft the conaulate the detectives apparently did not re cognize them and they walked dullber- ately through the street to the pier, where they prenented a card from Can. adn to the officer in command of the launch ‘The American oficer hurrled them on bonré,.ipe Inunet cast off, steamed quickly acrois the hartor to the Wheeling and put them on board Canada has protested againet the ar rest of Tum, andy it te probable that be will shortly be released 3 The Mexican prealdentiat elections wan held on Sunday withont a violent utbreak in ANY quarter, And, ae far us can bo fearned, with the expected ronult that pot enough votes werr cast fo make the election valid, Ag a renalt Victorfana’ Huerta will pemain provisional president and yir- ually dictator, although tt x expected that he will assombie congresn now to ake the place of that be dissolved when he put 110 deputies fn prison. “General Felix Diaz In conceded to ave obtained more voten In.the cap al thao any of the other candidaten, with Fedarico Gamboa, the candidate Mt the Catbitic.pariy, pecoe’. F | Strong on Deteil. “Tou know Wigluy—xreat fellow fo detail.” “He in that. Wisley’a the sort ot chap that would go and get married and be able’ afterward to tell yor whether It waa Mendvissohn, ‘Loben atin! of Trniiianser’ thes played dar ing the corewony."=St. Louls Repab Me. ‘ Patroaise Our Advertisers. Supreme LodgeK of? A Copy of Supreme © Keeper of Records & - Seal ©. K. Robinson's Timely Report: - To tho OMicers and Representatives to tho Sixteenth Bionntal Session to bo held at Baltimore, Maryland, August 26th to 30th, ‘13, Greeting: St. Louls, Mo., Suly, 1913. Dear Sir and Brother—As the tlre approaches for the next Supreme Lodge Svasion, 1 feel that the representatives and oMficers should know our true Ananclal condition, in order that they may think and plan for the betterment of thoso conditions. The very short time ullowod at the Bupremo Lodge Session for@he considers- {lon of vastly important questions, 1s not sufficient to permit tho Mmombers to become thoroughly familiar with conditions as they really cxint. At this timo I feel it highly important to My those mattors before you, belloving as I do that tho hearts of the majority Of our members aro true to the prinolplen of our great inatitution. Duriug ull the years that I, by your trust and confidence. have served nu S. K. of R. and S., the desiro nonrest my heart has deen to see uur beloved Order ostablished’on a frm fnanclal basis, and to attain this end, the records will ahow that I havo tine and again called your attention’ to much neoded reforms in the handling and disburring of the funds, but as stated above. the shortnees of time in which to carefully considor my suggertions and iivestigate con- “ditiony has caused tho reproscntatives to look Hghtly upon thom and no -tonbt hax brought bhout tho present crisis. In thy face of tho record of my frequent efforts to raise the standa:! of our tinancial aystem, as well as to add to our source of Fovellue, no honest member of tho Order will daro accuve mo of Simpure totives. CAREFULLY STUDY. ..Drincerely trust that you will take tho time to carofully study the Deures given In the following statement before discussing St with ary one. in order that you may bo fully familiar with them, In my iconn{al report submitted to the Supfome Lodge at Indian. apolis, Ir. in 1911, I prenented to you a vory carefully preparod statonie:it showing your Keneral expensen; salaries alono amounting to $16,200,090 for the torm of two yonrs ending August, 1911. s.Trineerely trust that you will take tho timo to carofully study the Brres given tn the following statement before discussing ft with ary one, fn order that you may bo fully familiar with them, In my jceunlal report submitted to tho Suprome Lodge at Indian. apolis, Iv.. n 1911, I presented to you a vory carefully preparod gtatoment showlng your general expenses; salaries alono amounting to $16.:00,09 for the:torm of two yonrs ending August, 1911. -.2.Thke folowing table which will be found on page 146 of tho 1941 minuten eiiows the amount of salaries paid to officers, and out of what funda they aro payablo: = Me acer 8 ee. = SOS baat Aps . ~ A, “per term 2.400 600 1,80 Sie Sas tortor, Son gee 150 B, ML of Ex. - per term 600 600 Sup. Atty. per term 1.200 1,20 Maj. Gel. per term 3.000 2,000 1,000 Totale, $15,200 $5,960 $1,000 $8,254 The above table shows the proper divisions of oxpehnes £6: salaries and expenses of oMcora as recommended by tho Finance Committee and adgpted by the Supreme Lodge at Kansas City ic 1909. = 5 FURTHER EXPLANATION, $5,950.00 of this amount, according to your law. is payable out of the Suprenre Lodge fund, $1,000.00 out of the Uniform Rank } fund, and $¥,250.00 out of tho Endowment fund. The foregoing xmounta.do not include the general oxponses for office rent, print- ing, stutlonery, travelinK oxpenses of ofcors, etc, which for the last term amounted to $13,203.29 to bo paid from the Bupromte Lodgo fund. Tho receipts for the Supreme Lodgo fund to July 31, 2921 amounted to $8,272.02, which left your Supremo Lodge ‘treasury as followa: Disburactionts 2... 66.6.6 e ee $13,203.39 Collections® .....cceeeseeeee ceees 8,272.02 Deficit in S. 1, Revenve.....-.-.-...$4,931.27 I bellave that Uniforin Rank Department should bo solt-cus taining. The Receipts in that department now squat if not aur- pass the Supreme Lodgo receipts, neo Major Genoral’s report. And there is no renKon why the Supeme Lodgo rhould be burdened with paying tho salary and carrying other expenacs of that dopartinent. THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT. . Tho diaburrements and collections of tho Endowment Depart- ment of the Supreme Lodge, wero as follows: ‘ (SRS Endowment exponso -disburacd......326,981.00 ~~ Endowmont collected ......++..+2+. 14,650.00 Deficit In Endowment Revenue. .....$12,431.00 ‘This lef: the total deficit as follows: Deficit in Suprome Lodge.......+.-.8 4,936.00 Deficit in Eadowmont............+. 12,431.00 Total Deficit in both...............$17,367.00 ‘This enormous defictt was met by the Emergency fund. Tho law does not permit the expenditure of more than 25 ‘per cent of tho Endowment fund collected annually for operating expenses: your collection, you will observe for tho Inst term was $14,550.00, yet the expenso Incurred against that department was General exponfes .....-.+-0005+..-8 2,807.81 Ratarion 2.2... cece eee ee sees 8,181.00 RENE oo cecccccvcceecveretesssene 337.60 Tagal expense 2... 065 eee eee ee eee 6.00 $13,381.31 Death celaima#.........--. 6+. eee ees 16,660.00 TOU eee eee eee eee n eee e cece $26,981,381 There [s n> emergency fund now from which tho dofictency can do met. $6000 wns loaned out of the Pythian Tomple fund for thie purpose this term, FAQING A ORISIS. * At the Iast session I warned you of the conditions which con- fronted you. and urged you.to propare to meet the crisis. The con- servative men of the convention saw tho impending danger, and ought to correct it by pronenting remedy after remedy, all of which efforts failed. I have nd criticism to offer as to the action of the majority at that time but I feel st my solemn duty to again call your attention to the deplorable condition of your treasury at this time. ‘The salaries of tho officers of the Supreme Lodge have not been paid since September 1912, and”when the session convenes at Baltimore, you will.find an enormous deficit, that can only be met by wise legislation, and proper regulation of expenses, Already ono Grand Lodge has been forced to protest against what it terms unjust tazation, and {t remains for the Representatives at the Baltimore session to vxercise their very best wisdom in deal- ing ‘with this question as well as the question df re adjusting the manner of handling our fnances, either by reduciag our expenses or fncreasing our revence by wise Jegtslation, In order that the several departments of ‘the Supreme Lodge may be self-sustaining. There is no bther organ- isatfon in this broa@ country today that 1s evocessfully operating upon tho loono ‘financial methdds used, by our Sapreme Lodge. The Tecent experience of the True Reformers should be a sufficient warning to all. ORDER TAXED AND OVER-TAXED. . The Order ban deon taxed and over-taxed, until the patience of the membership hae almost reeched the brepking polot, and I call your sttention to page 292 of the minutes of te 1811 semicon, which bears tho following resolutions presented by Gir Francis H. Warren, D. D.& C. of Michigan to be acted upon by the Supreme Lodge at the Baltimore seasion thie year. ‘‘'Paragraph 6, of Article 1, to be amended. To provide a ravence tor the Supreme Lodge by moans df a tax on each member of the Order, and charges for eup- piles furnished dy it. ‘and taxes from Subordinate Lodges under Ste imenediate juriediction.”” . Article. 10, to be amended to reed as flows: “Each member of the Order shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by and through the Grand and Subordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not tb exceed 10 cents per anavm, and cach Orand and @ubordtuate Lodge mail pay for Pepptien euch suma ad may be Seed fe the by-laws of the Sesrene Ledge, and ali work of sepyiion so ordered must be palé for when eréered, or on date of delivery.” : 7 : THAT PROPOSED AMEORMEETT. cation ™2,tbore.resghation proptens to amend Tear Supreme Constt. tation, and secks 60 relieve eer financial straits give to the 3 PHOTOS. : : , ‘We eter you, the Latest and Mest Artistic Fhetes, af © Maze RieSeraee Vignre then pou on ebtabn charwiers. 2.) Gpestal Atescion Paid eo’ Chiidren. Melasging and Onpying Interior View Wark. : ~ , We will alse be Flesced to Quote you Prices on Matester and vera O84 Photos, A Specialty. . eG Geo. ©. Brown, PHOTOGRAPHER, , 603: North 2nd St., : Richmond, Va. | aeoe ; er eee rereenes ? pli TMA: to pis ‘ —— . Si ae HE MALE ee) 14 = BPE” Clb an tax Sramcrmaa— i | = Sera \\ MUSs{00" ‘ Seat CPE MUS | i PND S13 Se ie a Aganrtey YEY ciciress Of letters bo Mask Shampoo Drier Co. : Le apo tan. not to mdiiduok, a A MEACTIVUL HEAD OF HAIR 88 A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY.~And every lady can havo lt if abe will uae tho Magle. ‘The Bagie will dry the balr afer a shampoo or bath, and etrrightam the eurticet head of hair, I{ will also stimulate tte grewth. The Atumiatum Comb.eas- potlajure the hair, bomace it fe never hentad direct, bot takes !ts heat from the heating ber which Ls heated on oer Alehobel Heater, or any other heater. We adviov the use of Hayes” Malr Pome te. Deston theimarkel, Price per box, Se. Alcobol Heater, price Me, t.iberel termato agents, Write for Hteratore today. “+ MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Supreme Lodge ita proper authority to receivo a Por Capita tax . vpon the membership. If this resolution prevail thero will bo no further need of extra taxationd. It will produco a revonue of about $15,000 annually that with tho salo of supplies.and the control of s*rogalia and print- ing plant, with proper regulations will plac the Suprome Lodge on Aeound Mnancial footing. Article X of tho original Jaws as adopt- ed, amended and published in 1880 in 1886 read an follows: “Each Grand Lodge shall pay to the Suprome Lodge the sum of $125 annually for each representative to which thoy aro catitled, etc. and to make annual returns to the Supreme Keeper of Records and Beal with same." The collection of $26.00 biennially, {a foadequato and there should clther bo an Increase In roprosontative tax or a now [aw enacted creating a por capita tax‘upon tho membership as outlined in tho foteroing paragraph. Slaca I have been your Supreme Keeper of Rocords and Soal, Ihave built up a rplendid revenie from tho supply depattment, and mado neveral efforts to direct your attention to tho advisability .of operating a National Supply and Regalia House, and I again urgo here, thor if no good reason why certain officers should be operat- ing Regalia Houses for thoir personal benefit when the Orter nesds tho revenuen from alos for its moaintonanco; that if you are not in a position to atart a plant eqolpped and owned by tho Supreme Lodre, you should at leant contro} the salen of supplies and regalia to Grand Lodges apd membors of the’ Order. through the office of the Supremo Keeper of Records and Seal, in ordor that the Supreme Lodge may recolve its just portion of the revenuo derived from tte tnduenco and momborship, by private concerne, as Is tho caso at presnt. FINANCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BB ALTERED. ‘Thoro should bo some alteration ta your financial system. Tho largeat amount of revenue coming into the organization fs through the Endowment fund, and if the Supreme Chancellor {s to continue handling this fund as at present, collecting and paying them out at will, it im cortainly not good business sense to permit him to appoint his own Financo Committos to audit his own accounts, as they aro not Independent, and audjoct to removal by him at any time, which of course unfit them to render the Supreme Lodge honest, efficient service. ‘This is a burning Issue and ought to be remedied at once. Oficers came to the last sossion without reports, some with thelr books and vouchers missing. acknowledging their carcleemess and falluro..to make proper reports for two. years, while the Finance Committoo, overlooking all these faxrant violations of the law. were loning time attempting to Mind flaws in the books and accounts of the Supreme Keebor of Rocords and Seal, which after all, thoy were forced to admit wore properly kept, as examination by experts had .Dreviously shown. It the Supreme Lodo owed $13.000 and had only $8,000 with which to pay ft, and ft was paid. my bocke mubt show whore the maney came trom to pay {t with, if I am to ive up to my obligations fa aman and honored officer of the order. J refuse to concoat it and shall continue to perform my duties fearlossly as Gpd gives mo wisdom to see tho right. . SHOULD BE FRED TO ACT. It your Finance Committee waa free to act, the aboro conditions could not possibly exist and your Supreme Chancellor would be io 8 position to enforce the law and the recommendations of the Com- mittee whore duty {¢ {s tq rixidly examine the books and determine the expenditures without fear dr favor to any one, then confidence in the OMicern and The Supreme Lodgo would soon be restored. 1 believe tha above suggestions If approved will euficiently amend our lawa (0 meet the present demands. : With the facts I have piainly put before you, I trust you ‘will rise tothe full stature of your manhood at the Baltimbre session, und navint in taking auch stops aa will secure tho future of our beloved organization, and thus enable those who trust you with their lateresta to say: “I shall not fear," * Ho holds no parley with unmgoly tears, ‘Whore duty bids, he confidently stesre? Faces = thousand dangers at her call, And, trusting {o his God surmounts them all. Yours in F.C. & B., C. K. ROBINSON, 3. K. of R. & 8. U.S, WILL NOT - GIVE UP-DIAZ Will Take Mexican Refugees to Port of Choice, FLEDTO GINBOAT ATVERAGRUZ Accompanied by Three Others, Dia: Seeks Protection of Americans, Fear Ing For Thelr Lives, General Fellx Diag and two Moxtcaz companions and an Americao newsps Per correspondent named Williams are now on board the United States gun Doat Wheeling tn the harbor ‘of Vera Cruz, having taken rofuge there under the plea that thuir Ives are in dan ger. | This was reported to the state de- partment by Kear Admiral Flotcher, commanding the battlenhipa’in Mext. ean waters. The admiral sald that ho ‘would hold Diaz and his party until instructed by Wanhington what dispo- nition:to make of them. ¢ If Diaz ataten that ho swlahes to get ontof Mexico, undoubtedly the United States will ald him to do no. The moat satinfactory procedure, ax far as this government {1 concerned, would be) for him ‘to express such a desire, sind then Admiyal Metcher could placé him upon the nett stoamsbip leaving Vera Crug for the Unites States or Cubs. In regard to, Williams, the state de partment 1a lnrlined to believe that there 16 DO goal teason why be should mot remain in Verm Craz, provided Bb does not wish to leave Maxicd alto. gether. ‘The Mericin attuxtion hei now reached a point where the United Blates Ig bound to prosent to Buropean governments some practical and con crete plan for bringing about the ree. toration of order tn tho southern re public. That fa the pnavoldable inter pretation put upon developments, Under pressure, from European pow- ors, Prealdent Wilson has pladged the United Statos government to make a definite statement of policy In regard to Mexico. At tho request of the Unit. €4 States three.of there powers have agreed to defer action tn Mexico untll they bave lxténed to what Prealdent Wilson bas to say, ‘eo Gio: se / Justwed—My wife baxo't spoken to me for a whule das. Henpeck—Lacky dox!—Brooklsn Citizen. ‘Winn tiaeta see. Roatdents of Sharon, Px. aro up in arms over thevattack mado upon Miss Curwin Kemery, daughter of W. M. Kemery, by a glxantic negro. 7 It ts feared that m lynching may be ab tempted, 7 Mins Kemery wan’ walking” homg from work when she wae attacked by the negro, She wan dragged to a dark spot along the Shenango river bazye choked renaclenx: and aasnulted. 8 was in the negro's power almost two hours, The attack took place within 100 yarda of the police station. OMcer Lansdowne arreated George McDavid. (wonty-stx years old, a Regra porter at the Colonial hotel. He was taken to the girl's home end Identified by her as her assallant. it was peces exry for four men to rentrata the git fatber from murdering the 20; Kemery'ana:ched © big knife rom th kitchen tatle and attempted to attack MeDavid with tt. e MePavia het harly been placed tn accel when the dif was anrrounded by several hundred’ men and boys, wha bed teciouely “avateted tn ow scacch for tis gril Ther demanded that the zene termed ver to thm ‘or sump. 26 pins stu et. . Repos vers trou ari, ead It wie nly ftir chen potter had 1amiteme! “hou he Ae an chs tale @ move, that tie wots disper ted. HIGH GRADE JOB WORK In Fact Printing of All Kinds Executed Promptly. 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. BUSINESS WOMAN OF RARE ABILITY BUSINESS WOMAN OF RARE ABILITY Brief Account of Mme. F. E. Motin's Career. Educational Work of the Founder and Principal of an Institution In St. Louis Covers Many Years of Active Service In Various Sections of the Country. St. Louis. In almost every avenue representing thought and advancement the race is being heard from in a tangible way. Strong men and women are becoming proficient in the arts, sciences and other branches, and here and there you will find at the head of the class a man or woman of distinctive individuality. This time comes to the front Mma. Frances E. Motin, principal of the school of elocution and expression in this city. She is a native of Kansas and received her early education in the public schools of Topeka. Realizing that in order to stand at the top in her line she must have sufficient training, she entered the State Normal college, Emporia, Kan. She made good use of her time there. She also attended Alberta Magnus University of Dramatic Art, Los Angeles, Cal., where she received the degree of bachelor of histiionics and is said to be the only woman, of the race who has received this degree. During the years she has been in active life, working for the uplift of members of the race, she has been un tiring in her efforts. She has taught at Western university, Tennessee institute and in Topeka, Kan. Mme. Motin's last place of teaching before coming here was at Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo., which position she resigned last spring in order to establish the present institution, of which she is the official head as well as founder. Upon Mme. Motin has been conferred a number of merited honors. Several years ago she was appointed by the governors of Kansas and Missouri as delegate to the national Negro educational congress in Denver, where she greatly impressed that body by her splendid ability. The governor of Colorado was also much pleased to know of this talented woman. The whole life of Mme. Motin has been dedicated to racial development. Her money is used to encourage the MOR. FRANCES R. MOTTN. Young people. She has given several gold medals in various schools and says that she will continue to do so. The last medal given by her was presented to the T. M. C. A. in Indianapolis, Ind. Concord Literary Circle Reopens. The Concord Literary circle, in Brooklyn, has reopened for the fall. The young people are taking a lively interest in the work. Preddent Walter K. Taylor is to be congratulated on having for the opening meeting, the Rev. B. G. Granville Sutton, pastor of the Liberal Christian church, Nerro Leone, West Africa, as the chief speaker. The Rev. Mr. Sutton is a charming speaker. His address was highly instructive. Mr. Sutton is in the United States on a visit, studying conditions among colored Americans so as to be better prepared to carry on the religious, educational and industrial work in which he is engaged among the people of his native land. New Department at Hampton Institute. Believing that students are best prepared to do their work in the classroom, in the shops and on the farm when they are in as good physical condition as it is possible to keep them. Hampton institute has opened a well equipped dental office in the boys' school, hospital and has placed in charge of this work Dr. Norman Lasiter, a well known and successful dentist in Newport News, Va. 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 T Hospital Institutions. They are here for Your Inspection. Devoted to the Interests of the Citizens of Color. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN RALEIGH IN 1914 Old North State City Will Entertain National Body of Physicians. The popularity of the National Medical association was strikingly shown at the last annual meeting from the number of invitations received from various sources asking for the convention in 1914. Among the cities which sent invitations through their representatives were St. Louis, Atlanta, St. Paul and Raleigh, N. C. As the last session was held in Nashville, Tenn., the association decided to accept the invitation from Raleigh and will hold its sixteenth annual meeting in the latter city in 1914. Dr. W. G. Alexander, secretary of the organization, in a recent open letter paid a high tribute to the local entertainment committee and to the citizens generally of Nashville for the generous hospitality shown at the meeting held in that city. Dr. Alexander also comments liberally on the work of the session performed by individuals in the various sections of the program, such as clinic, dental, surgical and literary. The paper read by Dr. A. W. Dumas of Natchez, Miss., however, on "Vice Discase" was conceded by all to have been the most highly instructive and valuable to the profession of any yet heard on the subject. So pleased were the members that they requested the executive board to have the matter edited and printed for distribution among the laity. 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The Country patronage is earnestly solicited prices are higher, you can go else ide and class of work. If our price ness. t, Richmond, Va -2213. FARMVILLE, VA. O. Adaia, 318 South St. WASHINGTON, D. C. We have a full line of the Finest Stationery to be obtained anywhere in the United States. We supply Mourning Paper and Envelopes. Union Post Card Co., N. E. Corner 16th and South St. D. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine Street. James E. Warwick, 254 E. 11th St. J. A. Stokes, 1411 Fitzwater St. DANVILLE, VA. Harry A. Clark, 117 Craghead St. PROVIDENCE, B. I. Donglass A. A., P. A., 810 Westminster Street. NEW YORK, N. Y. Cleveland G. Allen, 252 W. 63d St. Mrs. Leanna Hamilton, 263 West 134th street. Samuel Hobbs, 328 H. 127th St. M. A. Williams, 200 W. 62d St. J. M. Schmidt, 268 W. 35th St. LOT, VA. Rev. R. J. Langston. G. Allen, 252 W. 63d St. Anna Hamilton, est 124th street.. Robbs, 328 M. 127th St. Williams, 200 W. 62d St. Nidt, 268 W. 85th St. LOT, VA. Langston. LOS ANGE William S. Brown BLUEFIELD Richard K. Whe PULA J. M. Buford. ASBURY PARK, N. J. R. Bell, 102 Springwood Ave. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAN. Charles Ledwig, P. O. Box 1778. W. I. JO FUNERAL DIRECTOR LIVERY 10 West Leigh Street, LARGE CAPACIOUS WARE-BOOM DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MAN STATES. PROMPT AND POLITE ED TO DAY W. I. Johns UNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALM LIVERYMAN. West Leigh Street, Richmen CAPACIOUS WARE-BOOKS, FILLED WITH NAMES FROM THE BEST MANUFACTORIES R. PROMPT AND POLITE SERVICE. ORD ED TO DAY OR NIGHT. 10 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia. LARGE CAPACIOUS WARM-ROOMS, FILLED WITH THE MOST DESIGNS FROM THE BEST MANUFACTORIES IN THE BEST STATES. PROMPT AND POLITE SERVICE. ORDERS REQUIRED TO DAY OR NIGHT. ly. The Finest Sta- nywhere in apply Mourn- ntry mostly solicited.. you can go else- If our prices nd, Va. LOUISVILLE, KY. Jesse E. Brown, 1216 W. Green St. NEW ORLANDS, LA. World's News Co., Box 1124. A. O. Smith, 202 8. Rampart St. MONESSEN, PA. Smith & Williams, 602 Sixth St. LEESBURG, NA. Miss Cora L. Wright. FLORENCE, B. C. E. B. Webster, PASSAIC, N. B. W. J. Smith, 414 Mafu Ave. E. K. Thumm, 1402 Wylie Avenue YONKERS, N. Y. John W. Adams, 231 N. Main St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. William S. Brown, 1204 B. 9th St. BLUEFIELD, W. VA. Richard K. Wathins. PULASKI, VA. J. M. Buford. Special Correspondents and Agents F. Z. S. Peregrine, 121 Loop Street, Cape Town, R. Z. Prof. I. S. Moewa 26 Rua dos Ciprianos, Bahia, Brazil. Johnson, R. EMBALMER AND MAN. Richmond, Virginia. OR FILLED WITH THE MASTER PACTORSHIPS IN THE BESTED SERVICE. ORDERS MEMBERSHIP OR NIGHT. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1913. MITCHEL WINS IN NEW YORK Fusion Candidate For Mayor Deleats Tammany. --- The Entire Fusion Ticket Was Effected—Republicans Will Control Lower House of Legislature. New York, Nov. 5 — John Purroy Mich. the faithful voice Democrat, who was the town nominee for mayor of New York, has been elected by a plurality of not far from 100,000. Whatever may be the final figures on matter, Edward E. McCall has been 19th place. The street of the first city ticket has been elected by about 15,000 plurality. The first member of the New York legislature was William H. Taft, Phoenix, New York, in 1889. He was Austin J. Lovett, the first governor and chairman of the state assembly, and who presided over Seward, has been elected in his own right. Returns show that the first five members of the New York legislature were elected in New York, but the rest were elected also, with the presiding officer that Maurice C. Gorin was elected in New York. Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Queen, and Republican, Democrat, and President of New York. RESULT IN MARYLAND MASS DEMOCRATIC Entire State Ticket, Headed by Walsh For Governor, Elected. Boston, N. Y. The Democratic ticket won a sweeping victory in Mau- sachusetts, the entire state ticket be- necled. Walsh, the Democratic candidate for governor, has a plurality of 45,000; Bird, the Progressive candidate, run second and Gardner, the Republican, third. Governor Ross running independently and who said he would be swept into office again by an avalanche of votes, figured. He got caught under the avalanche he and his friends will have a long job in directing him out. NO OPPOSITION IN VIRGINIA Henry C. Stuart Elected Governor by the Democrats. Richmond, Va., Nov. 5. — The returns from the south are, as usual, slow. In Virginia the entire state Democratic ticket, headed by Henry C. Stuart, for governor, was elected without Republican opposition. In Kentucky, as usual, the Democrats swept the state in the municipal elections. Progressive Wins at Johnstown. Johnstown, N. Y., Nov. 5.—Johnstown elected a Progressive mayor, following a spirited four-cornered fight. Judge Clarence W. Smith, Progressive, had 588 votes; William H. Coughlin, Rep.; 577, John T. Morrison, Dem.; 569, and Frank Hester, Socialist, 502. Indianapolis Electa Democrat Mayor Indianapolis, Nov. 5 -- Tom Taggart took a firmer hold on the capital city by electing his candidate for mayor Joe Bell. The larger part of the Democratic city ticket was also elected. Many Die as Strikers Burn Buildings Hueca, Spain, Nov. 6. -- Strikins miners in the Rio Tinto copper district during an outbreak of rioting set fire to mine property and a number of per- sons were burned to death. Watertown Is 'Republican. Watertown, N. Y., Nov. 5.—Isaac R. Breen, Rep., was elected mayor of W atertown by a plurality of 462 over Kleff, Dem. JOHN PURROY MITCHEL. Elected Mayor of New York City by Fusionists. JOHN B. HARRIS --- Mr. J. W. Roy of Bumpass, Va. had the misfortune to lose his home. Fire totally destroyed the house and its contents, the estimated cost of which to $150,000. It is an honest, hard-working business man and worthy of whatever contributions, large or mall, you may be able to give. With his family of six children he is without a home. Anything that you may have to give will be gladly received by addressing him at Bumpass, Va. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 4th day of November, 1013. 18th day of November, 1915 Roberta Boddie ..... Flatiff The object of this unit is to obtain a Divorce, a Virtale Matrimonial, by the plaintiff from the defendant upon the ground of adultery. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant is a non-object of the State of Virginia. It is ordered that an affidavit Edward Bodlephot here within fifteen days after the application of this Order and do what may be necessary to protect it may be heard. J. HENRY CRITCHFIELD. 14 You'll take notice that I shall on the kind of day of December 1913, at the office of Phil. It Should room No. 401. Traveller Insurance Building, situated on the North side of Main Street, between (11) Eleventh and (12) Twelfth Streets in the City of Richmond, Virginia, between the hours of 6 o'clock a.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 of 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. ROBERTA BODDIE By Counsel J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, pq. 1815 E. Broad St. Richmond, Va. Wanta to Locate Her Father. Miss Daisy Taylor is very anxious to locate her father or some of her relatives. Mr. Phill Taylor, her father, was a resident of Lynchburg, Va. She has been from Lynchburg Va. about twelve years. Any information will be thankfully received. WILLIAM T. JORDAN, 1760 Pacific street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Do You Know Him? A young colored man whose name is Henry Thompson was found dead at Nicholson, Pa., Monday, September 8th, 1913. In his pocket was a letter addressed to his mother, Mrs. Mary Thompson, 126 Forston Ave., East of the city of Richmond, Va. The authorities are desirous of finding her. His remains are in the morgue, awaiting the action of his relatives. J. H. CARLTON, P. O. Box 332, Nicholson, Pa. WANTED—SEVERAL INTELLI- gent Colored Girls to distribute circulars and talk up our prepara- tions. Address, MANUFACTUR- ERS, P. O. Box, No. 24, Station B. City. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. Old Virginia Corn Meal. Water Ground. Mills in Hanover Co., Va. IN 2 POUND AND 5 POUND BAGS. R. H. Macy & Co., New York. Greenhut Siegel Cooper Co., New York Onell Adams Co., New York. Acker Merrall, Condit, New York. Charles & Co., New York.. 14th St. Store, New York. Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn. Park & Tilford, New York. Church Notice. Rev. E. H. Poltzin Ev-Lutheran Pastor of Meherrin, Va. will hold divine service at Johnson's Hall Every Sunday night at 8 P. M. You and your friends are welcome. HOME COMING WEEK! And One Thousand Dollar Rally... Effort: First Baptist Church, corner College and Broad streets from October 26th to November 10th, 1913. The 12th Anniversary of the Pastor and 133rd Anniversary of the Church. An excellent program each night. Able speakers and excellent at each service. Our members and friends at home and abroad are urged to be present at these services. Rev. W. T. Johnson, pastor; Mr. B. P. Vandervall, clerk; Mr. W. S. Morgan, chairman. WANTED—ANOTHER GOOD LIN-otype Operator. Apply at The PLANET Office. Wanted PERSON WITH $3,000 TO GO INTO THE SEWING MACHINE MAIL ORDER AND CLUR PLAN BUSINESS with me. Have a full line of Machines to start with at once. Do not answer unless you mean business. Address. FRED. W. ERNST. 26 Livingstone St., Detroit, Mich. Wanted! COLORED MEN. Colored Men Wanted to Prepare as Sleeping Car and Train Porters. No experience necessary. Positions pay from $65.00 to $160.00 per month. Steady work on first class trains running through Virginia, Fassos and uniforms furnished when necessary. Write Immediately. Dept. 126, INTER RAILWAY, Indianapolis, Ind. Do You Know Her? I would like to know the whereabouts of Frances Taylor. I am her sister Lucy Ewell. When I last saw her she had two children, the older girl's name was Betsey Ann Taylor. This was about thirty years ago. I would like to know of the pastor of the Second Baptist Church if he knows of a minister by the name of Rev. Ewell, who was pastor of a church in Richmond, Va. about thirty years ago. Any information concerning Frances Taylor or Rev. Ewell will be appreciated. Address, MRS. LUCY SIMON, 2522 Toladona Street, New Orleans, La. COUGHS, COLD'S, GRIPPE. A hard stubborn COUGH and COLD that hang on are broken up by JEFFRIES NO. 1 COUGH MIXTURE. No1 TRADE MARK It is a GUARANTEED REMEDY. Pure and Reliable. Relieves Immediately. Protect yourself. Don't wait until your COUGH becomes Chronic and brings on serious complications which often lead to CONSUMPTION. You are advised to take JEFFRIES NO. I COUGH MIXTURE. Sold at all drug stores. Three nices 25c, 50c, $1.00. If your Druggist hasn't it we will send it to you by Parcel Post on receipt of price. THOR, TADB JEFFRIES Manufacturing Chemist. 214 E. Broad St., Richmond, Va. Gimbell Bros., Philadelphia. Mitchell Fletcher Co.; Philadelphia. Thos. C. Fluke Co., Philadelphia. J. J. Pletcher & Bro., Germantown. Siegel Cooper Co., Chicago. Aaron Ward's Sons, Newark. Chas. M. Deeker & Bros Stores, Orange, New Jersey. 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Our actual assets, based upon the present value of our real estate holdings are over fifty thousand dollars above the amount on deposit with us. This guarantees the safety of every dollar on deposit with us. We invite correspondence and urge upon every one to bring us their money for safe keeping. Amounts in sums of ten cents and upwards received. Interest paid on sums of $1.00 and over. Our President is under Bond. Our Cashier is under Bond. Our Vault, although Burglar-proof is insured against loss by burglaries. 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. NORTH-WEST CORNER THIRD & CLAY STS., RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. WANTED-EVERYBODY TO KNOW I HAVE opened an Entire NEW DRUG STORE at corner 6th and Clay Sts. Clean, Fresh Stock, Full Line of Everything kept in an up-to-date Pharmacy. 30 years' experience. Best Prices. Prompt Delivery. POLITE Attention. I solicit the Patronage of all the People. Respectfully, $33,725.00 Paid out from January 1, 1912 to Sept. 13th, 1913. FINE SHQWING FOR BOTH BRANCHES OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—READ AND CONSIDER-VIRGINIA DOING GRAND WORK Brought Forward..... $ 6,900.00 1913 Jan. 15—Elizabeth Johnson, Myrtle Court, No. 106. Feb. 8—Emma Lee Marable, Fearless Court, No. 142. Feb. 19—Rachel A. Burns, Staunton Court, No. 76. March 7—Martha Branch, Arnota's Court, No. 72. March 22—Charlotte Yearby, Pride of East Court, No. 56. April 4—Courtney Booker, Planet Court, No. 187. April 9—Carrie Martin, Victoria Court, No. 52. April 17—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. April 21—Matilda Hall, Unity Court, No. 132. April 22—Tablieu Skinner, Golden Rule Court, No. 86. April 28—Elizabeth M. Robinson, Unity Court, No. 132. April 28—Minnie Johnson, Sarah's Court, No. 246. April 28—Cora Preston, Fulton Court, No. 244. April 28—Maggie Moeby, King's Daughters Court, No. 70. April 28—Margaret Lettwich, Old Dominion Court, No. 114. April 28—Ella Shepherd, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85. April 28—Salille Taylor, Fulton Court, No. 244. April 28—Rebecca Banks, Blooming Lily Court, Np. 142. April 28—Sarah Burwell, Suffolk Court, No. 68. May 3—Georgie Bolting, Old Dominion Court, No. 114. May 10—Celia Brown, Pride of Farmville Court, No. 144. May 24—Margaret Scott, Venus Court, No. 47. May 24—Loxie Ann Prunty, Jupiter Court, No. 80. May 24—Annie Johnson, Pride of the East Court, No. 56. May 24—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. June 11—Lula Lewis, Zion Traveller's Court, No. 96. June 12—Emily Allman, Narcissus Court, No. 229. June 12—Jane Wingfield, Martha's Court, No. 138. July 23—Martha Donglass, Arria Court, No. 43. July 29—Laura Johnson, Violet Court, No. 152. July 29—Caroline Clemente, Josephine Court, No. 228. July 29—Bettle Powell, Venus Court, No. 47. July 29—Alice Burrows, Ivy Leaf Court, No. 85. August 4—Emily Moseby, Friendship Court, No. 143. August 7—Matilda Jones, Planet Court, No. 137. August 15—Eliza James, Julia's Court, No. 235. August 16—Lula C. Hall, Bristol Court, No. 162. August 23—Susan Dobson, Planet Court, No. 137. Sept. 2—Mary Galnes Keys, Star of the Valley, No. 87. Sept. 10—Pattie Carter, White Rose Court, No. 118. Sept. 10—Rosa Stratton, Victoria Court, No. 62. Total..... $ 11.075.03 Phones, Mad; 9516, Mon, 5386. H. M. SHEILD. 5.00 January 1, 1912 1913. RANCHES OF THE HEAD AND CON- RAND WORK $13,050.00 $ 22,650.00 $ 6,900.00 $ 11,075.00 $ 22,600.00 $ 11,075.00 $ 22,725.00