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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. A PERSON OF SOME IMPORTANCE By LLOYD OSBOURNE Copyright, 1911, by the Bobba-Merrill Company 5YNOPSIS Matt Broughton leaves the service of John Mort on a Pacific island to return to America. Mort gives him a valuable ring. Broughton is the mysterious Mort and his woman companion. He is shipwrecked and must realise in San Francisco on the ring. Raising 61,000 on the ring, to be repaid, Broughton returns to his old home at Manaswan. He thinks of going into the city and finding a colored garage keeper. Broughton is visited by the local editor, who calls him "Ring." "The ring" is due to a "fake" newspaper story about Broughton's adventures in the Pacific. At a church he meets Christine Marshall, daughter of a local magistrate. Matt falls in love with Chris, who asks him to call on her. Broughton is an anxious girl and starts in the male business in Kentucky. On his way to the Marshall's Matt is detained by an important stranger, but Matt is late and cannot listen to him. He tells his love to Chris. Chris also loves Matt. The stranger, who calls himself Matt, shows Matt an offer of Matt and offers him 60,000 for information about him, but Matt remains loyal. The ring is flawed, Matt bears from San Francisco, and is worth only $20. Kay raises his offer to borrow a railroad car and shows Matt the ring he has and his employees are aware. Matt knows Bortz. Matt again refuses and is at fault, but because He tells Bortz about Mort, and together they try to improve the strange marriage Bortz. Little provides to Mary to save an abandoned child from the affliction of a father. Mary is unable to save a child, and Mary provides to Mary that she is unable to save a child from the affliction of a father. Mary is unable to save a child, and Mary provides to Mary that she is unable to save a child from the affliction of a father. CHAPTER XII. A Mysterious Enemy. 17TH his $5 assured an interesting occupation before him and a partnership whenever he chose to take it. he felt that all his troubles were over and that his foot at last was on the holder of independence. He was in a glow of contentment and good will. It was and indeed, when it came to an end, the evening after supper Daggerscott took. Matt to one side and with personal depression said that it was "no up." "It came over a boatload, he be queried. "You know, I started the business on in thing four years ago and borrowed $150 of Liberty, the money lender. Now today he comes up to me and says, old Liberty does, out of a coefair say and without the most warming. Just as he was writing the record in my office with a fordition pen, I have to call to that $200. Viktor, and will ask you to make an immediate settlement." I said. Marcel Furley, that isn't fair. As I said sees us, that isn't fair, and I could no more do it than I could try. Then he flubs with his fountain pen and sticks it back most careful in his vost pocket and says, "Then you'll have to get out." "And didn't he make any explanation?" Matty attention was disturbed by a thought that grew and grow more insistent as the mutatto poured out the tale of Bareilly's amazing perilty. He encountered his singular dismissal from the Y M C. A. and, therefore, as it might seem, asked himself whether there was not some connection between it and this uninterested catastrophe and whether behind both there was not somehow or other a mysterious connection with Mr. Kay. "He did not give me as much as a pinhoe to crawl through." Baggans court continued explosively, "not a week's grace—mothing." "I believe I can get you out of this," said Matt. "It may be crazy, but let's try it. Here, I'll write it on the back of an envelope." Victor was astounded; his face, as withered as old leather, screwed itself up into a thousand wrinkles. "Try what?" he demanded. "You sit down and copy this off and have it in his letter box inside of an hour: "Dear Mr. Family, look back on our interview, I fear I was not in a state best to explain the prosperous condition of the garage or how really unwise it would be in your own interests to terminate my business. I was very much upset by another matter—a row I had had with my demonstrator shortly before you came in. This fellow Hroughton abolished, and I had to threaten him with a constable before he could be punished. I again and tried to clean out the shop with a piece of lead pipe. Excuse me for bothering you with all this, but I am sure that if you will let me bring you the machine, I will be going to be in going you will recount your wish to call in the note. Our agency prospects are very bright, and the sale of two Jones-motelies in eighteen days speaks for itself. I feel positive I can satisfy you in regard to the problem if you will only do very kind as to let me come and go over the figures. Respectfully yours. "VICTOR DAGOANCOURT" "And I'm to write him that!" asked the molatto "Sakes alive." Marse Broughton, what in the name of good ness do you want me to do that for?" "But what should I really do that? Excuse me. Moe brought it to you are all I did. I should as well lend him a picture pok card of the Masonic building as this here letter." "Victor, it's like this: I have got hold of a little piece of a big secret—something extraordinary, inexplicable. Involving the best friend I have in the world, and I am on my honor to him to keep my mouth shut. If it wasn't for that promise I'd tell you everything You get that letter off to Farellly as quick as you can." "It isn't a bit of use, air. Justly and truly, Marse Broughton, it isn't a bit of use." "Do it to oblige me, anyhow." "All right, Marse Broughton; though couldn't you cut out some of the humble pie?" "Not a bite of it! You write it just the way it is and then leave it at his house tonight." The next morning Matt treated himself to the luxury of getting up late so late, indoors, that Dongguancourt had already gone, leaving no message. But he returned soon with the things that the letter had been intracellularly successful. Yes, old firmly, after a pretense of examining the books, had professed himself entirely satisfied; the notes were not to be enailed in; everything was to go on as before; the garage was saved. "What clinched it was when I said I'd have to find another boarding place," added Dongguancourt, with a puckered grin; "said I was afraid to stop where you was, may the Lord forgive me. For God's sake, get away from here. Marse Broughton, or worse may come of it. Get away quick, and here's $120 I drew at the bank." Matt pushed the money back. "No, no, Victor," he exclaimed; "I'm going to stick it out. I am going to stay in Managua if it rattles wildens!" After losing two more positions through the machinations of his masterful foes Matt succeeded in getting a job on the water front. But what he had not reckoned on was the overtorsoring, crushing fatigue that made it impossible to keep it. A dam insaneous tunnel to sewer and prolonged manual labor his little chance on the docks. Matt, working one day and often recuperating for two weeks every morning to find less killing employment, Sullivan. The boss steveberle, told him the Mountain View quarry was to be opened up with forty Hungarians and that he had recommended Matt for gang foreman of the place "because he drive out on Sunday morning and talk it ever" and Sullivan. The platoon was a lonely one and Mart, sitting trouble, took Program count, an auto, two machines and a shogun for each. The quarry was deserted, but they found a highway mannish on the ground and hurried away as fast as the auto two wagons could go. The poet, whatever it was, and folded when the unknown compilers saw Matt and their companions. Miles away Matt and his friends stopped for lunch, Sean Chris, taking beside his father, came A Suddenly There Was a Flash of a Whip. Last, Matt found himself holding her belly, talking and listening with breathless animation. She had not been able to stay away longer. She loved him and would say it before the world, promising or no promise. It had been unbearable, and she was twenty-three and her own mistress, and, oh, had he succeeded in what they had planned? No, he had not. It was a bitter confession. But he had not. They had got him out of one thing after another; he had forced him to his knees. He had been persecuted and hunted till he was well high crazy. Over all was another voice irritably crying: "Let go my daughter's horse. sir! Do you hear, sir?" Let go my daughter's horse" a voice irritating with passion and yet inmeasurably distant and as unconsidered as the drone of a wap Suddenly there were a flash of a whip and a stinging blow cut across Matt's face. Another flash, a scream, and he had wrenched the whip from a wrinkled old hand and was about to hush out with it himself on that compulsive and facing figure. To his dying day he was thankful he be thrown from him instead, dizzy refraining as he realized it was Chris' father and that he must not strike an old man. Then the two horses took fright and bolted, hurting. Matt to the ground, from which he looked after them on one elbow, dullness of everything but Chris' safety. But she was as good a rider as her father and as spirited her own thoroughbred. She was keeping her sent in that headlong gallop and leanning back like a little jockey, was jerking manfully at the curb. But nothing could have checked those horses. They were uncontrollable in their terror. Straining neck and neck, they diminished and disappeared, leaving Matt sick with fear. Christine was not injured, and that evening a plush, middle-aged woman came to the boarding house and gave him this note. My Dearl, I am sending you this by my Sister in Fletcher whom I don't trust much, nor will I tell you what I have planned, for I am so used up, so distracted, that I cannot write it, though I have tried twice. I am at the end of my course, and I am so happy. I am so happy now we shall lose it forever. It was wicked of him to strike you. Wicked, wicked, wicked! Let Flexner do all the talking till you understand. Don't be so irritated. It devoured it. I became I promised her 2,000 dolls, and that is a fortune in her country, where I suppose she will settle down and yodel for the rest of her day. If I could only talk to you myself: but I love you, and she will show you how much. Adieu CHRIS. I S-When I shall have paid the Giro assists on in advance I shall have $2 left. Matt pondered a moment and then inquired, "You are Flexner?" "Yes, sir." "Will you please give me your message?" "My young lady wishes to do a very foolish thing," said Fletcher, with a disapproving pursing of her mouth. "She wants you to run away with her tomorrow morning. You are to get a carriage, or better, an automobile and pick up tomorrow morning at 4 o'clock, at the Oak Oaks' entrance. Previously I shall have packed a small portmanteau and placed it outside the house, and fill next day I will inform her father that she is ill and cannot be disturbed. By this means you reach Middleborough without trouble and get married, and then take the train to New York. From New York you will travel to San Francisco, and there you stay, no matter how poor, how starry, till the opportunity arrives to go to that place where you have a friend a very rich, queen uncle—whom once you served and who will take you back in employment." "John Mort," said Matt to himself. "She says it must be now or not at all, for she can not be so brave twice. She says desperate people have to take desperate chances. She asks you to answer yes or no." Matt made a hasty calculation. He had almost a hundred dollars. This, with chisel! $2, would easily get them to California, with something to spare. He told Fischer that his answer was "Yes" and put into the word a warmth that he hoped she would carry to her mistress. She was to say that he had $5 and would carry out his instructions; impatient; was also to say that she was the pluckiest girl in the world. At half past 2:50 Matt and Dagkancourt were at the gates of Fair Oak. There was a sound of voices, of feet running, of muffled exclamations in the dark. A slight figure murmured partially, "With Matt, is it you?" and chirled to him. In an instant they were screaming through the deep dale again, excited in the night. Matt's rescription of his elopement was both strangely blurred and strange yet valid. He was tired to exhalt and so was Chris. Nothing could keep them long awake, not even the necessity of being together. Yet that down was the most important memory of his life as he looked down at her, nestled beside him, with the heavy affection fringing her checks. She opened her sleepy eyes and nestled closer and closer still when he whispered it was their wedding day. They say responsibility gravitates to the shoulders it to bear it. In this case the shoulders were Baggan court, and he was the directing spirit. He had charged himself with the whole business and had thought out a plan of campaign in which the others were merely to do what they were old. They did so neatly, bewildered and happy at this fresh distance of the first being last and the last first. The ring was bought, the license obtained, and a bounty grant fossil rested the marriage ceremony in a stupty parlor. Victor slipped a ten dollar note in his not unwilling hand, and the couple left the stupty parlor—married. At Clarenton they caught the New York express, and Duggancourt, who had taken the tickets, hurried them through a Pullman to the compartment he had reserved. "How do we stand, Victor?" Matt asked. "Two for the license, ten for Mr. What dye-call him, and, oh, yes—the ring-that's five more, seventeen—and the auto, I insist upon paying for that—and the tickets. For heaven's sake, be quick about it or they'll start the train." "Marse Broughton, you aren't as well fixed as you ought to be," said Duggancourt, "and—and so I think well just let it stand and if you don't mind." "Stand over? I should say not! Here, take thirty-five and call it again!" "It can never be that between you and me; sir," returned Victor, with a droop of the lower lip that made him look the embellishment of guilt. "I'm powerful fond of you, Marrae Broughton, and—and it would be a great favor if you would just accept it—temporary. Like you might from a white man," he added stammeringly, "only temporary, till you sort of get settled, and—" "I'll take it." Matt said brokenly "and I won't present it isn't a gift either. God knows, I miss it. Victor and I—I thank you." They waved farwell, not it were to all their past life as well as to that shabby figure receiving behind them. The new one seemed to date from the moment they found themselves alone together for the first time since down as they looked at each other—that hag gard, unhaven man, that patio girl, thus unfinishedly taking their fate into their own hands. CHAPTER XIII. A Friend Drops From Haevan. HIRS, who was sitting on the bed in a cheap rooming house in San Francisco, looked up and said with a strange earnestness: "Matt. I want to tell you something." "Why, what is it?" he asked carelessly. "We were followed all the way up from the ferry." "Followed?" "Yes, a man followed us; I'm positive of it." She rose, and going to the window, looked out. "Oh, Matt, there he is now!" she erted. "Come quick." Paparazzi But Matt was too late; the man had disappeared in the direction of a saloon. Matt had intended to go to Snood & Hargreaves, demanding an explanation of their outrageous conduct, force them to a settlement. His position was unavailable. If they could show him to ring and he knew they did not have it, he could threaten them with the police and press them to the wall. But the unwisdom of such a course grew more and more apparent. It would be tantamount to announcing the arrival to Mr. Kay, with unforeseen dangers and consequences. Snood & Hargreaves were put by as a last resort, only to be braved in the extremity of misfortune. Instead, Matt would make the round of the business houses with which he had formerly dealt on John Mort's behalf and borrow sufficient money. If he could, for a steerage passage in the mall steerer to Sipma. Chris appointed him. It was a blustering, windy day, bleak and cheerless, and it seemed to become bleaker and more cheerless still as Matt was clad at one office after another. He was the victim of bygone zeal of bygone loyalty and honesty. However lightly he had spent his own money, he had always been a hard bargainer where John Mort's was concerned. How remorselessly that "per cent for cash" now rose in judgment against him that "I can do better at Turner's" or whatever it was—to bring down the price. By 4 o'clock he had to confess himself beaten. Except for a ship chandler at the foot of Market street, the list of possible leaders was exhausted. But he had nagged past much business in this man's way, whose last name he had some trouble in remembering. Yes, Coleman, that was it. Joe Coleman, a jolly old Englishman as round as a turtle. Colleen greeted him heartily-so heartily that Matt was ascribed of the surprise he was about to spring. "You'd better be careful, Joe!" he said, with a wristful effort at a smile. "I'm on my knees and every shake of my hand may cost you $5." "Well, well," evoked a clenchant in sham tropliation. "Here's down on that barred and have a cigar. Bless you, he. It's like old times to say you again." Joe was a common old fellow, but his robust good old sympathy were very warning. Putting at his gar and bending against an anchor, he told Matt "to get on with his tale of wood." Matt obeyed, but with reservations, saying friendly that he had tried shore life and failed and wanted to return to the islands. "That's easy," said Coleman. "No need to be so blunt about it. I'm good for a hundred dollars. I always liked you. Broughton, and when I like a man it don't stop at the trousers pocket. Ribs your handsome face, it doesn't. All you're to do is to catch the mull boat and make a bow line for the coconuts and the girls." "I have mine with me, Joe. I'm married." "Oh, I say!" Coleman exclaimed, rubbing his chin and looking worried. "You've been going it, haven't you? A hundred dollars is about my limit. I couldn't go more than a hundred, and that's what they charge for a single passage to Samoa. Hold on, though. I have it! Ship steward or work your way and let safety be the passenger." Coleman suddenly dashed to the door and grabbed the arm of a man who had stopped for a moment to peer in. He was a short, thick set person of a seafaring cut, with the appearance of a north German or a Scandinavian and popping blue eyes that danced with good humor. He was effusively introduced to Matt as Captain Schwartz of the schooner Esmeralda. "I fancied you had up with the mudhook and cleared a month ago!" cried Coleman. "No wupe luck!" growled Captain Schwartz in a strong German accent. "Everybody behind; everybody humbugging; drouble, drouble, drouble all the time." "Here's some more." said Coleman cheerfully, indicating Matt. "He's going with you, and when may be come aboard? He's a south sea captain like yourself and has best his ship." "Ship? Vat ship?" inquired Schwartz, awakening to interest. "The topail schooner North Star," said Matt in a shiver of expectation and hope. "He's stuck here without a cent" put in Coleman. "and it don't matter to him much where son land him as long as it is something dry, with a palm tree on it and cold missionary on the sidelines." They all laughed at this, and then Schwartz said, "I wasn't meaning 10 shop anywhere this side of the Bolomos, but he can go; he can gome; he can gome; Laying his hand on Matt's shoulder, he added; "Old south sea captains should stand together. You'd have done, the same for me, and dat is all there is to it." "His wife's along," interjected Coleman, winking at Matt. "and a corking young woman she is too. Sings splendid and plays the mandolene, and it will be dandy of a moonlight night to sit on the poop and bear her." "You got a wife?" asked the captain, apparently much pleased. "Say, but dat will be one. Young, she is!" "Twenty-three," replied Matt. Schwartz looked happier than ever. "You come on to Malala," he said. "Me. I am married, too, and got two leetle bubbles, so high—everything fine, but my wife she is very lonely for white society. I think she jump for joy to see another young white lady. And I'M get you a good possession on the plantation or in the company's store." Then nothing would satisfy Schwartz but that he should return with Matt and be present when the great news was broken to Chris. Saying goodbye to Coleman, they started walking arm in arm, like a pair of crows; for the Emeralda was to sail the next day, and Schwartz had promised him the owner's cabin, as well as inviting him and Chris to dine on board that very night. By wry of celebration Matt bought a bunch of roses and a box of candy, and it was in this gala fashion and with overflowing spirits that he mounted the statue of No. 7 and knocked at Chris' door. "Shake hands with the best and kindest fellow in the world," he exclaimed as she shrank at the sight of a stranger. "Chris, this is Captain Schwartz of the schooner, Emeralda, who has dropped from heaven to rescue us." "This is the first time I was ever reported from heaven," said Schwartz, laughing explosively. "Delighted to meet you, Mrs. Broughton. No, thank you. I will not sit down. I weeded merely to give my invitation in person and extend the courtesies of my ship to so charming a lady." "The captain wants us to dine on board tonight," Matt explained, "and tomorrow we sail with him to the islands!" Just think of it, Chris—we're sailing tomorrow, actually sailing tomorrow! "Anywhere you like, old chap," put in Schwartz royally, "though if you will listen to me, Mrs. Broughton, you will go on to Malta, where my wife is, and the captain can get a good position." "And we're to have the owner's cabin, Mrs. crieed Matt. 'Did you A man in a suit is greeting two women in a dress. "Delighted to meet you, Mrs. Broughton." "Delighted to meet you, Mrs. Broughon," ever hear the like of that! Isn't that kind, though? Isn't that wonderful! isn't that dripping from heaven?" Cleetly, how excited too, admitted that it was, and with shining eyes regarded the man to whom they owed so much. They took a street car to the waterfront, where they walked along on foot until they reached the wharf where the Esmeralda was lying. In contrast with the towering clipper ships all about her the Esmeralda appeared to be a toy, and so diminutive that they had to descend to her deck by a ladder. She was a typical south sea schooner, built on sharp and yacht like lines and heavily sparred for her size. In the little mall cabin they were made acquainted with Mr. Brandeis, the mate, who was making up his accounts at the table, with small piles of gold and silver coin stacked on the various bills, Mr. Brandeis was a very fair, irritable looking man of fifty or so, with a lank mustache, who spoke no Englihan, and shook hands solemnly at his superior's bidding. "Aoot chap," said Captain Schwartz, smiling, laying his hand on the mate's shoulder. "Heads books—all the time he reads, books—and never talks except to contradict you, and say you are a liar on page 70, or a fool on page 203. Some day I will throw him overboard and shoot his books after him and say: 'Go and prove it to the feebb!'" Beyond the captain's, and reached by a narrow passageway, was the "owner's cabin"—another cubical with barely room for a couple of bunks, superimposed. "This is where you will live," said the captain to Chris, who was regarding everything with much curiosity. "And if you wish to do any shopping, I hope you will not forget our old establishment pee-zeal!" As he spoke he opened the door opposite and ushered her into the trade-room. a veritable footing shop, with a counter and shelters, scales and primitive showcases. It contained everything under the sun from brass wedding rings, cheap watches, tools of all kinds, jewelsharp and dints for flintlock mace. kets, to boat anchors, keep of dynamic, harbors of beef and pork, and innumerable bolts of gully printed cotton. "But what do you want with all those things?" asked Chris, to whom a sea shop was a novelty. "Sell them to the noble savage at 300 per cent profit." returned Schwartz, laughing. "But what are those guns over there for in the rick?" "To shoot him if he ain't satisfied. They are a tricky lot. Mrs. Broughton, and, like all customers, are ready to beat you down, only they do it with a cloob." Chris shrank a little closer to Matt, who measured her by remarking that their islands would not be like that. "You're never told me where you want to go," put in Schwartz. "Vare is that delightful place so different from the Solomons." "Really, captain, I don't want to take you out of your course," returned Matt seriously. "The Gilbert islands are in your way. Drop us there anywhere. The Tokelaus would suit me best." "The Tokelaus? Vare is dem?" "Well, the Union islands—to call them the name they have on most charta." "The Union islands! Yaaas. I know the Union islands. A little south, but what's that? Old south sea captains should stand together—that's what I say." "Oh, captain. I'll never be able to thank you enough." "Dat's all foolishness. Broughton. You would do the same for me." CHAPTER XIV A Startling Discovery. LN days had passed since the tug cast them off beyond the Golden Gate and with three toots of farewell left them to shift for themselves - ten days of heavenly peace, with the sails scarcely touched and rustling softly before an unfailing breeze. In all there were seven men forward, who might have been seven authors, from the assiduus way they read - grave, oldish men for the most part, always glued to books under that tarpaulin in the waist. Herman was the only youth among them-tail, whitley-blond Herman, who tried to make friends with the passengers till he was quelched by the mate. Schwartz, though less of a reader than Brandels or the others, very soon ran dry as a conversationist. He became bottled up and uncommunicative, spending hours at a time in his cabin or walking up and down the poop in a brown study home dared to disturb. This was the only preoperative of a captain that he treated himself to, beyond taking his place at the head of the table. Mr. Brandels took all the observations, gave all the orders, shortened gall or run up kites without even going through the form of consulting his superior. He was the virtual commander of the ship and made very little pretence that he was not. Matt noted that Schwartz stood no watch, but allowed him to be taken by the second mate, a populous individual of sixty, with white side whiskers, who was called Kiantz and berthed forward with the man. This familiarity between officers and men was how to Matt. Mr. Braudels was not above mixing with them under the tarpaulin and adding his cigar and book to that, sprawling circle. Matt had to adhere that the mate did not appear to lay waste in consequence on the contrary, he was treated with great respect, and Herman in particular never failed to spring up at his approach. The two ladies, Vanida, the steward, and Fust, the cook, were not behind him, either, as readers. An indefinable suspicion was beginning to creep into Matt's mind that there was something wrong with the ship. The transformation of Schwartz from an amuble, talkative, friendly little man into the tactic creature who paced the poop or wrote for hours in his calm snack oddly on Matt's attention. The gruff mate was gruffer than ever and showed an increasing disillusion to let Matt see the chart as the vessel's course was plotted from day, to day. And these white and whiskered patriforms? Was it a floating old man's home or what? The humorous view with which these things were at first regarded changed imperceptibly as time wore on. Who was this strange Schwartz and this strange Brandeel, and what had been the secret of the former's impulsive good will in San Francisco? Nothing now was heard of old south sea captains standing together. The amazing fact dawned on Matt that Schwartz was no seaman at all, but a landman masquerading as the master of the vessel. Was it possible that they were prisoners on this singular ship—comfortable, well fed, politely treated prisoners? To increase Matt's misgivings, Chris, who was a lighter sleeper than himself, had been hoarding "police" in the middle of the night. She described them as "funny, snapping sounds" that commenced after Schwartz had passed their door and looked in, as though to assure himself that they were asleep. She was no positivist of this that Matt determined to stay awake one night and age and hour for himself. If it were fancy on Chris's part the sooner she was undecided the better, for she was nervous and frightened and had moments of passionately wishing they had never feet on the Enumerala. Midnight struck—eight balls. Half after midnight—one bell. One clock—two balls. Half after 1- three balls. He grew drawer and drawer. Suddenly Chris satched him. "The coming" she whispered. "Matt, he's coming! heard the door." Matt held his breath. Schwartz was tippingpost their door. No, not apart it for the man stopped on his way and a quick glance within. He was in his palms. His face was a study of furriennes and caution. Then he tipped on and was seen no more. "Didn't I tell you?" murmured Chris. "In a moment the noise will begin. 'Shh'" returned Matt. "Ribb." It was more than a moment, never, before the quiet was disinterested. "There, there," exclaimed Christ, "peculiar farring sound because faintly audible, as though some machinery had been put in motion. But it was too irregular, chilling and, had had an indescribable thrilling quality to the Mist, at a loss to acclimate the cabin shivered with it. It was as fine as the lash of a whip and as vicious, as it seemed to sting the air. Matt. leaped from the bunk, despite Chris' entreaties. By George, he was going to see what it was'. Follow Schwartz and find out. It was an astonishing sight that met his gaze. Forward of the forearm was a sort of but constructed of mattresses, forming a windbreak or shield, open only to the foetale. Within it, seated on a box, was Herman, bent over an apparatus and causing it by means of a small brass handle to emit that astounding buzzing as well as an incessant jitter of sparks and flashes. There was no listlessness now in that gawky youth. His expression was keen; his hand moved the key with lightning precision; he had an unmistakable air of mastery and skil as of a man engaged in something he excelled in. Wireless: Of course it was the wireless. Matt had read of it, but had never seen it before in action. Zi—zi—ziiziziz—zi—zi—ziiziziz. The brass lever darted up and down, lingered and snapped amid a splutter of sparks and flashes, the captain, holding a sheaf of papers with his thumb, reeled off sentence after sentence in a low, vibrant voice; the lantern light flickered over the yellow sheets, over Herman's bent head encased in a curious harness, over the gleaming apparatus. Occasionally Schwartz was warned to stop. The machine no longer transmitting, would receive. Zi, zi, zi, zi—zi—with this time Herman repeating, word by word, the message thus mysteriously caught from space, while Schwartz listened (darkly), with preoccupation, seeing the unseen, weighing and understanding what was being told him. Matt returned as he had come, more concerned than ever not to betray himself. The discovery had dummed him; he was in the grip of terror. He was no agitated that he could scarcely speak, as Chris, on guard at the door, shut it behind him and breathlessly asked what he had seen. "They're working a wireless apparatus," he answered. "Wireless, Matt! You don't mean a wireless telegraph?" "Yes. Herman's operating it, and Schwartz is sending messages." "You actually saw them?" "Yes, inside a lot of mattresses by the forearm to denude the sound of 图 It Was an Astonishing Sight That Met His Gaze. course, and keep us from hearing. We're prisoners on this ship. Chris, they're kidnapped us." "But isn't that a terrible thing to do?" "For us—yes" "But couldn't they all be punished and sent to prison?" "Posibly, if the Oregon ranged alongside. But where is your Oregon? Chris, this whole ship and the whole crew must have been waiting for us in San Francisco, a lot of spiders for two little files. Tokelaua! We'll never see any Tokelaua. That was all part of the scheme to hood-wink us—to get us away." "But what could they want with us?" "Want with us! Why, they want John Mort!" "Oh, Matt!" "Yes. The same people who are running this ship are the same that drove me out of Manasquan. Bribing me failed, force failed, but they were cunning enough to know that rather thus starve I'd double back to the islands. So there was Schwartz all ready, with his ship and his blairy and his spider's web across the road I was bound to take." "Why hasn't the captain tried to make you tell-tried to force you to tell?" "That's coming. As sure as I am alive that's coming when we reach the people who are answering our wireless. There's trouble ahead, Chris." "Well, in that case, you'll simply have to take the only way out." "I'll never do that—never." "But, Matt, they might—Rather than have you hurt I'll tell everything myself." "You shan't." "I will, Matt, I will!" "You don't know where this island is. You don't know the bearings. What could you tell them that they don't know." She whispered something back that she had his finger. He was silent. It had to be that their devilty to him that their devilty to Chris. 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. 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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. Dorsey Kelly, twenty four years old, a farm hand, of near Frederick, Md., shot and killed Miss Mary Fleming, the daughter of his employer, and then committed suicide. Jeanness of the young woman, with whom Kelly was said to have been infatuated, is believed to have prompted the died. 1913 NOVEMBER 1913 S M T W T F S | | | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | | | | | 1 | | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | | 30 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | A Western boy, rich, handsome dapper and debonair, who's "awfully lonesome," deserves correspondence with a pretty, vivacious and accom- plished girl, who is graceful, can sing dance, play piano and cook. Widows wall-flowers, filtras and coquets brush by. State age, height, weight and send photo first letter to receive re- ply. Photo exchanged. Write to a lonesome boy 'way out West, girls, and send photo: you'll receive a long sweet, lovely letter. Address, J. G. 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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. CATTLE steady; beaver, $6.700 9.05; Texas steers, $6.650 $7.75; stockers and feeders, $507.50; cows and heifers, $2.300 $2.25; calves, $6.500 SHARP slow and 100°C lower; various sheep, $405; yearlings, $5.10 6; l๓sma_nativa, $607.40 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. 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Warehouse the master of the mighty building the headquarters of the arrangements for the celebration, presided. The hymn, "Love Ivory, All Love Envelling," a favorite of Mr. Brewer, was sung, and the invocation was given by Rev Dr Holland Powell. The special music for the occasion was A. B. PROFESSOR KELLY MILLER. sung by a choir made up of singers from the various church choirs, under the direction of Mr. P. Albert Myers. Among the anthems sung by the choir, which were also favorites of the noted preacher, were "Who Are These Arranged In White Robes?" (Staffer), "Thou Lamb of God" (Wagner) and "O Ye That Love the Lord" (Coleridge Taylor). General Horatio C. King, clerk of Plymouth church for many years, made the address of welcome in a brief but thrilling story of some of the historical facts connected with the church which occurred during Mr. Bessher's postmaster of forty years. General King's reference to "Pinkle," the little slave girl whose freedom was bought by Plymouth church, was both interesting and pathetic. He said that the night on which "Pinkle" was sold Mr. Bessher had the baskets passed to raise the $500 to meet the requirements of the bill of sale, the church raised $150, paid the slave owner, gave "Pinkle" her freedom and the rest of the money to "Pinkle's" mother. The speakers of the evening were Mrs. A. W. Hinton of this city and Professor Kelly Miller, dean of the college of arts and sciences, Howard university. Mrs. Hinton reviewed the work of Beecher as a preacher, until slavery agitator and leader of thought in his day. She quoted many passages from his speeches against slavery and noted his deeds of kindness as a Christian warrior. The speaker paid a glowing tribute not only to Mr. Beecher, but to the members of Plymouth church and other heroes of human rights who fought that the colored race might have its freedom as God intended it should have. Mrs. Hunton was loud in praise of the women of the race, who, she said, had stood loyalty by the men, giving them encouragement and hope through the fifty years of freedom which the race is now celebrating. The progress which the colored people have made under the most cruel and unfair treatment ever mooted out to a people in a civilized country called Christian, said Mrs. Hunton, fully justified all that Mr. Beecher and men and women of his stamp did before. Professor Kelly Killner in his address made the application of the teachings of Mr. Beecher to the present condition of the race in a masterly and scholarly production of facts. He based his discourse on the life of Moses in dealing with the children of Israel and what would have happened had Moses yielded to the serious notions of the leaders at the king's court instead of casting the positive side of his life with his own people. Professor Miller emphasized the need of the right kind of education and the duty of the educated to the rank and file of the race. This thought the speaker illustrated by calling attention to the positive and negative signs in algebra. Mr. Miller is positive in his belief that were Mr. Beecher alive the great humannature would fight against race segregation in all of its phases just as vallantly as he did against the injustice of human slavery. RESEARCH SOCIETY MEETS. Yonkers' Organization Hears Native African Discuss Dignity of Race. African Discuss Dignity of Race. In the course of an able and scholarly address before the members, and friends of the Negro Society For Historical Research, Yonkers, N. Y., recently, Dr. E. G. Granville Sutton of Sierra Leone, West Africa, spoke on the subject "The Dignity of Being a Negro." After telling his hearers what the early Africans had contributed to civilization and religion he mentioned some useful discoveries and inventions made by Negroes and appropriated by the stronger race which have been of lasting benefit to the world. Among the earliest and most useful of these was the common sewing needle, which he said was invented by a Spanish Negro in 1555 and was exposed for sale at Cheapside, in London. The Inventor refused to divulge his secret. The collapsible umbrella and the detachable or bobber buttons are the inventions of black men. He said our Thanksgiving day originated in New England, that the whites there were on the point of starving to death when Negro slaves were brought there to till their fields and make their crops. The timely arrival of these blacks saved them, and in celebration of the event they instituted Thanksgiving day. A Negro physician an African T. Berry, effected a cure of the first case of poliomyia in this country, a disease which has caused so much fear among the white people of the southern states, who laugh at the pleas of white physicians regarding it. The severity of it incurred and of tuberculosis is well known to African medical men, said Nathan. Mr. Perry had been offered by interested persons in Washington $2,000 for his formulas, but he declined the offer as too small. He wanted $2,000,000 and a half interest in the company that manufactured it. While his proposition was being considered he died and with him his secret. But Africans have a native school of medicine and can cure any of the so-called incurable diseases. They do not disluge to white men their medical secrets, though for years white men have tried to find them out. He made interesting allusion to the Puma Society For Women and the Bunda Society For Women and briefly sketched the objects for which they are formed. "They are," he said, "as old as the history of Africa." "You Americans are studying eugenics today with considerable real, some of it misapplied. The Africans for more than a thousand years have known all about this important science. You don't know everything in America. Africa can still teach you much," said Dr. Burton. The speaker said many more things of equal importance and interest which it is not prudent to discuss here. The dignity of being a Negro was demonstrated by many historical citations and proofs of the Negro's service to civilization and the world. The only people in America who discredit the Negro are the Negroes who do not know the Negro. ORGANIZATION SOCIETY TO HOLD MEETING IN RICHMOND Promoters Eager to Perfect Better School and Health Conditions. Richmond, Va.-Governor William Hodgman Mann and Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak in the Richmond city auditorium on the night of Nov. 7 before the Negro Organization Society of Virginia at its first annual meeting. "Better schools, better health, better homes, better farms"—this is the motto of the organization which aims to federate all interests that trend to promote the welfare of the masses. An interesting program has been arranged for Nov. 6 and 7. Reports will be presented on cooperation with the Virginia state health department in reaching the masses of our people in the rural districts and in the cities health campaigns waged through four counties of Virginia; popular education for better health and improvement in rural schools. Lectures will also be given on cooperation in agriculture and co-operation in business. A report on the recent southern sociological congress will also be presented. Delegates from many organizations will be present to represent the health and educational interests of religious bodies, Sunday schools, secret societies and civic associations. All organizations are eligible to membership in the Organization society and may send delegates to the Richmond meeting. Robert R. Moton, commandant of Hampton institute, is the president. John M. Gandy of the State Normal school at Petersburg is the executive secretary. Delegates who expect to attend the meeting are asked to notify (not later than Nov. 1) Professor Gandy or Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, St. Luke's bank, Richmond, or Mrs. O. B. Stokes, St. John street, Richmond. The Virginia State Negro Business league will hold its annual meeting in connection with the Negro Organization society. The officers of the State Business league are working among the local leagues to have a large attendance at the forthcoming meeting Justice as Remedy For Color Prejudice Judge Marcus Cavanaugh of the upper court in Chicago advocates the appointment of a national commission to combat prejudice against the colored people and wisely suggests that the remedy for the eradication of such prejudice is simple justice. Bhe Wae Mias Katherine Elkine, Daughter of Late Senator Elkine. A. Katherine Ellins Weds "Billy" Hitt Miss Katherine Ellins, daughter of the late Senator Stephen R. Ellins, was married to Ellins, W. Va, to "Billy" Hitt The wedding is the celebration of a marriage of seven years, during which Miss Ellins was ardently wowed by both Mr Hitt and the Duke of the Almshouse of the King of Italy. The only ones present at the wedding were ex-Sister Davis Ellins of Morgantown, brother of the bride; Mrs. Ellins, mother of the bride; ex-Scholar Henry C. Davis, of Ellins, grandfather of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. Balthie Ellins, of Morgantown, brother and sister in law of the bride; Colonel Richard Ellins, of Philadelphia, brother of the bride; Mrs. Chester P. Barnett, of Port Meyer, Va., cousin of the bride and Miss Katherine Britton of Washington, a friend of the bride. All the guests have been attending a house party at Halliburst for more than a week. Mr. Hitt being among the guests. Ex-Senator Davis Elkins was the host man and Miss Elkins was attended by Mrs. Blaine Elkins, Owing to the suddenness of the whole affair no attention was paid to dress, and the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Frederick H. Barron, pastor of the Davies Memorial Presbyterian church, was most informal. DIAZ'S FLIGHT DRAMATIC Applies to U. S. Consul at Vera Cruz For Protection. General Felix Diaz, who was one of the presidential candidates in Sunday's election, applied to the American consulate in Vera Cruz for protection and was taken on board the United States gunboat Wheeling. Jose Sandoval and Cecilio Ocon, Mexicans, and Alexander Williams, an American newspaper correspondent, who had made similar application to the consulate, were taken on board the gunboat with General Diaz. L. Blum, an American horseman, who had accompanied the Diaz party from Havana to Vera Cruz, was arrested. Diaz's flight, accompanied by Ocon and Sandoval, was dramatic in the extreme and caused a great sensation when it became known, the three men taking the risk of an excursion over the roof of the German hotel adjoining the American consulate, despite the fact that the authorities had stationed armed guards on the lookout on the roof for just such a break. When they arrived inside the room they asked that the consul, William W. Canada, be called. Apparently suffering from great excitement, they assured him that their lives were in imminent danger. They declared they had knowledge that orders for their arrest had been issued and they begged for his protection. In reply Canada pointed to the water front some 200 yards distant. "There's a launch there," he said. "You'd better make a run for it." The fugitives hesitated to make the venture, as the street in front of the American consulate was patrolled by detectives. When they finally left the consulate the detectives apparently did not recognize them and they walked deliberately through the street to the pier, where they presented a card from Canada to the officer in command of the launch. The American officer hurried them on board, the launch cast off, steamed quickly across the harbor to the Wheeling and put them on board. Canada has protested against the arrest of Ilum, and it is probable that he will shortly be released. The Mexican presidential elections was held on Sunday without a violent outbreak in any quarter, and, as far as can be learned, with the expected result that not enough votes were cast to make the election valid. As a result Victoriaiana Huerta will remain provisional president and virtually dictator, although it is expected that he will assemble congress now to take the place of that he dissolved when he put 110 deputies in prison. "General Felix Díaz is conceded to have obtained more votes in the capital than any of the other candidates, with Federico Gamboa, the candidate of the Catholic party, second. Strong on Detail. "You know Wigloy-great fellow for detail." "He is that. Wigley's the sort of chap that would go and get married and be able afterward to tell you whether it was Mendelssohn. Lohen grin' or 'Tinninanser' they played during the ceremony."—St. Louis Republie. Patronise Our Advertisers. Supreme LodgeK.ofP. A Copy of Supreme Keeper of Records & Seal C. K. Robinson's Timely Report: To the Officers and Representatives to the Sixteenth Biennial Session to be held at Baltimore, Maryland, August 25th to 30th, '13. Greeting: St. Louis, Mo. July, 1913. Dear Sir and Brother—As the time approaches for the next Supreme Lodge Session, I feel that the representatives and officers should know our true financial condition, in order that they may think and plan for the betterment of those conditions. The very short time allowed at the Supreme Lodge Session for the consideration of vastly important questions, is not sufficient to permit the members to become thoroughly familiar with conditions as they really exist. At this time I feel it highly important to lay these matters before you, believing as I do that the hearts of the majority of our members are true to the principles of our great institution. Sir and Brother—As the time approve Lodge Session, I feel that the represents our true financial condition, in order plan for the betterment of those condoned at the Supremo Lodge Session, most important questions, is not suffice to become thoroughly familiar with co-operation. At this time I feel it highly important you, believing as I do that the heartsubbers are true to the principles of our work all the years that I, by your trust and S. K. of R. and S., the desire nonest me beloved Order established on a firm fun in this end, the records will show that I have attention to much neoded reforms in one of the funds, but as stated above, the records carefully consider my suggestions and caused the representatives to look into what has brought about the present crisis face of the record of my frequent effort in our financial system, as well as to add the honest member of the Order will dares. the time approaches for us that the representatives and condition, in order that the of those conditions. The Lodge Session for the con- sensus, is not sufficient to per- familiar with conditions it highly important to look do that the hearts of the the principles of our great insti- by your trust and confidence desire nearest my heart hoped on a firm financial ba- ll show that I have time and good reforms in the handi- stated above, the shortness my suggestions and investi- tatives to look lightly upo- the present crisis. If my frequent efforts to re- as well as to add to our so- the Order will daro accuse During all the years that I, by your trust and confidence, have served as S. K. of R. and S., the desire nearest my heart has been to see our beloved Order established on a firm financial basis, and to attain this end, the records will show that I have time and again called your attention to much needed reforms in the handling and disbursement of the funds, but as stated above, the shortness of time in which to carefully consider my suggestions and investigate conditions has caused the representatives to look lightly upon them and no doubt has brought about the present crisis. In the face of the record of my frequent efforts to raise the standard of our financial system, as well as to add to our source of revenue, no honest member of the Order will dare accuse me of impure motives. CAREFULLY STUDY rely trust that you will take the time to given in the following statement before in order that you may be fully fun- eral report submitted to the Supreme Lodge in 1911. I presented to you a very cau- showing your general expenses; salaries to the form of two years ending As following table which will be found on this shows the amount of salaries paid funds they are payable: Out of What Fund S. L. Fund, U. per term $5,000 $1,250 per term 2,400 600 per term 3,000 1,500 per term 600 600 per term 1,200 per term 3,000 2,000 Totals $15,200 $5,950 move table shows the proper divisions of expenses of officers as recommended and adopted by the Supreme Lodge at FURTHER EXPLANATION. 00 of this amount, according to your law Supreme Lodge fund, $1,000.00 out of the $8,250.00 out of the Endowment fund, not include the general expenses for oer very, traveling expenses of officers, etc. amounted to $13,203.39 to be paid fro- The receipts for the Supreme Lodge mounted to $8,272.02, which left your follows: Subsections $13.2 Selections 8.2 Melt in S. L. Revenue $4.9 so that Uniform Rank Department show Receipts in that department now equi- Supreme Lodge receipts, see Major General' season why the Supreme Lodge should be salary and carrying other expenses of the will take the time to carefully ing statement before discuss may be fully familiar with to the Supreme Lodge at to you a very carefully per- expenses; salaries alone ame years ending August, 1923 will be found on page 146. of salaries paid to office role: Out of What Fund Payable S. L. Fund. U. R. En. 000 $1,250 000 600 000 1,500 000 600 000 2,000 1,000 000 $5,950 $1,000 proper divisions of expens as recommended by the F Supreme Lodge at Kansas C EXPLANATION. According to your law, is paya 000.00 out of the Uniform Endowment fund. The for- mal expenses for office rent, of officers, etc., which f 99 to be paid from the Su- the Supreme Lodge fund to which left your Supreme ..... $13,203.39 ..... 8,272.02 Department should be so department now equal if not Major General's report. Lodge should be burdened of expenses of that depart The following table which will be found on page 146 of the 1911 minutes shows the amount of salaries paid to officers, and out of what funds they are payable: Salaries of Officers. Out of What Fund Payable. S. L. Fund. U. R. En. Fund. S. C. per term $5,000 $1,250 $3,750 Clerk- S. C. per term 2,400 600 1,800 S. K. of R. & S. per term 3,000 1,500 1,500 S. M. of Ex. per term 600 600 Sup. Atty. per term 1,200 1,200 Maj. Geal. per term 3,000 2,000 1,000 Totals. $15,200 $5,950 $1,000 $8,250 The above table shows the proper divisions of expenses for salaries and expenses of officers as recommended by the Finance Committee and adopted by the Supreme Lodge at Kansas City in 1909. $5,350.00 of this amount, according to your law, is payable out of the Supreme Lodge fund, $1,000.00 out of the Uniform Rank fund, and $8,250.00 out of the Endowment Fund. The foregoing amounts do not include the general expenses for office rent, printing, stationery, traveling expenses of offices, etc., which for the last term amounted to $13,203.39 to be paid from the Supreme Lodge fund. The receipts for the Supreme Lodge fund to July 31, 1911 amounted to $8,272.02, which left your Supreme Lodge treasury as follows: Deficit in S. L. Revenue.....$4,931.27 I believe that Uniform Rank Department should be self-sustaining. The Receipts in that department now equal if not surpass the Supreme Lodge receipts, see Major General's report. And there is no reason why the Supreme Lodge should be burdened with paying the salary and carrying other expenses of that department. THE ENDOWMENT DEPARTMENT. enbursements and collections of the Endowment Supreme Lodge, were as follows: Endowment expense disburased.....$26,9 Endowment collected.....14,6 Deficit in Endowment Revenue.....$12,4 total deficit as follows: Deficit in Supreme Lodge.....$ 4,9 Deficit in Endowment.....12,4 Total Deficit in both.....$17,3 Formous deficit was met by the Emergent Permit the expenditure of more than the amount fund collected annually for operation, you will observe for the last term we also incurred against that department with General expenses.....$ 2,8 Carlos.....8,19 It.....3 Total expense.....$11,3 With claims.....15,6 Total.....$26,9 and emergency fund now from which the 200 was loaned out of the Pythian Temple term. ations of the Endowment D was follows: Pursued.....$26,981.00 14,550.00 Revenue.....$12,431.00 Wars: .....$4,936.00 12,431.00 .....$17,367.00 set by the Emergency fund. are of more than 25 per co annually for operating expere or the last term was $14,55 that department was .....$2,807.81 8,181.00 337.50 6.00 .....$11,331.31 15,650.00 .....$26,981.31 now from which the deficiency the Pythian Temple fund for CRISIS. You of the conditions which are to meet the crisis. The law the impending danger, remedy after remedy, all of w to offer as to the action of my solomn duty to again call on your treasury, at this supreme Lodge have not been the session convenes at Baitin that can only be met by expenses. been forced to protest aga remains for the Representa their very best wisdom in as the question bef ing our finances, either passing our revenue by several departments of ing. There is no other ober ny that is successfully oper ed, by our Supreme Lodge. Informers should be a suffie The disbursements and collections of the Endowment Department of the Supreme Lodge, were as follows: This enormous deficit was met by the Emergency fund. The law does not permit the expenditure of more than 25 per cent of the Endowment fund collected annually for operating expenses: your collection, you will observe for the last term was $14,550.00, yet the expense incurred against that department was There is an emergency fund now from which the deficiency can be met. $5000 was loaned out of the Pythian Temple fund for this purpose this term. FACING A ORISIS ust session I warned you of the conditions and urged you to prepare to meet the crisis of the convention saw the impending effect it by presenting remedy after remedial. I have no criticism to offer as to the at time but I feel it my solemn duty to the deplorable condition of your treasury of the officers of the Supreme Lodge have ever 1912, and when the session convenes an enormous deficit, that can only be proper regulation of expenses. One Grand Lodge has been forced to punish just taxation, and it remains for the More than two years to exercise their very best will its question as well as the question of handling our finance expenses or increasing our revenue in order that the several departments may be self-sustaining. There is no broad country today that is successful in financial methods used, by our Supreme Office of the True Reformers should be At the last session I warned you of the conditions which confronted you, and urged you to prepare to meet the crisis. The conservative men of the convention saw the impending danger, and sought to correct it by presenting remedy after remedy, all of which efforts failed. I have no criticism to offer as to the action of the majority at that time but I feel it my solemn duty to again call your attention to the deplorable condition of your treasury at this time. The salaries of the officers of the Supreme Lodge have not been paid since September 1912, and when the reason convenes at Baltimore, you will find an enormous deficit, that can only be met by wise legislation, and proper regulation of expenses. Already one Grand Lodge has been forced to protest against what it unjust taxation, and it remains for the Representatives at the Baltimore session to exercise their very best wisdom in dealing with this question as well as the question of adjusting the manner of handling our finances, either by reducing our expenses or increasing our revenue by wise legislation, in order that the several departments of the Supreme Lodge may be self-sustaining. There is no other organization in this broad country today that is successfully operating upon the loose financial methods used, by our Supreme Lodge. The recent experience of the True Reformers should be a sufficient warning to all. ORDER TAXED AND OVER-TAXED or has been taxed and over-taxed, until the trip has almost reached the breaking point to page 292 of the minutes of the following resolutions presented by S. G. C. of Michigan to be acted upon by Baltimore session this year. "Paragraph 10. To provide a revenue for the Supreme Court on each member of the Order, and chart it by it, and taxes from Subordinate Jurisdiction." to be amended to read as follows: "The shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by andordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not to be paid each Orand and Subordinate Lodge sums as may be paid in the by-laws of work or supplies so ordered must be paid date of delivery." over-taxed, until the patience of the breaking point, and I do 20 minutes of the 1911 session presented by Sir Francis Be acted upon by the Super year. "Paragraph 6, of Art revenue for the Supreme Lodge, the Order, and charges for from Subordinate Lodges unpaid as follows: "Each memorial Lodge, by and through 10, a tax not to exceed 10 of Subordinate Lodge mail pay in the by-laws of the Super ordered must be paid for w The Order has been tazed and over-taxed, until the patience of the membership has almost reached the breaking point, and I call your attention to page 292 of the minutes of the 1911 session, which bears the following resolutions presented by Sir Francis H. Warren, D. D. S. C. of Michigan to be acted upon by the Supreme Lodge at the Baltimore session this year. "Paragraph 6, of Article 1, to be amended. To provide a revenue for the Supreme Lodge by means of a tax on each member of the Order, and charges for supplies furnished by it, and taxes from Subordinate Lodges under its immediate jurisdiction." Article 10, to be amended to read as follows: "Each member of the Order shall pay to the Supreme Lodge, by and through the Grand and Subordinate Lodges thereof, a tax not to exceed 10 cents per annum, and each Grand and Subordinate Lodge shall pay for supplies such as may be fixed in the by-laws of the Supreme Lodge, and all work or supplies no ordered must be paid for when ordered, or on date of delivery." THAT PROPOSED AMENDMENT resolution prophesies to amend your SaaS tasks to relieve our financial straits and to be among your Supreme Court memorial straits and give to The above resolution proposes to amend your Supreme Constitution, and seeks to relieve our financial straits and give to the PHOTOS. We offer you, the Latest and Most Artistic Photos, of a Many Midwestern Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Rehaging and Grooming Interior View Work. We will also be pleased to Quote you Prices on Batteries and Iron Old Photos. A Specialty. Geo. O. 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If this resolution prevails there will be no further need of extra taxations. It will produce a revenue of about $15,000 annually that with the sale of supplies, and the control of a rogalla and printing plant, with proper regulations will place the Supreme Lodge on a sound financial footing. Article X of the original laws as adopted, amended and published in 1880 in 1886 read as follows: "Each Grand Lodge shall pay to the Supreme Lodge the sum of $125 annually for each representative to which they are entitled, etc. and to make annual returns to the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal with name." The collection of $26.00 biennially, is inadequate and there should either be an increase in representative tax or a new law enacted creating a per capita tax upon the membership as outlined in the foregoing paragraph. Since I have been your Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, I have built up a splendid revenue from the supply department, and made several efforts to direct your attention to the advisability of operating a National Supply and Regalia House, and I again urge here, there is no good reason why certain officers should be operating Regalia Houses for their personal benefit when the Order needs the revenues from sales for its maintenance; that if you are not in a position to start a plant equipped and owned by the Supreme Lodge, you should at least control the sales of supplies and regalia to Grand Lodges and members of the Order, through the office of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal. In order that the Supreme Lodge may receive its just portion of the revenue derived from its influence and membership, by private concerns, as is the case at present. FINANCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE ALTERED: There should be some alter- largest amount of revenue com- mit the Endowment fund, and if the handling this fund as at present will, it is certainly not good bush his own Finance Committee to a not independent, and subject to a of course unfit them to render a service. This is a burning issue Officers came to the last session books and vouchers missing, acl failure, to make proper reports Committee, overlooking all these losing time attempting to find f the Supreme Keeper of Records a forced to admit were properly k previously shown. If the Supreme Lodge owed which to pay it, and it was paid money came from to pay it with, as a man and honored officer of and shall, continue to perform my wisdom to see the right. There should be some alteration in your financial system. The largest amount of revenue coming into the organization is through the Endowment fund, and if the Supreme Chancellor is to continue handling this fund as at present, collecting and paying them out at will, it is certainly not good business sense to permit him to appoint his own Finance Committee to audit his own accounts, as they are not independent, and subject 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. Officers came to the last session without reports, some with their books and vouchers missing, acknowledging their carelessness and failure, to make proper reports for two years, while the Finance Committee, overlooking all these fragrant violations of the law, were losing time attempting to find flaws in the books and accounts of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seal, which after all, they were forced to admit were properly kept, as examination by experts had previously shown. If the Supreme Lodge owed $13,000 and had only $8,000 with which to pay it, and it was paid, my books must show where the money came from to pay it with, if I am to live up to my obligations as a man and honored officer of the order. I refuse to conceal it and shall continue to perform my duties fearlessly as Gpd gives me wisdom to see the right. SHOULD BE FREE TO ACT. If your Finance Committee would not possibly exist and you a position to enforce the law and mittee whose duty it is to rigidly the expenditures without fear bran in the Officers and The Supreme believes the above suggestions if a laws to meet the present demand With the facts I have plainly rise to the full stature of your and assist in taking such steps beloved organization, and thus their intorecets to say: "I shall n If your Finance Committee was free to act, the above conditions could not possibly exist and your Supreme Chancellor would be in a position to enforce the law and the recommendations of the Committee whose duty it is to rigidly examine the books and determine the expenditures without fear or favor to any one, then confidence in the Officers and The Supreme Lodge would soon be restored. I believe the above suggestions if approved will sufficiently amend our laws to meet the present demands. With the facts I have plainly put before you, I trust you will rise to the full stature of your manhood at the Baltimre session, and assist in taking such steps as will secure the future of our beloved organization, and thus enable those who trust you with their interests to say: "I shall not fear." He holds no parley with unmanly fears. Where duty bids, he confidently steers: Faces a thousand dangers at her call. And, trusting in his God surmounts them all. U. S. WILL NOT GIVE UP DIAZ Yours in F. C. & B.. C. K. ROBINSON, S. K. of R. & S. Will Take Mexican Refugees to Port of Choice. FLEDTO GUNBOAT ATVERACRUZ Accompanied by Three Others, Diaz Seeks Protection of Americans, Fearing For Their Lives. General Felix Diaz and two Mexican companions and an American newspaper correspondent named Williams are now on board the United States gunboat Wheeling in the harbor of Vera Cruz, having taken refuge there under the plea that their lives are in danger. This was reported to the state department by Rear Admiral Fletcher, commanding the battleships in Mexican waters. The admiral said that he would hold Diaz and his party until instructed by Washington what disposition to make of them. If Diaz states that he wishes to get out of Mexico, undoubtedly the United States will aid him to do so. The most satisfactory procedure, as far as this government is concerned, would be for him to express such a desire, and then Admiral Fletcher could place him upon the next steamship leaving Vera Cruz for the United States or Cuba. In regard to Williams, the state department is inclined to believe that there is no good reason why he should not remain in Vera Cruz, provided he does not wish to leave Mexico altogether. The Mexican situation has now reached a point where the United --- States is bound to present to European governments some practical and concrete plan for bringing about the restoration of order in the southern republic. That is the unavoidable interpretation put upon developments. Under pressure from European powers, President Wilson has plagued the United States government to make a definite statement of policy in regard to Mexico. At the request of the United States three of these powers have agreed to defer action in Mexico until they have listened to what President Wilson has to say. Two Views. Justwed—My wife hasn't spoken to me for a whole day. Henpeck—Lucky dog!—Brooklyn Citizen. Negro Attacks Girl. Residents of Sharon, Ph., are up in arms over the attack made upon Miss Curwin Kemery, daughter of W. M. Kemery, by a gigantic negro. It is feared that a lynching may be attempted. Miss Kemery was walking home from work when she was attacked by the negro. She was dragged to a dark spot along the Shenango river bar, choked senaceless and assaulted. She was in the negro's power almost two hours. The attack took place within 100 yards of the police station. Officer Lanadowne arrested George McDavid, twenty-six years old, a negro porter at the Colonial hotel. He was taken to the girl's home and identified by her as her assistant. It was necessary for four men to restrain the girl's father from murdering the negro. Kemery amnished a big knife from the kitchen table and attempted to attack McDavid with it. McDavid had hardly been placed in a cell when the fall was surrounded by several hundred men and boys, who had mistakenly resisted in a search for the girl. They demanded that the woman be turned over to them for summoning punishment. Rome were brought out, and it was only after the police had taken notice about the fireman who made a move that the man disappeared. 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. The surgical features of the Nashville session without exception were the best conducted since the inception of the association. The officers for 1913-14 are: President, Dr. A. M. Brown, Birmingham, Ala.; vice president, Dr. J. M. G. Ramsey, Richmond, Va.; second vice president, Dr. E. J. LaBranch, New Orleans; treasurer, Dr. J. R. Lory, Florence, S. O.; secretary, Dr. W. G.; Alexander, Orange, N. J.; assistant secretary, Dr. O. R. Ferguson, Charlottesville, Va; dental secretary, Dr. A. T. Landers, Tuskegee, Ala.; pharmaceutical secretary, Dr. H. B. Marbla, Yasoo City, Miss. Dr. G. E. Cannon was reelected chairman of the executive committee. The new member elected to that body were Dr. A. A., Wyche, Charlotte, N. C. (medical section), and Dr. E. W. Erwin, Memphis, Tenn. (surgical section). Public Interest in Series of Recitals. Much interest is being taken by lovers of music and those who follow the art as a profession in the series of recitals to be given this fall by Chorister J. R. Walker of the Warren Methodist Episcopal church in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Mattie Hawkins Wilson, Mrs. E. W. Thomas, W. T. Miller and Harry Bolden will take part in the first recital of the series on Friday evening. Dec. 12. These recitals will be of You will receive courteous attention and your patronage is earnestly solicited. Out of Town Orders Promptly Attended. If our prices are higher, you can go elsewhere if you can better them in the same grade and class of work. If our prices are lower, we stand ready to accept the business. special interest and benefit to the people of Pittsburgh. Mr. Walker is well known and capable of giving the public the kind of music it likes to hear. Young Men's Christian Association. The success of the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association in Brooklyn is cause for genuine satisfaction. Under the able and conservative administration of Secretary Rufus M. 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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 Blair Lee Elected U.S. Senator and Legislature Democrat Haltonen, N.A. State Place for the first time for the United States, which was called to be the first time to be a state place for the United States. When it was first designed to be the first time to be a state place for the Parson, the U.S. State Place for the first party vote for the first. Washington, the Progressive State, which is the first to be the first Senate, has been elected to congratate the T.D. Mayland district The U.S. House of Representatives to control the state localities and the Baltimore city ticket. It was elected 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. 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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. 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