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THE PLANET WEST VIRGINIA CONVENTION ADOPTS STRONG RESOLUTIONS. Special to The Richmond PLANET. Charleston, W. Vau., May 25—The Republican Party of West Virginia placed itself squarely on record as opposed to the disfranchisement of the Negro, and favoring the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the United States Constitution, and the reduction of the South's representation in Congress, at the State Republican Convention, held May 20th, in this city, to ratify the recommendations of the Republican National Committee. The convention was held in the State Armory and was one of the largest conventions of any party to ever meet in this State. Delegates and members of the party were here from every section of the State, and the keenest interest was manifested in the proceedings as the future of the Republican Party was to be largely determined by the action of this convention. Much apprehension existed among the leaders as to the attitude of the colored leaders and delegates is relation to the ratification of the actions of the Republican National Committee, and it was well founded, as the colored leaders had determined to contest every inch of the ground and to defeat ratification unless the recommendations of the National Committee were so amended as to clearly place the Republican Party on record as to the disaffection of the Negro in the South and the reduction of Southern representation in Congress. A conference was held in the sick room of Attorney T. G. Nutter, who was looked to, to lead the fight for the colored delegates on the floor of the convention, between L. O. Wilson Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of W. Va.; W. W. Saunders' State Librarian; Attorney E. J. Graham, of Wheeling and T. G. Nutter of this city, and as a result of that conference the following resolution was prepared by Mr. Nutter to be offered as an amendment to the resolutions ratifying the action of the Republican National Committee: "The adoption of the recommendations of the Republican National Committee by the Republican Party of West Virginia, in convention assembled, is not to be construed as an endorsement of the election laws of the Southern States, unjustly disfranchising thousands of American Citizens, who, in law and in equity, are entitled to express their choice at the ballot box; and the Republican Party of West Virginia, in convention assembled, hereby denounces said election laws as unjust and indefensible, and demands that the 14th and 15th amendments of the United States Constitution be enforced and the Southern State Congressional representation be based upon the actual voting strength under their election laws." The resolution was presented at the meeting of the State Committee by Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson, who was selected to lead the fight in the place of Mr. Nutter, Dr. R. L. Jones refusing to permit Mr. Nutter to attend the convention. The State Committee accepted the resolution with applause and recommended it to the State Convention, and it was passed by the convention unanimously after a brilliant speech by L. O. Wilson, who demanded that the party go on record in no unmistakable terms. There was not an objection to the resolution, which was also made one of the planks in the platform adopted by the convention. Hon. Phill Waters added much to his brilliant record as reading clerk of the convention. Mr. Waters is considered one of the best informed men in the State on party procedure, and the convention would hear no other clerk except Waters. Should Go to War. Lester, West Virginia. To The Richmond PLANET. Mr. Editor: Replying to an article in The PLANET, May 23rd, 1914, followed by the name "Ajax." I would like to advise the writer, that if he would stop but for a few minutes and look sincerely into the matter which he has caused to be published in your paper, I believe that he would come to a direct conclusion that he has done the wrong thing. As a general thing, our own colored people do not read their own paper. For some years I tried within myself to think that they were not doing all that might be done to help raise the race to the level with other races. But since that time, I have learned, that there is a very good reason for not reading our own colored paper, from the simple fact that there is always at least one writing contained that is advenient to a man that looks at matters as he should. I know that the "Danville" writer will want to know what I am "shooting me" but if he will stop and think he will soon see that this is not a shot. If you will show me, wherein the laws of the United States hold Where once the warring cannon boomed. The dulcet strains of peace hold sway. anything against the Colored man, it will be my next treat. I am not much of a mind reader, but I can imagine I hear the reader of this writing saying "Jim Crow." Well that is just what I say, Jim Crow too. Jim Crow is all right, all you have to do is to strive to put better material in the Jim Crow side than there be in the other and you will find that you will do a great deal more good for the race than "Chewing the rag about it." COLORED FOLKS JOIN THE ARMY I say to every man of the Colored race that can find time to be away from his family to offer his service to the United States to help them in the conflict with Mexico. Offer your service by making your application. If the application is put on file to be held until the "Yellow Fever" breaks out, wait calmly until that time. If you do this, it will prove to the world that you offered your service for the good you could do. I agree with you when you say that since you are of that State you should be counted in with the forty companies, but you failed to say if the forty had not already been organized. To compare the white and colored people of this country with a man and his wife, might seem a hard job as long as everything goes well, but when it might be worse, I think that we could make a comparison very well. As long as wife and husband are both doing the right thing towards each other all goes well. When one does bad and the other good, things may wag through a whole life and no one be hurt very much, but the very minute that one tries to see how much, wrong he or she can do just because the other is wrong, there is trouble that the writer is here unable to explain. ONE WAY TO GET HIM. There is only one way to "get" the white man, and that is, each one that you come in contact with, surprise him by showing the unusual powers and abilities that you may have in that that is good. Fear the law and look out especially for "number one." When Colored people learn to chase themselves as they should, they will have but little, if any trouble in getting what they want. Remember when you are turned down sometimes for a white man in a certain thing, and too, a white man happens to be at the head of it, and it is the white man's money running it, that it is but -right that "A man will save his own child before he would the child of another." Stand up for your right as an individual and not so much as a race and you will have better success. Don't worry about what your child is going to do if things stay like they are, for you know that— "Of the hard and weary loads, Neath which we bend and fall. The troubles that do not come. Are the heaviest ones of all." WILLIAM CODY SPENCER. TO TAKE JOHN CLEMENTS TO SCENE OF CRIME. Henrico Officials Differ as to Guilt of Accused. (Richmond News-Leader, May 26, 1860) John Clements, the colored man identified by Miss Fannie Clemens as the man who attacked her on the night of May 9, will probably be taken by the Henrico police to the scene of the alleged crime some time this afternoon, it being the belief of those policemen who are positive the prisoner is the man wanted that a visit to the scene may possibly result in a confession. Anyway, they want to see what psychological effect a visit to the scene will have upon the colored man, who stoutly maintains his innocence. Policemen Tiller, Hardy and Seay will probably accompany Clements to the scene. The belief entertained by several county authorities, who have been diligently at work on the case ever since Miss Clemens told the police she had been assaulted, that Clements is innocent was strengthened this morning, when Motorman Johnson, of a Seven Pines car, failed to identify the accused man as the man who boarded his car shortly after Miss Chenault says she was attacked. Clements was brought out along with half a dozen colored prisoners and Johnson failed to identify any of them. Johnson's failure to identify Clements was followed by the colored man's identification by H. G. Eich, who lives close to Stop 23. Seven Pines line, as the man he saw standing waiting for the car from which Miss Chenault alighted. He said the man did not board the car as he, apparently, had intended doing, and suddenly disappeared. About two hours later Eich said he saw the man come from the bushes and board a car for Richmond. He was positive that Clements was the man. It developed this morning that Clements has been three times arrested as a suspect in the Chenault case. Policeman Vincent today identified Clements as the man he arrested the day after the crime is alleged to have been committed. Clements was taken into custody about four and a half miles from where Miss Chenault says the, crime was committed, and was liberated by Vincent after he had satisfied that officer that he was not the man wanted. Clements at first denoted he had been arrested by Vincent, but later admitted it when he found Vincent was to look him over. It was stated at the county courthouse today that Clements is charged with a capital crime and that statements made by Miss Chenault substantiated the grave charges alleged. When county authorities were asked if the statement made by the physician who attended Miss Chenault would mean a changing of the charge to attempted crime, they replied that they were proceeding with the case on the statements made by Miss Chenault, and accordingly would (Continued On Fourth Page.) Honors for Colored Student. Miss Iabella Vandervall, who graduated from the East Orange High School in 1910, has been awarded the two prizes open to members of the junior class of the New York Medical College and hospital for Women. Miss Vandervall, who is the only colored student in the College, received the prizes at the commencement exercises held Wednesday night in the Astor Gallery of the Waldorf-Astoria. The first prize of $25 in gold was awarded for the highest average in class for the year. The other, a gold watch was given by Judge Alfred Ommen of the Appellate Division, professor of medical jurisprudence, for the highest mark in the medical jurisprudence examination. Miss Vandervall's mark was 95 per cent. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Vandervall, Newark, N.J. Evening News. Khorassans Electronics Mccen Temple, I. D. O. K. K., meet tuesday night and elected the following officers: John Mitchell, Jr., Royal Vilror; W. R. Groen, Venerable Shook; Norma Wesley, Grand Emir; Charles McClatborne, Mahedi; Lishh Love, Menial; W. J. Davis, Sath; Roscoe C. Mitchell, Secretary; J. A. Moss, Trenauer; Fred T. Fry, First Escort; M. J. Bartlett, Sean Escort; George R. Burrell, Molanna; J. H. Taylor, Joc. Arrangements were made for the entertainment of the visiting Dolles during Grand Lodge week. CONTESTANTS FOR THE PONY PRIZE The following boys and girls have registered at the PLANIT Office as contestants for the Dunlap Pony prize: Prince Bass, Oscar Belley, Norman Bacchus, George Stephona, Robinson Davis, Ramond B. Steward, Henry Board, Leon B. Wood, Edward Bowers, Randolph Williams, Jr., Cornelia Norrell, James Flav Dawson, James Irvin Threat, Artur Funn, Ruby L. Peyton, Cecelia B. Wyatt, Vloria Carter, Elise Harris, Marietta L. Chiles, Florence Smith, Bertha Henderson, Irma Beats, Denny BOWLER—ROBINSON. The marriage of Mrs Namile Ella Robinson to Mr. John Andrew Browder, Jr. will be solemnized on Monday morning; June 17, at noon at the home of the bride, 18 West Leigh Street. Friends invited. No cards. Reception, Wednesday June 17th, 1914 from eight to eleven P. M., 112 East Leigh Street. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY FINALS Fifteenth Annual Commencement. Commencement week will begin at Virginia Union on Sunday, May 1st and extend through June 1st. Virginia Union has had a most successful year. The first semester was made notable by the completion and dedication of the new dormitory, Huntley Hall, which accommodates over a hundred students. The enthrassment has been marked by an increase in the sphere of the school's activities and especially from the students' viewpoint. On Sunday, May 31st, at 5:30 P. M, the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached in Coburn Hall by Rev. William G. Russell. District Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of Philadelphia. On Monday June 1st, at 8:15 P. M, there will be the graduating exercises of the academy. This department will have twenty-three graduates. Tuesday, June 2nd, will be Alumni Day. At 3:00 P. M, the business meeting of the Alumni will take place, while at 6:00 o'clock there will be appropriate Alumni Literary exercises. At this time, Dr. A. C. Porsell, pastor of the Abyssinian Bapst Church of New York and Dr. A. A. Graham, of Phoebe, Va. will deliver addresses. At 7:45 P. M, there will be the Annual Alumni Dinner. The final commencement day, Wednesday, June 3rd, will include the meeting of the Social Study Club at 10:00 A. M., at which time Rev. J. B. Brown, of Petersburg, will read a paper on The Social Evil. The unveiling of the King Gateway, a token of appreciation of former students of Dr. G. M. P. King, will take place. The King Gateway is situated at the entrance to the University campus. The commencement exercises of the College and Theological Departments will take place on the evening of the same day, S. 15. There will be nine theological and eight college men to receive degrees. The college graduates will be: W. W. L. Clark, W. N. Colson, V. E. Daniel, J. H. Hayes, R. J. Jones, K. C. Manning, W. A. Nash and N. D. Overindie. Those from the theological department will be: J. E. Briggs, P. W. Cook, W. I. Coulins, E. D. Hirthore, W. J. Jones, Earl Lowery, E. D. McCreary, G. L. Migkins, and S. P. Robinson. Great Missionary and Evangelistic Meeting of 2nd Baptist Church. Great Missionary and Evangelistic Meeting at the Second Baptist Church Richmond, Va., Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor S. 36 P. M. a special sermon will be preached by Rev. O. G. Jenkins. Missionary Evangelist. The public in general is invited to attend this great meeting as the opening of the Missionary and Evangelistical work in the city. Richmond, Ia. May 27, 1914. Hon. George Murdoch. Mayor of the City of Richmond. Honorable Sir: It appearing from newspaper accounts that a white lady, Miss Fanny Chenault, of Seven Pines, Henrico County, was assaulted near her home on Saturday night, the 9th atl. by some unknown person, and held prisoner for three hours. The day following, one Samuel Thompson, was shot three times and fatally wounded, by Detective Sergant Freel. Krengle. In attempting to arrest the said Thompson for the alleged crime, notwithstanding that Thompson was unarmed and was not the Negro wanted. Thompson did wear, however, a black hat and an overall suit as many laborers do. It appearing further that some thirteen other colored men have been taken into custody for the same offense and that one, John Clements, was on last Thursday reapparated on advice of Miss Chenault but she could not find time to identify him as her assistant until Monday, nearly four days thereafter. Now, therefore, as colored men, some with mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, we deeply deploy the out rage on Miss Chenault and wish to assure all concerned that we stand ready to do all on our part to apprehend the guilty party regardless of color; but as a Civic League, composed of men who are tax paying, liberty loving and law-abiding citizens of one of the best cities of the South—the City in which we believe the very best racial feeling exists—we feel called upon to register our very earnest protest in this most extraordinary case. First: Against the killing of Samuel Thompson by Sergeant Krougle for throwing rocks. Second: Against Sergeant Krougle being retained in his present position but that he be given something else to do, as Thompson is the second innocent person he has killed, according to reports. No colored man's life is safe when such rumors are affront and Sergeant Krougle is clothed with authority. That there is general dissatisfaction on the part of the colored citizens regarding the Chenault case is apparent. Hope that his Honor will do all on his part to have our people properly dealt with in this affair, we are very respectfully. the Cycle Improvement League of Richmond, Va. REV. S. S. MORRIS, President R. C. BURKE, Secretary Committee D. J. Bradford, Chair mait. H. H. Price, W. D. Jones F. L. Bryant Programme for Memorial Day. Hymn, "Joy to the World," call joining; prayer, Rev. R. Boocher Taylor; singing led by Rev. N. Brown Pastor Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church; remarks by the commander of Custer Post; reading of Abraham Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg by Miss Wilmette Smith; America, Band (all joining); Oration, Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. The part played in the Spanish-American War by the Negro Soldier, by Capt. William H. Anderson; Remarks by visiting pastors; Reading of 145th Psalm, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D.; Benediction, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. Rev. N. H Brown Master of Ceremonies. LINE OF MARCH We will form at Third and Lehigh streets on Saturday, May 30th, 1914 at one o'clock. The procession will move down Lehigh to Fifth, where' the Veterans of Grand Army will fall in the rear. The Spanish-American War Veterans will escort the Pythians, all auxiliary clubs and organizations will fall in the rear of the Pythians. Official carriages, children in wagons will be in the rear. Parties in other parts of the city with wagons will fall in at convenient points. The procession will stop at the Chimborazo Springs as usual for the Grand Army with the children in wagons will go through to the cemetery and make a preparation to receive the parade. --- Kev. Dr. Brooks Here. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., master of the 19th Street Baptist' Church, Washington, D. C. delivered an able cormen at the Second Baptist' Church last Saturday, right to a large audience. He called at The PLANET-Office last Monday. --- Engagements Wanted Smith, and, Bondurant, Refined Musical and Dramatic Entertainers, are open for engagements. For terms, dates, etc., address RICHARD BONDFRANT. 61 Hudson St. New Rochelle, N. Y. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS. Good Work at Franklin—A Court and A Company Organized. Franklin, Va. May, 22.—Grand Worthy Counselor John Mitchell, Jr. arrived here at about 2:10 this afternoon to set up a Court of Calan-the. He was met at the train by Deputy W. W. Urquhart and his daughter, Miss Ada Urquhart. Miss Urquhart had been forward in working up the club under the direction of her father. Sir Mitchell was conducted to Sir Urquhart's residence and after dinner visited the Franklin Normal and Industrial Institute, presided over by Mrs. Della Hayden, the Principal. INTERESTING EXERCISES The exercises were held at Rev. W. R. Ashburn's Church. It was packed with students and friends. The handiwork of the students was everywhere in evidence. On the rostrum were the Alumni, faculty and visitors. The success of the institution was a revelation. Principal Hayden is in a struggle to raise $4,000 for the Institute. White friends were also present and able speeches were delivered. Shr. Mitchell also spoke there. Dr. Frank G. Elliott, the recently appointed Grand Medical Register arrived at the Church having come about forty miles in his automobile. THE INITIATION He had an experience that he will not soon forget. The sand is trench erous and causes an automobile to skid. He was accompanied by Mr. William Myers. The inception took place tonight at the Odd Fellows Hall. The officers installed were: Worthy Counsellor, Mrs. Sarah F. Diggs; Worthy Inspector, Miss Ada Urquhart; Worthy Inspector, Mrs. Virginia Jones; Senior Directress, Mrs. Bessie Williams; Junior Directress, Mrs. Alma Hobbs; Register of David's, Mrs. Emma Sawyer; Register of Accounts, Mrs. Lenora Harrison; Receiver of Deposits, Mrs. Jeannette Perry; Enforcer, Mrs. Gerlie Lankford; Conductors, Miss Ora Stawart; Assistant Coordresser, Mrs. Anna Petty; Herald, Mrs. Marcie Brann; Protector, Sir John E. Walden; Trustees, Mr. Leavinia Taylor, Mrs. Violet Clark; Mrs. Mollie Chambless; Miss Ada Urquhart was made District Deputy. The Grand Worthy Counsellor was much pleased with the club. A company of the Uniform Rank, 24 strong was immediately organized. PERSONALS AND BRIEFES We received an invitation to attend the visiting exercise of the Colored Y. M. C. A. Night School at the Sharon Baptist Church, May 28, 1914 We received an invitation to attend the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Recognition of Rev Z. D. Lewis, D. D., pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Tuesday, May 28, 1914 Mrs. Mamie Burleigh of Westhampton met with a very painful accident on Monday, May 1st, by getting her leg caught in a rope that was attached to her cow which started off in a sudden pork, throwing her down, causing a terrible sprain to the knee. She is resting as well as can be expected under the conditions AGENTS WANTED—I HAVE THE best Agent's Prostitution ever offered, as regular or side line, you can make from $10 to $20 per week. Ladies in particular. Writer for particulars. GEORGE HAWKINS, Bldg. 51, Chester, Va. 4 NOTICE: There will be a special meeting of the Civic Improvement League, at the Third Street A. M. E. Church, Thursday, S. No. K. M. * S. S. MORRIS, President. Entered Into Rest. Imparted this life Thursday, May 21, 1914 at the residence of its parents, 1000 E. N. Seventh St. Purcell Miner Randolph, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randolph, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Willis Little Purcell had been sick for about five months. His parents did everything that could be done in an effort to save his life, but his case seemed to have killed the best medical skill. He gradually weakened until the end came. The funeral services were conducted from the residence Saturday, May 23, 1914, Rev. W. H. Stokes officiating. The remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery NE'ER-DO-WELL A Romance of the Panama Canal BY REX BEACH COPYRIGHT. 1910. 1941. BY HARPER & BROTHERS SYNOPSIS. Kirk Anthony, son of a rich man, with college friends, gets into a fracas in a New York resort. A detective is hurt. Jefferson Locks in促使 himself into the college men's party. Locke, aided by Kirk's friend Higgins, who thinks it a pike, drugs Kirk and puts him aboard a ship bound for Colon. Kirk is on the passenger list as Locke. "Bruke" and without baggage, aboard the ship Kirk makes the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cortlandt. Cortlandt is in the American diplomatic service and is going to Panama on a mission. In Colon Kirk, as the son of a big railroad man, is taken up by Weeks, American cynical. Kirk's father repudiates him, and Weeks casts him out as an impostor. Kirk meets Allan, a Jamaican negro canal worker out of a job. The two are arrested by Colon police for helping to put out a fire. Kirk and Allan are treated brutally in a Colon jail by young Allard, commandant of police. Allan's release is obtained by the British consul, but Weeks refuses to aid Kirk. Mrs. Cortlandt gets a phone call. CHAPTER VII. El Comandante. T IE newcomer was a black baled, black eyed young fellow of perhaps thirty. White skin was awashy even in "Eh! Are you are?" be began angrily. "Yes, I want to get out, too. What does this treatment mean?" The newcomer stepped toward the other occupant of the cell, at which Allan broke out in terror: "Don't you touch me! I'm a British object!" After scanning the Jamaican carefully the officer issued an order to one of his men, who left the room. "And I'm an American," Anthony declared: "You'll be answer for this." "Perhaps, you don't know who I am. I am Ramon Alfaroz, commander of police, am you dare to throw the water of the use wagon upon my person. Your government will settle for these insults." His white teeth showed in a furious smirk. The commander's eyes flashed as he asked shortly: "What is your name?" "Anthony. Your men travel to kill that boy, and when I wilt let them for it they beat me up." "You struck me with the water of the 'one carriage.' repeated the other. "I didn't know who you were. I was helping to stop that fire when you butted in. These runs of your men got hand-offs on me and then best me up. I'm sick. So's that boy. We need a doctor." Alfazez shook his head. "You pass the police. Even in your country one must not do that." "Will you take me to a hospital?" "It is not present." "Will you notify Mr. Weeks?" "Becoming so ready to this request. Kirk broke out." "Well, then, what are you going to do?" "Let's stay here." "Just don't work on the curb!" "No, I'm a teacher. My father is in the railroad town in the States. I'm telling you the way you'll know how to act." "Where do you know what really?" "He has been living with Mr. Ward's Son. Mr. Ward's attitude has now what he overthinks." "In the time he will be, notify of your outfit to my person." he becomes nervous. "The few who had in the public moment have been supposed to bring a beard of white hair and sometimes with which he directed them to move the blood from his face and hands. When it comes, he turns however, he loves." "I think I'll wait until Ward's gone now." he beams. But Alice never materially shrewd. "It is not permitted." And seeing that and knew she would be nervous, Kirk nephew-wood as gratefully as he could, restoring to beheld she. "You'll have hard work was being off this and that." He directed the face of the handcuffs and the gash in his scalp. The commandant turned to his rock and addressed them at some length, calling them to try, as Allen later is, formed his comparison, for using their clink in a manner to mark their prisoners so complacently. Then he followed them into the corridor, closing the grafting ladder his. The hours passed, and the light came with no word from the American consul. By this time the two prisoners were really in need of medical attention. Their contusions palmed them severely. Kirk felt as if one or more of his ribs were broken, and his suffering, combined with hunger, prevented sleep. He became feverish and fretful, but his demands for communication with the outable world were calmly ignored, although he felt certain TWO "What is your belief?" "I have not one." that his wishes were fully understood. When the morning had passed without his being arraigned for a hearing he grew alarmed. Exidently he had been flung into confinement and forgotten. Eventually Kirk and Allan were given food, but still no one cape to their relief. The afternoon wore on without an encouraging sign till Kirk began to think that Weeks had refused to intercede for him and intended to leave him to the mercies of his enemies. It was considerably after dark when a visitor was at last admitted. He proved to be the English consul, whom Anthony had never met. "What are you doing here?" the newcomer inquired. Then when the facts had been laid before him he exclaimed, "Why, I heard that a Jamaican negro had been arrested, but I heard nothing about mistreatment of a white man." "Don't anybody know I'm here?" "I'm sure no one does. Those heathens lied to you. They never communicated with Weeks or anybody. They're afraid. This is an old trick of theirs—manhandling a prisoner, then keeping him hidden until he recovers. If he doesn't recover they get out of it on some excuse or other as best they can. But I'll have Allan here out in two hours or I'll know the reason England protects her subjects, Mr. Anthony, and these people know it." "I guess Uncle Sam is strong enough to command respect," said Anthony. "Well, I know the circumstances now, and I'll go straight to Weeks. He can arrange your release without trouble. If you were an Englishman, I'd have you out in no time and you'd collect handsome donations too. This boy will." True to the console prediction, a little later the Jamaican was led out of the cell, and from the fact that he was not brought back Kirk judged that the British intervention had been effectual. But it was not until the next morning, the second of his ingrédient, that the cell door opened once more, this time to admit the portly figure of John Weeks and the express person of Sister Bannon Alfaro. Kirk told his story as briefly and convincingly as he could. But when he had finished the counsel shock his head. "I don't see what I can do for you!" he said. "According to your own demand in your resisted a police officer. You'll have to take your medicine. You'll be tried as soon as they get around to it." "Look here!" Kirk showed the marks his ministers had left upon him. "Will you stand for that?" I have been here two nights now without medical attention. "How about that, Alfaro?" The commandant shrugged his shoulders. "If you required a doctor, one shall be seured, but he has not severely injured. I have explained the frightful infidelity to the leader of my person, you. As for me, no doubt. It is forged." He waved his hand of gracefully and smiled severely upon his fat visitor. "I knew you didn't hurt me!" said Weeks, opening his coatman collar. "You didn't get any more than was coming to you." "I won't stand for that!" orked the previous bets. "The English command put that minister lay out and I want you to do the same for me." "You don't understand. Two get business interests in this country, and I don't think about creating international homes every time an American gets built up for security conflict. "Are you really afraid to do anything?" Kirk Ingall shortly. "Or is it because of our now? "Oh, there's nothing personal about it, of course. I'll see that you have a fair trial." The commandant spoke up with gratitude, politeness. "The prisoner may be his resent man's work." Weeks reported incidentally. "He gave you that falty tale, oh! He said his name was Anthony, and his father was a railroad president, didn't he. Well, he imposed on me, too, but his name is Locke, and, as near as I can learn, he practically stewed away on the Santa Cruz." "Ahah!" The officer's eyes widened as he turned them upon his prisoner. "He's then a what you call trans." "Is this the best you'll do for me?" Kirk inquired, as Weeks made ready to go. "Yes." "Will you cable my father?" "At 2 cents a word! Hardy! You speaker mopped his face, exclaiming, 'There's no use of talking. I've got to get out in the air. It's too hot in here for me.'" Half an hour later the commandant returned to the cell, and this time he brought with him a number of his little policemen, each armed with a club "Feeling some menace in their coming, Kirk, who had seated himself defectively, arose to ask, 'What's coming THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. off?" Alfarez merely issued some directions in Spanish, and chain handcuffs were once more snapped upon the prisoner's wrists. "So, you're going to hold my trial eh?" cried Kirk. But the other snarled, "Senor Locke, you 'ave force' the water of the 'one wagon upon my body for making the people laugh. Bueno! Now I shall laugh." He sent himself, then nodded at his men to begin Mrs. Cortlandt answered her telephone for the second time, repeating with some impatience, "Tell the man I can't see him." "But he refuses to leave—says he must see you at once; it's important." came the voice of the clerk. "Oh, very well. I'll come down." She hung up the receiver with a snap. In the hotel lobby she was directed toward a very rugged, very woobogone young black on the rear porch, who at sight of her began to fumble his hat and run his words together so excited that she was forced to calm him. "Now, now! I can't understand a word. Who are you?" "If Allan, mistress" "You say some one is ill?" "Oh, yes, he is very hill hinded, mistress—hall covered with blood and his poor 'ands hall cut." "Who is it?" "Mr. Auntony" "Anthony." Mrs. Cortlandt started. "What has happened? Quick!" Had she been less acquainted with the Caribbean dialects she would have missed much of Allan's story. Rapidly she gathered the facts of the case, while her cheeks whitened and her eyes grew dark with indignation. "How did you get burgled?" she asked. "With my feet, mistress. Sometimes rode I on the train, but the train people are very common; they haddressed me rudely and throw me by the way side." "Couldn't you telephone?" "Why didn't he notify me at once? If I had only known-" "Those untilless Spiggoties would not hallow it. Oh, you will bassist' the poor man! Say it. Praise be to God, he is bleeding in the prison"— "Yes, yes, certainly." "God bless you, good mistress. He told me to find you and present his recital." "Here, take this money and go back to Colon by the first train. We may need you. Now go! I'll be there ahead of you." She run up the hotel stairs as if pursued, bursting in upon her husband impetuously: "Young Anthony is in jail in Colon." she panted. "He's been locked up for three days, and they won't let him out." "The devil! You said he'd gone back to New York. What is it about?" "I thought he had. They arrested him for some silly thing, and he's hurt." He horribly recounted Allan's story, adding, in conclusion, "That black boy came all the way across the latham to tell me." "Tell get the American consul by phone." But Mrs Cortlandt interrupted "Weeks is a fool. He wouldn't do anything Wait!" She stepped to the instrument and ring violently. "Give me Colonel Jobson's office, quickly. If he is not there, find him. I don't care where he is, and him; it is important. This is Mrs Cortlandt speaking." "What do you mean to do?" said Cortlandt. "Go to Colonent office. This is young Alfaro's dating the whipper snapper—you must lay him out for this. How dare he!" "Better go carefully. Remember General Alfarez is his father." "I understand. But we are bound to come to a breach sooner or later." "I hardly think so. I believe we can bring him around all right—myhew. I haven't lost hope. Anthony chose the worst possible time for this escapade. I suppose it will mean diplomatic difficulties and all that, and once we brought Alfarez"— "We will know him anyhow," snapped the woman. "I've seen it coming, although you could not. I'll break Hammer for this." "Then you break us. Do you think Anthony is worth it?" "My dear Stephen, they nearly killed that poor boy, and I shouldn't allow it. Don Antilal Affair is not the only pre-burial tinker in the republic. If he breaks with us it will cost him deeply. You think he is friendly, but I know that they down in his crafty old heart he deplores all us Americans. The moment he shares, he'll turn against us." Cordain's freestyle commencement showed signs of unusual agitation as he answered, "You're small! You threaten to ruin everything. You understand perfectly—there's no use of my explaining. Let me call on blithe this afternoon. He will instruct his son." "Not! He would preoccupate us usual. There would be the customary delays and excuses, and meanwhile Anthony would be in jail at Colon. They would have a defense all prepared. Besides, if it's to be a fight we must have all the weapons possible and this affair may prove a good one. Anyhow, you must ask a favor of him at this time, be must ask, not you." The telephone ring, and the speaker snatched the receiver from its book. "Hello! Colonel Johnson, I'm very glad I caught you. This is Mrs. Cortlandt. Colonel Johnson, young Roman Alfarez has arrested Kick Anthony, of whom I spoke to you. They have maltreated him, as usual, and have hindered him for three days. Yes, yes! I discovered it quite by accident while Mr. Cortlandt was downtown. Oh, this is serious, and I'm furious. * * * That will do no good; I have reasons for preferring to handle it myself. * * * Thank you for the compliment. We must go to Colon at once, and I thought you might give us a special." There was a slight pause, then: "Good! That will do quite as well. In fifteen minutes. Thank you, Goodbye." Turning to her husband, she explained swiftly: "The colonel's automobile will be waiting at the station in fifteen minutes. Are you ready?" "I think you are going about this in the wrong way," he said coldly. jooped to his checks. "I beg your pardon, Stephen. Please do as Colonel Jolson has done and trust me to manage this affair." He bowed and lifted her, saying, "I will have a coach waiting at the door." Fifteen minutes later a gasoline railroad motorcar with two passengers in addition to its driver and flagman rolled out of the yard at Panama City and took the matinee, running under orders like a spectacle. LASTING PEACE DELEGATES' AIM Huerta Must Go. Stable Government Erected and Land Reforms Accomp- lished Before U. S. Army With- draws. With the opening of the mediatolon conference at Niagara Falls on Wed- nesday; to end the reign of anarchy in Mexico the administration officials in Washington are confident of its success. President Wilson, it is known, is hopeful that mediation will be devel- oped to a successful end. He had out- lined to members of the mission the Mexican equation as he viewed it, with the emphasis that it was the task of the United States unselfishly to attempt to help Mexico set up a government that would attract world recognition based on capacity to main- tain domestic peace and to meet in- ternational duties. He told the delegates, Justice Lamar and former Solicitor General Lehmann, that the American government would regard the definite settlement of Mexico's problems as necessary to the withdrawal of American military forces from Vera Cruz. Instructions to the delegates were not specific, but the president reiterated that peace in Mexico to him appeared to be conditioned on the elimination of the Huerta administration and the creation of a government that could guarantee untramured elections, a solution of the land problem and other dissensions that have led to an internal strife of nearly four years. Comprehensive settlement, the president believes, must be based on consideration of the Zajata and the Carranza factions, besides public interests in territory and controlled by Huerta. Continues: reports that Huerta would be ready to quit if that became absolutely necessary were considered a promising circumstance. The Mexican peace delegates. It is declared, now understand that the horizon of mediation has been突破 beyond differences between the Huerta government and the United States, until it covers the task of persecution of all Mexico. While they are said to be prepared to recommend retirement of Huerta, yet it is believed they will insist upon a specific understanding over the form of government to be established. Where the Constitution calls, now sweepier southward in a successful military campaign, ultimately will stand big proposals for mediation remains to be determined. So far they have held shoot from participation in the Nicaragua negotiations. Nevertheless, hope was not looking that they may finally agree to take part. From what is considered a well-informed source in Nicaragua City comes what appears to be the precise method by which the Mexican delegates will present Huruata's reclamation if they agreed that such a step is no easier. According to this information, which bears marks of authority, the three delegates may present the resolution to a meeting the conference table whoever they consider the psychology of moment has arrived. When the resignation is announced to the legislators and to the American delegate the Huerta agents will ask the following questions as bound up in their order of the retirement of the provincial president: What are the plans of the United State allowing the resignation of Huerta? Who will become the provisional president of Mexico? Who will be barred from running for the presidency? Will the United States call a halt on the advance of the Constitutionalists to Mexico City? The Mexican delegates will then refer politically to the president's Mobile speech, in which he disclaimed territorial aggrandizement for the United States and expressed disapproval of the rise of revolutionists by force of arms. They will call attention to the president's reiteration of these sentiments in his address to congress. They will ask for a reiteration of these remarks with direct application to Mexico. In addition the Huerta delegates are to impose these conditions. An American loan to Mexico of $100,000,000 and a ninety-nine-year lease of Magdalena bay for naval target practice, at an annual rental of $1,000,000 gold. Two Crushed In Mines Andrew Pantonis, forty years old, and Joseph Yetcavage, twenty-five years old, were instantly killed at the Maple Hill and Shenandoah collieries, respectively, by falls of coal. Pennsylvania Monument at. Gettysburg Photo by American Press Association. 1861- -1865 Songs the Union Soldiers Sang WHEN the cannon ceased booming the Union soldiers sang. They were for the most part a musical aggregation, and many observers have testified to the stirring of their emotions by the choral singing of thousands of men assembled in camp. The songs they sang acquired a sacred character which clings to them still in the north fifty years after the war. Below are given two of the Union soldiers' favorites: We Are Coming, Father Abraham By JAMES SLOANE GIBBONS. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. From Mississippi's winding stream and from New England's shore. We leave our plows and workshops, our wives and children dear. With hearts filled for utterance, with but a silent tear. We dare not look behind us, but stealthily look before. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. If you look across the hillside that meet the northern sky Long moving lines of rising dust your vision may descrry. And now the wind an instant tear the cloudy veil sall PLAYING THE OLD WAR NONON. And floats aloft our grangled flag in glory and in pride. If you look all up our valleys where the golden harvests slime And learning how to reap and new against their country's needs. And a farewell group stands waoping at every cottage door. We are coming. Father Atrabus, three hundred thousand more. Pennsylvania Monum You have called us, and we're coming, by Lichmond's bloody tail To lay us down for freedom's sake our brothers' bones, beside. Six hundred thousand loyal men and true have gone before We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. When the Cruel War Is Over Dearest love, do you remember When we last did meet How you told me that you loved me, Kneeling at my feet? Oh, how proud you stood before me In your suit of blue When you vowed to me and country Ever to be true! CHORUS Weeping, sad and lonely, Hopes and fears, how vain! Yet praying when this cruel war is over, Praying that we meet again. When the summer breeze is sighing Mournfully aling Or when autumn leaves are falling Sadly breathes the song. Gift in dreams I see you lying On the battle plain. Lonely, wounded, even dying, Calling, but in vain. If amid the din of battle Nobly you should fall. Far away from those who love you, Nobody Who would whisper words of comfort Who would soothe your pain? Ah, the many cruel fancies Ever in my brain! But our country called you, darling. Angels cheer your way. While our nation's sons are fighting We can only pray. Notly strike for God and liberty. Let all nations see How we love the gravy banner, Emblem of the free! "FIGHTING PHIL"·KEARNY. One of the bravest Generals Who Fell In the Civil War. One of the bravest generals who fell in the civil war was General Philip Kearny, born in New York city June 2, 1815. On March 8, 1836, he was ap- pointed a second lieutenant of the United States dragoons, the first regi- ment of cavalry organized after the war of 1812. Kearny was a born cavalry officer. He was a magnificent rider, dashing and adventurous, with the courage of a lion. In 1817 he was stationed at Fort Dearborn, now the city of Chicago. Later he studied cavalry tactics in France. On the breaking out of the war with Mexico he recruited a splendid troop of cavalry, largely defraying the expenses from his private purse. In a gallant charge at Churubusco he lost an arm. At San Antonio he was brevetted major for gallintry. In 1851 he resigned from the army, traveled around the world and settled in Newark, N. J. In 1850 he went to France and served under Napoleon in the Italian war and win the cross of the Legion of Honor of Sferrino. He lived in Paris awhile, but when the civil war broke out John the Army of the Fotomuse. He was made a major general July 7, 1852, but was killed before the commission reached him. He met his death at the battle of Chunfultt, having ridden right into the enemy's lines. His remains were removed recently from Trinity cemetery, New York city, to the National cemetery at Arlington, Va. --- Badly Wounded In Duel A revolver died over the affections of a girl may cost the life of Timothy Donaghue, who is in St. John's hospital in Brooklyn, with a bullet wound through the body. Donaghue said that he had failed in a duel, but he stubbornly refused to give the name of his opponent or the girl over whom they had battled. Each man was accompanied to the scene by a second, and Donaghue fell at the first shot. "I have no blink, even if I do, for it was a tair fight," said Donaghue. ment at Gettysburg OUR SOLDIERS MEMORIAL DAY, 1914 BY ARTHUR J. BURDICK Copyright, 1814, by American Press Association.] NOT now the firm, elastic tread As when to war they marched away; They're battling jime, are warring years, In bloodless battles of today. The whitened hairs above their brows, The wrinkles and the bended forms. These are the scars they now receive, The wounds that fall in silent storms. THE ANGEL Ah, once they faced the deadly fire And stood where abot and abell fell faint! They fight time's battles bravely now As fought they battles of the past. And, though no fields of carnage now Spread horrors to the shrinking eye. Upon time's field each passing day The victims of the battle lie. So now we pluck the fragrant flower And weave the laurel wreath today To lay beside the silent forms Of those who fell behead the way. ATE ENEMY'S BREAKFAST. Custer Returned the Favor by Leaving His Dinner. One day during the war General Young, later a congressman, was breakfasting in a house near Warrenton when he was notified that Union troops were approaching. Young disappeared and a few minutes later General Custer walked in and ordered breakfast. "There is General Young's break- "There is General Young's breakfast," said Miss Hunton. "Well, that will go." replied Custer. "Young and I are great friends." When Custer left he ordered dinner to be served to him at noon. In the meantime the Confederate troops closed in on him and he was forced to retreat. "Give the dinner to General Young," said Custer in passing the house. "Tell him I enjoyed his breakfast." DIDN'T WAIT FOR ORDERS. How the Army of the Cumberland Won Victory of Missionary Ridges. When the soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland were ordered to clear the rife pits at the base of Missionary Ridge they did it and then, recording to orders, lay on their arms and let the Confederates pop at them without replying. This did not suit the Union men, and soon they began to get unhappy. First one regiment, then another, moved out and started up the ridge until finally the whole Army of the Cumberland was climbing that hill struggling over rocks and timber, but ever onward, without any orders having been given for an advance. The result was that eventually General Thomas' soldiers captured the ridge. When General Grant saw the men perminibling up the ridge he turned to Thomas and said, "Who ordered these men out?" "I don't know, but I did not," was his answer. "Did you order them up?" asked Grant of Granger, who was standing near. "Not I," answered Granger. "They staggered without orders. But no matter, when these boys get started, nothing can stop them." The Heroes' Requiem The Heroes Requirement The hands are weak, the eyes are dim of those who saw war's vage grim Beyond the brown Tornado's rim The fierce like the Star loud the national tymm! Let cannon thunder to the skys. The heroes' requirement: Two British Aviators Killed. Two British army aviators were killed near North Allerton, Eng., during a combined flight of a squadron of military aeroplanes from Scotland to Salisbury Plain. The victims are Lieutenant J. Empson, of the Royal Fusiliers, and Sergeant Dudmore, acting as mechanic. Cigar Man a Suicide. J. Frederick Spannellor, forty-five years old, a prominent cigar manufacturer of Williamsport, Md., committed suicide in his factory by shooting himself in the right temple. ```markdown ``` 1861- -1865 Tribute to the Navy's Work In The Civil War By Admiral D. D. PORTER WHILE our army has been written of by a thousand ready pots, the navy has not, as a rule, been a popular theme for the historian, and now and then only do we meet with some well drawn story of the navy and the benefits it conferred upon the country, says Admiral David D. Porter in his "History of the United States Navy In the Civil War." Our army was full of writers who could delineate in the most happy manner all the events that were transcribing around them. They ```markdown ``` were also ready with the pencil. The photographer, while he traveled with the army, would spend his days in photographing every hotel scene, reprints of which were scattered broadcast over the Union, keeping the movements of our armies as clearly before the millions of people in the north as if the battles had been reflected in a mirror. Naval ships did not travel with reporters, photographers or sketcheers. There was no room for these on board ship, and if perchance some stray reporter should get on board the discomfort of a man-of-war, the exacting discipline and the fresher life in camp sent him back to shore, where in most cases he only remembered his associations with the navy as a trip without any satisfaction and with no desire to do justice to the work of the naval service. It is true our armies were entitled to all that could be showered on them by a grateful people, yet the part performed by the navy when placed in its true light before the world will show to advantage, compare it as you may with any other branch of public service. Time with unsparing hand has swept away nearly all the men who led our fleets to battle during the war. But one or two remain, while those who were in the flower of manhood when the war was at its worst have reached the highest honors the country had to bestow and with no more naval duty allow to perform except in time of war, when they can offer their services, none the less efficient for a green old age, any waiting calmly (enjoying the rest from the hardships of the past) to reap those higher rewards for duties well performed on earth where the sounds of battle will no more be heard and where the laughed they have gained will never wither. These officers must not be forgotten. Every man who holds position of honor and trust, in the navy department in those trying times is dead and gone, and the multiplying events of a quarter of a century have crowded out for a time the great works which emanated from their conjoint exertions, but those who will take the trouble to hunt up and read over the documentary history of the times will find ample evidence that to the navy department and the navy is the present generation largely indebted for the happy condition of affairs now existing in a united American Bluejackets Patrolling the Streets of Vera Cruz Very soon after the guns of the Mexican "nulpers" had been allenced and the federalals driven from the city of Vera Cruz the invading American sailors and marines, under the direction of Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, began the work of restoring order. The first step was the proper patrol of the disturbed city, inasmuch as the civil authorities had for the most part ceased to carry on their duties. Martial law was proclaimed, and the city was well polled by the jackies and marines. The picture shows a detachment of armed sailors marching through one of the empty streets. country, a prosperity never exceeded in the history of the land, and the most substantial proofs that the navy will always be found foremost to support this union of states, no matter what may be the sacrifices made by its ollers and other personnel. CLOSE VOTE IN PRIMARIES so because they were not enrolled. ROLLS THREE MILES Baltimore Clubman Finches Unique Task In Fifteen Hours. G. Howell Parr, a. Cavalrymen At Close Quarters One of the Prettiest Saber Fights of the Great War I was not often that the opposing envoy came into his close quarters that they could use their swords with effect, but it happens on one potable occasion in east Tennessue during the war. Colonel E. M. McCook, at the head of a cavalry division from Burns' army, met and charged upon two divisions of Longstreet's men under Generals Morgan and Armstrong. While McCook led his division at a galloping charge, Colonel E. M. F THE CHARGE ON THE GUNS. Grange, at the head of a demilitarized came upon a superior force of Morgan's troopers around a battery, made a dash for them and sabotled the gunners as well as their cavalry supporters, taking two cannon and many prisoners. When the main opposing lines fairly met on open ground there ensued one of the prettiest hand to hand combat of the war, at the end of which the redefensible Morgan was routed and his battling and exert were captured. Regiment That Grant Commanded. A peculiar interest attaches itself to the Twenty-first Illinois infantry because it was Grant's old regiment. The men in that command little thought that the stranger assigned to them as their colonel was destined to become the grandest figure of the war. John W. Alexander succeeded Grant as colonel. He was an officer of rare merit, but was killed at Chickamauga, where the regiment lost heavily, 146 of its men, being captured or missing. Its total enrollment was 1,452 men, and the total of killed and wounded was 374. Grant remained in command only until Aug. 7, 1861. The regiment served in Missouri till May, 1862, when it joined Buell's army. The News From Culpeper A fine looking negro went over the Union lines on the Potomac and reported himself for work. "Where are you from?" asked the officer on duty. "Nunfil much, mama, 'cept darn a white man down darn loot' a mighty valble nigger dis a mahain, an I rock on he done lose some more live stock 'fore night." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA CLOSE VOTE IN PRIMARIES Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh Named For Governor by Republicans—Pinchot and Lewis to Lead Washington Party. The result of the first statewide primary election in Pennsylvania on Tuesday for United States senator and governor were as follows: Republican Nominees. United States senator—Boles Penrose. Governor—By. Martin G. Brumbaugh. Democratic Nominees. United States senator. Michael J. Ryan or A. Mitchell Palmer. Governor—Alan McMorrow. Governor - Cause McCormick. Washington Party Nomines. United States monitor - Gifford Pinchot. Governor - William Draper Lewis. The vote for the gubernatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket is so close that the result is not yet known. Ryan is running ahead and appears to be the nominee. Ryan carried Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Lackawanna and Allegheny counties by good slad majorities, while McCormick carried Dauphin and most of the interior counties by substantial majorities. Though J. Benjamin Dimmick, candidate for the Republican nomination, made large claims, his vote in Philadelphia was exceedingly light, while throughout the state it was not considerable, save in his home county of Lackawanna. While Dr. Brumbaugh had opposition for the gubernatorial nomination, it was merely nominal, save in the case of Joseph Caufield, of Cambridge county. But the vote for Caufield in Philadelphia was merely nominal; it was larger throughout the state, but nowhere did it mention the Brumbaugh candidacy. Heading the Washington party ticket, Gifford Minchot, for the senatorial nomination, had no opposition. But the Washington party vote compared to the Republican was insignificant. Dean William Draper Lewis maintained a considerable lead over Judge Charles N. Brummin for the gubernatorial nomination. But neither had more than a small percentage of the total vote cast. The non-partisan judicial ballot received only slight attention. On it were candidates for the supreme and the superior court benches. Judge Robert S. Frazer, of Allegheny, is the Republican supreme court nominee and Judge Frank M. Trexler, present incumbent, for the superior court. The Democrats solidly supported Judge Gustav A. Endlich, of Berks county. For supreme court. The vote in the primary throughout the rural districts was not as large as generally expected in view of the bitter fight for several of the nominations. This was caused by two things the failure of many farmers to go to the polls because of their being behind in their spring work and the failure of many others to become enrolled. Many citizens who failed to vote last fall also neglected to register this spring, and hence could vote only the non-partisan judicial ballots. Apparently some voters forgot that it was necessary to register and were disappointed when they were refused any but a non-partisan ticket. A conspicuous example of this was found in Montgomery county, where hundreds who wanted to vote for the candidates of their party could not do so because they were not enrolled. ROLLS THREE MILES Baltimore Clubman Finishes Unique Task In Fifteen Hours. G. Howell Parr, a member of the co- cil and club life of the city, who started to roll from the private Ken- nels club to Charles Street, attended and the University, a distance of about three complete hours. He performed the first a wipe of $100 and shouted in condi- tion. For more than two hours with frequent interruptions, Mr. Parr, dressed in a black suit, turn of over and over on and at- knee the entire dress, will act down, through and over shoes will not be ridden until the end. Youth Admits Killing Three Harley Hearst, 60, in years, old, was arrested in the second charged with the murder of three persons in Ironton, Ohio. Beard contested that he was guilty of the triple killings and he is being held to await extradition. Beard said that he first beat his victim son the hand with a stick of wood and then completes the work with a razor. Those he killed were Robert Masse, his sister, Mary, and their mother, Mrs. Masse. Beard was arrested at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. L. Duy. The mother was twenty-five years old, and the son and daughter past forty-five. Mary Masale was found in the kitchen with her hand, tied behind her back and her throat cut. Robert was found in the back yard with his head battured in, and the mother in the front yard, with her throat cut and skull fractured. --- Accused of Killing Husband. Mrs. Victor Hall, a fellow of a young merchant who was not to death in his home at Greenspring on April 13, was indicted for murder by a special grand jury in Louis. Va., which has been investigating the crime for five days. Mrs. Hall, who was in the court house, having been taken into custody on a bench warrant, following a second attempt to hurt, down her home and store, was at the arrested, protesting her innocence. She was released on $500 bail to appear for trial in July. The indictment charges that Mrs. Hall shot her husband while he was bed on the morning of April 15. The prosecution contends that she killed her husband because the threatened to expose her for settling fire to the store of W. R. Dunkum, a competitor, with whom she had quarrelled. She asserts that a burglar had shot her husband Facing new detectives, four men gained an entrance to a Broadway motion picture theater in New York made the watchman a prisoner, hand cuffed three workmen who were in the theater, then blow open the safe in the box office, obstructing $100,000. The robbers were in the theater building three hours and compelled the watchman to whistle the watchman's clocks at several points in the theater at the proper time, so that no suspicion as to their presence would be had on the outside. Cardinal Gibbons Sees Pope. Cardinal James Gibbons was recently in audience at the Vatican in Rome my the pope. The cardinal discussed at great length with Pope Plus conditions in the United States. The pope was greatly interested in the discussion. --- Paul Miklin died of a broken back received in the Henry Clay shaft at Shamokin, Pa. thirty years ago. On being removed to his home doctors said he would die in a short time. Since, then he has lain virtually help less. THE RIVER Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. The Mexicans lost about 150 dead in the fighting at Vera Cruz during the American occupation. This shows some of the bodies arranged in order after the fighting near the waterfront. 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ASSESS JOHN D. S311.226.347 Oil King's Taxes In Ohio Will Be $1; 556.131. John D. Rockefeller's personal property on which he will be assessed for taxation in Ohio is worth $11,122,267. These are the figures according to an announcement made in Columbia by the state tax comptroller, after hearing from the district assessors William Agnew and John D. Parkler of Cuyahoga County. Of this amount $25,000 is alleged to be Standard Oil stock. Rockefeller's taxes at the rate of $a $1000 would be $1,000. The action of the assessors in listing Mr. S. W. RIBBARD & SON HIGH GRADE LIQUORS. 19 and 21 N. 15th St., Richmond, Va. E. Hayes, Office and Ware Rooms, 727 NORTH SECOND STREET Residence—725 North Second St. First Class Oaks, and Cottages of All Deserters. I have a Spare room for Bedding, when the Familiy have not a guest to Use. All Country Order are Given. Special Attention. Your Special Attention is called to the New Style OAK CASKETS. 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Mr. Cohen and Mr. Pollard's argument was able and convincing. He declared that the segregation ordinance was unconstitutional for the reason that it deprived a citizen of his property and liberty without due process of law. This was in plain violation of law, a virtual multination of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This brought into play a Federal question and had the basis for an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. He also contended that the Council of the City of Richmond transcended and exceeded the powers granted to it by its charter in making this regulation in advance of similar action by the Legislature of the State of Virginia. We have never been able to understand how officials free from political influence and prejudice, could decide this question any other way. It is a characteristic of Southern white men to have the courage of their convictions and the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia with reference to a similar case emphasizes this opinion. Numerous houses in this city grant without tenants on account of the certain prohibitions and restrictions of this law, which worked a hardship from the beginning. Movers, Cohens and Pollard should be supported in this fight. Movers should be tailed to test the matter in the Courts and no response should be spared to make the content spurred and thorough. It is not specifically a racial question, for it interests both white and colored people. We hope in some future issue to give specific references and authorities upon this most interesting case. Right-thinking people everywhere should endorse the movement and encourage the movers. Liesberg (Va.) Items Miss Charlotte Randall left on the 10th for Baltimore. Mrs. Charles Randall is much improved at this writing. The stork brought Mrs. Robert Coe a ten-pound girl Tuesday, 19th. Mrs. Florod Malery is all smiles over a twelve-pound boy. Rev E. D. Tyler arrived on Friday 22nd. We had a nice church meeting. Sunday, our pastor preached morn ing and evening. At eleven o'clock Luke 19:6, subject. Receiving Christ Joyfully. We had some visitors with us. At 2:30 Sunday School was well attended. At eight o'clock the Good Samaritans turned out in full. Text, Luke 10:6. He discussed the subject to the delicatessen. Solos by Miss Irene Ralley, Miss Emily Sidney, Miss Brita Newman, Mr. William Calvery, paper by Mrs. Gus Valentine. Miss Newman, Mrs Janie Lewis, Mrs. E. P. Diggs, a gentleman from Wargenton and many other strangers worshiped with us. Collection was good. We are glad to note Mrs. Avery on Waverley Heights is much improved at this writing. How, Dr. Tyler left Monday morning for home. How, Dr. Tyler say the wolves have gotten among the sheep. May the good Lord guide us right. Pray for us.—Reporter. THE WESTVIEW COTTAGE. Jamestown...R. I. Will, open July 1st, 1914. All modern improvements. Weekly hops, lawn tennis, croquet, etc. Excellent table, farm products and pure spring water. Splendid bathing and an opportunity to see some of the most formidable battleships, afloat, this being the Summer headquarters of the North Atlantic Fleet of the U. S. Navy. Ferry to Newport and Narrakanest Pier every half hour. MRG. B. F. MORRELL. Box 216, Jametown, R. I. Long distance phone. TAKE JOILY CLEMENTS TO SCENE OF CRIME. (Continued From First Page.) (Continued From First Page.) place Clements on trial Thursday for assault. It is no secret that there is a difference of opinion among county and city police as to the guilt of Clements, and it is likely that evidence highly favorable to, the defense will be introduced when the colored man is brought to trial. Clements and not obtained the services of an attorney this morning and, acting under command from Frank T. Sutton, commissioner of the county, declined to allow newspaper reporters to interview the man, who is confined in one of the cells in murderer's row. From the police investigating the case it was learned that Clementes has told numerous conflicting stories to his whereabouts the night of the alleged crime and the day following. Yesterday he told the police he spent the night the crime was committed in a Seventeenth street hongue. Taken to the house by Policemen Tiller and Cordell, it was found that the woman whom Clementes said he had visited was in the city jail and had been there for several days prior to the night the crime was committed, have been made on Miss Chenault, Clementes could not reconcile his statements with the facts in the case and was in a highly nervous state when taken back to prison. The finding of a wrench near the scene of the crime, believed by Postmen Tiller and Hardy to be the same which Miss Chenault says she saw in the pocket of her assailant, is considered by those officers to be the strongest link in the chain of circumstantial evidence they are working around Clements. When first asked about the wrench, Chenault denied that he had ever had one in his pocket and has told several different stories regarding the wrench. . WRENCH IDENTIFIED Therench, the police say, trolls with the description of the weapon with, which Miss Chenault says her assault threatened to kill her if she made an outcry. The wrench has been identified by persons at Deane's dairy. Where Clements was employed prior to the night Miss Chenault declares she was attacked, as the one frequently used about the place and which was missing after Clements left. Notwithstanding the positive identification of Clements by Miss Chenault, the chain of circumstantial evidence apparently woven about him and the conflicting stories told by the colored man, the authorities are today following a line of investigation which may result in the liberation of Clements before he is brought to trial before jury, though it is perfectly certain that the colored man will be formally arraigned before Majestate Sunday Thursday morning. In the event Clements employs a lawyer or the court appoints one to defend the man, indications are that a vicious fact will be made to break down the story told the police by Mist Clement and to deter her identification of the colored man. That a sensation may be springing at not at all unlikely. That the county authorities are not unanimous in the belief that Clements is the man wanted today was indicated when a well-defined prison was being erected to the effect that Commonwealth's Attorney Frank T. Sutton has said that he did not see how he could consummate presenteeism. The tumor, however, was positively and emphatically denied by Mr. Sutton when seen by a reporter for The New Leader. "I have made no such state grant," said the commonwealth's attorney. Other than to deny that he had given utterance to such a statement, the attorney declined to discuss the case in any way. HENRICO MAN, RETAINS COUNSEL FOR CLEMENTS. Irving May to Defend Colored Man Charged With Assault on Miss Clemmault. (TimesDispatch, May 27, 2014.) A surprise in the case of John Clements, the colored man under arrest in Hertford county charged with criminally assaulting Miss Fannie T. Champlain on the night of May 8, was burge, late yesterday afternoon, when Irving May, a lawyer with offices at 4-1-2 North Eleventh street, appeared at the County Jail and demanded admittance to the colored man's cell as his counsel. May told Jaffer, Garnett that he had been retained by a citizen of Hertlepool, who believed in the man's innocence, and wished to see that he secured a fair trial, but who did not care to figure publicly in the case. Efforts to discover the mysterious retainer of counsel for the alleged assailant, proved fruitless last night, and, when seen, Attorney May continued to maintain the greatest resilience in regard to his identity. The lawyer was passed to the accused man's cell without question by Jailer Garnett after his statement that he was a lawyer come to defend Clements, and was cloaked with the prisoner sometime. When he left the cell, he refused to discuss the case, saying his talk and been a very brief one, and that he had not determined just what defense would be put forward. Attorney May said last night that his client would be tried on the original warrant charging him with criminal assault. In spite of the family physician's statements that the assailant's purpose was not accomplished. SOME COUNTY OFFICERS DOUBT COLORED MAN'S GUILT. The action taken by the mysterious believer in Clementa's innocence yearly in the practical expression of a belief, which is held by several of the county officers who have been working on the case, and of a number of citizens of Richmond and Henrico county. This belief was coniderably increased yesterday, when it was learned that Motorman John- son, of the Seven Pines car on which Miss Chenault's assailant is supposed to have come to Richmond shortly after the crime had been committed, failed to identify the accused colored man when brought before him in the Henrico Jail. This failure at identification was followed shortly afterward by his identification by H. G. Vlech, of Stop 23, and County Policeman Vincent. Vlech says that he saw Clements sitting on the switch waiting for a car that night, and that, although several passed, he failed to take either of them, suddenly disappearing from view. Vincent said that he arrested Clements the morning of the crime, and released him when the man furnished excellent proof as to his movements during the night. Clements denied that he had been arrested by Vincent at first, but later admitted that he had been. The appearance of Attorney May in the case leads to the belief that the case will be hard fought from its first hearing to tomorrow. It is stated that every effort will be exerted to save the colored man, believed by many to be innocent. SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES. FLORENCE, S. C., May 26.—Rev. S. B. Thompson of Chirw, S. C. passed through the city Sunday, May 10th enroute for Thimsonville, S. C. to preach at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Rev. E. Hum, pastor. On Monday, Rev. Thompson returned home stating that his trip was a success. Rev. M. S. Robinson of Florence spent the first week in May at Mt. Jingah Baptist Church, assisting Rev. D. J. Johnson in a revival effort. He said he very much enjoyed the stay with Rev. Johnson and his people. Major M. L. Turner of Voorhees Industrial School at Denmark, S. C. passed through the city recently enroute for his home at Rocky Mount, N. C. Rev. W. D. Foxworth of Rowland, N. C. passed through the city recently returning from his work at Hemmingway, S. C. Rev. Foxworth is quite a reliable minister. He reads wholesome literature. Mr. Clarence Brooks, a student of Voorhees Industrial Institute at Denmark, South Carolina, passed through the city recently returning from Atlanta, Ga., where he had been in attendance at a conference of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. He was enroute for home at Sertanot, S. C. Mrs. Lucy Wilds and daughter little Marlion paid a short visit to friends at Timmonsville, S. C. recently, spent Sunday, May 17th in Darlington. He went over in his brother's auto. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Singleton visited Darlington during the week, the funeral of Mr. Elmore Brockington took place at Bothea Cemetery Mars Hill, S. C. on Tuesday, May 5, 1914. "A previous one from us has gone. A voice we love is still. A place is vacant in our home. Which island can we fill?" God in his wisdom has recalled the bond to us has given. Though the body moulds here, the soul is safe in heaven. With many to follow him to the cemetery where his father and grandparents were buried. His father, Billy Buddle Brookington died May 1905. He died at the home of his mother Annett Brookington. The following named persons visited him during his visitation: Rev. W. S. Thompson, his pastor, Mr. Wm Guppe, Rev. C. T. Taylor, Rev. J. McCloud, Bro. John Miller, Mrs. Frankle Rhone, Mrs. Katie Watson, Mrs. Jail Miller, Mrs. Quince Blanchard of Statesboro, Ga., Mrs. W. P. Roers, Mrs. Ella Watson, Mrs. Willie Frankle, Mrs. Sam Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Flemming Boneus, Mrs. Charlie Williams, Mrs. Lucinda Fortune, Mrs. Mary Jenkins, Mrs. Mary J. Denut, Mr. C. R. Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. William Davis and his uncles. Messrs. Hannah Brockington, George Brockington, Enock Brockington, Douglas Brockington, and other relatives; Rev. John Brockington, Willie Fitzgerald, Myers, Wiliam Sanders, Sanders, Sanders, Sanders, Lawrance Saiders, Allen Sanders, Alexandra Sanders, Mrs. Mary Daniel, Mr. Towne Davis and family, Mrs. Francis Williams, Mrs. Katie Watson prayed with him and questioned him whether he was ready to go, he said he was ready, he asked his mother to pray with him because he thought her prayers were better. Mr. Brockington was 35 years of age when he died. He was a brick mason and also know how to grade tobacco. He knew how to work. Mr. Willie Lee Williams of this city is home for the Summer from Shaw University Medical School at Raleigh, N.C. Nearly a year Julian who has been afflicted so long died this morning. May 24th. Mr. J. A. Brown is still at it with the A. C. L. people. Mr. Caesar Rowell is suffering from a scalded leg received at the Coastline shop. Mrs. Lydia Thompson spent Thura day is Darlington, S.r.C. Mrs. H. F. S. Singleton is out again after a 'short spell of illness. after a short spell of illness. The G. U. O. of Odd Fellows had their Annual Thanksgiving Services on the 10th of May at Cumberland M. E. Church. Quite a crowd of spectators witnessed the occasion. There were three lodges of the city, Florence Lodge, No. 2212; Obed, No. 4145; East Florence, No. 2924 and a part of Wayside Chapel and the two Households of Ruth. W. M. Howard was master of ceremonies. The programme for the occasion was grand. Among those who took part in the exercises were Mr. Thos. Brown, delivered an address in behalf of the Order: Rev. C. McDonald read the Scripture lesson; prayer was offered by Bro. McDonald; Mrs. McDonald; Mrs. Mamie Haynesworth delivered an address in behalf of the Household of Ruth, Miss Ruth-Brown and Master James Lawrence represented the Juvenile. The report of the Secretary was read with credit to the order and to the secretary shows an increase in members and finance. Among those who had died during the year were: Bro. Luke Williams of 2312; Dunlap Pony Contest THE DIXIE THEATRE A horse-drawn carriage is seen in a rural setting. The carriage is drawn by a man, and there are trees and buildings in the background. Beautiful Shetland Pony, Buggy and Harness. Some energetic boy or girl will receive this handsome prize So get busy boys and girls and call at the Dixie Theatre and PLANET Office and have your names entered as contestants. 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Brown and wife, Mrs. Dr. Strother and Grant, Rev. W. S. Thompson and wife, Mrs. Mc Lood, were invited guests. Dr. Levy, Holmes and Rev. Brown spoke on the occasion, and stated some very important things, which were uplifting to all. Johnnie Howard and Clyde Simmons, wrap check- Mr. M. T. Titus, a farmer of Timonville, S. C. visit our city recently. Miss Alice Pegues of Cheraw, passed through the city recently enroute for her home. She taught at Timonville this year. She is quite pleasant. Mr. Reachman Goddard of Marlton and Miss Elnora Brown of Florence were married on March 25th. Mrs. C. E. Godbolt and Misses Ruth Webster and Leona Mac. Webster are quite busy preparing dresses for the visitors and pupils and graduates of the city graded schools. Miss M. E. Scott spent a few days with parents at Columbia, S. C. recently. The Baptist State Convention meets at Greenville, S. C. on Wednesday, June 23, 1914. 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Speculation. This property is located In a section in which values are rapidly increasing. Buy a lot now and get in on the Ground Floor. Farmville (Va.) News. Farmville, Va., May 25, Revs. G. H. Johnson of Britol, Va. and G. Reavis, of Christansburg, Va. stopped on their way home from the General Association of Virginia, who convened with the Zion Baptist Church, Phocas, Va. and spent Saturday, and Sunday with Rev. R. Vilain, and family. Rev. Reavis treated at 11:00 A. M. at 7:30 P.M. Rev. Johnson, having been rest broken on account of the illness of his wife and children, was exempted from grazing. Rev. Reavis exempts two excellent sermons. Rev. Adams made a statement relative to the great work being done by the General, Association of Virginia in both educational and missionary work. It has been resurrected Dr. D. N. Vassar of Lynchburg, Va., who has served as General Missionary under the cooperative plan, will in the near future resign the field. He has been faithful. The question now is, where can we find the man to fill the place. To have the work done as it should be, requires a man of ability and experience. Men who have never served in the capacity of a Missionary are not the men to fill such an important position as General Missionary, and are not always the best men to say who should fill such a position. The students for the various Institutions of learning, are coming in for the Summer, as well as many teachers. With these the atmosphere of our little town will be pregnant with culture and a high idea of true mor- Absolutely the FIRST and ONLY OPPORTUNITY for COLORED PEOPLE to PURCHASE Their Own HOMES in a HIGH CLASS, well elevated and Ideally Located Suburb in Easy Reach of the Business Sections of Richmond (1½ MILES TO THE CITY HALL.) There was a Gigpy Home given at the Lly Street Hall on Monday night to Miss Cassandra Hygea, and Scotte Paine for the benefit of First Baptist Sunday School. The Public Schools here will close Wednesday the 25th. Prot. Corman, Principal. Rev A C Griffes returned home from the State of Georgia, where he has been teaching during the Winter. It is reported that he will not be a stable man very long. There will be a marriage at the A M E Church, Wednesday, 27th. Miss Lena Branch of Farmville, Va. to Mr Matthew Montier of Norfolk, Va. Mr. Richard Watson of Virginia Street was quite ill this week. Mr. Samuel Watson, who has been by Richmond during the Winter is home again. Mr. J. D. Miller and daughter left for Hampton, Va., to witness the graduation of his son Sheffield (Ala.) Notes. Special to The PLANET The graduation exercises of the Colored Public School that were held last Thursday evening, May 22nd at Ash Chapel, were quite an enjoyable affair. Prof. H. P. Hopkins, of Agricultural and Mechanical College at Huntsville, gave the annual address, which was pleasing to all. To Miss Thegaa Long, our new teacher, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. to much praise cannot be given for her striving in assisting her Principal, J. J. Stirling in bringing about such grand labor in exercises. Mr. C. W. Wilson has opened a new soft drink stand at corner of 20 and Nashville Avenue. There were quite a number present at the opening which took place Monday inlet, May 22nd. Mrs. J. H. Lovelace left Saturday, May 24th for her home, Columbia Town, after spending about two years in our midst. She began her work teaching in July. Her many friends regret the departure of Mrs. Lovelace and little son, Lovellios. Mr Loveace has been engaged in the policy work for two years or more. He will leave in a few days where he will start his trade as batter Card of Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Robert Randolph and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. 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Lee came up from a where with a good right aim, in study to two strong body and an individual style which the baseball world admire. He copied no pitcher that ever tried, and every move he made was blinkered with the peculiar individuality of Solomon Lev. Lee was a sensation for two seasons and then bright lights got him. He made the common mistake of thinking that youth, strength and force force are indestructible qualities. The spotter of the limelight was made to Sabino mon Lee. He loved to have men point him out as he walked along the street. The "sports" fattered him, and he swallowed the battery with the drinks which they were prepared for him. Sabino Lee was "good fellows" which means that he was a cultivation of a bad fellow and a fighter. An athlete does not last very long after the bright lights get him. Solemn on Law Day to take part in his third session and settlement on entirely during his fourth. El Permin, the veteran member of the Congress, found that he could not live. The one great plight was an unsettled sky and an empty shell. Nobody wanted him at any price. He had a reputation as a deserving man, eager with that sort of a player on his play. Solemn on Law Day to take part in his third session and settlement on entirely during his fourth. El Permin, the veteran member of the Congress, found that he could not live. The one great plight was an unsettled sky and an empty shell. Nobody wanted him at any price. He had a reputation as a deserving man, eager with that sort of a player on his play. Before he went away he had a best bake with Billy Higlow. Billy was the clever shepherd of the club, the brains of the Coca-Cola brand and the only real friend I had on the team. "They say I'm a sham," said Law- blytite. "It's a dirty job. Billy beats you believe it. I'm as good as I ever was in my life, but things haven't been breaking real" for the season. You know that. "Terrific never had any use for me, and I never skiffs on the bleachers have been after me all season. I'm going Billy, but I'll be back math. But your shirt on that. And I'm going to come back stronger and better than ever. It would serve Terv- rill right if some of those other man- agers got me, and what I'd do to this team would be a shame. Oh, I'll be back." "I'm pulling for you!" said Bigelow. "Get in shape as early as you can in the spring; cut out the boots this winter and show them; that you will see them. Tervil didn't get it for you. Sally. You know you've been stepping some pretty fierce heels, and that row you had in St. Louis didn't help matter any." "Yes," said Solomon Lee. "Give a dog a bad name and then everybody takes a kick at him. I'm down now, but I won't stay down. I'll make Tervill send for me." "That's the stuff!" said Bigelow. Solomon Lee really meant it at the time, but he found the minor league a little faster than he had expected. All leagues are a trifle fast for the ball player who does not take care of himself. He did not even finish the season with the Clays A club. Next year there was a Lee pitching in an outlaw league on the Pacific coast, but not for long. It is many miles from the Sisters to the bright lights, but word stalled back bad news still always and still with messages that the law was the one celebrated Solomon, calling down and out and shouting for it. After the outfits she showed him she dropped out of school entirely. Solomon had been arrested for the man city, which was guilty in the sentence when the papers were filed of the details of the new man at the training camps. "This recruit," the dispatcher might say, "is another Solomon Law" or "The new pilot reminds one strongly of Solomon Law. He has many of the merits of that unfortunate athlete." Solomon Lee was gone, and he had left nothing but a bad name behind him. Years wheaked at it, terms changed from bad to marvelous, stars of the diamond rose, stars of the diamond away into minor league glam. In the late Tertullian said poorly to public life and went out on the western shore of the Riviera, there to raise apples and maltigate up the garden post. The owners of the tower were therefore, costing a fortune to build, shingles were no further than their own knifes, what to the king in the age of Riley. Highow, the great of straying was collecting them to the first. His wife was dead, and he was no longer in the house. But he still had his beloved daughters and sons to watch at the gate of the tower. British Banks are the general stockholders in mortgage and investment companies in the world. They are with an ability to invest in the business of the banks. If we provide you with a British Banks account, you will be able to invest in the business of the banks. If you have an account provided by a British Banks, you will be able to invest in the business of the banks. The man had been in the room for a long time with the gun in his hands, after which he left the room to take a drink and singled to put some wine. The man was Smith, and he was the man. Smith was a man with a light, bright light, which he wore in a neat and neat place. Smith had an object. A [Faced by Mascot of the Milkman] In paying as little as possible, for he was the owner as well as the manager of the Farmville club. In the winter for time he gave his attention to his bishop pastor and bowling alley and when perfectly sober was regarded as a keen business man. His players had to respect him, for he knew more basketball than any man in the Tillamook began had any right to know, but they did not love him, for he was a hard tankmaster. He would not have a drinking man on his team, and his motto was, "Do I say and not as I do." After Bigelow was well in his strides as manager the fat man subscribed to several custom japers and watched the progress of the Corsairs with an interest which was almost painful. Several times he was tempted to write that letter, but always stuck after the first paragraph. The fat man had buried a past and was not anxious to dig it up. Three years later Billy Bigelow was pounding away in the first division and praying for one more good pitcher. In Truck Chapman he had the greatest left hander of the period, but even a glutton like Truck could not pitch enough winning games to clinch a pennant. The rest of the pitchers were only ordinary performers. "Get me one more cracking, good pitcher," said Biglow, "and I'll walk away with the pennant next year. Get me a man who can win twenty games and back up old Truck, and it'll be a shame the way we go through this bunch." Pitcher, like gold, are where you find them. There is no telling where the next great pitching stars may come from. They rise out of the mist. You THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. look up, and there they are, full fedged, born overnight. "Scouts know this, and that is why Hook Shaddin, dropping into Taoming on his western trip, did not scorn the private tip that a man named Smith at Fremontville in the Tulahawk league had a tighter wolf who was setting the forest nire. "His name is Bud Marsh," said Shaddin's informant, "and Smith has had him three years. 'He's a rip rourer.' Shaddin went up to Fremontville on the first train and presented himself at Smith's billboard parlor. "From Biglow, eh?" asked Smith. "Lennie was the credentials." Sudden wondered at this, but produced his cardiology. "I guess it's all right," said the fat man shortly. "I've got a pitcher here. I want you to see him work. I'll send him in this afternoon." That afternoon on the big league scout sat in the tiny grandstand and showed up wrestlers while he watched the thunder wrestler shut out nine busky young men. It. South Vikima. Suddhin had seen hundreds of bush pitchers at work, and he believed that he knew the thunder but the first move Marsh made to the baskets made the scout's at touch, and held it throughout the game. "Everybody gave a picture," thought Suddhin. "Most of these kids work too hard to themselves, to pieces—but this just shows them up there as if there wasn't a thing to it. Lonely. But that's a swell change of pace. He isn't very old. Now, where did he learn all that stuff?" After the game Shadlin walked back to the box with Smith, expressing himself generously, as men do when they troop to buy Praise might have sent the prize following. "He's fair, just fair," said Shadlin. "Of course he have to be fairned out." "Lay off of that stuff!" growled Smith. "You don't put any of that ever on the field. Where do you think I was placed in the woods here? Now, I'm got to tell you something. I've seen all the great pitchers of the past fifteen years. Know some of our best Marksie Harris, Peter, Kirkand all that branch. Lennie tell you that here's a boy that is as good today as Marksie ever was. Go better. You saw the way he handled himself. You saw the way he used that quick turnball. Is there any man in the big league today who can whip a return strike back like that? Is there? No, I guess it's a young whistler, these three I know." "I just return him and just make him and make him Said. The boy was only one man guard that down there and that was a fellow named Sotomayo Law. If he didn't been a loose bound bed have been the greatest pitcher in the world. I saw him once over in Chicago, and somehow this Lilly's style reminded me of him." "Now, I fell for something else," said Sotomayo Law. "I know this fellow Lilly knew him better than most anybody. I know all his stuff. I possess him work, when he was good. I can you as sure as you like the kid in Sotomayo Law might ever again Sotomayo Law let his best. He's got every trick that Lois used to have." "Where did he get 'any' asked Said,dn "I taught him," said Smith. "I took that kid when he walked into the town looking for a job, and I knew right away that he had everything but the savvy. I've worked with him for and sometimes I've taught him everything he knows. I've made out of that kid the living image and doubt of the greatest pitcher that ever lived. Every time that kid works I am old. Sally lives in the town. He has everything Lois ever had. I tell you." "Huh!" said Smith. "Is it a boomer tighter too?" "Don't know what it taste like." snarled Smith. "What do you want for him?" asked Shilton carolls. "Not a red coat!" compelled Smith. "What?" "Not a cent. I've trained that kid for just one thing to win a jersey for Billy Biglow. He's going to that club or he won't go anywhere. Holly was up, moving around for the Reds, and Sattery of the Pitch. Sax was here last month. I seconded both away. I'm going to make just one stipulation—my two." "Name 'em," said Shaddin. "In the first place, you're not to tell Billy Biglow anything about what said about training this kid for him. In the second place, I want you to take this boy at the end of our season here that's early. In September—and promising that you will see that he gets a tryout before the big season closes." "Him in," said Shaddin. "You think he's good?" "I don't think I know." "Look here!" said Shadron abruptly. "You say you trained this kid, you taught him all this stuff. Now, how could you do that? If he'a another Solomon Law—" "Never you mind how I did it," said Smith. "I've made you a business proposition. I does it or not?" "And we get him for nothing?" "Abolutely!" "You're on!" said the scout. "And I don't mind telling you that you've skimmed yourself out of a nice chunk of money. I was going to grab him anyway and take no chances on the draft." "You bet you was going to take him," said Smith warmly. "If I had to jam him down your throat! I wished him on you!" Toward the middle of September the timber wolf from the Tillamook league dropped in on Billy Bigelow. The manager had heard just enough about him to be interested, and he proceeded to look the gift wolf in the mouth. "And you're the fellow who looks so much like Solomon Lee, are you?" he said. "I give a nice piece of money to know that you could pitch like that old horse." Mike Mulrooney, the old time catcher, who was in his primes when Solly Lee was burning up the big league and who now devoted his time to working out with the recruit pitchers, was New Jersey Tennis Club's President Insisted Club "Go to Church," and It Did New Jersey Tennis Club's President Insisted Club "Go to Church," and It Did NORTHEN-New Jersey is doing great work in the GO TO CHURCH movement. forty-seven churches from Ridgefield to Chester, in that state, col- rated in a plan to get the laybones out to worship on the South. Pastor Cooper of the Cresskill Congregational church all records as the result of his forceful GO TO CHURCH campaign. He prepared a sermon that especially appealed to people in his section, where he plays tennis on summer days where he is greatly liked despite the fact that the members of the tennis club generally only go to church when somebody gets or somebody's new baby is christened. Of co- Mr. Cooper doesn't play tennis Sunday. But his congrega- is, composed mostly of commuters, and Sunday as their ogl- recreation. They say they have just got to play tennis th- The pastor received help from an unexpected source. Jack You big Scotchman, is president of the tennis club and director of choral society. He delivered himself thus: "AS PRESIDENT OF THE TENNIS CLUB AND DIRECTOR OF THE CHORAL SOCIETY I CALL ON ALL MEMBERS TO BE UP AND SHARED EARLY NEXT SABBATH. THOSE IN THE HABIT OF SHOVELING COAL, CUTTING WOOD, PATCHING UP HEN HOUSES OR PLAYING ON THE SABBATH DAY SHOULD ABANDON THESE EFFORTS THIS TIME. BROTHER COOPER IS TOO GOOD A TENNIS PLAYER TO LACK SUPPORT IN ANY SUCH MOVEMENT AS THIS. THE TENNIS CLUB AND THE CHORAL SOCIETY WILL BE THERE IN THE FRONT PEWS AND WITH BOILED SHIRTS ON NEXT SUNDAY OR ILL RESIGN." There was a great turpout. The church was crowded! More than Youngs are wanted. Do your part in helping this great movement. GO TO CHURCH next Sunday! Instructed to pose and re- trial at the when Billy clubhouse in Mike sitting and talking to the key through his March had his first in the morning and arrived at the affternoon he found the parch in the sun and cool Mike. "This today. This kid know who he is but owl Sally Lace It's the truth Lace Wat till we see her weight in that louse brings the focus down to the reality of the life. "Go away, I can't send Mike to a ghost I've been today. This kid this Marshall know who he is. What he is? But could Sally law come back to it. It's the truth I telll' ye, Bill. Watt till you see her. Everybody wants to that hands, the first wwhip, every one to the next strikte Sally lay at the lfe!" "Hes gawk-!" "Oh, man, let's have a sweet pitch, a sweet pitch." "But where I be got it?" "God I know, did Mulroney say simply. "How he sent in the bush, somehow, I sent in the bush, he sent in the bush the first time ye saw him come back with that return ball. It's like cat him a ghost." "You think he could go in some day this week?" asked Baggins. "Army day many day at all, at all, said Mike entrusted." Friday was the first Bileeow sketched, and Paul March was sketched out into the diamond marked in collateral as if he had been gliding against big leagues teeming all his life. "Only look at him," said Mike Murphy to Bileeow in the two oval timers on the bench their children in theirs "Look at him." He takes it as mayy if he was her dogging into a fully parrot. Then the boy begins to pat him, and the two women watch him breathlessly "Where shall he get it?" and Bileeow "Look at that window." If it wasn't for this gray hair of those, I'll think I ought to be out there behind him at short. "And me behind the ball," said Mike softly "I two mind the way he kind of chucks the ball out from his chest before he winds up? Sally used to do that. I don't give it a chill to show him? Yes, I thought we couldn't it be naughty yet." The Reds found the recruit pledger no glove, and after he had fallen five of the thighs she shaken the return strap over on the dangerous "knuck" Kennedy they began to take notice. However, it is not with the game that we have to do, but with something which happened after it was over. Marsh won by a score of 4 to 1 and Hilly Bishow, still under the spell of memory, started across the field toward the clubhouse. A fat man with a stubby umbrella dropped out of the F "Look at that windup!" (Iodized by Pitcher Claude Hendrix.) front row of the grand stand and hurried after the manager of the Coralsaur. "That's a great kid, that Marsh." said the stranger as he ranged along side. "You bet he is!" said Bigelow heartily. "Sort of reminded me of a man who used to pitch for this club a long time ago," said the stranger. "Did he make you think of anybody you ever saw before?" It was the time more than the world that made Billy Higglow turn his eyes "Think of anybody" said he. "Why, he said Solomon fell over again!" "Yes," said the fat man quietly. "I thought not the old stuff. Billy." thought you'd get the old stuff, Hilly. Blowlow stopped in his tracks, and then, with a wild yell, he launched himself at the fat man. "Solly," he crisied, "where on earth did you come from?" "From the bushes," said Solomon Lee. "And that's where I trained this kid." That might the old friends had dinner together, and Solomon Lee, running true to his old time form, took more than was good for him. Hilly Biggs also, alleging that the occasion warranted it, stepped down from the water wagon, but wet no more than the soils of his feet. "You've got to let me pay my price for this kid," said the hammer. "I won't take him unless I can pay what I think he's worth." "You'll take him as a gift," said Solomon Lee, a bit of the kly. "For a gift, Hilly! Unnatural!" "No, I don't understand. Why would you want to lose that money off?" "Now, I'm going to tell you something," said Solomon Lass. "Do you remember what they said about me before I went away? They said I had a bad influence and I find. They said I left nothing but a bad name behind me. It was true. I didn't see them, but I have since I never forgot what that fellow wrote about me. I couldn't get rid of it. It got on my nerve. I thought maybe, if I could send up a man as good as I need to be, I could square myself. Kind of play even somehow." "Listen! I found this kid out there in the woods, and I saw that he could be taught. He had the makings of a great pitcher. After I got to working with him and saw how easy he learned and how natural it was for him to do the same things that I used to do, it came to me one day that I might make him another Solution Lose. You see, Hilly, I knew you and Mike and a few of the oldfriends would know where he got the stuff. I wanted you to recognize it, so I started in to make him work my way. I wouldn't but him make a move in the box unless I taught it to him. You know I used to be a pretty pitcher to watch, Hilly." Biglow held, and Loe lifted his glass and drained it in a breath. "It took me more than two years, Billy," he continued. "I hid him out from the other scents. I cared them off when they wanted to talk about him. I wanted to save him for you, but I didn't want him to go until he was rips. When I had him in shape—when I'd given him all my stuff and coached him to use it naturally and easily—I tipped it off in the right place, and Shadda came up to look him over. "This kid's got everything that I can give him, Billy—everything but a thirst for this"-- Solomon Lee lifted the champagne bottle and rolled his glass, watching the tiny bubbles curiously as they raced to the surface. "He's the fellow I might have been if I'd got started right, but you know how it was with me. I got to traveling with the wrong bunch. He mustn't do that, Billy. He's a good kid. He doesn't know what breeze tastes like, and he's got a nice girl back there in the bushes. That'll help some. I'd have been better off if I'd never mind that. Billy, I've taken a lot of paints with this boy. He's just like a son to me, and he's got to make good where I fell down. He must be the fellow Solomon Lee might have been but for this stuff." The manager nodded his gray head over his empty glass. "You've squirmed it, Solly," he said gently. "Don't think any more about it. You've made good. It's all right now. Come on; let's get out into the air. We've had enough of this stuff." Snow Falls in Adirondacks. Eight inches of snow fell at Pine Lake, in the Adirondacks. Four inches of snow is reported at Lake Pleasant, and other sections of the Adirondacks report a heavy snowstorm. We offer you the Latest and Most Artistic Photo, at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. Enlarging and Copying Interior View Work. We will also be Pleased to Quote you Prices on Exterior and from Old Photos, A Speciality. 500,000 HONOR SAILOR HEROES Tribute to Seamen Slain at Vera Cruz Most Remarkable Ever Seen in the Quaker City. While a multitude, estimated at about 100,000 persons, looked on in sorrow, the bodies of George McKenzie Potnssett and Charles Allen Smith, ordinary seamen, killed at Vera Cruz, were carried through the streets of Philadelphia in a pageant that was one of the most remarkable ever seen in that city. For three miles the flagshrouded caskets in which the bodies of the sailor boys lay were drawn on gum carriages between lines of men, women and children, who stood in ranks seven and eight deep. Unlike all other public gatherings in recent years, the great throng was silent, almost reverent. City, state and nation had a part in the giganic tribute to the sailor dead. Mayor Blankenburg, Philadelphia's delegation in congress, members of councils and other officials rode in motor cars and carriages behind the caskets. Sailors and marines from the Philadelphia navy yard, nearly two of them, were escorts for the hostess, as was the entire strength of the First Birth gate of the National Guard. Relatives of the dead occupied places of honor in the line. And bringing up the rear were soldiers of other wars, the Veterans of Foreign Service and Veterans of the Spanish War. Two or three older men, who were the blue and the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, also were in line, William Dauret, the last survivor of the men who fought on the Monitor against the Confederate ram Merrimac, rode on the driver's seat of a carriage. In cartoons also were borne large and handbone floral decorations, including wreaths from President Wilson, a gigantic American flag from the Knights of Columbus and a miniature battle-tip of flowers the gift of the sailors and marines of the reserve fleet, now at League Island. The parade started from Independence Hall. The line of march led up Fifth street from Walnut to Market street, thence to the city hall and then north to locks street, where the military and naval escort formed in two lines to let the assaults, the officials and the organizations which followed pass through and into Monument cemetery. Arrived at Momentum cemetery, the caskets were placed in motor hearse. Polls the body was taken to Hilliable cemetery for burial, and the body of Smith was taken to Fernwood cemetery for burial. With each went a squall of marines to fire a salute over the grave and a boulder to blow "Taps," the call which, in both, the naval and military branches of the country's service, means "Lights out." But, while the prosecution was the crowding feature of the tribute when the city paid to its berea dead, it was hardly more impressive than were the scenes earlier in the day. Through the room where the caskets lay in the old supreme court room in Independence Hall, filled for six hours a steady stream of men, women and children. It was estimated that 100 persons saw the caskets and the floral decorations in the dimly-lighted rooms before the line was denied admittance. Another 10,000 assembled in the vicinity of independence square and stayed until the procession started. Pava $60: Geta $200,000. Mrs. John Kane, wife of a real estate salesman who worked for a Northumberland Pa. lot selling agency at a salary of $15 a week several months ago, took options on 300 acres of what was believed to be oil or gas bearing lands near Ridgway, Elk county. The flyer cost $50, she said. Last week a test well was sunk on the land adjoining her home and gas was struck. She sold part of it for $500 per acre, and has received an offer that will not her close to $200,000. She says she will accept that sum. Mr. and Mrs. Kane recently moved to York, where they are now engaged in selling vacuum carpet sweepers. Gld Shot By Sultor. George Hinks, nineteen years old, the son of Joseph Hinks, of Shenandoah, Pa., is alleged to have shot and probably fatally wounded Viola Seelder, the pretty eighteen-year-old daughter of George Schelder, a baker, on the Locust mountain road near the Catholic cemetery. The bullet lodged in the young girl's breast just above her heart. She was hurried to the State hospital in a dying condition. Hinks, it is said, was in love with the young woman, but the girl's parents strongly objected and forbade him to come to the house. Hinks heard that Miss Schelder was Subscribe to the Richmond Planet. THE CONOMY. 316 North Third Street. TAILORING CLEANING DYEING AND REPAIRING. CHITMAN M. WHITMAN Proprietor. STRAUS' SPECIAL Old Yacht Club. PURE WHISKEY Will satisfy the Lover on the Big- kind of Humiliation. Special Prints We Have All Grades of Good L ignores, Cigars and Tobacco in tall and Hae Us ISAAC STRAUS & CO 422 E. Broad St.. Kleinmond. on the mountain in company with Harry Reeves, another editor. This, is said to amused Hinks that he got a revolver and rode to the cemetery in an automobile. Arriving at the Annunciation cemetery he overtook Mt. Scholder in company with her sister, Mary, sixteen years old, and Harry Reeves, seventeen years old, when he jumped out and is allowed to have shot Viola, then jumped into the automobile crash and commanded William Mandower, the eighteenth-year old chauffeur, at the point of a gun, to drive at full speed to Hentown, four miles over the mountain. Half way over the mountain Hinks commanded the terrified chauffeur to grow up and jumped from the car. He then commanded Mandower to drive on at full speed and disappeared into the thick woods. He was found by a constable in a dying condition, with a bullet wound in his head. Drowns In First Auto Ride. Mrs. Iane Jackson, wife of the proprietor of the Jewell Building company of Siegrief, near Allentown, Pa., was drowned when their automobile backed over the bank into the Lehich canal. The other occupants of the car were rescued. Mr. Jackson purchased the automobile Saturday and planned to give his family their first ride. With his wife and himself in the car were his son Charles, daughter Lillian and a neighbor's daughter, Emma Freer. Another son crashed the machine, and it darted backwards out of the garage, over the bank, into the canal. Maderletas Reported Stain. The Mexican Federales are reported to have murdered Mrs. Gonzales Salas and her three small children, and Miss Maria L. Hernandez, daughter of Rafael Hernandez, one of the wealthiest men in Mexico. The husband of Mrs. Salas was the chief construction engineer under Madero, and the hatred that some of the Huerta faction have held toward him has made him fear for the safety of his family. Francisco Madero, son of the clan president, is said to have sailed for the United States on the stamer Mexico. General Ohioon's military aviators became effective again in the battle that has been raging for many days at Maratlan, Mexico. An aeroplane that was riffling about the Federal entitlements dropped bombs with considerable accuracy into the fortifications. They exploded directly within the Federal lines, but the extent of the casualties was not reported in the city. Strike of Ohio Coal Miners Ordered. Orders declaring a strike of all coal miners in Ohio have been sent out from the headquarters of district No. 6, United Mine Workers of America, in Columbus, O. Minera officials also began paying strike benefits of $3 per week to every member of teh organization. The mines have been closed by the operators since April 1. KILLED BY PITCHED BALL Blow on the Head Is Fatal to Boy Player. Nelson A. King, seventeen year old, of Morristown, N. J., was killed near Greenwood Lake by a blow of the head from a pitched base ball. Young King was at the bat in a game played by members of a Sunday school class of the First Presbyterian church of Morristown. He staggered about after being hit then went to a waterway close by and bathed his head. The pain grew worse and a physician was summoned from Warwick, N. Y., the nearest place, but the boy was dead when the doctor reached the scene. DR. MARTIN BRUMBAUGH. Nominated. For Governor By Pennsylvania Republicans. SILLIMAN'S FATE MAY PROVOKE WAR Believed U. S. Consul Silll is in Prison or Slain. American Consul John R. Silliman, who the Federals promised to release at Saltillo and convey safely through their lines, after vigorous representations by the United States state department, failed to arrive in Mexico City on a long delayed train, as was expected. Grave fears were immediately felt in Washington over the possible fate of the official, from whom no word has been received for days. Coupled with this disturbing news comes the information that the two horses which Private Samuel Parks bad with him when he wandered into the Mexican lines at Vera Cruz while temporarily deranged, have been returned by the Mexicans, with no word of Parks, practically confirming the reported execution of the American soldier. If any harm has come to either of the Americans, Huerta has broken the truce and a war of vengeance may follow. Phillip C. Hanna, United States consul general at Monterey, has expressed the fear that Silliman may have been killed by his Federal captors, or at best is still held in prison at Salilillo. One development may be the sending of United States troops from Brownsville to Saltillo to compel the Federals to produce Silliman or his body. It is known that this stringent measure has been considered in Washington, and if carried out is fraught with possibilities, for the Constitution allists will regard this step as an invasion of their territory and it would arouse them more now because of their victory at Tampico. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a forest scene with trees and foliage. When the Constitutionalists capture Saltillo, General Villa and his officers will undoubtedly free Silliman and all other Americans imprisoned there, but whether the capture will take place in a few days or a week or two, is a question, as the Constitutionalists have little ammunition, and at present are engaged in starving out the Federal troops at that place. From information given by refugees, Mexicans and foreigners, Consul General Hanna believes Silliman is still in the state pententiary in Saltillo, treated with unbelievable severity. 200.000 LIVES TO TAKE MEXICO "Noisicat" Thing Is American Dollar. Writes Government Official. Senator John Sharp Williams, grouped his colleagues when he read a letter in the senate from "a gentleman in the government service at Vera Cruz," whose signature he tore away from the communication. The writer declared that "the notes lost thing in Mexico is the American dollar," and predicted that it would cost 200,000 lives and $5,000,000 to "take Mexico and hold the Mexicans in subjection." Bluejackets in Action Aboard Michigan Bluejackets on the battlewlp Michigan are shown with machine guns and rifles trained on Vern Cruz. "It would be a great deal better," read the letter, "If the United States were to bear the loss of those who come down here to take a gambler's chance and lost and send them out of the country than to go to war with Mexico for purposes of conquest." 1137 Rebels Defeat Federals The Constitutionalist troops under General Alberto Carrera Torres have gained a position in the outskirts of San Luis Potosí. They have dealt the Federal garron on a severe blow, accusing to a message received by the Constitutionalists in Juarez. Stolen Painting Returned The painting by John Sargent, "Persons With the Head of Modusa," recently stolen from the Brooklyn Museum, was returned in the mail. It was not damaged in any way. No clue to the sender was obtained. No Race Suicide In This Block. Twelve hundred children in one city block were found this week by schoolcensus enumerators in Chicago. The population is almost exclusively Polish. Louis Link, with seventeen children, is the largest contributor. Receivers For Metal Casket Co. Receivers have been named in New York city for the Montrose Metal Casket company, a Delaware corporation, with principal offices at Wilmington, Del., and a factory at Hagerstown, Md. The company has a capital stock of $3,000,000. Its assets are said to be $440,845 and liabilities approximately $40,000. Marines Fighting From Vera Cruz Barricade Marines in Vera Cruz are behind a street barricade near the warmhouse waiting the order to fire, with game pointing at Mexican federal. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND: VIRGINIA. BRAGG BROS. & CO. REAL ESTATE AGENTS & BROKERS 506 N. 2nd St. Phone, Mon. 45 HOTEL --- HOTEL DALE. THE HOTEL CAPE MAY. NEW JERSEY. This Magnificent Hotel, located shore Resort in the World; replies superlative in construction, appo Orchestra daily. 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Special nervices will be Meld at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Catherine and Monroe streets, Sun- dax, May Sist, at 11:00 A. MC Thie date will mark the second year of the pastorate of tho Rey. J. EB. Harper. During this period thore have been forty-fonr sditiony to the church. Six adults and six infabts have been baptized. Two years ago when Rev. J. E. Harper came to Richmond to take charge of the First Presbyterian Chureh, he found elghty-two (82), names on roll. Thore aro now one hundred and eighteen (118),. eight having died during the past two yeare. He has preached und officiated at eleven funerals. performed weven mar ringes and*made about 2400 pastors) visits. Two years ago when the par. tor came the church was greatly en- cumbered with floating debts of aa Jong as eight years’ standing. . Sev en months after Rev. Harper took charge all indebtedness had been H- Quidated and the running oxpenses ofthe church xopt up. Over four- teen hundred dollars have been raised through the various departments of the church during the past two years, The socretary’s Feport for the pres. byterial year fuat closed shows that of the one hundred and ten names on tho financial roll of the church, ninety-two had contributed through the envelope system towand the sup- port of the church. A apectal nermon will be preached Sunday morning at 11 o'clock to those who have joined the church during the prosent administration. AIT the members of the church and A well disposed and gonerous public who had contributed much toward tha suteear of the church during the past two years ard moat heartily ine Yited to ln prevent next Sunday at 1:00AM. Do You Know Them? - Moind Bayou, Mias.. May 5, ‘14. , Any information ‘reading to my people will be thankfully ‘received. Now this fn the vonditton of the case avd it might sce.n very lato for | have teen, promising, to try for a Tong, long time. 5 On or about 1866 or 1858.1 think according to grandea’s {nformation, rrandma and her four ‘sit! children were sold af Jacksom,- Miss. and tho alave traders had been prompted to not let her write beck for she was minor heirs property and they sald the ‘heirs would parrue.and taxe them, therefore she never did get any correspondence with ter people, Now her people, her owners, were named Thomas Tucker and her brother was named Bill Tucker. ier name was Rosa Tucker and her four girls names were aa follown: the oldest wan my mother, her name was Mar- grett; next was named Jennie: next, Matilda and .tho baby or younger, Josephine. a Her owners were prominent white people and lived in the city of Rich- mond, Va. If there are any of the Tuckera in or around about, plonsc see the oldest ones to ace.if they can remember Grandma Rosa, sho was small in ntatuc, weighing about 105 pounds. If there are any of them please let them write mo and you will greatly oblige Yours ‘truly, z ALEX. MYERS. Progresaive Whist Club's Annual. The Progressive Whist Club gave tbei~ annual closing with a brilliant dance at Price's Hall, Wedhesday evening. May 27th.. While refresh- ments were belong sorved the Prest- dent, Willfe D. Spain, made a few retaarks concerning the progress of the elub, Ren Deane favored the elab with solon during the doll mo- ments. {€ there were any. - THOSE WHO ATTENDED. . Among those present were: Misses Ora Johnson, Lelia Dabney. Mathio Knox, Itifan Frayser, Gertrude Bac- chus, Alice Chiles, Ethel Scott, Ar- meta Stokes, Mrs. Ella Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John Purviance, Dr. Brown, Prof. Milton Sampson, Dr. Newman, Leo Fraysor, George E. Pearson. Marshall Spain, Ben Deane, Waverly Jackson and others whore names could not be learned In time for this publication. . MEMBERS OF CLUB. | The Progressive Whist Club con- sintn” of the, following membeca: Willto D. Spain, President; Mre, Fab- ole 1, Archer, Vice-Prealdent; Ethel Robinson, Secretary: Alex. Hill, Treasurer. Carrio Rowe, Eulalia White, Emma Langston, Mary B. Jackson, George Harris, J.” Morcer Bnrret!. W. Stanley Jackson, Alex. Hill. A. I. Thompson, W. L. Spencer, John R. Jackson, Evrod Ransom. Wile Winkler. On to Raltlmore, | Kolbs, Va., Grant's “Hill Baptist Church, Rev, J. R. Pinn, Pastor—On Sunday last -we had a glorious time fn Zion all day. According to prom. ise, the Rev. W. H. Skipwith was at his post and preached as though it were hia Mast time, It's a mystery to me how ft {s that our brother keeps up singing and preaching al) the time without getting hoarse. He is, with- out a doubt. a great wonder. Representatives came from five churches, viz. New Zion, Shtloh, Silonm, Salem, Zion of Oak Grove, and First Baptist, Colonial Beach. ,’ Our brother's text was taken frog 1Cor. 3-11: "For other - foundation can no man lay than that fs laid. which fs Jesus Christ.” As he un- folded to us the truths out, of this beautiful exposition and would paint pictures so vividly of the awfulnees of those wha bad neglected this foun dation, many were moved to tears, while others shouted hallalujah, “I am on the solid rock,” At night, the Rev, F. H, Holden, of Zion Baptist spoke to a latge and appreciative audience. This young man has @ very bright futare before him and a preacher whom wo all lovo to hear. ‘This ended a glorious day at Grant's Hil, | | colonial Beach, Va., First Baptist Church, Rev. C, C. Stuart, pastor— We are very grateful to the pastor and members of Grant's Hill, for hav ing Rev. Skipwith to come and serve ‘them, which helped us also, as the ‘three sermons which he preached for ‘us will ever iive in our souls, az we have already begun to see a better spirit existing among the people of this community.” Wonld to God we had more preachers like him who would preach the gospel of peace In- stead of confusiqn. I am sure every community would be very much det- ter, We are hoping and praying that our brother may como again in the near-fotare. tice | . He leaves us of Saturday for Baltimore, Md. and may be located at 1419 Druid Hil Avenue, | WOUBE AND LAND FOR BALE. - Prank Waugh has FOR SALE, ONE HOUSE. and’ 15 AQRES of LAND.’ Price, ($950.00) Nine Han- dred and fifty doliars. One-half Cash Balance, Monthly Payments. Glaé- row, Virginia. 4 Agent Wanted. | A good live, huwtiing agent is wanted to handle the business of The Springvale Ofl and Gas Company, 203-3 Baum Ballding, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ‘ Address Mr..F. W. Bruner, Secretary. . . | OOLORED SHIRT FACTORY. . _Feynklin, Va, May 23, 1914. Dear Editor; On Thursday night, May ‘2let, the citizens of Lonchburg assembled in the factory building of The Ashburn Bros, Shirt Mfg. Co., in goodly numbers, to talk over the futuré of this business. Every one, without a single exception” pledged himself or her#elf, ta do all possible to ald. Mr. Adolphus Humbles, the Lynch burg capitalist and Mr. Patterson, a business man’ of Lynchburg, were chosen as members of the Board of Directors, and in order to get the attention of the Lynchburg people moro generally, m- popular mass meeting will be held at one of the churches of the ‘city June 4th, at which time the.question of fostering this enterprise ‘for the purpose of making money and employment, will be thorougiiy discussed, Dr. W. R. Ashburn, the president, recommended Mr. C. L. Winfrey as traveling salesman and solicitor, who can take up the work after the 15th of June and before his schoo! closes on the 15th, he will represent the Company in and about Richmond. All tho members of the Board were present either'in person .or by proxy. The mext meeting of the Board of Directors will be held im- mediately after the mass meeting to suit the conveatence of its members, and in this meeting all arrangements Will bo completed to place this busi- ness on a first Class working basis, eo that {t will furnish steady em- ployment and yield good returns for its stockholders. ¥ Thero is abowt ten or twelve thous and dollxrs worth of capital stock for sale, ard the Ashburn Bros. have learnod hy herd work-the many in- tricate: problems necessary to silc- ceam, so thereris no reason why the race will nof-Rave this as one of its Rreat enterprises of which to be proud. 7 . Mr. C. 1, Wiafrey {a as capable and trust worthy and scratinizing {0 business as cam be, and Mr. Humbies along with the.other members of the Board aro emxiaus to make places of employment for our people. The Ahbura Bros. are well pre- pared to do the work in the factery by mannging etc. | Mrs. Mary-R. Hayes Allon has ‘con rented to acespt the keeping of the books, so that every department will be Jooked after, and whether 2 mem- ber of the raee.or any ome else has 1o invest tea dollars or a hundred dollars St will certainly prove a bless ing in many forms to foster tte Ashburn Brow, Buirt Mfg. Co., Lynah- burs, Va. Peg” - Troy (N. ¥.) News. Rev. J. A. Taylor, of 2850-5ta Ave. ie your agent hero and he has two boys selling the papers for him, Ctry- ton J. DeWitt and James Ocmey, ‘of this city. 7 } Rev. J. A. Taylor organized a Ba- raca Class among the boys on the brick yards at Caymans, Albany Co., N. ¥. on Sunday, May 17th, where he will go every Sunday morning and preach for the boys and teach them. Rev. Taylor has also engaged a hall, where he will again open the Emanuel! Baptist Church, of this city where he will preach every Sunday evening. - Miss Matilda E. Taylor, his daugh- ter, who is expected home this week from Harteahorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va. will lead the young people's meeting from 7 to 8 P. M. Offers of the Baraca Class at Cay- mats arc: Mr, Walker Nash, Presi- dent; Mr. Banks Williams. Clerk: Mr. Mitchell Oliver, Treasurer. All of Danville, Va. é NOTICE. The Ashbure Brothers Mfg. Co. (inc.), Ratablished 1909; Office sad Factory, Lynchbarg, Va. The race's most progressive business men and women as stockholders. Hard work ‘will win. Mr. Adolphus Humbles, the great Negro Philanthropist and friend, who 1s lending Virginie Seminary at this Ume, $20,000; Mr. Jack Kverette, who erected the great Trie Reform- or’s Building im Weghington, D. C.; Mrs. Mary R.. Hayes Allen, who was the widow of Prof. Hayes saé others have lined up to make this. one of the greatest Negro enterprises in the Conuntty. . ‘We are in position to fill all or- devs promptly. We can give better materia! and better workmanship for lees money. We make shirts to Mt you; send is your order now, ‘We can start you in profitable bus- ineds at dome taking orders for the Factory. Send $1.60 for first-claes sample-‘ehirts and outfit for taxiag orders. * . ‘Stock wale $10.00 per share. Write today, to - THE ASHBURN BROS. SHIRT MFG, CO., Lynchburg, Va. at Do Yea Keew Them? John Withers died recently in Reesbenrilie, Ohio, leaving a widow, His K. of P. policy had beer azsigned to his mother, Mary: Ettrateth With- ors. He bed shot eto. 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