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JME XXXIL, NO. 2 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914 PRICE, FIVE CENTS. Anniversaries of 1915. To The Editor: Every man, woman and child is doubtless aware of the fact that the year 1915 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the close of the Civil War; the final severing of General Lee's line of defense around Richmond and the surrender of the exhausted rebel hosts at Appleton. The object apology for this glorious victory on the part of the North, its weak-kned consent to the elimination from the Constitution of the three amendments written there with the blood of the men in blue will render the celebration of the event rather tame in the minds of the people mostly concerned and most keenly effected by the inopposition of these laws. Now nearly fifty years removed from the surrender of Lee, the Southern brigadier, relentated and flushed with victory is in Congress making bolder demands for the Nation to retreat and go back upon the principles for which our soldiers suffered and died than would have been dreamt of a decade ago. There are more Jimcrow and segregation laws before Congress today than ever before in the history of the Nation. This state of affairs is enough to make the boys in blue now sleeping in the Southland turn over in their graves. But the year 1915 marks the 50th Anniversary of another event far more worthy to be recalled and celebrated than the surrender of Lee: It was the invasion of the South by the Northern Missionary. The smoke of the final struggle had not lifted from Southern battlefields when, in response to the call of the American Missionary Association, hundreds of Northern men and women gathered that country and began the work of lifting out of the slough of ignorance and superstition the newly emancipated black. Historians and fictionists have been unstating in praise of those by whose wrath God wrought the freedom of the slave, but few words of praise have been uttered for those who wrought a greater victory than that achieved by the clash of arms. For "In the storm of years that are fading, No braver victory was won." than the vanquishing of ignorance and superstition. There was no period in the history of the South fuller of trials and hardships than that immediately following the close of the Civil War. The Southern people, hopeful of victory even up to the evacuation of Richmond, took perhaps no serious thought of the awfulness of defaçt. The Southern soldier was unprepared for the situation that confronted him when crushed and subdued he returned to his shattered home after the surrender. Ruined, disfranchised, an armed guard at every door, the former slave and the Northern in political control, the Southern white unhered in a regime of intimidations, persecutions and assassinations unsurpassed by the Inquestion. In some sections of the South these Northmen, Missionaries were more likely hated than the Northmen politicains "they were dubbed "panker intenders," "gigger lovers." "Now England witch burners," "Northern off casts, teaching Negroes as a last resort" Swill was thrown upon them from the windows of the unsympathetic as they went about their work. But undismayed and undaunted they pursued their course giving the full measure of devotion to the cause they espoused. To the many who were and are of opinion that these people were actuated mainly by pecuniary motives I would say that the average wages paid to the teachers who went South to labor during the reconstruction period was fifteen dollars per month, board and transportation. In order that they might be of assistance to the Society in the prosecution of its work some of these missionaries took the cheapest routes to their destination and not a few of them donated their money salaries to swell donations from sympathies Northern Friends to assist struggling ambitions puple to obtain higher education. Just a few years ago there died a young New Hampshire a retired Ministery who by her own self delicat and ingenuous with Northern friends had helped a visit number of Niger youths to obtain an education. At the time of her death she was with her pau and by the sale of old postage stamps paying the tuition of several girls and young men in Northern and Southern Colleges. ized in the useful lives of the thousands who have gone out from these institutions. To those who delight to refer to and dwell upon the threadbare story of carpeting plunderings it would say that there was more than one General Armstrong among the Union Invaders of Sophia ern soil. All were not plunderers and unacupruple politicians fattening upon the ignorance of the Negro. There were countless numbers of Union soldiers who laid aside their war against ignorance and superstition. They endeavored to teach the free man the proper use of the boon so dearly purchased. They were hated because they taught the Negro that he was a man and bado him stand upright. The year 1915 should be the Year of Jubilee among the Colored people throughout the Nation. Minister and laymen, Bishop and Priest, physicians, lawyers, teachers, college students, lawyers join in the celebration of this occasion. The story of this work of love should be told from every platform and rehearsed from every pulp, and unstipulated praise be given to those noble men and women who endured ignominy and shame; were rocked with the outcast and desplaced to make them a possibility. In Wilmington, N. C. the home of the writer, two buildings stand as living reminders of the trials, the auforings and the heroic achievements of these noble martyrs to the cause of human advancement. The grounds surrounding these buildings would not begin to hold the pupils of yesterday and to day who should gather there on a day during the approaching year to celebrate their dedication to the cause of God and humanity. They are gone—the most of them who labored there, some of whom signed their name with their blood on the walls of the back structure. Ashby, Piper, Blake, Noble, Warner, Fitts, Kildare, Blood, Roper, Davis, Hayes, Goodwin, Dodge, Gay, Nicholas, Farrington, Thrall, Woodard, Rollins, Thyde, Ather, Aims, and many others. Added to these the pioneer co-workers of color in the cause of race advancement: Comfort Wade, Maggie Capps, Mary Nixon, Sarah James Brown, Isabella Blowe, Fainie Sadgwar. D. 'O. K. K. Fine Banquet Thanksgiving Night. Mecca Temple of the Improved Ordinary Order of the Knights of Khorassan gave their annual entertainment and banquet Thanksgiving night at the Pythian Castle. A street parade was a feature. A large number of the dokies and their lady friends were present. The Hippodrome actors came after eleven o'clock and with their side-splitting stunts kept the large number of guests in rollicking good humor until supper time. Mr. Harry L. Thomas sang with charming melody many selections and his rendition of "It's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary" brought down the house. Then came Measur, Crosby and Noely, in their original selections. They are also known as Mr James Crobsy and Mr. Walter Noely. Then the guessing contest was a feature and when the gentlemen retired to the room above to see the wrestling match between two teams of the Cadets, the males were in their glory, so to speak in the sporting department, while the females continued to take chances at the games. Many excellent selections were rendered by the Blue Ribbon Quartette. The dancing continued until nearly 2 a.m. The banquet was a magnificent affair. The ladies served it with ease and 'dispatch. The table decorations were magnificent and all heartily enjoyed themselves. Thanks were extended the committee, for their excellent management by Royal Visier John Mitchell, Jr. Mr. Chitman M. White has delivered the PLANET price suits to Rev. William H. Skiwith and Dr. A. A. Tennant. The tickets to the Panama Representation will be given to the ladies in February after the opening of the great event. The Boys and Girls Concert will end December 15, 1914 at midnight. The prizes will be given out in time for Christmas. First class washing done, apply to 1111 W. Catherine St. Terms reasonable. Minister by the Jelly Entertainers will be requested by request. Tuesday night, Dec. 9th, 1914, at the True Schoenmere Hall, at 8:30 o'clock Madison Avenue V. G. Glenn the Prime Person, will sing, M. K. D. W. A. Bingham; Mr. Charles (Glenn) Smith Painters. GRAND WORTHY MASTER FLOYD ROSS ARRESTED. Richmond Detectives Swear Out Warrants Charging Him with Felony. The Order of True Reformers Not Seriously Involved—Others Will Carry the Work on. ACCUSED OFFICIAL DISCLAIMS ANY INTENT TO DEFRAUD THE ORDER. Persistent rumors of trouble at the General Offices of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers caused us to investigate the matter. A visit there disclosed the fact that everything was proceeding as usual and that there had been no looting of the Endowment funds. The office force was busily engaged in discharging their duties. It seems that Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross is in some trouble and that with the assent of the Insurance Commissioner, he has been forbidden to interfere with the work of the office. Application was subsequently made to Judge Richardson, who granted it in the sum of $1,000, with Mr. William Miller, proprietor of Miller's Hotel as surety. An effort is now being made to have the matter settled out of court. HEAD OF TRUE REFORMERS Warrants Charge Floyd Ross With Stealing From Old Folks' House. WASHINGTON—CHEATHAM. Mr. A. J. Washington and Mrs. Virginia Cheatham announce their marriage which took place Wednesday Nov. 25th, 1914 at the residence of Rev. M. H. Payne, 1900 Wallace St. At home Thursday, Dec. 17th, 1914 from 8 to 11 P.M. at their residence, 720 N. 5th St.—Friends are invited. No cards. It is stated that at the last meeting of the Grand Folks, a resolution was made that all of the donations, Old Folks' funds and other funds, not including the amount money should be sent to the Grand Worthy Master. The law also provides that the money shall be paid over to the Grand Worthy Secretary, Maurice Rousseau who shall in turn pay it over to the Grand Treasurer, Dr. William H. Smith. Money was sent to the Grand Worthy Master and this money was turned over to the Grand Worthy Secretary. Checks were drawn on the Old Folks' Home fund and not expended for the Old Folks' Home. When questioned, the Grand Worthy Master stated that as he had not kept a strict record of his expenditures, he would accept the figures of the official in question. . SPENT FOR THE ORDER. He had expended the money for field expenses, but would make it good. The amount as figured up was about one thousand dollars. This has produced something of a sensation and the Board of Directors has been called to meet to adjust the matter. In the meantime, Grand Worthy Master Floyd Rosa is not discharging the duties of his Office. He has not as yet resigned. The Board will meet next Monday in this city. The Vice Grand Master of the Order is not in good standing and as a result an Executive Committee will take charge of the affairs of the Order no doubt. - As assurances were given at the General Office that no embarrassment would ensue as a result of this condition of affairs and that with the adjustment of matters next Monday, all would be well. WARRANTS ISSUED. Events developed fast last Wednesday for Mr. Irwin East and Grand Worthy Secretary Maurice Rouseille, Dr. Wm. H. Smith, under the advice of the Bureau of Insurance consulted Commonwealth's Attorney Minitree Fowkes and laid the facts before him. It is alleged that he embossed $160.75 and $342.80 of the Old Foils Home Funds. He is also charged with having written checks on this fund and drawn the money. It is alleged that a check in payment of money was also endorsed by the Grand Worthy Master and the funds thereon gotten by him. COULD NOT GET BAIL Being arrested late Wednesday night, he was unable to procure ball and he spent the night in the Second Police Station. The charge being a felony, only Judge Richardson could bail him. The affair has caused detailed sensation here. Grand Worthy Master Ross admits that the money has been misplaced, but promises to make good all shortages. The case of Floyd Ross, charged with embundement was called in the Police Court last Thursday morning. Attorney M. H. Smith, Jr, who has been returned as accused was unable to be present and asked for a continuation. Justice Crawford said accordingly continued the case until Friday, December 16th. Ball was not allowed and the ap- plication was subsequently made to Judge Richardson, who granted it in the sum of $1,000, with Mr. William Miller, proprietor of Miller's Hotel as surety. An effort is now being made to have the master settled out of court. --- HEAD OF TRUE REFORMERS Warrants Charge Floyd Ross With Stealing From Old Folks' Mouse. (Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch Dec. 3, 1914) Floyd Ross. 108 East Leigh Street grand worthy master of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, Inc., colored fraternal organization, arrested at his home by Detective-Bergeant Krengel and Policemen Thurman and Tomlinson on two warrants charging enebzlement. He was taken to the Second Precinct Station where he will be held until arraigned in Police Court to-day. Ross is charged by the police with embezzling a large sum of money from the Old Folks' Home, of the True Reformers, and was arraigned on two warrants specifically charging him with stealing $150.75 and $342.80. It was stated last night that the warrants were sworn out on the advice of Commonwealth's Attorney Minitree Folkes, and that it was probable that other charges would follow. Irwin East and Maurice Roussele, general secretary of the order, were named as witnesses. ARRESTED MAN PROMINENT IN FOUNTAIN AFFAIRS Rita has been connected with two True Reformers for a number of years. He is well-educated and is said to have once traveled around the world. According to the police, members of the order first suspected him in 1912, but were unable to secure concrete evidence against him. It is probable that the books of the order will be brought into court during the trial. This is the second case of embezzlement from the True Reformers with which the police have had to deal. Rouben T. Orill, secretary and head of the order, was arrested several years ago, was charged with stealing large sums from the treasury, but succeeded in escaping before the police could arrest him. He has never been captured although efforts have been made throughout this and other countries to apprehend him. Mr. Ryland In. Lewis Panace Away After an illness of two weeks, Mr. Ryland I. Lewis, husband of Mrs. Sarah Lewis and father of Mr. John H. Lewis passed away at his residence 815 Roane St., Thursday morning, December 2, 1914, at 5:15 o'clock. The funeral arrangements have not been completed as we go to press, the funeral to be from the First Baptist Church, Sunday Dec. 6th, 1914. In Memoriam. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear daughter, Katie Cunliskham Cross, who entered into rest Dec. 9, 1911. The rolling stream of time rolls on, But still the vacant chair recalls, The love, the voice, the smile Of the one who once sat there. The Sewers that we lay upon some grave. Will wither and deny, But the love that we born for you Will never fade away. Her Mother and Father. WASHINGTON—CHEATHAM Mr. A. J. Washington and Mrs. Virginia Cheatham anpnounce their marriage which took place Wednesday Nov. 25th, 1914 at the residence of Rev. M. H. Payne, 1900 Wallace St. At home Thursday, Dec. 17th, 1914 from 8 to 11 P. M. at their residence, 720 N. 5th, St.—Friends are invited. A Virgintan Honored. Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts of London, England, under date of November 4th, 1914 has notified John Mitchell, Jr., the annual meeting of the Society and June 24, 1914 as member of that celebrated organization he is now authorized to use the designation of Fellow in connection with his name. This honour had been previously limited to certain members of the organization His Royal Highness, The Duke of Connaught and Atratheran, K. G. President of the Royal Society of Arts. Another Recognition. L. O. Howard, Esq. Permanent Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which association Dr. Charles William Littot, of Harvard University is President has notified John Mitchell, Jr. that under date of June 12, 1914 he was elected by the special committee resident in Washington a Life Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This Association was organized in 1815. In defining its membership the following statement is made: During the past sixty years, the names of practically all of the leaders of American science have been on the register of the Association. Among its officers have been Henry, Agassiz, Rogers, Pierce, Dana, Torrey, Newberry, Hall, Gould, Gray, LeConte, Powell, Campbell, Newcomb, and nearly all those who have given distinction to the history of science in this country. The Association is the largest and by far the most representative body of scientific men and women in America. Its next convoction will be held Dec. 24th, 1914 to Jan. 2, 1915. Editor Mitchell is as yet uninformed as to what influential personage proposed his name for membership. Mr. Mitchell has been a member of the National Geographic Society, which promoted Admiral Peary's great trip to the North Pole, for many years. Rev. Skipwith Delivers Able Sermons. Rev. William H. Skipwith, the angelist had a fine audience to hear him at the Fifth Street Baptist Church last Sunday morning and night and he never spoke better than he did on that occasion. He wore, for the first time, the fine, imported doe-skin suit that he had been awarded by the PLANET for the first prize in the ministerial contest. It was made by Mr. Chitman M. White and was a perfect fit. —Mr. Lewis E. Allen, Agent for the Gipson Boxart Corporation Philadelphia, Pa. was in the city this week. You are respectfully invited to attend the Memorial concert of Capital City Lodge, Mo. 11 L. B. P. O. B. of W. of the Hippodrome Theatre North Park, N. W. Sunday December 9th, at 3:10 P. M. an elegant musical program will be rendered THE NATIONAL IDEAL, BENEFIT SOCIETY. Holds A Great Thanksgiving Service At The Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church. The National Ideal Benefit Society Holds A Great Thanksgiving Service at the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church. The Third Thanksgiving service of the National Ideal-Benefit Society was held at the Third St. Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday November, 29. at 3:30 P. M. A large and entourable audience, consisting of the ideal members and friends was present. Mr. T. L. Beverly, Deputy of the Richmond District in his usual pleasing manner presided over the meeting. The attractive lady ushers, who were in charge of Mrs. Ida. E. Charity, rendered excellent service. Devotional Exercises were conducted by Rev. N. B. Brown, B. D., Mr. John S. Powell, President of the Y. M. C. A. and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Ideal Benefit Society, offered a fervent prayer for the success and future prosperity of the Society. The National Ideal Choir under the leadership of Mr. S. L. Johnson, rendered sweet music for the occasion. Mr. S. L. Johnson, one of Richmond's leading Bassos favored the audience with one of his choice solos; Thou, Who Art Faithful. The Ideal Society is fortunate enough to have among its numbers, a poet, in the person of Mr. F. L. Bryant who cheered the hearts of the audience with one of his compositions. SUPREME MASTER HOLMES SPEAKE3 Supreme Master A. W. Holmes, delivered a most timely address, in which he reviewed the work of the Organization from the origin two and a half years ago to the present. His address was inspiring and encouraging to the listeners in which he showed what rapid progress the National Ideal Society had made He also spoiled of the hearty co-operation and loyalty of the members. Supreme Master Holmes by his great work and success as a leader, has not only won the confidence and esteem of the members and friends of the City and State, but of the Brotherhood generally. Among the things Supreme Master Holmes stated that there had been 43 deaths, during the two and a half years and all dead claims had been paid and there was now a nice surprise to the credit of the Death Claim Fund. Concluding his remarks, Mr. Holmes beitlingly presented Rev. Nelson Brown, B.D. Pastor of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church, to parch the Thanksgiving Service. The Sermon was excellent and very helpful to all present, many were the expressions of praise to Rev. Brown for his splendid discourse, Mrs. Ross Thompson of Philadelphia the Supreme National Lecturer and organizer of the Northern District was present and gladdened the hearts of the audience by her most timely address. Mrs. Thompson was at her best. She is a most forceful speaker. She discussed to the pleasure of all the three great principles, of which the National Ideal Society stands. TWO NEW LODGES HERE Mrs. Thompson organized a new Lodge in Fachmond District No. 27. All praise and honor to this great woman, who is accomplishing great things for the success of the Society. The Organization seems to be taking on new life and three Lodges and one Nursery were organized recently. Two in Philadelphia and one in Charles City County. In fact all of the Lodges are hustling, getting new applications weekly and making new members. The work is in splendid shape. Dr. S. S. Morris, the honored Pastor of the Church was present and seemed pleased with all he heard; he stated he was delighted to know the great success attending the National Ideal Benefit Society. He congratulated Supreme Master A. W. Holmes for his leadership to success. The Nursery Department was well represented by Little Isetta Bowles, who entertained the Audience with an interesting recitation: The duet by Mr. and Mrs. Washington was beautifully rendered, Dr. W. T. Johnson made appropriate and encouraging remarks. Dr. Johnson is loyal member and leader of National Workers Lodge, No. 19. Mrs. R. Elsnae Wesley and Mr. J. R. Hicks asked for the offering. The audience gave liberally. Lawyer J. H, Crutchfield in a most appropriate speech, presented the nice offering to the Church. The same was accepted very touchingly by Trustee Paul C. Easley. Just before the conclusion of the service Mrs. W. T. Johnson came forward with her usual grace and manner and captivated the audience with a short speech filled with wit and humor and presented to Rev. M. B. Brown, a token of appreciation and for his splendid sermon, representing the Ideals of Richmond District. Thus ended a very helpful Thanksgiving Service. A Christian Editor of A Secular Newspaper. Foremost among journals of the Colored race in America is the "Planet" of Richmond. Va.; published weekly by Mr. John Mitchell, Inc. This fine specimen of American manhood is a far truer sense than may appear on the surface, a christian. The sense in which he exemplifies his Christianity is, in his editing of the "Planet", any properly prepared matter, suitable for publication, presented in time may appear in its column; whether the subject treated or the sentiment expressed is wholly approved by Mr. Mitchell or not. The Christianity of this editor is still further reflected in his fearless and straightforward editorials: in persistent advocacy of what he perceives to be right for black and white alike. Always in clear, and sometimes in scattering denunciation of what is palpably wrong in his own pride, as well as in our white fellow citizens. But in addition to this Editor Mitchell is member in good standing of the great Fifth Street Baptist Church, formerly pastorized by Dr. Wm. F. Graham of Holy Triary Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. He is so much esteemed by the membership of his church, a christian gentleman, that upon the retirement of Dr. S. C. Manuel, as pastor, he was elected Moderator of the Church; to serve until such time as a Pastor shall be called. Taking this responsible position, he found a number of waring forces, contending elements, and widely different opinions; but with a master-hand, clear head and surpassing generality, he has united all these forces, harmonized all these elements and settled the differences. So that on Nov. 23rd, a committee of fifteen was appointed to find a suitable Christian minister to take, the pastorate of this great church. When he is found, and it may be that the Rev. doctor Burko of the High Street Baptist Church, Ronoke, will be the man, our Christian Editor will cheerfully yield up his moderatorship and go on using the columns of his great paper to show that unity in business, in politics and in prayer for Diving guidance, is the most crying need of the Colored race in America today. And whether it be sometime hence, or in the near future that a successor to Dr. Manuel is called, this Editor of a secular newspaper will doubtless continue to prove himself a christian by carrying out the teaching of his Master: "Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you;" attested in the courteous and kindly treatment of those with whom he comes in contact, as manifested to the writer when he called at the office of the "Planet" a few days ago, with the dear friends of his boyhood days, the Rev. Lawrence Campbell, Garland, of Monongahela, to press the Editor of time he o receive us kindly to welcome our you as a visitor to this section, hand him an album of the magnificent banking, house; of which in addition to his other achievements, he, our Christian Editor is the eminently efficient, president. Those are only a part of his ways, time and space fall us in which to speak of John Mitchell, Jr., as Grand Chancellor Commander of the Pythian hosts of Virginia, as one of the best equipped military men of the race in this country, and as the most efficient and impressive installing officer that ever, uttered a word under the authority of . a Supreme Chancellor, in all the world. Long live and may the Lord bless this christian editor, secular minister, John Mitchell, Jr., to continue doing good for the Colored race in particular and mankind in general. Ruv. Walter H. Brooks, D. D. delivered able sermons to large audiences Thanksgiving Day. Those who heard him declare them to be the best they had ever heard him deliver. Ebenezer Bapt. Church was thronged throughout the day and all left much more. He was a man of this distinguished divine. Rev Dr. Brooks left the following Friday for Washington. STUDY HYPNOTISM. Any one with good common sense can master Hypnotism and improve their mind. Will send our complete course in three parts on receipt of $3.00. Best method. SYNOPSIS Vulnerable governmental papers are sting by Thompson, follower of Loubavitch, international spy, from General Love, whom Langueque hates, in Manila. Love's though the Lucid film is to a steamer to paper the papers in order to clear the name of桓温帝 Othman, whom she loves. Loubavitch, tampering with the witness on the steamer, is hurt. Lucid suggests him in an attempt to recover the papers. Leslie gets the papers, but the ship is worked, she is next where on a Place in the land and is taken by a negative actor to file lost to nurse his sick child. The native child is restored to health, and the grateful natives define Lucid. Loubavitch, also cast as a tree various plans to recover the papers, but in�. Lesbique, baffled, forges a message from a neighboring chief to have Lucid a survey from her friends. She falls into a pith, losing the documents. Lesbique's native aid steals the papers from his master, and Lucid takes them from the native after he killed by a man like the side and follows an underarmed measure in the sunrise. Leucille falls into the hands of a trifle of age men, whose leader draps a mockness of prizeful rubbish, which she takes. She and Leucelle are reected from the court, a most commanded by Captain Wetherall. The girl and Leucelle are not adrift in open heat by Wetherall after she reguire the captain's advancen, and he takes the papers. Served by fishermen, Leucille and Leucelle, are in China. As she passes a house Leucelle's diary is thrown to her mysteriously. She tries to be heard a vowel bound for America. Leucelle recovers the papers from Wetherall. Leucille stows away, is caught and accused of a cabin boy with the aid of the captain. Leucelle is sent to search Leucelle's stateroom for the papers. He catches her at work. Leucelle takes the papers from Leucille. Leading at San Francisco she is kidnapped by the spy and held a prisoner in Leucelle's house by Thompson. She throws a message from her window to the captain of the boat, who passes the house, and a fight follows, which Leucelle is hurt and she takes and blies the papers. Thompson tries to deal the ruble. At Loubeque's ranch in Mexico, to which Loubeque takes Lacilla, the girl is befriended by a mysterious Mexican, who tries to escape after she strikes down Thompson. Lacilla flees across the border and meets Lieutenant Carmody, an army friend. He puts her on a train for San Antonio, where the train is Thompson, watching her. Thompson steals the necklace from Lacilla, and Loubeque takes the papers from her after she enters his house to recover them. Loubeque uses Thompson of being a traitor to him. CHAPTER XIX. UUCILLE started just as her hands encountered the packet of begrimed papers and documenta. A faint humming sound mingled with the heavy treed of the firemen above stairs. But she had won, was victorious after many defeats. Still, that sound— She seemed to have heard it before. With a little cry of horror she looked up, her hands clasping the packet to her breast. The room that had been her boudour was slowly closing down upon her, was moving down, down, down, its dark floor threatening to crush her like a letterpress closes upon its contents. Then it stopped. She looked toward the door through which she had entered, her delight at THE FIRST EDITION OF THE NEW YORK REVOLUTIONARY EDITION The Gear Leakage in the Desertry. the escape dying before the sight of Loudoue's talk, murmuring figure in the doorway, the glowing cigar he picking out his every feature, the hairful smile upon his face. He extended his hand, bowing gracefully, undoubtedly, "The secret of papua, Mika Loudou, if you please," he murmured. For the Sinking sound Loudou wished what would happen did she reply to memorize the phrase to Loudoue—reconfirmed what disturbed thing made him his brain when he found THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE himself defied. A glance at the room which had started to descend upon her drove the thought away as quickly as it brought a shoulder through her slender frame. Slowly, reluctantly, she held out the pocket to him, watching him fortuitely, as with the utmost courtesy he bowed and placed it in his breast pocket. Slowly he conducted her up the stair. In his private room he motioned her to a chair, seating himself at the desk. "I am not going to threaten you again," he said quietly. "I wish you to know that this is the last time you can interfere with my plans. Child, can you not be made to see what folly it is—this fight against me!" "Mr. Loubeque," she said softly, "have you never grieved that it is impossible for the finer feelings you are continually suppressing to be returned because your ambitions are cruel and base? I do not like to wage this constant war with you. I do not like to battle with the man who has been so kind to me in his own way that I could love him as another father. But you would ruin my father; you would wreck my sweetheart's life. You would keep me apart from perfect happiness after I have merely pecked through the door of that happiness only to have it slammed 'shut in my face. Can't you see that it is you who must go down to defend? Can't you see that love such as supports a frail girl to battle with you as I have done will not be downed by the most powerful man? Can't you see that I cannot stop even if I, do sometimes grow very tired and sick at heart and pray to this soul of mine to let me lie down for a little while and rest? Rest—reest—She broke off with a sob of the most acute distress. "There is no such word as rest for me. Always it is go on, on, constantly go on, until it seems I must fall along the wayside. But I do not fall. I have won from you constantly; I have always won, and I shall always continue to win. And you know it. Mr. Loubeque, for I can see it on your face—now." Like one inspired she was, as the belting tones of her plea changed to those of passionate conviction, a certainty that expressed itself in words tumbling from the tongue with utter abandon, words that seemed to come from other lips than her own. And as Loubeque looked back at the beautiful figure of the girl he was surprised to see that suddenly she seemed to have changed, that the slip of a child who had come on board the Empress from the hydrocarbon had suddenly become a woman of such capacity for love and hate as even he himself did not have. Come back to him the girl he had and whom he still loved as fondly as in the old days of Flirtation walk at the Point, from which he had been expelled. Swiftly, she came to his side, placing her hand upon his shoulder, her voice low and tender again like the sighing of an April breeze through the greeting baby leaves. "You think you are working for hate, and all the time you are working for the same reason that I am—you are working because of love. Can you not see what a perversion of love is this thing you constantly seek to do? Can you not—" Lucille could feel the man's shoulders trembling, could mark the tremendous, effort he made at self control. She was almost ready to plead with him for a return of the papers, to give up his entire life work and count it failure, confident that he was well along the road to doing so, when a rap sounded on the door. For some reason which she could not define a shudder run through her at the sound. She seemed to recognize a shatter presence close by. She glanced at Loubeque, and her heart sank as she saw the wave of emotion she had bred within him had passed, that he was again the ice, indefatigable international spy. "Come in," he called briskly. Slowly, cautiously, yet with not the slightest uncertainty, the door pushed open. Before the visitor appeared on the threshold Locille knew who it would be. For a moment she was taken aback by Thompson's perfect aplomb. She knew he had been the one who robbed her of her necklace, that he had sprayed her with ether and taken it from about her throat while she slept. And yet not so much as by the quiver of an eyelash did he show any sign of surprise or fear. "I was delayed, sir," the butter began apologetically, when Lesbague blinded his hand impatiently. "Ten you delayed," coldly repeated the age, separating every syllable and mixing it out as though it were a death judgment. "It is perhaps better that you were delayed, Thompson. I have just received a letter from a man with whom you are acquainted. In this letter, Thompson, he informs me he intends turning traitor to my interest, that he intends assisting Mike Love to make her escape." "Just so, air," murmured the butterfly. "I am informed by him that he acted upon you while you went through the door of Mike Love's window." Thompson did not stir, but Lecilia the scar on her a skelly white. "The man lied, sir." "Men do not lie at such moments." For just a moment Thompson was silent. The hush upon the room was so profound as to make the tickling of Loubeque's watch strike upon the ears like mallet strokes. Slowly the butler's index finger moved to the scar upon his check. "The man you speak of evidently did the work in the hope of receiving Miss Love. I gained this scar while trying to prevent the flight, sir." "It's a lie." Lucill's burst forth passionately. "That man tried to rob me here in this very house. That was why I insisted upon a mald to serve me when I took the drug you put in the drink." "Why did you not mention it at that time?" The spy's woes were dubious. "Because I did not wish you to know I had anything of such value about me." "Value? You had no money when you left Manila." "No, but I obtained possession of a wonderful ruby necklace in the cavern of the jungle just before I was rescued by the filibuster. Three nights ago when I boarded the train for here that man dragged, me while I slept and stole the necklace from about my throat. Then he dropped out of the window of his compartment. That is why he was detained." Loubose fastened his cold eyes upon the butler. The man had nerves as steady as a rock. Lucille studied the judge and culprit earnestly. She could see that Thompson was beating down the apyra belief in her story. Swift as a flash, without a second's thought, she darted toward the thief. She had noticed his fingers involuntarily seek the right hand breast pocket of his coat A His Fingers Gripped Thempeors' Threat. when she made her charge. In one swift movement she had ripped open the coat. With the other hand she plunged toward the place she knew the person be. Ask Thompson was taken off his guard. Then he sprang back with a hoarse cry of rage and alarm, forgetful of everything. The girl clung to her hold like a tigress. He grasped her wrist roughly and thrust her, reeling, across the room, his eyes glaring as, with clinched fists, he stared at her, while, dazed though she was by the violence of him, she held triumphantly in her hand the gorgeously dazzling ruby necklace. Hugo Loubeque did not utter a sound; did not change expressions for one instant. Slowly, with all the leisurely grace of some giant animal, he rose and stepped toward his minion. The cold expression in his eyes had turned to one of grim frosty, such an expression as made Locille shudder, as she saw his fingers reach out and grip Thompson about the throat, pressing, pressing— Not hurriedly, but with cold, definite, murderous purpose, the spy slowly forced the struggling figure into limpness, then cast him from his without apparently making the slightest effort, rubbing his palms slowly together as through the touch had defied them. Locille was chilled with horror as she watched the spy repeat himself, his face calm and emotionless. Apparently he had quite forgotten the huddled, silent figure upon the floor, whose blackened face was slowly regaining its color. Thompson was greening when Locille impatiently pressed a button and waited for an answer. It came over before he expected. A head chasing of both through the house penetrated the effusion of chasing that plumed through the twin sound of the doorbell. Bigg Louiseque spring to his feet, waving. The mask of his face dripped and showing that his face, angled, a bit perked. The chasing sound was indistinguishable by the routine of foot. But he did not. of supposed, then goodness, to mind the begin. Then the man she was then anything else. Then she was supposed from the ball. But then she was then all no head. She was supposed greatly to and for the baby boy himself against the mistress that was ignoring her knows to refuse support, her eyes wide with delighted compassion and love and disbelief, and then she opened her lips, trying to say out, about the name of the man she loved, the man she had worked on hand for, the man who stood in the street below, staring up at the very window at which she stood. But all that hung from her lips was the faintest sound, tremulous; pitiful: the whisper of his name. Before she could regain control of herself, even realise that she really was seeing her sweetheart here in flesh and blood, the hand of Loubise was about her waist, drawing her gently, but firmly, away from the window. But even as the clement shout out her view of him she caught the lightning: flash of recognition as her appeal drew Gibson's own eyes to that window, and she knew he had seen her. Loubeque restrained her brunly. The clanging of the bells throughout the house ceased instantly just as a load hammering on the door below rose. Came a flying rush of men within the room, filling it completely. Loubeque swiftly glanced about at the anxious faces, then nodded. "The tunnel" he cried alarmly. Suddenly Lacille became aware that the room was shooting downward like a giant elevator. She ignored about her, sick with apprehension, upon the faces so close to her own in the narrow confines. A breath of rank cool air fanned her cheek from out the darkness. Loubeque's hand was upon her wrist, his voice softly advising her to follow him. Far in the distance a little speck of light reached out toward them. For what seemed an endless distance she was led by the ap, with always that rush of feet behind. The light was growing broader, brighter. Loubeque released his hold upon her. She could see him reach and press harshly against something, a door evidently, for the light slowly lengthened and broadened. Daylight and a foreign street! A bitter sob broke from her lips as she looked at Loubeque and realized how infinitely far away she was from the man she loved. Days upon the desert-blastering days with merciless sunlight pouring from the molten kettle overhead, burning savagely at the imperious sand and cacti that alone had resisted the fire so many ages. Nights of cold, unwinking stars—stars pitiless in their steady undwiving acruity as the glower of sun; nights where the desert brews searched out the marrow of the bones; nights surrounded by the minions of Loubeque, by Loubeque himself; nights of Loubeque, for herself; nights filled with the sounds of the slumbers of her captors. Save Hugo Loubeque. Loubeque never slept. Lucille saw he had steeled himself against her vow, that never again would she be able to penetrate his pitilessness in the pursuit of his previous revenge. Close at hand was the hour for him to strike, ready at hand were the means. What was his object in seeking Mexico and the Constitutionalist leader she had no means of knowing? That there was a great object, one which she must defeat at any and all costs, she knew. It was the eighth day he ran into a foraging party sent out by Villa in advance of his main army. Much as she knew of the mysterious spy, Lucille was still surprised to mark the respect and deference paid him by the dark skinned rebels. Consequently several days later, days of tireless travel, she was not surprised on reaching the main body of the army to find herself being treated with the greatest respect, while Loubeque was in constant consultation with the rebel leader. Day after day she felt the growing helplessness of her position. Loubeque seemed omnipotent in the opinion of these men upon whom he appeared to have stumbled. Still she would not permit hope to die. The justice of her cause, the growing humanity of the international spy, her very youth and the power of her love forbade this. Through the very eagerness and desperation of this feeling she slowly became aware of the attitude toward his master of Thompson. She was aware of the subtle atmosphere of heat which the slick soundrel's mask of servitude concealed so well. In need of anything to do on her own account she took to watching the man, following his every move, his every change of expression. Family toward the master he had served so well and who had instigated him mingled with hatred for the girl he had no bitterly wronged and who had brought his punishment about. Consequently Locile was surprised to come across a briefly scribbled note on a bit of rice paper such as she had often noticed the butter used in ruining cigarettes. It was plumed slightly against one of the partially cut pieces of bread when Thompson served his master and Locile with their dinner. She detached the fragment of bread, dropping it to the floor and seizing the fragment of paper as she plumed it, concealing it in the palm of her hand. For what seemed continue behemoth bravely attempted to eat the food before her, tried to capture the hostage, breaking period during which Kateyne smoked steadily at his eyes. It was with a nigh of relief to devour the spy was obliged to smile that she should half hearted protest at his relentless. He noxious had his figure smug to derain the doorway that she should equally to examine the message. "All the kind best of the old boyfriend." Surely that, but the deplore that animal present with woodsmen smiling. "Please evil upon another's face so that they should under the tutelage of her warring. Vane beheaded." Beneath the couch we continue appalled by her despite the face of hope that had been limited, within the dwindling spell. Where had been such depth about. Those wounds remain under the sorrowing of the man she knew he had so venomously, which made her shudder and form a half separation to acquaint Louiseh with the servant's treachery. She had half turn to her feet, still fighting against the leucocytic impulse when the small host of an ow reached from out the mighty distances of the farreaching desert waren. And now the very seconds hagged. Every nerve, every muscle, fared, for she knew not what. Lecilia waited, her ear against the wall, her eyes pools of mirrored terror. After what seemed an interminable age came again the sound. Unable this time to endure the long information she was charged to undergo, she metly opened the door, pacing out over the sleeping city that the sales chieftait had fungu up at a more command. Immediately before her own abode she made out the less pretentious shack of the international spy. A dim light from the partially opened door cut a segment from the darkness. Far more significant of slumber than complete darkness was that light. A tiny droning sound reached her ears. By main force piercing the thick veil of night Lucille made out the shadowy outlines of a lean motorcar dimly silhouetted against a pile of lava dust. Something shapeless and dark and furious of movement crept across the spice that interrupted between it and the light cleavage of Loupele's quarters. Lucille could not resist the impulse that forced her from the door into the open. Something tugged at her feet, fairly drawing her away from the scene. Then a strange wave of pity for the unsuspecting one against whom this furtive attack was being made urged her forward. As the dark figure slipped through the door Lucille thrust her head cautiously within. Upon the cot lay the long figure of the international spy, his face turned toward the silent, motionless figure that stood in the center of the room staring at him. The eyes were tightly closed, but the girl knew that the man merely finshed slumber. Thompson turned toward the table upon which the lamp dimly burned. Lactile allowed her eyes to wander for ```markdown ``` Luolie Keeping With the Papera a second in that direction, her heart thudding so violently at sight of the diary and papers there that she was fearful she would be heard. Alongside the papers, its facets sending out a million dashes of redstuff blood, lay the strand of rubles. She marked the involuntary flexing of the thief's hands as he tipted toward them. Not a sound disturbed the silence, but something caused her to dart a swift glance at the sleeper. His eyes were narrowed, but open; lights of amused malice in them she had never suspected could show in mortal eyes. Lights so malignant she shuddered even as she would have opened her lips to cry a warning. The butter-thief drew closer to the prize he had worked so hard to gain. His thief's fingers were outstretched to grasp the necklace, when, with a crash, the lamp darted toward him, smashing upon the floor and leaving utter blackness in its wake. Upon the beels of his startled alarm came a chuckling laugh from Loubeque, a laugh that matched the evil that had glowed from his eyes so scant before. Came a gurgled oath, the heavy breathing of strong men in combat. Lucille turned as though to run. There came a swift vision before her, one that made her step swiftly within the wall of mantled darkness. Eyes met her own eyes, eyes that seemed to force their way through the dark interior and cause her to forget everything that had intervened, eyes that mirrored a message of love and faith and hope to her as she looted down from the window of the mysterious house in San Francisco into the eyes of her lover, the man whose happiness could not be insured without these papers so short a space before her. With the thought she sprang into the room, she bounced high, diving the bedside of the two men and landing separately against the table. Gripping, gripping, her hands encountered the cold rain. She thrust them swiftly into her bedside, but left hand continuing the punch. Fourth rushed under her thigh. An iron hand was open her shoulder, but she wrestled herself home and impaled back. Along the wall she moved all her body encountered the overlying rain. Given to Leontine springs of her she slipped the door wink. She jumped a ray of guts and reg, the strength of fast footwork. Leontine dug through the night, and breathed while she held the meter on her wrist. Then she held on for the rest of the night. It was a struggle, but she was the winner. given. What commands had he been given? She stopped a second. She had been warned to walk for three hours of the owl, and let two had been given, impulse directing her, the blind her hands to her mouth. First no sound came. A wound then she spoke the attempt. Pebble it was an awk, but the started silence took it up and hurried back the offender past sympathies. To her right came the part of the motor. From behind around a shot. She lunged toward the first sound and entered the tentacles. A dark figure leashed from the seat and drew her beside him. Lucille clung to the man, sobbing from nervous reaction even as the car shot through the night. The whine of a bullet sounded overhead, another and yet again another. She dared not look back. The papers warmed through the flesh against which they pressed, warmed through her body and to her very heart itself. But Hugo Loubeque knew the method of her departure, knew what she carried with her. And already she knew Hugo Loubeque was working to overtake her. Low in the seat beakle the driver crouched Lucille with the precious papers and rubles in the waiting auto-mobile the butler had arranged for himself. Buddely she leased forward, beating her little fists together, urging the Mexican chauffeur to accelerate his speed. The man smiled down at her, shaking his head to signify he did not understand the words, even as he stepped on the clutch and shot the car forward like a huge arrow newly released from the bow, and behind somewhere upon the same road there was another machine with a determined man, in it, a man who had never yet allowed machine or man or even the elements to thwart him. Then came the dull crunching sound from before her. The car swerved viciously, swung in such an abrupt circle she clung to the side of her seat to avoid being hurt out. The driver righted his machine swiftly, dazed easily, and she started to heave a huge sigh of relief. But only started to, for the front wheels, suddenly slipped, seemed smoothly to be gliding upon a surface of nothingness, clawing for a foothold. The chauffeur reversed heavily, fought with his wheel, but vainly. Then the heavy car lost balance, tilted heavily and rolled down, down down. Lucille felt no fear. It was all too deadly for that. She was only conscious, even as her hand hands clutched "the edge of her arm, of a droning sound from behind that was growing into the rytmic hum of a motorcar. Canada a long period of desolation made much much through she floated upon ether; a harsh, crunching jolt and blackness—merciful uncoordination that closed black shutters across the mental vision of her and brought a sweet smile to the lips that had been tightened so long. Sleep— Locille pieced together happenings vaguely after that; then dismissed them as of no account. Nothing appeared to matter. She was comfortable and partially content. She recollected for a fractional space of time being lifted and carried away by strong, friendly, plying arms. The memory passed immediately with the coming of an impression of swift travel in a motorcar, which, in turn, gave way to the more sharply etched impression of being wheeled aboard a train in an invalid's chair. Then came a vision of the lean, powerful face of Loubeque close to her own, the gentle whisper of his voice close to her car, calling her name over and over again, while, matching the suffering in his bones, were the deeply carved lines of agony upon his face. Over and over again the man called to her, and yet she knew it was not to her he resembled, but to the mother whom she resembled. She felt all her sympathy going out to this man who had proved such a bitter enemy, who had brought such catastrophe upon her and hers and who would again prove so relentless should she attempt to take advantage of his temporary weakness to appeal to the better side of him. Undoubtedly Loubeque was again in possession of the papers. Suddenly she felt that he, had conquered his emotions and moved away. She slowly opened her eyes and looked about. She was in her own private compartment on the train. She was alone. Tremulously, fearful yet almost positive her hands would not encounter that which she sought, she touched her bosom. The feel of the necklace and papers measured her, drove away the last mists of unreality. Where she was going she did not know nor care. With the precious papers she could do anything. Simultaneously with the thought came one of terror. Vagus at first. It spread over her spirit like a veil that obstructed all light, all hope. As though forcing herself against her will, she closed her eyes and drew forth the bundle and necklace. Yes, there could be no doubt the gentleness of the rubens. Their schaltluster luster was fiery blinding. But she paid them little heed. Her fingers grazed at the papers even as her eyes snapped open. Then a little cry of rage and chagrin came from her lips. The pocket open the table had obviously been nothing but a blink. Her eyes were still on the table, the white pages even white enough, the head stakes a shard of woodiness upon paper. The international gag hold the wrist band. For young plankton, all that is needed is to stop to do so in the present year for the next year only and then do it again. My war later with both my friend and the rest, best to develop the most. This on the together. And the evening was better than the common hour the last the only section. There you was one to be treated and supported. Safely she slipped down the wall behind a lad, she had rescued out the answer. Thompson had escaped Loubeau and, folded in his attempt to gain the neckline, was still in the pursuit. Safely she stepped down the aisle, through car after car, until she halted already and moved back again, for, doing against a pillow in the basement car, a long gash over his eye rendering him a bit villainous, looked, was the better-thief. Lacille sought her compartment, her brain awhirl. It was a three cornered light now.-Loubeau to retail the papers and to protect her in her wealth; Thompson to gain the ruby neckline and revenge himself upon his master, but she-Lacille only sought the papers. Nothing else counted as against that. And Loubeau held the papers. [TO BE CONTINUED] U. S. TROOPS OUIT VERA CRUZ Stars and Stripes Are Hauled Down in Mexican City. LITTLE ENTHUSIASM SHOWN As American Soldiers Withdrew the Constitutionallate Took Possession of the City. Vera Cruz, Mox. Nov. 24. — The American forces of occupation evacuated Vera Cruz, after having been in possession of the city for a period of seven months. The withdrawal of the Americans, under General Frederick Funston, progressed without disorder. As the Americans withdrew Mexican Constitutionalists took possession of the city. There was little enthusiasm, the excitement and no trouble of any kind. The streets of the city were filled with a mob of boys and men carrying Mexican flags. The cheering was limited. Fast on the heels of the retiring Americans Constitutionalist troops marched to the center of the city, the marching music of their bugles filling the air. The bells of one church rang out. The abandonment of the American positions began at 9 o'clock in the morning, when the detached post of marines at El Tejar, where they have been guarding the water works since last April, boarded a train for the run of one hour into the city. The Mexican lines at that time had made no attempt to advance. This was for the reason that between El Tejar and Vera Cruz there is a railway junction, and General Punaton had asked the Constitutionalist commander not to move forward any of his trains, for the reason that to do so would block the line. The Mexicans waited until all the Americans from El Tejar had passed. The circling line of American outposts, from Vergara, on the north beach, to a point on the south beach, began moving forward as soon as the detachment from El Tejar arrived at Los Coros, a ruburb. Thus the line became shortened, and there then began a sweeping movement directly across the city until the line of Americans came to a stop along the Francisco canal and Cino de Mijo street, running at right angles to the canal. Only two blocks behind was the one of the American cities, closing in 'as the Americans withdraw, but always holding a distance of about two blocks. The American stop at the Francisco canal was brief. They quickly resumed their march, converging on the central part of the city. As they came in they picked up the provost guards who had been patrolling the city as usual, and also the men who had been posted on tall buildings to watch for "untippers." These men joined the ranks, and together the force moved forward toward the water front where the embarkation began. There were no flags to lower, nor were there any ceremony of any kind on shore. The American flags that came down at retreat Sunday night were not raised. As each transport received her allotment of men she shipped her cabets and dropped out into the channel. Here they formed in two lines, through which later in the day the Cristobal, with General Fuson and his headquarters staff on board, passed in view of the American forces. Only Horsepower Neutrality. Tally referenced her intention to remain neutral, according to a news agency dispatch from Berlin, which said that the Italian foreign minister had given a final decision to the Italian ambassador to Germany. Nature's Sea Buddy Mort. Prince August William, Emperor Victorine of the thirtieth and seventeenth centuries of the law, as a result of a mastering accident while making a military tour. Turkey Trump NIS Granddaughter. A Spanish from Connecticut and a Greek from Connecticut to Turkey, introduced from Antarctica to Turkey and gave a final decision to the governor. Promoters of Great State Function Advance Many Good Reasons Why It Should Interest Our People Throughout the Country—Congress Appropriates $65,000 Toward Expenses. Richmond, Va.—While it is both essential and proper that the former slaves and their descendants should fittingly celebrate the semicentennial or fifthth year of their freedom in every state of the United States, the exposition to be held near Richmond, Va., in July and August, 1915, should take pre-eminence over all similar celebrations, since it was at Jamestown, Va., that the first slaves were landed soon after they reached this country in 1619. The colored people served for 246 years in actual slavery in Virginia, the mother of presidents and statesmen. In Virginia, that gave to the country Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Randolph, "Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, John Wise, William Mahone, John Mercer Langaton and many other national characters, white and colored, and where the great civil war ended on April 9, 1865, which was followed by the freedom of the race, the celebration should be a magnificent display of what they have achieved in the past fifty years of freedom. Not only our race in Virginia, but those in every state, should take part in this great event and make it one that our whole country and the civilized world will admire. While the celebration in a sense is local, it should be carried out for the reasons named on such a high scale as to make it national in character and thus not the pace for a great national centennial celebration at the proper time. This generation will then have passed away, but it will have laid a foundation on which future generations can build in forming the history of a race that the Bible tells us "shall yet stretch forth its hands unto God and become a mighty nation." The colored people in some of the states have already held similar celebrations, and others will celebrate in 1915. In some states annual fairs have been held regularly and a larger number of county fairs, at which the industrial and material advancement of the race has been exhibited. All of these have been gradually paying the way for larger celebrations. Not more than two years ago a large number of leading colored men sought to bring about a national acmi-centennial of the freedom of the race in 1913 and asked congress for an appropriation of $200,000 during the Taft administration, but after long deliberation congress showed that it deemed it inexpedient that the race should undertake to celebrate upon such a large scale after only fifty years of freedom and that the exhibits that could be made within that time under the circumstances would not justify so great an outlay of money by the general government, and the bill making the appropriation did not pass. Able men in congress thought that more time and more advancement were necessary before the holding of a national celebration should be undertaken by the newly enunciated race. It took the white race from the foundation of the government in 1790 and the holding of many hundreds of state and thousands of county fairs to get ready for the great national centennial which was held in Philadelphia in 1876. The wisdom of the course of congress in that case is now clear. Whenever the people of any single state have attempted to put on such an exposition congress has readily acted in the matter, as it did in making an appropriation of $55,000 for such a celebration and exposition by the colored people in Virginia. When our race continues in its progress till 1965, when it can celebrate 100 years of freedom, place its achievements on exhibition and ask greens for help it will be granted without scarcely any opposition. The reason for this ought to be clear. The colored people of Virginia so well as the whole race are now on trial. What have colored people done along all times to elevate themselves in Virginia on a plane with the best citizens of the state? List their candidates and the conduct of the expatriates under the supervision of Colonial Glen R. Jackson in July and August, 2001, answer this question. It must answer it. The national government will appoint it. The colored people and the white people of Virginia will appoint it. Then it, by means of the permanent duty of every intelligent colored man and intelligent colored person, in this way to make it a great example in order to explain and explain the history of the colored people of the South, just the same the nation and the country in the country. If the understanding goes far IN THE GERMAN TRENCHES IN BELGIUM: © all by assuming whole possession. Prior to the two death victims who were killed with gun shots their lifes. The other victims are presenting about and shortly were vicious putting any attempt to their lives endured. light of dispenser will fall not on our observer man, or not of colored men, but on all. The pulpit, the oracle and all other race organizations, and race newspapers in the state should take the matter up and carry this idea into every household so that the expiration will be a crowding success. AIR BOMB IMPERILS AMERICAN CONSUL German Aviator Drops, Explosive Near Warsaw Residence. A bomb that had been dropped from a German airship fell in front of the American consulate at Warsaw, Poland, breaking the windows of the consulate, but injuring no one within, according to a telegram from American Ambassador Marye, at Petrograd. Several parsons in the street in front of the consulate wore killed and wounded, but none was an American. The incident was regarded in Washington as indicating the proximity of the German advance guard to Warsaw. American consuls received instructions early in the war to leave zones of great danger whenever invading forces arrived in their vicinity. It is expected in Washington that if Warsaw becomes a battle ground of the German and Russian armies that the American consul, and his staff will at once withdraw to a place of safety. Turkey Explains Firing on U. 8. Ship. The Turkish government has voluntarily explained to the government of the United States, through Ambassador Mongenthau, that the shots fired toward the launch of the American cruiser Tennessee were intended merely as the customary warning that the port of Smyrna was mined and closed to navigation. Although the explanation is informal and the United States is still awaiting a reply to formal representations which Ambassador Morgenthau was instructed to make to the Turkish foreign office, it was generally admitted at the White House, state and navy departments that all danger of serious complications over the incident had been removed. Ambassador Morgenthau reported that two members of the Ottoman cabinet, the ministers of interior and war, had fully explained the occurrence to him, and high officials in Washington said his message was filed before the instructions sent from Washington to discuss the subject officially with the grand vizier could have been received by him. Same Old Thing. Ho (mooney)—Was there ever a love like ours? She (matter of fact) — Of course I can't really judge your case, but with mo the symptoms seem about the same as in my other attacks.—Exchange. No Exceptions. "I hear that your wife is an authority on the subject of votes for women." "Sir," replied Mr. Meckton, "while it may please her to change the topic from time to time my wife is always an authority."—Washington Star. Woman Slayer Convicted. In spite of her defense that Joseph Fish had grossly insulted and threatened her, Mina Susie Thompson, forty-five years old, of Rockville, Md., was convicted, by a circuit court jury of manlaughter for shooting him on Sept. 23. The jury had reported in the morning that it was unable to agree, but the presiding justice ordered it to deliberate further. YOUNG SONGSTER OF RARE TALENT Fenton Johnson's Work as Poet and Journalist. PRAISED BY ABLE CRITICS. Carver of, Ambitious Student Whom Men of Lettre Hail on Second Paul Dunbar—A Little Dreaming." His Masterpiece, Gave Him Preminence With the Reading Public. BY CLEVBLAND C. ALLEN. New York.-The young men of our race who have entered the field of literature have been men of special adaptation and have given evidence of brilliant futures in the literary field. This metatheoretical field, however, attracts to it only young men of the finer taste, and most of those who have entered it have manifested natural tendencies at an early age. Among the young men of the race who have taken a proponed place in the literature of the day and who possess to a marked degree a fine literary background is Fenton Johnson, who has been hailed and proclaimed by the finest literary people of this nation as ```markdown ``` PENTON JOHNSON. a "new poet" with a new message and as the most logical successor of the lamented Duntur. Mr. Johnson is a gifted writer and is destined to occupy an exiled place in the literary achievements of the race. He was born in Chicago. May 7, 1888. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and immediately became instructor in English at the State university in Louisville, Ky., where he remained for awhile teaching. He wrote special articles for the leading magazines and daily newspapers. While a student at the University of Chicago he wrote the first legitimate play reflective Negro life and inspiration, the title of which was "The Flower of Haiti." This play was presented at the Peking theater in Chicago in 1900. This gave the young playwright a good introduction to the literary world and paved the way for the future novels which he is destined to win. This play was received favorably by the Chicago Herald, the Crisis and the Mississippi Mail. From 1002 to 1012 Mr. Johnson wrote a collection of verses which were put in book form in 1013. They appeared in a book under the title of "A Little Dreaming." and it was this book that gave the young poet his place in the literature of America and brought him to the fore. "A Little Dreaming" has attracted the abstracts of the oldest literary critic among white people and has been proclaimed by them as a production of literary literary merit. Well known and long established literary products like the London Literary World, American Review of Reviews, Correct English and the Writers' Magazines have been profuse in their interpretation of the value and merit of "A Little Dreaming." The following extracts from some of the publications quoted follow: From American Review of Reviews: "A Little Dreaming" gives promise of a true, poetic gift, a natural, spontaneous lyricism with the same distinguishing racial qualities that characterize the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar." The Chicago Daily News: "Praise-worthy in the ways of imagination, mysticism and romance." The Indiana University Freeman, Illinois Chronicle, Chicago Defender and the Crisis have also been unattended in their praises of this poet's work. These expressions from such reliable sources speak volumes for Mr. Johnson and give him a rating that makes his place in the literary field secure. The success that has come to him is borne modestly. He is still reaching out to higher endorers. He has been in New York for the past two years attending the school of journalism at Columbia university. He has contributed largely to the papers published by our people and for some time has been connected with the Eastern Press association as a special writer. He is one of the most versatile young writers of the race and has won his place in the literary achievements of the race after passing through some hard times. Mr. Johnson recently gave a recital at the Harlem Congregational church in New York. TRUE HUMILITY The true way to be humble is not to sleep till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is. Study From Life. Admirer - Where did you get that heart-reading description of a sick child? Great Author-It's the way my boy says he feels when he wanks to get out of going to school-Life. You've probably heard the story of the little Mississippi steamboat that had such a big whistle that every time it blew the boat stopped. 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Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 411 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. . EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent go as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, N.A., as second-class matter. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1911 If you wish to have money, save it. There is no use trying to do business with a man out of work and out of money. If you cannot save any money on five dollars per week, you cannot save any money on fifty dollars per week. --- It is a very expensive operation in trying to live up to the standard set by your well-to-do neighbors. President Wilson says that we are now enjoying a psychological prosperity. According to this all of the Democratic white folks should be happy. An automobile is a mighty thing to own if you have money. Nothing ever invented has been known to beat it in reducing surplus. A good woman is a jewel and a fast one is "an automobile." http://www.example.com/page/item Senator Lodge, Congressman Gardner, and Editor Trotter, all of Massachusets seem to be on the sand-footing at the White House. President Wilson doesn't care about seeing any one of them. # 9 ```markdown ``` It is estimated that eight thousand whole folks who will still be without work and it is proposed to approp- iate one Hundred and twenty- thousand dollars of the tax-pay- money to employ seven hundred of them. What is to be done with the other seven thousand three hundred white folks who will still be without work? ```markdown ``` ANOTHER EXPLANATION We were somewhat amused to note that our distinguished and highly cultured friend, Hon. Charles R. Doughtles should have taken seriously our nontraditional declaration that the colorful people represented by Editor William Monroe Trotter and his committee were citizens of the United States without a country. Our inference was that according to the position taken by the great Woo Crow Wilson, President of the United States relative to our people that this would be the logical conclusion. In order that the accomplished occupant of the White House might realize the absurdity of his position, we suggested that he imagine these colored people naturalized Germans, instead of resident colored people. Commander Douglas' argument is self evident, and the editor of the Planet of all men in the United States would be the last man to question it. We again repeat—the position of Chairman Trotter and his committee was all right and the position of President Wilson and his cannot officials upon this subject is all wrong. We cannot for an instant though, he be right or wrong endorse any attitude, which would savior of a personal affront to the President of the United States. The office demands respect, even though the occupant thereof may not deserve it. THE GRAND WORTHY MASTER. The arrest of Floyd Ross, Grand Worthy Master of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers upon a charge of embezzlement of the funds of the Old Folks' Home came like "a belt from a clear sky." It was only a few days ago that he held all the rights of a jovens throng that had been fit to raise the money out of the proceeds of the laboring people of the apprehension, for him an accomplice, with which he can expose. ed to do the work of the Order. All of this is changed now and he stands charged with a crime, which if proven will put him within the shadow of the penitentiary and which if not proven will destroy his usefulness for the remainder of his natural life. We had hoped that he would be able to meet the issue in that bold, mainly way, for which he has been noted. When we read over his own signature his admission that he had received the money in question and had used it and was unable to retute the charges against him because he had not kept any record of his receipts and expenditures, we were for the time being staggered. however, he is entitled to a suspension of judgment. He must be regarded as innocent until he is proven guilty. We still hope that he may be able to explain away, the evidence against him. Those of us who wish the True Reformers well may feel assured though that wrongdoing will be uncovered whenever it occurs. There is no ring around on Second Street now, else this disclosure would not have come to the public attention. The True Reformers are now under the protecting hand of the Bureau of Insurance, Hon. Joseph Button, Commissioner and the interests of the people will be protected. It was this Department that gave advice to the other officers and it was upon the authority of this Bureau that Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross was virtually barred from his own office. The outlook for the Order of True Reformers has been dark and threatening. The lowering clouds have brought dismay from the outside and this upheaval from the inside has been of all things most embarrassing. Where can these people secure a man to lead them? The best intellectual material, has been driven from the Order many years ago. It may be necessary to get from the outside, what they cannot find within. If William Washington Browne could awaken from his last great sleep and view the wreck caused by those he left behind him, what would his feelings be? He would ask God to put him to sleep again. True Reformers, take courage God will yet raise up a man, if you will ask Him. The white people have done what they could to help the Or- der. Let the True Reformers prove that they deserve the help. Floyd Ross on trial! Oh, the pity of it! EDITOR TROTTERS DISSATES FACTION. Our good friend, Editor William Monroe Trotter does not seem to be well pleased with our comment upon the White House incident and we did not expect him so to be. All great agitators of the past have been radical and undiplomatic and are proven himself to be no exception to the rule. Their zeal has always outrun their judgment and brought forth the disapproval of the conservative elements of the country. Still, their a tribe has occasioned comment and forced the issue to an acute stage, either one way or the other from which acute stage or crisis, practical results have been accomplished. In a short communication to us he says: Dear Editor Mitchell: "I fear you have missed the chance to write a notable editorial on the White House incident by skittishness as to what I did. You make me admit things I never admitted. I did not debate with Wilson, etc. I insisted in using the granted privilege of a response in rebuttal. I regret you were not in a free part of the country. Now, we certainly must organize. Give us a branch in Virginia. Please publish the following. "WM. MONROE TROTTER." We admit that we were "skittish" when we read that Chairman Trotter had been grossly ride and insulting to the President of the United States. What man among us, who has the interests of the race at heart would not have been "skittish"? The race has too much at stake. Mr. Trotter declares that he was using the granted privilege of a response. Then he was justified in replying and in stating his position from his angle. We admit too that the fact that a President of the United States should have openly expressed himself in favor of a policy, which policy was in violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States would necessarily awaken indignation in most any independent American citizen, but this indignation should have been kept under control. Our residence in a part of the country, not altogether free has in no wise affected the expression of our opinion upon any question and no one knows this better than the distinguished editor or the Boston Mass. Guardian. To owe intimate such a thing is to violate the rules of diplomacy and good breeding which have formed the basis of our former editorial attentions upon this subject. We pause to remark that we have published every communication sent to this office by this edition of Massachusetts and we have supported him in every contention which has made in behalf of human rights and privileges for the race with which we are both identified. We pause to remark that the distinguished occupant of the White House does not stand as high in the esteem of a conservative public as he did prior to this episode in the White House at Washington. ATTORNEY HARRISON'S GREAT FIGHT. Attorney William H. Harrison of Oklahoma has the unique distinction of having made a most elaborate and convincing argument before the Supreme Court of the United States. The remarkable part about it is that he practically won his contention. The Court declined to grant the injunction prayed for and intended to restrain the railroads from enforcing an unconstitutional law. The case is unique in many particulars for a divided court decided that the plaintiff was entitled to relief and them side-steped the question and did not grant it. Still, the opinion, as handed down is in the nature of a notice both to the railroads and to the State of Oklahoma that the action of the legislative body is unconstitutional. There is but little doubt, but what all parties will govern themselves accordingly. We take pleasure in according to this distinguished practitioner at the bar our hearty congratulations. "Aim high, if you lose your hatchet" has been a motto for more than a generation. We know that Attorney Harrison has had many embarrassing handlecaps in his great struggle. He now is liped up with the great legal minds of the country. His fight has been as good as won and in order to place the case on "all fours" as the lawyers say, he has but to breed the suggestions of the United States Supreme Court and come back again. But he will not have to come back. The defendants in the case have been given a broad hint and there is no doubt, but what they will take it. Optical Work There. Dr. H. M. Williams, Jr., left last Wednesday morning for Burkville to optical work for the students of the University School. He has been very successful there. Undertaker Waits On Hospital Steps There have been printed stories of undertakers who wore so much "on the job" that they sat on the doors stoops and waited the death of a person, but Richmond witnessed the first incident of the kind yesterday. It occurred at Virginia Hospital, Ernest Ross, colored, who was found lying in the alley in the rear of the Virginia Railway and Power Company's Building, on Seventh Street, with a fractured skull Saturday night a week ago, died at the hospital late yesterday afternoon. During the morning undertaker W. L. Branch, colored, telephoned Detective Sergeant Wiley, who investigates all cases of suspicious deaths for the Police Department, for permission to remove the body. Wiley had not been informed of the negro's death, but, expecting it at any time, supposed the man dead, and granted the permission. He then telephoned the hospital regarding the matter and learned that Ross was still alive. He called Undertaker Branch on the telephone, only to discover that he had left the office after directing the driver of his wagon to meet him at the hospital with his basket and wagon. Of course, the hospital authorities refused to allow the undertaker to take charge of Ross. Wiley later communicated with the undertaker and learned that a woman had told him of Ross's death, and asked that he prepare the body of the bulldog for the undertaker. During the late afternoon Ross did die, and then Branch secured the body. The police have arrested several negroes, who are being held as suspicious characters, suspected of having assaulted Ross—Richmond, Va. Times-Dispatch, Nov. 30, 14. Colored Man Killed Ernest Ross, Colored, who was found lying unconscious with his skull crushed in, in the rear of the Virginia Railway and Power Company Building at Seventh and Franklin Streets, after hungering for about a week, died late last Sunday night in the Virginia Hospital. A Negro, whom the police discovered, only only a few minutes before he was found, and who was arrested at the time charged with feloniously assaulting Ross, is still held, and will face the charge of murder, instead of assault. The following letter has been received by President Gunner of the National Independent Equal Rights League: Crawford House, Boston, Mass. November 21, 1914. Rev. Byron Gunner, President National Independent Equal Rights League, Hillburn, N. Y. Dear Rev. Gunner; If ever before there was needed any demonstration, of the effectiveness of an organization of, for and by, Colored people in their own behalf, this has been shown by the Lemons, you have the honor to send, as president. Your organization has swallowed the enemy and forced the enemy to give up their "he who would be happy and more confident and blow" because that the lacking ability of women in the town, there will be a discussion in the part All Colleen proposed to two the end of report to if as the absence to the end of the achievement of their rights. I hope that every possible support will be concentrated to the end that the League and Trottier, and the Guardian will be backed up for that continued achievement which the recent events show you can bring to bias. Williamsburg, Va. Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Nickerson were very pleasantly surprised at their home on England St. Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. The band of ladies were led by Mrs. J. B. Harris, Mrs. P. Gault and other members of the Ladies Auxiliary. They spent a pleasant evening. Hot chocolate and cakes were served, and all departed for home leaving many tokens of their respects for the pastor and his family. The Rev. Mr. Nickerson has done a creditable work since taking charge of the First Baptist church in Williamsburg. He has been interested in the welfare of the people along all lines. The public school was very poorly attended, and very little interest being manifested. The Rev. immediately took up the conditions with the people, and began to hold public meetings to create an interest in the work. The results were soon demonstrated. The roll of attendance was soon doubled and the present building is now inadequate and the patrons are working in a joint effort with some white friends to erect another building, and other teachers will have to be employed. It is hoped that this additional room and help will be ready by the next school year. While endeavoring to do this work, the Rev. Nickerson has not let his church work lag at any time. For his church is improving from month to month. More than sixty souls were added the first year, and the financial report surpassed that of any previous year in the history of the church. He has the respect of the best wife and colored people of the city. Colored Man Forced To Move. Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 10--John Teagle, chauffeur for John Walton City Controller, moved into No. 6112 Spruce street, Monday, Nov. 2nd. this is an exclusive white neighborhood, word wont around that a Colored family had moved into the block. Resentment ran high, which culminated into an attack Thursday evening at S. collock. One thousand and people gathered in front of the house and demanded that they immediately vacate the premises. Mr. Teagle was not at home, and his wife pleaded for time, just until her husband returned, but her pleading were in vain, stones were thrown, and soon every window in the house had been broken, even the furniture in the front rooms was wrecked. Mrs. Teagle and her aged mother, the only persons in the house crouched in a corner of the room. The mother, Mrs. Jones, who is an invalid, was struck on the head with a brick and knocked unconscious. Mrs. Teagle tried to call the police but was unable to find one inside in a riot call, a patrol wagon of police came from the 55th. and Pine street Station, the police then dispersed the crowd. No arrests were made as the women were unable to identify their assailants. The house was under police surveillance all that night. The family will move out. This is the second time in five months that such a case has happened in this city. Hon. Robert H. Terrell; of Washington, D.C., the only Negro Judge in the United States, was a visitor to the local Courts on Thursday, he was introduced by G. Edward Dickerson, the famous Negro criminal lawyer of this city, whose guest he was. Judge Terrell carefully studied the proceedings in the Domestic Relations Court, conducted by President Judge Brown, of the Municipal Court. he also visited the Criminal Court conducted by Judge Barratt, and the Juvenile Court by Judge Gorman. He sat on the bench with all these Judges. Colored Men's Status In This Country Washington, D. C., Nov. 28, 1911. To the Editor of the Plaget: "Brother Trotter and his committee forgot that they were citizens of the United States without a country. They believed that the Constitution and the laws of the United States mean just what they say. If President Wilson and his associates will imagine this delegation to be naturalized Germans, then it may be a more charitable view will be taken of their antithesis." The above comment in your last issue may appear at first glance and without thought to be well taken, but is it? Let us see, what constitutes a valid title to one's country. First, being born in it; Second, amenable to all of its laws; Third, liable for all of its actions; Fourth, defending its honor on land and sea in its army and navy, whenever needed. All these conditions and requirements have been faithfully fulfilled by the Negro. That other Americans, many of foreign birth, have by force of numbers deprived the American Negro or the americans of his rights and privileges, does not cloud his title who lets to claim this as his country. No other American has a better title to his pound time the American born Negro. WANTED—A good Unotype Oper- sory. Apply to Prima Triangle, 538 no. 1623. St. Philadelphia, Pa. Before one of the largest crowds that has ever attended a game on the University campus, the rejuvenated Howard University Foot Ball Blues defended the strong Hampton team by a score of 6-8 in a fiercely contested, and brilliantly played team. To everyone that saw the game the three question over the result. The better team won because it out-played, out-gamed and out-generated its opponents during every moment of the game. From the very start of the game the boys put the visitors on the defensive by their versatile plays and it was only a few moments after the game had started that the college boys had played the visitors off their feet and had registered a touch-down through the most brilliant playing ever seen on the campus. The Hampton boys played a steady clean game, but they were out-played more decisively by their lighter opponents than is possible for the score to indicate. There were few chances to score. There was one that had look-in and with the exception of a few moments all the playing was done in their territory. The home boys played as a unit. The back field worked with clock-like precision, while the line never failed to open up a hole when called upon or to break up all the plays directed at it. The charging of the line was superb, and several times the forwards broke through Hampton's line and downed the back's his tracks. All the plays of the home team were fast and well executed. Their selection showed sound judgment. The speed of the backs was a revelation to the on-lookers, and made all the effort of the slow and heavy defense of the visitors look weak and feeble. Hampton's line appeared very weak against this back field in the middle of the gridiron, but it was always braced up under the goal and several times took the ball on downs. The result of the game told and other story of a team with open foot ball overcoming a powerful opponent. with straight foot ball. Hampton's chief plays were a mass play through center and an off tackle play and as soon as Howard had mastered these two they were almost helpless. Several forward-passes were attempted but all failed. Howard, on the other hand, tried everything in open foot, ball, and how well she succeeded is best told by the score. Howard's best play was made trough the center on the E2-mission, a formation with nine men on the line. This play seemed to hypnotize the visitors. It never failed to gain five or ten yards and it was on this very play that Grinning went through center for ten yards and scored the only touch-down of the game. Penderhughes kicked off to Hampton's 10-yard line and Hampton returned the plankin 10 yards. On a series of line plunges Bender, Flint and Jamerson, Hampton marched 30 yards down the field and then lost the ball on downs. It was Howard's ball in the midfield and from here Penderhughes, Grinnage and Stratton began their march to the goal. A series of line plunges gave Howard her first down on Hampton's 45-yard line, and now a beautiful triple forward pass of 30 yards was made by Brice, Stratton and Penderhughes. This play was a marvel and was easily the feature of the game. Hampton appeared to be disorganized, but he back field torrs through the line for long gains and placed the oval on Hampton's 8-yard line, where it was taken over the goal line by Grinnage in the next play through center. Penderhughes missed goal. Hampton came back strong after Howard's touch-down, but the home boys, encouraged by their success, played some remarkable defensive foot ball and easily anothered all efforts of their opponents. The game now developed into a kicking duel between Stratton of Howard and Jamerson of Hampton, with Howard gaining at least five yards on every exchange. All the playing was done now in Hampton's territory and when the game was called the visitors were fighting within their 26-yard line. Hampton Summary Howard Johnson L. E. George Martine L. T. Matthews Givens L. G. Franklin Stoney C. Beamon Coleman R. G. Carter, Capt. Wildy R. T. Randall Gayle R. E. Gilmore Bender Q. B. Brice Jamerson L. H. B. Grinnage Moore, Capt. R. H. B. Stratton Flint F. F. Penderinghees Touch-down Grinage. Subs: Wnters for Randall, Young for Beaam, McCain for Brice, Brice for McCain, Randall for Franklin, Time of quarters, 15 minutes, Roferee, Wilkinson; Umpire, Robinson; Lineam, Douglass. LINCOLN WINS HOT CONTEST. In the hottest fought game of the season, Union Eleven was defeated Thanksgiving Day by the superior squad of Lincoln University, by the score 13-7. Lincoln made her gains thru open plays and forward passes. Union depended chiefly on straight foot-ball. Lincoln's share of stamina constellations fall chiefly to Whenton in his adaptations in carrying long passes or distances varying from 15 to 19 yards. Union's entire backfield out plays that of his opponent. Each man can carry a hard ball through line and around field. If the featured in long backfield double withdrew any interference. The longest one of those was made in the second quarter, surrounded Barron's and for a score of 35 yards. Lincoln opened both of her birthdrawn 91 Boston. The period era was one of the greatest phases of the game. Lincoln had the ball in Belfield. Washington against the ball and points with 14 minutes of 24 yards to Barron. Barron receives the pivot in open field with not a shuttle. Oklahoma to outmanage his chance for a touchdown. Foul was in. vote on Lincoln's made her second touchdown. Urban's second touchdown in the last quarter. Lincoln had the hall on her ten yard line. Young pumps the oval on Lincoln's 56 yard line and shirts around left end for the first touch down against Lin- coln this season. The list. --- Another Citr On Fire Danville, Va.—Calvary Baptist church, Rev. G. W. Goode D. D. pastor. We have been blessed with the privilege of having in our city one of the best preachers and singing Evangelists of our race in the person of Rev. W. H. Skipwith B. D. Our brother has just closed a two weeks meeting at the above named church which was one of the most successful ever held here. The pastor made no mistake in selecting such a man, as there is only one Rev. Skipwith on his order in this country, we are praying for others. This city has been stirred from centre to circumference. Every night our brother held his audience spellbound with his eloquent sermons and pathetic songs, and no wonder he keeps busy all the time, it's because he can deliver fine goods, and deliver it in such a convincing way until sinners are compelled to cry out. "What Must I do to be saved." You Danville, is on fire with the Holy Spirit. Christians have been revived backaliders reclaimed, men and women, boys and girls, from the age of eleven to sixty have been converted, so much so until over fifty person are now awaiting baptism. Not only has this been done, but his coming has marked the beginning of a better spirit, between pastors and people, of all denominations. His songs are upon the lips of every one who heard him, at Holbrook's graded school, of which Prof. Gratty is principal. He was greeted by over five hundred students 'singing joyfully.' "Let all the people praise thee." The people voted unanimously after the farewell sermon of Dr. Skipwith to have him return in the near future, at which time Dr. Goode will secure the late Sam Jones Tabernacle in which three thousand people or more white and colored will have a chance to hear one of the greatest preachers and singers of our race. This was proposed by a number of our white friends who believe in co-operation and who also said that a man of his power and worth ought to be heard by the entire city. So now the citizens will hold Dr. Goode responsible for the returning of our brother. "Every where I go some body is talking about Skipwith." Majority of Supreme Court Join in Opinion, but Do Not No Decree. Washington, D. C., Nov. 30.—A majority of the Supreme Court, today joined in an opinion that the Oklahoma "Jim Crow" law provisional railroads to four sleep-ing, dining and clair car accommodations only to the white race was unconstitutional, but because of imperfections in the position on which the case reached the courts, they did not so decree. The case was one in which five Negroes, claiming the entire law unconstitutional, sought an injunction to restrain five railroads in Oklahoma from enforcing it. The Oklahoma Federal courts dismissed the petition, holding the law constitutional. The majority of the court affirmed the dismalisal today because the negroes had not shown they had applied to the railroads for accommodation under the law, or that the railroads had notified them that they would be refused certain accommodations. The majority, through Justice Hughes, stated, however, that they could not agree with the lower court that the proviso as to sleeping, dining and chair cars was constitutional. A minority—Chief Justice White and Justice Holmes, Lamar and McReynolds—concurred morel¹ in the order of affirmance, but expressed no views on the constitutional question. In the opinion by the majority, Justice Hughes stated that previous decisions that laws for separate coaches for the two races were constitutional were not to be questioned. He then set forth the reasons for the decision, the lower court was wrong in holding the proviso constitutional. "The reasoning is," said he, "that there may not be enough persons of African descent seeking these accommodations to warrant the outlay in providing them. This argument, with respect to the value of the traffic, seems to be without merit. It makes the constitutional right depend upon the number of persons who may be discriminated against whereas, the essence of the constitutional right in that it is a personal one. It is the individual who is entitled to the equal protection of the laws, and if he is denied by a common carrier facilities or conveniences in the course of his journey, under substantially the same conditions as furnished to another traveler, he may properly complain that his substantial privileges have been invaded." The function then pointed out that defends in the petition presented an insurable obstacle to granting the intention. The court did not intimate whether it would merely hold the "inury" and petition unconstitutional or whether it would doubt that the petition, being unconstitutional, the entire law what fall... The Pro-relyeeds asked the court when the case dwindled so that war argued to hold the entire law unconstitutional if the "inury" moved was assumed. Unemployed and unemployed moving with the family to Georgia, late in the year, Yarbrough, and of course Samuel, in a critical condition from a hospital sustained by his wounds at an early hour Monday morning he was struck by a northbound Gulbrush Park near the northern end of First Street Bridge. An investigation conducted by Special Agent L. H. Krupp, Jr., of the Virginia Railway and Power Company, brought to light the fact that Yarbrough was thirty-four years old, and that he is the son of G. W. Yarbrough, of Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia. The injured man, was knocked unconscious when struck and no papers were found on his person, which might have led to his identification. He was rushed to Grace Hospital and was operated upon as soon as he arrived at the institution. A fracture, which ran nearly across his head, was discovered, and portions of his skull which were lying upon his brain were removed by surgeons. The operation is considered a very delicate one, and it was hardly expected that Yarbrough would live. An investigation was then begun in an effort to locate his family, and when Yarbrough revived sufficiently to tell yesterday morning what his name was they were soon found. He was a sister, Mrs G. L. Jenkins, who resides at 2719 O. Street, this city, Yarbrough was still living last night, although his condition is regarded as very serious. It developed yesterday that Yarbrough, until about two months ago, had resided in New York. Since that time he had made his home in Richmond, Va., and worked as a W. Walker, a produco merchant, as a vegetable peddler. DY CARTER HERE AGAIN His Experiences in Georgia—Jury Acquits Him. 30 Dr. W. M. Carter left Cito S. C. last Saturday at 5:18 P. M. and arrived in this city last Sunday morning. He tells a most interesting story of his experiences. He left Georgia Oct. 24, 1914. It will be remembered that he was acquitted in Pottsburg, Va. some time ago of the murder of Dr. H. H. Cox, who was shot be Dr. W. M. Carter when he found him on his premises after midnight. Dr. Carter said, I left Richmond on the 7th, of October to attend my wife's funeral, which took place on the 8th. An officer met me upon my return from the funeral and took me out of the carriage. He told me that he had a warrant for me but thought he would wait until after the funeral was over. This was the first intimation that I had that a warrant was out for me. They carried me to the Petersburg Jail. I stayed there until Oct. 12. Sherrill C. T. William of Baxley Appling Co., Ga. came for me and took me to Georgia. When I reached there the Superior Court was in session. I was bailed there and employed attorney Charley Parker, of the firm of Poigett and Parker. They had me charged with assault and attempted murder and I was tried for a misdemeanor, committed March 12, 1889, twenty five years ago. I was charged with shooting one Nurse Nance, colored. The trial lasted from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. I remained there one week. Dr. Carter explained how he had two names. His sister whose name was Harrell after her white father, whose name was Harrell. She called him Nathaniel after his own white father's name, Nathaniel N. Pherson. Then Dr. Carter's mother named him William M. Carter after his father, because of the families of the other white men objecting. This accounted for Dr. Carter having two names and is an interesting history of the mixture of the races in the Southland. Dr. Carter is looking well and happy and is now located in this city. CONVICTED IN JAIL ATTACK. Men Accused of Attempted Lynching Found Gullet at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, S. C., Nov. 27.—W. R. Belcher Robert Wilson, and Horace Finch were found guilty in the circuit court of riot, assault, and battery in connection with the storming of the county jail August 18, 1914, by a mob of 1,000 men, who sought to lynch Will Fair a Colored man. Robert Ward and Jesse Wolf, co-dendants, were found not guilty. The mob, after blowing open the jail gate with dynamite, were stood off by Sheriff K. White and a half dozen guitars, the shot. Fair, who was positively accused by a respectable white matron of having attacked her was subsequently tried and acquitted. Prosecutions of other allied members of the lynching party are to follow. A Cutting Affray. Frank Dunn, colored, of Woodville was last night so severely cut by another Negro, that have been Robert Dickerson, that Ambulance Surgery Storm found it necessary to take twenty stitches in the Negro's wounds. It was said at the Virginia Hospice last night that his condition was not regarded, as serious. The cutting took place at Eightesenth and Grace Streets, and, according to Dunn, was unprovoked. INBO POMADE. Excellent by all who have need it." makes the hair glossy and straight enough to be in any position. Try our two and you will be a regular. COOK (Ask) 444 W. 4600, R. New York City. THE MARYWOOD FLAGSHIP, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1914 Voice of the Colored Press. Wants A New More Trottern. (St. Louis Mo. Argus.) Nogrophorus thats the chief trouble with Wilson. Himself a Southerner, with all the nasty, unreasoning prejudices of that class of Southerners, we never did expect much at his hands. And with so many Southern office holders under the present administration, the little we might have expected has become less. It is time that we of a great race hold our heads just as high as our white fellow-citizens, and speak our opinions just as freely. A President should look no different from any other man when he discriminates against, restricts, and insults our race. As the white press freely criticises Mr. Wilson's weaknesses and failures, so let the Negro press just as freely hold him up to scorn when he betrays us, just as we have hold his predecessors up to praise when they befriended us. A few more Trotters to speak the truth in high places would do. much towards increasing our moral courage and self-respect! Did Not Fail to Express Real Feeling (Detroit, Mich. Leader) Editor W. Monroe Trotter may have failed as a diplomat, for editors often do, in the already famous interview between the President of the United States and the committee of Colored American citizens who journeyed to Washington, D. C., last Thursday Nov. 12 to protest against the segregation in the various federal departments particularly vivid since democrats have been in control of the Federal government. But, he did not fail to express the real feeling of the colored people against the injustice of such practices by the government itself, which is supposed to protect its citizens and give and assure the principles of the Declaration of Independence "that all men were born free and equal" which is the chief cornerstone of the foundation upon which this great government—a Republic of, for and by the people, was built. Did Not Go Far Enough. (Keystone, W. Va, Mc Dowell Times). The truth is, the Committee did not go far enough. It might have told the President that the Colored people were not the only ones disappointed on account of his administration's broken promises, who would have some corrections to make at the polls in the next election. Both Learned Something. (Tulsa, Oklahoma Star.) Much has been said pro and con on the White House incident last week wherein Wm. Monroe Trotter of Boston played such a prominent part. We find on looking over the exchanges coming into our office that the sentiment among the race editors concerning the affair is about evenly divided, one side thinking the ace was damaged by Trotter's actions the other side thinking the race was benefit ed. From our observation it seems that both president Wilson and Monroe Trotter learned a few things about each other that they didn't know before. Just who was at fault is not for us to say until we have heard both sides of the case. Trotter Must Have "Causal." (Muscorce, Okla. Climber.) (Musclegow, Okla., Chinle) What did Trotter say to the President? Judging from the way the lily white papers and the mossbacks are howling he must have cussed some. Trotter certainly must have used some vigorous English or else his manner must have indicated dammit or "some sich." The Guardian will give it all and then we will see. Trotter is getting lots of free advertising in Oklahoma and in the South they are raising h——. Hopes Incident Will Be Forgotten Indianapolis, Ind. World.) The columnist of the press last week contained an interview between the President of the United States and one James Malone Trotter editor of the Boston Guardian. Mr. Trotter representing the association for the advancement of Colored people took upon himself the burden of speaking for the entire Colored population of this country, ambient the practice of segregation in virtue in some of the departments at Washington. The language used by Mr. Trotter in support of his cause, is said to have appealed to the President, and at the same time brought to Mr. Trotter a great deal of encouragement. The necessity guided by Mr. Trotter on the subject of this incident was the cause for his encouragement. His experience has been given a place in economic literature that deserves it. colleague. It will but the main when Mr. Trotter presented that aroused the fire of the President nor the manner in which it was presented. The impulse of aggression in the room presented by Mr. Trotter involves a very delicate consideration and the joint said even about a good cause is sometimes more helpful to it than the continuous discussion of it. We doubt the wisdom of making an issue of everything that pertains to Negro life. No other race suffers in this way. Mr. Trotter may feel that he is a martyr to a cause that only time can regulate. People will always choose who they will marry, lot with or sit by. Legislature can not hastil into the mind an attitude toward a race that is not in harmony with ones personal feelings. Mr. Trotter has not done the race any good-by his alleged pugnacity, nor the cause he so zealously espouses. The mass-meeting recently held in Washington condemning the President does not reflect the best sense of the American Negro. We hope the incident will soon be forgotten and buried in the scrap heap of oblivion. Must Fight For Rights (Hannibal, Mo. Home Protective Record.) The only way we can get our rights is to fight, for them, even though we are sometimes unsuccessful in obtaining them, it will at least show that we are in earnest and determined. The Negro in the eyes of this prejudicial nation, has long been looked upon as the "White Man's Burden"; little does this land of the free and home of the brave think about the many burdens they have heaped, upon us, yes many with out cause or provocation, until now the heads of the different departments at the Washington Government are practicing segregation which, is very objectionable to the Negro citizens of this country as well as to the humble "clerks" that labor so ardently, and do their work equally as well as their white contemporaries. The rebuke of the Committee of Colored Citizens last week by President Wilson was wholly uncalled for and shows his attitude toward the Negro, and if we read between the lines we can clearly see that old "Race Hatred" that has so long been in the hearts of many white people who style themselves as "Christian Gentlemen." Yet the President in taking the segregation issue into his own hands by giving Mr. Trotter and his Aids an audience made a national issue of it, wherons if the gentlemen had been referred to the different heads of the departments where segregation is in vogue. It would have saved embarrassment on the part of Mr. Wilson, and the ridiculous situation in which, both he and the Committee were placed. On the other hand agitation is bad for us all: "If you put your head in the lion's mouth he'll surely bite it off," however the fire has been kindled so do not let it go out. Should Consider Conditions (Montgomery, Ala. Colored Alabama.) Those who are apt to think about and talk about this Trötter-White House incident must keep in mind the Southern feeling and Southern viewpoint before they pass judgment. Mr. Wilson is Southern born and reared and must share his peculiar Southern feeling down to its very bottom. Besides that he is surrounded in the government by men who are from the South, many of whom are hostile to every interest of the colored man and who keep alive this Southern feeling which we have referred to. President Wilson's statement that if the Negro people had made a mistake in voting for him, they ought to correct it, "is far different in tone and spirit, from his addresses in the Presidential campaign of 1912 and rings true to his Southern Democratic training and feeling. Mr. Trotter has many enemies among Negro editors who will rejoice at his present predicament, but we call their attention to the fact that whatever may be said of him and whatever mistakes he has made, he has been true to the manhood interests of his race, and has biddily stood up for his people at every call. He was born, reared and educated in New England and has not been trained in the art of addressing Southern white men. Should Uphold Trotter. (Asbury Pk. N.J. Peoplea Recorder) (Ashbury Pk. N., J. People Recorder) The case of W: M. Trotter and President Wilson is just another repetition of the same old story, dissatisfaction, impulsiveness bolting bright and rosy promises, betrayal, disappointment and indignation mass meetings. The time will come when the colored man will if he is out of the G. O. P. ranks will get back and stay. A good many want to be the king bee, I would say let him be if he is qualified, but no, emphatically no if he is not. This seems to be the whole trouble with a good many of our colored men of ability, they demand and, because exactly what they want is not immediately forthcoming, they become impatient and both only to return repentant. It is my advice to stick to those who have always been your friends and leave uncertain things alone. Mr. Tropter who is a man of ability and undaunted courage as his recent experience with the head of the nation will show, doubtless thought that he was right when he went to see President Wilson who was then aspiring to the Presidency. He stated in his recent speech to President Wilson that he thought that he would be a second Abraham Lincoln. We now see that this man was preposterous and Mr. Wilson, the Christian Gentleman who begins to go to heaven who is not such thing as grupation in thought of has simply turned out characteristically of his party. Against all and may move on the rest of Columba's words that tends to ward advertisements. Let us uphold for Trotters hand and secure him a man, one who is worthy to represent as a race and one who has the courage to go forth and bear our standard. All honor, to Tropper and may be with the help of God succeed. Did Not Use Diplomacy. (San Francisco, Cal Western Outlook.) The committee that visited President Wilson last week to protest segregation in the departments at Washington did not accomplish much now. If we are to judge from the many newspaper reports of the same, But W. M. Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, who was chairman of the committee, lost his head and said things to the President that were in very bad taste. As a race, we cannot make headway by any such methods. We are too weak and too helpless, and we must use diplomacy—common sense, if you please. Those who attempt to speak for us should bear this in mind, and not injure a cause by making an astonish exhibition of themselves. Sometimes you have to stoop to conquer—other races have done so, and the Negro, with his lack of equipment, will have to do the same thing. Must Give It To Trotter. We at all times take W. M. Trotter as aradical of the radicals in all things racial, but on this occasion we must give it to Trotter when he goes right up to the biggest man in our land and on his toes tells of the wrongs that are being-heaped up in part of our most loyal citizenship. True it was a bitter pill for the President and it gagged him his only relief was to diamise Trotter from his presence. So we verily hope Mr. Trotter has come to a realization that he made a serious blunder when he advocated democracy for the cure of the fills of the body politic and after his latest rebuft at the white house can repent in sack cloth and ashes. As we foresaid we admire Mr. Trotter's pluck and believe that he was entirely right in the promises and he only went some of our leaders by points further that he was game enough to tell even Woodrow Wilson the truth of the situation. Trotter's Diplomacy Won! (Philadelphia, Pa. Christian Index. The Southern newspapers are giving considerable front page space, as well as extensive editorials to the Trotter-Wilson interview. There is an elation pervading that section over the fact that the President has endorsed "segregation." The diplomacy of Editor Trotter in putting a little force and energy behind his argument has resulted favorably to our cause, inamuch as he aroused the President's fire sufficiently to force from him an immediate expression of his position upon this matter. Without this plain talk of Trotter's, very likely the President would have found some subterfuge behind which to hide and thereby prolong this declaration. More promises would have been forthcoming and the delegation would have departed without knowing just where our Chief Executive stood on this question. Trotter diplomacy triumphs; the die has been cast. Negro Democracy of the North and West must give way to Negro Republicanism. Trotter Was Eternally Right. (Greenshore N. C. Herald.) If we may judge by the comments expressed by the Negro press, from time to time, William Monroe Trotter is not a very popular man. Some who claim to know him say he lacks tact and that he is inclined to be somewhat hot-headed. That he has had the courage of his convictions, no one will deny and while many have differed from him on race questions and have frequently criticised his methods, few have questioned his sincerity or doubted his loyalty to his people. The recent interview of a committee of which he was spokesman with the President has again brought him into the limelight, and the Associated Press correspondents seem to have left the impression that the conduct of Mr. Trotter at the white house was somewhat unbecoming a gentleman of his advantages and training. Of course bad manners are always out of order, and there is no excuse for a man's ungentlemanly in the presence, of those who have extended him the courtesy of an audience, and specially does this hold true when it comes to the President of the United States. If Mr. Trotter in his zeal overstamped the bounds of propriety, it is to be regretted, but that he was eternally right in his fight on segregation of Negro employees in the government service and that his denunciation of the spirit of caste which has been encouraged to show its head in some of the departments at Washington was altogether proper and timely are the opinions of editorial writers on the New York World and the New York Evening Post both of which have been among the most ardent supporters of the Wilson administration. Mr. Trotter was a Wilson man and during the last campaign he used the columns of the Guardian, his paper, to urge the Negroes to return to Congress representatives in sympathy with the President's economic policies. (New York Crisis.) Wl Monroe Trotter is a brave man. Of his fearlessness and his unselfish devotion to the highest interests of the Negro race there can be no doubt. Principal Woodrow Wilson is a 18 hearty sensitive man. He has a high 1 Why Everybody Should Read THE NEGRO FARMER. FOR THE FARMER It is a standard, high grade Farm Journal, written in the simplest language. FOR THE WOMEN ON AND OFF THE FARM It is a source of help in the home, laundry, kitchen and on the poultry yard. FOR TEACHERS It is always full of supplementary matter especially suitable for the class-room. Several teachers in the Tuskegee Inst. use the papers regularly in their classes. FOR COLORED CHILDREN Its stories of how colored men and women are succeeding are said by many teachers to be the best of their kind to be found anywhere. FOR READERS OF NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES The Negro Farmer is a necessity. Its "Farmers' Dictionary" explains all public questions, fully, carefully and in an interesting manner. The Negro Farmer is a splendid investment if it is put into the hands of colored tenants and laborers. FOR THE ENTIRE COLORED RACE The Negro Farmer is a Source of Inspiration and Help Isaac Fisher, the famous Essay writer, whose pen and logic have brought fame and honor to the Colored People in America; is writing a series of Great Editorials in this paper. Send $1.00 at once so that your subscription may begin with the issue of December 5th, in which Mr. Fisher's Interest-gripping Editorial—"A Modern Pilate and His Challenge," will pear. The Negro Farmer, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Idolands and he is following them. On one subject alone he is by birth and education unified for largeness of view or depth of feeling. His attitude on the Negro problem is essentially the attitude of the old philanthropic South of fifty years ago. He feels "kindly" toward Negroes he wants to "help" them, he would not knowingly hinder them; but when it comes to treating black men as independent human beings, the equals of other citizens in the United States, the thing is simply beyond Mr. Wilson's conception. When two men like this come together to discuss segregation, granting them both honesty, good will and earnestness, as indeed we must, there is going to be trouble, if not anger and positive discourtesy. One thing is certain. Mr. Trotter voiced the feelings of nine-tenths of the thinking Negroes of this country. Grand Time There. Grand time at Midlothian with the K. of P. when Midlothian Lodge No. 140 added to their Lodge six new members on that Wednesday 25 last, the members received their degrees in their new castle hall. The D. G. C. John Bland were met at the station by Sir Hopry Jones, C. C. H. W. Choice and they went to the new Lodge where the members were made. He was surprised to know that the new building was ready to meet in. Every member was so proud of the new building they spent the entire night. The D. G. C. remarked they must have fifty members by the time the Grand Lodge meets. There was much praise among white and colored, for the grand work done by this order. Music In Public Schools. "What percentage of the pupils in the grammar grades of our public schools can sing an ordinary, hymn at sight?" One hundred and nineteen schools out of 433 say that 75 percent of their pupils can do talks, according to the United States Bureau of Education. Convinced of the fundamental importance of music as a school subject, Dr. P. P. Claxton Commissioner of Education, requested Mr. Will Earhart, director of music in the schools of Pittsburgh, Pa., to make a thorough investigation of music teaching in the schools of the several States. A bulletin containing the results of Mr. Earhart's investigations has just been issued. According to this bulletin about 90 per cent of the schools of the country require music and practically all of these have the course graded. The weakness of the present system, in Mr. Earhart's view, is that only a small per cent of the grade teachers are required to pass an examination in music. The work in the schools is done largely through supervisors of directors of music. Ten per cent of the schools have music; half that number have organs. The order of popularity with the student in regard to music reverses exactly the order that the school authorities desire. Students regard music first from the standpoint of appreciation, then history, and finally harmony. Mr. Earhart finds that "the less formal and academic the plan the greater the popularity." In discussing Mr. Earhart's findings Commissioner Claxton declares, "Good music is necessary not only for enjoyment and recreation, but also for inspiration and for salvation from death in the din dust of trades and this music should be democratic in the truest and best sense. Although not recognized in the course of study of our earliest public schools, music has, within the last 25 or 30 years, been introduced to some extent into the schools of most progressive cities and of many towns, villages; and country communities, though by many it is still considered unessential and a fad. 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Price $226 by mail, stamps or coin. --- SATURDAY PROGRAM State Organization Receives Warm Welcome to the City by Mayor Woolridge—Many Prominent Men Deliver Addresses—W. L. Davis Congratulated on Success of the Work. Austin, Tex.-The culture and intellect of the Lone Star State were represented at the fortieth annual session of the Texas Colored Teachers' association, which convened in the newly erected Anderson high school in this city Thanksgiving day. Professor L. C. Anderson, principal of the high school, on behalf of the colored schools, and Professor A. N. McCallum, superintendent of the city schools, extended to the visitors a hearty welcome to the hospitalities of the session. The principal feature of the afternoon session, held at Tillotson college, was the address by Professor E. L. Blackshear, principal of the state school at Prairie View. A few months ago Professor Blackshear had the unusual honor of being invited to make an address at the University of Texas. His effort was pronounced by his white friends as one of the greatest of his successful career. Taking as his subject, "The Aim of the Conference For Education," Professor Blackshear easily equaled his effort at the university in his address here Thanksgiving day. The evening session was held at Wesley chapel, M. E. church, Hon. R. L. Smith former member of the Texas J. PROFESSOR W. L. DAVIE. legislature and at present president of the colored bank at Waco and of the Farmers' Improvement society, delivered the annual Thanksgiving address. The extent of the welcome tendered by the people of Austin was emphasized by the great crowd that clamored for opportunity to hear Mr. Smith's address. Friday morning, Nov. 27, Dr. R. B. Lovinggood, president of Samuel Houston college, presided over the session of the general division. At this session Mayor Woolridge, on behalf of the city officials, formally welcomed the teachers to the Texas capital. By special request Mrs. E. J. Gulun sang a fine solo. Another important number of the morning's program was the annual address of Hon. W. L. Davis of Hempstead, Tex., president of the association. On every hand President Davis is being congratulated on the general success of the meeting this year, which is largely due to his untiring efforts. The early part of the afternoon session was devoted to the teachers of the primary departments, and the remainder of the afternoon, under the direction of Hon. W. F. Biedsoe, grand master of the United Brothers of Friendship, on the relation of fraternal societies to education among our people, was discussed. No night session was held. Instead, under the direction of Mrs. Susie E. Smith, musical director of Samuel Houston college, a grand musicale, participated in by the representatives of the leading colleges and high schools, served to interest and entertain the visitors and townfolk. Of added interest, even to the lovers of music, was the address of Professor William M. Pickens, who but recently returned from the scenes of the present great war in Europe and the holy land. The Saturday sessions were devoted to the discussion of the work of the rural schools and of the industrial and high school departments of the city schools. The closing session was held at Tillotson college, beginning at B o'clock. This session was devoted to the problems affecting the colleges. Hon. A. R. Jackson, secretary of the educational work of the A. M. K. church, in the leader of this division. A new feature of this year's session of the association was the display of the work of the students from the various schools. THE GERMAN CRUISER KAKLIRUHE. This warship has been destroying commerce in the West Indies and near the coast of South America, and colleges. The influence of the association is more than state wide, for its methods of work have been of much assistance to teachers and heads of schools in other states. The officers of the organization are well known and capable leaders among our people. quarters at 477 West Thirty-fifth street, New York, and would like to cooperate with all persons who wish to form branch leagues in order to give added strength to the central organization in its fight against race discrimination by government officials, whether national, state or municipal. COLOR LINE IN FOOTBALL How Military Eleven at Cornwall, N. Y. Prevented Defeat. Brooklyn.—That "drawing the color line" is only a newfangled way of dodging a whipping, is the opinion of the Commercial High school's football eleven, the members of which returned from Cornwall-on-the-Hudson much disguised and somewhat belligerent because the gridiron warriors of the New York Military academy of that place had refused to play with the Brooklyn boys on the ground that a colored lad was on the team, says the Brooklyn Eagle in its issue of Nov. 15. Edward Williams, the objectionable feature of the Brooklyn team, plays tackle and has held down a hard position on the Commercial teams for three years and is considered one of the star players. When the Cornwall boys declined to play in a game with him, the Brooklyn ladds stood up for Williams valiantly and absolutely refused to put him off the team, even temporarily, so the scheduled game could be played. The Brooklyn boys declare that the New York Military academy knew full well that a colored lad played on their team. In fact, the local boys found clippings from the Eagle posted on the walls of their dressing rooms in which Edward Williams was referred to as the colored star of the Commercial eleven. In view of this the local warriors hold that if there had been any objection to him on the part of the Cornwall boys notice of the fact should have been served on the Commercial High school before the team went to Cornwall The Commercial players did not learn of the pusillousness of the military school until they were in their uniforms and on the field. In fact, they had already gone through their signal practice and were awaiting the call to arms when William Cochran, coach of the military team, informal Robert J. Schoater, coach of the local aggregation, that the Cornwall boys wouldn't play against a team that had a colored lad among its members Cochran explained, according to the stories brought back by the Brooklyn lads, that there were several southerners on the military team and that these had "serious hereditary dislikes" to contesting with a colored person. The Brooklyn boys say they looked over the academy's team pretty carefully and discovered that a number of its stars were missing from the lineup and that they believe the Cornwall eleven really used the "color line" as a blind to duck the game, which the local lads say would have had but one result—the defeat of the Cornwall team and the breaking of its so far clean record of victories. After the military lads had positively refused to play the local boys and the latter had declined to eliminate Ed from their lineup just to please the fancles of some southerners the Commercial eleven took the next train for West Point to see the big game there. Ed Williams, whose mighty prowess the Cornwallites seemed to fear, is one of the best known tackles-in the scholastic athletic world, and although he has played for three years with Commercial there has never been a kick against the way he plays the game. HON. J. C. MANNING'S LETTER Approve Work of National Independent Equal Rights League. The following letter has been received by President Gunner of the National Independent Equal Rights league from the Hon. Joseph C. Manning, a white man and former member of the Alabama legislature: Crawford House, Boston, Nov. 21, 1914. Rev. Byron Gunner, President National Independent Equal Rights League, Hillburn, N. Y. Dear Rev. Gunner—if ever before there was needed any demonstration of the effectiveness of an organization of, for and by colored people in their own behalf this has been shown by the league you have the bossor to head as president. Your organization has awakened the country and forced the issue and has proved that "he who would be free must first strike the blow." Surely now that the fighting ability of your league is shown there will be a disposition on the part of all colored people to turn their support to it as the means to the end of the achievement of their rights. I hope that every possible support will be concentrated to the end that the league and Trottor and the Guardian will be backed up for that continued achievement which the recent events show you can bring to plan. More recently yours. JOSHIPE C. MANNING. Rev. R. C. Ramson is the national organizer of the league, with head- BELGIAN GUNNERS IN FLANDERS. ```markdown ``` This rapid fire field place is stationed among the sand dunes. quarters at 437 West Thirty-fifth street. New York, and would like to cooperate with all persons who wish to form branch leagues in order to give added strength to the central organization in the fight against race discrimination by government officials whether national, state or municipal. Applications for membership should be addressed to W. Monroe Trotter at 40 Cornhill, Boston. Anniversary of Pythian Court No. 42 The members of Pythian Court of Calanthe No. 42 celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization with appropriate exercises at Continental hall, Pittsburgh, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 25. Pythian is the oldest court of the order in the state. The history of the organization was road by Mrs. A. D. Logan, P. G. W. C. Sir Knight T. A. Wilson delivered an address, and music was furnished by Beatty's orchestra. Mrs. Sangle Jackson, one of the charter members of the court, sang a very pleasing solo. Mrs. Cora Branch provided. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR THURSDAY. The United States government expects that Turkey will apologize for the dring upon a launch of the cruiser Tennessee in the harbor of Smyrna. Ambassador Morgenthau has been directed to ask an explanation of the Forte. German forces under Von Hindenberg continue to advance in their invasion of Poland. Violent fighting has been resumed at Tracy-le-Nal, the point nearest to Paris, in the battle line in France. Germans trying to force a way through the allies' lines were repulsed. Heavy combat also are reported in Flanders and the Argonne. Constantinople reports that Turkish forces have advanced sixty miles inside Egyptian territory, and Berlin says the Turkish fleet has detached a Russian squadron in the Black sea. FRIDAY. Continued success is reported in the German invasion of Poland. Russian forces, which took Soldau, in East Prussia, a week ago, are said by Berlin to have been driven back sixty miles, while the Germans are declared to be nearing Novgorod glevsk, twenty-five miles from Warsaw. Winter has put a temporary check upon the fierce fighting in Flanders. The allies are reported from Paris as pressing the offensive against the Germ BELGIAN GUNNER Photo by American Press Association This rapid fire field place is station man line in the vicinity of Aras and along the Alane. Berlin announces that the Germans have mistaken Chauvoncourt, near St. Mihiel, and have repulsed French attacks south of Verdun. Constantinople reports continued Turkish successes in several heavy engagements with the Russians in Trans-Caucasia, and says the Ottoman army is advancing upon the Russian port of Batum, on the Black sea. SATURDAY. General Von Hindenburg's German forces and the Russian army in Poland are engaged in what Berlin describes as a "decisive battle," south of Kalno. Petrograd asserts that the German advance has been checked, while the Germans say the Russian forces are being attacked on three sides. Bitter cold has made necessary a cessation of infantry operations in Flanders, on the western battle front, although the artillery of both the Germans and the allies continue active. The Khedive of Egypt has definitely throws in his lot with Turkey. almost the allies, and has joined the troops in Palestine, preparatory to taking part in the invasion of Egypt. Vienna announces that the Russians have been repulsed in the investment of Przemysl. SUNDAY. All civilians in Cracow, the Austrian fortress besieged by the Russians, have been ordered to leave the city, under penalty of death. Fifty thousand persons have departed since the issuance of the order. The great battle in Russian Poland between the Warthe and the Vistula continues. There are rumors in Berlin of a great victory, but only small tactical successes are officially announced. The Austrians announce the surrender of two Russian battalions in the Constochowa region. The Germans' artillery is once more showing great activity in Flanders. Ypres again has been bombarded and its beautiful town hall destroyed. A strong cannageade is also reported along the Alpine. The French claim to have demolished many of the German trenches. MONDAY. Reports from Poland indicate that the German invasion under General Von Hindenburg is progressing, not withstanding stubborn Russian resistance. Berlin says the Germans have reached Rozlazlow, 31 miles from Warsaw, and control the railroads to within a short distance of that city. London hears the Germans have taken Skierniewice, which is admittedly an advance. Russian troops are reported to have taken Gumbinnen, in East Prussia, forty-six miles from Königsberg. Turkish forces have reached El Kantarn, on the Suez canal, 25 miles south of Port Said, after defeating British soldiers and native Egyptian troops in several fights. Artillery attacks have been renewed with violence by the Germans against the town of Ypres, Bologna. The allies are reported to be acting on the offensive near the junction of the Oise and Alsace, in France. BRITISH EMBASSY PILLAGED Constantinople Mob Also Sacks Russian Hospital. A dispatch from Petrograd to the London Morning Post says the British embassy at Constantinople has been ransacked and the Russian hospital pillaged. All foreigners have been more or less seriously abused. Many arrests have been made among all classes of the population. The dispatch also tells of a wide- ERS IN FLANDERS. attoped among the mud dunes. spread conspiracy against the Young Turks. There are numerous reports current in Constantinople of the treachery of the Arabs in various parts of the Turkish empire. The defeat of a French column and the slaughter of thirty-three officers and 600 soldiers by Moroccan tribesmen, is reported in a dispatch to the Madrid Imperial from Tangier. "While a French column under Colonel Lavdure was returning to Jarifa after punishing the Zalau tribe," says the dispatch, "It was surprised and completely destroyed by 5000 Zalau. The column lost thirty-three officers and 600 soldiers and two battles also were taken. "A punitive expedition is going to finish the Zalau, whose rebellion against France is serious. The tribe in the most powerful in the Atlas region and is able to furnish 12,000 horsemen." Revenge of a Piagus. 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After suffering severe losses during the battle waged between the Vistula and Warta rivers and forced to retreat when the Russians buried vast numbers of fresh troops into the battle, the Germans are precipitately retiring to the region of the fortresses of Poen. It is expected that here they will take their next stand against the Russian army under Grand Duke Nicholas. This information was resolved in London in dispatches from metropolis. From various sections of the German empire reinforcements are being asked to that section to strengthen the defeated army. They will be joined near the strength of Posen, and be first big battle on German soil is expected to be waged there in the ear future. While the extent and the completeness of the German defeat was not known in London, the very fact that general Von Hindenberg had been secked was by far the biggest feature of the war news. General Von Hindenberg has about 60,000 men, but if the Petrogrand rest can be accepted they have been paraded, badly cut up and thousandsaken prisoners, so that the German troops will require reformation and at after the severe punishment intended upon them following their daring advance into the heart of Russian land. The correspondent at Petrograd of a Matin says: "The Russians, after having, check the German offensive on the Flock-oxygen front gained on that side a brilliant decisive victory. The enemy, no had heavy losses, is dying with speed toward the German front. An entire German regiment amurdered to the victors. "The Russians are energetically rousing the enemy. "The Russians are also vigorously tacking along the Czenstochowacow line. This day seems to mark one of the most important and perse decisive phases, of the war." The Times Petrograd correspondent in a dispatch, supplementing one flaring that private advices receive in the Russian capital, had conned the reports of a Russian victory over the Germans in Poland, according to unofficial information German army of 400,000, which lie an irruption between the Visia and Warta rivers, has been broken into several parts, one of which compelled to divert its course thward and another northward. Apparently in each case the Russo- forces succeeded in getting bed these disjointed corps and inflict upon them great losses. The Germans are believed to have armed very heavy reverses at Brescia and Tusky. It is impossible as to give even approximate figures." The Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent intimates that the German princes' army during the last days threatened Warsaw, but severely repulsed. The correspondent says, however, that his forcesaved alarmingly close to Warsaw are they were finally checked. at Plock," the correspondent con- sidered. "I've German corps were op- ed by only two Russian corps, after putting up a desperate case, were compelled to retire, left the road to Warsaw open, the Germans pushed ahead, stak- all on arriving at Warsaw before forcements could be brought up, giving their line of communications the care of itself. the Russians made a stand on Renaa river, though the position not the most favorable. The men were always in superior poss, but a number of Russian s were moving speedily against some difficulties of transportation and the threatened quarter. at for the German skill in re- quest they would be in a perilous men." following are the official re- RUSSIAN. Between the Vistula and the Wor- from the Germans have retreated the line running from Btryhow bay, Sindek, Edunska, Wols and the line from which the Germans appeared runs from the mughl- bush down past that own and following. (Btryhow to dis- pense the inhabitants of Lovins). The Germans are also vigorously following. Crowd line. This day seems to mark one of the most important, and perhaps desiccate phases of the war." CERMAN. "In the eastern theater of the war the situation has not been decided. In most Prussia our troops are holding their own to the northeast of the plain of the Mauer lakes. A WOUNDED RUSSIAN. Student Carrying Soldier to Hospital in Moscow. ```markdown ``` "In northern Poland the serco fighting which has been taking place still has been without result. "In southern Poland the battle is the region of Cenatochowa has come to a standstill. "The official Russian report that Generals Liebert and Tannewits were made prisoners in East Prussia is an invention. General Liebert at present is in Berlin and General Tannewits is at the head of his troops." TURKS FIGHT WAY TO SUEZ. CANAL Ottoman Forces Win Battle on the Isthmus. Turkish troops have reached the Suez canal, according to an official communication made public in Constantinople. The statement is as follows: "Turkish troops have reached the Suez canal. Fighting has occurred between Katasa and Teatabe, both thirty kilometers (about nineteen miles) east of the Suez canal, and near Kantara Teo (probably El Kantara). "English officers and many soldiers, as well as many wounded, were taken prisoners. Troops of English came riders and Egyptian police surren dered." The official bureau in London has issued the following: "A small affair between outposts has taken place between the enemy and the Bikanir camel corps in Egypt. The latter fought well and killed a number of the enemy. Our losses were thirteen missing." CANADIAN GUNBOAT IN FIGHT Rainbow Saved by French Warships After Being Disabled. Information that has been received in Portland, Ore., by shipping firms from reliable sources was to the effect that the Canadian gunboat Rainbow and the German cruisers Leipzic and Nurnberg had an engagement several weeks ago, in which the Rainbow was badly damaged and the majority of her crew wounded. The Rainbow only escaped destruction, the advices said, through the arrival of the French cruiser Montcalm. The disabled Rainbow was towed by the Montcalm to Equimalt, where a large part of her crew was placed in a hospital and the boat docked. The censorship prevailing in Canada, it is said, prevented the account of the battle from being made public through regular channels. TAKE.MAN OFF U. S. SHIP German Who Had Taken Out Citizen's Papers Seted by French Warehip. On the arrival of the American steamer Windber at the port of New York from Bellingham, Wash., by the way of the Panama canal, it was learned that the vessel was stopped in the Carribean by the French cruiser Conda. After looking over the ship's papers a French officer took from the Windber A. C. H. Pipenbrock, a German member of the crew, who had taken out papers as an American citizen; Despondent because he could not secure a commission in the royal navy and over illness, Guy Ernest Hamilton, son of Lord Ernest Hamilton, committed suicide at the family seat in Hertfordshire, near London. He was twenty years old. Mare Boer Nopala Vijen. 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Minor, Salem Court, No. 81 April 18—Rebecca Mitchell, Old Dominion Court, No. 114 April 23—Mary A. P. Gray, Venus Court, No. 47 April 29—Mattie Lane, Star of Hope Court, No. 93 May 2—Eatelle Morris, Friendship Court, No. 143 May 15—Winnie Holmes, Ivy. Leaf Court, No. 85 May 23—Annie Robinson, Georgetown Court, No. 152 May 30—Sylvia Randolph, Georgetown Court, No. 152 July 1—Mary Nash, Elizabeth Court, No. 210 July 14—Nannie Vicks, Friendship Court, No. 143 July 15—Ada Hilton, Blooming Bess Court, No. 164 July 31—Almeta Riddick, St. Mary's Court, No. 101 Aug. 10—I. D. Burrill, Magie City. 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A new triple attack against the allies at Nijouport, Dixmude and Ypres is expected on the part of the German army in West Flanders. Heavy reinforcements of artillery, including big siege guns from Lige and Brussels, have, now been brought into position, and a general attack at these three points, now under artillery fire, is looked for, the Germans asserting their expectation of occupying both Dunferk and Calais by Christmas. The new forces of the Germans in Flanders are under, the command of Grand Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemberg, heavy casualties having compelled a shift of troops. The attack of the British foot upon Belgium count towns occupied by the Germans has been renewed, both Lemberg and Zeebrugge being under bombardment. London reports that the there gums were afflicted, but the official statement issued in Berlin does not that --- only slight damage was done by the shells from the warships. The French war office asserts that the German losses in West Flanders have exceeded 120,000. Sollessons, under, fire, for the twenty-fourth time since the campaign began, is now a scene of desolation, as most of the famous old buildings have been ruined by bursting shells. The following are the official bulletins: FRENCH. "The day was one of relative calm. There was intermittent cannonading on the front. There were several attacks in the Argonne which were repulsed. "Speaking generally, it may be said that the situation, during the day of Nov. 23, has showed no important changes. "Along the greater part of the front the enemy manifested his activity, particularly by an intermittent cannonade, which was, however, less spirited than on the proceeding day. Nevertheless, there were here and there some infantry attacks, all of which were repulsed. 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I did not attend the Union Saturday, but spent Sunday, there. The first person I saw on Sunday A. M. was Rev. A. J. Streeter. He and Miss Streeter stopped with one of the members of Chaney Grove, near the Station. Rev. Streeter and myself took a walk while our team was being harnessed. But Professor, said Rev. Streeter you have not found any one to suit you as yet: Not yet I said I am still single. Then we talked about the Union. I have been reliably informed that there was considerable unpleasantness during Saturday's Session. Yes somewhat said Rev. Streeter. Since Saturday I have talked with several brothren of the Saturday's meeting. The trouble seems to have been as following: After the churches present had reported and a full in the proceeding was there about. There was a kind of a temporary adjournment, so to speak, the Moderator vacated the chair for a short while and passing through the ante room went out in the church yard near by. Just now his attention was called to the reopening of the meeting. The Moderator Rev. C. T. Taylor sent word for the Vice-Moderator, Rev. Daniel Robinson to preside. The courier thought Rev. E. R. Roberts the Stake Missionary was meant and accordingly Rev. E. R. Roberts was asked by the message beaver to take the chair. After finishing with Minor matters that part of the program was reached calling for the Election of Officers. At Rev. J. R. Brooks suggestion Rev. Edward Ham, motioned that the election of Officers be postponed until the January meeting. This motion prevailed. Just then Rev. Isaac the Moderator came in and saw what had been done. Rev. Taylor ruled that according to the constitution and the program the Union was without a head, and in fact that it really did not exist because each and every officer had served his time and it was just and proper that the election be held Now. The chair further ruled that inasmuch as the Vice-Moderator was present and physically prepared to preside that no other person had any legal right to preside and that all matters relative to the election of Officers while Rev. E. R. Roberts presided was illegal. Just then a member said. Well then if that be the case all that has been done during the Roberts administration is illegal. Rev. Brooks the Treasurer rose and said that his object for suggestion that the election be postponed because he, Rev. Brooks, wanted to have a private talk with the Moderator relative to his being absent on Sunday during the Session of the Union. Rev. E. Ham then said had he known this he never would have made the motion to postpone the election until the January meeting. Rev. Taylor thought that as he and the Treasurer had been together quite much during the Saturday morning Rev. Brooks should have told him of the complaint. After considerable discussion by Rev. J. G. Gregg, A. J. Streeter, E. Ham, C. McDonald, C. G. Horn, H. B. McPhail, Zimmerman and others all seemed to be at a fervent heat. Rev. Taylor the Moderator tendered his resignation. The resignation was not accented. In my judgment it was a mistake to have passed a motion to postpone the election until the January Meeting. No Plausable reason has been given, and some unpleasantness has been witnessed. The program called for an election and it was the proper time. The matter was to be amicably settled at the January Meeting at Mt. Rona Baptist church January 30th, 1915. Mr. John H. Young Head-walter of Royal Ponacconia Hotel, Palm Beach Fla. died Monday, Nov. 23rd, at Charlottesville Va. His brother Mr. Chas. Young of Valdosta, Ga. passed through the city Thanksgiving Day enroute for Charlottesville to attend the funeral. Miss Julia Matthews of Charleston, S. C. spent two weeks in the city visiting her Sister, Miss Hines. She was accompanied by her baby little Geraldine. They left for home on train No. 88. Nov. 27th. Miss Rosa Duncan passed through the city Thanksgiving Day, returning from New York, enroute to George town S. C. her home. Miss Lilliam Trudell of East Florence left on Thanksgiving night to attend a banquet at Timmonsville, S. C. Mr. Samuel Coakley and wife Mrs. Nora Coakley left the city on Friday, Nov. 27th, for Columbia. They will also also visit Mr. Cookleys mother at Sumter S. C. The couple though they had been married more than 2 years still had their wedding smile. They left on train No. 5 West bound. Mr. B. Smalls and Mrs. Jane Smalls spent Friday Nov. 27, in the city. Rev. S. A. Robinson has been honored by the A. M. M. expanded museum with the station appointment at son when seen at the Coast Line Station appeared quite elated. Miss Laura V. Roberts a College Student at Benedict College is home. She is suffering from a nervous attack. Mrs Mary Wilson of Marlton passed through the city Thanksgiving Day enroute for Emingham S. C. on train No. 89. South bound. Mr. Solomon Fulton of Cades S. C. quite an industrious farmer and railroad man spent Saturday Nov. 28. in the city. He plants cotton, cora peas and potatoes. He will store away more than 400 pounds of pork. Miss E. N. Washington of Leo S. C. was in the city Saturday Nov. 29. on business. Rev. S. A. Robinson has been appointed by the Bishop to labor as Latta this year. law. Robinson is well pleased with his new appointment. Lansburg (Va.) Notes. The diphtheria is getting very pervaleat. Capt C. F. Sims of Mount Vernon Va., was in town today. Mr. Wr. H. Jones was robbed one night this week of $40.00. Suspicion is cast on a certain young man of the community. Mr. Jno. Russell has arrived in town again. The Masonic Lodge had its Thanksgiving sermon preached on the 29th by Rev. J. E. Dotson he used "Psalm 95-2" "Let us Come Before his presence with Thanksgiving." While he gave us some of the over due he tried to impress on us to be thankful for the blessings already received it was a masterpiece we were delighted. While the craft did not turn out in full we made a very good showing the choir chanted to the delight of all. Our prayer meetings are taken on new life, as our members are settling down to real business as the winter draws near. We are asking all of the subscribers to the Planet to please settle with the agent as it is over due. Christmax is drawing near and we want to straighten up our business affairs. FROM DRAKES BRANCH VA. Passed Away—A Minister Passes The Test. Miss Susie Shepperson died Monday night and was buried Wednesday from the St. Michael Church. She had been sick since last July. She was a member of the I. Ordeof St. Luke and the Order of Calandine. She leaves a father and two sisters to mourn their loss. Mr. M. B. Johnson is visiting his parents in Hampton. Messrs John Watkins and McKinley Roberts are visiting here. Miss. Susie Robertson is improving The Presbytery, o the Blue Stone Baptist Association met with the Morrison Grove Baptist Church, Charlotte C. H. Va. and ordained Rev. W. J. Cousin to the Gospel ministry. Rev. Cousin is a graduate of the Theological Department of the Virginia Union University of Rienmond, Va. and a member of Morrison Grove Baptist Church. He was set apart and duly commissioned. Rev. A. J. Cary was Moderator and Rev. F. L. Hall, Clerk. From Farmville on Mr. Trotter. Farmville, Va. Nov 30, 1911 Mr. Editor: There are all expressions of comments coming from all sections of the Country on the visit of the delegation of Negroes from Boston Mass to the White House, Washington D.C. and what W. M. Trotter, as spokesman, said to President Wilson Trotter and the President both have been commended and commended for some things they said, and no doubt both of them said some things they might not have said and would have accomplished just about as much good under the present administration. Mr. Wilson was mistaken when he said this aggregation, rule in the Government is not a political question it is one of a grave nature and he will see it before the dawn of 1916. Had Mr. Trotter been born and educated in this section of the country knowing that the President by birth and many years of duration was a Southerner plain and simple he, no doubt, would have made a different presentation and used language peculiarly adapted to the subject. Addressed and would have, at least, received from the President a smile and a promise to look into the matter. We will admit that no man understands the Negro better than the southern white man and no man understands the southern white man better that the southern Negro. Mr. Trotter should have known on a business proposition when a white man approaches another white man and states facts as they are it is all right, but when a Negro on the same business proposition states the facts to a white man pure and simple he is a "Saucy Negro." It is a fact the President made promises to the Democratic Negro delegations and Mr. Trotter was among that number so Trotter was calling him to his promise and he had failed in so many it made him angry. Now what will be the outcome? It will not be like the Booker T. Washington dining with the President, that seemingly stirred the Country for a while; and then they decided there was nothing in one great man dining with another. Under similar conditions. So now the question of "Booker T dining with Teddy," is a thing of the past. Will it be like unto the Nat Turner and John Brown's raid, which created in the branches of millions sympathy for the oppressed Negroes in this Country who filthment was agitated upon the Bear of Congress and the Senate Chamber of Illinois. Boys' and G This segregation rule in this Country, and most especially in the Government Departments under the Constitution which guarantees to all citizens equal rights and privileges is a disgrace upon a civilized Nation perpetrated by the Administrators. This race discrimination in the administration of the affairs affecting the political and civic rights of a part of the citizens is a condition which cannot stand. In all great National movements in correcting wrongs of long standing there has turned up from some unexpected place a Nat Turner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, a Douglass and last but not least a William Monroe Trotter, to stir the Nation and cause them to think. Before the sun goes down in 1916 the day of the National Election the Administrators of the affairs of this Government will know that Trotter and his delegation have awakened the Negroes of this Country and their influence will be felt from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the Gulf. Rochester (N. Y.) Notes. The Fair and donation which opened Monday, Nov. 16th, closed Friday Nov. 27th amid applause, for the first time in many years that every thing went on so nicely with, perfect harmony the Fair opened on the 16th, with a grand concert and every night there was a fine program. Prizes were awarded for best decorated booths. First prize the North Carolina booth. Second prize Young Peoples Missionary Society. Mr. Henry Lovely, won scholarship, contest at Mechanics Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Claw of Buffalo, N. Y. were the Thanksgiving guest of Mr. Strothers Herndon, 154 Atkins St. Miss Janie Williams, and Mr. James Kessen, were married last Wednesday evening. Mrs. O. C. 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Mrs. Carrie Rowe, Caterer. Christmas-New Year Holiday Fares Richmond, Va. Nov. 30, 1914. The Southern Railway announces greatly reduced round trip fares from points on its lines to points in the South. Dates of sale Dec. 14th, to 25th, Inc., Dec. 31st, 1914 and Jan. 1st, 1915. Final return limit Jan. 6, 1915, prior to midnight of which return trip must be completed. To points in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas reduced round trip tickets will be sold Dec. 20, 21, and 22, with final limit of Jan. 18th, 1915, prior to midnight of which return trip must be completed. For further information call on nearest Southern Railway Ticket Agent or write H. L. Blahop, Division Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va. Christmas-New Year Faree To Balti- timore Vla. York River Lane. Richmond, Va. Nov. 30, 1911. Southern Railway-York River Line announces greatly reduced Christmas-New Year Holiday fares to Baltimore via Richmond, West Point and Chesapeake Bay, Dates of sale Dec. 16, to 26, Inc., Dec. 31 and Jan. 1st, 1915. Final return limit Jan. 6, 1915, prior to midnight of which return trip must be completed. Stopovers allowed at Richmond upon deposit of ticket with agent on arrival. The service from Richmond to Baltimore via Southern Railway "Steamer Train" leaves Richmond 5:10 P. M. daily except Sunday for West Point, thence York River Line out York River and up Chesapeake Bay. A very beautiful and enjoyable trip. The new steamers of the York River Line are strictly up-to-date in every respect, and the service in its entirety is incomparable. For further information apply to nearest agent or write H. L. Bishop, Division Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va. BAND OF CALANTHE. District Deputy, Granl Worthy Counsellor and Grand Worthy Mother Mrs. Anna Taylor 'organized a Band of 32 children, with more to join in the near future. Nov. 26, 1914 The initiation took place at the Baptist Temple at 1 o'clock with a large gathering of well wishers. The Band which will be known as Lily of Thanksgiving Band was gotten up by Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, who has worked persistently to accomplish her work. She was highly complimented by District Deputy Grand Counsellor Mr Mew. W. Wood. Boys' and Girls' Contest Open to All Children Under 16 Years: The Voting Ends Dec.15,1914 At 12 o'clock Midnight. THE PRIZES: For each job brought and paid for, the same allowance will be made. This includes money for job work, notices of any kind and advertisements. Votes will be published from time to time. A fair race and no favors. Persons already listed at The PLANET Office will be entered. THE PLANET, 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. The coupon will be found in another column of this paper. Worthy Father Sir Edward W. Wood, Chairman, Mrs. V. L. Holloway; Chaplain, Mrs. Louise Hastings; Moderator, Mrs. M. T. Morton; Senior Matron, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown; Sec. Mrs. L. E. White; Junior Matron, Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald; Assistant, Mrs. Adaline Wilson. This Board is under direction of the Board of Control. As the Assistant Matron was sick and not able to perform her duties the Grand Worthy Mother, Mrs. Anna Taylor remained over a few days getting the affairs in order. The Money is Now Ready. WE ARE NOW DELIVERING AND MAILING CHECKS TO ALL THOSE, WHO JOINED OUR Christmas Savings Club Christmas Savings Club She visited the Guttfield Baptist Church Sunday morning the 29th and the Baptist Temple of which Rev. Johnson is pastor in the evening. 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