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The Leading Weekly Journal in the State. Medium Which Reaches Every Colored Home. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The opening session of the annual meeting of the Executive Committee and the commission of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America took place Tuesday, Dec. 8, in the auditorium of the white Y. M. C. A. building, corner of Seventh and Grace streets, in this city, at 9.30 A. M. This is the greatest aggregation of religious influence in this country. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the multi-millionaire, is patron of the movement and its membership is made up without regard to race, creed or color. COMMISSION EVANGELISM. The Commission on Evangelism convened Tuesday at 9:30 A. M. Chairman Roberts presided. Rev. A. I. Gaines, D. D., of Baltimore represented the A. M. K. Church. His timely remarks were well received. Rev. P. A. Wallace, D. D., represented the A. M. E. Zion Church, although Bishop Alexander Walters did not arrive until Wednesday. Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, D. D., was present in behalf of the National Baptist Convention. He spoke as follows: The Negro National Baptist Convention represents 2,300,000 members. Fifty years ago, it is said from reliable statistics, that there were 400,000 Negro Christians in the Southland of all denominations. The Negro Baptists therefore have made wonderful strides in the work of evangelism. The preaching of Negro Baptist ministers has never ceased to be evangelistic. With them the gospel means repentance, faith and an open expression of the same. The term regeneration always means, to Negro Baptists a new birth in Christ brought about by repentance, faith and prayer, never disassociating the presence and influence of the Holy Spirit. In fact, whatever may be done in human efforts to bring souls to Christ, it has no value to the conception of Negro Baptists unless, as they believe, the Tribune Godhead has had something to do with it. This comes from the fact that we have never cut loose from the pure gospel preaching which we learned from the white preachers in days gone by who delivered unto us the old-fashioned gospel on fire with the Holy Spirit. The present day white ministry may have left, in some instances, the old landmark evangelistic way of preaching, but the Negroes are still in love with men like Andrew Fuller, the great Dr. Jeter, Spurgeon and others of that class—in fact, the gospel as preached by Wesley and Whitfield is not yet to us out of date. We have no commission yet appointed on evangelism, but one would have been appointed in our last National meeting in September but for lack of time for its consideration. A commission, however, or a standing committee, is needed; this because there are hundreds of men among us in these latter days working as evangelists whose doctrines, methods and theories are injurious to pure Christianity. The result, therefore, is we have thousands of people in our churches today who have never been born again. A very great need in our denomination is careful Christian training of those brought into the church, through great revivals. This must be the work of qualified pastors, intelligent church officers, sweet religious homelife and a general nuptial of Negro Baptist Church life. That evangelism which will have for its final object, not merely great numbers, but Christian edification, will do most good for the Negro Baptists. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS. The Executive Committee met at 9:30 Wednesday morning. Bishop Alexander Walters, the noted divine of the A. M. B. Zion Church, was invited so to do and he conducted the religious exercises. It was indeed an imposing gathering. The colored delegates present were Rev. J. E. Ford, D. D., of Jacksonville, Florida; William H. Steward, of Louisville, Kentucky; and John Mitchell, Jr., of this city, representing the National Baptist Convention, and also Rev. Walker H. Brooks, D. D., of Washington, D. C., representing the same body in the Conference on Temperature. Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D., of New York, and Rev. P. A. Williams, D. H. of Philadelphia, reg presenting the National Baptist Convention on the Commission on Evangelism. Rev. J. A. Hamlet represented the C. M. E. Church. He resides at Jackson, Tenn. THAT HORRIBLE WAR The business was mostly routine, dealing with the reports of the Commissions and the officers. There was a general sentiment expressive at the horror over the terrible calamity of war in Europe. There was a whispered conversation with the Chairman, who later announced that Hon. William J. Bryan, who was also a member of the Executive Committee, would soon appear. It was not long before the "Great Commoner." Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, came through the door on the rostrum, and smilingly greeted the assembled throng which arose to tender a welcome and a wave of applause followed. MR. BRYAN'S REMEDY Mr. Bryan wavod them to their seats and then spoke briefly. He resumed his seat and then business proceeded. It was not long though before Mr. Bryan gave notice that he would have something to say He was the recipient of enthusiastic applause when he arose to speak, which applause was repeated at the close. He spoke on temperance and he advocated teetotalism in the use of spirituous liquors. He replied to the humorous allusions to grape juice and explained how it came to be on the table at a reception to the ambassadors and foreign representatives. THE MOST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION He said that no matter how some men might disagree as to the best way to check the liquor traffic, there was no disagreement as to the wisdom of stopping a man's mouth. This could best be done by the individual pledging himself not to take or use intoxicating beverages. He told of his success in securing the signatures of 4,000 students to a temperance pledge. Mr. Bryan stated that he had intended to speak 15 minutes, but he now (CONTINUED ON FOUR PAGE) GOVERNOR WHITMAN TO National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Hold Annual Meeting on Feb. 12. Charles S. Whitman, Governor-elect of New York State, has consented to make a presentation speech and to award the Springarm medal on the 12th of February at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This is an event of the very highest importance to Afro-Americans, as it will mark the first occasion on which this medal is awarded. Its donor is one of the best white friends of our race, Dr. J. E. Springarm of New York, chairman of the N. A. A. C. P. The medal, which is of solid gold and worth $100, will be awarded annually to the colored man or woman who performs the highest or nolest achievement during the preceding twelve months, and is meant not merely to reward colored achievement but also to give the fact of such achievement by colored people a nation-wide publicity. The judges, ox-President Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post, Dr. James H. Dillard of the Jones and Slater Funds, Bishop Hurst of Baltimore, and President Hope Morehouse College, will not announce who is to receive the first medal until Governor Whitman presents it on Lincoln's birthday. There will be two sessions of the annual meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. on February 12, both of which will be held in the Ethical Culture Hall 63rd street and Central Park West, New York City. The afternoon session will be devoted to association business, and will be open to members only; at this, Dr. Springarn, a chairman of the Board of Directors, will read his annual report, and branches throughout the country will also render reports of progress. At the evening session; which will be open to the general public, without tickets or admission fees, the medal will be awarded, and several speakers of national prominence, behead Governor Whitman, will address the meeting. Before this meeting taken place, Dr. Springarn will have completed his second tour of the country in the interest of justice to colored people. He expects to start early in January and to include a large number of cities between Buffalo and Pittsburgh in the East and Omaha and St. Paul in the West. All these interested in his trip and all cities wishing to be included in his survey should write immediately to Mrs May Chisha Norsey, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., 10th season, New York City. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914: Grand Worthy Master Ross Disappears. Family Removes to Another State.—Rev. S. S. Morris Named to Succeed Him. DR. A. S. THOMAS DECLINES TO SERVE AS A DIRECTOR—FINE MASS MEETING—ALL TO AID THE TRUE REFORMERS. Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross has left Richmond. He has vacated his residence at 106 E. Leigh St. and his family has also left the city. Double horse wagons were busily engaged in removing the household effects from the house Friday evening and the work was not completed until after dark. Mrs. Ross is reported to have gone to her relatives in West Virginia. The called meeting of the Board of Directors was largely attended last Monday. Those who attended were J. E. Brown of Roanok, Va., A. W. Hall of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. L. D. Hodge of Montgomery, West Va., Mrs. Sarah S. Lewis of Washington, D. C., J. R. Wilson of Danville, Va., Rev. Granville Hunt of New York, Irvin. East of Richmond, Dr. William H. Smith, Rev. S. S. Morris and Maurice Rouselle. Anti-Tartte Faction Wins Complete Victory Colored Pastor and His Follower Are Ousted From all Connection With Church. Peterburg, Va., Dec. S.—In a cordance with his decision yesterday Judge J. F. West presiding in the Hustings Court of this city, in the Harrison Street (colored) Baptist Church case, this morning entered a decree directing the city sorgente forthwith to proceed to oust Ell Tartte, former pulpit supply and the various former trustees and officers of the church, and any person holding sons spoke. Among these were J. W. Thompson, J. W. Johnson, W. Henry Jones, Mrs. Zemorla D. Wood and Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D. Itv Thomas had been elected to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors and efforts were made to have him go to the platform. He insisted upon remaining in his seat, however, and he asked some questions. Among these, he wanted to know the exact amount of the shortage of the Grand Worthy Master. This information was not forthcoming, it being explained that it was not deemed advisable to give out this information while the matter was in the court and an indictment was pending. Rev. Dr. Thomas Declines HEAVILY INVOLVED. Mrs. L. D. Hodge is Grand Worthy Mistress. The report on the Grand Worthy Master disclosed the fact that he was heavily involved. It seems that the field money that it is alleged has been taken for his personal use and that donations for the Old Folks Home had been similarly treated. Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross was not under bond, although Grand Worthy Secretary Maurice Rousseille and Grand Worthy Treasurer William H. Smith are under bond in reputable bonding companies. Despite this fact, the Grand Fountain at its last session, in a moment of enthustastic fervor, voted that all the money for these specific purposes be sent to the Grand Worthy Master, to be transmitted by him to the Grande Worthy Secretary, who in turn was to deposit the amount with the Grand Worthy Treasurer. So for as is now known, the endowment funds were not affected and this department of the Order is accordingly intact. There are many questions being asked as to the amount of Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross' apparent shortage. This information is not definitely known for the reason that the facts are coming in as this one or the other reports that money had been sent to the Grand Worthy Master. The Board of Directors elected Rev. S. Morris to act as Chairman and based upon the reports, the condition of the Order was found to be satisfactory. GRAND WORTHY MASTER ROSS SUSPENDED A resolution was adopted suspending Floyd Ross from the position of Grand Worthy Master until he appears and explains to the satisfaction of the Board the alleged discrepancies and shortages. Some said he had gone to Lynchburg, Va. to see former Vice Grand Worthy Master A. Humbles, who has allowed himself to drop out of the membership of the Order, although heretofore he has been one of the most loyal and faithful members. A resolution was also passed creating an Executive Committee to control the affairs of the Order. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CREATED They are J. R. Wilson, S. S. Morris, Mrs. Sarah S. Lewis, Irvin East, S. W. Hall. This Executive Committee will meet every Friday and will consist of those members in Richmond. Once a month, the entire mittee will assemble here. Rev. S. S. Morris was elected temporary, Grand Worthy Master during the disability of Floyd Ross. His election was made with the understanding that he would serve without pay. Harmony prevailed in the meeting of the Board of Directors. The mass-meeting was held in True Reformers' Hall last Monday night. Chief of Richmond Division A. Beverly presided. A statement was made of existing conditions and after this many per- sons spoke. Among these were J. W. Thompson, J. W. Johnson, W. Henry Jones, Mrs. Zamora D. Wood and Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D. Itay Thomas had been elected to all a vacancy on the Board of Directors and efforts were made to have him go to the platform. He insisted upon remaining in his seat, however, and he asked some questions. Among those he wanted to know the exact amount of the shortage of the Great Worthy Master. This information was not forthcoming, it being explained that it was not deemed admissible to give out this information while the matter was in the court and an indictment was pending. REV. DR. THOMAS DECLINES. Rev. Dr. Thomas announced that he was unwilling to leave on the Board, for the reason that he had not been previously notified of such an election and he had no opportunity of knowing all of the facts in the case. Mrs. L. G. Cousins and Editor Jag. W. Poe served as Secretaries of the meeting. With the exception noted, the meeting was harmonious. William Miller and William Saunders are said to be on Floyd Ross' hand jointly for $1,000. When the case is called next Tuesday he must appear or his bond will be forfeited. There are other charges ready to be formulated should he return, so if is said, although his friends here hope that he may come back to Richmond to face them and to justify the faith that they have in him. Mrs. Floyd Ross, a most estimable lady, left Friday, 4th inst. for Lewishburg, West Virginia. SALARY OF THE GRAND WORTHY MASTER The salary of the Grand Worrier Master has been $150.00 per month until quite recently, when a slight horizontal reduction in all salaries was made to aid the Order in "getting on its feet" again. During the administration of Rev. Wm. L. Taylor, the salary was four hundred and sixteen dollars, sixty-six and two-thirds cents. This was during the "palmy days" of the or- ganization. Ryland Lewis Funeral. The funeral of Ryland Lewis took place at the First Baptist Church last Sunday at 1 o'clock. Rev. J. H. Faunterley read Psalm XXIII. Prayer was offered by Rev. Scott C. Burrell. Rev. W. T. Johnson delivered a most impressive sermon from the text, "God shall wipe, away all tears from their eyes." At the conclusion, Mrs. W. T. Johnson sang with transcendent sweetness of voice "In That City." The letter from the distressed widow stated that death had come December 3 at 5:15 A. M. The deceased left a wife, son, sister, brother to mourn their loss. He was a member of Invincible Lodge, No. 2674. G. U. O. of Odd Follows, and also Vespus Lodge, No. 46. Knights of Pythias. He had been a member of the First Baptist Church for more than twenty years. Rev. Johnson and the congregation joined in singing "Sleep On, Beloved, Sleep and Take Thy Rest." The floral designs were numerous and costly. The casket was cloth-covered, with heavy silver-mounted handles. Funeral director, A. D. Price, officiated. A touching letter of condolence was read from Mrs. Thomas M. Rutherford, in whose family he had labored so many years. Tried to Enter There. Robbins attempted to enter the residence of Mrs. Kersey at 100 West Leigh Street, Friday morning. 4th instant, at about 2 A. M. Mr. Lewis B. Allen awoke and started after them and they were quick to disappear over the back fence. Colored Pastor and His Followers Are Ousted From all Connection With Church. Petersburg, Va., Dec. 8.—In accordance with his decision yesterday Judge J. F. West presiding in the Hustings Court of this city, in the Harrison Street (colored) Baptist Church case, this morning entered a decree directing the city sergeant forthwith to proceed to cust Ell Tartte, former pulpit supply and the various former trustees and officers of the church, and any person holding under them for the church building and parsonage, and to deliver possession of the same and of other church property: records, books, papers, forms, etc., to the trustees and officers of the anti-Tartte faction, as established by the decree of January 31, 1914, and the defendants and each of them, their agents and attorneys, are enjoined from interfering in any way with the possession and control of the property: The city sergeant was directed to report to the court at 2 o'clock how he had executed the decree. It was further ordered that Ell Tartte and his trustees and officers appear at the bar of the court at 2 o'clock and show cause, if any they can show, why they should not be fined and imprisoned for their refusal and failure to deliver the property as directed by the decree of January 31, to the trustees and officers established by that decree. When the court met this afternoon Sergent Evans reported that he had duly executed the decree, and he turned over to the court the keys of the parsonage, the church and the study. Tartarte had moved out of the parsonage before the afternoon meeting of the court. The books, records, etc., were surrendered to the court, and by the keys and records were put in the possession of the anti-Tartarte officials. In the matter of the contempt order, Ell Tartarte and his associate church officers were purged of contempt by R. B. Davis, of their counsel, who stated to the court that they had acted on his advice, and that neither they nor he had any intention of disobeying the order of the court. After some timely advice to both factions, the court dismissed the contempt rule and adjourned. The anti.Tarttie faction of the congregation will worship in the church tomorrow for the first time since 1908, and it will be a joyous occasion with them. It is expected, now that the litigation has been ended, that eventually the two factions of the congregation will come together and worship in peace and harmony. Christenburg Defeats Bluefield. To the Richmond Planet: Bluefield Colored Institute of West Virginia will never forget the surprise handed her by the Christiansburg Industrial Institute, Christiansburg, Va., on Thanksgiving Day when a game of football was played by teams from the two schools. One of the largest crowds ever gathered on the Christiansburg campus witnessed the game, which resulted in a victory for Christiansburg by a score of 19 to 12. The boys of Bluefield Institute were considerably heavier than their opponents so they felt sure of a great victory. Their manager, Stanley Turner, deserves great credit for the trim in which he had put his men, but Christiansburg showed the better training and just outplayed Bluefield at every point. The playing by Captain John Bailey, Clarke, and Taylor of Christiansburg were the prominent features of the game. Christiansburg's team is trained and coach d by L. D. Debroe of Hampton Institute. HELP THE STARVING BELGIANS A Christmas Appeal. To the Editor: Dear Sir:—Christmas approaches and to quote the President's Thanksgiving proclamation "it has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace with honor." The duty and the privilege remain of avorting starvation amongst the Belgian refugees this winter and for this special purpose the Dollar Christmas Fund has been organized. It is estimated to date that all the help subscribed in America—and it has been very liberal—including the aid of the wealthy Rockefeller Foundation—does not average more than a few cents for each destitute Belgian—enough to buy food for a few days. The Dollar Christmas Fund has one great ambition—to see that every man, woman and child this Christmas shall have food, clothing, shelter. This great achievement is happily still possible, and to this end we are working with the Christmas Fund of London, which has collected for the same purpose nearly $400,000. The co-operation of the two organizations has many decided advantages. It provides a safe guard against waste from overlapping. It enables our Fund to enjoy the guidance of members of the Belgian Government as regards the distribution of relief. All our workers are voluntary and every cent subscribed, after educting the cost of stamps and stationery, goes direct to the Belgians. Even if you have given to every other fund we beg you in the name of humanity to assist the Christmas Fund for which I appeal an treasurer. Help to send a Christmas gift worthy of America—a tribute of sympathy from one people to another whose needs and sorrows are unimaginable. If you realize that millions are literally faced with starvation, that children are still crying for food, shelterless women dragging their weary way to help, that aged men are homeless and shivering—and this despite all that is being done—you will give before Christmas and give liberally. England has received 200,000 of the refugees, but there are unnumbered thousands still wandering in France and Holland besides those in stricken Belgium. A fresh inspiration to our own peaceful Christmas in America will be lent if we relieve now the sufferings of innocent little children, unfending women and aged men and you may rest assured that no man's Christmas Day will be the less happy because in some cases the gift may entail some measure of personal sacrifice. Let us remember at this crisis that "to pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike." All contributions entrusted to me as treasurer will be promptly and thankfully acknowledged. Send along your dollar—more if you can. Treasurer. Dollar Christmas Fund for Homeless Believers, Broad Street, New York. Major Bryton Here. Major Benjamin Braxton, United States Boy Scouts of Norfolk. Va., in the city to interest the public in the work of saving the boys. He has a letter from the Mayor of Norfolk. Va., commending the work. He will be in the city until Monday. Editor Crenshaw Speaks. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 2, 1916. Hon. John Mitchell. Richmond, Va. Honored Sir. For sometime past I have intended to congratulate you on the masterful—because straightforward and courageous—editorial you gave utterance to concerning the Chionautin case. To say on the scene what you said, aside from our full reports of the case as it progressed, means that that meant courage of no maudlin sort or brand. Your editorial utterances on the Baptist situation, as now engrossing nation-wide public attention, insofar as Baptists especially are concerned, have been sano advice. This last one in last week's issue iscommendable. Yes, the "conservative elements" should come to the rescue of the denomination and adjust every conceivable thing which tends to keep ablaze this present turmoil. Accept this as an acknowledgment due you for the real good you are doing in creating sentiment for the sensible adjustment of the vexed situation. Respectfully yours, J. D. CRENSAH. Editor Union-Review. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. JUDGE SCOTT APPROVES SALE OF IMMANUEL CHURCH Place Cost of Proceedings on Women Who Protested Against Sale to Negroes. (Bichmond Time-Dispatch, December 10, 1914.) An order entered yesterday in the City Circuit Court by Judge R. Carter Scott, authorizes the trustees of Immanuel Baptist Church to sell the church property at Fifth and Leigh streets for the sum of $21,000. The same order charges Mrs. Allice M. Broughs, Mrs. Sallio Probst, Mrs. E. R. Hall and Mrs. S. S. Ellett with the cost of the proceedings instituted by them to prevent the sale of the property. The costs amount to $20.85. Judge Scott's order brings to an end a controversy which has been pending for months. The trustees of the church made arrangements for the sale of the property at Fifth and Leigh streets to a colored congregation, and applied to the City Circuit Court for an order authorizing the transfer. Opposition to the sale of the church to Negroes was at once registered by owners of property in the vicinity. Although a majority of the congregation favored the sale, several members sought to stay it by appeal to the court. A commissioner was appointed by Judge Scott to take evidence as to the will of the congregation in the matter. He reported the overwhelming desire of the congregation that the sale be authorized, and an order was entered yesterday allowing it. The order directs that the sum of $600 be paid down by the purchasers at once, that $7,500 more be paid when the property is transferred, and that the remainder be paid within five years. Vistors Day at Fifth Street. Sunday morning will be observed as Visitor's Day at the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School. The entire program will be rendered by visitors. The public is asked to attend these services Sunday (to-morrow) morning at 9:30 o'clock. ALLEN—RODGERS. Mr. D. J. Carter announces the marriage of his daughter, Mrs. Lella E. Rodgers, to Mr. Andrew J. Allen, Dec. 2, 1914, at the home of Rev. A. S. Thomas. At home to friends Dec. 23, 1914, at Peake's Turnout, Hanover, Va. Messas Thomas Alexander Fowler and Joseph A. Jackman, of Montclair N. J. are in the city. Miss Viola Stovall, of South Richmond, Va., left the city on the 3rd inst., for Brooklyn, N. Y., where she will spend many weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are rejoicing over the advent of a beautiful baby girl. The mother is doing well. The Hippodrome performers who entertained the guest at the Khorasan Thanksgiving. Banquet were accompanied by Mr. Curtis Jordan, who provided at the piano with his usual dexterity. Mr. Jordan is one our oldest and best piano players in the State. Notice. Absolute divorce has been granted to Mrs. Lucy Smith Coleman from her husband, William Coleman. FOR SALE CHEAP—A desirable * home near Second and Duval st. A Great Bargain. See Bragg Bros. & Co., 506 N Second St. Second Dett Recital. The Gamma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Praterity of the Virginia Union University presents Prof. R. Nathaniel Dett in a piano recital Friday evening, December 18, 1914, at 8:15 o'clock. The entertainment will be given in Coborn Hall, the University's Chapel. The music-loving people of Richmond will recall that the recital given last year by Mr. Dett was the most excellent rendition of the season. Mr. Dett is a graduate, with honors, from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He is now an instructor in music at Hampton Institute. LUCILLE LOVE THE GIRL OF MYSTERY Copyright 1974. All modeling please right moved to the Virtual Film Manage- ment. All production in leading theaters. Infrid- rants will be significantly increased. A Her Hands Sought the Precious Necklace. Her Hands Sought the Precious Necklace. fore that time—clothes. Clothes! She fairly blushed as she looked upon the beautifully dressed women upon the street. Clothes! Why, she looked a perfect ragamuffin. She had become frightfully self conscious, ascribing the glances of admiration bestowed upon her from pedestrians, to her shabbiness. Unconsciously her hands sought the precious necklace. She appealed swiftly andfurtely down the street. Self reliance had become a part of her from her experiences, but the thought of obtaining money was something that appalled her. She had never known anything of money in her life. Resolutely she bit her lips and forced her way through the doors of a jewelry establishment, fighting her resolution to the point of approaching the bespectacled, important looking man behind the counter. "I wish to sell," she murmured bashfully. "The salesman stared from her to the necklace, his eyes growing wider and wider with bewilderment as he looked upon such stones as he had never seen before in his life. "The proprietor"—he whispered. Lucille followed the direction of his pointed finger, on the verge of bursting into laughter at the change in his demeanor. With added confidence she pushed open the ground glass door, upon which was marked a caution for all outsiders to keep out. A keen eyed little man turned upon her abruptly, his lips half open for a protest against the intrusion, when his eyes fell upon the necklace she carried loosely in her hands. "I wished some ready money," Lucille quickly explained, blushing at her own temerity as she placed the precious necklace upon the desk. The man drew a jeweler's glass from his drawer and stooped to examine each stone, his lips parsing to vent a little whistle of awe and admiration every few moments. "Where, oh! you get this necklace, miss? I presume you realize something of its value." "I really don't know exactly where. It was on a savage island, where I was cast away—an island just eight days out of Manila." "A savage island—from Manila" — A bit of the incredulity had left his manor already. Once more he stooped to examine the necklace. "Yes," he muttered; "the cutting of the stones is different from any I have ever encountered—old Aslatic undoubtedly." Again he turned to her. "How long ago, waa this, miss? What is this story of being cast away? I do not recollect any wrecks?" — "The Empress," Lucille quickly explained. "Well, well, well"—he rubbed his hands together in frank saintsmantment—"to think, that any one, escaped from the wreck of the Empress!" Once more his lips pursed. "But why have you not reached friends?" "I am Loclie Love," she said quietly. "I cannot go b. k."—Loclie Love, daughter of General Love! He studied her keenly, nodding his head from side to side. "Yes, yes; your father and I were quite well acquainted when he was stationed at the Presidio here, and you will not go back because of the disgrace that caused you to leave when the orders from Washington were stolen." "There was no disgrace." Loclie said, her tones fairly chilling. "The papers were stolen by an outsider, sir. That was why I boarded the Empress. That is why I am here. That is why I seek money; why I am still searching." "But my dear Miss Loye," he smiled, "you must realize that there is not money enough in the establishment to purchase such a wonderful piece of the one you own." "A few stream, possibly, or," he added as an afterthought. ΓΨ/0 SYNOPSIS Valuable governmental papers are stolen by Thompson, follower of Loubeau, international spy, from General Lovett, whom he sent to the steamer Lucille flies to a steamer to recover the papers in order to clear the name of Lieutenant Glenen, whom she loves. Loubeau tampering with the windows on the stater, is hurt. Lucille nurses him in an attempt to recover the papers. Lucille gets the papers, but the ship is wrecked. She is in cast ashore on a Pacific island and is taken by a native chief to but to cure his sick children. The native child is hounded to health. Loubeau also cast ashore, tries various plans to recover the papers, but in vain. Loubeau baffled, forces a message from a neighboring chief to cure Lucille away from her friends. She falls into a pitfall, seeing the documents. Loubeau's native old sister the papers from his master, and Lucille takes them. Then the slave after he is killed by an underground mess in the jungle. Locile falls into the hands of a tribe of age men, whose leader drops a necklace of pristine rubies, which she takes. She and Loculee are rescued from the yacht commanded by Captain Wetherall. The girl and Loculee are set off in an open boat by Wetherall after she repels the captain's advances, and he takes the papers. Saved by fishermen, Locile and Loculee are in China. As she passes a house Loculee's diary is thrown to her mysteriously, she tries to board a vessel bound for America. Loculee recovers the papers from Wetherall. Locile stows away, is caught and drowned by the steamer in order to search Loculee's statuary for the papers. He catches her at work. Loculee takes the papers from Locile Landing at San Francisco she is kidnapped by the spy and held a prisoner in Loculee's house by Thompson. Locile throws a message from her window to the captain of the boat, who passes the house, and a fight follows, which Loculee is hurt and she takes and bides the papers. Thompson tries to steal the rubie. At Loubeque's ranch in Mexico, to which Loubeque takes Lucilia, the girl is befriended by a mysterious Mexican, who takes her to a escape after she strikes down Thompson. Lucilia dies across the border and meets Lieutenant Cattamoy, an army friend. He puts her on a train for San Francisco. On the train is Thompson, watching her. Thompson steals the necklace from Lucilia and Loubeque takes the papers from him. Thompson takes his house to recover them. Loubeque takes Thompson of being a traitor to him. Loubeque chooses Thompson into submission. He takes the girl again to Mexico, but she flees again with the aid of her mysterious friend, taking with her the papers and the rubies. Lucilia stunned in an accident to her strange friend's automobile, is recaptured by Loubeque. In San Francisco she again and pledges the rubies for $10,000. CHAPTER XXI Lucille Indulges a Feminine Instinct. UCILLE thrilled with Inexpressible delight when she found harmoniousness in Fine l herself once more in San Francisco, the place where last she had seen her sweetheart. She imagined him roaring the city, using every means in his power to find her. She knew he had led the assault upon that house, and that not even the secret exit made by the occupants could divert him from his purpose of finding her. but she had a far better chance than he with Loubeque. She only caught herself hoping that the international spy would return to his home. Not for the cunning brain of such a one as the spy to go back to a place from which he had been driven and which he had every reason to believe would be under surveillance. Instead of doing this he promptly took a motor to the St. Francis, relying upon the very audacity of his move to protect him. Luctille followed, him quietly, almost meekly. They had but little to say to each other. Both know the other's thoughts too well to waste time in words; both know the other's relentlessness of purpose. And, more than anything and everything else, both knew that the fight between them must be settled very shortly, that any move must be made quickly. Luctille allied out of the hotel the second day, undecided as to what to do and caring little to plan or plot. For always there was to be reckoned with Thompson, who had turned against his former master. Thompson was the man upon whom she copied herself with feminine intuition she must depend. Thompson would lay open a way. And the hate of Thompson would turn itself against the hate of Loubeque and then her own great love would have its intners. And in this mood, for the first time since leaving Manila so abruptly in the seroplans of Harley, her thought turned from the sweetheart she felt was in the city to the thought of meeting him. She stopped short, the song upon her lips froze there as she looked down at herself. For the first time in months an idea recurred to her, an idea that seemed to have formed a master portion of her ideas in life be- ```markdown ``` THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "I might, purchase all option on the necklace for, say, as much of a reasonable sum as you desire at present and will then look about for a purchaser." Lochelle's face showed her relief. "I will give you $10,000 for an option to sell the neckline within six months," the man continued quickly. "Meanwhile I will keep it here and give you a receipt for it in order that I may show it to possible customers." "Ten thousand dollars!" Lucille's eyes were wide in wonderment. It was not ten minutes later, with a mutual promise to say nothing of the tranction, that she left the shop with a certified check for the sum mentioned in her tightly clinched fat, accompanied by a clerk. A strange shadow seemed to have fallen upon her, one which took a large part of the amusement she anticipated getting from her shopping away. She could only ascribe it to meeting with one who had known her father, who unwittingly showed her what the judgment of the world had been in regard to the missing orders, the necessity for immediately folling Hugo Loubeque. As she left the bank with the roll of banknotes in her hand and a warning from the clerk still ringing in her ears she thought no longer of adorning herself, and forgotten her shabbiness and her fear of meeting her sweetheart. Her thoughts were still upon clothes, the most gorgeous clothes. And her thoughts were also upon Hugo Louque, the international spy, the man who stood between her and the fruition of all her hopes, the man—and a warm hum suffused her cheeks, which she fought down swiftly—who was constantly proving himself but a mere man, after all; a man susceptible to woman's charms. Her head, was high, her cheeks sparkling as she entered the first fashionable shop she came to; her manner such that the crowding, Joostling women made way for her as for a queen in regal attire instead of a young girl with habiliments torn and disheveled. And always, alongside the doors of all the establishments she entered, waiting—patiently waiting, furiously waiting—a rather service appearing man stood, respectful, quiet, contained. Lucille's return to her apartment at the hotel was greeted with an apparent respect that spoke plainly of the arrival of the flood of packages she had ordered sent immediately that she might prepare herself for the conquest of Loubeque. It was several hours later that she looked at herself in the long cheval glass, frank admiration and wonder lingling within her, mantling her cheeks with roses that no ruby necklaces could have purchased. For the first time she realized that she was wonderfully beautiful. And even as she stood there came a clear tapping upon the door. With a smile upon her lips she moved toward it, allowing it to open the slightest fraction at a time. Hugo Loubeque stepped within, immaculate in his evening clothes, and bowed gravely, his eyes taking her in from head to toe, frank admiration glowing in them. "You will dine with me?" His manner was courteous as ever, yet there was a change. Something already was lost between them, some of the strands which bound them together slackened, dropped apart never to be put together again. Lucille merely nodded. Her heart was growing larger and larger, and she found herself frightened. She rested her hand upon his sleeve and allowed him to escort her to the dining room. In the dining room she gave herself over to a mood effervescent as the champagne that bubbled in the glass before her. Loubeque had not proven adamant against the frank admiration which went the length of the room at the appearance of Lucille. She was playing a part she had never dreamed of playing until she caught sight of her beautiful reflection mirrored back at her from the long glaze in her apartment. And a great shame was upon her, even as her growing self disguised divided itself between shame at seeing the great Loubeque falling into the net she was defyly wearing for him. She watched him narrowly, marking the "constantly growing boldness of his frank admiration. A rather pretty girl whirled into the center of the big dining room and without waiting for the faint murmur of applause that greeted her appearance to subside, began to dance. Lucille noticed that Loubeque had so far given himself over to the spirit of reverie that his dishes went untouched as he watched the indifferent dancing. Inspiration came to Lucille. She saw the weak spot in Hugo Loubeque well nigh perfect arm, thought she saw a method of reaching it. Quaintly she excused herself and left the room. Once at the end of the room her manner changed. Swiftly she turned, taking the direction she had seen the dancer leave and coming into a small room where the entertainers sat. She approached the girl, drawing her to one side. "If I pay you well," she whispered eagerly, "would you let me dance in your place the next time pay you pay you $100-$200" she added as the girl regarded her suspiciously. "Five hundred dollars!" Wonderment glinted in the eyes upon her. "What do you want—to get chance at cabaret work?" "No—no, I can dance, but I merely wish to do it once. There is a reason I cannot explain now. But it means everything to me. Please—please"—Tears glistened in eyes filled to overflowing with such honest pleading that the girl quickly nodded. "Let's see your work," she demanded. "What line, misfit?" Lucille slowly recalled an old Spanish dance she had learned years before, one she had danced in private theatricals. The cabaret dancer whispered to a young man in the corner who took his guitar from its case and thrummed lightly until Lucille nodded "You'll do," the girl said five minutes later, then, with a tinge of envy in her voice, and eyes, "dead sure you ain't after me job?" Lucille pressed the money upon her, warmly, assuring her over and over again that such was not her intention. "All right then. You're due in half an hour. I'll fix it with the manager and put the orchestra leader wise to the game. The dress ain't quite the stuff for." Lucile nodded gagly. Hurriedly she scribbled a note to Loubeque, reassuring him as to her delay and begging him to wait a short time until she came. Then she darted to her suit, fairly tearing, her gown from her in her histe. - She did not know what odd whimmy and induced her to purchase the little coquettish stuff of a dancing gown that fitted the part she intended playing so perfectly. A bit breathless she returned to the cabaret. The girl gave her a shove forward and she found herself standing in the big room, heard, as from a long way off, the stringed orchestra brilliantly playing "La Palouna." "Gwant! Beat it!" it was the voice of the cabaret dancer. Lucille knew then that she must go through with what she had started, taking a long breath, her body swayed to the strains. Slowly, gracefully she glided into the room, her face partially concealed by the mantilla. A gasp, of surprise followed her appearance, men and women leaned forward, forgetful of their dinner lured by her infectious grace and charm. But she had eyes for but one man, the international spy, who, a surprised, puzzled expression on his face, leaned far forward in his chair, watching this woman who danced so wonderfully. Then suddenly the music changed. Lucille flashed a glance at Loubeque and from that moment danced to him and him alone. It was perfectly obvious to every one in the room. The spy sank back in his chair, a bit embarrassed but quite aglow with delight. The music was growing slower, slowest, and, with a trickling laugh of implab merriment, Lucille dung wide her mantilla and bowed mockingly to the arch-spy. For just a second his splendid mouth gaped, then, with eyes that shot strange fires at her, his palms cracked vigorously together as he led off the whirlwind of applause that set the glasses and cuticle dancing. The orchestral leader waved his baton toward Lucille for an encore, and from her chair opposite Loubeque, into which she had sunk, she half rose to respond with a bow. The voice was tonic, terrifying in its bitterness, its scorn. Lucille turned, startled: then, involuntarily, her hands reached out toward the man who was standing, tense, a horrified expression of digust and unbelief upon his countenance. "Dick!" she quavered. Leutenant Gibson moved away as her slender figure awed toward him. Her hands were upon his wrists. He looked at them a second then slowly detached them and turned away, leaving the great room, leaving behind the woman who had dared everything for him. And Lucille, the radiant face of a moment before gone into a mask, a frigid, fey mask, watched him as, without turning, he left her alone to fight 1 "Poor child. Lecilia! he murmured, "It was Gibbon. After all you might have believed of him, to have him turn that way hastily"— "Dick is a man," she smiled sadly. "Miss is full of suspicion. But when a woman loves she does not ask for subservience" (TO BE CONTINUED) The Czar and Kaiser Take the Field With Their Armies on Eastern Battle Ground. The battle in northern Poland, concerning the progress of which there has been much mystery, is now being fought out under the eyes of the German emperor, on the one side, and the Russian emperor on the other. These two monarchs left for the front, so that virtually the heads of all the nations at war are with the troops at present, as the king of England is in France; the king of Belgium, as usual, is spending all his time with his soldiers, while President Polcary, of France, started for another visit to the northern battlefield. Official news from Poland continues to be scanty, and with both headquarters claiming success, it is impossible to say how the battle is going. Of its intensity, however, there can be no doubt. The Germans, when they started off Warsaw, dashed full tilt into a mass of Russian troops and forced their way so far in that the Russians closed on them. This was taken in Petrograd to mean that some of the German divisions had been cut off and that their burrender or annihilation was inevitable. It appears, however, that, fighting for their very lives and in the knowledge that a great defeat would end, the German offensive and compel them to fall back on their own frontiers, the German troops succeeded in breaking through the Russian lines near Lodz, and at another in holding their entrenchments against all the Russian attacks. Their flanks are still being harrassed by the Cossacks, but seemingly the Russians are not now in a position to gain the sweeping victory they had anticlimated. The losses with the desperate fighting that has been going on for a fortnight must necessarily be very heavy on both sides. Against the Austro-German forces in the south the Russians continue to gain more decisive results. They are now in possession of all the Austrian positions protecting the Carpathian passes and are said to have arrived abreast of Cracow, while their captures for three weeks number 50,000 men. Another wireless report from Berlin says that the latest reports from Russian Poland given out in the kaiser capital indicate that the Germans have resumed the execution of their plan to encompass the Russian right flank and to force it back on the center, at the same time cutting off the Russians' communication with War. The carrying out of this plan, which began with a Russian defeat at Lipno and at Plock, was later hindered by the arrival of Russian reinforcements and the Germans for a moment were thrown on their defensive. Now, after repulsing a number of attacks, the Germans appear to be moving forward in the direction of Lowicz. A dispatch from Petrograd says: "The issue of the battle around Lodz is still doubtful. It will go down to history as one of the most fiercely contested, most strategically brilliant encounters ever fought. Military writers say that, while only a German army would have walked into such a trap, boastfully assuming that the Russians were afraid of them, it is equally true that only a German army could have escaped. The way they hurled themselves against the walls of the Russians, when they discovered that they were surrounded, was remarkable. "They often had to climb over heaps of their own comrades and rush onto Russian bayonets or cross a zone of artillery fire, where bursting shrapnel took a terrible toll of life." The condition of German prisoners captured in the region of Lodz is said to resemble that of the French troops during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Many of them have frozen hands and feet. They were wrapped in blankets and shawls from the peasants. One private wore a woman's furl wrap. The following are the official bulletins: RU88IAN. "Stubborn fighting in the direction of Lowicz continues. An attempt by the Germans to advance in the region of Rzezow, Gallicia, has been repulsed with great loss to the Germans. "On the rest of the front, along the left bank of the Vistula, an artillery engagement took place on Nov. 30. "The Russian troops, after a fight lasting ten days, captured, on Nov. 28, the Austrian positions which protected the passes in the Carpathians extending fifty verats (about thirty three miles) from Koneczna, which is situated north of Bartfeld as far as Szcruko, situated south of Mezo Laborz. The Russians in this district captured cannon, machine guns and many prisoners. "At Plock (Poland) the Russian troops seized four ships laden with machine guns and munitions. "In East Prussia only minor engagements continue." GERMAN. "In East Prussia and in southern Poland it was generally quiet. In northern Poland, south of the Vistula, our war booty was increased still further as a result of the succession announced Monday. "The number of prisoners taken by us has been increased by about 9500 men, and we have taken nineteen KING GEORGE. Ruler of Great Britain Visits Troops in France. more cannon. In addition twenty-six machine guns and numerous ammunition carts fell into our hands." BRITAIN WANTS NAVY STATION IN NORWAY Demand For Use of Christiansand Turned Down. England has demanded from Norway, for use as a naval base, the city and harbor of Christiansand, on the southern coast of Norway, such use to continue during the war, according to a report. The demand was refused. Troops have been sent to Christiansand from all parts of Norway, and the defences of the city are being strengthened. If Norway's neutrality should be violated by England, Sweden would also be drawn into the struggle because of its defensive alliance with Norway. The people of Sweden dislike Russia, but the Norwegian people are more friendly to the allies than to Germany. Public opinion Vosländers ruthless overrunning of Belgium and Luxemburg by Germany as indicative that small powers or independent states would not be safe if German arms prevailed. Nevertheless, the people of Norway will defend their neutrality. GERMAN LOSSES 644.762 Five Bavarian Regiments Have Lost More than 10,000. The eighty-sixth and eighty-ninth lists of German casualties, issued in Berlin, contain the names of 17,689 men killed, wounded and missing. This brings the total of German casualties up to 644,762, not including the sixty-seventh Saxony list, the sixty-seventh Wienertemburg list and the eighth Bavarian list. The last two Bavarian lists contain 6070 names. It is noticeable that five Bavarian regiments lost more than 10,000 men. Prince Radziwill and Dr. Abeles, both members of the reichstag, are among the wounded. Poor General General von Oswald, of Leutentain General von Oswald, of Wuertemburg, who was taken off the retired list and given command of a landwehr infantry brigade, was killed in battle in the west. Leut, General Henning, commander of an infantry division; Henon and von Grumbkon, the last named commander of an infantry brigade, have died of illness from strenuous field service. Steamer Rams Submarine According to a dispatch from Hull, the steamer Earl of Aberdeen ran into a British submarine while bound from Aberdeen to Hull. There were no casualties, but the steamer's captain was detained, pending an inquiry. A mysterious motorboat tried to enter the barbor at Sunderland, Eng. during the darkness, ignoring the signals of a atrol warship. A shot was fired, sinking the motorboat and killing its occupants. Deny Belgian Queen is ill. The rumors that Queen Elizabeth of Belgium is ill are unfounded. She is in London with her children and visited Queen Mother Alexandra and extended birthday congratulations on Monday. Place Austrian Losses Over 900,000. On the basis of reports received in Petrograd from Hungary, it is stated that the Austro-Hungarian casualty to date amount to 800,000 men and 19,000 officers. $150,000 Fire in Marlenville, Pa. The business section of Marlenville, near Tionesta, Pa., was wiped out by fire. Twenty buildings with their entire contents were destroyed, entailing an estimated loss of $150,000. Nearly a hundred persons are homeless. The names spread rapidly despite the efforts of a bucket brigade, and in three hours the business section was in ruins. A spark from a railroad engine is believed to have started the blaze. To Electrocute 10, Electrician Quite. Rather than electrocute ten men who have been sentenced to death at Little Rock, Ark., Lather Casting, electrician at the state penitentiary, presented his resignation. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR The full German strength in Flanders has been thrown forward in a new effort to pierce the allies' line. Indian troops have regained ground taken by the Germans near La Bassee. The French have begun a new drive toward Mets. A German request for an armistice, near Verdun, has been refused. Reinforcements are being rushed to both the Russian and German armies in Poland. Petrograd hears the Germans have lost heavily in the battle near Lodz. General Von Hindenburg is reported to be retreating slowly until additional strength shall arrive. Christians in Constantinople are in terror from outbreaks by Turkish rioters. Russian forces in Trans-Caucasia report a victory over the Turks near Erzerum, but say Ottoman forces are pressing close to Batum, in Russian territory. WEDNE8DAY. The British battleship Bulwark was destroyed in the Thames river, thirty-five miles east of Loudon, by an explosion. It is estimated that 750 lives were lost. Only fourteen men were saved. The British admiralty believes the explosion occurred in the Bulwark's magazine. Crushed by the overwhelming force of the Russians, General Von Hindenburg's army in Poland is in full retreat, which, Petrograd dispatches may, approaches a rout. One army corps (40,000 men) has been captured, while another corps is reported to have been cut to pieces and dispersed. Further south, the Russians are reported to be within twelve miles of Cracow. Dixmude, in Flanders, has been retaken by French marines after a brilliant charge, and the Germans are reported to have been driven back seven miles at this point of the battle line. The French movement toward Metz is reported to threaten the German position at St. Michel. FRIDAY The importance of the czar's victory in Poland grows with the receipt of late news. Forty thousand of the soldiers of the kalager are reported captured. Five German army corps (200,000 men) are in a desperate plight near Plock, their retreat barred by Russians. A Turkish submarine is reported to have been sunk trying to enter the harbor of Sebastopol, on the Black Sea. The British collier Khartoum was destroyed by a mine off the English coast, and the British steamer Primo was torpeded near the mouth of the Slene. Proclamation of a "Holy War," calling upon Moslema throughout the world to open hostilities against Russia, France and Great Britain, has been issued by the sultan of Turkey. SATURDAY. Continued advance by the Russian armies between the Viatula and the Wartho rivers, in Poland, and also toward the city of Cracow, is reported from Potograd. Near Cracow the Austrian forces are reported to be retreating in a rout. The Austrians are reported to have evacuated Czernowitz. Unofficial dispatches from Herlain say the Germans are holding their own in the vicinity of Lodz and Lowicz, where they have been very hard pressed. The Anglo-French allies are reinforcing their armies in Flanders. Heavy artillery firing is reported from that section, and also in the Champagne district, on the southern front of the battle line in France. Reports reaching Paris say that the German battleship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosso has been sunk by a mine in the Baltic sea and that the German cruiser Hertha also has been sunk. SUNDAY. The Germans resumed their offensive in the region of Arras, but were repulsed, says the French communication. Near Ypres the allies captured several important German positions. On the remainder of the battle front there was little action. In Poland the Russians announce that they have made some gains, but they were meeting with a vigorous resistance in the region of Strykow. Berlin dispatches say there has been little fighting in either zone of the war and that the Germans maintain strong positions. Germany has paid $37,500 indemnity to Luxemburg, presumably as a recompense for violation of the duchy's neutrality. Berlin officially announces that Kalfar Wilhelm has gone to the front in the eastern war zone and will direct personally the campaign against the Russians. MONDAY A battle rivaling in intensity the struggle on the Alpine is in progress in Poland, according to unofficial dispatches to London. Notwithstanding the claim of victories made by bith Berlin and Petrograd, the Russian and German armies are deadlocked in a gigantic combat, these dispatches say, the outcome of which is still in doubt. Progress by the allies at certain points is Belgium is reported officially in Paris. In that section of the western battle front the Germans are said to be on the defensive. To the southward, between Ypres, Belgium, and Arras, France, the kaiser is said to have massed 560,000 men for another effort to pierce the allies' flies and make a drive for the French coast. Made Deaf, Dumb and Blind by Sheila The medical men in Paris are very much interested in a number of curious cases contained in the military hospital. It is reported from Lyons that soldiers are under treatment who have been struck deaf, dumb and blind by the explosion of shells, ab though they were not wounded. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914. Oh. Tender Tale Of Old! Oh, tender tale of old, Live in thy dear renown! God's smile was in the dark—behold That way his host came down. Light up, great God, thy word, Make the blest meaning strong. As if our ears, indeed, had heard The glory of their song. It was so far away, But thou couldst make it near. And all its living might display Who heard it when the heavens came down On pastoral Bethlehem. It was so long ago, But God can make it now And, as with that sweet overthrow. Our empty hearts endow. Take, Lord, those words outworn; Oh, make them new for aye; Speak—"Unto you a child is born." Today, today, today. —Jean Ingelow Christman, Christmas Everywhere. "We have received our first Christmas gift," said a city man the other day, "in the shape of two little square, tube shaped, paper packages of tea with Chinese characters painted all over them. They came from our Chinese laundryman. "When we go for the washing and produce the ticket the Chinaman coaches for the bundle. "Ninety cent," he says, and as we are reaching for the coin he reaches under the counter and produces from there those two little square packages, which he lays down beside our bundle. We don't know what's in them or why he put them there, and as we put down the coin we take up one of the packets and say: "What's this? And then says the laundryman, smiling: "And as we smile in return and pick up the old little packets we think the Chinaman is really more or less adaptable to the customs of the country." The Cradle and the Cross. Calvary's cross out of mind, the full significance of Bethlehem's cradle is missed. The great lesson of Christmas is not half learned except our thoughts project themselves, beyond the scenes of the Redeemer's birth to the scenes of his death and the relation of his humiliation and suffering to our redemption be borne in mind —Christian Intelligencer. Rise, happy morn; rise, holy morn; Draw forth the cheerful day from night O Father, touch the east and light The light that shone when hope was born: —Twynney, "In Memoriam." A Real Christmas HER name was Phillipa, a royal name for such a very small, poor English maid, but she had always been called "Flip." and she lived in Duchess row. Duchess row makes you think of something stately and grand; but, also, here it meant just a row of narrow, grimy houses standing in a dark and dreary street, where the sunshine never seemed to come—a place of poor people in the heart of tolling London. Flip lived at 9 Duchess row with her mother, a widow. They had the topmost room of the house, and of all the poor people in Duchess row I do not think any were quite as poor as Flip's mother, who had to work day and night to earn a scanty living by making buttonholes in coats and waistcoats for a ready made clothes warehouse. It was a hard life for the two, but Flip possessed a brave and sturdy little heart beneath her threashare freckle, and when she came out of school each afternoon would sit until her eyes were burning and her poor little fugues raw and aching, helping her mother. And it was no she met one after another a week before Christmas day trying to catch the last glances of norse daylight which came through the window of their room. It was a bitterly cold, christmas day, but a typical Christmas with snow and snow, but when there and a killing and what pains all of them shiver and bore to be borne by a chrysanthem. But once one is already in christmas day, and there was but one Pilgrims Entering Bethlehem on Christmas Day MOTTISO GAKING IN AT THE BRILLIANTLY LIT WING DOW. warmilb in the room where Flip and her mother sat, working hard. "If we can get these finished tonight you can run out with them, an' when you come back we'll have a bit more coal, an' I'll git a bit of fish from round the corner, an' you shall have a plied 'of supper, deary," said the pale mother with a loving look. "That'll be just splendid," replied Flip, "an' then we'll set before the fire, an' you'll tell me about them real Christmas you used to 'ave when you were a girl." "I don't like talking of them days," said the mother with a sigh as she folded up the last bit of work. "Ere you are, deary. Just put on yer 'at an' run with three." And in another minute or two the light little figure, laden with a large bundle, was speeding up the great busy thoroughfare. Sometimes, with all the good will in the world, the constant journeying to the warehouse seemed to her long and weary, but tonight, her thoughts of Christmas made her forget all fatigue. "Ow lovely it would be," she thought, "if we could have a real Christmas, with plum pudding no other an' presents! Fancy if I could give mother a present! I know what I like to give 'er-one of them cases to 'old needles and thimble an' a booklet which I saw at 'Amilton's bazaar, but it ain't much good wishing.' And here her reflections came to an end, for she found herself at the warehouse. She had soon delivered her parcel to the fat managerus and received, the poor payment due and, threading her way cleverly back through dusty corridors and down winding stairs, soon found herself in the jostling street again. She turned her footsteps home, when a gleam of something bright on the dirty parement caught her gaze. She bent down. It wasn't no-yea, it was—a silver sixpence! She picked it up. Could such luck be true? A silver sixpence found on the ground and therefore her very own, to do what she liked with! "Why, now I'll be able to git mother a real Christmas present. It's just like a fairy tale," she thought, her blue eyes shining with excitement. "an' I know what I'll buy, an' I'll git it, too, before I go 'ome, 'cause it won't take me a minit." Hamilton's bazaar was not very far away, and, sure enough, in five minutes Flip was gazing steadily in at the brilliantly decked and lit window at a needlecase in red velvet and gold, an article which for all its gorgeousness was marked but fivepence three farthings. "I want a needlecase with a thimble an' a bodkin an' a reel of cotton, like them up there," said Flip, with all the dignity of a possessor of wealth. "Well, you must wait a bit" anapped THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA KING GEORGE REVIEWS CANADIAN TROOPS Accompanied by Queen Mary and Lord Kitchener, the English ruler reviewed soldiers from Canada on their arrival in England. the assistant. (turing to another customer, a stout cheery looking man, accompanied by two rosey, well dressed children. "I bin waitin' a long time. Why can't you git me one down?" replied Flip, with the perseverance of the test end child. "The girl impatiently detached one of the needless cases. "Where is your money?" she asked. "Ere, of course. Wof'd yer think?" said Flip, handing her the coin. The saleswoman took it. looked at it once carelessly, again narrowly. "Why," she exclaimed, "this is not a skipence at all—it is only an imitation one!" And, turning quickly, she beckoned the tall, impounding looking shopwalker, who stood near. "This child is trying to pana false money," she said as she gave him poor Flip's treasure trove. He examined it and then, taking hold of the child's thim arm, said: "Come, come; where did you get this money from? Tell the truth now." Filp's face went red and the they very white. She did not realize or understand her offense. She only knew that if the aliphance was bad she could not buy the dearly coveted gift. Her heart seemed ready to break, and she burnt into a food of tears as she sobbed out: "I found it, in the street—this true, it. But I can't buy the present now." The shopwalker hesitated, and then the cheery looking customer who had been waiting his turn to be served broke in by saying in a voice that had a strong country twang in it: "Don't you cry, lasla. You don't mean any harm, I guarantee. Let me see that coin," he continued, turning to the shopwalker, who did as he was desired, for he was being addressed by an old and valued customer. "Well, I don't know," said the cheery man. "It is not a sixpence, I agree, but it is a half sovereign and a very good one too." And in the twin kiling of an eye he had defyly exchanged the imitation sixpence for a gold coin from his waistcoat pocket. "There, my lass, take your money and run home." Was it a dream? Flip pinched herself when she was in the chill streets again. No, it was all true—a happy reality to find a bad slipence and then see it transformed into a golden half sovereign. She had forgotten the velvet needlecase; she had but one thought—to get home—and home she soon was, where her anxious mother heard all her wonderful adventures. So, after all, it was a real Christmas in the top room. Safe Bet. Man wants but little here below. And you will why your bets. If you will want money trust. This is more than he gets. —Christmas Enquirer A Fight Story. "Harry," and Larry, "why are little folks so sensible?" "Larry," said Harry. "It's because they bought it on a small scale."—Exchange KING GEORGE REVIEW Photo by American Press Association Accompanied by Queen Mary and Le viewed soldiers from Canada on their arri hem on Christmas Day DEFENDS MANHOOD RIGHTS. President Wilent's Segregation Policy Condemned by Southern Panthers Condemned by Southern Paper. The Lexington Herald, the leading Democratic newspaper of the blue grass region of Kentucky, proves a notable exception to the rule by which southern dailies rally to the support of President Wilson's policy of discrimination against the Negro, says the New York Evening Post. "The humiliest American citizen of full Negro blood is, in the eyes of the law, the full equal of the most powerful citizen of the purest Anglo-Saxon descent," says Editor Debra Buckenridge, in a leading article published Nov. 17, which is, in part, as follows: We regret the president has again permitted himself to display irritation to those who went to him as chief executive of the nation and refused to answer questions put to him about the treatment of public employees. When the women who are striving to secure equal suffrage approached him he took refuge behind the pre-operative that every private citizen but no public official has the right to exercise a display of temper and a declaration that he must refuse to be entechild. For the second time he has permitted himself to lose his temper when confronted by a delegation of citizens asking him to take action about a matter that is embarrassing to him. A number of Negroes representing various Negro organizations appealed to him to forbid the segregation of Negroes in the departments at Washington. The spokesman of the delegation reminded him of campaign pledges made and stated that they did not come to him to ask charity, but as American citizens to demand equal treatment to that recorded other American citizens. Does the president of the United States believe that as a matter of governmental policy citizens of African extraction should be treated differently from citizens of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, Slav or Latin extraction? Is the president of the United States, the chief executive officer of the greatest republic in the world that has opened its doors as a refuge for the oppressed of all nations, willing to stand before the peoples of the earth as giving the sanction of his great personality and high office to the perpetuation of race prejudice? Is it to be the policy of the government of the people, by the people, for the people, that any race is to be set aside as distinguished from another race? At what point will the government as government stop the segregation of different races? As we conceive the purpose of this government, it is to treat every individual as equal before the eyes of the law-black or white, red or yellow, Jew or Gentile, Protestant or Catholic—whatever the breed, whatever the creed, matters not, at least should matter not to the public official charged with the duty of serving all the people. The humblest American citizen of full Negro blood is in the eyes of the law the full equal of the most power- NEWS CANADIAN TROOPS od Lord Kitchener, the English ruler re-arrival in England cal citizen of the purist Anglo-Saxon descent. The public servant elected by the people, paid by the people, owes to the humbleest citizen the same protection and the same treatment accorded to the most powerful. We are distressed that the president has allied himself with those who believe in the perpetuation of race prejudice and justify race passion. As a private citizen every man has the right to determine his own course. As a public official the higher the office the greater the obligation to act with justice and treat with patience those who must look to the public officer for the protection of the law. It is but a step in descent from the position taken by those public officials in Washington who segregate one race to the public official in a southern state who advocates lynch law. The example of the higher official will be cited by the lower official as justification for his course. The mob of the south that lynches in the night is but a step further than the official order that segregates because of color in the day. Considerate. Dainty little lady, You're a charming sight! Dusky kids so shady, Cheeks so pink and white! Hair so very golden. Eyes so very blue! 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NORFOLK: "9:00 A.M. "2:00 P.M. "4:10 P.M. NORFOLK: "9:00 A.M. "2:00 P.M. "4:10 P.M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: "11:00 A.M. "M. "11:00 P.M. From the West "9:00 A.M. "M. "b1:00 P.M. "M. "9:00 P.M. "9:00 P.M. " Daily, ably St. Sunday, bd Sunday Only. W. H. BRYELL, Passover Trust Manager. W. C. RAUNDERK, O. P. A., Roanoke, Va. C. H. HONLEY, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. EFFECTIVE APRIL 12, 1814 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Florida and South: 8:10 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. For North: 8:00 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 4:10 P. M. For N. A. W. Rev. West: 8:10 A. M. 9:00 A. M. 8:00 P. M. 9:20 P. M. For Petersburg: 12:50 A.M. 6:15 A.M. 8:15 8:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 4:10 P.M. 6:15 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 11:45 P.M. For Columbus and Fayetteville: *4:10 P.M.* 4:10 P.M. 4:10 P.M. Daily: 8:25 A.M. 10:15 P.M. 4:37 A.M. *7:00 A.M. 11:40 P.M. 2:10 P.M. 11:40 P.M. 6:05 P.M. 6:35 P.M. 8:08 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 11:30 P.M. Excerpt Sunday. Sunday only. Time of arrival and departure and connections not guaranteed. C. N. CAMPHELL, D. F. A., 200 Male St. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the South. Trains Leave Richmond-Main Street Station M. R.-Free schedule figures published information and net For the South-Daily: 5:44 A. M.-Local: 9:28 A. Express: 8:00 P. M.-Express with Atlantic Electric Railway Shipping Cars for Atlanta and Rimmingham: 1:39 P. M.-Express Week Days 2:00 P. M.-Local. YORK RIVER LINE 8:16 P. M. - Neaeram train (parlor aisle), easy tunnel; no local shops; and 4:18 P. M. - Dullay local station for Baltimore, daily, easy Runway; 7:35 P. M. - Runway. TRANNE ARMSTRONG From the South: 7:05 A. M. and 8:55 A. M. P. M. R. D. P. M. 7:05 A. M. 1:00 B. M. Exch. From the North: 7:05 A. M. (coonner truth) daily except Monday: 8:00 A. M. daily; 8:55 P. M. pacer2 Sunday. H. L. BRISTOP, D. P. A. 607. K. Male St., Phoebe Matthews FF. 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Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily: 8:35 A.M., 7:40 A.M., 8:00 P.M. 6:40 P.M. Local. Subscribe to the Richmond Planet. ALPHEUS SCOTT CHURCH HILL Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Office, 2066 P St. Photo Mad. 2397 Residence, 1015 St. James St. Phone, Mad. 6619 Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Best, Religious Service, Moderate Rates. MADAMB SCOTT, Boulmer Bay for Women and Children and in attendance at funerals. Higgins, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS. FORD GROCER, FIELD VALLEY PARK AND BROOKLYN. 1610 East Franklin Street. (310) 622-8000. WASHINGTON. Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 411 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Rich mood, Va., as second-class matter. Floyd Ross, Grand Worthy Master of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, has left Richmond under a cloud, so to speak. Scenes that knew him once, now know him no more. His leaving is all the more impressive and realistic, when it is coupled with the fact that his residence here has been vacated and his family is now residing in another State. We admit that we are shocked to learn of these remarkable and unforeseen conditions. The past is ours. What about the future? We have watched with interest the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Grand Fountain. This body has selected a most estimable Christian gentleman to lead them. The withering effect of it all in the proviso, "without pay." This reminds us of the thread-bare story of the preacher in a country church, who when reminded by one of the ungody that he had done some "d-n poor preaching" called attention to the collection basket for his benefit with just ten pennies for his part of the day's compensation and remarked, "D-n poor pay, d-n poor preach." We do not mean to infer that this will be Rev. Dr. Morris' attitude, but we do mean to state that it will be morally impossible for him to give the attention and service that the position demands upon any such basis. We hope though that at some future meeting the mistake, as we regard it, will be remedied. We have heard many rumors about some of the present officials aspiring to the office of Grand Worthy Master. For our part, if they are efficient and can render the service, we can see no objection to such aspirations. Both Dr. William H. Smith and Maurice Roussele stand well with the rank and file of the Order and if the occasion should demand, the elevation of the one or the other should not be regarded in an antagonistic spirit. This is, of course, based upon the presumption that better and abler men cannot be obtained. We had not believed that the brilliant young pastor of the Third St. A. M. E. Church could be induced to accept the responsibility of the position: We only hope that his Bishop will grant him a furious and permit his remarkable talents to be used in rehabilitating this Order of True Reformers. He cannot do this, though, "without pay," any more than a horse can pull a load all day without feet. Still, after writing all of this we are wondering if it is any of our business. But these people are asking the help of the public and, we in a measure represent the public. We believe too that the greatest publicity should be given to the condition of affairs inside of the Order and the actual amount of the alleged shortage of the Grand Worthy Master should be made known. Rev. Dr. A. S. Thomas was absolutely right in this matter. The people want to know the facts. They want to know the full amount of the alleged shortage. Grand Worthy Secretary Maurice Rousseau is willing to give these facts as far as his records will show them and he should be permitted to do this. In order to get the confidence of the public, the public must be taken into the Order's confidence. In the meantime, all efforts should be made to help the True Reformers until the full extent of the injury is known. From an endowment standpoint, the payment of death claims, the True Reformers are no worse off now than they were before Floyd Rees' disappearance. A strong hand is needed at the helm and this strong hand cannot be obtained through "a without pay" channel. Grand Worthy Master S. S. Morris is able, resourceful and conscientious. Personally we would trust him with any amount of money, believing that he would faithfully discharge the duties assigned to him. With him or some other leader of his type and calibre, the success of the Order should be assured. The question as to whether Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross has left Richmond never to return will be answered next Tuesday, when his case is called in the Police Court. With the record he left behind him, even should he and his friends make good the shortage, his usefulness as the head of the True Reformer is gone forever. Never was an organization entitled to greater sympathy, never were a confiding people more to be pitied. They have trusted their leaders to the point of their own undoing. May God help them in this last calamity. CZAR BEATEN IN CRACOW REGION A Great Flanking Movement is At empted by Russians to Cut German Communications. A dispatch from Petrograd says it is officially admitted there that the Russian left wing in Poland is falling back before an attack by the Austro- German forces. The Russian left wing is the section of the army's armies that has been for many years menacing Cracow, the fortified city known as the "gateway to Silesia." Previous reports from Petrograd even went so far as to de- declare that this Russian army had opened a bombardment of Cracow. A dispatch from Budapest says it is officially announced there that the Russians who invaded the Saros-Zem- plin district of Hungary are in full retreat and that Austro-Hungarian troops have entered Gallican territory at several points in pursuit. According to a news agency dis- patch from Petrograd the following official statement was issued at Petro- grad: "The German offensive at Lodz and Lowicz has failed. The question of the defense of Lodz has lost its urgency." (The agency says this announcement is considered as confirming the fall of Lodz.) The recapture of Plock, the Vistula river town between Warsaw and Włocław, by the Russians is announced in a dispatch received in Petrograd from Warsaw. This indicates that the right wing of the Russian forces, which ten days ago reached Gumbin, is engaged in a flanking movement aimed to cut off the Germans' railroad communication with Thorn, their principal base in East Prussia. The capture of Włocław would accomplish this aim. Plock is only twenty-seven miles southeast of Włocław, but the Germans are undoubtedly preparing to fight off this flanking movement, and the clash on the front here may be even fierer than that which has marked the struggle on the Lodz-Lowicz front. More than 100,000 Russians were taken prisoners when Lordz was captured by the Germans, according to unofficial reports received in Berlin. Warsaw is now the goal of the German armies in Poland, following the downfall of Lordz. This is made clear in an official review of the military situation issued in Berlin. It says concerning Warsaw: "If the investment of Warsaw should result from the present operations it would rob the Russians of their most important railway communications and put them in a serious position." The operations in Poland, which have developed into the bloodiest battles in the history of the world, are declared to be approaching a definite climax. "That news of decisive action in the east may be expected any day," says the official review, "is shown by the latest reports from headquarters that everything is proceeding according to program. This can mean only that the operations thus far have been successful." Reports sent from Russia that the czar's troops defeated the Germans in an attack at Cenatochowa with heavy losses, on Nov. 29, are denied. "No special reports are at hand from the East Prussian frontier," says another report in Berlin. And the German troops are closely forming the encamp to the east and to the south of Lodz. Besides the extraordinarily large losses reported Sunday, the Russians have lost up to the present about 1500 prisoners and sixteen cannon, with ammunition carts. "In southern Poland nothing special has happened." THE KAISER ILL IN BERLIN. Is Suffering From Catarach and Vieft to the Front is Postponed. to the front. Postponed. Berlin, Dec. 9.—it was officially announced here that Emperor William is ill. The announcement states that he is suffering from a feverish bronchial catarrh, and has been obliged to postpone for some days his return to the front, which had been arranged for Tuesday. Despite his indisposition it is said he is able to give attention to reports of the war situation from the guard of the general staff. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. (By Kelly Miller.) The eternal Negro question has been a disturbing jement in public and political discussion from the foundation of the government down to the present hour. The public mind may seek temporary relief by focusing attention on economic and material issues; the perplexed statesman may put it aside for some more convenient season; yet ever and onon it recurs with unabated aggravation. Even the carriage of the war of nations entailing the most awful toll of death that the world has ever experienced, and which has for the past few months abstained from public concession every other issue of national or international interest, has not been able to relegate the Negro question to the background. The recent interview of Mr. William Trotter, the intropid agitator for the righteus of his race, with the President of the United States, has served as occasion to bring this issue into keen public consideration and into the public eye. Trotter has been the most outspoken agitator of his race, standing out in occupeous and acrid opposition to the more passive and pacific spirit and doctrine of Booker T. Washington. In the intensity of his ardor he has been so violently denunciatory and so bitterly intolerant as to allenate the sympathy and co-operation with the radical spirits of his own race. It is deeply to be deplored if Mr. Trotter, carried away by zeal for his cause, indicated 'any unbecoming temper or feeling in the presence of the President of the United States. The Negro will widely preserve becoming constraint of manner, and carefulness and caution of utterance, even though he labors under burdens which would cause any other element of our population to violate accepted ceremonies of procedure in urging their demands. The just claims of the race will hardly be advanced by spectacular methods like those of the suffragettes in England. On the other hand, the American people should not be led to suppose that the gaco has settled into comprehensive satisfaction with unjust divides in the country and sent its cause in terms of spectacular and dramatic appeal. Albeit, the Negro is long-suffering; nevertheless he suffers long. The temper of the spokman hears but incident upon the cause which he represents. Mr. Trotter headed the delegation to protest that the president against spokman wished proper articulation of the Negro in the civil service of the United States. The outstanding and significant fact is that the President of the United States, speaking ostensibly for the American people, avowedly sanctioned the segregation of the races as the national policy under his administration. The vital question is, does this policy fairly represent the spirit and purpose of the American people? When a delegation of women waited upon the President some time ago, to secure a declaration in behalf of woman suffrage, he declared that he could not speak on such a momentous issue 'until his party had spoken to him. On all matters of question of establishing the caste system in the Federal service, so far as the record discloses, the President speaks on his own initiative, with neither the authority of his party nor that of the American people. During the extra session of the present Congress, one, or more bills were introduced by Southern members with the purpose of segregating the colored employees in the civil service of the Federal Government, but under the guidance of wiser and more comprehensive leadership, such resolutions were relegated to the pigeonhole of Congressional objection. Should such propositions be enacted into law or be allowed to crystallize into custom and practice, it would more definitively establish the inferior status of the Negro race in law than an legislative act or administrative policy since the adoption of the Constitution. It would, indeed seriously affect the declared purpose and spirit of our nat'l policy based upon the absolute equality of citizens in all public considerations. The question of granting women the right of suffrage affects but feebly the foundation principle of free institutions as compared with the proposition to relegate a part of the people to an inferior caste. One is a progressive measure in harmony with the aim and purpose of free institutions, the other is reactionary in the direction of darker and more benighted ages; one points toward the now freedom, the other towards old slavery; one makes for the equality of all before the law, the other grafts the blighted branch of Hindoo caste upon the tree of American liberty. The Federal statute books, no far more free, from race or class legislation. At the time of the founding of the Constitution, one-fifth of the population was of African blood and servile status. But the far-soaring wisdom of the founder omitted all racial designation or discrimination in the organic law. A government boasting of equality could cripple his ability to deliberately deceive the weak and helpless among its own citizens would be an anomaly in the eyes of the nations of the earth. Amid all of the passion and tumult of the anti-slavery conflict the Federal statutes were kept free from the odium of race distinction. The obiter dictum of a chief justice of the Supreme Court which injected race distinction into the decision of that tribunal was swiftly repudiated by the moral indignation of the aroused conscience of the American people. For this Government, today, to declare that the Negro shall not be allowed to vote with the rest of his fellow-citizens would be equivalent to the re-enactment of the disdiscriminated degree of Judre Tundy. Indeed, the principle involved is just as vital to the ideal of the nation today as it was many years ago, although the public can science may be keenly alive . . . it The war amendments to the Constitution reformed the original intention—that there should be no race distinction recognised by the National Government. These great amendments written into the Constitution by the point of the bayonet display, the use of the rifle, or the beaten nor their purpose, ultimately defeated. Race discrimination is mentioned only to be, forbidden. Mindful of the existence of these amendments, the States that have enacted laws repugnant to their spirit and letter, have sought circumvention by cunningly devised phrases such contrivances. Every such revised constitution is the stamp of righteous condemnation in the very phrasiology. The policy of social separation of the races, allied in justification of such measures, is a matter with which the Federal Government has nothing to do. The intimate social and personal relationship of citizens do not fall within the scope or purview of the Federal authority. Its concern is with the comprehensive relations of all citizens. Matters of minor detail are left to local and subordinate jurisdictions. The general government cannot find warrant for such action in the example of the several States. Discriminatory laws in the States are sought to be justified on the ground of the relative number of Negroes in the general population. It is alleged that the greater number of Negroes are unprepared for participation in the government. For other reasons with the whites, without seriously lowering the tone and standard of civilization. The Federal Government has absolutely no such basis of excuse. The Negro represents at present less than 11 per cent of the total population. This ratio is growing less with the passing of the decades. So far no State with so alight a Negro element has deemed it necessary to adopt a code of Jim crow laws. The Federal Government leaves each citizen socially whose it finds him. The American people for two generations have been divided in local alignment as to the relation of the Negro race to the Federal Government. The South has always been opposed to the recognition of the Negro as a Federal citizen, and has driven incessantly to reduce his governmental utility. It would deny him both the right to vote and the right to hold office, while the Southern Senator voted to repeal the Fifth Amendment when that proposition was added as a rider to important legislation during the past Congress. No Northern Senator voted for this proposition, because it does not represent the spirit or purpose of his State or section. The policy of segregating the Negro in the public service is the outgrowth of the same local spirit. The leaders of Southern thought and opinion do not hesitate on all occasions to declare that the Negro is not entitled to eliminate the Negro from all political and governmental consideration. This policy is well understood and accepted as the political doxa of taft section. In the duel for national supremacy between the North and South during the generation preceding the Civil War, the South was hopelessly overmatched. Today it constitutes less than one-third of the population of the United States and has fallen far behind the North in education and moral ideals. This is in no sense a reflection upon the South, which has striven heroically to measure up to the standard of excellence set by the North, under severe and serious handrail. But it is a plain statement of palpable fact pertinent to the issue now under discussion, Massachusetts and Jawa, rather than Mississippi and Georgia, embody and typify the national spirit. The South has become provincial, while the Northern position is national. In all national issues it was to be hoped that the President would follow the leadership of the more numerous, powerful and progressive States rather than the smaller and feebler ones involved in the meshes of unfortunate circumstances. The President must have permitted him self to be persuaded by the advice of the members of his household who speak for a section rather than those who speak for the whole. If the general government should be inclined to follow the example of the States, it would more wisely follow the lead of the North rather than the South. Two Louisiana Negroes Lynches. Two negroes were lynched at Sylvester, L.A., as a result of the murder of C. C. Hicks, postmaster of that place. The slayers dragged the body into a store and set the building on fire. The body was recovered. Ten Years For Striking Guard. A British prison for a man named Lonaldsie, confined in the Doobertz camp near Berlin, has been condemned by a German court martial ten years' imprisonment for a violent attack on his custodians. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR quiet: PHILADELPHIA 7.54.49.0; city mills, fancy, f88 CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow. $1@ $81c. inc. CORN firm; No. 2 white. 54%@$6c. lower grades. $5c. CORN steady, at $8@$6c. per bottle. POULTRY: live steady; hens, 11 ¢13c.; old roosters, 16. Dres- d farm; choice fowls, 18c.; old roosters, 13c.; turkeys, 21¢13c. 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Heavy rains and the poor condition of the roads in west Flanders have hampered the movement of troops and artillery and there is a full in the conflict there, although both armies have continued their heavy can fire. Official communications from Paris declare that the allies are gaining ground and that their offensive is progressing at many points. Heavy fighting has been continued along the Yser and toward Ypres, where the two hostile armies have been directing their efforts in an attempt to cut each other's lines. Here it is said in unofficial dispatches that the British forces have driven a wedge in the German lines and that the Germans may be forced to withdraw their forces near the coast. The dispatch says that the British forces have recaptured Paschendale, a town in Flanders; between Ypres and Roulers, after some desperate fighting and that, if true, the invaders will be forced to relinquish their lines in that section of the zone of war and fall back toward their other position in Bologlum and nearer their own frontier. From, Paris comes the official statement that the allies have halted the offensive movements of the Germans in the region of St. Eloy, south of Ypres, and that they inflicted severe losses on the invaders. Here the Germans violently assailed the lines of the allies, but all of the attacks of the Teutons were repulsed. Additional dispatches from the French war, office say that the fighting has become more violent at many points along the lines in France, and particularly in the Argonnos, where the French forces are pushing their offensive. From, that section of the war the reports are conflicting. Berlin claims that the Germans have made gains there, while Paris declares that the French forces have made some progress. Paris declares that the fighting in that section of the battle front is very lively. Taking advantage of the fierce gales on the Belgian coast, which made the British and French war vessels in the North sea helpless, the Germans have made a sudden shift of pressure against the extreme left wing of the allies, beating back the Belgians who held positions there. Fighting in the midst of a furious storm, which drove in from the North sea, the German soldiers, while lashed by wind and rain, hurled themselves against the Belgians with such force that King Albert's moth were compelled to fall back. Then the Germans pushed long-range artillery westward along the Nieuport-Furnes road, and are now shelling Oost-Duinkerke, only fifteen miles from Dunkirk, France, one of the two chief objectives of the drive towards the coast. Oost-Duinkerke is two and a half miles west of Nieuport, about a mile from the coast, and only nine miles from the French border. Official dispatches announce that the German artillery is bombarding the town, but they fail to say how near the Germans are to the place. This information, however, has established the fact that the allied forces, which were recently reported to be on the outskirts of Ostend, ready to enter at any time they chose, have been forced to retire; that the Belgian army, whose duty it was to hold the extreme left of the allies' line, has fallen back under the assaults of the Germans, and that the Germans are in possession of a considerable section of the Neuport-Furness road, which is high out of reach of the floods. It is also apparent that the recent attempts of the allies in the extreme north to swing around the northern end, of the German right flank have been effectually checked. The official bullets are as follows: FRENCH. "In Belgium a violent German attack on St. Elio, south of Ypres, has been repulsed. The struggle at all times is very lively in the forests and to the east of the Argonne. "During the day of the 7th the enemy has been more active than the day before, in the region of the Year and in the neighborhood of Ypres. Our artillery has answered back with success." In the region of Arms a very brilliant attack has given us possession of Vermelho and Rutoleu. Vermelho had been, for nearly two months the scene of desperate fighting. The enemy had taken footing there on Oct. 14, and from Oct. 31 to Oct. 26 succeeded in forcing us back from the locality. From the 36th of October mapping and mining operations had brought us back until we were again in close contact, and on the 1st of December we rescinded the park and possession of Vermelho. "In the region of the Alps and in Champagne there have been some rems." little disagreements and our heavy military disgrace several gatherings of the enemy. "In the Argonne, the forest of Orsie and to the northwest of Poitier-Moussou, forest of Le Prat, we have gained a little ground. "Along the rest of the front there is nothing to report." GERMAN. "On the coast of Flanders the bad condition of the roads, made wores by the recent torrential rain, is causing great difficulty to the movement of our troops. "To the north of Arras we have made some slight progress. "The war, hospital at Lissle was burned down. This is probably a case of arson. There were, however, no lives lost. "The statement made by the French regarding an advance in the forest of Argonne is not in accordance with the facts. For a long time past no French attacks whatever have taken place there. On the contrary, we are continually gaining ground slowly. "A French position at Mallaucourt, east of Varonnes, was captured. The greater part of the garrison fell on this occasion. The remainder, two officers and about 150 men, were taken as prisoners. "A French attack on our positions to the north of Nancy was repulsed." THE DARDANELLES MENACED BY WARSHIPS Said to be Preparing to Force a Passage. Close on the heels of a Constantinople dispatch received in London telling of a British submarine's unsuccessful attempt to slip through the Dardanelles came advices from Berlin which are taken to indicate that a great fleet of British and French warships is drawn up in front of the western mouth of the strait and that an attack on the guarding forts is imminent. The Berlin cablegram, with the location of the fleet deleted by the sensor, reads as follows: "Porty British and French warships are gathered outside, (name deleted by the sensor), with the evident intention of forcing their way through. This, however, is impossible, as the fortifications have been very greatly strengthened and the waters thickly strewn with mines." "According to London authorities on the situation, the only other place that the dispatch could possibly have reference to is the Kiel canal, where the flower of the German fleet is assembled, and it is believed that an attack on that marine stronghold is out of the question. Then again, at last reports, the French navy was centering its activity In the Mediterranean, no French warships being known to be in the Baltic or North seas. Still another element of the situation that seems to identify the new developments with the Turkish stronghold is the fact that the fortifications at Kiel were placed in the highest state of efficiency and preparation before the outbreak of the war, whereas it is known that German officers, lent from the kaiser's navy, have been superintending material improvements to the system of strongholds along the Dardanelles. RESTING AT ROADSIDE. Belgian Trooper at Foot of Crucifix In Northern France. THE CRUCIFIX Photo by American Press Association. Tall Camellia Tree. A camellia tree fifty feet high can be seen in Pithecus, near Dreadnell. It was brought from Japan in 1864. Learn How Annasley Died. The Barr of Annasley and Lieutenant Bever were shot down by Germans while fighting over Ontario on May 5, and balling were killed. The governor of Annasley was informed of her husband's death. The fathers had been dealt death be set out with the Bounty in an aerial plane early in November. Australian Drop Bombs on Cotinija. An American aeroplane dropped two bombs on Cotinija, according to a Koger, dispatch from the Montana capital. No damage was done. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WOR WEDNESDAY. The German army has surpassed its force attack in France, in what London boasts is the beginning of a new drive on Calais. Both German and French official statements show successes in the Argentine region in France. The French are bombarding the forts of Arnaville, ten miles from Metz, in Germany. Admission is made in Petrograd that the German army in Poland has been reinforced and is taking the aggressive. Berlin announces that since the beginning of the invasion of Poland 80,000 unwounded Russians have been captured. Vienna officially declares that the Russian troops have retreated from Przemysl, following a sledge by the marionet. After a bombardment almost from the beginning of the, war, Belgrade, the capital of Servia, was evacuated by its defenders and occupied by the Austrians. THURSDAY Lamperlisee, four miles west of Dixmire, is being shellled by the German army in Flanders, which apparently has regained a wobbled west of the Yser. Artillery fighting is in progress near Nieuport and Ypres. The inundation from the Yser has extended south of Dixmire. King George is reputed to have gone to the firing line. Borlin reports that the German army in Poland has escaped the danger of being surrounded, and has captured 12,000 prisoners. The kaiser's troops and the Russian army seem deadlocked in battle. General Christian De Wet, leader of the Boer uprising in South Africa, has been captured. Troops from Australia and New Zealand have arrived in Egypt to support the British forces against the Turkish invasion. FRIDAY The offensive movement of the allies in Flanders is believed to have been begun. Berlin reports determined attacks upon the German forces in Belgium, and in Alsace, but says these have been repulsed. Lord Kitchener is reported to be with King George and the Prince of Wales at the front. Reinforced by troops from the west, the German forces have begun a new offensive movement in Poland. Berlin dispatches say Japanese officers are directing the artillery fire of the scar, and that Japanese troops are being hurried through Siberia to the battle front. Petrograd reports Cracow is being bombarded and that the Russians have won a victory in Hungary. The Austrians claim the capture of 18,000 prisoners in Hungary. The desert east of Port Said, in Egypt, has been flooded to protect the Suez canal from a Turkish advance. SATURDAY. Progress by the allies north of the Lys river, in Flanders, is reported in French official dispatches. Rheulens has undergone another bombardment by the Germans, and a severe struggle is reported from the Argentine region. In the Vosges region the advance guards of the Germans and French are fighting in two feet of snow. Fighting between the German army and the Russians between Lodz and Lwow, in central Poland, continues, according to a dispatch from Petrograd, with the armies deadlocked. The armies in East Prussia are marking time, pending a decision in the Poland battle. Vienna announces that the Austrians who occupied Belgrade have left that city on a campaign southward through Servia. The Turkish army is reported by Constantinople to be closing in on the Russian port of Batum on the Black sea. SUNDAY. The Germans are reinforcing the line in Poland, preparatory to another offensive move against Waraw. Furious fighting, is in progress at Lowicz. An official Austrian statement says the battle is progressing favorably to the Austro-German arms. In Flanders the allied' heavy guns have destroyed a German field, fort near the ferryman's house on the Yaser. A Berlin official statement admits the evacuation by the Germans of Vermeils, southeast of Bethune. The French war office announces progress of the French in the Argonne and to the east of that region. An unofficial dispatch says that a German line of communication east of St. Mihiel has been cut. The Germans announce the repulse with heavy loss of French attacks southwest of Altkirch, in upper Austria. MONDAY Pressing the offensive, the French and British allies report gains at Vermelles, southeast of Beihune, in the Champagne district; in Flanders between Purries and Ypres, and along the Mosell. in eastern France. The allies are making a vigorous attack upon the few positions still held on the west bank of the Yser, in Flanders, Paris declares. Another brilliant victory by General von Hindenburg, which includes the capture of Lodz, is reported in an official announcement by Berlin of the operations in central Poland. Perograd admits that the kaiser's forces are pressing the offensive and that Lodz is in flames from the German bombardment. Who Baked Them? A little girl was sent to a neighbor with a plate of fresh cookies that her mother had just baked in a little white who came running back to her mother, and said, "Oh, mother, bien. We work hard the spoon was gone, then, and we wrote the tableau for them."—Judith Moore there. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914. GREAT CHURCHMEN ASSEMBLE HERE. (Continued from First Page.) Found he could not complete his remarks within that time. THE AUDITORIUM MEETING At the conclusion, he retired, although he was a member of the committee. A few moments later, the committee adjourned until Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. It was announced that all members of the Executive Committee would occupy seats on the platform at the City Auditorium, where Dr. Shallor Matthews, Dean of the Chicago University, and President of the Federal Council, and Hon. William J. Bryan would speak. Promptly at 8 o'clock the exercise began. COLORED FOLKS THERE, TOO Arreauements had been made for colored people and they occupied the right tier on the main floor. About 200 took advantage of the opportunity. The remaining seats on that side were filled by white people. There were about 4,000 people in the audience. On the platform were all the members of the Executive Committee, the officials and other distinguished persons. The following colored delegates were there too: Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D., Rev. P. W. Wallace, D. D., Rev. J. E. Forst, D. D., Rev. J. A. Hamlet and John Mitchell, Jr., Wm. H. Stoward. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE The local entertainment committee for the colorado delegates were there too. They are; Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph.D., Rev. S. C. Burrell, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Rev. J. C. Stephenson, Rev. Paul C. Easley, who represented Rev. S. S. Morris, who was out of the city. Rev. Ashbury Christian, D. D., presided over the meeting. Singing was under the management of Prot. Walter C. Mercer. He had a large singing class for all joined in the ballerulez. Bishop E. R. Hendrix gave a brief sketch of the Federal Council. TWO .GREAT ADDRESSES Prayer was offered by Dr. Russell Cecil. The introduction of President Shaller Mathews was the signal for applause. He is a speaker of commanding appearance and entertaining delivery. He drove home his facts in a masterly manner. At the conclusion, the singing served as a brief respite and then the house went wild, when the presiding officer proceeded to introduce Secretary of State William J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan delivered a regular sermon upon the principles of the Holy Bible, and when most people thought he was about to conclude, he naively remarked that this was not his subject, and then proceeded to discuss "Church Unity and the Peace Movement." A MASTERLY EFFORT There was not an uninteracting moment from the time he began his remarks until he concluded them. His reference to President Wilson and his efforts for peace provoked multuous applause. The address of Hon. William Jennings Bryan was an oratorical gem and his enunciation of great principles constituted a platform upon which all could stand. The colored contingent was as rapturous in applauding his remarks as was the white. Rev. W. C. James announced the benediction. It was 10 o'clock. Chicago Agency. Those sojourning in Chicago and desire the PLANET weekly, may obtain the same at W. fl. Robinson, jeweler and art dealer, 1937. West Lake street, phones. Seeley 4541; Auto 85,613. 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Bays Shipping Bill Should Be Passed to Open Gate of Trade—National Defenses Not Neglected—Against Compulsory Military Service—Peace the Nation's Dearest Hope. President Wilson departed from the prepared text of his annual address to congress, which was devoted principally to answering those who contend the United States is unprepared for national defense, to give notice to the business world that the legislative program of his administration, as it affects regulation of business, was practically completed. He said it had resulted in a clear road for business to travel to "unclouded success." Honest business men, the president declared, need have nothing to fear in treading the way outlined in the trust and currency bills. While the presid, dent dwelt briefly upon the subject his words 'were interpreted as an assurance that no further important business legislation was contemplated. The president's exact remarks with relation to business legislation were as follows: "Our program of legislation with regard to the regulation of business is now virtually complete. It has been put forth as we intended, as a whole, and leaves no conjectures as to what is to follow. The road at last lies clear and firm before business. It is a road which it can travel without fear or embarrassment. It is the road to ungrudged, unclouded success. In it every honest man, every man who believes that the public interest is part of his own interest, may walk with perfect confidence." In the text of his address the president devoted most time to discussing the question of national defense, deploring a policy of "militarism," but endorsing a development of the national guard and a military training for citizens. "Let there be no misconception," he said. "The country has been misinformed. We have not been unmindful of the great responsibility resting on us. We shall learn and profit by the lesson of every experience and entry new circumstance; and what is needed will be a sequentely done." To peace in Europe the president referred briefly, "We are the champions of peace and of concord," he said. "And we should be very jealous of this distinction, which, we have sought to earn. Just now we should be particularly jealous of it because it is our clearest present hope that this character and reputation may presently, in God's providence, bring us an opportunity such as has seldom been vouched any nation, the opportunity to counsel and obtain peace in the world and reconciliation and a healing settlement, any a matter that has so far and in accepted the friendship of nations. This is the time above all others when we should wish and resolve to keep our strength by self-passion, our influence by preserving our ancient principles of action." Asserting that our main dependence in war must be upon a "citizenry trained and accustomed to arms," the president declared himself in favor of the training of young men, if only for the sake of discipline and health, in the use of modern arms, in drill and in camp routine. He also advocated the development and strengthening of the national guard of the various states. The question of the navy the president dismissed briefly. He said ships were our national bulwarks; that we should "take leave to be strong on the seas in the future as in the past." But he asks, when will the experts tell us what kind of ships to construct, when the relative efficiency of the different types is changing under our very eyes? The shipping bill to build up a merchant marine is declared to be imperatively needed and cannot wisely be postponed. On this the president says: "The government must open those gates of trade, and open them wide; open them before it is altogether profitable to open them, or altogether reasonable to ask private capital to open them at a venture. It is not a question of the government monopolizing the field. It should take action to make it certain that transportation at reasonable rates will be promptly provided, even where the carriage is not at first profitable; and then, when the carriage has become sufficiently profitable to attract and engage private capital, and engage it in abundance, the government ought to withdraw. I very earnestly hope that the congress will be of this opinion, and that both houses will adopt this exceedingly important bill." The other points of special interest in the message are: Conservation Legislation. — The measure to unlock with proper safeguards the resources of the national domains, and to encourage the use of the navigable waters outside of that domain for the generation of power should be passed. Philippine Bill. — Senate should not permit this great piece of constructive justice to await the action of another congress. Its passage would demonstrate our self-perservation and standfastness in the course of justice and diplinterculturalness. Rural Credit. — Difficulties of subject have prevented the perfecting of a bill. Bureaucracy. — It is not expenditure, but interference for which we should THE RICHMOND, PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Safety is a Convention.—Patriation before and of month is as a matter of good faith. Alaska Coast Line Survey.—Urgent as a matter of small, but of really great importance. KING OF SA OY. KING OF SA OY. 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He strode along until he turned into the dark lane which led to the church yard—a nice, gloomy, misnourished place, into which the townpeople did not care to go except in broad daylight consequently he was not a little indignant to hear a young uncle cooring out some lolly song about a merry Christmas. Gabriel waited until the boy came up, then ripped him over the head with his lantero five or six times to teach him to modulate his voice. And as the boy hurried away, with his M. B. B. "HOW HIM A NEW OF THE PICTURES." hand to his head. Gabriel Grubb chuckled to himself and entered the churchyard, locking the gate behind him. He took off his coat, put down his lantern and, getting into an unfinished grave, worked at it for an hour or so with right good will. But the earth was hardened with the frost, and it was no easy matter to break it up and shovel it out. When he had finished work for the night and looked down into the grave with grim satisfaction he murmured: "Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one. A few feet of cold earth when life is done. "Ho, hot!" he laughed as he sat himself down on a flat tombstone, which was a favorite resting place of his, and drew forth a wicker tottle. "Ho, ho, ho!" repented a voice close beside him. "It was the school," said he, raising the bottle to his lips again. "It was not," said a deep voice. Gabriel started up and stood rooted to the spot with terror. Beated on an upright tombstone close to him was a strange unearthly figure. He was sitting perfectly still, grinning at Gabriel Grubb with such a grin as only a goblin could call up. "What do you here on Christmas ever said the goblin eternally. "I came to dig a grave, sir," stammered Gabriel. "What man wanders among graves on such a night as this?" cried the goblin. "Gabriel Grubb, Gabriel Grubb!" screamed a wild chorus of voices that seemed to fill the churchyard. "What have you got in that bottle?" said the goblin. "Hollands, air," replied the sexton, trembling more than ever, for he had bought it of the smugglers, and he thought his questioner might be in the excise department of the goblins. "Who drinks Hollands alone and in a churchyard on such a night as this?" "Gabriel Grubb, Gabriel Grubb!" exclaimed the wild poles again. "And who, then, is our lawful prize?" exclaimed the goblin. The invisible chorus replied, "Gabriel Grubb, Gabriel Grubb!" The sexton glaped for breath. "What do you think of this, Gabriel?" said the goblin. "It's—it's very curious, air; very curious, air, and very pretty," replied the sexton, half dead with fright. "But I think I'll go back and finish my work, air, if you please." "Work?" said the goblin. "What work?" "The grave, air." "Oh, the grave, eb? Who makes graves at a time when other men are merry and takes a pleasure in it?" Again the rover replied, "Gabriel Grubb, Gabriel Grubb!" THE YALE BOWL, WOULD BE FIRST STARBUIL. Gabriel," said the goblin. "Under favor, sir," replied the horror stricken sexton. "I don't think they can. They don't know me, sir. I don't think the gentlemen have ever seen me." "Ob, yes, they have! We know the man who struck the boy in the envious malice of his heart because the boy could be merry and he could not." Here the goblin gave a loud, shrill laugh which the echoes returned twenty-fold. "I—I am afraid I must leave you, sir," said the sexton, making an effort to move. "Leave us!" said the goblin. "Ho, ho, bo." As the goblin laughed he suddenly darte) toward Gabriel. laid his hand on his collar and sank with him through the earth. And when he had had tinte to fetch his breath he found himself in what appeared to be a large cavern, surrounded on all sides by goblins ugly and grim. "And now," said the king of the goblins, seated in the center of the room on an elevated seat—his friend of the churchyard—"show the man of misery and gloom a few of the pictures from our great storehouse." As the goblin said this a cloud rolled gradually away and disclosed a small and scantily furnished but neat apartment. Little children were gathered round a bright fire, clinging to their mother's gown or gambolling round her chair. A frugal meal was spread upon the table, and an elbow chair was placed near the fire. Soon the father entered, and the children ran to meet him. As he sat down to his meal the mother sat by his side, and all seemed happiness and comfort. "What do you think of that?" said the goblin. Gabriel murmured something about its being very pretty. "Show him some more," said the goblin. Many in that day could went and came, and took. Keep it taught to Gabriel Gray. saw that men who worked hard and earned their scanty bread were cheerful and happy. And he came to the conclusion it was a very respectable sort of world after all. One by one the goblins faded from his sight, and as the last one dispaired he sank to sleep. The day and broken when he awoke and found himself lying on the flat gravestone, with the wicker bottle cup by his side. He got on his feet as well as he could, brushing the frost off his coat, turned his face to ward the town. But he was an altered man. He had learned lessons of gentleness and good nature by his strange adventures in the goblin's cavern. Charles Dickens RACIAL GOOD WILL SOUTH. Booker T. Washington Warmly Received at William and Mary College. By W. ANTHONY AERY. BY W. ANTHONY AERY. President Tyler of William and Mary college recently introduced to several hundred of his students and coworkers Dr. Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, President Tyler expressed his hearty appreciation of all that Dr. Washington has done during the past thirty years to bring about peace, throughout the south. He frankly declared that Dr. Washington had made for himself and Tuskegee a conspicuous name and had influenced the entire country in a remarkable degree. That Dr. Washington should have been so cordially invited to speak before the teaching and student body of this old and distinguished southern white college and that he should have received such a generous welcome on the part of young white southerners who are preparing for service in strategic positions indicate clearly the attitude of racial sympathy and cooperation which is spreading through the southland. Dr. Washington outlined the story of his uphill climb from the little cabin and the coal mine to the founding and development of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute in Alabama. The close attention and hearty applause that the young men of William and Mary college gave Dr. Washington was strikingly sincere and significant of their kindly feeling toward one who has always stood for fair play not only to his own people, but to the white race as well. Dr. Washington referred to the progress that Negroes have been quietly making during fifty years of freedom and closed his ringing address with the statement that "where the Negro has touched the life of the best white people have come progress and good will." Before speaking in the college chapel at the college of William and Mary Dr. Washington spoke to a mixed audience that overdowed the Williamsburg (Va.) courthouse. He has said again and again that, while the worst things concerning the Negroes are commonly sent over the world, comparatively little is known of the friendly feeling between the races that exists in hundreds of communities throughout the world. DR. J. E. SPINGARN'S SECOND TOUR BEGINS IN JANUARY Noted Educator, Writer and Consistent Advocate of Human Rights. Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People and one of the most consistent advocates of the civil rights of the race, is planning to make a second tour of the country this year, which will probably be as notable in its results as the tour which he made last January. It will be remembered that he then addressed meetings in Detroit, Chicago, Quincy, Kansas City, Topeka, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Cleveland, attracting large audiences wherever he went and winning wide public in white papers for the cause of Justice to the Negro As an introduction to his forthcoming tour Dr. Spingarn spoke at Wilmington, Del., on Sunday, Nov. 22; Howard university on Monday, Nov. 23, and at Harrison, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 24. His larger tour, which begins in January, 1915, will include Pittsburgh, Columbus, Dayton, Springfield, [I]; St. Joseph, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Buffalo and other cities. Ultimately he hopes to cover the whole country, so that every section will hear his message in favor of justice and equal opportunity for the members of all races in our democracy. All those interested in his itinerary may obtain information in regard to it from Miss May Childs Nerney, secretary of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, 50 Fifth avenue, New York city. Dr. Spingarn is one of the best known white men who have espoused our cause. He was for twelve years professor of comparative literature in Columbia university, New York, and is a writer of international reputation. He was born in New York thirty-nine years ago, and for the last ten years has devoted a large part of his time to work for Negro rights and welfare. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, of which he is chairman, has now a membership of about 5,000 with branches in over thirty cities in all parts of the country. Among the members of its board of directors are Miss Jane Addams and Dr. C. E Bentley of Chicago, Butler R. Wilson and Joseph Loud of Boston, Archbald Grimke of Washington, Dr. Carruto of Baltimore and Oswald Garrison Vilard, Lillian D. Wald, Florence Kelley, Mary White Ovlington, Dr. W. E. B. Du Rols, Charles Edward Russell, John E. Mihholland and William English Walling of New York. GOING TO THE FRONT. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 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ARTILLERY DUEL GOES ON Germans Active North of Arras and Fighting Keeps Up In the Argonne Region. Renewal of the German artillery at tack at several points along the Franco Belgian lines is reported in the official communique of the Paris war office. The cannonade is especially heavy on the Alpine, where the bombardment of the French trenches is proceeding without cessation. Its Belgium also heavy cannonade is reported, but for the time being infantry movements have been interrupted on that part of the line. The Germans have become increasingly active in the region of Arras, and the belief that the next attempt to break through the dilles' lines will be made at that point is strengthened by recent developments. Many military experts, however, believe that the invaders are simply marking time in the west, awaiting the outcome of the great battle in progress in Poland. Unofficial reports that the Calser is gending heavy reinforcements from France and Belgium to the eastern front of the war lack confirmation. The arrival of King George in France to visit the British troops is a picturesque feature of the war, especially as it is the first time that an English monarch has gone to the front since George II, led his victorious troops in the battle of Dettingen. Violent fighting is in progress along the Yser canal, according to a telegraph from Reuter's correspondent at Sluis, Holland. The roaring of heavy guns has been heard all day and the houses as far away as Sluis are being shaken. Inhabitants of all villages within one hour's march of the Yser battle front have been sent away. Telegraphing from Amsterdam, the correspondent of the Central News says the German front before Dixmude has begun a general retirement. Belgian refugees arriving at Sluis from Aardenburg reported having g Munich for the seat of war. heard a furious cannonading near the coast. 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While lying at anchor in the roadstead off Sheerness, in the mouth of the Thames river, and only thirty-five miles from London, the British battleship Bulwark was destroyed by an explosion, sinking almost immediately. It is estimated that 750 men lost their lives in the explosion. Only twelve men are reported to have been saved. A Central News dispatch says the catastrophe was due to an accidental explosion while ammunition was being loaded on board the warship. The admiralty, in its official statement, says the vessel probably was wrecked by an explosion within the magazine of the vessel. Reports that the Bulwark was sunk by a German submarine which had thus penetrated Britain's naval cordon are discredited publicly in official circles. The force of the explosion was so great that houses in Sheerness and even in South End, seven miles away, and on teh other side of the Modway, were violently shaken. People fled into the streets in alarm. Dense clouds of smoke and flames shot into the air as the ship blew up. So terrible was she rent that it was impossible to give her assistance. Immediately after the explosion the vessel was blotted out by smoke, and as the veil slowly lifted a handful of men was seen struggling in the water. Small craft rushed to their aid and picked them up. Some of them were badly mutilated. Three minutes after the detonation the Balwark had disappeared. Croker Wode Indian Princess. Richard Croker, former Tammany shifter, and Miles Bouah Benton Ed. moodoon, a singer, suffragist and descendant of the Cherokes Chief Blue-jacket, were married in New York. The bride, who is said to be a princess in the Cherokee tribe, met Mr. Croker a number of years ago in the west. She has lived in New York for some time, writing, lecturing and singing. She first came into notice about a year ago, when, attired in the GEN. VON HEERINGEN. Famous German Soldier Who Served Under Von Wolfke. [Image of a black-and-white portrait of a man with a bald head and a mustache, wearing a dark shirt with a decorative pattern.] robes of an Indian chie's daughter, she rode in the suffrage parade in New York city. The marriage took place in St. Agnes' Roman Catholic church, with Monsignor Henry Brann officiating. Mr. Croker's beat man was Andrew Freedman, his life long friend. After the wedding ceremony Mr. Croker and his bride went to the home of Nathan Straus, where a wedding breakfast was served. The honeymoon will be spent at Palm Beach, Fla. In getting the marriage license Mr. Croker gave his age as seventy-three. His bride is twenty-three years old. Football Onlooker Blain. While enjoying a game of football between the hospital corps of Fort Howard and the Home Guard, of Sparrows Point, near Baltimore, Md., L. H. Redding, seventy-five years old, a Pennsylvania Union veteran, was run into by a player and knocked down. His head struck the ground, and, unconscious, he was removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. E. Woodruff, in Sparrows Point, where he died. Redding served throughout the Civil War with the Pennsylvania Volunteers and three times was badly wounded. He is survived by his widow, who is critically ill of heart trouble, and two sons, Thomas J., Redding, of Stewartstown, Pa., and Jesse Redding, of Sparrows Point, and three daughters, Mrs. R. P. Felix, of Harriburg, Pa., and Mrs. T. B. Woodruff and Mrs. William A. Stapler, of Sparrows Point. Servia Suffera Defeat. The Vienna correspondent of the Reuter company telegraphing Monday gives the following official Austrian report: "In the southern war theater, Sunday, we stormed Suvotor, between Valjevo and Caka. After an obstinate defense we took fourteen machine guns and 1200 prisoners. We discovered in Uzice large quantities of arms and ammunition." Von Hindenburg Now Field Marshal. General Von Hindenburg, the German commander in the campaign with Russia, has been promoted to the rank of field marshal. .GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.75@4.90; city mills, fancy $6.40@6.80 RYE FLOUR 4.90 @6.80 POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 12 ¢14c; old roosters, 10¢11c. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 19c.; old roosters, 18c.; turkeys, 21¢22c. 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They have curedphysicians and the best hospital physi-given up to die, and said there was SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1914. TWO MATCHES ON JACK JOHNSON'S PROGRAM Agree to Meet Pair of Heavyweight Within-Month. Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion of the universe, and fugitive from American Justice, has subscribed to contracts calling for his appearance in two fights in one month. This may seem a misstatement of facts, but it is the truth, nevertheless, that the huge Ethiopian is about to overwork himself, for the first time in his perturbed career. Much significance is attached to Johnson's sudden willingness to perform a little extra labor. It is taken to mean one of two things—either Johnson's coffers are barren, or he realizes that he has reached the end of his tether as a champion, and wishes to replenish his purse before stepping out of the pugilistic limelight. For the present the correct answer is known only to Johnson alone. By next spring it will be common property. Can it be that Johnson is approbative of the outcome of his host with Jess Willard, and has arranged for another match so as to protect himself in case of a defeat by the cowpuncher? Johnson is matched to do battle with Willard on March 17 next, and less than a month later he will take on Sam McVey, an old friend, massive of frame and chony of color. Ever since Johnson ascended to the heavyweight throne he has taken the precaution not to arrange the dates of his ring meetings too closely together. This is the first time he has undertaken tackle two big men within a month. FIRST CLASH LIKELY AT BUENOS AIRES It now appears likely that the Johnson-Willard clash will occur in Buenos Aires, thus affording South America its first championship battle, or in a Juarez, Mexico, arena. Johnson's affair with McVey is scheduled for Cuba. Billy Gibson has been commissioned by a syndicate of Havana sporting men to bend his efforts towards bringing the match to the tight little lane. Gibson immediately obtained the consent of McVey's manager to handle the bout, and William will receive an equal share of the profits for his trouble. Meantime, Jess Willard and Sam McVey are in this country, keeping as far apart from each other as they deem advisable. Neither is popping any challenges at the offer, both fearing to take a chance of losing the match with Johnson. McVey, however, does not seem able to keep out of trouble, for Sam Langford is pleking on him and McVey is becoming peeved. He wants to fight, but is being kept in restraint by his manager. Johnny Killbane, champion feathertweight, is about to follow in the footsteps of Freddie Welsh, the lightweight king. Welsh has proven one of our busiest champions since he reached these shores. Frederick does not mind one or two adverse popular decisions, just so long as they do not relieve him of his title. Welsh has been championing for about six months, yet in that time has confronted some of the best lightweight extant. He has taken on Matty Baldwin, Ad Wolgast, Charley White, Jimmy Duffy and Young Shugrue since he became champion; and it must be remembered that Welsh did not start fighting until three months after he won the crown: Now Kilbane is to do a Welsh Johnny has scheduled for himself in less than three hours in eight days. All of which will show him to be an estimable young man if he goes through with the program. Tomorrow night Kilbane will debut in the lightweight ranks against Joe Mandot, the Southern laker boy champion. They battle over the 12-round trail at Akron, Ohio. Four days later Frankle Dally will try to avoid a knockout in his ten round bout with Kilbane at Toledo. Four days after that Kilbane will infest Philadelphia to take on a local favorite for six rounds. His opponent in the Quaker City has not as yet been selected, but it is likely that the honor will be conferred on Pat Bradley, who has defended the fair names of Philadelphia against invaders on many occasions. Charley White is in disfavor with the boxing powers in Milwaukee as a result of his bout with Champion Welsh. White has been virtually blacklisted for his part in molding up the bout on account of the referee question. White was offered a bout with Kilbane in the Brow City, but when the Milwaukee promoters were asked to stage the mill they raised their handa aloft and emitted loud shrieks peculiar to their species. They will have absolutely nothing to do with any bout in which White is involved they say. HEALTH CONDITIONS Statistics of the State Board of Health recently issued indicate that there is a tremendous amount of suffering and death among the colored people of Virginia from consumption. The death rate from this disease throughout the state is 270.5 per 100,000 Negroes, whereas among white people it is 119.5. In ten cities the rate is 103.2 for white people and 316.5 for colored people. It is not surprising that the rate should be higher among the colored people than among the whites, whereas it is not only surprising. but alarming that the difference should be so great. The appalling phase of these conditions is not only in the fact that out of every hundred thousand Negroes in Virginia two hundred and seventy died of consumption last year but also in the fact that the lives of many thousands of other people, both colored and white, were imperilled and aregistil imperilled by those who slken and die of this dread disease. Several causes contribute the conditions stated above. Among them are the housing conditions, unsanitary environment, a lack of information in the means of disease prevention, and the absence of a tuberculosis sanatorium for Negro patients. For two years the Negro Organization Society has waged an artery campaign for the improvement of the homes and health of colored people. It has sought through the distribution of health bulletins and through lectures to enlighten the masses in the means of disease prevention and its agents have always emphasized the prevention of tuberculosis. It has endeavored also through the Clean-Up movement and by other means to improve the sanitation about the homes of our people. A vigorous campaign along these lines will be continued. In the course of an address before the Negro Organization Society at its recent meeting in Norfolk Miss Agnes D. Randolph, Executive Secretary of the Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association, stated that her organization has begun an effort to establish a Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Negro patients in Virginia. All of the money for the campaign to raise the fund necessary to build and equip the sanatorium and a portion of the fund itself is to be raised through the sale of the Red Cross Christmas Seals. The seals are on sale throughout the state and the idea is that the general public will purchase them at one cent each and place them on Christmas packages, etc. It is very likely that the colored people of Virginia await only to be informed of the plan to give it their hearty support. This movement furnishes a fine opportunity for churches, charitable organizations, and individuals to do some practical work in selling seals. Miss Randolph can be reached at 1110 Capitol Street. Richmond, and she will be glad to send to any one as many seals as he thinks he can sell. The money, together with any unsold seals, would be returned to her. The Negro Organization Society is cooperating with the Anti-Tuberculosis Association in this movement and urges the colored people of the state to give it hearty support by buying the scales in generous quantities. Any communication with reference to the Society should be sent to Prof. J. M. Gandy, Petersburg. Farmville, Va. Dec. 7. 1911. Again the people of this community who read your editorials from time to time feel that they should give expression to sentiment expressed, most especially if they are in full accord with the adventure. It is true, as you have said, 1915 brings to us the fifthth year of freedom, and this should be the year of Jubilee celebrated among our people throughout the Nation. We owe it to our ancestors; to ourselves; to our children and to our God. It is said the crime of ingratitude is the greatest crime that can be committed by any Nation. Our ancestors, who were the borden-bearers of this Nation whose prayers in our behalf went up to God by day from the corn tobacco and cotton fields of this Southland and by night from the chimney corners of the log cabins in the midnight hours and just before the dawn of day, were answered 50 years ago by the proclamation of Lincoln and the surrender of Lee on the banks of the Appomattox. We owe it to ourselves because we are the product liberated. Though homeless and penniless we were thrown in the thoroughfare of life to demonstrate through our lives whether the cause for which thousands fought and died was a just and profitable one. The wealth accumulated, the intellectual, moral and spiritual growth have reached that point in our accomplishments in these fifty years. The nations are amazed. We owe it to our children. The acquisitions and achievements of this people under adverse conditions should be spread upon the pages of history and left a heritage to them and those to follow. If our children can see in us the spirit of emulation, true man and womanhood, a recognition of blessings received, it would be to them an enthusiastic impulse molded into their character, better fitting them to cope with the nations of the earth. We owe it to our God. In this preconceived plans and purpose, we were made the beneficiaries of His blessings through the bloody war between the states, which gave to us the epoch of fifty years freedom. In recognition of Him and of this fact, this race of ours in each state, having received commission from a national convention called to meet at some central point and arrange plans should celebrate these fifty years of freedom and give God the praise. The question cost, onting us is who will call this national convention? He should be a man of a national reputation to get the ear of the leaders of the country, one true and tried. I know of no man better fitted for that position than John Mitchell, of Richmond, Va., editor of the Richmond PLANET. Therefore, we the citizens of this community, nominate John Mitchell, Jr., for said position, who will grace the office with honor and distinction. We hope he will at once take charge of the office. WANTED—A good Linotype Operator, Apply Phila Tribune, 528 Se 16th. St. Philadelphia, Pa. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. The Church of God and Saints of Christ fed 22 children on Thanksgiving Day. Owing to the inclement weather the churches were poorer attended Sunday. Rev J. E. Dotson was holding his revival meetings at Gloucester last week. We have not heard what success he has had. There is always room for improvement along this Christian line. Our sick are all improving. Pastor Rev. E. D. Tyler will be at his post next Sunday. All are invited. Club No. 2 will report. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Horn are fond of reading the PLANET. Rev. D. Robinson, pastor of Snow Hill Baptist Church, presided at the Florence County Union at Cartersville on Sunday, Nov. 29, in the announcement of the Moderator, Rev. Tayten. Rev. A. J. Streeter preached an excellent sermon at the evening service at Florence County Union Sunday evening, Nov. 29. Mrs. Jennie B. Reese Williams, wife of Prof. S. B. Williams, principal of the Flying High School at Marlon, S. C., passed through the city Sunday December 6, from Columbia, S. C., en route to Marlon S. C., to assist her husband. Mrs. Williams and myself chatted together pleasantly for quite awhile on train 50 castbound. Prof. Williams is complimented in his wise selection. She told me the kind of girls to marry if I wish to be happy. I promised to call and see them when I visit Marloy. Miss Ruble M. Webster is doing excellent work teaching the advanced pupils of Trinity Baptist Sunday School. The whole class is devoted to her. Why? She is a chip of the old block. Mrs. Elsie Battle, formerly of Florence, now residing at Wilson, N. C., passed through the city this morning on train 80 north-bound en route for home. Mrs. Battle was once a pupil of mine in Sunday School. She always acted orderly in school. She seen at the station she was the picture of health. Mrs. Hilda Jackson of Montclair, N. J., passed through the city Tuesday, Dec. 1, en route for home. We chatted a short while together, on train 80 northbound. First we mention some young lady then the Troter episode and the like. She attended school in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Jackson is quite an agreeable conversationalist. Mr. S. Edwards was in the city today, "I'm waiting for a check cashled for money," I loaned a white friend." For several years I have laid up money for old age. I have not sold a bale of cotton as yet," said Bro. Edwards. He is what we might call a live wire. Mr. Jonas Williams of Mars Bluff spent Wednesday in the city. His family consists of Mrs. Amelia Williams, his wife, little Sallie and Master Tommy Williams. Miss Ruth O. Webster has opened school at Scranton, S. C. The farmers in our section are planting large areas of grains—oats, rye and wheat. Daily wagonloads of seeds may be seen en route for the farm to be bown. In many places a good stand has already seen the light of day. Mr. Henry Cott and Miss Nancy Cuffie were married in Dec. 3 at Darlington. The bridal party visited Florence. Mrs. Carrie Moye has returned from a pleasant trip to Cane Sayannah, S. C. I am preparing to deliver the emancipation address at Deep Creek Church, near Wadesboro, N. C. Mrs. Mary J. Sallivan of Chester, S. C., passed through the city Dec. 4, returning from Lynchburg, S. C., where she had been assisting in protracted effort. She was en route for Morganton S. C. Miss Hattie C. Holloway of Bennettville, S. C., passed through the city Saturday, Dec. 5, en route for Jacksonville, Fla., to attend school. Rev. H. W. Heyward, P. E., of Dillon district, passed through the city today en route for his field of labor. Dillon county. When seen at the Coast Line station he was chatting pleasantly with one of his Rover- Rohnoke, Va. Mr. A. J. Clarkson, a well known harbor and citizen, departed this life Thursday morning, December 3 1914, at 5:20 A. M. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He died in full triumph of faith in Christ. He was fully resigned to go. He was a member of Kyber Lodge of Odd Follows. His death was a shock to the community, being sick only four days. His remains were shipped to Arrington, Va., his old home. Dr. J. H. Roberts and Fountain Duke have returned from Washington, where they have been spending a few days. Rov. P. J. Wallace of Norfolk, Vn. preached at the High Street Baptist Church last Sunday. His discourse was very much enjoyed by those who were fortunate enough to hear him. The Magic Medical Society was elaborately entertained on Thursday, Dec. 8th, 1914, at the residence of Mr. A. P. Brooks, our well known townman. Drs. S. F. Williaman and J. S. Cooper being the hosts. The following doctors were present: Drs. J. S. Cooper, S. F. Williaman, E. R. Dudley, J. B. Claytor, L. C. Downing, M. D. Downajg, W. R. Brown, J. H. Roberts, H. J. Moseley, D. D. Johnson and H. P. Hargrave. The event Boys' and Girls' Contest 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. 311 N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. The coupon will be found in another column of this paper. ing was spent very pleasantly. The 11th birthday of the Rev. J. H. Burks was celebrated at the parsonage, Monday night, Dec. 7th. The occasion was somewhat of a surprise to many. Yet the entrance to his home was lit up very brilliantly at 11 o'clock when the crowd arrived. The doors were thrown open and the hosts were led by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Penn, Hattie Duger, Jennie Heidricks, Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Williams, Mrs. James Conby, Mr. EdE Williams, Mrs. Hebron, John Jones, the committee, Rev. P. J. Wallace, Rev. L. Downing, Rev. W. D. Woods and wife were the guests, of honor and they were delighted to gaze upon a beautiful cake with 41 candlesticks. A short program was rendered. The evening was greatly enjoyed by all present. Christmas Savings Club Those Who Kept Up Their Payments Received All of the Money They Put into the Blot Out Your Present Extravagances Timore Vla. York River Line. Richmond, Va. Nov. 33, 1911. Southern Railway-York River Line announces greatly reduced Christmas-Now Your Holiday fares 2. Baltimore via Richmond, West Point and Chesapeake Bay. 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