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The Leading Weekly Journal in the State. VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION MEETS IN DANVILLE A LARGE DELEGATION THERE PRES. GALVIN'S ANNUAL ADDRESS MORE THAN $4000.00 RAISED LAST YEAR A HARMONIOUS SESSION OFFICERS ELECTED VOLUME XXXII, NO. 25 VIRGINIA BAPTIST VENTION N A LARGE DELEGATION T ANNUAL ADDRESS RAISED LAST YEAR SESSION—OF Danville, Va., May 12, 1916. The Virginia Baptist State Convention assembled here at 9 A. M. this morning at the High Street Baptist Church, President A. A. Galvin, presiding. Delegates who had been steadily arriving turned out in large numbers. The devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. James A. Harroll, D. D., Rev. Tarette, D. D., and Rev. Fairfax. The welcome address for the church was delivered by W. P. Allen, Esq. His remarks were timely and of a high order. Rev. T. P. Johnson responded for the colored Baptists. He made a most favorable impression. THE MAYOR SPEAKS. Rev. Dr. J. E./Hicks, on behalf of the white Baptists, made a most favorable impression. His remarks were keyed to appeal to the hearts of the audience. Rev. S. A. Moses, pastor of the High Street Baptist Church, introduced Mayor Harry Wooding in a most felicitous and happy manner. Mayor Wooding's address was delivered in his usual happy style and he arose to flights of eloquence that charmed all who heard him. Rev. D. H. Chamberlayne delivered an address which poscaused rare merit. He set forth the needs of the race and by implications and suggestions shrewdly drove home what he desired to impress upon the listeners. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Vice President B. Tyrrell presided while President A. A. Galvin proceeded to make his report. He reviewed the work of the past year. He gave a detailed account of vacant pastorates. He discussed the great conflict now raging in Europe, and made a most telling plea for peace. He made a plea and a prayer that segregation and racial prosecution will cease. He appealed for freedom for all to the end that each one will live out the best that is in them. Only the free soul blossoms and only the free soul grows. "You cannot make an individual a slave if his mind is free" declared the speaker. He recommended the revision of the Constitution, prayer for peace among Negro Baptists and for a world-wide peace. OFFICERS PRESENT. The officers of the Virginia Baptist State Convention who are present are President, Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D.; First Vice-President, Rev. B. Tyrrell, D. D.; Second Vice-President, Rev. S. A. Moses, D. D.; Third Vice President, Rev. W. D. Woods, D. D.; Fourth Vice-President, Rev. J. H. Harvey; Recording Secretary, Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D.; Statistical Secretary, Rev. J. G. St. Clair Drake; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. T. H. White, D. D.; Treasurer, Deacon, A. Humbles. XANT INTRODUCED. There are many influential preachers here. Among them is Rev. W. Graham, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. W. R. Brown, D. D., of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Rev. W. T. Hall, of Pennsylvania; Rev. H. Powell, D. D., of Washington, D. C., and Rev. W. W. Brown and Rev. T. J. Kirk, of New York; Rev. J. C. Jackson, of Pennsylvania; Rev. D. Robert, of President of the Pennsylvania Congress of Philadelphia; Rev. J. Clay, D. D., Rev. J. C. Aus, of Pittsburgh, D. C., and Rev. W. T. Hall, of Pennsylvania. R. Brown, Rev. J. A. J. Kennedy Rev. T. W. Price, Deacon J. L. Tay lor, Rev. J. E. Leo, Deacon J. R. Bennett, Deacon W. H. Powell, Mr. Isaac Anderson. Recess was announced. THE AFTERNOON SESSION. The Convention reconvened at about 3:30 P. M., with President Galvin in the chair. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. C. Brown, B. Th., James E. Reed, B. Th., Rev. C. F. Jenkins, B. Th. Rev. J. C. Austin, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, claimed the attention of the chair, stating that he was about to leave the city. He had previously joined in Staunton, but that his devotion to the work remained the same. His congregation had authorised him to pay $100 to the Convention. He paid a glowing tribute to Rev. W. W. Brown, D. D., former pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The body then devoted its time to the collection of finance. MUCH MONEY RAISED. Mr. A. Humbles, treasurer, reported the amount received last year from all sources was $4133.84. Total', disbursement. $4125.98. Balance $7.86. President R. C. Wooda, of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, reported that an additional building had been erected at a cost of $30,000. All of this has been paid with the exception of $9,000. Amount raised for current expenses is $16,500. Improvements made on other buildings $3,000. All current expenses have been paid. A graduating class of 35 was reported from all departments. DR. GRAHAM'S LEADERSHIP. The delegation from Pennsylvania under the leadership of Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham reported $623.74. The Holy Trinity Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Graham, pastor, sent $200 to the Virginia Baptist State Convention. The Convention presented an animated appearance as the delegates made their report. Delegate John Mitchell, Jr., represented the Fifth Street Baptist Church. The Missionary Society of that church, through its president, Mrs. Rosa E. Loving, sent $25.00. DELEGATE MITCHELL PRESIDES President A. A. Galvin called Editor John Mitchell, Jr., and requested him to preside during the elections of officers. The election resulted as follows: President, Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D.; First Vice-President, Rev. D. Tyrrell, D. D.; Second Vice-President, Rev. S. A. Moses, D. D.; Third Vice-President, Rev. Dr. D. N. Daughtry; Fourth Vice-President, Rev. Dr. J. H. Harvey; Recording Secretary, Rev. Dr. C. D. Henderson; Statistician, Rev. Dr. J. G. St. Clair Drake; Treasurer, Deacon A Humbres; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. T. H. White, D. D. These officers were installed by Rev. T. P. Johnson in a flowery address which stirred the Convention. Acting President Mitchell relinquished the gavel to President Galvin, who in a few well chosen remarks accepted the honor, while the Chautauqua salute was extended to him. Up to Wednesday night, the total amount of money reported was $1684.74. THE NIGHT SERVICES. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1915 A Twenty-Seven-Year Recollection A Labor Agent's Trouble—The Fire in a Church. I left Richmond last Wednesday morning at 5:30 o'clock to attend the Virginia Baptist State Convention in session at Danville, Va., and I went as a delegate from the Fifth Street Baptist Church. I settled down in my seat and fell into a reverie. Then I memorized "Down in Old Virginia." Finally I found myself and one other passenger the occupants of this car. REV. DANIEL'S GREETING. As I sat there, a passenger came aboard. He eyed me steadily and then finally enquired, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Mitchell?" I nodded in the affirmative as he came over to my seat and grasped my hand, saying: "I have not seen you in 27 years before. My name is Rev. Edward Daniel. I met you last when you came to Drakes Branch, Va.. 27 years ago, when you went up to Smithville, Va." WHERE I HAD MET HIM. "You stopped and talked with me and Henry Lewis at the cooper shop. I recognised your features when I came aboard this train." "Where is Henry Lewis?" I asked. "He is dead," was the reply. This brought to my mind old memories. I had written about it earlier. In the columns of the Planet condemning the lynching of Richard Walker, who was lynched by a mob while confined in the jail at Smithville, Charlotte county, Va. I received on the following week a letter containing a rough drawing of a skull and crossbones, and a piece of hemp, with the threat that they would hang me if I came to the county, just as they had done in the case of Richard Walker. I wrote in the next issue of the Planet an editorial and concluded it with the declaration that I would visit the county. THE LYNCHING PARTY. Armed with a brace of revolvers, I got off early in the morning and I drove five miles from Drake's Branch to Smithville, visited the jail, in which Walker had been confined, inspected the tree from which he was swung and saw the hoof- prints of the horses on which the lynchers rode. It was on this trip that I had stopped to talk with Edward Daniel and Henry Lewis. A CONDUCTOR'S LONG SERVICE He had revived old memories and I talked with him until I reached Drakes Branch, where he left the train. I saw the same winding road along which I had travelled twenty-seven years ago. The conductor had heard a part of the conversation and he remembered that this was almost as long a time as he had been on the road. He had been in the service 26 years. MANY BOARDED THE TRAIN. When South Boston, Va., was reached, a jolly party came aboard. When Pace's, Barksdale and Sutherlins were reached others joined the party. They were gathering all of the young men for the trip and a little later we ascertained that they wore en route to Kingston, N. Y., via Danville, where they would take a train for Washington and New York. At Barksdale I saw two stalwart young colored men wearing red freight tags labelled "fragile." WANTED TO GO. TOO. A colored woman had boarded the train with the crowd at South Boston. She threatened trouble when she reached Danville. It was presumed that her fellow was among the number who wanted to go to work in the brick-kiln at Kingston, N.Y. She wanted to go, too. The man who had the party in charge was uncoasy. These "boys" have a way in agreeing to go and then of jumping the labor agent when he reaches the place where he wants to "hop off." HARD TIME LANDING THEM. the High Street Baptist Church. The smell of charred wood told me without-words that a fire of recent origin had been here. The rear rooms were burned and the partition had been destroyed. The pulpit in the lecture room or basement was scorched. It was indeed lucky that the entire church structure was not destroyed. IN THE CONVENTION MEETING. I went upstairs where the work of welcoming the Convention was proceeding. I was accorded a welcome, too, and Rev. S. A. Moses adhered to the rostrum and I listened to the oratorical efforts which electrified the audience. I was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Rison while in Danville. Rev. T. H. White stopped at this residence also. While standing in front of the High Street Baptist Church Attorney J. C. Carter directed my attention to a peculiar sign on an adjacent building. It read "Church of God, Cash Groceries! Ice Cream and Cold Pop." To me, it was a strange mixture. Associated Press reporter, Charles Stewart, was a picturesque figure in the Convention. It was 2:15 Thursday morning when I awoke at my temporary home, and 3:30 when the train bore me towards Richmond, where I arrived in ample time to file my copy for this week's issue of the Planet. TAG DAY The committee of the Old Folks' Home and Friends' Orphan Asylum has been granted privilege of holding a Tag Day. May be by the Hon George A. Ainslie, mayor of this city. This committee is working to its utmost capacity to make this the greatest Donation Day that has ever been held in Richmond by colored people. The committee appearing before Mayor Ainslie was Bettle Meredith, George E. Wood, W. I. Johnson, Zemoria J. Wood and James H. Frayser, who acted as spokesman. Mayor Ainslie was much pleased with the movement and said he would render all assistance necessary to make it a success. The committee is asking the public to join in and make this one of the biggest battles ever fought. Members of the committee including the various pastors, deacons of the churches, and boards of the institutions are visiting the colored organizations and other enterprises asking that they give forces to sell tags on that day. $1,200 was raised last year, and the committee and officers feel, with the co-operation of the public in general, they can easily raise $2,000 this year. They have also grouped off clubs in every church in the city to raise food, clothing and other things with Captains. Help this worthy cause. Respectfully, W. I. JOHNSONS GEORGE E. WOOD. Committee. JAS. H. FRAYSER. Manager. ZEMORIA J. WOOD. Secretary. BETTIE M. MEREDITH. Treasurer. DR. GRAHAM'S WORK Philadelphia, May 10, 1915. Yesterday was a great day with Holy Trinity Baptist Church. There were eight accessions to the church in the morning and one conversion. Our rally closed at midnight with $1,675. The church moves on grandly. Our debt is fast being reduced to the point where the church is not strained to keep up payments. We leave tonight for Danville, Va. We are carrying a goodly sum for the educational work at Lynchburg. The Richmond Planet has been a great power in helping us to keep the people stirred up. I still feel that the Virginia Baptist State Convention would honor herself to have the Richmond Planet her secular organ, not that the Planet needs as any more than we need it. But the editor of the Planet is the thoughtful for his unfinishing, erugnation, family convictions with regard to the Virginia Baptist State Convention and its work. We hope to have a great time in Danville. W. P. GRAHAM. WARNING Homes for two entered herein have three months 04; get the mortgage at the Mansion. B. O. SMITH WILL CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. This year completes fifty years of the history of Virginia Union University and the schools out of which it grew, Wayland Seminary in Washington and Richmond Theological Seminary in Richmond. The University, during these years, has developed from a very elementary school for the instruction of preachers and Christian workers into one of the four or five highest schools for colored men in the country. This year it has enrolled 53 students in its college department, 30 in its theological degriment, with a total enrollment in all departments of 285. 108 of these young men are looking forward to the Christian ministry. The half century will be celebrated this year in connection with the commencement exercise. Program for the week will be as follows: Sunday, May 30th, 2:30 P. M.—Baccalaureate Sermon. Monday, May 31st, 8:15 P. M.—Graduation of Academy Class. Tuesday, June 1st, 4:00 P. M.— Tuesday, June 1st, 4:00 P. M.- Historical Addresses. Tuesday, June 1st, 6:00 P. M.—Reception and collation. Tuesday, June 1st, 8:15 P. M.—Addresses from Guests. Wednesday, June 2nd, 2:00 P. M.—Business Meeting of Alumnal Association. Wednesday, June 2nd, 4:00 P. M.—Reports of Services from former students. Wednesday, June 2nd, 6:00 P. M.—Alumnal Banquet (former student of friends). Wednesday, June 2nd, 8:15 P. M.—Conference. Railroad rates will be unusually low on account of the fact that the Confederate Veterans hold their reunion in Richmond June 1-3rd. It is expected that the largest gathering of old students in the history of the University will take place at this commencement. The fifth annual Summer Normal School will be held at the University from June 21st to July 30. Last year 275 teachers were enrolled as students and 35 of them completed the course required for summer professional certificates. Only two other summer normal professional certificates were granted to colored teachers in the State of Virginia last year. This Summer Normal has as high rating among Summer Normals as Virginia Union University has among regular colored schools in the state and in the South. A Ministers' Institute will be held this year for two weeks, June 21st to July 2nd. Five courses of lectures on theology and practical subjects will be given by members of the faculty of Virginia Union University and prominent and successful pastors. Professor Clark will have a course of lectures on "The Social Teachings of Jesus," Professor C. E. Schabli on "Crises in the Life of Christ," Professor J. E. Jones on "Effective Sermons." President George Rice Hovey on "The Essential Doctrines of the New Testament," Rev. William H. Stokes, Ph. D., on "The Pastor and Community Work." The courses touch upon very important questions in the various fields of theological study. In connection with each lecture there will be ample time and opportunity for questions and discussions. The practical and helpful aspects of the subjects, as well as the doctrinal and theoretical will be emphasized. Some Questions Asked. The time has come for us to commence to make preparation to decorate the graves at the National Cemetery on Memorial Day, which will be observed May 21st, and we invite and staccely hope that, all patriotic citizens will take part with us as usual; we extend this invitation to all colored people in the city and vicinity; the invitation is extended, that's our duty whether it's accepted or no. The perplexing question arises: Why is it that the great bulk of colored people who want to be called our race leaders from another statepaint and along other lines, seem to take such a little interest in the work of describing the process at the National Company quite a year? We have a few so our children will appreciate the question and we shall feel it is better given to them some experience. a part with us in this work of decorating the graves of those heroes whom God used fifty years ago in bringing about those great changes, and giving us the opportunities we enjoy today. I regret having to say, nevertheless it's true, the people among us who are in the best circumstances, with a few exceptions, seem to take less interest in this great work of decorating the graves of our dead heroes. My people—remember this one declaration, coming down from one of the inspired writers: "He that is thankful of a little, shall have a great deal." There are thousands of choice blessings. I believe, the Lord has reserved for us as a race, but withholding the same because of our ingratitude as a race. My people—believe me, God in his word, hallucish, it is only that you would look and live. On the fifth Sunday night, May 21st, the annual Memorial Sermon will be preached at the Second Baptist Church, by Rev. Z. D. Lewi- pastor, to George A. Custer Post, G. A. R., the Woman's Relief Corps, and the Spanish-American War Veterans. The public is invited out to these services. Complete arrangements will be published in this paper next week. Custer Post No. 11, G. A. R.: COSBY WASHINGTON, Commander. CHARLES BROWN, Adjutant. REV. DR DREW HERE. He Preaches to a Large Audience. Rev. S. P. W. Drew, D. D., pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, delivered a stirring sermon last Sunday morning: 11:30 o'clock, at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, and again at 8 P. M. he created a sensation as he made an appeal for forgiveness. He spoke also at 3 P. M. at the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church at the Mothers' Meeting. He demonstrated his powers as an evangelist and made a profound impression. He will continue his labors in this city during the remainder of the week. He has also been conducting evangelistic meetings this week at the Leigh Street Memorial Church, Rev. E. M. Mitchell pastor. 0 DON'T FORGET OUR MOTTO: Accuracy and honesty in. state ments and dealings under all cir cumstances—to buyer, to seller, to borrower, to lender BRAGG BROS. & CO. Real Estate and Lorgis. ANNOUNCEMENT I beg to announce that I am now engaged in the Real Estate business with the firm of B. A. Ceiling and respectfully solicit a share of your patronage. JOHN H. BERRY. Formerly with Thos. J. Fisher & Co., Inc., of Washington, D. C. CLAREMONT All persons going with I. B. C. to clearmont July 12th are advised to leave Trouble and Worry at home, as only Joy will be allowed on board. Starting with Saturday, May 15th the Athletic Base Ball Team will give away a prize to the person holding the lucky number. Mr. L. L. King arrived in the city last Tuesday morning after having spent seven weeks in a New York hospital. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Laura G. King. Mrs. Charlotte Yancy has returned to her home, 213 East Qlay street, after a stay of two years with her daughter in Washington, D. C. She is much improved, in health. We have received an Invitation to the Commencement Exercises of D. the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute at Petersburg, Va., Friday, the May 14th, 1915. Courtesy of Miss J. Martha A. Chiles, of this city. DANGER WARNED AT GROUND A good job for the right man. Witness the Army to Cress & Johnson, North Mills St., Chattanooga, Va. PRICE, FIVE CENTS NAT'L. IDEAL BENEFIT THE NATIONAL IDEAL BENEFIT SOCIETY In Coming to The Front in The District of Columbia. (Special to The Richmond Planet.) Washington, D. C., May 6, 1915. —Wednesday, May 5th, Saint John's lodge No. 43 N. I. B. S., met at the hall, 1200 U. street, N. W., in response to an invitation of the Supreme Ideal Lecturer, Mrs. Rosa Thompson, to assist in organizing a new lodge. A special musical program was rendered from 7:30 to 8:30 P. M. by the Ideal Nursery, under the direction of Mrs. Alice Scott. At its conclusion Mr. Edward Tolliver and his committee served refreshments to the children and their parents, who then retreated to make room for the seniors. The lecturer called the meeting to order and appointed the following officers to preside during the organization: Mr. J. W. Stockton, P. M.; Miss Amanda E. Stockton, P.; Mrs. Rev. A. S. Rodges, Chap. Sup. R. H. Mrs. S. M. Stockton, Mc. Louis F. Malcom, S. T.; Mr. Richard W. Knight, P. G.; Mr. C. H. Stockton, P. Sen.; Mr. Lewis Thompson W. P. P. M. and before 11 o'clock a most beautiful lodge had been organized, to be known as Saint Louise, with the following officers: P. M. John R. Anderson; P. M. Alice Jackson; P. Chap. James E. Snow; P. Secy. Mrs. Addie V. Dabney; P. Asst. Secy. Miss Ida D. Taylor; P. Treas. Luther Miller; P. Ast. Treas. Mrs. Magicle. Lyles; P. Gul. Mosco Peace; P. Asst. Gul. Mosco Rebecca Rollins; P. Sent. Geo. W. Fountain; P. G. William Allen; P. R. H. Laurence C. Standard; P. L. H. Miss Dora Brown; P. Dr. Miss Elvira M. Harris; Master of Social Services; Jerry A. Pannell; Medical Director, Dr. Deo. N. Overton Counsellor, Mrs. Louisa F. Tolliver. On Ideal Nursery—Miss Virginia E. Lewis, Mrs. George Taylor, Mrs. Carrie Pullon, Mrs. Rosa Snow, Mrs. Elizabeth Rollins, Mrs. Virginia Toliver, Mrs. Cora Hawkind, Mrs. Dora Meade, Miss Sarah Hackley and Miss Fannie Thompson. Those who know Mrs. Rosa Thompson beat she was at her best in setting this lodge aside. She said she had established thirty-three lodges for the National Ideal Benefit Society since October, 1912, among which this one had the largest membership. Congratulations were showered upon Mrs. Toliver for her great work in bringing in this splendid lodge. She thanked her friends for their support in this effort, and said this was the first mile stone, but she hopes to be able to count them one by one. When we say Mr. Edward Toliver was on hand with Mr. Thomas Clutterbuck as head waiter, you will know the rest. The informal opening of the National Ideal Society Home, 211 East Clay street, last week, was a brilliant affair, and a grand success. DR. C. S. MORRIS HURT DR. C. S. MORRIS HURT He and Justice Barron Were Struck By Falling Plastering. What came near being a disastrous accident occurred Monday morning in the hallway of the corporation court, causing the injury of Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris and former Police Justice James S. Barron and another white man. Dr. Morris and Justice Barron were standing in the hallway talking when a section of the plastering fell, large pieces striking both men. Justice Barron sustained a slight scalp wound and several bruises while Dr. Morris was rendered unconscious by the force of the blow that made two ugly gashes in his scalp and badly bruised his shoulders. A large piece of the falling plastering, weighing about twenty pounds, fell within two feet of the men. Had this piece struck either the result would probably have been fatal. Dr. Morris add Justice Barron had just arrived at the court house and had been standing in the hall not more than a minute when the crash came, without warning. The terrific noise caused a panic in the corporation court room and there was a general stampede for the doors and windows. Dr. Morris was taken over to the police station where his wounds were dressed by Dr. Schecke and he was later taken home, where he is recovering from the injuries received—Norfolk, Va. Journal and Guide. Now Running at the Hippodrome Theatre In the Twenty Million Dollar Mystery BY HAROLD MAC GRATH Copyright, 1914 and 1915, by Harold MacGrath. Zudora is left an ophion at an early age. Her father is killed in a gold mine. Zudora and the fortune from the mine which grows to be worth $200,000, are set in the guardhouse of Frank Kesner, a man who himself up, as a Hobbit mystic and is known as Hassam All. He decides that Zudora must die before she can have a chance to come into possession of her money, so that it may be left to him, the master of the scheme in the person of John Storm, a young lawyer, for whom Zudora has taken a fancy, and he commands the girl to put the man out of her mind. Zudora insists that if she cannot marry Storm she will marry you. To solve my next twenty cases and you can marry him, fall in a single case and you must renounce him." Zudora unravels a mystery and wins her first case—a case in which John Storm is murdered instead by Hassam All himself. Zudora and Isham All visit Nabok Shan's house, where sleep overcomes every one whenever Nabok attempts to marry a princess. Storm, seeking Zudora, is in a prisoner. Zudora fills an original lover and aides Storm from death. A maker of diamonds tells Hassam All his secret. Storm informs Zudora that his life is being attempted frequently. Storm suspects Hassam All. Storm is being arrested for theft of gems, but Zudora discovers the real thieves—a pair of men. The nero boss employed on Storm's father's farm are fleeing because a great skeleton appears at night upon a boy being hand by band. The verification, but Zudora claims that her uncle has employed Jimmy Bolton, a half witted man, thus to annoy Storm's parents. Zudora finds Bolton operating a big magic lantern and is attacked, by him. Storm appears and saves her. The gem lost by two mysterious old men. Zudora gets a photograph of the gem and it burns in her hand. An old house is mined by Hassam All and the old men. Storm and Zudora are lured there and narrowly capture the construction when the house becomes too hot and kill George Smith, is killed himself, and Smith is charged with murder. Hassam All conspires to have John Storm meet the same fate as McWinter, and he and Storm are overcome by powerful fumes. The thefters own dog trapped and killed him and saves Smith from a band of lynchers. An inventor buildup up a submarine with a powerful heat ray which he sends through water. Hassan All sends Zudora to a photographer directly beneath the invader's vessel to kill her. Zudora gets a warning, and her life is saved. The heat ray machine is destroyed, and the photographer, after a quarrel with Hassan All, is found dead in the river. With Hassan All counts Zudora's elbow with John Storm by laying down her, and he and Hassan All attempt to amuse her out of the country. This plot is frustrated by Storm. Haird, Hassan All, double, falls in love with Zudora. Haird and Mia Du, Killip Zudora and the Vain, Wick child form reunites them, and Hassan All dies. With Hassan All dead Zudora is released of her plebs to solve twenty cases. She confronts, however, the greatest mystery of all, which is the mystery of her fate and the fortune to secure that fortune. This great photo serial is being shown in the leading shooting picture theaters by the Thanhouse Film Corporation. Among those participating are Marguerite Snow, Mary Elizabeth Forbes, James Crusan, in Diane Ingram, and Frank Fortrington. On looking through her uncle's papers Zudora finds that her father left her an interest in a diamond mine, and Storm finds that she is not willing to resin for her consideration of the state which is being appropriated by power under the leadership of Mine Du Val. They plan to frighten Zudora so she also run away. Failing, they take her to the mine, where superintendent, and put them in a private mine asylum. Howard dies, but Zudora nearly fambled, is rescued by Storm and his friend. Detective Hunt and Hotel finders Zudora gold nuggets, but recovered through the cleverness of Hunt and Hunt. They investigate the mysteries of Mine, Du Val's house. A map of a mine is stolen from Zudora, who later killed him and killed his presence. Storm re-discovered the diamonds. The diamond smugglers attempt to burn Hunt alive. I took two weeks for Baird's burns to heal. And Hunt sat down, as it were, and patiently waited for his friend's recovery. He could have gone forward alone, but Baird had stuck to him so loyally and devoutly that he hadn't the heart to disappoint him. "I want to be in at the death, Hunt." "All right, my boy. It may be a bit risky waiting, but I'm going to take the chance." "It's mighty good of you. Can we bring the count of murder against them in regard to the superintendent's death?" "That's a hard nut to crack," answered Hunt. "All I can see clearly is to jig them on the grounds of smugging—that is, if I don't find something more vital in that desk of Mine. Du Wal. Since you're been laid up I've found an odd bit of news." "This man Radcliffe knew Zudora's father." "No!" "Here thing. How well and under what conditions I wasn't able to learn." "Extra documents brought this to灯. Mme. Du Val, Bruce and Radcliffe are crooks of a high order, but I confess that there are some particularly big holes in my not. This problem to death for their life should. If I can get him on the ground of sound hearing and belief SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER XX. "What's that?" and perjury, yet, I can send them up for a comfortable number of years." "Well, let's pray for that much. It seems to me that Hassam Alfs Hindu servant did not sell everything; they had something to start with and only wanted to fortify themselves. Well, here's hoping I'm up and out by the end of the week. It's going to be a grand smash for somebody." Three days after Rafid was freed of his handgrips Stainpain a visit to Zu- THE WEDDING "That you will marry me inside of three months?" dorn. She was sitting in the window seat thrumming a guitar. He tossed the box of flowers into her lap. She opened it with delight. "Are you still of the same mind? he asked. "Same you for what?" she countered, knowing full well to what he referred. "That you will marry me inside of three months." "I leave the break try work, dorn. Perhaps if I hadn't been stillborn and foalsh and had married you at the start all these dreamed things might never have happened to me." "Well, you are at the end of a long line. Heart telephone today that he THE MUSICIAN Baird Notifying Hunt That the Villa is Empty. and Haird were now ready for the warpath. And what do you suppose Hunt took me?" "What?" "That this man Captain Radcliffe, Mme. Du Vall's admirer, once knew your father." "Impostible." "It's a fact. And this may in the end explain away many confusing things. Now give me that kiss I've been walking for ever since I came into the room." She drew into his arms, very grateful to have a pair no strong to abide for. As she drew back from him the little host coaxing her feet together. She gave an examination of dismay and tried to catch the broken chain, but she was too late to prevent the locket from falling to the door. "It's broken!" she cried. "Oh, that's bad luck." "Nonsense," he replied. "A jeweler will be able to patch it up without any trouble whatever." "Bad luck!" she reiterated. "It was my misfortune, and now the charm is broken." "But on your things, and we'll go right down to the jeweler's and prevent the hoodoo from getting in any active work." Storm laughed. He had very few superstititions. Until an hour later they were at the jeweler's. "Oh, yes; that can be fixed easily enough," he declared. "The pictures will have to be taken out, though, white the locket is being repaired." He picked up a small tool and pried the photographs from the cases and handed them to Zudora. Illy she turned them over. "Why, what's this?" she cried, indicating a slip of paper which adhered to the back of her mother's picture. She spread it out on the case and read aloud, "Your father's will has been left in charge of our trusted friend, Captain Radcliffe." "Good Lord!" exclaimed Storm. "Girl, there's the key to the whole business; take my word for it. I propose you run down to Hunt's office at once. He'll want this." Meantime Hunt had a visitor. It was Marcus Villiers of Mountain, in charge of the Zudora gold mines. He was informing the detective that he was informing the detective that he had concluded to follow his documents in case they needed his testimony, when Storm and Zodiac burst into the office with their astounding news. "I knew it!" said Hunt jubilantly. "They seemed too confounded assured to suit me. And this little scrap of paper will solve the riddle. Bald is out at the villa, ready to send word to me the moment those people leave the villa empty. And, by George, these goes the phone now." He took down the receiver. "That you, Bald? Fine! They've left the villa! I'll be there inside of ten minutes. And you heard the directions? Ah, the diamond cutter! Great work, boy! I make you ```markdown ``` "Gone!" my partner for this!" Hunt turned eagerly to his visitors. "I'm off. I can't let this chance slip by. You people sit quiet until you hear from me. I'm a lunch that we're going to do some roundup work this afternoon. Storm, you keep Zodom under your eye up to midnight. You never can tell. The rats may turn and bite when they learn that the game is up. Promise? "I promise." laughed Storm. Hunt found Baird hiding in the pergola. "Everything all right?" "Yes. But you'll have to hurry. No knowing when they'll return. I judge they took some diamonds to the lapidary. Looks as if they smelled a rat and were cleaning up. That window up there is open. Come along and I'll give you a boost. I'll stand under to give you warning in case they return before you complete the job." Hunt began the ascent immediately. The window was unlocked. Gently the detective raised it and slid into the room. He wasted no time there, but made directly for the stairs, alert and watchful. The servants were still in the villa, and he was not desirous of running afoul of them. He reached the stairs safely and went down as soundlessly as a cat. He paused abruptly at the first landing. Some one was in the Grecian salon. It was the butler. He was clearing the little table of glasses. When he had them all on the tray he stalked out of the room. "Maybe tomorrow he will not hold his head no high," mused Hunt, continuing his way down. He tiptoed into the salon. The first object of his attention was the gem vault. He succeeded in opening the panel in the column, but the vault was seemingly impregnable. He desisted and gave his attention to the table. He cast aside the cover and beams and hither and thither he ran his nimble fingers, hunting for the secret combination. He was about to give up in despair when the top of the table slowly turned. "Ah, my friends, I believe I've got you all in the hollow of my hands this time. My, what a shock of paper! They'll make interesting stuff, I'm sure." he could do the business a thousand of old men. It probably took us many years. Hudson held with his fights. He entered the corner bank twice, place, but in his harry did not require the thiefs he had taken off it. A mistake, that they have cost him a good deal in the end. Some victories are only half victories, and fats was going to bring this time to him. He tiptoed into the hall, sow up the stairs, sped through Mme. Du Valt ```markdown ``` "My dear woman, you will never be able to lose me." boudoir and went out of the window just as Baird sounded the alarm. "They are coming back! That's madness of limousine down the road. Hustle! What nuck?" "Got everything!" "Then let's duck while the decking's good," suggested Baird. They began dodging among the trees in hopes that the occupants of the limousine would not see them. But in this they failed. Rainfall leaned out of the limousine window. "Hunt!" he whispered: "Hunt and that man Baird! What the devil have they been up to?" "We can soon find out," said Mme. Du Val unnusily. "They can't have got into the house with the servants on the watch." "You never can tell about this man Hunt," replied Radcliffe grimly. "Here we are. Come! Hurry!" They got out of the car and ran up the steps. Upon entering they both intuitively went into the salon. Radcliffe first went to the gem vault. But nothing there had been touched. Then someone opened the top of the table. "Gone!" "What's gone?" demanded Radcliffe. "Everything!" she cried passionately. "They have cleaned out the drawer completely. Radcliffe, we are lost!" He rang violently for the servants. But they swore earnestly that they knew absolutely nothing. And as these servants were crooks of a minor order Radcliffe was forced to believe them. But he gave them a bering over their carelessness, a bering not to be forgotten soon. "Well," said Rindcliffe, striving to calm malaise, who had inexplicably burst into tears, "we've got a tidy sum salted away. Ive warned you a hundred times, but you would play the game to a finish. But I dont understand your tears. You know the risks we were taking. And now-flight Thank the Lord, the path's in commission! That'll take us anywhere we care to go." Suddenly the woman rose to her feet and dashed the tears from her eyes. "Rindcliffe, if I weep it is with tears of rage. That little chit, to beat us when we had everything. I am going so faint this affair my way." "And whats that?" "I will give a reception tomorrow night." "You me mad! A reception! They'll hold that in the Tomber." "Listen to me. They'll come out of comfort, and while they are dancing At 6 o'Clock the Old Labiary Was Arvived At 6 o'Clock the Old Lapidary Was Ar- rived. or waiting for the arrival of the polled will slip into the tunnel and make our getaway under their very noses. I ind up upon it. I know. They will think they are playing with us, while on the courtrie it is we who will play with them." "I'm against it, but I can see that your mind is made up. Don't turn to me with reproach if the game blows up the other way. What's the use of playing game when we're up against a proposition like this? "It is my will." "All rights. I were the wisdom of singing to you in a stutter but for thee. But nothing of us don't stutter when we sing to you in a stutter." "If you wish to run away do so at once" the replied collyd. "My dear woman, you'll never be able to kiss me. Let's say nothing more about it." At 6 o'clock the old haplayd was arrested as the first move in the game. A small fortune of unset diamonds was taken in at the same time. In the future diamond imagery would have to look elsewhere. Hunt informed Storm and Suthor what he had answered in doing and The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily blurred background with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. The Escape. declared that on the morrow he would arrest Captain Radcliffe, Bruce, Mime, Du Val and their confederates. But imagine Zudora's amazement the next morning when she received a polite invitation from Mime. Du Val to attend a tango dance. And when Storm telephoned that he had also received one they concluded to notify Hunt. He went up in the air for a few minutes. "What shall we do?" asked Zudora. "Walk a minute," said Hunt; then he spoke. "Go. They are contemplating to set a trap for you, and we'll get THE The Garage Had Been Boarded Up them red handed on that count. I'll have the place surrounded by the police. They've got nerve, and I'm curious to see how far it will stretch. Tell storm to arm himself. Bald and I will be within calling distance. With the police at hand I don't think there'll be any great risk. Give 'em rope; they'll hang themselves." Hunt hung up the telephone. "A final adventure" cried Zudora. "It if was any one but Hunt I'd bow off, but the old boy knows what he's doing." It was rather a remarkable gathering which appeared at Mme. Du Vall's valedictory dance. Half of them knew that something serious was afoot, and the other half felt that something was in the air, but could not tell what Hunt's fault lay in his overconfidence, and in his overconfidence he forgot all about the underground passage until his guarries were suddenly found missing. He was fugious. They had played with him in a manner he had been far from expecting. He had a sensation not unlike that of a nonmester having tobacco smoke puffed in his face. He called to Baird. "They've gone into the underground passage. We have one chance in a hundred in blocking them at the old garage. Look alright." The two ran anxiously from the house. And on the Reservoir, the plains of the other end. They surrounded the empty vault a wailing jungle just off the end and Hunt, crawled into the garage. They saw by the open trap that the birds had down. Out of the window again they went, in time to see the van lumbering off. "They're in that!" yelled Hunt in a strangled tone. Never in all his career had he been quite so brazenly made a tool of. But the van gathered speed and rapidly drew away from the pursuers. Munt had saved Zudora's millions for her, but he had lost forever his trio of precious crooks. He received this information three weeks later. Mme. Du Val's yacht had run afoul a floating mline in the English channel, and everybody on board had gone down. Storm and Zudora were married in the Du Val villa, which really had been purchased by money belonging to her father's estate. Thus ended the trials of Zudora. THE' END. How Coffee Grows In Health How Coffee Grows in Haiti. Coffee, the great staple product of Haiti, grows with little attention. It supplies the bulk of the revenues on the government and the meager demands of the simple, penchanty of the mountains and valleys whose business it is, especially the women and children, to gather it and bring it to the seaport towns on their heads and on the backs of donkeys and horses. This plant is seen on nearly all the uplands and mountain sides of the country, and the product is easily portable it is brought to market from far and near in all conceivable quantities, from one or two pounds up to 200 pounds, according as it is carried on the head of a child, the back of a horse or in snacks in ox carts. Notwithstanding that the coffee plant is scarcely cultivated as all, except in small patches around the cottages, it goes on reproducing itself from fallen berries so successfully that the crop only varies from year to year through extraneous influences like a variation in the rainfall—the lack of or too abundant rain near or during the flowering season. U. S. DEMANDS EXPLANATION WASHINGTON VERY UNEASY Officials Suspect Intentional Affront to American Rights—Gerard Ordered to Obtain Explanation. Secretary of State Bryan has directed Ambassador Gerard, at Berlin, to demand an explanation from the German government of the submarine attack upon the American oil ship Gulflight, near the Selfly Islands, on Saturday. Ambassador Page, at London, also has been asked for a detailed report on the affair, which resulted in the death of the Gulflight's captain, Alfred Gunter, of Bayonne, N. J., from a heart attack, and a sailor and the wireless operator of the ship. President Wilson has refrained from comment on the wrecking of the Gulflight, while awaiting advice. Akod concerning the case of Leon C. Throsher, an American, drowned when the British steamship Palabra, was sunk by a German submarine, he said no representations had yet been made to Germany, but that probably it would be treated with other cases that had arisen, as all seemed part of the "war zone" circumstances. Consult General Skinner, at London, reported to the state department that a submarine was sighted from the Gulflight, twenty-five minutes before the Gulflight was struck. He says nothing in his cablogram as to the nationality of the craft. Consul Stephens, at Plymouth, sent to the state department a second brief dispatch in response to Secretary Bryan's call for a full report on the affair. The message was not made public. Mr. Bryan said he had a dispatch from the owners of the Gulflight, which he would give out later. The cabinet discussed the slinking of the Gulflight, and afterward members reiterated that the position of the United States would not be finally determined upon until further details were received. Greater anxiety exists in Washington over the torpedoing of the Gulflight than has been caused by any previous event growing out of the war. Instead of being considered as an isolated case, the incident is regarded more as the culminating incident in a series, each successively manifesting, if not a deliberate intent to affront the United States, at least an alarming disregard of American rights and the respect due to the American government. That it will be for Germany herself to decide whether the friendly relations between the two governments shall continue uninterrupted or not was the very positive statement made. 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Within these mines is a labyrinth of salt hewn streets and alleys, lined with pilared churches, caisseries, restaurants, shrines and monuments. Nearly 2,000 workmen are employed in the salt mines, working in eight hour shifts. The damp, salty atmosphere seems to shorten their days; but even at that they do now appear unhappy in spite of the small wages of 20 cents a day they are paid. There are little lakes in the mines, sometimes thirty feet deep, which are navigated by furry-boats. The Hurrying World. The Murrying Words. If you saw a company of pilgrims walking as if for a wager, each with his tooth set, and if you happened to ask them one after another, without they were going, and then each you were to receive the same answer, then positively they were all in such a hungy they had never found himself to hang into the murders of their grand-men, my dear sir, you would be satisfied at the indisputing their argument. If I going to be here I am sure that the destruction of the human race will be the result of the murders of the pilgrims. 115 Americans Were Lost When the Lusitania Was Torpedoed by German Submarine. The nation is recovering slowly from the shock and horror caused by the stinking of the steamship Lusitania, of the Cunard line, off the Irish coast, a few miles outside of Queenstown harbor. The loss of 1153 lives, 115 of whom were American men, women and children, and all of whom were noncombatants, has caused one of the greatest scastions of modern times. The submarine which caused the catastrophe is believed to be one of the powerful U class craft, which are held responsible for the loss of the steamship Palaba and other passenger and freight ships in British waters. The suddenness of the attack is held responsible for the terrific loss of life, as the deadly missiles came without warning while the passengers were dining, and the Lusitania disappeared beneath the waves within fifteen minutes. What Survivors Say. Survivors say that the first torpedo struck the hull of the ship directly in the space occupied by the engine room. ```markdown ``` CAPTAIN TURNER AND SALOON OF VERHILZ. The second hit her cargo section, and is thought to have exploded an enormous quantity of ammunition said to have been stored there. At any rate, several explosions occurred as the steamer listed and sank bow first. Survivors united in declaring no warning was given. So desperate were conditions that only ten lifeboats could be launched. Indescribable scenes were enacted as the helpless passengers struggled for their lives in the sea. The official British press bureau in London gave out the following report from the admiral in command at Queenstown: "The torpedo boats, tugs and armed trawlers which went to the rescue of the Lusitania passengers from Queens-town are all in, with the exception of the Heron. "Fow First Class Passengers Saved. "Only a few of the first class passengers were saved. It is understood that they thought the ship would float. She sank in from fifteen to twenty-five minutes. "It is reported that she was struck by two torpedoers." "The Canard agent given 2,100 as the total number aboard. "The Canard company reported the nationalities of the passengers as follows: Saloon—British, 170; American, 106; Greek, 3; Swede, 1; Mexican, 1; Swim, 1; Second class—British, 521; American, 65; Russian, 3; Belgian, 1; Hollanders, 3; French, 5; Italian, 1; unknown, 2." In the storage there are said to have been thirteen Americans. The tragedy took place about ten miles off the Old Head of Kinsale. As soon as the Lusitania's wireless call for assistance was received at Queensbury, Admiral Coke, in command of the naval station, dispatched to the scene all assistance available. The two Warrior, Stormcock and Julia, together with five trawlers and the local lifeboat in tow of a tug, were hurried out to sea. Weather conditions aided in the work of mason, but the saddness with which the liner plunged to the bottom of St. George's channel made it impossible to get all on board. ```markdown ``` WHAT DO THESE CARDS MEAN? WHITE RED BLACK Read the Startling Story of Captain Criticises Fallura of British Warships to Protect Liner. May trod must make its final dive to destruction. Meanwhile aid had started from a dozen directions, and soon the boats were picked up by steam vessels and smaller craft. But before this happened the stricken liner, with so many human souls still aboard, had gone down. It is known that among so many victims there are many Americans, and in the view of those in authority here the death of these presents to the United States the greatest problem she has faced during the present war. Bodies Brought Ashore. One hundred bodies were brought ashore at Queenstown on the Cunard wharf from the rescue tug Stormcock and other steamers, which brought over 600 survivors. It is stated that these persons died of exhaustion while on their way to Queenstown from the scene of the disaster. The bodies were removed to the town hall. When the survivors reached the wharves doctors and ambulances were waiting, and pitiful scenes were witnessed there. There was a large proportion of women among the arrivals. Their clothes were soaked with water. They were hatless and shoeless, and many were unable to walk. 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On the last eastward trip I never saw a warship until we reached Liverpool." Ended at Queenstown. He said that after the ship was torpedoed there was no panic among the crew, but that they went about the ocean travel. NOTICE! TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage One of the Cunard officers who was on the Lusitania on her last voyage, confirmed Captain Turner's statement that the liner had not sighted a single warship on her voyage. Captain Turner stood at his post on the bridge until his ship went down and was rescued three hours afterward wearing a life belt, according to D. A. Thomas, the Cardiff (Wales) coal magnate. "Our course was shaped for shore immediately after the torpedo struck," he said. "There is a difference of opinion as to whether the steamship was struck by more than one torpedo, but I heard only one." WATCHED TORPEDO AS IT STRUCK SHIP. Ernest Cowper, Toronto Writer, Describes Attack, Seen From Deck. 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The fact that many Americans were known to the Germans to be aboard the Lusitania is calculated to excite the populace, it is feared. The sinking of the ship without warning to the unfortunate passengers and crew, it is pointed out, does not leave a good impression and tends to the belief that the kaiser's government holds Americans and Americans in cool contempt. They tell a story of a man in a great city who forgot his own name. He put an ad in the paper. Within a few hours he was quizzed by so many curious people that he put an ad. in a later edition stating that he wanted to stay lost. Our classified ada. do everything find the lost, buy and sell, bargain and exchange, employ and secure employment. Use them. Shot Wife, Two Children and Self. Bailed by an attack of religious mangle, Clarence Walters, twenty-four years old, shot and killed his wife, Susan, their two daughters, Babbitt, two years old, and Virginia, two month old, in their home in Springfield; O. Walters then fired a bullet into his own head and is dying at the city hospital. Cost of Advertising. Who pays the cost of advertising? Certainly not the consumer; certainly not the retailer. Here is the real truth of the matter. Money wisely spent in advertising increases sales and profits to such an extent that sufficient capital is provided for the operation of economies naturally resulting from buying and manufacturing in larger quantities. The bigger the volume of trade the cheapest is the relative production. As all leading advertisers know, production is cheapened in a much greater degree by advertising there is represented by the money spent in advertising. Were it otherwise there would be no use in advertising. But what is of still greater importance is that in ratio with the cheapening of production there is a cheapening of the advertised price to the public edition. Second Magazine. JOHN M. 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S. +36.01 S.M. S. S. +37.01 S.M. S. S. +38.01 S.M. S. S. +39.01 S.M. S. S. +40.01 S.M. S. S. ACCOMMODATION TRANS—WEEKDAYS. Leave Byrd St. S.A. 6:00 P.M. for Frederickburg, Leave Kln A.M. 7:45 A.M., 8:15 P.H., 9:00 P.N. S.F. Ashland. Arrive Byrd St. S.A. 9:25 A.M. from Frederickburg's Arrive Kln A.M. 6:00 A.M., 11:35 A.M. 6:45 P.M. from Ashland. Sunday accommodation train leave Klin 6.15 P. M. for Frederickburg arrive Klin 11.56 St. A. from Frederickburg. *Daily:* 1. Weekdays. 2. All trains from Frederickburg depart St. A. step at Klin. Time of arrival and departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL RAIL LINE TO NORFOLK In effect December 1, 1814 Leave Hyrtl Street (Station, Richmond, NORFOLK): * 9:00 A.M. * 9:00 P.M. * 4:10 P.M. * 9:00 A.M. * 9:00 P.M. * 15:15 P.M. * 9:20 A.M. * 9:00 P.M. * 12:00 P.M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: * 12:00 A.M. * 8:35 P.M. * 11:30 P.M. * M. From the West: * 8:08 P.M. * 8:08 P.M. * **14:00 P.M. * 8:08 P.M. * 9:00 P.M. *Daily*, ***Daily*** *daily except Sunday*, ***Sunday only***, *HIV*, **HIV** *HIV*, *O. P. A. Beanands* *F. P. T. M. Roanoke*, *O. P. F. A. Beanands* ATLANTIC COAST LINE. 1015 TRANS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY For Florida and the South: 8:15 A.M. 6:20 P.M. 11:50 P.M. 12:50 A.M. For Northland: 9:00 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 6:10 P.M. P.M. 9:00 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 8:15 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 10:00 P.M. 9:20 A.M. For Pittsburgh: 12:50 A.M. 6:15 A.M. 6:15 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:50 A.M. 8:00 P.M. 6:15 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 8:25 P.M. 9:20 P.M. 11:50 P.M. For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: 4:10 P.M. Trains arrive Richmond daily: 8:35 A.M. 10:15 A.M. 6:30 A.M. 7:00 A.M. 8:47 A.M. 10:15 A.M. 6:30 A.M. 7:00 A.M. 7:10 P.M. 1:40 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 6:35 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 11:30 P.M. *Kaempst Sunday, *Sunday only. Time of arrival and departure and connections not shown. C. & C. CAMPBELL, D. P. A. 233 Main St. C. B. CAMPBELL, D. P. A., 822 Main St. SOUTHERN RAILWAY, Travis Lane Richmond, Main Street Station. N. N. Following schedule figures published as compiled and not guaranteed. 11. L P M (multiple-denoted) For all points South Pollinator visits P M. YORK RIVER LINE 1211 W. W. St. Stratford, CT 06250 Call for booking at Baltimore, Maryland, 212-555-5555 From the South: 7 03 A. M. 8 00 A. M. P. M. 5 00 P. M. daily. 8 00 A. M. exceed Sunday. From West Point: 2 00 A. M. 6 15 P. M. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. 7:00 A. L—Local—Ledal E. Ks. Bun.-N. News. 7:10 A. L—Local—Ledal C—Chville. Ks. Bun. Clinton Forge 5:00 A. - Hix. Daily, Norfolk, Old Polet. 10:00 A. - Lowell - Daily - Lynchburg, Lee. C. Forges 12:00 Norfolk - Express - Daily Ez. Bun. - Nor- folk, Old Polet. 3:00 P. - Express - Cincinnati, L'ville, Chicago and St. Louis. ***:4:00 P.-Express-Daily-Norcal. Oid Point. 5:00 P.-Local-Daily-Daily. Sun. N.-New. Old Point. 6:15 P.-Local-Exn. Sun.-Coastville. *:15 P.-Local-Exn. Sun.-Lahcg. B. Forg. *:11:00 P.-Xpress-Daily-City. Locrille. *:11:00 P.-Xpress-Daily-City. Locrille. *:Sleeps. *:Taylor Corr. THAINS. ARRIVE. RICHMOND—Local from East: "**9:55 A. M.**" 8:00 P. M. Through East: 11:30 A. M. "**7:45 P. M.**" 6:00 P. M. East: 11:30 A. M. "**7:45 P. M.**" 6:00 A. M. and 7:20 P. M. Through: 8:30 A. M. and 8:45 P. M. James River Line: "**8:30 A. M.**" 10:00 P. M. "**Daily except Sunday.**" SEABOARD AIR LINE. "The Progressive Railway of the South" Southbound (trains schedule) to leave Richmond daily: 9:00 A. M., Local to Norfolk, 12:20 P. M. coaches to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jackson ville; 10:50 P. M. coaches to Atlanta and Birmingham; 11:17 P. M. Phlaeia Limited; 12:45 A. M., sleeper, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Jacksonville, Tampa and carousel Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond today, 5:00 A.M. 7:20 A.M. 8:15 A.M. 3:05 P.M. 5:45 P.M. Local. ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2377—Residence, 1015 St. James St., Phone, Madison 6619. Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Best Suitable Service. Moderate Rates MAT. VEN. SCH. In Embalmer for Women and Children and in attendance at Funeral. THE ECONOMY 327 N. FIRST ST. Fine Tailoring Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing CHITMAN M. WHITE Preprieter Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at RIH N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at RI N. 4th St., Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. — EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. as second-class matter. SATURDAY—MAY 15, 1915 The National Baptist Union, at Nashville, Tenn., has discontinued publication, so far as we are concerned. We have not seen a copy of it for about four weeks. A colored man, who means well, has a hard time in this world, the most confront the racial prejudices of the poor whites and the mean Negroes. When he surronds these objections, he is entitled to a place in the Hall of Fame. Wealthy white men in this city have awakened to the fact that they are practically as absolutely disfranchised as are the colored folks. They are making a lot of fuss about it though, while the colored folks are keeping quiet and some of them are smiling. We have received "Colored School Children in New York," by Frances Blaseur. It is published by the Public Education Association of the City of New York. The compilation of facts is not only of interest, but affords an insight into conditions that will prove of value in the uplift of the colored people in cities elsewhere. --- We have received "Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth." A. M. Ph. D., Lieutenant Colonel (retired) U. S. Army, by Charles Alexander. It is dedicated to Colonel Allensworth's mother and wife, who inspired his life. It tells about the founding of a Negro town in California, the early history of young Allensworth, the abolition of slavery and also of the work of John Brown, Frederick Douglass and many other subjects of profound interest. It also tells of his service in the United States Army and it pays rare tribute to his sterling qualities as a soldier and a leader of men. Mr. Alexander is a writer with a charming personality and this work in his masterpiece. It contains 429 pages. It is published by Sherman, French & Co., and may be obtained for $1.50. It will richly repay a perusal. --- THE BOSTON PROTEST ```markdown ``` We have read with interest and admired with gratification the fight that Editor William Monroe Trotter, Attorney William H. Lewis, Rev. A. W. Pullar, Messrs. John W. Schenck, C. Henry Robbins, Atta Butler R. Wilson, Rev. Samuel A. Brown and others have been making to secure the suppression in Boston of the moving picture play, "Birth of a Nation." We have observed with interest the stirring scenes enacted in this city, sometimes known as the "eradle of liberty" and they remind us of the ante-bellum scence in some sections of this country. The court denied the relief asked and now the legislature of the Old Bay State is being importomed to furnish the needed remedy. The Board of Consors could settle the whole matter if they would and thus save this additional annoyance and expense. The agitators are "in their glory," so to speak, but as we read the column of the Guardian, it seems to us that the Boston people are lavish in their protest and condemnation, but very economical in their contributions. These clashes are becoming more frequent. The men who have been persistent in arousing race hatred have been permitted to ply their vocations virtually without protest, until nowhere within the confines of the United States can the colored people be assured of fair play and decent treatment. "The pendulum is bound to swing the other way," and what it does, salvation of the citizen of outer will be at hand. We must unite and we must agitate. Manhood rights and constitution al privileges must never be relied quashed. We must insist upon all of our rights under the State and Federal Constitutions. No race of freemen will submit to indignity and outrage without a protest. When a race does this, its death-knell is sounded and slavery and oppression may be seen in the distance. THE SINKING OF The sinking of the British passenger steamer, Lusitania, one of the most palatial floating palaces the world has ever seen and the loss of 1,131 lives have shocked, the civilized world. Among this number were about one hundred Americans. On the morning of the day the Lusitania was to sail, the Imperial German/Embassy at Washington caused to be published a warning to all persons who contemplated going to Europe in a vessel flying the British flag. In addition to this telegrams were sent to some of the passengers warning them not to sail on the Lusitania. It was evidently believed at that time that the publication was a German bluff to injure the trade of the Cunard Steamship Company and the idea of the steamer's destruction was flaunted. It was not believed that with the speed of the Lusitania any submarine boat could send a torpedo with sufficient accuracy to strike her. The passengers were killed into a sense of security, which was rapidly awakened when the shock came. Even then, as in the case of the Titanic, it was believed that she would remain afloat for many hours, and thus make possible the saving of the hundreds of passengers. As a matter of fact, she was flooded down to the gun-wall with ammunition and supplies for the allies and when the deadly torpedo got in its work the explosion that followed ended the life of the ship and well nigh everybody in about fifteen minutes. The Cunard company has cancelled the sailing dates of the Maurelandia and other vessels and it is now evident that war supplies will be sent across the Atlantic in vessels that will not carry passengers. The Germans have agents, who are well posted as to the cargoes of all vessels leaving for European ports and the declaration of the Admiralty that it cannot afford protection to merchant ships indicates that the war is reaching its last stage. THE QUESTION OF SPORGEAGA TION . The brilliant City Attorney, Hon. H R Pollard, seems to have been put to the necessity of "hunting heaven and earth" in order to maintain the contention that "policy power" can be exercised to the extent of nullifying constitutional provisions. He goes so far as to compare the private ownership of property to the public corporate ownership of school lands. Here is what he said: In Berea College v. Ky., 211 U.S. 44, a legislative act of the State of Kentucky made it unlawful for any persons corporation or association to maintain or operate any college, school or institution where persons of white and negro race are both received as pupils for instruction, and imposed a fine on any person who violated said provision. Berea College undertook to givee for instruction both white and Negro children and was indicted for a violation of the statute. The defense was that the Kentucky statute was unconstitutional, and that it prohibited the right to follow a lawful pursuit, it being, as contended, an inalienable right of every citizen to do so. Mr. Justice Brewer, delivering the opinion of the court, said: "We need concern ourselves only with the inquiry whether the first section can be upheld as coming within the power of a State over its own corporate creatures. We are of opinion, for reasons stated, that it does come within that power, and, on this ground, the judgment of the court of appeals of Kentucky is affirmed." It was songt, when this case was before the Supreme Court of Kentucky, (1237-Ky. 209) to distinguish it from the separate coach law cases, and from the public school cases, on the ground that in the cases of common schools and railroad carriers the State was merely preventing an enforced association by the two races, while by the statute unauthorized to the extended power was attempted to be extended to provide their voluntary association. But the court refused to recognize this as a ground of distinction, saying that the thing aimed at by the legislature was not that of volition but something deeper and more important. Speaking by Judge O'Rear, the court said: "The separation of the human family in a race distinguished no less by color than by temperament and other qualities is as cortains as anything in nature. Those of us who have been driven to divinity ordered have no doubt that there was wisdom in the provision; albeit we are unable to my with assurance why it is so. There were one in it only means that people also concede that in the case in all others in nature, there is an unerring justification. There are exists in each race a homogeneity by which it will perpetually reduce itself, if unadulterated. Its instance is gregarious. As a check there is another, an antipathy to other races, which some call race prejudices. This is nature's guard to prevent amalgamation of the races. A disregard of this antipathy to the point of mating, between the races is unnatural, and begs rementment in the normal land. It is incompatible to the continued being of the races, and is repugnant to their insurance. So such mating is univariable regarded with disfavor in the lower animals this quality may be more effective in the preservation of distinct breeds. But among men of conventional degrees in the form of governmental prescriptions are resorted to in aid of right conduct to preserve the purity of blood. No higher welfare of society can be thought of than the preservation of the best qualities of manhood of all its races. If then, it is a legitimate exercise of the police power of government to prevent the mixing of the races in cross-breeding. It would seem to be equally within the same power to regulate that character to association which tends to a breach of the main desideratum—the purity of racial-blood. In less civilized society the stronger would probably annihilate the weaker race. Human civilization is endeavoring a fuller nature's edicts as to the preservation of races' identity in a different way. Instead of one terminating the other, it is attempted, to so regulate their necessary intercourse as to preserve each in its integrity." Again the court says: The maxims of liberty and purpose of happiness which are familiar to the common law, wherefore the idea found in our Bill of Rights is probably borrowed, are the principles worked out by the Angle-Saxon race for its own government. In no other country has ever been attempted before, at least on so important a scale, to apply such principles alike to so many different races, types and creeds of men. The experiment is great in its importance. It forms now one of the biggest questions being worked out by this great North American republic. That much bitterness has appeared, and the pressure has been practiced, among the inevitable tendants upon the adjustment by people of different races of the rights justly belonging to each. Clashing of antipatios, resulting in outbreaks of violence, tend to disturb the public space; threatens the public saxon; and disrupts the serenity of common purpose to promote the welfare of all the people, that the question is become one of the first importance to the section where the two races live in greatest the police power of government to legislate upon this question so far as to suppress such outbreaks and to prevent disturbances of the public trust quality, we have no sort of doubt. The seriousness of the situation is not new. Even before the abolition of slavery it was keenly and intelligently anticipated. Since the emancipation has not been the least of the grave problems of government which have been presented, to some of the States for solution, as the outcome of discussion, of agitation, of too frequent conflicts, of violent turbulence that set even the law at defiance in some localities and in times of great popularity, this species of legislation has been evolved as tending to solution of the trouble by removing, as far as possible, its cause. Is not this situation one, if ever there was one, which calls for and simply justifies the exercise of police power of the government? Or should this irritating be left without restraint or control, till by the exhaustion of one side or the other of it be settled by the sheer force of superiority of numbers or physical power? It is idle to talk of controlling ideas by legislation, or by force. You cannot bind an idea by a statute. The attempt should be made and we believe is being made in good faith, to control this situation through the law that neither race can have just cause for complaint; so that each may have every lawful privilege and right that the other has; so that equality of rights before the law shall be a fact, as well as a high-sounding theory; yet so as to conserve the very best of the characteristics of each race, to develop its idea of morality its thrift, independence and usefulness. Observation and study at close hand of both the theory and problem of the problem of social existing of the collaboration of two races so different as the white and black in the same State, upon a plane of legal equality; where the government is by the people for the people, it has been found, so the legislative department declares as evinced by the public policy indicated by the statutes discussed in the opinion, that at the very bottom of all the trouble is the racial antipathy to the destruction of its own identity and, that, if that danger is removed, the friction practically disappears. A separation of the races under certain conditions is therefore enforced, where it is believed that their mingling could tend to produce a new edition of this book, if given at the base of the trouble. In its application it becomes all the more necessary that the overmasting principles included in the police power of the government be firmly recognized, so that a clashing of race prejudices or race destruction, may be lawfully averted. "It has two great objects. One, the preservation of the identity and purity of the races; the other, the avoidance of clashes between the races by preventing their most frustful sources." Mr. Justice Brewer specifically stated that it came within the exercise of the power of a State over its own corporate creatures, that is over an institution holding corporate privileges as against private rights. It is a fundamental principle that every man's home is his agreed to settle the lawsuit between the two parties and in a free court is maintained in his private from detention given by officers of the law. A corporation's books and papers are liable to seizure, but a citizen's private property is immune from any such process. On what ground then and on what basis could City Attorney Pollard cite this case as supporting his contentions in the Mary S. Hopkins case? While this decision is not "on all fours" as the lawyers would say with the case under discussion, it nevertheless will take rank with the Dred Scott Decision, which has since been so widely discredited. When a jurist takes the position that the separation of white teachers from colored pupils is essential to prevent race amalgamation, he is evidently ignorant of existing conditions in the Southland or has blindly shut his eyes to them. Racial amalgamation has been going on for more than a hundred years. White men have openly lived with Negro concubinates and they have boldly "raised up children unto Abraham;" making it unnecessary for a colored man to seek a "white woman" for companionship for he has white colored women at his show and they are as white as they come. When jurists theorize then the reading public indulges in laughter. City Attorney Pollard knows about this. The colored servant gbi who has been the prey of some of the best white men in the South-land is an open aligina upon this section. The allegation that the attempt now being made to segregate the colored people by law is done in order to keep the races pure is more bumoon. The mixture of the races is a matter sometimes ranging from a few minutes to an all night debauchery and it does not occur in the homes of respectable colored people either. We have read these allegations with amusement at one time and almost anger at another, knowing well that the truth will finally be told and that God will bring all things right to His own time. Troy, N. Y., May 11th....Mrs. Pannie C. Wager is our church missionary. She was to Selkirk on her mission the last and first days of April 29th and 30th and May 1st and 2nd having meetings from house to house, among both colored and white. She reported the white school so he will visit there again soon. She left Troy on Thursday, April 29th, and returned home at 10:30 P. M. Sunday. May 2nd. Our meetings are going on at the gospel chapel every Sunday 10:30 A. M. and Friday S. P. M. Just the same. Everybody is favored to attend the meetings at the gospel chapel S. Harrison Place, north of johob street. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Van Noller, little Etta Van Noller, is very ill at present. We are praying that the Lord will raise her again from her sickness, and much good may be done to our race by the Lord through her. We are bound to mourn the loss of our grandmother, the sisters in the city of our race. It can be truthfully said of Sister Ader Harder, wife of Richard S. Harder, of No. 2169-6th avenue. Again it can be said she died at her post while engaged in the services Sunday night. May 2nd, she was taken sick. She was carried from the Salvation Army Army Home. The her church to home. The temple called and all efforts were made to keep her with us, but the Lord took her to Himself. Slater Harder was baptized by the Rev. J. A. Taylor in the Hudson river by her own request May 13th, 1800, in the city of Troy, N. Y., and we are a witness to the fact Y. and we are witnesses to the fact these fifteen years she lived a Christian life throughout these fifteen years. We have but few here in Troy we would dare to say as much. Her life is six years more for the Master in the Salvation Army in this city, and they laid her away to rest in the most loving and best manner we have witnessed of any of our people in the past nineteen years. The funeral took place on Wednesday, May 5th, at 2 P. M., from her home and at the Salvation Army 2:30 P. M., Captain J. B. Mugford, of the Salvation Army, took his text from 2nd Timothy, 4:27. A Better One Would Have Heen Hard to Finish the work of the woman and he loved to presche the funeral of such faithful workers of the Lord. At the close of the funeral the members of the Army sang "Soldier of God, Well Done." This good sister leaves behind a husband, two daughters and one son. The interment was in Elmwood Hill cemetery. There also shall rest until Jesus comes. No. 2169 6th avenue, is now visiting her brother, E. E. Vanderpoor, Brotthobrow, Vermont. Mrs. Imbella Price, of Catakill, was in the city Friday and Saturday May 7th and 8th, visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Reed, of No. 122 Congress street. Little Imbella Reed, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Thomas Reed, of 132 Congress street, left May 8th for Youngstown, Ohio, where she 'will visit her guest. Mrs. Daniel Roggett. will visit her guest. Mrs. Daniel Roggett. day evening. May 8th at the home of Brother Samuel Van Stik, No. 14 Franklin street. The following offices are shown and restrictions advised: "Brother Martin V. Jackson, Susan Samuel Van Stik and Alumni the church will be the first to commence the work owns will be the first to commence the work turns. Mrs. Punzie G. Wager was Prod. Sarah is selected for the church stock, and The Addison Mrs. Walter Van Neller the church treasurer, and Mrs. P. C. Wager, not tres. Masters M. V. Jackson. For more F. C. Wager and Sister Walter Von Professor Jac Neller the church finance committee, in the North, Sisters M. V. Jackson and F. C. Wager were made, the church missionaries. A standing committee for the reception of members: The pastor, chairman, and Brothers M. V. Jackson, Samuel Van Slike and Alexander Dunkin. Also to follow resolutions were adopted: 1—No person will be admitted in the church who drinks or uses alcoholics as a beverage or violates too moral law in other ways. 2—Any person who has been out from their church must be baptized over again before joining this church. 3—All personx who desire to become members of this church must first come before the standing committee. 4Any member of this church who misses three or at the most four of the regular meetings of the church consecutively must report the reason why before the fifth meeting to the standing committee. Alma, Kan., May 5, 1915. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor Rich- mond Planet. Dear Sir: 'One reason I did not send money a year ago last February. I got my house and all house things I ever saved burned up. But the people helped me out. I had $600 insurance and am moving on. I am 50 years old, and not able to work. I will want to send the Planet on. I will send on the $3.00, and it I keep moving on will send you more. I see you are in the pulpit, so I thought I would write a few thoughts. One thing prompted me to write a few month ago. You said in your paper that the colored folks would have to do like the Catholics, or words to that effect. You found yourself under Adam, then you found yourself under Noe, and next under Moses. You see that our Lord took us as holy people. After a while you find yourself under our Lord Christ. I think it is Paul who said we were not all Abraham's seed, because we are the seed I think of Aloe's children, something to that effect. Therefore, we are all the seed of Abraham or Israel, but we are not the faith of Abraham, so we are all the adopted children of Christ, but we all do not have the religion of Christ. You will see that Christianity is an adoption, and religion is service. Now, I wish you, with your education, would formulate what I am trying to say and teach those Distance something. I believe that our tilt to civilize our people. We have been taught to get a man to do right he must be born again. Born again is all right in the way that our Savior meant it. I wish you will excuse me for wading out in the sea. I think I can say you are the greatest color man ever known from history. I remain "The Devil" will be the coming attraction at the Hippodrome Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday. May 18th and 19th. A Mutual Master picture in five parts, based on the famous play by Franz Molnar. Adapted for the screen by Charles Swickard. It will be interesting to go to the Hippodrome and see how "The Devil" mixes things for three women and a man. It's a powerful play wonderfully acted and supervially staged, costing thousands of dollars. You'll enjoy the five reels of interesting situations from start to finish. The management of the Hippodrome has contracted for the exclusive showing of a series of Mutual Master pictures. Two of the coming attractions that are already announced are "The Outcast," "The Outlaws' Revenge, or In the Dawn of a New Republic." No expense is spared to obtain the very best in vaudeville and motion picture attractions for the theatre going public who visit this house weekly. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, tickets are now on sale for the First Battalion of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias. Tickets are now on sale by the committee and at Frye's. North Second St. Large crowds are expected each night. Something New Under the Sun! The attention of the public is called to the fact that the Samaritan Hall, at the corner of 6th and Duval Streets has been thoroughly renovated from top to bottom and made a strictly modern up-to-date hall in every respect. To this end, we are offering to the public, to societies, lodges, beneficial clubs, social parties, to all persons and organizations who desire an excellent place for meetings of pleasure and entertainment, the privilege of renting rooms In the Samaritan Hall. These lodge rooms and the main hall which is used for entertainment, are for rent at strictly modern prices. We are ready and prepared to serve the public along this line. Let us have your application. For full information apply at the office of State Grand Lodge No. 6. I. O. of Good Sumitrians and D. of Samarita, at the corner of 6th and Duval Streets and provide communications to J. W. THOMPSON. BUILDING, COMMITTEE J. N. MYERS IMMAN MAYN W. H. HATCHER Mrs. J. M. WASHINGTON MRS. P. R. DANNELL For more than three months Professor Jacob Ashburn labored in the North, in the interest of the Ashburn Bros. Shirt. Mfg. Co., also lecturing and preaching as a means of coming in direct contact with the church people of that section this particular trip along with the earnest efforts of Prof. A. Ashburn and others whom he solicited both in and around Lynchburg has brought the company splendid results so that now it is no more a question if the factory will live, for it has passed the experimental stage. Perhaps no two young men in the more race deserve more communication than they. For they have given 15 years of career and hard labor to the establishment of this one enterprise and that after they had spent more than nine years in the best schools and colleges of the country educating themselves. But the congratulations, praise and success have more than paid them for all the adversity which they have sustained. Mr. Jacob Ashburn now actively enters the ministry after having helped to give the race the only manufacturing business of its kind in the country. His experience in Lynchburg as a business man and as a college professor in Virginia Theological Seminary and College makes him at once a favorite of this city and a favorite among the students and faculty of his institution did when he graced the chapel exterease on Thursday morning. Students vied with teachers and teachers with students to do him honor and he in turn out of the fullness of his soul, delivered a soul stirring message which will ever be remembered by all who heard it. As an orator and lecturer he has few equals in the entire country and as a preacher he bids fair to attract the attention of the whole world. It seems that his contribution through the shirt factory to the race has helped to soften and mellow his soul and his voice at once because the voice of one full of sympathy and interest in the race and humanity. "He has decided to accept some church in the near future, turning over the management and running of the factory to his two brothers, A. Ashburn and Miles Ashburn. Several churches have sought him to pastor, but this is the first time he has seen his way clear to accept a pastorate. But beyond a doubt there is not a young man in Virginia who is more apt to lead successfully a small church or a large one than he is. Physically he is well endowed in voice and appearance, so that he is commanding and impressive. Intellectually he has a regular college and theological training, holding diplomas from Va. Seminary, Mt. Union College, Ohio, and Hilldale College, Michigan. The community which is sufficiently fortunate to secure him in a good church will have one of the strongest young men to be found, and will be recognizing real worth and fitness. R. C. SCOTT. Professor of Va. Theo. Sem. and College, Lynchburg, Va. DR. DREWS SERVICES The following sermons will be preached at Leigh Street Memorial Church by the famous evangelist and pulpit oraton Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, of Washington, D. C.; Tuesday, May 11th, at 8:30—"Child Sneezed Seven Times After Death." Wednesday, May 12th, at 8:30 P. M.—"The Lord's Plantation." Thursday, May 13th, at 8:30 P. M.—"Stone Crying." Friday, May 14th, at 8:30 P. M.—"The Fixed Heart." Sunday May 16th at 11:00 A. M.—"The Hanging on the Wall." At 3:00 P. M.—"Student Body Union Service, Hartshorn Memorial College and Virginia Union University. At 8:30 P. M.—"The Valley of Dry Bonos." Monday, May 17th, at 8:30 P. M.—"Lightning Express to Hell." Tuesday, May 18th, at 8:30 P. M.—"The Wide Mouth." Wednesday, May 19th, at 8:30 P. M.—"What Must I be to Save." Thursday, May 20th, at 8:30 P. M.—"The Cross of Christ." Friday, May 21st, at 8:30 P. M.—"Wheel in a Wheel." Sunday, May 23rd, at 11:00 A. M.—"Seven Golden Candlesticks." At 8:30 P. M.—Men's Meeting. At 8:30 P. M.—"Key to Heaven." Other sermons will be announced later. REV. DR. SKIPWITH IN ALABAMA Montgomery, Ala. D-Street Day Baptist Church, Rev. William Madison, D. D., Pastor.—The Rev. W. H. Skipwith, our international Preacher and Sinking Evangelist, who after closing a very successful meeting here for Dr. R. C. Judkins, went to Anniston, Ala. for a week, after which he returned to us and has so ingratiated himself into the hearts of the citizens of this city until standing room in our church every night is at a premium. We had looked upon Rev. Skipwith as a singer only. I mean a good number of our brethren who attend the National Baptist Convention, with myself included. But brethren, we have a preacher, an evangelist and singer of the first magnitude, and who is fully qualified to interest and interest any set of people. He is plain and fortiful in words and orthodox in faith. Thus far we have added one hundred and twenty-five to our membership and still the meetings go on. Dr. R. C. Judkins, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and who brought Rev. Skipwish to our State, has baptised sixty-five, with eighteen more awaiting baptism, making a total of 115 additions. We are expecting guests on the next ten days. All of Alabama knew that the Rev. W. H. Skipwish is in the church he would serve in of the brothers who are now, after him, he would remit in these parts until August. WEDNESDAY Vienna reports that the Austro-German victory in Galicia has made the Russian position in the western Carpathians untenable, and that the carr forces are fleeing from Hungary. Petrograd admits that Libau and Mitau, in the Baltic provinces, are menaced by German troops. Russian progress is reported near the Niemon river, in north Poland, and a heavy battle in south Poland, where the Germans are trying to force their way across the Nida river. Reports to London, say that British troops are pushing, their way up the Gallipoll ponnaila, in the lighting for the Dardanelles. The Turks, it is reported, are preparing to move their capital to Eakl Shaheh, Asia Minor. Berlin ambushes that the British troops continue their retreat, east of Epres. The British explanation is that troops were withdrawn to straighten the allied line. THURSDAY Vienna claims continued advances in Gallicia, the Russians boing "position after position." It is said that Tarnow has been taken. The Austrian war office says 50,000 Russians have been made prisoners. Severe fighting has been renewed near the German wedge at Milhil, in France, where the Germans have captured a height. London admits the Germans have taken Hill No. 60, near Ypres, which the British recently captured in a furious battle. The German lines now are within three miles of Ypres. The alliee claim a repulse of the Turkish attack on the British camp at Krithin, on the Gallipoll peninsula, near the Darianolles, and an advance into the interior. More than 1000 lives, American citizens among the number, were lost when the Conard Ionior Lujustita was torpedoed without warning off Old Head, near Kilsale, Ireland, by a German, submarine, sinking in twenty minutes. Out of a total number of 2104 persons aboard, passengers and crew, with 189 American citizens, between 500 and 1000 are reported above at Queenatown, Kinsale, Gallehead and Nakonakia, but a late bulletin received by the Conard company from a chief steward expressed his belief that no more than 500 or 600 were saved. The German general staff announced that British attempts to recover Hill No. 50 at Tpines have failed, that further gains have been made here by the Germans, and that French attacks between the Mouse and the Moselle and north of Stainbruck have been resumed. In the eastern theater the Germans report complete success on the lower Danzig and say that the Russians are retreating hastily from the Curpath line, closely followed by the Austro-German troops. SATURDAY. --- Cable reports from London place the number of lye lost on the Lausanne at 1214, of whom 108 were Americans. Many of the passengers and crew were injured by the exploding torpedo, several dying before they were landed. The German admiralty says the Lusitania carried arms and ammunition and was sunk for that reason. The German war office in Berlin announces the capture of Liban, in Rasnia. Libau is a port on the Baltic sea. Russian reports say a big battle is raging in Galicia and the advance of the Austro-German forces is halted. The official French report claims galas at several points along the western battle front. SUNDAY Thousands of Austrians and Germans flee from Italy as the Italian troops are massed. Special trains are rushing the Teutonic allies to the frontier. Berlin reports that Italy has called all troops of the 1876 class to the colors. Eight Turkish transports have been runk. Six of these were destroyed in the Beosporus and the others in the sea of Marmora. The German forces under General von Mackenense have crossed the Wissoka river in pursuit of the firing Russians. Berlin reports. The Germans also claim all Russian attacks in north and central Poland have been checked. Vienna reports the capture of 100-800 Russian prisoners in the campaign in Galicia and that further advances have been made in the Carnathans. MONDAY. German airships appeared over Westcliffe-on-Sea, less than thirty miles from London, and dropped bombs, causing considerable property damage, with a possible loss of life. Two shells from German artillery fell in Dunkirk, France. Paris announces that the allied forces have made a slight gain near Ypres, Flanders, and that the French are holding ground north of Arran, galled by them on Sunday. According to Vienna dispatches, the Austro-German offensive in western Galicia continues, the Russian forces are in retreat, and Hungary has been entirely cleared of enemy troops. Petrograd admits the capture of Lifan by German troops, alided by warships, but says the offensive in Galicia has been cheeky. WHERE IS BEAUTY? There, will be an ultram Sun Queen of May given at Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday Night, May 17, by ideal Club. This Beautiful Spring Festival will be supplemented by a Spyder Postery, composed of Hairy Social Hustle, More or Less will be portrayed, Admiration, Couture. CANTER BROTHERS ARE INDICTED Brothers Held to Answer Charge of Assaulting and Murdering Mrs. Wilson. Bristol, Tenn., May 6.—Luthor Canter, twenty-five years old, and James Canter, twenty years old, brothers, were indicted by a special grand jury in the Circuit Court at Abingdon, Va., today on the charge of having assaulted and murdered Mrs. Maude Wilson, the young wife of James B. Wilson, in the Wilson home on the Bristol-Abingdon Turnpike, three miles out of Bristol, fifteen days ago. The Canters, who are in prison at Roanoke, Va., for safekeeping will be brought into court at Abingdon at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the hour set by Judy Preston W. Campbell for beginning the trial. To the crowd in the courtroom today, Judge Campbell gave solemn warning against any attempt that may be contemplated to do violence to the Canteras. He told of his plan to have the prisoners guarded by armed officers from three counties, and stated that no person carrying arms would be admitted to the courtroom. Sheriff Miller being instructed to search every person seeking to enter. Judge Campbell was here this afternoon to meet members of the guard coming from Scott County and to confer with Judge N. P. Oglesby, the latter having been designated by the court to defend the Canteras. There are rumors of violence, but Judge Campbell feels confident the people of Washington County will back his movement to preserve order.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Judge Campbell, by Prompt Action Probably Averta Serious Trouble At Abingdon. Abingdon, Va., May 7.—The throng that packed the courtroom at Abingdon today to hear the proceedings in the trial of James Canter on the charge of having been the accomplice of his brother Luther in criminally attacking and murdering. Mrs. Maude Wilson found themselves in a fever of excitement soon after Luther Canter, condemned to die for the crime, began to tell the harrowing story of the assault and murder. Evidences of threatened trouble developed so speedily that Judge Preston W. Campbell ordered the courtroom cleared, immediately adjourned court, and hurried the Canter brothers under a strong guard of armed men to the nearest point on the Norfolk and Western Railway. On the local passenger train then about due, Luther Canter was sent to Roanoke, and James to Marion. But for prompt action serious trouble would most likely have followed. Luther Canter told on the stand the horrible details of how he entered Mrs. Wilson's room at the Wilson home on the Bristol-Abingdon Turnpike, and finding her there alone, seized her, and after a fierce struggle in which he finally overcame, bound and gagged and attacked her; then with a shotgun which he found over the door of the room, shot her to death, holding the muzzle close to her prostrate body. He then left the home before nightfall. He denied that his brother James had anything to do with the crime. In spite of this story the prosecution seems firmly convinced that James Canter, the younger brother, was with Luther at the time, and was equally guilty of every feature of the crime. Luther Canter has confused his statements from day to day, and now says that he assaulted Mrs. Wilson, although persistently denying this charge earlier. During Thursday and today the prosecution has developed a strong chain of evidence tending to convict James Canter. It was shown that the brothers met in a new ground near, the Canter home, where they are said to have talked over James's trouble with the husband of Mrs. Wilson, and other affairs relating to the Williams. Luther Canter was sentenced by Judge Campbell immediately before the adjournment of court this afternoon, the date for his execution being Friday, June 11. Testimony for the defense will be concluded to-morrow morning, and it is believed the case will go to the jury early in the afternoon.Richmond Times-Dispatch. Pleads Guilty of Murdering Mrs. Wilson and is Sentenced to Electric Chair. Abingdon, Va., May 6.—"I am guilty," feebly pleaded Luther Canter today when arraigned in the Circuit Court at Abingdon on the charge of having outraged and murdered Mrs. Maude Wilson, the young wife of James Rufus Wilson, in the Wilson home on the Bristol Abingdon Turnpike, April 23. This conclusion sequenced in by, Judge M. P. Opusley, counsel for Canter, the young man was an hour later under sentence of death. The right to a jury trial was waived. Judge --- the prosecutor Canter guild, and disposed him to die. The case of the execution is to be found now. Fear of mob violence caused Judge Campbell to take the precaution of having a strong guard, and when the Canter brothers were brought to Abingdon from Roanoke this morning, they were marched up Main street from the Norfolk and Western depot between rows of armed guards. There were no hostile demonstrations throughout the day, and the trials of the brothers proceeded in an orally manner. Luther Canter, a slender young man, with sandy hair and large blue eyes, stood trembling as the clerk read the death sentence, then sat the rest of the day in a state of seeming indifference. PROCEED WITH TRIAL OF JAMES CANTER Luther Canter's case disposed of, Commonwealth Attorney Neal and nounced that the prosecution desired to proceed with the trial of James Canter, the nineteen-year-old brother of Luther, who was indicted as an accomplice on both the charges of assault and murder. The Commonwealth's attorney said it would be undertaken to establish that James Canter was with Luther, fired the fatal shot, and was equally guilty, and that the brothers detained Mrs. Wilson throughout the night, holding her in a bound and, gagged state until 4 o'clock in the morning, when they murdered her with a shotgun, then left the home. Soventeen witnesses, including several women, were examined this afternoon. The evidence tended to show that James Canter had boasted that he was infatuated with Mrs. Wilson, that he made remarks indicating criminal intentions towards her, and that he said he would clope with her if she would agree. It was also in evidence that James said he would rather kill her than see her continue to live with her husband. It was admitted by Judge Oglesby, counsel for James Canter, that the bloodstained overalls found in the Canter home belonged to James Canter, Dr. Smith, of the Abingdon Hospital, who put the bloodstains on the overalls and the blood on garments of Mrs. Wilson through a chemical feet, stated that the stains on the overalls gave a chemical reaction identical with the blood of Mrs. Wilson. HEAR MUFFLED SHOT EARLY IN THE MORN Andrew Hensley and his wife, Lucy Hensley, residing near the Wilson home, testified that they heard a muffled gunshot in the direction of the Wilson home at 4 o'clock on the morning of April 24 when they were starting to milk some dairy cows. This, counsel for the prosecution avers, points to a night of detention for Mrs. Wilson, and her murder following. There was ample evidence that Mrs. Wilson was in a desperate struggle with her assailant or assailants, and it was stated in this connection tonight. that Luther Cauter confessed in his cell to having criminally assaulted Mrs. Wilson. The trial will hardly be concluded before tomorrow evening. Commonwealth's Attorney Neal is being assisted by Judge Francis B. Hutton and L. P. Summers. James Canter is Found Guilty of Assaulting and Murdering Mrs. Maude Wilson. Abingdon, Va., May 31—It is the court's degree that both Luther Canter and his nineteen-year-old brother, James Canter, must die in the electric chair for assault and murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Maude Wilson. After being out only thirty minutes the jury that tried James Canter returned at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon with a verdict of guilty of assault and murder. Judge Campbell immediately sentenced the boy to death, fixing June 11 as the date for the execution, this being the same as the date for the execution of Luther Canter. James Canter denied emphatically that he had anything to do with the crime, and his parents testified that he was at home on the evening the crime was committed. The jury seemed convinced, however, that James was with Luther, and was equally guilty. Apparently, James Canter was unable to give a satisfactory account of where he was during the twelve hours within which the crime was committed. He testified, for instance, that he had not seen his brother, Luther, since the latter left the community last fall to avoid prosecution on a charge of criminal assault. It was, however, shown in evidence in rebuttal today that James had seen Luther in March last, and that on one occasion visited the absent brother in Knoxville, Tenn. Welighing all the circumstances, the jury was forced to the conclusion that the two brothers attacked Mrs. Wilson in her home on the Bristol-Abingdon Turnplike about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of April 23, and that they detained her there, bound and gagged, until 4 o'clock the following morning, when they shot her to death and left the body lying on the floor just as it was found twelve hours later, both hands bound and tied to a bedpost and her mouth bandaged. Evidences of a long and furious struggle wore plain, confirming the impression that Mrs. Wilson was detained throughout the night as the prisoner of her assailants, then murdered. It was testified by neighbors that a gunshot was heard in the direction of the Wilson home at 4 o'clock on morning, M April 24. The crowd was orderly today, there being no threat. Luther Center was not present, having been hurried from the courthouse on Friday, after he had rallied his EMPHATICALLY DENIES IMPLICATION IN BLOQUENT AFFAIRS MADE FOR CONVICTION. This afternoon was devoted mainly to the argument. Bloquet appeals for the conviction of James Center were made by Commonwealth's Attorney John W. Neal; L. P. Summers, and Judge F. B. Hutton. Judge N. P. Ogleaby, of Bristol, who became famous as counsel for the Allens in the Carroll Courthouse tragedy, ably defended the young prisoner in a speech of an hour and a half. The convicted youth was sent to the passenger station under heavy guard tonight, and Sheriff Miller and deputies left with him. For Roanoke, where the two brothers will be held until they are ordered to Richmond for execution. The verdict today seemed to meet with approval. Although it seemed doubtful at the outset if a clear case could be made out against James Canter, the chain of circumstances appeared to be complete, and pointed to undoubted evil designs on the part of the younger brother. The impression is that the verdict will be taken from the verdict. It is certain that no appeal will be taken in the case of Luther Canter, however Judge Ogltebry, counsel for the brother, may feel with reference to an appeal for the younger one.—Richmond Times Dispatch. BIRTH OF ANATION COURT ORDERED ONE SCENE CUT Judge Dowd Refuses Substantial Relief to Colored Population— Refused to Hear Further Exd dence After Seeing Play—Hallow- ell Made Able Argument in Vain Butler R. Wilson Conducted Court Fight. (Boston Transcript, April 21, 1915). With the elimination of one scene, the photo play, "The Birth of a Nation," that is being produced at the Tremont Theatre, will go on and no warrant will be issued against John B. Schoeffel, manager of the theatre, and J. J. McCarthy, representing the owner of the film, as asked by Boston Negroes. This was the decision announced by Judge Thomas H. Dowd this afternoon, when he resumed the hearing on the petition for a warrant or summons. He made known his finding without taking further testimony, for he had himself viewed the film last night. MAYOR CURLEY HAD ALSO URGED GUS SCENE OUT It was subsequently announced that the management would do as the court decreed, indeed it had already agreed to do this in response to objections raised by Mayer or Curley. This scene was the final objection raised by the mayor. In place of the scene to be eliminated the management will introduce a new picture showing the accomplishment of the Negro since the days of reconstruction. The scene which the judge orders eliminated is that in which a Negro named Gus is depicted as spying upon a young white girl, and afterwards chasing her with evident evil intent, until she throws herself from the top of a cliff and is killed. Judge Dowd held that this scene comes within the prohibition of the statute upon immoral, obscene and lewd plays, and only that scene. While there are some parts of the show that may be unpleasant to certain citizens, they do not in the opinion of the court come within the prohibition of the statute. On account of the routine work in his session, Judge Dowd was unable to reach "The Birth of a Nation" case until noon. All the forenoon long counsel waited about and the corridor outside was jammed with Negroes anxious to attend the hearing. Spectators were not admitted, however, beyond the seating capacity of the little court room. ADMITS "GUS" SCENE IS IM MORAL, WHY NOT OTHER? When he reached the case, Judge Dowd called counsel to the bench and made a statement in which he said: "This is not a question of race, it is one of the decency and morality of the play; the element of race does not enter into its decision; there is no recognition of race or color in our laws. I am convinced that the statute covers this play. One scene is offensive and immoral, it leaves nothing to the imagination but actual passion. This shows the Nogro Gus pursuing a little white child of twelve years, every expression of his face delinicates lust. The little girl to escape and preserve her honor has to bring about her own destruction. There is no question why the man is pursuing her, he is actuated by the lowest of human passions. ADMITS SCENES OFFENSIVE TO COLORED I will give the defendants time to eliminate this scene. There is nothing else within the statute. While there are things that might excite the colored people, they cannot come within the law. It is unfortunately true that in many cases our stage is descending to filth. This play is no worse than hundreds of others that corrupt the morals. It is a splendid production, though does not condone the nauseating stench the objectionable scene leaves in the mind. I will allow the management to eliminate the scene or will force the warrant." John P. Cusick, counsel for the theatre internecid, said that the Do You Want an Umbrella? Well, here it is. The Hull Bros. Umbrella Company will guarantee them. The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it into your traveling bag or trunk without injury to the Umbrella. We have ordered a consignment of these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent quality. Twenty-five Dollars worth of Umbrella Coupons entitle you to one Umbrella, lady or gent. Specify the kind you want and we will send the Umbrella upon receipt of the Coupons. For every cent paid on a subscription or job work you are entitled to a coupon for that amount. Our customers who pay for their work can get Coupons and secure an Umbrella. We do not allow Umbrella Coupons and Voting Coupons, too. You can get the one or the other. Call at The Planet Office and inspect the Umbrellas. When you purchase a copy of The Planet for five cents, this gives you five cents worth of Coupons. When the number you have equals $25.00, bring them to The Planet Office and get a Ladies' or a Gent's Detachable Handle Umbrella. The Planet will be sent to you four months for fifty cents; six months for eighty cents; one dollar and fifty cents per year. We Print Bills, Tickets, Letter-heads, in fact, everything. We do Linotype Work for the Trade, at the Lowest Prices. THE PLANET 311 N. Fourth St. Richmond, Virginia matter of the scene had been up for four days between the film managers and the mayor, and he did not know what determination had been reached. While the management does not admit the conclusion reached by the court in regard to the scene, it does not purpose to put on anything except what is absolutely within the statute and the ethical law. He said he would take up the matter immediately with the management and notify the court of its action. Judge Dowd said that he did not think there was in the play any deliberate, overt attempt to violate the law but the scene must be eliminated. of plays in which only white people appear are worse. That does not affect this issue, said Mr. Hallowell, for this play has been complained against; it reeks with suggestions all through. THEATRE LAWYER CITES PO. EM IN THE CRISIS. Mr. Custek said that in the statute it was not intended that the word "immoral" should be construed broadly; it should be construed narrowly. He contended that Mr. Hallowell was wrong in his history, and said that the play had given no offence to the great majority of the people. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, OF RICHMOND VA., LOCATED AT RICHMOND, IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS MAY 1, 1915. MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ... $90,325.84 Overdraft secured ... $372.91 Unsecured ... $393.20 Bonds, securities, etc. owned, including premium on same ... 1,630.00 Banking house and lot ... 11,053.99 HALLOWELL PROTESTS AGAINST TREATMENT BY THE JUDGE. J. Mott Hallowell, counsel for the petitioners for a warrant, said that he could prove the case on its merits if the Court would allow the trial on the merits. He had much evidence, he said, and he belooves that the play violates the statute in many other respects than that found by the court. DECISION DETERMINED BY MONEY INVESTED Judge Dowd replied that he would not change his decision. He said he had considered the play as if written in a book. There are thousands of worse scenes in plays in which only white people appear. The element of color must not be allowed to enter here. In view of the large investment involved he thought the management ought to have a chance to meet the finding of the court. HALLOWELL ARGUES RE- MOVAL SHOULD BE BROADLY CENSURED Mr. Hallowell requested an opportunity to argue, and the Court consented. Mr. Hallowell held that other parts of the play come within the scope of the law, in that they are immoral, and he proceeded to attempt to prove that the word immoaril should be construed in its broad sense as anything hostile to the welfare of the general public or contrary to good order and public welfare. He asserted also that the play is not historically accurate and went at some length into the history of the period immediately following the close of the war. He characterized the play as an "abominable slander so far as its purports to be an historical representation of the era of reconstruction." UPHOLDS LYNCHING. He hold, further, that the play does not represent the majesty of the law, but glorifies Lynch law, which is not for the welfare of the public. The play, he said, teaches contempt of the courts. The play also teaches forcible intimidation of voters. It suggests indecency. Judge Dowd replied that many plays are, suggestive, and cited "Otalia" as an instance. Hundreds How To Get One. Phone, Randolph 2213 That does not affect this issue, said Mr. Hallowell, for this play has been complained against: it reeks with suggestions all through. THEATRE LAWYER CITES PO. 7 EM IN THE CRISIS Mr. Cueck said that in the statute it was not intended that the word "immoral" should be construed broadly; it should be construed in its narrow sense. He contended that Mr. Hallowell was wrong in his history, and said that the play had given no offence to the great majority of the people, but only to a small part, and they have incited the trouble. He exhibited a Negro publication containing a poem entitled "The White Witch" and asked if counsel for the complaintants wished him to read it. They did not object, but the court said it was not material. THREE MILES OF FILTH The poor debtor session door to the corridor was locked today to keep the court room from being overrun by interested spectators, but the witnesses who expected to be heard were on hand, being conducted to the court room by another route. Among these was William H. Lewis, formerly a United States assistant attorney-general, and he provided the only tilt when he interrupted a statement Attorney Cusick, who represented the film producers, was making. Attorney Cusick had stated he wanted the court and the public to understand there were three miles of film in the production, when Lewis called out quickly, "Three miles of film or of filth?" Cusick turned like a shot and answered, quickly, "You are an educated colored man, Mr. Lewis, and you couldn't make a statement like that." "You may cut out the word Colored," said Mr. Lewis, quietly. WEST POINT, VA. Sunday was a fine day for the baptising which took place from Salem Baptist Church at 9 A.M. conducted by Rev. Morris. A large crowd attended. We are glad to note that Miss Emphrates Coleman, who has been extremely ill, is improving. Hope to see her out again soon. The B. Y. P. U. met Sunday at the usual hour. It was largely attended. The lesson discussed by the pastor. Rev. Shaffer, was very interesting. Dr. Brown, of Plainview, was in town Monday on business. A large crowd from West Point attended the meeting at Mount Olive Church. New Kent county. Sunday. They report a fine time. Rev. Charlie Brown passed through here Monday. Mrs. Lillie Hickmond is on the club Hut. The fourth Sunday in this month will be Mothers' Day at Mount Nebo Baptist Church. Please attend. Mothers, especially, you are cordially invited. UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, OF RICHMOND VA., LOCATED AT RICHMOND, IN THE COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS MAY 1, 1915, MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ... $30,325.84 Overdrafts secured. $372.91. unsecured. $392.20. 766.11 Bonds, securities, etc. owned, including premium on same. 1,630.00 Banking house and lot. 41,053.99 Other real estate owned 56,080.75 Furniture and fixtures. 5,101.38 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings. 3,771.62 Other cash items. 539.20 Due from National Banks. 2,651.97 Paper currency. 1,185.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents. 56.90 Gold coin. 4,555.00 Silver coin. 986.00 Total $208,703.75 LIABILITIES. 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'Phone, Madison 1637. ```markdown ``` State Summer School SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BEGIN JULY 5, 1916 AT THE AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE (FORMERLY A. AND M. COLLEGE) AND CONTINUE FIVE WEEKS. Write for catalog. Secure lodging in advance. Address, J. H. BLUFORD Director State Summer School, Greensboro, N. C. JAS. B. DUBLEY, PRESIDENT. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RIMS THE STEAMSHIP LUSITANIA AS SHE APPEARED LEAVING FOR ENGLAND ON HER LAST TRIP. Paul Crompton, Wife, Six Children and Nurse, of Philadelphia. Go Down—Two Well Known Theatrical Men Also Lost—List of Missing Americans. The loss of the Cunard liner Lustiana has brought grief to the families of many well known American families, several being prominent known in financial, business and amusement circles. Among the dead are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the principal half of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; Albert Hubbard, the well known essayist and satirist, and his wife, Charles Frehman, the popular playwright; Charles Klein, the theatrical manager; Paul Crompton, the Philadelphia leather manufacturer, Harry J. Keser, Philadelphia banker, and William S. Hedges, representative of the Baldwin Locomotive works in Paris. The centre family of Paul Crompton, of Philadelphia, was lost. These lost were Mr. Crompton, with his wife, six children and governess. The governess is Miss Dorothy Allen, the daughter of Dr. Richard C. Allen. The Crompton children are Steven, fourteen years old. Albert, twelve years of age, Catherine, eleven years old. Ronnelly, aged nine, John five years THE SHIP Photo by American Press Association. 61H and Prior used one year. The family of Alfred F. Smith, of Elwood City, Pa., are also missing or dead. They are Mr. and Mrs. Smith, an infant, and Miss Helen Smith. Another Philadelphia family that was nearly lost was that of William S. Hodges. The five-year-old son, Dean W. Hodges, was saved, but Mr. and Mrs. Hodges and their eight-year-old son are missing. Dead and Missing From Nearby Cities Among the missing or dead in the Luststa disaster from nearby cities are the following: Philadelphia—Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Keserf. Mr. Keserf is vice president of the Philadelphia National bank. Mr. and Mrs. William S. Hodges. Mr. Hodges is the Parls representative of the Baldwin Locomotive works; William Sterling Hodges, their son, eight years old. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crompton and their five children, Stephen, Albert, Catherine, Ronnelly, John and Peter. Miss Dorothy Allen, governess for Miss Dorothy Allen, governess for the Crompton children. George Nicoll, night clerk at the Central Y. M. C. A. Patrick Collins, breman on the Lusitania, whose mother lives in Glenside. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Robinson, David Todd, James D. Mitchell, Miss Isabella Hunt, Alexander Harkins, James Richardson, Robert Bacon, Miss Annie Dick, John Allen, J. Williams and Miss Emma Wylle. Candlen—William Kane. Trenton, N. J.—A. R. Foley, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fox. Pottstown, Pa.—Miss May Bucbanan. Elwood City, Pa.—Mrs. Humbert Owens, Master Reginald and Master Reginald; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Smith, Miss Helen Smith and an infant. Atlantic City—Charles H. Stevens. Baltimore—C. Harwood Knight and sister, Miss Elaine. Pittsburgh--Michael Ward, Miss Margaret Anderson, Miss Margaret Kelly. Other Americans Known to Be Lost. Hugh Compton, New York. Mrs. Amelia McDonald. Patrick Callan. Miss May Brown. Charles Flamondon, Chicago. J. Spillman. P. L. Jones. Bessie Hare. George Arthur. David Samuel (qr Saxauclesco) P. B. Pearson. J. V. Merriman (probably Mainman) Miss Mcheyth. L. B. Turnbull, Bridgeport, Conn. Edward Ellis, New York. W. Walker, New York. Miss McBrighty New York. THE FISHING BOAT U TYPE OF GERMAN SUBMARINE THAT SANK LUSITANIA Rev. Orr Jacobus. Carlson B. Brodnek, Cambridge Mass. W. D. Mitchell, Newark, N. J. Mrs. W. E. Horton, Cleveland, O. Samuel Hanson, Pawtucket, R. I. Mrs. Mary Hanson, Pawtucket, R. I Miss A. Robison, Mt. Vernon, N. Y Frank J. Newman (probably F. G Naumann). New York. Mrs. Elizabeth Bull (probably Mrs. J. H. Bull). New York. Mrs. Brown (probably Mrs. H. C.). New York. Mrs. S. King. New York. Rev. James A. Beattle, New York. Mrs. W. Willy (may be Mr. Cath- terine E. Willey, of Lake Forest, Ill.). Mrs. Charles W. Fowler, New York B. King (T. B. King). Mrs. Brown (Mrs. M. C. Brown). Mrs. F. King. Michael Foley (A. R. Foley). J. Spillman (John B. Spillman). Carlton J. Brodrick (C. T. Brodrick). Margaret Corrigan (Margaret Canlgan reported among survivors). Tunlip Lucka. Mrs. Johnson (A. Johnson). James Roele. W. Anderson, Roberts. David Samelson. Miss McBrittle. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Baldwin, New York. Mrs. H. A. Bruno, Montclair, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Montague Grant, Chicago. Mrs. A. C. Luck, Eldredge C. and Master Kenneth Luck, Worcester, Mass. H. B. Sennell, Baltimore. Herbert S. Stone, New York. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Tesson, New York. Mrs. B. Alba, Misses Isabel and Beatrice, Boston Miss Mary A. Hume, Harrison, N. J. Sketches of Prominent Passengers SUCCESSOR OF PRESIDENT PASSengers. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt inherited most of the estate of the late Cornelia Vanderbilt, valued in 1899 at over $700,000. The will recognized Alfred as the new head of the house of Vanderbilt; Mr. Vanderbilt was AS SHE APPEARED LEAVING FOR HER LAST TRIP. Photo by American Press Association U TYPE OF GERMAN SUBMARINE Born in New York, Oct. 29, 1887, the son of Cornellus and Alice Gaynne Vanderbilt. He was twice married. The first Mrs. Vanderbilt was Elsie French. She divorced him in April, 1905. The present Mrs. Vanderbilt was Mrs. Smith Hollins McKim, formerly Mrs. Margaret Emerson, of Baltimore. She and Mr. Vanderbilt were married in England, Dec. 11, 1911. They have a three-year-old son. Elbert Hubbard, generally known as Pra Elberton, author, journalist, lecturer and farmer. He best known by his two publications, "The Philistine" and "The Friar" and the product of his bookbinders at East Aurora, N. Y. He was born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1850, and educated in the public schools. In East Aurora he founded the Roycroft Press, where were turned out limp covered editions of the classics and of Hubbard's writings. Elbert Hubbard's first wife divorced him in 1902, and later he married Alice L. Moore, an East Aurora school teacher, named as co-respondent. Justus Miles Forman, writer, has written books, plays, short stories and magazine articles. He was born in Leroy, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1875, and was educated at Yale and in Paris. His best known books are "The Garden of Lies," Jason" and "The Unknown Lady." atta pro and of plays, is known as the author of "The District Attorney," "The Annotator," "The Music Master," "The CHARLES FROHMAN, WHO WAS LOST, Lion and the Mouse," The Third Degree" and "The Gamblers," among other successful plays. He was born in London in 1867. Charles Frohman was on one of his annual trips to Europe to look over the dramatic productions in London and Paris. It was there that he obtained many of the plays upon which his first successes were based. For many years he had arrangements with the greatest dramatists of England and France—Pimero, Shaw, Davies, Hadon-Chambers Players and Calvet, Bornstein, Hostand—for the exclusive rights to all their plays. Until recently Frohman made almost as many and as important productions at his London theaters as in New York. Paul Crompton lived in Philadelphia and was president of the Surpass Leather company and a stock holder and the American representative of the North Steamship company which operates a line of ships from Liverpool to Brazil. Two weeks ago Crompton decided that his financial interests in England needed his unfulfilled attention, and he made arrangements to move to London with his family. William S. Hodges, his wife and two sons, of Philadelphia, were on their way to Paris, where Hodges intended to take permanent charge of the offices in the Baldwin Locomotive works in France. His duties were to sell locomotives to the French government and supervise the assembling of engines sent to that country in separate parts. Hodges children are W. Sterling Hodges, Jr., and Dean Winston Hodges. Another passenger was A. L. Hopkins, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, and E.J. Guntlett, foreign representative of that company, who were going to England on business. Both were listed as from New York. Among the Chagosans who sailed RINE THAT SANK LUSITANIA. on the Lusitania were Charles A. Plamondon, a wealthy manufacturer, bank director and social leader, and Mrs. Plamondon. William Mounsey was another passenger, Mounsey, as companion by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lutin, booked passage to investigate a report that his wife, reported lost on the Empress of Ireland, was in an English possession, unconscious of her own identity. · SAYS LINER WAS ARMED German Official Statement Declares Americans Were Warned. The following official communication was issued in Berlin. "The Gandalf Hour, Lusitania," was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk. "The Lusitania was naturally armed with guns, as were recently most of the English merchant steamships Moreover, as is well known in Berlin, she had large quantities of war material in her cargo. "Her owners, therefore, knew to what danger the passengers were exposed. They alone bear all the responsibility for what has happened." "Germany, on her part, left nothing undone to repeatedly and strongly warn them. The imperial ambassador in Washington even went so far as to make a public warning, so as to draw attention to this danger. The English press sneered then at the warning and relied on the protection of the --- ```markdown ``` ALFRED GOWYNNE VANDERBILT. British fleet to safeguard Atlantic traffic. Hundreds of telegrams of congratulation are being sent to Admiral von Tirpitz, the German minister of marine, on the slinking of the Lusitania, which is considered by the Germans to be an answer to the destruction, off the Falkland Islands, of the German squadron under the command of Admiral von Sace. FOLLOWED ORDERS. THE CAPTAIN SAYS Kinsale, Ireland, May 10. --When the inquest over five victims of the Lusitania had been concluded, today the coroner's jury returned a verdict accusing the German Kaiser, his government and the officers carrying out his orders of "wholesale murder." Coroner Horgah said that the first torpedo fired by the German submarine did serious damage to the Lusitania, but that, not ratified with this, the Germans had discharged another torpedo. The second torpedo, he said, must have been more deadly, because it went right through the ship, hastening the work of destruction. BRAVERY. AND NO PANIC. The characteristic courage of the Irish and British people was manifested at the time of this terrible disaster, the coroner continued, and there was no panic. He charged that the responsibility "lay on the German government and the whole people of Germany who collaborated in the terrible crime." "I propose to ask the jury," he continued, "to return the only verdict possible for a self-respecting jury, that the men in charge of the German submarine were guilty of wilful murder." Ship's Hugler Livermore testified that the watertight compartments were closed, but that the explosion and the force of the water must have burst them open. He said that all the officers were at their posts, and that earlier arrivals of the rescue craft would not have saved the situation. SHIP WAS NOT ARMED. Captain Turner (testified brief): The coroner asked him: "You were aware that threats had been made that the ship would be forpeded?" "We were" the captain replied. "Was she armed?" "No, sir." "What precautions did you take?" "We had all boats swung when we came within the danger zone between the passing of Fastnet and the time of the accident." The coroner asked him whether he had received a message concerning the sinking of a ship off Kinsale by a submarine. Captain Turner replied that he had not. "Did you receive any special instructions as to the voyage?" "Yes, sir." WILL NOT TELL INSTRUCTIONS. "Are you at liberty to tell, what they were?" "No sir." "Did you carry them out?" "Yes, to the best of my ability." "Tell us in your own words what happened after passing Fastnet." "The weather was clear," Captain Turner answered. "We were going at a speed of 18 knots. I was on the port side and heard Second Officer Hefford' call out: 'Here's a torpedo.'" "I ran to the other side and was clearly the wake of a torpedo. Smoke and steam came up between the last two funnels. There was a slight shock. Immediately after the first explosion there was another report, but that may possibly have been internal. THOUGHT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. "I at once gave the order to lower the boats down to the rails, and I directed that women and children should get into them." "I also had the bulkheads closed." Captain Turner continued. "Between the time of passing Fastnet at about eleven o'clock and the torpedoing I saw no sign whatever of any submarines. "There was some baze along the Irish coast and when we were near Fastnet I slowed down to 15 knots. I was in wireless communication with shore all the way 'across." Captain Turner was asked whether he had received any message in regard to the presence of submarines off the Irish coast. He replied in the affirmative. Questioned regarding the nature of the message, he replied: "I respectfully refer you to. the "I also gave orders to stop the ship," Captain Turner continued, "but we could not stop. We found that the engines were out of commission. It was not safe to lower boats until the speed was off the vessel. As a matter of fact there was a perceptible headway on her up to the time she went down. "When she was struck she listed to starboard. I stood on the bridge when she sank and the Louisiana went down under me. She floated about eighteen minutes after the torpedo struck her. My watch stopped at 2:36. I was picked up from among the wreckage and afterward was brought aboard a trawl. "No warship was conveying us. I saw no warship and none was reported to me as having been seen. At the time I was picked up I noticed bodies floating on the surface, but saw no living persons." "Eighteen knots was not the normal speed of the Lusitania, was it?" WANTED TO TIME ARRIVAL "At ordinary times," answered Captain Turner, "she could make 25 knots, but in war times her speed was reduced to 21 knots. My reason for going at eightteen knots was that I wanted to arrive at Liverpool bar without stopping and within two or three hours of high water. "Was a lookout kept for submarines, having regard to previous warnings?" "Yes, we had double lookouts." "Were you going a zigzag course at the moment the torpedoing took place?" "No, it was bright weather and land was clearly visible." "Was it possible for a submarine to approach without being seen?" "Oh, yes, quite possible." "Something has been said regarding the impossibility of launching the boats on the port side?" "Yes," said Captain Turner, "owing to the listing of the ship." ORDERS WERE OBEYED "How many beats were Launched safely?" "I cannot say." "Were any beats launched safely?" "Yes, and one or two on the porg side." "Were your orders promptly care rified out?" "Yes." "Was there any panic on board?" "No, there was no panic at all. It was all most calm." "How many persons are on board?" There were 1,500 passengers and about 600 crow." By the foreman of the jury "In the face of the warnings at New York that the Lusttania would be torpedoed, did you make application to the admiralty for an escort?" IS ADMIRALTY'S BUSINESS. "No. I lett that to them. It is their business, not mine. I simply had to carry out my orders, and I would do it again." Captain Turner uttered the last words of this reply with great emphasis. By the coroner: "I am very glad to hear you say so, captain." to hear you say so. Captain By a piraman "Did you get a wired, to steer your vessel in a northern direction?" "No!" replied Captain Turner. "Was the course of the vessel altered after the torpedoes struck her?" "I headed straight for land, but it was useless. Previous to this the watertight bulkheads were closed. I suppose the explosion force opened them. I don't know the exact extent to which the Lusitania was damaged." BULKHEADS BADLY DAMAGED "There must have been serious damage done to the watertight bulkheads?" "There certainly was, without doubt." "Were the passengers supplied with life belts?" "Were any special orders given that morning that life beits be put out." "No." "Was any warning given you be- "If there had been a patrol boat about, might it have been of assistance?" "It might, but it is one of those things one never knows." SAW WARNING ADVERTISEMENT With regard to the threats against the ship, Captain Turner said he saw nothing except what appeared in the New York papers the day before he sailed. He never had heard, the passengers talking about the threats, he said. "Was a warning given to the lower deck after the ship had been struck?" Captain Turner was asked. "All the passengers must have heard the explosion," Captain Turner replied. Captain Turner, in answer to another question said he received no report from the lookout before the torpedo struck the Lustantia. After physicians had testified that the victims had met death through prolonged immersion and exhaustion, the coroner summed up the case and the jury brought in its verdict. (Dallas, Tex., Express). Editor John Mitchell Jr., of the Ancient Richmond Planet, has been caught in the pulpit speaking from the text: "The Five Talents." Ministers, please make room for Brother John Mitchell. Get the habit of reading The Planet. 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It will possibly have some effect upon his most mournful institute at Tuskegee, Ala., and beyond that, it will cause a universal feeling against such an indulgent form of legislation; while teaching men to never trust their rights in the hands of irresponsible people, if it can be done, I am glad because many who think themselves excluded will find that they are the main objects of said and all such legislation. Some of those good follows with light complexions and a fair education were ignorant enough to think that other discriminations were not directed at them some years ago there, and that is why they began to help the whites to impose upon the real blacks, and those who had not been blessed with the opportunity of a school training. You thought that it was really the black face and the ignorant head. But you were too sadly mistaken. As I know only too well that the trust spirit of the South prefers the most ignorant black man to the most cultured and well-to-do mulatto. Booker T. Washington, though that he was establishing a better class Negro by his pattern of kingships with his white master and probable father. But I could have told him better long before 1888 When a Negro is fine he is just too fine. And the amount of admiration he creates for himself does not equal the jealousy against him. And to be praised by a refined white lady often costs these careless memerizers their lives. And from the fact that so many of this class show a tendency to live by equal contest in the Battle of life, makes the white brother more than suspicious and superstitious. Ho (the white man) knows, too, that a woman is greatly influenced by just such charms as the fly mulatto is gifted with, while the Negro is not only a willing slave for his master and soldom assides to the dominating sphere, but he is less apt to charm his mistress. So if you were all slaves and were black as coal, you might be more tolerated in your country, not understanding the fact that he is doing all he can to bleach the whole race. Of course, I have no objections of him having these relations with the colored lady, which is certainly charming sometimes, but I do think that he should be legal about it and protect her overward and protect her object to his black brother in-law, winning the admiration of his niece. But, no, this stinks him to his soul to hear her snyger that "John is a handsome girl that" and besides this, some other colored gentleman with about an ounce of brains will begin to say that he does not be allowed even to walk with a white lady. But he says this through pure jealousy. Now, we noted with decided interest how the good Dr. Booker T. Washington and others protested against Jack Johnson after that well-known episode of him and the white junior over some body white wife in New York. Oh, can someone in him, with all heart there is no shame in him. I have no objections to a white lady at all, and I have always refused to marry them, for two reasons. First, because I do not wish to make those unhappy whom I love best, and secondly, I would like her relatives to know that I respect my family just as much as they do theirs, and would like to enjoy their highest respect at all times; thus I would like to have their full consent to marry their daughter after I was assured that she was worthy of my attentions (or, in other words, my social equal). Sure, I do not condone the idea of Fred Douglas After becoming the most famed man in the country he married his own woman. I said that he might and should have reached his right even for appearance sake. And had he shown this common sense, many who became ashamed of his acts might have well been admirers and defenders. But Jack Johnson's case was a much different nature. I think that a professional man should seek to know if the lady to whom he engages to marry is capable of grazing or disgracing the circle in which both must move thereafter. And this is the common sense generally neglected by Mr. Southern Negro when he finds himself privileged to marry the white man. It is too much for a poor professional underestimates trying to reinstall the objector of another man's wrison in its own social circle. I imagine at a society ball a gentleman finds himself trying to teach the neighbor's cook how to do some easy task, or to talk ethics to disapproving, when others who know the woman watching his paints have long interest. I do not think it is easy for lady is any too good woman to be good for the man. cared lady, and vice versa. But it is mean in one to get obtain the dignity of a position, recommendation. It is understood in most cases of the social code, some of the would be better class Negroes are constantly condemning the common brother when he is the one with the long ears and Roman nose. I am watching, with much curiosity, too, the attempt of certain English Englishman and Americans who are trying to reestablish the one woman in society. They are trying to make a kind of sense of it anything. They seem to forget that this class is necessary to the others, and that the inferior necessarily qualifies the superior, etc. etc. God made this world, and it was well done; and I note to my great satisfaction that he omitted nothing that was necessary. But man in his diabolic ideas has ruined everything. But I am very glad of your amendment, because that it will the soon put an end to much pressing at the hands of ignorant persecutors, many of the colored students are graduating in philosophy, psychology, morphology, sociology, economics, etc., and I truly hope that they do not forget the real use of these things and make the mistake of Dr. Dubois, who thought anyone who advocated social equality between the races in the Southern part of the country was worthy to be demonounced as a mischief maker. I warrant him that he never got that idea from scientific study or political economics. In that way we were in a position the most ignorant Negro of the cotton patch in Mississippi. He was voicing the feelings of the comestest white fland in the South, which was everything but scientific. Thus I truly hope that the younger men will adhere to scientific facts and not to local sentiment. I am glad however, that this bill was passed while Dr. Washington was still dictating our rights. I wish that they would pass some more bills even more drastic. It preys the inferiority of the white man's conception of the high laws when he is left to himself, and it, like his many other laws of discrimination, are plain acknowledgements of his inferiority. He has barred the Negro from many of the athletic contests he cause that of fear and the same rea promises him to hold separate schools and now he wants a sopa rate country. But he must remember that it was he who brought the black man to the country, and very few Negro immigrant seek residence in it now, as would be citizens. The white man and some of his mulatto friends have made balls of the social and political laws of economies. Thus, I would bid the young student to close his book and quietly study nature, in society. Study the man and other things from all angles. The other fellow is only a picture of yourself, and the evidence of one more stern fact to be recognized and recorded. There is no one perfect. We are all indulging in falsity, and it is for the student to discover this, and call us to task once again. I am yours for absolute social I am yours for absolute social equality to all, under similar conditions. P. S. — I have wondered if it ever appealed to Dr. Hooker Washington that some of the colored people would like to know about what percent of the Negro's deaths are due to lynching and unlawful treatment in prisons as well as out; He is a most sly old fox. Whenever he thinks that the people are about to get their eyes open, he begins and other bully, and those (two ministers are right on the job of enthusing their congregations with the proposal. And why? Did you ever think? Although I have great reverence for a true man of God, what will you all to know that in all respect to your religious inclinations the colored minister is the poorest species of educated men in your country. They actually have no intellectual advice to offer an intelligent audience. And they play youth upon the sympathies of women and weak-minded men. It a civil service examination was in cognizance for real ability along any line of contest the ministry would be the least prepared of all classes of learned men. And why? Well, you know why? And if not, ask of them. It is pretty hard to live up to the highest standards of hygienes on 20 cents per day and work for others. And $2 would not do it too well. Thus the death rate must increase. Why, he is paid to dream and study and he will not do that. But a public beneficial meeting, would not be in style without a read of them on the platform, and to read how they wryleague themselves when they have the sight of money is enough to凑票 most anyone. But they seldom found a colored minister capable of producing and sustaining a scientific question of everyday life. He is mostly a quitter of other great men, and you must not dispute with his reverence, if you are not an indel. Now, the real duties of these men are to advise the people on every public matter. And when their people are aggrieved they should go not only to the highest earthly authority, but as Moses did when God would have destroyed the people. Moses stood in the breach with his life and demanded the salvation of his people or destroy him first. A shopper, indeed! But where is the one which would have stood as did W. M. Trotter against Mr. Wilson? And mind you there is no organized body giving Mr. Trotter his living response their causes. Well, you say that the minister is to direct, us to or by the heavens! Well, we see that he goes with him to see if he is strong. How many of them know anything about biology, profound astronomy, psychology and kindred sciences by which all important religions may spring; as well as all they? They can only repeat what some clerics has said about positions. And mind you, these men come from being educated and supposed to have relations with the creator himself. If they read their Bible equally, it would condemn the most of them. God hates them. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA one can polish to a real leader among the colored ministers in the U. S. A. And for a different reason the true scholar is soldom a devout church man. They tolerate the average preacher for appearance's sake. I know that-the true man of God is ever present. But how about the hypocrite? In them "the bread of the hypocrite is the bread of dogs." Inasmuch as they are receiving salaries and are doing nothing. Now, I want these people to know that the Lord not only expects something from them, but what they call the ungodly man is watching them critically. And, if they are not very careful, they will a disb honor to God's church. And would be much better that some of them overboard than have the ship sink. However, I duly honor all such men as Bishop Walters, Rev. Grimple, etc. But there are not enough of this kind to form an effective philanx to demand the rights of their people in the name of that God, whom they know is the beginner and finisher of all things just, miserful, and all-powerful, likewise all wise. Now, to be ambassadors for them, are paid by the church they should not be. Should they, Mr. Editor? But I am glad that you all are beginning to be penched, because that is the only way to wake you up. I am pleased with the seeming progress made by the Amsterdam News, New York. It seems that one will not find, if so easy horrification in York and lord it all over those people. If Mr. Anderson is alive! LEESBURG, VA., NOTES Mrs. Lizzie Hamilton, of Washington, a sister of Mr. Moses Bryant, of Los Angeles, who departed this life, was brought here and held a rest. Rev. R. W. Dotson officiating 'Mothers' Day was celebrated throughout the United States Sunday, heard many talks on the greatness of the M. E. and Baptist other churches which were very helpful, and I believe ought to be observed among our people to help our boys and girls to more appreciate their mothers, for I am told it is the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world. Selah. It had no services this morning at the Blairchaff, as our pastor had gone to Blaumont to baptize for Rev W. R. Manley, returning in the afternoon. At 3 o'clock at Mount Zion M. E. Church, the Odd Friends turned out with the Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Rev. J. E. Dotson officiating. The Rev. while returning from Gleedsville his horse took fright at a motorcycle, and he was thrown out, and was made to eat gravel, but not seriously injured. He was ten minutes later the usual execution of his prayer was offered by the Chaplain Mr. David Helms. After 1333 Paulus he used John 1:17. For the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. He discussed his subject to the gratification of all present. The necktie and apron social that was given Friday night at Old Folk's hall by the members of the Baptist Sunday School, was a signal success. Mrs. Rosa Dorsey and Mrs. Mary R. Roberts deserve great credit for their energetic work, and Miss Agnes Dorsey, and they take this method of thanking the members who turned out to help them. Mr. Thomas Trimble, of Pennsylvania, arrived in town today. Mrs. Hoover Gant spent Sunday in Washington. At S. P. M. Rev. Tyler was at his best. Job 22-21. Acquaint now myself with him and be at peace thereby, good shall come unto thee. We are told Mrs. Francis Rust left Saturday for Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Christine Johnson, of Washington, is spending some time with her sled father, Mr. F. Coleman. 0 APPROVES SALE OF CHURCH Judge Scott Authorizes Transfer of Valuable Property. --- An order entered yesterday by Judge Scott, of the City Circuit Court, authorizes the trustees of Calvary Baptist Church to sell for the sum of $21,000 the church property at Graco and Pine streets to the congregation of Immanuel Baptist Church. The same order empowers The Calvary trustees to purchase with this money a piece of property at the southeast corner of Gove avenue and the Boulevard and to improve it with a church building. Until recently Immanuel Baptist Church occupied a structure at Fifth and Leigh streets. The controversy arising from the proposal of the trustees of this church to sell the property to a Negro congregation raged long and bitterly. It ended with a victory for the congregation, which sold the property to a congregation of colored Methodists, who now use it as a house of worship. Opposition to the transfer came from owners of white property in the immediate vicinity, who represented to the Council and to the court that the establishment of a Negro house of worship at the Fifth and Leigh streets corner would depress property values and pave the way for an ultimate evacuation of that entire section by the white residents. —Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 11, 1915. THE LORD VISTED CHAR LOTTERVILLE. The ministers of Charlotteville, Va., assisted by some from the country, strongly linked a seven weeks' retreat. They did not have a Kelly Sunday, but the Holy Ghost was with them, and those were near (Monrovia, Liberia, Times). The war now being waged in Europe, or rather a part of which is centered there, has been correctly styled "The Great War." Like a forest fire it has spread and one by one the nations of Europe have been erupted by large devastating proas. Every continent of the world has been a scene of struggle, and almost every island of the sea. It would appear that ultimately this war is destined to be a "free-for-all" fight. The magnet of war is pulling strong, but it will never prove powerful enough to drag many countries into the arena. Some nations-that horcely would desire to remain outside may from real or fanned interest but Liberia will remain steadfastly neutral and refuse it to be made a scape-goat. The major powers in this string gle have interests so ramified and world-wide that it must be a matter of grave concern as to how to preserve them intact. The anxiety produced by the strain that is undoubtedly placed upon the people and officials of those nations to govern and possess them during these critical times should be a necessary few have been called to the colors, creates a highly nervous state of mind. It is, therefore, to be expected that many compariations of the brain will find themselves mixed up with facts, and the world will be started by announcements so absurd on their face that in less suspicious and strained hours of travel they would be treated as a hour. In such days as the present, the events are sifted, screened, scrambled, stod, deformed, diluted and manufactured, the guffable world is prepared to believe anything. A very vicious article has found its way into the forelinen newspapers concerning Liberia and the war in Europe. Sague adherent of the French Colonial Party, which has ever viewed Liberia with a jealous and envious eye, must be the author of this monstrosity, and we would have the world believe that Liberia wishes to be counted in this article. The article in question made its debut in Paris and was the subject of a Special Cable to "The New York Times" as follows: Paris, Dec. 3. - For a considerable period complaints have been circulating in the Paris press regarding the Germanophile tendencies of the Liberian Government. The "Relief" today reports from the "Annuales Coloniale" denitin-charges against the Negro republic. Besides giving aid and information to German cruisers, the Liberians, it is stated, are now sending in ships which make inecessant bloody incursions to the territory of French Guinea and the Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Representations addressed to the Government at Monrovia have been disregarded. It being, it is said, doubtless ill informed about the real situation and convinced of impunity under the German négro. "In view of such evident ill will it is added: 'We are justified in protesting ourselves, especially since Liberian waters became a refuge for hostile ships navigating in the vicinity at the beginning of the war. Furthermore, this Sudan State servied a supply base for raiders toward Central America and South Africa, while we have used to surprise the existence of a German wireless station on Liberia soil.' Having detailed the grievances the writer says: "The hour has come to finish with this plantation of a nationality wedged into our African colonies. While Liberia did not most us we allowed her to remain, but now that she has become a partner with us settling in for together with us, she serves for all neighbors, the status of the black republic in accordance with our interests." We wonder if this: a vision of a hathumination? We feel that it is not a hoax, not withstanding the fact that there is not the shadow of truth in any of these statements. The article perhaps breathes the patriotic desire of some earnest soul but the writer must lose his case upon less attenuated circumstances. These "armed bande" of Liberian exist nowhere except in the mind of the author of the article, while the author is not aware of the less attentive. No one who has been in touch with the course of the endoavors of the Government of Liberia since the outbreak of this unfortunate war would attach any serious thought to this article. The sad part of the situation, however, is that there are powerful influences and a large part of the press which shapes international public opinion which are still in ignorance of the persistent endeavor that the Government of Liberia has put forward to clear her skirts or charge of blasfies tendencies towards the belligerents. We can boldly assert that no neutral nation has striven more earnestly to preserve its neutrality than Liberia, nor have the terms of their proclamations of an arbitrary war been observed. Whatever may be the feelings of the people of Liberia generally towards the Powers engaged in this war, we can state with certainty that they have, in obedience to the injunctions of the Government, preserved an unimpeachable impartiality, and have refrained from displaying any emotions that would indicate "Germanophile tendencies." or any other sort of tendencies; and we believe that the foreign diplomatic and consular officials at Monrovia would condescensionally substantiate these assertions. True, Liberia. Like the rest of the neutral world, would desire to see the spoedy side of this world, but she does not wish to be the advocate of belligerents or the advocate of another. Nor will she be used by any other side to be used by any other side. Agents' Contest. OPEN TO EVERYBODY. MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN. EIGHTH PRIZE—$1.00 in Silver. Winner must poll not less than 750 votes. WHEN CANDIDATES HAVE POLLED AS MANY AS ONE HUNDRED VOTES THEIR NAMES WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE PLANET. THE COUPON WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PAPER. THE PLANET. 311 NORTH FOURTH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Value of Votes get 135 Votes. 12 Months Su or money paid into the office, a work. THE COUPON WILL THE PLANET, 31 ents. Liberia has been hard hit as one of the incidents of this war. Its revenues have as a consequence dropped at least so per cent of the normal, but the only and greatest concern of her statesmen has been how to weather the financial crisis starping the country in the face, and not how Liberia might help be a moiety any of the countries concerned in this unprecedented struggle of arms and clash of world-wide interest. "The "Annales Coloniale" writer no doubt, represented the views on the French Colonial Parties, and revealed their inner designs. That the hour hoy now arrived for the execution of this plan, was the satirical conviction of the writer, and he made hold to state a much unpopular term. It was a matter of no concern to the writer what methods were employed to bring to a close this "phantaeamma of a nationality" the end world just, the means. So long as the world believed if only for a brief period, the funnel story designed as an anecdia for public opinion while the pleasant operation of exonerating the life of an innocent though desirable country could be performed, what cared this patriotic and for truth? Endothetically this malicious story has gained credence in some international circles as it tops a long list of unwarranted calibration against Liberia, and the writer must have well calculated its disastrous effects. It is highly reassuring, however, to find such candid expositions from so influential a paper on African affairs as the London African World. The editor, Mr Lee Weinthal, is in a position to know pretty accurately the truth to such rumors about Liberia, as the Travel Editor of the World, Mr Jerry Barra, son of the Liberia observing conditions first hand. The editorial, which appeared in January, 5th issue of the World under the caption of "Liberia and the War," is as follows: "A statement made in the Partie Éclairé, which took it from the 'Annales Coloniales,' and reproduced with prominence of the 'Montreal Gazette,' capable of considerable mischief to our Allies and ourselves." The assertion is that the Liberian Government have openly added German warships; that Liberian waters have been a refuge for hostiles, and have served as a supply raiders against the great supply routes. There is the further definite charge that the Liberians are now sending armed bands which make inconsistent bloody incursions into French colonies. As to the last assertion, if judged from the others has not it much to commend it to belief. What the Liberian Government is doing to pass the wilt of man to conceive, it could not have the slightest influence on any war operation. Everybody who knows the geography of the country is aware that there is absolutely no water along the coast of Liberia which could be used as 'refuge for hostile ships.' The mouth of the principal river, the St. Paul, would, at the best season of the year, accommodate no more than a small launch, and even that would cross the bar at a risk. The lowest tonnage trading vessel must needs lay out in the open roads—the ocean highway which is the only 'refuge' German warships could obtain. The house of the British Consul General actually looks out over the roads, and he could detect any use of that any other spot 'supply' the British warships. Mr R. C. P. Mougham is a cool, shrewd man. dance. They would be excavated, eleven folks who outwitted him. There is the further indictment in the 'Annales Colombienais' that 'we have reason to suspect the existence of a German wireless station on Liberian soil. That shows either that the writer knows little of what he speaks or that he seeks designed to mislead. The wireless station at Montrovia is only a short distance from the sea and is within sight of every passing vessel. It must have been seen by thousands of voyagers during the last few months. It whom it is bound we do not know; there is no likelihood that the Italian Government would be made as to allow it to be occupied by a German auxiliary. We are therefore not of saving anything except what is certainly to expire with our present happy relations towards our gallant Aliens, the French and that need not deter our confederate out that a coalition of the colonial party in Paris, which the Annales Colombienais have, consistently urged deleting out the Italian Republic and annexing of the land. Now, never the earlier artifact of a Serra basin, the French and our allies in the fact, which appear to have been overlooked, that the United States now exercises what is practically a protectorate over Liberia, and any violent attempt to interfere with the Negro republic could unintentionally bring America into conflict. Moreover, no proof is produced that Liberia has done an thing to justify being swift away in postbellum siege murdered.' This reveals in the awful maledoes the intent of the writer in the "Animales Colombianos" and Mr Womack has the grateful thanks of the Librarian for having thus put an effective check to the force of the stolls and an unwarranted attack. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Y M C A NOTES HUG, cuddled Yur- Last Friday was a very bittersweet hour with the Y. M. C. A. Literary and the men were active. The explanation on the Sunday School lesson last Saturday was enjoyed by all who attended. Come again. Last Sunday was a full day for service. The workers were out to the meet- ing 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. The inmates of the city home were helped much by the efforts of the committee. The prisoners in the city jail took much interest in the meeting con- ducted by the committee. A large number of boys came to the Y. M. C. A. building 4 P. M. to hear the address by Committee-even A. Allon to give them some very timely thoughts. No mother should allow her boys or boy miss these meetings. Roy. W. A. Mitchell gave the men G:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. an address which will stay by them. Subject: Holding Fast. The men are grateful. The solo by Mr. Joseph Matthews struck the nail on the head. The meeting was a good one. Come today! P. M. to the Y. M. C. A. The class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson will be a special program. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the special meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Committeeman C. B. Guston will address the bazaar P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Mothers, send your boys. All men are invited to the meeting for men 5 to P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. building. Rev. Thomas G. Rolling will address the men. Be on time. The Y. M. C. A. Night School will close at the Sharon Baptist Church Thursday, May 27th. P. M. Everybody invited. Do not forget to pray for the Y. M. C. A. CALIF. EXPOSITION VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY Greatly reduced fares in effect March 10 to November 20, with three months return limit and very liberal stop over privileges. Variable route tickets will be sold combining purchaser to make going trip via Memphis or New Orleans or Shreveport or St. Louis, returning via anyone of these gateways or any other regular ticketing route. "The Land of the Sky" in Western North Carolina is very inviting the year through and a trip through this country, at least in one direction, should prove very enjoyable. The Washington-Sunset Route is best operated over the Southern Railway through Atlanta and New Orleans. This route has a daily Pullman Steel Tourist car service with through personal conductor. For further information, descriptive matter, apply to H. L. HISCHIP, DVY Pass Agt. Southern Railway; 907 E. Main St. Richmond, Va. --- HIGH STREET BAPTIST Dangerous Blaze in Dapville, Va. --- Dunliffe, Va., May 3, 1861. The Street Baptist Church, the largest colored church in the city, was seriously damaged by fire of mysterious origin at 6 o'clock this morning. Only the prompt work by firemen prevented the big brick building from being destroyed, as the flames were leaping from, the fear part of the church when the blaze was discovered. The Sunday school auditorium was practically the same room coming to have originally been burning down a wall separating the auditorium from the Sunday School rooms. The church auditorium is immediately above this room, and while the fire damage there was slight, the dense smoke blackened the walls and ceiling. There had been no fire in the church for three weeks. The doors were locked, as were the windows. Twice before, since 1872, when it was founded, this church has been burned down. Because of previous disasters of a similar nature, special care was taken to keep inflammable material away from the church, and the building from being held here. The building is insured for $10,000. ```markdown ``` LINERS HELPLESS EVEN WHEN ARMED Captain Lake, Submarine Expert, Says Lusitania Had no Chance to Escape. Bridgeport, Conn., May 9.—Heavy armament would have availed nothing, even if the Lusitania had been so equipped, declared Captain Simon Lake, inventor of submarines, today in an interview with a Sun correspondent. If the Cunarder were bristling with guns from how to stern, she could do no damage to the underwater craft that attached her off the coast of Ireland, according to Captain Lake. She was doomed when the submarine approached her. Captain Lake is the inventor of a submarine of the same type as that which is presumed to have destroyed the Lusitania. His own style of craft may have been the machine that snuck the vessel. That a torpedo fired by a Japanese cruiser at the Russian battleship Retzivan tore a gaping hole nearly forty feet square in her armored side, was the statement made by an officer who survived the terrible experience to Captain Lace when he was in the Orient. With two such holes in her side, probably several feet distant and coming almost simultaneously, there on the Lusitania were caught in a trap. Captain Lake says that there could have been no resistance from submarine attack, even though the Lusitania had carried heavy armament, because the submarine with her periscope three feet under water could not have been seen fifty feet distant from the Liner's side, and the chances were she was Low yards distant. No shot from the vessel could have located her, though aimed by trained officers. ATTACK ON LINER DESCRIBED The scenes on both the vessel and the little submarine may be pictured from a theoretical description given by Captain Lake as follows: "The great ship, knowing the Burkings danger, is travelling at her best speed limit changing the course from time to time in a zigzag manner. Waiting beneath the surface of the calm sea a big submarine, now said to be capable of discharging a torpedo a distance of five miles, rolls into the underground swell. Her crew is sleeping or talking in the semi-fetid atmosphere that the compressed air tanks relieve from time to time. An officer sits with his eye glued to a postcope, which constantly revolves that he may discern the rising smoke of an approaching vessel. "On the deck of the Lusitania passengers are rolling in plainer chairs or leaning over the rails. They coverly fear attack, yet the horizon shows no sign of the impending calamity. "Suddenly the submarine commander focuses his periscope upon a faint and hary line on the horizon. Closely he watches it move. An electric signal is given and the submarine crew is in place. Another and the boat swings silently and slowly on its course diagonal to that of the approaching vessel. The electric engines turn without noise. "The vessels near each other. An order is transmitted from the coupling tower to the forward compartment of the submarine. The outside ports of the bow torpedo tubes are closed, compressed air drive out all water. Two inside parts are carefully opened and two one ten torpedoes are lifted by means of chain tackle and swung carefully into the tubes. The inside ports are closed and the outside ports again opened. The air chamber between the torpedo and the breaches is filled with air compressed to nearly 1,200 pounds to the square inch—nearly the force of exploding dynamite. "Both vessels are closing together at right angles. On the bigger one all is gayety and hope of early and safe arrival at port. On the submarine all are alert. The how is carefully trained toward a direct line over which the ship must travel. The speed and distance are carefully guaged by trained officers. The submarine sinks beneath the surface and men are stationed at the firing levers on each of the forward tubes. An officer stands with a watch in his hand, counting the seconds. A little bell tinkles over the lever man on the port on starboard side of the submarine. He pulls the lever which releases the trigger, and with a rush the enormous torpedo forces itself in a direct line toward the vessel. Another second elapses and the bell rings again. Similar action is observed on the submarine, which a moment later rises with its periscope above the slight ripple of the water. "There is a deadening crash, as the shock is transmitted, through the water and the recoupling shell of the air-filled submarine. The officer at the submarine periscope, or coming tower, is the only living person on the submarine that sees a great veneal rise but of the water and slowly settle back. He knows that the men have taken effect and he can offer no aid to the thrombosis who a moment later will be attempting to save their lives. He knows he have harmed, or missing the other victims of his men." chemical community as he sealed sailing orders may direct. OPERATION OF TORPEDOES. "The course of the torpedo from the time it is released in the tube by the lever trip is interesting," said Captain Lake. "These torpedoes are made at a cost of $5,000 each, much of which is spent in testing. With tehir high charge of explosive placed well forward and a little plunger on the nose, connecting with a percussion cap, their interior presents the same view as that of a large steamship. The officer is a little gyroscope, impelled by compressed air. This in turn may be set from the outside to travel straight forward or on a curve, and by timing device to change its course after a certain distance. Usually it is set to travel straight beneath the water at a depth of about fifteen feet. "To insure accuracy he torpedo without explosive charge must be fired many times from a fixed torpedo tube. It is finally inspected and passed. As it leaves the torpedo tube on its last journey the trip releases the compressed air which turns its turbine engine. That turn revolves the propeller. The rudder, speed, altitude of passage is actuated by the gyroscope. "A torpedo has been fired accurately at a distance of five miles. The most accuracy and usual distance is between fifty and 100 yards. Owing to the conclusion on the cardinals of those in a submarine the greatest distance compatible with accuracy is sought. As the plunger on the torpedo strikes the vessel it expands the charge almost directly against the side of the vessel." J. H. FOWLKES GONE Fellchop c. J. Louis of Crawford Va., Tuesday, May 17, 1915, at 1 p.m. M. M. John H. Fowkes, followed husband of Mrs. Sarah C. Fowkes, after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Fowkes was formerly of Richmond, Va., and member of Second Baptist Church. After making his residence in Roanoke he became a loyal member of High Street Baptist Church and choir, of which Rev. J. H. Burks is pastor. He leaves a faithful wife. Mrs. Sarah C. Fowkes, sister of Mr. John H. Bratton, of Richmond, Va., one sister, Mrs. E. L. Jennings, of Crawford, Va., Mr. Paseal Fowkes, of Trenton, N. J. Mr. George Fowkes, of Richmond, Va. and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Mr. Fowlkes, besides being a local member of High Street Baptist Church, was also District Deputy Grand Chancellor of K. of P., and solicitor of the Richmond Beneficial Company, and was greatly esteemed and beloved by all of Roanoke. He organized three lodges of K. of P., also leader of uniform rank of K of P., and caddet boys. The whole of Roanoke deeply mourns the loss of our friend and brother and too much praise cannot be given this mable character. His funeral was held Friday, May 14, 1916, from the High Street Church and services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Burks. Beautiful solos were sung by Dr. H. Wilkins; Mr. Roosison and Miss Lilian Jeffers. The floral designs were very numerous and cost. Mr. Earshal Fowles, of Trenton, N. J., Mr. E. L. Jennings, of Crawford, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bravon, of Richmond, Va., were present at the funeral. All that was mortal of Mr. John H. Fowles was peacefully laid to rest in Midway Cemetery, there to await the final resurrection morning. Undertaker Hughes officiated. Active pall bearers: B. T. Wade, Sonnie Tanner, Madison Standfield, L. H. S. Ben, L. W. Allen, George H. Simpson Honorary pall bearers: T. T. Traynham, Dr. H. J. Mosley, T. C. Cooper, R. A. C. Lash Alfred Penn, Miriam Boyd, James O. Reid, C. W. Costwell Whereas God, in His wise providence, has endured from labor to reward, our beloved and esteemed friend, Sir John H. Fowles, District Deputy Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, of Roanoke District Therefore, Be it resolved, first, That we how in humble submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well. Resolved, secondly, That Roanoke Lodge No. 51, of which he was a faithful member, Mgr. Sarah C Fowlkes, to whom he was a loving husband, the City of Roanoke; of which he was a worthy resident, the State of Virginia, of which he was an honored citizen, and the High Street Baptist Church, of which he was an exemplary member, have all sustained an impreparable-loss in his death. Resolved thirdly, That the Charters of Roanoke Lodge No. 51, Magic City Lodge No. 181, Key West Lodge No. 75 and Mountain View Lodge No. 198, be draped in mourning for thirty days, in token of the love and esteem which they have for their late Grand Deputy Chief. Resolved, fourthly, That a copy of the resolutions be spread upon the minutes of Roanoke Lodge No. 51, Magic City Lodge No. 181, Key West Lodge No. 76 and Mountain View Lodge No. 198, of the Knights of Pythias for the City of Roanoke, State of Virginia, a copy sent to the Richmond Planet for publication, and a copy presented to Mrs. Sarah C. Fowkes, his beloved wife. Done by order of a joint meeting of Roanoke Lodge, No. 181, Key Magic City Lodge No. 181, Key West Lodge No. 76 and Mountain View Lodge No. 98. This the 7th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty. D. W. HARTH, Chairman. J. B. BROWN, MADRON STANFIELD, DR. J. J. COOPER, WIL. H. BROOKER, Committee. HOTEL DALE, Cape May, N. J. This Magnificent Hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seaside resort in the world, provides with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, services and refined patronage. Orchestra daily, carriage, bath houses, transits, etc. on premium. Special attention given to babies and children. Need for toilet. E. W. DALL, Owner. Accuracy in Statement, under All Circumstances to Buyer-to Seller-to Borrower-to Lender. 506 N. SECOND ST. Phone, Ran. 4569 BASEBALL TWO FAST TEAMS TO OPEN SEASON HERE On next Monday, May 17th, the colored baseball season will be opened at Broad Street Park, when the Cuban X Giants of New York lines up against the Independents of Richmond, Va. Mr W T. Smith, the well known manager of the Giants will accompany his team. The X Giants is the best aggregation of ball players among our race and have played several exhibition games with "Big League" teams Manager Mayo Stevens is enthusiastic over the possibility of his team getting away with two out of the three games to be played, as his team has developed beyond his fondest hopes. The public should patronize these games in order to put baseball on its proper footing in this city. Other well-known teams are booked for the season. Don't forget - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17, 18, 19, at Broad St. Park. Admission, 15 and 25 cents. Game called at 4:30. The lineup is as follows: Cuban X Glanta Independents Feels n. n. Carter Randolph 2b Snapper Green* 1 f Cheatham Cooper 1b. Garrett Falkenberg 1 f Curtis Wade b Jackson Barnes . C Smith p Brown Brown (r f) p North Sykes (p) r f Boote Kenny, c Falkney, utility Thomas, p. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH SOUTH RICHMOND Rev. W. T. Anthony, D. D. Pastor. We had glorious services all day last Sunday. Our pastor preached at 11:30. Subject "Little Foxes that Spell the Vine." He stirred the entire church to sense of duty. At 1:30 he preached again. Subject "Matchless Speaker." Last week our pastor spent the week in Norfolk at the Jerusalem Baptist Church. Rev. A. Hobbs, B. Th. pastor. Our brother has made rapid progress, the three months he has been in Norfolk, and his people are with him. Some 25 believed in Christ while many was added to the church by experience, etc. Sunday, May 16, our communion day. Let all come. Pastor will preach morning and evening. At 3:30 communion. All welcome. --- 726 N. 4th St., 4 room flat. 724 N. 5th St., 6 room flat. 1401 W. 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Rates are reasonable. First class accommodation. Facilities are limited. Only those who apply in advance and pay a part of their board will be sure of accommodation. Better attend to it today. Write to E. A. Long, Conductor. 6t. How to Cane A Chair for 8 Cents Particulars free. ACME SUPPLY CO.. 10 East Cary Street. Richmond Va. (Between Broad & Marshall St.) Meals Served At All Hours. Find Service at Low Prices. Call and See Me and Be Convinced. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT DONATIONS TO THE SEGREGATION FUND. Major Callahan $ 3.00 Independent Ben. Club 10.00 Julius Caesar WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE PUPILS OF ARMSTRONG HIGH SCHOOL AT VAN DE VYVER AUDI- TORIUM, NORTH FIRST, MONDAY NIGHT, MAY 31. GOOD CASTE. JAMES H. COLEMAN BROKEN BY FANCY GROVEN ORGANIZATIONAL HEATS AND VENETIAN AR SHOW, SUNDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, SATURDAY 150. 600. 800. 1000. Richmond Industrial Beneficial Club OF VIRGINIA LODGE Temporary Headquarters: 1518 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. M. JOHN R. 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