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The Leading Western Journal in the State. Medium Which Reaches Every Colored Home. VOLUME XXXIIIL NO. 27 MEMORIAL DAY TO BE OBSERVED HERE G. A. R. TO OBSERVE DAY AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY. Memorial Day will be observed May 1st, Monday, under the auspices of Grand Army of the Republic, assisted by the Spanish-American War Veterans. The Uniform Rank of Pythians, and Moses Commandery, Children of Israel; also other patriotic clubs and organizations will aid in decorating the graves at the National Cemetery. We hope all patriotic citizens will turn out, bringing out their children that they may learn what patriotism means, and let them see for themselves a few of the graves of the many heroes who sacrificed their lives on their country's altar, that their country might remain free and undivided. The following program has been completed, and will be followed on this occasion. Music (America)----Band. Prayer—Chaplain. Rev. William Thomas. Opening Remarks—Coaby Washington, Comdr. Custer Post. No. 11, G. A. R. Song. God Moves in a Mysterious Way—Congregation. Reading of Abraham Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg—Miss. Ada C. Baytop; of the H. M. College. Oration of the Day—Hon. J. Honky Crutchfield. Remarks—Visitors: Closing Song. Joy to the World—Congregation. Benediction—Chaplain. Rev. Nelson Brown. Master of Ceremonies. The base of operations will be on Leigh Street, between Second and Third, and it is hoped that we will be able to leave for the Cemetery between eleven and twelve o'clock. MORRIS BROWN UNIVERSITY --- Atlanta, Ga. Morris Brown University has just closed the most successful session ever held in its history, and the commencement exercises brought to the city not only the trustees, but several hundred people from all parts of the State. Dr. W. A. Fountain has done a great work and many improvements have been made during the past year. One year ago the chapel of the University was seated at a cost of $1050, and the president has raised the amount paid for the seats without calling on the trustees for any part of it. He is considered a great financier as well as business man. Rev. S. H. Betts delivered the annual address to the Dlynity school May 15, and then followed the Senior Class play Macbeth, in the College chapel. This was attended by many people and the play was excellently rendered. May 20th was the Junior reception. This is one of the features of commencement times. There were several distinguished visitors from out of the city present. May 21st was oratorical contest. The contestants were Augustus C. Wells, Lewis Lautler, Lewis Goalsby, Misses Narvae Shorter and Pansy Bryant. The winners were Mr. Wells and Miss Bryant. Bethol Church was not large enough to hold the crowd Sunday afternoon. The Baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, president of Allen University, Columbia, S. C., who declared that the way to permanent success was by suffering. He based his remarks on "For it became Him for whom all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering."—Heb. 2:17. The sermon was practical as well as scholarly, containing good advice to the young men and women. Rev. P. W. Walls, D. D., of Birmingham, delivered the address to the literary societies Monday night. May 25, annual Almanac anniversary was held and the classes of 1908 held question. Rev. S. S. Mervin, of Richmond, Va., a member of the class, delivered an admonition. He made good thereby killing up the class. Following the sermon was the annual remembrance by President Pennsylvan. Saturday morning May 30th, the class will meet at 10 o'clock in the classroom and the Messrs. James T. Carter, Grand Treasurer of the Elks of the World, C. D. Griffs., Esteeled Leading Knight, and W. S. Banks, Assistant Secretary of Williams Lodge of this city have returned home from a trip to Hot Springs, Va., where, on the 15th instant, the Grand Treasurer ably assisted by his companions, instituted a lodge of Elks, numbering 68. According to the information of those in charge of the Grand Lodge, this is the greatest feat of its kind in the history of the order, both with regard to numbers and the length of time employed in securing them—the Grand Treasurer having started the movement on April 16th, and the lodge being initiated on May 15th. The Lodge will be known as Mountain Slide No. 199, and is composed of men of rare intelligence and fine character who are charmed with the order. Mr. A. C. Burrell, a popular Python and Mason at Hot Springs, who was elected secretary of this Elks' Lodge, was the Grand Treasurer's main support in working it up. EVANGELIST SKIPWITH IN BIRMINGHAM (Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., Rev. J. W. Goodgame, Pastor). Rev. W. H. Skipwith, the International Preacher and Singing Evangelist, who has just closed a four-weeks' engagement in Montgomery, Ala., for Dr. Judkins and Madison, adding about 250 persons, is now in the wicked and mining city of the South, Birmingham. If Dr. Skipwith can make good here I am sure he will have many stars in his crown, as this is some wicked city. He started off most beautifully, with thirty seakers and seven additions his first sermon. Sixth Avenue Baptist Church is one of the leading churches of the city, with a membership of 1,500. Dr. Goodgame and people are very well pleased with the methods of Rev. Skipwith in conducting revivals. We are expecting great things. All of Birmingham is singing. MRS. MUNFORD DIES SUDDENLY The sad Intelligence of the death of Mrs. Mary A. Munford, wife of Mr. C. H. Munford spread like wildfire throughout the city, Friday morning, 21st first, and the entire community was shocked from center to circumference. She was taken sick and died before medical and could reach her. The funeral took place Sunday, 11:30 o'clock, from the First Baptist Church, of which she had been a life-long member. Dr. A. Blinga preached a very sympathetic sermon. Mrs. Munford was connected with several organizations, all of which turned out to pay the last tribute of respect to "Willie Ann," as she was familiarly called. The interment was made in Mount Olivet Cemetery, the colored section of Maury's Cemetery. The family has the sympathy of their many friends. "Rest in Peace." KILLED BY ENGINE Colored Workman Meets Death in Chesapeake and Ohio Yards. James Mickens, colored, about thirty-five years old, employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company as a brakeman, was run over and instantly killed Saturday morning about 9:30 o'clock at the Fulton yards. It is said that he stepped from one train directly in front of another, which he could not see because of escaping steam from the engine. Coroner J. Fulmer Bright, of Horsco County, commanded a jury and decided that the C. & O. R. R. was not responsible for the death of Mickens. Mrs. Dew Drivers, of Gloucester, Vt. announced the marriage of her daughter, Eustica B. Coffee to Mr. Jones B. White of Middletown, Va. The ceremony and performed by Dr. B. W. Schaffer of the academy of B. W. Schaffer. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915 COLOR LINE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY ABSENCE OF COLORED SAILORS IN NAVAL DISPLAY CAUSES COMMENT. Colored American Sailors Barned From Monster Parade Held Here. The Atlantic squadron, as is well known, has been anchored, in the harbor of New York for some time and the American people and particularly those in, and around Greater New York have waived the red, white and blue and in other ways manifested their pride. Colored as well as white have been equally guilty. Many gave festivals arranged and carried out for the entertainment of the officers and sailors, together with the parade presumably of pump and splendor, and while it is true that in the sight of the cancasion the parade was a success, but in the minds of ten millions of colored citizens of the United States of America there is something obviously wrong when not a colored sailor could be seen in the entire line of march. Though many patriotic citizens gazed with eager anxiety looking for one of their own who has, must or will eventually get the smell of powder, sacrifice his life and serve his country well. The question naturally arises. Why? Is it true that race prejudice has affected even the heart of Uncle Sam's army or any other part of his control? We believe it has. For if the scenes of Monday are an evidence there are reasons to believe that the demon prejudice has penetrated our navy. If so the shame is not upon the heroic and ever-ready colored sailors but the Navy Department, and the reflection is increased by their conscious absence in the parade of Monday, whether it be a premeditated scheme on the part of the naval officers, naval department or city committee, or others may be a question, but suffice it to say that the most observant eyes could not detect a colored man of American birth in the parade of Monday. Therefore, all that was intended by way of making the naval display patriotic and inspiring was indeed a sad, sad failure; for America cannot shut out one portion of her servants and justly land the other Amsterdam, N. Y., News. AN EXPLANATION I am Jadeed glad the time and opportunity have come that I may with propriety make a public statement concerning a sum of money which was taken from me at my place of work, namely, the Navy Hill Public School building. I wish further to make known to the public that the money was not taken by any pupil of my class. The children of my class have been faithful to me and have shown much sympathy for me in this matter, and I feel that I owe it to them to say in this public way that they were in no way involved "CONTRABAND OF WAR" "COINED 54 YEARS AGO" "Contraband of war," the phrase so often mentioned in the news of the present day conflict, was uttered by General Henjamin F. Butler 54 years ago today—May 22, 1861. General Butler had been in command at Fort Monroe but 24 hours when he coined the first of the famous phrases of the civil war period. "The day after, my arrival at the fort, May 23." said he, "three colored men from a Confederate battery at Sewall's Point were brought before me. I directed that they should be fed and set at work. "Accompanied by two gentlemen of my staff, Major Fap and Captain Hagerty, I rode out to the picket line and met the flag of truce there. It was in charge of Major Cory, who pleonantly called to mind that we last met at the Charleston convention." FAMILIES BEST HOSTAGES. "I have sought to see you," said Major Curry to General Beeler. "For the purpose of assuring you what principles you should be aware the way in this world," he answered. "I command my guarantors to approve" over financial duties in the country. and citizens of Virginia as desire to "The presence of the families of the bellgents." "Replies General Butler," is always the best hostage for their good behavior. "I am informed," continued Major Carey, "that three colored men be- longing to Colonel Mallory have escaped within your lines. What do you mean to do with them?" VIRGINIA A "FOREIGN STATE." "I intend to hold them." "Do you mean, then," persisted Major Carcey, "to set aside your constitutional obligation to return them?" "I mean to take Virginia at her word, as declared in yesterday's ordinance of secession. I am under no constitutional obligations to a foreign country, which Virginia now claims to be." "But you say we cannot secede, and so you cannot consistently detain the colored men." "But you say you have seceded, so you cannot consistently claim them. Since they are engaged in the construction of your battery and are claimed as your property, I shall hold them as contraband of war."—Washington Post. MEMORIAL SERVICES The Foreign Mission Society of the First Baptist Church will hold memorial services at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening. May 30th; at 8 o'clock, in memory of the departed members and friends of the society and church. All relatives and friends are asked to attend and bring flowers which will be distributed among the sick of the different hospitals, and a donation for African Mission. All friends are warmly asked to remember their loved ones on this occasion. MRS. SUTTON GONE. MRS. SUTTON GONE. The funeral of Patsey A. Sutton, who departed this Life Monday, May 17th, took place from Moore Street Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon, May 19th, at 4:30 P.M. Rev. R. O Johnson appointed, assisted by Rev. Thomas Holling and Rev. Samuel Turner. The pastor spoke from the following: Genesis 8:9 "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him in the ark." The Junior Choir rendered beautiful music. Before the service, Mrs. Ann Doane sang sweetly, "We Shall Meet Some Sweet Day, By and By," and at the close of the service Mrs. M. Hirard Beverly kang in his beautiful, effective way "I Expected to Hear the Savior Call My Name." Active—Messrs. Nathaniel Smith, Dalley Hackett, Fred Pollard, Joseph Bradley, James Bradley and William Quirley. Honorary—Miss Olive M. Guerrant, Ms. Ora A. Johnson Newman. rastl. Mrs. Ora A. Johnson Newman. She was hold in high esteem by her neighbors and members of his church, who showed their respect and sympathy for the family by sending many beautiful floral designs, which, as well as many other deeds of kindness, were highly appreciated by them. And for which they are more thankful than words can express. Her death was unexpected and came as a blow to the dear ones left behind, but they bowed in humble submission to the will of Him who does all things well, realizing that earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. But she is not dead, for: "To live in hearts we leave behind is, not to die." Her husband and daughter, ROBERT C. SUTTON, ROSA B. SUTTON, REV. MORTON HERE Rev. W. N. Morton, pastor of the Messiah Baptist Church, of Bridgeport, Conn., is in the city and will remain to attend the Commencement Exercises of the Virginia Union University. He has been a subscriber to the Planet for 20 years. COLORED MEN SPEND THOUSANDS IN ADS. IN WHITE PRESS THE BEE TAKES ISSUE WITH COLORED LEADERS FOR EXPENSIVE ADS IN THE WHITE In a few weeks a Washington daily newspaper will publish at least from three to four thousand dollars worth of advertisement from colored men and women in all walks of life. These write-ups will cost from $35 to $400. The smallest advertisement will cost not less than $35 and the largest one will cost $400. One inch will cost $4.00. This special edition of this white publication will have a "Jim crow" section in which all gullible Washington race loving colored citizens will appear. There will be doctors, lawyers, ministers and laymen of every description. Colored banks in which no white or any very low deposit their money; college insurance and benevolent association; one Richmond association with a local branch in this city will have an entire page for which this association has agreed to pay $400 for one page. Then you will find the great colored preachers and labor organization agitators and promoters who have been talking themselves almost to death on the race question. Ministers who have been preaching the "Black Man's Birds" so often and so affectively that the masses had come to the conclusion that the Negro really had burdens. No Negro can get into the segregated sheet unless he pays $1 per cent inch of $400 per page, and the smallest space that one can purchase is $35. These great "showers" for race liberty, equality before the law, lawyers, and doctors, who live on the misfortune of the Negro preachers who daily appeal to the members of their congregations for financial aid will be found in this coming white publication. Whenever a Negro is charged with imaginary offense, whenever race segregation is advocated by the prejudiced white press, the colored press throughout the country comes to the defence. Today, in the city of Richmond, there is one fraternal organization on the verge of bankruptcy on account of one man's power, and the Grand United Order of St. Lukes, with two men's powers will be in the same boat if it continues. What power has the Grand Worthy Chief? Is he a figure head, if so then there is no need of any officers in this organization. Who gave the authority to make a contract for $400 in a publication that only wants the Negro where he can be used? Suppose $400 was distributed among the great publications in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pa., Baltimore, Md., see the results that would be realized. How many colored people will this special white publication reach in the United States? But if these gullible Negroes were to spend this three or four thousand dollars among the 306 colored publications in the United States they would be made known if nothing else. As it is not three dozen Negro exchanges will ever see this publication, unless the subscribers send one to each. The Negro preachers who have subscribed from $35 to $65 dollars; the Negro banks, insurance, fraternal and other organizations in this city, when they want free puffs will seek Negro publications. The Negro lawyers who will appear in the special aggregated column have earned their living by virtue of being commended by the Negro press. Many of them may be seen and heard in public, in the pulpit and elsewhere extolling the virtues of the down-trodden manaces. These fraternal organizations hold weekly and monthly meetings campaigning for increase of Negro membership. They make these appeals through the Negro press, telling the Negro editor that such appeals must be published free. There are four publications in this city edited by Negroes that reach the Negroes throughout the United States that will do the gulible Negro subscribers more good than this publication edited by white men and never seeks the Negro until it wants to see him financially. How many colored people outside of this city will see this publication? What good will it do the Negro lawyer, the Negro prescriber and other gullied Negro overseer? Certainly the four colored publications in this city reach the homes. After so much money has been spent by these gullied Negroes they will then return to education for the future. reduced-rate advertisement, paper at half price, Referring again to this Richmond, Va., organisation with branches in this city and with an entire colored membership paying $400 for one page, will terminate like the other benevolent organizations in this city with branches in this city. This organization was ruined by too much one-man power. When the Negro is attacked by the white press, the Negro press is the only defender to which he can look. If a public-meeting is held in the city of any importance, if an indignation meeting is held by colored people denouncing the wrongs inflicted upon them, the colored press is their only defender; but when these very same Negroes travel from city to city, state to state appealing to the conscience of their oppressors, they are told to be silent; they can do nothing by complaining and finding fault. The Bee wants the intelligent readers of The Bee, its friends and its enemies and all good colored people to watch and wait for the publication of gullible Negroes, who preach one thing and not another. Washington, D. C. Bee. HIGH HONORS Miss Iabella Vandervall daughter of Mr. James Vandervall, off Orane, N. J., and niece of Mr. Benjamin P. Vandervall, of this city, is making a fine record. We are in receipt of an invitation from the Trustees of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, inviting us to attend the Commencement Wednesday evening, June 2, 1915, 5:30 o'clock at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. Miss Vandervall is in the graduating class of this white institution. 0 Mr. L. B. Carter has returned to the city from New York. Woman's Day at the Moore Street Baptist Church, Sunday, May 10th. All are invited. Special program has been arranged. Mrs. D. E. Morr. assisted by her African daughter, will be the speaker of the evening at the Moore Street Baptist Church. We return thanks for an invitation from the Trustees and Faculty of the Virginia Union University to attend the Semester of the University and the Commencement Exercises. May 26th, 1914, Cockburn Hall. Mr. R. E. Frazier, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is now at Honeysuckle Falls, Moore County, N. Y., for his health, and will be there about a month. Rev S. S. Morr. left this week for Kittrell College N. Y., where he delivered the annual address to the literary societies on the 18th. Before returning he will attend the commencement of his alma mater, Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga., and deliver an address to the reunion of the class of 1915. "A Sure Cure" For the Blues and other Alliances—take the boat to "Claremont" Monday, July 12th, with the L R C. Sure cure or money returned If you want anything in the property line, see B. A. Cephas, corner 2nd and Leigh Streets. GONE BEFORE The funeral of Mrs. Martha A. Hubbard, devoted Wife of Deacon Whit Hubbard, of South Boston. Va., who departed this Life May 23 took place at Berry Hill Baptist Church Tuesday, May 25, at 2 o'clock. Rev. Albert Smith officiated, assisted by Rev. P. L. Barkadale and Rev. W. H. Crawley, delivered an impressive sermon. Mrs. Hubbard leaves twelve children to mourn their loss—six sons and six daughters. The deceased was well known throughout the county and the funeral was largely attended by sorrowing friends. She was a member of Zion Travelers Court No. 96, which turned out in full. Dearest mother, then hast left us, Sadly for these we do mourn: But we know you are safe with Jesus. In your happy Heavenly home: Oft I think of you, dear mother. And my dream is fraught with pain: Oh! this world would be a Heaven Could I but hear thy video again. HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. PRICE: FIVE CENTS COMMENCEMENT AT VA: UNION UNIVERSITY SEMI-CENTENNIAL TO BE CELEBRATED DURING COMMENCEMENT. Commencement this year will be of unusual interest. The Semi-centennial of the school is to be celebrated during the week. The program for the whole week is as follows: Sunday, May 30th, 3:30 P. M.—Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. B. P. McWilliams, Toledo, Ohio. Monday, May 31st, 8:15 P. M.—Graduation exercises of the Academy, with presentation of diplomas. Address to the graduating class by Mr. J. B. Terrell of the State Department of Education. Presentation of certificates to the Sunday School Training Class by Dr. Samuel H. Templeman. Tuesday, June 1st, 4:00 P. M.—Historical address on the Beginning of Richmond Institute, of Wayland Seminary, and of the University. On the University in the Ministry, in Education, in Medicine, in Public Service, in Authority, and in Editorial Work. Tuesday, June 1st, 6:00 P. M.—Reception and Collation to which all visitors are invited. Tuesday, June 18, 8:15 P. M. Addresses by Lleut.Gov. J. Taylor Elllyson, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler, Supt. of Richmond Public Schools; Dr. James Dillard, agent of the Slater and Joanne Funds; Prop. R. E. Blackwell, R. Randolph-Macon College; Major R. H. Moton, of Hampton; Pres. R. O. Wood, of Virginia Theological Seminary and College, and others. Wednesday, June 2nd, 2:00 P. M. Business Meeting of the Alumun Association. Wednesday, June 2nd, 4:00 P. M. Reports of achievements of form or graduates who have rendered dis- tinct hard service in education, industry, social service, and other fields of activity. Wednesday, June 2nd, 6:00 P. M. Annual Suppier of Alumun, former students and friends which it is hoped will be attended by a far lar- er number of those formerly connected with the school than usual. Wednesday, June 2nd, 8:15 P. M. Graduation exercises. Address to graduating class by Judge Martin A. Esquist of U. S. Circuit Court. INJURED BY A JITNEY Mrs. Alice Smith, colored, was knocked down and painfully injured Friday, May 21, by a fittney automobile driven by Charles Stephenson, white, of Barton Heights. WILL SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT Editor John Mitchell, Jr., has accepted an invitation from Professor J. W. Scott, principal of Huntington High School, to deliver the Commencement address Friday, June 4th, 1915. A LONG TERM James Porkins, colored, charged with attempted criminal assault, was tried in the Hustings Court May 21st, and given 18 years, in the penitentiary. GOOD SAMARITANS The Good Samaritans observed their anniversary last Sunday afternoon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The edifice was filled from the rostrum to the door. The Independent's Annual The Independent Beneficial Club observed its annual last Sunday afternoon at the Saint Phillips' P. E. Church. WANTED Homes for two colored babies. Boy three months old; girl five months old. Address P. O. BOX 276. Low Rent to Intered People Now, skivers' homes, or will rent in Boat, at Nyrte Grove, near Wash- ington Park and our Rent. Lapin hot. Madison 4000g. THE MASTER MIND Novelized by Marvin Dana, author of "Within the Law," from the suc- cessful play by Daniel D. Carter Copyright, 1913, by the H. K. Fly company. SYNOPSIS. Henry Allen, a young married man, is sentenced to be executed for killing the man who won the affections of Allen's wife, and for the criminal mind as "The Master Mind." determines to avenge his brother. He writes the district attorney that he will be sentenced to red and black blank cards indicating the progress of his plans for revenge. A Pawn In the Game. THE Master Mind professed to have known the girls' father intimately and offered this as an explanation of his visit. After a brief interview that satisfied his curiosity, and did little to arouse hers, he took his departure, and straightway began plotting the immediate steps next to be made. So cumulently did he contour his mesh of chengety that the miserable victim in the toils never suspected even that he was the agent of her anguish. Through the bought offices of a confederate, who had no suspicion as to his identity, Andrew so arranged matters that Margaret Filint was accused of theft. The stolen broach of her mistress was found in the girls' trunk. On sight circumstantial evidence it was easy to secure conviction of one who had neither money nor friends to plead in her behalf. She was sentenced to two years in the woman's reconstitutory. But it was no part of the Master's plan that the girl whom he had thus stricken by his arts should languish in prison throughout the whole term of her sentence. It was sufficient for his purposes that the sigma had been inflicted on her. He waited for six months and then entered on the second stage of his operations. First he paid a visit to the wretched object of his machinations. He professed profound sorrow over the plight in which he found her, and promised to use every endeavor in her behalf by gaining the services of certain influential politicians with whom he enjoyed friendly relations. As a matter of fact, however, Andrew called on only one man for anistance, and that no friend. With a new type wheel on the small machine,which he had brought with him in the auft case from New York, he concocted a most exploit letter to a politician of Chicago, who had risen from the ranks by ways best known to himself. The Master Mind pointed out that it would be well for the politician to secure forthwith the release of Margaret Flint on probation. (Otherwise some curious facts in the history of the politician would be turned over to the public prints. A few details as to the nature of such revelations were given, and, as he read them, the politician's florid complexion faded to a mottled ashen, and his hands trembled strangely. Within three days Margaret Flint was released from custody, and just outside the walls of the reformatory she found waiting her father's friend. "I'll be your friend," he said to her when they were alone together in the parlor of a quiet Chicago hotel. "Your father was kind to me. I have no children of my own or any one depending on me. Your father is dead, so I can't repay his goodness to me. So I mean to take care of you. You have had a mighty hard time of it so far. You have been poor, you have been a drudge, you have been in prison. Of course I know you were innocent, for I believe what you tell me. But the world doesn't know. The only way to make your future life happy is just to bury all the past forever. Maggie Flint, the nursemaid, who was sent to fall, is dead from this second and buried Now, whom shall we resurrect in her stead?" He smiled quickly. in response to the girl's expression of about amusement. "I am not rich," he beet on frankly, "but I have a comfortable fortune—enough so that I can educate you as a lady and keep you fairly well afterward without your having to worry ever again about work." "It's like a story I read once," the girl breathed tranquilously. The shrill voice had sank to a softer register. The surprise eyes were glowing with the naive happiness of a child. "Yes, it is like a story," the Master blind assumed. "Dot, that of all," he continued, "you must go to school I've been making some acquaintance," he explained modestly, "and I've found out that there's just the place for you over that a private school in Punjab. You see, Bangladesh, you're a bit too old for the regular school in Dhaka country." "Bangladesh," the girl enquired. "... then." Anthony went on. That school will be just the place for you. They'll teach you everything about how to be a lady as well as the usual stuff out of books. But we must have that christening. I've thought of a name. "Tell me!" the girl urged. "Luciene Blount," he replied. "You like it?" "Oh, I love it!" was the eager answer. "But, but it seems so strange after Margele." "It it does," he agreed. "Well, then. It must satisfied well settle on Luciene Blount." The smile that curved her pale lips was very whining—so winning, indeed, that one grain the platter experienced a point of rage over the necessity that I am to appreciate this life to his very core. "Well be sailing in the course of a few days, for I mean to see you safe in the place myself, and in the meantime I bring to feed you on the fist of the land and keep you out in the sunshine every minute possible until you just bless them." As it had been planned, so only it was executed by the Master Mishra. In France specifically began the transformation of a humble working girl which had been subjected to the legal notion of employment into a woman of excellent education of gentle manners of excellent treatment of character. To this work Andrew allowed a period of four years. Thus it will be seen that the man was not inflicted by badness haste. At last the span drew to its close and the final activities of his solemn begin. It was time to see Waltmight had persistently advanced in public honor until he was bequeathed the chief man of his public party in the state with a splendid remembrance, absolutely unblemished. It was known that he would be given the nomination for governor by his party in the campaign of the county 2 year. It was certain as well that he would be elected. The Master Mishra smiled a smile that was not good to see as he sat at his typewriter, into which he had just shipped a new type wheel, and addressed an envelope to Curtis Waltmight. Exc At his breakfast table next morning Waltwright at sight of a card that dropped from the opened envelope felt a chill of apprehension. To those white cards he had become in a way habituated. For nearly four years they had appeared in his mail at irregular intervals. Some had come to his office, some to his home, others to his hotels abroad, even to the country houses of friends who he visited! He stared at the onious symbol in a display foreign to his habit. This was the client message of a death brooding close over him. And against the hostilities attack he was without resource, helpless in his ignorance of where or when or how the blow would fall. Already he had emplaced in vain one of the best men from the Pinkerton agency to seek out the Master Mind. Now, however, under the urgency of the card Wainwright left the table and went to the telephone, where he established communication with the detective, Marshall, and made an appointment. Then he returned to the table and resolutely continued the reading of his letters. Presently another communication absorbed his attention. It was just now one of those recurrent seasons in New York city when there is a harrying of the grafters, or, rather, of a selected few of them. In one most important instance there was a woeful lack of admissible evidence against an offender whose guilt was overthreaten generally known. The roughly scrawled, ill spelt massive before Wainwright promised to turn over the needed evidence, but only to Wainwright himself in person. The reason for this condition seemed convincing enough. The writer explained that his life would pay the penalty were his treachery made known to the guilty involved in his revolutions. For the sake of his own safety the writer suggested that Wainwright should meet him the night following the receipt of the letter at half past 11 o'clock on the south side of Chestnut square, toward the meet end, where the probabilities were that there would be almost no one else about, and the interview might pass uninterrupted. At 11 o'clock that night Wake upright set forth to the meeting with the unk- nown. Walking westward along Twentyeth street, he poured sharply about him for a picture of any one who might suggest his mysterious com- motion, but the picture one whistle frowned. The that couped Right wrightly no coworkers for the hour of the meeting, and not only coworkers. Winded slowly on as well he was caught within a few yards of Teeth avenue. Suddenly a stall eyewitness told me how late than a red pillow like the figure of a man dimly visible in shimmer shadows close by a house wall. After some moment there grounded another cry, and now he saw, behind the other, a second figure, which darted forward swiftly. Then, just as the two figures bleached, a lance of fire burned through the night, and the sharp crack of an automatic guncue the stillness of the square. Walawright stood recoiled to the spot in stupidity over the unexpectedness of the event. In a flash he understood that an ammunition had been lurking there in ambush awaiting his coming. The shout of the other man had been in warning. Bridely the newcomer had turned into the street from Teeth avenue just in time to observe the ammalian as he stepped forth from his place of concealment, and the newcomer had not hesitated to spring forward and grapple with the criminal. Doubtless the unexpected interruption had diverted the aiming of the weapon. Certainly another shot had been prevented by the fall of the weapon. One of the forms broke fiercely from the clutch of the other and disappeared into Teeth avenue as his adversary went staggering back against the wall from the effect of a well delivered blow. "Quick—after him!" Wainwright heard a gasping cry. He ran to the corner of the avenue and looked south, in which direction the thug had vanished. Then he stopped short in wonder, for the man had gone from sight as if the earth had opened to swallow him. A policeman was approaching on the run, drawn by the noise of the shot, and there were others pressing toward the scene of the encounter, the nucleus of a crowd Walnwright was relieved to find that the policeman recognized him, and he was in consequence spared some possible annoyances that might otherwise have been his from being involved in a shooting affair at such an hour in such a neighborhood. But when he turned to express his grateful appreciation to the man who had rendered assistance so vitally timely and efficient he met with disappointment, for there was no trace of his rescuer. He questioned the policeman, but the puzzled official was unable to offer effective aid. Finally Walnwright took a car eastward on his way home. Rafe in his apartment again, Wainwright sat long over a clear, pondering the events of the night. It seemed clear enough to bin that the communication requesting a meeting in Chelsea square had been, only a rule to secure his presence where he might be murdered at jelaure. Wainwright rose at last and went into his deskchamber. There sounded the tingling of the telephone bell. He put the receiver to his ear. At once a voice came clearly: "Is this Mr. Wainwright?" And then when he had answered in the af 1930 "Young chap named Walter Blount." firmative: "Well, I called you up about that shooting business down at Tenth avenue tonight. You understand?" "Who is this? Wainwright demanded." "Oh, who I am don't cut any ice! I just happened to be in the crowd there, and I heard you asking the cop about the guy that butted in and let you out. I got a line on that guy, and so I thought I'd put you wise." "Who was he?" "Young chap named Walter Blount from somewhere but west. He's staying in the city, though—got a house. The address is 21A East Thirty-ninth street. That's all. Good night." "But wait! Tell me—" Wainwright began hurriedly. His appeal was useless. There came no response. CHAPTER IV. A FAMILY MADE TO OVER. WILLIAM SLOCOMB, alias Diamond Willie, alias Walter Blount, set in the library of the house of which he was theoretically master and sought to divert his tedium by playing Candolph militaire. Nominally he was indeed the head of the house, which had been taken in his name for the scoundrel, and he was about to entertain there his positive parents, come on a visit from their home in Larrauma, Wya. As a mother of fact, however, Walter was a pupet in the hands of the man who was serving him as butler. That ingenuous individual, by name Andrew Alpn, had decided that this punisher would sit essentially into his situation. The accomplishment of his design was not difficult, since at just this time Walter was already pursued by the Phuketians for a second offense against the law, and the offer of an ingenuous wiveship. Andrew had established so much money to do to the nature of the plant that some other cause, and he grew more suspicious of the man who had been the subject of the most serious crime. He suddenly prognosticated that he had been murdered, and his daughter of will. At twenty-five years old he was a through good accounted, willing for any crime, and in incompetence. Nevertheless as you his old nature was not graven closely in the mind of his face, which a condemning observer might have deemed whimsily buylah. Now as he sat erect in his dinner jacket by the table on which the cards were displayed he did jutting by his appearance in the judgment of Andrew in this selection as the proud young gentleman of means come out of the west for a trial of the metropolitan life. He sowled heavily, and his jaw shot out sullyly as the trial of the cards proclaimed his lucklessness. He shot a baleful glance toward the irreproachable man servant, who for some time had been standing at a little distance in an attitude of patient deference. "Well, Parker," he snapped, "what the devil are you standing around waiting for?" "For you to finish the game, air." "And then what?" "To take the cards away, air." "The young man sneezed." "Oh, that's it, is it?" he drewlw. "You're waiting to take the cards away." "Yes, air. Mr. Andrew's orders, air." The words, decorously spoken, were the last straw to the burden on Walters patience. With an oath he seized the pack and throw it violently to the floor. "Well, take them away, then!" he snarled, with an evil grin. He sprang to his feet and moved about the room nervously for a minute. "Say, you!" he cried. "You know who I am, don't you?" he demanded. And now there came a subtle change in the indefinations of the mental's voice, though its respectful quality was still in evidence. There was a vague suggestion of satisfaction in his tones as he answered: "Yes, sir." Walter muttered a curse. "Kept it to yourself mighty close, didn't you?" he affirmed rather than interrogated. "Oh, I was on to you the minute I saw you!" Walter spoke with some relaxation of his angry manner, for it was a relief to cast off the guise in the presence of this fellow. "But this Mr. Andrew tell me, Parker, who is he, anyhow? What's his little game, sir?" The antidilation of information from this source was not to be realized. "I have been with Mr. Andrew for some time, sir," he said with an increased precision of utterance and a reversion to his customary "sir." "I never ask questions. I simply obey orders, sir." "He's got to show me," Walter stormed, "that's all. He's got to show me what this game is about or I'll out." Weller's gaze followed in astonishment the figure of the servant as it went mislessly out of the room, and not until it had vanished into the hall did he observe another form which was standing motionless just within the doorway that of Andrew himself. There was a dead silence while the Master Mind walked slowly forward until he stood close, face to face with his tool. Though he wore a livery, he befitted his pretended place in the household, there was nothing of the servile in the clear cut face and the erect body as his keen gray eyes regarded speculatively the disconcerted youth before him. His tone was mild when he spoke, but he ran in it an undertone of menace. "You won't continue?" "Walter had recourse to blister." Walter must not be burden. "No, I won't." he declared grimly. "You heard no say it the first time, didn't you?" "Very well, then." Andrew voucheafed, still in that voice of omnious calm. "I suppose that I must notify the Pinkerton so that you may return to your former condition—the condition in which I found you. Shall I?" The young man labored to preserve an undamaged demeanor. "At least, he youchaefed sulkily, "I should know where I was." "Oh, there could be no doubt as to that." Andrew conceded with a grim smile. "And you would know your destination aid for a certainty—Sing Sing." Andrew wasted no time in pleading. Instead, he went to the telephone at one end of the long library table and spoke into the transmitter: "Hello! Gits me 100 Rector." The voice of Walter sounded swiftly. "Say, what's that number?" The Master Mind turned from the telephone in laurelly fashion and regarded the young man with cold disdain. He placed a hand over the transmitter and replied with significant bravity, though quite without emphasis: "The Pinkertons." "Walt. Andrew; wait!" Walter cried desperately, "I'll stick." he said faintly. Andrew put down the instrument and once again faced-Walter. Now, his face was messing. "Hereafter, please remember, Diamond, the next time I have occasion to call you Diamond Willie a Pinkerton will tap you on the shoulder." Under the trust the sickle mood of the youth flared in a new gust of rage. "Bay," he said visibly, "who the are you, my master?" Instantly the Master Mind assumed the respectful demeanor of the faithful family member. YES "You won't continue? be curious, I'd like to know? Answer me that. You've been drumming them into me all this time." On your table, Walter, you will find a memorandum containing the instructions you are to follow when Mr. Walnwright comes." was the reply. "Oh, that!" answered Walter. "I've been over it already a dozen times to day—for want of anything better to do in this dead and alive house of mine—not! But what's the use of it? Walnwright isn't coming." "He will come," was the unperturbed answer. "He thinks you saved his life last night from the attack of some felon he had sent up the river." "Well, suppose he does. That doesn't prove that he'll come here." The Master Mind-mailed coldly. "Of course," he admitted, "you could hardly be expected to understand. But he is a gentleman, Walter, and he will therefore come to thank you." The thief finished hotly under the unveiled insult of the words, but he showed no disposition to resent it. "How can he?" he persisted. "According to your instructions, I beat it right after the shooting. Walwright hardly got a glimpse of me, much less of my name and address, I'm thinking." "I attended to that," Andrew answered. Walter voiced apprehension in another direction. "That follow isn't no rumor." He obiected quoriously. "Say, if I'd ever known the game was against Waln wright I wouldn't have come in. The Pinkertons would be just as safe, he levee. Whenever he went after a man he got him. They say he even got the goods on the Master Mind some how and has him buffed. Anyhow the Master Mind went out of business and hasn't been heard of for years. And you must know what he was. There wasn't anything he couldn't pull off till Waln wright came along." "Yes, I've heard of him." Andrew admitted. Walter went on, speaking with cuzusharm. "Why, that fellow was the cleverest this country ever produced," he declared, with sincerely admiration in his voice. "I tell you he only touched the high spots, banks, corporations, the classiest things going. The men that worked for him even never got their lamps on him, and the bulls never had nothing on him. And then Walnwright got after him and threw a scare into him so he up and got cold feet and quit. So what chance you got? Huh!" "That question need not concern you in the least. Walter. It is sufficient for you that I have guaranteed your safety." He paused as Parker appeared in the doorway waiting for his attention. "Mr. and Mrs. Blount have arrived, sir," Parker explained. "They are in the drawing room, sir." "Tell them that I shall see them at once." Andrew directed. "Let me know instantly when Miss Blount arrives." He nodded dismissal to the servant and turned again to the fuming young man opposite him. His voice sounded in sharp command. "You, Walter, will go to your room at once and study the memorandum until I send for you to meet your parents." As he passed into the drawing room Andrew cast one swift glance toward a small table on the far side of the room and noted with an almost imperceptible smile a tiny shimmer of blue light that shone from the solitary diamond placed there in readiness for the passing of his guests. The husband was a large man, of plethora form and a strong, tough, rugged face, badly tanned by outdoor air, the that most vivid form of good cheer. His exquisite was kindly, after a rude fashion of his own, and with a pervasive suggestion of force, under which the injured woman was with difficulty discomfete. IN THEATRE IN TWO GALLERY OVER MILLIE so Associated in New York. SEES PARADE; REVIEWS FLEET Bacteria at Banquet America Asks Nothing For Herself Except What She Can Ask For Humanity. The greatest ovation ever given to a president of the United States was accorded President Woodrow Wilson when he came ashore in New York to review the naval parade. Half a million persons, who turned out despite the wind and rain, freely cheered and waved their hats, and as the brass bands from the battleships in the harbor" crashed out martial music, the demonstration passed all bounds. Afterward Joseph Tumulty, the secretary of the president, said: "The president is more affected by this reception than by anything he has experienced lately. It is the greatest patriotic outburst I have ever seen." Following the review, President Wilson delivered a patriotic address at the civic banquet in his honor and adored an audience of 500 citizens and officers of the Atlantic fleet into a wild tumult of applause. In the course of his speech, which because of the present strained state of international affairs is taken to be highly significant, the president declared the interesting and inspiring thing about this country is that it ask nothing for itself except what it has a right to ask for humanity. He said America wants no nation's property and questions no nation's honor. America stands for that which every nation should wish to stand for, he said. When a crisis comes in this country, he declared, it was as if you put your hands on the pulse of a dynamo. He said this spirit was now prevailing in New York, where the great fleet is assembled, not as a threat against any man or nation, but just as evidence that the force of America is lifted for great moral principles. 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SEES WAR WITH ITALY German Charles Leaves Impression Break is Invisible. A dispatch received by the Amsterdam Telegram from Borthax says that the impression received by many of the persons who heard the speech of Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial German admiral, at the opening of the reichstag, was that war with Italy was inevitable. War Cause Britain $12,000,000 a Day. F. D. Ashleigh, Resident secretary to the Treasury of Great Britain, has estimated the cost of the war to be high hand of $120,000 a month. The amount $4,000,000 a day. Lieutenant-General, general officer, was ```markdown ``` After deliberating on the case for more than three hours a jury in the Hustings Court at 6:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon, returned a verdict holding John C. Watkins guilty of murder in the second degree for shooting his eighteen-year-old sweetheart. Hester Dodson, on the night of February 5th, and fixing his punishment at eighteen years' confinement in the penitentiary. The prisoner heard the verdict apparently without emotion. To the court's question taking him if there were any reason why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, in accordance with the jury's verdict, the young man made no reply. Judge Richardson pronounced the sentence, and the prisoner was taken in charge by the court officers. MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IS OVERRULED BY JUDGE Prior to the sentence, Attorney H. M. Smith, Jr., counsel for the defense, moved the court that the verdict be set aside on the ground that a verdict of second degree murder was inconsistent with the evidence, since there could be no murder either in the first or second degree without malice. No malice, he claimed, had been proved. Judge Richardson, after a moment's consideration, overruled the motion, and Attorney Smith offered no further objection. It was stated last night that there will be no appeal to a higher court. Watkins will begin at once to serve his sentence. The sentence of eighteen years may be reduced to nine by deduction for good behavior. Although a courtroom crowded with relatives, friends and interested persons sat faithfully through the all-day proceedings, the concluding scenes of the trial yesterday were without sensational developments. The defense bent its efforts to establish a case of emotional insanity, while the Commonwealth sought to show that the accused deliberately armed himself with a pistol before calling on his sweetheart, for the purpose of making use of it. WATKINS DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF DETAILS OR SHOOTING. Watkins, who appears to be in his early twenties, took the stand as soon as court convened at 10 o'clock in the morning. In reply to questions by Attorney Smith he denied any knowledge of the details surrounding the shooting. According to his testimony, his mind is a total blank as regards the events that transpired on the night of February 5th, except that he remembered Hester's entering the room when he called at her home. The prisoner spoke in a subdued voice and with marked calmness. He had loved Hester Dodson for seven months. he said, and during that period paid no attention to any other girl. They were to have been married in June. He denied that he and Hester quarreled on the evening of February 5 or seriously at any time before. There was no earthly reason, he said, why he should have wanted to take her life. Watkins denied that he said to Hester, "You've wrecked my life, and now I'll ruin yours," words attributed to him by Caroline Dodson, sister of the dead girl, who told the jury Wednesday that she heard the accused make this statement while he was in the parlor with her sister. He did not remember talking with newspaper reporters about the shooting on the night of his arreast. SENT FOR PISTOL ON AFTERNOON OF TRAGEDY. Cross-examination by Commonwealth's attorney Folkes failed to shake his story in any material respect. Asked for an explanation of his action in sending to Bernard Tucker for his pistol on the evening of the tragedy the accused replied that he had been in the habit of carrying a pistol for several months and that he had been led to believe that he had enemies in the vicinity. For that reason he said, he thought it heat to go armed. Both sides agreed on the instructions with little delay, and made their final appeals to the jury. Commonwealth's Attorney Folkes and Attorney Smith each spoke for about an hour. Their addresses to the jury were noticeably free of bitterness or undue feeling. Counsel for the defense held emphases on the history of insanity running through the accused's habit and upon the absences of a guilty for the killing. It was unmistakable he said, that the wrong before the court, devoted to the girl he had, could have sent her to her death except in a fit of mental absurdity. on the late afternoon and evening and the present is the being late in an urgency, although the weapon has just come time hour in the pos- session of a friend. (1) The jury took the case at 3:15 o'clock, and failing to reach an agreement by 3:15 o'clock, was ad- formed at that hour by the count, to meet again at 4 o'clock. It remained consideration of the case at the last-named hour and reported the verdict at 0:30 o'clock. A sister and the mother and aunt of the prisoner sat by him through the proceedings and accompanied him, after sentence had been pronounced, to the prisoner's waiting room. There was no demonstration. The young man smiled at them encouragingly as the door shut him from view. Only then did the mother, deeply veiled in black, put her handwheelchief to her eyes. The other two placed their arms about her. The three bowed their heads together while the courtroom crowd filled out—Richmond Time-Dispatch, May 20. EMOTIONAL INSANITY IS PLEASED·FOR WATKINS. Counsel for Youth Who Killed His Sweetheart Sayn He was Un- balanced. Pale, but outwardly calm. John C. Watkins entered yesterday morning on trial for his life for the slaying of his sweetheart, Hester M. Dodson, whom he shot and killed in her home at 2320 N. Street on the night of February 5th. The murder, according to such evidence as was brought out yesterday, was the result of a lovers quarrel, the girl complaining that Watkins had talked to two other girls on a street car, and bidding him, for that reason, never to call upon her again. Though Judge Richardson sat last night until 8 o'clock, the taking of testimony was not completed, and court was adjourned to this morning at 10 o'clock. It is expected that the case will be completed this afternoon. Attorney Harry M. Smith, Jr. counsel for the defendant, pleaded emotional insanity as cause for acquittal for Watkins. He introduced evidence to show that a grand uncle of Watkins, on his mother's side, had died in the Eastern State Hospital at Williamburg, that an uncle on the same side was feeble-minded and that a brother of the young man's father had attempted suicide and now carries a bullet in his head. Further, through Mrs. Watkins, the accused's mother, the attorney showed that the accused had been subject to fits during his childhood and that his upbringing had caused her exceeding worry and anxiety. SAYS HER SON HAD FITS RESEMBLING DEATH IN FORM Judge Duke, formerly of King and Queen county, home of the Watkins family, testified as to the mental irresponsibility of certain of its members. It was the mother, perhaps, who exercised a more persuasive voice in pleading that the boy could not have known what he was doing when he slew the girl he professed to love. Mrs. Watkins made a good witness. She said that the boy had never been able to cry, that sometimes his fits appeared to be such a roal of death that she had prepared him for burial. Then Mrs. Watkins wont into our barrasing details of her family's history, seeming to leave nothing unsaid that would lighten the burden which now rests upon her son. He left home, she said, four years ago, and it will be June before he reaches his nineteenth year. Meantime, through the sad recital, the boy, with the unmistakable prison on pallor on his face, sat impassive, his eyes sometimes rosting wistfully on his mother's anguished face. But as Attorney Smith attempted to prove that Watkins was irresponsible at the time of the murder, so Commonwealth's Attorney Minitree Folkes tried to show that there was no palliation for the slaying, that Watkins went armed to his sweetheart's home and slew her without provocation. BERNARD TUCKER GIVES INCRIMINATING TETIMONY. Bernard Tucker, a witness for the prosecution, who said he had borrowed Watkins's pistol with a view to buying it, testified that Watkins called for it, and when it was given back to him, said: "I pulled the trigger on my girl once before, but the gun wouldn't fire." This was, as the witness recollected, at 7:30 o'clock on the night of February 5th, and it was two hours later that the girl was shot and killed. George Parker testified that he was in the room, back and forth, when the pistol was delivered, but he did not hear Watkins's remark. The most unprurbed, witness of all and the one to whom most difference was paid, was Caroline DoJason, sister of the slain girl, who's not yet nine years old. She said that she was in the sitting-room with Watkins and her sister ten or fifteen minutes before the shooting occurred, and that as she was leaving the room she heard Watkins may to Hester, "You've wrecked my life, and now I'll ruin yours." She said she did not understand what Watkins meant, but that she did understand the meaning of the words. She left the room to see her mother, and shortly after the plaid that which killed her sister, surrounded through the house, in reply to Mr. Smith the little girl said that even as she left the room Watkins and her sister were laughing together and that Watkins was appalled when uttering the threat of death coming get. We have a fine line of Calendars for 1916, both imported and domestic and they are now ready for the inspection of the Public. We can quote prices that will be of special interest to those who buy these kind of souvenirs. A visit is requested even if you are not ready or are not prepared to purchase now. THE LINE IS ATTRACTIVE AND THE DESIGNS ARE NEW AND SURPRISINGLY BEAUTIFUL. THE J. W. BUTLER PAPER CO., OF CHICAGO, ILL. HANDLES THE FINEST LINES OF CALENDARS. COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT PROGRAMMES AND FOLDERS OF ANY HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY. TO SEE THEM IS TO REALIZE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE FORCE OF THIS DECLARATION. his family and that he was looked upon as a sultor for Heater's hand. When he heard the shot he thought that Watkins had killed himself and caught Watkins as he sank to the floor taking the pistol from him. Then he laid the slayer on his own bed and later Mrs. Dodson came in and sat down beside him. Both though then, it was testified that Watkins was wounded. Policeman F., M. Bosquett described the arrest and said that he too, examined Watkins to see if he were shot. He looked upon the girl, and saw that she was dead, Watkins talked to him coherently about the shooting, and said that he killed the girl because he loved her and that afterward he placed the revolver at his own breast and pulled the trigger three times, the pistol falling to fire. At the First Police Station Watkins fell into a comatose condition, whether real or feigned the evidence failed to reveal. Detective Sergeant John F. Willey, who has charge of all homicide cases, said that he believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Watkins was feigning when he did not respond to efforts for his revival. The courtroom was crowded. Many of Watkins's relatives and friends were present. In the other end of the courtroom sat Mrs. Dodson and Marie Dodson, the dead girl's mother and sister. There was little difficulty in obtaining a jury, and the case was entered into with something more than the usual dispatch. When an arraigned Watkins entered a plea of not guilty, and thereafter remained silent. Mr. Smith sought information only from his client's relatives. CALIF. EXPOSITION VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY 1 Greatly reduced fares in effect March 1 to November 20, with three months return limit and very liberal stop-over privileges. 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Price per box, $6. Alcohol Heater, price $8. Liberal terms to agents. Write for Literature today. RESIDENCE-725 N. SECOND ST. First-class Hacks and Caskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies, when the family have not suitable place. All Country Orders given Special Attention. MAGIC BRAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Your special attention is called to the New Style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall we wait on individually. PHOTOS—We Offer you the Latest and Most Artistic Photos at a More Moderate Figure than you can obtain elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. We will also be Pleased to Quote you Prices on Exterior and Interior View Work. PHONE. MADISON 2768 OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE ENLARGING AND COPYING FROM OLD PHOTOS A SPECIALTY GEORGE O. BROWN, Photographer 603 NORTH SECOND ST., RICHMOND, VA. When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JUROGEN—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of homemaking comfort giving Furniture and Rugs—and—don't fail to ask our customers about our banking plan, which gives you 5, 16 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. WOLF BROTHERS Hair Straightening Outfit For more information on our hair straightening outfit, visit www.wolfbrothers.com or call 1-800-222-2222. WOLF BROTHERS Hair Straightening Outfit For more information on our hair straightening outfit, visit www.wolfbrothers.com or call 1-800-222-2222. FING. G. JURGEN AND Established 1858 ABNED AND LEYN THREE National Predestination & Priority L.L. TO AND FROM INSTITUTION AND DEVOTY. Leave Bydel St. Sth. 4.40 P. H. Sr. Predestination; Leave Bydel St. Sth. 7.40 A.R. 8.15 P. H. 6.40 P. H. Sr. Arrive Bydel St. Sth. 8.25 A.R. Some Predestination'; Arrive Bydel St. Sth. 8.80 A.R. 11.85 A. H. 8.40 P. H. From Ashland. Bunday accommodation trains leave Bydel 4.10 P. H. Sr. Predestination; arrive Bydel 11.85 A. H. From Frederickburg. YOU CAN FIND HERE ADVERTISING *Daily.* † Weekdays. All trains to or from Bryd Street Station stop at Elba. Time of arrivals and departures not guaranteed. Read the sign. NORFOLK & WESTERN. Schedule in Effect December 1, 1914. Byrd Street Station, Richmond, POR LYNCHBURG AND FOR LYNCHBURG M. *: 8:00 P. M. *: 4:10 P. M. M. *: 8:00 P. M. *: 4:10 P. M. M. *: 8:00 P. M. *: 4:10 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: *: 11:40 W. M. *: 0:55 P. M. *: 11:30 P. M. From the West: *: 0:58 P. M. *: 11:30 P. M. *: 11:40 P. M. *: 0:58 P. M. *: 0:58 P. M. *: Daily, *Daily except Sunday. *: Sunday only, W. B. BEVILL, P. T. M. Roanoke, G. P. A. Roanoke THERE ARE ALSO A LINE OF "LEFT OVER" 1915 CALENDAR BACKS. WHICH CAN BE SOLD AT A SACRIFICE TO LARGE PURCHASERS. WHO DESIRE TO SAVE MONEY. ATLANTIC COAST LINE. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 4, 1961 TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND DAILY. For Leaves 4:15 A.M. M, 6:25 P.M. 11:40 A.M. M, 6:00 P.M. For Norfolk 9:00 A.M. M, 6:00 P.M. For N. & W. Ry. West. 6:15 A.M. M, 9:30 P.M. 9:20 P.M. For Peterborough. M, 6:15 A.M. M, 8:15 A.M. M, 9:00 A.M. M, 9:50 A.M. M, 6:10 P.M. M, 6:00 P.M. M, 8:35 P.M. M, 6:10 P.M. M. For Goldsop and Fayetteville. *6:10 P.M. Trains arrive Richmond daily. M, 10:15 A.M. M, 6:50 A.M. M, 7:00 A.M. M, 8:52 A.M. 10:15 A.M. M, 6:50 A.M. M, 7:00 A.M. M, 8:52 A.M. 11:40 A.M. M, 11:40 A.M. M, 7:20 P.M. M, 11:40 A.M. M, 6:00 P.M. M, 6:35 P.M. M, 8:00 P.M. 11:30 P.M. For Sunday. *Sunny only. Time of arrival and departure and connections not shown. C. 8. CAMPBELL D. P. A. M. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Trains leave Richmond, Main Street Station, N. H—Following schedule schedule published so information and not guaranteed; M. N—Daily local for Danville. 10:30 P. M—Daily—Limited—For all points South 3:00 P. M—Daily—Limited—For Chase City, Durham and interstations. 6:00 P. M—Daily—For Danville, Clinton and Birmingham, with Pullman observation sleeping 13:15 P. M—Daily—Limited—For all points South Pullman, grease South Pullman. YORK RIVER LINE 5:10 P. M. Shramer train (Parlor car)-Daily local to West Point, connecting for Baltimore, daily except Sunday. 5:15 A. M.-Daily- local to West Point. From the South: 7:06 A. M., 8:00 A. M., and 8:30 P. M., daily; 8:40 A. M., except West. From West Point: 9:10 A. M., 6:15 P. M., daily. H. L. BISHOP, D. P. A. Phone, Mail 773 Last Main St. D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Office: Room, No. 405, Mechanics' Bank Building PHONE, RANDOLPH 2637. 7:18 A.-Local-Daily Ex. Bus.-N. News 8:00 A.-Local-Daily-Civilite. Ex. Bus. Clinton Forge. *0:00 A.-Local-Daily Norfolk. Old Point. 10:00 A.-Local-Daily-Lynchburg. Lex., O. Forge. *12:00 Noose-Kress-Daily Ex. Bus.-N. Norfolk. Old Point. *2:00 P.-Express-Daily-Clin., L'ville, Chicago and K. Louis. ***4:00 P.-Express-Daily-Norfolk. Old Point 5:00 P.-Local-Daily Ex. Bus.-N. New Old Point. 5:15 P.-Local-Daily Ex. Bus.-Gordonville. *5:15 P.-Local-Daily Ex. Bus.-Cobh. O. Forge. *11:00 P.-Express-Daily-Clin.-Louisville. *Sleeper.* P. Porter Corp. TRAINS ARRIVE RICHMOND.-Local Bus East: 11:30 A. M.; 8:00 P. M. Through P. M. West: 11:30 A. M.; 8:00 P. M. Through P. M. Local from West: 8:00 A. M. and P. M. 7:20 P. M. Through: 8:30 A. M. and P. M. James River Line: *8:30 A. M., 7:00 P. M. *Daily except Sunday.* RESIDENCE—610 N. First ST.-Shop in Rear. 'Phone, Randolph 2166. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Style of Architecture. Job Work a Specialty. SEABOARD AIR LINE "The Progressive Railway of the South." Bombardhound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily: 9:00 A. M. Local to Norlain. 1:30 P. M. Atlanta. Birmingham. Jacksonville. 10:20 Local to Peper to Hamlet and coaches to Atlanta and Birmingham. 1:17 P. M. Florida Limited; 12:48 A. M. Monroe. Birmingham. Memphis. Jacksonville. Tampa and coaches Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Rich and Burlington are: 5:18 A.M. 8:15 A.M. 5:30 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. Paraphernula, Material' and Service of the New Reliable Service. Moderate Rates MADAMS COOTT Embalmer for Women and Children and in attendance at Funerals. THE ECONOMY 327 N. FIRST ST. Fine Tailoring Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing OHITMAN M. WHITE Preprietor Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. at 511 N. 40th 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., on second-class matter. SATURDAY.---- MAY 29. 1815. We have received "Truth about Alcohol," a speech delivered by Hon. Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, December 22, 1911. We have received the speech of Hon. Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, in "An Adequate Navy and the Open-Door Policy," delivered in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1915. We have received "Some History and Some Question" by Henry Dodge Estabrook. Esq. It deals with the tariff question and traces the stagnation in business to the action of the Democratic party in the ering with the tariff. We have received the initial b�uber of the Virginia Motor's edu- cation by C. Bryce, M. D. It is the work of the Southern Clinic print shop, and is a most creditable produc tion. The journalistic arran- cement is a model of its kind and the subject matter in keeping with its name. It is the organ of the Virginia Automobile Club of Richmond, Va. THE QUESTION Hon H. R. Pollard, the very abl- City Attorney, had a difficult task in trying to show the Suprem- Court of Appeals of Virginia that a City Council has the power by ordi- nance to disturb a vested right and to nullify a Constitutional pro- vision. He said: "The court took occasion in this opinion to answer the stock argu- ment that to uphold the laws then in question would be to justify any type of freak legislation that might be proposed the court saying: "Counsel resort to conjecture concerning other legislation of this character which they fear might follow that now involved. It is suggested that the State might at tempt to regulate under the same power, the right of the races to work together in the same fields on factories, or to mingle together at all. A sufficient present answer to this is that each proposed application of the power is to be determined upon the circumstances under which it is sought to be applied. If it is arbitrary, unreasonable or oppressive, it will be denied. Nor is it a legitimate argument to prove a negation of power by showing wherein it may be abused. If it be conceded, as we think the fact is, that the ultimate object of this legislation providing separate schools for the two races was to separate the youth of each during the most impressionable and least responsible period of their lives and until ripened judgment and observation can have set them well in the safe ways of thinking, much of the dangers of the shame and distress which errors of immaturity might entail would be avoided." If there is danger of conflict, and of peril to the preservation of the purity of the race, where there is merely the brief and temporary and almost casual association in the schools and in the vehicles of public travel, how much greater must be this same danger where the relation is fixed and permanent and uninterrupted one of immediate neighbors on the same block. Coming now to a consideration of the cases which have passed on the validity of ordinances which segregate the races in their residences, we find that thus far there have appeared three reported cases on the subject: State v. Gurry, 121 Md. 524; B. C. 47 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1087; Town of Ashland v. Coleman, 19 Va. Law Reg. 427, and State v. Darnell, 166 N. C. 300; B. C. 81 S. B. 226. This opinion is of the "now you see it, now you don't" variety. It entails a mixture of public and private Boo rights and privileges. When a court to be by an open jane dixit nullifies a law lect or stipulates its operation it does ingrieve to cause a distrust of the js-auti dietary than any of the speeches of ed' the emancipation or damnageous could be do. From sitting extracts from the public United States Supreme Court City to a Attorney Defendant, extracts from the --- contamination of the opinions of honor judicial tribunals. But why discuss this phase of the subject longer? City Attorney Pollard knows that the City Council of Richmond has erred grievously in his action. The language of the Savior and the teachings of the Apostles and the constitutional declaration of our own laws, all join in proclaiming the rights of all men. The Golden Rule luminous in the Heavens and known of all men emphasizes the fact that no permanent peace or real prosperity can be secured by the oppression and persecution of a fellow man. --- THE ROOSEVELT VERDICT The decision of the jury in the suit of Hon. Wim. Barnes, Jr., against ex-President Theodore Roosevelt for $50,000 at Syracuse, N. Y., was not unexpected. We were of the opinion that either a lawsuit or a decision in favor of the defendant would be the result. The feeling in the country has always been that a man who engages in politics, even though he be as innocent as a lamb, and as pure as the dew from Heaven must be ready to be abused, vilified and misrepresented without appealing to law. It is one of the penalties of being in public life. That Colonel Roosevelt failed to prove that an understanding existed between Boss Barnes and Boss Murphy for the purpose of promoting crooked business goes well out saving. The evidence became so contradictory that His Honor, Judge Andrews, in his charge to the jury openly stated that the matter resolved itself into a question of veracity between Hon. William Barnes, Jr., and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. This made the issue drastic and based upon the relative standing of the two men in public life. It is not at all surprising that Colonel Roosevelt won. Mr. Barnes succeeded though in brushing to light facts in connection with Colonel Roosevelt's caper which will "drive many nails" into the latter's political coffin. They are happenings which cannot be removed for the truthfulness must be admitted. Col. Roemerelt's attitude in the case was not the kind to promote his popularity or to call him back to public life. His lefacing the jury, bantering the judge and delivering orations and stump speeches from the witness stand were highly improper and partake of the nature of the work of a demagogue of the "first water," while his shaking hands with the jury after the decision was rendered and later being photographed with them made the presumption of fair play for the plaintiff in the court over which Judge Andreas provides ridiculous. The strange attitude of one of the jurors and his consequent agreement shows, too, that the jury was below the average. We have usated that Hon William Barnes, Jr.'s purpose was more to 'kill off' Colonel Roosevelt than it was to secure a vindication. As the matter stands, the public has been made acquainted with the facts regardless of the attitude of a jury which has discribed itself and made its findings of a negative character wherever circumstances surrounding the same have been made known to an impartial, but critical class of readers. Colonel Roosevelt's son has set it will-require but a few more years for him to disappear forever below the political western horizon. --- Magistrate Wilbur J. Gelggs announces that he will not be a candidate for the Administrative Board. This will be good news to some people. We are pleased to know that there is something for which this champion of the Negro-haters will not run. He ran for City Sergeant. The result is known and another gentleman is satisfactorily discharging the duties of the office. He is reported to have wanted a pair of "dead men's shoes" but Justice John J. Crutchfield declined to die and they remain "live man's shoes." He ran for President of the Eagles, a reputable whiskey club organization and was elected and this seems to be about the only elective position that he will hold for sometime. He "distinguished" himself by "sentencing" innocent officers of the Leigh Street Memorial Church, including the pastor, to pay a fine of $25.00 each or serve in jail, when as individuals they had violated no law. The indications are that the present members of the Administrative Board, one and all, are for superior to him both in experience and intellect and that in running or discipling one of them for him would result in "confusion worth confounded." One thing in his favor is that he still has some common sense both, and he showed it when he declined to offer himself as a candidate for the position. To the District Deputy Grand Chancellors, Past Chancellors, Officers and Members of the Subordinate Lodges of the Grand Jurisdiction of Virginia: Pursuant to and in accordance with Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution and By-laws, of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights of Pythias and the action of the Grand Lodge at its last annual session, that body is hereby called to convene at Roanoke, Virginia. Tuesday, June 15, 1915, at 9:00 o'clock A. M. and continue in session until Friday, June 18, 1915. Each Lodge in good standing is entitled to one Grand Representative for each fifty members or part thereof. Every Grand Representative must be a Past Chancellor in good standing in his subordinate Lodge, Grand Representatives, who are attending the Grand Lodge for the first time should file a duly attested statement with their credentials, certifying that they are Past Chancellors and that they are entitled to the Grand Lodge Degree. All Past Chancellors desiring Grand Lodge honors must pay $2.00 for the same. All members of the Grand Lodge must wear a Past Chancellor's badge or jewel. These may be obtained from the Rekalia Department, Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson, Chief 103 West Jackson Street, Richmond, Va. Orders may also be placed with the Grand Chancellor. The price of Past Chancellor badges is $1.50. Lodges must have, paid all endowment taxes for the quarter ending June 30, 1915, and the emergency tax of 60 cents on each member in order to be entitled to representation in the Grand Lodge. They must also be square in the office of the Grand Keeper of Records and Seal and the Semi-annual taxes for December 31, 1914, must have been paid. Members of the order will come prepared to take the I. D. O. K. K. Degree. Special session will be held for this purpose. The fee is $1.50. The Uniform Rank will go into camp at Rasanoke and arrangements have been made to entertain the visitors. The Pythian Cadets will also be looked after. The Grand Parade will take place Thursday afternoon at 1:00 P. M. Companies from all over the State will participate. Board and lodging will be forished at the low price of $1.00 per day and the benefits derived from this trip will yield a rich return both as a health measure and the information obtained. Each Lodge will forward at once the names and addresses of the Grand Representatives to the Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, who will forward the name to the local committee of arrangements at Ronnoke. Reduced rates on all railroads. Let everybody visit Ronnoke. It is within easy reach and a short distance from the leading summer resorts in this section of the country. For further information address Sir John H. Fowler, 30 Fourth Avenue, N. W., Ronnoke, Va. Given under our hands and the Seal of the Grand Lodge of Virginia this tenth day of April, 1915. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. THOMAS M. CRUMP. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Q Rev. D. W. Hill, President of the Clifton Forge Normal and Industrial Institute, Commends. The Head and Second Walters' Beneficial Association of Atlantic City, N. J. Rev. Hill has recently returned from an extended trip North in interest of his school, and while in Washington, D. C., he had the pleasure of preaching in the Zion Baptist Church, of which the venerable Dr. Howard is pastor, also before a large and appreciative audience at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. Jernigan is pastor. He likewise had the privilege of addressing the Ministers' Conference of Washington and vicinity—attonance is dignified. Gospel exponents, with the Rev. Dr. M. W. D. Norman as Moderator. While in New York he spoke before a large audience at the Salem M. E. Church, of which the Rev. Mr. Cullon is pastor, and when in Atlantic City he spoke in the Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. J. W. Henderson, pastor, and the Union Baptist Temple, Rev. Jeremiah P. Gregory, S. T. B., pastor. HEAD AND SECOND WAITERS' BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION. Since the organization of his school in 1910, Rev. Hill makes an annual trip to Atlantic City in interest of same, and says: "I am personally acquainted with nearly every officer and member of this association and I believe them to be strong and worthy men, well trained for the vocation which most of them now fill, as head waiters, and who are not minus of those in their employ who may need at times the assistance through this benevolent association whose officers are as follows: George Emery, president, H. W. Haddan Hall. ANNOUNCEMENT GAINS The meeting of the association in the parish church will be the day of these meetings, and every man on it anticipates the political absence or has any reason for brevity or financial gain the matter to do believe lent services most needed. They visit in a body the various church on, fraternity of denomination or creed, and hand meetings at the Y. M. C. A. the 1st and 3rd Tuesday in each month. Through these meetings great power for good is accomplished by way of restoring their men members of the association and men enrolled as waiters—and causing them to live better lives. Even the wives of a great many of the men, have been influenced by such reforms, joined the church, and are singing in the various choirs. Mr. Plummer Days, head waiter of the Randolph, says that it was through his Sunday morning prayers and talks that three young men came to Christ and joined the church." NO GAMES IN HOTEL QUARTERS. "Each head waiter uses in his dining room the same system and style of uniform and pays the same wages. Besides each head waiter is kept informed just what goes on in other hotels, especially so when a man is discharged because of some disorder on his part. "This system enables them to get rid of the bad and retain the good; and much more so as Mr. Davis thinks who does not allow games of any kind within the hotel quarters nor upon his premises because he believes. It makes men rough and leads them to neglect not only their duties in the service, but their families as well—they must play outside, if at all. This system," says he, "enables me to manage my men with a greater degree of ease and can demand a greater degree of respect from them." EXAMPLE GOOD FOR OTHERS. "Mr. Davis is one of the strongest cat members of the association, and is not only treasurer of this great body, but holds same office in the Second Baptist Church of Atlantic City, to which he belongs, and in chairman of its trustee board: member of the banking committee of the Masonic Lodge, and that of the Star of the East. No. 6; member of Damon Lodge, No. 2, and Knights of Pythias. "His system and rules are aplenty examples for others in like service, for the most effective plans in one hotel are worthy of the best consideration by those operating similar service—a man who neither plays cards nor frequents saloons. "I most highly commend to the hotel brotherhood this association and its high, business-like methods." ITALIAN ARMY TAKES 3 TOWNS Invasion of Austria Encounters Only Feeble Resistance. ARE ADVANCING ON TRIESTE Torpedo Boat Destroyers Attack Austrian Deachment in Buso and Land Detachments of Men. Rome, May 26.—Official announcement was made by the war office that Italian forces had penetrated Austria, occupying Caporetto, the heights between the Idria and the Isonzo, and the towns of Cormons, Corvignano and Tero. The advance guard is said to be within twenty-five miles of Trieste. The statement says these operations took place in the Austrian crown land of Carniolo and in the Friuli district. It reads: "On the Carniolo front Austrian artillery opened fire against our positions without results. During the day of May 24 our artillery fired on positions occupied by artillery of the enemy. "On the Friluft front our troops advanced everywhere and encountered only feeble resistance. We have occupied Caporetto, the heights between the Iria and Issozo rivers, Cormons, Cervigmano and Terzo. The enemy withdrew, destroying bridges and also burning houses." "Our torpedo destroyers opened fire against the enemy's detachments at the port of Buso, and have disembarked troops. We captured seventy Austrians who had been sent to Venice. Our losses were one dead and some wounded." ("The towns of Caporetto, Cormons, Cervigmano and Terzo are in Austrian territory, of three miles from the Italian border line.") The ministry of marine has given out the following announcement: "A steamer arriving at Barietta reports that while passing near the prepository of Garganoe (in southern Italy) at midnight she sighted an Austrian warship with a heavy list. She was escorted by four torpedo boats. "This probably in the warship which was driven off from Barietta after having fired several shots." HISTORY OF THE PHOTOPLAY WHEN WE DISCOVERED "ON THE NIGHT BELOW" A Neil S. 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The New Exploits of Elaine will start Thursday, June 10th and will be shown every Thursday—Matinee and Night. Scars, who were brought to Venice. "According to supplementary information received, the two enemy aeroplanes which appeared over Venice dropped eleven bombs without causing serious damage. The fire from our defenses put them to flight. The damage to the railroad caused by the attacks of warships and aeroplanes in the early hours of the morning was unimportant, and already had been repaired. "The Austrian cannonade sank a German steamer in the harbor at Ancona." Although no declaration of war by Germany has been officially reported from Berlin, the rupture with Italy seems complete. Prince von Buelow, the German ambassador, with Princess von Buelow, the German ministry to the Vatican and their staffs, left Rome for Berlin. They were followed by the Bavarian ministers to the Quirinal and the Vatican and their staffs. Signor Zollai, the Italian ambassador to Germany, left Berlin. BURY DEAD UNDER ARMISTICE Turks Lease 3000 Killed in Two Days' Fight With Allies. The terrible losses sustained by the Turkish forces in the land fighting on the peninsula of Gallipoli is shown in the recent official reports from General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander-in-chief of the allied forces operating against the Ottoman troops. So great were the losses to the sultan's forces that they asked and received, on May 28, an armament that enabled them to bury the dead. More than 3000 Turks were buried, leaves in engagements from May 18 to 28. German 'Plane Lost in North Sea. A telegram received in London from Bernhard says a British destroyer arrived at that place following a German rapid treatment and mechanical fragments from a French prisoner, found docking in the North Sea. The telegrams has been破译 by engineer Daniel Oswald. After the Germans had been searched the telegrams came. closest correspondent: "The Rumanian government is negotiating with the allies. King Ferdinand has reviewed the army. Great enthusiasm prevails." Spain: Represents Australia The Swiss government has announced that it represents the interests at Rome of the German empire and of Havaria, and that the interests of Austria-Hungary will be represented by Spain. BERLIN ASKS TIME FOR REPLY TO U.S. Answer to LesItania Note Will be Friendly in Tone. MOLLAND FILES A PROTEST President Wilson Will Take Up Ship- ping Question With Great Britain When German Situation Clears. The following dispatch was received by the London Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam: "The German government, has notified America, for a further delay of a week in its reply to the note concerning the slaking of the Louisiana. In all probability the note will be delivered at Washington on Saturday. "It is caused in Florida that the note will be enclosed in friendly terms. Because of the recent Italian competition the feeling in Berlin regarding the United States is much more calm. Everything possible will be done to prevent British German submarines from to be launched in accordance with this policy, although the note will explain that an principle already not usually cited elsewhere was. The American government has given its opinion to Germany, promising to deliver the note of the United States." --- Ship Lusitania on May 7 5y-a German submarine. The contents of the note are substantially the same as that in the American communication on the same subject. The lives of several Dutch subjects were lost on the Lusitania. Believe German Reply Will Satisfy U.S. President Wilson told callers at the White House that he did not know the cause for the delay of the German reply to the American note on the loss of American lives on the Lusitania, but he assumed that the German government, for the moment, was absorbed in the new circumstances arising out of Italy's entrance into the war. Ambassador Gerard has sent several messages bearing on what the German reply may be, but no denials information has been received concerning its contents. The German embassy has made suggestions to the German foreign office for the reply, and in German quarters it is said the note will satisfy American public opinion. While declining to throw light on the shipping situation as between Great Britain and the United States, the president referred to it as a chronic case. It was learned that he believed a formal note at this time in Great Britain might be construed as a weakening of the American government's position in its delicate relation with Germany, but as soon as the Berlin reply is received some action may be expected. Pressure is constantly being brought to bear informally on the British foreign office and administratively to amassate conditions with respect to American carpets and tileds, and if there are not relieved clearly general representations of a broad character would not be considered. ll... _ eee ee ee eee jst 5 shh Oat 3 A gyre aoe Sa AR ee eee a eae ye BER A SN ad sae a oF wane 7 7 we ORE PEO One ike 4 ~ e ‘SP | ECE Rc hr " 17 MTN METROPOLIS | a en ee “cece ae W. P. Hayes Celebrates WH Foerth Ai — Trustee Pecamet Him WHb Gobd Watch a . Recognition of Bervice—Ralee Gree $48,977.00 Daring Foo Years—Grsduation Party Fo W. Lioyd Imee—Given in Hoao of His Graduation. From Unio Theological Keminary—Will Bem » Petition to Gov. Whitmas Agaius “The /Birth of a Nation—Ove Hundred Sign Petitios Agpainet Infamous Clansman—t W. Thompeos Mere. (Allen's ‘National News Qureati, 25: Went 6o'street) nn Cee | New York City, May 24, 1975. * One of the most creditable enter priser. in this city in the ; Young’: Book Exchange at 135 West 135th “Street, of which George Young. onc of the most enthustastie connoin scura of Negro Mterature, ts the pro prietor. ~ “At tho exebango may bevfound 1 completo stock of books smong thc HEE, Ment output of the most prom. font of the Negro authors of the race, It may be safe in saying tha: the ‘Young's ‘Book Emporlfm, hes tho most complete line hooks written by Negroes to be found in thia country; and Mr. Young 1s con, atantly adding to bia stock. Together with books by Nogro authors, there may be found a com: ‘Pleto Met of pamphlets and — post- cards of Negro subjects, and also Dooka written by White authors bear. ing on the Nogro question. The ex- change ia fast becoming the center of Information of Negro. achlore- ment in this elty. and ts doing reat deal to inspire confidence in the men and gwomen of the race in the city to toe the Iterature that ‘s produced by thelr own race. Practieally all of the best known, authora of the race,“ ike Dubols., Kelly Miller, Grimke, Booker Wash: ington, Reed, Scarborough, Dunbar. together with » large list of others, aro represented In the big list: of Negro writers found at the exchange. | Mr. Young, in talking with your correspondent, stated that it was! his aim in condweting the emporiun: to collect a complete list of books. of all the Negro authors, and to in- AUN {nto the race # devotion to tho Mtoraturo that tm the product of ‘the members of the race. "I am constantly, on the lookout,” aid Mr. Young, “for tho best’ books written by Negroes, and 1 am safe In saying that there are few, books in my collection: from Negroes Uist T have not gotten.” . Your correspondent visited the ex: change last week and was gratifed | in seeing such a well kept stock of dooks from ‘Negro authors. . The ox- change {s managed by Misa Minnic Brown, ono of the mont capable ant | business Ike young women. of tho | race. She Is enthusiastic over the | success of the enterprise and is « anxious that {t should develop into | an enterprise that will become the center of information besed upon : the Negro. Visitors to this city ‘ill do well to visit Young's Book Em- < porium and soe what the race has < done in the fleld of literature. Mr. Young ts one of the moat. conscien- t Hous men in the race, and. his new venture is @ dlatinct credit ‘to tho t sIvic pride of the race In this city. ¢ | } REV. DR. HAYES CELEBRATES “'t HIS FOURTH ANNIVERSARY. * oS b Rev. Dr. W.,P. Hayes, one of tho 3 post prominont pastors of this clty, i snd among the ablest of the preach: re in this country, celebrated his r ourth anniversary as pastor of the fount Olives Baptist Church with 4 ervices held throughout the day an u unday, May’ 1. i tu ‘Daring the four yéars as pastor n { this church, Dr. Hayes has done puch towards making for the effl- A tency of tho church'service and hao jr nade the charch a center for “race y plift in this city. The anntversa- w y nervices brought“to a close a.re- 7 narkable year's work of the pastor. a: nd the fnancial reports, together | th the’ reports from the various a epartments ‘of the church, ‘indl- {a ated fine progress for the pastor th pd bis-congremation.« =” The loyalty of the congregation of nd friends was een in the large th umber of people who attended ph ach of the. gorvices during the m 7S -,tth In the morning Rev. Dr. C. 7. at falkar, of Acgusie, Ga., and lor th ar yebra pastor of thé church. ‘eq reached and. the Rev. Dr. at rk Credit, of Philadel nin, Pe. pregebed ta the evering ‘tp pecial. services were beid by the to iuday Bebeol, witch to one of the of cut Souriing, departments | of wi @ chereh. y supertatendent, ‘me enter Rérman. gave o brief at wes tn which be natiined the bs ep cy of the Sunday Gebesl. WN. Bru sdoen, reprenmiting the! Concord mx ne also made on. ad on ons. LY. P.O, on egvacy vi as far the meval’ te a at @e,be pe cape rr rl . ane . mer ied me rege Fay ee. ae venoms Ex, Sires Fe. seo, Ui: a pasos ainies om Mayes relative te preg: bee waleed $43,277.60, een. te ae rere ot Wee a year. ‘We has preached 1 femerala, married 11¢ couples, and preached 556 sermons. Bince coming, to thle city Dr. Mayes has been one of the stromg- jest forces for good im the commun: ity. He takes a Keen interest’ to jalt matters pertaising to the gener- jal good and welfare of the race. He ts well traingd for hia life's work and bas had: large experience. Ho is & graduate of Bennet College of ‘the theological department of the Virginia Union University at Rica- mond, Virginia. Before coming tu this. chy be was formerly io stractor im public speaking at that institution. Dr. Hayes In in sympr- thy with M1 young men who strive, and he nover fails to give encour- agement to all young men who givo evidence of character and purpose. He is one of tho ‘beat informed men. in the race on matters of current interest. Dr, Hayes {s splendidly ansiated in his work: by his amiable young wife, Mra. W. 'P. Hayés, who ix m youu woman of the highest accomplishments, She is one of thy most popular mune teacbors in.the elty. . GRADUATION PARTY FOR . W, LLOYD IMEs. Last Wednesday morning a grad- uation party in honor of W. Lioyd Imes, who was the only colored man 0 graduate from the Union Theolox: cal Seminary, was given at the res: dence of Mra, W. P. Hayes, of it1d West Fifty-second. Street, ‘The af- lair wan an enjoyable one, and a pleasant group of friendx of Mr. igjee was present. Those who were resent Included "Dr. WP. Hayes, Mrs. Imes, of Detroit, Mich., motit-| x of Mr. Imes, Mra. Stowers, als> t Detrolt,who came with Sire! mes to De present at tho Rraduation xercines of Mr. Imes, ‘The evening war picasantly spent vith games and with a plano sels |. ion frqm' Mr. Imes and Mrs. Hayos.’, uring the senior year of Mref mes at the seminary he was orKa: |; at and cholrmaster at the Mount ‘| Mivet Baptist Church, and. ont of ’} ecognition for his services In de-.j cloping the choir to a high atace!, f efficfoncy, a committee from the | hoir last Tuesday waited upon bim | nd presented him with a veautiCul ' Wer medal, The committer, that ‘alted on Mr. Imes was “isses Em- ‘g im Wise, E. Peart Boyer. Mrs. Le: | t Beaman, and Mrs. Frank - Wal: s ce. 1 Mr. Imen graduated tant Tursday | vening. A party consisting of Mra. |) nes, Mrs. Stowers, wife of the. well + nown lawyer of Detrolt, Mra. s ". P. Hayes, Miss Grace Frank aud J ins L. K. Walker attendedthegrad- ¢ iting exercises. Mr. Imes is ove - the “toost intellectual young men.» the raco, and Is highly accom: § ished. He ts a. aktifall musician. o ois a graduate of Fisk University 1d came to thin city three ‘years i and entered salon Theolontes! minary. He has been called to G © pastorate of the Presbyterian 9 wurch in Piminfleld, N. J. He will ty ake good in hia field, and hin xrad: j) tion ‘ade a splendid addition 5 © younk Negrosministry sl : te COND PETITION TO GOV. ° AGAINST CLANSMAN, | ni In a few days a petition of thre> if ndred of more names will go up Governor Whitman of this state | fe testing againwt the further ‘con: ge wance of “The Birth of a Nation” | 23 this city. Some of the leading ‘ag ieena of the'raco bavo signed the ition, and st fs hoped that’ this 17 ited protest on the part of the tre gro in this city will go a’ long Bs $ to influence the chief executive. ev this atate, ‘The petition wae cit- en ated by Cleveland G. Allon, the wc “spaper correspondent, who has wi: cn a keen iotereat in tbo matter fn bringing about = presturo gainat he ala ever since it opened ta the . Son dr. Alten haw protested openly ia ha theatre whore the §lm play, ban- on Tom Dizon's Clansmaa, bas wt “pach a long ru. On Saturday, tea y 15th, the Ulansman colebrated ha 160th performance in this city, sot ch terminates a three months’ ae el ‘his infamous play has gone on for ying the protests of the leading bu! » and women of both races in to city, together with tho leading tng apapers of this city. his he National Association for thi ‘Gre ancement of Colored Peoplo led of he protest against the infamous I , apd at the protest meetinx. tea ch was held tn the reception este n of the Mayor, the lea ling mon I + ‘women of both races in this F (were present and denounced in tea had auch » Jong rua, On Saturday, May 16th, the Ulansman colebrated itn 160th performance in this city, which terminates @ three months’ run. ‘ ‘This Infamous play has gone ov defying the protests of the leading men and women of both races in thie city, together with tho leading newspapers of this’ city. The National Association for thi: Advancement of Colored Peoplo led in the protest against the infamous play, and at the protest- meetiax. which was held In the reception room of the Mayor, the lea Jing men and: women of both races in this city were present and denouaced in strong terms the film play as an fnaceurate and unjust description of the Neg7o's history in this country. ‘Tom Pixon. who has made tho statement that he meent to driro the Negro out-of this country br showing this infamous film has made himesif the mughing stock of the entire coyntry. His record shows that be has failed at every. thing that Be) has attempted. sad st eeourred to iim that he would trv his hand at misrepresenting the Negro. Web micorable mist ani: ihe job he hes aesamed of trying ig arive coy tom mpiion Negroes ont ao ined they ive help to make wit be o stgper task fhan be can mene. < ‘Tem Dace te = veritable disturt- wef Ws pence, 0d Be will con ran hg sence. ‘The O\rnemas hse wet wich, eter rowcetions f= orery” ce watts, end ic ao end vedots anil curtain iss. x muntey satuse te det it | . Gasty cities. “ ' te tii oK 7 mnt i way bed the vias gag gh yen hi tee eake “the toe Be Sarre woe Se SE ‘aes ee aa ieee er ote os : st ‘qarensuyes sod incgir ate yeaa Sess, ary eat mate feta. aa es: Ceagthy en: W matters. He ‘te & eemecientions writer, and seeme 42, Mave one obiect, and thet te to Pat the best foot of the race ¢ th 1 His mission to the Metropelia was to cover the Itenerary of Dr. Wasit- [ington through this city ‘on Sunday. IMag 16tH;-amd which Je doubtless read throughout the ‘hation.~~~---- He keeps an eagle eye om Tus kegee. and bis news items descrjd- ing Tuskeges life is" familiar, to cpaaers, Of Negro newspapers. * ‘Thompeon was a respectable mem- ‘der ‘of the Washington party and be met with reception from Bis friends here. Then axain Thomp- json is & gentleman, with a fine ap- proach. and with « good study of ‘Buman naturo that comes from his Tong contact with men and things. Your correspondent recognizes ‘Rt. ‘W. as one of the finest personalities In'the newspaper fold.. sy CLEVELAND 0. ALLEN. pcklnisiealimna 1 lett Columbia at 1:20 PLM. Jon the Cannonball over the Soush era Railway for ‘Newberry, 3.. C. arriving ‘there abput threo o'clock I went to Rev. Kirkland’s and h ‘at once took me to Mre, Boyd's where I was comfortably cared for durirg may stay. : I knew few people in Newberry. but had sever stopped there. Pasn led om soveral occasions. 1 bad met Mr. T. A. Willams, avery prosper ous and bighly respected citizen. I met Miss Virginia Williams and ater’ called at the home. Mr. T. 4, Williams. tho esteemed father of Mins Virginia, ts one of the leadinz lelttzens, not only of his native city. but of the race. He has filled many Publle positions with credit. Is gq officer of the “Baptist Church at JNowberry, He ts a very fue farmer. His farm’this year consists of | 29 acres of wheat. 75-acres of cora, 200 acres of cotton, dairying and atock raining. Qne ‘of hts sone, Mr. J. B. Willams. bas charge of the dairy and fs making ‘quite nm sic- eens. Ws ‘The family consints of Mirage Sta: rin, Carrie, Virginia and Mins Maude D. Wiltama: Messre, RE. Wil ams, T..A. Willies: Jr.. J. B. Wil- Mame and parents, Mr. and Mrs. 7. A. Williams. T. A. Williams, Jt. Is at school at Cheater, Pa. : Me. William fs in Kood' clrewmn- tances. He ts worth betweett 70) and 89 thousand dollars, Hr lives at home and board at the same place. Mrs. May Williams. his amiable wife, [a a Charlestonian, While at Newberry ("met the Misses Birdie and. Ethel Simmons. Mins Birdie taught tn Alken county hin year and makes heracit quite agrecable. J also met Mr. and Mre, jones, members of the Baptiat) Choir. Mina Entelle Simmons te @ wtudent st Henedict Colloge, Columbia, 8. ©. She and Miss Carrio Williams. both af Newberry, aro greatly admired by he studenta and -faculty of the cal- exe. Miss Maude D. Willfama !x . Mont oxecllent teacher of the City iraded School. She teaches — the rimary grado and in a mont excel- ent teacher., She controls her pu- Mle in a most agreeable manner. Mr, Benjamin EUls n graduate of haw's Memorial. School at Charles: on. S. C., conducts a fine tauloring | stablinhmont at 337 Maxwell Ave- we, Greenwood, S.C. He also con- ucts a pressing and cloaning bus-| Neen and does frat clase work. Mrs. Hf, C. Morris, a teacher of al “w year’ experience, conducts a: eneral merchandise business at 30 Hackett Street. She {x quito|! grecablo and doing a fine business. |! During the week commencing May 7 Rev. T. M. Borkin bergen a pro-{? acted meeting at. Morrin Chapsi |? aptist Church. On Wednesday ontng he preached quite an inter-|! Wing sermon, using ae a text tho ords, “What she I then do th Christ?” Rev. Boykinn is a| 1e speaker and easily: interests hia] arers Taino met Dr. J. G. Stuart, who|? Joyn-a fine practice. At-the tim |" | wan not feeling 20 well. * te I apoko at the City Graded School here I met-the pupila and. tao } achers. Professor V. ‘H. Heard |© » fone much good work in tbin|* nool. He {an untiring worker. | , veral years ago gC visited tho] ool and he outlined his plans |S r the erectioa of a-moderp school | ¥ MIding. And today I am propared ‘say One of the finest brick build. |™ g school houses in the State 12/8 3 forthe colored children of eenwood, 8. C.. He ts very proud the building and teachers. B I met for the second time hin | © johera, who aro very much inter-|'? ed in the growth ot the school. | ras sorry to part with them. ‘| , Professor V. A. Heard, principal. | 7 chee Sth and 10th grades; Misa |t0 la Duckett Sth ‘grade; Professor |? B. MeDowell 6th qrado; Miss Ju-| 7. Gray Bth grade: Mrs. Barah J. Iman 3rd and’ 4th. grades; Miss nton Logan. int grade and Miss S nae Hill tnd. iS Mrs. Matale J. E. Johnson Rice {ot natruetor in music at her Mm. i ) was preparing pupils for coms |™- neament when I stopped to 32C on Hackett Street. She was {iia e instructor in music at Allen |S versity, at Columbia, 8. C.’ ee Mr. Sam Bradley keeps a first- we aboe repair shop ca Main | et. He doce first clase work: | is very obliging. I was sled |™ weet hiss. Teqched Laurens on Thursday st |: wy o'clock over the C. and W. C1, topped at the Prankits Hote. |>™ rene te quite a besieess Ike a.’ There are many colqved mon restores. : 5 vistted the T. R. and W.'P. Gar pene bestpees, wih en 0th og 07.000. Their 4 oomt $2,980: Bs. ie) wy pienmmat ned — To ton pla Sam AT. z u L Papers ramen mao. ane PS, ts TERS gee tan RE Be You WantanUmbrelia? 1} Well, here it is. The Hull Bros. Umbrella Company will guareatie them. — The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it-into your ‘3 traveling bag or trenk without injury to the Umbrella. We have ordered a ; consigament ef/these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent ually ha Twenty-five Dollars worth of Umbrella Coupons entitle you'to one Um-' § : -brella, lady or gent.. Specify the kind you want and we will send the Umbrella upos receipt of the Coupons. 4” tae a . How To Get One. 4 -.. 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. Wedo 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... ‘ 4 : ~ 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 : Te to The Planet Office and get.a Ladies’ or a Gent's Detachable Handle 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. emp eS SS - THE PLANET __ ||BRELLACOUPON!- 311 N. Fourth St. Richmond, Virginia | -G0Q0 FOR 5 CENTS , Phone, Randolph 2213 The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. jwith the surroundingy. 3fiss Ros: B. Suber In also a. meimtdr of thy | faculty. Mr. 1. L. Cleveland ix a harnen maker and also repairs whoen If, has a nice Mttle buxiaess, He i polite and obliging. Mr. Cu. O'Dell vain in trun jand vegetables, He maken hith own cream, He has a fine family an} enjoyn the confidencs of the com munity. Mr. W. P. Gray conducts a shoe repair atop. What church do. you Visit hero? I natd. Tie ApoAtte church’ was the reply. { very tnuch enjoyed Lis company. While in Laurens [ met Mr. Franklin, pro- prietor of the Franklin Hotel, iix son and daughteers, Misses Lilliaa. Winton, Josophine. Evelyn and De ra, Mr. and Mra. C. A. O’Doll and Mr. C.A, O'Dell, Jr. Mrs. Torense, Mrs. Wililams, tho Misses “Garrett, Professor Saunders and daughters. T reeched Spartanburg on Frt- day, at 4 o'clock P.M. I went im- mediately to the parsonage of Mount Maria Baptist Charch of which the Rev. Dr. James S. Earl tn pastor Here 1 met Mra, Abble Earl, her Meter, Misa B. Fant, little Ruth, the baby Abbie and Dr. Karl... Rev. Earl was ut the eurch hav- lng the yard loveled. He hax one of the finest churches in the 6iate, and t# doing oxtra one. T called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Young. on | Liberty Street, Mra. Young is teaching In the graded school. Mr. Henry Young. who is a first class brick masop.‘lald'the first and last brick ga the Darlington Court Houre a! ilington. 8. C. I met Professor. W. E. Parker. principal of the high choc] at Edgefield, 8. C. He ts a graduate, of ne State College at Orangeburg, S. 5. He fe succeeding nicely. While in Spartanburg | met Miss jeasic McDonald, clerk at Dr. Sex- on's drug store, Dr. J. W: Bexton, Profesor R. M. Alexander, Mise 1. . Reeder, Mrs. Hattle Keith, Miss oulse MeDaniels, Miss Clark. T'vigited Cowpens, 8. C., 08 Sun. | ay, May 23rd. Spoke at Methodist | shurch Sunlay A. M. On accomnt f weather did not speak at Bapttat church." Waa nlcely treated at M. | ). Church. a ‘Met Minsen Bertha [.. Garrett, Jus? m Roberts, Liltian Garrett, Mr. C. Davis, Mr. Simpeon Mack,. Mes fe. George W. Woods amd’ son. eorge, Teet Martin, James Cole: < san aad the merchant Mr- AJ. § ttlejohn. Mies Bertha Garrett < pade herself quite useful. 1. call-.} d mt ber home and met her: moth. (1 y, her brother and niece. ‘At 1:36 P. BM. I left for Sperina-| “Rapeceieny, ’ 7. . EB WEBSTER. ae 7 FOLLICURO. ‘ A. Great Discovery. Applied under a Patent: Method. Stratghtens and srows long b-tr on the htais of Colored Peope It Grew Thit Head Of Hutr in Fifteen Months Write for FR&E particulars, proof, pictures, testimon- inls, addreeses. Price 60 cents, $1.00, $1 $0." By.Parcel Post. Ordort day. wee “Radio tierdo Romedy Uo. 52 Brondway. Now York. worshipbed with ua. Elder Red tan wan on the roxtrum at he morning norvices and offered pra er, The Lord was surely in His holy plage. The Doctor's subject, “Living for the day or for eterni. ty Matt, 16:25, “For whoxoever wit save Bis fe shall lore Hand whosoever will lose iin Ife for My sake ball find it." If was a master. lece. * ‘At 2:20 the Sunday Schon! con- yoned at {te usual hour. Offcors. Superintendent Walliam Roberts and toachers. Tho lesson wax gone over briefs, ae there wan baptinm to fol low. The wife and son and son" wife of Brother, Nathan Johnson were Immerned. At & tho Reverend was again nt his bert, ax it was our communion, vaing Matt, 26:20: “Now, when the evening was come, He mat down with the twelve,” and well did ha ell it tw a crowded house, Trovidence Baptist Church ts taking on now life. The hand of fe": lowshin was given to three. Coller: tion was food. ‘Onr people have the gleanera in. hand to he returned the 4th Sunday In June. and they are working, for dear life, at which time wo aro ask ing for one hundred dollars. Rov. W. R Mapley loft Sundar for his appointment at Blvemont. Mr. and Mrs., Hall. of Roun? FHI, camo to town yeatorday and will return Monday. Mr. Jobo Ellis, of | Washingto.. was quietly joined In wodlock ear- y last woek. Notwithstanding the nigh cost of living they will matzy. Mr, ‘Charlee Jackson and Mr. fiu- la. Washington, of Washington. vis- ted friends in town Sunday. ‘The -citizens are asked fo look ter their lots this week as therr rill be @ grand parade Monday. the Hat, to decorate, 7 = We are sorry to know that Mrz. snorge Helms was detained at home | janday with a awollen foot. One | { the faithful ones, she came -on | er. cane at tight. Where there Is rill there te way. Weld | WT NORTH FIRST STREET ((oerweon Bread & Mashed Sta.) Bidets Served At AN Moure- Pine Gervies at Low Prices. Cot and Soe Mo and Bo Ganetessé. - Som yur Comps ml ot wm FOR RENT! POR RENT: eee ee ee a ee 1: aa The attention of tho public is called to tho tact that tho Ssmari- y tan Hall, at the corner of 6th and r- Duval Streets has beon thorodghiy renovated’from top to bottom gad - mado a strictly modern up-to-date 2, hall {n every respect. To this end, wa 4 ato offering to the public, to socie-; ¢ ties, lodges, beneficial clubs, social |. parties, to all persons and organiza- tions who desire ad orcellont plate, ,[to have ovenings of pleasure and| entertainments, the privilege ot , Fenting rooms in the Samarctan . Hall, > _ These lodge rooms and the main- Shall which In used for entertain. » ments, are for rént at strictly mod- ern ‘prices. We aro ready and pre- 1 pared to serve the pudltc along this| . Une, Let us have your appliitation. > For fall tnformation Cee st the office of State Grand Lodge No. 6. 1. 0. of Good-Samaritane and D. of ;" Samaria, at tho ‘corner of 6th and | Duval Streets. Addreas all comma: ' nications to J. W. THOMPSON, Grand Secretary. BUILDING COMMITTEE.. J. N. MYERS, ISHAM MANS, W. H. HATCHER, 7 Mrs. M. J. WASHINGTON, MRS. F, E. DAMMELL, —o-— . THE CHRISTIANSBURG STATE _ SUMMER 6CHOG1,', Cp Im The Moentaing. © 1 It’ you are planning to attend: Summer School. why not g9-to a ‘place where there is comfort *-as weil as profits The month of July t« hot and at- dest studying at most places is a burdes...At Christians burg. however, on the top of the Bine Ridge Meuntates. two thous and feet above the esa, study be- comes & delightful recrestion. - ‘The faculty Ime been cerefully chosen and it fa the most competent Driacigally 0 review cubjects upen witch teachers will de amanthet. ond the STATE, REAMINATION will be Reld.at the alese of the Ber Hotes ave ronseushis. Fiat chum =x a . oe @! | == Le . yr a We Train the Heart and the Mane 5 BS Go To THE Re Me ay Industrial e . ‘wi Union — RRR nstiture ssn ureter Soke Wonca e ae Fresigeak ®. 0-Ben, 108 Sevtnocn Finesse : * |S. W. Robinson | ; ; and Son, Inc. } «Dealers in HIGH GRADE.LIQUORS: | 19 and 21 North 18th Street | Richmond, Va. . ‘Phone, Randolph’ 2313 ce Ne EDW. STEWART 203 SO. SECOND ST. Richmond, Va. Dealer in Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats, Vegetables, 1Fish and .Oysters. “Phone, Madison 1637. rseeereseooscocss SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BEOIN JULY 6, 1915 AT THE (vemeamy 2.'a0 m, cosas) AND CONTINUE FIVE WEEKS. ‘strane, Aseres, 2) BtLvOnS im cdvange. Adtrems, J. i. Diruaser Ret Cuma Salsal, Gracey bere, H.C. Re ” -Ja8.B, DORLAT; Pesmmawe. | “WELT LIBEL SUT Returned Condidonsl Lerdict Fo Former Uresident: Which Court Hofused to Roceite. Syracune, N.Y. May 21. Eleven men of the Barnes Roosevelt Jury orally recorded today their betfet that Cotonel Rooerveit “was justided in attacking “Willlam Barnes ats boss and placing Mim in thie) same eategory with Charies F. Murphy. | The rematuing Juror is x0 ut Convinced. Colonel Roosevelt regards the sult up cto date ax a diatinet victory and ix Jubilant, So deen hin law: gers John M Bowers. Willan Barnum and Hears F, Wolff, all uf Harner’s legal battery now tn Syre cane, are dimppaintesl, fut noncen moittal $ The Jury ike MUL ont, And thert in a disquieting possibility that tf tt de wth) deadlocked, Justicn Andreas will Jock ft ap over Sunday. This owerver, a merely a possibilty. Regotring Ivas than sis hours Gr select, the twelve’ men have now spent more than therty houre 31 fruitless werangllug, Aud thete de Iberatians may rua inte neqrly (we falt dayn. They were, given the cane at $ O'clock Thufreday after: noon Unters a sealed verdict 1 returned after midnght, they whl hot leave thelr quarters in the coun. ty Jail CL they are called to report at 10 90 o'clock tomorrow mornin STOLIDLY BAFFLING PURPOSE, : TO FIND FOR BERESD SSS" A red-taced, heavy-set troliey rie torman with g bull neck and a de- termined Jaw ix locked fn the jnty- room at this writing with —sleven other men‘ and stoligiy’ baffling, their purpose to Gnd for the defend: ant. Hin name ix Edward Burns. He {x a Republican. He han always been a Republican. And he te not the kind of Repubtfean who Minch: ex or falters or in Nebtly disnunded. When the jury came -in this af. ternoon Mr. Burns had agreed to a verdict. But it warn not a regular verdict and the court declined to reeelve It What the jury. through Foreman Warren W. Somers, reported wax tha “We find for the defendant and suggest that the costa he divided between the defendant and the plainug.” Now enated a commotion The defendant, eager to convey in xome manner to the Jury that he card nothing whatever for the costs {ft he could only get the verdict, Tean- | ei over and whispered to hin Inw- 4 yers. i Mr. Rowers apraug up and mov: | ef that the jury be instructed that ‘ the partiex ta the action would ! stipulate ax to Conts. 8 This motion Mr. Barnum. for ° Barnes. violently objected _to. ‘ ‘The Jnatice held that no such In structions could be properly fneucd, and Mr. Rooaevelt. much disap. © pointed, xank back Into hin chatr. t ‘The conta in thin particnlar ac on amount to $300. It was, there 1 lore, the desire to make Mr. Roose relt’ pay $150 that actuated Mr. ! Burns In refusing to come Into the ‘old. 5 After denying the motion, Juatice } Andrews gravely Informed the jury © hat $t could find etther for the Ge 5 endant or the plaifitif! without any * ugKeRtion as to Coste, ia ‘ JURY AGAIN 15 I LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT.1" The twelve men withdrew to veal on with Mr. Hurne, who had gone! he full limit he was willing to go! chen he added the suggestion about ' he cost to his finding. They rea: !! oned steadily till 2 o’clock, when ™ be juatice went to hin home. They ! ontinued to reaxon untt! 5 o'clock, © rhen His Honor telephoned to the * aI to adjourn court and lock the. & ury up for the night. N “Raa, judging from aubdued ounds that came through tha thick rails of the Jury room, thery.were ™ easoning yolubly.up to midiitght. 2 bat the arguments of the udited be levon &ad°made no vent in the de 2! rmination of the lone obstruction. * ‘t wag shown by Mr. Burne’s mes- axe’to {hfe‘tamily to rend a clean hirt‘for his use when he goes {nto Ri he courtroem tomorrow morning. {8 The first tidiaga from the: fury pom came at 16 o'clock this morn- 1k {0 = seribbted ‘note to the . jue- jee. The foreman, im this mibsive, aid the case was peculiar, and that jx pe Jurymen needed advice. It was w timated that s private comteremee, n: on the justice would be appreciat- in S 5 bi ‘The justiceordered the twelve ro jen into court Amd told them that =f Fequest could act be comptiod th 2 oF te seek bits oF parte th t the evidence you may have of yam.” bo and. “bet aN Ynctructizas te at be given ta ae eoert.” V. rouse ©. SRR 8. pe ne » Warm W. Sinee 6 ‘uA Reh WL TERE Bn ot ae eee apkced thet thay by’ gt jon 8° mere tiene. * “The twelve men filed sciemal, out. Cotemel Reonevelt. watches . Jp three quartery ef an hour the; were beck again with their impos ‘aidYe: verdict... € Whea this had been rejected Goniers held 2 whispered: confereao with Walter Zuill, a Progressive and -manufacturer.- * Can we have fa rising vote. Your Honor?” he asked. “The clerk itll poll the jury.” replied the Justice. his FOR “DEFENDANT” UNTIL BURNS IS CALLED. Charles Clark, the court * clerk, solemnly*fegan to. call the roll, while the room “besame” suddenly hushed, and even Colonel Roosevelt ant motionless, Mr, Rowers's pal- ler, which had beon marked in the morning. left his face as man after mun announced “for the defendant and the defendant.” for whgm ten men found Burns's: namo wax call- ed. chirked up amazingly. Burns's name was next to the lawt, Hin face was perfectly tmpassive. In a doxged yolce be announced “for the plaintit.” and resumed bis eat. Tho Justice looked the Jurymen ver searchingly. an {f to determine if there was a posstblifty of ao prreemicht. Thon bo, sont: them pack to consider the matter further. Quietly and with dignity they marche! out, while apectators anid uwyers. and defendant buzzed, with xcitement. vAt Lo o’cluck temerrow mora: hg Justice Andrews will Coiivena ‘ourt. though ft fn net his cueturr hold court on Saturday. Then, n the event of a continued —dini- rewment. he may dikmina the fas yor he ity lock hem up over uiniday There were no reports from the nryroom tenteht = The twelve wen talked continuously. but they ent for ne evidence or eahibite and shed for no furthet Instractionn, Shortly after 11 ovelork the Jury as locked aye for the night fi the Al durinitery. Rielinond ‘Thins: nepateh BARNES GURY IN DEADIOCK: TL PLEASED, an == Members Locked Up For Night At fer seven Hour Disctinaton,, ). Skene? May 20 The Jurs in the cane of Willian Barnes against Theodore Roosevelt will report te Justice Andrews at 19 o'elock Uo morrow morning. “The Jury wan unable to reach a verdict ufter seven hows und twa: ty minute of deliberation, and was locked up for the night at U1 WM. in accordance with Juntien Ae Arewe's tnatructions Masolately no hint came — from the Jury room an to the tate of thelr minds, bot I wax anwumed by law yere interented tn the cane tt a lung argument had falled to. pto- duce harmony. As one lawyer vapresird it “They probably fund themselves Ged up from the start by a polit cal raw ; RUMORS ABOUT JURY. There was a yrumor running through the, corridars af the Court Honse that fifteen ballots had been taken without materially changing the Hneup. There was another rit mor that ve of the Jurors had net themselves determinedly axatnat re- turning a verdict of any descriptton for Mr. Barnes. But thexe flying talex had no substantial corrobation and were accepted merely fn nck of definite news. : It wan one of the quietest Juries that ever retired to conaider a big case, No volcca were ralsed fn ale tereaflon. There was no buzz of argument. They talked in whit pers. 1 ‘ Jt was not unth a fow minutes before 11 A. M. that 10 wan certain they could not come’ to an agree ment tonight at all events and must bes lacked up for the night. Nt that time Juror Warren W. Soimern called a meanenger bor and sent home for a night shirt. A few minutes Inter deputy sherttts turned the key af the dormitory whero the Jury will spend the: night . POLITICAL TANGLE SUSPECTED. Inability to agree after more han seven hours doos not neceakar- Hy Imply they will not be In agree ment by 1 o'clock tomorrow morn: ink. but st inclines counsel to think unt the Jurors have snaried them- clvex in a tangle of political coa- roversies from which they are not Wkely to extricate themsolves. It Ix more than probable that If hey tell Juatice Androws tomorrow morning that they have not been ble to agree ho will send them ack to deliberate until tomorrow ight. This in the opinion of coun- el_on both sides. Rumors and indications of » com- ete deadlock hve clatod the voosevelt aide and’ have correspond: ngly depressed the Barnes side. SECRECY ENJOLNED. | 2 . Junticn Andrews djamieeed the ary at 3:49 o'clock this afternoon rith the admoaltion that they must 10 reveal the natere of’ their fad. ngs until they are brought before ist at the opeming of court tomor- ow morning. : He thought it best to require hem (o deliver a costed verdiet. Fhe complexity and fusperteuee of he case made ft undesfrable te give hee the 7] ea { wal .verdtet « ew hears of % dd cemine oteges ente dow, ine} sept inet won sabe ae al Tosca 3 Yohei Sanat a ‘after the: oahay Caen Ole 6 tn the ‘hands -of thaty |] When the Parew wan: fom. Ome of them. "it the: could take She recend Of the cae into tbe fury room, Jastinn An ]atews smiltngty refused the request They withdrew. thea, but returns ja few miautes before § o'clock when Walter Zuill, a Progressive ‘asked an astontehing question, AN ASTONISHING, INQUIRY. “WHHL your Honor refer to that part of your charge in which you requested us not to give auy’ con: sideration to political — preferences or prejudices;" asked Mr. Zullt. |, From the fact that Mr. .Zulll put the question and front. the manner of the other jurors toward him ft was aurmined that he had been chon- en as foreman. Justice Andrews looked a little startled. He had dwelt most em- phatically in his, charge upon the Imperative neceshity of. dleregarding polities and oonxidering only “the evidence In the case. He bad told the Jurora , that they woul be false to thetr.duty if they per- mitted their deliberations -to be Unged by politics. Nothing could have been clearer, more emphatic, than tbls part of the charge. “{ berdly think it ts necessary to go: back to that.” he replied to Mr. Zulll. “IL should have thought that my tnutructlonn were perfectly clear... The furore ‘ooked doubtfully at one another for a moment and then filed ont of the court raom. Jutice Andrews then formally adjourned until the mornthe. The care went into the hands of the fury after Mr. Ivins In the morn- ink. had delivered a masterly addtess: and Jutice Andrewn, in the afternoon nad arrayed the factn and recited the jaw ina charge Of absolute. clearuces nnd incontestable fairness. HEART OF TVBNS'S ARGUMENT, The heart of the argument made by Mr. Ivins wan that Theodore Roomvelt notofloun for looseness ot ongue, bad come to consider himself] above und beyond the law and bad {oliberntely, maliclounly and fully ied Mr, Hornes up to shame and] Haxrace becatee Mr. Barnes bad th etfered with hin political ambitions}, Mr. Ivins wan very careful. how ver, to fusint that politien! mattersy: hoult have no Gearing on Che sult nd that the jury must regard it}: x an iasue between man and men.) Mr. Iving spoke very quiett). J, ery deltherately, He sektomt ene), loyed invective, He seldom at], reaned Cotonet Roosavelt direetly.|, gut hiv wit played over the Colo vl'n career and over the evidenced, Ae a neareblight, revealips overrt, sconnintency, avery humorous court radiction He ridiculed the contention. madef, y Mr. Bowern that, the Colonel}, luat not be sauinhed, but he ius], “onaved to guide the nation. He, ‘usted at “the mighty Nimrod whol, ame roaring to the stand.” He; meedat Roosevelt's eelations wlth], ttt it He asked the jurors If they 1 mult Imagine George Wanbington]| f Abraham Lincoin, to whom 1 otonel Roosevelt had -been con] ured by Mr. Bowers, doing a thing) ‘ ; unjust and malicious ax the at{| ek on Mr. Harnes, ‘ And with great subtiety, keen 4 ie nnd ounfaiting memory — ae] WEL ty riddle the evidenced | calnyt Mr Barnes's public and] vate acts ‘ f 7 THE ONE ISSUE. c Mr. Ivinx {nalated that Colonol}f jonevelt had but one Idea. to “KITT arnes.”” and that the one Issue mie e case wan the matter of veracity|é tween the two men. He Inninted]t at Tarnes had every right to bel ¢ Moved and that Colonel Roosevelt] Kht not to be expected to be be-l't ved. * a . 1 The charge delivered by Juatice idrewn received inatacit praino|y sm practically every person whols ard it. It wap devotd of meaning-|, x (to tho layman) technically races. . It cut through the tangled, con-|, wed evidence and found Ite way]} aight to the ensential points in- lved. The main point of the}, ole charge in that there ts only], e complete defenco to 2 sult for], el and that {8 proof that the ac-}, ations are true. P The only matters susceptible of vof. in Justice Andrews's opinion, |y ro that Mr. Barnes bad a corrupt] , reement with Mr. Murphy to ' ng about cloction of a Democrat-j , Senator in 1911 and that Mr. 5 rnes received campaign contribu. { “Tl was a little surprised,” he said, ‘when towards the close of hie address Mr. Bowers forgot his function aa a lawyer and went back to the landing “ef the Pilgrims. Oratory ‘je destructive to reasentas, as a'rule. Mr. Bewers's appesi Wes wet an appeal te rensea, & wesn't am appesi to the evidence in thie cane, What has the future use fetness of Mr, Reesovelt or of Mr. Barnes get to do with this cage! “This to a case between -syeq wed mas. I plead oth you fo Glamis aft that irom, roe mints. ‘Tite. te wee 2 poche? et or agtion st lew. What tas soo, fort r~ ry. i —- ra , P ‘ BE ee a Le ~ Gs bs BY bulb ath Gah aati phe 1M - 'NORING COUPON. wd . (GOOD FOR 15 VOTERS.) . AMERGAN NOTE GOES TO BERLIN Safety of Amerians, EARLY EPL 1s EXPECTED Carrying Non-Combatants = Must Cenve—Monetary Reparation Foi Lusitania Victims Not Mentioned. Tho United’ States sont to Germany & bote protesting agalost the sinking of the Lusitania, with the loss ef more than 100 American ‘lives, and othe violations of American rights on the bigh voss, . Aster three days of preparation by President Wilson, with the assistance of hiw cabinet, the document was finally dispatched. A copy of the note was delivered to Count von Bernstorf, tho German ambassador, by the state department as a courtusy, and copies wero similarly cabled to “the Amert can ambassadors at London, Paris and Petrograd for thelr own information, In Sue quarters frlendty to Gen many the Impression provailed that the Berlin government would accede to the Amorican demands, but state its expectation that tho United States would ondeavor to secure (be unre stricted yssage of foodstuts and con-| ditional traband consigned to the civilian population of Germany. Although.no mention {s understood] to be madé as to tho time when a re ply is expected from the Imperial gov: ernment, the belicf is that tho Ger, man foreign efMce, realizing the state of feeling in the United Btates, wil? answer promptly. ; ‘The note does not say what steps will be taken or what course will be pursued in the event of an usfavor able reply, but indicates that the Unit: ed Btates will spare no pains either by diplomatic representations or oth erwise, to obtain an acquicsceace io ite position, _ ‘Tho principal points in the Ameri cain note are as follows: The United Statos government calls attention to tho various incidents in the war zone proclaimed by’ Germany aroemd the Iiritish Islos; the sinking of fhe British Miner Palabla, with the loas of Leon (. Thresher, an Ameri can; the attack by German airmen on ihe American steamer Cushing; the lorpedoing. without warning, of the American steamship Guitlight, fying he Stars and Stripes, and finally the lorpedoing without warning of the Lu: sitania, with {te loss of more than s thousand lives of non-combatants, among them more than 100 Amert cans. } These acts are declared to be indo fensible under international law. The United States points out that it never admitted Germany’s right to da them, aad warned the imporial government hat tt would be held to a “atrict ac gountability”* for attacks on American ressols or lives, A strict accounting heeafore, im:now askéd from Ger | many. Expressions of regret may comply | with the legal precedonts, but they sre valucloss unless’ accompanied dy | cessation of the practices endanger | jag ves of non-combatants. The right of neutrals to travel any | polnt of the high seas on neutral ‘or pelligorent serchantmen ts adserted. 1p tho namo of humanity and inter | pational jaw, the United States de mands @ guarantee that these rights will be rospocted, and tbat there be no Tepetition of the attacks on mer chantmmen carrying non-combatants, ! ‘The giving of warnings to the Amer | an public’ without officially commu: 3 skating them to the United States ' government’ is commented on in coa- | nection with the German embassy’s printed advertisement before the sail- § ing-of tho’ Lasitania, but irrespective of the failure to advise the American t poremment of Germany's parpose, he point in made that notice of an tection to do as unlawful act uelther Justifed mor legalised it. The suggestion te conveyed that ue German goverment of cout peal not have Intemded to destroy fr. accent lives, and that consequently § be German submarine commanders mot. bave misundervteed their te wetuctions. The Americas soverameat ° aticsten its hope that this will be ° wend to be tree, asd.s cessation of as _sijawfol , peactions thereby will: * a Conclusion, Germany's attention’ e called to te eurmestncas of peremment and peapbe ot the United o Males in’ this ‘giemtion Tt ts made s Hala that the Used Wate ai beara, ¢ mthing: uadowe eijier in dtztematie’ p wprventaiions ot edher action t ob £ min a complianss hy Germany te the & quests made. : : See va, becined “tame = minsrine Cd eaesity al Veewote a. i] 1 or Gmspee. tm pet te Ges MS MB ae wilr be dealt with, the anacwncement says, according to the ruler, of naval werfare, If Reutral ships are soct- dentally damaged in the war xone, Germany will express {te regrets and pey damages without prise court pro- coodings. ALL EYES ON HIM, —— President Wiisen at Desk, Where Me Presides Over Cobiegl m | | ‘Peete © by Amertenn Prove Aasediation SS ‘The German government justifies its submarine- warfare on the grounds that England {s threatening to starve the civilian population of Germany by prohibiting neutral commerce in foot- atutts aod other necessaries. In previous communications Gex many has disclaimed responsibility for any barm that might befall nes: tral vossela venturing into the war tone. 5 a Dirigible For U. &. Navy. The navy has bought tho first dirt sible alrabip, under a fywatract whfob Secretary Daniels approved. The abrcraft will bo made by the Connecticut Alreraft company, of New Haven, Conn, which bid $45,636.25, and ts to bo delivered within four moaths, The dirigible ts dosigned to.carry eight men, will-de 175 feet tn length and 55 fect in helght, will have a gas capacity of 110,000 cuble feet and « speed of 26 miles an hour. Tho last caval appropriation bill ap- propriated $1,000,000 for aeronantics. Last week the depactmegt received two bydroaeroplanes from(he Curtiss company. Escapes With Bank's $700. | The police of Scranton, Pa, are eearchiag for = young man who took @ bag that contained $700 from the Scranton Savings and Dime bank when one of the clerks was not look- ing. The man engaged ‘the clerk in conversation on the subject of open- tng an account. On the clerk's desk stood the bax of money. When the clerk turned his back to attend to-an- other matter for a monient the visitor took the bag. . \ Mix thousand Armenians have been massacred at Van, in Armenia, Ast: atic Turkey, according to a dispatch Tecetved In official. quarters.in London from the Russian cousal at Urumlab, Persia. ‘This measage is dated May 15. It adds that the Armenians are defend. ing themselves to the utmost against the Turks and Kurds arrayed against ‘them, Dut that help is urgently needed. Lusitania Survivers Wes. 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The idea that any man is above the law is something I cannot imagine any man considering. "Is Theodore Roosevelt beyond the reach of the law? I cannot see that he is. He is as much within the law as you or I. When you go into the jury room you go there forgetting that you are Progressives, Republicans or Democrats, and only remembering that you are jurors trying to do your duty according to your oaths. "I suppose that in the latitude that is allowed in addressing a jury I might read to you a quotation from Emerson or a passage from Homer or a treatise on some form of religion. Methodist. Episcopal or Catholic. I might read to you a fairy tale and, indeed, there is one fairy tale that I shall have to tell you, or rather explain to you, for it was brought into this case by the defendant himself. NO MAN ABOVE THE LAW. "No man is above the law. Thomas Jefferson was at one period of his life in financial difficulties, but he did not say that because of his position he was above the workings of the bankruptcy court and Daniel Webster did not say that because he was a great statesman there was no reason why he should not pay his debts. "I plead with you in my function as a lawyer to dismiss all that from your mind. This is a plain ordinary lawsuit. It is not a political controversy. I say again Theodore Roosevelt is not above the law and I ask you to not be moved by the glamor of his record before the public eye. "An attack upon a man's honor is like an attack upon a woman's chastity. One attack is bequeathed his usefulness is gone. He cannot live with his fellow-men. He is an outcast and a parish among them. He must fight for his honor as he must fight for his life." "Mr. Roosvelt has done remarkable things in the history of this country" Mr. Irvins continued. "Breaking away in 1912 from the organization whose fortunes he has advanced and which had advanced his fortunes he yet had influence enough to take with him nearly 450,000 of votes. "An attack from a man of such power is an attack which must be met and grappled with or the subject of this attack must sink down into ignominy and to moral death. "Let us assume that a man who has rendered able service to his country has a habit of calling every man who does not grow with an idea will be taken to loke in the community. Suppose that this great personage through plague over a trial of political supremacy in which he hasn't been the victor characterizes in this way a man who has been his friend with whom he has associated and taken counsel. "Is there anything for this man pilloried as a modern Benedict Arnold, to do except to ask a jury of his peers to determine whether or not the truth has been spoken concerning him?" "Let me consider the conversation with Franklin Roosevelt, who says that Mr. Grady told him that there was an arrangement, between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy, of Tammany Hall. Now that was evidence on which you wouldn't kick a yellow dog, but this defendant, credulus and inexperienced as a child, tells you that he implicitly relied on the story, told him by Mr. Roosevelt about what Mr. Grady had to him. "The court is obliged to receive this foolish evidence in a libel case. He cannot exclude it in account of its possible bearing on the question of malice and on the state of mind of the defendant." Mr. Ivins then proclaimed, to take up the issues of the case and the circumstances under which the alleged libel was uttered. He read from the article complaining that the bosses and bipartisan bosses rule and he defined the term "boss" as commonly used in politics. BOSSISM AND CORRUPTION. "The word has come to imply and carry with it a meaning of disheerable, dishonest or mutinous behavior," he said, "and the term deportment has rule means that the two human growth sides the instructor of the people have combined together for their own wrong, curvature and scathed ends. "The question here is, has an instruction given to a business and institution been proven to cause there are also which. If the instruction we should call every "In this country we would declare that the people here are in hand, the constitution shall be respected by public government." "We have here the distinct con- stitution of invisible government, of the dominance and alliance of Mr. Murphy and Mr. Burnen, the form- er and his sub-buses added and eluted by the latter and his sub- buses." "Who in this country has the right to appeal to his fellow-citizens in regard to the moral character of men, to set up his own standard of morals and to pronounce the condemnation of those men whom he attacks to an audience comprising millions of readers?" THE NEW CLASSIFICATION. "Well—all Gaul is divided into three parts. And American history is divided into George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. "Can you see Washington or Lincoln, making an attack of this kind wantonly and maliciously up on any one? Colonel Roosevelt has put Bolos Penrose and Thomas Platt and Mr. Barnes behind him, although he suffered their presence and accepted their counsel for a long time. "And now he has made a new classification — George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. He allows these great figures from the mists of the past to beside him." "Gentlemen, the whole country hasn't gone to the devil because the Republican party or Mr. Roosevelt was defeated and Mr. Wilson was elected." COMPARISONS DRAWN. "Mr. Barnes regarded Mr. Roosevelt differently from what Mr. Murphy did. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Roosevelt had been closely associated. They had been friends for years. Mr. Murphy and Mr. Roosevelt had never been closely associated. They belonged to different political parties. "Mr. Roosevelt knew nothing whatever about Mr. Murphy whatever personally about Mr. Murphy. He could destroy Mr. Barnes's honor. His attacks on Mr. Murphy could carry no more weight than his attack upon any other stranger and outsider. "But" the hand of William Barnes's friend who wrote this paper—and Mr. Irvins held it aloft—and it was the voice of his friend that proclaimed "I wrote it." With the roar of a mighty Nimrod he said it. He meant to kill Barnes. He meant to set himself up as the arbiter of opinion. He meant to dominate the Republican party. "If the statements made by Theodore Roosevelt in this paper are true its utterance is justified. The truth cannot be a libel but no man, high or low, rich or poor, has the privilege to lie. "A libel is an action for a lie. If a statement cannot be proved a lie it is not libel. This very eminent defendant has come into court to urge a very large number of circumstances in proof of what he has said. All but two of these have been ruled out of the case, as the court will charge you, so far as justification is concerned. "But besides justification there is mitigation—evidence bearing on the defendant's power of mind. If would have you believe that he was harmless as a doe and that he was harmless as a dog and that he was completely influenced by articles in magazines and newspapers which he had previously declared to be not only unworthy of credence, but enemies to society. THIRD TERM CANDIDACY "Before leaving the White House in fact as soon as he had been elected President--Colonel Roosevelt had declared that he would not be a candidate for a third term. He went to Africa after his term was over and became a mighty hunter a great Nimrod, and then he returned and settled down at Oyster Bay to await events. "It may be that the insidious hand of the third term was knocking at the door of his mind. If that I do not know, but I do know, as we all know, that when the Stato convention of 1910 came on he jumped into the fight, defeated Vico-President Sherman for temporary chairman, made Ellihu Root, a proven member of his own cabinet, permanent chairman; forced the nomination of his own candidate for Governor and absolutely ruled and dominated the party as not even Thomas C. Platt himself had ever done." Mr. Ivins reviewed the history of the Senatorial deadlock of 1911. "If Mr. Barnes, as a powerful leader, had wished to cary out a compact with Murphy and elect Mr. Sheehan," he said. "it would have been the simplest thing in the world. All that he would have had to do was to persuade eighteen of the legislators to remain away one day from the session." That would have elected Mr. Sheehan. But Mr. Barnes, the contrary, had ever Republics to remain at his post, saying that "every Republican who stayed away would mean that the Democrats would need one less vote to elect their Senator." "The time came, however, when it became apparent that the Republic loans in the Legislature had an other duty besides voting; for Mr. Dupew. A special session had been called by the President and there was danger that the great State of New York would be without proper representation in the upper house of the national Congress when great questions of vital importance must be decided. REFERS TO LOEB. There is one witness in this one whose evidence, if you believe it, can be taken in justification. This is Mr. Leph. He has told you God at the time of the Baptistian ministry, in coming away from a prostitute at a Wall Street office, Mr. Leph carefully and subtly instructed him to him his discovery and his confirmation which he had made in the office. He answered. several gentlemen who were of great business and who knew even that is occurred at a date for subsequent to that mentioned by Mr. Leach." Mr. Ivins touched lightly upon the printing matters, deciding that since the court had ruled it out it was not necessary for him to refer to it. "Mr. Barnes, like Benjamin Franklin, is a public printer," he said, "and like every business man he desired his business to prosper will now take up the question of the capability of the parties to this action. You have from the plaintiff on the stand. You have noticed his manner of testifying—deliberate, careful, hesitating at time, in order to be sure that he was giving no wrong impression and making no mistake. "And xou have seen the defentant. When he was called to the witness box he sprung at the chair as if he thought it was going to get away from him. He talked with his feet and his hands and his head. He stood and confronted him. He shouted. His entire attitude showed the manevolence with which he entered this case and with which he has carried it on. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. "Mr. Roosevelt has told you that he bore with Mr. Barnes for many years because he believed that in him were the germs of two characters, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. "He twice appointed Mr. Barnes to a Federal office as the Dr. Jekyll, but it was Mr. Hyde that he sent for when he wanted the Agnew-Harte bill defeated and when he sent William Barnes, to Albany to get it defeated. "I don't believe I ever heard of a meaner or more contemptible art that is the resident of the United States who is for man and ordered him to get certain legislation defeated and then urged as justification for the charge made against him that he had worked against that legislation. "There has appeared in this case evidence of the defendant's turns and changes from the very beginning. You have seen how he throw off his allegiance to his native State for the sake of a slight pecuniary saving. You have seen how he violated the oath taken by him upon his election to the Presidency not to be a candidate for a third term. You have seen how year after year he snatched at power." Justice Andrews delivered the charge at the opening of the afternoon session. He spoke only from notes. The charge follows: "I have been charged with the law as laid down by me if I am wrong. I may be corrected in another court." "To publish falsely any charge, which tends to injure the reputation of another, and so expose him to public shame, treason, and disgrace is wrong. To do such an act is libellous. The intention is immaterial. The object is immaterial. "The most honest purpose in the world will not excuse such an act, if you run over and injure a child in the street you are liable for damages. Good intentions do not excuse you. Precisely the same rule applies to your actions. "Nor does it make any difference that the person so charged is a public official or character. He is not an outlaw because of that. You may criticise him for his acts, but if you state facts falsely you are unable to damages. NO QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE "In this case there has been some talk of the question of privilege. In this case the law as to privilege is not material. Put any question of privilege entirely out of your minds. So, I say, if the defendant publishes charges concerning another, charges which tended to injure his reputation and expose him to disgrace and ridicule, he has committed an unlawful act. "There is but one defence. That is truth. If the charges are true there is no libel. You have the right to publish the truth concerning any one. The truth of charges is a complete answer to a complaint but the duty of the defendant making the charges is to prove that they are true. In a criminal case a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. Precisely the same rule applies in civil law. Innocence is presumed. So there is nothing peculiar in the law of libel as regards this matter. "When the court rules that an article is libellous per se, when the court rules that an article contains charges that tend to injure the republicans, the court has plainiff has to do is to put the articles into evidence and then rest." TWO COURSES FOR DEFENCE. "Two courses are open to the defendant. He may admit that he has done wrong. He may admit his published libel. Then the jury determines what damage shall be awarded to the plaintiff or the defendant may attempt to prove the truth of the charges, and if he succeeds he has made a complete case. "If he choose the latter course he offers evidence in justification of his act. Justification may be offered of the whole libel or a part of it. A man may be charged with being a thief and a murderer. The defendant may prove both charges and the verdict must be in his favor, or he may prove that the plaintiff is a murderer and in that case no damages may be awarded. "As I have said, the burden of proof, so far as justification is concerned, is on the defendant. He is bound to satisfy you by a fair prowonderance of the evidence. I do not much accustomly the more burden of witnesses on one side or the other, but that when you have considered the testimony there must be some reason, it must not be much, of sufficient truthiness in favor of the constancy of the party on whom the burden rests. When the defendant has prove the truth of one or more charges the plaintiff is moved to the defendant by evidence. When the defendant has not justified a false, when some damages must be attained when the jury is satisfied that the libel was published with actual malice and with reckless and wanton disregard of the plaintiff's rights, the jury may accuse punitive damages, damages in the nature of a fine, to prevent a repetition of the offence, to punish the defendant for the wrong he has done. "The jury may consider the question of malice. But in this question the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. He is bound to show recklessness or wantonness. The defendant must not be presumed to be innocent, not to be wronged or reckless. Malice is a state of mind. It must be shown by circumstantial evidence. "Direct evidence is impossible. And that is the meaning of a great deal of the testimony in this case, evidence bearing upon the defendant's state of mind. The plaintiff may show quarrels between him and the defendant, other publications than the article complained of, anything that tends to prove that the defendant was actually malicious. "The defendant may offer in evidence anything that tends to prove the non-existence of malice, friendship for the plaintiff; that the occasion of the publication implies no malice; that he had heard from others the matter of his charges, that he had read them in papers and reports. "That kind of evidence is called evidence in mitigation. It simply bears upon the question of how much, if any, punitive damage shall be allowed by the jury. "Evidence in justification raises the question if any damage should be awarded. Evidence in mitigation raises the question of how much should be awarded LIBELLOUS PER SE. "I have held that the article in libelous per se in two regards. It charges w corrupt political alliance between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy in regard to the government of this State. It charges that Mr. Barnes worked through a corrupt alliance between crooked business and crooked politics. All else is immaterial. You must fix your mind on these two charges. The only question you have to consider was the article true path regard to these two specific points." "I have held that the word corrupt does not necessarily refer to illicit pecuniary gain that it is not synonymous with venal. It may mean a departure from fidelity, an unfaithfulness to a trust. Giving the word that meaning is it true that there was such a corrupt alliance between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy?" "The more fact that upon certain occasions Democrat and Republicans voted together, it support of or in opposition to certain measures, even if advised to by the plaintiff, would not be sufficient to show that the plaintiff was corrupt." "Take the Harte knew race track bill. Mr. Barnes had a right if he thought it proper, to argue against it and force Democrats and Republicans to vote against it. As regards direct primaries legislation the same is true. He had a right to support or oppose the election of Alda. He had a right to oppose or support measures advocated by Gov. Hughes. There is no evidence in the matters to support the charge of corruption. SENATORIAL INCIDENT "But there is some evidence on the subjects that I submit to you. That evidence relates to the Semi-toral situation in 1911. If Mr. Barnes as leader of the Republican party agreed with Mr. Murphy as leader of the Democratic party that he, Barnes, would keep the Republican legislators steadfast in voting for Mr. Depew, not for the purpose of benefiting the State or obtaining a more useful Senator, but for the purpose of giving Mr. Murphy a free hand, then I say, there is prima facie evidence. You may find that such an alliance was corrupt. "So, was there such an agreement between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy, and if so, was that agreement corrupt in the sense that it showed disregard of duty by Mr. Barnes as the head of the Republican parts?" Justice Andrews reviewed the testimony given by William Loeb, Senator J. Mayhew Walright and Franklin D. Roosevelt that Barnes had admitted a corrupt arrangement. He mentioned the editorial written by Barnes which seemed to be consistent with the admission. That substantially was the defendant's case upon the point. The Justice then called attention to the facts that Mr. Barnes had denied the existence of an agreement that Barnes had testified that he never knew Mr. Murphy, that Barnes had instudied his letters to the Republican leaders in the Legislature as negating any possibility of an agreement; that Barnes had testified to talks with Francis Lynde Stetson and with many legislators, and that the testimony of Senators Elon R. Brown and Edgar T. Brackett would tend to show that Barnes was really endeavoring to keep up a factional fight in the Democratic party for the best interests of the Republican party and would tend to show that when Barnes finally made up his mind to combine with the Democratic influence Barnes faced the power, attributed to him by Boconnell, to bring, about such a conspiracy, to Justice Andrews recalled that Mr. Loeb's testimony had been challenged by three witnesses and that Mr. Loeb had come back on the stand supported by Senator Ogrenheim to reiterate the truth of his statements. The issue of veracity was a fair question for the jury to decide. "The second charge," continued Justice Andrew, "is that Mr. Bryan worked in silkies between employed business and employed petitions. Two classes of silkies were allowed in jurisdiction. Our group then got allowed to borrow money on the particular situation in silkies. 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. Value of Votes Send 2 Months Subscription, 25 cents and get 15 Votes. 4 Months Subscription, 50 cents and get 45 Votes. 8 Months Subscription, $1 (X) and get 135 Votes. 12 Months Subscription, $1.50 and get 225 Votes. For each back paying subscriber or money paid into the office, a Vote will be allowed for each cent paid, whether advertisement or job work. THE COUPON WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PAPER. THE PLANET. 311 NORTH FOURTH STREET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "You remember that I held that there was not enough of it to justify this particular charge. You have heard that evidence. It may be more or less in your minds. I say it has nothing to do with the case. If you permit it to influence you will be false to your duty. "There is some other evidence I have permitted in justification. This consists solely of conversations alleged to have taken place between Mr. Barnes and Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt says they took place. Mr. Barnes denies it. Mr. Roosevelt says that on various occasions Mr. armer stated to him the committee would receive explanations from democrats and republicans under an implied agreement that the private business interests of the contributors would be protected in the legislature and the executive departments of the government. "Of course a Republican has a right to contribute to the political party to which he belongs and has a right to contribute to the opposition party if he believes his own party is wrong. The same privileges applies to a Democrat. The same privileges applies to the Republican nor to the Democrat has the right to make contributions in exchange for pledges expressed or implied that his private interests will be protected contrary to the public good. ISSUE OF VERACITY. "Mr. Roosevelt says that Mr. Barnes admitted that this was precisely what was being done, and that because it was being done Mr. Barnes endeavored to change his (Roosevelt's) attitude and action as Governor of the State. "On the other hand Mr. Barnes denies that contributions of such character, were made or that he ever made such admissions of such a character. "We have heard a, good deal about political history. All of us have political views of one kind or another. But we are not here to be influenced by anything save the evidence in this case. "If you allow yourselves to be swayed by passion, by prejudice, by friendship or by deference, by anything except or by wisdom, before you, you would be just as false to your duty; just as unfit to sit on a jury as I would be if I allowed my mind to be swayed by anything except the law. "I don't believe that you twelve men, chosen as you have been, will consider anything but the facts as I have committed them to you. Make up your minds fairly, honestly and justly as to the truth in this case. I would like to have you consider it amply and thoroughly. It is a case of great importance and is entitled to thorough consideration." Justice Andrews informed the jury as to the nature of, verdicts they might bring—"We find for the defendant" or "We find for the plaintiff in"——dollars. He dismissed the jury after Henry Wolf for Mr. Barnes and William H. Van Benschotem for Colonial Rosevelt had entered certain exceptions to the charge and had obtained or had been denied certain supplementary charges dealing with details of the evidence. We print Pamphlets. By-laws Books and all kinds of printing. K.OF P.PROCLAMATION To the District Deputy Grand Worthy Counsellors, Past, Worthy Counsellors, Officers and Members of Subordinate Courts Greeting: The Grand Court, being required to meet at the time and place of the assembling of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, I hereby call the Grand Court, Order of Calamity to meet Tuesday, June 15th, 19th, 17th and 18th, in the city of Ranok at 16:00 o'clock on the morning of the first day. Each subordinate Court in good standing is entitled to one Grand Representative for each (600) eligible members or part thereof. Every Grand Representative elected must be a Past, Worthy Counsellor, standing in his subordinate Court, attending in his subordinate, or attending the Grand Court for the first time should file a daily statement, certificate, that they are Past Worthy Counsellor. All Past Worthy Counsellors designing the Grand Court Degree must pay a fee of $1.50. All members of the Grand Court must wear a Past Worthy Counselor's badge or jewel. These may be obtained from the Regalia Department of the Order, Mrs. Harriet E. Thompson, Chief, 104 West Jackson Street, Richmond, Va. The price is $1.25 each. Members of the Order are invited to visit the sessions of the Grand Court. Reduced rates will be available on all railroads. Board and lodging will be furnished at $1.00 per day. All delegates and visitors will send their names to this office or write to the Office of John H. Powkies, 30 Fourth Avenue, N.W. Roonoke, Va. for assignments. The names of the Grand Representatives will be sent to Miss M. L. Chiles, 114 West Llegh Street, Richmond, Va. Let each Court send a representative, in order that our session may be one of the grandest in the history of the Order. Courts must have paid, the Semi- annual tax for December 31, 1914, the Calanthe Relief Fund ending April 1, 1915, and the Endowment tax ending June 30, 1915, in order to be entitled to representation in the Grand Court. Given under our hands and seal of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe, in the city of Richmond, State of Virginia, this tenth day of April, 1915. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Grand Worthy, Counsellor (Misa) MARIETTA L. CHILES, Grand Worthy Register of Deeds. BIG LOSS'IN SHIPPING 460,628 Tones of British and 214,468 Tone German Distorted Thomas J. MacNamara, parliamentary secretary of the admiralty, announced in reply to a question in the house of commons that 460,438 tons of British shipping, other than warships, had been sunk or captured by the German navy since the outbreak of the war. Mr. MacNamara added: "The number of persons of all nationalities killed in connection with these sinking is approximately 1664. "The tonnage of German shipping, not warships, sunk, or captured by the British navy in May 15, is 814,668. So far as known, not one German or neutral subject has been killed in connection therewith." JUDGE TERRELL A BANKRUPT Robert H. Terrell, the only colored judge of the Municipal Court of the District, filed a petition in the District Court Thursday, asking that he be adjudged a bankrupt. The cause of this step, as stated in the petition, filed by Attorney John Ridout, is given as follows: "The judgment and many claims listed in this schedule grew out of suits against me as a former stockholder in an unincorporated joint stock company, known as the Capital Savings Bank, which closed its doors in November, 1902, and for whose failure I was in no way morally responsible. The judgments are now nearly twelve years old, and under the statute would soon be outlawed. Some of the owners or them threaten to renew them against me by further actor." In court me, an attachment has already been sold and oil one of them. Up to this time the court does not appear to have been any effort to collect any of these judgments from the dozens of codeendants. Judge Terrell lists his liabilities at more than $13,000 and schedules assets not exempt under the laws at $75.50. Washington Post. May 22, 1915. ALBANY. N. Y. (First Disciple Baptist Church, Monroe Street and Sheridan Place, Rev. A. A. I. Davis, Pastor), Albany, N. Y., May 18, 1859, May 16th, at 11:45 A.M., our services were well attended, some strangers being in our midst. The pastor was in his pulpit and as usual was sacred to his trust. His subject was "And I will power 'unto my two witnesses.'" Sunday School convened at 1:30 P.M. with the regular order of services. Our school is growing and we have new scholars each Sunday, Sunday, 7:45 P.M., our pastor put forth an effort to please his hearers as never before. His subject was "Death in the Pot." He treated the subject in his usual way bringing out the most important facts. Owing to the inclementity of the weather in the evening and the sermon of the Moses at the Hamilton Street A. M. E. Church, our crowd was not as large as usual. On Saturday evening at 6:30 P. M. Sister Anna Van Duzor entertained Sisters Lena Johnson, George Lewis, Brother C. E. Lewis and Miss Clara Van Duzor. Mrs. Daniel Dixon of Upper Troy also entertained Sister Lena Johnson. Covered were for fifteen. Sister G. Lewis, of Albany, G. T. and Sister Anna Van Duzor, P. M. N. G. Sunday, 7:30 P. M. the annual sermon was preached at the Zion A. M. E. Church, Troy, Rev. Taylor pastor Brother De Frank was master of ceremonies. Opening prayer by Sister Anna Van Duzor, Household 294. Sister Lena Johnson . of Auburn. N Y. D. L. M. N. G., was making a tour of the State on an official visit last Wednesday, the 5th inst. She met with Household of Eith. 294, of Albany, also her Associated Sister, George Lewis, G. T. After the transaction of business, and all the sisters met her and gave her a hearty welcome, a beautiful repast was served at Odd Fellows Hall, on Green Street. The Troy. Household. 8274. en- closed the D. M. N. G. very lavishly. (First Disciple Baptist Church, Monroe Street and Sheridan Place, Rev. A. A. I. Davis, Pastor). Sunday morning our services were well attended, having in our midst quite a few strangers. Our pastor was feeling in good spirits, and he took for his subject—"He said unto me again stand. I pray thee thee, upon me, and slay me." I Samuel 1:39. Since we have received our new books, our singing is just grand. As we are strictly Baptists, we have Baptist Hymnals. Our Sunday School convened as usual at 1:30 P. M., with all the officers and teachers in their places. We have an increase every Sunday, both in elder folks and children. We have also received our new Sunday School singing books. At the evening service we hardly had room to accommodate all that came. Most of the congregation were strangers. The pastor was excellent. His subject was from those words: For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Isaiah 28:20. Sunday, May 16th, Mr. and Mrs. Agus Overby, of 2 Congress Street, entertained at dinner Rev. and Mrs. A. A. L. Davis. On the 1st Thursday evening in June the Missionary Circle of the First Disciple Baptist Church will give an entertainment. Come one, come all. Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, of 11 Congress Street, is quite sick, and her baby son, Johnnie, is on the sick roll too. We pray for her speedy recovery. Mrs. Fannie Cook seems to remain about the same at the Albany Hospital. Mrs. M. Overby, of 9 Congress Street, is also indisposed. Mrs. Mabel Jackson Buttrum, who has been confined in the Homoeopathic Hospital is much improved at this writing. She has a fine baby girl. 0 FARMVILLE NOTES Farmville, Va., May 24. Since your last issue we have the results of some sad occurrences in this community, among our people. A young man of our town was given six years in the State's pres- on for attempted rape on a young Woman. A young boy just fourteen years of age, was given fifteen years in the penitentiary for attempt of rape and five years for attempt to kill a girl 10 years of age. This latter case was one of the saddest I ever saw. The child was badly bruised about the head and face. I saw years in the case of one of the jurors while he listened to the testimony of the child. Mrs. Margaret Weber, of Elk Street, who has been a long sufferer, died at her home today at 6 P. M. The First Baptist Church was bright on Sunday morning, with many faces, students and teachers, just returned from the various institutions of learning and teaching in the district schools. Our young people are now taking an active part in church work, more so than years gone by. We anticipate them a bright future. They are told by our pastor the success of the future church, in a great measure, depends upon what they are, their environments and etc., development of their spiritual nature in accomplishing the good work destined for the Christian Church. Many of them are beginning to realize that they are to be the leaders of "tomorrow," and they can see, from observation, the necessity of the leadership of the future church passing into better hands. Much has been said concerning the paper read by Rev. R. G. Adams at the General Association of Virginia, at Lynchburg. Subject: "The General Association; Its Ideals." Most especially that which refers to "The Baptist Headlight" and "The Unity of the Brotherhood in Virginia." The K. of P. add Courts of Calanthe looking forward to a great meeting of the two grand lodges to meet in Roanoke, June the 15th. Mrs. M. C. Adams, Saille A. Hughes, Mattle Allen, Lillie Brown, Bettie Brown, Ida Bolling, Adline Dean and others are expecting to attend this meeting. Rev. R. G. Adams expects to be present at the Grand Lodge and represent this district. FROM WEST POINT Rev. L. W. Morris returned home Monday, from Yorktown. He preached at Shiloh Baptist, Church Sunday. Mr. John Stubbs left here Friday for Trenton, N. J. Mr. George Edward fi, Jr., is visiting in Newport News. Mr. Howard Patterson and Miss Janet Pellard will be married Wednesday, May 26, 1915. Mr. Lee Walker arrived here Sunday from Burbank, Wyoming. The Magnolia Club will run an encampment Drive here Monday, May 81, to Gapbookshop, and have a pleasant trip on the water as well as enjoy the school closing tomorrow. skill with brunchits. Mr. Maly. Waltke has been suffering very much this week with his throat. Mr. William Wilkins left here Sunday for Baltimore. Rev. Charlie Brown was a guest of Mrs. Angie Wright Monday. Miss Euphrates Coleman is improving slowly. Mrs. Clarke is still on the sick list. The Boy Scouts 'trained to Richmond. Tehy left here Sunday and returned Tuesday. Sunday was Mother's Day. It was largely attended. Collection was $20.00. The program was fine. BASE-BALL MEMBERS OF ALL-STAR EASTERN (COLLEGE NINE The past season for Colored Colleges was not as good as expected. First, Shaw failed to play any Association teams, and Hampton played only one, Virginia Union. The aggregation from Lincoln was a very small improvement over the representation of last season. Howard surprised every one with the weak squad she produced, the large number of errors made in both the Union contests was inexcusable. Virginia Union, the champions, lacked coolness and confidence at Hampton, costly fumbles resulting in defeat. At Howard both pitchers went wild when freely hit. Hampton has the best team in the Association in many respects, defeating the champions twice. There is no doubt that Daniel, of Union, is the best second baseman in the league. Not only has he a perfect fielding average for the year, but he has a more formidable record with the stick than Williford of Hampton, his nearest opponent. I place Hall, of Union, in left field, for he is the fastest and at the same time the surest out-field or in the league. He is not afraid of making errors by accepting the most difficult chances. He also has the record for the largest number of long hits made this season. Hunter of Hampton, outclasses all comers for right field in both departments of the game. He has an art that is almost uncommon for judging just where a batsman will hit the ball. He is as efficient with the ash as he is in the field. batting 750 in the Union contests. W. Taylor, of Howard, is placed behind the bat, chiefly for the superior headwork evidenced over his rivals. For sustaining his pitcher and at the same time finding the weakness of a batsman, he is unequaled. The station at third this season was a little weak on all the team. And although Hill caught for Hampon this year, his record as third baseman last season declared him the best candidate for that law. Surprisingly quick on his feet, four hits are made in his territory. Ogburn's abilities in paddling in both difficult dives places him in center of the exits. Davis of Howard, born in long distance running and with the willow, selected him as captain, because he is familiar with all angles of the game, and at the same time would be a cool and level headed leader. The capability of making special stretches was chief factor in pacing S. Taylor at first base. His sides this, he is a sure holder, having made only one error this season. He has the record for having stolen the largest number of bases this season. Wright has only one serious opponent as twister, and that is Upton's moundsman. Jasper but all though the latter has a larger strike-out list to his credit. Wright is steadier and more possessed in the box. Hucles, the admitted best fielder in the entire collection, should not experience much difficulty in having claim to the berth in short stop. No ground ball can come too swiftly for him to handle. The sensational catches of the season were staged by him. Our general secretary, Scott C. Burrell, has just returned from the Forty-Second Annual Conference of Charities and Correction, to which he was appointed a delegate by Governor Stuart of Virginia. This great body met in Baltimore, Md. He makes a very encouraging report and was happy to find on his return to work that the men and boys had kept everything in the best of spirit. The Y. M. C. A. Literary rendered a very excellent program last Friday night, assisted by the Y. M. C. A. Chorus. Men, keep up this good work. 9:30 A. M. a meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. building. 10 A. M. the committee in the city fall did some very excellent work. The boys enjoyed the address which was delivered to them by Committeeman B. L. Allen. The echoes from the Forty-Second Annual Conference of Charities and Correction, which was held in Baltimore, Md., May 12-19, were given to the men 5:30 P. M. by our general secretary at the Y. M. C. A. building. Every man was made to feel that he was there too. Many expressions of thanks were made by the men for the profitable hour. Men, be on time. Sunday, ready for hard work and the other man. All workers are invited, to the meeting for workers of the Y. M. C. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 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A. building. Come and bring the other man. 1 P. M. at the Sharon Baptist Church, a great meeting for women will be held and every woman ought to come, for there are some things that women ought to know A special address by Rev. J. C. Stephenson. Live singing. Corp. and bring the other woman. 0 Bring in your real estate business whether large or small. We are all the same degree of care. B A CEPHAS. Corner End and Leaf Streets MOREHOUSE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT Atlanta, Ga. Following the commencement of Morehouse College this week, Professor John Hope president, announced that an effort would be made at once to raise $5,000 in order to get the offer from the General Education Board of $15,000 and one of $5,000 from the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the erection of a building. Perhaps no man has gone into the hearts of the people as has President Hope. He is the first member of his race to be president of the college, and he has made good. During the past year over 300 young men have attended the school, and it is regarded as one of the leading colleges in the entire country. There have been many visitors during the exercises. People came from all parts of the State and some from adjoining states. Sunday, May 23. President Hope preached the Raccalade sermon, using as his text, "I have written unto you young men, because ye are strong."—I John, 2:14. The young men going out to meet the world were urged to have physical, intellectual and moral strength. They were told to care for the body, develop the mind and be morally clean. The world is looking to the young men of today, especially those who have been through college. Monday night a contest was had for the Paxon prize in rhetoricals. This program consisted of readings, declarations and orations. The participants were Samuel Fullmighter, Henry Brown, David Title, Millard J. Burwell, Frayer T. Lane, James B. Adams, William G. Rogers, J. Ping Barbour. Music was furnished by the glees club and college orchestra. Wednesday, May 26th, was commencement day. The graduates were from college James Buchanan Adams, Charles Henry Brown, George Mettcott Cohen, William Harrison Haynes, George Patterson McKinney, Jr. Divinity—Wade Cliffman Cartwright, Edward Richard Cady, Paul Lee Daugen, Henry James Jackson, Ruth James Jackson. Academic—Joseph Plus Barbour Dola Cullen Boykin, Walker De- yons, Brown, Millard John Burwell Walker Richard Chivers, Mark Loss Re Jackson, Christopher Columbus Johnson, William Lemuel, Clarence Kennedy, Alvan Hubert Lane, Al- dus Samuel Mitchell, George Jack- son Van Buren, Edmund Thomas Moore, John Edward Nance, James Henry Peyton, Benjamin Adelhui- Pinckney, William Thomas Ra- water, Walter Watson Scott, Har- vey Mile Smith, Tracy James Smith, George Washington Taylor Robert Roose Turpin, Jr., George Jackson Van Buren. The speakers were (Salutory) "Appenatto Fifty Years Ago" George Ummett Cohren "If the Prince of Peace Should Come Today"—Millard John Bar- well. (Vale History) — "Montfordlo" William Harrison Haynes Music was furnished by the Men's Chorus The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Professor Charles H. Kelly, principal of the public schools, LaGrange, Ga., and Doctor of Divinity on Rev. A. J. Allen, of Cuthbert, Ga. Each wore their caps and gown to receive the degree a new feature. --- PORCIA, HL. May 25, 1915. Editor the Planet, Dear Sir: I would like to find if possible some trace of any people. My mother's name was Dorsey Hawkins, my father's name was William Hawkins. The children's names were Robert, William, Alfred, Lee, James, Fred, Lizzie, Pattie, Anne. My name is Benjamin Hawkins. We were born in Kittrell, North Carolina. Any information will be thankfully received. I am years in oblige. BENJEMIN HAWKINS. 107 Lincoln Avenue. Perion, HL. NEGRO SENT TO JAIL FOR Justice Crutchfield doelt severely yesterday with John Williams, a Negro, arrested in Libby Hill park yesterday by Policeman Bernstein for waving his hand at a young white girl who was passing through the park. He fined the Negro $0, and sentenced him to six months in jail in default of a peace bond. Williams slowly denied the charge, but became confused when Bernstein informed the court that as soon as the Negro was arrested he began to protest that he had not meant to insult anybody. "What were you doing in the park, anyway?" demanded the judge severely. "Don't you know that Niggers can't mix up with white people in Richmond?" The private guarded something unintelligible and was food and hunted away by the detention camp after Justice Browne had again requested his permission to positively identify him and escort Vo. Newt Lester, later the judge. M. JOHN R. HOLMES, FOUNDER For further information, apply to JOHN R. 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