Richmond Planet

The Leading Weekly Journal in the State Widum Which Reaches Bright Colored Home. VOLUME XXXII, NO. 44 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 18, 1915. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. EDITOR MITCHELL TRAVELS VISITS ELKS' CONVENTION—ROY ALLY RECEIVED—RULES ARE BUSPENDED — DELIVERS AN ADDRESS. Chicago, Ill. I boarded a street-car on State Street for the purpose of going to the Odd Follows' Hall where the Elks were in session and where Grand Worthy Exalted Ruler was wielding the gavel. I got off at 330 Street. I not met far before I met J. H. Smith and "Little Billy" Smith waiting for an automobile to take a ride. I did not see any ladies with them. They pointed to the meeting place and I went over there. I was soon greeted by Attorney Armond W. Scott, the silver-tongued orator, and Editor A. Finley Wilson, that "prince" of organizers. It is needless to say that Mr. Scott was a candidate for the position of Grand Worthy Exalted Ruler. I met Gen. D. S. Miller, of Paris, Ky. DR. JONES ACTIVE. Dr. R. E. Jones, of Richmond, looking the picture of health greeted me and insisted that I should remain around until he could get a motion passed suspending the rules and inviting me to address the national organization. I was not able to answer. Whether or not I made a "hit," I am unable to say positively. However, the members made me believe I did from the way they crowded around and greeted me. I have never been more royally received by any organization in this country, failed to state that I was a friend to the tortor A. W. Scott. His introduction was a gem. I am unable to call to mind all of the friends I saw there. ELKS JUBILANT. Suffice it to say Grand Exalted Ruter Nutter also greeted me, as did Dr. W. E. Atkins, Treasurer James T. Carter, and a host of others. I failed to name the special delegation of Elks who had been sent outside to escort me into the hall. They performed the service satisfactorily and they were largely responsible for the excellence of the address I delivered. I got out again, but not without almost breaking up the meeting. Anyhow, they took a recess soon after I reached the sidewalk. I met Col. Archer/Drew, of Portsmouth, Mrs. Emma V. Kelley, who had just returned from the Panama Exposition where, as winner of the PLANET prize, I had sent her, and Mrs. Cherry. I met members of the Richmond delegation,—Mr. John T. Taylor, Mr. A. L. Morton, Dr. A. A. Tennant, Attorney William H. Stanton and a host of others, too numerous to mention. --- THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEGRO ORGANIZATION The Negro Organization Society will hold its third annual meeting at Petersburg, November 3, 4, and 5, and the colored people of the city have begun their preparations for the proper entertainment of the delegation. Several large committees have been appointed and the preliminary details are being carefully worked out. This meeting will cause to be assembled at Petersburg many of the abler men of the race in and out of Virginia and the program will offer many interesting features. Dr. Booker T. Washington will deliver two addresses—a special address to farmers on the afternoon of the last day of the meeting and the usual address at the mass meeting of both races with which the meetings of the society have always been closed. During the present week, September 15-18, a large party of prominent men is making the annual campaign for social and intellectual development under the auspices of the society. The Northern Neck is being trained and Dr. Robert T. Washington is the principal speaker. The party is traveling up the Happiestquake River on the "Happiest," a bird feeder at Hampton institutes and the meetings are subscribed to Heathsville, Klimberweek Warrow, Tappanhaneck, Montrose and Fredericksville. WORD COLOURED TO BE ABOLISHED Columbus, O., Sept. 11—Gov. Frank Wilber has inscribed on State Medal Award in recognition of his achievement that accompanied his discharge to service overseas. He has been awarded the medal for his service to the nation. THE NATIONAL IDEAL BENEFIT SOCIETY HOLDS ITS THIRD ANNUAL SESSION. Able Addresses by Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes and Other Promin- ent Speakers—Excellent Reports by the Supreme Officers. The National Ideal Society of which A. W. Holmes is founder and president, met here last week. A large number of delegates were pre- ent. The ideal sail was beautifully in national colors and cut flowers, taken from the Sea. She was 1919, promptly at 10 A. M. the Supre- mate Master called the enthusiastic delegation to order. Devotional ex- ercises by the Supreme Chaplain, Rev J. H. Bintford. Supreme Master de- veloped his annual address. Mr. Rosetta Thompson welcomed the delo- gates to the Ideal's Home, which had been recently purchased. Rev. Arch or Gray, New Jersey, responded. All the on-site sessions were held in the Street M. E. Church meeting at Leigh Street M. E. Church, rev. E. M. Mitchell, D. D., clearly showed his oratorical ability in his welcome on the part of the church. Mr. Clifford Walker, tenor soloist, of Grove Avenue Baptist Church, rendered a splendid solo, which waffled his audience to the topmost pinnacle of musical appreciation and ecstacy. Madam Louise T. Doane delivered a most excellent welcome address on the part of the Society. Mrs. S. M. Stockton, Washington, D. C., captivae dance in the responding address, which required rapt attention. Mrs. M. L. Walker, president of St. Lukes Bank, was present and addressed the convention, giving some wholesome advice. The reports of the Supreme Officers showed the society to be in excellent condition. All death claims paid, with a handsome balance to the death claim department, which was very encouraging to the delegates. The delegation was also highly clated and high in their praise" over the purchase of the Ideal Home. Wednesday night, Sept. 8, public meeting, First Baptist Church, South Richmond. Devotional exercises. Welcome on part of the church, Deacon H. Munford. Welcome on part of the chancery, Mrs. S. B. Cog bill. At the conference the able addresses, Miss Lucy A. Hall, Philadelphia. Pa., rendered a sweet selection. Address of the evening was delivered by Mrs. Rosa Thompson, Supreme National Lecturer and president of the Ideal Guardian's Convention. She clearly showed from a biblical standpoint, the origin of the First Fraternal Organization the world has ever known, which captivated her audience. The paper by Mr. Lewis T. Goode, Prospect lodge No. 2, on "Idealism" showed much thought on the part of the writer. The Supreme Master announced that seven prizes would be presented during the session. Most excellent music was furnished by the National Ideal Choir, under the direction of Prof. L. Johnson, each evening. Mr. Trio, Mr. Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Highes, brought forth storms of applause. The following are the Supreme Officers and Directors: Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes; Supreme Vice Master, Rev. W. L. Anderson; Supreme Mistress, Mrs. L. J. Carter; Supreme Past Mistress, Mrs. Rosa B. Wilkerson; Supreme Chapain, Rev. J. H. Binford, D., D.; Supreme Secretary Mrs. I. E. Charity; Supreme Assistant Secretary, Mrs. Rosa Thompson. Supreme Treasurer T. L. Beverly; Supreme Right Guide, James Richardson; Supreme Left Guide, Mrs. L. B. Jones; Supreme In side Sentry, Jacob Thompson; Supre me Outside Sentry, Mrs. L. J dian; Supreme Right Horald, Mrs. S. M. Stockton; Supreme Left Horald, M. T. Robinson. Auditors: W. R. Minor, Susie H. Robinson, A. C. Hines. Directors: A. W. Holmes, Rev. W. L. Anderson, Mrs. L. J. Carter, Mrs L. E. Charity, Mrs. Rosa Thompson, T. L. Beverly, J. R. Hicks, Joseph Chattu, D. L. Beverly, F. L. Bryant, Rev. W. T. Johnson, Mrs. S. M. Stockton, James Richardson. At adjournment of the Supre mune Lodge, the Ideal Guardian's Convention convened. An account of which will appear in the next is see. The next Convention will be held in Washington, D. C., September, 1916. Temecawen (Sunday) will be a great day at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. At 9:30 the Sunday School will convene. The department of the Church in growing in interest and numbers. The service Sunday promises to be unusually gentle. At 12:10 the Newville Hunt, of New York will be held. Dr. Blunt needs more time to prepare a program. At 1:30 the Sunday service will be held. The pastor will be present. Dinner will be served. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER. 18. 1915. DR. LEWIS SPEAKS AGAIN ON UNITY OF BAPTISTS OF VIRGINIA BE FAVORS A CONFERENCE OF THE TWO BODIES: AIRBITR TION THE ROAD TO PERMAN ENT PEACE AND GOOD WILL. Mr. Editor: In the language of the ring you are hereby requested to sound the bell count ten, throw up the sponge for the light is over. Judging from his failure to respond to my last article, Dr. R. C. Woods, retries from the field and I am left alone. STORY OF GOOD WILL, BETWEEN PAT AND MIKE. There is the story of Pat and Mike, two hearty Irishmen, who engaged in a fightback as a means of settling a matter between them. After a long and tedious bout the former dealt the latter a knockout blow, and on his recovery, Pat said to Miker "Come let us take a drink together, for we are both good men." In such a spirit of good will and brotherly love towards Dr. R. C. Woods, I retire from the discussion with heart utterly void of any feeling of bitterness and with a deep sense of that high regard to which his work and station entitle him. THE FRICTION THAT CRANKS THE CAR OF HUMAN PROGRESS While I can lay no claim to the honor of beginning the discussion on the advisability of uniting the two state bodies of our denomination in Virginia it being well known that the idea had its birth in the last annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention during its session at Danville, Va. I nevertheless feel that the suggestion was timely and bore the seal and approval of God; and I also believe that the discussion of this matter has been, in a measure, both pleasurable and profitable. The settlement of all great questions among intelligent poets and writers by free from sometimes heated debate by this means the car of progress is cranked and sent forth in service to mankind, intellectual friction is generally the source of light and knowledge. The man who shrinks from it must suffer mental apathy and blindness. UNITY OF BAPTISTS, OPPOSED ONLY BY ENEMIES But despite all the exigencies, that have arisen in our denominational development in this State, the division of our Baptist forces; the crimination and recrimination of each other, the struggle for supremacy of our respective views in Christian work; and despite all our mistakes and shortcomings, we are all brethren, begotten of the same spirit, children of one Common Father, members of the same demeal, and charged with the same grudge, and charged with the same duty of living in peace and love with each other, as members of the body of our Common Lord. Henco it follows that the man who opposes the unity of the brethren of Virginia, especially when there is no reasonable ground for a separation, is a common enemy to the church, and as alien to the Christian Brotherhood, possessing more of the spirit of the devil than of Christ. For where the Spirit of Jesus is, there is unity and peace. And any man not the devil of the Christ, is in the spirit of his. Therefore it greatly strains to believe that such an eminent Christian man as I have always regarded Dr. Woods, can conscientiously oppose a getting together of the brethren. THE WORLD IS SEEKING TO SEE JESUS. But as in apostolic times, even now, pride and worldly ambition are to be found here and there in the church among some of our so-called ministers retarding the spiritual growth of believers and furnishing them unworthy ideals of the christian spirit and life. As a consequence, the world is crying 'in the language of the Grocian commission, "We would see Jesus." We would see Jesus in our ministers; in our churches; in the individual members of the church. Since Christ rebuked bickering and striving among his disciples in the days of his earthly ministry, we are sure he cannot do less today. He still destroys the unity of his children. DEMONIATION DISBRAKED IN NATIONAL CONVENTION. POLICE KILL COLORED WOMAN (Special to the Chicago Sunday) Memphis, Teen, Sept. 16, Saturday morning, August 25, Patrolman Ramsay and his partner, Christop, both white, saw three women of the race talking and walking along the street, about 1 o'clock in the morning. Ramsay called for them to halt but the women, converting, evidently did not hear, and being in a hurry, continued to move on, when all at once the vicious southern brute whipped out his pistol and shot Faule Sheppard, who lives at 1241 Latham Street. The bullet cut an artery and the woman began to bleed terribly. She was left to die. Ramsay then telephoned to his captain that a woman was bleeding to death. The pow patrol wagon is a five passenger Ford, with handcuffs attached to the seats. There was plenty of room. Captain Crouch sent Officers O'Brien and Davis with the machine with orders to take the woman to the hospital. In a few minutes the emergency auto reached the scene, but instead of following the instructions of their superior of fleer, when they saw she was colored they took her name and address and drove off. The woman managed to get her hands to the wound so as to stop the flow of blood. Finally her weak hands could grip no longer. Bogging to be taken to the hospital, she had her hands become pow erles, they dragged side and the wound was open. The rest of her life's blood quickly ebbed out. Olbrfen later called up Captain Crouch and said the woman was still in the alley and that they refused to put her in the auto for Couch. McGee got all bloodied up Couch. McGee got all bloodied up the scene, but in the mean time an hour had shaped and the poor woman was dead CASE FOR COMMISSIONER UTLEY The present administration has been very strict regarding the conduct of policemen, especially in too free use of the pistol, and has dismiss several who shot race men. Commissioner Viby is making an investigation and may not in the case at once. The officer claimed he thought the Negro women were men, but even at that there was little or no excuse for the wanton shooting. Mrs. Kupper, 1961 South Wellington Street, was a witness to the shooting. An impart was held by N. T. Ingram. The verdict of the jury was that the woman came to her death by a pistol shot in the hands of Patrolman Ramsay. It ended with these words: "We exonerate the officer." --- RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY. Whereas, Providence has removed by the hand of death, on Sunday, September 5, 1915, the daughter, Silvan, aged 19 years, from the family of our Chancellor Commander, Samuel Dykes. Therefore, Be It Resolved, That Mount Olive Lodge, No. 185, of Big Stone Gap, Va., tender its sympathy to our benevolent Chancellor Commander and his family. And, Be It Further resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon this lodge, and a copy of the same be sent to the last Tennesse New and Richmond Planet for publication and a third copy be sent to our beloved Chancellor Commander and his family. PROTENT AGAINST EXCLUSION OF COLORED PUPILA. (Afro-American, Baltimore, Md.) Morton, Del., Sept. 10.—The colored citizens, augmented by a number of white people here, held an indignation meeting tonight to protest against the exclusion of the race from the new $15,000 school building here. The colored people were given the old school building and colored teachers are in charge. The building was erected from funds secured through a special assessment, and the colored people, who form 40 per cent of the population here, paid their proportion. Their exclusion from the new building caused their protests. J. Irving Beckett, a democrat and one of the five members of the Board of Education, characterizes the exclusion of colored pupils as a rank injustice. He said that the colored people paid their just proportion of the money raised to erect the building and that he was opposed to segregation. DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP. The firm of Robinson and Lewis, fish dealers, of this city has been discharged. W. M. Robinson will not be responsible for any debts committed in the name of that firm. W. M. Robinson. SCHOOL ENROLLMENT EXCEEDS ALL FORMER YEARS The public schools of the city opened Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1915, and the enrollment for the first day was a record breaker. Twenty thousand being enrolled, about 5,800 of whom were colored. The total enrollment for two days, 22,241, 15,377, 618, white, colored, and African American students, the faculty of Armstrong high school will be composed of colored teachers. The assignments for the year are as follows: ARMSTRONG HIGH SCHOOL Principal, S. D. Turner, Assistant Principal, Miss Elizabeth W. Winston. Teachers- Otway M. Stewart, Jr. George W. Buckner, Chester A. Lindsay, Miss L. Bernetta Young, Miss Colista V. Grey, Miss Nannie E. Johnston, Miss Bonnie C. Edwards V. E. Daniel, Miss Blanche-C. Watt, Miss Myra H. Colson, Miss Rosa A. Vassar, Miss Sadie I. Daniel James Nelson Saunders, Mrs J. Buruto Turner, Miss R. Lavinia Johnson. WEBSTER DAVIS SCHOOL. Teachers - Nelson William, Miss Annie B. Knight, Miss Mary E. M. Morris, Miss Carrie E. Young Emily E. Cooke, Miss Sarah E. Brown. GEORGE MASON SCHOOL Principal, J. H. Brent. Teachers - Miss Willette C. Sphin (Supt. teh.) Miss Addie R. Gate- wood, Miss Maxie West, Earl Har- miss, Miss Annie L. Augustus, Miss Susie A. Jordan, Miss Beatrice E. mounds, Miss Lula A. Willis, Miss Oi le M. Guarrant, Miss Mamie I. Dag rott, Miss Ziporah Yearman, Miss Ethel Thompson, Miss Sallie A. Cowan, Miss Emma O. Randolph, Miss Katie Glippin, Miss Beatrice Whiting, J. Andrew Bowler, Miss Sarah M. Cobes, W. T. Jackson, Pupil Teacher, Miss Alma T. RECHANAN SCHOOL Principal, J. T. Walker. Teachers, Miss Kate Coke (sup- tch), Bernard L. Allen, Mamie, Mamie E. Brown (furloughed), Marie Stokus (sub), Miss Mildred (cross), Miss Mio mozelle C. Robinson, Miss Florence V. Harris, Miss Fragnes Giles, Miss Susie B. Crump, Miss Rebecca E. Dickerson, Miss Sallie Reader, Miss Lou Eldridge, Miss Delta E. Caskie, Miss Lea B. Farrar, Miss Goldie L. Young, Miss Ruth C. Carter, Miss Filla F. Bolling. *Pupil Teachers, Miss Lucy Hilton, Miss Goldie Norrell.* NAVY HILL SCHOOL Principal, Loyal C. Morrow. Frimp, M. Tenchors--Miss Beale Whittle (aupy, ch.) Albert V. Norrell, Miss Fannie Williams, Miss Maria White, Miss'Hallie B. Robinson, Miss Cora Bright, Miss Lgaead J. Mundell, Samuel Howell, Miss Alberta E. Cae sar, Miss Margaret, Tinsley, Miss Alma R. M. Farrar, Miss Jessie E. Scott, Miss Mabel V. Harris, Miss Lillian Jackson, Miss Alice Augustus, Miss Carr Barrett, Miss Minnie IN CONTEMPT. The Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, etc., must answer contempt proceedings. It is never safe for any body of men or bodies corporate, to disobey the order of any court. The gentlemen who went to Columbus, Ohio and allowed themselves to become no intoxicated by the treatment they received that caused them to disobey the order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, will find themselves indebted in the District of Jackson, they will be to city to answer the order of the Court for a violation of its order. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia passed an order restraining this organization from intertwining in any way with the Grand Lodge of Richmond, Va. during the pendency of this suit. Regardless of this restraining order, the Supreme Lodge, which met at Columbus, Ohio, in violation of the orders of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbus, presented to expel the lodge of Richmond, Va. The Bos is confident that such action in violation of the court's restraining order and the Supreme decree must be consummated if they are not acquitted. The Supreme officers will find a difference, between the Duke of York and the Duke of Columbus, in Washington, D.C., September 11, 2014. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Mr. W. H. Winters, of Harper's Perry, W. Va., was in the city this week. Rev. W. H. Crawley, of South Boston, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mrs. Emma D. Tunstall, of Alpe, Va., was a delegate to the Annual Session of Truo Reformers. Mr. D. J. Chavers continues Indisposed at his residence, 318 East Preston Street. Mme. Fapke Payne Clarke, have returned to the city, after a delightful stay in Danville Virginia. Mrs. Anna Taylor, D. D. G. W. C. and W. Matron is visiting Hanover and vixience. Her trip has been very successful and she reports the work in a flourishing condition. Master Creed W. Chiles, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Chiles entered Tuskegee Institute, Ala. this Fall to secure the Industrial training for which that school is so far famed. We wish him much success. Master M. H. Payne, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, has returned to the city from his vacation, and will occupy his pulpit all day, Sunday. Prof. D. H. Peyton and family have returned to the city from Columbia, Va. Prof. Peyton is improved in health and his friends wish for him a complete recovery. Messrs. John H. Jones, Thomas H. Hudson, Charles Armstead and John H. Cobbill spent last Sunday at Lee, Va., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Macon and Mr. Charles Smithera Miss Bernetta Young returned to the city last Saturday from New York, where she attended and passed a creditable exam at the Columbia University. She is now a teacher in the Armstrong High School. Mesdames Edna Hickmon and Robena Jones returned to their homes in South Richmond after a three week's visit in Lancaster Co. Va., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Lee. Mrs. Floreance Cogbill returned to the city last Thursday after a three week's stay in Brooklyn, N. Y., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Helps and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson, New York City. Prof. J. L. Hill, of Washington, D.C., has returned home after a plea antivist to his sister and other relatives and friends. He was accompanied by his two grand children, Master Cressida Hill Baltimore and Little Miss Victoria Robinson. The funeral of Mrs Hattle Booker Warkins, who departed this Life Thursday, September 9th, took place from the First Baptist Church, South Richmond, Sunday morning last, Dr. Ringa, Jr. resisting. The interment was made in Saury's Cemetery. Mrs. Octavia Woods Passes Away. Wife of President Robert C. Woods Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Funeral Service Held in Lynchburg and in Roanoke—Many Lets, Telegrams and Resolutions of Condolence. The gate of death stands ajar. A record of the dead from Abel, this moment would baffle human conception. It is appointed unto men once to die. This appointment is of God, and the stroke fails alike upon all the human race. The high and the low, the Saint and the sinner, the rich and the poor of all generations—with the notable exceptions of Enoch and Elijah—have passed on through the gate of death into the eternal world. The time came for Mra. Octavia Woods to pass through this same gate on her way to eternity and no human effort could block the passage. She had to go to judgment to stand her trial, and she couldn't stay away. She was born November 27, 1892. She passed through the gate September 10, 1915 to meet the God, in whose presence she is allied of joy, and at whose right hand there are pleasures forevermore. She was 22 years, 9 months and 18 days old at her death. The predeceased hope of eternal life in the month of August, 1892. She was connected with Mt. St. John Baptist Church, Franklin, Va., under the patronage of Dr. J. Cross. She lived a consistent life of Jesus Christ, for 85 years—representing the highest type of Christian motherhood. She received her education at Virginia. Through all University and College. While attending in this State hall (Commenced on 6th June.) · PRICE: FIVE CENTS. OFFICIAL REPORT OF NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION Chicago, Ill.—After a lively week in Chicago, the National Baptist Convention has closed with the election of Dr. E. C. Morris, of Helena, N.C., Rev. W. G. Parks, D. D., Philadelphia, vice president; Prof. R. R. Hudson, Selma, vice president; Prof. R. J. Stokes, Montgomery, Ala.;urer: C. H. Harris, Louisville, KY, statistician; T. G. Ewing, Nashville, Tenn.; attorney: M. M. Rodgers, La Grange, Tex., auditor. Of course, there was a lovely time, a faction headed by Rev. E. P. Jones, attempted to capture the convention, and in the confusion Dr. Jones de clared himself elected, and then went into court and got an injunction against Rev. E. C. Morris, W. G. Parks, E. J. Gordon, J. B. Bryant, N. E. Griggs and B. Barry. The same day the injunction was dissolved. The convention issued the following statement: CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE "The cause of the confusion man feasted at the National Baptist Convention, September 8th and 9th, is the attempt and purpose of the convention to control its publishing board, located at Nashville. Tennessee, by reason of the peculiarity of the laws of Tennessee, this board elects its own members, although for many years, the convention thought by electing members in open session, they really became members of the board. To its great surprise, in life course of time it became known that one board was a member of the publishing board, which elected by the board itself. The board trusted its trust and suspicion, and the convention at once began to make efforts to come in possession and control of the property, that is really convention property. The board, through its secretary defied the convention and refused to allow the convention's auditor to audit the books. OPPOSING FACTION IN EVIDENCE "When the convention convened in Chicago, September N., with im proactive devotionals conducted by Revs. E. M. Cohron, St. Joseph, Mo., A. D. Williams, Atlanta, Ga., and W. D. Carter, Seattle, Wash. The program, prepared by the Executive Board of the convention, was opposed opposing the convention started a confusion, headed by the Rev. Dr. Brooks, of South Carolina. The resolution offered by Dr. Brooks provided for the transaction of business before the enrollment of the delegates, and after some considerable discussion, it was ruled out of order by President Morris. It was after this ruling that Fletcher, P. and Mrs. Fannie P. Smith and daughter, Martha, visited relatives in Chicago, Ill. recently. They have returned to the city well pleased with their trip. GUESTS AT TEA. Mrs. Alfonza King and Miss Lucy A. Hall, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mrs. Lillian E. Jones, of Baltimore, who were delegates to the National Ideal Convention, were the guests of honor at Mr. and Mrs. William Boling, 1223 W. Leigh Street, Saturday, September 11, 1915. The table was beautifully decorated with choice cut glass, silver, and cut flowers. Mrs. Rosa Turner and Mrs. Rosa Thompson assisted Mrs. Blinging greeting. Beautiful tokens were presented to Mrs. Lillian E. Jones and Miss Lucy A. Hall, on the behalf of the ideal Nursery Guardian Convention of which they were stenographer and secretary. DIES FROM HEAT. Frank Johnson, colored 3007 M St. was overcome by heat while putting away a load of coal at 410 North Twenty-fourth Street, late Tuesday afternoon, and died in the ambulance while being rushed to Virginia hospital. Ambulance Surgeon Dogget was called to attend the man, and found his condition so precarious that he decided to take him to the hospital on his own wounds them, but John son died before he could be lifted out. Johnson was employed by M. P. Murphy & Sq. Counselor Taylor was notified of the death, but deemed an inquest unnecessary. TWC Copyright, 1933, by Dodd, Mead & Company. SYNOPSIS. Frank O'Connell, young Irish patriot, is shot and wounded by British soldiers while making a home rule speech. He is aided by Angela Kingnoran an English society girl who defends him. Angela takes O'Connell to her brother's home and helps to nurse him. He recovers, and he and the girl become fast friends. O'Connell and Angela and She has been the Irish cause. Her brother, a member of parliament, is very angry. The happy couple come to America to live. A daughter is born to them. Angela's brother refuses to help the couple move. O'Connell names his daughter Margaret and calls her "Peg." O'Connell receives a most important letter from England, which perplexes him. O'Connell allows Peg to visit England at her uncle's request. The elder King-arth's heart had finally softened toward his dead sister's little girl. Peg goes to the home of the Chichester family in England at the direction of Mr. Hawkes. King-arth's attorney, as King-arth suddenly dies. The first meets Ethel Chichester and Brent, a married man in love with Ethel, the interrupts them by, accident in a secret meeting. Ethel is caraged at Peg and haughtily smiles her from the drawing room,iding to the servants quarters. The children have lost their money in a bank failure. Hawkes arrives and reads the Kinnearworth will. It leaves most of the fortune to Peg and offers liberal pay to any one who will undertake her education and social training. Mrs. Chichester finally agrees to bring up Peg in return for the money promised, although she openly despises the shabby young girl. Peg is heartbroken at the cold reception given her by the Chichester family. She is much impressed, however, by the warmth and warmth of Peg meets Jerry Adair, who takes a brevely interest in her. She finds in him a real friend. She tells him about her father. He's a farmer. He says. Peg decides to return home, but on Jerry's plea she decides to remain in England a month. Brent and Ethel have another meeting. Both are unhappy. Ethel and Peg have a violent disagreement, and Brent's attention to the former are the cause of the dispute, which is interrupted by Jerry. Jerry takes Peg's fashionable dance without Mrs. Chichester's knowledge, to beg Ethel in a mad escape with Brent. CHAPTER XNIII The Dance and Its Sequel. Jerry met Peg at the foot of the path when he saw all the lights disappear in the house. They walked across the lawns and meadows on that beautiful July night, with the moon shining down on them. Once at the great hall his mother put the gauche little Peg at her case, introduced her to the most charming of partners and saw that everything was done to minister to her enjoyment. It was a wonderful night for Peg. She danced every dance she had the supper one with Jerry she laughed and sang and romped and was the center of all the attention. What might have appeared boldness in another with Peg was just her innocent, willful, like nature. She made a wonderful life in the light and became a general favorite. She wanted to on and on and never stop. When the last waltz was played and enclosed and the ball was really ended, Peg felt a pang of regret such as she had not felt for a long time. "Oh, I am so happy, so happy!" she cried as Jerry led her back to her seat at the conclusion of the last dance. "I wish I could make the world one great ballroom for you," said Jerry, earnestly. "Do ye?" asked Peg tremuously. "I do." "With you as my partner, dancin' Ivery dance with me?" "Every one." "Wouldn't that be beautiful? An' no creepin' back after it all like a thief in the night?" "No," replied Jerry. "Your own mistress, free to do whatever you washed." "Oh," she cried impulsively, "wouldn't that be wonderful!" His mother had come across to say "Good night" to Peg. In a few moments his sisters joined them. They all pressed invitations on Peg to call on them at Noel's Folly and, with Mrs. Chichester's permission, to stay some days. Back across the meadows and through the lanes, under that marvelous moon and with that wild best of the "Continental Waltz" echoing from the hallroom, walked Peg and Jerry, side by side, in silence. After a little while Peg whispered: "Jerry, what were you goin' to say to me when my mother came up to me? "Something it would be better to say in the daylight, Peg." "Sure why the daylight?" Look at the moon no high in the heavens." "Walt's tomorrow." "I'll not sleep, or wink, think of all the wonderful things that happened this night. Tell me—Jarry, your mother and you, you do better—they weren't ashamed of me, were they?" "Why, of course not. They were charmed with you." "What I saw me from some place." "I hope some day you'll use a great deal of them." "They reached the windows leading into the living room. "Good night, Peg," he said. "What a hurry you are in to get rid of me! An a night like this may suddenly a trick back of impatience." Suddenly a quick snash of jealousy starred through her. "Are ye goin' back to the dance? Are ye goin' to dance the extra ones ye wouldn't take me back for?" "Not if you don't wish me to." "Plaze don't," she pleaded earnestly. "I wouldn't rest any if I thought of ye with yer arm around one of those fine ladies' waits as it was around mine such a little while ago—an me all alone here. Ye won't will ye?" "No, Peg. I will not." He bent down and kissed her hand reverently. At the same moment the Sound of a high power automobile was heard in the near distance. "Take care!" cried Jerry. "Go in. Some one is coming." Peg hurried in and hid just inside the windows and heard every word that followed. As Peg disappeared Jerry walked down the path to meet the visitor. He came face to face with Christian Brent. "Hello, Brent," he said in surprise. "Why, what in the world?" eried that astonished gentleman. "The house is asleep," said Jerry explantorily. "So I see," and Brent glanced up at the darkened windows. Jerry remarked: "Just coming from the dance? I didn't see you there." "No," replied the uncomfortable Brent. "I was restless and just strolled here." "Oh! Let us go on to the road." "Right," said the other man, and they walked on. Before they had gone a few steps Jerry stopped abruptly. Right in front of him at the gate was a forty horsepower automobile. "Stroked here? Why, you have your car?" said Jerry. "Yes," replied Brent hurriedly. "It's a bright night for a sip." The two men went on out of hearing. Peg crept softly upstairs. Just as she reached the top Ethel appeared from behind the curtains on her way down to the room. She was fully dressed and carried a small travelling bag. Peg looked at her in amazement. in the shade and shaded "Ethiop" she said in a boastie whisper. "You!" erased Ethiop under her breath and glaring at Purgatory. "Please don't tell any one you've seen me!" begged Meg. "Go down into the room!" Ethel or dered. Peg went down the stairs into the dark room. Ethel followed her. "What are you doing here?" "I've been to the dance - Oh, ye won't tell me aunt, will you? She'd send me away, arn I don't want to go now, indade I don't." "To the dance?" repeated Ethel in credulosity. Try as she would she could not rid herself of the feeling that Peg was there to watch her. "To the dance?" she asked again. "Yes, Mr. Jerry took me." "Jerry took you?" "Yer mother wouldn't let me go. So Jerry came back for me when ye were all in last, arn he took me himself. An' I enjoyed it so much. An' I don't want yer mother to know about it. Ye won't tell her, will ye?" "I shall most certainly see that my mother knows of it." "Ye will?" cried poor broken hearted Peg. "I shall. You had no right to go." "Why are ye so hard on me, Ethel?" "Because I detest you." "I'm sorry," said Peg simply. "Ye've spotted all me pleasure now." Poor Peg turned away from Ethel and began to climb the stairs. When she was about halfway up a thought dashed across her. She came back quickly into the room and went straight across to Ethel. "An what are you doin' here—at this time o' night? An' dresmed like that? An' with that bag? What does it mane? Where are you goin'?" "Go to your room!" said Ethel. Hived with anger and trying to keep her voice down and to hush Peg in case her family were awakened. "Do ye mean to say ye were goin' with?" Ethel covered Pegs mouth with her hand. "Keep down your voice, you little fool!" Peg freed herself. Her temper was up too. The thought of why Ethel was there was uppermost in her mind as she cried: "He was here a minnit ago, an' Mr Jerry took him away." "He' said Ethel frightenedly. "Mr. Brent,' answered Peg. Ethel went quickly to the windows. Peg sprang in front of her and caught her by the wrists. "Were ye goin' away with him! An answer me! Instuded Peg. "Yes," replied Ethel vehemently "And I am." "Let me go!" whispered Ethel, strugging to release herself. "You're not goin' out, o' this house tonight if I have to wake every one in it." "Wake them!" cried Ebel, "Wat- them. They couldn't stop me. Noth- ing can stop me now. I'm sick of this living on charity; sick of meeting you day by day, as implied insult in your every book and word, as much as be my. I'm giving you your daily bread: I'm sleeping the roof over you! I'm sick of it. And I and I tonight. Let me go, or I—I—" — And who tried in vote to rename herself from Pugnus girl. You hold her resentfully: "What do you mean by insult? Are your daily business?" Are happy the roof over you? Are you going to spend all of it? I'm going," and she disbelieved still. "You go, like from life with our THE INCHES OF LOVE, SUNDAY, YEARLY "He hone them, and I have told him I told you, 'I'm mad!'" "He will break your mother's heart and she will just not matter you own which pleasure! You'll stay here and he'll go home to his home if I have to tell every one an disgrace ye both." "No, he! You must not do that! You must not do that!" she cried, terror stricken. "My mother mustn't know. She mustn't know. Let me go. He is waiting, and it is past the time—" "Let him wait!" replied Peg firmly. "He gave his name an' life to a woman, an' it's yer duty to protect her an' the child she brought him." "I'd kill myself first!" answered Ethal through her clenched teeth. "No. ye won't. Ye won't kill myself at all. Ye might have if you'd gone with him. Why, that's the kind of man that tires of ye in an hour an' laves ye to sorrow alone. Faith, bed' ha' made love to me, if I'd let him." "What? To you?' cried Ethal in astonishment. "Yes, to me—here in this room today. If ye didn't come in when ye did'd ha' taught him a lesson he'd' carried to his grave, so I would!" "He tried to make love to you?" repeated Ethal incredulously, though a chill came at her heart as she half realized the truth of Pegs accusation. "Ever since I've been in this house," replied Peg. "An' today he comes to want me with his arms stretched out. Kiss an' be friends, see me, am' in you walket." CHAPTER XXIV. ETHEL sank down into a chair and covered her eyes. "The wretch!" she wailed. "The wretch!" "That's what he is," said Peg. "An' ye'd give yer life into his kapin' to blacken so that no dacent man or woman would ever look at yo or spake to ye again." "Not. That is over! That is over! I hate myself! Ethel cried between her sobs. "Oh, how I hate myself!" "Ethel acusitual' Don't do that! Darlin', don't! He's not worth it. Kape yer life an' yer heart clane until the one man in all the wurrel comes to ye with his heart pure, too, an' then, ye'll know what rule happiness means." She knelt down beside the sobbing girl and took Ethel in her arms and tried to comfort her." She helped her cousin up and supported her. Ethel was on the point of fainting, and her body was trembling with the convulsive force of her half compressed sobs. "Come to my room," said Peg in a whisper as she helped Ethel over to the stairs. "I'll watch by yer add till morning." Lane on me. That's right. Put yer weight on me. She picked up the traveling bag, and together the two girls began to ascend the stairs. Ethel gave a low choking moan. "Don't dear; yell wake up the house." cried Peg anxiously. "We've only a little way to go. Alay now. Not a sound! Bash, dear! Not a morsel of noise." Just as the two girls reached the landing Peg in her anxiety stepped short, missed the top step, lost her footing and fell the entire length of the staircase into the room, smashing a tall china flower vase that was reposing on the post at the foot of the stairs. The worst thing that could possibly have happened was just what did happen. Peg instantly made up her mind that they were not going to know why Ethel was there. Ethel must be saved and at any cost. "Holy mother!" she cried. "The whole house'll be awake! Give me yer THE LIFE OF A CAT Peg Fell the Entire Length of the Staircase. hail! Quick! 'An' yer cloak, an' yer bag! Peg began quickly to put on Gibbal's hat and cloak. Her own she flung out of sight beneath the great oak table. "Now remember," she dictated, "you came here because ye heard me. You weren't got out of the house at all. You just heard me movin' about in here. Stick to that!" The sound of voices in the distance booms in on them. "They're countin'," said Peg hastily. "Take care, mother—keep thunk. Let me deal with them." And Alkire, with an electric flashlight, appeared at the head of the stair, followed by his mother and the current Javin. He began a systematic search of the room until suddenly the reflector from the flashlight shone on the two mirrors. "Here Ethel hated me here, answered Peg, "she came in on an"— "What were you doing here?" "I was gown out an Ethel hated me an came in an stopped me, an"— "Where were you going?" persecuted the old lady. "Just out—out there," and Peg pointed to the open windows. Mrs. Chichester had been examining Peg minutely. She suddenly claimed: "Wha, that is Ethel's coat!" "Sure it is," replied Peg, "an this is her hat I've got, an here's her bag." Peg was stirring her attentu to divert Mrs. Chichester's attention from Ethel, who was in so tense and nervous a condition that it seemed as if she might faint at any moment. She thrust the dressing bag into the old lady's hand. Mrs. Chichester opened it immediately and found just inside it Ethel's jewel box. She took it out and held it up accustomably before Peg's eyes. "Her jewel box: Where did you get that?" I took it, and Reg promptly. Mrs. Chichester opened the box. It was full. Every jewel that Ethel owned was in it. "Her jewels—Ethel's jewels!" "Yes, I took them too." "You were stealing them?" No, I wasn't stealin' them. I just took 'em. I wanted to wear them. answered Peg readily. Suddenly Peg saw a way of escape, and she jumped quickly at it. "I wanted to wear them at the dance." "What dance?" demanded Mrs. Chichester. "Over there—in the Assembly rooms—tonight. I went over there, an' I danced, an' when I came back I made a noise, an' Ethel heard me, an' she threw on some clothes, an' she came here to see who it was, an' it was me, an' we were both goin' up to bed when I slipped an' fell down the stairs, an' some noisy thing fell down with me, an' that's all." Alaric called out from the window: "There's some one prowling in the garden. He's on the path. He's coming here. Don't be frightened." Alaric pushed his electric light fuit into the vulture's face and fell back. "Good heavens, Jerry!" he exhculated completely astonished. "I say, you know," he went on, "what is happening in this house tonight?" Jerry came straight down to Mrs. Chichester. "I saw your lights go up, and I came here on the run. I guessed something like this and happened. Don't be hard on your niece, Mrs. Chichester. The whole thing was entirely my fault. I asked her to go." Mrs. Chichester looked at him astonily. "You took my piece to a dance in spite of my absolute refusal to allow her to go?" "He had notnoth' to do with it," said Perg. "I took him to that dance." Mrs. Chichester looked steadily at Jarry for a few moments before she spoke. When she did speak her voice was cold and hard and necessary. "Sandy Sir Gerald Adair knows better than to take a girl of eighteen to a public ball without her relations' sanction?" "I thought only of the pleasure it would give her," he answered. "Please accept my sincere apologies." Peg looked at him in wonder. "Sir Gerald Adair! Are you Sir Gerald Adair?" "Yee, Peg." "So ye have a title, have ye?" Peg felt somehow that she had been cheated. Why had he not told her? Why did he let her play and comp and joke and counter with him as though they had been children and equals? "I am ashamed of you! You have disgraced us all!" cried Mrs. Chichester at Peg. "Have, if?" screamed Peg fiercely. "I've disgusted you, have I? Well, none of you can tell me the truth. I'm goin' back to me father." "Go back to your father, and glad we are to be rid of you." Before Peg could say anything further Ethel suddenly rose unsteadily and cried out: "Wait, mother! She mustn't go. We have all been grossly unfair to her. It is I should go. Tonight she saved me from—she saved me from"—Suddenly Ethel reached the breaking point. She slipped from Peg's arms to the chair and on to the floor and lay quite still. Peg knelt down beside her: "She's fainted. Give her air!" Peg loosened Ethel's dress and talked to her all the while, and Jerry and Alaric hurried out in different directions in quest of restoratives. Mrs. Chichester came toward Ethel, thoroughly alarmed and upset. But Peg would not let her touch the inanimate girl. "Go away from her!" cried Peg hysterically. "What good do ye think ye can do her? What do you know about her? You don't know anything about yer children. Ye don't know how to raze them. Ye don't know a thought in yer child's mind. Why don't ye sit down beside her sometimes an' find out what she thinks 'an' who she once? Take her hand in yer own an' got her to open her soul to ye! Be a mother to her! A lot ye know about motherhood! I want to tell ye my father knows more about motherhood than any man in the warrior." Poor Mrs. Chichhorter fell back, crushed and humiliated from Pug's on laughter. In a few moments the two men returned with water and saline. After awhile Ethel伸开 her eyes and looked up at Pug. Pug, fearful lest she should begin to become herself again, helped her up the stairs to her own room and there she got outside the entrance, hysterical girl until she slept her head locked in both of Pugs. One thing Pig had involved—she would not spend another night in the Chickens home. THE NEW YORKER JANUARY 20, 1980 THE NEW YORKER JANUARY 20, 1980 "I was goin' out and Ethel stopped me," said Peg. that," he had once said, and all the time he was a man of breeding and of birth and of title. Poor Peg felt so humiliated that she made up her mind she would never see him again. In the morning she would go back to the one real affection of her life—to the man who never hurt or disappointed her—her father. We will now leave Peg for awhile and return to one who claimed so much of the reader's attention in the early pages of his history—O'Connell. It had not been a happy month for him. He felt the separation from Peg keenly. At first he was almost inconsoluble. The days passed slowly until Peg's first letter came. It contained the news of Kingmorth's death-Peg's entrance into the Chichester family, her discontent, her longing to be back once more in New York. This was followed by more letters, all more or less in the same key. Finally he wrote urging her to give it all up and come back to him. He would not have his little daughter tortured for all the advantages those people could give her. Her her letters took on a different aspect. They contained a curious half note of happiness in them. No more mention of returning. On the contrary, Peg appeared to be making the best of the conditions in which she was placed. These later letters set O'Connell wondering. Had the great message of life come to his little Peg? Although he always felt it would come some day, now that it seemed almost a very real possibility he dreaded it. There were so few natures would understand her. That Peg was developing her character and her nature during those few weeks was clear to O'Connell. The whole tone of her letters had changed. But no word of hers gave him any clew to the real state of her feelings until one day he received a letter almost entirely composed of descriptions of the appearance, mode of speech, method of thought and expression of one Jerry. The description of the man appended to him, he apparently having so many things in common with the mysterious person, who had so vividly impressed himself on Peg. Apparently Peg was half trying to improve herself. There was a distinct note of seriousness about the last letter. He lived entirely alone in the same rooms he had with Peg when she was summoned abroad He was preparing, in this spare time, a history of the Irish movement from twenty years before down to the present day. It was fascinating work for him, embodying as it did all he had ever felt and thought or done for the "great cause." Peo's Father. ple ever dared to intrude on his privacy. Ho opened the door and looked in amazement at his visitor. He saw a little, round, merry looking, baldheaded gentleman with gold rimmed spectacles, an enormous silk hat, broadcloth frock coat suit, patent boots with gray spats on them and a general air of prosperity and good nature. "Is that Frank O'Connell?" cried the little man. "It is," said O'Connell, trying in vain to see the man's features distinctly in the dim right. The little man came into the room, took off his heavy silk hat and looked up at O'Connell with a quizzing look in his laughing eyes. "McGinnis!" "That's who, it is." Talkative McGinnis, come all the way from Ireland to take ye by the hand. The two men shook hands warmly. "An' what in the, wurrid brings ye here, doctor?" asked O'Connell. macle McNamara of County Sligo dn'- after a meek life—and dohn' the only thing that made me proof of him now that he's gone—may he shape in peope—lavin' the money he'd kept such a close sat on all his life to his God fearin' nephew so that he can spind the rest of his days in comfort? Didn't ye hear that?" "I did not. And who was the nephew that came into it?" "Missell, Frank O'Council!" "Toul! Is it the truth ye're telling me?" "May I alver spake another word if I'm not." O'Council took the little man's hand and shook it until the doctor examined it to him so let it go. "Then this is the question we now want to ask. Is disbelief we need patience, then help us? My person, their companion. "I hope you not but the gift of the gift. How's it get it with you with French 'O'Connell?" "Puth an' while I'm talker of the girl thing in the warrior that's now our heart—the future of Ireland—I want to proverby—" "An whats it ye'd after prophecy? "This—that ten years from now, with her own government, with her own language back again—Gaelic—what language in the wurried yields greatest music than the old Gaelic?—with Ireland united and Ireland's land in the care of Irishmen, with Ireland's people self respectin' an' sober an' healthy an', educated, with Irishmen employed on Irish industries" "Go on, Frank O'Connell. I love to listen to ye. Don't stop." "I'll tell ye what will happen! Back will go the trishawn in ten'o thousands from all the other countries they were driven to in the day'o famine an' oppression an' coercion an' buckshot-back they will go to their mother country. An' can ye see far enough into the future to realize what they will do? Ye can't? Well, I'll tell ye that too. The exiled Irish, who have lived their lives abroad-takin' their wives, like as not, from the people o' the country they lived in an' not from their own stock-when they go back to Ireland with different outlooks, with different manners an' with different tastes, so long as they've kept the hearts o' them thrue an' loyal-just so long as they've done that-an' kept the faith o' their forefathers, they'll form a new nation an' a' bation with all the best o' the old-the great big faith an' hope o' the old-added to the prosperity an' education an' business-like principles an' statesmanship o' the new." "Sure it's the big position they should give you on College green when they get their own government again, Frank O'Cennell," the little doctor said, shaking his head knowingly. "An' where is the little blue eyed maiden, Peg o' your heart? Where is she at all?" "It's in London she is." "Is it English, you're goin' to bring her up?' cried the doctor in horror and disgust. "No, it's not, Docther McGinnis, an' ye ought to know me better than to sit there an' ask me such a question." When they parted for the night, with many promises to meet again erelong, O'Cennell sat down and wrote Peg a long letter, leaving the choice in her hands, but telling her how much he would like to have her back with him. He wrote the letter again and again and each time destroyed it. It seemed so clumsy. The morning after the incident following Peck's disobedience in going to the dance and her subsequent rebellion and declaration of independence found all the inmates of Ilegal Villa in a most unsettled condition. Mrs. Chilchester and Alarie opened a discussion as to the latter's business career: "Oh, Alarie! There is a way—one way that would save us," said the mother after Alarie suggested going to Canada. And she trembled as she paused, as if afraid to tell him what the alternative was. "Is there matter? What is it?" "It rests with you, dear." "Does it? Very good. I'll do it to save you and Ethel and the roof; course I will. Let me hear it." "Alarie? she asked in a tone that suggested their fate hung on his answer, "Alarie, do you like her?" "Like whom?" "Margaret, do you?" "Here and there. She amuses me like anything at times. She drew a map of Europe once that I think was the most fearful and wonderful thing I have ever seen. She said it was the way her father would like to see England. She had England, Scotland and Wales in Germany, and the rest of the map was Ireland. Made me laugh like anything." "Oh, if you only could!" she sobbed. "Could? What?" "Take that little wayward child into your life and mud her." "Here, one moment, mater; let me get the full force of your idea. You want me to mold Margaret?" "Yes, dear." "Ha!" he laughed uneasily, then said decidedly: "No, mater, no. I can do most things, but as a molder—oh, no. Let Etel do it—if she'll stay, that is." "Alaric, my dear, I mean to take her really into your life—to have and to hold." And she looked pleadingly at him through her tear diffused eyes. "It would be the saving of us self" she insisted significantly. But Alaric was still obtuse. "Now, how would my holding and molding Margaret save us?" "She would stay with us here—if you were—engaged to her!" The shock had come. His mother's terrible alternative was now before him in all its naked horror. A silver run through him. The thoughts of a man with a future as brilliant as his being brightened at the outset by such a magnitude! He felt the color leave his face. "Begagged! Don't mother, please." He troubled again. "Heaven—engaged so that tomorrow!" There was no excuse. Mrs. Chichester held him firmly. "This will have 50,000 a year when she is twenty-one—50,000 a year—50,000 of the very best!" "Ah, there we have it!" And Alaric sprang up and faced the old lady. "There we have it! Does she love me?" Mrs. Chichester looked fondly at her only son and answered: "How could she be near you for the last month and not love you?" : Alaric nodded: "Of course there is that. Now, let me see—just get a solid grip on the whole thint. If she loves me—and taking all things into consideration—for your sake and darling Ethel's—and for my—that is"— As mother and son walked slowly toward the house they looked up, and gazing through a tiny cisemement of the little maue room was Peg, her face white and drown. Peg decided to take a walk in the garden. As she reached the foot of the stairs Alaric came in quickly through the windows. "Hello, Margaret!" he cried cheerfully, though his heart was beating nervously at the thought of what he was about to do, and across his features there was a slicky pailor. "What have you got there, all tucked away?" he ventured as the opening question that was to lead to the all important one. Peg held up a book for him to see. "The only thing I'm takin' away that I didn't bring with me." "That's what it is—a book," and she began to go upstairs. "Tukling it away?" he called up to her. "That's what I'm doin'," and she still went on up two more steps. "You're not really going away—cousin?" he grasped. "I am!" replied Peg. "Just a moment." he wried, stopping her just by gn, oriel window. She paused in the center of the glow that radiated from its panes. "What is it?" she asked impatiently. She wanted to go back to her room and make her final preparations. Alaric looked at her with what he meant to be adoration in his eyes. "Do you know I've grown really awfully fond of you?" His voice quiried and broke. He had reached one of the crises of his life. "No, I didn't know it. When did ye find it out?" "Just now-down in that room—when the thought flashed through me that perhaps you really meant to leave us. It went all through me. 'Bon my honor it did. The idea positively hurt me—really hurt me.'" "Did it, now?" laughed Peg. "Sure am I gnid of it." "Glad? Glad?" he asked in astonishment. "I am. I didn't think anything could hurt ye unless it disturbed yer comfort. An' I don't see how my goin' will do that." "Oh, but it will," persisted Alaric. "Really it will." "Bure now?" Peg was growing really curious. What was this odd little fellow trying to tell her? Alaric felt that the moment had now really come. ```markdown ``` SATURDAY.....SEPT. 18, 1916 ALLEN LINER GOES DOWN Torpedoed Steamer Sinks 34 Hours After Attack. THE LOST MAY REACH 20 Crew Struggled Bravely to Take the Hesperian to Port—Had no American Passengers. The Allan liner Hesperian sank within a few miles of Queenstown, after Captain Main and a volunteer rescue crew of twenty-five had made a brave fight to bring the crippled ship into port. During the night the Hesperian sotte gradually by the head. Daylight showed the decks awash and the liner about to take the final plunge. The vessel sank thirty-four hours after being torpeded. Captain Main and the crew were taken off by rescue boats, and landed in Queenstown by the steamer Empress. The captain made the statement that the vessel had been torpeded, and that no warning was given. A message from Conan Prest to the American embassy said the total loss of life might reach twenty. According to information telegraphed by Mr. Prest, the Heplerian wont down at a point not far from the scene of the explosion. An soon as Captain Main landed in Queenstown he proceeded to the admiralty office to make his report. There landed with him thirteen officers and twenty-five men who remained with the liner to the last. Two mines sweepers and two admiralty tugs were towing the Heplerian to port, but the ship partly filled with water was so unmanageable and the sea was so heavy that no progress could be made. The sinking of the Hesperian in deep water probably will prevent an investigation to determine whether the disaster resulted from a sa-marine's torpedo or from a mine. Passengers and crew assert positively that the vessel was struck by a torpedo, but thus far no statement has been obtained from any one who saw a submarine or a torpedo. The American embassy is receiving reports from Wesley Frost, American consul at Queenstown, on the question whether warning was given to the liner. Persons so far seen by Mr Frost state that no warning was given. About 4000 sacks of mail went down with the Hesperian. According to a dispatch from Berlin, no information has been received regarding the Hesperian. The sinking of the liner was officially commented upon to this effect: "It is more advisable to await more definite news as to whether the steamer was actually torpedoed, and if so, under what conditions." Conan Frost reported having taken affidavits of the two American stew ards on the Hesperian, Barney Mac Millan, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and a man named Dallas, of Buffalo. Father Held for Daughter's Death. William H. Shuman, formerly an attache of the Harrisburg, Pa., police department, is in jail without ball, held on the charge of having inflicted injuries which caused the death of his daughter, Margaret E. Shuman, aged twenty-two. The girl died Saturday morning and a post-mortem examination showed that, while she was suffering from a severe attack of diphtheria, death was due to external injuries. The mother informed the attending physicians that her husband had beaten the young woman, and on this information Coroner Eckinger or dered Shuman's arrest. He does not deny having "used the girl roughly," but says he was prompted to punish her by her repeated misconduct. Attempts to "shoot Dapids;" Drewna Floyd Bossard, aged twenty-eight years, of Easton, Pa., a well known amateur base ball pitcher, was drowned in the Delaware river when he attempted to "shoot the rapids" in a canoe. Bossard, in company with Floyd Stone and George Abbot, were returning from a haling trip when the accident occurred. The swift water prevailed Bossard's companions from swimming back to him. It is believed that he was seized with crampes, as he did not come up after being thrown from the canoe. Dynamite Postoffice; Get Little. Thieves wrecked the postoffice building at Fayetteville, near Chambersburg, Pa. Dynamite, used to blow open the safe, exploded with such force that the portion of the building contain ing the postoffice was literally blew to pieces. The interview did not get much, the presentation, W. K. Hahn, adding the messing to the boistery with laughs. This is the most typical type of media to use. Wild Berries KM Girl. Policha Pidula, eight years old, of Hamburg, Pa., is dead from eating berries which she picked in the woods in mistake for huckleberries. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Ambassador von Bernstorf gave to Secretary of State Lanning a written statement that the German government has accepted in principle the position of the United States that vessels carrying passengers must be warned before attack by submarines. Furious Austro-German attacks in east Galicia have been repulsed, Petrograd reports, and the invading movement in that field checked. It is also reported that the Teuton advance in Courland has been brought to a standstill. An unofficial announcement from Berlin says that the Russians have lost 300,000 men in killed and wounded since May 22 and 1,100,000 prisoners. Artillery duels have been in progress on the French battlefront without interruption for five days. London believes these activities are accompanied by an allied offensive movement. Paris reports that German attacks in the Vosges have been repulsed. THURSDAY. German forces advancing in north Poland have reached the outer defences of Gradno, according to an official statement issued in Berlin. An unofficial German dispatch says the army of Field Marshal von Mackensen, in south Poland, has joined the Austrian forces which have just taken the fortress of Lutak, in preparation for a winter campaign in southern Russia. Petrograd admits that the German offensive in north Poland has reached Orany, forty-five miles southwest of Vilna, on the Petrograd-Warsaw railway. The Teuton drive in east Galicia, it is said, has been checked, while von Hindenberg's forces in Courland have been held up at Friedrichstadt. In the Dyina region, it is announced, the Russians have taken the offensive at some points. German reports announce the recovery of trenches in the Vosges region recently captured by the French. FR1DAY. The capture of the Russian fortress of Grodno, together with 2000 prisoners, is reported by Berlin. Petrograd says the Russians have evacuated the Grodno fort, and admits that Austro German forces in southern Russia are advancing eastward. A dispatch to Berlin says a British transport was sunk by a mine at the entrance to the Dardanelles, with 1770 men on board, and that 600 bodies have been recovered. A report to London from Rome says the Austrians are evacuating Roveto, near Trent. Another report says only the civilian population is leaving the city, and that 80,000 Austrian troops have been concentrated there preparatory to a drive into Italian territory. SATURDAY. Further advances by the Germans in Courland are admitted in an official dispatch from Petrograd, which says the Russians have retreated to the north bank of the Dvine river, forty miles southeast of Riga. The statement says the Russians are on the offensive near the Vililya river, between Kovno and Vilina, and that the czars troops are holding the Austrians on a city-mile front in Galicia. A news dispatch to Rome says unless the allies relieve Russia by a determined offensive in the west, the Russian armies will be crushed. In the capture of Grodno and Friedrichstadt the Germans are reported to have taken 6000 prisoners. Continuous artillery fighting on the western front is reported from Paris. SUNDAY. Allan Line stewship Hesperian is torpeded without warning 100 miles off the Irish coast, but keeps afloat and is returning to Queenstown. Natives were lost, company reports. Two Americans and fifty wounded Canada naval soldiers were among the 350 passengers on board the Hesperian. Petrograd claims the German army under von Hindenburg has been checked on the Dylina river, and the advance on Vilna has been halted with heavy losses to the German army. Vatican is besieged with message from all over the world inquiries about peace proposals pope is said to have made to President Wilson. Unusually heavy artillery fire marks the activity along the western battle front. The Allan Line, steamship Hesperian, torpedoed Saturday night southwest of Ireland, with 650 passengers and crew aboard, sank 160 miles from Queenstown. Thirteen passengers are missing and two are reported dead. Survivors assert the liner was sank by a German submarine; and that no warning was given. Secretary of State Landing has asked American representatives in Great Britain for details of the attack. A news dispatch from Copenhagen says the Riemsina have evacuated Dugo Island, at the entrance to the Gulf of Riga and that, the Germans claim possession of the gulf. General von Hindenburg holds the bridgehead over the Dvina river, at Friedrichstadt, in Courland. Berlin reports a continued advance by the Germans in the Pfring month region and Vienna says Russian detachments have been dispatched in Hancockb. Many military fighting conditions on the battle line in Vienna, especially in the vicinity of Dugo. 1916 Calendars Now Ready 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. Rumors in Washington That Austrian Ambassador May Be Recalled for Munition Affairs. Dr. Constantine Thecolor Dumba, the Austrian ambassador, did not seem pleased with the result of his visit to Secretary Langer to explain the letter relevant to the Vienna government bearing on his activities to curtail manufacture of American war munitions. In fact, he seemed angry as he left the state department. He met the secretary by appointment and was with him just twenty-five minutes. "I have nothing today," he answered sharply to newspaper men who questioned him on his visit as he emerged from the secretary's office. "Are you going away?" he was asked. "I am going back to New York," he replied. "My conference with Secretary Lansing is through." Secretary Lansing would answer no inquiries as to Dr. Omnath's visit. He said that the conference was entirely personal and that he could give out nothing. It is understood, however, that the ambassador submitted to Secretary Lansing a copy of instructions he had received from his government pertaining to a law enacted in Austria making it a criminal offense for subjects to accept employment in factories producing munitions of war for the nation's enemies. Rumors were in circulation in Washington that Dr. Dumba may be recalled by his government as a solution of the difficulty in which he has become involved. The evident unsatisfactory nature of his Interview with the secretary of state gave impetus to the report, and the developments of the day were considered as ominous for the ambassador. When he left the state department he started to return to the embassy. Before arriving there, however, he ordered his chauffeur to return to the state department. Arriving there, he went at once to see Third Assistant Secretary of State Phillips. He would not discuss his mission with him. Dr. Dumba again refused to discuss his case when he left Assistant Secretary Phillips' office. The latter referred all questions to Secretary Lansing, who again stated positively that he would not make any statement. MRS. ARMOUR HELD UP MHilmaleire's Wild Fights One of Rebecca Whee. Out 1995. born, Who Get $3385 in Jewels. Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, wife of the millednage packer, fought hand to hand with a masked robber in her Michigan avenue residence in Chicago, and although stumped for a moment by a "billy," pluckily resisted him while she called for help. The police believe that at least three men were involved in the robbery. Cash amounting to $75 and jewels whose value brought up the total of the body to $1000 were taken. THE MAGIC IS 90 LITER THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANY WHERE IN U.S. POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER Address all letters to Mask Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. not to individuals. A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY. And every lady can have it if she will use the Magic. The Magic will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and straighten the thinnest head of hair. It will also estimate its growth. The Aluminum Comb cannot injure the hair, because it is never heated direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar which is heated on our Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Hayer Hair Pens to Best on the market. Price per box, $6. Alcohol Heater, price $6a. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA None of it has yet been recovered. During her struggle against the intruders, Mrs. Armour erased the barrel of a revolver which had been pressed into her face, tore it from the hand of the burglar and tossed it over her shoulder. The police believe that a pearl necklace, for which Mr. Armour was obliged to pay $9,000 bills when he brought it to this country from France in 1901, was the lost the thieves sought. The necklace was appraised at the time at more than $15,000. This was not in the Armour residence when the robbers forced their way in. None of the robbers has been caught and the police have no clue of any value. It is believed that two of the robbers did the actual thieving, while a third waited near the house in an automobile. Jealous Man Kills Three Frank Grano, an Italian farmhand, shot and killed Levin T. Robinson, the latter's wife; Dela Robinson, and Alonzo, Redden, at Snow Hill, Md. The shooting was the result of Grano's infatuation for Mrs. Robinson. He was arrested two hours later and lodged in jail. The feeling against the triple murderer is high. Grano said he killed the three because he was in love with Mrs. Robinson. He believed that Mrs. Robinson had shown fondness for Redden, and he could not endure the thought of permitting r to love another man. Girl, 7, on 3000-Mile Trip. Muriel F. Welshample, aged seven years, of South Kethlehem, Pa., started all alone on a 3000-mile trip to Alameda, Cal., where she will make her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Christian. Sealed instructions were handed to the Pullman conductor. Bentland's Death Voll Pieced at 812. Coroner Hoffman, of Chicago, made his official report on the Bentland director. The total death list is placed at 812, of whom 52 were less than 10 and 296 less than twenty years of age. Of the 812, there were 341 men and boys and 451 women and girls among the dead. YOU CAN FIND HERE ADVERTISING CALENDARS SUITABLE FOR ALL LINES OF BUSINESS AND AT PRICES THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU. THERE IS ALSO A LINE OF "LEFT OVER" 1915 CALENDAR BACKS, WHICH CAN BE SOLD AT A SACRIFICE TO LARGE PURCHASERS, WHO DESIRE TO SAVE MONEY. The solemn man stopped outside the clothier's shop and gazed earnestly at the smiling proprietor. "Good idea, isn't it?" said the latter. "Very good indeed," said the solemn man. And he glanced once more at the three pairs of trousers which were hanging in the showcase labeled: "Admission, 10 shillings." "Admission, 12 shillings." and "Admission, 15 shillings." "See?" said the dealer. "You can't get in without paying the price. Ha, ha! If there's anything I believe in it's wit in an ad." The solemn man scanned the advertisement again. "You haven't any reserved seats, have you?" he asked. The smile melted on the dealer's face, and, with a tragic look, he groaned and took down the tickets. For this world is hard indeed upon its humors—London Scraps. Blo Grain Elevator Burned. The Chesapeake & Ohio Grain Elevator "A," one of the largest in the United States, was destroyed by fire at Newport News, Va., with a loss estimated at $2,000,000. Reports of fatalities have not been verified. GENERAL. MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.60/4.85; city mills, fancy, $6.75/7. RYE FLOUR quiet; per barrel, $5 $5.50. WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, new, $18/1.09. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow 87/88c. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 60c; brown seeds, 58c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 17 17/17c; old rooster, 12/18c; Dress, steady; choice fowls, 19c.; old steady, 15c. BUTTER quiet: fancy creamery. Bc. per lb. CHICAGO—HOGS higher; mixed batterch. $2.50/$8.05; good-heavy $3.75; much heavier $4.25/$8.25; $7.40/$11.5; plus $10.0; bulk $16.00. CATTLE steely: brewers 85,30 cows and hoppers 85,30 cows and hoppers 85,30 strong: polys- and worms 85,30 lamb: 85,30 Get the habit of reading The Planet. Subscribe now, $1.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents each. JOHN M. HIGGINS DEALER IN Choice Groceries, Wines Liquors and Cigars PURE GOODS, FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY. 1610 East Franklin St. (Near Old Market) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA RICHMOND VIRGINIA A. HAYES. 727 N. Second St. 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 t suitable place. All Country Orders given Special Attention. Your special attention is called to the New Style Oak Caskets. Call and see me and you shall we wait on individually. PHONE: MADISON 2783 OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE you by your Furniture now! When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—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 fall to ask our salesmen about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase. CMAS. G. JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1899 ADAMS AND BROAD Largo Bay St. N. 10.50 A.M. From Prodricksburg; Arbrotry Byd St. N. 9.25 A.M. From Prodricksburg; Lorne Kiba St. N. 7.30 A.M. 2.15 P.M. 6.30 P.M. H. Anhabd. Santa Ana St. 6.30 A.M. 11.35 A. M. 5.60 P.M. H. From Anhabd. Kundry accommodation Imino Imino Kiba 4.15 P. M. For Prodricksburg; arrivo Kiba 10.45 A. M. From Prodricksburg. *Daily. All trains to or from Byrd Street parties not guaranteed. Read the signs. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL RAIL LINK TO NORFOLK. Schedule in effect, April 8, 1918. Leave Leaf, Richmond, M. to NORFOLK. *8:00 A.M. M.* 2:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. For LYNCHBURG AND TILE WEST: *9:15 A.M.* *9:20 A.M. M.* 2:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. *9:20 A.M. M.* 2:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. Richmond from Norfolk: *11:30 A.M.* *10:30 P.M. M.* 11:30 P.M. on the West: *12:00 A.M.* *12:10 P.M. M.* 12:10 P.M. 4:00 P.M. *9:00 P.M. M.* *daily* *daily except Sunday.* *daily only* P. T. M. Mountains O. P. B. SUNDAY C. H. BURLEY, D. M. A. Richmond, W. ATLANTIC COAST LINE EFFECTIVE APRIL 6, 1915. TRAINS LEAVE MICKMIDDY DAILY: For Florida and the South: 8:15 A. M., 8:30 P. M., 18:50 A. M. For Norfolk: 9:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 9:40 P. M. For N. A. W. M. Week: 6:15 A. M., 9:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M., 9:00 P. M. For Peterburg: 18:50 A. M., 8:15 A. M., 8:30 P. M., 8:00 P. M., 9:00 P. M., 9:40 P. M., 9:40 P. M., 8:60 P. M., 6:20 P. M., 9:20 P. M., 11:00 P. M. For Goldsbord and Fayetteville: 1:00 P. M. TRAINS LEAVE MICKMIDDY DAILY: 5:00 A. M., 9:18 A. M., 6:50 A. M., 7:87 A. M., 10:45 A. M., 12:40 A. M., 2:10 P. M., 3:00 P. M., 4:00 P. M., 6:00 P. M., 9:00 P. M., 11:00 P. M. *Knexpt Sunday. *Sunday only. Time of arrival and departure and connection of guests. D. JAMESBORD. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Premier Carrier of the firm Trains leave Richmond, Mala Street Station, N. B.—Following schedule figures published in information and not guaranteed: 4. 80 P. M—Daily local for Danville. 10. 80 A. M—Daily limited—For all points South 10. 80 P. M—Except for Chattanooga City, Purham and intermediate stations. 6. 00 P. M—Daily—For Danville, Atlanta and Miriamham, with Pullman observation sleeping cars. 11. 18 F. P. M—Daily—Limited—For all points South, Pullman. YORK RIVER LINE. 6:10 P. M.-Bloomertrain (Purcell en)--Daily To West Point, connecting for Baltimore, daily except Sunday. 7:35 A. M.-Mulligan, local to West Point. From the South: 7:00 A. M., 8:00 A. M. 5:50 I. M., and 8:00 P. M., daily; 8:00 A. M. except Sunday. From West Point: 9:10 A. M., 8:15 P. M. daily. M. L. RIHOP, D. P. A. 007 Kast Main St. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO. Kindnai, Louisville & West. 2:30 P. 7:10 P. Main Line Local. 9:00 A. 2:30 P. 7:10 P. Nana River Line. 10:00 A. 2:30 P. Nana News, North. Old Pl. 9:00 A. 11:30 M. Newport News Local. 7:15 A. 2:45 P. Trains arrive from Norfolk. 21:30 A. 2:45 P. 6:30 P.; Newport News. 9:35 A. 2:00 P. North West. 9:35 A. 2:40 P., 9:35 A. 7:30 P.; Newport News. 9:35 A. 2:40 P., 9:35 A. 7:30 P.; Newport News. 9:35 A. 2:40 P., 9:35 A. 7:15 P. Daily. Except Sunday. SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH Northbound trains scheduled to leave Richmond daily, 9:30 A.M. M., local to Norrland; 1:30 P.M. M. sleepers and coaches, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville; coaches and sleepers to Jacksonville; 12:45 A.M. M., sleepers, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Madison daily. 4:00 A. M., 8:00 A. M., Leeds. 9:00 A. M., 5:37 P. M. ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office. 2006 P Street, Phone. Mad. 2337—Residence, 1015 St. James St. Phone. Madison 6619. Paraphernial, Material and Service of the Road. Rehabilitation Moderate Rates MADAME SCOTT. Rehabilitation for Women and Children and in attendance at Funerals. THE ECONOMY 327 N. FIRST ST. Fine Tailoring Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing CHITMAN M. WHITE Pressmaster JOHN MITCHELL, JR.——EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. SATURDAY... SEPT. 18, 1915 To anticipate trouble is to have it head your way. Saving money is as much of a habit as spending it. When we reach Heaven many of our tired people will be rested. We cannot touch Heaven by simply talking about rest there. Self-interest in the final point causes of that about rest. People who love colorful happy will matter more than people who like pink. God, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, is the same as the Father of all things. We are having a hard time with this world, but there is still a possibility on our hands. The people with the country in that agitation and determination have attained all way. Never be discouraged, even when without money, and the presence of life never be discouraged. Many of our people practice wash rather than patioite economy. As a result, they are always hard up Every wrong act a colored person commits was copied from some similar wrong act of the white folks An idustrious, God-fearing colored person not only benefits himself of herself, but benefits the race --- Our people are striving as individuals They should supplement this program with a struggle for combined effort. Some people take up too much of their time arranging for dying and too little of their time preparing for living. Colored people are just as much opposed to each other in many instances as the Negro hunters are opposed to them. When we demonstrate that we can not deal justly with each other, how can we expect others to deal justly with us? Upright living is a guarantee of upright dying, and upright dying is a guarantee of Heaven and its immortal glories. Germany has already beaten the record in the world's war. They are masters, both in strategy and in prolonged fighting. --- Let us be polite and obliging. Let us see the many slights to which we are-subjected and don't see them. We can climb more rapidly that way. Riding rough-shod over the rights of other people because you have the power does not bring other material success or permanent happiness. The man who proposed that person be choreographed at sixty years might as well, "go w—o—y back and sit down." The countries of the Old World are proving that man are at their best even beyond that age. --- A colored man's appearance in a white man's place of business, on a basis of equality, immediately invites a rebuke, although it should not be so. --- Life is a struggle—an upward struggle with its bereavements and disappointments. It is like a rainy day and a sunshine to-morrow with a glorious sunset. When colored men make a scientific study of finance, just as white men have done, the doors of wealth and competency will swing wide for them too. --- The better class of colored people are constagly handled and embarrassed by the worst classes and they do not seem to know how to deal with them. When we quartet with each other, we should not forget that we are doing ourselves and the race we represent in our lives have right and do right should be our motto. When some white folks abuse me, let us contain offensive and see if they are talking about us falsely. If they are telling the truth, let us go around. Gentlemen, to have gotten the measurement before hand of every man, is a tiny thing. If it can command the resources, hear enough to backrupt the governor it can win. Great Britain has always been slow in settling down and that country identity is. It plays a strong role in its international contest. If it can succeed in bringing the strategic belief that country becomes what it can, we will present content. --- We are very much worried sometimes over the outlook in this country. We have to put our history and read the "Rise and Fall of Nations" and to our Place and read that Dust Crumbs shed for all in order to get the proper conation and encouragement before we can go to work again. --- Race prejudice is not dying out. It is on the increase. The hoodsmill black man in the North and the progressive cooler than in the South are the cause of it. The one causes the respectable white elements to hate us, and the other causes the poor white hoodsmill elements in the South to do the same thing. --- THE TROUBLE WITH AUSTRIA The action of Secretary or State Lawson, the official diplomatic mouthpiece of the United States Government, in notifying the Austro-Hungarian Government that Avrasa-Dor Dumna is objectionable to this government, due to his activity in notifying the subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Government in this country that they are not permitted under the laws of their country to work in factories manufacturing munitions for the allies, intensifies an already acute situation. Just what course the Austro-Hungarian Government will pursue is problematical. It may be that Avna Sasson Druma will be transferred to some other post or ordered to report at Vienna, where a more important position may be given him. The present situation would indicate that our government now occupies a position which is as critical as it is unsatisfactory. These diplomatic disagreements distrub the financial situation. Capital is timid. It goes in hiding on the first hint of trouble. White President Wilson has maintained a position consonant with peace, there are evidences multiplying that he has simply delayed the inevitable, and ultimately a condition of war will exist. It is plainly evident that the allies are desperate and that the help of the United States Government is badly needed. When the financiers from England and France come over to this country to personally arrange a loan with the financiers of this country, then the situation is indeed critical in Europe. This is caused though, primarily by the probability of Germany and her allies winning in the contest. In this event, the assets of Great Britain and her allies would be held to pay to Germany and her allies a war indemnity. What is needed by the British Government and its allies is a decisive victory. This would relieve the present tense situation and restore the British pound sterling to its former prime spender as the unit of value in the financial markets of the world. Subscribe to the Richmond Planet. It only costs $1.50 per year in advance. ricaled blood; called in the police of the city to curb God's infiltrated ministers; employed the strong arm of the law and the court to hammer the representatives of Christ into subjection; thus showing themselves to be more like a gathering of demons from the lower world, than an assembly of demons from the higher world. In Christ, the Prince of Peace. This thundering disgrace upon' the fair name of the denomination is being heard around the world. GOD'S CALL TO THE CHURCH TO AWAKE. "But who is responsible for it? To whom is this great sin chargeable? We answer to the church. The church is greater than the minister. It is the greatest power on earth. Through the church God calls and makes ministers so that the ministers are only the moral thermometers of the church. Now this sad incident of the National Convention is not without its lessons. It argues the need of a greater unity among the Baptists not only in the state of Virginia, but in all the states of this country. For this war cloud that has burst in fury upon the Baptist brethren in the western metropolis was composed of the belfish vapors of dissention, bickering strife and separation arising out of the several states where representatives live and labor. From this electric cloud, God is speaking to the church, saying, "Awake, awake put on the strength, Oh Zion!" If the church should awake and command peace and harmony among ministers, or their harmony, then such storms as have recently swept over our denomination will not soon be repeated. God help the church to arise from us of the wolves that divide and devour the church. I repeat, the churches should demand that the ministers get together or get out of the pulpits. COMMITTEE OF ARBITRATION GODS REMEDY FOR SPLITS IN THE DENOMINATION. A sort of splitting disease has be- come epidemic in the Baptist church. Pleased our churches our associations our state conventions and, is now stalking at the door of our National convention. And why? Simply be- cause the word of God is not adhered to by the death. Christ has prescribed the remedy for well all church troubles so that a prohibited strife and spitting is hardly necessary. He has recommended the idea of a conferring to a father of the offended and the offender as a means of reconciliation "Do to him and tell him his fault." Arbitration is the wise and safe resort for the belligerents of the household of faith. Open and stubborn warfare is a failure, doomed because it is not in harmony with the will of God. To this end, I have recommended that as a means of reconciling our differences in this state as Baptists, that a committee of representatives from both the Baptist State Convention and the Baptist State Convention be appointed duty it shall be to decide on terms of reconciliation and submit their findings to the two bodies respectively for satisfaction. This course is along the way of light and truth. Is any man in this state opposed to this way? Would either body in question refuse to come to the light? If so, why? MEN OF MERIT IN BOTH BODIES MUST COMBINE. Of course, there is one hindrance to such a conference as I have indicated, and that is, the lust for a worldly honor and preferment with which some of our brethren are solely afflicted, as was Baalium. Like Luffer they would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. There are others who are devoid of principle and awayed by policy and who feel that by stirring up hate and discord, opposing the unity of the Baptists, they will catch a popular wave and ride into cheap notoriety. During ante bellum days when public corn shucking was prevalent among the farmers of Virginia and the colored people met in large numbers for social intercourse as well as for work, there were some men who gathered there ostensibly to have a fight in order to gain a cheap notoriety and having it known that they, were there. And so it is today, there are those who possess small taligns and large ambition, who Mote afraid to risk their fortunes for calm notority and honor or calm and peace the ful methods, but seek to engender Jail grieve and confusion for no other reason C. J. than to acquire cheap notority. Such Sell honor is as evanescent as the dewervers will turn, till mankind of Sodom, turn to ashes upon their Titles. And there are those like Judas, who would sell their seat in heaven one for a dollar. But men of merit, men Graz of brains, men of high ideals and Christian manhood seek no such notority. Like the stars they prefer to shine in the clear sky of peace, harate mony and good will among their Chas brethren and upon their merits. Such ord men as these must combine to put hilt down those ecclesiastical pymies in with our state who desire to continue a The warfare between the brethren for per-队 personal aggrandizement. Let the strong widen of both the Association and Convention meet and, decide upon the unity of the Baptists of Virginia, J. Yours for Baptist U. City in Virginia, J. President of General Association of Virginia. LOTT CAREY BARTISTS END SUCCESSFUL BISSION. (Afro-American, Baltimore, Md.) Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 7—The nineteenth annual session of the Lott Carry Baptist Foreign Mission Convention came-to-end Sunday. The next session will be held at Sharon Baptist Church, Baltimore. -The convention voted to send Rev. C. S. Brown to Hayt1 to look into the feasibility of establishing mission and educational work there. It also decided to install an industrial department in the school and mission house that is being built in Liberia. The report of the accompanying secretary, W. W. Alhomaye of Baltimore, described the activity of the convention during the past year. Over $9,000 was raised for ministries and educational programs. The thirty-eighth communication of the Alabama Grand Lodge, A. F. and A. M. Walter Thomas Woods, of Mobile, Grand Master, and the twentieth annual meeting of the Grand Chapter Eastern Star, Royal Matron Janie M. Balasco, of Mobile and Royal Grand Patron Rev. T. H. Rose in charge, closed Thursday night the most successful years in the history of the organizations. Reports were read from 885 local lodges representing a majority of the organization. The latest official report of the financial conditions of the two bodies of Masons and their wives and widows was placed in the hands of the official reporter Rev. A. F. Owens, today which reveals the following: THE GRAND LODGE. Received by the Endowment Treasurer R. B. Hudson, $93,555.23. Disbursed by the Endowment Treasurer R. B. Hudson, $78,415.45. Balance on hand at close of Grand Lodge, $15,169.78. The actual receipts were $2,000 in excess of 1914. $2,008 was collected at the Selma meeting just closed by Secretary A. A. Peters. Received by the Grand Treasurer, J. O Diffay during the year ending at close of the meeting $12, and at close of the meeting $100 collected at the Selma meeting by Grand Secretary C. N. McDunnel. Disbursed: $11,210.55. Total amount collected by both departments $106,957.52. This is con- sidered the best financial showing of any previous year. GRAND CHAPTER EASTERN STAR. The Endowment Treasurer, Mrs. A. E. Jouglass, made the following report: Received during the year ... $14,255.46 Amount brought forward ... 3,983.77 To bank on interest ..... 1,000.00 To balance ..... $3,467.94 Received by Stock Secretary Mrs. L. R. Burwell Grand Total is covered by Eastern Star $20,543.73. Total received by both lodges, $125,312.26. Amending donations made by the Grand Lodge was $20,000 for Sela University where the meetings were held. All the elective and appositive officers were retained for the ensuing year. Resolutions were adopted by the Grand Lodge thanking Dr. Stakely from Montgomery for opposing the Honner bill prohibiting white teachers from Negro schools and endorsed the editors in the Montgomery Advertiser and other papers on the same subject. All Honner officers were thanked for deciding to place colored porters on its lines. Also thanking the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for special coaches for delegates to the Grand Lodge. A strong report on education was read by H. C. Benford of Huntsville enlisting the movement to reduce literacy in Alabama, calling upon each member of the Grand Lodge to teach at least one colored person to read and write. The report was adopted without opposition. The Grand Master, in his annual address, recommended the same. 'Grand Master Woods' recommended also that any colored Masons convicted of "boot-legging" should be suspended from the order. After the officers were installed by Past Grand Master James T. Gregory of Greenville, the Grand Lodge adjourned to hold its 39th annual meeting, 1916, in Montgomery. Among the loading Negroes attending the Grand Lodge were: Dr. E. T. Blasw, Mobile; J. O. Diffay; Birmingham, press of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank; James A. Bray; Birmingham, editor of the Voice of the People, the official organ of the Grand Lodge; Professor H C. Bemford, principal of the Huntville high school for Negroes; H. A. Loveless, Montgomery; Jeremiah Barnes, of Tuscaloosa, the oldest Negro Mason in the state; C. N. McDaniel, Hartscallio, James T. Gregory, Greenville; Prof. C. L. McWilliams; Prof. R. B. Hudson, Selma; Rev. A. F. Owens, Selma University; Rev. W. H. Mixon, Selma, unofficial. The Grand Chapter Eastern Star recieved all the old officers with only one change, Mr. Dr. Burwell, of Selma Grand Secretary in place of former Secretary Hassen. Grand Matron J. M. Balasco of Mo- bile stated that five hundred women attended the meeting of the Grand Chapter. She reported also that her order had the best meeting in its history. They will meet next year with the Grand Lodge in Montgomery. The Grand Chapter made donations to Payne University and to several poor widows. The following are the elective办 Walter T. Woods G. M. Mobile; James A. Byrd, D. G. M. Birmingham; J. H. Curtis, G. S. W. Dothan; Joseph Phillips, G. J. W. Pike Road; C. N. McDaniels, G. S. , Harteselle; J. O. Diffay, G. T.; Birmingham; R. B. Hudson, G. E. T., Selma; A. A. Peters, G. E. S. Girard. NEW ORLEANS NOTES. "Thommy Infant" Playground Is Dedicated—Provident Sanatorium Newly Equiped and Renovated. (Br. John H. Williams.) (By John H. Williams.) The playground or colored children was dedicated recently in the vicinity of Themary Lafont School, named in honor of colored film theologist Burlessly donated the for and school. The affair was indeed grand. Inspiring尔德men were delivered by the broughest man of the city, colored and white, including M. K. Batterman, magistrate. Mrs. L. Batterman and Miss O. and M. Jenkins, clerks, gave apperance parts in 6383 St. Batterman. House, in house of Mrs. Baskinson's husband, which was well attended. Mrs. Baskinson Baldwin, of 1890 Louisiana Avenue, has been ill for some time. Dr. J. Madson Young, dean of Leeland University and pastor of Orient Baptist Church, is still in accord with modern progress, but too busy to attend the National Convention. Mr. Samuel Abney, of Tampa, Fla., Mr. J. Prichart, of Mobile, Ala., Prof. J. Mas. M. Burr, of Baton Rouge, and Mr. F. Antoine, of Plaquam, La., were at the Chicago Hotel, recently. Union, Bethel A. M. E. Church will pass a visit St. Matthews Baptist Church on third Sunday by special invitation on Dr. B. Bell and Dr. F. H. Cook, pastors. Mr. Josephine Davis and Mrs. Lula Edmond, of Ft. Worth, Tex., were in the city on a visit. The Provident Sanatorium was just renovated and remodeled to accommodate colored people, in care of Dr. J. T. Nowman, who is a genuine race man. He has a staff of the most competent in the city, viz: Dr. F. M. Nelson, R. W. Coker, G. W. Lucas, Thomas Mimms, N. W. Brazler, L. A. Butler and J. Nelson, J. T. Newman, M. D. dean. Prof. R. M. R. Nelson is attracting much attention in his lectures on colonization in Cuba. Evening Star Tabernacle No. 2, will lay a corner stone in the presence of a large crowd of members and friends of the order, on Sunday. September 12, at 4 P. M., with an interesting programme. Services to be held at St. Matthew Chapel, Revs. E. M. Washington, J. B. Bell, J. S. Cross, J. Monroe, M. Richard, E. N. Webb, H. Butler, F. H. Cook, will perform the theological ceremonies. Hon. A. J. Johnson, G. G. W. S. 19 YEARS OF TOIL 19 YEARS OF TOIL A Compilation of Facts and Figures of the Wonderful Work Done in Nashville by Dr. R. H. Boyd. Sends Out His Report of the Two Million Five Hundred Thousand of Negro Baptists Showing Wonderful Progress Figures That Stagger the Unbeliever. Chicago, IL. (Represencial New Service) Millions of dollars in money and many more millions in religious tracts handled by the Negro Baptist Publishing House, located at Nassau, Tennessee, is known in the Sixteenth Annual Report of R. C. H. Boyd, the secretary, and pounder of the National Baptist Publishing House (one can hardly read) the report, because it is by the report and the skagging fixtures brought up by the compilation of the year's work. Long since this exhale, whose brains and business sagacity have been pronounced by all as responsible for the sum total of the success, been looked upon as the leading business man in the ranks of Negro Baptists. Every year hundreds of delegates and members of this organization they may take to the various points of the United States from whence they come to read and ponder over it. In spite of the mental depression and the business changes and in spite of the fact that the Home Mission work was operated from another state and city this past year, the report shows an increase of many thousands of dollars in the business department. This was the result of an increase in the circulation of their Sunday school literature in many states where the literature had not been used heretofore. Some of the facts contained in the report show that from 1857 to 1915 two millions, three hundred six thousand, one hundred and five dollars, and sixty-eight cents have been collected and exemplified in the operation of the plant and that one hundred thirty six million, seven hundred ninety-four thousand, three hundred thirty nine periodicals have been written printed and sent out to members of the denomination throughout the civilized world, while letters to the number of three million, six hundred eighty four thousand, one hundred nine been written and sent one signed by the secretary of the Publishing Board. The secretary shows in his report work done by the quartz, or that is for every three months of the past fiscal year, that three hundred cloven thousand, one hundred twenty-three letters were written this year and that the operations of the plant this year reached the sum total of one hundred sixty thousand, seven hundred ninety eight dollars and thirty three cents, which is the largest report from the Publishing Board alone since the establishment of the - institution. Heretofore the Home Mission and Publishing Boards' reports were made together, giving one sum total Secretary Boyd further shows in this report the extension work during the report the special mention to the facts concerning the location of the plant, the reports on using the machinery, the office of the assistant secretary, the periodical department, the book, Bible and tract dextensive view of the editorial work and the extension department, which includes the Sunday School Congress The report further contains the Story of the Congress with the enrollment of the Birmingham meeting. Dr. C. H. Clark is the chairman of the board and has served in that capacity since its organization as has the secretary. They employ over one hundred members of the race and have a mammoth plant operating regularly. a DARLINGTON, B. C. Today, Sept. 10, there is a race and horse show at the race track. I left Florence at 9:50 A. M., over the Winston Salem, southbound, arriving at Darlington near 10:20. On the day, so much to tell, one could hardly do business. I remained on the public equally the greater part of the day, and did some business. While in the city I not Misses Prince R. Keith, Lacey Scott and others. Respectfully, R. B. Winston. The Great Indian Convocation Sharon Hill, Pa., Sept. 1, 1915. Mt. Zion Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of this city, was the center of religious activity during the past week. Rev. L. C. Coleman who is pastor of the people had arranged everything so that there was not a hit in the entertainment of negotiations that had come from Washington, D.C., Seenica, Md., Baltimore and Fairfield, Md., Choster and Philadol pla. Pa. Dr. G. T. Long, the presiding elder of the Washington District, was in charge of this great meeting and welding the gavel from the beginning. Rev. J. E. Scott preached the first sermon that set in motion the conventional fires that did not subside till the close of the conference. The organization resulted in the election of J. W. Boston, secretary; C. W. White, president of the Epworth League division; Prof. Robinson president of the Sunday School division. Both of the gentlemen were from Washington, D. C. Mrs. R. Wimbish president of the Women's Home Ministry department. Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Jones were elected secretaries of the last departments and rendered efficient service that reflected a lasting credit to themselves and the conventions. Many distinguished men make the membership of this convention, representing Payne College and Atlanta University of Georgia, Howard University, Washington, D. C. Drs. G. T. Long, N. W. Clark, C. L. Knox M. L. Breeding, L. E. B. Rosser, J. E. Scott, O. B. Heavелow, W. D. Wood, C. H. Posey, A. J. Wood, A. Parson, C. L. Coleman, P. L. Moore, A. E. Ferthee, W. H. Robinson. Prominent Sunday school workers were there in abundance—Profs. C. W. White, Ellis Beck Robinson, Mrs. Anna Washington, Miss A. Shaw, Mussa Kita Thomas, Mrs. Bayliss, Mrs. C. L. Knox, Mrs. L. C. Jones, Mrs. Laserx, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Sarah Moxley and Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Monroe and Miss Soloman. One of the special features of the convention was the Literary concert given on Friday night, when a most interesting programme was rendered. The talented Mrs. Rosa Wimbish presided, Mrs. J. R. T. Christian, the cultured wife of Rev. J. R. T. Christian read a paper that thrilled the audience with greatest enthusiasm of the evening, save the address of Prof. L. B. Moore, Ph.D., dean of Teachers College of Howard University, who more than sustained his great reputation as lecturer and enlisted scholar. His speech was a masterpiece. • Rev. A. W. Womack, A. B., Jack son, Tenn., was present and Mrs. Womack, just returning from East Orange, N. J., made a speech that was very pleasing and timely. • Rev. C. Coleman made the largest reports to together with Rev. C. H. Posey. These divines reported all claims in full for the year, thus setting the record for all others to follow. The full amount of all money reported at this conference was more than six hundred dollars. Rev. L. E. B. Rosser, secretary of the Ministerial Relief Association of the C.M.E. Church, delivered a most interesting speech touching the work of that society and the Conference passed a resolution pledging its support to the same. It was found that the secretary was in hopes of securing a large downdowment for the society to aid in the support of the superannuated preachers of the church. This is perhaps the reason why the church and will do a great work toward setting at rest some of the complaints that are heard from time to time. Rev. J. R. T. Christian, the gospel preacher; Rev. N. W. Clark, the scholar and orator; Rey. M. L. Breeding, the eminent logician, filled the pulpit on Sunday of the conference and delighted the vast congregations that heard them. Thus the C. M. E. Church is planting, staffing in the far North. This is its territory where Allon and Spencer弯 their operation more than one hundred years ago. We now have in this section four beautiful stone and brick churches. Two in Philadelphia and one in Sharon Hill, and another at Chester. We are beginning the fifth one at Ridley Park, where the untiring Rev. A. E. Feribee holds the form. Dr. G. T. Long still holds a firm grip on the reins and his leadership is not questioned in these parts for the men gladly follow him in regards to the uplift of the cause of the church. There are more brick and stone churches on the district than any other in the entire connection. A telegram was sent to Georgia, where Bishop William was holding the Georgia Convocation at Macon, announcing the success of the Wash ington effort Mrs. Octavia Woods (Continued from first page). tute. Baltimore, Md., Miss, then, Hunter (maiden name) was married to Dr. Robert C. Woods, June 6, 1907, by Dr. Harvey Johnson, of Baltimore. Dr. Woods was at this time president of the Clayton Wil Jams Institute. From here Dr. Woods took up the pastorate of Mr. Zion Baptist Church, of Staunton, Va., where Mrs. Woods rendered most efficient service as an ideal helpmate in her husband's work. Many floral designs and other tokens of condolence came from Staunton, availing the abiding memory of Mrs. Octavia Woods and her husband in that city. Dr. Woods came from Staunton to Lyonsburg, in 1911, to take up the work as President of Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Here Mrs. Woods was a wonderful—though unseen and unheard future—serving to make her husband's work and efforts effective, and the old. The museum of our work in the hands of Mary C. About 10 o'clock, Monday, Sept. 16, 1915, the city parish with mem bers of their congregations had gathered in the Diamond Hill Baptist Church. Yes, all was silent as the funeral canal came in and a halo of solemnity overshacmed the great audience, Undertaker Scott had care of the body, and Dr. L. R. W. Johnson, of the Court Street Baptist Church, had charge of the pro gram. Mesdames Hayes-Allen, Anderson and Tyrrell carried the floral designs, while the pill bearers were selected from the instructors at the Seminary and deacons of the Diamond Hill Baptist Church. As the train marched up the alley to the music of a funeral lay, President Woolls, awe stricken and weeping, the five motherless children, the draped roti tives whose convulsions of sorrow broke out at intervals, the tears and sighs of others who cared, all these added sorrow to the grim pages of the chapter, "Nearer My God to Thee" was sung by many who them selves could scarcely sing for weeping Dr. L. C. Scott lined hymn "How Firm a Foundation," the choir singing the white, Dr. P. F. Morris road the Scripture and Rev. B. K. Mason, of the White Rock Baptist Church offered a fervent prayer, "Sister, whist sweet child and lovely was ill, the Lord's name is mine, choir singing the white, Mrs Woods' favorite poem—L'Envol—by Rudyard Kipling was here read by Dr. Rudolph, of the Jackson Street M. E. Church. The principal remarks in the funeral service were made by Dr. D. N. Vasser. Among the many helpful and consoling remarks by Dr. Vasser, we quote him as saying: "The Lord has given us definite instructions as to how we must live, but no instructions as to what death we must die." He caused us to feel that in the economy of God, whatever is—is right. A solo was here sung by Mr. Roberts, of the Diamond Hill Choir. The closing prayer was offered by Dr. N. Spiller, recently of Durham, N. C. The prayers was pregnant with deepest love and consecration to God and abiding sympathy for the bereaved family. It was fretted, also with definite petitions that God would care for President Woods in these hours of strain, and that the little children might be brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Here the instrument chined another funeral dirge, reminding us that death had taken his toll; and if some saluted ghost had given orders that bewildered multitude, they all broke ranks and got ready to go. By instructions of Dr. L. R. W. Johnson, the city mourners formed a lino, two loops, in the foliage followed by the ladies carrying the floral designs, then came the pall bearers followed by the undertaker pushing, the bier, then the family with the relatives and congregation following in their wake. At the Union Station, Undertaker Scott delivered the body to the N. & Railway Company, consigned to Road here the funeral services were continued and the body interred in the family aquathe of the cemetery there. ```markdown ``` FUNERAL SERVICE CONTINUED AT RQANOK. Many Lynchburgers had followed the funeral train to Roanoke to pay the last tribute of respect to Mrs. Octavia Woods. Her husband and near relatives had broken down, but for the broad and generous sympathizers in Lynchburg. A large and sympathetic audience had gathered in the High Street Baptist Church, at Roanoke, where Dr. J. H. Burks, the pastor was master of the continued funeral ceremonies. Opening hymn was lined by the pastor of the A. M. E. Church; prayer was offered by Rev. J. E. Road, of Salem, Va., Dr. J. Milton Waldron, of Washington, D. C., read the Scriptures. Telegrams, resolutions, and letters of condolence were here read. Among the many, we were able to note the following, as read by Dr. J. A. Brown, of 'Staunton, Va., and Dr. E. R. Ricks, of the First Baptist Church, Roanoke: National Baptist Convention—By Rev. J. Francis Wilson. Drs. J. C. Austin and J. D. St. Claire Drake, from Pattaburgh, Pa. The Mt. Zion Baptist Church—Staunton, Va. The Ministers' Conference of Philadelphia, Dr. C. K. Scott, Pres. Dr. W. F. Graham and resolutions from the Holy Trinity Baptist Church Dr. Robert W. Goff, Philadelphia. Dr. Z. D. Lewis, Richmond Womens' Home and Foreign Mission Society, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Sharon Baptist Church, Big Island, Va. Stanley F. Johnson, West Va. Mrs. M. S. Miller and M. B. Sem. Staunton, Va. Miss Lula Strowbridge, Glasgow, Va. Rev. S. A. Brown, pastor of the Guildford Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va. These and some others came which your scribe did not get. Many of the resolutions, notably from Lynchburg and Staunton, spoke in highest terms of Mrs. Woods and the necessity of her disposition. Dr. A. A. Galvin, of the Loyal St. Baptist Church, Danville, and president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, presided the funeral. Many of the ministry were present, both local and from other sections of the state. Many stopped ever from the National Convention. So, this sweet life passed into that life which is beyond. NEWDEALER AND BOOTBLACK Bootblowing, also all kinds of Newspaper on sale. EDWARD BANKSING, 107 W. Parker Street. --- BAPTIST CONVENTION IS TORN ASUNDER (Afro-American, Baltimore, Md.) (Special Telegram.) Chicago, September 10—The long expected trouble between the friends of Rev. R. H. Boyd, leading spirit in the National Baptist Publishing House, at Nashville, and Rev. E. C. Morris, of Helena, Ark., president of the National Baptist Church, the opening of the thirty-fifth annual session of the convention at the First Regiment Armory, Wednesday. The anti-Morris forces showed their disapproval at the opening and amid a big tumult the Morris element walked out and met at Olivet Baptist Church. The bolters soon returned, however, and after a struggle with the mob, they escaped to Edskburg, Mk., who had been chosen as a safe, they secured a big megaphone that President Morris had intended using. The trouble, which arose over a new charter proposed, by the Morris clan, was resumed Thursday morning, when E. P. Jones came in with a deputy sheriff armed with an injunction order restraining E. C. Morris. The injunction was dissolved later in the day however. A court fight is in prospect and rival conventions may result. The monkey and parrot time started when Irev, E. E. Brooks offered a motion Wednesday to change the arranged program and take up consideration of the new charter at once. President Morris ruled this motion out of order, an appeal was taken and the fun started. It looked for a time as some of the ministers would lose sight of the church illitant and the church triumphant and mingle with each other's whiskers for a while. As soon as the first session adjourned, Irev, E. E. P. Jones was elected chairman by Morris's opponents and a full of deputies appointed. The convention was confronted, with the spectacle of two presiding officers on the platform in the afternoon. Serious trouble seemed imminent when Dr. Morris attempted to preside Thursday. After he and his follower left, Dr. Jones seized the gavel and pounded in vain for order. Ten police man and a lieutenant prevented any serious outbreak, however. Some persons pulled Dr. Jones by his coatlift and pulled him backward. He fell on his knees, but was not hurt. Finally he abandoned his attempt to preside and mingled with the crowd in front. Suddenly he pointed at a delegate and shouted, "Arrest that man." The man lost himself in the crowd, however, and a number of others were ejected. Rev. C. T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga., tried his persuasive eloquence to quiet the tumult, but in aid of him the singing of hymns and in form by Rev C. H. Darnish, of Louisville, to bring about others also failed. Dr. Jones' then gathered his friends about him and they fled to the east end of the army in response to the call, "This way to the National Baptist Convention!" The feeling was somewhat tense when the session resumed this morning, but police were on hand to quell any trouble that may arise. Several thousand ministers and laymen are here and the public has elicited the largest part of their time. The outbreak here was expected as Drs. Boyd and Morris, have been sharply criticising each other for some time. In fact, it has been freely asserted that a break would come at this time. The woman's auxiliary is having a peaceful session with Miss Nannie H. Burton, and she is seeing. The Convention has a fine exhibit at the exposition being held here. THE RAPTIST CONVENTION RIOT "Drag him out!" "Thief!" Shouts and rioting in the midst of which the above opithets were hurled back and forth by the delegates to the National Baptist Convention at Chicago, Tuesday, caused that gathering to break up in its order and brought a score or police men to the hall where many of the demonstrators had hulled the trouble followed the serving of a court injunction on the presiding officer and the latter's hasty retreat from the scene with scores of his followers through the rear door. This is the word that comes from Chicago. On Wednesday here had been an incipient riot, but instead of patching up their differences the factional fight grew worse. Dr. E. C. Morris, president of the organization for twenty years and leader of one of the battling factions, was interrupted in his opening address by Deputy Commissioner who invoked the platform just when he answering the charge that he received a salary of $1,500 a year, and served an injunction on him. The document had been obtained from Judge F. A. Smith, of the Circuit Court by R. H. Bard and Edwin Jones, leaders of the opposing faction. It enjoined Morris from speaking or taking any active part in the meeting or from going on with the proceedings of the convention. The information allowed that the organism is not a chartered body. Oliver Brown, in the conclusion statement of the court, had argued that the organization is not a chartered body. military presence of each officer when he arrived on the street. The officers established on their own ground, making it clear that there was no threat from the West Street police station ground the nearest stop and battled them—pelling at the top of their hungue—to the street. In the expectation of trouble and formal orders had been stationed at the court Wednesday, with orders to admit no one not able to produce evidence. The court said it would soon that followed the injunction service and the withdrawal of the president the policemen battled against the mob for five minutes or more before semblance of order was restored. When comparative quiet reigned—that is when charis and tables were not being overturned and violent imprecations were not being hurled back and forth. Rev. Walker, of Augusta, Ga., mounted the platform and, during the warring factions to reason. Out on the street a crowd of colored people collected, excitedly discussing the points at issue and occasionally threatening violence to each other. Officers passed among them, ordering them to move on. In the convention hall about 2,000 persons remained, listening with occasional interruptions to the pacifist speech that was made. Even as late as an hour or more after the crisis the police once in a while had to dive into the audience and drag from it a loudly protesting delegate. The Appeal has no particular interest in either of the warring factions, but feels keenly the disgrace and convention lot has imposed upon the colored people of the country. This is a good time for the Bap tist convention to cut out the annual meetings and resolve to meet once in four years as the Methodists do thousand delegates attend the Bap tist meetings and there is no reason why the brethren should practically throw away from $50,000 to $100, 000 on annual meetings which are not worth the money. For four years and eliminate the rioting—The Appeal, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Mnu. ALLEN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR LEAGUE CONVENTION. The 10th Annual Convention of the Allen Christian Endeavor League of Virginia convened in Chatham, Va. Monday, August 30, 1915, with delegates from every section of the state and the presiding bishop of the Secd. Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in attentive worship. The calling was called to order by the state Superintendent, Rev S. S. Morris, of Richmond, Va., until it was resolved "That there was no cern left in the popper," on Wednesday night, the meeting was replete with information and inspiration. The watchword was "No waste," and the delegates enthusiastically lived up to the slogan. The discussions were practical and useful through preparation and intimate knowledge of the subjects treated. After hearing the annual message of the state superintendent, which was a comprehensive review of the last year's work, the convention congratulated Rev. S. B. Morris upon the splendid achievements of his administration, thanked him for the milestone he achieved, and given the League and unanimous endorsed him for election to the position of General Secretary of the A. C. B. League of the A. M. E. Church. Dr. G. C. Taylor, of Roanoke, Va., the musical director of the league, made the hills and values of Chatham resound with sounds of glory and praise. As a live, wide awake endeavor, Bishop L. J. Coppell led all the opportunity to take part in the discussions and always spoke with an earnestness, that was convincing. Some of the most salient points of his addresses were: "We are living in a God age, an age of much religion, yet, it has no doubt in the extent of the worm, atrocious, persecutions and lawlessness." In the world to be a Quaker for the next twelve months." "When the war is over and God brings order out of chaos, the Negro will be called 'upon to assume heavy responsibilities, I am afraid you will not be ready.' The A. M. F. Chure is controlled by persons of African descent. Race, color and nationality, however, do not act as bars to membership. He will amhamed of the Negro who will grape himself and his race by buying a jim crow seat in a theatre." Dr. Evelyn Coppin, wife of the Bishop, spoke on several occasions. Row. S. S. Morris, who attended the World's Christian Endeavor Convention in Chicago, gave echoes from that great meeting and spoke of the honor accorded our brilliant General Secretary, Dr. J. C. Cardwell, of Nashville, Teen. Resolutions condemning lynching, disfranchisement and segregation; also on the loss of Bishop H. M. Turner to the church and endorsing the campaign for a world nation by 1930; the world no longer liquor 1930; were adopted by the vote. With an insplastic consonation meeting led by Mrs. E. H. Hunter, of Norfolk, Va., an appeal for life work recruits and a decision service the Convention passed in to history. It was pronounced by Dr. E. H. Hunter in the closing address, as not the life of the league, during the life of the league. M. ALPHONSO NORRELL. Southern Railway annexes re- vised round trip trains on certifi- cate plan basis amount the above co- ncentration. Throws to be sold and certifi- cation issued September 17th to St. Louis, Indiana and New York, September 18th, 1974. New Railway information will be provided upon order or request. APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO Texas City, Tex., Aug. 24, 1915. The undersigned Committee represents (400) five hundred colored people who have just emerged from one of the greatest storms in the history of this town, many are without shelter or household goods. In the face of all this, our race alone were made prisoners and forced to work on the streets five days under United States jurisdiction. All of them were separated from their families. About two hundred were guarded at night in one room, and were compelled to sleep on a wet floor without anything to sleep on. Many were sick. The men were forced to work in the rain, and oft times the guards forced them to get in ditches walst deep. Conditions of 300 women: Our women were treated most shamelessly; they were also kept under guard by United States troops, and were not allowed medical attention. If a woman left the guard house she was pushed back and threatened to be whipped if she repeated it. One old lady was carried to this condemned building on a cot unable to walk. Her son was not allowed to see after her night or day. She was refused medical attention. One woman who had a baby two weeks old was forced to stay there, misled by her mother. During this time there was no one to care for our belongings and as they had been submerged in the storm, naturally, clothing midwed (some rotted). Furniture fell to pieces. (It is to be remembered that water stood from three to four feet inside of our houses.) Our constitutional right was denied us on account of color. Up to this date we have not been paid for the five days work and the loss of this time and the losses of the storm, therefore appealed to the American Negro for aid at once, money and dry goods. We call upon the press and pulpit. If we are not allowed full time for the time we were in prison until we were liberated, we are going to the courts of justice for redress, based upon our constitutional rights. We appeal to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to take up our cause in the East. Respectfully. P. S. We will soon organize a protective association for justice. ` RESOLUTION Texas City, Tex., Aug. 27, 1915. We, your committee on resolutions beg leave to submit the following report. Whereas on the 18th day of August the city officials of this city associated with the United States army, did unfairly humiliate the Negro population in the most shameful and disgraceful manner. Whereas, these conditions did kill amate and punish our women and children to the fullest extent and caused one death. Therefore, be it resolved, that we view these conditions from a malignant and prejudiced standpoint. Be it further resolved that we take it for the greatest insult that can be inflicted upon our face. Be it further resolved that we furnish a copy of these resolutions to the Secretary of War, the Secretary of State, President Woodrow Wilson, Cong. Hon. Joe Eagle, Chief Justice White and a copy to the White Associated Press and the National Negro Press Association. We, your committee. Respectfully, REV. E. C. BRANCH, Chair R. P. BERZD, Sec. REV. S. H. McNEIL NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA Florence, S. C., Sept. 15, 1915. Scientists tell us that when the air becomes intensely heated so to speak, it rises, leaving a vacancy, then cooler air from warrushes that way and fills up-said "rap." We thought about it, that one's desires are vacant and require filling. Some desires are as useless for service as a broken limb, out of joint. Some are reasonable, others unreasonable. I once drove the United States mail and on a very warm day in July, at a certain place I wished for refreshment and a friend gave me a bottle of very red meat watermelon. That, then, was a reasonable desire and needed to be filled. The other day I stopped, watching my neighbor's progressive movement monts. I sat still a while and seemed and kept tally with my desires a few moments. I sat still a while and seemed like I could hear them coming like a race horse, to see which would be first. They just poured into my mind like shots out of a battling gun. I sat to myself, after all, what is depended upon such with which desire of his is his. There was one desire hat crept in while I was unaware, had it exploded there would not have been any of me left, to tell the tale. If you wish to steer clear of the rock coast on the sea shore of time, you had better watch closely those ideas of yours, which are tricky as a Texas mule. The tobacco was placed on the floor of the Cannon tobacco warehouse. Ten o'clock the autonome cried "Gentlemen, the game has been called; its a hundred mile dash, shall吧!" And from Mr. Cannon, the proprietor, came the war 'wheep.' "boys, let's go along with the splice." Help 'um up! help 'um up." PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Miss A. Willett, Miss Rachel Tharp, Miss L. Whitlock, Miss Mary Wash- ington, Miss Mia Wash- ington, Rose Lee Primus, Miss Anthurthur Conley, Miss Antoinette Harris, Mrs. V. P. Moone, Miss Frederica Tyler. BARTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL Teachers—Miss Ruth Huces, Miss Arneta Stokes, Miss S. Elisse Tyler. Special Teachers—Miss Thorelae Chiles, Miss Mary Scott, John Scott. WEST POINT, VA. ITEMS. Mrs. John Bass entertained a few friends, Friday, in honor of her sister, Miss Marla Johnson, who left here Monday for Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. Brown were the guests of Mrs. Martha Lacy, last week. Misses Lillian and Ruth Billips are visiting their aunt in King William County. Miss Zelma Lacy has returned from a very pleasant trip to Baltimore. Mr. Mahry Southouth Walker left here last week for the Norfolk Mission College, where he expects to spend the term. Mrs. Carence Hill is visiting in Walkerton. Mr. J. L. Thompson left here Saturday for Richmond. Mr. Lewis Birdsong and Mr. Robert Carter are visiting in Baltimore. Much to the regret of her many friends here, the most popular and attractive Miss Lillian Pearl Jackson left here Monday for her home in Rittenhouse. Mr. George Louden visited the capital city last week. Mrs. Aggle Allen is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. Anna Tyreer, here. Mr. John Walker and Mrs. Lem Morris spent Monday out of town. Mr. Mack Morrily was in Rittenhouse, Monday. Little Benjamin Randal is on the stick list. Do not forget the improving of our school. Please help us, we want another room. Be sure you go with the Progressive Club on their excursion. Don't forget the date, September 28. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W'Xa. On Tuesday, September 7, 1913, Mr. Harvey Newsome, who has had charge of the force at White Sulphur Springs was really entertained by some of the bellion at Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, by a grand dinner. Mr. Harvey Newsome, Covington, Va., Mr. James Royall, Jr., Richmond, Va.; Mr Page Kraton, Ronoleu, Va.; Mr James Chesnut, Washington, D. C., Mr. Cuba Austin, Memphis, Tenn., Mr. William Bankg, Richmond, Va., Mr. Grant Carter, Richmond, Va.; Mr Benjamin Clarke Covington, Va., Mr. Raymond Naylor, Washington, D. C., Mr Boa/Lafelich, Low Moor, Va., Mr Norton Richmond, Va.; Mr Benjamin Blaine Rose, Low Moor, Va.; Mr Romeo Griffin, Washington, D. C.; Mr James N. Swan, Washington, D. C.; Mr Grant Twitty, Buena Vista, Va.; Mr Rufus Winston, Charleston W. Va., Adolphus Jackson, tostmaether, Richmond, Va. RENEFIT AT THE RUPTODROME The manager of the Hippodrome has kindly consented to give a host fit the Ray family at Benedict, Hon Tuesday September, 21, to benefit the Ray family, at Benedict, Hennico County, Va, whose home and furniture were entirely destroyed by the storm of August 8. His wife Lottie lies in the Retreat for the Sick with her log broken in several places and her ribs crushed. They have six children. We rent four tickets before 1 o'clock. Tuesday, 21, 1911, at 11 N. 4th Street, or 912 N. 6th Street, as we only receive the benefits from what we sell. ROANOKE, VA. ITEMS. Ronoke, Va., Sept. 15, 1915. Mrs. Bertha Howard, of No. 302 had born in her home, Sept. 4. a born in her home, Sept. 4. Mrs. S. W. Howard, of 302. 719 THE NEW STYLES ARE IN THIS BOOK FREE TO COLORED WOMEN This beautiful book shows styles of the very best quality creole hair, that is guaranteed to stand combing and washing the same as your own. We are the largest manufacturers and importers of this hair and can sell you the best creole hair obtainable at price lower than you pay elsewhere for cheap and inferior hair. We fully guarantee every article sold, and not fully satisfied your money will be. This straightening comb is made of solid brass with an extra heavy back and is the best and most serviceable made. Seat postpaid for 89c. We also sell hair by the pound, hair nets, braves and other articles at our autumnal sale. Send two cost stamps for hostels, mentioning name of this paper. AGENT HUMANIA-HAIR CO. Departing 23 Dues THE STAR HAIR G THE STAR HAIR GROWER THE STAR HAIR GROWER C Bradleyville and Fort Worcester, Brow. J. M. Alston. His career continued near the city for a few days, and through ten miles away from the madam, he was quite cheerful. We are always glad to see him, Rev. J. M. Alston. Mrs. Maude Moseley, for several years a teacher in Fort Valley In dustrial School, passed through the city today, from her home at Brunswick, Ga., on route to Allentown, Pa., and secretary for an educational institute. She is the graduate of St. Augustine School, at Ral eigh, N. C. Mrs Ada E. Bell, of Waycross, Ga., passed through the city today on route to Greenwood, S. C. to visit a sick slater. Mr. W. M. Hurt, a first class lum borer of Montros, S. C., passed through the city recently on route for home. He has forty million feet on sale. Mr. W. H. Thomas proudly took advantage of the Florence tobacco market, today. While his neighbors were finishing up their Monday morning sleep and the old thrush warbling from it mid night lal, creating its head from side to side in search of day, Mr. Thomas stole a march on the sloth ful and heavy headed, gave his stock a pinch of hay and a moral to a wagon, loaded with the gold to tobacco weed, drove to Florence. Mr. Thomas is a live wife and thinks that we can live in the hearts of our people though miles away from them. Rev. S. M. Sampion had excellent services at Center Baptist Church on Sunday, Sept. 12th. Collection: $23.66 and will baptize twenty-five new members to his church Sunday, September 17th. His discourse Sun. in first chapter Job, ninth verse. Rev. D. Robinson conducted services at St. Beulah Baptist Church, Florence County, Sunday Sept. 12. Rev. Robinson has done much for improvement at this church since he became pastor, ten years ago. He baptized nineteen recently, also five newborn babies. He was jubilant on Mon day, A. M. when seen on the street. Miss Sarah Murphy and Mr. A. M. McEachern, of Little Rock, S. C. were married Sept. S. Rev. Thomas officiating. The party passed Florence Sept. on route to Jacksonville, their future home. Mrs. Keith, of Fall River, Mem. passed through the city recently, returning from Augusta, Gaines route for home. Mr. W. A. Allen and with Mrs. Mitte, passed through the city recently on route to Hartsville. Mrs. E. F. Perry passed through the city recently on route to New York City. Mrs. K. G. Kusane, of Lovelock, S. C. passed through the city recently on route to Lynchburg, S. C. School Enrollment Exceeds (Continued From 1st Page.) Goleman, Miss Erma Holmes. Pupil Teachers--Miss Katherine Hunt, Miss Nannio Edwards. BAKER SCHOOL Bingham, Mr W. H. Adams. Principal, M. W. Teachers—M. Rosa D. Browser Teachers—M. Rosa H. Browser Mrs. Merla L. Smith, Miss Marla G. Banka, Mrs. Mertha R. Crimp, Miss A. Deborah Patterson, Miss Lillian L. Moore, Miss Carla Kotera, Miss Florence Storra, Miss Pearl E. Clarke Miss Pearl B. Rowse, Miss Lillian R. Frayser, Miss Sorena B. Robinson, Miss Emily O. Lewis, Miss Arthea V. Randolph, Miss Blanche Coles, Miss Elizabeth Coles, Miss Annie Sweephart, Miss Annie William Fox, Miss Sallie Brook, Wallace P. Epps, Miss Marlotta L. Chiles, Miss Martha B. Minor, H. G. Lewis. Pupil Teachers—Miss Lecanna Davenport, Miss Virginia Lee Scott. MONROE SCHOOL. Teachers—Miss Estelle D. Ward. Miss Gertrude D. Lawrence, Mrs. Mollie R. Cephas, Miss Annie L. Wilson, Miss Ida J. Booker. MOORE SCHOOL. Principal, H. G. Carlton. Teachers—Miss Lucy R. Peters (supy, tch). Abram L Morton, Miss Florence D. Brown, Miss Inez Mason Jones, Miss Emily J. Gilpin, Miss Margaret Brooks, Intha Hudson, Miss Hattie E. Mayo, Miss Mara tha E. Johnson, Miss Eda Harris, Miss Marie Bacchus, Miss Annie B. Phillips, Miss Certie L. Wibrow, Miss Wiley, Miss M. Taylor, Miss L. Knox, Miss Allee O. Thompson, Miss J. Woodson, Miss Belle Hucley, Miss Mane B. Taylor, Miss Kate C. Watkins, Miss Julia O. Lewis Miss Maggie E. Farrar. Pupil Teachers - Miss Ethel Jack son, Miss Brenda Caskie. STYNEY SCHOOL. Teachers - Mist Willie L. Bruck, Miss A. Elizabeth Willance, Miss Corinne W. Fayler, Miss Corinne A. Norvell, Miss Rim R. Bettner. BURNSAR SCHOOL. Teachers - J. B. Blackwell, CMY Tickets honored on all regular trains, in first class coaches or Pullman sleeping cars, connecting at Greensboro, N. with Special Trains leaving Greensboro at 7:30 P. M. Tickets will be good for return trip to reach original starting point not later than midnight of October 6th, 1915, and will be honored on any return trip. Round trip fare from principal points will be as follows: From To Jacksonville To Tampa Birmingham, Va. $9.50 $11.50 Burkeryville, Va. 9.50 11.50 Drakes Branch, Va. 9.50 11.50 Keysville, Va. 9.50 11.50 Chase City, Va. 9.35 11.55 South Boston, Va. 9.00 11.00 Danville, Va. 8.75 10.75 Proportionate fares from intermediate points For any further information, Pullman reservations, etc., call on nearest ticket agent, Southern Railway, or write, H. L. Bishop, D. P. A., Richmond, Va. A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSING AND GROWER. One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good money made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. 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On returning he stopped in Baltimore, Md., and had the pleasure of clasping hands with many of the old friends of former years, and arrived home Wednesday September 8, much benefited from his trip. Mr. W. B. F. Crowell, Dist. Dep. G. C. Booneanok Division, K. P. and G. Grant of the district grand lodge of Odd Fellows, who met at Alexandria, Va., has returned to his post of duty, much refreshed and helped by the grandour and on joyment attained. We are glad to welcome him home again. Master Irvin Howard, the oldest son of Mrs. Bortha and S. W. Howard, who has spent the summer in the country, up at Ivanhoe. Va., learning agricultural science is home again to enter the public school room, and that most precious thing, thorough knowledge of the mastery of books. Mrs. Sadie C. Lash, of 337 10th Avenuco, has a fine baby girl at the above address, seven days old, Sept. 15, 1915. The people of the First Baptist Church are giving a fine program at their church on the above date. Many of the leading ministers on program. Rev. G. C. Taylor, of Mt. Ziop A. M. E. Church gave a five minutes talk. A way of welcome address on behalf of the ministry. Mrs. Kate T. Boland on behalf of competence workers of Roanoke. Dr. E. B. Caylor on behalf of the physicians of Roanoke. Dr. E. R. Dudley on behalf of the dentists of Roanoke. KILLED BY ELEVATOR Mr Tom Toni Meets With Fatal Accident While at Work in Boston Mr Tom Pike, colored 2002 P. Street, was instantly killed yesterday when caught between a portion of the frame of the elevator in the plant of the R. A. Patterson Tobacco Company, Twenty sixth and Main Streets and a rafter of the elevator THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Popular excursion to Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, September 28, 1915, via Southern Railway. Premier Carrier of the South. An unusual opportunity to visit Jacksonville, the Tourists' Mecca and the Gateway to the Land of Flowers; and Tampa, one of the South's most popular resorts. Shake. Crouch. Taper down on uneven, unimaginable. Mr. Pope. You taking a lift to beose to end of the upper down, and is supposed to have leaped over the edge of the elevator to look he low for his hand was caught between the framework and the roller. The skull was crushed. How long he had been dead when discovered was not noted. He was not dead, and had occasion to use the elevator and discovered blood dripping down the shaft. He lowered the lift and found Page's lifeless body lying on it. IN HONOR OF HER GUEST. Trenton, N. J., Sept 7, 1915.—An entertainment was given at the residence of Mrs. Pearl Morris Cash, formerly of Richmond, but now a resident of 519 Calboun St., Trenton, N. J., in honor of Missos Bertha and Viola Johnson, and her nephew, who have been spending their summer weather with her and now are expecting to return home and Mr. Leeroy Morris, Jr., to the Howard University. The house was beautifully decorated with flowers of the season. The young ladies were handsomely attired in their handsome suits and the young men their numbered fifty; they enjoyed them solves in dancing, games and solos after which luncheon was served. Subscribe to the Richmond Planet highly costs $1.50 per year in ad- taxBARB. JAMES H. COLEMAN DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, MEATS AND VEGETABLES All Goods Promptly Delivered. Phone, Randolph 2366. 125 WEST DUVAL STREET State Summer School SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BEGIN JULY 5, 1915 AT THE AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE (FORMALL A. AND M. COLLEGE) AND CONTINUE-FIVE WEEKS. Write for catalog. Secure lodging in advance. Address, J. H. BLUFORD Director State Summer School, Greene- boro, N. C. JAS. B. DUDLEY, PRESIDENT. The Knights of Toussaint L'Ouverture And Court of Susanne. The STANDARD NEGRO FRATERNAL ORDER THE STANDARD NEGRO FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE WORLD Organizers make big money organizing Lodges and Courts for this Order. Good organizers (men and women) wanted every where. Liberal Commission. Organizers make big money organizing Lodges and Courts for this Order. Good organizers (men and women) wanted every where. Liberal Commission. Write for terms. Address Rev. A. Fitzholan Wallace SUPREME GRAND GENERAL 81 O Street. N. W. Phone North: 7188. Washington D. C. S. W. Robinson and Son, Inc. Dealers in HIGH GRADE LIQUORS 19 and 21 North 18th Street Richmond, Va. Phone: Randolph 2313 EDW. STEWART 203 SO. SECOND ST. Richmond, Va. Dealer in Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats, Vegetables, Fish and Oysters. Phone, Madison 1637. We Train the Heart and the Hand GO TO THE industrial business institute --- FROM BAHIA, BRAZIL Bahia Brasília July 14, 1925 To the Redwood Place Rebuilded Va. S. A. The Board of Trustees The Board's necessary laws and institutions attention to the one most important of all which I have seen the liberty to say about the bank case of that it may be of great importance to some others to know that my present possibility was and to press the next prospect of self in the mind of colored people. You see that troops live and work only of the race in our people. I am sure that the people of the Redwood place will be very much interested in the things made thus they may know and what to expect to them. they generally think that a white person is always the proper ticket at a railroad and when coming to their home we are always ready to condemn the world thing which causes so much of the intimation for the white person it has caused in different places that the colored people actually have a colored person keep themselves real fairly attired and as I think about this reality it comes to my mind that about six years ago when the Negro Business League met in New York City, two of the principal speakers devoted the most of their remarks to criticizing colored people for driving in fashion. Now they washed to criticize the fashion and love the fashion and they met the colored people to give a reasonable sum to one of their publications to put a short to their publications for hands on fashion, where they from time to time could have seen. Never notions and criticisms on same. And the very laughable thing about this is, now one of those very penniless is the chief advocate of colored people keeping their persons clean, or in his own language) their bodies clean and it to meet and hold their own with the coming European invasion which they or he says, as soon as come after the end of the present war there. Now, my idea be first to make the Negro to understand that they are race under similar organizations, and that they other person, and their races and I hold furthermore, that until this idea is incorporated into the mind of the Negro he will never understand that it is possible for him to do as well as anybody else, after having proper opportunities open to him. And until he can properly appreciate his own person, it is hard to expect him to properly respect his wife en and to care for his family. Not having the interest of these properly considered, he can hardly determine how much his time is worth, nor does the average one fully realize his responsibility to his family. Thus he fails to extend the proper tenderness to the woman who intrusts herself to his care and I have been anxious also to make the point that a man should not be measured by dollars and cents. Nor can any universal price be established for a day's labor. When colored people learn to live up to a higher standard they will realize (that the mere name of money does not determine what is sufficient for one to live comfortably. As a man should not calculate to only have enough to carry him safely from day to day. It is his duty to have much more at his immediate command. Nor should we try to hold others down to an earning capacity of any given sum. Work should be regulated like commodities which are the product of labor. But this can never be done without the presence of intelligent labor organizations. These can watch the labor market and take similar advantages as any other class of business speculators. Money, as I must repeat, has absolutely no value at all; leaving that which is derived its value from labor or the guarantee of labor, and one man is no better than another, who is capable of rendering just as valuable a service to society. And it is not good enough to think that a woman is the proper mate for a man, simply because the care of the same race Nexx is in white women only good or too bad for being a life companion of a Negro, and vice versa. There have always been two things in modern civilization, and possibly three; which have served greatly to destroy the self-reliance and dignity of the Negro, namely: the lack of independence for self and his family, whereby to instill the proper dignity into the education of his children, notwithstanding the ignorance and sufferings of his wife, who is seldom at, best to train a sensitive child. And the second cause is the ignorance of the man who is grown from such a young man, who is running or the abandonment of all high principles, in order to live among an unscrupulous people of superior advantages; because that he is not only compelled to neglect the best opportunities in life, but he is not in a fit condition to understand the advantages derived from a closer union with men of similar circumstances as himself whereby to assist one the other to better the conditions of the whole. The most advanced circles in Negro society today the world over, are short of a clear comprehension of this subject. I know that some individuals hold very clear conceptions, but if there is a kind in this circle in a place to form a moral circle for the purpose of materializing their views. Many have tried under various humanness of society, but is no much at the average well schooled degree, this very moment does not even understand what the word "society" Thus the women are brought to such despairation that they are many times obliged to become the prey of the lacrivous men of their races either from want of the comforts in life, which are not in her dignified reach, or the over-estimation of other races and things, or the lack of protection from the counts or the men of her race when she is violently assaulted by the white curr, who uses her for a convenience for the time, taking advantage of both her ignorance and helpless condition. Then the third is that those of the race who should be trying to lighten the race, are the main obstacles to prevent their progress, which must come from an over anxiety for money, cowardice or ignorance pure and simple. And it is not traceable from anyone to put upon him implied stress to our requirements which I have just described much of their childhoods. It is one of the most natural things for a woman to fall victim to the gallantry of a man as she always recognizes her weakness and is looking for an officer of his most able protector. Then as her father is more delicate than the opposite sex, this with her other confessed weakness, makes her barely susceptible to the influence of today for the appearance of plenty, and she is in most cases unaware enough to think that her trust loved should put her head in the yellow too. While some of these cowards are only too anxious for an opportunity, and really ask for fishing better. Thus the last spark of manhood has died in his breast and his children. If anyone comes to them must grow up and thus place him suited for fishing. The last spark of manhood and greater protection for the women and children, which cannot be done without giving the men who are so sweet hearts, husbands and fathers, a more elevated and a good opportunity to provide for such as come under the fold of their parents. There are too many stern dictators who wish to be seen by helping to oppose the ones who are already too weak to help themselves. They call the leadership ship, but I warn them that it is not the opposite. There is no need for hearted reasoners among Norse. So help the race upon its hurdles and undoubtedly those who have the heart and will, are sheet in their hearts and while think of other races, are while think of the latter. I am regarded of one stapled minister in America called Stinson. The man was born to be a religious leader of low degree, but he is really out of place among the various educated people, and the Norwegian Navy is to provide the proper conditions for such a nature as this reigns. Mr Brown compares that belief to the choice of those that the Methodist Church has given him greater advantages. I have given him greater advantages. I have instructed his courage to click to the faith of church in his conviction, respect of convictions. That there is that Mr R H Hall, who of terrors deserves to appeal to his people whom he purely must love, from the evidence of his appeals through the medium of the Planet and others. But one can see at once that he is the evidence of his affinity with the nature of those whom he affirms as a rule. A man must be dutiful out of the gourd and down to the store and shape before pelting. In order to be up to the tricks of the average social assaults of the world. I want to see the colored press take more pride in the education, protection and general guidance of the race. And this makes me ever hold great esteem for the Amsterdam News, of New York. It and that McClohose's Monthly Magazine covered, more ground in so short a while than any two papers I have been published by Negroes. It is then to be remembered that the future progress of the Negroes will depend greatly upon their press and all who watch the race well, must begin to do something as am and as building up a first-class press work going and for the board. of Negroes. Every child should be given certain hints on the power and beauty of the African continent, including among civilised people. Books are compilations, while the journal or periodical is the momentary information which one must resort to in order to keep up with the rapid changes of society and their causes. We get more life out of one hour now than our ancestors did in twenty-four hours, one thousand years age or much less time. The time has come when a man cannot live alone, and the greater combined force, being well regulated, the more profitable is the result for those interested. Today, is the time for economy, agility, strength and well composed magnitude. Those who have tourrender over right for the object of peace, should now listen to the music of those very white people who ignoring your most sacred rights to social life. While their journals were crying out "strike terror to the hearts of the Negroes" they were talking peace, too. But I told you then, as I do now, men keep peace more through fear than through love. I may never enjoy the least benefit from these things while I have greatly enhanced many other opportunities to make a living. But one reason I cannot forget set in the work of society. And if I did not practice what I preached, I would deserve your most harsh criticism, as a hypocrite. It is truly interesting, however, to note what language those blood thirsty white folks of yesterday are saying today. But I will not be too hard on them, poor, weak hearted creators; but I warn them that we want some of that good thing which they have been getting, hereafter. So I am yours for absolute social equality to all, under similar conditions, and respectfully in service. J. S. MOORE. P S. I am going to make a very simple suggestion which has often come to my mind, but from its very simplicity, I have often hesitated in stating it: yet when I remember that it is just these little simple things which escape the attention of the average person of African blood, which of the race. Hence I feel indebted to make this little suggestion, which may be nothing to some and at the same time a great deal to others. But at any rate it is right in line with the conditions and opportunities of the race. Now why not begin to manufacture your cotton. It only in a small way. A person does not need to the very rich to begin a cotton factory, and it will grow of itself by having good attention. Won't buy a few knitting machines for knitting shifts socks and stockings in fact, every kind of jersey fabric, such as sweaters and underwear. These are very simple little machines, which occupy very little space each, made from being very responsible in price, and as everybody it is only a matter of good work, on an occasional basis of general operation that will make a man of very small means, a useful manufacturer in very short time. Those machines so many of you know, are produced in America, as well as in Europe, and are not very dear. This will work to many girls and boys, or even to women, to the ease of the simplicity of the machine, may lead to something more complete in the same line, such as I have in mind, but will not mention other, not to be short. Then, there is the pocket handkerchief which everyone needs or uses. A machine for its manufacture cannot be very dear, and to see a handkerchief woven will surely enlarge one's ideas for something greater. While the average price for the entire fitting of a small cotton factory may cost much less than the average automobiles will be consuming for reproduction one of the main products of colored people's labor. I have had these little things in mind for several years, but I have thought many times that if I mentioned it some very smart man might think that it was intended to make-mail of his race, by introducing a thing so simple and commonly known. But I venture now, after much reflection, knowing that if it is not good for one, another might profit by it. The greater portion of the knitting of the German English "French" by the beginning of the present war, and since that these people are heavy at war and these articles are simply in demand. I deem it my duty to call your excellent attentions to this as one other opportunity. It may serve to fill in the spare moments of school children. There are many little notions I have which, if I know just how you have progressed generally, I might say to the greatest advantage, to some, while the least advantage, to others, the value of course. This is why I watch so carefully in every paper I can reach, to get an idea of what you are really ready to profit by. I have been very daring in some 'of my writings', but I have never forgotten at any time that Negroes are the most sensitive of all races, when one addresses them in terms of common facts but they are outgrowing that now, just as they have many other little differences. For absolute social, equality and general progress for all, under similar conditions. Subscribe to THE RICHMOND PLANET. Only $1.50 per year in ad- vance. Seeks Mayoralty at $1. Dr. F. H. Brobed, head of the Tux- payers' League, in Reading, who is being urged to become a candidate for mayor, in a statement declared that the only condition upon which he would accept was that the salary should be reduced from $8600 annually to $1 a year. (The Worker, Washington, D. C.). Some people are painfully slow taking on civilization. This fact is most evident on funeral occasions. There is a class of Negroes who are always talking about "spectin" and "they keep wagons. Lowell tells us that they are good uncoath. This custom of sitting up with the dead is in the class of the ancient good that has made uncoath. These wakes have degenerated into all night frolics, at which drinks and eats are freely dispensed. It is not surprising that these wake-keepers keep a suspicious eye toward the room in which the dead is resting. The least noisy occasions alarm and fear. The dead certainly have grounds for protest, and if it were in their power, we think they would rise and object. We have heard some "hair-raising stories about what happened at Sukes. They keep feasts of this kind, but civilized people prepare their dead for burial, and quietly retire to the most restful place in the house, the privacy and quietness of which is broken only by the closest friends. These come to comfort, administer and depart. People who keep wakes usually work themselves up to a nervous fright when the remains are removed from the home, or while the funeral services are being conducted. This same class of people usually get a heartless, ignorant preacher to conduct the funeral services. These men tell of the sufferings of the deceased in the desist the picture the body had after it had been removed from the grave; they picture the bereaved no friendless and upon the mercy of a good world; they tell how motherless children will roam the earth without anywhere to lay their heads; they pull on every heartstring until it is ready to break. Their merciless, heartless assaults upon the living round up of the boy who rushed the kitchen and said to his mother "Ma, will you please make Johnny top that crying. Every time I hit him, he screams and shouts to the hollers." We hope the time is not far distant when we shall know how to respect the dead and to comfort those who mourn. While we are discussing this subject of funerals, there are one or two other things in connection with them that should be given some attention and improved upon. There are many of us who seem to cork up our love and esteem for funeral occasions. Often children are brought from home and placed their parents, wasted their substance in rusted living, or have gotten so "high up" that they do not remember the pit from which they were digged, will come home in response to a telegram or letter, find their mother or father dead, and simply "take the place." The body has been kept unduly long, trying to locate the wanderer no plans could make for the pit, and the friends who administered during the illness of the deceased are thrust aside when the "chief mourner" comes. The deceased is perhaps insured. This makes the grief more polignant and demands greater economy in burial expenses. During the funeral services, the grief stricken wander breaks down completely, but the dead is buried, and the mourner's love interred at the same time. With mind and heart set 'insurance ward', the beheaded claims his own £2 and as long as there is a dollar in hand, so she has a good time at the expense of the dead. People with worthless, roaming children do them positive moral injury by leaving funds for them to squander. Then there is another class of people who show off at funerals. Men who have brutally mistreated their wives, and wives who have made hells of their homes, drape in mourning, and all but die during the funeral service. They fall prostrate over the casket and talk to the departed. You cannot hear what the preacher is saying for their weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. They almost jump into the grave when the earth is thrown upon the casket. The days are not many, however, before the dead is forgotten. The class of people who wait until people are dead to show how much they love them. We have seen men walking around with grape hearts sewed on their sleeves, making an outside show to a sulphureous world. This mourning "fall" smacks of insincerity. The last class is that group of people who like Sunday funerals and brass bands. To make a funeral a stellar attraction for a city is the height of ignorance and savagery. Freachers should rebuke this negation, expensive show by refusing to conduct a funeral service on Sunday could have been held during the week. If we would make our love more practical while people live they would live longer, and would get out of life greater joy; but we wait until they are gone, and then show the world how much we loved them. Let us reverse the order by dispensing the love while people live. Let us show our good sense and refinement by putting on our loved ones good, sensible shrouds, laying them away good caskets and keeping their green garb through one-half of those who raise so much packet at funerals do not know where the graves of their dead are. Nature decorates them every year with weeds. Tough Silk Grass. The best silk line is made in Honduras of "silk grass," one plant of which has from fifty to a hundred leaves up to nine feet long. The fiber is so strong that the native drivers of our teams in the mugahoy campa braid their bull whips from it, preferring it to leather. Experiments are now under way to see if it can be cultivated profitably. People Done. 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Heals, employed as a hostor by Dr. Mohr and Henry Spellman, half-brother of Brown. No specifie charge has been brought against Mrs. Mohr, who volu- mently denied the accusations, which she characterized as absurd. Healis had been detained by the police since the shooting, as his account was contested with him, given by Miss Elena G. Burger, the doctor's assistant. NEGRO BREAKS DOWN Brown was taken into custody last day after Heals had told the police that he and the hostler had plotted to rob Dr. Mohr on the night of the shooting. The authorities did not believe the stories of the Negro, and Brown was subjected to a searching examination during which the police say, he broke down and admitted he was concerned in the shooting and that Mrs. Mohr had offered him $2,000 to kill her husband. Heals and Spellman, questioned separately, corroborated Brown's story, and the arrest of Mrs. Mohr followed. Brown at first denied he had any connection with the affair. He said he passed over the Nyack Road, where the shooting occurred, on a motorcycle, explaining he was on his way to visit a friend at Riverside. Documents who sent to Riverside to investigate his story turned with Spellman in custody. Spellman said there was a plot against Dr. Mohr and when Brown heard of Spellman's declaration he made a detailed concession. DEATH PURSE $5.00 According to Brown's story, in given out by the police, Mrs. Mohr proposed several weeks ago that he kill Dr. Mohr, promising to pay him $5,000 nine days after the killing was accomplished. It said he naked Spellman to help him out and brought up his half-brother to talk Healsis was present at this interview by request of Mrs. Mohr, the matter over with Mrs. Mohr, Brown said. Spellman was to receive $1,000 and Brown and Healsis $2,000 each. The arrangements for the shooting were carried out in detail, according to the confession he displayed spot on the Nytt Road. Healsis stalled the engine of the automobile and Brown and Spellman, who had approached on motorcycles, crept through the bushes and fled at the occupants of the car, Brown said he shot Dr. Mohr and Spellman wounded Miss Burgar. After the shooting Brown and Spellman went back to the motorcycles. DOCTOR WAS MARKED Brown declares Mrs. Mohr told him to be sure to kill the doctor and to kill Miss Burger If he could. His instructions, he said, were to shoot anybody in the tonneau, whether it was Miss Burger or Florence Ormby, a maid, employed in Dr. Mohr's office. JIT CAR COLLIDES WITH SURRY IN HENRICO. Both Middletown, County Police Are Informed, Were Wrecked—Woman Hurt. Louis Freeman, colored, residing on the Williamsburg Road four miles below the National Cemetery, and his wife and two children, had a narrow escape when the surry in which they were seated was struck and wrecked by a jitney, said to be owned by the Motor Transit Company according to information gathered today by Deputy Sheriff Sydnor and Chief of Police Seay, of Henrico County. The accident occurred on the Williamsburg Road, Sunday night, but did not come to the attention of the Henrico Police until today. The officers learned that the surry which was a new one, was demolished and that Freeman's wife, Louise, who was holding an infant in her arms, was thrown out and badly hurt. She is now under treatment in the Memorial Hospital for internal injuries and injuries to her head. The infant escaped being hurt seri- ously. It was stated. The autopsy, according to the police, was partly knocked.—News- leader, Sept. 7 1915. MEMORIES FROM OUTWING MOR AND DAVID MENDO. Arriving at St. Mary, Sept. 2.—Fra- mousy, 10, was held in the hospital. Of the head of John Clement. Says He is Informed That Murder Has Been Committee—Defends Cobb County's Name. Marletta, Ga., Sept. 1.—The Cobb County grand jury assembled today to investigate the lynching of Leo M. Frank and take up its regular work. Judge Patterson, in his charge, told the jury it was not a special grand jury, and that while its members were not to feel they were secret service men, it was their duty to ferret out any crime alleged to have been committed within the county "fearlessly and without hope of reward." The Judge took occasion to defend Cobb County against upon it growing out of the lynching. Judge Patterson did not mention Frank's name. Thirty-five witnesses have been called. The jury will begin work on the case today. THREE OF PANEL EXCUSED Of the original grand jury which was drawn for the July term of court three members were excused, two for business reasons and W. J. Frey, on whose property the body of Frank was found, because he was a witness before the coroner's jury. Before charging the jury, Judge Patterson warned, the bailiff that he be especially cautious in the case of any papers or documents entrusted to your care. Any matter delivered to you for transmission to the grand jury should have your protection," he said. Among the witnesses summoned are O. B. Keeler, a newspaper man, who will be asked, to tell how he came into possession of Frank's wedding ring, which he says mysterious and frightening to him with a request from Frank to him. That it be returned to Mrs. Farnik, W. S. Johnson, sheriff of Cobb County; G. M. Hickes, the deputy who took charge of Frank's body immediately after it was found; Mayor E. P. Dodd, and H. L. Looney, chief or police of Marlotta. Subpoenas have been issued for T. F. Patterson, D. E. Davidson and E. L. Rainey, members of the state prison commission, who were at the prison farm the night Frank was taken away. "NOT SECRET SERVICE MEN." Judge Patterson charged the jury in part: "I want to say that you are not a special grand jury drawn by the judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, as has been stated, but you are the regularly organized grand jury of Cobb County. Not only in this, but in a great deal that has been said greed on the press, the facts have been devalued from and I want to strongly assert that the press generally has done Cobb County a great injustice. It appears that in a great deal of matter that has been published some newspaper correspondents have seemingly got just as far away from the truth as they could and the result has been that Cobb County has been made to suffer for it. "This county needs no 'specially selected grand jury' now, nor has it ever needed one. Men selected as grand jurors of this county have always done their duty. You gentlemen, the commissioners have done their duty in selecting us as men who may be counted on to do your duty. DUTY TO PROBE LYNCHING. "I have been informed that a murder has been committed here in this county the day after the July form of court was adjourned. Or that I do not know, but the information has come to me. It has been published broadcast over the world that a lynching has recently occurred in Cobb County. It is your duty to a though and complete investigation, to investigate the charges of crime when brought to your attention. Your oaths, bind you to honestly, fairly and impartially make an investigation of it, but it is not your duty to assume the role of secret service men—the role of detectives. You were not selected in the capacity of private detectives, but as grand jurors of your county, and your work is that of grand jurors and not the work of secret service men. And yet it is your duty to do your work out any crime alleged to have been committed in your county, to do it fairly, fearlessly and without hope of reward or the reverse. "Now gentlemen, you may take your time in the consideration an I investigation of this case and the other, matters that are before you and the court shall await you. When you have done all you can do and your investigation is as complete as you can make it you will report to me and I will be ready to discharge you for the term, unless something should arise in the meantime which may need your attention. EXHORTS JURY TO SECRECY. "Before you retire I want to caution you gentlemen about what transpires in the grand jury room. All times there is a great deal of comment on the outside about these things, a great deal is said about the things that are done or being done within the grand jury room. Is this the case in your case? If so, I want to caution you that your oaths require you to keep your counsel and that of your stole counsel; you are not to discuss on the outside any thing that you done within your room and that you gentlemen must keep secret. section. It is your duty to ensure give any manner you may be required by the court or which may be known to your attention by the court or its offices after you have taken your eath and upon these matters you shall make true presentations, according to the findings growing out of your investigations; these present meets shall be according to the dire- ction of your conscience, fair and unbiased, without the hope of reward without favor to anybody and without out fear." DRIVER SURRENDERS TO HENRICO POLICE Man Responsible for Latest Nearest Tragedy on Government Road Will Be Tried Sept. 25. W. L. Collins, driver of a jitney belonging to the Motor Transit Corporation, a subsidiary of the Virginia Railway and Power Company, who while driving, as it is alleged, at a very rapid rate on the Government Road Sunday night ran into a surry containing Louis Freeman, colored, his wife and baby, demolishing the carriage and seriously injuring the woman, gave himself up to the Henrico County Police, yesterday. Freeman's, wife was taken to the Memorial Hospital and it is reported that she will have to remain there for several weeks to recover from her injuries. Collins, who is charged with reckless driving, will be arraigned for trifle on September 25. The surry was a new one and it was demolished completely. The horse, freed from the traces, ran away and has not yet been logged.—Richmond Virginian, Sept. 9, 1915. THE FRANK LYNCHING IS THE HERITAGE OF SLAVER. Collier's view of the lynching of Frank is so different from that which generally expressed, that it is intertwined. This is what Collier's says ediatorially: "We cannot find it in us to cry out for vengeance upon the men who lynched Frank. We know as well as anyone else that Frank was innocent—we know it better than some folks, for we think the painstaking investigation made by Mr. Connolly his father's was not exciled in thorough condemnation by any other review. Nevertheless, we find it impossible to get up any blood-hat of our own. The fact that the whole thing inspires in us is real neerer in sadness than to anger. Consider the men who did the act. Consider their motive. It could by no possibility be selfish. They did not expect to make any money out of it. They had no personal feeling against Frank—the they had never seen him. For them there was neither satisfaction in what they did. On the other hand, they took grave risks—the they the shadow of which they will contend to walk, until they die. It is impossible to conceive that their motives were other than patroltic. "By all accounts they were the best man in the community—they carefully excluded the violent element form their counsels and their action blame as we see it is not on the individuals who did the act, but the state of ignorance that made it possible for these individuals to think their act was utterly wrong, but the place for the ance which made it possible for these individuals to think their act was good. It is not a time for self-righteousness. It is not a time to cry out against anyone. Georgia is not an ance she is a part of us. It is a time for searching or hearts. It is a time for of us to enlarge our hearts by being suitable. We happen to know, by the way, that the counsel of 'Frank' the mother was against violence. Undoubtedly, she said, these men thought they were doing right. It sounds a little like 'Forgive them, they know not what they do.' "If we reflect about it, it is all a part of the heritage of a sin that was committed two or three hundred years ago—if slavery was a sin—we don't always surre just what is sin. But whether sin or not, slavery was a frightful economic crime, and the penalty for it is descending, not merely unto the third and fourth generation, but to the eighth and the tenth. It is the presence of the Negro in the South that causes lack of General education, because the one white man thinks he cannot afford to pay for the education, the ten black families who do not pay taxes, and so there primo education. It is the fact of Negro preponderance in other communities that is responsible lynch law—and for the terror that makes lynch law. It is the practice of lynching Negroes that makes it easy to pass to the lynching of white men. It all goes back to the somber tragedy of the black man in the South the heritage of slavery." The Oldest Joke It will be difficult to discover an old or practical joke than that of the coppermith and the maker of bronze images for the temple of Ostria, which is embodied in Egyptian inscriptions dating from the reign of Menon, founder of Memphis, who ruled over 7,000 years ago. According to ancient records, there dwelt between these two craftsmen a quiet man whose desire was for peace and who was mildly disturbed by the now occupations carried on by his busy neighbors. He therefore acted each of them to say for what they would change their swellings. This they did. Each calculated the amount required, and he, being satisfied, paid it over to them. "Now," he asked of the coppermith, "where is your new dwelling?" "I have taken that of the maker of images," he said. "And you, quoted the quiet man of the letter, whether good or bad." "So the house of the coppermith." 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One man is particular, who had the best of a traveler, paid of long to follow in foreign land and kept them UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. All interested with his amabilies. "You gentlemen," said he, "there is nothing like travel to expand the mind. Now, I don't suppose, for instance, that many of you have ever seen a best root putting on a waistcoat?" His fellow passengers started in surprise. "No we certainly have not!" "Or a lettuce donning a pair of trousers?" "No!" "Or a spring onion dying on its tie and collar?" "No, not even that!" "Well, gentlemen," said the traveler as the train drew up at the terminus and be prepared to alight, "you may believe me or not, as you like, but several times in my travels I have seen not only a best root or a lettuce or an onion, but a whole satd dressing!"—London Mall. Cruel Joking. Attorney Louis C. Johnson tells this story on a lawyer friend of Kansas City. This lawyer was employed by the Pullman company to look after its interests in a case that necessitated a great deal of traveling over the country. He thought he would play a little joke on the Pullman company. Here is how he did it. He tipped the Pullman porter $1 every time he got on a train and itemized it in his expense account—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. TALKED AT CROSS PURPOSES. And the Casual Visitor Had Much the Best of the Controversy. This one really happened. The cigar stand in a certain hotel is so near the desk that people frequently go to the wrong place to register. The other night a ruralist from out in the state approached the stand. "What are your prices?" he asked of the girl. "From 10 to 75 cents," she replied, thinking he meant the prices of cigars. "Pretty reasonable!" The girl put two boxes of cigars on the showcase and he took a Havana worth a quarter. "Much obliged," he said. "Is it customary to set 'em up to every new guest?" She thought it was one of the commonplace pleasantries men unload at cigar stands. "Oh, yes," she said. "Where's the register," he asked. "Right here," said the girl, pointing to the cash register. He considered it a pretty good joke and laughed. "But where's the book?" he asked. "I want to put my name down." "You don't have to register when you buy a cigar," said the girl. She couldn't imagine what was wrong with the man. "But I want a room." "Oh," came from the girl as she realized a mistake had been made, "the desk is right over there. This is the cigar stand. Get your room at the desk." As he left she dropped into a chair to laugh. A few minutes later one of the room, clarke came to the cigar smug. "What made you tell that man? SEVEN We had to look here for from 10 to 12 cents' he asked. "He said he had taken a 20 cent one. He's gone away with a bad opinion of us." "That's not the worst of it," said the girl. "He's gone away with one of our. 25 cent cigars—free."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Enlarge Your Spirit Oftentimes it is not so much the greatness of thy trouble as the littleness of thy spirit that makes thee to complain, decrey Taylor. The Expected Happened. In the same city lived two men, the one affiliated with a distressing summer and the other a confirmed joker. One morning the joker met the stammer hurrying down the street. "Where are you going?" he demanded. "I'm going," gurgled his friend. "to P.P. Parkins," to gget some t-tucks. A brilliant flashback on the joker's mind. He was through back alleys. YOUNG WALKER entran his acquaintance and appeared breathless before the astonished for kins. "Have you g-g-g got any t-t-t-t-a-y he panted." "Yes, sir," answered the stork-speaker "W-W-W-Well," he chortled, "that so-s-t on 'em!" Hardly had he dodged out of the door and got safely away when the real purchaser entered and confined the ruffled merchant, inquiring: "Have you g-g-g got any t-t-t-t-a-y And the expected happened, the way of course thrown bodily into the street." True Enough It was W. B. Gilbert who once remarked, "It is easy enough for bishops to be good on a salary of 15,000 a year, but we have to be good for nothing—a plause—and some of our are." SATURDAY.....SEPT. 18, 1915 AT THE NATIONS METROPOLIS (Allens National News Bureau, 252 West 54th Street) New York City, September 13, 1913 Willis N. Huggins, one of the brightest young Negroes in this country and an honor graduate from Columbia University, where he served both H. S. and M. A. degrees, delivered the first of a series of addresses on education of women at the Salem Law School of the Salem M. E. Church Thursday evening. The address was one of the strongest places for the emancipation of women ever heard in this section, and was a strong defense for a larger place women should have in a democracy. The auditorium of the church was crowded with a representative gathering of men and women interested in the educational problems of the women and to hear the young scholar tell of the place women should have along the side of men. George W. Allen, president of the Lycamina called the meeting to order, and after preliminary overviews presided by Mrs. M. C. Cox, the chief figures in the middle life of the race who presided. Mrs. Lawton, who is well known as a public speaker, made a brief introductory address, in which she urged the women of the race to become interested in these vital subjects that support them and all they possess with all movements that make for a higher life. She then presented Mr. Huggins, who sang several solos much to the delight of the audience in presentage Mr. Huggins. Mrs Lawton praised him as one of the most capable young men of the race, who is destined to take a high and noble place in the affairs of the race. When Mr. Huggins rise to speak on the subject: "The Education of Women. Its History and Present Problems." In developing his subjects, Mr. Huggins traced the history and education of women from primitive times, when she was wholly under the rule and control of men, and were given very little chance for self expression. "In primitive times" stated Mr. Huggins, "women were little more than slaves where they were subjected to the whims and fancies of men." Mr. Huggins then called attention to the period of the Representation and the Reformation, when woman was gradually coming into a larger freedom, and was beginning to have a further expression. At this period declared Mr. Huggins, the education of women was beginning to manifest itself and woman was more than beginning to take her place alongside of men. Speaking of the education of women in this country, Mr. Huggins declared that it was about the eighteenth century when Massachusetts the schools under control of the colony opened up on the same terms for women as for men. Mr. Huggins stated that it was due to the liberality given the women in Massachusetts that was responsible for the larger number of women of influence from that section, who have placed consolences part in the early history of the colony in New England and the nation. Mr. Huggins said that women should receive the same type of education as men so far as its academic value is concerned, as their entrance into the professions demand that. He defined the ideal women's college and said that it should be different from that of man's college in that it should strive to give that kind of education peculiar to the news and function of women. He praised Teachers College, one of the professional schools, of Columbia University, as an ideal model for a woman's college, and said that the type of education as given by the college best approximated his standard of a system of education for women. Closing his address, Mr. Huggins said: I believe that woman suffrage will give women the best opportunity for self expression. "I believe that women of our race should take up this matter as should all women of the middle-class, for it will be the brainst of the economic strain falls." Continuing Mr. Huggins said: "Men have forced women into the economic struggle, and since a large number of them are forced to earn their own living, the ballot will be the only safeguard for their interest." The address was a vivid portrayal of the growth and expression of women and was a masterful plea for a larger liberty for women. The address was regarded as a new note and at the conclusion Mr. Huggins was given an ovation. Mr. Huggins is one of the closest students of educational problems as they relate to the Negro among the race, and is an authority on many vital matters as they relate to the educational uplift of the Negro. His himself unstringy to the education of the race and has written many articles bering upon the education and social service of the Negro. His articles will be a series of monographs and will be published in the near future. His series will be on the following subjects: "The Education of Woman. Its History and Present Problems." "Teaching Negro History in Negro Schools." "The Literature of Negro History." "Criticism of the Course of Study in Negro Schools." "Second Order of Freedom," and "Ome and Prejudices in America." These monographs will be published in the articles bearing upon the problems confronting the education of the Negro that has ever been published, and will be of great service to those interested in these problems. The rise of Mr. Hughes has been rapid and few young may have shown near grit, in getting an education than he. He is a graduate of Seima University and spent a year in, Washington, where he did work of a special nature in Army strong. High School. While in Washington he attracted the attention of a noted journalist who in a special feature article in the New York Times, hailed as the 'logical successor to Booker T. Washington. Six years ago he came to this city and entered Columbia University from which he graduated in 1913. He then returned for his Masters degree which he received in 1914. He worked his way through Columbia by doing odd jobs. Your correspondent had an interview with Mr. Huggins in his apartment 53 West 151st Street, last week in which his plans were gone over. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. AT THE BANKERS' CONVENTION. The colored press is calling attention to the presence of John Mitchell Jr. the fearless and courageous editor of the Richmond Planet, and the president of the Mechanies Savings Bank at Richmond, at the annual meeting of the American Bankers' Association which met in Seattle, Wash. The American Bankers' Association is one of the strongest and most influential bodies in America, and is made up of noted men in the financial life of the nation. They would an influence in the financial life of the nation that is far reaching and their sentiments usually tell which way the gain is blowing. At the Seattle meeting there were over 1,000 delegates present, and vital matters pertaining to the financial times of the country were discussed by experts on problems of finance. It was fortunate for the race that we had a representative in the noted gathering in John Mitchell Jr., who is president of the Mechanies Bank in Richmond, has become a noted figure in the financial life of the nation. Mitchell must have been an inspiring figure in the noted throng, and the large number of white bankers present representing as many cases the pick of the Anglo-Saxon, could not but help look on the Negro with a degree of pride as one of its members stood on a level with them in this noted body. Mr Mitchell is the only member of the race that holds membership in this body and as such he reflects high credit upon the race. Several years ago when the association met in this city the presence of Mr. Mitchell at the Waldborf drew out very favorable comments from the daily newspapers of this city. RACE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN POST OFFICE Florian cases of discrimination against Negroes in the post office department of this city have reached this bureau and your correspondent has conducted an investigation, which brings out gross discrimination against the clerks in many of the postal stations in this city. Your correspondent has discovered that a favoritism is shown in many of the stations when it comes down to promotion, and that in many cases white men who have been in the service shorter than Negroes, and in many cases, inferior have been promoted over the heads of Negroes who have served in the posts as long as ten and ten years. Negroes are rarely in the best tours and many of the official positions that rightly belong to Negroes have been given to white men who secure these promotions solely upon the basis of color and intellectual pull. Further investigation on the part of your correspondent has revealed the startling fact that Nerries are barred from certain divisions in the Post Office, except them being the Money Order, Executive Division, Registry Division and Sea Post Department Your correspondent has received letters from him or of the race who have been in his service for a number of years and all of them tell the same story. 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Lucy Armstead, In Vacation, Plaintiff, vs. James Armstead, In Chancery, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bond of matrimony, by the Plaintiff from the Defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that said Defendant is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that the Defendant, James Armstead, appear here within fifteen days after due Publication of this Order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. A Copy. Teste, LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. 1215 H. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. YMFTB, all state, sale or renting for companies. L. Rowe & Co., 630, Brook Avenue. Sandeston 1640. THE NEGRO AND HIS RELIGION One of the greatest problems that has ever confronted the Negro, seems to be the problem of religion. He makes it far more difficult than laying the Atlantic cable, the construction of the underground railroad, or even the Panama Canal. And it is due largely to the erroneous teachings of ecclesiastical jumping jacks, who have lost the substance and caught the shadow. The Negro believes in improvements, progress and advancements along all lines except that of religion and he seeks to justify himself by saying, "The old time religion is good enough for me." I have often thought of the "old time religion and wondered if it was what the Negro calls "old time religion," if so, there must have been an awful time on the day of Pentecost when three thousand souls were converted, and again when five thousand came to the light of the Gospel, and relied on the God of their salvation. I don't wonder that these souls were thought to have been and of wine. I have seen several Negroes at the same time with this "old time religion" and they made more noise than the same number of wild spirit mals. The Negro has been sadly mistaken in his idea of accepting Christ as his personal Savior. He has believed and does now to a great extent, that Christ must be accepted during an excitement or through dreams and visions. The bible does not say any thing about dreaming out your salvation, but it does say, "A wake thou that sleepeth and Christ shall give thee light." If there ever is a time when a man needs to be of himself, it is when he accepts Christ. For it requires presence of mind, a deep consideration, Godly sorrow, repentance, faith and confession. When the Negro awakes to this fact and walks out into the golden light of God's eternal word, then and not until then, will he be an instrument in God's hand in making kingdoms of this world the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When I took charge of my present fields of labor, I brought with me what was called "new time religion." "hand shake religion," "one night religion." I mean the idea of exercising faith, and accepting Christ on the terms of the Gospel, negatifless of dreams and visions. During our first meeting, for two weeks we preached these plain and simple facts, and out of a number of torts or more anxious souls, only one mustered up faith, courage and common sense enough to accept Christ on the terms of the Gospel. The following year we sounded the same keynote, "Saved by grace." "Whosoever, believeth, etc." The progress was marked by twelve conversions. During the last two weeks we have been fighting with the same weapon the "Sword of the spirit, the word of God," and seventy-five, or perhaps one hundred souls, women and children, came to the light of the Gospel. It shows that the middle wall of partition is being broken down by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. The people of the rural districts are in need of the plain and simple truth of God's word, and churches are failing in their mission for the want of the Gospel. We need more consecrated men and women, Bible students, preachers and Sunday school teachers, to point men to the "Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world." Here I am reminded of a brother who sought Christ in his importance. It is said that after he had been seeking religion for six months or more visiting prayerwards, and such places. and having dreams of various kinds, he walked out one beautiful night and looked up at the moon and stars, "the mighty host of heaven, that had been led out by the hand of God upon the open fields of ether, to bear the testament to the greatness of their Creator," and he said, "O Lord, if you have ever converted my soul, please Father, make it plain to me by shooting a star." The words were scarcely out of his mouth before he saw a great star shoot that lighted up the heavens. He said to himself Being dissatisfied with that he looked up and saw the queen of night looking from her silvery palace in all of her brightness and beauty. He said, O Lord, I am not satisfied about that star, please Sir, shoot the moon for me tonight, and I will know that you have converted my soul." At that time he said God called him and said, "Nigger, I gave my son to die for all of you niggers-if you will only believe it. So you just as well to get up off your knees, for I won't shoot my moon for no nigger on earth." He shall not question the truth of the above story, but I have known of similar incidents by myself, when men ask for such sims and evidence of conversion, and sought lamong graveyards for the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God, "the time of this ignorance God overlooked; but now command all men everywhere to repent" and believe in the Gospel. The way is, so plain that "the wayfaring men though fools, shall not err therein." In His holy book, God has asked the question in letters of blazing light, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" and again it is written, "He is a God of the living and not a God of the dead." Why should we resort to such places to find Him? In Romans we have the following quotation, "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in this heart that God hath raised him from the dead, shalt believe in this heart that God hath believed unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." And again he says, "Behold the Kingdom of God is within you." Often in our教堂, when a soul takes a hallowed name for Christ he is delivered from misunderstanding by some "misunderstanding" name due I really believe that many a soul has gone down to the grave without accepting Christ, because of the erroneous teaching they received. The soul of a man is much more important than his body, because it is immortal and if men should be properly instructed in any matter on earth, it is that of the soul. May God grant that more men whose life have been touched with a live coal from the burning altar of truth; men who have studied to show themselves workmen chosen of God; men who will rightfully divide the work of truth; men who regard the great commission "Go ye into all of the world." May God grant, I say, that such men may hear the Macedonian cry in the rural districts and come over and help us. Yours in His name, H. M. CHAPMAN. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night was a and time with the Reds, for the Blues are now burying them and will complete the job in a few days. Everybody is happy over the great success that both sides had in the voluntary rally, General R. A. B. Crump, who led the Reds, stands ready with his men to congratulate General W. S. Morgan, who led the Blues, also his men. The Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. met and elected Mrs. Louberth H. Blackwell president of the women. We feel that the right choice has been made. The women are manifesting much interest. Last Sunday was a crowded day for service. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A., Rev. J. J. Woodson conducted the meeting for the workers and all were happy to have the Reverend. The work in the city jail and city home by the committee 10 A. M. was a great success. Eleven prisoners were won for Christ in the city jail. Committeeman C. B. Gaston conducted the meeting for the boys, 4 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. and it was a good one. Mothers the season is now on, send your boys. 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A., an excellent meeting was held for men, led by A. C. Clarke. Every man was active. Men be on time Sunday, ready for hard work and the other man Came to the meeting for workers at the X, M, C, A, 9:30 A. at the Y. M. Committee man B. L. Allen will con- clude the meeting, 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. All mothers are invited to send their boys. Mr. F. W. Ball will conduct the meeting for men, 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Ask the other man to come. Be on time. Live singing. Only women, 5:30 P. M. at the Sharon Baptist Church. Mrs. Ella Williams Johnson will deliver a special address by request. Some things that women ought to know and practice. Special singing lead by Mrs. S. Aless K. Burrell. The madame will sing special solos. Every woman ought to come to this meeting. Come and firing the other woman. Free. Everybody who needs help is invited to come to the Y. M. C. A. Night School, which will open at the building, Monday, Sept. 27, 5 P. M. A very earnest set of teachers has been chosen. Tell everybody to come. Watch for the launch of the season for the work of the Y. M. C. A. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. OFFICIAL REPORT (Continued from 1st Page) Jones, of Miss. attempted to take charge of the convention. Great confusion followed, it being impossible to transact any business, a motion was made that the convention stand adjourned until time for the afternoon session. The motion was put and the convention adjourned until the afternoon session. The motion was voted on and declared carried by President Morris. It was then that Dr. E. P. Jones declared himself chairman and attempted to hold a convention. No time for the convention to meet in the afternoon, Dr. E. C. Morris was there and attempted to call the convention to order, but was prevented by the disorderly crowd. Disorder was kept up until the adjournment of the afternoon session. INJUNCTION SERVED ON PRESIDENT: The second day opened. But be fore doing so, the enrollment committee and finance committee were stationed at the door, and no one was allowed to enter the hall who were not regular delegates, wearing a badge. When the delegates were seated, Dr. Morris called the convention to order and after the opening devotionals and the reading of the journal, began the reading of the book, which was in the midst of the reading of this address, that Dr. E. P. Jones entered the hall, followed by a deputy sheriff, interrupted the speaker, and the latter, the deputy sheriff, served on President Morris an injunction issued by Judge Smith, prayed for by Revs. E. P. Jones, R. H. Boyd and C. J. M. Boyd. INJUNCTION DIBSOLVED. This was a turning point, because many of the delegates began to leave the Boyd faction, declaring that he was trying to destroy the convention. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. E. C. Morris and others, representing the convention appeared before Judge Smith, with attorneys, and at 5 o'clock the injunction was dissolved, the judge asking to Dr. James. It is clear to the court, that you attempted to take the convention in a dissatisfying way. The injunction is dissolved. 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Seefeld King, eighteen years old, was drowned in James River, at the foot of Twelfth Street. Wednesday afternoon, while in swimming with several companions. The body was recovered. He resided at 1111 Williams Street. STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF Mechanics Savings BANK OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, LOCATED AT RICHMOND IN COUNTY OF HENRICO, STATE OF VIRGINIA, AND CITY OF BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 1915, MADE TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. Loans and discounts..... $96,201.82 Overdrafts, secured, $292, un- secured, $2516.64..... 2,808.64 Bonds, securities, etc. owned, including premium on same..... 1,630.00 Banking house and lot..... 41,053.99 Other real estate owned..... 52,580.73 Furniture and fixtures..... 4,579.73 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings..... 1,895.84 Other cash items..... 806.03 Due from National Banks..... 7,404.35 Paper currency..... 1,820.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents..... 69.65 Gold coin..... 4,685.00 Silver coin..... 3,015.00 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in ..... $33,810.00 Surplus fund ..... 3,000.00 Undivided profits less amount paid for interest, expenses and taxes ..... 237.70 Dividends unpaid ..... 257.40 Individual deposits, including saving deposits ..... 161,956.53 Certified checks ..... 1,507.00 Bills payable ..... 10,000.00 Reserved for accrued interest on deposits ..... 606.00 Reserved for accrued taxes ..... 160.00 Unearned discount ..... 7,215.88 I. Walter T. Davis, Cashier, do solemnly swear that the above is a true statement of the financial condition of Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond; Va., located at Richmond, in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 2nd day of September, 1915, to the best of my knowledge and belief. WALTER T. DAVIS, Cashier. Correct—Attest: THOMAS M. CRUMP. R. W. WESTING. JOHN T. TAYLOR. Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by Walter T. Davis, this 18th day of September, 1915. 2. Thomas Brown, Nettary Public. EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Successor to H. M. WILLIAMS, O. G., at 502 N. SECOND STREET, has a man who makes a Specialty of the Eye, who examines them free when glasses are furnished. We also have MISS ROSA REESE with us, formally with H. M. Williams, booking after the Repair Work and Kodak Work. Pictitives Framed, Artistic and High Class Kodak Work. Successor to H. M. 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