Richmond Planet
Saturday, February 12, 1916
Richmond, Virginia
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VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 13
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1916
PRICE
EDITOR MITCHELL TRAVELS
A VAUDEVILLE PLAY IN LOS ANGELES—WHITE DANCERS. CLOTHED IN NAKEDNESS—HUMOROUS SCENES DEPRESSED—GOOD TIMERS IN A CAFE, SPICY DESCRIPTIONS.
I had forgotten to state that I went out Monday night with, Mr. Robert C. Owens. We visited a theatre and I had not been there very long before I realised that white-women, in this section of the country did not wear clothes or rather those that "inhabited" the stage of this particular play-house did not do so. It was a vauduille play-house, and humor was in evidence every moment of the time that we sat there in choice seats secured for our convenience.
A SCENE IN A COURT ROOM
One of the scenes related to a judge, who had faithful officers, who saw to it that only those culprits were arrested who had upon their persons anything of value which would be of service to the Court. Confiscation was in order. A New England constable was doing service and he succeeded in bringing to the bar of injustice some very amusing cases. One prisoner was brought in for having in his possession a jug of liquor. The judge was much disgusted to hear of such a thing.
MUST TASTE THE EVIDENCE.
He was unwilling to convict the prisoner, though, until the evidence had been produced in court, and so the constable brought in the liquor. He could not convict him until he
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Y. W. C. A.
The first meeting in February, Sunday, February 6, began our jubilee celebration.
The principal address was delivered by Lawyer J. C. Robertson, whose subject was "Our Heritage." The audience united in pronouncing this a spiritful, inspiring address. Tea and a social hour followed.
Come next Sunday afternoon and hear Mr. Underwood.
Our fifteenth anniversary. March 3, will be celebrated fittingly. Further notice will be given.
The finance committee announces a bazaar at our building beginning February 22, and continuing throughout the week. Special features for each evening are promised.
The Excelsior Girls' Club held its monthly meeting Monday evening. The attendance was large. An address by the Gen'l. Secretary on "Girls and Their Mathematical Symbols" was the closing number on the program.
Basketball! Wait for the notice of the contest.
Books are still coming in. We thank you.
Religious Bally
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 9, 1916.
Richmond Planet.
Richmond.
Dear Sir,—Appreciation of twentieth anniversary of Doctor Jordan's service to Foreign Mission Board coming in reports from Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina and New York. Doctor Powell writes: "I want to thank you and congratulate you upon the great accomplishments of these twenty years I have tried to be your constant friend and supporter during these years." Doctor Leroy Butler writes: "How unselfish in you and how Christ-like that you should, prefer that the school should have preeminence instead of yourself find five dollars. Every church should honor your wishes and help.
WANTED.—A lodger for a nicely furnished room. Apply at 822 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va.
The Gans-Rady Company spells satisfaction and service. See their 33 1-3 per cent reduction sale, and go down and get a bargain.
—Mrs. Carrie Peyton, of West Leigh. Street has been confined to her bed the past two weeks.
—Mr. Matthew Dayte, the popular insurance collector is mentioned.
School Teachers to Play Basketball.
The staging of a basketball match between two clever quints of female schoolmistresses, is the latest attraction offered the public by the Richmond Negro Welfare League. The contest is scheduled for Johnson's Auditorium, Saturday afternoon, February 12, at 2:30 o'clock.
The school "marmas" have divided themselves into two teams, Suffragists and Feminists. The Suffragists will be chosen from the following: Misses Alice Chiles, Blanch Coles, Elizabeth Coles, Myra Colson, Mamie Dagkett, Sudie Daniel, Aurelia Edmunds, Mary Scott, Arnota Stokes and Marid Stokes.
The Feminists' quint will be selected from this aggregation: Misses Marie Bacebus, Gazelle Banks, Boatrice Edmunas, Alma Farnar, Lillian Frasier, Emily Gliplin, Elaine Huele, Ruth Huele, and Bernice Madison.
As this is the first time in the history of Negro Richmond for females to appear in a basketball contest, a very large crowd is expected. The teams are evenly matched and an exciting close game is looked for.
Union will try to avenge her defeat by the Welfare League quint next Saturday evening, February 19, at 8:30, in Johnson's Auditorium. The last game resulted in a victory for the Welfare squad by the score of 20:17.
Grand Annual Musical.
The Athletic Association of Virginia Union University presents the first annual musicale in the University Chapel. Tuesday evening, February 22, at 8:15 o'clock. The host musicale and documentary talent of Union, Hartshorn and the City will be represented.
Public Invited to Hear Union's Preliminary to Triangular Debate.
Union's preliminary contest to the Lincoln-Union Wilberforce-Triangular debate will be held in the University Chapel, Saturday evening, February 13, at 6:30. The triangular inter-collegiate debate is staged for March 17, at the following places: Union's affirmative team debates Wilberforce's negative at Wilberforce Ohio—Wilberforce's affirmative debates Lincoln's negative in Philadelphia—and Lincoln's affirmative meets Union in Richmond. The topic for argument is Resolved: That the military and naval resources of the United States should be promptly and substantially enlarged and strengthened.
Union has been preparing for this preliminary tonight for several weeks. Several practice debates have already been held between members of the College Department. In the preliminary tonight two teams of three men each will be selected from the following speakers: C. S. Johnson, U. G. Wilson, J. C. Carroll, E. E. Smith, W. A. Hall, G. W. C. Brown, C. H. Thompson, H. D. Shaw, V. D. Johnston, S. S. Campbell, J. E. Buster, J. H. Tolson, J. W. Dew and J. Davis.
Rev. Morris Returns From Nashville
Rev. S. S. Morris has returned from Nashville, Tenn., where he attended the midwinter session of the Council of Blahops of the A. M. E. Church. Rev. Morris is being spoken of as a probable successor of Dr. J. C. Caldwell, General Secretary of the Allen C. E. League. In the event that Dr. Caldwell is elevated to the blahopsite.
Mr. Heller Gone
Mr. Albert Sidney Heller, proprietor of Hellers Human Hair Store 712 Seventh St., N. W., Washington, D.C. departed this life on Monday, January 31st 1916. The business will be continued by his wife and sons.
Wedding Bells.
One of our most widely known young men in business and social circles, Mr. W. H. Jackson, many years clerk in the Richmond post office; will lead to the altar the popular school teacher, Miss Delta E. Caskie, the beautiful daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Caskie. The event has been announced to take place at Third St. Bethel A. M. E. Church, February 22, 1915, at eleven o'clock A. M. Friends are invited. No cards.
The Negro Teachers Association and School Improvement League of Virginia will hold its annual session at Dawntville, Va., March 1 to 4, 1916. Prof. B. A. Long is President. Prof. I. W. Taylor is chairman of the local association.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
DOWN LAWYER 1809
Solemn and mindful, strong of heart and limb,
Tender and simple, too, he was so near.
To all things human that he cast out fear,
And ever simpler, like a little child,
Lived in unconscious nearness unto him
Who always on earth's little ones hath amiled.
S. Weir Mitchell.
Without an instant's hesitation I place Lincoln far above any other on your shining list—far above Bismarck, who created an empire: far above Gambetta, who saved a fallen people, or Mazzini, who helped put a new soul in another, or the Marquia Ito, who transformed some hermit islanders into the present first of Asiatic and peer of European powers.—Whitelaw Reid.
LINCOLN. 1859.
I am speaking on the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and to men who count it their peculiar privilege that they have the right to hold Lincoln's memory dear and the duty to strive to work along the lines that he laid down. We can pay most fitting homage to his memory by doing the tasks allotted to us in the spirit in which he did the infinitely greater and more terrible tasks allotted to him. Theodore Roosevelt
JORDAN—JORDAN
1891-1910—Silver Wolding.
Suffolk, Va., Feb. S. — A brilliant and most enjoyable social event of the midwinter season was given Friday evening, January 28, when Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius W. Jordan, of 129 Pine Street, entertained in honor of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
The entire lower floor of the spacious Jordan home was beautifully decorated with flowers and potted plants; hangings of chrysanthemums, vases of roses, masse of ferns, and shaded lights being used with artistic effect, carrying out the color scheme of green and pink. Mr. John Marshall, Jr., received the guests at the door, and in the parlor. Mrs. J. C. White was assisted by Misses Pearl Jackson and Helen Jordan.
Mrs. Jordan, becomingly gowned in a dress of lavender crepe, combined with satin and silver lace, took her stand between the folding doors, where she was met by Mr. Jordan and the Rev. W. R. Howerton, pastor of Macedonia A. M. E. Church, who performed the ceremony.
After the ceremony the celebrants toast was made by the officiating pastor. "Love We're Growing Old" was effectively sung by Mrs. T. D. Tharpe, and Mrs. M. C. Brandom gave a fitting toast to the host and hostess to which Rev. P. L. Boone, pastor of Pine Street Randal Church, responded.
Mendames W. J. Cohoon and Luther Golden, with their usual grace and dignity, presided at the punch bowl. A most amusing and unique Quiz Game, "Twelve prominent Couples of Suffolk," in which twenty-five persons participated, was conducted by Mrs. M. C. Brandom, and Miss Temple B. Kelley, and the prizes—a silver thimble and button hook—were won by Mrs. T. D. Tharpe and Mrs. A. D. Jones.
Golden's stringed orchestra, accompanied by Mrs. Maurice Troy, furnished music, and at 11 o'clock a dalynt six course supper was served. The affair was charming in every detail and Suffolk society was present in full force. A handsome silver tea pot was presented from the Deacon Board of Pine Street, Baptist Church, of which board Mr. Jordan is chairman.
The bride and groom of twenty-five years were the recipients of numerous and varied handmade articles of silver, evidencing the high regard of their many friends.
In the two men must be so the
LINCOLN, 1865
strains of "Home sweet Home" the guests dispersed, all hopeful of celebrating with the smiling host and hostess twenty-five years hence, their Golden Wedding Anniversary. About sixty guests enjoyed Mr. and Mrs. Jordan's hospitality. Among the out-of-town guests were Mrs. Sasantha Thomas and daughter, and Mrs. Willie Pierce and daughter, of Portsmouth, Virginia.
TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE.
An appeal has been sent out for a special donation on the part of all of the Baptist churches to aid the great work in Africa and in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the official service of Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan as Secretary, Sunday, February 13, 1916, has been selected as Donation Day. The money can be sent to the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, 701 S. 19th Street, Louisville Ky.
Announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Caskie invite
friends to the marriage of aethn
daughter, Della Ellen, to Mr. W. H
Jackson, at Third Street: A. M. E.
Church at eleven o'clock A. M. T.
day, February 22, 1915. No cards.
At home March 10th, 1002 1-2 West
Leigh Street
An Announcement.
Rev. H. A. Stevens, B. D., conductor of Chastauques and pastor of Main Street baptist Church, Clifton Forge, Va., has been indisposed for several weeks, unable to perform pastoral duties, is slowly improving. His pulpit has been filled by ministerial friends, Reva, J. H. Gaines, of Covington; S. R. Bullock, of Ronevert, W. V., and A. L. Brent, of Staunton, Va.
We are prayerfully trusting that he may soon be able to resume his regular course of work.
WANTED—50 GOOD RELIABLE
WOMEN to come for work as
Cooke, Chanhamales, Waltressus
and General Houseworkers. Good
wage, good brow to the right
partition. Write STLVIA L. MUPON-
MILL, Binghamton Agent, 606
Binghamton Ave, Montclair, N. J.
Without an instant's heiation I place Lincoln far above any other on your shining list—far above Bianmarch, who created an empire; far above Gambetta, who saved a fallen people, or Maximina, who helped put a new soul in another, or the Marquia Ito, who transformed some harmlit islanders into the present first of Anasiic and peer of European powers.—Whitelaw Reid.
LINCOLN, 1858.
It took his countrymen full four years to find Abraham Lincoln out. By the light of the campfire of victorious armies they learned to see the outline of his gigantic figure, to assess the integrity of his character, to comprehend the majesty of his conscience, and, when at last they looked upon his careworn face as the nation reverently bore his body to the grave, through their tears they saw him exalted above all thrones in the affection of the human race.—Jonathan P. Dolliver.
Richmond, Va., Feb. 8, 1926
To Whom It May Concern:
We, members of New Bridges Church, in the defense of our congratulation, wish to call your attention to the rumor that has been circulating that we have boycotted our pastor. This ruder is untrue, and we, to defends our church, do not wish to be boycotted.
We hire our Pastor by the year and pay him by the month. At the expiration of every year, a vote is cast to determine whether we shall retain him or get another.
Rev Binford's second term will expire the third Sunday in February. A vote was taken the fourth Sunday in January. He was defeated at 16 to 31, and he was notified the same. He claims we should have asked him to tender his resignation. We did not ask him to vacate before his term expired, and we feel, as Christian brethren, that a man has no need to tender a resignation when he is out of employment. We ask the public to explain to us whether a man needs to tender a resignation or tender an application when he is unemployed.
(Signed) Committee of New Bridge Baptist Church—J B. Miller, M Trent, R. Garnett
Rev. Hobbs to Preach at Mt. Calvary.
Rev. A. Holbs, former pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, will preach at the Church, Sunday, February 20, 1916, eleven A. M. and eight P. M. Friends and members are invited to be present. He has done a great work in this city. Rev. William Harris, Pastor
Services at Bethel A. M. E.
Third Street Bethe, A. M. E. Church
Sunday 11:00 A.M. sermon by Dean
L. B. Moore, Howard University. At
S. P. M., Special Program celebrating
the 100th anniversary of African
Methodism, and the birthday of Richard Allen. Addresses to be delivered by Profs. John R. Mayne, A. V. Norrell, and Rev. S. S. Morrilla. Special music will be rendered also.
WANTED—ambitions agents to sell
THE MEMORIAL EDITION OF
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON."
Write of course for information
STANDARD SALES CO. HIS
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LAYMEN'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT TO HOLD MEETINGS IN COLORED CHURCHES.
Public Invited to Hear Great Speakers at Three Meetings.
The public of the city of Richmond is cordially invited to attend the following meetings to be conducted under the auspices of the executive committee of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of America.
Monday night, February 14, at 8:30, the opening meeting will be held at the First Baptist Church, Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor. The Rev. George Green, M. D., the Medical Missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention, will deliver an address, subject: "Mimicking to Africa's Need."
Tuesday night, February 15, at 8:30, the second meeting will be held at the Second Baptist Church, Dr. Z. D. Lewis, pastor. At this meeting the Rev. H. F. Williams, of Nashville, Tennessee, the Field Secretary of Foreign Missions in the Prebysterian Church, U. S. A., will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Foreign Missions."
On Wednesday night, February 16, the closing meeting will be held at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Dr. R. V. Peyton, pastor. At this meeting an address will be delivered by the Rev. Warren H Denison, D. D. pastor of the Memorial Christian Temple of Norfolk, Va. Subject: "The Supreme Business of the Church."
Z. D. Lewis, W. T Johnson, R. V. Peyton and T. J. King SubCommittee.
Sunday School of Third St. Bethel
Ritchmond, Va., February 3, 1916—The Sunday School of the abbreviated church ranks as one of the best in the city, the Superintendent, J. W. Watts, and the Pastor Rev. S. S. Morris, deserve much credit for having worked hard and earnestly to make the school a creditable one. Persons that do not attend any Sabbath School would do well to come and join this one. The school is graded to perfection. No one can escape this school's inducements, as it has so many departments to suit your needs. If parents of the home cannot find it convenient to come, send your children, but we prefer you to bring them; and if you do desire, we will enroll you in our Home Department, and if you have any little ones at your home that are too small to come to school, notify us and we will send one to your home and enroll them in the Cradle foll Department.
Why keep your children from learning God's word, when you can teach them in the home while they are small?
The Men's Bible Class is also a drawing card. The young men of the city should avail themselves of the opportunity to come and join this class. The main object of the class is to get a better understanding of the Bible. Mr. M. J. Graham, who has charge of this class, is doing splenite work in building the class up.
We also have a woman's class recently organized, and all women of the city that are not attending any Sabbath School should unite with us and make this class one that will go down in the History of the Church and be a record that no other Sabbath School can compete with. Visitors are always welcome to our school to see what we are doing for the betterment of the Roll, that they may follow our example in spreading the Word of God. J. N. DAVIS, Reporter
You may be happy, but you'll be happier if you patronize the Roupress-Cherry Corporation. Their furniture is up-to-date.
Miss Emma Ellis, of N. 13th St., who has been confined to her bed with La Grippie, is able to be out again. She is a pupil at Armstrong.
H. A. Knight, the blacksmith, still conned to his bed with La Grippie. He desires much to see his friends. Residence 509 Catherine Street.
—Mrs. Bertha E. Hertor returned home last Saturday after a very pleasant stay with her parents in Washington, D. C.
Here we are! The Chauffeurs' Club with their Leap Year Bazaar to be given at Johnson's Auditorium. Thursday night, February 17, 1916. Admission. 15 cents. Good music. Refreshments in abundance.
—Mrs. J. A. Moss, of 419 W. Duval street is slowly improving after meeting her brother, Robert Moss of Charleston, W. Va. and her sister, Mrs. Slims Green, of Lynchburg, Va. They are the only ones who are living and they wanted to meet once more in this life. It had been nine years since they met before and it was a happy meeting with them. She is a little stronger today, but still confined to her room. We hope she may soon be out again. She will be glad to see any of her friends at new time.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP
THE BRILLIANT NEW YORK WRITER AGREES WITH MR. JOHNSON—A TRIUMBATE PAID TO WRIGHT CUNEY, OF TEXAS.
Yonkers, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1916.
Dear Mr. Mitchell: I have read Mr. Johnson's letter in The Planet of February 5th and I find myself in agreement with his views on the question of leadership, especially political leadership. A Nogro political leader is as useless as the fifth wheel to a wagon. He really is no leader at all. He is merely the agent, in a restricted sense, of the white party managers and leaders, and can do no act beneficial to his followers without the concurrence and endorsement of the white man who govern and control, and shape the policies of his party.
The leaders, so called, who have been merely going through the motions and posing as near-statesmen for the past fifty years have been quite willing to be what they seemed, but they have never been able, not one of them (and I have known all of them since 1870) to make the dead square with the word, independent of their white colleagues, in the leadership business.
THE WHITE MAN'S VOICE
PREMIER
In every state in the South, from the Rio Grande to the Virginia, the white man's voice has been the voice of authority in Republican and Democratic politics. The colored committeeman has merely been a bump on a loot. He could dictate no appointments of members of his constituency and whenever he was con-
CORRAGEOUS BISHOP REBURH
GRAFT.
Her muggham, Ala.—Before the North Alabama "conference of, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop J. W. Alstork, of Montgomery, who is presiding, let it be known in no uncertain language that he could not be influenced in his work by any special gifts or offerings and discouraged that practice on the part of the ministers in the conference. He told the ministers plainly that the only thing that could commend them would be faithful service to the church and race.
"Making me special donations will not help at all," said Bishop Alstork. "I would rather not have them, and I cannot discourage the practice too empathetically. In the first place the preachers in a Negro conference have not enough money to be making the bishop presents, and, in the second place, the church has provided for the bishop. For my part, I am perfectly satisfied with the provision the church has made me, and I am expected to serve it and my God. I can neither be bought nor sold, and will not be influenced in the performance of my duty one lot by such gifts."
Says Army and Navy haven't enough
Men to Enforce Prohibition Law.
New York City, N. Y.—Mr. Hugh F. Fox, the well-known publicist, spoke in a few Sunday evenings ago at the Sunday Evening Forum of the Free Synagogue of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish orator, is Rabbi and Leader, on the subject, "The Fulfillment of Prohibition."
Mr. Fox pointed out that in the nineteen States which now have prohibition, the people are inclined to drink inferior spirits rather than the lighter beverages which they could get in a license State. The fact that beer and wine were too difficult to conceal on account of their bulk explained it, he said.
Speaking of National prohibition, Mr. Fox declared that a prominent Government official had once told him that to enforce national prohibition would require a police force as large as our Army and Navy put together.
HUSBAND WANTED:
We have a good opportunity for a man from 30 to 52 years of age; must have good traits, of a religious temperament, fond of children, possessing common sense. Anyone feeling beauty and in need of a good, educated companion, one who has attended Trinity College institute and is now a widow, would do well to address a letter to this office. A former will also "kill the bill." The lady in question is 20 years of age and now resides in Pennsylvania.
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SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1816
BEN DAVIS WILL DEFY THE S. C. M.
MEMBERS OF ORDER IN GEORGIA
INFOMED TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY.
Atlanta, Ga. That Benjamin J. Davis and Birl S. Ingram do not intend to now without a fight to the mandates of the subcommittee of management of the Grand United Order of Old Fellows, which recently suspended them from the order of one year, and rescinded their objection. Grahame N. Byrne of Georgia is shown in that fact that Alfred D. Jones, a prominent local member of the order, has gone before Judge W. D. Ellis of the Fulton Superior Court, and prayed for the appointment of temporary receivers for the handling of the affair of the Order of the Fellows on January 14, 2013, he named the suspended officers with the other officers as receivers.
COURT NAMES INGRAM AND
DAVIES AS RECEIVERS
The court's order included the motion of March 4 for the appearance of the representatives of the opposition to show cause why the reservation should not be made permanent. The order goes further.
"In the meantime, the Court takes jurisdiction of said cases and the assets in said position up and directs that the same remain in the custody of B S Ingram, District Grand Master, J M Pitto, District Grand Master, J M Pitto, District Grand Secretary, J C Styles, District Grand Treasurer, and William Becker Johnson, District Grand Director, and that they be permitted in the meantime to carry on the ordinary business of said corporation, be restrained only from disposition of any of the assets except in the ordinary business said corporation."
"It is further considered ordained and adjudged that the filing of the petition and the taking jurisdiction of said cause and assets mentioned in the petition shall in no wise affect the rights of the benefactor and of the assured in said Association, but that their rights, until further order, shall remain as they are now, and until further order of this Court all participate the defendant herein and its assets are hereby served with the custody and control of the aloosead Ingram, Little Days, Styles and Johnson, of in any way interfering with the business of said Association.
"Leave is granted to the defendant to save days' notice to the plaintiff to move for an earlier hearing of the cause."
Messrs. Ingram, and Davis have issued a signed statement to the members of the order in Georgia, in which the action of the S C M is reviewed and information given, that while four hundred and sixty five哎哎哎 were presented to the trial body in their behalf, less than twenty per person of them alleged *not being to the order*, presented testimony against them. But the action of the S C M indicated that the twenty哎哎哎 of the four hundred and sixty five哎哎哎 were timing the officers in charge of the Order's affairs, the statement directed that the subordinate bodies will continue, under the court's order, to set all money to B J. Davis, grand secretary, instead of to the S C M, as was ordered in the filing of that body, given in The April week.
INGRAM AND DAVIS ISSUE
STATEMENT.
The statement is in full as follows: Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 27, 1976 To the Odd Fellows of Georgia Brothers and Sisters. At Athena you unanimously reelected us your officers and servants to execute the trust imposed upon us by our obligations, the rules and regulations of the order. If in the course of human events, we should be hindered in any way from a faithful and conscientious discharge of our duther or responsibilities imposed by the trust, it would be our duty to inform you thereon delay. You are invited that we had a bairdous meeting at Athens, that with the exception of the commission caused by one A. Grays, everything was peaceful and tranquil during the session.
Second, you are advised that various charges, were filed against your servants by A. Graves, B. W. S. Danielle, Morgan Williams, Jeff Powell and Pacific Lodge. These various charges, numbering possibly a dozen alleged offenses, were all tried together before the Court. You are also required to five members of the Order swore in their affidavits that your servants were innocent. Less than twenty persons, some of whom did not belong to the Order, testified, against us. Among the various charges, we were charged with contempt. We plead not guilty, and offered four hundred and sixty-five witnesses in proof of our inpacture. The Committee reached to the Court that we were guilty. First, B. S. Ingram and B. J. Davis were found guilty of contempt and their punishment fixed at suspensions for one year. The cases as to the others were dismissed.
Second. The Committee found that
a state of anarchy existed in the jurisdiction, and sought to revoke our charter, and if successful in having done so, this abolished the offices held by Brothers Pitta, Styles and Johnson and our Sinking Fund Commission and every other collateral office out of the Bristlet Grand Lodge. Under these circumstances, a member who felt that the property rights of the policyholders should be given the protection of the courts, presented his petition to the Superior Court of Fulton County. In which he prayed for the appointment of temporary represe-ntation conditions, the usual counsel, and that your rights and the rights of all persons be fully preserved and protected.
His Honor, the Judge to whom the bill was presented, took jurisdiction of your affairs, and, acting in great moderation and with perfect fairness to you and all persons concerned, appointed us whom you elected as your Executive Committee—to continue in the management of your corporation and to carry on your business in the office of your corporation. From disposing of any of the assets otherwise than in the ordinary business of your corporation, which we would have avoided with great care without being restrained. You will therefore, under the Court order, continue to send your money to B J. Davis, Secretary of the corporation and your policies will be kept alive and your death claims will be paid in the usual way without any change whatever and all your expenses will be paid by your Executive Committee acting under the court orders, with the same care hereafter.
In the meantime we will make an answer to the petition filed and give such attention to the litigation brought about as the situation requires, we are issuing this letter to you so as to remove unintended and unanticipated from your mind, and so that you can be assured that your large property integrates will not be neglected.
We will call your attention to the Court order published in this week's issue of The Atlanta Independent. It follows:
Your fraternity,
R S INGRAL, D G M
R J BAVIS, D G S
JAVIS CHARGES A CONSPIRACY
In the last year of the 1970s, he deposited the paper edited by T. J. Davis, and published as the official organ of the cold Fellows of congress Mr. Davis declares in an editorial note that no formal notice has been served by the S.C.M. either on theogram or Davis, or on any of the bodies of the State of the Republic. In respect to that it is directed by permanent officials of the order that publication of the paper in the official organ of the congress in Washington is permitted with H. P. Shanley, editor, to titrate a formal official notice from the S.C.M.
In the same issue of *The Independent* appears an editorial under the caption, *Jigram and Bayes Maryre*. In this editorial Mr. Bayes claims that the punishment inflicted was out of all proportion to the charges laid, and makes the definite charge that Jigram and Bayes are the victims of a conspiracy among men further up, he charges further that the disposal of the two Georgians was necessary for the promotion of the personal ends of ambitions individuals. Referring to the revaluation of the charter of Dr. Jigram's Grand Lodge No. 18 Mr. Bayes said.
[ The rights and liberal revolution of the Georgia warrant was nothing less than an effort born of the desire to constitute Pitton Million Dollars, worth of insurance. The fraternity has Pitton Million Dollars in its assistance outstanding, for which the corporation is liable, and has assets of more than a Half Million Dollars and an amount so great that it would be so far as the decision of the S.C. M. of leaving the corporation without an offer, without an answer. No regard was had for the interest that is deaf to the fifty thousand Georgia society men and women. Despite the fact that the women of Georgia have Five Million Dollars of insurance with the Georgia corporation, despite the fact that the laws of our State, as well as the Constitution of the States will not permit a republican to be represented, we are told that we must do that which is legally impossible, import a contract.
It is further asserted that "the two men out of society or in it have contributed more to the material and material progress of the race than lurgan and Daws. They are entitled to some consideration for their contribution to American civilization." After that they have furnished employment, means and encouragement to hundreds of men, women and children of the foundation which would be affected by the decision of the S.C.M. are trust fund for the benefit of widows and orphans; the gamlet is thrown down to the Sub Committee of Management in the following delt:
DEFY THE S C M
The order suspending Ingram and Davis is void and without force and effect, for the reason the acts with which they were charged do not constitute an offense under the law. At best, the charges were frivolous and ridiculous. The order revoking the Georgia charter is void, for the reason the committee had no jurisdiction. No process was issued, and the District Grand Lodge was not in court and The Independent advice court of the courts of the country and that the powers and authority of the S.C. M. be defined. The courts ought to say whether or not a friendly society can cloth itself with the right to communicate property, sensor, free speech and muzzle the press, depriving citizens of their constitutional rights. The Independent does not believe that the courts will sustain the S.C. M. in abridging the rights and concealing the property of the citizens if they do not submit to arbitrary and tyrannical rulings and faecal acts. The order to submit without legally prosecuting the oppressive actions of the S.C. M. The S.C. M. has gone so far as to enjoin the Odd Fellows of Georgia from
assembling in a time of peace as Odd Follows few their own moral, mental and intellectual edification. It has enjoined and restrained the Odd Follows in Georgia from conducting an industrial farm and school for the education of their children and the promotion of good citizenship; enjoined them spending a dollar upon this undertaking in July, and so tied the hands of the Georgia corporation that it cannot buy an ear of corn, bushel of meal, a blade of folder to feed a mule, cow, chicken or hog on the farm.
URBANNA, VA.
Mrs. Alice Thoraton was a caller in Wobble-Town last Sunday. Rev. J. A. and Mike Olga N. Martin visited Deacon Jack Ward on last Sunday.
LAST LIVING WITNESS
TELLS OF SHOOTING
OF LINCOLN
W. J. FERGUSON, THEN A CALL BOY IN FORDS THEATRE IN WASHINGTON, SAYS INACCUACIAS HAVE CREPT INTO HISTORY AND MOTION PICTURES.
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W. J. Ferguson, only surviving witness. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Fordy Theatre, Washington, on April 14, 1865, says that most of the American histories and all of the
weeks before I lounge and bed.
"Long after we President's little later his moved took a place we interest in the bit of linen, all it was.
"John Booth Theatre every distinctly after he was sitting the stage show afternoon procured 'He is man and we a madness, not family was to be at liberté have asked, use him. Fortune and so did no party to his ca
Many of the people of this neighborhood called to see Miss Gertrude Jones last week to express their sympathy in her recent bereavement.
The Literary Union of Middlesex met January 30, with the Mt Zion Sunday School, Mr. Garnett, superintendent.
The meeting was called to order by the president, Mr. H. L. Lockley.
Devotional exercises were conducted by brother S. J. Lewis after which they proceeded into their regular business. The Union closed to meet with the Harmony Village school the first Sunday in March.
There will be an Educational day observed at the Mt Zion Church Sunday, February 2.
A delightful concert was witnessed at the Pine Grove graded school on January 28, with Mrs. Fannie Lockley, as mistress of ceremony, everybody that was present were well pleased with the stage rendered their parts well.
Miss Gertrude Jones of Minneapolis City, N.J., was called here last week on account of the death of her brother in law, Mr. Steven Cephas.
Miss Anna L. Thornton, of Baltimore, Md. as spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Jone Joaney Harrison Village. Mr. and Martin is on the sick list. Mrs Sewell. Mr. Carrie Familley and Willow Mattess left here Wednesday. January 24 in Baltimore, Md.
SEARCH FOR OIL IN OHIO STATE
The search for new oil and gas pools in southeastern Ohio has been go through and persistent that the canal observer might conclude that the chances of finding new producing areas are slight. There is, in fact, some ground for that conclusion to parts of Monroe and Noble counties, where there is almost no area as large as I square mile that has not been built at one or more places by the drill. The most encouraging feature in this is the number of sand in which there is more than one sands being productive at one place or mother, and some single wells deriving oil from several sands. The shallow depth at which oil is found is also an indication to drilling, especially in the Caldwell district, where the Rund Run. Macsburg 500-foot, and other sands are productive within a few miles in their outter, at depths 200 to 260 feet. The Berea sand has yielded a pool output in the Woodsfield pool, the Temperanceville pool, the Barnestille pool, and the Cherry pool. It also furnishes an oil and gas pool compliant concerning the hardness that it is very "spotted" and deep that prospecting to it is rather expensive.
Recent investigations of the United States Geological Survey indicate that there are good chances of driving new productive wells to the Berea and certain other sands. Two reports covering parts of Betlem, Montana, Goreau, Sey and Noble counties have recently been prepared by D. Dale Cordit and V. Van A Mills. Each report includes a form may bearing structural coal drawn on the Berea sand and ash-shifting all of the wells, all dug up to the date of completion of the report. Certain localities that are believed to be favorable for prospecting are pointed out. The report are designated Bulletins 621 N and 621 O, "Structure of the Berea Ore Sand in the Summerfield Quadrangle-Guernsey, Noble, and Monroe Counties" and "Structure of the Berea Ore Sand in the Woodfield Quadrangle-Fetlock, Montce, Noble and Guevara Counties" Copies may be obtained free from the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey.
COLORED MAN DIES OF POISON
Urbana, Va. Stephen Cephas, a reposed and industrious man being here, who died on January 22, came to his death from poison, administered by the leads of his wife, Hirsch Cephas, according to the verifier of the Coroner's jury. She was taken into custody by Sheriff Segar and carried to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury. Chrance Faunderoy, from the eastern shore of Maryland, who was thought to be implicated in the murder, was also taken to jail for sakekeepers, was released after the jury failed to find an indictment against him. The case is set for the March term of court.
The Planet is one of the best mediums for the colors folks to get the nows. A postal card will bring it to your door and a collector will come to see it with its artistry. You can have it sent to you for 50 cents.
The Knights of Pythias 'Anniversary
will take place this year. Marvel
LAST LIVING WITNESS
TELLS OF SHOOTING
OF LINCOLN
W. J. KERGUSON, THEN A CALL
BOY IN FORDS THEATRES IN
WASHINGTON, SAYS INACCU
RACIES HAVE CREPT INTO
HISTORY AND MOTION PIC
TURES.
[New York Herald]
W. J. Ferguson, only surviving wit-
ness of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington,
on April 14, 1865, says the hour
the American patriot and all of the
motion pictures depicting the famous
tragedy give an altogether erroneous
imprecation of it.
Mr. Ferguson now in playing the role of George Merrie, one of the pirates, in "Treasure Island," at the Punch and Judy Theatre, and in view of the approaching celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on next Saturday he yesterday described John Wilkes Booth's murder of the president on Lincoln's Birthday. Booth saw it on that never to be forgotten night when Mkeeenew way playing "Our American Cousin" for her own benefit. Mr. Ferguson, who knew Booth well, refers to him always at "John." New histories record the fact that the box occupied by the President and Mrs. Lincoln and their party was situated at one, side of the stage, twelve feet above it, and not in the midstorium, as boxes are often built down on the actors, using the same angle of vision as if they were standing in the wings.
"A curtain was draped before President's chair," said Mr. Ferguson, "and this competently concealed its features from the audience. We on the stage could see him, but those in front could not, and for this reason the audience was not allowed to association were the occupants of his sex and Miles Keene and myself.
CALL BOY AT $ & A WEEK
"I was the call boy of the theater, at a salary of $5 a week. My duties kept me in a prompt box across the stage from the President's party much of the time that evening. I had suddenly been asked also to assume the role of Lieutenant Vernon in the play, and as I was to play a brief scene with Miss Koene she came to the prompt and was asked to hear the nearing time for us to make our entrance. I was required also to fill a desk with old papers, as Asa Trenchard, played that night by Harry Hawk, discovers a host in the library scene and destroys the document.
"About half-past nine o'clock, just as Miss Koene and myself were on the point of walking on the stage, we heard a snarp report. I thought someone had knocked over that box of paper but looking across the desk I noticed a string of tape. The same instant I noticed a string of motion in the President's box.
"Mr. Lincoln had the kindest features I ever saw and the eyes of a tawn. They became suddenly drawn to his eyes seemed to close and his head fell forward on his chest, although he did not fall from his chair. A man whom I instantly recognized as John Booth was climbing over the rafting of the box and struggling with some one in the box.
"The next instant he jumped down to the stage and hurried to where I was standing beside Miss Keepee, passed between us on his way out to the theatre and left it by a rear exit. I felt his breath on my cheek as he quizzed me. For some moments no one quite understood what had happened."
"Where and when did he show 'Nose-sumper tyrannals'?" interrupted the interviewer.
"He didn't," declared Mr. Bergman.
"Some one invented that piece of historical fiction, and in my opinion it was a newspaper man with a too vivid imagination." The quaint old player smiled.
"John was too busy getting to his horse in the rear of the building to include in absurd speculation, he continued, "He loved that animal, a yellow mare, that he knew would carry him to safety. The mare was his pet, a fast, graceful little animal worth a lot of money." The basket boy of the theatre was holding the mare's bride. I followed closely the mare's side, kick the boy aside in his excitement, and his pet back and disappear. Then I heard the familiar tat-tat-tat, tat-tat of a rapidly galloping horse, the sound gradually becoming fainter and fainter. I have infimated that noise hundreds of times behind the scenes it is known as 'taking on the horse.' "The whole incident seemed as unreal to me as though I had just made the noise myself as a part of the performance. Darting back to the prompt box, I heard the burs of excited conduction from across the footlight, and the audience began leaping to the stage. The crowd was crowded in a few minutes. Men who did it?" "Where is he?" "Did go get away?" "Which way did he go?"
I was only a call boy and no one paid any attention to me. Accordingly, I quietly slipped forward to the balcony stairs and passed along the rear wall of the balcony and so into the President's box. Just as John Booch done two few minutes earlier. The only notice he gave was through the balcony, and in going there John must have been seen by many persons sitting in the balcony.
SAW THE PRESIDENT MOVED
"With a boy's curiosity I watched the preparations to carry the mortality wounded man across the street to Peterson's lodgings. I saw a little blue mark where the bullet from Booth's derringer had entered. The wound was not bleeding. I noticed. Ladder 1000 was opened through the blubbery, down the belly, steps and across the street to an actor's boarding house. Here he was placed on a bed in an upper room in which the actor's used to leisure. Three
weeks before I had seen John Booth lounging and smoking on the same bed.
"Long after midnight I was told the President's wound was bleeding, and a little later his shirt, which had been removed, was seat down stairs and I took a piece, p fit as a souvenir, although I didn't realise the historical interest, in the tragedy and lost that bit of linen, all soiled and marked as it was.
"John: Booth was around Ford's Theatre every day. I remembered distinctly after the assassination that he was sitting at a prompt table on the stage about three o'clock on the afternoon preceding the murder.
"He was a fascinating and brilliant man and we all liked him. It was madness, nothing else. The Booth family touched us. At least I atlanta probably would have asked, me to hold his mare for him. Fortunately, I was too busy, and so did not become an innocent party to his escape.
"I said nothing about what I had seen. The excitement was intensely fervid and fanatical, and as I was only a call-boy I thought to myself that the wiseest thing for me to do was to keep my mouth closed, and I continued that policy for some years Miss Keene, on the other hand, was repeatedly called upon to give her story of what she saw."
MOTION PICTURE NOT CORRECT
"And the scene in 'The Birth of a Nation' depleting the calamity, that you see it?" asked the reporter.
"I did, with disgust," regulated Mr. Ferguson. "It was not only all wrong, but it was an asperation on the character of Abraham Lincoln. It depleted arm responding to cheers and applause and accompanied by a body guard.
"Lincoln was a simple man. He frequently came to the theatre, but he never had bodyguard. He would slip in quietly and the audience would not know he was there. We on stage could see him, of course, but he was confident that he was beaten behind that curtain. Before that time our Presidents had been free from assassins, and to set guard around him in that picture was abused. Lincoln was no Russian Tear, he trusted his public.
"And in the picture the box was placed in the audience and not above the stage. But of course those in the movies are more important than any of the great facts of history. They are more important than any history, but about acting. We of the stage are only tolerated by the master minds of the movies. It is something to make history on the screen. So easy, too."
"When the relaxed form of the kindest human being it ever has been my fortune to behold was carried out of the playhouse that night and the pleasure seeking throng which had been waiting for me and anger finally quitted the place I rang up on the curtain. It never went up on another play."
THE RICHMOND PLANET VIEWS
Photographs by P. C. Benson
Because The Richmond Planet edited by a man admired throughout the length and breadth of this country as a very worthy Baptist-dayman, the views taken by the Planet are of the same pasting interest. The Planet takes the view that no other permanent organization could have taken place at the National Baptist Convention until the report had been made of the enrollment of the delegates. The Planet has the following to say:
"We are inclined to agree with our very able friend when he declares that the real cause of the split was the effort of the convention, to subordinate all its boards to its authority and to control them. We do not understand, though how the National Baptist Convention had been made on its enrollment of delegates. Prior to that time, only routine business could be traced."
The Banner agrees with the above and therefore contends that E. P. Jones could not have been elected according to the testimony of Jones himself. For it appears he claims to have been elected on the first day before the adjournment of the first session, and this was before the enrollment including the mistakes made by the National Baptist Publishing House, at Nashville, Tennessee. The Planet says: "We have had the good fortune to converse with the able Rev. Dr. R. H. Boyd and we are of the opinion that the fundamental mistake made was in the action of the National Baptist Convention in presuming that it owned the National Baptist Publishing House at Nashville, Tennessee. We have assumed that the assumption thak it elected some members of that incorporated body, when as a matter of fact, it had never really done anything of the kind.
"The convention got credit for owning a printing plant that it did not own, that it had never owned, that it had never bought and that they had never contributed a penny to purchase. When the attempt was made to get possession of this property and to enforce its alleged rights at law by first incorporating for the purpose, then the bottom fell out of the co-operative arrangement," and the awakening came. If the National Baptist convention published books it must necessarily purchase one, either from the present de-facto owners-at Nashville or from the white folks who deal in those kinds of commodities. The one at Nashville is not worth a fight, as valuable as it is alleged to be."
Our Job Department can handle all classes of printing. Send us your by-laws and book work.
WHY J. JOHNSON
FAKED
Under the headline "Why Johnson Faked His Fight With Willard," the People's Journal of Glamour, Scotland, published an interview with Jack Johnson, in which the colored pugilist is made to say:
"I say now that there is not a man breathing whom I think I could not beat. These may be big words from the boxer who was beaten by Jesse Willard at Habana, but those in the know" will be able to read between the lines. I am not speaking discreetly of Willard, because I think he is a great fellow—as far as a man is concerned—but if he were as good a boxer as he is a nice fellow he would be a great fighter.
"My sight with Willard was a financial proposition. But the story goes back some little way. You can hardly be expected to realize how I was persecuted, after becoming champions. Yes; I suffered some at the hands of the 'dandy' people in America because 'dandy' would not find a white man to beat me.
"Well, they promised me that if I would consent to be defeated by Willard I would no longer be indebted and would enjoy the freedom any other man would. I would be allowed to see my old mother, who couldn't travel to see me. I would have my motor cars and said 'property attaches' to my property, a very attractive, but they played the double cross on me."
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HEALIS KILLED DR. MOHR, SAID
DEFENSE.
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Providence, Feb. 3. The trial of Mrs Elizabeth F. Mohr, Victor Brown and Henry Spellman for the murder of her husband entered on its final stage today. With all the evidence for both the prosecution and defense presented the lawyers began arguments which will continue until the jurors enter their room probably tomorrow night to decide Rhode Island's most famous criminal case.
Opening the argument for the defense was made by William H. Lewis, a Negro, ex-Assistant Attorney-General of the United States and one of the most noted football players Harvard ever produced. His powerful frame is topped by a massive head, a face deformed and scrawny, like a dust storm. He is a man of great voice. His voice flows in deep and musical cadences. The eyes are deep set and wide apart. The square jaw and broad forehead give an impression of intellectual power.
Lawyers, and Judges from all over the State crowded into the little court room to hear the address, and were outspoken in their praise of the manner in which he built a strong armament from the scattered materials of his case. It was Lewis, not the cause he was defending, who captured the minds of the spectators. A plea for Mrs. Mohr was coupled with his plea for Brown. He declared to the jury that she had established the law that Spelmann cannot be convicted in she freed. His argument took. In the whole scope of the defense and touched upon the manner of life Dr. Mohr had lived as leading inevitably to the murder on a lonely road.
SEES HAND OF EXTE
"The people realize that behind the man or woman who strives from a path of old fashioned morality, taught at our mother's knee, taught in church prayers and the every Boy conventions of society, ever stalking with uplifted blade, is the spectre of justice," he said. "It is inevitable as death that a joy ride is a ride of death. The unknown assassin that in Harrington on the Washington road was that boy." The law has taken its course. The police, as usual, following the easiest way, have seized upon parties and facts, least and last to be suspected, the loving and devoted wife and two servants in the house who never had a grievance against the deceased. They founded their theory upon a postal card, written two years or moveago, and compassed heaven and earth to prove this theory. All the evidence in this case has been obtained, even compiled and presented to you to prove the theory which started with George Rooks. You saw him on the stand. He smiled. he smiled, like a jackal. It was George Rooks who said to Healis:
"Didn't you and Mrs. Mohr fram-up this on the doctor." The man whispered to be a friend of Mrs. Mohr. He was a high minded gentleman, and while not condoning the conduct of Dr. Mohr, he told her Go thou and do likewise. They raked over the ash of a woman's past to find some coats for her character. "Brown and Spellman said, had no motive to kill Dr. Mohr. "The State says they did it for money or the promise of money. Thugs knaves and gunmen don't commit crimes and murder on a promise. They have the cash in hand. The theory that these men committed this crime for the promise of $2,000 or $1,000 each in absolutely absurd." The chief evidence against Brown and Spellman, he pointed out, is the evidence of their confessions. Again and again he was recited to this, picturing vividly the jury if Brown might not have said almost anything under the mental and physical pounding of a heavy handed chief of police.
"Confessions are the last resort of the police," he shouted, and quoted case after case of innocent men being convicted of murder on circumstantial grounds. The police only circumstantial evidence, actually connected either Brown or Spellman with any of the events of the fatal night. It was dark and the man who did the shooting were poor men. "Henks was the guilty man." The police got Heats and Heats behind him and shot them. The man and murderer were
found in his car and it was up to him to explain. The beginning and the end of the State's case is George W. Health. I call him a dog. There was a dog in that car, a dog of gentle pedigrees who would do cunning stunts for his master, who was happiest in his master's presence, because he knew his master loved him and be loved his master.
CALLS HEALIS MURDERER
"He was a grateful little dog, George W. Healis," Lewis shouted. "He is a Beebo扎ub, he is a Sapphire and an Anantas, a whole cathedral choir of lilies rolled into one. What did he do on his own testimony? He took the man who had paid him but a few hours before, a man who had trusted his life to him, down to the Nayat road and had him foully murdered. He was a kind man, but kind. The record of slavery shows that the colored rate never betrayed a domestic trust. It was the act of an Apache (Healis is part Indian), the act of the kind or savage who would sneak up behind a settler's cabin to burn and kill, who massacred pioneers on the Western plains, in George W. Healis the police have the real murderer of Dr. Mohr." The story of Healis, said the law enforcement officer withitness including Charlie Mohr, "the little chap who came in to testify for his mother."
"There is one thing for which I am grateful, that Brown did not join that hellish pack, Rooks, Ornaby and others, to railroad an innocent woman to jail and separate her from her little son."
During rebuttal earlier in the day the State put on a dozen police witnesses to testify that Brown had said to Mrs. Mohr that she had hired them to commit the罪案.
J. Fitzgerald is to sum up for Mrs. Mohr tomorrow morning. After Attorney-General Rice has made his argument Judge Stearns will deliver his charge and give the case to the jury.
Zulu Characteristics
*Nathan W. Wilson.*
It is a recognized fact that the Zulu tribe is one of the hungest in Southern Africa. The Zulu has a sturdy frame, a strong chest, wonderful digestion, magnificent teeth and fine muscles. He can stand hunger, fatigue and exposure. While he is show to adopt modern methods of illhance, irrigation and fertilizing, he is continuing to recognize their advantages.
His hospitality, indifference to pain, sense of human, good temper, love of children and trustworthiness are all good traits in his character.
"He is a manly specimen not a cringing toady, and, in his natural state, a gentleman, every bit of him." In general he is law-abiding and obedient, and he is not purposefully cruel. He has a strong muscular and capable knowledge of time and rhythm. His powers of singing, even when but slightly trained, are extraordinary.
"The Zulu knows a good deal about some things but what he does not know of what to the white man are matters of common, everyday knowledge, is appalling. His instructor is always running up against the black wall of suspense in importance. Natal is a beautiful land. The small hills and valleys of the coast region, with their numerous clumps of trees, wild bananas, and palms, give place further inland to the open cold and the wider sweep of more woodland. The terrain continues to the majestic mountain range of the Drakenberg, reaching in places an altitude of 11,500 feet.
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Y. M. C. A. NOTES
The Boys' Bible Class is still growing. Last Tuesday night was a happy hour with the boys.
The men were out in good numbers to the Bible Class for men last Tuesday night. This is your opportunity.
The Women's Auxiliary held a very important meeting last Friday night and the attendance was excellent. This department of our work is a strong factor in pushing forward the work of the Y. M. C. A. All women are invited to join. Mothers and sisters come.
Last Friday night at the Y. M. C. A. Women's Auxiliary was a live wire. President A. C. Clarke led the discussion. It was a warm hour.
The class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson was well attended and all were helped. No Christian worker ought miss this hour. Come.
9:30 A. M. the Workers' Meeting at the Y. M. C. A. was a good one. The team held special meetings 10:00 A. M. in the city home with the inmates.
10:00 A. M. in the city jail the Committee found much work to be done and the results were encouraging.
General Secretary S. C. Burrell addressed the boys, a P. M. at the hour the police were helpful one. Many boys were present. Right you are, mothers, in sending your boys. Please ask your neighbors to do the same.
5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A., a live meeting for men was held. Rev. John Horndon knows how to talk to men, then he gave them just what he wanted. The violin solo by Prof. Thomas Melton was enjoyed by the men and he was asked to come again soon. Every man was well paid for attending this meeting.
Come to the Workers Meeting.
9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A.
Committeeman C. M. will conduct a meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers send your boys and it will pay you.
All men are invited to the Open
Meeting for men. 5:30 P. M., at the
M. C. A., led by Mr. A. C. Clarke.
Bring the other man. Be on time.
I know you are gled to hear that Miss. Nanaile H. Burroughs of Washington is to lecture for the Fifth Street Baptist Church and the Y. M. C. A. Watch for the date.
Wake for the Great Meetings for the Great Guests of the church. We kindly ask every house to have church speaker for the Y. M. C. A.
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Mary Page, actress, is accused of the murder of James Pollock and is defended by her lover, Philip Langdon Pollock (1755-1825) of Pollock, was on the fire escape watching for Langdon. At Mary's trial she admits she had the revolver. Her mask was removed and she was with it previously, and Mary's leading man implicates Langdon.
"MY,TIME WILL COME!"
"KEEP your eye on this man Langdon! He was either in the room or at the door when James Pollack was murdered!" The words of the witness were like a stone flung into a pool of subtle inference that sent ever-widening ripples of possibilities to lap the very shores of suspicion itself. Every eye was on Langdon now, but except for a tightening of the muscles about the jaw he gave no sign of perturbation or anger. The actor himself was uneasy now, however, and cast apologetic glances at both Mary and Langdon, moving nervously in the witness-stand as the prosecutor took up his questioning again.
"You say you overheard only a part of what was said before the police came. Will you tell us where you stood and why you heard only a party?"
"Yes, sir. The door opens out—as I always the case in hotel rooms—and when I started to open it I was behind it and therefore not visible from the room. But I could hear what was said when Mr. Langdon and descriptive Parlay came out from the inner room of the suite where they had gone to look for Miss Page."
"And when the police came, did you remain in the room or did you join in the search for Miss Page?"
"I joined in the search, and went with the police down the fire escape and through the back street."
"What had become of Miss Page?"
"I don't know."
"Do you mean that the police did not and where she had gone?"
"Yes."
"What did you do?"
"I returned to the hotel, got my hat and coat and went home."
"That is all," said the prosecutor.
But the Judge leaned forward and voiced the question that everybody in the courtroom was mutely asking.
"Do you mean to say that a young lady in an evening gown and with no cloak walked through that street back of the hotel and that no one saw her! That you and the police got no clue in your search?"
"Yes, your Honor. Mary Page had disappeared absolutely, and no one knows where she went."
Langdon smiled, and the Judge sat back with a little exclamation that was not complimentary to the police; but when the name of the next witness rang through the room he learned for ward again and spoke with some irritation to the prosecutor.
"Is it your intention, sir, to develop through the testimony of THIS witness the whereabouts of Miss Party after the murder? It seems to me that that is the testimony that should be brought forward now."
"Tour Honor, the movements of Miss Page between the time she was left unconscious in the room at the Republic until the following morning will have to be told by Miss Page herself. They are not known to me and I have no witnesses to testify to her whereabouts or actions. I have in fact been unable to get anyone who actually saw 'prisoner' during her flight. The truth must come out, of course, and I have in the meantime called the sister of James Pollock to develop an important line in the case for the State."
Again Langdon smiled, and the Judge sat back with a little shrug, as amid a murmurous wave of comment and curiosity the name of the new witness was repeated:
"Both Pollock."
The sister of the dead man who throughout the earlier testimony had sat unnoticed among the throng, was a tragic figure in her crashing black garments as she went to the stand.
"Miss Pollock, you have known the prisoner, Mary Page, for some years, have you not?"
"Yes, we were at school together and remained intimate friends afterwards."
"Was your brother also a friend of hers?"
"He was."
"Was there ever any closer relationship than that of more friendship between your brother and Mary Page?"
"Yes. They were engaged to be married."
Even the Judge sat forward in his chair at the words, so simply uttered and yet so sharply changing the aspect of things. The prosecutor's next question came quickly.
"Was your brother happy in his engagement?" he said.
"I don't know how to answer that question. He was happy because he was asked to marry Mary, but he knew she didn't love him."
"A like. Page did not love your brother, why was she willing to be his wife?"
"The girl flushed and answered how much."
"Well you are there were reasons—and she had presented."
The Strange Case of MARY PAGE
The Great McClure Mystery Story. Written by FREDERICK LEWIS In Collaboration With JOHN T. M'INTYRE. Author of the Ashton Kirk Detective Stories. Read the Story and See the Essanay Moving Pictures
"Will you please tell us those reasons?"
A little gasping son wrenched from a woman's overburdened heart broke the stillness at that question, and Mrs. Page suddenly drooped forward, hiding her face in her hands. She knew only too well what was coming, and the courage that had kept her erect and smiling during the torture of the trial, gave way suddenly at this tearing open of old wounds. All her agony found vent in that one pleuring cry of grief. With her own eyes tear-dimmed Mary stretched out her hands yearningly, half whispering, "Mother! Mother! and Langdon was at her side in a moment. She waved him back, and, drawing her cell across her distorted face,
THE
"Do you mean that the check war forged?"
amothered the sobs that shook her thin shoulders like a storm, as the prosecutor repeated his question.
"It all happened several years ago—give—maybe six. Mary, and I were very good friends at that time, and I was at her home a great deal. So I knew that—that they were greatly in need of money. I overheard Mr. Page say that there would be ruin for all them, and that they'd be turned out on the streets unless he 'got the money' before morning. Mary over heard him, too, and when he went out abe and I sat trying to think of some way by which we could raise money. It was while we were still talking that Mr. Page came back." He he had been drinking, and he was waving a check around his head and cried. I done a good turn for a friend and I've been well paid for it. The Lord helped those who help themselves. He seemed terribly excited, and went out again almost immediately saying that he wanted to wash the check before the banks closed.
"Whose check was it?"
"My brother."
"Was he interested in Mass Page at that time?"
"Yes. He had always been, I think, but she was not at all in love with him. She had told me that."
"Yet he gave her (father a check for a large sum)."
"No." She pushed both now, and cast a timid glance at Mary as if half depreciating the mercies of the testil mony. "That was Just It. My brother had not-aligned that check."
"Do you mean, broke in the Judge, that the check was forged?"
"Yes. A detective sent by the bank came to the Page home while I was there and told Mrs Page and Mary and me. Mary didn't believe it at first, but at any rate she said she didn't know where her father was, though we both guessed he - he - was in the bar of the hotel. He was mostly there James was horrified when he found out that it was Mary's father who had caused the check because, not knowing, he had already told the police to prosecute the man to the limit. Mary cried and begged him to do something to save her father, and James said. I'll save him for your sake. Mary. If you will promise to do something for me in return."
"Did he say what that something was?"
"No. She didn't even ask. She just said she would do anything in the world he wanted if he would save her father. So he went with us to the hotel and we got there just in time to save Mr. Page from arrest."
"How did you save him," as you call it?
"James told the detective that he had forgotten about giving the check to Mr. Page and that it was perfectly good."
"And Miss Iage was naturally grateful to your brother for his having saved her father" prompted the District Attorney, as Ruth broke off, not knowing how to go on.
"Grateful! Yes. She—she promised to marry him. I heard her tell Mr. Langdon."
"Was Mr. Langdon, at the house at that time?"
"No, he came while I was sitting making to Mr. Pam. Mary and James were in the next room, so I wanted to hit Mr. Langdon in. He stepped at the gate, looking at my brother's auto-
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mobile, and I walked down the path to meet him. While we were coming back toward the porch the others came to the door. Suddenly James caught Mary up in his arms and kissed her. She seemed to struggle against him and, slipping away, ran into the house. Mr. Langdon, thinking that my brother had kissed Mary against her will, rushed at him and threatened to strike him.
"Your House!" It was Langdon's voice, suddenly harsh and stern. "I protest against this evidence as entire irrelevant and leading up to nothing that has a bearing upon the case at present."
"The court cannot sustain your object," said the judge, curly. "It is very unfortunate for you, Mr. Langdon, but whatever brings out the details of the relationship between Mary Page and James Pollock is decidedly relevant."
The District Attorney smiled in triumph. He turned to Ruth, who looked started at the interruption, and said gently:
"You were saying, Miss Pollack, that Mr. Langdon threatened your brother. Was there a fight?"
"No. Mary ran between them and said that James had a right to kiss her, that--that they were engaged."
"What did Mr. Langdon say then?"
"He didn't say anything. He just turned around and walked away, and Mary began to cry."
"Was the engagement of your brother and Miss Jane made public?"
"Yes. At a dance."
"Did your brother and his flances seem happy on that occasion?"
"No. I in fact, I know they were not."
"Did they tell you so?"
"No, but I overheard. I was hiding in the conservatory."
With a smothered grasp of surprise Mary's head came up suddenly and for the first time the eyes of the two girls met; but now it was Mary's that were accustomed and Ruth's that were troubled and it was in answer to that reproach, rather than the startled look on the prosecutor's face, that made Bath add sighly: "It was all just in final. I had promised a dance to Mr. Brandon, but I had told him that if he could find me before the music was half over, I would give him two more, for I had discovered a book behind the palms which I was sure no one else could find."
She stammered over the girlish confession, a title of crimson dyeing her pale cheeks.
"While I was hidden there, Mary and Mr. Langdon, who had been dancing together, came into the conservatory. I—I didn't move because I felt I should look so silly, hiding like a kid behind the palms, and I thought they would soon go away. But—they didn't."
"IDid Miss Page say anything about her engagement?"
"They were talking about it as they came in, and the first thing I heard was, I have given my word, Philip, and I must go through with it—even if it kills me. She was half crying. Then Mr. Langdon said quietly, 'Mary, you don't love him, do you?' And Mary said, 'You know I don't, Philip. There is only one man in the world that I love.' Then he took her in his arms and she broke down and sobbed; but when he tried to make her say she would break her engagement she wouldn't, and she wouldn't tell him why she had promised to marry James. She only said that she could never be free unless James gave her back her promise."
"Do you mean to say," interrupted the judge, "that Mr. Langdon knew nothing of the episode of the forged check?"
No. Mary told me she couldn't bear to tell him about her father. Besides, James had made her promise to keep that part of their engagement a secret from everyone."
"It seems incredible!" said His Honor, settling back, and the prosecutor asked, as if suddenly seeing a new viewpoint:
"Did your brother know of Miss Page's love for Mr. Langdon?"
"I don't know whether he knew then or not, but he knew later because Mr. Langdon told him. While I was still back of the palms James came to hunt for Mary, and she didn't want him to see she had been crying, so she went out and Mr. Langdon stood waiting for James. He told my brother that Mary was very unhappy in her engagement, but felt that she was in honor bound to go through with it, and he urged James to set her free."
"What did your brother say?"
"What tu your brother say?
He, he was very angry," she answered, deprecatingly. "I—I know he thought it was just inaccessible, and he said, I suppose you want her set free so YOU can marry her." And Mr. Langdon said, I want her set free because she doesn't love you and is breaking her heart over her promise to marry you. "What is that to you? I asked James. Do you think she is in love with you? And Mr. Langdon said angrily. I know she is, but that has nothing to do with the matter. Can't you be decent for love and set a girl free when she doesn't want to marry you? That made James even more furious, and be fairly obsessed. Mary will learn to love me that anyone else was married, and I shall never set her free. She has promised and I I'm going to see that she keeps him."
grumble. Besides, do you think I'm going to let everybody say she jilted me, after we've announced our engagement this way? I should say not." "Did Mr. Langdon reply?" "No. He just turned round with a shrug and walked away, and I came out and joined my brother." "Did he ask if you had overheard?" "Yes." "Did you tell him of the conversation between Miya Iago and Mr. Langdon?" "Yes. I felt that he ought to know. You—you see, he was my brother, even though Mary was my friend." "Did your brother make any comment?"
"Did Mr. Langdon ever make any other plea to your brother, or see Misa Page again?"
"Not then, but Mr. Brandon told me—"
"Your Honor! broke in Langdon leaping to his feet. "I object!"
"The court will sustain that objection." said the Judge, promptly. "Miss Pollock, you must not repeat what you have simply heard from others, only what you saw and heard yourself."
"May it please the court!" cried the prosecutor, quickly. "I shall be glad to have all of the answer of the witness with the exception of the words 'not then' stricken out, for what Mr. Brandon said he will tell the court himself."
Brandon! Langdon wined at the name, and Mary, lifting her head, turned a pair of despairing eyes upon him that seemed to ask if all their friends' were to be leagued against them in this fight for life and liberty.
He could object—could fight to have the witness kept out of the stand—but in the end he knew that he would lose and perhaps lend added weight to the testimony. He fancied he knew what TILAT would be, and his tooth clenched in an agony of bonging and a rage against the futility of that desire to spare Mary the raking up of these old memories—memories that brought a throbbing she to his own heart that was only balanced by the bitter exultation of the thought that at least Pollock was DEAD now. And he vowed to himself that Mary should soon be free of the law as well as of James; but he did not face the fleeting thought of the price that might have to be paid for that freedom of Mary Page.
As for Mary herself, after that one fleeting glance at Langdon she dropped again like a flower cut off from rain and sunlight and air.
She would not look at Brandon when he took the stand, though his eyes as he glanced from her to Langdon were full of mute appeal as if he wanted somehow to explain that it was not by choice that he stood there; and there was an aggressive, almost a hostile note in his voice as he an
MOTHER JOHNSON
Mary Turned a Pair of Despairing Eyes Upon Him.
awered the prosecutor's first inclusive question:
"Mr. Brandon, you were present, were you not, on the night of the dance given to announce the engagement of Miss Page to James Pollock:"
"I was."
"You were well acquainted with both of them."
"We all grew up together. I was not particularly intimate with Mr. Pollock," said Brandon drily.
"Did anything occur to lead you to believe that Miss Page was not happy in her engagement?"
"Yes."
"Will you tell us what that occurrence was?"
"I had a dance with Miss Pollock, but—she hid from me and it was not until later that I found her in the conservatory. She was crying and told me that Mary didn't want to marry James and that her brother and Mr. Langdon had just quarrelled about it."
"What did you do?"
"I went in search of Langdon."
"Where did you find him?"
Brandon flushed, and again his eyes turned appealingly toward Langdon as if begging forgiveness as he said in a low voice:
"He was in the bar, drinking with a group of workmen."
"Did you join him?"
"Yes. Or, rather, I urged him to join me at one of the tables. I was surprised to see him take anything to drink, but when I said so he answered that he was drinking to forget that he had lost a girl who still loved him, though she was going to marry another man. Laked him if he meant Mary Page, and he said ye."
"Did you remain with him long?"
"No: I tried to persuade him to come home with me, and when he wouldn't, I left him. In the hall, however, I met Miss Parge. I wanted her to see Mr. Langdon at that bar. I had her to the door. I remember how her friend she seemed, and how she strung glad to control herself. I tried to steady her; but suddenly she went right over to Langdon's table; and several leaders gathered around them: she seemed not to see them at all. Other was apparently at Langdon.
Miss. Langdon was just sober enough to realise that Miss Page ought not to be in such a place. He tried to push her away; but she cried out, "Don't drink any more, Phil." "Did Mr. Langdon make any reply?" "Yes. He said, 'Why should I stop drinking?'—What have it to live for? Then she put her arms around his neck, and it was, while they sat thus that James Pollock came in. This seemed to sober Langdon completely. I rushed forward, fearing there would be a hortile scene, and urged Pollock to go away. He pushed all of go back. I want to get at him! he kept calling. Just let me get my hands on him! Langdon was trying to get Miss Page out of the place. He did succeed, while several of us held Pollock back by main force, in getting Mary into a lit the anteroom, a sort of parlor next to the cafe." "Yes, go on, Mr. Brandon," urged the prosecutor, who seemed pleased with his witness.
"Well, Pollock was determined to follow them, and we couldn't prevent him. I found myself dragged into the little room with him; and I shammed the door. But James, for some reason, was calmer now. 'What does this mean, Mary? he said.
"It means, Miss Page answered, that I can't marry anyone but Mr. Langdon, and Langdon went on. Now, James, what are you going to do about it?"
The prosecutor interrupted. "Did Mr. Langdon know at that time that Mary's father and forged Mr. Ugly's check?"
"Langdon thought he was blinding.
'You skunk!' he shoted; and Pollock waved the check in his face. Langdon grabbed it, and there was a struggle. The check tore in two and whose hangdon looked at the place he held he saw that it bore the forged signature, as Dan Page had written it. I saw him turn white as a sheet. But suddenly he smiled, and then he went calmer over to a lamp on the mantlepiece and burned it. I remember, as though it had been yesterday, how happy Miss Page looked when she thought this evidence against her father was de strooyed.
The people in the courtroom gasped with relief. They could almost shate Mary's sense of relief. But they were soon brought back with a shock as the witness went on.
"Pollock had fallen down; but he recovered himself, and began to sneer at Langdon. 'That isn't the check, any how, you fool! That's only a copy, for just such occasions as this.'"
"Was Miss Page disconnected?" the prosecutor wanted to know.
"Oh, yes, sir. She said, What shall I do, Phil? I'll do whatever you say." And he said, "I won't influence you now. Do as your conscience dictates, or something like that. I can't remember every word, of course. There was something about his not being weak again, and then he turned as if to go. He looked pretty downhearted."
"What did Pollock do all this time?"
"He jungled up then, when he saw that Langdon's back was turned, and tried to put his arms around Miss Page. She kept back as if she hated him. I remember she said something like 'Don't touch me, James Pollock.' I keep my word with you. I'll go through with this, but you'll regret this night to the end of your life.' Yes, you'll regret it. I tell you."
The prosecutor beamed satisfaction. He rubbed his hands at these hast words and asked.
"Miss Page threatened him, didn't she, Mr. Brandon?"
"Yes, I suppose you might call it that," answered the witness readily, with apparently no thought that his testimony might be reading the prisoner's down.
"That is all," said the prosecutor, looking at the jury with a triumphant expression.
"One moment," said Langdon. "I'll take the witness, if you please."
By adroit questioning the young attorney brought out the fact that Brandon, some time after the episodes he had narrated, had come to New York and served on the Daily News as a police reporter. The District Attorney objected to this line of questioning, but the Judge permitted it to go on.
Finally the witness was brought down to the night when he took Mary Page to the door of the cafe so that she might see him, Langdon, within.
"Did you notice anything peculiar about Miss Page's appearance at that time?" And if so, tell the jury what you saw.
Brandon hesitated. He acted like a man who did not care to answer this question.
"Proceed," prompted Langdon.
"Well, yes. I did notice that—" He paused.
"Go on," prodded Langdon.
"I noticed that Miss Page seemed terribly excited, and when we got to the door that led to the cafe, there was pot."
"Big Page threatened him, didn't she,
Mr. Brandon?"
She had on an evening gown, of your
and I saw=". Brandon paused again.
"Yes? What did you see?" creed
Langdon.
"I saw a strange mark on her shoulder--fingerprints that came and went in the most uncanny way. I was quite unnerved myself. Miss Page was by this time looking through the door at you, Mr. Langdon."
"I object," shouted the District Attorney. "This story has no bearing." "Overruled," his Honor calmly said. "This testimony," creed Langdon, a triumphant note in his voice, "will have an important bearing on the line of defense I shall later adopt."
"I object again," fairly yelled the prosecutor. "Such talk tends to prejudice the jury..."
"Overruled," again the Judge drawn. "Is that the first time you ever saw these marks?" Langdon asked.
"Yes, sir."
"And the last time?"
"No. Six years later."
"Fell the jury."
The witness coogled, as if preparing for an ordeal.
"It was the sight of the opening of Miss Pace in New York. I couldn't get a seat, so I stood in the fear of the theater, near the side. I was a police reporter then, and it was almost time for me to be on duty at the station. So I hurried away. Things were dull when I got there, so I sat in a corner near the stove and must have become a little drowsy. Pretty soon I can't tell what time it was, but it must have been a couple of hours later. Langdon came rushing in. He was looking for Mary Page. We recognized each other, and I was surprised to find him in such a place on such an errand. Then he told me of the murder of Pollock.
"Somehow the night wore on. I had to stay on duty. In the morning, very early, the prisoners were brought out from the pen. I hadn't slept much. A paper was brought in, and I saw the startling telling all about the murder. That woke me up. I can tell you! What was my surprise, an install later, to see Mary Page enter the room from a side door. In full evening clothes, but with no hat or coat! I could scarcely believe my eyes. I thought I'd gone mad, or something? Why, I'm just been reading about her, and there she stood, pale and beautiful, but bewildered and fatigued. A police officer took hold of her.
"Who is this woman?" the sergeant said.
"We don't know who she is," the officer answered. "She wouldn't talk. She was pulled last night with a couple of..."
"Just then I was close to her. She didn't recognize me, she seemed strangely dized, almost hypnotized. Then she might sight of the paper in my hand, with its big type running across the whole front page 'National Murder' She grabbed, and read it, horrified, and we all just stood there looking at her, without saving a word. Even the sergeant's was silent. She seemed to devour the story. And then some vision must have come before her eyes, for she whispered something about a bottle 'whiskey' and her face and arms be mine twice. I looked at her bare shoulder, and that's when I saw those strange fingerprints again. They came and went as before.
"Then the other door opened and you, Mr Langelon, came. You looked tired, hunged bedragged. You still had an evening clothes. I remembered turning directly to the jury. "What a sensation Mr Langelon's presence created, his name having been in every headline too. Miss Page saw him. He went up to her without a word, and they embraced each other. And then Miss Page stepped forward to the sergeant's desk and whispered, so low that I could hardly hear her. I give myself up." "Everybody was astonished, as you might realize. Then she turned and buried her head on Langelon's shoulder."
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ax well as tho law of Assignment,
caucellation, restoration and alteru:
Mon of certaln kind of written tnatruy
mienta; alxo a burnt, lost, destroyed,
or partly burnt, ar dentroyed writings
of record, “with their practi ant
procedure.
Arrouney Conny tates that te
work In the product of an effort ex
ending over u perlod of neven yeurs.
iid sro: one will doube {, In view of
thin veritable storehoune af infort a
tion contatned in these pages. The
Work will rlebly repay an attoraey
who regatde the saving of Time an
maviug of money. Tt is an ornaties $
and 4 gratifying source of informatie.
(othe avernge vitizen and should’ be
In tin Hibrary an x work ponsenstu g
merit, while te the average practictus,
attorniey, IE KEL prove Co be a vatuable
aanet to hin business Astuusey A, 1!
Comms, the anther, repulen at) 222
Wanhington Street, Newark, No Ji. and
My Informa ion concerning the wore
Hay be ebtained from him Publishers,
sae Gaus Cn, 200 Willian St,
New York NOY
THE BAPTISTS AND THERE
TROUBLES.
Z esihat acm, vt
| die dou doh tedden eine, Fi
atl cuntentueny tet yore he athe
Spear tged. han, tiwmph; valu
Trimeiph unity us Tis moans of peace
} 7S. Santa
The detaration of Thy, Te RM
Moye that the National Haptist Con
Venting has uever hetd ut posmentes
FORDE, title or ieterest in Che Nuthoira
Maptint Pubtinteizas House at, Nash
Mile, Teter, that i was not Us
Hreature of Mhat tatenal orgamizatior
and Mad i was never aruginated ane
put ante operation by virtue of an)
wtton on the part -of that great
ereanivation har caused Remothisg tt
the nature of a sensation on then
Barta Citations from the recurda of
the National Haptist Convention,
which recurd# are Kuown aa minutes,
would seer to eniphiutze the fret that
Tne Maye tas nesér before made this
adininwien
Tt ts hinted Uiat letters are in exiat
ence upsettion Chin cain and showing
that Hs. Ve, Hoye bas alwaye ad
hiltled the right, title and Interest of
the oational body tn the National
Baptist Pubtimtins “Houwe 1 dn as
nertedt, toa, that Ou. Born mtated that
the National Baptint Mubiinting Bourd
was holding the property In trust for
the Nuuouat Haptist Convention It
In anserted, teu, sthat De, Hove te an
record ay stating that he and hie wife
hud mute 4 loyal transter to dhe Con:
vention, hat One Crunsfer was read to
the Convention tn 1899 at Nastivile
Ve in alleged to have asserted that
Ail Untes of the plese of real estate
had been properly deeded Ww tie Nae
Henal Haptist Convention and the
Hublinting Hoard as te trustees Are
these tateninnts true? If they are
(ree, how ean the distinguished
churelinan st ‘Nashvilie maintain the
plea Oia he hax set ap tt his response.
at Nashville? The sutge tan a patter
one und We await eniightenment on
the part af ies Dek He town and
his ssuclates
Te neems to iis Mkt unless Da Hove
HAN inect these charges, tte will pos:
eos a clouded Ute fo the: property
WIN AS now in Bie pessexston, We
Are NCH, thomsh, of the opinton Unit
Du Horn, by a legal mancuyre, has
the faw on bin aide and that he cannot
He dintwonnensed The Tennessee cor:
oration owns that property and not
ef) Unincorporated national body or an.
ncerporated ope either. for that mat-
er. Rev EP. Jose claims te be the
president of the only, true, unadult-
‘rated, genuine, original National
taptint Convention. ©
Hut the publishing house or the
National Baptist Publishing Board. ts
io KUbJect to the control of the or-
canization, of which Parsient Joxen
8 the oMciat head or of the National
Haptist Convention over which the
ery able churchman, Rrv. Da EK. C.
Monnin, aa Prealdent, ‘presides. The
act ntande out that there han been
ome “nplitting. but the Natfonal
faptixt Publishing Board has not
put. It fs out looking for buninens,
while the minled Haptin:s, who seem
lot to be able to read a document
hat speaks in the Isnguage of the
nw are aplitting afnong themselves. *
Hrethren, this unseemly row ‘bas no
len of juntification to sustain it.
Phere are’ no doctrinal principles
vhich divide the membership. Tho |
vholé affair in carnal from every viey-
ont. The whole affair should, be |
ompromiped. Preawet Monus
bould consult with bis supporters |
nd advisers and Pxxament Joie |
hould do the same thing, Tho incor. |
crated body bas national recognition. ;
t ls secure: in the original name and .
t can proceed unsfratd fm the use af ft.
"ae other body must wee some mod! |
led form of the same meme. of
‘Pemewawr Meunes bee the seppert .
. 2 re CLE Rs bs
the federal courts, but tas st” final aaa eh
neasee, Rav. De. Bord and his poeple = ) ATS
are supreme We shall be ‘sled ta | SL |
hear from both aides of this contro Sue's USES: .
very add we hope that.in the coming “>
yoars, these preachers “will not learn are
war any more.” ae: : : . .
\ in (Continued From First Page.)
[here ts no sanctuary 80 Aoly that
money cannat profane it, np fortress :
to afronp that. money canndt take. tt Waa sure thet it was whiskoy and s
by storm. - :* ne had the officers of the court taat
: { ~lcrcruo, it Thy all passed st around in orde
JUDGE SMITHS DECISION.
| It tv now admitted that the repor
recently nent out from Chicago re
tive fo the action of Juvur Sauris t
sustaining the demurrer of the Bur
Usta who refunpd to necept Uh
charter of Natlonal Baptist Con
vention wax minteading. As a matte:
of fact, the decinfon was (o throw thy
ease ont of court, It was an arte:
brought, which bas no xtunding 1
Court uuloan property rights) are
Involved. - Courte* have — repeated!)
Joclined to become embroiied tn fy
Uonal dixputes between partles In
bodies of thls kind. Tho Nationa’
Haptint Union Review, Rev. Dn
Roy's organ nara; ¢
E
oli the editor's opinion, Judge
Smith's decison ways --
First: There was nothing $i the
plea Med by B,C. Morrin, ROT. Mut:
non, A. J. Stokes, M, M. Rodgers, Win.
Haynes, L. K. Williams, C1 Parrish,
W.G, Parke and E,W. D. Irae com-
potent In fteelf to conmtitute a ault at
Taw.
Sccond— The auld petttioners betas
neither a xiigie person nor a corpore:
don could bate na standing In a court
of equity,
Third=There tx fe property as
property rights in the State of 11Gnoss,
where the suit in fled that Ix mubject
to Mtlgation.
Fourth That the whale contentios
Is one of n religious character, not ef
& property siguitieanre, and abould be
nettlod by a religtoue organization
Fifth The bill of complaint shows
(hat defendants are doing nothing
that will cause Injury oF lowe te
Haptinta.or anything that will Inveis«
Miptiste in 1thcetton.
Shute That the eatd phaintite have
not shown a alngle wrong uct on the
part of detvidante that justifies a
pait at Taw ;
Seventh That the question at bar
YeInE An Inter-SUP's controgeray.
State court can have te jurtndtetion
tt the prominen
When Judge Sniith: aid "Yen" to
“oh of the demurrer aecounta, he
teelared that every nocalled merit of
he plen of KC. Morrix, RL BL Hud-
wn A J Stokes, MoM Rodgers, Wai
tuyues, LK. Williams, ©. 11. Parrish,
NG, Parks, E,W. D. Taaae, war with:
wut merit. and that they, the-platntitts,
lave no further recourse at Iaw along
hat course of procedure, whatever
anenied annwer or plea they” may
ubmst ;
‘The nine Baptixta who antumed to
hemeclven the rights to act for the
vhale Baptiat denonitnation, as the
ammission and the Washington cor
wention did. have experienced”
weeping net-back. They will now havo ,
p Peyceed in another way. in another
haralter of the court, and will have |
» ahow reprenentative . authority. |
echaps they will now appear tn the ,
apacity of the Washington corpora |
jon, which Inn “badly corporate and
olltte,” with capacity to xue and bo |
sed. }
Perhaps our good brothers will yet ¢
pallze that non-Chrintian methods of |
Ajusting denominational. dinigree ,
lente are Hoth expensive and futile |
We favite the Pik Nine in out of
weerain Ft fan't pleasant to be out
rere; we know by experience: they
cpt un out in Chlengo a half-day
hile they trannacted Cbs Haptsst
uninewn on Che Inatde t
We are frank to state that we do)
Mt take the eptimintte view af the +
tuation that- seems to please the 7
ennesnee brothers so well It!
lows that the body unfinearperated |
We one oKtanding in law and Jt
(not enforce ite decrees In law. not t
eh upon tte own ereaturen Tw]
euk platnly, the National aptint f
snvention, Incorpuruted will have
we FLENt wf way from legal stud
Mint im dnteratate tatters, while ths
tional Baptist Publishing Hoard
WW be xupretic ty ‘Tennessee under {
nt Tenneasee charter. Both aides t
ould “quit footing” and come t- ¢
ther agin ™
y
Agricdliure and Dinulling.
Washington, D. C.—Never before
wave brewers, maiters, distillers and
wine makers made so large a contribu-
(on to the agricultaral prosperity. of
the country as dur‘ng the fiscal year
1913. In the course of that year~-the
Intent for, which reliable atalintics are
avauablegrain dnd other farm prod:
ucta to the value of $114.513,971.00
were uned tn the manufacture of I-
quors, and this amount does not rop-
Tescnt the valuo-of the products so
uned as reported in’ the markets ,of
Chicago, Cincinnat! Buffalo, Philadel
phia and other commercial cpnters,
but (the actual sum received by tho
rowers, .based upon the carefully
compiles reports on farsa prices {asued
from time,ta time by the Unite States
Department of Agriculture.
‘Tbe full significance of this, amount.
which represents, ft may be stated, =
return of 6 per cent, on an investment
of $2,270,279,420.00, can best be appre-
ctated {f we compare {t-awith the re-
ports of the iast United States Census
pn the total values of the crops of
certain typical States, which show
taat {t exceeded the total combined
crop values In the-census year of Ver-
moot, Maryland ‘and West Virgiata;
of Mamachusetts, Rhode Island, New
Jersey and Phorida:. of Loalsiana
(with ite. great cotton and sugar in-
terete), New Hampshire ané Utab, or
of Maine, Coasseticat, Deleware, Ne-
vada, Arisona, New Mexico and Wy-
pe ie aes Be i a eS Ar Dee toe. 7 eS es ee See
A |S SS
: Ls rt * 7.” Wat pomp of ‘these
LINE ge Sane zp
Se i : INTELLECTUAL TALK NOT
-"e a WANTED,
: : r . To sik, dewot Mterature, histoiy,
és mathematics or business and the
_ (Continued From First Page.) ideals of the Bible would have served
© Rave, vacated this place within
was sure (hat it’ was whiskey and so fow minutes, Stil, 1 was struck with
bo had the officers of tho court taste the decorum there. 1 beard no bad
Jt. Thioy all passed st around in order language, no boisterous talk, no ribald
Unt they might de able to givo ovi: feats, but simply that quiet conversa.
dence against the prisoner. Finally, tion and those touching: strains of
this did not satiaty, the judge, aud no sweet music and the hand-clapniug
he “took pull” at it hiwscle-and bis that followed the ‘gonclusion of the
face was = study. + melody. °]
PRISONER HAD FITS WHITE FOLKS SET EXAMPLE,
It was discovered that tho prisoner} White folks were dolog the sumo
had swooned and was having tt, A[thing and a bit worse, for in my
physician was called and he'in turn mind’s.eye, I could ace those dancing
twked if thero waa any whiskey white ballet girls in that vaudeville
around na it wan very good for fits, opera house, some thirty or more of
When the Hquld was eivon the pris them, with no sign of skirts or dreases,
oner, he at once revived. ‘Order was but with nature's-sbapery lmbs there
reatcred. It lasted only # short while, displayed fom inspection and almost
however, for each court official took unadorned, I left the Waldorf Cafe
(urna in having fits. The Jug played with Mr. Owons, thinking deeply.
& moat Important, part In rostoring Where was thia life leading us as a
them: ‘Then dt was observed that the race? Whut could be done to turn
judge was having » ft, too. Unfortun- this class of humanity tto another
ately, the Jug was empty. roadway?
THE STORY OF A CHINAMAN. A PECULIAR CHARACTER.
{_ lo Ipmediately atratgutened up acd
resumed hfe station, af thero was ny
more ‘whiskoy in the jug with which
to cure them. It 1s needless to stato
(hat 1 laughed until my -nides ached.
‘Toe Inst humorous scene was the av.
[row of a Chjnaiman for violating the
Jaw. He brought with hin a basket
,of ples, which he had beet selling
bwithout having » peddler's tlcense.
jThe vuurt and the attoraeys began
eats: ples, When the churimay
Aually made hlinwelf understood. We
ansured bis honor that the yes vere
all right.
‘RAT’ PIES FOR THE OFFICIALS,
. He bad a sign on hin basket
“Kren Mince Dex,” which be tarned
over und {€ road “ Kat Mea.” Every:
body in the court room tried to vert.
‘The Chinaman Viandly tuateted dat
he hud at last displayed the right
nign, The moving plctutes were fue
The next morning Mrs. Robert. C
Owens wanted to know where “Hob”
had taken me last night. Her lock
of. withering dingust ‘told mo tn ad:
vance that abe was well posted ax to
Ain pecuttarities, und my laugh con:
cluded the evidence against him,
MIE HOME OF THE “MOVIES.”
at tnuahe #9." ate wail, an whe
turned aay. Mr. Owens had In
formed me that the greater portion
of all moving picture films were niade
in Low Angelos and in the country in
the notghborhood. Hv had made ar.
Fangements to take tie ta Universal
City, the home of the moving picture
trust. “It may be well to ntute that I
vinited the Waldorf Hotel, a pince
that was formerly operated by Mr.
Owens and which hostolry in still
owned by bim. It was in the evening
(iat T looked tn thore.
ATTRACTIVE COLORED COUPLES
At no place except Chicago, - and
Detroit, Michigan, havo I seen vo many
promising couples an { naw in thi«
place, They were eating and drink:
ing. The order was superb, Just a
low conversation, then mure food ani
more drink, while tho waiters, or ut
leant two of thom, nang aongn to the
edification “and atiafaction of the
Kurets A female, who wan xald to
have been decolved by a min in one.
of the xouthern citfox, .but who had
heen highly educated and came from
a Rood family, wlruck Me keys of the
plano, |
WHITE VISITORS, TOO.
While I sat there, three white men
came fn and nat down to a table to
themeclves. They were out for a
Rood Une and they ordered drinks,
while the tenor and baritone wingers
alternately sang for their amusement
Theae white men were (row with thelr
money and they seemed to enjoy. the
surroundings, smiling ax they paid for
what they bad ordered and dinap
pearin through the front door .1 still
bave in my mind that picture. For
To xaw tn this place of the | good.
“thers, young men, whone fucen were
i ntudy.
AVING THE WEALTHY.
They wero dressed tn the height of
fashion and ft waa piain to me: that
thes were’ ping and Imitating the
habita and practices of their white
employers, many of whom, .no doubt,
were worth millions of dollars. The
young girls, many of them wore atyl-
lshly dressed and some of them pon-
sensed raro beauty,(but they were
drinking deep, tho dregs of disaipa-
tion, while friends and retatives in
other parts of the country were wirk-
ing hard for a living.
THE END OF THE CHAPTER.
Theae kind of people, as a rule, dc
not even write home, until sickness
comes or death clonen the reveiries
and money, with which “the under
taker i to ship the body honte,” rings
down the curtain upon Iife’a scene
I sat thero with Mr, Owens for nearly
an hour surveying the scene and
wondering to, myself If an awakening
for this class of people will ever come.
It became “noised” around that I wal
the banker from Virginia. and ther
furtive glances wera cast now and
then in my direction. 1 ‘tnikea to aac
Proprietor, who seemed to be too busy
taking In’ money to engage tn con:
Yeraation. :
NO WIFE-SEEKING THERE,
Well nig every one of the round
tables had been occupied. These young
Men, attired im a manner that bespoke
‘wealth were here with thetr boom ooms-
pantons only fer = good’ time. Not
one of them went seck a wife among
that large member of pretty and at-
tractive women, who gieried in the
designation, “girs.” If thene woinen
married, % would be to came, hard
Working soa of toll,.whe was’ unas
quatnted with their pest Mie. Wine,
INTELLECTUAL TALK: NOT
Le WANTED,
To talk deuot iterature, ‘history
mathematica or business and the
Ideals of the Bible would have served
W Rave vacated this place within
fow minutes, Still, 1 was atruck with
the decorum there. 1 beard no bad
language, no boisterous talk, no ribald
Jeats, but simply that quiet conversa
‘on and those touching: strains o1
sweet music and the hand-clappiug
that followed the ‘conclusion of the
melody. °]
WHITE FOLKS SET EXAMPLE,
White folks were doing the sume
thing and a bit worse, for in my
mind's .eye, I could seo those dancing
white ballet girls in that vaudeville
opera house, somo thirty or more of
them, with to siga of skirts or dresses,
but with oature's-sbapely limbs there
displayed fof inspection and almost
unadorned. I left the Waldorf Cafe
with Mr. Owens, thinking deeply.
Where was this life loading us as &
race? Whut could be dono to turn
this class of humanity tnto another
roadway?
A PECULIAR CHARACTER.
It was a sorlous question. There
young men and ‘young women wer
uscleas In the ordinary business of
Mfe, Most of them were employed by
well-todo white families, They be
Meved $n outing and drinking, “for
tomorrow you may ulo.” Before leay-
ing there, however, Mr. Owens had
called my attention to a well-dressed,
good-featured brownskin young mun.
He was at a table having a Rood tine,
his eye, but 1 did. not tke
the look naw there.
THE PORCH CLIMBER.
; F
1 told’ Me. Qwens of my fmpresston,
erhat young man.” maid he, “ie a
porch-<liinber.” Ho did not say more
then, but later he explained. “He hns
been tn trouble,” rata he, “he enters
the houses of wealthy people from the
top of porches and robs while they
are out or are In another part of the
house." 1 was learning some more.
The good thmex come high and he,
must have the movey with whieh to
have them.
THE HOME OF A'GREAT COMPANY,
- COMPANY.
/ Tt was about If o'clock, when 1 left
he would not permit me to “xpend 4
cent.” Hoard and lodging came free.
theatre Uckets and refreshments caine
free, “shoot the shoot” came free, and
talk came free. lls accomplinted
Madam in a native of the State of
Towa, and her mother resides with
her. The Owenn’ home Is magnif-
cently furninhed. Next door are lawn
‘tennis grounds and the home {s in an
“exclusive white nelghborhood. |! was
certainly taking n mucn-needed vaca:
' fon in this southern Californta clime,
Hons and \yth fe aul, the grim humor
AT THE GATE ENTRANCE.
‘Wo wero recliag off mile after mile
Jp Shel sctcmroble tre ce Seow
but at last I leaped from the car in|
Tront of tho’ large entrance gate to.
the homo’ of the Universal Filma Co.,
at Universal City, California Jubilant,
happy and anxious, { was sow about
to sco the place where was created,
naged and put in motion that master:
_ Sons Mrrcunts, Ja
Do You Know These?
| would itke to locate some of my
people, if possible. My — mother
name ‘waa Luar Williama and het
mother was named Loutsa Wilame
Sho wan owned by Mra, Hagan Fow.
‘erur of Fauquier County, Va. 1
was nold to Mr. Jesse Ovair, who war
moving to Troy, Mo. I wan next
sold te a Doctor, who took ma to
Marshall Town, ia, where I lyved
sometime. Any Information will be
gindly recetved. MRS. LUCY WIL-
LIAMS, 3834 Federal Ave., Chicaxo,
Mitnote.
I would Itke to know the wheres.
bouts of my brother, (Lia Tibbs),
who belonged to Mrs. Moore Carter.
He loft Warrenton, Tarquior County.
GR years ago, and was sold. His
father’s name was Adam Tibbs;
mother’s name, Lucy Tibbs. Had 9
brother by the name of Georne Tibbs,
who bas anothor by the name of Bov-
erly Tibbe, who ts the youngest ‘onu.
Anyone knowing anythng of bia where-
abouts will kindly notify bis brother.
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SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 12, 1916
ROANOKE, VA. ~
Miller, Superintendont, was pronent
Aftor a very careful decusaion o¢ th
Jerson from ® epiritual point o
ronsoning and also from the tem
poral side, Rev. G. C. Taylor, D. D
Presented ‘thoughts to tho schoo
from the lesson, which ff accopted
will, in coming years help all whe
heard his explanation on the lesson
There {s none other name: undo:
Heaven xtven among men whered;
we must be saved, for all mankind
will: need a God,-'the Redeemer o:
his boul and giver of life and bealth
and all. Yet some have boen wesk
enough to try to get along without
him, yet al! must como to him to
obtain all they get in thin world and
in the world to como. There is a
time, we know not when, a place we
know not where. pe
Mrs. Mary Powell. ‘of Cheater
Spring Is Ja che city visiting her son.
Mr. Moore, of Sixth Avenue, N. W.,
jn whose home # bouncing baby was
brought by, tho stalk'of timo. The
Soy and consolation of every home.
Nothing can make home happier than
children or cement the heart of hus-
band and wife as thoy do. Any
home without there God-given bless-
ings must de minus a deal of the
pleantre and happiness due. Mre.
Powell will leavo for Chester Springs
Halifax county, Va.. Friday, Fobru-
ary 11, 1916.
‘Mra. Besale J. Curtis. of 218-7tb
Avenue. N. W., who has been much
indinpodod for several wocks, is out,
again, attending the dutlea of her
homo. Misx Ethel Cooper stays at
the home of Mrn. Curtls during her
sickness.
Sunday night, Fobruary, 6. Mrs.
Sadio Wooten pased through the
city enroute for Raleigh, N. C. to
winlt tho bedside of her brother, who
fe Very sick. Mrs, Wooton’s homey
at present fs in Columbun, Ohlo, She
reill_xtop over on her fetura from],
Raleigh. -
Mr. Exneat Branch, of Winnipeg |
(Canada, the brother of Mrs. Beastie]
J. Curtin, of 218-7th Avenuo. N. W..
Roanoke, Va.. wan in the city last
wook as the guost of Mra. Ella Lock-
layer, 432-7th Avenue N. W.
Tho aunt of Mra. Carrio Banniater| |
of 7th Avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Mra.
Mary Davenport. of Salom, Va. died{'
Friday, Fobtruary 4 and was durtod |‘
Saturday tho fifth. She leaves two/*
sons and five Krandsona. - 4
Mrs. Nancy Roberson. of 122-7tb]
Avonue. N. W.. in confined to her]!
ped and has been for the pust week, /
yet_she ix improving. h
Mra, Luanna Lavinder, of 20/%
jgnehburg Avenuo, N. W. ta quite/®
ndisposed. is
Mrs, Sarah Copher, of Ninth Ave-{#
jue, N. E. and Second Street, died] *
‘hursday, Fob. 2, of Pneumonia. Bhe| 4
eaves 6 daughters. 2 sons, 21 grand |“
nildren, 3 great grandchildren and |!
hont of relatives and friends to !
journ their loss. ‘Sho was duried
y the Independent Order of a
uke and was solemnly laid to rort |
1 Midway Cometery, Rov, E. E, t&
fcka officiated, assisted by Dr. tH
rown, of tho M..E. Churgh. he
The Rey, Frank Patterson loat two 3
, hin children and he in still veryy ¥"
ck himaclf, at Hollins, Va. ae
‘Rey. J. J. Jefferson. of Fourth
venue, N. W. tn still atck and has
‘en for the lant three: wocks. Ad
When we think of the habite and
toma of prehintoric man from]
dam to Morea, the lawyer, and ob-
rve the fallures and short-comings}!o
man in this our present timea and |!"
mparo tho doingn of men of those | He
st times with our modern day cus-} Co!
ma ax wo caxt our mind’s eye back {Mu
4 review the past and consider our | Me
vance in religious Ife, with the} me
vanerd help wo have since their} lin
y, we should. feel that wo are] del
gatly in tho background of our} *en
edecessorm, when we sco how un-{ anc
ateful we aro for the many ad-{he
ntages we have onjoyed-over theta. | lect
Men are so inclined to aelfinhnors] his
t they often form those motives | tor
Joh will caune thom to forget thef I
} source of their belp and trust} for
, muck in self, for hig Kreatoat] anc
»d. Tho results of this sad mis-| Moe
tuno has in many instances] tho
ught dimster and destruction to} Wa:
ividuals, families, races and na-fat }
na. of ail axes. the
Ks Wo review the past wo are re-|reca
1dod of that Scriptural quotation] of t
ich Treads, “It shal] be moro tol-| four
ble tor Sodom and Gomorrah inj man
day of judgment than for the| Kar¢
eration and well might subjoin}or I
the people of our present day.}Ko |
, people of those days and times| Nex!
ented at the proaching of Jonahjand
behold a greater than Jonah tej dead
9. Let us decide we will Accopt| bum
_kTeatest namo as our guide
agh Mfe—the name of Jesus. T
he High Street Baptist Church taf °,
yaring for their Spring Rally.| ‘Al
ch {s always a .xrand sucosss un-{dulg
the supervision of their most will
lent pastor, Rey. J. H. Burks and | char:
noble béard of Trustecs and co-{ Wha
cers for the Churchus of God tn} will,
Dart of His yineyard. ‘For the| beon
of the Lord agains: the malagty toote
of ain, Wo hope: thom & 1d | press
eas in the noble efforts and la-{chara
for God snd His casue. order
wo d
a cacc regar
LINOOLN-DOUGLASS MEMORIAL.
Indianapolis, Ind. Spectal.—What
Promises to be one of the greatest
events of ite kind in Indians, and
Brobably, of the. coentry, will take
place ind fanapolis, jana,
Susday afterneca, Febrsery 30, ot
Tomttasen Hell, when there will bea
Joint Léseste-Deugines patrictic Aunt
wand people, and It is expected that
"the “great - petitorium will: “be:~Fon.
Robert H. Terrell, "Muntclpal Judge of
‘Washington, D. C, on “Frederick
Dougiass,” and Hon. James B. Watson,
former Member of Congress, from the
Pixth Indiana district, on “Abraham
mooln.”' Mr, Watson is one of the
most eloquent orators on American
soll, eg :
There will be a0 extonsive musical
program. Délegations will be from
all parts of tho State. The memorial
is given under the auspices of the
Indiana Ansoctation of Colored Men.
— —-
(Continued from First Page)”
ySulted about mattern of party policy
the sGb-committee bad already
,threshed out that particular matter,
jand arranged for {tn adoption by a
[majority voto. in full committee,
|“unbeknownst™ to the colored broth-
er. Those who voted with him knew
in advance,-the rexult.
1 was at the St. Louls' Convention
whon Wright Cunoy, of Texas, was
turned down and I heard the bitter
speech of Genoral Charics H. Gros-
venor, of Ohlo, - denouncing him,
becauso he had ‘dared to stand up,
man-fashion and contend tor what
he beloved was right. Cuncy wan
One of the bravest and truest of the
true _men of color who ever came
up from the South,
NEVER RECOVERED PRESTIGE,
He was disillusioned’ after that
epecch. of Grosvenor, and I don't
think he ever got over ft. Hin pow-
pr in Toxa politics and hin growtog
strength among the Negroes of that
State, hin unswerving loyalty to their
Interests and hin fearlessnéxn made
nfm fn the eyes of far-sighted polt-
{clans a dangerous man and so in
he zenith of hin political power, he
xan truck down in the house of his
olitical “friend” on the pretext that
¢ had not kept talth.
Thin han been the fate of overy .
‘erro leader who haa‘run cgunter |
o the wikhes or will of white men ;
n authority, Cuney attempted w
* the reprenentative ‘of the Repub;
cans, white and black, of Texan.
he white Republicans of that State ,
nd thelr Northern accomplices were |
ctermined that he sould not bo for
‘Dk and so thoy knifed him, ax
ey will any other Negro who daren
) assert hin manhood In a party:
\ucus OF convention. Bs
ANOTHER REASON.
But there tn another reason why
no Nexro, North or South, cat te a
leader outaide of the Church. It Is
to be found tn the ntudind attitude
of the whtts South toward the race,
since 1865: in ftw refusal to recog:
nize the Negro as a member of the
teat American family; or the va-
Mdity of the* conaitutional amond-
ments forced upon that section by 1
hoatite North, drunk with powor and
victory. The. Southern whites do not
elect Nogrocs to political office. They
do nol recognize socially Norrocn|
appolnted by the Federal Kovern-
ment to offices In that section. They
do not belleve that the Negro ta]
entitled to the rights and privilege
and Immunities guaranteed (but im-
porable to enforce) by the Constt
pation. -
While thin condition continues tn
he South the Negro jeader from
hat or any other section will con-
{nus to be a Joke, Well-meanirtg
We may be “and tx, hin IMPOTENCY |
Aa force In American pollticn will
made apparent the moment he
ttempta to be what he thinks he ts
a LEADER,
LIMITED.
The late Mr, Booker T. Washing:
ton came nearer to the mark asa
leader than any of bin predecessors.
He wan, however, only the trunted,
confidential axent of a group of in-
tuential and wealthy white men,
Identifed with tha polities! and com:
merelal Ifo of the nation, and he was
Umsted in the exercine of the power
delegated to him, He was fn no
senno the leader of the entire Nexro
and bin colored off-spring, nor was
he no regarded, for he war not xe-
lected by his race, it did not support
his propakands, financially. nor al-
torether endorse hia policice.
Ho was designated by white mot
for tho leadership and he was their
arent, though they called him our
Moses, our leader. It In well to Koop
the record straight. When Mr.
Washington accepted the courteatos,
ut luncheon of Colonel Roosevelt in
ihe White Houne, those ‘of us who
ecall the incident, add tho comment
of the presa and of individdals. soon
‘ound out whet 1s back of the white
pan’s mind, North and South tn ro-
ard to tha Negro, whethér of hixh
flow degree. “Thus far abalt thoo
0 and no further,” confronts the
‘egro everywhere in thig country,
nd whoever attempts to cross the
ead Hne an a Nogro is going to Rot
ampad good and hard:
TALK WILL NOT CHANGE IT.
‘All tho academic talk we can In-
ulgo (no from now’ ‘till doomsday,
1 not change the spirit nor- the
naractoriatics of the white man.
‘hat wo munt and can change, if we
i, 13 our NOINT of view. We're
son fooled and those who have
olod ua trave done x0 for the’ ox-
esa purpose of keeping: os in the
aractor of strangers bnd allens in
der the better to unload us when
9 decome too asscrtive of what we
gard‘‘as our inalienable rights.
atch it closely. brethren. .
JOHN EDWARD BRUCE “Grit”,
FOR ‘SALE,
“A magiifcent suburban home with
all city convensences. Near’ Belectric
Oar Line, Valuable place ac a heme
Zt, isvestinent.- Por “rent or ter
male,
”” " 'Bha@o Bees: a Oo. i
) One Hundred Clubs must be added
| t0 the “State Federation “of Colorec
| Women's Clubs: by June -6, 1916,
‘A special invitation’ ts how being
EXigndod to ail organized -Women’s
-Clube of the State which have not yet
Joined the State Federation, to Join
Dow during the six months Catmpalgu
for new Clubs, extending from Decem:
bor 16, 1915 to June 15, 1926. Alt
Women's Clubs, such’ as Mipsionary,
Literary. Art, Sowing, Muslchl, Moth-
ers‘, Charity or uplift Clubs of any
kind are especially urged to: Join un.
Under tho leadership of Mra, J, P.
Barrett, of Hampton, Va., tho State
‘Fedoration of Colored. Women's Clubs
are conducting a work that {s con-
aldorod by the best thinking people of
our State to be ox noble, tur-reaching
and offective in {tx plans and pur.
pores. av any of ite kind In the State |
oF country. This organization ix com-
posed of the Women's Clubs of tho
diferent secuionn of our Stato, which
aro laboring along various lines of
uplift work in thelr respective com:
munities. |
The prime object of the’ Federation,
in to unite our women, Irrespective of
denominations, in gne cemmon caure.
of Taco uplift, thereby raising to the’
highest possible standard, our Home,
Moral and Civic Lito. (
Through the cooperative work of
his body, tho Industrial Home School,
for colored girls, has been founded at
Peak, Va.. Hanover County. This In-
titution bas beon founded especially
or wayward colored girl; Our col-
red women have raised over eight
housand ($8,000) dollars, two thou-
wm of which, was glyen by white
eople. Six thousand ($6,000) dol.
Ara with which they bought the farm
f one hundred and forty-nine (149);
cres, upon which the school in now
rected. The Lexislature of Vir.
infa Nax appropriated «ix thousand
$6,000) dollars, and the Home School
vr Wayward Colored Gitls in’ Vir-
nla, haw the endorrement,- xympathy ”
ut co-operation of those who com:
and. the complete confidence of the
rople of the State, . me
A epectal campaign in now being 7
unched by the campaign committee
Md an urRehit appeal in being made |
all women of the various sections
our State, who have not un yet
ted with us in tain ‘Rreat cause
Womanhood, to now Join our ranks
» locality ‘ahould "be without an er:
nized Women’s Club. .
If there ix one earnest soul in any
mmunity, who “feels concerned gy
out the welfare of the race, and tg
re the crying need in her hometown G.
better homen, berer mothera, belo
fF echool facilities and better all- rm
and conditionn for her peuple, and
uld Hke to take some xteps to better &
wm conditions, Iet her start now, J
orkanizing a Women’s Club.
\ booklet hax been prepared by the V8
anizer on “How to organize and &2
due Women's Cluos." with definite &8
ns of work to follow. If in ao Fel
roughly Rotten up, that any woman Dai
© In interested tn thin kind of work
organize and conduct 9 club with. mi
the least diMeulty: Thin booklet Ge
| be ment to any addread for the blr
I wum of Afteen centa (16¢) and tha
cents for poxtage, by writing to Va
organizer, Miss Maude Reynolds
High Street, Roanoke, Va.
loping the women of the State will 4
"un thelr hearty support, we art, Pre
Respectfully, - * trie
aupalkn Commilttes of State Fed: cat
fon of Colored Woren’s Cinbs. L
» Maude Reynolds, State Organ- say
; Mra. Lottfe Davis, SubOrgan. ade
of Tidewater District; Mra Leun fere
foot, SubOrgan:zer of Northern’
rict; Mrs. Ora H Stokes, Sub-Or. No
zer Central District; Minn Maude tone
voldn. SubAgganizer Wertern Dix 1%!
2oMre. P.M. Be Hodge. Sub Organ wen
Southern District deny
DO YOU KNOW THEM?
1 would lke to know the where:
bouts of my aunt. Her name ts Mra
Winnte Jobnxon, wife of the deceane.!
Win, Johnsen. When Inst heard at
she remgea in Second St. Richmond,
Va. Woutd also like to know of any
hor relative.
1am the daughter of tne deceane}
tenry Hill, and the granddaughter of
he deceased Polly. and Joreph Hill.
1 also have an uncle, whose name
» ‘Thomas Hil, and his wife's name
s Rena, The old homestead wan on
Maddox HUM. Any information con-
‘erninx thelr whereabouts please
lotify Ents Inexn Hin Butixe, 1683
Hergen Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
” ROMANCE OF THE.SEA
ee
Lieutenant Berg and Sridge of
Captured Liner Appam.
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Fitete 6 by GiGi, from American Pras
‘Amuactedaen,. "
. " a,
: : William Cullen Beyant’s Ode For the
Martyted President's Obsequies
Read In New York. April 25, 1865 -
' O# slow to smite and swift to spare
i Gentle and merciful and just,
Who, in the fear of God, didst bear:
The sword of power, a nation’s trust,
In sorrow by thy bier we stand,
| Amid the awe that hushes.all,
And speak the anguish of a land
That shook with horror at thy fall.
Thy task is done; the bond are free.
We bear thee to an honored grave,
Whose proudest monument shall be
The broken fetters of the slave. :
Pure was thy life; its bloody close e
Hath placed thee with the sons of light,
Among the noble host of those
Who perished in the cause of Right.
A GENERAL SURVEY Of
THE WAR
President Wilson haa notified Ger
muny that no settlement of the Lust
tania controversy ts poraitle untes:
Germany acknowledges ‘the torpedo
Ing of the ner was illegal. The
lateat offer of the Berlin government
an a basis for settlement hax deen re
Jected.
Austrian troops have taken San Qlo-
vanni di Medua, In northern A‘bania
and are advancing southward. ul
farian troops in central Albania are
Feported to have been checked at El
bansav, by Exsad Pasha,
The alles ate expecting a derer
mined offenalve movement by tha
Germans in Flanders, the kalser's
birthday sonivernary, Heri reports,
that French attacks near Neuville St.
Vaast havi been ropulaed, \
& report from Sofia saya f:rmer
Premior Ventzelon, who han been
friendly to the allies, in betns pr.ne
ented by the Greek government.
Despatehen fram Gorman. euurces
aay that British forces tn ant ub ut
Adon, in sonthwent Arabis, nave act
fered a reverse at the hahdn of Arab
troops, and that they have been driy-
lon fo the Red nea port of Arden, afte
loafing 35,000 In Killed and wotnded.
Activity at points all alcox the
wentern battle front {s reportes in,
dexpatches from Berlin. tt ts an’!
nounced in German omcial atatementa
that 600 vardn of trenches have bean
captured from the Freich between
Vimy and Neuvt te
Taliam troops bave suffered a re
ites ater GE s
Tn @ note to all the Futropean bet
Mgerents the United States has pr
pored rules for the conduct of wud
marino warfare wht-h would nate
guard non-combaten:: on merchant
Vessels, and prevent attacks by mer.
ehantmen upon xu'marines which ob:
serve these rules. Cn'ms the belli
erents reach a Kerieral agreement on
some such formuli as ts proposed, ft
is intimated that armed merchant
ships which enter American porte
will be treated, ax warships.
London hears an unconfirmed re
port that Rusafan troops have occu:
pied Erzerum, tn Turk!sh Crucasta,
Austrian troops have advanced to
a point near Durazzo, Albina, which,
bas been left undefended by the with:
drawal of Fxead Vpasha.
Sharp Nghting Ix reperted to be con-
fnuing In Flanders, on the western
rattle front.
| Offensive movements ‘on a large
pseale by tho Germans {a northern
‘France are reported by Berlin aad
Paris, Numerous attacks were made
Jon the French lines, ant at two places
these aro declared to have been plere
@d. The chief sucress, apparently,
was south of the S mmr, against the
1 Vilage of Frive, on te 3 mme c=nal,
the capture of which {x claimed by the
Germans, toxether with 1000 yards of;
trenches south of t'e vil'age. In the :
operations Gortin «aims the capture
of more than 1100 priscnern and twen
ty-two machine fins. :
| London hears the Itrrstan army tn
the Caucasus has made further a”
vances toward Ezeriim, In travs-Cao
‘eaala, and that $0,000. Turks are-in
that city awaiting the attack of tte
caar’s forces. .
‘Vitaa, which hag. been in Germa-
possesaion for several months, is r=
ported by ‘Petrograd to be im flames
Tt fe believed the Germans may have
to evaciate’ the city.
‘ . SATURDAY. :
| ‘Tweaty-oor pessgas were kile'
‘apd twenty-seven injared ta Zeppelin
att over Térts. “Three aed a hal!
tons of explosives were dropped.
“Germans check all Sro-eh counter
attgckhs. an! Lo:d all grcemd gaiace:
WEDNESDAY.
THURSDAY.
FRIDAY.
BATURCAY.
SATURDAY.
» Berlin cla'ms
Parts doxpatchen say the German
offensive in Neuville regfon and south
Of the Somme has been checke{,
Colonel House, after long sexs'on
with Anibassador Gerard, Inve: Bor.
Min for Switzerland,
Tho Ruastan» are surrounding Ex
erum, the Turkish fort-ow« “in. Avia
Minor, and other column i advanct: ®
to the Tigris Valley, Athena rep. rts,
MONDAY.
| Tho German advances of the tant
| Sow days in Flanders are reported by
London to have resulted tn the reat:
jest gain on that front by the kal-er's
forces. since lant September. Tho a:
tack fs regarded asx a movement to
forentatl the offensive which to a.
Mes are underntood to be planning for
the spring. Derlin reports that de
termined British and French atacky
to retake the lont round have been
repulsed. <
Another Zeppelin appeared over
Paris leat night and dropped bombs
causing the death of ten personn, ac
cording to the United States ambansa
dor, The deatha from another ra!
Saturday nicht are -placed at wbirty
four.
thee! Salen dae Sean:
1 Tho owyes of 2500 employer
Of textile amllin at Passaic, N. J,
) Were Increased ten per cent. An
| Rouncement of the alvance wan made
by the Algonquin, Gara and Passaic
Cotton mills.
| eS
| MR. WILSON A CANDIDATE
He Approves’ Use of Name In Indiana
Primaries. |
President Wilson's clonest advis
ers expect him to make his. for!
mal announcement of Ne cant:
-dacy for renomination within the
‘month, when they hellove Mr.
Wilson will natlty the secretary
of tate of Ohfo that the voters of
the state will have hix consent to use
bis name tn the primary.
Name on Indiana Ballot.
On the authority of Secretary
Tumulty, President) Wilson's name
was place! on the Indlana pri
mary ballot ax the only candi
date for the Democratle nomination
for President. on January 7, the last
day for Ming by candidates. :
The pétitfon to placo the namo of
President Wilson on tho ballot had
been circulated previously, but was
held up peniling word from Wasbing-
San ‘a
THOMPSON INDICTED
| Untontown Banker Held by Granc
Jury on 17 Counts.
Josiah V. Thompson, former militon
aire coke and coal operator, was In:
Gleted by the federal grand jury {2
Puttsburgh, on xeventeen counts, .
The indictments row cut of Tromp:
son's alleged manipula:ton of tho
funds of the Hirst Natfonal bank, ct
Untontown, which was wrecked Jant-
ary 28 of last year. Thompson was
Prenident of tho bank.
One blanket Indictment: was return,
ed embracing the seventecn count ,
which arc based on charges ‘of false
certification of checks, making fa'se
entries, maning false repurts to the
comptroller of the currency and per.
Jury.
It ts expected that Thompson wiil
appear before the court later,
Witeon to Speak In Newark.
. President Wilson tentatively accept:
@4 an Snvitation to go to Newark, N.
J May 13, an the guest of the cham.
ber of commerce there. The invi a
tion wae extended by Senator Hughe-
and a large delegation from Newar
—_——_——
we Bull Toeees Farmer. ._
Q. B. Kine, a: dairyman of: near
‘Wrightsville, Pa. was attacked by a’
vieloas bull, which tossed him ove-
the gate. Several of bls ride awere
broken. ° .
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wracticeBm balming. and ts indeed,
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She ts prominent is fraternal or.
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REFUSE MINERS INCREASE
Soft Coal Industry Not Sharing In
+ Prosrerity, Operators Say.
Operato:s from the’ central com.
Detitive bituminous coal fields, em.
bracing western -Penosylvanta, Ohlo,
Indiana and [ilinots, told the mine
workers in fotot wage conference
at’ Mobile, Ala, that the mine
owners are not sharing In the wave
of prosperity now preva'liog, and fr
that reason they could not nee their
way -cloear to grant the tacresse tn
waxes saked by the men, nor accede
to the other demands of the Unites
Mine Workers of America, *
Instead of making any concesstoae
whatever, the operatora offered to re
pew the waze sales now in effect in
he four states when they expired ont
Merch 31..."
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The mine worker, {0 presen:in= sl6
eleven demands formu'ated at the in-
@anapolis convention of the unio.
asserted that the bituminous minin;
Andustry wan in an erecplionally prow,
Peroua coniitten and that the «oni
diggers were f:atitfed in asking fr
& wage Increase and for the better
ment of working ecp“l fons,
GERMAN CONSUL. INDICTED
Accused at ‘San Francisco in Conneo
tlon With Anti-Munition PIde.
Franz Boop, German consul, was to
@icted in San Francisco by a federal
grand jory in connection with. the so
called Crow'ey plot to blow ap munt
tiea plants and interfere with inter-
state commerce in munitions of war,
according to report received ar che
department of justice.
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Scrap Book
Se oe ee oe
A noted Phuadelphla attorney tells
one on Miinnelf. He left hls native
town In Tennessee years ace and lo
cated fn Phyadelphla to practice law
Te bas been uniformly auceratol 1b
brother, on the other hand, remstioey
Debind at the family humestend. Ke
turning to his native town seme tne
m0, the attorney met mn old darky tn
the read.
“Heilo, uncle: be raid. tut the old
man did not recognize tte boy he used
to know fo the prosperoun lookting eft!
eu who addressed bit,
“Well” anked the lawyer, “how ate
the Blank family 7 :
“Oh, thes're all right.” xaiT the old
arks. “Jit Miank hay gene te Phil
adelpbla att duir nade a bet of mon
ey. Me'n a Inwyer, anh.”
Sin that se2" answered the attorney.
“And his Lrother Tom, how tx he?
Han he made a fortune tun?"
“Hmwdy, nol answered tie old
darky, rbaking bis head. “He atn't
ho tuwyer, Matee Tom wouldn't take
a dixtisnest peany from nebedy.”
Take Joy Home.
Take Joy home .
Andmahe a plare tn thing own heart for
her :
Amt ive her time to grow and cherist
Then wil aha often coma and ring ts thes
When thou art working In ta Carrawn
Ave, or weeding In the watant tour 0
dann
Stim m comely fanhion to texted: +
Joy athe emce wemay totied
SSean Toketow
Queered the Queen.
Many atorica bave been told of the
Diunt and trocolent manners of Dr
‘Temple, the famous archiixtioy of
Canterbury. The following ts related
by Alfred Capper {n bis book of remi-
nlecences, Mr. Capper vouches far the
trath of the ators, am he heant tt re-
lated by the servant who stood behind
Quesa Victoria on the occasion of the
incident,
Her majenty nat at Qtoner, with the
archbishop of Canterbury, the gruff
and gramps Dr. Temple, on one aide
and on the other alde Dr. ftnndall Da
vidson, who wan then bishop of Win
chester. Her masenty turned toward, a
certain coloniatrbinhop who was erated
next to the archbiahop of Canterbury
and anid, “You know, Dr. So-and «0, 1
can well remember you prenching at
Balmoral twenty-two yearn ago.”
The biabop of Wincheater then anid.
“Really, your wnajenty, your memory 1s
marveloun, alaolutely miraculous!”
“Not at al” anaried Dr. Temple tn
bia cruffeat timer, “I told her tajesty
myncif before dinzer!”* .
: Sheridan's Apology.
Richard Urinwley Khertinn once de
clined to punctuate an apulogy. In te
houxe of commons one day Sheridan
Fave an opponcat the Ile direct. Called
upon to apologtie, the offender replled
“Mr. Speaker, I anid the honorabie
member wan a lar (¢ « true and | am
sorry for 1"
‘The Inxulted party wan not satisond
and said ao.
“Bir.” retorted Bheriden, “the honor.
able member can Interpret the terms
of my atntement acconting to hin alii:
ity, and be can pot ponctuation marks
where {t plearca tim” ~
be Weuldn*e Otiine.
A very old Scot, unmed Gorton: was
very il, and bis nephew, who had “ex-
Pectations” from bim. persuaded him
to make bis will. After good deal of
healtation the eld fellow at last con-
sented to do so, and the testament was
duly drawn up. Aa he was about to
sign it, however, bis neptiew noticed
that bls band trembled and he ap-
peared to grow worse.
“George Gor”— wrote the old man at
Uhe end of bls wil, and then be atop
ped dead.
“Go 0a, uncle—4. 4!7 prompted bis
nephew in an agony of apprehension
lest the will bould not be nigned.
Rat bis uncle sat up in bed and giar
€4 at him feroctoualy.
“Dee, dee!” be sbouted. “No; 1 not
dee until I'm ready, ye aterreectous
wretchl >
And 80 determined to Ive bad thin
Incident made bim that he didn't “dee”
elther.—Dundee Advertiser, :
Why the Price Wan Low.
A shabby map entered @ small gen
eral store in a Seoteh village and asked
tho owner, a genuine Scot who wax
known fer aud wide for bin ~pawky”
humor, if he might bare Bn empty soap
box, ¥
“AN right,” nald the ahopkeeper, “se
can bare one, but the price ts two-
pence.”
“Tuppence!” ejaculated the applicant.
[That's tuo och money altogether. 1
cao get them for tess than that.”
“Leas (han twopence? You're dream:
fog. man,” replied the other, who dix:
Mked nothing #0 moch ax baggilog
“Where can se get them for tena?"
“Down at sour neighbors, Tam
con's.” was the rejoinder
“Ob.” replied tle man behind the
counter, apparently much retiered, “nv
Goadt yo would get them for lean there.
bat 1 was never fool enough to leare
my boies outside on the parement all
ait”
‘ Bounded Lime tt, |
Rie Wetidoe ie bie ~Recotler tina.
jaid ReBections™ tetls the following:
“A governess once (ried to give ber
pupis some idea of the relative aize of
jdfetant countrica by saytng. ‘Cambodia
is apout as.targe ox Stam,’ but when
thls information -wax reproduced ina
written exercise one of the girls put tt
fi the words, ‘Ste says Citabodin te
ebout ns tare we whe by’
TRYING TO PLACE HIM.
But He Didn't Goer) Qualified to Pose
For Either Role.
Iu “A Raubler'n Kecoiles thine” Mr,
Alfred Capper relates we detieuefal
story once told Lin by Sir Metbert
Tree:
You remember,” sald Sir Herbert,
“my Japanyre play settie Jeane dee
Well, when T took Wa? Mle Majenty
Treut It on tur,
“Now it happened tint a cortate
town was billed very profusely with
thin play aud witte the anuouncenents
of another play epiuity. If wet, Invest,
even more popular than my ew. Amd
both were Annome ed ax appearing on
the wame day nt thie (we chief Qeatera
in the town,
“On the Sunduy before the predue-
Yon. the day on Which the provinetal
companies iiwa3~ travel froin town to
town, there wascapttite: aceruwd gathe
Re : AE fi
ROHS
x ee hp
kay St "7
ays;
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be ae bt
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hy {i
2 i} 1
MAM om
ered Gy witiiens the respective arrivals
Of the thw companies, who were due
to travel by the same trata
[erent but ndtelued eacitement of the
waltlog crea? ftp ramping o
certain famous apd, lee It dled, ery
stately aud particularly potnpous netor.
manager “dex ended from tus saloon,
where he tout faeu teavecin In erent
FRtate, A eonjserty th Mdy teprter atop
ped Drivkly ae Gr filo with genetl and
jtintebook reds tn ter taunt, tookead at
phim pertiy tot sak ster, with the
Pointed mish Afeted arcent of Upper
Tooting, “P bez yeur jmnion, ste. but
may Diva. ure sou The Darling of the
Gedy or “The Worst Wenan In Tat
Mon?" Landisy Tit Bites .
Every Day Is What You Make It.
Exery day that ie born iyte the
world Comes The a burst of waste aud
Hugy Mself all the day through, sini
thou MbAN mnie of Ita dance, a dire
or a Ufe match as thon wlit—Carlyte
Pree ae ne
A Rosh story fv ted of a stuttering
plete at Anuapotls whe was accosted
by an upper cluss man and ondered to
Cell him a atory oped to “tell tt quick.”
The plebe started tn nv ragidly an hie
excited alate of mint contd permit
about as follows
“LE —was wowewnlhing down the
road ata EE titthe while age mnnn
Tomet-met amet nenpper chiay nian,
AWN: he Www Wik dandy. fifellow,
Beaten be rapped rae on Cae bb bak
and anid, ‘Helle, eh) man” ann TL wan
Reno excited nnd bappy EET felt
dead."— Exchange,
+ ‘The Weakness of William.
Carefully the burclar effected an en-
trance Inte the bank. Carefully be
found hin way ti the strong ‘tom.
When the itt from his lantern fell on
tbe door te Kaw this aici
RAVE YOUR DYNAMITE:
TIUS SAFE IS NOTLOCKED
| TERN THI KNOW AND OVEN.
For a time he ramtnnted
“Anyway i re's no tari $n trying
If ft really te uutacked,”" said he.
Te grasped te knob and Corned.
Tortantly the office was Mooded orith
light, an atari bell rong loudly, an
electric shock rendered him belplens,
while a door Inthe wall flew open and
8 DIE des seized bien .
“DP know what's wrong with mes" be
nigh} un hone Mer when the cell door
closed tpn him “Fve too auch faith
iy hutnaw oatere Mas tow teosting! =
Exchanie
‘Gutsveteit
Ben Harris, the theatrival man, and
Bat Masterson, th sporting expert.
bad An utzudieot over (he name of the
eueovere ef the Misatexippt river,
Masterson sath i was Ue Sete, and
Barris thomzht Us was naebody elke
They decided tu leave the deciaion to
the next man the entered the cafe
whore (ley were spated at the tlie
{In a winute in came ao vaudertle book.
ing agent thes both knox. Musternou
beckoned him over to thelr table, and
be came.
“Ske.” be kald, “Ben here and 1 want
you to settle a dispote fdr as. Was (t
De Boto who discorered the Misatsalpy:
river or wasnt It?”
“Well, tf {t was bios 1 never bear’
him mention {t.”.said the vanderilie
@an. ~ know bim well too” 1
“Know who wellT”
“This guy De Rotu He's a trick jug,
gier:’ 1 bad Bim working for me tes]
weeks laxt seer on the eroull time.”-
Betyrdey Evesing Tost. .
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wos, ot o- Sh @ ———7 1
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a =p,
% ws EY |
eS irish
D rent 1 SilI
sy! ment. \
Did any of the Europsan powsrs tro} Wil you please let me know
to Prevent war between the United meaning of Hague tribunal, and whe
States and Spain? {f 20, which ones? | ft'ts located?
On Aptit 7. 1598, the ambassadom off He Haxue ‘Tritwnal {x au intern
Grevi Britain. France, Germany, Ros} tondi court of mditration extabiinbe
ain, Italy und Auxtria-Iungary called]. tg 3800 byethe fest\Wlague conrentio
upon President McKinley in a bods! amis tribunal sits at The Vague, 1c
and urged the'preservation of peace. | ion one petenn af Dance e ha lhity
WhaUis the aresent stytus sf the les
with regard to the eniletment of an
Amecican in the army of a foreign
power? :
Act of congress Gf Maret 2, 1167,
Feintive te expntriation proves th
rection 2-"tuit nny Atmeriean citizen
shall be dveted to have expatrtuted
bhineelf when tw hur been tocurltze
An auy fonden state tn cunfurilty with
ttn Inia oF when he but taken an oth
of allegiance to auy foreign state."
Enlistioent tn nome foretsn aruitex 01
fone sections of foreign arbiter does
not tuvalve taking an onth of nt}
Jecianee to a foredm state, On the]
other hand, enlistment tu uther forelxt)
Annies dees Involve liking suet ny
onth Tt follows Oat Amertenn elt
enn Wy OF thay net expatziate then
nelves b) enlfsstueut in foreizu arnites|
their stcituy depending upon the Jaws
and reculations governing the parte
lar enlistment
Pleats tett_me what in the differenc
seen Stank eta ee 7
Se eT ee ee ean
A planet tsa star reve tug In am oF
DIL There are elcht nage phinets—
Merours, Vents, the Fatth, Mars, Ju
Pier. Satars, Urine aud Neptune
There are atest chee unter planets, A
star Is any vele-thal ody whtet og
pears ns 1 funitumiy geotut, whfels won
Include % pistiet, tat the avert eine
Auppored to refer to a Bed beds,
planets tht fe steady, while that of
tar twinktew
Will you please .atate briefly whal
oausyd ihe break between the keive
and Prince Qremrarck end when it oc:
curred?
Emerg Willing EL stervested to the
throne tt ISS fint ftom the test who
edn alisywesttion toy tee bie own chan
cellor. Histante at that thru was are
entychre sens od, and the kale
fron only twenty nlins, The ald chan
colior cotta net stant dletution, Fete
Yon eser a slisageeement th polletes tn
creased tit nally tn 180 Ht ended ft
Mismarck's dltstulweal fron ufflee.
Yon over a disagreement th pelleles In
creased UI fnally in 180 1t ended f
Bisnarck's dtstnlwel fron oftiee.
4, Please give some facts about th
“S568 enorme “Pennsylvania Duteh,
Ite origin, ete.
Peonsytvanis Hotes or Pennsylvanh
German bya fish German dtilect ape
ken ehlely iy the nunthenstert: coun
ea of Penney tvanta TC Beet entered
the Uitte Stites ti TONh when emt
RTANTS fro the Lower Riitne, Alsace
Bavaria mid Saveny and espectally
from the Rhenish Mulurtuate, Wurttent
Burg and Sw ttverinnd fed to thle coun
try, The langtage te primarily a Penn
Vcontan itialeet of Germnts, although. tt
the course ef time, “funny Haslet
wonky hate been added. The term
Sputeh” fe heweser, inbnemer and
fe due merely to the fact that the Ia
migrants catted therelves Denteet
(Dotteh that &. German Owing ty
religous tedation, the Pennysivant
Dutch kag preserved thelr linscungy
with considerable purity, but tts ue
particularly in the towns, be ateadtly
Become cuore aud mare infused with]
forelgn elements, ‘The diniet haw re
ceived comparatively litte ternary
cultivation, althoujsh within revent]
Fears uo iAinber of pooma haye been]
Printed tn it, Thin neglect 1 amore}
noteworthy when ft ix borne dn mtnul
that the printing prowes of Eplenti
the venter of the early Pennaytvnrial
Ditch, inated neveral wotks, mostly
ft fe true, fn the Wterary hhgh Germany|
digteet, sone uf which are among the}
mont Valuable Americana, Further]
reference 0 the anbject mas be ent
ef by consulting Haldemann'’s “Pens
strata Dutch.” Leurned’s “Pennsy!
vanla German Dintvct." Sachse’n “Ger
man Sectarinns of Provincial Pennayt
vania” and Seldensticker'n "Fire
Century of Printing In America”
In a recent apsech the secretary of
the treasury. Mr. McAdoo, was quate
as saying that under the federal re-
serve banking law-m farmer may bor-
row money on real estate at,6 per cent
from a local bank and the’ bank cad
deporlt the security with the Federal
Reserve bank and receive money on i
at 3 par cent. fe there any auch fa
in effect?
The law provides that nny national
bank not fn central reacrra cities may|
lend money on ren} extate mortgngen t
2D amount pot exceeding 25 per cent]
of Itx capital and xurplus, or one-third}
of Hen time deporite, but no rate of in|
erent In xpecificd, and real estate fonn
cannot be ued bs niciabar banks a
security for obtaining finds trom th
federal renerve bank at 3 per cent o1
\Dy other rate.
What are the Hungarian honveder |.
A. special army under control of
Fangury alone. The Augtro-Hungart
un army fx divided {nto these classes
"The commen army. Co. Avatriar
andwelir, @i Hungarian bonvedn (thi
ast two nr apecin} armies and under
he control of Austria and Hungary
s separate states respectively) and
#)landsturm. -
ritinges 16 Stories and Still Liver
, Miss Mingle B. Werner, twen:)|
our years old, a stenographer, plurg)
4 from: the sixteenth floor of thi
Faneportation bu'iding, ta Chfeago|
rat still lives.” Her fall was broker
F & motor track loaded’ with pep].
ones, but “ber skull was fracters |
m4 she was Internally fafared. Th
etice say she jamped from 8 window!.
Ihe 1s expected to die. .
Will you please let me know the
meaning of Hague tribunal, and where
It Ie located?
‘The Haxue -Trilyinat ix ov snterna-
tonal court of mrfitration extabiisbed
{a 1800 byethe fowt \Hague convention.
This tribunal atts at The Hague, Hol-
land, in the Palace of Peace, a bullding
contributed for the purpose by n gentle
man who does not like bis name men:
tioned 1v connection with bin gifts, de-
aigned by: a French architect, Le M.
Cordonnier.
J RS OB SOR: Fee: ARO NOMT
The Matt amendment wns an amend
ment prepared by Orville Hitchcock
Piatt, Cnlted States, nenator from Con
Beeticut, on March 2 1901, to the se.
len of declarntlons adopted by the
Cubon zonvention which trained the
conatitution of Cubs, defining future
relations uf that republic with the
Cnited States. These dectarations when
asbinitted to the congress of the Calt-
ed States were amplified by the
ameudmont of Senntor Putt, whieh
wai adapted by the Uutted Stutex cn:
Kress on March 2 of that sear nnd wc.
cepted by the Cub conventton on
June 12, 1901,
What_kind of gun ie used in the
United States army? One claims a re-
peater, and | am urrder the impression
that a complicated arm, auch as a re-
eater, is not allowed.
The nrms fy uae by the United States
army arene follows: Rife--Spriuctletd
Tuncazine rifle, meted 103, manufac:
tured In the arenas of the United
Stites government at Iteck fdand, H.,
aud Sprlugtelt, Muse ‘Thin ritle te
calitwr 30, whats ateel Jacket bullets,
Joule Ave whote tute magazine from
cH, can ler used me style hot rifle
hye xtiopte manipuiathn of cutoff.
which prevents loading fram maxaztne,
Revalier amtonmntic, caller 43
How high are Niagara falle?, Are there
any higher in the United States? At
what (alle was it that # professional
jamper once lost hie life in leaping
from it?
Niagutn fits are 164 fect tush, Ther
are neveral ethers ta the United Stnter
higher, but Hone of them enrrien pearly
the volume of water. Xamucl Patel.
born in Mhede Inland tn 180%, was
killed in Jumping froin Generes tlle
at Rochester, N. ¥., Nor, 13, 1%,
Why was the Isle of Pines turned
ever to Cubs after having been on the
United States maps under ‘President
McKinley?
The Ile of Hines (vin de Pave was
never a part of the Ualted States, At
the Close af tbe Spuutlsh-Ameriean wat
capltallstn from the United Statex pur
chaned Inge hollluge of real entate on
that fdand and beenn un agitation for
{tx annexation to this conntey. On ap
pen! from the Cabut coputlte the Unit
ed Stator government fn 1s utterly
repudiated the ngitators and declared
the Island of Pines an tntesral part of
Cubs, 8 decision of the aupretie court
to that effet way handed down April
BL 17,
Can & Catholic be president of the
United States?
Yeu, If be ten native etttzen,
Could you tell me what gives a man
the right to the title of “Honorgble?”
Ye thie Utle proper merely during ten:
ure of office or during a lifetime? Is
the comptroller of the currency, the
secretary of state or any other euch
appointed office entitled to euch a title?
The title “Honorable” 18 used lone
ho the Valted Stites, being glren
ourteny to almoat nsiy one whe
holds or Who haw bekl au important
fublfe offre. ‘The tte tn expectally
beatewed usm members of congress.
gorernors, state Aenntore, Judges of the
Digher conrts find bigh federn) officials
In Grent Mritain the title “Honor:
able" Ix Qurne by the lavse of com:
mons ann body, by the members set
arately when referred to in debate, by
Judges of the Mikh court of justice,
when not peers, and by all the chil
dren of dukes, marquinen, enrla (except
the eldest sun, who bear a courtesy
title), viseounts and barons.
Please tell me what you can aboui
Valley Forge, ita location, the battle at,
ate.
Valley Forge ly a silage altuated
about twenty miles northwest of Phitn
dolphin, famous aa the xecne of Waal
fogton’s eneampmeut during the winter
Of ITT, ‘There Mis arias, reduced 10
11,000 men. wuffered every conretvalyy
hardship with Spartan herolatn,
At Valles Forge the neldter xlept
without blanket, and many had to n't
bp all aight by thelr Ores. .At one
time there were more than 1,000 with-
ont aboos, wud you might trae then
fn the anow by thelr bleeding feet.
Even the xick often had to He on the
ground, for wont of straw. They hai
searcely any hornen, and the rolitens,
mado litte carts tu’ draw thelr wool
apd provisivn (o thelr huts. Oleers
on parade rometimes wore old bian
Kets of faded Iniquilts to cover them
The troops were hardly ever pak, ant
the money in which they wer’ pat!
bad almont- loat fta valuc. Food wie
scarce. anil the gloomy eaying wax "Nn
treed, no noldiers!” — Hirginson's
Young Folks iMiatory of the United
tates.
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LINCOLN'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
In view of the much discussed question of the religious beliefs of Lincoln, this letter, recently published, is of special interest and importance.
It was written to a prominent Quaker and was quoted for the first time by Major General Grenville M. Dodge in his "Personal Recollections," issued for private circulation. The letter follows:
My Extended Friend I have not forgotten—probably never shall forget—the very impressive occasion when yourself and friends visited me on a Sabath afternoon two years ago. Nor has your kind letter, written nearly a year later, ever been forgotten. In all, it has been your purpose to strengthen my reliances on God. I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant help and guidance, and to the men more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty—are perfect and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fall to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this, but God knows best and has ruled otherwise. We shall acknowledge his wisdom and our earnest effort, but must we merely in the best light he gives us, trusting that we working still conduce to the great ends he ordains. Surely he intends some great good to follow this mighty convolution, which no mortal could make and no mortal could stay?
Your people—the Friends—have had and we are having a very great trial. On principle and faith, opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression by war. In this hard dilemma some have been able to win. For those appealing me on conscientious grounds I have done and shall do the best I could and can, in my own conscience, under my oath to the Lord. That you believe this I doubt not, and believing it I shall still receive for our country and myself your earnest prayers to our Father in heaven. Your sincere friend. A LINCOLN.
MADE "OLD ABE" WORRY.
Slow Returns From His Own Presidency Bothered Him on His Election Night.
Lincoln spent most of the night of Nov. 6, 1862, in an office room in the statehouse at Springfield, Ill., receiving returns from the election. That was the day he was elected president of the United States.
Late at night it was observed that the candidate was a little worried about something, despite the fact that most cheering news was coming in from New York, Pennsylvania and other big states which he expected to carry. Finally Lincoln admitted that he was worried about his own town, which was a Democratic place.
At last the news came that Lincoln had carried his own precinct. Lincoln chuckled, it is said, and then remarked that he guessed he'd go home, which he did. He appeared fabulous over having carried his own precinct and had ceased to worry about the rest of the United States.
NATION NEEDS LINCOLNS
Will Be Sad Day For America When It Fails to Produce Such Men.
At a public dinner in New York, in commemoration of Lincoln, Miss Ida M. Tarbell, author of a "Life of Lincoln," spoke as follows:
"I think I can say Abraham Lincoln is the only man living or dead, with whom I could have spent five years and not known boredom.
"Lincoln was a man who never pretended to be anything he really was not. He never found time to conform to the usages of society. He did not understand or care for its amenities. He never learned to wear his clothes properly. His trousers bagged. His coats did not fit.
"You may remember the eminent Massachusetts statesman who spent an hour with Lincoln, and the only entry he made in his journal after their discussion of great national affairs was that Lincoln wore yarn socks."
"Lincoln always was anxious to get things just right. Sometimes, in consequence, he seemed slow to the country, but he always insisted with himself that his acts must conform to the moral law. You cannot conceive of Lincoln trifling with his conscience.
"He wanted to be sure always that his decisions should ever stand as just in the annals of the world and the history of human endeavor.
"There are several instances to prove this. He was told by his supporters he would lose an election by taking a certain stand. He did lose, but he said: 'We are right. The people will recognize it by and by.' And they did, and four years later he was in the White House.
"Lincoln had real goodness—not the kind of goodness that preaches only on Sunday, but the kind of goodness that reaches out and embraces all one's fellow man. He was the tenderest man that ever lived. No one suffered more than he be during the awful four years of civil strife.
"Lincoln was the best man American institutions ever produced. It would be, indeed, a sad thing if our institutions failed at any future great crises to produce such as Lincoln."
A Visit to Lincoln In Wartime
A Visit to Lincoln In Wartime
MAJOR GENERAL GREN-
VILLE M. DODGE, famed
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neer during the construction of the
Union Pacific railroad, wrote for private circulation a book of personal reminiscences of Lincoln, Grant and Sherman, each of whom he knew, the last two intimately. In the book General Dodge recounts a number of anecdotes of Lincoln not generally known.
He tells of a visit he paid to President Lincoln at the White House at a time when the chief executive was greatly worried over the command of the Union forces because he was receivin
"When I arrived at Washington and went to the White House to call on President Lincoln I met Senator Harlan of my state in the antelope, and he took me in to see the president. It happened to be at the hour when the president was receiving the crowd in the antechement next to his room Senator Harlan took up to him immediately and presented me to him President Lincoln received me cordially and said he was very glad to see me. He asked me to sit down while he disposed of the crowd. I sat down and waited. I saw him take each person by the hand and in his kindly way dispose of them. To an outsider it would seem that they all got what they wanted, for they seemed to go away happy.
"I sat there for some time and felt that I was overstaying my time with him, so stepped up and said that I had merely called to pay my respects and that I had no business and so would say goodbye. President Lincoln turned to me and said: 'If you have the time I wish you would wait. I want to talk with you.'
"I sat down again and waited quietly until he had disposed of the crowd. When he was through he took me into the next room. He saw that I was ill at ease, so he took down from his desk a little book called 'The Gospel of Peace.' I think it was written by Artemus Ward and, was very humorous. He opened the book, crossed his legs and began to read a portion of a chapter which was so humorous that I began to laugh, and it brought me to myself.
"When he saw that he had got me in his power he laid the book down and began to talk to me about my visit to the Army of the Potomac and what I saw. He did not say a single word about my own command or about the west, showing his whole interest was in the Army of the Potomac. While we were sitting there talking we were called to lunch.
"During the meal he talked about the Army of the Potomac and about Grant and finally led up to the place where he asked me the question of what I thought about Grant and what I thought about his next campaign.
"Just as he asked the question we got up from the table. I answered: 'Mr. President, you know we western
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men have the greatest confidence in General Grant. I have no doubt what ever that in this next campaign he will defend Led. How or when he is to do it I cannot tell, but I am sure of it.
"He shook my hand in both of his and very solemnly said, 'You don't know how glad I am to hear you say that.'
"I did not appreciate then what a great strain he was under—not until reading Welles' celebrated diary, showing that Lincoln had no person around him to advise him; that everything he did was from his own thoughts and decision. It is a wonder to me that he ever got through the war so successfully. I did not know then that Lincoln's table was piled with letters demanding the change of Grant, declaring that his campaign was a failure and wanting to have a different commander sent, etc.
"When I was ready to leave I thanked President Lincoln for what he had done for me and asked for there was anything I could do for him. He said: 'If you don't care I would like to have you take my respects to your army.'"
Mortar May Ruin Boy's Eyes.
Karl Eifelberger, thirteen years old, of Wormleysburg, near Marysville, Pa., will probably lose the sight of both eyes, as the result of being struck in the eyes with mortar which a companion had accidently thrown.
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Lincoln's Lesson Books FOR a page out of one of the "Sum Books" that Abraham Lincoln used in his studies between 1822 and 1824 a collector paid $240 at a recent sale of Lincoln's in New York city.
On one side of this defective leaf appear some examples in long division, the date 1824 and the autograph "Abraham Lincoln's Book," while on the other side is a schoolboy's jingle that reads:
Abraham Lincoln is my name,
And with my pen I wrote the same;
I wrote in both haste and speed
And left it there for fools to read.
Beneath this is another autograph signature that is rather faded.
The sum of $115 was paid for another leaf containing some examples in compound interest worked out by Lincoln and $90 for a check drawn by J. Wilkes Booth on Jay Cooke & Co., being one of the so called "blood money" checks drawn by Booth before the assassination while he was living in Mrs. Surratt's house in Washington. Three of the legal documents showing that Lincoln was associated with lawyers not known to his biographers were bought for J. Pierpont Morgan's private library. A rare Lincoln "broadside" issued in Alton in 1840 brought $210.
The Two Addresses at Gettysburg.
At Gettysburg on Nov. 10, 1863, Lincoln gave an extraordinary illustration of the strength that lies in that simplicity of speech of which he was the master. Edward Everett, the most scholarly and polished orator of his day, made the formal oration at Gettysburg that day. He spoke at great length and with studied preparation. Lincoln's speech was but "a few remarks," sharply composed on a moving train. Next day Everett wrote to Lincoln in praise of the latter's brief address. Lincoln wrote to Everett a note in which he said Everett was expected to make a long address and he, Lincoln, a short one. He added: "I am pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little I did say was not entirely a failure."
Why Lincoln Told Stories
Chauncey M. Depew of New York, a famous story teller, told thus why Lincoln was fond of "warning."
"I can remember a conversation with Abraham Lincoln, who was the original story teller of this country, in which he said to me: Depew, they say I talk too much and tell too many stories. They say it does not compart with the dignity of the presidential office and that it detracts from my personal dignity; but, Depew, the common people, the common people—like plain talk, and they understand what I mean when I tell them a story, and I don't believe I shall quit it just because it isn't considered dignified."
Feb. 12, 1809—Born in Hardin county, Ky.
April 21, 1832—Elected captain of a company raised at Richland, Ill., for service in the Black Hawk war.
1833—Appointed postmaster of New Salem and held the office for three years.
1834—Was elected a member of the Illinois legislature and was re-elected in 1836, 1838 and 1840, after which he declined further election.
1835—Began the practice of law in Springfield, Ill., in partnership with John T. Stuart.
1846—Elected a member of congress and on the expiration of his term was not a candidate for re-election.
1849—Offered the governorship of the territory of Oregon by President Taylor, which he declined.
1854—Began a series of carnest political discussions on the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the slavery question.
1858—Commenced his series of public discussions with Senator Douglas on the slavery question, which established his reputation as one of the leading orators of the Republican party.
May 18, 1860—Nominated by the Republican convention at Chicago for the presidency.
Nov. 6, 1860—Elected president of the United States.
March 4, 1861—In his inaugural address treated the act of secession as a nullity.
April 13, 1861—President Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 three months' militiamen.
March 8, 1862—Sent a special message to congress inlosing a resolution offering pecuniary aid to states that would adopt the gradual abolishment of slavery.
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confidence of the Republicans in congress. On one occasion an editor visiting Washington asked Senator Thaddeus Stevens to introduce him to some members of congress who were favorable to Lincoln's reelection. Stevens led him to the desk of Mr. Arnold of Illinois. "There," said he, "is the only Lincoln member of congress that I know!" Stevens himself regarded Lincoln as incompetent and weak. Henry Wilson afterward vice president spoke of him as politically a failure. Greeley had a low opinion of his ability. His personal friends, such as Washburn, Eaymood and Thurlow Weed, believed his reelection an impossibility. Even Lincoln doubted it.
When Lincoln Did Not Get His Way.
The application of a man who wanted to be chaplain in the army during Mr. Lincoln's administration was recently found. Attached to it are a number of indorsements which are not only interesting in themselves, but aid in discussing the characters of the two men whose influence largely molded the policy of the government in those turbulent times. The indorsements by President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton read the follows:
Dear Stanton, Appoint this man chaplain in the army.
A. LINCOLN.
Dear Mr. Lincoln, He is not a preacher.
E. M. STANTON.
The following indorsements are dated a few months later, but come just below:
Dear Stanton. He is now
A. LINCOLN
Dear Mr. Lincoln. But there is no vacancy.
E. M. STANTON
Dear Stanton. Appoint him chaplain at large.
A. LINCOLN
Dear Mr. Lincoln—There is no warrant of law for that
E. M. STANTON
Dear Stanton. Appoint him anyhow
A. LINCOLN
Dear Mr. Lincoln—I will not.
E. M. STANTON
The appointment was not made, but the papers were filed in the war department, where they remain as evidence of Lincoln's friendship and Stanton's obstinate nerve.
WHEN LINCOLN DESPAIRED.
Werried by Antietam, but Next Day Found Him Cheerful Again.
The late Robert A. Ogden, famous as an educator and philanthropist, said in a public address that on the night after the second day's fighting at Antietam Schuyler Colfax, then speaker of the house of representatives, after a valent effort to obtain news of the result of the battle, went to see the president. It was 3 o'clock in the morning, and he found Lincoln lying on a leape, with his clothes on, awaiting dispatches. When Colfax said that there was still no news the president said:
"Schuyler, what does it all mean? Are we not on God's side?" We have thought, we were right." Then, with a gesture of despair, Lincoln added, "I would gladly exchange pieces tonight
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with any dead soldier boy on the battlefield."
The next morning Colfax went to the capital and asked several representatives if they had any news of the battle.
"Not," was the reply. "But we have seen Lincoln, and he seems to be feeling so good and told us so many stories that every must be all right."
The House in Which LINCOLN Died
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THE house in which Abramah Lincoln died on the morning of April 15, 1851, stands up opposite Ford's theater, in which the president was shot on the preceding night. The house, known sometimes as the Petersen house, from a former captain, is now devoted to the exhibition of a wonderful collection of Lincoln rolls owned by Oxford II Oldroyd. Mr. Oldroyd has given in life since boyhood he is now an elderly man—to the study of the life of Lincoln and the collection of objects connected with the life of the president. He has rails split by Abramah Lincoln, the Lincoln family Bible, etc.
The corner policeman found Naybu leaning against a telephone pole one night about a month ago. "Well, well how'd you happen to get into this condition?" he asked as he helped Naybu bur home. "Wifeh just left for cash," explained the patient. It was just a night or two later that the same policeman found Naybu leaning in the same condition against the same pole. "What's the excuse this time?" asked the cop. "She's back," answered Naybu.
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Her Best Behavior.
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WILSON CHEERED IN INVASION OF WEST
BIG CROWDS IN CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE, APPLAUD DEWENSE.
Present War Brought About by Rulers,
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Chicago, Jan 31. President Wilson today addressed two huge audiences, one here and one in Milwaukee. His preparedness appeal was vigorously cheered in both cities. In Milwaukee he took up the question of loyalty of foreign born citizens, and expressed himself as pleased with the manifest approval his talk received.
In his address here tonight he followed along the lines of his Cleveland and Pittsburgh speeches.
He made back platform talks at Kenosha, Waukee and Bobot Bip crowds surrounded the special trail at these cities.
PROUD OF THE NAVY
The United States has made preparations for immediate war, as far as the navy is concerned, although the present naval force is inadequate in size, the President declared tonight in an address before several thousand persons in the Auditorium "We mean business," he said in speaking of the preparations plans of the administration.
"We have given to the present fleet of the United States an organization such as it never had before. I am told by Admiral Fletcher, the President said "And we have made preparation for immediate war, so far as the navy is concerned."
ARMY NOT LARGE ENOUGH
The army, the President said as Ms. present constituted, "it is not large enough even for the ordinary duties of peace."
The President repeated his warnings that no time must be lost in strengthening the defenses of the nation. He declared the government was doing everything it could for preparedness.
"When I see some of my fellow citizens spread tinder where the sparks are falling I wonder what their desire of Americanism is," the President said.
America, the President said, has been cruelly misjudged by the war now at war.
"I know that on the other side of the water there has been a great deal of cruel misjudgment with regard to the reasons why America has remained neutral. These looking at us from a distance do not feel the strong pulses of ideas and principles that are in us.
DO NOT UNDERSTAND AMERICA
"They do not feel the conviction of an American. Our mission is a mission of peace and that righteousness cannot be maintained as a standard in the midst of arms. They do not realize that back of all of our energy we are a body of idealists, much more ready to lay down our lives for a thought than for a dollar.
"They suppose, some of them, that we are holding off because we can make money while others are dying, the most cruel misunderstanding that any nation has ever had to face—so wrong that it seems almost useless to try to correct it, because it shows that the very fundamentals of our life are not comprehended or understood."
RULERS BROUGHT ON WAR
Rulers, not public opinion, brought about the present war. Mr. Wilson declared, "I thank God there is no man in the United States who has the authority to bring on war without the consent of the nation," he said. The test of the United States, he said, has been to assert the principles of law in a world in which the principles of law have broken down. "We are not now thinking of invasion of the territory of the United States," the President declared. "That is not what is making us think. We are not asking ourselves shall we be prepared only to defend our own homes and our own shores.
TRUSTEE FOR HUMANITY
"Is that all we stand for? To keep the door shut securely against enemies? What about the great trusteeship set up for liberty of national government in the whole western hemisphere? We stand pledged to see that both the continents of America are left free to be used by their people as those people choose to use them under a system of national popular sovereignty as absolutely unchallenged as our own.
"At this moment the Americans are growing together upon that handsome privilege of reciprocal respect and defense."
Detail and plans for strengthening the army and navy, and the aviation corps, and for making munitions and armament by the government were outlined. The President spoke for nearly an hour. He said:
"You put me under a great obligation to you by the mercy of your
reception. And I am quite aware that it is largely because you know how desirous I am to speak to you with the utmost frankness upon some of the most essential issues of our national life.
REPORT TO THE PEOPLE.
"The Constitution of the United States explicitly lays upon the President the duty of reporting at the beginning of each annual session of Congress to the representatives of the people concerning the state of the Union. And it seems to me that it is a very natural inference from that command that the President should from time to time, when unusual circumstances arise, make his report, far as it is possible for him to do, directly to the people themselves.
"It is with that conception in view that I have taken the liberty of coming to you tonight. I have not permitted myself the privilege or leaving my duties at Washington very often, because they have been very exacting and very anxious duties, and there is a very clear sense in which it is my duty to be constantly there and constantly watchful of the changing circumstances of the day.
CAME TO ENPLAIN MATTERS.
"But I thought that you would feel my justified in the unusual circumstances of the time if I left my duties there for a little while and came to explain a few matters to you.
"A year ago, when the war in Europe had been six months in progress, I take it, it would have seemed incredible to all of us that the storm should have continued to gather in intensity instead of spending its force. I suppose that 12 months ago no one could have predicted the extraordinary way in which the intensity of the struggle has increased from month to month, and the difficulties involved by reason of that war have increased beyond all calculations.
"A year ago it did seem as if America might read secure without any great anxiety and take it for granted that she would not be drawn into the muddle.
ONLY THE BEGINNING
But six months ago was merely the beginning of the struggle. Another year has been added, and now no man can competently say whether the United States will be drawn into the struggle or not. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that we should take counsel together as to what is necessary as to what we should do. "The trouble with a great many of our fellow citizens is that they let their imaginations become so engaged in this terrible affair that they cannot look upon it as those should who wish to keep a cool head and detached judgment. So many men on this side of the water are seeing red that you seem to see in their thoughts the reflection of the blood that is being spent so copiously on the other side of the sea. It is not wise for us to let our thoughts become so deeply involved that we cannot think separately.
"I must admit to you very frankly that I have been careful to refrain from reading the details in the newspaper reports. I have wished to see the thing and realize it only in its large aspects and to keep my thoughts centered upon America, her duty, her circumstances, and her tasks and her tasks have been very difficult. They have not been merely predictable.
APPEAL TO AMERICA
Have you not realized how all the world seems to have been constantly conscious from the beginning of this struggle that America was, to say, the only audience before whom the terrible plot was being worked? How every one engaged in the struggle has seemed to turn to America for the moral judgments concerning it?"
POCOMOKE CITY
Pocomoke City Md. Edgar Aydelotte, who shot and killed its stepfather, Hiram Aydelotte on November 4, 1915, was arrested in Philadelphia on January 24, 1916, and has been turned over to the officers of Pocomoke City, Md. He has been placed in the county jail at Snow Hill Md. where he will await extradition for the crime.
Mrs. Annie Bishop, of New Church Va., died January 31, 1916 at her home. After an illness of about three months, she was removed to her native home at Girdle Tree, Md., where her remains were interred.
Rev J. H. Dodson, of Fruitland, Md. has been called to the pastorate at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church. Rev J. W. White, ex-pastor of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, has been called to the pastorate at Crissfield, Md. Sig G. H. Wheaton has resigned his office as Church Clerk, after a term of four years and six months' service.
Willie Waters and Beesie Waters both of New Church, Va. were married in Porcimore City last week.
IN MEMORIAM
In sad, and loving remembrance of our dear mother, Leah Whealton, who departed this life one year ago January 31, 1915.
Why do we mourn departing friends
Or shake at death alarm.
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to His arms.
Sister, thou was mild and lovely.
Gentle as the summer breeze.
Pleasant as the air of evening.
When it floats among the trees.
Her husband, George Whealton,
Sr. and her children.
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THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY.
AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS
Mme. J. L. Crawford Opens Branch
Store—Energetic Business Woman
Extending Growing Business—Flok
University Quartette in the Metropo-
lons—Rumor That Young West Indians Are Discriminated Against At
Freedmen's Hospital—Cleveland G.
Allen Lectures On Negro Folk Songs
—Brief Notes.
Albion's National New Brunswick N.W. 308 N. New York City, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1916. Mine. J. L. Crawford, one of the most enterprising women of the race, who is the proprietress of dry goods and hair emporium at 464 Lenox Avenue, has opened a branch shop at 119 West 135th Street to enable her to meet her growing trade. The branch shop has been splendidly fitted up with a fine line of dry goods, notions and hair goods and will serve as a great convenience for the large number of customers that patronize Mine. Crawford. The growth of Mine Crawford's business is a marvel, and the success that has come to this energetic woman is a splendid tribute and testimony to her fine business acumen and insight. So complete is the stock that Mine. Crawford's carries until her store is known in this city as The Colored Department Store, and her store is one of the finest examples of the possibilities of the trained business woman of the race.
Five years ago Mune Crawford moved on Lenox Avenue, and found herself surrounded by merchants of the race, principally Jews. The prediction was that she would not be able to survive the keen competition of the Jew Merchants, and that it would be difficult for her to build up a trade. She fitted up her store so attractively, with such a thorough and complete stock of dry goods, notions and hair preparations until her store became one of the busy centers of the Avenue. Today she has a splendid trade that is fast growing to big proportions. When one enters Mune Crawford's Department store they are impressed with the completeness of the place, and the despatch-like manner in which business is done.
Her stock is valued at $3,000 and contains everything that is known to the trade. Mine Crawford is doing much for the economic solution of the race, and is providing splendid positions for several young women of the race. Her clerks are a competent, positive group of young women who take keen interest in her business. The names of her clerks are Musses Hurthma, Witghgspoon, Edith Jackson, Amelia Laurens, Lucy Mosely, Blanche Couver and Lydia Millington.
In talking to your correspondent last Saturday, Mine Crawford said that she was forced to open a branch store to most her growing trade not to accommodate her large number of customers. Mine Crawford's branch store was formerly the multimillion shop of Maust Allen and is located in West 15th Street in a section where live a large number of our people.
Your correspondent Visited the place last Saturday and found a neat, well equipped shop and two young women in charge. Mine Crawford began her business career in this city about fifteen years ago in West 50th Street as a hair dresser outgrowing her business in that place she moved to her present spot. She was born in Charlestonville, Va., and was educated in the public schools of that city. She came to New York and graduated from the New York School of Dermatology and a business school. She is a prominent member of the Metropolitan Baptist Church. Mine Crawford is a woman of strong personal character and is a woman of whom the rare should feel proud.
YOUNG WEST INDIANS BARRIED
AT FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL
Information has reached this bureau that young West Indians who graduate from the medical school of Howard University are discriminated against at the Freedman's Hospital in the examination of internship Rumor has it that young West Indians failed to get promotion to internship even though they pass creditable examinations, and that young Americans in many cases who are inferior are given the places over their heads. Feeling is strong in this city over the matter, and influential West Indians, many of them graduates of Howard University Medical School, have become concerned over the matter, and it is believed that further investigation will be made. Your correspondent will write Dr. W. A. Warfield, Surgeon-in-Chief at the hospital and will report the results of his investigation.
NEWSPAPER MAN LECTURES ON
NEGRO FOLK SONG.
Cleveland G. Allen, the newspaper correspondent, lectured last Sunday afternoon on The History and Origin of Negro Folk Songs at Mother Zion A. M. E. Church and Harlem Congregational Church. Mr. Allen, who has made a thorough study of the Negro melodies told the history of the Negro songs, tracing its growth from Africa up to the present time. He said that the Negro songs flourish in this country, from 1619 when the little vessel brought to this country a hand full of slaves who while in slavery expressed their pent emotions in these melodies. He told of the introduction of Negro Folk Music to America in 1871 when the Jubilee Singers went out from Fisk University to properly place these songs before the nation.
He told of agencies like Fisk, Hampton and Taukegue that were assisting in preserving this music, and appealed to the audience to properly estimate the value of them.
Mr. Allen said these Negro songs were the best expression of the Negro's soul, and that they showed character and fortitude even under the most trying conditions. He said that Negro Folk Songs were divided into four classes, vis: the Spirituals, labor songs, cradle songs and illiblabism. He quoted from eminent musicians
of both races their appreciation of Negro music and how it should be treasured up as one of the greatest traditions of the race. Mr. Allen gave the correct history of many of the favorite melodies among them: "Steal Away to Jesus." "Swing Low Sweet Charlot," "Oh, Freedom" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See." He gave in many cases, the names of the slaves who sang these songs. A feature of his lecture was the singing of these songs in which, the audience joined. Mr. Allen will devote his time in connection with his work in journalism to lecturing upon the value of these songs. He has many engagements ahead of him, some of them being in some of the influential churches of the other race.
BRIEF NOTES
Prot. George Haynes, of Flak University is in the city on his annual visit. He spoke at Salem M. E. Church, last Sunday afternoon. Plans are all ready for the large memorial meeting to be held at Carnegie Hall next Friday evening in honor of Booker T. Washington. Eminent speakers of both races will speak. Newpapers throughout the country desiring news and information from this center will be supplied by this bureau at $2.00 per month.
U. R. Walstey
Florence, S. C., Feb. 12. I left the city Monday, the 7th inst. for Darlington, to witness the public sales. A large number of vehicles and critters' exchanged hands, either for better or for worse. I met many of my old friends on the public square, as usual.
Rev. G. W. Rogers, of N. W. part of the county was down to arrange for the settlement of an estate of Mrs. Rogers' portion. They had with them, little Mody, the baby. The Rev. was quite busy. He has charge of St. Luke's Church.
Rev. L. L. Thomas of Little Rock, S. C., has gone to Sumter, S. C. Miss Minnie Moore of Timmonsville, S. C. has gone to Richmond Va.
Rev. J. S. Earl of Spartanburg, S. C. passed through here on route home from Georgetown, S. C.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mayes, of Kingstree S. C. visited Wilson, N. C.
Misses Lillian B. Reid and Miss Elizabeth N. Johnson, County Supervisor of rural schools for Marlton, N. C and Chadburn county, N. C have returned hime from Winston-Salem, N. C. They attended a conference of Supervisors. Miss Reid asked him to address an Educational Mass Meeting at Marlton S. C. March 12th I have agreed to go. I visited Mullins Sunday, the 6th inst and spoke at A. M. E. Sunday School in the afternoon. I called to see Dr. and Mrs. W. McConliff. The Doctor as out, but I met Mrs. McConliff. Tuesday, the 5th. I visited the Graded Cumberland M. E. Church, where the first grades are taught. There I met Misses E. C. Gordon T. E. Thomas, Virginia Birch and Miss Evelyn Wilson. Teachers and pupils seemed to be doing well in their temporary location.
I left the Church and called at the home of the late Dr. J. E. Wilson on Cort Street. I found Mrs. J. E. Wilt son and her daughter, Mrs. Julia E. Stephenson at home.
Mrs. Mable Roberts Dorgan and daughter, little Myrtle left for Columbia. Monday night Miss Laura V. Roberts, her sister, Miss E. C. Gordon and Mr. Herman Terry accompanied her to the train.
Mrs. J. B. Taylor after visiting friends at Sumtow and mother and friends at Camden. S. C., arrived home Monday P. M. much improved from the journey.
Rev. J. O. Martin, of Silver, S. C. has returned home. He visited Mr. A. P. Bowman, while here. He is pastor at St. Marks' Church, at Silver, S. C.
Rev. G. W. Billips, of Wilmington, N. C. has gone to Hartaville, S. C. to assist in a meeting at Jerusalem Baptist Church.
Mrs. L. W. Rogers and children, Modie and niece, Miss Thomas, passed through here recently, enroute to Timmonsville, S. C.
Mrs. Rogers had just closed a successful school term at Snaitnera S. C.
Mr. W. M. Childs passed through the city recently enroute to Wilmington, N. C. He had visited home, Augusta, Ga. He has charge of car 308, chief engineers of the A. C. L. R. R. Co. Mr. Childs had just returned from a trip through the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
United States Army officer telegraphed Mr. Joe Buchanan, of this city of the death of his son, Willie. The body is on the way home for burial at Darlington, S. C.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wilton and baby, of Conway, S. C. passed through here recently enroute for Lake, Miss, their present home.
Mrs. N. Caston has returned to Norfolk, Va. She had been on a visit to Hartsville, her old home.
Mr. Andrew Thomas brought his nephew to the hospital to be operated on for a gun-shot wound. He was accidentally shot by James Anderson a ten-year old son of his. The boy is doing well.
Rev. I. Frierson is still the trusted employer of C. L. Bornist Hardware Company and is doing well.
Mr. T. E. M. Lewin, U. S. M. Mail Service at Columbia, S. C., passed through the city recently enroute to Fayetteville, N. C.
Rev. C. S. Scott, D. D., of Darlington, S. C. recently appointed District Superintendent of the Bennottville district, by the Annual Conference of South Carolina of the M. E. Church, is making a record, of which his friends are glad to refer.
He graduated from Avery Normal Howard University, college preparatory and University of South Carolina with honors and the degree of A. B. His diploma bears the signature of Wade Hampton, then Governor. He has taught for a number of years and was for many years principal of graded school in S. C. Mr. Paul Need still handles mail for 82 Northbound train at the A. C. L. station.
soon for Richmond, Va.
Quite a large number of scales passed through the baggage department of the A. C. L. R. R. Company recently. They were sent to different points by the U. S. Postoffice Department, with which to weigh the mail. Then this is leap year and young people are known to overdoze their letters affectionately. Hence the weighing comes off just in time. Among those seen on the streets Saturday, were Mrs. Julia E. Stephanson, Mrs. Evilyn Wilson, Miss Loona Mao Wobster, Mrs. Mable Dorgan and Mrs. Mable Dosler.
Miss Maude Tedder of Society Hill, S. C. has returned home. Miss C. E. Cyrus had closed her school at Lance, S. C., passed through the city recently enroute for Tumwater. Tumwater was a student at State College, class of 1913 and is doing well as a teacher.
LEESBURG, VA.
LEESBURG, VA.
Mrs. I. F. Green, after visiting
Mr. Drew Fletcher, who has been
very ill at Aldie, Va. She left for
her home, Pottstown, Pa.
Mr. R. E. Gray visited his cousin
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Helfma and
Mr. and Mrs. N. Corum returned to
Aldie, February 3rd.
At the Conference at the M. E.
Church Thursday night, we are told
they had a very nice banquet.
Wednesday night of last week Mr.
James A. Walker was elected to the
Conference at Richmond. Mrs. An-
nie Carter was his running mate.
He beats her by only six votes. Close
margin.
Mr. Wilson Jordan, of Phillips-
burg, Pa. departed this life in Chicago, where he was residing at the time of his death, at the age of 36
years. He leaves a wife, one child
and mother. Mrs. James Forman, of
Bellefont, Pa. to mourn their loss.
He was a devoted son.
Mr. Charles Manley, of Washington
spent the day in town Sunday.
Mr. Calverton Neal, of Alexandria was the guest of his father, Saturday Mrs. Henry Robinson and Mrs. William H. Roberts were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellis, of Swann Place, Washington, D. C. to attend the grand song pocalyx Wednesday evening, February 2nd, 1916, at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church. Fourteenth and Corcoran street, N. W., to hear Madam E Azolla Hackley and Miss Pauline James Lee, of Chicago, H. They reported a fine time.
EVANGELIST SKIPWITH STILL
SUCCESSFUL.
First Baptist Church, Rev W. T. Johnson, pastor. We are still in the midst of a great revival. Evangelist Skipwell is preaching and singing to
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REV. W. H. SKIPWITH
large and appreciative audiences every night. His tactics and "Skip withisman" are in keeping with the preaching of the gospel of today.
Men, women and children are processing faith in God at every service. Sunday next will be a great day. Rev. Skipwith will preach morning and night.
Communion at 3:00 o'clock P.M. All are cordially invited.
WEST POINT. VA.
Rev. Johnson preached for us Sunday.
Mr. Robert Hall dropped dead in the woods Thursday evening. Funeral today. Full details later.
Mrs. Dove Richardson, who is sick with the gripe, received a telegram telling of the death of her father at Brodax. Ms. Vau. Florence Morris was called home yesterday by the illness of her mother at Lester Manor.
Miss Sophonia Walker left here Sunday for Richmond.
Mr. Lewis Birdsong arrived here Monday from Emporia, Va.
Mrs. George Allen is on the sick list.
Rev. W. H. Harris was a guest of friends in town Monday.
Mrs. West is sick in the home of Mrs. Louisa Robins.
Mr. James Jackson is out again.
Mrs. Mattie Bennett, who has been sick for a week is no better.
Mr. Apple Randol is here from Baltimore.
Mr. Jessie Robinson. Mr. James Bradley and Mr. Dan Johnson left here Wednesday for New Jersey. Mrs. Mary Greasham, who has been indisposed for four days is better. Mrs. Sue Johnson was brought home, very sick from Baltimore.
Good class of Otis, who can do all kinds of house-work, are given in demand. Good wagon. Apply to MNJ, J. R. KIDDOCK, 1450 Loudoun Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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NEWPORT R. L. NOTES.
Mrs. Frances Hill died quietly of heart disease, Sunday at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. Brown. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Palmer, formerly of Baltimore. Md. Her funeral occurred Monday at two o'clock from her sister's residence. Rev. Whitten and Rev. H. N. Jetter officiated. The heroes of Jericho turned out in large numbers to pay their respects to their deceased sister. Mr. J. K. Jordan died January 5th at the Newport hospital.
the age of ninety. She was one of Mrs. E. Samson died Sunday, at the oldest members of the Mt. Zion Church. Hor funeral occurred Tuesday from the Church, Rev. Whitten officiating. The Henderson Lycuom is meeting with great success every Sunday afternoon at Odd Fellows Hall. Mr. Edward Dickens is president. Mrs. S. D. Gaines is confined to hor home with bronchial troubles. Mrs. Gaines was Mns Ella T. Turner before she was married to Mr. Gaines and was born in Richmond, Virginia.
Prophet Jeter.
Sun introducing Prophet Jeter as the above Missionary, February 12 14 and 15 at 10:30 A. M. over top of the City Hall clock until 4:30 P. M., second day until 2:30 P. M., third day until 4:30 P. M. Above choir opening up, "Amazing Sight the Saviour Stands, He Knocks at Every Door." Above choir sing the hymn closing on the third day, "High on the Bright Clouds, My God Shall Come. Bright Flames Prepare His Way, Fire and Darkness. Thunder and Storm load on the Dreadful Day." Rev. Jeter will join in with the Churches, then the sweet-bye and bye, will meet on the beautiful shore after which he will enter Church at 10:30 A. M., Bible in hand. Text, 136th Psalm, 8th verse.—Prophet Jeter.
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VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity
Court of the City of Richmond,
the 9th day of February, 1910.
Richetta Dodson.....Plaintiff
vs.
James H. Dodson.....Defendant
The object of this suit is to procure a divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of abandonment and desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant James H. Dodson is a non-resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here within fifteen days from the due publication of this order and do whatever he may be advised to be necessary to protect his interests herein.
A Copy,
Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk.
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