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NET RT. REV. L. J. COPPIN. D. D. RT. REV. L. J. COPPIN, D. D The Brilliant Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, now presiding over the Virginia Conference VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 21 LET US ON TO NORFOLK NO TIME TO HESITATE, EQUIVO CATE OR VACILLATE. The Work Calls for Peace, Harmony Aggressiveness, Victory. (W. F. Graham.) Comrades and co-workers of the Virginia Baptist State Convention: We are called by our gallant leader, A. A. Galvin, D. D., to assemble May the 10th, in the historic old Mother Church of Norfolk, Va. I hall with pleasure the appeals being made by our leaders, and God helping me. I shall be present. This should be a remarkable year with us; every member and every church should be in Bute Street Church by delegation on the morning of May the 10th. It is important that we have the largest delegation in the history of the Convention: the brethren from the mountains, rolling hills, plains, and valleys should come—a perfect love feast should be had. Why not? Since it is well-known that when the Virginia Baptist State Convention meets the brethron of education, of large churches, of special gifts and powers, meet on perfect equality with all those who pastor our churches, whether in the country, towns, or cities. We do not tolerate swell-bends, big Ikees, and smart Allecs—"we be brethren." --- The Virginia Baptist State Convention caught the right spirit when she RT. REV. L. J. C. The Brilliant Bishop of the A. M. the V. rginla mot in old Alfred Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, 1884. It was the spirit for the proper solution of the race question. Other Christian and philanthropic agencies as Godsmen blessings, were at work and are at work today doing their best to lift the race and denomination to higher planes of civilization. We respected appreciated and loved them; we do today, but long ago the Master of the universe, the Savior of our souls said "The kingdom is from within." The Negro race like all others, needs help and must necessarily be helped; but the noblest of all help is that from within—that which we of the Virginia Baptist State Convention define Self Help. Self Help encouraged and assisted by the friendly hands of others, lifts a race to the high plane of respectability which eventually into worthy compers: no race is worthy of a place on earth which does not seek equality in loftiness' capability, and accomplishments. Self Help brings consideration, sympathy, recognition, co-operation, and finally equality in manhood rights. The glorious objective may seem a long way off, but we of the Virginia Baptist State Convention have caught the vision and purpose to hold out to the end. Shall we give the battle up? Shall we prove unworthy? A thousand times not! We hear the voices of the fathers who started in this work, calling upon us to go forward. Doctors Henry Williams, Henry Madison, J. R. Smith, C. H. Phillips, Robert Johnson, Geo. W. Lee, Fields Cook, Gregory W. Hayman, R. P. Fox, R. H. Bowling, James Minor, and numbers of others, who are now in the glory land, are beheadling us as a cloud of wittiness. Shall we disapprove them? Shall we disapprove them? For there are still some of them left whose hearts yearn and ourn for the success of the work. Such head lights as Drs. Harvey Johnson, W. Bishop Johnson, Anderson Taylor, Nolson Jordan, J. H. Harvey, Bernard Tyrrell, L. W. Wales, T. H. Shorts, L. W. C. Metts, C. E. Miller, W. W. Brown, W. R. Brown, G. B. Howard, J. J. Jefferson, J. R. Paterson, Adolphus Humbles, R. C. Pannell, and W. F. Graham. What fruits have come to us since the beginning of our educational work in Lynchburg! We have live to see students graduate and take high positions in life: President of Virginia Baptist State Convention, A. A Galvin; second vice-president, S. A Mose; recording secretary, C. D Henderson; statistician, J. G. St. Clair Drake; corresponding secretary, T. H. White. President of Virginia Seminary, R. C. Woods; chairman of trustee board, J. H. Burkes. These are all graduates of Virginia Seminary. What might I say of other eminent men now pastoring large churches? Such as C. E. Jones, R.-L. Wynn, W. D. Woods, T. J. King, R. H. Bowling, R. W. Ashburn, W. T. Hall, C. C. Scott, J. M. Moses, W. B. Reed, R. W. Goff, L. C. Koister, C. A. Austin, and I might go on with a great list of other honored and successful men, fruits of our labors. Truly we have the right to feel proud. It must be remembered also that among the living comrades of those early days, none ranked higher than John. John Mitchell, Jr., editor of The Richmond Planet. Some of the most hori- battles that were ever fought for our principles, for our school, took place with him in front ranks. We are not going backward, the cry is "forward, march onward to Norfolk, Va." Let COPPIN, D. D. M. E. Church, now presiding over a Conference us raise the five thousand dollars called for by our noble president. What history shall we make in Norfolk? It must be a story of peace, work, money and a general love feast. No outside troubles or influences, no hypocritical effort for peace within the confines of the state that does not mean peace; we are on the high road of noblest principles, truest conquest, and safest goal for the welfare of our denomination and race. On to Norfolk KHORASSANS HOLD FORTH Mecca Temple, Knights of Khorasan was camping quietly by an oasis in the sandy desert last Tuesday night, dreaming of the time when the Camels roamed the hot sauds at will, and were easily milked—when in breached Votartia Crump, Jefferson and Taylor,—the big three. Speeches, sermons and philosophy flowed like water. The boys rolled up their sleeves and fought oratory to a finish. The appearance of Royal Visier John Mitchell, Jr. imbued the boys to less oratory and more "cat-a-tory," at which the big three excelled. After a talk by the R. V. the Temple decided to strike another camp at the Oasis, in North Third street. Tuesday night, April 18th. All the Past Chancellors in the city are invited. Special program and refreshments. Vernon Hill K. of P. Exercise. Vernon Hill, Va., March 30, 1916.—The Knights of Pythias lodges observed the anniversary Boro Sunday March 30th, 1916. Pence and her many proviled. J. H. Martin, D. D. G. C. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916 VIRGINIA A. M. E. CONFERENCE IN SESSION BISHOP L. J. COPPIN HERE-REV. DR. R. C. RANSOM'S GREAT EFFORT-FINE BANQUET-REV. DR. RANKIN SPEAKS, TOQ. The fifthth session of the Virginia Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church convened here last Tuesday, morning at the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church, with Right Rev. L. J. Coppin, D. D. presiding. Delegates came in all day Monday. The arrangements had been made for their reception and with but little delay, they were sent to their homes. The introductory exercises took place Monday night at the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church. WELCOME ADDRESSES Addresses were delivered by Rev W. H. Stokes, D. D.; Rev. A. Hector D. D.; Dr. Wm. H. Smith. Scriptures were read by Rev. E. M. Mitchell and prayer offered by Rev. J. C. Stephenson. Bishop L. J. Coppin responded. After the exercises, which had been cultivated by selection, by the choir, tickets were fanned to the guests, and all retired to the lecture room below, where covers for two hundred persons had been laid. The guests were delighted and the committee was plummed on the excellence and promptness of the service. A GRAND RECEPTION It was after midnight before the last word was said. Although it was raining, the attendance was large. Rev. George D. Jimmerson, D. D., delivered the annual sermon from Rev. 19th chapter and the 12th, 13th, and the first part of the 4th verses. He delivered a powerful discourse. The reports made, disclosed the fact that $5,000 had been collected for the Dollar Money Fund, which exceeded the amount collected last year by about $250.00. LEADING MEN SPEAK The Conference convened Wednesday morning with Bishop L. J. Coppin presiding Rev. W. R. Howerton, of Suffolk, Va., secretary; Rev. L. D. Berry and Rev. J. H. Rose, assistant secretaries. After the reading of the minutes, visitors were introduced. It was a rare treat. Rev. S. J. Lowe, manager of the publishing house at Philadelphia, made an impassioned address Thursday morning. He declared, that he had succeeded in placing the publishing department upon its feet. He had purchased a new press at a cost of $2,000. He had also placed an order for a linotype machine. WOULD OPPOSE A REMOVAL He declared that there would be no surrender on his part at the General Conference. He, would oppose any attempt to remove the publishing house from Philadelphia. Rev. Dr. Lowe was evidently wrought up as he depicted the many troubles he had undergone for Methodism. He was followed by Rev. Reverdy, C. Ransom, the brilliant editor of the A. M. E. Church Recipes. For about thirty minutes, he electrified the audience. He declared that while the A. M. E. REV. S. S. MORRIS Pastor of the Third Street Bethel A. M. B. Church. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. THE THIRD STREET BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH At which the Virginia Conference is now in session Christian Recorder was the oldest race publication in the country, being 57 years old, the A.M.E. Church Review was the oldest magazine being 32 years old. THE FIKST PROTESTANT CHURCH He declared that the A M E Church was the first Protestant Church born on American soil Richard Allen in Philadelphia had declared the doctrine of equality of manhood and womanhood in the Church of God today. He described conditions in this country with reference to the colored people, both socially and politically. He declared that THE THIRD STREET BE At which the Virginia Cont the colored people were like the dove sent out of the ark by Neah—the first dove. They could not find a landing place. He discussed the attitude of the political parties and of the present administration. We must stand up and contend for our rights, regardless of the present unfavorable conditions. A PLEA FOR SUPPORT He made a plea for the support of the A. M. E. Church Review. He was followed by Editor John Mitchell, Jr., to whom he had referred in glowing language during the course of his remarks. Mr. Mitchell paid a most complimentary tribute to Bishop L. J. Coppin, whom he had known for almost a lifetime. He extended an invitation to the Conference to visit the Planet Office and the Mechanics Savings Bank. His admiration for the A. M. E. Church and its work was a feature. OTHERS INTRODUCED Rev. J. W. Rankin, D. D.; Rev. T. J. King, D. D., and others were introduced. There is a large attendance and the citizens here are doing all in their power to make the stay of the visitors here pleasant. THURSDAY NIGHT'S MEETING The public session of the Virginia Conference of the A. M. E. Church last Thursday night was so well attended that many were unable to secure admission, either in the gallery or on the main floor. The Fifth St. Baptist Church Choir. Mr. Joseph Matthews, leader, rendered the music, much to the edifice of Right (Continued on Page 8, Column 2) DR. COWAN HERE. Dr. C. S. Cowan, the Dentist, has fitted up fine offices in the Mechanics Savings Bank building, where he is now ready to serve the public at reasonable rates and satisfactory service. Card of Thanks Mrs Mary Rowe Logan and Mrs Pearl B. Rowe wish to thank the many friends for their kindness and services during the illness and death of their mother, Mrs E. H. Rowe which occurred March 30, 1916. ETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH conference is now in session. Passed Away. The funeral of Mrs. Ella H. Rowe took place last Sunday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She had been ailing for a long time. She passed away quietly Thursday night at 10 o'clock. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. William H. Stokes, the pastor, after the conclusion of the regular morning services. His text was from John 10:14. "I am the Good Shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine." The specific part of the sermon was based upon, "and am known of mine." The Ebenezer Baptist Church choir sang, "Abide With Me." "My Hope Is Built On Nothing Lean." was also sung by the choir. Prayer was offered by Dengon Bland. "Come Ye, Disconsolate" was another selection sung. The floral designs were numerous. Mrs. Rowe's daughters, Miss Pearl Rowe, Mrs. Mary Logan, Mr. Harold Rowe, of New York, and Mr. Berkley Rowe, of Philadelphia, attended the funeral. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery. The. pall-bonors were: Active—Messas, P. H. Ford, D. J. Farar, James A. Wilson, Peter Shackleford, W. S. Cowan, C. M. Kemp, Honorary—Samuel P. Brown, G. Wise Ellis, R. H. Hill, James H. Smith. The funeral of Albert King took place at the same time, with Funeral Director A. D. Price in charge of both. Miss Louise Parsons departed this life March 21, 1916, 6 P. M., at her father's residence, David Parsons, 1017 Catherine Street. EDITOR MITCHELL'S TRAVELS ST. LOUIS AND ITS ATTRACTIONS ON TO FISK UNIVERSITY AN AUTOMOBILE RIDE. That Saturday afternoon, I spent the time looking out of the car window, reading magazines in the observation car and in observing Miss Gladys and her needle work, as she whilied the hours away. I detected no race prejudice among the passengers. They treated our presence as a matter of course, and we were content. There are many fine orchards in this section of the West. Mining camps may be seen, and Sunday work is recognized as essentially necessary to progress. A PECULIAR SIGHT Oh, it was a peculiar sight to see the men and women engaged in their daily avocations. When night came that Saturday I welcomed it. We had visited the dining car and had paid the price. Then darkness settled down like a curtain and the train rumbled on over valley and dale across rivers and plains, through villages and cities, while we were all unmindful of it. Our time was changing, too. Out on the Coast, we have Pacific time, which is one hour slower than Mountain time, and we were on our way to Kansas City, where we would get Central time. AT JEFFERSON CITY I went to bed that night, feeling that on the morrow, I would be rested Continued on Page Four Mr. Braxton Rodgers of Graham Wav called on us this week Miss Anne M. Varnish on the Nor- th Irish border, and the advent of this week Mr. James H. Shaffle agent for the Penfield is appointed at his residence L13 N. 24th Street Roy Shaffle H. Whitley D. D. of Oldham Park, Varnish on the city street of Norfolk, H. Turner home last Welsh street Mr. L. Mackenzie in connection with the Norfolk Wav called on the Supreme Club, member of the Society of Oldham Mr. and Mr. P. T. Knox of Good Walton street, Northwich Pa are repelling over the advent of a beautiful bourne of babies. The mother and baby are dashing into Mrs. Knox as formerly Mrs. Miss Moe of Old Manchester Monster Roost! All concerts Charnes Cameron White violin Hampton Quartette, violin singer, Henry Lee Grant, pianist all three in one night City Auditorium. Wed messy night, April 26, at 8:15. Admission 25, 35 and 50 cents. Tickets on sale at Fortey Company and Bragg Bros real estate office Announcement Dr C S Cowan. Dentist, announces the opening of his dental office April 5th in the Mechanics Saving Bank Building, Third and Clay St. Rooms 308-9, third floor. Phone Randolph 2266 Rev. Cobbs Preaches in Petersburg and Norfolk, Va. Rev. C. A. Cobba; 914 Center St. Richmond, Va., preached in Petersburg but Sunday morning to a very large congregation in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, of which Rev. Ell Tartte is pastor. Boarding the train from this city, Rev. Cobba preached Sunday night in Norfolk, Va. in the Jerusalem Baptist Church of which Rev. A. Hobbs is pastor. Rev. Hobbs was formerly pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Rev. Cobba is a young man of great spiritual ability. MISS NANNIE, H. HURROUGHS SPEAKS H. KERE. Miss Nannle H. Burroughs, of Washington, D.C., delivered a humorous and instructive lecture last Monday night at the Fifth Street Baptist Church to a large and appreciative audience. She was introduced by Rev. T. J. King, D. D. Although the admission she was fifteen cents, the lower part of the main auditorium was occupied to its capacity. She will hardly ever lack for an audience to the city. "PRESCIENCE." As we journey over life's pathway, It we'll ever post this creed. "All men are created equal." So that he who runs may read And then do our duty over. As along the road we plod. Truly, shortly. "Ethiopia" Shall stretch forth her hand to God Robert D. Crawley AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION The Independent Order of St Luke has purchased a New National automobile for use in rural work. It is a six-cylinder car and enables the officials to visit country districts, not accessible to railroad lines. It is reported that the new method of travel has proven a success thus far. --- THE CLOSING OF A SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL First Baptist Church, Dr. 25 Binga Pastor. A spiritual wave is still in our midst for two weeks. Rev. W. H. Skipwith, a profound Gospel preacher and singer has been holding large audiences spell-bound listening to his logical sermons and soul-stirring songs. This alone puts our brother in a class by himself. He sings as well as he preaches. Then, he is not a grafter after money. He leaves it entirely with the pastor officers and members. No one ought to take the advantage of him in this, but it should appeal to every pastor and church who needs the help of an evangelist. Thus far there have been 120 conversions. Our brother will preach his farewell sermon Sunday night, and leave for Montgomery, Alabama Monday. God bless our Brother Skipwith. He'll prove a great blessing to any church. Services at First Presbyterian On Sunday April 2nd, at the First Presbyterian Church the pastor, Rev A. A. Hester ordained and installed the following persons: T E Archee as Ruling Elder, J W Foster and W Mallow as Descendants, Bertha E Hester, Cora N Lyle, Nathane Frazer, Arling Meller, Lacie White and Lerma Moore as Descendants. Little Doves Auxiliary Celebrate Third Anniversary The Lady's Annalyrs of the Litton Tower Olive Lodge Club No 1 collec- tured in Third anniversary Sunday April 2 at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Rev T J King D D, pa- tior, preached a very fine sermon. Which was applauded. Music was turned in by the Fifth Street Baptist Church Choir Mrs Catherine Ral- low presided and Mrs Mary Wit- shot, secretary Union League Business Club Makes Rand Progress Dr. Union League Business Club of South Richmond is meeting with great success. Their meetings are held regularly every week and the latest topics pertaining to business methods are discussed to great advantage. They have also added a new feature to their club, known as the Savings' Department and when Christmas times roll around many hearts are made glad and many souls rejoice to know through small savings what great sums of money are derived. Occasionally refreshments are served the visitors, at which time short speeches and side-cracking jokes are indulged in to while away the time. The officers are: Joseph Woolridge President, Wm. Anderson, Vice President, John Jasper Logan, Secretary, L. E. Pleasants, Assistant Secretary, R. H Branch, Treasurer, Lee Holmes, Chaplain, George W. Lewis, Sergeant-at-Arms. With such an able and efficient corps of officers the club is destined to become a powerful factor in the community. ```markdown ``` SPECIAL NOTICE. To our friends and patrons Dr. Roscoe C. Brown and the S. W. Robinson, Jr. announce the opening of a Real Estate, Loan, Insurance and Brokerage office on April 4, 1916 under the firm name of Brown and Robinson, in the St. Luke Bank Building, First and Marshall Streets. It shall be our practice to give good, prompt and confidential advice, and service to our patrons, and to take personal interest in general conditions and affairs of the community as well as in the affairs of business. See regular and classified announcements in other editions of this paper. ```markdown ``` SYNOP818. Mary Page, actress, is accused of the murder of James Pollack and is defended by her lover, Philip Langdon. Pollack was intoxicated. At Mary's trial she admits, she had the revolver. Her male testifies that Mary threatened Pollack with violence and Mary is the man implicates Langdon. How Mary disappeared from the scene of the crime is a mystery. Brandon tells of a strange hand print he saw on Mary's shoulder. Further evidence shows that horror of drink produces temporary insanity in Mary. The defense is "repressed psychosis." With the help of a psychiatrist, the toxicated father and her father's nurse Nurse Walton describes the kidnapping of Mary by Pollack and Amy Burton tells of Mary's struggles to become an actress and Pollack's pursuit of her. There is evidence that Daniels, Mary's manager, threatened Pollack. Mary fails on the stalmant and then her whisky. Daniels testifies that Pollack threatened to kill Mary and Langdon and actually attempted to kill the latter. . IN THE ALLEY WITNESS room, like an ocean liner, begets strange friendships in its enforced intimacy, and also has this in common with the great ships, that those who come on deck only toward the close of a stormy passage, find themselves unreasonably ostracized by their fellow passengers who have been daily sharing the excitement of the voyage. Thus the three newcomers among the witnesses in the trial of Mary Page were left sitting privately on a bench close to the door while the in-congruous but friendly group of those who had already testified stood near the window. ```markdown ``` The trio themselves were oldly com- glomerate—a hurry man in what were obviously his best clothes, with a col- lar a size too small and a bursum wom- an whose flushed face looked out from under a marvelous purple bonnet. Her hands were encased in very large white cotton gloves and she held back her skirts aggressively from contact with the short and elaborate gown of the over-laced, tired-looking woman whose face was pasty with powder and hard with rouge. All of the witnesses, for that matter, from the little bell-hop to Mrs. Page herself, surveyed this last corner with disapproval; and Amy declared sin- cinctly that if "Mr. Langdon put THAT on the witness stand it would be GOOD NIGHT" Langdon, however, greeted her with a warmth that more than overbalanced their chilliness, and his welcome to the other man and woman was equally enthusiastic. To him, the presence of those three was a triumph. It meant that he had succeeded where the police had failed, and that he had still another surprise to spring upon the jury in this most astounding trial. Some hint of all this crept into his tone lending it a new, almost bishop note, when, at the beginning of the day's proceedings, he rose and said: "Your Honor, and Gentlemen of the Jury: Ever since the beginning of this trial one point has remained a mystery. The state has admitted its inability to offer evidence on this most ed subject, and therefore I crave the indulgence of the court to digress from direct proceedings this morning, to show you where and how Mary Page spent those hours between the death ```markdown ``` "That would be good night!" of James Pollock and her surrender to the law on the following morning! "What!" The startled exclamation was wring involuntarily from the District Attorney as he half rose from his hair, but it was drowned in the air of excitement that swept through the entire room. For this had indeed been a mooted question and a decidedly more point with the Prosecutor—the whenabouts of Mary during those hours immediately following the murder. "Miss Pace," continued Langdon when the Judge's gavel had rested earlier, "did not bewilder know exactly what was happening. As always follows an attack of repressed psychology, so mind of the culture was like that if a patient coming out of other a path of reactivation and a attempt of high generalization." 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 not until now that I have succeeded in pleasing together the story of that night, and I shall call as my first witness, Kate O'Neill." Praved to be the buxom woman in the purple bonnet who gave her age as "round about thirty-five" and her occupation as "a cook, and a good one" to the delighted amusement of the spectators. "Miss O'Neill," said Langjon after the preliminary questions, "you say you are a cook. Where were you last employed?" "In the boardlin'house of Mrs. Watson," she answered with a strong Hibernian accent. "And the very could divil of a job it was, too." "That is on the same street as the Hotel Republic, is it not?" "Sure! and it's but two doors away, and what wad wid the dunce' and the music goln' on there, and the phonograph at the 'Club back,' its never a quiet moment we had the whole night through." "But your duties at the boarding-house kept you up pretty late, anyway, didn't they?" "Sure am' they did then. What with hot broad two days a week, and me cake-bakin', I set up every night till 'most cock-crow.'" "Now, Kate." Langdon's voice was very friendly, almost coaxing, in fact. "I want you to tell me if you ever went out into the alley or street that ran back of the boarding-house late at night." "Go on wild you!" she retorted, brilling. "Didn't, I tell you that." "I know you told me, but I want you to tell the court. You had a friend who was watchman for the block, didn't you? Denny by name." "He was not me friend, he was me friend," she responded with dignity "And some nights when it would be cold and I had made myself a cup of hot tea or maybe coffee. I would take a bit out to Denny. It's weary work watching houses in the dark" "Of course your mistress knew noth ing of this?" "Sure, and what would I tell that could snopin' divil for? It weren't none of her business?" "On the night when James Pollack was shot in the Hotel Republic, you had been up late, had you not?" "Yes, sor. I had not the dough for bakin', and seem' as how the fire was hot, I thought I fix up a bite for Den ny when he made his rounds." "Will you tell us please, what you saw when you went to the back gate with the or bite for Denny?" "Well, then, it was this way. I shlipped out and opened the gate, just a bit at a time, for sometimes it would get the owl Nick. In it and squeak for all the lard we put on it, and I took a look out for Benny. There was a man standin' in the shadows so near I could have put my hand on him, but I knows it wasn't my man by reason of the narrer shoulders, so I stood waitin' for him to move on." "Did he seem to be watching for anyone?" "Yes, son. He was starin' up at the Hotel Republic, and I thought he was watchin' a man who was on the fire escape. Then I decided it weren't a man I saw, but just a shadder, and suddenly a young lady, all dressed up in eventi clothes, climbs out of a winder and starts down the fire escape and the man says, 'Thank Gawd!' She was slow enough." "Were you hear enough to recognize the young lady?" "Not then, no sir. All I could see was the shimmer of her dress and the light on her face when she passed the winders. She was walthin' kind of queer and unsteady, like as though she might have been drunk or slick, and when she reached the street she just stood there dazed. She had no coat nor hat and she was drawn in her breath like a bit of a childer that's been cryin'." "Did the man who was waiting speak to her?" "Yes. He said, 'Where in I have you been?' I been waitin' a good half hour. And believe me, this alley is no cozy corner to lounge in.' But the girl didn't answer him. She just leaned against a wall and moaned like. At that he took hold of her arm and shook it and told her not to git cold feet, that he had it all fixed to git away safe. He called her Sadie, but she didn't seem to recognize the name and she wouldn't go with him. Then he took hold of her and dragged her along right past me, so near I could have touched her." "Were you close enough to recognize her then?" "Yes, sor." "Was it the defendant, Mary Page?" "It was, sor. Though she looked terrible sick and different, and there was an awful lookin' brushe on her shoulder like somebody had hurt her bed." "Could you see where they went?" "Yes, nor. Sure and I slipped out the gate, and followed them a bit to see where they would go. But they stopped just beyond me on the alley and the man gives a whistle. Just three notes, like it might have been the echo of the band at the hotel, but somebody was latex'ed for it, and I heard a windler go up in one of the houses across the way. "At that the man sings out in a whisper, I not find 'some here, let it THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Copyright. 1915, by McClure Publication Town quick'. Then I saw something comin' down like a bit of white on the end of a rope, and I could hear it slap, slapping the side of the house as it hit" "Could you see what it was?" "Not then, son, except that it was something on the end of a rope." "Did the man say anything that you could hear, to the girl Miss Page?" "Yes, he said, Larry is up there. He's all right, but don't blab too much. A. "Then I looks up and I saye nix, he's a gumshoe crook." "Then I looks up and I saye nix, he's a gumshoe crook." and don't give him a peep at the shiners. Keep close till I git back. I won't be long. At that the girl seemed to wake up as if she was comin' out of a dream, and she clutched at his arm and began to cry, "James" she says, "James Pollock." And the man he laughs "So that's what's entitle you, is it he says, 'Well, forget it. My Gawd, you ain't guilty just because you was in the hotel. They can't connect it up with you. I give you my word, 'Oh, thank God, thank God,' she whispers and begins to cry harder than ever, and the man shook her again. 'Cut out the water works,' he says angrily, and get into the seat, unless you want the bulls to pull you in." "What did he mean by 'this seat?' Could you see?" "Yes, sir. The rope that the man had let down had a port of a swing at the end of it, and he made the girl sit in that, then he whistled again and the other man pulled her up and she disappeared in a whisper. "What did the man do?" "He waited till she was gone, then he went on down the street and round the corner. Then I saw Denny come up the other way and I went to meet him, and I found he had been watching too. That was why I could see him when I came to the gate." "That is all, thank you, Miss O'Neill," said Langdon, but the Judge beamed forward with an arresting gesture. "And having seen all this," he said harbily, "didn't you read the papers the next morning? Didn't you see that a girl was missing, or connect her in any way with the occurrences you had witnessed?" "Well, I didn't sayin' but what I had my suspicions," she admitted readily. "Then why didn't you tell someone?" "Huh!" she retorted. "And let that could divil of a Mrs. Watson know I was meeth' Denny and maybe given him a bite, and lose me job!" I guess not. "Then why," persisted his Honor, have you told now? "Sure, and it's me that's been' married this week, yer Honor, and I am after lavin' Mrs. Watson last Saturday," she said amid a stiff gale of mirth from spectators and jury alike. Even the prosecutor smiled, waiving his right to cross examine, for the moment at least; and Langdon, with a cheery and encouraging not towards Mary, called the second of his three new witnesses. "Denna Gallagher." Denny, whose collar seemed to have shrunk to even more forturing tightness during the interim of waiting, took his place on the stand with a face the hue of his dances' bonnet, and cleared his throat noisily between each sentence as if the linen band about his neck were somehow pressing his vocal chords. He was, he admitted, a private watchman who had most of the block near the Hotel Republic, and he usually paid a visit to the back gate of the Watson boarding-house once or twice during the course of his rounds. He verified all that the buxom cook had already told, since he himself had watched proceedings from a dark corner a little further along the alley, but his account was amplified and more definite as to detail. "Did you," asked Langton, "know who resided in the house into which the girl was lifted by means of the rope awing?" "I did, sor," he answered. "It was Barkers, the gimblin place, you know, sor. They key it dark in the back and in the front, but it was bright enough inside, begorra." "Were you watchman for that building?" "No, sor. They had their own man to keep an eye out for the bulb, but it was that very suit that they were padded. Tim, the padded suit at the corner, had Whed me up to it only an hour before. "Stick around. Denny," says he. "there'll be big doin' soon. They're goln' to raid Barker's." he be, and I'll bet we pull a few big bugs, or my name is mud." "So I was kind of hangin' around waitin' when I see this other fellow posted in the alley. First off, I see he's a plain clothes man. Then I look at his feet and I says mix, he's a gumshoe crook, and then the girl comes down the fire escape." "When the girl had disappeared into Barker's, what did you do?" "I joined Katie and says to her, said I, it's goin' to be a big night, and that girl has jumped out of the fryin' pan into the fire." And beginn' sor, I'd no more than said it, then I heard the signal blow and saw the bluecorns marchin' up the alley and across the street at the end surroundin' the place. "Good night to Barkers," says I, and we watched 'em batter in the door and march up stairs. It was then that I felt the other man tuggle at me arm." "The other man?" It was more an exclamation than a question and Dennis nodded. "Sure the feller that had been stand- in' some place in the shadows. 'Wot are the perilice after?' he says all hoarse like. 'Who are they lookin' for —the girl?' 'Not oil your life,' says I, 'they're raidin' Barker's. 'Barker's' says he, as if he'd never heard of the place. I-I-thought the trouble was in the hotel. I-I-heard a shot. Then,' says I, 'you've got one on me, for with all these nutty mobiles hungin' about, the man that knil tell a bullet from a tree has some chars. 'You're right,' says he, 'it was probably a tire. And he laughs; then he shunk away, as if he didn't like the perilice even if they weren't doin' anything but raid a gam- bin joint." "Can you describe that man?" "Yes, for the police had run up the shades and we could see right into Barker's place. Then I seen the girl again." "Do you mean Miss Page?" "Yee, sir, teniswise. I suppose it was her. She was standin' with her hands over her face, and one of the policemen jerks 'em down and turns to another one and says, says he, 'Is this the girl?' I could hear plain even down in the street, but the other ball seemed puzzled. It looks like it might be, he says, 'especially the glad tags, but she ain't got Maggie's ear tugs.' Then he grabs the girl by the arm and says, "Wo? your name?" But she didn't answer, just means, and at that he laughs and says, "Playin' him, oh!? Same old game. Now I'm dead sure you are Maggie's Hide that term around the restaurants and books the snorkers. Well, if you won't talk to us, you can tell it to the judge." And with that he marches her a way where we couldn't see her." "Just a minute, Mr Gallagher" interrupted Langdon - "Let's return to that fatish man in the aby. Did he come up the street with the police?" "No, sir. He was along side me by that time." "Then he came from the other end of the street." "Dennis caught his head." "Not as scratched out, he admitted." "Not as I seen, so he admitted "Would you have seen him bad he come from the corner below of the Hotel Republic?" Langdon's where was at bright with eager excitement and the spirit of it swept through the court room in a shivering whistle. "Yes, I don't know myself comin' from either end of the street. I alluded when I stood at the gate with Kate, for there is a big light they have to pass under and you can see them plain as plain." "One moment," Langdon swung about to the court clerk. "Read out the testimony of Kate. Noell beginning with the question, 'Did he seem to be watching for someone.'" "Question. Did he come to be watching for someone?" Answer. Yes, sir. He was starting up at the Hotel Republic, and I thought he was watching a man who was on the fire escape. Then I decided it wasn't a man that I saw but just a shadow, and suddenly a young lady all dressed up in it. "That will do, thank you," interrupted Langdon. "Now, Mr. Gallagher, if that was a man when Miss O'Neill saw on the fire escape, would you have seen him come down?" "No, sor, I wasn't looking at the hotel." "But that is the one place he could have come from when he joined you, isn't it?" "No, sor. There's a servants' entrance to the hotel, just under the fire escape. He might have been someone from the hotel." "Did he look like a wander? What sort of a suit did he have on?" "A check one, sir, and a roll tie." "Did you see anyone else while you were standing there?" "Yes, sir. Me and Katie saw some people put their heads out of a windy in the hotel, then presently a policeman starts down the fire escape and Katie says, says she, 'Let's get in the kitchen; I don't want to be mixed up in this.' And I says, 'Me neither. Besides, a cup of hot coffee will set me up after the excitement; so we went in.' "That is all, thank you, Mr. Gallagher." But now the Prosecutor was on his feet. "Mr. Gallagher," he said sharply, "having seen all this, didn't you realize that you should have testified to it before the police?" "I didn't connect it with the murder of this man Pollock," said Gallagher in some indignation. "And I took it for granted the police had got all the evidence they wanted on Banker's place." "And may one say," said the prosecutor with headed sweetness, "just what influence was brought to bear to make you tell this story today." "Well, you see," said Gallagher, smoothed no sarcasm or crescent. "I was like this. When I ooey ooey to the house Kaffe gifs mail at their questions and she says she was abed and asleep. Then a few days ago along comes a young feller selling a thing to lift the covers off of blink' pots. He came to the back gate and he talks to Kate, till she says she don't be wantin' one, because she's leavin' of a Saturday to gift married. Then he kids her a bit about he bots she marryin' a policeman, so she tells him who I am. Then he gets talkin' about this affair, and he has the night's doin' so mixed up Kate she corrects him. He bots her a hat she's wrong; she says she kin prove it all by me. And so she does; but then another young feller comes around and says so how we can help a young lady and clear up a lot of trouble if we tell it in court. And begorn, Kate got her hat at that!" A shout of laughter rang through the court, and the Prosecutor sat down, far more disconfirmed than he would admit. It was such a simple subterfuge. The back gate padder with his packet of goods—and the police of course blundering in and bullying. His respect for Langdon not only as a man but as a lawyer was growing, and in the back of his mind there hovered a black phantom—the mysterious man in the checked suit who had been in the alley. Had Langdon this man up his sleeve? He frowned and shifted the papers on his desk unnately, then looked up with a start of surprise as the door of the witness room opened to admit the thunderstorm gowned woman with the heart and tired eyes. She gave her name as Agnes Keenan, but when the question came to her occupation, she stared straight ahead of her with a sort of grim humor, then shrugged her thin shoulders. "None," she said with the initiation of an English accent. "I live on my income." The crowd grinned, but Langdon fushed, and his voice was a little hard as he said quietly. "I am sorry, Miss Keenan, to have to ask you such a question, but were you not an occupant of a cell in the Fifth Street police station on the night of the raid of Barber's gambling rooms? "I was." Her tone was more quiet now. "I had failed to come across, and having had a drop too much I sussed the sergeant, and he looked me up to cool off. "Had you a cell to yourself?" "Well, at first I thought it was a private room, but 5 little later they shoved a girl in. "Was that girl the defendant, Mary Page? "It was. But she looked some differ." A. "And that girl was Mary Page?" ent then. She was all dressed up in an evening gown, and hold it even a clock. I wondered what was up and tried to make her talk, but she seemed boney. I thought it was the third I was at first, but when I found out she was plain batty. I got armed and called the guard. But he only cursed me out, so I got hold of her hands and tried to make her step crying in that queer fashion. After a bit she began to talk. It was another ent at first, about James, and the big house, and she was not Saddle or Maggie. Then she seemed to come to herself and asked who I was and where she was." "But she remains same and conscious after that?" "Not at first. She trembled then she tinkled sandals. Finally she quieted down, and when I said that I was sure to get off first thing in the morning, she asked me if I would take a note to her lawyer. And I said I would. "Did you ask her her name?" "No." She smiled at me half whimily, half bitterness. "It didn't elope to ask inmates under the inmate tapes, but I said as it was the first time, the best thing to do was to say nothing till she had a lawyer to tell the talking for her." "Who was the note she gave you addressed to?" The question seemed to surprise her. "Why, you know," she stunned, then laughed. "Okay, I forged. I told in the court. The note was addressed to." to Mr. Philip Landon, and I took it straight to him. Then him and me bent it back to the police station and he had a conference with the Magistrate. Then he shook my hand and thanked me like a gentleman, and that's all." "One moment, Miss Keenan. You say that Miss Fige would become sane, and then would lapse into delirium' again. Did she mention, any particular incident—or ask you any strange questions?" "Yes. Once she said, 'He acts funny for a man who has just put on a successful play.' Then suddenly she set up and grabbed me and cried, 'Was it blood or—was it just a red necktie—I saw it—' And I said, 'You saw it where?' And she said—sane as she could be. 'It was the other man outside I couldn't see his face—just the red—' Then she began to cry and went off again into delirium, or whatever you call it. Next time she opened her eyes, she asked if I knew whether James Pallock was dead or if she had dreamed it, and I said so far as I knew James was about the livest thing I'd 15 "She was all dolled up." "Did she make any other mention of the man with the red tie?" "No. Wign, I asked her, she said it was a blur, but it would come back to her--she was sure of that. Someone else would have seen it too." "That is all." began Langdon, and broke off in a disappointment. There was a competition in the back of the room and a man stood up, raising one hand as if about to speak. His face was nasty, his jaw dropped. Then as suddenly as he had arisen he dropped back out of sight into his chair. It was James. [To be continued.] My father each year cooped out his own prompt books, or had them copied, and then wrote in his most recent additions. I have many such prompt books with most minute notes and directions. When I produced "Our American Cousin," nearly thirty years after his death, these manuscripts were so perfect that I had no difficulty in recalling every movement of all the characters. My father's genius was indeed the genius of infinite paths. I have lent him relate to the little ship he used in his gait in Dundeey organized simply from his hide of trying to keep in step with my mother as they walked up and down at the back of the stage including their buses. The skip and the stutter and other business grew and grew from performance to performance. An Jefferson says in his "Life" the character of Dutheary gradually pushed all the other characters out of the play. From "My Rememberances" by Edward J. Southern in Southern Magazine. Safe Refuge "Say, Philadelphia is the only city which is famous from leap year proposals." "Why so?" Because a fellow can plead it is the city of brotherly love—Baltimore American GOVERNOR BRAMBURG, issued a pro- clamation flying Friday, April 14, and Friday, April 15, as the sealing author days in Portsmouth. He urges a general objection. To Double Number of Military Cadets The national defense program waives a temporary stage when the two passed Sunday. Senior cadets will double the number of cadets at the West Point Military Academy. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR qtlet winter clear, $2.99/2 lb. $5.99 GLOEK RYE FLOUR Steady, per liter $2.99 WHEAT qtlet No. 2 rot, $1.49 147 CORN straddle No. 2 yellow, 70 70k OATS quint. No. 2 white, berry 51c. POULTRY Live steadily, June 19c. old potatoes, 12 lb. Dress- steady, chowls, 21c. oil preparation BUTTER firm Fanny (mainly) 40c. per lb. EGGS steadily Selected 27/29/29 nearby, 25c. berry, 25c. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO. HOGS—10-14 hr. 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Located to Creeks, 6:05 P. M. Arrive Richmond from Norfolk* 11:40 A. M. 6:05 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 11:50 P. M. From M. 9:00 P. M. 11:50 P. M. M. **** 40 P. M. 6:15 P. M. 9:00 P. M. *Daily* **Daily** attend Sunday *Daily* **Daily** attend Sunday **Sunday only** W. H. BREVIL, W. H. CAVANDEER, W. H. CAVANDEER ATLANTIC COAST LINI ATLANTIC COAST LINI THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH (Effective January 5, 1916) For Petrolersg. 12 50 A. M. 0 15 A. M. 9 15 A. M. 9 00 A. M. 9 55 A. M. 1 00 P. M. *4 00 P. M. *4 10 P. M. M. 5 55 P. M. M. 6 25 P. M. 9 25 P. M. 11 50 P. M. P. M. 9 25 P. M. Fayetteg. *4 00 P. M. For Hepaticsg. 5 15 A. M. *1 15 P. M. *3 24 P. M. 9 15 P. M. Trains, garages, railways daily. 4 25 A. M. 7 00 A. M. 9 15 A. M. 6 15 A. M. 9 37 A. M. 11 40 A. M. *2 10 P. M. *2 10 P. M. 6 17 P. M. P. M. *2 10 P. M. *2 10 P. M. *6 17 P. M. P. M. *2 10 P. M. *2 10 P. M. *6 17 P. M. Line of arrival and departure and connection guidance! THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Trains leave Richmond; Main Street Station Schedule figures not guaranteed. For the South—Jaffrey 3:30 P M; peak: 10:30 A. M.; express, parker buffet car 6 P M; e. m. express with observation sleeping car for Atlanta 11:15 P M; e. m. sleeping car open 9 P M; e. m. sleeper car for Kendall and Chase City sweet days Omaha River Lay 5:10 P M; Steamer Train, except Sunday, according to Baltimore (Parlor car) traffic; according to M. D. daily, local. Trains arrive at Reston Railroad 7:45 P A. M and 6:00 A. M; 8:50 P M; 8:30 P M; daily, 10:10 A. M; except Sunday, West Point Point 8:10 P M; except Monday, 9:10 P M; E. M. Main St., Phone Main St. 72 CHESAPEAKE & OHIO SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH Southland train scheduled to leave Richmond daily 9 A.M. local to Norfolk; 12 P.M. P. sleepers and coaches to Jacksellville, Atlanta, Brevengham; 6 P.M. M., through coaches and sleepers to Atlanta; 12 P.M. M., through coaches 12 P.M. 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ESTABLISHED 1880 ADAMS AND BROAD PAGE FOUR Published every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. Ell North Fourth St., Richmond, Va. All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Interest at the Post Office at Richmond, Va. must be claimed matter. The Crisis for April contained an admirable summary of the facts in the trouble now existing in the National Baptist Convention. Its deductions and conclusions drawn are about the best we have seen written upon that subject. That it is particularly impartial hardly admits of a question. It does not take sides and it does not express an opinion as to the merits of the case further than to say, "This is a factional right, with something of right, and something of wrong on either side." THE CRIME IN NOTTOWAY COUNTY You may say what you will be a brighter day is dawning for the colored people of Virginia, when the Chief Executive of this State, Hos Henry C Snyder, the Mayor of Blackstone, Va., the Sheriff of Nottsway County, City Snyder J B Ennock of Petersburg, and Sinnard Wain W Snydon, backed up by their deputies and the conservative white and colored sentiment of the commonwealth, all combine to save Hos Henry W Snydon, colored, if guilty, from a well deserved fate, at the hands of an irresponsable mob. The citizens of Blackstone have gone so far as to hold a mass-pledging the safety of the alleged culprit, when he is returned to that neighborhood for trial. These far seeing white men now realize fully what we have been proclaiming for more than twenty years, that lynching brutalizes the community in which it occurs and entraps the law as well, as it metes punishment to the criminal, who, in the long run, is the least of all injured. There is no more doubt but what if he is guilty, that Joan Hinnay WILLIAMS will explicate his crime in the electric chair, than there is that the sun will rise in the heaven tomorrow morning or that the water will continue to seek its level. He would just as surely suffer the extreme penalty if colored men were selected as jury men as he would if white men occupied the same position. Colored folks feel keenly the odium attached to the commission of such crimes by members of their race. Conditions are such that good deeds on their part attract but little attention, white bad deeds committed by any colored person are spread to "the four corners of the earth." But we are discussing the Winnery case CITY SHOREMAN J. B. EAVENS, of POTHENBURG, Va., is quoted as having said to LEMONTANI CROWDER, of the Virginia National Guard: "Don't shoot unless you are forced to do so. But if you have to shoot, shoot! I don't want you to hurt any one, if it can be prevented, but you and I are here to see that the law is enforced, and I shall expect you to perform your duty." These were simple words, but the officer who spoke them meant what he said. He was not there protecting primarily, JOIN HENRY WILLIAMS, the alleged rapist, but he was there upholding the law, and he could not uphold the law without protecting the colored man in his charge. The mainspring of all this action was in the gubernatorial offices at Richmond where PRIVATE SECRETARY ALEXANDER FORWARD was transmitting the orders of HOW. HENRY C. STAART, Governor of Virginia. Colored people would do well to remember that we have some stunned friends among the better class of white people of Virginia. They will stand by us, if we merit their support and they will see to it that we get justice, when we err in our dealing with our fellow man. But this justice is to be meted through the regular agency of the courts. We would to God that JOIN HENRY WILLIAMS is innocent. We wish for his punishment if he is guilty. The lawless, disreputable, ungodly elements amongst us will prove our undoing. Other races have their criminal elements and we have ours. The law provides a way for their punishment and when this machinery is put into proper motion and the decree has been handed down after a fair and impartial trial, all elements, white and black, rich and poor should join in a long amon THE CHRISTIAN BANNER AND DR. GALVIN. The Philadelphia Christian Banner in a recent issue, says: "After all, we fear our hopes are in vain. It seems that Virginia has gone into the Boyd camp to stay. The Christian Banner" desired very much to see the Virginia Baptist State Convention remain with the National Convention, and even after they went with the split we felt that they would finally return and take their places and perform the acts of loyalty to the cause they had so long proclaimed to the world dear to them. Dr. A. A. Galvyn, president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, in a letter to the Union Review, February 26, says the Old Dothfinion is standing solidly with Boyd, and replaces over the Chicago victory (whatever that victory is). Surely, Dr Galvyn does not refer to the decision of the Court, for he is a man capable of giving the right kind of information, and he surely should have known better than to give utterance or approval to a thing that never happened. We have know President Galvyn for a long time, and he is one of the fairest and best men to be found, but even so good a man as he has led his forces into the wrong camp, but let us hope by the time the Virginia Convention meets, in May, that his vision will be sufficiently cleared, and that he will say to his loyal followers: "Come, let us go to Savannah, where the National Convention will assemble in September, and take our places at the head of the line, where Virginia has so long stood." We fear our interfeiting contemporary, deceiving itself with reference to the attitude of Virginia and the Virginia Baptist State Convention, President A. A. GAINS is both able and popular as a presiding other. His diplomatic judgment has placed under the central unlimited organization. He would hardly advise a movement which would tend to disturb the mutual relationship and bring about discord. Here, in Virginia, we represent about as much as does the National Baptist Convention. We refer, of course, to the practical part of our dealings, and of our financial relationship in handling the affairs of the Baptist denomination in this State. The feeling here among all classes is a desire for peace. This desire extends to a desire for peace and cooperation even with the brethren of the General Association of Virginia. Certainly, then, persons knowing the would not manipulate a campaign of object an issue which would run counter to this general desire. The Virginia Baptist State Convention has not gone anywhere, and so far as we are able to observe it not going anywhere. The two names of the National Baptist Convention seem to have done the "Spring." Over here in Virginia, we are sitting down waiting for them to come back together, in order that we may be able to get up and go to work again in national of life. We feel pleased that great leaders of the demonstration should have left the principles of the great organization with it, while both of them are fighting over the pitfalls here" at Nashville, Tennessee. Still A. A. Gavin's know more about conditions among the Baptists in Virginia than we know, and he can speak with authority relative to the control attitude of the body over which he presides. We do not believe though that he has pleaded the Virginia Baptist State Convention to either the "Morrison National Baptist Convention" or to the "Boyd National Baptist Convention". He is not forced for sound sense and good judgment and would not officially speak upon this question until he is officially authorized so to do. As to his personal feelings, he is with Roy Du, R. H. Boyn in his troubles. There are many more better like him, but the fundamental interests of the denomination must be subordinated to personal preferences. No, no, the Virginia Baptist State Convention has not gone anywhere. It is using a telescope, trying to see how far the national Baptists will go before they get tired and come back to the place from whence they started. When they get back, unless the Virginia Baptist State Convention next month decides otherwise, they will find, the Virginia Baptists in the same place where they left us. THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. The Democratic Primary held last Tuesday in this city was not patronized as largely by the members of that party as was expected. With a voting population affiliate with that party of over twenty-five thousand, about ten thousand voters exercised the right of franchise. Colored Democrats were not allowed to vote. Mayor George Alnallo, who was opposed by Mr. O. A. rafwkins was nominated. His vote was 5,202. Mr. Hawkins' vote was 3,208. SOME SURPRISES Mr. Graham B. Hobson, who has been regarded as something of an insurgent, won over W. P. Knowles' and Mr. George McD. Blake. The vote was Hobson, 4,251; Knowles, 2,133; McD. Blake, 3,694. Gilbert K. Pollock, regarded by many as being the most popular democrat in the city was defeated for the Common Council for the first time in a decade. Mr. Jacob Umlauf displaced Mr. P. P. Flicher for the council in Clay Ward. HOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS. The early Church like the Y. M. C. A. was founded on prayer, but before many centuries elapsed it had sold its birth-right for a mess of temporal power. The transforming power of God to meet the world's need had been stifled in the deadly mashes of a gigantic institutional organization, and the value of gold became greater than the value of many souls. A similar temptation awaits the Association. In fact the issue is already upon us, and every man must meet it for himself if we are to win as a whole. Shall our movement become a vast system of low-priced hotels, a combination of athletic clubs and social centers, or shall it employ these agencies only in order that Jesus may be brought closer to the thousands of men and boys among whom it is working? Christiansburg, Va., (Special)—The Managers and friends of the Christianaburg Industrial Institute are gratified over the success of the recent campaign to raise an endowment fund of $50,000 for the benefit of that school. The method of raising the fund was unique. There were ten Committees of six persons each, largely prominent Philadelphia businessmen, who were given so many persons to see. The campaign which was conducted in Philadelphia mostly among Quakers, who largely support the school, lasted for a week, with a banquet each night when the Committees reported the success of the day's work. On Monday night, March Shall we commit suicide by the very knife by which we were about to cut at the cancer that is getting out the life of our nation? Are we formulating plans that must result in Death, or are we following processes that inevitably lead to life? Is our chief pride in the size of our membership or the amount of our personal work? Are we relying most upon our equipment or prayer? Which will win out, a corporation or Christ? E. Miller in "American Youth." --- J. M. C. A. NOTES. The storm did not keep the boys from attending the Bible Class last Tuesday. The work for the men last Tuesday night in the Bible Class was good. The Blues were our good numbers last Friday night, under the direction of General W. B. Ball. They rendered a very excellent programme assisted by students from the Union. The Reds are still watching the Blues and have passed the saw over to them with which to saw wood. Watch! The class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson last Saturday enjoyed the explanation on the lesson. Last Sunday was a full day for the service, for the good of the community, as usual. At 9:00 A.M. the meeting for the workers was a good one and the fellows were happy. The boys' meeting was well attended, 4 P.M. at the N.M.C.A. Conference boys. At 9:00 P.M. the great meetings for men opened at the Richmond Bothell Amateur Box. Boy W. B. Ball was at his last Subject. "The parachutes" and "Action" it was a good one and the man say that they must have it again. The singing was a live wire. Keep this up men, for you have a good beginning. The work in the city jail, home and penitentiary, 10 A.M. was crowded with many good result. You and your friend are invited to the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson today. 5 P. M. at the Y M. C. A. Come! Men be on time Sunday, ready for hard work and the other man. A special meeting for the worker 9:30 A. M. at the Y M. C. A. Leader General Secretary C. S. Burrell Committeeman B. L. Allen will conduct the boys' meeting. C. P. M. at the Y M. C. A. At 3:30 P. M. at the Richmond Hospital Insurance Auditium, a great meeting for men key William Harris. D. D. pastor of Calvary Baptist Church will address the men Subject: "A Young Man's Vision" The Nightingale Quartette will sing special music. All men are invited to bring the other man. Come! Every home is asked to have special UNION WINS FROM LINCOLN, RUT LOSES TO WILDERFORCE. On last Thursday night, a triumphant debate among Lincoln Union and Wilberforce universities was held at Wilberforce, Brooklyn and New York, in which contest Wilberforce was declared victor by whipping Lincoln in the Bridge Street A M E Church, Brooklyn, and Virginia Union, on the Wilberforce campus. Union broke even in the contest, defeating Lincoln in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, New York. As is readily seen, Lincoln was completely blanked in honors. The topic of discussion was a phrase of Preparedness "Resolved. That the naval and military resources of the United States should be promptly and substantially enlarged and strengthened." Union's affirmative team, Messrs. C. S. Johnson and C. H. Thompson, could not sustain their argument against the Wilberforce negative combination, C. E. Hunter and H. W. Sheppard. However, the judges decision was divided, Prof. W. R. M. Cheesney and Hon. Frank Johnson, casting their ballot for Wilberforce, while Prof. G. D. Black favored Union. The outcome of the Lincoln Wilberforce battle in Brooklyn, in which Messrs. Hill and McMorris argue the former's negative, while Wilberforce's affirmative was argued by Hurch and Spizey. The Judges, Dr. Edward Rice, Dr. R. M. Meroney and Dr. James Spurgeon gave the decision to Wilberforce on oratory, commending Lincoln for splendid oratory. In reference to the Union victory over Lincoln in New York, the Amsterdam News says: "It would appear that any one beinr on the affirmative side of this subject in a debate, as the Lincoln men did, would have an ad, vantage over their opponents on the negative. Therefore Union's victory over Lincoln makes the triumph all the more a humiliation for the Oxford University and a blaze of glory for the Virginian institution." E. E. Smith and V. D. Johnston comprised the Union team, while C. C. Wood and H. B. Burton constituted the Lincoln combine. The arbiters.' Hon. C. W. Anderson, Messrs. P. M. Thorne and G. W. Harris rendered a unanimous decision in Union's favor. The Wilberforce defeat is the first stain on Union's debating banner in ten years; having defeated all-comers in this field with comparative ease. Howard, Lincoln and Shaw, have all felt the keen sting of a Union defeat in the next. Christianasburg, Va. (Special)—The Managers and friends of the Christianasburg Industrial Institute are gratified over the success of the recent campaign to raise an endowment fund of $50,000 for the benefit of that school. The method of raising the fund was unique. There were ten Committees of six persons each, largely prominent Philadelphia business men, who were given so many persons to see. The campaign which was conducted in Philadelphia mostly among Quakors, who largely support the school, lasted for a week, with a banquet each night when the Committees reported the success of the day's work. On Monday night, March 27, the whole amount had been contributed and something over. The amount was contributed by 471 persons—the largest individual donation being $5,000 and the smallest $1,000. Joshua L. Bally, of Philadelphia, gave $5,000, and a friend, whose name is not given, contributed the same amount. This fund of $50,000 was raised in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Christianasburg School. It was found in 1869 by captain Chas S. Schnecker, who had seen service in the Ullon Army and who later was active in the development of the Baptist Churches of the section. Another most unusual feature in connection with this campaign was the manifestation of interest on the part of the local people in the community where the school is located. The four white churches in the town united in a Union Service at eleven o'clock on one Sunday morning, when Principal E. A. Long spoke to them on the work of the school and afterward a collection amounting to more than $500 was raised. The colored people of Christiansburg contributed $200—half of which came from the students and teachers. In addition to an endowment of nearly $70,000 and a plant and equipment valued at $75,000, which the school now has, some needed improvements in the way of buildings, etc. will be made, which, when completed, will make the Christiansburg Industrial Institute one of the best equipped smaller institutions for colored people in Virginia, if not the whole south. E. A. Long, the present head of the school has been Principal since 1906, and it has been under his administration that most of the improvements have been made, both the increase in the endowment and the additions to the plant. Mr. Long is a graduate of Tuskegee and is a firm believer in the Hoover, Washington idea of education. He is prominent in educational circles in Virginia, having been for six years President of the Negro State Teachers' Association. REA. C. D. HENDERSON, RECORDING, SECRETARY, OF STATE CONVENTION, SPEAKS. To the members and friends of the Virginia Baptist State Convention We have heard the urgent appeal of our president, Dr. A. A. Galvin, setting forth in clear and forcible words the claims of the old Virginia Baptist State Convention. He expects an answer at old Bate Street Church on the both of May. Shall we answer this appeal? The old Virginia Baptist State Convention has in the past stood for great principles. And amid the changes incident to the psychiatric life of nations, races and determinations like stands like a mighty rock, its head above the surface, but whose strata reaches down into the depths, and as it is said of the tree that her roots extend to the length of the limbs and branches, so the convention is not only a tree bearing fruit a generation, but is of equal in depth and security and its extensive roots that wrap around the rock of the eternal. As Christ was the embodiment of the God, religion and education are inwarded on the mission of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. It is ours to educate a race. It is ours to help Christianize the nation. Our Creed is. We believe in Negro Ownership. We believe in the black man helping to carry the cross of a Crucified Fruit. These tenets have been handed down to us by the gray haired fathers of yesterday. They come to us unarmed and untrained. Thro' the black smoke of battle and the cloudy pillow of struggle they stretched out their clutching hands filled with these eternal principles and said to us, "Guard them boys as sacred trusts, as roles of blood and fire!" And then at evening twilight when the frorescent rays of King Solomon touched the landscape of mortality they said, "Good Night." It is to us you hallow their sacred memory by the perpetuation of this great cause. How shall we do it? We shall do it by rallying to the Battle Cry—$4,000. (1) By not being afraid to pledge. (2) Having pledged, give. Not the crumbs but part of a meal. The old First Baptist Church of Newport News and pastor have pledged $150. We meant it when we pledged. We mean it now. Let every Alumnus of the school rally to the call of Mother Seminary. In you is her life, coursing through your veins in her blood, on your bones is her flesh, in your bones is her marrow. We shall be ingrates if we do not love her above our supreme joys. Dr. R. C. Woods, that prince of educators, is interpreting dreams and bringing visions to pass. Let us be loyal to him. If there are any who have not received their minutes, drop us a card 761 23rd Street, Newport News, Va. "On to Norfolk!" Yours for the cause, C. D. HENDERSON. 761 23rd Street, Newport News, Va. ANOTHER MOVING PICTURE THEATRE It is reported that plains have been drafted for a moving picture theatre on Third Street, between Clay and Leigh Street. The property considered is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. 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MEDICINES SENT ANYWHERE. L.J. Hayden, 220 W. Broad, Richmond, Va. brombled so to do. Mrs. Gordon was formerly a Miss Hunton, sister to Secretary Hunton, of the Colored Y M C A. The drive was a delightful one. We went to a dining room, well furnished, where we had lunch and then we accompanied Miss Olatius M. Owens to the train, where the last farewell was said. She was due in Nashville at about 10 o'clock the next morning. That she had enjoyed herself went without saying. We had been traveling practically four days and now I was "foot loose and fancy-free" once more. My responsibility ended and I telegraphed Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Owens at Los Angeles, California, accordingly. We strolled up the street together, C. K. Robinson and I. I noticed a moving picture theatre wide open and in full blast. Lynch Negro at Court House. At the conclusion of the testimony at the preliminary hearing of Oscar Martin, a negro, accused of attacking a white girl, a mob of 500 stormed the court room in Idaho. Okla, solved the prisoner, and hanged him from a back balcony of the court house. Five Children Die in Fire. Five children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the home of Patrick Marlon, in North Keysor avenue, Scrautton, Pa. They are: Lorette, thirteen months; Margaret, four years; Mary, seven years; Angie eight years; and Joseph, ten years, old. PETERSBURG STARTS SEASON NEXT SATURDAY. The baseball season among colored nines begins in Richmond next Saturday with Petersburg slated against Virginia Union University. The friendly athletic rivalry existing between these two schools has always caused close and exciting games each season, so much so until the announcement of this contest is always looked forward to with great interest by baseball fans all over the State. Last year, in their first onset, Union defeated the Goober-town boys by a 7-1 score, but the latter put up a much tighter game in Richmond last May, and forced the locals to be content with a 3-1 tally. This last mentioned contests was one of the most beautiful exhibitions of pill phenomena ever witnessed in this city. The two aggregations maintained a 1-1 tie until the eighth scene when Union broke loose for two extra counts. Union is in complete readiness for her antagonist next Saturday. Union believes in preparedness in baseball as well as in debathe. Midseason form is evidenced in every department. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 EDITOR MITCHELL'S TRAVELS and ready for a conclusion of this long journey When I awoke, we were nearing Kansas City. We passed Jefferson City, Missouri, and the porter pointed out to me the Governor's Manation, and also the punitive court. When we arrived at Kansas City, it was not long before we were ready to pull out again. I saw a foreigner who had become separated from companions. It was a woman, and what made the matters worse, she had a baby in her arms. The conductor finally understood enough to tell her that she was on the wrong train. It was a long way out after we left Kansas City, Missouri THE PARTING AT HAND I wished for St Louis and a temporary coding of the journey. As for Miss Gladys, she began to realize that parting was at hand, that I had discharged my duty, both to her father and to her friends, who had seen me, off at the railroad station in Los Angeles. I arrived at St Louis in the afternoon. I had telegraphed to friends there and they were at the station to welcome me. SURPRISE MANIFESTED There was much surprise on the countenance of Mr. C. K. Robinson and Dr. T. A. Curtis, when they greeted me, and I in turn introduced them to Miss Gladys M. Owens, of Los Angeles, California. It was a case of blank astonishment. What was John Mitchell, Jr., doing in St. Louis, with a female companion? When had such a thing happened before? What did it all mean? I read all of this as I went to the ticket office to secure Putman accommodations for Miss Gladys to Nashville, Tennessee, that night at 10 o'clock. RAMPANT THERE. Race prejudice is rampant in St. Louis, and sometimes it is not an easy task for a colored person to secure a ticket. I had no trouble, and with that all arranged, we went out to the automobile, which was waiting, and a few moments later we were at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Buckner. Miss Gladys disappeared and reappeared after my return. I made several visits with my friends. Then we returned for Miss Owens, and under Mr. Robinson's direction, we were shown the sights of the city. MRS. GORDON'S HOSPITALITY. I easily called on Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gordon. They have a very fine residence. 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TROOPS WHIP VILLISTAS Americans Run Off Forty of Outlawest Horses During Fight and Suffer No Casualties. United States troops met Villistas in the second battle of the Mexican campaign and again defeated them, according to unofficial reports to Brigadier General Pershing, in command of the American punitive expedition. At Aguas Callontes (or at Bachin aba), north of Guerrero, where the first action took place, two hundred troopers of the Tenth United States Cavalry (negro) last Saturday surprised about two hundred Villistas, killed thirty of them, ran off some of their horses and pursued the remnants of the outlaw band. It is said the American forces escaped without suffering any casualties. Colonel Brown, of the Tenth, commanded the detachment of that regiment which dropped, as from the skies, upon the Villistas while the bandits were "nooning" in fanned security, and opened fire upon them. So safe had the Villistas felt that their horses were not picketed out, but were grazing while their owners slept. The Yankee cavalrymen "cut out" a bunch of about forty of these enemy's mounts, setting their owners afoot during the engagement. The report of the battle was carried to General Pershing at San Geronimo, Mexico, by two Mexican ranchmen, who said the outlaws had lost thirty men. Other reports fixed the number of Villista dead at between thirty or forty. Pershing sent the report from Geronimo, near the extreme front of the American lines, by airplane to Colonia Budlan, whence it was wirelessed to Columbus, N. M. The message Gom Pershing was relayed by telegraph from Columbus to Major General Funston at San Antonio, where it was said Colonel Brown in his report to Pershing, did not mention American losses. What the result of that chase was is not known, and General Funston is anxiously awaiting details of it. The Mexicans defeated formed one of the groups of Villa's force driven from Guerrero, and relentlessly pursued since then. They were wholly unsuspecting of the presence of the enemy until a minute before they were attacked. The squadron of the Tenth stole upon their quietly while the bandits were lying about the camp many of them sleep. The encounter aroused deep interest at General Funston's headquarters at San Antonio, where additional details were awaited eagerly, but it was realized by officials that the effect of Brown's fight and of other minor engagements that may occur is only indirect, so far as the greater problem of catching Villa is concerned. Engagements of that character, it was said, may be expected now from time to time and the running down of the marauding bands is essential to the safety of the American column, but it was indicated that the only effects, so far as Villa is concerned, will be to destroy the morale of his supporting force. There are known to be other hands operating in that same part of Mexico, and a part of the American forces must remain to deal with them while the other part catches on in pursuit of Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers the fugitive chief Villa's latest southward shift was credited in official quarters, since it came from consular representatives in which the outlaw was located well beyond Chihuahua City, and evidently trying to reach Parral, or, perhaps, even Torreon or Durango City. In the vicinity, of all those cities there are known to be operating organized forces of Villa's men aggregating a strength of soine, thousands. According to all late reports, Villa appears to be traveling fast now and already has placed between himself and the pursuing Americans a considerable distance. Christy. Artist. Aka Divorce Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, who has his summer home in Zanesville, Ohio, fled suit for divorce against his wife, Mabelle Thompson Christy. Gross neglect is the charge, but the papers have been withdrawn. Seven years ago they fought a battle over the custody of their daughter, Natalie, in which the father won. Poisoned Candy "April Fool." Mrs. Margaret Sipe, fifty-five years old, was committed to jail at Harrisburg, near Richmond, Va., on confessing that she had sent poisoned candy o. Miss Lilly Kygor and her two slaters. The candy was marked "April Fool." It contained strychnine. A fall of rock in the Laffin colli hery, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., of the Delha ware & Hudson Coal company cost the lives of Allen Sellia and Joseph Lavoskey, miner and laborer. The Notorious Mexican Bandit We Want Either "Dead or Alive." © b Bouhre Kishan Boy. Albert, fouryears old son of Oscar Sharp, of Wilmington, Del, was playing about a bonfire near his home when his clothing was limited. He ran screaming to his mother, who found him enveloped in flames. The burning clothes was torn from him, but not before he had been burned all over the body. The little fellow was taken to the Delaware hospital, where he died. "Good Roads Day" May 25. Governor Brumbaugh formed a proclamation saying Thursday, May 25, "statewide good roads day." The governor calls on all citizens to so plan their personal duties as to devote that day to the improvement of the highways and calls on all those who cannot be present to control either money or material to the popular local authorities. Schwab Bux Plant Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel company, has bought the Baltimore Sheet and Tin Plate company, a $2,000,000 enterprise. The purchase will result in tripling the originally proposed size of the plant. The sale of the property was announced by J. M. Jones, president of the tin plate company. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Rev. L. J. Coppin, D. D., the presiding bishop, He declared that he did not know about the choir and he didn't care to know. He was greatly pleased with the fine music. That was what interested him. REV. BERRY DELIVERS SERMON. The rostrum was packed with leading divines of the Church. During the latter part of the services, a lady in the gallery became sick and fell out. She was quietly removed by several strong men, and this was done so quickly that few people know of the occurrence. After the religious exercises, the sermon was delivered by Rev. L. L. Berry, of Norfolk. He created a profound impression. The religious exercises were conducted by Rev. L. T. Watson. DR RANKIN PRESENTS CAUSE OF MISSIONS. Bishop L. J. Coppin, after a few humorous remarks about the hurrying home of the distinguished editor of the Voice of Mission and Secretary of that Board, introduced Riff. Dr J. W. Rankin. This stalwart laborer in the Master's vineyard proceeded to give a detailed report of this department, extending over a period of fifty years. Sums aggregating nearly a million dollars had been collected and expended. He told of his visit to the West Coast of Africa, or the great work being done there, the communicants of the A. M. E. Church approximating 28,000. He spoke of the great work being done in South Africa by Bishop Johnson. BISHOP JOHNSON'S WORK He had expected to visit the field when the great war broke out and put an end to the contemplated project. He was advised by Bishop Johnson and his colleagues not to undertake the journey. In vivid language Rev. Dr. Rankin spoke of the needs of the Church. He described the natives and their customs. The information given, proved to be of marked interest to all who heard it. The audience listened with rapt attention. At the conclusion, Bishop L. J. Coppin announced that the king of one of the tribes professed a desire to join the A. M. E. Church. He was told that he could not practice polygamy and be a member of the Church. "What am I to do with my wives?" he said. He took the minister to his harem. He had thirty-seven wives and seventy children. This was a puzzling proposition. The King had provided a house for each wife and he took care of each family. Bishop Coppin made an appeal for missions. Rev. Dr. Rankin had presented statistics to show what great work had been done by the women and through the Mitte societies. THAT ELOQUENT DIVINE. The collection was lifted. Rev Reverdy C. Ransom, D. D., one of the ablest pulpit orators in the United States was scheduled to speak Friday night. WANTS JAIL FOR PACKERS Worse Crowd Than the Bandits." A former governor of Kansas W. R. Stubbs, and a former Missouri judge, W. H. Wallace, who said they had learned by raising cattle themselves that meal packers by price fixing combinations were crushing the livestock growers pleaded with a house judiciary subcommittee to add in inaugurating sweeping reforms in the packing industry. The) appeared as counsel for western growers and feeders. Speaking on the Borland resolution, before the uncommission, which would order a federal trade commission in quiry to determine whether the packers are violating the anti-trust laws they indicted the proposal strongly and suggested making laws prohibiting the restraint of trade in foodstuff generally more stringent. Jail sentences instead of fines were urged. "Fines are jolls," Mr. Stubbs declared. Mr. Wallace, who prosecuted the James train robbers, heatedly de neunced the alleged packing combination. Here Is The Last Call HAVE YOU TAKEN OUT A Christmas Savings Club Card? YOU CAN JOIN NOW. PAY UP THE BACK AMOUNTS. THE CLUB OPENED DECEMBER 20, 1915. YOU CAN CATCH UP AND BE IN WITH THE PROCESSION WHEN THE LAST GONG SOUNDS NEXT NOVEMBER. You can select the Class you want to join and send or bring the amount. If you are a non-resident, send the amount by money-order or express. You will get your Christmas Savings Club Check in time for Christmas. The Vacation Club is here, too. You can join any one of them by paying up all back dues. You will receive your check July 17, 1916. Checks on the Christmas Savings Clubs are mailed December 8th. GET A TEN CENT SAVINGS BANK. YOU GET THE LOAN OF ONE FOR 10 CENTS AND YOU GET BACK YOUR 10 CENTS WHEN YOU RETURN THE BANK. FAIL TO RETURN THE 10 CENT BANK AND WE KEEP THE 10 CENTS. THE BANK COSTS US JUST THAT AMOUNT. TRY THE SAVING HABIT. IT WILL GROW ON YOU JUST AS YOUR ACCOUNT GOES. SOME PEOPLE CANNOT KEEP MONEY THEY WILL SPEND IT. THAT IS WHY THE CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB IS SO POPULAR. PEOPLE GET THEIR MONEY WHEN THEY NEED IT MOST CHRISTMAS TIMES. OPEN AN ACCOUNT AT THE BANK. GO THERE FOR ADVICE. WE ARE DESIROUS OF SHOWING YOU JUST WHAT WE CAN DO. WE WANT YOUR CONFIDENCE AND WE ALSO WANT TO HELP YOU SAVE YOUR MONEY. --- GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA -- FLOOR quiet clear $6.95 city mile $6.95 $6.95 CORN Brm No. 2 yellow, solids 91c OATS quiet No. 2 white, 514 g. 12 oz. POLLUTY live steamed, 185 g. old rosters, 12 oz. Pressed steamed, 12 oz. Choice broth, 12 oz. old rosters, 1 BUTTER firm Fancy creamery. 40c. apr. 19 EGGS steady. Select. 276-292, nearly. 250, western. 25 Lie Stock Quotations. CHICAGO HOGS. higher. Mixed and buttern. higher. heavy. $6,979.90, rough. heavy. $9,35 9,555. bkct. $9,555.90, 148. $17,75 9; bulk. $9,079.90 CATFLE. 250. higher. Blevens. $7,355. owls. and color. $8,55 8,90; stockers and color. $6,255. 0 Texans. $7,409.90; alves. $7,755 SHEEP. 15-220. lower Native and western. $14,815.15, lanes. $14,815. 1916 APRIL 1916 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 After spending forty eight years of his life behind prison bars, James P. Hughes, seventy-eight years old, and now a victim of tuberculosis, was discharged from the jail at Pattisville Pa., where he was serving a three year term for pleading pockets. He left for Philadelphia, where he said he would spend his remaining days with relatives. AGENTS, GET BUSY! 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L Wagons for hire at reasonable rates and Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constant supplies. On All Day and Night—Man on Duty NE. MAD. 577 RICHMON (Residence next door.) PAGE FIVE ```markdown ``` SHACKLETON SPANS ANTARCTIC Explorer Crosses Continent But is Delayed. DISPATCHES ARE CONFLICTING Ship Bent to Rescue Party Breaks Away From Base, Leaving Ten Mer- on Lend, Who Must Remain Another Year. Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Scaecon- ton has returned from his Assistant expedition. News of the achievements of the ex- pedition is withheld for the present. A sleephead from Sydney, N. S. W. says that the strangely Aurora, of Lieutenant Shaheen's expedition, has broken from his or- ings at the Rose sea base, leaving most of the party ashore and able to embark. According to these advises, Lieuten- ant Shaheen and his compass will have to remain another year be- fore it will be possible to rescue them. Reporter, Telegram company, was wireless despatch has been in force announcing that the Antarctica has been broken from her moorings in Kiawai while a party of ten men are on shore. This party, consisted of the commander Aeneas MacKinnon and nine members of his staff. These ten men are the left on the shore. The commander are that the tenant Shackleton has not through and crossed the Antarctica continent, there is no ship to meet him, and the whole party will have to remain on the boat of Ross sea for another year. Ross sea, named for the English explorer, John Ross, who died in 1842, is between latitude 60 and 65 and is within this Antarctica. The Snackleton have probably met between 100 and some miles from New Zealand. It Lieutenant Shackleton has received this base, he has received the Antarctic region to a point which he perhaps sort or 1000 miles beyond the South Polar itself, where only Lord Amundsen and Captain Robert F. Scott had been before him. The adventure of Sir Ernest, leading the British tran- Antarctic condition, had a threefold purpose: to navigate Antarctica on a mission to obtain for the British flag the number of being the first national emblem to be taken from seas to sea in this south polar realm, and to conduct scientific work relating, among other phases, to meteorology, geography, geology and geodetic survey. The expedition was financed for this move by large gifts from person inter- tended in polar exploration. Funds amounting to more than $500,000 were raised, including $500,000 from the British government. HOW To Make the Garden a Livable Place --- the color scheme, but man's ingenuity is required to supply the seat and summer houses, the bed baths and pools, the pergolas and sun dials or as many of these things as it may seem expedient and wise to have Garden furniture less expensive than it used to be less expensive and better. Moreover, there is a great variety. Good rustic pieces may be made at home, or, time and skill being lacking, they may be bought. So also may be delightful old English sofas, and tables, while pergolas and arbors of arti- design and good workmanship may be obtained ready made and set up in the garden with but very little labor. In fact, every sort of garden furniture from summer house down to bird houses is now on the market. There are even artistic bird beds and pedestals made of wood and much cheaper than those of marble or even of composition. Of course cement has come to take a prominent place in the garden and is used in making pedestals for sun dials, bird baths and pools as well as for benches and seats. To many minds no garden has really been brought to date until it has been equipped with a pool in which water lilies may be grown, with the glistening sides of goldfish fashing among them. Such pools need not be at all expensive and are not difficult to construct when good Portland cement is the material used. A GARDEN HINT How to Make and Cut Out Flower Cut- tings For Spring. Cuttings from many plants growing in the window garden will root readily at this season, and in conservatories and greenhouses cuttings should be made freely now. Clean, sharp sand is the best foil cutting cuttings generally, though aluminum cuttings can be made and put up in thumb pots. The cuttings should be made just below a bud, trimming off all the foliage except a leaf or two at the top of the cutting, and the top half of these leaves may be cilled off. Be careful to have the sand firm about the base of the cutting, setting it half its length below the surface. Water thoroughly and shade from the sun, not allowing the soil to become dry. FOR. THE COOK. How to Fry a Large Chicken the Easiest Possible Way. Prepare in the usual way for frying, have fat one-eighth inch deep in pan smoking hot, place the chicken in the pan and cover, reduce gas flame until the chicken takes very slowly, turning each piece until thick brown. Pour one cupful of hot water into the pan and let the chicken continue to cook with cover on until all the water has cooled out. Lift the chicken onto a dish and make a brown gravy. This is intended for grown chicken, but not old food. --- How to Make Runs From Letters Otherwise Quite Lazy --- HOW TO MAKE A BIRTHDAY CAKE THAT IS REAL CARE. Weigh several large eggs, the size of the cake, take three weights in the flour and a little more than half of their weight to stiffen the eggs. Truncate the eggs from the whites. Beat the butter in a bowl and the sugar to them very gradually. Toast the eggs with a little grated lemon and a splash of orange flower or water or oil and then or suitably flavoring. Add the flour to a little of a time and continue to beat the mixture for twenty minutes. Batter a mold, spittleble powdered sugar upon the butter and shake off all that will not adhere. The a strick of buttered paper round the top of the mold to keep the preparation from rolling down the sides while it is balled. Pour in the cake, three parts, fill the mold with it. When done enough but it stand a few minutes, shake it well to season, turn it out carefully, but it is silken when cold one quarter of an inch thick spread some jam over these and place the jar or syrup or more slices together on top of the other. Whisk together the whites of two or more eggs, according to size of color, and half a pound of finely sifted sugar to the eggs, a dessert-poisoned orange flower or water. Whisk the mixture until quite smooth and spread it over the cake with the back of a spoon. Mark the shape of the pieces into which it is afterward to be cut. Place the cake in a very cool oven to dry the king. Time, half an hour to prepare. Two or three drops of coloring will give it a rose that. Send to table with lighted candles. --- FOR THE BRIDE'S CHEST. How to Finish Your Bed Linen Attractively and Durably. Scalloping as a finish for sheets and pillowcases is one of the most ways of finishing them. Of course the scallops need to be well padded, and this can be accomplished either by filling in between the marked lines of the scallops with rows of running stitches before applying the buttonholing. The work can also be given more stability if after the scallops are completed and cut out an extra and tiny buttonbone edge is added to the extreme length of the scallops. A baby's pillow cover can be simply made as follows: Sew together as for a pillow slip three-fourths of a yard of eighteen inch camille embroidery of fine quality. Run blue or pink ribbon through small eyelets in scallops, thereby closing the cover. Run ribbon of suitable width through the larger eyelets forming a bow of the ends on top. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Bowser's Horse Knowledge He Does a Friend a Favor By M. QUAD H, by the way!" said Mr. Bowser as he shoved back from the breakfast table the other morning. "I may not be at home at the usual hour this evening. I am going to look at a horse. Watkins talks of buying and give him my opinion of the animal." "A horse!" exclaimed Mrs. Bowser. "What do you know about a horse? You have never owned a horse in your life. I'd give it up if I were you. If the horse proves worthless it will make hard feelings between you and Mr. Watkins. Why don't he leave it to a livery stable man?" "Because he has left it to me!" was half shouted in reply. "I am just as competent as any of the livestock in America, and Watkins knows that I will be honest and truthful with him. I will show you, Mrs. Bowser, I will show you." It was true that one Mr. Watkins wanted to buy a horse. It was also true that he knew nothing about horses. He was looking around to ask how he to act for him when he ran across Mr. Bowser and stated his case. "You just leave it to me, friend Watkins," was the hearty response. "will spare an hour at any time to pick you out a good horse. You can do upon my judgment. When you have found a horse you like I will go up to look him over for you." Mr. Watkins had found the horse and appointment was made with its owner, and at the hour joined Mr. Bowser was taken to the stable. He felt awful responsibility resting upon him, and he noted accordingly. He had the animal right out of his stall for inspection, and the first thing he did was to look at his teeth. Mr. Bowser had never looked a horse in the mouth it all his teeth. He didn't know whether nature gave the horse fifteen teeth fifty-five. "How did you call this horse?" he demanded of the owner. "How old do you call this horse?" he demanded of the other. "Why. I think you are a man who can tell yourself" was the evasive reply. Oh, I can tell all right! He is just passed four years old but I thought I would see if you were trying to deceive me. "You have entered his age to a month, and that is more than many horse men could do. Go at it. Scratch me any examination you wish." That here was an old white who had seen full eleven years. He was his blind man tricked, knock kneed and his back was weak. He had ring finger A man is pulling a horse in a snowy field. A dog is running behind him. and spayed. He had cost his present owner $10, and it had cost about $10 more to close him up to the point where somebody else would buy him. "Well, what do you think of him?" asked Mr. Watkins as Mr. Bowser finally could make his investigation and steped back. "You couldn't do better if you looked the United States all over. What did he pay the price of the horse was?" "He sold it and not a cent less." "Well, he worth $100 more than that, and if I were you I could see the bargain to less than a minute. I've got to go now but I have the horse sent over to the barn and hitch him to your cutter and take a ride to see how it goes. It will drive up my way I'll come to take a ride with you." When Mr. Watkins reached home he was full of excitement at the bargain he secured for the friend and was all ready to go out when Mr. Watkins arrived. Mr. Watkins was a pale of face. The color of his coat was beady brown. There was a bad dint in his but. His voice trembled with a bleak exclamation! "Some of here come out here, you old boya!" Mr. Bower went out. Almost in front of the horse was a wreck. It consisted of an old skate of a horse and what had been a rather fine cutter. The horse lay on the side and was evidently a dead horse. front of the house was a wreck. It is clear what had been a rather fine cutter. They a dead horse. Taking as he pointed deer.哭 friend, "and the first he did was to bake he would move, and then he went on a away with me." but he couldn't with that "wreck before he thing. He walked into the house and find a truckman who would remove the new horse?" asked Mrs. Bowser. sitting reply with your judgment of a horse?" slightly ungrateful, you know." that Mrs. Bowser had pierced through the skin from a crack in the front door has "Behold your work!" said Mr. Watkins as he pointed. "How he stammered" Mr. Bower. "She hated it up, continued his friend, and the first he did was to walk with it, but the second he would move, and then he went out of the room both in a balloon and run away with me." "I think I him up," continued his friend, "and the first he with me. It was half an hour before he would move, and the of the barn like a cannon ball and run away with me." Mr. Flower tried hard to reply, but he couldn't with that eyes he do the fored the next best thing. He walked into left of him. He hunt around and find a truckman who we end reminding the count of the. "Didn't you see the scant ride after the new horse?" ask he eat them. Mr. Bowser tried hard to reply, but he couldn't with that. Wreck before he eyes. He therefore did the next best thing. He walked into the house and left Mr. Wollins to hurt around and find a truckman who would remove the end remains for the sum of $15. He took a brief ride after the new horse asked Mrs. Bowser as he sat down. "It was better cold" was the heating reply. "Then Mr. Watkins is satisfied with your judgment of a home? "He didn't say." Some men are nigly ungrateful, you know." And Mr. Bowers was not aware that Mrs. Bowser had peered through the window and seen the smash, and then from a crack in the front door had heard all that Mr. Watkins had said. Copyright, 1920, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate The Renegade enegade A LAB, bills a oft repeated vow: Also, the plans of men and mice. A silken dress now saves a row. A brand new bonnet metta the ice. His sometime stand is altered now. His gift is "Peace at any price." Louis B. Cagney in judge. He Would Make A Funny Jury An Irishman, taking home for his Sunday dinner, goose, stopped at an inn to obtain a little ref. Putting down the goose, he was proceeding to satisfy when a seedy looking individual, seizing the bird, made it. Pat at once gave chase and are running far had hit the neck. "What did yez take the bird for?" queried the irish man. "Sure," said the seedy looking one, "I took it for a "Did yez?" returned Pat. "Begorra, ye'd make a b at a bird show then!" Make Funny Judge for his Sunday dinner a large man to obtain a little refreshment. is proceeding to satisfy his thirst, seizing the bird, made off with more running far had his man by and for?" queried the irate Irish-ing one, "I took it for a lark!" Begorra, ye'd make a bad judge He Would Make A Funny Judge A Irishman, taking home for his Sunday dinner a large goose, stopped at an inn to obtain a little refreshment. Putting down the goose, he was proceeding to satisfy his thirst when a seedy looking individual, seizing the bird, made off with it. Pat at once gave chase and are running far had his man by the neck. "What did yez take the bird for?" queried the irate Irishman. "Sure," said the seedy looking one, "I took it for a lark!" "Did yez?" returned Pat. "Begorra, ye'd make a bad judge at a bird show then!" five every joint and bearing a generous bath of gasoline. Of course there should not be a lighted lamp or fire of any kind, in the room, and the window should be open. Turn the wheels briskly for a few moments, to enable the gasoline to penetrate to every part' and to loosen and wash away all dirt and grit; then clean it all away. --- * How they stonemerel Mr. Brower. Defense is not fair woman's eyes He guarded well his heart and hand For what there mortal could withstand Bombardment by Miss Pleasner's eyes CARE OF YOUR MACHINE. How to Oil Your Sewing Machine and Saw Noses. Sewing is not one-half as hard as some people find it if the sewing machine is kept in good order. When the machine works hard and heavy take the needle and shuttle out and When all the oil and grime have been removed oil with proper lubricating oil, running the machine for two or three minutes before inserting the needle. Now with a piece of chamois skin wipe away all supernous oil. How to Make Delicious Fruit Cocktails For Caramons, Breads A delicious first course for the spring luncheon or midday Sunday dinner is fruit cocktail, served ice cold in dainty glasses. Use the fruits of the season—oranges, bananas, apples, white grapes and perhaps a little chopped pineapple. Skin the grapes, pare the apples and cut the oranges in very thin slices through pulp and rind. Then chop all the fruit in small pieces and soak an hour in their own juice sweetened with sugar. Then stand on the ice until just before serving, when the fruit cocktail may be flavored with a little Rhine wine or claret. How to Dry Your New Umbrella and So Make It Last. When you come in from the rain put the umbrella in the rack with the handle downward, because when the handle is upward the water runs down inside to the place where the ribs are joined to the handle and cannot get out, but stays, putting the cloth and rusting the metal until slowly dried away. The wire fastening the ribs sooth rusts and breaks. If placed the other end up the water readily runs off and the umbrella dries almost immediately. How to Test an Oven Before You Burn Your Cake Test your oven before putting in the cake by throwing on the bottom a spoonful of dry flour. If the flour takes the air or quickly turns dark brown color the oven's temperature is too high, and you should allow the oven to cool a little. If the flour remains white after it has been there a few moments the temperature is too low. If the oven is of the proper heat the flour will slightly brown and look a little groomed. HOW TO PREPARE FRENCH SOUPS THAT ARE WHOLESOME: A bowl of good hot soup is very acceptable. But snow often is it good! Soap should never be used the same day. If possible, allow it to stand one night and all the flavorings will blend together, which makes all the difference when reheated. + It is a great mistake to put + odds and ends of vegetables into + the stock pot. The pot should + be kept for bones and trimming + of meat, your poultry giblets, + bacon rhal, etc. Vegetables cause + fermentation. + The stock pot should be turned + out into a clean enamel bowl + every third day, thoroughly + cleaned and some of the bones + removed. These that have been + in longest will be easily recog + nized by the cook. + The idea of a stock pot is to + have a good foundation for any + soup you choose to make, tomato, + lentil, celery and potato being + four most popular and easily + made. If you have not stock the liquor in which fresh balsamic spouts, canniflower seeds, crayfish, potatoes and onions are best made an excellent start to vegetable soup. In France they never throw away such bignots, having been taught that the salts and most of the goodness of the articles cooked is in the water. Half a cupful of milk added to most soups just before serving gives them that soft, creamy taste that makes all the difference. Stock made from malton bones blends with turnips, onions, parsley, barley, rice, etc. Beef stock blends with carrots, lentils, split peas, tomatoes, celery and green pea flour. Onions, unless disliked, go with every thing. A SPRING TIP. How to Plan and Win Success In Your Gardening. There are few things more fascinating than the development of a well planned garden. True, it will mean many hours manual labor to prevent the weeds and insects from ruining your early spring blooms, and the watering can of the garden house will have to be called into use frequently but the harbor will pay large dividends in benefits to the gardener, to say nothing of the reduction in the weekly budget of the household. The tomato vine will need to be tied up and watched for out worms, the corn will have to be holed and so will the beans, the lettuce will have to be transplanted and the beets thinned out, and there will be a hundred and one precautions that will have to be taken to ensure the proper results, but each operation will have its special benefits and lessons that will more than repay for the trouble. And during the development of his garden the who gardener will note his successes and defaults and store that information away for use the following year. Every failure will be an experience to be avoided the following year and every success an experience to be enlarged upon. He will learn things for himself, and every bit of knowledge gained in that way will be worth a whole chapter written for his benefit by some one else. How to Plant Seed to Get the Best Results A good rule to follow in planting seed is to put it in the ground at a depth about four times the diameter of the individual seed. If the soil is dry it should be pressed down firmly after sowing. In transplanting, also, the soil should be pressed tightly over the roots. D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics' Bank Building 'PHONE, RANDOLPH 2807 Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop in Beer. Phone, Randolph 2108. Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. ROBERT C SCOTT, Funeral Director FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. 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THE HISTORY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COUNTY OF BROOKLYN ```markdown ``` aM DE LS 255 oy Be BATURDAY.’......'-APRIL 8, 1916 HOW ———=—= To Plan the Vegetable Gar- den and Plant It AREFUL planning while the front tm till in tho ground tn 2 tent of the aucceasful gantener. ‘The Karden planned a month oF ore In alvunce of firat real spring dase ix the one from which the beat re- wolta are usally obtained, Infact, Many of the mont dealrable products of the ganten are those which demand a week or two gentle nuraing Indoors or Under the glaxm of the hotbed. ‘Then, too, the min with a Hmited amount of garden space will find Ite well worth Ais white to lay his ‘plana well In ad vance. “By consulting the garden manuals and giving attentlas to xeusons of ma: turity he wit be atte ta tay out ble gar. den x0 ato be able to urtlize overs inch of mare during ulmoxt the entire seanon. Ihe doee not draw up hie plane Before he bextun to cultivate he will undoubtedly find that much valua: dle apace lis Leen lust through Inek of forethought. ‘ Cerinin vexetabios row best durina the spring and early xummer, while from others the beat resulta are gained Jy Inte pliuttiuss.” [re many ennen the] soll ured for the early vegetables cnn pe resown luter In the season with later, or warm wenther, vegetable The gardeher should uequatnt Limselt With thexe-comlitions, : Beaws and com, for example, will flouriel dutlug atmoat the entire apring and summer, The first planting of these vexetabies whould be made about the beginning of May. Pens muy be planted tn April, rem then until the It of Aust plantings xhould be made about every two or three weeks. This will fosure the Rantener n neaxonntile supply of these vegetables Mrousvout the acaron. . CARE OF RUGS. Hew to Keep Your Floor Coverings So They Will Last. It te foadsiable to attempt to. clean valuable ruxs yourself for obvious rea- wens, but daring xprinz: months the Dest “way to clean rugy at home fs to tam them right side down and tap them gently with a tight ftesthle stick € plece of mhber an the wrong xlde and then mwerp them with a dampened broom. Do not under any circumstances use the ubiquitens vacuum cleaner on Am Fare Tug, Kince It Toosens the pap when @rawing out the dust, Rugs should paver De packed awiy for summer where they cannot have imenthly fn apection at least. ‘The washing of rare Fuge {8.0 sinple matter for the expert, Dat nearly Impoeitie for the heune Keeper. Never fold a chandsome -rug when putting ft away. Roll it io abeets of newspaper and camphor be tween, and then wrap {¢ fn newspapers and new ft up tightly In un enveloping beet of nonwool covering. A WORD TO THE WISE. Hew to Pau For Being Intelligent Sica & Yaw Aden’: a The moxt intellizent’ people and we most beautiful are. these who sce things and get ald posible pleasure ont of thet. Au exhibition of fnutlffer- ence to things about seu ie not an ov ence of Intelligence, Intelligent peo Plo ate thoxe whose eyes ace open, and that fx the way to become futelligent, Boch people. alse, ure the most futers eating, Kemet Ko Tatech fo that, even though they Inek plysteal beauty, that te forgotten tn adtniration for thelr tatellent. ‘The victim of futitference etetimizes afl about her. Her friends may look upon her nnd ndinire ber beauty, but If she tx decidedly onisteresting even @ Uttle of her socloty Ix génerally am cvenlose. JUST DIP ‘EM. Hew to Keep Your Garden Labels * From Rotting and Fading. Girdeners frequently bnve trouble with plant Iubels‘rotting. Tbe labels ‘when used In the gamicn aro xubsect-to wet and heut during the season. cans- tng tho portion that Ix in the ground to rot; the label felis over and 49 lost, and the gardener los the namo of tho plants. A good way to preserve wood: @m garden [nbels Is to soak them n'a solotion of nulphate of tron. Dry the Jabels and then sak them in # strong ‘eotation of Imerater. ‘This rests ta the formation of intoluble sulphate of Yime {n the word and preserves the Ia- els from rotting, ees : TO RID THE CANA. | HOW RY OF VERMIN - , Rometimes a canary will droop - and stop bis song, bis vitality. - preyed upon by Iico almost mi- eroscopic. Oné of the simpleat as ‘well ag the surest ways to relieve - him ts.to pang a piece of soft - muslin over his cage nights, in - the inorning removing the sever- - al ‘Bttle biack dots that rest 4 apn i. This’ procens- repeat 4 04 fer & week of. ton days will + th sito tod oe eortne, an 4 ‘Wil tobe w his cong ages. . 4 7 ae ete “ . « : ee y 2 A Tintype =:-- & So 0° 4 ¥ a * 3 ‘4 — 19 0000000009000 y . game Romance ¢ Ew NS OSHUWAY SPRINGER anil Uanhat: Raxcomb were not exactl- engaged, bot they were almost so—that in, he bad come. ceurtin five or vtx Umer, had‘xeen her home from prayer meetlus, wud they had attended a Runday «bool plonic at which they <at on a log clone together and ate popcorn balla and molaxsen cand) and vowed: they had the thine of thelr lives. In thelr thennder fog the loving couple came arrow a‘travellug photographer's Oxtit on whorls, and Jonh whiapéred to Hannah: 7 “By ‘coxh, we'll have our pletures taken, nnd dam the expense, for 1 want your’ picture to look at Ofty times a day!” : “And mebbe F will pot yours under my piliew at night," was the blushing reply. - ‘ There wan’a rush of customers at the wagon, but the photographer wasn bustler, He took tho tintypes, but he had to xay to Jowh: “1 haven't Utne to: Gay to finish them up. If you. will come tn temerrow afternoon thes will be ready for you.” Jorh rode to tbo village next day, and they were handed him in realed en Velopes with their names written In pencil. The young man had two anda ee Ie eet aa Well, I ean xay the namo thing about your pleture. T never renld marry suet &@ Monstrosiny : Josh Juiped Into his wagon and Jashed the old horse all the way home Be didn't ts any work that day, but Apent mest of the thoe en the brond of his back tu the ahado of an apple tree, Hix romunve haut been spotted by the art of a traveling photographar—durn him! Josh bad Just risen te hfy feet from his fonz rent under the apple tree when he heant a tian calling him fron the highway He recognized the person ax the phetexrapter, who held up two envelow In bie hand and xatd: “In my hurry today Leave you the wronz Gatyper, bu: I've come now to give you the right ones, Here they are 2 MBy gosh, but yon don't aay there was a mistake’ * slomted Josh ga ht heart Junpoet into ht throat. Joh opened the envelope te look. Then «sine as bh ax a potate patch came to his face, Thero way n fine lookins yenn: man with his loss f Crossed nied a cigar between his Nps. It wax Josh Sprtyger and ne ene else! The other tintype wax that of a mwect and tosis xis! with one fout | Peeping ont Gom her «kirta to xbow that she Wore Neo ct shoes, + “Whoant Whoopee! shouted Josh as he Jumped ty ase dowe t "Yan oS explained the photographer, “Twas ata county fale lust year o where they oferod a prize for the hometfest yours wan and cut After the ¥ Prize hol Von tuken I Untyped the couple, and I handed them to you thie afternoon by mixtake.” es . + 3 Kut Sash Ald not wait to hear any mor Me was off for n ran of & two and « balf milea.to carry the pictures and the news to Hannab, + Was the tangled affatr straightened out? Yes in about fifteen min. + tes, ani next day when’ Mrx. Rascomb was nvked if Hannah and Jorn f woul! wike a match of {t abe winked and replied, “You can teil every- ¥ Dody thar they aro to be married two weeks Crom next Wednesday." + A M. QUAD. g : am THE GEM HAIR GOODS CO. 235 Duffield St., Brooklyn, NY. 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Tho younxeat of tio lot was fifty yeara old, and the Landsomeat had a cataract cn her [eft eve and @ broken nore. ‘The Graas Valley ten took one brief glance and then boltet for the woods, and tho women wer. shipped to Den Sae-aiaint dake ps OBES tte4F+oootoes ITE teacher had told the puptia the story of Washington and hie & Uttle hatchet and bad then abown them an enzraving which de- % pleted two small boys standing to a-repentunt attitude “explain. © + ing things to mother.” ¢ ‘The Uitte of the picture ‘was “The Truth Tellers." and the children were asked to write a composition thereon. ‘This was Iietlo Johnnie's effort: - - : | “One day mother left mo tn the house all alone. Pretty soon Tommy: Jones ‘came along and said lets go éwimming. My fuvther wont let me. Ab, come on. 80 I went. -When mother came back she sald what { makes your hair so wet. I said mother § cannot tell a Ile I went swim- ming. And she said Jobnote I'm glad you took a bath."—Life, - } 3 Obese ereresesoeetee = The Pity of It: . - "AE modern fastions wear. so hideous raien, " YZ -- Av to be sconted need bat to be seen, aT. weNt - But seen too often went a pretty face v1. “ay We drat eotare them pity, ben embrace am = ak Pope in Life. } bya yeaa aliai ce cst in inhale Silt os hated Iv the front of the bugey was galloped most of the way, Hannah was at the gate to greet him, He handed her ber envelope and wat back in the buxsy te open bis, White he wan gazing at bly type, with a dazed Jook on tis fnee, the glet cried ont: “Why, dosh, tit. ain't: me no more than It fs my xrndmother!" “Nor It att me ne more than ft 1s fone horn cow?! To Jumped from the bugsy. and with thelr, heade close together over the gate they inspected the picture, “This f¥ a pleture of a young wo: man with n mouth large enough take inn Ms turnlp!” walled Hannah “Mod thie boon pleture ef al younz nan with a nese Me enough for four ment” dhonted Joxt. “Hannah, 1€ that fs you TH be hnaz: ed tf T want’ you for a wife: bluntly excinimed Jonh. SLR ce Ea Su Hi NOW IS THE TIME! supscrine, CO THE RICHMOND PLANET. $1.60 PER YEAR‘IN ADVANCE. TO COLORED FREE WOMEN OUR 1916 STYLE ROOK. ae eee 1916 STYLE BOOK. 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Great Is Truth | ADVERTISING, PQQ ere beer teat atv ertistnat IW Pars tee Vos tewn i keuid Jtme at ot kees tf oteerting an ue gus [frie es oe a te ra ta ners ti met tate ter net bie aie bbe ee eee Be hits tata te Lecsit te fe of eben Sf teed Mie at Jinsed ene « 2 ae bos gent Leeda *) te | Mut eats ote ao Pe Rieaen nae SHOCKED SOCIETY. ee er emu ore! puesta atraed bee matte Mis tee st De Anbey nent the fermen Ge gos sce aa hee tuettlayy Wat He den tegert that Sa Howse be ‘al ion LITERARY TASTE. x Cotened Soka Moberte topped tam bn ber tant Wee berate tete were atts fourteen unter Hens in iC and hb unual Gone a went nie We tad ter ntrstoau! in exchanges ts And ne that vs Me wi, ahd we Father feel glad (hn sah nelle Off the tet Tait it a fe cuter thapla for murder tema, and if vavtendy aw Bev sf them Inn nerap Woon tro eotonel will pay at Jennt Eel for tee catty nnd Fond every One Of them wer five timer SONS Quan . The Fact. About Colin KI TREPLION Kissed me in the spring, COT that Colin did net thiret ST oats tthe ta Nee ae wb Nut Colla enly Tooked at Se Gotten plan mm aafoty Brat, 4 ‘And ever Kisent nt alt Coitn tented the urine Sarah Tenseute Moston ‘Transcript BW oe ote ork tn leveuritog a tedted dinn viake any mistake, Tt | fet ene of Dugetn Joe's i tolling ever the country = There ta a driver on th In explanation of the above L will atate Wat {Lave Giken igi my reme- dien out of the hanis of the drugsiats of the country, and they wit have Co only be seld frem my wagons at your gate. When you have pursued « bottle of my remeiites che driver with hand you: @ opamp: containing ceatimontala that aurety must convince you that you cannot hive on without my help, Juat read thiv Getumeniai [tte from Henry’ Black of St danin To nays: + “In Orteber last I attended « circus in thia city © fam a young man who thinks he “is nome pumpking, When the trick muiv wan Urought tnto the ring anit the rinkmaster offered $6 to any one who could ride him twice @round the ring, f rushed to the front and on that muf's back, and thres, hours Inter." when I recovered con- aciousnenn, they told me that the mule had rolted, over me soventy-seven times and “that there was not one chance in a milton that I would live “I wan preparing to dle as herojoally ae I could. when a druggist rushed in with a lox sf your salve and began to “I tried to gasp out that I was dying and 41d not wish to be disturbed, but he tol me to shut my head and went on ‘with his rubbing. In three Gaya | o Waa on the atreet and stepping as high as usual, Hereafter I shall carry 4 box of your Paradise salve in every pocket.” In the addition to the above testimonials a thounand others could be pre. duced. ° It hae been figured for me dy the eminent atatiatician of the axr!- cultural bugeau at Washington that had my remedies been on the market fifty years ago the population of the United States would now be 6,000,000 72 more than it fs. The statisticfan of the labor bureau figuces that L have driven 1,000 undertakers out of business every year for the inet ten years, Dut-my conartence is easy and I shall. keep right at it. . 7 Watch for the red and green wagons! Listen for the sotes of the ‘buste! : . . . M. QUAD. = ‘ Copyright, 184, by. MoCTure Newspaper fy ndicate. oS eteseers+s4000 Proud as Lucifer ccot+es++eesees * LADY as proud as old Lucifer cia De A SORES Eee tatonars abuciter. * Sho says she will see If she ever gata free Love dosen't again make # gucifer aa EE LTE EC ET FEE Teer ee Cee Eee ee s¢ Pilgrim Joe NF —_ =x Pilgrim Joe *: t — e * A Real Benefactor to All Mankind 2 Papeete age engeind Md th dba debe ache debate tbe!” PI se orks tn dhe Held oF tita at your dinner table siding & felted sinter and Sob tear a bose sew dh toa AOLe Gee Guiting, AL lane Gauri Syindlnie ble Mage trains cae Cr Pinecten Juate $008 wanite printed ted And Ensen ane] i tolling ever the country for the benefit of humanity In general, = Mitre be Riielear. nesthe: seat Greaeiiio a Gon aad aaeeeroale iy “Peak 2 be 2 Ry aA Wekae V1 SGA IES, 9/4 7 Nes Ya : ve Ce } ar ae 7 ie 2 On That Mules Beek. SATURDAY.....APRIL 8, 1910 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. In hearts of men he lives, he touched a shear That gave no note of malcontent or fear; And those who lightly held the task he set. Now stand uncovered by his silent bier. The nameless spirit of a painless race. For them he sae' delosah's wrath unfurled.— And, with them caught, as forth he passed to light passed to right. A name with which to preface a gaping world. And to that name three graded halls have rung. And every home from East to West ern can. Where, musting deep over heroes past and gone. The nation greets a risen Washington ton. Where storm and doubt had spread their blackened rains. Fair walls be reared above a fertile land. He set a crown upon the brow in Toil And placed a sceptre in its grins hand Not ceased his work till care his strength had sapped And death stole down to ease his aching head. But hope had kindled in a hopeless race. And blazed the way toward fallen Chiefton led. And there, where Dumbart's saddest song applits. And Donglass' challenge starches to the Dawn. There Ethiopia once more jetted. Await, a coming Prince to lead her on. H W Ash Picha Pa FLORENCE, S. C. Florence, S. C. April 2. I heart ly agree with Miss Ruth L. Goode and babe Benjamin C. Goode that Florence is a fine place to live. At Payetteville, N. C., 50 miles at Multius, S. C., 30 miles at Lake City 24 miles from Florence at each place recently a colored man has known to murder his wife. Mr J. A. Brown of the A. C. L. shop, off the city streets, for a trip to Finsbury. For a visit rela- tives. Mrs. Gilda Moore, and daugh- ter, Willemus, left for home in W. 41th Street, New York City. Mr. Katie Moore, in Harbours, left for Corlisson, New York City. Mr. Winnie Miller, found the girl at town hall to contribute health. Mr. C. N. Jones having a career taught at Dewey School at St. Clement Charterwood, S. C. she was completed at her Dewey School. The School Council met at Dar- dian county and that the report for the term of Mr. Jones pat- tion was the first hundred of the war by any teacher. Mr. Arthur A. Wright, passed the term of twenty years from Downtown S. C. contiguous to Salisbury, N. C. to join Sparks. Shows at and instr- utor. Mrs. Anna Bethan of Latta, S. C. come to the city recently to have her released at the infirmary. Two daughters, Mrs. Blanche B. M. Patiald and Mrs. Maggie Rathen, Mallory S. C. accompanied her. Mrs. E. R. Brown, of Darlington left home on Thursday for Atlanta, having received a message that her daughter, Miss Edna, was quail- l at Atlanta University. Mrs. Mary M. Cuthbertson has returned to Richmond, Va., after having visited her relatives at Darlington, S. C. Mrs. Bessie L. Richardson, having successfully taught the Ashbury School, Darlington county, returned to her home at Timmonsville, S. C. Mrs. Susan Stagger is home away after a successful school term at Pampheco, S. C. K. B. WEBSTER URBANNA. (VA.) NOTES Urbana, Va. March 27. On last Sunday, the 26th, Rev C. D. Jones preached one of his soul-stirring sermons from James 1:26-27. Subject "Pure and Vain Religion" I think everybody present was benefited by coming to the Lebanon Baptist Church and hearing this wonderful sermon. Mr. Felix Braxton, who has been for many years master of sailing vessels on the Chesapeake Bay and its arbitrators died in a Baltimore, Md. hospital, March 19. His remains were brought here on the 23rd Funeral services were conducted at the Immunael Baptist Church by Rev R. E. Berkley, D. D. He was interred at home. This section was visited on the 22nd by a severe wind storm. The frame work of the Harris Brothers' Store, just erected, was blown down. Mr. Daniel Cook's house was also blown off its foundation. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tabb of Jamaica and Miss Annie H. Tabb of Waterview, motored to town on last Saturday in Mr. Tabb's car. Rev. C. D. Jones dined with Mr. J. W. Ward on last Sunday. Mrs. Annie Scott, of Philadelphia. Pa. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Green. Mr. A. Taliaferro, Mrs. and Mrs. Hoster Burrell are yet on the sick list. Mrs. Rosa Burrell and Mrs. Cecia Braxton visited Mrs. Ella Einston last week. The public school exhibition under the auspices of the Teachers' Association of Middlesex will be on the 7th and 8th April. Those days are days of great importance to the patrons of the schools in the county. Many men of ability and influence will be there. This exhibition will be held at Saluda. Mrs. Mertina Tabb and Miss Annie H. Tabb were the guest of Mrs. W. P. Williams on last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Greene visited Mrs. Addina Carr and Mrs. Mildred Everidge last Sunday afternoon. Mistresses Fannie Lockley, Sadie Carter, Miss Sheila Grimes and Mr. Spiller Frater were visitors in Webb Town recently. "Be sure your sins will find you out. Bible." On last Friday that Scripture came to me as I saw three persons under arrest for violating the bourn law. They were taken to Frederickburg for a hearing. "For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither bid that shall not be known. Bible." Mira Eliza Johnson visited relatives in Webb Town last week. THIS REALLY HAPPENED IN (MIDDLESEEN RECENTLY) A woman afterooking out her vices on the basis of the stove to keep warm and went out to look after some work. While out she heard a noise in kitchen, on investigating she found that the stove had jumped around. In its whirl it threw all the vices into the floor. Later a telegram came that her child had died. Query What caused the stove to move. TROY. N. Y. 100 N. W. AVENUE The Amer Independent League of Water which meets every Monday night at 12:01 rd Avenue A goodly meet ning is expected by the men next Monday night to talk over some things of importance let every man come who can Mr. Robert Adams is president Mr. and Mrs. A D Coles of 41 State Street, the city, are rejoining over a new damster who came to them March 6, 1950. She came to stay for to make things livey and chiefful in the home Mrs. Hattie Real of 32 Hattie who went to the Lennard Hospital, North Troy and had a successful operation for Appendix A is done well Mrs. Christine Archer of 1914 and Avenue North Troy, is expecting to go to the hospital for Appendix We are playing that Mrs. Archer out all the time! We are proud to offer the following Schools very much to the County Houses and Mr. Alexander Dutton of the County Houses. Please contact a teacher of the County Houses at Huntington on the Rock A. Taylor of the City March 1916. It has been over twenty years since he has been his father and mother in Virginia. He has wished over two months with him and returned to Troy Friday. We are proud to offer the County Houses. Statement of the Ownership, Man- agement, Circulation, Erc. Reqiured by Act of Congress of August 21, 1912. Of the Planer, published weekly at Richmond Va. for April 1912. State of Va. County of Hunger. Before use, a Notary Public and for the State and county aforesaid personally appeared John Mitchell Jr. who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of The Planer and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership management, one of the aforesaid publications for the date shown in the above-caption, required by the Act of August 21, 1912, embodied in section 443, Public Law and Regulation, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are Publisher John Mitchell Jr. 311 N Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia Editor, John Mitchell, Jr., 311 N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia Managing Editor, John Mitchell, Jr. 311 N. Fourth St, Richmond, Va. Business Manager, John Mitchell, Jr. 311 N. Fourth St, Richmond, Va. 2 That the owner is John Mitchell, Jr. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are None. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Swoorn to and subscribed before this 6th day of April, 1916. A. V. NORRELL, JR. Notary Public. Send us your order for soliciting cards for church and school funds. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. COLORED PEOPLE PETITION FOR RIGHT TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY. Washington, March 29—The following letter recently sent to the chairman of the House and Senate Committees on Military Affairs and others, voices the demand of a million native-born, English-speaking, American citizens for the right to serve their country at this crisis. Citizens petitioning for the right to insist in our army, white the Tenth Cavalry is bearing the brunt in Mexico! Dear Sir: At the suggestion of Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, Treasurer of this Association, I am appalling for your support of the request that two regiments of artillery and two of infantry of those about to be created, be designated as open for the enlistment of colored soldiers The Adjutant General has stated that he doubted it 175,000 regulars could be recruited in the United States. There is no difficulty in recruiting colored regiments. Yet white officers are tearing their hair to get white recruits, the sign is "No colored man wanted." Does it not seem a ridiculous programme of preparedness which deliberately excludes the best material we've got? That is no bile peard. When the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts stormed Fort Wagner in '63 it established for all time the fact that the colored soldier could fight and fight well. The history of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry in the Indian fights between 1685 and 1890 piled up the evidence of their courage and loyalty. There have been notably fewer desertions from the colored regiments than from the white The Ninth Cavalry once astonished the army by reporting not a single desertion in twelve months, an unheard of and unreamed of record. Their service during the Spanish War and since has shown our colored troops to be infinitely better fitted for service in our tropical dependence than white troops. Company L. of the Forty-ninth Volunteers, composed wholly of colored men, and commanded by Capt E. L. Baker, a colored veteran who had served for seventeen years in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, made a record which no white company remotely approached. This company had on its rolls during a period of twelve months one hundred and six men who were fit for duty at all times and never lost a day on account of sliness. More extraordinary stall is the fact that during the same period not one of these men ever went before a court-martial. Surely a striking illustration of what can be done by colored officers' such traits enabled Gen. A. S. Burt, in re-qualifying command of the Twenty-fifth Inantry, on April 17, 1902, to the Lieutenant General of the army as Sayre's 312th Infantry is the best regiment I have seen in the Philippines. It was not receivable, too, that neither the officer the men of any colored regiment figured in the charges and counter-charges which are out of the use of the water currents in the islands. Since 1892 there have been four colored regiments in our regular establishment, two of cavalry and two of infantry, but there have never been a colored artillery organization in the regular service. When ten regiment and several units of artillery are labeled in 1901, the colored officers of America were deeply offended that Secretary Roost failed to recommend the establishment of any colored regiment. Now that the question to be before Congress archaic, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urge that the right of the ten million citizens to participate to the full in every phase of our national life be recognized by designating two of the artillery regiments and two of infantry of the army to be created by Congress, an open for enrollment colored Americans. If phytonematized citizen hip is a weak nose of the body politic, why must that ten million then die and we must remain. After American and the french and the population. NEWS ANGLERS THE COLONEL Says Secretary Won't Lose Job Because of Sentence. Oyster Bay, L. I. March 21. News that John McGrath, his secretary, had been sentenced to jail came to Col Roscoeck as a shock this afternoon. It made the Colonel mad through and through, and he said he would stand by McGrath and that his secretary would not lose his job on this account. "Mr. McGrath told me he was in a restaurant," said the Colonel, "and that he had nothing to do with the assault except to try to interfere to save a woman from being hurt. Personally I believe his absolutely. "He has been associated with me now for nearly four years in the closest relations, and I have felt I could not only have absolute confidence in his energy and ability, but in his straight-forward integrity. He will continue in my employ exactly as if this had not happened, with entirely undiminished trust and regard on my part." An soon as Col. Roosevelt heard from Brooklyn that a Jail sentence had been imposed on McGrath he immediately communicated with Mrs. McGrath, and with his secretary through a lawyer. It was also learned that arrangements were made in a hurry to engage Robert Elder, former Assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn, to look after McGrath in the interest of his employer. George W. Perkins, chairman of the executive committee of the National Progressive party, was with the Colonel at the time. Mr. Perkins decided not to make any public statement regarding McGrath, although the Colonel's secretary, found his first work in this country when he came here from Canada through Mr. Perkins and the Progressive National Committee. Of late McGrath has been acting secretary of the executive committee of the party. He has always been a hard worker and a shrewd diagnostician of political affairs, so wise he beyond his years—twenty-three—that Our Rodwell was struck by his efficiency him as his own private secretary. Here and in New York McGrath has always had a reputation for manliness. The people of Oyster Bay hold him in high regard. Last year he lived among them, taking a house in the village, but this year he moved his family to New York and has been making daily trips to Sagamore Hill, carrying on his work with the Colonel. He was here yesterday and caused a mild surprise among the correspondents when he said he wouldn't be able to get down today because of an appointment. He never let slip an inkling that the appointment had anything to do with a court of law or with his appearing as defendant in such a court, undoubtedly because he wanted to keep the publicity from being an embarrassment to the Colonel. McGrath has always been a man after the Colonel's own heart. He has been a sturdy devotee of the Colonel, a rugged little Canadian who was one of the best hockey players the famous Wanderers ever had. Where Shall I Attend Summer School? Where Shall I Attend Summer School? 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