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VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 26 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SAATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916 PRICE, FIVE CENTS Fourteen Bishops Attend The African M. E. Conference Opens With Plea for Prepar- Philadelphia, Pa., May 4, 1916.—"Preparedness" was the keynote of the quadrennial address by Bishop H. Blanton Parks, of Chicago, before the opening session of the Centennial and Quadrennial Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which opened in Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sixth street below Pine, yesterday. "We, as a race, must be prepared, industrially, financially and spiritually to be in position to take advantage of the opportunities that are offered the Negro in this country today," declared Bishop Parks. Continuing, Dr. Parks said, in part, "All this talk about America being prepared, and that there will be no need to fight, is utter foolishness. We must be prepared to fight, and nobody ought to realize it more fully than we of the African race, who have gained all that we have by fighting every step of the way." Fourteen bishops are present at the Conference and will preside over the various sessions in order of their seniority, as follows: B. F. Lee, Wilberforce, Ohio; Evans Tyree, Nashville, Tenn.; C. S. Smith, Detroit, Mich.; Levi J. Coppin, Philadelphia; C. T. Schaffer, Chicago; H. B. Parks, Little Rock, Ark.; J. S. Flipper, Atlanta; J. Albert Johnson, Johann堡, south Africa; William H. Heard, Monrovia, West Africa; L. J. Coppin, D. D. Philadelphia; John Hurst, Baltimore; Joshua H. Jones, Wilberforce; William D. Chappelle, Columbus, Ga.; J. M. Connors, Texas, and B. F. Tanner, Philadelphia, superannuated. Forming in line the delegates, headed by the bishops, marched north on Sixth street, to Pine, west on Pine, to Seventh, to Lombard, to Sixth street, thence into the church. Bishop Lee, of Wilberforce, Ohio, president bishop, opened the session. Prayer was offered by Bishop Flipper; Bishop Charles S. Smith read the first Scripture Lesson; Bishop Hurst read the Decalogue, and the second Scripture lesson was read by Bishop Jones. Commission was celebrated by Bishop Tyree, of Nashville, Tenn., assisted by Bishops Coppin, Shaffer, Johnson and M. Connora. The morning session was concluded with a visit to the tomb of Richard Allen and his wife, in the basement of the church, where the sessions are being held. After the election of Rev. W. D. Johnson, of American, Ga., as secretary, the district marshals were nominated from the floor after election by delegates from the district. Confusion was general throughout the afternoon session and grew to such an extent that the election of more officers was impossible. Because of the lack of room, after a curbstone meeting in the morning, when some of the delegates were unable to get inside, a motion was offered by J. D. Dennis, of Arkansas, to purge the conference of all excepting delegates, and the motion prevailed, but an some-who are not delegates would not go out the Conference was adjourned until this morning. It is conceded by those in position to know that the Conference will be forced to seek larger quarters, as the church here will not seat the delegates. The election of bishops, and the report of the commission on the organic union of all Negro Methodists are probably the most important questions that will be decided. There seems to be a growing sentiment in favor of the election of four additional bishops, notwithstanding the report of the bishops' council that there is no necessity for an increase. The report of the commission on organic union will show the result of four years of effort on the part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to bring all Methodists of color into one church. Governor Brumhaugh, Mayor Smith and Harry W. Bass, former member of the epiglature, will be the principal speakers at the public celebration of the octennial in the Academy of Music tonight. Among others who will address the meeting are Rev. C. C. Dunley, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Churho; Dr. W. F. Graham, Rev. W. Sampon Brooks, of Missouri; John R. Hawkins, of Washington. D. C. and Rev. James Yapi Tantali, of South Africa. Morning Star, Baptist Church, South Richmond, Va., situated on E. 5th Street. Baptism will take place sunday morning, at 12:30 P. M., in the James River. Carter Brag prenounced in the morning. 2:30 P. M. Rev. Wm. Fyn, State evangelist, will deliver the charge to the candidates and also prench at night. All are invi- bited. RSV. T. W. SMITH. Pastor. B. A. TROMPSON. Clerk. BANNER CONTEST During the Memphis session of the National B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School Congress there will be three contests and three banners, awarded on the following basis: CONTEST NO. 1. A silk banner will be awarded the church representatives that render a Gospel Song, an Anthem, and a Jubilee Song most perfectly. The points for the judges to consider are: 1. melody; 2. harmony; 3. time; 4. pronunciation; 5. enunciation; 6. interpretation; 7. spirituality. CONTEBT NO. 11 A banner will be awarded the union outside of Memphis that sends or brings to the congress, the largest amount of money above ($500) Five Dollars. CONTEST NO. III. A banner will be awarded the union in Memphis that reports the largest amount of money above ($5.00) Five Dollars. This particular contest to close on the last day of the Congress which is June 19th. The participants in the Musical Contest may consist of Church Choruses, Union Choirs, State Convention Choruses or groups of volunteers, selected by the leaders from the respective states. The Musical Contest will take place on Friday night, June 16th., the others on Sunday afternoon, June 18th, at 3 and 6:30 o'clock respectively. For further particulars write 409 Gay Street, Nanhville, Tenn. EDITOR WILKINS SPEAKS PLANLY. St. Louis, Mo., May 2, 1916. Mr. John Mitchell, Editor of Planet, Richmond, Va. Dear Brother Mitchell: The attempt of a petty police official to humiliate you is felt and deeply resented by every Negro belonging to the newspaper fraternity. We offer heartiest congratulations on the outcome. This attempt to put a stigma upon one of our most intelligent, polite and vigorously progressive men in the country has failed of its purpose, but it shows how deep and damnable is race hatred. Yours fraternally, H. B. WILKINS, Editor of Clarion. SYMPATHY EXTENDED: (Montgomery Colored Alabamian.) A few days ago Editor John Mitchell, Jr., of the Richmond (Va.) Planet, was arrested on the streets of his city and charged with blocking the traffic. Mr. Mitchell it not only one of our veteran and able editors, but Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Virginia, and President of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond. He is the only colored member of the American Banker Association and is widely known. At the trial he was oxonerated, but it must have been very embarrassing to him to have had such an experience. It is the kind of treatment that many Negroes receive daily in the South and they can sympathize with Mr. Mitchell. We are certain that the Negro press throughout the country deplores this incident and will in no uncertain tone make this known to our distinguished friend. Mr. Mitchell has the deepest sympathy of the Colored Alabamian. MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS' CONGRATULATIONS. Washington D. C., May 4, 1916. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Richmond, Virginia. My dear Brother Mitchell.—You have long since won the admiration of the entire race because of the manly stand you always take on questions affecting the welfare of the American people. The victory over race prejudice in court the other day, is the best evidence of the fact that the Negro who respects himself, stands up like a man and practices what he preaches at all times, will make friends who will not suffer a gross injustice to be done him. Congratulations! It is really stimulating to know that in spite of the mean things perpetrated upon us, deep down in the heart of this people there is a sense of justice to the Negro that once in a while, asserts itself. God be praised for it. Now, to your position on the Howard University, "Strike." You are absolutely right. We have wanted too much time and money educating girls. With best wishes, I am, Yours sincerely, NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SAATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916 HON. A. B. GUIGON'S TRIBUTE A RINGING COMMENDATION OF RICHMOND'S POLICE-JUSTICE-PERSONAL COMMENDA TION AND POSITIVE OBSERVATIONS OF THE WORK DONE BY RICHMOND'S COLORED CITIZEN. The following letter which was written by Capt. A. B. Guigon, General Counsel for the Virginia Passenger and Power Company, and one of the ablest and most brilliant attorneys in this Commonwealth will explain itself: My dear Judge: I have been intending for sometime to write and congratulate and thank you, as a citizen, for your prompt dismissal of the charges against John Mitchell, Jr., the editor of the Planet and president of a local bank. If I had known in time of his arrest, I should have joined other citizens in volunteering my testimony as to his uniformly upright life, quiet demeanor and invariable courtesy. I have been thrown with him for a number of years past from time to time, and have been struck by those facts. In the position of prominence which he has attained by his intelligence, industry and integrity, I consider that he is of great value to our colored population in the example he sets, and in his good influence upon them, and I regretted the over-zealous action of the officers, who, though probably were prompted by good motives, were undoubtedly mistaken. I congratulate you upon promptly doing justice and dismissing the case. Virginia Union University. Virginia Union University. The recently received 1916 catalogue of Virginia Union University calls attention, to the rapid progress of our higher schools of learning. Richmond and Virginia may well be proud of this school with its ten granite buildings, its library of 13,000 volumes, its large campus and fine athletic field. The catalogue shows progress in various directions. The college department, which ranks as one of the very best in the South, shows an increased attendance of 20 per cent over last year, and numbers 60 in addition to 7 young women from Hartshorn Memorial College, who are taking their college studies in the University classes. The course of study is greatly improved by adjustment of the science work to the increased requirements of medical schools, and the relieving of our science professor of all Academy work. Another noteworthy improvement in the college is the added practical work of the Social Science department. Prof. W. N. Colson, a graduate of Union in 1914, and a scholarship student in Columbia University the following year, gives instruction to the advanced students in Negro Life and Problems. As director of the Richmond Negro Welfare League, he is in closest touch with practical work, and he is unusually well situated to give valuable instruction to his classes. The theological department has recently raised its standards so as to conform to the Virginia requirements for a standard professional school. Regular students must now be at least full Academy graduates with 15 units of secondary studies to their credit. The faculty is unusually strong; and, while the number of students in the regular classes, is small, the total number of men in all classes of the school preparing for the ministry is about 125, the largest number in its history. It is said that lack of money needer no student for the ministry from going to this school. If he is willing to work and has character and ability that promise a useful life, work and assistance sufficient to meet his expenses can be secured for him. The academy is rapidly growing in numbers, having gained 20 per cent this year, and enrolling 190 young men. Its courses have been strengthened, and a physical director has been added to the faculty. The total enrollment in all departments numbers 332 young men and 7 college girls from Hartshorn, to which might perhaps be added the 247 teachers who attended a six weeks summer normal. This summer normal, and a summer minister's institute lasting two weeks, are important features of the work of the University for the race. Virginia Union University is a live, active and growing school, and means much for our women. have been intending for sometime to thank you, as a citizen, for your ages against John Mitchell, Jr., the resident of a local bank. Of his arrest, I should have joined my testimony as to his uniformly and invariable courtesy. I have number of years past from time to by those facts. In the position of retained by his intelligence, industry he is of great value to our colored sets, and in his good influence he over-zealous action of the officers, prompted by good motives, were in promptly doing justice and dis-very truly. A. B. GUIGON Harrisonburg, Va., May 2, 1916 Mr John Mitchell, Jr. Editor Richmond Planet. Dear Sir, You have received so many cologies already, but we cannot resist the temptation of expressing to you our sincere sympathy for your having had to undergo such a very cruel ordeal a short while ago Leader and hero, go on your way; onward and upward, God is in the load; He will give you grace to conquer, and will keep you to the end. Yours most truly. MRS. JANIE G. BARBER MRS. HATTIE L. HOLMES Frederickburg, Va. May 9, 1916 Mrs Elmore L. Washington has returned from a visit to the Misses Gray, in Stafford County. Mr. Matt Buckner, of Gloucester County, has accepted a position with the "Elliot Home Bakery," where he would be glad to see his friends. Mrs. Maria Pollard and daughter, Miss Grace, have returned to their home at Tappahannock, Va., after a two weeks' visit with Mrs. Dudley Pendleton. Messrs. Harry Rollins and Richard Washington left Monday for Steelton, Pa. Mrs. Pattie Brown, who has been quite sick at her home at Mayfield, is much better, and able to be out Miss Hattie Rollins is visiting in Atlantic City. Mr. Arthur Brown, Jr., has returned home from Jeffries, Va. Under the direction of Mrs. Maud L. Bass, the beautiful playlet "The Island of Jowell" was repeated at Shiloh Baptist Church (now site) on Friday night for the benefit of "Celestia" Chapter, Order Eastern Star. It was a decided success and quite a large sum was realized. A GOOD HOME FOR SOME ONE Any one knowing a reliable person who can serve as maid in a family in New York, and who is of good character and can come well recommended, may secure a good home and satisfactory wages by applying to the Planet-Office, 311 N. 4th Street. HE WILL' BE THERE! WHO? WHEN AND WHERE? Reverend R. V. Peyton, D. D. pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, will go to Beaver Dam, Va. third Sunday—May 21, 1916, to preach in a grand rally and install Rev. E. C. Thompson, D. D., as pastor of the Union Baptist Church. Pastors, churches and friends are cordially invited to come and help us. Send your Programs to our Job Department. They will be printed and mailed to you. A Town of Nergoes Alone. Birmingham, Ala., May 7. After several years struggle against heavy odds, including local unsympathetic sentiment and gloomy predictions of failure by white people of neighboring towns, Hobson City, the only municipality in the United States, with one exception, which is wholly populated and coproduced by Negroes, has won its battle by demonstrating that it is a pronounced success. When the plan to found an exclusively Negro town in the South was proposed scarcely any white people in the Anniston district, where it is located, dreamed it would work out. But the Negroes were not discouraged and went ahead. Now Hobson City is firmly established as a progressive town and governs itself successfully both in a financial way and in law enforcement and observance. Back in 1900 this exclusively Negro town was started by a band of Negroes who obtained a charter and in corporated. The population shows a gain of 150 per cent. No man without employment is allowed to stay in the town. Either a job is found for him or he is required to move away. The town has four churches with a combined membership of 700, a good public school with 250 pupils, a dozen progressive stores, waterworks, electric lights, police and sanitary departments, a well built jail, and a governing board elected every two years. It is the only town in the State that is out of debt and has money in the treasury. More than half the citizens town their own homes. Some of its residents produce within a stone's throw of the town limits from $500 to $1,500 worth of cotton and other farm products besides large quantities of vegetables and fruits. Hobson City's governing board consists of seven Councilmen, a Mayor and four other municipal officers, including a chief of police. Every resident of the town is a Negro. Miss Ethel Matthews takes this method of thinking the gentlemen whose names appear below for their interest evinced in her in coming to her relief and contributing the sum below, that she might not have to bear the added burden of the heavy fine imposed on her in the Hustings Court, following the dismissal of Warren Page (white) who was tried under indictment of raping her thirteen-year-old sister, Catherine. It is all the more appreciated by her since the effort in her behalf was over before she knew of it. Dr. James E. Jackson, $5.00; Mr. William J. Jordan, $5.00; Col. Thomas M. Grump, $5.00; Dr. D. A. Ferguson, $2.00; Mr. J. W. Johnson, $2.00; Dr. J. M. Ramsey, $1.00; Lt. James Smith, $1.00; Mr. John H. Braxton, $1.00; Mr. James Fraysor, $1.00; Mr. B. F. Turner, Sr. $1.00; Mr. William Miller, $1.00; Dr. E. R. Jefferson, $1.00; Dr. A. M. Bowles, $1.00; Mr. W. D. Hill, $2.00; Mr. H. Price, $1.00; Dr. R. E. Jones, $5.00; Mr. Bernard Glipin, $5.00; Mr. W. D. Jones, $5.00; Mr. O. W. Brown, $5.00; Rev. M. H. Payne, $5.00; Mr. Chas. Saunders, $5.00; Mr. Henry Mallory, $5.00; Mr. W. J. Johnson, $5.00; Mr. A. J. Brown, $5.00; Rev. J. W. Woodson, $2.50; Rev. D. J. Bradford, $2.50; Dr. E. S. Rone, $2.50; Mr. Goo. Evans, $2.50; Mr. E. Robinson, $2.00; Mr. B. F. Kersey, Jr. $2.50; Mr. Lightfoot, $2.5; C. A. B. $2.50; Mr. Carey Wheaton, $2.50; Mr. B. J. Franklin, $2.5; Mr. James Royall, $2.5; Lt. Aa. Miller, $2.5; Mr. R. W. Jackson, $2.5; total, $37.50; Dr. O. B. H. Bowers, $5.00; grand total, $38.20. I extend thanks and make grateful acknowledgement to these gentlemen, that Dr. James E. Jackson this day turned over to me the sum of $38.20. Thankfully yours. ETHEL MATTHEWS May 8, 1916. LOST—A housing for a horse on Stewart Road in Barton Heights. Thursday evening. May 4th. A suitable reward will be paid. Anyone finding same will return to 916 Moore Street. FOUND—A pocketbook on Clay Street car at Hanover and Main Streets. The owner can have same by calling at the Planet Office and identifying the property. FOR RENT--Nine room house, newly painted and papered, with electric lights, surrounded with beautiful oak trees and situated 150 feet from the street line, beautiful lawn, large garden in the highest state of cultivation, and plenty of room for raising chickens. Only three blocks from the car line; twenty minutes from Broad Street; excellent neighbors and locality. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity. If interested, phone 2922. SPRING. The air is filled with fragrance; The fields are flushed with flowers. That tuck their heads as if when Kissed by mature neath their bowrs. While their sweet aromas alloy To fill the hearts of men with joy. This is the time when all men's fancy Quickly turns to thoughts of love. In a glory brief and bright. Gentle as a turtle dove. I see fond whimses as they blend. And aught but love must condescend Oh, that this time be eer stuyed. And not move as like a dart. That I might eer catch its essence. In the chalice of my heart. Its sally is as quickly made As when the sunshine scatters shade. EVANGELIST SKIPWITH HERE. Birmingham Ala. Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. G. W. Goodgamie pastor, Rev. W. H. Skipwell, B. D., the great international preacher and singer, started the devil to running here Sunday last. The outlook is very encouraging. He is preaching to 1,200 people or more every night. His meetings in Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, Ala., resulted in the conversions of 200 souls. We expect three hundred hours. Pray for us. ```markdown ``` MARRIED Miss Martha Stannard was married to Mr. Landon Harris, Wednesday, 8:30 P. M. at 6:13 Jesse Street, Richmond, Va. Rev. S. C. Burrell performed the ceremony. Reception Sunday, May 14, 3 to 8 P. M. GOOD TIME IN ETLTON Fulton Leake, No 42, observed its anniversary Sunday, April 30, 1916, at the Calvary Baptist Church On the rostrum were Rev. William Harris, Rev R Dixon, Rev W E. Brown, Rev Daniel James, and Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. The programme was interesting. The choir rendered selections. The welcome address was delivered by Past Chancellor Frank Jeter. Response by Rev W E Brown Restitution by Miss Ivry A paper was read by Miss Bertha Henderson. The Nightingale Glee Club delighted the audience with selections. District Deputy J O Dawson gave a most interesting history of the lodge. The collection was lifted by Deacon R W. Whitting and Sir. William Christian Rev William Harris, delivered a most impressive sermon on Damon and Pythias. It bristled with historical research Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., delivered a brief address. Miss M L. Chiles, G. W. R of D., was present and spoke also. The exercises were a grand success. The church extended a vote of thanks to the lodge and the lodge extended a vote of thanks to the participants in the exercises. --- Pool Tournament at Thunan's Billiard Parlor, 1400-1402 Wylie Avenue, opens Tuesday, May 9, with 34 entries, including all the best colored players of Pittsburgh $150.00 worth of valuable prizes will be given away. The management has spared no pain to make this Tournament the greatest ever held in Pittsburgh. Every thing free. No entry fee charged. Play will be held on Tuesday and Friday nights of each week. Players losing two consecutive games will be eliminated from further competition in contest. Following is the list of players entered: John Taylor, Ajax Jones, Len Newsome, Geo. Shields, T. Tyallie, Albert Hunter, Earl Harris, L. Davis, D. Tocas, Oscar Owens, Harvey Moore, Ernest Hill, A. Binney, Geo. White, Clarence Wagner, Frank Quander, Fred Winalow, Chas. Stinson, Jas. Gross, Phil Stewart, L. Bradford, M. Slater, H. Bloom, Fred Walker, Harry Lewis, Robert Young, John Jones, Harold Austin, Woodson Norwell, Swann Mason, Wm. Fowler, Lester Green, Herbert Stewart, Goe. Robinson, W. H. Patterson, referee and manager. ODD FELLOWS TO CELBRATE 73D ANNIVERSARY. Sunday, May 14, at the True Reformers Hall, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will celebrate the 73d anniversary of the Order. Sermon by Rev. T. J. J. Mosby, D. D. A special program has been arranged for 3 P. M. Meeting under auspices of New Baptist Church. PRICE, FIVE CENTS The Virginia Bapt. State Convention. Great Meeting in Nor folk, Virginia. Norfolk, Va. May 10—The Virginia Baptist State Convention convened this morning at nine o'clock, with Rev. Dr. A. A. Galvin in the chair. The sessions are being held in the beautiful First Baptist Church, the young Dr. R. H. Bowling, B. D., pastor. This church was erected at a cost of $72,000. Last night, in the auditorium of the church, Dr. Charles Stewart, newspaper correspondent and lecturer, entertained a large audience with his lecture, "Uncle Ned and His Son." The Executive Board was in session Tuesday, and much business was transacted. A very large attendance is on hand. At this morning's session, devotionals were conducted by Rova, R. G. Merchant, J. E. Fountain, of Richmond, and H. G. Garnet, W. H. Powell. Song and prayer service was indulged in, after which Chair appointed committees. The program was adopted as follows: From 9:00 to 9:30—Devotions, conducted by Rev. L. R. W. Johnson, A. M. W. H. Powell, B. D. J. A. Jordan and A. H. Gunn. 9:30 to 9:45—Appointment of Committee. 9:45 to 10:30—Welcome Addresses: (a) For the Church, Deacon Herbert. (b) For the City, Dr. L. W. C. Metz. (c) For the Denomination, Dr. C. C. Sommerville. 10:30 to 11:00—Response to Welcome Addresses: (a) For the Lattice, Mr. R. C. Mitchell. (b) For the Ministry, Rev. L. C. Garland, D. D. 11:00 to 11:25—President's Annual Report and, Address. 11:25 to 11:35—Introduction of Visitors. 11:35 to 1:00 P. M.-Roll Call and Reception of Finance. A ripple of excitement was caused by the First Baptist Church of Petersburg lodging a protest against its former pastor, Rev. Dr. Ell Tartte. Dr. Galvin was equal to the occasion and stated that the Convention would not entertain any questions relating to matters of state or nation that tend toward strife. The same met the approval of the body. Welcome Addresses were delivered as follows: PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS The address of President Galvin was forceful and delivered in a very pleasing manner. His recommendations as to not allowing questions relating to matters of the nation that tend toward strife and division, was interpreted to mean that the National Baptist issue will not come before the body. The address was received and adopted. New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, D. C., North and South Carolina, West Virginia are represented. Mr. J B Evans, of Lynchburg, Va. called, on us. Mrs John W. Howard, who has been indisposed, is much improved. We have received an invitation from the faculty and graduates of the Training School for Nurses of the Richmond Hospital, to attend the baccalaureate sermon, Sunday, May 14, 1916, S. P. M., at, the Leigh Street M. E. Church. Mr. Gardner Downings died at Burrell's Memorial Hospital Thursday, May 4th, and was buried Friday evening, May 5th, at 4:30 o'clock, after a very short illness. The Hampton (Va.) Southern Workman portrays the inside of its printing office. It makes a most creditable showing. Its leading feature in its May edition is "Salonika in War Time." ODD FELLOW ANNIVERSARY. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth, will celebrate their Annual Thanksgiving services, Sunday, May 14th, 2:30 P. M., at True Reformers' Hall. All Odd Fellows will assemble at Price's Hall at 2 o'clock P. M. sharp. All Households of Ruth will assemble at the True Reformers' Hall at 2 o'clock P. M. As this is the 73d anniversary of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of America; it is requested by the committee that every Odd Fellow and Household of Ruth will be present. P. N. F., J. H. Fauntleroy, Chairman; M. V. P., J. H. Graham, Assistant Chairman; P. G. N., W. T. Mason, Treasurer; P. N. F., J. H. Moore, Chapman; P. N. F., O. N. Brown, Gerrill Story; P. G. M., Henry J. Pankoff, Corresponding Secretary. --- REV. DR. SUTTON E. GRIGGS' COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST SPLIT About the Publishing House-Facts About the Chicago Meeting-Compares the Two Leaders (Continued From Last Week.) OWNERSHIP NOT HERETOFOR: DISPUTED. Permit me now to give you a true history of this disagreement. There was never any doubt in the minds of the well-informed members of the Convention as to the ownership of the publishing house by the Convention. The charter plaintiff sets forth this fact in the following words: "He it known that we, R. H. Boyd, E. C. Morris, C. H. Clark, J. P. Robinson, G. M. Moore, E. F. Fisher, J. E. Knox, and G. W. D. Salmons and judge, uncover chosen under the rules, unguess, and regulation of the National Baptist Convention, are here constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the National Baptist Publishing Board of said Convention of the Baptist church or denomination. But in all things to be governed by rules and regulations of the Convention of the Baptist Church or denomination, so far as the same are consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Tennessee and of the United States." In view of the wording of this charter and the oft repeated assurances of Rev. R. H. Boyd, the question of ownership was regarded as settled in the Convention beyond all doubt whatever. So late as three o'clock, September 10th, 1915, the second day of the recent Chicago session of the National Baptist Convention, Rev. R. H. Boyd was contending under oath in the courts of the state of Illinois that the National Baptist Publishing Board (incorporated) was the creature of the National Baptist Convention. His oath, made through Rev. E. P. Jones, whom he chose to represent him, runs in part as follows: A SOLEMN OATH E. P. Jones, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is one of the complaintants in the above entitled case, that he has read the foregoing bill by him subscribed, and that it is true in substance and in fact, that he is duly authorized to act as agent for H. Boyd and C. W. J. Boyd, and is authorized by them to sign for them in their stead. EDW. P. JONES Subscribed to and sworn before me, this 29th day of September A. D. 1915 VIOLETTE N. ANDERSON. Notary Public Now read a part of the bill which Rey Edw. P. Jones swears Rey H. Boyd authorized him to make FROM THE COURT RECORDS "Your orators (Edward P. Johnson, R. H. Boyd and C. W. Boyd) further show unto your honor that the National Baptist Convention of America has under its jurisdiction the following boards CREATED BY IT for the purpose of properly carrying out its objects, Foreign Mission Board, Home Mission Board, Educational Board, Baptist Young People's Union Board and National Baptist Publishing Board; that the Publishing Board has been incorporated in the State of Tennessee and that they own property, real and personal in the State of Tennessee, of the Publishing Board, where all literature, books, pamphlets, etc., authorized by the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America are published." This represents Rev R. H. Boyd's statement at the climax of the controversy. Last some one might conclude that this was a mere legal subterfuge to gain a point, we quote his recorded deliverance made in 1919 when the efforts to bring matters to an issue first took definite form. In his report to the Convention in New Orleans he said: "Inclosed herewith I am handing you an inventory of all personal property in my custody as employee of the National Baptist Publishing Board HELD IN TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION." With such a charter as I have quoted and the official statement cited, how could any person with a normal mind doubt the claim of the National Baptist Convention to the National Baptist Publishing Board? No, the question of ownership was never raised, was never at issue until the Convention, after Rev. R. H. Boyd left the body and refused to return and report, elected a Corresponding Secretary pro tem to take his place. Before the American people, white and black, Christian and non-Christian I challenge Rev. R. H. Boyd to produce one solitary line that he ever recorded anywhere to the effect that Publishing Board did not belong to the day of the November 1915, when he was in court in Tennessee and started the Christian world with his declaration. There were some features of the management of the publishing house which the Convention grew to distill and sought to correct. First, it was noticed that Rev. R. H. Boyd never allowed the real estate to get out of debt but kept it mortgaged to his wife or some firm in which he was financially interested. Out of more than two millions of dollars received than $10,000 shows up as having been paid on real estate. Second, contrary to the rule of every other publishing house, all books prepared at the expense of the Board were copiated by Rev. R. H. Boyd personally. Rev. R. H. Boyd was operating a company with the publishing board; all it was being sold by employees and they were doing work for Rev. R. H. Boyd personally while drawing other matters of administration did not suit. DETERMINATION TO CORRECT THINGS. In the year 1909, after several years of ination on a small scale, it was determined to get at the bottom of things. It became settled, though erroneous, conviction of Rev. R. H. Boyd that Dr. E. C. Morris was the inspiration of the movement to regulate his department. Dr. Morris all along has perhaps the mildest, the most patient and the most liberal of his critics and today he could get better terms out of Dr. Morris than out almost all of other men that prove him. But he did not see things this way, and instead of meeting the demands for a different arrangement of things he launched a campaign for the removal of Dr. Morris from the presidency. DR. MORRIS' POPULARITY It can be said in all truth that Dr E C Morris is one of the most generally popular men that has thus far appeared in the history, of the Negro race. He is clean in life, from his youth up. He is affable. He is humble. He is identified. He is patient. He exercises marvelous self-control. He has not been known to say a hasty thing in a burst of anger. He is charitable to all of his judgements of men. He is not revengeful. He is forgiving. He is generous. All men of influence, giving them full credit for their starling and achievements, and yet he fails not to give fatherly attention to the humble man that he approaches him. In addition to all of these he has that indelible something called personal magnetism, which perhaps is a radiation from a heart that is fundamentally kind and true. Well, when Rev R. H. Boyd decided to displace Dr. Morris from the presidency he undertook a stupendous task. He selected to run against Dr Morris a great and eloquent and lovable man, Dr C. T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga. The fact that the Rev Mr. Boyd was supporting the candidacy of Dr Walker became known from newspaper articles and from literature mailed from the office of the former. NO DEMONSTRATION AGAINST DR WALKER When the effort was made to run Dr. Walker at New Orleans, the year deadline plans were to put on foot to regulate Rev R. H Boyd, there was a busy demonstration. But this was not inspired, engendered, nor designed by Dr. Morris nor did the men who are now leading in the fight to have the demonstration come into possession of the public health worker with the demonstration, with times upgrades of the people in all races that sweep leaders aside. There was the thought of the people that Dr. Morris had done absolutely nothing to favor to have the interests of the people; that the candidacy of Dr. Walker was, from the Newport of Rev R H Boyd, only an effort to avoid regulation; and thus the people, the overwhelming masses voiced their indignation and their lack of patience with what they regarded as Rev R. H Boyd's methods. Dr. Walker, personally, has been the much depended on thousands, and the much did not regard themselves as dealing with him at all, but with the man that was pushing his candidacy. This statement contains no element of personal defense, as I was not present at the time, had no connection with the demonstration, and as a personal friend of Dr. Walker, regretted then and have regretted since, the occurrence. However, this is a true explanation as to how and why the demonstration occurred. Our mission of the National Baptist Convention the following action was taken by the unanimous vote of the body. The National Baptist Publishing Board was instructed to do the following things: ORDERS GIVEN 1. The satisfaction of the original concession of R. H. Boyd and wife. 2. The payment of the incumbance of the real estate. 3. The satisfaction of the salary debt of the secretary. 4. The turning over to the Board of copyrights of all books prepared on the time of the paid officials of the Board, including the secretary himself. 5. A complete divorcing of all private business from that of the Publishing Board. 6. We all know that our peculiar form of church government renders it somewhat difficult for us to raise large sums of money on short notice. Our publishing plan should be put out of the zone of danger. We have been in danger of losing anoth- twenty-five thousand dollars because of tardiness in raising ten thousand dollars. Our plant rated at $300,000, could be taken from us even now by those whom we owe. The profit of the business at Nashville should be directed toward making the business independent of this danger. "We recommend the appointment of a commission of sound business men and responsible brethren to be given plenary power to take such action as may be necessary to stain the ends sought. We recommend that the whole matter be put forth before attorneys at this session of the Convention that the necessary resolutions may be drafted and passed. We further recommend that this property be bought down to date after running it back to cover the limit of the law in the State of Tennessee." Three years passed by without ac THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA tion on the part of Rev. R. H. Boyd and without serious effort to force him to live up to instructions, but after the hage of three years, will no sign of obeying instructions coming from him, a commission was appointed with power to direct him and others to what to do. In case he are they refused, the matter was to be brought back to the Convention for adjudication. Now, this is what Rev. R. H. Boyd terms an Episcopal form of Government. At the close of the first meeting of this commission, I complimented the men upon their work, upon the importance of the trust committed to them, and stated that by proper action that body could become an serviceable to Negro Baptists as the Board of Blanchard Missions Church. It is the claim of Baptists that their system of government has in it possibilities equal to those of any other. Yet, when I urged those men to make this claim true by the character of their service, Rev. R. H. Boyd accuses me of trying to change the form of church government. ANOTHER CANDIDATE BROUGHT OUT. Rev. R. H. Boyd declined to accept the instructions given by the Commission up to the Convention that was to meet in Philadelphia. Again he determines upon a candidate for the presidency, this time throwing his strength behind Rev. J. H. Frank, a man who at that time was generally rejected. Again the delegates scented a desperate effort on the part of Rev. R. H. Boyd to escape regulation, difficulty, proceeded to suspend the rule and elect Dr. Morris to the presidency. Rev. R. H. Boyd is wholly in error when he says that Dr. Morris put the question and declared himself elected. Dr. W. G. Parks put the motion and a stunned friend of Rev. R. H. Boyd was appointed as a teller, and he reported that the vote stood five hundred and fourteen for, and two hundred and forty against. On the last day of the Convention the commission and Rev. R. H. Boyd presented two votes to the body. Dr. a vote of 241 to 209, Rev. R. H. Boyd was instructed to do as the Commission had said should be done. REY, R H BOYD FIGHTS MORE BUTTERY But the fight to escape regulation now began in earnest. You will recall the trades against the Convention appearing in the papers controlled by Rey R. H. Boyd, after the Philadelphia session. There was for their failure to do as the Commission and the Convention had directed. It was his plan to have the fight all over again at Chicago. GRANT OF AUTHORITY In sending the Commission back to deal with Roy R. H Boyd, the Philadelphia convention gave it power to take such action as might be found to be necessary to put into force the will of the Convention. The following authority was granted: "We recognize that this Commission be and be hereby given full power to take such steps and to make such enactments as are necessary to put in force its powers without question the ultimate authority and ownership of this Convention." This was contained in the preamble to the Commission's report and was added along with it. When, after the Philadelphia session of the Convention the Commission met and found that Rev R H Boyd yet refused to be regulated it was decided by the Commission that the Convention needed legal power to handle him in view of his open rebellion. The power was added to act under the draft of the Convention. Philadelphia and secure in charter that would give full legal power over Rev R H Boyd. It was decided to get out a charter in the District of Columbia. The law of the District of Columbia says that a charter must have at least seven names. The legal number of names was furnished and the charter was started on its way to the Chicago session where it was accepted, rejected, or amended by the Convention. The number of directors was to be fixed by the Convention and their powers were to be defined. CHARTER MISINTERPRETED Here was a great opportunity for misleading. It was represented that seven men without authority had slipped to Washington and had secured a charter that sought to put into their own hands all that the Haptists had wrought out for years. The Convention was to be nothing but a lot of bored men with seven men boss and regulate it. The Haptists were marked all that it was worth. Poor, misguided men came to Chicago with blood in their eyes looking for the seven men! The proposed charter contained a clause giving strong regulating power to the corporation. Wherever the word corporation was used it referred to the Convention when incorporated, but the people were led to believe that it referred to the seven men, who had a reality to pass from the sage at Chicopee to be given by such a number of men as the Convention should decree, who in turn were to represent the Convention in matters of law, and were to be subject to instructions from the Convention. The affairs of the Convention were to be conducted in the same way as of old, so far as a democratic form of government was concerned. The one difference was to be that when it adjourned there was to be a legally appointed chairman. R H. Boyd and others to do what they had been ordered to do by the Convention. But Rev. R. H. Boyd, having almost exclusively the ear of the denomination, and desiring an of old, to escape regulation, so wrought upon the fears of the people that all was lost forever unless they were on hand to smite the seven men. THE ALLEGED MAJORITY. Rev. R. H. Boyd has his claim to recognition upon the alleged ground that a majority of those voting on the first day at Chicago voted not to contain the ruling of Dr. E. C. Morris a enrollment should precede a consideration of formation of a charter, it being Rev. R. H. Boyd's plan to consider said charter prior to enrollment. Let us examine with care this question of a majority. 1. Dr. P. Boyd began the department of defense, and Dr. R. Boyd of Washington University was the sole applicant to the court. Dr. Boyd challenged with the methods of Rev. R. P. Hines in making the court reported this displacement and called for better methods. Rev. R. P. Jones unaccompanied, kept right on counting himself and that he was not the one appointed of the court by him alone, and was not an agreed verdict according to the order of the day. The count therefore upon which Rev. R. H. Boyd bases his whole case is defective from a parliamentary viewpoint, not having been taken' and announced in keeping with the provisions governing it at the start. 2. The count was made by an interested party, the man who, as a result of the count, was to step in to Convention of which he was never up to that time, a member, so far as any known records show. 3. There was no way to tell the delegates that stood to vote, from the curiosity seeking visitors to the Afro-American Exposition, being held in the city at the time, or from the members of the local Baptist churches, who had been urged by representatives of Rev. R. H. Boyd for weeks ahead to be on hand that first morning, and to go there against the alleged seven men. The pastors of the church had been held in the room, while against the seven men, and their members felt it to be their duty to be on hand to support the views of their pastor. Rev. R. H. Boyd published to the world that the local pastors and their members were organized to fight the proposed charter. These members knew that the one occasion on which they could vote and help defeat the charter without any expense was upon the first morning before enrollment, took place Imagine then the great desire of Rev. R. H. Boyd to have this matter determined by an unenrolled body. Such were the pastors of the church, his alleged majority, a majority that had never been seen previously nor was ever seen afterwards. Upon such a slender foundation he would base his actions in trying to disrupt our national organization. THE CLOSING OF THE DOORS IN CHICAGO. There is an abundance of evidence that Rev. R. H. Boyd never had anything like a majority of the delegates to the Convention. In order to be rid of his uncontrolled local support the doors were closed on the second morning and only delegates that would properly qualify were allowed in. Within less than an hour, perhaps graduates had paid the $2.50 required for enrollment. We have their names on record. In his statement concerning this matter Rev. R. H. Roy says: "No person was allowed to enter the hall unless he or she wore a Morris badge." This would leave the impression that there was a special Morris badge, and that the wearing of this badge was a token of being for Dr. Morris, and that the purpose of this arrangement was to exclude all from the building except those friendly to the cause represented by Dr. Morris. Statements of this character from the Rev. R. H. Roy have, perhaps, led to careful a journal as the Critic say "The Rev. E. C. Morris secured and kept control of the Convention by methods which were often called in question." There was no such thing as a Morris badge. Each year Prof R. B. Hudson, of Montgomery, Ala., prepared for all the delegates, and the delegates' badges are all alike. These badges were turned over to the finance committee at the door of the army, and any delegate who was willing to pay the required fee. Whether he favored Dr. Morris or not, was given a badge. No delegate that applied for a badge was refused. The Convention was eager for all delegates to qualify, for there was not any doubt as to where the overwhelming majority stood. But his own aim to use nothing but parliamentary language in this article, but now I see no way of properly characterizing the effort to impose Rev. E. P. Jones upon the Negro Baptists as their leader other than by calling it an open-faced trick, devoid of even the thinnest sort of a disguise. THE TWO MEN COMPARED Let us compare the two men, Dr. E. C. Morris and the Rev. E. P. Jones. Dr. Morris has been the undisputed president of the National Baptist Convention for nineteen years. A diligent search of the minutes of the convention does not disclose the fact that the Rev. Mr. Jones was over at any time in the history of the Convention enrolled as a delegate. Dr. Morris had attained unto the eminence of being the lone Negro representative on the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance. So far as is known, the Rev. Mr. Jones has never been so much as listed to the moderatorship of a small local association. Suspissiap always sends up large delegations to the National Baptist Convention. In the Chicago session there were just two delegates from that state in sympathy with Rev. E. P. Jones. They were Rev. E. D. Hubbard, for years, an employee of Rev. E. H. Boyd and the ther was some Rev. E. H. Cook. The rest of the delegation at Chicago stood solidly by Dr. Morris, and since the Convention adjourned, only one has been known to desert the stand. Compare the weakness of Rev. E. P. Jones in Mississippi with the strength of Dr. Morris in Arkansas. For more than thirty years he has been the unanimous choice of the President of the State Convention. In Chicago, the state delegation was solidly with him except in the cases of Revs. J. P. Robinson, L. S. Ladelle and D. B. Galine, members of Rev. R. H. Boyd's Board, and possibly two other delegates from Arkansas. It seems as though nature delights in testing the character of races by forcing a choice between men. There is no sure index to the character of a people than the mannequin of which it is possible that the choice between men. It is true that the Jews choose Barabbas over Jesus, but the Negro Baptists of this country are not going to follow the Rev. E. P. Jones away from Dr. E. C. Morris. THE CHICAGO COURT DECISION In his alleged explanation as to why Wife Says Recrtor is "Biggest Liar." Newark, N. J., May 2.—That her husband was "one of the biggest lions on the face of the earth" was an assertion made today by Mrs. Anna E. Tulp before Vice-Chancellor Foster in her suit for divorce from the Rev. A. Peter Tulp, Mrs. Tulp named as co-spondent Miss Elton Dixon, daughter of Warren Dixon of Jersey City and granddaughter of the late Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Dixon. Mr. Tulp was rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Hackensack. Before that he was pastor of the New York Avenue Church and at one time was curate of St. Paul's Church, Englewood. Mr. and Mrs. Tulp were married at Hasbrock Heights in 1905, according to Mrs. Tulp. The yilved there for a short time and then moved to Newark, where they lived for nearly two years. Later they moved to Hackensack. Mrs. Tulp said her husband was kind to her for a while, but that didn't last, and it was then that she called him the court's biggest liar. By or against the court "this part of the testimony was stricken out." According to the witness, her mother warned Mr. Tulp about going with Miss Dixon and reminded him that he promised to give her up. Some time after this, Mrs. Tulp went on, her husband asked her to forgive him and suggested that they start life all over again. "I asked him if he would bring that girl into the room and renounce her," Mrs. Tulp testified, "and he replied that he would never do such a thing as her." Mrs. Tulp testified further that her husband told her "there would be an apology" if Mrs. Dixon didn't stop making a fuss about him and her daughter. WIFE SAYS HE KICKED HER Once when she upbraided her husband for not coming home for lunch and dinner Mrs Tulip testified he replied: "Damn it! Don't I have to be about my parish work." On another occasion Mrs. Tulip said she asked her husband how he could perform the marriage ceremony, pronouncing the inserted words of the rite, and asking her husband if she answered this, she testified, by thinking up his hands and exclaiming: "Prayerful talk! 'Prayerful talk!' Mrs. Tulip told of another occasion when her husband seized her by the throat and, forcing her against the wall, said, "I'll kill you yet." "Then he kicked me," she said, "and I ran out into the kitchen, where my mails were. 'They will protect me,' I said." The witness asserted that once she told her husband his talk about marriage of such a nature that she would not shop about it. "If you go to the Bishops' about this, Mrs. Tulip testified he said of five minutes there will be two dead ones here—first you and then myself." Cross-examined by counsel Mrs. Tulp said she did not have a doctor when her husband is alleged to have kicked her. Not only did Mr. Tulp strike her and blacken her eye, the witness testified, but he threw her against a pier glass and she was severely bruised. Once, she added, he struck her on the car and it became so unfamed that for three nights she could not lie on it while she slept. Fear that she could kill her was the reason Mrs. Tulp for refusing to return to her husband when he proposed that they live together. On one occasion, Mrs. Tulp testified, her husband said he wanted to get out of the ministry because "it was too much to live up to." LETTER TELLS OF LOVE. A letter written by Mr. Tulp to Miss Dixon and introduced in evidence was as follows: "MY DEAREST LITTLE PET: I could not resist writing to you last night. I felt lonely, oh, so lonely without your Filnor dear, and in writing my spirit seemed to be so close to yours. And this time, we are writing to you again now. We are so much somehow in writing I feel almost as though I was speaking to you. But it would be so much sweeter to find you right beside me. I wonder what makes me feel so close to you, dearest? Is it because you also are thinking of me. I would not be a bit surprised if suddenly you should stand by my side with one of these delightful surprises of which I am certain you are perfectly capable. We have many time sweet heart, that I am pleased with all the惊喜 and am pleased of my soul suddenly you will stand beside me. That would be wonderful. A score of times today I have tried again through the incestuous of the last two days." step by step, the things we did begin, the way we leap, the sweetness and perfect joy of your competence and will I know them all by heart. When it comes to telephone to you this morning? I had thinking and thinking of you had that day in New York. I simply could not help to smile until at last I just had to hear your voice. I did not want you to leave Norwalk at all. I wanted to stay and be with you, to see you and be with you and look into your eyes and see what I may read there. It seems too wonderful to be true that you, Ellison, should love me, you whom I have looked at so often and of whom I might ought so much of until the thoughts about you these several years have ranged in flowers of love. "But, oh, I dared not come to you. However, that uncertain past is over gloriously, dense with and you are mine, my own, my very own, and I shall care for what you have given me, beloved, tenderly and with solicitude. Each of these days since Decoration Day your love has bound me more deeply than the day before, so that no day is the same now, but each one a little happier than the last. You are my very own, Elinor, beloved, bound together now by a tie which, to me, is the most sacred on earth, yet, it it not true also, darling, that I am your own?" AID OF STARS SOUGHT "My heart and soul have both passed out of my possession, there is scarcely any identity left in me—I am yours so much, so very much. I would that I were a star, so I might carry myself over the distance which divides us. Choose one, if you will, dearest, and call it mine, and to me it shall be yours, so that when we are apart and when the stars come out our eyes may rest at the same point in the heavens and may be keeping company for us among the celestial bodies. "How can I ever say what you are to me beloved? I multiply words, and then multiply them again, and each seems more inadequate than the other. My love for you, sweetheart, is greater, stronger, more intense now since the stay in Connecticut. You have trusted me in a way, beloved, that makes you most precious to me beyond living orders can tell. I feel that I am giving lives just good love, and that my life shall run out if you shall want me no more. So you see, dearest, I am merely a helpless loving nonentity which merges itself most happily in you, and begs only to stand by your side, giving you water when you are thirsty and bread when you are hungry, and when you are weary make boughs for your reclining; so do not heatate to ask of me whatever you will. Let me do things for you that no other man may do. Let me serve you in the world, give you love and the years will bring their immense greater, perhaps, than we dare imagine now. "Good night, little girl, tomorrow will bring to you and me what is simply another word for happiness and joy and all that makes life most desirable. Believe me tenderly and devotedly. EVER YOUR VIRGIN OWN." MOTHER-IN-LAW TESTIFIES Mrs. John Behrens, mother of Mrs. Tulp, testified that she pleaded with her son-in-law to turn over a new leaf after she had heard rumors of his conduct with Miss Dixon. "He shook his finger in my face," Mrs. Behrens asserted, "and told me to get out of the room, damn quick." The witness further testified that Mrs. Dixon told her Ellinor had remained out until I clock in the morning with Mr. Tulp and that when the girl came home she had to break a window to get in. She told her mother she had been to a dance, John H. Behrens, a brother of Mrs. Tulp, visited South Norwalk, Conn., after rumors reached him that his brother-in-law had been there. The register of the Clifford Hotel was offered in evidence and the witnessidentified the entry at the Thomas, New York "Tulp" house. Behrens said he returned to New York after he saw the register and called his brother-in-law on the telephone and addressed him "Mr. Thomas." He said Mr. Tulp did not deny it. Ernest Trainor and William A. McGuire, private detectives who trailed Mr. Tulp and Miss Dixon, told of things they saw. McGuire said he saw Mr. Tulp bug Miss Dixon near her home at 100 Passage avenue, Hackensack, last Sunday night. Mr. Tulp, he said, ran out of the yard as the detectives showed a flashlight in his face. Mr. Tulp was called to the stand and depicted all the allegations. The case went over until June 21. THE WISE WIDOW. Colonel Jigsaw—I just told the widow that my love for her was as deep as the deep blue sea. Nut—What did she say? Colonel Jigra—She said she took it with the corresponding amount of salt. -Pittsburgh Press. "So you think Josh is in love?" said Farmer Cortosel. "No doubt of it!" answered Josh's mother. "Every evening when it isn't already he walks out on the back porch he says, 'Ah, is not that a beautiful person? Is not that a person he wants to be? Is not that he is nothing." Washington Star. Talks on Thrift The waste in every household is considerable. Part is unavoidable waste and part is necessary waste. Alongside too much food goes into the garbage can. Clothes are not unless care is not provided or mended, or hung up when not in use and so become shabby long before their usefulness is ended. Indeed that with a little mending would be many a mile are thrown out, and throughout the house there is waste." The attic bites testimony to this fact. Waste that is waste should not be hoarded, but turned into profit. Old rubbers, rags, iron, can be turned into many an house, and clothing that has served its day may be sold to second hand dealers glad to get such articles. The conversation of household waste affords a living for thousands of people. The junk man is usually a leading citizen, well housed and well fixed. The privilege of "trimming" the scows that take the waste of New York to sea is worth millions annually. The scows that make the waste that finds its way to the garbage scow is what breaks some families. A certain school teacher has the right idea. Every spring she asks the children to bring to the school the worn out rubbers of the winter, and from the proceeds she buys pictures for the walls and phonograph records for the dances. At times these contributions amount to over a million bucks in business profits if you get it together. And when so gathered it should be used for a good purpose as a standing object lesson that "waste conserved is profit earned." Here is a junk story from the Far East: A Japanese rag man of excellent speech and manner has been making a canvas, offering to buy all the old junk offered. Instead of paying cash he gives a coupon good at a certain bank, where it must be left untouched for a certain number of years. On investigation the ragman turned out to be a former superintendent of Yokohama police and manager of a large dock corporation, interbested in teaching his people the proper use of junk. Junk money is apt to be regarded as "easy money" and spent foolishly. While it is easy money, it should be conserved to usefulness and not wasted. The school teacher uses one method, the Japanese junk man another, but both tending in the right direction. We can teach our children to avoid waste, but avoiding all possible waste to so use the junk that it will prove a lasting benefit. Save your junk and save the money your junk turns in. A Man Often Is Judged by His Stationery Let Us Print Your Letterheads J. Ackermann Co. Hardware Ltd. A.J. BROWN & CO. We do the best work in town. We deliver our work WHEN WE PROMISE IT. Two Good Reasons. Paster—My wife spends all her time shopping because she says she has nothing fit to be seen in. Knang—And mine spends all her time shopping because she has a whole list of new things and wants to show me—New York Globe. From Natural Causes. "Oh, Mr. Flipperery," she exclaimed soeultly, "have you ever felt a dim, uneasy sense of oppression as if the mere weight of life were a burden too heavy to be borne by the chained spirit painting with psychic longing to be free." "I invariably have such a feeling after a heavy dinner," was the callous response, "but bittershe I have attribited it to the painting."—Exchange The IRON TRAIL BY REX BEACH Copyright, 1913, by Harper & Brethers. Murray O'Nell, railroad builder, on his way to Alaska, is a passenger on the New York to Alaska train. O'Nell helps Captain Johnny Braun to quel a panic among the pagegreners. As the ship settles O'Nell is accosted by a beautiful girl, and he plunges overboard with her. They are picked up by O'Nell, and they take Teresa Teller Gardon, whose mother is the friend of Curtis Gordon, O'Nell's unscrupulous business rival. O'Nell and Natalia Journey to Hope together. She tells him of her mother and Gordon. When they arrive at Hope Gordon's house, O'Nell is impressed with the imagination of his rival, but is sure his plans are unreal. Tom Bierl quite Gordon for O'Nell. They go to Cortez in time to save Dan Appleton in a crooked card game. Appleton, an engineer, had worked for O'Nell, and his fortunes with O'Nell. O'Nell tells his sister, country, convinced he can build a railroad up the Balcony river. O'Nell meets his crew in Seattle, when a newspaper woman sets on the phone. O'Nell proves to be Dan Appleton's sister. O'Nell her his piano, but not for publication. "THE Irish prince" had gained something of a reputation for extravagance, but he acknowledged himself completely outshone by the luxury with which Curtis Gordon had surrounded himself at Hope. The promoter had spoken of his goddess, the Queen of the kingdom, who consisted of a handsome twenty room house, furnished with the elegance of a Newport cottage. "You wonder, perhaps, why I have been so extravagant with my living quarters," said Gordon as they walked into the library, "but it is not alone for myself. You see, I have people associated with me who are accustomed to every comfort and luxury, and I built this house for them. Mrs. Gerard has been kind enough to grace the establishment with her presence, and I expect others of my stockholders to do likewise. You see, I work in the light, Mr. O'Neil. I insist upon the broadest publicity in all my operations, and to that end I strive to bring my clients into contact with the undertaking itself. For instance, I am bringing a party of my stockholders all the way from New York at my own expense to show them how their interests are being administered. I have chartered a special train and a ship for them, and of course they must be properly entertained while here." "I wanted to show them this marvelous country, God's wonderland of opportunity. They will return impressed by the solidity and permanence of their investment." "I judge from what you say that the mine gives encouragement," O'Nell ventured, eying his host curiously through a cloud of tobacco smoke. "Encouragement is, not the word. Before many years Hope Consolidated will be listed on the exchanges of the world along with Amalgamated and the other great producers. We have here, Mr. O'Nell, a tremendous mountain of ore, located at tidewater on one of the world's finest harbors. The climate is superb. We have cool near at hand for our smelter. The mine only requires systematic development under competent hands." "I was in Cortex when Lars Anderson made his first discovery here, and I had an option on all this property. I believe the price was $1,200. At any rate, it was I who drove those tunnels you found when you bought him out." Gordon's eyes wavered briefly, then be langbed. "My dear sir, you have my sincere sympathy. Your poison, my meat, as it were, sh? You became discouraged too soon. Another hundred feet of work and you would have been justified in paying $1,200,000. This Eldorado which the copper trust has bought has a greater surface showing than Hope, I grant, but it lies 200 miles inland, and there is the all important question of transportation to be solved. The one will have to be hauled or smelted on the ground, while we have the Kykak coal fields at our door. The Heidemanns are building a railroad to it which will parallel mine in places, but the very nature of their enterprise forrods it to failure." "My route is the better. By a ridged economy of expenditure, by a careful supervision of detail, I can effect a tremendous saving over their initial cost. I hope to convince them of the fact and thus induce them to withdraw from the field or take over my road at a reasonable figure. Negotiations are under way." At this talk of economy from Curie Darden O'Bail retained from smiling with difficulty. He felt certain that the man's entire operations were ensured as his statement that he could bring the treat to terms. Yet Gordon seemed thoroughly in earnest. Either he accepted to feel his present hearer or else he had, become hypnotized by the spirit of his own management two-thirds of the time not at all aware. "The whole and great state of war!" "Who kills and your sight of way" be defined with some interest. "A very young angel, Dan SYNOPSIS CHAPTER V Indeed! How so? Applefish. An excellent man, but—unreliable in certain things. I had to let him go, this very afternoon, in fact, for insubordination. But I discharged him more for the sake of discipline than anything else. He'll be anxious to return in a few days. Now tell me"—Gordon fixed his visitor with a blind stare which failed to mask his gnawing curiosity—"what brings you to King Philip sound? Are we to be rivals in the railroad field?" "No. There are enough projects of that sort in the neighborhood for the present." "Five, all told, but only one destined to succeed." "I'm bound for the Kyak coal fields to perfect and amend my surveys under the new ruling." "Ah! I've heard about that ruling." "Heard about it?" examined O'Nell. "Good Lord! Unveil you compiled with it?" "Not yet." "You surely intend to do so?" "Oh, yes. I suppose so." "If you don't you'll lose"— "I'm not sure we can ever win." "Nonsense." "I'm not sure that it's wise to put more good money into these coal claims," said Gordon. "This ruling will doubtless be reversed as the others have been. One never knows what the land office policy will be two days at a time. "You know your own business," O'Neill remarked after a pause, "but unless you have inside information or a bigger pull in Washington than the rest of us I'd advise you to get busy. Be on my way to Kyuk in the morning to see the man." Goodoud a attitude puzzled him, for he could not being himself to believe that such indifference was genuine. It was difficult to escape from the hospitality of Hope, and O'Nell succeeded in doing so only after an argument with Natalia and her mother. They let him go at last only upon his promise to return on his way back from the coal fields, and they insisted upon accompanying him down to the dock, whither Gordon had preceded them in order to have his motorboat in readiness. An 11 o'clock twilight enveloped Cortez when O'Nell and Slater landed, but the town was awake. The recent railway and mining activity in the neighborhood had brought a considerable influx of people to King Sound, and the streams of music from dance hall doors, the click of checks and roulette balls from the saloons, gave evidence of an unusual property. O'Neil had no difficulty in securing men. Once he was recognized, the scenes at Hope were recaptured, and there was a general scramble to collist upon his payroll. Within an hour, therefore, his arrangements were made, and he and Tom repaired to Calahan's hotel for a few hours' sleep. A stud game was going on in the barroom when they entered, and O'Neil paused to watch it while Slater spoke to one of the players, a clean cut, blond youth of whimsical countenance. When the two friends finally faced the bar for their "nightcap" Tom explained: "That's Appleton, the fellow Gordon fired today. I told him I'd left the old man sat." "I is a friend of yours!" "Sure, Nice boy; good engineer too." "Imm! That game is crooked." "No!" Happy Tom displayed a dash of interest. "Yes; Cortes is fast becoming a metropolis, I see. The man in the derby hat is performing a little feel that once cost me $4,000 to learn." "I'd better split Dan away," said Tom hastily. "Wait! Education is a good thing even if it is expensive at times. I fancy your friend is bright enough to take care of himself. Let's wait a bit." "Ain't that just my blamed lock? amended Slater. "Now, if they were playing faro I could make a killing I'd copper 'Appleton's bets and 'open the ones he copped." "O'Nell smiled, for Happy Tom's caution in money matters was notorious. 'You know you don't believe in gambling.' he said. "It's not a belief, it's a disease." declared the fat man. "I was born to be a gambler, but the business is too uncertain. Now that I'm getting so old and feeble I can't work any more I'd take it up, only I broke three fingers, and when I try to deal I drop the cards. What are we going to do?" Unobserved the two friends watched the poker game, which for a time proceeded quietly. But suddenly they saw Applebear lean over the table and address the man with the derby bats then, thrusting back his chair, he rose declaring in a louder tone: "I tell you I saw it. I thought I was mistaken at first." His face was white, and he disregarded the efforts of his right hand neighbor to quiet him. "Don't squell." smiled the dealer. "Will leave it to the boys if I did anything wrong." "You pulled that king from the bed then it may not be wrong, but it's THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Forgot it" one of the others exclaimed, "Danny wouldn't double cross you." "Hardly" agreed Mr. Danny evenly. "You're in $180, but if you're sore you can have it back." Appleton sung his cards into the middle of the table and turned away disguised. "It's a hard-thing to prove, and I'm not absolutely sure I saw straight or—I'd take it back fast enough." Deny shrugged and gathered in the discarded hand. "You've been drinking too much, that's all. Your eyesight is scattered." Will of Gordon's enterprise and so he fired you. "That's right. I suppose I ought to have kept my mouth shut, but it has a way of flying open when it shouldn't. He is either a fool or a crook, and his mind is nothing but a prospect. I couldn't resist telling him so." "And his railroad." Appleton besitched. "Oh, it's an good route as the trusts. I worked on the two surveys. Personally I think both outfits are crazy to try to build in from here. I had to tell Gordon that too. You see, I'm a volunteer talker. I should have been born with a stutter. It would have saved me a lot of trou." Mild troubled erosion. He peaked up at "Nike place groomer observe half a mile sloughs." Darkness has appeared. I the brush. by contact with former mood its place was wry. Tom," he he and I will wait will wait Appleton's face flushed as he beheld the gaze of the company upon him and heard the laughter which greeted this remark. He turned to leave when O'Nell, who had continued to watch the proceedings with interest, crossed to the group and touched Denny on the shoulder, saying quietly: "Give him his money." "Eh!" The smile from the fellow's face. He looked up with startled inquiry. "What?" In the momentary hush which followed Happy Tom Sister, who had frequently seen his employer in action and understood storm signals, sighed deeply and reached for the nearest chair. With a wrench of the powerful hands he loosened a leg. Although Mr. Sister abhorred trouble, he was accustomed to meet it philosophically. A lifetime spent in construction camps had taught him that of all weapons the one best suited to his use was a pick handle. Second to that he had come to value the hardwood leg of a chair. But in the present case his pre-creation proved needless, for the dispute was over before he had fairly prepared himself. Without waiting for O'Nell to put his accusation into words Denny had risen swiftly, and in doing so he had either purposely or by accident made a movement which produced a prompt and instinctive reaction. Murray's hat met him as he rose, not him so squarely and with such force that he lost all interest in what followed. The other card players identify gathered Mr. Denny in their arms and stretched him upon a dressed roulette table. The bartender appeared with a wet towel and began to bathe his temples. Apleton, dazed by the sadness of it all, found a stack of gold pieces in his hand and heard O'Nell saying in an everyday tone: "Come to my room, please. I'd like to talk to you." Something commanding in the speaker's face made the engineer follow against his will. He longed to loiter here until Denny regained his senses, but O'Nell had him by the arm, and a moment later he was being led down the hall away from the lobby and the barroom. As later, who had followed, closed the door behind them Dan burst forth: "By Jove! Why didn't you tell me? I know he was crooked, but I couldn't believe!" "Sit down," said O'Nell. "He won't pull himself for awhile, and A Murray's Fint Met Him as He Reed. I want to get to bed. Are you looking for a job? "The engineer's eyes opened wide. "Me?" "Do you know the Kyak country?" "Pretty well." "I need a surveyor. Your wages will be the same that Gordon paid, and they begin now, if it's agreeable." "It certainly is." "Good! We'll leave at 6 o'clock sharp. Bring your bedding and instruments." "Thanks! I— This is a bit of a surprise. Who are you?" "I'm O'Nell." "Oh! Mr. Appleton's expression changed quickly. "You're Murray?" He stammered an instant. "It was very good of you to take my part after I'd been fool enough to"— "Well, I didn't want to see you make a total slot of yourself." The young man finished slightly; then in a quieter voice be asked: "How did you know I was out of work?" "Mr. Gordon told me. He recommended you highly." "Don't, fanny," I am very glad to know you, Mr. O'Neil. WOLF of Gordon's enterprise and so I feared you." "That's right. I suppose I ought to have kept my mouth shut, but it has a way of dying open when it shouldn't. He is either a fool or a crook, and his name is nothing but a prospect. I couldn't resist telling him so." "And his railroad?" Appleton besitched. "Oh, it's as good a route as the trusts. I worked on the two surveys. Personally I think both outfits are crazy to try to build in from here. I had to tell Gordon that too. You see, I'm a volunteer talker. I should have been born with a stutter. It would have saved me a lot of trouble." CHAPTER VI. In Wild Country ATE on the following morning O'Nell's expedition was handed at the deserted fishing station of Omar. thirty miles down the sound from Cortez. From this point its route lay down the bay to open water and thence eastward along the coast in front of the Salmon river delta some forty miles to Kyak. This latter stretch would have been well high impossible for open boats but for the fact that the numerous mud bars and islands by the river afford sheltered course. The small channels, though shallow, were of sufficient depth to allow small craft to navigate and had long been used as a route to the coal fields. Appleton, smiling and cheerful, was the first member of the party to appear at the dock that morning, and when the landing had been effected at Omar he showed his knowledge of the country by suggesting a short cut which would save the long row down to the mouth of the sound and around into the delta. Immediately back of the old canny, which occupied a gap in the mountain rim, by a narrow lake, and this, he declared, held an outlet which led into the Salmon river flow. By hauling the boats over into this body of water—a task made easy by the presence of a tiny tramway with one displaced push car which had been a part of the canny equipment—it would be possible to save much time and labor. "Ive heard there was a way through," O'Neill confessed, "but nobody seemed to know just where it was." "I know," the young man assured him. "We can gain a day at host, and I judge every day is valuable." "So valuable that we can't afford to lose one by making a mistake," said his employer meaningly. "Leave it to me. I never forget a country once I've been through it." But Dan Appleton was not mistaken. A two boots row across the mirror like surface of Omar lake brought the party out through a hidden gap in the mountains and afforded them a view across the level delta. To their left the range they had just penetrated retreated toward the canyon where the Salmon river burst its way out from the interior, and beheaded that point it continued in a coastward swing to Kryak their destination. Between lay a flat, trackless tundra, cut by sloughs and glacial streams, with here and there long tongues of timber reaching down from the high ground and dwindling away toward the seaward marsh. It was a desolate region, the breeding place of sea fowl, the hunting ground for the great brown bear. O'Nell had never before been so near the canyon as this, and the wild stories he had heard of it required to him with interest. He surveyed the place curiously as the bats glided along, but could see nothing more than a jumble of small hills and buttes and beyond them the dead gray backs of the twin glaciers coming down from the slopes to east and west. Beyond the footballs and the glaciers themselves the main range was gushed by a deep valley through which he judged the river must come, and beyond that he knew was a country of agricultural promise, extending clear to the fabulous copper belt, whither the railroads from Cortes were headed. Still farther inland lay the Tannan, and then the Yukon, with their riches untouched. What a pity, what a mockery, it was that this obvious entrance to the country had been blocked by nature! Just at his back was Omar, with its deep and abstorted harbor; the lake he had crossed gave a passage through the guardian range, and this tundra—O'Mell estimated that he could lay a mile of track a day over it—led right up to the glaciers. Once through the coast range building would be easy, for the upper Salmon was navigable, and its banks presented no difficulties to track laying. He turned abruptly to Appleton, who was pulling an ear. "What do you know about that canyon?" he asked. "Not much. Nobody knows much, for those fellows who went through in the gold rush have all left the country. Gordon's right of way comes in above, and so does the trust." From there on I know every foot of the ground." Camp was pitched late that night far out on the data. During the preparation of supper Murray sat starting fixely before him, deaf to all sound and insecible to the activities of his companions. He had lost his customary breastbone and his good nature. He was curt, saturnine, unamusing. Apleton undertook to arouse him from this abstraction, but Slater drew the young man aside hurriedly with a warning: "Don't do that, son, or you'll work spithes for the rest of the trip." "What's the matter with him, my how? Dan. inquired." "He was beding over with enthusiasm all day, but now—why, he's asleep sitting up! He hasn't moved for twenty minutes." Tom shook his head, dislodging a swarm of mosquitoes. "Walk on your teeth, my boy. Wash on your teeth. I smell something cooking, and it isn't sippier." When food was served O'Neil made a promise of eating, but rose suddenly in the midst of it with the words: "TH stretch my legs a bit." Like tube was strangely flatten. In his hair was the same obstruction which I troubled Appleton during the afternoon. He left the camp and disappeared up the bank of the stream. "Nice place to take a walk," the engineer observed. "He'll bog down in half a mile or get lost among the sloughs." Darkness had settled when O'Nell reappeared. He came plunging out of the brush, drenched, muddy, stained by contact with the thickets, but his former mood had disappeared, and in its place was a harmless, explosive energy. "Tom," he cried, "you and Appleton and I will leave at daylight. The men will wait here until we get back." His voice was inclusive. Its tone forbade questioning. The youthful engineer starred at him in damay, for only his anxiety had triumphed over his fatigue, and daylight was but four hours away. O'Nell noted the expression and said more gently: "You're tired, Appleton, I know, but in working for me you'll be called upon for extraordinary effort now and then. I may not demand more than an extra hour from you; then again I may demand a week straight without sleep. I'll never ask it unless it's necessary and unless I'm ready to do my share." "Yes, sir." "The sacrifice is big, but the pay is bigger. Loyalty is all I require." "I'm ready now, sir." "We can't see to travel before dawn. Help Tom load the lightest boat with rations for five days. If we run short well 'smish it.' He kicked off his rubber boats, upended them to drain the water out, then dug himself upon his bed of boughs and was asleep almost before the two bad recovered from their surprise. "Five days or longer." Slater said gloomily as he and Dan began their preparations. "And me with indolgence." "What does it mean?" quirked Apleton. "It means I'll probably assemble." "No, no. What's the meaning of this change of plan? I can't understand it." "You don't need to." Happy Tom informs him curtly. There was a book of solitude in his face as he added. I wish I'd made him take off his wet clothes before he went to sleep. "Let's wake him up." But Slater shock his head. "I'd sooner wake a rattle-snake," said he. O'Nell swelled the members of his expedition while the sky was reblooming as he had withdrawn while wearing like an anemom clock. All except Appleton had worked for him before, and the men accepted his orders to await his return with no appearance of surprise. With the first clear tight he and his two companions set out, rowing up, the estuary of the Salmon until the current became too swift to stem in that manner. Then landing, they rigged a "bridle" for the skiff, fitted their shoelers to loops in a ninety foot tow rope and began to "track" their craft up against the stream. It was heart-breaking work. Frequently they were waist deep in the cold water. Long "sweepers" with the awn in the flood interfered with their efforts. The many branches of the stream formed them to make repeated crossings, for the delta was to more than an endless series of islands through which the current swirled. When dusk overtook them they were wet, weary and weak from hunger. With the dawn they were up again. Again, but their task became constantly more difficult because the glacier had increased with time. They were obliged to exercise the extremum caution. Hour after hour they strained against the current until the ropes bit into their aching flesh, bringing raw places out on rock and palm. Hour after hour the beet was churning past, and through it all came the intermittent echo of the gavings gliders ahead of them. Dan Appleton realized very soon whether the journey was leading, and at thought of actually facing these terrors which bound so large in conjecture his pulses began to leap. He had a suspicion of O'Nell's intent, but dared not voice it. Though the scheme seemed mad enough, its very audacity fascinated him. It would be worth while to take part in such an undertaking, even if it ended in failure. And somehow, against his judgment, he felt that his leader would find a way. For the most part O'Nell was as silent as a man of stone, and only on those rare occasions when he craved relief from his thoughts did he encourage Dan to talk. Then he sometimes listened, but more frequently he did not. Slater had long since become a dumb draft animal, senseless to discomfort except in the hour of relaxation, when he monotonously cataloged his fills. "Are you a married man?" O'Nell inquired once of Dan "Family!" "Here: A great big, fine one, consisting of a sister. But she's more than a family—she's a religion." Receiving encouragement from his employee's look of interest, he continued: "We were wiped out by the San Francisco earthquake and stood in the bread line for awhile. We managed to save $4,000 from the wreck, which we divided equally. Then we started out to make our fortunes. It was her idea." "You came to Cortes!" "Yes. Money was so easy for me that I lost all respect for it. The town sung with my mirth for awhile. I was an awful fool." "Education!" "Now, it's my ambition to get settled and have her with me. I haven't had a good laugh, a hearty meal or a Christmas impulse since I left her." "What did she do with her half of the carriage?" "Hunted it wisely and went to work." I bought little round collared drinks with wine; she bought hand of wine with beer. She's a newspaper woman, and the best in the world—at home the best in Seattle. She wrote that her snowmobile story for the New Yorker. lost fall. She tells 'im how to raise eight babies on $7 a week or how to make a full set of library furniture on of three beer kegs, a packing case and an epileptic icebox. She runs the "Doe mastic Economy column, and she's the sweetest, the cleverest, the most stunning"—Appleton's enthusiastic tribute ceased suddenly, for he saw that O'Neil was once more deaf and that his eyes were fixed dreamily upon the canyon far ahead. On the evening of the sixth day a splintered, battered poling boat with its seems open swung in to the bank where O'Neil's men were encamped. They were gunt and stiff and heavy eyed. Even Tom Sister's full checks hung loose and dabble. But the lender was alert and buoyant; his face was calm, his eyes were smiling. "You'll take the man on to the com fields and finish the work," he told his boss packer inter the night. "Appleton and I will start back to Cortez in the morning. When you have finished go to Juncan and see to the recording." "Aln't that my luck?" murmured the dyspeclic. "Me for Kyak, where there an't a store, and my gum all wet." "Chew it, paper and all," advised Appleton cheerfully. "Oh, the good has all gone out of it now." Sister explained. "Me meet in Seattle on the 15th of next month," his employer directed. The clerk of the loading hotel in Seat- tle whirled his register about as a man deposited a weather beaten war bag on the marble floor and leaned over the counter to inquire. This question had been asked repeatedly within the last two hours, but heretofore by people totally different in appearance from the one who spoke now. The man behind the desk measured the stranger with a suspicious eye before answering. He saw a tag, house hose, fat person of medically comorbid, who was booted to the knees and chewing gum. "Mr. O'Neil is not here." The fat man stared at his informant accusingly "Not this the 15th?" he asked. "It is," "Then he's here, all right!" "Then O'Neil is not in," the clerk teated, gaiting flexibly over Mr. Slater's left shoulder. "Well, I guess his room will do for me, I am not part of it." "This room is occupied at present. If you care to wait you will did." you care to wait you will need." Precisely what it was that he was to find Tom never learned, for at that moment the breath was driven out of his lungs by a tremulous whack, and he turned to behold Dr. Stanley Gray towering over him, an expansive smile upon his face. He's arrived somewhere. He arrived a resentful, smoldering gaze upon the hotel clerk and looked about him for a chair with a detachable leg, but the object of his regard disappeared abruptly behind the key rack. "This rat brained party said he hadn't come." "He arrived this morning, but we're barely seen him." "He left Appleton in Juneau. He'll be down on the next boat." "Appleton's. Who's he?" Dr. Gray begged. "Oh, he's a new member of the order - initiated last month. He's learning to be a sleep later, like the rest of us. He's rewriting the right of way." "What's in the air? None of us knows. We didn't even know Murray's whereabouts. Though he was in Kyuk to be sounded the tools from New York. The other boys have split their jobs, and I am sold my prey." "It's a refreshed." Dr. Greg grinned. "Well, that's the tone I use when I break the news that it's a girl instead of a boy." "It's a railroad." Sister repeated, the Salmon river. Neat Packing and Prompt Delivery are the mottoes in our shipping room. 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Wwe fated non go all Gears , Vhat this reeetveranip will remain ma, Wisturbed for a toate hardly w-! mite of a question An to the final oatecne of the atlair, oc appears that? vs thileper, tent Drage b of the Gratof | Valted Order of Odd Fetlows wit te iteated In Georgia i There am hardly ung haste for a ‘omprotine aa helther wide pvems ta! le in a compromising ment Let as hope that. some way may be fetta | lo cause a cessation of theae unseen | rations among the colored poopie int this country t We have received an invitation from the Truntewe of the Tuakrgee Normal and Industrial Inatitute to attend the Inauguration of Robert Russa Moton as Principal of the Institute, Thurstay, May 26, 1916. We have received an invitation to attend the GOth anniversary and nent centenntal celebration of the Chrix Uansburg Toduatrial Institute, Cam: uria, Va, May 14, to May 18, 1916 Prof. EO A. Long. Princinal, + We have received an invitation to the Commencement of Hartshorn Me mortal College, commencing May 21, to May 24, inclusive. The graduating crercises ‘will take place Tuesday, May 23, 8:15 P.M. 5 ; Apt Title. “Thin collar atud ty iny own toven then.” eat the Cheap dinck, “and On pate Thinve given (hia ‘Panit’” Becayne everybody ban (ainlta?? nus geated the red nose? man Inthe crowd. “No, my dear ale: auaply becuure {t's fo caxy to fud."—Ohleago Herald. A Bad Deceiver, Of Sil the Doren upon’ tia eirth, Of all the foes to kindly mirth, * ‘The worat im that rad peat: Who ays, “ere'a one that's wood and + new." And then proceeds to torture you ‘With prehistoric seat. 4 + —Richnond Times-Dispatch. ie a ‘That Tired Feeling. Be—But éoecn't my devotion arouse fm you scene feeling for me? . @ee—Oh, yes; the sort of feeling one takes a tonic for in the spring — Boston ‘ROANOKE, VA. | Roanoke, Ne tee local preacher, Brother Burwell from Kittrell Col lege. preached at & 1. M. to an at ‘tentive audience. Ie dealt with “The [King Ahab Elijah and} Jozabell, that /Cruct Queen.” God's man, he. de clared would conquer, tho’ they dite ‘if wo follow Jewus ull the way. | Mrx. Josephine McGimpsey, has Just -returnéd from na two weeks’ stay at “Norfolk, Va. with her husband. | Mixa Rosa Dehaven, who sepnt two woekw visiting her sister, Mrs, Sophia Powell, of Norfolk, returned home Monday evening Sth. inet, after ao imurh enjoyable trip. SoM. DOC. Johagon, 0 widely known and wealthy business man of Poca hontis, Va. was in the elty on buat nena Last week Honoralde A J) Olfver, ox chatr- man, with a comptes, t« pTanging a great three nichts’ welveme for the St Paul's ME Chareh tn honor of thelr new paster, Rev SoM. Hean Rev TOC Hatley, of St James Hap tat Churet. Dansite, Val fin, the ity, en reute for the Convention Tle fete evinced nt of the Aswe tatton A ogeeat revtvalist He will stay over tn the oty sen bis return betse from dhe @onvention Rev FY Kia prea Bed Sanday morning at TA OW, at the Th St Pape? Ghareh free the sabfeet Chretien Ensenragerent Mr bobsand Themis a cethin caleanant nf Kadtiiiore, Mob. wae a0 AUF enty fast werk aged DEemeht abs the Vive Hoatesde Sette frinnet May Wt FC rset betfer pnows ‘9 the adie: fae Pe Wotie tka repented a Care) Wodknesa 1 Me Pen ee tesee thee teteett tthe, amt Shots f ttuee dt Tae atte Stager we Mose ne tees Ite ce Oe Be ae and Nor Spots Me ese YAP taped eee ie ge ede be ee tome Mtr teh 2 a Merit tp st ete Woden Ves boae 8 itt Nee 28 | EE eeenb ae yo et wore PA Mon Poet Reatine Ma, fae doatie Popeh ptealfe stakes eat gaatestabie By oh oth be, Ti ken ame ONL Die abe Wee ce nat, Poe Dappate Off ear aymdte gat spe todos ed eaaattbend Bex te de Meant, pant Foot the th Aver ae Pre cy orb Ohad la dt probate pak a Whe atm hea Lab Vega Se Sav girat eijgaeate: fetutapet dtd, shete, ander vst a alaern fee Vitra oom Boake south Be Motte atl O oe crete at WN atitas abe Cattets pea Maite Pas tre Be nied Sheena rat and Mote oth the: eet Sa EMRE Tas Ret el Botte tetera! Dyke the pretience be frementiy Pyote fae Hat hee de aetereditat thie es REAL Pet tel any dies cies ther gt Mi pttases ot ahgeet PROMINE ST CEtIZEN DIES Prof Gardner Ff Dewntir attest Welnemtas atten at Murredi’s Heapdtal after ac very short perbod ef Maer Me was i Sear ald Me Treating was a teaber an Vingia fed North Carolina for a uursber ot Seats He asa brother af Hew Lod Dewntii, paster of Sth Avenme Pres Setertan Chare! Te was aetive t shure and Serday school work Hs Wax a iietuler of Odd Felowa who Mere netive af bis funeral, whist tek Mace at the Presbyterian’ Church Wemeday, 250 1M The floral de nx Mere numerous and beautiful Rev, EE Ricks, of the Firat Maptiat Church, utetated His remains’ were tal te rest in Pateytew ROSTON THEATRE. | Palite vaudeville and fest elas ple tures Five reele daily, Four’ big werfals “The Girl and the Game.” Tueaday; “iron Claw.’ Wednesday: “New Explot~ of Elaint” Thursday ; “Red Cirele!*' Friday; western and animal pletarex, Mondays and Satur- days Adminaton 10 .and 15 centr ROJNOKE THEATRE fe You will alwayr find a good show, Rood pictures and good muste Hill thanged every Tharaday All for 10 and 1G conte, ‘i N. T. MOORE ROANOKE'’S COLORED INSURANCE SOCTETY. Roanoke Colored Insurance Society met at the Richmond Beneficial offic Monday night, 8:40, with President A. 1: Br Rohertron in the cbatr. Saveral of the agents eave timely and helpful remarks, Those who were present: Mr. Henry Johnson. Frank McCoy. Themas C. Hackley, Jos. C. Dugger, W. M. Batley. The next meeting, will be with the Southern Ald Company's office on Monday night 22nd Ina. . BODY, OF INFANT FOUND, A new-born coloréd child, probably a day old, wan discovered Sunday by the police on Information furnished by: some colored people living near the Intersection of Staunton Avenue and Sixth Street, N. E. The baby was wrapped in a newspaper under, rome bushes on the alde of the hilt on Sixth Street. : | ROANOKE ATHLETIC DEFEATS BEDFORD, ; | Roanoke Athtette defeated? Bedford ¥ . _ THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINA city Athletica, Wednesta;’ af te third.) op egies PT. CRIMES ER grounds, 13 to 14. Bedford was 20) WG THE ENEMY. maten for the Roanokere. The game] ; ay 5 ee \Was featured by Wilson's pitching, mre by the piper.” sald Avet we ‘who struck out 13 Bedfordites, wid} Hetty Gearong, “that (bo Germans |. . held them to 6 hita. The ‘catching] bem bombardiu' the French with sodie |. and throwing -of D. Jones, and the, Sew kind o' mortar. Squhds to me]” " short-ntopping of J. Simms was good.| like child's play. ‘Throwing mortar at _ = A new player (Conner) played @ good} any one ain't xoln’ to birt ‘em none.- ame. Roanoke has sighed three new! “But then, 1 suppose it's done, just to Players, They ball from the mintog] potber the French, f've allus beard Revion-Kepetone, W. Va, They ¥Ul| tail that theim Preuch-ts, auch Greasy | WHSOR Say fof the team at once. The Roanoko} geljery, an’ it prob’ly plaguce ‘om Ike toum will leave for a two weeks! ATP. aixty to have that thar sticky mortar Diet Lynehbura and Teternbaie 8: amie] Sittin’ all over their clothes. I preg each. Roanoke will have four Ramon sume Bo."—Walter G. Doty in Judge. . in Ittechoiond, and ts expecting to wif ee . the majority of Chese Kamen. . When and Where. MUST ADH . “How far back did women wear bus The following In the scare of ab oer Hedford-Roanoke game; Bedford 4, Wh, as far back ue po Roanoke a, Battertes Jordan and! pansion heen posslble."— 1 President in | Webator--Witton and Jones Lowe =) + ae @reak Can Vimpire, Mr. Louls Hourd Gaaatigiaditan: rings Pursue Aprit uth, Rey, Gurdon of Jerusa ‘lem Haptist Chureh, West Norfolk Avenue, ted the pulpit of Ebenezer Haptist’ Church. Vittsbargh, Pa. at HAL My uring for a ter, ist Peter 4th chapter, TZUC aol 12d vernon Subject, “The Chrintian’s par in the Sutterings of Chrint” AUCEILM, presehed from Jer i217 Subject, “The Ommipotence of God at Dunttene, iia) Jerusalem Baptist Chatene” May Tit at bestia, Jetusaler: Chateh, Nerfal Avenues West Fiol Rew Gor teat preached at VE VM frets Zina Wvasden ef the Beatie. and the sth Norse A ghitione eat ACS POM. Bes ef Matter frearbed on tie wate tag Pare Me: owt okt Mrdeet he masterly iaseuodtes Po tae etapa oanat pl Gf et Mie Hew WW 3 Pbeat tees tated pe ker teed tne petit on ME Zt VOM OR Cats ot ff OM ‘Peat te 4 Me sattat Sana tisth vere Pott Melo Lites aed Whe feud ALES OMT 8 Vso Boa seitie te Qese me ye Eneeh “sR Gears at VO fe ta et tot, Het De Ble fo Ghat Pe Mikes aetat ager Th The Wed ot ¥ 0 That Peeeaty t Wet anes es He Vintoat Saieey Heethee AT Me wcard the be dete Vertes fale for Mshatetptan: ut MILITIA ORDERED TO MEXICAN LINE President calls on Troops of Three States. ‘ TO PREVENT BaNOIT RAIDS pthe one ctanechetta of Mare ean wit Mile Geteral 2 HF teab coat t fa Mew Menke a Tete ae Att ee treet thie bt att we Ant) Wo Marder table af Mestian PTs teens, weconting te anit ome orter pated At the sar fire, the predlent Lat ordered tat toey be sworn fat ta cers bre et ther fe fe wat army, a pre iine whtehs antes te Vatied States tawe, veoM acitherten Shere tn te sey Tab wall make an alata | tae frees onder fen eral Wanetes nt appt atoately sen men As a teens of Me pretest or dors, virtaei afl renettiong mothe trope ef fe rereta: army wilh be fent.to Jin the bor te cores Hebi the orders te the plan istimaston by administration efstats that the whole atrengths o! tae national cuard will he siintlarty employe t; if nereesnry, The Dhyret of the presttert's more ts to prevent a repetition of raid« upon’ Dersons Mstug ot the Atherfoan stde of the international boundary, such an were comb ited by Frandsco Villa, two months ace, at Columbia, No M., ant by other Sands at Glen ‘Springs and Hoquillas, Tex, Pride) night It fa understood that Generel Scott aod General Fupston have asked also for the national guarda of Poansylva- nignand New York, but thls In not of. tally content. After a bilef cabinet meeting, Sec: retary Baker annouuced that no moro. movements of militia or regular (oops to the berter tminediately are in con: tomplation. Ife said he had nut been advised whether a new expedition hax CFosacd the herder in pursult of the Glenn Springs caldera, but orderr have hot. been chanxed, and General Fun-| ston is “free to follow any hot trail porone the ins. The presitent’'s orders directed the, governor of the border states that the troops were tobe propared Imme- Miately and then held xubject to Gen- eral Funston's orders. -Tho general will have, complete authority to dis’ pore of them ax he necs fit, withont ponsulting Waxhington. There will be BO state mobilization. The troops will entrain from their rospective stationa , nd Ko direct to the points destguated ' by General Hinaton. e { ‘The national guardsmen are ordered pat under the Dick ‘law authorizing. helr service agywhere in the United Btaten, but not beyond. the border. Dnder the lew, evety man enrolled {n he regiments who Is pbyalcally able may be forced to serve. “If service peyond the border were contemplated, he regiments would be mustered into be federal service as volinteers, and R would be optional whether . they yeuld serve, + WARAOONG THE ENEMY, amas. ‘Tare by the piper,” sald Avat Hetty Gearong, “that tbo Germans & been bombaniiu’ the French with sovae new kind o' mortar. Squnds to me Uke child's play. Throwing mortar at any one ait goln’ to hurt ‘om none.- “But then, l suppose it’s done, just to dotber the Freoch. I've allus heard tell that them French'ls, auch dreasy ‘fellers, an’ It probily plaguos ‘on like aixty to have that tbar sticky mortar | wittin’ all over thelr clothes. 1 pre: ume s0."—Walter G. Doty tn Judge. When and Where. “How far back did women wear bue- tee?’ SeWhs, ax far back nx possible. — Princeton Tiger. . ‘Oh, mit esteam forever KFleven | OAnd alla ot fortunes trike? Tho man who Kats three clivern belleves Wo should hive kiven rt ~Wasitnaton Btar. What Did She Mean? Clerk - Thin fa (he teat cottect writ, fog paper for pollty earspondence, Cuntomer—UuteL wis to write to my, bunband.--Exetuinge, ‘Sercsom. |g ee | ‘ 1 | Ae i i pi lS yy | = bi , >= = ° fA - evees things dieusy boss Walter [very the nad tude 1 dgdiee ent theun get Knew, Meston tere Not the Anuwer She Expected Whit we bees. aseneephn: yer fatter was enruing Sta week.” "Ht yen bal AU Tose ever masala Woeida't ated akon ey weEkl be, mai+ Detroit Pree Divs Sweetly Solemn Thought. Get Her Away From the Strap. lady your nent?" Doy At Aen rey Me fe eee m wean Mth, astmp ta ber bend Lehigh Burr, Orawing Wit - = f y # Higka Does yaur wile the Ce elibe? Wik Net often She generally Globe. No Use } “It's no use frytig te please every body.” “That's right." repel Mr. Mevkton. “Z dought a mse newhtne for each membnr of the family 0 that there couldn't te any arcunent. Now every: body wante ta play hiv fuvurite xelee- ton at the same thie nud we're even unbappler than before" Washington Star. Bome Speed! Ble ran for ¢eaiin toe tan for boats, + Te ran fur affice, tony they may, Ho ran te thusthens, ran ty June, Then ran tn debt atid fufy away -New York Times. Romance Ended. “Our romnmnve began Jn a most ro mantic way, My Wife saved me from drowning, She's w inaguitivent «win: amer, you know.” “T notice you don't ao ont very far now." T*No. Tdon't know If xe would save me again.” Lonlsvillo Courter Journal. He and Peery. | ; S i “9s . gal Jae. SO (ty 5 (ey R De f s Mra, Mister—Dalid you e-eateh the burgiar? + MisterBe calm! The notre yoo heard was the alarin clock Relling off the mantel. In the words of Commo ore Perry, “We have met the enemy, and they are hours."—Phiindelphly Ledger. . Makes a Difference, =” Young /fred had been reading the evening paper and paused contempla- tively for a few moments : “Father.” nad be, “what: ts “iner- tar” “Well, If | bare-tt i'p pure laytness, bat if your mother hast (t fa nervoos prestration.” reeponded father, whh © yawn.—Pittshoreh Eelecravh. . NO CONSITIONS TO U-BOAT WAR Wison Says. Germany Cann! Dictate to U.S. MUST ADHERE 10 POLICY @reak Can Be Averted If Subma rings Pursue Attacke Under Lates .. Instructions, President Wilson will not allow Ger many to Jictato to the United State what stand this bation will take tn tt Regotlativna with Great Britain, This stund was taken In a note ts | Germany, covering the mibmarino sue and. tu reply to the note frp Berlin, fa witeh Germany agreed ts alter her.(-hoat campaign. ‘The note tolls Germany diplomatic relations wil aot ber broken while the new orden to anbmariie commandors are resp: ct od, Dut rele rates that any negouath n botween Germany and the Unite States eanret bo conditioned on ness Uatlona between the United State apd Great Hritain, 7 The note sespatched te Berths wa very bref tt tld of the arcer inser Hof the sass of the conditions, em sett Ded fa the nea Herta resatation tes nubinariie oaks, but Insite tha Germans arene te the new peley and that ors a trict wlierence te thew rate eM prevent a allo retle break Brcoitent Wien gan ts by ct United Stes demand that Gera y cease her ar Ka ve sete In Ela Mon ef feternattenal Law, renag fle = Of Demittatts © whfel anay: De rates on with Great Hritaln over the fun Blockade. Foliowine te the tevt ef fan °C eabled bs Seeretury Pan ize te At bawsador Gebard at Merits, wits iu strurtleny tu deliver ff to the Germa: mintwter of forelan affairs The note of Che fmperial Gera az government uuder date of May 4h Ras recetved caret: eopeideration 3 the Rovernnient af the Chited States Ie Me espectaiy ated, aa tad eatin (0 DUTP Se We He Imperial goverment a to Ue future, iat it tbe prepare tt do tte utmest te confine the operator of the war for the rest of Its durutio: to the fighting forces of Uie belliger ents,” and that tt tx determine! te Impose upon all ti< enminanders at goa tho Imitations of the recetnized Tules of Intersational law upon whict the Kuvemunent of the United State: bax inalste! Thrash? the months whieh Lave dlapsed -tnee the Imperial government aonouneed ov Februury 4 1s I submarine yoo, haw happily abun done!, the gevernment of Cin Univer States constantly Mee been gahded me restratne ! fem ‘ives pt friondalty Ita patient ete te fein ta an om! cable settin test the orto guests ariving free: roar po fy dee ptin Uie Ineetie sericaentt deeturntt 1 Of Herataret re the pe ths wtnel ne rectus! wae the ied pe Intions Letir s So twa conntete . chep Roerinie st af fo tafted States wil rely upon wera; sless exes nttor, honce forth ut te how altere tp fey of the tipeital sere tment cnet at WIN rerinve Cie pri pal danger an interreys! ot ef the smel petatton axintins Be weer tae United Siate and Germasy 7 “The goverment of the Unite States fecl i nee ary to ntate chil it takes Mt for ceanted that tie Im perial German covernment does nol aipod ta Imply that the maintenanci of stn newly announced polley {tr any Way contingent upon tho co:trse|| or result of diplomatic nogotiatiqn: etwoen (he government of the Uotted| . States and’ any other belligsrent gov | oment. notwithntanding tho fac: hat certain passages in the {mperta government's note of the fourth tof tant MIKA ay;ear to be aun. epeUdle af bat constrie:! s. In order, hawever] § O avoh! at ble misunderstand | - OK the xoversment of the Uutted States notte. tae tmpertal govern | - ment (hat it sanuot for a moment en ortatn, mir. tes. Iscase, @ suRRes Jon that te. vt by German nava uthoriifes o> ow chahte of eltizenr f the, Malted Sates upon the bigt OAS sliouls it any way or fa the slight at decree be tmute contingent ups ho conduct of any other governmen} ffecting te’ rests of neutrals anc on-comibatants. “Kexponatbility ir woh matters 1. singte,“not joint’ ab olute, aot re‘ative.” aT Milk Strangtea Baby. “Mores, foir-monthy-ald, aun of moxe: ‘James, of Nanthoke, near Wilkes Barre, Pa, strangied to death whit taking milk from a nursing bottle. The child wont to nieey, nursine. 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Robore Fay, former Meutenant fo the German army, convicted {0 the federal court in New York of con aptracy to dentroy munitions ships of the allies throush bomb contrivances. was tentencat to xerve etxht year. tm tho federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Walter Scholz, bls brothentn-law, and Paw! Dacene, ako convicted, were ‘sentenced to “erve four yearn and two years, reapectively, Judge Howe boid tog that they did not originate the con epiracy and ceserred less severe pin fabment than Fay, The three were alo Oned $2 cach.. From the bonch bealde which were heaped bombs, oxplosives and otaer exhibits introduced during the trial, Judge Howe wald to Fay: “Aoconiing to your testimony yuu committe! 1 crave crime againat Ger many by de erting your post and country, where you were engared In lawful warure, to come here, where you have cominitted stil -xrave: crimes axatnnt thiy netion for the pur pose of .heljlax Germany in the war Altogether tuo many things have bre: happening 1n this country since the war commenced. This court is x-'ng to convince you, and thoroughly wars others, tha: thin couatry fs not a Proper place In which to varry on the war, and (hat our laws are stl isd Ink, notwit? ‘anding the war tn Ger many.” Three otc dvtendants. are ts be tried—Dr, i Sytt Kientle, Engettert Brookhe.-". 1 tay Brettung. GIRL. 12, CANNOT MARRY Court Refysea to Let Brawny Moun talneer of 29 Take Bride. Joneph 1. Mantz, aged twenty-nine and Grave Yrescott, aged twelve, o! North Mounialn: backwocds section, vannot Levis husbind wife for four Fears, weet ret toa de Isfon of Judge AM. Treas. ta Wile: Sarre, Pa. Hlantz, 4 tugged woodsman, and whe Atte girl, who clung to his b:awny Band, appeared at Mie cour.aouse for R marriage. Noense, and wery dented ft by the cleri.. Fearing such treat ment, Hants Lad brousht alops James Trencott aad wife, parents of the ait ant the le cat tee thew were at Mates we Poneshter oa rled Pimcece 3 | sEaspein Mens awa: _Charley Goes Fora Walk With the Dog {i On YES! MY UNCLE 1S VERY WANT YOu To TAKE | FoNO oF! [iS COG FOR A WALK - PETS: SONY KNOW HOW TO 7 [7 o PANASE UMA! 4 1 i CN be) sy D \ aon, ° 9 : spe 2. ») 4 Galt} 7 Y VW ra Pe - a bein opm C e8 \ aa care S ; Charley's Uncle Too | | | Charley Chaplin’s Comic Capers « ebecierts Tne So | : RED RTA [etter Se oF Ss al “ # CANT A MAN LET AW ia ‘ a ae Seaveseiaee) {fe y| | €é 5 € & ae” ae [ (eae YO RUN THE ¢ th : a. . BE LEGS OFFEN IT! _. DE pe ae --— | Be AN OS vf ‘ Pe . xe P=. 3 k A * . £g a. A r Ne _ ff Sm a) am a . Co. =e y ; “Ayers Ff ——~= eM =< fp SH] toed’ © Wh |EXL1O wig ~ =) Sel CN “Fhe imothor:tatormed: the‘ evart’ be ance of the conduct of another daugh- ter, she dentred te.marry the youn zen ome before she bad's chaace to fallow fe her sister's {coteteps, The fe:her ‘Weclared Fiaats was a good fellow; and, that he would make his: Mtte girt @ ood husband. ae ‘The ghild declared sbe wasted’ to marry, Bho sald she Uked Hants be cause he was a big, powerful man and Wecaute be could whip any man in the mountains, Jadgo Freas directed Hants to keop away from tho Trescott home and the irl and not to think of marrying bey until she was sixteen yoars old. U. 8 Sotdler Shot for Insubordination. Albert Goodwin, a private In the Twen: ty-fourth Infantry, was shdtand killo! by a sorgoant “somewhero in Mexico” because he refuxed to obey orders and drew a revolver on his superior, it war loarned when Goodwin's body arrived at the base camp at Columbus. He wan shot five.times. Godwin bad been arrested previously and held for court: martial. * . ‘Thief Robs Rectory. While Hes. Father A. M. Kor. Yor was conducting masa at St. Jo seph’a Catioie church in Easton, Pa, a thief ranrs Keil the rectory ang xtole about $20 in cash. The thief atac entered the sister house and remove! articles of + slne, Sulllvan Released. | dames SM, . sullivan, formor Unit Mo States or ister te Santo D | aingo, wh was arrested fell w omg the rec uprima de dre amd otiiled fhe Gert an egmlas yf m Dublin mat 6 had “been ‘retenset, EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR Hunered Others Reparted aye i a Dynamite Blast. | Four ta. hie t ant a bo otbers te have arb or tess seria. ingurie iss B Gynamite epheian tn te we Of the Atlan. Hmder company, at Jake Hoypatcony, N. J., in reported. “Owlng te the frelated location of te plant, definite iaformation as te the ature and extent of the expt sion wan diMcult ty obtain. Some tep rte placed the dead Het as htt as Mites, And first rutiere: were that between Afty and a hendred had been killed. Most of the tijured were reported to bare been cu: ying slaw or rats. e4 by the fulung of cellings in other bulldin::s. Webs iain de GUS. Bek aie While hurrying to remove clothes. from a Hne betere a storm brio, Mra. Sherman Gritin, of Montroxe, Dear Seranton, Pa, waar struck hy Mghtning and cannot lve. The bolt struck und followed the wire ine to whore she atood with her hands xruryy ing the othe. and ten passed into the crount trench her boty, Mrs. Grimy wan terry Warned and ber hoes were Carn from her feet, Stabn Companion to Death. Angered worn refured a chew of to: bacco, Jeni Hewanans, a tramp, ts at lored to have attached a corgpanten Known as Mebe a farefgner, with a potate fn ananey City, Ba, ant ee ee Oe Ghird trey, ee witneed the net | fa alse being ett | Accept House Philippine Bill, The senal, Deinoerats have dt clded te unite te adapt the bens. Philippine bil, yiehting altoget™ tha Clicks of tenes amend wh fae + cintvely defea GENERAL MARKETS | PHILADELDIIA. -- FLOUR quiet: punter clears $8.16erS.3u; ety mil:s 8.0094 Gar: : shi, BLoun—Steady. per barre! 378.50, WHEAT firm No.2 red, $1.17@ 1.20. CORN Quiet.” No. 2 Fellow, st Stee, * GATS fem No. 2 white, Ste S20 POULTRY: Live steady, ‘hens, 1a 20e.; old to. sters, Tig Tar.*, Dressed stondy; choter fowls, 22tg¢.: old aos tera, lie, BUTTER frm: Fancy creamers, S8¢. per Ih, EGGS xteady: Selected, 276 20.3 nearby, 2.; Western, 250, Sica tech Bistabonk. CHICAGO. - HOGS — Se. higher: mived gad Gutrhers, $9.45 4.905 Rood heavy, Buc wis: rough heavy, $40 GHG. Ment, $7049.75: pigs, ELOY 9.25. bulk, $9754 9.06, CATTLE: Steady. “Beeves, $7.659¢ 9.90; cown aml. helfers,. $2.80G 9.28: stockers ant wevdern, $6,158.50: Tex. ans, $7.4Ge 91. calves, $7.50@ 9.50, SHEED -Sivady. Native and west- ero, $6719.07). wands, SN.25Q 11.75. THE RICHMOND PLANET, REGRSOND, VIRGRSA : -. TOHMP, WHITE. ns ain 1o Alde."In Averting “Great Coal . thetxe. Gas A hs pad a My 8 Wy Meares Ett} P sree gi a ay bs eon: a aie. ve eee eso F + \ Z Ex: f Bs nN psd es y+ a9 re ae o + ces P A oe “Phote IS Amertenn Proms Avsoclatton Bancits | cid Texas Towns. The Stu... patrol at Gun stun Tex, con coafale nobiles. w Alien: why: fia talh by Merve n Vandlte, ye Ey VE taba rs the border bre 6 cb sit acest ane t an ofielal re; fo Wel by Ge era Funston fron ete at OL Sar ton, Fourtees ede at Vip ne gent vi ert sca dene tea, Three solr. Cohen? Cite and Rogers, amt se eivatian, tae sora: gun of OG. 0 sayt my were Ed and two suliters, Tate's and bere. were wounded. Ge. 6201 my taree fot there and tho ch. oa: wee, were given as Coot a and Govern ae been miseias cee the tht doe clvillans aie fesse to Dae teen Kidnaped ait corsted cath of ates te ternational Ss cary The punt order do ouneertan roparts pha My butte crn ity tote ttie tet. pated camp thd. bes fon tie treme re an Cy Urltt teesoe eta te fark Tue tas dite then eat Glen Sprttag orate a the tere, iad Gn te ayeerath at te casualtion Gy eaviiiams ace sre th Monere Ratify Wace Pact. The asreenen? betweem Me wats cite mine epernters unt the Cate: Mine Workers Gt Anierloa was FU fled by a vote ef GF to UT at the tridistriet Goavention fy Battevt in followin, the rea chug and pharation Of the ae reette net Aostar tin vote Wan taken after a apere Ly President: White, who told the delexates that It was thelr duty to elther accept oF Toject the axree meat, and not to refer it back to the Jocals fur a referendum vote, Tho new wage neate amon otter concesstons, provides: for facrea +d wares, un cfehthour day and rer s nition of ihe unten, If takes the pie of the arrement whitch eae! on Maren 2! ant wit be ferroathe te that date Silk. Wacker Get Raiee. The Sitien SUK company. if Easton, Sa. hax qramtod ® nice hour diy and an Increane of ten: « cent to iu tui employes, ‘The action of the company avert: a strike, as tie employes had mute do mands The Hastor.-Cromemoyer Stk «1 pany announced it badNgranted | tts Tov employes a ninebowr day and an fnereane in wakes. / Tho Northampton $Y% comps, with two milis here also granted! (t+ 300 employns a ninehour day and an increase fn wagex. The Hob!us Sik company also granted Ita 100 employes a one-hour @ay and an Increace in wages Slurred Wilson: Ousted. Herbert Putnam, Hbrarian of the congressional Whrary, in Waxbing ton, ban dismlased from officé Emest Bruncken, arsistant reginter of te copyright diviston, for remarks alles: 4 to have been disre-pectful to Preal Gent Wilron's submarine policy ‘The charies against Baunclen were browght: by other employer o: tho It} brary, who allexed bitter attacks «a| the administration. Denpatehes recent, ly stated the librarian had the matter] eader {nvretigation. i RT Se 27 ee a thd a s ‘ ME ‘ wa : : ee; e ‘@ “WEDPHEQDAY. | Betdhy H. Pearse; “provisional pres. Seat” of the “Republic of Ireland”; James Connolly, commander in chief e¢ the revolutionary foecse:, homes J. Clark and Thomas MacDonagh, have ‘een court-martialed and shot {pr trea son by tho British. Augustice Birrell, ehlef secretary for Ireland, has re signed, as a result of criticism follow. lag the Irish revolt. Despatches from’ Dublin say. tho Insurrecta has been sappreesed. Property damago from the fighting {a the Irish capital fs 03 timated at $8.875,000. ‘A—German attack tn the Argonne| near Harazce was ropulsed with sor! ous losses for the assailants, the Paris war office announced. In tho Verdun Tegion lant night thére was beavy fighting with artillery. James M. Sutivan, of New York formor Unitét States minister to San to Domingo, hax been arrested in Dut Up, accuxed of complicity with the uprising tn Irelaad, and has been tqh en'to London, where he probably wil do: tried. A deapatels from Dublin raya 18° porsona were Killed In the revotutt -n, sixty-six of whom wore noldiers. Reporta have reached Amstertam that tho clviiian popuintion of Metz ts evacuating .the German fortress city Tho French, following thelr capture of German pasitions. northwest ot Dead. Man's 111"), in the Verdun rest: contioned gheir advance. during the night, besiles consolidating the p+: tlons already taken, acewtding te tt afternoon's Paris oiftelal butletn. Gilonal Russtan troops have br Iandéd in France. i FRIDAY. . Germany'n reply te the Uatei Btates note on submarine anne ++ that tho U-boat commanders have “6. foatructed net to sink rontral veos : oven In the war zone, without prot! {ng for the safety of thosa on bwand Thin polley, 1 fa numated, “may subject to change In the Mature Hothe United States dopa not secure fet ain’s abandosinent of her alleset fawful “blockade” methods. Two Zepyeline have been destteyed, one by eraker fire off Sehleswic. ts other by shell fin: at Salonika. A sembutto lal statement, Ixswed th Parle, declares the Germans have’ ist their gains of two months on one of the summits of Dead Man'x Hit, te the Verdun region. ‘The German. het night gained a footing In Freach ot vanced trenches on HII 304, after tard fighting. This hetght Is regarat o ono of the key poritions of the wt r SATURDAY. Heavy figh'tng has been: reeset te the Verdun region, with the Gere axitn on Me egensive weet oo te Mouse, The: fuse Mratacht a treo ot viston an apoarentt: made ate w oon contration +) heavy artifters The Paris war ottoe autintts that an anna ally violent cambartinent eeupe id the Frene's te esaeuate part of thelr trenches on the narthert cope of HAN 3e4 i teetaresy Noweter. that German efor tn advasre sere ok od. 7 Priday's report dinate ctor tom de structlon of fires Zeppos ace ot Towed fy oe atecgate rea Pea fources ann ciselag Mat es Zero t 19 bad been erhted Myine Tw acres tha North Ses, apparentty Soak er + plod. Exesutions of partle:pans fn thie Inte revolt are belie cantinied, t eighth man Co suffer the death pecalty being Majer Jolin MeRride, whe foe's througi the Hoer war agate ot the fit ish and onfterward* married Wound Gonne. i SUNDAY. 4 Dexperate ated stievessive aitar i. on doth banks of the Meuse, uring whiten the Germans imide more gains at tw points, marked the revumnptlon of the Teuton offensive along the Verdun front, Preceded by a bombardment of extreme sfolenee whieh lasted with out cexsatinn fortwo divx, wares of German trv p~. in the region of HM 304 atorme:! ihe Prench positions ans timo after time wero hatred, but the overwhelmingly large hunters of Teu ton troop~ Mado themoeives felt and they penetrated fhe communicating trenches cart of HAM St. . The ainkins of an allot transport fr tho Meitterranean tate In April with the les of nearty all tho 60° Russian troop. who wera on Loard, te reported {n atvices frqm Corfu. says the Overneu: News Agency. The Russian claim further gainy . agalast the Tirks ta.the Caycasus, —- s _ MONDAY. The Germans are continuing thé tu rious offensive et Verdun’ whteh gain 4 them {mportamt ground beth eas! and west of the Mense, ‘They made Ro further advances Sunday * night Paris declares, and,‘in fact, lost par of the territory won. This ts the seventy-eight day of tho battle of Ver dun: : A new note to Germany has deer prepared by the admintstration and will probably be despatched at once It accepts Germany's, new ‘submariac pledge as {t stands, but makes {t plats this government will not: allow any Berlin dictation as to its policy toward Great Britain, ot oe Rumors of peace moves have bocn fife tn Weabincton following the Ger man note and the papat message do Hvored at the White House on Sater day. Foreign despatchen say the Ger man einperor wrote to the pope before Easter expressing the hope that ap ermatatice could be arranged. : Crown Prince Attacks Hill 304 By But is Driven Back. WATCH FOR. NEW PLUNGE Paris Expects a Now Teuton Offensive to be Launched at Bolasone and Jot fre Prepares to Counter It What secms to be the most dete: Milned effort yet made by the crow: Prince's tore to break through an cupture Verdun is cow to prokrese. Hewyy guns are persistently pound Ing ( derences of the fortress ai bombardments of unprecedented sie lonce are being followed up by attack: fm great fare, After thelr tir auccessea at Ill $04 and between Douaurgent and Hau dremont, however, the Germans have failed to make progroas, according t Parls, which announces the camplete repuise of an ansault on Hil 304, East of.the Meus nuar Thiaumont the French have again bean counter at tacking and have succeeded tn win ning buck more of the xround the Ger mana took In starting thelr new drive. Intenay artillery activity east and southeast of Verdun leads to an ee pectation that the Germans may p'an to push bay the French right tank here, slmuitiuwonsty with the effort to accompi! a Whe objet with the other fank The cazsire of several Kren trenches suuth of Hauourt and west of HI No. Tet, was announerd by the war office In Merlin. The wltingte qoirpese of all there operations ona t HAR Set ts to crete anew alert with Le Mert Home (Dead Mase ceainated by HAM 200 at & rani of tees than Som yards, a the head. “bs Sanitee of HEM Sek, mitts tary erst ates. wand! dea hes Dead Man thatantenatte amt fare a) Tetreat ef tte Prone. te the Ranke Rides Une, a tittle mote than Ave The suuumt ef Wi cet fnew ta German Sar: Kerlin stains. Two} Monti ace tee te of the cnet of thin Wl would have throws Park inte alarty Now, despite Ge fitat oi cesses Sunday ‘ant Saturtay, all Mraneg ba tured rs attention ty oe exten around Swssons, where . eneral Pe tain has ben transferred from Ver dun, Fos sine time observers have been expertise a German assault tn UIs Feetor, | Here tie ine banda alone to Parte and offers thr best opportunity for an ptber thrust at’ the French vapttal Putting General Potain tn charge of bis xertor Lats helped to confirm the pinion tint such ap attach fs in prep gration, ani that already Genoral Jor: re hax bein to make his disponitions fo counter It The forty otxnt Boge peeiairy pombardment of the fn do scribed th wiinesnes ae more aevere ban anything which hitherto bas bean pxperienen!, and It fe remarked thet be German: were Justified in béllov- ng no bun being comd have lived n the ranr sutjerted to this bem: ardment. Frenh offloars state that he lonses of tie Germang, f2 propor fon to the number ongeged, wore as = (| ahr « EE] ad 4 “ae on mm. i ji HORNE etatisnes shew thar the mumoer uf 3 # R wediets batts depetiters ts teats imeredse H e f Ting Mote a bealting sagt et htt one es conde H e Hens There tas bm ten tie camber H # b ! Bo aetnes depesiter a. pratesily uil H # — Wath te advent an the oes werkt uf E #3 Poth Wemet at We a octet that the Fy # - Were eotte stead te Be taeese Sob0h) tan etn, 3 i “bieutt ated oamscg poe bated dm laser Mat wernene gt Fe # t wtopennets have hart aesonnr Ts these whe H ac be thos appear aoinade Open a bana wecaint Pe te hue tetaperied stabi teat Wateb it sma, Medel te te enprete ties H E WrhL BY GLAD To EAPLA2S OUR BANKING # SYSTEM # IS READY TO SERGRYOU WRITE OR VISEP US AT THIRD AND CLAY S'S. NORTHWEST CORNER lOWIN MNTCHELL, TS. lee WALTER ‘T. DAVIS, Cassie A. 01 PRIGE, 2126451 LEIGH STREET, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, EMBALMER AND LIVERYMAN AA orders premptiy filled at short siotce by telegraph or cet- ephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertunmente. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picon or Band Wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing buc frst class Carriages, Buggies, ctc. Keep constantly on hazy tne funeral supplies. . £27Open All Day and Night—Man on Duty All Night. ‘PHONE, MAD. 577 RICHMOND, VA. (Residence next door.) * Charley's Uncle Too Fond of Pets Caen WHE Hyd. Na: 7 greet as im any other : war, “ .. It fe sald that a. Prossian -divisten (32,000 men), which was pngaxet on ‘Bunday on’ the, Haudremont Wood ‘Thiapraont Farm-Dovaumoat Fort line ‘lost Mare than Gfty per cont of ite “effectives. ES nei MAN AND H3SE DROWN Silde Over a Bant and Swamp a Launch. Beooming unmana;cadle,* a horse driven to a cart by Charles ‘Carter backed over a ten-foot ombankmen! lnto Chester river at ChesierPa. ‘The horse, cart and driver alld unde, a launch moorad near the short. ‘The horse kich¢: Carter In the hea! and ho was crowne.l. The horse drown | ed after ho liad alvo kicked a hble fn the béttum of the launch and) Swampel the boat. The horse uni cart were owned dy Androw MeHinchy, a Iecal botelman William Pratt. n owned the launch. $570,000 For Yale. A, Situs: bequeat to Yalo univer sity’ and tw bequests to the New York Pre by cosian chospitad, amy un: Ing to $20. +, aro contained in t'¢ will of the “ote Charles W. Harkne-s, Standord G1 company director, rated many thoes a miliionatre, admitted to probate tn New York ¢lty. 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Mc Combs, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is the plank in the Democratic party's platform which was adopted at Baltimore providing for an expression of preference for presidential candidates and the selection of all delegates and alternates at primaries to be conducted by the party in such states as do not provide for these primaries by law. Under this call there will be 105 delegates in the convention. Mr. Mc Ombs is ex officio chairman of a committee on arrangements which is composed of members of the national committee. There will be very few federal office holders in the Democratic convention. This departure from the established practice of a president seeking a nomination is in accordance with the wishes of Mr. Wilson himself. In the coming convention there will be not half a dozen men who hold federal offices. One of the considerations that actuated the president in declaring he would not seek a renomination was his determination to keep members of his cabinet and men he had appointed to office from active participation in the nominating convention The New York organization wanted to send as a delegate at large Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, who is also a son-in-law of the president. The president discouraged this proposition. Speaker Clark has declined to be a delegate at large from Missouri, as has Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery, who halls from the same state. Other federal officeholders also have declined the honor. The North Carolina Democrats wanted to send Secretary Daniels, but he has announced he will not accept. Postmaster General Burleson was also slated as a delegate from Texas, but he will not go. In furtherance of the president's wish, members of the Democratic national committee have conferred with the leaders of their states, with the result that only men who do not hold office under the administration will be sent to St. Louis. A number of senators and representatives will, of course, figure prominently, in the proceedings at St. Louis, but they are not to be regarded as members of the administration, as senators are elected directly by the people. With the renomination of, President Wilson assured it is agreed that the convention will be of short duration. It is unlikely that there will be contests of any kind. Harmony will be the keynote of the convention. Of the coming convention Mr. McOomba has this to say: "President Wilson will be renommat- ed without opposition. Not only was there not the slightest suggestion of opposition to him at the opening of congress, and at the recent meeting of the committee, but the endorsement for the president was very apprehended. His reorganization will come as the organized expression of the native party. I don't think the convention will just lagger than three days." PRESIDENT WILSON The Democratic national convention will be held in the new Coliseum, a building costing $300,000 and having an actual seating capacity of 14,000 persons. The building is said to be one of the best ventilated and lighted convention halls in America. Its nonstatic properties are especially good. It is three stories in height, and the arena has 5,000 square feet of floor space. The Coliseum, which is less than a mile from the business center of St. Louis, should not be confused with the old Exposition hall, in which other national conventions in St. Louis have been held. The Coliseum is of the proof construction. It has an arena, an oval of leaves in an arena circle and a [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit, facing forward. The background is plain white. There are no other discernible elements or text.]] --- 1872 July 9 Baltimore 1872 June 27 St. Louis 1872 June 22 Cincinnati 1872 July 10 Chicago 1872 June 6 St. Louis 1872 June 23 Chicago 1872 July 7 Chicago 1872 July 4 Kansas City 1874 July 6 St. Louis 1874 July 7 Denver 1872 June 24 Baltimore 1874 June 16 St. Louis Would Make National Parks Dry. National parks and forest reserves would be made dry by a bill favorably reported to the senate by the public lands committee. It would prohibit the secretary of the Interior from granting permission to any model or any one to sell it. PRESIDENT WILSON CAPITOL MEDIA ASSOCIATION Lying flat on his face, with stomach upon one rail and his outstretched hands grasping the other, Herman A Stover, thirty-five years old, a Spring Grove paper mill worker, was cut in half by a Pennsylvania railroad freight train near York, Pa. It is believed that he sought this terrible means or committing suicide. Girl Drowne In Barrel. Amella, Paulik, the four-year-old daughter of Walter Paulik, of Milford, a superb of Reading, Pa., was drawned in a rain barrel near her home. The child evidently fell into the barrel while at play. Workers Abandon "Closed Shop" and "Check Off"—Granted an Eight Hour Day. Wage concessions which would increase the anthracite mine workers' pay roll by approximately $9,000,000 in the next four years, are offered in the tentative agreement reached by a joint sub-committee of operators and miners in New York, it was learned. The agreement, it was predicted by both sides, in all probability will be accepted by the tridistrict board representing the miners. The agreement, if accepted by the tri-state board and ratified by the miners' convention at Pottaville, Pa. will be signed jointly by the operators and the United Mine Workers of America. The former agreement was signed by the mine leaders for the miners. The representatives of the miners said that the new agreement, which will cover a four-year period, "means the biggest triumph in point of concessions ever obtained by the miners." The operator, for the first time have granted to the miners the right to organize for lettering the conditions in the coal hold, the leaders asserted. The increase in wages virtually amounts to fifteen and a half per cent for day workers, according to the miners, who pointed out that the granting of the demand for an eight-hour instead of a nine-hour day added twelve and a half per cent to the three per cent increase for day workers and the seven per cent increase for contract miners embodied in the proposed new contract. The concessions made by the subcommittee of the miners regarding the recognition of the union were the "closed shop" and the "check off." The operators stood firm on the issue they had raised that to create a "closed shop" and constitute them solves the collecting agents for the union would be un-American and detrimental to their interests. Other concessions granted were the roadjustment of classifications of engineers and a seven per cent increase in their wages, the providing of a machine mining scale governing the basic payment to all classes of labor employed in that work, with the added clause that no contract for machine mining can be made for less than day rates. There were also provisions made for overtime work and increasing the rate of pay for emergency labor. The work of the conciliation board in settling grievances also will be arranged, so that decisions may be more speedily obtained. As to the prices of powder and other miners' supplies sold by the coal company, no agreement was reached. It is understood, however, the operators have guaranteed that no more than a fair profit shall be realized. Slaya Bride: Soon Caught. a brutal wife murder was en- acted in Allentown, Pa., when Jonas Probst, a weaver employed at the Rexall Knitting mill, formerly a steel worker at Bethlehem, twenty three years old, shot and killed Jonnie Probst, aged nineteen, his bribe or less than a year. The woman was instantly killed by two revolver bullets fired into her breast. Probst fled, but was caught two hours after the shooting. A man hunt was instantly begun by Chief of Police Bernhart, all the au- thorities assisting. Probst was caught by Constable Harry Stoneback, one of the posse of searchers, who knew him by sight. Stoneback, after beating the woods for two hours, visited Michley's hotel, four miles north, when Borbst entered the barroom. Fearing a lynching, the officers hus tled Brostat to jail by a round-about route. Newspapers Would Charge Two Centa. 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A message from Kingstown, Ireland, for the main body of the Sinn Féin voters gave up Sunday. There was considerable fighting throughout the city in Dublin and the suburbs, and was especially severe at Ball's Edge, outside Dublin. The revolutionists in the College of Surgeons surrendered. A proclamation issued by "Provisional President" Pearse, advising the surrender of all his followers, reads: "In order to prevent the furtheraughter of unarmed people, and inhope of saving the lives of ourflowers, who are surrounded andpeasely outnumbered, the membersthe provisional government at headquarters have agreed to unconditionalsurrender, and the commanders of allunits of the republican forceswillar their followers to lay down theirus. (Signed) "PEARSE." a telegram from Dublin to the Event. News says: "The last stronghold to be taken is Jacobs' factory, which was sur- sured. Cut off from the center of city, the beleaguered insurgents not heard of the capitulation of chief chiefs. They kept up a deluxe fusillade from the roofs and windows and finally were subdued by a letter of sardery." The Kingstown correspondent of the tronicle says several English officers are shot in the back by women. One officer was killed by a woman who stuck him in the head with a rifle. It is impossible to estimate accurately the loss throughout the zones fighting in the southeastern and eastern parts of Ireland, but it is expected to exceed $50,000,000. There is much looting. One correspondent describes scenes in Dublin in which or women whose ragged clothing is partly hidden by greasy shawls, are diamond tiaras in their hair. She had been stolen from jewelry ups into which the insurrectionists like to get material for street barrires. James Connolly, commander-in-chief the "Republican" army, originally a reported killed, but a later doom says he was wounded in the th. although official figures as to casuals are lacking, despatches are being to speak of "enormous losses." is believed the casualties up to ardy were in excess of 600. After revolutionists evacuated St. Steen's Green, there were more than wounded Sinn Felners in the near-building of the College of Surgeons. two officers and more than a dozen ash soldiers fell while storming a ashghold near Pombroke and Lanshe roads. 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Two vessels under charter by the American commission for the relief of Belgium, the Swedish steamship Fridland and the British steamship Hendonhall, have been sunk within two days. The disaster to Hendonhall was reported Monday. The vessel was bound from Portland, Me., and Louisburg, C. B., for Rotterdam. The Brazilian steamship Rio Branco, 2250 tons, and the British steamship Rochester City, 1230 tons, have also been sunk. One life was lost in the destruction of the Rochester City. HALT U. S. SHIP BY SHOT French Cruiser Stops and Searchs the Isthmian. A wireless message, picked up at San Juan, Porto Rico, from the American steamship Isthmian reports that she was stopped by a French cruiser which fired a shot across her bow. The Isthmian, which sailed from Baltimore on April 25 for Rio Janfioro, was searched by the cruiser, which then permitted her to proceed. Immigration Jumps to 33,000 in Month. Immigration is quickening after months of stagnation caused by the European war. 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WHEAT steady: No. 2 red, $1.190 CORN quiet: No. 2 yellow, S442 844c. OATS firm: No. 2 white, 51¼£ 556 POULTRY: Live steady; hena, 19£ 20¢; old roosters, 12¾£ 13£. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 22£; old roos tam, 18£ BUTTER firm: Fancy creamery, 28£, per lb. EGGS steady: Selected 27£ 29£; nearly, 26£; western, 26£. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO—HOGS 54£ 59£, lower mixed and eaters, $45£ 49.90, good bread, $45£ 49.90, roundhearts, $8£ 95.95; light, $30£ 90.90, Jigs, $8£ 18£; bulk, $70£ 95.95. CATTLE—Steady. Beavers. $7.60 $9.95; cows and heifers. $3.50/$8.85; stockers and feeders. $6.50/$8.50; Tex ans. $7.50/$9; calves. $7.50/$9. SHEEP—Strong. Native and wost ern. $6.10/$4.40; lambs. $8.50/$11.85. British Warship Mined. An official statement in London says that the battleship Russell Captain William Bowden Smith, R. N. flying the flag of Rear Admiral Freeman, struck a mine in the Mediter ranean and was sunk. The admiral, twenty-four officers and 676 men were saved. There are about 124 officers and men missing. Find Diamond in Carp. While fishing in the Junata river, near Frankatown, Pa., Mike Balonisky, an Austrian quarryman, caught a carp and found a $100 diamond ring inside of it. The "aparker" was discovered while he was cleaning the fish. Europe's purchases of war materials in the United States to tallied three hundred and forty million dollars at the end of the first twenty months of war. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Driven Back by First Volley, Asaall ants Again Try to Penetrate Works Hand-to-Hand Fighting..... When a mob of drink-crazed strike sympathizers, the majority foreigners, twice attacked the plant of the Edgar Thomson Steel company, in Braddock, near Pittsburgh, at least two were killed by the fire, of the company police, and four of the twenty-four known to be wounded by the funniliade are so seriously injured they may die. Some reports said a score of the attacking mob lost their lives, but this was not confirmed. Two corpses were removed from the scene of the rioting. As most of the men shot were allens, who were removed by their comrades, it is believed possible more were killed or wounded than appear on the list of known casualties. Not fewer than 1000 shots were fired by the steel works guards defending the steel plant, after the mob bombarded the walls and tried to scale them. Ever since the Westinghouse Works were closed by the strikers they have been threatening the plants of the Monongahela valley, and began a march on the Edgar Thomson works as well as the plant of the McClintock Marshall Bridge Works, and other mills, in an effort to get the mon employed to join them. All during the day the mob had been attacking manufacturing plants in the Turtle Creek and Monongahela valleys. In the afternoon, the crisis came The workmen in the Edgar Thomson mil had offered themselves as deputy sheriffs to resist the invaders; and many of them were well armed with rifles, as were the regular policemen of the mill, when the mob of foreign ers from the Westinghouse works ap- peared at the gates and demanded ad- mittance for the purpose of coating the Edgar Thomson men out. They were refused, and the guards attempted to persuade them to leave but they began a bombardment with stones and started to scale the walls. One of the strikers succeeded in get- ting to the top of the wall surround- ing the plant and fired a shot at the workmen. Instantly the rifles of the police spat out a deadly sheet, and in a few minutes a bloody riot was going on. Many of the men in the crowd were seen to fall. Most of them were under the influence of liquor, although every saunon in the neighborhood has been closed by order of the district attorney. After the first volley of the guards had driven the mob back they again charged, and a desperate hand-to-hand encounter ensued, in which heads and limbs were broken and blood flowed freely. The strikers had to give way at last and backed away from the plant, but did not run. Two of the men killed were neither Wostinghouse strikers nor workmen at the Edgar Thomson works. They were spectators. One was John Barke twenty-two years old, of Braddock. He leaves a wife and two children. Another was Michael Havrkin, Greek. Among those who were what an may die are Frank Williams and his wife who were watching the fight from an alley when hit. After the conflict there was desolatory firing by guards and plotters at the Thirteenth street and Baltimore Ohio entrances to the Edgar Thomson works, where between 8000 and 9000 men were at work. Sherif Richards, of Allegheny county, sent 500 deputies to the scene later and all the men in the Edgar Thomson works were sworn in as deputy sheriffs and armed with rifles and revolvers. Most of the foreigners are unarmed except with bludgeons. Has they been supplied with firearms a dreadful massacre would undoubtedly have resulted. Sherif Richards was notified of the situation, and it was decided the governor should be asked for detachments of the national guard. --- Do You Want an Umbrella? Well, here it is. The Hull Broa. Umbrella Company will guarantee them. The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it into your traveling bag or trunk without injury to the Umbrella. We have ordered a consignment of these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent quality. Twenty-five Dollars worth of Umbrella Coupons entitle you to one Umbrella, lady or gent. Specify the kind you want and we will send the Umbrella upon receipt of the Coupons. 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In 1808, Horatio Seymour; in 1872, the party generally supported Horace Greeley, the Liberal Republican candidate, but an "old guard" nominated Charles O'Connor; in 1876, Samuel J. Tilden; in 1890, General Winfield Scott Hancock; in 1894, 1898, and 1902, Grover Cleveland; in 1896 and 1900, William J. Bryan; in 1904, Alton B. Parker; in 1905, William J. Bryan; in 1912, Woodrow Wilson. Please name a few of the important medical and surgical discoveries made under conditions growing out of the conflict in Europe. Several unverified stories of remarkable operations along new lines have appeared, but as yet the operations have not been described in medical journals. Two Frenchman, Dr. Lu Chainche and Vallée, announced in March, 1915, the discovery of a new antitoxin called "polyvalent," which has been successfully used in military hospitals. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller institute and Dr. Henry D. 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Secretary Lansing in reply to Austria's protest sums up the reasons in the last sentence in these words: 'The principles of international law, the practice of the nations, the national safety of the United States and other nations without great military and naval establishments; the prevention of increased armies and navies; the adoption of peaceful methods for the adjustment of international differences; and family, nationality, social, are opposed to the prohibition by a neutral How To Get One. Richmond, Virginia Motion of the execution of arms, ammunition or other munitions of war to belligerent powers during the progress of the war." Please state how much larger Poland is than Ireland. Where did the expression "When in Rome do as Rome does" originate? The area of Ireland is 32,373 square miles. In its greatest prosperity Poland had an area of 350,000 square miles. "When they are at Rome they do there as they see done" contained in "Anatomy of Melancholy," by Robert Burton. 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Will you please print President Lincoln's letter to a "woman who had lost five sons killed during the civil war. Following is the letter as given in Hay and Nicolay's "Life of Lincoln:" Washington, Nov. 11, 1864 Mrs. Bixby, Washington, Mass. Dear Malcolm, I am shown in the files of the war department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and frustless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beseech you from the grief or a loss so great that you would tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may安慰 the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the earth. You're very sincerely and respectfully. In there anything in the Bible exempting newly married men from military service? Deuteronomy, chapter xxiv, verse 5, reads, "When a man hath taken a new wife he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business, but he shall be free at home one year and shall cheer up his wife which he bath taken." What is meant by a buffer state? What are the buffer states of Europe? It is a figurative expression. In mechanics a buffer is something that decends the shock of a blow or the jaw of a collision, a sort of fender. Hence a buffer state is one that lies between two rival nations and helps to keep them apart, while bearing the brunt of the war. At the beginning of the present war in Europe Belgium and Luxemburg were called buffer states because they lay in the path of the German forces that were to invade France. Generally little states have to serve as buffers for big ones and suffer the hurdles of war without any of the glory. Another use of the term of recent origin is "buffer zones", meaning a strip or zone on either side of a boundary line dividing two states, which strip or zone both agree to regard as neutral. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PAC1 SEVEN How long did the Franco-German war last? July 19, 1816, war was declared between France and Prussia and continued until May 10, 1871, when peace was signed. Is the United States under a revenue or protective tariff system? The tariff system of the United States is still almost exclusively on a protective basis, though the import duties have been reduced and on some articles previously taxed for protective purpose, the duty has been removed. A large proportion of the duties now collected is on articles which come in competition with products of home industry and therefore in protective. What was the largest check or cash order ever issued by the United States treasury? When the government pays a claim or debt it is done by a treasury warrant, signed by the secretary of the treasury. In May, 1904, the secretary signed a warrant for $40,000,000, which was delivered to J. P. Morgan & Co of New York as disbursing agents of this government on account of the Panama canal purchase. This was the largest warrant ever issued. The largest sum previously covered by a single government warrant was for $7,200,000, paid to Russia in 1898 on account of the Alaskan purchase. The next largest sum was $5,500,000, paid in 1870 to the British government on account of the Halifax award under the treaty of Washington for infringement of fishing rights in Nova Scotian waters. In 1800 this government paid Spain, through the French ambassador, $20,000,000 for the Philippine islands, but this sum was represented by four warrants of $5,000,000 each. Please name the thirteenth original colonies and tell when and where each was settled. Delaware, 1638, Wilmington; Pennsylvania, 1632, Philadelphia; New Jersey, 1634, Elizabeth; Georgia, 1733, Savannah; Connecticut, 1635, New Haven; Massachusetts, 1630, Plymouth Maryland, 1634, St. Mary's; South Carolina, about 1630, Clarendon; New Hampshire, 1630, along the Piscataqua river; Virginia, 1607, Jamestown; New York, 1615, New York; North Carolina, 1633, Albemarle, and Rhode Island, 1637, Portsmouth. How many children has Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and what are their names? How many are married and which ones? To what rules of Eupepsis is he related? Is his daughter married and to whom? Kaiser Wilhelm in 1861 married Prince Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, and they had six sons and one daughter—Friedrich Wilhelm, William Eitel Friedrich, Adalbert, August Wilhelm, Oscar, Joachim and Victoria Louise. All of these are married. The daughter, Victoria Louise, was married in 1873 to Prince Ernest August, duke of Cumberland. Kaiser Wilhelm is a cousin of the present king of England, also of the emperor of Russia, the queen of Spain and a brother-in-law of the king of Greece. ```markdown ``` Policeman Acting Footpad is Shot in Mayor's View. (New York World - May 10, 1916) While acting the role of an armed pickpocket in front of the Madison Square reviewing stand during the police parade yesterday afternoon, troopman Christopher F. Reilly was shot by Detective John J. Kilroy, who ignorant of the programme's details, saw danger to the 6,000 spectators crowded at this point, among them John D. Rockofeller, Jr. Mayor Mitchel, Police Commissioner Woods and many other city officials. Reilly, wounded in the mouth, conducted himself with such sterling coolness that very few of the haggling, applauding host of policemen and spectators knew when they started for home twenty minutes later that the injury was genuine. Reilly's wound is slight. It was said at the New York Hospital last night. SCORE OF POLICE SPRANG AT REILLY The future as originally planned was not on the printed programme and it is unlikely that the question of just how many of the 1,000 police men guarding the grand stand and vicinity had advance knowledge of it will ever be determined. Certainly at least a score of uniformed men on duty near the stand had not been previously warned, for they sprang at the poorly clad Reilly and attacked him before Kiltroy fired. One of these men, a patrolman named Cater of the Lawrence Street Station, Brooklyn, struck Reilly a severe blow on the back of his neck with a club It was at least five minutes after Reilly had been taken in a motor car from the scene that Mayor Mitchell, Commissioner Woods and Chief Inspector Max F. Schmittberger, who was in charge of the events, knew that almost a tragedy had injected itself into a programme whose features had been splendidly executed. They left the stand quiet, after taking off their uniforms and mounting, men should close the day, according to Efstahle, and went to the hospital, where all talked with the wounded man. KILROY IS NOT UNDER ARREST Kilroy, by record a brave, efficient policeman in March, 1911, he made an arrest at the risk of his life, turned himself over to brother detectives and went to his headquarters in the Third Branch Bureau, at Third Avenue and One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. He was not placed under arrest. The incident came a few minutes after 4 o'clock. The First Regiment of Police, led by Inspector Schmittberger, moved past the reviewing stand at 2 10 Every chair and every plank seat in the stand was occupied and all of Madison Square crowded. There were as many women as men. With Commissioner Woods was his fance, Miss Helen M. Hamilton, and her mother, Mrs William Pleerson Hinton. When the actual parading was over, the six honor policemen were given their medals by the Mayor. Then a number of exhibition drills were executed and the mounted men had treated to to reform at the corner of Twenty third Street for their exercises, when a woman carrying a board bag by a handle, stepped out from the throng on the west side of Fifth Avenue at Twenty-fifth Street and started across the street in the direction of the reviewing stand. She was Henrietta Durie of No 46 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, matron at the Adams Street Police Station. From a cluster of uniformed policemen, grouped almost in front of where the Mayor and the Police Commissioner sat, darted Reilly, wearing a cap and made up in the character of a cheap thief. When the matron reached the middele of the street Reilly ran to her and wrenched a bag from her hand. She uttered a scream that drew the excited gaze of the expectator, whereupon Reilly ran south. Here the "stunt" was supposed to reach the climax. As it has been performed several times at the police games, a police dog ran up, the pick-pocket fired several blank cartridges, but the dog would run between the thief's legs and trip him. Yesterday, when Reilly, who has always played the part, ran from the woman, Rap, the police dog, sprang out and made for him. Simultaneously Patrolman Michael E. Leffler, as arranged, ran from the corner of Twenty-fourth Street. Reilly was to fire two blank shots, but he had fired only one, aiming it rather indirectly at Leffler, when several uniformed men rushed from the side lines and closed in on the supposed pickpocket. Some of them struck him with their fists, but Carter pulled his club and swung it heavily across the back of Reilly's neck. PROTESTED THEY "SPOILED HIS AOCT." In less than a second shouts from policemen who were aware of the plan warned these others to keep. But they continued their assault on the amused Refilly, and when he began to protest they were "spoiling the act." Kilroy, who has been on the force more than eight years and was on the ground by reason of an assignment to watch, for pickpockets, ran from a group of uniformed men, with whom he had been talking, opposite the stand, and shouldered his way into the mix. "Get the bell out of there!" shouted a bellhop who had been converting with Kilroy a messenger before. Others of his recent companions cried similar instructions, but Kilroy was apparently too excited to hear, for sitting. a revolver still in Killy's right hand he pulled his gun out and fired at Killy when the two men were not five feet apart. It seemed from the noise that more than two shots were fired, and that Kilroy flicked two, but only one bullet fell back. This was passed through the right side of his face two inches from his mouth, spintered two teeth, perforated his tongue and passed through to the muscles of his left jaw under the ear. THOUGHT WAS MAKE-BELIEVE BLOOD. The spectators were quiet in thrill. Blood appeared all over the right side of Reilly's face, but almost everybody including those who had seen Reilly and his "act" before, thought he had not only shunned the wound but had artfully added to it by coloring that part of his face with something he had concealed in his hand. There was even laughter as, having fallen, Reilly was lifted to his feet, for at about this moment Rap, the dog, became panicky and overturned two uniformed policemen. Made inarticulate by the wound to his tongue, Reilly straightened himself under the support of fellow officers and looked in amazement, at Talroy. To the spectators this was art absolute, and they smiled and applauded. How ignorant the onlookers were of the truth is easily indicated in the photograph made at the time by a photographer for The World. SURRENDERS SELF TO COM- RADES Policemen grouped along the sidewalks and in front of the stand grinned when it was suggested that the programme had miscarried "Reilly's a wonder," they said. Kitroy edged in, as if to take possession of his prisoner. When the men carrying Reilly whispered to him he broke his revolver, removed the shells and walked over to some policemen who know him. "Go with me to the bureau" he said. He handed his revolver to one of them and walked off, bewildered. Kitroy was told to police automobile standing at Broadway and Twenty-fourth Street. A few steps behind him hurried Dr. Edward T. Higins, chief surgeon of the Police department, who read in Reilly's paling face that he had been wounded "SOMERBODY GUMMED THE THING" Prange for the success of Reilly's "stunt" swept through the through, and the mounted police, grouped on Fifth Avenue at Twenty-fourth Street, were waiting for the signal to begin their manoeuvre, when Inspector Frank A. Therney, in charge of the police around the stand, walked over to Commissioner Wood. "Something's wrong, Commissioner he said "Somebody gunned the thing." Mayor Mitchell, hearing this, leamed over and asked if Reilly had been hurt. "His body taken to the hospital, looks as if he had been shot in the mouth," Commissioner Therney, the Mayor conferred for a minute and then in instructed First Deputy Commissioner Leon G. Gilley to see that the remainder of the programme was carried out. It meant only fifteen or twenty minutes more, but it also meant that the truth would be kept from spreading through the crowd. As the mounted men clattered up the Mayor, the Commissioner and Inspector Schmittberger hurried to their automobiles and made for the hospital. When they reached there, it was in the emergency ward, undergoing examination by Dr. Higgins. MAYOR SEMMONS A SPECIALIST The visitors were assured by Dr. Higgins that the wound was not serious. The Mayor remained with Kelly for about twenty minutes and then telephoned to Dr. John H. Hart well, a specialist, who treated former Corporation Counsel Frank L. Folk when a man, seeking to kill Mayer Mitchel, shot Mr. Folk in the left check two years ago. Commissioner Woods and Inspector Schmittberger stayed in the hospital for an hour. In this time Schmittberger had learned by telephone that Kilroy had fired the shot On leaving the hospital Mr. Woods said that he had not had time to investigate the incident thoroughly. "It obviously, very regrettable," he said. "Why weren't all of the policemen notified that this feature was to be staged?" he was asked. "I practically all of them were told, I understand," he said, "though I don't know what this man Kilroy was doing at the parade." He had not then learned the official explanation for Kilroy's presence an assignment to look for pickpockets Inspector Schmittberger, who arranged the "stunt," said last night: "The responsibility for the shooting reacts with Kittroy. He had no business on the scene, as he was not assigned to a post there. He simply wandered over there and butted in. I have no doubt that he didn't know anything, about the stunt to be run off, but there was no reason why he should have been notified. He was off his beat. The word was passed along the line of men to be on post at the parade this morning. I regret the shooting, but Kittroy is to blame." The announcement of the mock crime did not take the form usually adopted for the promulgation of important information. In most instances, when the men are canonified on police matters, announcements are made to each outgoing platoon by the Captain or desk Lieutenant in each station house. And in branch detective bureaus it is even easier to disseminate information to the men. DECIDE TO DELAY OPERATIONS About on hour after the Commissioner left the hospital Dr. Hartwell arrived. He decided that it would not be wise to operate for the bullet last night. An X-ray photograph will be taken. Bettyllia wife came to the hospital at 9 o'clock last night, she said she was present when her husband was shot but could not get to his宿舍 of the crush. With her wife her two children, both boys—one seven years old and the other nineteen months. After the shooting, ignorant of the fact that the wound was more than a slight laceration of the surface skin, she went home. On the way her fears were aroused by the conversation of two policemen who, sitting just in front of her in the car, discussed the shooting. Reilly is thirty-four years old. His home is at No. 113 Vanderbilt Street. Brooklyn. He was appointed to the force Dec. 28, 1911. Kilroy, about thirty, lives at No. 686 East One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Street. Regularly attached to the Clinton Street Station, he was assigned a few days ago to the Third Branch Detective Bureau for ten days. He qualified for the department Feb. 7, 1908. Most of the thousands of persons who were present during the two and one-half hours that the exhibition consumed the hours that the police that not one thing had occurred to mar the most splendid parade that the Police Department has ever given. Other years cannot boast of more glorious weather for marching, though naphth is scarcely the ideal track even for men who have spent most of their working lives afloat. 6.500 MARCHERS IN THE LINE. In line were 6,800 men, the majority of them clean-cut and active. At 1:30 Inspector Schmittberger marshalled them at Eightleth Street and Fifth Avenue, or as near that point as in army of infantry, cavalry, motorcycle and bicycle men could congregate at the same time. FLORENCE. S. C. Florence S. C., May 12, 1916 Rev. C. R. Brown, D. D., left the city Monday morning for Greensboro, N. C. to witness the graduating exercise of Bennett College, where his oldest son, Mr. C. R. Brown, Jr. will be handed his sheep skirt. Rev. Brown feels proud of his son's success, and accordingly will have the President present him with a gold watch having his son's initials engraved--C. R. B. Jr. Mr Marion Southering, of Fayetteville, N. C. passed through the city recently en route for Timmonsville, to go his sick mother. He was once a girl of value. Rev W. R. Rousse, of Bennettville, S. C., as rejoicing over the success at Church Spring Branch Baptist Church Marion County During his long travel thirteen were added to the Church. Mrs. Lucy Smith, of Society Hill, S. C. passed through the city recently en route to Long Branch, N. J. She was quite well and happy. Mrs. L. R. Parker, of Sumter, S. C. has gone to Buffalo, N. Y. She was formerly a Miss Van Buren of Sumter, S. C. Rev F. B. Petterkin and Mr. F. D. Davies, of Blenheim, S. C. has gone to Gandys Sliding on official business of the Sons and Daughters of Jacob. They report quite a success in the Order, having more than 1,000 members over a territory of 80 miles square. They pay $150 per week sleek benefit, and $150 dollars at death. The next annual meeting will be at Sellers, S. C. Thursday, November 23, 1916. Headquarters of the Society at Blenheim, S. C. Rev F. B. Petterkin, Grand High Ruler for South Carolina. Mr. M. A. La Saine, of Kittrell College, S. C. passed through the crew recently on route to Lamar, S. C. to send her vacation Rev H. B McDaniels of Sellers S.C. is pastoring the A.M.E City Church during the absence of the pastor. Rev Jackson, who is in attendance of the General Conference of A.M.E Church at Philadelphia. A. M. C. A. NOTES The Boys' Bible Class began the examination for the term last Tuesday night. The men were out in good numbers to their examination on the Bible Study last Tuesday night. Last Saturday at the Y M C A all who attended the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson were helped. Last Sunday was a full day for service. At 9:30 A.M. at the Y M C A, the workers' meeting was a good one. The inmates of the city home enjoyed the meetings by the committee. (10 A. M) At 10 A. M. in the city jail the committee was busy, and much was accomplished. The meeting for the women in the penitentiary (10 A. M.) was enjoyed by the woman. The singing was a fine wire. Committeeman B. L. Allen and C. Gatson were out with the boys (4 P. M) at the Y M C A, and it was very interesting meeting. At 3:30 P. M. at the 6th Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Ex-Governor Wm. Hodges Mann spoke to a very large crowd of women and men under the unplease" of the Brigade No. 12 of the Church and Y. M. C. A. Subject: "The Bible." Everybody was more than pleased and the results are many. The music by the choir of the church was some of the beat. A good colleague of given. We thank you. Today (5 P. M.) come to the aid for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson at the Y. M. C. A. Be on time. Get in a full hour. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for worke (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers, send your boys to the meeting for them (4-P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. At 3:30 P. M. at the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company's Auditorium. Rev. W. R. Bail will deliver a special address to men. Subject: "Preparedness and Action." Prof. Thomas Melton will render modal poles on the violin. Many another man. On time. Women and men are invited to the closing of the Y. M. S. A Night School Monday, May 21st. 8:30 P. M., at the New Baptist Church, near the corner of First and Clay Streets. A special program by the students. Rev. Nelson B. Brown, B. Th., pastor of the Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church will deliver the address. Everybody is invited. Watch for the date of the great meeting for men at the Ebenstein Baptist Church, when the new pastor will speak to the men of Richmond. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. LEESBURG, VA. ITEMS. Leesburg, Va.—Rev. Thomas Johnson, who was to preach at the Baptist Church for the Club No. 1, failed to put in his appearance Saturday, but arrived at the hour of service Sunday morning, and proceeded to preach from Joshua 19.9. Subject: "Be Strong; Have I Not Commanded Thee Be Strong and of a Good Courage; Be Not Afraid, Neither Be Thou Dismayed, for the Lord; Thy God Is With Thee a Whithersover Thou Goest." Some of his members followed him twelve miles from Hound Hill. At 8 o'clock the Reverend was in the holy place. Text. Mark 14:64. "What Think Ye?" He was very spirited in his discourse, and his sermon was very uplifting. Several held their hands for prayer. Mr. Charley Motton, of New York, the guest of his brother, Mr Jesse Motton, for a week or two. Rev J. E. Dotson was at his post of duty all day Sunday, preaching morning and evening to a great audience. Mrs. Louisa Helms announces that her daughter, Mary B. Helms, and Mr. Harry Washington, of Washing ton will be married May 12th inst.—Wednesday. W. L. J. Urbanna, Va., Letter Urbana, Va., May 8, 1916 - On May 8, a few of the young men of the county met at the Calvary Baptist Church and organized "An Educational Forum." The object of this forum is to arouse the citizen to the duties of good citizenship, and to seek out and instruct the people on matters that pertain to tehir welfare. Mr. E. G. Wood, president; Mr. John Smith, secretary. A Farmers' Union was organized at the Union Grove School on the third inst. Those that attended the commencement at the R. I. Academy from here were Rev. J. A. Martin; Messrs. W. E and Criss Green, and J. C. Boyd. The Escubrook Baptist Church observed the anniversary of the church and pastor, Rev. C. D. Jones, on last Sunday. Many from this section attended. Mr. Helena Harris, of Wake, visited relatives in Norfolk recently. Mr. Jeff Braxton and Virginius Thurston, Jr. left here on last Thursday the 4th, for Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. V. E. Thomas and Miss Sallie Wood were callers in Webb-Town last week. Mrs. J. A Martin visited Mrs. J. B. Johnson on last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Churh-bill Taylor, of Locust Hill, died in Baltimore, Md., where he had been carried for medical treatment. Funeral services and burial took place on last Saturday at the Bloch Baptist Church connected by Rev. W. Tymon H. D., assisted by Revs. J. A Martin, B D, C. D. Jones, and P. C. Young. J. C. B. DO YOU WANT TO PLAY BALLS? If so, write Manager Mayo Stevens for schedule and open dates. Richmond is being represented by the best colored ball team in the history of our city. You will be favored with engagements from one to six days of continuous playing. The owner of Broad Street Park, the home of the Virginians in the International Ball League, has connected to allow us to tour the city and joke to fill out our schedule for advertising purposes. Write at once, MAYO STEVENS, Manager, Miller's Hotel, Richmond, Va. DO YOU KNOW THEM? Charlie M. Walbarrow of 311 N. Fourth Street, Richmond, Va., left his home June 20, 1913. If any one knows his whereabouts, kindly notify Annie Walbarrow, 311 N. Fourth St. Richmond, Va. His mother wants him to come home. Money for trans- Some information is wanted of the whereabouts of Hugh W. Thomas, who was born in Essex County, Va., about 19 years ago. His father, William L. Thomas, died when he was two years old, and his mother, Mary Thomas, formerly Mary Parsons, took him to Richmond. She died soon afterwards leaving him with an aunt, Helen Parsons. When last heard of, he was living on or near St. Paul Street, Richmond, Va. 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