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VIRGINIA BAPTIST STATE CONVEN- TION'S GREAT SESSIONS RAISED NEARLY FOUR THOUS- AND DOLLARS—PRESIDENT GALVIN WIELDS THE GAVEL. Many Fine Addresses—Adopts Resolution Calling for a More Corridal Relation Between the Bodies Connected With the Two State Conventions. Norfolk, Va., May 10.—President A. A. Galvin in his annual address before the Virginia Baptist State Convention in session at the First Baptist Church, Rev. R. H. Bowling, pastor, used as his theme, "Preparedness." He said, "We would impress the supreme importance of spiritual preparedness. This preparation is effected by use of the amazing means of grace. Spiritual preparedness is essential to conquer our great enemies, sin, flesh and the devil." And spiritual preparedness becomes manifest by what it accomplishes. It expresses itself at home and abroad. It realizes its obligation to Jesus Christ to send the truth and light of salvation into all world to every creature. Spiritual preparedness is a preparation that prepares. The President's Address was in book form and was distributed among the delegates. DR. GRAHAM'S HISTORY. Rev. W. F. Graham, D. D., LL. D.. Philadelphia, Pa. addressed the Convention on a "Brief History of the Virginia Baptist State Convention." The paper was so well prepared and replete with historical data that the Convention ordered it published. The day was the fifty-eighth birthday of Dr. Graham, and he was presented with $8.00 in gold as a token of appreciation from the Convention. The presentation was made by Dr. L. G. Scott, of Philadelphia. The reports of Corresponding Borrowers Treasurer Iklumbis were growing. NEW YORK REPRESENTED Dr. G. H. Timma, President of the New York Baptist State Convention, brought greetings from that body and presented the Treasurer, Dr. S. W. Timma who turned over New York's contributions to the work. Rev. Dr. Brown's Metropolitan Baptist Church of New York City, sent $200.00. Wednesday night, the annual sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Holland Rowell. It was a powerful sermon, rendered with telling effect upon the large congregation that was assembled. Richie Riess read a paper on "love of paper." Thursday morning, the Convention heard well-prepared addresses by Prof. J. E. Willis and Dr. W. T. Hall of Philadelphia. TUE COMING JUBILEE. Dr. S. A. Moses, of Denville, Va., chairman of the Jubilee Committee, delivered an address on "The Coming Jubilee." It was a gem. Dr. Moses said the Jubilee was of Divine appointment and that the years of Jubilee were the events of Israel's greatest interest. He spoke of the great Joseph Baptist in the States and how our fathers caught the name and kept alive the Baptist fire. The Jubilee will be held July of 1917, at Lynchburg. THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION At the afternoon session of Thursday, many delegates to the General Association attended the Convention as the Association had no session for that hour. Dr. P. F. Morris and Dr. A. Binga, Jr., of the General Association were called to the rostrum and delivered short addresses, touching on the Baptists or Virgins and Unity. Dr. Walter H. Brooks, of Washington and Prof. R. C. Woods responded. This session caused much comment as it seemed to forewarn the possibility of the two bodies coming together. But later events proved it was doomed to failure. At night, the doctrinal sermon was preached by Rev. B. J. Terrell, L.L. B. He spoke of the general resurrection as a sury. His eloquent flow of language and beautiful rhetorical words were praisedmostly. have been raised to meet the needs of the work. A student body of $00, with 62 men in the theological department, was reported. The recently erected building was paid for all to $7,000. The Board was greatly impressed with the work accomplished. The money was pledged to build a hospital on the grounds. Other improvements will be made during the vacation. DR. MORRIS AND DR. BOYD. Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris, of Arkansas of the National Baptist Convention and Rev. Dr. H. B. Hoyd of Nashville, Tenn.-Chairman of the National Baptist Publishing Board; were introduced and gave short addresses. In keeping with President Galvin's recommendation, no mention of the National Baptist controversy was made by other divine. Rev. Dr. William B. Reed, or Newport, R. I., representing the committee, state of the country, which committee is appointed by the New England Convention, presented the cause of his committee in a masterly manner. Dr. Rev. Dr. B. Reed informed us to the status of the Negro in this country and as chairman of this committee, should be able to do a great work. A purse of $35.00 was presented Dr. N. Jordan, who is the oldest member of the Convention in length of service. FRIDAY MORNING'S SESSION Friday morning, addresses were delivered by Dr. L. C. Scott, Dr. W. Bishop Johnson and Rev. B. K. Mason, B. Th. In the afternoon, Rev. Dr. J. A. Brown, Dr. W. R. Brown and President J. S. Lee, of the Sunday School Convention delivered addresses. THE JOINT COMMITTEE During the morning's session a committee from the General Association, which was in session, just two blocks away, was admitted for a hearing. The State Convention appointed a similar committee to confer with them. The sentiments of the Convention as enunciated by President Woods, were still ringing in the ears of the delegates. He had said on the preceding day that until the members of the Association could pronounce the shilbooleth, there was no possibility of real union; that the members of the Association had protected the sacred principles as enunciated by the fathers. The others, like the prodigal, had gone far away and had forgotten the shilbooleth and until they could pronounce it, there would be no real union. 1. A PEACE PACT After a lengthy conference, the joint committee reported the following recommendations, which were adopted by both bodies: "We encourage a more cordial and friendly spirit between our pastors, churches, associations and members of our organizations, and We recommend that we discourage any effort to afford upon the part of the membership of either body to discriminate or disparage or misrepresent the motive and spirit of each other. "Second. That all monies contributed by churches, religious bodies or individuals for educational institutions or objects of either body, be forwarded to its proper destination." This action establishes a more cordial relation between churches of both Conventions in local districts, and will go a long way towards ultimate union of the Baptist forces in this State. EX-CONGRESSMAN MURRAY. Friday night's session was the capstone. The enthusiasm reached its zenith. Rev. Dr. Ell Tartte, of Petersburg, proclaimed an excellent sermon, "The Christian Warfare." Ex-Congressman George W. Murray, of South Carolina, was introduced and delivered a most powerful dissertation on "The Second Emancipation." The message as being delivered by the ex-Congressman is food for much thought. He said that the emancipation of slaves was the best, only of a physical nature. We should now dedicate ourselves to the task of emancipating the spirit of the Negro in this country. REV. W. H. MOSES AND FAITH. Dr. W. H. Moses, of Texas, was next introduced and held the audience spellbound by his remarkable talent. His discourse on faith was beautiful. He showed a remarkable familiarity with the Holy Writ., detailing the story of Mary Magdalene in a way peculiar to "Billy" Moses, but nevertheless true. He was the first woman to be transacted Saturday evening. Twenty-five new churches were reported as having joined the Convention. The finance committee reported as having subscribed $8,944.66. the enauing year; President, Rev. Dr. A. A. Galvin, Danville; First Vice, Rev. Dr. B. Tyrrell, Lynchburg; Secd on Vice, Rev. Dr. S. A. Moses, Danville; Third Vice, Dev. Dr. S. N. Daughtry, Carrville; Fourth Vice, Rev. Dr. J. H. Harvey; Recording Secretary, Rev. C. D. Henderson, Newport News; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Dr. T. H. White, Clifton Forge; Statistical Secretary, Rev. W. D. Woeds, Roanoke; Treasurer, Deacon A Humble, Lynchburg; Auditor The officers were installed by Rev. The officers were installed by Rev Clifton G. Cabell, of Lynchburg. PEACE AND HARMONY The sessions were characterized by peace and harmony, superinduced to a great extent by the ruling of President Galvin. Not a point of order was raised and each delegate was imbued with a desire to keep peace. The Jubilee Convention will be held next year on the campus at Lynchburg. A great celebration is being planned by a special committee. ```markdown ``` 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 with good recompense, will be satisfied by satisfactory wages by applying to the Planet Office, 311 N. 4th Street. THE BAKER-ARMSTRONG NIGHT SCHOOL CLOSES A SUCCESSFUL SESSION. On Tuesday night, May 2, at Sixth Mountain Zion Church, the closing exercises of this school were held before an audience that crowded every seat and overflowed the vestibule. The program was short and simple, but full of interesting statistics and facts in regard to the phenomenal growth of the school since its beginning in January, 1913. From a beginning with three teachers and 116 pupils at the end of the first session, the number has increased to 24 teachers and 984 pupils, 628 of whom were in school at the end of the school. That school has taken a firm hold on the people was attested by the rush, especially in the industrial classes at the beginning of the session. Classes were established in sowing and in dress making, in cooking and in book-keeping, and in stenography and typewriting. These classes held up remarkably well in attendance and in interest. The course in dress making is thoroughly graded and modelled after that of the New York Trade Schools, and the graduates in that department are prepared to do first class work in that line. The Night School stands for greater efficiency in the earning capacity of its students; or greater efficiency in the community for greater efficiency in humanity; for a determined effort to save boys and girls from the street surroundings and influences. There were brief remarks by Assistant Superintendent K. J. Hoke; by Mr. S. D. Turner, Principal of Armstrong High School; by Principal W. M. Adams of the Night School, and by Rev. R. V. Peyton, Pastor of the church. Certificates were awarded to those who had completed two years work in cooking and in home nursing. Certificates of graduation were awarded to those who had completed the regular academic course and to those who had completed the three year course in sewing and dress making. The prominent people have shown intense interest in the work during the session, but it remained for Mrs. Mary E. Carter to put her appreciation into concrete form by offering a gold medal to be known as the "Mary E. Carter medal for excellence in sewing." This medal was awarded to Miss Phyllis Robinson. The list of winners of certificates and of graduates is found below. Baker Armstrong (Night) May 2, 1916. Pupils who have had 70 lessons in Nursing—Mary L. Smith, Mary Green, Addie Lemons, and Bradley School. Certificates of Graduation—Sophronia Scott, Jun- lin Davenport. Pupils who have completed Advanced Dressmaking Course—1. Bessie Gwendola Brown. 2. Lella Bessie Daten. 3. Angie Burrows. 4. Sarah Melicent Colen. 5. Patience Dabney Scott. 6. Pamela A. W. Dugge. 7. Sallie Battie Ellis. 8. Mary Johnston Pamulley. 9. Indiana. Nerrie Greene 10. Barberna Ann Olsen. 11. Amelia Les Burrows. 12. Pearl. 13. Bimacie Lightfoot. 14. Bimacie Burrows. 15. Aquila Stev. 16. Bimacie Winston. 17. Bimacie Burrows. 18. Winston. 19. Bimacie Burrows. 20. Winston. 21. Bimacie Lesteyne. 22. Bimacie Lesteyne. 23. Pamela Burrows. 24. Bimacie Lesteyne. NEW HOSPITAL MOVEMENT No greater or more inspiring effort on behalf of, of the colored race has ever been put forth than that which is being carried on by Memorial Hospital of this city. A Fund Raising Campaign has been inaugurated, having its headquarters at $81 East Main Street. During the last ten days this office with its many stenographers and varied other activities, has presented a scene of much interest to those interested in the work of people who are taking so much interest in the welfare of the proposition. On the walls are to be seen many short and crisp inspirational slogans, such as "Make Memorial Hospital the Pride of Richmond," and BOOST together with many others. The work so far has been largely a matter of organization and publicity. As a matter of fact, practically every great influence is back of the movement; the leading men and women, as well as the press, are giving their endorsement to the laudable effort. The object of this inaugural work will last for a period of seven weeks, to raise $250,000 for the purpose of erecting a Negro hospital, which will be thoroughly up-to-date in every way; a six story fireproof building. For a long time those interested in the treatment of patients afflicted with contagious diseases have felt that the present facilities are very limited; therefore, they welcome with great enthusiasm another feature of the work which contemplates the building of a Contagious Ward. Among the other improvements an Endowment sufficient to take care of these added units is being taken into consideration. The success of the movement is practically guaranteed because of the support it is receiving from people of all classes. Since the colored people themselves are to reap the greatest benefits of all, it is but natural that they should show great interest and enthusiasm which as a matter of fact, they are doing and are aiding very materially the work which is so rapidly growing in momentum. Mrs. N. V. Randolph, who is widely known because of the great interest who has taken in the colored people will direct the effort of these workers Father Hannigan also, who has devoted so many years of his life to work among the Negroes will also lend his influence to this noble work, which aims to give such beneficial results for the colored race. On Wednesday, May 17, 1916, at eight o'clock, there is to be held at Ebenezer, corner of Leigh and Judah Streets, a public meeting for colored people. At this meeting speakers from headquarters, and others, will take up the details of the Campaign and explain thoroughly everything of importance, regarding which information, may be desired. It is absolutely necessary that there should be hearty appreciation and co-operation on the part of all in order that the Campaign may be known as the "Whirlwind Finish," at which time the actual collection of the money will take place Daily lunches will be served for the workers and live wire speakers, will each day keep them in touch with the progress being made. Every day an increasing number of people are streaming into the headquarters building anxiously regarding this splendid forward movement. The Secretaries are always ready to answer any and all questions pertaining to the Campaign. --- Rev. Skipwith in Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery, Ala. April 30, 1916. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor; The closing of another successful revival with our noted evangelist, Rev. W. H. Skipwith. Day Street Baptist Church, Dr. Wm. Madison, pastor. The spiritual wave is still in our midst. For sixteen nights Rev. W. H. Skipwith, a profound gospel preacher and singer, has been holding large audiences spellbound listening to his logical sermons and soul-stirring songs he sings, the gospel-which will class him beyond any that have been in Alabama. He preached his farewell sermon Wednesday night, April 26; left Friday morning, April 28; for Tuscaloosa. He will be there one week with Rev. S. T. Simson; then to Birmingham with Rev. Goodgame for three weeks. Rev. Skipwith is doing great good in Alabama. We feel honored to have him in our city. He has proven to be a high tone Christian gentleman during his stay in Montgomery. He has made many lasting friends among the children, as well as the grown ones. He left us all singing "God Bless Our Dear Brother." We all pray for him, as he goes on business for the King. Bacred Concert at Mt. Carmel. There will be a Sacred Concert given at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, North First Street, Sunday, Mary First, at 3:30 P. M., by Mrs. Gwen Hull. Hull presides, present by the Rev. of the church, Rev. D. C. Dunn. Pastor. Memorial Day will be observed as usual at the National Cemetery on May 30, 1916, under the auspices of Cluster Post, No. 11, G. A. R., the Spanish War Veterans. The Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias will participate as usual under the command of Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., also other patriotic organizations. The following program has been arranged for the occasion: America; Band; Prayer; Rev. N. B. Brown; pastor - Rising Mt. Zion Church; Opening remarks, Cosby Washington; Commander - Deputy, Reading Alta; Lincoln Address; Day Address, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D.; Remarks by visitors; Decoration of Graves; Children; Benefaction, Hon. G. L. Hatter, Master of Ceremonies. Complete arrangements will be published in next week's issue. --- — Mrs. A. R. Carr has returned to the city. —Rev. J. J. Nickerson, of Hinton, W. Va., was in the city this week. —Rev. S. W. Timma, pastor of Cool Spring Baptist Church at Franklin, Va., was in the city last week. —Mrs. S. J. Stovall and little son, Hamilton, of Michaux, Va., were in the city this week. Mrs. Lizzie Howard has entirely recovered from her recent illness. —Rev. S. A. Anderson, of Belton, Va., was in the city this week, and called on us. —Rev. Dr. T. J. King's wife and children have returned to the city, much improved in health by their stay in the country. —Rev. W. H. Moses, D. D., spent a day in the city, the guest of Rev. Dr. T. J. King. He left for Washington. —Rev. S. A. Moore and Mrs. Moses, of Danville, Va., were in the city this week. They had been attending the Virginia Baptist State Convention at Norfolk, Va., and were on route home. We have received an invitation to the annual reception of the Home Social Club, at the residence of Mr. I. W. Palmer, 150 Ninth Street, Troy, N. Y. Mr. E. G. Pride, president; Mr. A. J. Oliver, secretary. We have received an invitation to the 28th Annual Commencement Exercises of St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, at Lawrenceville, Va. May 24, 1916, at S. P. M. Rt. Rev. James S. Russell, principal. Mr. J. A. Moss has returned to the city from Charleston, W. Va., where he visited his relatives. He reports having a nice time in the mountains. His wife is out, but has not as yet regained her strength. Miss Naola M枨 Parrur will be married to Mr. Charles Webater Smith, June 7, 1916, at Charleston, W. Va. They will reside at Institute, W. Va. Va. Union's Alumni to Meet. To the Members of the Alumni Association and friends of the Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. Dear Co-Workers: The University Calendar for 1916 gives the following dates for the Commencement Exercises: Sunday, May 28th, Baccalaureate Sormon; Monday, May 29th, Graduation Exercises of Academy; Tuesday, May 30th, Alumni Meetings—program for same arranged by President and University, Wednesday, May 31st, Commencement. Please be on hand or report the reason why to Corresponding Secretary, W. M. Moss, 346 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is pleasant to meet and greet— Come! MOONLIGHT TO DUTCH GAP. First of the season, Mocha Temple, No. 7, A. E. A., Nobles of the Mytic Shrine will run their annual excursion to Dutch Gap, Tuesday, May 23, 1916, at 8 P. M. Your patronage and influence are desired in this movement and we assure all who may attend a pleasant evening. No disorder to mar the occasion. Music dancing and mirth. Committee of Arrangements: Nobles Fred Gardner, Shirley Williams, William Green, Thomas Grew, J. B. Smith, P. M. Powell, Noble Ox, J. W. Moody, T. H. Lee, W. Henry Jones, Fred Jackson, Adelphus Jackson, J. P. Wright, Joseph Adams, champion; R. W. Anderson, II. Potentate, Record trip 60 cents. THOMAS SMITH GONE. Thomas Smith, who resided at 306 W. Leigh Street, was in his back yard cleaning fish, when he was observed by his wife and daughter to be apparently collapsing. They reached him just in time to prevent his falling. He was having slight convulsions and in a short time life had been under some time and had been under the treatment of Dr. John E. Morriweather. He showed improvement, and had gone to work again. HAD BEEN WARNED He had been warned, however, about his die, and it is thought that probably indiscretion in this direction was the immediate cause of his death. His funeral took place Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Rev, Scott C. Burrell officiated, delivering a most touching and impressive sermon. Rev Dr W. T. Johnson and Rev W. H. Crawley, of South Boston, Va., assisted. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery. MOURN THEIR LOSS He left a widow and three children to mourn their loss. The funeral design were numerous and costly. The deceased was a member of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics Savings Bank and that body attended the funeral. The resolutions from the Bank were read by Col. Thomas M. Crump. Funeral Director A. D. Price officiated. Mr. Joseph Matthews sang a most impressive solo, "Death Is Only A Dream." Richmond, Va. May 16, 1916. Resolutions of respect to the memory of Col. Thos. Smith, Director of the Mechanics Savings Bank, 3rd and Clay streets. The sad intelligence of the sudden death of our fellow-director, Col. Thos. Smith, scheduled Saturday afternoon, May 13, 1916, sadness over the entire directory and employees of the institution. He was one of the founders, and had been in its directory since its organization. He was a staunch friend of the President, and what we consider a PEACE MAKER in our institution; his sent to the left of the Vice-President is vacant. We will miss him, for those possessed a rare Christian qualities of humbleness and meekness, therefore, his advice was given cheerfully and accepted in the self-same spirit. Therefore be it Resolved: First, that we, the director of the Mechanics Bank, drop a tour of sympathy with the bereaved family. Resolved. Second. That while we deeply deplore his untimely taking away, we nevertheless realize the frailties of man and the omnipotence of God, and how in humble submission to His will. Who will not put upon His children burdens that are too heavy to be borne, and that with these burdens, we are reminded that He is the one for us. Resolved. Third. That we strive as far as possible to cultivate those Christ-like qualities that were so noticeable in his life. Resolved. Fourth. That we tender a copy of these resolutions to the family, bearing expression of our sympathy with them in this, their trying hour of need, and command them to the Ruler of the Universe, Who has promised to be a comforter of those who trust in Him. Resolved. Fifth. That a copy of those resolutions be spread upon our records and be published in the Richmond Planet. Done by the order of the Board of Directors of the Mechanics, Savings Bank, in meeting hold Tuesday, May 16, 1916, at the bank building. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Pres. Walter T. Davis, Cashier; R. W. Whiting, Jno. T. Taylor, Thos. M. Crump. Committee. Editor Webster's Sympathy. 126 Sylvan Avenue Akbury Park, New Jersey Akshury Park, . New Jersey May 16, 15 Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. Editor Richard Planet. Dear Sir, it was with deep regret that I read a few days ago of your humiliating arrest for attending to your own affairs. It is with great sympathy that I write you that you were the one to be selected to stand the brunt of petty prejudice and antagonism of the police. I am sure that the Negro Press throut the country sympathize with you and resent the insult hurled at the race thru you. Tho' it has humiliated you I readily see that you are broad enough to see that it means an impressive lesson to those salute officers who are out to make "record" at anyone's expense; that it is not for them to molest representative colored citizens. Trusting that the real offender will get a lemon hard to forget at the coming trial, I beg to remain. PRICE, FIVE CENTS BE A MAN. The world wants men; yea, manly men, And not simply imitations. Men who'll labor, think, and strive, Men with lofty aspirations. Be a man. Join the chorus with this motto, "I'm a man among the men That are proving themselves leaders By efficient service"—then, Be a man. Odd against you? What of that? The reason that we're.tar behind. We fall to see inherent beauty. By our eyes being semi-blind. Be a man. Learn a lesson from the oil, That has a nature just to hop. Matters not with what compounded. Till it rises to the top. Be a man. If we struggle, struggle bravely. Must the evils in the way. Our burdens will be lighter— Leaving us from day to day. Be a man. To the swift the race's not given. Nor the battle to the strong. Trust in getting help from Heaven. Stand for right; condemn the wrong. Be a man. ROBERT DANGERFIELD CRAWLXY. 1916 Card of Thanks. I take this method of thanking all of my neighbors, friends and especially the members of the Women's Civic Improvement League, for all acts of kindness shown, sympathetic words spoken, fruit and flowers sent, during my long and continued illness. I am improving fast, and hope to I am improving fast, and hope to be out again soon. Respectfully yours, MRS. GEO. W. RISON, 1223 Paxton Street, Danville, Va. J. A. MOSS IS RETIRED BY THE WESTERN UNION COMPANY. --- Mr. J. A. Moss, of Richmond, who has been employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company about 45 years has been retired by the company. He is well known and stood high in the company, having traveled over seven states with them. Mr. Moss built the first commercial wire between Charlotte, N. C. and Central C. C., a distance of 134 miles. The work was done in 25 days, which was considered excellent at that time. Mr. Moss is well known in the State and stands well with both white and colored. He also stands high in Pythian circles, being Grand First Attendant of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. MEMORIAL SERMON TO GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. The annual Memorial Sermon will be preached to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Spanish War Veterans on the fourth Sunday morning, May 28th, at the New Baptist Church by Rev. T. J. J. Mosby, D. D., pastor of the church. The purpose of this sermon is to inspire the colored youth along the line of patriotism. We feel sure if the colored youth were taught patriotism, the condition of the race would be better from every standpoint. The future is so difficult to understand, it is very essential that the colored man be taught this great principle. The public is invited out to hear this patriotic sermon. Y. W. C. A. DOING GREAT WORK The address by Rev. J. C. Stevenson, of Telford A. M. E. Church, was a message which those who heard consider one of the best of the year. There are thirteen young women in the boarding home. They come from three states and one, from Africa. They represent ten counties in this and other states. The Finance Committee assumes the responsibility of collecting the funds subscribed during the camp palm. This is in line with the duty of this committee, but hinders to proper organisation and delayed this time. The circumstances of this delay was not within the control of the committee. The work begins systematically now. The first of a series of fine lectures to our members will be given May 30th, at 7:30 P. M. Miss M. A. Smith, general secretary of the Central Association, will deliver these addresses. The subject for May 30th, is "The Ship of the Volunteer Worker." Every volunteer service is good. Come and see. REV. DR. SUTTON E. GRIGGS' COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST SPLIT Necessity the Mother of Invention-About the Auditor's Report-The Charter Not the Issue-The Conclusion. PAGE TWO REV. DR. SUTTON COMPREHENSIVE THE NATION Necessity the Mother the Auditor's Repo the Issue—TH (Continued From Last Week.) QUESTION- APPROACHED FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW. Having handled the issues from the viewpoint of the National Baptist Convention, permit me now to show more directly the inaccuracy of Rev. R. H. Boyd's statement of the issues. An issue, as I understand the term, refers to something concerning which men differ, and does not relate to that upon which they agree. The men who have been picked out by Rev. R. H. Boyd as leading in the present National Baptist Convention fight have never been parties to the things criticised. From year to year they met in the Convention, attended to their respective duties, best they could, looked on and enjoyed with many, but not any more no more concerned with them, nor responsible for them, than was the Rev. R. H. Boyd. He was attending to his affairs, they to theirs, and others were directing the affairs of the Convention. By and by dissatisfaction became so general with reference to his despairment, that attention was focussed upon it, and all were summoned to give it attention. When the question of reforms was brought acutely before the body it was decided to go down the line and correct everything that needed correction and remove everything that was giving offense to any considerable number of brethren, in the interest of harmony. When this general reform movement began its sweep, every officer and every department involved cheerfully submitted except Rev. R. H. Boyd and his department. Please bear in mind that the men who led this fight were not parties to the things Being charged and were disposed to correct everybody, including Rev. R. H. Boyd. But he sidestepped the charges against Rev. R. H. Boyd. Baptist Convention was the champion of the very things that it was working to correct. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt once said that most conflicts are not between right and wrong, but between one reform and another. Now, that was exactly Rev. R. H. Boyd's line of battle. Putting himself at the head of the advocates to think that we were opposed to those changes, the net result was that all changes were opposed to were effected, whereas, he has used his following to escape having changes made in his department. If the matter were not so serious it would be amusing to read the changes set forth by my friend, Rev W. H. Moses, as being necessary for reunion. For example, he says change the method of electing a president. That change was effected by a resolution unanimously adopted at Philadelphia, more than a year ago. He says dispense with paying the president fifteen hundred dollars a year. That was changed by constitutional enactment at Chicago. He says abandon the practice of having a small committee disburse the funds. That matter was changed at Chicago, and the funds were disburbed by the full executive committee composed of one member from each state, and the officers of the Convention. This was done by the authority of the Convention. In order to accomplish that the things criticized by Rev R. H. Boyd were not issues. We, who had nothing whatever to do with those things, were accused of standing for things that we were bent on correcting, and did correct. The only department not corrected is that of Rev R. H. Boyd, who alone took advantage of the dust raised to fly the coop. Let us all refrain from laughter. NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION. On the one real dividing issue, the question as to whether the denomination at large should control the publishing house, Rev. R. H. Boyd would have practically no sort of following whatever, so he must of necessity keep some other issue up before the public. In keeping with this policy, for seven months he sought to have the whole nation to believe that his troubles were all due to Dr. E. C. Morrish. Look through the files of the papers controlled by him, beginning with February 1914, and ending with September of that year. Not one line concerning a charter appears. It was simply Morris, Morris, Morris, and then Morris. At Philadelphia of that year it fell to lot 10 to pull off the mask Rev. R. H. Boyd was warring and to have the real issues. When the people caught sight of the real issues they overwhelmingly voted against him. Consult the files of his paper from September 1916, onward for a few months and you will find that Dr. Morris disappears as an issue altogether, and he substitutes, me. No single assertion of a derogatory character was true, and if true, had no necessity. But the character but Remember Rev. R. H. Boyd's utter necessity for keeping some issue other than the real one before the public. In an effort to settle the real issue, as has been pointed out, it was decided to get out a charter. Here was something better than Morris, better than Origan, something splendid as an issue. It matters not that it was only intended as a means to an end; it matters not that it was subject to amendment to suit the wishes of the Convention; it matters not that it was subject to give to the Convention the power to control the department in a legal way. Great were the conquests of this new kingdom. The king, II. II. Bold ruler, to take command and bring the war Issues. One grave has on it this epitaph: "Here lies buried the E. C. Morris issue. It failed of its purpose, and I shall not awaken it even in the day of judgment." Another grave had this epitaph: "Here lies buried the Sutton E. Griggs issue. It served me well as a diversion until the National Beacon Light was born, and I was bitterly fought away from it." This new charter issue, which is no issue at all, Rev. R. H. Boyd must keep alive. Just as a physician by the bedside of a patient about to pass away, so he stands over the couch on which the proposed charter lies, and does all that he can to keep life in it as an issue. Hypodermic infections, salline solution and all sorts of restoratives he uses to keep the charter issue alive, for he fancies that it hides, completely hides, the real issue, which is, and always has been, the real issue. Convention has a right to control the publishing house which it found. All other questions can be agreed upon instantly. That stands out as the rock of offense, it matters not how much Rev. R. H. Boyd may seek to disguise thatubborn fact. The men on both sides of this con- troversy are not far apart when they understand each other. Ninety-nine per cent of them are in perfect agree- ment with each other if they only know each other. But if they only things, fundamentally, but RV R. H. Roy, who desire independence, seeks to make them feel that they want different things, for only in division can he hope to get what he wants. THE AUDITOR'S REPORT You will recall the great use that Rev R. H. Boyd makes of the auditor's report in an effort to score against us. That auditor's report was the frust of our reform movement and is the best possible proof of our purpose to correct everything. We deliberately chose a hapland and a business man of wide experience who had the courage to spare nobody. We desired to know the methods of every department. In order to secure this, we had to displace a very fine man Rev R. H. Boyd rebuke us for displacing this man Rev. Robert Mitchell, of Lexington, Ky., by taking him out of our Convention and making him vice-president of his newly formed body. During the many years of his occupancy of the position of auditor, Rev Robert Mitchell, Rev R. H. Boyd's warm, personal and official friend, failed to report the conditions no one complained of to the body. If condition, for years, his auditor, to whom he paid for his own vindication, was responsible. It was our auditor of the reform movement, that brought to light the things that Rev R. H. Boyd's friendly auditor passed by, and the things that the Rev, Mr. Boyd now points to with such gusto. Rev. R. H. Boyd is authority for the conclusion that the auditing was loosely done by his auditor. Not knowing but that that was really the case, we, the supposed opponents of Rev. R. H. Boyd, changed auditors. All of the departments submitted to this new auditor save his. You, Mr. Editor, criticized him for his failure to submit. With his door barricaded against our auditor, he pokes his head out of the window and calls attention to the things that we brought to light, and actually has the audacity to cite them as a part of his cause. THE CHARTER NOT THE ISSUE Rev. R. H. Boyd puts forward the proposed charter of the National Baptist Convention as the basis of separation. But this is not so. For those who favored a charter did not, and do not, favor it at the expense of denominational unity. The charter is all right, and is not what it was represented to be, but if a horse is afraid of a piece of paper in the road, get out and remove it, however harmless it might be. So national Baptist Convention declined to act on the chart in view of Rev. R. H. Boyd is immense capacity for misrepresentation. It for playing upon the prejudices and fears of the people. But, having found it a good gaboo, he uses it in spite of the fact that the Convention did not qualify under the charter. REV. R. H. BOYD'S LOGIC. QUESTIONED. Notice the logic of Rev. R. H. Boyd's position. First, he asserts with all the vehemence of his nature that the National Baptist Convention did not authorize the seven men to get out a charter, that there is no authority to be found anywhere for the act, that it was a matter of pure and rank assumption. Now, if the act was never authorized, and there was nothing done to ratify it, how can Rev. R. H. Boyd claim that the Convention is chartered? Can seven men without authority charter an organization in a way that will be binding on that organization, if that organization does not authorize and does not accord the action? According to Rev. R. H. Boyd contention, the Convention has never been incorporated. But Rev. R. H. Boyd knows full well that the charter is not operative, and through his attorneys in the city of Chicago, he is even now making his fight on that very ground. In the courts his claim is that the Convention is unincorporated. Before the public his assertion is that it is incorporated. HOW FOLLOWING WAS GAINED. Upon the question of avoiding the regurgitation joint of the National Baptist Convention, Rev. R. W. Bard although still doubted. When he answer out on the dismemberment of Christianity, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA against the rule of a few, upon the assumption that he was ignorant, a number of people were willing to give him a hearing. But, holding the standard of democracy and the rule of the people and shouting "down with the control of the few; down with the rule of seven men," he hurried the national Baptist Convention. With the following out of the Convention, the people say to him, "Rev. Mr. Boyd, you say you do not believe in the unrestricted rule of seven men. What do you believe int?" "I believe," says he, in attentional tones, "in the unrestricted rule of nine men—myself and eight of them, the false issue of seven men-control. Rev. R. H. Boyd and his followers are now battling for nine men control! ABOUT SELLING THE PROPERTY In the course of his article, Rev R. H. Boyd asserts that the National Baptist Convention desired to sell the main building of the Publishing Board to settle the debts of the Convention. Such a course was never contemplated by the Board, because of Rev. Mr. Boyd's imagination. Between two lots which the National Baptist Publishing Board began to buy, Rev R. H. Boyd bought a lot and created a building thereon. The Convention desired to get the property together adopted the following clause of a report of a committee concerning things advocated in the president's address: "We believe that the recommendation to purchase the Board and Beckham lot, or if this cannot be done, to sell the lots owned by the Publishing Board so as to get the property of the Board together, is both wise and timely advice, and advise that this matter be put into the hands of the commission appointed, with plenary power to complete the investigation of the Boards and their holdings, with instruction to act according to their best judgment in this matter also." It will be seen that the one issue in this matter was the getting of the property together. DR. MORRIS' EXPENSE ACCOUNT. Rev. R. H. Boyd mentions in his article the gradual increase in the allowances of money made to the president. Dr. E. C. Morris, but fails to mention the great growth of the Convention and the necessarily increased activities of the president from year to year. The amount allowed. Dr. E. C. Morrla in the end was fifteen hundred dollars, out of which $2,000 went to rent, telephone bill, ramps, clerk hire, traveling expense, and the salary of an assistant pastor. Compare this with the giving of $2,500 annually as salaries to the A. M. E. Bishops, with other considerations that bring their incomes up to, and perhaps beyond the $4,000 mark; the giving of $4,500 annually as salary by the M. E. Church to I. Glaray Penn, this being apart from office and traveling expense; the giving of $7,500 per year to the M. E. Church and the drawing by Rev. R. H. Boyd and family of salaries to the amount of $6,600 per year, independent of telephone bill, office rent, clerk hire, stationery, postage, the help of assistants, and so forth. NO RESORT TO POLITICAL TRICKS Dr. E. C. Morris is simply the reverse of what he is pictured as a political trickster. He went to Chicago with no line of battle, absolutely none. No man, was chosen to make a motion, no conference was planned, no arrangement for an emergency. With him it was to be as it always had been, a people's Convention, and the delegates were to be left to do as they chose. Having been as close to Dr. Morris as any one, perhaps, during these days of trial, I most positively assert that his mind has been as free from political tricks as it is possible for the human mind to be. AS that Rev. R. H. Boyd says to the contrary is pure imagination. THE PRESIDENCY NOT AN ISSUE One last point remains, behind which Rev. R. H. Boyd might take his stand as an issue, and that is the retention of Dr. E. C. Morris in the presidency of the National Baptist Convention. Dr. Morris has taken away all chance of making an issue of that matter. He signifies his willingness to retire and not stand for reelection if Rev. R. H. Boyd will come forward and deliver to the denomination the publishing house which he swore in Chicago, the National Baptist Convention created. The truth will ultimately get a handle. The duty of battling for the right to be a most painful one. The Convention has been misunderstood, misrepresented, and golden opportunities have been carefully set aside. But, as followers of apologized Savior, from whose side came the bloody water telling the story of a broken heart that had buried because of sorrow, we shall bear the burdens thrust upon us in all calmness and shall continue the fight for the principles of uprightness for the sake of which He died. Unless I very greatly misinterpret the spirit of the Negro Baptists of this nation the spiritual heirs of those, who, in every age since the days of Jesus the Christ, have been willing to suffer persecution for their faith; who are of like faith with those who were flung to lions, burned at the stake, and tortured on the rack—unless I greatly mistake the spirit of these people, the struggle will not be over until men shall know that hideous consequences await any who will enter into a sacred compact to break in, when that strength for which he begins, is to shrew youth of our land shall know that it is a most unwise course to pursue, and they shall learn it from the piles of odum that shall rise to heaven over the memories of those who attempt it. If Rev. R. H. Boyd has not built a publishing house that is to be owned and controlled by the denomination at large, then it intends to create one. Until the course decides as to whether Rev. R. H. Boyd has funded such a house to do, the possession orders to Prod. S. P. Buryth, Secretary, at 400 Gay Street, Midtown, Tennessee. When September paid attention and the trainee begin their movement, toward Saratoga, Oh. the world will be furnished with the publisher open. tacts of the great National Baptist Convention established in its vision at any point. It will be the most important gathering of Negro religious that ever look on the American continent, perhaps, and none will be more welcome, none more joyfully received than those, who, not understandably, may say, Very respectfully, SUTTON E. GRIGGS, Chaplain National Baptist Convention Publicity Bureau. AS I SEE IT A FLOURISHING INSTITUTION CELIBRATES ITS 20TH AN- NIVERSARY COMMENCE- MENT. Attractive Surroundings and Modern Buildings—Successful Farming— Poultry and Stock Raising—Suc- cessful Management in Charge. ATTRACTIVE SURROUNDINGS. Mayeville, the town in which the Mayeville Educational and Industrial Institute is located, is in Sumter County, on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway and centrally located for a dense population of Negro youths. The school is within easy access of the depot, yet sufficiently removed from the noise of the town to insure the perfect quiet essential to successful study. The school was founded some years ago by Emma J. Wilson, out of a sense of concious duty, which she felt she owed the many neglected Negro boys and girls who were growing into manhood and who were without a semblance of educational qualification in the responsible duty of citizenship and a desire to remedy this sad evil. She has so successfully carried on the work by the aid of loyal sympathizers, until in the year 1896 the school was under the laws of South Carolina, incorporated as the Mayeville Industrial Institute. THE AIM OF THE SCHOOL The aim of the school is to train boys and girls to a high level of moral, intellectual, religious and industrial efficiency. It aims to teach them the dignity of labor, to be alert in action, tidy in person and habit, modest and upright in deportment. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The Institution owns five substantial buildings, erected on a campus of six acres, and surrounded by a farm of forty-sight acres of fine farming. The farm has seventy acres about a mile from the sight of the school. JOSLYN HALL This is a beautiful two-story brick structure, the generous gift of the late Mrs. Harriett E. Joslyn, of Kendall wood, N. Y., in memory of her husband, Chaz. ) Swift Joslyn, who throughout his lifetime, was a devoted friend to Negro education. Joslyn Hall contain a classroom, office, chapel and department office. It is steam heated and is lighted with gas, supplied from the acetylene plant, and is indoed an adjoining to the campus. GIRLS' DORMITORY The girls' dormitory is a three-story frame structure, containing spacious rooms for the accommodation of the boarding girls. This building also contains on the ground floor, several rooms that are used for the girls' in dormitory changes. BILLINGS MEMORIAL HALL This is a dormitory for the young men, and it also contains class rooms for the primary department. The commandant has charge of the building. TEACHERS' HOME This is a cozy cottage adjoining the girls' dormitory, and is occupied by single lady teachers and the principal. BOYS' TRADE BUILDING. This is a one story brick building, which is used for industrial classes, which is used for industrial classes. THE FARM The Institution owns a large farm, and it is the plan to utilize the same for the purpose of teaching scientific agriculture. Diversification and rotation of crops has been selected for the farm. The results are being accomplished each year. OTHER BUILDINGS Besides the above mentioned buildings, the school owns ten other small buildings, including the barn. Having received an invitation to visit the grand commencement of the Mayville Educational and Industrial Institute, I accordingly left Florence at 9:50 A.M. May 3rd. A student of the institution met me. In a few minutes after we left the station, I found myself at the main entrance gate, with this sign, "Mayville Educational and Industrial Institute." Then up the shady lane to the teachers' cottage we walked. Here I met the Principal, Miss Emma J. Wilson; several of the teachers and many distinguished visitors and race representatives. It is always a day time commencement Day at the Mayville Institute. Coming on the first day after plant arrival, we first week in May—the farmers can easily spare the time to come, and for miles around they come from towns and cities in adjoining States, and also grow themselves of the privilege of witnessing closing exercises of the school. Since the establishment of the school, twenty years ago, there has been an enabling influence in forming among the larger population of this section, which grew steadily in size to some the fifth. This alone makes the founder feel good of the school. A number of a number of years ago, just here, in his home, he is writing and teaching to work, and on, teaching to learn for life. A BOOCOOFEUL TRIP Sometime ago, during the year, Miss Minaa, the principal, felt the very much need of funds with which to finish the session just closed. It was on a through train I met her. She talked with me of her needs and asked me to meet north 88 meet the trustees and raise some funds. She also said she might make some changes in the school management, but was not at all sure until she returned. A few days after this, I met her while changing trains at Florence, and at once a change could readily be seen. Miss Emma told me her trip north was to the public, and it might way to the public that the Maysville Educational and Industrial Institute would still be at work as was planned. THE TRUCK GARDEN AND PRETTY YARD. Prof. R. C. Ward accompanied me to the garden, where I saw spring salad, English peas, Iyish potatoes, etc., in abundance. I was very much pleased with the prospect seen at the poultry yard. It will only be a short while before the table can be served in an ample order with Spring chickens. PIOS CATTLE AND FORAGE I saw quite a number of fine pigs which promise handsome returns at next killing. There are several fille Terns. The Terns are dried with hale hay, from last year's crop. COMMENGEMENT EXERCISES. At 12 o'clock noon the student body is quietly in the hall, where they are standing. On the platform were seated Prof. R W. Westberry, of Sumater, S. C. faculty; Miss Emma J. Wilson, the principal; Reva J. C. Simmons, J. P. Crawford, Prof. R. C. Ward, Miss Annie E. Swinton, Mr. I. C. Portlock, Miss Crystella Miller, Mr. H. P. Crothwaite, Miss Carrie Copeland, Miss Jenny McDonald, Miss Bertha Swinton, Miss E. M. P. Brodgen, secretary; Mr. William Capers, Mr T. A. Keler, secretary to principal; Mrs. Sarah Robinson, Prof. James M. Niz, Rev. Richard Carroll, and E. B. Webster. Rev J. C. Slimmons acted Master of Ceremony. COMMENCEMENT DAY 11:00 A. M., Wednesday, May 3rd. Auditorium, Jostein Hall. Chorus, "Call to Arms," Choral Club; Invocation; Chorus, "Anchored," Choral Club; Demonstration, Domestic Art, Reva Du Rant; Negro Melody, School; Demonstration, "Domestic Science," Alice Sanders; Demonstration, Carpentry, John Capers; Negro Melody, School; Demonstration, Dressmaking, Larry Holton; Chorus, "Unfold Ye Portals," Choral Club; Essay, "Educate for What?" Laura Swinney; Negro Melody, School; Address, Rev. Richard Carroll, Columbia, S. C.; Chorus, "Prarie Ye The Lord," Choral Club; Presentation of Diplomas, Rev. J. C. Simmons; Quartette, "Kentucky Kinsa," Chorus, Kinsa, Struffin Tucker, William Prince, Announcements, Chorus, "Behold What Manner of Love." Choral Club, Benediction. Miss Alice Sanders gave a demonstration of practical cooking. The raw materials, the flour, lard season and water were placed on the table, and without touching the dough with her hands, "manufactured" blacuit. Then a plate of the kind cooked were placed on the table, and was a worthy effort on the part of the school and this amicable young lady. Then Mr. John Capers, of Georgetown, S. C., gave a demonstration in carpentry. He fitted an elegant center table while on the stage. It was highly acceptable and spoke objectively for himself and the school. Miss Swinney, of Darlington, ad dress, "Education for What?" She went. Her address to the teachers and grammers was quite commendable. Thon Rev. J. C Simmons, master of ceremonies, introduced Rev. R. Carroll, of Columbia, S. C., who he said, was very well-known, not only in South Carolina, but throughout this county. Rev. R. Carroll made a fine address. He highly commended the students for their part of the program. He said he noted much improvement in and around the school grounds since his last visit. "This island was not here on my last visit. What? a monument to Miss Emma Wilson? he said, "I see also fast horses, clean ground, shady trees and clean surroundings." His subject was "Gather Up the Fragments That Nothing He Lost." All listened attentively to the speaker throughout. He spoke of the great need of an education and how to use it. It was very much enjoyed. "The Germans, he said, "will never be whipped, because they are highly educated and use their education at all times to advantage. If our institutions turn out hundreds of young men yearly, and many times we only hear from them that they have a family of eight or ten children. "Many a man is satisfied with just making a living. That is nothing, said the speaker. "Turn a hog out, move the wire fence, and the hog will take living. So will the birds and insects. "I know a man whose wife bought a pig that could hide under an oak leaf, but he was made to weigh two hundred and fifty pounds in fourteen months. That, said the speaker, "is using your education and being useful." Rev. Carroll was given a hearty applain at the close of his most able address. The institution has an able board of trustees. IT REALLY HAPPENED Going to jail has never been man, the victim of circumstances to considered very good taste, although some felons have been grazed New, for the happening. When by some of the most honored and upright men in history, Notley Answer that class some of the Appaches and early advocates of the Church. Annuus have come down from Bright premises where he to other fields of student and some unrestricted guilt. In these cases some of our business and have given us the opportunity to help them. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Shore, Mr. D. M. Mulligan, Pennsylvania, L. J. Hunt, governor and vice governor, and J. W. Wilson, treasurer of the board of trustees principal and financial chief, Mayerville, R. C.; Rev. J. D. Mulligan, secretary of the board of trustees, Mayerville, R. C. R. H. Dana, Req. chairman; Mry. R. R. Browker, Mrs. P. R. Prothingham. Miss Emma, J. Wilson, Mr. Charles Jackson, treasurer. LOCAL COMMITTEE Mr. C. D. Cooper, chairman; Mr. R. W. Westberry, Mr. C. E. Mayers, Mr. R. B. Wilson, Mr. P. R. Wilson, Emma J. Wilson. The school is doing a great work by training our boys and girls in the useful trades and preparing them for higher callings. A general conference is held annually with the farmers, at which time matters relating to agriculture the importance of stock raising to the farmer are discussed, by delegates from the local farmers' conference. Efforts are forth to show the people the best methods of preparing and cultivating the land for proper care and raising of stock. The conference has regular constitutions and bylaws to govern it. Rev. J. C. Simmons is secretary. On the campus of the Institute, I met the following persons as visitors to the Institute: Mrs. H. J. Andrew, of Sumter, S. C.; Mrs. Hattle Franklin, of Sumter; Mrs. Julia Byrd, of Sumter, S. C.; Mr. F. J. Prince, of Sumter, S. C.; Mr. P. J. Harrell, of Oswego, S. C.; Mr. L. P. Rogue, of St. Charles, S. C.; Mr. L. P. Rogue, of Halliboro, N. C., delivered an onation on April 28th, Subject "Fidelity." He is a bright young man and doing well. Mr. General McCaulis, of St. Charles, S. C., and Mr. C. J. Browson, of St. Charles came to spend the day at the school of their choice. Mr. Lewis Roman was a visitor. I met also Mr. J. H. Hignon, a chartered accountant of Wall Street, New York, and down to check up the books of the Institute. I was also glad to meet my friend, Miss E. P. Bragdon, the school secretary, who is always polite and accommodating. Prof. C. W. Renolds rendered excellent music on the piano. Rev. J. C. Crawford, of the faculty, presented the diplomas to the graduates. Miss 'Reva Durant and Miss Josephine Jenkins were the graduates. After the presentation of the diplomas, a collection was lifted for the benefit of the school. Rev. J. C. Simmons made an excellent talk on the great need of the school financially. The doors of the institution are open all who come under, her roof will be given treatment. Board and tuition reasonable. Write for catalogue to Miss Emma J. Wilson, Mayeville Educational and Industrial Institute, Mayeville, S. C. After the exercises, the following were invited to the teachers' cottage for dinner: Rev. R. Carroll, Rev. J. C. Simmons, Mrs. A. J. Andrews, Mrs. Hattie Franklin, Mrs. Julia R. Wyd, Mr. H. J. Starka, Mrs. R. B. Westberry, Miss Sadie Washington, and E. B. Webster. E. B. WERSTER. CINCINNATI NEWS AND NOTES Wilmington. N.J. Cincinnati, O. May 8, 1916.—The annual sermon of the Santiamans was preached last Sunday at the Carmel Presbyterian Church. Many were present to attend the meeting. The Union Baptist Church will meet May 11, 1916, to call a preacher. Many are thinking that they will call some of the few her mentioned Rev. Goods, of Virginia; Rev. J. Douglas Woods, of H.D.; or some other they have in mind. Rev. W. A. Blackwell, D. D., pastor of Zion A. M. E.' Church, is now attending the General conference at Louisville. Ky. We are expecting Rev. Blackwell to be appalled back to Cincinnati, for he is missed very much by his members and others. Rev. Charles Summers Williams, D. D., pastor Allen Temple A. M. E. Church, and Rev. D. D. Scott, pastor of Brown Chapel, Walnut Hills, left Cincinnati Monday. May 1, 1916, for Philadelphia, Penn., to attend the General Conference A. M. E. Everybody is waiting the arrival of these great race men here in Cincinnati They are missed very much by all. ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS. The pastor, Rev. G. W. Wyatt, D. D., with the co-operation of the good deacon brethren, are struggling with all their power to finish our new structure. Owing to many disadvantages, we will be forced to hold a meeting of the Sunday School department, which is already complete. This department will seat 500 people and our auditorium will seat 1,000 people when complete. In addition to this the church dining room, with a seating capacity of 300; large kitchen and pantry, heating rooms, chair balcony, two dressing rooms and pastor's study, and janitor's quarters. Every, auxiliary and club, with the assistance of the Sunday School, are planning to make this year a banner year. We are very anxious to see our church finished. Brother Wyatt (this is the name he is known by the world over). is planning to have a family revival; that is to say, he is going to call all the preachers that he ever licensed to presach the gospel together, when The district is in the midst of a severe storm which will cause the loss of many homes and businesses. It is to be expected to cause further damage to some properties. #17. Mrs Larry Davis, secretary of the Ingham, Ala., is now living with her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Bodin Davis, who moved to Chincotown from Memphis, Tenn., about three years ago. Davis is survived by Swift Memorial Chelsea Rogerville, Tenn., where she has been attending school. Owing to sickness, she came home. Mrs. Coutis, 938 Barr Street, has been confined to her bed for some time, owing to sickness, but she is recovering slowly. The Defender Agent wishes Mrs. Coutis a swift recovery. Col. John Felding, Grand Deputy K. of P. Lodge, is putting forth an effort to organize a new lodge, which was named by the founders. The Felding Lodge. You can secure the Planet at Mr. Ben Hall's barber shop, 508 John Street. Mr. Hall is one of our foremost citizens. He has several autos it town for hire, and is well posted in all political matters. Rev. B. Gardasar, 731 W. 5th Street, revival from the Wesleyan Methodist Church, with which he is connected. They want him to be present to attend a memorial service which will take place May 21, at Hillabourler, Ohio. SPECIAL RATES TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS. Atlanta, Ga., May 3, 1916. Rev. E. W. D. Isaac. Dear Sir—All of the railroads in the Southeastern Passenger Association advise that delegates or members from all points in the Southeastern territory which consist of the following states: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, accepting stations on Tennessee Central Railroad, at additional B. V. P. U. and Sunday School Congress to beMemphis, Tennessee, June 14-19, 1956, will be granted a reduction on their return railroad fare by the routes traveled in goin to the congress—i.e. one and one-half fare plus fifty cents. Delegates are instructed to get certificates when they purchase their tickets. These certificates will entitle them to return for one-half fare. All persons failing to procure certificates will be deprived of this reduction. These certificates must be signed with ink by Wm. L. Craft, Secretary, and vised by Armand Crew, Cityicket Agent, L. & N. R. R. We Print Auctioneers' Bills and Memorandums The Manager of JOHN SLOCUM CARRIER MANAGER 1234 WEST 10TH ST. 1234 WEST 10TH ST. 1234 WEST 10TH ST. Visitor's Day at the Pen. "What are you in for, my man?" "Tree year, lady." "Foor fellow. Shall I leave you some tract?" "Thank you, lady. I was arrested because I didn't make 'em'—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Strange Transformation. The patient truths whose hides we use. For footwear would be dated to know that he piles the fancy shoes. Now presumably placed on show. -Washington Star. IRON HEALL BY REX BEACH Copyright, 1913 by Harper & Brothers. SYNOPSIS Murray O'Nell, railroad builder, on his way to Alaska, is a passenger on the Newark. The train runs around. O'Nell meets John Appleton to quail a pledge among the passengers. As the ship sails O'Nell is accosted by a beautiful girl and he plunges overboard with her. They are picked up by Captain Brannon. She proves to be Natalie Gordon. The round of Curtis Gordon, O'Nell's unscrupulous business rival. O'Nell and Natalie journey to Hope together. She tells him of her mother and Gordon. When they arrive at Hope Gordon, O'Nell is impressed with the magnificent his rival, but is sure his plans are uncoust. Tom Teller quits Gordon for O'Nell. They go to Cortex in time to save Dan Appleton in a crooked card game. Appleton, an engineer, had worked for Gordon. Curtis cuts his fortune with O'Nell. O'Nell is a country, convinced he can build a railroad up the Salmon river. O'Nell meets his crew in Seattle, when a newspaper woman sets on the phone proves to be Dan Appleton's sister O'Nell. Her plank, but not for publication. Eliza Appleton is sent to Omar to expose the men who are trying to snatch control of an empire. She meditates her brother and Natalie. Dan is worried over a possible newspaper attack by Eliza on O'Nish. There's a scene when Curtis Gordon asks Gloria to be hostess to Miss Golden. Gloria is forced to meet Natalie. Gordon says she has money and he needs her in his schemes. CHAPTER VII. O 'NEIL found his "bags" awaiting him when he returned to his room. There was Mellon, leau gaud and serious minded, with the dust of Chihuahua still upon his shoes; there were McKay, the superintendent, who had arrived from California that morning; Sheldon, the commissary man; Elkins, Doc Gray and Happy Tom Slater. Parker, the chief engineer, alone was absent. "I sent Appleton in from Cortez," he told them, "to come down the river and make the preliminary survey into Omar. He cables me that he has died his locations and everything is O. K. On my way east I stopped here long enough to buy the Omar cannery, docks, buildings and town site. It's all mine, and it will save us ninety days' work in getting started." "I understand those glaciers come down to the edge of the river," the superintendent ventured. "They do," O'Neil acknowledged, "and they're the lively ones I ever saw. Tom can answer for that. One of them is fully 400 feet high at the face and four miles across. They're constantly breaking too." "Lumps bigger than this hotel," supplemented Slater. "It's quite a night—equal to anything in the state of Maithe." Mellen, the bridge builder, spoke for the first time, and the others listened. "As I understand it we will cross the river between the glacier and immediately below the upper one." "Exactly!" He shook his head. "We can't build plains to withstand those heavy bergs which you tell me are always breaking off." "I'll explain how we can," said O'Neil. "You've hit the bullseye—the A safety. At first I was punished to digcover why only the ice from the lowerglacier came down river; then,whenI realized the truth, I knew I had thekey to Alaska in my hands. Wellcross just below this bar. Understand?Of course it all depends upon Parker's verdict, but I'm so auro his will agreewith mine that I've made my preparations, bought Omar and gathered youfellowes together. We're going to springthe biggest coup in railroad history."They were deep in their discussionwhen this telephone broke in notily,Sheldon, being nearest to the instrument, answered it."There's a newspaper reporter downstairs to interviewyou," he announced, after an instant."I don't grant interviews," O'Nellsaid sharply. He could not guessby what evil chance the news of hisplans had leaked out."Nothing doing!" Sheldon spokeintothe transmitter. He turned againto his employer."Operator says theparty doesn't mind waiting." "Throw him out!" Sheldon directed brusquely, then suddenly dropped the receiver as if had burnt his fingers. "Say! It's a woman, Murray! Nice on the wire. She thanks you sweetly and says she'll wait." "A woman! A newspaper woman! O'Nell rose and seized the instrument roughly. His voice was freezing as he said: 'Hello! I refuse to be interviewed. Yes. There's no use! - His tone suddenly altered. 'Miss Appleton! I beg your pardon. I'll be right down.' Turning to his subordinates, he announced with a very wry smile: "This seems to terminate our interview. She's Dum Appleton's sister, and therefore" - He shrugged resignially, and then "Run now. I'll see you in the morning." "My boys!" made their way down to the street, talking guardedly as they went. O'Nell entered the ladies' parlor with a feeling of extreme amusement, expecting to meet an inquisitive, boody young woman bent upon exploiting his plans and his personality in the usual inane journalistic fashion. He was surprised and offended that Dan Appleton, in whom he had reposed the utmost faith, should have betrayed his secret. Publicity was a thing he detested at all times, and at present he particularly drowned its effect. But he was agreeably surprised in the girl who came toward him briskly with hand outstretched. Miss Appleton was her brother's double. She had his frank blue eyes, his straw gold hair, his humorous smile and wide awake look. She was not joy any means beautiful—her features were too irregular, her nose too tip tilted, her mouth too generous for that—but she seemed crisp, clean cut and wholesome. What first struck O'Nell was her effect of boyishness. From the crown of her plain straw "sailor" to the soles of her sensible walking boots there was no suggestion of female frippery. She wore a plain shirt waist and a tailored skirt, and her hair was arranged simply. The waves in its pale gold was the only concern to mere prettiness. Yet she gave no impression of deliberate masculinity. She struck one as merely not in terrested in clothes, instinctively ex pressing in her dress her own boyish directness and her businesslike absorption in her work. "You're furious, of course. Anybody would be," she began, then laughed so frankly that his eyes softened and the wrinkles at their corners deepened. "I fear I was rude before. I learned you were Dan's sister." he apologized. "But you see I'm a bit afraid of news paper people." "I knew you'd struggle, although Dan described you as a perfectly angelic person." "But I'm a real reporter, so I won't detain you long. I don't care when you were born or where you went to school or what patent breakfast food you cat. Tell me, are you going to build another railroad." "I hope so. I'm always building roads when my bids, are low enough to secure the contracts. That's my business." "Are you going to build one in Alaska." "Possibly. There seems to be an opportunity there, but Dan has probably told you as much about that as I am at liberty to tell. He's been over the ground." She pursued her lips at him: "You know very well, or you ought to know, that Dan wouldn't tell me a thing while he's working for you. He hasn't said a word, but— is that why you came in, frowning like a thundercloud? Did you think he set me on your real!" "I think I do know that he wouldn't do anything really indirect." Murray regarred her with growing faint. There was something about this boyfriend which awakened the same spontaneous licking he had felt upon his first meeting with her brother. He surprised her by confessing boldly: "I am building a refound—to the torturer of Adam." I have cost and suffered the affliction. "They are so hard. They'll be acquainted at once." "Thank you," she replied and said more of what she thought. Buch so her." "My life will put his out of bed mess; he of the trust and the various wildest promoters." "Where does your read start from?" "The town of Omar, on King Philip named, near Hope and Cortex. It will run up the Salmon river and past the glaciers which those other men refused to tackle." "If I weep it is for joy," said the girl. "I don't like Cartis Gordon. I call him Simon Legreus." "Why?" "Well, he impresses me as a real old time villain with the riding boots and the whip and all that. Uncle Tom's Cabin is my favorite play; it's so funny. This is a big story you've given me, Mr. O'Neil." "I realize that." "It has the biggest news value of anything Alaskaan which has broken for some time. I think you are a very nice person to interview, after all." Miss Appleton brushed for all the world like a boy, then answered stillly: "It stands for Violet. But that isn't my fault, and I'm doing my best to live it down." On her return to the Review office the managing editor complimented Miss Appleton on her work and surprised her by assigning her to Alaska, to expose the men who were "trying to snatch control of the empire." CHAPTER VIII. The Town of Omar. The town of Omar lay drenched in mist as the steamer bearing the representative of the Review drew in at the dock. The "Wait! I don't want you to use a word of what I've told you." "You asked me. I told you because you are Dan Appleton's sister. Nevertheless I don't want it made public." "Let's sit down," said the girl, with a laugh. "To tell you the truth, I didn't come here to interview you for a job. My friend I've tried your patience awfully." I sat down, edited her clear complexion. "I just came really, to get some news of Dan." "He's perfectly well and happy, and you'll see him in a few days." Miss Appleton nodded. "So he wrote but I couldn't wait. Now, won't you tell me all about him—not anything about his looks and his health, but lit the unimportant things that will most something? You see, I'm his mother and his sister and his sweetheart." 'O'Nell did as he was directed and before lom found himself scrapping the details of that trying trip up the Salam on river. He told her how he had sent the young engineer out to run the preliminary survey for the new rail road and added: "He is in a fair way to realize his ambition of having you with him all the time. I'm sure that will please you." "And it is my ambition to make enough money to have him with me," she announced. With an air of some importance she continued: "I'll tell you a secret. I'm writing for the mugginz—stories." She sat back awaitting his enthusiasm. When she saw that it was not forthcoming she exclaimed: "My, how you do drive over the idea." "I congratulate you, of course, but," "Now, don't tell me that you tried it once. Of course you did. I know it has a harmless disease, like the measles and that everybody has it when they're young. Above all, don't volunteer the information that your own life is full of romance and would make a splendid novel. They all may that." Murray Nell felt the glow of personal interest that results from the discovery in another of a congenial sense of humor. "I didn't suppose you had to write," he said. "Dan told me you had in hosted your fortune and were on Easy street." "That was poetic license. I fled and slightly in my report to him be cause I knew he was doing so well." "Then your investment didn't turn out fortunately." Miss Appleton hesitated "You seem to be a kindly, trusting person. I'm tempted to destroy your faith in human nature." "Please don't." "Yes, I shall. My experience may help you to avoid the pitfalls of high finance. Well then, it was a very sad little fortune, to begin with, like a boy in grammar school—just big enough to be of no assistance. But even a boy's also fortune looked big to me. I wanted to invest it in something sure—national bank stock, subject to the danger of an absconding cashier, mind you, no government bonds with the possibility of depleting them, but something stable and agriculturally, with the inexhaustible resources of nature back of it. This isn't my own language. I eribbed it from the apple man." "Apple man." "Yes. He had brown eyes and a silky mustache and a big irrigation plan over east of the mountains. You gave him your money and he gave you a perfectly good receipt. Then he planted little apple trees. He nursed them tenderly for five years, after which he turned them over to you with his blessing and you lived happily for evermore. At least that was the idea. You could not fall to grow rich, for the water always bobbled through his little ditch, and it never froze nor rained to spoil things. I used to love apples. And then there was my name, which seemed a good omen. But lately I considered changing 'Appleton' to 'Berily' or 'Punmmer' or some other kind of fruit." "I infer that the scheme failed." O'Nell's eyes were half closed with amusement. "Yes. It was a good scheme, too except for, the fact that the irrigation ditch ran uphill and that there wasn't any water where it started from and that apples never had been made to grow in that locality because of something in the soil and that brown cried Betty's title to the land wouldn't hold water any more than the ditch. Otherwise I'm sure she'd have made a success and I'd have spent my declining years in a rocking chair under the falling apple blossoms, eating pipkins and Jonathanis and Northern Spikes. I can't bear to touch them now. Life at my boarding house is one long battle against apple plums, apple puddings, apple tapples. Ugh! I hate the very word." "I can understand your aversion," insulted O'Neil. "I wonder if you would let me order dinner for both of us, provided I take fruit. Perhaps I think of something more to tell you about Dan. I'm sure he wouldn't obey—" "Oh my day to all the chaparral I need! It takes me everywhere and transform the atmosphere to the grander." businesslike. "He handed him only and he read." *Elim V. Appleton*—The Review. "May I ask what the V's stand for? He hold up the card between his thumb and finger. Miss Appleton blunted for all the world like a boy, then answered affirm: "It stands for Tibet. But that isn't my fault, and I'm doing my best to live it down." On her return to the Review office the managing editor complimented Miss Appleton on her work and surprised her by assigning her to Alaska, to expose the men who were "trying to snatch control of the empire." CHAPTER VIII. THE town of Omar lay drenched in mist as the steamer bearing the representative of the Review drew in at the dock. The whole region was sodden and rain soaked, verdant with a lush growth. No summer sun shone here to bake sprouting leaves or scar tread grenades. Beneath the sheltering firs a blanket of moss extending over hill and vale, knee deep and treacherous to the foot. Omar itself was a mushroom city, sprung up by night, as if the dampness at its roots had caused it to rise overnight. A sawmill shrieked complainingly; a nolay switch engine shredded rows of flat cars back and forth, toodling hasty; the rattle of steam had made the trees of stevedores from a discharging freighter echoed against the billows. Dan Appleton, his clothing dew from the fog, his cheeks bronzed by exposure, was over the rail before the ship had made fast and had Eliza in his arms, crushing her with the hug of a bear. "Come up to the house, al's quick," he cried when the first frenzy of greeting was over—"your house and mine!" His eyes were dancing; his face was night with eagerness. "But, Danny," she laughed, squeezing his arm tenderly. "I live with him, O'Mell and all those other men in a horrible crawling bunkhouse." Oh, do it. I'll have you know that our sisters don't crawl. And besides—But walt. It's a spirea." "A spirea!" she queried eagerly. "For me?" He nodded. "Tell me what it is, quick." You know I never could wait for spirea. "Well, it's a trend new ultra stylish residence for just you and me. When the chief heard you were coming he had a cottage built." "Damp! It was only five days ago that I cabled you." "That's really ten days for us, for you see, we never sleep. It is dulled and wailing, and your room is in white and the paint will be dry tomorrow. He's a wonder." Remembering the nature of her mission, Eliza demurred. "I'm afraid I can't live there, Dan. You know—she hesitated—I may have to write some rather drearful things about him." "What? Dan's face fell. 'You are going to attack the chief! I had no idea of that.' He looked genuinely distressed and a little stern. She laid a pleading hand upon his arm. "Forgive me, Dan," she said. "I knew how you would feel, and, to tell the truth, I don't like that part of it one bit. But it was my big chance—the sort of thing I have been waiting years for. I couldn't bear to miss it. There was a suspicion of tears in her eyes. "I didn't think it all out. I just came. Things get awfully mixed, don't they? Of course I wouldn't attack him unfairly, but I do believe in conservation—and what could I do but come here to you?" Dan amted to reassure her. "Perhaps you won't feel like exorcizing him when you learn more about things. I know you wouldn't be unfair. You'd C "What!" Dan's face fell. "You are going to attack the chief." funk the job first. Walt till you talk to him. But you can't refuse his kindness, for a time at least. There's nowhere else for you to stay, and Murray would pick you up and put you into the cottage, muckrake and all, if I didn't. He had to go out on the work this morning or he'd have been here to welcome you. He sent apologies and said a lot of nice things which Iye forbidden. "Well—Elke still looked troubled—all right. But wait" she cried, with a swift change of mood. "The made a little friend, the dearest, the most warm creature!" Wo shared the same schmroom, and were stunned. So she simply says I'm pretty, so of course I'm still alive for life." Her heart dropped by the mist of Dan's brain, and then she was pretty, and then she was the star, she loved her. She upstairs the orchids of Brook. A moment later she reappeared to present Natalie Gerard. Dan greeted the new arrival with a cordiality in which there was a trace of skyscraper unusual with him. "We've made quite a change since you were up here, Miss Gerard," he remarked. "The shape stop at Omar now, you see. I trust it won't inconvenience you." "Not in the least," said Natalie. "I shall arrive at Hope quite soon enough." Dan led the two girls ashore and up through the town to a moa green gumgal, its newness attested by the yellow sawdust and fresh shavings which lay about. And their explanations of delight he showed them the neatly furnished interior and, among other wonders, a bedroom distinctly in white, with white curtains at the mullioned windows and a suit of wicker furniture. "Where he dug all that up I don't know," Dan said, pointing to the bed and dresser and chairs. "He must have had it hidden out somewhere." Eliza surveyed this chamber with wondering eyes. "It makes me feel quite ashamed," she said. "though, of course, he did it for Dan. When he discovers my amenable mission he'll probably set me out in the rain and break all my lead pensils. But isn't he magnificent?" "He quite overwhelms one," Natalie agreed. "Back in New York he's been sending me American Beauties every week for more than a year. It's his special way." She colored slightly despite the easy frankness of her manner. "You are still working miracles," Natalie told O'Nell an hour later, while he was showing his visitors the few sights of Omar. "miracles of kindness, as usual." Dan and his sister were following at a distance, arm in arm and clattering like maggles. "No, no. That cottage is nothing Miss Appleton had to have some place to stop." "This all seems like magic." Natalie pushed and looked over the busy little town. "And to think you have done it in a year." "It was not I who did it; the credit belongs to those boys' of whom I told you. They are all here, by the way—Parker, McKay, Mellen, Sheldon, Doc Gray—he has the hospital, you know." "And Mr. Slater." "Oh, we couldn't exist without Happy Tom! No, the only miracle about all this is the loyalty that has made it possible. It is that which has broken all records in railroad building; that's what has pushed our trucks forward until we nearly up to one of nature's real miracles. You shall see those glaciers one of these days. Sometimes. I wonder if even the decision of those men will carry us through the final test. But—you shall meet them all tonight—my whole family." "I can't. The ship leaves this afternoon." "I've arranged to send you to Hope in my motorbike just as Mr. Gordon sent me on my way a year ago. You will stay with the Appletons tonight and help at the house warming, then Dan will take you on in the morning. Women are such rare guests at Omar that we refuse to part with them. You agree?" "How can I refuse? Your word seems to be law here. I'll send word to mother by the ship that I am detained by royal decree." She spoke with a gayety that seemed a little forced, and at mention of her departure a subtle change had come over her face. O'Neill realized that she had matured markedly since his last meeting with her; there was no longer quite the same effect of naive girlishness. "This was a very unhappy year for your royal subject, Mr. O'Neill." "I'm sorry," he declared with such genuine kindness that she was moved to confide in him. "Mother and I are ruined." "Will you tell me about it?" "It's mercy—those wretched coat claims. I have a friend in the land office at Washington and, remembering what you said, I asked him to look them up. I knew no other way to go about it. He tells me that something was done, or was not done, by us, and that we have lost all we put in." "I urged Gordon to obey that ruling last spring." Natalie saw that his face was dark with indignation, and the knowledge that he really cared set her heart to pounding gratefully. She was half tempted to tell about that other, that greater trouble which had stolen in upon her peace of mind and robbed her of her girlhood but she shrank from baring her wounds—above all, a wound so vital and so personal as this. "Does your mother know?" he queried. "No, I preferred to tell her in Mr. Gordon's presence." Murray noticed that she no longer called the man uncle. "But now that the time has come I'm frightened." "Never allow yourself to be afraid. Fear is something false; it doesn't exist." "It seems to me he was-unfairful to his trust. Am I right?" "That is something you must judge for yourself; he told her gravely. "You see, I don't know anything about the reasons which prompted him to sacrifice your rights. He may have had very good reasons. I dare any he had. In building this railroad I have felt but one regret—that the indirect effect it may have upon you and your mother. Your affairs are linked closely with Gordon's, and the success of my enterprise will mean the failure of his." "You mustn't feel that way. I'm sure it won't affect us at all, for we have nothing more to lose. Sometimes I think his judgment is faulty, erratic, wonderful man though he is. Mother trusts him blindly, of course, and so do I, yet I hardly know what to do. It is impossible that he did worse than make a mistake." Her dark eyes were bent upon Murray, and they were element with the emotion which she would not bring her to so ask. She frowned to tell her christian, or even worse, and that his highest schemes were doomed to fail are by the very nature of his method, but instead he said: "I'm deeply distressed. I hope thing are not as bad as you think and the Mr. Gordon will be able to straighten them out for you. If ever I can be of service you must be sure to call upon me." Her thanks were conventional, but in her heart was a deep, warm gratitude, for she knew that he meant what he said and would not fall her. Dan Appleton, lying Natalie and in chief from a distance, exhibited an attitude: "She's a perfect pear a lai. She registered a home run with me the first time at but." "She is like me." "You know a fellow gets mighty hope in a place like this. She'd make a dandy sister-in-law for you, wouldn't abe?" "Forget it!" said Eliza sharply. "That's rank 'insubordination. Omar Khayam smatched her from the briny and tried to die for her. He has bought her two acres of the most expensive roses and he remembers the date of her birthday. Just you keep your hands off." "How does she feel about him?" "Oh, she heroes him, of course. I don't know just how deep the feeling goes, but I got the impression that it was pretty serious. Two women can't borrow harpins and mix powder puffs for a week and remain strangers." "Then, as for Daniel Appleton, C.E., good night!" exclaimed her brother ruefully. "If I were a woman I'd marry him myself, provided I could get ahead of the rush; but, being a mate of the species, I suppose I shall creep out into the jungle and sink." "Right-of-place." Don't enter this race, for I'm afraid you'll be a bad loser. Personally, I can't see anything in him to rave about. What scares me pink is the knowledge that I must tell him the wretched business that brings me here. As he strikes me, Danny, remember I'm still your sister." When the big gong gave the signal for lunchoon Apleton conducted Natalie and Eliza to the company messroom, where the field and office force sided together, and presented them to his fellow lieutenants. At supper time those who had been out on the line during the day were likewise introduced, and after a merry meal the whole party escorted the two girls back to the green gambow. "Why, here's a phono." Eliza exclaimed upon entering the parlor. "I borrowed it for the evening from the Elite saloon." O'Nell volunteered, "It's a dispatched old instrument, and some of its teeth have been knocked out in drunken brains. I'm afraid but the owner vouched for his behavior on this occasion." At her first opportunity Eliza undertook to make that confession the thought of which had troubled her all the afternoon. Drawing O'Nell aside, she began with some trepidation, "Have you any idea why I'm here?" "I supposed either you or Dan had achieved your pet ambition." "Far from it. I have a fell purpose, and when you learn what it is I expect you to move the piano out—that's what always happens in the play when the heroine is dispossessed. Well, then, I've been sent by the Review to bate all the disgraceful secrets of your life." "I'm delighted to learn you'll be here so long. You can't possibly finish that task before next spring." His manner, though quizzical, was genuinely hearty. "Don't laugh!" said the girl. "There's nothing funny about it. I came north as a spy." "Then you're in Northern Spy?" "Apples!" she cried. "You remembered, didn't you? I never supposed men like you could be flippant. Well, hero goes for the worst." She outlined her conversation with the editor of her paper. "So you think I'm trying to steal Alaska." he said when she had concluded. "That seems to be the general idea." "It's a pretty big job." "Whoever controls transportation will have the country by the throat." "Yet somebody must build railways, since the government won't. Did it ever occur to you that there is a great risk involved in a thing of this sort and that capital must see a profit before it enters a new field?" I wonder if you know how badly this country needs an outlet and how much greater the benefit in dollars and cents will be to the men in the interior than to those who finance the road. But I perceive that the government should "Tablul" Eiza biddled a little at the hint of amused superiority in his voice: "I'm a tractorist." Lalette "Dabbit!" Eliza bridled a little at the hint of amused superbility in his voice. "I'm a sailorgirl too! I dare say that adds to your disgust." "Nonesense!" he protested. "I have no quarrel with conservation nor with votes for women." Neither have I anything to conceal. I'm only afraid that, like most writers, you will be content with half information. Incomplete facts are responsible for most misunderstandings. If you are in earnest and will promise to take the time necessary to get at all the facts I'll make an agreement with you." "I promise: Time and a typewriter are my only assets. I don't intend to be hurried." Dan approached, drawn by the uncomfortable knowledge of his sister's predicament, and broke in: "Oh, his has time to burn! She's going to write a book on the salmon canneries while she's here. It's bound to be one of the six best sinners!" 'O'Nell waved him away with the threat of sending him out among the mosquitoes. "I'll agree to show you everything we're doing." "Even to the cool fields?" "Even to them. You shall know everything; then you can write what you please." "And when I've exposed you to the world on a commercial pickpocket, an a lawyer of the public domain—after marriage, has appropriated your film." PAGE THREE Will call claims. Will you call up the house? Will you call the vettage and two Dad? "No." "Will you still be nice to me?" "My dear child, you are my great. Come and go when and where you will. Omar is yours so long as you stay, and when you depart in triumph, leaving me a broken, discredited wretch, I shall stand on the dock and wave you a bon voyage. Now it's bedtime for my boy; since we rise at 0 o'clock." "Heaven's Five! Why, the sun isn't up at that time." "The sun shines very little; here, that's why we want you to stay at Omar. I wish we might also keep Miss Natalie." When the callers had gone Eliza told Natalie and Dan: "He took it so nicely that I feel more ashamed than ever. One would think he didn't care at all. Do you suppose he does?" "There's no denying that you appeared at an unfortunate time," said her brother. "Why?" "I won't act against my convictions," Eliza declared firmly, "even if it means calamity to everybody." Natalie spoke for the first time, her voice tuned to a pitch of feeling that contrasted oddly with their conversational tones. "If you hurt my Irish prince," she said, "I shall hate you as long as I live." (TO BE CONTINUED.) RAILROADS Alameda Academy, lac. I, 22.15 AP, pwd. day. 2.15 AP, Pk. nr. 21.15 AP, all day. Frederick Academy, lac. I, 16.14 AP, Pk. nr. 18.10 AP. Alameda Academy, week days. 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M. For Petersburg: 12:50 A.M. M. 4:15 A.M. M. For Petersburg: 12:50 A.M. M. 8:00 A.M. M. For Petersburg: 12:50 A.M. M. 8:00 A.M. M. For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: 4:00 P. M. For Hopewell: 8:15 A.M. 7:15 P. M. *8:15 P. M. For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: 4:00 P. M. For Hopewell: 8:15 A.M. 7:15 P. M. *8:15 Trains arrive Richmond daily: 6:20 A.M. M. 7:00 A.M. M. 9:13 A.M. M. 4:15 A.M. M. 8:27 A.M. 7:00 A.M. M. 9:13 A.M. M. 4:15 A.M. M. 8:27 A.M. 7:00 A.M. M. 6:35 P. M. 7:45 P. M. 8:00 P. M. 12:20 P. M. Except Sunday. *Sunday Only. Town of arrival and departure and connection THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH Trains leave Richmond, Main Street Station. The station is well maintained. For the South—Daily: 8:30 A. M. local; 10:30 A. M. express; 8 P. M. express for Atlanta; 11:35 P. M. express; 100 P. M. local for Keysville and Clare City—work days. York River Line—8:10 P. M. Blessner Train Station. Subway coasting for麻江, local. 7:35 A. M. encl. 8:15 P. M. daily, local. Trains arrive Richmond—From the South: 7:50 A. M. encl. 8:40 P. M. daily; 8:40 A. M. except Sunday. From West Point: 8:40 A. M. except Monday. 9:00 A. M. except Tuesday. Other: 87 K. M. Main Street 672 CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Octaia, Lockerbie a. West. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. Main Line, Local. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. N. News, N.H., Old Pt. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. Newport News, Local. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. Newport News, Local. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. $2.00 p. Newport News. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. From West. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. $2.00 p. daily from Charlotteville Bank. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. Thurwood. $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. Daily $2.00 p. -$1.50 p. SEABOARD AIR LINE SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH daily: 9 A. M. local to Northen; 1:20 P. M. , sleepsper and coaches to Jacksonville, Alhambra, Tampa, and Jacksonville; 1:20 P. M. sleepsper to Jacksonville; 1:20 P. M. , Florida Limited; 1:26 A. M. , sleepsper to Atlanta, Birmingham, Tampa, and Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Raleigh and Jacksonville; 1:20 P. M. local to Northen; 1:20 P. M. ALPMEUS SCOTT (CHURCH HILL) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 100 F Street, Plum Street, 100 W. Third Avenue, 100 St. James St., Plum Street, Westminster 0011 Funeral Home of Alpheus Scott 100 F Street, Plum Street, 100 W. Third Avenue, 100 St. James St., Plum Street, Westminster 0011 Florence, S. C., May 16, 1916.—Time and again have I thought of how few people know the worth of a dollar. We ought always to spend our earnings to advantage. If you are going to purchase a pair of shoes, you do not purchase any sort, do you? When you go fishing, you don't drop a baited hook in the first mud-hole, do you? Messrs. Paul Reed and Lewis Wright are still at their post at the A. C. L. station. The lecture of Mr. Lewis Jackson, president of the Joint Stock Company Lodge, on Sunday evening, May 14th, was very much enjoyed by both members of the order and the public generally. He is a first class presiding officer. When in need of cheap, fresh groceries, don't fall to call on Mr. P. L. Jackson, Cox Street, East Florence. Mr. Jackson and his members are to be congratulated on the appearance and demeanor of those of the ranks and file. Quite a number of visitors and spectators was out to witness the exercises. Many interesting papers were read, and all enjoyed the sermon and affair generally. *Deacon Reed of the finance committee of the church, gave a practical talk to the members of Trinity Baptist Church at the morning services Sunday, the 14th, inst. Mr. W. P. Rush is doing a fine business and deserves patronage. Miss Hattie M. Johnson, matron at Bennett College, Greensboro, N. C., passed through the city recently en route for her home at Sumter, S. C. Mr. W. P. Rush, one of our North Florence merchants, has purchased the dwelling and lot on corner of Marlon Street and R. R. Avenue, and is having a fine store built, where, hereafter, he will continue his mercantile business. Rev. J. M. Alaton, of our city, visited the Mt. Rona Baptist Church, Darlington County, Sunday, the 14th inst., and assisted in the services. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Toomer, of Charleston, S. C., passed through the city recently, returning from their bridal tour, visiting Philadelphia, New York City and Yonkers, N. Y. They called on Mrs. Mattie Brown, Yonkers, and Mrs. Smiley Banks in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. P. L. Jackson has recently opened a first-class grocery establishment on Cox Street, 801, East Florence, S. C. The much needed and long looked for rain has come, and both plants and man are at their best. The Joint Stock Company Lodge of this city, held their thanksgiving services at Trinity Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. President Lewis Jackson in the chair. The fundamental report of the order showed that nearly ($500) five hundred dollars has been paid out for sick claims the past two years. The collection Sunday evening amounted to $13.06 and $1.81 for Trinity Baptist Church Sunday School. Many kind words were spoken of the founder of the order—Father Joseph Guiles. Mrs. Minnie McCombs passed thro' the city recently, returning from High Spring, Fla., en route for her home at Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Prince W. Wilson, a first class harber of Georgetown, S. C., spent several days here in the city recently, visiting friends. He left for home Friday evening. Rev. G. N. Green preached the Odd Fellows' annual sermon at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Marlboro County Sunday, May 14th inst Mr. W. M. H. Howard, of Faceville, Ga., after visiting his mother at Marton, S. C., returned home recently. He is a woods' rider for a saw mill, and is doing fine. Mr. J. E. Fladger and mother passed through the city recently en route for Sprinkfold, Mass. Mr. Fladger was a student at Kansas City night school this session, at Kansas City, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Lowe, having spent the winter on East Coast of Florida, passed through the city recentl, en route to Dillywn, S. C. Mr. Jas. H. Lowe, a successful business man, passed through the city recently, en route to Atlanta, Ga., on Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers business. We are always glad to see you and the ladies. Rev. R. D. Gaines, of Society Hill, ground through the city recently on route for Washington, D. C., on business. Mr. Gainey is a well-to-do farmer. Miss. hans. E. Munherlyn, of Washington, D. C., has gone to Orangeburg, S. C., to visit her father, who is quite ill. Rev. S. A. Robinson, of Hyman, S. C., sent a substitute to his work at Latta, S. C., Sunday, the 14th inst., and he preached at Mt. Zion M. E. Church to the annual Odd Fellows' sermon. Rev. Robinson used as a text, Ezekiel, 4th chapter, latter part of the Surveys. Subject: "A Token of What Is and What Is to Come." He passed through the city Tuesday on route for home. FLIES EMPLOYING MODERN TACTICS. Must Be Fought With Combined Offensive and Defensive, Board Says. Richmond, Va., May 17, 1916.—The man who wants to keep his premises free of fires this summer must rockon on dealing with an enemy who has learned all the modern methods of warfare and knows how to employ siege tactics, trench fighting and grand assaults. Such is the warning given today in a bulletin of the State Board of Health, which outlines the methods by which the fly-nuissance is to be combatted. "The spring offensive of the files will begin in full force during the next few weeks," declares the board, "and will continue with unabated fury until late in the summer when it will gradually abate. The warm weather now prevalent throughout the State encourages the breeding of files in great numbers, while the insatiant condition of many premise insures the pest access to disease-laden flth. "The best way of fighting files is, of course, to break up their breeding-places, but this is almost impossible in the country, unless the premises are kept acupurpully clean and the stable and barn-yard receive constant attention. In the cities, of course, except where there are stables and chicken-yards, conditions are much more favorable for a war on the fly in his trenches. "Where the breeding-places of flies cannot be destroyed, the first essential is to keep them from having access to the body wastes. This means that safety depends primarily on the construction and regular use by all members of the family of a sanitary outhouse. Where this is done, the fly may be a nuisance, but can hardly be a menace; but where this is not done, the fly is a worse nuisance and a far greater danger. "Screening, to really useful, must be general. It is a waste of time and money to screen the windows and leave the doors open. Where screens cannot be supplied for the whole house, they should be used for the kitchen, the dining-room, the dairy and, where there is a baby, for the room in which it stays. It is best to purchase No. 14 wire netting, as this will exclude mosquitoes as well as files. Care must always be taken to cover the fireplace as well as the windows and best results are to be had from screens that fit entirely over the window-frame and work on hinges. Screens over only part of the window often admit flies. "A great deal of good can be accomplished by employing large fly-traps of the old 'bee-gum' variety, properly baited. Working designs for making such traps can be had from the State Board of Health. "Commercial fly paper is good but relatively expensive. An adequate substitute can be made by boiling resin in castor oil until it is thick enough to hold the files when spread on newspapers. "Virginia's typhoid this year will be largely in proportion to Virginia's success in the war against files. Offensive and defensive tactics must both be employed." KEEP A COW AND PREVENT PELLAGRA. State Board of Health Issues Warning Against Restricted Diet. Richmond, Va., May 17, 1916.—The Farmer who lets himself be persuaded into selling his cow because of the good market for meat is making a very poor bargain, in the judgment of the State Board of Health. Milk, eggs and poultry are a part of the food-products of the greatest value in preventing pellagra, and when a family goes without these and is unable to procure fresh meats, its members are in danger of contracting this dreadful malady. "Keep a cow and chickens," advises the board, "and you have in large measure protected yourself against pellagra." FIFTIETH MONTH AT CHRISTIANSBURG Christiansburg, Va., May 18.—Aside form the trip of Booker T. Washington, nothing has attracted as much attention among peoples in Christiansburg as the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Christiansburg Industrial Institute, and the commencement exercises of the institution. The school was founded fifty years ago by the Society of Friends, Philadelphia, Pa., and has contributed much to the moral, intellectual and spiritual development of the race. A party of fifty of the leading white people of Philadelphia, representing the society were present on the anniversary day yesterday and some strong addresses were delivered by representative men and women. Prof. Edgar A. Long, principal of the school, presided, and in his opening, made a plea for the education of the youth. He thought it appropriate the meeting of the white people of the north and the white people of the south, and the Negro at this time, to talk about the Negro, and for the Negro, and to take the best methods of helping the Negro himself. The North and the South had divided on the Negro question some years ago, and now they are getting together. The white people of Christiansburg turned out in large numbers, and then they were all served dinner at the close of the exercise in the institution dining room. The speakers were Commonwealth Attorney R. I. Roop, Morris E. Leeds, of Philadelphia; Samuel Stewart, representing the colored people; A. Haran, banker, of Christiansburg; J. H. Scattergood and Judge Casell, of the Norfolk & Western. The addressees were practical, and all represented money. The white citizens of the city gave a check for $500 and $2,500 in subscriptions; the students $164; the colored citizens $89.17, while the Society of Friends gave an endowment of $33,184. The boys closed their examination in their Bible Class last Tuesday night. The examination for the men's Bible class was held last Tuesday night, and you are invited to the New Bantist Church to the public closing Monday night. May 22, 8:30 o'clock, when you will hear the results. Last Friday night was a great hour. Every man was very active. The new members are taking hold and helping to push to the front. The closing of the Class for the explanation on the Sunday School lesson took place last Saturday. A special program was rendered by the members and all said a word. Remarks were made by the teach, Prof. J. W. Bárco. We are all grateful to him for the most valuable service which he has so cheerfully given. The class presented to him a suitcase as a token of their love. The class will open Saturday, September 30th. 5 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. You are kindly invited to work for this hour that we may help many more. Refreshments were served. Last Sunday was full day service by the Y. M. C. A. At 9:30 A. M., at the Y. M. C. A., the workers held a special meeting. In the city home (10 A. M.) the committee was busy. At 10 A. M. in the city fail the committee found much to do, and all were happy. Our General Secretary, S. C. Burrell, (S P. M.) left Richmond to serve the boys of the reformatory and the girls of the Industrial Home School for Wayward Girls, Hanover County, Va. He found both places in an excellent condition a very good work was being done. Committeeman C. B. Gaston conducted the meeting for the boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A., and it was a good one. Mothers, we thank you. Rev. W. B. Bill gave one straight from the shoulder to the men (3:30 P. M.) at the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company's Auditorium. Subject: "Preparedness and Action." The violin solo was enjoyed. Men, be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for workers (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers, send your boys to the special meeting for boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Every man is invited to the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company's Auditorium (3:30 P. M.) to hear the reproduction of President Wilson's address to the Y. M. C. A. of Washington, D. C., by Mr. W. S. Morgan. He may ought to make and meet Talk the other man. Women and men are invited to the 26th Closing Exercises of the Y. M. C. A. Night School, Monday night, 5:30 o'clock, at the New Baptist Church, near the corners of Clay and First streets. Rev. Nelson B. Brown will deliver the address. A special program by the students. Free for everybody. Come! Kerry home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. Want to raise money for your church or society? Send twenty-five cents at once for my new play, entitled "De Topics of De Day!" A vivid portrayal of early Negro-church life. Positively nothing like it before the public. A howling success every time. Repeated ten times in one church. Address A. Ashburn, 3747 Wabash Avo. Chicago, Ill. So. Boston, Va., May 16, 1916. Lock Boy 265 The Planet. Richmond, Va. Dear Editor, I wish to speak a word of commendation through your great paper to the founders and powers that be of Hobson City, Ala. an account of which I read in the Planet of the 13th inst. Except, of course, such rare incidents as your "troubles" in which good inevitably came from evil, it is in my judgment the best effort towards race elevation that has come to my knowledge. Pardon me, if my conclusion in this matter be hasty; it comes natural from my position in dealing with crimes and criminals. I see in Hobson City the foundation stone upon which the race can safely build. We need a hundred more Hobson cities. Where will the next be? Just behind her darkest clouds of trouble, shines a silver lining of hope for the race. When Negroes can sit and mute out justice to, Negroes, Ethiopia will stretch her hand to God. Yours truly. J. J. SHEPPERSON 'Sister Masons' A grand play, entitled "Sister Masons," will be given at the Van de on Vyver Auditorium Tuesday night, May 23, 1916, at 8 o'clock. Benefit of charity work of Baker Mothers' Club. Cast of Characters; Sister Angel Cake, Master of the Lodge and Most Worthy Gray; Sister Gossip, High Back Jellymixer, Second in Command, Mrs. Justinia Williams; Sister Busybody, Most Refugient Pincushion, Miss Sophronia Scott; Sister Thankful; Grand Chow Chow, Inner Guard and Keeper of the Goat, Mrs. Fannie Debhress, Sister Royal Peek-Aboo, Miss Virginia Brown; Sister Blueblood, A New Member, Mrs. Uraline Redd; Sister Backbite, Mrs. Eleanorro Brooks; Mrs. Padlock, A Hardware Dealer's Wife, A Candidate for Initation, Miss Marion Miles; Mrs. Ipeacar, The Doctor's Wife, Also a Candidate, Mrs. Cleopatra Vaughan; Sister Cheeruakan, Miss Goldie Debbress; Sister Sing-O-Bird, Mrs. Zemoria Wood; Sister Helkercherbottom, Miss Laurarth Conley; Sister Carrie Nation, Miss Lella Dabney; Sister Knowmore-than-all, Miss Lilian Frayser; Sister Tatarsky, Mrs. Edna Colos; Mrs. Nannie Taylor, Plankt; Mr. Cleiro Lomax, Stage Manager. Admission only 10 cents. Baseball Team Asks for Patronage. For six years we have tried to convince Richmond baseball going people of color, that if they would only give us support, we would rival the largest cities. No expense will be too great in bringing the best teams here. If you will only support them. We have already succeeded in interesting the big baseball promoters of the advisability of switching their teams through Richmond enroute to the invasion of the worst, and we have received positive assurance from the Lincoln Stars that they will risk this champion colored team of the world, as an experiment, to play in our city. We beg your hearty cooperation, as this is an experiment for McMahon brothers and, a greater one for ourselves. Remember, if our first venture proves a success the other North and Western teams will do likewise. We have a team that can play as clean a game as could be expected and as individual players, the county would have to be raked with a fine tooth comb to excel them. We ask for your patronage. —Mayo Stevens, Manager of the Broonlyn Slides. Comic Cap HE'S UNDER THIS VERY ROOF HALL R HENCLOT WE Y RE DUPONT BLAST KILLS MANY Trialtroeluel House at Gibbs-town Blows Up. Terrific Explosion Scattered Manglec Bodies and Diamembered Limbs Over a Wide Area. Fifteen men were killed and about forty injured in an explosion at the Repauno dynamite plant of the Dupont Powder company, at Gibbs town, N. J. The cause of the explosion is undetermined, although it is believed that a train-car entering a building filled with trinitrotoluol, struck a spark and ignited the high-power explosive. The explosion was followed by fire but the main portion of the plant was not endangered. The buildings levelled were known as trinitrotoluol and the nitrophenol houses. Trinitrotoluol is an explosive of very high power used in the manufacture of mines and shells. The driver of a dray, Frederick Ream, of Gilbbastown, was blown from his seat and instantly killed as he passed one of the soup houses. Workingmen reported that there were probably at least twenty dead and that from fifty to sixty injured were lying on the ground a few minutes after the explosion occurred. Mangled bodies and dismembered limbs were seen. None of the men would talk on the subject of what caused the explosion, but all areas that the first one was small as compared to the great blast which followed so quickly that it seemed to be almost a continuation of the first one. The little powder town was thrown into a panic by the explosion. Women with children in arms rushed to the gates of Repauno plant. The plant was enclosed by a high fence and admittance was refused to all except official al of the company. Although only six men were employed in the trinitrotoluol house made of frame and covered with corrugated iron, there are 2000 men in the employ of the company at Gibbs town. The plant extends about four miles along the Delaware river front and covers 4000 acres. The explosion was what is known among munitions makers as a "flag." A long-drawn blasting sound, followed by a sharp but comparatively light report. Workmen rushed from the danger zone and attempted to leave the enclosed grounds of the company. Armed guards drove them back and ordered all to assemble quietly at the exigates. After a delay of an hour, all employees who desired to go home were permitted to do so, upon showing the proper credentials to the company guards. In the meantime hundreds of men women and children from Gibbstown Paulsburg and other nearby towns rushed to the scene. They huddled outside the main gates of the plant and made pleas for information regarding relatives and friends employed by the company. There was no information forthcoming, however, and hysterical adults rushed to telephones and tried to call up the offices of the company. Telephonic communication was impossible the service being out of commission. About the town it was told that the conclusion had torn down the wires but indignant employees charged that all wires had been cut down on orders from officials of the Dupont company. Killed by Angry Bull. John Clague, who resides on the farm of J. Riansey Speer near Trappe, Md., met with a horrible death, as he entered his bart door, where he was met by an infuriated bull, that butted him down in the stall and kept it up until he had book on all the bones in his body on his left side and injured him internally. As he was being beaten away by another man, who heard, Mr. Clague, cries for help, he mashed all of the right side of his face in by step; ins on it. Dr. W. S. Seymour and H. L. 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While there may be some doubt as to the Republican nominee, it seems to be pretty well assured that President Wilson will be tendered a nomination when the Democratic delegates assemble at St. Louis. The Republican delegates will convene in the Coliseum in Chicago on June 7. Already the hotels are preparing for a great crowd. Soon the booms of favorite sons will recoach through the corridors. While there are some men who look to have a big lead in the race for the nomination, some of the wildeacres are saying this is the year for a dark horse. There never was a convention in which, a few hours before the delegates met, there wasn't some talk of a dark horse. That's all there was—talk. The dark horse seldom looms dangerous when the balloting begins. But that this year the race is more open than in any convention in recent years is evidenced by the statement of Charles D. Hiller, chairman of the Republican national committee, who declared that the candidate "will be born in the convention." The seating arrangement at the Coliseum will be much the same as it was four years ago, except that a thousand or more chairs are to be crowded in. The architect has blueprints showing that the seating capacity will be 12,500. Alphabetically some of the Republic. an possibilities are as follows: Borah, William E., of Idaho. Brumbaugh, Martin G., of Penisylvan. Burton, Theodore E., of Ohio. Cummins, Albert B., of Iowa. Estabrook, Henry D., of New York. Fairbanks, Charles W., of Indiana. Hughes, Charles K., of New York. La Follette, Robert M., of Wisconsin. Mann, James R., of Illinois. McCall, Samuel W., of Massachusetts. Roosevelt, Theodore, of New York. Root, Ellin, of New York. Sherman, Lawrence Y., of Illinois. Weeks, John W., of Massachusetts. Roosevelt has been President and Fairbanks has been vice president. Hughes has been governor of New York and is associate justice of the supreme court. Maun is the leader of the Republican minority in the house of representatives. Brumbaugh and McCall are present governors of their states. Borah, Cummins, La Follette and Weeks are senators, and Fairbanks and Root have no. McCall has had long experience in the house of representatives. United States Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio will be temporary chairman of the convention. Wifie Knew. Mr. B.—I am going out to see a man Mrs. B.—Don't take more than one look at him.—Exchange. SERVICES OF THE BERKLEY TROOPS Sends 10,000 Troops in Prevent Border Raids. Situation in Mexico Growing Better, But Outlawry Must be Put Down Before Troops Are Withdrawn. General Carranza has agreed to the informal understanding of Major General Hugh L. Scott with General Obregon, Carranza's minister of war, which provides that Mexican forces shall try to show their ability to control the situation in northern Mexico while American troops remain there for the time being. Secretary of War Baker explained the nature of the informal understanding to President Wilson and the cabinet as part of General Scott's report on his conference with General Obregon at El Paso, Texas. After the cabinet meeting it was reiterated that no armed intervention is in prospect and that the situation apparently is improving. Information laid before the cabinet was to the effect that the Carranza government is making headway in controlling the country and in establishing civil government, and is becoming stronger. The net result of the conferences it was stated, has been to convince the Carranza government that the United States has no other purpose in its operations in Northern Mexico than to stamp out brikandago, and as a consequence there exists the understanding that the Carranza forces shall demonstrate their ability to handle the situation as the necessary first step toward withdrawal of the American primitive expedition. General Scott believes General Obregon is acting in good faith, and that the border situation is less critical so far as the American government is concerned. To carry out his share of the plans, Oregone has agreed to occupy and police the Parra district, securing the mountain region west of that town for the remnants of Villa's followers. He also agreed to establish a strong patrol line along the Mexican side of the Big Hend country to prevent oursions such as that at Glenn Springs and Bouquillas, Texas. For that purpose he has ordered into those regions 10,000 troops under General Trevino. Advices to the war and state departments indicate the movements are being carried out promptly. On their side, General Frederick Funston assured Oregon that precautions would be taken by American commanders not to dispose their forces so as to embarrass the operation of the Mexican troops, and also that the border patrol on the American side would be strengthened. FIGHTING AT VERDUN Rach Side Claims to Have Repulsed The Other's Attacks. German artillery continued the bombardment of the French positions at Avocourt front, but the infantry operations of the crown prince's army were confined to a feeble attack on the east bank of the Meuse in the region of Thalnumum farm. This attack, says the Paris official communique, was completely repulsed. 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Oil Chemical Industry Power Transmission Energy Services 4 Photo by American Press Association. Major George. T. Langhorne, in command of United States cavalry near Bouquillias, Tex., dispatched his saddle soremen after Mexican bandits. They returned in just two hours with fourteen prisoners. They had searched a Mexican town and had not fired one shot. PENNA, PRIMARY RESULTS CLOSE Incomplete returns from Tuesday's primary election in Pennsylvania left the choice of national delegates to the Republican convention in doubt. In Philadelphia Governor Brum baugh's delegates were elected by large majorities and Speaker Ambler for auditor general received a majority of about 10,000 over Charles A. Snyder. The $114,000,000 loan is Philadelphia for subways and general improvements were ratified by a majority of over 60,000. Returns from the state, outside of Philadelphia showed Senators Ponroe and Oliver leading for national delegates-at-large over Governor Brumbaugh and Mayor Smith. 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Oyster Bay, May 11.—Theodore Roosevelt tonight swept aside all doubt as to his attitude toward the presidential nomination. He is in the fight to the finish. In a recent letter to Col. Roosevelt Guy Emerson, national secretary of the Roosevelt Nonpartisan League, said: "The platform that is absolutely vital, in our opinion, for the safety of the country during the four momentous years which he ahead is the platform strongly stated in your recent Chicago speech. BARNESTLY APPROVES WORK. "We believe that you are the only man now available who can carry that platform into effect, and who at the same time has any chance of being elected." In his reply Col. Roosevelt once more outlines the principles of patriotism and preparedness which he has declared to be the dominant issues, and says: "Your league emphasizes its devotion to these principles and supports me only as representing the principles. This is emphatically the proper attitude to take, and because this is your attitude and because you are working in this spirit, I very earnestly approve your work." ENDS DOURT AS TO PLANS. It can be said with certainty that behind this declaration is a plain purpose of dissipating al doubt as to his position in the fight. He is a candidate on the platform which he has outlined. He will remain in the fight until the issue has been decided. With tonight's declaration, a vigorous campaign is inaugurated, which will be waged with the utmost vigor until the tickets have been named at Chicago one month hence. Following is the correspondence between Mr. Emerson and Col. Roosevelt, which was made public here tonight. This letter was sent to Col. Roosevelt by Guy Emerson, secretary of the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League: BELIEVES HIM STRONGEST MAN. New York, May 9, 1916. Dear, Col. Roosevelt: The Roosevelt Non-Partisan League is a movement inaugurated by citizens of all parties who believe that Americanism is the great issue before the country today, and that you are the strongest available man as leader under that issue. Many of the men in the league have been your supporters for many years. Others are Republicans who voted against you in 1912 Others are Democrats. "Come together in this organization, however, without abandoning their regular party affiliations, because they believe that in the present crisis in our national affairs the only issues are above the range of politics. "The platform that is absolutely vital in our opinion for the safety of the country during the four momentous years which its ahead is the platform strongly stated in your recent Chicago speech." "We believe that you are the only man now available who can carry that platform into effect, and who, at the same time, has any chance of being elected. We should appreciate a statement from you with regard to the work we are doing." COL. BOOSEVELT'S REPLY. Cot. Roosevelt's reply, dated Orater Bay, Long Island, N. Y., May 11, reads: "Dear Mr. Emerson: I have your letter asking a statement from me as to the work of the Roosevelt Nonpartisan League. As you know, I have refused to indorse the use of my name in the primaries or in any way to enter into any factional content which has for its object my nomination in Chicago in June. "You also know that I have emphatically stated that it would be unwise to nominate me unless with the full understanding that such nomination means the hearty indorsement of the principles from which I stand—the principles set forth in the Chicago speech to which you refer. DOESN'T IMPROVISE CONVICTIONS. "I don't have to improvise my convictions on either Americanism or preparedness. I have fought for them all my life long, and when I was President, I translated my convictions concerning them into governmental policy. The events of the past two years in Europe and of the last four or five years in Mexico have brought into view raised the vital need of preparedness, and the standard review of the policies raised by in our policies has emphasized the need of strong institutions on the ground of Americanism within our country. THE GEM HAIR GOODS CO. 235 Duffield St., Brooklyn, N. Y. GEM SKIN WHITENER Before Using After Using The American would be learning of Spanish and French, and the American would be able to do so in any way possible. Our education would not be American not at American with a proper and qualified education; not as Irish- American, German-American, native American—but an American, pure and simple. "It is an avenge for a man to draw freedom politics into our contests and vote as an Irishman or German, or other foreigner. It is no less an outrage to discriminate against one who has become an American in good faith because of his creed or birthplace." I now say then is what I now say. VIEWS AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY. "Nineteen years ago, when I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, I said: 'Preparedness against war is the surest guarantee for peace. Cowardice in a race as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin, and, a wilful failure to prepare for danger may in its effects be as bad as cowardice. The tmid man who can not fight and the selfish, short-sighted or foolish man who will not take the steps that will enable him to fight, stand on almost the same plane, the world or can do any work, really worth doing unless it stands ready to guard its rights with an armed hand. ASKED FOR NEEDED ARGUMENT. "That orderly liberty which is both the foundation and the capstone of our civilization can be gained and kept only by men who are willing to fight for an ideal; who hold high the love of honor, love of faith, love of flag, and love of country, "We ask for an armament fit for the nation's needs, not primarily to fight, but to avert fighting as long as fighting can honorably be averted. Preparedness deters the foe, and maintains right by the show of ready might without the use of violence. "Peace, like freedom, is not a gift that terrifies long in the hands of cowards, or of those too feeble or too short-sighted to deserve it, and we ask to be given the means to insure that honorable peace which alone is worth having." PROPER ATTITUDE TO TAKE. "Your league emphasizes its devotion to these principles and supports me only as representing these principles. This is emphatically the proper attitude to take; and because this is your attitude, and because you are working in this spirit, I very earnestly approve your work. "The safety of the country depends upon our immediate, serious and vigorous effort to square our words with our deeds and to secure our own national rehabilitation. "The slumbering patriotism of our people must be waked and translated into concrete and efficient action. The awakening must be to a sense of national and international duty and responsibility. "We must do our duty to ourselves and to others and unless we fit ourselves to guard our own rights we shall be impotent to defend the rights of anyone else. INSISTS ALL BE LOTAL. "We must show that we have the rugged strength of character without which ease and luxury and material well-being represent nothing, but promise of national disaster. We must insist that every man in the land be loyal to the United States, and to no other nation on the globe; for we can tolerate no dividend allegiance. We must prepare ourselves to meet every crisis; and the preparedness must be industrial and social no less than military; it must be of the soul and the mind no less than the body. "Our present troubles with Mexico and Germany are the direct result of our utter failure to prepare and of our governmental policy of almost unbelievable timidity and vaccination. "A policy of vigorous preparedness and courteous but immediate insistence on our rights from the very beginning of the war, would, instead of being provocative, have prevented all chance of trouble. SEES CRIME AGAINST NATION "It is a crime against this nation and against mankind that there has been no such preparation. So far from gaining the respect of our opponents by our exhibition of weakness and timidity, we have drifted to the verge of war with them. Even if peace should now come in Europe it would nevertheless remain our highest duty to realize our own culpable shortcomings and enter on a course of far-reaching preparedness; preparedness in things military to free us from all danger of attack from without, and preparedness in matters social and industrial so as to make us really fit for the work of peace within our borders. "I am glad and proud, as an American, that you are fearlessly and efficiently backing these ideals." "Why do a children come the road?" "We read on dummy pages." And certainly an answer owed To all these questioning sagas. Perhaps she likes, as women do, To only play the traitor And so she crosses only to Double crosses it later. Now, some may greet these views with thumbs. And theories decide. They say she crosses 'cause she wants To reach the other side. Yet this enigma, you'll agree, From woman's nature draws Its answer, for it seems to me She crosses just 'because.' An Example. 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THE RICHMOND PLANET Phone, Randolph 2213 and ment In a dispute I claim the law of Ohio prohibits marriage between whites and Huguenots. Am I right? No. Ohio is one of the twenty-two states permitting such marriages. I understand that a colt from a jack and a mare is a mule colt. I saw in a newspaper an account of a hinny mule owned by a man at Quincy being the mother of two colts. (1) What are these two colts called? (2) Where does the mule originally come from? (1) The offspring of a mare and end which allow it to follow the direction of the wind. The union should lie in the upper corner next to the pole. The direction of the wind, of course, controls the direction of the stripes. What is meant by the "irrepressible conflict?" The phrase was applied to the conflict between slavery and freedom. What was done with the assassin of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria? Garvo Prinzip, the Bosnian student who actually slew the Archduke Fran 311 N. Fourth St. Our Query an Reply Department Was Robert E. Lee's military rank during the civil war higher than Grant's? Lee had the full rank of general; Grant, during the latter part of the war, that of lieutenant general, the highest rank at that time in the United States army. Please give details as to when and under whose administration, the United States paid a money indemnity for the killing of some Italians somewhere in the south. Six Italians were tried in New Orleans on a charge of murdering the chief of police. The jury failed to agree on the case of three of them, and the citizens, believing bribery had been reported to, broke into the New Orleans jail in March, 1801, and lynched all the Italians who had been detained in connection with the murder. Most of them were naturalized, but some still owed allegiance to the Italian government. The United States, through the state department and President Harrison, expressed its regret, but disavowed all responsibility for the crime, claiming it was a matter entirely under the control of the state of Louisiana. The Italian government demanded a national apology, the payment of an indemnity and the punishment of the lynchers. The United States government refused to comply, whereupon the Italian minister withdrew from Washington. War talk began to fill the air, and in order to show its good will the United States finally agreed to pay $25,000 to the families of the Italians who had been lynched. Abraham Lincoln seemed to have faith in prayer, and how was it that he never joined a church? During the war a friend asked Lincoln why he never joined the church, and he replied, "If there were such a church whose sole article of faith and rule of life was 'Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength." That shalt love thy neighbor as yourself; I would join it before night." The question is from Mark all: 29, 30, 31. Who discovered the south pole and moon? Sirius. David Austen, from Australia, Norway, was the guest to meet and see the moon to learn the details of the earth's life. How To Get One. Richmond, Virginia Tasmania (March 5, 1912), the news was reported that on Dec. 14, 1911, Captain Amundson, with four comrades, had discovered the pole and had remained there four days. Feb. 10, 1913, a wireless message brought the news that Captain Robert P. Scott, from London, and his four comrades had reached the south pole, but that all had perished. Scott's party reached the pole Jan. 20, 1912. Did W. J. Bryan, who secretary of state, enact a law or regulation by which five years or any other period of years must elapse after the naturalization before a foreign born citizen can travel abroad as a rightful American citizen? Can a secretary of state make such a law? The state department has no knowledge of any ruling similar to that referred to. 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No. Ohio is one of the twenty-two states permitting such marriages. I understand that a colt from a jack and a mare is a mule colt. I saw in a newspaper an account of a hanny mule owned by a man at Quincy being the mother of two colts. (1) What are these two colts called? (2) Where does this mule originally come from? (1) The offspring of a mare and a male donkey is called a mule, and mules are usually sterile. The offspring of a jenny donkey and a stallion is called a h牛y, and the female h牛y sometimes foxes, the colt being called a mule, which it generally resembles very closely. (2) The mule was known to the ancient Greeks and used by them for draft purposes, and it doublesless came from the country lying about the east end of the Mediterranean sea. What signifies the title "German emperor" The title "German emperor" derives its significance not from the fact that the constitution employs this term when referring to the kaiser, but from the character of the position which he was to take within the newly formed federation of German states. It was the outcome of a controversy between the kings of Prussia and Bavaria, finally settled by applying the term "German emperor" in the constitution, recognizing clearly the fundamental difference between the titles "German emperor" and "emperor of Germany." The sovereignty of the states of the German federation was not superceded by the union, but they retained it, although it became restricted as laid down in the German constitution. Thus the king of Prussia retained his sovereignty of his kingdom, and it is in this capacity that he is a member of the federal council, while as German emperor he is not, unless his relation to Alsace-Lorraine would be construed this way. The title "German emperor" does not imply any claim to the territories of the German states, which also have their own parliaments. The title "emperor of Germany" undoubtedly would imply the sovereignty of the German emperor over all German states, supereding the authority of the federal council, dissolving all national parliaments, even the Prussian diet, and replacing them by the imperial parliament or reichstag. There would be no longer a kingdom of Prussia, except as an administrative unit or a republic like Hamburg, and all the dynasties would be dethroned but the Habsburg sultans. Germany would become a single state under the leadership of the emperor of Germany. This would only be possible with the consent of all German states concerned. What is the proper way to hang the flag? The proper way to hang a flag from a flagpole is in halfyards, or rope, by which it may be mingled and bypassed. PACK EVEN End which allow it to follow the direction of the wind. The union should be in the upper corner next to the pole. The direction of the wind, of course, controls the direction of the stripes. What is meant by the "irrepressible conflict?" The phrase was applied to the conflict between slavery and freedom. What was done with the assassins of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria? Gavrio Prinzig, the Bohemian student who actually slew the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his morgansale wife while they were visiting Sarajevo, was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Three of the consiprators were put to death. Another was sentenced to imprisonment for life and another for twenty years. (1) What is low Dutch, and what is high Dutch? (2) Why do most Americans call Germans "Dutchmen" isn't it wrong? (3) Are there other kinds of Dutch besides Holland Dutch? (1) These terms used to be applied to the German language, but they have been replaced by "German" and "Low German" and have nothing to do with Holland. (2) Some Americans call Germans "Dutchmen" because they know no better, but the error can be traced to the resemblance of the word Dutch to the German word for "German," which is "Deutsch." Many years ago all Germanic peoples were called Dutchmen, but now the name is applied only to Hollanders, and its application to Germans is reentled by both Dutchmen and Germans. (3) No. Can you tell me what was the popular vote of Wilson, Roosevelt and Taft in the last presidential election? Wilson, 6,203,019; Boosevelt, 4,110, 507; Taft, 3,484,058. How large is the Carnegie hero fund, and how is it administered or distributed? The fund as established by its founder consists of $5,000,000 of first collateral 5 per cent bonds of the United States Steel corporation. The trust was placed in the hands of a commission, "to place those following peaceful vocations who have been injured in heroic efforts to save human life in somewhat better positions peculiarly than before until again able to work; in case of death the widow and children or other dependents to be provided for. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroes as the commission thinks advisable, each case to be judged on its merit." No part of the fund goes to reward acts of heroism in war or for anything except efforts to save human life. The constitutional provision creating the fund provides that a medal shall be given, to the hero or widow or near of him, which shall recite the dood it commemorates, that descendants may know and be proof of their descent. The medal shall be given for the hero act, even if the dood be unfit, and also a sum of money should the commission deem such gift desirable. ```markdown ``` A CHICAGO PUBLISHING HOUSE DRAWS THE COLOR-LINE COLLIERS NOT ALONE—FRANCIS H. WARREN EXPOSURE Detroit, Mich., May 5, 1916. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir—I send herewith an exact copy of a letter I received from the publishing house of W. H. Wise, Chicago, which I thought might prove of interest to you. Fourth truly, Francis H. Warren. THE REAL AMERICA IN ROMANCE William H. Wise & Co. Publishers 5 SOUTH WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. March second, Nineteen Sixteen. Mrs. F. Coatesworth, 46 Watson St. Detroit, Michigan. My dear Mrs. Coatesworth: Our report on your subscriber, Mr. Francis H. Warren, is most unaffi- factory. The reporting bureau states that this man is colored, and I am wondering whether our report can be a mistake. The address for both the office and residence is the same as you say on the order; but you said nothing about Mr. Warren's being a colored man. On the contrary, you said he was related to the family of D. M. Ferry. Is this the big seed and grain man? Of course you know we never, take orders from colored people; and we would not ship the books, if we knew the subscriber was colored, no matter how favorable the credit report might be. Please let us have your reply by return mail, so that we can make final disposition of this matter. KILLS THE MAN WHO GAMBLED HER SAVINGS. Young Woman Fire and Then Tries to Commit Suicide. Bridgeport, May 12.—Stung by her husband's tabulae that he never wanted to see her again, and angered because he had gambled away most of the $1,000 they had gotten by selling their home, twenty-two-year-old Mrs. Mary Papp went to the factory where he worked and shot him dead as he stood at his machine. Tears streaming down her face, the young wife then put the muzzle of the revolver to her head and pulled the trigger. But, a foreman seized her hand just in time to spoil her aim, and the bullet went wild. When the revolver, was wrested from her, the young woman broke down and went into hysteria. "I want to die! I want to die!" she哭ed. "He is the only one in the world I have ever loved, and I want to go with him!" Mr. and Mrs. Papp came here four weeks ago from Welland, Canada. They had been married five years, and by Mrs. Papp's saving habits they had been able to buy a home of their own. Before they came to Bridgeport Papp sold their home and received $1,000 in cash for it. MET FAST YOUTHS. Immediately after they reached Bridgeport the husband became acquainted with a number of fast young men of that city and soon was spending money recklessly. Seeing that their money was going very quickly, the wife went to work at the Bridgeport Metal Goods Company's factory No. 3, on Pine and Cherry streets. A few days later she asked her husband to come to work in the factory and he obtained a position at a machine in the same department where she worked. The revolver with which Mrs. Papp shot her husband was purchased for her by a fitty driver, whom she asked to take her to a place where revolvers could be bought. Before the shooting she visited the girls in her department and asked them all to remember that she "had always been and would always be a friend of theirs." Coroner John J. Phelan's inquest will be continued today. Mrs. Papp was not heard, because she had no lawyers. Several witnesses testified. As she wept in the Coroner's Office, Mrs. Papp was interviewed by the Evening Journal correspondent. "I WAS CRAZED." mentment. "Your age isimmee our only child lost its life in a fire. I never get over that. But I was happy because we were to have another baby. Nick didn't seem to be with him all the time. I am him with a beautiful woman. But we wouldn't stay. He loved his cards more than he loved me—and the baby was to come. "I finally decided to end it all, to kill Nick and to kill myself. I loved him so that I wanted to be where he was. Oh, why didn't I kill myself. And I would have done so if that man hadn't grabbed my arm. I want to go, with Nick. I loved him. I must have been crazy to have killed him. Poor Nick." HID PISTOL UNDER COAT. Mrs. Papp, the revolver hidden in a long coat she wore, went to the factory, and she went right to her husband's bench. "Nick, she said, 'let's go back to our old home in Canada.' This was heard by nearly everybody in the room. They dropped their work to listen and watch. The conversation that followed is described this by Mrs. Papp, in a statement made to the police later: "asked him if he wanted me with him or not." she said. "He only looked at me. Then I said. Nick, don't throw me over, for I love you. He just answered: 'I'll fix you when I get you home at dinner time.'" Mrs. Papp fired once, the bullet penetrating the right side of Papp's neck just below his jaw bone passing through the vertebral column and lodging just beneath the skin on the left side of his neck. Papp slumped down in his chair. As Mrs. Papp did, not know how to work a self-cocking revolver, and had to turn the cylinder with one hand while she cocked the revolver with the other, a minute or less clapped before she could fire the second shot. It penetrated the right side of his face and entered the brain. In her distraction Mrs. Papp then turned the revolver upon herself, and in the struggle for the weapon, which was wrested from her by Foreman Dukki, one shot was fired. "I want to die!" He was the only one I love!" she shouted an she was overpowered. WOMAN TESTIFIES Mrs Joseph Troll, of No. 93 Orlalt street, inspector in the factory, testified before Coroner Pheland that she and her husband are well acquainted with Mrs Papp and her late husband. They spent much time together since the Papps came here four weeks ago. Mrs Troll said that Mrs Papp was always brooding over the loss of her only child, which was burned to death in Kunasla City, Kansas, one year ago. She complained to Mrs Troll, the woman testified, that frequently of late her husband had shown her lack of attention and was away from home much at night. He also was drinking to excess, she said, and was always gambling. "Only last night." Mrs Papp told Mrs Troll. "I had a bad dream. I was aroused from my sleep; dressed myself and went in search of Nick. I found him in a saloon on Bostwick avenue. He told me he had lost $150 during the evening. That brought our bank account of $1000 down to $100." Asked by the Coroner why the woman was melancholy, Mrs. Troll said that the death, of the infant in Kansas City a year ago was the chief cause, but she also volunteered the opinion that Mrs. Papp was soon to become a mother. She said that the accused had never complained of rough treatment; that he had never struck her or even harah language in talking to her. SAW DEACON KISS, 2 PEEPERS SAY. Detectives Tell of Watching Sunday School Teacher Through a Keyhole. Ellisa G. Guild, superintendent of the United States Guarantee Company, at 111 Broadway, who lives at 38 West 129th street and in deacon and Sunday school teacher in the Mount Morris Baptist Church, was sued in the Supreme Court yesterday for divorce by Mrs. Clara T. Guild. She names an correspondent Mrs. Sarah T. Hattle, her husband's secretary and Sunday school pupil. One of the allegations is that while Mrs. Guild was out of the city Mrs. Hattle was with Mr. Guild a great part of the time and even sat with him in his pew in the Mount Morris Church. Both the defendant and the correspondent deny there has been anything in their relations to which Mrs. Gull could take objection and both are stoutly defended by their friends in the church. Allegations to the contrary are made in affidavits filed yesterday on an application by Mrs. Guild for alimony. Detectives employed by Mrs. Guild say they peeked through the keyhole of Mrs. Hastie's apartment and saw the defendant kis his secretary and heard him call her "dear." Mrs. Hastie occupies an apartment above that of the defendant. Accusations against her are also made by males formerly employed by her when she lived at 154 Garfield place. Brooklyn, and was secretary to Carl Schurz Petruch, attorney for the guarantee company. Detectives George C. McDonald and Chester Peabody tell of shadowing the deacon and Mrs. Hastie on Mrs. Guild's instructions after she learned that they were having lunch together frequently. They say they saw the defendant and correspondent talking together at Liberty street and Broadway and when they parted they kissed. In telling of an alleged conversation he heard on March 18 last while listening at the door of Mrs. Hastie's apartment Detective Peabody said: "The defendant said he was much worried over something and Mrs. Hastie replied, 'Don't worry! Am I not your self?' To this the defendant replied, 'Doeer, doeer, bleed her.' "We went into the apartment and found Mrs. Huntle partially unconscious. The defendant had removed his coat, vest and shoes. When he saw us he ordered xz out of the apartment. Thanking to call the police, Mr. Bald said for $400 a month alimony and $600 command fees on the ground that her husband receives more than $350 a month and has several bank accounts...N. Y. Sun. Rev. H. N. J. Neter, D. D., of Newport, R. L., called at the office last Monday. He spent last Sunday in the city and preached at the First Baptist Church, in the morning. Rev. Johnson, pastor. He attended the Baptist General Association and the Virginia State Convention, held last week in Norfolk, Va. Dr. Jeter spoke to both bodies on his great mission. He is going from state to state and city to city endeavoring to enlist the sympathy and interest of the ministers and laymen, so as to organize an association to be known as the Pastor's and Laymen's Great Humane and Reform Movement, for the purpose of saving and getting employment for the thousands of our young men and women who have migrated to the large cities and are waiting their lives in idleness and sin, causing undue prejudice against that portion of the race, who are making the best of life. Dr. Jeter declares that if something is not done to save that class of the race they will destroy us. Dr. Jeter spoke in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. May 1. That large conference of ministers of both races unanimously endorsed his reform movement. Rt. Rev. Philip N. Rhinelander, of Pennsylvania, and also President W. H. P. Faurm, of Brown University, Providence, R. I. have safely endorsed the movement and will do all in their power to help us better the condition of that portion of the race. Dr. Jeter, with his brother ministers and laymen, are organizing to join hands with the National League and other organizations who have the welfare of the race at heart. The ministers have organized in Baltimore, Md., and many other cities that Dr. Jeter has gone and brought the matter before them, are considering the question and will organize. The Baptist General Association Dr. Z. D. Lewis, president, unanimously endorsed the movement and many of the pastors promised Dr. Jeter to organize in their sections when they returned home. This truly is one of the most important humane movements, and we believe all men and women of the world are all men and women of the same cause and do what they can for this cause. LEESBURG, VA. ITEMS. Leicestburg, Va.—The marriage of Miss Mary B. Helms to Mr. Harry Washington, of Washington, D. C. May 10, was a grand affair. The bride was dressed in white chiffon, trimmed with lace, carrying a beautiful bunch of roses, and looking as sweet peach. As Dr. Tyler didn't get the notice in time, Rev. J. E. Dotson officiated, and don't you say he didn't tie that knot! Quite a number of guests were present. The presents were numerous. The delicacies of the occasion were in abundance. The guests were invited to the reception in Washington, July 17th, when he will be twenty-four years old. Owing to the strike on the railroad, they didn't leave for home until Saturday; thence by way of the Point of Rocks. We wish them a successful life. The lecture given at M. E. Church Friday night, by Rev. H. W. Colston, was a failure, owing to the people falling to turn out. Rev. Dr. Tylier was at his post of duty. As he mounted the stand with our Brother Lane Daw, after hymn 703. "I Wanted For The Lord" etc., he proceeded to preach from the subject, "Discouragement." Let Dent. 21:28, to a good audience. At 8 o'clock the church was packed to its uttermost capacity, a good measure from the of the Odd Fellows, taken from Romans, "The Power of Union." At these services a good collection was raised. The Young Women's Christian Association acknowledges the kindness of Mr. W. I. Hopkins, The Treble Clerk Club, and Mr. Theodore Jones for services in turn at the Sunday vesper hour. Each afternoon, in its own way, proved attractive to large and enthustastic audiences. The association will hereafter be known as the Phyllis Wheatley Branch, a name which places us in line with other branches, and one which is representative and more distinctive than the former title. The Financial Committee, Mrs. Bette Thomas chairman, held a called meeting on Saturday evening. There was a full attendance and plans were made which places the association on a business basis identical with that of other associations. This is a strong committee, and much will appear from time to time to prove the worth of business women in this capacity. The Social Committee, under the directions of Mrs. Matilda Mimma, chairman, surprised us at weper on Sunday last, with a delightful service of tea. This is an ideal committee. The regular monthly meeting on Monday was highly enjoyable. The promptness and dispatch of business according to the newly adopted order, war satisfactory. The New Membership Committee reported thirty-five new members. These women are earnest church workers and are especially desirable because of this fact. Look out for the date of six lectures on the departments of the work. These lectures will be given by trained workers and will be free to all women. The Bible study class increases in membership and in interest. We are planning for meetings of this class during the summer. The cooking class closes this week. Several members will receive certification. The Girl' Club has some members who make regular use of the library. We hope to see this number increased. A Young Chiropodist Making Good—Dr. William J. Carter Succeeding In Profession—A Young West Indian Returns From Pleasant Trip to His Home—A Brilliant Young Physician—R. T. Browne Speaks Before National Missionary Congress—As Results of Speech Missionary Congress Adopts Plans for Colored Work—Dr. R. E. Jones Big Figure at A. M. E. General Conference. (Allon's National News) Bureau 321 West 59th St. New York City. May 15, 1916.—A young chilopod of this city who is making good in his field is Dr. William J. Carter, of 167 West 136th Street. Dr. Carter is among the youngest men in his line in this city, and is rapidly coming to the fore in his line. He graduated from Dr. Lee Feder's School of Chirropody in 1910 with a good record, and in 1911 passed the New York Board and immediately began practice. He opened an office on Lenox Avenue, but to meet the growing demand of his profession he moved to the above address in West 136th Street. Dr. Carter is versed in all branches of his work, and is building up a fine practice. Before taking up his present work. Dr. Carter was employed in the office of one of the largest concerns in this city, where he remained for fourteen years. He began an office boy and was promoted to the position of assistant mailing clerk. During his spare moments he took a commercial course in the Dewitte Clinton Evening High School and became proficient in stenography and, typewriting. Dr. Carter was born in Camden, S. C. His father was the principal of the public school of that city. Dr. Carter is one of the progressive young men of the city. YOUNG WEST INDIAN BACK FROM TRIP HOME. S. Percy Thomas, one of the progressive young West Indians in this city has returned from a five months visit to his home, St. George, Grusade, West Indies. Mr. Thomas, who went down to look after matter in connection with his estate is loud in his praise of the progress that is being made in that section by members of the race. He said that the black people, practically controlled the affairs of the Island and were represented in every profession and business. In speaking of St. George he said that there were 4,000 people, and that it was one of the most enterprising of the Island. The principle industries, he said, was cocos, spices and tag wood. Mr. Thomas will enter the produce business in the near future. He married Miss Eva Thomas, one of the brightest graduates from a New York High School. A BRILLIANT YOUNG PHYSICIAN One of the most progressive and brilliant of the younger physicians of this city and one who is destined to take a high place in the field of medicine, in Dr. Godfrey Nurse, whose office is at 234 West 124th Street. Dr. Nurse is among the youngest physicians practicing in this city, and is rated today as one of the best prepared men in the profession. Shortly after his graduation from Long Island and College Hospital in 1914, he passed the New York state board with an average of 90 per cent, and immediately started practice here. He has built up a large practice which numbers patients among races, and one that would do justice to older men in the profession. Before beginning practicing here he was offered an internship at the Provident Hospital in Chicago. The practice Dr. Nurse has built up is due to the excellent preparation he has received for his life's work. This readily manifests itself on a visit to his office. Your correspondent visited the office of the young physician last week and found one of the most thoroughly equipped offices for the practice of medicine and surgery to be found in the city. Your correspondent saw the latest and most sanitary medical instruments, a feature of his office furniture is a vitreous china wash basin, which operates by means of the feet, and which has been designed wholly to save time and sanitation. The office of Dr. Nurse is a mode) of neatness, and is especially attractive and inviting. He is active in all movements connected with racial advancement, and during the Health Week campaign he served as chairman and speaker at two, of the largest meetings held in the interest of the movement. The young doctor was in British Guiana, and is a graduate of Queen's College of that colony. While in college he won one of the valued prize awarded to students of that institution for excellence in English. Dr. Nurse is a young man of fine personality and in his affable manner is winning for him many friends. The place this young man is making for himself in the medical life of the city, should serve as an inspiration to others throughout the race who contemplate entering the profession. R. T. BROWN STEAKS BEFORE MISSIONARY CONGRESS. One of the stirring addresses delivered before the National Missionary Congress, which held its session in Continental Hall, Washington, D.C. from April 26th to 30th, was the one delivered by R. T. Browne, one of the six colored delegates in attendance at the convention. Mr. Brown urged the convention to adopt a plank in its platform that would extend its work to the colored constituency of the nation. Mr. Brown improved upon the convention's need of ministerial spirit and endeavor among the colored section of the country and that the convention could do no further than to adopt a plank willing for this program. As a result of the impetus a plank was adopted at the convention on Sunday evening before the next Mr. Brown told your correspondent that he was glad to have been present at the convention and to have gotten the insight as to what is being done for the upift of the world, and that he will speak to the men of the race on the importance of asking themselves with the work of the world. Mr. Brown is one of the most progressive men in the race and is an active worker at S. Mark's M. R. Church. He organized the brotherhood of the church which numbers a membership of 200 men, and which is one of the strongest auxiliaries of the church. Dr. R. E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, and one of the strongest forces in Methodism is one of the noted figures at the general conference of the M. E. Church in season at Saratoga. Dr. Jones is being spoken of as an available candidate for the blaspheric and has received the indorsement of the one hundred colored delegates in attendance at the conference. Dr. Jones' able work in his connection with the editorship of the Southwestern Advocate had brought him prominently before Nathodism and he has always stood for the best church legislation. He is uncompromising in his stand for the square thing for the race, and should he be so honored by elevation to the board of blishes he will represent the race to the best possible interest. The colored delegation is making a fine impression at the conference and are taking keen interest in the proceedings. Among the well-known delegates of the race who have received more than passing notice at the conference are Rev. D. C. Lacey, superintendent of the Texas conference; Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church; Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, of Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. I. G. Garland Penn, Rev. I. L. Thomas, Bishop I. B. Scott, and Miss Edith Cooper. Your correspondent will give a more comprehensive report of the work of the colored delegates at the conference in a future issue. CREYELAND G. ALLEN Editor John Mitchell Acquitted. The editor of the "Richmond Planet" and president of the Mechanics Savings Bank of Richmond, Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. who was arrested while exercising the privileges of a newspaper man on last Saturday night, was acquitted at a hearing in the Police Court before Judge Jno. J. Crutchfield on Wednesday morning of this week. The officer had been on the force less than a month according to reports and failed to substantiate his charge before and in the mind of the court and was not vindicated. Richmond, perhaps, has no better colored citizen than Editor John Mitchell. He was at the time investigating an accident in which a man was killed, when officer Settles made the arrest. The officer has learned one lesson at least and will be more cautious hereafter--Richmond (Va.) Reformer. HUSBAND WANTED...By a promising, refined and well-educated widow living in a city near the seashore. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 4th day of May, 1916. J. A. Lewis. Plaintiff. Against Junius L. Lewis. Rebecca S. Lewis, Sadio V. Lewis, Naomi Lavinia Lewis, an infant, William H. Lewis, Jr., and William H. Lester, advocates William H. Lewis, Sr. . . Defendants The object of this suit is to have partition made if it can be conveniently done in kind under any of the modes prescribed by law, and if not, have the land, of which Lavinia B. Lewis is buried, possessed sold and the proceeds divided among those entitled thereto, said land be described as follows: Fronting on the East side of Pare Street, twenty-five (25) feet between Lowndes and Accomodation Streets, extending back Eastward toward Buchanan Street, between parallel lines seventy (70) feet, known as number twelve hundred twenty-five Page Street, in the City of Richmond, Virginia. An affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant William H. Lewis, Jr., is not a resident of the City of Richmond, Virginia, it is ordered that the said William H. Lewis, Jr., appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. OILES B. JACKSON, p. q. In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 16th day of May, 1816. The object of this suit is to obtain a Divorce from the Beads of Marriage, by the Plaintiff from the Defendant upon the ground of Desertion. And an adduit having been made and filed that the Defendant John Sludge is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that said Defendant John Sludge do appear here within Fifteen days after the due publication of this Order and do what may be necessary to protect his title and herdey. A Court—Tuesday: LUTHER LINDSY OWEN. 2. HENRY COPPERPILLAR, p. 6. Office 1858 St. Bernard St. Reginaville Va. 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