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NET VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 30 TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT A BRILLIANT AFFAIR. The Institution Celebrates Its Twenty Eighth Anniversary. Lynchburg, Va., Juno 5.—Virginia Theological Seminary and College came to its final Tuesday, May 30th at which time its Commonwealth Exercises were held. The final began Friday, May 28 with Class Day Exercises when students finishing from the Normal Department made their final appearance in strong orations. The address to the class on this occasion was made by the Rev. W. D. Woods, D. D., of Roanoke, Va. He addressed the class from the subject, "Particular Demands of the Present Day Life." The address was a strong and appealing one. Sunday, May 28, at 11 A. M., the Raccaureate Services were held at the Court Street Baptist Church. The sermon was preached by the Rev. T. J. King, D. D., pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. His text was taken from the first Corinthians, thirteenth chapter. He used as his subject, "The Lore of Love and the Philosophy of Life." This was a strong and great sermon, charged with great truths and wholesome advice. Dr. King thrilled his audience. Monday, May 29, the Alumni Meetings were held, when a large number of graduates of the institution from different sections of the country, assembled in reunion for the day. As a feature of those exercises an enlarged picture of the late Dr. R. H. Bowling, former president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention and a life long friend of the institution was unveiled and also a picture of Dr. W. F. Graham of Philadelphia, who has been a member of the Trustee Board of the institution for twenty-six years and who for twelve years was its honored chairman and who now is one of the great living exponents of the doctrine of this institution, was presented to institution. These pictures are to be hung in the Chapel. Dr. A. A. Galvin, of Danville, Va., president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, made the presentation speech. The pictures were received by the president for the institution. On May 30, the final proper were held in College Chapel. There were 31 graduates from all departments, three taking B. Th. degree from the Theological Department. A notable feature of the class, this year, is that both of the honors went to young ladies. Miss Beulah Tyrrell finished as Valodictorian of the class, whose oration was delivered in Greek, and Miss Lou E. Hubbard, as Salutatorian, whose oration was in Latin. The address to the Class was made by the Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, D. D., LL: D. of Washington, D. C., the president of the New England Baptist Convention and a Trustee of the institution and who has been a loyal supporter of the institution throughout its history. Dr. Johnson spoke from the subject, "The Essentials For A Successful Life." Dr. Johnson appeared at his best and with an address teeming with information, sound advice, left a lasting impression upon the convictions of the class addressed and his audience. The institution celebrated, also, its twenty-eighth anniversary, being founded May 1888, this brought to a close one of the most hopeful years as well as one of the most successful years in the history of the institution. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson gave the institution a part of his library, valued at $600.00, to perpetuate an archive to be named for him. The library of the late Dr. W. H. Phillips of Philadelphia was presented to the institution by his widow. There were many prizes and medals awarded. Mr. D. B. Ryland, president of the D. B. Ryland Jewelry Company presented a gold medal; the Union Congregational Church Choir of Palmerville, Ohio, presented three gold medals; Mrs. L. D. C. Bruce, the Lady Principal, presented three medals; Desoon A. Humbles presented ten prizes. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon the Rev. D. H. Chamberlayne, of Kilmarnock, Va., and the Rev. F. M. Hedgeman of Philadelphia. The degrees were conferred by Dean Bernard Tyrrell. Do You Know Him? I desire to know the whetabouts of Carter Bray who was born in New Kent County. When last heard from, one year ago, he was working in New York. Any information concerning his present location will be thankfully received. He left Richmond three years ago with a contractor named John Brugner. His mother, MRS. MARY L. BRAY. 1897 W. Moore St. Richmond, Va. BUTLER—NEAL Mrs. Agnes Neal announces the marriage of her daughter, Sarah C Neal, to Mr. Eddie Butler, Wednesday, June 28, 1916, at 8:30 o'clock P. M., at the residence, 1201 W. Leigh Street. Friends are invited. No cards. BARBEE-KING Mr. and Mrs. I. L. King announces the approaching marriage of their daughter. Berthel Ommine to Mr. Atlas Elan Burbee, Thursday evening 22nd, 1916, eight-thirty o'clock, at the First Baptist Church, South Richmond, Va. Friends invited. No cards. In Memoriam. Sacred to the memory of our beloved father, Capt. John Booker, who departed this life June 10th, 1894—twenty-two years ago. Peace be to his ashes. Theo' the world is full of trouble; Hearts are overwhelmed with fears. There's a place without a sorrow or a care; There's no room for any sorrow. There's no place for mourner's tears. In the mansion God is building over there. In Memoriam. In sad but loving memory of my dear wife, Mary E. Lacy, niece Mooby, who departed this life, June 5, 1915. Dear is the grave in which she is laid. Sweet is the memory which never will fade; Heart of my life is buried deep Under the sod where she peacefully sleeps. Her devoted husband. THOMAS H. LACY. In Memoriam. Sacred to the memory of my darling husband, Dr. Ira E. Nash, who fell asleep two years ago—June 7, 1914. Not now, but in the coming year It may be in some better land. I’ll read the meaning of each tear And then, sometime I’ll understand. BERESENIA BROWN NASH. Y. W. C. A. The second address on the work of the Young Women's Christian Association was delivered Tuesday evening of this week. Miss Smith chose "Committee Work" as the subject of this address. Every woman present will be better fitted for Association work hereafter. The time given for questions is well filled and each question shows an intelligent interest in the work. The regular Board meeting is held on the Friday evening preceding the second Monday, which is the business meeting day. Mrs. B. L. Dixon, of the American Humane and Education Society, was the speaker at. Vespers. June fourth. Mrs. Dixon is a pleasing speaker, as the attention of her audience testified. Notice is now given that during the summer months, Vesper service will be held from six to seven o'clock on Sunday, and the Bible Study class will meet each Friday evening, from eight to eight forty-five. The later hours are adopted for the comfort and convenience of our women. The librarian of the Girl's Club holds library. hour from five-thirty to six-thirty every Friday afternoon. There are seventeen young women in the home at present. The officers of Excoelor Bible Class of Fifth Street, Baptist, Sunday School were installed Thursday night June 1, by Supt. R. M. Fountieroy. The exercises were held at the residence of the teacher, Mr. Matthew Doyle, in St. John Street. Redarks were made by Rev. John O. Cook and Renee C. Mitchell. Others partieding on the program were, Mrs. Gortreus-Davin, Mimi Madrid-Johnson, Mimi Rahouen, Toryell, Mr. Jake K. Mills. Clearing remarks were by Mr. Doyle. Refreshments were served by the Minnie Doyle. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1916 The colored people of Richmond will take an active part in the movement to assist in raising the Bloomer T. Washington Memorial Fund of $2,500,000, if the action taken at Johnson's Hall last Wednesday night means anything. A permanent organization was effected after several previous meetings of the temporary organization. W. Isaac Johnson was elected President, James W. Poe, Secretary; Mr. Carruthers, Assistant Secretary, and John Mitchell, Jr., Treasurer. An executive committee was also chosen. A public meeting will be called and the citizens will be given an opportunity to express themselves with reference to the matter. H. H. Price was chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization. In accepting the position, President Johnson expressed regret that he had been chosen, but war of the opinion that it was big duty to do all in his power to make the movement a success. Other addresses were made, after which the body adjourned. Charles H. Gibson Graduates As Val collectorian in a Class of 138 at Tuskegee Institute, Ala. --- I was especially fortunate in being among the many who were at the exercises held at Tuskegee Institute Alabama, during the last week in May. There being so many who were to soon go out as graduates, I began to ascertain a little of the previous records of a few. The valuatorian and valedictorian had both been shown to me, and I immediately became interested in them, and the past. I found out, that the valedictorian was a Tuskegee boy—son of of Mr. Charles H. Gibson; graduate of Hampton, and for many years Resident Auditor at Tuskegee. Mrs. Gibson was a Miss Maggie Chiles, of your city, a former school teacher in Richmond. The boy, Charles H. Gibson, Jr., was born in Georgia in 1899. At five years he began kindergarten which he attended one term. As so many parents sent their young one to regular school the kindergarten was discontinued. Young Gibson was kept at home for the next term though his chums were at school. At seven he entered day school, and was put in the chart class. In a few days the teacher transferred him to the first grade, where he found that he was right with those with whom he began kindergarten. After a few weeks the teacher was anxious to adance to second grade, but his parents did not care to push him. From then until his graduation he did well. He held many responsible position- Captain of the boys at the Children's House, assistant and cashier of their bank, and for many years he has been engaged by their Principal as gate keeper at the annual bazaar, when he handled all gate receipts faithfully, and correctly reported all moneys. When he left this school to enter the Booker Washington school, (industrial department), he received money for two prizes - Gardening and Carpentry. Four years were spent at the last named school—in the third one he finished carpentry and received his certificate. He also won a twenty-five dollar dictionary for best theme on a subject given, and ten dollars for having made the highest record in Middle A class. His senior record was what sucked me most forcibly—he made the highest record out of 138, as well as the highest for the four years at the Normal or Tuskegee Institute. He was Captain of Company "G" Inst. Battalion, when he was graduated in May. Out of many original poems which were submitted for class night, Gibson's was selected as best, and he recited it well. In it, he referred to the various teachers and their subjects in a humorous manner, as only students can, and to the food as "George," which each understood, and which provoked laughter. But that is not all. Several pupils wrote themes on "Peace" subjects. Believing that he could write, Gibson selected "War's Aftermath," and won the prize—twenty dollars in gold. His validictory subject. "Training of a Country Boy, for Life." was fine, and well delivered. Now, at the age of seventeen, almost, Gibson has done all which his fond parents had wished. Who knows what his future may bring forth? Here is a boy who was raised in a town where many are no good, but he has grit; and back bone to show what home-training and good manners and studiousness would do for any boy, and to-day I have heard only good words said of his life. No de merits nor condition did he receive during his school life. May he continue as he has begun and may some unseen door open to enable him to carry out his intent career in making himself felt in his chosen line. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET The Colored People Are Recognized. The Centennial Thrift Campaign of the American Bankers' Association is assuming many moth proportions throughout the country. The plans are the most complete of the kind ever launched in this country. The Association's headquarters at 5 Nassau Street, New York, will be the source of much interest and energy for some time to come. John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, who has been named as Chairman of a special Committee for the conducting of the thrift campaign among the colored people of the country, has been busy recommending prominent colored citizens throughout the country to the officers of the great financial organization to assist in this movement. Secretary M. W. Harrison has demonstrated his ability to handle the campaign and is now engaged in actively directing this nation-wide movement for the cultivation of the spirit of thrift throughout the country. President Mitchell is much pleased with the interest being taken by colored people and is assured of the success of the movement. Further information will appear in these columns. Schools, churches, lodge organizations, clubs, business concerns, in fact every branch of legitimate endeavor among both the white and colored people of the country, will be solicited to join in the movement. BROOKMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY ENDORSES $250,000 CAMPANION. The great humanitarian and philanthropic effort that is being put forth by memorial hospitals to raise the sum of $250,000 for the purpose of erecting a Negro hospital, a contagious hospital, a Nurses home and sufficient endowment to property care for these additions, is meeting with enthusiastic support and enforcement from all classes in the city of Richmond. At a recent meeting of the Richmond Medical Society (colored) held at 533 North Second Street, the following resolutions were adopted: "The Richmond Medical Society in special session assembled to consider the Memorial Hospital campaign for funds to erect and maintain new buildings, after full discussion and consideration, voted to indorse the movement and to have a special committee prepare and submit to the Board of Directors of Memorial Hospital and to the Campaign Managers the following resolutions: "Whereas, It comes to the knowledge of the Richmond Medical Society that there is an organized movement to secure for the community of Richmond larger and better hospital facilities; "And whereas, The Richmond Medical Society realizes and feels the need of greater hospital opportunities for the care of patients and for the progress of the profession in modern medicine and surgery; "And whereas, This movement and campaign will provide a new Negro Hospital, a special department in the Contagious Hospital for Negroos, a Training School for Colored Nurses, and an Endowment fund to aid the maintenance of the hospital, all of which will render great good and much needed advantages to the medical and nursing professions and to the colored people of this section: "And whereas, The Richmond Medical Society has the hope and the confidence that these new, modern and adequate provisions for the better care and treatment of patients will afford the members of the colored profession the opportunities to become more efficient in their services to their patients; Therefore, Be it Resolved, That we, the Richmond Medical Society, do heartily Indorse this movement and express appreciation and commendation for the efforts of friends and philanthropists to provide for the city of Richmond hospital accommodations, which will meet a very great and urgent demand; "And Be it Resolved Further, That a special committee of the Richmond Medical Society present these resolutions in person to the proper authorities, as further evidence of good faith and as a pledge of co-operation." Respectfully submitted. The Richmond Medical Society—Per: Wm. Hughes, Chairman of Committee; J. M. Newman, President R. M. S.; J. H. Blackwell, Jr., Secretary R. M. S.; R. Moore C. Brown, Secretary of Committee. The above mentioned presented the resolutions, in person, to the authorities of the Memorial Hospital and to the Campaign Managers at their headquarters, 521 East Main Street. We sold $77,890 worth of property in the last six weeks. Anything to sell or rent? See us now. Money to loan in any amount. BRADG BROS. & CO. "ENCOURAGEMENT." Arouse! Awake! ye sleepers. Quicken your step! ye creepers. The morning is laden with gold, And days dawning as of old; Demand whatever it may hold; Knowest what it may unfold? Ere the Sun descends the Heaven And the recompense be given To the thriftiest and the wise. Set thy work before thine eye, Compete with others for the prize; Thou, too, canst win; no one defies. —Bronx, Dayawrereen, Chauvier IDEAL SOCIETY NEWS There will be an ideal Lawn Social given at 210 E. Clay Street, beginning Monday night, June 12th, and ending Friday night, June 16th, from S to 11 o'clock. The law will be beautifully decorated. Refreshments in abundance. Come and spend an evening of pleasure. The new lodge organized Friday night May 26th, in this city, known as Rose Hill Lodge, is destined to be a strong one, and will add much strength to the Order. This is the work of Mrs. Emily S. Hill; same was organized by Supreme Master, Mrs. Rosa Thompson, and Mr. T. L. Heverly. A Nursery of twenty-five beautiful children was organized the same afternoon, known as Sunbeam Nursery. The club was organized by Mrs. Mildred S. Payne, assisted by Mrs. I. E. Charity. A reception was tended. Saturday evening, May 27th, there was organized in Hanover County a lodge, known as Chickakahoming. The Supreme Master was assisted in the organization by Mrs. Lucinda Carter and Mr. Edward Garter. The anniversary of the Ideal Nursery Department, of Richmond District, at First Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon, May 29th. It was a grand success. There were a large number of children out, and they redeemed a most excellent program. Mrs Rosa Thompson, the principal speaker of the day, electrified the audience with a very timely address. Short spellies were also made by Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes, Director Dr. W. T. Johnson, M. S. R. Johnson, Miss Able Bell, Director Juo, S. Powell, and Mrs E. L. Dixon. RECKLESS INJUICEMEN ARE ON THE INCREASE. --- [Philadelphia (Pa.) Tribune] In primitive conditions of society people resort to all sorts of make shift to protect themselves and property from the murderous or thieving designs of the criminal and vicious members, the watchdog being among the most common and effective. In wild and savage and isolated communities we have been surprised at the number of dogs in the village or district that we have visited in the Philippine Islands, in China, and in our own country, but wherever the dog dominates as the guardian of the life and property of his master there are always few policemen or constables to be found. The watch dog has no patience with trespassers and pilfers, and expects and gives no quarter. In large centers of population, however, policemen and constables take the place of the watch dog, and are often more unreasoning, brutal and insolent towards the public than watch dogs. This is notably the case in their approach and treatment of Afgo-American citizens—whether they be in the criminal, the suspect or the innocent and respectable class—they all look alike and are treated alike, the matter depending entirely upon the humor the police officer may be, pr drunk or sober. And the disgrace and grievance of it is not confined to the Southern 'States and cities, but prevails after fashion, all over the country. Just now the Richmond Plains is waging war on such rockless police conduct, a policeman having recently shot to death a colored man who was unarmed and without provocation to justify such rockless and extreme an act. The man was not armed, and it has not been shown that he offers resistance that made the officer feel that his own life was in danger. The Richmond Planet bravely characterized the act of the politician as cold-blooded, infamous and intolerable. In New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington the police are fearfully rockless and inadvent in dealing with colored people, the disposition to be so being regrettably, on the increase, and is not being discountenanced by the white newspapers and public opinion as it should be, the disposition rather being general to excuse the police officer and to justify him in his conduct. In the southern States police officers are allowed to go to any extremes and are seldom over-called to account. Such a condition of affairs simply cannot last always. The Sixth Annual Tournament of the Virginia Lawn Tennis Association. Will be held on the courts of the Hampton Tennis Club, Hampton, Virginia, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 13, 14, 15, 1916. Annual entrance fee for each player, one dollar. This fee should reach Mr. W. T. B. Williams, Chairman of Tournament Committee, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. not later than June 11th, (midnight), at which time the draw closes. Announcement of the draw and schedule of the games may be had from the Chairman as early as noon of the 12th, by arrangement. JOINING FEE OF CLUBS Class "A", $5.00; Class "B" (members) $1.00 Proposals for memberships should be made in writing to the Secretary. Membership fees will be returned if application is rejected. The 1916 meet has every indication of being the best and largest ever attended. Especially encouraging is the news of so many players from old and new clubs. The dates for the tournament meet the approval of all, and the place is most ideal with exceptional facilities. Mr. W. T. B. Williams should be notified as early as possible of the number of players from each club W. T. B. Williams, president; J. M. Pollard, vice-president; A. H. Turner, secretary-treasurer; L. H. Foster, publicity agent. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Are you goin to Norfolk? Wednesday, June 21, 1916, is a good time to go. The Pythlans will be there then. Miss Carrie Jane Sutton, of San Antonio, Texas, who has been attending Howard University, Washington, D. C. is in the city. She is the slaughter of Prof. Samuel J. Sutton. Dr. J. H. Blackwell Jr., one of our prominent physicians, left the city this week to attend his class reunion at Lincoln University. He will also, while away, visit Washington, D. C. and Philadelphia, Pa. We return thanks to the Board of Managers, faculty and Senior Class for an invitation to attend the public inspection and Commencement Exercises of Cheyney Training School for teachers, June 14, 1916, at Cheyney, Pennsylvania. The flying machines are at Newport News, but they can be seen at Norfolk, if you go on the excursion June 21, 1916. Fare, $1.25 for the round trip. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, of Washington, D. C. arrived in the city last Friday (2nd inst) and returned home on the 7th inst. They were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Robinson, of 215 E. 17th Street, South Richmond. They were delightfully entertained last Monday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson. GOOD SAMARITAN CONVENTION TO MEET HERE. The Samaritans from over the State will meet next week in the 3rd Street Rethel A. M. E. Church, after an absence of twenty-two years. The convention will be called to order at ten o'clock. Tuesday morning, the 13th inst. Our Hon. Mayor will deliver the welcome address at 2:30 P. M. Public meeting Wednesday night at 8:30. The public is cardinally invited to come out and meet the representatives, and hear addresses to be delivered by some of our most prominent speakers. The parade will take place Tuesday June 13, at four o'clock. The line will form on Third Street and proceed down Leigh treet to Sixth Street out Sixth north to Baker, up Baker west to Brook Avenue, out Brook Avenue north to Moore, up Moore west to Bowe, out Bowe south to Leigh, dqwn Leigh east to Third Street and to the Church. Marshal. W. I. Johnson. Music by the Sharon Reed Band. Two Automobiles Damaged The automobile of Mr. C. P. Hayes was damaged by a collision at Munford and Harrison Streets last Tuesday. It seems that Mr. Hayes' car was coming down Leigh Street, and that the horn was sounded. Dr. Gee was coming down Harrison Street, and the two cars collided. Dr. Gee drives a Ford car. It is now minus two wheels, while Mr. Hayes' car is battered up in front. No one was injured. Mr. Hayes' chauffeur claims that Dr. Gee did not sound his horn. WANTED—Position or Clerk. Have had long experience in the grocery business. References furnished. WILLIAM S. FOSTER. Spartan- burg. S. C. Entered into rest eternal at the residence of her parents, No. 115 W. Charity Street, Thursday morning, June 1, 1916, at 8:30 o'clock, Hazel Johnson, daughter of Mr. Poyton and Mrs. Mildred Johnson. The end came peacefully after a severe illness of six weeks' duration with Phenomonia. She bore her illness with Christian forbearance and endurance and was perfectly resigned to the will of Him who doeth all things well. The funeral services were conducted from the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, of which she was a member Sunday, June 4, 1916 at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. R. V. Poyton, D. D. delivered an impressive and sympathetic discourse. The services were concluded at the grave in Evergreen Cemetery, where the remains were laid to rest, many beautiful and costly floral tributes marking the last resting place. Only "Good-night," beloved—not "farewell." A little while, and all the saints shall dwell. In hallowed union indivisible—Good-night! Good-night! Good-night! 8550.20 RAISED The Tag Day Committee takes this means of extending their sincere thanks and appreciation to the public in general for their contributions and assistance in whatever way, that enabled them to raise $556.20, June 5, 1916. James Frazier, Manager; Mrs. Bettle Meredith, President; Mrs. Zemoria Wood, Secretary; Mrs. Clara G. Pervall, Treasurer. AN EVENT OF GENERAL INTEREST The Fortifth Anniversary of the Continental Baptist Church of Helena, Arkansas, and the thirty-seventh anniversary of the pastorate of Dr. E. C. Morris will be celebrated in an elaborated way, beginning July 4th, and ending on July 9th. Owing to the prominence of our pastor, and the fact that for the last twenty years, he has given more than half his time to the general work of the denomination, it is the purpose of the church to make the occasion one of general interest, and the undersigned committee takes this method of notifying the many friends of Dr. Morris in other states of this occasion, and say that we will appreciate any expressions concerning the unselfish labor for the race and denomination our pastor has rendered. While Dr. Morris has passed the sixty-first mile of life, he is yet young and vigorous, and we would be delighted if he could be relieved of official relation to the denominational work and give us the full benefit of his golden days. The occasion will be made more prominent by reason of the fact that Rev. P. James Bryant, D. D., of Atlanta, Ga., will be the principal speaker. Any letter sent will be read at the services. Respectfully, Publication Committee—M. C. Simmons, Henry Hudson, J. E. Davis, W. S. Conner, J. S. Drow, Secretary. Mr. Scott's Automobile Damaged. The automobile recently purchased by Mr. Cornellus A. Scott and two sons was damaged in the neighborhood of Fifth and Duval Streets, last Wednesday night. It was run into a post, and the fender was slightly bent and the axle also damaged. It will be repaired at once, and no doubt will be in service again in a short time. SOUTH BOSTON (VA.) NEWS. South, Boston, Va., June 7. — The condition of John Walters, prominent up-town merchant, who was run over by an automobile Saturday noon is little improved. The accident which took place in front of Webster's store was caused by a car driven by two white men and resulted in breaking Walters' leg and dislocating his shoulder., Dr. Smiley (white) of Houston was standing near the scene and pressed into service a passing delivery truck of Terry Tuggle Grocery Company and Walters was hastened to the hospital, where his injuries were dressed. The South Boston Lincoln Giants are rejoicing over a victory yesterday over the Danville White Socks at So. Boston. The score was 8-5 in favor of the home team. Mr. Charlie Carrington is manager of the home team and Mr. George Thompson, manager of the White Socks. Rev. A. Kendrick has returned from Atlantic City, N. J. and is well pleased at the progress of the work of the General Assembly. THE IRON TRAIL BY REX BEACH Copyright, 1913, by Harper & Brothers. O'NEIL had the faculty of sleeping well in spite of the most tormenting worries. He arose on the morning after his interview with Mr. Heldeman ready to begin the struggle with all his normal energy and confidence. But the day brought him only discouragement. He had a large acquaintance. The mention of his name in quarters where he was not personally known gained him respectful attention, but he found himself working in the shadow of the copper trust, and its silent influence overcame his strongest arguments. No one, it seemed, cared to risk even a combination of rivalry with that monstrous aggression of capital, for the interlacing of financial interests was amazingly intricate, and financiers were fearful of the least misstep. Everywhere O'Neil encountered the same disheartening tintility. His battle, it seemed, had been lost before it was begun. Days passed in fruitless endeavors. Evenness found O'Neil in his corner of the hotel cafe racking his brain for some way out of his perplexities. Usually he was surrounded by friends, for he continued to entertain in the lavish fashion for which he had gained a reputation, but sometimes he was alone, and then his solitude became more oppressive than it had ever been even in the farthest wastes of the northland. He was made to feel his responsibility with dreadful keenness, for his associates were in a panic and bombarded him with daily inquiries, exasotious and hard to answer. One evening as he ran through his mall be found a letter in a woman's handwriting and, glancing at the signature, started. It was signal "Gloria Gordon." Briefly it appressed him of her marriage and of her and Natalie's return to Hope. Gloria thanked him perfunctory for his many kindnesses, but she neither expressed nor imputed an invitation for him to visit them. He emiled a little grimly. Already her loyalty had veered to Gordon's side, and Natalie no doubt shared her feeling. Well, it was but natural perhaps. He was aroused from his train of thought by a stranger whom he found standing beside his table and bedding down at him with weavering eyes. "Misser O'Nell, isn't it?" the fellow inquired. "Sure! Thought I knew you. But Iutter of the old North pass. Remember me?" Mr. Bulker had been imbibing freely. He showed evidences of a protracted spree not only in his speech, but in the trembling hand which he extended. His eyes were bloodied, and his good natured face was purple. O'Neil greeted him pleasantly, and, considering himself enthastily welcomed, the newcomer sat down suddenly as if some one had tripped him. "Been washing you for ten minutes." "Washing me?" "No, washing you. Couldn't make you out; eyeswelling's getting bad. Too many bright lights in this town. Ha! Joke! Have's a gill." "Thank you, no." "Just have a little dram for old time's sake. You're the only one of the North pass crowd I'll drink with." Mr. Bulker gestured comprehensively at a group of waiters, and Murray yielded. "You were my friend, O'Neil. You always treated me right." "What are you doing now?" asked Nell, with the interest he could not refuse to any one who had ever worked with him. He remembered the fellow perfectly. He had come on from the east as auditor and had appeared to be capable, although somewhat given to drink. "I'm a broker. Wall street's my habit. Fine time, to buy stocks, Misser O'Nell." Bulker assumed an expression of great wisdom. "Like to have a tip? No! Good. You're a wise man. They fired me from the North Pike. What'd you know about that? Fired me for drinking! Greatest injustice I ever heard of, but I hit running, like a turkey. That wasn't the reason they let me go, though. Not on your life." He winked portentously and, strangely enough, his eyelid failed to resume its normal position. It continued to droop, giving the appearance of a wagish leer. "I knew too much! I can't healthy to know too much, is it?" "I've never had a chance to find out" smiled Murray. "Oh, don't be ingestive; you survived more than anybody on the job. I'll admit I took a nap now and then, but I never got pickled.吉！Who did you apose I saw today?" Old man ill! "O'Neill because suddenly interest. He had been trying to get in touch with Podraya like for more than a few night, but his cabies to London had brought no responses. "When did he arrive?" "Just lately. He's a game old renter, isn't he? Goe, he's done." "Doe about what?" Buller worked again, with the same kind of manure control. "About, just North Pace cook of empire. He was blackminded out of a cold million. The agreement about him now, and I figure he's ever here." "Thank you, no." renew it." "You're talking Greek," and O'Neil, but his eagerness was manifest. "I aposed you knew. The North Pass has been paying blackmail to the Yukon steamboat companies for three years. When you built the line it practically put 'em out of the Dawson market, understand?" "Of course." Now that Mr. Bulker's mind was running along well worn grooves his intoxication became less apparent. "Those Frisco steamboat men got together and started a rate war against the railroad. They hung freight to Dawson by way of St. Michaels at a loss. Of course lilies and lilies crowd had to meet competition, and it nearly broke 'em the first two seasons. Gave they were the mind ones. Finally they fixed up an agreement—had to or go bust—and of course the Native Son put it over our English cousins. They agreed to restore the old rate, and each side promised to pay the other a royalty of $10 a ton on all the freight it handed to Dawson and up river points. You can guess the result, aren't you? The steamboat companies lilies hand all the freight and sat back on their haunches and took their profit. For every ton he handed he slipped 'em ten round American dollars, stamped with the goddess of Liberty. Oh, it was soft. When they had him fairly tied up they drydocked their steam boats, to save wear and teag. He paid 'em a thousand dollars a day for three years. If that isn't blackmailt it's a first dollar to it by marriage." "Didn't the interstate commerce com- "Didn't the interstate commerce commission get wise?" "Certainly not. It looks wise, but it never gets wise. Oh, believe me, Poutney tails is hopping mad! I pose here over here now to renew the arrangement for another three years on behalf of his stockholders. Let's have a dram." Butler sat back and stated as through a mist at his companion, enjoying the effect of his disclosure. "O'Nell was indeed impressed, more dressed than I was, dreamed. Out of the lips of a drunken man come a bit which set his nerves to tingling. He knew Ills well, he knew the cellar of the Englishman, and a plan was already binding in his brain; thereby he might save the S and N." It hooked an hour of midnight when O'Nell escaped from Butler and reached his room. Once inside he seized the telephone and rung up hotel after hotel, inquiring for the English capital list, but without result. After a moment's consideration he took his hat and gloves and went out. The matter did not permit of delay. Not only were his own needs imperative, but if Poulney Ills had come from London to confer with his rival there was little time to spare. Remembering the Englishman's habits, O'Nell turned up the avenue to another fashionable hotel, where he asked for the manager, whom he well knew. "Yes, Mr. Ills is here," he was in formed, "but he's registered under a different name. No doubt he'll be glad to see you, however." A moment later Murray recognized the voice of Ills' voice over the wip and greeted him by name. Another brief delay and the capitalist himself was at the phone. "Come right up," he said, and O'Neil replaced the receiver with a sigh of relief. Illus greeted him warmly, for their relations had been close. "Luckily you found me," he said. "I'm going back on the next sailing." "Have you signed up with the Arctic Navigation company?" Murray inquired, and the other started. "Bless me! What do you mean?" His caller laughed. "I see you haven't. I don't think you will, either, after you've talked with me." Without the tremor of an eyelash fills exclaimed: "My word! What are you driving at?" "That agreement over freight rates, of course." The Briton cried him for a moment, then carefully closed the door loading from his sitting room and, seating himself, lit a cigar. "What do you know about that matter?" he asked quietly. "About all there is to know—enough at least to appreciate your feelings." "Iattered myself that my affairs were private. Where did you get your information?" "I tell you if you insist, although I'd rather not. There's no danger of its becoming public." He showed his rebut. "I'm gim You gave me a start. Awful fix for a man to be in. Why, I'm here under an assumed name! Fancy! But!" He waved his hand in a gesture which showed his acceptance of the invi- tahba. "You haven't made your new agree- ment." "I'm to meet Blum and Capron to remowr." "Why Gim't you like the A. R. and K. when I cried you last mouth?" "I couldn't. But what hao that to do with the matter?" "Don't you say, let's go to the mall and I don't pretend you failed to understand the value our community of bartenders need." THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Guddy. The North Pass and Yukon is paying a fabulous blackmail to the river lines to escape a ruinous rate war." "Right! It's blackmail, as you say." "Under the present agreement you handle the Dawson freight and keep out of the lower river. They take the whole Tanana valley and lower Yukon." "Correct." "Didn't it occur to you that the S. R. and N. which starts 400 miles west of the North Pace and taps the Tannah valley, can be used to put the river steamers of that section out of business." "Let's have a look at the map." Mr. Ills hurried into an adjoining room and returned with a huge chart, which he unrolled upon the table. "To tell you the truth, I never looked at the proposition from that angle. Our people were afraid of those glaciers and the competition of the copper trust. They disgusted, too, with our treatment." "The trunk is eliminated. Kyak harbor is wiped off the map, and I'm alone in the field." "How about this fellow Gordon?" "He'll be broke in a year. Incidentally, that's my trouble." "But I'm told you can't pass the glaciers." "I can. Parker says hell have the bridge done by spring." "Then I'd bank on it. I believe Parker if I knew he was lying. If you both agree, I haven't the slightest doubt." "This is a bigger proposition than the North Pass, Mr. Hills. You made money out of that road, but this one will make more." He swiftly outlined the condition of affairs, even to the attitude assumed by the Heldmanns, and Ills, knowing the speaker as he did, had no doubt that he was hearing the exact truth. "But that's not all" continued O'Neill. "The S. K. and N. is the club which will hammer your enemies into blue. That's what I came to see you about. With a voice in it you can control the truth of all central Alaska and force the San Francisco." G. B. B. "The trust is eliminated. Kyak harbor off if the map, and I'm alone in the field." "The trust is eliminated. Kyak harbor is wiped off the map, and I'm alone in the field." crowd to treat the N. P. and Y. fatty, thereby saving half a million a year." "It's a big undertaking. I'm not sure our crowd could say it." "They don't have to. There's a quick profit of $27,000 to be bad by selling to the trust next spring. You can dictate your own terms to these black mails tomorrow and then make a turnover in blue months. It doesn't matter who owns the S. R. and N. Aft or it's completed. The steamboat men will see their profits cut. As it is now, they can make enough out of their own territory to haul freight into yours for nothing." "I dare say you'll go to them if we don't take you up, ch?" "My road has its strategic value. I must have help. If you don't come to my rescue it will mean war with your line, I dare say." Mr. Illis sits back, staring at the cell ing for a long time. From the street below came the wirl and clatter of taxicabs as the midnight crowd came and went. The city's nocturnal life was at its height, men had put aside the worries of the day and were de- voting themselves to the more serious and exhausting pastimes of relaxation. Still, the white hairdron Briton weighed in his mind the matter of millions, while the fortunes of Murray O'Nell hung in the balance. "My people won't buy the S. R. and N.," Illis finally announced. "But I'll put it up to them." "I can't delay action if there is a chance of a refusal. I'll need to see Blum and Capron," said O'Nell. "I'll cable full details within the hour. We'll have an answer by tomorrow night." "And if they refuse?" O'Nell lit a cigar with steady fingers. "Oh, if they refuse I'll join you. We'll go over the matter carefully in the meantime. Two million you said, didn't you?" "Yes. There's two million profit for you in nine months." His voice was humky and a bit murky, for he had been under a great strain. "Good! You don't know how successful I feel toward Pim and his crowd. I—I'm downright angry. I—am that." This took the hand which his collar entwined with an exaggerated face. "I'm glad I found you," confessed O'Malek. "I was on my knees. Her man, Maddison, will say our price when the hotel lattice in driven home, the hotel lattice in driven home, and we'll play with a partner." his face. That's the sort of man he is. "He won't pay if he knows I'm in interested. We're not exactly friendly since I sold out my smaller interests. But he needn't know. Nobody need know." His called his valet and instructed him to rouse his secretary and ring for some cable blanks. "I think I'll cable, too." Murray told him. "I have some 'boys' up there who are working in the dark with their teeth shut. They're waiting for the crash, and they'd like to hear the good news." His fingers shook as he scrawled the name of Dr. Gray, but his eyes were bright and youth was singing in his heart once more. "Now let's get down to business," said Mr. Illis. "We'll have to talk fast." CHAPTER XVI. How Gordon Changed Attack. It was growing light in the cast when O'Nell returned to his hotel, but he felt no fatigue, and he laughed from the pure joy of living, for his dream seemed true. Meanwhile there were strenuous hap penings in Omar. The story spread that O'Nell was broke. The workers demanded their money. With all awful funds exhausted and a crisis at hand Dan and Eliza contributed $4000 their life savings, and checked a walk out. The following morning there was great joy at the receipt of a cablegram announcing that O'Nell and Hits had formed a working agreement. Natalie who had been sent by Gordon to Omar to watch developments, returned with the news of O'Nell's latest secret alliance, whereat Gordon declared that O'Nell had "the luck of the devil." O'Nell's return to Omar was tilt unimpal. All his Beaufortians gathered to meet him at the pier, and the shiester of their welcome affirmed him deeply His arrangements with Hiks had taken time; he had been delayed at Seattle by bridge details and the placing of steel contracts. He had worked swiftly and with such absorption that he had paid little heed to the rumors of Gordon's latest activities. Of the new venture which his own success had inspired he knew only the bare outline. He had learned enough, however, to douse curiosity, and as soon as the first conflusion of his arrival at the front was over he ask for news. "Haven't you read the papers?" inquired Happy Tom. He had attached himself to O'Nell at the moment of his stepping ashore, and now followed him to headquarters with an air of melon choly satisfaction in more physical neatness to his chief. "Barely" O'Nell confessed. "I've been working twenty hours a day get ting that steel under motion." Dr. Gray said with conviction: "Ger don is a remarkable man. It's a pity he's crooked." "I think it's right lucky," declared Tom. "He's smarter than us, and it he wasn't handcapped by a total lack of decency he felt us." "After the storm," explained Gray "he moved back to Hope, and we thought he'd made his last best, but in some way he got the idea that the trust was back of us." "So I judged from the little I read" "Well, we didn't include film, of course. His first move was my attack through the press in the shape of a beakled mallet the Hellenians. It fairly took our breath. It appears in the Coltizo Courier and all over the states, we hear a letter of defiance to Hermann Hellenium. It declared that the trust was up to the敌's trick here in Alaska—and global in the copper industry. We had to get the metals and was trying to get press signs of all the most ransom passes made defies the officer. But the man can write. That article caused a stir." "I saw it." "Naturally the Cortez people are up. They're sure at the trust for leaving their town and at us for building Omar. Then Gorben called a mass meeting, and some of us went up to watch the fireworks. I've never seen anything quite like that meeting. Every man, woman and child in the city was there, and they hissed in when we came in. Gorben knew what he was about, and he was in fine voice. He told them Cortez was the logical point of entry to the interior of Alaska and ought to have all the traffic. He fired their animosity toward the trust and accused us of basely selling out to it. Then he broached a project to build, by local subscription, a narrow gauge electric line from Cortez, utilizing the waterfalls for power. The idea caught on and went like wildfire. The people cheered themselves hoarse and pledged him over $100,000 that night. Since then they have subscribed as much more, and the town is crazy. Work has actually begun, and they hope to reach the first summit by Christmas." Slater broke in: "It's a spellbinder all right. He made me hate the Hell driemann and detest myself for five minutes. I wasn't even sure I liked you. Murray." "It's a wild scheme, of course," continued the doctor, "but he's putting it over. The town council has, granted him a ninety-one year lease covering every street. The roadbed is started with things are booming. Lots have been staked all over the flats, property values are somersaulting, everybody is out of his head, and Gordon is a god. All he does is organize new companies. He has bought a sawmill, a wharf, a machine shop, acres of real estate. He has started a bank and a new hotel. He has consolidated the barber shops, and he talks about roosting in the streets with glass and making the town a series of arcades." Slater half smiled—evidence of a convulsive mind within. "They've picked out a site for a university," he said bitterly. "Cornish is going to be a host of learning and culture. They're planting a park and a place for an Alaskan world's fair and a museum and a library. I've always wondered who starts public libraries' name." But I didn't spare more than one or two people get feedback that way. he had received of Gordon's last attempt to recoup his fortunes were in no way exaggerated. Cortez, long the plaything of the railroad builders, had been ripe for his touch. It rose in its wounded civic pride and created his appeal with frantic delight. Gordon perfectly understood the something more than vague accusations were necessary to bring the public to his support in sufficient numbers to sweep him on to victory, and with this in mind he had crafty plans to seize the Heldemann grade. The trust had ceased active work on its old right of way and moved to Kyak, to be sure, but it had not abandoned its original route and, in fact, that maintained a small crew at the first detached outside of Cortez, known as Rever Canyon. Gordon reasoned sharply that a struggle between the agents of the trust and the patriotic citizens of the town would afford him precisely the advertising he needed and give point to his charge of unfair play against the Heldemans. It was not difficult to hone his visions to this act of robbery. On the contrary, once he had made the suggestion, he had hard work to restrain them until he had completed its preparations. These preparations were simple. They consisted in writing and mailing to every newspaper of consequence a highly colored account of the railroad struggle. These newspaper stories were posted from Seattle in time for them to reach their destinations on the date set for the seizure of the grade. It was an ingenious public move worthy of a theatrical presentation and it succeeded beyond the promises fondest expectations—to well, in fact it for drove the trust in despair to an alliance with the S. R. and N. The day set for the demonstration came; the citizens of Cortez bobby matched into Beaver canyon to take possession of the old Heldheim workings, but it appeared that they had reckoned prematurely. A handoff of grim faced trust employees warned them back; there was a rush, some rough work on the part of the aggressors, and then the guards brought their weapons into play. The result afforded Gordon far more sensational material than he had hoped for; one citizen was killed and five others were badly wounded. Cortez danced and horror stricken, none in her wrath and defended upon the "assassins." lynchings were planned and mobs threatened the local jail, until soldiers were hurried thither and martial law was declared. Of course the wires were buried with the account; the reading public of the States awoke to the fact that a bitter strife was waging in the birth between housed miners and the souls Hebelmann syndicate. Gordon's previously written and carefully edited stories of the clash were printed far and wide. Editorials trotted holgman at such hawkish scenes and pointed to the Cortez Home railway as a commendable effort to destroy the Hebelmann thrille hold upon the northland Stock subscriptions came in a delay which fairly engulfed Gordon's State office force. During this brief white lot campaign the promoter had been asmitted amply by his secret hatred of O'Neill as by host of glory and gain, and it was with no little satisfaction that he returned to Alaska a cross of having dealt a blow to his empire. He A "But this can't be true," stammered Gordon. sent Natalie to Omar on another visit in order that he might hear at first hand how O'Nell took the matter. But his complacency received a shock when the girl returned. He had no need to question her. "Uncle Curtis" she began, excitedly, "you ought to stop these terrible newspaper stories about Mr. O'Nell and the trust." "Stop them? My dear, what do you mean?" "He didn't sell out to the trust. He has nothing to do with it." "What?" Gordon's incredulity was a challenge. "He said to an Englishman named Jim. They seem to be amused by your whimmy over there at Owner, but I think some of the things printed are positively criminal. I know you'd want the truth"— "The truth, yes. But this can't be true," examined Gordon. "It is. Mr. O'Malley did try to insure the. Mphilimnism, but they wouldn't have anything to do with Mp, and the M. M. N. was going to smash them. He came along hardly to it." It was too exciting and dramatic for 'anything the way Mr. O'Nell found him when he was in hiding'—"Hiding" "Yes. There was something about blackmail or a secret arrangement between Mr. Illis and the Yukon river lines. I couldn't understand just what it was, but anyhow Murray took advantage of it and saved the North Pass and the S. E. and N. at the same time. "It was really a perfectly, wonderful stroke of genius. I determined at once that you should stop these lies and correct the general idea that he is in the pay of the trust. Why, he went to Cortex last week, and they threatened his life." Mrs. Gordon, who had listened, said quietly: "Don't blame Curtis for that. That bloody army at Raven canyon has made Cortex bitter against every one connected with the Heliummenes." "What about this blacksmith?" said her husband, upon whose car the word had made a welcome impression. "I don't understand what you mean by O'Nell's saving the North Puss and his own road at the same time—nor Hiss' being in hiding." "Nother do I," Natalie confessed, "but I know you have made a mistake that ought to be set right." "Why doesn't he come out with the truth?" "The whole thing is secret." "Why?" Natalie shrugged hopelessly, and Gordon lost himself in frowning thought. "This is amazing!" he said brusquely after a moment. "It is vital. It affects all thy plans. I must know everything at once." "I sorry I paid so little attention." "Never mind. Try it again and be diplomatic. If O'Nell won't tell you, question Applebon. You can wind him around your fingers easily enough, I am sure." The girl eyed him with a quick change of expression. "Don't it enough to know that the trust has nothing to do with the S. R. and N?" "Not" be declared impatiently. "I must know the whole inside of this secret understanding" to blackmail whatever it is. "Then I'm sorry." "Come. Don't be silly. You can do me a great service." "You said you no longer disliked Mr. O'Neill and that he couldn't harm you." "Well, well. Must I explain the why's and where forces of every move I make." "It would be spying if I went back. The matter is confidential. I know that." "Will you do as I ask?" he demanded. Natalie answered him firmly: "No! I told you what I did tell only so that you might correct." "You rebel, old." Garden spoke out furiously. He shrieked from the room, leaving Natalie staring out upon the dark fall scene, her shoulders very straight, her breast heaving. Gloria did not test her to address her. Formally for the peace of all concerned, Golden left for Seattle on the next staircase. Neither of the women relieved that Natasha's fraternity revolution was the cause of his departure, but escape in touch with outside affairs, be lost no time in coming down the steps he had gathered, and it was not long before he had hung enough to place the truth together. Then he one more brought his minicam graph to the war. The first winter shows round O'Neill's track left to the battle, and the structure itself will begin. He had moved his office out to the front and now saw little of Eliza, who was locked in writing her book. She had finished her magazine articles and they had been covered, but she had given him no bid as to their charm. One afternoon Happy Tom burst in upon his child, having hastened out from Omar on a construction train drawing a Seattle paper from his pocket he began easily. "Well, the fat in the fire, Murray. Somebody has locked up the whole North Pass story." O'Nell scolded the newspaper and seemed it horribly. He looked up, srowling. "Who gave the out?" he inquired in a harsh voice. Sister shrugged. "It's in the Cortez corner, too, so I swear it came from Gordon. Blessings come from me source, and Gordon's the fountain of all evil. I'm getting so I blame him for everything unpleasant." "Where did he learn the inside of Ill's deal? By heaven, there's a leak somewhere." "Maybe he uncovered it back there in the States." Murray shook his head. "Nobody knows anything about it except you boys." Then he seized the telephone at his elbow and called Dr. Gray, white Tom listened with his shaking forehead pockered anxiously. O'Nell hung up with a black face. "Apologetu," he said. Tom looked. If possible, a shade gloomier than usual. "I wouldn't I too sure it was Dan if I was you," I ventured doubtfully. "Where is he?" O'Nell ground on the words between his teeth. "Surveying the town site additio. If he let anything slip it was by m. take"— "Mistake! I won't employ people who make mistakes of that kind. This story may bring the Canadian government down on Illis and forfeit his North Pass charter, to say nothing of our authorities. That would finish us." He rose, went to the door and ordered the recently arrived engine uncoupled. Finging himself into its fur cost, he growled. "I much rather hate a crook under me than a fool. Appleton told me to talk too much." THE lacomotive had been switched out by this time, and O'Neill hurried to board it. On his way to Omar he had time thoroughly to weigh the results of this unexpected complication. His present desire was merely to verify his suspicion that Appleton had told his secret to Natalie. Beyond that he did not care to thunk, for there was but one course open. His anger reached the blazing point after his arrival. As he stepped down from the engine cab Gray silently handed him a code message from London which had arrived a few moments before. 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He kept our car incident. An industrious, saving home cook should have an industrious, savvy husband. Should she have the other kind there will be trouble in that family. We thank those subscriber remembered that we could not link a newspaper without money sent in their subscriptions Free articles cost us money, as they cost the people something we write them. Both the journal as the writers are losers. Some white folks aggravate us, but many others please us so continue to cultivate a friendly relationship with all of them. It will pay in the long run --- A fine of ten dollars upon a colored man who has nothing, is as great as a fine of one hundred dollars upon a white man who has something. It is asserted that the colored delegates have given the "key stare" at Chicago this week. This should not have ruffled their feelings. They have have been getting this for each a long time in the State organizations that they should have gotten used to it in the national ones. The colored folks may not be wanted when it comes to voting, but they are wanted in the Southland when it comes to working, and they will be wanted all over the country, should this government go to war, and it comes to fighting. --- Some of these students in cooking are virtually active agents for the doctors. Some of their "grub" will give you both indigestion and colic. The old Virginia manchester can cook a meal of victoria, measuring the proportions by the eye, that will tickle the pants and make hunger and sickness a stronger in the neighborhood. One dollar and a half per year for a family journal is a very small amount, but some people seem to regard it as one hundred and fifty dollars. We judge this by the fact that some of them are so slow about paying it. --- This country is honey-combed with humbugs. It takes a person well-steeled with common sense to avoid them. They can tell a falsehood without "batting the eye or flashing the tongue. Pursue N. 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We wish the concern much success. --- The Democratic Party of Virginia has a problem upon its books in the person of Hess J. Tayne Elysius. He has served the organization in more than a decade, and now becomes for the gubernatorial nomination a reward for his services. It would be presumed that every one would step inside and permit him to reclaim his ambition, but it seems that he must enter the field with the other candidates and make the fight of life for the honor. It was BARNUM, who stated that 'the American people liked to be hard-bugged. It seems that given the most of them like to be devoured. The theorists are constantly proposing new remedies and adventures new plans. Richmond city is profuse to be traveling about modern ways, but the discoveries made from time to time would fall at that the old-time description and the discoveries still hold away and evermore powerful influence in our municipal government. We learn with regret of the inti- position of Euston Witney Mosso Thorris and his wife. The Boston council has done great service for our people. A testimonial was ten- tured film and a vignum was raised for his benefit. Both needed rest and they are getting it. We are of the opinion that both of them are making sacrifices for the race that the race does not realize or appreciate. Mrs. Thorris is at the allowance of her dis- tinished husband practically all of the time. We have a positive opinion relative to the task, but it will hardly do to express it here. We hope, though, that the time may come when the blind may be made to see again, and the lame enabled to take up the bed and walk. The General Conference, which met in Philadelphia, Pa., recently, made no mistake in electing Rev. Dr. L. N. Ross pastor of the Ebenezer A. M. F. Church at Baltimore, Md., and Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, President of Allen University at Columbia, S. C., to the bishopric. This church has so much able material from which to select that it was evidently a difficult task to choose between the candidates. We have met both of the distinguished divines and we have no doubt but what they have many years of usefulness for the Church before them. This is an age of "little men" and we think that the General Conference is to be congratulated upon having selected two churchmen, who measure up to the standard set for those who have reached ripened manhood. Ross and Beckett, Beckett and Rose! Where in the country could be obtained abler specimens of African Methodist Episcopal ability and wisdom? The American Bankers' Association has decided to launch a Nation-wide Thrift Campaign and an opportunity has been given the colored people of the United States to join in the movement. No race needs this kind of instruction so much as the colored folks. We are verity a race of spendthrifty, and yet we have done well. These who have succeeded in saving have been the basis of the statistics of progress from which the whole race profits among the thinkers of the age. Thousands of families live from "hand to mouth." They do this year in and year out. Thousands of persons, who had no money saved when they were drawing six or seven dollars per week, are not saving a penny on a salary of twenty-five dollars per week. They five-fitted their desires to outrun their judgment, and they bought hundreds of unnecessary things and then went in debt for as much more. The movement must necessarily do good. by a great leader does not necessarily destroy his usefulness for good. We have not as yet had confirmed the report that Principal R. R. Moton was correctly quoted recently, and until a reasonable time is given for such a denial, it is but fair to suspend judgment. Certainly, if there ever was a time that "silence is golden," it was when he was questioned relative to his attitude with reference to the treatment of his own wife. As for Hon. Emmet J. Scott, there can be no question as to his ability and as to his popularity in the sight of the late Dr. Booker T. WASHINGTON. He sent him to Africa, when he should White Plains by Mrs. Mary, many old Italian the Supreme to-day, presided schauser, how the murder of band of Antonie in-law, because George out of marry a star be the testimony trial of William old, who is on George, McNam, Mrs. George, 2 others. He is Dalton, and his he took no part. We hope that the response to the appeal will be spontaneous, and from a poverty-stricken people, we may be come one of the wealthiest upon the face of the globe. Let us try the experiment. SECRETARY JOSEPHUS DANIELS AL JOWARD ```markdown ``` Hoy JOSTINES DANIELS, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, was in father's army and embarking in position and was obviously attentive which as officers an officer of the forty-seventh annual "enforcement of House immunity" he was "up against the two questions plain and simple, but he played quietly as a diplomat" and may be said to have come out with trying others to speak. He spanned as follows: Secretary Blair declared that the communal council of the race problem should not be used and that aimed solve the ordeal without being by the rule of force. He declared that these people to them are dealing with men and women and with different kinds. He said it was a process that should be left to the judgment of the Attorney. He said that if anything is to be done at all would be to follow the odor and the daily use of common sense in liberal dress. Added to this, he said would be "patronage, charity, and built in God and man." The above statement "should be proof" but we are pleased to know the common sense "method of the application" he gave some interesting statistics here they are. The speaker, in addition, plea that that said to the work that Howard and similar universities are doing. He says that thanks to these institutions the history of the colored race in the last years could be curried up in the word progress. First, showing that in the South colored farmers own 90,440 farms, or 24 per cent of the farms, occupied by colored persons that of the thousands of men and women turned out of the colored colony, a large percentage are engaged in the higher branches of professional work, were cited. In conclusion he pointed to the fact that these are predominant colored folks in the South who await them of their race who can aid them in finding the right path. The speaker urged that the graduates give these people "benefits of their education. These millions said are looking to the graduates of the colored universities to lead the way for them. We do not see that he gave utterance to anything to which we should take exceptions. As a rule, Southern white people are tender hearted and charitable towards the colored people of the Southland. They are relentless in their antipathy to those of the North. They have repeatedly encouraged those of us who inspire to higher things and who by thrift, industry and upright conduct, endeavor to make themselves useful citizens and who encourage others of the race to go and do likewise. If our people will cultivate these qualities, teach the children good manners and insist upon their walking in godly paths, all will be well with us. One polite, industrious colored child sheds a halo of light and good-feeling as it goes. It is reflected by the white and colored people that this child chances to meet. We should cultivate a friendly feeling towards white people and not seek to propagate and encourage racial hatred. White people will ultimately adopt a similar policy, and then this so-called rage question will disappear "like frost before the sun." From the utterances of SECRETARY DANIELA, we voice the hope that SENATOR BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN, one of the most rampant assailants of the colored people in this country, may be induced to deliver an address upon a similar occasion. We hope that he may not be unable to find words, in a diplomatic sense, to harmonize with the most embarrassing surroundings. The Cleveland, Ohio, Gaetex says: "Four days after the inauguration as principal of Tuskegee, Ala., Normal and Industrial Institute the south forces Major Motion to 'show his hand' and there is not even a 'dance' in it for the page. One thing more and that is, from a racial standpoint, he is certainly an improvement upon Booker T. Washington. We still believe that it was a most unfortunate mistake not to have elected Secretary Emmett J. Scott, principal of that school."^ Our very able contemperory should remember that "one sunflower does not make a Summer," and one mistake by a great leader does not necessarily destroy his usefulness for good. We have not as yet had confirmed the report that PRINCIPAL R. R. MOTON was correctly quoted recently, and until a reasonable time is given for such a denial, it is but fair to suspend judgment. Certainly if there ever was a time that "silence is golden," it was when he was questioned relative to his attitude with reference to the treatment of his own wife. As for Hon. EMMETT J. SCOTT, there can be no question as to his ability and as to his popularity in the sight of the late Dr. BOONE T. WASHINGTON. He sent him to Africa, when he should have gone himself, and he entrusted to him practically all of his confidential business. Now, as to whether Mr. SCOTT should have been chosen instead of Mason Morry, is a question which has become academe. Hampton Institute and Tuskegee Institute work in harmony. The former was a powerful factor in naming the successor to Dr. BOONE T. WASHINGTON. If it can be arranged so as to have PUNICIPAL Motley and SECRETARY Story act and work together, there can be no question but what the Moros ad ministration will be a success. It should also be remembered that Tus begeg Institute is supported almost entirely by northern philanthropists. They evidently were more willing to finance Mason Moros than they were to back Mr. Scoot. Do Washington was diplomatic enough to play servant with the white men of the South, equal with the white men of the North and an older brother with the colored folks of the whole country. Mason R. R. Motley has his troubles and why should we mutually them? THE TROUBLE IN PHILADELPHIA The Phillips-Pearl Christian Record body fault with the treatment of the proceedings of the General Conference of the A. M. H. Church by the white-daily press of Philadelphia. We regret much it learn that turbulent scenes chara-traged the sessions. We must admit that we cannot understand it. Where the ablest men of the race congregate, there is to be found the wilted scenes of disorder. It is not to be presumed that this condition would exist in a centralized form of government like the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Order came out of confusion, and during all of the bedlam, the sober second sense of the body remained undisturbed. This is evident by the kind and calibre of the divines selected for the bishopric. The body might have "gone further and fared worse." We hope, though, that there will be a reformation along parliamentary lines in all great racial organizations. Sometimes, the trouble is in the presiding officer. Few men know how to preside and at the same time preserve order. Some presiding officers talk too much themselves. We have observed with much misgiving the attitude of national bodies of colored people, both religious and secular, and whenever the leaders get together, the disgraceful happenings bring shame to the more acute and lawabiding members. We are pleased to note that there is peace once more in the printing department. The publishing house is important, although the rank and file of the membership have not as yet fully realized the fact. It would be well to have a meeting to preserve the peace in these large organizations. As the matter now stands, the further the laymen stay away from them the more respect he will have for their management and for the officials having charge of the organization. BRAGG BROS. & CO. YUAN SHIH KAI DEAD President of China Dies While Coun President of China Dies While Coun- try is Torn by Revolution. Yuan Shi Kal, president of the Chine- sese republic, died in Peking. Premier Taun Chi-Jul immediately advised Li Yuan Hung, the vice president, of his succession to the presidency. Yuan Sbi Kai had been ill for several days with stomach trouble which was followed by a nervous breakdown. Recently it was reported that an attempt had been made to poison him. Yuan died in the palace, surrounded by his wives and older children. Rumors that he committed suicide are denied stoutly by high officials. Quiet prevails in the capital. The death of the president apparently solves the heated political crisis. Li Yuan Hung's succession to the presidency meets the demands of the leaders in the southern provinces. The commandants of the legation guards, including the German and Austrian, met and discussed the situation, coming to the decision that rioting was unlikely. The American and British commandants advised their national leaders outside the legation quarter that it was safe to remain there for the present. Chinese are rushing into the legation quarter, taking their vultures with them and engaging hotel accommodations there. White Plains, N. N., June 6—California Mrs. Mary Figlio, a twenty-one year old Italian woman, told a jury in the Supreme Court at White Plains to-day, presided over by Justice Morschauer, how she had arranged for the murder of Gregorio George husband of Antonetta George, her sister in-law, because the latter wanted George out of the way so she could marry a star boarder-in her home. The testimony was given during the trial of William McNamara, 18 years old, who is on trial for the murder of George. McNamara was arrested with Mrs. George, Mrs. Figlio and three others. He is being defended by J. Dalton, and his defence will be that he took no part in the murder, but was lured to the scene by threats. He contends that an unidentified gunman committed the crime. "Mrs. Figloxi testified that Mrs. George said to her, "I am in love with Vito Raimonda. I must get my husband out of the way so I can marry him. You must help me." "Mrs. George bothered me so, and then threatened to reveal something that I had done, that I became frightened," continued the witness, and I agreed to get a couple of men to kill her husband." Mrs. Figloxi said she went to the home of Kittle McCormack, a barmalde in Hoboken, and the latter arranged to get two men to put through the murder deal. It was first arranged to have George killed in Hoboken, but this plan fell through. District Attorney Weeks asked the witness what price was to be paid for the murder, and she said it was first agreed to be $250, but the McCormack woman said the gunmen told her that was too little. "What price was then arranged?" asked the prosecutor. "Five hundred dollars was to be paid." "Who was to get the money?" "McNamara and the other man. I don't know his name. McNamara was to get $250, the other man $200 and Kittle was to get $50 for her trouble. The witness then told how on January 15 it had been arranged to have Mrs. George send her husband to meet Mrs. Froille at the Ardsley station of the Putnam Railroad, some distance from Dobbs Ferry, to get a bottle of medicine. "On that night," continued Mrs. Froille, "McNamara and the other man went with me to Ardsley. I met George at the station and gave him medicine. He wanted to stop and meet a friend at a barber shop, but I told him it was to cold and urged him. I had previously arranged to show a white handkerchief if I met any other man than George. McNamara and the other man for lowed on the opposite side of the street. When at a dark spot near a pond the unknown man setged George from behind and plumed his arms. Then McNamara hit him several times, knocking him down. While McNamara held him the other follow cut his throat. 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Even the girl herself seemed transformed, for her hair was brought forward around her face in some house, mysterious fashion, which gave her a bewilderedly girlish appearance. ONLY eyes photographed at this time a girl surprised glance as he passed. The next moment he was mounting the steps to the porch. For doing open the door, but the words of greeting froze. His smile was vanished at eight o'clock for holding vantage. Murray was in the mood to wash words. He began roughly: "You tell Miss Gerald that Frost needs it by booking me?" Liam summered. "I perhaps I What has gone wrong, elf?" "Did you tell her the disable the story of his agreement with the steal- beat people?" Dan paled beneath his Yam, but his eyes met Murray's without the thief. "I think I did tell her something I didn't quite remember. But anything I may have said was in court?" "I thought so. I merely wished to make certain. Well, the whole thing is in the paper." Appleton laid his hand upon the tau- ble to steady himself. "Then it didn't come from her. She wouldn't." "Gordon has spread the story broadcast. It couldn't have come from any other source. It couldn't have reached him in any other way, for none of my love has breathed a word." His voice rose despite his effort at self-control "This agreement was illegal." I looked, saying, "It will probably reflect the charter of the North Press or land law in court. I suppose you realize that I discovered his secret and accused him it was safe with me. Now you probably fit to coexist and the whole thing is public. It is the first result." He shook the London book-gram. In his face and his own was distorted with rage. There was a stir in London with neither a protest. Applicants have face with unrestrained fury. He insisted his life to stay. "I am not terrible sorry. But I am so Natalie you will spy. I don't care for what I told her or how I knew about the affair. I don't care for me. I think in the first question but she couldn't answer." "Gerald tried you for talking to me. I night you had heartily an issue, but it seemed you hadn't. Don't blame Miss Gerald for pumping you her loyalty, belongs to Gordon. But I require loyalty too. Since you are kitten you唱歌." "Not naughted as Elizabeth's disopened. She sleeps before him, pale, twitching, trembling." "I couldn't help hearing," she said. "You discharge us?" He nodded. "I'm sorry. I've trusted my kids so implicitly that the thought of betrayal by them never occurred to me. I can't have men close to me who make such mistakes as this." "Perhaps there was an excuse or the shadow of one, at least. When a man is in love you know." Murray wheeled upon Dean and demanded sharply. "What's this? Then in a notewably altered tone he asked. "Do you love - Natalie?" "Does she love you?" "No, sir." 'O'Nell turned back to the girl, saying: 'I told Dan when I hired him that he would be called upon to dare much, to suffer much and that my interests must be his. He has disregarded them and he must go. That's all. There's little difference between treachery and carelessness." He left them standing there unhappily dumb and stiff with shame. Once outside the house he plunged down the hill as if feeling from the scent of some crime. He rushed through the night blindly, for he had loved his assistant engineer, and the memory of that chalk faced, startled girl hurt him abominably. "To think that I spent the best part of two years studying this spot," he told Gray as they started for the office. "I fired Appletop," he broke out at last. Gray looked up quickly. "If he acknowledged that he—did it. I had no choice. It came hard, though." "He did some great work, chief!" "I know. That affair at the Crossing—I intend to pay him well if he'll accept. It's not that. I like those kids. Stanley. Him took it harder than he. It wasn't easy for me either." he sighed wearily. "I'd give $10,000 if it hadn't happened. (She looked as if I'd struck her." "What did they say?" "Nothing. He has been carolina, disloyal." "You told them so?" "Q'Neil nodded." "And they said nothing?" "Nothing. What could they say?" Gray answered griffly: "They might have said a good deal. They might have told you how they paid off your men and saved a walkout when I had no money." O'Nell stared incredulously. "What are you talking about?" he demanded. When he had the facts he rose with an exclamation of dismay. "Heaven! Why didn't you tell me Why didn't they speak out? L-I- J. C. D. "To think I enceat the best part of two years studying this spot!" what, that's beauty of the street kind! All the people they had saved too when they got the gift I had saved love that way! Oh, I'm sorry! I wander what they think of me! I wonder if I go after that! - He sound his cap and hurried out of the building. "It's hardly right when things were going so well!" I said. He was sitting cramped up in a chair. It had armrests so his shoulders. "I didn't mean to give up my secrets but I had lots of friends with Natasha." "I love to read, with you, and me. That is the real feeling it was expanded. But it had me, and I wanted to keep it. You see I hardly righted it." "The son of the late Mrs. were hobbled and at the table. He gave a spotted flagry, the turned swimmer to Bob bear face. She felt OK. Needs for the arm in her shoulder. His hand was patting her, and he was waving south. "You are a dear child. It wore tremendously good of you both, and I could be shot for nothing I did. I would. If you can, meet a wristed apology as bravely as you accepted a wrong accusation." "It was wrong. It was right," she sobbed. "I am told her, and she told Gordon." "There, there! I was to blame, after all, for letting my one know, and it Ibn made a mistake he has more than offset it by his unselfishness—his gaze fences. It seems I forgot how much it really owe him." "That affair with the shift bosses wasn't anything," said Dani hastily "and it was Eliza's idea. I refused at first, but when she started to pay them herself I weakened." He atterted awkwardly, for his sister was motioning him desperately to be silent. But he ran on: "Oh, he ought to know the whole truth and how insanely I acted at! I deserve to be discharged." "Please don't make this any harder for me than it is." Murray smiled. "I'm terribly embarrassed, for I'm not used to apologies. I can't afford to be unjust. I have so few friends that I want to christish them. I'm sorry you saw me in such a temper. Anger is a treacherous thing, and it always be trays me. Let's forget that I was here before and pretend that I just came to thank you for what you did." He drew Dan into the shelter of his other arm and pressed the two young people to him. "I didn't realize how deeply you kids care for each other and for me." The same ship which had brought the ominous news to O'Neil, also brought Curtis Gordon north. He had remained in Seattle only long enough to see the his story in print, and then had hastened back to the front. But his satisfaction over the mischief he had done received a rude jolt when at his first moment of leisure he looked over the late magazine which he had bought before taking leave. In one which had appeared on the newsstands that very day he found to his amusement an article by Miss Eliza. Aguillon, in which his own picture appeared. He pouenced upon it eagerly, and then THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA As he read his eyes narrowed and his jaw stiffened. There, spread out to the public gaze, was his own record in full, including his initial texture into the Kyak coal fields, his abandonment of that project in favor of Hope Consolidated and an account of his connection with the latter enterprise. Ellisa had not hesitated to call the mine worthless, and she showed how he, knowing its worthlessness from the first, had used it as a lure to investors. Then followed the story of his efforts to gain a footbold in the railroad struggle, his defeat at the Salmon river canyon, his rout at the delta crossing and his final deathblow at Kyak. His career stood out boldly in all its fraudulent colors; failure was written across every one of his undertakings. The naked facts showed him visionary, incompetent, unsurprising. Thus far he had succeeded in keeping a large part of his stockholders in importance of the true condition of Hope Consolidated, but he qualified at the invitable result of this article, which had been flung far and wide into every city and village in the land. He dared not think of the effect upon his present enterprise, now so auspiciously launched. He had made a ringing appeal to the public, and its support would hinge upon its confidence in him as a man of affairs. Once that trust was destroyed the Cortez Home railway would crumble as swiftly as had all his other schemes. The worst of it was that he knew himself shot off from the world for five days as effectually as if he were looked in a dungeon. There was no wireless equipment on the ship, he could not start the machinery of his press bureau, and with every hour this damnable story was bound to gain momentum. He cursed the hook which had set him on this quest for vengeance and bound his hand. Meanwhile that was struggling with his problem in his own way. The possibility that Natalie had voluntarily betrayed him was a rattling torture, and the response of Elizabeth's words added to the suffering. He tried to gain some sort of his chief's feeling, but Murray's friend and friendly attitude failed him. When, at last, he received a brief note from Natalie, taking him to call he needed to Hide, afraid, yet eager to hear what she should say. She met him on the stock as he left the S.S. and N. motte boat and led him directly to the house. Natalie was straight to the point. "I'm in dreadful trouble," she said, "and I sent for you to tell you that I had no idea of being confident." Dan uttered some hare plaudit, but his eyes glinted with a shef. "When I saw in the papers what a stir that North Paws and Nikon story had made I was afraid I had done something dreadful. Tell me, if so I did I make trouble?" "You certainly did" (Nell) was furious, and in itself knew what the result will be. It it nearly cost me my head. "Does he bother me?" "Nell. He says you're on Gerlans's side now. He knows me did until he generally took it on himself." "What you did I told you?" I am nearly distracted. Natalee's eyes were pleading. "Did you think I spied on you?" Dan elicited with embarrassment and something to me. "I didn't know what to think," he said. "I was wretchedly misgled for I was afraid. And yet I knew you could do such a thing. I told O'Neill I wasn't responsible for what I did or said when with you." "Mr. Toulin sent me to Omar purposely. He sent me twice." I was I who bought him word that the road was wasted. I told all I learned because I believed he no longer hated Mr. O'Neill. I was happy to tell all I knew, for he deceived me so he develves every one. I learned the truth too late. "Why do you stay here?" Dan demanded hot. "Why? I don't know. Perhaps because I'm afraid to leave. I'm alone. You see, me neither believes in him. She's completely under his sway, and I can't tell her the sort of man heels. She's happy, and her happiness is worth more to me than my own. But I shall go away. I can't stand it here much longer." "Where will you go?" "Back to my old home perhaps. Somewhere... anywhere away from Alaska." CHAPTER XVIII. "I SYTTOSE, you know I can't get along without you," said Dan. "Please don't. You have been very good and sweet to me, but"—She shook her dark head. "You couldn't marry me—even if I cared for you in that way." "Why? I intend to marry you whether you want to or not." "Oh, Dan, it wouldn't do! You know—about mother. I've nearly died of shame, and it would be sure to come up. Somebody would speak of it some time." Dan's blue eyes went cold and smoky as he said: "It would take a pretty brave person to mention the subject in my presence. I don't care a whoop for anything Gordon or your family may say or do." There was a stir in the hall outside, and the speaker turned to behold Curtis Gordon himself in the doorway. The latter in passing had been drawn by the sound of voxes and had looked into the library. Recognizing Natalie's caller, he frowned. "What is this?" he inquired coldly. "A proposal? Do I interrupt?" "You do," said Dan; then, after a pane, "I'll finish it when you leave." Gordon entered and spoke to his stepdaughter. "What is this man doing in my house?" "Why don't you tell me creat Dem. "I don't need an interpreter." "Young man, don't be rush. There is a limit to my patience. If you have the indecency to come here after what You have done and after what you master has said about me, I shall certainly— Dan broke in roughly: "I didn't come to see you, Gordon. You may be an agreeable sight to some people, but you're no golden sunset in my eyes. Eliza flattered you." Natalie gave a little terrified cry, for the men were glaring at each other savagely. Neither seemed to hear her "Did you read that article?" "Read it? I wrote it!" Gordon's face named suddenly with rage. He pointed to the door with trembling fingers and shouted: "Get out! I'll not have you here. I discharged you once. Get out!" His utterance was rapid and thick. Dan smiled mirtlessly, dangerously. In a soft voice he said: "I haven't finished proposing. I expect, to be accepted. You'll pardon me, I know." "Will you go you?" Will you go you? Dan turned to the girl, who after that first outlay had stood as if spellbound, her face pale, her eyes shining. "Natalie, dear," he said earnestly, "you can't live in the same house with this beast. He's a cheat and a secondrel. He's done his best to spoil your life, and he'll succeed if you stay, so come with me now. Eliza loves you and wants you, and I'll never cease loving you with all my heart. Marry me and we'll go." Gordon uttered an inarticulate sound and came forward with his hands working humility. "Don't interrupt," warned Pan, over his shoulder, and his white teeth gleamed in sudden contrast with his tan. "No man could love you as I do dear"—Gordon's clutch fell upon him and tightened. Ian suffered, and his words ceased. Then the touch upon his flesh became unbearable. Whiffing, he wrenched himself free. He was like a wild animal now. Body and spirit had leaped into rebellion at contact with Garden. His long resentment burst its bounds. His lean muscles quivered. His frame trembled as if it restrained some tremendous pressure within. "Don't do that!" he cried hourly and brushed the sleeve where his one my fingers had rested as if it had been soiled. Gordon starred and stretched out the hand a second time, but the younger man raised his list and struck. Once twice, again and again he flung his long knuckles into that purple, distorted face, which he loathed as a thing unclean. He battered down the big man's guard, right and left he rain'd blows, stepping forward as his victim fell back. Gordon reed, he pawed wildly, he swung his arms, but they encountered nothing. Yet he was a heavy man, and although half stunned by the sudden outstraint, he managed to retain his feet until he brought up against the heavy unhoggy reading table in the center of the room. His retreat ended there; another blow and his threw backslash's arms sagged. Then Dan summoned all his strength and swung. Gordon grinned, lurched forward and sprawled upon the warm velvet earl, face down, with his limbs twisted under him. His vampir-pusher steel over him for an instant, then turned upon Natalia a face that was now keen and cruel and presbatory. "Come." We'll be married today," he said. And, crossing swiftly, he took her two hands in his. His voice was harsh and insensitive: "He's down and out, so don't frighten me. Now, hurry! I've had enough of this insistence." "I--I'm not frightened," she said dazedly. "But--I--" Her eyes loved past him as if in quest of something. "Here! This'll do for a wrap." But whipped his fur over out of a chair and dung it about her. "My hat, too!" He crushed it over her dark hair and, slipping his arm about her shoulders, urged her toward the hall. "Well call on her together. I'll do the talking for both of us." He jerked the front door open with a force that threatened to wrench it from its hinges and thrust his companion out into the fencing cold. Then, as Gordon's Japan nese butter came running from the rear of the house, he turned. "Hey, you!" he cried sharply. "The boss has gone on a little visit. Don't stumble over him. And tell Mrs. Gordon that Mr. and Mrs. Appleton will call on her in a few days—Mr. and Mrs. Dan Appleton of Omar." It was but a few steps to the pier. Dan felt that he was treading on air for the fierce, unreasoning joy of possession was surging through his veins. His old indifference and doubt were gone and the men he met recalled before his hostile glance, staring after him in be wilderness. But as he lifted Natalie down into the launch he felt her shaking violently, and of a sudden his selfish exultation gave way to a tender solicitude. "There, there!" he said gently. "Don't cry, honey. It's all right. It's all right." She raised her face to his, and his head swam, for he saw that she was radiant. "I'm not crying; I'm laughing. I—I'm mad—insane with happiness." He crushed her to him. He buried his face in her neck, mumbling her name over and over. And neither of them knew that he was rapturously kissing the coonskin collar of his own great coat. The launchman, motor crank in hand, paused, staring. He was still open mouthed when Dan catching sight of him, shouted: "What's the matter, moth? Is your back broken?" "Yes-no, sir!" The fellow eyed the flywheel vigorously. The little craft began to vibrate and gluer and then swung opt from place. A moment later and the engineer yelled. He came stumbling forward and sounded the screaming wheel as the best sound a beater. That's right, you know? Dan hands him off asking his name. In Rutledge he said, "There's a big girl in Duncan, and protect her he is." O'Neil believed handsomely when he was told what had happened. He hurried into town on the following morning, and his congratulations were so sincere, his manner so hearty that Dan forgot his embarrassment and took a shameless delight in advertising his happiness. Nor did Murray C. B. B. "Come! We'll be married today," he said. step with more words; he summoned all his bishounians and Omar rang that night with a celebration such as it had never before known. The company chef had been busy all day, the commissary had been ransacked, and the wedding supper was of a nature to interfere with office duties for many days thereafter. Tom Slater made a congregatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjustment to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial infarction—and oenely confessed that his digestion was now impaired beyond relief. Others followed him; there were music, laughter and a flotous popping of corks, and over it all O'Neil presided with grace and melowness. Then, after the two young people had been made thoroughly to feel his good will, he went back to the front and Omar saw him but seldom in the weeks that followed. To romantic Eliza this self-suggest reclusion but one meaning—the man was broken hearted. She did not consider that there might be other reasons for his constant presence at the glacera. Of course since the unwelcome publication of the North Pags and Yukon story O'Nell had been in close touch with Hils, and by and by of strong argument had convinced the Englishman of his innocence in the affair. A vigorous investigation might have proved disastrous, but, ultimately, Curtis Gordon backed in which to follow the matter up. The truth was that after his public exposure at Eliza's hands he was far too lazy mending his own fences to time for attempts upon his rival. Consequently, the story was allowed to the tour, and O'Nell was finally allowed to learn that its effect had been a failure. Precisely how Hils had observed this he did not know nor did he come to inspire. Hils had been forged in comfort but borne pain, and since he had taken the first chance to free himself from it, the question of abstract right or wrong was not a subject for squareful consideration. It was at about this time that the sanctuary affray at Beaver canyon began to bear fruit. One day a keen foe, quiet stranger, presented a card at Murray's office with the name "Henry T. Blaine." Bemeth was the address of the Holdemman building in New York, but otherwise the card told nothing. Something in Mr. Blaine's hearing, however, led Murray to treat him with more than ordinary consideration. "I should like to go over your work," she stranger announced, and O'Nell himself acted as guide. Together they inspected the huge concrete abutments, then were lowered into the heart of the giant calssons which protruded from the frozen stream. The Salmon lay locked in its winter slumber now. The glaciers stood as silent and inactive as the snow mantled mountains that hemmed them in. Down into the very bowels of the river the men descended, while O'Nell described the nature of the bottom, the depth and character of his foundations and the measure of his progress. "He explained the character of that bar which lay above the bridge site and pointed out the heavy layers of railroad iron with which his cement work was re-enforced. "I spent nearly two seasons studying this spot before I began the bridge," he continued. "I had men here night and day observing the currents and the action of the ice. Then I had my pieces accordingly. They are armored and re-enforced to withstand any shock." "The river is subject to quick rises, I believe," suggested Blaine. "Twenty feet in a few hours." "The volume of ice must be almost breathtaking." "Almost," Murray smiled. "Not quite. Our ice breakers were especially designed by Partner to withstand any weight. There's nothing like them anywhere. In fact, there will be nothing like this bridge when it's committed." Brian offered no comment, but his questions answered to the depths of the builder's knowledge. "When they were huge to build he did: "We course you know why I'm here!" "You said told me that, but I don't need the Buildman now." "To be prepared to regain morale, they." D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 406, Mechanics' Bank Building PRONK, BANDOLPH 2697 Residence, 610 N. Pine St.—Saginaw River. 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You read Gordon's lies about us and about that fight at Beaver canyon? Well, we were used to abuse, and opposition of a kind we respect. But that man affirmed public opinion to such a point that there's no further use of beeding it. We're ready to proceed with our plans now, and the public can go to the devil till it understands us better. We have several men in jail at Cortez charged with murder. It will cost us a fortune to free the poor fellows. First the Heidemanns were thieves and grafters and footers of the public domain; now they have become assassins! If this route to the interior proves feasible, well and good; if not we'll resume work at Cortez next spring; Kynk, of course, is out of the question." "This route depends upon the bridge." "Exactly." "It's a two years job." "You offered to complete it this winter, when you talked with Mr. Herman steklemann." "And—I can." "Then we'll consider a reasonable price. But we must know definitely where we stand by next spring. We have a great deal of capital tied up in the interior; we can't walk." "This delay will cost you something." Mr. Blaise shrugged. "You made that point plain when you were in New York. We've accustomed to pay for our tuition." "Will you cover this in the shape of a loan?" Don't what I'm here for. If you finish your hostage and it stands the gatebreaking we'll be arrested. I shall either to stay here and watch the work." ```markdown ``` O'Neil agreed heartily. "You're very welcome, Mr. Blaine. I like your brand of conversation. I build railroads; I don't run them. Now let's get down to figures." The closing of the option required several weeks, of course, but the outcome was that even before midwinter arrived O'Nell found himself in the position he had longed to occupy. In effect the sale was made and on terms which netted him and his backers 100 per cent profit. There was but one provision—namely, that the bridge should be built by spring. The Heidemanns were impatient, their investment up to date had been heavy, and they frankly declared that failure to bridge the chasm on time would convince them that the task was hopeless. In a way this was unreasonable, but O'Nell was well aware that they could not permit delay or a third failure. Unless his route was proved feasible without loss of time they would abandon it for one they knew to be certain, even though more expensive. He did not argue that the task was of unprecedented difficulty, for he had made his promise and was ready to stand or fall by it. It is doubtful, however. If any other contractor would have undertaken the work on such time; in fact, had it been a public bridge it would have required four years in the building. Yet O'Nell cheerfully staked his fortune on completing it in eight months. With his option aimed and the task squarely confronting him, he resisted with frust force his bigness and the weight of responsibility that rested upon his shoulders. He began the most dramatic struggle of his career, a fight against married conditions, a desperate battle against the monster, with rage on the penalty of defeat. ARS see eh re LM ES TOURER Beene * ANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA REE Rae oe ee . Pach : . PET ee eee mar a RN ob Pace alata ia , en PME LOA MET MBN at, , TE pee TM ” METROPOLIS © The Achievements of Robert Lewi ‘Waring as a Lawyer and Riece Mat Negroes of the Metropolis Fail t Show Interest in Booker T. Wash ington Memorial Campaign—At Tw Days’ Bazaar Held 10 Interest o Movement Where Governor ® Whit man Speake—Small Attendance a * Each Evening—Dr. J. W, Brows > Dwek’ From General Confererte~ Rev. Dr. and Mre. M. B. Hucles Tendered Banquet by Mombers an Friends of Baptist Tessple—Genera Notes. 1{Allen’s Nattonal News Bureau, 321 West 89 Street.) Now York City, May 29, 1916.—The old adage “that a man a the architec of his own fortune” In atrikingls dorno out In the life and career o Robert Lewis Waring of .this city who in one of the most eminent mer of the race practicing at the bar. Mr Waring ja not only an able lawyer Dut Is an author and socioligist a well. It {n perinps as ‘a Inwyer that he-bas achieved his greatest eminence and in this fold Mr. Waring as wor a place in the lenal life of the coun try which should give {naptration tc many of tho younger men struggling Jn this difficult feld. Since coming to this clty from Wash ington, be has taken 2 foremost piace in the proféssion. and ranks today a» one of tho-ablest lawyorn before the New York courts, He has fixured {0 somo of the most notable . criminal canes In which the race wan involved, and his dare and courage. tonethor with hin splend{d preparation, has te sulted in his winning many xIgnnl victories for the race. The life of Mr. Waring has boen fone of constant achlovemonts for hin race, and he haa succeeded In break: fog down many Infamous ordtannces which worked to the detriment of the Face... Your correspondent called on Mr. Waring at bis omice, 178 West 135th Street last week and ought an Inter- view. Mr. Waring wanvborn in Kain mazoo, Michigan, but went at an carty age to Washington, D. C...where he wan educated in the public achools of that city. He did spectal work In the college department of Howard Xntrereity and then entered the Inw school of that university, from which he graduated in 1908. He worked bis way throug’ the’ Inw school by serving on the po: lice force of Wanhington. 1¢ wns while working an a policoman that he wan brought face to face with con Aittons that confronted the race anit which gave him a soctological in aight into raco conditions which moved him to welte one of the maxt convin- fng anawera to the dixerimination te which the raco auffera In this conntry in a book entitled “An We See It” The book brought the author consid erablo fame and presenta the care of the educated Negro who acen the ‘prob: Jem from ita right angle. Mr. Waring wax admitted to the Supreme Court of the district of Columbia in. 190% and for seven years practiced his pro. feasion with success in that city. He figured in a murder caso in that city. In which the district attorney ret to take a plea. White a poltceman in Washington, he succeeded in neeing the humilia- tlon to which the Negro sufferx at the hands of prejudiced white oMicers. and when ho became a lawyer ho did much to atop.the promtscour: heaving ot Negroes. He also succeeded in having removed from the force #ev- eral officers who were {2 tho habit of perjuring themeclves when testifying for Negroes, - Mr, Waring wax active In the polit tcal life of Washington and was the campaign manager of General An- drow Burt -which proved to be one of tho most notable campaigns of the country. Mr. Warlng camo to this city in July, 1912, and for two years, prior to bis admission to the bar, he rook an active part in the.civic affaira onfronting the race. In 1914 ho was dmitted to the bar and dmmediately ecame activo in his profession Among the notablo cnses In which he | aa figured and which ‘will ever stand o hin credit as a lawyer, 18 9 cate in| ; ehich 18 nambered among the worst, n' the criminal annals of the city. It as thé caso of 2 press agent by the ame of Piitt who was employed. by, Jeutenant Recker to gather evidenco Katnat colored people. Piltt entered ‘saloon one Bight and shot an inno ent colored man, by the name of, raverly Carter. Mr. Waring worked p the evidencé and snceeeded in get- ing a judgment against Plite which enatted.-in a $5,000 verdict for Car- rs widow. Another caso in which ¢ figured recently was''the case pninst Charles W. Darkewho wus narged. with murder In the firat de red. The case wan one ‘of the, mort lobrated docked in the New York yurts, and lasted a fall court weer. > brilliant and effective was the ork of Mr. Waring in thin cane, an- | ft reanited in the disagreement. of o jary and endet in a decision of analaughter, for which “‘n sentence “from seven to fourteen yeare was ven. : Mr. Waring {e prominent with the dgea of this city and ‘is freouent!~ aigned to cases where helpful ad- ce is needed. Mr.-Wartng ia 2 staunch Repub'!-| tm n and will take an active part in| em THE GEM HAIR GOODS CO. | 235 Duffield St, Breoklys, NY. | GEM SKIN WHITENER ( a & Petite wiaagn ws ‘te wonr aie be ede h Stee eS Suis Ft ey ~ie eo pentane me ent me ie ‘QD, SED Oullieté Orest, Gecteu. h.Y. _ aarti ame eee oe ae dot wk eae Refw'ef the race voting for the Demo ee a0 comes ‘trom’ a, distin family of professional’ people Bete the som ef Rev. William Waring eae’ of the carly members of the rac te graduate Crem Oberiin college. His ‘Wrother ta Dr. J. H. Waring, and bi: ingtoy, “tad Sire 3" Warford ones . ira. J. ‘Homes of Pittsbarg. Mr. Waring married in 1913, Miss. Emma Parks, one of the moet accomplished: women of the race NEGROES ‘OF THIS CITY SHOW POOR INTEREST IN BOOKER WASHINGTON MEMORIAL ~ “CAMPAIGN, rs ; ‘The colored popwiation of this cit} is showing ilttle interest in she cam: paign that has been waged in thi« jeity for the Inst few weeks to raise '& portion of the $240,000 as a part o' the fund to raise a monument in th form of an endowment for Tuakegec in memory of the late educator Judging from the poar interest tha: {6 being shown in the movement. th! ‘city will fall far bebind fn the run that fs"betng made to perpetuate the memory of’ the great educator wb gave bis life for the good of his race _ The campaign committee bes been made up of some of the. leading an¢ most influential citizens of the rnce in this: city, and just why these mor have failed to tnspire confidence into the public as to bring forth a response 1s more than 1s known at this time Your correspondent caught in th alr however, lust week, that one or two of the men of the general ¢ mittee are not popular with the pu’ Me, and {t fa believed that thin has something to do with the poor inter. est that fs being taken tn the move. tment here. Deatpte the fact thr‘ & committee of Iadies have vialtet th various churches of the city. appen’. fu for funds, the response has been fn mont, discouraging, and haa thrown a xenoral damper on the whole move: mont. The first evidence of gencral din- satlefaction that came to tho notice of your correspondent was last week. when a bazaar was arranxed at the Manhattan Casino fo the interent 0: the movement. The bazaar was held for two ovenings, bexinning In- Thursday abd‘ endivg Friday. The {nvitation to business ‘ind_profession- al men of the city to take booths were poorly responded to. A splen: aid program had been arranged for the two ovenings, including the ap: pearance of Governor Whitman. The governor came as promised, br hardly two hundred ‘people grecte! him, Tho attendance was very poor at cach evening and the Inck of at tendagco wan one of the Rroateat wu prises of the evéning. A conspictous thing ood by your corresponden:. wax on the crening 0 fthe appearance of the governor, all of tho member of tho comrhittes were prexont, bu" on tho second erening Just one or two of the committee were present staunch friends of Dr. Washington {tv thin clty are ead over the result - tha showing of the colored people this time and ft lookn aa If the inter eat that was shown at tho coming of Dr. Washington to this city wife mere sham and makeshift. The great que~ ion that 1s confronting the Negro in chin city, hba Dr. Warhington Inbored in ain, and are the colored people af thin city going to taco what woul!” pe an overiaating disgrace? . DR. J. W. BROWN BACK’ FROM GENERAL CONFERENCE. Rev. Dr. J. W. Brown, pastor of Mother Zlan A. MLB, Church, and, one of the ablest of thie Zion pastors, ax returned to bis charge from gen- ral conference fn oLuiaville. Dg Brown {a fublinnt over the work of he conference and told your corre: pondent that he believed the work of thin general conference wax note. vorthy In many waya. In spenking st vartoun phares of the canferenes sroceedings, he maid that he wns es: ectally pleased with the legislation hat made the Sunday school depart: nent a full pledge department of the harch. Thia legtstation “he opty on of Dr. Brown, wil make Zi le: artmaent more Mcient and powerful Tt ala, maid Dr. Brown, “gives the oung men moro power and influence p the church. Prof. J. W. Elchel- erger of Walters Institute was ap- jointed head of the Sunday school cpartment. Speaking of the cénfer- nce In general. Dr. Brown aa{@ their, ora about four hundred delegates ho represented the pick of the church, nd who. will be remembered as the Intory makern of tho church. The jerryman pralsed tho personel of she UF Rew bishops elected at the Ken- ral conference, and anid that the men HI reMect the highest credit upon 1¢ church and racé. Dr. Brown wan no of the busy men af the confer. ce. HE was a momber of the Com- ttee on Revision. the committee to lect the next ruseting of the confer-| ice, and wan chairman of the Andit-{ x Committee. Since coming to thin city, .throe arn axd, Dr. Brown bas done much | r tho church to which he pastored. | e moved the church from Wert ns Pn Eighty-atath Strevt to West Cow Hes dred Sind Thirty-sixth - Brest, -whict 4a one of tie, most beantifel struc tures lin the city. “A parsonage nex “door bas als ‘been. bought. The church is valued at $40,000, and.» membership “of, six hundred. ‘The cburch has thirty-two auxillaries, Dr. Brown is « graduate of Lincoln University, and is well thought of in thiscity, . REV. AND MRS, HUCLESS HON- ORED BY THEIR CHURCH. In honor of the fifth anniversary .of the pastorate of tho Rev. Dr. M. W. ‘Huctess, pastor of the Baptist Temple burch, @ banquet was tendered he ‘and Mra, Hucless Inst Monday oven- ing by members and friends of - the church, The occasion also marked the close of the celebration of the seventeenth anfivérsary of the church which hed been running for a week. A large number of the members of the church were present and showered congratulations upon the young pas- tor and bis wife for the good that ho had done for the church since becom: ing its pastor, five years ago. A muateal and literary. program was one of the features of the evening. Rev. G, H, Simms, of Union Baptist Church, presided, and addresses were made by representatives of the vari- ous departments of the church and visitiog pastors. D. J. Randolph, who represented the Board of Deaconr, traced the ‘his- tory of the church sMmce it was found: ed In 1899, and safd during that time, there wore four pastors, He sald. the church had passed the many criscn, Aaron Taylor, who spoke for the trustees, aaid that body of men were with their pastor {n bis effort to duild up a greater church. J. S. Sav age spoke for the B. Y. P. U.. and the superintendent, H. H. Harrix, spoke for the Sunday school. Rey. Huciess then mado his report. He sald when ho came to tho church five veara ago, he found them worshipping in aybase- ment with fifty members. but today the church had property valued at $20,000, and a membership of some, thing ke five hundred. We sald there were twenty-nine auxillarics, all of whom Tere active, He auld the church was well organized, and ts en: foying the most prosperous part of Its hintary. At the conclusion of the report the following well-known mns- tors made helpful addresses: Rev | W. 8, Hoder, af the Conkregntionnt Church; Rev. J. W. Lucas, of the! Ebnezer Baptist Church tn Flushing; Rev. ‘Robinson, of the Ministers’) Union, and Cleveland G. Allen, who) spoke for the colored press. The exteem in which Rev, and Mra. Huc- leas are held by the members of the church and friends, wan neen In the substantial donations, both in money and other xaluables, Rev. Hucleax tx one of the! most progressive of the younger partors of thi« city. GENERAL NOTES. A delegation of prominent colored citizens called on Theodore Roosevelt Innt Saturday and teatiNed by their presence that they were for him {3 the run for president. Hon. Ernest Lyons, of Baltimore. Md., formerly pastor of St. Mark’n M. E. Church tn thin city, waa a ‘visitor, fo tho elty last week on buainess. R. S. 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The steauiahtp wit Soars expetition, The at Teere@er * . ```markdown ``` FINALS AT BENEDICT COLLEGE LARGE NUMBER OF GRADUATES PINE, ADDRESS=FAITHFUL LEAVERS=EXCELLENT SERMON. Many Prizes Given for Excellent Work at South Carolina College. Columbia, S. C. It was just after the golden rays of the setting sun had softly disappeared from the distant horizon, while I stood on the porch of College Hall at Benedict College, when a body of neatly dressed and dignified young ladies were uniformly marched within a few yards of me, from my left, to Convention Hall, just beyond my right. After passing me to join their young classmates at Convention Hall, I found myself meditating on conditions and circumstances that had to be conquered by both pupils and teachers, before the College could present to its invited guest such fine showings. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by Rev. J. H. Eason, of Birmingham, Ala. Knowing as I did, that through the courtesy of President B. W. Valentine and Prof George W. Pegues, special arrangement had been made for me on the stage. I soon left the porch to join those seated on the rostrum. The graduating classes entered led by Dr. Valentine with Rev Eason leaning on his arm, followed by teachers and those of the graduating classes. Perfect quietness reigned for a few seconds, then the college choir sang one of its beautiful selections, at the close of which Dr. Valentine made a short prayer. Then Dr. J. J. Durham read as a lesson, the eighteenth Psalm, at the close of which Rev. Johnson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, prayed. Then a solo. President Valentine introduced the speaker for the occasion, Rev. G. H. Eason of Birmingham, Ala. The star speech of the commencement was the sermon by Rev. J. H. Eason, of Birmingham, Ala. It was a literary gem and was delivered with ease. The preacher is naturally an elegant man and a charming speaker. He spoke on the dignity and glory of man, taking for his text eighth Psalm, fourth verse. Rev. Frederick C. Redfern, Ph.D. dean of the faculty, was heard to say that the sermon was the best description of the glory and dignity of man that he ever heard. Rev. Eason is a graduate of Selma University, Selma, Alabama and of the Richmond Theological Seminary Richmond, Virginia and was once professor of mathematics and media physics in Selma University. He is now the honor pastor of Jackson Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama and President of the Baptist State Convention. Throughout his entire discourse he pleaded with the young men and women of the class to let themselves down into the sphere of usefulness that they might be the means of lifting others. The best duties must be spent to develop the race, said the speaker. Rev. Johnson, of the Presbyterian Church made closing prayer. After announcements by the President and closing song by the choir, the assemblage was dismissed. On every side one could hear words of approval as to the success of the meeting. EXERCISES OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL AND S. S. CLASSES. On Monday, May 22, at 2:45 P.M. the Ministerial and Training Sunday School classes led by Dr. Valentine, Rev. M. P. Hall, D, D., Rev. E. R. Roberts, D. D., Rev. J. H. Eason, D. D., entered the chapel. The classes sat in front of the rostrum and the divines on the rostrum. President Valentine presided. The following program was rendered: Music, college choir; invocation, Rev. E. R. Roberts; solo, oration, by John W. Dowdle, subject: The Minister and His Work; second oration by John Wofford White, subject: "Christianity Humanity's Safety guard; hymn, choir; oration, The Three-fold Preparation necessary for Service, Thomas C. Phillips; solo, Rev. T. C. Phillips; essay, The Advantage of the Teachers' Training Class, Miss Beulah P. Simpson; hymn by the choir; address to the class, Rev. Dr. M. P. Hall, President of Friendship College. As it quite a pleasure to have the president announce that Dr. Hall would address the graduating class. Dr. Hall is well known to us all. He is looked upon as a Christian gentleman and is always the same. Those who heard him could not charge him with the needless use of words, because he carefully chose such words as would most fitting convey his thoughts. Dr. Valentine said it gave him great pleasure to have a Sunday School representative on the ministerial graduating class and had the class to face the ministers on the rostrum. Dr. Valentine said, to them: "Much complaint is heard nowadays about young people graduating in our schools and colleges, but of very little service to the Sunday School of their Church. I am glad to present these young people to you, wishing that they will prove to be of great help to you in your Church and Sabbath School work." The remarks of President Valentine along these lines were very helpful and will prove to be of incal- The choir sang "Tro' the Forest," the class poem, class history, class will and class prophecy and presentation of shield, created quite a stir. In the class history, the qualification and congeniality of the teachers were made plain and endorsed. The historian said she was very glad one of the professors had purchased a pair of glasses, after which they noticed the marking was so much better. The class will was read by Miss Gracie Wilson, of Conway, S.C. The class prophecy looked with an eye of faith into the future. A certain member of the class came back from the West 1930 and faced his chum, a professor, living in one of the colleges on the campus with a large family to keep him happy. Then we mention last, but not least, the presentation of the shield by Ralph Mark Gilbert, of Selma, Alabama, of the College preparatory. The address was well composed and delivered by him in an able and scholarly manner. Mr. Zack Townsend, of the first year preparatory, from Chadbourne, N. C. rose to receive the shield and thus relied, "Mr. President and members of the graduating class, I assure you that it is a rare privilege and honor to stand here tonight and receive your long bowie and much battered shield in behalf of my class. We rejoice in congratulating you upon your struggle and attainments. As you enter the broad field of service and content for yet nobler prizes we predict unbounded success. We shall strive to be loyal to the dear old shield and keep the standard high and awake in our hearts. We victory and kind words to our serves as a stimulant for us in the ground yet to be covered. We have not wings, we cannot soar. But we have feet to scale and climb. By slow degrees, by more and more. The cloudy summits of our time." ANNUAL ALUMNI MEETING. At three o'clock Tuesday evening, the Alumni met in the chapel of College Hall, President George P. Posies presiding. All matters pertaining to the association having been disposed of, except the report of the treasurer. The association next discussed places for the annual banquet. It was decided to add $20.00 to the $100.00 now on deposit in bank, so that the interest annual would be $1.00 in gold to be given to the one for excellence in college chemistry, to be known as the Osborn prize. To be awarded by the Alumni of Bendy College. After electing the following named officers the meeting adjourned. Prof George W. Pegues, president. Mr. R. W. Jackson, treasurer; Mrs. Sarah A. Walker, secretary; Miss C. B. Singleton, Neptologist; Executive committee, Prof D. L. Jenkins, chairman, Mr. D. Walsh, Dr. Durham Comets, Miss Martina Chambers, Prof S. L. Finley. On Tuesday P.M. at 9:30 o'clock the Rev R. Carroll, of Columbia, addressed the alumni in the chapel. COMMENCEMENT DAY. At two o'clock Tuesday P.M. the graduates in the high school department with teachers and visitors assembled in the chapel. The program was quite satisfactorily rendered and at the conclusion Dr. Valentine invited all to visit Carnegie Library and inspect millinery work of the students. The articles seen there were very commendable indeed. Those receiving diplomas were Candidates for Military 11; Candidates for Domestic Science, first year, 4; Candidates for Domestic Science Certificate, second year, 4; Candidates for Sunday School Teachers' Training School, 10; Candidate for the College Preparatory Department, 4; Candidates for L. J. Degree 12; Candidates for Short Ministerial Course, 2; Candidate for the Degree or Bachelor of Theology, 3; Candidates for the Degree of A. B., 5. When the diplomas and certificates were handed out on Wednesday night various guns of money were given for excellent work in the various departments. E. B WEBSTER Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. Literary was full of fire last Friday night. The round table talk conducted by Mr. Gibbs on the subject, "Etiquette" was a pointed hour and every man was on the job. Last Sunday was a crowded day for service. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the workers' meeting was a good one. The committee for the city home work found much to be done in the home and all were helped. 10 A. M. 10 A. M. In the city jail, 13 prisoners were lead to accept Christ as their personal saviour. Committeeman C. B. Gaston conducted the meeting for the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Master George Howell rendered a piano solo which was a good number. Committeeman B. L. Allen and Prof. J. H. Rhore delivered special addresses. The meeting was a good one. Mothers, we thank you. Send your bows again. Mr. Fred. W. Ball. 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. delivered a very timely address. Subject, Unity. The speaker was very pointed and made a great hit with the men. The Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. held a very important meeting last Friday night at the Y. M. C. A. This department of the work is doing much to help us reach the boys and men. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Every mother is asked to send her boys to the special meeting for boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. 5:30 P. M. a special meeting for men. Mr. Amoe C. Clarke will have a special message for the men. Come and bring the other man. Live singing. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. The Campaign of the Virginia, Anti Tuberculosis Association Commended by Gov. Huart. In the office of the Virginia Anti- Tuberculosis Association much pleasure was manifested in the following letter From Governor Stuart: May 29, 1916. May 29, 1910 Miss Agnes D. Randolph, Executive Secretary, Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Richmond, Va. "My dear Miss Randolph: I am greatly interested in the campaign which is being conducted by your Association for the purpose of arousing local interest in the new laws for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. In the building of local sanitaria and in stimulating that sort of community philanthropy which makes it possible for the indigent tuberculous to receive local treatment through local appropriations, may be found the best plan of campaign we know against the White Plague. Very sincerely yours, ("Signed") H.C. STUART. The campaign referred to, is for the purpose of stimulating interest in the care by the local governments of the tuberculous. There are thirty five thousand cases of tuberculosis in the State, while only three hundred beds have been provided. Provisions have been made by every county in New York for the care of these patients. The death rate has been cut two-thirds. Massachusetts has also finished a campaign to build local camps, and has a much lowered death rate. Interviewed in her office Mrs Randolph stated that the State Association was interested in the study of one or two communities looking to the building of camps. With the active cooperation of Mr. Brewer, of Suffolk, chairman of the Appropriation Committee, a bill was passed authorizing communities to care for their indigent tuberculous at the State sanitarium. Several communities have written to the State Association with regard to this law, and it would appear that the interest in it was widespread. An officer of the Association stated today, that they naturally felt much pleasure in the interest expressed by Governor Stuart in this matter. That the problems in connection with it were very complex, but that the interest in it of such men as Governor Stuart would insure its ultimate success. Jones-Allen Reception. The marriage reception of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, of South Richmond was held at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Flemming, 2214 Hull Street, Wednesday night, May 31st. The occasion was largely attended by friends from Petersburg, Richmond, and South Richmond. Many presents were received. The bride's father, in company with Capt. Charles McClathorne, Corporal James Bartlett and family spent a pleasant evening. There was a profusion of flowers. Miss Florence E. Allen, the bride, is the daughter of Capt. David Allen. FLORENCE, S. C. Florence, S. C., June 7, 1916—Mr. T. Scott, of Clear Water, Fla. passed through the city recently en route to Philadelphia, Pa., as chief cook. Mr. W. B. Shaw, a merchant of Mullins, S. C., attended the plenate at Meadow Strong Ragfist Church. He is junior steward of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church at Mullins, S. C. Mr. Charles Scott, of Goldsboro, N. C., offited Sumter and Kingstree, S. C. He is a contractor, for moving houses, etc. Rev. D. A. Perrin, of Orlando, Fla., has returned form the General A. M. E. Conference at Philadelphia, Pa. He served on the Committee on Finance Secretary's report. Mr. W. J. Andrews at Sumter, is his father-in-law. Mr. Luther Best and wife, Mrs. Estelle, are here for awhile, visiting Mrs. H. B. Jackson, East Florence. Mrs. J. S. Parker, of Charleston, S. C. has returned home. Rev. T. H. Hines, of the city, left for the Mt. Rona Baptist Church, Charlton, June 4. Miss Etherlene Smaltl, of Charleston, S. C., is visiting in Conway, S. C., where her father is in the tailoring business. Miss Eliza Nelson has gone to Cherow S. C. Rev. T. Hines has contracted to repair the Hodges home. Mr. G. S. Reaves, of Mullina, S. C., is in Sumter, S. C. Miss Mandell General, of Marion, S. C., has returned from the Browninghome School, at Camden, S. C. inghome School, at Camden, S. C. She is taking music, cooking and sewing. Miss Georgia Govau, of Wadesboro, N. C., is now at home. Mr. R. N. Herring, of Newburn, N. C., has returned from Honolulu Islands, having been with the United States Army to the Philippines. He will locate at Wilmington in business. He is an ex-student of Hampton. Mr. G: W. Perkins, of Gainesville, Fla., attended the general conference at Philadelphia. He introduced a resolution at the general conference to the effect that ministers report to the annual conference all moneys received for the poor and charitable purposes, etc. Mrs. Carrie Carty, of Sumter, B. C., is visiting in Albermarle, N. C. Rev. G. W. Long, principal of the Presbyterian High School at Cheraw, has returned from a vacation in North. While North, he visited Atlantic City, N. J. New York. Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., and other places. He and his family are highly respected in the Pee Dee section of the State. Mrs. P. L. La. Cour, matron at the Brickle School, has gone to Nashville. Tenn., to witness the graduation of her daughter, Miss Lutche Vivian, at Fisk University. 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R. MRS. LUCY LEE, Prop., 5 Plains Street, Elmhurst, L. I. Address after June 22nd, "The Ocean House," Sea Isle City, N. J. Ocean House Sea Tale N.J. Dance Music will be furnished a given to week-end parties. Terms—Our Special Offer for July for one week and less than four Special Rates for families for the on request. Special Rates for p occupying a dormitory for four Week-End—Saturday Tea until This Hotel is the only property we front. It has wide porches and eve Bathing. Fishing. Boating and An Transportation—The Pennsylvania MRS. LUCY LEE. Prop., 5 P. Address after June 22nd, "The Ocean Ville, S. C. has been on a visit to St. Augustine, Flu. Mr. Frank Nelson after visiting Columbia, S. C., on business, returned to his home at Florence the 23rd that, First Baptist Church at Chester, S. C., is in attendance at the commencement at Benedict College, Columbia, S. C. Mr. Nelson is secretary of his bldge, Joint Stock Company, No. 32, Florence, S. C. RICHARD CARROLL'S HOME Rev. and Mrs. R. Carroll invited me to dine with them on Wednesday, and in company with Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Dr. Sexton, of Spartanburg, S. C., we left the college grounds at 11:30 A. M., in Rev. Carroll's automobile, Mr. B. Carroll, "engineer." Rev. Thos. C. Phillipe, of Union, was also invited, but was delayed till that evening, so that Mrs. Phillipe might join him. In a short while Rev. Carroll came, and dinner being ready, we all were invited in the dining room, and soon seated to a palatable meal. Rev. Carroll kept the company in good humor with his witty sayings and joking Mrs. Carroll and making fun at himself. Mrs. Carroll invited me back to supper, but I took ten at the college. Mrs. Eugenia Watson, of Columbia, S. C., visited her son in Richmond, Va. Rev. T. W. Johnson, of Bennettsville, S. C., has gone to Nichols, S. C., to visit Friendship Baptist Church. E. B. 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