Richmond Planet

VOLUME XXXIII, NO. 37 DR. R. E. JONES' MOTHER GONE. The funeral of Mrs. Alice Royal, mother of Dr. R. E. Jones, one of the leading physicians of this city took place last Monday afternoon, at four P. M. at the Third Street A. M. E. Church. She had been sick for many months and was a patient sufferer. The end came last Saturday, July 28, 1916. Rev. M. E. Davis, D. D. officiated. He wore the robe of the church. It was an impressive scene as he proceeded down the alley leading the funeral cortege. He was accompanied by Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D. Rev. Scott C. Burrell, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Rev. O. G. Jenkins and Rev. Paul C. Easley, of whom afterwards occupied soats on the rostrum. PRELIMINARY EXERCISES The bymn was given out by Rev. S. C. Burrell. Prayer was offered by Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D. Resolutions from the organizations of which she had been a member were read. The Woman's Movement, Mrs. Zemoria D. Wood, President, sent resolutions. Mattie Fold, No. 75, Improved Order. Sons and Daughters or Bethlehem read resolutions and then came Mechanics' Court, No. 145. Order of Calanthe. Rev. M. E. Davis, D. D., the pastor delivered a most impressive sermon from Revelation, 14:13. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their Labours; and their works do follow them." A TOUCHING DISCOURSE Rev. Dr. Davis made a most touching appeal in his discourse and moved many to tears as he portrayed the many admirable qualities of the deceased in her labor for the A. M. E. Church, of which she had been a member for more than a decade. When he had concluded the discourse the choir sang selections that awakened old memories. One of the selections was a favorite with the deceased. Then the mourning cortège passed out to the street and then moved on to the cemetery. The floral designs were numerous. The pall-bearers were: Honorary, Prof. A. V. Norrell, Sr. B. F. Turner, Sr.; Active, Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey, Dr. William H. Hughes, Dr. Walter Brown, Jacob F. Wright. Funeral Director W. Isaac Johnson and Sons officiated. SILVER CUP FOR DR. FERGUSON. A very pleasant surprise greeted Dr. D. A. Ferguson at the T1-State Dental Association meeting when he was presented with a beautiful silver loving cup by the Dentists of Virginia. The idea was originated by Dr. J. M. G. Ramasoy, of Richmond and Dr. E. L. H. Rance, of Suffolk, last February, when several Dentists were enroute to Lynchburg to attend a meeting of the Old Dominion State Dental Society. Although Dr. Ferguson was on the train at the time, he knew absolutely nothing of the secret until Dr. J. T. Lattimore, of Hampton, had finished a most eloquent and inspiring presentation speech. In concluding his remarks, he stated that this cup is not presented Dr. Ferguson as the President of the Tri-State Dental Association, but as the inscription there on reads: "An expression or appreciation to Dr. D. A. Ferguson, Dentist and Friend, from his Colleagues of the State of Virginia, presented at the third annual meeting of the Tri-State Dental Association, Buckroe Beach, Va. July, 1916." On the opposite side, the following names are enraved: "Doctors W, B. Anderson, R. C. Brown, R. J. Brown, S. D. Calloway C. S. Cowan, E. D. Downing, J. W. Bluford, E. R. Dudley, J. E. Geary, J. H. Jackson, O. R. Johnson, N. Lassiter, J. T. Lattimore, W. M. Logan, W. T. Lovette, J. M. G. Ramage, E. L. H. Rance, L. A. Reld, T. A. Stevens, C. C. Strong, H. P. Weeden, S. F. Coppage, S. A. Thomas, J. L. McGriff. On the base, the following: "Committee—J. M. G. Ramsey, E. L. H. Rance.". The cup is twelve inches high and will hold two quartes of nice cold butter-milk, of which the Doctor is very fond. A REMARKABLE CHART. Attorney James Alexander Chiles, of Lexington, Ky., who is also a Seventh Day Adventist, has published what is known as "The Eureka Miracle Life Chart." It is 7 by 10 1-5 inches and it must have taken a long time to prepare it. To the uninitiated, it is an original that will require much study. It is printed in two colors and sells for ten cents. It has been copyrighted by the author in the United States, Canada and in Great Britain. Copies may be obtained by advertising the author at 149 N. Lumberton St., Lexington, Ky. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAE. Despite the tremendous downpour of rain last Monday night, a goodly number of officers of the subordinate lodges of the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Caltantha presented themselves for installation. The rostrum was magnificently decorated. A life-size portrait of Grand Chancellor Mitchell rested on an easel, while the colors of the Order and the cut flowers added to the beauty or the scene. Around the rostrum with the Grand Chancellor sat District Deputy Grand Chancellor L. J. Morris, Past Grand Chancellor W. R. Green, Brigade Surgeon, A. A. Tennant, Grand Master-a-Arms W. H. Willis, Col John R. Chiles, State Deputy, Mrs. Anna Taylor, District Deputy, Mrs. Lucy Cross. Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. spent some time propounding questions on law to the officers and they replied, giving their opinion as to the law. Prayer and song service was a feature. Then the religious exercises were conducted by Rev. L. J. Morris and Rev. James W. Pryor. Choir Leader Joseph Matthews sang a solo, after which Miss M. L. Chilles delivered an address, which seemed with information concerning the Order. She was applauded at the close. Rev. L. J. Morris delivered a short address. Then the officers of the lodges and courts were installed by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. The scene was impressive. He explained the different departments of the Order, told of the Vacation Clubs and then spoke of the Nation-wide Thrift Movement of the American Bankers' Association. Upon motion of Miss M. L. Chilles, the body unanimously adopted the plan. An excellent organ selection was rendered by Mrs. Mary Satterfield. Benediction was announced by Rev. J. W. Pryor. OUR UMBRELLA GIFTS We have been giving away, many of the adjustable umbrellas as a result of the coupon offers, which have been appearing in The Planet. Owing to the recent increase of price in the material, the amount of the coupons has been increased to $30.00. If you pay your subscription to The Planet, ask for umbrella coupons. If you have job work done, ask for umbrella coupons. When the work amounts to $30.00 you are entitled to a free umbrella. It is of good quality. The handle can be removed by simply pressing a spring and the other end can be taken off by unscrews it. It can be carried in a suitcase or in a trunk. We are offering a graphaphone equal to those sold for $25.00. You get it free of charge. Just collect $100.00 worth of coupons from those who pay their subscriptions or who have their work done at The Planet office. We will have the machine shipped to you to any part of the United States. The machine may be seen in our office. It plays the latest records from the most expensive to the cheapest. Read the announcement in another column. GUEST AT HOTEL DALK Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Turner, Harrisbury, Pa.; Mrs. Moses Minms and Son, B. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rose, Miss Nash, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnson, Newark, N. J.; Mrs. G. M. William, Hartford, Copn.; Mrs Grace B. Valentine, Borden, M. J.; Mr. and Mrs. George Crampton, Mr. Elits Moore, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. J. L. Todd, Indianaapolis, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Clopham, Camden, N. J.; Miss Nellie Hall, Leslie Lily Mary, Dr. Sebastian Vax, Mr. John B. Morris, Mra. Mousselon Griffin, Mr. Charles Steward, Mr. Thomas Dorsey, Mr. William Almond, Mr. Robert Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Walker, Mr. and Mrs. John Harris, Dr. Robert Abel, Philadelphia; Dr. J. Dixon, Washington, D. C.; Mr. William A. Hollis, Germantown, Pa.; Mr. R. Valentine, Borden, N. J.; Edna L. Preto, St. Croix, W. I. BAPTIST ORGANIZATIONS. All Baptist Associations, State and District Conventions holding annual meetings between now and July, should elect delegates to the Jubilee Meeting of 1817. Every association and convention of whatever size of Baptist workers should be represented. Now is the time to elect delegates. The authoritative date of the Jubilee meeting is July 10th-1917. Mrs. Mamie F. Branton wishes to check her many friends for their hincest shown during her husband's fitness and death. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916 The Grand Master Watchman reports the field work in a splendid condition. Six (6) new lodges organised within three weeks. Great rejoicing at the office on his return. Grand Mistress made several flying trips in the interest of the Order. Mrs. Ada B. Burrell brings to the office money for two new lodges. She has several other clubs in operation. Madam M. Jeanneette Gibbon, that uniring worker for fraternal society, has Richmond on a boom with the ladies of Richmond holding up her arms. That quiet and unassuming lady, Madam M. M. Davenport, looks strictly to the office work. She rushes the orders to the field on time. THROUGH THE COLUMNS OF THE PLANET. Mr. C. A. Puryear, our Grand Master Watchman, has returned to the office after spending some time at his home in South Boston, Va. Quite a little surprise was arranged to greet him on his return to Richmond. The office was beautifully decorated. A table laden with the season's delicacies greeted him. The Committee of Arrangement were Mr. William Saunders, Mrs. Louisa Saunders, M. M. Davenport, Mrs. Kate Tinning, Mrs. Elliza Norrell sent her contribution. The guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. William Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Stokes, Mrs. M. G. Hewin, Miss Sarah Hewin, Mr. and Mrs. Tinning, Mrs. M. J. Gibson, Mr. William Hines, Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Matthews, Bettie Sue Vaughan, Mr. Arthur Matthews, an dothers, whose names I failed to get. After a delightful stay, all at a late hour wended their way home. GUNS TURNED ON PETERSBURG. Before leaving for his home, the Grand Master Watchman gave orders to his lieutenants to turn their guns on Petersburg. THE GRAND MISTRESS IN PETERSBURG. The Grand Mistress went at once to the city on the Appomattox. Being assisted by Miss Besale Jones and Mrs. Ward, they soon had the Watchmen's work started in Petersburg. Later they were reinforced by that intruded worker, Mrs. M. J. Gibson. On leaving for Richmond, these workers left Petersburg with one senior and one Nursery lodge marching under the Watchmen's Flag. REV. W. A. MITCHELL PREACHES On Sunday, Harrison Street Baptist Church pulpit was filled by that noted pulpit scholar, Rev. W. A. Mitchell, of Richmond. Rev. Mitchell's two sermons were replete with good sound Gospel truths. At night our Grand Master Watchman was given some time to say something to the good people of Petersburg. The Grand Master Watchman, in his quiet way, peculiar to himself, used a few moments in telling the people why the Watchmen's guns had been turned on Petersburg. It was soon seen that Petersburg would be taken into the Watchmen's Camp. The Grand Master Watchman, in company with Mrs. Sarah Ward and Mr. Howard, called to see Mrs. Stith, Vice-President of a social club. Soon, the President (Mr. Jones) was sent for. After some pointed questions were answered and the work explained, these parties at once decided to become Watchmen. The result in Petersburg is now after Richmond. BACK IN RICHMOND The Grand Master Watchman and staff, consisting of the following: Mrs. Louis Saunders, M. Jeanette Gibson, M. M. Davenport and Mrs. Julia Stokes, return to Richmond and institute two new lodges at Price's Hall. Light refreshments were served after which all left for their homes. Mrs. Alice M. Levy, our Rt. H. Deputy, returned to the offices this week with money for two new lodges. Hurrah for Levy! Who will be next? 307, 172A, 1916 All members of the Jabbae Committee and the Jabbae called Dawwalle Virginia. Attend 22nd during the meeting of the State State School Convention. This is the first meeting of the Committee and all members are urgently requested to be present. Very truly yours, S. A. Mosey, Chairman Jubilee Committee. —Have you secured one of our prime umbrellas. Read big umbrella offer on page seven. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. MANY HOMELESS IN SHOCKOE FLOOD COLORED FAMILIES DESTITUTE BY RAMPAGE OF WATERS OF OLD SHOCKOE CREEK. White Citizen Blame City Officials for Continued Floods in Valley. The recent downpour of rain has emphasized the fact that the thousands of dollars expended on Shockoe Creek have failed to accomplish the purpose. The radical disagreements between certain branches of the city government in particular and the citizens in general have been noticeable of late. Mr. I. Bluford, proprietor of the Bluford Manufacturing Company seems to have spoken plainly about the matter. The Richmond Va. Evening Leader of July 24, 1916 published the following: Shockoe Creek again went on a rampage during the heavy rains of Saturday and yesterday, and as a result, the entire Shockoe Creek valley, especially that part in the vicinity of Brown and Fifteenth streets, has been rendered unpeaceable. The arch in the bridge over the creek at Marshall Street has been shattered by the onrush of water and trash and is slowly caving in; twenty-five Negro families have been renedered dentite, many of them being now without food and clothing; the Marshall-Street vladict is told to be in danger from the caveen of the Shockoe Creek arch, and the entire neighborhood is covered with a thick coating of mud and fifth extending even way up to the walls of the houses. In many of the lower floors several feet of water is still standing, with no way of draining out. "This condition of affairs is due to nothing less than the negligence of the city of Richmond," declared I. Bluford, of the firm of I. Bluford a Co., whose shop is on Fifteenth, between Brown and Clay streets. "I was here Saturday afternoon during the worst of the flood and again Sunday, and if it had not been for the help my force of men rendered in cleaning away the debris and stuff which collected at the Marshall Street arch we would have had the conditions in the valley as bad as last August. OFFICIALS NOTIFIED "Here these families, some of them bad ones I admit, have been without food since they were driven from their homes and not a single step of relief has been taken by the city. I have notified both Mayor Ainslie, members of the administrative board and the chief of police of conditions down here, and they all said they would in investigate the matter. Now you can see for yourself just what things look like." He waved his hand toward a group of half clothed Negroes, who stood herded in the mud. The houses in the creek bottom were flooded with mud and water, furniture, clothing and food either being swept away in the water or ruined. The water swept down the creek with a rush, picking up pile of debris and rubbish dumped along the banks, hurting it downstream until the Marshall Street arch was reached. Already half filled with sand and mud, the opening could not take the water, and it backed up until for blocks around the streets resembled a lake. Men, women and children dashed out of the houses into water and sought refuge on the upper floors. In many of the homes mattresses, bureaus, chairs and other light pieces of furniture were floated out, broken and piled with the trash of the city's dumping ground against the Maranall Street arch. Three men from the city's engineering department, according to Mr. Bluford, came down and helped his force of men clean away the stuff so the water could pass. Carload after cartload of the stuff taken from the creekbed was hauled away today. PATHETIC TALES OF LOSS Several of the Negro families told pathotic males of hunger and loss, several of them losing practically everything they possessed. All were wandering barefooted through their homes attempting to clean up the mud and sediment which covered both flooring and furniture. Several reported that they had to sleep on the bare springs of their beds because their mattresser had been ruined. Mr. Bluffon was strong in his concession of the city's method in protecting property in this section. On last August he lost $5,000 by the water backing into his place. He said that knowing fall well that another heavy rain would bring about the same conditions, no effort had been made to keep trash and debris off the banks, as was evidenced by the enormous (Continued On Page Five) PRESSBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION HOLD A FINE MESSION IN PETERSBURG The First District Sabbath School Convention under the auspices of the Southern Virginia. Presbytery met the Central Presbyterian Church, at Petersburg, Va. on Friday, the 21st inat. and continued through Sunday, the 23rd. The Rev. A. A. Hector, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Richmond was elected President, and Rev. Charles A. Ward, of Newport News elected Secretary. There was quite a large delegation from the schools including this District and the sessions were well attended. The Rev. W. A. Yancey. Sabbath School Missionary is to be complimented on the success of the Convention. Norfolk, Va. was selected as the next meeting place. DR. JETER'S WORK. (Newport, R. L. News.) The mass meeting held Thursday evening in the Shiloh Baptist Church, in the interest of the colored people throughout the country was well attended. The devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. O. Paul Thompson of West Newton, Mass. Mrs. Mary Jeter Suttler and Miss Sadle Tate were at the piano. The Twenty-third Psalm was repeated, after which Rev. Mr. Thompson lead in prayer. Rev. Henry N. Jeter, D. D., stated the object of the meeting. He said that last fall, while on his vacation, spent with his oldest son, Henry L. Jeter, in Corona, Long Island, he visited Harlem. In that district alone in a radius of three miles are 50,000 of his race, surrounded by all sorts of temptations. What is true of New York is true of all the large cities in the United States. The speaker said on his return home, in the midnight hour, an unseen hand shook him and waked him out of a deep sleep. The vision of the scene he saw in Harlem came before him—thousands of the race who have come from the country into the large cities and are idle, and wasting their lives in sin. Said the speaker: "Every idler who comes in a community who has no means of livelihood adopts to the crime of that community." "I have a conviction and a vision," said Dr. Jeter. "When a man has a conviction and a vision and he knows that it comes from above nothing can discourage him. The plan also he said was given him—to go into the cities and entail the interest of the pastors and laymen of his race and organize a Pastors' and Laymen's Humane and Reform Association. Dr. Jeter spoke of how much he had been encouraged by Bishops Rhineland, of Pennsylvania and Perry of Rhode Island, and other white friends who are friends of the Negro race. Letters of endorsement were also read from Judge Robert H. Terrell of the municipal court of District of Columbia, Dr. Henry M. L. King, for many years pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence; Dr. O. P. Gifford of Brookline, Mack., and Senator Clark Baudick. Dr. Puller of Boston said he had been coming to Newport for some time, but felt very sad on this trip, because he had learned that his friend Dr. Jeter had resigned his church; terp spending all those years and sacrificing all to make the church what it is. He believed Dr. Jeter had been called to do his special work, but he did not believe that God wanted him to resign from the pastorate of the Shiloh church. "My life-long friend, Dr. Jeter," said he, "is launching a practical, sane and long-needed organization for the betterment of the condition of the American Negro." Abraham Lincoln did not free the Negro; he made it possible for the Negro to free himself. It lies in cohesion and not in adhesion; it lies in faith and not in doubt. These are the morning days of the Negro race and not the sunset hours of the Negro. Mr. Watt Terry, who came from Brockton, Mass., with four other colored men told in an interesting way how the Negro race could make good and asked the colored citizens of Newport if they were making good. Mrs. Burrell of Washington, a contrato-singer, and Miss Tate of Newport rendered solos. An organization known as the Panthers' and Laymen's Humane and Reform Association was formed. DR LEWIS GETS A WRIT OP ERROR IN POLICY CASE. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia awarded a writ of error in the case of Dr. J. Alexander Lewis, who was convicted of defrauding the Home Beneficial Insurance Co., and his punishment fixed at one year in the Virginia penitentiary. With little extra effort you can get one our prize graphaphones. Sea offer on back page. PERSONALS AND BRIEF8. Under the new arrangement, garbage will be collected three times per week. The body of Ira Montsomery, white, was recently found in the dock. Mr. William Miller has recently returned from an extended northern trip. Rev. T. J. King, D. D., left the city to take a vacation. The Fifth Street Baptist Church voted him a month's rest. Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey says that he does not intend to purchase a flying machine. The rain has been sufficient to please the most ardent prohibitionist. Sir J. H. Thomas of Emporia, Va., was in the city this week and called on us. John Hines, of 105 E. Charity Street, was shot twice through the body by George Banks last Sunday. Miss Theresita B. Chiles left the city last Tuesday for Washington D.C. She will visit Philadelphia. A movement is on foot to resurrect the Alumnton Association of the Armstrong High School. Mrs. Leah Morgan Pollard, Wife of Attorney J. R. Pollard, who has been dangerously ill for several weeks, is able to be out again. Hazel Napier attempted to commit suicide at her home, 205 W. Canal Street, last Sunday morning. She is out of danger. The Richmond Evening Journal building on the corner of Fourth and Broad Streets will soon be ready for occupancy. The new Armstrong High School, for colored pupils will cost $100,000 if the plans of the Richmond- City School Board are accepted. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, who has been indisposed is much improved. The oppressive heat seems to have prostrated her. Mayor George Ainsley is proving himself to be the best polished and best educated Chief Executive that has been in that office for thirty years. The Central National Bank will occupy the large brick structure on the north-west corner of Third and Broad streets. The Hoffheimer Shoe Company will vacate the premises. The Booker T. Washington Memorial organization, W. Isaac Johnson, President, will hold a meeting next Monday night at the First Baptist Church. The public is invited to be present. The fine oil painting of Police Justice John J. Crutchfield now hangs as an ornament to the Police Court. It is an admirable likeness of the popular presiding genius of that tribunal. We have received an invitation to the marriage of Miss Lydia Bentrice Jackson to Mr. Sinclair Calloway, July 27, 1916, 8:30 at 4221 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Robert A. Jackson, formerly of this city. Lleut. James H. Smith of the Sixth Virginia Club, was arrested last Sunday upon the charge of selling liquor to other persons than members of the club. It seems to have been a case of spite-work and the case as continued. Judge Crump, of the Law and Equity Court has decided that the city of Richmond cannot compel the Virginia Railway and Power Company to pay tolls for the use of Mayo's Bridge as it is a public thoroughfare. It is stated that the city will appeal the case. —Mrs. Mattle Brooks, of Philadelphia, who was called to the bodge side of her sister, Mrs. Katie Turner, has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McClatborne for a week. Mrs. Turner is much improved at the Virginia Hospital. Mrs. Brooks returned home last Thursday. The colored insurance companies, that is the American Beneficial and the Richmond Beneficial Insurance companies are experimenting in the matter of sending a trained nurse to each one of their policy holders, who report sick. The new system seems to be proving a success. Work on the new R. F. and P. Railroad Station which will also be used by the Atlantic Coast Line is progressing. The belt line will be pressed at least 18 feet and no trusses from the north will enter Byrd St. Station. The Broad street tracks are to be moved. MEETING OF THE OLD DOMINION MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SOCIETY AT BUCKROE. The annual meeting of the Old Dominion Medical and Surgical Society was held on July 17th and 18th, 19 at the Bay Shore Hotel, Buckroe Beach, Va. The society represents the progressive physicians of Virginia, and the attendance exceeded all expectations. The leading physicians and surgeons from all parts of the state, made their way to Buckroe to attend this meeting, which was by far the greatest in the history of the society. The Tri-State Dental Association had just closed its sessions, and a great number of its members remained throughout the meeting of the physicians. The president, Dr. T. J. Fawcett, of Lynchburg, presided, and delivered a great address. The following is a list of the papers read: "The Importance of More Careful Examination for Diagnosis." O. B. H. Bower, M. D., Richmond: "The Typical Child," A. D. Carr, M. D., Richmond; "Cardiac Diseases in Young Adults," W. E. Reid, M. D., Portsmouth; "True Ethics Between Pharmacists and Physicians," D. D. Johnson, Ph. G., Lynchburg: "Pellagra with report of cases," F. H. Triggs, M. D., Norfolk: "New Methods of Prevention and Treatment of Typhoid Fever," W. H. Roberts, M. D., Lynchburg; and "Carelonia of the Cervix Utter"—take twenty, Wilbane A. Drake M. D., Norfolk. These papers were all fully discussed, and there was a demonstration of enthusiasm on the part of all present. "Obscure Syphilis" formed a lively discussion, led by D W Byrd, M D. Norfolk, Dr. O E Plummer, of Raleigh, N.C. came to bring greeting from the North Carolina State Medical Association, Dr. Plummer made an eloquent and practical ad dress to the society, and spoke especially of the move to form a TrlState Medical Association, comprising South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. On the evening of the 15th, the Old Dominion Medical and Surgical Society was entertained at a banquet, tendered by the Tblawater Medical Society, Dr. G J Borden, their president, acting as host master. This was quite an elaborate affair. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: President, J J France, M D, Portsmouth; Vice-President, J Barden, M D, Petersburg; Recordings Secretary, R A. Denne, M D, Victorin, Corresponding Secretary, J H Black well, Jr. M D, Richmond, Treasurer R E Jones, M D, Richmond, Executive Committee, Drs. T J Fawcett, G R. Ferguson, T G E. Hott, A R. A Tennant and S L. Lucas. The 197 meeting will also be held at Bay Shore, Buckroe Beach, in July. MR. LEWIS GONE. The funeral of John Lewis, who departed this life July 10, 1916, at his residence, 1125 N. 29th Street, street place at the 4th Baptist Church, July 13, 1916, at 3:30 P. M. Rev. Dr Evans Payne payne officiated. He leaves a wife, two sons, relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He was a member of Golden Rub Council, No. 62, I. O. St. Lake and Blooming Lily Lodge, No. 15, K. of Pallbearers, active-H. J. Walker, Chas. J. Fitzgerald, Walter Valentine, Chas. H. Morton, Geo. E. Booker, Wm. A. Holmes, Robert J. Johnson, Robert T. Jackson, Honorary-Philip Holmes, Thos. Holmes, Wille White, Nathaniel Gibbs, Funeral Director W. S. Selden officiated in a most satisfactory manner. IN HONOR OF COLORED TROOPS The Spartan Literary and Athletic Association will hold a meeting in the Reformers' Hall, on Sunday, July 30, at 4 o'clock P. M., in honor of the colored soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry, U. S. A., who recently distinguished themselves in a battle against a much larger number of Mexican soldiers in Carrizal, Mexico. Ex-Congressman Geo. W. Murray of South Carolina, will be the orator of the occasion. Congressman Murray is an eloquent and forceful speaker, and has addressed large audiences in all of the large cities of this country. Invitations have been issued to Custer's Post, G. A. R., and to other military organizations, and represents lives from these organizations are expected to be present, and to take part in the exercise. The Hippodrome orchestra, and Spartan solos will furnish music for the occasion. There will be no admission fee charged, but an offering will be lifted for the benefit of the campaign fund being raised by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the suppression of lynching in the United States. The members of the Spartan Association will meet in their rooms at 3:30 o'clock P. M., and attend the meeting in a body. Sareea cies a ee ene en TN THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC, Tee EEE TSO Ter “BLACK Lave” It lp now known tm Liberia the some of the best and mice Teitebl mea ta the Repudlic are on a list 11 England known as the “Black List’ Jum why those men are om such 1 lat we believe {a Dest known to som Of the King's qubjecta. in Lideria anc others trying. in a way, to pias Britisbers. ‘The fact that certain men wh have never catered to Germans’ sup port ip Liberia. but were honcet anc Upright according to the’ meuteallt laws, and doing leqitimate trading should be Diack-lined is», shame, ‘And the fact that it te done by met whose Bames aro unknown, #0 a8 t wake i impossible for « man, sd {aleay maligned, to disprove the {aprieation makes it very ridiculous. ‘It is almply stabbing an invocent and peaceful man fn the back in the darkness, and that fs a cowardly act in apy man, or sot of men. The pretenne Is, we hear, that those _ Liberlana who are on that black-List “Smport and export for. the Germans, and feed tho Germans in Liberia. There are mea who never Ko afout the Germans, but are doing thelr own petty trading to carn an honest liv- ing: and there are many of tbis class and yet they must be reported in Faxtend an delve Uont to receive Foods from Bneland, or to ship produce to England. or .to receive thoir honeet labor now being held by Englishmen in Europe. Mf indeed that report went to Eng- land from Liberia by foreigners itv- Ing 1D Liberia, and it would acem that It could xo by none others, if it were ferreted out It would be found that it was. simply an. opportunity for some revengetul pereon. or per rons to “get,even” with Liberians'| for somo privileged act done which | dinpleaned tome foreigner of foreign. crn Honesty and (airplay with @ oeu- tral people demands that the parties | cauring tore pames to be on the “black ist bo exposed. ‘Tho Soc: retary of State should demifad of the Deltien Coanut or the Britind Forelen offer the namea of the parties thus Blackmailing the Mfberian. traders Tho people of Liberia should demand At Ivantethat much protretion {rom Gur Government. Men should not bo allowed to hide In the darknesr nod under’ that cover blackmail a frinndls people indincriminately. mien of tuiepiay woud not do it. Lat our ‘State Department act Justice ‘to an Thagcent bwople “Ae- mands that much protetton from pur Government at Whit time. Our Government and wople afe, neutral Wueiag this great war Why then mould, we be treated ws enemien? Shall the Government of Tniberia give he Liberian traders BO. protection? we runt div, Int ua die kiekIDR There ate wasn by when the Ile periann can help themeelver. Dirt we ‘hould et through our Government, Mio In competent. to aprak to. Me ajenty x Government about thin out age upon the people of a felendly fatlon. Buchanan Liveria. African | earue, WHY OUR INTERESTS WANE : ABROAD. Ia these dayx of Internationa! warfare the Interenta of Liberia seer to Wane at rome of the courts o warring powers. For toatance, 1 England there srema to be an utter miaundermandiog about afaire ir Liberia. From tho begtaning of the present International war in Europe there was an idea in England and France tbat Liberia was axainat (hone nations and. favored the German cause which was erroneous. Never- thelean that thought continued and Increaned. no much ‘that It appeared that the British Government was uralont the Lidertan Government. ‘This wan carried to auch extreme that it even hampered the Tiborians in their legitimate commercial bual- ness in England. Altbo Liberia lias “observed a strict neatrallty ever since the war bas been om, yot the British Government does pot believe tt, we Near: and right in our sight the British Government treats Liberian tradera in a diferent manser than xhe treats other neutrals, for jastance the Dutch, ure neutral people, an fame aa Liberians, and yot tho Dutch who well and trade in Liberia can buy and sell fa Bogland, while many Li- Wertan traders are ‘prohibited from 20 doing by the British Governmont. an wo Undarstand It. Jn vat dow the Lfverlan Gorern- ment attempt ¢o disabuse the mind of the British Government, and the English people at bome. ‘Probably there Is Dut one Way (0 KUArd AKRIDRL such unfounded opinion of atfairs tn Liberia, and that is (0 havo a Liber- tan on the spot at the Courts of Eng- Jand and France to explain away theeo false ropresentations from day to day as they arise in diplomatic! circles, ag samo an the French aod Enelish have fo Liberia. Thoy have thetr Consuls op, the spot. We need our Consuls on the spot: a Liderian Conwul. not ap Engitsbman or Frenchman in consular service for Liberia; they do not understand Li- berian ‘aairs as a Liberian; and tere must come a time tbat with those foregners in Liberian service they tbigk of (We reakest Rood to their nations, respectively. It fa not’ ovough to pay toreten: ers to represent Liberia, They may | do the Dest they can for us but they are foreigners just the same. We | need a Liberian as Minister or Con- ’ nul at cach of those Governmenta. ; They could almést invariably explalo away those talse rumors that are sent to those Governments by misinformed mon. “ ‘A LSterian knows the spirit and mind of Liberia; not so with the | foreixner. ‘Then why don't Liberia ; catablinh s conealate or » Jegation | near exch of those Goversmenta? , It would be worth far more than ; 415,000 of $20,000 a year to the nation. And last, Dat more Impor- , tant than all, Liberia needs s Minis, rer reagent near the Washington Government. —. Buchasas, Liberia, , African League. . a TUKS (8 TRIT ‘Txe home aad its surroundings le a ‘out ward expression of the character ¢ {te ogcupante. The beck yard ta.» 00 tndteation of what you will fted fo Ub bed room. No matter how humble th home, 1f ft {a clean apd neat, it fe ai tractive, for the same reason that » matter hOw poor s man’s clotbes ma. be if be fs neat with all bis poverty, bi wilt not be unbecoming. ‘As you go around the city you wil find tittle bomes that pypify all that f desirable In home life It may be on)) 8 cottage with {ta walks tte flower bed: jand its garden, the vines carefull trained, the trees pruned, the bows painted, the fence In good repair, th Sate with latch and you conclad tbat this man fs a man of thrift and hela, You would naturally expect. te find & bank book somewhere 10 the house und tho house as clean as the yard. * And you would, for bank books come out of well Kept houses. On the contrary, ff you find an alr of neglect and decay, tbe fence falling dows; the tralka fuil of weeds, the gar- deo unplanted, chickens running a: Found loose, and a general alr of don't care about "the place, you conclude that this 1s a home without thrift. And {t 4s. Inside such a house you will find dirt and disorder holding forth trom cellar to garret, and you don't expect to find a bank book thoreln, and the shancen are you won't. Dirt accumulates. "The winter in Golence finds expresnion in the ash pile the Junk heap and the back yard. All over the land citien have been Levi! clean up week, when each citizen bas been urged to destroy all rubble, re- movg. all winter accumulations ‘and clear up generally. It 1a @ moat excel: lent Idea; but homes and cities Itke in-| dividuals need constant cleaning to, keep, them sueeet: The eye needs con- tant washing to keep ft from injury. The body needs constant attention to keep ft wholesome. The back - yard needn ‘constant weeding, hocinx, dig-| Ing to keep Mt prenentadle. The front. needx constant mowing to keep st green |! tnd fresh Life tr one long battle with dirt“an endlenn fight, but only aa the (igbt goes on continually “ean we win out | A city's out ward appearance adver- aes the character of the fuhabltante An effertively as the home nurround: nes index the spirit of the dwellers | 1 the development of cltter, nnd the raring up for betterment there must he miltior Minturbances. to the orderly wrrangenwent. but there in m0 reanon, Miy every town whould not be a xpat-’ cs tour and every home the essence fonder and cteantiness. The home| hat ts nertected Ik the home that hac weit to decay Your neighbors will iat see the inxide of your house half) soften ax they do the outside they “iH Judes the inatte and you by thet okx of the outnide. Thetetote, clean Pp. and keep cleaning up. for thrift applied Rood management; and cod mANAReMment applied to tittle! hinge in thrift, You firat. then your! ome, then your «ity Clean up [fl Talks on Banking Thirty per cent of those who fall tt - Dusinews do no Decaune they lack capl tal, No buriness can succeed onleee | hex backbone, and. this back bone I the Invested capital of the proprietor Whether it is a million dollar corpora Ulos or a corner Rrocery. there must be an a foundation, thn faveatment of th proprietor The man who starta out 19 buslnow Yon a shoestring” fallx. No matte what he may have in tho wax of bor rowing facliities, there may come 8 Uime' when he finds the avenues of bor. rowing closed against him. Then bis Feserve capital comes into play. To meet the weekly payroll. stock up, tide over bad times, fit the place up with machinery and fixtures, re quires money, and thin money abould be the aaved Toney of the proprietor. Just how much capital a concern re quires ina matter of individual require ments, The larger the buxiness (he larger tbe capital. If, for Instance, man were to cngage’ in a mercantile line, he should bave enougt soney saved by thrift to buy bie fiztores, and part of thin atock, and. a balance Cor working capital to keep fn the bank He should not put all bin money $n fixtures so that be haw none for stock, and vice versa. Neither should be for: Ret that bis best credential with Ris banker fa good working balance. ‘The reason why banks are no particu Inr that borrowere “keep w balance,ts not that the bank wants exoeealve prof ite—lending, say a thousand and ask- tnx that one quarter of it be kept on deposit, ‘but that the borroper may have free xorking capital at bia com: mand all the time. ‘The porition that if i borrow = thous and'and am naked to keep $250 on de- pouit I might aa well borrow $750, I= pot well taken: for even though the bank balance {# borrowed money, and conte the interet, it Isa cheap price fo pay for the banker's good will’ In act m business man could well afford @ pay alx per cent for money and leave t with bis banker, for the Rood It would do his credit. In $h granting of credit. banineas men as wall as bankors, give dite heed 0 the ratio between quick nasein > uiek Mabitlities. Tha banker Ikes to ee two to one—two dollars of quick snela to one Maller af apiece dchte, The quick aasetn are: Cash hilla recety ‘ble, accounts recetynble and mer dine. Quick Tinbilition are> Dahte luo for horrowed money and dedte duc or ntock. The difference in the work. ng capital—the amount in exeene of he debts This, meann ta sev thet ft he-quick aancta were all turnat fmt aah and the dobta paid. witout die Orbing the other amneta, nih area! tate. machinery ete.. there wants te Vgaah balance left over ‘One of the great wenbnerace af A: nerican business Tite iq the stertine of _ bastneas on to, iste canttal Twn arpenters and balléera who have say. da few hundred Gottars gecided to be hetr own bosses and by some scheming eo z | te delared, the consht—taiture, Thay lek t and inching M, love out. They cannes carry thelr bea. Ses Clerks with @ Hittle money und estes sal nerve begin business for thameel? of ony,{2 On taakranicy eave um the face in» short time, Guo to heck Of capital A goed year makes the pre- prieter jublicnt and willing to gum: bie that the nixt will be better. He moves into larger quarters Hives mere expensively bays.s car asd hires his eecvants only to find depression sett- Ing in unsettledbusiness conditloes, competition misbage and no. way of re creoching. Happy the tan who cae plod along on the safe track, satistied fo De eure rather than sorry. Money 1s- power, apd impotent In the man or cho business that lacks it. ‘Be as honest ax you “expect the oth- sr fellow to be. Get alt the adility you san acquire and all you can afford to, muy, but do not overlook the important fact that the backbone ia necessary 0 ery business Just as it In (o' evory ody, and withont it In nuftictent mena ire success is fraporatble and fellure ure to come. He ina wie man who chown hit own xntrength and doesn't ‘itch ap to more than he cas pull SUMMER HAMPYON CLOSES. ‘The Summer .Schod) at Hampton In atitute bas Junt closed one of 1tx mon succeanful years. The attendance wat Targer than lant year. All the South era stateg had large representations, Tong the teachers and there were « considerable number from other sec tone, North Carolina bad the larga number, there being 153 teachers en: rolled ffoma thst ntate. : ‘Amiong the rood things enjoyed was }a series of lectures and discussions conducted by Dr. George E. Hayes, one of the Executive Secretaries of the Nat fonal League on Urban Conditions A- manok Negroes and professor of Bocigi | Sclence at Flak University. These lee- fares attracted much attention and fav orable comment from all aldes. Tals course of lectures dicuased the causes of apd motbods to check the migration ‘of colored people {rom the country t0 the ety: occupations and wages and how to organise Nexro occupational for improving efficiency and. waKen. ‘The course closed with dincustion of tuberculonis, heokworm, und typhoid fever in thelr conaection with wagen tund low grade of Intellixence and low Mandar ‘of Hving among rolored pee ple, ‘Thru the whole serien of lectures Dr. Haynes made appiiertions of the 12: formation to actun) conditions In rur- Al and town tocalltien where the teach, ereare working. Many of the teachera ronterred with the iecturer from day} today about problems. In their own| rommiunitien. 80 pleased were they teachern that at the closing lecture! they tendered the speaker a rising| rote of appreciation and thanks aod meted nctite cooperation In the com- munity betterment movement. he In fending, Theee Iecturen are a part of a plan for promoting community bet- ferment aan part ot .the extension work carried on by thy National Lea. ros and Fink Trnlversity. Similar lee: fares have been xlven the pant two ummera at A. and f. State Normal School. Nanbviite, Tenn, Florida State cpilene, Tallahanace, Fla, Tuskerce jostitute, Ala, Virginia Union Univer" ‘ty, Richmond. Va, and West Vireiny o Colored Inatitute Summer School. FLORENCE. S. C. 1 Florence, S C--I'm planniok vine, Wilmington, N.C. To. leat Saturday morning at 9:08, remalniay Rati! Monday or Tuesday following. While 1¢ wax raging at Chester S.C. I boarded the train soon after "I reached Columbia. The bridge be hind me let go, I remained in Co Jombia a few Gays. Just after T Jett no one could have paseed from Flor ence. to Columbia While the peopl At Florence were ewiaiming 10. the firects, I wan busy 00 dry 1and a Colombla, and when 1 reached home the ntreeta were 0. K 1 um traly thankful. Indlvidoally I nuffered very Hittle from the food ‘The A.C. L. tralnn have made tow connecttonn daring the past week on account of the flood. In many places ho train at all for quite a week. Mr. MB Rawarde and Mra, Tat tio J, Wrinbt, of Jacksonville, Fla, passed through the city recently en Foate for home, ‘They were returning fromthe Supreme Grand. Lodre of the Eastern Star, at Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Edwarde ts State Royal Grand of Florida. Mrs. Wright is Grand Guerdian of Florids. ea ‘Miss Isabella Harrington, of Kol- lock, 8. C., bas returned home from the State Summer School at Orange- borg, 8. C. Mre. Addie 1, Jonee, of Philadet: phis, Pa. bas gone to Samter, 8. C Miss Faonie Branson, of New York City, is visiting at her brother's home in Harteville, S.C. ‘Mr. ard Mrs. Jolics Wilde and daughter, Mise Mazion, are apendinn a while in Virginia, after which thev will visit Hegerstown, Mé., and other northern points, cane ‘Mra. Lilie B. Riley, of Hardesvilie, 8. C.: Mra. Fannie Hadden. of 1.{h. priv. & = Mra Anna Bells, of Varce ville, § C. and Mra Annie Poster of Calhoun, S C., Royal Matron= 0° fhe extern Star Ladue, are attenin~ he Grand Seenion at Dunher So Returning, they report a «rand -on ton, Mire Lita A Green af Jacbonnettia me canned Maronieh the alte tee nm ganeerta Racky Mente * Aebecstbe New! —You need & seed. tive, nmin date newspapér, thea why Bot ouh scribe to. The Richmond Planept| $1.50 pee’ year t= e@vencs. . a" Yaar gh a me SN he ; ie a 3 aes Hd 5 ote, ve <a a9 4 t) ont. r rae of wwe y ainsi to Chet sf Fotis Werner's + onder eMicere tp investigate the cass of theve Sawant and Le render am necemary Oh : > At oe: Sears of the, Adenine ve Beard, CRatrmen Hirechbers atrected Dr: R. O. Cabell, Jr. oper Intwadent of the City Heme, to aan ) tor the meds of any persses renders } Momeless of hungry by Tesaom ef th ’ Criticlaen atmed ‘at city elBeiads ot tributed to I. Btaford, o¢ I Miaderé é Ca, Fifteenth and. ‘Brown | Strests caieed fhe beard to bare 0 eummen foamed ‘eppesrance teday. . paper was served by a deputy aberid The board wishes to find ont from Mr. Bluford whether any one in the city rovernment! has been derelict. ROARD MAKES TOUR OF FLOODED ‘AREA. Yesterday afternoon mecaber of the board made a tour of the floeded area, Mont of the water bad receded, except ta extremely low places. Water stood ‘ noveral feet deep on the first flood of 8 two-story frame dwelling at 612-51¢ North Fifteemtb Street, ‘The leares floor. which had been occupied by twa colored families, bad been rendered ‘walnhabitable. ‘Tho house hed deen Built, members of the board eatimated |alz feet below the level of the treat, They agree that the owner should be compelled to fill in the property, for which the city ordinance makes provision, , “That would prevent @ Te- currence of flood as far as this ono| house ts concerned,” sald Commis-| sioner McCarthy. : “Not mptit Shockoe Creek, from ead to end. Is tneased in concrete.” sald ‘Commissloner Folkes, “will floods of thie character be prevented. Heavy storms and cloud-barate have always! caused this dinaster and always will until the creek 1s converted into a massive conduit.” Contract for a pec tlon of this work nearly a mile long was recently awarded, Tt in expected that the board will take steps to prevent, In some meas ure.. further recurrence of the’ flood by Tequiring the owners of property) which fs leased to colored tenants, to M1 in In all tow places. STONE ARCH OVER CREEK SETTLES OUT OF PLUMB Members of the board peraovally tn- apected the condition of the stone arch over the ereck xt Marshall Street. It has bexun to settle, evidently cauncd py the heavy downpours, att the Key ytone was found to be nearly foot But of place. ‘The board. today will | probably order the whole atracture| | jorn down and a few one, construct. | wt of steel: put in {tx placd. The Marshall Street Viaduct ix not threat~ ned by this condition. an ite stce! || upright Fest upon neparate founda-| Jone, oF piers of concrete, which £0 || fown to, ralld Fock. The removal of | he arch’ will give, the waters of the || rock freer pansare. The statements which caured the joard to summon Mr. Biuford to ap-|! ear an a witsens today Included the}é allowing: | “This condition of affaira ta due to jothing lens than the negligence oft he city of Richmond, 1 was here |‘ iaturdey afternoon during the worst] * f the flood and again Sunday, and |! t {t had not been for th help my| * roce of men rendered in cleaning |> way the debela and atutt whieh col} ncted at the Marshall Street arch, We] ? ‘ould have had the conditions in’ the | ! alloy an bad aa last “August. e “Here these families, some of them | > ad ones. 1 admit. have basn without nod xinee they were driven trom thetr | ™ omes, and not a alogle step of relict an beon taken by the city. I have] otified both Mayor Ainslie. members| # r the Administrative Board and the] © hief of Pollee of conditions down | ere, mid they all sald they would veatizate the matter.” ‘After he recelved the summons to > efore the board. Mr. Bluford ast! at he wonld tell exactly of the con-| y. lone ax he saw ther. Because of the condition of thé srthern portion of the atch, @ Tope # been placed there to prevent peo-| T 0 from olng too near the edge to| old accidents in case of a cavein, t Marshall Street har not been nacd to traffic, as the condition fm | st t regarded as-nerionn enough tot? event It. we A fow lettern of complaint reached | & ¢ board at Its neaston yesterday aa Fe remult-of choked newers and dazn- © to property thronghont the city} 5 the heavy rainfall, and moore are} ™ pected today. The board is doing} At Ponalble to relieve any distress or] 7 conrentence which may have been| +, used by the abnormal conditions| £0 ch have overtaxed the sewerage] 7% tem.—TmesDispateh, July 25, | 2° Pres v, 8. READY BUY DANIAB ‘WRAT PSDIFA. Washington, Joly 23.—Negotiations detween the Ualted Stator and Den mark looking. to the parchase of the Danish, West Indios, are practically completed and both Governments are now awaltiag an opportine moment ‘for obtaining leatslative action to s treaty embodying the deal. It 16 wn- derstood that the price which this Government enmenes: to DST 16 &D- provimately $6,000,000. ‘The ohtert of oftining the three felonda in netmariiy the establish: ment of 9 eoaline ind cable mtation + Rt Themen fneldentally Amert- can cantiat_and American enterprise Ht he need to bulla ap the fetands. whch have fallen into Alre financial cteatta nnd become a barden to Den- the eteatantn tmnetance of the fo nate tne ie ntter Staten te the Climtsatinn af the nomatbittty of eome Thennean Dower fvtne Hee el? Den- marke bande anf therehy Waving 90; rosa to a naval bese fe cles. pres mitt to tg Panama Connd. The te. terest of Germany, or German: 1---. img comgenten’ te be euset, fe .° "> Si ge ak plate Veg woh &. We ree o ea we, Mae Reng om : ce. ear cose nee patonent Se Gr if mast tose ee nee resurvecsed Sts to con of tadoyenal ingelvies frome Tos, present Admiaistration ‘bowen ovsdieg ext the Danish Goverament wih Tetwenee to the pian Dewty o Four. ape, sad) sagutiatites preseated Teestaly vatll toe Danka nee Sot arm conta the pen Jearty this rear. Ts digiematic trees It has bem Biated thet German tafeence was be. hind the cee fm Denmark, bat wee cause be Grepped temperarfiy’ by beth Ger. ae ae Now -codditions appear to have changed ané@_werd kas reached the Bate Departitent that The people of Deumerk are indtived to look more: favorably on the plan. It {a anid that Germany's oppecktion has disappeared. ‘Conditions have become very bed thers and there fe no longer aay market for the native products, and ihe (slands are no looger & source of reveliue, Denmark is therefore con- fronted with the alternative of extend- ing finencial eid and going to con- siderable expense toward improving conditions or accepting the offer of the United States to take the islands of her Hands. ‘The present Administration bere, a1 hough opposife im principle the ac yuiaition of foreign territory, recog: izes the practical advantages tb be: lerived from the proposal. The Pan- oa Cane) bas greatly enhanced the | tratogic advantages watch the Calted | tatoe would derive from a naval base | r coaling station at St. Thomas, and jas emphasized the importance of pre- entlog any European Power from ac- | airing it. 1 ‘Mr, Mitchell: Dear Editor,—It han been nome thm since you bave heard from ime, but nevertheless, “we, ap here near the mquntatns, are interested readers of the Planet, and we arc eager to ne what ‘dings ehe brings every Satur day evening. We are watching and reading the signs of the times an beat we can, We ste Iynchingn or agéragen, or attempted humiliations sre almont the order of the day.” Se much vo, we often wonder what will come next - Our atate tn bad Rough, but we thank God that 1 te not dingraced by onything Ike that, Waco, Texax, Inte {ness, and colored people and right thinking white peopte everywhere. whould take an earnent, and -ative Dart, in wiping out this, ihe favorite Practice and partime of 4 certain class of white popie. and ana means of bettering conditions. Colored peaplo want to do them: wolven better service: they want to May where oportupities ‘for_improve- ment are best for them. ‘The Rret evil of evils oriong ua as a people and one that retards our progress and In filling up the grave yarda ro taut, in the everlasting exodus of the young people and old people (0 the citer and towns. Parentn and guardians overywhere| should use their best efforte to stop this harmful custom, and secure for themselves homes in the country. where it ts possible for them to im: prove their condition. Some of the white peole are opposed to coloret people owning homes: nay they have po businesa with Innd. But the name ot the fair minded and right. think- ing whito people is legion, and orery| colored man bould have hia rpecial white friends, should sere him fatth- fully abd in turn bis wbite friend will help him. I congratulat® you on your honor. sble and complete acquittal in that sttempted Dumiliation baxinces. May he Planet live long to battle for Jur fee and human rights! . Sincerely yours, RIVES C. MINOR. UNDERTOW DHAGH 5 RATHERS “=O DEATH AT LONG ISLAND Tuo Sisters Are Hevened by Life quardy Of Oriental Point. A great surf, thrown up by the storms which have been apundins themselves at ses” within the las ‘week, flinging iinelf ashore at the Long Istand beaches Seaterday was responsible for an undertow which made bathing unuaually hazardous. Bétore the day had done. five awim- mers Wet dragged to their death. ‘Another drowned in a deep bole in Jamaica: Bay. . Beldom. faded, has the occan bat- foted the Long Isiand shore with the violence shown yesterday. It thun- dered ashore with an angry roar that suggested wintry rage rather than summer playfulness, Notwithstand- ing this, the beaches were swarming with bathers, most of whom content- ed. themselves with folling about fn the white water close inshore. Abrabam Erlin of 178 Manhattan Avpnue, Brooklyn, was caught in the undersow fifty yards off shore. at Coney Island. His body, was recov- ered by beach-guards. An unidentl- fed youth abdy 18 youre old ‘was drowned off Hehderson’s Walk. His body now is in\the Coney laland morgue. : Teaac Waumkowaky, of 73 Fifth rest, Manbattan, was hauled from the surf..et, the same point, uncen- sclous, ‘ile was revived. but éropped dead & fow moments afterward. ‘At Belle Harbor. “Adolph Winkopp. 19, who was visiting bie uncle; Dr. Jolin'J, Hogan, swam out too far and was unable to reach shore. William J. MoCoy heard his cries aud swam to him. Dut a great wave tore the exbassied youth from his rescuer's grasp. Winkopp sak and bis body came shore two blocks away: Harry O'Connell, 28, of 656 Leon- ard Mreet, Brooklyn a bookMesper. fort himeeif being carried to sea at Rockaway. He cried for help, and George Simmerman ewem to kim and brought him csbore, Zimmerman tried artista! respiretion, bet was wnebie to restore O"Coupell to ese agonal} = =, 5 ‘Eave t " = See) a ies of Bay OUsecn weet cone = er ‘Kirey, armen oon Fotct’ nisauannes oven, PROVOST GUARD SHOOTS FOUR ‘Negro Beldiers Amack .Oktien and Retese 0 Sabenlt to Arrest. + fen Antonie, Tease, July 26,— Taree Negro ssldiers of Company 2 Bighth ilitmels Intaatry, were in the Rawolyal today ae the revalt of bullet ‘Fecstved when thay were fired ‘pen'by the provost guard last algtt Mer attacking HG. Heane, » lawyer ‘o¢ Now Brasnfels, Texas. 4 fourth ‘wes taken 10 bis tent. The wounded are: William Blue. shor in the groin; Déward Lighthorae, “feeb wouad in the right thigh; ‘sidney Willams, lett log broken below che Knee; unklentided trooper, removed to the regimental camp. All are pri rates. The wounds are comparative ly slight, owing to the guard having weed" guard” ammunition, a light charge with a. maximum yange of about 300 yards. ‘Trouble started when Honno was driving bls automobile past a Kroup of the Negro militiamen. Henne says a stone was thrown, striking the back of the car. . He stopped and ment back to asceriain who threw the stone. He said he was mot dy threats and invectives. He ran to- ward = nearby saloon followed by forty militiamen. Ho seized a to- bacco cutte# and knocked down the Gret Negro through the door, he sass. A second he kicked in the groin. At chis juncture the provost euard. com posed of Ninoteenth United Staten nfantrymen, arrived. ‘With clubbed guas they forced the Negroen into the street. Upon their allure to obey repeated orders to re- urn to thelr quarters they wero Bred yn by the guard. Four of them fell wad the remainder retreated. Cit!- ean were disposed to regard the {n- {dent as purely a matter for the ailitary authorities to setle and here bas bees. no demonstration a- aust Negroes as a reeult of the fair. “Army officers of the South- rn department are investigatiog pre aratory to @ court-martial. —N. Y. i MAJOR CHARLES YOUNG NOW A LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, Washington, 09." C.—-After being cx: umined at Dubian, Mexico, by = board tonnisting of Brig. Gen. PerabioR, Col Herey and othe army oMcers of high jrank, Maj. Chatlen Young was. ad- vanced to the rank of Ieutenant colonel under date of July Jeg, He in atationed “womiewher ha Mex. co." in ‘command of the 2nd_battal- fon of the 10th cavalry. He teu xraduate of West Point and ts the Gxt Negro In the bintory of the army to alain. t6e rank of Weutenant colonel from fetd. duty ear 3 ye cememaes Rash Printing Worl Is our specialty. Our linotype machines CA TAKE CARE OF ANY BIG JOB. 4 “IA ‘ WB Kf a ry oe CZeos 2 4 re re v! i SEX | ‘We have the BEST EQUIPPED peinting plant in town... Seep in and BE CONVINCED. : . IT REALLY HAPPENED The Old Boy hed repeatedly as- was chilling. A sorted that he could whip his"woight went to the 4o in wild cats: that be would Ko up commanded, “W against. anything sbort of greased There was -no | Ughtaisg. In fact, he was not a- ho wanted. The frafa. of ‘anything trom anywherd. wife, “There's 1 The other night his wife woke him She sald there Xp with the- Information tat a bur- nofse out in the klar wan tn the house, What! - Tbe to the door and O16 Boy Jumped up, got hin “artil- nothing but a cs lery’ and edvanced in dattle forma- slip a small-sixe thom. But suddenly a now thought Hilx wife holler struck him—euppore the burgiar shot The O. B. was | first. Theres came before him the sow, bat be co viston-of a funeral in the neighbor thet ether’ noize heed. the of chleh be woule per prow bold new act. of. knees Degas to CAT: oot oie et Muntiagion. Mae aerited te town Tewetay of toot ‘to making same, re- paire"an. his proparey. ease wre. We. of Weahington, ta the quasi ot ber tacthertotans f.few days, Mre, Mary KR Gongutes. “Mes. James. Orimes ia-camfine? to her bea ss ‘Mr. Richard Sevensoe ts om the alek Let. one “The birthday yorty ai Syeelin Fri day aight was a — . Owiag to the storm, the crowd war cut short, Fee ‘We hear that Rev, Dr. D. Tyler’ fa improving, of which we are very iad. We are praying fer his recov- “rr. Church members are ronaing aronnd to dances nowadays The Baptin'n have let the fence down too low. Mr. Thos, Dorsey in mill op the alc let. . Mra Alberta Wikerson, of Cleve land, O., is the guest of Mrn. W. R. F Coiling” ‘Mra, Jas, Edmonds bad ax her cues! on Sunday, Mrs. Carrie Brooke and faughter, of Alexandria. Va, Rev. Dr. Alexander McKee, ef Wash. ington, D. C., pastor of Shiloh Church, Alexandria, Va, preached two strone ermons Sunday at our chereb, N. i Baptiet. Although he went to slee m the car and wan carried aizteen niles above here on Satarday nigh?. ie was beck early Sunday morninx or the occasion. At eleren o'clock @ mounted the rortram. After de ‘otional exercises. be proceeded to reach from t Cor, 915; gubtect. For His Unspeakable Gitt to a Audt- nce.” Promptly at 8 o'clock, be wax xain at bis best. A full house gree!- d him. Text, Isaiah, $22, “And r 2an shall be az a Diding piace fron: ne wind and a cover trom the tempt- at, as rivers of water = dry place athe shadow of a reat rock in w ary land.“ ‘He preached it as he 2. We had ronpel feunt all day. Cams kala, Reverend. ‘We hear him xtadly Conection. 2.00. Rev. 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Threat a EuNeTe area Se er ire = rook Foe, wan aad , was chilling. Ab, another idea! He ont to tbe door of Bis room, and Commanded, “Who's that out there?” There was -no reeponse—Jant what be wanted. The Old Boy aald to hin wife, “There's no one In the house.” She sald there certainly:-was some noise out in the hall. He went back to the door and then said, "Ob. {t's Bothing but a cat.” The barglar/let ailp a small-sized laugh, a anieker. Hilx wife hollered, “I told’ you so." The O. B. was really =p against KH, Bow, but Be commanded, “Wheat is Ubat ether noise I bear?~ The ber- Srofran Car!” weet!” rae Oe Proof of Moths. The Thirty-nine Stops JOHN BUCHAN Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Company. SYNOPSIS Richard Hannay, after making his pilot to Rhodesia, returns to London. He meets Franklin P. S. Budder, who tells him of a sister, Budder, followed by spikes, bows a sword and makes it appear that he has committed suicide. By this race Budder throws the spikes off the trunk for a few days. He is then murdered. The body is found by Hannay, by two women—by the spikes because he the Budder's sword, and by the police for the murder of Budder. Borrowing the uniform of the militant who called early in the morning, Hannay gets away from the fat; and catches a train for Scotland. As he gets off at a country station three men sight. Hannay gets rid of the three men and writes for the open country. He notices a young man, who agrees to hide him. Two of his pursuers arrive at the tan. Hannay drops out of a window and impresses into carries the automobile of his pursuer and strikes for the open country. The words "Thirty-nine steps" in his pursuer's name is bertied by one man running for office. Hannay makes a speech for the candidate. Then he tells him everything. The candidate's guardian is permanent secretary and he disguises Hannay and starts him with the portents secret to London. Hannay disguises himself as a road man and throws his pursuits off the scent. He stands another automobile, compels the owner to change clothing with him and makes a fresh start. He finds refuge in a country house. The old gentleman who owns it proves to be the man Goodman said he "most dreaded" to have. Hannay attempts to catch him Richard Hannay he stoutly denies his identity. Hannay is looked in a storeroom. With the discovery of his identity almost certain he blows up the place with chandials. Terribly wounded, he finds refuge in an old mill. Leaving the mill at night, Hannay makes his way to the cottage of the road man. He is turned back to health by the road man. Hannay starts for London. At Sir Walter's Home. The road led through a wood of great beaches and then into a shallow valley, with the green backs of downhill peeping over the distant tree. After Scotland, the air smelled heavy and flat, but infinitely sweet, for the times and chastises and lilac bushes were domes of bloom. Presently I came to a bridge, below which a clear, slow stream flowed between snowy beds of water hutter-cups. A little above it was a mill, and the latter made a pleasant, cool sound in the central dunes. Somehow the place soothed and but met me my case. I fall to whistling and but met the green depths, and the tune which came to my life was "Annie Laurie." A fisherman came up from the waterside, and as he neared the too, began to whistle. The tune was infectious. For he followed my suit. He was a huge man in untidy old dannels and a wide brimmed hat, with a canvas bag slung on his shoulder. He nodded to me, and I thought I had never seen a shawrow or better tempered face. He leaped his delicately foot split cane rod against the bridge and looked with me at the water. "Clear, isn't it?" he said pleasantly. "I back our Kennet any day against the Test. Look at that big fellow! Your pound, if he's an ounce! But the evening rise is over and you can't tempt 'em." "I don't see him," said I. "Look! There! A yard from the road, just above that stickle." "I've got him now. You might swear he, was a black stone." "He," he said, and whistled another bar of "Annie Laurie." "Twisten's the name, isn't it?" he said over his shoulder, his eyes still fired on the stream. "No," I said. "I mean to say yes." I had forgotten all about my alias. "It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name," he observed, grinning broadly at a moor ben that emerged from the bridge's shadow. I stood up and looked at him, at his square, cleft jaw and broad lined brow and the firm folds of cheeks and began to think that here at last was an ally worth having. His whimical blue eyes seemed to go very deep. Suddenly he frowned. "I call it disgraceful," he said, raising his voice. "Disgraceful that an abledobled man like you should dare to beg. You can get a meal from my kitchen, but you'll get no money from me." "A dogcrant was passing, driven by a young man, who raised his whip to satuate the fisherman. When he had goose he misted up his red. "That's my house," he said, pointing to a white gate a hundred yards out. "Wait five minutes and then go round back door." And with that he left me. CHAPTER XI. colts, fires, shaving things and hair brushes, even a pair of patent shoes. "Sir Walter thought as how Mr. Reggie's things would fit you, air," and the butter. "He keeps some clothes 'ere, for he keeps regular on the week ends. There's a bathroom next door, and I've prepared a 'ot bath. Dinner in 'alf an hour, sir. You'll 'ear the gong.'" The grave being withdrew, and I sat down in a chins covered easy chair and gaped. It was like a pantomime to come suddenly out of g跋ardium into this orderly comfort. Obviously Sir Walter believed in me, though why, he did I myself in the mirror and saw wild, burgundy brown fellow with a fortnight's aged board and dust in eyes and eyes, collars, vulgarly shaved, old wilted clothes and books that evidently had not been cleaned for the better part of a month. I made a faint tramp and a fair diver, and here I was unbered by a prim burden into this temple of gracious ones. And the best of it was that they did not even know my name. I received not to pussle my head, but to take the gifts the gods had provided. I shaved and bathed luxuriously and got into the dress clothes and clean, crackling shirt, which fitted me not so badly. By the time I had imbibed the looking glass showed a not unpersonable young man. The Waile waited me in a ducky dress and found a round table was lit with silver candles. The sight of him—so respectable and established and secure, the embodiment of law and government and all the conventions—took me aback and made me feel an interloper. He couldn't know the truth about me or he wouldn't treat me like this. I simply could not accept his hospitality on false pretenses. "I'm more obliged to you than I can say, but I'm bound to make things clear," I said. "I'm an innocent man, but I'm wanted by the police. I've got to tell you this, and I won't be surprised if you kick me out." He smiled. "That's all right. Don't lot that interfeire with your appetite. We can talk about these things after dinner." I never ate a meal with greater reliah. for I had had nothing all day but railway sandwiches. Sir Walter did me proud, for we drank a good champagne and had some uncommon fine port afterward. It made me almost hysterical to be sitting there, waited on by a footman and a gleek butter, and remember that I had been living for three weeks like a brigand, with every man's hand against meg I told Sir Walter about tiger fish in the Zamblest that bite off your fingers if you give them a chance, and we discussed sport up and down the globe, for he had hunted a bit in his day. We went to his study for coffee, a jolly room full of books and trophies and untidiness and comfort. I made up my mind that if ever I got clear of this business and had a house of my own I would create just such a room. Then when the coffee cups were cleared away and we had got our cigar night my host swung his long legs over the side of his chate and bade me get started with my yarn. "I ve obeyed Harry's instructions," he said, "and the bribe be offered me was that you would tell me something to wake me up. I'm ready, Mr. Hanay." I noticed that he called me by my proper name. I began at the very beginning. I told of my boredom in London and the night I had come back to find Scudder gibbering on my doorstep. I told him all Scudder had told me about Karolides and the foreign office conference, and that made him pursue his life and grin. Then I got to the murder, and he grew solemn again. He heard all about the milkman and my time in Galloway and my deploring Scudder's notes at the inn. "You're got them here!" he asked sharply and drew a long breath when I whipped the little book out of my pocket. I told nothing of the contents. Then I described my meeting with Sir Harry and the speeches at the hall. At that he laughed unanimously. "Harry talked dashed nonsense, did he! I came-believe it. He's as good a chap as ever breathed, but his idiot of an uncle has stuffed his head with magnets. Go on, Mr. Hannay." My day as road man excited him a bit. He made me describe the two fellows in the car very closely and seemed to be raking back in his memory. He grew merry again when he heard of the fate of that fool, Laurelot Brown. But the old man in the moorland home solemnized him. Again I had to describe every detail of his appearance. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Great Scott!" I cried. "Have they got the murderer?" "No. But for the last fortnight they have dropped you from the list of possibilities." "Why?" I asked in amazement. "Principally because I received a letter from Scudder. I knew something of the man, and he did several jobs for me. He was half crank, half genius, but he was wholly honest. The trouble about him was his partiality for playing a lone hand. That made him pretty well useful in any secret service—a pity, for he had uncommon gifts. I think he was the bravest man in the good. If your friends were clever enough to find out the first arrangement they are clever enough to discover the change. I would give my head to know where the leak is. We believed there were only five men in England who knew about Royer's visit, and you may be certain there were fewer in France, for they mangle these things better there." While I ate be continued to talk, making me, to my surprise, a present of his full confidence. "Can the dispositions not be changed?" I asked. "They could," he said. "But we quiet. If to bed, for a able arrester a better bed Black Stone be tried. I felt curled first it was man, able to outfiring a mouth until it was quite I went to very careful and then sim house could "Great Scott!" I oried. "Have they got the murderer?" world, for he was always shivering with fright, and yet nothing would choke him off. I had a letter from him on the Slat of May." "But he had been dead a week by then." "The letter was written and posted on the 22d. He evidently did not anticipate an immediate decrease. His communications usually took a week to reach me, for they were sent under cover to Spain and then to Newcastle. He had a mania, you know, for concealing his tracks." "What did he say?" I shimmered. "Nothing. Merely that he was in danger, but had found shelter with a good friend, and that I would hear from him before the 15th of June. He gave me no address, but said he was living near Portland place. I think his object was to clear you if anything happened. When I got it I went to Scotland Yard, went over the details of the inquest and concluded that you were the friend. We made inquiries about you, Mr. Hannay, and found you were respectful. I thought I knew the motives for your disappearance—not only the police, the other one, too—and when I got Harry's crawl I guessed at the rest. I have been expecting you any time this past week." You can imagine what a load this took off my mind. I felt a free man for me, for I was now against my country's enemies only and not my country's law. "Now let us have the little notebook," said Sir Walter. It took us a good hour to work through it. I explained the cipher, and he was jolly quick at picking it up. He corrected my reading of it on several points, but I had been fairly right on the whole. This face was very grave before he had finished, and he sat silent for awhile. "I don't know what to make of it," he said at last. "He is right about one thing—what is going to happen the day after tomorrow. How the devil can it have got known? That is ugly enough in itself. But all this about war and the Black Stone—it reads like some wild metodrama. If only I had more confidence in Beuder's judgment! The trouble about him was that he was too romantic. He had the arti-temperament and wanted, a story to be better than God meant it to be. He had a lot of odd blues too. Jews, for example, made him see red, Jews and the high finance." "The Black Stone." he repeated, "Der Schwarze Stein." It's like a penny novelette. And all this stuff about Karolides—that is the weak part of the tale, for I happen to know that the virtuous Karolides is likely to outlast us both. There is no state in Europe that wants him gone. Besides, he has just been playing up to Berlin and Vienna and giving my chief unyears moments. No: Schndler has gone off the track there. Frankly, Hanau. I don't believe that part of his story. "There's some nasty business afoot, and he found out too much and lost his life over it. But I am ready to take my oath that our ordinary my work. A certain great European system makes a hobby of her system and her methods are not too particular. Since she pays by piecework, her black guards are not likely to stick at a murder or two. They want our naval dispositions for their collection at the Marinaum, but they will be pigeonholed, nothing more." Just then the butter entered the room. "There's a trunk call from London, Sir Walter. It's Mr. Kath, and he wants to speak to you personally." My host went off to the telephone. He returned in five minutes with a whitish face. "I apologize to the shade of Scudder," he said. "Karolides was shot dead this evening at a few minutes after." He began to breakfast next morning, after eight hours of bedtime, to find Sir Walter decoding a telegram in the midst of muffins and marmalade. His fresh rosemary of potterwort served a thought-tarnished. "I had a busy hour on the telephone after you went to bed," he said. "I get my chief to speak to the first lady and the secretary for weeks and they are bringing Royer over a day more. I will be in charge of the room and I will be in a bedroom with a master bedroom should be furnished." "When I finish it will be more good. If your friends were clever enough to find out the first arrangement they are clever enough to discover the change. I would give my head to know where the leak is. We believed there were only five men in England who know about Royer's visit, and you may be certain there were fewer in France, for they manage these things better there." While I ate he continued to talk, making me, to my surprise, a present of his full confidence. "Can the dispositions not be changed? I asked." "They could," he said. "But we want to avoid that if possible. They are the result of immense thought, and no alteration can be as good. Besides, on one or two points change is simply impossible. Still, something could be done if it were absolutely necessary. But you see the difficulty, Hanay. "Our enemies are not going to be such fools as to pick Royer's pocket or any childish game like that. They know that would mean a row and put us on our guard. Their aim is to get the details without any of us knowing so that Royer will go back to Paris in the battle that the whole business is still deadly secret. If they can't do that they fall, for once we suspect they know that the whole thing must be altered." "Then we must stick by the Frenchman's side till he is home again." I said. "If they thought they could get the information in Paris they would try there. It means that they have some deep scheme on foot in London which they reckon is going to win out." "Boyer dines with my chief and then comes to my house, where four people will see him—Whitaker from the admiralty, myself, Sir Arthur Drew and General Winstanley. The first lord is ill and has gone to Sheringham. At my house he will get a certain document from Whitaker, and after that he will be motored to Portsmouth, where a destroyer will take him to Havre. "His journey is too important for the ordinary boat train. He will never be left unattended for a moment till he is safe on French soil. The same with Whitaker till he meets Royer. That is the best we can do, and it's hard to see how there can be any miscarriage. But I don't mind admitting that I am horribly nervous. This murder of Karolides will play the duke in the chanceries of Europe." CHAPTER XII. AFTER breakfast he asked me if I could drive a car. "Well, you'll be my chauffeur today and wear Hudson's rig. You're about his sike. You have a band in this business and we are taking no risks. There are desperate men against who will not respect the country retreat of an overworked official." When I first came to London I had bought a car and amused myself with running about the south of England, so I knew something of the geography. I took Sir Walter to town by the Bath road and made good going. It was a soft, breathless June morning, with a promise of sultry later, but it was delicous enough swinging through the little towns with their freshly watered streets and past the summer gardens of the Thames valley. I landed Sir Walter at his house in Queen Anne's gate punctually by half past 11. The butter was coming up by train with the luggage. The first thing he did was to take me round to Scotland Yard. There we saw a prim gentleman, with a clean shaven laver's face. "I've brought you the Portland place murderer," was Sir Walter's introduction. The reply was a wry smile. "It would have been a welcome present. But the man that the man that Richard Hannay, who for some days greatly interested my department." "Mr. Hannay will interest it again. He has much to tell you, but not today. For certain grave reasons his A. "I've brought you the Portland place murderer." tale must wait for twenty-four hours. Then, I can promise you, you will be entertained and possibly edified. I want you to assure Mr. Hannay that he will suffer no further inconvenience. This assurance was promptly given. You can take up your life where you left off. I was rooted. "Your fat, that probably you no longer wish to occupy, as walking for you, and your man is still there. As you were never publicly commanded, we considered that there was no need of a public execution, but that, of course, you must please yourself." We may want your assistance on MacDillery, for Walker and me just. *Name* and *date* of submission. *Date* of submission. I quiet. If I were you I would go to bed, for you must have considerable acreages of sleep to overtake. You had better lie low, for it one of your Black Stone friends saw you there might be trouble." I felt curiously at a house end. At first it was very pleasant to be a free man, able to go where I wanted without outfouring anything. I had only been a month under the ban of the law and it was quite enough for me. I went to the Savoy and ordered very carefully a very good humour and then smoked the best vigor the house could provide. But I was still feeling nervous. When I saw myself, look at me in the lounge I grew shy and wondered if they were thinking about the murder. After that I took a taxi and drove miles away up to North London. I walked back through delis and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours. All the while my restlessness was growing worse. I felt that great things, tremendous things, were happening or about to happen, and I, who was the cogwheel of the whole business, was out of it. Reyer would be landing at Dover, Sir Walter would be making plans with the few people in England who were in the secret, and somewhere in the darkness the Black Stone would be found. I felt sense of danger and impending chlamity, and I had the curious feeling, too, that I alone could avert it, alone could grapple with it. But I was out of the game now. How could it be otherwise? It was not likely that cabinet ministers and admiralty lords and generals would admit me to their councils. I actually began to wish that I could run up against one of my three enemies. That would lead to developments. I felt that I wanted enormously to have a vulgar scrap with those gentry, where I could bit out and flatten something. I was rapidly getting into every bad temper. I didn't feel like going back to my flat. That had to be faced some time. but as I still had sufficient money I thought I would put it till till early day and go to a hotel for the night. My irritation lasted through dinner, which I had at a restaurant in Jermyn street. I was no longer hungry and let several courses pass unstained. I drank the best part of a bottle of Burgundy, but it did nothing to cheer me. An abominable resilieness had taken possession of me. Here was I, a very ordinary fellow with no particular brains, and yet I was convinced that somehow I was needed to help this business through—that without me it would all go to blazes. I told myself it was sheer, sally conceit, that four or five of the cleverest people living, with all the might of the British empire at their back, had the job in hand. Yet I couldn't be convinced. It seemed as if a voice kept speaking in my car, telling me to be up and doing or I would never speak again. The upstart was that about half past 9 up in the morning to go to Queen Anne's gate. Very much not be admitted, but it would give my conscience to try. I walked down Jamaican street and at the corner of Little Street passed a group of young men. They were in evening dress, had been sitting somewhere and were going on to a muskhal. One of them was Mr. Lancaster Brown. He saw me and stopped short. "My tool, the murderer," he explained. "Here, you fellows, hold him. That's Humane, the man who did the Portland place murder." He gripped me by the arm, and the others crowded around. I wasn't looking for any trouble, but my milt temper made me play the fool. A policeman came up, and I should have told him the truth and, if he didn't believe it, demanded to be taken to Scotland Yard or, for that matter, to the nearest police station. I did a debit at that moment seemed to be indifferent and the sight of Lance's little face was more than I could bear. I let out with my left and had the satisfaction of seeing him measure his length in the gutter. Then began an unholy row. They were all on me once, and the policeman took me in the root. I got in one or two good blows, for I think with fair play I could have locked the lot of them, but the policeman pinned me behind, and one of them got his fingers on my throat. Through a black cloud of rage I heard the officer of the law asking what was the matter, and Lauret, between his broken teeth, declaring that I was Hamny, the murderer. "Oh, hang it all!" I cried. "Make the fellow whip up! I ask you to leave me alone, constable. Scotland Vard knows all about me, and you'll get a proper wigging if you interface with me." "You've got to come along of me, young man," said the policeman. "I saw you strike that gentleman creed far! You began it there for he wasn't doing nothing. I seen you. Best quietly or I will have to try you up." Exasperation and an overwhelming sense that at no cost I deserve me the strength of a bell elephant. I fairly wrenched the constable off his feet, doorbed the man who was gripping my collar and set off at my best pace down Dyke street. I heard a whistle being blown and the rush of men be-bled me. I have a very fair turn of speed, and that night I had wings. In a jiffy I was in Fall Mall and had turned down toward St James park. I dodged the policeman at the Palace gate, dived through a press of carriages at the entrance to the mall and was making for the bridge before my pursuers had crossed the roadway. In the open ways of the park I put on a sport. Happily there were few people about and no one tried to stop me. I was making all on getting to Queen Anne's gate. When I learned that quiet through this grassed desert, Ward's house was in the arrow part, and if it were three or four metres wide drawn up. I slackened speed some yards off and walked briskly up to the door. If the butter refused me admission or if he even delayed to open the door I was done. He didn't delay. I had secretly ring before the door opened. "I must see Sir Walter." I panted. "My business is desperately important." That butter was a great man. Without moving a muscle he held the door open and then shut it behind me. "Sir Walter is engaged," sir, and I have orders to admit no one. Perhaps you will wait. The house was of the old fashioned kind, with a wide ball and rooms on both sides of it. At the far end was an alcove with a telephone and a couple of obituary, and there the butter offered me a seat. "See you." I whispered. "There's trouble about and I'm in it. But Sir Walter knows and I'm working for him. If any one comes and asks if I am here tell him a lie." He nodded, and presently there was a note of voices in the street and a furious ringing at the bell. I never admired a man more than that butler. He opened the door and with a face like a graven image waited to be questioned. Then he gave them it. He told them whose house it was and what his orders were and simply froze them off the doorstep. I could see it all from my above, and it was better than my play. I hadn't waited long till there came another ring at the bell. The butler made no bones about admitting this new visitor. While he was taking off his coat I saw who it was. You couldn't open a newspaper or a magazine without seeing that face—the gray beard cut like a apade, the firm, lightning mouth, the blunt, square nose and the keen, eyes. I recognized the first sword lord, the man, they say, that made the new British navy. He passed my alone and was uninured into a room at the back of the hall. As the door opened I could hear the sound of low voices. It shut, and I was left again alone. For twenty minutes I sat there, wondering what I was to do next. I was still perfectly convinced that I was wanted, but when or how I had no notion I kept looking at my watch, and as the time kept on to half past 10 I began to think that the conference must soon end. In a quarter of an hour Koyer should be speeding along the road to Portsmouth. Then I hollied a bell ring, and the butter appeared. The door of the back room opened, and the first sea lord came out. He walked past me, and in passing he glanced in my direction, and for a second we looked each other in the face. Only for a second, but it was enough to make my heart jump. I had never seen the great man before, and he had never seen me. But in that fraction of time something spring into his eyes and that something was recognition. You can't mistake it. It is a flicker a spark of light, a minute shade of difference which means one thing and one thing only. It causes involuntarily, for a moment it died and he passed on. In a moment of joy I heard the street door close, bolted him. I picked up the telephone book, and looked up the number of his house. We were connected at once, and I heard "His house at home!" I asked, "His bedside?" I returned ten minutes ago, and the "and" had gone to bed. He is not yet well tonight. Will you have a message sir? I rang off and sat down mumily in a chair. My part in this business was not yet ended. It had been a close shave but I had been in time. Not a moment could be lost, so I marched boldly to the door of that back room and entered without knocking. Five surprised faces looked up from a round table. There were Sir Walter and Drew, the war minister, whom I know from his photographs, there was a man, elderly man, who was probably Whitaker, the admiralty official, and there was General Winstanley, complains from the long wear on his forehead. Lastly there was a short, stout man with an from gray mustache and bushy eyebrows, who had stopped in the middle of a sentence. Sir Walter's face showed surprise and annoyance. His is Mr. Hannay, of whom I have to speak to you. He said apologetically to the company "I'm afraid, Hannay, this visit is ill timed." I was getting back my consciousness. "That remains to be seen, sir," I said, "but I think it may be in the nick of time. For today's sake, gentlemen, you went out a minute ago." "Lord Allen," Sir Walter said, redening with anger. "It was ill-defined image, but it was not Lord Allen. It was some one who recognized me some one I have seen in the last month. He had carefully left the door step when I rang Lord Allen's house and was told that he had come in ten minutes before and had gone to bed." Who who, some one who staggered into the room and sat down in the court recently acated and led around at my badly scared bedroom. TRY TO OUST MAYOR Declare Williamport Chief Executive is Not a Citizen. Application was filed at the attorney general's department in Harrisburg, Pa. by counsel on behalf of eight citizens of Williamport for a writ of quo warranto against Mayor Jonas Fischer, of that city, requiring him to show cause why he should not vacate the office. It is contended that Fischer is not a citizen of the United States, having been manufactured. It is probable that a hearing will be ordered and the money he given an opportunity to spend PAGE THREE Kills Two Sharks. Two sharks, one sight and the other nino feet long, were caught in Lakes bay, near Pleasantville, N. J., by William Shourds, a fisherman, after his boat had been almost capsized by the vicious attacks of the sharks. Shourds harpooned the first one. It weighed 200 pounds and had three sets of teeth. He fought the second one for an hour and called for help. Three other men helped kill it. This one weighed 250 pounds. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR - Quest: mills, $4.00/$4.00; city mills, $2.50/$4.00 GATS—Ready, No. 2 white, 48% ** POLLUTRY—Live, ahead; heena, 20 212c, old rosters, 1314fc. Dressed, chalk towns, 22c; old rosters, lice. BUTTER—Steady; fancy creamy; 31c per lb. EGGS—Steady; selected; 31$\textcircled{1}$38c; nearby, 28c; western, 28c. GHICAGO-HOGS — $16.10 low; mixed and butchers, $9.18 to 10; good butchers, $9.18 to 10; $9.38; light, $9.25 to 9.90; beers, $8.78 $9.40; bulk, $8.56 to 9.85; beers, $8.12 to 9.26; buffers, $8.56 $8.56 to 9.26; buffers, $8.56 6.25; stockers and feeds, $5.75 to 8.50; Texans, $7.25 to 9; calves, $9.60 to 12; apples, $9.25 to 10; apples, $9.25 to 10; erp, $6.00 to 8.25; lamb, $7.50 to 12.70 RAILROADS Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. ATLANTIC COAST LINE ATLANTIC COAST LINE THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH ( 1920 ) Twelve leaves Richmond, M. 8,201 For Florida and South: 8:18 A. M. and 8:18 P. M. For Norfolk: 8:18 A. M. 8:208 A. M. 8:208 P. M. *:4:00 P. M. *:4:10 P. M. *:8:208 A. M. *:8:208 P. M. *:3:00 P. M. *:9:25 P. M. For Friarburg: 17:30 A. M., 8:30 A. M., ..., 8:30 A. M., ..., "400 P. M., "410 P. M., 8:30 P. M., ..., 8:30 P. M., ..., For Goldsmith and Fayetteville: "400 P. M., 8:30 P. M., ..., "415 A. M., "415 A. M., ..., 8:30 P. M., ..., Trains arrive Richmond daily: 4:20 A. M. 7:20 A. M. 8:20 A. M. 8:20 A. M. 8:20 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 10:00 M. * 8:20 A. M. 8:20 A. M. M. 6:24 P. M. 7:45 P. K. 9:28 P. M. 11:28 P. * Except Sunday. * Thanksgiving Only. Trains of arrival and departure and examinations not guaranteed. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Trains leave Richmond, Main Street Station Knoxville, Arkansas For the South-Daily: 8:20 A. M. local; 10:20 M. express 8:20 P. M., express for Atlanta; 11:20 M. express 8:20 P. M., local for Keystone and New City—week days. York River Line-6:10 P. M. Stormer Train 25:3 A.M.; 4:15 P. M. daily, local. Traine Arrive Richmond-From the North: 25:3 A.M.; 4:15 P. M. daily, local. P. M. daily; 8:40 A. M. on Sunday. From West Point: 8:45 A. M. except Monday, daily. OCT 87, K. Main St. daily. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Oclio, Louiseville & West. **8:20 p.**—**11:20 p.** Main Line, Local. **8 a.**—**11:20 p.** N. News, NF, Old Pt. **9 a.**—**11:20 p.** Newport News, Local. **7:15 a.**—**11:20 p.** Newport News, Local. **8:30 p.**—**11:20 p.** Newport News. **8:30 p.**—**11:20 p.** From West. **8:30 a.**—**11:40 p.**—**11:20 p.** 100 p. daily from CharlotteThe except Boston 100 p. daily from Thurmont. SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH Mothbred train scheduled to depart from New York to Jacksonville, Alabama, deli. 2:30 P.M. to 12:30 P.M. sleeps and coaches to Jacksonville, Alabama, Birmingham; 6:38 P.M. through coaches and sleeps to Jacksonville, Alabama; 11:30 P.M. through coaches to Jacksonville, Alabama; 12:45 A.M. sleeps to Alabama, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches to Jacksonville. Northbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily; 4:30 A.M. 7:18 A.M. 8:30 A.M., Local; 9:40 A.M. 9:27 P.M. ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHRONICLE HELD) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND RESENT Office: 200 P. Street, Birmingham Phone: 200 P. Street, Birmingham PAGE FOUR Colored folks can be happy at one time and miserable at another time. A person can be happy without money and miserable with money. A person can be happy with money and miserable without money. As a matter of fact, it depends upon the person PRESIDENT WOODBOW WILSON is said to be certain of his reelection as President. Hox. CHARLES EVANS HUGHEN does not want anyone to be certain of his election. He claims that work and reasonable apprehension will land him in the White House. --- The United States Government has decided to purchase the Danish West Indies for twenty-five million dollars. It bought the Philippines for twenty million dollars and it has been anxious to give them away for some time past. This government is "great" on buying islands. THOSE BLUE LAWS. The so-called blue laws have been made ridiculous. Those in charge of the enforcement of the law have gone from one extreme to another. It was found that according to the wording of the statute, choristers and choir leaders could be arrested for working at their callings on Sunday. As a result, for several Sundays, some of the churches were without their regular music. This raised a protest and Mayor George Ainslie was charged with going to the extreme in the matter. As the legislature had provided an "ouster law" which enabled any citizen to move for the removal of an official falling to do his duty, he was only safeguarding his own interest. The people responsible for the law came forward and proceeded to define what they meant. Ice cream parlors were closed and boot-blacks were driven from the streets. Only the Hebrews, who closed on Saturday, were permitted to do business. Then the movement awoke the other way. Confectioners were fined and boot blacks were treated the same way. The telephone companies had been threatened and the street car companies were wondering just what they were expected to do. Under their franchise, they were required to render service 365 days in the year, and there is a fourth year in which they are required to do business 366 days. Then came the test cases in the Hustings Court. A decision was handed down that a boot-black could labor at his calling on Sunday. This let in those outside of the hotels. It was decided that music in hotels was a necessity and this let in the musicians outside of the hotels. They came the soda water question. It was decided that if the drug stores sold medicinal soda water then they could operate their fountains. The confectioners immediately discovered that they furnished medicinal soda water too. A retaurateur was halled to court for selling ice cream on Sunday. He set up the plea that this was a part of table-fare and he was released. The confectioners and drug store managers found out that ice cream was a necessity, too, being a part of their customer's fare, and they proceeded to sell ice cream, too. The cigar stores found out that after a citizen had been smoking for years, a cigar became a necessity and they proceeded to provide the public with this medicinal part of their business, as it tended to lower the state of their customer's health not to accommodate him on Sunday as well as on any other day. As the matter now stands, the entire affair has gone from the ridiculous to the most ridiculous. It was decided that, although the street cars provided transportation to nearly all parts of the city, the litter was a necessity. As the matter now stands, nearly every citizen is doing pretty much as he pleases. The situation has gone from bad to worse, and in a few more weeks, each Sunday seller will give that bland smile and continue to wink "the other eye" while the spending public will go in and buy what it wants. THE PRINCE OF LEADERSHIP. We promise that are this, Mason R. R. Martin has discovered that there is truth in the statement that "us can easy the head that wears a crown." The colored journals are discussing the sleeping car episode in Georgia and his alleged remarks concerning the attitude of his own wife. There is a disposition to make it unpleasant for every colored citizen who is accorded leadership. The attempt is steadily made to discredit him. Hundreds and thousands of colored leaders refuse to recognize any leadership whatever, and this is ultimately the cause of our own undoing. There cannot be any doubt whatever that Major Morox made a grievous blunder if he made the comment, he is alleged to have made. But who knows he made it? He is striving, we presume, not to make a bad matter worse. He is following out to the letter the Dr. Booker T. WASHINGTON method of silence and of letting his friends make denials for him. This served its purpose well in the case of the distinguished educator, but it will be a long time before the critics will permit him to adopt the same methods of concealment. Personally, we do not know of a person who could have been selected to fill the position, who could come nearer to equalling the distinguished leader than Major R. R. Monox of Hampton. He was trained in the school of subserviency, where manhood constituted no part of the curriculum. He knew how to serve. He is now thrust in a new atmosphere, where he is expected to move on his own initiative. Even if he has made a mistake, there is a chance for him to learn. We cannot expect all of the proper qualities of citizenship in a person of his environments. We should therefore be charitable. He will see. He will comprehend and he will in time emerge in the neighborhood of racial independence, where Dr BOOKLE T. WASHINGTON sojourned so many years before he finally crossed over the river "to rest beneath the shade of the trees." PRINT PAPER AND OTHER COSTS Our readers can readily understand the attitude of this journal and others in the country towards the delinquent subscribers if they will read carefully the following extract from the verable address of President Ronald S. Bannert, of the Virginia Press Association, which has been in session at Stauffenburg, Va., this week: "A year ago the Virginia publisher was paying from 2 to 2.34 cents per pound for his newsprint, according to the amount of his yearly purchases. Today it is impossible to make a contract, and the price ranges from 4 to 6 cents per pound for immediate delivery. While the latter figure is, of course, not justified, there is good reason for a heavy increase in the price of paper. There has been an abnormal domestic demand caused by the increase of circulation of the metropolitan papers and heavy increases of advertising in the larger cities; the importation of wool pulp from Scandinavian points has been entirely discontinued on account of the war; Canada has placed an embargo on the shipment of paper or pulp to this country; the world is looking to us to supply her paper needs, and is insistently crying for help; there have been heavy increases in wages, while every article that goes into the making of paper has risen in price, some of the chemicals which were formerly imported from Germany having increased a hundred-fold. "But every day the production is being increased, mills are working, to capacity, and new mills are under construction. Within a few months the situation will improve, and when the war is over, conditions will approach normal. While I do not think that we will ever have paper as cheap as we once had it in this country two years ago, I do believe that at a price of $2.25 per 100 pounds at the mill the manufacturer will make a fair profit, and the cost will not be excessive to the publisher. But to get this price there must be organization, and I suggest that a permanent committee be named from this association who will undertake to see that the Virginia publisher gets his paper supply at a fair and reasonable price. This is a plain explanation of existing conditions. He does not stop here, however, but explains in detail the logical result of these abnormal conditions. He said: "With paper at anywhere its present price, type metals soaring above all previous quotations, inks showing an advance of 50 per cent and labor insistent for more money with which to meet the constantly increasing cost of living, the publisher is confronted with finding more business, Increasing his prices, or closing down. I cannot see the prospect of enough new business in the near future in Virginia to meet the increased expenses, and, therefore, the conclusion that I reach is that the present business must pay a higher tariff. Subscription rates must be raised and the delinquent must be cut down as nearly as possible to the actual number of paid subscribers. The exchange list must be pruned, and while I do not advocate the policy of cutting off country exchanges, there can be a reform in the number of exchanges without great harm to those interested. Some papers will find it possible to use a lighter weight of stock, reduce their margins or cut down the number of papers—all with the object of reducing the amount of paper used. *Advertising rules must be revised and the free motion ablated. Payment must be made for every batch of spare used. There can be no unaccompanied—abandoned, external organizations, etc., must help you to bear your burden.* It may be well understood, then, why we have appreciated the money sent to us by sympathising subscribers. COSSACKS INTER HUNGARY VON LINSENGER PUSHED BACK Russian Fronts Develop Great Activity—Czar's Forces Gain at Many Points. A despatch to the London Morning Post from Ruhlapest, dated July 25, says: "Some Cossack detachments are ceded in crossing into Hungary, creating a panic throughout the frontier towns and villages and causing those sands of refugees to swarm down onto the plains. The Russians penetrated about thirty miles and then rapidly withdrew, fighting continuously with detachments of gendarmes, of gendarmes. "Correspondents explain the panic of the population by saying that a dozen Cossacks are sufficient to frighten and put to flight a hundred (bousand women and children. "These refugees," continues the cor respondent, "have greatly embarrassed the local authorities, who cannot supply them with accommodations. Moreover, they block the road, hampering military transport and holding up supplies. The refugees are entirely without food. The cattle which they drove with them also have had not ing to eat, owing to the sparse vegetation in the mountains. Journalists who have seen the exodus in the Bukowina region say that only the Serbian flight into Montenegrin gro and Albania can be compared with it. Everywhere are to be seen bodies of persons who died from exhaustion and often, beside them, the carcasses of horses. Furious fighting at various points along the eastern battle front is reported in an official statement from the war office at Petrograd. The statement announces further ad- vances by General Sakharoff. Follow- ing is the statement: "Western front—Our softball on Lake Misdial, east of Lake Narozes, fro- d during the night on nearly all the positions of the enemy, situated on the banks "In the district of Skrolov, northeast of Baranovich, attempts made by de- tachments of the enemy to advance were repulsed by our fire. "Two German acceptees flew over our positions in the district north of Lutsk, and threw bombs without causing any damage. We repulsed an attack of the enemy in the direction of Lutsk in the district of Semiski. "In the street fighting during our ad- vance in the village of Gallichania, mentioned in the morning communication of July 24, we captured two more guns and took seventy-seven Austro-German prisoners. "During the night of July 24, gallant regiments under General Sakharov broke through the wire entanglements of the enemy at the river Slonevke. In the region of Loshny, a furious battle is proceeding. "In the evening of July 24, west of Burkanow, one of our aeroplanes was hit by the enemy's artillery fire. It burst into flames and fell inside the enemy's lines. It is supposed the gallant aviators, Staff Captain Berdazd and Leutenant Ritchoff, perished as heroes." BEAT BACK GERMANS British Take More of Poison Against Fresh Theeps. British troops have captured the greater part of the village of Posteres, says the London official statement. The Germans brought up reinforcements of infantry and guns but the counter-attacks everywhere, the statement adds, were repulsed. Since the battle of the Somme opened on the first of July, 26,223 Germans have been captured by the allies. These figures are contained in an official summary on the results of the fighting. In addition to prisoners the allies have taken 140 guns, about 40 trench mortars and several hundred machine guns. Cement's Death Day Fixed Sir Roger Caement's execution has been fixed for August 3, the London Daily Mail stated. Unless granted a royal reprieve, Caement will be hanged in the yard of Postonville prison. Hope for the saving of Caement's life by judicial means was virtually abandoned when his appeal from his conviction on the charge of high treason was rejected on July 18. 200-Pound White Shark Caught. A white shark, measuring nine feet three inches, weighing 200 pounds, was killed in the pounds of the Pfeifer Fish company, off Longport, N. J., leaving station. Captain Charles Nees and the six men with him in a boat had a big sight with the fish before it was killed, using pitchforks and gaff books. Delaware Guardmen Off. One battalion of Delaware state units are entrained at state camp near Mt. Castle, and the second to preparing follow. The guardmen import short for Dumaine, N. M. The Platform Declares for Initiative, Referendum and Recall, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Law, Etc. The Prohibition national convention in St. Paul, Minn., adjourned sine die after nominating J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, as candidate for president of the United States, and Dr. Ira D. Landrith, of Nashville, canidate for vice president. Dr. Landrith's nomination was made unanimous after the other candidate had withdrawn. Hanly received 440 votes against 181 for William Suzer, former governor of New York, his nearest contender. The New York delegation cast their teen votes for Sulzer, and thirty-seven for Hanley. Several states changed their votes after completion of the roll call, most of the changes being in Hanley's favor. A number of delegates were absent, but about 240 votes were sufficient to alert. Mr. Hendrickson was placed in nomination for vice president by F. E. Baldwin, of New York, and William Shaw named Dr. Landrith. Marie C. Brehm, of Illinois, was named by Edward Blake, of Illinois, representing the anti-Catholic faction; L. L. Pickett, of Kentucky, nominated William Lloyd Clark, of Illinois. The name of candidates with the exception of Miss Brehm and Dr. Landrith were withdrawn. Miss Brehm then moved that Dr. Landrith's nomination be made unanimous. The platform, over which a lively fight was expected, was adopted with only one change. A plank was added declaring in favor of the initiative, referendum and recall. The platform expresses opposition to the "wasteful military programs of the Democratic and Republican parties," but favors "preparedness for peace." It rejects a "compact among nations to dismantle navies and disband armies," but until "such court and compact are established, we pledge ourselves to maintain an effective army and navy and to provide coast defences entirely adequate for national protection." Favors rectoprocal trade treaties to be negotiated with all nations and commissions appointed to gather facts. Favors legislation to encourage the establishment of an adequate fleet of American merchant ships. Opposes war with Mexico; pledges aid to the protection of American lives and favors the use of forces when necessary. Approves strict interpretation of Morocco doctrine; opposes abandonment of the Philippine islands at this time, but favors ultimate independence. Favors nonpolitical promotions to be governed by civil service regulations, applicable to all federal executive officials. Favors equitable retirement law, for maintenance of superannuated federal employees. Declares for Americanism. Favors uniform marriage and divorce laws and complete suppression of white slavery. Declares for prohibition of child labor, approves an eight-hour day, with one-hour rest each day, and extension of compensation and liability federal acts. Opposes "pork barrel" legislation and useless federal expenditures. Favors a single presidential term of six years. Demands public ownership of utilities, to be operated in the interest of all people. Believes in equality of all persons. Favors separation of church and state, with guaranty of full religious and civil rights to all. Favors public grain elevators, owned and operated by the federal government and abolition of speculation on markets. The fairy tale of "Babes in the Wood" has been duplicated in the woods near Lakewood Park, Waterbury, Conn., by Andrew Yankanakus, nine years old, and his sister, Mary, aged eight. ```markdown ``` [Image of a silhouette of a man's head and shoulders, with a bald head and a mustache.] The children left home Tuesday to go fishing. Since then they have lived on wild harbor and have been sleeping in the woods. Their parents had given us hope, believing they had been drowned. They were found by a policeman. Thumb-Samatth Coats $1000. William Bevan, of Frackville, near Pettaville, Pa. was granted $1000 for the loss of a hand last month by a decision of State: Reserve Paul W. Honack. Bevan was employed by the Harleigh-Brookwood Coal company, and a mere thumb echatch caused an infected wound, which resulted first in the amputation. o the thumb and then of the man's whole hand. Bevan narrowly escaped with his life. Canned Shark is Eaten as Salmon. As nice, white, faky, delectable "sea food," thousands of eater-ners eat shark meat every week,ording to a statement made here by Dr. Carl H. Eigemann, curator of fish at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, Pa. Dr. Eigemann says that sharks have been canned as often as Mexican presidents. The growing scarcity of salmon, Dr. Eigemann says, is largely responsible for the use of shark meat in this costry. Much shark is sold to the unsuspecting halibut and swordfish, it is stated. OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, just as reasonable as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of home making comfort giving Furniture as Rugs and—don't fail to ask our salesmen about our banking plan which gives you 5, 10 or 15 months in whiter to pay for any purchase. CHAS. G. JURGENS S ADAMS AND BROAD News stand. Mr Edward Dandridge, 11 W. Du vel-Street, agent for the Planet handles all kinds of newspapers. E, Sea Isle City, N J OPENS JULY 1ST CLOSES SEPT. 10TH Directly on the magnificent shelving beach at Sea Isle, N. J. The Climate of this Ocean Resort has been favorably compared with that of Northern Italy. and special attention will be July, an ocean room with board our weeks, $8.00 per week. the season or any part thereof parties of ladies or gentlemen or six. and Monday breakfast, $4.00. we give on the Atlantic Beach room opens on the ocean. Amusements. R. R. Flaine Street, Dundee, L. L. 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SATURDAY.....AUG. 29 1916 THIS INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC INDUSTRY. The interest of people in public affairs is considerably heightened when they learn that the revenues of the Government are wisely and judiciously managed. A statement of economical expenditure, which is susceptible of proof will always attract attention and please the thoughtful reader. Among the varied industrial enterprises of the Post Office Department in Washington is an establishment devoted entirely to the manufacture of mail locks and the bag attachments used in mail transportation. When this administration came into power, the Department solely needed an improved type of mail lock. The shop was immedately reorganised, placed on a business basis, and its activities enlarged so as to meet this imperative demand. Within a very short time a new and greatly improved lock had been devised and its production begun. The lock in use weighed 5 and one half ounces; the new one weighs 24.5 ounces, as 430,900 of this new product have been put into service, the difference in weight (the Government paying as much for the weight of equipment as it does for the mail itself) can be easily calculated. The locks replaced by this new and better style cost 21 cents each to make. Those now being manufactured cost 8 and one half cents, direct and indirect charges considered, the saving thus shown on original cost of production to date amounting to $53,760. Of the old style, 36,000 were annually returned for repair at a cost of about 9 cents each. Of the new style, out of the great number sent into the service, but 906 have been returned, and as these new style locks can be repaired at a cost of 3 cents each, the annual saving on this item will amount to over $2,100. The Department has in this administration encouraged its employees to give their best service to the Government and many instances have recently come to notice wherein the Department has greatly profiled by this wise public policy. In the lock shop a recent achievement in this direction is an improved cord fastener, the work of three of its employees, for use on bags; also one designed for locking large quantities of parcel-post matter which has heretofore been with out this protection. It can be made at a very low price, requiring less material and a fewer number of operations. The significant part of this lies in the great number required in the service, between three and four millions the output being 500,000 annually. As the cost has been reduced by the new method from 4 and one-half to 3 cents each it will be seen what a splendid showing this makes for administrative economy. Another valuable improvement has been the perfected locking cord fastener designed for the use on the tie sacks, something which the Department for years has needed and vainly endeavored to accomplish. This, device will be of great value to the postal service at large by increasing the capacity and efficiency of mail bags to a degree difficult to estimate. The modern system of business methods and the proper encouragement of employees to take an active and earnest interest in their work, both of which desirable features this administration of the Department has favored and put into practice, is responsible for the many improve- ments made and the advantages gained. Active experiments are constantly being made for the betterment of the service. For many years a tremendous expense has been the labelling of the immense quantity of mail bags in use. The form of label used in the past and still used by clerks all over the country is the doubling and refolding of what is known as a "facing slip." The preparation of these labels by the thousands has been and is an expensive proposition, yet there appears to have been no effort on the part of previous administrations to progress from the old method. Under present direction a perforated label in sheets and runs has been designed which is practically ready for use when furnished to employees. Every postal clerk in the country and thousands of post-office employees will find this new method of great advantage and it will result in a large economy in the service. There have also been some other not able improvements made, viz., the substitution of steel where brass was form Charley Becomes Curious and Experiments Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers urly need, at a very considerable learning of expenses; a device for fastening foreign mail postes, doing away with the old fashioned method of spring and soil; a scheme for saving twine by means of a simple holder, which permits free and easy use without waste, and a flexible stamp design, for which the contract price was 34 cents, but which will now be made at a cost of but 2 cents. A mechanical pickup or facing table, for use in facing and stacking letters in first-class post offices, has also been developed and will soon be perfected. This device is considered superior to those, now in use and costs less than one-third as much to manufacture. Those at present in use It will thus be seen that the activities of the Post Office Department have been centered along lines which will not only produce large economies to the people of the country, but will also prove a great convenience to those in the service. During the past three years two objects have been kept constantly in view, viz., saving the public money wherever possible and serving the people to the fullest extent. There was room for great improvement and there has been much accomplished. It is but common justice to award due credit in these administrative reforms to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, in whose Bureau these measures of economy were developed and who has so faithfully devoted his time to that purpose. A CALL TO ARMS! To the Missionaries, B. Y. P. U., and Sunday School Workers, of the Baptist State Sunday School Convention of Virginia: Our next Annual Session will be held at Loyal Street Baptist Church, Danville, Va., August 23, 1916. Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D., Pastor, Prof. G. W. Woody, Superintendent. This bids fair to be a great Sunday School Congress. Some of the most learned laymen and professional men and women will be there to discuss pertinent subjects concerning the spiritual, intellectual and material development of our race. The work we support is in excellent condition and we need sufficient funds to help in keeping it up to the standard; therefore I make an earnest plea that we use every effort to bring a large contribution to help our educational and mission work, and to accomplish more this year than ever. J. S. Lee, President; J. K. Trent, Corresponding Secretary. MUST KEEP STABLES CLEAN. (Journal, July 21, 1916.) (JOURNAL, July 21, 1916.) "I want Dr. Levy and his assistants to make an inspection of these stables each week and I am going to impose a fine on violators every day that they violate the law," said Justice Crutchfield this morning in imposing $5 fine and costs on four stable owners, complaint against whom was made by the health department. Those fined are, W. D. Plowman, Fifteenth street, between Main and Cary streets; S. H. Campbell, 1816 East Franklin street; Joseph Lansatter, 1810 East Franklin street, and Cautherne Brothers, 1917 East Franklin street. All were reported by the board of health for having their stables in an innacillary condition. Dr. Levy said to the court that all of these stables were in a very bad condition. In some cases the manure had not been removed for many days and most of them did not have the proper equipment. "While we were cleaning up we might as well do so in other parts of the city," said the court. "I want every one of these people brought before me and I am going to fine them all if they are proved guilty." Justice Crutchfield then told the health officer that there was a large pool of water on Forest Hill, about a block from the justice's house which needed his attention. It was charged by some of those who were fined that the city stables were in an insanitary condition. The court ruled that two wrongs did not make a right. "If Dr. Levy himself is violating the health laws, just bring him before me and I will fine him as quickly as any one else," he said. --- JURY GIVES DUTTON ONE CENT. (Journal, July 20, 1916.) Policeman J. A. Dutton's $10,000 libel suit against M. B. Florsheim, proprietor of the Royal laundry, resulted in an expensive victory for the policeman. By the jury's verdict Dutton's allegation that he was libelled is conceded by the jury, but the jury finds that his good name and fame were damaged just one cent's worth. Florsheim must pay that amount for the slander. Under the law in such cases, the plaintiff must bear the costs of the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA suit. The law prohibits that action an award of $10 or more damages is allowed the costs of the action shall fall upon the plaintiff. It was shown by the testimony of witnesses that Dutton, while in the employ of the laundry altered and raised laundry bills in certain instances, but the laundry was not thereby defrauded, nor did the customer pay more than the regular laundry rate. It was evident that the jury was influenced by this showing to refuse the policeman more than a verdict of vindication. Trial of the suit was begun in the law and equity court last Monday. MANY ARE HOMELESS (Continued From Page One.) amount of barrels and boxes taken out of one firm's yards nearby and dumped into the stream above the arch. The arch, too, he pointed out, had not been cleaned for some time. DUMPS BEING UNDERMINED. The dumps in this section, where the trash of the city has for years been neglected, is being undermined by the turn in Shockoe Creek, and even as Mr. Bluford talked several small cave-ins occurred, letting more trash into the stream. The ends of sewerage pipes have been unearthed and protrude bare and unsightly into the creek, showing the tremendous wash of the stream in the past few years. "And this is in the heart of the city," declared Mr. Bluford disgustedly. "I own my property here and I have done everything I could to protect myself. The city offers me no protection in the world nor these poor people who live around here." Inquiries from several of the Negro families elicited the information that thus far no one representing the city had even come down and looked over the situation, much less rendered help. This was at noon. ARCH FALLING SLOWLY Mr. Bluford, who has watched carefully the arch over the creek at Marshell Street, stated that he would take an oath that since yesterday the broken side had dropped an inch and a half. Several of the keystones are crushed. One of the central piers of the big Marshall Street viaduct appears to rest directly on this arch, and as each street car passes over it, the distinct vibrations can be felt down to the ground, evidently, as Mr. Bluford pointed out, adding to the strake on the arch. A light rope has been drawn around this corner of the arch to stop passenger traffic. Mr. Bluford declared that unless the city policed the banks of the creek, it would continue to have trouble until some permanent steps were taken to cover it. "It should at least," he said, "do something to clean up the trash and flinch in this section." The condition, too, bore him out strongly. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) Lewen Postmaster Stain Crazed by drink, according to the police, Dr. W. A. Parker, a dentist, of Lewes, Del., shot and instantly killed Ebe T. Lynch, the postmaster of Lewes, and at the same time shot J. E. Bamberger, of Philadelphia, Ida and Abe Gutowitz, of Lewes, and Louis Soils, of Baltimore. After the shooting Dr. Parker went home and waited until Jacob West, the sheriff, arrived in a motor car to take him to the county jail at Georgetown. Feeling ran bitch and had it not been for cool hears Parker might have been lynched. Dr. Parker is said to have been drinking and went to an ice cream aloon which Lynch manages. Several women and children wer in the place and Parker began to swear. Then Lynch ordered him out. When he refused to go Lynch knocked him down and threw him out. Vowing to get even, Parker walked to his home, five blocks away, got a shot gun and returned. As he rounded the corner near Lynch's place he saw Lynch on the pavement and raising the weapon fired. The load of heavy shot locked in Lynch's head Lynch died instantly. The Gutowitz brother and sister, and Solia, a salesman, were in front of the Gutowitz store, a few doors away, and several of the shot hit them. Miss Gutowitz and her brother were not seriously injured, but Solia received several of the shot in his stomach, where they penetrated the intestines. Damberger, who was in Lewes on a business trip, was one of a crowd of bystanders. He was severely wounded, the shot striking him in the abdomen. He, to other with Solia, was taken to a hospital in Baltimore. The condition of both is serious. [Image of a monk's head and shoulders, wearing a robe with a striped collar.] BISHOP KILLED FISHING Electrocuted by Contact of Steel Rod With Power Wire. The body of William Perry Eveland missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church for the Philippines and Southern Asia, was found along the Yellow Breeches creek one mile east of his summer home at Mt. Holly Springs, near Carlisle, Pa., by a searching party. Bishop Eveland had been electrocuted by the contact of his steel fishing rod with a high tension electric power wire running from a nearby power-plant. His body was burned about the arms. Bishop Eveland was seen whipping the banks of the stream. Alarmed when he did not return, relatives began a search which continued until midnight, when the citizens of the town were informed and more than a hundred men turned out to aid. The heavy rain which raised the streams hindered them in their work. Bishop Eveland recently underwent an operation for nasal trouble and it was first thought that the wound might have begun bleeding and that he had been overcome by loss of blood in some part of the mountain section. Bishop Eveland was a graduate of Dickinson college, a native of Harrisburg, and had been bishop for four years. He was former president of Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, and a trustee of Tone Institute, Port Deposit, Md. The bishop, who was fifty-three years old, was for twenty-five years a member of the Central Pennsylvania conference. He was married to Miss Rose Mullin, of Mt. Holly Springs. U. S. MAKES TREATY Te Buy The Danish West Indies for $25,000,000. Official announcement was made at the White House that negotiations virtually have been completed for the purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States from Denmark for $25,000,000. A treaty closing the transaction probably will be signed and sent immediately to the senate. While details of the treaty were not given out, it is understood the United States would come into complete possession of the islands. Word has been received from Denmark that the treaty is almost certain of ratification by the Danish parliament. The three islands of the Danish West Indies…St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John—lie due east of Porto Rico, and their value to the United States is strategic from a military point of view. The harbors of St. Thomas and St. Croix are of first importance to the American navy and St. Thomas itself lies in the lane of shipping from Europe to the Panama Canal. Important German and French and English mall companies have coaling stations there. WOODEN SHOES NEXT Must Develop Substitute for Leather Within Two Years. "Unless the world develops a subunit tute for leather within two years One Card will give you one amount and another Card will give you the other amount. Two Cards of the other denominations will give you the increased amounts. Which will you have? The Vacation Clubs Are Forming Now! CALL AT THE BANK AND GET THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THIS SYSTEM OF SAVING. PUT AWAY JUST TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER WEEK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE NEXT JULY. $12.50 PLUS THE INTEREST. PUT AWAY FIFTY CENTS PER WEEK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE $25.00 PLUS THE INTEREST. TAKE OUT BOTH CARDS AND YOU WILL RECEIVE $37.50 PLUS THE INTEREST. THE PLAN IS SIMPLE AND THE BENEFITS ARE SURE. Those of you who talk about receiving the benefits while you live now have the chance. The Cards are ready. Call at the Bank and ask tor them. Mechanics Savings Bank N. W. CORNER OF THIRD AND CLAY STREETS PERSONS LIVING IN ANY PART OF THE U. S. CAN JOIN THE CLUB. SEND THE MONEY TO THE BANK AND GET THE BENEFITS WE KEEP OUR DOORS OPEN SATURDAYS FROM 9 A. M. TO 8 P. M Speakers declared that the country is in the throes of a leather famine. R. W. Ranney, president of the association, warned the delegates that governmental action was necessary if leather boots and shoes were to remain within reach of workingmen. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA—FLOUR —Quiet; water clear, $4.75¢5; city milla $6.25¢8.0 RYE FLOUR —Steady; per barrel $4.50¢7.5. WHEAT—Steady; No. 2 red, $1.19¢1.21. OURN—Firm; No. 2 yellow, $91¢92c. OATS—Steady, No. 2 white, $49¢49½c. POULTRY —Live, steady; hens 19¢20c; old roosters, 13¢14c. Dress ed, steady; choice fowls, 22c; old roosters, 15c. BUTTER—Steady; fancy creamery, 31c per lb. EGGS—Steady; selected, 32¢33c; nearby, 28c; western, 28c. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO — HOGS —10c higher; mixed and butcherbens, $9.25¢10.15; good heavy, $9.35¢10.15; rough heavy, $9.08¢9.30; light, $9.30¢10.06; pigs, $8.60¢9.30; bulk, $9.35¢9.90. CATTLE 10.155 higher; beeves. $6.40 @ 10.85; cows and heifers, $3.75 @ 10.85;Texans, and feeders, $5.15 @ 10.85;Texans, $7.10 @ 3.70; calves, $9.25 @ 11.75. SHEEP- live bigher, native and western, $15.00 N.S., lamb, $7.75 SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET NOW! PHOTOS—We Offer you the Latest and Most Artistic Photos at More Moderate Figure than you can Obtain Elsewhere. Special Attention Pald to Children. We will Also be Pleaseed to Quote You Prices on Exterior and Interior View Work. All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone. Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large Picnic or Band Wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first-class Carriages, Buggies, etc. Keep constantly on hand fine funeral supplies. Open All Day and Night—Man on Duty All Night. PHONE, MAD. 577 RICHMOND, Va. (Residence next door) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PAGE FIVE KILL-LIST PLAYER ON THE 10TH AND THE MEXICAN "WAR." El Paso, Texas, July 16, 1916. My Dear Mr. Smith: I note in The Gazette of the 8th instr, an excerpt from the "New York Globe" to the effect that "it is the same Tenth that has the honor of suffering the FIRST carabines in a war which, if it occurs, will result, let us hope, in the liber- ation of Mexico from an anarchy com- parable to that which afflicted Cuba." I have seen similar statements in a number of race papers. Gen. Perahing sent an escort and the necessary motor trucks to Parra to get those bodies. They were brought to Columbus and shipped to their relatives without any fuss of feathers. The government asked Caranza for permission to get the bodies of the dead at Carrizal and he replied the government might bring them on at its own expense. An undertake was hired and sent down. He took an assistant, a tinner and six laborers, fourteen coffins, because the number of men were unaccounted for and a truck, as Carrizal is nine miles from the railroad. They found the two officers and six men buried in one grave. The seventh man was found about two miles from Carrizal buried. The officers were identified by their complexions. All were stark naked, the Mexicans having robbed them of everything they had. They even stole the aluminum tags each soldier wears around his neck for identification purposes, except one, and that soldier was the only one who could be identified. The party returned to El Paso, arriving in the night and went at once to their homes. At 10:30 next day a lone switch engine with one man aboard shunted the car to the center of the International bridge and cut the car loose and returned without notifying a single person. Some American soldiers loungeing on our side of the line went, out of curiosity, to see what it contained and peeping in saw the coffins. They reported to their officer and he telephoned to Gen. Bell. Gen. Bell ordered out the Eighth cavalry. They marched from Fort Bills, three miles away, through the main streets of the city in all the panoply of war, with colors flying and their mounted band in front followed by nine ambulances. It was a most magnificent sight to see about 1,800 mounted men marching through the streets to livey military music. Gen Bell and staff reached the bridge before they did and had an officer borrow a locomotive and bring the car to the American side. The coffins were then put in the ambulances and the march started through the streets again to the undertaker's, this time with colors trailing and playing the dead march from Chopin. Thousands and thousands of people of many nationalities saw it with hats off. It was a most impressive sight. The bodies were dressed in regulation uniforms resealed in the zinc coffins and the latter in outer wooden cases for shipment. Lieut. Adalis's body was shipped to his home in Oregon. The one soldier identified was shipped to his home in Georgia. Capt. Boyd seemed to have no relatives and his body and those of the unidentified soldiers were shipped to Arlington and buried in the national cemetery. Surely Uncle Sam has honored his dead. The only thing lacking is to send an army into the country to average their death. If the Truth ever gets into another light with Mexicans, God have mercy on their souls. FLEET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Female Embalmer PRELIMINARY CALL Hillburn, N. Y., July 15, 1916. P fellow Comrades and Fellow Citizens of Color; By the authority vested in me as president of the National Royal Rights League hereby issue this preliminary call for the sixth annual convention of said league. The matter of the exact date and place for the convention is not yet quite settled, but it is very timely and proper that there be no further delay in inviting public attention to the fact that such a convention is to be held, and within the next sixty days. NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS it has been wisely suggested in view of existing unfavorable social, civic and political-conditions confronting us as a people, that the National Equal Rights League invite and urge all of our people, in all sections of the country, to unite in a great "National Congress of Colored Americans," and for the special purpose of voicing the feelings and opinions of the race on those unfavorable conditions now surrounding us in this country; and also to decide upon the wisest and best methods for combating color segregation and all other forms of color discrimination. EXTRAORDINARY WRONGS SUFFERED. After fifty years of so-called freedom in this country, what is the prevailing condition of our Colored American population? Briefly stated it is this: Our civil rights have been rendered almost futile; we are shamefully curtailed politically; we are denied equality before the law; we are not allowed equal industrial opportunities; our property and our very lives are not at all secure; and "the black horrors of lynching" innocent Colored Americans continue unabated. While our Federal Government's indifference towards all these injustices is but little less than the nullification of our great war amendments. Throughout the southland, and to more or less extent in the north, the increasing millions of our fellow Colored Americans are being more and more reduced to the pititable condition of political serfs and social outcasts. CAN WE BE UNMOVED? If such conditions do not stir our souls and our blood, what under heaven can do it? Do not the industrial opportunities denied us, the freedom of speech and of the press not allowed, the civic and political rights taken from us, and the insecurity of property and life that surrounds us, give sufficient ground and reason for the calling of such a National Congress of Colored Americans as is herein suggested? "In this fierce era of controversy and bloodshed," can we be unmoved? While the whole world is wide awake socially and politically shall we sleep? While all other classes and races are on the verge of social and political revolutions, shall we be indifferent? Since all other groups of oppressed people are in the stir and rush of agitation, is it not high time that we should at least begin to get on the move? The south is still in the saddle at our national capital, rushing headlong with a most rockless disregard for the feelings and rights of ten millions of loyal, but oppressed Colored Americans. FLING OUR STANDARD. Therefore, let us get together in a great national congress, and fling to the whole wide world the full story of our grievances and of our earnest demands for justice and fair play. GET READY. Let all our religious, educational social and political leaders among us heed this call. Let all of our great religious organizations and lodges and benevolent societies begin now to plan to be represented in this proposed congress. By so doing we cannot fail to produce a powerful effect on the public mind that will greatly help us in our struggle for justice and freedom. This congress will be independent and wider than any present organization. Its deliberations will not be under the Equal Rights League, which will meet in conjunction. Faithfully yours, BRON GUNNER, President of the National Equal Rights League. MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alphens Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337 RESERVENCE Washington, July 31. After winning the political horizan and balancing difficulties against advantages Senator Parnes made the prediction today that the Republicans with a well organized campaign will carry the Senate in the forthcoming elections. To do this ten Democratic seats must be won. The Senator from Pennsylvania says that these ten seats at least are to be had if the Republicans will go out and fight for them. It is possible according to his forecast, that the number might be brought up to twelve. The principal States in which the struggle to regain the Senate will centre are Montana, Nevada, Indiana, West Virginia, Maryland and Missouri. To this list is added Washington, from which State there is one Progressive. THIRTY-FOUR SEATS TO BE FILLED. There are 24 seats to be filled in the elections, the normal vacancy of 32 having been augmented by the death of Senators Shively of Indiana and Burleigh of Maine. The seats are now occupied by 18 Democrats. 1 Progressive and 15 Republicans. To accomplish their purpose the Republicans must hold their present seats and gain 10 of the Democrats' places. The prediction of Senator Penrose was made apropos of a memorandum submitted to him by prominent manufacturers of the country who have been analyzing the political situation and the results of the elections of November, 1814. The manufacturers assert that from the viewpoint of the business man the 1814 elections were encouraging everywhere except in the middle Western States, where the boom in agricultural products due to the war gave the Democrats 4 Senators and cut the Republican minority down to 39 out of a total of 96. Some of these Democratic seats, the memorandum states, were won by small margins. In Colorado the Democratic plurality was 3,309. In Nevada it was 40, and in Wisconsin, 1,100. With a good working organization, the manufacturers continue, these States could have been saved to the Republicans. REPUBLICANS HOPEFUL. Taking into consideration these 1914 results and the changes in political sentiment since, the manufacturers say there is little danger of the Republicans losing any of the seats they now have. Republicans can be re-elected in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Utah, Maine, or, as they say, their re-election is "reasonably assured." Not, much concern is felt over the situation in New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wyoming, Delaware, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan and California. Q. It is asserted that in Maine, New York, New Jersey and Ohio Democratic seats will go to the Republicans. Vigorous effort must be made, according to the manufacturers, if the Republicans are to carry Montana, Nevada, Indiana, West Virginia and Washington. In Wisconsin and Tennessee, they say, there is a chance Florida, Texas and Mississippi are of course, conceded to the Democrats. To supplement the work of the national committee and the Congressional committee, the Senate Republicans are preparing to make the most of their opportunity. The Campaign Committee of five members which has consulted, with the national campaign committee, will begin active work in a day or two. Plans are now being made for the invasion of Maine. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last Friday night was an hour of great pleasure with the submarine. Mr. T. W. Gibba told the fellows all about that great boat and every man was helped. The work for last Sunday with the Y. M. C. A. was of great help to all. At 9:30 A. M. the meeting for the workers was well attended and the hour was a very profitable one. The inmates of the city home (10 A. M.) enjoyed the meetings which were conducted by the committee. Four prisoners were lead to accept Christ in the city jail. Men keep at it and you will be more than paid. (10 A. M.) At 10 A. 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This keeper is said to be dying. The dead man is Isaac Nibbs, chief jailer. He was killed almost instantly. Three bullet wounds in the abdomen caused his death. The dying man is Joseph Hills. One of the gunmen is Wilson C. Ashbridge, who murdered Mabel Dumbar, a charmer girl, last January. The other How To Get One. Is Frank Murphy, alfas George Thompson, in jail for issuing fraudulent checks. Word of the shooting was sent to police headquarters by Ellis, who crawled to a telephone, although mortally wounded, and talked to the deak sergeant in charge. "This is Ellis, keeper at the jail," he said. "Two prisoners killed Hibbs, and escaped. They shot me, too." Alarms were telephoned to all the outlying districts in Camden, and the police of Philadelphia were notified to be on the lookout for any persons who resembled the two escaped convicts. "Take no chances," were the orders issued. "Shoot at sight if they make any suspicious moves." Ashbridge and his wife were arrested the next day in a hotel in Chester and taken back to Camden. SHOOTS UP FAMILY Rejected Sultor Kills Girl's Father Loved Wounds Mothers and Boy Nursing for six months his anger over being warned by her parents to cease paying attention to their daughter, Florence, fifteen years old, J. Solax, twenty-one years old, a shoe maker, of Freehold, N. J., shot and killed James H. Hopkins, mortally wounded Hopkins's wife, Sarah, and twice shot their nine-year-old son, Leslie. The slayer then went to the bathroom of the Hopkins home, and shot himself three times. He was dead when policemen ventured upstairs. Mrs. Hopkins and Leslie were hurried to the Long Branch hospital, where alight hopes are held out for the mother's recovery. Two other members of the family, Albert, eighteen years old, and Cecelia, as well as Florence, the object of Solax's attention, ran from the house and escaped the murderer's bullets. No less than ninety-one cartridges were found in Solax's pockets. About two years ago Solax, an Amarian, came to Freehold and issued a small store directly opposite the Hopkins home. He became infatuated with Florence, then only 14 years old. When Solax's attention became too prominent six months ago, Mrs. Hopkins, through the marshal, William R. Lewis, warned Solax that he must cease his attentions to the girl. Since that time he had seen little of her except as she passed his store several times daily. See Old Glory In Claude See Old Glory in Clouds. The spectacle of the American flag, depicted in its natural colors very vividly, on low, overhanging clouds, caused a sensation among superstitious people in Pottsville, Pa., many of whom considered the national emblem in the heavens to be an omen of approaching war. Courthouse officials have been keeping a searchlight trained upon a big flag flying from a stair on the top of the court house, and believe the annual spectacle was the reflection of the colors on the flag on the low-lying clouds. Umbrella? any will guarantee them. length and put it into your la. We have ordered a excellent quality. entitle you to one Um- we will send the Umbrella ne. x you are entitled to a for their work can get Umbrella Coupons and other. Call at The Planet cents, this gives you five equals $30.00, bring nt's Detachable Handle ty cents; six months for rything. We do Linotype UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. What is rhubarb, a vegetable or a fruit? Watermelon? Pumpkin? Rhubarb is an herb. Watermelon is a fruit. Pumpkin is a vegetable. When and where was the first iron-rolled warship built? When and where was the first submarine actually used in warfare, and was a United States warship blown up by such a boat at Charleston during the civil war? Ironclad in the name given to a naval vessel wholly or partly cased with iron plates. It was given before the days of modern steel battleships. The experience of the British and French fleet before Sevastapol during the Crimean war demonstrated the need of armor for battleships. The French at once began to build five armor plated vessels, and the British followed soon after. In 1850 he belt of armor was fitted to a wooden vessel renamed La Gloire, and she was the first armor clad, warship. In June, 1850, the British government began the construction of the armor plated all iron frigate Warrior. She was the first iron warship and was completed in 1851. The Nemesis, an iron vessel, not a battleship, had been engaged in 1842 in the Chinese war. The earliest attempts at a submarinecraft took early in the seventeenth century. The earliest success which has been chronicleled was that of 1620 when a Dutch natural philosopher, Cornellia van Drebbel, built a boat which could be submerged. The first undoubted success was occurred by the American engineer Bushnell in 1775 with a turtle-like craft, worked by one man. During the war of independence a boat of this kind was submerged below the British warship Eagle, and the operator tried to attach a magazine containing fifteen pounds of gunpowder to her bottom planking. He failed in his object, but the magazine later exploded some distance from the ailing. One of the first submarines of mechanical power was the French Plongeur, built in 1843 from designs by Brun. During the civil war the Confederates built a number of cigar shaped boats, some worked by hand and some by steam, which were armed with torpedoes. They were known as Davids on the account of their size an compared with battleships. In 1804 a hand worked one attacked the Federal ship Houantonic and sank her by means of a spar torpedo, though the submarine herself was sunk in the operation. This occurred at Charleston. S. C. Please tell something about the Bulgarian language. The Bulgarian language is spoken by nearly 50,000,000 people. It belongs to the southern group of Slavic languages and shows the influence of Turkish, Albanian, Serbian and Roumanian. It has a great variety of dialects, which fall into three main groups—the southern Thracian, Rhodopian and western Macedonian. --- PAC1 SEVEN How many cities and towns in the United States have a Washington street? More than 1800. Among the larger cities that have a Washington street are Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, New York, Pittsburgh, Rochester, N. X.; St. Paul, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Indianapolis. I have read somewhere that Lord Nelson's famous signal to his fleet before going into battle was changed on him by somebody and made to read "England expects every man to do his duty" before being displayed. Is that true? According to the historical record, the signal that Nelson bolstered at the head of his fleet before meeting the enemy at the battle of Trafalgar on Oct. 21, 1855, read, "England expects that every man will do his duty." An English writer says: "It is said that the famous signal was to have been wounded. Nelson concludes that every man will do his duty, and that his own name was replaced by that of England on the suggestion of one of his officers. The use of his name was an inspiration and an appeal that would have been perfectly consistent with his tone at all times, but he agreed to the alteration with the diffidence of a man to whom self and country were one at that hour. The word 'expects' was substituted for 'confides that' because the signal officer pointed out to Nelson that the phrase 'confides that' would have to be spelled out letter by letter on a long string of fags." In less than two hours after the historic signal was hoisted Nelson received his death wound, and his last words before dying on shipboard were, "I have done my duty." Will water boil on top of Pike's peak? if not, why not? What latitude is it in which water will not boil? Water will boil anywhere on the earth's surface with sufficient heat. Please tell me what you can about the northern lights, or the aurora borealis. Aurora borealis is the name given to a luminous phenomenon occasionally seen in the north temperate zone and frequently in the polar regions. It is said to be due to the passage of electricity through the rarefied air of the arctic zone. The name "aurora borealis" was first used by Cassendi, who in 1621 observed one in France and wrote a description of it. The aurora is periodic in its manifestations, the finest displays being at intervals of sixty years and less marked ones at intervals of ten or eleven years. It is also asserted that these greater and lesser displays correspond with the increase and decrease of spots on the sun. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet Only $1.50 per month. on a oe x ca 0 SMILE OC Spe MITE IDE SETS suet oe me fa Sara 4 . o. a~ : a 7 . 5 alas cola? a. Briaen mines air ane anqwrmnare arly gmtgmrimir ee gue. ens a ec er sia * : # i sais pees Aas BOT oe SimNeg cet dale Laat eee ee ee a : — “ROANOKE, VA, « The Sunday evening rervirey at th Firat Baptist Chute have greatly a creased in attendance, the ‘churel being Mied te ft utmost eapactty. t witneer the illustrated — germons which grow tn interest pach Sunday evening. Rev, Dr WD Woods preached the wermon Sunday eevening while the Minister. Rev, EB. FB. Ricks, op- erated the stereopticon. The illus. trated sold, “Throw Out the Life Line" was sung by Mra, Lucy Strattén. who seemed at her beet. PICNIC The Sunday Schooln of the Firat Naptist Church and High Street Bar- Ust Chunch wilt run a joint excursion to Elliston, Va: where they will Dave their pliente, August 4th. Mr. Honry Showatter of Third Ave nue, N, W., died Sunday evening at five o'clock, after a short tllness. He wana man of many yeara—quite fb. He had lived g sinnor until nearly the end when be sent for Mr, J. H. Hate,.a fow days before the end came and Mr. Halo and Mr. Thomas C. Wright) prayed read and reasoned with bim of Rix future home, and he called: upon the Lord at that remote, moment. The Lord heard and ap? swered him and he left a blessed textimony of being aged in Jesus’ Hiood. It tx wine to seek the Lord tn our youth. Mr. Showatter leaver a wife and several danghtera to mourn thelr lors The AM. EB, Sunday School pie: nic Wan quite an enjoyatle affatr, for the childten eapeciaily and tothe parents ho attended the plenk.. Mrx Brooks of Salen Avenue attet Eleventh Street, $s much sriproved, Re are glad to report Sir Knight Wesiey Brisas tas been jute fndinpowed fer eight or tet Maye. We bope he will soun be ott He resides ON Recond Street near Hieth Avene, NE. . Res. Dr YR. Brown. P. 1. ex: Paster of the Firat Baptiat Church srrived In Roanghe tuly 2% and wil. Fonduet a fen dats meeting ar the High Street Haptat Churet The rany friende Of Tir Brown will te eared to clasp tands with him He SHE awst Rov. dames H Burks Rey, Kurke in atl improving The Fyftieth Searon of the Valley aptint Associatan ag the Stauth of \ireinia Sil convene at tie Third faptist Church Amgust te Tete, at Fouteloch A OM Res dames Ht irks as the First Moderator Mrs Traneh. thituunt of Mrs ERG weenlazer and Mrs Bessie Curtin is h the elty from Raleteh, NC ana Mit spend the Summer with Mr teasie J. Chrthe, of INTEL Ave aie | Ww Thursday evening, July feth. at he home of Mr amd Mrs dames farts, ostth Avenue, NOB. there CAs a scene of avery A regeption Se given in haner at Mrs dee Stan id. 6 Columbus, O. and Mra M tariow A table das spread for 12 Phase peesent were Mra. Toe Stan- eld, Mire Mo Mariow, Mrx Earts tes Marnes, Mri Kates Mos Cranon | Irs Hancock, Mrs Ho Hancock, Mra | tavis, Mrs Murphy. Mrs Biel and ? Ire Miter of Vinten, Va. Mex Da ao. They spent quite an ssjosahie sening, partaking ef Uae cartons | elicaeies of the season te thetreape Lites satistuction ; ‘ Mr JOM. Rrown. of Pittsbarkk. ain in the city visiling his father, renner and friends 1 Mie Mob Chhes, o¢fKiehmond, F a wag tn the city last week, the nest of Mrs MoH. Burrell, of th | venue NOW I The Rey. LR. Farmer bop. i1 Federal St, Bedford City, Va J an twen conducting a series of ref val meetings at the HW Street Bap- st Church, for the past week ands rrough the present woek, Last Sun-! ays evening at threw POM. he! reached a nermon which has caused & uch comment. “The subject wash The Sun Did Rise in the Wert” it Tew Ed. Patterson, of Pittsburen, | a. preached ut eight o'clock at thr it Street Baptist Church. toa very w ppreciative audlence Ha delivered p gontel meanage to lik hearers nw very befitting manner. He made w plain, a The Rey. I. Ro Farmer, 2. D., cached Sunday ‘morning at vleven clock at Blue Kidgo Sprinks,-to an ni ipreciative cougrepation. at which G mea rally was on and there wna ts collection of $101.07. The Rey. , si armor seaman to be accompanied by bi * Holy Spirit, which ts the only es fo ntlal to access and salvation. He D rma to bave struck the keynote to ct xrand success, both spiritually and jancially. He ix perauading eur| opie toa higher moral standard of ce ec. The services at the Hill Streot Ss jureh han deen largely attended) w ch night. |e At night, aigbtthirty, at Mt. Zlon] Ri M. E. Church, Rev. George C. ylor, D. D. preached from 8. utthew, second chapter, where| w ist Aras Doforo Pilate, where hej in 8 advised by hik wife not have any! ne ing to do with that Juat man, be use of what sbo.bad suffered in a cam as regarding tho caso and 00-{ at ston of what wan being anked about of ac to do with Christ, “far try BASE BALL NEWS. i Roanoke met the atrong Brookiya Slides of Richmond. Wednesday and after @ hard-fouxht battle Roanoke auccoeded in nosing out a victory ot Bt 2. Those who didn’t have time to go out, lost the chance of seeing the prettiest game of ball that ever was played in thie city by colored teams. 1: Graham, Roancke's new pitcher, did’ fine work, holding the hard-hit ting Richmond men to & bits, while the eight mea debind him flelded and hit at the right time. The maoager of the Brooklyn Sides had cold feet pateer his a: and cancelled the.twe ames for Friday, as the: White‘peo ‘pie weed the ground om Heat Manager B. Wado offered all kinds of wusrantece for the gecond game, but the Richmond manager gaid no, #0 thoy left for Hot Springs, -Va,. Tho two clubs seemed about oven- ly matched on folding, but Roangke out-datted them. The catching and Vatting of Captain “Adolphus Jones wap tho feature of the game. He fe the best youngater-In the Kame. Cain in center field mado several wonder- ful catches and one parfect throw. Brooklyn's right folder throw out a man at tho plate trying to score, from second on a singlo. The acoro: Brooklyn ..0° 0/100 1 0 0=2-5-2 Roanoke ..9 20 1.0 0 0 x-3-9.2 | Mr. Louis Bonrd’s umpiriag waa without 4 protest. He fx a good one. AT HOTEL ANDERSON Thomas Jones, Norfork, W.Va. Rank Jones, Salem, Va.; John Fuller Danville, Va; Mra. Eillian Robert: fon. Raleigh N.C. Mr. and Mes. Wilfam Evans, Heny, Va.. Mr Thuraton Taylor, Cleveland, O.; Mr. Andrew Hoslon, Lynchburg. Va: Mr. Fleming Hovle, York, Pa.; Mr. Chon. Willams. Philadelphia. Pa, ; BOSTON THEATRE. , Tho manager and proprictor wish to acknowledge their grateful appre- lation to tho people of Roanoke tor the atrong soyport they are giving them in thelr effort to give them the, bent pleturrs in the country and the people reallue the fact that they are Reina xTeat pleture rervice at the Rortoti. No one can afford to miss the big. Dill : é Mr. and Mre, Wiliam’ Davis, 227 Fourth Avenue, N. W, left for Blacks purk last week with (he hope of Im-, roving Mr. Davis’ health. He has een alck for some time 4 Mrs, Curtin M. Langhorn, 220 Fourth Avenne, No W., lett for Reh pond. Tuenlay to Vint Martha C,H, canshern, her mother, 110 W. Fed | ral Street ' Mrs “Sarah Dike Sparrew. of - adstone, Va Ban the gucat of Mr. nj Mrv Fisning Rose, of 912 Peach tree’, N Wa few daya thin week, * DEATH OF EVERETTE SMITH. Mr Eherette Smith, of iesth venue NOW ert this city for New rk Coty onthe 18th and bbs fam- dowd Hany friends were greatly arrived te tear oot his stdden cath Mis bidy was taken te Rocks oun Va hivold Lome for barta! fe Tewves a motier atid sister tu eg These does Mle was 5 years a Mr li. Ko Mille, stenexrapher Pte Apocrieat, Ite hetetal Testranes Oophay pana BN ite AIM as week Sher sister Mrs Hattie Ko Thorn 21s Henry Street, NOW Mise Watnette Oo Smith, Spe pyin a Taher fy ane of Rebmond’s hoois dx viditing Mra. Matte 5 periten af thisesty, Mase Sent tronte Went, Mre Nannie Xenew HM of Nee. Th. Val i visiting her tasents. Mr vEMra Agnew, 225-701 Avenue, N She all return tn Nerfotk, an e find, aecuinpanied Soo Me att be Agnew Mr Modo Steterson a tosinese anof Nortots, Val was a visitor fn ty Last week, With Our Advertisers We bot here, but tt ts cautoa Cape May, New Jersey ‘The Mate Dale fs the plive to go First eine servicr, Write ta them today You want a phonoxraph Read the advertisement Unibrelia conpates WH Meure You one, asd You a ae the eupons free Advertising in the’ Planer pays Tt should te kev up Our prices ate reasonable "Phos gs or send ws a pestal card | He te ati buliding them We thean Nouses, and we refer to Mp0 J Farrar Have you seen the new fat erected for Mr Robert 8. Nelson: on the corner of St James and Davai Streets? Mr Ferraz built at UE you want your hale straisht ened, the Herolin Medi tne Company has the preparation with whieh to de i See advertiement Muse and art go together That's why Mr. E. T. Pollard in giving you plano and pipe organ lessons along Sith Instructions In crayon, pastel vith Instructions in crayon, paste! und ofl painting, Seo advertinenu ~The Negro Agricultural and Te.) nical College of North Carolina. at Greensboro, N.C. wilt serve you. It is about to closd Ite 17th annual nex sion of {ts aummer achaol for teachers, Dut the school proper will soon open for ntudents, Write'to Prof. Jna 1 Dadley, the president. Send your children there, —Dr. C. S. Cowan is making a” suc- cesa {p bin quarters in the Mechanirs Savings Bank Building. Ho han many well pleased cuntomerx. If you want prompt servico, call and ee him. Read bis announcement. The French Art Studio does fine work, worthy of the best productions in Franco, Mr. Perce Tappin will, merve yon Call and see bim. | —The Fast India Hair Grower fr attracting attention. Mr. S. D. Lyon of Oxtaborma City gaaranters the DISD aration. Write for information an? ry in: nes . You don’t pave to die in order 0 find out the kind of service you: will get at x Price funeral. Promnt. attention to all orders. If you with fo enjoy yourself, cet married and De satisfied, Then you'll be sure to jeavé inatraction as to the disposition of your remains at death. ‘Phone Madison 677. Wareroomn 212 F. Leigh Btreet. “Both in Richmond, Va. —They all like ice cream and they I drink soda water. That fs why Mir. N. Winston's place in #0 popelar. Why mot place an order for your pic. aict The prices are reaemma¥@s and te est service le nda Yee, geod tor the humblest. customer. Patron Mr, Winston. ve he —You'll need coal this winter, be cause It will be cold enough to have artificial heat, That's why we arc carrying the advertisement of ‘the Cramp & West Coal Company, They are plodeers in the bosinees, and wil! ‘render you frat clam service, Soe ail ‘Yertlsgrent. —Sonie’ business people think that they can get along without. advert|s Ink. So they can, dut the progress will be sigw, Call up and get ou rate. : : —Rountree-Chorry Corporation hi! ballt & profitable business by doser\ | Ing the confidence of the public. They strive fo ploase, and their establish: ment now rinks among the best in the South’ The poor man can be ac- commedated ax well at the rich one, Read thelr weekly advertisements. i -It'n been hot enough here to muke one pray for acacbreezes, and that Is" just what {8 promised you at the Ocean House, Sea Isle City, New Jer sey. The torms are reasonable. Go het and enjoy -yourself, ! <I coming to Richmond, you may! want all of the comforta of home Stop with Mra. Booker 1. Leftwich. 116 N. Second Street, Richmond. Va ier servico Js all right. sg Fine Bruseles $1,250,000. A fine of 6,000,000 marka (abou: $1,25,000), has been imposed upon the city of Bransles for celebrating the Belgian nationa! festival last Friday according to the Amsterdam Echc Belsc. Hear Bulgaria Wants Peace. A wireless dexratch from Rame Aransmits Sofa aitvicex stating that Bulgaria & -erfoust> constder'ag mak fog peace. wid tat Uremler Ravtoale Vom bas winmened the Sobranje te @lecusn the situation. | . | = a, 4 wae oi rt. q eas 1 ~, 4 {| ce 7 . Pty rd PRICES COT 1.5 ON ALL GRADES OF Summer, ; Furniture , A CHANCE TO OWN FOUK SULENDY PIECES AT THE COST OF THREE! HA TREMS, Rowntree Chere, = FAB ITORE CVC TRY THI-TE-I1S WEST BROAD Foit SALE y Store and Dwelling Seven Rooms with Modern Con- Ventencen, Most dexirable xtand for w Colored Drug Store and Confec- tienery, Now « Confectionery with Established Colored Trade. Cheap for Quick Sale. See MN, BERGER with BOA CATLIN & CO. 22 North Eixhth Street Watch. Wait and Dont Be Late! For to go on the Grand Excursion To CLAREMONT With Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Sunday School MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 16 tir At 8:00 o'clock Sharp'ER . fe BOYDTON ACADEMIO AND BIBLE INSTITUTE, BOYDTON, VA. A school for both, sexee of the colored race. Grammar. academic. commercial, normal and Bible courges Next scasion opens Sepomber 4, 1916, Send for cataloxuo or infor- mation. Principal J. H. Hartman, Boydton, Va. - ic an French Art Studio 534 N. Second 8—Maker of High Grade Vortraita. Woe alep make a specialty of amateur work. Photos made'by appoimeent only. Phone Kamdoiph O88, Afways at your! aervice...¥erce Tappta, rroprietor. Rexford Oveltom, Manager. { DR" C. S. COWAN, Dentist MECHANICS BANK BUILDING, Third end Clay &reets, Richmond Rooms 308-%,-Third Floor ‘ Phone Randolph 2376— —Hoars, § to 1; f to € Sovdays and Other Hours by Av . ‘potatment. ‘ es je x rs + ne 7 re oeoeee : = } soseneeed ' Perfect Phonographs at Popular Péiges E THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE: VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED 10 THE TRADE. IN FINISH ; AND TONE QUALITY THEY: ARE Hi TOANY OF THE : SUAO0 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET | | | , e —_, ' | . t No.1-13x13x6 inches, - - - $75 Worthof Umbrella Coupors No. 2-16x16x7 inches, - + = $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons - CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL a : SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR‘ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING » NO. 21S EQUIPPED, WITH A MOTOR GUARAN TEED TO.PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON : ONE WINDING.. THIS MACHINE, HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE: MA- » . CHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. 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Write today. HEROLIN MEDICINE OOMPANY, Adanta, Georgia E. T. POLLARD MUSIC AND ART. Plano and Pipe Organ Lessons + Paintings jm Crayon, Pasth) and Oi. Dlestratiag - , and Designing A Specialty. 1400 N. 18t &. Phone Rez. > ! ! | WANTED | AGENTS WANTED—To represent ve jo bandling our New Discovery — BON MARCHE HAIR GROWER and SCALP FOOD. Best on the market. Guaranteed results. Fast atelier. “Agents colning money. One agent In Texas sold 100 boxes in three days; another sold 16 boxes in two hours. Write. at once for particulars. The MADONIA COM: PANY, Lock Box 1010, Indianapolis, . Indiana. WANTED—Position of Clerk. Havo had long experience in the grocery business. References fursished. WILLIAM 8. FOSTER, Spartan- burg, 5. C. - LIVE AGENTS Wanted—PROTECTO. Bafe at last—A new dlscovery—A power ‘that makes Kerosene and gasoline non-explosive, Makes brighter. fight, saves of], no crust op wick. Purifés oll; no smell from oll. For particulars, address Andrew E. McCurdy, Marietta, Pa. WANTED—35 Men and Women to sell Bick and Accident Insurance, on commission. Apply Mechanics Bank Bldg., Room 204—2nd foor., WANTED—50 GOOD RELIABLE ‘WOMEN to come for: work as Cooks: Chambermaids, Waitresses aud General Houseworkers, Good wages,” ce home. to the right parties Write SYLVIA L. MITCH: LL, .Rmployment Ageacy, 666 BloomMeld Ave, “Montelair,-¥. J: Wanted ao Deputy te werk the ‘Bete of Virginm thé | atthrad Give and Laden of ; dee fatucoment fer a at fat worker, Fer forther information <= hOn@aR B. PAXTON, 616 N. , ROBERT C. SCOTT, Funeral Director. FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE. RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT : AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Serres, = Sse SS = D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Resldence, ory N. First 8t—shop in Rear. _ Phone, Randolph 2166- Speelal Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Hullding of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. ' The Negro Agricul- tural Q Technical College of North Carolina (Formerly the Agricaitaral and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) 7 GREENABORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 26—JULY: 20, 1916 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant wurromndings. re .8, B, Jomes, Director. Send §1 and secure lodging im advance. eo ee — aa aS | \REErERerryre rer” Paget r | “Seeeiowe oP. ewe ve s76: | SBR ea Lo : Taowy Go With Fifth Street Beptist Sun- day School to Buckroe Beach, on Au gat 7th. A fine day at the oes- shoro.for $1.00 round rip. August Tek Is the day. The East India Hair Grower an UUW {Wil Fro mote a fall Growth’ of : Hair. Wal also Kestore ; theo 7 Strength, Vitality amd the Beasty of the Hatr We Your Hair ts Dry and Try GROWER "If you-are bothered with Falling Hair, Dan drom, Irching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we-want you to try « jar of Rast India Halr Grower. The remedy cQntains medical proper- ties, thaz go to ‘the roots of the Hair, stimulate the akin. helping natare to do its work. Leaves the halr soft and silky. Perfamed with a batm of a thousand flowers. ‘The dest known remedy for heavy and deautiful Black Eyebrows, al- 90 restores Gray Hair to ite Net- ural Color, Cam: be used with. Hot Irom for. M@traighteniag. . ° . Price Semt by Mall, 50s. &. D. LYOWS, Gen. Agt., S14 Bast Sevend St., Okinhoma City, Okin. Jee extra for portage. .