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```markdown ``` THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION IS RE-UNITED WILL MEET IN SAVANNAH, GA. SAYS REV. W. H. MOSES. Jones' Convention Collapsed When Boyd's Board Swore It Did Not Belong to Ether National Convention. (By W. H. Moses, D. D.) For eight months I have been steadily on the road trying to help prevent a serious split in our National Baptist Convention. I have covered the heart of Baptist territory three times since we left Chicago, and now, in less than forty days before our annual meeting, I am delighted to announce that the National Baptist Convention is more reunited than it has been during the past ten years and that the denomination will be officially represented In the meeting at Savannah, Ga., in September. I. The old directors of the National Baptist Publishing Board destroyed all hopes of the Jones Convention ever being recognized as the official National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. (1) The directors Boyd et al swore in the courts of Tennessee that the Board they represented does not belong to the Jones Convention. (a) That they are not even their executive committee or governing board of Jones' Convention. Their court record says: "These respondents (directors of the Publishing Board) say that it is not true that they claim to be or hold themselves out to be the Executive Committee or Governing Board of the Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention of the United States of America." (b) They then did not even derive authority from the Jones Convention to hold officers as directors of the Publishing Board. We quote from their court record: "These respondents deny that they were ever elected to office, or that they derive any authority, as officers, directors or trustees, by virtue of any action of any convention of Baptists of this country, at any time whatever." --- (2) Boyd's Directors have made Jones' Convention swear in the records of the courts of Tennessee that the Jones' Convention does not own the Publishing house nor has any property rights in the Boyd Board. (4) Now we want you to read "Exhibit C." carefully under number three, which follows with the analysis we have made under a. b. c. d and e. in which Jones' Convention becomes a mere tool for Boyd's directors to take the property from his own Convention; making the Jones' Publishing Board separate and distinct from the Boyd Publishing Board with neither Boyd nor a single member of his Board on either the General Board of the Jones' Convention or the local board of the Jones' Convention located at Nashville, independent of the Boyd Board located at Nashville. (5) As to the genuineness of "Exhibit C." I will only say: that Dr. T. J. King, the Recording Secretary not only denies having signed, but insists that he has no knowledge of the Convention having passed such an order. But in as much as the Boyd Board is on its oath we will grant that the "Exhibit C." is genuine; since President Jones has not insured it. (3) Now, then, an analysis of "Exhibit C." shows that the Jones' Convention has surrendered its only vital pretext for existence namely, the better conserving and preserving the principles of congregational government in denominational enterprises with the property interests of the denomination vested in the Boards of trustees elected and controlled by the people covenanted in a voluntary National Association or Convention. (a) The Jones' Convention (according to "Exhibit C.") appointed the following fourteen members from twelve states to constitute the General Publishing Board of the Jones' Convention without naming a single one of the Board members; to-wit: (c) (According to "Exhibit C.") the Jones' Convention also had its local Publishing Board to understand that its only duty was to see if Boyd's literature was good enough to be sold to the Sunday Schools of the churches of the Jones' Convention; to write: "... (d) It also had both the local and General Publishing. Boards of the Jones' Convention to distinctly understand that the National Baptist Convention of which Jones was President, had not any money in the Publishing Board of which Boyd et al were directors and that therefore it had no property rights in the Independent "Boyd-Clark Board;" to wit: (6) It also orders the Jones' Publishing Board or forbade it interfering with the Boyd Board or attempting to get the property rights for the Jones' Convention or to attempt to remove any of Boyd self-appointed directors; to wit: (4) Therefore the Jones' Convention (according to "Exhibit C") having denied that the Publishing Board of which Boyd et al were directors, belonged to the Jones' Convention, leaves the Jones' Convention without a single Board holding a penny's worth of denominational property anywhere in the world, and committed his convention to a policy of Board government which will not allow the Jones' Convention property interests in denominational enterprises conducted by its own Boards; just diametrically opposed the doctrine and policy for which his ablest followers had been fighting all these years. (a) The Home Mission Board with all of its old officers and property and with which the Southern Baptist Convention has been and is still co-operating giving dollar for dollar, belongs to the Convention of which Dr. E. C. Morris is President. (b) The B. Y. P. U. Board with all of its old directors and property belongs to the Morris division of the National Convention. (c) The Benefit Board with its old officers and assets also belongs to the National Convention, of which Morris is President. (d) The Foreign Mission Board, with all its officers and property, belongs to the convention over which Dr. Morris presides. (e) The Publishing Board elected by the National Baptist Convention and having been sending out literature while waiting for the courts to force Boyd et al to turn over the National Baptist Publishing Board Plan to the National Baptist Convention, belongs to the Morris Convention. The Publishing Board of Jones' Convention has not published a piece of literature since they were appointed. They have simply organized to inspect the literature of Boyd and Clark to see if it should be recommended to their schools. I refer you to their own records stated above. (f) The women's convention, with its National Baptist Training School Board with sixty-five thousand dollars worth of property, belongs to the Convention over which Morris presides, and will report at Savannah, Ga. The day that President Jones accepted or condoned "Exhibit C," and committed his Convention to the policy that the incorporated boards of the Convention do not hold property in trust for that specific Convention, he surrendered the last hope of his Convention ever representing a person's worth of denominational property and drove from his following every well-informed, honest white and colored Baptist in the country, and thereby unintentionally restored unity in the colored National Baptist family. (1). No sooner than Jones' official family learned of "Exhibit C," they broke then and there and returned to the Morris divisor of the Convention to make a common fight for the people's property. (a) Dr. King, the Recording Secretary of Jones' Convention, became disgusted and humiliated, and if his distinguished member, Editor Mitchell of the Planet is reflecting his views, then we know that he is opposed to the whole thing, at any rate, he has not been interested enough to attend a single executive session, not even to help make out the program for the Kansas City meeting. (b) Dr. W. A. Jones, of Knoxville, Tenn., the First Assistant Secretary, came out and declared he will attend the Convention in Savannah, Ga. (c) Dr. Raitford, the Auditor, told Dr. Stokes that he would not stand for it and died. (d) Dr. Toliver, the Field Secretary, is also dead and gone to his reward. (e) Prof. Hancock, the Statistician, is advocating the get together idea. (f) W. H. Moses, the Educational Secretary, who led the fight against the Morris administration, was the first to protest against the "Exhibit C." and he has given eight months to unite the Conventions and will be in Savannah, Ga., to the Convention. (g) Dr. J. D. Brooks, Secretary of the Home Mission Board, has returned to the pastorate and is advocating the election of Dr. C. T. Walker president of a United National Baptist Convention. (h) Dr. Samuel A. Moses, Chairman of the Foreign Mission Board, bolted the Jones' Convention with a stinging rebuke of any one dreaming that he would stand for "Exhibit C." He will be in Savannah, Ga. (i) Secretary Kempt declares that something must be done about it at Kanee City. (j) Even Boyd's Board has sworn that it does not belong to the Jones' Convention. Thus cut out of an official of some (Continued on 8th Pane) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1916 WANTS TO KNOW THE MEANING The Fundamental Cause of the Trouble. Richmond, Va., July 26, 1916. Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. I am writing to you in order to find out the meaning of the letter addressed to you by the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, who quotes from the census figures of the United States government showing some of the beautiful results of a government of the people, for the people, by the people. Here are some of the results: "Taking the average one hundred men at twenty-five years of age, after forty years have passed away, only sixty-four are left, and of these, fifty-three are dependent upon charity, six are merely self-supporting and the remaining five are wealthy." "Of the thirty-six who have died, ninety-five percent of them left no estate whatsoever." UNABLE TO DETERMINE. From the reading of the letter I am unable to determine whether the Mayor gave you these figures to prove to you the beauties of a government which can, and does produce such aplid results, or to prove to you that thrift upon the part of the people could make the showing still more attractive to the young people, for he closes his letter by advancing you to drill these facts into the heads of the people among whom you will work and wishes you success on the job. OUR SYSTEM OF TAXATION These sad and shameful facts need not to be drilled into the thick heads of the working people, for they have already been written in indelible characters across the imperishable tablets of their poverty stricken souls by the fury pin of suffering and sorrow produced by a system of taxation which places a premium upon idleness and lying, and a fine upon thrift, industry and honesty, thus (Continued on 8th PAGE) Beat A Well Digger. Edward Campbell, a neighbor beep up Charles Hood, a well-digger, who was exploring the depts of the carr. A YOUNG SEMINARLAN Rev, C. T. Murray, an undergraduate of the Va. Seminary and College, has been recently called to the pastorate of the Dearling Baptist Church of Lynchburg. His ordination took place a few days ago, and after a most critical examination the council unanimously voted to lay hands upon him. He is an energetic conscientious and inspired young man, and promises to be a bright star ind the Ministry. We wish him every possible suc- --For comfort and style he on board the Pocahontas, August 22 ORGAN CONCERT. An organ concert will be given by Titli Masso at the Leigh Street M.E. Church, Sunday eve, August 20, 1916 at eight o'clock. The following program will be rendered: Organ prelude; hymn, "The Church Is One Foundation;" Hope, organ; Lerman; Childrens' Chorus; Gavotta Op. 6, organ; Lerman; Recitation; selected; Spring Song; organ; Mendelssohn; Vocal Solo; selected; Hymn Medley; organ; Gulmant; LaCinquantaine; organ; Gabriel-Marie; Recitation; selected; Offertoirie; Marche Militaire; organ; Schubert; The Lost Chord; organ, Sir Arthur Bullivan; Chorus, The Angel's Message; Shelley; Humorocke; organ, (by request) Dvorak; Menuet A L'Antique; organ, (by request) Padorewak; Vocal Solo, Rev, B. M. Mitchell; The Thunder Storm; organ; Gulmant; Bagatelle; organ, Reiter; Grand March; organ, Dudley Buck; Good Night, organ, Pinsuti. Please bring a silver offering. —Follow the crowd on August 22 down the rilyer. Mrs. America E. Wood of 1301 1-2 St. James St. with her daughter little Miss Amreda Mae Wood, and niece Miss Florence C. Jackson left the city Aug. 3rd. for Urbana, Va. where they will spend the month of August as the guest of her husband's relatives. THE BATTLT OF LIFE. The greatest battle is not surging Europe's plains. Notwithstanding, the thousands daily malmed and slain; The noise of thundering cannon is this battle's gory game; Each side fighting madly for glory and for gain. But there's a greater battle to be nobly fought— A glorious victory by every one should earnestly be sought. Tis not with gas—nor bayonet—destructive agents wasught. Tis the battle against failure, misfortune and strife. Tis the greatest of all battles—the battle of life. You must wage with untiring energy this battle fair. By working in harmony spread the inspiring air. Be careful lest you error in generalship true. For the world's scrutinizing eyes are fixed upon you— The darts of oppression, prejudice, hate are flying fast Entrench are in activity to make them of the past. Tis no hour of conscription—volunteer you must— If you would keep your name honorably above the dust. Let truth and honor be your sword and shtied; Rout the enemies completely from the field. There can be no neutral—be free from all strife. For you must fight in the greatest battle—the battle of Life. Fly no white flag of truce to the common foe. But take the flag of justice to every one's door. Implant it with fervor—to the air it will unfurl. With love, peace and friendship conquer the world. Then, when life's adversary dauntlessly comes. You can holdly say: My battle's won— I helped and not injured with scorn and strife. In the greatest battle—the battle of Life. —FRANK B HOOD Mound Bayou, Miss. --Astoria Beneficial Club to Clarence mont. August 22nd. Nuff sed. A. New Organization. Galveston, Tex. July 17, 1916. To the Public: We have organized The Judge Lynch International Book and Publishing Company to protect the American Negro in a civil and legal way. To take up every injustice done the Negro in America. Membership rights are sold at $1.00; equal to four shares of stock. E. C. Branch, president: J. A. Hubbard, vice-president: Joe Russell, secretary: Roy J. A. Cole, treasurer. BURIED HERE. The funeral of James A. Jackson, favorite son of Col. Giles B. Jackson took place last Sunday at 1 P. M. at the St. Phillips P. E. C. of which he had been a member since 1905. Rev C. L. Somers, the rector officiated. The services were impressive but brief. The floral designs were numerous and many friends were out to express their sympathy. Col. Giles B. Jackson has seen some "rough sledding" and has been the recipient of many deadly blows, but this loss of his son, Jim as he was wont to call him "struck home so to speak. The deceased was the image of his father and he possessed to a remarkable degree the innate abwareness and pleasing demeanor of the father. The pull-bearers were: active, Measur R. R. Roper, E. R. Jefferson, M. D., J. L. B. Forrester, John Fraser, C. F. Foster, B. F. Turner, Jr. Willie White, Honeary, J. C. Robertson, Eaq. J. Thomas Hewin, Esq. William Miller, D. P. Bragg, D. F. Turner Sr., Edward Stephens. Funeral Director W. I. Johnson officiated. Funeral services had been previously held in Brooklyn with Rev. J. Johnson officiating. See the Colonial Estates on the James River from the decks of Pocharontas, August 22. DR. STILYARD GONE Dr. B. H. Stilfary, one of the best known physicians in West Virginia died at Wheeling West. Virginia July 17, 1916 at 1:18 A. M. His domain is neglected by his large number of friends, who had hoped for him a long life. —Go with Astoria Club to Claremont August 22nd. EVANGELIST SKIPWITH STILL IN BROOKLYN, N. Y. Berean Baptist Church, Rev. C. A. Mathews, Pastor. We have with us that great international preacher and gospel singer, who has been stirring Now York. All of Harlem heard him gladly and now he has the devil on the go here. We are praying for a great Pentecost, the weather is exceedingly warm, but we have a large crowd every night. Every church in New York and vicinity has had a mid-summer revival and all were successful. The Lord is surely using Rev. Skipwith wherever he goes. Major General Jarkson Writes. We have received a post-card from Major General R. R. Jackson, who is now with the famous Eighth Illinois National Guard stationed at San Antonio, Texas. He says that the regiment is making a great record and that he is doing the same thing for his country, his race and the flag. Hon. R. R. Jackson now holds a commission as Major in the United States Army. He's commanding officer of the Uniform Rank, Knights or Pythias. A. CARD. Dr. R. E. Jones and Family desire to thank the neighbors and friends for kindness shown during the long illness and at the death of his mother. Mrs. Alice Royal. May God's blessing be with all. Had Been Episcopal Bishop of Liberty for Thirty-five Years. New York, Aug. 8, 1916 — The recent death of the Right Rev. S. D. Ferguson for thirty-five years Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Liberia, was reported in cable despatches received yesterday by the Domestic and Foreign Missions Society of 281 Fourth avenue. He was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1842 and when six years old emigrated with his family to Liberia, where he was educated in the mission schools. He was ordained a deacon in 1865, a priest in 1868, and was elected Bishop of the district of Cape Palma, now the district of Liberia, in 1884. --- Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Rogers, have returned home after a pleasant trip to Welford, S. C., visiting Mr. Rogers' relatives. He Did "Go Into Other Business." W. E. Harris, a member of the pollin force in the Second District, has resigned to go into other business. The Mayor, Chief of Pollin and, the three cap tuta will decide this morning on Harris's successor. Times Dispatch. Aug. 4, 1916. WRONG MAN Harvey W. Pearson, piano player dismissed, wag charged with insulting W. E. Lewis, found to be the wrong man. REV. DR. WALTER BROOKS AT FIFTH STREET TOMORROW. --- Will Preach at Fifth St. Baptist Church Tomorrow Afternoon. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D. pastor of the Nineteenth St. Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. is in the city with his Madame and will deliver one of his powerful sermons. Sunday Afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. The public is in viret. The collection is for the benefit of the Rhode Island Club of which Mrs. Callie D. Brown is President. Wanted to Complain to the Governor Joe White colored was arrested in South Richmond last Tuesday after having escaped from the road force in Orange county, where he had severed 14 weeks of twelve months' sentence on the roads. He was returned to the State road camp. Wanted to Die. Katie Seay, colored attempted to kill herself by drinking carbolic acid at her home, 720 W. Catherine St. She is recovering. The attempt was made last Tuesday. TOLLJVERS SMART SET HERE AGAIN NEXT WEEK. Commencing Monday night, August 14, Tollivers Smart Set Company will open on Brook Avenue and Mitchell Street for a week's engagement. Nothing can be said too good for this show as it is known by every man woman and child in the city of Richmond. Carrying over one hundred performers, the best in the colored race. It is considered a treat to the people of Richmond. The mammoth canvas theatre seating, over 5000 people resembles a circus and is so arranged this year that everyone can see, be cool and comfortable. Many new faces are seen with the show and almost all of those popular ones of last year. Aerial act, novelty acts, singing and dancing and the Great Ham Tree Chorus go to make up over a three hour show. This is positively the largest colored show in America and was reorganized in Winter quarters in New Orleans under the personal direction of Alexander Tolliver, director and Albert Wells, general superintendent and aerial director. Mr. Wells is a member of the act. Wells and Wells, whose picture appears in another part of this paper. Mr. Wells is considered the foremost aerial actor of his race. Lula Wells, his wife does the famous fade-away drop from the dizzy heights of the top of the tent. This act alone is worth the price of admission. -Madam Rainey, singer of the "Blues," Daley Martin, of Smart Set fame, the famous "Woha" Indians Musical Act, Peg Liftfoot, Peg Leg Dancer and others too numerous to mention will be seen on next Monday night in the wonderfully lighted tent. This is a clean, moral and up-to-date show, you can take the children to see. Special mattresses throughout the week for the special convenience of children. The price will remain the same, 10 cents to everyone and 10 cents for reserved seats. Do not forget the date and location and remember this is the Big Show you all know. Doors open 7:00 P M. show starts 8:15. Show grounds. Brook Avenue and Mitchell Streets. "TO HELL WITH THE LAW!" Senator Tillman Explains and Justifies Some Old utterances of His. To the Editor of The Sun, Str. A friend of mine has called my attention to the editorial article in The Sun, "Ben Tillman Reconsidered." I am led to write this letter in consequence and hope you will print it on the editorial page. For years I was a regular subscriber to The Sun and occasionally I buy a copy now. Its editorial paper has always interested me very much, because of the brilliancy and lucidity of the articles with which it is filled. But you have unintentionally been led into an error of fact, and the quotations you make from the speech and features I delivered some years ago also lead me to explain and justify what I said. When I said, "To hell with the law," I meant the Reconstructed acts which gave Negroes just emancipation from slavery, many of them only one generation removed from burglary, and none of them more than three generations—the same right to vote as white men throughout the United States. When you remember that South Carolina and Mississippi then, as they do now, had large Negro majorities, and to have allowed the Negroes to rule would have destroyed our civilization, to say nothing of our property—you can understand it. The law of self-preservation compelled us to do it by every means possible, and when we took the State away from the Negroes desist the bayonets, with Grant in the White House we used our brains to outwift force by stupping the ballot boxes. That is all. If the South had obeyed or acquiesced in the "law" passed by Congress it would be a veritable hell now for decent white people to live in, and that fact is now recognized by all sensible people, north and south. I justified lynching, in the Senate, for rape, and rape only, and I am taking the liberty of sending you my speech made on that occasion. It was in answer to the gifted John C. Spooner, one of the ablest lawyers and the very best debater I have ever known. He did not attempt to reply, because he could not contort my reasons or dispute my facts. If you do not agree with my conclusions after reading it I shall be very much surprised. You are in error in saying that I was "acquiescing in the bill for the construction of the Memorial Amphitheatre at Arlington, a measure which I had been previously inclined to oppose," showing that you yourself did not read the jetters of the Secretary of War at all. The bill I introduced was not for the "construction" of a memorial amphitheatre, but "for the protection of the amphitheatre against the indiscriminate erection of memorials to those who may be selected for such distinction without well founded reason," to use the words of the Secretary of War. Washington already has a mono- PRICE FIVE CENTS trosity of that sort in the rotunda of the Capitol, where statues of nobodies have been seet by the States as their representatives there. One is con- stantly asking about this or that statue "Who is he, and what did he do to merit being here?" --B. R. TILLMAN Washington, D. C., Aug. 3. - Your every need has been provided for on August 22 by the officers of the Astoria Benefit Hall. Y. W. C. A. The Religious Work Committee held its monthly meeting on Monday evening, August 7. The work of this committee is increasing a simultaneous Vesper service was held during last month and three prayer services were conducted in the homes of "Shut-ins" this week. The Finance Committee held a satisfactory meeting, August 5. The effort to reach subscribers has been unusually successful. One transient guest and one new resident are on the record for the week. Despite the extreme heat, we had a pleasant company to listen to Rev. Hector on Sunday evening. A short prayer service followed Rev. Hector's strong address. Every one present found the hour a stirring, helpful one. Tennis enthusiasts do not mind the heat. Every member is invited to the regular monthly meeting on Monday evening, August 14, at six o'clock. Enjoy the brewer and moon in river on your return home from Claremont, August 22nd. BAPTIST ORGANIZATIONS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. All Baptist Associations, State and District Conventions holding annual meetings between now and July, should elect delegates to the Jubilee Meeting of 1917. 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. Very truly yours.... S. A. Moses, Chairman Jubilee Committee JUBILEE COMMITTEE TO MEET Danville, Va July 15th 1916 All members of the Jubilee Committee are hereby called to meet in Danville Virginia, August 23rd, during the meeting of the State Sunday School Convention. This is the first meeting of the Committee and all members are urgently requested to be present. Very truly yours. S. A. Moses, Chaltman Jubilee Committee The beautiful steamer Pearl ship will carry the Astraia Beneath Sea and its friends to Charleston. --- DRAKE Departed this Hour Saturday, August 5, 1916, 7:10 A.M. Joseph L. Drake, beloved brother of Camellia Drake. He had been a patient at the Memorial Hospital and his demise occurred at that institution. His funeral took place from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Camellia Drake, 1300 E. Marshall St. Monday evening, four o'clock. Rev C. S. Somers, Rector of St. Nicholas officiating. Boy. Dr. Brooks Here. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D. and wife of Washington, D. C. will be in the city for a week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Loomis 613 North Fifth Street —Come along, enjoy the blessing prepared for you on August 2nd. FOR SALE - KNABE SQUARE PI- ANO in good condition. Will re- lief at big sacrifice. Call between 10 A. M. and Noon, 1824 Park Ave. FOR SALE—TWO LOTS (each 50 by 250 feet deep, with house on them) on BUCKROE BEACH, ad- joining Bay Shore Hotel-property. This property is suitable for Hotel. Cottage or Club Houses. Apply to owner, JOHN R. CHILES. 318 West Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` (By Robert Edgren. Noted Sporting Writer. Every new lightweight who wins a few fights is promptly referred to by the nimble press agents of the boxing clubs as "another Joe Gans." Each and every manager of a lightweight who wins even one fight with a knock out punch glibly refers to his battler in the same way. "Walt until you see this boy," he says, "and you'll agree with me that he's another Joe Gana." It may seem strange that they never speak of "another Lavigne," or another Ernie, or Battling; Nelson, or Wolgast, or Ritchie—or go back far enough to compare their fighters to the one and only Jack McAllure. Whether or not they never saw Joe Gana—and stories of them never did it is always Gana that they use as a comparison. ONLY ONE OF HIS KIND. All of which suggests that there must have been something very remarkable about Gans, who has been quietly lying under the green turf these many years, and by all precedent should be fairly forgotten. And there was I've seen them all, and I can say without hesitation that there never was "another Joe Gans." Being truthful and of an open mind, I won't say that there will be "another Joe Gans," for the history of all sports has shown that no matter how great an athlete may be, in course of time a better man appears. We may have some time, a greater man than Gans. But he isn't in sight yet, and I for one don't expect to see him. When I was a mere notice in following professional sports I often traveled hundreds of miles to see the great Baltimore Negro in the ring. And in all of the many battles I saw Joe Gans was always, an element of surprise. No matter how well one became acquainted with his style of fighting, Joe always had something new to use when he needed it. WAS A PERFECT FIGHTER Gans was as full a combination of brain and physique as I've ever seen in a ring. There never lived a fighter who better combined skill, power and intelligence. If he had been a white man he would have been the most popular champion the world has ever had for with all his tremendous fighting ability he combined the qualities of exquisite fairness, modesty and courage. Through the earlier part of his career Gans was controlled by a man who knew no other orders. He arranged fake fights, and Joe Gans went, with them He managed, by some shiny slight of hand, to keep Gans perpetual in his debt. He used the indeluctness to enforce his wishes. But at last Gans, sick and over ever constant criticism, refused to obey orders any longer, left his manager and publicly announced that in the future he would follow his own inclinations and be absolutely on the level" in all his ring engagements. There was a certain magnetism about Joe Gans. The public believed him and to his credit he it said that from that day he was as completely as he could. He became one of the most popular of our champions, and when he went down at last before Rattling Nelson there was no note of exultation in any of the hundred stories written about that fight NATURAL BORN RINGSTER Joe Gans was born to be a fighter. When a small boy he worked in the Baltimore fish market. He showed some ability in the boxing indulged in by the youngsters and his boss invested in a set of boxing gloves, for which he paid $1.70. In short time Gans has shown such superfortunity over all rivals that the boss bought another pair of gloves and had him box against two boys at once. Doing this every day developed a unique boxing style in young had to defend himself, and at the time he ready to take an opportunity to play out of the fray with a single punch. He learned how to slap aside blows and at the same time counter with deadly accuracy. Joe's first fight was with a rival in the fish market. The two boys fought for a purse of $2 and a collection. The total that went to Joe was $7.40, which at this time seemed a fortune to him. He ran all the way home to give it to his mother. Shortly afterwards he fought another finish fight for a purse of $8, winning with a knock-out in 23 rounds. Then when, the fish market was buzzing with excitement over the discovery of a new "phenom" young Joe took on a real fight in a real ring. He accepted a chance to box six rounds with the "Kentucky Rosebud," a remarkably clever darker boxer who had very recently leaped into fame by knocking out the almost invincible George Dixon. Of course Rosebud guarded the fish market boy as merely a punching bag. He was picking up some easy money. Joe Gans knocked the Rosebud down several times and gave him a terrible beating. From that moment he was famous. MASTER BOXER IN THREE MONTHS. Now to show what stuff there was in Gans, note this. He didn't content himself with taking on an occasional preliminary bout and dubbing around in women gymnastics. He began golfer to see the more famous boxers work to study them. He had earned a little money by boxing, and had given it all to his mother. One night he went to a theater to see Bob Fitzsimons' box. He was fascinated by the freckled champion's shifty, effective style of fighting. Going home. Joe told his mother that he would give her what money he had, leave his job at the fish market, and take a couple of months off. He went back for another look at Pitsalmons. Every night he studied trackled Bob. When Fitsimmons went to another town Joe Gans followed, still watching him in every show and studying every movement the champion made. He followed. Fitsimmons about for five or six months, incidentally boxing a little now and then to cover expenses and he learned more in those three months than most of his modern imitators learned it as many years—a great deal more, for he became master. When he began fighting again he showed such skill that in a short time he was in great demand. He beat Kid McLartland, then considered the cleavest lightweight in the world, won a $5,000 purse and became famous all at once. After that it was easy going for Gans, although he fought all the tough ones, and they were tough indeed in those days. Kid McFadden knocked him out. Gans made match after match with McFadden, beat him on points and finally knocked him out in three rounds in a Frisco fight. Gans was usually successful in his first fights, but because he had brain and used it, if he failed, once he was sure to succeed in a second attempt. HAD EYE FOR DISTANCE. He fought Frank Erne. Gans got a cut over one eye which so completely blinded him that he thought his eye was out. He stopped. Later he fought Erne again for the Lightweight title. In the first round Gans, who had studied Erne closely when they met before made a close calculation. He had no need that Erne moved his head back about six inches from a felin, then instantly bobbed it back again to be in bitting range. Gans feinted. Erne's head swung back and bobbed forward again. But Gans had followed the felin instantly with a tremendous straight right, shot straight at the point where Erne's head would come to meet it. The blow on the chin knocked Erne out cold—a champion shaken and saddened. Dal Hawkins had a marvelous left hand. He knocked Gans down with it. Gans was barely able to rise, but he met Dal's left with a straight in side right and flattened Dal in turn. Gans fought Bat Nelson at Goldfield he tried for a trick knockout; he knocked Nelson down under the ropes, and bending over tried to help Bat up again. Bat kicked at Gans shim Bat said afterward Joe was trying to get him up quickly to hit him again before he recovered from being dared that Joe was merely trying to deprive him of the privilege of the count. For eight rounds Gans tried to knock Nelson out on one heavy blow. Then he decided that Nelson was punch proof, and that the only thing to do was wear him down. BREAKS RIGHT ARM In the seventeenth he broke his right hand. He didn't use it for 10 rounds. After that he explained to me it was numb and he hit with it. After about 40 rounds Gans felt that Nelson was all in but he was so woory himself that he couldn't finish him. In the forty-second, Nelson desperate struck Gans foul and lost the fight. Later in Jimmy Britt beat Nelson badly in 20 rounds, and Gans was matched with Britt. Britt was a clever boxer, and a game-fighter, but not a Battling Dane for toughness. Gans delibrately beat him down in five rounds, at the end of which Britt announced that his arm was broken and he had enough. When Bat Nelson won the Lightweight title from Gans at Colma the great negro boxer was in a decline from being forced to train down to 133 pounds in his fighting togs at Goldfield. In fact, he had probably already contracted consumption from which he died later. He knocked Nelson down, hammered him all over the ring, but was unable to make any impression on him Gans made a wonderful fight as long as he had an ounce of strength left but collapsed in the seventeenth round after being two knocked down. Gans told me that his strength left him after a few rounds, and from then on he tried to tie Nelson by making the Dune take three or four steps to his one and miss a great number of blows, but it was useless. "I had nothing left to fight on," said Gans. SCORES KNOCK-OUT ON GLOVES He had little left except his wonderful fightin' brain. To show how that worked, after losing to Nelson Gana came, out once more to fight Epike Robson, an English lightweight Robson danced and Gana walked slowly after him. Joe was afraid to move fast. He knew he had no stamina. At last he hit Robson and knocked him against the ropes. Robinson side stepped and held both hands over his face to protect his Jaw. Gana, slowly following could find no opening. But he saw that Robson's left hand was held with the palm only a few inches from his chin. Instantly Gana whipped him, and Robson could. He struck the back of Robson's chin, and drove it against Robson's chin. Robson dropped. Gana had practically made the Englishman knock himself out. "I saw his hand was too close to break the force of a blow, and hit his hand instead of waiting for an opening." Gana said. It was very simple." Yes, simple. But it took a Joe Gans to think of it. Joe Gans and brains. That's why, even today, he's remembered as the king of all lightweights. (Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. The New York Evening World.) BOY SAVED AT BAY SHORE. The Fifth St. Baptist Church Su- day School to Buckroe Beach was a success. Lawrence Douglas, twelve years of age, jumped off the pier into deep water and went to the bottom. Some ladies noticed that he failed to come up and gave the alarm. A diving expert succeeded in getting him after he had gone down three times. He rolled on a barrel and after much exertion on the part of the doctor, he was resuscitated and brought to Richmond. He lives with his grandmother, Mrs. Winston, on Federal street. Un able to Care for Increased Densel and Surpurs Nearm Minimum. N. Y. Sun. Aug 4, 1916. N. T. Sun, Aug. 6, 1916. Unless there is concreted curtailment of waste of news print paper—savings that can be effected only by reducing the size of news papers, refusing unsoiled copies and cutting off the drain of exchange—newspapers of the United States will be on the bread line, fluatively speaking. They will use material on allment, receiving no more than manufacturers can give them for vanishing supplies. That a famine in news print paper will result within a few months unless these economies are effected was the prediction of paper manufacturers yesterday. Only a husbanding of resources by the papers themselves, particularly those of New York, can stave off the crisis, it was admitted throughout the trade. Therefore, the announcement printed in the Sun and other papers of limiting newdealers' supplies strictly to sales and the agreement of publishers of Manhattan to decrease the size of the papers met with approval. At the present time in the United States and Canada fifty mills are working three shifts of men eight hours daily and six days a week. Their output for June—the last compilation—was 140,181 mills, representing 95.4 per cent of their maximum production the highest efficiency ever attained in the industry. This output represents an increase of 27,000 tons a month over the mark for June, 1915, but even this tremendous increase has been insufficient to feed the demand. Full production had to be augmented by 5,000 tons more a day which was drawn from a rapidly depleting reserve stock. SURPLY'S GRADUALLY SHRINKS. Surplus stock has been swallowed up at this rate for several months now. At the end of June only 65,194 tons remained in storehouses that at the same time that year held 92,967 tons. The minimum is in sight, appreciation of which fact brought the newspaper publishers to their agreement on Tuesday. Were production to cease to day there is not enough news print paper stored to keep, newspapers, all ten days. It has been necessary for the publisher's mutual good and the bene fit of the news reading public to curb the tendency toward, increasing the size of papers at this time of year. The figures cited here for June will take a considerable advance in October, usually the banner month in the news paper year. As a rule circulation increases in the fall and advertising keeps space with it. As a result more pages have to be added to the daily paper and the Sunday takes on annual bulk. Without the measures taken by the publishers this fall's increase would wipe out the total production and the reserve stock. For this reason The Sun's rule to refuse unpaid copies will become effective on Monday. It may be asked by the public, "Why did not the paper manufacturers anticipate this tremendous increase in demand?" They did, so far as it was humanly possible to anticipate a prosperity Since June 1915, there has been added to the mills of this country and Canada 15 percent, more facilities for turning wood into paper. When the orders were given it seemed, according to the manufacturers, an extremely risky venture to install additional machinery on conditions temporarily resourte. It was felt demand for war news might account for the greater call for paper, and a cessation of the war possibly would bring an end to the growing demands. Yet the machinery was installed and now most of it is in operation. WORKING AT CAPACITY The mills are at the peak of their capacity. They can turn out no more although they have the materials and the men. In June of 1915 the maximum of efficiency derived from the machinery was 78.9; this year it reached the mark of 95.4. With machinery making this record men operating the day around and every other aid given to production, still the outlook for the fall falls to brighten. New mills cannot be put up in weeks or even months; generally it takes a year and a half to get a mill working. New machines have been ordered; in a few weeks several that turn out fifty tons a day will be in operation. But these added to the machines now producing cannot save the consumption. Machines cannot be added in wholesale lots at the present time with most of the big steel plants, turning out munitions in preference to wood grinders. The following statement on production and shipment for June, compiled by G. F. Steele, secretary of the New York P. Manufacturers Association, affords an understanding of the strides taken by the industry in the last year. As manufacturers view the situation the existing stringency will exist for several months. Here is a letter sent out by A. E. Wright, sales manager of the International Paper Company, one of the biggest producers in the country, to all his news print customers: "During the extended period of trying conditions which we have been laboring under, the confidence which you have placed in our ability and willingness to supply you with the full tonnage of print paper, is indeed gratifying. Notwithstanding the numerous published reports of a paper famine and the actions of competitive mills in materially curtailing shipments to their customers you have not once questioned us on this subject (which must be no close to your heart), thus demonstrating the complete reliance you place in us. DEMAND CONTINUES TO GROW. "We are justly proud of the record we have made and let us say that it has been no easy task to do that which we have done during the first seven months of this year. Not a customer of this company has failed to receive his full requirements of print paper when and as wanted. We have accomplished this by closely identifying ourselves with your business, watching out carefully for your interests and alluring to the maximum the needs of our customers. "There has now come a time when an accounting of our purposes is force ed upon us: Our demands (and we speak of our customers as a whole) learning skills. We was our long time after the first of June, as we have the one and all previous years, the consumption of print paper would markedly decrease and we would then be permitted to build up our reserve tonnage to normal. "In June you called upon us for 1, 310 tons more than we produced. We then looked forward hopefully to July expecting that in this month the tide would turn but in the first twenty-one days of the month you have taken approximately 1,60 more tons than we produced. So all signs have failed with us, and with sincere regret we are forced to the conclusion that it will be a practical impossibility for this company to produce during the last four months of the year as much paper as will probably be required by its customers unless you arrange beginning at once to materially reduce consumption. "We can, we believe, pull through the month of August with the expectation that during that month bushes will be slack and our production will exceed consumption, but trouble is undoubtedly in sight beginning with September. "This is a matter of such serious import to all concerned that we wish to bring the subject forcibly before you so that you may realize that the remedy is in your hands not in ours. We will do our full part and we beg you to do yours." We are running every one of our machines to full capacity making daily a tonnage of paper largely in excess of normal tonnage. We have room for growth in only one of our United States properties, that being our Otis mill, located at Christolm, Me. We are installing at this mill a large paper machine, which we hope to have in operation by December. And this means the limit of our ability to produce paper in this country. If we had water power and other requirements available at other points in this country we would immediately take advantage of the opportunity to install further machinery, but we have none. We have resources in Canada, which we purpose to utilize when enabled to purchase machinery, and other equipment at favorable prices. "This company is planning to develop one of its Canadian properties to a material extent, as you have probably noted in the reports published as was but it will be a matter of some time before we will be making paper. DELIVERIES SHOW GAINS "Our deliveries to you during the first six months of this year were in excess of deliveries for similar months the year previous as follows: "January, 11 per cent; March, 16 per cent; May, 16 per cent; "February, 14 per cent; April, 13 per cent; June, 7 per cent; "For the first twenty-one working days of July, 13 per cent." "You will note by the foregoing figures that we have accomplished workers in the matter of producing paper sufficient to supply your demands. On January 1, 1916, we had an inventory of 24,116 tons. To-day we have an inventory of approximately 16,000 tons. The normal inventory is 25,000 tons. "There have been intimations that paper manufacturers have exported enormous tonnages to the detriment of the domestic trade. To show how false this is so far as our company is concerned we wish to state that during the first six months of the year 1915 we exported 22,059 tons of paper during the first six months of this year we exported 20,479 tons. In other words 7 per cent, less this year than last. This statement clearly answers and refutes any statement to the effect that the International Paper Company is exporting paper to the detriment of the interest of domestic customers. "Our plan is to pratecuate equitably a mong our customers in the print paper which we will produce during the last four months of this year. Unquestionably this means that unless you take immediate steps materally to curtail consumption you will not receive from us during the period just mentioned tonnage sufficient to satisfy your requirements. "We are at a loss to know to what extent we should advise you to curtail consumption, except to suggest that the more you curtail the surer you will be of a supply during the late months of the year. It is to your interest to cooperate with one another in every possible manner in order to bring about the required results. "We give you due notice of that which you may expect so that you may place your houses in order and be prepared for the inevitable. It certainly grieves us to have to admit that we are forced to assume such a position. "Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter and advise to what extent we may look for assistance from you. And if you have any objection to our plan of prorating tonnage please outline such objection in detail." URBANNA (VA.) NOTES. Urbanna, Va., July 31, 1916. — A successful revival service has closed at the Grafton Bapt. Church. Rev. R. J. Langton, B. D. pastor, assisted by Rev. Wm. Yates and A. B. Lee. Camp meeting is going on at the Emanuel Bapt. Church. Rev. W. B. Carrington, D. D. pastor, Rev. A. P. Young of King and Queen and Rev. P. C. Young of Lancaster, are assisting in the meeting. Mrs. M. E. C. Moody and Miss Annetta M. Baughn, visited Miss Sallie S. Wood, last week. Miss Mattie Wyatt, trained nurse of Richmond, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wyatt, near Wake. An enjoyable concert was had at Mt. Zion last Friday evening for the benefit of the Public School. The Pine Grove Glee Club, gave a lawn party at the school house on last Monday night. Mr. Criss Robinson, has purchased a Ford car and his friends are enjoying many rides with him. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Tabb; Mrs. M. B. C. Moody and Mia A. M. Baughen dined with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Williams last Sunday. They come over in Mr. Tabb's new car. THE GRAND LODGE SESSION CONTROLLED THREE-YEAR LEASE LAW HELD IN ABREVANCE UNTIL SUPREME LODGE MEETS. At the Grand Lodge Session held in Macon, Mo., July 25th to 25th inclusive, the Representatives and Officers repudiated the efforts of certain men to defeat A. W. Lloyd for Grand Chancellor to succeed himself, by an overwhelming vote. Three years ago a resolution was a dopted limiting the consecutive term of a Grand Chancellor to three years. Unknown to the schemers Mr. Lloyd, submitted the new law to the Supreme Lodge on its constitutionality, at the Columbus Session last year. The Supreme Lodge referred the matter to Supreme Chancellor Green, where it is still pending, subject to compliance with certain requirements of the Supreme Chancellor, and it was on those grounds that the Grand Lodge very properly declared the law inoperative. Fraternal Journals, and the press in general have been greatly interested in the Missouri question and the fight on A. W. Lloyd, and many editorials, have been written on the subject, excerpts from some of them being here appended. FRATERNAL INFORMER PHILADELPHIA PA "It appears that the members of the Grand Lodge K. of P. of Mo., have fallen in the wake of their white Constituencies, much to the regret of the members of their sister states. A. W. Lloyd, the Grand Chancellor, whom it cannot be denied, took hold of the Order in Missouri, when it was buried under the weight of human selfishness, but his racial and fraternal pride, backed by that sagacity that permeates within all Generals, caused him to take the refins of government and go forward like a gale of wind traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, until he brought the Grand Jurisdiction of Mo., to a station on progressive's railway, where she is justified in boasting that "we trail bohind none." FRATERNAL MONITOR, CINNATI, OHIO "Hon. A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor of Missouri, has issued a circular showing $241, 464.91 paid to Beneficial arrears from the Endowment Fund. The circular contains several commendatory letters on the administration of Lloyd, which indicates that the law which would force the retirement of the great Missouri leader was unwine and should be repealed. Sir Lloyd has been through a few storms while piloting his Missouri mail boat, but he has weathered them all, and brought her to the port of success, none will deny." The home Protective Red., Hannibal, Mo., Western Christian Recorder Kan. San City Mo. Toppea Plain Dealer Toppe ka Kansas; The Search Light, Sedalia, Ma. The Western Messenger, Jefferson City; Kansas City Sun, Kansas City Mo. The Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia; The St. Louis Argus and Fraternal Clarion of St. Louis, and other papers have spoken in praise of the works of Grand Chancel for Lloyd, condemning the unfair me thods used in attempting to defeat him for rejection. The Missouri State Insurance Examiners closed their report on the condition of the Knights of Pythias of Missouri October 1916, in the following language: "All death claims are paid promptly. There are 96 Subordinate Lodges with a membership of about 4,800 representing insurance of about $1,200,000.00. The Society compiles with provisions of Section 26-Mobile Law, and attached hereto is a copy of the notice sent to the membership with said section. "The affairs of the Society are efficiently and economically managed. The books are kept in good shape, and the Society is conducting its business in accordance with law." Hesperfully submitted, Robert E. Daley, A. W. Stewart, Examiners. All of the above is a splendid tribute to Mr. Lloyd, and the Pythians of Missouri honored themselves by his recollection. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Reda entertained the Bluza last Friday Night and made a great hit. Last Sunday found much work for the men to do and all were busy. 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. the workers held a special meeting. The boys' meeting was largely attended. 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Master Edward Parker read a special paper. Committeeman C. B. Gaston delivered a very timely address. Several new boys joined this department. 5:30 P. M. The President of the Y. M. C. A. Bible Class, C. M. A. Scott delivered an address to the men which will not be forgotten very soon. Subject: The Watch And The Man. Every man who attended this meeting was well paid. 10 A. M. the committee held a very profitable meeting with the inmates of the city home. The prisoners in the city jail were helped by the meetings which were held by the committee 10 A. M. The women in the Penitentiary enjoyed the meeting which was held for them 10 A. M. Much interest was manifested. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. All workers are invited to the meet A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Assistance is in all other will support us together for the here 4 P. M. M. Y. M. C. A. All men are invited to the T. M. C. A. 5:30 P. M. to hear Rev. Joseph H. Brown. Come and bring the other man. Be on time. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the T. M. C. A. WARNING TO THE FARMERS OF ATLANTIC STATES WARNING TO THE FARMERS OF ATLANTIC STATES. Washington, D. C.—An unusual abundance of the moth of the True Army Worm in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of, Columbia, indicates the possibility of an impending outbreak of this destructive pest in the Atlantic States. The moths, the Atlantic States. The moths, the entomologists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture report, were laying their eggs during the first week of July and as it takes from three to four weeks for the caterpillars to mature, their presence should begin to be quite apparent about the last week in July to the first week in August. Farmers should be on the alert to discover this pest in its younger stages, before it has reached a large size and has committed irreparable damage to growing crops, especially grasses and grains. SPRAY. When the army, worm is discovered at work the infested spots should be sprayed immediately with a solution of powdered arsenate of lead, 2 pounds to 50 gallons of water. If Paris green, 1 pound; freshly slaked lime, 2 pounds; water, 50 gallons. The lime is necessary as a preventive of burning by the Paris green, which is quite caustic when used on tender plants such as corn. POISONED BRAN BAIT. When spraying is impracticable the poisoned bran bait is recommended. It is made as follows: Wheat bran, 50 pounds; Paris green, 1 pound, or white arsenic or powdered arsenate of lead, 2 pounds; low-grade molasses, 3 to 4 quarts. The bran and poison should be thoroughly mixed while dry and the molasses afterwards added, kneading and stirring the mass upill it is easily broken into small bits. The addition of six finch chopped lemon has been added and added value to the bait some cases. The poisoned bait should be scattered broadcast where the worms are at work or in their path or among them while they are on the march. DITCHING. When the army worms are moving together in a mass they may be halted and destroyed by plowing out or digging a narrow ditch with sleep slides across their path. The worms fall into the ditch in large numbers and may be crushed readily by dragging a log or chunk of wood back and forth through the ditch. HAVE ARSENATE OR PARIS GREEN AT HAND. All farmers should keep on hand a We Give PERSONAL ATTENTION to Every Job No Matter How Small ```markdown ``` As a result whenever a job leaves our office it is a perfect product. GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER "It's great to be a general, but I'd rather lead the band." These are great sentiments and fire up the latent martial spirit of the average young american. Sometimes this spirit is not appeased until they have planted themselves in front of some noisy musicians, with "poked out" "sweat-covered" jaws, booting brass instruments and tearing ragtime to threads. This particular youngster had just achieved his life's ambition and was planted in front of a brand new band, composed of fat and noisy musicians, ready for their first parade. Everything moved lovely, as the gang marched down the street to the tap-tap-tap or the marsh drum few pains of one of the commercial insurers to the army or Ports given to the army that the delay of a few days, necessary in order to prevent insurrections in an emergency, enables the army worm to be covered damages to crops. The insurers musted above will not spell it best in a very condition in covered containers. Farmers' Bulletin No. 731 contains a full account of the army worm and may be secured free of charge upon application to the Secretary of Agriculture. MR. WEBSTER IN HAMLET, N. C. --- Hamlet, N. C.-I arrived here at $15 A. M., Saturday the 5th, over the Senbonbear from Cheraw, C. S. I spent Friday at Cheraw. As soon as I reached Cheraw, I called on my old friend, Mr. C. M. Hankew, a first class blacksmith. He has a fine business; also he deals in real estate. A few days ago he purchased a lot for $1,700 then sold it for $3,500 very soon after. At night I took a seat at the Presbyterian high school with Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Long. I spent the night at the Baptist parsonage with Rev. P. W. Bruce. Mr. R. H. Herbert is one of Choraw's successful colored business men. I felt better after I found my old friend, Mr. S. N. Massey, who is succeeding nicely as a barber and business man. He has a very fine wife. They never want for company. Sunday morning I visited the First Baptist Church Sunday school, and at 11:30 A. M. I addressed the school on Negro literature. They have a very fine school and are succeeding nicely. Mr. O. T. Townsend is superintendent and Miss Picola Jackson is secretary. Mr. S. R. Davis is assistant and Mr. L. A. Wall, Mr. Thomas Wall and S. P. Johnson are teachers and workers. Mr. S. P. Johnson motioned that my address be indorsed by the school, which was unantimony agreed to. I was nicely treated here. I visited the A. M. E. Z. Church at one o'clock and met the pastor, Rev. C. W. Carver. I was introduced to the congregation, and made a talk while I was there. It was agreed that the rally of the church form now until the 3rd, should be used to cancel the mortgage on the church property, and on the following Tuesday night burn the mortgage. They kindly received me. Mr. Jas. Gasque, of Dillon, S. C., passed through the city recently via Florence en route for Hartsville, S. C., to attend the District Conference of the A. M. E. Church. Miss Mario Levy returned to Columbia, S. C., recently via Florence, S. C. Rev. J. B. Blake, of Wadesboro, N. C., passed through the city en route for home, from Diggs Circuit. Miss Louise Rogers, of Darlington, S. C. has gone to Nashville, Tenn., to attend the Young People's Congress. She won over six candidates. Mr. W. M. 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"Mr. Tappy's works on the Bible will do more to empty our jaunts in intelligence than that idea that has ever been given to the world, in our opinion, to say nothing of the great good, morally and spiritually, that we have indeed produced a world idea that should be in every home and library in the civilised world. W. A. Thompson, M.D. W. A. Svan, M.D. S. M. McCubbins, M.D. M. F. Mikal, A. E. M.D. T. Woodbury, A. M. We have arranged the author's all orders for these books. Remain desire of book or books you desire to this paper and maze of the book or books you desire to the same, the name will be sent to you as soon. Our friend, the drum-major, marched leisurely and passively at the head of the mob. In due time the signal for music was given and our friend, the drum-major, took on new courage and commenced to prance just a little. But what the band struck up in all its fury, my, that "major" commerce to "hobbie-gobble" all over the street. The music had penetrated to the innermost recesses of his being and came out in the form of chunks of "dil-a-dos." But this was not half. As the band swung into a popular chorus, the d, m, megabus to handle his stick and, in, B PITCHED IT THROUGH A PLATTE CLASS WINDOW! The Thirty-nine Steps By JOHN BUCHAN Author of "Prenter John" Copyright by Frank A. Nurney Company many, after making his pike returns to London. He mounts Boudder, who tells him of a w Kardelidon, the Greek pre- v. followed by spies, buys it taken it appears that he has lea- d. A Boudder throws the spies for a few days. He is then to body in sound by Hannay, lions that he will be hunted on by the spies because he is secret, and by the police w of Boudder. Browning the uniform of the milkman, who called early in the morning, Hannay goes away from the fat and catches a train for Scotland. As he gets off at a quantity station three men alight. Hannay gets rid of the three men and arrives for the open country. He notices an escarpine overland. He finds a young knight, who agrees to hide him. Two of his pursuers arrive at the inn. Hannay drops out of a window and impresses into service the automobile of his pursuers and strikes for the open country. The words, "Thirty-nine steps," in the code pushes him. He is bertended by a man running for office. Hannay makes a speech for the candidate. Then he tells him everything. The candidate godfather is permanent secretary of the foreign office, and he disguises Hannay and starts him with the pertinent secret to London. Hannay disguises himself as a road man and throws his pursuers off the scent. He steals another automobile, compels the owner to change clothing with him and mails a fresh start. He finds refuge in a country house. The old gentleman who owns it proves to be the man Bouder said he "most dreaded in the world." When the old gentleman calls him Richard Hannay he stoutly denies his identity. Hannay is locked in a storeroom. With the discovery of his identity almost certain he blows up the place with chemicals. Terribly wounded, he finds refuge in an old mill. Leaving the mall at night, Hannay makes his way to the cottage of the road man I had befriended. Brickken with fever, as is nursed back to health by the road man. Hannay starts for London. The British foreign office now is aroused to the importance of Hannay's discovery. A determined effort is made to locate the "Thirty-nine steps" leading to the sea from which point the compilers plainly intended to sail. The tail of the conspirators is located at Brudgate. Hannay's suspicions are almost disarmed by the three men he met there. They are like typical English gangsters, he tells them they are under arrest. After a sensational struggle the compilers are subdued. Three weeks later the wolf makes out and Hannay puts on the hats. CHAPTER XV. THE CONSPIRATORS' LAIR There were the golf clubs and tennis rackets, the straw hats and caps, the rows of gloves, the sheaf of walking sticks which you will find in many British homes. A stack of neatly folded coats and waterproofs covered the top of an old oak chest. There was a grandfather clock tickling, and some polished brass warming pans on the walls, and a barometer, and a print of Chiltern winning the St. Leger. The place was as orthodox as an Anglican church. When the maid asked me for my name I gave it automatically and was shown into the smoking room on the right side of the hall. That room was even worse. I hadn't time to examine it, but I could see some framed group photographs above the mantelpiece, and I could have sworn they were English public school or college. I had only one glance, for I managed to pull myself together and go after the maid. But I was too late. She had already entered the dining room and given my name to her master, and I had missed the chance of seeing how the three took it. When I walked into the room the old man at the head of the table had risen and turned around to meet her. He was in evening dress—a short coat and black tie—as was the other, whom I called in my own mind the plump one. The third, the dark fellow, wore a blue serge suit and a soft white collar and the colors of some club or school. The old man's manner was perfect. "Mr. Hannay!" he said hesitatingly. "Did you wish to see me? One moment, you fellow, and I will rejoin you. We had better go to the smoking room." Though I hadn't an ounce of confidence in me, I forced myself to play the game. I pulled up a chair and sat down on it. "I think we have met before," I said, "and I guess you know my business." The light in the room was dim, but so far as I could see their faces they played the part of mystification very well. "Maybe, maybe," said the old man. "I haven't a very god memory, but I'm afraid you must tell me your grand, for I really don't know it." "Well, then," I said, and all the time I seemed to myself to be talking pure footnotes. "I have come to tell you that the mourner up, I have here a warrant for the arrest of you three quintessents." "Arrest!" said the old man, and he looked really shrewd. "Arrest!" "Good God, what sort." "For the murder of Franklin Seward in London on the 25th day of last @ "I have come to tell you that the game's up." mouth." "I never heard the name before," said the old man in a dazed voice. One of the others spoke up: "That was the Portland place murder. I read about it. Good heavens, you must be mad, sir! Where do you come from?" "Bootland Yard." I said. After that for a minute there was utter silence. The old man was staring at his plate and fumbling with a nut, the very model of innocent bowel-darment. Then the plump one spoke up. He stammered a little, like a man picking his words. "Don't get flustered, uncle," he said. "It is all a ridiculous mistake. But these things happen sometimes, and we can easily set it right. It won't be hard to prove our innocence. I can show that I was out of the country on the 22d of May, and Bob was in a nursing home. You were in London, but you can explain what you were doing." "Right, Monty! Of course that's easy enough. The 22d. That was the day after Agatha's wedding. Let me see. What was I doing? I came up in the morning from Woking and lunched at the club with Charlie Symons. Then—oh yes. I dined with the Fishmonger! I remember, for the punch didn't agree with me, and I was soedy next morning. Hang it all, there's the cigar box I brought back from the dinner!" He pointed to an object on the table and laughed nervously. "I think, sir," said the young man, addressing me respectfully, "you will see you are mistaken. We want to assist the law, like all Englishmen, and we don't want Scotland Yard to be making tools of themselves. That's an uncle!" "Certainly, Bob." The old fellow assumed to be recovering his voice. "Certainly. We'll do anything in our power to assist the authorities. But—but this is a bit too much. I can't get over it." "How Nellie will chuckle!" said the plump man. "She always said that you would die of boredom because nothing ever happened to you. And now you've got it thick and strong," and he began to laugh very pleasantly. "By Jovey, yes! Just think of it! What a story to tell at the club. Beaely, Mr. Hannay, I suppose I should be angry, to show my innocence, but it's too funny. I almost forgive you the fright you gave me. You looked so glum I thought I might have been walking in my sleep and killing people." It couldn't be acting. It was too confoundedly genuine. My hours went into my boots, and my first impulse was to apologize and clear out. But I told, myself I must see it through, even though I was to be the laughing stock of Britain. The light from the dinner table candlesticks was not very good, and to cover my confusion I got up, walked to the door and switched on the electric light. The sudden glare made them blink, and I stood scanning the three faces. Well, I made nothing of it. One was old and bald, one was stout, one was dark and thin. There was nothing in their appearance to prevent them being the three who had hunted me in Scotland, but there was nothing to Identify them. I simply can't explain why I, who as a roadman had looked into two pairs of eyes and as New Alnale into another pair—why I, who have a good memory and reasonable powers of observation—could find no satisfaction. They seemed exactly what they professed to be, and I could not have sworn to one of them. There in that pleasant dining room, with etchings on the walls and a picture of an old lady in a bib above the mantlepiece. I could see nothing to connect them with the moorland desperate. There was a silver cigarette box beside me, and I saw that it had been won by Montague Appleton, Eq. of the St. Regis club in a golf tournament. I had to keep firm hold of Power. Panama to prevent myself bolting out of that house. "Well," said the old man politely, "are you measured by your scrutiny, sir?" I couldn't find a word. "I hope you'll find it consistent with your duty to drop this ridiculous business. I make no complaint, but you'll see how annoying it must be to respectable people." "I shook my head. "Oh," said the young man, "this is a bit too thick." "Do you propose to march off to the police station?" asked the plump one. "That might be the best way out of it, but I suppose you won't be content with the local humane. I have the right to ask he to give your warrants, but I don't wish to throw away your rights. You are only doing your duty, and you shouldn't be horribly awful. What do you propose to do?" There was nothing to do except in call in my own and have them arrested or to confess my blunder and clear out. I felt muzzled by the whole place by the air of obvious innocence—not innocence merely, but frank, honest bewilderment and concern—in the three faces. "Oh, Peter Pienaar!" I groaned inwardly; and for a moment I was very near damning myself for a fool and asking their pardon. "Meantime I vote we have a game of bridge," said the plump one. "It will give Hannay time to think over things, and you know we have been wanting a fourth player. Do you play, sir." ed at him his eyelids fell in that hawk-like hood which fear had stamped on my memory. I blew my whistle. In an instant the lights were out. A pair of strong arms gripped me around the waist, covering the pockets in which a man might be expected to carry a pistol. "Schnell, Franz!" cried a voice. "Schnell!" As it spoke I heard two of my fellows emerge on the moonlit lawn. The young, dark man leaped for the window, was through it and over the low fence before a hand could touch him. I gramped the old chap, and the I accepted as if it had been an ordinary invitation at the club. The whole business had meamerized me. We went into the smoking room, where a card table was set out, and I was offended things to smoke and drink. I took my place at the club in a kind of dream. The window was open, and the moon was flooding the cliffs and the sea with a great tide of yellow light. There was moonshine, too, in my head. The three had recovered their composure and were, talking easily—just the kind of slangy talk you will hear in any golf clubhouse. I must have cut a rum figure, sitting there knitting my brows, with my eyes wandering. My partner was the young, dark one. I play a fair hand at bedge, but I must have been runk bad that night. They saw that they had got me puzzled, and that put them more than ever at their ease. I kept looking at their faces, but they conveyed nothing to me. It was not that they looked different; they were different. I clung desperately to the words of Peter Pleasan. Then something awoke me. The old man laid down his hand to light a cigar. He didn't pick it up at once, but sat back for a moment in his chair, with his finger tapping on his knee. It was the movement I remembered when I had stood before him in the moorland farm with the patrols of his servants behind me. A little thing, lasting only a second, and the odds were a thousand to one that I might have had my eyes on my cards at the time and missed it. But I didn't, and in a flash the air seemed to clear. Some shadow lifted from my brain, and I was looking at the three men with full and absolute recognition. The clock on the mantelpiece struck 10 o'clock. The three faces seemed to change before my eyes and reveal their secrets. The young one was the murderer. Now I saw cruelty and ruthlessness. 0 "He is gone. He has triumphed!" where before I had seen only good humor. His knife, I made certain, had skewered Scudder to the floor. His kind had put the bullet in Karoliden. The plump man's features seemed to dislalm and form again as I looked at them. He hadn't a face, only a hundred masks that he could assume when he pleased. That chap must have been a superb actor. Perhaps he had been Lord Allof the night before; perhaps not. It didn't matter. I wondered if he was the fellow who had first tracked Scudder and left his card, on him. Scudder had said he liped, and I could imagine how the adoption of a lisp might add terror. But the old man was the pick of the lot. He was sheer brain, ice, cool, calculating, as ruthless as a steam hammer. Now that my eyes were opened I wondered where I had seen the benevolence. His jaw was like chilled steel, and his eyes had the inhuman illuminosity of a bird. I went on playing and every second a greater hate willed up in my heart. It almost choked me, and I couldn't answer when my partner spoke. Only a little, longer could I endure their company. "Whew, Bob, look at the time!" aid the old man. "You'd better think about catching your train. Bob's got to go to town tonight," turning to me. The voice rang as false as hell. I looked at the clock, and it was nearly half past 10. "I am afraid you must put off your journey." I said. "Oh, d—n!" said the young man. "I thought you had dropped that rot. I've simply got to go. You can have my address, and I'll give you any security you like." "No, I said; 'you must stay.'" "Ad that I think they must have realized that the game was desperate. Their only chance had been to convince me that I was playing the food and that had failed. But the old man spoke again." "I'll go bad for my nephew. That ought to cost you, his money." Was it funny, or did I dictate some talk in the excitement of that video? There must have been, so I did it. ed at him his eyelids fell in that hawk-like hood which fear had stamped on my memory. I blew my whistle. In an instant the lights were out. A pair of strong arms gripped me around the waist, covering the pockets in which a man might be expected to carry a pistol. "Schnell, Franz!" cried a voice. "Schnell." As it spoke I heard two of my fellows emerge on the moonlit lawn. The young, dark man leaped for the window, was through it and over the low fence before a hand could touch him. I grappled the old chap, and the room seemed to fill with figures. I saw the plump one collared, but my eyes were all for the out of doors, where Frans sped on over the road toward the ralled entrance to the beach stairs. One man followed him, but he had no chance. The gats locked behind the fugitive, and I stood staring with my hands on the old boy's throat for such a time as a man might take to descend these stalk to the sea. Suddenly my prisoner broke from me and dung himself on the wall. There was a click as if a lever had been pulled. Then came a low rumbling far, far below the ground, and through the window I saw a cloud of chalky dust pouring out of the shaft of the stairway. Some one switched on the light. The old man was looking at me with blazing eyes. "He is safe!" he cried. "You cannot follow in time. He is gone. He has triumphed! Es lobe hoch der schwarze Stein!" There was more in those eyes than any common triumph. They had been hooded like a bird of prey, and now they flamed with a hawk's pride. A white, fanatic heat burned in them, and I realized for the first time the terrible thing I had been put up against. This man was more than a spy; in his foul way he had been a patriot. As the handcuffs clinked on his wrists I said my last word to him: "I hope Francis will bear his triumph well. I ought to tell you that the Ardinee, for the last hour has been in our hands." Three weeks later, as all the world knows, we went to war. I joined the new army the first week and, owing to my Matabele experience, got a captain's commission straight off. But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki. Photo by American Press Association. The Duke of Brunswick, as Prince Ernest August of Cumberland, married Princess Victoria Lutee, daughter of the German emperor at Blenheim in 1715. Copper hues dispatch reported the duke to be suffering from a nervous breakdown, which was considered probably incurable. GOBZ BRIDGEHEAD TAXC Fall of the Open Yellow Tower Opera ital noposed the or dead by the the city is being to out the Austrians, than 8000 prisoners were taken on Sunday. (The capture of the bridgehead, where for months the Austrians have stood off the Italians, apparently makes the fall of Gors inevitable. Gors is the immediate goal of the Italians in the Issoono campaign, Trieste being their ultimate goal on this front). Earlier depatches said that the Austrians held little ground on the right bank of the Issoono, and that the Austrians were destroying villages in the vicinity of Gors. The announcement by the war office of the Italian victory in the Montalcino sector was received everywhere in Italy with rejoicing; although the war in being directed with such sensitivity that the public at large knew little about it, in view of the difficult nature of the ground and the unusually favorable positions held by the Austrians, the taking of 3000 pyramids, reported Monday, was reported in a long story of advance. Many Forced to Secure Health Certificates. Three Deaths and Six New Cases of Infantile Paralysis in Philadelphia. 1000 Deputies Guard Bordera. Three deaths from infantile paralysis, two of them children whose illness had just been diagnosed, and six new cases of the disease were reported in Philadelphia. The total number of cases in the city since the first of July is 107, and there have been 24 deaths. With more than 1000 inspectors strung out along its border, Pennsylvania is virtually isolated from all other states in the union, because of the epidemic of infantile paralysis. Directed originally against New York and New Jersey, the quarantine has been extended to Delaware and Maryland, and now no child under sixteen years of age may enter this state from any point without first undergoing scrutiny by a medical inspector. Although people had been given three days to prepare for the quarantine time many neglected to do so. At the Market and Chestnut street ferries the inspectors ordered about half of the children back to the New Jersey shore, while at the South street forry fourteen were sent back. Possibly 200 boys and girls under sixteen years of age, coming from Camden and other nearby New Jersey towns, who work in Philadelphia, were turned back because they were not provided with the necessary health certificates. If Camden applicants for certificates swamped the office of Dr. Leavitt, the health officer. Some New Jersey children who gave their age as sixteen, but obviously were younger, were turned back on the Philadelphia side. An Italian family of eight were sent back to their home near Salom, N. J. because they had failed to provide themselves with credentials. One couple were compelled to return to Atlantic City with their child. Mrs. Anna Shawfield, of Harrisburg, arrived from Camden. She carried a basket containing three-months old twins. She was stopped on the Philadelphia side of the river by health officers and when she failed to produce a health certificate was sent back to Camden, where she was given a certificate. Mrs. Shawfield had been visiting relatives in Camden. Five Penns. Towns Report New Cases. New cases were reported from Bristol, Pittsburgh, Woodlawn, Eastham and Monessen. HEAT INCREASES PLAGUE New York Records 53 Deaths, 183 New Cases. The intense heat is coincident with another big increase in infantile par- lysis cases in New York. Only once since the plague got its start, six weeks ago, were there more deaths and new cases than reported yesterday. During the twenty four hour period 53 children died of the disease and 188 new cases were reported. Since the epidemic began, on June 26, there have been 5247 cases and 1196 deaths. Twelve persons who have recovered from attacks have volunteered to give quantities of their blood to be used in the preparation of serum for the treatment of the disease, as the result of an appeal for volunteers in fighting the epidemic. Richard T. Crane Jr., the Chicago manufacturer, telegraphed Mayor Mitchall that he will give $25,000 to the physician who can offer the best care or preventive for infantile paralysis within the next year. EXPLOSION KILLS 6 MINERS Three Others Injured by Gas Blast D. L. & W. Collery. Six men were killed and three ly burned in an explosion of the Woodward oil refinery of the waro. Inkman, a and Wintershall and Hardvard, Vt. The sight to the burned that iden- cet, not yet been made. Photon occurred in the Red vein, where about 200 men are employed. It was more than two hours before the rescuing party and company physicians could reach the scene of the disaster. The three injured men lay for that time where they fell. 50 Prunelana Die In Explosion An explosion of ammunition which was obort to be shipped from the depot in Koenigszebr, East Prussia caused the death of fifty men and twenty women. Fourteen other persons were injured severely and fifty-eight sustained minor injuries. Submarine Bremen Reported Sunk. The Berlin Tageblatt announces that the German submarine Bremen, which was to have arrived at an American port, has been sunk through an accident to her machinery, according to a Germanach received at Bornea. Mike Margaret Wilson Hurt. Mike Margaret Wilson, oldest daughter of the president, and Mrs. George Bledd (Manched Bates, the actress) both served from a carriage in a newspaper accident at Croton, N. Y., January and were bruised severely. Righk baked. The horse hoted, when --- 1 STEMATIZE your household expenses by opening a bank account for your wife. Give her a check book and teach her the use of it. Pay the butcher, the grocer, the baker, with a check. Then, at the end of the month you'll find out just how much it costs you to run the home. When payment by check is made there never is any a bill is paid. The check Besides, a checking ac business education. The women who know absolute prising. If you are a h cannot tell when death n well that your wife, daug thing of banking. MAKE UP YOUR M YOUR WIFE A CHECK THE MECHANICS IS READY TO SERVE YOU. THIRD AND CLAY STS.— JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRES here never is any doubt as to whether or not aid. The check is a receipt. a checking account will give your wife a education. The number of ordinarily bright to know absolutely nothing of banking is sur- f you are a husband, father, brother, you when death may overtake you, and it is your wife, daughter and sister know somo- banking. UP YOUR MIND TODAY TO GIVE LIFE A CHECK BOOK. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK SERVE YOU. WRITE OR VISIT US AT CLAY STS.—NORTHWEST CORNER. ELL, JR., PRES. WALTER T. DAVIS, CASHIER is made there never is any doubt as to whether or not a bill is paid. The check is a receipt. Besides, a checking account will give your wife a business education. The number of ordinarily bright women who know absolutely nothing of banking is surprising. If you are a husband, father, brother, you cannot toll when death may, overtake you, and it is well that your wife, daughter and sister know something of banking. MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY TO GIVE YOUR WIFE A CHECK BOOK. THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK IS READY TO SERVE YOU. WRITE OR VISIT US AT THIRD AND CLAY STS.—NORTHWEST CORNER. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., PRES. WALTER T. DAVIS, CASHIER a shaft broke. Miss Wilson has recovered sufficiently to return to Washington. Crazed by the Heat, Kills Himself. Milton Schwartz, a wealthy farmer, sixty-five years old, suddenly crazed by the heat, shot and killed himself on his farm between Center Valley and Spring Valley, near South Bethlehem, Pa. Shoe Button Causes Boy's Illness. As shoe button was removed from the nose of Charles Potterman, of Freeland, near Hazleton, Pa., a six-year-old boy, whose long-continued illness had myasified his parents. RAILROADS Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. Is and from Washington and Browns-Belly NORFOLK & WESTERN. ONLY ALL-RAIL LINK TO NORFOLK. ROGER CASEMENT Executed in London for High Treason. J. Five motor car handbits held up pay clerks entering the plant of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, in Detroit, Mich., and after shooting one of the clerks, escaped with bags said to have contained $37,000. Employees of the Burroughs plant, in another car, gave chase, and a running light ensued down Second avenue. One of the robbers was rejoiced wounded. The handbits were staked with rifles. Hundreds of others nearby motor car factories lined the hold-up. The handbits were held up. Burroughs realize that was not done at till too late. One thought a motion picture was being staged. Stork Visits Woman on Train. A baby was born between, Hardisburg and Lancaster on a Pennsylvania railroad train. The mother, wife of a German clergyman, was on the way from Chicago to Rahway, N.J., where she and her husband planned to spend their vacation. The visit of the stork was made in a Pullman car. Physicians on the train attended the woman. Are ranglements were made to take the mother and child to a hospital in Philadelphia. Marie Vocatquaro, 14 months, was crossing the dining room of her home in Nutley, N. J., when she discovered a portion of a golf ball. She crawled over to seize it in her little hands. Her teeth cut into the acid-diluted core and the preparation spurred down her throat. She was unconscious when she was found by her mother. William Kastner and Harold Meek, aged 11 and 13 years, of Schuykill Haron, caught a ten-pound haunt at the Red pond. The giant fish, measuring over thirty inches, was seen by the help, coming into shallow water and paddling in they cut off its retreat and throw it out on dry land. S LOT OF FACTORY Lat. 400 1-b.t w.a. \(1cm_{4}\) to r \(a=r\) Baby Bites Golf Ball; Dies. Bova Catch Big Boat PAGE THREE RAILROADS Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac R. R. Is from Tennessee and Tennessee-Body 1. Bch'd 75.15 AR, *5.27 AR, 12. Bch'd 17.50 AR, *12.40 PR, 18.00 AR, 19.23 AR, *9.35 AR, 12.50 PR, 16.25 PR, *6.30 PR, 112.01 PR, 13.50 PR, *5.47 PR, 19.00 PR, 19.30 PR, *12.35 PR, 13.20 PR, 112.40 PR. Behnend-Aczartus Fost, 1.72.15 PR, woch dyo; 24.16 PR, Sondryc; 211.25 AR, Goldr. Frederickburg Azen, woch dyo; 1.74.00 PR; 1.10.25 AR, Atonnd Azen, woch dyo; 1.77.30 AR, 0.30 PR; 26.30 AR, 5.42 PR. NORFOLK & WESTERN ONLY ALL-RAIL LINK TO NORFOLK (Schedule in effect Jan. A. 1870) Leave Bryd Street Station, Richmond, FOR NORWICH *"0:18 A. M." *"0:00 A. M." *"0:00 P. M. *"0:00 P. M." FOR LYNCHBURG AND THE WEST: *"0:18 A. M." *"0:00 A. M." *"0:00 P. M." *"0:00 P. M." Arrive Richmond from Norfolk: *"11:00 A. M." *"0:25 P. M." *"0:00 P. M." *"11:30 P. M." *"P. M." from the West: *"0:18 A. M." *"0:27 A. M." *"0:16 P. M." Daily *"0:25 P. M." *"Daily except Sunday" *"Daily Daily" *"Daily except Sunday" *"Daily only W. B. BRYLK. W. G. BAUDRICH. C. H. BOWLEY. G. A. A. W. H. BOWLEY. YA. ATLANTIC COAST LINE THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH (Executive January 8, 1955) Dale L. Hancock For Petersburg: 12:50 A. M., 8:15 A. M. 8:15 A. M., 9:00 A. M., 8:00 A. M., 8:00 P. M. "4:00 P. M., "4:10 P. M., 8:55 P. M., 8:25 P. M., 9:25 P. M., 11:50 P. M. For Goldsboro and Fayetteville: 6:00 P.M. For Hopewell: 5:15 A.M., 7:15 P.M., 8:45 P.M., 9:15 P.M. P. M., 9:15 P. M. Trains arrive Richmond daily! 6:30 A. M. 1:00 A. M., 8:15 A. M., 9:30 A. M., 8:45 A. M. 11:40 A. M., *2:10 P. M., *7:40 P. M., 8:17 P. M. 0:25 P. M., *7:45 P. M., 9:00 P. M., 11:50 P. M. P. M. *Except Sunday...* *Tuesday Only. Time of arrival and departure and con- tents not guaranteed. THE SOUTHERN SR SERVES THE SOUTH Trains leave Richmond, Main Street — Schedule figures not guaranteed. For the South—Daily: 8:30 A. M., 1. M. M., express: 8:30 A. M., 1. M. M., express: 8:00 P. M., local for Keysville. Rose City—week days. York River Line—6:10 P. M., Skimmer St. eastward Sunday, connecting for Baltimore the North. Train arrive Richmond—From the South: 7:00 A. M. and 8:00 A. M., 8:30 P. M., 8:50 P. M., daily; 8:40 A. M., except Sunday. From West Point: 8:40 A. M., except Monday. 8:40 P. M., except Sunday. Ootz, 87 E. Mata St., Theodore North E. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Clinch, Lonnerie & West. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Main Line, Local. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. M. News, N.H. Old Pt. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Newport News, Local. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Newport News, Local. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Newport News, Local. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. From West. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. From West. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Daily from Charleston. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. from Thamwood. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. Daily from Thamwood. 7:30 p. -11:30 p. SEABOARD AIR LINE THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OF THE SOUTH Southbound trains scheduled to have Richmond daily: 9:26 A.M. M., local to Norwich; 1:29 P.M. M. , local to Bristol; 1:30 P.M. M., through Bristol; 1:35 P.M. M., through Jacksonville; 1:38 P.M. M., Fraser Limited; 1:42 P.M. M., sleepover to Ashburn, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and coaches to Jacksonville. Southbound trains scheduled to arrive in Richmond daily: 9:26 A.M. M., 7:29 A.M. M., 9:00 A.M. M., local to Bristol; 9:26 A.M. M., 5:27 P.M. M. ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHURCH MILA) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Sunday, 10th, 10:30 a.m. Monday, 10th, 10:30 a.m. St. James St., Portland, Maine 04104. Funeral Director and Curator of Funerals Burial Ground, Portland, Maine and in connection with Funerals ```markdown ``` Published Every Saturday by John Mitchell, Jr. 811 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. ... EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Walt Disney Exerved at the New Office at Richmond, Va. as second class matter. SATURDAY ... AUGUST 12, 1916 A person who tries to do right will have a hard time in this world. Colored folks should be religious It will make them better able to bear the hot weather and these Negro haters about here, who are constantly worrying them They couldn't convict Bex Timmera take for killing a man and so now they have arrested him for assaulting this same colored man. As the man, Jory Browns, is dead and buried, it seems strange that the issue should be pressed, unless some police-officer is seeking a "mobilization." The Health Department wants the cooks to wash their hands before they cook vegetables, although the only water available is the germ laden liquid from the James River. They now claim, that by the use of chlorine, the germs are all now dead, although there is no practical way of proving true the statement. The policemen who seem to have a knack for feloniously clubbing colored men in the head and doing them other bodily injury would do well to consult the Mayor of the city of Richmond and Portsmouth Clark as to their views upon this all-important subject. The former sent a small testimonial to $25.00 to two colored men who saved the life of the latter, when their own lives were in danger from so doing. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT There should be no surprise that thousands of people are turning to be Christian Scientists, and that thousands of others are patronizing the expounders of the homeopathic doctrines in view of the remarkable declarations of the bacteriologists of the D. K. C. Lay type. They have be come theoretically mad, so to speak, in advocacy of technical regulations which have no basis in common sense. After expending tens of thousands of dollars in carrying out certain regulations and in having charge of the city doing things so arbitrarily as to infiltrate upon the fundamental rights and privileges of the citizens, this Health Department declares itself at a loss to understand the steady increase in the number of typhoid cases in Richmond, Virginia. It decided that the fly was the nuisance that was causing many doctors although the fly has been with us in this neighborhood ever since the foundation of the government. It instigated the extermination of the fly and the daily press became so impressed that it offered prizes for the dead fly delivered at the printing office. They received so many that they counted them by measure. If anyone noticed any diminution of the number as a result of the crusade the evidence has not been forthcoming. The files multiplied and increased until nature stepped in, and with one blast of the cold wave, sent the millions and billions of them into immediate retirement. Then it was decided that the horses needed attention, and although every hostler in the State testified that by experience, the earth was the natural resting place of the animal, the owners of horses were made to provide granitic floors in stalls for these animals. Many of them were lamed and made ill as a result of this kind of treatment. Then it was said that the owners might place boards on top of the cement and thus leasen the evil, forgetful of the fact that the drainage would be kept from going into the ground, which is nature's natural purifier and as has been learned to many an owner's sorrow, this new fad was theoretically right and practically wrong. The order went forth that all closets pri- must be renewed, although, but a few new years previously, they had been in-the stalled, with the understanding that ri- they were sanitary. The new ones cree were required to replace all the old ones that had been condemned, and new inexperienced inspectors were sent ger broadcast throughout the city to do harm the condemning. This new find of do the health department cost the tax-paying citizens tens of thousand of dollars and at a time when they could fill afford to expend that amount. A failure to obey the mandate of these irresponsible people meant a summons to the police court and a demand, was made that Justice Lotty J. Curvittinus fine all who failed to comply with these regulations. As he is the evidence of common sense, he exercised his own judgment in the matter and brought down upon his head the condemnation of this Department. They decided, too, that the grass and weeds on vacant lots must be cut down and removed during the summer months, although it is a well-known fact, that "Father Jack Frost" will do this in October more effectively than the most experienced gardener can do it. They demanded that garbage be separated from the ashes and then provide that garbage, which would have been sufficient to raise enough hogs to supply an army, be burned in the public crematories and the ashes hauled away at the city's expense. They were by this act providing a deficiency in revenues at both ends. Thousands of poor people would have been glad to have the city's refuse matter in order to raise their swims. All of the hog pens in the neighborhood of the city were declared to be a nuisance, and the poor people required to get rid of them. They let Shoakee Creek, with its open slit, flow through the black belt, known as old Jackson Ward, and little urchies played in this slime to their heart's content. Finally, upon their urgent representations, it was declared to wall in Shoakee Creek, and ten of thousands of dollars were expended in so doing. They had a rise in the river the other day and Shockoe Creek left their hink. It was demonstrated that instead of the king the wall of which complaint had been made, as a matter of fact it was a hundred fold worse. When a Ma. Britannia condemned it he was summoned before the Administrative Board in a manner which was humiliating and insulting just as though a fax paying citizen did not have the legal right to criticize those persons who are employed by the city. Just as though a citizen is not immune from punishment or damages so long as his criticism is confined to the public acts of the official critter-legged. The Health Department suddenly discovered that the City of Richmond was also offender, if the standard set by that Department were to be observed. Garbage rotted in the back yards of the citizens for weeks, while the Superintendent of the street cleaning department virtually wring his hands, declaring that he was doing the best he could with the force at his command. An offer from citizens to handle the system at twenty-five per cent less cost to the city produced something of a sensation. New methods and plans were in accurated, but with the same old political force, and it did not take long to realize that it was the political sys- tem that was at fault. Richmond had purchased the latest machines for street cleaning purposes, and yet three men could be seen doing the work that only one man should do. To discharge these men would make trouble for the political machine, so they continue to hold their jobs. Richmond city is now passing through a period of transition. The colored man has been removed from the equation and white men are now contend- ing with white men. While the tax- paying people of the city are paying the otherblight charges. The latest development in these conditions has been the rapid increase in reyphoid cases in this city. Although the cipherline plant was installed but a few years ago, and the installation was made with a view to the increased extension of our boundary lines, Dr. E. C. LUVY sends to New York and purchases another one of these purifying devices to use on a city's water supply, which has been time and again said to be pure, or as pure as could possibly be expected. Four bankers, living in the heart of the city, and who have been observing all of the health, regulations prescribed by the Health Department are stricken down, while the poor colored people, who have been living in houses where the refuse from Shoooke Creek has been left in their basements, are alive and smiling. There has not been a single case of typhoid fever reported amongst them, although they have been wearing the clothes, soaked in the filthy deposits from Shoooke Creek. to pay for mineral waters, and when they want it, for, high-priced stimulants. Now, we are told that sixty people out of one hundred and fifty thousand are ill with the typhoid fever, and instead of inoculating only those people with the anti-typhoid vaccine, he recommends that one hundred and forty-nine thousand, nine hundred and forty people inoculate their health organism with this disease bearing vaccine, which, as a preventive where the disease already exists, may be efficacious, but which, where it does not exist, may set up a myriad of other ailments. Dr. E. C. Levy tells us, too, that we must boil all city water before drink in it. It's a poor citizen who wants enough fire to warm a sandwich, much less to boil water. We can drink germs, but we must be sure that they have been thoroughly cooked before we take them into our system. He does not tell us who is to pay for the alcohol lamps that we must carry around for this purpose, or where we are to obtain the alcohol when the sale of it has been limited in the places that formerly handled it without restriction. Dr. E. C. Levy, the affable and popular Chief, Health Officer, tells all families able to employ cooks that they must be clean and neat in appearance. They must wash their hands in running water, when it is known that the running water contains germs and that sterilization is the only admitted sure death to germs. These cooks should therefore wash their hands in boiling water, even though the outer skin is taken off in so doing. The health census is getting to be almost a little desirable as the Police Department was getting to be. It has fattened upon the credibility of the people to such an extent that these absurd regulations are announced in the most sedulous manner, with the threat that unless they are obeyed the health of the city will be endangered. The poor colored folks have been doing just what these health officers told them to do. They the faster, of course, but they ascribe it to every other cause but that which would involve these conservators of the public health. They have been after the City of Richmond about its own stables. It has been after the wealthy property owners about their rented property. It has been after Hixon Construer William H. Wyatt about his place in Franklin Street. It has made SUPERVENENT COUNTRY almost lose his religion, and it has cited Poniew Justice CURTISFIELD to answer why he has permitted a pool of water to remain in his neighborhood, so the colored folks of this community are happy in their misery. By the time the Health Department gets through with the elements in the city government that it has aroused to resentment. It will not have strength and energy enough to look after the poor colored folks in Jackson Ward. SELFH THE MAYOR'S Tribute You may say what you will, but Mayen George Arnaud is all right, reflecting as he does the sentiment of the better class of the white people of Richmond. We have always known that the police force had no better friends anywhere than the colored people of Richmond. This was emphasized when several colored citizens, noticeably Jones and William Hammis of 504 Mitchell Street, who risked their lives in order to save from a horrible death Pottercy Orpheum L. N. Cramer. Some people may call these colored men "niggers" or Negroes, but it will hardly be possible for this policeman to hear men of this race traduced without speaking in their favor. Colored people have been treated with contempt, clubbed for minor offenses, shot down when a revolver was not needed, and these colored men know of this, but they responded to the cry of help and so endangered themselves that the Mayor of the city and the Chief of Polls decided that they were entitled to some form of recognition. It is not the amount of money tendered that counts, but the spirit in which it was tendered. MAYOR AINALLIE said: "I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for your prompt and heroic rescue of Police Officer L. N. Clarke on the evening of Aug. 7, from under an overturned burning automobile at the risk of your personal safety, which action, in all probability, saved the life of the imperiled policeman. "I am enclosing herewith the check of the police department for $25.00 as a small token of my appreciation of your conduct." What these heroic colored men did, thousands of others would have done. It is characteristic of the race, and no one knows it better than the Virginians "to the manner beow." If this act will tend to harm ment. The recent radical changes made have been for, the better. May Goo grant that former Police SEGRANT C. A. SHERRY will be made to have a different opinion of the colored people of Richmond and that the flippant remark, "Just a nigger under arrest; move on, you'll see that any time," will never again be uttered by a member of the police, one of whom was saved from a horrible death by the action of colored men, who knew no fear and who had no race prejudice or bitter feeling against the blue-coated proservers of the peace in Richmond City. JUSTICE CRUTCHFIELD AND HIS CRITICS. Those citizens in general, and the members of the Health Department and the Administrative Board in particular, who presumed that John Jerry Catterson, presiding Justice of Richmond City's Police Court, was waning, either in influence or political power, will no doubt have a rude awakening when they read carefully the resolution adopted August 7, by the lower branch of the City Council. It seems that Catterson Health Officer Levy and his associates have not been altogether pleased with the manner that their reports of citizens have been treated by His Honor. Catterson Levy held an interview with Justice John and when he came out from the conference, it was said that he was a nervous wreck in appearance at least. He trembled violently, and when he went before the Administrative Board with his complaint, he was said to have been in tears. As they could not have been tears of joy, the presumption is that they were tears of anger. Be that as it may, he charged that he had been treated with disrespect and insulted. Hox. John Husseman did not wait for an investigation, but proceeded to introduce the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: "That the Council be requested, through His Honor the Mayor, to have the Police Justice of the city of Richmond, John J. Crutchfield, treat with proper respect the city officers under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Board when they appear in his court for the transaction of necessary and important city business." Regardless of which side on which one's sympathies rested, the impropriety of the resolution was evident upon its face. Certain it was that after the council had elected the Police Justice, the power to dictate to him relative to his decisions and attitude was not existent. If he violated his oath of office, failed to discharge his duties or was guilty of conduct unbecoming his position, this matter could be taken up through the usual channels of impeachment. The resolution was evidently intended to be a rebuke, a "back-handlick," so to speak. The Mayor of the city skillfully slide-stepped the whole affair. He had not been asked to use his goodly offices to adjust the matter, so he passed the compliments of the reason up to the City Council. He maintained a dignified silence upon the subject, all of which went to show that while His Honor, the Mayor, is young yet, he has "a great head." The action of the Administrative Board and Da. E. C. Levy worried the presiding justice of the Police Court, but it did not worry him enough for him to He quiescent or to send for Da. E. C. Levy and the Administrative Board and apologize for his conduct. He is a diplomat, too, and his fighting blood was up. Like Mayon Ainsur, he maintained a discreet silence, so far as the public was concerned, but we are not saying anything about what he said in private, if he said anything. However, Justice Curtis-Fried had some friends and they flocked around him at the first sign of trouble. Those folks who seemed to think that the "old man" had suffered a relapse, either in ability, diplomacy or movement had a rude awakening. No sixteen-year-old boy ever displayed more agility than did the Police Justice, during those days that intervened from the time the Administrative Board passed that Levy resolution and the time the Common Council met last Monday night. Councillor Eloar H. Perkinson was ready with a resolution when the Administrative Board's plea was presented. He did not content himself with moving to table the objectionable resolution, but introduced the following: "Whereas the Common Council of the city of Richmond has received a communication from the Administrative Board, transmitted by His Honor, the Mayor, requesting this body to have the police justice of the city of Richmond, John J. Crutchfield, treat with proper respect the city officers when they appear in his court for the transaction of necessary and important city business; and "Whereas, the Common Council feels that the Hon. John J. Crutchfield, police justice of the city of Richmond, would not intentionally treat any city official with disrespect, now, therefore be it "Resolved by the Common Council of the city of Richmond, That the administration of the Administrative ward, herein referred to, be received by kind." Administrative Board a "Roland for its Oliver." It was a double-headed rebate, administered in the most improved parliamentary form. This body had only a few weeks before, in a joint session, unanimously to elected John Jermyn Crichtonville Police Justice and the other branch of the city government, which had also been elected by the people, just as the Council had been elected, wanted the latter body to stultify itself by virtually admitting that it had made a mistake in the election of the present occupant of the bench in the Police Court. It virtually stated, too, that if it did not believe that he intentionally treated any city official with disrespect. This was a vindication "with a vengeance" and on the heels of this it voted this same Justice John J. Crutchfield a vacation of thirty days. The situation is amusing, to say the least. Certainly, Justice Crutchfield will enjoy his vacation. He has more lives than the proverbial cat. With apologies for the remarks, he has been systematically "dying" for about ten or fifteen years. Those who have been waiting for his shoes are getting mighty tired. Some others, who are of the opinion that a lawyer should hold the job, have that worried look. Certain it is that his experience of more than a decade has given him a knowledge of law that could not have been obtained in a law school or in a high grade college. Justice Curtinfield is looking better today than he has looked for ten years. He seems to have taken a "fresh hold" on life. This little experience will certainly cause some of his traducers to "go way back and sit down." For our part, we have observed the rumpus with downright satisfaction. When the cowboys in the Administrative Board throw out the lariat to lasso a fine looking steer, they will choose one with some other brand than the one labeled "John Jeter Crutchfield." But then, it is none of our funeral and it may be that we had done better to enjoy the discomfiture of one or the other side in silence. Cleveland Man Named by President for Supreme Court J. ACCEPT CARRANZA'S PLAN First Chief Agrees to Browfen Inquiry. Wilton to Name Commission. The administration has decided to agree to General Carranza's suggestion in his last visit for discussion of points of difference between the United States and Mexico be a commission of six members and will proceed at once to the selection of the three American representatives. This will be done on the understanding that after the points proposed by General Carranza are disposed of other questions will be taken up. The Carranza government wants the border situation taken up first by the commission but is willing that other subjects should be discussed later. Eliseo Arroondo, ambassador designate, so outlined the Mexican attitude to Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state, who took the information to the cabinet meeting. It was indicated that state department officials were satisfied with the situation and the appointment of American commissors might be expected any time. Mr. Arredondo assured Mr. Polk that General Carranza's statement in this last note that the commissioners preferably would discuss the subjects outlined in the original proposal merely meant: preference would be given to the border situation, but that other questions were not excluded. He said also he regarded the last Mexican note as one of complete compliance with American suggestions, and it was on that basis Mr. Polk took the matter to the cabinet. The ambassador's call was believed to have cleared away the last obstacle to the appointment of the American commissioners and a decision as to the time and place of conferences. General Carranza has already authorised Mr. Arredondo to arrange details. W. Va. Democrat for Burlington. Woman suffrage in West Virginia is held by suffrage women to be a strong probability following receipt of a petition from Clarendon, where the state Democratic convention is to send. The campaign starts and finishes for women voters. 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Mina Kyle will return to Philadelphia, Pa. on her departure from Roanoke. Mrs. Eliza Bonnet, of Charleston, W. Va., Mrs. James Blaney, of Gloucester, W. Va. In the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Gille Bennet, 308 Seventh avenue, N. W. Mrs. Burin Howard will leave Sunday morning for Aburbury Park, N. J. accompanied by her four younger children. Mrs. Howard will spend two or three weeks with her sister, Mr. S. W. Howard will also accompany her but he will return. Mr. Edward Tarnor, of Tenth avenue, died Sunday evening at August 6. Mrs. Howard will spend eight hours illiner with a sorious stomach trouble. He was an employee of the R. M. W. foundry department for many years of his active life. He was one of the oldest men in the employment of color, in that department. He was highly respected by all who knew him. Miss Jeanette Goodwyn, of Peoria, Illinois, arrived in the city Sunday morning, visiting Miss Rosa Debaven 308 Sventh avenue, N. W. W. Goodwyn is a classmate of Miss Rosa of other years while in college. Miss Rosa has just returned from a three weeks' vacation and her friend arrived to visit her. Mrs. Dr. William H. Hunter, the state missionary for Home for Ways ward Girls was in the city during the past week and preached to the congregation at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Chrchr, Sunday night at eight-thirty. She used for a text, those wofds: Be strong in the Lord and in the Power of His Might. She used as a model of Christian Church to do the things required of them through the commands of God. Quit you like men. She urged her hearers to stand firm in the liberties wherein Christ has set us free and he no more entangled with the yoke of bondage which is worthless but to abide in Christ. Mr. George Hatfield died August 6 on High street. It seems that the Sheriff Death is operating about as the judge of all, so teach us the number of our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Mrs. Bottle Stockton had a flying trip to Galaxi Bride Creek and Ivanhoe. She met many old friends and acquaintances. She was away from the city five days and reports having enjoyed the outing just grand. The funeral of Mr. Edward Turner took place from the First Baptist Church, Tuesday, August S, three P. M. He was respected for his honesty and Christian integrity, for indeed he was a wonderful character. He was a man during slavery and had bought two homes, one in the country and the other in the city of Roanoke, where he resided at the time of his death. He leaves a loving wife, five sons and one daughter to mourn the loss, which was Heaven's eternal gain. Rev. Thomas Hale, of Ninth avenue, read the obituary on the life of Brother Edward Turner, which was quite a tribute to his memory. He was a faithful and loving father and husband, a good neighbor and a friend to all who would be friendly, and a close worker to the end, for he worked up to within two days of the end. There was a large body of his co-workers from the foundry. Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiated at the funeral services. Mr. Turner's life Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers was most beautifully portrayed by this wonderful prelate and man of God from second Corinthians, 4:17: "For our light afflictions which is but for a moment, worketh for us afar more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory." He made it very plain to all that whatever our afflictions here on earth we have Jesus Chrst to take the heaviest end of our burden if we will allow him in our life. Try it. The Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of the Mt. Zlion A. M. E. Church, proclaimed a most wonderful sermon on Sunday morning, August 6, at 11 A. M. to a very attentive audience. He seemed at his zenith and drove home to the heart of his hearers the truth of the gospel message on the anniversary of our Lord's Supper with His disciples. He told of the world's idea of Christianity and religion and what was and would be the lasting and abiding thing in this world and in the Life of the world to come would be the oternal promises of God that cannot fall in time nor eternity. He urged all to accept God. Two souls were added to the church through the holy service. He noted that the holy day was "There is no God," but just wait until sickness creeps on his frame and disease and pain racks his frame, then he will call on the Lord and as the great monster-death stares him in the face he will discover it is too late. The Lord will laugh at their omamity and mock when their fear cometh, saith the Scripture. The delegates for the Valley Baptist Association will begin to arrive Wednesday morning, August 9, 1916. Rev J. H. Burks, is first moderator. The people of Roanok will find The Planet with M. Stanfield or at his home 103 Wells Alley, N. W. or at J. C. Duggers or Thomas Gregory's Grocery and Market Place, five cents per copy. BOSTON THEATRE. Every night carries a special feature. They have arranged a great line of western pictures and the service will be given each night along with our special serials. The large crowd that attend nightly is evidence that they give the people a great show and if you want to enjoy an evening of pleasure with your friends you will find them at the Boston. Mr. Robert L. Donnis, of 307 Fifth avenue, N. W., who has been slick for the last four months is out again looking much better. Mr. Donnis conducts the newsstand at Hotel Roanoke and is the utility man. AT HOTEL ANDERSON Mrs. Mabol Grady and Milred Styles, Richmond, Va.; Mr. David Saunders, Richmond, Va.; Mr. Chas. Cash, Lexington, Va.; Mr. Edward D. Washington, New York City; Mrs. Lula Nickelson, Wyo. V. Va.; John Dillarus, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. C. A. Harrison, of St. Luke P. E. Church, Mr. and Mrs. Jillian Patterson and Mrs. Wyllyl E. Dietz, the night for Houston Va. to attend the Convocation which opons on the eighth. Miss Eleanor Tertrell, of St. Paul School, Lawrenceville, Va., who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Schley, or 203 Fourth avenue, left after a two weeks' visit. Miss Celeste and Fannie Arthur, of Lynchburg, Va., are the guest of Mrs. Lillian Evans of 201 Fifth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Martha J. Duncan of Spartanburg, Va. c arrived in the city to spend days with her father, Rev. Duncan, 306 Third avenue, N. W. It is a matter of much gratification that the colored people have started playground operation in a business-like, organized manner and this work will be a decided uplift to that portion of our citizenship. The lots are loaned by Mrs. George Moore on Third avenue between First and Second streets. Let all the children come out and make a success. Rev. R. J. Watson, who is a theological student at the Virginia Seminary and College and who is spending his vacation in Ranokie, spent Saturday and Sunday in Lynchburg visiting friends. Rev. Watson was the guest of Rev. Watson, Johnson pastor of the Court Street Baptist Church. By request of the pastor Rev. Watson remained and embarked for him at the evening session from the text, "For what is a man, profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul." Matthew 16:26. Mr. Z. F. Taylor left for Fort deposit, Md., where he will be treated for his health. Mr. Taylor has been sick some time and we trust that this treatment will benefit him. Miss Antoine Howard, of Ivanceho, Va. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Akers, 238 Sixth avenue, N. W. She is taking a treatment from Dr. E. D. Downing, the dentist. Hotel Anderson is centrally located, with bath, and large cool rooms. Stop there when in Roanoke. Mr. S. A. Anderson. The City and School Board have THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA Dance Music will be furnished and special attention will be given to week-end parties. Special Rates for families for the season or any part thereof on request. Special Rates for parties of ladies or gentlemen occupying a dormitory for four or six. MRS. LUCY LEE, Prop., 5 Plains Street, Elmhurst, L. I. Address after June 22nd, "The Ocean House," Sea Isle City, N. J. purchased the ground for the new colored, school. That is very good news for the colored people. Rev. E. E. Ricks, formerly pearson of the First Baptist Church, West Washington, is maintaining his reputation as one of the foremost and most progressive men of the Baptist faith, in bringing about praiseworthy results. About nine months since he was called to and accepted the pearson of the First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. and during this short period, he has by his earnest, intelligent directed and indefatigable efforts the member ship of the church has been greatly in creased, and many most commendable improvements in the mode of worship have been made, as well as other changes which greatly tend to promote the spiritual and physical well being of the constantly increasing member ship. Among the more important improvements, which as the results of the untiring efforts of Rev. Ricks, have been made in the church are: the installation of an up-to-date heating plant, in place of the old hot air heat, and thus for thirteen or more years last past have rendered the use of the main auditorium during the winter months practically impossible. Electric lights have been put in all parts of the church which have horten-tioned their lightly lighted by gas. The first floor has been so remodelled as to make two more rooms for Sunday School work and provide, for better lavatory facilities. The inauguration of the individual communion service. On taking up the collection, the envelope system has been most beneficially subattributed for the old and uneasily "promenades" up and down the alces. The offering is now gathered by efficient ushers, thus making grit a part of the ceremony and the hundred or more dollars are collected in a few minutes while the offerory is being played on the great electric pipe organ. GREAT ELECTRIC PIPE ORGAN The great electric pipe organ recently installed at a cost of $3,000.00, every penny of which has been paid. To this organ fund that great hearted, world-renowned philanthropist, Mr. Andrew Carngie, at the special instance of Roy. Ricka, contributed the sum of $1,000.00. The services begin on time, promptly, an example which many colored pastors would do well to follow, even in the city of Washington. In his splendid onward and upward work, most thoroughly achieve my aim. Mr. Ricka has been great aided by the officers, members and friends of the church, and for their constant hearty co-operation and support, he feels extremely grateful. Prof. W. A. Gilliam, chairman of the Deacon Board; James Wright, chairman of the Trustees Board; Joachi Tront Church clerk and superintendent of the Bible School; T. B. Faulkner, treasurer W. C. Banks Arm stand Washington, E. I. Becker, B. M. Milner, Joseph Poliohoven, many others the memorial chapel on chapel permit, deserve great praise for the good work they have rendered in connection with the church improvement. ```markdown ``` As it appears to be the case in all churches, the "missors" are more potent than brothers in many respects. This is true in Roanoke, as it is in Washington, D. C. During a recent rally in the Roanoke church, more than $1,200.00 was raised, and, as usual, the sisters led in the "golden harvest". Mrs. Lucy Stratton turned in over $200.00; Mrs. Annie Burrell was not far short of the same amount. Those ladies, together with Mrs. Josephine Davis, Mrs. Mary Thompson, Mrs. Lucy Wilson, Mrs. Emma Woodson, Mrs. Mary Lavender, Mrs. Agnes Dean and Mrs. Fellizabeth H. Gilliam, are among the best church workers in the "Magic City" - Roanoke. NATIONAL BAPTISTS (Conthued First Page.) twenty, the Jones' Convention has about ten who have not publicly protested against the principles set forth in the Constitution, and desire to abandone the Convention. Among the few loyal officers left are Brother S. A. Prince, Secretary of the B. Y. P. U. Board which does not own a dollar, and his brother, Green Phinice, Chairman of the Educational Board, which does not represent a cent's worth of assets, and his other brother, B. J. Prince, Chairman of the Evangelical Board, all splendid men of the General Convention of Texas. There is also Brother T. J. Floyd, of Texas, of the Benefit Board, and Brother J. S. Anderson, Secretary of the Evangelical Board; Rev. J. H. Hinn, of Texas, and Rev. J. A. Sheriff of Texas, the Sunday A. superintendent of Browne W. M. Taylor, J. Lockel of the Jones' Publishing Board, all splendid men of the General Baptist Convention of Texas. Of course Dr. Campbell belongs to the so-called independent Boyd Board, which does not belong to the denomination but to the immortal nine. (2) Not a single convention in this country aside from the conventions which Dr. Boyd has helped to split at some time by appealing to ignorance and prejudice preachers, to "Little unknown R. F. D. Baptist preachers." But thank God, the R. F. D. preachers are about as well prepared and as representative and other class of men and women be influenced to attend extent to go on public questions. (a) The only representative state convention in this country that will meet and represent in the Kansas City meeting to any great extent, will be the General Baptist Convention of Texas, which is split from the old regular Baptist Convention of Texas under the leadership of Dr. Boyd. (b) Since the Ohio meeting chose of the Jones Convention of union opposition three little which will represent at Kansas City, one in Tennessee, one in Oklahoma, and one in Mississippi. 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 fully, an ocean room with board our weeks, $8.00 per week. the season or any part thereof parties of ladies or gentlemen or six. I Monday breakfast, $4.00. we own on the Atlantic Beach every room opens on the ocean. Pennsylvania, the New England States and the Middle West; all of which have repudiated the Jones' Convention since the publicity of the "Exhibit C." and they have taken the lead in - the get together movement and will meet in Savannah, Ga., in September. (d) The additional fact that the Southern Baptist Convention refused to help support the missionaries of the Jones' Convention in any State, and insist on giving their educational money through the Educational Board of the Morris Convention, together with the known hostility of the National Baptists who are assisting the National Training School, besides other Negro schools in the South, will keep Jones' Convention from ever becoming the official Representative National Baptist Convention of the U. S. A. Thus you see from the above train of facts that the National Baptist Convention is virtually reunited and will represent and be represented at Savannah, Ga., in September, regardless as to how many members they may be carried out of Texas to Kansas City during the Jones' Convention. III. DR. BOYD HAS LOST ALL HOPE OF RETAINING THE PUBLISHING PLANT. (1) Because he knows that the courts are bound to give the Board or property to the representatives of some National Baptist Convention. The charter of the Boyd Publishing Board says, "Be it known that R. H. Boyd, E. C. Morris, etc., and their successors choose under the rules and regulations of the National Baptist Convention church of denomination and holding once under the rules, and usages and regulations of the said church are hereby authorized by the name and style of the National Baptist Publishing Board. National Baptist Convention of the United States of America of the church or denomination for the purpose of establishment, support and maintenance of any Sunday school undertaking on the part of the church etc. "But in all cases to be governed by the rules and regulations of the National Baptist Convention church or denomination so as to exercise the mission of the constitution and laws of the State of Tennessee and the United States" etc. (b) Now, the Jones Convention, (according to "Exhibit C.") shows having any interest in or jurisdiction over the Publishing Board of which Boyd et al were directors, and for that reason cannot legally receive it, even though it could prove that it is the National Baptist Convention. (c) Thus, the National Baptist Convention represented by E. C. Morris is the National Baptist Convention named in the charter, whose directions and their successors are chosen under the rules and regulations of the National Baptist Convention—and in all cases are to be gov- OTHER PEOPLE JUDGE you by your Furniture new! When you can get Furniture and Rugs from an Old Established house like JURGENS—that's known to sell the best quality goods, not as reason able as elsewhere—why not give your friends a good impression. It will give us the greatest pleasure to show you our wonderful stock of homemakingroomforgiving Furniture and Rugs and—don't fall to ask our sales men about our banking plan which gives you 6, 10 or 15 months in which to pay for any purchase CHAS. G. JURGENS SON ESTABLISHED 1250 ADAMS AND BROAD News-stand. Mr Edward Dandridge, 11 W. Du- val Street, agent for the Plomer, handles all kinds of newspapers. ers THANKS Y-Y YOU'RE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET NOW! 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. This Was Some Romance Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. earned by the rules and regulations of the National Baptist Convention." "Therefore, since the constitution of the National Baptist Convention designates how the directors of its Publishing Board shall be elected, and since the Law of Tennessee, act of 1895, says: "Whenever a religious society or denomination is maintained or patronized, the representative governing body of such society shall have optional power to elect Boards of Trustees, in the event the body did not elect, the Board may elect," and since the governing body has been permitting the boards to elect without arranging its choice, the power of electing it chosen power the Board knows, that whenever the governing body designated in the charter, decides to exercise their power to remove them, they will have to go. (2) Knowing that the courts are bound to decide that the National Baptist Convention named in the charter has the power to elect the directors of its own Publishing Board, the old directors of the Publishing Board at Nashville are prepared to force the plant into the hands of receivers with the debts due themselves and others, to be collected in the close-out. (a) At the February meeting of the executive officers of the Jones Convention in Nashville, Boyd's Publishing Board announced to the country, through President Jones, in the Union Review, that the Publishing Board was at that time thirty thousand dollars in debt. As to when and how that enormous debt was so suddenly made on the heels of the Chicago Convention, without any visible improvements, while Secretary Royd was, saying to the world that he was doing the work in the history of the Publishing Board, tells the tones that the Board new usurp the denominations, plant and privileges is expecting to hear "something drop," and like the unfaithful Steward to whom his Lord said: "What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your management; for you may be steward no longer." Then the Steward said within himself, "What shall I do? for my master will dig my stewardship from me. I cannot dig my stewardship from me. I know what I will do, so that when I am 'dismissed from my position some may receive me into their house'." Luke 16:17. (b) How are we to account for this thirty thousand dollar debt which has looped up since we left Chicago? What has become of the much talked about Boyd business ability? How does it happen that our Publishing Board plant looks like a shack beside the A. M. E. Plant in that same city? and the Southern Baptist which gave other departments of the denominational church and the little C. M. E. Church Publishing Company a church extension department $1,200 during the past year? I understand now why Dr. Boyd told me he was ready for the receivers. All of the above show that his old directors no longer hope to keep the Publishing Board. (1) I have called attention to the PAGE FIVE above fact to let the denomination see how completely the Jones' Convention has collapsed, and how that collapse caused the convention and the Norse bound to be compelled "from becoming a house of agony itself" (2). For this signal agony, no indigent primarily to Miss Burroughs, who started the organized effort against disinterruption, and to Editors Crenahaw, Grigg, Mitchell, and others, who literally hammered out every flaw and prepared the way to weld the great denomination into an 'Unbroken Iron Ring,' but for honesty of purpose and unselfish devotion to principle and sacrifice of place, power, and honor and their own organization to help restore the Publishing plant to the people, and union loyalty to the denomination, none deserved better than that little bunch of Baptist reformers who dared to contend for, what they believed to be right until the National Baptist Convention was rent in twain from top to bottom, and then repudiated their own leaders who attempted to use them to take advantage of the denomination and perpetrate board rule, and made the Reunited National Baptist Convention possible—but more than all those, supreme thanks is due our heavenly Father, who, in His divine providence, over-ruled the attempt of our brethren to take the Publishing Board from both functions of the Baptist Convention and caused the director to lose control of the Publishing Board and destroyed the Jones' Convention and restored union, by causing the reformers of each division to make common cause for the common good of saving the Publishing plant. (3) And now that the war is over and union is restored in the National Baptist family, let us be patient and thorough in our work of reconstruction, for efficient service. Let us not hound our brethren who cannot harm us now, in so far as keeping the denomination divided, but let us persuade them in peace and good will, that this denominational sore may speedily heal, leaving 'the denomination more healthy for having been opened and cleansed. W. H. MOGES Tom Byrd 69 Years Old. It was inadvertently stated in these columns last week that Tom Byrd was 59 years old when it should have been 69 years. His many friends and acquaintances remembered him as usual in various ways, for which he wishes to express his sincere gratitude. Tollivery Smart Set Company. This fine show which has been exhibiting all this week to immaculate crowds will remove to Mitchell street and Brook avenue. Those who saw the show were delighted and declared it to be the best exhibition of talent ever seen in this neighborhood. Read the reviews and go and see the show. You will not only not be disappointed. The price is only 10 cents. AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Bishop Alexander Walters Was 68 Last Tuesday—Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, Noted Baptist Clerkman Answers "The Birth of A Nation" in a Pamphlet Just Issued—The Work of Phonon Martin as a Musician—Rev. Dr. E. D. W. Jones, Well-known Zion Pastor, Transferred to Western New York Conference—Memorial Service to be Held in Honor of Tenth Cavalry—Monroe Trotter Here. Allen's National News Bureau, 447 Lenox Ave. New York City, August 6. Bishop Alexander Walters, the great race champion and the leading churchman of his race, who has given his life in long and honorable service for his people was eighty-five years old. The fact that the great churchman is just recovering from a long illness or nervous breakdown, due to hard work during the conference year, no special preparation was made for the observance of the event. The birthday of the Bishop therefore was quite a special day with his body and a few intimate friends, and also looking over his heavy correspondence accumulated during the illness of the churchman. Several friends of the prelate in the city on being informed of his birthday called at the home and paid their respects to the great leader, Bishop Alexander Walters, took occasion to congratulate the churchman on surviving his recent illness. One of the letters that came to the Bishop on his birthday and which brought an additional honor to him came from the Federal Council of Churches, making him Honorary Vice President or that body. The Bishop is the only member of the race a member of the executive body of this organization. "The letter which was shown your correspondent by the Bishop's secretary was as follows: I have the sooner to inform you of the appointment of the President of The American Council of World Alliance for the promotion of Christian fellowship throughout the world." Your correspondent was among the first to call to congratulate the Bishop on the occasion of his birthday and to extend to him the best wishes of the Nezro press throughout the country. Your correspondent, who has known the Bishop for many years and who has traveled with him on mind of his important trips, pressed him to write for the Bishop, statement to the race and to assure him that his many warm and ardent admirers, throughout the world would be glad to get a message from him on the occasion of reaching this trip period in his life. When your correspondent called, the great churchman, looking every inch the great leader that he is, was in a good and enthusiastic frame of mind and told the writer to say to him that he was grateful to Almighty Jesus that this point in his life and that he has been able to contribute some service to his race. The Bishop said that it is always a source of great comfort to look back over a life that has been spent in noble service to one's fellowmen, and that his message to the young men of the race is to prepare themselves for leadership and to live lives of usiness and leadership. The Bishop Walters has been one of the most picturesque of the public life of this nation, and has been fall of high and daring stiled servant to his race and nation. To this period in the Bishop's life he has made a mark and career that will have long after the great leader has paid to the great beyond. As churchman he stands as one of the most men in that honored profession. The Sons Church of which he has been made the Senior Bishop has upheld him the highest honor he that any man can give and in the great religious bodies of the world Bishop Walters has figured its pronounced manner. A public man takes up the batte of his race, he has figured in a telling manner. His strong utterance anews denomination yelling, and the unjust discrimination to which the Negro suffers in this country, his plight is a testament on behalf of the race asking for them an equal charge in the national life of the country, and the great movements he has headed having for their aim the absolute rights of the Negro, are incidents in the career of the Bishop that are known to all students of race affairs. One of the greatest reformers of his age, and was to his strong personality several years ago, that brought to the Negro political emancipation, when he showed the race the folly of clinking to the Republican Party, right or wrong, and to break away from foolish tradition. The action of the Reverend Past has just fitted the wisdom and forsight of his steps in this direction. Your correspondent, who has been closely associated with the Bishop, knows of his sincerity, and sacrifices for his race, and the true motives that have guided and prompted the Bishop in the many moves that he has made for their behalf. The Bishop is a man of a great soul and or a high character. Despite the high eminence he has attained in the public life of the nation, he still remains true to his fellowmen. When occasion arises he is as strong as a lion, when some great principle is as stake and yet as gentle as the most delicate and refined woman. He is a happy, happy, happy. Nothing gives the Bishop greater comfort and happiness than to be home with his family at his New York home. If your correspondent is to judge by the past, the Bishop has just reached that point in his career where he is destined to do even higher service for the race. The rise of the Bishop furnishes a story full of inspiration to the youth of the race, and holds out a striking possibility of what it is possible to achieve in life. The Bishop is prominently mentioned in "Who's Who in the Colored Race." Bishop Waters was born in Bardetown, Ky. --- August 1, 1858, and is the son of Hearty and Harriet Walters. He was educated in the public schools of his hometown and studied theology under private injuries. In 1831 Livingstone College conferred upon him the degree of D. D. In 1877 he was licensed to preach in the A. M. E. Zion Church, and he has pastored with eminent success in Ken tucky, California, Tennessee and New York. In 1892 he was elected one of the Bishops of the Zion body, being at the time of his election the youngest man to receive this honor. Prior to his elevation to the bishophe he received many honors from the church body and was delegate to the General Conference of his church since 1884. He is one of the trustees of the National Christian En- society and of so many terms was elected president of the Afro- American Council. The Bishop sides at 208 West 134th Street. The race throughout the nation will be glad to know that on his fifty-sixth birthday, the great Zion leader is full of optimism and hope for the Negro. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson Answers "The Birth of A Nation." Your correspondent is in receipt of a pamphlet, written by Rev. Dr. W. Bibbey Johnson, the president of the New England Baptist Convention, and one of the most noted clergymen of the race, in answer to Tom Bixon's infamous film, "The Birth of a Nation," based upon that libelous book, which is well written, and contains eight pages is one of the most convincing replies to this infamous play that has ever been written, and is a manly and straightforward defense of the race. Dr. Johnson reviews "The Birth of a Nation" both analytically and critically and takes up the salient points in the play and shows the hypocrisy of the author and his man desire to libel New England and places himself before the world as the greatest preachers of modern times. Dr. Johnson shows the utter folly of such a propaganda on the part of The Chaupan writer and shows how Dixon was saturated with an evil passion labeled by satire wisdom. The little pamphlet opens in the following manner: In the Birth of A Natron Thomas Dixon one time preacher of the gospel of peace and universal love between man and nature has given us a drama based upon the vanquished hopes of an uninterrupted Southern man and bristling with sectional hatred and wild imaginative audacity, which forever ranks him as the most monumental master of prevarication and historic juggery since the days of the notorious Anapas and Saphira or Nero who didblade while Rome burned. How a man could hope to delude with historic fallacies, overdrawn pictures, and intermxture of little truth, with much beginning to end of his deformed arm, and the most intelligent study of history and science of government to conquer. Continuing. The title. Johnson writes, "The Title. The Birth of A Nation" is a misnomer. The nation was not born in the Civil War, nor in the diseaseful and blood curdling days of the character of the reconstitution. reconstitution, actors are studied in "The Birth of A actor," published in *The Birth of A* Actor shows that the three types of Negro character that lionton has chosen, represent the lowest strata of society. *Lydia Brown* who is shown in the film as Austin Stoneman's mulatto house-cop. Dr. Johnson says, "Represents a class of women among Negroes that men like Mr. Dixon have helped to make pos- sible. This set was brought over as one of the assets of slavery, and there is percent of them have the best blood of the South flowing in their vows." Dr. Johnson points out how in cases where the races were pre- vented from intermingling the mul- tattoo Negro has increased over the black fifty percent." Lydia in the mul- tattoo Negro has increased over the black fifty percent." Dr. Johnson writes, "Dixon so thoroughly con- dues this picture that one has to believe that any such character with his predisposition for inter- marriage, so soon after emancipation, over had any existence." Of this the renegade who is seen in the film chasing a white girl, the author of the little pamphlet says, "This the renegade is after a poor man shown to be dangerous after all." The writer points out how little Flora had been unwontantly worked up to a pitch of fear by the Camerons, a splendid Southern family who had misinterpreted the war. Dr. Johnson shows the folly of Dixon glorifying the Klu-Klux band, a group of worthless, and unprincipled, men who sought to terrify the Negroes by the rides. In closing the pamphlet, Dr. Johnson quotes statistics pointing out the place the Negro has made for himself in this country and says: "The Negro is religious, patriotic and progressive. He is industrious, honest and temperate. Out of his meagre earnings he provides for his family, educates his children, and adds a bark account for a rainy day." The reply to this infamous film by Dr. Johnson is one of the strongest that has come from the pen of any man of the race. The pamphlet should be in the hands of every man and woman of the race, especially the strength and power of the race. The Work of Phaon Martin as A Musician Your correspondent has called attention from time to time of young men who have chosen music as their profession. A number of young men of the race who have succeeded well in this profession, and have done music professionally, have developed of the Negro. A young musician of this city who has taken a high place in his profession, is Phaon Martin, the organist at the Salam M. E. Church in this city. Mr. Martin is a young man, who is well educated for his work, and he has his own career. After receiving college education at the College of New York, he began the study of the奏 and piano under Dr. Warren Heddes a noted musician of this city attached to the Church of the Incarnation. He then began the study of theory and composition under the well-known German, instructor of this city, J. Von Brockhoven. He then began the organist at the Notre Dame Chapel, one of the most exclusive churches of this city. It was while striving at this exclusive church that he was brought in contact with noted musicians of the other race, who regarded his work of high accomplishment. He then became the organist of the St. Mark's Catholic Church, and instituted the church's own altar, with colored stucco and built one of the finest churches of the city. After leaving this church he made a tour of several cities in this country, and in Canada, making a study of musical conditions, with a view of taking up larger work in his profession. On his return from his tour he met the conductor of the musical department of the Saxon M. E. Church, one of the largest of churches in this city. His work at this church is satisfactory and he has succeeded in building up a splendid choir. Mr. Martin is devoted to his work, and a large number of young members of the race who are reflecting credit upon themselves and race. Rev, Dr. E. D. W. Jones Transferred to Western New York Conference. Hew. E. D. W. Jones, one of the best pastors of the A. M. E. Zion Church in San Francisco, has been transferred to the Western New York Conference having been stationed at Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Jones is one of the big forces of his church and has been very successful in his pastorship. In California, he worked his way into the hearts of his fellowmen, and was identified with many of the movements of a style and religious nature in that city. He was an influential member of the Welfare League, made up of the largest and most prominent people of the city. He has held charges in Washington, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and San Diego, and in Montana College and was also invited to Bishop Moore. Dr. Jones goes to one of the largest churches in the connection and also the largest in the Western Conference. He goes to this charge with a noted record and should do well with all the areas he covers in matters pertaining to the church and race, and is one of the best informed men of the race on current matters. His wife is one of the most substantial women of the race and is devoted to her home and family. One of their sons, E. Danny Jones of the Hartford Life Insurance Company, one of the most responsible positions held by a young man of the race. Memorial Service for 10th Cavalry Memorial services will be held in honor of the famous Tenth Cavalry troopers who lost their lives at Cavalry on June 22, at the Salem M. E. Church on Thursday evening, August 21. The meeting will be under the auspices of The Pilot-Gazette, one of the leading weekly newspapers of this city, edited by Samuel A. Duncan. The meeting gives promise of being one of the largest meetings of its kind and invitations have been sent to the War Department. The President of the United States, the Governor of New York, the Governor of the city together with the leading men and women of both races in this city. An effort is being made to locate former members of the Tenth Cavalry residing in this city to be involved. A committee of prominent men and women have already been formed and the names of speakers and other features will be announced soon. Cleveland G. Allen, the newspaper correspondent and a member of The Pilot-Gazette staff will preside. Munroe Trotter A Visitor Monroe Trutter, the fearless editor of the Boston Guardian, was seen by your correspondent last week when on a brief visit to the city. The great editor talked over the affairs of the race and appointed your correspondent local organizer of The Rights Association, a movement made up of the most courageous leaders of the race, and which has just announced its plans for its annual convention which is to be held soon. A. Trutter will ever stand as one of the greatest characters of modern times and his long service for his race places him along besides the other immortals. -CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. GUEST AT HOTEL DALE Cape May, N. J., August 6—From Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. Coplain, John T. Gibson, C. W. Pitts, John Love, John H. Weaver, Blahope J. Albert Johnson and L. J. Coppin, William Curq, Mrs. N. F. Mossall, Mrs. T. E. Phillips, and Mrs. William T. Lewis, Mrs. Celes Carter E. S. Robinson, Mrs. Jade Jones, Herbert L. Brown, Lucy Sherman, Mita Sevy, John A. Harris, Mises Marie and Emily Simmons, Dr. Swekland and family. New York: Miss Mary Roland, Mrs. G. V. Wallace, Theo. M. Warrens, Mrs. Fannie B. Rhone, Mrs. Janie Laughen, Loregberg, M. H. Cady, Mrs. Clarence D. Whiteon, Mrs. White, Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Armand. Washington: Miss Bertha B. Thom as, Mrs. G. Mover Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Perl Frisby. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Cobb, Radom, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crocker, Suffolk, Va.; Salem Davis, Baltimore, Md.; J. Newton Johnson Baltimore, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Read, Pittsburgh, Pa. WORK AND SAVE UP PLANET OUPONS AND GUFF AN UMBRILLA OR A PHONOGRAPH—BOTH ARE GOOD TO SAVE AWAY WITHIN THEM AND START TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. ALL ARE RELIABLE. ```markdown ``` Hughes Points the Way Hughes Points the Way The speech of the Republican candidate for president was a keynote speech indeed. Not one person in the great audience at the Carnegie hall meeting was in doubt for one moment as to just what he meant by everything he said. His address was comprehensive, logical, clear and all sufficient for the occasion. There can be no dispute as to this. Plainly Mr. Hughes is a man who "knows what he wants when he wants it," and it is the opinion of political authorities who heard him and who have since read his remarks that he knows also how to get it. It was incumbent upon the Republican candidate to confine the scope of his remarks to the limitations of the occasion, but his crushing analysis of the shortcomings of the present administration of the government is merely an earnest of what the tone and the contents of his speeches will be when he gets on the stump. At Carnegie hall Mr. Hughes advertised to every general question that is apt to be a serious issue in the campaign and in language that will be absolutely clear to every man or woman able to read he stated his opinions, his convictions and his purposes. On the stump he will argue those points in detail. As an orator he is eloquent, his personality attractive, and his marshalling of facts so cohesive that he holds his audience to the end. He makes it easy for them to follow him, and his points are not lost. There was nothing equivocal, nothing apologetic in the Republican candidate's speech of acceptance. He called a spade a spade, and the unanimous opinion of those who heard him was that he shot to the center and rang the bell. The Republican campaign is now open, and those who will speak and write and work for the success of the Republican ticket can wish for no more adequate campaign document, no more satisfactory statement of issues than are found in the candidate's salutatory. WHAT ONE BIG MAN THINKS OF ANOTHER. President. W. H. P. Faunce of Brown university is a pretty live wire who keeps abreast of the times, has keen powers of observation and knows a good man when he goes him. Here is what he has to say about the Republican candidate for the presidency: "I have known Justice Hughes intimately since we were students together at Brown and have seen him a thousand times at work and at play. No man of our generation has a finer combination of character and intellect. Absolutely fearless, unselfish, loyal to American ideals, he is worthy of a nation's trust. "All his friends know that behind the dignity of bearing is a rich fund of humor and good fellowship. Whether he is climbing a mountain, reading novels, playing with his children, resisting a political lobby or delivering the opinion of the supreme court, he is ever the same rugged, democratic, fair minded American. His varied experience has given him wide horizon and sympathy with every aspect of American life. "He possesses two qualities rarely found together—the judicial temper and the capacity for swift and resolve action. Under his administration the feg which now beasts many public questions would be cleared away. "His penetrating mind goes to the heart of any subject he selects and stripe off the irrelevant at once. Such a mind is peculiarly needed amid the intricate problems that new adjunct American. "We need more than good intentions. We need clear violin, sound judgment, strong will, unheating decision. In short, we need Charles E. Hughes." Girl's Skull Dented. Agnes McCaferry, ten, of Milford Del, is the victim one of the strongest accidents known, to physicians and which has left her with an actual deform in her head. The girl was watching her brother play base ball and followed him when it came his turn to bat. The bat slipped from her hands and struck the child with all its force on the head. Examination directed the fact that an actual deform, was made in the child. Because of her youth an opération will not be necessary, so it is believed the deform will grow out in time. TRUER INWARDNESS OF THE VERA-CRUZ INCIDENT. in the spring of 1914, occurred the capture of Vera Cruz. Men from one of our ships had been arrested at Tampaco and had been discharged with an apology. But our admiral demanded a salute, which was refused. Thereupon the president went to congress, asking authority to use the armed forces of the United States. Without waiting for the passage of the resolution, Vera Cruz was seized. It appeared that a shiploan of ammunition for Huerta was about to enter that port. There was a natural opposition to this invasion and a battle occurred in which nineteen Americans and over a hundred Mexicans were killed. This, of course, was war. Our dead soldiers were praised for dying like heroes in a war of service. Later, we retired from Vera Cruz, giving up this noble warfare. We had not obtained the salute which was demanded. We had not obtained separation for affronts. The ship with ammunition which could not land at Vera Cruz had soon landed at another port, and its cargo was delivered to Huerta without interference. Recently the naked truth was admitted by a cabinet officer. We are now informed that we did not go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta to salute the flag. We are told that we went there to show Mexico that we were in earnest in our demand that Huerta must go. That is we seized Vera Cruz to dispose Huerta. The question of the salute was a mere pretext—From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. WANTS AN EFFECTIVE BYS- TEM OF RURAL CREDITS We propose to promote by every practicable means our agricultural interests, and we include in this program an effective system of rural credits. We favor the wise conservation of our natural resources. We desire not only that they shall be safeguarded, but that they shall be adequately developed and used to the utmost public advantage. Mr. Hughal Speech of Acceptance. "AMERICA FIRST AND AMERICA EFFICIENT." We come to state in a pain and direct manner our faith, our purpose and our pledge. This representative gathering is a happy augury. It means the strength of reunion. It means the party of Lincoln is restored, alert, effective. It means the unity of a common perception of paramount national need. It means that we are neither deceived nor burdened by abnormal conditions. We know that we are in a critical period, perhaps more critical than any period since the old war. We need a dominant sense of national unity, the exercise of our best constructive powers, the vigor and resourcefulness of a quakeden America. We desire that the Republican party shall be the agency of national achievement, the organ of the effective expression of dominant Americanism. What do I mean by that? I mean America as a power, aware to obligation, great in self-respect, prepared for every emergency, devoted to the health of peace, integrated with the spirit of human brotherhood, consequent both individual opportunity and the public interest, maintaining a well-ordered constitutional system adapted to local self-government without the sacrifice of essential national authority, prescribing the necessity of stability, export knowledge and thorough organization as the indefinable constitution of security and progress of a country loved by its citizens with a particular power persevering in their allegiance and so resilient to its adversity and to power Affected that it will be defeated. It is in this respect I am prepared to perish in the hands of our enemies. From Mr. Murray's speech of gratitude. THE NATION IS SHOCKING- LY UNPREPARED. It is apparent that we are shockingly unprepared. There is no room for controversy on this point since the object lesson on the Mexican border. All our available regular troops less. I believe, than 40,000) are there or in Mexico, and as these have been deemed insufficient the entire national guard has been ordered out. That is, we are summoning practically all our movable military forces in order to prevent bandit incursions. In view of the warnings of the past three years, it is increasable that we should find ourselves in this plight. For our faithful guardmen, who, with a fine patriotism responded to this call and are bearing this burden, I have nothing but praise. But I think it little short of aboard that we should be compelled to call men from their shops, their factories, their offices and their professions for such a purpose. This, however, is not all. The units of the national guard were at peace strength, which was only about one-half the required strength. It was necessary to bring in recruits, for the most part raw and trained. Only a small percentage of the regiments recruited up to war strength will have had even a year's training in the national guard, which at the maximum means a hundred hours of military drill, and on the average, means much less. Men fresh from their peaceful employments and physically unprepared have been hurried to the border for actual service. They were without proper equipment, without necessary supplies; suitable conditions of transportation were not provided. Men with dependent families were sent, and conditions which should have been well known were discovered after the event. And yet the exigency, comparatively speaking, was not a very grave one. It involved nothing that could not readily have been foreseen during the past three years of disturbance and required only a modest talent for organization. That this administration while pursuing its course in Mexico should have permitted such conditions to exist is almost incredible.—From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. DUTY OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO STOP PLOTS AND CONSPIRACIES. We denounce all plots and conspiracies in the interest of any foreign nation. Utterly tolerable is the use of our soft for alien intrigues. Every American must unreservedly condemn them and support every effort for their suppression. But here also prompt, vigorous and adequate measures on the part of the administration were needed. There should have been no hesitation, no notion that it was wise and politic to delay. Such an abuse of our territory demanded immediate and thorough action. As soon as the administration had notice of plots and conspiracies it was its duty to stop them. It was not backing in resources. Its responsibility for their continuance cannot be escaped by the condemnation of others.—From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. PROMISE TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING NOT KEPT. Our opponents promised to reduce the cost of living. This they have failed to do. But they did reduce the opportunities of making a living. Let us not forget the conditions that existed in this country under the new tariff prior to the outbreak of the war. Production had decreased, business was languishing, new enterprises were not undertaken. Instead, of expansion there was curtailment and our streets were filled with the unemployed. What ground is there for expecting better conditions when the unhealthy stimulus of the war has spent its force and our industries and workingmen are exposed to the competition of an energized Europe? It is plain that we must have protective upbuilding policies—Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. Wrecked by Mine CaveIn Wrecked by Mine. Cave-In. A cave in the mine of the Cobber Coal company at Plains, near Wilkes Barra, Pa., partially wrecked five dwellings, caused the families to face their homes, dropped the roadbed several feet, caused the burning of water pipe and the shutting off of the supply throughout the town, and entailed a loss of several thousand dollars. The damaged homes are owned by Bessy Johnson, William Walt Charles Bruder, Miles Minnie Koehler and Mrs. James Martin. The Mortgage home is in the center of the cave and has been dragged several feet. The interior of the house is in a weak wreck. The Johnson and Koehler homes are apped on their walls with the roofs touch. The Bender and Walt homes are tipped on their ends. The settlers has confined through the day, and the subterranean house is being lowered on Meth street. Because the roadbed has dragged a large amount of about three feet. Whole Front South of Suburban Driven Built 15 Miles. BERLIN - ADMITS WITHDRAWAL General Letohitzy Reports Another Important Victory—Take Tlumach and Two Thousand Captives. South of the Dneister river, in the direction of Tyszlence, the Russians have driven the Austro-German forces back along the hole line for breadth of fifteen miles. This was officially announced by the war office. The announcement adds that the Russians have captured the town of Tlumach as well as the region to the east of the Dneister river and the ridge of heights there. Russian cavalry, it is stated, is now pursuing the Austro-Germans southwest of the Kolomea, and Stanislas railway in Galicia. The Russian report adds: "Southwest of the Kolomeus-Stanislaw railway our attack was preceded by artillery fire and the discharge of chemical gas shells on the enemy's batteries. The enemy's artillery, owing to our gas, ceased firing and abandoned their arms. Our cavalry, pursued the enemy, who fled in disorder. One of our gallant divisions (a division is 12,000 man) took 2000 German prisoners during these engagements and captured several heavy calibre guns and many machine guns. Prisoners continue to arrive in large parties. Their total number is not yet known. "In this way the gallant troops of General Letchitzky again attained an important success." (The region in which these Russian successes have been won is that part of Southern Galicia directly north of Bukowine. Kolomea is northwest of Czernowitz and southeast of Stanislaw.) The total number of prisoners taken by the Russians in the battles on the Bereth river August 5 and August 6, the official statement adds, was 166 officers and 8415 men. The Russians in this region are advancing. South of Brody the Russians under General Sakharov are pounding away at the army of General von Bothmer and are advancing toward the Tarnop-Lemberg railway. The Austrian forces at Tarnopol are reported to be retiring toward Zlochov. Unofficial advice indicate that the Russians are only about twelve miles from this strategic line of communication. In Volhynia, particularly in the sector of the Stokhod river, assault and counter assault follow each other in succession. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, whose command flow extends over the armies in that district, has evidently decided upon as vigorous a counter offensive as his forces will permit him to carry out. Although the German attacks were prosecuted with vigor, they were unable to break through the new Russian positions, which have now been thoroughly consolidated. Notify Mr. Wilson by September 16. President Wilson's formal notification of his renomination will not be deferred later than September 15. It was decided at a White House conference, regardless of whether congress has adjourned by that date. The decision was reached after the president had talked over campaign plans with Vance McCormick, chairman, and Homer Cummings, vice chairman of the Democratic national committee. ALL KINDS OF PRINTING CUT TO ANY SIZE THE TRAIL CARDING ROGER GASEMENT DIES ON GALLOWS Hanged In Ponteville Prison in London. REQUEST FOR BODY REFUSED Hie Last Words, "I Die for My Country"—Crowd Outside Jail Jeers; Friends Kneel in Street. Roger Casement, former British knight and consul, was hanged in Penicouville jail, London, for high treason. He was convicted of conspiring to cause an armed revolt in Ireland and with having sought German aid to that end. Casement met his death with calm courage, according to witnesses. Early in the morning two priests of the Catholic church administered the last rites in the cell of the condemned man, and shortly afterward a little procession headed by the clergyman, with Casement following, a warder on either side, proceeded toward the execution shed, only five yards away. The priests recited the litany for the dying, Casement responding in low tones: "Lord have mercy on my soul." As the party reached the shed where the gallows was erected the special executioner, a hair dresser named Ellis, approached Casement and quickly pinioned him. The two chaplains, the under sheriff of London and the under sheriff of Middlesex then took up their positions in front of the scaffold. Casement mounted the gallows steps firmly and commended his spirit to God as he stepped on the trap. A moment later the lever was pulled. Following the execution, Galvan Duffy, the legal representative of Casement's relatives, announced that the home office had refused to turn over the body to the Casement family. Application had been made to the home secretary for the body in order that it might be buried by the relatives. Permission to witness the execution was also denied them. Two hours before the execution a crowd of men, women and children gathered before the prison gates. Twenty minute before Caement mounted the scaffold the great prison bell commenced to toll. The sound was greeted with jeers from the crowd, mingled with some groans. At 9 o'clock the crowd had swollen to such proportions that it extended for two blocks from the prison front. The roofs of the houses around the prison were crowded with curious, who hoped to be able to see the hanging. The execution, however, took place in a shed. Much excitement was caused a few minutes before 9 o'clock when a telegraph messenger arrived at the prison. Some thought that an eleventh hour reprieve had been granted. At one minute after 9 a single stroke of the big bell announced that the trap had been sprung. It was the signal for a mocking, jerking yell from the crowd, which suddenly died away into silence. Immediately after the trap was sprung the prison engineer and physician descended into the pit where, after the application of the usual tests, Casement was pronounced dead at nine minutes after 9 o'clock. An effecting incident took place out side the prison wall as the execution was in progress. At the back of the prison, a little distance from the jeering crowd about the gates, was a group of about thirty Irish men and women. When the dull clang of the prison bell announced that the doomed man had paid the last penalty this little group fell on their knees and with bowed heads remained for some moments stently praying for the repose of the soul of their dead fellow countryman. German Losses in War, 2,960,241 Germany has lost 76,248 officers and 2,883,993 men in killed, wounded and missing, according to the 570th official casualty list just issued. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR — Quet; winter clear, $5.25$6.57; city milia, $6.75$7.25. KYE FLOUR — Steady; per barrel, $4.40$6.5. WHATT — Quet; No. 2 sed, $1.23$ $1.23$ CORN — Firm; No. 2 yellow, $24.95$ $24.95$ OILEN — Steady; No. 2 white, $51 $51$ POULTRY — Live; steady; hogs, $20.13c; d oolers, $20.13c; dress, $20.13c; d oolers, $20.13c; old roosters, $16.16c; BUTTER — Steady; fancy creamery, $33g per lb; BOSS — Steady; selected, $24.26c; barnyard, $36; western, $6c. PATRICK --Carter in New York Evening Sun. THINGS TO FORGET. Embalmer Female Embalmer IN PREPAREDNESS THE ADMINISTRATION HAS FOLLOWED, NOT LED. In the demand for reasonable preparedness the administration has followed, not led. Those who demanded more adequate forces were first described as "nervous and excited." Only about a year and a half ago we were told that the question of preparedness was not a pressing one; that the country had been misinformed. Later, under the pressure of other leadership, this attitude was changed. The administration, it was said, had "learned something," and it made a belated demand for an increased army. Even then the demand was not prosecuted consistently and the pressure exerted on congress with respect to other administrative measures was notably absent. We are told that the defects revealed by the present mobilization are due to the "system." But it was precisely such plain defects that under the constant warnings of recent years, with the whole world intent on military concern, should have been studied and rectified. The administration has failed to discharge its responsibilities. Apparently it is now seeking to meet political exigencies by its naval program. But it has imposed upon the country an incompetent naval administration. —From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. Brief Sentences Featuring the Speech of Acceptence of Charles E. Hughes. Brief Sentences Featuring the Speech of Acceptence of Charles E. Hughes. America First and America Efficient. We are too great a country to require of our citizens who are engaged in peaceful vocations the sort of military service to which they are now called. We cherish no illusions. We know that the recurrence of war is not to be prevented by ploys wishes. We denounce all plots and conspiracies in the interest of any foreign nation. Adequate preparedness is not militarism. During this critical period the only danger of war has lain in the weak course of the administration. The nation has no policy of aggression toward Mexico. We have no desire for any part of her territory. We propose that in the competitive MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus 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 Mothercare Hospice. struggle that is about to come the American workingman shall not suffer. This representative gathering is a happy augury. It means the strength of reunion. It means that the party of Lincoln is restored, alert, effective. The dealings of the administration with Mexico constitute a confused chapter of blunders. It is a record which cannot be examined without a profound sense of humiliation. We must take Vera Cruz to get Mexico out of office and trust to other nations to get our own oligarchy out of peril. What a travesty of international pelloy! Destroying the government of Mexico, we left Mexico to the ravages of revolution. I stand for adequate federal workmen's compensation laws. The administration was to seize and punish Villa for his outrage on our soil. It has not punished any one; we went in only to retire. I favor the vote for women. THE COMPELLING PERORATION TO MR. HUGHE'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. We live in aateful hour. In a true sense, the contact for the preservation of the Nation is never ended. We must still be imbued with the spirit of heroic sacrifice which gave us our country and brought us safely through the days of civil war. We renew our pledge to the ancient ideals of individual liberty, of opportunity denied to none because of race or creed, of unawerving loyalty. We have a vision of America prepared and secure; strong and just; equal to her tasks; an exemplar of the capacity and efficiency of a free people. I indorse the platform adopted by the Convention and accept its nomination. ADEQUATE FEDERAL WORK MEN'S COMPENSATION LAWS I stand for adequate federal workmen's compensation laws, dealing not only with the employees of government, but with those employees who are engaged in interstate commerce, and are subject, to the hazard of injury, so that those activities which are within the sphere of the constitutional authority of congress may be dealt with under a suitable law.—From Mr. Hughes' Speech of Acceptance. 1. Do You Want an Umbrella? Well, here it is. The Hull Bros. Umbrella Company will guarantee them. The Detachable Handle enables you to reduce its length and put it into your traveling bag or trunk without injury to the Umbrella. We have ordered a consignment of these Umbrellas, all of which are excellent quality. 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THE LOSS IS $20,000,000 Country for Miles Around Was Shaken as if by Earthquake—Hundreds of Tons of Explosives Let Go. A fourth arrest was ordered as a result of the great explosion of Sunday on Black Tom peninsula, Jersey City, and it was announced also that several railway officials might be arrested. The arrest ordered was that of Edmund L. McKenzie, president of the National Storage company, whose warehouses furnished the setting for the catastrophe. The county prosecutor in Jersey City announced that a warrant for McKenzie had been issued. Albert M. Dickman, agent for the Lehigh Valley railroad, and Alexander Davidson, superintendent of the National Docks & Storage company, were held in $5000 bail each by County Judge Mark A. Sullivan, in Jersey City, charged with a high misdemeanor in connection with the explosion. Theodore B. Johnson, president of the Johnson Lighterage company, surrendered lator to Judge Tennant, and he also was held in $5000. The known dead number three, with a dozen persons missing and scores injured. Only one body—that of a man so badly mutilated that it may never be identified—was found. When the debris has been sufficiently uncovered charred human bones may be found, for it is possible that some of the victims who were not blown to pieces were burned to death. A revised estimate of the damage places the loss at a little more than $20,000,000. "The detonations, which were felt in five states, began, with a continuous rapid fire of small shells, then the blowing up of great quantities of dynamite, trinitrotoluene and other high explosives, followed by the bursting of thousands of shraphed, which literally skewed the surrounding country and wreaths for many miles around. "First that started soon after the first great crash, which spread death and destruction in its wake, destroyed shraphed of the huge warehouses of the national storage company, our largest business in which we were involved, valued at between $12,000,000 and $20,000,000. The flames exploded into the clouds, were reflective of the rainfall New York's "snowy" of other cities, which only a How To Get One, Richmond, Virginia few moments before were abashed to their foundations by an earthquake. Miles of streets in Manhattan alone were strewn with broken glass and shattered signs. The cause of the disaster has not been determined. Officials of the National Storage company and the Lehigh Valley railroad, which also suffered heavily through loss of property, declared, however, that reports to them showed a fire started shortly after on a large belonging to an independent towing company that had been moored alongside a dock used by the railroad company to transfer ammunition shipments from trains to vessels in the harbor. In Manhattan, Brooklyn and in New Jersey towns the streets were strewn with glass. Many thousand windows broke. The modern structures apparently suffered the least damage. Police reserves were swarming through the city, detailed to prevent the looting of goods exposed in shattered windows, particularly in the jewelry district in Malden Lane. Bedloo's island, on which stands the Statue of Liberty, is nearest the Black Tom peninsula and received the brunt of the explosion. The statue and all buildings on the island suffered damage. Every window in the pedestal of the statue was broken, and the main door, weighing nearly a ton, was blown from its hinges. Samuel C. McCullough and his son, Jacob, of Greensburg, Pa., are dead, Mrs. McCullough is seriously ill and two other members of the family are in a hospital as the result of typhoid fever. It is believed the disease was contracted through water at old well. General David Gregg is Dead. General David McMurtrie Gregg eighty-three years old, the last of the Union officers holding the rank of general at the battle of Gettysburg, died at his home in Reading, Pa., after an illness of several months. He was in good health up to late last spring. Man Killed in Fall Downstairs. William L. Wix, fifty-four years old, was killed in a fall down a flight of stairs at his home. It is supposed that he suffered a stroke. Sleeping boy in Oak Clyde Hibber, aged 81, son of Samuel Hibber, of Hynor, near Williamsport, Pa., surrounded in his sleep, made his way from the house to the river nearby, rowed across the stream in a boat, and was found early in the morning, alongside a Pennsylvania whistle-box, still sleeping. The boy's unusual commendations fast was not discovered by his family until he returned home and adjudged all he knew of his adventures. He had been found by a railroad passing along the Creek. Typhoid Hita Family Sleeping Boy, at Ours. WAR A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. The entire village of Poisteres, northern France, in which a desperate battle has been waged for several days has been won by the British, London announces. It completing his occupation of Poisteres General Haig has won another vantage point in his of fensive along the Somme with Ba paume as his objective. The British advance is being pushed also on either side of the village and the official statement records the capture of two strong, trenches to the west. Russian troops have captured Erzsan in battle, according to an official statement from Petrograd, thus gaining control of all of Armysia. The czar has sent a message of congratulation to Grand Duke Nicholas upon his victory. THURSDAY. Pushing their attack in Califoria, the Russians have captured 6250 more Teuton prisoners, together with five cannon and twenty-two machine guns Petrograd announces. General Sak haron, by a flank movement, has reached a point ten miles from Brody, and threatens the Austrian defenders in that town. Vienna admits an enforced retreat north of Brody. Berlin says Russian attacks near Baranovich and Berestechk have been repulsed. The Russian advance in Armenia continues. In the capture of Erzingan, Grand Duke Nicholas' army took possession of a Turkish depot of war supplies. A fiercely artillery action is in progress on the Anglo-German front in northern France, evidently in preparation for a new British attack. Throughout the night British continued to press the Germans with hand-to-hand encounters at various points, says the official London statement. FRIDAY. Turkish resistance to the Russian advance in Armenia has faded away with the capture of Erzingan. The Russians continue to press their offensive in Volkhynia, and are reported within five miles of Brody, which is the key to the defense of Lemberg, the capital of Galicia. Berlin admits the penetrating of von Linnenga's line in Volkhynia, but says Russian attacks near Baranovich failed. The desperate efforts by the Germans to retain a foothold in Dalville wood on the Bomme front have failed, according to the London war office, which announced that the entire wood in British possession. It was defended by the famous Brunsburgers, who were driven out in the final assault by General Bridge himself. 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Briefly, the key to the defence of Lemberg is in hands, and the Tartars have driven back along the whole front in this section. Another victory is reported near Stankian, south of the Dnister, while the additional announcement is made that Brazzaville south of Tarnopol has fallen. An army of Tolom Tarka is reported to have reached Hungary, to and Austria fight against the Russians. On the Somme front in France the British have advanced in the vicinity of Pozieres and High Wood and two repulsed German efforts to capture Delville wood. In the fighting for the latter position two to three regiments of German troops apparently were annihilated, save the London war office statement. SUNDAY The Russians continue to advance in the region of Kovel and Ryad, Volhynia, and also in the region to the south of the Dneister river, Galicia, and are pushing back the Austro-Germans, according to the Russian official communication, Russian detachments are fortifying themselves on the left bank of the river Stokhod. The French in the Somme region near Hardecourt have captured German trenches between Hardecourt and Hill 139, on a depth varying from 30 to 800 meters, according to the official communication. Galins also were made by the French near the village of Manrepas and Hem, which were held against powerful German counter attacks. MONDAY. Teh war map of the eastern front shows additional changes as the result of continued heavy pressure of the Russian armies. Advances toward Kovel and Lemberg, the two vital points of the Austro-German defense along the southern section of the lines are recorded in an official statement from Petrograd. Further south, in Galicia, the latest reports have shown General Letchiksky to be actively engaged in operations threatening the whole Austrian line along the Strips. The region of Brody, which city General Sakharov captured last week also is witnessing additional Russian successes, according to Petrograd. Further advances for General Halge forces on the Somme front in northern France, where a combined attack of the British and French gained ground on a six-mile front, are reported by London. The new gains were north of Bazentin-le-Peit. DM. LUCKY GUY. PATROLMAN'S COMMENT. "I'm a lucky guy. For a few minutes I thought it was going to be my finish." Smiling, in spite of the pain from his injuries, Automobile Policeman L. N. Clarke, who nearly lost his life by being imprisoned under a burning automobile after it had plunged twenty feet over an embankment, made this comment on his narrow escape today at the Virginia hospital. Clarke will recover from the burns on his back and legs, which complained his principal injuries, according to Drs. Fletcher and Lilipack, of the hospital staff. The burns were mostly superficial, the surgeons said and the policeman rallied from the shock of the accident with unexpected vigor. Robert Little, of Petersburg, it was ascertained today by The News Leader, shared the single seat in the police touring car when it was wrecked. He was thrown clear of the car, which immediately caught alire and was not injured. The car was completely ruined. REWARD NEGRO RESCUERS. At today's conference at police headquarters it was decided to reward John and William Harr, N. groes, 504 Mitchell street, who rescued Clarke from his perilous position under the car, with a wreck for $25. Mayor Ainslea addressed the following letter to them: "I wish to express my thanks and appreciation for your prompt and heroic rescue of Police Officer L. N. Clarke on the evening of August 7, from under an overturned burning automobile at the risk of your personal safety, which action, in all probability, saved the life of the imperiled policeman. "I am enclosing herewith the check of the police department for $25 as a small token of my appreciation of your conduct." CAR PLUNGED TWENTY FEET The accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock last night while Clarko was driving east in Mitchell street. The roadbed is narrow and full of trenchous holes, according to the police, and the little car plunged into a gully twenty-feet below. A moment before Clarko had turned in his seat to glance backward at a depression in the roadway. The size of it had attracted his attention. It is supposed the car struck a rough spot and swerved to the steep bank before the policeman could regain control of it. The engine was still running when the car landed bottom side up in the ditch, but stopped a few minutes later, battle, whom Clarke had taken into his car to facilitate the search for a Petersburg policeman who was in Richmond, began calling for help as soon as he regained his foot. The Harris brothers ran up in a few moments and found the car enveloped in dames. One of the oil lamps had jarred loose and communicating with the gasoline caused an explosion of the tank which scattered fire in every direction. The Negroes raised one side of the overturned car sufficiently to drag the officer from under it. They did so at great danger to themselves. Added to the imminent danger of being roasted alive, Clarke also was compelled to withstand a popular bombardment from revolver cartridges which were exploded by the host from the dames. The cartridges were ones which had been left in the car by C.B. Samuels, a former automobile policeman who used the maching for several years until his recent elevation to the rank of police sergeant. No one was injured by the rain of bullets but the risk to everyone concerned was great. Clarke was rushed to the Virginia hospital where first Fiecher and Liphick dressed his burns. Police Surgeon Oppenheimer reached the hospital shortly afterward and assisted in caring for the injured man. Clarke said today that he had been sent on a call to Bacon and Tyler streets, where a holdup had been reported. He misunderstood the location and went first to Tyler and Baker streets. Clarke has been connected with the force since 1906 and is regarded as one of the most efficient men in the department. He is very popular —Richmond, Va. News-Leader, August S. REV. CROCKETT PREACHES. Roanoke, Vt., Aug. 7, 1916 --Rev E. W. Crockett of Roanoke, Vt. preached at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church last Sunday morning. Subject: The value of good work." Text was found in Nehemiah 6:3. I am doing a good work so that I can't come down unto you. There was a large attendance and many souls were mad to rejoice in the Lord of their salvation. He preached again Sunday night using as a text 24th Chap. St. Matthew, 34th verse; Come Ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founda- tion of the world. Rev. Crockett, is in deed a wonderful preacher. Improvements are going in right- along. Electric lights now being installed. Five new houses to be completed in the next ninety days. Let us show you. BRAGG BROS. & CO.—AGENTS. robbing the worker of the fruits of his honest toll THAT WARNING FINGER. Whenever I point a warning finger to the rocks just in front upon which the ship of state is fast drift up, and of which the statistics submitted are a sad proof, I am rebuked and my attention called to the great number of workingmen who are elected to office in republican and democratic states and to our wise pilot, Woodrow Wilson, who is going to pour oil upon the turbid waves of monopoly by throttling the trusts with the hands of its fathers in congress, while he is as silent as the graven image of stupidity regarding the only monopoly from which there is any danger, the monopoly of land, and special privilege and our wicked tax system which paralyzes the muscles and nipples the nerves of industry, and stimulates and digresses the hands of grief to commit the profitable but monstrous and unparadonable crime against humanity of withholding from use the most productive land in the nation and locking its treasures from the smiling innocence of little children and grows rich by the dirty crime of splitting in the radiant face of the goddess of justice. A SCRIPTURAL DECLARATION. It were better that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea than to offend one of these little ones. And press and pulpit sweetly and gravely inform you that he is a statesman, while his public utterances prove his profound ignorance of the fundamental laws of political economy upon which every state should be found. If it expects or hopes to endure, Statesman indeed! As if it were possible to confine the colossal proportions of a statesman in the tiny, narrow, filthy limits of rotten political parties. What message of hope is printed upon your life's page, when brick-layers and carpenters, counter jumpers and carters are elected and taken into the partisan council of the state who are silent because they are ignorant with regard to any working plan for your betterment. IGNORANCE. A FUNDAMENTAL FAILURE. Building inspectors and administrators of cities whose budget reaches four millions of dollars, whose knowledge of the real nature of a public bond under the present tax system about equals their knowledge of the latest cut in angels' wings. The lack of a general education is a matter of small importance, if replaced by a special knowledge of political economy which would enlighten them as to who pays the taxes which they expend with such a reckless liberality in enhancing the value of a wilderness whose values into bile, unproductive hands withholding productive land *from use*. Yes we are told that we are getting more democratic, and will get greater effects as more power is placed in the hands of the working class. I do not dispute the statement, for I have witnessed great effects when diamante was placed in the hands of an ignorant worker, and the more ignorant the handler of power the greater the effect. A PROPHECY AND THE FUTURE Support our present state executive with a few more counter jumper carters and preachers of prayer, protege and piety and we will get greater effects in the future, so great indeed that the state structure will tumble about your cars. Where these so-called optimists see the blazing white star of hope, the man whose eyes are not blinded by the smoke of incense arising to the wooden gods of party, church and state sees the red star of anarchy rising rapidly upon the political horrion for it needs not that I tell you that we live under an offiicially State six thousand five hundred and eighteen men direct the destiny, and rule and run in church and state, while in 1863, two hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred and thirty-nine of its citizens had a say, and elected a better governor than we have had since. SHOULD PROFIT BY HISTORY'S LESSONS. Better take to your heart, and profit by history's lessons spread over the long red record of the past, that tyranny takes longer strides, and moves faster in this sort of government, where all ignorant, vicious and unscientific legislation is enacted in the name, and for the sake of the people. An absolute ruler could never have inaugurated the present iniquitous tax system, folsted upon an ignorant legislature by a more ignorant executive. The people would have tried to pull from the throne an absolute ruler; as they tried to pull the imbecile George III for the same offense. If your Mayor had walked by my side for these just thirty years he would not advise you to drill these sad facts of the census of these United States into the heads of our youth, for he would know by listening to the complaints of the people, both of the young and old, that they are already asking themselves whether a government of the devil, for the devil and by the devil could surprise the showing of these census figures? DEBATING THE QUESTION. They are debating the question, whether life is worth living under's government which guarantees a moderate living to only six out of an hundred, and wealth to only five, while he works three hundred days a year, and with a rigid economy, such as would appeal his Mayor, he finds that he is unable to save a single dollar and dues the druggist twenty-five cents for a stimulating powder to keep him to his grinding toll. research to the census report of the government, for the reports of every government on earth tell the same sad and shameful and one true tale of governments producing the same results as our own. Such same universal results can come from only one universal cause, and while all governments differ in many things, they all have the same identical system of taxation which robs the laborer of his hire, which has upon it the curse of heaven, and its end is war. A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH. There can be no necessity for calling the attention of the wage earner to a truth that has been burned into the very texture of his toll-worn skin by the bitter biting acid of a tax system so unjust, so cruel and pitiless that it would bring the blush of shame to the hardened face of infamy and if introduced into hell would shock the moral sense of hell's elect and spread poverty, drunkenness and crime throughout its dark dominion which old Dives would try to cure by making its citizens as thrifty as himself. AN UNSCIENTIFIC SYSTEM We write much and frequently of progress, and when the Mayor of a city of one hundred and fifty thousand people gravely suggests as a cure for the poverty producing effects of our unscientific hell-born system of taxation, a thrift that will save ten cents each day out of a daily wage or a dollar and a half, all thoughtful men whose eyes are not blinded by the smoke of incense to the wooden god of party, plainly perceive that the much vaunted progress is not UP to the sunlit heights of liberty, peace, plenty, parity and power, but downward to the serpent hood of industrial slavery, poverty, drunkenness and crime, and that these black, shameless figures of the census are the shadows which are cast before the coming event of amarray and war. Submitted in deep sadness of soul are these reflections upon our desperate confinement, which only just taxation can cure. FRANK SMITH. 1212 E. Franklin Street. LEESBURG, VA Mr. R. E. Gray spent Friday in Mr. and Mrs. John Helms for a few days, the week end. Mr R. E. Gray spent Friday in Washington. Miss Sue Stephenson and Mr. Thomas Lee of Washington were the guest of Mrs. Janie Helms Sunday. We had a grand sitting at the twenty-fifth annual convention which was held at the Theological Sem- ary, August 34, 1916. A. T. Shirley presided over the session of the N. Y. W. Baptist Sunday School Con- vention. Mr. Lindsey Murray and his niec accomplished Madam went down and delegates from Sylvester. Many bri- ren were present, such as Hon. T. C. Walker of Gloucester county and W. J. Howard of Washington. Others we can recall just now. We list- ten to several good papers, one by Miss Agnes S. Dorsey of Leesbury and Miss Pearl A. Sherley. The an- niversary sermon was preached by Rev. L. H. Halley, Occupan, Va. Sermonic address, "How to Apply Christ's Teachings More Effectively in the Sunday School." Rev. W. A. Price. We adjoined to meet in Rentortown, Va., 1917. We left for Washington Friday night, where we spent Saturday with our son and daughter, arriving in Leesburg Saturday evening. We were at Spoolin Church Sunday, afternoon, where A. Conway was the speaker for the day and enjoyed ourselves. Mrs. Pauline Spillner underwent a serious operation at the hospital here today. Miss Mary Roberts and Mrs. Victory Puller are confined to their rooms with illness. ```markdown ``` Atlantic City, N. J., August 9. Mrs. Rowena White, Mrs. Willie Chrisman and Mrs. Sylvester Clark are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Clark Atlantic City to spend fifteen days. On their way back they will stop in New York, Baltimore and Washington. --- BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS FOR COLORED RACE. Washington, D. C. To help Negro boys become practical farmers, and to assist Negro girls in becoming competent housewives, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the State colleges, is organizing "throughout the South, Farm Makers' Clubs for rural Negro children. This activity, begun experimentally last year by the Office of Extension Work, South, has grown rapidly, and already is thoroughly organized in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. The work also is being carried on to some extent in each of the other Southern States. The chief object of these clubs is to encourage Negro farmers, particularly in the cotton sections, to raise some food instead of devoting their entire attention to a single crop. In the clubs for boys, the typical plan is to encourage and help the members to use, an acre, one-half of which is devoted to corn, one-fourth to potatoes, and one-fourth to peanuts. This teaches a desirable rotation, and at the same time furnishes three food products for human consumption, and two that are useful for cattle or hogs. The girl members of these clubs receive practical instruction in gardening, canning, cooking, and housekeeping. According to reports, the county superintendents of schools and teachers of Negro elementary schools are supporting the work actively, and State agricultural colleges and the technical schools established for the race are active co-operators in the larger phases of the work. —With little extra effort you can get one our print grappap bonuses. See offer on back page. THE LARGEST COLORED SHOW ON EARTH EVERYTHING NEW THIS YEAR. THE BIG SHOW FOR LITTLE MONEY. 1 Week Commencing Monday, Aug. 14 $29.50 Rountree Cherry Corp. FOR HOME & VIGOROUS 111-113-113 WEST BROAD Birthday Surprise Party Mrs. Ida H. Booker was delightfully surprised on Thursday, August 5, 1916, by a birthday party given in her honor, at her residence, 200 East Leigh street. Many dainty morsels were served, after which the party engaged in chit-chit until the midnight hour. On behalf of their many friends, Roscoe C. Mitchell presented Mrs. Booker and Miss M. Kate Doyle, whose birthdays are contemporaneous, with tokens of appreciation. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson, Messus Pearl James Rebecca T. Mitchell, Virginia Wood, Rebecca and Lillie Doyle, Alma Hamm, Mines, Austin and Parsons and Mary Satterfield, Messus Joseph Matthews, Robert Spyler, Bradford S. Johnson. Mrs. Booker is the wife of Mr. Nelson G. Booker, one of our most efficient post office employees. TROY. X. Y. Troy, N. Y., Aug 7. The Rev. J. W. McCoy, D. D., pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church of Tarrytown, N. Y., was in our city today (August 1) attending the funeral of his grandchild, the son of Irving McCoy. The funeral was preached by the Rev. C. Fairfax, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church of this city. With Rev McCoy were Rev J. A. Taylor, Baptist, and Rev J. G. Carlile, Presbyterian, both of this city. The child was laid away to rest in the New Mt. Ida Cemetery of this city at 3:20 P. M., Tuesday, August 1, 1915. Mrs. S. Matthews, of Rochester, N. Y., has been in the city for four weeks, attending her sick father, Mr. Hassel Kemp. He is much better now. He went with his daughter to her home, taking with him his grand-daughter, Miss Harriet Dixon. He will be there until September 1. Rev. Holden, pastor of the Hampton Street M. E. Zlon Church of Albany, is away, and Rev. J. A. Taylor of Troy, filled the pulpit morning and evening, Sunday, August 6. May we suggest in calling a National Race Congress for the benefit of the race, let the proper persons appoint time and place near to the center as can be, of the largest population of the race, where a large hall can be obtained. Let every newspaper in the country tell when and where this Congress will be, and ask every church, society, school and club to send delegates to this Congress, to study plans for the good of the race; let there be a general call go out for the young men of the race. The meeting ought to be made up of about two-thirds young men. Ministers, lawyers, doctors, newspaper and bookmen, business men of all kinds, and students of our schools; let them come from all over the country; each one bring what money he can to pay expenses of the Congress. Let our arrangements be made with the railroads and steam boats for cheap going and coming. Let each come with some plan in mind. --You never get tired. Read the PLANET! It is always interest!--you you. Subscription only: $1.50 per month in advance. With Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church and Sunday School MONDAY, AUGUST 28, '16 At 8:00 o'clock Sharp BOYDTON ACADEMIC AND BIBLE INSTITUTE, BOYDTON, VA. A school for both sexes of the colored race. Grammar, academic, commercial normal and Bible courses Next session opens September 4, 1916. Send for catalogue or information. Principal J. H. Hartman, Boydton, Va. French Art Studio 534 N. Second St.—Maker of High Grade Portraits. We also make a speciality of amateur work. Photos made by appointment only. Phone attandiph 0033. 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WANTED: admits to stealing stolen Wondering Enter for Hunting Purposes. Good preparation. Wants Exit into Manufacturing Company, 912 N. 102 St., Slidell, Va. ---