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NET God made me black. It is to Him I owe Whate'or my mission in the mighty plan— The Trinity resolved in making man. White, Yellow, Red, and Brown—God made them so— He made me Black; and, tollers, all, we go. Unto our tasks. Thus robed in white or tan. Tis but the service of each soul that can Make known the measudes of the men below. We prize the gleaming glory of the day— No less we love the beauty of the night; We pause to hear the song bird's roundelay And praise its coat of color or of white— Far deeper than the reach of mortal night. God hast ordained and marked His men of clay. FORTY YEARS IN THE MINISTRY. October 1st to 9th promises to be a time of special interest at the Central Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. The fortieth pastoral anniversary of Rev. G. B. Howard, D. D., will be held at this church, October 1st to 8th. Dr. Howard has served as pastor, the Zion Baptist Church, Molines, Va.; the First Baptist Church, Harrisonburg, Va.; the First Baptist Church, Lexington, Va.; the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, West Point, Va.; the Glifford Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va.; the First Baptist Church, Charleston, W. Va.; the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., and is now in his fifth year as pastor of Central Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Many thousands have been led to Christ; many thousands baptized and received into the churches. Five now church buildings and two parsonages have been erected during this time. The present church property, bought in 1913, cost $30,000, and $6,000 in improvements have been made on same. In these forty years, Dr. Howard has raised over $150,000, married hundreds of couples, preached thousands of funerals, aided in educating six young men and women outside of his own family, represented the Nery-Baptists in two World Baptist Conventions. He has been a member of the National Baptist Convention for twenty-seven years; preached ten baccalaureate sermons; to colleges and other normal schools and at one time was elected president of Virginia Seminary and College at Lynchburg, Va., and has been a trustee of same for twenty years. He was a student at Hampton Normal School and Storer College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and was graduated from Theological department of Union University, Richmond, Va. Dr. Howard has served on three delegations that waited on presidents of the United States in the interest of the Negro race, organized a number of Baptist churches and Sunday schools, and ordained a number of ministers. At one time Dr. Howard preached the annual sermon before the Pittsburgh Baptist Association, white, the only colored man that ever did so. The present church membership enrollment is between 1,100 and 1,200, and the church property is worth $50,000. NEGROES WIN IN SEGREGATION Newport News, Va. -The colored people of this town are rejoicing with exceeding great joy because of the decision of Judge Waddile in the United States District Court on Monday, September 18, making permanent the inspections against the enforcement of the segregation law, pending final decision by the United States Supreme Court. Attorneys J. T. Newsome and W. R. father were in charge of the case and made a brilliant and successful attest for their people. The following program was sent to The New York Newport News, Va., Sept. 19. Negroes won segregation case where Judge Waddile, United States District Court, yesterday. Connections made permanent leading decision in United States Supreme Court. Great rejoicing in colored people. DR. R. H. BOYD OBJECTS TO THE PURLICTY GIVEN HIM IN BAPTIST FIGHT. Nashville, Teen, Sept. 15, 1916 Mr. John Mitchell, Jr. care of Richmond Planet, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Brother Mitchell:—A copy of your paper of September 2nd is on my desk before me. I looked over the article from my beloved brother and friend and schoolmate of my son, Mr. W. H. Moses. I was not astonished to read it, and it did not create the least animosity, as I felt that he is in no way responsible. The only thing is, I was a little surprised that you gave space to such an article. However, I know you are a newspaper man. To persons who do not know, it makes splendid reading. Though Mr. Moses is not responsible for anything he does or says. I know that this unfortunate brother is laboring under a brain storm for which he is in no wise responsible, and I cannot afford to criticize him. Of course he is being urged on by persons taking the advantage of an unbalanced mind. If you will read his article published just a year ago, when he came to our board and asked them to give him permission to make a thorough investigation of the books and he was granted the privilege of the books for ten day, and wrote quite a wonderful article. We supposed he was telling the truth, I thought then that he had overpaid something, and so informed the Board, in our favor, In the main he was truthful. At that time, of course, had I known Brother Moses or had I had the least suspicion that he was getting off his mind, I would not have committed the crime I did, by allowing him to get several hundred dollars in my debt, but felt that he really needed help, and hence went to the deep expense of printing his book for him, allowing to advance his note for the same. When we began to urge him for the payment, of course, in his condition, he felt that we were his worst enemies. You know all persons in that condition will naturally feel that even their mothers and fathers are their enemies. I made up my mind to allow all the criticisms from all the papers to continue until after this meeting. Then, if my actions and the actions of our Board were duly honored and acquiesced by a sufficient number of Baptists, and if we formed a solid convention, then, and not until then, would I make a halt to the abuse of me as an individual. This has been done, and now I shall demand that these personal tirades cease. I have no objections to any denominational conventional, or Board criticisms that may come up, but I will not allow individual slander. I am now notifying all concerned. These brethren never intended to win anything by this law-suit. They were simply playing, with the hope of gaining patronage from the Baptists, and I have enjoyed their criticisms and low unchristian tactics resorted to. All of the leaders, like Dr. Moses, fleeced in for what they could gain, and then paid us off in false, malicious slander. You will notice from my report of the Board to the convention, that I did not resort to any criticisms to these brethren. I do not intend to do so, not even to the extent of telling the truth, that the leaders are really a band of dishonest grafters. While I could show how they have robbed this Board to gain money, and have franded and swindled the Baptist denomination. I set out to make this known. I have succeeded in doing so. Now I shall turn to serve the Board as its secretary, and the denomination, or that part of the denomination that have separated themselves from such dishonest, grafting and untruthful leaders. Excuse the length of this letter. I did not intend to write such a lengthy one when I began writing, but I felt that I ought to tell you of this. Under another cover marked "Special" I am sending you a copy of our last report. We have beat those fellows everywhere we have gone. What it is we are waiting for it to get them to court, and we will beat them there have separated themselves from such with a hole in it. —Mrs. Louise A. Lockley, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thomas, of Fort Wayne and Rone City, Ind., has returned home. Wanted, to find the relatives of one John Hover or Hoover, who was found dead in a house in Phillipburg, N. J. Sunday night, September 17, 1916. It is reported that he has a sister living in Richmond, Va. Address Rev. P. P. Digam 97 N. Green Street, Easton, Pa. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Sept. 12.—Nearly eight hundred students are here on the opening day of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Session of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. For several days students have been coming in for the opening and since Sunday morning special cars from neighboring states have been arriving with every train. From early till late in the evening, long lines of eager-faced boys and girls were lined up in the Registrar's office receiving their assignments to class room, shop and dormitory, and just as rapidly as they were placed, there were immediate signs of adjustment and getting down to work. The regular daily routine was observed from rising bell at 5:30 A. M. till the sounding of taps at 9:30 P. M. There was the call to the drill grounds for the boys at eight o'clock, at which time the cadet-recruits were lined up and assigned to their different companies; at twelve there was another bugle call for the march to dinner; during the afternoon teachers in the various trades and in the Academic Building, met the new students and new classes, and planned the work for the fall term. A brief session of the night school and prayer meeting in the chapel rounded out a busy day for the teachers and officers and a day filled with many thrills for the hundreds of new students. PRESIDENT MITCHELL DELIVERS ADDRESS TO BANKERS. Addressed Colored People at Three Large Meetings. Kansas City, Mo. September 27 More than four thousand bankers are registered here. to attend the annual session of the American Banker' Association. Among them is John Mitchell, Jr., President of the Mechanics Savings Bank, Richmond, Va. THRIFT CAMPAIGN IN EVIDENCE To-night fifteen thousand bankers and citizens wore present at the Thrift Moving Picture Entertainment given for the encouragement of the Nation Wide Thrift Campaign, now being promulgated in this country. President Mitchell has been appointed Chairman of the Special Committee of Centennial Thrift Campaign among colored people in the United States and to this end rendered a fine report of the interest and achievements thus far attained. The most prominent colored citizens all over the country having accepted and pledged their support for the promotion of the movement. ADDRESSES THE SAVINGS DANK SECTION. Mr. Mitchell's address to the Savings Bank Section of the American Bankers' Association, yesterday afternoon, was replete with statistical knowledge of the progress and producing power of the colored people in the United States. His remarks were timely and he concluded amidst applause. OTHER SPEECHES MADE Yesterday morning he spoke at Lincoln High School and received an ovation. The Second Baptist Church of which Rev. S. W. Bacote is pastor was crowded with an appreciative audience, last night to hear President Mitchell deliver an address. He was enthusiastically received. Today he will address the pupils of Summer High School. Rev. James H. Holmes, D. D., the Late Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Rehbered. The Foreign Mission Society of the First Baptist Church, which was organized nearly one hundred years ago by the late Lott Carey, first missionary to Africa, presented a handsome alver communion set to the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention, which met in Baltimore, Md., August 30, 1916, to be placed in the Chapel in Liberia, Africa, to the memory of their late pastor, Rev. James H. Holmes, D. D. The Society has also raised money to place a communion table and a Bibble in the Chapel in honor of their present pastor, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D. "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." C. S. MORRIS JR. TO LROTINE C. S. MOSKER, JR. TO LECTURE. Charles S. Morris, Jr., the young crater and son of Dr. Morris, of Norfolk, Va., will deliver an eration at 5th St. Baptist Church next Friday night. His subject will be "Colored Heroes." This is a rare treat. EDITOR MITCWELL'S TRAVELS ARRIVED IN CHICAGO—ON TO KANSAS CITY—BANKERS ASSEMBLE IN GATEWAY TO THE WEST—INTERESTING RECITAL Experiences on the Dining Car—The Palatial Hotel—The Young Attendant Balked—Secretary of the American Bankers' Association Instructs Him. I left Richmond Saturday September 23, 1916, via R. F. & P. railroad. Dr. E. R. Jefferson was at the Ryrd Street station, and he bid me goodbye. He promised to have good news for me upon my return. A few moments later I was in the palatial parlor car where I awaited the time when I would be carried through the tunnel en route to the capital of the nation. I did not have long to wait. As the train pulled out, I decided to leave all of my troubles behind me. ENEMIES ACTIVE The news that my enemies were active, was only emphasized by the information that my friends were the same way. I knew that I had been threatened, for white friends and colored ones had brought me the information. I repeated the words of Shakespeare's creation: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. For I am armed no strong in honesty. That they pass me by like the idle winds. That I have no fear." That I respect not." Arriving in Washington, I called up friends over the telephone, and then visited the office of The Bee. Editor W. Calvin Chase, attorney-at-law, was not in his office, so I sat down and took possession. I called up Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, at 1323 T. Street, N. W. She informed me that Judge Robert H. Terrell was down in Alabama or Georgia, lecturing. So far as she was concerned, she was holding a women's meeting at her house, and she would be pleased to have me come up and be introduced to them. I told her I thought I would do so, and then I thought afterwards I would not. What could a crusty old bachelor do in a women's meeting? What could he say about home duties and woman suffrage? EDITOR CHASE'S OFFICE Attorney W. Calvin Chase came in and we discussed the current events. He is looking well and despite the on coming years, displayed all of the vigor and energy of other days. I left there for the Union Station, where I was to take the Manhattan Limited for Chicago. This train is composed of Pullman cars only, and an extra fare is charged in addition to the regular Pullman fare. The porter on Car 97 was a Hailstorm, and he had seen twenty years' service. MET ME IN THE SO'9 His people lived in Virginia and North Carolina. His present residence was not disclosed, further than to say that he lived in Jersey. He said that he remembered seeing me in the 80's, when I spoke at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church of Washington. I did not push my investigation, but settled down in the comfortable Pullman cushions and read the afternoon Washington paper that I had purchased a short time before. THE PULLMAN'S PLEASURES It was after 9 o'clock when I got into my berth, and I slept with all of the comfort and pleasure of a man resting in his home city. I awoke early, to find that I had passed Pittsburgh. Pa. I went later into the observation car, where I saw the cities through which we passed. In the smaller towns, people were going to the churches to serve their Maker. I went into the dining car and sat down. I was early, but it was but a few moments later that the crowd entered. IN THE DINING CAR A white lady started to sit opposite me, but her companion had spied a seat farther away, and she took a seat there also. I was alone at a table for four persons. Another couple came. They sat down and ate the morning's repast. I was served with the utmost courtesy. The train, consisting all of Pullman cars, was a lengthy one. I was the only colored passenger aboard. The porters and waiters vied with each other in making it pleasant for me. The fact that I was a banker seemed to have been communicated to' the entire train crew. 2 P. M. I was talking to a portur. His name was C. H. Jones. He was originally from Manchester, Va., and he asked about John R. Oogbill, who is in my employ. Then I talked to another porter. He had asked the brakeman how late the train was at that time, but he got very little information. That guy," he remarked to me, "is sore. He had a female passenger aboard and he took her into one of the compartments of my car to talk to her. I told him it war (Continued On 4th Page) DISTRICT CONFERENCE IN SESSION HERE. The Peterburg District Conference of the A.; M. E. Zion Church is holding its session with the Hood A. M. E. Zion Church of this city. The sessions opened Wednesday morning and are being held in the Third Street Bethel A. M. E. Church. Rev. B. J. Bolding is Presiding Elder, Rev. J. C. Stephenson, Pastor of the Hood A. M. E. Z Church. Their regular services are held at Samaritan Hall. Rev. William Thomas Returns Rev. William Thomas, B. Th., pastor of the First Union Baptist Church has returned from a most profitable vacation spent with Rev. E. M. Lovell and his good people at Mitchells, Madison Ridge and Buena Churches. The pastor also stopped in Washington, D. C. and preached at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church for Dr. Willis and attended Communion at the Metropolitan Baptist Church with Dr. Norman. While in Washington the pastor stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Susie E. Thomas, 1524 Columbia Rt. N. W. Virginia Students Matriculate at Temple University. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 21.—The Pharmaceutical College of Temple University is well represented with colored students this year. Among the seventy-five matriculants representing Cuba, Spain, Porto Rico, Palestine and Japan are Measrs. G. W. Lindsay, and R. M. Fields, of Virginia Union University, class of 15. J. J. Elliot and George Hunter also of the same institution; E. R. Chapman of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute; C. W. Warren, of Pottstown, Pa. The Medical, Dental and various departments are also well represented. Rev B. G. Adams Receives Call The Metropolitan Baptist Church, of Portsmouth, Va. has extended a call to the pastorate to Rev. R. G. Adams, of Farmville, Va. Rev. Adams has been pastor of the First Baptist Church of Farmville for several years and only resigned last month. It is not known as yet what disposition the Reverend will make of the call. Rev. Adams is one of the most prominent and best known preachers in the State. The Spartan Literary and Athletic Association will commence its winter work on Monday night, October 2, 1916. The classes in physical development, under direction of Physical Director J. M. Dahney, and in lansguages and music, under the direction of Profs. Sampson and Melton, respectively, will open for registration at 7 o'clock P. M. The annual fall pocket billiard tournament will commence promptly at 8:30 o'clock and continue until a winner has been declared. Coach Arthur Dyson, of the football squad, reports that his men are working ahd to get in shape for their initial contest. The schedule is being rapidly arranged. The team plays its first game away from home on October 28th in Petersburg, Va., where it meets the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. This school is a state institution and has a reputation for athletic achievements. A special car will be run from this city to Petersburg to carry the Spartan rooters. —Rev. A. A. Hector returned from Greensboro, N. C., where he has been attending the synod of Catawba, which met in that city. —Mrs. Mary Monroe, 743 N. 5th Street, and mother, have returned home after a four weeks' vacation spent in Washington and Philadelphia visiting relatives and friends. —Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Smith, of Atlantic City, N. J. are visiting in the city. Mr. Smith was formerly of this city. SUPREME LODGE OF NATIONAL IDEAL BENEFIT SOCIETY, INC HOLDS 4TH ANNUAL SESSION The Fourth Annual Session of the Supreme Lodge of National Ideal Benefit Society was held in the Liberty Baptist Church." Washington, D.C., September 5, 6, 7 and 8. The gathering of delegates to this meeting was indeed representative. There were prominent men and women from all parts of the country. The meeting opened under very glowing auspices. The people of the District of Columbia gave the delegates a very cordial reception and in every way endeavored to make their stay with them comfortable and profitable. The following welcome addresses were delivered: First, by Rev. H. Powell, D. D., pastor of Liberty Baptist Church; second, by Rev. Geo. M. Oliver, D. D., pastor of Union Weekly A. M. E. Zion Church; third, by Mrs. S. M. Stockton, Asst. Lecturer of the Ideal Nursery Convention, and Mrs. Amanda E. Newton. Responses to these splendid addresses were made by Mrs. Margaret R. Johnson, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D., Supreme Chaplein, and Mrs. Rosa Thompson. President of Ideal Nursery Convention and Supreme Lecturer of the National Ideal Benefit Society. The business of the Supreme Lodge was dispatched with speed and accuracy from beginning to end. The reports of Supreme Master A. W. Holmes, Supreme Secretary Mrs. I. E. Charity, and Supreme Treasurer T. L. Beverly were telegraph with information and presented the standing of the Supreme Lodge in a clear and unmistakable manner. This organization is only four years old, but during that short period of time it has made rapid and unprecedented progress. The Nursery Department, like the senior department, is in a healthy condition and the report of Mrs. Rose Thompson, Supreme National Lecturer, was an ex-owner to the many people whose privilege it was to hear her in the Floyd Ave. Baptist Church, Rev. W. A. Taylor, D. D. pastor. The verdict of all present at that meeting was, that there is a bright day ahead for the Nursery Department of the National Ideal Benefit Society. Up to the present time the enrolled membership of the organization amounts to 6,124. It has paid out in death claims $2,109.55 this year, with a balance to the credit of the death claim department of $3,499.61; all death claims paid up to date. This, in itself, speaks well for the organization, and its honest and accurate management. The delegates attending this convention were very enthusiastic over the splendid reports that were made and they are determined to return to their homes to do greater work for the coming year. The following officers were elected by the Supreme Lodge to serve it for another year: Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes; Supreme Vice Master, Rev. W. L. An- derson; Supreme Mistress, Lucinda J. Carter; Supreme Secretary, Mrs Ida E. Charity; Supreme Assistant; Secretary, Rosa Thompson; Supreme Treasurer, T. L. Beverly; Supreme Chaplain, Rev. W. T. Johnson, D. D; Supreme Left Guide, Catherine S. Jackson; Supreme Right Guide, James Richardson; Supreme Right Herald, Sallie M. Stockton; Supreme Left Herald, M. T. Robinson; Supreme Inside Sentinel, Porter E. Agent; Supreme Outside Sentinel, Plato Macrow; Supreme Past Presiding Mistress, Rosa B. Wilkerson; Supreme Auditor, Susie H. Robinson; BOARD OF DIRECTORS A. W. Holmes, Rev. W. T. Johnson Rev. W. L. Anderson, T. L. Beverly James Richardson, Ida E. Charity, D. L. Vest, J. R. Hickel, Sallie M. Stockton, Jno. S. Powell, Lucinda J. Curtier, F. L. Bryant, J. E. Wingo, Rosa Thompson, Joseph Charity The Supreme Master, A. W. Holmes, needs to feel proud of this organization and its marvellous growth, which has been due largely to his self-sacrificing laborers and the loyal support given to him by the members of his fraternal, official family. The National Ideal Choir rendered a most excellent musical program in the Liberty Baptist Church, Wednesday evening, September 6th, at 8:30. All present were greatly inspired. The music rendered was rich and rare, sweet and enchanting. Readings from our own authors were presented in great style, and the large audience voiced the sentiment that they were made to feel, during the renditions of the choir, as if they were wafted away among the strains of the Angelic Choir above. Mrs. S. M. Stockton and her committee are due much praise for the very able manner in which they handled all arrangements for the convention, and to Mr. J. W. Stockton and Charles Stockton, for having placed the larva handsome cars at the disposal of the officers while there. Miss Carrie Ella Tate of Boston Mass., and student at the Boston New England Conservatory of Music is visiting in the city. Miss Tate is an excellent Contralto. WORDS OF COMFORT TO THE BRIDGE BUILDERS Call the genii of Good Cheer and ask him to throw it into the depths of the sea. (By Samuel Gardiner, in Chicago Herald.) There are many bridges now building. They are being built every day across deep, dark chasms, filled with spirits so wife that their forms haunt us and make us afraid. The bridges cross to a shore in the distance, to a land we have never trod, to a land so lonely, away from friends and God. They are dream bridges created by imagination and fear. We never cross 99 per cent of these bridges. We could not if we would, for there is no other shore neither is there chasm, nor haunting spirits. Worry is the master builder of such bridges. He used fragments of fact for the abutments, figments of fear for the spans and phantasies of lining,ination for the roadbed. It is a bridge built without a bolt or rivet, built without machinery or hands. Like in the days of Adladdin's lamp, the bridge will vanish if some servant of the lamp will call the genius of good cheer and ask him to throw the bridge into the depths of the sea. You can do that every time if you will. Then. Don't you trouble trouble Till trouble troubles you Don't you look for trouble; Let trouble look for you. "Don't you borrow sorrow; You'll surely have your share He who dreams of sorrow Will find that sorrow's there. "Don't you hurry sorry By worrying last it come To flurry is to worry; 'Twill miss you if you're mum. G'd care you've got to carry Wait till it's at the door; For he who runs to meet it Takes up the load before. "If minding will not mend it. Then better not to mind; The best thing is to end it. Just leave it all behind. "Then don't you trouble trouble Till trouble troubles you; You'll only double trouble And trouble others, too. "Stand upright, speak thy thought declare. The truth thou hast that all may share. I'd hold, proclaim everywhere; They only live who dare." A Social Event of Note After a married life beset with many trials, disagreements and unpleasant experiences, Mr. and Mrs. Short and Dirty hurge decided to bury the hatch et and start it new. Recent expertience in divorce proceedings and his new trials will be forever forgotten in the for of their new life. The cause of all of their trouble the alleged deserted wife has mysteriously disappeared and it is reported that she lost her life in the recent naval battle between the English and Germans in the North Sea. She caddis passed as a man when she enlisted in the British Navy. The baby, now several years younger, is somewhere in the wilds of Africa, living long around for diversion. The happy couple will be reunited at the True Formers' Hall on a date to be announced later, or as soon as Mr. Short and Dirty finish his engagement at the Petersburg Lunatic Asylum. To prove his determination to lead a new life he has renewed his membership in the Spartan Club and has invited the entire membership to be present and pay their last tribute of respect. The Spartan will celebrate this last sacrifice with joy and vauduville. Watch these columns for the date. Brief Bits of News and Comment on Men and Women. Washington, D.C.—The cabin which was Lincoln's first home, now standing on its original site near Hodgsonville, KY., became the other day the property of the nation. A man who sees it, and later sees the completed great marble memorial to Lincoln on the bank of the Potomac at Washington, will have seen tropical edifices of the most symbolic career yet known to the republic. The one is ten logs high on a side: is plastered with soil, and has an outer chimney of logs, sticks and mud. The other is to coat millions: he made and adorned by artists of distinction; and become, next to Mt. Vernon, the home of Washington, the most frequented of all American civic temples. What enduring monuments these are, not only to Lincoln, but to the 10,000,000 black men and women and children in America—it was because of the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln will longest be remembered. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916 15 PHYSICIANS, AND 8 LAWYERS ADDED TO AGE'S LIST. (New York Age.) Who are the Negro physicians, dentists, pharmacists, chirurgists, practicing among members of the race, deriving their support from the race, who give back to the race through the men and women engaged in business, that portion of their spendings which goes for warres handled by Negro merchants. And, likewise, who are the Negro lawyers coming in the same category? Two weeks ago The Age propounded a question similar to the above to the Negro merchants of Harlem, but the ministers, pastoring congregations of negro churches were the one recollection in that question. Their answer has been given. Since then the above question, relating to the doctors and lawyers, has been put to the same men, and this article purposes to give their answers as far as could be gotten. In the article relating to the ministers nine names were placed on the roll of honor. Replies to the question concerning doctors and lawyers have given the names of fifteen doctors, including all branches of the profession, and eight lawyers. It would be interesting to learn just what percentage of comparison would be established as between the doctors and ministers in proportion to the total number of each. Of the fifteen doctors whose names are given, two of them are named by three different merchants, seven are named by two different merchants, and eight are given as being customers of some Negro merchant. This list does not include some names of doctors and lawyers which were in the first honor roll printed in The Age of August 17 and reproduced August 23 the merchants furnishing these names are in various lines, including furniture, tailoring, groceries, haberdashery, butchers, drug-glats, restaurants. The names given by these various merchants are as follows: Dr. WILLIAMS, 129th street. Dr. M. S. PIERRE. Dr. H. M. GRIFFIN. Dr. D. GRAVES. Dr. D. W. NIEL. Dr. FRANK L. CHAMBERS. Dr. LEO FITZ NEARON. Dr. J. B. ANDERSON. Dr. H. C. BLUE. Dr. D. TWINSON HOAGE. Dr. J. R. HILLERY. Dr. W. J. CARTER. Dr. E. E. RAWLINS. Dr. YORK RUSSELL. Dr. E. W. ROBERTS. NAMES OF LAWYERS. PHILIP M. THORNE. S. F. EDMEAD. J. DOUGLASS WETMORE. J. FRANK WHEATON. JOHN WILLIAM SMITH. CHARLES G. SNEAD. FERDINAND Q. MORTON. NEWTON GRIGGS. Two names of doctors given in the original list of honor are not included in the above roll—Dr. Gus Henderson and Dr. W. H. Johnson. For the lawyers, there are five names not mentioned in this last roll which were on the original list, those omitted being Counsellors E. A. Johnson, Louis A. Leavelle, Wilford H. Smith, James C. Thomas, Jr., and Robert Lester, Wing. It is to be understood that according to all information which has been received in the course of this investigation these names belong on the roll of honor, along with those gotten more recently. VIEWS OF THE MERCHANTS It is impossible to give the views of each individual merchant interviewed, but a consensus of their opinions might be given to the effect that there is a decided increase in the amount of patronage given to Negro merchants by members of the race. This applies not only to the professional men, but perhaps, more especially to the rank and file. That is, the masses of the people, as one merchant puts it, are beginning to think, and that thought process is bringing the people to see that the race merchant must be able to meet in fair and open competition the quality of goods supplied by the merchant of any other race, at the same prices, or he cannot continue business. This being the merchant must be put on the same plane and given the same consideration as any other merchant. And so the people are showing their interest in the wares offered them by purchasing in greater numbers and larger volume from the race merchant. Other phases of this question will be given consideration in future articles. 'That the matter is arousing attention, not only in New York, but in other sections of the country, is shown by the following editorial comment made by John Mitchell, editor of The Planet, Richmond, Va.: The New York Age seems to be hunting for trouble these days. It has propounded the following query: Do ministers pastoring congregations of Negro churches in New York City, receiving practically their entire support and maintenance from members of the race, give in return their financial patronage, in whole or in part, to enterprise conducted by Negro business men? We were very anxious to know if this journal had confined its investigation to preachers. The poor preacher has enough to answer for as it is. We were very anxious to know if this journal had confirmed its investigation to preachers. The poor preacher was enough to impress for as it is, and to have him paraded as not patronizing members of his own race is rather unwelcome both to the preacher and to the people who support the preacher. The New York Age publishes an honor roll of nine. We would like to know how many of that nine will be willing to make an aid/davit that they pay the colored merchants that they patronize? The New York Age gives the honor roll among the business colored men, who patronize each other. We would like much to have the names of those who pay the colored concerns that they patronize. We do not like to state our experience along these lines. It will be found that many of our leading business concerns among the colored people are fatally deficient in this respect. They preach one thing and they practice another. White people are far more considerate in their dealings with colored corporations and business men than are hundreds of the colored people, who confess be interested in racial progress. It would be interesting to the Age to make an investigation among its own office force and have a conversation with the colored ladies that it employs. When the truth is known it will be found that they have, to a greater or less extent, the same antipathy to colored folks in business and in other affairs that the white folks have, unless they are primarily engaged in business where this support is primarily needed. We are often led to wonder just when this racial handicap will disappear. Certainly, though, the Ace is doing a great service. If the plan is followed in other cities beneficial results will follow. Here, in Richmond city, the municipality of proxies, we find that the lack of racial interest and support is as deeply defined as in New York, and that secession is the greatest great loser which tends to make possible the prosperity that many of our racial institutions enjoy. The last analysis of the whole situation is that the Negro is, in many respects, his own worst enemy. GREAT WORK OF THE COLORE PRESS FOR NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS. The very general and cornet response which the preliminary call, issued more than a month ago, has received, is both gratifying and encouraging. Particularly gratifying has been the favorable attitude of the Colored newspapers towards this timely movement. The Colored press seems to be unanimous in its emple that is scarcely less than nation-ally issuance, now up to managem WIDE ENDORSEMENT ALREADY. The many letters of hearty and earnest endorsement that have been received from men and women, living in various sections of our country, all urging that the time is ripe and most opportune for a great get-together of our people, defense interests, interests, that the call for a great Race Congress has touched a responsive chord wide, for Oct. 4-6 at D. of C. PASSION FOR LIBERTY GROWS. The passion for liberty, and the determination to have it for ourselves, seem to be growing among us. Our people seem, as never before, to be waking up to the need and importance of earnest cooperation A WORLD CRISIS NOW ON. During these sad days of universal unrest among all other groups of people, while the great world of humanity is fermenting, institutions are being weighed in the balance, revolutions are in progress, public sentiment is being formed, and governments are in process of re-organization, is a most fitting time for the scattered leaders of ten millions of oppressed Colored Americans to get together and impress the public mind with the fact of our growing determination not to remain "half slave" in this country. But we cannot do this without unity of plan and heartiness in cooperation. The unfavorable conditions surrounding us, as a people, were briefly stated in the preliminary call already sent out. Let us assemble nationally at Washington, Oct. 4.6. Faithfully yours, BYRON GUNNER, Pres. of the National Equal Rights League. REV. C. S. MORRIS CREATES STI (Norfolk Journal and Guide.) At the time of going to press with this edition of the Journal and Guide the misunderstanding between the Rev. Dr. Chas. S. Morris, pastor of Bank Street Baptist Church, and his official board had not been adjusted. Three sermons which Dr. Morris announced last Sunday night from the pulpit that he would preach Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, were preached in the open air in front of the church because the officials of the church closed its doors upon the pastor. Crowds averaging from a thousand to fifteen hundred persons heard Dr. Morris every night; and hundreds went away marvelling at his mastery of the scriptures and there were several conversions. DEACONS LOCKED CHURCH On Sunday, September 10th, in Dr. Morris' absence, a letter from him was read at the morning service tendering his resignation as pastor of the church. The members voted to set. Thursday night, September 21st as the time for acting upon the resignation. On last Sunday morning, Dr. Morris returned to the city and occupied the pulpit as usual at both services during the day. At both services he stated for himself the torate of the church and entering evangelistic work. Both his sermons were upon the doctrine of sanctification and at the close of the service Sunday night he announced that he OFFICIAL BOARD OBJETS To this arrangement the official board of the church objected, but no cording onto this paper's information did not make their objections known to Dr. Morris until Monday, when they sent him a note asking him not to preach the sermons as announced. To this request Dr. Morris yielded tentatively, but on Monday night a great throng gathered at the church, and finding it locked, sent for Dr. Morris. He appeared on the scene and explained matters, but the crowd, which by that time numbered over a thousand people, wanted to worship, and Dr. Morris led them in silent prayer, sang some gospel hymns, and gave them a talk from the curb in front of the church. Enthusiasm ran high and there were several conversions. The demands for Dr. Morris to peach Tuesday night night more enthusiastically and he was tendered the use of the old Norfolk Academy lot in front of the church, and from the high steps he delivered a sermon to the great throng that gathered to hear him. He also preached at Bailey's Amusement Park Wednesday night to a crowd that was larger than the Tuesday night gathering. Thursday night the meeting was held at the church, but this paper had gone to press before its action was known. CAUSE OF MISUNDERSTANDING A representative of the Deacons gave as their reason for locking the church on the pastor that Dr. Morris did not consult them formally about holding the meetings. They thought that notwithstanding he was still pastor of the church he should have obtained their permission to hold the week-night meetings. AT THE NATION'S METROPOLIS Bishop Alexander Walters Hailed As the Leading Negro Churchman, At a Reception Given in His Honor—Dr. H. M. Griffin, One of New York's Leading Negro Physicians—Mrs. Hattie M. Meadows, Prominent Indianapolis Women Visiting Here—Negro Lawyers Hold Meeting. Allen's National News Bureau—447 Lenox Ave. New York City, Sept. 18—Bishop Alexander, Walters was hated as the leading Negro churchman of America last Friday evening, at a reception given in his honor at Mother Zion Church, by the members of the New York conference. The reception was tendered the bishop in honor of his promotion as the presiding bishop of the New York body, and the members Teh Valentine woman, the police of his conference turned out in large numbers, and to the man, pledged their loyalty and support. The long and faithful services which the bishop has rendered to his church and race were signally praised, and he comes to the conference with the assurance that he will be given all of the support for success of the work. A large audience greeted the bishop, many of them being delegates to the Christian Endeavor, and Sumit School convention, who mentioned that there were many distinguished visitors present among them, being Bishops J. C. Caldwell of Philadelphia, and W. L. Lee of Brooklyn, who represented the Board of Bishops; Dr. C. C. Alleye, editor of the Quarterly Review, who represented the general officers, and Revs. B. W. Swain, of Boston, and T. A. Auten, of Cambridge, who represented the New England conference. Well-known citizens of the city made addresses of welcome of the church, business, and professional life of the city, and praised the bishop as one of the most distinguished citizens of the Metropolis, who reflects the highest credit upon the colored pepli here. Bishop W. L. Lee presided. The invotional service was given by Rev. T. A. Auten and B. W. Swain. Special music was furnished by the choirs of Mother Zion and Fleet Street churches and Mrs. Lalu Robinson Jones, the unknown soldier. The address giving the welcome on behalf of the conference was made by Rev. P. A. Wallace, pastor of the Fleet Street Church. Dr. Wallace said that a man of the bishop's ability and power were needed to keep up the high standard of the work, and to carry it to a greater fruition. He said that the forty-five ministers in the conference, and its 3,000 members, would pledge them their loyalty and support. Lawyer E. A. Johnson welcomed the bishop on behalf of the citizens of the city. Mr. Johnson said that the residence of bishop in the city adds much to the spiritual and intellectual side of the city, and that the members of the conference will appreciate his coming to the New York district. He said that he always predicted great success for Bishop Walters when he first saw him in the man he knew to be Fred R. Moore of the New York Ago, spoke for the press, and the Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church, spoke on behalf of that church. At the conclusion of the addresses the various districts of the New York conference made a substantial presentation to the churchman, as well as auxiliaries of the church. Mrs. Walters, the bishop's loyalty help-meet, was presented with many beautiful bouquets. When Bishop Walters rose to respond to the many high complimentes that had been showered upon him, he received a great ovation. He said that he would continue to fight for progressive laws for his church, and that he was grateful for the words of assurance that had been made. He said that he had been a bishop in the Zion Church for twenty-five years, and during that time he had always sought to do his duty to his church and race. DR H. M. GRIFFIN 18 PROMINENT PHYSICIAN Your correspondent will, from time to time, call attention to the success members of the race are making in the professions. In interviewing many of the professional men of the race, I find many of them making noble successes in their work, and who stand high in their respective fields. Last week your correspondent called on Dr. H. M. Griffin, who has an office at 109 West 132d Street, and one of the leading physicians of the city. Dr. Griffin has one of the most inviting and attractive offices to be found in this city, and enjoys large practice. He is thoroughly conversant with every branch of his profession, and has received fine preparation for his work. He has been practicing in this city since 1904, and ranks as one of the best all around men in the profession. He was born in Baltimore, and after going through the public schools of that city, he prepared for college at Wilberforce University, later going to the University of Cincinnati, from which he holds the degree of A. B. He then took his medical course at the Long Island medical college. Besides his general practice, Dr. Griffin is an X-Ray specialist. He is a member of County Medical Society, and the National Medical Association. He has been active in all movements for the civic betterment of the race here, and was instrumental in interesting the late Booker T. Washington in the effort that was being made by the colored people here to build a hospital. Dr. Griffin is a man of striking personality, and readily inspires confidence. He is the type of man that is bringing honor and success to the professional type of Negroes, and winning that amount of respect and confidence from the race at large to honor its well prepared physicians. MRS. HATTIE M. MEADOWS. INDIANAJOLIS WOMAN HERE One of the most interesting women whom your correspondent has met in his rounds, and one who represents a new and distinct field of endeavor among the women of the race, is Mrs. Hattie M. Meadows, the well-known Spiritualist of Indianapolis. Mrs. Meadows is visiting several of the cities of the country, and has included this city in her itinerary. She is a woman of remarkable divine and spiritual insight, and intalking to your reporter, revealed a powerful spiritual gift. She told your correspondent many true things relative to his own life and struggles, said in the city of Indianapolis she is well known as a medium. She holds circles for the most prominent races, in the city of Indianapolis. Mrs. Meadows lives at 514 Fulton Street, where, for the past sixteen years, she has given with much success, spiritual readings. She is accompanied by her daughter, Hentletta, who is a bright little Miss of sixteen, a student in the high schools of Indianapolis. Before returning to her home she will visit Philadelphia, Washington, and Detroit. Mrs. Meadows is a woman of fine forceful personality, and is very enthusiastic over her work. Your correspondent enjoyed and felt talk with her, and he had been in the presence of one truly inspired. While here she stopped at Mrs. J. M. Taylor, 136 West 53d Street. NEGRO LAWYERS HOLD MEETING The meeting at the Salem Lycum last Thursday evening was given by the Negro lawyers of the city. The meeting was held for the purpose of giving the public an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with the lawyers of the race in this city, and to know something of the struggling they are encountering for the race in the courts. E. A. Johnson presided, and made a brief address on the work of the Negro lawyers in the city. The principal address was made by James H. Hayes, one of the best known lawyers of the race, who has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the nation. Mr. Hayes is now residing in Washington, and is in this city forecasting the political event as it pertains to the Negro, Louise A. Leavelle, the lawyer who is running for Assemblyman in this city, was also present and spoke. The meeting was a profitable one, and an effort is being made to have the meeting once a month. George W. Allen, the president of the Lyceum, opened the meeting, and before the meeting a musical program preceded. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. POLICEMAN AND FREEMAN IN A SQUARE H. E. Bowles, a member of Engleigh Company No. 13, was required to apologize to Policeman R. W. Allen in police court, Part II, today for having interfered with the officer who clubbed Solomon Kirby, a Negro, as the latter attempted to stab Patrolman E. T. Dun. Patrolman Allen and Dun arrested Louise Valenline, colored, on a charge of felony last night. While waiting for the police patrol at Sixteenth and Hull streets the officers were approached by Solomon Kirby. When Policeman Dun asked the Negro what was in business the Negro replied, "Anything you want," and made a lunge at him with a knife. Dun caught the uplifted hand and the blade barely grasped his skin. Allen came to the rescue by falling Kirby with a blackjack. It was at this juncture that Fireman Bowles came up and told, Allen that since he had the Negro under arrest it was no use beating him, adding that he "would The Valentine women, the police man, is connected with the theatre committed by Mary Kitson, from whom Policeman Dum took Sings valued at $200 when he arrested her several days ago.—Richmond (Va.) News Leader, Sept. 16, 1916. RACE BUSINESS ADVERTISING. (New York, Age.) The investigation conducted by The Age as to patronage accorded by members of the race to merchandising businesses conducted by Negroes has brought out some interesting facts concerning conditions and has given rise to interesting questions as to what can be done to bring about a favorable change in the present conditions. To a large extent, the articles written by The Age on business conditions have concerned themselves most largely with showing the merchant's side of the case, with reasons why he should be accorded the support of the purchasing class of the race. Consideration of this phase of the question has led naturally to the problem which the Negro merchant must solve in finding a way to place his wares before the public and to purchase those wares to such advantage that he will be enabled to meet any competition from any source. It has been brought out in this investigation that it is not sufficient that a colored man or woman has opened a place of business; it is necessary that the prospective merchant must not only have a complete stock of goods in a well-equipped store, at prices comparing with prices offered by competitors, but he must also let the purchasing public know about his business and what he is offering to attract trade. AN INFLUENTIAL ORGANIZATION One of the most influential factors in this particular has been the Colored Business Men's Association of New York, which, by means of an association organ, The Commercial Outlook, and by a series of public meetings at the various churches of the city, has conducted a campaign of publicity through which the people have been given information concerning the businesses conducted by the men allied with this association. But there are only between thirty and forty members of this association a very small proportion of the Negroes Greater New York who are engaged in business enterprises. And, with one or two exceptions, the entire membership of the association is located in Harlem, the members of the race, conducting businesses in other sections of the city and in Brooklyn are not represented in the organization. So that the publicity campaign of the association will concern only a small part of the Negro business people. SUGGESTIONS TO BUSINESS MEN A suggestion has been made that the Negro business men might adopt to their advantage some such plan as is in use among some white merchants who have formed what they call a Rotary Club. The members of this club are regarded as spokes of a wheel all working together to a common end, whether engaged in the same line of business or in different lines. Union is the prime consideration, and this means combination in advertising in business in reaching customers, and co-operation in selling. It has also been suggested that Negro merchants might profitably adopt a plan by which a house-to-house and block-to-block campaign is inaugurated advising the occupants of every apartment in every house on a particular block of the various businesses catering to their needs operated by Negro merchants, together with list of goods handled and prices at which they are to be sold. This direct appeal to race families, presenting the practical advantage of trading with race merchants, aside from any sentimental aspect, will, it is thought, overcome some of the Invidious prejudice unconsciously felt by members of the fact when the question of patronizing race merchants is under consideration. COMBINE CAPITAL IN BUYING. Many people claim, as an excuse for not patronizing Negro merchants, that the same goods can be purchased for less money from other merchants. If this is true, it is so because the merchants of other races possess larger capital and can purchase goods in larger quantities. But is it suggested to the Negro merchants, that this handicap can be overcome by a combination of resources, such as is to be found in co-operative buying. Members of the Colored Business Men's Association, for instance, engaged in the same line of business, can pool their purchasing capital meningering in the same way have sufficient money to buy goods in largest quantities for the individuals to apportion the purchases according to the amount invested, and so the small merchant with limited capital will give his money the same purchasing power as the merchant with large capital. This would enable the race merchant to sell his goods just as cheaply lead to co-operation in fixing selling by any other merchant. This co-operation in purchasing would naturally lead to co-operation in fixing selling price and to a combining of interests which would work to the advantage of every merchant in the combination. There would be no slackening of competition among the merchants but there would follow a quickening of effort, a toning up of store conditions and all phases of the business would take on a more healthful activity. MERCHANTS SHOULD ADVERTISE The membership of the Colored Business Men's Association should embrace every Negro in Greater New York engaged in business enterprises in our work. And every Negro may the businessmen of each group should be responsible for the group so that the group will not payable goods and to the people know that he is presented to do so. As a matter of fact, the advertising of his business should be as much an expense charge to the merchant as the rental of the building in which to do business. The merchant must realize that a clean, well-lit and complete stock of goods only represents an outlay of capital as long as it remains on his shelves. Just as goods is in inventory to put in stock, so must be in inventory to be paid to customers. The merchant who is looking for customers must remember that the customer is looking for goods. A prospective buyer must find what is wanted before becoming a customer. The merchant who does not keep and will not get what the prospective buyer wants cannot expect to have that person as a customer. In fact, unless the buyer is satisfied, the merchant has no right to expect his trade. It is not sufficient that both are members of the same race. Satisfaction is the basis of all business, and the Negro merchant must give his customer satisfaction -- he will not get the trade. In other words, the Negro merchant must be a real business man before he can hope to have and hold the business to be had from the purchasing class of the race. THE ALLIES TAKE COMBLES The Streets Found Filled With German Dead. FIERCE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT Anglo French Forces Break Way Into Great Teuton Stronghold In-Terrific Smash on Somme. Smashing their way forward in a series of jolt assaults, the allies have captured Combles, after desperate hand-to-hand fighting with the German garrison. This is announced in the official statement from the Paris war office, which adds that the battle north of the Somme is going in favor of the entente allies. The French have also advanced further north of Fregicourt. A vast stock of Munitions and provisions were captured in Combles, the statement says, and the town was found filled with German dead. Attacking the German positions simultaneously from the north and south, the British and French vied with each other to be the first to enter Combies, the honor falling to General Sir Douglas Halgs men. However, the French were able to occupy the southern outskirts and the cemetery on the eastern edge of the town. In the cemetery there was furious fighting over the graves and amidst the tomb stones when the Germans tried to stem the French advance. To the east of Combies the German were rolled back from fortified villages which they strove, stubbornly to hold. By the capture of Freigurt, a mile east of Combies, the allies forged a steel ring around the town and cut the only line of communication the Germans still hold. The Germans tried unsuccessfully to lesson the pressure attacking south of Bethune. These attacks were repulsed. Eight hundred unwounded prisoners were taken in the fighting of Monday says the Paris war office. Violent counter attacks were made by the Germans on the Verdun front, between Tbiumont work and Fleury. These assaults were checked by the French artillery and rifle fire. British and French troops made a concerted attack of great violence on the German lines on the Somme on Monday, the offensive extending from Martinpuch southeasterly to the river, a distance of approximately twelve miles along the irregular front. The British troops in their forward sweep, which won German positions on the six-mile front from Combier to Martinpuch to a depth of a mile captured the fortified villages of Morval and Les Bœuts, directly north of Combies. On their side the French carried the portion of Rancourt (east of Combies) which they had not won before, and reached the outskirts of Freigcourt, still nearer the doomed village. In addition to their gains in the immediate vicinity of Combes, the troop of General Foch, to the southward, advanced their lines east of the Bapatime road to as far as Bouchavannes, which they hold, and also drove the Germans out of several systems of trenches near the Canal du Nord, immediately the La Touche, thus carried, and to word the Sainte. --- IN THE ARMS OF MORPHEUS. There were two parties to this "happening." The party or the first part was a veteran of many a battle with old John Barleycorn," who had been pierced by many a "hot-shot," punctured by many a "high-ball," seen many a "shell glass" exploded to bite and prayed many a prayer. The party of a second part was a brown quadruped, and specifically known in this instance as a horse. There is no doubt of his being a quadruped, as his four legs could be seen sticking out of his body like mortal pigs from a sinner's soul; but the name horse was a mismeron. He had been He committed the act; his friends believe, because of his inability to return to Germany to fight. Riobothger came to this country aboard the Brunsen prior to the beginning of the war and had made unsuccessful efforts to return to Germany. He had been employed as a machinist. Brumbaugh Accepts Air for Routes. and Governor Brumbaenga has not仅vered the national authorities that Pennsylvania would accept federal aid in the construction of postm roads in this state under the provisions of recently enacted law. The government is tried to accept the act in the recess of the legislature. Militia to Check Fire Alarmed by the inability of local authorities to check the spread of fire in the valuable onion beds at and near McGuffey, Mardin county, Ohio, the adjutant general's office ordered Company B. Ninth Infantry. Ohio national guard of Columbus, to go to the scene. Retired Publisher Dies at Reading. Milford N. Kitter, a retired publisher, died in Reading, Pa. He was a member of a family which for many years owned the Reading Adler, a German weekly. He was also the former publisher of the Reading Telegram, an afternoon newspaper. Bridal Pair Killed by Train Joseph Castleman, his bride of an hour and Russell Stephenson, fifteen years of age, were killed when the buggy in which they were returning from the wedding was struck by a Mickel Plate.train at Hammond Ind. President Wilson signed the Philippine bill as moving picture cameras clicked. There is one man who is not afraid to have his mistakes recorded! ```markdown ``` WILSON CONSISTENT ONLY IN HIS VACILLATION. As it is with "war," so it is with "intervention." President Wilson has again and again said he would not "intervene" in Mexico. As a matter of fact he has intervened continuously but as he never followed any policy of either intervention or non-intervention with any resolution—always yielding at the critical moment to some bandit chief of whom he became, fearful—both his spans of intervention and his speams of non-intervention have alike been entirely fittle.—From the Speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, De- livered at Lewiston, Maine, in Bebalf of Charles F. Hughes. Are You Thinking of Getting Married? Mr. and Mrs. William Larry and the bride of your parents at the marriage of their parents Minnie Larry and Mr. Joseph J. Ward Let Us Print Your Wedding Stationery HAPPENED! a horse 'once upon a time' but now he was an emaciated relic of the past. Last week the old vet was returning from a battle with 'the spirits' and he was 'pretty badly done up'. The old nag just jogged along, pulling the buggy which contained his master and veteran. Later on that day the unclein noted that the 'horse' and buggy had been in the place all the evening and on closer investigation, they found the old vet dead asleep and dreaming dreams no mortal man ever dared dream before. One man volunteered to drive the old boy home. He tried to drive off, but couldn't, for the HORSE WAS FAST ASLEEP, TOO! Overland Red By Harry Herbert Kalibba Copyright, 1814, by Houghton Mifflin Co. CHAPTER XII. Silent Saunders. ONE after another, in the course of the two years following Collie's arrival, the old riders of the Moonstone ranch drifted away. There remained but Brand Williams, the foreman; Collie and the sturdy, hard riding Miguel, a young Spanish vaquero, who was devoted to but two things in life, his splendid photo pony and the Moonstone ranch. The others had been lured to the new oil fields up north—to the excitement of Goldfield or to Mexico City, where even more excitement promised. In their stead came new men—Buld Light, Parraon Long, Billy Dime and one Silent Saunders. Louise became acquainted with the new men while riding with her uncle. She was his constant companion in the hills. One by one the new arrivals became devoted to hat. Her sincere interest in the ranch work pleased them, and naturally, for it was their work. Walter Stone was also pleased with his niece's interest in the detail of the ranch work. She was as a daughter to him. Some day the property would be hers. Fully conscious from within herself of her dependence upon her uncle, Louise managed to be of inestimable service. She performed her self-alted tasks without ostentation. She had that rare quality of stimulating enthusiasm among the men—custumism for their work and pride in giving faithful and energetic service—pride in accomplishing a little more each day than was asked or expected of them. Louise's youth, her beauty, her sincerity and, above all, her absolute simplicity of manner commanded admiration and respect among the hard riding Moonstone boys. She was to them a "lady," yet a lady they could understand. Her was a gentle tyranny. A request from her was deemed a great compliment by its recipient. All of them, with the exception of Louise, openly praised her horsemanship, her quiet daring, her uniform kindness. Her beauty had ceased to be commented upon. It was accepted by them as one accepts the fragrant beauty of a rose, naturally, silently, gratefully. Collie had gained in height and breadth of shoulder. He no longer needed instruction in managing broncho stock. He loved the life of the hills—the cool, invigorating mornings, the keen wind of the noon peaks, the placidity of the evening as the stars multiplied in the peaceful sky. He became that rare quantity among cowmen, a rider who handled and mastered unbroken horses without brutality. This counted heavily for him, both with Louise and Walter Stone. Men new to the range laughed at his method of "gentling" force. Later their laughter still to entice desire. Locking his invariable patience, his consistent magnetism, they finally recused their old methods and earned dominance by sheer strength of arm—"main strength and awkwardness," as Williams put it. "It's easy—for him," commented Brand Williams, discussing Collis's almost uncanny quelling of a vicious, unbited mustang. "It's easy. You fellas expect a hose to buck and bite and kick and buffalo you generally. He don't. He don't expect anything like that, and he don't let 'em learn how." "Can you work it that way?" asked Billy Dime. "Nope. I learned the other way, and the hoses knew it. I always had to sweat. He's born to it natural, like a good cow pony is." And Collie looked upon his work as a game—a game that had to be played hard and well, but a game nevertheless. Incidentally he thought often of Overland Red. He had searched the papers diligently for a year before he received the first letter from Overland. The news it contained set Collie to thinking seriously of leaving the Moonstone ranch and joining his old companion in this new venture of gold digging, which, as Overland took pains to explain, was "paying big." But there was Louise. They were great friends. They had even ridden to town together and attended the little white church in the eucalyptus grove. He thought of their ride homeward late that Sunday afternoon. Once and once only had Overland's name been mentioned in the bunk house. Saunders, discussing horses and riders in general, listened to Collie's account of Overland's escape from the deputy. Tenlow. Then he spoke lightly of the feat, claiming that any man who had ever ridden, range could do as much with the right pony. Band Williams tried to change the subject, for shrewd reasons of his own, but Coffie famed up instantly. "I got a little saved up," he said, "mobble $800. She's years if you dast be walk a horse, come or gain, over drift that. Red took on the jump, how you name?" "Not on the bat," replied Baunin. "Be Overland Red is a friend of, oh, oh." Overland Red could ride where you must be walk and drug a baller. Coffie. Then he responded to get a little abused in that he had been trapped into showing temper. Williams the taciturn astonished the bunk house by adding: "The kid is right. Red could outside most men. I was his pal once down in Sonora. There isn't a better two gun artist living." And the lean foreman looked pointedly at Saunders. Saunders smiled emily. He had reason to believe that Williams had spoken the truth. A few weeks later Williams, returning unexpectedly to the bunk house, found Saunders changing his shirt preparatory to a ride to town. The rest of the boys were already on their way to the Oro rancho across the valley. Williams saw two puckered scars, each above the elbow, on Saunders' bared arms. "That was good shootin'," said the foreman, indicating the others scarred arms. "Fair," said Saunders gruffly. "Takes a gun artist to put a man out of business that way and not finish him," said Williams, smiling. "Cholo mixup," said Saunders. "And 'shootin' from the ground at that," continued Williams, "And at a fella on a horse. Easy to see that, for both holes are slantin' up. The shootin' was done from below." Saunders fushed. He was about to speak when Williams interrupted him. "Makes me think of some of Overland Red's—that is, old Red Jack Summer's fancy work. I don't know why," he drawned, and, turning, he left the bunk house. Colle, returning from a visit to the Oro rancho that evening, was met by Williams. The latter was on foot. "Drop into my shack after dark," said the foreman. Then he stepped back into the bushes as the other men rode in. The foreman's interview with Collea that evening was brief. It left a lot to the imagination. "You said too much about Overland Red the other night when you was talkin' to Silent Saunders," said Williams. "He's tryin' to find out somehow. I don't know what he's after. Keep your eye peeled and your teeth on the bit. That's all." A month had passed. The air was warm and clear, the sky intensely blue. Moonstone canyon grew fragrant with budding flowers. The little lizards came from their winter crevices and clung to the sun warmed stones. A cove of young quail fluttered along the hillside under the subtle surveillance of the mother bird. Wild cats prowled boldly on the southern slopes. Cottontaila huddled beneath the grasswood brush and nibbled at the grasses. The canyon stream ran clear again now that the storm washed silt had settled. On the peaks the high winds were cold and cutting, but on the slopes and in the valleys the earth was moist and warm. Louise, humming a song, rode slowly along the Moonstone canyon trail. At the "double turn" in the canyon, where dwelt Echo and her myrmidons, Louise rode more slowly. Dreaming Fance, the cobblers son, took his tools and lace. Wrought har shoes of scarlet dye, aloes as pale as anow. They shall lead her wild roses feet all the fiery pauses. Danced along the road of love, the road much feet should go. She sang slowly, pausing after each line that the echoes might not blur. "Danced along—along the road—of love the road—of love—of love." sang the clatter. Louise smiled dreamily. Then the clatter of Boyer's shied hoops rang and re-echoed, finally to hush in the gravel of the Ford beyond. Why Louise thought of Collie just then it would be difficult to imagine. Still she had caught herself noting lithe details associated with him and his work. He brushed his teeth. Not all of the other men did. He did not chew tobacco. Despite his lack of early training he was naturally pet. He dialled fifth in instinctively. His bits, spurs and trappings shone. He had learned to shoe his string of ponies, an art that is fast becoming lost among present day cowmen. With little comment, but faithful zeal, he copied Brand Williams. This, of course, fattered the taciturn cowman, who unobtrusively arranged Collie's work so that it might bring the younger man before the notice of Walter Stone and incidentally Louise. Of course Louise was not aware of this. The girl no longer sang as she rode, but dreamed, with unseeing eyes on the trail ahead—dreamed such dreams as one may put aside easily until, perchance, the dream converges toward reality, which cannot be so lightly put aside. Brand Williams had his own ideas of romance; ideas pretty well submerged in the depths of hardy experience, but existing nevertheless and as innervable as the bed of the sea. He hedgarded Collie whenever he chance to have seen him with the rose girl, and smiling inwardly at the young man's indignation, he would straightway arrange that Collie should ride to town for, say, a few pounds of staples wanted in a hurry, when he knew that the backboard would be going to town on the morrow and also that there were plenty of staples in the store. THE NICHMOND PLANET, NICHMOND, VIRGINIA Something of the kind was afoot, or rather, a saddle, as Louise rode down the Moosestone trail, for beyond the turn, and the ripping fodd she saw a little, blue shirtd figure that she knew. Louise would not have admitted even to herself that the urged Boyar. Nevertheless the reins tightened and slackened gently. Boyar swung into his easy lope. It pleased the girl that Colle, turning in his saddle at the sound of hoofs, waved a salute, but did not check his horse. He had never presumed on her frank friendship and "taken things for granted." He kept his place always. He was polite, a little reticent and very much lore with Louise. Louise did not pretend to herself that she was not aware of it. She was all the more pleased that Colle should act so admirably. She had loaned him books, some of which he had read faithfully and intelligently. In secret he had kissed her name written on the sifflon of each of them. He really rather adored Louise than loved her, and he built well, for his adoration (unintimate) as adoration must ever be until perchance it touches earth and is translated into love) was of that bilthe and inspiring quality that lifts a man above his natural self and shapes the lips to song and the heart to unselfish service. He knew himself to be good looking and not altogether a barbarian. No morbid hopeless clouded his broad horizon. He knew himself and cherished his strength and his optimism. He ate slowly, which is no insignificant item on the credit side of the big book of Success. Collie lifted his broad brimmed hat as Louise rode up. His face was flushed. His lips were smiling, but his dark eyes were steady and grave. "Morning, Collie! Boyar is just bound, to lose. He never can bear to have a horse ahead of him." "He don't have to very often," said Collie. "Of course there are Kentucky saddle horses that could beat him. But they are not cow ponies." "No. And they couldn't beat him if they had to do his work in the hills. About a week of the trails would kill a thoroughbred." "Boyar is very conceived, aren't you, boy?" And she petted the sleek arch of his neck. "I don't blame him," said Collie, his eyes twinkling. "Going all the way to town?" asked Louise. "Yes. Brind wants some things from the store." "I'm going to the station. We expect a telegram from some friend. Maybe they'll be there themselves. I hope not though. They said they were coming tomorrow, but would telegram if they started sooner. We would have to get Price's team and backboard, and I'd be ashamed to ride behind his horse, especially with my -my friend from the east." "Boyar and this here buckakin colt would make a pretty fair team," ventured Colle, smiling to himself. "To drive? Heaven's, Colle, not They've neither of them been in harms." "I was just imagining," said Colle. "Of course," exclaimed Louise, laughing. "I understand. Why, I must be late. There's the train for the north just leaving the station. I expected to be there in case the Marshals did come today. But they said they'd telegram." "I can see three folks on the platform," said Colle. "One is the agent. See his cap shirt? Then there's a man and a woman." "If It's Aime she'll never forgive me. She's so formal about things. It can't be the Mascalls, though." "We can title," suggested Collie. And the two james leaped forward. A little trail of dust followed them across the valley. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "We have one priceless treasure in this country, and that is the reign of good judgment after public discussion. In the long history of the people, victory after victory has been won over tyranny and force. We have a free, press, we have a free form of public discussion, to the end that there may be a general understanding of our activities and a general appreciation of what is necessary to the improvement of our conditions. We may disagree about this measure or that, but we have confidence in the public judgment in the long run. Hence there is one thing which we must always maintain, and that is that there shall be no action on the part of our elected representatives, taken under pressure, under dictation. We must know what the facts are and what justice requires."—Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. --- --- HOME OF THE BRAVE. "This is the land of the free and the home of the brave, and if it causes to be the home of the brave it will soon come to be the land of the free."—Charles M. Hurden in a Speech Delivered at Ft. Jackson, N. Y. Papers that used to call McKinlay a creek and floodeve a tyrann are standalised now that anybody should breathe a whisper against our breath and body Woolrow. DR. HARVEY W. WILEY TO VOTE FOR HUGHES. DR. HARVEY W. WILEY TO VOTE FOR HUGHES. He Baye Wilson Has Failed to Enforce Pure Food Law. "I favor the election of Mr. Hughes to the presidency for entirely different reasons than he made by most of his supporters. It is not because of the Mexican policy nor the foreign policy of the administration nor by reason of its domestic policies. It is because of the apparent lack of conscience of the administration of President Wilson to the cause of pure foods and drugs. Practically all of the abuses which were included into the pure food law by the preceding administrations are still in force. I am aware of a still still ignorant. The times of killing soldiers are mere thing along undisturbed. There is evidence n and in the activities of the administration on the law. A weakened law, because declared by the supreme court unbranded and amenable to the toil law has been molested. No acceptance had been made to enforce the law to regard to the bleaching of flour. The repeal of the mixed flour law, that special safeguard to the purity of our bread, has been tactfully approved by the treasury department. "Mr. Hughes in his activities on the supreme court has stood like a stone wall for the proper administration of the food law. I believe his election would see a radical change in the attitude of the government towards pure food and pure drugs, so vital to the welfare of our people. 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ALPNEUS SCOTT (CINEMA MILK) Funeral Director and Buffalner OFFICIAL MEMBER Officer, 8000 P Street, Plain, Midland, 1837—Midland, 1839 St. Augustine St., Plain, Midland, 6000 ```markdown ``` All communications intended for publication must be received at the Post Office at Bishkek, Va. as second class mail. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916 Do right and fear not People who earn money can save it Let us practice economy and study politeness. A dead bull dog 12, to be preferred to a live dog. Save your money. If you can secure any to save colored men, continue to pray as work, and work and pray. Colored folks are the happiest race of people on the face of the globe. Right will eventually triumph for wrong can flourish for only a little white. colored folks' prayers are still ringing up to heaven and some of the white folks know it. --- Gop is raising up white friends for us, and by our own upright conduct we can help Gop in this matter Colored men, he honest and trustworthy, he not fear evil or quarrel before the wrong door. Evil minded persons, who plot and scheme to injure us, will have their trouble for their paths Make friends with the better class of white people, and you need no worry about the hatred of the worst class. It is right and proper to trust in the Lord. He will help you if you will help yourself. This is a world of trouble. One class of people is busily scheming to take advantage of the other class. --- Colored men exercise patience and show a many spirit. It is not necessary to be boorish and resulting in order to do this. Some people pray for things to come to pass. Then they sit down and wait. They do pass, but to the other person, who happens to be hustling to meet them. When the nations of the world be came too paramonious, deceitful and untrustworthy, one towards the other, the war came, and millions of them have been destroyed. Sin and corruption will invariably produce these results. JUDGE WARDILL'S DECISION. JUDGE EDWARD WARDILL, JR., of the United States District Court, has made permanent the injunction granted to ATTORNEY J. THOMAS NEWCOMB and his associate in the aggregation case in Newport News, pending the decision in the case now before the Supreme Court of the United States. This is the course, we have always recommended. It was difficult to get Richmond attorneys to understand this. It is through the injunctional efforts that immediate relief can be obtained. What has been done for Newport News can be done for Richmond. There can be no doubt but what the aggregation laws now upon the ordinance books of any city in this country are in plain violation of the Constitution of the United States. They interfere with property rights, and this interference cannot be legal. ly tolerated. Judge WADDILL, in granting the plea of Attorneys Newsome and WALKER, has done as much for the white property owners of the country as he has for the colored property owners. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? We noticed with downright regret the agitation over the National Training School for Women and Girls, which institution we learn was founded by Miss NANNIE C. BURROGUR, and operated under an independent charter. It seems that an effort is being made to so control this school as to cause the founder to rest the right, title and interest in the National Baptist Convention. President E. C. Morris, and his advisers know their business, but it seems to us not to be cut of place to attend a timely warning. It will not do to sit up too much game in the woods at the same time. If the hunter expects to bag any considerable portion of it. We are not sufficiently well-posted to know the points at issue, but it seems to us that one fight at a time should be enough. This school is not an institution for profit in the sense that the National Baptist Publishing Haito at Nashville purports to be. It is an item of expense and will create a further deficit in the treasury of the National Baptist Convention. We do not belong to that class of people who expect "to get something for nothing." The meeting of the National Baptist Convention at Savannah was a great success, but some leather men that body could have ignored maximum "Let sleeping dogs lie." NANNY H. BRUNSTON is one of the most brilliant colored women in the United States. She has given life to the work. Let us proceed in distracting her in the realities of her life ambition. PETERSBURG NOTES. Littersburg, Va. The Democratic party is full of contradiction and affliction. The railroad companies around here are breaking the records in killing men. Who is to blame? Is the question Justice in these days of great civilization and progress leewards towards the money, the reform, where does the poor colored man come in, for his share? Deacon Alexander Peles, of the Gilbert Baptist Church, is the oldest deacon in the city, from point of service. PERHAPS FATAL ACCIDENT. Norman Stanford, a 12-year-old boy, was thrown from a wagon of the Pittsburgh Dairy Company on the morning of September 15. Two ribs were broken, and the child was otherwise very painfully injured. The soldier waven was struck by a car of the Virginia Railway and Power Company on the Chiscaffield side of the Appomattox River, near the Colonial Heights. The boy is the son of Mrs. H. H. McCormick, born in North Carolina, and Mr. N. H. History Street. Young Stanford is now in the Petersburg hospital. We are glad that the superintendent of public schools is a man who is able to observe the doings of all those who have our children in charge. His recent lecture to the teachers was a masterpiece when he said that we must have those who are competent to instruct. Rev J. B. Brown of the Zion Baptist Church, is a British subject, who not a present willing to take out his present to be taken under protection and rights that are accorded to the Afro-Americans in these of vasilating days of justice. We cannot enjoy complete freedom of political rights unless we rule and have our representatives in the law making bodies, of the nation and state, this doctrine is as true as the great law of nature. Mrs. Lucerne Brewer is one of the oldest living citizens in the city of Petersburg, and now lives with her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Clarke, on Perkertown. The historic Harrison Street Stantl Church still stands as a monument to the Afro-American former worth. Though battle scared, she has never lost a battle. Let our race leaders read the editorials of the Richmond Planet for inspiration, and for manhood, let the masses read. We are learning to blow our own horns and the other fellow's afterward. Lawyer Pollard's recent arrest was nothing more than the usual effort us with the idea that a colored man must not offer any protection to our women, when in the hands of Negrobeaters. MEMORIAL BENEFIT Grand Quartette Contest at the City Quartette Monday, October 16, 1916. Three prizes are offered, among which a Loving Cigar will be donated by Schwarchild Brothers first prize. General admission, 15c; reserved seats, 20c. Don't miss this rare entertainment given by sale at Strans Cigar Co. corner 10th and Main; Crenshaw Cigar Co. corner 11th and Main; Walter D. Moses, 103 E. Broad; Corley Co., 213 E. Broad; Miller's Hotel, corner 2nd and Leach; University Pharmacy, 825 W. Leigh; Central Pharmacy, 1st and Federal; R. C. Scott, 2120 E. Mals; W. I. Johnson's, South Richmond. Contest is given for the Colored Women's Auxiliary of the Memorial Hospital, Mrs. N. V. Randolph, chairman; Mrs. L. Lomisia, I. Wood and Mr. Jas. M. Prayer manager. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA against the rules, and he did not like it." THE DISINFECTING FLUID WORKED. I sprinkled some disinfectant in that compartment, to run them out. I laughed heartily. It reminded me of the policeman's trouble on the C. & O. Railroad excursion train. That disinfectant is used in the toilets there, too. Two people, either male or female, who can stand it for any length of time, must necessarily be hardened subjects. I took about an hour after reaching the outkinds of Chicago, to reach the Pennsylvania Station. A RICHMONDER THERE. TOO. I was due to leave at 6 P. M., over the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fo Railroad. I strode out to Dearborn Street, meeting Mr. J. A. P. Graham, formerly of Richmond, Va. He is now a "red cap" at the Santa Fo Railroad Station. I took a car up to the neighborhood of 338 Street. I walked up Vernon Avenue in front of a house in Richmond where I was photographing a house where a funeral was going on. He stated that the dead man was named Harry Sellers. PHOTOGRAPHING THE DEAD. He told me about several other bodies that he had photographed. I saw no hairs or carriages, and I learned that the body was to be shipped away. Next door, except for a vacant lot, was the bungalow of Attorney Edward H. Morris Most orphaned Grand Master of the G. U. O of Old Fellow. It was boarded up after the style adopted by wealthy white people. Some one said that Mr. Morris was at Bar Harbor, Me. A TYPICAL SCENE. The English Illinois Infantry army building was closed. The barricade were closed, but the barber shops and moving picture houses were wide open. Men were digging up the streets and making repairs. Crowds of colored people could be seen on State Street of the good time class. Clerk women were there. I saw H. L. Jackson's birth certificate. He was in business for forty years and he had worked for me. How things had changed. I stepped upstairs to the office door and shoved my card under the same, and then passed down to the street below. THE RACES DRAW-BACK What could be done with this "hammer on" crowd of colored men? They appeared to "neither tell nor spin" One thing I knew, they lowered the race's standard in proportion as the industrious hard-working business elements of the Southland raised it up I went to 30th Street and found that it was on the corner of 30th and "Dearborn Street." Some one told me that Rev. W. D. Cook, D. J. was the master IN A CHURCH AT LAST I had known him for many years, and I wanted to speak to him. I went into the 50th Street entrance. The church appeared to front on Dearborn Street, and according to all of the prevailing rules of architecture, I should have been going into the poetry. I followed the crowd and then I found out that I was inside of the Bethel A. M. E. Church. Its front was one way and its pulpit was another. HALTED AT THE DOOR. When I attempted to enter, an usher halted me and I found a collection basket or plate presented at my breast with the command, "A sell ver offering, please." I ran my hand into my pocket. A coin rolled to the floor. I picked it up and put it into the basket and I sat down in one of the seats. Then the congregation was seated. The usher gesturing out unless all on the row stood up to let the retiring communicant pass. A FINE STRUCTURE Still, this church is a magnificent one. For more than an hour I contemplated its beauty and listened to the excellent renditions of the artists, who interested and pleased the large audience assembled there. The presiding officer announced that Chicago was the musical center of the United States. The high class renditions to which I listened established the fact that his statement was no empty boast. ACCOMPLISHED ENTERTAINERS The artists who entertained the people were Miss Mattie Miller, Dr. Paul V. Crosstowale, Mme. Blanche Dorsey Peyton, Mr. Madison C. B. Mason, Jd., Mrs. Fannie Halt-Cillt, Mme. Marnie Reedof Adama, Mr. Walter Gossette, Mr. Wm. A. Halm, Mr. James A. Mundy, the choir master, possesses rare ability. From a lofty perch, that seemed at times dangerously uncomfortable, he wielded the baton and the sword, he danced the music. Miss Lillian Hunt was the organist. They called the entertainer "The Original Chicago Pleasant Sunday Afternoon." The collection was $26.50. BISHOP COPPIN HOLDS It was after 5 o'clock, and I learned that Bishop L. J. Coppin, D. D., was holding an annual conference in Chicago. It was too late for me to see him then, and I hurried to the State Street set, the moment later I met the station. The porter took my parcel checks for my account, my malk hat case, and my suitcase. I was somewhat uneasy, but he reached the-Pulliman about five minutes before leaving time. THE OBJECT OF CONSIDERATION. He had spread the news and I found myself the object of consideration at the hands of Porter G. Marshall, of Chicago. Later, I went to the dining car. It was packed. I tried again in the third minute of an hour. The people had "thinned out" out, but the steward politely requested me to have a seat in the other car; and I could be accommodated in a short while. I was tired. My berth had been made up and in a few moments I was in bed. WANTED TO FEED ME The porter canad and informed me that the white steward had sent for me in the diner. I told him I had retired. Thon came another message. He wanted to know if I would like to have a light luncheon served in the kitchen and I told him I would until morning was up early in the morning. The porter laughingly told me about the occurrence of the night before. THE PORTER SENT THE CARD. "The white steward sent down to know, who you were," said he. "I would not tell him. I sent him the card you gave me. After that, he wanted to serve you lunch in your berth." And so it goes. I began to think. It depends upon the man. He I was, a member of the deepest lions, with the greatest opportunity to rise above my surroundings—the conditions which served as a doolstone to hold the aspiring men of my race down. WELL TREATED THERE. I sanktered into the dining car for breakfast. A polite white steward came to greet me. He arranged my chair, placed the order blank at my fingers' ends, while I mechanically wrote out what I wanted, and gazed out of the window at the country fields and watched the rain as it heat harmlessly upon the panes of the Santa Fe train, which was rapidly approaching the outskirts of Kansas City, Missouri. WHITE " RED CAPS." When I arrived at Union Station, I found it much like New York. White men wore red caps, though instead of cloaked men. One of them grappled my luggage and a few moments later I was on the outside where Dr. S. H. Thompson hastened to greet me. A moment later, I was in his fine Hudson automobile, seven passenger, with my luggage, and a shoe while afterwards. I was at his palatial house on the corner of Eighth and Everett Streets, Kansas City, Kansas. A PALATIAL PRIVATE DWELLING This residence is built on a corner. The lot is a frontage of 54 by 166 feet. The magnificent lawn is a feature. The hardwood floors are beautiful and costly embellishments add to the comfort of this magnificent home. Its accomplished Madison, two beds and two girls greeted me. I wanted to the upper chamber, which was to be my home for a week, patronized his bathing establishment at once, and down to breakfast with him. WENT DOWN TO REGISTER Then we went to Hotel Mucklebok* where I secured the desired information. This is one of the finest hostels. If not the finest in the city, This palatial office and the Hotel Palmim are used as the headquarters of the American Banker Association. In the latter hotel hundred of the wealthy men who were congregants went to the secrecy were congregated in my card to the biographer. She passed to me the type written card. I took it to the local committeeman. He looked at me and then at the card. C O U L D NOT UNDERSTAND IT. He hefted it. Then he boiled post-haste to the Assistant Secretary, Mr. W G. Pittwilson. I turned my head, and when he returned somewhat abashed, but smiling, I met him with a smile, received the official badge in invitations and how he moved. I moved to backyards. This is a sigh-long to he remembered. Cattie were being hurried into the stockades. THE STOCK-YARDS Strong men, some of them six feet tall, rode fine horses in among these cattle, while attendants distributed labs of hay or alfalfa to them. They would remain here until the time of slaughter. Up to 10 A. M. that Monday morning, for the day alone, 25,000 head of cattle had been received. On an average of seven days this man, 266,000 cattle in one week. The number of horses was, 18,000; sheep, 15,000; and it required 1,620 cars to transport them. THE CHICAGO RECORD The bulletin showed that the number of cattle received in Chicago was up to 10 o'clock that day (less than half a day), 23,000; hogs, 32,000; sheep, 23,000. It was said that this was a remarkably successful season. I left the stock-yards, went to the Union Station, secured the other case that I had checked through, and a few moments later I settled in my cozy home, where I proceeded to tell about what I had seen on my long journey. JOHN MICHELLE. JR. Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 25, 1916. GUNNER ISSUES FINAL CALL TO COLORED CONGRESS Will Meet at Washington, D. C. October 4-5-6 On Rights of Hillburn, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1918. Fellow Citizens—In August, a president of the National Equal Rights League, I issued a call for its 5th annual meeting. Included in that call was an appeal to our people in all sections to come together in a National Congress of Colored Americans to voice the feelings and views of the race on the shameful conditions surrounding us and to describe the most offensive, vile and insane for combating color segregation and all other forms of color oppression. OCT. 4, 5 AND 6: 1916. After an unavoidable delay, happily, now we can announce the exact date and edition for the gathering. Hence I hereby issue this formal call for the 9th annual meeting of the National Equal Rights League and for the National Citizenship Rights Congress of Colored Americana, to convene, the Congress on Wednesday, Thursday and the League on Friday, Oct. 4, 5 and 6, 1916, in Washington, D. C. at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Fourteenth and Corcoran streets, N. W. WORK EARNESTLY Now, Follow Countrymen, let us go to work with great earnestness in a strong, united effort to bring together a large number of influential Colored Americans from all sections of the country. SOUTHERN RAILWAY announces reduced fares from stations on its lines in Virginia account State and County Faires to be held this Season, as follows: MECKLENBURG COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR, CHASE CITY. VA. Round trip tickets will be sold October 1st to 6th, inclusive, with final return limit October 8th, 1916. INTERSTATE FAIR, LYNCHBURG. VA. Round trip tickets on sale October 2nd to 6th, inclusive, with final return limit October 7th, 1916. VIRGINIA STATE FAIR, RICHMOND. VA. Round trip tickets on sale October 8th to 14th, inclusive, with final return limit October 16th, 1916. DANVILLE FAIR. DANVILLE. VA. Round trip tickets on sale October 7th to 13th, inclusive, with final return limit October 16th, 1916. HALIFAX COUNTY FAIR, SOUTH BOSTON, VA Round trip tickets will be sold October 22nd to 27th, inclusive, with final return limit October 29th, 1916. For additional information call diedock Agent, Southern Railway, or write Magnus Deut, District Passenger Agent, Richmond, Va. FLORENCE. S. C. Florence, S. C – Mrs. Arzney Nixon, of Waycross, Gla. and children, Marlott Sisle, left the city recently for Richmond, Va. Mrs. Theresa Manning and daughter, Margaret, of Marlton, S. C., are visiting in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Ada Knight and husband, Charley, passed through the city recently on route to Sanford, Fla. They are traveling to Jackson, N. C. Mr. R. Dawkins, of Raden, N. C. is on route to Sumter, S. C. Miss Roxie Hampton spent a few days in Sumter recently on business. She is taking music and manual training. Mr. Everett Knight, of Scranton, S. C has returned from Knoxville, Chattanooga and Chicago. He is with the Pulitzer Company. Miss Lily Digget, of Dillon, S. C. has returned from a visit to Asheville, N. C. Mr. G. Carold, of Mullins, S. C. passed through the city recently, returning from Charleston, on route for home. Mrs. Estelle Bacote, of Society Hill S. C. was a delegate to the B. M. C. at Washington, D. C. When seen at the station, she said her trip was a pleasant one. She represented Local Lodge, No. 250. Nora Moss, of Oats, C. having been operated upon at the in-fermary left for home on the Scarborough Wednesday evening. Mr. Bess is a first class merchant at Oats, S. C. Mrs. Darcass Mills, mother of Mr. Eugene Robinson, of the A. C. L. painting force, died at Sumter, S. C. recently. She was 88 years of age. Mr W. M. Butler, of Sanford, Fla., passed through the city recently on route to Richmond, Va., on a pleasure trip. Mr W. M. Simmons, a prosperous farmer of Timmonsville section, passed through the city recently on route to Kingstree, S. C. on business. He will gather fourteen or more hales of cotton this year. He recently sold a hale for $118.00. About 80 Negro laborers from Savannah, Ga., disbanded because we would have worked would be given to Pittsburgh. Da but when they reached here, they were side-tracked for North Carolina. Ninety-nine persons were baptized at Trinity Baptist Church morning and evening, Sunday, September 23d. Rev C. T. Taylor, pastor. Mr. Chat Harrison, a first class ice cream, cold drinks and grocery man of North Dargan Street, is succeeding nicely, and giving satisfaction. Rev W. P. Weston, of Mullina, S. C. preached for Rev. Butler at Flat Creek Baptist Church, Darlington County, recently. Mr. Walter Vanderhoost, of South Island, Georgetown, S. C. passed through the city recently from Porto Rico. He will soon leave for Mexico. Robert Webster was baptized at Trinity Baptist Church Sunday, September 24, 1916. E. B. WEBSTER. CULLINGS FROM DONORA, PA. (By "Doc.") Donora, Pa.—Thanks to many of them for your patronage last week, jumping from ten copies to twenty-five copies weekly, surely shows that The Richmond Planet is in demand in this territory, irrespective of other Negro journals right in our mouth, which falls to place notes of our town in its columns unless we sell twenty-five copies each week. It's the old adage, "You may lead a hoo to water, but you can't make him drink." Again, the Richmond Planet's correspondent heartily thanks you for your patronage. with the Mia Miyagi, but now connected with the "Pittsburgh Coal Company," in a popular visitor and associate-counsel of the Augustate National News paper Exchange. The popular Mr. Morgan who stands in South Donora, visited Waynesburg Pa., last week in company with his father-in-law, who has been a visitor in this city for the past week. The Union Band of Monon City, under the direction of Mr. Winbush, certainly made a grand showing ahead of the Uniform Ranks, K. of Pa., last Sunday, and among those that were very conspicuous in the parade were French Green, of Elizabeth Pa.; Bad Bryant, of Claton, Pa., and Lee Holmey, of Simpson, Lieut. Wm. Hettrick and Cary Gibson, of Mckeesport, and that popular Major, who is chief at the Indians Hotel, and the over faithful "Dave." Our fifteen candidates were initiated into the O. B. P. O. E.'s of W. last Thursday evening. Many but-of-town faces were numbered, and the goat, when last seen grazing, looks very healthy according to reports. The new stage for the Donora Music Hall was completed on Saturday last, and was installed in the hall by Messrs. Madison and Ward, the booking agent. We are glad to see that step for the stage that the two companies played on a couple of weeks ago was a sight, and it is a wonder who wasn't hurt before now. Success to you and the Interpreting Ford Morgan, Gill and the Interpreting Ford Those Rancy Brothers have just received a large consignment of goods from a prominent New York business firm for distribution among their colored patrons. More power to the boys. They sure are hunters. I am certainly glad some people arrived home after a vacation in the South. I wonder who will be next? Though I am informed that a revival and a parishioner will attend the Rancy Convention in Washington, D.C., April 4, 5 and 6. Say, Hoots, who are there on carts, that every time a colored show plays Donora, Pa., have to lay off two or three days? Elz? With the Donora American across the street and the Equitable National News Bureau close by, it is very ergl dent that the white and colored press will be closely affiliated, but the Richmond Planet's Branch Office is keeping a close watch on all the proceedings. Reid and subscribe for the Richmond Planet and get the first run news in the colored world. Mr. Banks, of Cleveland, Ohio, has opened up a very fine tonsil and pool parlor in this city in conjunction with the Banks Restaurant, which is one of Donora's best features, which is capably managed by his wife, who is in-date caterer and a former Bostonian. The Donora I R. P. O. E.'s of W. made a great display in the gala day parade in Belle Vernon, Pa., on Monday last, and say, boys, they certainly did try hard for that silk flag, didn't they? Don't tell us what you did when you were "down home," but tell us what you are doing in Donora, Pa., and the Richmond Planet will advertise your wares to the general public simply for your subscription of $1.00 per year. Address Wm. H. Ward, manager Equitable National Newspaper Company, 306 McKean Avenue, Donora, Pa. Rev. O. E. Gassaway filled the pulpit at the First Baptist Church, Donora, Pa. on Sunday last, at the usual hour. His sermon was from Exodus, 3rd chapter, and touched heartily many christians. Rev. Gassaway is a preacher and a grand organ and vocal instructor. His home is in Finloyville, Pa. Mr. C. H. Lions is one of our popular grocerymen in the city, and because of our race, surely should receive our manhattan support. He carried a full line of groceries. Eighth Street, adjoining his palatial residence. Mr. Lampkins, one of Donora's enterprising young men, has opened up a real estate and insurance office in conjunction with Richard Morgan, the barber, next to the skating rink on Meldon Avenue. These colored men who are constantly creating white men's colored clubs and belts have been involved in operations, as the Planet's representative knows you and certainly will expose those same parties through these columns. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Last Friday night was a very pleasant hour with the Y. M. C. A. Literary. The men were much pleased with the address which was delivered to them by Mr. T. Johnson, of Charlottesville, Va. Last Sunday found something for every man to do. The meeting (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. for the workers was a live one. At 10 A. M., the committee found much work to be done in the city fall, and the results were encouraging. The work in the city home by the committee was of a great help to the inmates. (10 A. M.) The special meeting was held for the women in the penitentiary and the hour, was a very profitable one. (10 A. M.) At 4 P. M. the boys met at the Y. M. C. A. to hear President John S. Powell, who knew just what to say to them. Subject: "Plus and Minus." His thoughts were followed very closely by the boys, after which a vote was taken and every boy stood for Plus. The solo by Captain Henry Mallary, Jr. accompanied by Captain George Burrell, was a great hit. The group greeted the greeters. The Blues won, under the direction of Captain Mallory, after a great fight with the Blues under the directions of Captain Burrell. Mothers we thank you. This meeting will not be forgotten very soon. Mr. J. H. Baylor made quite an impression upon the man (5:20 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A., by the very timely address which he delivered to them. Subject: "Rathfalsung." Every man was satisfied. The violin solo by Mr. John Johnson, accompanied by Mr. Wycker, was enjoyed by all. The meeting was a good one. Today (5 P. M.) you and your friend are invited to the Y. M. C. A. to hear the explanation on the Sunday School lesson, by Dr. W. H. Stokes, master of the Music Department. first Church. Be on time. Tell in the opening for the meeting. Women and men are invited. Have a time. Sunday ready for both work and the other men. Come to the meeting for the conference. ($.25 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. A special meeting for begin, under the directions of Commissieur C. B. Bastion. (A. P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Coho and bring the other boy. At the Sharon Baptist Church. ($ P. M.) the work for the season will be launched and Dr. A. R. Thomas, pastor of the church, will presach a special sermon. The choir of the church will sing. Women and men are invited to this joint meeting with the church. Be on time. The Y. M. C. A. a night school is now open and ready to help all who may be in need of assistance. Come! The Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course will be opened by Dr. R. V. Foyton, Monday, October 16th. 8:30 P. M., at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Lawyer J. Thomas Howlin, will introduce the speaker, Music by the choir of the church. Admission, a silver offer at the door. Do not fall to hear the doctor. Watch for his subject. He still needs of your prayers. The Y. M. C. A. thanks you; for you have helped us much by remembering us in your prayers. The Bible Class for men is open to help. Do not forget that the boys have a special Bible study. DR. LYMAN ABBOTT ON TEMPERANCE New York, N. Y.-Dr. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and present editor of The Outlook Magazine, New York City, in an article which was printed in the Ladies' Home Journal, writes: "Are not the temperance folks, unconsciously perhaps, to blame for a very general interpretation of the word temperance as applied only to a beautiful word, "temperance." Can you not tell folks that it applies to all things in life and that the reverse, in temperance, is just as true of religion as of drink? "We have robbed the word 'temperance' of much of its noble significance by applying it only to alcoholic drinks, as we have robbed the word 'charity' of much of its significance by applying it only to gifts of money. I should not, however, say that it was a good use of language to speak of one as being intemperate in religion. Temperance-means self-control, and generally is applied to the control of the body and its appetites and passions by the intelligence and the will. A physician in one of our great hospitals in New York, who is himself a practical if not an absolute total abstainer, once told me that tea leabliness is the work of the working women of New York and that it was a fair question if as much injury were not done by intemperate use often as by intemperate use of beer. No man has a right to call himself temperate who has not attained the power of, self-control." SHOT FOR WHISTLING Carlisle Boy Opens Fire at Friend for Not Quitting Because he would not quit whitling when so ordered by a boy friend, sixteen year-old William Whitman, of Enola, near Carrick, Pa., dies fatally wounded in the hospital. Young Whitman was sitting on a bridge near Summerhale Park, whitling 'silently, when Clarence Horon, seventeen year-old, of Enola, told him to quit, pointing at Whitman a small rite with which the lads had been shooting a mask. Whitman, with his friend in fun, paid no attention to the threat of Horon's to shoot him, wile he was carried suddenly into effect. Horon was placed in jail. SPECIAL NOTICE TO: COLORED RAILROAD EMPLOYEES In order to secure all the benefits under the eight hour bill passed by Congress Saturday Sept. 3; 1916, a colored Brotherhood of Fireman, Brakamen and Tailors is now in course of being organized. To perfect this organization it is absolutely imperative that the name of each and every man engaged in either of the mentioned occupations be forwarded to the appropriate number, 1853, 10th St. N. W. Washington D. C. Full information of all particulars will be furnished upon receipt of name and address. FREE TO COLORING WOMEN OUR 1916 STYLE BOOK --- Now Running at the Hippodrome Every Tuesday. Adventures of the famous Written by Beatrice Fairfax From the Scenario by Basil Dickey Everything You Read Here Today You Can See This Week At Leading Motion Picture Theatres in Vivid Motion Pictures Produced by the Famous WHARTON Studio for This Newspaper It was written on a Western Union telegraph blank. If a sentimental, loveliness "man" of eighteen had sent it, I would have been delighted. My waste basket—but it came from a kiddie I pictured red hair and a snub nose and frockles as I read the penciled lines: "Dear Miss Fairfax: "I am fourteen years old and am in jeopardy. I am learning telegraphy. How soon can I ask her to marry me? Please telephone reply. A moment later I had the operator in the Western Union office. And she compiled sheerly with my help, queen the sum of the Giltman nice, clean embroidery boy's voice as came back to me over the phone. "I'm studying telegraphy, Miss Fairfax—studying awful hard. I know most of the Morse alphabet, but I don't know boy's voice fast. Don't you think I got prospecta," asked the boy, with a funny admixture of earnestness and shame that made me know he was one of those dear Peter Pan lads who never grow up to be blaze and indifferent. "You look bright, Billy. But you can't marry on your present salary," said I, and I felt that there was a friendly smile creeping right out over the yirres from my voice. Then I hung up the receiver and turned a black-brown young gentleman named Marton. Jimmy's face was never made for sowling, but he was managing to twist it into something strongly resembling a jealous sowling. I spoke to him and he did answer for a minute, and then suddenly in answer he voiced he fairly growled in "Who's Billy." That was most surprising! I like boys, you know and I felt sad. I didn't know who needed a bit of mothering. I started to smile at him in friendly fashion, but then the absurdity of his attitude annoyed me and I did not know what was not in the habit of being questioned about my friends. It actually seemed that Jimmy Barton was going to interfere, with my work if I didn't put him very definitely and rather successfully in the background. The days work got itself done with the ease and facility which sometimes lightens the burden of toller. Just as I was finishing, my dead friend, I was glad to ask me I wouldn't like to take her car and drive out in the country for an hour or so. A spin in the country was just the tonic and stimulant I wanted, and when I took down a lifter friend, I and span and span my thoughtful friend had loaned me I appreciated the delicacy which had let me take it all by myself. Out over the road I drove, through sweet-smelling fields and into the wide spaces where I had jogged skyline of teaching up reaching on the plaid blue sky. On and on I drove, thinking happily of how I loved my work and the companionship it brought me and how I loved my friend, with all the joy and my love up to the lowest abode where ugly human passions play and up to the heights where there is self-forgetfulness and noble love. This was the way of it: Buddely I found myself on a lonely road about an hour from New York. I had not passed a car for quite awhile and I was thinking that I had better return to the haunts of men, when a great, dark limousine came tearing down the road toward me like some ugly monster conjured up from It hurried toward me with an attendant rowd of dust swirling about it, thudded heavily over a great jut in the road, swerved a bit, and then they saw it. It were the suggerernal car of ancient fable. I looked after the car, but at the sidedle I saw something which made me rolling Mrs. Arthur's car to a sudden standalde. I knew she would have forgiven me or setting the brakes so hurriedly had she seen there the dusty little figure X in the roadside. I snort and quiet he lay there—a little lad, mysteriously hurled off into space by that, speeding black car. But as I got to the side he was manning a gun. I bit interested in his bumps and bruises, but pointed frantically after the disappearing car and bristled in a tone which brooked of no denial. Oh, please, please don't stop for anything but that one. I can't let it get out of my chest—he's got my sweetheart in it." IGINA. "I've got to' save Jean—nobody else knows except me, but Billy Dran is going to be her cavalier, just like he was in IGINA." "Billy Dran!" I cried. Billy Dran—well, and do you know who it is you've pressed into service like this? Billy boy, you've never had a regular miracle worker. Hasties Fairfax—and we will certainly save your Jean if it can be done." The boy at my side gasped out his amazement: "I was a regular miracle worker. Nobody but would ever have been here just when a fellow wanted her. And say, you're kinder pretty—most as pretty as my Jean!" "I was driving a tortuous course in and out of crossroads. As we followed I got Billy's story from him. If I were to help him in this mysterious case, I would have been driving the boy I had to know exactly why I was driving up and down Westchester County after a strange limo ride. Well, I never saw Jean till yesterday. Just when I saw her right right before never noticed girls much before. I've been too busy bringing myself up. But Jean—she was different all right. I knew; you don't think I'm a softy. Do you? "I was thinking how hard I'd have to work to be worthy of her, and how I'd study and study girl like Jean, could marry—and all of a sudden while I was standing there dreaming up the street comes a limousine. "I could see two men in it. One kind of loneliness the cheap a man his club in the same arm—and the other his smoked glasses on." The smoked glass one got out and the Big Warrior stayed in the car. "I saw that the one in smoked glasses was blind. He came tap-tap-tapping along the sidewalk feeling his way with his cane like he was trying to get somewhere. I thought I ought to come out and help him, and then I thought maybe he had be sensitive about that. It was too troubles. So I stayed still a minute, thinking. "And then, all of a sudden, from Jean's house I heard a funny clicking sound. I looked up and there was the steel-faced lady rapping away on the window panel. And that was what I was doing something that sounded to me kind of funny—like the Morse code. "Without thinking much about it I got out my notebook and pencil and began to write it just wrote itself—of and this was what it said: Drive north on Sullian road." There was some more tapping from the book, the steel-face chair, the pencil on the desk. Pretty soon the blind man seemed to get his bearings and went back to the limousine. It stood there still—like was waiting. He was Faye. I shamed a mystery all right—and you look like you did, too. Beatrice Fairfax THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA longer doing nothing. But it's kind of lucky I did, just the same—that is, if we catch them." "Billy, you exasperating boy, will you do do with the suspensive element and get on!" I cried. "Say, Miss Fairfax, you're all right. I glad its you I met. Well, came the steel-faced lady and Jean, and the lady told the chauffeur something and they drove off, then followed the other one and started and started and something told me better go, too, and I hopped over and climbed on the tailboard. "Down the road we went. The Big Warrior's car following Jean's and me hanging on and getting a dust bath and never reverting to it," Jean said. "a good way to work up, and win Jean." "Treatty soon our car stopped right square across the road so no other one could pass, and the Big Warrior and the blind man and the chauffeur got out and looked around the back of a curve we'd made and there we came the car we'd stopped following all of a sudden. The man whom Billy called the Big Warrior could be no one other than Peter Raven. This must be his attempt at revenge on the man McMorrow, who was in league with him. But there was something dark and sinister about their plotting—something ugly and menacing in the grim, dilapidated house to which they had been bound and gagged figure of Jean Morton. We crept up the paths and stole at last into the dark and musty hall of the river house. The house seemed as completely deceived as the house itself, and behold five human beings enter it but a moment before. Night had followed the long twilight and all about us lay black darkness. Cautiously, we entered the room and last to a door through whose ceasing a beam of Light wandered almost timidly. I crept up to the doorway and listened. At one side of the room was Jean firmly bound and the child's face looked terror stricken. Through an open window at the further end of the hall I could hear the sound of oars and the creak of a boat that drew up at the side of the house. With the man I took to be Peter Raven crossed to a closed and heavily shuttered window and threw it wide. Outside the moonlight shone on the river, we hungry waters lapped close to the window. "What are you going to do with the kid now you got her?" asked the man in smoked glassed in an ugly raping voice. "Going to trick her here for about $25,000." Haven pointed to the river and spoke savagely: "There won't be any rannom," said he. "There won't be any rannom," muttered Peter Raven. And I felt a sudden, sharp shoot through his chest, if he had caught it in his scarred fingers and was crushing it in their pitiless grasp. Here we were in a deserted, out-of-the-way corner of Westchester—and New York and powerless was only twenty miles away, the dawn of the new year. Peter Raven should perish at the hands of a miserable ruffian like Peter Raven was almost unbelievably cruel; that her poor little body should be flung to a grave in the Hudson River, the dawn of the new year. Peter Raven was powerful newspaper system in America was no grimly tropical that it simply couldn't be true. Billy caught my hand in the darkness. "They're not going to hurt my Jean," said the boy quietly. "So I had to kill of a man. But Jean needed the mind of a man. I did not guess then of what gublime bravery the little lad, whose romance I had accepted completely as a bit of nonsense about which most grown-ups would be, was capable. Suddenly there was a climax of horror. Strong arms seized us from behind. The door behind us was dragged from the cool darkness of the hall into the threatening room where Jean lay. The boy struggled with wild fury. His youth instinctively reacted to danger. I was scared. I had no energy—no mental force of any sort to waste on this situation. Whatever power of clear thought I possessed must be saved now to meet the final moment of terror. So desperately—he was wearing himself out. Dear little hot-blooded lad—he was only a lad after all, and no one could expect him to think with a man's efficiency. I have never seen a face on which there was an uglier look of menace and hostility. It was almost as if he said, "This is my moment—and I found myself longing desperately for Jimmy Barton. He would have known a way out. Why couldn't kindly fate move the pieces on the chessboard in such fashion the pieces could suddenly drop down from a skylight." "It can't be—it just can't be. This is nine. There teen sixteen—and we're right in the heart—nor is it right in the mind—nor is it going to be murdered just to glut a horrible. As the criminals desire for revenge, 'was the re- the attack that whirled dimly through my brain, of a haunt. But a great many things which reason watches me can be done, and it seemed that one of them was going not to happen before my burning eyes, and on a haunt." **EPISODE, NUMBER THREE** THE FIRST WEDDING OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE MISSING MARRIED WOMAN that I must stand by quite helpless while Peter Raven sneered at me in ugly triumph and worked his will. Even in the corner, the huddled figure of the old man of the girl. No victim in the grena of savage days was ever more innocent. The little lad who had brought me here was struggling more wildly than ever with his captors. They were handling him roughly, but he did not wince or cry for mercy. He seemed one small step on us—it seemed to dislodge of fairly to sweep us off the chessboard of life, negligible pawns of no importance in his eyes. Slowly and contemptuously he reached into his pocket and took out a heavy gun. This he laid on the table, and the leering, sugary, grim face of the girl seemed fairly say: "Well, now, my lady, what are you going to do about that?" A second later Peter Raven swung away and were all and Bulg which the of man, in or's cept must big until n't hey to Ok't as m the fs om he led the "But your salary will be greater, someday, said Poetrice. from his menacing contemplation of me and pointed to Jean. "Quick! Let's get through with it." He picked up a heavy weight which I had not known before, but while I was there, part of his devilish stage properties. This he fastened to Jean's feet by a heavy rope. Then he and one of the men lifted her in their arms and Madame Laurette opened the heavy shutter which barred the window. The child could not protest, could not see her doom, could not fight against it—and yet with the implacability of Fate it was approaching. He entered across the room to the table where lay that heavy gun and caught it in my hands. Then I raised it and took steady aim. I did not know what I meant to do, for I saw I shot a fellow human being, the odds against us were heavy that I could accomplish almost nothing. But I meant to shoot. Before, I could pull the trigger the man who had been holding Billy leaped across the room and knocked the gun from my hands. And then I felt that the end of everything had come. There was nothing more to be done. Little Jean must die—and what Jean would be or what mine, I did not dare to ask. I was not at that hideous eleventh hour, must come. It simply was not possible that Peter Raven's cruel will should work out its dastardly plan, but he had seen my last hope lay on the floor at my feet. The window was open and in a hideous panorama I could see Peter Raven and another man holding Jean with an little concern as if they had had a bake of insensate goods inside. He frequently had his body hurled through the little space. My eyes jumped up in despair of all hunted things to Billy Ivan. On the boy's face there was a look of other worlds. I have never seen any human beaver or any exalted expression of self-forgefulness. All in the same ugly second I heard a wild splash. The cold arms of the river had received Jean's body. Ten hours before City Editor Barnes had gone to work, he seemed very interesting to that dashing young reporter. It was a note scrawled in blurry pencil strokes. "Peter Raven escaped from Sing Sing. Get after it." An Jimmy proceeded at once to "get after it." He started on the trail of Peter Raven by way of the Detective Bureau, where his friend, the Chief, had received much the name assignment on Jimmy's, but from a different source—no less a person than the Chief over at the Detective Bureau, than the Chief was glad enough to include the young reporter in the circle of detectives to whom he was giving instructions. Jimmy stalled Peter Raven's case curiously, was a degenerate type, that of a man whose life was a fight, a man must be a menace to himself and any community of which he is part. "He will come to New York. Get him before he starts anything. When Morton takes all the evidence against him and the Chief, he gets out held pay the District attorney. A couple of you men better trail around after Morton. Stick around the court and follow him. Keep near his office, too. It might even be wise one of you to watch his house from behind, and the thing is to get Raven—and get him—bronto." Jimmy attached himself to the detective who was going out to Morton's house. That, he thought, would give him the most interest in the possibility of finding a real human interest story. In connection with Peter Raven. That decision of Jimmy's led him far afield—on a long and devious chase. But in the end it had strange results. Jimmy arrived to the detective arrived at the Morton residence they noticed a heavily veiled woman in deep mourning leaving the house. They attached no particular significance to the woman's visit. She came out with a heavy coat and watched the detective further—nothing hidden. They both felt that she was probably a visitor—some friend of Mrs Morton's. "Nothin' doin' here!" said the detective. "Guess we'd better stroll down to Grand Central and watch a few trains. Fat old man with a heavy winkers or extra black coons—that's our lay. Peter Raven will come in disguised. The detective, as later events proved, was not enough to impress how Peter Raven would come into New York. There were no suspicious looking indi- the viduals, and at the end of an hour's wait he tha- and Jimmy roamed away rather desolently. There did seem much to keep them there. An- nor did there seem much to follow up in ap- any other direction. As they passed the baggage room one of lige the attendants came out, sharing the burden et- of a heavy trunk with a taxi driver. Jimmy bu- only and mechanically Jimmy'-milled made he note of the number. Then his eye focused on a heavily veiled woman in deep mourning. podrome who was pacing up and down impatiently at the side of the taxi. At the moment of getting into the cab she tripped and stumbled. Gallant Jimmy was sitting on the woman in her veil fell back, disclosing a hard face that had arresting good looks in an unpleasant sort. Jimmy wondered if she was so good looking that she was ugly, or so ugly that she was good looking. And even after the womens' suit was removed, Jimmy taxi and driven off, he stood pondering her face. Then the detective spoke to him jocularly: "Say, young fellow, if you're going to moon over every skirt that comes along, you won't be much help to be in trading Peter's money. You're going along in what the detective took to be a meekly accustomed manner. GXVA Then a form appeared at the window. "Sure—here it is now. Want to have a look?" The Chief held out a photograph, and Jimmy beheld a likeness of the woman he had helped into a cab a few hours before! His mind worked with rapid precision, getting a heavy trunk from the baggage room at Grand Central at noontime. Do you know what was in it? The Chief leaned across the desk eagerly, "Yes, son?" he queried. Jimmy smiled—the Jimmy grin. "You're it, Chief. Peter Raven was in that trunk." Still more eagerly the chief leaned toward this unexpected aide. "Find the chauffeur," said he. And Jimmy enlisted at once under the banner of a valuable but ineffectual in search of the man who had driven Peter Raven's wife and her luggage from Grand Central that morning. Finding a chauffeur whose taxi number you know is not at all an impossible task, though not unasked for, Jimmy took a detective with him, and it was with great delight that they ran down their quarry in mid-afternoon. A few minutes later they entered the very apartment house to which the driver had taken him. They hid themselves around the turn of the hallway and watched the door of that apartment. Finally a man left it. Then they divided forces. Detective Ryan followed him and Jimmy forced the door to the house. When he there satisfied him as to his previous deductions, and a few minutes later he came downstairs and joined Iyan. Raid that minion of the law: "Our friend the taxi driver picked up the man we're sleuthing as a fare. He sent back another chap with a message they were going to Grand Central and had meet us there, and upon the train the guy from Havana flat takes." And so, as twilight was falling, Jimmy and Detective Ryan found themselves in a train which was meandering plausibly from West County to East County, where the Hudson. At a wavylead flag station, their quarry alighted, he hurried down through the country road to little dock where several riverboats were moored. He looked about cautiously to make sure that he was not observed and then embarked in one of the rowboats and started across another boat and followed. They along silently, lost the sound of their cars betray them to the man they were following. The man seemed making for a spot across the river, then exclamation and then whispered, "Faster!" Ryan bent unquestioningly to the oars. And Jimmy rowed, with desperation. The spot of light had grown to an oblong. It was a bright light, the lighted opening they saw a clearly silhouetted picture—two men with an odd lookings bundle in their arms. The man lifted the bundle in the air as if the man could bury the plush as it struck the water. He bent more desperately to his oars. Then there was the sound of a second Every Tu splash. Jimmy lifted his eyes and saw a human being swimming with desperate strokes through the dark water. He went through me when I heard the ugly sound that told me Jean Morton had been thrown into the dark waters of the Hudson. A second later there was the sound of another human being behind him, his captors and had dived through the window after the little girl who made so strong an appeal to his boyish imagination and his ilon-hearted chivalry. Hilly had clutched the fingers at my heart. Hilly had sacrificed himself—but to what purpose? To dive after the children would mean nothing more than one helperless, struggling child. After Hilly reason might have told me that if I had been capable of stopping to reason. I struggled more and more wildly—the window which was my goal seemed hopeful. Then Peter Raven turned, flashed me another of his evil smiles and stooped to the ground. A second later he rose, holding in hand the revolver which had been knocked from my grasp only a minute before. Out in the cold waters of the river there were two helperless children. I hated myself Well, I would not fall them now. Peter Haven lifted that ugly gun and took aim. I knew a second later I should mount the gun and aim. I mean that Billy had been struck by a bullet from that unwavering gun. I was in my captors with me as I ran toward Haven. Then there was a flash and the sound of K a bullet . . . I was too late. Too late! The agony of that thought—the agony of impotence! A second later Peter Raven fell back clutching at his arm. In sheer amusement my captors loosed the hood of the boat. I ran to the window. Out there in the black darkness I could see the outline of another boat. There were voices, calls of encouragement, the thud of bodies. Were the children dead? There was a sudden heavy bump—one of the boats had touched the river house. It was Jimmy Barton, smiling, debonair, aiming the gun he held in hand at Peter Raven with an air as perfectly casual as if he had just been waiting for the psychological moment to make his entrance on the scene. He had crouched back against the wall cursing and holding his wounded arm. His accomplices had seized me again a moment before, but at a command from Jimmy they loosed their hold. Never was forlorn hope saved by reinforcements more providentially and with less margin from the ultimate moment or horror than I heard myself laughing rather hysterically. Jimmy's grin put such a quarter-period on the ghastly horror of that night. And then through the open window climbed the detective—a second gunman come to the rescue of the beleaguered garrison' Next, in fitting climax, a golden head showed over the window all. Hilly was unmanned over "boosting" his lady-fair back into the room. His eyes were bright with excitement and his voice trembled, but his words were the completely unromantic touch needed to give the situation its final relief. "Gay, Miss Fairfax," said Billy Dran—knightly and you'd better look after Jean. She'll all wet and she might take her death o' cold." Jean had the daxed look of one who has been hurled through space so rapidly that even before the crash at the foot of the cliff, his unconsciousness is knocked from the shaken body. "Tretty good haul—sh, what, Detective Ryan, old pal?" said Jimmy. "Good heavens! The matter-of-factness of all things masculine. At the end of an evening of horror Billy talked about Jean's catching cold and Jimmy addressed his fellow-counsel. "Well-heir's Peter Raven and his handsome trau" and a few extras thrown in for luck! Now Sing Sing gets back one of its orate poems and I'm thinking Patrick Michael Ryan gets a promotion—which he has earned. "With a lot of help from you, Mr. Barton. And may I have you along on every hard assignment?" said, the detective grinning shyly, boyishly, almost as if he were Billy's brother. Wasn't that a pleasant enough ending to the story? But the end was not then—and I think It's not even yet! Jean was escorted home with a guard of honor consisting of Jimmy, Billy and me. Even in the midst of their rejoicing at Jean's return safe, well and happy in spite of her drenching, the Mortons were capable of real gratitude and real expressions thereof for all in it. I couldn't resist presenting Billy to Mr. Barton, who, when first he had heard of that young gentleman, had left my desk with a manner half way between a scowl and a bounce. Mr. Barton, this Billy, he can't say on his present call. But Billy's salary may be a little bigger than even I had expected by the time he grows up: He has excellent prospects, for Richard Morton is going to send the boy to hear him heartily: "You like the little chap as well as I do, Mise Fairfax. Well, I hope to be a real friend to the lad—a true friend." Billy has several true friends—Jean and James, the two of whom he perhaps had known. As for that gentleman perhaps he knows—he may even be a father to Billy-boy some day. (Another Adventure Next Week.) esday. PAGE FIVE ```markdown ``` (00 k.) --- WHAT HUGHESWOULD HAVE LEFT UNDONE That Is Campaign's True Angle and Not the Trite Question With Which Hecklers Are Nagging the Republican Standard Bearer. ACHIEVEMENTS ASSURANCE BLUNDERING IS NO HABIT Wining Democrats Trying to Run Away From the Record of the Administration and to Involve the Veterans Down Rhetorical Bypaths. All in the Thinly-Disguised Effort to Change the Subject. When Mr. Hughes criticises the record of the Administration the spokesman of Mr. Wilson cry: "What would you have done?" They forget that it is Mr. Wilson and not Mr. Hughes who is on trial. They forget that four years ago Mr. Wilson criticised Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt throughout the campaign and that Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt defended their respective records, instead of crying. "What would you have done?" They forget these things or they refuse to confess them. They are trying to run away from the record of the Administration and induce the people to follow them down some bypath of rhetorical hypothesis, all in the effort to change the subject. "By their fruits ye shall know them." When Mr. Hughes was Governor of New York he did not pay political debts by billing the public offices with unfit men. He did not champion certain principles during his campaign and repudiate them after he entered office. As Governor, he did not resort to brave and beautiful words as a substitute for firm and consistent deeds. He was careful in his use of words, but he backed his words with deeds. He did not promise what he could not perform. He did not plaster the people with compliments they did not deserve. He was not a rhetorician, he was not a fatterer, he was not "too proud to fight" for labor or for capital, for the strong or the weak, when the right was on their side. Mr. Wilson's spokesmen seek to divert attention from the attacks Mr. Hughes is making upon the record of the administration by asking him, "What would you do?" They are unconsciously helping Mr. Hughes. They are recalling to the memory of the people the record he made throughout his two terms as Governor of New York. It was then that he first said "public office shall not be a private snap under my administration," and made performance square with promise. There is this about Mr. Hughes that makes him so different from Mr. Wilson; "Hughes means what he says." So it is that the campaign is really a contest of character between two men, with sincerity as the differentiating and deciding factor. FIERY WORDS "Direct violations of a nation's sovereignty cannot await vindication in suits for damage. The nation which violates those essential rights must be checked and called to account by direct challenge and resistance." — From Woodrow Wilson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination For Presidency. BUT- The American flag is still unaluted at Vera Cruz. Villa is still uncaptured and unpunished. Carranza still slaps the United States. There still has been no accounting for American lives and property destroyed in Mexico. The whole question of reparation for invasion of American rights by various warring nations is still sleeping in a pigeonhole. AND- All the "direct challenge and resistance" noticeable to the average American is included in a series of notes said to possess high literary quality, if nothing else in particular. Wabbling Weedrow Opportunism has claims that every statesman must respect. But never has there been an opportunist in the White House of greater willingness to change than the present incumbent. The country feared it had placed power in the hands of a doctrinaire schoolmaster incapable of bending. It finds that it has a man of remarkable plasticity of judgment who one moment stands for states' rights and the next for nationalism who one day is a pacifist, and the next for shouting Col Rosnevall for justice and all who one week is for a lie in neutrality and the next for war in behalf of general rightness. wages up or down as the votes of the larger number can be controlled—New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. Gen. Pershing's army continues in fine fettle, "at for a light or a frolic." To its credit let it be said it went as far as politics permitted. Editorial Comment. Bryan butts, Wilson tuts. Watchful waiting maketh woeful wanting. Candidate Hughes doesn't talk like a tut-tutter. Hughes is hammering and the Democrats are yammering. The Wilson Administration stands for taxes, and more taxes. The Hughes trail will be cold by the time the Democrats strike it. As a party leader, would it be fair to refer to J. Ham Lewis as J. "Pork" Lewis? Can the folks on the Democratic band wagon continue to play by the president's notice? Bryan says Mr. Hughes' talks aren't judicial. No. The people can understand them perfectly. Hughes says the country can't be saved by letting it drift. That's where he and W. Wilson differ. Washington reports that a new apology has been sent to First Chief Carranza. Looks like a habit. Mr. Bryan is mistaken when he says Hughes is "vitriolic." The candidate is merely applying the acid test. Political opponents are beginning to find that why Mr. Hughes kept silence so long wasn't because he had lost his tongue. Another encouraging feature about our new navy is that when it is completed Mr. Daniels will not be secretary of it. Having discovered that the Democrats don't like what he is saying, Mr. Hughes doubtless is convinced that he is on the right track. A bond issue by the Wilson administration is merely Uncle Sam's note, and the best thing Woodrow Wilson does is to write notes. Mr. McCormick follows the same method in claiming credit for legislation as he does in his predictions. He includes several acts of the Taft administration. The Democratic press is convinced that it is the duty of Mr. Hughes to say something that will hurt his chance of being elected. President Wilson in his acceptance speech may reply to Mr. Hughes' charges, but he will not answer them. That is an entirely different matter. A messenger of President Wilson found out that Colorado women were for the administration. No messenger, of course, can be blamed for making good. It is reported from Washington that the administration will ignore most of Mr. Hughes' charges. That is very much the easiest way for it to answer them. President Wilson will not make any speaking dates, we are told, but only separate engagements for addresses, considering a "speaking tour" unignified. "Too proud to fight." Tammany Leader Charles F. Murphy announces that he will retire after the campaign. It is believed that many other more or less distinguished Democrats will follow his example. Governor Hughes announces in one of his speeches that he is a constructionist. But we are willing to admit that so far as Democratic policies are concerned he is a destructionist. President Wilson will be notified of the Democratic nomination at Shadow Lawn. This seems a most appropriate place for letting him know that he will shortly have to give up his place in the sun. Grover Cleveland was the last Democratic president. He was also the last president to issue bonds to secure money to defray the running expenses of the government. But Wilson will tie him in this. "Eminent judges," says Colonel Henry Watterson, "have ever proved disappointing candidates." He is right. Alton B. Parker was a big disappointment to the Democrats. And so is Charles Evans Hughes.—Toledo Blade. What Josopifious Daniels, the well known nautical militant, can't understand is why men should waste time Plattsburging at sea when they might just as well learn how to become sailors in three seasons in any good, reliable correspondence school. President Wilson appears to have been keenly alive to the expediency of accepting several invitations to make speeches in the West. Nobody knows any, better than he that it will take considerable shoveling to fill up the holes that have been dug in that locality by Justice Hughes. It was John P. St. John of Kansas one time Prohibitionist candidate for president of the United States, who said that Americans vote as they cheer If no, there is mighty little consolation for the Democratic party in this campaign, for the Democratic administration in three years has given us nothing to cheer over. On the contrary, as Mr. Hinches has said, three last three years have been years of humiliation and embarrassment. EMPTY PHRASES INSTEAD OF CONCRETE ACTION. Not once has President Wilson squarely placed before the American people the question which Abraham Lincoln put before the American people in 1860, What is our duty? Not once has he appealed to moral idealism; to the storm enthusiasm of strong men for the right. On the contrary, he has employed every elocutionary device to full to sleep our sense of duty, to make us content with words instead of deeds, to make our moral idealism and enthusiasm evaporate in empty phrases instead of being reduced to concrete action—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in B behalf of Charles E. Hughes. IF ELECTION WERE OVER? While Democrats Are Admittedly the Champion Question Flends, It is Beloved This Quiz is as Unanswerable as Their Most Childlike Efforts. If election day were passed would President Wilson make so little of the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes? Would be be so sure that it is more important to preserve peace, when a great strike is threatened, than it is to make judicial methods rather than force the means of settling differences between capital and labor? If election day had come and gone would Mr. Wilson keep the national guardmen of the country in camp on the ground that they may be needed to protect the United States against Mexico? Would there be months of inaction and indiscipline in which no use is made of a large body of citizen soldiers? Would they not be allowed to go home or else be set in motion to make Mexico as safe a neighbor as the Administration seems to think that it is already? If election day were past would the President drive through Congress a bill like the shipping bill which is intended to embark the federal government upon a new venture in a hazardous field and use $50,000,000 of the people's money to buy tonnage held above its normal value or else so owned that it cannot be used without parall of international complications? Is sound public policy behind such a measure or only campaign political? If election day were not to be considered would Woodrow Wilson use so many high and mighty words in international notes and do so little to make them mean anything practical? Would his deeds ing so far behind his phrase? -Cleveland Leader. "HE DIDN'T DO RIGHT." Independent Voters Turning This Conviction Over and Over In Their Minds and It Will Cost Mr. Wilson Many a Vote. A Democrat who never voted for a Republican candidate for President except in 1872, when he was forced by the lack of a democratic nominee to cast his ballot for Horace Greeley, says: "I expect to vote for Wendrow Wilson, but I don't like his course in the railroad dispute. He didn't do right." The railroad controversy has introduced a moral issue into the campaign. Mr. Wilson sacrificed principle to expediency, or what he hopes to be expediency, when he tamely surmounted to the demands of the trans-service brotherhoods. He put his own personal and party need before the public goal. He angled for votes. He aimed a body, blow at the tried and tested arbitration method of settling differences. "God help you; I cannot," he is said to have exclaimed to the railroad managers, who do not poll as many votes as their employees. But he could have helped them if he had stood impartially between them and the utterly reckless train-service representatives who were bent on their rule-or-run programme. "He didn't do right." The consciousness of that fact is sinking deep into the American mind. "He didn't do right." That wide spread conviction will cost him thousands of votes on election day. "He didn't do right." He preferred the weak, the tinnel attitude of the born compromise. The American people like courage. They like convictions. They like a man who has the courage of his convictions. They like a man who is willing to risk consequences for the sake of a just cause. It was an unjust cause in which Woodrow Wilson enlisted when he accepted the brotherhood view that the chief item in their demands could not be arbitrated.—Providence Journal. FIVE THOUSAND A DAY Enrollments in the Hughes National College League. The Hughes National College League, 511 Fifth avenue, New York, is receiving enrollments at the rate of five thousand a day. They are coming from all parts of the country, and the work of organizing branches in all states and most of the important cities has been started. A large percentage of the enrollments are from men who give their usual political affiliations as Progressive, Democratic or Independent. The league has received the endorsement of Governor Hughes, who wired: "If there was ever a time when the educated men of the country who have its welfare at heart should work for right principles and strong government it is now." Chairman Wilcox of the Republican National Committee, ex-President Taft, and John Hays Hamwood have also praised the work enthusiastically, as much on the score of the benefit to the men themselves as of the real work it will do to help govern Hughes. RE NOBISIM FLAKET, NOBISIM VENIDIA THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO.1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO.2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. ALL METAL PARTS NICKEL PLATED AND HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RICHMOND PLANET 311 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. ```markdown ``` Finnegan's Philosophy BALAAM Well do I mind the story, said Pinnegan. Balamam was a highbrow that knew less than his Jackass. He took an office to curse the people. The Jackass saved them. 'Tis all in Numbers Twinty two. Och bone! 'Tis different these times. The Jackass know better till Balamam came him. "Lave me ride ye," Balamam, "an I'll make ye the biggest Ass in the world." "Great," says the Ass; "what dye feed?" "Pork," says Balamam. "Me gavior," says the Ass. So Balamam mounts. But soon the Jack balka. "Phwat is it?" says Balamam. "Blakes," says the Ass; "Ut looks like the lawbone uy me mother." "Gwain," says Balamam; "hittin' the Ass a clip," "tis me furren' policy," he says. "Phwat's ut for?" axes the Ass. "Ut defends the nashun," says Balamam. "How?" says the Ass. "Faith," says Balamam; "ut takes a bigger Ass than you to know that. Lave it if to Brine," says Balamam to the Ass; an' the Jack walks on meditatin. "Hee, haw," says the Ass, balkin' an' kickin'. "What now?" says Balamam. "Divil n Jackans over seen the like," says the Ass. "Ut could be a frog," says he. "for ut stands up in front, an' sit down behind; an' its most mouth," says the Ass. "Ut has white feathers," says the Jack, "wid, yaller streaks, that changes," says, "to Very Crooz Red, or Ningaray Blue, an' now they're Carryall Yaller again," says he. "Hivins, have I been drinkin'" screams the Ass to Balam. "Balma be praised," says Balam. "Me Watchful Wattin' can still change its mind," he says. "Gwan, where glory walks," he says. "Gwan, in the service u Mankind," says Balam to the Ass, touching him up. An' the Ass shuffled ahead, wavin' his ears in admiration. "Hee haw! Hee haw!" says the Jack, rearin up wid his eyes bulgin. "Whata grippin' ye now?" says Balam, imshuffen like. "I donno," says the Ass. "It looks like the Flyin' Dutchman with a Socialist Crew," he says. "Tt me ship Bill," says Balaam. "Side step to the right," he says; "side step to the left," says he, wollin' him. "Back up," says Balaam, near wrenchin' off the Jack's jaw. "Now forward for the Merchant Marine an' fifty mallyn pork," says Balaam wid a shower av bows; as the Ass goes on threemblin. "Wah hee! Wah hee! Wah hee!" says the Jack, chyin' so he near throw his sword. ```markdown ``` "I'll learn ye to shy at me Naval Bill," says Balaam, in rupit' the baste so he cut scout a stand. "We can't put it without wearin' Republican clothes," says the Jack in a coarse whisper. "Ye Ass," says Balaam. "Don't yo know that many chis is better nor nakedness?" Gwan," says Balaam, in tones to thunder. So the poor baste lopes on, lilg'd winn' palm. I've not to tell to ye all the adventures they had, but they kept on over rough roads, now an' then crossin' a ditch on a wan term plank, which made even Balaam guilty. Ivry time the Jack klicked, he got short rations an' a wallup. So when the journey was near over, the poor baste was all in, and far too pond to fight. Any Jack Ass can be that when he's licked. Wan stormy night, the Jack blooms into a harpium like a Dimyerat Tariff Hymn played on a gashe wid the feet. "Phawat ye me now?" calls Balaam, club in' him wid both hands. "Niver did I pass the like," yells the Ass, swaentin' and thremlinh. "Ut says ut'a an eight law, Oh, phwat is ut?" screams the Ass to Balaam, feebly wangin' his ears. "I dinnu phwat ut is meself," says Balaam, "but I know phwat ut's got." Balaam says. "Phawat?" says the poor Ass. "Five handler thee and votes," says Balaam, wid a pilgrim air. "Gwan, yo big Ass, an don't ye arguo wild an Dayslay," says Balaam to the Ass. "We can plunge in the dark," ploads the Ans. "Love us wait for light," moans the Ans. weepin. "Nix," says Balaam, "There's a hot time comin' an' the votes'll spill. Do ye thirst for sixteen more years in the wilderness! Giddin', says he, "purgin' ye heart," says Balaam, "ivy lyrung thought that's selfish," says Balaam, "or personal," chants Balaam to the poor Ans ticklin' the Jack's sats wid a couple's pin. By this time, the Ans was so wore out wid his ardour. Labors, that he knew no more than Balaam himself. So, wid one despairin' cry, he dropped his ears, as he an' his master stumbled forward into the dark. SURRENDER TO FORCE WOULD TEND TO DISASTER. "That kind of virus in our life—currender to force—would bring us no end of disaster. If we let capitallists or workingmen, any interest, learn that the way so get what is wanted is by applying pressure and if we continue in that course for a few years, democracy will be a failure, and we might as well give up our force of government." — Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. ```markdown ``` $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons DECLINED TO PERMIT A SQUADRON TO DEFEND AMERICAN8. At Tampaoo there was a general movement of attack by the Mexicans on Americans and other foreigners. We had a squadron of American warships in the neighborhood. The Wilson Administration declined to permit this squadron to be used to defend the lives of American men and the honor of American women, and the commanders of the German and English ships at Tampaoo had to step in and perform the task our representative had so barely abandoned. At the very time that the Mexican mob had surrounded the building in which the Americans had taken refuge and was howling for their blood, the American fleet, in spite of the protests of the American naval commander, and in accordance with wireless orders from Washington, was forced to steam out of the harbor and leave the Americans to be massacred by the Mexicans or rescued by the Germans and English—From the Speech of Col. Theodore Roseveit, Delivered at Lewiston, Malna, in B behalf of Charles E. Hughes. POLITICAL JOTTINGS If-plans "to get Villa" are abandoned Villa should reciprocate and refrain from organizing expeditions "to get" American citizens. The fact that Mr. Wilson could endorse this Pork Congress shows that he isn't seasick, anyway. Mr. Pinchot also seems of the opinion that God Hates a Quitter. The man who quotes the Baltimore platform is regarded as a political archeologist. "He kept the country out of war," but he robbed it of its peace. Up in Maine they are now rhyming Hughes with Moose. And there is reason as well as rhyme connecting the two words. "Victory," Mr. Putrbanks told Olinhema Republicans, "werely will punch on our banner." But Champ Clark tied it up in a nestor and more compact bundle when he said: "They licked hell out of us." Members of President Wilson's office gave procy to do anything to protect Writes a former Princeton man: "At first we called him 'W. W.'; then we made it 'I. W. W.'" That one term plank in the Democratic platform of 1012—it is more than likely to hold, after all. When President Wilson called upon the Mexican commissioners at New London he received old precedents, but did he wave the Stars and Stripes? A man in Washington has made a bust of the President, thus anticipating Mr. Hughes by several weeks. "Franklin Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, acts a strong trend for Wilson in Maine"—News Dispatch. Who can blame a man who for three years has been assistant to Josephus Daniels for "seeing things?" This Is a Section of Our Splendidly Equipped Press Room 图 We paint everything. Before selecting your painting therefore give us a choice. TAMPICO SCUTTLE A CRAVEN AFFAIR SAYS ROOSEVELT Constituted So Grave an Offense Against the Nation's Honor and Duty That the Man Responsible Should Be Removed From Office. WILSON CANNOT SHIELD HIMSELF BEHIND DANIELS Authentic Proof That Americans In Poril Were Dederted by Their Own Government Against the Protest o the Senior Naval Officer Present. Most Punillianimeous Episode in the Naval Annals of Our Country. Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Henry Reuterdahl, the naval critic, criticizes President Wilson and Secretary Daniels in connection with the Tampaco attack, when the American warships were withdrawn by order of the Administration. The colonial says: "You have presented authentic proof of how the Americans in peril at Tampaco were deserted by their own government against the protest of the senior American naval officer present. You have shown that the government at Washington had full knowledge of the danger of the situation through telegrams from Admiral Mayo sent by wireless to the navy department on April 11, 12 and 18. You also give the telegram of Mr. Daniels of April 20 directing the admiral to proceed to Vera Cruz. Maya Feared Loss of Life. "You have shown that Admiral Mayo made an emphatic protest to the navy department, stating that he feared the result of the squadron's leaving would be the loss of American lives and property. You also quote the telegram sent by Admiral Mayo the following day, containing the protest of the American consul, Mr. Miller, and requesting authority to remain at Tampa. You have shown that, nevertheless, the navy department on the Flat confirmed its previous orders and directed the ships to leave at once. "You have shown that the admiral put out into the ocean eight miles distant, but received a protest from Conviller Miller reiterating his demand for protection. You then quote the telegrams and signals of Admiral Mayo, who, in spite of his orders, nobly refused to run from the post of duty while the lives of American men, women and children were in danger." Can't Hide Behind Daniels. Can't Hide Behind Daniels. Of the President and Secretary Daniels the colonel writes: "President Wilson cannot shield himself behind Mr. Daniels, for Mr. Daniels could do nothing that the president does not order or sanction. When Mr. Daniel's actions have been brought to the attention of Mr. Wilson, and are not repudiated by him, they become Mr. Wilson's; and Mr. Wilson is fully and completely responsible for Mr. Daniels, for all that he has done and left undone. The proof is absolute that when Admiral Mayo was at Tampa he had received full knowledge of the voting and of the imminent danger to American lives; but that, nevertheless, he steamed away into the ocean, and that the Americans were rescued by German and British ships. This action constituted so grave an offense from the standpoint of national duty and self-respect, that any man responsible for it should be at once taken out of office. Faote Made Public In U. S. "Shortly thereafter—the facts were made public in the United States. If Admiral Mayo had been responsible and had not acted under orders, then the only proper course for Secretary Daniels would have been to order his instant court-martial, and in such case the failure to do so would have shifted the blame at once from the shoulders of Admiral Mayo to the shoulders of superiors, President Wilson and Secretary Daniels. "Therefore, even if these telegrams did not exist, even if there had been no such orders, or those actually issued by the secretary of the navy to Admiral Mayo, nevertheless his superiors, Secretary Daniels and President Wilson, would both have become fully responsible for the guilty transaction by their acquiescence therein. They cannot, as they have sought to do, shift the blame to the shoulders of the admiral." The Soldier Vote A significant feature following the Maine election was the nature of the soldier vote. It is reported that one Maine but talon hilted sixty miles in two days for the purpose of exercising the fran- Latin politeness is proverbial, but aren't those Mexican commissioners greeting the Nask when they perk up. --- Female Embalmer Sampling Dudley might have made a gimmick mercury of the Salvation Army, but it was pretty rough to keep him on Duncan Sams's fighting edge. If you had two dollars to invest would you trust it to the business sagacity of Josephus Daniels? Then, why let him handle the millions that are to be spent on the new navy? Judging by the signs of War Department activity the Administration is cunningly arranging to bring the militiamen home just in time to enable them to vote for Mr. Hughes. A train of thought on a one-track mind has to be composed of shuttle cars. Three years ago Woodrow Wilson was explaining that hard times were psychological, but he isn't trying to equivim out of responsibility for the present prosperity. The disaster to the Memphis caused very little excitement, Americans being used nowadays to see the navy on the rocks. This Democratic Congress has passed into history-profane history. President Wilson's speech of acceptance could have been phrased even more succinctly in the graphic words of Boss Tweed, "What are you going to do about it?" We see by the interviews with the Mexican commissioners that the campaign slogan this year in the Sonora bandit belt is "Thank God for Woodrow Wilson." Mr. Wilson's eulogy of Lingoli at Hodgenville was more literary but less sincere than the one he pronounced upon himself at Shadow Lawn. The new half dollars will have an olive branch on one side and on the other an eagle, in full flight. Wilson money. Motto of the McAdoo shipping law: "The sun never rises on the American flag." A Democrat's idea of an Ideal watchdog of the Treasury is a Pompeian. Mr. Wilson is now busily engaged working the other side of the suffrage street. The campaign agents who two years ago were busily engaged thanking God for Woodrow Wilson seem to be taking their vacations just now. A record wasn't the only thing the late Congress broke—there's the Federal Treasury. Congress didn't want a Tariff Commission compounded of $12,000 men, those $7,500 salaries being designed for $1,200 men. President Wilson's scheme for commissions for everything has been adroitly planned to make three jobs for deserving Democrats grow where only one would grow before. Vice-President Marshall says Mr. Hughes is an echo of the past. Quite true. Of statismanship, of patriotic performance and safe legislation. First fruits of the Adamson bill: The New York street car strike. Discussing the indorsement by the Democratic convention of Texas of Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy, the Houston Post. (Dem.) flatly declares: "It is not believed anything like a majority of the people of Texas indorse our Mexican policy, and those in a position to know seriously doubt that the platform adopted expressed the real sentiments of the convention itself." The Omaha Bee couples woofal waste with watchful waiting as a Democratic failing. Boiled down, the best that has been said of President Wilson's Mexican policy was that he had good intentions. We've often heard of a road paved with this kind of material. Female Er MADAME LUGIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alphene 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, K. 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. Your Reliable service at Moderate Rates. Overson 3006 P Street, Phila. Mind. 2337 Ramacca 1015 St. James St., Madison 6519 The mountains and the rivers cry the message that is Maine's. To men whose pride was scattered, and to desperation wastes; Again the mountains are called to look the future in the face. For Maine has been the clarion that's heartening a race. Two shames that sink the souls of us to depths we never knew in days our flag was honored in the har In days our flag was honored in the harbor where it flow. And now again our songs we sing of deeds that we must do To make the dream that passed away come marvelously true; For the sturdy souls that breathe the pine have brought to life again The faith that falls a nation's heart that feels the wind from Maine. EDWARD E. WAN ZILE New York San. Sept. 18 FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY. On The Merry-Go-Round. "Faith an' now Wilson's for protection. Four year agone he was again it, for it was again the constychooshun. Now that he is for it, that immortal instrument has also changed its mind. He makes me head shwim. "But I've good company. Bryan an Garrison, the civil service Dimycrats, and the rale Dimycrats, the Pansyfats an' the vulgar sowls that's none 'Too Proud to Fight'—they've all been on the Merry-go-round. Some iv thim turned sick. "God bless ye--you're a good man, but ye make me dizzy," says Bryan, leppin' from the Hobby-Horse and runin' for the woods. "I've a ginywine raygit at locin' ye," says Wudthrow throwin' him a Cocked-Hat is the vintage of 1909. "Here's the Army bill," says Garrison. "How does it suit" he axes. son. 'How does it suit' he axes. 'Fine,' says Wudthrow, 'barrin a few changes. 'Ye'll redraw it,' he says, 'to provide,' says he, 'voluntary universal service in a Federal Millshy.' says he, 'controlled be the states,' says he; 'an recruited be spiritual compulsion,' says he. 'It shud be nayher too large nor too small' says he; 'or maybe both,' he says; 'an the amputation,' says he 'must be nayher too much, nor too little,' says he. 'I've to see Hay, before I decide the daytales, for 'tis me footy to kape an open mind,' says Wudthrow. 'Stop the music and love me off,' says Garrison. 'Are ye crazy or am IP Garrison moans, layin' on his back an ginny' at th' sky. 'God bless ye,' says Wudthrow. 'I've a near-real raytag at toin' you,' he says. And as Garrison bents it to Jersey the Merry go-round plays a slide stop. " 'F what is the Navy, says Kitchin, It shud be thury adequate irey, where, says the Great Idaylist, 'except in Montana, where we need no Navy, says be, 'and in St Lourey, where it shud be the biggest in the world. We'll be none extravagant like thim Raypublicans, says he, 'so here's the Dinnercat bill ye'll pass, says he. "But this same is the Raypublic can's bill, says Kitchin startin', 'We'll go an pass it, says Wudthrow, pounding the dank 'Houray, says the black Raypublicans votin' for the bill, 'Do I dream, says Kitchin. 'If I ever drank, I'd think I was booed, says Kitchin in a threemblin' vice. And he falls off. "How about the Army bill', axon Hay "Through an' instant preparation for defense must be the wud', says Wudthrow, wild heroic dislution in his eye. "I have here a bill, says Hay, 'providin' for an increase by five hundert men a year for twinty year, he says 'an amyphilum for six hours' acken, he says: 'will make us safe from mouldmaker, messles, mookmikin' milltierm and martial infidelity, he says: 'an' well catch Villy before he dies as he doctom die before we catch him, says Hay. "Emblame me' says Wilson 'Oh Hay—after all preparedness is a matter is the heart' an not of guns or forta' Dill Chandlift ftr give ye a job' he does stront' short like. "Dirttil a bill says Hay, 'Thin ```markdown ``` 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. Thirty Dollars Worth of Umbrella Coupons entitle you to one Umbrella, lady or gent. 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Ico Peace Board. --- --- says Wendy Brown 'shake in' the door by Hay's hands, careful like, for ver petiolate service in so bravely supportin me policies, he says in all their phrases, he says 'I make a judge ly ye he,' says be, 'as well as yer find that ye put in the joker,' says the President 'Howly Saints,' says the preparation Fitters. "To what does this mean at all at all? they axes. 'The wan thrack mind,' says the President, 'an' ye go all through me train in thought before you come to the pork car,' says he 'are on' ye axes the Apostle is Common Councils. "We're on,' says the Sintlora, falling off. An' the Merry-go-round plays a Wilson Waits (which ye know. Jawn is in step forward, two steps back, hostitate and sidestep). An' Tumulty goes out to spread the glad tidin's that the preparation prade will be led be the President in person. "How does he save his face?' asked Malumphy. "Wit his mouth,' responded Finnegan dryly. OH YOU JOSEPHUSI This is a free advertisement for "Life," issue of September 14: If you want to find a reflection of your own inward opinion of the present amenable, inconsequential and befuddling Secretary of the Navy, here 'tis; for "Life" delicates an entire issue to our own offenses, omniscient, ontological, obliterous, obligarchical Sir Joo-sea-fusal: Incompeten-Sea. Inefficien-Sea. Idiosyncra-Sea. Inadequa-Sea. Delinquen-Sea. Impermanen-Sea. hypocri-Sea. Also, with a mind to the juice that has made our State and Navy Departments famous, "Life" proposes this coast: "Grape Nuts! Bryan and Daniels!" Hic Jacet! Of the 83 electors who cast Pennsylvania's vote for Roosevelt in 1912, 25 are living and 27 of them have pledged, unitedly, their support to Mr. Hughes. The President must be credited with having put a stick one over if he can get the votes and make the people pay the freight. GINFUL MUTILATION OF FAMOUS SPEECH We notice that the editor of the Democratic campaign book, made up of samples of "Woodrow Wilson's Wit and Wisdom," has tampered with one specimen, speech by omitting the phrase "we proud to fight." This example of late majesta, to say the least. The only possible excuse for this sin of omission that we can think of is that there may also be times when a handbag handbook compiler is to prove to print. How To Get One. Richmond, Virginia ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. Shackleton Gets Comrades., Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton has rescued the members of his Antarctic expedition who were marooned on Elephant island. Shackleton returned to Punta Arenas with his men safe and well on board the rescue ship Yelcho. Sir Ernest Shackleton left Punta Arenas August 26 with the ship Yelcho for a third attempt to rescue his men marooned on Elephant island. After the failure of his Antarctic expedition, Shackleton with five members of his crew managed to reach Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, on May 31. Twenty-two others of the crew were left on Elephant island. The first attempt to rescue those men was made in June and the second attempt July, both falling on account of the ice. Steel Balls Found Along Railroad. Three steel balls, each twelve inches in diameter and weighing 200 pounds, accidentally dropped from a Reading railway freight train while passing through Potstown, Pa. at night, and were discovered by trackmen. I felt a train struck them a serious acerol ont would have reselled. The spheres were used in crashing stone for cement, but look like cannon balls, and nervous persons, who thought they were being shipped to the allied arries, gave them a wide berth. The British censorship is delaying the United States males almost as annoyingly as Burleson's insufficiency. WAR A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Instead of resting on the ground won north of the Somme, the French continued their thrust, capturing the village of Bouchaevennes, and a wooded area nearby. Bouchaevennes lies east of the Bapaume-Personne road cut in the drive and its capture with ad jacent territory apparently clincher. French possession of this highway to Peronne. Combes is now cut off from the south and in a dangerous salient, while General Foch is in a favorable position for a stroke from the north at Peronne. Paris reports the continuation of the allied offensive in the Balkans. T. Serba are driving ahead on the western end of the line and have taken a town near Florina. THURSDAY. The Russians have captured Halzer an important railroad punct in Guliela, sixty miles southeast of Lemberg, the capital. The French have paused in the advance north of Peronne, where they have driven a total distance of six and a quarter miles into the German lines since July 1, who the Somme offensive began, and now are with standing a series of German counterattacks. Assaults delivered on the new French positions, north and south of the Somme, were fruitless, according to the Paris war office. Kavala, the Greek seaport on the Aegean, has been captured by the Bulgarians and is now under the fire of allied warships. Looting and massacres within the city are reported and Americans are said to be imperilled. There are large American interests in the tobacco trade there. FRIDAY. The British resumed the offensive in a powerful attack north of the Somme in northern France. According to London, they have driven, back the German lines from about a mile and a quarter to nearly two miles at some places, in an assault along a six-mile front from Boulaoux wood, northwest of Combles, to a point north of the Albert-Bapume road. Victories have been won by Serbans, French and Britains on the Macdonian front, according to Paris. The official statement indicates that the most serious defeat was administered by the Serbians, who drove the Bulgarians back twelve miles, after several days' fighting west of Lake Osrovo, capturing many prisoners and twenty-five cannon. The French and British drove at the Bulgarian center on both sides of the Vardar, the French taking positions a mile long and half a mile deep, east of thistle. --- UMBRELLA COUPON GOOD FOR 5 CENTS The Planet, 311 N. 4th St. and the Brittish carrying important positions west of the stream. SATURDAY The heavy offensive by the British north of the Somme was successful in gaining ground along the entrance, except immediately opposite Glinchy, where the Germans clung to desperately. The most important points gained were the villages of Courcellette, east of Thirapval; Mirtipnup, south of the Portergespaume road, and Flera, two miles north of Glinchy. The Germans already have been counter attacking the French at point where they recently advanced, north and south of the Somme. Bass reports the repulse of German attack east of Clery, immediately north of the stream, and near Berny, below the river, southeast of Extrem. Teuton forces have gained a decisive victory in the Dobrudra, Field Marshal von Markenburg officially repulsed Berlin and are pursuing the retreating Russian Rumanian army. SUNDAY Germans posthumously occupy a long mile in length were captured by British and French armies in the invasion of their offensive north south of the Simone river in Italy. In addition, quantities of war material and a large number of prisoners into the hands of the entente allied Hard fighting, with the Russians the aggressors, has been resumed from the Friquet march region in Russia through Italy and up in the Carpathian mountains. Bucharest reports the occupation of additional towns in Transylvania while both Berlin and Sofia assert that the forces of the central power in Dobrudja are still in pursuit of the retreating Rumanians and Russians. Further progress for the entente allies on the Macedonian front and on the Italians in Albania is received in the London, Paris and Rome communications. MONDAY The new thrust by the French, south of the river Somme, in northern France, where the important railway town of Chaulnes is their objective has resulted in the complete end of the village of Denbecourt, the Paris war office announced. Doe court formed the center of the west, the French are driving into the German lines, north of Chaulnes. He attacks by the Germans on the new French positions, north and south to the river, have been repulsed. Berilin reports that the allies have reinforced their army in Dolent and are making a stand on a line in the sea to the Danube below Gorges. The Serbs report capture of the Bulgarian second line north of Lake Ouvrotn. The Italians are unofficially reported to have broken through the Austrian third line in the Montalone sector their way to Trifata. The Planet Job Department can execute all kinds of printing already. "I Should Have Had An Iron Cross the.Day I Married You." A man sat down to breakfast with his ever-loving wife. Who had grabbed his morning paper from his plate. She said, "It grieves me greatly that you cannot risk your life And win an Iron Cross for shooting straight." The man looked at her sadly, for it gave his heart a wrench To hear her bawl him out in such a way; He thought of how he'd gladly take his place in any trench. And then to her these solemn words words did say: CHORUS. "I haven't any halo, and no medals have I got. I have never stopped a bullet, though at times I've been half shot. But when I look around this home and think what I've gone through, I should have had an Iron Cross the day I married you." His wife kept still a moment, which surprised the husband so He thought she had a paralytic stroke. But all his hops were shattered when in accents far from low. She muttered, "Them was cruel words you spoke." She talked and talked and talked and talked, then paused and talked again. Until the poor man's senses gave away. But just before he lost his grip upon his worn-out brain He stopped her long enough these words to say: 'I often think of Sherman and the words he spoke on war. I should have had an Iron Cross the day I married you." ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE NOTES Roanoke, Virginia, September 20—The funeral of Miss Kate Bruce, of 120-Fifth avenue, N. W., took place at two o'clock P. M. from the First Baptist Church. Miss Bruce died in Summit, N. J., Tuesday. September 19th and her remains were recently laid to rest in the First Baptist Cemetery, under a shower of beautiful flowers. Miss Bruce was twenty-one years of age. Her loving mother was so grief-striken that she had to have the attention of two physicians, having been in failing health for more than twelve months and this was a severe stroke for her. The funeral eulogy was delivered by Rev. E. E. Ricks, who used as a text, "I know O Lord, thy judgment Thou in faithfulness hath afflicted me. He spoke of the satisfaction as regards the dispensation of the Providence of God in His dealing with the children of men and concluding proved to the audience that all his doings are right. Rev. Ricks, as he closed, asked in a forwent prayer a favored blessing on the afflicted mother, sisters and aunt and all there represented. As Mr. C. C. Williams, the excellent and polite undertaker, removed the remains from the altar, the choir sang, "Abide With Me, Dear Lord, Abide With Me." The Rev. W. J. Robertson, of Holcomb Rock, Va., preached Sunday morning and at night, at the High Street Baptist Church, 17th chapter of Matthew was used as a text and the latter part of the fifth verse "While He yet spake, a bright cloud overshadowed Him. He made a very fine discourse and persuaded his audience to be led by Christ, the advocate of man and to put our lives wholly in his care and keeping, if we would make the world better by our having lived in the world. Rev. Robertson is quite a gospel minister, Robertson is quite a good minister making the message clear and plain which is the only way of helping men and women. Last from the B. M. C. at Washington, after all others had returned, came Major W. B. F. Crowell on the Memphis Special. Sunday morning, with all the latest, "right off the bat" news from the Big Odd Fellow Meeting. He had some reason that he has not explained as yet for remaining in Washington with some of the officers higher up and you need not be surprised to hear of another promotion coming to Major Crowell, as he has brought more honors to Roanoke in a fraternal way than any other man among us. He is one of the most widely known Odd Fellows in the country, having attended the general meetings for over twelve years. He is called by many, "Fraternity Crowell," because he belongs to everything the law allows including the Church, as he puts it. He reports having met the delegate from Porto Rico, Brother Ignacio Carballheiro, who is the Mayor of his home city, Rayamon, Porto Rico. (Major Crowell spelled these names for us, whatever they are.) He was made chairman of the committee on Grand Master's Address, one of the most important committees of the convention and enjoyed the distinction of being the largest Odd-Puller of the near 2,000 delegates present. Roanoke should be proud of a man such as "Little Willie," as he is called by home folks, for he helps to keep Roanoke on the map, in that he is ever boosting his city, "shooting" it at 'em all the time every man, and M. It didn't have his effect. Major Crowell could not have received so many honors from different fraternities. He is Chief of Maf. 1st Patriarchie Regiment, Odd, Fellows, Deputy Grand Master or Virginia-Odd Fellows, Grand Lecturer of Virginia K. of P. Grand Grand Marshall of the Grand Lodge of Masons and now he says he is looking for more. Nothing but the highest honors will satisfy such a fraternity hustler. The old saying that no one loves a fat man, he says does not apply to the Washington girls, for one told him if a woman said she didn't like a fat man, she was "kidden" the other fellow. Miss Lillian Paxton, Mable Curle and Herman Paxton, Samuel Kates and Fred Lawson left to enter Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute of Hampton, Va. Mrs. R. H. Freeman, of Alderson, W. Va., a sister of Mrs. Edith Childs of 220 Patton avenue, N. W., is visiting. Miss Ruth Freeman will spend the winter with Mrs. Childs. Mrs. Mettle Dennis returned after a visit to Pittsburgh, Detroit and Windsor, Can. Roanoke Foot Ball Team is being whipped into shape rapidly. Dr. Henry Hargrave have them under his wings. Watch them this season. Hon. J. Thomas Howin, of Richmond, Va., President of the American Beneficial Insurance Company, also one of the leading attorneys of the State, made a very pleasant and successful business visit to the local branch office here last week. He made brief and inspiring talks in the interest of the Company at the HI Street and First, Baptist Churches, Sunday morning. Mr. Howin is a man of great enthusiasm and race pride, which made his remarks of vast interest to all citizens who heard him. They welcome his return to the city at any time. ELITE CAFE CHANGES HANDS. This well, known Cafe, corner of Gainesboro and Fifth, which has been known as the best in the city has been purchased by the popular Billy Crowell and has received a general cleaning and reopened for the best trade. Major Bill is an old timer in the cafe world and should make good. He knows everybody and everybody knows him and he proclaims Romoke one of the most up-to-date cafe's in Virginia. He knows how and is making the support of the better class of people. Nothing but the beat the market affords and quick, polite service will be found at the Elite with Little Willie wearing the smile that never comes off, to greet you and tell you, as nobody else can how it happened. Special attention to private dinner parties, banquets, box lunches, club sandwiches and sea-foods. See Crawell for prices.. With a fine net of cooks and pretty girls to serve, you are invited by the Big Jolly Fellow to give the Elite a call. Ranookne needs a first-class place of this kind and we believe the right man has it. We know Little Willie can deliver the goods. So here is good luck to the Elite. BASE BALL GAME. Before one of the largest crowds of colored people that ever witnessed a ball game in Roanoke the Doctors were defeated by a very close score, 3 to 2. "The said that the crowd would have been much larger, but for the approaching storm. The game was for the benefit of Burrell Memorial Hospital and the game attracted a good crowd. Dr. Dabney of the Doctor's team and Sam DeWitt of the ex-All Stars pitched strong ball as the game was stopped at the fifth inning on the account of rain with the score 3-2 in favor of the All Stars. Dr. Dabney held them to 3-hits while DeWitt held the Doctors to 2 hits in five innings. The game was thoroughly enjoyed by all. How they lined up: Doctors—John Sims, s. a.; D. D. Johnson, b; E. D. Downing, c; Dabney, p.; H. Mosley, b; J. H. Roberts, c; J. S. Cooper, r. f.; R. Morris, l. f.; D. Weston, b. Ex-All Stars — Thomas, 1b; Sam DeWitt, p.; Hyrd Wade, 2b; Bank Edwards, 3b; L. Taylor, c. f.; Clarence Sims, c.; Hersey Steptoe, s. s.; Claude Davis, r. f.; William Scott L. f. the Doctors — 2 0 0 0 0 0 — 2 2 2 3 Ex-All Stars — 0 0 2 0 1 — 3 2 2 Joseph Baker, umpire. Miss Erma Hobson of Homestead, Pa. is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Jefferson on Fourth avenue, N. W. She will be in the city two weeks. She is a member of Rev. R. R. Jones' Church. She brought regards to all from Rev. Jones. Mrs. William Davis, of 227 Fourth avenue, N. W. is spending some time with her people in Christiansburg, Va. Mrs. Josephine Durphy McJempyle left for Norfolk, where she will join her husband, whose headquarters are in Norfolk, Va. Dr L. C. Downing, who has been conduit at Burrell Memorial Hospital for the past six weeks, is very-much improved, we are glad to say. OFF TO HARTSHORN COLLEGE Misses Lucy B. Robinson, Mattle L. Hackley and Rebecca Nowlin left Monday night, accompanied by Mrs. George H. Robinson, of 318 Patton avenue, N. W., whose daughter will enter Hartshorn College Mrs. Maria Taylor Roberson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. is visiting her sister, Mrs. James Jones, 610 Harrison avenue, N. W. WOMAN BADLY SLASHED. Carrie Carter was seriously abbed and cut at a restaurant on High St., N. W. by a party or parties unknown as yet to the police. Carrie and several women got into an argument over a man, it is said, and in the mulee, Carrie was seriously slashed about the throat, head, face and breast and in the back. She was carried to the City Hospital. Her condition was reported critical. After the fight all of the people in the immediate vicinity ran for cover and Mary Jones was caught by Officer Hill who arrived up the scene at this time Mary was kicked up charged with the assault, but permits that she was only running because she was seized and gave Officer McDonald the name of the girl, she claims cut Carrie. Miss Annie Moore, of Bremerton, B. C., left Saturday morning at nine o'clock for her home, to enjoy upon the bedside of her mother, which begins, Monday, October 9th. Miss Moore spent the summer with her sister, Mrs. Louise Jones, 611. Seventh avenue, N. W., where she oneyed a most pleasant stay. Mr. C. W. Preston, of Alexandria, Pa. paid a flying visit to Roanokes and Salem. He was the guest/of Mr. J. W. Nowlin of Washington Heights, his cousin, Miss Helen Brown of Roanoke and Miss S. M. Morris of Salem, Va. Mr. J. W. Robinson, who has been in the city visiting his mother and brother, Mr. A. L. B. Robinson for the past two weeks left for Pittsburgh Pa. on September 21st. He claims to have enjoyed a very pleasant stay in the city. He met several of his former friends and acquaintances. On Sunday, September 17th, his mother and brother gave him a birthday dinner at two P. M. There were 125 persons seated at a table deliciously spread with the latest delicacies and refreshments of the season. After dinner all were entertained nicely by music rendered by members of the birthday party. Music was rendered by some of the best singers of our city with Mrs. F. E. Dickerson presiding as organist. Mr. and Mrs. William Armastone and little son returned home Tuesday morning from Norfolk, Va. where they spent a most delightful time with their sister, Mrs. Annie Brinkley. They reside at 726 Seventh avenue, N. W., Roanoke. Miss Nannie Mae Woodridge, of Lexington, Va., at present making her home with Mrs. H. P. Napper at Natural Bridge, Va., was the guest of Rev. P. G. Graveler and wife, 123 Seventh avenue, N. W. She returned home after a delightful stay. Mrs. Florence Bradford, of Gary, W. Va. spent last week visiting Mrs. L. V. Fultz of Tenth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Maude Scott. has returned from her most delightful trip to Blue field, Pocahontas and Kimball, W. Va., visiting her friends, Mrs. F. H. Adams and Mrs. Lucile Baker. Mrs. Scott has resumed her work as nurse in the Burrell Memorial Hospital. Miss R. E. Fultz has returned from a week's visit to Hollins, Va. visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Boldin. Mrs. Maude Scott also visited her grandparents in Hollins, Va. during her vacation, taking with her, her little son and brother. Mrs. L. V. Fultz, as a rule, spends her Sabbaths out of the city. On Sunday last, she spent the day in Kingstown, visiting her cousin, Simon Mayse. Sunday, September 17th, also attended preaching at her church, the Green Ridge Baptist Church at Hollins. Mr. and Mrs. George Law, of 628 Eighth avenue, N. W. have returned home after a very pleasant trip to Donnox and Pittsburg, Pa. They brought with them on returning, their niece, Miss Edna B. Law, who will make her future home with Mr. and Mrs. Law, at 628 Eighth avenue. Mrs. M. J. C. Czs of 724 Seventh avenue, N. W. returned 25-14 a two weeks' trip to Grade Springs, Va., visiting relatives and friends and returning reports having had a most excellent time, feeling much rested and helped from the trip. Mrs. Lillian Hendricks spent a week in Philadelphia visiting friends reports having half a very excellent time. Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. preached a very strong and forceful sermon Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. The Rev. is laboring very hard preparing for the Educational Congress which convenes at Mt. Zion M. E. Church in October. Miss Pensey Virginia McCain, of Columbia, Ohio, formerly of Roanoke who has been spending several months with her grandmother and aunt, Mrs. Jennie Hylton, left Wednesday, September 20th for Detroit, Michigan, where she will make her home with her aunt in that place. She stated that she enjoyed herself very nicely while in the city and hopes to return again in the future. VIRGINIA In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 26th day of September, 1916. Mozell Sturdifin.....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery David Sturdifin.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute Divorce from the Born of Matrimony, by the Plaintiff from the Defendant, upon the ground of Desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the Defendant, David Sturdifin, is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that he appear here within fifteen days after due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect his interest herein. 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