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THE PLANET VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 5 THE PASSING OF INT SECRETARY HUNTON LEADER OF COLORED Y. M. C. A WORK BURIED IN NEW YORK Brooklyn, N. Y.—William Alphaeus Hunton, senior secretary of the Colored Men's Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, died at his late residence, 575 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., on Wednesday, November 29, 1916, at 11:56 P. M., after an illness, lasting for nearly three years. Mr. Hunton was attacked by tuberculosis and fought bravely against the ravages of this dread disease, finally succumbing to it when it developed in the throat. Mr. Hunton was born at Chatham, Ontario, Canada, October 31, 1866, in the Hunton home, which was an "unground railroad station" where John Brown occasionally held conferences during slavery days, son of Stanton and Mary A. (Johnson) Hunton, A. M. Wilberforce Collegiate Institute, Canada He began as teacher in public schools, Canada; later was appointed clerk in Department of Indian Affairs under Canadian Government; was first colored secretary in the Young Men's Christian Association for work in U.S. 1868; secretary Colored Men's Department International Committee of Y. M. C. A. since 1891; delegate to World's Y. M. C. A. Jubilee convention, London, England, 1894; world's student conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1907; attended evangelical conference, Shanghai, China; also made missionary tour in Corea, 1907; delegate to World's Christian student conference, Mohonk Lake, N. Y. 1912; has written number pamphlets relative to colored men in Y. M. C. A. work. He was a member, American Academy Political and Social Science of the Southern Sociological Congress of the Sigma Pi Phl (New York Chapter) Club and a Brooklyn citizen. Mr. Hunton is survived by his widow and two children, Miss Eunice and William Alphaeus, Jr. The funeral services were held on Saturday, December 2, 1916, at 1 P. M. at the residence, Rev. George Fraxier Miller officiating. the funeral services were very impressive, much in keeping with his life. The following Y. M. C. A. accretors acted as pall-bearers: Messra Bullock, Montclair, N. J.; H. W. Porter, Philadelphia, Pa.; H. W. J. Becket, Washington, D. C.; C. C. Dogan, Norfolk, Va.; S. C. Burrell, Richmond, Va.; and R. M. Meroney, Brooklyn. Rector George Fraser Miller was in charge of the funeral services and assisted by Bishop Albert Johnson, of the A. M. E. Church, and Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn. Remarks were also made relative to the life work of the late Mr. Hunton by Mr. L. C. Werner, former chairman of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., and C. H. Tobias, in charge of the student work of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., who had charge of Mr. Hunton's work during his illness. Many out-of-town friends were present. Among them being the following members of the international staff: Dr. J. E. Moorland, Moors; R. P. Hamilyn, J. B. Watson, C. H. Tobias, and G. W. Moore. The honorary pall-bearers were taken from a Greek, latter club. The interment was at Cypress Hill Cemetery. Many telegrams, letters and resolutions from various organizations and individuals were received; also a large number of floral tributes. In addition to his immediate family he leaves two brothers and two sisters.—New York News. A Card of Thanks . I wish to thank my friends and neighbors for their kindness to me during my recent illness. I also wish to thank the Second Baptist Church Sunday School, Dr. M. B. Jones, superintendent; the Infant Department of the Second Baptist Church Sunday School, Miss Cora Bright, superintendent; the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Usher Board of the Second Baptist Church, Mrs. Ella Claborne, vice-president; the Agent Force of Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., and my individual friends, too numerous to mention, for the very very beautiful flowers and all other things necessary to cheer a sick room, and gidden the heart of its inmate. Thanking you all agasd, and praying that God's rich blessings may rest upon each and every one, I am. Toures sincerely. FANNIE JAMES. 111 East Lodge Street. The Planet Job Department can assume all kinds of protecting roles. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. The Annual Reports of the State Teachers' Association are ready for distribution. Teachers wishing to secure a copy should send to President E. A. Long, Cambria, Va. All members of the Association whose names and addresses can be secured will be sent a copy. Any teacher who does not receive one should address a card to the President at once. The next annual meeting will be held in Roanoke, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 7, 8 and 9th. The teachers of Roanoke County and Roanoke city are making large preparations for the most elaborate entertainment ever given the Association. The body of teachers, the Ministers' Interdenominational Conference, the City School Board, and the Chamber of Commerce of Roanoke; all sent written invitations to the Association to meet in Roanoke and each one of these bodies is going to make a substantial contribution toward the entertainment. President Long met the Roanoke City and County teachers recently in a joint session and they raised in cash and pledges $100 as a preliminary step toward the entertainment fund. Roanoke being the third city in Virginia, is striving for first place in hospitality. Y. W. C. A. The Conference of Volunteer and Employed Workers, December 6-10, was in every respect a success. The representatives from the National Board, each an expert in her line, brought us the technical help which we so much needed. Rev. Robt. D. Brown, of Newark, N. J., forperly of Richmond, was most helpful in things spiritual. The Social Committee of our local association entertained the delegates and Friends in a pleasing way on Saturday evening. The attendance at each session was all that we desired and more than we expected. This conference marked the beginning of an epoch in association work among colored women. Richmond is happy to be the starting place of good things for our women and girls. Notice is hereby given that the regular meeting of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch will be held Monday, December 18, at six o'clock. MIDDLESEX MAN PASSES AWAY Mr. John H. Campbell, one of the county's most respected colored citizens died in a Baltimore hospital December 6, 1816, where he had gone for medical treatment. Mr. Campbell was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church, Amburg, of which he held many offices, being clerk for more than twenty years, which office he held until his death. He was a member of the Sandy Bottom Lodge, No. 3226, G. U. O. F. Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist Church, the pastor. Rev J. A. Martin officiating. Resolutions from the Church, Public School and G. U. O. F. were read by Prof J. H. Walker. The remains were laid to rest in the family cemetery. He is survived by a devoted wife, Mrs. Suanna Campbell, three daughters, Mimes, Ozella Henry, Atwalla Burrell and Miss Sarah C. Campbell, one son, Mr. Arthur Campbell and a host of relatives and friends. --- Thanks Returned. We wish through the columns of this paper to thank cath and every one, and the public in general, who in any way assisted me during the brief illness and unexpected death of our husband and father, Thomas D. (Major) Harris. I thank you for your prayers, asking your continuance; beautiful flowers and many kindnesses shown me in this, the saddest time of my life, and may God's richest blessings rest upon you all. Mrs. Sweetie Harris and Robert F., and Thomas D. Harris, Jr. In Memoriam In loving memory of my devoted husband, Benjamin Jackson, who departed this life December 16, 1914, two years ago to-day. His wife. MARIA B. JACKSON. A LARGE COLLABORATION. A total collection of $342.44 was lifted in the Ninth St. N. Baptist Church last Sunday during the three survivors. There was no dab rally, either. Rev. R. V. Payton, D. D., is having surgery. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916 XMAS FUND TOTALS #010,000. (Times-Dispatch, Dec. 12, 1916) Representing the savings of approximately 75,000 people of Richmond during the year, checks aggregating $640,000 will be mailed out tonight by ten financial institutions of this city. This sum, strongly reflecting the prosperity of Richmond, compares with $433,500 paid out a year ago under the same plan, and represents in the main the savings in small weekly amounts of the workingman and woman. Bankers said yesterday afternoon that the showing made by the Christmas Saving Clubs this year was unusually gratifying, since many of the banks showed heavy gains over last year in both the number of accounts in the clubs and in the amounts received. The Christmas clubs have now been in operation four years, having been inaugurated by one of the largest banks of the city, which has more than held its own against great competition. It is estimated that practically the entire amount—$640,000—will be spent during the next ten days for Christmas shopping, indicating that the retail district will become even more congested than usual at this season of the year. While the retail merchants will probably receive the greatest benefit from the savings, the turning loose of this large sum will be felt in practically every line of business. SOME WILL DEPOSIT CHECKS IN SAVINGS ACCOUNT. Some members of the clubs will replace their checks in the banks as a new egg for the opening of savings accounts. it was stated in banking circles, but the bulk of the disbursement will be spent during the Christmas season. Another surprising fact found is the large number of boys and girls that have registered in the savings club, paying in only a few cents every week. That the unique banking plan is exceedingly popular is shown by the increased membership from year to year. Outstanding among the bank announcements yesterday was the heavy increase shown by the Mechanics Savings Bank, a colored institution. This bank increased its accounts this year to 7,280, paying out a total of $60,000 among the colored population of the city, as compared with $23,000 a year ago. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, another colored institution, operating a savings club, had 750 members, making a disbursement of $9,000. The West End Bank increased the accounts during the year from $800 to 1,626, representing savings of $37,000. Two years ago this bank had only 400 accounts in its club. The Merchants' National Bank opened a Christmas club last year for the convenience of its clients, but did not devote any great efforts to secure a large membership. Consequently the accounts totaled only 244, and aggregated only $6,000. Clubs will be mailed out by the banks tonight as follows. American National, 6,000 accounts, $175,000. Broadway National, 1,000 accounts, $16,000. Church Hill, 5,000 accounts, $71,000. Manchester National, 2,400 accounts, $50,000. Mechanics' Savings, 7,200 accounts, $60,000. Merchants' National, 244 accounts, $6,000. Richmond Bank and Trust Company, 10,000 accounts, $205,000. South Richmond, 775 accounts, $10,000. St. Luke Penny Savings, 750 accounts, $9,000. West End Bank, 1,626 accounts, $27,000. The Stock visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Knight of Forest Hill. Friday, Dec. 8th, and left a fine little daughter. Mrs. Knight is in Tarboro, N. C. with her parents, where they both are doing nicely. The Planet is now being sold by Mr. Wm. Sprayle, 116 Greve Avo, Petersburg, Va. Single copies five cents. Automobiles are also always available at Mr. Sprayle's place, terms reasonable. DONORA. (PA.) NOTES (By Annabale Poasa) Donora, Pa.—Mrs. Stella Saunders is conned to her bed with an attack of pneumonia. Missice Grace Pitts and Jean Thornton, of Monongahela, attended the sewing club, Thursday afternoon, at the residence of Miss Annabella Ponce, Mrs. Charlotte Beverly was highly entertained at a birthday party given in her honor last Wednesday night. She was the recipient of many beautiful presents. A delightful banquet was served and the guests dressed, having waited a pleasant evening. THE BOARD OF VIRGINIA SEMINARY MEETS TRUSTEES HOLD GREAT JUBILEY MASS MEETING AT BAMOND HILL BAPTIST CHURCH They have not slackened in interest, but are "just as strong today as the day when the Lord sent them out." The Trustee Board of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College evinced this fact on Wednesday, December 6th, in the college chapel at Lynchburg. Va.'s large numbers of them were there representing all sections of our territory. Everybody knows that the Board is composed of some of the strongest, the most aggressive and progressive proachers and laymen to be found anywhere. Well, they were there—those strong ones, those big ones: W. T. Hall, W. F. Graham, N. Jordan. Then the young blood: T. J. King, S. A. Brown, L. W. C. Mette, J. H. Burks, W. D. Woods, A. J. Everett, W. R. Smith, S. A. Garland, L. R. W. Johnson, J. H. Harvey, A. Humbles, B. Tyrrell, S. N. Daughtry, A. A. Calvin. These are some of them. Much business was despatched relative to the work of the institution. President Woods made an informal statement as to the general condition of the school, which showed that it was never better at this season. The teachers are all paid, the current expenses are up-to-date, the largest enrollment ever had is now. The students are well fed, the buildings are comfortably heated night and day by two large boilers, and lighted throughout with electricity. Everything is being done and always will be done to make the students comfortable and happy while in the institution. Neither pain nor money will be spared in keeping the fare in every way up to and in many instances in advance of other schools of similar character. In some respects, we are compelled to do more than others before many of our people who do not agree with us in fostering educational work will admit that we have done as much as others. This is not a boast, but the statement of a fact, notwithstanding the present high cost of living. The management of the school contracted for its staple foods before the present high prices obtained. But for that reason, it would be very much more difficult to keep up. The coal, wood, meat and bread have been provided for under contract for the entire year at reasonable prices. That, however, does not prevent us from desiring and planning to help out. Hence, the Secretary has been instructed to send out appeals the first of the year to all of the members of the Board and to some of the stronger churches, asking for a cash donation of at least the dollars for current expenses. Brothers, look out for the appeals, they are coming, be prepared to answer. A great volume of business was transaction, among which was the employment of additional teachers, the raise in salary for the present force, the overhauling of the boys' dormitory, the preparation of the grounds and buildings for the coming tuition. AUDITORS MAKE INFORMAL REPORT Revs. T. J. King, S. A. Brown, and R. W. Johnson, having been appointed by the Virginia Baptist State Convention to audit the books of the school, stated to the brothers that they had spent five days of hard work examining papers, receipts and disbursement sheets and vouchers raising all the way from five cents to thousands of dollars, and they were compelled to report that the funds are well and wisely looked after, and that during the period of five years, there had been handled by the school more than $120,000. This, it is to be remembered, is money raised by the black Baptists of the State, and just a part of them, at that. It came from the farmers, the washer-women, the cooks, and laborers of our race, who have denominational pride, and who believe that Baptist boys and girls ought, wherever possible, be educated in Baptist schools. It is painful to say, yet it is the truth, that not much of the $180,000 has come from the professional men and women of our race. Doctors, lawyers, and school teachers are by no means doing their full duty in contributing of their means towards the perpetuation of that standard of education that ought to obtain among us. But for the fact that the preachers who compose our convention had made the great sacrifice that they have made, there would be no independent standard and system of bible education among our people today in this State. JUBILIES MASS MEETING. At Pinewood Will Church, on December 6, we are armed and made successful through the strenuous efforts of Rev. Jas. E. Carter, superintendent of missions for the Virginia Baptist State Convention, who is at the present giving all of his time to the work. The meeting at Diamond Hill was a signal success, both in attendance and interest. We did not have all of the people of the city that we should have had, but what we did have certainly must have gone away with a new determination to work for the success of the coming jubilee. The magnitude of the meeting was spoken of, showing that at least twenty thousand people would attend. It was brought out by the northern brethren that preparations were being made in that section by the people to come. It was brought out, also, that the state conventions of West Virginia and New York had voted to represent and attend in large numbers. The various associations and district conventions of Virginia have fallen in line and will be there. It was also brought out that from now on, the official force of the convention will put forth the most strenuous efforts to reach every church and have them represented in the jubilee meeting. Too much stress can not be laid upon the spiritual aspect of the meeting, for it is sincerely hoped that many conversions will be had, for the best evangelists and preachers in our State and nation will be heard, and the good news shall spread abroad to every mook and corner of old Virginia and even sweep beyond its borders to the heart of the adjacent states. The mass meeting just hold is just one of the many that will be held by the working force among us. We expect to hold other meetings of its kind in the same city. We expect to hold missionary and educational mass meetings in Bedford City, Roanoke, Salem, New River, and the New River section extending to Brunswick. We expect to work the western section, including Hartnoburg, Staunton, Clifton Forge, Covington, Charlottesville and interning points, thence to Richmond, Tetersburg, Suffolk, Norfolk, Newport News, Willisburg, Farmville and every town, and hamlet that can possibly be reached. We hereby call upon the pastors and church workers throughout our domain to join with us in the work of advertisement through the various newspapers and whatever avenues of advertisement may be open to you. We still have on hand a large number of jubilee charts containing the cuts of the work at Lynchburg from its incipiency, together with almost a hundred of the officers, leaders and helpers of the Virginia Baptist State Convention. A copy of this chart should be in every church and in every Baptist home in Virginia. Write for them. Very truly yours. S. A. MOSSES, Secretary Trustee Board, V T S & Bo FOUND DEAD A shocking tragedy was revealed at 10 East Dural Street Street Monday morning when Mrs. Lila K Mills and Mr. William A. Jordan entered the house to investigate the disappearance of William K. Evans, who had not been seen since the preceding Thursday. He was found at the top of the stairs, wearing overalls over his regular clothes. He had been painting and died while so doing. He had evidently been dead several days. He ate supper at Fry's lunchrooms Thursday night and had not been seen since. He was collector for the Southern Aid Society, and the management had been at a loss to understand his strange disappearance. His wife was in New York undergoing treatment. She returned here upon receipt of the news of the tragedy. BROWN-JACKSON. Mrs Helen E. Jackson, of Richmond, Va. was married to Mr. Pr. or Brown in Atlantic City, N. J. Thursday, November 30, 1916. SAMUELB—BROWN. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Brown announces the marriage of their daughter, Katie L. Montana, to Rev. B. D. Samuel, D. B., of East Orange, N. J., to take place Wednesday, December 27, 1816, at five o'clock P. M. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Reception from six to eight o'clock, 19 East Duvall street. Friends invited. No cards. BROWN—PONER Mr. Robert H. Jones wishes to announce the marriage of his son, Miss Margaret V. Jones, to Mr. P. Natalie S. Brown, of Hampstead, Va. Tuesday, December 18, 2018, at 9:30 o'clock P. M., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Jones, 888 Danny Street, Friends invited. No charge. IDEAL SOCIETY NOTES Prospect Lodge. No. 106 of the biggest lodges in the Order held its twenty anniversary at its last meeting. Many friends were present. A splendid program was rendered. Suppor was served in great style. Mrs. Rosa Thiggson. Supreme National Lecturer. No. 1 held an Ideal Better Aquainted Social a few events ago, after the rendition of a splendid program, the guest spent the time in pleasant greeting. Refreshments were served by the Social Committee in great style. The evening was quite an enjoyable one. Thanksgiving Day. Mr. A W Holmes. Supreme. Master left the city for Washington. D. G., where he spent four days. While away he organized three lodges and two nurseries. This splendid work goes to the credit of Mrs. S M. Stockton. D. L., Mr. J W Stockton. Deputy. Mr. Granville Johnson and Miss Mary L. Stockton. Mr R H. Fox, Counselor of Blue Eagle Lodge, No. 4, who has been ill, is now out. Mr Fox was one of the foremost in starting the Ideal Society. He is also one of the Vice Presidents of the International Tobacco Union, and the only colored man on their official staff. The children of Sunbeam Nursery, No. 1 rendered a beautiful program and mock marriage Monday night, the 14th. The entertainment was rich, and a handsome sum was raised for the nursery under the direction of Mrs M S Payne, Sunbeam Guardian and Mrs Ida E. Charity, Supreme Secretary. The Ideal Union at Thirty-first Street Baptist Church last Sunday was a great success. A large crowd was in attendance and the program was excellent. The address of Mrs Rosa Thompson was fine. All who heard her were benefited thereby. The remark of the Supreme Master and Rev R C. Williams was inspiring. Sunday night, December 10th Zion Baptist Church South Richmond was crowded, this being Ideal Night. Members of the Order turned out in large numbers. The address of Supreme Master Holmes on "Ideal Preparedness" was well received. All who heard him were highly pleased Rev Dr Anthony congratulated the Society on its magnificent progress and Mr Holmes on the timely adress. The Ideal Choir rendered special music. Director John H Powell introduced the speaker. MRS ELIZATYREEPASSES AWAY Rather Glen Van M. Eileen Tyler, the widow of the late Benjamin Franklin T. rose after a long period of illness, peacefully away at her residence December 6, 1916, at eight o'clock A.M. at the age of about one hundred years. She was a member of the Oxford Mount Zion Church and held in high esteem by all for her Christian character, and the general demeanor of her life marked the way worth to be trodden by all of her followers. She is survived by four daughters and two sons and a host of relatives and friends. She was laid to rest in the cemetery of the Oxford Mount Zion Church, on December 7th. She was a member of the above named church for a long number of years. The funeral took place on the following Sunday from the church. Rev W. M. Washington, pastor, accompanied by Rev H. T. Taylor officiated. The golden gates were open wide. A gentle voice said come. And with farewell unspoken. She silently entered home. Oh, could we open wide the grave. And see her face once more. And hear her voice all we crave. As in the days of yore. But long as life our hearts shall hold. The memory we love dear. And o'er her grave in lonely grief. Shall fall the silent tear. One precious from our heart has gone The voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home. Which never can be filled. We shall never cease to love her Though her form is hid from view. And I hope some day we will meet her Round, God's throne in life anew. Now our hearts are, oh so sad. And our thoughts are all of thee. How we love and how we miss her. Nona but God in Heaven can see. DIED—In Hanover County, Virginia. Thursday, December 7, at six o'clock. Mrs. Bita Lewis, the mother of Mrs. Anna J. Crowder, of New York, formerly of this city. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY DEC 19 1816 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. TRADE WITH PLANET ADVERTISERS You have no doubt found it to be true just as we told you that we cater only to advertisers who are reliable and who will do what they say they will. 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You can get a piano at a bargain. Look at the Vi- trolas and other musical instruments. Skillful performers are there to test for you the tone and the quality Remember the place. Broad street between Second and Third streets. Mr. James G. Corley is a favorite in Richmond. Let the great music house established by him be your favorite. BONINLS NEW CAFE and Dining Room is meeting with popular favor. It used to be a place to get a good drink, but now it is a place to get a "good eat" and people are going there, too. You need not fear the high cost of living if you go to Seventh and Marshall streets for your meals. JEFFRIES NO. has become a standard remedy for people with coughs and colds. This preparation has saved so many people possibly doctor's bills that you have only to mention the remedy in order to secure a smile of absolute satisfaction. CHARLES G JURGEN SON to a household home. It now with home furnishings and furniture for the tea room that the stock carried in this form is as robust as any in the city. People, who have more money to send and those who have only a limited amount can go there and be satisfied. They have a large Christmas stock. Call and see them. A D PRICE declares that he leads. No one will deny him in this respect. He will lead you either to the bridal altar or to the grave yard and he will give you absolute satisfaction in either of these places. His livery is kept up to the minute and his automobile service is the very beat. If you are happy, call and see him. If you are sad go to him with your trouble. His terms are as low as any, commensurate with first class service. D J FARRAR Is the Contractor and Builder, who will make vacant ground "bloom and bloom like a rose" and at a profit to you. His taste and skill in designing and executing are well known. He can be found upon short notice. EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURNIG Co. will furnish you with the treatment for which you have been longing. Read the offers and get a trial box of the treatment. (Continued on Page Eight.) ... Husband Wanted! Pady, between the age of 40 years wishes to correspond with a gentleman, aged 40 of 45, 45 years of age. Object, matrimony; exchange photos. M. D. ROSS. 18, 6th Street, Lakewood, N. J. — Mrs. Susan Robinson was taken to the Memorial Hospital Thursday, the 7th where she also underwent an operation Friday. She is in improving PLEA TO WILSON FOR PEACE AFTER VISIT TO SCENES OF SLAUGHTER ON WEST FRONT PAGE TWO PLEA TO WILSON AFTER VISIT SLAUGHTER WILLIAM BAYARD HALE, AUTHOR IN OPEN LETTER ASKS THAT SKES DEADLOCK AND HOW RESULT—CALLS LLOYD RIBALD U The following "open letter" to President Wilson on peace was filed at The Hague cable tolls prepaid, by William Bayard Hale, International News Service correspondent at Berlin. The message was stopped by the British censor in England. This copy reached New York by messenger from The Hague. BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALK. Author of biography of Woodrow Wilson. On the Somme Battlefield, Oct. 16. Mr. President: In other days you have sometimes been pleased to use my eyes as your own. You have ex pressed confidence in the fidelity of my observation as a reporter. Mr. President: I did not tell you a little of what I have seen with in the circuit of these smoking hills, from which for days I have watched the opie struggle which since time began has never been approached. One knows that men die in battle, but to see them die, and in numbers like these, such deaths as these, and with such utter futility—if you were President, you would find that hard. For men are dying here, Germans, Frenchmen. Englishmen, dying in holes in the ground, dying in railroad cars side-tracked in long trains, dying in motor trucks, laboriously seeking the way back to peace, dying by scores in cottages, school houses, dying by hundreds in churches, dying by thousands in fields, dying lying in the dirt, their sightless eyes rolled up toward a heaven of brass, flies on their lips and in their gaping wounds. MEN SHOT TO PIECES It is quite true, Mr. President, it is no newspaper sensation, no romantic invention. In consequence of the new methods of warfare, the character of the wounds and the nature of the death are 'very often indeed too ghastly to describe and quite impossible to imagine underdescribed. . . On both sides men are being shot into pieces of palpitating meat; blown into separate parts of what was once a human body; being stified by poisonous gases; incinerated; incinerated handmade dreadful handmade itself before my eyes as I write these lines, human beings are yielding up the flame of life, and leaving wounds and orphans to wonder whether there is a God above. One knows that men are wounded in battle, but actually to see these specters of men - Germans, Frenchmen. Englishmen - crippled, blinded, scarred, deformed, lamed, malmed, mutilated that is hard. Mr. President. If you could hear what fills my ears as I write these words it might per hape carry you back to still summer evenings on the porch of Sea Girt, when an easterly wind bends the meadows the sound of breakers of iron anger would deafen your ears to everything but its own horror; this thunder would stop the very nuisances of your heart with its sense of the billows of agony heating upon the shores of existence. MISERY ON ALL SIDES If you could see what I see as I write—this woolful declaration, this Imaelitish waste, these stretching miles of landscape stricken, emitted, forgotten of God and accursed by men; if you could hear the tales told by French and English prisoners, of the miseries which exactly repeat what we see on this side of the fatal line, I think. Mr. President, there would be no question of your "reacting" to the greatest tragedy in the history of men. The voices of all the angels of mercy that must hover, these bloody miles would not fall to appeal to you. The inartiulate murmur of the ghostly thousand who already die slain, the thousand pleadings of the thousand who still await the doom of death unless this horror of the ages soon shall cease would reach I remember—it is only in the presence of a grief so great that I put down for the public eye reference to an hour so familiar—I remember a morning—it was in Bermuda four years ago—when I saw you in deep perturbation and when I saw you tell me to tell a young man of the death of an aged relative. It was but one revelation of many of the humanity of your heart. ONE MAN HAS GREAT POWERS. No one shall tell me—I will not listen to it—that it does not ache over a tragedy more gigantic, more pitious, than any enacted while the world has rolled around. No one shall tell me untreated, that your consciousness does not meet most gigantic of human history. Is it possible that it is today within the power of one man to end this bizarre thing? Is it possible that history has no contrived its mysterious precesses that it lies in the hand of one man today to check this slaughter—possible that the currents of world events today not toward the almost incomprehensible opportunity that has been created by the world that has nurtured in years of deceived reflection, that he may speak the counselor word, make the counselor restate, before which the fired and insane remnants of the heroes of those direful years shall drop their womens? I believe it is no. True, none of the self-evident governments will contain the truth of the truth, the President, or dismembered between themselves and another, so that he cannot the official continuity of morrow. INSCLT FROM LLOYD GEORGE. To us here on this bloody field have come echoes of the ribald utterances of Mr. Lloyd George, in which, in the language of the race track and the prize ring, he flings insult into the teeth of the President of the United States and the head of the head of Christendom, the Page, if either of them drew to dream of the day when this war shall cease. It would be unjust to the people of England, whose history and literature, whose heart you know so well; it would be unfair to the sober-minded gentlemen of his own land, and more especially to those of Russia, France and the central European allies to the extent to which the language of this English politician any meaning to which the heart of suffering humanity in this hour responds. I prefer to believe that that heart is watching with eagerness and expectancy for the raling of a man who shall fulfill the character described in the poem which I have heard you read, without moving emphasis, of him— "Who, if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need." Men must suffer bodily pain and mental anguish, though they have suffered on a scale so colossal as this should they agonize fruitlessly? Why do they down their lives without avail? WAR AT A STANDSTILL This war is at a standstill. I have traveled 600 miles along the western German lines of defense. They cannot be broken through in a hundred years. I have seen a few square miles of blood-soaked soil change master at an awful price. I have been on the east front. Nothing can hamper there appreciably to alter the decision, which might as well be rendered now as next year, or five or ten years. Without all the governments involved know this. All are weary, weary, weary of the attack. They await. Mr. President, the word that at this great moment should be spoken by the head of the chief of the neutral peoples. TIME IS RIPE FOR PEACE In moving language you have yourself described the miracle which curtained away America against the fullness of time for its part in the richest moment of human history. That moment, Mr. President, is not this that moment? Has there in all the story of nations ever been outshaded such a role as that which our beloved land might play this day—that of a very Christ among the nations, stretching out the hand that casts out devils, heals the possessed, calms the seas and restores the reign of beautiful peoples? These sentences have been written in treetops overlooking the inferno of battle, by the side of battlebatteries, in bloodadden, shellkilling fields, during a week of deafness and honeu. It is the importance of a more than tragic hour that impels me to transmit them to you. Because of fear that the German government might think (might foolishly think) that even to allow them to go out of the land might be regarded as a signal of weakness. I have committed them to memory and taken them to the Hague, there to file them at the cable office. Returning to Germany, I shall file them by wireless communication. I shall get to get to you a message which lies upon the heart of an American who has looked upon this tragedy. POLLARD WORKING HIS WAY THROUGH COLLEGE New York, Dec. 6.—Fred Pollard, the Nebrro player who chopped and hacked to pieces easy means of defense that could be devised by Yale and Harvard, and who stands today as one of the most remarkable football players of a decade, is working his way through Brown University. Pollard runs a little tailor shop, and in moments when he isn't humping down the field for Brown in football contention he plays the students' suite. Pollard is only a manager as a football player in the bishop's team, already he has pulled a team championship classification by his own efforts. He chose Brown for his fame merely because it looked better to him than did several other universities, including Dartmouth. A brother of Pollard's formerly played football at Dartmouth, and Pollard's inclinations were first toward the Hanover, N. H. school. As a vindication, it may be noted that Brown coaches know until he played Pollard's football ability until he had admission to any one afternoon. They said he ever played football and be informed them he had learned a few points about the game in Chicago, his home. He was given a uniform, told to get busy and the rest is history. After the Yale game Pollard was acclaimed the most remarkable halfback who had opened the Blue this season, he had jungle jungle against Harvard and did the trick again. It was firmly established that he is one of the greatest football players the East has ever seen. Pollard, in Patterson, named him as a big league, graduate, postman. He has a point to mention Harvard, Pollard and Yale. THE RAIN AND PLANET, NOBODY'S VERSION Bonds being several men as a football player, Pelhard is something of a track performer, specializing at the hurdles. TALKS ON THRIFT NO. 20—PAY-UP WEEK. Waukau, a little town of two thousand people in Iowa, with the usual quota of churches, schools, business houses and banks, made the discovery, so ago, that the merchants of the town were $50,000 of unpaid bills, and so set apart a week last January as "pay-week." when the debtors were asked, as a matter of duty and of civic pride and good business ethics, to settle up. The chamber of commerce took the money in and the results were taken in the factory on the scheduled again for next January, it is hoped with even greater success. Those who are unqualified with the ways of business little realize how much debt oxides in every community in the form of book accounts, carried along from month to month, year to year, and rarely if, ever settled in full. It is so handy to shop with a book and to use the telephone, that the case with which charge accounts can be utilized often leads to overbuying and to prove burdensome if not disastrous. It is well known that those who pay, pay for those who do not pay. The merchant must make his profit or fail, and this profit must be sufficient to offset the bad debts that necessarily accrue in the course of every business. And if in a little, town of two thousand there are outstanding $50,000 of unpaid bills, what must it amount to in larger places? Even if the larger part of the outstanding debts are eventually paid the merchant must be forced to purchase goods. He must pay his bills as he expects his customers to pay theirs. Our whole business structure rests upon the retailer. If he pays promptly, the jobber can pay promptly, and likewise the manufacturer. If the retailer is backward, extends credit unlucky, pays slowly or not at all, the whole business structure suffers. Only the retailer pays bills, bills the retailer pays. We have had a lot of observations introduced during the past ten years. We have Flag Day, Mother's Day, Apple Day, Thrift Day, Clean-up Day, Rose Day, Candy Day, Gas Week and a host of others, all of which are worthy. Some of these days lay particular stress upon waste and saving and preparation for the future, but constructive and beneficial results as will follow an annual pay-up day, when bills are settled in full. The Chinese have a custom of celebrating the advent of New Year, either by paying off old debts, or, if they are creditors and the debtor is unable to pay, then by canceling the debt. Thus the new year begins with a clean slate. Communities are, all alike in many resections and the probabilities of their unpaid accounts in thousand others. We have too many unpaid accounts on our books. Why not profit by the Waukon idea, and have a pay-up week the country over, when the state shall be wined clean and the new year started free of debt. DONORA (PA.) NOTES. By Appalachia Pense Mrs. Rosetta Morgan departed this life Nov. 29, at the McKenzie hospital. Mrs. Morgan had suffered a short period of illness, she was a member of the Court of Calanthe and leave a husband, relatives and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Mrs. Maude Jones was a business caller in Pittsburg Thursday. Miss Joan Thurston, Grace Pittis, spent Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Miss Annabel Peace. Miss Maddie Wilson, Grand Worthy Inspector of the Court of Calanthe of Pittsburg, Mr and Mrs C. Bruce of Sassasal Mr and Mrs B. Payne of Braddock, attended the funeral services of Mrs. Rosetta Morgan. Mrs. Stella Saunders, visited relatives in our city Sunday. Miss Lilly Graves attended the wedding of Miss Lily Primada Thursday day evening, also spent Saturday and Sunday in Pittsburg. PLANTERS TRY TO STOP MIGRA- TION OF NEGROWS Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 6.—In an effort to check the widespread migration of Southern Negroes to Northern labor fields. Negro leaders and white economicists have joined forces, and all mae-nesses which are being held generally are pointing out that no permanent gain awaits the average Negro in the North. It is estimated that 70% of the Negro population have left the Southern States since the northward movement began last summer. Alluring offers of high wages and easy work made by labor agents in all parts of the South appear to have met with a general response from Negroes in all sections. Varied reasons have been advanced for the apparent willingness of so many Negroes to leave their homes. The majority of labor in the cotton fields past spring and summer is feared by the cotton co-operators. Reports of their guidance vary but these which have gained the widest stimulation in the past, all of hard-working, industrious beginners of the cold weather, which the Negro as a race cannot stand. Two Commissaries, appointed only last night, assigned cell and power-protected Digby Alarm, Alarmy of Boulder, night watch at Humboldt county Joll, and then illuminated eight companies confined in the same tier of cells. Rock Phillips, one of the three who refused a chance for Liberty, ran two blocks to spread the alarm, which in thirty minutes had forty city and county officers actively on the trail, and the police of all neighboring towns on the watch for the seven escaped prisoners. The jail delivery is one of the large eat and boldest in the annuals of the city or county police. It occurred shortly before 8:30 o'clock, and the escaping prisoners walked out of the fall into Main Street, and calmly made off. Forced to go with the others, Phillips broke away and ran first to a confectionery store and then to a near-by fire-engine house, from where a riot call was sent in. He returned to the fall to lead assailants to the jail, who were attempting to call aid by emptying his revolver into the air. Other prisoners had crept back to their cells, where they were later found hidden beneath the cots, too frightened, to come out when called. The ringleaders of the delivery plot were veritable giants. They are listed as Eugene Reuff and Percy Gayd, both having several alliances. Reuff in six feet four inches in height, and Gady is two inches shorter. In the escape, the former secured a heavy caliber revolver owned by Deputy Sheriff O. C. Hedrick, day jailer, with which he is armed. Two repeating Winchester rifles and a shotgun were overlooked in the hasty flight. Reuff and Gady, as far as the story of Mr. Hechler goes, had hidden in an empty cell, the door of which was not fastened when the prisoners were wore. He was then asked to a load of bread for one of the other men. He took ten cents and bought the bread. Returning to the fall he opened the corridor door and stepped up to the cell to glove Gady. He lapsed on him from the rear. Mr. Hechler was hurt to the floor by his burly assailants. In the fall his head struck a door and a nasty cut was inflicted. He was dazed by the blow and white powerless, was trussed up with an improvised rope. Although unable to use his hands, he managed to keep his revolver beneath his arm. He searched, the Neroes did not find it. Otherwise his life might have paid the penalty for his carelessness. The jail keys were taken by Gady, who first unlocked the remaining cell doors, liting the butler prisoners and then ran downstairs to the office, where he secured the revolver which had been left in the desk by Mr. Hedrik weapon. Gady controlled the situation until Reuff took it away from him and ordered everybody out. RIOT CALL BRINGS HELP OF CITY POLICE In response to the riot call, Chauft four W. H. Metcalf, of the First Police District, made record time in driving to the county jail with five officers. Within a few minutes, Captain R. B. Sowell reached the scene and took charge until the arrival of Sheriff Webb W. Sydnor, who was at home when the delivery took place. Major Louis Werner, Chief of Police, also added in the scene the police department was depatched to every place it was thought possible that the men would make for Railroad detectives were also called into service, and all trains are being carefully watched. Every avenue of ocacane from the city is being guarded by Richmond police, more than thirty having been put on the case within half an hour. Captain Alexander S. Wright, of the Third District, dispatched two men, each armed with riot guns, to the south ends of the Mayo and Free Bridges. All nearby buildings and confidence that they will recapture several of the men, Sheriff Sydnor, of Hennessey, last night offer a reward of $25 for the capture of any one of the escaped men. Hillippe, who gave the alarm, told a story substantially the same as than given by Mr. Hechler. He was sick all day yesterday and was under the care of a physician. He was sleeping when the men made the attack on Mr. Hechler and was aroused by the noise. All of them shedding to escape, he was forced to leave the house, but when the band separated, he took the opportunity to get away from his captors. At the confectionery store he was unable to get the use of the telephone, but had better success, at the engine house. As he ran back to the jail, Mr. Hechler who had broken his slight bonds, came out of the door and fired to attract attention. George Pryor, colored, who lives just across the street from the jail, was the first to reach Mr. Hechler, and then in getting back to the office, from where he communicated with Sheriff Sydnor. OPENING OF CORRIDOR DOORS IS FORBIDDEN Sheriff Byrd took office on January 1, succeeding L. H. Kemp, who was elected treasurer of Henrico County. He placed Mr. Heather in the position of night judge. Five months ago, and has found him an efficient employer, although too poor to sympathize. The opening of corridor doors after the prisoners are locked up for the night is against his express rules and orders. All of the cells are locked by a lever, which is retained with the key. It is possible for a prisoner to as a cell down that it will not burst. Any sought being this at the penalty inscription, is severely punished. The fact that the prisoner is supposedly guilty will confound his susceptibility to write the residence of the prison, and their race or not be into their power required and so planned. In addition to Sheriff Byrd and Court judge who appeared upon the scene of the murder, Mr. Heather, Mr. Heather, Mr. Heather and Mr. Byrd Johnson, Johnson and Johnson are not considered inmates, but they other inmates and prisoners of the jail are in employment on the prison already with whom Mr. Byrd Johnson and the jail who The caribou, from which the census was made is on the second floor. All of the entered prentices, with the exception of Nora Prentice, were on the first floor there being less than a dozen. After leaving their cells the prisoners had to come downstairs, and unlock the main door which leads into the office. There they riffled the deeds. In the office, the prisoners were seized in a corner, but were covered with old clothes and were probably not seen in the hurry. A pain of shame is the only thing missing in addition to the revolver. The men then went through the house, which is for the use of the jailer's likely ally. They seized and walked out of the front door. With the exception of the one revolver, the men are thought to be armed. It is not thought that they have more than one or two dollars between the seven, and consequently it is not feared that they will get away on passenger trains. The freight yards will be carefully guarded, and as unpictious Negroes are bound to account on their shirts it is hardly that Ruff and Gady will manage to elude the police. Bell and Epps are expected to be rounded up, as both have about served their sentences and were probably forced off as were the other three. Zack Phillips, is serving an aggregate sentence of eleventeen months on several misdemonstration charges. For his conduct in giving aid, Sheriff Sylvester last night promised to use his influence to have already spent five months in jail. Phillips is not a trusty, but has made an excellent prisoner.—Times-Dispatch—Dec. 11, 1916. SUFFRAGE IS HARD HIT BY CARDINAL. Washington, D. C. Dec. 7—Dollarizations from every section of the country were present to-day at the opening session of the first anti-suffrage convention. They Hatened to a number of addresses, by women and men deploring the seeking by women of political equality and urging that they can be of more and greater service to the nation in other fields. Most of the speakers, including Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York, president of the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage, attack particularly the movement for a general Suffrage Amendment. Ethin Root, in a paper read for him by Mrs Alice Hill Chittenden of New York, protested against such an amendment, holding it contrary to the spirit of American institutions and the subjection of the people of one State to the government of others. Cardinal Gibbons sent a message, which was read, deprotecting the participation of women in politics. Frederick Huldekoper, vice-president of the American Security League, spoke in the place of Governor of Georgia to attend, and urged the anti-affragists to work for the cause of preemption. TELLS OF RED CROSS WORK. Miss Mabel Boardman of the American Red Cross told of the work of their organization. Other speakers, including Mrs. B. L. Robinson of Cambridge Mass, president of the Public Interests League, told how anti-suffragettes had attacked the Red Cross during the war in Europe. Members of the National Association to night attended a banquet at which there were other addresses. The convention will continue through to-morrow. Before adjourning plans to defeat the proposed Federal amendment will be considered. Cardinal Gibbons in his message declared: "The insistence on a right of participation in active political life is undoubtedly calculated to rob woman of her grace of character and give her nothing in return but masculine boldness and affrontery." "Any occupation, however alluring in its specious presence, which draws the attention from her most exalted position, will be detriment to the nation and the race," continued the Cardinal. "As far as I have observed it appears that woman suffrage to the extent that it has been granted in this country has not changed the result of the election. There has been a larger vote, but the results have been the same as they would have been if women had not voted. Thus it seems that our political life has not been benefited or purified by the entrance of woman into the political arena though the domestic life of those engaged in this political work must have been neglected or at least impaired. ENEMY OF FEMALE SEX I regard 'women's' rights' women and the leffers of the new school of female progress as the worst enemies of the female sex. I wish I could impress on American women the designs that would attack to such innovation. "The most precious, undeveloped asset of any nation is its children. An alluring God, through the law of nature has committed this precious treasure in a special manner to the mother. Women cannot get intelligently unless they give time to an intelligent study of political questions, and hold will be insults to the future generation without giving to the present generation any appreciable benefit in the purifying of the ballot. "It is a destruction of the right of self-government and a subjection of the people of New York to the government of others." Senator Root, continues, "Having failed to secure the accord to woman suffrage of such States as South Dakota and West Virginia and Ohio and New York and Pennsylvania, the advocates of woman suffrage have been forced to accept it against their will and to compel them to carry on their local government and select their representatives in the national Government in conformity to the opinions of the people of other states who are in favor of woman suffrage. "It thine such an attempt is contrary to the principles of liberty upon which the American union was established and without which it cannot endure." WEDNEBDAY. A shake-up in the British high naval command has taken place. Vice admiral Sir David Bosty, who was in command of the British battle cruiser squadron in the Indian Ocean, right, has been placed in command of the Grand Fleet. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe can come first as head of the admiralty. The sitter for, of the Rummanian armies defeated by Pichard appears in crossword critical. New news reports report the Rummanian government and diplomatic officials leaving Bucharest for Jasny. The German official attestment announces a disorderly run-moment after the Wallachian front before was fallophorys' steady advance. A diversion in aid of the Rummanians the Russians have taken the offensive near Kirkbahna, on the Gold Districts, in the Carpathians north west of the Rummanian frontier. THURDAY Petrotrub officially announces the advance of von Mackenstein's army to within a ten miles of Bucharest. Campbeltan, an important position on the Treptov vanin front, has been taken by von Kallmeyhan, 1200 prisoners being captured. The Russians are conning their attacks on the north Rumania in Berlin. Berlin says an local citizen areas were gained by the war force but at least to them. Berlin records an allied attack on a two mile front near Ypres. The London and Paris war office make no mention of such attack. FRIDY Greece is in the west of what seems likely to be the greatest craters. The allied alliances in which possession of Greek islands and muntit wore on the west and the east are Black Cemetery is reputed to have obviously natural and unaltered walls, and French columns from the post and infographic offices. The alleys are reported to be proper to head troops at Trousa. Despite terrorism resistance by the Rwandanian, which appear to have increased as Bucharest was neared by the armies of von Munzenkau and von Pulkhamnay, the Teuton-Bulgar invaders are almost within gunshot of the capital. They are nearest, their objective on the southwest, when Munzenkau, sixteen miles distant has reached, but Paris near the Belgian line on the British front and some activity among French aviators are the only activities reported in northern Franer by the war offices. SATURDAY. Petrogrand officially reports two blows struck at von Mackensen's army. The Fouton-Bulgar forces have been driven from the village captured near Bucharest, whose possession brought, them within sixteen miles of the capital. The western end of the Great Cornavoid bridge has been retaken by the Russians. Furious fighting in the Carpathians continues. Berlits and Vienna admit the violence of the Russian attacks, but claim that no substantial result have been obtained. King Constantine has yielded to the allied demand and the delivery of the artillery and munitions of the Greek army. Right took place in Athens between Greek troops and Anglo-French forces, in the course of which several civilians were killed. It ended with an artillice, and the surender of the king. SUNDAY Rumania still holds the center of interest in the world war. The encircling movement of the Teutonic allies continues to draw closer toward her capital, Bucharest, although the Rumanians apparently are stiffening their defense. The Teutons have crossed the Argechni river, west of Bucharest, but both Petrograd and Bucharest assert that southwest of the capital the Russians and Rumanians, fighting together, have forced the retirement of the Teutons and taken prisoners and booty, the latter including twenty-all guns, and fighting still continues from the border of Bukowina along northern Rumania with both sides claiming the advantage. On none of the other fronts has there been any great infantry activity the big guns of all the belligerents still doing the greater portion of the work. MONDAY. The Teuton forces have advanced to within twelve miles of Bucharest, according to Petrograd, but obstinate fighting is still going on between the capital and Alexandria. The Serbians have renewed their successful advance in capturing; height north of Grunishte, and drifting the Bulgarians in the direction Stravina, four miles to the northeast according to the Paris war office. No infiltration was reported until the Somme front he by the British. Repulse of German trench raids on the Somme front an Abase was reported by the Paris war office. Falls From Boat Drowns James McIntyre, Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. James McIntyre, of Borden town, N. J., was drowned by falling from a sand boat belonging to the National Dredging company in the night. He leaves a widow and one child. The Yellow Claw By SAX ROHMER Copyright, 1915, by Lippincott's Magazine. Copyright, 1915, by McBride, Nast & Co. SYNOPSIS Henry Leroux, novelist, is visited by a strange woman, bordering on collapse, who is murdered in his fist while he had gone to summon his friend, Dr. Cumberly. Detective Inspector Dunbar is summoned and questions Leroux, Dr. Cumberly, his daughter, Helen, and Mr. Exel, a friend. Mrs Leroux is away, supposedly on a visit. Susan suspects the butler, Boames, who suddenly disappeared. Helen recovers the dead woman as an acquaintance. Mrs Leroux visits Mrs Vernon's solicitor, that Vernon, recently dead, grieves with his wife on account of these and disappearance. Glaston Max, famous French detective, activa, disguised and under false names, takes the case in the way he has been with his wife was supposed to be visiting Glaston disables Helen on this point. Susan had secured employment with Leroux through a Greek, M. Glendonia, acting for a mysterious Mr. King. He is reubilated. Mr. Gianapolia. I will prove of interest at this place to avail ourselves of an opportunity denied to the gobles and to inquire into the activities of Mr. Soames, whilom employee of Henry Leoux. Luke Soames was a man of unpleasant character, a man ever seeking advancement, advancement to what he believed to be an ideal state—tiz, the possession of a competency—and to this ambition he subjugated all conflicting interests, especially the interests of others. From narrow but honest beginnings he had developed along lines ever growing narrower, until gradual honesty became squeezed out. He formed the opinion that wealth was undistainable by that of hard work, and indeed in a man of his limited intellectual attainments this was no more than true. At the period when he becomes of interest he had just discovered himself a gentleman at large by reason of his dismissal from the services of a wealthy bachelor, to whose establishment in Pleadmouth he had been attached in the capacity of valet. There was nothing definite against his character at this time, save that he had never remained for long in any one situation. His experience was varied if his references were limited. He had served not only as valet, but also as chauffeur, as steward on an ocean liner, and for a limited period, as temporary butter in an American household at Nice. Bommes' banking account had increased steadily, but not at a rate commensurate with his ambitions; therefore when entering his name and qualifications in the books of a certain exclusive employment agency in Mayfair he be determined to avail himself upon this occasion of his comparative independence by waiting until kindly fate should cast something really satisfactory in his path. Such an opening occurred very shortly after his first visit to the agent. He received a card instructing him to call at the office in order to meet certain Mr. Giannapolis. Quitting his rooms in Kennington, Mr. Soanes, attired in discreet black, set out to make the acquaintance of his hypothetical employer. He found Mr. Giannopoli to be a little and very swarthy man, who held his head so low as to convey the impression of having a pronounced stoop a man whose well cut clothes and firm maniacate linen could not redeem his appearance from a constitutional dirtiness. A jet black mustache, small aquiline features, an engaging smile and very dark brown eyes viciously crossed made up a personality incongruous with his sheltering silk hat and calling aloud for a tarboosh and a linen suit, a shop in a bazaar, or a part in the campaign of commercial brigandage, which, based in the Levant, spreads the ramifications throughout the orient, near and far. Mr Gisnapolio had the snare speech and smiling manner. He greeted Soames not as one greets a prospective servant, but as one welcomes an esteemed acquaintance. Following a brief chat, he proposed an adjournment to a neighboring saleen bar, and then, over cocktails, he conversed with Mr. Soames as one crook with another. Soames was charmed, fascinated, yet vaguely terrified, for this man smiling, by show off the cloak of hypocrisy from his companion's shoulders and presented, with the skill of his race, equally to nipify his own villainy. "My dear Mr. Soames," he said, speaking almost perfect English, but with the staging information of the Greek and giving all his epitaphs an equal value, "you are the man I am looking for, and I can make your for turn." This was entirely in accordance with Mr. Soames own views, and he nodded respectfully. "I know," continued Glamorgan, prior burial of the deceased Marytine Christie, "that you were Assured to your heir. Appropriate, dignified in hand, appropriate a short and confident if he purrs typing palm. He selected a match with crown, nose, ears. "The little matter of the silver spoon" continued Glanapolis, smiling fraternally, "was perhaps an error of judgment, although"—patting the startled Soames, upon the shoulder—they were a legitimate perquisite; I am not blaming you. But it takes so long to accumulate a really useful balance in that petty way. Now"—he glanced cautiously about him"—I can offer you a post under conditions which will place you above the consideration of silver spoon". Soames, baffled fintaking his cocktail, sought for worris, but Glanapolis, finishing his own, blindly ordered two more and, tapping Soames upon the knee, continued: "Then that matter of the petty cash and those trifling irregularities in the wine bill, you remember—when you were with Colonel Howett in Nice?" Soames gripped the counter hard, stating at the newly arrived cocktail as though it were hypnotizing him. "Those little matters." added Glan apolis, appreciatively skipping from his own glass, "which would weigh heavily against your other references in the event of their being mentioned to any prospective employer." Soames knew beyond doubt that his face was very pale indeed. "These little matters, then," pursued Glanpolski, "will go to prove to me that you are a man of enterprise and spirit—that you are the very man I require. Now I can answer your point in the establishment of Herdy Larson, the new artist. The service will be easy. You will be required to attend to callers and to walk at night you special en-suits. There will be no salting, and you will have small potted charge of the pantry and white ceiling. In short, you will enjoy unusual luxury. The salary you would say? It will be the same as that with a you received from Mr. Mapleson. Sometimes caused his head drearily. He felt himself in the toils, he felt him self a ruined man. "It isn't a snary beast, the second which." "My dear Mr. Somes," said Giampopo, tipping him confidently upon the knee again. my dear Somes? but the salary, I admit, which you enjoyed while in the services of Colonel Howett in a similar capacity. But this is not a large establishment, and the duties are light. Furthermore, there will be extra's. "Extra's! Mr. Somes' eye brightened, and under the benign influence of the cook outlaws his courage be an to return. "I do not trust," enlisted Mr. Giampopo. "to perquilies. The extra's will be monetary—another 12 per week." "Two pounds!" "Bringing your salary up to a nice round figure. The additional amount will be paid to you from another "Ring up this number and ask for Mr. King." source. You will receive the latter payment quarterly." "From me," said Mr. Glanapolia smiling radiantly. "Now, I know you are going to accept. That is under- stood between uk. I will give you the address—Palace mansions, Westmin- ster—at which you must apply, and I will tell you what little services will be required from you in return for this additional emolument." Mr. Boames hurriedly finished his second cocktail. Mr. Glanapolia, in trust sporting fashion, kept pace with him and repeated the order. "You will take charge of the mail which be whispered softly, one irregular ear following the movements of the bar crowd and the other fixed almost forever upon the face of Soames. "At our take times—of which you will be appointed in advance—Mrs. Lorenz will pay visits to Paris. At such times all letters addressed to her or readdressed to her will not be posted. You will ring me up when such letters come into your possession—they must all come into your possession—and I will arrange to meet you, say, at the corner of Victoria street to receive them. You understand." Mr. Soames understood and thus far found his pleas convenient in marching in step with his institutions. "These," resumed (Omnipuise, "prior to her departure on these occasions Mrs. Lorenz will hand you a parcel. This also you will bring to me at the place arranged. Do you find anything incorrect in these conditions." "Not at all," uninterested Farnsworth said, so unceriously "it seems all right"— the cocktails were beginning to speak how, and his voice was a direct "simply perfect all right all answer." "Good," said Mr. Gladspell, with the radiant smile, and the gaze of his left eye, crowding that of his neighbor, observed the entrance of a stranger into the hall. He drew his stool closer and lowered his voice. "Mrs. Leroux," he continued, "will be in your confidence. Mr. Leroux and every one else—every one else—must not suspect the arrangement." "Certainly—I quite understand." "Mrs. Leroux will engage you this afternoon—her husband is a mere clipher in the household—and you will commence your duties on Monday. Later in the week, Wednesday or Thursday, we will meet by appointment and discuss further details." "Where can I see you?" "Ring up this number—18642 East and ask for Mr. King. No, don't write it down; remember it. I will come to the telephone and arrange a meeting." Shortly after this, then, the interview concluded, and later in the afternoon of that day Mr. Boames presented himself at Place manSION. He was received by Mrs. Leroux, a pretty woman with a pathetically weak mouth. She had fair hair, not very abundant, and large eyes, which, since they exhibited the unusual phenomenon in a blond of long dark lashes (Mr. Soames judged their blackness to be natural), would have been beautiful had they not been of too light a color, too small in the pupils and utterly expressionless. Indeed, her whole face lacked color, as did her personality, and the exquisite ten gown which she wore conveyed that odd impression of slovenness which is often an indication of secret vice. She was quite young and indisputably pretty, but this malprope, together with a certain allessness of manner, struck an incongruous note, for essentially she was of a type which for its complement needs vivacity. Mr. Soames, a man of experience, scented an intrigue and a neglectful husband. Since he was engaged, on the spot without reference to the invisible Leona, he was immediately confirmed in the latter part of his surprise. He departed well satisfied with his affairs and with the promise of the future, over which Mr. Glanapolis, the cherubic, radiantly presided. For close upon a month Soames performed the duties imposed upon him in the household of Henry Leoux. He was unable to discover, despite a careful course of inquiry from the cook and the housemaid, that Mrs. Leoux frequently absented herself. But the servants were newly engaged, for the flat in Palace mansions had only recently been leased by the Leuxes. He gathered that they had formerly lived much abroad and that their marriage had taken place in Paris, Mrs. Leoux had been to visit a friend in the French capital once, he understood, since the housemaid had been in her employ. The mistress issued the housemale did not care two妻婆 his penny for her husband she had married him for his money and for nothing else. She had had an earlier lease declared the cooks and was plining away to a mere shadow because of her painful memories. During the last six months (the period of the cook's service) Mrs. Loroux had alteration of all recognition. The cook was of opinion that she drank secretly. Of Mr. Loroux Soames formed the poorest opinion. He counted him a spiritless being whose world was bounded by his bookshelves and whose wife would be a fool if she did not avail herself of the liberty which his neglect invited her to enjoy. Soames felt himself not a snake in the grass, but a benefactor—a friend in need—a champion come to the defense of an unhappy and persecuted woman. CHAPTER VII. 1. SOAMES, however, was not fully satisfied and proceeded, therefore, to set his mind at rest. He Standing in the lobby, Soames raised the telephone receiver, and, having paused with closed eyes preparing the exact form of words in which he should address his invisible employer, he gave the number—East 18642. Following a brief delay: "Yes," came a nasal voice. "Who is it?" "Soames. I want to speak to Mr. King." The words apparently surprised the man at the other end of the wire, for he hesitated are inquiring: "What did you say your name was?" "Soames-Linke Soames." "Hold on!" Soames, with closed eyes and holding the receiver to his ear, silently rehearsed main the exact wording of his speech. Then: "Hello!" came another voice. "Is that Mr Soames?" "Yes," is that Mr Glanapolis speaking. "It is my dear Soames," replied the shagging voice, and Soames, closing his eyes again had before him a mental picture of the radiantly smiling Greek. "Yen, my dear Sonam," continued Gimpolla, "here I am. I hope you are quite well, perfectly well." "I am perfectly well, thank you, but as a man of business it has required to me that failing a proper agreement—which is this case I know would be impossible—a trifling advance on the best quarter." "Do your salary, my dear Sonam, am your salary? Payment for the first quarter should be made to you tomorrow, my dear Sonam. Why ever did you not express the when before? Can wholly. Certainly!" "Will I be heir to you?" "My dear fellow, how absurd does that! Can you not get out of here?" L. J. 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"Perfectly," said Somnes, his small eyes sparkling with awake. "Most decidedly, Mr. Glamplols. Many thanks." "And, by the way," continued the other, "it is rather fortunate that you run; me up this evening, because it has sayed me the trouble of ringing you up." "What's Somnes eyes half closed from the bottom lids upward. 'There is something'-" "There is a filling service which I require of you—yes, my dear Somnes." "Is it'-" "We will discuss the matter tomorrow evening. Oh, it is a more trifle! So goodbye for the present." Was ever a min of business submitted to such an ordeal? After receiving those instructions Soames had set for close upon an hour in his own room, contemplating the six broken boxes, containing in all some 590 cigars, but the voice within prevailed. He must court no chance of losing his situation; therefore he "discovered" these six boxes in a cupboard, much to Henry Leeroux's surprise. Then Leeroux regularly sent him to the Charing Cross branch of the London County and Suburban bank with brief checks. Sometimes he would be sent to pay in, at other times to withdraw, the amounts involved varying from 1 guineen to £150. But, as he told himself on almost every occasion that he went to Leeroux's bank, he was deliberately throwing money away, deliberately closing his eyes to the good fortune which this cigars and gullible men coul in his path. He observe O a scrupulious honesty in all these deal lugs, with the result that the bank "You will be intrusted by Mr. Leroux with a commission." manager came to regard him as a valuable and trustworthy servant and said as much to the assistant manager, expressing his wonder that Leopus—whose account occasioned the bank more nuxty and gave it more work than that of any other two depositors—had at last engaged a man who would keep his business affairs in order. And these were but a few of the golden apples which Mr. Sommes permitted to slip through his fingers, so tepidast was he in his belief that damapolis would be as good as his word and make his fortune. At the appointed time Sommes hastened to the corner of Victoria street, to do appointment with Ganajolis. The after was prompt, for Sommes perceived it as a gentle smile at off. The second of the Red Lion was (Continued On Sixth Page) L. J. HAYDEN Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines RE ALL DISEASES OR NO CHARGE. D. W. Broad, Richmond PHONE RANDOLPH 3627 DO YOU LOVE HEALTH? call and soo L. J, HAYDEN, Manufacture Herb Medicines, 210 W. Broad Street, Diclines will cure you, or no charge, no what your disease, sickness or affliction and restore you to perfect health. Hun-people, the best and leading ones in the stiffened that I am one of the most wone- the world. 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THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND COLORED RESIDENTS. --- The Civil Association of Richmond is the title of a unique and highly beneficial organization which has been endeavoring to reform the civic affairs of this community by overturning old regimes and installing in their places men of the progressive type it has. In a large measure, been outgeneralized by the political forces of this city. Shrewd politicians have so amended propositions submitted by them as to make them appear ridiculous and they have profited by the reforms to such extent as to be able to have even a more absolute control of the fund of the city than ever before. An Administrative Board with at most plenary powers and with almost unlimited sums to spend is composed not of the men named by the managers of the Civic Association but by the powerful political machine which this organization has been opposing. Drawing an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars, these five members of the city of Richmond have certainly improved the appearance of the offying sections and have succeeded in satisfying a large degree of demands that formally oppose them. The Civic Association of Richmond is spending all its resources in best but the least ways. The work immediately facing the Association was the effort to assist in the chapling of the charter of the city. A resolution was passed by the City Council creating a Charter Committee composed of members from the Common Council, the Board of Aldermen and the citizenship at large. The Civic Association first used its influence for the choosing of the best men as citizen members of the Committee, and then appointed a Charter Committee of its own to study the problem of charter revision at the same time that the Council Committee was undertaking this work. For that purpose, a Committee of the Association was selected which as finally constituted was composed of Mr John C. Fasley, Chairman. Mr Wrynham R. Meredith, Mr Arthur Scriwiner, and Mr D. R. Anderson, Secretary. The report of this Committee recommended a complete revision of the form of government in the direction of simplicity and responsibility. Far as possible under the Constitution of Virginia it proposed a concentration of administrative authority in the hands of the Mayor and not down the Council to a single chambered body chosen from the city at large. The Board of Directors of the Association and a general meeting of the membership adopted this report with unimportant amendments. Thereupon an earnest effort was made to impress this program of charter revision upon the Council Committee. It tells of its troubles in the follow- ing language. The Council Committee rejected the Civic Association's recommendations although such desirable changes as the Council Committee recommended, and the Council adopted for submission to the Legislature were thought to have been made under the influence of the Civic Association. One notable achievement, however, crowded the work of the Association: the passage of a law by the Legislature allowing the citizens on petition to call for an election of a Charter Commission. Although some of the provisions write the citizenship and less serviceable citizenship and less serviceable than the similar privileges of other cities, nevertheless, this law breaks the shackles which formerly bound the people of Richmond, hand and foot, to the Cobb, and enables them by a petition of twenty-five per cent. of the As to initiate a Charter Change will be soon, then, that an administrat of failure is virtually chronded except for the success in sourcing the enactment of a provision permitting a chronic attack upon the City Charter whenever either side finds itself defeated and desires to again "rip up the planks" in that ancient instrument. It may yet prove to be a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. One thing it has done, it has created a condition of affairs in the police circles that has caused untold embarrassment and annoyance to the better class of white and the better class of colored citizens, while the crooks have had almost unlimited sway, due to the clashing of conflicting interests. To escape these annoyance a citizen must be personally in favor with with one of these separate houses, who, in all, are disgregating with each other. Disgrace the fact that the City of Milwaukee is violating banking, it has been impolished and it presents an appearance proceed to no city of its size in the United States. The Civic Association in this prospectus tells and defines just who is eligible to membership in the organization. It says: The Civic Association is now composed of thirty-four hundred men. All male residents of Richmond and vicinity who subscribe to the objects of the Association are eligible for membership. They are expressed in the following words of the Constitution: The objects of the Association shall be to answer our citizens to the proper duty of qualifying themselves as voters so that they will vote to be brought out at every municipal election to work to the end of securing for this the most efficient modern and responsible form of government and to fill its offices by appointment alone and to be best qualified and to be properly aware of the conditions governing the organization. Cannot every real citizen endures these objects? This is high ground and the position here taken, would command the enthusiastic support of every patriotic education. How can the Association explain, though, its Constitution that says one calling, and its very able and efficient Executive Secretary says another? If the Association is opposed to wrong doing in the city government, how can it倔ance wrong doing in another? There is no designation of race or color in its plea. There is no reference to greed or religion in its Constitution. This is high ground and if faithfully carried out by patriotic officials of the Civic Association, cannot but serve to result in lasting good. If the men to hold office are those best qualified to fill them, we are of the opinion that most of the present employees of the city government are best qualified for that duty. Many of them have been there for a generation and they know every detail of the duties of office and are best qualified to know just where reforms may be instituted. So they need have no fear of the Civic Association and its officials mean just what they say! Let us see. Roy W. Warrant H. Stowart and his powerful committee of the upper class divides the With your hearty cooperation we can do much good. Very sincerely yours. D. R. Asterosos How can the Civic Association explain its attitude in having its Constitution say one thing and its Executive Secretary say another? Is this not the same species of duplicity and wrong doing that it professes to be opposing? How does this attitude square with the teachings of the Scriptures and how can the better class of white and colored citizens trust this class of men, not known, as against those who are known, even though some of the ways of the others have been evil? We simply ask these questions to bring prominently before the public the present condition of affairs in public life, where it seems that one element of alleged wrongdoers are to be superceded by another element of seeming wrongdoers. Colored folks are not deceived of joining the Civic Association, although its platform and its principles are most noteworthy and commendable. We hope that colored folks will register and prepare to exercise their full duty as citizens. We can then be in a position to decide just who is entitled to office. In view of the present outlook, it will not be long before the two wings of white folks will be appealing for public favor from the electorate and they will be so busy and so anxious to secure political support that they will not look to see the political complexion of their supporters until after the election is over. For our part, we lived with the white folks during the dark days of slavery, and that government was one thousand per cent, worse for us than than it is now. Certainly, we can stand it under either wing of the pres- ent democratic contenders for supra- macy. Colored folks, respect the white folks. Make them your friends if you can and light your way out against those who are your enemies. Right will be triumphant in the end. Remember that we have true friends on either side of the controversy, and we must so conduct ourselves as to win more over to us. We cannot join the Civic Association via the present Executive Secre- tary, the Constitution to the contrary neither withstanding, but we can deserve to join it. Let us organize one of our own, while out here in the wilderness of political adversity. In the language of Agusos, in this respect, we'll say It is not in mortals to command NON-IN But well do more. Semperius will deserve it. "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE." The Department of Justice at Washington saw fit prior to the election to send broadcast over the country a statement that the Republican managers were colonizing the colored men who were gold North. The impression was that they would vote in their new homes, although the short time that they would have remained there up to the time of the election would have provided any such thing. The intention was, to brand, these hard-working sons of toil as crooks and disreputable elements. A recent telegraphic report puts a different aspect upon the situation. Here it is. Albany, Ga. Dec. 9. At a conference held here between leading white men and Negro men to determine the cost of Negro leaving this section of Georgia the fact was brought out that most of the Negroes are leaving because they fear mish violence. President white men, who are large population owners, and who are dependent upon Negro labor, are striving to learn about conditions which will help the migration of the Negro northward. One Negro farmer told how when a large number of mobile would pay for house labor would cry and from among a man was coming to battle. In one case Negro had actually been arrested that arrested their life death over the them. The reports white planters can have been spared by labor efforts from the North who are paid for every Negro sold to certain industrial centers north of the Ohio River. In some cases it was found that not offences are being because the field laws had been invaded the cotton fields there it is difficult for them to make a profit and rather enough money to be given to the labourers. The truth I have told now, and it is so good that the South Self-Resistance is possible. On the evals. North officers don't have labor to supplement the foreign labor which have gone home to take the army of Europe. North officers don't permit to occupy the country and the Japanese are regarded with suspicion by the face of the country and the coming war. We have always been loved that God had it in history, and that He waves are past finding out Colored folks who have some North will do well but those who have remained in the South will do better South! MEN WANTED The subject of universal military service will not down. Every nation in Europe is undergoing an experience that warns the United States to be ready to defend itself. Every mistake made in this country, including the mistake in trying to bridge the chasm between State militia and the regular army, is a warning that Congress must take up this question and settle it right. We are interested to know the name of the nation in Europe that will be strong enough after this war to engage in another combat with any other country, not excepting the United States. The present struggle will be a hideous nightmare haunting the nations of the earth for a century to come. The Post says: As the subject is more thoroughly discussed throughout the country there becomes the conviction among the people that universal military training is the logical basis of national defense. There is no longer a strong element opposing any kind of defense. Pacifam has few supporters where preparedness has its millions. This is neither more nor less than a declaration that all efforts to bring mankind to a state where "nations will not learn war any more" has seen a failure. The Pest remarks: The experience of the last year teaches us that a militia is not an army; that the regular army cannot be built up by volunteer recruiting; that a strong regular army is needed to meet unexpected emergencies, and that an army worth the name but not raised, organized, cultivated, trained and equipped only by the exercise of the national authority. know it. The Democratic Party opposed a centralized form of government and its position was finally accepted by the people of the country with the result that "playing soldier" became popular when such an amusement was at the expense of the national government. In a crisis of the kind recently witnessed on the Mexican border, the mistake was emphasized. Militiamon became insubordinate. Many of them insist upon having their way, and their representatives in the Congress cause the War Department untold annoyance and embarrassment The seasoned regular is an asset to any country, while undisciplined recruits, in any considerable numbers are a handicap. Moreover, civilian officers are not any more competent as a rule, than civilian privates. The Post continues: The volunteer plan is a failure. Men who make good soldiers will not enlist and serve for three years on a pittance. An American can be made a good soldier in one year. Once trained, he does not forget his training, and with brief annual exercise he can always be fit for the field. Therefore the term of enlistment should be cut down and every able-bodied American youth should be required to take military training. He will be a better man physically and mentally for this drill. He will be giving his country some return for the benefits he receives. The pay of the recruit should not figure in the equation. Young men are needed for the service. Politics has figured in the army organization plans, and this has caused the disorganizing situation which is now embarrassing the Government. The Post says: The regular army has a shortage of 34,000 men and the navy is short about 25,000 men. The army is dwindling, in spite of the energetic attempts at recruiting. The government is spending $80 per man in coursing recruits. In spite of the enlargement of the classes at the Military and Naval academies, there will be a serious shortage of officers in case the service should be brought up to the point of a military The nature of this shortage is primarily due to race prejudice. Colorized libraries could be scoured to fill up the library both in the army and the navy, but this same spectre threaten from enlistment upon terms of equality and recognition. As a result, the cry has gone forth that the army and navy are in a humiliating condition and that the men to man the rums are not to be found. The result will be soon told. Colored men can well afford to hide their time. Just as they were called to the colors in France and England they will yet be demanded in the United States of America. --- Germany proposes peace. The nations at war want peace and in fact their mouths are watery for it. But they are also about the offer to come from that quarter. Cultural folios should not forget that true are as yet on trial in the arena of discussion among the white folios and that they should not do anything to prejudice their case before that tribunal. Teach your children politeness King into their ears the fundamental principles of good manners, while they are young and you and the public will see the effect of it when they are old. Christian forbearance is a most valuable asset and any kind of forbearance will win a substantial dividend in your dealings with the business world and the public. God loveth a cheerful giver, but this depends upon the direction and the person to whom you are giving. Some of those people hereabouts are so sinful and "malaiah" that we wonder if they ever prayed to God in their lives or did a right act that merited Divine favor. The Thrift Movement is gaining in favor. The terrible waste of the past is being followed by the drastic economy of the present. it pays to do right and it costs heavily to do wrong. Courts of law in the past were the havens of justice. Some of these of the present are breeding places of injustice. Don't worry, if you can help it. If you must womb, kind at it, until you see the woman appressed that it is not doing you or anybody else your good work. It is necessary, but surely doing you, if he has the brain. --- A "dry" Christmas is not bad for some people. Hundreds and thousands of them have drunk enough liquor to last them' one hundred years, should they live no long. VIRGINIA UNION NOTES. All Hands to Basketball. Now that the football season is over, Union is directing her athletic attention to the working out of a stellar basketball quint. Although quintage was a comparatively undeveloped sport last year, Prof. Robinson produced a very efficient five to represent Union on the court. There is every reason to believe that this year's quint, with all of last year's regulars in tow, will make even a better record for its school and coach. The schedule is not fully completed, but games will most likely be played with the Spartans. V. N. l. L. Hampton and Howard. PRESENTATION OF US The Athletic Association tendered a social last Friday evening to her praiseworthy football veterans of 1916. With young ladies of Hartnorth College as guests, the association through its president, Mr. C. H. Thompson extended its hearty thanks and appreciation for the splendid record the team made in the realm of football of the past season. Prof. C. E. Hadley then announced that the following men had completed one year of sport and were entitled to the University I: S. B. Taylor, J. T. Wright, T. I. Puryear, Capt. R. B. Williamson, J. T. Watta, C. E. Jackson, W. R. Bowie, C. M. Woods, B. C. Gregory, H. B. Hucles, and W. A. Hall, Manager. ALPHA PHI ALPHA GOATS As appears to be its annual custom, the local chapter, Gamma, of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, in a peculiarly distinctive and mysterious way, added four new members to its fold some time last week. For many weeks, strange phenomena were observed in the actions of the particular goats in question; non-tabitative and ultra-respective, they were noticed to slink away from any member of the fraternity. Quasi-official recognition of their goatdom was evidenced at an entertainment given in Hartford, Chapel two, Friday evening, ago, when the suspects were labeled "goats" and were marched across the chapel platform. The newly initiated the pick of the college and theological departments of the university are: I. W. Broadway "18, Theological Department, A. A. Thompson, 20 H. S. Starkshaw, 15, and W. A. Young, 16, College Department. B. V. P. LITERATURE FOR 101 Literature for local B Y P U Societies is now ready for distribution Quartiles to topic cards, record and roll books, order books, papers, buttons, banners, potants, object and plaque charts, Christian culture course books, song books, motto cards Everything that is necessary for a local union Im- mediate attention Prompt delivery Order at once. Send all orders to The National B Y P U BOARD E W D Isaac Society, 109 Car Street Nashville, Tennessee 1 ROANOKE ITEM At the Hill St Baptist Church tuesday, the 10th, at eleven o'clock. Roy W. A Halnes, preached a most wonderful sermon from Proverbs 1:7. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all the getting, get understanding. Sunday evening at eight o'clock. Roy Halnes preached from Job 21:15. "What is the Almighty that we should serve Him?" And what pro- tit should we have if we pray unto Him? He is His own time and way. He told his hearers to be faithful unto death. Excusable. Employer (Monday morning)—You're an hour late! Clerk—I heard you were dead. I'm sorry, sir.—Chicago News. "What is political economy, dad!" "To be perfectly entitled, my son, I can't tell you. Sometimes I think there, isn't any such thing."-Pablo Antonio Barbieri. SOMEWHAT IN BOUET. "Been hunting today, stranger? "Yes." "Shot anything?" "I don't know yet--I'm waiting for the rest of the party to get into camp so that we can call the roll." Country Gentleman. They were sitting in a included corner of the veranda. For a long time neither of them had spoken. Suddenly he took her little hand in his. His voice was choked with emotion as he said: "Do you think you could ever learn to love a man"— "Yes," she interrupted in a soft whisper. "Bring on your man."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Bread Pudding. Bread pudding in a futile mea- I love it. The ultimate of tastelessness— I love it! In any form, by name, It's that, insult, mawkish, tame. It's awful stuff, but, just the name, I love it! -Chicago Tribune. Med Enough to Hite. Rivers had come home and was stumbling over things in the dark hallway. "What are you growling about, dear?" called Mrs. Flery from the floor above. "I am growling." he answered in his deepest bass voice. "To drown the barking of my shins."-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph Preving It. Hutby Nobody but a foot will argue with a woman Wife I say they won't Hutby I say they will Florida Times Union Take Your Choice. Keep your choice to careful be Prepared to be careful to Prepared to be careful to And totally careful to Philadelphia Bulletin A Truffle Fresh "Sit," said the first connoisseur, "I am selling stock in a pouch or hard." "Are you a cash sample of the output?" he impelled. "If so, I think I'll invest." *Kansas City Journal* Precarious Task. Percy - I've awakened that girl to marry me at least a dozen times. Algy - You have! Percy I have, and, bah Jorge, I cawnt get her to say "No!" — New York Globe. Fame held out her carol to the poet "Write my name here," quoth she. But the poet said, "Not if I know it; I've quit givein' autograph free." Boston Transcript. Appropriate Illumination. "What kind of lights did the football team have at their dinner—shaded candles?" "No; they had rushlights."—Baltimore American. The Job. College Graduate—I should like to form a connection with the house. Boss—Well, you might sit on wet paint—Pittsburgh Dispatch. --- Lease 7000 Sweet Peas. Alban Harvey, of Brandywine Summit, near Harrisburg, Pa. complained to the public service commission that he had lost 7000 reward peas shipped by the Adams Express company Just April, and had not been able to recover them. The company gave insured for $125 and shipped peas Pittsburgh. Liberal Cabinet Post Office Office Suite With David Lloyd George Over Con- stant of War Problem. The British government could found a solution, which, up to the hour of its announcement, was considered least probable of practical alternatives. Herr H. Asquith resigned the premieralty, which he has held through eight stormy years of domestic and foreign history. The Unionist leader, Andrew Bonar Law, was summoned to the palace immediately after Mr. Asquith had departed, and the kip offered him the prime minister's commis- sion, which he had just accepted from Mr. Asquith's hands. No announcement regarding Bonar Law's decision has yet been made, and there are some doubts whether he will accept the heavy responsibility. If he declines, it is considered certain that the honor will fall to David Lloyd George. The continuation of the coalition cabinet, with some changes in its membership, and the speeding up of the war management, will be the policy in either event. The premier's decision to restrain and advise the king to summon Andrew Ronar Law to form a cabinet was taken after a day of extraordinary political excitement and activity. There were constant comings and goings of the political leaders between Downing street and the various government departments. Mr. Asquith met several Unofficial leaders in consultation, including Earl Curron, Lord Robert Cecil and the Earl of Berby. Noticeable absentees from this conference were A. J. Bailour, who is ill, Andrew Ronar Law, J. Austen Chamberlain and Walter Hume Long. The precise reason which determined Mr. Asquith to the power is not yet known, but it is surmised to be the insistence of the Lloyd George faction that he relinquish the real direction of affairs into the hands of a small cabinet director. It is now remarked that when Mr. Asquith was asked in the house of commons if a food dictator had been appointed, he replied sharply: "I don't like a 'food dictator.' There is much talk of the possibilities of a general election. Mr. Bonar Law would be the first to form a cabinet if he takes office, as it is necessary that the government be carried on, and then appeal to the electors for a ratification of the administration. There is strong opposition, however, to any political campaign necessarily, which must divert the country's energy from the war work while it has decided and the new government may decide to go ahead with the approval of the house of commons only and not of the voters. Herbert Henry Asquith became Premier of great Britain in 1905, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell Hammersham. Mr. Aquilin once began a polity of reform parliamentary, social and constitutional of a radical nature added by David Hipop George, with whom he now apparently is at odds. HOR E SHIP SUNK Twenty-five Americans Aboard Vessel Torpeded by Submarine. The Italian steamship palmette, with twenty-five Americans on board, has been torpedoed off the Spanish coast. One sailor reported to be an American, was wounded by a shell, and died in a hospital at Palmacelli, Spain where the survivors were landed. Three others were seriously wounded. Ship Was Armed The Palm Beach Jet New York November fifteenth for Genoa and Speciala, was last reported as passing. General November '28. She carried no passengers, but had on board forty seven American bride tenders. In addition to horse she carried a general cargo. The vessel was of 9203 tons gross. The ship was armed, it was gaffed on the New York offices of the embarkments, with two three-inch guns, mounted aft. These, it was added, were to be used for "defence only." Still Dangerous Baby had quarreled violently with his little neighbour across the street. His aunt told him that he must go to his little friend's house, kiss him and say he was sorry. The youth demurred. "You go and kiss him, auntle," he said. "I might bite him."—Exchange "What do you suppose made that fellow turn bank robber?" "I suppose he, thought it was a safe proposition."-Halliburton American. A man and a woman are standing on a street corner, facing each other. The man is wearing a top hat and a suit, while the woman is wearing a dress and a hat. They appear to be engaged in a conversation. Villain —. I understand Driggs was placed under arrest last night on he was leaving the stage. Seduceate — What was the charge? Villain — I impersonating an agent — Philadelphia Bulletin. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS and YOUR GAIN WE ARE GIVING AWAY COUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIP TIONS. THESE COUPONS WILL BRING A TALKING MACHINE, AN UMBRELLA OR A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS, JUST AS YOU SELECT. Tusit e = feen. tl DID YOU GET A XMAS SAVING CLUB CHECK THIS WEEK IF YOU DID NOT, IT WAS YOUR FAULT AND NOT OURS. WE SENT THEM OUT to Everybody, who had left as much as one cent-with us for safe-keeping and they ranged in amounts from One Cent up to Sixty-three. Dollars and Seventy-five Cents. It seems to be a loss of time and money to mail a person a check for One Cent, when it costs more than that to send it to him and it is, but it is all in the routine of business and we must stand the loss. What Will You Do For The Coming Year? We Are Organizing Another XMAS SAVINGS CLUB for 1917 The Cards are ready and our Tellers are awaiting your commands line up. You can join the- This is the way these Clubs FOR $100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT paid when you start with 5 cents is $2.50 and if you wish to tackle the big end first and feel the burden grow lighter intsead of heavier, you can pay $2.50 the first week, $2.45 the second week, $2.40 the third week and so on until the last week in November, when your last payment will be 5 cents, just as by the other method your first payment was 5 cents You pay one cent the first week and increase the amount paid on the previous week by just one cent. The last amount to be paid in next November amounts to just 50 cents. If you keep it up, next December, you will receive $12.75 plus the interest allowed you. If you do not keep it up, you will get all that you put into the Bank, even if the amount is only one payment or one cent. You can join this club too, so that you can pay the largest amount first, and each week the amount of payment will be just one cent less until the last payment in November will be one cent instead of fifty cents. TEN CENT CLUB *We have a that 10 cents a week Club. You will receive a check next December for $5.00, plus the interest on that amount. Should you fail to keep up the payments, you are no worse off, so to speak, not you will receive a check, for just the amount that you may have paid in, even if that amount is only $10 cents. APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. FOR $30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT TWO CENT CLUB You pay 2 cents in this Club the first week ap- increase the amount just 2 cents on the amount paid the week before. For example, if you start with 2 cents, the next week, you pay 4 cents and the next week you pay 6 cents, the next week you pay 8 cents and so on until the last week on November, when the last payment will amount to just $100. If you keep up the payments, you will receive a check for $25 plus the interest. If you do not keep up the payments, you will receive a check for the exact amount that you have paid into the Bank. You can joinies Club too, by paying the large amount first and your load will lighten all through the year. For ample, you pay $100 the first week, 68 cents the next week and 60 cents the next week and so on until the last week in November, when the amount paid will be only 2 cents. TWENTY FIVE CENT CLUB *You can join the that 25 cent Club. You pay amount of the first week and 25 cents the second week, costs the third week and so on. If you keep at the club you will receive a check next December for Staggle the interest. If you find that you keep up the payments you will re- ceive a check for all that you paid in. We do not pay the amount for the trouble and we are paid in saving it for you. LIFTY CENT CLUB * You pay so every per week in the Club. You digite every week until the last week in November to. About December 10, 2017, we will send a check for $250 if you have kept up your giving and in addition will pay you 5 per cent interest on the amount. If you fail to keep up the payment, we will send you check for all that you may have paid. We Do All Kinds of Job Work You pay 5 cents the first week and you pay to cents the second week and 15 cents the third week and so on, increasing the amount paid by 5 cents each week. If you keep this up, you will receive just $0.375 about December 10, 1917 in time to make your Christmas shopping. In addition to this amount, you will receive 3 per cent interest on what you have saved. You can start on the large amount first. The last amount *Our Vacation Clubs have been ready since last July. You will receive your checks in July, when you feel like taking a little recreation. You can pay 25 cents per week or you can pay 50 cents per week. You can receive $2500 in your vacation or $500. You should pay up back the cash up. Call and see us about it. WE HAVE TWO LINOTYPES, ONE IS OF THE LATEST PATENT. THE COST PRICE OF THE FIRST ONE WAS $3,375, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. THE COST OF THE LATEST WAS $3,700, EXCLUSIVE OF THE EXTRA PARTS. ADD TO THESE AMOUNTS $1,000 AND YOU HAVE THE EXPENSE OF BRINGING THEM FROM THE MERGENTHALER FACTORY AT BROOKLYN, N. Y. AND SETTING THEM UP IN OUR OFFICE AT RICHMOND. Our Banking Hours are from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. every day in the week except Saturday, when our Banking Hours are from 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. Persons living out of the city may join these Clubs by Sending the Money by Mail. They will receive then Checks. We can forward Checks anywhere in the United States. Mechanics Savings Bank N.W. Corner Third and Clay Streets, Richmond, Virginia Our Press Room is also well equipped. The outlay for machinery alone exceeds $4000 Call and see our plant We make this statement in order that you may know and understand that we are well prepared to take care of your orders and deliver to you your work on time. Address JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia WORK AND SAVE UP PLANET IOUPONS AND GET AN UMBRELLA OR A PHONAGRAPH—BOTH ARK GOOD. SEE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND START TO WORK DIMENSIONALLY. Charley Tearful at Sad Parting Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Hardly Romeo and Juliet Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. OH CHARLIE-HOW ROMANTIC ALWAYS KEEP THIS ROSE AS A TOKEN OF TRUE MOVE—DARLIN I'll TIE THIS LITTLE GIFT ON YOUR CAME FOR YOU TO REMEMBER ME BY I'll NEVER FORGET YOU NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER OH DEAR OH DEAR WELL—ORRIE VOR! SAY!—MEBBE YOU THINK THAT'S FUNN'Y!!! --- The Yellow Claw Copyright, IIS, by Lippincott's Magazine Copyright, IIS, by McBride, Nest & Ca affably proposed by Mr. Glanapolis as a suitable spot to discuss the business. Soames agreed, not without certain inward qualms, for the proximity of the hostelry to New Scotland Yard was a disquieting circumstance. However, since Glanapolis affected to treat their negotiations in the light of perfectly legitimate business, he put up no protest and presently found himself seated in a very cozy corner of the saloon bar, with a glass of whisky and soda in a little table before him, bubbling in a manner which rendered it an agreeable and refreshing sight in the eyes of Mr. Soames. "You know," said Glanapolis, the guard of his left eye bisecting that of his right in a most bewildering manner. "they call this 'the tree's tabernacle'" "Indeed," said Sonmes, without enthusiasm, "I suppose some of the Scotland Yard men do drop in now and then." "Beyond doubt, my dear Sonmes." Sonmes responded to his companion's radiant smile with a smile of his own by no means so pleasant to look upon. Sonmes had the type of face which in repose might be the face of an honest man, but his smile would have led to his instant arrest on any race course in Europe. It was the smile of a pick-pocket. "Now," continued Glanapolis, "here is a quarter's salary in advance." From a pocketbook he took a little brown paper envelope and from the brown paper envelope counted out four five-pound notes, five golden sovereigns, one half sovereign and ten shillings' worth of silver. Sonmes' eyes glittered delightfully. "A little informal receipt" smiled Glanapolis, taking his eyebrows antically. "Here on this page of my notebook I have written, 'Received from Mr King for service rendered 22k, being payment in advance of amount due on 31st October 10—' I have attached a stamp to the page, as you will see," continued Glanapolis, "and here is a fountain pen. Just sign across the stamp, adding today's date." Soames compiled with willing alacrity, and Glanapolis, having carefully blotted the signature, replaced the notebook in his pocket and politely acknowledged the return of the fountain pen. Soames, glancing furiously about him, replaced the money in the envelope and thrust the latter carefully into a trouser pocket. "Now," resumed Glanapolis, "we must not permit our affairs of business to interform with our amusements." dored two more whiskies with soda. These being sampled, business was resumed. "Tomorrow," said Glanapolis, leaning forward across the table so that his face almost touched that of his companion, "you will be intrusted by Mr. Leroux with a commission." Somes nodded eagerly, his eyes upon the speaker's face. "You will accompany Mrs. Leroux to the bank," continued Glanapolis, "in order that she may write a specimen signature in the presence of the manager for transmission to the Credit Lyonnais in Paris." Somes nearly closed his little eyes in his effort to comprehend. "A draft in her favor," continued the Greek, "has been purchased by Mr. Leroux's bank from the Paris bank, and on presentation of this" a check book will be issued to Mrs. Leroux by the Credit Lyonnais in Paris to enable her to draw at her convenience upon that establishment against the said order. Do you follow me? Soames nodded rapidly, eager to exhibit an intelligent grasp of the situation. "Now"—Olianpolla lowered his voice impressively—"no one at the Charing Cross branch of the London County and Suburban bank has ever seen Mrs Lorus. Oh, we have been careful of that, and we shall be careful in the future. You are known already as an accredited agent of Lorus. Therefore—be bent yet closer to Bonner ear—"you will direct the chaundour to drop you not at the Strand entrance, but at the side entrance. You follow!" Bonner is almost holding his breath, nodded again. "At the end of the court, in which the latter is in custody, a lady offended her master and Mrs Lorus will be waiting." Up the court, into the corridor of Mill Chamber by the back entrance and from thence out into the Strand. You will escort the second lady into the manager's office, and also will sign 'Mira Lenoux' instead of the real Mira Lenoux.' Somes betame aware that he was changing color. This was a superior felony, and as such it awed his little mind. It was tantamount to burning his boats. Missing silver spoons and cooked petty cash were, trivialities usually explable at the price of a boot assisted dismissal, but this: "You understand?" Gianapolis was not smiling now. "There is not the slightest danger. The signature of the lady whom you will meet will be an exact duplicate of the real one that is, exact enough to deceive a man who is not looking, for a forgery. But it would not be exact enough to deceive the French banker. He will be looking for a forgery. You follow me? The signature on the checks drawn against the Credit Lyonnais will be the same as the specimen forwarded by the London County and Suburban, since they will be written by the same lady, the duplicate Mrs. Loroux. Therefore the French bank will have no means of detecting the harmless little deception practiced, upon it, and the English bank. If it should ever see those checks, will raise no question, since the checks will have been honored by the Credit Lyonnais." Soames finished his whisky and soda at a gulp "Finally," concluded Glampolis, "you will escort the lady out by the front entrance to the Strand. She will leave you and walk in an easterly direction, making some suitable escape if the manager should insist upon seeing her to the door, and the real Mrs. Leroux will come out by the Strand end of Bank Chambers. corridor and walk back with you around the corner to where the car will be waiting. Perfect?" "Quite," said Somnes buskilly. But when, some twenty minutes later, he returned to Palace amnisthes he was a man lost in thought, and he did not entirely regain his wounded compose and did not entirely shake off the incubus—doubt must in his own room he had recounted the contents of the brown paper envelope. Then: "It's safe enough," he muttered, "and it's worth it." Thus it came about that on the following morning Leroux added him into the study and gave him just such an instruction as Glimpses had outlined the evening before. "I am so the lady to go yourself. Soonest and last I shall be Mrs Leroux with her by paying a visit to friends here and there. So that I am opening a new store for her. Save so much to save and such a lot of contracts with international money to keep us worrying things. Mr Smith the master of knitting, and you will be the letter of authority. The lady I cherished has already been welcomed." Mr. Seema was listening with anxiety to learn the met of this draft but could hardly comprehend it to inquire. The next task description then, was to construct something resembling a letter. Mr. Leroux went through with her draft in the comedy in the dreamy manner of a nomad bullat, and the dupe wrote Mrs. Leroux who waited at the appointed spot, had achieved so startling a resemblance to her prototype that Mr. Seema became conscious of a stray for a bag of brandy at the moment of setting eyes upon her. However he leaned himself up and saw the business through As was to be expected, no questions were raised and no doubts entertained. The bank manager was very courteous and very reserved and the field-tions Mrs. Leroux copiously reserved, cold. She enabled raising her motor vell and, immediately the business was concluded, took her departure. Mr. Smith escorting her as far as the door. She walked away toward Fleet street and the responsible attendant, Soames, toward Charling Cross. He rejoined Mrs. Leroux at the door of Bank Chambers, and the two turned, the corner and entered the waiting car. Soames was rather nervous, Mrs. Leroux quite apathetic. Shortly after this event Soames learned that the date of Mrs. Leroux's departure to Paris was definitely fixed. He received from her hands a large envelope. "For Mr. King," she said in her dreamy fashion, and he noticed that she seemed to be in poorer health than usual. Her mouth twitched strangely. She was a nervous wreck. Then came her departure, attended by a certain bustle, an appointment with Mr. Glanapolis and the delivery of the parcel into that gentleman's keeping. Mrs. Leroux was away for six days on this occasion. Leroux sent her three postcards during that time and readdressed some ten or twelve letters which arrived for her. The address in all cases was: East 18042 was much in demand that week, and there were numerous meetings between Soames and Glanapolis at the corner of Victoria street and numerous whiskies and sodas in the Bed Lion. For Glanapolis perished in his patronage of that establishment, apparently for no other reason than because it was dangerously near to Scotland Yard and an occasional house of call for members of the criminal investigation department. Thus did Mr. Boomes commence his career of duplicity at the flat of Henry Leroux, and for some twelve months before the events which so dramatically interfered with the delightful scheme he drew his double salary and performed his perdulous work with great efficiency and contentment. Mrs Leroux paid four other visits to Paris during that time, and always returned in much better spirits, although pals and somewhat haggard looking. It fell to the lot of Boomes always to meet her at Charing Cross, but never move by look or by word did she proffer or invite the slightest exchange of confidence. She politically accepted his aid in conducting this intrigue so she would have accepted his aid in putting on her opera cleak. TO BE OCNTINUED. German Advance From North Threat ene to Cut Off Defenders From Mel davia. Austro-German troops are advancing upon Ploeasl, thirty miles north of Bucharest. The Russian war office in an official statement admitted that the Rumani ans had been unsuccessful in their at tempts to check the drive of the Tou tonic forces against the Bucharest Ploeasl railroad. (Ploceacil is on the line of the only railroad route of retreat for the Rumanians operating in the vicinity of Bucharest. The threat of Ploceacil seemingly means the speedy evacuation of Bucharest, if the Rumanians hope to make an effective retreat over the railroad dine towards Moldavia). According to a despatch from Geneva the Germans are reported to be shelling Bucharest as well as the forts defending the city. A similar report came from Copenhagen; based on an official Berlin advises. The Patroglad report says: "In Wallachia, fighting is continuing on the roads from Terporistae to Ploe-sci and from Titur to Bucharest and west and south of Stolitzia. Under pressure of superior enemy forces which are incessantly attacking the Rumanians, the latter are retiring east. Rumanian attempts to check enemy attacks on the roads to Ploe-sci and Bucharest were unsuccessful." The recapture from the Russians by Austro-German forces of a height in the wooded Carpathians, recently occupied by Russian troops is admitted. The Serblans are continuing their advance in the Cerna region of the Macdonian front. It is announced officially at Paris, and have reached the outskirts of the village of Strvina French and Serbian troops have made progress north of Paralovo in the Cerna salient. Berlin announces that in the Danube lowland, Russian attacks were repulsed with heavy losses and the number of prisoners taken has been increased to 12,500. Renewed Russian attacks in the Carpathian forces and along the line of the Transylvanian frontier were made but did not with the slightest success. Berlin announces officially Tehran troops captured a host position. VILLA GOING TO DURANGO Chihuahua City President and Eigh Prominent Citizen Sten Prominent Citizens Stain. (City of the City) Honorably published by group of the City to the public. Honorably published by the of good Vitality in the her was a relic of the town. Mail po President (H) of the pro- mium in the city. Abu city Citizens were all the or- der of the city was kept in the Constitution may be passed of Villa bells which are said to be moving toward Durham. General Art- nulfo González was talked at the few governor of Citizens. 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T CHINES. TURN-TA HIGHLY POLISHED THE 311 N. 4 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 ``` later promoted to the position u when a vacancy occurs. This plan va understood to be under consideration Happy Christmas for Teutons. The Amsterdam correspondent of the London Dally Mall telegraphs that the German people are be ing promised "certain news" that will mean a happy Christmas for them. It is indicated that the favorable devel- opment will take place in the Balkans or in Greece. ```markdown ``` "In this season of seed selecting and many fail, the man selecting seed for next year's planting should avoid the too frequent mistake of putting excessive emphasis on size," says M. J. Thompson of the northwest experiment station at Duluth. "Select not the massive, unhapely hollow potato, but the shapey, true to type, medium sized tuber," continues Mr. Thompson. "When we grow mangels, turnips or rutabagas for live stock we consider size of prime importance, but when we grow such roots for the table we look more for smoothness, quality and uniformity. For fodder corn we wish a plant of heavy leafage, of moderate height and some degree of maturity before frost time. For ear corn we prefer a small ear that matures and hardens before killing frosts come. The tendency to grow a large number of crops is also rather unwise. Nothing is to be gained by trying to force a crop that does not belong in one's county to the neglect of crops that grow well." Considerate. Nowlywed—I've insured my life! Nowlywed—I're insured my life by your favor for $50,000. Wife—Oh, Jack, you will kill yourself trying to pay the premium! How thoughtful of you!—Michange. WE HAD IN OAK, MISSION O AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- D WITH A MOTOR GUARAN THIS MACHINE HAS NEED TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER D. RICHMO 4th St., - FOOD EMBARGO UP TO CONGRESS Four GIRLS Fixed at High Cost of Living Introduced. ELECTION CASH PROBE, TOO Two of the Measures Deal With Storage and Lower Parcel Post Rates on Food. Four bills resigned to touch the high cost of food were introduced in congress by Representative Fitzgerald Democrat of New York. Two propose a tool embargo. One would regulate transportation of cell storage foods and another would regulate the admission of farm products and manufactured foodstuffs to the parcel post and reduce the rates on food. "The enactment, of either of the bills," said Representative Fitzgerald, "will bring immediate relief to the country. The people want action; they are heartily tired of talk and the investigations." A mass of petitions was filed in favor of the legislation. One embargo, resolution would prohibit exportation of any farm product or manufactured foodstuffs for one year. The other would empower the president to suspend exportations whenever prices became extortionate and public interests require. Both bills would provide for shipment of food to Americans abroad or to peoples made destitute by the war, pestilence or other extraordinary events. Interstate transportation of cold storage goods, unless the date of storage is distinctly marked, would be prohibited, together with an arbitrary prohibition of interstate transportation of any product in cold storage more than ten months, except butter, whifl might be held longer. An immediate embargo on the exportation of wheat and its products could be laid by the president by the terms of a resolution introduced by Representative Farr, of Philadelphia. This would call for an investigation of the amount of wheat in the United States last July and estimate of the amount to be exported during the remainder of the fiscal year, if the proposed exportation would leave the average per capita amount consumed during the past ten years, the proof that would be emmoved to proclaim the embargo against exportation that would leason this average annual petroleum. ```markdown ``` $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Other food bills included a joint resolution by Representative Lindbergh Republican, of Minnesota, proposing a special congressional committee to consider all food embargo measures and to report by February 20. Representative Emerson, Republican, Ohio introduced a resolution for report by secretary of agriculture on the advisability of a wheat embargo and legislation on shipment of foodstuffs. Senator Owen, Democrat, of Oklahoma, who will lead the fight for a new corrupt practices act, will introduce a joint resolution for an inquiry into expenditures of all political parties in the last national campaign. Caustic Reply to Hueband's Adv. In response to an advertisement that his wife had left his bod and board and that he would not be responsible for her bills, Mrs. Samuel Groza, of Shamokin Dam, near Sunbury, Pa., publicly denies that she would use his credit for her personal bills. She also declares that he had no "bed and board" when she married him, but started their honeymoon carrying his clothing in a burlap bag. Her statement is as follows: "To whom it may concern: That I Mrs. Samuel Gross, did not leave Samuel Gross' bed and board as the said Mr. Gross had no bed, as the furniture was left to me by my first husband William Ziegler. When the said Mr. Gross started our honeymoon, he brought his clothes in a grain bag and as for me running any bill in his name, I never did and never will, as it would not benefit me, because he never pays his bill." Theatre Burns; Man Killed. As the result of a fire which gutted the Family theatre at Tampqua Pa., entails a loss of $5000. Chris Peterson, the manager, forbly three years old, was burned to death. The fire started in a room in the rear of the asbestos booth where the films were stored and where Mr. Peter son had gone on a business mission. The cause is unknown, but owing to the insuffable condition of the stock the premon soon was a roaring funfair and all attempts to rescue the manager were futile. A large audience witnessing the production "Civilization" reached safety without casualties. The latter films were rescued from the booth as injury. Former Governor Leo Diels. Former Governor Preston Lesdied suddenly after a lingering illness in his home in Wilmington, Del. Mr. Les was seventy-five years old. He was the son of William and Jane Sewitz Les and was born November 12, 1901. For Two-Mile Point Phase, Representative: Ann Marchack of New Jersey, introducted to the home a resu- lation calling for the change of a two and one-half mile route. Might Duck His Head. The Turtle—Hello, old sn see you hide in your shell. St. Louis Post Dispatch. Circulars, Billheads ALL KINDS OF PRINTING CUT TO ANY SIZE A ```markdown ``` JOINT COMMISSION ON ORGANIC UNION OF METHODOSTS TO MEET IN BALITMORE. Ashville, N. C., Dec. 11.—The joint commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church., South will meet in Baltimore, Md., December 28th, to bring about, if possible, the union of these two great branches of Methodism. This merger discussed pro and con with varial strength and emotions during the past 20 years has been rendered probable by legislative action of the general conferences of the two churches. Just what effect the union of these churches will have upon the more than 350,000 Negro communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church is problematical and is attracting considerable attention among thoughtful people of the race as the time for the commission meeting approaches. The original one body of Methodists suffered division in 1844 over the fact that a white bishop became involved in slavery by marrying a wife, who had one Negro girl named Kitty as a slave. Thus seventy two years ago the white people on the Methodist Episcopal Church, North and South, parted company with the Negro as the innocent occasion of the division. Now that the reunion of these two branches of Methodism is imminent, the relation of the Negro to the reunited church is one of the innocent causes involved Upon the commission representing the Methodist Episcopal Church, are 2 prominent men of the race, Dr. Robert E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La., and Dr. I. Garland Penn, corresponding secretary, of the Freedmen's Aid Society, Cincinnati, Ohio. Drs. Jones and Penn represent the ministry and laity respectively upon the commission but beyond that, they are the sole representatives of the $30,000 Negroes in the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose fortunes in a large measure are to be effected by the final conclusions of the commission. It is quite the understating that these distinguished Negro leaders were placed upon the commission in order that the interests of the Negro members would be safeguarded. The asignment is an important and responsive one, for there has been no such historic commission touching the religious and educational life of the nation since amnestipation. Holding briefs for the more Negro members, they stand unique and alone and yet hold their commissions to members who are organically a part of the great churches, and who in theory, should not be considered apart from the other members. College, Jackson, Minn.; H. M. B. Murray, D. D., editor Methodist Brownsville, Tenn.; H. N. Alwisworth, D. D., pastor Mithery, Street Church, Monroe, Ga.; A. J. Lerner, D. D., published agent, Nashville, Tenn. Layman—Judge J. L. Wakeman, Woodstock, Va.; Dr. H. N. Slayer, Spartanburg, S. C., president Wofford College; Percy D. Maddin, lawyer, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. R. S. Hyer, president Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Dr. J. R. Reynolds, president Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas; R. E. Blackwell, Ashland, Va., president Randolph-Macon College; Judge J. L. Kelley, supreme Court of Virginia, Bristol, Tenn.; S. S. Kniford, United States Attorney, Attorneys, Opelika, Alabama; John R. Pepper, merchant and banker, Memphis, Tenn.; Col E. C. Reeves, lawyer, Johnson City, Tenn. It will be seen that Dra. Jones and Penn are in distinguished company. However momentous the situation confronting them, the affairs of the people they represent are in capable hands. No church in which there are colored people ever recognized: the race in such a conspicuous way, but these men are well worth it, and there is no question but that they will measure up to every demand. Dr. Jones is regarded as one of the ablest editors in the church and has been re-elected four quadreniums, having been unanimously chosen at the Saratoga general conference. Dr. Penn was for seventeen years assistant general secretary of the Epworth League and is now serving his second term of four years as corresponding secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society. It is safe to say that he is one of the most modest Episcopal Church will be carefully safeguarded by those two distinguished sons of the race and of Methodism. Y. M; C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. Literary was a live wire last Friday night at the building, and all the fellows served well. Right you are, men, be active. The Sunday School Lesson was explained in such a practical way, as usual, that it went to the very heart of each person who attended. Dr. W. H. Stokes knows how to clinch the truth. Do not miss this golden opportunity. Last Sunday afforded the men an excellent opportunity to serve others as this is the spirit of the Y. M. C. A. at 10:40 M. at the Y. M. C. A. building, Committeeman B. J. McCielan conducted the meeting for the workers and he made a great hit. Director B. L. Allen gave the boys a very pointed address (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. and every boy was happy. The address to the men (5:30 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. by Committeeman A. C. Clarke aroused the fellows to the importance of thinking. The singing was full of fire. Today (6 P. M.) do not fall to come to the class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson by Dr. W. H. Stokes, who will be very gind to meet you and your friend. Come on time. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. All workers are invited to the special meeting for workers (9:30 A. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will conduct the meeting for boys (4 P. M.) at the Y. M. C. A. Every mother is asked to send her boys. At 3:30 P. M. at the Sharon Baptist Church, a great meeting for men. A woman will speak to them. Mrs. Ella Williams Johnson, who knows just what to say to men will deliver a special message for men. Subject: "The Making of a Man." Mr., N. G. Booker will sing special solos. The Sharon Church Orchestra will render special selections. Help to make this meeting a great success. Only men will be admitted Free for all men. Come! The great evangelistic meeting will open at the 5th Street Baptist Church Sunday, January 7th, 1917, 3:30 P. M. Memorial services in honor of our late International Secretary, Mr. W. A. Hunton, Sunday, January 7th, 1917, 7:30 P. M. at the Third Street A. M. E. Bother Church. Women and men are invited. The work in the city horse and jail by the committee produced great results. One prisoner was lead to accept Christ. A special request is made of every home by the Y. M. C. A. Remember the special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. LEESBURG NOTES Leesburg, Va.—Rev. Frederick Hall, of Washington, preached at the Providence Baptist Church, all day Sunday. At eleven o'clock his subject was, "Carnal Food." His discourse was deep and teachable. At 7:35, he was at the post of utty, Text, Acts 1:8, "And ye shall be witnesses, etc." It was a very able sermon and deep in thought. Harry Kirkpatrick, white, charged with stelling a horse from Carter Styles, colored, sawed his way out of the Leesburg jail. Sunday night, when he was apprehended at his home, he shot himself. He had served time for a similar offense. The Stork brought a fine baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Silas Randall, the week end. Mrs. Harry B. Washington, of Washington, D. C. is the guest of her parents the week end. Strangere wearished with us, at which time $16.00 was raised. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA ROANOKE, VA., December 13. Mr. Robert Jeffres, of Birth avenue, N. W. is somewhat improved at this writing. Mr. Jeffres has been able for several months. Rev. S. M. Beane, of St. Paul Memorial M. E. Church and Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. will exchange pulps Sunday, December 11th, at eleven o'clock. The death of Mrs. Step Jones of Thaxton, Bedford county, Va. came as a shock to her daughter, Mrs Lena Jones, and her sister, Edmonia and Stella, Friday, December 8th 1916. Mrs. Jones was a member of the First Baptist Church during pastorate of Rev. R. R. Jones, now of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Ellen Crutchfield of 707 4th street, has been quite ill, but she is now out again. Mrs. Susie Early, 518 Ninth avenue, N. E. spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Mary B. Clemons, of Worth, W. Va. She reports having had quite an enjoyable Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell, of Sutherlans, Va. and their sister, Miss Dickerson as visiting their sister, Mrs. Idella Johnson, of 423 Tenth avenue, N. E. Rev. Thomas Hale preached to the people of the High Street Baptist Church, Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. He used as a text, the 16th division of the Psalms and the eleventh verse. Subject, "The Joy of the Bollever in Christ. Rev. Williams, of the First Baptist Church filled the pulpit at Mt Zion A. M. E. Church Sunday morning, eleven o'clock, at which time he preached a very strong and hospitable sermon. At eight o'clock, Rev. Williams filled the pulpit again. He used for a discourse, "Who shall separate us from the love of God." It was a beautiful sermon. The offering for the day was $16.10. Mrs. Cordella Ann Clark and Mrs. Julia Rice are visiting their sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Rice. They are over for Camden, N. J. They will remain over for the Xmas Holidays. Mr. William Ramoy died Sunday morning, at ten o'clock, at 509 Commonwealth avenue, N. E. He had been sick for several months. He leaves six children to mourn their loss. Mr. W. F. Hughee, the polite funeral director, had charge of the body. Interment Tuesday, December 12th in Midway Cemetery. Mr Ramoy's wife died last year. At Hill Street Baptist Church, Sunday, December 6th, Rev. D. R. Williams preached a wonderful sermon from Matthew, 8:25. Subject, "What Time the Church Chanted eight o'clock he stirred the people from John 15:12. Rev. Williams picture out every phason of love. Rev. D. R. Williams is indeed a gospel preacher. At the Maple Street Bapt. Church Rev. Rosa again filled his pulpit. He spoke from Matthew 6:19. He begged the audience to keep the commandments and at last receive a crown of life for faithful service. At the home of Rev. and Mrs. James Rose, Monday night was the scene of a birthday party, given in honor of their son, Mr. Roy Rose. Among the guest present, were Mrs Ruth Edwarda, Lucile Rose, Rosa Miller, Mrs. Theresa Swift, Messas Dan Barkedale, James Preston, Arthur Rose, Walter Rose, Soreddine Muse, Benjamin Gaskins, Floming Rose, Mrs. Ellen Patterson, Dicy Hostins, Lina Macklin, Mrs. Lillie Swift, Lucy Slaughter. Also in honor of Missa Marla Borden and Catherine Lowry, who will leave for Detroit Michigan to spend the win-green, the decorations were beautiful, red, the flowers were brown. Mrs. Carrie Rivans received the door, Miss Nellie Ligon served at the punch bowl. Sandwiches and different forms of chicken salads with waters and ice cream, cake, coffee mints and loads of fun, games etc. added to the pastime. At the Boston—Don't forget to come to the Boston, where you can see the best pictures to be seen at any colored theatre. Nothing but the best. Monday, "The Girl From Prisco"; Tuesday, a good show of pictures; Wednesday, "Grip of Evil"; Thursday, another good show; Friday, good. All, for five and ten cents; children all time, five cents. Mr. Ezala Percett, a native of Jerusalem, Palestine, and a student of Virginia Theological Seminary and Zion Baptist Church, Monday night, has only been converted to Christianity two years and four months. He speaks ten different languages quaintly. The Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church has been much indisposed for about ten days. He is much improved now. Mr. Albert Jackson, of North Peach street is still confined to his bed. We wish him a speedy recovery. Miss Jesse Showley became the bride of Mr. Walter Johnson Thursday night. They were united by Rev. E. E. Ricks at the home of the bride on Lonchburg avenue, N. E. Dr. J. H. Burks, pastor of High Street Baptist Church is spending ten days at Harzburg, Pa. Mrs. Mike Hackley and little son returned to the city, from Philadelphia, where they are making their home. They will be here ten days. The Minerva Circle, of High Street Baptist Church is doing a no-break work amount the sick and needy. UNRANKA HOTEL Urbana, Va., December 11—On last Sunday, Rev. C. P. Jones presented an excellent service at the Lokeshan Baptist Church. Text, Hebrew 12:2. Subject, "Looking to Jesus." There was a fine concert at the Dalam Grove School last Friday evening. The teachers, Mrs. V. H. Browne and Mrs. J. H. Browne, are always ready to do their best for the benefit of their students. Miss John Browne, of Philadelphia, Ph. is visiting reservoir near Goodview. Mr. William Payne, of Churchview depicted the life he most share a big blessing. Born in G. C. Newbury with his W. D. C. Newbury, daughter of Helen K. Stephens, mother of Mina K. Wood, but survived Mr. Jephubah Benin was a sailor on the Upper Kill recently, also a noted diviner. (We wonder what it meant, but both were single.) Mrs. A. B. Green is on the sick list at this writing. HAD TO HURRY HOME. A certain preacher dined at the home of one of his members recently. Toward the late afternoon the Skyplott decided to go home, complaining of the long distance and cold weather. He could not be coached to stay any longer. A little later a member of the family of whom the Reverend Brother had dined decided to go calling and at the house he stopped. Behold! The Preacher acting best man, but no marriage. FLORENCE, S. C. FLORENCE, S. C. Florence, S. C., Dec. 15.—Mrs. P. E. Washington, of Jacksonville, Fla., is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Sella Moye. Mrs. Claracy King died at Darlington, S. C., December 5, 1916. Rev. H. L. King, her husband, and Mrs. Lula Wilds, her dangler, recently took her home from the infirmary. To her C. A. Abel, superintendent of the M. E. Church, now pastoring at Hartville, passed through the city recently quite sick, on route for his home at Timmonsville, S. C. Mrs. Julia Murphy, of New York, has gone to Sumter, S. C., hor old home. Mr. E. M. Maxwell, a first class mechanic, is employed at Timmonsville, S. C. Miss Katie Sparks left for Sellers recently to spend a few days with her uncle, Rev. Garret. Mr. Edward Hales, chief cook for the Automatic Signal Corps of the A. C. L. left the city recently. Mrs. L. M. McCray left the city recently for her home at Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. McCray is an old Florentine. Her father was once a very prosperous business man here. Mr. William Rainey was married to Miss Lizzie Jasie Thursday evening. Rev. J. W. Alston officiating. Rev. J. M. Alston came over from Bington, S. C. to visit home and attend a business. He visited the Emancipation Day Association Tuesday evening and contributed $2.00 to the Emancipation Day funds. Mr. H. Mitchell, of Hartford, Ala., passed through the city recently en route to Mullins, where his family resides. Mrs. Matilda Kearley, of Stradaville, Va., passed through the city recently on route for Orlando, Fla. Mr. A. C. Crossland, of Sellers, S. C., has gone to Anderson, S. C., representing the Grand Lodge of Masonas. Mrs. Maggie Thomas, of New York, has gone to Orangburg, S. C., to visit her sick father, 26 Dixon Street. Dr. T. Gallant, assistant secretary of the Emancipation Day Association in the absence of the secretary, acted secretary at the Emancipation Day meeting on Tuesday evening, at Cumberland M. E. Church. E. B. Webster, the secretary, was called to Charleston, S. C., by telegram, to the bedside of a sick sister. Mr. C. L. Betheh. W. M. of Masonic Lodge (Jopper Lodge, N. 176) at Marlton. S. C. has gone to Anderson. S. C. to attend the Grand Session. Dr. T. Gallant, dentist, visited Savannah Grove Baptist Church Sunday last. Our county was visited recently by heavy rains and high winds. Our friend, Mr. Prince Jordan, was in the city on Saturday. He thinks he sees his way clear for 1917. I think so, too. Once I piloted a business man to Mr. Prince Jordan's home and he did some business with him. Then said he: "Where shall we go now Professor?" "I can't say 'what'" was my reply to him: "What?" said he in his country: "One Prince Jordan in your country." Mrs Julia Jordan, his madness, is highly respected, and justly so, being very congenial and business-like. Mr. Laurus Alfred, an old acquaintance of my youth, has decided to cast his lot with us, and moved near the city. Brother Paterson Charles, Mr. Mack Douglass and Dr. T. Gallant readily assisted me day after day losing for Charles the time of training, in response to a harsh telegram. 17 Months for Each Goose. Seyentene months per goose was the fall sentence imposed by Judge C. A. Groman, of Allentown, Pa. upon Anthony Cull, who被 guilty to having stolen three of the cacklers from Jakle Max, the boxer. "Three times seventeen is fifty-one," muttered Cull as he was led away to serve his four years and three months in prison. "Some high-priced goose." Chirence Gauigler, twenty-two years old, fared little better at the hands of Judge Groman for he was fined $300 on a charge of shooting three rabbits from the auto of Jonas Ackerman, a hunter. A fall sentence of a year was suspended. President K. G. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel company, announced that, effective December 18, an increase approximating ten per cent will be made in all hour, day and turn rates of its employees in the Bethlehem Steel and Mary's plants. Girl Visiting Friends Klife Self. Annie Romanofsky, twenty years old, pretty young woman of Mahaay City, while visiting friends in Bustamton, Pa., fired a bullet into brains, dying shortly afterwards. The inside of the vehicle is unknown. Reading Second Charitable City. Bustamton, Pa., is the second city in the United States in contributions to charitable and philanthropic causes, according to the current lists of the Library Department. WELCOME WOMAN. O woman, in our hours of ease Them art not such an awful wheeze. When ink and anguish wring the brow A variable goddess thou! When we have used up all the rest Of subjects for a quip or jeet- We're always sure to make a hit If lovely women spurs our wit. A woman's club, a woman's hat, A woman's dread of getting fat, A woman's no, a woman's tears, A woman's vole, a woman's yearn. A woman's tongue, a woman's books, A woman's dog, a woman's looks, A woman's aim, a woman's eyes, A woman's nerves, a woman's plees. Whatever thing may please or vax The fair, inconsequential] sex Will make a target of you. At which to aim a random rim- Town Topic The Great Discovery. *What will be the great discovery of the twentieth century?* asks a writer in the Scientific American. The great discovery, if made at all, will be a tow-beaded, freckled faced boy of nine summers who loves center oil on hippancakes. - Houston Post. SELLING WOOD LOT PRODUCTS Need of Co-operation Among Owners In Marketing Timber. [Prepared by United States department of agriculture.] There is unquestionably a clear and definite need for co-operation among owners in the selling of wood lot products. The average farmer by himself acts at a great disadvantage, because the whole field of caring for growing timber, selecting trees for cutting and finding the best market is unfamiliar ground. Because he has not a carload lot of a particular kind of material and shipment by local freight is absolutely prohibitive the wood lot owner is obliged in many instances to cut up choice kinds of material into very inferior products. For example, he may find it necessary to turn clear white oak WOOD LOT ON FOOD LAND. black cherry into railroad ties and sell his material at a great sacrifice to a local buyer a middleman. Several farmers acting cooperatively could make up outload lots and market their black walnut lids, basswood, hickory or ask bolts, piling or other products direct to the wherefore manufacturing plant or market greatly increased profits over the received from their individual sales. The service is a reliable and experienced thinner man who would be extremely helpful to the majority of farmers. The services of such a man, who is known to be working in the interests of the farmers are needed: First. To estimate the contents and market value of wool lots. The owner will then be in a better position to decide how to sell most profitably. Second. To survey the marketing of fiber in cultivated lots. Because of his superior knowledge such an adviser will be much better fitted to secure current market prices than the average farmer. In regions where timber work has been going on for many years men of the necessary qualifications will be quite readily found. They should be selected under the approval of the state foresters in states where such officers are employed. The farmers' timber adviser should be clearly identified with such organizations as the county improvement associations or with the state extension service. The farmer might pay a fair price for each piece of estimating and selling, or each county might employ a man whose duty it would be to advise the farmers. Several farmers acting co-operatively could secure the services of the timber agent at relatively small cost to each. No attempt is made by the department bulletin to recommend a plan of cooperation. This, the author states, could undoubtedly be effected through the aid of the state and federal governments in conjunction with the pressing farm demonstration and management movement for better buying and selling on the part of farmers. Groups thinking to effect permanent organizations can secure assistance and information as to methods and procedures from the marketing and rural organization specialists of the department. Benefits of Education. "Do you think a college education should pay off?" There is doubt. My aim is to open up a day in a college, and because of the pressure we get while in college a hammer throwing — Life. THE STAR HAIR GROWER— THE STAR HAIR GROWER— A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESSING & GROWER One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell The Star Hair GrowerThis is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box will prove its value. Any person that will use & 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give The Star Hair Grow- er a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full sixo box. If you wish to be an agent, send $1 and we will send you a full supply, that you can begin work at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., Northern Branch, 1113 Lincoln Avenue, Brownsville, IL; Southern Branch, Box 112; Greenaboro Note—Persons living. In the South can get their goods 3 days earlier if they will order from The Star Hair Grower, Mfr., Box $12 Greenaboro North Carolina. D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St. Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph Bloss Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. ROBERT C. SCOTT, Funeral Director FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA I CAN TURN YOUR DOLLARS INTO REAL ESTATE, OR YOUR REAL ESTATE INTO DOLLARS Call to See Me and Get Permitmen B. A. CEPHAS REAL ESTATE AGENT 5994 N. SECOND ST. Point of View. Homebody-I don't see where Whees er gets so many jokes on my married life. He's never been married. Longwed-That's why it looks funny to him.-Chicago News. Something of a Sweeping. "How's the young man, my dear? Show any signs of being a good provider?" "Well, auntle, he's got a collection of silver golf cups to start housekeeping with." - Philadelphia Bulletin. Just Asked. The fellow asked her for a kiss. The damselfish acted shy. He quite provoked the pretty mama. He asked, but didn't try. -Man Francisco Chronicle. Are you for preparations? "I think so. Anyhow, I always ask ma to look up my dress shirt studs the day before the evening I expect to use 'em."-Detroit Free Press. Quite Different. Bess. Go right in and speak to paper. Arkansas. the master of your soul? yeah, quite so, but not of his sole. Washington Star. His First Voyage. The old sailor came along with a bucket of tar. "What are you doing?" gasped the seasick passenger. "Dachi, wee, wee, our," responded the salt, with a deep sea salute. "Mitching the deck? Great Scott! isn't it pitching enough already?" Exchange. Like a Real Infant. We have a baby grand. That title has sense in it. It makes the neighbors and is never still a minute. -Kansas City Journal Optimism. "The thing I like about your crowd," observed the impudent rusher, "is that they are optimistic." "Yes, we are. But how did you guess it?" "At meals every one says, 'Pass the cream, please.' Columbia Jester. C D. J, FARRAR, Com Office, Room 405, Mechanics B Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop 5 Special Attention Paid to the Tal of Any Kind of Architecture ROBERT C. SCOTT 1916 DECEMBER 1916 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ```markdown ``` Wanted to prepare as Sleeping Our Porters and as Train Porters No experience neces- ry. Positions pay from $50 to $80 month. Southern. Northern and Ear- ern Roads. Ago limit 20 to 25 years. Railroad passes from your home to your position and uni- form arranged for. if necessary. Write at once. INTER RAILWAY. Dept. 104 ALPHEUS SCOTT (CHURCH, MILA) Funeral Director and Embalmer OPEN-DAY AND NIGHT Officin, 2006 P Street, Phoca, Mad. 2287—Henderson, 1618 St. James St., Phoca, Madison 0819. Funeral Home, Material and Service of the Baltimore Burial Service, Baltimore Maryland and in Abundance of Friends. KINKY THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE doze, removes Danielle, feeds the Rows of the hatch and makes it grow long, soft and pliable. You can also change the difference, and after a little while it will be so pretty and long that you can fit it up to you. If Exponent did not do a match, you can use ZBC by mail on receipt of stamps or coins. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. ```markdown ``` TRADE WITH PLANET ADVERTISERS (Continued From First Page.) THE VALLEY BURIAL COMPANY is not saying much and it does not have to do so. Its prices are all right and its service is the same way. Call and see them when you are in trouble. The HUMANIA HAIR COMPANY tells its own story and its the truth Send for the remarkable book which will tell you all about it at once EDWARD STEWART has a grocery store and every one who has partitioned it knows this to be true. He will sell to you and deliver all of the best products. You will not only save money but you will get exactly what you want by patronizing him. GEORGE O BROWN Is not saying much. for the reason that he lets his work speak for him. These holidays are the times that you want a good likeness of yourself to send to your friends and relatives and his studio is the place established, where you can get them. Call and see him today, or tomorrow or the next day. A HAYES' SONS have made good and everybody knows it. You can get all that you want there at the lowest prices. No one wants to get into the ground, but when one of their friends or relatives have to disappear in Mother Earth, they want some one to do the job properly. See them. THE MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK is the place for you to deposit your money, whether the amount be little or much. It has demonstrated that it can handle the banking business with safety and that is what you are after. You can start the New Year with ten cents or with ten dollars. You can rent a safety deposit box in that great vault for 25 cents per month. You should not trust your insurance and private papers anywhere else. Call today and tomorrow and the next day. THE ELITE SYSTEM is now in favor and you should try it. Read the statement in the advertisement and try it. The present outlook is that you will be pleased by your experience. B. A. CEPHAS is making his promises to you and he knows just how to keep them. If you wish your rentals looked after, he will serve you promptly. He has much property listed with him and he is prepared to have much more. ROBERT C SCOTT knows just what to do when sad times come to you. Among the younger element, he is progressive. When you give him your business, you may be assured of prompt attention. THE NEGRO AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE is doing a great work for the assisting young people of the race. Its work under the very able management of President James B. Budley is attracting almost universal attention. If you are seeking to make something of yourself in life, you can not do better than correspond with the management. MME BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM of New York City, is well known. The glory of woman is her hair and the result obtained from this place justifies the statement. E. T. POLLARD gives lessons both in music and in fine art. He will please you and "no instruct you as to make the payment of his modest fee a pleasure. The BIJOU THEATRE has made comfortable provisions for its patrons and many are going there. The artists are up to the minute and the show is strictly first class. The ten cent goals are winners. THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. is a popular remedy for unsatisfactory hair. The ladies are using it and they say it does all that is claimed for it. DR. L. J. HAYDEN needs no recommendation. Any practitioner with home remedies that has stood the test in the manner that those made by him have done, needs no commendation at our hands. Dr. Hayden knows what he is talking about, and if you will give him the opportunity so to do, he will prove it. For young men, BROWN AND BOBINSON are most interesting. They know how to get business and they know how to handle it after they get it. They are well located and they are over short to serve their patients. Try them and be happy. ALPHEUS SCOTT does not talk much, but you just die or have one of your friends so to do and see if he will not give you service. You know where to find him and he will be prompt in responding to your calls. has lived up to its representation. Agents are wanted, so much as customers. Those who have tried it testify as to its efficiency. MME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT Has not yet made a failure. That is why she is sought to embighem women and children. She will serve you at moderate rates. Telephone or send for her and you will be pleased with her service. She can take and handle a funeral from the start to the timely. Is just about as good a holiday gift as you could make. It will be sent to any of your friends one year for $1.50 and if they know a good thing when they see it, they will appreciate the favor. Moreover, it will help as and we are satisfied that you want to do that too. You might remember us too during your festivities and send us any past due money, that you owe us and if you do not owe us anything, pay us for a year in advance. The snow last Friday was a surprise both to the just and the unjust, the good and the evil. The Christmas Savings Club members were happy however. They had money with which to help out and to keep down suffering. You can join the one at the Mechanics Savings Bank now. STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE: The stockholders of the Mechanics Savings Bank will hold their annual meeting, Tuesday, January 2, 1917, at 727 N. Third street, Richmond, Virginia, at 8: 6 P. M. All stockholders are notified to be present in person or by proxy. JOIN MITCHELL, JR., President. Hartshorn College To Move Due to the establishment of a tobacco factory across the street, the Hartshorn Memorial College has decided to move elsewhere and the management is now looking for a suitable site upon which to erect new college buildings. MES OF INJURIES James Breeden, thirteen years old, of 427 South Fourth street, died yesterday morning in the Virginia Hospital, where he was carried following an accident at the Jefferson Hotel on Thursday evening. Coroner Taylor will hold no memorial decemning - one unnecessary. The box was attempting to descend in the hotel elevator, when it thought, the gate at the top struck his head and threw him between the framework of the shaft and the car. He remained wedged in this position for almost an hour while worked sawed through a large steel beam to release her. b. INSTANTLY KILLED James Angin, colored, aged twenty-eight, of 1523 West More Street, was instantly killed last Wednesday afternoon at 2:40 o'clock when he was caught between the door of the elevator up on which he was riding and the ceiling, and crushed. The accident occurred in Clarence Cosby's warehouse, at 1523 East Cary Street. Patrolman Frank Campos, one of the First Police Station, who investigated the accident, learned from Austin's fellow-employees, among whom was a brother of the victim, that he attempted to jump from the elevator when it was several feet above the floor. In some manner he was caught between the heavy machine and the ceiling of the first floor. It was necessary to tear out two planks from the floor of the elevator to remove Austin. He was dead when Ambulance Surgeon Green arrived from the Virginia Hospital. Female EMBAi.MER MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Cavanhe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. Ovices 3006 P Street, Phona, Mid. 2337 Rummanen 330 St. James St., Moderate Way THE 27TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SALE OF THE CORLEY COMPANY WILL MAKE THIS A MUSICAL XMAS IN THOUSANDS OF RICHMOND HOMES! With its musually liberal terms and amazing price reductions, it offers unparalleled opportunities for the music lover to secure a splendid instrument at a decided saving. You've got to grasp them NOW—however, for prices must be advanced after Christmas to meet the increased cost of manufacturing and materials! Make that family gift a Piano—choose it here NOW! One of the Finest Assemblages of Highest Grade Pianos and Player-Pianos Offered Now at Special HOLIDAY DISCOUNTS Here's the opportunity you have been waiting for, don't let it go, by unheeded! Every instrument offered at this time is a most remarkable value at the special price you can own it for today. The quality and musical spirit of any piano or player-piano purchased here is vouchered for by the reputation for value-giving, enjoyed by this house for more than twenty-seven long years! Here are a few of the Special Offerings—others equally as alluring to the intending purchaser will be found at the store. Come and let us show them to you. A factory shipment of Henry and S. G. Lindeman Player-Manos - Improved player action, superb tone, an instrument all can play and enjoy! The Corley Company. --- AT $225 UP A splendid lot of Upright Planes of latest design—each good for a lifetime of satisfactory service A factory shipment of Henry and Player-Manoe - Improved play tone, an instrument all can play. In addition to the above lots, in designs in such favorably known Heining, Wellington, Eigin, D. Special Holiday Discounts and many dollars in your pocket. Don't Fail To See VAUGHAN COMFORT AND JOHN KING Minstrel Favorites AT THE LYRIC THEATRE Thurs., Fri. and Sat. MATINEER ENTIRE COLORED BALCONY, 10 CENTS NIGHTS (TWQY-SHOWS) 10 AND 20 CENTS Jeffries No.1 COUGH MIXTURE No1 TRADE MARK GUARANTEED PURE AND RELIABLE COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS LEAD TO BRONCHITIS PNEUMONIA AND WRAK LUNGS PROTECT YOURSELF BY TAKING JEFFRIES NO. 1 COUGH MIXTURE ALL DRUGGISTS, 25C-$0C-$1.00 Especially recommended to Speakers and Singers. It relieves the Throat and strengthens the Voice. If your Drugstist hasn't it, write to Manufacturing Pharmacist 214 E. BROAD ST, RICHMOND, VA. Acclosing Stamps or Money Order and the goods will be sent to you by parcel post or express. CHRISTMAS CARDS Send twelve cents in change and receive the most elegant assortment of Xmas Cards on the market. Post-ist contains Postcards, Postcards, Stick and Tags. J. M. MILLER, JR. 1801 Syrme Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Closing out entire stock of Used Pianos at little prices to move them quickly. Many well-known makes included-all in excellent condition. THE GIFT MOST APPRECIATED A GIFT OF JEWELRY FROM "MEYERS" WILL NOT DISAPPOINT FOR IT IS SOMETHING EVERY ONE LIKES TO HAVE. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO VISIT OUR STORE AND COMPARE OUR PRICES. WE WILL GLADLY CASH YOUR XMAS SAVINGS CHECKS BUY YOUR GIFTS HERE YOU ARE SURE OF HIGH QUALITY GOODS AND REASONABLE PRICES AND SATISFACTION, TOO. E. C. MEYER JEWELRY CO., 21 W. BROAD ST. Make Yourself A Xmas Present of This Victrola Balance in convenient sums—weekly or monthly. If you want to make every member of the family happy this Christmas—order one of these splendid instruments today. Other styles of Vibrands at $25, $40, $50, $75, $100, $150 and $200. Let us show them to you—NOW. THE WORKSHOP ANNUAL HOLIDAY ANY WILL MAKE THE HUSANDS OF RICH terms and amazing price reductions secure a splendid instrument at a for prices must be advanced after materials! Make that family gift a Assemblages of High- -Pianos Offered Now HOLIDAY DISCOUNT open waiting for don't let it go, by markable value at the special price piano or player-piano purchased he by this house for more than twenty- ers equally as alluring to the intend them to you. A factory shipment of Henry & S. G. Lindeman Plane—newest 1917 models—beautiful instruments for any home S. G. Lindeman action, superb and enjoy! our line of splendid instruments, your instruments as Conover, Cable, King oven, Cambridge and Royal Pianos arms will place any of them in your ho and see them—let us set aside the Horley Comp WHAT MADE RICHMOND MUSIC THE GIFT MOST A GIFT OF JEWELRY FROM DISAPPOINT FOR IT IS SO LIKES TO HAVE YOU ARE TO VISIT OUR STORE AND FOR HER FOR HER Diamond Rings; Set Rings Silver Novelties; Bar Pins; Brooches; La Valliere; Earrings; Watch Bracelets; Watches; Chains; Toilet Sets; Vanities FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Rings; Lockets; Chains; Spoons; Cups; Table Sets; Rib Holders; Pins; Comb and Bruself Sets; Ingersoll Watches WE WILL GLADLY CASH YOUR BUY YOUR GIFTS HERE. WE QUALITY GOODS AND REAL SATISFACTION, TOO. E. C. MEYER JEWELRY One lot of Player-Planos, handsome mahogany cases, full note, excellent construction and finish. A remarkable value! AT $75 UP. The stock of Used Pianos at little hem quickly. Many well-known all in excellent condition. You may choose from the latest, Lingsbury, Vone & Son, Schubert, Oss and Player-Pianos—and the home at a saving that represents one you want—TODAY. many, PHYSICAL. T APPRECIATED FROM "MEYERS" WILL NOT SOMETHING EVERY ONE ARE CORDIALLY INVITED AND COMPARE OUR PRICES. FOR HIM Watches; Chains; Fobs; Emblems; Lockets; Plain Rings; Set Rings; Stickplins; Cuff Links; Fountain Pens; Knives; Tie Clips; Collar Pins; Cigar Cases and Cigarette Cases FOR YOUR HOME Silverware and Cut Glass Clocks A Big Ben Alarm Clock, $2.50 Many Other Useful Gifts. FOR XMAS SAVINGS CHECKS YOU ARE SURE OF HIGH REASONABLE PRICES AND CO., 21 W. BROAD ST. Yourself A Xmas t of This Victrola $15 —that's all it costs—and you don't even have to pay all of that now. It's a genuine Victrola and plays all the thousands of band and orchestra, vocal and instrumental selections, perfectly. Also plays the latest dance music for those happy home dances. MOUNT DOWN ly or monthly. If you want to happy this Christmas—order one r. Other styles of Victorias at 1890. Let me show them to you Excelsior Hair Gloss. 35c. per box Excelsior Medicated Shampoo Soap. 25c. per cake Excelsior Tetter Salye. 50c. per box Excelsior Temple Food. 35c. per box Trial Treatment $ postpaid. EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 265 S. BLAND STREET BLUKFIELD, W. VA. COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR Natural Hair Part-Separate Hair and The Negro Agricultural & Technical College of North Carolina (Premierly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored State) GREENBROOK, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Promotion Students (APPROVED) Annual Session FIELD 100-4007 20, 1930 For Promotion Students (APPROVED) Annual Session FIELD 100-4007 20, 1930 Agents Wanted EXCELSIOR MANUFA 265 S. BLAND STREET Whereabouts of Relatives Wanted. Wanted, to find the refatives 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. F. P. Diggs, 37 N. Green Street, Easton, Pa. WANTS TO FIND THEM. Mrs. Rozie White, at Cherokee, Alabama, Colbert Co., R. F. D. No. 3, Box 5, wants to find the relatives of her husband Jordan White, deceased. He was of Richmond, Virginia and left home about 1880. His father was Sprat White, two sisters, Emma and Fannie White, two brothers, Chatman and Jim White. E. T. POLLARD MUSIC AND ART Plano and Pipe-Organ Lessons Paintings in Crayon, Pastel and Oil.—Illustrating and Designing A Specialty. 1400 N. 1st St. Phone Ran. 2009- WANTED WANTED—A first class Stenographer can secure a splendid position at once, in an institution to teach Shorthand, Typewriting, and Book keeping, Penmanship and Spelling. The person must be of pleasing personality and most exemplary in conduct. Address this Office. WANTED—25 Men and Women to sell Sick and Accident Insurance, on commission.' Apply Mechanics Bank Bldg., Room 204—2nd floor. Wanted a Deputy to work the State of Virginia for the faithful Sirs and Ladies of Harmony. A good inducement for a good and faithful worker. For further information write, GEORGE B., PAKTON, 614 N. East, St., Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED—Agents to handle Galline, Wonderful Salve for Healing Purposes. Good proposition. Write Galline Manufacturing Company, 912 N. 1st St., Richmond, Va. WANTED: An all around colored me chanic. (including horse shoaling) on my farm in Charlotte, Co., Va. Good wages, with comfortable dwelling and firewood free. Address (stating experience, age, family wages expected and reference) W. Cabell Bruce, 1730 Munsey Building Baltimore, Md. VIRGINIA· In the Huntings Court, Part II, City of Richmond, November 21. 1916. William Cowan.....Plaintiff vs. In Chancery Maggie Cowan.....Defendant It appearing to the Court from an affidavit filed in this cause the object of which is to obtain a decree for a divorce A Vincuolo Matrimonii by the plaintiff for the defendant on the grounds of willful desertion and abandonment for a period exceeding three years that the defendant Maggie Cowan is not a resident of the State of Virginia, and that her last known address or place of abode was in Manson, N. C. It is therefore adjudged, ordered and decreed that the said defendant, Maggie Cowan, do appear here within here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order in the Richmond Planet, a newspaper published in the City of Richmond once a week, for four successive weeks, and do what may be necessary to protect her interest in this suit, and the Clerk of this Court is hereby directed to mail a copy of this order of publication when entered to the last known place of abode of said defendant and certify the same as the law directs. A COPY—TESTE. W. E. DU VAL, Clerk. C. MIMMS, p. q. COLORED PEOPLE'S HAIR Natural Street Park—Chelsea Mall Road Whereabouts of Sister Wanted! Wanted—To find my sister, Estella Davis, who married Samuel Hodges. When last heard from in 1915, she was living in Richmond, Va. If she will write to her sister, she will learn something to her interest. Any one knowing anything of her please write. Mrs. Mattle Davis, care Miss Lucy Lokkett, 622 Worsham St. Danville, Va. WHY FEEL BAD When you can come to TRYON, in the Mountains of Western North Carolina and spend a Happy Stay and return home Feeling Young, Workers gain Worth, Tourists gain Health in this REALM OF CONTENT— Tryon The Royal Palace Hotel is an ideal place in which to spend your stay in Tryon. High class service. Special attractive to guest and visitors. For further information, address ROYAL PALACE HOTEL. C. S. Hannon, Manager, Box 111. The East India Hair Grower will promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also Measure the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair If Your Skin 1 Dry and Wiry Try. EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dan drunk, licking Soap, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a jar of East India Hair Grower. The remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair; stimulate the skin, helping nature to do its work. Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for heavy and beautiful Black Hairbrows, also restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price Sent by Mail, 500. S. D. LXON8, Gem. Agr., 814 East Second St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 10c extra for postage. KINKY HAIR BECOMES STRAIGHT, SOFT, CLOSSY, LONG BY USING HEROLIN. HAIR DRESSING, NEW DISCOVERY— NOT STICKY OR SUNNY. It is very quickly on the Kiss and Brush. You can the Glossy, Glossy, Glossy. And your hair many times, all the time, so it can be easily groomed and brushed without showing any gum, hair, or breakage. Hair is beautiful, shiny, and shining of the scalp and follicle hair at moment. PROVE IT FOR YOURSELF. Send file (address or order) for a big can of Hair. Agree wanted. Write letter. HEROLIN DRESSING CO., Attleboro, MA. The Negro Agricultural R. Technical College of North Carolina (Permitly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored State) GREENBORO, N. CROSSHA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Students GREENBORO, N. CROSSHA