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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 36 THE BAPTIST JUBILEE A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS STATE BODIES RAISE NEARLY FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN BIG RELIGIOUS CONVENION IN CITY OF LYNCHBURG Lynchburg, Va., June 15.—The largest religious convention ever held in this city was in session here all of last week. It was the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the organization of the Virginia Baptist State Convention and in honor of the educational work done by the Baptists of Virginia, which work was planted by the fathers shortly after coming out of slavery. This work represents what the race is doing for itself. Four state bodies were in session, thereby representing every phase of work being done in the State. Tuesday morning, July 10, was the opening and the four bodies met together. The Virginia Baptist State Convention, Rev. A. A. Galvin, D. D. of Danville, president: The Women's Educational Convention, Mrs. B. F. Fox, Salem, president: The State Sunday School Convention, Prof J. S. Lee, Newport News, president; State B. Y. P. U. Convention, Roscoe C. Mitchell, president. A chorus of one hundred voices furnished music during the entire week. The opening was indeed impressive Dr. Galvin called the joint conventions together and after devotionals that he "made a short and forceful address and presented Dr. R. C. Woods, president of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, who presided during the delivery of the welcome addresses and introduced to the convention, Mayor Royster Jester Jr., as the mayor of all the people. As the mayor arose to deliver his address, led by Dr. W. F. Graham, of Philadelphia 1,500 people sang "America." The address was indeed practical and the Mayor was loud in his praises of the race. Other addresses of welcome were delivered by Rev. G. E. Curry, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. C. G. Cabell representing the colored Baptists; Dr A. B. Conrad, representing the white Baptists; Mrs. Autentette A. Mason representing the local Woman's Educational Circle. The addresses were responded to by Dr. J. C. Austin, of Pittsburgh, for the B. Y. P. U.; Mrs. Christiana Philot of the Woman's Convention; Prof. W. A. Gilliam, for the Sunday School Convention and Dr. Alexander Gordon, of Philadelphia. In the afternoon, Dr. A. A. Galvin delivered his annual address to the convention, which was full of thought and inspiration. He was elected for another year. Prof. J. S. Lee was elected president of the Sunday School Convention; Roscoe C Mitchell, president of the B. Y. P. U. Convention and Mrs. R. F. Fox of the Women's Convention. Each session was full of inspiration. The semi-centennial sermon was preached by the Rev. W. F. Graham D. D., of Philadelphia, from text, "The Lord hath done great things for us whosoof we glad." This was indeed a practical sermon, and was followed with the presentation of $300 for the religious and educational work. Among the speakers from out of the state were Rev. G. H. Slims, New York; W. H. Jernagin, D. D., Washington, D. C.; R. C. Judkins, D. D. Jersey City, N. J.; C. C. N. Harris, W. Va.; G. B. Howard, Pittsburgh, Pa; W. W. Brown, D. D., New York; W. R. Brown, D. D., Pittsburgh, and others. On Wednesday night Hon. John Mitchell, Jr. of Richmond, thrilled his audience with his powerful oration on "The War and Its Lessons." Thursday night. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Washington, D. C. delivered a superb and eloquent address on "The Currency of the Kingdom." A unique and powerful missionary sermon was preached by Dr. W. W. Brown, of New York. The sermon covered the main revolutionary events of new world conditions and made a profound impression. The great jubilee is now passed into history and the centennial is already on its way. The Colored Baptists of Virginia never experienced such a great celebration as took place on College Hill, Lynchburg July 10th-15th. While it was the celebration of the Semi-Centennial of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, the celebration was very widely representative. Delegates and visitors were there from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and other states. The quartette of conventions sang the historic ode of fifty years achievements with a har mony sublime and every heart present caught fire with the spirit of jubilee From the moment President Galvin by the first fall of his gavel signaled the opening of the greatest convention ever held among colored Baptists in the state so Va., until the final benediction, every heart beat with divinest gratitude and every voice rang with the music of joy. Never before have the white friends shown such a kindly spirit, such open heartedness and such readiness to help. The City Auditorium was opened to us free for any or every night during the entire session. Chairs to seat the tents were supplied by the various white churches of the city and the Mayor, Honorable Royster Jester, Judge Christian and Mr. Ryland not only made great speeches such as are not commonly made by white gentlemen to colored bodies but offered their services and any aid the city of Lynchburg could render to make our stay comfortable and our convention a success. The newspapers gave unstinted space to the publication of the doings of the sconvention, mural of which was front page space. There is no doubt about it, the dignity of the session throughout was such as would do honor to kings and princes. One of the Daily newspaper men in commenting remarked, I have never met a more intelligent set of delegates nor sat in a convention of higher dignity than is this one. There was no bickering, no strife but working, exulting over work already done and praising and thanking God. There were sixty-five addresses, twelve sermons, nine lectures, two original poems and all well seasoned with good music, and ably delivered. It was a school of education and inspiration calculated to break down the prejudices of the most prejudiced, soften the shell of the tightest hidebounds and prepare every one for higher service. As I sit at my desk, I can hear the voices of the emighty multitudes as they thronged about the coegie campus shouting, Jubilee! Jubilee! Jubilee! Yes I see them as they spread the drapery of golden glory about the deeds done, and the miracles wrought by our fathers in the name of our God; some of whom had fallen in the fray and others blessed to see the travail of their souls while yet in the flesh, help the souls recount the deeds golden and mir aides divine and lead the chorus of a thousand and more voices singing the songs of jubilee. Dr. Wesley P. Graham never received more landmarks from the loyal songs who delight to do him honor. It was he who set the jubilee pace, closing the jubilee sermon by placing into the hands of President Woods three hundred dollars in gold; at this point a shout went up from the camp. Then followed that matchless preacher from Pittsburg, Dr. J. C. Austin, gathering about him that large and splendid delegation, placed upon the table three hundred dollars in gold and three hundred and twenty-five in paner. Here comes Danville; Dr. S. A. Moses reports the highest amount of money per member and took away the banner and gold medal as the prize; but wait, behold there comes Fifth St., Richmond, Pastor T. J. King gathers about him a large and fine looking delegation and places on the table seven hundred and twenty-three dollars in cash; thus taking away the banner and gold medal given the church and pastor bringing up the largest amount of money in bulk. Dr. Austin and Ehenezer received a special banner of she largest amount from outside of the state. Total amount of money raised in cash on the convention table was $13698-31. There are some characters who figured so prominently in and contributed so largely to the success of this mummoth celebration we must make special mention of a few of them. I dare say every delegate and visitor was justly proud of our able, cultured and faithful President Dr. A. A. Galvin. The peole of today while they greatly admire and appreciate the ability of this great character, have not fully awakened to his supreme worth. The major part of the credit for the high class dignity and commendable order of this body, as well as the prompt way in which they scary out the program of work, is due to the masterly ability of President Galvin. He is a cool headed, self possessed, Prince among Presidents. The second character is that other Roman, that prince among educators, Prof. R. C. Woods M. A. I don't need to relate the story except for those who are uninformed as to how he has brought this great school to the years of its glory, hen the sword is freed to admit its glory, when the world is forced to admit its greatness. His report on the work and that masterly address on education, just swept the audience from their feet and in joy the multitude cried, "What hath God wrought?" President Wood is at once an orator, logician, a teacher and business manager. He with his staff of teachers entertained this convention in a way that highly pleased the most critical. One other compliment and we close for we cannot tell all in one article. Jubilee committee presided over by Dr. S. A. Moses and the Correspond- ing Secretary, Dr. T. H. White are due great praise and rare encomiums for the great work done in bringing about such an unprecedented success. Thirty four new churches joined the convention. We shall say more further on about the great part played by our brethren out of the state. PYTHIANS ENTER CITY POINT Grand Chancellor Organizes Lodge There With Bright Prospects City Point, Va., July 16, 1917. EDITOR POE IS MYSTERIOUSLY INJURED Editor James W. Poe of the Reformer was found Saturday afternoon in the toilet of the True Reformer Building unconscious, suffering from blows on his head, all of which seemed to have been made with a wooden mallet of the kind used in printer's flies. It was thought that he had taken either internally and the report was circulated that he had attempted suicide, due to worry and other troubles. He was removed to the Richmond Hospital. He repudiated the idea of his having been attacked by some one and professed an absolute ignorance as to how he was injured. The detectives working on the case reached the conclusion that he inflicted the injuries upon himself, during a period of mental abberation. He that as it may, he maintains silence upon the subject and at present his mind appears to be normal. His friends were of the opinion that he had been the victim of foul play as the letters and communications that he has been writing have been condemned in some quarters. He is steadily improving and the indications are that he will soon be able to be walking about again. A PLEASANT SURPRISE There was a very pleasant surprise social tendered the children of the Friends Orphan Asylum on Friday afternoon from five to eight by a number of lads and lasses Numerous games and athletic sports were indulged in after which refreshments were served on the picturesque lawn. Alt seemed very happy and expressed desire to have another. The unique affair was originated by Masters Coleridge D. Davis; W. Hugo Jackson and Emnitt M. Burke who are very grateful to all who rendered them any assistance. Mesdames Lizzie E. Davis, Anna E. Jackson and A. B. Burke chaperoned the party with Misses Jeanette Jackson and Lottie Davis. In Loving Memory WILLIAMS—Sacred to the memory of my devoted mother, Mrs. Olive Williams, who fell asleep one year ago, July 17th, 1916. Her beautiful soul, like a ray of light Has gone to the realms above. Where never was. Where never again comes sorrow and pain, pain, In the land of celestial love. By her son, ELLIAH B. WILLIAMS Leigh St. Memorial M. E. Church. Rev. C. C. Gill, B. D. is having marked success in his new field of work, both spiritually and financially He was at his best Sunday, preaching morning and evening two of the best sermons we have ever listened to. Sunday, July 22nd, the District Superintendent, Rev. E. J. Ruddee, B. D. will preach at 11:30 A. M. and the pastor at 8:30 P. M. A big day in Zion. All are welcome. Come praying that a shower of blessing may be bestowed upon us. Doctors Hold Annual Meeting The Old Dominion Medical Society held its annual meeting at Bay Shore Hotel, Buckroe Beach, July 11th and 12th 1917. Quite a large number of physicians from all parts of the state were present. Medical and surgical clinics were held at Whitaker Memorial Hospital, Newport News, Many scientific papers were read. The Society will meet next July at Buckroe Beach. The following officers were elected for the ensuing term: President, J. B. Darden, M. D. Petersburg, 1st Vice President, F. R. Trigg, M. D. Norfolk; 2nd Vice President, J. H. Roberts, M. D. Roanoke; Secretary, J. H. Blackwell, Jr. M. D. Richmond (re-elected); Recording Secretary, R. A. Deane, M. D. Victoria (re-elected); Treasurer, A. B. Greene, M. D. Norfolk; Executive Committee:—D. W. Byrd, M. D., Norfolk, Chairman; C. J. Bowen, M. D., Norfolk; C. W. Francis, M. D., Norfolk; R. E. Jones, M. D., Richmond; A. A. Tennant, M. D., Richmond. PYTHIANS ENTER CITY POINT Grand Chancellor Organizes Lodge There With Bright Prospects City Point, Va., July 16, 1917. A lodge of Knights of Pythias was organized here last Saturday night by Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. He metored down here from Richmond, with Robinson Davis at the wheel. With him were Col. Thomas M. Crump, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Dr. A. A. Tennant, Grand Medical Register, Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Supreme Representative. They arrived before dark and then returned to Hpwell, where they were serv'd luncheon eat Byrd's Hotel. A violent electrical storm came up while they were there, but they soon returned to the Masonic Hall, where the candidates had assembled Later, Sir W T. Stokes, Grand Inner Guard and Deputy Grand Chancellor and Sir J. E. Wyliamson and Rev L. J. Morris arrived. The initiation was spirited and interesting. Later Sir Albert V. Norrell, Jr. and Sir M. Alphose Norrell, both of whom had also motored to this place with Clarence Smith at the wheel arrived telling of their terrible experiences, having been caught in the worst of the storm, between Richmond and Petersburg. They had a puncture, but this was quickly repaired. It took them two hours and a half to make the trip. They had to stop on the road-side to wait until the worst part of the storm subsided. After the initiation, the following officers were installed, Chancellor Commander, R. L. Weeks; Master of Work, Eugene Jackson; Vice Chancellor Robert H. Epps; Prelate E. J. Hill; Master of Finance W. H. Jones; Master of Exchequer W. H. Harrison; Master at Arms H. L. Steptoe; Inner Guard, William Short; Outer Guard S. H. Bailey; Trustees George Quick, N. H. Lansford, Chas. Richardson. The new body will be known as James River Lodge No. 212. The visitors present were A. V. Norrell, Jr., M. Alphose Norrell, G. W. Gilliam, John Thos. Cook, District Deputy E. W. Wood. The club was organized through the efforts of Sir W. T. Stokes and Sir J. E. Williamson. It was shortly after 1 o'clock when the visitors left for Petersburg, Va. The rain was falling and the car in which the Grand Chancellor was traveling was poorly lighted owing to the rain having put the electrical equipment out of commission. Grand Chancellor Mitchell praised Sir Stokes and Williamsom highly as he had been endeavoring to secure a lodge here for many years. He was surprised to find Mr. Charley Campbell enraged in the torsorial business here. Mr. and Mrs. William Dandridge of New York City are spending some time here the guest of their niece Mrs. Mary Smith 1013 St. John St. Mr. Thomas Tinsley of Baltimore, Md., an old resident of Richmond spent some time in the city this week. Mr. Wm. R Knight of Forest Hill was called to Tarboro, N. C. July 11th on account of the death of his stepfather r Jno. M. Houston. He returned Saturday, July 14, 1917. Mr. John L. Rogers, cousin of Mr. John W. Moss is in the city. Re resides at Mt Clair, N J Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., of South Richmond, attended the annual meeting of the Old Dominion Medical Society at Buckroe Beach, Va., July 11th and 12th. Miss Gertrude Lee underwent an operation at the Memorial Hospital Monday, July 16th, upon her throat, which she has been having trouble for some time. She is improving very nicely under Dr. Blackwell. Her father, of Sutherland, Va. is at her bed side. She is desirous of her friends calling to see her during her illness at her residence, 1401 West Leigh street. MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF DR. W. T. ANTHONY. A Memorial Service to the memory of the late Pastor of Zion Baptist Church, Dr. W. T. Anthony was held in Zion Baptist Church, South Richmond, Sunday, July 5, 1917, at 3:30 P. M. The following program was rendered: Hymn, lined by Rev. J. S. Clatborne, D. D.; Scripture lesson, Rev. G. W. Carrington; prayer, Dr. R. C. Williams; Solo, Rev. W. H. James, Jr.; reading resolutions, Prof J. H. Blackwell; Memorial Sermon, Rev. T. J. King, D. D.; solo, Bro. Richard Beverly; short addresses, Rev. M. H. Payno, Rev. L. A. Green, Rev. W. H. James, Dr. R. C. Williams, Rev. J. J. Woodson, Rev. A. Kent, Rev. G. W. Carrington, Deacon Daniel Glenn; offering, Rev J. B. Braxton, L. C. Garland, D. D. was master of ceremonies. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Something in the nature of a sensation was caused when it was reported that a double tragedy had taken place at the fashionable Odeon moving picture theatre on Sixth St., between Broad and Grace Sts. Monday afternoon, Mrs. Adel Etoh of the Syrian colony was the central figure. She was found in the theatre with Albert Kaleel another married man. Etoh is alleged to have ordered him to keep away from his wife. Kaleel in the struggle fired and seriously wounded Etoh. After an examination by the surgeons, little hope was entertained for his recovery. Kaleel started out of the theatre hurriedly when he was intercepted by Detective Police Officer J. H. Ridgeway, who fired at the man twice. He dropped dead. Later developments are alleged to show that Kaleel also shot himself. The Coroner's Jury, however left this matter open. The officer is under arrest, but out on bond, charged with murder. The body of the man was shipped to Goldsboro, N. C. At this writing Etoh was still alive but hovering about death's door. AN APPEAL FOR AFRICA My Dear Brother Editor:---- The case against Brother Payne and wife in South Africa is very acute, and as I write you he may be already adrift in the ocean somewhere. The lack of sufficient money to take care of your work is one of the greatest handicaps with which we are perplexed. There should have been a thousand dollars placed at Brother East's disposal two months ago to take care of this Payne matter; but this could not be supplied because we do not have the money. We wrote the State Department on June 15th, sending the data in hand, touching the matter of not allowing our missionaries to land in South Africa, and received a letter under date of June 20th from the Secretary of State, in which he said: "In reply you are advised that the American Consul General at Cape Town has been instructed by cable to investigate the matter and to render such assistance as may be proper in the premises." We are calling upon every Baptist church in sympathy with kingdom building in all parts of the world to hold some kind of missionary service on the Fifth Sunday in July, the 29th take an offering and send it to the board. Our books close with July, and such an offering would furnish great relief for our workers and enable us to go to the convention at Muskogee nearer out of debt than last year. It would be a beautiful sight indeed to see ten thousand pastors of our churches preaching on "The Great Commission" on that day and taking an offering from their flocks for the cause to which our Lord gave His very life. Surely, all heaven would look on such a scene with great joy. Though I spent nearly four months from the office visiting Africa, yet I am glad to say the average giving of churches this year, in some cases, has been higher than ever before. One of our large churches in this city during this year has given $104. One of our smaller churches has given $42.45. A small church in western Pennsylvania has given $22.50. A middle-sized church in New Orleans has contributed $25. This has been done on the plan of monthly giving. One layman in South Carolina has given monthly amounting to $11. This matter of evangelizing the world is laying hold of our pastors and churches as never before in all the years gone by. Brother Pastor busy as you are as as many needs as confront you, your board most earnestly requests and in the most brotherly way insists that you hear us for this cause on the day. Not for us, but for His sake, we urge it. Yours in His service. L. G. JORDAN. Dr. Gray Visits Us Dr. Junius Gray pastor of the Psalmist Baptist church and Manager of the Maryland Voice, toured from Baltimore, to Richmond in his gospel car, Monday, July 16, 1917 in twelve hours, finding the roads extremely bad for twenty mile. He was accompanied by his wife Mrs. Fannie Gray, Rev W. J. Jackson and Miss Ida Jones, the secretary of the Psalmist Church Sunday School. Dr. Gray visited his sick mother Mrs. Sarah Gray in South Fourth St. Dr. Gray is an "old Manchester Boy" and the people here welcomed him and his guests with open arms. While here the entire party paid a flying visit to Tho Planet office. Mr. F. M. Bruce, of Charlotte, N. C. is now employed on the Planet's linotype battery. TROOPS IN REVIEW FOR LOCAL VISTORS. Col. Ballon Entertains Members of the Chamber of Commerce. (Des Moines Register, July 11, 1917.) Des Moines formally visited the Negro officers' training camp at Fort Des Moines yesterday afternoon, was entertained by the officers and their wives and witnessed the ceremony of retreat and a regimental review of the thirteen companies. Forty-five automobiles, carrying members of the Chamber of Commerce, their wives and families, started from the Shops building at 4:15 for the fort, where they were joined by as many mere who had driven out separately. The visitors, headed by directors and members of the military affairs committee of the Chamber of Commerce, paraded around the grounds of the fort, inspecting buildings and then were received at Clayton hall by the officers and their wives. Light refreshments were served. SEE METHODS OF TRAINING They were also given an opportunity to see methods employed in the training of the candidates for commissions in the execution of drill maneuvers and the manual of arms before the entire thirteen companies were marched into the formation for retreat. Promptly at 5:50 o'clock the gun was fired, and the colors lowered as the First regiment band played the "Star Spangled Banner." The review following the ceremony was a revelation to many of the visitors who yesterday saw the Negro soldiers in action for the second time. In the few weeks of training they have made extraordinary progress and as they marched by Colonel Ballon in column of companies yesterday there were straight lines, uniform steps, well poised arms and erect bearing throughout. The visitors stood behind the reviewing officer on the north side of the parade grounds where they were able themselves to review the soldiers as they passed him. COLONEL, BALLOU PLEASED Colonel Ballon expressed himself as pleased with the courtesy of the Chamber of Commerce and other visitors and as being especially gratified at the excellent showing made by the men. Only 250 of the men now candidates for commission have had previous military experience. These were selected from the most efficient none commissioned officers of the four existing colored regiments of the regular army and are assisting materially in the training of the raw recruits most of them taken from the ranks of professional men, school teachers college professors, lawyers and business men. RESOLUTION Adopted by the U. S. W. V. July 1th, 1917. We the members of the Department of The Potomac, U. S. W. V. in convention assembled on the 4th day of July 1917, in the city of Petersburg, Va., desire to express our confidence in the ability and wisdom of our comrade Lt. COL. CHARLES YOUNG, U. S. A. His unblemished character as a gentleman and a soldier, his valuable service to his country and nation, at home and abroad, his devotion to duty, when put upon him, has marked him as a fit and suitable officer for a larger and a more extensive field of operation. Therefore he it, Resolved. That we doubt not, that he is worthy of the confidence of the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the ARMY and NAVY of the United States of America, and that he given an op- portunity to do further service for his country, THIS WE RESPECTFULLY ASK, W. H. ANDERSON Rev. Dr. Goodall Weds. Rev. Dr. L. B. Goodall, the brilliant pastor of Shilah Baptist Church at Waynesboro, Va., was married to the accomplished Miss Bertha Louise Early at Harrisonburg, Va., Thursday night, June 21st. Rev. J. A. Jordan, D. D., the bride's pastor performed the ceremony. A Waynesboro special committee conveyed the happy couple to the parsonage. A fine program was rendered at the church. Mr. Wm. Hobson was master of ceremonies. Rev. Dr. Goodall is much beloved by the devoted congregation. PRICE, FIVE CENTS INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS OF LOCAL PYTHIAN AND COURT ORGANIZATIONS Notwithstanding the threatening storm and occasional showers of rain, there was a large gathering present at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Tuesday night, July 17, 1917, to witness the Installation Exercises of the officers of the courts and lodges of the city of Richmond. The exercises opened with the congregation singing "God Bless Our Knightly Band." The names of the officers of the lodges and courts, as filed in the office of the Grand Chancellor were read by Col. Roscoe C. Mitchell. Music for the occasion was furnished by Prof. Joseph Matthews, who with his usual grace and enchantment sang to the delight of all present. Mrs. Mary Satterfield presided at the organ and rendered excellent service. The roll of Grand Lodge and Grand Court officers residing in Richmond was called and absentees noted. The officers were installed by the Grand Chancellor and Grand Worthy Counselor, John Mitchell, Jr., assisted by D. D. G. C., L. J. Morris; D. D. G. W., C., Mrs. Lucy Cross, State Deputy Mrs. Anna Taylor and G. M. at A., Col. W. H. Willis. The Grand Chancellor gave a brief report of the Supreme Lodge case and of the Grand Session just closed at Staunton, Va. Rev. L. J. Morris, District Deputy Grand Chancellor prayed the opening and closing prayer. The committee of arrangements Miss M. L. Chiles, chairman, had beautifully decorated the church in the colors of the Order and a profusion of cut flowers. LAWYER WARNS THE CHICAGO NEGROES TO ARM SELVES. Chicago, Ill., July 5.—The following is an extract of an article which appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune, issue July 4. "Arm yourselves now with guns and pistols," said Ferdinand L. Barnett, a former assistant state's attorney, in speaking to 100 Negro men at a mass meeting hold last night to protest against the riots and bloodshed in East St. Louis. The meeting took place at 3005 South State Street. "Don't buy an arsenal," continued Barnett, "but get enough guns to protect yourselves. You may be victims in Chicago within a fortnight of such murders and outrages as have taken place in East St. Louis. And when trouble starts let us not hesitate to call upon our Negro militiamen to defend us." CONDEMNS STATE OFFICIALS Barnett and A. H. Roberts, another speaker, sponsored resolutions condemning Gov. Lowden and other public officials' "laxness of duty" because the riots took place, and demanding punishment of the participants in riots. "The fact that the governor let this mob run its course is forever a black spot on the executive record of the state," said Mr. Barnett. "The officer who told the militia not to shoot should be court married and be married a traitor and murdered. I don't know who is to blame, but a mob is a mob, and ought to be dispersed or killed. "We are going to rectify this in some way. The 10,000,000 of our race will not stand for this massacre. "Behind an army go the guerrilla—looters, cowards and thieves. Behind this riot is the public defense council, whose caiminations are written without consulting a single Negro. They breathe the same spirit as the mob of East St. Louis did." HOLD ON TO YOUR GUNS "Get guns and put them in your homes. Protect yourselves. And let no black man permit a policeman to come in and get those guns." Roberts told his audience that he hoped "God would demand 100,000 white lives in the war for each Negro slaughtered in East St. Louis." "I love my race better than my country," he shouted. "This country, under Woodrow Wilson is asking us to carry the flag of democracy to Europe. God forbid that we take across the Atlantic any of the democracy of East St. Louis." TELLS NEGROES TO ORGANIZE L. W. Washington, another speaker told the Negroes to organize. "The the governor that every Negro in Chicago and Illinois is behind these resolutions," he said, "and if we don't get justice from him, then sent to the President of the nation." John Douglason told the audience to prepare for similar plots in Chicago. The applause was loud while the speeches were being made. A plea was made for contributions to pay travel expenses of Mrs. Ida Well-Barnet to Springfield to present resolutions to Gov. Lowden. AC YUNG SATURDAY.....JULY 21, 1917 RADICALS CLAIM NEW CHANCELLOR The Majority "Bloc" Plans to Continue Flight. ROW OVER FOREIGN OFFICE Relechtag Majority to Demand That Michaelle Accept Their Statement of Peace Terms. The new chancellor, Dr. Michaelle, is described in special despatches from Berlin as working night and day on his program speech and the selection of new material for the Prussian imperial administration. The Lokal Anceler says the changes have been completed and the Chancellor will appear in the rechstag accompanied by all his new colleagues. The Tageblatt says Herr Michaelle is rodent on his policy. The rechstag is expected to adjourn on Friday until September, first voting the war credits almost unanimously. (Despatches said Dr. Michaelle would make his malden speech on Thursday.) A depatch from Berlin says the majority "bloc" plans to present peace terms in a resolution to the rechristmas on Thursday and to demand from Dr. Michaels a statement that he accept it in principle, otherwise co-operation is impossible. Meanwhile the execution of this plan depends upon the extent to which the "bloc" holds to together. A late edition of the Lokal Anzelger asserts that the new chancellor is for the foreign policy and peace terms expounded by Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the pan-German camp. It quotes conservative and national liberal members of the rechristmas who attended a conference with von Hindenburg, General von Ludendorff, first Quartermaster General, and Dr. Michaels as being most favorably impressed with the results. The Local Anzeiger asserts of its own knowledge that Dr. Michaels already has established relations of absolute unanticipated cooperation with these military-political chieftains. The newspaper strongly recommends to Dr. Michaels and parliament the postponement until the end of the war of the settlement of all contentious internal questions, including, naturally, Prussian suffrage reform, thereby properly rebuilding what it terms impertinent interference from enemy countries in the internal German affairs and demonstrating the harmonious unity of the country. The selection of a successor to the foreign secretary, Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, is still unsettled. Pressure is being brought from two directions to block the proposed nomination of Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, the German minister at Copenhagen, and to substitute Admiral von Hintze, minister to Norway, or Count von Bernstorf, former ambassador to Washington. The present minister to Christiana is greatly desired by pan-Germans and advocates of a super-vigorous policy not only on account of his high diplomatic qualifications, but chiefly on account of his antecedents. Apparently it is felt that a former naval officer, particularly one who played such a prominent role at Manila in the events of 1898, will offer the necessary guarantee that the German foreign policy in regard to peace negotiations will be afterwards conducted along desired energetic lines. The emperor is said to favor von Hintze. The Tageblatt, the Mittags Zeitung and the Socialist organ Vorwaerts unite in declaring that the candidacy of Admiral von Hintze for foreign minister is a move of the super-annexationists. The Tageblatt and Vorwaerts warn Dr. Michaels that he cannot accept von Hintze without compromising the administration with a pan-Germanaint. The Deutsche Tages Zellung (Reventlow's paper) supports von Hintze's candidacy. ORDERS SUPPLIES FOR ARMY Requisitions Percentage of Output From Every Canner In Country. To be able to insure an adequate supply of canned goods for the army and navy, the defense council's supply committee asked all the country's canners to reserve the following portion of their output: Twelve per cent of each canner's back of peas, 12 per cent of corn, 18 per cent of tomatoes and 6 per cent of salmon. The canners already have agreed to accept a fair price to be established by the government. Rallroads to Ald Hoover Herbert C. Hoover has received resolutions adopted by the American Railway association's war board pledging the board and its individual members to put into effect the rules for the conservation of food on dining cars. The plan was worked out between Mr. Hoover and representatives of the commissary departments of the railroads. 1917 Photo by American Press Association. Reports from Petrograd indicate that War Minister Kerensky's life is sought by assassins, and he is now heavily guarded, and he is prepared to since his return from the Galician front, where he inspired the troops to their new offensive. SUFF PICKETS GO TO JAIL Sentenced to Sixty Days and Refuse to Pay Fine. The sixteen members of the woman's party arrested on Saturday in an attempt to "picket" the White House in Washington, were sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or serve sixty days in the District of Columbia workhouse at Occupun, Va. They decided to take the sixty-day sentence. An appeal will be taken. Hereofore the militant suffragists have gotten off with three-day jail sentences. Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York, who saw the arrests Saturday, and, was a witness in behalf of the women, will act as their counsel. It was reported that Mr. Malone would resign his post in New York to take charge of the work. Mr. Malone would not discuss this. The women sentenced were: Miss Mary Ingham, Philadelphia; Mrs Florence Bayard Hilles, Wilmington Del.; Miss Minnie Abbott, Atlantic City; Mrs Eunice Dana Brannan, New York; Miss Jeanette Fotheringham Buffalo; Miss Eleanor Angola Calman, Meuben, Mass.; Miss Anne Martin, Reno; Mrs. Beatrice Reynolds Kinkead, Mt. View, Cal.; Mrs. Amelia Hines Walkers, Baltimore; Miss Julia Hurburt, Morrishtown, N. J.; Mrs. Betty Graves Reynolds, Detroit; Mrs. Allen Turnbull Hopkins, Morrishtown, N. J. Mrs. Matilda Gardner, Washington; Miss Doris Stevens, Omaha; Miss Louisa Parker Mayo, Farmingham Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Solden Rogers New York. VOTE PORTO BICO DRY Prohibition Majority Big-Unionists Candidate For Commissioner Wine. Porto Rice voted for prohibition by a big majority at the election. With four unimportant towns missing the returns show 99,775 votes for prohibition and 61,295 against. Fifty-one municipalities voted for the prohibition measure, twenty-one opposed it. San Juan's vote was Bill for, and 2255 against. All the other large cities were strongly on the dry side. Follix Cordova Deavila, Unionist, was chosen resident commissioner at Washington. The Unionist carried five out of seven senatorial districts. The Unionists will have a majority in the low er house. The Socialist gains that were scored were chiefly at Republican expense. Santiago Iglesias, the Socialist canidate for senator at-large, although falling of election, polled 23487 votes this showing comparing with the party's vote of 4300 in 1914. The Unionists polled 88,750 vote and the Republican 57,529. Irish Convention Plans. The national convention will assemble on July 25 in Regent house of Trixty college, in Dublin, according to official announcement. The chief secretary for Ireland, H. D. Duke will preside until the convention chooses its own chairman. It is expected the proceedings will be private, but probably an official record will be made. Crown Prince Laude U-Boats. A copy of the Illustrite Zeitung of Leipzig, received in Copenhagen contains autographed commen-taries upon the exploits of U-boats by German naval and military leaders. The crown prince lauds the ruthless U-boat war against shipping as the "last argument of kings." Shoots Way to Freedom While being tried for theft before a magistrate at Millsboro, Del. Raymond Wost pulled a revolver and shot his way through a crowd, seriously wounding Lorenzo Brittingham. He escaped in an auto mobile. U-Boat Sunk by Canadian Freighter. The Canadian freight steamship Meaford sank a submarine in the Mediterranean on June 12. The official information comes from the marine department in London, conveyed to the Farrar Transportation company, Ltd. of Toronto, owners of the Meaford. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA RIOT AND CABINET ROW STIR RUSSIA Ministers Resign Ukraine Controversy MANIFESTANTS IN A PANIC Several Are Killed in Anti-Government Demonstrations in Petrograd—Mobs Fired on Each Other. Three members of the Russian cabinet have resigned. A special session of the council of ministers has been convoiled in an effort to avert a crisis. Two demons thrums against the government resulted in the firing of shots in the Newaky Prospekt at midnight Sunday. A number of persons were killed or wounded. The firing apparently was the result of stray shots which brought on a panic, in which the demonstrators turned rifles and machine guns on each other. Quiet was restored after a few minutes. The demonstrations were organized by the Bolshevik; the majority factor of the Social-Democratic party. The men resisting are A. I. Shingaroff, minister of finance; Professor Manuloff, minister of education, and Prince Shakovsky, head of the department of public aid. (A later despatch reports that M. Stepanoff, acting minister of commerce, also has resigned.) The resignations of these odd ministers followed a sharp disagreement over questions involving the Ukraine an extensive region in Russia, embracing part of the territories of the old kingdom of Poland. Prince Lvoff, the premier, has requested the ministers to meet at his private residence when the cause of the dispute will be considered. It is known he will attempt to prevail on them to withdraw their resignations. The split in the ministry occurred at a conference called to consider a report submitted by M. Teroschtенко, minister of foreign affairs, and M. Tseretell, minister of posts and telegraphs, as a result of their negotiations concerning the Ukrainians. The cadet ministers took exception to the form of a declaration drawn up by Mm. Tereschtko and Tsereteli. They asserted that these ministers without authorization, took it on themselves to commit the government to a definite policy regarding the Ukraine. They also criticised the text of the Ukraine declaration. Start, because it abolishes all power of the temporary government in the Ukraine; second, because it did not specify of what territories the Ukraine consists or make clear how it shall be governed. In order to maintain the compulsive unity of the army, the government will not countenance measures which might injure the military organization and command, although it does not object to the creation of army units composed exclusively of Ukrainians, subject to the approval of the war ministry. In order to permit settlement of this problem, special Ukrainian delegates may be attached to the war cabinet, the general staff and the staff of the commander-in-chief. RUSSIANS LOSE KALUSZ Forced to Quit Recently Captured Teuton Headquarters in Gallicia. The Russian forces which recently captured the Gallican town of Kalusk, the headquarters of the Austro-German army, evacuated that town, according to the official statement issued by the German headquarters staff. Rhineland regiments, it is said, captured the woodlands to the north of Kaluzz. As the Germans were ap proaching from the west the Russians retreated to the southern bank of the river Lomnica. The Petrograd war office announces that Russian troops have abandoned Kaluzz, in eastern Gallicia, but have secured the crossing of the Lomnica river. The Russians drove the enemy from the village of Novlica. DISTILLERS MAKE POTASH Announcement was made by the Jefferson Distilling and Denaturing company, in New Orleans, that it has evolved a process for the utilization of former waste in distilling alcohol from molasses, by which its plant now produces twenty tons of potash a day. Prior to the war potash which was obtained almost exclusively from Germany, was worth $8 a ton in this country, and now it sells at $400 a ton. New Air Rald on Essen The German industrial town of Essen, where the Krupp gun work are located, was again raided by allied airmen. This information was contained in a despatch from the frontier. The telegram added that the bombardment was followed by a series of tremendous explosions. Vork, Pa., Man Wounded In France. The Canadian casualty list contains the following names of Americans: Wounded, F. C. Freeman, Minneapolis; Acting Captain Cowan, Providence; J. S. Potts, Fail Bluff, N. C.; H. W. Hillhouse, York, Pa.; P. Pink, Detroit, Shell shock, J. Bolton, Detroit. Harrisburg Mayor Dies Charles A. Miller, elected mayor of Harrishburg, Pa., less than two months ago, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Ezra S. Meals, who died April 18, died at his home. Mayor Miller was for more than twenty-five years city clerk and had a reputation as an authority on municipal law. Copies of Gold Token Being Sold For Relief. GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1789-1793 RIGHT EQUAL NOT MANY Photo by American Press Association The first three of those medals were struck in gold and taken to France by Miss Anne Morgan, where they were presented to Marshal Joffre, President Pineau and former Premier Vivian. Couples are being sold here and abroad, the money going to war relief. Gas Masks For U. S. Men. Army orders disclose the fact that the government and civilian experts are hard at work on the production of an effective gas mask for American troops. Major L. P. Williamson, of the medical corps, has been ordered to Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New Haven to inspect laboratory work being done there. Every American destroyer or other naval vessel which sails for the war zone carries a full equipment of gas masks. Gas shells have been used by the German naval gunners and it was deemed necessary to equip American boats against such devices when the first were dispatched. U. S. Shlp Kansan Sunk The American steamship Kansan, carrying a crew of fifty men, has been sunk, presumably off the French coast, a cablegram to this effect was received by the France and Canada Steamship company, which chartered the vessel. The fate of those on board is not known. The Kansan was valued at $3,000,000. She carried a cargo of flour and other foodstuffs, together with 4000 tons of steel. This, valued at $2,000,000, was consigned to the French government. A majority of her crew was Americana, State department despatches announcing the destruction of the Kansan by a German submarine said four members of the crew are missing. All of the armed naval guard are safe. Woman Must Die on Gallows. Mrs. Amy B. Archer-Gillingham was found guilty of murder in the first degree in the superior court at Hartford, Conn. She was convicted of the murder by poison of Franklin R. Andrews, May 30,1914. Andrews was an inmate of her home for elderly people at Windsor. She was sentenced to be hanged November 6, 1917. Chamberlain Quits Cabinet Austen Chamberlain, secretary for India, has resigned. Mr. Chamberlain's resignation is apparently due to the Kut-ei-Amara scandal. His connection with the faso has been regarded as technical, the plans and conduct of the expedition having been in the hands of military commanders of the India service and Lord Hardinge, the viceroy. $1,000,000 Elks' War Fund. A fund of $1,000,000 for war relief work was appropriated by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Boston. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA—FLOUR — Firm straight, $10.75@11.25; city mills, $12.50@12.75. RY ELOF RUE—Quiet; per barrel, $10 @11. WHAT-E—Nominal. CORN—Quiet; No. 2 yellow, $2.02@ 2.03. OATS—Quiet; No. 2 white, $1@ 81½c. MULTRY—Live steady; heng, 20@ 21c; old roosters, 16@17c. Dressed, steady; choice fowls, 25c; old roosters, 19c. BUTTER — Firm; fancy creamy, 42c per lb. EGGS — Firm; selected, 42@43c; nearby, 36c; western, 38c. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO — HOGS — Slow, steady. Mixed and butchery, 42.55; 45.55 good heavy, 14.25@14.55; rough heavy $24.55@15.25; Light, $14.45@15.65; plugs, $15.15@13.5; bulk, $14.80@15.75. CATTLE — Steady to 15c lower. Brewers, 12.55@10.05; hops and heifers, $5.35@11.50; stockings and feeders, $6.25@10.10; Texans, $10.25@12; calves, $9.60@14.50. SIBEEP - Steady. 20@%5c lower. Na- tional. $7.50 lower. $7.50 to 10.80; lamps. $9.50 to 15.40. Artesian Wella. For over 1,000 years the Chinese have obtained water through means of artesian wells. One of the most famous wells in existence is that at Greenville on the outskirts of Paris, where the water is brought from a depth of 1.75 feet. A well in Pesth was sunk to the depth of 3,100 feet in the seventies. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEBNESDAY. Just as the Russians have torn a big gap in the Austro-German lines in Galicia, capturing Hallez and pressing on low Lemberg the Germans have met menacing offensive with the Belgian coast. The Germans succeeded in their initial push by leveling the defenses through an intensive bombardment for twenty-four hours and then attacking over the devastated ground. The bridges across the Yser were destroyed by the heavy fire and the sending up of reinforcements was found impossible. In the French front in northern France an attack was made by the Germans in the Woevre district, near Filley. They were elected from a portion of the trench in which they temporarigained a footing. THURSDAY General Brusiloff's offensive in Gallia is developing into a drive with little let up, at least so far as the Korniloff armies are concerned. News of the capture of Haltez was followed by the announcement that General Korniloff's troops had pushed on beyond Leslivyka, southwest of Stauslau, and reached and occupied Kalusz, seven miles to the west of the Stoka river. The Austro-German headquarters in this sector was situated here. The German attack on Monday on the Belgian coast ceased with the capture of the small sector cast of the Yser, which they had devastated with their intensive gunfire. On the Verdun front the German crown prince made a number of attacks on both banks of the Vaves. All these assaults, delivered in the vicinity of Hill 304 on the side of the stream and north of the Hardamont works on the other, were repulsed by the French, as were attacks on the Alne front south of Juyincourt. FRIDAY. Kornloff's aggressive Russian armies, which already have driven a wedge into the Teutonic lines in eastern Galicia, appear to be at the crucial point of their campaign for Lemberg. Having crossed the river Lemnica, behind which the Austro-German forces planted themselves in their retreat from the Hallez region, the Russians have opened up the possibility of turning the whole Teutonic line northward along the Zhota-Lipa. The statement from Petrograd shows that in Wednesday's fighting, which resulted in the capture of Kaluzs, the Russians took 960 prisoners, chief: Gustav and five heavy tanks. SATURDAY Germany's internal crisis overseeing its military operations in the news Reports from Berlin show that the relighting has gone on "strike" against the crown and the military party, an parently in the interest of a parliamentary system of government. The seven a rupron, little credited, first Emperor William has abdicated in favor of Prince Joachim. The Russian revolutionary amulete are still sweeping forward. Apparently there is little to stop them nourishing through the breach in the lines in eastern Galicia opened by Korneloff. They are pushing north of the Dnieper and west of the Lomnica. On the Franco-Belgian a wailing policy is being pursued by General Sir Douglas Halg and General Petrin. There has been only local fighting by either group. SUNDAY. With somewhat a shackling of the Russian offensive in Gallica, owing to bad weather, the French and the Germans along the Chemin des Dames and in Champagne have come together in a mighty struggle, in which the artillery rested mainly with the forces of General Petain. In Champagne, to the north of Mont Haut and northeast of the Teton, the French in a violent attack captured powerfully-organized German trench elements on a front of more than 800 yards, and to a depth of more than 300 yards, and held and consolidated the positions, notwithstanding heavy counter attacks, in which the Germans suffered heavy casualties and lost in addition 360 men made prisoners. In Flanders at various points the British and Germans continue to carry out intensive artillery duels and the British to make successful raids on German positions. MONDAY Although Kornilloff's big offensive in Eastern Galicia is being hampered by bad weather, the cossacks apparently have been able to keep up their dashing tactics. This is indicated by a report from Petrograd through Rome that Dolina has been occupied by Russian forces. If this announcement is confirmed it means an advance of more than thirty miles for the Russians since the opening of the drive south of Dnister a week ago. The official reports have placed them nearly two-thirds of this distance from their starting point, Kaluzs, taken last week, is twenty miles from Stanislau, which virtually was the place of departure. Hard fighting that marked the last few days along the French front in north France continues. The Germans made an attempt to regain the important observation posts they lost or Saturday night in the velocity of Mont Haut and the Teton in the Champagne On the British front only raiding operations and artillery and airplane so Hvltiles are reported. Harper Heads the Elks Fred C. Harper, a lawyer of Lynchburg, Va., was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in Boston. At lantic City was unanimously named as the next convention city. Harper received 1203 votes against 305 for John W. Stevenson, of Fulton, N. Y. MAN, WIFE, SON SLAIN ON TRI Livered Near Carrolltown, Pa. and Compantor Held. Declares Masked Bandite Shot Them and Posses Search Woode For Traces of Highwaymen. Edward Humphries, Mrs. Carri Humphries, his wife, and their son Edward, Jr., aged fifteen, were shot to death on the Ebensburg-Carrollow road near Johnstown, Pa., while on their way to Cresson and Philadelphia in the Humphries automobile with George K. Tompkins, Jr., of 6043 Rac street, Philadelphia, who says masked highwaymen did the killing. After a hearing before a coroner's jury, Tompkins was locked up in the Ebensburg jail until his story can be further investigated. The killing occurred on a main road The party had left Carrolltown, where Humphries and Tompkins were inter- ested in a coal company organized six weeks ago by John K. Newborn, Dr. B. E. Arble, Humphries and Tompkins with Tompkins to treasurer. Tompkins returned to Carrolltown with the bod- los of Mrs. Humphries and the boy the woman having been shot through the head and the boy through the face at close range, powder burns showing Tombstones gold three masked men had stepped suddenly from a grain field and pointed revolvers. Mrs. Humphries stepped out of the car and screamed. One of the masked men shot. Then the elder Humphries, who had been driving with his wife on the front seat, ran, while Tompkins crouched in the tonneau. The masked men ceased their attack and Humphries came back and helped place his wife in the car. Then the masked men returned and opened fire again. Tompkins ran and fell. When he arose and looked about the saw. Humphries running with a man following him. All of the shots were fired from in front of the car. Tompkins insists, at a distance of about seventy feet. A general alarm was given from Car rolltown and searching parties sprinter in every direction. The body of the elder Humphries was found in a field several hundred yards from the car. He was shot three times, one bullet passing through his shoulder from the back. Near him was a steel spring and a clip from an automatic revolver. Miners passing that way reported that they heard shouts and that they saw one man pursuing another. They also said the car had been run off the road in a corralled. A little lap pad belonging to the Humphries family was picked up by them, badly frightened and covered with blood. They saw the woman and the boy, dead, in the car and hurried to Ebsenburg to get help. They saw no signs of any bandits. Sheriff W. E. Mulhollen and County Detective Roscoe Custer gave up the search for highwaymen after the convicting statements of Tompkins had been investigated. Several hundred armed men were searching the woods and guarding roads and railroads, also returned to their homes. Soldiers Deport Italliano. Over thirty Italian laborers, who tried to chase a group of negro work men from Camp Mende, the national army encampment at Admiral, Md., were themselves ousted by a detachment of regulars on guard there, and put on board a Baltimore and Ohio train for Baltimore, Md., and told that if they ever came back they would be severely dealt with. The deportation was supervised by Major Ralph F. Proctor, U. S. A., who has charge of building the cantonment. So quickly was the coup carried out the Italians did not have a chance to remonstrate. They looked at the soldiers and at the guns and boarded a train. Major Proctor learned that the Italians, who were helping to lay tracks for the Baltimore and Ohio, had banded together and told the colored work men that they would have to get out of the camp. The Italians, it was said, feared the colored men would work for less money. Lightning Kills Father and Son. John King, seventy-five, and his son Lloyd King, twenty-seven years of age both of West York, Pa., were struck by lightning and instantly killed while fishing along the Big Conewague, near Creager's Mill, ten miles from Han- over. There were six men in the party who drove from York in an automobile for a day's outing. They were preparing to go home when a severe thunder storm broke. Father and son sougs shelter under a tree, which was hit by a bolt from the mike skies, and in falling one body fell across the other. A second son and the other men witness ed the tragedy from the opposite side of the creek. To-kvo. It is remarkable how many persons, some of whom may lay claim to education and familiarity with Japan, persist in misspelling the name of Japan's capital. Of course if government officials and western diplomats in Japan insist on spelling it To-ki-o, western people, ignorant of the Japanese language, cannot be blamed for pronouncing it in three syllables (To-ke-yo), much to the misused disguise of the Japanese. The Japanese ideographs are only two and are best represented by the two romaji syllables To-kyo, pronounced with a very slight emphasis on the first syllable.-Japan Magazine. FIVE BLACK JEW HERE NEXT MONDAY FIFTH SHEET CHURCH Mr. Ezala Percetti, of Jerusalem, in Palestine will lecture at the Fifth Street Baptist Church, Monday night July 22, auspices the B. Y. P. U. Mr. Percetti has had a varied experience, having served in the Turkish navy and is now a divinity student at the Virginia Seminary. HAVE YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED Roane and Holmes Harness Company 17 12 NORTH 18th St. Phone, Mad. 3935. We make and repair anything in Harness line, Suit-cases, Leather Bags, Automobile Cushions, etc. We carry a full line of Harness, Whips, Robes, Bits, Pads, Brushes, Combs, Harness Dressing, Salves, Nets, Olls, Halters, Saddles, etc. We make a Specialty of Hand-made Harness Our motto is to SATISFY YOU. Your patronage will be appreciated. Stop in and let us sse you. All work guaranteed. MAKE your ground work for you and the nation. Idle ground is waste. This is no time for waste or idleness. You can raise some vegetables for your family, no matter how small a piece of ground you have. All idle ground utilized in the production of vegetables means more food for those who have no ground at all. If your garden at any time produces more than you can use immediately do not allow the surplus to spoil. Can surplus beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, beets, spinach, pumpkin and squash for winter use. Can or preserve apples, peaches, pears, cherries, quinces, berries and other cultivated and wild fruits. Every can of vegetables or fruit and every jar of preserved food means that you have saved food materials that would have otherwise been wasted. Can' or store root crops, cabbage and other vegetables properly so that they will keep well and supply yea with food when the garden ceases to produce. The United States department of agriculture, Washington, or your state agricultural college or county agent will give you explptt directions for raising vegetables and will tell you of simple methods for canning vegetables and fruit at home with ordinary home utensils. HOW TO CATCH FLIES. The Best Fly Trap and the Best Poison Bait. The best fly trap is a wire screen cylinder with a cone of the same material inside of its lower part, the pointed end up. Beneath the cone is placed the bait in any convenient shallow receptacle. The fly, seeking light, files up and out of the small end of the cone, thereby entering the cylinder, from which it can find no escape. One can find such traps anywhere for sale. But it is easy to make them, and when homemade they are just as good, while costing only a fraction of the price. Such traps, of course, should be set where the flies most do congregate—as, for instance, on the sunny side of a building out of the wind. A butcher shop is a great place for a fly trap; it will catch quarts of them in a day. When the fly trap is full the insects are easily killed by immersing the trap in hot water. Fly paper of the sticky kind is a first class fly catcher. One does not need to buy it. Take two pounds of rosin and a pint of castor oil. Mix them and heat until the stuff looks like molasses. Smear it while hot with an ordinary paint brush on old newspapers. A dozen sheets of it will cost a cent. The best poison bait for flies, says the United State bureau of entomology, is made by putting two tablespoonfuls of formalin (obtained at any drug store) into a pint of milk and water, half and half of the two. Put the stuff in saucers in places frequented by flies. A little bread in it helps. But take care that children and animals do not drink it, for it is deadly poison. Keep all other liquids out of reach of the files. They are thirsty all the time, and the stuff will kill them off by wholesale. WHY CORNS HURT. Usually Result From Wearing Shoes Too Small For the Feet. Corns, like corsets, boarding houses and late hours, are a menace to one's sweet disposition. Corns are hard growths which occur on the toes or some other part of the feet. They are generally the result of wearing a shoe too small for the foot. They are thickenings of the outer layer of the skin, in the center of which is a nail-like peg, which projects downward and hurts when pressed upon. Soft corns form between the toes and are only different from others in that they are soaked with perspiration all the time. The corn itself is composed of a lump of the outer part of the skin, which is caused by the pressure of the shoe at that spot. However, the corn would not result unless the pressure were taken off at intervals, and this, of course, is done when you take the shoe off. It stands to reason that if the pressure were continuously applied to this spot the skin, instead of overgrowing at that precise point, would waste away. The overgrowth of the skin is due to the irritation produced by the pressure. THE PETER FIVE FRIDAYS (Continued from Page Three.) beach." Kent pointed in the direction of the dock. "No; I am sure it was inland," argued Bopp. At heart I was inclined to agree with my rival, but rather than appear to do so I started for the water front. Around a bank of bushes I came in full sight of the lake. There was a comparatively quiet cove where the dock was, but just beyond a headland which sheltered the cove the waves were pilling over themselves in boiling torrents where a sharp toothed reef was hidden a couple of feet below the surface. The explanation of the revolver shots was obvious. A small steam-boat was jammed hard and fast on the rocks and was pounding herself with a violence which prophesied a short life for her hull. Just as I appeared a man forward of the plothouse fired a revolver in the air. As soon as he saw me he began to wave his arms violently and pointed to three other figures crouched on the deck. By this time the rest of our party had caught up with me. "He seems to be signaling," Bopp interpreted sagely. "Wonder what he wants." "What would you want if you were in a boat aground in the lake with every chance of going to pieces in ten minutes?" I yelled so as to be heard above the sea. "I suppose you would be wishing for some poached plover's eggs on a strip of toast." "They can't expect us to come out there and get them," he decided. "No boat could live in that sea. It would be suicide to attempt to reach them." "We must do something." Lucio decided, with ready sympathy. "I'm very fond of the captain. He's been bringing our supplies for ten years." "Is that the supply boat?" Bopp demanded. "Why, yes; certainly." "We must do something at once." Bopp began to run around in busy circles in the sand. "We must attempt to reach the poor devils. Kent, where is that boat of yours?" "I drew it up on the shore here, right alongside the dock. Why, where is it?" "Gone, eh?" Bopp shook his head knowingly. "Probably the heavy sea washed it off." "Yes, but no sea ever untied the knot I had in her painter around this post here." Kent would have seen a mystery in Utopia. His mind insisted upon being pitted against the unknown. "Well, what are we going to do?" Bopp helped helplessly. "Those poor devils out there are counting on us. Think of being on a vessel loaded with bread, butter, eggs, vegetables and meat and having it break up under your feet. What shall we do?" "I'm afraid we won't have time to do anything," I decided. "Her back is broken. It's only a question of seconds now." The people on board realized it too. They hastily launched a life raft over the side and scrambled on to it as the decks crumpled beneath them and became a twisted mass of timbers that writted for a moment and fell back into the waves to become driftwood. The raft fortunately had cleared the wreck in plenty of time and was now drifting past our cove toward the mainland. The men on board seemed busy arranging a sort of mast and sail made out of an car and a couple of ollskins. When they got that rigged up two of them hold it up while a third attempted to steer with a second oar. "They're going to try to land on the other point of the cove," Lucile said. "We must be there to help them when they come ashore. There are rocks about a hundred yards out where the raft will strike if it isn't driven past." She led off on a dog trot which took the last tuck out of me when I attempted to follow. I got there some way, however, but minus the power of speech. "Don't land here!" shouted Lucile into the teeth of the gale. "Dangerous rocks!" They discovered the rocks for themselves almost immediately and slid off from the raft in a compact group. Under the direction of Kent, who had read a book about it somewhere, we formed ourselves into a life line by holding on to one another's hands and wading out into the surf. One by one the shipwrecked victims struggled to us and were passed on up to the shore. Three were landed in this way, but the fourth failed to make it. I could see a fourth bobbing up and down a hundred feet away, but in a moment the head disappeared altogether. "That man can't swim. He's drowning!" Lucile shouted. "Won't somebody save him?" "I'll get him," I immediately volunteered briefly. "You'll be drowned yourself," Lucile protested. "No, he won't," Bopp assured her. "Monty can swim like a turtle. I've often seen him in the tank at the Athletic club. Besides, from fasting he's as full of air as a life preserver." I disengaged my hand from Kent, who was next to me in the line, and struck out for the spot where I had last seen the head just before it had disappeared. By a freak of luck I was in time. The body rose to the surface just In SUBSCRIBE TO THE PLANET G. D. ROBERTS I Almost Dropped Her When I Happened to Glance Down. front of me, and I grabbed it before it could slik again. It was a woman, and I towed her easily by her hair. Soon I was again in shallower water, where I was able to stand. I turned and picked her up. She was still insensible. It was not until I had almost reached shore that I noticed anything peculiar about the young woman. I almost dropped her when I happened to glance down and discovered that she was clad in the silk tights, doublet and boots of Rosalind in "As You Like It." TO BE CONTINUED. A RECORD CORN CROP Yield 3,124,000,000 Bushels—Wheat 38,000,000 Abroad 38,000,000 Ahead of Last Year. A three billion bushel prospective crop of corn this year is the answer; returned by the farmers of the United States to President Wilson's call for food for America's allies in the war. Never before has such a crop been grown. In its first forecast of corn production this year the department of agriculture announced that July 1 conditions forecast a crop of 3,124,000,000 bushels. Sixteen million more acres this year were planted to corn than last year. The wheat crop, responding to better weather conditions during June shows an increase of about 22,000,000 bushels in prospect, with a total of 678,000,000 bushels, or 38,000,000 darger than last year's crop. A record crop of white potatoes also is forecast with a production of 452, 000,000 bushels. That would exceed the previous largest crop, grown in 1912, by 32,000,000 bushels. Prospects of the rye crop show a slight decrease from the June forecast, but the production will be a record one, with a total of 56,160,000 bushels. Estimates or other important crops compared with last year's yield fol- low: Oats, 1,453,000,000 bushels; last year 1,252,000,000. Barley, 214,000,000 bushels; 181,000, 000. Sweet potatoes, $2,200,000 bushels; 71,000,000. Tobacco, 1,215,000,000 pounds; 1, 151,000,000. Rico, 34,400,000 bushels; 40,700,000 Hay, 103,000,000 tons; 117,000,000 Apples, 200,000,000 bushels; 202, 000,000. Peaches, 43,500,000 bushels; 36,900, 000. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Flat Foot. Declaring that proper footwear will cure most cases of flat foot, a well known New York physician says: "Boots or shoes must be the shape of the foot, but it is not necessary to wear boots of an ugly shape to secure this primary essential. To insure that the big toe is not pushed out against the other toes the inner side of the boot where it lies is kept straight. The soles should be a sixth to a fourth of an inch thick and the heel broad, an inch or less in height. If the degree of flat foot be anything more than the merest trace mechanical means are utilized to throw the weight of the body, distributed down the leg, slightly outside the center of the ankle joint. To effect this the sole and heel of each boot must be thickened along its inner side by a quarter, one-third or half an inch, the amount depending upon the severity of the case. The worse the case the greater the thickening." --- PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Give Your Stomach a Rest. Give your stomach a good rest by eating plain salads or fruits or fresh green stuff, cutting out tea and coffee, soda water and other destroyers, and drink all the water you can pour down and watch the effect. After this internal cleansing you can eat what nature intended you to eat—meats, vegetables, fish, eggs and whatever you really crave. Men cannot make rules that go contrary to nature. Fads are symptoms of diseased stomachs or the outgrowth of some individual idiosyncrasy. There are no brain foods, no muscle building tablets, no nerve strengtheners, that can be made to take the place of a varied diet. Every bit of food contains elements which are taken up by the blood and distributed to the body. ```markdown ``` THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA THE KAISER MAY WARON NEUTRALS ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! MENACED WITH MAILED FIST The Exports From America of War Necessities to Cease After Saturday. WE ARE GIVING AWAY COUPONS FOR EVERY CENT PAID IN MONEY IN THE PLANET OFFICE, ON EITHER JOB WORK OR ON SUBSCRIPTIONS. THESE COUPONS WILL BRING A TALKING MACHINE, AN UMBRELLA OR A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS, JUST AS YOU SELECT. President Wilson's embargo of food stuffs and other necessities in war may have the effect of pulling other nations into the conflict. The embargo is to go into effect on July 15. The conference to which the kaiser has called the neutral ambassadors and ministers in Germany is believed in Washington to be closely related to this latest move by the government. The conference is announced in London despatches. A disturbance has been cause among neutral representatives in the capital over the coupled announcements of the embargo and the conference. It is believed representatives already have been made to the state department by some nations that thus far have kept out of the struggle. It is regarded as possible that the kaiser's conference may have to do with peace proposals which the Berlin government is understood to be about to make. A more general belief among officials is that the German ruler purposes to threaten drastic action to neutrals on North Europe if they yield to the United States and refuse to continue supplying Germany with food and raw materials. 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 The United States is in position to make such a demand because the neutrals, affected must have articles of food and material which they now obtain nowhere except from America Yielding, it is believed, would be regarded by the Berlin government as an act of hostility. FOR 30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. President Wilson's embargo will affect commerce with every nation in the world. Under the terms of the proclamation announcing it, the government reserves the right to issue licenses on all shipments of a long list of specified commodities to neutral countries. It will act through the department of commerce. 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 The list of commodities include all munitions, foodstuffs and fertilizers. America's needs will receive first consideration. The allies will be next and then neutral nations, according to a statement issued by the president. Every effort will be made to prevent supplies reaching the central powers. The fact that foodstuffs are included in the proclamation is believed to amount to a partial substantiation or reports that a complete embargo for sixty days on all food shipments is under consideration. This period would afford opportunity to ascertain the nation's supplier and let the allies and neutrals prepare a full program of their requirements. The embargo provides, in effect: We Do All Kinds of Job Work That on and after July 15 the shipment of all leading commodities from the United States shall be prohibited unless when released by license. That the United States will put an immediate end to the traffic of Ameri can products whereby the Scandinavia vian countries and Holland have as sisted in supporting the German mill tary machine and in feeding the German civilian population. 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. That American food speculators will not be able to boost prices upon the plea that the demand of foreign countries, created by war conditions, has caused an automatic jump in costs. Through control of coal and fuels the government intends to take a flurry grasp on shipping. An arrangement under negotiation will give the American and British governments a control of not only all allied tonnage, but of neutral vessels as well. Ships now on runs not regarded as necessary to a successful conduct of the war will be forced into trades considered more essential. Vessels now held in port through fear of submarine attack will be required to go into service. Control of iron and steel was made necessary by war demands on these industries. A shortage of steel in this country is threatened because of the large amount diverted to munitions manufacture and the construction of the government's merchant fleet. 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 Specific regulations governing foot exports and shipments of other commodities named in the list are expected to be issued by the president within a few days. Boy Blinded by "Flower Pot." As the result of a "flower pot" bursting in his hands while celebrating the Fourth, William four-year-old son of Frank Walsh, Frackville, near Mahanoy City, Pa., has lost the sight of both eyes. This was the only sortous Fourth of July accident in Schuylkill county. Spinner In His Foot Kills. Edward Carroll, aged six years, of Mt. Carmel, Pa., died at the State hospital from lockjaw. The little boy ran a splinter into his foot a week ago and tetanus developed. THE RICHMOND PLANET. Frances, six-year-old twin daughter of Rev. M. Howard Ake, rector of Christ Episcopal church, of Berwick Pa., strangled to death on a button which she swallowed. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia The French liner Caledonian was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the Mediterranean on June 30, according to an announcement issued by the ministry of marine. Fifty-one persons were lost and 880 were saved. HEY JEREMY STATE BOARDS OF EXEMPTION Appointed by Brumbaugh to Pass on Appeals. PALMER IN THE LIST All Walks of Life Are Represented on The Courts of Appeal—List Sent to Washington. Governor Brumbaugh has recommended forty-fifty prominent men as members of the nine boards which will pass upon army exemption appeals in this state. The governor announced that he had forwarded these names to Washington as requested by Provost Marshal General Crowder. There are three boards for each of the three federal judicial districts in Pennsylvania. There are two boards for Philadelphia alone, and one board for adjacent counties. The work of these bodies is distinct from that of the district boards. The district boards decide whether a man is exempt. If the decision is not satisfactory, the man goes before the appeal board. As a last resort, he may appeal to the president. The medical profession, the business world, labor and other walks of life are represented on these appeal boards. One of those selected by the governor for appointment is former Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer and Dr. Brumbaugh have been bitterly at odds as the result of the former congressman's charge that the governor was swayed by politics in naming the district registration boards. Another appointment suggested by Governor Brumbaugh is that of Vance C. McCormick, Democratic national chairman. There are to be five members for each box. The war department is expe- ratify the govern- ers' recommendations—and make the appointments final. Those named for No. 1 board, Philadelphia are: John Caddalwader, Dr Charles H. Willits, Samuel T. Bodine, Julius Lamore. No. 2 board, Philadelphia—Walter Willard, Dr. Frank C. Hammond, James J. Ryan, J. C. McDonald, Ellis A. Glimbel. No. 3 (including Borks, Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill counties)—John Hartman, Mohnton; Henry T. Moon, Morrisville; A. W. Hagenbach, Allentown; Dr. V. S. Messinger, Easton, and George M. Kalser, Pottsville. No. 5 (including Bradford, Cameron Carbon, Clinton, Lackawanna, Luzerne Lycoming, Monroe, Plke, Potter, Sublivan, Susquehanna, Tloga, Wayne and Wyoming counties)—George E. Stevenson, Scranton; Thomas Davis, Nantlook; Dr. A. F. Hardt, Williamsport; A. Mitchell Palmer, Stroudsburg, and Frederick A. Osborn Harford. No. 6 (Including Adams, Centre, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Junlata, Lebanon, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland Perry, Snyder, Union and York—George H. Stuart, Jr., Shippensburg; Vance C. McCormick, Harrisburg; Howard E. Butz, Huntingdon; Henry Y. Snyder, Lebanon, and Dr. John A Shower, York. No. 7 (Allegheny county)—T. J. Keenan, Pittsburgh; Taylor Alderslice Pittsburgh; D. J. Berry, Pittsburgh; Dr. S. Woodburn, Pittsburgh; T. C. Jonas, McKeesport. No. 8 (Including Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clerton, Clearfield, Crawford Elk, Erle, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson Lawrence, McKean, Mercor, Venange and Warren)—C. D. Gilbert, Beaver; Peter A. Gearhart, Clearfield; Joseph McCormick, Erle; Charles A. Martin Charley Looks For a Job on the Farm YOU WANT A JOB ON MY FARM DO YOU WALL YOU GOT TO BE EDUCATED TO WORK ON MY FARM SURE EZRA WE KNOW ALL ABOUT THE FARM-IN FACT WE WERE RAISED IN A REFORM WE LOVE THE COWS AN' CHICKS WE DO Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Ellwood City; Dr. Frederick W. Brown Franklin. No. 9 (Including Bedford, Blair, Cambrla, Fayette, Green, Somerset, Washington and Westmoreland counties)—Dr. Albert S. Oburn, Alcona; H. M. Gooderham, Lytton; George E. Gay Unentown; John O'Leary, Roncoe; Paul H. Galtier, Greensburg. PHYSICAL TESTS SEVERE Men For Conscriptive Army to Get Rigid Examination. Regulations outlining physical requirements for the new national army issued by the war department set up rigid standards. In general these are the requirements: Height, 5 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 6 inches. Weight, between 118 and 211 pounds. These standards are not absolute Men under 5 feet 4 inches must be of exceptionally good physique. Variations in weight above 211 pounds are not disqualifying unless sufficient to constitute obesity. The mental test is designed only to develop whether the man is of sound understanding. Examinations of the eyes and ears are made by charts and whispering tests. Almost any disease of the lungs or heart is disqualifying. The men must have at least four serviceable molars—two above and two below opposed. Before the heart and lung test the conscripted man is required to jump straight up, kick the heels up behind hop around the room, first on one foot and then on the other and then make several standing jumps. After this exercise the examination is started. The chest measurement should be between 31 and 38 1/4 inches. The pulse and respiration must be nearly normal and the skin in good condition. Chronic rheumatism, old dislocation and badly united fractures tend to disqualification. Chronic disease of any kind will disqualify the drafted man. The feet should be in fair condition. Pronounced that feet disqualify. Plans to sift out and exempt from fighting service workingmen vitally needed in feeding, clothing, supplying and equipping the armies in the field are being perfected. A corps of experts are at work listing such industries as would be of aid in maintaining the armies. From official sources it is learned the list probably will name farmers as a general class, miners, men engaged in shipbuilding, uniform workers of all classes and every branch of industry that aids directly or indirectly in maintaining the military forces. 1,500,000 Germans Killed The total number of Germane killed from the beginning of the war to March, 1917, is not less than 1,500,000, according to an estimate reached by French general headquarters. From April 15 to June 30, the Franco British troops on the western front captured 63,222 prisoners, including 1278 officers, says an official summary of the operations. The war material taken included 509 guns, 508 trench mortars and 1318 machine guns, How their mother made them prisoners in a secluded room of her house for ten years to shield them from the public gaze, was revealed in Pittsburgh, Pa., when John Shrenserk, feeble-minded, and his brother, Joe, were discovered following the parent's death. Both boys were in short dresses, John could walk and imitate animals, Joe could neither walk nor speak. Horse Meat O K For Food. Horse meat K or Food. The only food bill designed as a war measure that passed the legislature was ignored by Governor Brumbaugh. The bill legalizes the sale of mule, horse and goat meat for food purposes. Another war measure, also signed, permits Pennsylvania corporations to continue on full pay employees who enter the military service of the country, while the other makes it legal for persons to invest their suplus in war bonds. Irish Convention on 25th. David Lloyd George, the premier, announced in the house of commons in London that the Irish convention would meet on July 25 to deal with preliminary business, including the appointment of a chairman. Lloyd George said the government had suggested that Henry E. Duke, WALL ILL GIVE YOU A TRIAL. GO DOWN TO THE BARN,AN' GET THE BASKET FULL O'HEN EGGS THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA He May Preside Over Joint Irish Convention. PETER H. Photo by American Press Association. Mr. Duke, who is chief secretary for Ireland, may preside over the gathering which will meet July 25 to discuss a settlement of the Irish situation. He is the choice of Premier Lloyd George who, however, said the choice would be left to the convention. chief secretary for Ireland, act as provisional or temporary chairman. The issuance of a special Red Cross stamp and one cont postage for letters relating exclusively to Red Cross business when mailed by chapters or auxiliaries at postoffice was proposed in a bill by Mr. Moon, chairman of the house postoffice committee. The Red Cross asked that its mall be franked. Union Opens Flour Market Mine Workers' Local No. 1500 in Mahanoy City, Pa., bogan the sale of flour to its members at $6.75 a barrel, a drop of $2 from the price demanded by grocers. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELI,PHIA--FLOUR -- Flem $10.75@11.26; cilm ylt;s; $12 @12.40. RYE FLOUR-Quiet; per barrel, $10@11 HYBAT-Nominal. ORN-Quiet. No. 2 yellow, $1.91% @1.92. OATS—Qulet; No. 2 white, 78@ 78%c. POULTRY—Live steady; henn, 22@ 28c; old roosters, 17@ 18c; Dressed, steady; choloo fowls, 25c; old roosters, 19c. BUTTER — Firm; fancy creamy 42c per lb. EGGS — Firm; selected, 42@43c; nearby, 36c; western, 36c. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO,-HOGS — Slow 15@20c lower. Mixed and butchers, $14.40@ 15.75; good heavy, $14.35@15.80; rough heavy, $14.35@14.55; slight, $14.25@ 15.50; pligs, $10.75@14; bulk, $14.70@ 15.55. CATTLE—Steady Beeves, $8.40@ 18.99; cows and heifers, $5.40@11.99; stockers and feeders, $6.30@9.50; stockers and western, $10.45@11.99; SHEEP—Steady to 10c higher, Native and western, $7.80@11.10; lamba $10@16.50. ANARCHISTS GET TWO YEARS Emma Goldman and Beckman Are Given Maximum Penalty. Emma Goldman and Alexander Barkman, anarchists, were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct the operation of the selective draft law by a jury in the federal court in New York. Judge Mayer impossit the maximum penalty of two years in the federal penitentiary and a fine of $10,000 upon each of the prisoners. Wine Left University Worries Georgia The Georgia legislature is confronted with the problem of disposing of 20,000 gallons of wine bequeathed to the University of Georgia by the will of Judson L. Hand Executors of the estate withhold the bequest because its transfer to the university would be in violation of the state prohibition law. A bill is pending to sell the wine outside the state and use the proceeds to establish a scholarship fund. THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET No.1.-13x13x6 inches, No.2.-16x16x7 inches, CABINETS MAY BE SPRING MOTOR AND NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED ONE WINDING. THE CHINES. TURN-TA HIGHLY POLISHED THE R 311 N. 4 CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK SPRING MOTOR AND WILL P NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A M ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE CHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 IN HIGHLY POLISHED. THE RIC 311 N. 4th S 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. --- HETTY GREEN'S SON WEDS Glives His Bride a Wedding Gift of $625 000. Colonel Edward H. R. Green, of New York and Terrel, Texas, son of the late Mrs. Hetty Green, and Miss Mahe E. Harlow, of Highland Park, a subur of Chicago, were amurred. Colonel Green gave his bride a wed ding gift of $625,000. Five hundred thousand dollars was in the form of check and the remainder in Liberty bonds. Mrs. Green is said to be wealthy in her own right and has devoted much time to charities both in Chicago and New York. Graphite as a Lubricant. Graphite, says the Scientific American, is not a lubricant, but an aid to keeping a bearing in good working order by filling up the minute irregularities of the shaft and bearing and producing a beautiful polished surface and in this way reduces friction. To get this result only a very small quantity of graphite is necessary, and if too much is applied it simply collects in wads and defends the purpose intended. It follows that the proper way to use graphite successfully is to mix thoroughly a small quantity with the lubricating oil at suitable intervals and not to apply it continuously, for when the above mentioned polished surface is formed it will last quite a long time before requiring renewal. Comic Cap omic Capers HEY WHATCHU DOIN? SORTING THOSE EGGS OUT IN TWO PILES NEST ST Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. PLENTY OF SHADE-FINE SPRING WATER. THE LAKE WILL BE OPEN TO BOATING. 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W. where they spent a very delightful three weeks stay, making new acquaintances and meeting old ones of eighteen years ago. Mrs. J. H. Brown, Miss Cuniff is the younger writer Brown. She left the city eighteen years ago and returned with her husband. There was an excursion in the city from Norfolk and also one from Richmond, bringing many a tidewater to the city up in the beautiful mountains of Virginia. Brother Thomas Kinsey who has been quite sick at his home on Fifth Street, N. W. is reported somewhat improved. Mr. Kinsey is the oldest carpenter in the city and a finished contractor. Monday evening, July 16th at S:30 o'clock the Rev. George R. Jones, P. E. of the Roanoke District called to order the third quarterly conference of the A. M. E. Church. The business of the conference was dispatched with in a very wise manner, the P. E. of the Rev. George R. Jones with the discipline and polity of the A. M. E. Church. The reports from the various departments were highly endorsed. There were two conferences held at the same time, M. Tzion and Ebenezer, the last named being the mission on Norfolk avenue and Tenth street. Rev. George C. Teylor D. D. of M. Tzion A. M. E. Church preached to the people at Ebenezer while Rev. P. E. George R. Jones took special care of Mt. Zion. Rev. Dr. Jones preached to the delight and benefit of all. Mrs. Sophia Powell, of Norfolk, with a party of her friends are in the city visiting her sister Miss Maggie Hawen, of Seventh avenue, N. W. They will be here until Friday evening. Messrs. James and John Dillard and wife and Little adopted daughter, of Mullins, W. Va. were called to the city Sunday to the bedside of their mother, who has been sick for a week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Campbell. The mother, Mrs. Eliza Lyons was found very much improved. Messrs. Dillard were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Madison Stunton and Mrs. Madison Stunton at which time they left for their old home at Martinsville, Va. to visit their brother. The Rev. W. W. Brown, D. D. was in the city last Sunday and preached. He had been in Lynchburg attending the Jubilee Convention at Lynchburg Seminary, and availed himself of the opportunity of coming up and giving a word of cheer and sunshine to the brothem and bid ding them Godspeed in the noble city of the city with quiet a high day in the city with pastors, Dr. W. R. Brown and Dr. W. W. Brown of the High Street Church for many years. Mrs. Cassandra Wright of Lucea avenue is somewhat improved at this writing. Mrs. Lizzle Wright of Seventh avenue, N. W, who has been quite indoposed is reported much better at this writing. Mrs. E. A. Stanford of 153 Wells Alley, N. W, left for Cincinnati, O. last Tuesday morning to spend the week end with old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Green of 106 E Court street and will return the following Saturday. Mrs. Gillele Ferguson, 225 Fifth avenue, N. W left for Freedman's Hospital last Tuesday, at which institution she will undergo an operation. Let all pray for her recovery. Mrs. Lillian Bartee, 226 Fifth avenue, who was reported sick, last week ending on Saturday. Mrs. Holen Ferguson of Vinton, who has been critically ill has greatly improved. A meeting was called last Thursday evening to inform the members of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church of a project growing out of the Layman's Missionary Movement to systematize finance. Mr. J. L. Reed was master of ceremonies and introduced the subject of the occasion. He was ably assisted by Messrs. Green Penn and James Trayman and others. Mr. E. D. Rhea D. O. the First Baptist Church returned from the Lynchburg Jubilee Convention, having realized a grand time at Lynchburg, Va. The Roverond left the convention for a visit to Richmond. Mrs. Mary Woolford, of 716 Gainsboro avenue is spending a few days in Bedford City and Goodes, visiting her brother and niece, Phillip Robinson and Mrs. Rebecca Walden. Mrs. Hattie B. Dugger is visiting her uncle, Mr. Ellis Jones, of Chatham Va. after attending the Jubilee of Virginia Theological Seminary and College. Mrs. Mamie Anderson Goodson, of Columbus, O. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poindexter, on Gilmer avenue, N. W. Mr. George Nosbitt, of Fourth avenue, N. W. is in Fairmount, W. Va. where he has a contract lasting about thirty days. He is one of Roanoko's progressive plasterers. Mrs. G. P. Miller, Mrs. Georgie Holland, Miss Graciel Muster, Master Hoyle Miller loft for Philadelphia, Pa where they will visit Mrs. Clara Muster Moyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Miller. Let Joe Dugger, or M. Stanfield leave the Journal and Guide at your home. Miss Naomi Walker, of Winston-Salem, N. C. is visiting her grandmother at Boons Mill, Va. Prof. C. G. O'Kelly was in the city last week in interest of education. He was the guest of Mr. G. O. Holland, a graduate of Kittrell College. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Gibson, of --- Mrs. A. E. Higgins, returned from Staunton, Saturday where she spent three weeks visiting her mother and other relatives, also she attended the Grandson of K. of P. and Grand Court of Calantho. She reports a grand time. Miss Horietta Fields will leave this week for West Virginia and points east, she will be gone for some time. The Lee Street Baptist Sunday School held its Children's Day exercises Sunday, July the 8th in the afternoon and night. The exercises were grand and were well attended at both services. Great credit was due W. H. R. E. Clay, Supt. Prof. Wm. H. R. Assistant Supt. and Miss Bessie A. Smith. Miss Simm is the planist, Prof. Hill was the director. A neat sum was raised for the Sunday School two prizes were given (to the ones raising the largest amount of money in boxes. Dr. C. H. Johnson, pastor. Death has again visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Martin, and claimed his beloved son Willeen Martin who had been sick for two months. He bore his pain with much patience and would tell his wife Mrs. Geraldine Martin not to grieve after him because he was only waiting to stretch out in terms of Jesus. He leaves to mourn their loss a loving father, a devoted mother to two sisters and a brother, and loving wife, one son and a host of relatives and friends. He was a member of the Lee Street Baptist church. The A. M. E. Zion church holds its Children's Day, exercises Sunday, July 8, in the afternoon and night which was a grand success. Dr. E. P. Mayo, pastor. Mrs. Dolle Carter continues quite ill at her home on Alabama Street. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Cleveland, Ohio were in the city this week. After a visit to his mother at Wythville, Va. they left for Richmond, Norfolk and Old Point, visiting friends. While here they were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Hendrick, on Gilmor avenue. Mrs. Carrie Saunders of New York City is visiting her mother, Mrs. Peggy Saunders, 533 Eleventh avenue. Mrs. L. D. Fullen, of Lebanon, Va. is spending a few weeks with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Andrews. Miss Georgiana Hairston who has been in Lynchburg the past week, returned to the city Saturday. She was visiting one of her classmates, Miss Arnethia Wilson, of 1109 Seventh street. The girl gave her quite an enjoyable time in the Hill City. Mrs. Alice Robinson and child, were visiting Thursday, July 12th from Columbus, Ohio where she visited her two daughters and sister. She had a very pleasant time. Mr. Harold W. Jones returned to his post of duty Tuesday morning, after spending a week with his father and relatives in Norfolk, Va. Mr. Harold and his Society will have their next meeting at the home of Mrs. Cornelia Dickerson, Tenth avenue, N. E. All members are requested to be present and bring with them a new member if possible. Sister Georgia Hairston, President. Mrs. Zetta Henderson is at home again Sixth avenue, N. E., after two weeks stay in Burrell Memorial Hospital. The Magic City Medical Society will have their regular monthly meeting on Monday, July 23rd at eight o'clock P. M. in Bedford City. Va. Dr. G. L. A. Pogue will entertain the Society with a sumptuous menu after the regular program and after which the members will be taken to see the sun rise on the "Peaks of Otter." The students will make the trip to Belford City. Will H. S. Claytor, J. H. Roberts, H. J. Moseley, H. S. Schwech, L. C. Downing, H. S. Schwech, L. C. Downing, H. S. Dudley, E. D. Downing, J. S. Cooper, R. J. Boland, C. F. Gaylord and W. R. Brown. Dr. H. S. Schwech will fill the program number with the paper of the evening. Two small boys with Otis McJimsey the chauffeur, were injured Monday afternoon when Norfolk and Western train number 18 ran into a Pitzer car truck on a grade crossing at Vinton. The injuries were not serious. Boss Smith, sentenced to be electrocuted October 5 for the murder of an infant, James Boston Mitchell, committed suicide in his cell here yesterday morning. The condemned man ended his life by hanging him with a bad sheet which he wrapped into a knot and tied to his cell. URBANNA ITEMS. The 49th Anniversary of the First Baptist church Amburg and the 5th Anniversary of the pastor (Rev. J. A. Martin, B. D.) was observed on the first Sunday, Rev. R. N. Lawson pastor of the 1st Baptist church King and Queen preached the sermons which were stirring and helpful. On the Fifth Sunday revival services will begin at the 1st Baptist church Amburg. Revival services will begin at the Grafton Baptist church on the 4th Sunday. Rev. H. T. Harris gave a lecture at the Union Grove Sunday School last Sunday, Subject: "Better Sunday School," which was very helpful. The farmers have been quite busy this month with their corn crop and wheat. Many have brought the price of flour down as far as they were concerned. Messrs V. L. Thornton, Jr., and J. F Major were visiting around Harmony Village last Sunday. Mesdames Lolla Green and Elsie Carter are on the sick list at this writing. Mr. N. F. Thornton who has traveled extensively in the West has found a nearer route to the Rocky Mountains viz: by way of the old Cherry tree on the hill side) he left last Sunday evening for the West. The Pine Grove Glee Club is yet working faithfully at its meeting. The recollection of officers held Their meetings have been changed from the 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings to the 2nd and 4th. The Richmond Planet will hereafter be on sale at Thornton's at the foot of Urbana bridge, opposite Webb Hotel, Call for it and read what your brothers are doing. Get who THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED TEACHERS New Orleans, Louisiana, July 9, 1917. The teachers and citizens of New Orleans have made large plans for the entertainment of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, July 25 to 29. First of all, as an indication of their professional interest, over ONE HUNDRED of the city teachers under the leadership of Miss Hattie V. Feger have paid their enrollment fee to the National Association in advance. Each local committee has already chartered the boat for the Saturday outing on gulf. There are more than fifty pages of the churches of the city have chosen asked for visiting educators as speakers in their various churches on Sunday. The morning, July 29, and all have arranged to take their entire congregation to the Fair Grounds auditorium for the final address of the week by Doctor R. R. Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute. Indications are that Doctor Moton will speak to Ten Thousand people on this afternoon. THE RICHMOND PLANET BRISTOL VA-TENN. NOTES Mrs. Julia A. Brooks departed this life the 14th inst., Saturday A. M., at her beautiful home on State St, Bristol, Tennessee. She had been a sufferer for a few years, and she bore her illness with that Christian zeal, so it was a pleasure to visit her sick room, and hear her tell you how the Lord was taking care of her. Mrs. Julia Brooks was a strong Christian. She was a member of the Leo St. Baptist Church of this city. She was a long-time race and also loved by them. She always ried a smile for every one. She leaves to mourn her death, 6 children and several grand children, all are residents of this city, also a sister living at Bedford City, Va. IN MEMORIAM BROOKS—Sacred, but in loving remembrance of our dear smother, Julia Brooks who died Sat., July 1917. In the graveyard we'll soon lay her Where flowers gently wave, Will lie there, one we loved so dearly In the silent, lonely grave. When you ask us do we miss her, Yes, it fills our hearts with pain. But her "spirit gently whispers, Have courage, loved ones." Have courage, loved ones, we'll meet again Children. Mrs. Will Lindsey and three children returned home last week, from Springfield, Ohio where she had spent three weeks very pleasantly with her sister. They report a fine time, Mrs. Hattie Fuller. Mrs. Rebecca Barber, Mrs. Ethel Barber, Virginia Might and little Junius Barber all spent the day very pleasantly with Mrs. C. B. Banks live at 937 E. State St. They report a pleasant time. The Negro Business League Glee Club sang at River Bond church Tenn., weekday night to a large audience and all pleased with the program Hon. R. E. Clay gave no earlily-sourting lecture which was heartily received. Mrs. Annie M. Smith, the famous Dunbar reader delighted her hearers with one of Dunbar's selections. She is the best reader in this part of E. Tennessee. Dr. R. B. McArthur, Mrs. R. E. Clay are the musical directors. Mr. Edward West and little daughter, Clara Edna, left on the afternoon train for Abingdon, Va., to spend a few days. Mr. W, M, H. Brown and party spent the day Tuesday of this week at Benhams, Va. Mrs. Gertrude Johnson, returned home from Washington, D. C., last week. She visited her son Mr. Gordon Johnson and other relatives. If you want the Richmond Planet, see Mrs. C. B. Banks. Mrs. C. B. Banks, agent for the Richmond Planet has been very ill, suffering from Ptolemaeus poison. She is some better at this writing. Mr. Sam Banker made a flying trip to Blacksburg, Va., July 8th on his wheel looking after business Mrs. Maggie Franklin, No. 947 Lillio St., is very ill her friends hope for her an early recovery. Mrs. Cora Kampbell is on the sck list this week, but is some better at this writing See Mrs. C. B. Banks if you want the Richmond Planet only 5c a copy. Mrs. Madison and daughter from Sugar (Grove, Va., are visiting relatives in the city. Mr. Lee Thomas spent the day with his brother in Bristol, Tenn., Sunday. Report a pleasant time. Mrs. Margie Whitten one of Bristol's progressive and energetic ladies has opened up a first class electric laundry and she is making good. She is the first woman in Bristol to open up any business in Bristol all by herself. It is all done by electricity. The building is fitted up with all of the best material. We wish AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MUSICIANS CRACK COLORED MUSICIANS WANTED FOR THE FAMOUS 15TH INFANTRY BAND, OF NEW YORK. WIRE OR WRITE, LIEUT. JAS. REESE EUROPE, 15TH INFANTRY ARMORY, 2217-7TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. great success for her in the business —C. B. B. GREAT RALLY IN BALTIMORE Baltimore, July 18.—The whole city is talking about the big financial rally pulled off at Bethel A. M. E. Church Monday night, in which over $4,300 was reported, with the prospect of the sum of $5,000 being reached when additional reports are made this Sunday. The rally was planned by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Dr. W. Pampion Brooks, who raised over $7,600 one rally pastoring at St. Paul A. M. E. Church, St. Louis. The reputation of Dr. Brooks as a money raiser caused a big crowd to assemble at the church Monday night, many of them remained until early Tuesday morning, when the last of the reports were made. For the purpose of the rally the workers had been divided into groups called of which were called the bishop, "Bishop" John Willingham of Thousand dollar Conference, secured the highest amount, reporting over $600 the other "bishops" wore: Theodore White, A. M. Peck, Edward F. Barnett, Daniel W. Leo, William B. Hamer, Robert Sorrell, George Palmer, Jacob Heath and Thaddeus Copeland. Dr. Brooks has been pastor at the church since the latter part of April, when he left a charge at Kansas City. Kan Since coming here the attendance and collections have increased, and the general belief is the big debt on the church will be materially reduced during his regime. F. F. Johnson. In Interest of Red Cross In her great desire to help the Red Cross work, Mrs. Rosa Woods has had printed on post cards some very beautiful pictures taken of the Big Red Cross parade. Those of the Colored Band are especially good, and with other views will be sold at ten cents. All proceeds will go to help the Colored Red Cross Chapter. They can be held at the Colored Woman's Exchange, Broad Street, or from Mrs. Chas, V. Carrington, 832 Park Ave., City. The new scientific remedy for corns bunions and calluses. It does the work. We will refund the price if it falls. Order a package today. Price 35 cents postpaid. Worth a whole lot more. WALTR S. LINDSAY AND BROTHER, Manufacturing Pharmacists, Emporia, Va. 2t. Seriously Stabbed. Mr. James Cunningham, the older son of Mr./ James Cunningham, Jr. was very seriously cut last Sunday night at 20th and Hull streets, South side, by a man named Booker. Had it not been for the timely arrival of the officers the crowd would have dealt with Booker very roughly. Cunningham was taken to the Virginia Hospital. Booker is at rest in jail, wafting the developments of the wounded young man. FLORENCE NEWS. FLORENCE, S. C., July 17. —Rov W. C. Reese passed through the city recently returning from his work at Cades, S. C. The Presiding Elders Council of the North East Conference of the A. M. E. Church convened here Tuesday, July 17th. Those present, Rev. Heyward of the Dillon District; Rev. Lomax, of the Manning District; Rev. Pendorgrass, of the Sumter District; Rev. Deas of the Marton District and Rev. Turpin, of the Florence District They met at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church this city, Rev. J. B. Jackson pastor. Mrs. Rebecca Dykes visited Mayesville in attendance upon a wedding recently. Miss Bessie Richardson of Columbia passed through here enroute to Wilmington, N. C. Mr. Rachar Robinson has gone to Wilmington, N. C. The deacon board of Trinity Church it was unanimously decided to hold revival meetings at the church beginning Sunday, August 5, and that the sum of $25 per week be paid for an assistant to the pastor, Rev. C. T. Taylor. Mrs. Daley Smalls, who died in Brooklyn, July 5, was buried here on Sunday, July 15. Funeral services of the Trinity Baptist Church of which she was a member. Mrs. Frances Harper, her sister, arranged for the removal of the body here. Mrs. Edith Gatewood buried her mother in Darlington, S. C., recently and has returned to Sparrows Point, Maryland. Misses Lucy M. Smith and Janie B. Friar of the city graded school of Columbia, S. C. visited Miss Lona The Vobster in North Florence on Monday. Mr. G. G. Lowery, of Wadesboro, N. C., visited his sister, Mrs. Barnum Johnson. ABINGDON NEWS Ablingdon, Va. From the Valley St., Baptist Church Rev. W. H. Grey, pastor we are glad to say that our church on the upward march. The pastor's inspiring and full instruction. The Sunday School with Deacon Goodo as Supt. is growing in numbers with a fine corps of teachers. He has very bright prospects before him. The B. Y. P. U. Mrs. R. Cunningham as President is growing in attendance and interest. The Wednesday evening prayer meetings which meet at 8 p.m., the pastor and Deacons are trying to the members more interested by appointing two from time to time to lead the meetings. The Ladies Church Aid Mrs. Lizzie Taylor President is doing a good work. The Praying Missionary Bend Mrs. Ann Jefferson President is meeting in prayer for the conversion of souls and giving financial aid where and we need. "Woe to those who minister to the spirit of case in Zion," saith the scripture and so we are working and praying that we may not come under this woe. Now we are glad to say to Editor Mitchell through the Planet that the neglected city of the dead or a wilderness as he was pleased to call our cemetery when here however we had agree with him. Therefore the tomb was made. On Thursday, July 12th Mr R. B. Goodo (possibly not the first time) marched forth with an army of men (Willing Workers) having issued the call previously to the 12th they pitched battle about 7 a. m., against their enemy the grass and other under busch in the cemetery. They slayed right and left. We noticed among the earnest workers the honored pastor Rev. Ward of the M. E. Church and the pastor of course which lead us to the soldiers they were leaders indeed about 1:30 p. m., a feast was spread by the ladies and Mr. Goodo and his army were called to partake of the delicacies of the house which they die with as much careness and perhaps with more relish battling with the weeds. After thankening the ladies for the grand feast and remarking as to where so much came from (these hard times) they marched back to the cemetery again only to be defeated by the rain which came down in such copious showers they had to seek shelter by going out. The ladies contended that the men over another days work for their dinner. We are sure the men will do what's right after all the pleasure of serving these men will not soon be forgotten. The Planet is read with a great deal of interest by the members and friends. Following names of those who sent baskets: Mrs. Rachel | Washington, Mrs. Rachel Debose, Mrs. Hattie Hines, Mrs. Eliza Highly, Mrs. Bessie Cooley, Mrs. Violet Cooley, Mrs. Hattie Fraction, Mrs. Pollo Pannell, Mrs. Eliza Hale, Mrs. Pollo Wiley, Mrs. Joanna McGainham, Mrs. Harriet Nowlin, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs. Joanne Dickerson, Mrs. Ellis Curtis, Mrs. Lizzie Leggons, Mrs. Norr Poster, Emma Perry 50 cents, Mrs. Maria, Clark, Mrs. Sue Anderson, Mrs. Lula Campbell, Mrs. Lucy Ellison, L. E. M. WINCHESTER NEWS NOTES Miss Daisy Boverly of Baltimore, Md. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cooke. Misses Ruth Fletcher, Irene Brown and S. May Harmon spent Thursday in Martinburg, W. Va. with Miss Lillian Carter, Mrs. Agnes Wi. Scott and son are visiting her sister, Miss Carrie Walker. Pro Gibson and M. M. B. Cooke spent time last wint Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Bray in Paris. Mr. Madison Brisco and Mr. Simley Young of Carlyle, Pa. are the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew B Cooke. Miss Irene Brown's music class is progressing nicely. The Brotherhood of John Mann Church gave a fine entertainment on Friday night. Brother Ashby was chairman. The musical at Mt. Carmel was an excellent affair, Committee, Mrs. P. W. Gibson, Mrs. M. Nickens, Mrs. P. M. Finley, Mrs. S. Emma Parks, Miss Rosa Harmon, Miss Irene Brown Planist. The yard party on Bond street on the Fourth was a success. Mrs. Amanda Jordan and Mr. Thomas Nickens were in charge. ELMIRA NOTES The Rev. Jas. D. Wilson formerly pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church and now pastoring the Bethany Baptist Church of Syracuse, N. Y., on his way to the anniversary reception of Rev. Nash of Buffalo stopped off to visit a few of his many friends. The marriage of Miss Lottie Royal to Jas. Clark took place on Wednesday at the parsonage of the A. M. E. Zion Church Rev. L. L. Woods officiating. They were unattended, Mr. & Mrs. Clark will reside on Dickinson St., this city. 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Agt. 814 East Second St, Oklahoma City, Okla. (100 extra for postage) AGENTS OUTPUT - Hair Grower, 1 Tample oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream, 1 Cream Oil, 25 cents extra for postage. RICHMOND Virginia TWO THE SPACE HOW EAST SAINT LOUIS WAS TURNED INTO A SHAMBLES (New York Sun—July 10.) There is absolutely no possible justification for the slaughter of thirty black people by riotous whites in East St. Louis, Ill., on Monday, July 2. It was the most wanton crime of which a community was ever guilty, and it cannot be denied that it was the crime of the community, since had right action been taken, prompted by consideration for the responsibilities of citizenship, the community could have prevented the vicious outbreak, having had ample warning. Commonly spoken of as mob work, it was not like any mob violence with which in thirty years of news paper work I have ever come in contact. The killers of the blacks were not moved by any spirit of frenzy. There was vengeance in it, but not the vengeance $ ^{o} $ excited by an immediate precipitating cause. Lynchings are as a rule passionate expressions of viciousness. Mobts that execute the law of Judge Lynch are usually formed suddenly and act with haste. Always there must be a leader, and always passion must be inflamed. In East St. Louis the rioting was not suddenly started. The action was not that of maddened men and women. There does not seem to have been any one particular leader. Every man and woman—yes, there were women in the very midst of the bloody carnival—was his own captain, and there was but a single idea: "Cop a coon." I us $ ^{o} $ the expression that was heard thousands of times while the slaughter was in progress. Never have I witnessed anything just like the tragedy that converted practically the entire city of East St. Louis, Ill., a city with a population of approximately 60,000, one of the largest industrial centres of the Mississippi Valley, into a shambles. The destruction of property was not so great as it would have been and not there been disarmament in the work of the burners, prompting them to confine the fires to the spoliation selected centres of Negro population. Probably 325 houses, small and large, were burned. Far the larger numbers of these were shacks and shanties of two or three rooms. The rost, with the exception of the Broadway Theatre, afflicted pretentious structure, were old two-frames, formerly the dwelling places of white people, but long age abandoned to the bleachers and the horde of undesirable female harpies that have from time immemorial infested East St. Louis. The actual property loss will approximate $500,000, including a number of freight cars loaded with merchandise. East St. Louis, or perhaps it is fairer to say a certain part of the population of East St. Louis, several months ago determined to get rid of the Negroes. First it was thought to discourage the incoming blacks, but efforts were useless in this direction. Labor was needed and the black labor of the South was especially wanted because of the decreasing danger of labor troubles due to the well known indisposition of the blacks to "unionize." Labor agents honeycombed the South and shipped in the Negroes. This is denied by some of the responsible heads of the industries in East St. Louis, but it is true. Right here is where one of the vilest and most iniquitous features of the affair comes in. I have it from several persons who are well posted by the commissioned by men hiring black labor for East St. Louis was that in coming to the State of Abe Lincoln the Negro was sure vastly to benefit himself. That "State of Lincoln" phrase was played for all that could be got out of it. Something near 10,000 blacks have been brought from different sections of the South to East St. Louis. Some employers put the number at 3,500. Labor leaders say that many stuck in East St. Louis, but many others returned South or went elsewhere, not taking kindly to the heavy labor in the steel mills, foundries and other iron manufacturing concerns. Twenty seven hundred are said to have found employment. For each of these four dependents, women and children, are reckoned. There were many among them who were far from desirable as residents, regardless of employment considerations. Organized labor repudiates all responsibility for anything connected with the butchery, yet it is a fact that several labor leaders have come out with long and strong explanations of how the Negroes were brought in as strike breakers and took the places of white men in the great industries. When the Negroes came in despite the efforts to discourage them from invading the East St. Louis territory attempts were made to drive them out by intimidation of one kind and another. It cannot be denied that there was a marked increase of crimes of a vicious character as the streets and low rescents grew. The streets and low rescents were filled with more and more or less vicious blacks; holdups and robberies were frequent, and there were many brothel and Barrel house broils, with an occasional killing. This bad situation, considerably exaggerated by those interested in placing the Negroes in the worst possible repute, culminated in an especially vicious holdup and shooting, occurring on May 28. A mob demonstration was made against the Negroe, and many families were run out of town after two or three were slain. The blacks were not wise enough to stay away, but drifted back in pairs and by families and in small groups until the sections in which they made their homes were again thickly populated. They seem to have been emboldened or made desperate by their experience, and it is known that there was a pretty well planned scheme for organization for defense, if not for offense. A police sergeant, Coffedge, an especially efficient and brave man, was shot to death while riding in an automobile with three other persons. It was known that Negroes fired on the auto party, killing the officers were about to raid their miserable abiding places—which was the case. That killing of Police Sergeant edge might be said to have been the match that fired the powder, only, as I have explained, there was nothing like a sudden explosion indicating the presence of either match or powder. But, choose what words we may the slaying of that police officer was the act that brought on the wholesale butchery of blacks. The blacks resisted when an attempt was made to arrest some of their number for killing and for other crimes. Then came the men a... the women with firearms, ropes and bludgeons. The work may be said to have been gone about with method, yet there was no organization in the sense of there being a leader or obeying directions. "Get a nigger" suddenly became the order of the day for Monday, July 2, and that order held good for almost twelve hours before the Illinois National Guard, fourteen companies of which were rushed to the scene from all over the State, could get the upper hand of the killers and burners. I am not doing violence to the plain truth when I say there was practically no effort on the part of either police or militiamen to protect the blacks. It is not even pretended that these conservers of the peace were not in sympathy with those who were ing and burning and man hunting black people. As for the police, they were clearly willing that the most vengeance should be used as many people as possible because of the killings of Sergeant Coffeidge. Whether these explanations do or not meet the situation, it is a fact, and I repeat it deliberately, that little effort was made either to save the blacks, prevent the killings and burnings. capture and punish the white butchers. Many arrests were made, it is true, but not one among those arrested took the matter seriously. In fact, it was one of the most horrible features of the whole terrible affair that while the shaying and the maiming and the burning were proceeding those engaged in them seemed to take the matter as a loke. Strange as it may sound, I do not believe one man in ten—not one in a hundred—showed any evidence of ill temper. Nobody, very few at least, seemed angry. It was different, though, with the women who took a hand in the bloody business. They made black women and girls their especial victims. It is not of record that any women actually killed a negress, but their brutality stopped just short of that. One woman was armed with a butcher's cleaver, another with the brass faucet of a beer barrel. Mostly, though, the women carried clubs and stones, and those they used mercilessly. The affair as a whole piled up a heavy bill of cost for East St. Louis. Every insurance policy on property burned especially excepted, such destruction. East St. Louis can be sued for neglecting to give adequate protection. More than that, there is ground for suit on the part of every maimed victim and on the part of the families of every man killed. Not only did East St. Louis, St. Clair county and the State of Illinois fall to give proper protection to life and property, but many public officers were open in their sympathy with those who did this thing to relieve East St. Louis of its black population. ELMIRA NOTES Emira, N. Y. — The Social given at the Monumental Baptist church for the benefit of Pastor Cuff's going away for two weeks was a grand success, for which he and his wife wish to thank the members and friends. Miss Aliene Waters of Ithaca is spending the Summer with her aunt Mrs. Nellie E. Thompson of High St. Mrs. Mary Aldrich spent Sunday in Penn Yan, N Y., going there to bring Miss Hope who has been spending some time there. Seven more waiters for the hotel Longwell arrived in this city from Reading, Pa., Saturday. Mrs. H. B. Parker of Washington, D. C., and Miss Elora Burns of Troy, Pa., stopped over Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor on their way to Saratoga Springs. The Rev. C. E. Cuff and R. M. Perrin left Monday for the Interdenominational Ministerial Association at Montrose, Pa. Mrs. Lazzie Richardson of New York is visiting her aunt Mrs. C. D. Chaney. Theo. Brent had the misfortune to blow off a joint of his index finger on the 4th of July and burned his eye quite badly. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Taylor spent the 4th of July at the home of the latter's parents in Mansfield, Pa. Mrs. C E. Cuff will spend two weeks with her mother in West Pitscn Pa. Read the Planet if once you will want it always a paper for the Negro's welfare North, and South. Agent Novley S. Chaney. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MYSTERIOUS LETTER PUBLISHED BY IOUES. Newspapers throughout the United States are printing what is alleged to be a letter written by Christ. In this letter was an injunction that it should be published to the world by whoever found it, together with a statement that misfortune and bad luck would follow the person having possession of it in the event that it was not given publicity. There was likewise a promise that whoever may have a copy of this in his or her possession will prosper and be followed by good fortune. According to the history of the letter it was written by Christ just after His Crucification, signed by the angel Gabriel nulty-nine years after the Saveler's birth and presumably deposited by him under a stone at the foot of the cross. On this stone appeared the following: "BLESSED IS HE WHO SHALL TURN ME OVER" No one know what the inscription meant, or seemed to have sufficient curiosity to investigate, until the stone was turned over by a little child and the letter which follows was discovered: "Whoseover works on the Sabbath day shall be cursed. I command you to go to church and keep holy the Lord's day, without any manner of work. You shall not idle or misspend your time in bedding yourself in superfluous apparel and vain dressing for I have ordered you to rest. I will have that day kept holy that your sins may be forgiven you. "You will not break my commandments, but observe them and keep them, they being written by my hand and spoken from my mouth. You shall not only go to church yourself, but also your man servant and maid servant. Observe my words and learn my commandments." "You shall finish your work every Saturday at six o'clock in the afternoon at which hour the preparation for the Sabbath begins. I advise you to fast five days in the year, beginning on good Friday and continuing the five days following in remembrance of the five bloody wounds I received for you and mankind. "You shall love one another and cause them that are not baptized to come to church and receive the Holy Sacrament, that is to say Baptism, and then the supper of the Lord, and made a member thereof, in so doing will give you long life and many blessings. Your land shall be replenished and bring forth in abundance, and I will comfort you in the greatest temptation, and surely he that death to the contrary shall be cursed. "I will also send hardness of heart on them, and especially on hardened and unpentent unclelovers. He that hath given to the poor shall find it profitable. Remember the Sabbath day, for the seventh day I have taken as a resting day." "And he that hath a copy of his letter written by my own hand and spoken by my own mouth and keepeth it without publishing it to others shall not prosper, but he that publisheth it to others shall be blessed by me and if their sins be as many as stars by night, and if they truly believe they shall be pardoned and they that believe not this writing and my commandments will have my plagues upon you and you will be with your children, goods and cattle and all other worldly enjoyments that I have given you. Do but once think of what will have suffered for you, if you do it will have well for you in this world and in the world which is to come. "Whoseover shall have a copy of this letter and keep it in their house, nothing shall hurt them, neither pestilence thunder nor Lightning, and if a woman be in birth and put her trust in me she shall be delivered of her child. You shall hear no more news of me except through the Holy Scriptures, until the day of judgment. All goodness and prosperity shall be in the house wherever a copy of this letter shall be found. Finished." The story goes that the little child who found it passed it to one who became a convert to the Christian faith. He failed to have the letter published. He kept it, however, as a sacred memento of Christ and it passed down to different generations of his family for more than one thousand years. During this period the family suffered repeated misfortunes, moved to different countries until finally one of them came to America, bringing the letter with them. They settled in Virginia, then moved farther south, still followed by misfortune, when finally the last member, a daughter, approached her death bed and called a neighbor, Mrs. Thompson, giving her the letter and relating its history for more than a thousand years. The Thompson woman began the attempt to have it published and first appeared in the Rome, Ga., Trilogy on October 31st, 1891. It then appeared in the Dalton, Ga., Citizen and Mrs. Wortmann, now living in Marlon, Ind., clipped it and kept it in her possession for many years without an effort to have it published. She was followed by misfortune which she attributed to neglect in trying to have the letter published. Mrs. Ruby Crutchfield, of Trezant, Tenn., is also said to have *hade* a copy and failed to *make* an effort to have it published for three years, and was a victim of a mistreatment of such fortunes which she attributed to the fact of her neglect in this respect. 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German Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, according to a despatch from Amsterdam quoting the Koelnische Volkszeltung, promised the resiliency that he would consent to the resignation from the cabinet of Foreign Minister Zimmermann and Dr. Karl Helferich, secretary of the interior and vice chancellor. In addition, five members of the Prussian cabinet will be asked to resign. It is believed this decision reflects the emperor's decision to stand by the chancellor in the crisis. According to Berlin newspapers reaching Berne, Switzerland, the chancellor told the rechstag that "the formula of peace without annexations is unacceptable to us. We cannot declare our terms of peace. We must fight and conquer." The chancellor made a strong attack on Matthias Erbzerger, leader of the Catholic center, who assailed the pan-Germans in his address before the main committee last week and advocated peace without annexations or indemnities. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg said Herr Erbzerger's attitude was unpatriotic. A Berlin despatch to the Cologne Gazette, as cabled from Amsterdam, says that after the chancellor made his address, Mathias Erbzerger, the centrist leader, declared that the debate had strengthened his conviction that the whole situation required energetic action by the reichstag. He combatied violently the claims of the Pan-Germans and other annexionists. To this the chancellor, according to the summary of his speech published in the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, said: "We must continue the war with our whole energies. I do not deny that we have great difficulties to overcome, but so have our enemies. We shall see whether their differences or ours are greater. I am sure we can win if we hold out. "Nothing was further from my intention than to cling to my post, but now it is a question of protecting the Fatherland from injury, and for this reason I consider it necessary to retain my post." The crown council called by Emperor William was held in Berlin, according to an Exchange Telegraph despatch from Amsterdam, but no announcement as to what took place at the gathering has been made, although it is believed suffrage reform was decided on. It is believed, says the despatch that one of the results of the council will be the introduction of a franchise bill for Prussta granting universal, did not suffrage and the secret ballot. A wireless despatch sent from Berlin says that the situation is unchanged. The tension, if anything, is more intense. The session of the reichstag was rather a perfunctory affair. TWO DIE IN THE CHAIR Double Execution Brings State's Total Up to Twenty-Two. A double electrocution took place at the Rockview penitentiary at Bellefonte, Pa., when John Nelson of Wyoming county, was put to death for the murder of a man named Sigler in October 1915, and Patrick Gallery of Northampton county, went to the death chair for the murder of his sister, Mrs. George Grube, in April, 1916 Nelson was pronounced dead by Robert J. Campbell, as was Gallery. The two electrocutions make twenty-one deaths in the electrocution went into effect in Pennsylvania. Nelson steadily refused to reveal anything about his past. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. The soldiers of revolutionary Russia maintained their attempts to break through the Austro-German lines in eastern Galicia. Cheered by the results of the fighting during the first three days of July, General Brussilloff's men continue their efforts, especially in the region of Brrozany, and are throwing fresh forces against the Teuton positions. In the Champagne on the western front the German crown prince has made another desperate and fruitless effort to break the French lines northwest of the Rhelms. Attacking in force along an eleven-mile front, the Germans made especially strong efforts around Corny and Allies and against the Californie plateau. The French repulsed all attacks with losses. THURSDAY. In eastern Gallicia the Austro-German forces are evidently in an uncomfortable position at some points as the result of the Russian advance where they have been reported hemmed in on three sides. An attack was launched upon the Russians, but the Russians promptly broke it up by gunfire. Notable activity is developing in Belgium. Germany senses the trend of things there, and extraordinary of focus by her airmen to find out what is going on behind the British lines are reflected in the official statements General Petain, on the French front is bending his efforts toward retaining intact all the commanding positions his troops now occupy. The latest German attempt to wrest control of an important sector on the Alsace from him only came to naught with heavy German losses, Paris says, but the French in their reaction took a salient near Cerny from the Germany. FRIDAY Intense artillery activity by the Russians and Teutons is reported east of Lemberg where General Brusloff early this week began a push toward the Galician capital, with Ziocholl on the Tarnopol-Krusne railway, as his inmate date objective. Near Narayuka, to the southeast of Lemberg the Austro-German guns are busy bombarding the Russians cast on Llpiteadoha. Having failed in their effort to drive the French from their command positions on the Cholinim-da-Dames, on the Alse front, the Germans are turning attention to the Champagne. Attacks were made by the crown prince, troops west of Mont Carroll at southeast of Tahure. Paris says they were easily repulsed. General Brusselloff seems to have been arranging a surprise, judging from the reports from Petrograd or violent fighting in progress in the Plusk district. There had been no mention of any of the official statements recently of any especial activity anywhere along the Russian line except in Gallica and the sectors immediately adjacent. The report from Plusk, 150 miles north of the Gallican border therefore has in it the element of surprise for the world if not for the Germans. On the Franco-Belgian front the Brits have made another forward thrust slightly advancing their line west of Wytschaete in the Belgian district where General Plumer blew the Germans out of an extended salient east of Moselle ridge last month. SUNDAY. North of the Alisme the French again have checked the German crown prince in an effort to regain the line on the Chemin-des-Dames. Attacking or four sectors along a front of seven and a half miles from north of the Lafauz mill to the Froldmont farm, the Germans were met by determined resistance on the part of the French and sustaining heavy losses, were repulsed completely except on the eastern end of the line between Bovettes and Froldmont farm. The artillery and infantry fighting in eastern Galicia is spreading. The Russian attacking front now has lengthened to thirty miles and the fighting is in progress around Halec the key to Lemberg, capital of Galicia. German efforts to dislodge the Russians from the positions gained at Godov and Konuchy a week ago have been repulsed by General Brussels' men. On the British front in France there have been several small raids, but no infantry engagements of importance. MONDAY. New and powerful blows are being struck by the Russians in Gallica. Apparently they have broken the Austro-German line west of Stanislau, south of Haliez. The official from Petrograd not only reports important gains in the Stanislau area, but declare Russian cavalry is pursuing the enemy. This pursuit already has reached the Lukva river. The renewed onslaught brought with it not only additional territory but 7000 prisoners and forty-eight guns, including a dozen large caliber pieces. The total Russian captures of men it the present remarkable offensive is in excess of 25,000. There is little but local fighting along the British front in northern France, but further down the line the Germans are giving the French little rest. 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A man grabbed the frate wife and the neighbors took away from her—THE BUTTER KNIFE! FIVE FRIDAYS By FRANK R. ADAMS Copyright, by Frank A. Munsey Company SYNOPSIS. Lucile Green, charming, but with fads is visited at the Greens' summer island home by Monty Blainey. She proposes a wrestling match. All food is banished. Frank Hopkinson rival sailor, appears unexpectedly. Too much himself be attempts the mainland by motorboat. CHAPTER V CROUCHED behind the stove again in time to see a dim figure enter the kitchen. The lightning revealed Lacile in a dressing gown with her hair over her shoulders. In the single flash of light she appeared to be the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen. She turned the flashlight on the wall and finally rested its ray on the box of dog biscuit! She went over to it, picked up one of the biscuit, pressed it to her cheek and was about to bite it when she hastily dropped it back into the box, put out the light and stood perfectly still, listening. There was another sound on the stairs! When I looked to see what Lucile was doing she had disappeared. Probably she, too, was hiding somewhere near, I reasoned. This time there was less delay. Whoever was coming downstairs was carelessly assured and was scratching matches on the wall as he went along to guide his progress. He entered the kitchen. It was Bopp, clad in the sort of pajamas I thought he wore. He was laughing to himself as he came in and went straight to the box of biscuit. He took one out of the box. And he ate it! Before that I may have disliked the man, but now— A smile of enjoyment spread over his features, plainly discernible when the lightning flashed. Evidently the dog biscuit were delicious. At last he finished and started to leave. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when I happened to glance toward the shelf where the biscuit were kept. The box was gone. The flend was taking them with him. Without a thought for poor Tootles, who would no less starve to death, he was going to eat all her food. With one bound I was upon him. The thought of that poor dog steered my heart. I grabbed him by the throat. Garlock and we swamped back and forth in a rough and tumble fox trot movement to the tune of the rolling thunder. Hopp did not know as I did that Lucille was watching somewhere there in the darkness, and on that account he was able to use more forcible language than I, but I had superior weight, and I was slowly bearing him back when all at once he dropped the box of dog biscuit and with his free hand landed a wallop in my stomach. It would have been a foul under any circumstances, but with my inner workings resembling those of a vacuum cleaner it was positively inhuman. Maddened by that blow, I growled between my clinched teeth, "If you hit me below the belt again I'll tear your pajamas!" He growled back, "Let 'er rip," and swung on me twice more in the same place. With mad fury I picked him up and hurled him from me. There was a terrific crash of glass, and then, save for the disturbance outside, all was still. I lilt the light—acetylene gas. The wreckage of that kitchen was beyond the descriptive powers of a mer dramatic critic. Boppe lay sprawled on the kitchen floor near, table where he had struck when I threw him. The table itself had overturned on to the week's supply of water in glass bottles and had apparently broken most of them. Lucile was standing, pale and disheveled, but still Beautiful, in the doorway of the pantry where she had been hiding. After an interval Bopp laboriously picked himself up and waded toward the stairway through the torrent of distilled water which was streaming across the floor. "There's your dog biscuit," he sneered, pointing to Tootles, who had discovered the box and was gulping down the contents as fast as she could. "Fasting for a week! Ha-ha!" Then he disappeared upstairs. I turned to Lucille. She had dropped into a chair and had buried her face in her hands. She was crying. "What's the matter, Lucille?" I asked tenderly. "I don't know," she sobbed; "just nerves, I guess." "You ought not to be about at this time of night," I said sternly. "I know, she replied. "I just came down to—to feed Tootles." I would have believed her if I had not seen the biscuit in her mouth. But what man would not forgive a small fib on the part of the woman he loves? "Listen to me, Lucille, dear," I said authoritatively, taking her hand. "We are not going to fast any more. If your father were here he would call a halt. Here your mother is sick, he are hysterical, and hardly any of us is making terms with the others. Besides, he has got to stop. Our water supply is gone." Lucille looked up. "Then it won't really be our fault, will it?" she asked hopefully. "If we haven't pure water we can't go on fasting. Lipton S. Clair says so." "And that's the best thing he over said, too." I agreed heartily. So it was decided that the next day we'd have a new stock of groceries come on the supply back and telephone this cook to come back. I think the prospect cheered us wonderfully. I know I felt better immediately, and I persuaded Lucille to go back to bed and get some rest before daylight. She went in to see how her mother was before retiring. There was a cry from Mrs. Green's room, and I rushed in. MRS. GREEN HAD DISAPPEARED1 You have guessed correctly that this is where the element of mystery enters the story. You doubtless wonder, as we did, If Kent, the wire taper, had made away with Mrs. Green or if Bopp, balked of his dog biscuit, had become a villain of the deepest dye. We did not come to any such conclusions at first, of course. That was after he had looked all over the house, up in the attic and down in the cellar. Then I went to Keint's room. He was snoring peacefully. I mistrusted that he might be shamming and poured a pitcher of water on him to see how he would react to the shock. I should say that his reactions were perfectly normal, albeit somewhat picturesquely abusive. Next we hated Ropp from his room. He was inclined to be suspicious at first until we told him about Mrs. Green's disappearance; then he was all sympathy and joined our lightly clad searching party in the hallway. Naturally, Lucile feared the worst, while the rest of us with masculine optimism discounted any danger which might befall the old lady. "But she wasn't herself," wailed Lucile. "She's been acting funny all the evening." "Never mind about her," comforted Kent. "A man with a jug can fall off the roof and never hurt himself a bit. A bit of a bun makes anybody lucky." "Suppose she is out in all this rain?" "A little water, more or less, won't make any difference to her after the last two days." I observed gloomily. "Let's not stand here any longer," said Bopp in businesslike fashion. "It won't do much good to try to guess where she is. Let's begin a systematic hunt." "Let's get, on some regular clothes first." I suggested. "All right," in chorus. Lucile dressed faster than she ever had before or has since, and we men with the usual celerity of the bifurcated sex, were ready as soon as she was. As soon as we had assembled In the living room once more Bopp, by reason of his superior nerve, elected himself commander of the expedition. Monty," he directed, "you take Jessie with you and explore the north half of the island. Lucile and I will search the southern coast soon as either party discovers Mrs. Green come back to the house and fire off this revolver." He held a large caliber six shooter on the table. I might have disputed his arrangement and calm appropriation of Lucile's society, but I judged that it would be a poor time to argue about anything so purely social. Besides, I figured out that the man who was with Lucile was going to have no ench reassuring her that her mother had not met with some terrible taking off. So they went one way, and we departed the other, everybody sloshing internally and externally on account of the large amount of distilled water and rain. "How are we going to hunt this skirt anyway?" demanded Kent after we had trudged northward for a few moments. "Just hunt," I replied vaguely, too busy with my thoughts to consider the question seriously. "This isn't regular," objected Kent, slacking up his pace. "We ought to trail the old dame by her footprints. Did you notice any footprints around the house?" "No. I didn't think to look." "Well, let's go back and have a peek." As that coincided with the methods of reasoning adopted by the detectives in the best sellers, I agreed, and we retraced our footsteps to the house. "You seem to know a good deal about detective methods," I said, with mock admiration. "Yeh," he responded seriously; "I ought to. I've been chased by some of the best detectives in New York." Then he added proudly, "I had Burns after me once." "Under her window is the first place to look," said Kent, alive with inter- est now in the scheme. "Where did she sleep?" I picked out the window of Mrs. Green's room, and we carefully searched the wet ground underneath by lighting matches. "Isn't it more probable that she would come out by the door?" I suggested. "She could never climb from that second story window." "Sure she could," he asserted. "See that raid pipe here! It goes alongside her window. A lady like her could shin up and down that like a mouse." Someway the picture of my future mother-in-law (I hoped) frisking up and down a narrow water pipe was beyond my imagination. "Look here!" exclaimed my companion, pointing to the ground in front of blm. "Is that or is it not the print of a lady's shoe?" I looked. There was certainly a footprint there, and it was small and narrow. "It's fresh too. You can tell by the mud that it's been made since the footprints would have been washed out before. This was sure enough reasoning. Kent started to walk in the direction that the footprints led, and I followed. All at once Kent stopped and lit several matches all in one place. "I think I've solved the mystery," he said, bending over the mud. "But it looks bad for the doll. There's a guy following her. Look at these marks." With a shudder I verified his statement. Larger footprints were in the mud with the small ones. The owner of the larger shoes had evidently followed the lady, because in many cases the small footprints were partially obliterated by the larger ones. "Look! She dropped this." Kent echoed my own thought. "Gee, I wish we had brought the gun with us." "Let's hurry on before it's too late." I urged. We pressed forward at a killing pace, only stopping once in awhile to assure ourselves that we were on the right track. At one place the ground was trampled over a considerable area. "He caught up with her here," Kent interpreted. "They struggled. Look, she dropped this." He picked up a handkerchief. By the light of a match I discovered that it was marked "G." There could be no doubt; we were on the right track. "She got away from him, though," exulted Kent. "See here, just beyond her footsteps are ahead again." A QUICK spurt of fame ahead halted us in our search for Mrs. Green. We heard an indistinct murmur of voices, the sound of twigs being broken, then absolute silence. "Shi!" Kent whispered. "As we are not armed, we must creep up as close as we can, when the son of a gun pipes us off we can spring on him before he can wig us. Do you get me?" I admitted that his plan was good. "Then on your knees and be careful," he commanded. We crept through mud puddles without noticing them. Then I heard the sound of a safety match being scratched unsuccessfully against a box. When it finally lighted what would be revealed? A jagged circle of yellow light flickered a moment while I crouched ready to spring, then burned dimmer and went out. The silence was unbroken until the light disappeared, then Bopp's laugh rang out loud and clear, followed a moment later by a historical giggle which I recognized as Lucile's. While I scuttled away as hastily as possible in order to be out of range before he could light another match, I heard him say in a childish falsetto, "One-two-three for Monty!" I did not hear what else he had to offer because I got out of carshot as soon as possible. A few hundred yards on the trail back to the house Kent joined me. We proceeded Indian fashion silently for awhile. Finally he runnated: "It's sure queer how I forgot about her and him being on the island. If it hadn't been for them we was doing fine. 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We see or think we see a ray of light, so to speak intimating that a realization of this prediction is at hand. The Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union, in its issue of the 9th inst., says: Of course, the presence of a bull in a china shop would be advertised when the same bull in a pasture could crop the succulent grasses unmolested; a bull that desired advertisement would, therefore, rush out of the pasture into the shop. Probably it was the same reason that when Col. Roosevelt was asked to speak at a meeting called to welcome the representative of the latest republic, he should find it necessary to accuse organized labor of wholesale murder to put his audience in good humor with the world. No proof was shown and no reason given for pitching such a bombshell into a gathering of friends; Roosevelt did it, and the act needs no explanation. A proverb easily appreciated in Florida declares: "If you give a calf rope he will hang himself." Roosevelt offered the rope, and Gemperms made a calf of himself without delay! For, rising to deny an imputation which had nothing for support but the word of Roosevelt, the president of the American Federation of Labor provided the proof needed by his adversary when he read a telegram from the president of the Federation of Labor of Illinois asserting that employers who enticed Negroes from the South to break the back of labor in the North and West were really responsible for wholesale murders in East St Louis in the state of Illinois! No need for more words Roosevelt drew his bow at a venture, and the flying arrow pierced the armor of organized labor, because Gompers opened the joints of his harness; if organized labor did not massacre and burn in East St. Louis, the world has heard the confession of moral responsibility, and this evidence is more vital than would be the legal proof that a number of laborers in a moment of excitement had become a murderous mob. The president of the national federation and the president of a state organization have now made themselves responsible for the opinion that if an employer hires laborers in the South to do work in Illinois, then that employer is responsible when organized labor shoots, burns and hangs such laborers, kills their women and children and burn their houses. If this does not constitute a serious charge against federated labor and call for its outlawry under the laws, then the prosecutions of trusts are mere acts of tyranny. The situation could not be more admirably stated by this master mind in the editorial office of the Times-Union. He went further and he said much more. Here it is: But the published facts in the case justify other charges. For some days agitation and threats predicted the coming of disorder but no steps were taken to protect order and decency; the lives and property of American citizens were loudly threatened, and nothing was done by way of rebuke to the agitators nor toward the protection of a city threatened with murder and arson. When Cleveland was president of the United States and Altgold was governor of Illinois, another city of the same state underlay like threats. Then as now, the governor of the state took no steps to protect the interests of the public, and the president of the United States soft troops to Chicago against the excited protests of the governor of the state. It has been said that it was merely a pretext to assert that federal property was endangered; it may be that President Cleveland was wrong and President Wilson is right, but can we say a risk may not be taken when life is at stake at home by a president who risks so much to defend Belgium and France across the seas? Are German sympathizers to be punished, even if a proclamation of martial law be necessary, while organized labor may slay at will? This question will ring and reverberate from one section of this country to the other. Colored people have always been averse to striking and to causing trouble by labor disputes. They have stood by their white employing friends in this section of the country, risking life and limb in an effort to carry out their promises to the white men, who pledged to stand by them. The firemen's strike on southern railroads has been settled only when the black, loyal employees had been retained in the service. Now, the Times-Union wants to know why federal aid cannot be invoked to protect these humble people from a sunny clime. It affords a situation fraught with future hope for both the "brother in black and the "brother in white." The conclusion is as follows: The Times-Union has consistently and faithfully denounced and condemned disorder and mob-law in the South. But in the South enmity is always excited against a supposed criminal; the Southern mob seeks to punish guilt. In other sections enmity is aroused not against guilt, supposed or assumed, but against the Negro race; the crime alleged is that of seeking to earn an honest living by honest work. According to the plea urged by Mr. Gompers, the Negro must not venture to earn wages desired or refused by organized labor; he must not go from the South to seek work in other sections. President Gompers says he knows Roosevelt, who is only a bluffer; let us agree with him. Now if Col Roosevelt he more than a seaker after easy notoriously, let him go further in this matter, and we will go with him heart and soul. Let him lead public opinion to show that Gompers is worse than a bluffer in that he has ventured too far. We feel like exclaiming, "Praise God from Whom all blessings flow." When a southern newspaper takes this high ground and champions the cause of the colored people while at the same time explaining the difference in the exercise of lawlessness against this race in the South and the kind visited upon this same race in the North, it is an omen that the leaven is working and that a realization of our hope, the unification complete in every detail of the better class of white people and the better class, of colored people from the Mason and Dixon Line to the Gulf of Mexico and the boundaries of the Southern Republic, is at hand. THE PENDULUM OF JUSTICE. You cannot persistently deny to one class of American citizens their rights and privileges without ultimately taking away from another class of American citizens their rights and privileges. You cannot confiscate the property of colored people without ultimately confiscating the property of white people. You cannot deny to colored men their rights and privileges without ultimately denying rights and privileges to white mop. The pehdulum of right and justice will swing backward as far in one direction as it has in another. Not many years ago the railroads in particular and corporatins in general controlled not only the legislative branch of government at Washington, but also in the States. The ordinary citizen found it difficult to secure justice even in the courts of law, when arrayed against any one of these agonies. Equally powerful were the Whiskey and the Beer Trusts. These powerful interests were so entrenched in power that any effort made to dislodge them seemed like child's play. Then came the awakening with Hon. William J. Bryan as the spokesman. He has been "lost in the crowd," so to speak, but the principles that he advocated have been marching onward. Now we see the same methods pursued in dealing with the helpless colored man being used in dealing with the struggling white man, who bewails his fate, white the poor colored men look on with sometimes a pathetic interest. It was a dark day for a dark people a few years ago. It is a darker day for white people in this year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventeen. These people tabooed and overlooked and disregarded the Constitution of the United States in dealing with colored folks. They are doing the same thing in dealing with the white people. In discussing the situation the New York Sun, one of the ablest edited newspapers in the country, in its issue of the 13th inst says: The Government of the United States undoubtedly has both the right and the power to fix the prices which it will pay for any commodity needed for its operations either in time of war or in time of peace. If the seller declines to part with his goods at the price fixed by the Government, the Government undoubtedly possesses the right and the power to take what it needs for war purposes, the compensation to be determined judicially in the regular way by the tribunal established for that purpose. This seizure of property for war needs is akin to the well known process of condemnation for public use in time of peace. It is, in fact, condemnation for public use. It does not become confiscation until there is a denial to the owner of the right guaranteed to him by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution; that is, the guarantee that his property shall not be taken without just compensation. "Just" compensation is compensation fixed by judicial process not arbitrarily fixed by the Government acquiring the property. This is a statement thoroughly consonant with the principles of constitutional law. He says further. This broad, fundamental, unalter- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE ALPHA able principle, this great absolute right of every citizen to have his property protected against confiscation use, has had within a few days' signal illustration in the United States Senate in the skidaddle from the Smoot amendment to the food control bill as soon as the significance of that measure of confiscation was generally recognized. In the face of this general recognition of an eternal and inalienable principle of American right, the President's proclamation to his fellow countrymen now declares that "we must make the prices to the public the same as the prices to the Government." This can be interpreted only as a fervid appeal to the patriotism of business men and not as the formulation of a protected policy of Government. The editor of the Sun is a diplomat of the "first water." He knows that President Wilson placed the prices to the public (private individual) and to the government upon exactly the same basis. He diplomatically notified the President, without actually saying so that he has gone beyond the Constitution and nullified one of its main provisions. He proceeds to argue the question. Here it is: For if it is in the power of the Federal Government in either its Executive or its Legislative department to fix the prices at which private owners of property must sell to private buyers, and if the prices thus fixed for the private transaction are below those which would obtain under the operation of the natural law of supply and demand, then there is to that extent confiscation. There is condemnation of private property not for public but for private use, and without provision even for the "just" compensation for the property taken which the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. We have examined closely all the sentences in the President's appeal to business men to be unselfish and to refrain from extortion in the prices they ask during the war. We are glad to say we find no phrase or word proving to our satisfaction that when he declares that "we must make the prices to the public the same as the prices to the Government" he has in his mind any idea beyond a moral and sentimental appeal to the patriotism and conscience of those he is addressing. Mr. Wilson has avoided any expression on the subject of price fixing which commits him to an enterprise so vast and so clearly unconstitutional as would be the attempt to regulate by law the prices at which private property owners must dispose of their property to private purchasers. Indeed, the President goes so far as to say distinctly that "the law must command these things," and no man knows better than he does that the supreme law which commands these things is the Constitution of the United States. It looks to us very much as though the Sun and its supporters are whistling to keep up their courage. They know that when President Wilson says that the public should enjoy the same reduction in prices as the government, he will find some way to bring about the realization of his hopes. The Constitution of the United States is in: discard these days and to appeal to it outside of the august tribunals created to construe it is an absurdity. Certainly, little hope remains of securing a favorable consideration there, when the able jurists now occupying the elevated positions of Justices and who enjoy a life tenure in office"now seem to be as susceptible and as fearful of public criticism as are the representatives from the various congressional districts in this country. If the Constitution of the United States has not been able to protect the colored people of the United States in their right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, how can the hunted corporations who observed at the time with equanimity the predicament of our people, expect any better treatment at the hands of their enemies? It was the black man's turn a few years ago. It is the white man's turn now. This is the logical result of condoning evil that good may come. IS ROOSEVELT COMING BACK? We have noted with interest the attitude of Col. Theodore Roosevelt recently with reference to the astounding massacre at East St. Louis, Illinois. What does it all mean? What does this truly remarkable statesman intend to do in the future? Is it possible that the great influence possessed by him is to be thrown into the balances in support of one of the humblest races of people on the face of the globe and that the time is approaching when the prayers of the colored folks sent up to "Daniel's God" for aid, succor and comfort are about to be answered? We were stirred by these emotions when we noted that at Carnegie Hall, New York Friday, July 6, 1917, in the presence of the Russian War Mission, he administered a rebuke to Mr. Samuel Gompers, which is reverberating around the world. Organized labor in the vicinity of East St. Louis has taken a stand antagonistic to the colored people who migrated there and the distinguished labor 1 ader has assumed an apologetic attitude towards the affair. Mr.. Gompers is quoted as saying: "I should like to explain about East St. Louis," he said, after praising everything else the Colonel had said. "I wish I had with me a telegram I received tonight from the secretary of the Illinois Federation of Labor. It explains the whole situation. Not only labor men, but the Chamber of Commerce warned those who were luring colored men from the South to undermine the workers of East, St. Louis. Hundreds of thousands were brought in and there was no place for them to lay their heads. Luring them there was no more than a working of the same brutal, tyrannical forces that existed in old Russia. There is altogether too much injustice prevailing in free America. (Groans and hissos), but there is a larger percentage of freedom and justice than in any other country." Just what the warning of the American Federation of Labor and the Chamber of Commerce of East St. Louis had to do with justifying the massacring and cremating of men, women and children will always be a mystery. It would seem that the real murderers were the members of the American Federation of Labor and the East St. Louis Chamber of Commerce or that both bodies connived at and encouraged the slaughter of the innocents.. Certainly, no act of barbarity could have served the purpose better of compromising the great Roosevelt and his supporters and to make ridiculous their condemnation of the treatment of the Belgians by the Germans than the one committed in this Illinois city. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt understood that quickly and he lost no time in condemning and disavowing any sympathy with this crowning outrage of the Century. His words will encircle the globe. He is quoted as follows: "May I say another word," he said, waving a programme in his right hand and obviously boiling with suppressed feeling. "I am not willing," he went on, biting off each word as if it were a sift nosed bullet, "that a meeting called to commemorate the birth of a democracy in Russia shall even seem to have given any approval or accepted any apology for the brutal infamy imposed on Negroes or colored men." Most of the audience sprang to its feet, yelling for the Colonel. "Justice," he continued, "is not merely words. It is to be translated into living acts, and how can we praise the people of Russia if we by explanation, silence or evasion apologize for murdering the helpless. (Cheers.) In the past I have listened to the same form of excuse from the Russian autocracy for the programs inflicted on the Jews. Shall we by silence acquiesce in this amazing apology for the murder of men, women and children in our own country?" He concluded as follows: There was noise all over the hall, but it was all in the Colonel's favor. Hitting the speaker's table with his fist after every word, he said: "I'll do everything for the laboring man except that which is wrong, and that I will not do for any man or cause. I care not a snap of my finger"—here the Colonel walked over to Mr. Gompers and shook his fist within a foot of the Gompers nose—"for a telegram from the head of the strongest labor union in Illinois. This thing took place in a Northern State, where the whites cnumber the Negroes twenty to one, and if in that city white men cannot protect their rights by their votes against an insignificant minority and have to murder women and children, then the State that sent Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency must bow its head in shame." Is it possible that the great Roosevelt is returning to his "first love"? Is he again standing upon the broad platform of a beneficent humanity, without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude? Let us hope so. This truly remarkable statesman has been thought to be many-sided He is a man of many moods, but no act of his and no declarations that he may have made during the last decade will enshrine his name in the hearts of the justice loving people of this country, irrespective of color more firmly than those vehemently uttered from the platform of Carnegie Hall in New York, July 6, 1917. Some way and somehow, the good God is raising up new friends in quarters from which they are least expected. All we want is for statesmen to advocate the right principles and enunciate fundamental truths. We do not need any special support as a race. We wish a fair deal and no favors. Chief SAMUEL GOMPERS leaned too far backward in his support of organized labor. He fell out of the arena of fair play to the adamant floor of eternal justice below and the pains he is now experiencing may at sometime and somewhere cause him to reverse himself before he is called to go and take his place in the "silent halls of death." May God help Theodore Roosevelt and may God confound SAMUEL GOMPERS. But Truth will conquer at the last As round and round we run And over the Right comes uppermost And ever is Justice done. LIEUTENANT YOUNG'S PATRIOTIC LETTER. The following interesting letter from Lieutenant Colonel Chas. Young will prove to be interesting reading. We have been somewhat in a quandary as to whether we should publish it or not, but after reading it over carefully we fail to find either any complaint or criticism of either the surgeons or the Examining Board that has reported to retire him. 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