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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 42 The Barrett Case. DEFENDING HIMSELF FROM MAN WITHOUT WARRANT. Attorney Lancaster Issues Statement As to Trial of Seventeen-Year Old Aubrey Barrett. COURT REFUSED INSTRUCTIONS Threatened Lawyer With Fine When He Referred to Fact that Roach Had No Warrant for Arrest of Neither Barrett. That Aubrey Barrett the seventeen-year-old negro youth under sentence of execution at the State Punjabiary for murder was not tried by a jury, was not represented by counsel and was in fact defending himself from a man who was pursuing him without a warrant, was stated yesterday to Governor Stuart by W. L. Lancaster, an attorney of Farmville, who appeared as counsel for the defense of the elder Barrett, No application for clemency has been made for Albert Barrett, the father, who in the judgment of a jury was guilty of murder. State Senator Addison, of Lynchburg, and others, however, have interested themselves in the case of the boy, and have asked Governor Stuart to defend the execution in order that a further investigation can be made. Judge J. Houndley, who presided at the trial has stated that the boy confessed the murder in open court, that his plea of guilt made it unnecessary to have a jury to assign counsel for the defense, so that the court did not have the option which the law gives to juries in cases of this sort of sentencing, to the pennentiary, and could only find the boy guilty of first-degree murder and order his execution. Unless Governor Stuart intervenes both the older and younger Barrett will be executed at the State Penitentiary on Thursday morning. Attorney Lancaster Issues. Signed Statement. The following signed statement was issued yesterday by Mr. Lancaster, who appeared as counsel for the elder Barrett. To the Editor of The Times Dispatch, Sifr.—I have read the statements and comments published in the News of Lynchburg, and what Judge Hundley says in the News-Leader of August 2, and in The Times Dispatch of August 28. I must say that Judge Hundley is mistaken in his recollection that I in open announced that the boy, Aubrey Barrett, wished to change his plea from not guilty to guilty. On the contrary, instead of withdrawing his first plea, I withdrew my services and expressed stated that I would represent him no longer, and that I would not assume the responsibility of advising what plea he should be tried upon. I never waived jury in his case and had no more to do with it in Charlotte. The boy hesitated for some time when asked by the court if he wished to change his plea to guilty, Mr. Light, assistant prosecuting attorney, bears me out in this if his statement in Lynchburg News is correct. As to the boy's age, I think that the testimony was that he was between sixteen and seventeen. Since the trial a leaf was torn from the Barrett family Bible, which leaf is now in my possession, showing the date of marriage and ages of family, the age of Albert Barrett to be thirty-seven and the boy, Aubrey, to have been born July 7, 1901, making him in his seventeenth year. No Evidence That Killing Was Intended or Premeditated. The evidence did not show that Aubrey Barett struck the blow which felled W. T. Roach to the ground and that "the father turned the deceased over on the back and beat him in the face with a rock tilt, as the father said, he "finished him," nor was there evidence that they admitted that they had been caught in the man's wheat field, stealing his wheat and that the boy had come up behind the man's back while he was scuffling with the father and struck him to the ground I with a large stick, nor did the doctor say that the blow said to be struck with the stick, was not struck with a stick, but with some harder and sharper instrument, in his opinion. The doctor said that the blow said to be struck with the rock, in his opinion, was with a sharper instrument. The evidence along this line was that the night before the killing the Barette had gone with their wagon at midnight and stolen from W. T. Roach's wheat field a load of wheat; that Roach and Mr. Collins, at about 7. A. Mr. nest morning, tracked the wagon, and wheat from the field where taken and stolen to the wheat field of Albert Barrett; that Albert and the boy acknowledged the larceny, that Mr. Roach sent Mr. Collins, as he Collins, stated, for a warrant of arrest; that Albert Barrett tried to compartmente or pay Mr. Roach to drop the latency prosecution. Mr. Roach properly refused to accept the proposition, whereupon Albert ran and Mr. Roach after him. Albert fell over a pile of brush after running 150 yards, and Mr. Roach caught him while down and was choking him. Albert called for Abbrey to help him. Then it was that Abbrey picked up a chestnut stick with a knot on it size was never mentioned or inquired into), and struck the blow, and the inference was that the knot struck the back of the head, for Dr. Walker said the brains were ooing out of the skull where the wound was on the back of the head, and he said that that wound, if not fatal, was sufficient to be fatal. The inference was that that wound was the fatal wound, because the doctor said the wounds on the frontal portion of the head bleed very little, if any. The evidence was that Albert made those wounds with a rock as large as his two fists. Dr. Walker said that the rock wounds would have proved fatal, had the stick wounds not been fatal. Court Refused Instructions As to Pursuit Without Warrant. If I was base enough to desert my client, had I thought I could have done him a service. I was not egotistic, hold or base enough to think that I could do him good when I had made so great a failure for the father. I had offered an instruction which I thought from the evidence was proper, and should have been allowed, and which would have prevented the jury from finding the prisoner guilty of murder either in the first or second degree, but the court refused and rejected same, and would not permit me to argue or cite facts in support of instruction. The court would not even permit me to comment upon the fact that Mr. Roach was pursuing, arresting, imprisoning and detaining a man without a warrant in a case where a warrant was necessary. And my third attempt to do so was threatened by the court with a fine, Judge Hundley terms the killing of Roach a horrible murder. I consider no murder has been committed under the law and testimony; for the killing was not willful, deliberate and premeditated. W. L. LANCASTER Parmville, V. Va., Aug. 27, 1917. MRS. A. E. BLACKWELL'S GREAT EFFORT. Pulpit Set To Africa—Much Money Raised By the Auxiliaries—Dr. Binga's Photo In Panel. Several months ago at a quarterly meeting of the executive board of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention, held in the city of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Annie E. Blackwell, of South Richmond, petitioned the board through her pastor, Dr. A. Bina, Jr. for permission to place a pulpit set in Alexander Chapel (then under construction, now completed) at Browerville, West Coast, Afrika. The board promptly accepted her offer. Mrs. Blackwell is president of the Bina Foreign and Home Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church, South Richmond. It was under the auspices of this society that she solicited the funds for this pulpit set. The other auxiliaries and members of the church assisted. The Bina Bible Class also assisted by placing the photograph of the pastor in the front panel of the pulpit. This was a great effort, costing about $179.00. On Monday night the set was dedicated to the Lord and in honor to Dr. Bina in commemoration of his forty-five years of service. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson. A large crowd was present. Mrs. Blackwell presented the set to the Lott Carey Convention now in session in this city, Friday, August 31st. Good Revival Meetings at Crewe and in Brunswick, Va. Rev. D. J. Bradford has just returned from his revival meetings at Crewe and in Branswick. He reports success in both churches. There were nine converts in the Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Crewe, and two fallen members restored. At Hickory Hun. Branswick, there were fifteen converts and seven restorations. Dusert and both congregations are proud of the blessing which the good Lord bestowed upon them. Rev. Bradford attended the Great Jubilee Meeting of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, held in Lynchburg last month. He delivered an address before the B. Y. P. U. department on, "The Bible A Divine Revolution." RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1917 HOW SPEAKEST YOU? IN THIS BIG WORDS DEMOCRACY HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE BLACK? 53rd Annual Session. Baltco, Md., August 21, 1917. The Grand United Order of St. Luke held its fifty-third annual session in the City of Baltimore at the St. Luke's Hall, August 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Tuesday, August 21st, 1917, the session was opened by the Grand Chief James Richardson of Hampton, Virginia, the hall was filled with delegates, officers and visitors. Virginia was well represented especially tidewater section. The Grand Chief, James Richardson, gave a remarkable opening address, he told of the great work that was accomplished by the Grand United Order of St. Luke. A welcome address was delivered THE LADY OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN by Miss Nannie Gross of Baltimore, Md., then afterwards there were some encouraging remarks by the State Deputy, Sister Hannah Frey, District Deputy, Brother Emmanuel Smith. They spoke of the good work done in the past twelve months through their Grand Chief. There were also short speeches from the supreme, Sister Lucy Vincient, Sister Crane, Brother James Frey and other Past Officers. Business of the Lodge was conducted in a brief but successful way. Wednesday night a picnic was given to the delegates which all present express themselves well pleased. Thursday night was the installation of officers. Afterwards a grand reception was in the honor of the officers and delegates. The session closed Friday, A.M. with much good done and business concluded. It was known as the best Grand Session in the history of the Order. They adjourned to meet in their next Grand Session, August, 1918, in the town of Phocus, Virginia. Done by the order of Mrs. Jane Richardson, Seet. Miss Tomah Z. Richardson, Aest WANTED-A Good Barber at once! 60 cents on a dollar. Apply to JESSE M. TURNER, 83 N. Main street, Harrisonburg, Va. 40 THE TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH STARTS A NEW EDITION The work of erecting a new edifice on Virginia and Falk Street, this city, for Trinity Baptist Church started Thursday, August 16th, at 11:45 o'clock. A, M. when Rew, G, W. Carrington, B, D. the pastor marched from his home. No. 1 King street, and with him Mrs. Lenora Carrington, his wife to the place where Mr. W, H. Jackson was stretching the line. Several other women of the church joined in the march. Upon reaching the spot where the church is to be erected, the pastor looked over to the Northwest corner, where the builder had just stretched the line and asked, "Are you ready?" The answer came, "Lam." Then the Reverend walked where the stake had been driven and with his index finger pointed to the spot and the Mrs. Rev Carrington raised the pick. HOW SPEAKEST THOU? IN THIS BIG WORDS DEMOCRACY HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE BLACK? WORLD'S ENERGY REGRED and buried it in the dirt. Then came Mrs. Nellie Wynder, Mrs. Nellie Stone, Mrs. Virginia Robertson, Mrs. Phillips and Miss Sarah Wynder. Rev. Carrington is one among the great pastors of this city and yet he is not heard of by publication in the newspapers, but his work is known in the city by the people. He is one of the 1999 graduates of Clayton Williams University, of Baltimore, Md, and it is known in Richmond that he is on the hill for he is a gospel preacher and pastor. Three years ago when he took charge of Trinity Church, it was in the mind of a large number of the pastors that he would not be able to hold the church. There were only 87 members to be found on the books and not half of them could be found in the church, but the membership has grown to nearly 300, and the people who crowd there are not able to get in. They are erecting a building with a seating capacity of approximately 700. The building will be 44 by 67 feet and of stucco finish. This is a great work for the church and pastor and Richmond is proud of such a man. The building will be completed by the first of January, 1948, which means much to the denomination. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 325 1-2 North Second street. Tele- phone. Randolph 688 --- --- Confiscates Suit Case. Isaac Harris, colored, 214 West Clay Street, alighted from a train from the North at Elba Station, and carried a heavy suit case along the street early yesterday morning. Petolman Ernest overcooked Harris and connected the suit case. It is sold to have contained ten quarts of whisky. The meeting was set for September 14. A. Card. I wish to thank my many friends for the aid and kindness during my recent illness. REV. J. R. COOPER When our collector calls on you don't fail to pay him. Your subscript is due, pay it now. Rev. J. E. Taylor at Mt. Hermon. Rev. J. E. Taylor, of Newport News Va. arrived in the city Sunday, Augu- st 26th and preached at the Mt. Hermon Baptist Church, at 11:30 A. M. Text, Romans 1:16. Subject The Power of the Gospel. His sermon was able and instructive. We shall hope his visit again soon. C. BROWN, C. C. Can Get A Fight (Marttusburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press) As we said, Editor John Mitchell would win, and he has. Braver man never lived, and any man who picks a quarrel with him can get a fight, and ten to one, a whining. QUICK SALB—Walnut Bed, excellent lent spring, blue plush couch, marble top table. Will sell at a sac riffice. Apply 314 J. Grace at once Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 585 1-2 North Second street Tele- phone. Randolph 588 We do all kinds of Job Work. Lo me do it for you. The Right of Free Speech Pilgrim Fathers Intended America to Be A Place Where Men Could Petition for Redress of Grievances. (Oklahoma, Ok. Black Dispatch.) The release of The Richmond Planet. Thursday does not entirely settle the question of what men have a right to say under constitutional guarantees. The attempt to muzzle the expressions of a man who has grievances that he feels should be redressed open up a wide field for the discussion of Free Speech and the intent and purpose of those who wrote into the federal constitution, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Article I of the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of American institutions one does not have to go far to discover that all of those men who sat in the convention that drafted the constitution were believers in free speech. They believed heartily in the right of a citizen to strive for the blessings of Liberty and a more per foot union, or else, why did not they say in the preamble of that document that they adopted, "In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, protect the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty." Uzziah Miner, former editor of the Howard University Journal, was certainly petitioning the government for redress of grievances when he wrote the article that the Richmond post-office officials sought to bar from the mails. We have read his statement and believe in the truthful ungarnished fact in his every utterance, and while we fail to reach the same conclusion as he, as to how the black man should not under such conditions we at the same time feel that he had a right under the Constitution of the United States to state his case and to say how he felt about it. This is the portion of what he said that got him into bad standing with the postal authorities: "Personally, I wish to say that I am completely disgusted with America's hypocrisy and insincerity. She has entered the war for the avowed purpose of brining to pass a "World Democracy." I fail to see how I can consciously volunteer to fight for a "World Democracy" while I am denied the fruits and blessings of a Democracy at home. Of course, I may be called a "shaker," I may be regarded as disloyal, but I must say, unless President Wilson, like Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaks out bravely against the unspeakable activities perpetrated upon my despised and ill-treated race; unless the Department of Justice brings the guilty parties at East St. Louis to a "strict accountability," for their unparalleled brutality; unless I am assured that the glorious flag which I love so dearly will offer protection in the future to twelve million peace-loving colored inhabitants of this country; unless I am convinced that this "World Democracy" includes black men as well as white men. I shall consider myself a disgrace to my race and my country by freely volunteering to fight for a Democracy norross the seas, because, I firmly believe and maintain that Democracy, like charity, should begin at home and spread abroad." In the issue of July 25th we had what we feel is a fitting answer to Prof. Miner and we summed it all up in this tense expression, "Nothing comes to the man who suits, nothing has come to the Indian. Men can only try to chain you from without and he is truly helpless who chains himself within." We concluded by saying this: "There is no getting away from it wherever there is a right there is also a grave responsibility. Every intelligent black man in America that eries aloud today about his rights should have the vision to see that in proportion as he now grasps his responsibilities and duties of citizenship as largely as he may, he proportionately grasps also his every right for the two are, in this life, cumulative, heeded together." The other fellow may not know it yes, you may not understand, but you can not go out into this great world war and lay down your life without getting into the equation of things. The time to convict any man of your right to justice and fair play is to help him when he needs you most. Take the worst white man out of Mississippi and let him face danger by the side of the blackest son from the howels of Dahomeny: let them face death together, but conquer through their joint effort to enforced helpfulness, and there will spring up between those two men a kinship and a brotherhood the fauns of hell can not sever. Redress of grievances! That is the issue, the men back in 1776 saw the necessity for such a right and climbed the privilege into the Constitution in 1790. The world is mad right now but even though the hemispheres clash and the universe burst asunder this government must not lose sight of the fact that it was conceived in the idea of liberty, that it has no right to exist and that it adds to the comfort, peace and tranquility of men. We reaffirm the statement of Uziziah Miner that there is no deo-moray that does not include he and U and this government has a right to hear us when we say, we do not think it does. Exchange PERSONALS AND BRIEF Mrs. Cary Trueheart is in the city the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Norreel, Sr. Rev. Paul Pollard, Jr., of Kilmarnock, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mrs. Jemima Moss, of 419 W. Duval street is visiting relatives and friends in Millers' School and Charlottesville, Va. Deacon J. A. Moss has returned to the city after spending his vacation in Bedford City, Roanoke, Lynchburg and Charlottesville, Va. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street Telephone, Randolph 588. Mr. G. L. Jackson, of Millers' School, Va. attended the St. Luke Jubilee here last week, and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moss. Miss Mary Wallace, of Claremont, Va. is visiting Mrs. Diley Burke, on the Southside, this week. Miss Inez Cogbill is visiting, at Petersburg, the guest of Miss Eunice Smith. Miss Ruth Morris has returned to the city after a week's stay in Phoebus, Va., the guest of Mr. and Msr. Robert Coles. Mr. Atlas Barbee will leave the city Wednesday for New York, where he will attend the convention of Headwaiters' Association. Miss Alto Johnson has returned to the city after spending a week at Charemont, Va. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr. left the city Monday for Philadelphia, to attend the National Medical Association. While away, he will visit Atlantic City, New York, Delaware, Md, and returning home on Monday, to resume his practice. Mrs. Margaret H. Burrell announces the marriage of her niece, Miss Alice B. Barnette, to James Henry Roberts, M. D., September 1st, 1917, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, at Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Lucinda Walker Bailey, of Philadelphia, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Irma, after visiting New York, Berkley, Houston, Va, arrived in South Richmond last Saturday to spend a week, the guest of Mrs. L. G. King, 1017 Hull street Mrs. Addle G. Payne, of 114 W. Jackson St., who has been visiting her sisters, Mrs Junius Eiddick, and Mrs. John W. Chandler, of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. E. D. Samuels, of East Orange, N. J., also her aunt, Mrs. Charles Ricks, of Haverhill, Mass., has returned to the city after a very pleasant stay. She was accompanied by little Miss Thelma Lee Evans. Mr. Winston Dandridge Passes Away The funeral services of Mr. Winston Dandridge, of Morrison, who departed this life Wednesday, August 8th, were conducted at Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. N. B. Brown, assisted by Rev. F. W. Brown of Morrison, Sunday, August 12, 1917 His illness was of a short duration. He is survived by his mother, Martha Dandridge, a wife, one daughter and one brother. Rev. N. B. Brown preached a sympathetic sermon, Mr. Dandridge was a devoted husband and a loving father and his many friends feel deeply their loss. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. R. C. Scott officiated as funeral director. The interment was made in Evergreen Cemetery. Peace to his ashes, rest for his soul. His Wife. BETTIE DANDRUGE FOR SALE! Desirable homes on good terms— Suburban and City—Ready money to loan. BRAGG BROS. & CO., 506 N. Second street. 2t THE PLANET ITALIANS WIN IN HEAVY FIGHT Violent Counter Attacks of Enemy Repulsed. TRIESTE BEING EVAGUATED Civil Population Leave Adriatic Port, Taking With Them All Articles of Value and Seek Refuge in Interior of Country. The Italians made further progress on the Bainsizza plateau, on the front north of Orz, the Romo war office announces. "On the whole battle front," the statement says, "there were artillery actions principally. On the Bainsizza plateau our troops, continuing their progress, have been in closer contact with the enemy. "Vigorous local attacks assured for us some positions which the enemy failed to recapture, although he made violent counter attacks. "Unfavorable atmospheric conditions greatly impeded the activity of our airplanes." Trieste Being Evacuated. Triche is being evacuated. Its civilian population is deserting the town,2 at the order of the Austrian high command, according to the Zurich correspondent of Corriere d'Italia, whose despatches were cabled to the Italian embassy in Washington. Most of the citizens left Monday, taking with them "all articles of value," the cable stated. They sought refuge in the interior of Austria. Hourly the Italian offensive becomes more certain of a military decision, cable messages say. The Austrian troops in the sector dominated by Monto Santo are reported so far ahead of the Italians that no trace of them can be found except stacks of abandoned munitions, guns and food. From Monto Santo many square miles of territory can be raked by the Italians artillery. No Austrian position in this zone can be held more than a few hours. Monte Gabriele and Monte Danielle, northeast of Gorizia, are still held by the Austrians, but are isolated. No food or munitions can reach the beleaguered troops. The fall of those mountain forts is a matter of days, the cables aver. Emperor Carl spent the entire day of August 22 at the front with the Austrian high command and General Boroveziz. He saw Tarnovo captured and one fort on the Carso destroyed by the Italian bombardment. He left while the Italian troops were charging to victory. Austrian papers admit the precarious position of their troops. The Locale Anzegger correspondent makes no effort to conceal the important advantages gained by the Italians. Austrian Officials Alarmed Alarai has gripped official circles in Ivienna as a result of the unbroken series of Italian victories. Emperor Charles has gone to the front to try in person to stem the retreat of the Austro-Hungarians, said a despatch from Geneva. The Austro-Hungarian command on the southwestern front is being reorganized. It is reported that German officers are being sent there to Maffen the morale of the Austro-Tungarian troops. Reinforcements that were to have been used against the Russo-Rumanian army in Moldavia are being rushed to the Isonzo front to face the Italians BETHLEHEM TO ISSUE STOCK $30,000,000 Issue to Pay For Extensive Improvements. The Bettlehem Steel corporation's new financial plan was announced in New York, the chief feature of which is that holders of old and new common stock will have the right to subscribe at par value to $30,000,000 of 8 per cent cumulative preferred stock. These shares will be convertible into common stock, class B, at $115 a share. The new issue has been underwritten by a banking syndicate. Government orders, Mr. Schwalz sald, entail an increase of about $15,000,000 in the construction program, while increased cost of labor and material "calls for an unexpected increase in working capital, especially in connection with government work." The increase of the corporation's order "to an amount in excess of $30,000,000, as compared with $193,500,000 at the beginning of the year." It also mentioned as a factor. Soldiers Back From France Fourteen American soldiers who were a part of the first expeditionary force sent to France are in a hospital at Hoboken, N. J. The hospital authorities said none of the men had been wounded, but were suffering from alliments which necessitated their return to this country. THE FIGHT Photo by American Press Association. What became of the original owner of the German helmet shown in the bulletin picture is not known, but if he was wearing the helmet it received its damages he is eight no more. The men examining the helmet are Canadian officers, who share in the drive in which the trophy was captured. PLAN 16-OUNCE LOAF Bread With Official U. 8. Stamp to Sell For Six Cents. A standard sixteen-ounce loaf of bread, to retail for six cents, planned by the food administration. The bread will be known as the "Liberty Loaf" or by some similar name. It will be sold for cash over the counters or by bakers who deliver by wagon routes to families. Experiments with the pound loaf are now being conducted in two big Washington bakeries, which have placed their facilities at the disposal of the food administration. The loaf will be all-wheat flour. Herbert C. Hoover, the administrator, has been collecting statistics in all parts of the country concerning the cost of baking, the cost of flour delivered at small and large bakeries, profits made by bakers, and profits made by retail dealers, particularly small groceries. The result has convinced the food administration that a sixteen-ounce loaf of all-wheat bread to sell for six cents can be produced at a fair profit to bakers and dealers. Bakers and experts of th food administration believe the pound loaf is more economical than any other, more easily handled, and will retain its moisture, freshness and wholesomeness longer than smaller loaves. COAL MINERS TO ASK RAISE Invite Operators of Central Field to Discuss Scale on September 6 Discuss Scale on September 6. A substantial increase in wages for all coal miners in the United States will be asked. This became known through the extension of an invitation by the United Mine Workers of America to coal operators of the central competitive field to meet the union's officials here on September 6 to discuss a readjustment of the scale. The announcement was made by William Green, international secretary-treasurer of the miners. Mr. Green said this decision had been reached at a conference of international officials of the union and presidents of the districts of Illinois, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Indiana, composing the central competitive field. The letter of invitation to the operators says that recent developments in the coal industry have caused a pronounced spirit of unrest among the mine workers. MAKING ARMY GAS MASKS Contract For 1.074.000 to Ward Off German Poison Attacks. The Hero Manufacturing company, of Philadelphia, has been awarded a contract for 1,074,000 gas masks for the United States government. They will be used to equip the men of the national army. The contract calls for an expenditure of $1,502,000, and it is understood that the government will furnish the materials. Another contract for making power marking machines for marking clothing at the cantonments is being completed, as well as one for letratoms and cover caps for shells, according to A. M. Kennedy, secretary and treasurer of the company. Interned German Escapes Sigrist S. meck, an int med German at the Hot Springs, N.C., camp, for miles north of Asheville, escaped. He is the first to escape at Hot Springs. Shoots Himself After Crash. Miss Florence Hughes, of New Brighton, Pa., was killed and Howard Beck, of Asphwall, Pa., and Miss Mabel Spencer, of Slippory Rock, Pa., severely injured when their motor car struck a tree while running at a high rate of speed at Conneaut Lake, near Meadville, Pa. Walter Welch, of Slippory Rock, fourth member of the party is aail to have drawn a revolver and shot himself. He is in a serious condition with a bullet wound in the neck. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA GRANTS .THIRTY-DAY RESPITE TO NEGRO. Governor to Consider Case of Aubrey Barrett, Sentenced to Die To-morrow. FATHER WILL PAY PENALTY. Counsel Asserts Killing of Farmer Roach Was in Self-Defense. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Aug. 29, 1917.) Governor Stuart yesterday granted a respite of thirty days to Abney Barrett, the seventeen-year-old Negro boy under sentence of execution at the State Penitentiary to-morrow morning for the murder of W. T. Ronech, in Charlotte County. Albert Barrett, the father, will die at the appointed time, no appeal having been made for clemency on his account. The case of the Barrett boy was brought to the attention of Governor Stuart last week by State Senator Walter E. Addison, of Lynchburg, who told the Governor that he had been informed that this Negro, not yet seventeen, had been tried before Judge George L. Hundley in the Circuit Court of Charlotte County without a jury and without counsel for the defense; that he had been induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, and, after but the briefest of hearings, had been immediately sentenced to execution. Mob Violence Was Narrowly Averted. W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County, a farmer, suspected that someone had been stealing wheat from his field and traced wagon tracks to the home of the Barrots, nearby. Without waiting for warrant or or arresting officers, Roach attempted to make prisoners of Barrett and his son, and a fight followed, in which Roach was killed. There was high feeling in the county for a time, but Sheriff Pridley obviated any chance of mob violence by promising that there should be a prompt trial. Judge Hundley presided at the trial of the elder Barrett; Judge A. D. Watkins, of Farmville, was acting Commonwealth's attorney, assisted by Commonwealth's Attorney Light, of Campbell, and Barrett was defended by Attorney William Lancaster, of Farmville. Three Jurymen Willing to Give Boy Prison Term. The elder Barrett was tried by jury, had the benefit of counsel, was convicted and sentenced to execution, and on his behalf no appeal for clemency is pending. An effort, however, has been made to secure a writ of error from the Supreme Court in order that the case may be reviewed on its merits. No such step can be taken in the boy's case, as without counsel, he noted no exceptions. Three members of the jury which tried the father are quoted as tating that they considered the boy a mere accessory, and would have given him a prison term had his case been submitted to them. Publication of the fact that an appeal had been made for elemency in the case of the boy brought forth a series of statements from the various parties. Judge Hundley, in a signed statement, said that the boy's plea of guilty made a jury unnecessary: that the court has been informed that this plea had been made on advice of Mr. Lancaster, who had appeared as counsel for the father; that Barrett confessed the killing both on the stand and to arresting officers, and that the court had had no option but to pronounce the death sentence, the statute of 1914, making prison sentence optional applying only to juries. Counsel Was Forced to Withdraw. Mr. Lancaster appeared yesterday in a signed settlement in which he held that the killing had been self-defense. He stated that Judge Hundley had refused and, in fact threatened him with a fine when he attempted to argue that the boy was merely coming to the rescue of his father from attack by a man who was not armed with a warrant for his arrest in a case where a warrant should have been procured. In view of the attitude of the court and the refusal to grant instructions favorable to the elder Barrett, Mr. Lancaster said he had withdrawn and informed the court that he could not represent the boy. The younger Barrett, therefore, went to trial without counsel, no jury was sworn, the boy was induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, possibly in his ignorance, thinking that would be a mitigating circumstance, especially as he had already made full confession, and was promptly sentenced to electrosecution. Watkins Denies Judge Hundley Was Arbitrary. Judge Watkins, of Farmville, who acted as Commonwealth's attorney, yesterday issued a signed statement, in which he resents as unfounded the inference that Judge Hundley had acted in an arbitrary or harsh manner. He states, however, that he does not oppose executive clemency to the boy, and has heretofore expressed his opinion to the Governor. The attention of the Governor was called to the fact that, in his ignorance of the forms of legal procedure, the boy made no protest, noted no exception and is now without a foot-foil in law on which he could note an appeal to the Supreme Court. His only recourse, therefore, is to the clemency of the Governor. The Governor indicated last night that he had not passed finally on the merits of the case, but that the respite of thirty days would give opportunity for a more thorough investigation than he had been able to make up to this time. Judge Hundalley, now in his eighteenth year, has been regarded as one of the most distinguished men or the bench in Virginia. He served in the Confederate army and later in the State Senate. He was elected to the bench in 1898. Resents Comments on Court. Proceedings. The signed statement of Judge A. D. Watkins, of Farmville, getting Commonwealth attorney in the case who comes to the defense of Judge Hundley, follows: To the Editor of the Times-Dispatch: Sir,—It is with great surprise, and some indignation that I have read in the columns of your paper the comments, made upon the trial of the Barretts for the murder of William T. Roach, in the County of Charlotte. These comments carry intimations and insinuations that reflect seriously upon the administration of justice by the Circuit Court of the County of Charlotte. If the intimation intended be true, it would have been far better that the murderers of Roach had been summarily dealt with by the mob that first had them in charge. But if untrue, the spirit of the mob has simply been transferred from the people of Charlotte to others who are using the newspapers of the country to destroy the respect for the administration of justice in this Commonwealth. I do not mean to indicate that these comments have been made with the intention to do injustice, but to condemn the judge of a court and the prosecuting attorney upon statements made by one whose name is suppressed is, to say the least unfair. A brief narrative of the facts should suffice to satisfy those good citizens of the Commonwealth who had not been a "travesty" upon justice. Negroes Had Been Stealing Wheat From Roach's Field. On the 16th of July, 1917, W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County, suspected that his wheat field had been robbed; went with a neighbor, Mr. Collins, to the premises of the Barretts, and there discovered proof of the theft, which was admitted. The older Barett then attempted to adjust the matter in order to prevent a prosecution. This Roach declined to do, having previously discovered he same person guilty of like offenses, and had forgiven him; Roach then sent Collins to secure a warrant of arrest. In a short time, Collins returned, and found no one where he had left them. Immediately he gave the alarm, and after a short time the dead body of Roach was found in the woods near where he was last seen alive. An examination of the body disclosed that he was struck upon the back of the head with, some heavy instrument, which caused the breaking of the skull, and the brains to ooze therefrom. On the front of the head was another wound inflicted by an instrument which cleaved the bone just above the right eye, penetrating the brain. Three other wounds were found upon the top of the head, inflicted lengthwise, cleaving the skull in two and one-half to three inches in each case, and penetrating the brain. In the meantime, father and son had disappeared, and suspicion pointed to them as the perpetrators of the crime, and in a few days they were apprehended in the County of Campbell and brought back to Charlotte. No comment is needed upon the conduct of the good citizens of Charlotte and Campbell, other than the high commendation for their forbearance and respect for the law in their did not take the law in their own hands, but turned the prisoners over to the courts of the Commonwealth. Son Went to Assistance of His Father With Stick. On the 26th of July, the Circuit Court of Charlotte convened for the trial of the Barretts. The grand jury returned a true bill. The prisoners were brought into court, and without objection were arraigned and pleaded "not guilty." Mr. William Lancaster, of Farnville, a lawyer of long experience, who for many years was Commonwealth's attorney of the county of Cumberland, represented the prisoners. Through counsel, the prisoners elected to be tried separately. The older Barrett was tried first. The substance of the evidence introduced by the Commonwealth and not denied in any material fact was about as follows: When Collins left to go for the warrant, the older Barrett undertook to adjust the trouble with Roach. Failure in this, he attempted to escape. Roach laid hold of him, and in holding him, they both fell to the ground. The younger Barrett had gone some forty or fifty yards away. The older Barrett called for his son to come and take Roach off. The younger Barrett took up a large stick and struck Roach on the back of the head. Roach was stunned and partially fell to the ground, but was able to give exclamation of distress. The older Barrett, in his own words, "finished him" by striking him repeatedly with a rock. The body was then taken to the place where it was found. The Barretts then fled, taking with them a small amount of money and the watch of the deceased, which they claim to have found on the scene of the killing. None of the instruments, either rocks or sticks, have ever been found since. The prisoner testified in his own behalf, and here I may say, that in my own experience of nearly forty years, in the courts of this Commonwealth, and after having heard a number of confessions by persons who had committed atrocious crimes, I have never, with the exception of one, heard a confession made with less appreciation of the enormity of the crime, and with less regret at its commission. The prisoners seemed to be devoid of all sense of sorrow. Says Boy's Counsel Advised Him To Plead "Gunity." The case was then argued by Mr. Light, of Campbell County, and myself, representing the Commonwealth, and Mr. Lancaster representing the prisoners. Instructions were carefully drawn and given by the court, which I believe covered the case. The Jury, after a short time, returned their verdict of guilt of murder in the first degree. In the meantime, a second jury had been summoned for the trial of the boy. When he was brought into court, his attorney, Mr. William Lanaster, advised him to withdraw his plea of "not guilty" and plead "guilty" submitting to be tried by the court. I had intimation that this would be done and had so informed the judge. I was deeply impressed with the position of the court and saw at once that the judge was very reluctant to assume the responsibility of passing upon the life of the boy, and I can say without fear of successful contradiction that so far as my observation went, the judge did not in any way attempt to influence the boy in his plea, but fully explained his rights to have a jury. After Mr. Lancaster had advised the course to be pursued, it seems that the boy hesitated and then Mr. Lancaster intimated to the Court that he could do nothing more, and he saw no use of his appearing further in the case. The boy then withdrew his plea of "not guilty" and put in the plea of "guilty" and asked to be tried by the court, to which request L. as Commonwealth's attorney, consented. Evidence was then introduced of practically the same nature as is above narrated. In addition, there was introduced on the part of the Commonwealth, evidence as to the age of the boy, and this evidence disclosed the fact that he was not less than sixteen years of age, not more than seventeen. Court Found Both Guilty of First Degree Murder. No argument was then made, either against or for the prisoner, but the whole matter was taken into consideration by the court, and the court, in the exercise of its duty, found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced him to pay the death penalty. In both of these cases the prisoners testified in their own behalf. Do these proceedings, as narrated above, constitute a "travesty" upon justice? I have had experience of more than thirty years in the courts of this Commonwealth as judge of the county court, for five years, and prosecuting attorney for twenty-six years, and in all these years this is the first intimation that has ever been made that my conduct in dealing with the criminal class has been a "travesty" upon justice. Judge Hlundley needs no defense at my hand. His long life, four years of which were spent in offering his life in defense of his country, and as a civilian in private and public life, there is not a stain left upon it. His high Christian character and his past record, well known throughout this Commonwealth, is sufficient to shield him against the instinctions and unjust intimations of those who wantonly and recklessly attempted to destroy his good name, and this attempt is made upon the testimony of one whose name is withhold. If his assailants were tried in the court of public opinion, the verdict would be "guilty of attempted murder of the reputation of a just judge." In conclusion, I do not desire or intend these statements or facts to be taken as opposing the exercise of executive clemency towards the boy prisoner. I have heretofore expressed to the Governor my opinion. A. D. WATKINS Commonwealth's Attorney Pro Tem Farmville, Va. - August 27 REPRIEVE, PENDING-INQUIRY, PROBABLE. THE CASE OF BARRETT. On the information thus far made public, the execution of Aubrey Barrett on Thursday next would impugn the justice of Virginia courts. We do not know whether the crime for which the 17-year-old Negro boy stands sentenced to death was murder or manslaughter. That question for the moment, may be left out of account. The important and compelling act is that the attorney who was supposed to represent the boy has tainted public and in print that he withdrew from the case when the boy was arraigned. This means that an ignorant Negro of 17 was put on trial for his life without counsel and without any knowledge of the effect of his plea. Apparently, the boy did not even understand, when he changed his plea from "not guilty" to "guilty," that by so doing he waived jury trial and placed himself where the court had no alternative in sentencing him to death. No matter what the circumstances may have been, and no matter how the case may now be argued, this was not justice. Every man is entitled to counsel when on trial for his life. If he has no lawyer, the court must name one for him. If the lawyer so named withdraws from the case and no other can be selected immediately, then the simple mandates of common justice require that the case be postponed to a later term of court. No intelligent, educated man, untrained in the law, is capable of conducting his defense against skilled attorneys; How can more be expected of a negro boy? It may be that the lapse of memory which the lawyer in the case attributes to Judge Hundley is properly chargeable against himself, Judge Hundley's statement, as given to this newspaper, makes it plain that as he recalls the facts, the young Negro was represented by counsel and acted on advice of counsel in changing his plea from "not guilty" to "guilty." But the very conflict between the court and the lawyer adds to the argument against an immediate execution. Both cannot be right; it is essential to justice to ascertain which is wrong. That will take time. And meanwhile, the courts are powerless to intervene. The Negro entered no exceptions to any ruling of the court, did not file notice of appeal and, today, has no ground on which he could ask the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to grant him a new trial. Executive clemency must be exercised if the Negro's life is to be spared until the justice of his trial can be determined. It is not the policy of The News Leader to appeal in the public name against the judgment of our courts. In times of public excitement, when great influences were being brought to bear upon the governor we have always taken the view that as the exercise of clemency was a prerogative and a trust, it should be left to the judgment and conscience of the governor, who presumably had all the facts before him. In this instance, we are led to make an exception to the rule because of the most unusual facts in the case and, still more, because there is direct and very important conflict of testimony between the judge and the lawyer who was supposed to represent the Negro. No harm can possibly be done by staying the execution. Grave danger of great injustice is certainly hazarded if the boy is allowed to go to the electric chair on Thursday. In the name of that justice which none cherishes more than he, we appeal to Governor Stuart to stay execution until the facts in the case can be established beyond any possible question—Richmond, Va., News-Leader, Aug. 28, 1917. BRISTOL, TENN.VA. NOTES. The A. M. E. Zion Sunday School ran a large picnic excursion, Friday, August 24th, to James Park. It was quite a success, and a large number attended. All reported a grand time. The K. of P. Lodge ran a picnic excursion to James Park, Tenn. Dr. C. H. Johnson, Mr. Loman and Hon. R. E. Clay, left for Fredericksburg, Va., last week, to attend the State Sunday School Convention. Miss A. M. Smith went to Wynandote, Va., to attend a Basket Meeting, Sunday. Mrs. Dr. Johnson, Supt. of the Cradle Roll Department of the S. S. of the Lee St. Baptist Church, will have a crade day exercises September 2nd. Everybody is invited to attend. Mr. S. G. Jenkins is planning to give a musical recital for the benefit of the Lee St. Baptist Choir. Little Miss Kittie Franklin, No. 913 Lillie St., is on the sick list this week. An early recovery is hoped for. Miss Mary Penn returned home this week from Sugar Grove, Va., where she had been visiting her sister, Lottie Madason. Mr. Sam Banks made a flying trip to Bluff City, to look after some plumbing work. Rev. W. M. W. Hill preached a noble sermon Sunday morning, Doctor Johnson being absent, so he filled the pulpit stand for the day. Mrs. Kittie Johnson, and Mrs. Condie Rawley, returned home from Richmond, Va., where they went to attend the Golden Jubilee of the I. O. of St. Lukes. They reported one of the grandest meetings ever held in Richmond, Va. Mr. Landon Clay and Miss Marion Miller were happily married Tuesday night, August 28th, in the pastor's study of the Lee St. Baptist Church, by Rev. W. M. W. Hill. Mr. Clay is the youngest son of Mrs. Francis Clay Miller, and also the brother of Hon. R. E. Clay. Miss Miller was the attractive young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller, of this city. We wish for them both success and much happiness in this life. They will reside in North Bristol for a while. The Business League Glee Club sang at Weavers Chapel Thursday night, August 23rd, to a large audience, and every one seemed to have enjoyed the singing to the highest. C. B. D. DANVILLE NOTES On account of the illness of the Agent, the Planet has failed to reach its readers for the past two weeks. We regret very much to have had our customers miss the two copies. Dr. R. C. Woods. President of the FIVE cost to you under $100, not one cent more cost to you under $100, not one cent No extra charge for fancy, swell styles no extra charge for extra big, extreme sizes of dresses, bolt loops, no extra charge for anything all FREE. Before you take another customer, get our samples and new offer. Agents of other tailoring houses please write, we have new deal that would be perfect for you to answer this, every boy long pants, every man, everywhere. No matter what you want, we can answer it a letter, and say "Send Me Your New Free Offer" the big, new different tailoring costs. Cost nothing in the dress, Write today, the minute, Address Va. Theological Seminary and College, was in the city last week, the guest of Dr. A. A. Galvin. Mrs. George Harston, of 401 So, Main St., left the city Saturday, for Roselle, N. J., to be at the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Woody, who is very sick. Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge and Mrs. M. K. Page, attended the State Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Convention that met at Fredericksburg, Va. They report a grand session. Rev. M. X. Elliot who has been in the city for some time, will leave this week for Chicago, IL, where he intends to make his future home. Mr. Peter London, an aged citizen of Almagro, died last Wednesday. Funeral services were held Sunday evening, conducted by Rev. W. Harrison. Dr. S. A. Moses, Rev. W. P. Terry and Rev. N. T. Johnson, witnessed the baptizing of the Giffield Baptist Church, Witt, Va., last Sunday. It was the largest baptizing in the history of the church. At 3:30 P. M. Dr. Moses preached a powerful and helpful sermon. Dr. S. E. Bullock has opened an up-to-date dental parlor in the Southern Aid Building. Dr. Bullock is a graduate of Howard University, Dental School. He says his aim is to satisfy. "To this end he plans to have the best and most modern implements. FROM PORTSMOUTH, VA Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 27, 1917. Editor Richmond Planet:— There are quite a number in this section of the State, who are anxious to see your paper have a larger circulation in this immediate vicinity. We know of no organ owned and controlled by our people, with a National circulation, that is more comprehensive in all matters appertaining to Governmental affairs, the social, political and well-being of our race, than the "Richmond Planet." The editorial columns for years, have been looked for on all great questions concerning the Nation's good, and whose advice, to a very great extent, has guided our people over many seas of trouble. With delight we read your columns on the St. Louis affair, "Uzzin Miner Letter," telling why he would not volunteer, the same, published in your paper, which was held up by the Postoffice authorities in your city. We rejoice over the triumphant victory won and the paper allowed to pass through the mail. We are now confronted with another trouble. A riot caused by the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, located at Houston, Tex. The newspapers, some of them, know just how to still a trouble when the Negroes are involved. It was claimed that the Negroes started the "St. Louis Riot." It has been shown they did not. And now it is claimed by some of the newspapers that the Negro soldiers of the 24th Infantry started the riot at Houston, Tex. As the case is cited, in many of the papers, it seems, without any provocation whatever, on the part of the white citizens, yet they admit one of the officers of the Negro regiment was killed by a police. We truly hope that the Army authorities will not make this an exceptional case and go, contrary to law and custom, and turn these soldiers over to be tried by civil authority. We shall wait patiently to hear your version on the entire affair. The Metropolitan Baptist Church of Green St., is sparing no pains in looking after their pastor, Rev. R. G. Adams, who has accomplished so much materially and spiritually, during the eight months of his pastorate. The edifice has been renovated, membership increased, and the spirituality, said to be greater than during the existence of the church. On Friday evening last, the following members led a surprise on pastor and wife, and left their table laden with foodstuff of all kinds to last many days: Mrs. Etta B. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Perkins, Mrs. Sallie Boykins, Mr. and Mrs. Closson, Mr. Shurman Parson, Rev. E. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Boone, Mr. Wright Boone, Mr. Arthur Dukes, Mr. Joshua Hines, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vick, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Maggie Arrington, Mr. Gate, Mrs. Goldie Jones, Mrs. Grenett Smith, Mr. Irwin Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hatechett, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Peebles, Misses Mary A. Bowden, Ruth Cross, Fannie A. C. Williams, Laura E. C. Felton, Emma Scutchings, Eddie Savage, Anna F. Parham, Martha Farmer; Masters Eugene G. Myers and Lee J. Conway; Mr. James, Mr. Wm. Drew. Dee, Harrison, Farmville, Vn., Mrs. Sallie Bland, Mrs. Fannie A. Myers, Mr. Wm. Sanders, Mr. Emmet Hall, Mr. John F. Conway, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. Reuben Petty, Mr. and Mrs. Shields, Mr. D. W. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Chablis, Mrs. Fannie A. Conway, Mrs. Sadie Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Taylor, Mrs. Lillie Rodgers, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Woodard, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Taylor, Mr. Lewis Faison, Mrs. Alice Moore, Mrs. Mollie Farmer, Mrs. Mary A. Holiday, Mrs. Annie Smith, Mr. John W. Barnes, Mrs. Bessie C. Hodges, and other friends whose names we failed to get. Your subscription to the Planet in w. Have you paid it? If not why not? Big Timber You Will Enjoy Our New Serial By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR It Is a Dramatic Story of Love and the Logging Camps, A Vigorous Tale of Lives That Are Made or Broken by the "Big Timber" of the Northwest, Around Which They Build Their Hopes. A VIRILE ROMANCE ABSORBING FASCINATING BIG TIMBER WATCH FOR IT! 81X THE PLANET nuesce with her two handbags. So far as Miss Estella Benton could see, she was about to embark on the last stage of her journey. "How soon will you start?" she inquired when the last of the stuff was stowed aboard the little steamer. "Twenty minutes or so." Benton answered. "Say," he went on casually, "have you got any money, Stell? I owe a fellow $30, and I left the bank roll and my check book at camp." Miss Benton drew the purse from her handbag and gave it to him. He pocketed it and went off down the wharf, with the brief assurance that he would be gone only a minute or so. The minute, however, lengthened to nearly an hour, and Sam Davies had his blow-off valve blossing, and Stella Benton was casting impatient glances shoreward before Charlie strolled leisurely back. "You needn't fire up quite so strong, Sam," he called down. "We won't start for a couple of hours yet." "Sufferin' Moses!" Davis poked his flery thatch out from the engine room. "I might 'a' known better'n to sweat over flin' up. You generally manage to make about three false starts to one get-away." Benton laughed good naturedly and turned away. "Do you usually allow your men to address you in that impertinent way?" Miss Benton desired to know. Charlie looked blank for a second; then he smiled and, linking his arm affectionately in hers, drew her off along the wharf, chuckling to himself "My dear girl," said he, "you'd better not let Sam Davis or any of Sam's kind hear you pass remarks like that. Sam would say exactly what he thought about such matters to his boss or King George or to the first lady of the land regardless. Sabe? We're what you'll call primitive out help yet. You want to forget that master and man business, the servant proposition, and proper respect and all that rot. Outside the English colonies in one or two big towns that attitude doesn't go in B. C. People in this neck of the woods stand pretty much on the same class footing, and you'll get in bad and get in bad if you don't remember that. I've got ten loggers working for me in the woods. Whether they're Impermention or profane cuts no figure, so long as they handle the job properly. They're men, you understand, not servants. None of them would hesitate to tell me what he thinks about me or anything I do. If I don't like it I can fight him or fire him. They won't stand for the sort of alms you're accustomed to. They have the utmost respect for a woman, but a man is merely a two legged male human like themselves, whether he wears macknaws or broadcloth, has a barrel of roney or none at all. This will seem odd to you at first, but you'll get used to it. You'll find things rather different out here." "I suppose so," she agreed. "But it sounds queer. For instance, if one of papa's clerks or the chauffeur had spoken like that he'd have been dis charged on the spot." "The logger's a different breed," Benton observed dryly, "or perhaps only the same breed manifesting under different conditions. He isn't servile. He doesn't have to be." "Why the delay, though?" she reverted to the point. "I thought you were all ready to go." "I am," Charlie enlightened, "but while I was at the store just now Paul Abbey phoned from Vancouver to know if there was an up lake boat in. His people are big lumber guns here, and it will accommodate him and won't hurt me to wait a couple of hours and drop him off at their camp. I've got more or less business dealings with them, and it doesn't hurt to be neighborly. He'd have to hire a gas boat otherwise. Besides, Paul's a pretty good head." CHAPTER II. THEY walked slowly along the broad roadway which bordered the lake until they came to a branchy maple, and here they seated themselves on the grassy turf in the shadow of the tree. "Tell me about yourself," she said. "How do you like it here, and how are you getting on? Your letters home were always chiefly remarkable for their brevity." "There isn't a great lot to tell," Boston responded. "I'm just beginning to get on my feet. A raw, untried youngster has a lot to learn and unlearn when he hits this tall timber. I've been out here five years, and I'm just beginning to realize what I'm equal to and what I'm not. I'm crawling over a hump now that would have been a lot easier if the governor hadn't come to grief the way he did. He was going to put in some money this fall. But I think I'll make it anyway, though it will keep me digging and figuring. I have a contract for delivery of a million feet in September and another contract that I could take if I could C. G. H. "I'm holding two limits by the skin of my teeth." see my way clear to finance the thing. I could clear up $30,000 not in two years if I had more cash to work on. As it is, I have to go show, or I'd go broke. I'm holding two limits by the skin of my teeth. But I've got one good one practically for an annual pittance. If I make delivery on my contract according to schedule it's plain sailing. That about sizes up my prospects, sls. "It sounds big," she commented. "It is big," Charlie declared, "if I could go at it right. I've been trying ever since I got wise to this timber business to make the governor see what a chance there is in it. He was getting properly impressed with the possibilities when the speed bug got him. He could have trimmed a little here and there at home and put the money to work. Ten thousand dollars THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA would have done the trick, given me a working outfit along with what I've got that would have put us both on Easy street. However, the poor old chap didn't get around to it. I suppose, like lots of other business men, when he stopped everything ran down. According to Lander's figures, there won't be a thing left when all accounts are squared." ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "Don't talk about it, Charlie," she begged. "It's too near, and I was through it all." "I would have been there too," Benton said, "but, as I told you, I was out of reach of your wire, and by the time I got it it was all over. I couldn't have done any good, anyway. There's no use mourning. One way and another we've all got to come to it some day." Stella looked out over the placht, shimmering surface of Roaring lake for a minute. Her grief was dimming with tide and distance, and she had all her own young life before her. She found herself drifting from painful memories of her father's sudden death to a consideration of things present and personal. She found herself wondering critically if this strange, rude land would work as many changes in her as were patent in this bronzed and burly brother. 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. "Are there many people living around this lake?" she inquired. "It is surely a beautiful spot. If we had this at home there would be a summer cottage on every hundred yards of shore." "Be a long time before we get to that stage here," Benton returned. "And scenery in B. C. is a drug on the market. We've got Europe backed off the map for tourist attractions, if they only knew it. No, about the only summer home in this locality is the Abbey place at Cottonwood Point. They come up here every summer for two or three months. Otherwise I don't know of any lilies of the field, barring the hotel people, and they, being purely transit, don't count. There's the Abbey-Monohan outfit with two big logging camps, my outfit, Jack Fyfe's, some hand loggers on the east shore and the R. A. T. at the head of the lake. That's the population, and Roaring lake is forty-two miles long and eight wide." "Are there any nice girls around?" she asked. FOR $100 WORTH OF COUPONS. WE WILL SEND YOU A LARGE SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR $75 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A SMALLER SIZE TALKING MACHINE FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT Benton grinned widely. "Girls?" said he. "Not so you could notice. Outside the Springs and the hatchery over the way, there isn't a white woman on the lake except Lefty Howe's wife—Lefty's Jack Fyfe's foreman—and she's fat and past forty. I told you it was a God forsaken hole as far as society is concerned. Stell." FOR $30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT "I know," she said thoughtfully. "But one can scarcely realize such a—such a social blankness until one actually experiences it. Anyway, I don't know but I'll appreciate utter quiet for awhile. But what do you do with yourself when you're not working?" "There's seldom any such time," he answered. "I tell you, Stella, I've got a big job on my hands. I've got a definite mark to shoot at, and I'm going to make a bullsock in spite of h— and high water. I have no time to play, and there's no place to play if I had. I don't intend to muddle along making a pittance like a hound logger. I want a stake. And then it'll be time to make a splurge in a country where a man can get a run for his money." "If that's the case," she observed, "I'm likely to be a headcap to you, am I not?" We Do All Kinds of Job Work "Lord, no," he smiled. "I'll put you to work, too, when you get rested up from your trip. You stick with me, sls, and you'll wear diamonds." She laughed with him at this, and, leaving the shady maple, they walked up to the hotel, where Reuton proposed that they get a canoe and paddle to where Roaring river flowed out of the lake half a mile westward to kill the time that must elapse before the 3:30 train. 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. (TO BE CONTINUED) 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 THE RICHMOND PLANET. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond. Virginia --- HEY JANET A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. At dawn the British advanced between Langenmarck and Frezzoberg. The new battle is being fought over a section strongly organized by the Germans with concrete redoubts and machine gun nests in shell holes. Sharp fighting continues around the coal mining center of Lens, in the outskirts of which the British are making progress. Counter attacks failed to shake the British from their new positions. Further gains are reported offically from London. The Germans continued their efforts to recapture ground gained in the new French offensive on the Verdun front. Heavy counter attacks were made on both sides of the Meuse. The Germans gained a footing temporarily in the French positions, but were soon driven out. The number of prisoners taken by the French has reached 6116. THURSDAY Italy's offensive on the Isonzo front is meeting with continued success. Rome reports officially that further ground has been gained on the northern and southern wings. Austrian counter attacks are being repulsed. The Austrian losses in the first two days of the battle are computed unofficially at 30,000. "Definite success" for the British operations northeast of Ypres is reported from the battle front. The situation had been somewhat uncertain because of the desperate resistance offered by the Germans. The French objectives north of Verdun apparently have been attained. The number of prisoners has reached 7639. The French have captured twenty-four cannon and more than 200 machine guns. The Germans are continuing vigorously their new offensive on the north end of the Russian front. Petrograd officially reports a Russian withdrawal of five miles toward Riga. FRIDAY In a brilliant attack on the Verdun front the French have carried Hill 304, one of the most bitterly disputed positions of the war. The French advanced to an average depth of a mile and a quarter over the sector between Avocourt wood and Dead Mtn's Hill. Paris announces officially, and auso stormed the fortified works between Haucourt and Bathincourt. On the British front, the bitter fight for possession of Lens continues. The official statement says the British now hold German trenches immediately northwest of the Green Grassler, south of Lens, and that especially heavy losses have been inflicted on the Germans. Heavy fighting continues along the Italian front. Rome announces that more than 20,000 prisoners have been taken and sixty guns. The Indians have stormed further Austrian positions and broken up violent counter attacks. SATURDAY The Austrian line on the Isonza front has been broken at several points. The Italians, continuing their assaults between Tolmino and the Adriatic are pursuing the retreating Austrians. One of the most brilliant feats of the Italians was the capture of Monte Santo, 2245 feet nigh. This peak, saven miles north of Gorizia, dominates the broad plain beyond that city. Its occupancy has enabled the Austrians to hold up the Italian advance to the east since their capture of the city. Profiling by the capture of Hill 304, on the Verdun front, the French advanced north of it. Three fortified works near Binhincourt were stormed. Violent artillery engagements are in progress in the Champagne. In Belgium, near Bixschoote, the big guns are heavily engaged. SUNDAY With the dominating height of Monte Santo securely in their po session, the Hallans are continuing their drive of Charley Puzzled at Luke's Actions Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers the Austrians eastward over the Batalzza plateau, notwithstanding the violent resistance the enemy is offering with Infantry, machine guns and light artillery. Daily the number of prisoners taken by the Rallans—both officers and men—is mounting, the latest report showing that 600 officers and 23,000 men have definitely been rendered non-combatants for the remainder of the war. Both sides of the river Meuse in the Verdun sector the French troops continue their gains against the forces of the German crown prince, on the right bank having captured positions over a front of two and a half miles to a depth of two-thirds of a mile, taking the Fesses and Beaumont wood and reaching the environs of the village of Beaumont' and on the left bank having driven their advanced posts to the outskirts of Beaumont and along the banks of the Forces rivellet. MONDAY The Italian victory on the Isonzo front is increasing in magnitude and importance. Unofficial estimates place the Austrian losses at 100,000. Trieste is under fire from naval guns mounted on monitors and other craft. The French General Pe'a'n is holding all gains in the Verdun offensive despite formidable counter attacks which the German crown prince is launching. The French commander reports the repute of strong assaults. To anounceces the capture of 1100 prisoners when the French lines were carried forward two-thirds of a mile to the outskirts of Beaumont village. The Germans have resumed attacks in the Alsine region, but have been thrust back, Paris reports. 3 Photo by American Press Association. This service flag, which is furnished by the government at a small building to be hung outside windows of homes of men serving Uncle Sam. Each star represents a man. The flag has a red border, white center and blue stars. The other five stars are home of Mrs. R. Morrissey, 261 One Hundred and Eighty-eighth street, New York, whose three sons are in the servicymount, twenty-two; Frank, twenty, and Vincent, eleven, in the navy. GENERAL MARKETS PHI1ADE1.PHIA; -FLOUR -Strong PHI1ADE1.PHIA; @10@10.50; city mills, $13.22 @13.50. RYE FLOUR—Quiet; per harrel $5.50@10. WHEAT—Nominal. CORN—Quiet. No. 2 yellow, $1.91@ 1.92. GATS — Quiet; No. 2 white, 80@18c POULTRY — Live steady; heens, 24@ 25; old roosters, 16@17c. Dressed steady; choice fowls, 271c%; old roosters, 19c. CHIHUA — Firm; fancy creamery, 451c% per lb. EGGS — Firm; selected, f0@51c; nearby, 42; western, 42. Live Stock Quotations. CHICAGO — HOSPITAL — Higher, t0 17.65; black, t0, 16.20@light, light 15.75@17.40; mixed, 15.70@17.60; heavy, $15.85@17.65; rough, $15.75@ 16; pigs, $15.75@14.25. GATTLE — Strong; native beef cat, 8.25@15.60; western steers, $7@ stockers and feeders, $6.10@ 9.25; heifers, $4.65@13; calves, $15.10@16. SHEEP — Higher; wethers, $7.90@ 11.25; lambs, $10.75@16.75. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Light Autos Haul Plows The difficulty in getting teams and men to plow the vacant lots in Greensburg, Pa., for the Patriotic Garden league has caused the inventive genius of some of those in charge to put a new method into practice. Light automobiles are being used to pull the plows and harrows, and the work is being done quite rapidly in this way. MANY KILLED IN SPAIN Revolters Fire on Troops and Artillery is Turned On Them. Violent rioting has been taking place in Barcelona, and the neighboring towns since last Monday when a genera- la strike was proclaimed. Firing from the roofs of houses and from behind closed shutters has been going on daily. A considerable number of persons have been killed and many have been wounded though no reliable figures are available. Artillery was brought into action against some buildings which were strongly held by the rioters and three houses were destroyed by shell fire. While these events are going on in Barcelona and in other Catalonian towns, reports are circulated by word of mouth of great disturbances in other parts of Spain and of a republic be- ing proclaimed at Balbona and Saragosa. It is impossible to learn the truth regarding these rumors as a rigid censorship is exercised over the telephone and telegraph lines and the newspapers. All the liberal daily newspapers have been suppressed. The only journals appearing in Barcelona are the "Vanguardia" which prints only official and inaccurate reports, and the Diagraficom commonly believed to be subsidized by the Germans. GARRETT SUCCEEDS VAN DYKE Baltimore Man Named New Minister to Netherlands. John Work Garrett, of Baltimore was nominated by President Wilson as minister to The Netherlands and Luxemburg. Mr. Garrett succeeds Dr. Henry Vun Dyke, who resigned some lime ago. A though accredited also to Luxemburg as is the custom of the diplomatic service, Mr. Garrett hardly will go there. The duchy has been overrun by the Germans and now is under their miltary control. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet $1.50 per year in advance. Competent Workmen Handle the Forms In Our Composing Room. EVERY DETAIL of a job is carefully looked after. A man working at a printing press. Nothing but FIRST CLASS printing work. We have the best equipped printing shop in town. --- 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 HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD QN 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. --- Falls, Breaks Neck, Walks Home, Dier Following a christening in the Brookside section of Wilkes-Barre Pa., Andrew Lopkerwitt fell down a flight of stops and had his neck brok en. Regaining his feet, he made no request for help, but walked directly to his home and went to bed. A few minutes later he called his wife and complained of increasing pain that tor tured him so much. Lopkerwitt called a doctor and priest. Religious conso lation was given and he died before the doctor could complete an exam ination. --- September 8. Washington, Aug. 18—Eleven o'clock on the night of Saturday, September 8, is the time fixed by the food admin- istration when all processes in the United States for the manufacture o distilled spirits must stop. The thirty day period allowed expires at midnight, September 9, but this date falls on Sunday. Internal revenue laws prevent the operation of distilleries after eleven o'clock Satur- day night. Any effort to construe the law to permit the use, after that time, of wheat, corn, rye and other materials which had been boarded will be met with firm action. Useless Advice. Mrs. Batz—You ought to brace up and show your wife who is running things at your house. Cralle (sadly)—It isn't necessary. She knows.—Puck. ```markdown ``` Woodland Park IS NOW OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENTS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNICS, ETC. 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. THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. YES BUT WHAT YOU GONA-DO WITH THE DIRT YOU TAKE OUT OF THE HOLE SEVEN ```markdown ``` $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons $100 Worth of Umbrella Coupons The Planet (Richmond, Va.) will be sent to your door for only $1.50 per year in advance. Subscribe now, and get the news news. XELENTO Quinine Pomade Copyrighted JANIE RAND and MARGARET BERRY wrote on that they had hardly any hair, but after waking Xelento you can see the results on their pictures. Kinks Hair cannot be made straight. You have to have hair before it can be straightened. Now this EXELENTO QUININE POMADE is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky,umpy hair growth and silky. It cleans dandruff and stops falling Hair at once. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Wrote For Particulars at Once EXELENTO MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE! And So On Ad Infinitum CHARLEY CHAPLIN'S COMIC CAPERS Luke Not So Unlucky Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley. WONT LUKE BE JEALOUS WHEN I TELL HIM ABOUT THIS MY DAUGHTER 'MOLLIE' CAN COOK A SCRUMPTIOUS CHICKEN DINNER I WONDER WHAT IS KEEPING MOLLIE. WE'VE WAITED FOR A HALF HOUR NOW LET'S LOOK INTO THE KITCHEN AN' SEE WHAT'S KEEPING MOLLIE IF WE CAN'T FIND ANYTHING ELSE I CAN EAT A STOVE LID DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE LAST PIECE MR. LOOK YES ITS A GAY LIFE IN THE CITY. WE HAVE AUTOMOBILES AND FREE LUNCHES SATURDAY Sept. -- 1 THE PLANET ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE NEWS NOTES The funeral of Mrs. Helen Forgurson took place Wednesday, Aug. 22nd, at 11 o'clock, at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, of which she was a faithful member. The pastor, Rev. Geo. C. Taylor/D. D., officiating in a most eloquent and befitting manner. The life and character of this noble woman, as a mother she was an ideal mother, as a wife unexcelled, as a neighbor unequaled. A modeled church worker, a polished Christian. She outlined the songs to be sung at the funeral and text for the discourse. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. Hymn selected; Why should we mourn departed friends? and On Jordan's Stormy Banks I stand and Cast a Wistful Eye. Miss Annie L. Jackson, of New York, her sister, and Mrs. Clifton P. Bracket, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was present at the funeral. She leaves a husband, four sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss. Rev. Curtis was present and offered his fervent prayer and said many public pleas. fered a very fervent prayer and said many noble things of the deceased. The Rev. Curtis paid a glowing tribute of respect to the life and memory of the deceased, having known her for more than thirty years. The Rev. J. J. Jefferson, of Fourth Avenue, N. W., was among the clergy in attendance. The church loses a dear member. The entire community will miss Sister Fergerson, but we feel satisfied Heaven rejoiced at her coming home, for indeed she lived for the future home beyond this temporary abode. Her remains was solemnly laid to rest in Midway Cemetery, until the coming of the King in His glory in the end of the world. Let her life remind us we too soon must follow our departed sister and friend. Mr. Thomas H. Burrell, the young preacher and student of Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C., a native of Franklin County, preached at night at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Text, John 14th Chapter and part of 2nd verse. He cometh forth as a flower and is cut down. He made a very beautiful and instructive discourse out of the words found in his text comparing man with the visible and invisible characters of the flower. The beauties and Fragilities of both man and the flower. Rev. Geo. C. Taylor, D. D. of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, preached a very instructive sermon Sunday tensive audience. Text: As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Dr. Taylor preached, in the afternoon, the funeral of Mrs. Nowell who died last Saturday on 10th St. N. W., after a long illness. Mrs. Nowell was the sister of Mrs. Alex-and Davis, of 212 4th Ave.; Mr. Henry Nowell, 9th Ave., N. W., and Mr. Flem Nowell, of 10th St. N. W., Sunday morning, August 26th, 1917, Rev. J. D. Walker, preached at 10 o'clock, at the Hill St. Baptist Church. Text, Acts 11 chapter, 24th verse: For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord. Mr. Lambert Wilson and wife, Mrs Narsis Wilson, and their two children, left the city ten days ago for a vacation to their home, North Carolina, where they had quite a pleasant stay. They returned home Monday, August 27th, very much delighted. They saw many old acquaintances and friends on their trip. Mr. Samuel Hurt, of No. 514 7th St., N. W., Roanoke, the son of Mr., and Mrs. Larkins Hurt, volunteered to the service of the U. S. He left Monday, August 27th on No. 3 N. & W., for Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Anna Robinson Terry Bennett, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is visiting her mother, Mrs Nancy Robinson, of 7th Ave., N. W. Mrs. Edward Reeves returned from Chicago, Ill., where she spent 8 weeks visiting her husband. She reports a most pleasant trip. Mrs. Hallie Booker, 206 Wells Ave., has returned from Pampin and Prospect, Va., where she spent 8 weeks visiting her husband. She friends. Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Rev. Dennis Carter, of 118 Gilmer Ave., N. W., left Sunday night for Springfield, Mass., to visit his sister, Miss Jane Carter. Miss Hattie Davis, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dennis for the past three months, returned to Charlotte, N. C., her home. Mr. and Mrs. Goo, W. Coleman, Miss Florine, and Geo. W., left for South Boston, then to Richmond, Va. they will be away three weeks. Many of Miss Maggie Gordon's Ronoke friends will read with regret the accident she met with in Philadelphia. When she fell five stories through a sky-light. She was considerably broken. Her face was cut, arm and wrist broken, but she is getting along nicely at present. Mrs. Lula Sellers, of Pittsburgh, formerly of Salem, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. She will be here two weeks. Mr. Chas, Stutz, of Bethlehem, Pa., chauffeur of Chas, M. Swabw, was called to Roanoke, by Mr. E. L. Stone on important business. Mrs. Rachel E. Harth, and Mr. Robert F. Tate, left Monday for Dauphine Va., where they will represent Roanoke, at the District Meeting of the Old Fellows and Household of Ruth. Leave your order for the Planet and Washington Eagle with Joe C. Dugger or M. Stantfield. At the Hampton Theatre Don't forget to go to your House, The Hampton, Money given away Saturday night—$50.00. Save your coupons. You can always see good pictures at The Hampton. Monday—Marian Slas in the American Girl, 2 parts. Special feature, Ham and Bud, 1 part. Wednesday—Pear White, in Pearl of the Army, Juanita Hassen in Submarine. Pathe News. Thursday—Mollie King in Mystery of the Double Cross. Earl Williams in the Scarlet Runner. Pathe News. Friday—Helen Holmes in the Railroader Raider's Trip Around the World, a scenic Kerigan Western Mural Weekly. Saturday—Our Girl Reporters. Saturday—Hamilton, Western. Geo. Ovey, Cub Comedy. Matinee Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 3:30 P. M. Miss Florence E. Jordan was the charming hostess Wednesday evening, when she entertained several of her friends and visitors at her home, 327 Chestnut Avenue, N. W. Among the visitors were: Miss Willie Coleman, of Richmond, Va., Miss Fannie Kelly, of Suffolk, Va., Miss Martin, and the Misses Price; also Dr. Oscar Davis, formerly of Roanoke, Dr. Oscar Davis, of Charleston, W. Va., is visiting in Roanoke. The Doctor reports that he is meeting with success in Charleston. Mrs. Mary E. Penn, and little Miss Inez Robinson, are visiting in Bedford, Va. Mr. George Smith, No. 322 4th Avenue, N. W., is critically ill at his home and has been since March. Miss Lillian Dennis, of Philadelphia, and Miss Nowlin, Elkorn, W. Va., was the guest of Miss Mary E. Thompson for the week end. Mr. George Patterson is out again, after two weeks' confinement at his home, on account of a swirled foot. Miss Willie Coleman, of West Point, Va., and Miss Mary E. William, of Georgia, arrived in Roanoke this week. They are trained nurses for the American Beneficial Insurance Company, and are stopping at the residence of Mrs. M. Van Lucas, 267 8th Avenue, N. W. Miss Coleman will remain in the city indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Toles, of 205 5th Avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. Anna Robinson T. Barnett. Those present were Mrs. Nancy G. and Mr. A. L. B. Robinson. Mrs. Florence Graves, of 21 4th Avenue, N. W., died Thursday, 23rd, at 4:15 A. M., after four days' illness. She was taken to her bed Sunday and continued to grow worse until she died on the 23rd. She was a stunner Christian and a member of Sweet Union Baptist church. Her remains was buried at Bachelor's Hall, Va. She left to mourn her loss a loving husband, George Graves, and three children, ages 7, 5 and 3 years. Mrs. Eliza Lyons, of Martinsville, who was stricken with paralysis on one side some ten or fifteen days ago while employed at Hotel Roanoke, was taken to Martinsville by her sons, Mr. James and John Dillard, August 27th, 1917. Mr. Byrd Stanfield, of Halifax County, the father of Mr. I. P. Stanfield, of No. 554 7th Avenue, N. W., is much indisposed at the above named address. Miss Louise Bullock, of Durham, N. C., who has visited her brother in Columbus, Ohio, during the early part of August, spending two weeks with her cousins, Mrs. L. A. Bartee, of 226 5th Avenue, N. W., and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Lack Avenue, N. W., and other relatives of Roanoke city, left the city Monday noon for her THE RICHMOND PLANET home in Durham, N. C., after having spent a most pleasant vacation in Columbus, Ohio and Roanoke city with relatives and friends; having made numerous new acquaintances on her trip. Roanoke, Va., August 28, 1917. Dear Editor; Please allow me a space in your paper to thank Mrs. Trene Sayles and her good members of Ivanhoe Council, 688, and Rev. Noha Beaman and his members of Artie Allen Council, 791, for the handsome gold medal. How kind and thoughtful it was of them to remember me on our Golden Jubilee Birthday of I. O. of St. Luke. I am sure I have every cause to bless the day and did I forget it I have many kind friends to remind me of it. Again, thanking you for your present, I am too full to utter words of thanks to those who brought to me love expressed by them. I assure you friends, that this little act of appreciation helped me over the rough places in life and gave me double assurance that I have loyal faithful supporters, on which to lean in times of darkness and danger may God bless each and every one. Your most grateful deputy, C. J. DICKENSON. August 26th, 1917. Rev. William Moore filled the pulpit at 11 o'clock at the High Street Baptist Church. Genesis 22 chapter and 8th verse: And Abraham lamb, My son God will provide himself lamb for a burnt offering; So they went and them together." Subject used, God's Will Proof for His under all circumstances and conditions. He administered the Holy Communion at 3 o'clock, at which time the Spirit seemed to fill the hearts of those present. The service was very impressive. Rev. Moore preached all day at the High Street Church. Mrs. Reverley, of 7th Street, N. W., wishes to announce the marriage of her grand-daughter, Miss Gertrude Fields, to Mr. William Oscar Stanfield. April 19th, 1917. FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY. (St. Paul, Minn., Appeal.) That strong defender of true Americanism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a man of whom all Americans may well be proud, printed an editorial in a recent issue which is so accurate an exposition of the costly thunder the colored people have made in failing to fight for their rights that we reproduce it. We trust that every reader will read it carefully and ponder over the truths expressed. "It has not been so very many years since the adoption of the war amendments of the Constitution and the beginning of a systematic effort on the part of our enemies to nullify the effect they were expected to have and its subsequent good. Since these efforts at restriction began, they have grown and multiplied rapidly and much of it has been due to our refusal to fight the issues raised with all our resources, before they become operative. In the South disfranchising constitutions have come, separate or "jim-crow railroad and street cars," "peanut" galleries in the theaters for our men and women, separate bars in saloons, "jim-crow" city parts, swimming pools, schools, "jim-crowism" indental offices, churches, Y. M. C. A.'s, etc. Indeed, there is apparently a desire for a segregation of the races in Heaven, if some of them ever get there. These things have all crept upon us since emancipation and the elevation to a citizenship supposed to be equal to that of all other Americans. We have lost ground, South and North, because we have not fought, and when we have resisted, have lacked leadership, while other supposed leaders have played into the hands of our enemies. As a race, we have been burlesqued, abused and humiliated by the thoughtless some, members of the race), as well as by those hostile to our interests, simply because there was lacking representation on our part and a determination to take a stand for our rights with all the power at our command. The world loves a MAN, a fighter! on who thinks as much of himself as any other like creature on earth. To such aggressive MEN, unjust restrictions will in the end yield and break down, because they will ever refuse to recognize them. In cases of luxuries of life such Men will not accept the limitations though they greatly desire them and have the price demanded. In the case of necessities, they will fight restrictions and limit as far as is within their power, the demand for them. A MAN CAN BE FREE IN A FREE COUNTRY ONLY WHEN HE RETAINS THE RESPECT OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS TO THE EXTENT HE RECEIVES THE SAME TREATMENT FROM THEM THEY EXPECT FROM HIM!" NORTHAMPTON COUNTY The Home-makers and Canning Clubs are doing a splendid work. The work is fifey per cent better over last year, both in work and in membership. It took some time to wake the people up but every member is on the job now, and much good is being accomplished. These clubs have helped many a one to get fruit and jars that would not have gotten them any other way. One writer said self-preservation is the first law of nature. It seems strange that some people never realize this until some one shows it to them. The cry has been for some time preparedness. The homemakers and canning clubs are showing to the people what this means and if this high cost of living goes on everybody will see the necessity of getting in line with these clubs. These clubs have purchased jars for the members at a much lower price than any one could get them and have of some jars that others have not been able to get. Now the members are busy canning and from the present outlook are having much success. One of the members exhibited some at the Tasley Fair last week and got 1st prize, Mary Bailey, by name. The clubs have just received seven baskets of peaches and more have been ordered. Mrs. M. E. McCune, Industrial Supervisor, spends all of her time among the members and the clubs. She is very much pleased over the work and the very great interest shown by all the members. There was a time when this kind of work was not much appreciated by our people. Of course they had not seen the bright side and thought it was a big thing to have every foot of land planted in potatoes, sell these potatoes and spend all that money before the winter was half over, buying the very same foodstuffs at a much higher cost than it would have taken to save it when products were plentiful. Of course all have not learned this lesson, but the present high cost of living is making many open their eyes and look around and see many things as a necessity that they once passed by as nothing. Some of them thought as the boy who found a fine dollar bill in the middle of the road and spent the remainder of his life dragging up and down the road looking for the golden treasure, suffering for food, shelter and clothes, when at their door and in the back yards were all these things if they would only stop, dig a little, sow a few seeds and think. The Industrial Supervisors and the U.S. State Demonstration Agents are God-sent blessings to our people and anybody should feel proud to join hands with them and work for the salvation of our people and the country. THE USEFUL MAN. By Mrs. Armeda M. Wylie, District Nurse. The service of a man depends on his character and physical strength. This must be provided for during childhood. Strength means energy. The energetic man at all times makes a useful man, a man who proves worthy to his community. His foundation should be held during infancy. Provide for a healthy baby, which means—cleanliness, proper food, fresh air, and plenty of pure boiled water. There are mothers who feed their infants to a taste of every variety served on the table. The baby's digestive system is not sufficient to digest them, and goes on to make an unhealthy baby. Therefore they are responsible for this useless man. There are also mothers who never give their infants a drink. I heard a mother of a 4-month-old baby say she did not know babies should be given water. Babies get thirst, therefore need plenty of unsweetened, pure-boiled, cooled water between feedings. Fruits may be given to your child after twelve months, such as orange juice, pineapple juice or pulps of prunes. Your run-about child should be deprived of too many sweets, as candies; also stimulating drinks, as tea and coffee should be excluded from a child's diary. Teach him the habit of cleanliness, but remember his surroundings must be clean. You cannot train your child properly to be clean if his surroundings are filthy, as a child is adapted to take his parents habits. Self-respect starts from childhood, and wanders through the boy's whole life. His ability is depending on his guardian, whose duty is to conquer his faults, strengthen his virtue, teach him the lesson of observation. Observation is the finest quality in a workman, seeing what needs to be done and doing it without being told. Your community is calling for more useful men. Men who do not dread exerting their brains. Every man can be useful in some respect. What ever you set your hands or brains to, see that no one else excels you in that certain object. Take what you have, and use it to some advantage, grasp every opportunity which approaches you and make what you can out of it. Therefore you may serve your community well. NEGRO RIOTS (N. Y. Wall St. Journal, Aug. 27, 1917.) In courage, obedience to discipline, and both self-control and initiative in action, the American colored soldier has a deserved reputation, but sometimes we find this very soldier foremost in riot and disorder. The same may be said of the colored man in nearly all other occupations The Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations have been making serious inroads on the colored labor market of Texas, W. G. Sterrett, in a recent article in the Dallas Morning News, gives a study of this development and ascribes the discontent of nogro labor with its condition in the south as largely due to lack in southern towns of the "advantages in public utilities and sanitation that the whites have." The South is not called on to pay the price of miscegation and social absorption to retain a population found to it by a thousand local ties, and loath to leave the only home it knows. But it must be as diligent and fair in housing and providing modern standards of living for the black man as it is for the white man. Written by a Southerner, Southerners will understand the deep meaning underlying Mr. Sterrett's words. Moving to a distant Northern State, capital there may or may not wisely study the immigrant and supply his reasonable demands. The South has not been the only offender against the Negro. There are many districts in the Southern States in which the Negro has been accorded every economic opportunity of the white man of similar class, and there are districts and towns in the North, which have manifested much indifference to the comfort, the health and education of the Negro, as displayed in many parts of the South. For a long time the country will have need for all its available labor, skilled and unskilled. Cold-blooded expediency and stern necessity, if not the dictates of humanity, call for an equalization of living conditions which will no longer menace any part of the county with migratory bands of any class of our people in quest of the means of self-adveancement to the standards of living of every other class. EASTVILLE, VA. Mrs. Eliza Williams wishes to thank the many friends for the very great kindness shown her and her mother during their illness. Mrs. Williams speaks some time in the Dixie hospital undergoing an operation. Mr. William Allen has always been very popular, but since he purchases a car he has become very attractive. Visitors,—Mrs. Louise Collins, of N. J., Mrs. Lucy Berk, of Pa., Miss Bessie Watson and Miss Annie Watson, both of Mt. Clair, N. J., are spending a few days with relatives and friends in Eastville. Mrs. Collins made a very short but interesting talk Sunday morning at the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Jim Giddings and his brother Alfred, have just returned from Baltimore. Both made a few remarks Sunday, telling of their trip. Rev. P. W. Baker, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, preached a very interesting sermon Sunday, subject: "The Captivity of Judah." This was one of the best sermons Rev. Baker has ever preached. The people of the Union Baptist Church were very pleased to welcome their ex-pastor, Rev. Mitchell, last Sunday night. Rev. Mitchell preached a helpful sermon. The people of Eastville section are looking forward to a great meeting next week, during the meeting of the Might Missionary and Allen Christian Edmonds Convention. You cannot afford to miss some of these meetings. ACCOMAC COUNTY NEWS Mr. J. H. Smith and others have not long ago purchased a motor boat. They are enjoying some pleasure down the bay fishing this summer. Mrs. Geo. Richardson, of Baltimore, Md., is spending a few weeks on Eastern Shore, with her mother, Mrs. Edmond Ashby, near Belle Haven. TREHERNVILLE. Rev, L. Treherne is very much pleased with the progress the carpenters are making on the church. The church is near to a finish. The carpenters, Mr. M. C. Black and Mr. John Cuppins, Deacon William Blake and the various societies should be complimented on the very great interest put forth in helping in this work. All the members have striven hard and the highest appreciation goes out to all of them for their work. Deacon Emmond Seward needs to be complimented on the splendid work done in the way of drainage. It is through his faithful service that the village of Trehernville was put on a dry path before the dry weather set in. Madam Johnson's "SYSTEM." Your name on a Postal Card will bring these High Grade Preparations to your door steps. VIOLA DUDLEY, 107 E. Federal Street. Council of Defense Sends Letter. Richmond, Va., August 31.—The Council of Defense is making an effort to induce parents to permit their sons to return to college this fall in every case where it is possible to do so. The Council is sending out a letter calling attention to this important matter as follows: "Our best preparation for the war day in the fact, not that we had constructed vast armaments, but that we had been turning out of our institutions of higher learning thousands upon thousands of men with trained intelligence and scientific skill. In this respect we were preparing for war better than we know. Should this preparation cease, now that war has come? Far from it. BAD HAIR—IT'S NO JOKE If you want a Beautiful Head, Good Growing Hair, Free from D draft and Easy to Comb, Use M Johnson's Superior Hair Preparati Mme. Johnson (Shur Pleeze) Hair Grower Mme. Johnson (One Night) Kink Hair Straightener Mme. Johnson (Prescription) Shampoo Mme. Johnson (Superior) Pressin Pomade In ordering send P.O. Money Order MADAM JOHNSON BOX 483 WANTED The Disgrace An Open Letter to KELLY COMM Professor Kelly Miller open letter to President Wii A constructive proposal and race riots.—The Spring A very fair, temperate important matter.—Senator The best argument I h democracy.—Bishop W. D. AGENTS WANT 10 CENTS Terms to Agents: 5c. per ADDRESS: K Howard University, Professor Kelly Miller has written a remarkable open letter to President Wilson.—N. Y. Evening Post. A constructive proposal for suppression of lynching and race riots.—The Springfield Republican. FARM FOR SALE. TWENTY ACRE FAR MILES WEST OF L NEW 5-ROOM HOUSE Fine Spring and Stream on and Church on adjoining pro- trade for city property. ADDRESS, 1821 WEST Luke Not So TWENTY ACRE FARM, ABOUT TWO MILES WEST OF LAUREL STATION. NEW 5-ROOM HOUSE & OUT BUILDING. Fine Spring and Stream on Property. Colored School and Church on adjoining property. Would sell cheap or trade for city property. ADDRESS, 1821 WEST GRACE STREET. On the contrary, it should be greatly increased. The successful prosecution of the war alone demands this. "But in time of war we should also prepare for peace. Who can calculate the human energies that will be required to rebuild the new and better civilization that is to rise on the ruins of this war? "The allied nations are calling upon us now for 12,000 engineers and skilled men to repair railroads of England, France and Russia. Service abroad will not end with the war. Engineers,—civil, mechanical, electrical, mining, sanitary,—will be needed to rebuild the new old world. And what need there will be of human engineers—those who can mend broken hearts, enlighten beclouded intellects, restore human friendships, establish ideals, regulate conduct, sterilize society of evil and give it moral health. "Meanwhile, what of the demands or thoroughly trained leaders and workers at home? How great this demand immediately becomes. America must go forward, not backward. At this point we must avoid the mistake made by other nations, at war—that of seeing only the needs of today and of failing to provide for the greater needs of the days to come." A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FREE OF ALL CHARGE For Sunday School Teachers and Officers Conducted by Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. C. The Sunday School that has not trained teachers is behind the times. Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D., is the only man in the Negro race whose experience fits him to do this teacher training work thoroughly, having had a quarter of a century experience on the field, and the American Baptist Publication Society has kept him on the field all these years, and has now turned over entirely to his supervision the work of training the teachers of a whole race by his travels and office work. Write to him at Box 441 Raleigh, N. C., for further information. A. E. of Democracy. President Wilson by MILLER. ENTS: I has written a remarkable lson.—N. Y. Evening Post. I for suppression of lynching field Republican. and strong letter on a most J. Wesley Jones. have ever read on univeral Chappelle. TED EVERYWHERE. THE COPY. or copy on orders over 10. MILLER, Washington, D. C. ARM, ABCUT TWO LAUREL STATION. GE & OUT BUILDING. Property. Colored School property. Would sell cheap ST GRACE STREET. Unlucky RICHMOND Virginia SATURDAY Sept. -- 1 ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE NEWS NOTES The funeral of Mrs. Helen Ferguson took place Wednesday, Aug. 22nd, at 11 o'clock, at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, of which she was a faithful member. The pastor, Rev. Geo. C. Taylor, D. D., officiating in a most eloquent and befitting manner. The life and character of this noble woman, as a mother she was an ideal mother, as a wife unexposed as a neighbor unequaled. A modelled church worker, a polished Christian. She outlined the songs to be sung at the funeral and text for the discourse. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. Hymn selected: Why should we mourn departed friends? and On Jordan's Stormy Banks I stand and Cast a Wistful Eye. Miss Annie L. Jackson, of New York, her sister, and Mrs. Clifton P. Bracket, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was present at the funeral. She leaves a husband, four sons, and two daughters to mourn their loss. Rev. Curtis was present and offered a very fervent prayer and said many noble things of the deceased. The Rev. Curtis paid a glowing tribute of respect to the life and memory of the deceased, having known her for more than thirty years. The Rev. J. J. Jefferson, of Fourth Avenue, N. W., was among the clergy in attendance. The church loses a dear member. The entire community will miss Sister Fergerson, but we feel satisfied Heaven rejoiced at her coming home, for indeed she lived for the future home beyond this temporary abode. Her remains was solemnly laid to rest in Midway Cemetery, until the coming of the King in His glory in the end of the world. Let her life remind us we too soon must follow our departed sister and friend. Mr. Thomas H. Burrell, the young preacher and student of Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C., a native of Franklin County, preached at night at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church. Text, John 14th Chapter and part of 2nd verse. He cometh forth as a flower and is cut down. He made a very beautiful and instructive discourse out of the words found in his text comparing man with the visible and invisible characters of the flower. The beauties and Fratilities of both man and the flower. Rev. Geo. C. Taylor, D. D. of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, preached a very instructive sermon Sunday tentive audience. Text: As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Dr. Taylor preached, in the afternoon, the funeral of Mrs. Nowell who died last Saturday on 10th St. N. W., after a long illness. Mrs. Nowell was the sister of Mrs. Alex and Davis, of 212 4th Ave.; Mr. Henry Nowell, 9th Ave., N. W., and Mr. Flem Nowell, of 10th St. N. W. Sunday morning, August 26th, 1917, Rev. J. D. Walker, preached at 10 o'clock, at the Hill St. Baptist Church. Text, Acts 11 chapter, 24th verse: For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord. Mr. Lambert Wilson and wife, Mrs Narsis Wilson, and their two children, left the city ten days ago for a vacation to their home, North Carolina, where they had quite a pleasant stay. They returned home Monday, August 27th, very much delighted. They saw many old acquaintances and friends on their trip. Mr. Samuel Hurt, of No. 544 718 St. N., W. W., Roanoke, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Larkins Hurt, volunteered to the service of the U. S. He left Monday, August 27th on No. 3 N. & W., for Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Anna Robinson Terry Bennett, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is visiting her mother, Mrs Nancy Robinson, of 7th Ave. N. W. Mrs. Bedward Reeves returned from Chicago, IL, where she spent 8 weeks visiting her husband. She reports a most pleasant trip. Mrs. Hallie Booker, 266 Wells Ave., has returned from Pampin and Prospect, Va., where she spent 8 weeks visiting her husband. She friends. Again, thanking you for your present, I am too full to utter words of thanks to those who brought to me love expressed by them. I assure you friends, that this little act of appreciation helped me over the rough places in life and gave me double assurance that I have loyal faithful supporters that I have leased to learn in times of darkness and disaster may God bless each and every one. Rev. William Moore filled the pupil at 11 o'clock at the High Street Baptist Church. Genesis 22 chapter and 5th verse: And Abraham said, "My son God will provide bimself a lamb for a burnt offering; So they wont both of them together." Subject used, God Will Provide for His under all circumstances and conditions. He ad ministered the Holy Communion at 2 o'clock in the full time the Spirit seem to be filling the those present. The service was very impressive. Rev. Moore preached all day at the High Street Church. (St. Paul, Minn., Appeal.) That strong defender of true Americanism, the Cleveland Gazette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith, a man of whom all Americans may well be proud, printed an editorial in a recent issue which is so accurate an exposition of the costly lunder the colored people have made in failing to fight for their rights that we reproduce it. We trust that every reader will read it carefully and ponder over the truths expressed. Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers WONT LUKE BE JEALOUS WHEN I TELL HIM ABOUT THIS Rev, Dennis Carter, of 118 Gilmer Ave., N. W., left Sunday night for Springfield, Mass., to visit his sister, Miss Jane Carter. Miss Hattie Davis, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dennis for the past three months, returned to Charlotte, N. C., her home. Mr. and Mrs. Goo, W. Coleman, Miss Florine, and Geo. W., left for South Boston, then to Richmond, Va. They will be away three weeks. Many of Miss Maggie Gordon's rounds the friends will read with regret the accident she met with in Philadelphia when she fell five stories through a sky-light. She was considerably shaken up. Her face was cut, arm and wrist broken, but she is getting along nicely at present. Mrs. Luba Sellers, of Pittsburgh, formerly of Salem, is visiting relatives and friends in the city. She will be here two weeks. Mr. Chas, Stutz, of Bethlehem, Pa., chauffer of Chas, M. Schwab, was called to Roanoke, by Mr. E. L. Stone on important business. Mrs. Rachel E. Harth, and Mr. Robin F. Tate, left Monday for Danville, Va., where they will represent Roanoke, at the District Meeting of the old Fellows and Household of Ruth. Leave your order for the Planet and Washington Eagle with Joe C. Dugger or M. Stanfield. At the Hampton Theatre Don't forget to go to your House, The Hampton. Money given away Saturday night—$50.00. Save your coupons. You can always see good pictures at The Hampton. Monday—Marian Sias in the American Girl, 2 parts. Special feature, Ham and Bud, 1 part. Wednesday—Pear White, in Pearl of the Army, Juanita Hassen in submarine. Pathe News. Thursday—Mollie King in Mys- ry of the Double Cross. Earl Williams in the Scarlet Runner. Pathe News. Friday—Helen Holmes in the Railroad Raider's Trip Around the World. Scenic Kerigan Western Mutual Weekly. Saturday—Girl Girl Reporters. Shorty Hamilton, Western. Geo. Ovey, Cub Comedy. Matinee Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 3:30 P. M. Miss Florence E. Jordan was the charming hostess Wednesday evening, when she entertained several of her friends and visitors at her home, 227 Chestnut Avenue, N. W. Among the visitors were: Miss Willie Coleman, of Richmond, Va., Miss Fannie Kelly, of Suffolk, Va., Miss Martin, and the Misses Price; also Dr. Oscar Davis, formerly of Roanoke. Dr. Oscar Davis, of Charleston, W. Va., is writing in Roanoke. The Doctor reports that he is meeting with success in Charleston. Mrs. Mary E. Penn, and Little Miss Inez Robinson, are visiting in Bedford, Va. Mr. George Smith, No. 322 4th Avenue, N. W., is critically ill at his home and has been since March. Miss Lillian Dennis, of Philadelphia, and Miss Nowlin, Elkorn, W. Va., was the guest of Miss Mary E. Thompson for the week end. Mr. George Latterson is out again after two weeks' confinement at his home, on account of a sprained foot. Miss Willie Coleman, of West Point, Va., and Miss Mary E. William, of Georgia, arrived in Roanoke this week. They are trained nurses for the American Boneolytic Insurance Company and are roping at the residence of Mrs. M. V. Avery, 267th Avenue N. W. Miss Coleman will remain in the city indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Toles, of 265th Avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Mrs. Anna Robinson T. Barnett. Those present were Mrs. Nancy G. and Mr. A. L. B. Robinson. Mrs. Florence Graves, of 21 4th Avenue, N. W., died Thursday, 23rd, at 4:15 A. M., after four days' illness. She was taken to her bed Sunday and continued to grow worse until she died on the 23rd. She was a stunner Christian and a member of Sweet Union Baptist church. Her remains was buried at Bachelor's Hall, Va. She left to mourn her loss a loving husband, George Graves, and three children, ages 7, 5 and 3 years. Mrs. Eliza Lyons, of Martinsville, who was stricken with paralysis on one side some ten or fifteen days ago while employed at Hotel Ronoke, was taken to Martinsville by her sons, Mr. James and John Dillard, August 27th, 1917. Mr. Byrd Stanfield, of Halifax County, the father of Mr. I. P. Stanfield, of No. 554 7th Avenue, N. W., is much indisposed at the above named address. Miss Louise Bullock, of Durham, N.C., who has visited her brother in Columbus, Ohio, during the early part of August, spending two weeks with her cousins, Mrs. L. A. Bartree, of 226 5th Avenue, N. W., and Mrs. Cassandra Wright, of Lack Avenue, N. W., and other relatives of Roanoke city, left the city Monday noon for her THE RICHMOND PLANET home in Durham, N. C., after having spent a most pleasant vacation in Columbus, Ohio and Roanoke city with relatives and friends; having made numerous new acquaintances on her trip. Roanoke, Va., August 2S, 1917. Dear Editor; Please allow me a space in your paper to thank Mrs Trene Sayles and her good members of Ivanhoe Council, 68S, and Rev. Nesh Beaman and his members of Artie Allen Council, 79I, for the handsome gold medal. How kind and thoughtful it was of them to remember me on our Golden Jubilee Birthday of I. O. of St. Luke. I am sure I have every cause to bless the day and did I forget it I have many kind friends to remind me of it. Your most grateful deputy, C. J. DICKERSON. August 26th, 1917 Mrs. Beverley, of 7th Street, N. W. wishes to announce the marriage of her grand-daughter, Miss Gertrude ridge to Mr. William Oscar Staunfield April 16, 2015. FAILURE TO FIGHT COSTLY. "It has not been so very many years since the adoption of the war amendments of the Constitution and the beginning of a systematic effort on the part of our enemies to nullify the effect they were expected to have and its subsequent good. Since these efforts at restriction began, they have grown and multiplied rapidly and much of it has been due to our refusal to fight the issues raised with all our resources, before they become operative. In the South disfranchising constitutions have come, separate or "jim-crow" railroad and street cars, "peanut" galleries in the theaters for our men and women, separate bars in saloons, "jim-crow" city parts, swimming schools, "jim-crowism" indental offices, churches, Y. M. C. A.'s, etc. Indeed, there is apparently a desire for a segregation of the spaces in Heaven, if some of them ever get there. These things have all crept upon us since emancipation and the elevation to a citizenship supposed to be equal to that of all other Americans. We have lost ground, South and North, because we have not fought, and when we have resisted, have lacked leadership, while other supposed leaders have played into the hands of our enemies. As a race, we have been burlesqued, abused and humiliated by the thoughtless some, members of the race), as well as by those hostile to our interests, simply because there was lacking proposition on our part and a determination to take a stand for our rights with all the power at our command. The world loves a MAN, a fighter! on who thinks as much of himself as any other like creature on earth. To such aggressive MEN, unjust restrictions will in the end yield and break down, because they will ever refuse to recognize them. In cases of luxuries of life such Men will not accept the limitations though they greatly desire them and have the price demanded. In the case of necessities, they will fight restrictions and limit as far as is within their power, the demand for them, the need for them. CAN I SAVE DATA FREE COUNTRY ONLY WHEN HE RETAINS THE RESPECT OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS TO THE EXTENT HE RECEIVES THE SAME TREATMENT FROM THEM THEY EXPECT FROM HIM!" I WONDER WHAT IS KEEPING MOLLIE. WE'VE WAITED FOR A HALF HOUR NOW NORTHAMPTON COUNTY The Home-makers and Causing Clubs are doing a splendid work. The work is tifey per cent better over last year, both in work and in membership. It took some time to wake the people up but every member is on the job now, and much good is being accomplished. These clubs have helped many a one to get fruit and jars that would not have gotten them any other way. One writer said self-preservation is the first law of nature. It seems strange that some people never realize this until some one shows it to them. The cry has been for some time preparedness. The homemakers and canning clubs are showing to the people what this means and if this high cost of living goes on everybody will see the necessity of getting in line with these clubs. These clubs have purchased jars for its members at a much lower price than any one could get them and have got some jars that others have not been able to get. Now the members are busy canning and from the present outlook are having much success. One of the members exhibited some at the Tasley Fail last week and got 1st prize, Mary Bailey, by name. The clubs have just received seven baskets of peaches and more have been ordered Mrs. M. E. McCune, Industrial Supervisor, spends all of her time among the members and the clubs. She is very much pleased over the work and the very great interest shown by all the members. There was a time when this kind of work was not much appreciated by our people. Of course they had not seen the bright side and thought it was a big thing to have every foot of land planted in potatoes, sell these potatoes and spend all that money before the winter was half over, buying the very same foodstuffs at a much higher cost than it would have taken to save it when products were plentiful. Of course all have not learned this lesson, but the present high cost of living is making many open their eyes and look around and see many things as a necessity that they once passed by as nothing. Some of them thought as the boy who found a fine dollar bill in the middle of the road and spent the remainder of his life dragging up and down the road looking for the golden treasure, suffering for food, shelter and clothes, when at their door and in the back yards were all these things if they would only stop, dig a little, sow a few seeds and think. The Industrial Supervisors and the U. S. State Demonstration Agents are God-sent blessings to our people everybody should feel proud to join hands with them and work for the salvation of our people and the country. THE USEFUL MAN. By Mrs. Armeda M. Wylie, District Nurse. The service of a man depends on his character and physical strength. This must be provided for during childhood. Strength means energy. The energetic man at all times makes a useful man, a man who proves worthy to his community. His foundation should be lald during infancy. Provide for a healthy baby, which means—cleanliness, proper food, fresh air, and plenty of pure boiled water. There are mothers who feed their infants to a taste of every variety served on the table. The baby's digestive system is not sufficient, to digest them, and goes on to make an unhealthy baby. Therefore they are responsible for this useless man. There are also mothers who never give their infants a drink. I heard a mother of a 4-months-old baby say she did not know babies should be given water. Babies get thirst, therefore need plenty of unsweetened, pure-boiled, cooled water between feedings. Fruits may be given to your child after twelve months, such as orange juice, pineapple juice or pulps of prunes. Your run-about child should be deprived of too many sweets, as candies; also stimulating drinks, as tea and coffee should be excluded from a child's diety. Teach him the habit of cleanliness, but remember his surroundings must be clean. You cannot train your child properly to be clean if his surroundings are filthy, as a child is adapted to take his parents habits. Self-respect starts from childhood, and wanders through the boy's whole life. His ability is depending on his guardian, whose duty is to conquer his faults, strengthen his virtue, teach him a lesson of observation. Observation is his quality in a workman, seeing what is being done and doing it without being old. Your community is calling for more useful men. Men who do not dread exerting their brains. Every man can be useful in some respect. What ever you set your hands on brains to, see that no one else excels you in that certain object. Take what you have, and use it to some advantage, grasp every opportunity which approaches you and make what you can out of it. Therefore you may serve your community well. NEGRO RIOTS CN. Y. Wall St. Journal, Aug. 27, 1917.) In courage, obedience to discipline, and both self-control and initiative in action, the American colored soldier has a deserved reputation but sometimes we find this very soldier foremost in riot and disorder. The same may be said of the colored man in nearly all other circumstances. The Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations have been making serious inroads on the colored labor market of Texas. W. G. Sterrett, in a recent article in the Dallas Morning News, gives a study of this development and ascribes the discontent of negro labor with its condition in the south as largely due to lack in southern towns of the "advantages in public utilities and sanitation that the whites have." The South is not called on to pay the price of miscegenation and social absorption to retain a population bound to it by a thousand local ties, but to leave the only home it knows. But I must be as diligent and fair in housing, providing modern standards of Bibbigh for the black man as it is for the white man. Written by a Southerner, Southerners will understand the deep meaning underlying Mr. Sterrett's words. Moving to a distant Northern State, capital there may or may not wisely study the immigrant and supply his reasonable demands. The South has not been the only offender against the Negro. There are many districts in the Southern States in which the Negro has been accorded every economic opportunity of the white man of similar class, and there are districts and towns in the North, which have manifested much indifference to the comfort, the health and education of the Negro, as displayed in many parts of the South. For a long time the country will have need for all its available labor, skilled and unskilled. Cold-blooded expediency and stern necessity, if not the dictates of humanity, call for an equalization of living conditions which will no longer menace any part of the county with migratory bands of any class of our people in quest of the means of self-advection to the standards of living of every other class. EASTVILLE, VA Mrs. Eliza Williams wishes to thank the many friends for the very great kindness shown her and her mother during their illness. Mrs. Williams spent some time in the Dixie hospital undergoing an operation. Mr. William Allen has always been very popular, but since he purchases his car he has become very attractive. Visitors,—Mrs. Louise Collins, of N. J., Mrs. Lucy Berk, of Pa.; Miss Bessie Watson and Miss Annie Watson, both of M. Clair, N. J., are spending a few days with relatives and friends in Eastville. Mrs. Collins made a very short but interesting talk Sunday morning at the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Jim Giddings and his brother Alfred, have just returned from Baltimore. Both made a few remarks Sunday, telling of their trip. Rev. P. W. Baker, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, preached a very interesting sermon Sunday, subject: "The Captivity of Judah." This was one of the best sermons Rev. Baker has ever preached. The people of the Union Baptist Church were very pleased to welcome their ex-pastor, Rev. Mitchell, last Sunday night. Rev. Mitchell preached a helpful sermon. The people of Eastville section are looking forward to a great meeting next week, during the meeting of the Might Missionary and Allen Christian Edmonds Convention. You cannot afford to miss some of these meetings. ACCOMAC COUNTY NEWS. Mr. J. H. Smith and others have not long ago purchased a motor boat. They are enjoying some pleasure down the bay fishing this summer. Mrs. Geo. Richardson, of Baltimore, Md., is spending a few weeks on Eastern Shore, with her mother, Mrs. Edmond Ashby, near Belle Haven. TREHERNVILLE. Rev. L. Trecherne is very much pleased with the progress the carpenters are making on the church. The church is near to a finish. The carpenters, Mr. M. C. Black and Mr. John Cuppins, Deacon William Blake and the various societies should be complimented on the very great interest put forth in helping in this work. All the members have striven hard and the highest appreciation goes out to all of them for their work. Deacon Ermoud Seward needs to be complimented on the splendid work done in the way of drainage. It is through his faithful service that the village of 'torcheville' was put on a dry path before the dry weather set in. Madam Johnson's "SYSTEM." Your name on a Postal Card will bring these High Grade Preparations to your door steps. VIOLA DUDLEY, 107 E. Federal Street. Council of Defense Sends Letter: Richmond, Va., August 31. The Council of Defense is making an effort to induce parents to permit their sons to return to college this fall in every case where it is possible to do so. The Council is sending out a letter calling attention to this important matter as follows: "Our best preparation for the war in the fact, not that we had constructed vast armaments, but that we had been turning out of our institutions of higher learning thousands upon thousands of men with trained intelligence and scientific skill. In this respect we were preparing for war better than we knew. Should this preparation cease, now that war has come? Far from it. BAD HAIR—IT'S NO JOKE. If you want a Beautiful Head of Good Growing Hair, Free from Dandruff and Easy to Comb, Use Mine Johnson's Superior Hair Preparations Professor Kelly Miller has written a remarkable open letter to President Wilson.—N. Y. Evening Post. A constructive proposal for suppression of lynching and race riots.—The Springfield Republican. A very fair, temperate and strong letter on a most important matter.—Senator J. Wesley Jones. The best argument I have ever read on univeral democracy.—Bishop W. D. Chappelle. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. 10 CENTS THE COPY. Terms to Agents: 5c. per copy on orders over 10. ADDRESS: KELLY MILLER, Howard University, Washington, D. C. FARM FOR SALE. TWENTY ACRE FAR MILES WEST OF LA NEW 5-ROOM HOUSE Fine Spring and Stream on P and Church on adjoining prop or trade for city property. ADDRESS, 1821 WEST TWENTY ACRE FARM, ABOUT TWO MILES WEST OF LAUREL STATION. NEW 5-ROOM HOUSE & OUT BUILDING. Fine Spring and Stream on Property. Colored School and Church on adjoining property. Would sell cheap or trade for city property. ADDRESS, 1821 WEST GRACE STREET. Luke Not So Unlucky DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE PIECE MR. LOOK YES ITS A GAY L THE CITY. WE HAVE AUTOMOBILES AND FREE LUNCH On the contrary, it should be greatly increased. The successful prosecution of the war alone demands this. "But in time of war we should also prepare for peace. Who can calculate the human energies that will be required to rebuild the new and better civilization that is to rise on the ruins of this war? "The allied nations are calling upon us now for 12,000 engineers and skilled men to repair railroads of England, France and Russia. Services abroad will not end with the war. Engineering, civil, mechanical, electrical, mining, sanitary, will be needed to rebuild the new old world. And what need they will be of human engineers, those who can mean broken hearts, enlighten beheaded intellects, restore humanity friendships, establish ideas, regulate conduct, sterilize society of evil and give it moral health. "Meanwhile, what of the demand or thoroughly trained leaders and workers at home?" How great this demand and immediately becomes. America must go forward, not backward. At this point we must avoid. Germany made by other nations; at war — made by losing only the needs of today and of failing to provide for the greater needs of the days to come." A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FREE OF ALL CHARGE For Sunday School Teachers and Officers Conducted by Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. C. The Sunday School that has not trained teachers is behind the times. Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D., is the only man in the Negro race whose experience fits him to do this teacher training work thoroughly, having had a quarter of a century experience on the field, and the American Baptist Publication Society has kept him on the field all these years, and has now turned over entirely to his supervision the work of training the teachers of a whole race by his travels and office work. Write to him at Box 441 Raleigh, N. C., for further information. A. E. MON, Louisville Ky. RED LIVE AGENTS EVERYWHERE of Democracy. To President Wilson by MILLER. MENTS: Her has written a remarkable Wilson.—N. Y. Evening Post. real for suppression of lynching Gaffield Republican. and strong letter on a most for J. Wesley Jones. have ever read on universal D. Chappelle. UNTED EVERYWHERE. IS THE COPY. Her copy on orders over 10. KELLY MILLER, Washington. D. C. FARM, ABCUT TWO LAUREL STATION. USE & OUT BUILDING. on Property. Colored School property. Would sell cheap EST GRACE STREET. by J. Keeloy. THE LAST MY LIFE IN HAVE AND CHES RICHMOND Virginia THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 42 The Barrett Case. DEFENDING HIMSELF FROM MAN WITHOUT WARRANT. Attorney Lancaster Issues Statement As to Trial of Seventeen-Year Old Aubrey Barrett. COURT REFUSED INSTRUCTIONS. Threatened Lawyer With Fine When He Referred to Fact that Roach Had No Warrant for Arrest of Nother Barrett. That Aubrey Barrett the seventeen-year-old negro youth under sentence of execution at the State Penitentiary for murder was not tried by a jury, was not represented by counsel and was in fact defending himself from a man who was pursuing him without a warrant, was stated yesterday 10 Governor Stuart by W. L. Lancaster, an attorney of Farmville, who appeared as counsel for the defense of the elder Barrett. No application for clemency has been made for Albert Barrett, the father, who in the judgment of a boy was guilty of murder. State Senator of Lynchburg, and others, however, have interested themselves in the case of the boy, and have asked Governor Stuart to defer the execution in order that a further investigation can be made. Judge George J. Hundley, who presided at the trial, has stated that the boy confessed the murder in open court, that his plea of guilty made it unnecessary to have a jury or assign counsel for the defense, and that case court did not have the option which the law gives to juries in cases of this sort of sentencing to the penitentiary, and could only find the boy guilty of first-degree murder and order his execution. Unless Governor Stuart intervenes both the older and younger Barrett will be executed at the State Penitentiary on Thursday morning. Attorney Lancaster Issues Signed Statement. The following signed statement was issued yesterday by Mr. Lancaster, who appeared as counsel for the older Barrett. To the Editor of The Times Dispatch: SIF—I have read the statements and comments published in the News of Lynchburg, and what Judge Hundley says in the News-Leader of August 3, and in The Times-Dispatch of August 28. I must say that Judge Hundley is mistaken in his recollection that I in open announced that the boy, Aubrey Barrett, wished to change his plea from not guilty to guilty. On the contrary, instead of withdrawing his first plea, I withdraw my services and expressed that I would represent him no longer, and that I would not assume the responsibility of advising what plea he should be tried upon. I never waived jury in his case and had no more to do with it in Charlotte. The boy hesitated for some time when asked by the court if he wished to change his plea to guilty. Mr. Light, assistant prosecuting attorney, bears me out in this if his statement in Lynchburg News is correct. As to the boy's age, I think that the testimony was that he was between sixteen and seventeen. Since the trial a leaf was torn from the Barrett family Bible, which leaf is now in my possession, showing the date of marriage and ages of family, the age of Albert Barrett to be thirty-seven and the boy, Aubrey, to have been born July 7, 1901, making him in his seventeenth year. No Evidence That Killing Was Intended or Premeditated. The evidence did not show that Aubrey Barett struck the blow which felled W. T. Roach to the ground and that "the father turned the deceased over on the back and beat him in the face with a rock till, as the father said, he "finished him," nor was there evidence that they admitted that they had been caught in the man's wheat field, stolling his wheat and that the boy had come up behind the man's back while he was scuffling with the father and struck him to the ground with a large stick, nor did the doctor say that the blow said to be struck with the stick, was not struck with a stick, but with some harder and sharper instrument, in his opinion. The doctor said that the blow said to be struck with the rock, in his opinion, was with a sharper instrument. The evidence along this line was that the night before the killing the Barote had gone with their wagon at midnight and stolen from W. T. Roach's wheat field a load of wheat; that Roach and Mr. Collins, at about 7 A. M. next morning, tracked the wagon and wheat from the field where taken and stolen to the wheat field of Albert Barrett; that Albert and the boy acknowledged the larceny; that Mr. Roach sent Mr. Collins, as he, Collins, stated, for a warrant of arrest; that Albert Barrett tried to compromise or pay Mr. Roach to drop the larceny prosecution. Mr. Roach properly refused to accept the proposition, whereupon Albert ran and Mr. Roach after him. Albert fell over a pile of brush after running 150 yards, and Mr. Roach caught him while down and was choking him. Albert called for Aubrey to help him. Then it was that Aubrey picked up a chestnut stick with a knot on it size was never mentioned or inquired into), and struck the blow, and the inference was that the knot struck the back of the head, for Dr. Walker said the brains were oozing out of the skull where the wound was on the back of the head, and he said that that wound, if not fatal, was sufficient to be fatal. The inference was that that wound was the fatal wound, because the doctor said the wounds on the frontal portion of the head bled very little, if any. The evidence was that Albert made those wounds with a rock as large as his two fists. Dr. Walker said that the rock wounds would have proved fatal, and the stick wounds not been fatal. Court Refused Instructions As to Pursuit Without Warrant. If I was base enough to desert my client, had I thought I could have done him a service. I was not egotistic, bold or base enough to think that I could do him good when I had made so great a failure for the father. I had offered an instruction which I thought from the evidence was proper, and should have been allowed, and which would have prevented the jury from finding the prisoner guilty of murder either in the first or second degree, but the court refused and rejected same, and would not permit me to argue or cite facts in support of instruction. The court would not even permit me to comment upon the fact that Mr. Roach was pursuing, arresting, imprisoning and detaining a man without a warrant in a case where a warrant was necessary. And my third attempt to do so was threatened by the court with a fine, Judge Hundley terms the killing of Roach a horrible murder. I consider no murder has been committed under the law and testimony; for the killing was not willful, deliberate and premeditated. W. L. LANCASTER Farmville, Va., Aug. 27, 1917. MRS. A. E. BLACKWELL'S GREAT EFFORT. Pulpit Set To Africa—Much Money Raised By the Auxillaries—Dr. Binga's Photo In Panel. Several months ago at a quarterly meeting of the executive board of the Lott Carcy Baptist Foreign Missionary Convention, held in the city of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Annie E. Blackwell, of South Richmond, petitioned the board through her pastor, Dr. A. Binga, Jr. for permission to place a pulpit set in Alexander Chapel (then under construction, now completed) at Breweryville, West Const. Africa. The board promptly accepted her offer. Mrs. Blackwell is president of the Binga Foreign and Home Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church, South Richmond. It was under the auspices of this society that she solicited the funds for this pulpit set. The other auxiliaries and members of the church assisted. The Binga Bible Class also assisted by placing the photograph of the pastor in the front panel of the pulpit. This was a great effort, costing about $179.00. On Monday night the set was dedicated to the Lord and in honor to Dr. Binga in commemoration of his forty-five years of service. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson. A large crowd was present. Mrs. Blackwell presented the set to the Lott Carey Convention now in session in this city, Friday, August 31st. Good Revival Meetings at Crewe and in Brunswick, Va. Rev. D. J. Bradford has just returned from his revival meetings at Crewe and in Brunswick. He reports success in both churches. There were nine converts in the Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Crewe, and two fallen members restored. At Hickory Run, Brunswick, there were fifteen converts and seven restorations. Pastor and both congregations are proud of the blessing which the good Lord bestowed upon them. Rev. Bradford attended the Great Jubilee Meeting of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, held in Lynchburg last month. He delivered an address before the B. Y. P. U. department on, "The Bible A Divine Revolution." RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1917 HOW SPEAKEST YOU? IN THIS BIG WORLD'S DEMOCRACY HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE BLACK? 53rd Annual Session. 53rd Annual Session. Balto., Md., August 21, 1917. The Grand United Order of St. Luke held its fifty-third annual session in the City of Baltimore at the St. Luke's Hall, August 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Tuesday, August 21st, 1917, the session was opened by the Grand Chief James Richardson of Hampton, Virginia, the hall was filled with delegates, officers and visitors. Virginia was well represented especially tidewater section. The Grand Chief, James Richardson, gave a remarkable opening address, he told of the great work that was accomplished by the Grand United Order of St. Luke. A welcome address was delivered [Illustration of a man in a dark coat and white shirt, standing with his hands clasped in front of him.] by Miss Nannie Gross of Baltimore, Md., then afterwards there were some encouraging remarks by the State Deputy, Sister Hannah Frey, District Deputy, Brother Emmanuel Smith. They spoke of the good work done in the past twelve months through their Grand Chief. There were also short speeches from the supreme, Sister Lacy Vincien, Sister Crane, Brother James Frey and other Past Officers. Business of the Lodge was conducted in a brief but successful way. Wednesday night a picnic was given to the delegates which all present express themselves well pleased. Thursday night was the installation of officers. Afterwards a grand reception was in the honor of the officers and delegates. The session closed Friday, A. M. with much good done and business concluded. It was known as the best Grand Session in the history of the Order. They adjourned to meet in their next Grand Session, August, 1918, in the town of Phoebus, Virginia. Done by the order of Mrs. Jane Richardson, Sect. Miss Tomah Z. Richardson, Asst. WANTED-A Good Barber at once! 60 cents on a dollar. Apply to JESSE M. TURNER, 83 N. Main street, Hegrisonburg, Va. 4t Confiscates Suit Case. Isaac Harris, colored, 914 West Clay Street, alighted from a train from the North at Elba Station, and carried a heavy suit case along the street early yesterday morning. Patolman Ernest overtook Harris and confiscated the suit case. It is said to have contained ten quarts of whisky. The hearing was set for September 14. A. Card. I wish to thank my many friends for the aid and kindness during my recent illness. REV. J. R. COOPER. When our collector calls on you don't fail to pay him. Your subscription is due, pay it now. HOW SPEAKEST IN THIS BIG V DEMOCRAC HAVE YOU CONS THE BLACK? Rev. J. E. Taylor at M. Hermon. Rev. J. E. Taylor, of Newport News Va. arrived in the city Sunday, August 26th and preached at the Mt. Hermon Baptist Church, at 11:30 A.M. Text, Romans 1:16. Subject, The Power of the Gospel. His sermon was able and instructive. We shall hope his visit again soon. C. BROWN, C. C. Can Get A Flight. (Martinsburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press) As we said, Editor John Mitchell would win, and he has. Braver man never lived, and any man who picks a quarrel with him can get a fight- and ten to one, a whirling. QUICK SALLE—Walnut Bed, excellent spring, blue plush couch, marble top table. Will sell at a sacrifice. Apply 314 E. Grace at once Let Cophas do your Renting. Office 585 1-2 North Second street. Telephone. Randolph 588 We do all kinds of Job Work. Let us do it for you. THE TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH STARTS A NEW EDIFICE The work of erecting a new edifice on Virginia and Fell Street, this city, for Trinity Baptist Church started Thursday, August 16th, at 11:15 o'clock A, M. when Rev. G. W. Carrington, B, D., the pastor marched from his home. No. 1 King street, and with him Mrs. Lenora Carrington, his wife to the place where Mr. W, H. Jackson was stretching the line. Several other women of the church joined in the march. Upon reaching the spot where the church is to be erected, the pastor looked over to the North-west corner, where the builder had just stretched the line, and asked, "Are you ready?" The answer came, "I am." Then the Reverend walked where the stake had been driven and with his index finger pointed to the spot and the Mrs. Rev Carrington raised the plek THOU? WORLD'S GY ORDERED and buried it in the dirt. Then came Mrs. Nollie Wynder, Mrs. Nollie Stone, Mrs. Virginia Robertson, Mrs. Phillips and Miss Sarah Wynder. Rev. Carrington is one among the great pastors of this city and yet he is not heard of by publication in the newspapers, but his work is known in the city by the people. He is one of the 1909 graduates of Clayton Williams University, of Baltimore, Md. and it is known in Richmond that he is on the hill for he is a gospel preacher and pastor. Three years ago when he took charge of Trinity Church, it was in the mind of a large number of the pastors that he would not be able to hold the church. There were only 87 members to be found on the books and not half of them could be found in the church, but the membership has grown to nearly 300, and the people who crowd there are not able to get in. They are erecting a building with a seating capacity of approximately 700. The building will be 44 by 67 feet and of stucco finish. This is a great work for the church and pastor and Richmond is proud of such a man. The building will be completed by the first of January, 1918, which means much to the denomination. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Telephone, Ramdolph 628. The Right of Free Speech Pilgrim Fathers Intended America to Be A Place Where Men Could Petition for Redress of Grievances. (Oklahoma, Ok. Black Dispatch.) The release of The Richmond Planet, Thursday, does not entirely settle the question of what men have a right to say under constitutional guarantees. The attempt to muzzle the expressions of a man who has grievances that he feels should be redressed open up a wide field for the discussion of Free Speech and the intent and purpose of those who wrote into the federal constitution, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."—Article I of the Constitution of the United States. In a discussion of American institutions one does not have to go far to discover that all of those men who sat in the convention that drafted the constitution were believers in free speech. They believed heartily in the right of a citizen to strive for the blessings of liberty and a more per feet union, or else, why did not they say in the preamble of that document that they adopted, "In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty." Uzziah Miner, former editor of the Howard University Journal, was certainly petitioning the government for redress of grievances when he wrote the article that the Richmond post-office officials sought to bar from the mails. We have read his statement and believe in the truthful ungarished fact in his every utterance, and while we fail to reach the same conclusion as he, as to how the black man should act under such conditions we at the same time feel that he had a right under the Constitution of the United States to state his case and to say how he felt about it. This is the portion of what he said that got him into bad standing with the postal authorities: "Personally, I wish to say that I am completely disgusted with America's hypocrisy and insincerity. She has entered the war for the invowed purpose of bringing to pass a "World Democracy." I fail to see how I can consciously volunteer to fight for a "World Democracy" while I am dented the fruits and blessings of a Democracy at home. Of course, I may be called a "slacker," I may be regarded unpatriotic, I may be looked upon as disloyal, but I must say, unless President Wilson, like Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaks out bravely against the unspeakable atrocities perpetrated upon my despised and ill-treated race; unless the Department of Justice brings the guilty parties at East St. Louis to a "strict accountability," for their unparalleled brutalties; unless I am assured that the glorious flag which I love so dearly will offer protection in the future to twelve million peace-loving colored inhabitants of this country; unless I am convinced that this "World Democracy" includes black men as well as white men, I shall consider myself a disgrace to my race and my country by freely volunteering to fight for a Democracy aross the seas, because, I firmly believe and maintain that Democracy, like charity, should begin at home and spread abroad." In the issue of July 27th we had what we feel is a fitting answer to Prof. Miner and we summed it all up in this tense expression, "Nothing comes to the man who sulls, nothing has come to the Indian. Men can only try to chain you from without and he is truly helpless who chains himself within." We concluded by saying this: "There is no getting away from it wherever there is a right there is also a grave responsibility. Every intelligent black man in America that cries aloud today about his rights should have the vision to see that in proportion as he now grasps his responsibilities and duties of citizenship as largely as he may, he proportionately grasps also his every right for the two are, in this life, cumulative, heaped together." The other fellow may not know it—yes, you may not understand—but you can not go out into this great world war and lay down your life without getting into the equation of things. The time to convict any man of your right to justice and fair play is to help him when he needs you most. Take the worst white man out of Mississippi and let him face danger by the side of the blackest son from the bowels of Dahomeny; let them face death together, but conquer through their joint effort to enforced helpfulness, and there will spring up between those two men a kinship and PRICE. FIVE CENTS a brotherhood the fangs of hell can not sever. Redress of grievances! That is the issue, the men back in 1776 saw the necessity for such a right and clinched the privilege into the Constitution in 1790. The world is mad right now but even though the hemispheres clash and the universe burst asunder this government must not lose sight of the fact that it was conceived in the idea of liberty, that it has no right to exist and be except that it adds to the comfort, peace and tranquility of mon. We readform the statement of Uzziah Miner that there can be no democracy that does not include he and I, and this government has a right to hear us when we say, we do not think it does—Exchange. PERSONALS AND BRIEFs. Mrs. Cary Trucheart is in the city the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Norreel. Sr. Rev. Paul Pollard, Jr., of Kilmarnock, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mrs. Jemima Moss, of 419 W. Duval street is visiting relatives and friends in Millers' School and Charlottesville, Va. Deacon J. A. Moss has returned to the city after spending his vacation in Bedford City, Roanoke, Lynchburg and Charlottesville, Va. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Telephone, Randolph 588. Mr. G. L. Jackson, of Millers' School, Va. attended the St. Luke Jubilee here last week, and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Moss. Miss Mary Wallace, of Claremont, Va. is visiting Mrs. Diley Burke, on the Southside, this week. Miss Inez Cogbill is visiting in Petersburg, the guest of Miss Eunice Smith. Miss Ruth Morris has returned to the city after a week's stay in Phoebus, Va., the guest of Mr. and Mr. Robert Coles. Mr. Atlas Barbee will leave the city Wednesday for New York, where he will attend the convention of Head-waiters' Association. Miss Alto Johnson has returned to the city after spending a week at Claremont, Va. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr. loft the city Monday for Philadelphia, to attend the National Medical Association. While away, he will visit Atlantic City, New York, Delaware, Md, and returning home on Monday, to resume his practice. Mrs. Margaret H. Burrell announces the marriage of her niece, Miss Alice B. Barnette, to James Henry Roberts, M. D., September 1st, 1917, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, at Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Lucinda Walker Bailey, of Philadelphia, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Irma, after visiting New York, Berkley, Joyceville and Houston, Va. arrived in South Richmond last Saturday to spend a week, the guest of Mrs. L. G. King, 1017 Hull street Mrs. Addle G. Payne, of 111 W. Jackson St., who has been visiting her sisters, Mrs. Junius Riddick, and Mrs. John W. Chandler, of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. E. D. Samuel, of East Orange, N. J., also her aunt, Mrs. Charles Ricks, of Haverhill, Mass., has returned to the city after a very pleasant stay. She was accompanied by Little Miss Thelma Lee Evans. Mr. Winston Dandridge Passes Away The funeral services of Mr. Winston Dandridge, of Morrison, who departed this life Wednesday, August 8th, were conducted at Rising Mt. Zion Baptist Church by Rev. N. B. Brown, assisted by Rev. F. W. Brown of Morrison, Sunday, August 12, 1917 His illness was of a short duration. He is survived by his mother, Martha Dandridge, a wife, one daughter and one brother. Rev. N. B. Brown preached a sympathetic sermon. Mr. Dandridge was a devoted husband and a loving father and his many friends feel deeply their loss. The bereaved family has the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. R. C. Scott officiated as funeral director. The interment was made in Evergreen Cemetery. Peace to his ashes, rest for his soul. His Wife. BETTIE DANDRUGE FOR SALE! Desirable homes on good terms- Suburban and City—Ready money to loan. BRAGG BROS. & GO., 506 N. Second street. 2t TWO —————————— geen, x. ee ee aac eA AUS ERs a Ud Ra Noe le Ua Phe Be aA ate orn eee? SATURDAY ooo) SEPT. 1 191 WIDESPREAD INTEREST IN rH NATION AEE LACIE CONtI SS Colored Americans Brought To ‘Their Feet by Memphis, © SG Louis and Chester Outrages—Local Equal Rights Canimittecs Formed. Boston, Mass.. August 23. (Spec- fal)—That the colored people of the country have been “brought to. their feet” by the Memphis lynching, Bast St Louis massacre and Chester riots, is shown by the instant interest taken in the call issued for a "Speedy Get- fing ‘Toxcther™ at New York by Rev. Byron Gunner, President of the Na: tional Equal Rights League, Already President Gunner has re- ceived word from representatives. in a dozen different states who will at- fend the tenth annual meeting of the Leamie and second annual Race Con gress under the Learue’s auspices which will be held three days, Sep: fomber 18, 18 and 20, in Mother Zion Chureh, West 136th street, New York city Colored newspapers all over. the country are announeing this National Colored Equal Rights Convention in their columns, and the editors are working with success for the forma- fion of local “Equal Rights Commit- feos that are to send delegates The “Call has been given sneh wide publicity. the invitation bein ‘open to every organization as well as the Banal Rights League, the op. pressed in every country in the civil- ized world have met asa group and put forth their ease and their demand except we Colored Americans. Thoneht{al citizens everywhere see that the race will be indged by the attendance at this National Race Congress, Every community that has not al- ready formed a Citizens’ Equal Rights Committee to send delegates is urged to do so. ‘Three full weeks remain in which to do so, ‘The last Race Con- gress brought men and women of all factions and all organizations togeth- er and inereased co-operation. — It is ten times as eritieal now for the race as then, President Byron Gunner, of Till burn, NY. and Corresponding. Sec- retary William Monroe Trotter, of 34 Cornhill, Boston, are receiving many letters on the convention and will answer all inquiries. SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST HOLD STH ANNUAL SESSION, Metompkins, Va.—‘The Grand Coun cil, Sons and Daughters of the Forest held its fifth annual session a short while azo and it was a very inter: esting meeting from start to finish ‘The president, T. L. Ames called the meeting to order and after the formal opening, the president arose and gave a short but very helpful tatk on the object of the meeting. “Rock of Ages" was sung by the assembly, The welcome address was made by Deputy Charles Justice, Response to (he Welcome was by Mrs. Mattie Ames. About one hour was devoted to free expression at which time most of the representatives spoke a few words, ‘Time will not permit to write much. but let me state that this is on organization worthy of the hishest praise. Its president is a Christian man and is striving hard for the ap- lift of his people. This was a three days’ meeting and during the whole time not a cross word was passed amd the walking moonshiners seem to have lost our path, "The many addresses would have’ pleased any one and the one by Mes, Minnie Stevens was the climax. On ‘Thursday night at the Metomp- Kins Raptist Church it was a treat to those who heard the address of Rev, Rogers, pastor of the Whitesville M. F. Chureh While the meeting all through was very interesting and something should ho said of each speaker and more in Hetil of the proceedings, time and space will not permit. but tam foreed to say a word of the yory excelent solo by Miss B. VW. Wrisht The Sons and Daughters of the Forest is a blessing to the Bastern Shore. HOW ‘TO SEND MAIL ‘ro OUR SOLDIER BOYS, Postmasters are informed that let- fers. posteards and printed matter originating in the United States or AMS of its possessions for transmis sion to the Unived States: Expedition: ary Korees in Europe are subject to Nie United States domestieselassifica- tion, conditions and rates of postae, and that letters, post cards and print. cd matter originating with "such forces for transmission to the United States or its possessions are: Hkewise subject to domestic classification, conditions and rates of postage. ox. copt as modified by the provisions covering letters indorsed “soldier's letter" and contained in Section 406, Postal Laws and Regulations. No other than United States: poxt- Axe stamps are valid for the prepay ment of postage on inatter herein described, Mail addressed to members of the Expeditionary Forces should hear the complete designation of the division, regiment, company and orsanization| to whieh the addressee belongs, ns well as the name and address of the sender, and be fully prepaid by: post- age stamps affixed. Patrons should he instructed under no cireumstances fo attempt to designate on the ad- dressed envelope the location of the unit, ‘The corgect manner of address ing such a letter would be as follows: Vostmasters shall forward all mail matter addressed “American Bxpedi- tionary Forces” to New York THE PAMILY OP LYNCHED MAN REFUSES "TO HANDLE HIS REMAINS. Heathsville, Va Excitement: over the Iynching of dames Page last week in lower Northumberland has died out almost as quickly as it was fanned into time, The body of Page was found swinging from an owk tree ina col- ered schoolyard not far from the seone of the attempted crime, by offi- cers yesterday morning and arrange: ments made for burial. — Neither rel- atives nor friends would claim the body or have anything to do with it. While excitement seemed to have vomiplotely subsided, all possible pre- cautions were taken to avoid any race troubles. and home guards were or- sanized iy the village of Lilian and in nearby towns, As far as could be ascertained (o- day colored people generally seemed sittistiod with (he verdict of the armed band that exeented Page and that he had received only proper punishment, Investigations, however, were start ed today by Commonweaith's Attor- ney ALS. Rice to find the leaders of the mob” and every effort is. being made in this dircetion, TREMERNEVILLE NEWS. ‘Treherneville, Va_—This section as well as the villaze of ‘Treherneville feels very much indebted to. Brother Kaward Seward for what he has done in the way of drainage. Mr. William Blake. head deacon of the ‘Trehernoville Baplist Chureh has been very successful in ehureh work this year and is always at his post of duty Mr. M,C. Make and John Cuppins are hard at work on the chureh: and the people of this section are proud of the work, Rev. Montagne feels very proud of Mr. JH. Coston, Mr. Coston is the preacher's steward and always on duty SUPREME LODGE IN NEW YornK. Pourhkeepsie, No ¥., August 24 The fifteenth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights. of Pythias and the Supreme Court. of Calanthe will be held here next week ‘The session will practically open Sun: day night when Rey, W. Spencer Car- penter, of Brooklyn, N.Y. will preach the biennial sermon at the A.M. BE. Zion Chureh The business sessions of the Su- preme Lodge will be held in the Knights of Columbus Institute Hall, Supreme Chaneelor W, Ashbie Haw- kins, of Baltimore, presiding. ‘The women will meet inthe G. A. R. Hall, Supreme Worthy Counsellor Jennie Ross. of Baltimore, presiding. Mayor Wilbur is expected (o deliver an oddress of welcome Monday after: fea, utter whieh a parade of the Uniform Raut ait iake place, Major General George W. Spencer Carin tor, presiding. ‘The Uniform Rank meets Wednesday. ‘Whe Planet Resnmes Publication, (Denver. Col. Statesman.) We congratulate Editor Jobn Mitchell, Jy, for his snecess in having the suspension of the Richmond Planet annulled, and we cannot but Feet that these incidents have their ‘ood turn when they help to prove the grit the stamina and backbone in our fellow Nexro editors, Mr. Mitchell, although a very forei- Me and fearless writer, exhibited the sense of real leadership when he suth- mitted to the government's. order throueh the postmaster of Richmond and employing some of the best lessl authorities on constitutional law he gained the elorious vietory of eontin- wing his paper in accordance with the Taw which provides for “the freedom of the press." May abundant success attend the future lite of the Rich- mond Planet, and the people of our race prove themselves worthy of sitel leaders by their greater support and recognition of this “foeman who. is worthy of his steel.” NEWS AROUND BALTIMORE. John Henry Smith Dead—Ritks Leave for Cleveland to Raast. Baltimore Raltimore, August 24.-—"Phe tun- eral of John Henry Smith, one of the hest known of the older residents of Haltimore, was held at his lute home, 2113 Druid Hi avenue. ‘The de- ceased was a clerk in the Local post- office for more than thirty years, resigning a decade ago. A widow and six children survive \ bie delegation of Baltimore Eiks left for Cleveland, 0. Friday moru- ing last. where they will boost this city as the next meeting place for the Grand Lodge. |, John W. Rich visited the Oficers’ ‘Training Camp at Des Moines, Towa this week. William Th Garrett, of this city, was elected grand master of the Fish: ermen of Galilee at their session. in Asbury Park, XN. J. last week, _, Rev. dames A. Wright, of Hartford, Comm. was in the eily this week vis iting relatives. Visitors ( Our Oflice Last Week «, Mr. Foster Phillips, Jv.. New York, N.Y. and Miss Leah RB. Parrar: Mr J.8, Vandervall, New York City: Mr W. Calvin Chase. tr. of the Tree. Washington, D.C.: Mr. ALT, Garrett seeretary-manager, Fayetteville Cof. fin and Casket Co., Fayetteville, N. Cr Rev. IB. Hughes, Baltimore. Mi. Rev. IL Leigh Jones. New York City: Mr. J. M. Riddick, New York City: Mr. and Mrs, 4. 8. Fieldo, FB Liverpool. Ohio: Nirs. George lem: ing. dr. and Miss Ellen L. Plemings Fine Creek Mills, Va.: Mrs. 1A ‘Treherne, Mrs. Cordelia Mason ‘and Miss Nellie ‘Treherne, Northampton Co.. Va. THE RICHMOND PLANE., RICHMOND. viTRcINTA URBANNA NOTES. Urbanna, Va. August 27.—A very successful revival has just closed at the Calvary Baptist Chureh, Rey. Dr. RK. B. Rerkley, pastor, Revival services have been going en for the past week at the Immanuel Baptist Church, Rey, W. B. Carring- fon, D.D.. qtstor, "Rev, Bailey, of Hatiiniare has bool Abslting king ‘There will be something unusual here on the second Sunday afternoon, September oun. 1 will be a saered concert on water. Mr, J.B, Johnson is at the head of the play, Under the auspices of the Union Grove Sun- day School, Lite Miss Dorothy Carter, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie B! Carter, is very HL at this writing, Mr. and Mrs, Wash, Boyd, of Water View spent last Senday with Mr. and Ars, W.E. Green Webb ‘Town regained its past rep- ntation as a social center last Sunday. Those seen thereabout were, Mr. and Mrs. 1. N. Loekley. of Stormont, Mr. and Mrs. John Webb. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Curtis Johnson, and) Mr. Robert ‘Thornton Mr. Robert ‘Thornton is seen near Streets quite often of late, On bisi- Miss Sarah C. Campbell. of Amburg is visiting Mrs, J, B. Martin, of ‘Tap: pahamnock. Mrs. Julia Banks, of Boston, Mass.. who has been visiting her danghter, Mrs. Addie Robinson, of Harmony Village is now visiting relatives in Webb ‘Town, Camp meeting will besin at Water View next Sunday, September 2nd. Mr, Willie Roane, of Streets. is boasting of his excellent tomato cron, Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Wood, of Nor- folk are visitng the parental home here. Mr. J, M. Wood, of Norfolk, who has been visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wood returned last Sat- urday, LOCAL HAPPENING ‘The conversation had changed to the old path so she said to him, “Why that path has grown up long ago.” He replied, “No the path has not krown up Dut bushes have grown in the path." Don't forget, ‘The Planet is. at ‘Thornton ‘Tailor Shop ever Saturday. BATCHELOR RONCEVERTE NEWS. Ronceverte, W. Va., August 26. The colored ‘citizens of Ronceverte are more than glad that Editor Mitchell has won a complete victory over those Who have tried so hard to humiliate the leading Negro paper of this country, Editor Mitehell, we ave with you We like your method of sca kis ook while (ond & holt ind uplift rather saw that whieh de grades and draws back. West Vir- xinia is learning more to appreciate such & man ax Mr, Mitehell, Long may those wholesome sayings contin- ue to spread over this broad land and may those truths for which ‘Phe Planet has stood, he realized and may those who Haye opposed such wholesome sayings. be converted into those principles that uplift those who are oppressed. Miss Ausistine Patterson, who has heen contined his been reported much improved. Mr, and Mrs. John Riddle, of Hunt ington. W.Va. were pleasant visitors of their parents, Prof. and Mrs. RD. Riddle, of this eity, Messrs, WA, Eggleston, Tom Long and Miss Lena “Hopkins, of Cheat Cli have returned home. Mrs, Bhiche Breckenridge and nephew have returned froma. visit to Hintington, Miss Clara Burger, of Alderson, W. Va, was a visitor of Miss Heton Woodley last: Saturday. ‘The Women's Day program ren- dered by the ladies of the M. B, Chureh last Sunday was very success. ful, Rey. TH. Carpenter, the pro- gressive pastor has been ap and doing “his bit” Rev. G. 1 Carter, of the First Raptist Church preached two able sermons Sunday to a large congrega- tion. A large delegation from the al. ¥, Charen is preparing to £0 to Charles. ton. W.Va. next week io the District Couterénee. Mrs. Lizzie Brown, Mrs, Henry Morton. Mrs, Lila Moore and. son, and Miss Ailien Sweeney attended the Grand Session of the I, 0, of St Luke, in Richmond, Va. . Messrs, Clarence Miller and Alex Hunter have heen called to serve in the selective draft army, OLIVER GREEN. SUSPEND JUDGMENT ON THE HOUSTON RIOTS. (Richmond Virginian, August 25.) Hasty conclusions about the tous- ton disturbances, in whieh Negro sol dicrs of the regular army van amuek and killed a number of policemen and citizens, should not be drawn, In so serious a situation, all available facts should be in hand before any one un- dertakes to decide what caused. the tronble and what shonld be dono. Information so far as available indi cates that police oflicers arrested. a Negro woman and, later, two Negro soliliers who protested. Other Negroes arming themselves and disregarding the attempts of thelr officers to keep them in control, marehed down town in a mob, shooting into houses and at people on the street as they went along. ‘They* were seattered by a military guard and many of them have been apprehended. ‘The unhappy affair throws into sharp prominence the question which has already received earnest attention from many citizens who realize the danger likely to arise from the pres- ence of Negro troops in the South, Congressman Eagle, of Houston, has formally protested against sending Any of the Negroes drafted for the national army into his district for training and” has insisted that the Negroes now there be taken away ‘The whole policy of the administra. tion in this matter may be changed by the decision on Mr, Eagle's protest U is too early to fix blame, ‘That the Negroes involved are in the rer ular army makes the new outbreak all the more disquieting, but it is to be hoped that steps will be taken to forestall any possible repetition of the oveurrence, COMMANDER OF COLORED RAT: TALION SAYS SUPUATION HAD BREN GROWING UGLY FOR MAXY WEEKS, Houston, ‘Texas. August 24—Major Snow, commanding: the battalion. of colored soldiers, stated that the bit- ter feeling among men of his com mand had been Increasing since. they were sent here from Deming, N. Mo. three weeks ago. He suid: MAJOR SNOW'S STATEMENT. cThursday morning, a Houston po- lice officer arrested: q! Nexvo woman and in doing so. Tam informed, slapped her face.” A soldier of the ‘Twenty-fourth, who had been drink- ing, remonstrated with the patrolman, for what he considered his unneces- sary violence in striking: her, ‘The officer then beran heating the soldier with his pistol ‘The man's face and head were badly ent by the pistol butt He was arrested by the same oficer and taken to the station, where he is now held “Thursday afternoon. according to reports made to me by Corporal Hale timore, of my military police force, a soldier of my command was arrested by an officer. Corporal Baltimore, who was nearby wearing his military police badge, asked the officer, purely for information, he says, why the man was arrested, “The policeman told him that it was none of his business. He then, Corporal Baltimore and the arrested soldier both state, hit Baltimore aver the head with his pistol butt, Cor- poral Baltimore ran up the street, the policeman firing at him as he fled. He took refuge in a house under a bed, The policeman followed. dragged him out, used further abusive kinguaze to. him, and struck him Gvice more with the pistol “When the men in camp heard of these occurrences ‘Thursday afternoon it excited them greatly and they made oper threats of retaliation.” SITUATION DECLARED IN HAND. General Hulen has a considerable force in the city and has been rein- forced with 350) coast” guardsmen from Galveston, who have five. ma- chine guns. General Hulen believes he has the situation well in hand and that there is small prospect of trou- Ble, T8 etae msamds at every smn store fi th. city, aiplacea the cor ored soldiers guarding Camp Togan, with his own men and has declared that there is to he no diserimination in arresting armed men, Woman Plunges Into Well. Despondent and alarmed beeause her husband had bought another farny Mrs. William Overeash, living on the edge of Chambersburg, Pa, raised the heavy plank covering of a well alongside the house and, foreing er head and shonldera between several planks near the top, plunged thirty-five feet fnto the deen water in the bottom and was drowned, Some of her family were close by in the house, but they never heard a sound. Missing her, a search was Kept up until eleven P.M. when the body was found in the well, Corenet Kinter found that she was a. suicide, German Germ in Soap. Soap is the latest article recelved at the state department of health in Marrisburg, Pa, from people wha fear that it has been infected hy Ger. mans. Some cakes were received from people who stated that they had re: celved them from German” peddlers, and who asted to be informed whether thoy had been poisoned, ‘The state officials will adstse peonle not to use the soap, if they are atraid of It Shall Piatte Cisek Basa Tho imperial munitions hoard in Ottawa, Ont., has announeed that pro. Auction of munitions in Canada will ho discontinued, as no longer neces sary, except in’ lines whieh, in part, will he produced in lessened quantittes Some planis affected, in consequence will resume prewar activities In theit Togilar lines. Others will engage ty the production of canipment for ships, Find Cow In Coal Mine, After John Williams and Harry James, Roaver Meadow miners, neat Hazleton, Va. Nad fired a blast. tn their chamber they found a cow among the eoal and rock brought down by the shot. ‘Tho animal was grazing on the surface a hundred fect above and came down with the debris. ‘The ho vine was unharmed and was led out through a gangway, Blame Slackers For Fire. The attempts to burn the Ae comac county, Va, court house aro. believed “to have been tho work of men who sousht to evade na. tlonal ariny service by destroying the records whieh they believed were kept in the buflding. OM was poured on the inside stalrway. ‘The blaze was dbs covered and extinguished, Alleged “Slacker” is a Woman, | acing (rial in Cleveland — for ovading the army, “Harry Hoffman,! thirty, confessed she was not a man, but a’ woman, Lilian Myers, Por ten years she has supported herself by manual labor, She registered June 5 but refused to report for physical ex amination, VIRGINTA—In the Clerk's Oflice of the Taw and Kqulty Court of the City of Richmond, the 28h dny of AURIS, IZ ne ween eet IN VACATION. CHARLES NELSON, .. 2... 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BXCRLSIOR HAIL PREPARATIONS are made only by—- THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO 265 8, Bland 8t., Blucfeld, W. Va. made better time.) He hired the remains of a horse and hitehed it to what was onee a bugay and started out for the country, Tn past dic Hime Ne snecceded in fooling that an- fmat to the end of the journey. After the day's exercises were completed, the party started back, but the pearl was not numbered among the joyous (rong. She made the trip back with this mue? pleased and nearly-broke young man, behind that dyspeptic. bonied. hat-rack of a horse, seated in a four-wheel would-be contraption. but they seemed just as happy as one bird in two nests, When last seen on the road they were ARRIVING IN THE DIRECTION OF ‘THE Crry BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & Co. "Big Timber" is a dramatic story of love and the logging camps — a vigorous tale of lives that are made or broken by the big timber of the northwest, around which they build their hopes and aspirations. From the very first chapter the romance grips the interest of the reader, and there is no letup in the tension as Novelist Sinclair, with wonderful cleverness, weaves a plot which in character delineation, imaginative construction and heart interest has rarely been surpassed in a decade. Green Fields and Pastures New. THE Imperial Limited inched with a swing around the last bulbpin curve of the Yale canyon. Ahead opened out a timbered valley-narrow on its floor, flanked with bold mountains, but nevertheless a valley-down which the rails lay straight and shining on an easy grade. The river that for a hundred miles had bottled and snarled parallel to the tracks, roaring through the granite sluice that cuts the Cascade range, took a wider channel and a leisurely flow. On the river side of the first coach behind the diner Estella Benton nursed her round chin in the palm of one hand, leaning her elbow on the window sill. It was a relief to look over a widening valley instead of a bare walled gorge all scarred with slides, to see wooded heights lift green in place of barren cliffs, to watch banks of Estella Benton Nursed Her Round Chin In the Palm of One Hand. term massed against the right of way where for a day and a night parched sagebrush, brown tumbleweed and such scant growth as flourished in the arid uplands of interior British Columbia had streamed in barren monotony, hot and dry and still. She was near the finish of her journey. Pensively she considered the end of the road. How would it be there? What manner of folk and country? Between her past mode of life and the new that she was hurrying toward lay the vast gulf of distance, of customs, of class even. It was bound to be crude, to be full of inconveniences and uncountless. Her brother's letters had partly prepared her for that. Involuntarily she shrank from it, had been shrinking from it by fits and starts all the way, as flowers that thrive best in shady nooks shrink from hot sun and rude winds. Not that Estella Benton was particularly flower-like. On the contrary, she was a healthy, vigorous bodied young woman scarcely to be described as beautiful, yet undeniably attractive, obviously a daughter of the well to do, one of that American type which flourishes in families to which American politicians unctually refer as the backbone of the nation. Outwardly, gazing riverward through the dusty pane, she bore herself with utmost serenity. Inwardly she was full of misgivings. All of which is merely by way of stating that Miss Estella Benton was a young woman who had grown up quite complacently in that station of life in which, to quote the Philistines, it had pleased God to place her and that chance had somehow, to her astonished dismay, contrived to thrust a spoke in the smooth rolling wheels of destiny. Or was it destiny? She had begun to think about that, to wonder if a lot that she had taken for granted as an ordered state of things was not, after all, wholly dependent upon chance. She had danced and sung and played light heartedly, accepting a certain standard of living, a certain position in a certain set, a pleasantly ordered home life, as her birthright, a natural heritage. Just so. But a broken steering knuckle on a heavy touring car set PROLOGUE CHAPTER I. lings in a different light, many things. She learned then that death is no respecter of persons; that a big income may be lived to its limit with nothing left when the brain force which commanded it ceases to function. Her father produced perhaps fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a year in his brokerage business, and he had saved nothing. Thus at one stroke she was put on an equal footing with the stenographer in her father's office. Scarcely equal either, for the stenographer earned her bread and was technically equipped for the task, whereas Estella Benton had no training whatsoever except in social usage. She did not yet fully realize just what had overtaken her. Things had happened so swiftly, so ruthlessly, that she still verged upon the incredulous. Habit clung fast. But she had begun to think, to try and establish some working relation between herself and things as she found them. She had discovered already that certain theories of human relations are not soundly established in fact. She turned at last in her seat. The Limited's whistle had shirred for a stop. At the next stop—she wondered what lay in her for her just beyond the next stop. While she dwelt mentally upon this her hands were gathering up some few odds and ends of her belongings on the bedh. Across the nible a large, smooth faced young man watched her with covert admiration. When she had settled back with bag and suit case locked and strapped on the opposite seat and was hatted and gloved he leaned over and addressed her genially: "Getting off at Hoyward? 'Happen to be going out to Bearing Springs?' Miss Benton's gray eyes rested personally on the top of his head, traveled slowly down over the trunk front of his blue serge to the polished tan oxfords on his feet, and there was not in eyes or on countenance the slightest sign that she saw or heard him. The large young man flushed a vivid red. Miss Benton was partly amused, partly provoked. The large young man had been her vbs-a-vbs at dinner the day before and at breakfast that morning. He had evinced a yearning for conversation each time, but it had been diplomatically confined to salt and other condiments, the weather and the scenery. Miss Benton had no objection to young men in general, quite the contrary, but she did not consider it quite the thing to countenance every available stranger. Within a few minutes the porter came for her things and the blast of the Limited's whistle warned her that it was time to leave the train. Ten minutes later the limited was a vanishing object down an aisle slashed through a forest of great trees, and Miss Estella Benton stood on the plank platform in Hoppy station. Beside the platform were ranged two touring cars. Three or four of those who had alighted entered these. Their baggage was piled over the hoods, buckled on the running boards. The driver of one car approached her. "Hot Springs?" he inspired tensely. She alirmed this, and he took her baggage, like wise her trunk check when she asked how that article would be transported to the race. She had some idea of route and means from her brother's written instruction, but she thought he might have been there to meet her. At least he would be at the Springs. So she was whirled along a country road, jolted in the tormenta between a fat man from Calgary and a rhumatic dance on her way to take hot sunbath bathes at St. Alwoods. She passed seedy farmhouses, primitive in construction, and big barns with moss plentifully clinging on roof and gable. The stretch of charred stumps was left far behind, but in every field of grain and vegetable and root great butts of fir and cedar rose amid the crops. Her first indefinitely agreeable impression of this land, which so far as she knew must be her home, was of those huge and numerous stumps contending with crops for possession of the fields. At first she had been overpowered with a sense of insignificance utterly foreign to her previous experience, but now she discovered with an agreeable sensation of surprise she could vibrate to such a keynote. And while she communed with this pleasant discovery the car sped down a straight stretch and around a corner and stopped short to unload sacks of mail at a weather beaten yellow edifice, its windows displaying indiscriminately Indian baskets, groceries and hardware. Northward opened a broad scope of lako level, girt about with tremendous peaks whose lower slopes were banked with thick forest. Somewhere distant along that lake shore was to be her home. As the car rolled over the 400 yards between store and white and green St. Allwoods she wondered if Charlie would be there to meet her. She was wary of seeing strange faces, of being directed, of being hustled about. But he was not there, and she recalled that he never had been notable for punctuality. Five years is a long time. She expected to find him changed—for the better, in certain directions. He had promised to be there, but in this respect time evidently had wrought THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA no appreciable transformation. She registered, was assigned a room and ato luncheon to the melancholy accompaniment of a three man orchestra struggling vainly with Bach in an alcove off the dining room. After that she began to make inquiries. Neither clerk nor manager knew aught of Charlie Benton. They were both in their first season there. They advised her to ask the storekeeper. "MaeDougal will know," they were agreed. "He knows everybody around here and everything that goes on." The storekeeper, a genial, round bodied Scotchman, had the information she desired. "Charlie Benton?" said he. "No; he'll be at his camp up the lake. He was in three or four days back. I mind now he said he'd be down Thursday. That's today. But he isn't here yet, or his bout'd be by the wharf wonder." "Are there any passenger boats that call there?" she asked. MacDougal shook his head. "Not regular. There's a gas boat goes to the head of the lake now an' then. She's/ away now. Ye might hire a launch. Jack Fyfe's camp tender's about to get under way. But you would care to to go on her. I'm thinkin'. She'll be loured w' humberjacks — every man drunk as a lord, most like. Maybe Bourton'll be in before night." She went back to the hotel. But St. Allwoods, in its duel capacity of health and pleasure resort was a gilded shell, making a brave outward show, but capitalizing chiefly lake, mountains and hot mineral springs. Her room was a bare, cheerless place. She did not want to sit and ponder. Too much real grief hovered in the immediate background of her life. It is not always sufficient to be young and alive. To sit still and think—that way lay tears and despondency. So she went out and walked down the road and out upon the wharf which jutted 200 yards into the lake. After a time she retraced her steps. Nearring the halfway slip, she saw that a wagon from which goods were being unloaded blocked the way. A dozen men were stringing in from the road, bearing bundles and bags and rolls of blankets. They were big, burly men, carrying themselves with a reckless swing, with trousers cut off midway between knee and ankle so that they reached just below the upper of their high topped, heavy leaved boots. Two or three were shingling. All appeared unduly happy, talking loudly, with deep laughter. One threw down his burden and executed a brief clog. Splinters flew where the sharp calls bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded. It dawned upon Stella Benton that these might be Jack Fyfe's drunken loggers, and she withdrew until the way should be clear, vitally interested because her brother was a logging man and wondering if these were the human tools he used in his business, if these were the sort of men with whom he associated. They were a rough lot, and some were very drunk. With the manifestations of liquor she had but the most shadowy acquaintance, but she would have been little less than a fool not to comprehend this. Then they began filling down the gangway to the boat's deck. One slipped and came near falling into the water, whereat his fellows howled gleefully. Precariously they negotiated the slanting passage, all but one. He sat him down at the slip head on his bundle and began a quivering chant. The wagon backed out, and the way was clear save for the logger sitting on his blankets, walling his lugubrious song. From below his fellows urged him to come along. A bell changed in the pilot house. The exhaust of a gas engine began to sputter through the boat's side. From her after deck a man halted the logger sharply, and when his call was unheeded he ran lightly up the ship. A short, squarely built man he was, as light on his feet as a dancing master. "Hurry aboard. Mike; we're waiting!" he said impatiently. The logger rose, waved his hand ally and turned as if to retreat down the wharf. The other caught him by the arm and spun him face to the slip. "Come on, Shater," he said evenly. "I have no time to fool around." The logger drew back his fist. He was a fairly big man. But if he had in mind to deal a blow it failed, for the other ducked and caught him with both arms around the middle. He lifted the logger clear of the wharf, hoisted him to the level of his breast and heaved him down the slip as one would throw a sack of bean. The man's body bounced on the incline, rolled, slid, tumbled till at length he brought up against the boat's guard, and all that saved him a ducking was the prompt extension of several stout arms, which clutched and hauled him to the flush after deck. He sat on his hunches, blinking. Then he laughed. So did the man at the top of the slip, but the roar of him who had taken that inglorious descent rose loudest of all, an explosive "Har, har, har!" "Hey, Jack!" he shouted. "Maybe y' c'n throw m' blankets down, too, while y'r at it." The man at the slip head caught up the roll, poised it high and cast it from him with a quick twist of his body. The woolen missile flew like a well put shot and caught its owner fair in the breast, tumbling him backward on the deck, and the Homeric laughter rose in double strength. Then the boat began to swing, and the man ran down and leaped the widening space as she drew away from her mooring. Stella watched the craft gather way, a trifle shocked, her breath coming a little faster. The most deadly blows she had ever seen struck were delivered in a more subtle, less virile mode, a curl of the lip, an inflection of the voice. These were a different order of beings. Tais, she sensed, was man in a more primitive aspect, man with the conventional bark stripped clean off him. And she scarcely knew whether to be amused or frightened when she reflected that among such her life would presently lie. Charlie had written that she would find things and people a trifle rest, her than she was used 60. She could well believe that. But they were picturesque rufflings. Her interested gaze followed the camp tender as it swung around the wharf end, and so her roaming eyes were led to another craft drawing near. This might be her brother's vessel. She went back to the outer landing to see. Two men manned this boat. As she ranged alongside the piles one stood forward and the other aft with lines to make fast. She cast a look at each. They were prototypes of the rude crew but now departed, brown faced, flannel shirted, shod with called boots, unshaven for days, typical men of the woods. 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"My word, Charlie, you certainly ought to shave," she observed, with sisterly frankness. "I didn't know you until you spoke. I'm awfully glad to see you, but you do need some one to look after you." "Perhaps. But, my dear girl, a fellow doesn't get anywhere on his appearance in this country. When a fellow's bucking big timber he shunks off a lot of things he used to think were quite essential. By Jove, you're a picture, Stell. If I hadn't been expecting to see you I wouldn't have known you." "I doubt if I should have known you either," she returned drilly. Stella accompanied her brother to the store, where he gave an order for sundry goods. Then they went to the hotel to see if her trunks had arrived. Within a few yards of the fence which inclosed the grounds of St. Allwoods a man halled Benton and drew him a few steps aside. Stella walked slowly on, and presently her brother joined her. 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Atlanta, Birmingham; 4:55 P.M. M, Florida; sleepers to Jacksonville; 11:30 P.M. M, Florida; Limited; 12:35 A.M. A, sleepers to Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa and coachee & Jacksonville. Bouthound trains scheduled to arrive Richmond daily: 4:10 A.M. A, 7:35 A.M. A, M, local. 9:25 A.M. A, 12:35 A.M. M, THREE NO.10 YORK RIVER LINE BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & Co. PROLOGUE "Big Timber" is a dramatic story of love and the logging camps—a vigorous tale of lives that are made or broken by the big timber of the northwest, around which they build their hopes and aspirations. From the very first chapter the romance grips the interest of the reader, and there is no letup in the tension as Novelist Sinclair, with wonderful cleverness, weaves a plot which in character delineation, imaginative construction and heart interest has rarely been surpassed in a decade. Green Fields and Pastures New. THE Imperial Limited inched with a swing around the last buttress Temperate limestone directed with a swing around the last halpure curve of the Yale canyon. Ahead opened out a timbered valley—narrow on its floor, flanked with bold mountains, but nevertheless a valley—down which the rails lay straight and shining on an easy grade. The river that for a hundred miles had boiled and snarled parallel to the tracks, roaring through the granite shillee that cuts the Cascade range, took a wider channel and a leisurely flow. On the river side of the first coach behind the diner Estella Benton nursed her round chin in the palm of one hand, leaning her elbow on the window still. It was a relief to look over a widening valley instead of a bare walled gorge all scarred with slides, to see wooded heights lift green in place of barren cliffs, to watch banks of Estella Benton Nursed Her Round Chin In the Palm of One Hand. form massed against the right of way where for a day and a night parched sagebrush, brown tumbleweed and such scent growth as flourished in the arid uplands of interior British Columbia had streamed in barren monotony, hot and dry and still. She was near the finish of her journey. Pensively she considered the end of the road. How would it be there? What manner of folk and country? Between her past mode of life and the new that she was hurrying toward lay the vast gulf of distance, of customs, of class even. It was bound to be crude, to be full of inconveniences and uncountless. Her brother's letters had partly prepared her for that. Involuntarily she shrank from it, had been shrinking from it by fits and starts all the way, as flowers that thrive best in shady nooks shrink from hot sun and rude winds. Not that Estelia Benton was particularly flower-like. On the contrary, she was a healthy, vigorous bodied young woman scarcely to be described as beautiful, yet undeniably attractive, obviously a daughter of the well to do, one of that American type which flourishes in families to which American politicians uncexitely refer as the backbone of the nation. Outwardly, gazing riverward through the dusty pane, she bore herself with utmost serenity. Inwardly she was full of misgivings. All of which is merely by way of stating that Miss Estelia Benton was a young woman who had grown up quite complacently in that station of life in which, to quote the Philistines, it had pleased God to place her and that chance had somehow, to her astonished dismay, contrived to thrust a spoke in the smooth rolling wheels of destiny. Or was it destiny? She had begun to think about that, to wonder if a lot that she had taken for granted as an ordered state of things was not, after all, wholly dependent upon chance. She had danced and sung and played light heartedly, accepting a certain standard of living, a certain position in a certain set, a pleasantly ordered home life, as her birthright, a natural heritage. Just so. But a broken steering knuckle on a heavy touring car set CHAPTER I. things in a different light, many things. She learned then that death is no respecter of persons; that a big income may be lived to its limit with nothing left when the brain force which commuted it ceases to function. Her father produced perhaps fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a year in his brokerage business, and he had saved nothing. Thus at one stroke she was put on an equal footing with the stenographer in her father's office. Scarcely equal either, for the stenographer earned her bread and was technically equipped for the task, whereas Estella Benton had no training whatsoever except in social usage. She did not get fully realize just what had overtaken her. Things had happened so swiftly, so ruthlessly, that she still verged upon the incredulous Habit clung fast. But she had begun to think, to try and establish some working relation between herself and things as she found them. She had discovered already that certain theories of human relations are not soundly established in fact. She turned at last in her seat. The Limited's whistle had shirred for a stop. At the next stop—she wondered what lay in store or her just beyond the next stop. While she dwelt mentally upon his hands were gathering up some new olds and ends of her belongings on the birth. Actress the miserable large, smooth faced young man watched her with covert admiration. When she had settled back with bag and suit ease locked and strapped on the opposite seat and was hatted and gloved he leaned over and addressed her gonally: "Getting off at Happyd? Happen to be going out to Bairing Springs?" Miss Benton's gray eyes rested impersonally on the top of his head, traveled slowly down over the trim front of his blue serge to the polished tan ox-fords on his feet, and there was not in eyes or on countenance the slightest sign that she saw or heard him. The large young man flushed a vivid red. Miss Benton was partly amused, partly provoked. The large young man had been her vis-a-vis at dinner the day before and at breakfast that morning. He had eyed a yearning for conversation each time, but it had been diplomatically confined to salt and other condiments, the weather and the scenery. Miss Benton had no objection to young men in general, quite the contrary, but she did not consider it quite the thing to countenance every available stranger. Within a few minutes the porter came for her things and the blast of the Limited's whistle warned her that it was time to leave the train. Ten minutes later the limited was a vanishing object down an aisle slashed through a forest of great trees, and Miss Estella Benton stood on the plank platform in Hopyard station. Beside the platform were ranged two touring cars. Three or four of those who had alighted entered these. Their baggage was pled over the hoods, buckled on the running boards. The driver of one car appraised her, "Hot Springs?" he inspired treessy. She affirmed this, and he took her baggage, like a case her truck check when she asked how that article would be transported to the gate. She had some idea of route and means from her brother's written instruction, but she thought he might have been there to meet her. At least he would be at the Springs. So she was whirled along a country road, jolted in the torment between a fat man from Cagayo and a rhumatic dame on her way to tastle hot smother bathes at St. Ailwoods. She passed seedy farmhouses, primitive in construction, and big barns with moss plentifully clinging on roof and gable. The stretch of charred stumps was left far behind, but in every field of grain and vegetable and root great butis of fir and cedar rose amid the crops. Her first, indefinitely agreeable impression of this land, which so far as she knew must be her home, was of those huge and numerous stumps contending with crops for possession of the fields. At first she had been overpowered with a sense of insignificance utterly foreign to her previous experience, but now she discovered with an agreeable sensation of surprise she could vibrate to such a keynote. And while she communed with this pleasant discovery the car sped down a straight stretch and around a corner and stopped short to unload sacks of mail at a weather beaten yellow elfice, its windows displaying indiscriminately Indian baskets, groceries and hardware. Northward opened a broad scope of lake level, glrt about with tremendous peaks whose lower slopes were banked with thick forest. Somewhere distant along that lake shore was to be her home. As the car rolled over the 400 yards between store and white and green St. Allwoods she wondered if Charlie would be there to meet her. She was weary of seeing strange faces, of being directed, of being hustled about. But he was not there, and she recalled that he never had been notable for punctuality. Five years is a long time. She expected to find him changed—for the better, in certain directions. He had promised to be there, but in this respect time evidently had wrought THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA no unreducible transitivity prepresentation transformation. She registered, was assigned a room and into luncheon to the melancholy accompaniment of a three man orchestra struggling valently with Each in an alove off the dining room. After that she began to make inquiries. Neither clerk nor manager knew aught of Charlie Benton. They were both in their first season there. They advised her to ask the storekeeper. "Machoubal will know," they were agreed. "He knows everybody around here and everything that goes on." The storekeeper, a genial, round bodied Scotchman, had the information she desired. "Charlie Benton?" said he. "No; he'll be at his camp up the lake. He was in three or four days back. I mind now he said he'd be down Thursday. That's today. But he isn't here yet, or his bout'd be by the wharf wonder." "Are there any passenger boats that call there?" she asked. MucDougal shook his head. "Not reg'arin. There's a gas boat goes 't the head of the lake now an' then. She's away now. Ye might hire a launch. Jack Fyfe's camp tender's about to get under way. But, ye wouldna care to go on her, I'm thinkin'. She'll be tended wi' humberjackks —every man drunk as a bord, most like Maybe Been'll be in before night." She went back to the hotel. But St. Allwoods, in its duel capacity of health and pleasure resort was a gilded shell, making a brave outward show, but capitalizing cheery lake, mountains and hot mineral springs. Her room was a bare, cheerless place. She did not want to sit and ponder. Too much real grief hovered in the immediate background of her life. It is not always sufficient to be young and alive. To sit still and think—that way lay tears and despondency. So she went out and walked down the road and out upon the wharf which jutted 200 yards into the lake. After a time she retraced her steps, Nearing the halfway slip, she saw that a wagon from which goods were being unbound blocked the way. A dozen men were stringing in from the road, bearing bundles and bags and rolls of blankets. They were big, burly men, carrying themselves with a reckless swing, with trousers cut off midway between knee and ankle so that they reached just below the upper of their high topped, heavy lace boots. Two or three were singing. All appeared unduly happy, talking loudly, with deep laughter. One threw down his burden and executed a brief clog, Splinters flew where the sharp calls bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded. It dawned upon Stella Benton that these might be Jack Fyfe's drunken loggers, and she withdrew until the way should be clear, vitally interested because her brother was a logging man and wondering if these were the human tools he used in his business, if these were the sort of men with whom he associated. They were a rough lot, and some were very drunk. With the manifestations of liquor she had but the most shagdowy neqequacence, but she would have been little less than a fool not to comprehend this. Then they began filing down the gangway to the bont's deck. One slipped and came near falling into the water, wherein his fellows howled gleefully. Precariously they negotiated the slanting passage, all but one. He sat him down at the slip head on his bundle and began a quavering chant. The wagon backed out, and the way was clear save for the logger sitting on his blankets, wailing hisugubulous song. From below his fellows urged him to come along. A bell charged in the pilot house. The exhaust of a gas engine began to sputter through the boat's side. From her after deck a man hailed the logger sharply, and when his call was unheeded he ran lightly up the slip. A short, squerely built man he was, as light on his feet as a dancing master. "Hurry aboard, Mike; we're waiting!" he said impatiently. The logger drew back his list. He was a fairly big man. But if he had in mind to deal a blow it failed, for the other ducked and caught him with both arms around the middle. He lifted the logger clear of the wharf, hoisted him to the level of his breast and heaved him down the slip as one would throw a sack of beam. The man's body bounced on the incline, rolled, slid, tumbled till at length he brought up against the boat's guard, and all that saved him a ducking was the prompt extension of several stout arms, which clutched and hauled him to the flush after deck. He sat on his haunches, blinking. Then he hugged. So did the man at the top of the slip, but the roar of him who had taken that inglorious descent rose boudest of all, an explosive "Har, har, har!" "Hey, Jack!" he shouted. "Maybe y' c'en throw m' blankets down, too, while y' at it." The man at the slip head caught up the roll, poised it high and cast it from him with a quick twist of his body. The woolen missile flew like a well put shot and caught its owner fair in the breast, tumbling him backward on the deck, and the Homeric laughter rose in double strength. Then the boat began to swing, and the man ran down and leaped the widening space as she drew away from her mooring. Stein watched the craft gather way, a trifle shocked, her breath coming a little faster. The most deadly blows she had ever seen struck were delivered in a more sable, less vile mode, a curl of the lip, an inflection of the voice. These were a different order of beings. Tails, she sensed, was man in a more primitive aspect, man with the conventional bark stripped clean of him. And she scarcely knew whether to be amused or frightened when she reflected that among such her life would present lie. Charlie had written that she would find things and people a trifle real, but than she was used She could well believe that. Ivie they were picturesque ruffians. Her interested gaze followed the camp tender as it swung around the wharf end, and so her roaming eyes were led to another craft drawing near. This might be her brother's vessel. She went back to the outer landing to see. Two men manned this boat. As she ranged alongside the piles one stood forward and the other aft with lines to make fast. She cast a look at each. They were prototypes of the rude crew but now departed, brown faced, channel shirted, shod with called boots, unshaven for days, typical men of the woods. But as she turned to go the "I doubt if I should have known you either," she returned dryly. "I doubt if I should have known you either," she returned dryly. man forward and almost directly be- w her looked her full in the face. "Stell." L. J. H Manufacturer Medi TO CURE ALL DISEA 220 W. Bro L. J. 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(Residence next door) (Residence next door) PHOTOS—We Offer you the Latest More Moderate Figure than you Attention Paid to Children. to Quote You Prices on View ENLARGING AND COPYING FROM GEORGE O. BROW You the Latest and Most More than you can Obtain E to Children. We will A You Prices on Exterior and View Work. OPYING FROM OLD PHOTO . BROWN, P --- PHOTOS—We Offer you the Latest and Most Artistic Photos at a More Moderate Figure than you can Obtain Elsewhere. Special Attention Paid to Children. We will Also be Pleased to Quote You Prices on Exterior and Interior 003 NORTH SECOND STREET --- --- JOHN H. BURKE She leaned over the rail. "Charlie Benton—for heaven's sake!" They stared at each other. "Well," he be laughed at last, "If it were not for your mouth and eyes, Stell, I wouldn't have known you. Why, you're all grown up!" He chambered to the wharf level and kissed her. The rough stubble of his beard pricked her tender skin, and she drew back. "My word, Charlie, you certainly ought to shave," she observed, with sisterly frankness. "I didn't know you until you spoke. I'm awfully glad to see you, but you need some one to look after you." Benton laughed tolerantly. "Perhaps. But, my dear girl, a fellow doesn't get anywhere on his appearance in this country. When a fellow's bucking big timber he shunks off a lot of things he used to think were quite essential. By love, you're a picture, Stell. If I hadn't been expecting to see you I wouldn't have known you." "I doubt if I should have known you either," she returned drilly. Stella accompanied her brother to the store, where he gave an order for sundry goods. Then they went to the hotel to see if her trunks had arrived. Within a few yards of the fence which enclosed the grounds of St. Allwoods a man hulled Benton and drew him a few steps inside. Stella walked slowly on, and presently her brother joined her. 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M., FOUR REPET Southern colored folks, as a rule, understand Southern white folks and vice versa. [Colored men, cultivate the friendship of white folks. They will help you in time of trouble. We sometimes wonder if all of the present day conditions are simply the results of chance, and if history is simply repeating itself. In a pitched battle, civilian police officers are not qualified to go up against United States regulars, be those regulars black or white While we are trying to keep colored folks in the Southland, the Houston police-officers are trying to run them out of the same section. It is suggested that the colored troops bo sent to France. This may be all right, but it would also be a good idea to send the mounted police at Houston to Africa. Both would find an opportunity to exercise their gifts at fighting. The colored troopers at Houston are called rioters. What designation should be applied to the police officers, who caused the outbreak and what application should be made to those white men, who joined these police officers in the pitched battle that followed? After reading some of the comments of the Southern press upon the Houston affair, we are of the opinion that colored folks will yet find out that their best friends are on this side of the Mason and Dixon Line, just as some of their worst enemies are in the same neighborhood. Dr. Kelly Miller, Dean of Howard University, has published an open letter to President Woodrow Wilson. It is entitled, "The Disgrace of Democracy." It is one of the oblest pleas in behalf of the colored people yet made, and while the President of the United States may not find time to read it, he should certainly do so. Dr. Miller is a forceful writer, but his ability along this line has never been used to better effect than in this instance. It is in pamphlet form and may be obtained at ten cents per copy by addressing him at Howard University, Washington, D. C. We have read very carefully the reply of President Woodrow Wilson to Pope Benedict's peace message. It seems to us that if this reply as formed forms the basis of peace negotiations, an armistice of the contending armies is not far off. When this government decides to stop furnishing money and supplies to the allies, then the war will cease. The cost to us is now being estimated as being one million dollars per hour. No married man could stand that expense and certainly no single nation. Still the condition of the Central Powers may be much worse and they will hardly be able to hold out to a point of exhausting the resources of this country. We see, or think we see in President Wilson's reply many basic grounds for peace THE BARRETT CASE We have road with peculiar inter- and with much pleasure the plain, straight-forward statement of Hon. Asa D. Watkins, the very able jurist, who prosecuted Albert Barrett and his sixteen-year-old son for the al- leged murder of W. T. Roach, and his statement of the subsequent convict- ion of both of them at Charlotte C. H. before Judge Hundley. He bears out in every substantial detail, the statement of Attorney W. L. Lancaster, of Farmville, Va. We do not know of a more high-minded, patriotic citizen in this country than this truly remarkable prosecuting attorney of so many years' standing. But Hon, Asa D. Watkins has virtually confirmed the statement of Attorney Lancaster that these helpless colored people could not be convicted under the law of first degree murder, if all of the facts as stated are true. Albert Barrett was on his own land, being pursued and violently assaulted by a trespasser, who was attempting to arrest him without a warrant. The son came to the rescue of the father and with a stick, not a deadly weapon, upon the call of the parent, struck W. T. Roach a blow which proved to be fatal. It was done in the heat of the struggle and for that reason does not come within the requirements of the law elevating the attack to first degree murder. For this reason, leading white citizens have come to the assistance of these helpless, mourning, pleading people and to the aid of a hysterical, grieving wife, who for several weeks has been going in and out among the people of this city, in order that she might be near to those she loves so well. She has lost all of her farm, mules and now a husband and a sixteen-year-old boy are the last sacrifices. His Excellency, Henry C. Stuart has granted a reprieve in the case of the boy. As for Albert Barrett, ere these lines have roached the public, he may have been ushered in the presence of his Maker. The well-springs of sympathy have not dried up and in some way and some how. God will yet come to the relief of suffering colored folks and in His own time, wipe all of the tears from their eyes. THE TROUBLE AT HOUSTON, TRX We have read carefully all of the available printed information concerning the killing of seventeen persons at Houston, Texas, Thursday, August 23, 1917 and the wounding of more than twenty others. It seems to have been a case of a clash between the civil and the military officers in which the former got the worst of it. Two over-zealous mounted police officers arrested and beat-up a colored soldier in the regular army, and later another one was similarly treated. Both were taken to police headquarters under arrest and other colored regulars went out to secure their release. Punishment of regular troops in time of war rests with the army officials and not with the civil authorities. Official police officers, who for the most part are untrained and arbitrary have caused trouble time and again in Northern communities as well as in Southern ones. Thirty-four colored soldiers were arrested and placed in the Houston, Texas fall and the grand jury brought in a blanket indictment charging them with murder. The entire battalion of six hundred colored men of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry was removed to Columbus, New Mexico, where their valor is known and their services recognized. One important fact in connection with this case is that both sides had the authority of law to back them. The colored soldiers were stationed to guard Camp Logan and the mounted police officers were in charge of the outskirts of the city of Houston. Although both sides were firing, it seems that every one killed is killed to have been shot by the colored troopers, with the possible exception of those of the army, who had been killed or wounded. The Houston authorities claim to be giving fair play to all parties and yet, in the returning of the indictments, no white person has been included in the list, but all are colored The grand jury did not attempt to investigate or try the civilians over whom it had control, but reached out after the colored troopers over whom they had no control. The removal of the entire battalion from Houston, Texas will have an immediate effect. We do not believe that the danger to the men in the battalion is passed. Attempts will be made to have them returned to Houston for trial by the civil authorities. The only thing\necessary, so far as colored people in this country are concerned is to mote equal and exact justice and equal and exact punishment to all parties concerned. This should apply to the mounted police officers in Houston, Texas and to the white citizens, who engaged in this indiscriminate shooting. The whole affair is to be regretted. The colored people of the United States are intensely interested. Their hope, their pride, their faith are all wrapped up in the brave "boys" of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry. The conservative tone of the white press is a good sign of a change of feeling in dealing with colored people in this country. There will be no wholesale punishment of colored men this time, although in some quarters there has been a wholesale condemnation of armed colored men in the United States Army. We shall see what we shall see. The War Department has THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA charge of the matter and the hope is that the great machine will go slowly in its investigation, sifting the causes from bottom to top and remembering that all that the people of the country ask is that the same justice be done colored troopers in New Mexico as will be done the mounted police officers in Texas. Punishment of the one, should be followed or accompanied by the punishment of the other. The failure to punish the one should be followed by a failure to punish the other. Colored folks have been made proverbial scape-goats. We hope that in this instance, the according of equal and exact justice to all parties concerned will be the final chapter written in this most deplorable happening, which has brought regret and sorrow to all parts of this country. WINCHESTER NOTES The remains of Mrs. Carry Pinkney, who died in Carlyle, Pa., was brought here on Thursday and buried in Orrick Cemetery. The remains were accompanied by her husband, Mr. Noah Pinkney, Mr. Chas, Taylor, her brother of Harrisonburg, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Caution, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. Young, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, of which she was a lifelong member, conducted the burial service, assisted by Rev. G. O. King, of St. Paul A. M. E. Church here. Mrs. Pinkney was born in Virginia, but left here many years ago for Pennsylvania, where she has since made her home. Mr. Frank Washington has resigned his position as Chef at Hotel Jack, to join the U. S. A., under the special draft. He left town on Saturday afternoon to visit his father and sister in Washington, D. C. He will also visit points in Eastern Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Drilon entertained the Brotherhood on last Friday night. Miss Francis Quiett has returned from New York, where she has been engaged in Red Cross work. Mr. J. Williams, Hotel Jack, is spending his vacation in Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Estelle Evans, formerly of this place, but now of Washington, D. C., has returned home with her daughter. Mary Elisie has returned home after spending some time visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Tripplet on Gibbon Street. The three days' entertainment given by the officers of Mt. Carmel Church was quite a success. Mrs. John Jefferson and Mrs. Minnie Harmon were in charge. Miss Irene Brown spent Sunday in Uniontown, visiting friends. Rev. and Mrs. Reed, and Mr. Thomas Nickens, left Monday for Hall Hill, Md., to attend the District Conference. Miss Layton and Mrs. R. Potter of Millwood, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ransom, the well-known proprietor of the Square Deal Cafe, has returned from visiting his sister in Harrisburgh, Pa., Read the Planet. Mr. C. C. Tripplet has returned from Harrisburgh, Pa. Mr. Tripplet is captain of the Hotel Jack waiters. Mr. Eugene Walker will spend his vacation in Harrisburgh and Philadelphia. Mr. Chas, Brown, Jr., left their town for Washington, D. C., Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Finley, is receiving congratulations on the arrival of a fine baby girl at their home on South Main. FLORENCE. S. C. Mr. Zack Holmes, one of the oldest and highly respected citizens of Florence county, died at his home in the northern part of the county on Saturday, August 18, 1917. He was nearing his eighteenth year. He was active up to the time of his death. He was an old farmer and made a good crop this year. He was a Christian gentleman. The body was taken on Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, to the Palmetto Baptist Church and funeralized by the Rev. H. C. Cooper, pastor, where a host of relatives and friends witnessed the last of that remained of their life time acquaintance. Among those of his relatives attending the funeral, we mention a few, viz.: Mrs. Lyda Thompson, Mrs. Caesar Rowell, Mrs. Lydie, Mr. Lydie, His son, Mr. Joseph Holmes, arranged for the publication of respect to his aged and honored father. Mrs. Daisy A. Bacote, in company with her mother, passed through the city recently, enroute from Boston, Mass., to her old home at Society Hill, S. C. Among those who attended morning service at Trinity Baptist church on Sunday A. M., were Master Robt. Webster, Miss Sarah Rhone, Mrs. Abbie Gadsden and E. B. Webster. Mr. Jack Madison and Miss Lizzie Mills were happily united in marriage on Saturday, August 24th, by the probate judge, and immediately boarded a west-bound train for Lynchburg, S. C., their home. We trust it will be theirs to enjoy many happy returns. And sure enough another summons came last evening from Uncle Sam that he had not as yet had enough recruits for his expeditionary force. Mr. Hamp Alston, of Pamplico, S. C., passed through the city recently enroute to Sunder, S. C., to sell an estate, valued at $1,000 dollars. Mr. Alston has many white friends who has assisted him, viz., Messrs. R. W. Laid, Ed. Law and Mr. J. H. Clifton. Mr. Alston is very fond of reading the Richmond Planet. Mrs. Mattie Summersett, of our city, left on train 86, recently for a trip north, visiting Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C., and other points. She will return about Sept. 1st. Mrs. Summersett was formerly a Miss White. Her parents was among the oldest settlers in Florence, S. C. Rev. C. T. Taylor preached an excellent sermon on Sunday A. M. to very large and appreciative audience. E. B. WRESTER. WILSON SETS PRICE ON COAL GARFIELD IS ADMINISTRATOR Goes Into Effect September 1—Jobbers Are Allowed 20 and 30 Cents a Ton Profit. The prices of anthracite coal were fixed in a statement issued by President Wilson and Harry A. Garfield, president of Williams college, was named coal administrator. The anthracite prices, effective September 1, range from $4 to $5 per ton (2240 pounds) f. o. b. mines. Jobbers are allowed to add a profit of not more than twenty cents per ton for deliveries cast of Buffalo and of not more than thirty cents west of Buffalo. The jobbers' profit on bituminous is limited to fifteen cents per ton of 2000 pounds, wherever delivered. Producers who incur the expenses of re-screening anthracite at Atlantic or lake ports for reshipment by water are permitted to add not more than five cents per ton to the price. Anthracite Prices. Anthracite prices are fixed as follows: WHITE ASH Broken $4.55 Egg 4.45 Stove 4.70 Chestnut 4.80 Pea 4.00 RUD ASH. Broken $4.75 Egg 4.65 Stove 4.90 Chestnut 4.90 Pea 4.10 LYKENS VALLEY Broken ..... $5.00 Egg ..... 4.90 Stove ..... 5.30 Chestnut ..... 5.20 Pea ..... 4.35 It was indicated that the president also has under consideration the appointment of an administrator to fix the price of copper. It is not believed, however, that there will be a steel price administrator. Secretary Tumulty telegraphed to E. J. Wallace secretary of the St. Louis Coal club, that President Wilson had authorized him to say that the bituminous coal prices fixed in the president's statement Tuesday become effective at once. Mr. Tumulty's telegram was in response to an inquiry as to the effective date. In his answer Mr. Tumulty said: "The president authorizes me to say that the coal prices prescribed become effective at once." Indiana Man Heads G. A. R. Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo, Ind., was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing-session of the annual encampment in Boston. There were no other candidates. The election was by acclamation. Brigadier General John L. Clem, U. S. A., retired, of Washington, who enlisted in the 22d Michigan infantry as a drummer boy when eleven years old, was elected senior vice commander-in-chief. He was the only candidate. The convention formally ratified the selection of Portland, Ore., for the encampment next year. To Give Flags to U. S. Troops. Ten American regiments will carry in France flags presented by descendants of French officers who fought in the American war of Independence. Ambassador Jusserand has sent to the state department a communication, stating that an organization in France of those descendants which already has presented two headquarters flags to General John J. Pershing desiree to offer ten more emboldened banners to American regiments. The secretary of war said the offer would be accepted gladly. He designated five American organizations to receive the flags. Germans Plot Race Riots. Warning against a German propaganda seeking to stir up insurrection among American negroes is given in a statement issued by the Patriotic Education society. Anonymous postal cards and letters urging negroes to rise against the whites and promising there will be no color line when Germany rules, the statement says, have been brought to the attention of the officile of the society by negro leaders. $350,000,000 For Destroyers Secretary of the Navy Daniels expects to submit to congress this week an estimate of $350,000,000 for the building of destroyers. This will make the American navy the leader of the world in ships of that type. The money will be used to expand existing shipbuilding plants and also to build additional engine and bollor factories. Report Villa Wounded. Francisco Villa was wounded in an engagement between his bandits and Carranza troops south of Parral. The Carranzistas were routed, according to an announcement of C. M. Seguin, consul of the Mexican M. Sguin, that he had no report as to the extent of Villa's injuries. The President to Head Parade. President Wilson will ride at the head of a parade next Tuesday of the men of the District of Columbia, who have accepted for service in the national army. WILSON REJECTS PEACEDISCUSSION America's Answer to Appeal of Pope on Way. SENT THROUGH GREAT BRITAIN Basis of Negotiation Is Lacking in the Absence of German Terms, President Informs Pontiff. The reply by the United States government to Pope Benedict's peace proposal has gone forward. It is understood it will be transmitted through the British foreign office through which the pope's communication came, and was cabled to London Monday night. In the best informed quarters it is believed that the reply, while responding to the pontiff's proposal with the delicacy and respect which the latter commands, does not find that there is any ground on which to proceed to a discussion of peace in the absence of an announcement by Germany as to her terms. The note is not lengthy, comprising only about a thousand words. Despatches of the American reply indicates that the replies of the content allies are ready if, indeed they already have not been made. Exchange of views have been proceeding for several days and all the replies are supposed to be in harmony. Copies of the American reply have been delivered to the diplomatic gen resentatives of all the content countries which received the pope's communication, and it will be made public. Obviously, the United States is in the position of endorsing some of the things the pope says, for they are nothing less than principles previously enunciated by President Wilson. There are those in the president's circle who believe he has handled the pope's offer of mediation in a manner that will elicit unanimous approval, that he had reaffirmed America's belief in a world organization to insure peace, the reduction of armaments and the restoration of those peoples or sovereignties which have suffered through the war, but that he has declined to pass upon the merits of the suggestions about territory made by the pope, leaving observations of this character to the European members of the entente. There has been the closest co-operation between the United States and the allies in framing replies to the pope's note, so that whether or not the message pleases the American people in all six phases it at least will cause no dissension among the allies. The main proposition, of course, involved in the president's reply is an acceptance or rejection of the principle of mediation. From intimations received by members of the diplomatic corps no doubt exists that Mr. Wilson has in very polite and decorous terms found the pope's offer inoportune. A lack of faith in the persons directing the destiny of the imperial German government is fundamentally responsible for this attitude. When the government of Germany shall have given evidence of sincerity and a desire to treat with the other governments of the world on a basis of world organization, in which all nations can participate without fear of individual aggression, presumably the United States will be ready to enter a peace conference. AUSTRIA MAY DECLARE WAR But U. S. W. Don't Change Policy. The possibility that Austria and perhaps other allies of Germany may shortly declare war against the United States because of the financial aid given to Italy is recognized by administration officials. It was explained that there is nothing in the existing situation, either diplomatic or military, that would cause the United States to take the initiative. That an anomalous state of affairs which may result in broadening the war exists is not denied. Relations of the United States with Germany's allies are defined as still a state of broken diplomatic relations. Officials hesitate to describe them as unfriendly. They admit they scarcely could be called friendly. The policy of extending aid to countries fighting Germany's allies will be continued. It was admitted Austria or any other ally perhaps might construe such assistance as a war-like act. U. S. Destroy Gets U Boat U. S. Destroyer Gets U-Boat. William R. Brown, an American seaman, who arrived on a British steamship, at a gulf port, told of the capture and destruction of aerman submarine by an American destroyer. A British steamship the U-boat was about to destroy was saved. After four of the Germans had boarded the English vessel, U.e American destroyer appeared and sank the U-boat. The four Germans were killed in hand-to-hand fighting. All but two members of the U-boat crew were taken prisoners by the destroyer. A Selective Law Repeal. On the ground that a selective army for foreign service is "an American and undemocratic" Representative Laudeen, Republican, or Minnesota, introduced in the house a resolution asking for the repeal of the selective service law. The resolution declares that raising an army to fight abroad is in violation of the true meaning of the constitutional powers under which congress can raise armies. ```markdown ``` Men and Women UNEQUALLED OPPORTUNITIES UNSKILLED LABOR IN THE NOW COME. 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SURES In a pitehod battle, civilian polico officers are not qualified to Ko up against United States regulars, be those regulars black or whito, = While we are trying to keap col- ored folks in tho Southland, the Houston polico-oficors are trying to run them out of the samo section, It is suggested that the colored {roopers bo sont to Franco. ‘This may be all right, but it would also be a 00d idea to send the mounted police al Houston to Africa, Both would find an opportunity to exerciso their gifts at fighting. ‘Phe colored troopers at Houston are called riotors. What designation should be applied to the police off cers, who caused tho outbreak and what application sould be made to those white mon, who Joined these police oficors in tho pitched battlo that followed? After reading somo of tho com- ments of the Southern press upon tho Houston affair, we are of tho opinion that colored folks will yet find out that their best friends aro on this side of the Mason and Dixon Line, just As some of their worst enemies are in the same nelghborhood, Dr. Kelly Miller, Dean of Howard University, has published an open leller to President Woodrow Wil- son, It is entitled, “THe Disgrace of Demoeraey." It is one of the oblest pleas in behalf of the colored people yet made, and while the President of the United States may not find time to read it, he should certainly do so. Dr. Miller is a forceful writer, but his ability along this line has never been used 10 bet- tor effect than in this instance. It is in pamphtet form and may be obtained at ten cents per copy. by addressing: him at Howard Univers- ily, Washington, D.C. We have read very carefully the reply of Presidant Woodrow Wilson to Pope Benedict's peaco message, Tt seems to us that if this reply as framed forms tho basis of peaco ne- goliations, an armistice of the con- tending armies is not far off. When this government decides to stop furnishing money and supplics to the allies, then tho war will ceaso. ‘The cest to us is now being estimated as being one million dollars per hour. No married man could stand that ex- pense and certainly no single nation. St tho condition of the Central Powers may be much worse and they will hardly bo able to hold out to a point of exhausting the resources of (is country, We see, or think we seo in President Wilson’s roply many basic grounds for peaco, THD BARRETT CASE, Wo have read with peculiar inter- ost and with much pleasure tho plain, straight-forward statement of Hon. Asa D. Watkins, the very ablo jurist, who prosecuted Albert Barrett and his sixteon-year-old son for tho al- loged murdor of W. T. Roach, and his atatoment of the subsequent convic- tion of both of them at Charlotte C, H, before Judgo Hundley. ~ Te bears out in ovory stbstantial dotail, the statomont of Attornoy W. 4. Lanoaster, of Farmville, Va. Wo lo not know of a more high-minded, patriotic citizen in this country than (his truly remarkable prosecuting allorney of so many years’ standing, But Hon, Asa D, Watkins has. vire tually confirmed the statement of Attorney Lancaster that these help- less colored people could not be con- Vieted under the law of first degree murder, if all of Ue facts as stated aire true, Mbert Barrett was on his own land, being pursted and violently as: sauited by a (respasser, who was at- tempting to arrest him without a warrant, ‘The son came to the resene of the father and with a stick, not a deadly weapon, upon the eal of the parent, struck W.'T. Roach a blow whieh proved to be fatal It was done in the heat of the struséle and for that reason docs not come within the requirements of the law elevating the attack to first de- gree murder, For this reason, lead- ing white citizens have comg to the assistance of these helpless, mourn ine, pleading people and to the aid of a hysterieal, grieving wife, who Tor several weeks has been going In md out amony the people of this cily. inorder that she might be neat to those she loves so well, She hag lost all of her farm, mules and now & husband and a sixteen-year-old boy are the last saerifiees, His Excellency, Henry CG. Stuart has granted a reprieve in the ease o} ‘the boy. As for Albert Barrott, erc these lines have roaohed the public ho may have been ushered in the presence of his Maker. ‘he well springs of sympathy have not dried “up and in some way and some how God will yet come to the relict o suffering colored folks and in 1k own tine, wipe all of the tears fron their eyes. THE TROUBLE AT HOUSTON, 'TRN. We have read carefully all of thea available printed information con- corning the killing of seventeen per- sons at Houston, Texas, Thursday, August 23, 1917 and the wounding of more than tventy others. It seems to have been a case of a clash between the civil and the military Officers in which the former got the worst of it, ‘Two over-zealous mounted police officers arrested and beat-up a colored soldier in the regular army, and later another one was similarly treated, Roth were taken to police headquar- ters under arrest and other colored regulars went out to secure thelr reloase. Punishment of regular troops In time of war rests with chs army officials and pot with the elvil authorities, Oficious police officers, who for the most part are untrained and arbitrary have eaused trouble time and again in Northern communities as well as in Southern ones. ‘Thirty-four col- ored soldiers were arrested and placed In the Houston, ‘Texas Jail and the grand jury brought in a blanket indictment charging them with mur- der, ‘The entire battalion of six hun- dred colored men of the ‘Twenty- fourth United States Infantry was removed to Columbus, New Mexico, Where their valor is known and their services recognized, One important faet in connection with this case is that both sides had the authority of law to back them. The colored soldiers were stationed to guard Camp Logan and the mount: ed police officors were in charge of the outskirts of the city of Houston, Although both sides were firing, it seems that every one killed is wlleged to have sheen shot by the colored troopers, with the possible exception of those of the army, who had been killed or wounded. ‘The Houston authorities claim to he giving fair. play to all parties and yet, in the returning of the indictments, no white person has been included in the list, but all are colored, ‘The grand jury did not attempt to investigate or try the civilians over whom it had control, but reached ont after the colored troopers over whom they had no control. ‘The removal of the entire battalion from Houston, ‘Texas will have an immediate effect. We do not believe that the danger to the men in the battalion is passed. Attempts will be made to have them returned 10 Houston for trial by the civil anthorities, The only thing necessary, so far as colored people in this country are concerned is to mete equal and exact Justice and equal and exact punish- ment to all parties concerned. ‘This should apply to the mounted police officers in Houston, ‘Texas and to the white citizens, who engaged in this indiscriminate shooting. The whole affair is to bo regretted. The colored people of the United States aro intensely interested, ‘Their hope, their pride, their faith are all wrapred up in tho brave “boys” of the Ninth and ‘Tenth Cavalry and tho ‘Twenty-fourth and Twonty-fifth In. fantry. ‘The conservative tone of tho white press is a“good algn of a change of feeling in dealing with colored people in this country, ‘There will be no wholesale pun- ishment of colored men this timo, although In some quarters thoro has been a wholesale eondomnation of armed colored men in the United States Army. We shall see what wo shall seo. ‘Tho War Dopartmont hag THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA charge of tho matter and the hope is in its investigation, sifting the causes colored troopers in New Mexico as! 4 will be done the mounted polico ne Punishment of the one, shoura vo ANthfacite to Cost $4 to $5 America’s Ansi ishment of the other. ‘The failure a Ton at Mines, Pope « to punish the one should be followed by a failure to punish the other, Col- aie secre ve nyo tha in" GARFIELD. 1S ADMINISTRATOR) cer rye gugy instance, the according of equal and —_ 7 meiit tie inal Hae ox UtEay tebe ike tiggk- Bepeasneeer=sseibors this most deplorable happening, Are Allowed 20 attd 30 Cents a Ton| Basis of Negotiat The remains of Mrs. Carry Pink- hey, who died in Carlyste, Pa. was brought here on ‘Thursday. and buried in Orrick Cemetery, ‘The re- muting were accompanied by her husband, Mr Noah Pinkney, Mr. Chas." Taylor, her — brother of Harrisonburg. “Pac: Mr. and Mrs, Caution, of Philadelphia, Ma Rev. Young, pastor of Rethel A. i, HK. Chureh. of whieh she was a life: Jong member, conducted the burial services, assisted by Rew. G0. King, of St. Pant A. Mom. Chureh here. Mrs. Pinkney was born in Virginia, but left here many yeare ago for Pennsylvania, where she has since made her home. Mr. Prank Washington has. re- signed his position as Chef at Hotel ack. to join the ULS. A.. under the special draft, He left town on Sat- urday afternoon to visit his father and sister in Washington, D.C, He will also visit points in Kastern’ Vir- ginia. Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Drion enter: tained the Brotherhood on last. Fri- day night, Miss Francis Quiell has returned from New York, where she has been engaged in Red’ Cross work. Mr J. Williams, Hotel Jack. is spending his vacation in “Atlantic Cle Nid, Mrs," Estelle Evans, formerly ot this place, but now of Washington, D.C, has returned heme. with her daugiiter. Mary Elisie has returned home at- fer spending some time visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs, dno. ‘Trip. plot on Gibbon’ Street, The three days' entertainment klven by the officers of Mt. Carmel Chureh was quite a success. — Mes, John Jefferson and Mrs. Minnie Har: mon were in charge. Miss Irene Rrown spentySunday Jn Uniontown, visiting friends, Rov. and Mrs. Reed, and Mr. ‘Thomas Niekens, left Monday fer Hall Hil, Ma, to attend the District Conference. Miss Layton and Mrs, R. Potter of Millwood, was in town Monday. Mr, and Mrs, Henry Ransom, the well-inown proprivtor of the Square Veal Cafe, has returned trom visit- ing his sister In Harrisburgh, Pa. Read the Planet. Mr. C. GC. ‘Triplet has returned from Harrisburgh, Pa. Mr. ‘Pripplet is captain of the Hotel Jack waiters, Mr. Eugene Walker will spend his vacation in, Harrisburgh and. Phila- delphia. : Mr. Chas, Brown, dr. left their town for Washington, 1. C., Mon- slay. Mr. and Mrs. Moyd Pintey, is re- ceiving congratulations on {he ar- rival of a fine baby girl at their home on South Main, FLORENCE, S.C. Mr. Zack Holmes, one of the eld- est and highly respected citizens. of Florence county, died at his home in the northern’ part of the county on Saturday, August 18, 1917. He Was nearing his eightieth year, He wax active up to the time of ais doath, Me was an old farmer and made & good crop this year. He was a Christian gentleman, ‘The body was faken “on” Monday ‘morning, at 10 o'clock, 10 the Palmetto | Baptist Chureh and tuneralized by the Rev, H.C. Cooper, pastor, where a host of relatives and. friends — witnessed the last of that remained of (heir life time acquaintance. Amony thove of his relatives at- tending the funeral, we mention a Tew, viz: Mrs. Uvda ‘Thompson, Mrs, Cacsar Rowell, Mrs, Lyde, Mr. Lyde. Mis son, Mr." Joseph’ Holmes,” ar- ranged ‘for {he publication of te- spect to his aged and honored Tathor, Mrs. Daisy A, Bacote, in company With her mother, passed through tie city. recently, enroute from Roston, Mass. to her old home at Sociuty Hin, S.C. mong those who attende. morn- ing service at Trinity Baptist chureh on Sunday A. M.. were Master Robt Webster, Miss Sarah Rhone, Mrs. Abbie Gadsden and KB. Webster Mr. Jack Madison and Miss Lix- #e Mills were happily united in mar- vinge on Saturday, August 24th, by the probate judge, and. immediately boarded a _west-bound train for Tvnehburg. $C, their home, Wo trust it will be theirs to enjoy many happy returns, AN sure enough another svm- aions came Jast evening from Uncle Sam that he had not as yet had enough reeruits for his. expedition- ary foree. Mr, Hamp Alston, of Pamplico, & C.. passed through the eity recent: Th, enroute to Sumter, S$. €., to sell an estate, valued at $1,000 dollars. Mr, Alstom has inany white friends who has assicted him, viz, Messrs, RoW. Laid, Bd. Law and Mr. J. 10 Clifton," Mr. Atston is very fond of reading the ‘Richmond Planet. Mrs. Mattio Summerseit, of our city, Tet on train 86, recently for a Gip' north, visiting Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C., and other points. She will return about Sept. tat. Mrs. Summersett was formerly a Miss White. Mer parents was among he oklest settlers in Mlorence, 8. C. Rey. C. 'f. Taylor preached an ex- ee"lent sermon on Sunday A. M. to 1 Yeery large and appreciative audi- ‘enoe. ' Pr. Bp. wrnster,_ WILSON SETS PRICE ON COAL Anthracite to Cost $4 to $5 a Ton at Mines, GARFIELD 1S. ADMINISTRATOR Profit, The prices of anthracite coal were fixed in a statement issu: ed by President. Wilson and Harry A. Garficld, president of Williams cul: loge, was named coal administrator. ‘The anthracite prices, elective Sep- tember 1, range from $4 to $5 per ton (2240 pounds) fo, bd. mines, Jobbers are allowed to add a profit of not more than twenty cents por ton for deliveries cast of Buffalo and of Het moro than thirty eonts west. of Rurtalo, ‘The jobbers’ profit on bituminous 4s limited to fifteen cents per ton of 2000 pounds, wherever delivered. Producers who fneur the expenses of resereening anthracite at Atlante or lake ports for reshipment by water aro permitted to add not more than five cents per ton to the price, Anthracite Prices. Anthracite prices are Axed aa fol. Jows: WINTE ASH, Brokon 252. cacesests es (FAGR Pee uceewarsececrvusoces AAR SLOVO cacssivaeecticcsceens AMO Choatilttvsessvescvagesvees: ABO PO csrenceinnceneneverven MOO RuD Asi, BrOWOn sissseeciveenssovees $4TB Bamasecciscicss scutes 408 Bove evvsvrwasecccccsascce: ADO Chestnut veecccecccseeeesss 4.90 PER cvaseeeorarecaressccvay 410 LYKENS VALLEY, TOKEN eee ee eeeeeeee ners $5.00 Beguccaswsi cesses 400 BOG sevesavavaiceiciseces, WOO Chestnut ve eeeeeceeecseees 5.80 POA seereesersnemevceses AA Tt was Indicated that the president also has under consideration the ap: pointment of an administrator to fx the price of copper. It Is not belleved, however, that there will bo a steoi price administrator, Secretary Tumulty celographed to F, J. Wallace secratary of the St. Louls Coal club, that President Wilson had authorized him to say that the bite. minous coal priees fixed in the prest dent's statement Tuesday become offre. tivo at once, Mr, Tumulty's telegram was {n response to an Inquiry as. to tho aGaellge date, Tn fs! ititswor Mr. Lusulty sata: “Phe president authorizes mo to say that the coal prices proseribed be come offective at once.” Indiana Man Heads G, A. Ry Orlando A. Somers, of Kokomo, tnd, was elected commander-in-chiet of th Grand Army of the Republic at the closing session of the annual encamp ment In Boston, ‘There were no other candidates. ‘The election was by acclamation, Brigadier General John 1. Clom, U S. A., retired, of Washington, who’ en Usted in the 2d Michigan infantry as a drummer boy when cloven years old was lected senior vice commandersin ehfet. He was the only candidate. The convention formally ratified the selec tion of Portland, Ore., for the encamp ment next year, To Give Flags to U. S. Troops. Ton American resiments will carry fn France flaxs presented by descend ents of French officers who fought ir the American war of Independence, Ambassaday dusserand has sent to the state department a communication stating Mat an organizatlon in France of those descendants which already has presented two headquarters flag: to General John J. Pershing desires to offer ten anore embroidered banners to American regiments, Tho secretary of war said the offer wonld be accepted gladly. He desig nated five American organtzations. ta reecive the Mags. Géiwinve Plot Rasa Rinks. Warning against a German propagan da seeking to stir up insurrec:ton among American negroes is given ina state ment issued by the Patriotic Rduea tion society. Anonymous postal cards and letters urzing negroes to. rise against the whites and protaising there will be no color link when Germany rules, the statement says, have been brought to the attention of the oficial of the society by negro leaders. $350,000,00 For Destroyers. Secretary of the Navy Danfols expects to supmit to congress this week an estimate of $350, 000,000 for the building of de stroyers. ‘Thix will make the’ Amer: can nayy the leader of the world in ships of that type. ‘The money will be used to expand existing shipbullding plants and also to build additional en. gine and hollar factories, Report Villa Wounded, Francesco Villa was wounded in an engagement between his bandits and Carranza troops south of Parral. ‘Tho Carranzistas were routed, according to an ennouncement of C. M. Seguin, con pul of the Mexican government. Mr, Se. guln eaid he had no report as to the extent of Villa's Injuries, The President Mead Parse President Wilson will ride at the hoad of a parade next Tneslay of the men of the District of Columbia, whe have been accepted for gervica fn the natfonal army. WILSON REJECTS PEACEDISCUSSION America’s answer: Appeal ol Pope on Way. SENT THROUGH GREAT BRITAIN Basis of Negotiation Is Lacking In the Absence of German Terms, Pres Ident Informs Pontiff, ‘The reply by the United States gov SrHMeNL Lo Pope Lenediet’s peace pro posal has gone forward, It ts understood it witl be transmit ted through the British foreign otlica through which the pope's communtea tion came, and was cabled to London | Monday: night, | In the dest informed quarters it ts Dotieved that the reply, while respond: An 9 tho pontit's proposal with the delicacy and respect which the latter commands, does not find that there is any ground on which to proceed to a Pdiseusston of peace in the absence of AN announcement by Germany as to her terms, The note is not lengthy, comprising only abont a thousand words, Despatches of the American rephs Indicates hat the replies of the e tonte allies are ready Hf, inderad th y already have not been made. Exchange of views have been proceoding. for several days and all the replies are Supposed to be in harmony. Copies of the American renly have Deon delivered to the diplomatle se resentatives cf all the entente com: tres which received the pope's com munication, and it will be made public Obstously, the United States ts in the pos'tlon of endorsing some of the things the pone says, for they. are nothing Jess than principles previous ly enunctited by President Wilson, There are those In the prosident’s circle who hetieve he has handled the Pope's offer of mediation Ina manner that will elicit imanimous approval, that he had reamirmed Amerlea’s. be Met tn a world organization to insure peace, tho reduction of armaments an¢ the restoration of those peoples o sovercignties which have — suffered through the war, but that he has de clined to pass npon the merits of Ui suggestions about territory made by the pope, leaving observations of thi character to the European members of the entente, There has been the closest co-opora ton between the United States and the allies tn fmf replies to the pope's note, so that whether or not the mes saxo. pleases the American people {t all He ases {Cae ease wit! ease na dissension among the allies, ‘The main proposition, of course, in volved in the president's reply ts. an aeceptance ar rejection of the prinetple of mediation, From intimation. re ceived by members of the diplomatic corps no doubt exists that Mr. Wilsor has In very polite and decorous terms found the pope's offer Inopportune, A lack of faith in the persons direct. ing the destiny of the imporlal German Roverument {s fundamentally resron sible for this xttitude, When the gavernment of Germany shall have kiven evidence of sincerity and a desire to treat with the athe: Rovernments of the world on a basis of world organization, in which all na tions can participate without fear o! Individual aweression, presumably the United States will be ready to enter a penee conference. AUSTRIA MAY DECLARE WAR Aid Givon Italy Could be Made Basis But U. S Won't Change Policy. The possibility that Austria an! Perhaps ether “allies of Germany may shortly declare war agains! the United Stites because of th flinancial aid given to Thaly. ts recog. nized by administration offictals, Te was explained that there ig noth ing In the existing situation, either diplomatic or military, that would cause the United States to take the Initiative. ‘That an anomatons. state of affairs which may result in broaden. Sng the war exists is not dented Relations af the United States with Germany's allies are defined as still a state of broken diplomatic relations Oficiats hesitate to describe them as unfriendly, ‘They admit. they. searee Ty contd be called teioudly, The polley of extending ald to coun: trlos fighting Germany's allies will be continued. Tl was admitted Austria or any other ally perbaps might construc such assistance as a warlike act. U. 8S. Destroyer Gets U.Roat. am: Tt. Trown, an Americar seaman, who arrived on a Britisl steamship, at a sul port, told a ‘the capture and destruction of a ermas aubmarine by an American destroyer A BAlGt lensed ie Ula oe about to destroy was saved. Atte four of the Cormans had boarded the English vessel, 6 American destroy “er appeared ant sank the U-boat. ‘Phe four Germans were killed in hand-to hand fighting. 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"Vigorous local attacks assured for us some positions which the enemy failed to recapture, although he made violent counter attacks. "Unfavorable atmospheric conditions greatly impeded the activity of our airplanes." Trieste Being Evacuated. Tristle is being evacuated. Its civilian population is deserting the town, at the order of the Austrian high command, according to the Zurich correspondent of Corriere d'Italia, whose des patches were cabled to the Italian embassy in Washington. Most of the citizens left Monday, taking with them "all articles of value," the cable stated. They sought refuge in the interior of Austria. Hourly the Italian offensive becomes more certain of a military decision, cable messages say. The Austrian troops in the sector dominated by Mono to Santo are reported so far ahead of the Italians that no trace of them can be found except stacks of abandoned munitions, guns and food. From Mono to Santo many square miles of territory can be raked by the Italians artillery. No Austrian position in this zone can be held more than a few hours. Monte Gabriele and Monte Danielle, northeast of Gorizia, are still held by the Austrians, but are isolated. No food or munitions can reach the beleguered troops. The fall of those mountain forts is a matter of days, the cables aver. Emperor Carl spent the entire day of August 22 at the front with the Austrian high command and General Borovcik. He saw Tarnovo captured and one fort on the Carso destroyed by the Italian bombardment. He left while the Italian troops were charging to victory. Austrian paper admit the precarcellous position of their troops. The Local Anzeliger correspond makes no effort to conceal the important advantages gained by the Italians. Austrian Officials Alarmed Alaroui has gripped official circles in vienna as a result of the unbroken series of Italian victories. Emperor Charles has gone to the front to try in person to stem the retreat of the Austro-Hungarian, said a despatch from Geneva. The Austro-Hungarian command on the southwestern front is being reorganized. It is reported that German officers are being sent there to hilken the morale of the Austro-Tungarian troops. Reinforcements that were to have been used against the Russo-Rumanian army in Moldavia are being rushed to the Isonzo front to face the Hallans. BETHLEHEM TO ISSUE STOCK $30,000,000 Issue to Pay For Extensive Improvements. The Bothelehem Steel corporation's new financial plan was announced in New York, the chief feature of which is that holders of old and new common stock will have the right to subscribe at par value to $30,000,000 of 8 per cent cumulative preferred stock. These shares will be convertible into common stock, class B, at $115 a share. The new issue has been underwritten by a banking syndicate. Government orders, Mr. Schwab said, entail an increase of about $15,000,000 in the construction program, while increased cost of labor and material "calls for an unexpected increase in working capital, especially in connection with government work." The increase of the corporation's order "to an amount in excess of $30,000,000, as compared with $193,500,000 at the beginning of the year," is also mentioned as a factor. Soldiers Back From France. Fourteen American soldiers who were a port of the first expeditionary force sent to France are in a hospital at Hoboken, N. J. The hospital authorities said none of the man had been wounded, but were suffering from alliments which necessitated their return to this country. THE FIGHT FOR THE GREAT WAR Photo by American Press Association. What became of the original owner of the German helmet shown in the German picture is not known, but if he was a German soldier it received its damages he is fighting no more. The men examining the helmet are Canadian officers, who share in the two in which the trophy was captured. PLAN 16-OUNCE LOAF Bread With Official U. 8. Stamp to Sell For Six Cents. A standard sixteen-ounce loaf of bread, to retail for six cents, planned by the food administration. The bread will be known as the "Liberty Loaf" or by some similar name. It will be sold for cash over the counters or by bakers who deliver by wagon routes to families. Experiments with the pound loaf are now being conducted in two big Washington bakeryes, which have placed their facilities at the disposal of the food administration. The loaf will be all-wheat flour. Herbert C. Hoover, the administrator, has been collecting statistics in all parts of the country concerning the cost of baking, the cost of flour dredged at small and large bakeries, profits made by bakers, and profits made by retail dealers, particularly small groceries. The result has convinced the food administration that a sixteen-ounce loaf of all-wheat bread to sell for six cents can be produced at a fair profit to bakers and dealers. Bakers and experts of the food ad ministration believe the pound load is more economical than any other more easily handled, and will retain its moisture, freshness and wholesome longer than smaller loaves. COAL MINERS TO ASK RAISE Invite Operators of Central Field to Discuss Scale on September 6. A substantial increase in wages for all coal miners in the United States will be asked. This became known through the extension of an invitation by the United Mine Workers of America to coal operators of the central competitive field to meet the union's officials here on September 6 to discuss a readjustment of the scale. The announcement was made by William Green, international secretary-breaker of the miners. Mr. Green said this decision had been reached at a conference of international officials of the union and presidents of the districts of Illinois, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and Indiana, composing the central competitive field. The letter of invitation to the operators says that recent developments in the coal industry have caused a pronounced spirit of unrest among the mine workers. MAKING ARMY GAS MASKS Contract For 1,074,000 to Ward Off German Poison Attacks. The Hero Manufacturing company, of Philadelphia, has been awarded a contract for 1,074,000 gas masks for the United States government. They will be used to equip the men of the national army. The contract calls for an expenditure of $1,502,000, and it is understood the government will furnish the materials. Another contract for making power marking machines for marking clothing at the cantonments is being completed, as well as one for le汗剂 and cover caps for shells, according to A. M. Kennedy, secretary and treasurer of the company. Interned German Escapes Sigried S nneck, an intruded Germ m at the Hot Springs, N. C., camp, forty miles north of Ashville, escaped. He is the first to escape at Hot Springs Shoots Himself After Crash Miss Florence Hughes, of New Brighton, Pa., was killed and Howard Beck, of Asphallw, Pa., and Miss Mabel Spencer, of Slippery Rock, Pa., severely injured when their motor struck a tree while running at a high rate of speed at Conneaut Lake, near Meadville, Pa. Walter Welch, of Slippery Rock, fourth member of the party, saft to have drawn a revolver and shot himself. "He is in a serious condition with a bullet wound in the neck THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA GRANTS THIRTY-DAY RESPITE TO NEGRO. Governor to Consider Case of Aubrey Barrett, Sentenced to Die To-morrow. FATHER WILL PAY PENALTY. Counsel Asserts Killing of Farmer Roach Was in Self-Defense. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, Aug. 29, 1917.) Governor Stuart yesterday granted a respite of thirty days to Aubrey Barrett, the seventeen-year-old Negro boy under sentence of execution at the State Penitentiary to-morrow morning for the murder of W. T. Roberts in Charlotte County. Albert Barrett, the father will die appointed time, no appeal having been made for clemency on his account. The case of the Barrett boy was brought to the attention of Governor Stuart last week by State Senator Walter E. Addison, of Lynchburg, who told the Governor that he had been informed that this Negro, not yet seventeen, had tried before Judge George L. Houndley in the Circuit Court of Charlotte County without a jury and without counsel for the defense; that he had been induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, and, after but the briefest of hearings, had been immediately sentenced to execution. Mob Violence Was Narrowly Averted. W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County, a farmer, suspected that some one had been stealing wheat from his field and traced traugwon tracks to the home of the Barrots, nearby. Without waiting for warrant or arresting officers, Roach attempted to make prisoners of Barrett and his son, and a flight followed, in which Roach was killed. There was high feeling in the county for a time, but Sheriff Pridley obviated any chance of mob violence by promising that there should be a prompt trial. Judge Hundley presided at the trial of the older Barrett; Judge A. D. Wheeler, of Farmville, was acting Commissary, and may, assisted by Commonwealth's Light, of Campbell, and Barrett was defended by Attorney William Lancaster, of Farmville. Three Jurymen Willing to Give Boy Prison Term. The elder Barrett was tried by jury, had the benefit of counsel, was convicted and sentenced to execution, and on his behalf no appeal for clemency is pending. An effort, however, has been made to secure a writ of error from the Supreme Court in order that the case may be reviewed on its merits. No such step can be taken in the boy's case, as without counsel, he noted no exception which tried the father of the jury, and thus tainted that they considered the boy a mere accessory, and would have given him a prison trial had his case been submitted to them. Publication of the fact that an appeal had been made for elec- mentum in the case of the boy brought forth a series of statements from the various parties. Judge Hundley, in a letter to the court that the plea of guilty made a jury unnecessary; that the court has been informed that this plea had been made on advice of Mr. Lancaster, who had appeared as counsel for the father; that Barrett confessed the killing both on the stand and to arresting him; that the court had had no option but to prosecute the sentence, the statute of 1914, making prison sentence optional applying only to juries. Counsel Was Forced to Withdraw. Mr. Lancaster appeared yesterday in a signed set statement in which he held that the killing had been in self-defense. He stated that Judge Hundley had refused and, in fact, threatened him with a fine when he murdered him. He merely coming to the rescue of his father from attack by a man who was not armed with a warrant for his arrest in a case where a warrant should have been procured. In view of the attitude of the court and the refusal to grant instructions favorable to Barrett, Mr. Lancaster said he had been formed the court that he could not represent the boy. The younger Barrett, therefore, went to trial without counsel, no jury was sworn, the boy was induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty, possibly in his ignorance, thinking that he had caused circumstance, especially as he had already made full confession, and was promptly sentenced to electrosecution. Watkins Denies Judge Hundley Was Arbitrary. Judge Watkins, of Farmville, who acted as Commonwealth's attorney, yesterday issued a signed statement, in which he resents as unfounded the inference that Judge Hundley had acted in an arbitrary or harsh manner, if otherwise that he does not possess objectionaryency to the boy, and has heretofore expressed his opinion to the Governor. The attention of the Governor was called to the fact that, in his ignorance of the forms of legal procedure, the boy made no protest, noted no objectionaryness, and held in law on which he could note an appeal to the Supreme Court. His only recourse, therefore, is to the clemency of the Governor. The Governor indicated last night that he had not passed finally on the merits of the case, but that the respite of thirty days would give opportunity for him to have thorough investigation from him be able to make up to this time. Judge Hundley, now in his eighteenth year, has been regarded as one of the most distinguished men on the bench in Virginia. He served as a judge in army and later in the State Senate. He was elected to the bench in 1898. Resents Comments on Court Proceedings. The signed statement of Judge A. D. Watkins, of Farmville, getting Commonwealth attorney in the case, who comes in defense of Judge Baldwin follows: To the Editor of the Times-Dispatch: Sir,—It is with great surprise, and some indignation that I have read in the columns of your paper the comments, made upon the trial of the Barretts for the murder of William T. Roach, in the County of Tate, where the comments are intimation and insinuation, that affect seriously upon the administration of justice by the Circuit Court of the County of Charlotte. If the intimation intended be true, it would have been far better that the murderers of Roach had been summarily dealt with by the mob that first had them in charge. But if untrue, the robbery of a mob has simply been transferred from the people oflotte to others who are using the newspapers of the country to destroy the respect for the administration of justice in this Commonwealth. I do not mean to indicate that these comments have been made with the intention to do injustice, but to condemn the judge of a court and the prosecuting attorney upon the comments made by one whose name is suppressed is, to say the least, unfair. A brief narrative of the facts should suffice to satisfy those good citizens of the Commonwealth who have been has been a 'travesty' upon justice. Negroes Had Been Stealing Wheat From Roach's Field. On the 16th of July, 1917, W. T. Roach, of Charlotte County, suspected that his wheat field had been robbed; went with a neighbor, Mr. Collins, to the premises of the Barretts, and there discovered proof of he theft, which was admitted. The older Barrett then attempted to adjust the matter in order to prevent robbery; to do, having previously discovered he same person guilty of like offenses, and had forgiven him; Roach then sent Collins to secure a warrant of arrest. In a short time, Collins returned, and found no one where he had left them. Immediately he gave the alarm, and after a short time the dead body of Roach was found where he was last seen alive. An exposition of the body disclosed that he was struck upon the back of the head with, some heavy instrument, which caused the breaking of the skull, and the brains to ooze therefrom. On the front of the head was another wound inflicted by an injury which the skull cleaved. He just above the riem of the penetrating the brain. Three other wounds were found upon the top of the head, inflicted lengthwise, cleaving the skull in two and one-half to three inches in each case, and penetrating the brain. In the meantime, father and son had disappeared, and suspicion pointed to them as the perimeter of the skull, and in a few days they were apprehended the County of Campbell and brought back to Charlotte. No comment is needed upon the conduct of the good citizens of Charlotte and Campbell, other than the high commendation for their forbearance and respect for the law in their own affairs, but turned the prisoners over to the courts of the Commonwealth. Son Went to Assistance of His Father With Stick. On the 26th of July, the Circuit Court of Charlotte convened for the trial of the Barretts. The grand jury returned a true bill. The prisoners were brought into court, and without objection were arraigned by the judge, William Lanecader, of Farnville, lawyer of long experience, who for many years was Commonwealth's attorney of the county of Cumberland, represented the prisoners. Through counsel, the prisoners elected to be tried separately. The older Barrett was tried first. The substance of the trial was brought by the Commonwealth and not decided. Commercial fact was as follows: When Collins left to go for the warrant, the older Barrett undertook to adjust the trouble with Roach. Failure in this, he attempted to escape. Roach laid hold of him, and in holding him, they both fell to the ground. The younger Barrett had gone some forty or fifty miles away. The older Barrett called for his son to come and take Roach off. The younger Barrett took up a large stick and struck Roach on the back of the head. Roach was stunned and partially fell to the ground, but was able to give exclamation of distress. The older Barrett, in his own words, "finished him" by striking him repeatedly with a rock. The body was then taken to the place where it was found. The Barretts then fled, taking with them a small amount of ammunition, the watch of the deceased, which the body was found on the scene of the killing. None of the instruments, either rocks or sticks, have ever been found since. The prisoner testified in his own behalf, and here I may say, that in my own experience of nearly forty years, in the courts of this Commoner and after having heard a number of commissioners who who had committed atrocious crimes, I have never, with the exception of one, heard a confession made with less appreciation of the enormity of the crime, and with less sense of his commission. The prisoners seem to be devoid of all sense of sorrow. Says Boy's Counsel Advised Him To Plead "Guilty." The case was then argued by Mr. Eight, of Campbell County, and myself, representing the Commonwealth, and Mr. Lancaster representing the prisoners. Instructions were carefully drawn and given by the court, which I believe covered the case. The jury, after a short time, returned their verdict of gulley of murder in the first degree. In the meantime, a second jury had been summoned for the trial of the boy. When he was brought into court, his attorney, Mr. William Lanier, offered him to withdraw his plea of "gulley" to the "gulley" submitting to be tried by the court. I had intimation that this would be done and had so informed the judge. I was deeply impressed with the position of the court and saw at once that the judge was very reluctant to assume the responsibility of passing upon the life of the boy, and I can say that four of successful contradiction that he had done went, the judge did not in any way attempt to influence the boy in his plea, but fully explained his rights to have a jury. After Mr. Lancaster had advised the course to be pursued, it seems that the boy hesitated and then Mr. Lancaster intimated to the Court that he could do nothing more, and he saw no use in doing so. The boy then withdrew his plea of 'not guilty' and put in the plea of the court, to which request I, as Commonwealth's attorney, consented. Bydence was then introduced of practically the same nature as is above narrated. In addition, there was introduced on the part of the judge of the boy, and this even disclosed the fact that he was not less than sixteen years of age, not more than seventeen. Court Found Both Guilty of First-Degree Murder. No argument was then made, either against or for the prisoner, but the whole matter was taken into consideration by the court, and the court, in the exercise of its duty, found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced him to pay the death penalty. In both of these cases the prisoners testified in their own behalf. Do these proceedings, as narrated above, constitute a "travesty" upon justice? I have had experience of more than thirty years in the courts of this Commonwealth as judge of the county court for five years, and prosecuting attorney twenty-six years, and in all these years the first intimation that has ever been made that my conduct in dealing with the criminal class has been a "travesty" upon justice. Judge flandrely needs no defense at my hand. His long life, four years of which were spent in offering his life in defense of his country, and as a civilian in private and public life, there is not a stain left alive. His high Christian character and his well-known throughout the Commonwealth, is sufficient to shield him against the instinations and unjust intentions of those who wantonly and recklessly attempted to destroy his good name, and this attempt is made upon the testimony of one whose name is withhold. If his assaults were tried in the court of justice, the verdict would be "faulty of attempted murder of the reputation of a just judge." In conclusion, I do not desire or intend these statements or facts to be taken as opposing the exercise of executive clemency towards the boy prisoner. I have heretofore expressed to the Governor my opinion. A. D. WATKINS. Commonwealth's Attorney Pro Temp. Farmville, Va., August 27. REPRIEVE, PENDING-INQUIRY, PROBABLE. Reading Attorney Lancaster's statement in regard to the evidence adduced at the trial of Aubrey Barrett and his father, Albert, for the alleged murder of Mr. W. T. Roach, a farmer of Charlotte county, the impression is formed that the Negro had sentenced to death Thursday may not have had full protection of the law guaranteed under the Constitution. Hunter Hinning said that after the joy pleaded guilty he had been but to pronounce the death sentence, Mr. Lancaster states positively that, having withdrawn from the case, the boy had no counsel to represent him and that the Negro changed his plea without comprehending what the result would be. The evidence did not states, Mr. Lancaster, that Aubrey struck the blow which followed Mr. Roach, the father completing the fight. The court ordered the Negro to compromise a crime—the Barretts had stolen a load of wheat from the Roach field—and then attempted to arrest the younger man without a warrant. In defending himself, evidently, the crime was committed, for which both Negroes have been found guilty, the death sentence having been imposed upon the younger. In view of all the circumstances, will not all the cause of punishment be guilty? If the punishment a stay of execution pending a careful investigation of all the proceedings connected with the trial. Judge Hundley is emphatic in declaration that a horrible murder was committed and the guilt acknowledged. Mr. Lancaster presents the fact that the victim was not authorized to take the law into his own hands and met his death in warrantly and engaged the Negroes, an unwilling and derable the law, it is alleged, the killing was not "wilful, deliberate and premeditated." Virginia cannot afford to have it said that she acted precipitately, in view of the differences that have arisen. If the Governor grants a repretoire, pending a review of the case, and after a searching inquiry the decision of the court is rheld, there can be no reflection on the Negroes, broad-minded and sturdy in every way, will reach such a conclusion—Reichmond, Va., Evening Journal, Aug. 28, 1917. THE CASE OF BARRETT. On the information thus far made public, the execution of Aubrey Barrett on Thursday next would impugn the justice of Virginia courts. We do not know whether the crime for which the 17-year-old Negro boy stands sentence, or was murder or manslaughter. That question, for the moment, may be left out of account. The important and compelling act is that the attorney who was supposed to represent the boy has rated publicly and in print that he had been wronged by the boy was arranged. This means that an ignorant Negro of 17 was put on trial for his life without counsel. and without any knowledge of the effect of his plea. Apparently, the boy did not even understand, when he changed his plea from "not guilty to 'guilty,'" that by so doing he managed his plea and placed himself where the court was to sentence him to death. No matter what the circumstances may have been, and no matter how the case may now be argued, this was not justice. Every man is entitled to counsel when on trial for the court man. If he has no lawyer, the court man may be sentenced. If the lawyer so named withdraws from the case and no other can be selected immediately, then the simple mandates of common justice require that the case be postponed to a later term of court. No intelligent, educated man, untrained on the law, is capable of conducting his defense against skilful counsel. No more be expected of a mere boy? It may be that the lapse of memory which the lawyer in the case attributes to Judge Hundley is properly chargeable against himself, Judge Hundley's statement, as given to this newspaper, makes it plain that as he recalls the facts, the young Negro was represented by counsel and acted on advice of counsel and acted upon pleading guilty to "guilty." But the very conflict between the court and the lawyer adds to the argument against an immediate execution. Both cannot be right; it is essential to justice to ascertain which is wrong. That will take time. And meanwhile, the courts are powerless to intervene. The Negro entered no exceptions to any ruling of the court, did not file notice of appeal, today, has no ground on which he could ask the supreme court of appeal to grant him a new trial. Executive Attorney exercised if the Negro's life is to be spared until the justice of his trial can be determined. It is not the policy of The News Leader to appeal in the public name against the judgment of our courts. In times of public excitement, when great influences were being brought to hear upon the governor, we have always taken the view that as the exercise of elegency was a prerogative and a trust, it should be left to the judgment and conscience of the governor, who presumably had the facts before him. In this instance, we must accept the rule because of the most unusual facts in the case and, still more, because there is direct and very important conflict of testimony between the judge and the lawyer who was supposed to represent the Negro. No harm can possibly be done by staying the execution. Grave danger of great injustice is certainly hazarded if the boy is allowed to go to the electric chair on Thursday. In the name of that man, we we appeal to Governor Stuart to stay execution until the facts in the case can be established beyond any possible question—Richmond, Vn., News-Leader, Aug. 28, 1917. BRISTOL, TENN.-VA. NOTES. The A. M. E. Zion Sunday School ran a large picnic excursion, Friday, August 24th, to James Park. It was quite a success, and a large number attended. All reported a grand time. The K. of P. Lodge ran a picnic excursion to James Park, Tenu. Dr. C. H. Johnson, M. Lonan, and Hon. R. E. Clay, left for Frodricksburg, Va., last week, to attend the State Sunday School Convention. Miss A. M. Smith went to Wynandote, Va., to attend a Basket Meeting, Sunday. Mrs. Dr. Johnson, Supt. of the Cradle Roll Department of the S. S. of the Lee St. Baptist Church, will have a crate day exercises September 2nd. Everybody is invited to attend. Mr. S. G. Jenkins is planning to give a musical recital for the benefit of the Lee St. Baptist Choir. Little Miss Kittle Franklin, No. 943 Lillie St., is on the sick list this week. An early recovery is hoped for. Miss Mary Penn returned home this week from Sugar Grove, Va., where she had been visiting her sister, Lottie Madason. Mr. Sam Ranks made a flying trip to Bluff City, to look after some plumbing work. Rev. W. M. W. Hill preached a noble sermon Sunday morning, Doctor Johnson being absent, so he filled the pulpit stand for the day. Mrs. Kittle Johnson, and Mrs. Cindle Rawley, returned home from Richmond, Va., where they went to attend the funeral of the I. O. of St. Lakes. They reported one of the grandest meetings ever held in Richmond, Va. Mr. Landon Clay and Miss Marion Miller were happily married Tuesday night, August 28th, in the pastor's study of the Lee St. Baptist Church, by Rev. W. M. W. Hill. Mr. Clay is the youngest son of Mrs. Francis Clay Miller, and also the brother of Hon. R. E. Clay. Miss Miller was the attractive young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller, of this city. We wish for them both success and much happiness in this life. They will reside in North Bristol for a while. The Business League Glee Club sang at Weavers Chapel Thursday night, August 23rd, to a large audience, and every one seemed to have enjoyed the singing to the highest. DANVILLE NOTRS. On account of the illness of the Agent, the Planet has failed to reach its readers for the past two weeks. We regret very much to have had our customers miss the two courses. Dr. R. C. Woods, President of the FIVE Not $1,000, not even 60%, not one cent extra charge for fancy, swell conditions. No extra charge for extra big, extreme noxin charge for fancy, fancy belt loops, no extra charge for anything, all FREE. 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Mr. Peter London, an aged citizen of Almagro, died last Wednesday. Funeral services were held Sunday evening, conducted by Rev. W. Harrison. Dr. M. Moses, Rev. W. P. Terry and Rev. N. T. Johnson, witnessed the baptizing the Giffield Baptist Church, Witt, W. T. Sunday, U. was the largest baptizing history of the church. At 3:30 P. M. Dr. Moses preached a powerful and helpful sermon. Dr. S. E. Bullock has opened an up-to-date dental parlor in the Southern Aid Building. Dr. Bullock is a graduate of Howard University Dental School. He says his aim is to satisfy. To this end he plans to have the best and most modern implements. FROM PORTSMOUTH, VA. Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 27, 1917. Editor Richmond Planet:— There are quite a number in this section of the State, who are anxious to see your paper have a larger evolution in this immediate vicinity, by no organ owned and controlled by the people, with a National circulation, that is more comprehensive in all matters appertaining to Governmental affairs, the social, political and well-being of our race, than the "Richmond Planet." The editorial columns for years, have been looked for on all great questions concerning Nelson's good, and whose advice, to a very great extent, has guided our people over many seas of trouble. With delight we read your columns on the St. Louis affair, "Uzizah Minor Letter," telling why he would not volunteer, the same, published by the Postoffice, which was held up by the Postoffice, to your city. We rejoice over the triumphant victory won and the paper allowed to pass through the mail. We are now confronted with another trouble. A riot caused by the Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, located at Houston, Tex. The newspapers, some of them, just how to still a trouble when Negroes are involved. It was chained to the Negroes started the "St. Louis Riot." It has been shown they did not. And it is claimed by some of the newspapers that the Negro soldiers of the 24th Infantry started the riot at Houston, Tex. As the case is cited, in many of the papers, it seems, without any provocation whatever, on the part of the white citizens, yet admit one of the officers of the Negro regiment was killed by a police. We truly hope that the Army authority will not make this an exceptional case, and go, contrary to law and custom, to these soldiers over to be tried by the thriority. We shall wait patiently to hear your version on the entire affair. ] The Metropolitan Baptist Church of Green St., is sparing no pains in looking after their pastor, Rev. R. G. Adams, who has accomplished so much personally and spiritually, during the election of his pastorate. The edifice has been pated, membership increased, and the spirituality, said to be greater than during the existence of the church. On Friday evening last, the follow-up members led a surprise on pastorate and left their table laden with foodstuff of all kinds to last many days: --Your subscription to the Planet in It! Have you paid it? If not why not