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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 43 LOTT CAREY CONVEN TION VIET HERE BAPTISTS HOLD GREAT FOREIGN MISSIONARY CONVENTION Fine Session in Ebenezer Baptist Church—Many Able Ministers Attend The Lett Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States met Wednesday morning, August 17 2917 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev, W. H. Stokes, D. D. pastor, S. one of the leading Baptist d vine of the country were present Rev, Dr. C. S. Brown of Winton, N. C., is president and he presided with his unally ability. "The welcome addresses were delivered by Dr. Z. D. Lewis, E. Payne and W. H. Stokes representing respectively the Baptists of the State, City and church, Dr. C. S. Brown, of Winton, N. C., is president and Dr. A. W. Pennes is recording secretary, of Raleigh, N. C., Dr. D. W. Alexander of Baltimore, is corresponding secretary. The responses were delivered by Drs. C. C. Somerville, of Portsmouth, Va., O. S. Simus, of Pittsburg, Pa., and E. E. Ricks of Reanoke Va. A LARGE DELEGATION. The delegation to this convention is the largest in the history of the convention. Many distinguished visitors were introduced and spoke to the convention. Among these were Colonel Young, of Raleigh, N. C., F. D. Lee, attorney at law, Washington, D. C., Rev. Abraham Tyler, who has spent thirty-seven years as a missionary, in Liberia, West Africa and others. The afternoon session was given over by the president, Dr. C. S. Lown, and Dr. W. M. Alexander, corresponding secretary. PRESIDENT BROWN'S REMARKS President Brown, in discussing the present world conditions as a challenge to the church, made this declaration: "Distressed as we are with a war, which, in point of cruelty, brutality and destructiveness was never equaled, involving more or less, all the civilized nations of the world, and which may mean the melting together of all the races of men; jinked, tied and belted together by telegraph, telephone, railroad and various other means of communication, the world was never better prepared to receive Christianity than now." ARMY SMALL In referring to the missionary workers he said that the army on the frontier is lamentably small and their equipment exceedingly poor. He brought the large delegation to a very high pitch of enthusiasm when he mentioned the frontier force, viz. Hayes, Thomas, Gale, Boone and Mrs. Thomas, in Liberia, West Africa, and the eight workers in the republic of Haiti. He made a strong plea that these mission workers be given more adequate support in their operations. LIBERIA'S CENTENNIAL Dr. Brown called the delegates attention to the fact that Liberia will celebrate her centennial in 1921 and raise upon our convention because of the fact that the society bears the name of one of the founders of this republic that it begin now to plan to take a leading part as a convention in this movement. He then called attention to the excellent opportunity which is afforded in Hawaii and poise of the wonderful resources of this land and the dire need of the gospel of Jesus Christ. DR. ALEXANDER'S REPORT Dr. W. M. Alexander, in his very comprehensive report, reviewed the year's work and made one of the best reports which he has ever made to the convention, setting forth its activities as being in very excellent condition. He distributed his report to the delegates in ] mphlet form. This convention is devoting its efforts to the work of foreign missions and spends a very large proportion of its funds to the support of the missionaries. The Rev. J. C. Taulton, of Domora, Pa., preached the sermon Wednesday night to a very large and appreciative audience. THE WOMEN'S MEETING Mrs. J. H. Randolph president of Washington, D. C., held its morning and afternoon sessions at the sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Dr. R. V. Peyton pastor. At Eheneze Colonel James H. Young of Rareleigh, discussed the "Lavman's Place. In Missionary Work" and Rev. R. J. Lanson, of orfolk discussed the "Local churches to Foreign Mission." At one afternoon service the consideration of the Press and Foraging Mission "Dr. W. R. H. Stokes, editor of the Scott Carey Herald took place, Dr. A. R. Vincent, editor of the Searchlight and Dr. C. C. Somerville editor of the Field, and others, spoke. DR PEYTON'S WELCOME At the Sixth Mt. Zion church the women were welcomed by Dr. R. V. Weston, pastor of the church, and Mrs U. A. Hope, Responses were by Mrs M. M. Walbron, Washington, D. C.; Mrs T. S. Eaton, Henderson, N. C.; and Mrs P. L. Anderson, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Randolph delivered her annual address in the afternoon Mrs A. L. McGuinn, corresponding secretary, and Mrs J. H. Blackwell, treasurer, made their addresses. The principal address was delivered by Mrs L. M. Melane, of High Point, N. C. The sermon to the women was preached Wednesday night at the Ebenezer baptist church by Dr. W. M. Alexander, of Baltimore. DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED. Six Colored Soldiers in Recent Clash at Waco, All Sentenced to the Federal Penitentiary. San Antonio, Tex. September 3.—Six Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infantry, who clashed with the civil police and the troops sent to subdue them at Waco on the night of July 29, were found guilty of violation of the ninety third article of war before the general court-martial held recently at Camp McArthur, Waco, 5 of the men were sentenced to five years of hard labor in the United States confinement at Leavenworth, Kans. The sixth man received ten years All were sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the service and to forfeit all pay and allowances due or to become due while in confinement under the sentence. The findings of the court-martial which were gave out on the been forwarded to the War Department at Washington HANDLING THE NEGRO TROOPS People will wonder why the regular Negro troops have not already been sent to France. Negro troops are among the best fighters in the world, but everybody knows they have to be handled very carefully in ordinary times to prevent their clashing with white people. These usually have quite insignificant beginnings, and for that reason no preparation is made for them; and we must do the Negro the justice to say that it is not always his fault. There is no use in our trying to conceal the fact, that some white people go out of their way to do a Negro an ill turn; Negroes have to bear a great deal of this sort of thing. It is not always an easy matter to get at the real merits of a case of this kind. But the Negro ought to be treated justly, even if he has a black skin. There is no reason why Negroes should not be put in the army and permitted to fight for their country. It is not right that the whites should make all the sacrifices in order to effect this. Negroes must, of course, be trained as soldiers, and have guns and ammunition in their keeping. Knowing the danger of race clashes, however our officials should be exceedingly careful in the selection of the men who are to command the Negro troops and should pick men who have had careful training along this line, and who are known to be alert officers, and just but rigid disciplinarians. As we have aid before as a rule, we haveers, could be assigned to this work. Southern men who have commanded Negroes, prefer to command them, declaring, if treated justly but firmly, they are as docile as children, and quick to respond to command. Those of us who have been in close contact with Negroes all our lives know this to be true of them. The War Department seems not altogether blameless in this last matter. Secretary Baker, was warned that trouble might be expected, and he might have laid emphasis on taking the utmost care in handling the Negro troops at this crisis and have cautioned those in command not to leave any opening for trouble. No evidence has appeared so far that the War Department gave the matter any special attention, engrossed as it was with seemingly more important things. Send the Negro regulars at once to France and give them something to do that will employ them and we shall hear no more of such occurrences. They are superb fighters and they would make record against the Germans. (Staunten, Va., Leader, Aug. 28, 1917.) Mrs. P. M. B. Hodges has returned to her home in Darville, Va. after attending the Sunday School Convention at Frederickburg, Va., and the Lott Carey Convention at Richmond Va. Her many friends regret that her stay was so short. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917 RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917 BISHOP DEFENDS THE COLORED SOLDIERS SUSPEND VERDICT ON HOUSTON RIOT IS PLEA. Bishop Smith of A, M, E, Church Say Snap Judgment Not Warranted ( C Detroit Free Press, Aug. 27, 1917 ) To the Editor: The drastic tone of your editorial in Saturday's Free Press, ment the recent disturbance in Houston, Texas, was a painful surprise to me being quite in contrast with the usual temperate character of your utterances. There are so many currents and counter currents of a disturbing nature in evidence that this is no time for hasty utterances. Public judgment should be suspended until all the material facts in the unfortunate and regrettable occurrence have been fully investigated and the result made known by the war department. The stories enamoring from Houston are onesided and reflect the prejudices of the dominant element in Houston instead of the facts in the case A Negro in military uniform is as exasperating to the average Texan as is the face of an enraged bull. When the Titanic disaster was reported, it was said Mr. Andrew Carmichello inexplicably inquired: "What was she doing up there anyway?" having reference to the extreme northern course the ship had taken. It is equally pertinent to inquire, why were the Negro troops sent to Texas anyway particularly those of the regular army? Has the remembrance of the Brownville affair entirely faded from public memory? Is it so soon forgotten that but a few days ago publicity was given to the report that Negro troops were in the clash with the authorities of Waco Texas? ... is a close imminent threat? During the Spanish American war are still from in my memory—the threat to dynamite a train load of Negro regals by the dominant element of Texarkana, Ark., and the carelessness asault made on a train load of Negro volunteers at Nashville, Tenn., while en route from Chattanooga to Cincinnati. SUSPEND JUDGMENT IS PLEA Hon. Joe H. Eagle, M. C., for the Houston district, in a dispatch to the secretary of war said: "Without stating who is to blame, it is clearly a race riot and is a tragedy sufficient to compel the statement that it is a frantic blunder to send the Negro troops 15 southern camps." Who is to blame for this tragic blunder? The Negro troops went to Houston in obedience to the orders of their superiors whose right it is to direct their movement. A race riot? Yes, and that statement coming from a Congressman on the ground, and the chosen representatives of the dominant element of Houston, ought to be sufficient to induce the public to suspend judgment for the time being. President Wilson made a trenchant statement in a speech in Philadelphia to the effect that "A man may be too proud to fight." With equal force it may be said that a man may be too manly to continually submit to extreme brutal treatment. Even the patient ox may be gouged to desperation. The fact is the white race by pre-capitulating a world-war has turned man's earthly abode into a veritable hell, and there is no telling when the fires of damnation will be extinguished or what elements will be consumed while they are raging. If pliar speaking is in order let both sides be here! Nothing that I have written is to be construed as indicating the least desire on my part to condone any infliction of discipline by the Negro troops in question. Let no guilty man escape. With a sad heart MARRIAGE RECEPTION Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams and announce the marriage reception of their daughter Miss Josephine and Mr. Jessie Deabough. Thursday evening Sept. 13, 1917., from S20 to 11:00 o'clock at the residence, 1411 Rosa St. Friends are invited. No cards. DAVIS—HARRIS Mrs. Williana Harris Coleman announces the marriage reception of her daughter, Mabel Virginia Harris, and Mr. Walter T. Davis, on Monday evening, September seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from 8:30 to 11:30, at 16 East Leigh street, Richmond, Va. Friends are invited. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 525 1-2 North Second street. Telephone, Randolph 588 PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Mrs. Reneeqa Joyce Spyher is dangerously ill at this writing. Mrs. Amelia Jones, of 299 West Twenty first street, South Richmond, is indisposed. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., has returned from his extended Northern trip. Rev. M. Jones, of Pamplico, S. C. was ordained and called to the Spring Branch Baptist Church, Florence Co., noe Parpat, S. C., June 28, 1917. Miss Manie Coleman, of South Richmond returned recently from a trip to Boston, Mass., where she spent her vacation. Mrs. Susie Robinson, of South Richmond, has returned to the city after a pleasant stay of two weeks, visiting friends in Pradericksburg and Appomattox. Mr. John H. Jones left the city Tuesday for Powhatan county, Va., where he will spend ten days visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones. Miss Ruth Brooks has returned to her home in South Richmond after spending a month visiting friends and relatives in New Jersey. Major James H. Ammons, Jr. and Mr. Willie (Slim) Moore are spending their vacation visiting Northern cities. They will visit New York. Miss Marietta L. Cailes has returned to the city after having visited Berryville, Va. Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Newark, N. J., and New York. Miss Goldie Debress and Mrs. Edna Coles have returned to the city after having visited Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York Mrs. Miles C. Debress is now visiting relatives in New York. Dr. Miles B. Jones and his Madame took a party of friends on a touring trip to Washington, Philadelphia and Atlantic City and New York in Dr. M. B. Jones' care. Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey toured to Philadelphia and Atlantic City in his Overland car. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Farnar and their daughter, Miss Leah have returned from Cleveland, where they spent a pleasant time. Mr. Robinson Davis returned last week from Brooklyn, N. Y. where he completed a course of instruction in the Mergenthaler Linotype Factory. He made a fine record. Mrs. S. G. Denny, who has been indisposed has recovered and has been visiting her former home in Tennille Ga. Mrs. Bessie Laughorne Carr, accompanied by her three children, is the guest of her borer, Mr. Montgentery Laughorne at Reanoke, Va. Rev W. J. Lucas, pastor of the Mr. Olivet Baptist Church, Newport, R. I. attended the session of the Lott Carey Convention that convened in this city last week. Before his return to Newport, he will visit his mother in Louisa, Va. Mr. Armist ad Washington and his wife Mrs. Gertrude A. Washington left last Sunday Sept. 2, for an extensive trip through the West. Their plans are to visit Cincinnati, Cleveland Ohio and other large cities of the West. They will not return home until they shall have gone to the great Convention which meets in the city of Muskegee Oklahoma. We wish for them a joyful trip and that they may return home at right. We feel that we are expressing the hearts wish of hundreds of people, who expressed their love and friendship during the recent marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Washington. Miss Ruth Robinson has returned from a ten days visit to Keysville, Va. Mr. Robert Alexander has just returned from a trip to Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Brown are visiting their son in Boston, Mass. They report having a pleasant time. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler and her daughters. Misses Elynn and Antoinette were in Dr. M. B. Jones' party visiting Washington, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York. WANTED At once, Colored Stew- dores at Newport News, Va. for the United States Army. Good pay and all expenses paid. This includes $30.00 per month, board, lodging, clothing, etc. Apply at Recruiting Station, 820 E. Broad St, Richmond, Virginia. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 525 1-2 North Second street Tele- phone, Randolph 588. BARRETT CASE BEFORE THE PUBLIC CONFLICTING CLAIMS MADE IN BARRETT CASE. Hundley Says Newspapers are Trying to Undermine Authority of the Courts. Seventeenth-century Old Negro, Without counsel or Jury, Sentenced to Death for Coming to Father's Rescue Says Attorney Lancaster. Unless, a stay is obtained from the Virginia Supreme Court or a further appeal for executive clemency is made, Albert Barrett, the Negro enforced with the murder of W. T. Roach, a Charlotte County farmer, will be executed tomorrow morning at the State Penitentiary. Governor Stuart said last night that counsel for the Negro had had no further contender with him, and that as the case stood, the man would pay with his life the penalty for the crime of which he was convicted Unlike his son, he had a jury trial, and was represented by counsel, and the Governor has expressed an unwillingness to question the facts as passed upon by the jury. In order that he might inquire at length into the facts of the case, the Governor has granted a thirty-day respite to the younger Negro, Abbrey Barrett, and his execution has been postponed from to-morrow morning until September 28. In granting the respite however, Governor Stuart made it plain that he had not looked into the merits of the case, but had granted the stay of execution that he might have sufficient time in which to conduct an inquiry into the various assertions made by interested parties. APPEAL MADE TO SUPREME COURT FOR ELDER RABBETT Counsel for the elder Barrett are making an effort to secure an appeal from the Supreme Court on the ground that no premeditation was shown in the case, such as is necessary for a legal conviction of murder in the first degree. They point to the fact that the prosecution admits that Roch attacked the elder Barrett, and that the son came to the aid of his father with a heavy stick. The circumstances are said to preclude the possibility of the killing having been premeditated. It is also asserted that the jury fixed no penalty, but merely found the elder Barrett guilty whereupon he was sentenced to death by Judge Handley. There is no record of the court proceedings, but the testimony has been assembled from memory and has been written out. Judge F. W Sims, of the Supreme Court, was petitioned for a writ of error, but refused, and the case was then presented to Judge M. P. Burks. Upon his refusal efforts were being made late last night to reach Judge R. R. Prentis, William H. Laneaster, of Farmville, counsel for the elder Barrett at his trial was in Richmond yesterday in the interest of the appeal. Associated with him in the last minute efforts to save the lives of the father and son I. Harry M. Smith, Jr., of this city Directly conflicting statements were issued yesterday in the case of Aubrey Barrett. Barrett whose exaction has been stayed 30 days by Governor Stuart, admits part in the killing, but says he came to the rescue of his father. The older Negro had counsel and was tried by jury. Appeal has been made to the Governor for investigation of the boy's case on the ground that he did not have a jury trial, was not represented by counsel, and has now no means of noting an appeal to the Supreme Court. Judge George J. Hundley, who presided at the trial in a signed statement issued yesterday, defen the court procedure, denounces the accused, and attacks the newspapers as trying to "undermine and discredit the authority of the courts." He refers to State Senator Walter E. Addison, of Lynchburg, and others who have laid the facts in the boy's case before Governor Stuart as "official inter-meddlers," and says that "any ignorance or crank can at his will be mischief the reputation of any judge, and have the newspapers spread his slander: broadcast over the State." Judge Hundley now in his eighteenth year, is recorded as one of the most distinguished men on the bench in Virginia He served in the Confederate army and later in the State Senate, and was elected to the bench in 1898. WATKING AND LANCASTER DISAGREE. AS TO FACTS Judge A. D. Watking of Farmville, who was acting Commonwealth's attorney, in a signed statement requests positively that the law Abroh (Continued on Fifth Page) KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS A New Lodge at Berryville, Va. Berryville, Va. August 30 Grand Chandler尔. Mitchell, Jr., incom panied by Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Rev L. J. Morris and Col. R. C. Mitchell arrived here last evening via N. & W W. R., coming through Washingt06 Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. R. of Deed of the Grand Court, Order of Calan the was also with them. OFFICERS INSTALLED A lodge of Knights of Pythias was instituted with the following officers: Chancellor, Commander, Stephen Green, Vice Chancellor, J. W. Edwards, Master of Work Paul Williams; Predate, Rev. S. S. Springs; Keeper of Records and Seal, H. C. Dixon; Master of Finance, J. L. Davis; Master of Ekehquer, Rev. J. W. Thomas; Master at Arms, C. H. Hill; Interior Guard, David Dolman; Outer Guard, Randall Page; Trustees, D. P. Layton, John Edwards, Christopher Laws. The initiation was a success in every particular. The work was done on schedule time, much to the delight of the visitors. A large delegation came from Strasburg by automobile, which is over thirty-five miles away and others came from Winchester, just ten miles away. MANY VISITING KNIGHTS The following visitors were present: From Strasburg, Sirs T. H. Byrd, E. H. Robenson, C. E. Nickens, B. W. Willis, Kennie Mitchell, Tim Lee, J. E. Thompson, Heywood Fletcher, J. L. Nickens, G. W. Hollis, Richard Cary, J. F. Boyd, H. J. Lee, J. F. Smith, H. L. Baltimore, L. L. Cyrus, Omar Thompson. From Winchester came, Sirs Mayhew B. Cooke, D. R. Jennings, William H. Lewis, C. W. Hall, D. C. Colbert R. V. Cooley, J. H. Cooke, Perry Cattley, J. W. Trippett, Charles N. Myers, R. L. Grey C. Thomas, Ergone Walker, R. F. Rowrus, Carl Evans, M. D. Brown James Man. Gold, William G. Armstead, Daniel Long, H. E. Ransome, H. W. Bartlett, William E. Laws BANQUET SERVED A magnificent request was served at the conclusion of the ceremonies, Grand Chancellor Mitchell complimented Deputy T. H. Ryyd, of Strasburg upon his work here. Under the instruction of Miss Chiles the ladies have gone to work organizing a club for the Court. While here the visitors were served elegant meals at the home of Sir Paul Williams, under the splendid management of his Madam, Mrs. Mary P. Williams, asly assisted by their daughters, Misses Meurete and Blanche E. The party left this morning. Visitors To Our Office Mrs. H. L. Jones, New York City; Mrs. Lavinia Henry, Cleveland; Clerk in Afro- American Office, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. L. E. Higbittin, Mrs. Jennie Fields, Mrs. Mattie Mullon, Lynch burs. Va. Mrs. Mary J. D. Grass, Washington, D. C., Mrs. Ellen R. Randolph, Richmond, Va. Mrs. Susie Morton and Mrs. Lana Peek, Reneeverte, W. Va. Mrs. F. R. Middleton Washington, D. C. Miss M. E. Beamon, Hampton Va. Misses Erma L. and Erfe L. Cacke, Richmond, Va., Mr. J. R. W. Perry, Nortok, Va. Mr. C. W. Jordan, Suf- folk, Va. Mrs. Octavia Parker, Balti- ne re. Md., Rev. H. Cary, Washington, D. C, Rev. J. C. Taulton, Donora, Pa. Rev. W. A. Mason, Mononga- gale City Pa., Rev. J. R. Sanders, McKeenport, Pa., Rev. R. B. Cobb, Fair mont W. Va., Rev. H. Chas. Pope, Woodby, N. J., Rev. R. D. Epps, Con- nellville, Pa., Mr. Anil Chambers, Vanderbilt, Pa., Rev. J. E. Rodgers, Norfolk, Va. Rex, Alexander Gordn. Philadelphia, Va. Rev. Nelson Jordan armor, Va. Rev. W. H. Gray, Abu- don, Va. Rev. R. G. Adams, Ports Va. Mrs. Rowena White, Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Lizzie B. Green, Newport News, Va. FOR SALE! Desirable homes on good terms Suburban and City. Ready money to loan. BRAGG BROS. & CO., 506 N. Second street. 24 Splendid Jackson Ward bargain, on ligh street, always rented for $210 year will sell for $1800. Jason Ward store more than $10,000 yearly receipts; fixtures alone cost more than price asked; good fresh stock; be unk. WANTED—A Good Barber at once! 60 cents on a dollar. Apply to JESSE M. TURNER, 83 N. Main street, Harrisonburg, Va. PRICE, FIVE CENTS ELKS HAVE GREAT TIME IN CLEVELAND THE CAPITAL CITY LODGE AGAIN WINS HONORS. Virginians Jubilant—Order Is In A Prosperous Condition. Capital City Lodge, No. 11 marched up Broad St., from the Bryd St. St. station last Sunday afternoon led by the Municipal Band and a crowd of ad- mitters to the Eile Home on North Second St. It brought with it the thea- dren dollar prize from the annual convocation at Cleveland and every today was happy. It also captured the position of Leading Esteemed Knight, the second highest position in the Order and Andrew J. Brown, the one successful contestant were a satisfied smile with the rest of his associates who had secured that honor for him James T. Carter of Williams Lodge No. 11, who was respected Grand Treas urer was also happy. He had made a fine record and no one had the heart to oppose him. GRAND EXALTED RULER SCOTT PRESIDES The annual meeting was held in Cleveland, O. August 28, 1917. Grand Exalted Ruler Armand W. Scott presided. At the opening ceremonies he was assisted by Past Grand Exalted Ruler T. Gillis Nutter of West Virginia. Religious excuses were conducted, after which committees on credentials and the Order of the Day were appointed. Nearly 300 delegates were present from all parts of the country. After recess, when the body reconvened, other committee appointments were completed. A smoker was given to the visitors on the evening of the 29th at the Gray's Armory On Monday night the format open to place at one of the largest who-churches on Enuelid Ave. Here the cal citizens met and greeted the delegates. GRAND PARADE TOO One of the largest parades in the history of the Order took place on the afternoon of the first day. It was then ascertained that Capital City Lodge, No. 11 had the largest number of men in line from the farthest place. It accordingly was awarded the prize $100,000. The picture of the Lodge in line with their umbrellas appeared in one of the daily papers. The Elk's Hall was given at Dreamland Hall, one of the prettiest halls in the country. One thousand persons were present. The reporters showed that the total membership of the Order approximated 13,000 and the cash in the treasury amounted to $9,000,000. A few years ago the Order was unable to pay its current expenses. UNANIMOUSLY REFLECTED Armand W. Scott, Esq. was unanimously reelected Grand Exalted Kuler and George Bates of New Jersey. Grand Secretary. BANDS OF CALANTHE AT MT CARMEL SUNDAY, THE 9TH The Annual Thanksgiving Exercises of the Bands of Calanthe will be held at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, North First Street, Sunday evening, September 9, 1917, at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. E. D. Coffee, the pastor will address them. A fine program will be rendered by the children. The members of the Bands will meet in the basement of the church. Members of the Order of Knights of Pythias and the Courts of Calanthe are cordially invited to be present. The Pythian Cadets will be out as an escort of honor. Thessalonian Class Installs Officers The officers of Thessalonian Class, of the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School were installed Friday night, August 31, at the residence of the teacher Roscee C Mitchell. The installation address was made by Miss Lillie Grey.Many interesting numbers were rendered, among them a complementary recitation by Mr. John R Cochill. The following are the officees for 1917-18: President, Miss Lillian Crump; Vice President, Miss Sarah Henderson; Secretary, Miss Mary Clark; Assistant, Miss Beulah Warden; Treasurer, Miss Frances Soay; Pianist, Miss Ruth Pollard. After a short address by Superintendent R. H. Pounderoy, a collation was served by Miss Rebecca T. Mitchell and others. Birdnest Sta. Va., Aug 26, 1917—Rev. F. B. Mitchell and wife of 46 Warren street Byrn Mawr, Pa., visited Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wilkins, last week. Leaving on Friday morning for Riflehond. We wish them a pleasant (rjp) THE PLANET SATURDAY..SEPTEMBER 8. 1917 SLAVS AND GUNS CAPTURED AT RIGA CITY AFIRE AT MANY POINTS Prince Leopold's Troops Break Through Foe's Line in the Great Jacel District. Several thousands of Russiang were taken prisoners by the Germans in their drive in the Riga region, culminating in the capture of that strong hold. In addition more than 150 guns were taken by the German forces in the Great Jacel river district. This in formation was contained in an official announcement from Berlin, which also said that the city was on fire at many points. The Russian war office said the Russian retirement was being continued along the coast in a northeasterly direction and that hostile warships are shelling the Riga coast. the Uskull district, the statement adds, the Rus slans are retiring northward, having been dislodged by the Germans in the Great Angel river region. The Russian war office announcement follows: "In the direction of Riga, on Monday our troops evacuated the town of Riga and blew up behind them the fortifications at the mouth of the Dyina and bridges across the Dyina. The retirement is being continued along the coast in a northeasterly direction. The villages of Kabli, about twenty-seven miles south of Pernai (100 miles north of Riga), Malnashtu Kosoul and Pidge, on the Gulf of Riga coast, are being shelled by enemy ships. "In the direction of Uskull on Monday the Germans continued to develop their success in a northerly direction toward the Valenrode-Eskloff road and in a northcasterly direction. Towards evening the enemy dislodged our troops in the Great Javeleg region, penetrating our positions on a front of thirteen verses (about nine miles) in the region of Valenrode and occupying it. Our troops are retiring northward following the enemy's penetration measures were taken for the readjustment of our front. "Runnandian front: In the direction of Czernowitz, in the region south of the village of Slobodzela, enemy attacks were repulsed with heavy enemy losses. There were fusillades on the remainder of the front." The German army headquarters and noncement follows: "Army group of Prince Leopold: After two days of fighting the army under the leadership of Infantry General von Hutler took from the west and southeast the city of Riga, which was ablaze at many points. Our experienced fighters everywhere broke down the Russian resistance and in an impetuous forward thrust overcame every obstacle presented by the woods and marshes. The Russians very hurriedly evacuated their extensive bridgehead west of the Dvina and Riga, and our divisions now stand be fore the mouth of the Dvina. "Dense masses of troops are crowding along the roads from Riga in a northeasterly direction in both day and night marches. "South of the great road and on both sides of the Great Javelg strong Russian forces were thrown against our troops in desperate and sanguinary attacks to cover the withdrawal of the defeated twelfth army. In a bitter struggle they were overcome by our assaults and the Great Road has been reached at several points by our divisions. Some thousands of Russians were made prisoner and more than 150 guns and countless war materials were captured. The battle near Riga is another glorious page in the history of the German army." ARREST WHITE HOUSE PICKETS Suffragists Taken For Demonstration During Parade. Militants of the National Woman's party made the procession in honor of men selected for the national army the occasion for more picketing of the White House. Pickets began appearing at the White House gates and as the police arrested them others took their places. The women announced they would keep up the battle as long as the supply of pickets held out. The supply of pickets kept steadily coming to the White House gates as fast as the police made the arrests. An hour before the procession started thirteen had been taken in. After that the picketing stopped. Ggand Duke Michael Arrested. Grand Duke Michael Alexandro vitch, brother of the former emperor and his wife, have been placed under arrest in Petroggad in connection with the counter revolutionary plot re- cently unearthed. According to the Den, Duke Dmitrii-Paulovitch also has been arrested [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. AIRMEN RAID POLA Great Fires Started in Austrian Naval Base by Italian Aviators. Thirty Italian airplanes dropped nine tons of bombs on the Austrian naval base at Pola, causing destruction and large conflagrations. It is announced officially in Rome. Flying under favorable atmospheric conditions, the raiders bombarded the military works and the enemy fleet at anchor in the harbor and in the Pasqua canal. The Italian machines, although attacked by seaplanes and shelled by antifluffraft batteries, returned safely to their bases. Austrian Chief of Staff at Front. Uline, Sept. 5 — Field Marshal von Arz, chief of staff of the Austrian army, is reported to be inspecting the Italian front for the purpose of rear guarding his troops, demoralized by many recent defeats. Meanwhile the Italians continue their steady advance and are spreading over a larged tract of the country especially through the Brestovizza valley and over the Italianizza plateau capturing trench after trench. In some cases they are finding contingents of Austrian troops. Literally exhausted and suffering from thirst and hunger, their means of communication having been cut off by the well directed Italian fire. Monte San Gabriolo still is making desperate efforts at resistance. Italian pockets are gradually creeping up the slopes, making its fall only a matter of time, when, as officers laughingly say, "the Austrians execute an other strategic retreat." U. S. BUYS $220 WHEAT Through a Misunderstanding a Little is Sold Above That Price Is Sold Above That Price. There was just one buyer in the Chicago wheat market, and he didn't even visit the board of trade. He was Uncle Sam and he had an office in the Otis building, two blocks from the board. There was one basic price, $2.20 fixed by President Wilson. The method pursued was very simple. The man who received the wheat had it placed in an elevator, obtained a receipt from the elevator, took his receipt to the Otis building and got his money. Through a misunderstanding a little spot wheat sold at slightly above the government basis, but the local representative of the food administrator issued a warning that there must be no repetition of the offense. UPHOLD GOVERNOR Chicago Council Condemns Mayor For Allowing Pacifists to Meet. Moving Pleas to Meet The Chicago city council, in special session, after three hours' discussion, adopted a resolution commending Governor Lowden for his stand against permitting pacifist agitation in Illinois. The resolution requires the state executive to prevent the holding of any meeting in the future which may be inimical to public safety or disloyal or treasonable to the United States. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 42 to 6. (The resolution, by implication, condemns the action of Mayor Thompson. He permitted a meeting of the People's Council for Democracy and Peace in defiance of the governor's order.) Campana Captain a Captive Captain Oliver, of the American bank or Campana, and 4 naval gunners, Denaney, Roop, Kline and Jacobs, who were taken prisoners when their ship was sunk recently by a German submarine, are in a prison camp at Brandenburg, Prussia. This news came by cable to the American Red Cross from Geneva. Kills Woman. Shoots Wife Albert Fitzpatrick shot and killed Mrs. Catharine Frick in a King street lodging house in Winstonburgh, Del. kept by her. He also shot and seriously wounded his wife. Jealon y is said to have been the incentive Fitzpatrick was arrested. His wife was sent to a hospital. $100,000 Fire in Wiltshire $100,000 Fire in Wilmington. Fire in Wilmington, Del., caused $100,000 damage to the F. Blomental morocco leather factory, one of the largest in the world. Four fire men were injured by a collapsing ladder, three seriously. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (Continued from First Page.) Barrett was represented by counsel, in the person of W. L. Lancaster, of Farmville, while Mr. Lancaster, in a signed statement, reiterates his assertion that Mr. Watkins is under an egregious mistake, and that he had declined to advise Aubrey Barrett, in view of the ruling of Judge Hundley on the intrusions in the trial of the father. Mr. Lancaster's statement and from the evidence of those present at the trial, the Negro boy was tried without counsel, without a jury, was induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilty was too ignorant of the forma of law to note an exception or enter a protest on which his case be given a too hold in the Supreme Court, and practically on his own admission of the killing of W. T. Roach in defense of his father, when Roach had come to the Barrett place without a warrant or due authority of arrest, and had there started a fight with the elder Barrett, was sentenced to execution, Governor Stuart's action in granting a respite of thirty days offered the only way of examining into the conflicting claim, and insuring that justice was being done. JUDGE HUNDLEY ISSUES SIGNED STATEMENT The stateent of Judge Hundley follows: To the Editor of the TimesDispatch: Sir: -My attention has been called to a statement from Mr. Lancaster in this morning's paper, to which I make a brief reply. I shall not enter into a contest of memory with him, nor shall I say an unkind word about him. I feel no unkindness toward him. He knows that I have had occasion to show him that more than once. I attach hereto a statement from Judge A. D. Watkins, who acted for the Commonwealth in the harrert cases, which sustains every statement of fact made by me in my previous article and with a few words more as to Mr. Lam caster's statement. I shall avail my self of the opportunity to say something of the tendency of such a proceeding as this to undermine and discredit the authority of the courts, and to create distrust in the minds of ignorant and unthinking people. I repeat here with emphasis that not only did Lancaster act as counsel for both of the Barretts, but that after the father's conviction he came up to me on the bench and stated to me privately that the boy would change his plea of "not guilty," "to guilty," and asked me if I would send him to a reformatory, and I told him that I would make no promises, but would hear the whole case and then decide and afterwards he spoke of withdrawing from the case, but I saw him consulting with both prisoners, and when I spoke to him and asked him what he would do about it, he said in open court that the boy would change his as stated, I thought, and had the right to think, from all that passed, that whilst he had decided to make no defense for the boy, that he was still speaking as the lawyer to whom he had been committed the defense of both father and son. SAYS BOY'S CONFESSION LEFT HIM NO DEFENSE Mr. Lancaster does not assert, nor would any one believe, that he was only employed to defend the father. I concluded that as they had used the boy as a witness for his father and know that the boy's confession had left him no defense, he intended to make none for him. When I said in my former statement that "I said in my former statement that "I cannot believe Mr. Lancaster is base enough to desert one of his clients, and then not even intimate to the judge that his client had a defense." I was simply trying to relieve him from the pittable position that officious adders had put Lm in. Unfortunately, though Mr. Lancaster has put himself into a worse position. He says now this boy had a good defense, but I having refused an instruction he offered in the father's case (to which refusal he knows, and will not deny, he expected at the time he determined not to make defense for the boy. He knows, or ought to know, that he could have had a jury and offer that same instruction in the case of the boy, and when refused he could have had a suspension of the execution of sentence, and taken both cases to the court of Appeals. Why did he not do this? Can he explain such a gross dereliction of duty? He says that I threatened to fine him when he attempted to argue to the jury in the father's case the law stated by him in the instruction offered by him which I had refused. Of course, I could not allow him to argue against the law that I had given, but he had his remedy, and if I was wrong, the Court of Appeals could have convected the error. But enough of this; I go now to a few observations on the evil that is done by such attacks on the courts as fittingly illustrated by this case. Here two counties were so stirred to the deaths by the horror of this murder where a good and peaceable citizen was murdered by two thieves whom he discovered had stolen his property. They admitted in court that they had stolen his property, and they not only murdered him, but robbed him of his watch and money, shockingly mutilated the dead body and lid it in the woods. Five hundred good people were about to lynch the murderers, when a vigilant Governor called the courts to his aid, and the people quietly submitted and trusted the courts to do their duty. When the court had acted, what do we see? Outsiders far from the scene, rush into print and spread false and slanderous charges, and insinuations against the judge who presided at the trial. And then the attorney em plowed (and paid, I presume) to defend these thieves and murderers rushes int) print to sustain, as far as he can, these slanders, and confesses his own derelection in the duty of an attorney. What is the effect of such things as this? "By their fruits you shall know them." It is bitter fruit indeed. From such seeds sprung the tree that bore the Album fruit in Carroll, where brave and gallant Judge Massie died on the bench an his sherif and others died in the discharge of their duties, for daring to enforce the law against such a band of outlaws as never before disgraced on Virginia. And then we had the scandalous spectacle of good people forgetting that these officers of the law died to preserve their liberty and their property, going to the extent of raising even a greater stand ard in their effort to have one of these outlaws pardoned, simply because he was young and handsome and because he was only alding his father to shoot up a court of justice. Of course 'his boy should have his sentence commuted or be pardoned because he was only alding his father to murder a man whose property he had stolen. SRED T..AT BRINGS FORTH LYNCHINGS This is the seed that brings forth the better fruit of lynchings, of which we have had an illustration recently. I have never had a lynching in my circuit, though " have tried men for all the crimes in the catalogue, and why? Am I claiming too much if I say that it is because my people know that I enforce all the laws? Now it seems I am reaping the rich reward of having my name brought before the public through falsehood and slander by the apologists of murder and theft. As a judge who is capable of utterly ignoring the rights of an ignorant and frightened Negro boy, and inducing him to plead guilty in order that I might sentence him to death, has it come to this—that any ignorants or crank can at his will besmirch the reputation of any judge, and have the newspapers spread his slanders broadcast over the State? But I do not complain for my self, for the press for good or evil, and judges and courts are amenable to fair criticism by people who have the character and standing - notting them to be heard, but should not use the press very careful it to others? If my long life and character cannot withstand unjust aspersions, then I have jived in vain, but it is for the fair name of our courts of justice that I speak, for that is assailed in my person. The reien of law and the integrity of the courts are the chief safeguards of our free institutions. Do we "discern the signs of the times?" Do we realize that this old world and its civilization are rocking and trembling in the titanic struggle between the forces of good and evil - between anarchy and chaos and law and order. Do we realize that one great nation in grasping at freedom has sunk into the bottomless pit of socialism, anarchy and other lawlessness. Look abroad in our own land, and note the increase in crime, rape, arson, murder and theft. Note the teachings and the acts of the I. W. W. Note that treason and disregard of all law is openly advocated in the streets of our cities, and let us tremble for the fate of our institutions. (Signed) GEORGE HUNDLEY. Farmville, Va., August 28, 1917. ACTING PROSECUTOR ALSO ISSUES' STATEMENT The statement of former Judge A. D. Watkins, who was acting Commonwealth's Attorney in the Barrett cases, follows: To The Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir: A brief statement of my recollection of the evidence in and conduct of the trial of the Barretts for the murder of William T. Roach, of Charlotte County follows: It was disclosed in the evidence that on July 10, 1917, Roach, together with Collins, went to Barrett's farm, suspecting that wheat had been stolen from his field. The Barretts, after being convinced of the fact that Roach had the proof of the larceny, admitted it. Roach sent Collins for a warrant of arrest. The elder Barrett tried to make a settlement with Roach to avoid arrest and trial. This Roach would not agree to. When Collins was away the elder Barret attempted to run away. Roach ran after him and caught him. Both fell to the ground, the elder Barrett admitted that Roach held him by the coat, and claimed that he though Roach was trying to choke him; that he called to his boy, who was some distance off; to come and get Roach off; that the boy did come, and, having picked up a chestnut stick, dealt Roach a blow on the back of the head; that the father with a large Rock finished him that the body was then carried to the place where found; that after the killing a small sum of money and a watch the property of the deceased, was tak en by the boy; that no rock or stick was found near the scene or claimed to be the instruments used; that both prisoners voluntarily confessed to the killing, each giving substantially the facts a above narrated. Dr. Walker, who made the examination of the dead body of Roach, testified that he found a wound on the back of the head, the skull broken in and the brains oozing out; that the wound had bled considerably; that this wound was sufficient to produce death; that on the front of the head was a wound in and across the face in and near the eyes; that this wound was inflicted by some instrument which cleaved the skull just above the eye, and that this wound was sufficient to cause death, and that it was inflicted after the wound on the back of the head, as was indicated by the small amount of bleeding there from; that three other wounds were found upon the top of the head, each made by some instrument which cleaved the skull, all of which did not bleed, the wounds penetrating the brain. That upon the trial of the older Barrett, and after the evidence was in Mr. Lancaster, counsel for the accused, offered an instruction in plea of justification based upon the ground of arresting, imprisoning and detaining the prisoner without a warrant of arrest was necessary. This warrant of arrest was necessary. This instruction the court refused and counsel for prisoner excepted to the ruling of the court; that counsel for prisoner did undertake to argue upon the facts he claimed to be grounds for the instruction rejected and refused by the court; that the court did call counsel's attention to the fact of the refusal of the instruction and reminded him that he must not again undertake to argue (I recall no threat of a flue) upon a question of law which the court had refused to give as the law of this case. SAYS LANCASTER CONSULTED BOY IN OPEN COURT That upon the trial of the boy, who had, through counsel, Mr. Lancaster, therefore, plead "not guilty," and elected to be tried separately, when again brought to the bar and after his counsel had intimated that he counsel for the boy, was considering the advisability of withdrawing the plea of "not guilty" and pleading "guilty," submitting all the questions of law and fact to the court, counsel for the boy, after apparently consulting with the boy and advising him in open court, stated that he had done all he could and further, that he would no longer represent the prisoner, and, therefore, the court advised the boy of his rights, and fully explained to him that he could be tried by a jury on his plea of "not guilty," but that the court could not try him on such a plea, and that he (the prisoner) had the right to plead in the way he devised; the boy then, in the presence of his former counsel, and his father, formally withdrew his plea of "not guilty" and plead "gullity" to the charge in the indictment, that then the court caused evidence to be taken, which was as to the killing, in substance, what has been stated above and in addition, evidence was taken upon the question of the age of the prisoner, and it was shown that he was between sixteen and seventeen years of age. One witness, who claim to have known the prisoner all his life, stated that the boy might be a little more than seventeen or a little less. Acting Prosecuting Attorney, Farmville, Va., August 28, 1917. LANCASTER DENTES THAT HE REPRESENTED BOY W. L. Lancaster, of Farmville, who appeared as counsel for the elder Barrett, issued the following signed statement, denying that he had represented the boy, or had advised him privately or publicly: To The Editor of The Times-Dispatch; Sir—Ex-Judge A. D. Watkins gives his version of the Barrett cases—whether at the request of Judge Hundley or not, who enres A. D. Watkins, my friend (and, I am glad to say, distant relation.) is under an egregious mistake. If he had read what I wrote, i.e. that I refused to plea or advise Abney Barrett what plea to enter, saying I would not assume the responsibility. I know he would not deny the same unless, in his goodness of heart or his weakness of mind, he would allow truth to slumber for the sake of pleasing a friend or protecting himself. Asa says when Albert Barrett, failing to compromise, attempted to escape, Mr. Roach "laid hold on him, and in holding him they both fell to the ground," and in the same breath he says; "Testimony was that the older Barrett called for his son to come and take Roach off. The younger Jarrett took up a large stick and struck Roach on the back of the head, Roach was stunned, and partially fell to the ground." Now, if Roach was on the ground in the first instance, could he be fell ed to the ground, either by a stick or a large stick? If ex-Judge Watkins is so fair, why did he not say that the testimony was that Roach pursued Albert 150 yards, Albert fell over a brush pile, and was down, being choked, when Aubrey Barrett struck the fatal blow with the chestnut stick, by request or command of his father? I have stated that the words attributed to Albert, "I have finished him," were not used. Should I have failed to hear this, I cannot fail to know, and no truthful man in the courtroom at Charlotte who could hear but knows, that I withdrew from Aubrey's case, did not advise or plead for him, and he had no counsel, either in myself or another, and that I did not waive the jury for him. Judge Watkins says that I intimated to him that I would plead guilty for the boy, or had advised the boy to plead guilty. This statement can be accounted for only as follows: When the petit jury was in its room considering its verdict in the Albert Barrett case, I asked Judge Watkins, in the presence of Mr. Light and Tom Watkins, considering the boy's age, could he not, upon the plea of guilt be confined in the penitentiary or sent to the public roads or even to the reformatory. Theroupon Judge Watkins suggested that I talk to Judge Hundley, and I went to him while upon the bench and asked him if the boy, Aubrey pleaded guilty could he not, under law, considering the boy's age, send him to the reformatory or put him upon the public roads. To this question Judge Hundley made no satisfactory answer. I then asked him if, upon the plea of guilty, he could not fix some punishment less than the death penalty. He replied: "I will make no promises" or "I will make you no promises." I repeat that I neither advised the boy, privately nor publicly, what plea to enter. Take the statement of Judge A. D. Watkins in full and add nothing of mine or any one else thereto, that Roach restrained and held Albert with out a warrant, and I vouch for it that no lawyer will say that the homicide was murder, let alone a "horrible murder" in the first degree. The mob was promised a speedy trial if they would give up their prisoners and I also preamble they were promised a conviction and the death penalty attached thereto. Thus far the promise has been outfilled. Respectfully, (Signed) W. L. LANCASTER. Farmville, Va., August 28, 1917 ACCOMAC NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Leven Ayres, of Machipongo, were the guest of Mrs. William Heath, near Belle Haven. Mrs. George Richardson left for Baltimore, September 3rd. Mrs. Sarah B. Smith, after a few months work at Frikintown, has now returned to her home with her sister. Mrs. William Heath, near Belle Haven. Master G. T. Smith is learning to use his old pipe right good now. Sunday, at home, while his father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith attended church. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. The Russian armies continue to show perilous weakness at critical points. In the Pokhshani region on the Rumanian front a Russian division abandoned its positions and fled in disorder. A Geneva report says Teutonic forces have invaded the Russian province of Ressarabia. Stormy weather apparently is hampering military activities on the Franco-Belgian front. The British, after completing a successful operation near Langemark, contented themselves with clearing out a German advance position in front of the new British line. Apparently there also is a halt in major activities on the French front in the Verdun region, and the campaign which General Cadarona is waging on the Isonzo front against the Austrians. THURSDAY Military operations on the France-Belgium front continue to be of a minor nature. The official report from Paris shows the situation along the French lines to be one of temporary-deadlocks. Two German attacks in the Champagne region east of Teton were repulsed, as were German attempts to push back French posts in the Verden region north of Vajules Palemaux. There was active artillery fighting in the Verden region and in the Alsace sector. Rome reports the remorse of Austrian counter attacks in the Isonza region. The Hailans held all positions firmly and even gained ground at points. They took 550 prisoners. Petrobras reports further quittings of Russian soldiers before the cheux near Fiskanen, on the Rumanian front. It is stated that measures are to be ceded by the Teton advance. FRIDAY None of the three big campaigns now in progress on western fronts seems again to have got into full swing. General Caderna, on the Austro Italian front, apparently is in the midst of one of the pazies characteristic of virtually all drives against strongly factified positions in this war. General Heng reports the repulse of a German rifle on the British five miles southeast of Lens, in France. London war office intimations are that an artillery battle is being carried up in virtually continuous form in preparation for the new forward thrust. General Petain's report indicates a possible speedy renewal of the infantry battle at Verdun. French artillery on both sides of the Menle is bombarding the German Bines. The Germans have shown some activity in Alsace-making an attack near Hartmanns weller-Kopt, which the French repulsed. SATURDAY Turning to the aggressive on the Alsne front, the French have struck a sharp and heavy blow at the Germar crown prince's lines. In a swift thrust General Petain's forces bounded for ward more than 300 yards on a front of more than three quarters of a mile in the Hurteibse region on the Chemin-des-Dames, between Craonne and Corny. This stroke seems to have giver Petain a firm hold on the ground. The repulse of three counter attacks is reported. The attack followed a week of almost total inactivity on the French front. There are signs in the increase of artillery fire on the Flanders front that a renewal of more active operations by the British may not be far distant. Advices from the Italian front show General Cadorna again is hammering at the Austrian lines. He is improving his positions to the south, in the direction of Trieste and on the northern front east of Gora. SUNDAY The Germans are knocking virtually at the gates of Riga, and with the Russians apparently unable to withstand their advance. On the Italian front General Cadora's forces have extended their gains on the Bristovizza plateau, on the slopes of Miege San Gabriele and east of Gorizia, and have taken additional prisoners and war stores from the Austrians. Five Italian airplanes have flown from the Italian front over Vienna and dropped pamphlets telling the Austrian people of the victory of the Italians from Tolmino to the sea. In Belgium the British big guns are continuing to bombard violently the German positions, evidently preparing the way for another smash at Crown Prince Rupprecht's front. The infantry activity here and also to the south in France is mainly in the nature of raiding operations. MONDAY Riga, Russia's principal Baltic port has been abandoned to the Germans under the threat of an offensive by land and sea. Its fate virtually was sealed when German troops forced a crossing of the Dvina southeast of the city and began to push northward. Menaced also by an advance from Miatan, southwest of Riga, and by German naval forces recently reported hovering near the Gulf of Riga, the Russian military authorities evidently considered the city no longer tenable. The success of the Italians are reported by the war office. South of Gozz, Cadorna's forces have advanced in the Brestovizza valley, repelling an Austrian counter attack. Fresh German attacks on the Alsn were beaten off by the French. Heavy artillery actions are reported on the Verdun front. --- Flour $10.75 to $11 Barrel The best grades of flour will probably sell for from $10.75 to $11 a barrel as the result of fixing $2.20 as the price of wheat. This is according to statements by local flour manufacturers. 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According to the most reliable authority in Amsterdam the next session of the German reichstag will be devoted to the questions of peace. The majority has decided to chal- lege the statement of the government regarding its minimum peace program. It is said the government will yield, with a view to peace negotiations be- fore Christmas. The German government, according to this authority, favors the plenom- tarians meeting either at The Hague or at Bene or at Copenhagen, but pre- ferably The Hague. Heed Wilson's Note, Vorwaerts Says The Berlin Vorwaerts, the Sozial- organ, in commenting on President Wilson's reply to the none, says: "The American note is a cautious and clever document. It is a passionate indictment to amend the system of government obtaining in Germany, to which it attributes all the world's atrocities. Against the German people the note sets forth that America does not want to retaliate, inasmuch as it has in the course of this war, which it did not want, suffered much. "That is undoubtedly a very correct observation that the German people did not want this war, and in its course has suffered much. Fear that yet worse might come, keeps it awake in defense. "The American government repeatedly declared It does not harbor quantity against the German people, but proof of this assertion has not been furnished. It can only be established in a demonstration of America's will that the German people are not to be robbed and made to pay tribute to its enemies. "The note cautiously omits reference to this point, which is of decisive importance to the German people. It does not support the indemnity and territorial demands of America's allies, nor does it reinhold them. "It will be said in France, however that the note does not mention these things. Only the word satisfaction permits a wide interpretation with Germany so long as the present government system obtains. It demands that the will of the people back up government transactions. "A section of the German press will hasten to say that it would be undignified for the German people to give such surety. On the contrary, we be lievo it would be undignified to refuse. "The German people are fighting this most terrible of battles not for the rights of a single family, or a certain form of government, but for its own existence." "In this sense and in no other, the German Social Democracy entered into the defense of the nation. Social Democracy in its endeavor to obtain adhered constitutional conditions refuses to employ methods calculated to weaken the nation's defenses. "Shall it be said of us Germans that negotiations with the United States are impossible because we as a nation of helbots are incapable of asserting our own will? Do we deserve this after years of fighting and suffering after achievements and sacrifices with out measure and numbers?" --- Girl Shot by Playmate Elizabeth Mayer, tea years of age daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mayer, of Dover, Del, is near death from a bullet wound in her abdomen. The child and her sister were playing at the home of James M. Saterfield, deputy attorney general, on Dover Green when a revolver in the hands of James M. Satterfield, Jr., was accidentally dls charged. The bullet struck the girl Doctors say there is little hope of her recovery. $60,000 Fire at Boyertown Hoyertown, Pa., was visited by a $60,000 fire. Elvin Reinhardt's bvery stable was burned with four horses and many quail bills. The building was owned by the Land Brewing company, of Reading, and the loss is estimated at $20,000. The Central House was rented to the extent of $25,000. Of nearby buildings were also damaged. Thousands Lost in Fire. Several thousands persons are reported to have been killed and injured in a fire which swept the city of Kazan, on the Kazanka river, 430 miles cost of Moscow, early last week. The fire burned for thirty six hours, driving most of the population outside the city. SIX THE PLANET (Continued from Page Three.) attempt at sewing she would have felt vastly more at case in this rude logging camp, knowing that she could leave it if she desired. So far as she could see things she looked at them with measurable clearness, without any vain illusions concerning her ability to march triumphant over unknown fields of endeavor. Along practical lines she had everything to learn. Culture furnishes an excellent pair of wings wherewith to soar in skies of abstraction, but is a poor vehicle to carry one over rough roads. She might have remained in Philadelphia, a guest among friends. Pride forbade that. Incidentally, such an arrangement would have enabled her to stalk a husband, a moneyed husband, which did not occur to her at all. There remained only to Join Charlie. If his fortunes mended, well and good. Perhaps she could even help in minor ways. But it was all so radically different—brother and all—from what she had pictured that she was filled with dismay and not a little foreboding of the future. Suicident, however, unto the day was the evil thereof, she told herself at last, and tried to make that assurance work a change of heart. She was very lonely and depressed and full of a futile wish that she were a mum. Over across the bay some one was playing an accordion, and to its strains a stout lunged lumberjack was roaring out a song, with all his fellows joining strong in the chorus: Oh, the Sashaww Kid was a cook in a camp way up on the Occon-to-o-o. And the cook in a camp in them old days had been a little shy. Had a — hard row to hoe. There was a fine, rollicking air to it. The careless note in their voices, the joyful lilt of their song made her envious. They at least had their destiny, limited as it might be and cast along rude ways, largely under their own control. Her wandering gaze at length came to rest on a tent top showing in the brush northward from the camp. She A. H. H. He Was No Beauty, She Decided. saw two canoes drawn up on the beach above the lash of the waves, two small figures playing on the gravel and sunny dogs prowling alongshore. Smoke went eddying away in the wind. An Indian camp, Miss Benton supposed. She had an impulse to skirt the bay and view the Indian camp at closer range, a notion born of curiosity. She debated this casually, and just as she was about to rise her movement was arrested by a faint crackle in the woods behind. She looked away through the deepening shadow among the trees and saw nothing at first. But the sound was repeated at odd intervals. She sat still. Thoughts of forest animals slipped into her mind without making her afraid. At last she caught sight of a man striding through the timber, soundlessly on the thick moss, coming almost straight toward her. He was scarcely fifty yards away. Across his shoulder he bore a reddish gray burden, and in his right hand was a gun. She did not move. Bowed slightly under the weight, the man passed within twenty feet of her, so close that she could see the sweat beads glisten on that side of his face, and saw also that the load he carried was the carcass of a deer. Gaining the beach and laying the animal across a bowder he straightened himself up and drew a long breath. Then he wiped the sweat off his face. A sturdily built man about thirty, of Saxon fairness, with a tinge of red in his hair and a liberal display of freckles across nose and cheek bones. He was no beauty, she decided, albeit he displayed a frank and pleasing countenance. That he was a remarkably strong and active man she had seen for herself, and if the firm round of his jaw counted for anything an individual of considerable determination besides. Miss Benton conceived herself to be possessed of considerable skill at character analysis. He put away his handkerchief, took up his rifle, scuffed his hat and strode off toward the camp. Her attention now diverted from the Siwashes, she watched him, saw him go to her brother's quarters, stand in the door a minute, then go back to the beach accompanied by Charlie. In a minute or so he came rowing across in a skiff, threw his deer aboard and pulled away north along the shore. She watched him lift and fall among the waves until he turned a point, rowing with strong, even strokes. Then she walked home. Benton was poring over some figures, but he pushed aside his pencil and paper when she entered. "You had a visitor, I see," she remarked. "Yes, Jack Fyfe. He picked up a deer on the ridge behind here and bortowed a boat to get home." "I saw hm come out of the woods," she said. "His camp can't be far from here, is it? He only left the springs as you came in. Does he hunt deer for sport?" "Hardly. Oh, well, I suppose it's sport for Jack, in a way. He's always pliking around in the woods with a gun or a fishing rod," Benton returned. "But we kill 'em to eat most. It's good meat and cheap. I get one myself now and then. However, you want to keep that under your hat—about us fellows hunting—or we'll have game wardens nosing around here." "Are you not allowed to hunt them?" she asked. "Not in close season. Hunting season's from September to December." "If it's unlawful, why break the law?" she ventured hesitatingly. "Isn't that rather—cr"— "Oh, bosh!" Charlie derided. "A man in the woods is cuttled to venson, if he's hunter enough to get it. The woods are full of deer, and a few more or less don't matter. We can't run forty miles to town and back and pay famine prices for beef every two or three days when we can get it at home in the woods." Stella digested this in silence, but it occurred to her that this mild sample of lawlessness was quite in keeping with the men and the environment. There was no policeman on the corner, no mechanism of law and order visible anywhere. The characteristic attitude of these woodmen was of intolerance for restraint, of complete self sufficiency. It had colored her brother's point of view. She perceived that whereas all her instinct was to know the rules of the game and abide by them, he taking his cue from his environment, inclined to break rules that proved inconvenient, even to formulate new ones to apply. "And suppose," said she, "that a game warden should catch you or Mr. Jack Fyfe killing deer out of season?" "Wed he hauled up and fined a hundred dollars or so," he told her. "But they don't catch us." He shrugged his shoulders and, smiling tolerantly upon her, proceeded to smoke. Dusk was falling now, the long twilight of the northern seasons gradually deepening, as they sat in silence. Along the creek here those the evening chorus of the frogs. The air, now hushed and still, was riven every few minutes by the whir of wings as ducks in evening flight swept by above. All the boisterous laughter and talk in the bunkhouse had died. The woods ranged gloomy and impenetrable, save only in the northwest, where a patch of sky lighted by diffused pink and gray revealed one mountain higher than its fellows standing bald against the horizon. "Well, I guess it's time to turn in," Benton mulled a yawn. "Pleasant dreams, sis. Oh, here's your purse. I used part of the bankroll. You won't have much use for money up here, anyway." He flipped the purse across to her and sauntered into his bedroom. Stella sat gazing thoughtfully at the vast bulk of Mount Douglas a few minutes longer. Then she, too, went into the boxlike room, the bare discomfort of which chilled her merely to behold. With a curious uncertainty, *n* feeling of reluctance for the proceeding almost, she examined the contents of her purse. For a little time she stood gazing into it, a queer curl to her full red lips. Then she flung it contemptuously on the bed and began to take down her hair. “‘A rich, rough, tough country, where it doesn’t do to be finicky about anything,’” she murmured, quoting a line from one of Charlie Benton’s letters. “It would appear to be rather unpleasantly true. Particularly the last clause.” In her purse, which had contained $110, there now reposed in solitary state a twenty dollar bill. CHAPTER IV. BY such imperceptible degrees that she was scarce aware of it, Stella took her place as a cog in her brother's logging machine, a unit in the human mechanism which he operated skillfully and relentlessly at top speed to achieve his desired end $ \rightarrow 1, 0 0 0 $ 000 feet of timber in boomsticks by Sept. 1. From the evening that she stepped into the breach created by a drunken cook the kitchen burden settled steadily upon her shoulders. For a week Benton daily expected and spoke of the arrival of a new cook. Fyfe had wired a Vancouver employment agency to send one the day he took Jim Renfrew down. But either cooks were scarce or the order went astray, for no rough and ready kitchen mechanic arrived. Benton in the meantime ceased to look for one. He worked like a horse, unsparing of himself, unsparing of others. He rose at half past 4, lighted the kitchen fire, roused Stella and helped her prepare breakfast, preliminary to his day in the woods. Later he impressed Katy John, a half breed Siwash girl, into service to wait on the table and wash dishes. He labored patiently to teach Stella certain simple tricks of cooking that she did not know. Quick of perception, as thorough as her brother in whatsoever she set her hand to do, Stella was soon equal to the job. And as the days passed and no camp cook came to their relief Ben- THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA ton left the job to her as a matter of course. "You can handle that kitchen with Katy as well as a man," he said to her at last. "And it will give you something to occupy your time. I'd have to pay a cook $70 a month. Katy draws $25. You can credit yourself with the balance and I'll pay off when the contract money comes in. We might as well keep the coin in the family. I'll --- IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! feel easier, because you won't get drunk and jump the job in a pinch. What do you say?" She said the only possible thing to say under the circumstances. But she did not say it with pleasure nor with any feeling of gratitude. It was hard work, and she and hard work were utter strangers. Her feet ached from continual standing on them. The heat and the smell of stewing meat and vegetables skidened her. Her hands were growing rough and red from dabbling in water, punching bread dough, handling the varied articles of food that go to make up a meal. Upon hands and forearms there stung continually certain small cuts and burns that lack of experience over a hot range inevitably inflicted upon her. Whereens time had promised to hang heavy on her hands, now an hour of leness in the day became a precious boon. 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. Yet in her own way she was as full of determination as her brother. She saw plainly enough that she must leave the drone stage behind. She perceived that to be fed and clothed and housed and to have her wishes readily gratified was not an inherent right; that some one must foot the bill; that now for all she received she must return equitable value. At home she had never thought of it in that light; in fact, she had never thought of it at all. Now that she was beginning to get a glimming of her true economic relation to the world at large she had no wish to emulate the clinging vine, even if thereby she could have secured a continuance of that silk lined existence which had been her fortunate lot. Her pride revolted against parasitism. It was therefore a certain personal satisfaction to have achieved soft support at a stroke, in so far as that in the sweat of her brow—all too literally—she opened her bread and a compensation besides. But there were times when that solace seemed scarcely to weigh against her growing detest for the endless routine of her task, the exasperating physical weariness and irritations that it brought upon her. 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 APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. FOR $30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT For to prepare three times daily food for a dozen hungry men is no mean undertaking. One cannot have in a logging camp the convenience of a hotel kitchen. The water must be carried in buckets from the creek near by and wood brought in armfuls from the pile of sawn blocks outside. The low roofed kitchen shanty was always like an oven. The flies swarmed in their tents of thousands. As the men sweated with ax and saw in the woods, so she sweated in the kitchen. And her work began two hours before their day's labor and continued two hours after they were done. She slept like one exhausted and rose full of sleep heaviness, full of bodily soreness and spiritual protest when the alarm clock raised its din in the cool morning. For a week thereafter Benton developed moods of sourness, periods of scowling thought. He tried to speed up his gang, and, having all spring driven them at top speed, the added straw broke the back of their patience, and Stella heard some sharp interchanges of words. He quelled one incipient mutiny through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbedly moody than ever. Eventually his ill mature broke out against Stella over some trifle, and she, being herself an aggrieved party to his transactions, surprised her own sense of the fitness of things by retaliating in kind. We Do All Kinds of Job Work 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. "I'm slaving away in your old camp from daylight till dark at work I despise, and you can't even speak decently to me," she fared up. "You act like a perfect brute lately. What's the matter with you?" Benton guawed at a finger nail in silence. "Hang it, I guess you're right," he admitted at last. "But I can't help having a grouch. I'm going to fall behind on this contract, the best I can do." "Well," she replied tartly, "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it out on me?" "I don't particularly," he answered. "Only—can't you sabe? A man gets on edge when he works and sweats for months and sees it all about to come to nothing." "So does a woman," she made pointed retort. Benton chose to ignore the inference. He sat a minute or two longer, again preoccupied with his problems. 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 "Well," he said at last, "I've got to get action somehow. If I could get about thirty men and another donkey for three weeks I'd make it." He went outside. Up in the near woods the whine of the saws and the sounds of chopping kept measured beat. It was late in the forenoon, and Stella was hard about her dinner preparations. Contract or no contract, money or no money, men must eat. That fact loomed biggest on her daily schedule, left her no room to think overlong of other things. Her huff over, she felt rather sorry for Charlie, a feeling accentuated by sight of him humped on a log in the sun, too engrossed in his perplexities to be where he normally was at that hour, in the thick of the logging, working harder than any of his men. A little later she saw him put off from the float in the Chickamau's dinghy. When the crew came to dinner he had not returned. Nor was he back when they went out again at 1. Near midafternoon, however, he strode into the kitchen, wearing the look of a conqueror. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia "I've got it fixed," he announced. Stella looked up from a frothy mass of yellow stuff that she was stirring in a pan. "Got what fixed?" she asked. What fixed? she asked. "Why, this leg business," he said. Continued on Page Seven. 8IX THE PLANET BIG TIMBER (Continued from Page Three) attempt at sowing she would have felt vastly more at ease in this rude logging camp, knowing that she could leave it if she desired. So far as she could see things she looked at them with measurable clearness, without any vain illusions concerning her ability to march trumpphant over unknown fields of endearment. Along practical lines she had everything to learn. Culture furnishes an exedent pair of wings wherewith to soar in skies of abstraction, but is a poor vehicle to carry one over rough roads. She might have remained in Philadelphia, a guest among friends. Pride forbade that. Incidentally, such an arrangement would have enabled her to stalk a husband, a moneyed husband, which did not occur to her at all. There remained only to Join Charlie. If his fortunes mended, well and good. Perhaps she could even help in minor ways. But it was all so radically different—brother and all—from what she had pictured that she was filled with dismay and not a little foreboding of the future. Suitable, however, unto the day was the evil thereof, she told herself at last, and tried to make that assurance work a change of heart. She was very loudy and depressed and full of a futile wish that she were a man. Over across the bay some one was playing an accordion, and to its strains a stout bunged lumberjack was roaring out a song, with all his fellows joining strong in the chorus: Oh, the Sacrina Kid was a cook in a camp way up on the Ocean-to-oo. And the cook in a camp in them old days There was a fine, rollicking air to it. The careless note in their voices, the joyful lilt of their song made her envious. They at least had their destiny, limited as it might and cast along rude ways, largely under their own control. Her wandering gaze at length came to rest on a tent top showing in the brush northward from the canopy. She O. B. WOOLL He Was No Beauty, She Decided. saw two canoes drawn up on the beach above the hash of the waves, two small figures playing on the gravel and sundry dogs prowling along smoke. Smoke went eddying away in the wind. An Indian camp, Miss Benton supposed. She had an impulse to skirt the bay and view the Indian camp at closer range, a notion born of curiosity. She debated this casually, and just as she was about to rise her movement was arrested by a faint crackle in the woods behuld. She looked away through the deepening shadow among the trees and saw nothing at first. But the sound was repeated at odd intervals. She sat still. Thoughts of forest animals slipped into her mind without making her afraid. At last she caught sight of a man striding through the timber, soundlessly on the thick moss, coming almost straight toward her. He was scarcely fifty yards away. Across his shoulder he bore a reddish gray barden, and in his right hand was a gun. She did not move. Bowed slightly under the weight, the man passed within twenty feet of her, so close that she could see the sweat beads glisten on that side of his face, and saw also that the load he carried was the carcass of a deer. Gaining the beach and laying the animal across a bowler he straightened himself up and drew a long breath. Then he wiped the sweat off his face. A sturdy built man about thirty, of Saxon fairness, with a tinge of red in his hair and a liberal display of freckles across nose and cheek bones. He was no beauty, she decided, nibbit he displayed a frank and plensing countenance. That he was a remarkably strong and active man she had seen for herself, and if the firm round of his jaw counted for anything an individual of considerable determination besides. Miss Benton conceived herself to be possessed of considerable skill at character analysis. He put away his handkerchief, took up his rifle, settled his hat and strode off toward the camp. Her attention now diverted from the Sliwashes, she watched him, saw him go to her brother's quarters, stand in the door a minute, then go back to the beach accompanied by Charlie. In a minute or so he came rowing across in a skiff, threw his deer aboard and pulled away north along the shore. She watched him lift and fall among the waves until he turned a point, rowing with strong, even strokes. Then she walked home. Benton was poring over some figures, but he pushed aside his penclay and paper when she entered. "You had a visitor, I see," she remarked. "Yes, Jack Fyfe. He picked up a deer on the ridge behind here and bortowed a boat to get home." "I saw him come out of the woods," she said. "His camp can't be far from here, is it? He only left the springs us you came in. Does he hunt deer for sport?" "Hardly, Oh, well, I suppose it's sport for Jack, in a way. He's always piking around in the woods with a gun or a fishing rod." Benton returned, "But we kill 'em to eat mostly. It's good meat and cheap. I get one myself now and then. However, you want to keep that under your hat—about us fellows hunting—or we'll have game wardens nosing around here." "Are you not allowed to hunt them?" she asked. "Not in close season. Hunting season's from September to December." "Oh, bosh!" Charlie derided. "A man in the woods is entitled to venison. If he's hunter enough to get it. The woods are full of deer, and a few more or less don't matter. We can't run forty miles to town and back and pay famine prices for beef every two or three days when we can get it at home in the woods." Stella digested this in silence, but it occurred to her that this mild sample of lawlessness was quite in keeping with the men and the environment. There was no policeman on the corner, no mechanism of law and order visible anywhere. The characteristic attitude of these woodsmen was of intolerance for restraint, of complete self sufficiency. It had colored her brother's point of view. She perceived that whereas all her instinct was to know the rules of the game and abide by them, he taking his cue from his environment, included to break rules that proved inconvenient, even to formulate new ones to apply. "And suppose," said she, "that a game warden should catch you or Mr. Jack Fyfe killing deer out of season." "We'd be hounded up and fined a hundred dollars or so," he told her, "But they don't catch us." He shrugged his shoulders and, smiling tolerantly upon her, proceeded to smoke. Dusk was falling now, the long twilight of the northern seasons gradually deepening, as they sat in silence. Along the creek Arces The evening chorus of the frogs. The air, now hushed and still, was riven every few minutes by the whir of wings as ducks in evening flight swept by above. All the boisterous laughter and talk in the bunkhouse had died. The woods ranged gloomy and impenetrable, save only in the northwest, where a patch of sky lighted by diffused pink and gray revealed one mountain higher than its fellows standing bald against the horizon. "Well, I guess it's time to turn in." Benton mutilated a yawn. "Pleasant dreams, sis. Oh, here's your purse. I used part of the bankroll. You won't have much use for money up here, anyway." He flipped the purse across to her and sauntered into his bedroom. Stella sat gazing thoughtfully at the vast bulk of Mount Douglas a few minutes longer. Then she, too, went into the boxlike room, the bare discomfort of which chilled her merely to behold. With a curious uncertainty, a feeling of reluctance for the proceeding almost, she examined the contents of her purse. For a little time she stood gazing into it, a queer curl to her full red lips. Then she flung it contemptually on the bed and began to take down her hair. "A rich, rough, tough country, where it doesn't do to be finicky about anything," she murmured, quoting a line from one of Charlie Benton's letters. "It would appear to be rather unpleasantly true. Particularly the last clause." In her purse, which had contained $110, there now reposed in solitary state a twenty dollar bill. CHAPTER IV The Dignity (2) of Toil: B Y such imperceptible degrees that she was source aware of it. Stella B she was scarce aware of it, Stella took her place as a cog in her brother's logging machine, a unit in the human mechanism which he operated skillfully and rebelliously at top speed to achieve his desired end $ \rightarrow 1, 000, $ 000 feet of timber in boomsticks by Sept. 1. From the evening that she stepped into the brench created by a drunken cook the kitchen burden settled steadily upon her shoulders. For a week Benton daily expected and spoke of the arrival of a new cook. Fyfe had wired a Vancouver employment agency to send one the day he took Jim Renfrew down. But either cooks were scarce or the order went astray, for no rough and ready kitchen machine arrived. Benton in the meantime ceased to look for one. He worked like a horse, unsurprising of himself, unsparing of others. He rose at half past 4, lighted the kitchen on fire, roasted Stella and helped her prepare breakfast, preliminary to his day in the woods. Later he impressed Katy John, a half breed Siwash girl, into service to wait on the table and wash dishes. He labored patiently to teach Stella certain simple tricks of cooking that she did not know. Quick of perception, as thorough as her brother in whatsoever she set her hand to do, Stella was soon equal to the job. And as the days passed and no camp cook gave to their relief Ben- THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA ton left the job to her as a matter of course. "You can handle that kitchen with Katy as well as a man," he said to her at last. "And it will give you something to occupy your time. I'd have to pay a cook $70 a month. Katy draws $25. You can credit yourself with the balance and I'll pay off when the contract money comes in. We might as well keep the coin in the family. I'll ```markdown ``` IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! feel easier, because you won't get drunk and jump the job in a pinch. What do you say?" She said the only possible thing to say under the circumstances. But she did not say it with pleasure nor with any feeling of gratitude. It was hard work, and she and hard work were utter strangers. Her feet ached from continual standing on them. The heat and the smell of stewing meat and vegetables sickened her. Her hands were growing rough and red from dabbing in water, punching bread dough, handling the varied articles of food that go to make up a meal. Upon hands and forearms there stung continually certain small cuts and burns that lack of experience over a hot range inevitably inflicted upon her. Whereas time had promised to hang heavy on her hands, now an hour of idleness in the day became a precious boon. 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. Yet in her own way she was as full of determination as her brother. She saw plainly enough that she must leave the drone stage behind. She perceived that to be fed and clothed and housed and to have her wishes readily gratified was not an inherent right; that some one must foot the bll; that now for all she received she must return equitable value. At home she had never thought of it in that light; in fact, she had never thought of it at all. Now that she was beginning to get a glimmering of her true economic relation to the world at large she had no wish to emulate the clinging vine, even if thereby she could have secured a continuance of that silk lined existence which had been her fortunate lot. Her pride revolted against parasitism. It was therefore a certain personal satisfaction to have achieved self support at a stroke, in so far as that in the sweat of her brow — all too literally—she opened her bread and a compensation besides. But there were times when that sense seemed scarce to weigh against her growing detest for the endless routine of her task, the exasperating physical weakness and irritations that it brought upon her. FOR 30 WORTH. WE WILL SEND YOU A DETACHABLE UMBRELLA. YOU CAN TAKE IT APART AND PUT IT INTO YOUR TRUNK OR SUIT CASE WHEN TRAVELING. For to prepare three times daily food for a dozen hungry men is no mean undertaking. One cannot have in a logging camp the conveniences of a hotel kitchen. The water must be carried in buckets from the creek near by and wood brought in armfuls from the pile of sawn blocks outside. The low roofed kitchen shanty was always like an oven "the flies swarmed in their tents of thousands." As the men sweated with ax and saw in the wools, so she sweated in the kitchen. And her work began two hours before their day's labor and continued two hours after they were done. She shouted like one exhuberated and rose full of sleep heaviness, full of bodily soreness and spiritual protest when the alarm clock raised its din in the cool morning. 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 For a week thereafter Beuton developed moods of sorrowness, periods of sowling thought. He tried to speed up his singing, and, having all spring driven them at top speed, the added straw broke the back of their patience, and Stella heard some sharp interchanges of words. He quelled one incipient unintention through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbled moody than ever. Eventually his ill mature broke out against Stella over some trilure, and she, being herself an aggrieved party to his transactions, surprised her own sense of the fitness of things by retaliating in kind. We Do All Kinds of Job Work 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. "I'm slaving away in your old camp from daylight till dark at work I despise, and you can't even speak decently to me," she shared up. "You act like a perfect brute lately. What's the matter with you?" Benton guwned at a finger nail in silence. "Hang it, I guess you're right," he admitted at last. "But I can't help having a grouch. I'm going to fall behind on this contract, the best I can do." "Well," she replied tartly, "I'm not to blame for that. I'm not responsible for your failure. Why take it out on me?" "I don't particularly," he answered. "Only—can't you sabe? A man gets on edge when he works and sweats for months and sees it all about to come to nothing." "So does a woman," she made pointed retort. Benton chose to ignore the inference. He sat a minute or two longer, again preoccupied with his problems. 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 "Well," he said at last, "I've got to get action somehow. If I could get about thirty men and another donkey for three weeks I'd make it." He went outside. Up in the near woods the whine of the saws and the sounds of chopping kept measured beat. It was late in the forecoun, and Stella was hard about her dinner preparations. Contract or no contract, money or no money, men must eat. That fact loomed biggest on her daily schedule, left her no room to think overlong of other things. Her huff over, she felt rather sorry for Charlie, a feeling accentuated by sight of him humped on a log in the sun, too engrossed in his perplexities to be where he normally was at that hour, in the thick of the logging, working harder than any of his men. THE RICHMOND PLANET. A little later she saw him put off from the float in the Chickamau's dinghy. When the crew came to dinner he had not returned. Nor was he back when they went out again at 1. Near midafternoon, however, he strode into the kitchen, wearing the look of a conqueror. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia "I've got it fixed." he announced. Stella looked up from a frothy mass of yellow stuff that she was stirring in a pan. "Got what fixed?" she asked. "Why, this bike has spilled." "this log business," he said. Continued on Page Seven. --- HEY SUNET DANVILLE NOTES. Last week was a busy week here with the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Monday evening delegates from all parts of the state found their way to the city on the Dan, to meet their brothers in the Seventh Biennial Session of District Grand Lodge No. 15. The public exercises were held in the High Street Baptist Church, Many helpful and enthusiastic speeches were made. Mayor Harry Woodig in his usual manner welcomed the delegates to the city, W. B. F. Crowell responded in a most pleasing way. Referring to the present war, Mr. Crowell said "This is our war, our country, and president Wilson is ours and we will stand by him till a change comes." Those of the local talent who took part in the public exercise were Rev. M. F. Hughes, Mr. W. D. Ivy, Mrs. Julia Clark, Mrs. A. E. Buford, Miss E. J Ivy, Mr. J. M. Clark and Dr. S. A. Moses. The session was a record breaker as to interest and time. Business was completed in two days instead of four. The session closed Wednesday night with a banquet. Rev. P. H. Kirby one of the oldest citizens of Pittsburgh Co., died at his home in north Danville last Tuesday. Funeral services were held at the Camp Grove Baptist Church. Many of the leading ministers of the city and county were present and spoke highly of the work done by Rev. Kirby. Mrs. Hattie Wood, the sister of Mrs. A. H. Lee, 401 So. Main St., departed this life at her home in Roselle N. J., Aug. 28. Her death was a shock to the family and her many friends. Mr. James Miles, who under went an operation in the General Hospital died Monday evening. His remains were taken to Leesburg, N. C., for interment. Mrs. Millie Wilson and Little Ruby of W. Broad St., are spending the week in Clarksville, Va., with relatives. Mrs. N. G. Russell of W. Broad St., is spending some time in the country. Mrs. Vivian deLombody of Mountain Hill, Va., was in the city the first of the week. Monday afternoon she was the guards of Mrs. E. R. Wilson of So. Main St. She spent the night with Mrs. W. R. Carr of Holbrook Street. Miss Maude Wilson of Holbrook street left the city Saturday for a brief stay in the country. Drs. S. A. Moses, A. A. Galvin, and Rev. M. C. Allen, will attend the National Baptist Convention, which meets in Atlanta, Ga., this week. Rev. J. R. Cooper pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, leaves the city Thursday on his vacation. He plans to spend most of his stay in N. J. Mrs. Amanda West of Stokes street returned to the city last week after a three weeks stay at her old home, Hampdue-Sidney. She is almost persuaded to go back to remain. Trinity Baptist Church had its Baptizing Sunday afternoon. A very large crowd was present. Rev. Geo. Coats has held two success ful revivals recently, many professions were made. This week Rev. Coats is celebrating his second anniversary as pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Mrs. Jennie Brewer, who resides on the lower end of Broad street sustain ed a very severe injury from a fall last week. She is under the skillful treatment of Dr Winslow. Dr. S. R. Wilson and Mr. W. P. Pancey were defeated by Mr. H. Gunn and Mr J. Cooper in the tennis contest Labor Day. The score was, the first game 6 to 3, second game 6 to 0 Misses Ophilia and Lottie Coleman left Saturday for Greensboro, N. C., to visit friends and relatives. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. Charley and Luke Playing In Luck WANT YOU BOYS SIT DOWN HERE AND HAVE SOME PANCAKES WHILE THEY'RE HOT SURE YEA SURE Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Continued from Sixth Page. "Jack Fyfe is going to put in a crew and a donkey, and we're going to over lastingly up the innards out of these woods. I'll make delivery after all." "That's good," she remarked, but noticeably without enthusiasm. The heat of that low roofed shanty had taken all possible enthusiasm for anything out of her for the time being. Always toward the close of each day she was gripped by that feeling of deadly fatigue, in the face of which nothing much mattered but to get through the last hours somehow and drag herself wearily to bed. Noon of the next day brought the Panther cougling into the bay, flanked on the port side by a scow upon which rested a twin to the iron monster that jerked logs into her brother's chute. To starboard was maude fast a like scow. That was housed over, a smoking stovepipe stuck through the roof, and a capped and aproned cook rested his arms on the window sill as they floated in. Men to the number of twenty or more clustered about both scows and the Panther's deck, busy with pipe and cigarette and rude jest. The clatter of their voices uprose through the noon mead. But when the donkey scow thrust its blunt nose against the beach the chaff and laughter died into silent, capable action. "A Seattle yarder properly handled can do anything but climb a tree" Charlie had once boasted to her in reference to his own machine. It seemed quite possible to Stella, watching Jack Fyfe's crew at work. Steam was up in the donkey. They carried a line from its drum through a snatch block ashore and jerked half a dozen logs crosswise before the scow in a matter of minutes. Then the same cable was made fast to a sturdy fir, the engineer stood by, and the ponderous machine slid forward on its own skids, like an up ended barrel on a sled, down off the scow, up the bank, smashing brush, branches, dead roots, all that stood in its path, drawing steadily up to the anchor tree as the cable spooled up on the drum. A dozen men tailed on to the inch and a quarter cable and bore the loose end away up the path. Presently one stood clear, waving a signal. Again the donkey began to puff and quiver, the line began to roll up on the drum, and the big yarder walked up the slope under its own power, a locomotive unneeded of rails, making its own right of way. Upon the platform built over the skids were piled the tools of the crew, sawed blocks for the box, axes, saws, grindstones, all that was necessary in their task. At 1 o'clock they made their first move. At 2 the donkey had vanished into that region where the clute head lay, and the great firs stood waiting the slaughter. By midafternoon Stella noticed an acceleration of numbers in the logs that came hurtling lakeward. Now at shorter intervals arose the grinding sound of their arrival, the ponderous splash as each leaped to the water. It C. B. BURKE was a good thing, she surmised, for Charlie Benton. She could not see where it made much difference to her whether ten logs a day or a hundred came down to the boomsticks. A shadow darkened the door, and Stella looked around to see Jack Fyfe. "How d' do," he greeted. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA He had seemed a short man. Now, standing within four feet of her, she perceived that this was an illusion created by the proportion and thickness of his body. He was, in fact, half a head taller than she, and Stella stood five feet five. His gray eyes met hers squarely, with a cool, impersonal quality of gaze. There was neither smirk nor embarrassment in his straightforward glance. He was, in effect, "sizing her up" just as he would have looked casually over a logger asking him for a job. Stella sensed that and, resenting it momentarily, failed to match his manner. She flushed. Fyfe smiled, a broad, friendly grin, in which a wide mouth opened to show strong, even teeth. "Say," he asked easily, "how do you like life in a logging camp by this time? This is sure one hot job you've got." "Literally or slaughter?" she asked in a flippant tone. Fyfe's reputation, rather vividly colored, had reached her from various sources. She was not quite sure whether she cared to countenance him or not. There was a disturbing quality in his glance, a subtle suggestion of force about him that she felt without being able to define in understandable terms. In any case she felt more than equal to the task of quelching any effort at familiarity, even if Jack Fyfe were, in a sense, the convenient god in her brother's machine. Fyfe chuckled at her answer. "Both," he replied shortly, and went out. Lying in her bed that night, in the short interval that came between undressing and weared sleep, she found herself wondering with a good deal more interest about Jack Fyfe than she had ever bestowed upon—well, Paul Abbey, for instance. She was quite positive that she was going to dislike Jack Fyfe if he were thrown much in her way. There was something about him that she resented. The difference between him and the rest of the rude crew among which she must, perforce, live was a question of degree, not of kind. There was certainly some compelling magnetism about the man. But along with it went what she considered an almost brutal directness of speech and action. Part of this conclusion came from hearsay, part from observation, limited though her opportunities had been for the latter. Miss Stella Benton, for all her poise, was not above jumping at conclusions. There was something about Jack Fyfe that she resented. She irritably dismissed it as a foolish impression, but the fact remained that the mere physical nearness of him seemed to put her on the defensive as if he were in reality a hunter and she the hunted. Fyfe Joined Charlie Benton about the time she finished work. The three of them sat on the grass before Benton's quarters, and every time Jack Fyfe's eyes rested on her she steered herself to resist—what, she did not know. Something intangible, something that disturbed her. She had never experienced anything like that before; it tainted her, roused her curiosity. There was nothing occult about the man. He was nowise fascinating, either in face or manner. He made no bid for her attention. Yet during the half hour he sat there Stella's mind revolved constantly about him. She recalled all that she had heard of him, much of it, from her point of view, highly discretable. Inevitably she fell to comparing him with other men she knew. She had, in a way, unconsciously been prepared for just such a measure of concentration upon Jack Fyfe. For he was a power on Roaring Lake and power—physical, intellectual or financial—exacts its own tribute of consideration. He was a fighter, a dominant, hard bitted woodman, so the tale run. He had gathered about him the toughest crew on the lake, himself, upon occasion, the most turbulent of all. He controlled many square miles of big timber, and he had got it all by his own effort in the eight years since he came to Roaring lake as a hand logger. He was slow of speech, chain lightning in action, respected generally, feared a lot. All these things her brother and Katy John had sketched for Stella with much verbal embellishment. There was no ignoring such a man. Brought into close contact with the man himself, Stella felt the radiating force of his personality. There it was, a thing to be reckoned with. She felt that whenever Jack Fyfe's gray eyes rested impersonally on her. His pleasant, freckled face hovered before her until she fell asleep, and in her sleep she dreamed of him. (TO BE CONTINUED) Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. $1.50 per year in advance. THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. 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Many helpful and enthusiastic speeches were made. Mayor Harry Wood in his usual manner welcomed the delegates to the city, W. B. F. Crowell responded in a most pleasing way. Referring to the present war, Mr. Crowell said "This is our war, our country, and president Wilson is ours and we will stand by him till a change comes." Those of the local talent who took part in the public exercise were Rev M. F. Hughes, Mr. W. D. Ivy, Mrs Julia Clark, Mrs. A. E. Ruford, Miss E. J Ivy, Mr. J. M. Clark and Dr. S. A. Moses. The session was a record breaker as to interest and time. Business was completed in two days instead of four. The session closed Wednesday night with a banquet. Rev. P. H. Kirby one of the oldest citizens of Pittsburgh Co., died at his home in north Danville last Tuesday. Funeral services were held at the Camp Grove Baptist Church. Many of the leading ministers of the city and county were present and spoke highly of the work done by Rev. Kirby. Mrs. Hattie Wood, the sister of Mrs. A. H. Lee, 401 So, Main St., departed this life at her home in Roselle N. J., Aug. 28. Her death was a shock to the family and her many friends. Mr. James Miles, who under went an operation in the General Hospital died Monday evening. His remains were taken to Leesburg, N. C., for in terment. Mrs. Millie Wilson and Little Ruby of W. Broad St., are spending the week in Clarksville, Va., with relatives. Mrs. N. G. Russell of W. Broad St., is spending some time in the country. Mrs. Vivian defombody of Mountain Hill, Va., was in the city the first of the week. Monday afternoon she was the guee of Mrs. E. R. Wilson of So. Main St. She spent the night with Mrs. W. N. Carr of Holbrook Street. Miss Maude Wilson of Holbrook street left the city Saturday for a brief stay in the country. Drs. S. A. Moses, A. A. Galvin, and Rev. M. C. Allen, will attend the Nationa Baptist Convention, which meets in Atlanta, Ga., this week. Rev. J. R. Cooper pastor of Trinity Baptist Church leaves the city Thursday on his vacation. He plans to spend most of his stay in N. J. Mrs. Amanda West of Stokes street returned to the city last week after a three weeks stay at her old home, Hampdne-Sidney. She is almost persuaded to go back to remain. Trinity Baptist Church had its Baptizing Sunday afternoon. A very large crowd was present. Rev. Geo. Coats has held two success ful revivals recently, many professions were made. This week Rev. Coats is celebrating his second anniversary as pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Mrs. Jennet Brewer, who resides on the lower end of broad street sustain ed a very severe injury from a fall last week. She is under the skillful treatment of Dr Winslow. Dr. S. R. R. Wilson and Mr. W. P. P. Yancey were defeated by Mr. H. Gunn and Mr. J. Cooper in the tennis contest Labor Day. The score was, the first game 6 to 3, second game 6 to 0 Misses Ophelia and Lottie Coleman left Saturday for Greensboro, N. C., to visit friends and relatives. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers BIG TIMBER Continued from Sixth Page. "Jack Fyfe is going to in a crew and a donkey, and we're going to ever lastingly up the inwards out of these woods. I'll make delivery after all." "That's good," she remarked, but noticeably without enthusiasm. The heat of that low roofed shanty had taken all possible enthusiasm for anything out of her for the time being. Always toward the close of each day she was gripped by that feeling of deadly fatigue, in the face of which nothing much mattered but to get through the last hours somehow and drag herself wearily to bed. Noon of the next day brought the Panther counting into the bay, flanked on the port side by a scow upon which rested a twin to the iron monster that jerked loss into her brother's clute. To starboard was made fast a like scow. That was housed over, a smoking stovepipe stuck through the roof, and a capped and uprooked cook rested his arms on the window sill as they floated in. Men to the number of twenty or more clustered about both scows and the Panther's deck, busy with pipe and cigarette and rude jest. The clatter of their voices uproarse through the noon meal. But when the donkey sow thrust its blunt nose against the beach the chaff and laughter died into silent, capable action. "A Seattle yarder properly handled can do anything but climb a tree" Charlie had once boasted to her in reference to his own machine. It seemed quite possible to Stella, watching Jack Fyfe's crew at work. Steam was up in the donkey. They carried a line from its drum through a snatch block ashore and jerked half a dozen logs crosswise before the scoop in a matter of minutes. Then the same cable was made fast to a sturdy fire, the engineer stood by, and the ponderous machine slid forward on its own skids, like an up ended barrel on a sled, down off the scoop, up the bank, smashing brush, branches, dead roots, all that stood in its path, drawing steadily up to the anchor tree as the cable spooled up on the drum. A dozen men tailed on to the inch and a quarter cable and bore the loose end away up the path. Presently one stood clear, waving a signal. Again the donkey began to puff and quiver, the line began to roll up on the drum, and the big yarder walked up the slope under its own power, a locomotive unmiceful of rails, making its own right of way. Upon the platform built over the skids were piled the tools of the crew, sawed blocks for the fire box, axes, saws, grindstones, all that was necessary in their task. At 1 o'clock they made their first move. At 2 the donkey had vanished into that region where the chute head lay, and the great fires stood waiting the shaughter. By midafternoon Stella noticed an acceleration of numbers in the logs that came hurting lakeward. Now at shorter intervals arose the grindling sound of their arrival, the ponderous splash as each leaped to the water. It C. B. B. Stella Looked Around to See Jack Fyfe. was a good thing, she surmised, for Charlie Benton. She could not see where it made much difference to her whether ten logs a day or a hundred came down to the boomsticks. A shadow darkened the door, and Stella looked around to see Jack Fyfe. "How d' do" he greeted. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA He had seemed a short man. Now, standing within four feet of her, she perceived that this was an illusion created by the proportion and thickness of his body. He was, in fact, half a head taller than she, and Stella stood five feet five. His gray eyes met hers squerely, with a cool, impersonal quality of gaze. There was neither snarl nor embarrassment in his straight-forward glance. He was, in effect, "slizing her up" just as he would have looked casually over a logger asking him for a job. Stella sensed that and, resenting it momentarily, failed to match his manner. She flushed. Fyfe smiled, a broad, friendly grin, in which a wide mouth opened to show strong, even teeth. "Say," he asked easily, "how do you like life in a logging camp by this time? This is sure one hot job you've got." "Literally or slangily?" she asked in a flipppant tone. Fyfe's reputation, rather vividly colored, had reached her from various sources. She was not quite sure whether she cared to countenance her of not. There was a disturbing quality in his glance, a subtle suggestion of force about him that she felt without being able to define in understandable terms. In any case she felt more than equal to the task of quelling any effort at familiarity, even if Jack Fyfe were, in a sense, the convenient god in her brother's machine. Fyfe chuckled at her answer. "Both," he replied shortly, and went out. Lying in her bed that night, in the short interval that came between undressing and weared sleep, she found herself wondering with a good deed more interest about Jack Fyfe than she had ever bestowed upon—well, Paul Abbey, for instance. She was quite positive that she was going to dislike Jack Fyfe if he were thrown much in her way. There was something about him that she resented. The difference between him and the rest of the rule crew among which she must, perforce, live was a question of degree, not of kind. There was certainly some compelling magnetism about the man. But along with it went what she considered an almost brutal directness of speech and action. Part of this conclusion came from hearsay, part from observation, limited though her opportunities had been for the latter. Miss Stella Benton, for all her polise, was not above jumping at conclusions. There was something about Jack Fyfe that she resented. She irritably dismissed it as a foolish impression, but the fact remained that the mere physical nearness of him seemed to put her on the defensive as if he were in reality a hunter and she the hunted. Fyfe Joined Charlie Benton about the time she finished work. The three of them sat on the grass before Benton's quarters, and every time Jack Fyfe's eyes rested on her she steered herself to resist—what, she did not know, Something intangible, something that disturbed her. She had never experienced anything like that before; it tantalized her, roused her curiosity. There was nothing occult about the man. He was nowise fascinating, either in face or manner. He made no big bid for her attention. Yet during the half hour he sat there Stella's mind revolved constantly about him. She recalled all that she had heard of him, much of it, from her point of view, highly discertable. Inevitably she fell to comparing him with other men she knew. She had, in a way, unconsciously been prepared for just such a measure of concentration upon Jack Fyfe. For he was a power on Roaring Lake and power-physical, intellectual or financial—exacts its own tribute of consideration. He was a fighter, a dominant, hard bitten woodman, so the tale ran. He had gathered about him the toughest crew on the lake, himself, upon occasion, the most turbulent of all. He controlled many square miles of big timber, and he had got it all by his own effort in the eight years since he came to Roaring lake as a band logger. He was slow of speech, chain lightning in action, respected generally, feared a lot. All these things her brother and Katy John had sketched for Stella with much verbal embellishment. There was no ignoring such a man, Brought into close contact with the man himself, Stella felt the radiating force of his personality. There it was, a thing to be reckoned with. She felt that whenever Jack Fyfe's gray eyes rested impersonally on her. His pleasant, freckled face hovered before her until she fell asleep, and in her sleep she dreamed of him. (TO BE CONTINUED) Subscribe to The Richmond Planet, $1.50 per year in advance. THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED TO THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY OF THE $25.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET CABINETS MAY BE HAD IN OAK, MISSION OR MAHOGANY. NO. 1 HAS A POWERFUL SINGLE SPRING MOTOR AND WILL PLAY TWO 10- OR ONE 12-INCH RECORD ON A SINGLE WINDING NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED WITH A MOTOR GUARANTEED TO PLAY FIVE 10-INCH RECORDS ON ONE WINDING. THIS MACHINE HAS NEEDLE CUPS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN EXPENSIVE MACHINES. TURN-TABLES 10 INCH DIAMETER. 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THAT'S JUST THE REASON I WANT TO GET HER STARTED SO I CAN GO TO TOWN AND GET SOME . SATURDAY Sept. -- 8 HE PLANET ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE, VA. September 4.—Mr. R. W. Chiles, 230 Fifth avenue, who sometime ago took the civil service examination has been notified that he was successful. He is now in the railway service and declined to accept. Mr. James Ferguson, of High street died Monday and the funeral took place from the home this afternoon at three o'clock. Mrs. W. A. Roberson, 411 Ninth avenue, N. W. left for Pittsburg, where she will make her home for awhile with her husband, Mr. J. W. Roberson. In memory of my loving sister, Mary Mary Elizabeth Clark, who died one year ago, September 6th. Though twelve months have passed, our mind is still fresh from the wound and sore that death, the monster of the soul, has made and the only consolation that comes to us is that if we trust and obey, some day we shall meet over the way, where parting will be no more and good-bye will not be heard, when we shall pass over the river and rest in the shade. Her sister, Mrs. W. A. Roberson, 411 Ninth avenue, N. W. Mr. Robert N. Burrell, 626 Eleventh avenue has been visiting in Chicago for the past two weeks. Mrs. Sarah C. Shorts, 1110 Tyler street, Richmond, Va. is in the city and will spend the week with her friend, Mr. Avey Clark of Gilmer avenue. The many friends of Mrs. Shorts were glad to learn of her being in the city after a short absence but a favorable and successful change. Mr. W. R. Simms, of the general passenger agent's office, made a flying trip to Cincinnati, O. He had a pleasant stay and returned to his post feeling much refreshed by the change of scenery. Little Gladys Stanfield, the daughter of Mr. W. O. and Mrs. Gertrude Stanfield, left the city Saturday for Columbus, O., where she will enter school, September 4th. Miss Mary Farley and Mrs. Jemilna V. Brown and her two children are in the city from an extended trip to Columbus, O., visiting their aunt, Mrs. Anna Harris, of Halifax, near Cluster Springs. On their return they visited their life-long friends, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poindexter, of Glimer avenue, N. W. They dined with Mr. M. and Mrs. Catherine Stanfield, 154 Weis Alley, N. W. Rev. T. J. King, D. D., of Richmond preached Sunday morning and night, at the High Street Baptist Church to an overwhelming audience at each service. His text at eleven o'clock was, "Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching. Subject, A Wonderful Redemption. The sermon at night was most inspiring and edifying to all who listened to this wonderful prelate. The people seemed to take on new vigor for the work that awaits them. A prayer meeting committee was appointed to conduct two meetings per week for the next two weeks, after which a battle would be pitched against the forces of sin and Satan. The Deacons of the church very readily fell in line with Rev. King to put on a revival in the church for the saving of souls for the Master. This is the noblest and highest aim of the church in the world. The Minute Men's Club was successful in raising $152, for which Dr. King highly complimented them. Several joined the church Sunday, two in the morning and five or six at night, which was encouraging. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Patterson left last Sunday morning for Columbus, O. where they will spend the week visiting friends. The funeral of Brother George Smith, of Fourth avenue, took place Friday evening at three o'clock at the First Baptist Church, of which he was a faithful member. He was an Odd Fellow of high rank and was also captain of the Patriarchic, No. 110, L. O. O. F. Rev. E. P. Ricks, officiating minister made a very beautiful discourse on the life and character of the deceased victor and hero, as he had Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers lived a true soldier and died at his post. Rev. L. L. Downing, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church made a splendid talk by way of instruction to the Odd Fellows in attendance, for which it is hoped may have a lasting impression on their minds, of the necessity of preparing for the change of worlds. Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D. preached Sunday morning and night, administering the Holy Sacrament at morning service. He spoke at night from the prophecies of the Prophet Isaiah, from which he made a very strong discourse. Rev. Haynes filled the pulpit with credit to the occasion last Sunday morning at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Hicks is out of the city assisting in a great revival in Tidewater. Mr. William E. Tucker, of Norfolk avenue was shot Sunday night by a man named William Scott. He was taken to Romoke Hospital, where he died from effect of the wounds. Mr. Judge Golddie has returned from Kingsport, Tenn., where he spent two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Penn have returned from Bedford, where they spent the week visiting. WANTED—A good man to fill the place as janitor for the Oriole Apartment. Strictly reliable, $25 per month. Apply at 22 Seventh avenue, S. W., Dr. B. C. Keister. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rosee Banks on Upper Harrison and left a fine bouncing girl Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Dugger left Monday for Halifax County, where they will spend their vacation visiting relatives and friends. Leave your order for the colored papers with Dugan's stand. Mrs. George Noe, of Knoxville, Tenn., who has been visiting her husband in the city, returned to home Monday, where she will resume her work as matron at the Deaf and Dumb Institute. Mrs. Hattie Hickman left this week for Now Castle, Pa., where she will visit Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis and Mr. J. A. Hickman. Mr. James Hughes, of Harrison avenue returned from Chicago, Ill Mr. and Mrs. S. C. White returned from a two weeks stay in Boydton and North Carolina. where he spent two weeks visiting. Mrs. Edna Penn, of 128 Patton ave nue. N. W. has returned from Winston-Salem, N. C., after a two weeks visit. Mr. Chris. H. Leftwich, better known as "Barney Oldfield" left for Mercersburg, Pa. Tuesday on a pleasure trip with his car. He will return Monday. Miss Sarah Gurthie, of Bluefield, W. Va. spent three days in the city enroute home from the St. Luke convention at Richmond. Dr. H. J. Moseley, one of our Magic City pharmacists, was in attendance at the National Medical Association last week in Philadelphia and reports a large and enthusiastic convention. Dr. S. F. Williman and Dr. L. C. Downing, two of our prominent physicians were also in attendance. Drs. Williman and Downing also visited Atlantic City, N. J., while Dr. Moseley visited New York. We gladly welcome the boys home. Dr Moseley was elected chairman of the Pharmaceutical Section, we were informed. Mr. Jim Cuff was married to Mrs. Lucy Anderson on Sunday last. Mrs. Casey is still confined to her bed. Miss Leo Craggget, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Craggget died August 31st and was buried at Vinton Cemetery on September 1st. Mr. Joe Banks left on yesterday, for Washington, D. C. to visit his parents. The Helping Hand Home Society held its regular meeting at the home of their president, Sister Georgia Hairston. There were thirty members present. After having a most excellent business meeting, the prizes were awarded to the members bringing the highest number of members. The prize winners were Sister Octavia Guthrie, who brought in ten new members and Sister Lucy Day, who brought in seven new members. The club has received about twenty-five new members in all. They are looking forward to their annual sermon which will be preached at the Hill Street Baptist Church next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. After the meeting they were served to luncheon, which was enjoyed by all. The Helping Hand Home Society will have their annual sermon preached at the Hill Street Baptist Church by their pastor, Rev. Powell, Sunday, September 9, 1917. All are asked to be present to know something of the work of the club. If you have not heard of this club before be sure to come so that you will know something about it. President, Georgia Hairston, Secretary, Mary A. Robinson. Sunday, September 2nd was a THE RICHMOND PLANET splendid day at the Hill Street Baptist Church. The pastor, Rev. D. R. Powell preached two excellent sermons during the day. Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. were largely attended. Rev. Powell reports a very pleasant trip. During his stay of ten days he visited Baltimore, Washington and King George, at which place he attended the Association. On Monday, September 3rd, the picnic of the Hill Street, Sweet Union and the Jerusalem Baptist Sunday Schools was quite a success. It was largely attended. Everything passed off peacefully. Everyone reported as having had an enjoyable day in Stewartsville, Va. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER Little Willie On the Road.—Leaving Roanoke Monday, August 27th at noon, for the Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd Fellows, which met in Danville were R. F. Tate, W. F. (Ding 10) Hughes, representing the two lodges of the city; Mrs. R. E. Harth, representing the Household of Ruth and Little Willie, the Deputy District Grand Master of Virginia. Arriving at Lynchburg, it was only a few minutes wait before we boarded a Southern railway train and were on our way to the City by the Dan. On board the Southern we found many delegates from Northern Virginia on their way to the same meeting. As we journeyed toward Danville we passed several sections of soldier trains on their way from Southern training camps. Arriving in Danville, at 5:20 P.M. we found a committee waiting with autos to rush the delegates to Odd Fellows Hall where homes were assigned. Little Willie had been assigned with the other grand officers to the home of I. M. Clark, Esq., chairman of the local committee of arrangements. I found on arrival at my home for the session, Hon. A. T. Shirley, District Grand Secretary; T. S. Bagnall, Grand Treasurer; Rev. Binford, Grand Director and Ex-Grand Master J. W. Barnes, already there awaiting my arrival. Our home with Brother Clark was one of the most handsome we have had the pleasure of calling ours at a garnd lodge session for sometimes. His family is a lovely one, kind and obliging, and two beautiful daughters (single) that attracted most of my attention while not at business meetings. The Grand Lodge opened Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, in the High Street Baptist Church. The Household of Ruth had their session in that church while the Odd Fellows met in Odd Fellows' Hall, just across the street. Public opening program was as follows: Call to order by District Grand Master, acting as master of ceremonies: devotional exercises; welcome address on behalf of the citizens of Danville by His Honor, Harry Wooding. Sr., Mayor of the City; response by Major W. B. F. Crowwell, D. D. G. M.; welcome address on behalf of the Old Fellows of the city by P. N. F., W. D. Ivy; response by P. N. F., Prof. B. T. Parsons; welcome address on behalf of the Households of Ruth by P. M. N. G., Mrs. Julia Clark; response by Mrs. Maria B. Hennings, D. M. N. G.; presentation of keys to District Grand Master, by P. N. F., D. H. Hardy, accepted by Rev. J. H. Binford, D. G. D.; presentation of keys to District Grand Most Noble Governor by Mrs. A. E. Buford, P. M. N. G.; accepted by Mrs. Hannah L. Johnson, D. G. W. T.; presentation of gavel to District Grand Master by P. N. F., M. Clark; accepted by T. S. Bagnall, D. G. T.; presentation of gavel to District Grand Most Noble Governor by Miss E. J. Ivy; accepted by Mrs. A. Lavton, D. G. D. The welcome of His Honor, the Major was among the bes heard at one of our meetings. After the public meeting the Grand Lodge was called to order in Odd Fellows' Hall and we got down to business, breaking all former records in the state by finishing all business in two days and adjourned by 6:30 o'clock on banquet Wednesday night. Our old friend, George W. Rison served the banquet, which was voted the best ever, as only George can do. The reports of the Grand Officers showing large increase in both membership and finance, larger than any previous year, the body was so well pleased that the entire board of officers was re-elected as follows: Grand Master, Col. R. T. Stewart, Newport News; Deputy Grand Master, Maj. J. W. B. P. Crowell, Roanoke; Grand Secretary, A. T. Shirley, Herndon; Grand Treasurer, T. S. Bagnall, Norfolk; Grand Director, Rev. J. H. Hinford, Richmond; Grand Auditor, Frank D. Banks, Hampton, Newport News was selected as next place of meeting. There never was a more peaceful meeting of any grand lodge, everybody was happy and only good-will prevailed at all times. Many returns of such good fellowship and harmony among the brothers in Friendship, Love and Truth. On our arrival home, we learned with much regret of the death of Cap- tain George W. Smith, of Roanoke Patriarchie, No. 110. His funeral was held from First Baptist Church Friday, at 2:30 P. M., conducted by the Odd Fellows. Dr. Ricks, pastor of the church delivered a powerful sermon, full of consolation for the living and bringing tears for the dead. The Patriarchie in full dress conducted the service at the grave. Captain Smith was a Christian genius, loved by all who knew him; a hard worker for his church and order. He will be missed by both, but forgotten by neither. For his bones, rest; for his soul, peace, perfect peace. On last Tuesday, Lord Buick, (Dr. C. F. Gaylord.) Dr. Oscar Davis, of Charleston, W. Va., Buddie Smith, of Roper, N. C., (wherever that is) and Little Willie, in Lord Buick's big touring car with ample supply of cigars, cigarettes and mountain soda, started on a long drive. Leaving the Gaylord Drug Store at four P. M. we drove out by Kingstown and out to Hollins by Williamson Road and on to Cloverdale to Troutsville, then to Cloverdale, back by way of Amsterdam and to Salem by old Rock Road, where we stopped for more refreshments, then to Roanoke by Raleigh Court road and to the Cafe of George Simpson, where we had lunch and I forgot to say in our party was Chief Bales, who weighs only 305 pounds. The girl who served us said if Chief Bales had been present when the multitude was fed with five loaves and three fishes, there would not have been twelve baskets full left; any child could have carried the leavings away in his pocket, for Chief says, "There ain't gwine to be no leavings." After lunch we loaded up in the car again and drove to Strackey, Va. and back, then out to Blue Ridge Springs and pulled up at starting point at 11:15 P. M., dusty but happy over such a pleasant trip, covering in all, 168 miles, destroying over 10 gallons of gasoline, about 2 quarts of oil, about same amount of mountain soda with no way to keep tab on cigars, cigarettes, or amount of chicken put away by Budie Smith and Chief Bales. We left Dr. Davis singing, "Dear Old Girl From Cascade Mountain??" Progressive Whist was the game at the home of Mrs. Crawford, 37 Gilmer avenue, N. W., Monday September 3, from 3 to 7 o'clock P. M., in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Grattan Shorts, of Richmond, Misses Pearl Kyles and Willette C. Smith, of Richmond, and Mrs. Mable Burton, New York City. Those present aside from guest of honor mentioned above were, Mrs. Alice Dent, Mrs. Avey O. Clark, Mrs. L. Alirell, Miss Sarah Foster, Miss Bessie M. Crawford and Miss Pearl Edwards'. Gents, Charles Thompson, W. O. Hiekman, Edward Allen, Daniel Webb, Harold Jones, William Buffet, John W. Ewell and W. B. F. Crowell. A delightful ice course was served at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Avey O. Clark won the ladies' prize and Little Willie the gents' prize and the person making the lowest score was handed a lemon; this fell to the lot of Mr. J. W Ewell, who never got higher than the second table, but spent most of his time in the corner at table No. 3, taking to his partner like a card shark in a game of seven-up. But our friend Ewell was game. He took his lemon as presented by Miss Smith of Richmond, in a neal speech and said he would add five more to that one and invite the party to call at the office of the American Beneficial and have a cold lemonade on him. Little Willie has promised to see that Mr. Ewell makes good and he (Little Willie) will see that Miss one of the Richmond girls, will get her part. This lady is trying to make Little Willie believe that there is nothing to the saying of Fatty Arbuckle, "Nobody loves a fat man." I hope she is right. I'm ready to be convinced. Look out next week, some straight talk coming. Yours, LITTLE WILLIE. —Miss Mabel C. Bailey of 210 First street N. W., is home again after spending a month's vacation. While away she visited relatives and friends in Lynchburg, Danville, Boydton, Lawrenceville, Elwood, Suffolk, Va. —Miss Floria E. Davies of 912 Monroe St., Lynchburg Va., and Miss Marie T. Moorman of 435 W. Thomas St., Danville, Va., are the guests of Miss Mabel C. Bailey. We hope for them a pleasant stay while in our city. — Mrs. Katie L. Carpner, has returned from a very pleasant trip to Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia. 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. Comic Ca GOLDING!! I WISH I COULD GET HER STARTED INTEREST IN ANNUAL MEETING. Delegates From Massachusetts to California. Hillburn, N. Y. Aug. 27, 1917. Dear Editor:— Many of the letters coming to my desk daily from various places in the south contain sad and pathetic stories relative to the oppressive conditions under which many of our people have to live. In quoting from some of them, I shall not mention name lest by so doing, I might bring added persecution on our already evasive oppressed people. A well known clergyman in _____ time to get together? A. B. Cosey, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "Received your very elegantly composed 'Call' for the Convention. Indeed it is very timely called, and at a very suitable place. If I can serve you in any way, advise me. If I can find the Convention, representing a part of Brooklyn." Mr. Wm. H. Scott of Woburn, Mass., writes: "Send me a number of copies of the Call which you sent, calling the Race Congress to New York City next month. I want to use them in getting Woburn together. We are living in critical times * * * Thank God the colored people are waking up. Your call is magnificent! It should be the means of stirring up the Race as never before and the Congress should do great good." Mr. ——, of ——, Texas says in a pitiful letter: Another prominent minister writes from —, S. C., saying: "I would say that I am planning to be in the tenth annual meeting of the National Equal Rights League on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of September. Please therefore send me at your earliest convenience the special Ry rates and any other matter of detail, and the like, that you think would be necessary for me to have." In a lengthy and illuminating communication from Santa Barbara, Cal, the Rev. r. D. Pettigrew says: "I have just read your splendid call to Colored Americans all over the country, to meet in a National Congress. I am glad to tell you that I most heartily endorse both the manner and spirit in which it is made. The time has fully come when we must come together and council and organize. I shall be glad to be with you at the Congress. And lastly but not cast. Editor Trotter, of the Boston Guardian, writes: "Your work is great. Send me 500 copies of the Call." I was in N. Y. City yesterday and found interest in the coming League and Congress meetings 'increasing with much enthusiasm among all classes of Colored Americans. Yours for Free m, B. GUNNER Y. M. O. A. NOTES. Last Sunday was special day for the soldiers with the Y. M. C. A. The Sunrise Prayer Meeting at 6 o'clock sharp at the Y. N. C. A., found the men on time and it was an hour that will go down in history. Every man was happy. 9:30 A. M. the workers met at the Y. M. C. A. and held a meeting that was well attended. Committeeman C. B. Gaston, gave the boys an address that will not be forgotten very soon. Mothers we thank you. Y. M. C. A. 4 P. M. 3:30 P. M., the last call was made in interest of the soldiers who are to be off to the camp. Rev J. C. Stephenson made the call at the Hood A. M. E. Church next' to the Armstrong High School. It was a very strong message. Women and men were present. Others made some very timely remarks. The music by the choir of the church went to the heart of every body. We call upon all to remember the soldiers. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come out to the meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman B L. Allen will address the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers you are invited to send your boys. All men are inled to the open meeting 5:30 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. Subject: For The People Had a Mind to Work. Come and bring the other man. On time. Live music. Watch for the place and date when Season for the work will be launched. The Y. M. C. A. needs the prayers of every home so do not forget her. A. H. Rev. W. E. Pettus' Vision of the Holy Bible. God Almighty wants me to preach the Gospel because the world cannot be saved by preaching law. Jesus Christ, God's Only Son, fulfilled the law and the prophets together with the historical and poetical books and gave us the New Testament in His own blood to redeem man from the power of the law and said whosoever believe in me shall not perish but have everlasting life, to live and nev- DINWIDIE Normal & Indus Dinwiddie, Vi Fall Term Opens On COURSES OF STUDY—Grammar S Stonography, Music, Domestic Science, S Stock Raising, Blackamith GRADUATES Get State Certificates to Tee Fine Table Board, Comfortable Faculty Unsurpassed, The Good Discipline. Board and I $9 per Month For Further Information Principal W. E. 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Address all mail to MADAM JOHNSON BOX 453 AGENTS WANTED BOX 453 AGENTS WANTED—WRITE FOR PARTICULARS 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 universal democracy.—Bishop W. D. Chappelle. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. TEN CENTS THE COPY We are charged to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the world will be saved I am an independent Gospel minister, ordained by Jesus Christ to preach the everlasting Gospel of peace wherever man is found. General office, 1700 Second Street Road, Richmond, Va. Hours of prayer, 7 to 9 daily. Bible class Thursday evening. Preaching Sunday evening. Subject for September 9th "The Church A. Thousand Years Behind the Time." Come and hear MIDDIE Industrial School Virginia October 3, 1917 Ear School, Normal and Industrial E, Sewing, Poultry Raising, Pig and Smithing, Agriculture Teach Without Further Examination Table Rooms, Healthy Section Thorough Training, Bed Room for Girls $8; Boys Month Information. Address Hard, A. B., Dinwiddie, Va. 1920 N, Louisville. Ky. D—WRITE FOR PARTICULARS of Democracy. PRESIDENT WILSON BY RICHMOND Virginia THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 43 LOTT CAREY CONVEN TION MET HERE BAPTISTS HOLD GREAT FOREIGN MISSIONARY CONVENTION Fine Session in Ebenezer Baptist Church—Many Able Ministers Attend The Lott-Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States met Wednesday morning, August 29 1917 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Rev. W. H. Stokes, D. D. pastor. Some of the leading Baptist divines of the country were present. Rev. Dr. C. S Brown of Winton, N. C., is President and he presided with his usually ability The welcome addresses were delivered by Drs. Z. D. Lewis, E. Payne and W. H. Stokes representing respectively the Baptists of the State, city and church, Dr. C. S. Brown, of Winton, N. C., is president and Dr. A. W. Pogues is recording secretary, of Raleigh, N. C. Dr. W. M. Alexander of Baltimore, is corresponding secretary. The responses were delivered by Drs. C. C. Somerville, of Portsmouth, Va., O. S. Simus, of Pittsburg, Pa., and E. E. Ricks of Roanoke Va. A LARGE DELEGATION. The delegation to this convention is the largest in the history of the convention. Many distinguished visitors were introduced and spoke to the convention. Among these were Colonel Young, of Raleigh, N. C., F. D. Lee, attorney at law, Washington, D. C., Roy Abraham Tyler, who has spent thirty-seven years as a missionary, in Liberia, West Africa and others. The afternoon session was given over the rosses of the president, Dr. C. S. Brown, and Dr. W. M. Alexander, corresponding secretary. PRESIDENT BROWN'S REMARKS President Brown, in discussing the present world conditions as a challenge to the church, made this declaration: "Distressed as we are with a war, which, in point of cruelty, brutality and destructiveness was never equaled, involving more or less all the civilized nations of the world, and which may mean the melting together of all the races of men; jinked, tied and belted together by telegraph, telephone, railroad and various other means of communication, the world was never better prepared to receive Christianity than now." ARMY SMALL In referring to the missionary workers he said that the army on the frontier is lamentably small and their equipment exceedingly poor. He brought the large delegation to a very high pitch of enthusiasm when he mentioned the frontier force, viz: Hayes, Thomas, Gale, Boone and Mrs. Thomas, in Liberia, West Africa, and the eight workers in the republic of Haiti. He made a strong plea that these mission workers be given more adequate support in their operations. LIBERIA'S CENTENNIAL Dr. Brown called the delegates attention to the fact that Liberia will celebrate her centennial in 1931 and urge upon our convention because of the fact that the society bears the name of one of the founders of this republic that it begin now to plan to take a leading part as a convention in this movement. He then called attention to the excellent opportunity which is afforded in Haiti and spoke of the wonderful resources of this island and the dire need of the gospel of Jesus Christ. DR. ALEXANDER'S REPORT Dr. W. M. Alexander, in his very comprehensive report, reviewed the year's work and made one of the best reports which he has ever made to the convention, setting forth its activities as being in very excellent condition. Ho distributed his report to the delegates in j mphilte form. This convention is devoting its efforts to the work of foreign missions and spends a very large proportion of its funds to the support of the missionaries. The Rev. J. C. Taulton, of Donora, Pa., preached the sermon Wednesday night to a very large and appreciative audience. THE WOMEN'S MEETING Mrs. J. H. Randolph president of Washington, D. C., held its morning and afternoon sessions at the Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Dr. R. V. Peyton pastor. At Elenezie Colonel James H. Young of Rarleigh, discussed the "Layman's Place" in Missionary Work" and Rev. R. J. Lanson, of orkfoll discussed the "Local churches to Foreign Missional." At one afternoon service the consideration of "The Press and Foreign Mission's" "Dr. D. W. H. Stokes, editor of the Lott-Carey Herald took place, Dr. A. B. Vincent, editor of the Scarcehlight and Dr. C. C. Somerville editor of the vigil, and others spoke." DR PEYTON'S WELCOME At the Sixth Mt. Zion church the women were welcomed by Dr. R. V. Peyton, pastor of the church, and Mrs I. A. Hope, Responses were by Mrs M. M. Waldron, Washington, D. C.; Mrs T. S. Eaton, Henderson, N. C.; and Mrs P. I. Anderson, of Pennsylvania Mrs. Randolph delivered her annual address in the afternoon. Mrs A. L. McGuinn, corresponding secretary, and Mrs J. H. Blackwell, treasurer, made their addresses. The principal address was delivered by Mrs L. M. Mehane, of High Point, N. C., The sermon to the women was preached Wednesday night at the Ebenezer baptist church by Dr. W. M. Alexander, of Baltimore. DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED. Six Colored Soldiers in Recent Clash at Waco, All Sentenced to the Federal Penitentiary, San Antonio, Tex. September 3.— Six Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infantry, who clashed with the civil police and the troops sent to subdue them at Waco on the night of July 29, were found guilty of violation of the ninety-third article of war before the genera clourt-martial held recently at Camp McArthur, Waco. 5 of the men were sentenced to five years of hard labor in the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. The sixth man received ten years All were sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the service and to forfeit all pay and, allowances due or to become due while in confinement under the sentence. The findings of the court-martial which were given out, have been forwarded to the War Department at Washington. HANDLING THE NEGRO TROOPS. People will wonder why the regular Negro troops have not already been sent to France. Negro troops are among the best fighters in the world, but everybody knows they have to be handled very carefully in ordinary times to prevent their clashing with white people. These usually have quite insignificant beginnings, and for that reason no preparation is made for them; and we must do the Negro the justice to say that it is not always his fault. There is no use in our trying to conceal the fact that some white people go out of their way to do a Negro an ill turn; Negroes have to hear a great deal of this sort of thing. It is not always an easy matter to get at the real merits of a case of this kind But the Negro ought to be treated justly, even if he has a black skin. It is not right that the whites should make all the sacrifices. In order to effect this, Negroes must, of course, be trained as soldiers, and have guns and ammunition in their keeping. Knowing the danger of race clashes, however, our officials should be exceedingly careful in the selection of the men who are to command the Negro troops and pick men who have had careful training along this line, and who are known to be alert officers, and just last rigid disciplinarians. As we have laid before as a rule outherners; could we be assigned to this work. Southern men who have commanded Negroes, prefer to command them, declaring, if treated justly but firmly, they are as doleful as children, and quick to respond to command. Those of us who have been in close contact with Negroes all our lives know this to be true. The War Department seems not altogether blameless in this last matter. Secretary Baker, was warned that trouble might be expected, and he might have laid emphasis on taking the utmost care in handling the Negro troops at this crisis and have cautioned those in command not to leave any opening for trouble. No evidence has appeared so far that the War Department gave the matter any special attention, engrossed as it was with seemingly more important things. Send the Negro regulars at once to France, and give them something to do that will employ them and we shall hear no more of such occurrences. They are superb fighters and they would make record against the Germans. (Staunton, Va., Leader, Aug. 28, 1917.) ```markdown ``` —Mrs. P. M. B. Hodge has returned to her home in Danville, Va., after attending the Sunday School Convention at Fredericksburg, Va., and the Lott Carey Convention at Richmond, Va. Her many friends regret that her stay was so short. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917. BISHOP DEFENDS THE COLORED SOLDIERS SUSPEND VERDICT ON HOUSTON RIOT, IS PLEA. Bishop Smith of A. M.E. Church Says Snap Judgment Not Warranted. ( Detroit Free Press, Aug. 27, 1917.) To the Editor: The drastic tone of your editorial in Saturday's Free Press, ucent the recent disturbance in Houston, Texas, was a painful surprise to me, being quite in contrast with the usual temperate character of your utterances. There are so many currents and counter-currents of a disturbing nature in evidence that this is no time for hasty utterances. Public judgment should be suspended until all the material facts in the unfortunate and regrettable occurrence have been fully investigated and the result made known by the war department. The stories emanating from Houston are one-sided and reflect the prejudices of the dominant element in Houston instead of the facts in the case. A Negro 1.. military uniform is as exasperating to the average Texan as is the face of an enraged bull. When the Titanic disaster was reported, it was said Mr. Andrew Carnegie lacemically inquired; "What was she doing up there anyway?" having reference to the extreme northern course the ship had taken. It is equally pertinent to inquire, why were the Negro troops sent to Texas anyway particularly those of the regular army? Has the remembrance of the Brownsville affair entirely faded from public memory? Is it so soon forgotten that but a few days ago publicity was given to the report that Negro troops were in the chase with the authorities of Waco Texas, ... did they include that event during the Spanish American war are still fresh in my memory—the threat to dynamite a train load of Negro regulars by the dominant element of Texarkana, Ark., and the merciless assault made on a train load of Negro volunteers at Nashville, Tenn., while en route from Chattanooga to Cincinnati. SUSPEND JUDGMENT IS PLEA Hon. Joe H. Eagle, M. C., for the Houston district, in a dispatch to the secretary of war said; "Without stating who it is to blame, it is clearly a race riot and is a tragedy sufficient to compel the statement that it is a tragic blunder to send the Negro troops 15 southern camps." Who is to blame for this tragic blunder? The Negro troops went to Houston in obedience to the orders of their superiors whose right it is to direct their movement. A race riot? Yes, and that statement coming from a Congressman on the ground and the chosen representatives of the dominant element of Houston, ought to be sufficient to induce the public to suspend judgment for the time being. President Wilson made a trenchal statement in a speech in Philadelphia to the effect that "A man may be too proud to fight." With equal force it may be said that a man may be too manly to continually submit to extreme brutal treatment. Even the patient ox may be goaded to desperation. The fact is the white race by precipitating a world-war has turned man's earthly abode into a vortable hell, and there is no telling when the fires of damnation will be extinguished or what elements will be consumed while they are raging. If plain speaking is in order let both sides be heard. Nothing that I have written is to be construed as indicating the least desire on my part to condone any infraction of discipline by the Negro troops in question. Let no guilty man escape. With a sad heart MARRIAGE RECEPTION Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams announce the marriage reception of their daughter, Miss Josephine and Mr. Jesse Labough. Thursday evening Sept. 13, 1917, from 8:30 to 11:00 o'clock at the residence, 1411 Ross St. Friends are invited, 1411 cards. DAVIS—HARRIS Mrs. Williana Harris Coleman announces the marriage reception of her daughter, Mabel Virginia Harris and Mr. Walter T. Davis, on Monday evening, September seventeen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from 8:30 to 11:30; at 16 East Leigh street, Richmond, Va. Friends are invited. Let Cephas do your Renting. Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Tele- phone. Randolph 588 PERSONALS AND BRIEFES Mrs. Rebecca Doyle Spiller is dangerously ill at this writing. Mrs. Amelia Jones, of 200 West Twenty-first street, South Richmond, is indisposed. Dr. J. H. Blackwell, Jr., has returned from his extended Northern trip. Rev. M. Jones of Pamplico, S. C., was ordained and called to the Spring Branch Baptist Church, Florence Co., near Parapat, S. C., June 28, 1917. Miss Mamie Coleman, of South Richmond returned recently from a trip to Boston, Mass., where she spent her vacation. Mrs. Susie Robinson, of South Richmond, has returned to the city after a pleasant stay of two weeks, visiting friends in Fredericksburg and Appomattox. Mr. John H. Jones left the city Tuesday for Powhatan county, Va., where he will spend ten days visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones. Miss Ruth Brooks has returned to her home in South Richmond after spending a month visiting friends and relatives in New Jersey. Major James H. Ammons, Jr. and Mr. Willie (Slim) Moore are spending their vacation visiting Northern cities. They will visit New York. —Miss Marietta L. Cailles has returned to the city after having visited Berryville, Va. Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Newark, N. J., and New York. —Miss Goldie Debbress and Mrs. Edna Coles have returned to the city after having visited Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York. Mrs. Miles C. Debbress is now visiting relatives in New York. —Dr. Miles B. Jones and his Madame took a party of friends on a touring trip to Washington, Philadelphia and Atlantic City and New York in Dr. M. B. Jones' care. —Dr. J. Mercer G. Ramsey toured to Philadelphia and Atlantic City in his Overland car. —Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Farrar and their daughter, Miss Leah have returned from Cleveland, where they spent a pleasant time. —Mr. Robinson Davis returned last week from Brooklyn, N. Y. where he completed a course of instruction in the Mergenthaler Linotype Factory. He made a fine record. —Mrs. S. G. Denny, who has been indisposed has recovered and has been visiting her former home in Tennille, Ga. -Mrs. Bessie Langhorne Carr, accompanied by her three children, is the guest of her borer Mr. Montgomery Langhorne at Roanoke, Va. Rev. W. J. Lucas, pastor of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Newport, R. I. attended the session of the Lott Carey Convention that convened in this city last week. Before his return to Newport, he will visit his mother in Louisa, Va. Mr. Armistad Washington and his wife Mrs. Gor-rude A. Washington left last Sunday Sept. 2, for an extensive trip through the West. Their plans are to visit Cincinnati, Cleveland Ohio and other large cities of the West. They will not return home until they shall have gone to the great Convention which meets in the city of Muskogee Oklahoma. We wish for them a joyful trip and that they may return home al right. We feel that we are expressing the hearts wish of hundreds of people, who expressed their love and friendship during the recent marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Washington. Miss Ruth Robinson has returned from a ten days visit to Keysville, Va. Mr. Robert Alexander has just returned from a trip to Loxington, Va. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Brown are visiting their son in Boston. Mass. They report having a pleasant time. Mrs. J. Andrew Bowler and her daughters, Misses Elyn and Antoinette were in Dr. M. B. Jones' party visiting Washington, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York. WANTED—At once, Colored Stevedores at Newport News, Va. for the United States Army. Good pay and all expenses paid. This includes $30.00 per month, board, lodging, clothing, etc. Apply at Recruiting Station, 820 E. B. Broad St, Richmond, Virginia Let Cephas do your Renting. Offices 535 1-2 North Second street. Telephone, Randolph 588. BARRETT CASE BEFORE THE PUBLIC CONFLICTING CLAIMS MADE IN BARRETT CASE. Hundley Says Newspapers are Trying to Undermine Authority of the Courts. SeventeenYear-Old Negro, Without Counsel or Jury, Sentenced to Death for Coming to Father's Rescue Says Attorney Lancaster. Unless a stay is obtained from the Virginia Supreme Court or a further appeal for executive clemency is made, Albert Barrett, the Negro coarged with the murder of W. T. Ronch, a Charlotte County farmer, will he executed to-morrow morning at the State Penitentiary. Governor Stuart said last night that counsel for the Negro had had no further conference with him, and that as the case stood, the man would pay with his life the penalty for the crime of which he was convicted. Unlike his son, he had a jury trial, and was represented by counsel, and the Governor has expressed an unwillingness to question the facts as passed upon by the jury. In order that he might inquire at length into the facts of the case, the Governor has granted a thirty-day respite to the younger Negro, Aubrey Barrett, and his execution has been postponed from to-morrow morning until September 28. In granting the respite, however, Governor Stuart made it plain that he had not looked into the merits of the case, but had granted the stay of execution that he might have sufficient time in which to conduct an inquiry into the various assertions made by interested parties. APPEAL MADE TO SUPREME COURT FOR ELDER BARRETT Counsel for the elder Barrett are making an effort to secure an appeal from the Supreme Court on the ground that no premeditation was shown in the case, such as is necessary for a legal conviction of murder in the first degree. They point to the fact that the prosecution admits that Roach attacked the elder Barrett, and that the son came to the aid of his father with a heavy stick. The circumstances are said to preclude the possibility of the killing having been premeditated. It is also asserted that the jury fixed no penalty, but merely found the elder Barrett guilty whereupon he was sentenced to death by Judge Houldley. There is no record of the court proceedings, but the testimony has been assembled from memory and has been written out. Judge F. W. Sims, of the Supreme Court, was petitioned for a writ of error, but refused, and the case was then presented to Judge M. P. Burks. Upon his refusal efforts were being made late last night to reach Judge R. R. Prentis, William H. Lancaster, of Farmville, counsel for the elder Barrett at his trial was in Richmond yesterday in the interest of the appeal. Associated with him in the last-minute efforts to save the lives of the father and son 1 Harry M. Smith, Jr., of this city. Directly conflicting statements were issued yesterday in the case of Aubrey Barrett. Barrett whose exaction has been stayed 20 days by Governor Stuart, admits part in the killing, but says he came to the rescue of his father. The older Negro had counsel and was tried by jury. Appeal has been made to the Governor for investigation of the boy's case on the ground that he did not have a jury trial, was not represented by counsel, and has now no means of noting an appeal to the Supreme Court. Judge George J. Hundley, who presided at the trial, in a signed statement issued yesterday, defen the court procedure, denounces the accused, and attacks the newspapers as trying to "undermine and discredit the authority of the courts." He refers to State Senator Walter E. Adison, of Lynchburg, and others who have laid the facts in the boy's case before Governor Stuart as "officious intermediers," and says that "any ignoramus or crank can at his will besmirch the reputation of any judge, and have the newspapers spread his slanders broadcast over the State." Judge Hundley now in his eightieth year, is regarded as one of the most distinguished men on the bench in Virginia. He served in the Confederate army and later in the State Senate, and was elected to the bench in 1898. WATKINS AND LANCASTER DISAGREE AS TO FACTS Judge A. D. Watkins. of Farmville, who was acting Commonwealth's attorney, in a signed statement asserts positively that the boy Aubrey (Continued on Fifth Page.) (Continued on Fifth Page.) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. A New Lodge at Berryville, Va. Berryville, Va., August 30.—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr., accompanied by Dr. E. R. Jefferson, Rev. L. J. Morris and Col. R. C. Mitchell, arrived here last evening via N. & W. R. R., coming through Washington. Miss M. L. Chiles, G. W. R. of Deeds of the Grand Court, Order of Calanthe was also with them. OFFICERS INSTALLED A lodge of Knights of Pythias was instituted with the following officers: Chancellor Commander, Stephen Green; Vice Chancellor, J. W. Edwards; Master of Work, Paul Williams; Prelate, Rev. S. S. Spriggs; Keeper of Records and Seal, H. C. Dixon; Master of Finance, J. L. Davis; Master of Exchequer, Rev. J. W. Thomas; Master-at-Arms, C. H. Hill; Inner Guard, David Dolman; Outer Guard, Randall Page; Trustees, D. P. Layton, John Edwards, Christopher Laws. The initiation was a success in every particular. The work was done on schedule time, much to the delight of the visitors. A large delegation came over from Strasburg by automobile, which is over thirty-five miles away and others came from Winchester, just ten miles away. MANY VISITING KNIGHTS The following visitors were present: From Strasburg—Sirra T. H, Byrd, E. H Robenson, C. E. Nickens, B. W. Willis, Kennie Mitchell, Tim Lee, E. J. Thompson, Heywood Fletcher, J. L. Nickens, G. W. Hollis, Richard Cary, J. F. Boyd, H. J. Lee, J. F. Smith, H. B. Baltimore, L. L. Cyrus, Omar Thompson. From Winchester came Sirs Mayhow B. Cooke, D. J. Dennings, William H. Lowls, C. W. Hall, D. C. Colbert R. V. Cooley, H. Cooke, Perry Catlett, J. W. Tullett, Charles N. Myors, R. L. Grey, Charles N. Myors, R. Walker, B. Trawkins, Earl Byans, James Maufield, William G. Armstead, Daniel Long, H. E. Ransome, H. W. Bartlett, William E. Laws. BANQUET SERVED A magnificent repast was served at the conclusion of the ceremonies. Grand Chancellor Mitchell complimented Deputy T. H. Byrd, of Strasburg upon his work here. Under the instruction of Miss Chiles the ladies have gone to work organizing a club for the Court. While here the visitors were served elegant meals at the home of Sir Paul Williams, under the splendid management of his Madam, Mrs. Mary P. Williams, ably assisted by their daughters, Misses Meurete and Blanche E. The party left this morning. Visitors To Our Office Mrs. H. L. Jones, New York City; Mrs. Lavinia Henry, Clerk in Afro-American Office, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. L. E. Higginbotham, Mrs. Jennie Fields, Mrs. Mattle Mullon, Lynchburg, Va., Mrs. Mary J. D.augass, Washon, D. C., Mrs. Ellen B, Randolph, Richmond, Va., Mrs. Susie Morton and Mrs. Lula Peek, Roneevere, W. Va., Miss P. R. Middleton Washington, D. C., Miss M. Beamon, Hampton Va., Missos Erma L. and Effie L. Caskie, Richmond, Va., Mr. J. R. W. Perry, Norfolk, Va., Mr. C. W. Jordan, Suffolk, Va., Mrs Octavia Parker, Baltimore, Md. Rev. H. C. Cary, Washington, D. C., Rev. J. C. Taulton, Donora, Pa., Rev. W. A. Mason, Monongahela City Pa., Rev. J. R. Saunders, McKeesport, Pa., Rev. R. B. Cobb, Fairmont W. Va., Rev. H. Chas. Pope, Woodby, N. J., Rev. R. E. Deps, Connellville, Pa., Mr. Amail Chambers, Vanderbilt, Pa., Rev J. E. Rodgers, Norfolk, Va., Rev. Alexander Gordon, Philadelphia, Pa., Rev. Nelson Jordan farmville Va., Rev. W. H. Gray, Abingdon, Va, Rev. R. G. Adams, Ports-Va., Mrs. Rowenaea Lynchburg, Va., Mrs. Lizzie B. Green, Newport News, Va. FOR SALE! Desirable homes on good terms- Suburban and City—Ready money to loan. BRAGG BROS. & CO., 506 N. Second street. Splendid Jackson Ward bargain, on Leigh street, always rented for $240 year will sell for $1800. Jacson Ward store more than $10,000 yearly receipts; fixures alone cost more than price asked; good fresh stock; he quick. J. R. Pollard, Atty.. 504 N. 3rd. St. WANTED—A Good Barbor at once! 60 cents on a dollar. Apply to JESSH M. TURNER, 83 N. Main street, Harrisonburg, Va. PRICE, FIVE CENTS ELKS HAVE GREAT TIME IN CLEVELAND THE CAPITAL CITY LODGE AGAIN WINS HONORS. Virginians Jubilant—Order Is In A Prosperous Condition. Capital City Lodge, No. 11 marched up Broad St., from the Byrd St., Station last Sunday afternoon led by the Municipal Band and a crowd of admirers to the Eliza Home on North Second St. It brought with it the hundred Jollar prize from the annual convocation at Cleveland and every body was happy. It also captured the position of Leading Esteemed Knight, the second highest position in the Order and Andrew J. Brown, the successful contestant wore a satisfied smile with the rest of his associates who had secured that honor for him. James T. Carter of Williams Lodge No. 11, who was re-elected Grand Treasurer was also happy. He had made a fine record and no one had the heart to oppose him GRAND EXALTED RULER SCOTT PRESIDES The annual meeting was held in Cleveland, O. August 28, 1917. Grand Exalted Ruler Armond W. Scott presided. At the opening exercises he was assisted by Past Grand Exalted Ruler T. Gillis Nutter of West Virginia. Religious exercises were conducted, after which committees on credentials and the Order of the Day were appointed. Nearly 300 delegates were present from all parts of the county. After recess, when the body re-convened, other committee appointments were completed. A smoker was given to the visitors on the evening of the 29th at the Gray's Armory. On Monday night the format open. In place at one of the largest white churches on Euclid Ave. Here the local citizens met and greeted the delegates. GRAND PARADE TOO One of the largest parades in the history of the Order took place on the afternoon of the first day. It was then ascertained that Capital City Lodge, No. 11 had the largest number of men in line from the farthest place. It accordingly was awarded the prize $100.00. The picture of the Lodge in line with their umbrellas appeared in one of the daily papers. The Elk's Ball was given at Dreamland Hall, one of the prettiest halls in the country. One thousand persons were present. The reporters showed that the total membership of the Order approximated 13,000 and the cash in the treasury amounted to $9,000.00. A few years ago the Order was unable to pay its current expenses. UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED Armond W. Scott, Esq., was unanimously re-elected Grand Exalted Kuler and George Bates of New Jersey, Grand Secretary. BANDS OF CALANTHE AT MT CARMEL SUNDAY, THE 9TH. The Annual Thanksgiving Exercises of the Bands of Calanthe will be held at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, North First Street, Sunday evening, September 9, 1917, at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. B. D. Caffe, the pastor will address them. A fine program will be rendered by the children. The members of the Bands will meet in the basement of the church. Members of the Order of Knights of Pythias and the Courts of Calanthe are cordially invited to be present. The Pythian Cadets will be out as an escort of honor. Thessalonian Class Installs Officers The officers of Thessalonian Class, of the Fifth Street Baptist Sunday School were installed Friday night, August 31, at the residence of the teacher, Roscoe C. Mitchell. The installation address was made by Miss Lillie Grey.Many interesting numbers were rendered, among them a complimentary recitation by Mr. John R. Coghill. The following are the officers for 1917-18: President, Miss Lillian Crump; Vice President, Miss Sarah Henderson; Secretary, Miss Mary Clark; Assistant, Miss Beulah Warden; Treasurer, Miss Frances Seay; Pianist, Miss Ruth Pollard. After a short address by Superintendent R. H. Fauntleroy, a collation was served by Miss Robecca T. Mitchell and others. Birdnesten Sta. Va., Aug. 28, 1917.—Rov. F. B. Mitchell and wife of 46 Warren street Byrne Mawr, Pa., visited Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wilkins, last week. Leaving on Friday morning for Riedham. We wish them a pleasant trip TWO THE SPLIT COLORED MAN REMOVED TO PREVENT LYNCHING. William H. Burgess Is Charged With Attempted Assault on Two Women in Fairfax County. William H. Burgess, thirty-two years old, of Halls Hill, Fairfax County, a Negro towering over six feet and having rather a vicious face, breathed a deep sigh of evident relief last night when the heavy doors of the Henrico County Jail shut him in from the out side world. The prisoner's left hand was heavily banded, and he was suffering from a shot through the palm, inflicted by officers from Sheriff Allison's office in Fairfax County before they affected his arrest on Saturday. Burgess is said to have confessed to an attempt to attack Mrs. Mildred Miller and Miss Mary Davis in Alexandria County on Friday. Burgess was brought to Richmond for safekeeping on the order of Governor Stuart, when the Governor was told over the long-distance wires by Sheriff Allison of Fairfax and Sheriff Fields, of Alexandria County that there was danger of the Negro being lynched. "There will be no lynching in Virginia in this instance," said the Governor, and ordered the prison 3 sent to Richmond at once. Sheriff Allison arrived with him on the 9:50 train last night. It was admitted by the officer who escorted the Negro to Richmond that the people of Fairfax and Alexandria Counties were greatly wrought up by the alleged attempts of the prisoner, and so intent was Sherif Allison in carrying out the strict provisions of Governor Stant's demands to safeguard the prisoner, that the Negro was escorted to the train between a squad of fifty soldiers. Richmond citizens had not been apprised of the grave crimes attempted by the Negro, and no excitement was caused at Elba Station, when Sherif Sydnor and Chief of Police T. Wilson Seay, of Henrico County, met the Fairfax Sheriff and the prisoner there and transferred the Negro to the Henrico County Sheriff's automobile. Heavily handeuffed, the Negro was soon at the jail. When asked several questions by a reporter for The Times Dispatch, the prisoner made no reply and stared at the floor, Sherif Sydnor explained that he had been told not to talk by the officers. BURGESS TO BE INSANE It was learned that many people in Alexandria County, and in Fairfax County consider Burgess insane. It was stated that he recently had been released from jail after waiting several weeks for trial on a charge of committing a statutory crime, Sheriff Allison while declaring that he wished to alay all danger of a lynching in Virginia, admitted that Burgess had confessed to him his attempt to attack both of the women. The confession was said to have been made by the Negro while the Sheriff was taking him from Clifton, where he was caught to Fort Myer Heights. It was sided that the alleged attack of the Negro occurred at the home of Mrs. Miller in Alexandria County, Friday afternoon. She was alone and she fought valiantly. Wrenching herself free from the Negro, she called for help, and he is said to have fled precipitately when he saw a vehicle approaching. The search for Burgess began immediately. Blood-hounds were brought from Oceocean workhouse. They picked up the Negro's trail and followed it to his hiding place. When he was driven from cover he ran, and was shot in the hand. It appears, the sheriff said, that the attempted attack on Miss Davis was made by the Negro while he was run running away from the Miller home. Mrs. Miller was struck in the mouth by the Negro when she fought him, and two of her teeth were knocked out. Her lip was lacerated by the blow. Miss Davis was not struck, it seems, but the Sheriff said she was still unconscious from the shock of the attack BROUGHT HERE BY DIRECTION OF GOVERNOR STIANTI Burgess has a wife and two children at Halls Hill. He is said to have gone to work for the Southern Railway near Fairfax on last Wednesday. He stayed just two days and left with out asking for his pay. The attack on Mrs. Miller is said to have occurred soon after he had left his job. Governor Stuart took charge of the case early yesterday, so far as directions went, and in every instance the Governor told the law officers that there was to be no lynching "I have saved the lives of several men and guaranteed to them the constitutional privilege of trial by jury," said the Governor last night, and added. "I have told sheriff Sydnor and his assistants that they must take care of the prisoner intrusted to their care and the sheriff will have the entire aid of the Governor in the premises." The death of William Page, who was lynched at Lillian Va., near Heathsville, on August 15, was the first case of lynching in Virginia in eighteen years. The last lynching prior to the Page case was during the administration of Governor J. Hoge Tyler, when a Negro was lynched near the town of Emporia. (Times-Dispatch, Aug. 27, 1917.) THE COURTS DISCRETION. "It was murder in the first degree and I so declared it. The punishment under the law followed automatically. The judge has not the discretion which a jury has in such cases of giving a life sentence." This paragraph is from Judge Hundley's first statement regarding the sentence of the 17-year old Negro boy, Aubrey Barrett, to the electric chair. It is a very important paragraph. Upon it hangs much of the argument in this distressing case. When the Negro boy pleaded guilty, without counsel it was to the indictment, which indictment charged murder. The court then declared the murder to be of the first degree, whereas if the boy had not pleaded guilty, the commonwealth would have been forced to prove the crime murder rather than manslaughter. When the boy surrendered the presumptions in his favor, "the punishment under the law followed automatically." So says the court. And to make the point perfectly plain, Judge Hundley explains that the court could not do as a jury might have done—substitute imprisonment for death as a punishment. Nothing could be plainer, more positive and less subject to contradiction than this statement from the judge who presided at the trial. The court had absolutely no alternative to sending the boy to the electric chair—that is the definite and unequivocal statement of a verteran jurist who had presided over criminal cases for more than twenty years. in the face of these words from Judge Hundley and with all deference to his superior knowledge of the law. The News Leader wishes to state that Judge Hundley did have discretion in this case, that he has unintentionally mistaken his powers, and that he could have imposed a sentence more in keeping with the age and ignorance of the prisoner. We trust we have made this statement as unequivocal as was that of Judge Hundley, and we are prepared to prove our contention to the satisfaction of any man: In the first place how old is Aubrey Barrett? Admittedly between 16 and 17 years of age. Even if the date of his birth cannot be fixed with precision, the Negro is conceded by all to be under 18. Being under 18, the boy comes with in the provisions of the act of 1914 (chapter 350, p. 696.) which act was passed primarily to protect persons of immature years from the extreme penalties of law. According to this act, "a child under 18 years of age who violates a law of this state" is classified as "delinquent." Under the same act, "every court of record of general criminal jurisdiction or the judge thereof in vacation" (as well as the police and justice courts) is "authorized and empowered" in its discretion to "commit to the care and custody of the state board of charities and corrections, or of any society, association or reformatory approved by the state board of charities and corrections any child who shall be proven to be delinquent. And to make assurance double sure, the law further provides that when a child has been sent on to the grand jury, "the court to which the child is so sent shall, after the trial is had in conformity with the requirements of law, have, if the child is guilty of crime, the power to act under the provisions of this statute as to the disposition of the child." in other words, its plaintive judge can define a proceeding at law by statutes of this commonwealth say to when a child is tried and found guilty of crime, the court can commit that child to the state board of charities to a reformatory—at its discretion. The very discretion which Judge Hundley insists he did not have is specifically vested in him by statute. Nor can it be claimed for an instant that this statute does not apply to cases of murder. Here in Richmond and elsewhere in the commonwealth the records of our courts will show that boys—Negro boys at that—have been tried for murder under this act, and instead of being sentenced to the electric chair, have been sent to the reformatory which the state maintains for deliquid boys. We venture the assertion that the admission books of the Negro reformatory will show at least half dozen boys now in that institution who were duly convicted of murder but were sent there, rather than to the electric chair. This law is not mandatory. A justice can still send a child under 18 to the grand jury, which, in turn, can indict. A court of record may try, a jury may convict and a court may sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary or to legal execution, provided only that the child is over 12 years of age. But we are not discussing mandatory laws. We are discussing a discretion which Judge Handley states he did not possess—but a court which, in actual fact, is less open to dispute than the right of a court to sentence a prisoner to death without a jury trial. We do not charge Judge Hundley with any intentional misstatement of his powers. On the contrary, we are certain that he either had forgotten the law we have cited or else had never had his attention directed to it. And this is not at all unlikely or necessarily discreditable when we remember that the act is recent and bears a lengthy title which, at a glance, would not indicate that it works a very important reform in judicial procedure. But the fact remains that the court had the discretion, could have used it and consequently can no longer take the position that the sentence of this Negro boy to death was unavoidable. (Richmond Va. News Leader, Aug 31, 2017.) DO YOU KNOW HER? Communicate with undersigned attorney of Washington, D. C., an learn of something to your interest. State if you can come to Washington ton in September if necessary. ATTORNEY B. W. J. Care PLANET, Richmond, Va. HOTTENTOT Will relieve almost any severe pain in less than one hour. Its fine for Neuralgia. Rheumatism, Sore Mouth, Eic. Price, $1.00 per bottle by Parcel Post. Address, C. Dearman, P. O. Box 183, Tulsa, Okla. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA WHY THE PRESS INTERVENED With the greatest respect for Judge Hundley's integrity both in his private and public capacity, his knowledge of the law and his fairness in its interpretation, we still think he is in error in protesting against the appeal from his decision in the Aubrey Barrett case. Granted that he had no recourse but to pronounce sentence, after the boy had entered a plea of guilty, neither the law nor his court is in the least danger of contempt because of the thirty-day respite accorded by Governor Stuart to permit investigation of the facts involving the young Negro in the Roach murder. The press, which he seems to think is misusing its power, has only one desire: to see justice done. In view of the controversies which have arisen, to have remained silent while the boy went to his death would have been an exhibition of moral turpitude of unforgivable proportions. Considering the rasped state of mind, collectively, of the colored race, due to recent deplorable proceedings in the north and in the south, too, alas, it would have been most impolite; to say the least to have ignored the testimony tending to show mitigating circumstances attaching to the younger Negro's allegation share in the crime. But it was not a question of racial policy that swayed the press of Virginia to urge the governor to take official cognizance of the affair; it was solely because it was realised that the judicial atmosphere might have been unconsciously affected by the high feeling engendered locally, to the detriment of the younger prisoner. Virginia's good name might have been impugned had the boy's sentence be carried out without heed to the charges so earnestly affected and the differences of opinion known to be held, even at the scene of the crime, in regard to the lad's measure of guilt. As it is the governor, impartially, wholly removed from local prejudices, can go over the evidence and determine whether in his opinion, the young Negro's sentence shall be imposed or be commuted. That is not only his prerogative, but his sworn duty; and, even if his decision should be contrary to the verdict of the court, it is inowise to construed as a reflection on the trial judge. If that view were taken every time a higher court reversed the opinion of a lower tribunal the judiciary would be in a continual turnover. Possibly, it would have been better if a change of venue had been allowed in the trial of the Barretts. Feeling was strong, naturally, in Charlotte county, and when a community is justly incensed over a great wrong the desire for vengeance is prone to transcend the awarding of strict justice. (Richmond, Va. Evening Journal, Aug. 30, 1917.) MILITARY RULE IN HOUSTON COMES TO AN END. Proclamation Declaring Martial Law Off Issued Sunday Night by General Hulen, on Orders From Major General Bell—Will Be No Further Trouble—Local Investigation Completed The restrictions on open saloons and places of business where arms, ammunition and explosives are sold are withdrawn. All business houses, saloons and pool halls closed by request the early morning of August 24, are at liberty to open for their usual business at the usual or legal hour Monday, August 27, 1917. The exercise of martial law in Harris County will cease at 10 o'clock A. M., August 27, 1917. By direction of Major General Bell, JOHN A. HULEN, Brigadier Gen. After having been under martial law for almost four days as a result of the uprising of Negro soldiers Thursday night Harris county will be released from military rule Monday morning at 100'clock. All United States soldiers which have been stationed over the city as guards since the night of the trouble will be with drawn and civil authorities will again assume control. The last of the Negro rioters was captured Sunday by a Negro civilian and turned over to the police. "There will be no further trouble. These were the words of Major George Bell, Jr., in command of the Thirty-third division of the United States army, when interviewed Sunday night, "The people of Houston are in no more danger now than they are every day of their lives," he said. "The fact that a company of Negroes members of the Illinois National Guard, are stationed at Camp Logan should not worry anybody. They will cause no trouble. In the first place they have no ammunition and can not obtain any, and in the second place I will see to it that they are kept under control." WILL MAKE NO RECOMMENDATIONS General Bell stated that after reaching here Saturday and finding the conditions that existed as a result of the riot he had thought of recommending to the war department that the Eighth Illinois infantry all Negro troops, he not sent here. "But I have decided to make no recommendations," he continued. If I should recommend that they be sent elsewhere, the impression would be given that I was afraid I could not control. I do not want to leave that impression with officials at Washington, for I can control them and if the war department wants them trained at Camp Logan that's where they will be trained—and there will be no trouble.' General Bell explained that usually a regiment of Negro troops is stationed in a training camp, along with a complete division of white troops, which makes a preponderance of whites about six or seven to one. "There is really no reason why Negro troops should not be trained in the South, he said. "They must do their proportionate part in the war with Germany, the same as any of the rest of us. and, of course, will have to be trained. If the government wants them trained in the South there is no reason why they should not be trained here with out a particle of trouble. There are scores of Negroes employed here to Houston in almost every line of work, and no trouble is experienced wilt them. I am not prepared to say what caused the trouble Thursday night, but I do know that if Negroes are properly handled they can be used anywhere. "It is abanduce to believe that just be cause a bunch of lawless Negroes took things into their own hands for a few minutes that all Negroes who might be brought here would cause trouble. If a murder should occur on a certain street that would be no justification for the street being closed permanently to prevent further murders, and the same principle is involved in regard to the Negro troops." WILL HAVE FULL AUTHORITY. When asked whether, in case of future trouble he would have the authority to declare Houston under martial law, General Bell said significantly: "Martial law or no martial law I will have full authority to quelc any trouble, and the people may rest assured that I will not mince matters if anything is started." General Bell said that he found the construction of Camp Logan a great deal further advanced than he had expected it to be, and that as far as he has seen it is a very good site for a training camp. He is especially pleased with the great number of shade trees which have been left among the mess halls and on the sites for the company quarters. "There is plenty of ground without trees for drill purposes," he said, "and the trees which have been left where the men will pitch their tents will be gratifying to them, especially during this warm weather." Work is in progress on the division headquarters and as soon as things are in order General Bell and his staff will move to the camp permanently. He said Sunday afternoon that he expects to be in his new quarters not later than Tuesday or Wednesday. Investigation of the causes of the riot were completed Sunday by Colonel George O. Cress, inspector of the Southern department, who arrived in Houston Saturday. He left Sunday night for San Antonio, where he will report the result of his findings to the Southern department commander after which he said he expected to be ordered at once to Columbus, N. M., to take the testimony of the Negro troopers who were involved in the afair. Colonel Cress was assisted in the work Sunday by United States District Attorney John E. Green, Jr., in that the latter furnished witnesses in his investigations had showed were elites at the seat of the trouble when it was in progress or had information on different phases of the affair. ALBERT BARRETT PAYS DEATH PENALTY. Final Efforts to Stay Execution of Charlotte County Man Without Avail. Judge Hundley Willing to Trust Case to Governor Stuart, and Indicates That He will Not Oppose Exercise of Executive Clemency. Albert Barrett, sentenced to death for the murder of W. T. Roach, a Charlotte County farmer, will pay the death penalty for his crime at the State Penitentiary this morning at 7 o'clock. Governor Stuart although he granted a respite to the son, Aubrey Barrett also under sentence of death for complicity in the crime, refused to take any action in the case of the elder Barrett. The Governor gave as his reason that the father had the services of an attorney, and was tried by a jury in the lower court, and if any steps were to be taken, the proper means would be by way of a petition to the Supreme Court. Four of the five members of the Supreme court have refused to grant a writ of error in the case and all efforts to save Albert Barrett or to stay his execution seem to have failed. It is understood that even the attorneys for the defense have given up hope, and have begun to concentrate their attention upon the case of the younger Barrett. Judge Prentis is the only Supreme Court judge who could now grant a writ of error that would stay the execution of Albert Barrett. Four of his colleagues have already refused to grant an appeal and by their action have indicated their belief that the elder Barrett had a fair trial. The contention of the attorneys for the defense was that the prosecution had failed to show that there had been any premeditation in the murder of Roach, and, therefore, that Barrett did not merit the extreme penalty. When Governor Stuart granted a respite of thirty days to the boy it did not mean that he thought the boy was innocent of any crime. The boy was ignorant, without counsel, and was not tried by a jury. The Governor's action postpones the execution until he has had time to give the case a thorough examination. Judge George J. Hundley, of the Circuit Court of Charlotte County, issued yesterday what he describes as his "last say" in regard to the Barrett case. His signed statement follows: Sir.-In regard to the Barrett case this will be my last say on that matter. Some people seem determined to try that case over again in the news papers. Let that trial proceed. I never try cases in newspapers. The court trial with its records, is behind me. For the integrity of my action I am responsible only to God. For its wisdom, I abide by the judgment of the people whom I serve. The Governor whom I respect and admire, knows that I asked him to keep troops in readiness for my call, to protect that very boy from mob violence, in case, after I heard the evidence, I should think he ought not to be sentenced to death. He knows I told him I would not be dictated to by any mob. I have never failed to appoint counsel to defend persons where the death penalty was involved, but I never have done so, and never expect to do so, where prisoners appear by counsel of their own choosing, employed by or for them, as in this boy's case. I have no power to prevent any one from pleading, guilty and when he does so, the guilt is acknowledged. and no defense an be made. Nothing romains but for the court to ascertain the degree of guilt. As for State Senator Addison, let me say that he needs no defense as your hands. I did not allude to him. I knew his people well in Richmond, and I know his reputation as an able and honorable man. WILLING TO TRUST CASE TO GOVERNOR STUART The snows of eighty winters have not cooled that quality in my blood which rises in 'resout, ent at unfair treatment, nor has it assuaged my intense aversion to ad sham and retense—to a mushy and morbid sentimentality, that in order to accomplish its ends is willing to assal the court and their officers without the slightest justification. Now I want to unite with Judge狄kins in saying that I hope the wise action of certain persons in seeking to have this boy's sentence commuted by an assault upon the action of the court will in no wise hurt the boy's case. We can all trust such a man as Governor Stuart. 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She replied, "Oh no, I WAS ONLY FIXING UP FOR ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES." TWO THE PLANET COLORED MAN REMOVED TO PREVENT LYNCHING. William H. Burgess Is Charged With Attempted Assault on Two Women in Fairfax County. William H. Burgess, thirty-two years old, of Halls Hill, Fairfax County, a Negro towering over six feet and having rather a vicious face, breathed a deep sigh of evident relief last night when the heavy doors of the Henrico County Jail shut him in from the out side world. The prisoner's left hand was heavily burgunded, and he was suffering from a shot through the palm, inflicted by officers from Sheriff Allison's office in Fairfax County before they affected his arrest on Saturday. Burgess is said to have confessed to an attempt to attack Mrs. Mildred Miller and Miss Mary Davis in Alexandria County on Friday. Burgess was brought to Richmond for safekeeping on the order of Governor Stuart, when the Governor was told over the long-distance wires by Sheriff Allison of Fairfax and Sheriff Fields, of Alexandria County that there was danger of the Negro being lynched. "There will be no lynching in Virginia in this instance," said the Governor, and ordered the prison's sent to Richmond at once. Sheriff Allison arrived with him on the 9:50 train last night. ESCORTED TO TRAIN BY GUARD OF FIFTY SOLDIERS It was admitted by the officer who escorted the Negro to Richmond that the people of Fairfax and Alexandria Counties were greatly wrought up by the alleged attempts of the prisoner, and so intent was Sherif Allison in carrying out the stricter provisions of Governor Stuart's demands to safeguard the prisoner, that the Negro was escorted to the train between a squad of fifty soldiers. Richmond citizens had not been apprised of the grave crimes attempted by the Negro, and no excitement was caused at Elba Station, when Sherif Sydnor and Chief of Police T. Wilson Seary, of Henrico County, met the Fairfax Sheriff and the prisoner there and transferred the Negro to the Henrico County Sheriff's automobile, heavily handeffected, the Negro was soon at the jail. When asked several questions by a reporter for The Times Dispatch, the prisoner made no reply and stared at the floor, Sherif Sydnor explained that he had been told not to talk by the officers. BURGESS TO BE INSANE It was jaunned that many people in Alexandria County, and in Fairfax County consider Burgess insane. It was stated that he recently had been released from jail after waiting several weeks for trial on a charge of committing a statutory crime, Sheriff Alabama while declaring that he wished to atlay all danger of a lynching in Virginia, admitted that Burgess had confessed to him his attempt to attack both of the women. The confession was said to have been made by the Negro while the Sheriff was taking him from Clifton, where he was caught to Fort Myer Heights. It was said that the first alleged attack of the Negro occurred at the home of Mrs. Miller in Alexandria County, Friday afternoon. She was alone and she fought valiantly. Wrenching herself free from the Negro, she called for help, and he is said to have fled precipitately when he saw a vehicle approaching. The search for Burgess began immediately. Blood-hounds were brought from Ocoquan workhouse. They picked up the Negro's trail and followed it to his hiding place. When he was driven from cover he ran, and was shot in the band. It appears, the sheriff said, that the attempted attack on Miss Davis was made by the Negro while he was running away from the Miller home. Mrs. Miller was struck in the mouth, by the Negro when she fought him, and two of her teeth were knocked out. Her lip was lacerated by the blow. Miss Davis was not struck, it seems, but the Sheriff said she was still unconscious from the shock of the attack. BROUGHT HERE BY DIRECTION OF GOVERNOR STATUE Burress has a wife and two children at Halls Hill. He is said to have gone to work for the Southern Hall way near Fairfax on last Wednesday. He stayed just two days and left with out asking for his pay. The attack on Mrs. Miller is said to have occurred soon after he had left his job. Governor Smart took charge of the case early yesterday, so far as directions went, and in every instance the Governor told the law officers that there was to be no loaching. "I have saved the lives of several men and guaranteed to them the constitutional privilege of trial by jury," said the Governor last night, and added "I have told scriiff Sydnor and his assistants that they must take care of the prisoner intrusted to their care and the scriiff will have the entire aid of the Governor in the premises." The death of William Page, who was lynched at Lillian Va., near Heathsville, on August 15, was the first case of lynching in Virginia in eighteen years. The last lynching prior to the Page case was during the administration of Governor J. Hoge Tyler, when a Negro was lynched near the town of Emporia. (Times-Dispatch, Aug. 27, 1917.) THE COURT'S DISCRETION "It was murder in the first degree and I so declared it. The punishment under the law followed automatically. The judge has not the discretion which a jury has in such cases of giving a life sentence." This paragraph is from Judge Hundley's first statement regarding the sentence of the 17-year Negro boy, Aubrey Barrett, to the electric chair. It is a very important paragraph. Upon it hangs much of the argument. In this distressing case. When the Negro boy pleaded guilty, without counsel it was to the indictment, which indictment charged murder. The court then declared the murder to be of the first degree, whereas if the boy had not pleaded guilty, the commonwealth would have been forced to prove the crime murder rather than manslaughter. When the boy surrendered the presumptions in his favor, "the punishment under the law followed automatically." So says the court. And to make the point perfectly plain, Judge Hundley explains that the court could not do as a jury might have done—substitute imprisonment for death as a punishment. Nothing could be plainer, more positive and less subject to contradiction than this statement from the judge who presided at the trial. The court had absolutely no alternative to sending the boy to the electric chair—that is the definite and unequivocal statement of a verteran jurist who had presided over criminal cases for more than twenty years. In the face of these words from Judge Hundley and with all deference to his superior knowledge of the law, The News Leader wishes to state that Judge Hundley did have discretion in this case, that he has unintentionally mistaken his powers, and that he could have imposed a sentence more in keeping with the age and ignorance of the prisoner. We trust we have made this statement as unequivocal as was that of Judge Humdley, and we are prepared to prove our contention to the satisfaction of any man: In the first place how old is Aubrey Barrett? Admittedly between 16 and 17 years of age. Even if the date of his birth cannot be fixed with precision, the Negro is conceded by all to be under 18. Being under 18, the boy comes with in the provisions of the act of 1914 (chapter 350, p. 696.) which act was passed primarily to protect persons of immature years from the extreme penalties of law. According to this act, "a child under 18 years of age who violates a law of this state" is classified as "delinquent." Under the same act, "every court of record of general criminal jurisdiction or the judge thereof in vacation" (as well as the police and justice courts) is "authorized and empowered" in its discretion to "commit to the care and custody of the state board of charities and corrections, or of any society, association or reformatory approved by the state board of charities and corrections any child who shall be proven to be delinquent. And to make assurance double sure, the law further provides that when a child has been sent on to the grand jury, "the court to which the child is so sent shall, after the trial is had in conformity with the requirements of law, have, if the child is guilty of crime, the power to act under the provisions of this statute as to the disposition of the child." other words we please. Justice can define a proceeding at law, the duties of this commonwealth say that when a child is tried and found guilty of crime, the court can commit that child to the state board of charities or to a reformatory—at its discretion. To a very discretion which Judge Hundley insists he did not have is specifically vested in him by statute. Nor can it be claimed for an instance that this statute does not apply to cases of murder. Here in Richmond and elsewhere in the commonwealth the records of our courts will show that boy—Nerro boys at that—have been tried for murder under this act, and instead of being sentenced to the electric chair, have been sent to the reformatory which the state maintains for deliquent boys. We venture the assertion that the admission books of the Negro reformatory will show at least half dozen boys now in that institution who were duly convicted of murder but were there, rather than to the electric chair. This law is not mandatory. A justice can still send a child under 18 to the grand jury, which, in turn, can indict. A court of record may try a jury may connect and a court may sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary or to legal execution provided only that the child is over 18 years of age. But we are not discussing mandatory laws. We are discussing a discretion which Judge Handley states he didnot possess, but a discretion which, in actual fact, is less open to dispute than the right of a court to sentence a prisoner to death without a jury trial. We do not charge judge Handley with any intent misstatement of his powers. On the contrary, we are certain that he either had forgotten the law we have cited or else had never had his attention directed to it. And this is not at all unlikely or necessarily discreditable when we remember that the act is recent and bears a lengthy title which at a place, would not indicate that it works a very important reform in judicial procedure but the fact remains that the court had the discretion, could have used it and consequently can no longer take the position that the sentence of this Negro boy to death was unavoidable (Richmond Va. News leader, Aug 31, 1977). DO YOU KNOW HER? Communicate with undersigned attorney of Washington, D. C., an learn of gomthing to your interest. 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The press, which he seems to think is misusing its power, has only one desire: to see justice done. In view of the controversies which have arisen, to have remained silent while the boy went to his death would have been an exhibition of moral turpitude of unforgivable proportions. Considering the rasped state of mind, collectively, of the colored race, due to recent deplorable proceedings in the north and in the south, too, alas, it would have been most impolite; to say the least to have ignored the apparent testimony tending to show mitigating circumstances attached to the younger Negro's allegation share in the crime. But it was not a question of racial policy that swayed the press of Virginia to urge the governor to take action because of the affair; it was solely because it was realized that the judicial atmosphere might have been unconsciously affected by the detriment of the younger prisoner. Virginia's good name might have been impugned had the boy's sentence been carried out without heed to the charges so earnestly faced and the differences of opinion known to be held, even at the scene of the crime, in regard to the lad's measure of guilt. As it is the governor, impartially, wholly removed from local prejudices, can go over the evidence and determine whether in his opinion, the young Negro's sentence shall be imposed or be committed. That is not only his prerogative, but his sworn duty; and, even if his decision should be contrary to the verdict of the court, it is inowise to construed as a reflection on the trial judge. If that view were taken every time a higher court reversed the opinion of a lower tribunal the judiciary would be in a continual turnover. Possibly, it would have been better if a change of venue had been allowed in the trial of the Barretts. Feeling was strong, naturally, in Charlotte county, and when a community is justly incensed over a great wrong the desire for vengeance is prone to transcend the awarding of strict justice. (Richmond, Va. Evening Journal, Aug. 30, 1917.) MILITARY RULE IN HOUSTON COMES TO AN END. Proclamation Declaring Martial Law Off Issued Sunday Night by General Hulen, on Orders From Major General Bell—Will Be No Further Trouble—Local Investigation Completed. The restrictions on open saloons and places of business where arms, ammunition and explosives are sold are withdrawn. All business houses, saloons and pool halls closed by request the early morning of August 24, are at liberty to open for their usual business at the usual or legal hour Monday, August 27, 1917. The exercise of martial law in Harris County will cease at 10 o'clock A. M., August 27, 1917. By direction of Major General Bell, JOHN A. HULEN, Brigadier Gen. After having been under martial law for almost four days as a result of the uprising of Negro soldiers Thursday night Harris county will be released from military rule Monday morning at 100'clock. All United States soldiers which have been stationed over the city as guards since the night of the trouble will be with drawn and civil authorities will again a same control. The last of the Negro rioters was captured Sunday by a Negro civilian and turned over to the police. "There will be no further trouble. There were the words of Major George Bell, Jr. in command of the Thirty-third division of the United States army, when interviewed Sunday night. "The people of Houston are in no more danger now than they are every day of their lives," he said. "The fact that a company of Negro members of the Illinois National Guard, are stationed at Camp Logan should not worry anybody. They will cause no trouble. In the first place they have no gunmobility and can not obtain any, and in the second place I will see to it that they are kept under control." WILL MAKE NO RECOMMENDATIONS General Bell stated that after reaching here Saturday and finding the conditions that existed as a result of the rid he had thought of recommending to the war department that the Eighth Illinois infantry all Negro troops be no sent here. "But I have decided to make no recommendation," he continued. If I should recommend that they be sent elsewhere, the impression would be given that I was afraid I could not control. I do not want to leave that impression with officials at Washington, for I can control them and if the war department wants them trained at Camp Logan that's where they will be trained—and there will be no trouble." General Bell explained that usually a regiment of Negro troops is stationed in a training camp, along with a complete division of white troops, which makes a preponderance of whites about six or seven to one. "There is really no reason why Negro troops should not be trained in the South, he said. "They must do their proportionate part in the war with Germany, the same as any of the rest of us and, of course, will have to be trained. If the government wants them trained in the South there is no reason why they should not be trained here with out a particle of trouble. There are scores of Negroes employed here in Houston in almost every line of work, and no trouble is experienced witt them. I am not prepared to say what caused the trouble Thursday night, but I do know that if Negroes are properly handled they can be used anywhere. "It is absurd to believe that just be cause a bunch of tawle's Negroes took things into their own hands for a few minutes that all Negroes who might be brought here would cause trouble. If a murder should occur on a certain street that would be no justification for the street being closed permanently to prevent further murders, and the same principle is involved in regard to the Negro troops." WILL HAVE FULL AUTHORITY. When asked whether, in case of future trouble he would have the authority to declare Houston under martial law, General Bell said significantly: "Martial law or no martial law I will have full authority to queer any trouble, and the people may rest assured that I will not mince matters if anything is started." General Bell said that he found the construction of Camp Logan a great deal further advanced than he had expected it to be, and that as far as he has seen it is a very good site for a training camp. He is especially pleased with the great number of shade trees which have been left among the mess halls and on the sites for the company quarters. "There is plenty of ground without trees for drill purposes," he said, "and the trees which have been left where the men will pitch their tents will be gratifying to them, especially during this warm weather." Work is in progress on the division headquarters and as soon as things are in order General Bell and his staff will move to the camp permanently. He said Sunday afternoon that he expects to be in his new quarters not later than Tuesday or Wednesday. Investigation of the causes of the riot were completed Sunday by Colonel George O. Cress, inspector of the Southern department, who arrived in Houston Saturday. He left Sunday night for San Antonio, where he will report the result of his findings to the Southern department commander after which he said he expected to be ordered at once to Columbus, N. M., to take the testimony of the Negro troopers who were involved in the afair. Colonel Cress was assisted in the work Sunday by United States District Attorney John E. Green, Jr., in that the latter furnished witnesses whom his investigations had showed were either at the seat of the trouble when it was in progress or had information on different phases of the affair. ALBERT BARRETT PAYS DEATH PENALTY. Final Efforts to Stay Execution of Charlotte County Man Without Avail. Judge Hundley Willing to Trust Case to Governor Stuart, and Indicates That He will Not Oppose Exercise of Executive Clemency. Albert Barrett, sentenced to death for the murder of W. T. Roach, a Charlotte County farmer, will pay the death penalty for his crime at the State Penitentiary this morning at 7 o'clock. Governor Stuart although he granted a respite to the son, Aubrey Barrett also under sentence of death for complicity in the crime, refused to take any action in the case of the elder Barrett. The Governor gave as his reason that the father had the services of an attorney, and was tried by a jury in the lower court, and if any steps were to be taken, the proper means would be by way of a petition to the Supreme Court. Four of the five members of the Supreme court have refused to grant a writ of error in the case and all efforts to save Albert Barrett or to stay his execution seem to have failed. It is understood that even the attorneys for the defense have given up hope, and have begun to concentrate their attention upon the case of the younger Barrett. Judge Prentis is the only Supreme Court Judge who could now grant a writ of error that would stay the execution of Albert Barrett. Four of his colleagues have already refused to grant an appeal and by their action have indicated their belief that the elder Barrett had a fair trial. The contention of the attorneys for the defense was that the prosecution had failed to show that there had been any premeditation in the murder of Roach, and, therefore, that Barrett did not merit the extreme penalty. When Governor Stuart granted a respite of thirty days to the boy, it did not mean that he thought the boy was innocent of any crime. The boy was ignorant, without counsel, and was not tried by a jury. The Governor's action postpones the execution until he has had time to give the case a thorough examination. Judge George J. Hundley, of the Circuit Court of Charlotte County, is issued yesterday what he describes as his "that say" in regard to the Barrett case. His signed statement follows: Shr. In regard to the Barrett case, this will be my last say on that matter. Some people seem determined to try that case over again in the news papers. Let that trial proceed. I never try cases in newspapers. The court trial with its records, is behind me. For the integrity of my action I am responsible only to God. For its wisdom. I abide by the judgment of the people whom I serve. The Governor whom I respect and admire, knows that I asked him to keep troops in readiness for my call, to protect that very boy from mob violence, in case, after I heard the evidence, I should think he ought not to be sentenced to death. He knows I told him: I would not be dictated to by any mob. I have never failed to appoint counsel to defend persons where the death penalty was involved, but I never have done so, and never expect to do so, where prisoners appear by counsel of their own choosing, employed by or for them, as in this boy's case. I have no power to prevent any one from plead'm, guilty and when he does so, the guilt is acknowledged. and no defense an be made. Nothing remains but for the court to ascertain the degree of guilt. As for State Senator Addison, let me say that he needs no defense as your hands. I did not allude to him. I knew his people well in Richmond, and I know his reputation as an able and honorable man. WILLING TO TRUST CASE TO GOVERNOR STUART The snows of eighty winters have not cooled that quality in my blood which rices in "essent, ext at unfair treatment, nor has it assugged my intense aversion to ad sham and pretense to a mushy and morbid sentimentality, that in order to accomplish its ends is willing to assail the court and their officers without the slightest justification. Now I want to unite with Judge atkins in saying that I hope the we wise action of certain persons in seeking to have this boy's sentence commuted by an assault upon the action of the court will in no wise hurt the boy's case. We can all trust such a man as Governor Stuart. The law has properly provided for extending executive clementy, and if the Governor thinks it wise to exercise his power I have no word to say against it. (Signed) GEORGE J. HUNDLEY, Farmville, Va., August 30, 1917. 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IND, VIRGINIA Her friends began to wonder over the activities of this sister and the conclusion was reached that she was preparing for that rest that remains for the "Daughters of Zion." I c. getting ready to take that last long journeys to the land from which none ever return. But the friends were "way off" in their conclusions. If they had noticed things a little closer they would have observed that a good old widowed deacon brother was also smiling unduly. Anyway one of her friends said to her this week, "Child we thought you were getting ready to meet the Lord." She replied, "Ohno, I WAS ONLY FIXING UP FOR ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES." BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Estella Benton, left a penniless orphan, goes to join her brother Charlie, who is logging lumber in British Columbia. Charlie tells Stella of his prospects and describes his primitive manner of living. He introduces a neighbor, Paul Abbey. The St. Allwoods' car was rolling out to Hoppyard when they came back. By the time Benton had turned the canoe over to the bathhouse man and reached the wharf the horn of the returning machine sounded down the road. They waited. The car came to a stop at the abutting wharf. The driver handed two suit cases off the burdened hood of his machine. From out the tonneau clambered a large, smooth faced young man. He wore an expensive smile in addition to a blue serge suit, white panama and polished tan oxfords, and he bestowed a hearty greeting upon Charlie Benton. But his smile suffered eclipse and a faint flush rose in his round cheeks when his eyes fell upon Benton's sister. Miss Benton's cool, impersonal manner seemed rather to heighten the young man's embarrassment. Benton, apparently observing nothing amiss, introduced them in an offhand fashion, "Mr. Abbey, my sister." Mr. Abbey bowed and murmured something that passed for acknowledgment. The three turned up the wharf toward where Sam Davis had once more got up steam. As they walked Mr. Abbey's habitual assurance returned, and he directed part of his genial flow of conversation to Miss Benton. To Stella's inner amusement, however, he did not make any reference to their having been fellow travelers for a day and a half. Presently they were embarked and under way. Charlie fixed a seat for her on the afterdeck and went forward to steer, whither he was straightway joined by Paul Abbey. Miss Benton was as well pleased to be alone. She was not sure she should approve of young men who made such crude efforts to scrape acquaintance with women on After about four's run, with the south wind becoming to whip the crests of the short seas into white foam, the boat bore in to a landing behind a low point. Here Abbey disembarked after taking the trouble to come aft and shake hands with polite farewell. Standing on the float, hat in hand, he bowed his sleek blond head to Stella. "I hope you'll like Roaring lake, Miss Benton," he said as Benton jingled the go ahead bell. "I tried to persuade Charlie to stop over awhile, so you could meet my mother and sister, but he's in too big a hurry. Hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again soon." Miss Benton parried courteously, little at a loss to fathom his bland friendliness, and presently the widening space cut off their talk. As the bont drew offshore she saw two women in white come down toward the flont, meet Abbey and turn back. And a little farther out through an opening in the woods she saw a white and green bungalow, low and rambling, wide veraudaled, set on a hillock 300 yards back from shore. There was an encircling area of smooth lawn, a place restfully inviting. Far ahead loomed a ridge running down to the lake shore and cutting off in a bold promontory. That was Halfway Point, Charlie had told her, and under its shadow lay his camp. Without any previous knowledge of camps, she was approaching this one with less eager anticipation than when she began her long journey. She began to fear that it might be totally unlike anything she had been able to imagine, disagreeably so. In due course the Chickamauk bore in under Halfway Point, opened out a sheltered bight where the watery commotion outside raised but a faint ripple, and drew in alongside a float. The girl swept lake shore, bay and sloping forest with a quickening eye. Here was no trim painted cottage and no velvet lawn. In the waters beside and lining the beach floated innumerable logs, confined by boom sticks; hundreds of trunks of fir, forty and sixty feet long, four and six feet across the butt, timber enough, when it had passed through the sawmills, to build four such towns as Hopyard. Just back from the shore, amid stumps and littered branches, rose the roofs of divers buildings. One was long and low. Hard by it stood another of like type, but of lesser dimension. Two or three mere shanties lifted level with great stumps — crude, unpainted buildings. Smoke issued from the pipe of the larger, and a white aproned man stood in the doorway. Somewhere in the screen of woods a whistle shrilled. Benton looked at his watch. "We made good time in spite of the little roll," said he. "That's the donkey blowing quitting time, 6 o'clock. Well, come on up to the snack, sls. Sam, you get a wheelbarrow and run those trunks up after supper, will you?" Away in the banked timber beyond the maples and alder, which Stella now saw masked the bank of a small stream flowing by the cabins, a faint call rose long drawn: "Tim-ber-r-r-r" They moved along a path beaten through fern and clawing blackberry vine toward the camp. Benton carrying the two grips. A loud, sharp crack split the stillness; then a mild swishing sound arose. Hard on the heels of that followed a rending, tearing crash, a thud that sent tremors through the solid earth under their feet. The girl started. "Falling gang dropped a big dir." Charlie laughed. "You'll get used to that. You'll hear it a good many times a day here." "Good heavens, it sounded like the end of the world!" she said. "Well, you can't fell a stick of timber 200 feet high and six or eight feet through without making a pretty considerable noise." her brother remarked complacently. "I like that sound myself. Every big tree that goes down means a bunch of money." He led the way past the mess house, from the doorway of which the aproned cook eyed her with frank curiosity, hating his employer with nonchalant air, a cigarette resting in one corner of his mouth. Benton opened the door of the second building. Stella followed him in. It had the saving grace of cleanliness, according to logging camp standards, but the bareness of it appalled her. There was a rusty box heater, littered with cigar and cigarette stubs; a desk fabricated of undressed boards, a homemade chair or two, sunny boxes standing about. The sole concession to comfort was a rug of cheap Axminster covering half the floor. The walls were decorated chiefly with miscellaneous clothing suspended from nails, a few maps and blueprints tacked up askew. Straight across from the entering door another stood ujar, and she could see further vistas of bare board wall, small, dusty window panes and a bed where gray blankets were tumbled as they fell when a waking sleeper cast them aside. Benton crossed the room and threw open another door. "Here's a nook I fixed up for you, Stella," he said briskly. "It isn't very fancy, but it's the best I could do just now." She followed him in silently. He set her two bags on the floor and turned to go. Then some impulse moved him to turn back, and he put both hands on her shoulders and kissed her gently. "You're home, anyway," he said. "That's something, if it isn't what you're used to. Try to overlook the crudities. We'll have supper as soon as you feel like it." He went out, closing the door behind him. Miss Estella Benton stood in the middle of the room fighting against a swift heart shaking, a terrible depression that strove to master her. "Good Lord in heaven," she muttered at last, "what a place to be ruined in! 'it's- it's simply impossible." Her gaze roved about the room. A square box, neither more nor less, 14 by 14 feet of bare board wall, unpainted and unpapered. There was an iron bed, a willow rocker and a rude closet for clothes in one corner. A duplicate of the department store bargain rug in the other room lay on the floor. On an upturned box stood an enamel pitcher and a tin washbasin. That was all. She sat down on the bed and viewed it forlornly. A wave of sickening rebellion against everything swept over her. To herself she seemed as irrevocably alone as if she had been lost in the depths of the dark timber that rose on every hand. And, sitting there, she heard at length the voices of men. Looking out through a window curtained with cheesecloth, she saw her brother's logging gang swing past, stout woodsmen all, big men, tall men, short bodied men with thick necks and shoulders, sunburned, all grimy with the sweat of their labors, carrying themselves with a free and reckless swing, the doubles in type of that roistering crew she had seen embark on Jack Yfe's boat. All about that cook house doorkard spread a confusion of empty tins can, gaudily labeled, containers of corn and peas and tomatoes. Dishwater and refuse, chips, scraps, all the refuse of the camp was scattered there in unlovely array. But that made no more than a passing impression upon her. She was thinking as she removed her hat and gloves of what queer angles come now and then to the human mind. She wondered why she should be sufficiently interested in her brother's hired men to drive off a compelling attack of the blues in consideration of them as men. Nevertheless she found herself unable to view them as she had viewed, say, the clerks in her father's office. She began to brush her hair and to wonder what sort of food would be served for supper. CHAPTER III. A Forestale of Things to Come. HALF an hour later she sat down with her brother at one end of a table that was but a long THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A man and a woman are standing in a room with a wooden door. The man is wearing a suit and holding a hat, while the woman is wearing a dress with a belt and holding a handbag. There are two suitcases on the floor. "You're home, anyway," he said. "That's something." bench covered with oilcloth. Chairs there were none. A narrow movable bench on each side of the fixed table furnished seating capacity for twenty men, provided none objected to an occasional mudging from his neighbor's elbow. The dishes, different from any she had ever eaten from, were of enormously thick porcelain, dead white, variously chipped and cracked with fine seams. But the food, if plain, was of excellent quality, tasty cooked. She discovered herself with an appetite wholly independent of silver and cut glass and linen. The tin spoons and steel knives and forks harrowed her aesthetic sense without impairing her ability to satisfy hunger. They had the dining room to themselves. Through a single shiphap partition rose a rumble of masculine talk, where the logging crew leafed in their bunkhouse. The cook served them without any ceremony, putting everything on the table at once—soup, ment, vegetables, a bread pudding for dessert, coffee in a tail tin pot. Benton introduced him to his sister. He withdrew hustily to the kitchen, and they saw no more of him. "Charlie," the girl said plaintively, when the man had closed the door behind him, "I don't quite fathom your social customs out here. Is one supposed to know everybody that one encounters?" "Just about," he grimmed. "Loggers, Swishes and the natives in general. Can't very well help it, sis. There's so few people in this neck of the woods that nobody can afford to be exclusive—at least, nobody who lives here any length of time. You can't tell when you may have to call on your neighbor or the fellow working for you in a matter of life and death almost. A man couldn't possibly maintain the same attitude toward a bunch of loggers working under him that would be considered proper back where we came from. Take me, for instance, and my case is no different from any man operating on a moderate scale out here. I'd get the reputation of being swell headed and they'd put me in the hole at every turn. They wouldn't care what they did or how it was done. Ten to one I couldn't keep a capable working crew three weeks on end. On the other hand, take a bunch of loggers on a payroll working for a man that meets them on an equal footing—why, they'll go to h—and back again for him. They're as loyal as soldiers to the fing. They're a mighty self sufficient, independent lot, these humberjacks, and that goes for most everybody knocking about in this country—loggers, prospectors, miners, settlers and all. If you're what they term 'all right' you can do anything and they'll back you up. If you go to putting on airs and trying to assert yourself as a superior being they'll go out of their way to hand you packages of trouble." "I see," she observed thoughtfully. "One's compelled by circumstances to practice democracy." "Something like that," he responded carelessly and went on eating his supper. "I should have been a man," Miss Estella Benton sensitively remarked. 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He wore an expansive smile in addition to a blue serge suit, white pumama and polished tan oxford, and he bestowed a hearty greeting upon Charlie Benton. But his smile suffered eclipse and a faint flush rose in his round checks when his eyes fell upon Benton's sister. Miss Benton's cool, impersonal manner seemed rather to heighten the young man's embarrassment. Benton, apparently observing nothing amiss, introduced them in an on-hand fashion, "Mt. Abbey, my sister." Mr. Abbey bowed and murmured something that passed for acknowledgment. The three turned up the wharf toward where Sam Davis had once more got up steam. As they walked Mr. Abbey's habitual assurance returned, and he directed part of his genial flow of conversation to Miss Benton. To Stella's inner amusement, however, he did not make any reference to their having been fellow travelers for a day and a half. Presently they were embarked and under way. Charlie fixed a seat for her on the afterdeck and went forward to steer, whither he was straightway joined by Paul Abbey. Miss Benton was as well pleased to be alone, She was not sure she should approve of young men who made such crude efforts to scrape acquaintance with women on After about a hour's run, with the south wind beating to whip the crests of the short seas into white foam, the boat bore in to a landing behind a low point. Here Abbey disembarked after taking the trouble to come aft and shake hands with polite farewell. Standing on the float, but in hand, he bowed his sleek blond head to Stella. "I hope you'll like Reading lake, Miss Benton," he said as Benton jingled the go ahead bell. "I tried to persuade Charlie to stop over awhile, so you could meet my mother and sister, but he's in too big a hurry. Hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again soon." Miss Benton parried courteously, little at a loss to fathom his bland friendliness, and presently the widening space cut off their talk. As the boat drew offshore she saw two women in white come down toward the float, meet Abbey and turn back. And a little farther out through an opening in the woods she saw a white and green bungeau, tow and rambling, wide veranaded, set on a billock 300 yards back from shore. There was an encircling area of smooth lawn, a place restfully inviting. Far ahead loomed a ridge running down to the lake shore and cutting off in a bold promontory. That was Halfway Point, Charlie had told her, and under its shadow lay his camp. Without any previous knowledge of camps, she was approaching this one with less eager and delicateness than when she began her long journey. She began to fear that it might be totally unlike anything she had been able to imagine, disagreeably so. In due course the Chickamau bore in under Halfway Point, opened out a sheltered bight where the watery commotion outside raised but a faint ripple, and drew in alongside a float. The girl swept lake shore, bay and sloping forest with a quickening eye. Here was no trim painted cottage and no velvet lawn. In the waters beside and lining the beach floated innumerable logs, confined by boom sticks; hundreds of trunks of fir, forty and sixty feet long, four and six feet across the butt, timber enough, when it had passed through the sawmills, to build four such towns as Hopyard. Just back from the shore, amid stumps and littered branches, rose the roofs of divers buildings. One was long and low. Hard by it stood another of like type, but of lesser dimension. Two or three mere shanties lifted level with great stumps — crude, unpainted buildings. Smoke issued from the pipe of the larger, and a white apron man stood in the doorway. Somewhere in the screen of woods a whistle shrilled. Benton looked at his watch. "We made good time in spite of the little roll," said he. "That's the donkey blowing quitting time, 6 o'clock. Well, come on up to the shack, sls. Sam, you get a wheelbarrow and run those trunks up after supper, will you?" Away in the banked timber beyond the maples and alder, which Stella now saw masked the bank of a small stream flowing by the cabins, a faint call rose, long drawn by: "Timber-r-r-r" They moved along a path heaten through ferns and clawing blackberry vine toward the camp. Benton carrying the two grips. A loud, sharp crack split the stillness; then a mild swishing sound arose. Hard on the heels of that followed a rending, tearing crush, a thud that sent tremors through the solid earth under their feet. The girl started. "Falling gang dropped a big dir." Charlie laughed. "You'll get used to that. You'll hear it a good many times a day here." "Good heavens! it sounded like the end of the world!" she said. "Well, you can't tell a stick of timber 200 feet high and six or eight feet through without making a pretty considerable noise." her brother remarked complacently. "I like that sound myself. Every big tree that goes down means a bunch of money." He led the way past the mess house, from the doorway of which the aproposed cook eyed her with frank curiosity, hailing his employer with nonchalant air, a cigarette resting in one corner of his mouth. Benton opened the door of the second building. Stella followed him in. It had the saving grace of cleanliness, according to legging camp standards, but the bareness of it appalled her. There was a rusty box heater, littered with cigar and cigarette stubs; a desk fabricated of undressed boards, a homemade chair or two, sandy boxes standing about. The sole concession to comfort was a rug of cheap Axminster covering half the door. The walls were decorated chiefly with miscellaneous clothing suspended from nails, a few maps and blueprints tacked up askew. Straight access from the entering door another stood ajar, and she could see further vistas of bare board wall, small, dusty window panes and a bed whereon gray blankets were tumbled as they fell when a waking sleeper cast them aside. Benton crossed the room and threw open another door. "Here's a book I fixed up for you, Stella," he said briskly. "It isn't very fancy, but it's the best I could do just now." She followed him in silently. He set her two bags on the floor and turned to go. Then some impulse moved him to turn back, and he put both hands on her shoulders and kissed her gently. "You're home, anyway," he said. "That's something, if it isn't what you're used to. Try to overlook the crudities. We'll have supper as soon as you feel like it." He went out, closing the door behind him. Miss Estella Beuton stood in the middle of the room fighting against a swift heart sinking, a terrible depression that strove to master her. "Good Lord in heaven," she muttered at last, "what a place to be marooned in! It's—it's simply impossible." Her gaze roved about the room. A square box, neither more nor less, 14 by 14 feet of bare board wall, unpainted and unpapered. There was an iron bed, a willow rocker and a rude closet for clothes in one corner. A duplicate of the department store bargain rug in the other room lay on the door. On an upturned box stood an enamel pitcher and a tin washbasin. That was all. She sat down on the bed and viewed it forlornly. A wave of sickening rebellion against everything swept over her. To herself she seemed as irrevocably alone as if she had been lost in the depths of the dark timber that rose on every hand. And, sitting there, she heard at length the voices of men. Looking out through a window curtained with cheesecloth, she saw her brother's logging gang swing past, stout woodsmen all, big men, tall men, short bodied men with thick necks and shoulders, sunburned, all grimy with the sweat of their labors, carrying themselves with a free and reckless swing, the doubles in type of that roistering crew she had seen embark on Jack Fey's boat. All about that cook house doorkard spread a confusion of empty tin cans, gaudily inbaked, containers of corn and peas and tomatoes. Dishwater and refuse, chips, scraps, all the refuse of the camp was scattered there in unlovely array. But that made no more than a passing Impression upon her. She was thinking as she removed her hat and gloves of what queer angles come now and then to the human mind. She wondered why she should be sufficiently interested in her brother's hired men to drive off a compelling attack of the blues in consideration of them as men. Nevertheless she found herself unable to view them as she had viewed, say, the clerks in her father's office. She began to brush her hair and to wonder what sort of food would be served for supper. CHAPTER III. A precaution of things to Come HALF an hour later she sat down with her brother at one end of a table that, was but a long THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA A man is helping a woman get into a house. The woman is holding a basket and wearing a dress. There are suitcases on the floor. "You're home, anyway," he said. "That's something." bench covered with oilcloth. Chalfs there were none. A narrow movable bench on each side of the fixed table furnished seating capacity for twenty men, provided none objected to an occasional mudging from his neighbor's elbow. The dishes, different from any she had ever eaten from, were of enormously thick porcelain, dead white, variously chipped and cracked with fine scams. But the food, if plain, was of excellent quality, tastily cooked. She discovered herself with an appetite wholly independent of silver and cut glass and then. The tin spoons and steel knives and forks harrowed her aesthetic sense without impairing her ability to satisfy hunger. They had the dining room to themselves. Through a single shipap partition rose a rumble of masculine talks where the logging crew boafed in their bunkhouse. The cook served them without any ceremony, putting everything on the table at once—soap, meat, vegetables, a bread pudding for dessert, coffee in a tail tint pot. Benton introduced him to his sister. He withdrew hastily to the kitchen, and they saw no more of him. "Charlie," the girl said plaintively, when the man had closest the door behind him. "I don't quite fathom your social customs out here. I is one supposed to know everybody that one encounters?" "Just about," he grimmed. "Loggers, Siwashes and the natives in general. Can't very well help it, sis. There's so few people in this neck of the woods that nobody can afford to be exclusive—at least, nobody who lives here any length of time. You can't tell when you may have to call on your neighbor or the fellow working for you in a matter of life and death abask. A man couldn't possibly maintain the same attitude toward a bunch of loggers working under him that would be considered proper back where we came from. Take me, for instance, and my case is no different from any man operating on a moderate scale out here. I'd get the reputation of being swell headed and they'd put me in the hole at every turn. They wouldn't care what they did or how it was done. Ten to one I couldn't keep a capable working crew three weeks on end. On the other hand, take a bunch of loggers on a payroll working for a man that meets them on an equal footing—why, they'll go to b—and back again for him. They're as loyal as soldiers to the flag. They're a mighty self sufficient, independent lot, these lumberjacks, and that goes for most everybody knocking about in this country—loggers, prospectors, miners, settlers and all. If you're what they term 'all right' you can do anything and they'll back you up. If you go to putting on airs and trying to assert yourself as a superior being they'll go out of their way to hand you packages of trouble." "I see," she observed thoughtfully. "One's compelled by circumstances to practice democracy." "Something like that," he responded carelessly and went on eating his supper. "I should have been a man," Miss Estella Benton sensitively remarked. "Then I could put on overalls and make myself useful instead of being a drone. There doesn't seem to be anything here I can do. I could keep house—only you haven't any house to keep, therefore no need of a housekeeper." "Say, Stell, can you cook?" asked her brother. "A little," Stella rejoined guardedly. "Why do you ask?" "Why, your wail about being a man and putting on overalls and digging in reminded me that if you liked you may have a chance to get on your apron and show us what you can do," he hugged. "Matt's about due to go on a tear. He's been on the water wagon now about his limit. The first man that comes along with a bottle of whisky Matt will get it and quit and head for town. I was wondering if you could keep the gang from starving to death if that happened. The last time I had to get in and cook for two weeks myself. And I can't run a logging crew from the cook shanty very well." "I dare say I could manage," Stella returned dubiously. "This seems to be a terrible place for drinking. Is it the accepted thing to get drunk at all times and in public?" "It's about the only excitement there 14." Benton smiled tolerantly. "I guess there is no more drinking out here than any other part of this North American continent. Only a man here gets drunk openly and riotously without any effort to hide it and without it being considered anything but a natural lapse. That's one thing you'll have to get used to out here, Stell—I mean that what vices men have are all on the surface. We don't get drunk secretly at the club and sneak home in a taxi. Oh, well, we'll cross the bridge when we come to it. Matt may not break out for weeks." He yawned openly. "Sleepy?" Stella hqnired. "I get up every morning between 4 and 5," he replied, "and I can go to sleep any time after supper." "I think I'll take a walk along the beach," she said abruptly. "All right. Don't hike into the woods and get lost, though." and get lost, though. She circled the segment of bay, ellimb ed a low, rocky point and found herself a seat on a fallen tree. Outside the lake heaved unceans, still dotted with whitecaps whipped up by the southerly gate. At her feet surge after surge hammered the gravelly shore. Far through the woods behind her the wind whistled and hummed among swaying tops of giant fir and cedar. There was a heady freshness in that rollicking wind, an odor resinous and pungent mingled with that elusive smell of green growing stuff along the shore. Beginning where she sat, tree trunks rose in immense brown pillars, running back in great forest naves, shadowy always, floored with green moss held in a rich, soft carpet for the wood sprites' feet. Far beyond the long gradual lower slope lifted a range of saw backed mountains, the sanctuary of wild goat and bear, and across the rolling lake lifted other mountains sheer from the water's edge, peaks rising above timber line in majestic contour, their pinnacle crests grazing the clouds that snuck before the south wind. Beauty? Yes. A wild, imposing grandeur that stirred some responsive chord in her. If one only could live amid such surromanding with a content-et mind, she thought, the wilderness would have compensations of its own. 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M., local to Birmingham, local to Hunting; 4:58 P.M. FOUR REPET Published every atuiday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR All communications intended for publication should be sent so as to reach us by Wednesday. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Virginia, as second-class matter. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1917 BISHOP SMITH IS EMPHATIC. We have expressed the opinion time and again that ultimately we would find the white people of the Southland speaking in our defense and the white people of the North assailing us. The day is rapidly approaching when this anomalous situation will take place and we see or think we see that the time is at hand. In discussing the affair at Houston, Texas, where a clash between the local police force and members of the United States Army took place, the white press of this city and in the Southland was unusually conservative in dealing with this matter. Even newspapers in Texas were much more conservative than had been generally supposed. In Detroit, Michigan, however the very able Bishop C. S. Smith of the African Methodist Episcopal Church found it necessary to take issue with the Detroit Pres and to criticise severely the drastic tone of an editorial appearing in the issue of that journal of August 25, 1917. Bishop Smith, in his concluding remarks says: The fact is the white race by precipitating a world-war has turned man's earthly abode into a veritable hell, and there is no telling when the fires of damnation will be extinguished or what elements will be consumed while they are raging. If plain speaking is in order, let both sides be heard. This is a tolling rebuke to a northern Negro-hater. With men of the North rarely ever deal with the colored folks' question without making a worse mess of it. As to the southern white folks, there are two classes of them; one being against us and the other for us and both sides appearing to the northern observer as against us EDITOR TROTTER'S CALL Editor William Monroe Trotter is advocating another meeting of leading colored citizens and this time, he wants them to meet in the city of New York September 18 to 20, 1917 at Mother Zion Church, where the sessions of the real National Race Congress and Equal Rights League will be held. President Byron Gunner will be in charge. Colored citizens are urged to send delegates to this meeting. Mr. Trotter's plea is a strong one and conditions now, so far as we are concerned are chaotic. The recent arrest and indictment of thirty-four colored soldiers, who were on guard duty at Camp Logan at Houston, Texas and the prospect of their summary trial by a drum-head court-martial at Columbus, New Mexico, where they may be taken out at any moment and shot before sun-rise, accentuates the situation. The holding of this meeting will result in much good, if it is conducted along conservative lines and if the management will see to it that no stop is taken in conflict with law or in violation of any of the multitudinous orders now being sent out by the Department of Justice at Washington. We are having a hard time of it now and this country is on the verge of great internal events. We hope that Editor Trotter and his friends may succeed with the meeting and should we be able to so arrange our affairs shall take pleasure in being on the ground to assist in making the affair a great success. We need to pray and confer with each other and to confer with each other and pray. THAT SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOX. They electrocuted Albert Barrett at the Virginia Penitentiary, Friday morning, August 31, 1917 and thus rang down the curtain on one of the individuals implicated in the killing of W. T. Roach, the white farmer. This was done as much to appease public sentiment in the county from which he hailed as anything else. Barrett was an industrious citizen. He had purchased a farm mules and he had a des voted wife and a sixteen year old boy, who is now behind the bars in the same institution, Barrett had a good reputation and if he had ever before taken his neighbor's goods, the courthouse records do not show it. Roach charged him with taking a load of his wheat from his farm and he alleged that he tracked the wagon wheels to Barrett's premises. Barrett returned to Roach the quantity of wheat alleged to have been taken and it is in the testimony that he offered to pay him. Roach insisted upon turning him over to the county authorities and proceeded to arrest Barrett upon his own premises with out the authority of law. He sent a Mr. Collins to secure a warrant for Barrett and in the meantime stood guard over this colored man on the colored man's own premises. Barrett ran away from Ronch and Roach pursued him. Barrett stumbling over a pile of brush fall and Roach got on him and was choking him, when Barrett called on his sixteen year old son, Aubroy for help. Aubrey came to his father's aid with a stick and he dealt Roach a terrible blow, which fractured the skull. The two hid the body in order to give them time to leave the neighborhood and they made their escape, being arrested near Lynchburg. Attorney W. L. Lancaster of Farmville represented the prisoners. He protested against the ruling of the Court and upon seeing that the case was hopeless withdrew from the boy's defense, leaving him without counsel. Helpless and alone, Judge Hundley over his own signature admits that he tried this boy, who was without counsel and that he sentenced him to be electrocuted. Attorney Lancaster gave as his reason for not representing the boy, that he felt that he could not oecure for him that justice to which he was entitled. It has been shown, despite His Honor, Judge Hundley's statement to the contrary that he was without any discretion in the matter, that he could have sent this boy to a reformatory he being under the age limit, eighteen years being the number of years specified in the Virginia statute. The only redeeming feature about the whole matter is the fact that Virginians came to the rescue of this helpless, sobbing, frightened black urchin, who had in a time of dire distress rallied to the aid of his father. You may say what you will, but to our mind, he needs no reformation. Let us suppose that the color of the parties in this controversy could be reversed. What if Roach had been a colored man and Barrett a white one? Would not Aubrey Barrett have been hailed as a hero, instead of now being within the shadow of the electric chair, where his unfortunate father has already paid the penalty for his histic action? It is a sad story. It has aroused the latent feeling of sympathy in the white men of this commonwealth. Numbers of white citizens have signed a petition to the Governor for the commutation of the sentence of death. We would to God that they had gone a step further and released from confinement one if the most remarkable children of paternal fealty ever in the history of any commonwealth. It may be that his Excellency, H. C. Stuart, Governor of Virginia may see it in this light. Certain it is that he has been deeply moved by this tragic happening and in the turmoil of passing events may exercise his powers to the end that life imprisonment shall not be the portion of a devoted son, who went just a little too far in executing the command of a loving father. --- SUPERINTENDENT CHANDLER'S REPORT We have received a copy of the forty-seventh annual report of the Superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler. It is one of the most exhaustive and accurate reports of the kind that we have seen any where in the United States. There is no feature of the school-work that is not statistically described. The total enrollment of colored pupils for the session 1915—16 was 7,843 in the day schools and 2,068 in the night schools. The percent of school population enrolled was 90.8 white and 83.6 colored. The per cent. of daily attendance in the colored schools was 94.3 and in the white schools, 92.8. While the colored pupils stood higher in attendance in the day schools, they stood lower in the night schools. The per cent. of attendance in the white night schools was 91.7 and in the colored 78.5. The total amount paid white males in the system for one year, 1915-16, was ($102,417.72) one hundred and two thousand, four hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents, colored males ($12,430.33) twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-three cents. The total amount paid white females was ($321,644.44) three hundred and twenty-one thousand, six hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents; colored females ($74,125.32) seventy-four thousand, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. It will be seen that colored teachers in this city receive annually ($86,555.65) eighty-six thousand, five hundred and THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA fifty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. This amount $1 an average monthly salary of ($7,212.97) seven thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-seven cents. If this amount could be controlled or segregated for just one week in each month, the value of the business that it would sustain and nourish would be astonishing. Superintendent Chandler in speaking of the compulsory education law declares it to be in effectiveness as to enforcement, "a rope of sand." It served though to increase the attendance in the day schools to an unprecedented extent. The humorous feature of the law is not set forth in that the school facilities of Richmond are inadequate t accommodate the pupils already enrolled much less the additional number that has been seeking admission as a result of this compulsory law. We congratulate Dr. Chandler and his corp of workers upon the truly remarkable degree of efficiency as dis closed by this report. WINCHESTER NEWS NOTES. Winchester, Va., Sept. 2.—Mrs. J. Jackson has returned from attending the Missionary Baptist Association at Kernesville, W. Va. Mr. M. B. Cooke has been visiting relatives and friends in Bethel and Millwood. Mr. Cooke lived in Millwood many years and is always glad when an opportunity presents itself for him to spend some time there. The people of Clarke are mostly farmers and have fine crops and most of the best farms which are not owned are managed by colored folks. Mr. and Mrs. William Burrell, of Bethel gave a birthday dinner on Sunday last in honor of their daughter, Lillian. On Monday evening, a german was given at the Odd Fellows Hall in Millwood, under the auspices of the building committee and a nice time was the order of the day. Little Miss Willie Colston has returned to Mt. Airy. She had been the guest of Rev. and Mrs. B. Thomas for some time. While in Clarke, Mr. Cooke visited many places of interest. Among them, Carter Hall, the home of the Burrell's; Red Gate, Page Brook, Saratoga, Montana Hall, Spout Run, Clay Hill, Powhatan, Glenville, Mt. Airy and found all of these large estates principally worked and managed by black people. A good number of colored men in that section have been drafted for the army and are making preparation to go. On Sunday night an eloquent sermon was preached by Elder Walker Carter, of Winchester, in the old Gilfold Church. This is one of the oldest churches for colored people in the country and is pastored by Rev. Allen Williams. The G. U. O. of Odd Fellows has a large membership, also the Household of Ruth. Miss Nan Fletcher is visiting in Berryville. Mrs. Estelle Hall of Baltimore is visiting Miss Betto Jackson on South Market street. The Watermelon Social given by the Young Ladies of John Mann Church, was quite a success. It was for the benefit of the stewards. Miss Hild Jackson was chairman. Rev. and Mrs. Read have returned from Hall Hill accompanied by their sister. Mrs. James Strange, of Connellsville, Pa. is visiting Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, on Main street. Mrs. Mahugh Cooke spent the week end with her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robinson, on the Valley Pike. Miss Bertha Hargrove has returned to New York from visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Potter, in Millwood. Miss Hargrove is a sister of Mrs. Potter. FLORENCE NOTES Florence, S. C., Sept. 2.—Mr. Sam Johnson, inspector for Kendell Lumber Co., of Donora, S. C. has returned to the mill with a number of laborers. Rev. B. J. Frierson, pastor of Goodville Baptist Church at Cades, closed a successful revival recently. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Garland, of Wilmington, N. C. have just returned from a pleasure trip North, visiting Richmond, Va. Washington, D. C. and other points. Mr. Garland is porter on the Wilmington-Columbia run. Mrs. Bell Richard, of Tampa, Fla. has gone to St. Paul, Minn; AMBURG NEWS. Amburg, Va., August 31: "The Mt. Bethel Association held its forty-first session at Little Ark on August 28, 29 and 30, and had a very interesting session. Among the great speakers were Prof. Winston, of Baltimore, Md. and the great evangelist, Rev. W. A. Banks of Washington, D. C. The Ladies' Missionary was highly represented and had many interesting reports. Mr. S. N. Giles, of Winchester, Va. arrived home Tuesday morning after spending fourteen hours on the boat. He enjoyed his ride very much. On Tuesday evening he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. John Burnett. On Wednesday he took a morning walk through his father's corn field and found it one of the largest crops on the Potomac River and in the evening he attended the association and listened to the fine educational sermon preached by Prof. Winston. Mrs. Cora Bumbray has returned from Washington, where she has been spending some time visiting friends. The four Misses Henry spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Henry. Mrs. Hattie Lindsey, of Newark, N. J. spent the week of the 20th with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Giles Mr. and Mrs. James Myers have returned to their home in Steelton, Pa. Mr. Joel Giles has gone to Washington to spend some time with his brother, Wilson Giles. Mr. James Smith has returned to his home in Reading, Pa. after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Crabbing and fishing are vory fine at Somerset Beach 108 Naval Men Were Victims of Air Squadron Composed of Six Planes. Deck Yard is Undamaged. In the air raid 108 person's were killed and ninety-two wounded at Chatham, it is announced officially in London. All but one of the men killed were in the naval service, as were all the wounded except six. Six airplanes took part in the raid. A despatch to the Star says that part of the naval barracks was struck by a bomb, this causing the serious loss of life. The dock yard escaped damage. The official announcement says: "Lord French (commander of the home forces) reports that the air raid was carried out by about six enemy airplanes, which proceeded up the south bank of the Thames estuary to Chatham. "Bombs were dropped in the Isle of Thanet and in the Sheerness-Chatham area between 10.40 P. M. and 11.20 P. M. There were no army casualties. "Civilian casualties reported at present area: Killed, one; injured, six. The material damage was slight. Our machines went up and anti-aircraft guns came into action, but without result. "The secretary of the admiralty reports that in the course of the air raid the following casualties were caused to naval ratings: Killed, 107; wounded, 86." Chatham is on the east bank of the Medway, thirty miles southeast of London. It is the seat of immense military and naval establishments, including a vast dock yard, an arsenal and extensive barracks. The term naval ratings applies to the grade of men on board ship, usually those before the mast. WELCOMES DRAFT MEN President Wjison, With Prayer, Greete Those Entering U.S. Service The soldiers of the national army were welcomed into the nation's service by President Wilson with a message of affectionate confidence and a prayer to God to keep and guide them. The first soldiers for the army raised under the draft law start from their homes for the training cantonments on WWI. a message follows: "The Whouse, Washington. "You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of the whole country is with you. Everything that you do will be watched with the deepest interest and with the deepest solicitude, not only by those who are near and dear to you, but by the whole nation besides. For this great war draws us all together, makes us all comrades and brothers as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our national independence. The eyes of all the world will be upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom. Let it be your pride, therefore, to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and straight in everything and pure and clean through and through. "Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be a glory to live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America. My affectionate confidence goes with you in every bit tie and every test. God keep and guide you! "WOODROW WILSON." SONG BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS As a means of stimulating military music rather than censoring it, a standard song book to be used in all branches of the service will be issued October 1, according to announcement by the executive committee for the supervision of music in the army and navy. The new book will contain songs suitable for singing in camp and at the front and will fit into the pockets of a khaki blouse. It is planned in all of the training camps to have mass singing conducted under the instruction of leaders of recognized ability. Original songs are to be encouraged and there will be blank space in the song books for new airs. John Alden Carpentor, the Chieuse composer, will devote his time to the standardizing the music of the army and navy bands. British Casualties 15 614 For Week. The British casualties reported in the last week are 15 614 They are divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 364; men 3880. Wounded or missing: Officers 846; men, 10,524. 1000 Sheep Perish In Ease One, thousand sheep perished in a forest fire which cut them off in the mountains at the head of Rock Creek Mont., according to reports received at headquarters of the United States for est service. The total British casualties on all the fronts reported in August is 59,811, divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds—officers, 1278; men, 10,942. Wounded or missing—officers, 4122; men, 48,469. URBANNA ITEMS Urtanna, Sept. 3.—Willie cranking the engine of his gasoline boat, Mr. Virginus Thoraton, Jr., had his arm badly damaged, he is much improved at this writing. Mr. John Smith was seriously hurt while working a saw mill last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green, Miss Fannie Perry and Mr. Charlie Burrell dined with Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Lockley last Sunday. Mr. Sawood Burrell took a party of young folks out for a straw ride last Wednesday evening. Those in the party were Messrs Charlie Burrell, Roye Holmes, and Misses Fannie and Lizzie Perry, Edith Miller and Coretta Burrell. Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Carter are all smiles. Mother and daughter doing well. Mr. Jeff Braxton is yet on the sick list. A party of folks of Centro Cross, Bssex County, while on a pleasure trip on the Rappahannock last Friday, stopped in our town. Those in the party were Mdunes. Nettie Corbin, Mattie Wheeler, Misses Lula Corbin, Helen Corbin, Clemie Hill, Rosa Wheeler, Drueilla Wheeler, and Messrs Walter and Richard Smith, Logan Brown, Thomas Corbin Joe Watkins and Aubrey Jones, after viewing the town and enjoying them selves with those things the town afford they left again for Centre Cross by way of Bowlers Whf. They came down on Mr. Wheeler's gasoline launch the "Mattie C." BATCHELOR WANTS TO FIND HIM I am very anxious to find the where abouts, if he he still alive, or to find the address of his relatives, if he is dead, of William Scott, who till some time in June of this year lived at 2495 E 31st St. Cleveland, O., with a Mrs. Fletcher' Sickness caused him to return to his home near Richmond and he has not been heard from since. P. O' CONNELL, 2334 E 585 N. Cleveland, O. RONCEVERTE NEWS. Ronceverte, W. Va., Sept. 2.—Rev. I. H. Carpenter preached two able sermons Sunday. Misses Helen Woodby and Viviana Burger spent Sunday in Alderson, W. Va. Mrs. L. B. Johnson was a business visitor in Hinton, W. Va. Rev. G. H. Carter spent a few days in Charlottesville, Va. Rev, and Mrs. L. A. Carpenter, Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Blanche Burks, Miss Mary F. Johnson and Mr. Harry Lacy have returned from Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Lizzie Brown, Mrs. Lula Moore and son, Mrs. Henry Morton, Mrs. Lula Peck and Miss Orlean Sweeney have returned from Rich- mond, Va. Mr. Clarence Elridge has returned from Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Clarence Allen is spending a low days with her mother Let Cephas do your Renting: Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Tele- phone. Randolph 588 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. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 28th day of August, 1917. IN VACATION. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion. And an alfidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Annie Nelson is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clork. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clark J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of September, 1917. IN VACATION. MARYLAND BARBER. . . Plaintiff arguat. In Chancery. SYBELIA BARBER.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sybella Barber is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clork. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE HOUSES FOR SALE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited BALTIMORE BY BOAT. The most delightful Water Trip in America. YORK RIVER LINE New Steamers. The most delightful W YORK RIVER New St Fares Between Richr $3.00 2. First-class Second One Way On STATEROOMS, with Leave Richmond 5:10 P. M. 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The day is rapidly approaching when this anomalous situation will take place and we see or think we see that the time is at hand. In discussing the affair at Houston, Texas, where a clash between the local police force and members of the United States Army took place, the white press of this city and in the Southland was unusually conservative in dealing with this matter. Even newspapers in Texas were much more conservative than had been generally supposed. In Detroit, Michigan, however the very able Bishop C. S. Smith of the African Methodist Episcopal Church found it necessary to take issue with the Detroit Pros and to criticise severely the drastic tone of an editorial appearing in the issue of that journal of August 25, 1917. Bishop Smith, in his concluding remarks says: The fact is the white race by precipitating a world-war has turned man's earthly abode into a veritable hell, and there is no telling when the fires of damnation will be extinguished or what elements will be consumed while they are raging. If plain speaking is in order, let both sides be heard. This is a telling rebuke to a northern Negro-hater. WHERE man of the North rarely ever deal with the colored folks' question without making a worse mess of it. As to the southern white folks, there are two classes of them; one being against us and the other for us and both sides appearing to the northern observer as being against us EDITOR TROTTER'S CALL Editor William Monroe Trotter is advocating another meeting of leading colored citizens and this time, he wants them to meet in the city of New York September 18 to 20, 1917 at Mother Zion Church, where the sessions of the real National Race Congress and Equal Rights League will be held. President Byron Gunner will be in charge. Colored citizens are urged to send delegates to this meeting. Mr. Trotter's plea is a strong one and conditions now, so far as we are concerned are chaotic. The recent arrest and indictment of thirty-four colored soldiers, who were on guard duty at Camp Logan at Houston, Texas and the prospect of their summary trial by a drum-head court-martial at Columbus, New Mexico, where they may be taken out at any moment and shot before sun-rise, accentuates the situation. The holding of this meeting will result in much good, if it is conducted along conservative lines and if the management will see to it that no step is taken in conflict with law or in violation of any of the multitudinous orders now being sent out by the Department of Justice at Washington. We are having a hard time of it now and this country is on the verge of great internal events. We hope that Editor Trotter and his friends may succeed with the meeting and should we be able to so arrange our affairs shall take pleasure in being on the ground to assist in making the affair a great success. We need to pray and confer with each other and to confer with each other and pray. THAT SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY. They electrocuted Albert Barrett at the Virginia Penitentiary, Friday morning, August 31, 1917 and thus rang down the curtain on one of the individuals implicated in the killing of W. T. Roach, the white farmer. This was done as much to appease public sentiment in the county from which he hailed as anything else. Barrett was an industrious citizen. He had purchased a farm mules and he had a de- voted wife and a sixteen year old boy, who is now behind the bars in the same institution. Barrett had a good reputation and if he had ever before taken his neighbor's goods, the court-house records do not show it. Roach charged him with taking a load of his wheat from his farm and he alleged that he tracked the wagon wheels to Barrett's premises. Barrett returned to Roach the quantity of wheat alleged to have been taken and it is in the testimony that he offered to pay him. Roach insisted upon turning him over to the county authorities and proceeded to arrest Barrett upon his own premises with out the authority of law. He sent a Mr. Collins to secure a warrant for Barrett and in the meantime stood guard over this colored man on the colored man's own premises. Barrett ran away from Roach and Roach pursued him. Barrett stumbling over a pile of brush fall and Roach got on him and was choking him, when Barrett called on his sixteen year old son, Aubrey for help. Aubrey came to his father's aid with a stick and he dealt Roach a terrible blow, which fractured the skull. The two hid the body in order to give them time to leave the neighborhood and they made their escape, being arrested near Lynchburg. Attorney W. L. Lancaster of Farmville represented the prisoners. He protested against the ruling of the Court and upon seeing that the case was hopeless withdrew from the boy's defense, leaving him without counsel. Helpless and alone, Judge Hundley over his own signature admits that he tried thjs boy, who was without counsel and that he sentenced him to be electrocuted. Attorney Lancaster gave as his reason for not representing the boy, that he felt that he could not accure for him that justice to which he was entitled. It has been shown, despite His Honor, Judge Hundley's statement to the courtrion that he was without any discretion in the matter, that he could have sent this boy to a reformatory he being under the age limit, eighteen years being the number of years specified in the Virginia statute. The only redeeming feature about the whole matter is the fact that Virginia came to the rescue of this helpless, sobbing, frightened black urchin, who had in a time of dire distress rallied to the add of his father. You may say what you will, but to our mind, he needs no reformation. Let us suppose that the color of the parties in this controversy could be reversed. What if Roach had been a colored man and Barrett a white one? Would not Aubrey Barrett have been hailed as a hero, instead of now heling within the shadow of the electric chair, where his unfortunate father has already paid the penalty for his histic action? It is a sad story. It has aroused the latent feeling of sympathy in the white men of this commonwealth. Numbers of white citizens have signed a petition to the Governor for the summutation of the sentence of death. We would to God that they had gone a step further and released from confinement one if the most remarkable children of paternal fealty ever in the history of any commonwealth. It may be that his Excellency, H. C. Stint, Governor of Virginia may see it in this light. Certain it is that he has been deeply moved by this tragic happening and in the turmoil of passing events may exercise his powers to the end that life imprisonment shall not be the portion of a devoted son, who went just a little too far in executing the command of a loving father. SUPERINTENDENT CHANDLER'S REPORT We have received a copy of the forty-seventh annual report of the Superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler. It is one of the most exhaustive and accurate reports of the kind that we have seen any where in the United States. There is no feature of the school-work that is not statistically described. The total enrollment of colored pupils for the session 1915—16 was 7,843 in the day schools and 2,068 in the night schools. The percent of school population enrolled was 90.8 white and 83.6 colored. The per cent. of daily attendance in the colored schools was 94.3 and in the white schools, 92.8. While the colored pupils stood higher in attendance in the day schools, they stood lower in the night schools. The per cent. of attendance in the white night schools was 91.7 and in the colored 78.5. The total amount paid white males in the system for one year, 1915-16, was ($102,417.72) one hundred and two thousand, four hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-two cents, colored males ($12,430.33) twelve thousand, four hundred and thirty-dollars and thirty-three cents. The total amount paid white females was ($321, 644.44) three hundred and twenty-one thousand, six hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents; colored females ($74,125.32) seventy-four thousand, one hundred and twenty- five dollars and thirty-two cents. It will be seen that colored teachers in this city receive annually ($86,555.65). Eighty-six thousand, five hundred and THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA fifty-five dollars and sixty-five cents. This amount I an average monthly salary of (7,212.97) seven thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-seven cents. If this amount could be controlled or segregated for just one week in each month, the value of the business that it would sustain and nourish would be astonishing. Superintendent Chandler in speaking of the compulsory education law declares it to be in effectiveness as to enforcement, "a rope of sand." It served though to increase the attendance in the day schools to an unprecedented extent. The humorous feature of the law is not set forth in that the school facilities of Richmond are inadequate t accommodate the pupils already enrolled much less the additional number that has been seeking admission as a result of this compulsory law. We congratulate Dr. Chandler and his corp of workers upon the truly remarkable degree of efficiency as disclosed by this report. WINCHESTER NEWS NOTES. Winchester, Va., Sept. 2.—Mrs. J. Jackson has returned from attending the Missionary Baptist Association at Kernesville, W. Va. Mr. M. B. Cooke has been visiting relatives and friends in Bethel and Millwood. Mr. Cooke lived in Millwood many years and is always glad when an opportunity presents itself for him to spend some time there. The people of Clarke are mostly farmers and have fine crops and most of the best farms which are not owned are managed by colored folks. Mr. and Mrs. William Burrell, of Bethel gave a birthday dinner on Sunday last in honor of their daughter, Lillian. On Monday evening, a german was given at the Odd Fellows Hall in Millwood, under the auspices of the building committee and a nice time was the order of the day. Little Miss Willie Colston has returned to Mt. Airy. She had been the guest of Rev. and Mrs. B. Thomas for some time. While in Clarke, Mr. Cook visited many places of interest. Among them, Carter Hall, the home of the Burrell's; Red Gate, Page Brook, Sarnatoga, Montana Hall, Spout Run, Clay Hill, Powhatan, Glennville, Mt. Airy and found all of these large estates principally worked and managed by black people. A good number of colored men in that section have been drafted for the army and are making preparation to go. On Sunday night an eloquent sermon was preached by Elder Walker Carter, or Winchester, in the old Giffield Church. This is one of the oldest churches for colored people in the country and is pastored by Rev. Allen Williams. The G. U. O. of Odd Fellows has a large membership, also the Household of Ruth. Miss Nan Fletcher is visiting in Berryville. Mrs Estelle Hall of Baltimore, is visiting Miss Bettie Jackson on South Market street. The Watermelon Social given by the Young Ladies of John Mann Church, was quite a success. It was for the benefit of the stewards. Miss Hild Jackson was chairman. Rev, and Mrs Read have returned from Hall Hill accompanied by their sister. Mrs. James Strange, of Connellsville, Pa. is visiting Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, on Main street. Mrs. Mahhung Cooke spent the week end with her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robinson, on the Valley Pike. Miss Bertha Hargrove has returned to New York from visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Potter, in Millwood. Miss Hargrove is a sister of Mrs Potter. FLORENCE NOTES. Florence, S. C., Sept. 2.—Mr. Sam Johnson, inspector for Kendall Lumber Co., of Donora, S. C. has returned to the mill with a number of laborers. Rev. B. J. Frierson, pastor of Goodville Baptist Church at Cades, closed a successful revival recently. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Garland, of Wilmington, N. C. have just returned from a pleasure trip North, visiting Richmond, Va. Washington, D. C. and other points. Mr. Carland is porter on the Wilmington-Columbia run. Mrs. Bell Richard, of Tampa, Fla. has gone to St. Paul, Minn. AMBURG NEWS. Amburg, Va., August 31.—The Mt. Bethel Association held its forty-first session at Little Ark on August 28, 29 and 30, and had a very interesting session. Among the great speakers were Prof. Winston, of Baltimore, Md, and the great evangelist, Rev. W. A. Banks of Washington, D. C. The Ladies' Missionary was highly represented and had many interesting reports. Mr. S. N. Giles, of Winchester, Va. arrived home Tuesday morning after spending fourteen hours on the boat, he enjoyed his ride very much. On Tuesday evening he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. John Burnett. On Wednesday he took a morning walk through his father's corn field and found it one of the largest crops on the Potomac River and in the evening he attended the association and listened to the fine educational sermon preached by Prof. Winston. Mrs. Cora Bumbray has returned from Washington, where she has been spending some time visiting friends. The four Misses Henry spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Henry. Mrs. Hattie Lindsey, of Newark, N. J. spent the week of the 20th with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Giles. Mr. and Mrs. James Myers have returned to their home in Steclton, Pa. Mr. Jool Giles has gone to Washington to spend some time with his brother, Wilson Giles. Mr. James Smith has returned to his home in Reading, Pa. after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Crabbing and fishing are vory fine at Somerset Beach. 108 KILLED BY GERMAN RAIDERS BARRACKS HIT BY BOMB 108 Naval Men Were Victims of Air Squadron Composed of Six Planes Dock Yard is Undamaged. In the air raid 108 persons were killed and ninety-two wounded at Chatham, it is announced officially in London. All but one of the men killed were in the naval service, as were all the wounded except six. Six airplanes took part in the raid. A despatch to the Star says that part of the naval barracks was struck by a bomb, this causing the serious loss of life. The dock air escaped damage. The official announcement says: "Lord French (commander of the home force) reports that the air raid was carried out by about six enemy airplanes, which proceeded up the south bank of the Thames estuary to Chatham. "Bombs were dropped in the Isle of Thanet and in the Sheerness Christina area between 10.40 P. M. and 11.20 P. M. There were no army casualties." "Civilian casualties reported at present are: Killed, one injured, six. The material damage was slight." Our machines went up and anti-aircraft guns came into action, but without result. "The secretary of the admiralty reports that in the course of the air raid the following casualties were caused to naval ratings: Killed, 107; wounded, 86." Chatham is on the east bank of the Medway, thirty miles southeast of London. It is the seat of immense military and naval establishments, including a vast dock yard, an arsenal and extensive barracks. The term naval ratings applies to the grade of men on board ship, usually those before the mast. WELCOMES DRAFT MEN President Wjson, With Prayer, Greete Those Entering U. S. Service. Those Entering O. S. Service. The soldiers of the national army were welcomed into the nation's service by President Wilson with a message of affectionate confidence and a prayer to God to keep and guide them. The first soldiers for the army raised under the draft law start from their homes for the training cantonments or Welfare message follows: The We Trust, Washington. "You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of the whole country is with you. Everything that you do will be watched with the deepest interest and with the deepest solicitude, not only by those who are near and dear to you but by the whole nation besides. For this great war draws us all together, makes us all comrades and brothers as all true Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good our national independence. The eyes of all the world will be upon you, because you are in some special sense the soldiers of freedom. Let it be your pride therefore, to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and straight in everything and pure and clean through and through. "Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it will be a glory to live up to it and add a new laurel to the crown of America. My affectionate confidence goes with you in every battle and every test. God keep and guide you! "WOODROW WILSON" SONG BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS U. S. Will Distribute Standard Military Music. As a means of stimulating military music rather than censoring it, a standard song book to be used in all branches of the service will be issued October 1, according to announcement by the executive committee for the supervision of music in the army and navy. The new book will contain songs suitable for singing in camp and at the front and will fit into the pockets of a khaki blouse. It is planned in all of the training camps to have mass singing conducted under the instruction of leaders of recognized ability. Original songs are to be encouraged and there will be blank space in the song books for new airs. John Alden Carpontor, the Chicago composer, will deviate his time to the standardizing the music of the army and navy bands. British Casualties 15:614 For Week. The British casualties reported in the last week are 15 614 They are divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 364; men 3880. Wounded or missing: Officers 846; men, 10,524. 1000 Sheep Perish In Fire One, thousand sheep perished in a forest fire which cut them off in the mountains at the head of Rock Creek Mont., according to reports received as headquarters of the United States for est service. British August Loss 59,811. The total british casualties on all the fronts reported in August is 59,811, divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds—officers, 1278; men, 10,942. Wounded or missing—officers, 4122; men, 48,469. URBANNA ITEMS. Uttanna, Sept. 3.—Wille cranking the engine of his gasoline beat, Mr. Virginus Thornton, Jr., had his arm badly damaged, he is much improved at this writing. Mr. John Smith was seriously hurt while working a saw mill last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Green, Miss Fannie Perry and Mr. Charlie Burrell dined with Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Lockley last Sunday. Mr. Sawood Burrell took a party of young folks out for a straw ride last Wednesday evening. Those in the party were Messrs Charlie Burrell, Roye Holmes, and Misses Fannie and Lizzie Perry, Edith Miller and Coretta Burrell. Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Carter are all smiles. Mother and daughter doing well. Mr. Jeff Braxton is yet on the sick list. A party of folks of Centre Cross, Essex County, while on a pleasure trip on the Rappahannock last Friday, stopped in our town. Those in the party were Mdunes, Nettle Corbin, Mattie Wheeler, Misses Lula Corbin, Helen Corbin, Clemie Hill, Rosa Wheeler, Druncella Wheeler, and Messrs Walter and Richard Smith, Logan Brown, Thomas Corbin Joe Watkins and Aubrey Jones, after viewing the town and enjoying them selves with those things the town afford they left again for Centre Cross by way of Bowlers Whf. They came down on Mr. Wheeler's gasoline launch the "Mattie C." BATCHELOR WANTS TO FIND HIM I am very anxious to find the where abouts, if he he still alive, or to find the address of his relatives, if he is dead, of William Scott, who till some time in June of this year lived at 2195 E. 31st St. Cleveland, O., with a Mrs. Mletcher. Sickness caused him to return to his home near Richmond and he has not been heard from since. P. O' CONNELL. 2334 E. 855 A. F. Cleveland, O. RONCEVERTE NEWS. Ronceverte, W. Va, Sept. 2.—Rev. L. H. Carpenter preached two able sermons Sunday. Misses Helen Woodby and Viviana Burger spent Sunday in Alderson, W. Va. Mrs. L. B. Johnson was a business visitor in Hinton, W. Va. Rev. G. H. Carter spent a few days in Charlottesville, Va. in Charlottesville, Va. Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Carpenter, Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Blanche Burks, Miss Mary E. Johnson and Mr. Harry Lacey have returned from Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Lizzie Brown, Mrs. Lula Moore and son, Mrs. Henry Morton, Mrs. Lula Peck and Miss Orlean Sweeney have returned from Rich- mond, Va. Mr. Clarence Elridge has returned from Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Clarence Allen is spending a day with her mother Let Cephas do your Renting: Office 535 1-2 North Second street. Tele- phone. Randolph 588 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. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of September, 1917. IN VACATION. MARYLAND BARBER....Plaintiff against In Chancery SYBELIA BARBER....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sybela Barber is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy: Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUPCFIELD, p. q. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited John Mitchell, Jr., President BALTIMORE BY BOAT. The most delightful W YORK RIVER New S Fares Between Rich $3.00 2. The most delightful Water Trip in America YORK RIVER LINE New Steamers. STATEROOMS, wi Leave Richmond 5:10 P. M. For Information and Tickets MAGRUDER DENT, D 907 E. Main St. Richmond MAKING OUR BLOOD BOIL STATEROOMS, with Two Berths, $1.25 Leave Richmond 5:10 P. M. Arrive Baltimore 7 A. M. For Information and Tickets, Apply to MAGRUDER DENT, Division Passenger Agent. 907 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. Phone: Madison 272 Belgian Girls Forced to Work in Mines Operated by Germans. 1 Photo by American Press Association. This is one reason why American troops are fighting in France. These British troops, captured by the enemy, are forced to retreat. What other tortures they have suffered probably will never be known. Buried Alive 12 Hours Caught in a rush of coal while starling batteries at the Suffolk mine at Mahanoy City, Pa., Frank Rooney, twenty-three, was carried 100 feet down a chute and held prisoner twelve hours. Alarge rock held back the mass from crushing him. Six thousand engineers and 4000 laborers are soon to leave for France. This was learned officially. A greater number will follow shortly. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA,-- FLOUR -- Firm, Straight, $10@10.50; city mills, $13.25 @13.50; RYE FLOUR—Quiet; per barrel, $2.5@10. WHEAT—Nominal. 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(100 extra for postage) AGENTS OLYMPUS - Hair Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Face Cream and Direction for Belling. $25.00 extra for postage --- es oN SLAVS AND GUNS CAPTURED AT RIGA German Warships Rain Shes on Fleeing Russians, GITY AFIRE AT MANY POINTS Prince Leopolt’s Troops —_Breal Through Foe's Line in the Grea Jaegel District, See. ee | Several thousands of Russians were takon prisoners by the Germans it thelr drive in the Rigi wogion, culmin ating in the capture of thet strong hold. | In addition more than 150 guns were taken by Ure German forces in the Great Jaegel river district. This in formation was contained in an officts Announcement from Berlin, whleh alse sald that the city was on fire at many points, ‘Tho Russhan war office sald the Rus stan retiroment was belng continue along the coast in a northoasterly al roction anit that hostil@ ‘warships are shelling the Riga coast. & the Uskull istrict, the statemeny adds, the Rus. slans aro retiring northward, having deen dislodged by the Germans in the Great Jaegel river region. The Russian war oflice announce mont follows: “In the direction of Riga .on Mon Aay our troops evacuated the town ot Riga and blew up behind them the fortifications at the mouth af. the Dvina and bridges across the Dvina The rotirement ts hetng continned along the coast in a northeasterly di roctian. ‘Phe villages of Kalli, about twenty-seven miles south of Pernas (100 miles north of Riza), Matnashtn Koshoul and Pidzo, on the Gulf of Riga coust, are being shelled by enemy ships, “In tho direction of Uxkull on Mon day the Germans continued to doveloy thelr success in a northerly direction toward the Valenrode-Rakft.rond and fn a northeasterly “direction, ‘Towards evening the enemy dislodged owt troops in the Great Jackel region, pon: etrating our positions on a front of thirteen versts (about nine mites) In tho roglon of Valonrode and occupying {t. Our troops are rettring northward following tho enemy's — ponetration measures were taken for tho readjust mont of our front. “Rumanian front: Ir the direction of Czernowllz, in the region south of tho village of Slobedzola, enemy at tacks wero repulsed with Heavy otemy doses. ‘There were fusillades on the romalnder of tho front.” The German army headquarters an nouncement follows: “Army group of Prince T.eopold: After two days of Aghting the army under the leadership of Infantry Gon eral yon Hutler took frem the west and southeast the city of Riga, which was ablaze at many points, Our ex perlenced fighters everywhere broke down the Russian resistaneo and tp an Impotuous forward thrust overcame every obstacle presented by the woods and marshes. ‘The Russians very hurriedly evacuated thelr _oxtensive bridgehead west of the Dvina and Riga, and our divisions now stand be fore the mouth of the Dvina, {Dense masses of troops are crowd ing along the roads from Riga in a northeasterly direction in both day ‘and night marehes. * “South of the great road and on both sides of the Great IJnogel strone Russian forcos wore thrown against ‘our troops In desperate and sanguinary attacks to cover the withdrawal of the dofeated twelfth army. In a_ bitter struggle they were overcome by out aasanits and tho Great Road has been Teached at several points by our di visions, Some thousands of Russians wero made prisoner and more than 15¢ guns and countless war materials wore captured. ‘The battle near Riga is another glorious pago in the history, of the German army.” ARREST WHITE HOUSE PICKETS Suifragists Taken For Demonstration During Parade. Militants of the Natlonal Woman's party mado the procession in honor of men selected for the national army the occasion for more picketing of the ‘Whito House. Pickets began appearing at the White House gates and as the police arrested them others took their places The women anrouneed they — would keep up the battle as long as the sup. ply of plekers held out. ‘The supply of pickets kept steadily coming to the White House gates as fast as the police made the arrests An hour before the procession started thirteen had been token In. After that the picketing stopped. Grand Duko Michael Arrested, Grand Duke Mlchacl Alexandro viteh, brother of the farmer emporor and his wife, have been placed undor arrost in Petrogead In connection with the cbunter revolutlonary plot re. contix unearthe?. According to the Den, Duke Dmitri-Pamtovitch atso hae Deon arrested f ADMIRAL KNIGHT | 5 Naval Officer Honored by Citizens | of Yokohama, PPO OO PSCC OCOES MO S ee a. Po oe fs OO ae Be Se. eit “Cok A ie ea Oe Sak aS NS) CO aie om ry ee ne \. ae ao (SRR SS Eras oo & yore E co . oe mt Wa ae oy a Ey A Photo by American Mess Axsociattom, AIRMEN RAID ROLA Great Fires Started in Austrian Naval Buss by ftallan Aviators: Thirty Hain airy nes dropped ning fonsfot bombs on the Austrian nave base at Pol, causing destruction en largo contlazrations, 1018 announced offlctally tn Rome, Flying andor favorable atmospherk conditions, the raiders bombarded. the military works and the eyemy tiect af anchor in the harbor and In the Masa na canal, ‘The Ttallan machines, although at tacked hy seaplines und shelled by antlalreratt batteries, returned safely to their bases, ‘Auistrian Chief ef Statr-at Erant. Uline, Sept. 5.—tield Marshal yoo Arz, chicl of staff of the Austrian ar my. fs reported to be inspecting the Malian front for the purpose of reo Rantaing his treops, demoralized bs many recent defeats, Meanwhile the Italians continue their steady advance and are sproading over a larged tract of the country especially through the Rrestovizzs valley and over the Mainsizen plateau capturing trench after trench, Th some cases they are finding contin gonts of Avstrian troops, Hterally ex hausted and sufforing from thirst ang Inhger, their means of communication having bon cut off by the well direct ed Ttalinn fire. Monte. San Gabrioia sttil:ts, mating desperate offorts at resistance. Tall an pickets are rradually ereoping wy the slopes, making ffs fall only a mat ter of time, when, as ofeers Inugh {ngly say, “te Austrians execute an other stratogical retreat.” U. S. BUYS $2 20 WHEAT Through a Misunderstanding a Lite is Sold Above That Price, There was just one buyer Inthe Chieago wheat market, and he didn't even visit the board of trade, THe was Unele Sam and he had an office In the Otis building, two blocks from the board, ‘Thore” was one haste price, $2.20 fixed by President Wilson, ‘Tho meth od pursued was yery simple. ‘The man who reveived the wheat had it placed fn an clovator, obtained a receipt from tho elevator, fook his receipt to the Otis building and got his money, ‘Through a misunderstanding a ttle spot wheat sold at slightly above the government basis, but the local rapre sentative of the food administrator issned a warning that there must be No repetition of the offense, UPHOLD GOVERNOR Allowing Pacifists to Meet. ‘The Chicago city council, in speclal session, after three hours’ diseusston, adopted a resolution commending Governor Lowden for his stand against permitting pacifist agitation In TMlinots ‘Tho resolution requires the state ex ecutive to prevont the holding of ans meeting fn the future whieh may he Inimical to public safety or disloyal or troasonnble to the United States, The resolution was adopted by a vote of 42 to 6, (The resolution, by“Implication, con. domns tho action of Mayor Thompson, To permitted a meeting of the Pooples’ Council for Democracy and Penco in deflance of the govornor's order.) Campana Captain a Captive, | Coptain Oliver, of the American tant or Campana, and 4 naval gunners, De Janey, Roop, Kine and Jacobs, ‘whe were taken prisoners when thelr ship was sunk receutly hy a German sub: marino, are ina prison camp at Bran denburg, Prussia, ‘This news came by cable to the American Red Cross from Geneva: Kills Woman, Shoots Wite. Albert ¥fenatefek shot afid kit ed Mrs, Catharine Frick ina King street lodging house in Wtnington Del., kept by her. fe also shot and serfously wounded his wife, Jevlouy is sald to have been the Incentive Fitzpatrick was arrested. Tis wife ‘was sent to a hospital, $100,000 Fire in Wilmington, Fire in Wilmington, Del, cans ed $100,000 damage to the iF, Blo. menthal morocco leather factory, one of the Jargest in the world. Four fire men were Injure'l by a collapsing Iad- der, three sertously, THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE BARRETT CASE Bae Bee aga ace i mage ee ta lea in the person of W. L, Lancaster, of Farmville, white Mr. Lancaster, ina signed statement, reiterates his asser- Gon that Mr. Watkins is under an egregios mistake, and that he had deveined to ady'se’ Aubrey Barrett, in view of the ruling of Judge Hundley on the intructions in the trial of the father. Mr, Laneaster’s statement and from the evidence of those present at the trial, the Negro boy was tried without counsel, without a Jury, was Induced to change his plea from not guilty to guilly Was too ignorant of the forms oY law lo note an exception or entor a protest on which his ease be given a foochold in the Supreme Court, and practically on his own admission ot the killing of W. 'T. Roach: in defense of his father, when Roach had cotne to the Barrett place without a war- rant or due authority of arrest, and had there started a fight with’ the eliler Barrett, was sentenced to exe: cution, Governor Stuart’s sation in ‘granting « respite of nitty days offer: ed the only way of examining into tho conticting claim and insaring that Justice was being done. jupan HUNDLEY IssuEs | SIGNED STATEMENT | ‘rho stater ent of Judge Mundley follows: ‘To the Bditor of the 'Times-Dispateh: —Sir:—My attention has heen call: ed (oa statement from Mr, Lancaster in this morning's paper, to whieh T make a brief reply. I shall not enter into a contest of memory with him, hor shall Tsay an unkind word about him. T feel no unkindness toward him He knows that T have had occasion to show him that more than once. T at: fach hereto a statement from. Judge A.D, Watkins, who acted for the Com- monwealth in the Barrett cases, which austains every statement of fart made by me in my previous article and with a few words more as to Mr. Lan castor’s statement, T shall avatl my self of tho opportunity to say gome: (hing oF the tondeney of such a pro: ceeding as this to undermine and dix. credit the authority of the courts, and to ercato distrust in the minds of ignorant and unthinking people, T repeat here with emphasis that not only did Lancaster act as counsel for both of the Barretts, but that af: ter the father's conviction he camo up to me on the henek-and stated to ine privately that te bof would change his plea of “not guilty,” “to guilty," and asked me if T would send him to a reformatory, and T told him that 1 Would make no promises, but would hear the whole ease and ‘then decide and afterwards he spoke of withdraw ing from the ease, but T saw him con. suiting with both prisoners, and when T spoke to him and asked’ him what he would do about it, ho said in open court that the boy would change his ‘as stated, I thought, and had the right to think, from all that passed, that whilst he vad decided to mate no defense for the boy, that he was ALI spanking ag the lewyer to whom had"been committed the defense o} both father and son, SAYS NOY'S CONFESSION . LEFT TMT NO DEFENSE | Mr. Laneaster does not assert, not would any one believe, that he’ wa: only employed to defend the father. 1 concluded that as they had wsed the hoy as a witness for his father anc Know that the boy's confession had left him no defense, he intended t make none for him. When 1 said it my former statement that “canna believe Mr. Lancaster is hase enough fo desert one of his clients, and ther not even Intimate to the Judgo tha his Kent had a defense." Twas sim ply trying to relieve him from th piliable position that officious Inter sddlers had put kim in, Unfortunat ly, though. Mr. Lancaster has put him Self into a worse position. He say: now this boy had a good dofengo, bu T having rofused an instruction ho of fered in the father's ease (to whiel refusal he knows, and will not deny he expected et the time he determines not to make defense for the hoy, 11 knows, cr ought to know, that he coul have had a jury and offer that sam instruction in the ease of the boy, anc when refused he contd have had 1 Suspension of the execution of sen tence, and taken both cases to th court of Appeals. Why did he not d , this? Can he explain such a’ gros: dereliction of duty? He says that threatened to fine him when ho at tempted to argue to the jury in th father's ease the law stated by hin in the instruction offered by hin which T had refused. Of course, T conk not allow him to argue against. th law that Thad given, but ho had hi remedy, and if T was wrong, the Cour of Appeals could have coreected thi error. BVM, OF MAKING * | ATTACKS ON COURTS But enough of this; T go now to ¢ few observations on the ovil that fs done by such attacks on the courts as fittingly Mustrated by this case. Hor {tivo counties were so stirred to th dontha Ge tha: arth At this coke But enough of this; ¥ go now to a fow observations on the ovil that ts done by such attacks on the courts as fittingly Mustrated by this case, Here two counties were so stirred to the denths by the horror of this murder where a good and peaceable eltizen was murdered by two thieves whom he discovered had stolen his proper: ty. They admitted in court that they had stolen his pronerty, and they not only murdered him, but robbed him. of his watch and money, shockingly mutilated the dead body ‘and Mid it In the woods. Five hundred good peo- ple were about to lynch tho murder- ers, when a vigilant Governor called the courts to his afd, and the peonte Quietly siffmitted and trusted tho courts to do their duty. When the court haw acted, what do we seo? Outsiders far from the scene, rush into print and spread false and slan- derous charges and Insimuations, against the judeo who prestded at the trial. And then the attorney em ploved (and paid. T presume) to de- fend these thieves and — murderers rushes inty print to sustain, as far as ho can, these standers, and con- fosses his own dereliction’ {n the du- ty of an attorney. What is the effect of sue things as this? “Dy their fruits you shall know thom.” It fa bitter fruft indood. From snch seeds aprung the tree that bote the Allin fruit In (vrroll, where tmavo and in the discharge of their duties, for daring to enforce the Jaw against such 4 vand ot outlaws as never before dis graced old Virginia. And then we had the scandalous spectacle of good peo- ple forgetting that these otticers of the law died to preserve their liber: ty and their property, going to the extent of raising even a greater stand ard in tneir effort to have ono of these outlaws pardoned, simply — be- cause he was young and handsome and because he was only aiding his father to shoot up a court of Justice. Of course ‘Mis boy should have his sentonce commuted or be pardoned because ne was only alding his father to murder a man whose property he had stolen, | Seed TAT BRINGS PORTH LYNCHINGS, ‘This is the soed that brings forth the vitier fruit of Iynchings, of which we have had an illustration recently. I have never had a lynching in my cirenit, thuogh * have tried men for all the erlmes fn the catalogue, and why? Am I claiming too muoh If 1 say that it is because my people Know tnat 1 enforce atthe laws? Now It seems Tam reaping the rich reward of having my name brought before the public through falschood and slander by the apologists of mur: der and theft, As a judge who is capable of utterly ignoring the rights of an ignorant and frightened Negro boy, and inducing him to plead gull: ty in order that T might sentence hin to death, has it come to this—that any Ignoramys or erank can at tls will hesmirch the reputation of any Judge, and have the newspapers spread his” slanders roadcast over the State? But T do not complain for my self, great as is the ‘power of the press for good or evil, and judges and courts are amenable to fait criticism by people who have the character and standing -ntitling thom to be heard, but should not the pross be very care fal how tt uses that power or lends it to others? Tf my long tite and character cannot withstand unjust as persions, then T have lived in. vain, but it is for the fair name of our courts of justice that T speak, for that is assailed in my person. ‘The rolen of law and the integrity of the courts are the ehier safeguards of our free Institutions, Do we “discern the signs of the times?" Do we realize that this old world and its elviliaa- {ion are rocking and trembling in the Utanie struggle between the forces of Kood and evil—between anarchy and chaos and taw and order. Do we realize that one great nation’ in grasp ing at freedom has sunk into the bol- tomless plt of socialism, anarchy and omer lawlessness? Look abroad — in ovFown land, and note the increase in crime, rape, arson, murder and theft, Note the teachings and the acts of the TW. W. Noto that treas- on and disregard of all aw is openly advorated in tho streets of our cities, and Jet us tremble for the fate of our institutions. | (Signed) GEORGE MUNDLEY. Farmville, Va., August 23, 1917, | ACTING PROSECUTOR ALSO ISSUES” STATEMENT 1 The statement of former Judge A. D. Watkins, who was acting Common: wealth’s Attorney in the Barrett eas: cs, follows: ‘Vo ‘The Faitor of The Times-Dispateh: Sir:—A brie? statement of my recol- lection of the evidence in and con- uct of lie (rial of the Barretts for the inueder of Willlam ‘T, Roach, of Charlotte County follows: Tt was disclosed in the evidence that on July 10, 1917, Roach, toseth er with Collins, went to Barrett's farm, suspecting that wheat had been stolen from his. field. ‘The Rarretts, after being convinced of the fact that Roach had the proof of the larceny, ‘admitted it, Roach sent Collins for a warrant of arrest. ‘The elder Barrett tried to make a settlemont with Roach to avoid arrest and trial. ‘This Roach would not agree to. When Collins was away the elder Barret attempted to run away. Roach ran after him and caught him, Both fell to _ the ground, the elder Barrett ndmitted that Roach held him by the coat, and claimed that he though Roach’ was trying to choko him; that he called to his boy, who was some distance off; {0 come and get Roach off; that the hoy did come, and, having ‘picked up a chestnut stick, dealt Roach a blow on the back of the head; that the father with a large Rock finished him that the body was then carried to the place where found; that after the Kill ing a small sum of money and a watch the property of the deceased, was tak en by the boy; that no rock or stick was found near the scene or claimed to be the instruments used; that both prisoners voluntarily confessed to tho killing, each giving substantially the facts a above narrated. Dr. Walker, who mado the examina tion of the dead hody of Roach, test- jfied that he-found a wound on the back of the head, the siull broken in and the brains oozing out; that. the wound had bled considerably; that this wound was sufficient to produce death; that on the front of the head was a wound in and across the face in and near the eyes; that this wound was inflicted by some instrument which cleaved the skull just above the eye, and that this wound was suf law of this caso, SAYS LANCASTER CONSULTED BOY IN OPBN COURT ‘That upon the trial of the boy, who had, through counsel, Mr. Lancaster, therefore, plead “not guilty,” and clected to be tried soparately, when again brought to the bar and atter his counsel had intimated that he counsel for the boy, was considering the advisability of | withdrawing tho plea of “not guilty” and pleading “guilty,” submitting all the questions of law and fact to the court, counsel for the boy, after apparently’ consult: ing with the boy and advising him in open court, stated that he had done aul he could and further, that he would no longer reprasent the prisoner, and, thorefore, the court advise tho boy of hiv rights, and fully explained to him that he ‘could be irled by a jury on hip plea of “not guilty,” but that the wourt could not try him on such & plea, and that he (the prisoner) had the right to plead in the way he de sired; tho boy then, in (ho. presence of hin former counsel, and his father, formally withdrew his plea of "not guilty” and plead “gulls to the charge in the indiegment, that then the court caused evidence to bo tak- en, whick was as to tho killing, In substanco, what has been stated above and in addition, evidenco was taken upon the question of the age of tho prisoner, and it was shown’ that he Was between sixteen and seventecn years of age. One witness, who claim cu to have known the prisoner all his life, stated that the boy might bo @ little more Gian govenieen or a Mitte less, Slammed) A.D. Watkins. Acting Prosecuting. Attornoy. Farmville, Va., August 28, 1917 LANCASTER DRNIBS ‘TAT * HE REPRESENTED Boy \ W. I, Lancaster, of — Farmyvilto, who appeared as counsel for the older Barrett, issued tho following signed statement, denying that he had ropre- sented the boy, or had advised fim privately or publicty: To ‘The Hdltor of ‘The Tintes-Dispateh: Sir:—Ex-Judgo A.D. Watkins give ca his verston of the Rarrett ensex— whethei at the request of Judge Hund- ley or not, who eares A.D. Watling, my friend (and, 1 am gla to gay, disiant relation.) is under an egregious mistake. Tf ho had read what T wrote, i, ¢, that T refused lo plea or advise Aubrey Narrett what plea to enter, saying T would not. as: sume the responsibility, T know he would not deny the same untess, tn Nfs goodness of heart or his weakness of mind, he would allow truth to slumber’ for the sake of pleasing a frignd or protecting himself. Asa says when Albert Barrett, failing. to compromive, attempted to ‘escape, Mr, Roaeh “aid hold on him, aud in hold ing him they hoth fell to the ground, aud in the same breath he says: “Tes: timony was that the older Barrett called for iis son to come and take Roach off. The younger Jarrett took UD A Jarge stick and struck Roach on the back of the head. Roach was stunned, and partially "fell to the ground,’ Now, it Roach was on the ground in the first Instance, could ho bo fell ed to the ground; either by a stick or a large stick? If ex-Judge Watkins is so fair, why Aid he not say that the testimony was that Roach pursued Albert 150 yards, Albert fell over a brush pile, and was down, being choked, when’ Aubrey Barrett struck the fatal blow. with the chestnut stick, by request or command of his father? T have stated that the words at. tributed to Albert, “T have finished him," were not uced. Should [have failed to hear this, T eannot fail to know, and no truthful man in the courtroom at Charlotte who could hear but knows, that T withdrew from Aubrey’s case, did not advise ot plead Tor him, and he had no counsel, either in myselt or another. and that T did not waive the jury for him, Juces Watkins says that T intimat- €A to him that T would plead. guilty for the Woy, or had advised the boy to plead guilty. ‘This statoment can bo accounted for only as follows: |When the petit Jury was inte room considering its verdict in the Albert Marrett ease, T asked Judgo Watkins, in the presence of Mr, Light and ‘Tom Watkins, considering the boy's ago, ‘could he not, upon tho plea of guilty ‘he confined ‘in the penitentiary oF jsent to the publie roads or even to the Teformatory, heroupon Judge Wat- kins suggested that T talk to Judgo Hundley, and T went to him while up- on the bench and asked him ff the boy, Aubrey pleaded guilty could ho not, under law, considering the boy's age, send him ‘to the reformatory or put him upon the public roads, To this question Judge Hundiey made no satisfactory answer. T then asked him it, upon the plea of guilty, he could ‘not fix some punishment ‘less than the death penalty, He replied: "I will make no promises” or "I will make you no promises.’ . | T repeat that T neither advised the boy, privately nor publicly, what plea to onter, | Take the statement of Judge A, D. Watkine t,t ene Of Judge A, D. ACCOMAO NEWS. Mr. and Mrs, Loven Ayres, of Machinongo, wero the guest of Mrs, Willian Heath, near Belle Haven. Mrs, Georgo Richardson l6ft for Baltimore, September 3rd. Mrs. Sarah B. Smith, after a few months work at Frinktown, has now returned to het home with her sister, Mrs. Willlam Hoath, near Bello Ha ven, Master G. Ty Smith ts loarning to use his old pipo right good now. Sunday, at home, while his fathor and mother, Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Smith attended church. 4 GENERAL SURVEY OF WEDNESDAY. The Russian armfos continue to show perilous weakness at critical polnts, In the Fokshant region on the Rimanian front a Russtan diviston avandoned Sts positions and fled in disorder. A Geneva report says ‘Tew tonic forces have tnvaded the Russian province of Nessarabia, Stormy weather apparently ts ham: pering military activittes on the Fran. coBelsiin front. ‘The Bellish, after completing a successful operation nowt Langemarek, contented themselves with clearing out a Gezman advance! position in front of tho new British Hine, Apparently ther atso ts a halt in major activities on the French front in the Verdun zexton, and: the of: patgn which Genéral Cadorna ts = Ins on the Isonz0 front against the Austrians, —— THURSDAY. AINitary operations on the Franco Helgign front continue to be of a mtno nature, ‘The oftictal report from Purl shows tho sthiation along the French Tinos tp be one of temporary-deadiock Two German attacks In the Cham pagno region cast of Teton were re pulsed, as were German attempts push back French posts in the Verdon rexion north of Vagisles Patsmoss ‘There was active artileny fehtine th the Verdun region and In the Atsne svetor, Rome reports the repntse of Austrtar vounter atlacks in the Tsonzo region ‘The Halians held all posittons firmly, and oven gvinel ground at points ‘They took 540 prisoners: Potroerad report further quittin: of Russian soldian€ hefdre the enoms near Foksbam, on the Rumantan front Te fs stated tht measures azo tobe ened by the Tevton advance, FRIDAY. None of the three big etmpaigns now In progress on western fronts seems again to have jot into fall swiss Gen eral Cadorna, on the. Austro-Talian front, apparently fs in the midst of one of the paysés charneteristie of virtw ally all drives agatust strongly fort Ned positions In this war, Goerers! Hig reports the repulse o! A German rekon the British five mites sontheast of Lens, in Franee, London war office intinations ave that an arti levy battle te bein carried an in vir fustly eoutimous form in préparation for the next forward trust. Genoral Petain's report indteates: 2 possible speety renewal ef the ‘nant ty battle at Verdun, French asters fon both sides of the Meuse fs bombard ing the German Maes. ‘The German: have shown some activity In Alsves making an attack near THartnymns weller-Ikopt, whieh the French repuls ed. SATURDAY. ‘Turning to the aggressive on the Aisne front, the French havo atruch a sharp and heavy blow at the Germatr crown prince's nes. Tn a swift thrust General Petain's forees bounded for ward more than 300 yards on a front of more thay threequarters of a mil in the Hurteblse region on the Chemin des-Dames, between Craonne and Cor ny. This. stroke seems to have giver Petain a firm hold on the ground. The repulse of three counter attacks is ro Ported. The attack followed a week of almost total inactivity on the Frenct front. ‘Thero are signs in tho increas: of artillery fire on the Planders front that a renewal of more active opera tions by the British may not be fa: distant, Advices from the Ttalian front show Genevat Cadorna again is hammorins at the Austrian lines. He is improving his positions to the south, in the direc ton of Trieste and on the northert front cast of Gora, SUNDAY. The Germans are knocking virtuall at the gates of Riga, and with th Russians apparently unable to with stand their ndvance. On the Traitan front General Cador na's forces have extended their gain: on the Br8stovizza plateau, on th slopes of Mcgte San Gabriele and cas of Gorlzia, and have taken additiona nrisoners and war stores from the Aus trans. Plve Italian atrplanes hav flown from the Italian front over Vien ha and dropped pamphlets tolling th Austrlan people of the vietory of th Itallans from ‘Tolmino to the sea, In Belgium the British big guns are continuing 10 bombard violently the Gorman positions, evidently. preparing the way for another smash at Crows Prince Rupprecht’'s front. ‘The infant ry activity here and also to the soutl in France is mainly in the nature y! ralding operations, MONDAY. | Riga, Russia's principal Baltte port has been abandoned to the German: under the threat of an offensive bj land and sea. Its fate virtuslly wa: sealed when German troops forced « crossing of {ho Dvina southoast of the city and began to push northward Menaced also by an advance from Mi tau, southwest of Riga, and by Gor man naval forees recently reported hovering noar the Gulf of Riga, the Russian military authorities evident considered the city no longer tenablo Tho success of the Talians aro re ported by the war office. South o! Gozz, Cadorna’s forces havo advancad in the Rrestovizza valley, ropelling ar Austrian counter attack, Bresh German attacks on the Atsn wore heaton off by the French, Heavy artillery actions are geported on the Verdun front, Flour $10.75 to $11 Bartel, | The best grades of flour wil probably sell for from $40.75 te $11. a barrel as the result of fixing $2.20 as the price of wheat. ‘This { According to statements by local flow manufacturers, Fancy patents aro now quoted as $12.25 « barrel, __FIVE re $00 PANTS merse AGE 4S, Ol grey eon mc Nosauasharae for tency eral ae, om Gira uaeieaig Sane gat gar saginen at ace GENS sets eae te cece eee, HT Tllepen arenes henanererzman iA siczomaiceer ates HA pe gilettor or wontal and aay” Sond WH AM ahedeue Hae tree Ore ct ts nor A Snfnoentma charger Wate todas AY AY on GVICKERBOCKER TAILORING ch Dept, 718 Chicago, Tl. Or GERMANY MAY i : | ' BID FOR PEACE New Cffer May Come Before Christmas, Amsterdam Hears Berlin Government Hopes to Start Negotiations—Wante Conference to Mect at The Hague, According to the most relinble authority in Amsterdam the next session of the German reieustag will Bo devoted to the questions of peace, ‘Tho majority has decided to chat lenge the statement of the goverament regarding its minimum peace progritm It is said tw government will yfeld, with a view to peace negotiations be fore Citristmas, The German government, according to this authority, favors the plenipo tentlarios mecting either at The Hague oF at Berne or at Copenhagen, but pre: ferably Tho Hague, ope eels Note, Vorwaerts Says ‘The Verlin Vorwaerts, the Sooke tst organ, in commenting on President Wilson's reply to the pope, says: “he American note ts’ a canttous and clever document, tt is a passion ate Indictment to amend the systent of Fovernment obtatning In Germany, te which It attributes all the world's atro eltlos, Against the German people the note sets forth that Ameriea docs not want to retaliate, inasmuch as tt has in the course of this war, whieh tt did not want, suffored much, “That is undoubtedly a very corzcet observation that tye German people aid not want tis wan, and In Ite course has snffered’ much, Rear that yet worso might come, keeps ft awake in defonse. “The Amertean government repeat edly declared it doos not harbor onmt sty against “the German. people, but proof of this assertion has not been furnished. Tt ean only ho establishos in a@ demonstrationn of America's wil that tho German people are not to be robbed and made to pay tribute to its enemies, “The note cautiously omits refer once to thts point, which Is of decisive Importance to the German people. TL does not support the intemnity and territorial demands of Amertea's alles nor does it relinquish them, “Tt will be sald in France, however that the nate docs not mention these things. Only the word satisfaetion per mits a wide interpretation with Ger many so long as the prosont govern ment system obtains. Tt demands tha the will of the people back up govern ment transactions. “A section of the German press wit hasten to say that It would be uniigni fled for the German people to give such surety. On the contrary, we ba Hevo ft wonld be undignified to re fuse, “The Gorman people are fighting thir most terrible of battles not for the rights of a single famfly, or a cortair form of government, ‘but for its owr existence. ; “In this sonse and tn no other, the German Social Domooracy entered inte the defense of the nation. Social Do moeracy in {ts endeavor to obtain at tered constftutlonal conditions refuse to employ methods calculated to weak on tho nation's defenses. “Shall {t be sald of us Germans that Negotiations with the United Stator are impossible because we as a nation | of helots are incapable of asserting our own will? Do we deserve this after years of fighting and suffering after achievements and sncriflees with ‘out measure and numbers?” Girl Shot by Playmate, Miizabeth Mayer, ten years of age daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Harry May er, of Dover, Del, 1s nave deatit frome a bullet wound tn ber abtomen, ‘The ehild and her sister were playing al tho home of James M. Saterfeld, dept ty attorney general, on Dover Greon when a revolver in the hends of James M, Satterfield, Jr., was accidentally dts charged. ‘The Willet struck the girl Doctors say there Is Httle hope of her recovery, {860,000 Fire at Boyertown. Boyertown. Pa, was visited py a $60,000 fire. | twin Reitnan's livery ‘stable wos barre! with fou horses and many gwom-biles, ‘The building was owned by the Lancs Brewing company, of Rea‘ne, ane the loss is estimate! at g2h,o09 The Central Mouse was en'ted to the extont gf $25,000. Oter newby bufld ings were also damaged, Thousands Lost in Fire, Several thousands persons are Feportgd | to ave boon “kita! ane injured inn fire which swept ike city Af Kazan, on abe Kazanke river, 420 miles east cf Meseow, early Inst week. ‘The fre burned for thirty six hours, wlrising most of the popula tion oufside the city.