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THE RICHMOND PLANET Virginia State Library VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 44 THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION MEETS GOV. WILLIAMS WELCOMES THE 4,000 DELEGATES TO THE BIG BAPTIST MEETING. Loyalty of country and patriotism were evinced in the hearts of four thousand Negroes this morning in convention as they sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee," led by the Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham, of Philadelphia. This is what greeted Governor Robert L. Williams, who welcomed to the state the thousands of Baptists from almost every state in the union, and a few foreigners who make up the 37th session of the National Baptist Convention. Dr. E. C. Morris, of Helena, the sage of the Negro race, who has held the position of president of the convention for the past quarter of a century, presided at the opening. In calling the convention to order he said: While this is by far the largest attended session of the National Baptist convention, yet we hope and predict it will be the most peaceable, and will do the most constructive work for the whole race and denomination of any hitherto held. GOVERNOR IS PRESENTED "I realize that we are meeting in one of the most progressive cities in the southwest, and especially is this true as applied to the people of our race, and I am sure that you will receive every encouragement to go forward." Concluding his remarks Dr. Morris presen't Dr. E. L. Arlington Wilson, chairman of the local committee who served as master of ceremonies, and introduced Lawyer T. S. Brown, who in turn introduced Governor Robert L. Williams GOVERNOR OF ALL SAYS WILLIAMS, "I come here today as Governor of this great new state," said Governor Williams, "to welcome this convention. I come here because it is my duty to come. I come because it is right for me to come, I am Governor of all the people of Oklahoma. I am a southern born white man. I was born with in one hundred miles of the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Alabama. I come in the performance of every right and duty as Governor, and I am Governor of the Negro race as well as of the white race and every other race within the borders of this state. This is our country. We have one country, one flag, one nation, one president, one God. "I hope the deliberations of this convention will result in good. I feel that your earnest endeavors will be for the glory of our country, and to sustain this great country in this great crisis in this great war. I am sure that your people are loyal and will do your duty. Again it is a great pleasure to me to welcome you to this state as the Governor of Oklahoma." MAYOR A SPEAKER Mayor J. E. Wyand was introduced as the friend to humanity, the mayor of Muskogee. He welcomed the convention to the city. He said that the governor had set the standard for brevity and he would follow, because he was sure that such a large convention had much to do, and but little time to be spent in m.aking speeches. He said that in proportion as the Negroos prepared themselves they would find open to them the door of opportunity. He held up the late Booker T. Washington as the standard for the American Negroos, and if his life was cumulated, there would be no race problem. He said that it had been his delight to encourage every man in the city, white or black, who was worthy of encouragement. "The Negro who lives his life as a good moral, intelligent upright man, will find no race problem for him." )WHITE CHURCHES WELCOME. Rev. J. K. Thompson, of the Presbyterian Church extended welcome for all the other white churches of the city, and his address was short and practical, full of wit and humor. He assured the Negro that he felt that his loyalty to country and flag was the same as his own or any other white man. He said that white riding with the Governor, the chief executive of the state had said that there had not been a single Negro who had claimed exemption, but all were ready and willing to do what the country would have them do. F. S. Monroe, superintendent of the public schools of Muskogee, in his address of welcome made an appeal for the Negro youth, and urged that every boy and girl of school age would be placed in the school and kept there. He spoke of 1900 boys and girls now in the schools, being taught by 40 teachers. "The church is a great institution for good," he said "because the souls of men must be saved and right by its side is to be found the school room." Other addresses were delivered by Rev. I. C. Nicholson, C. E. Corbitt, Rev. S. M. Twine, A. G. W. Sango, Rev. H. C. Reed, E. D. Jefferson, P. M. Delaney, W. A. McKinney, and W. T. Hodges. OKLAHOMA A GARDEN Rev. E. W. Perry, for the Negro Baptists of the state, said: "We welcome you to Oklahoma, because it is a veritable garden cast of the hot winds, north of hard times, west of boll weevil, and south of panic. I represent the sentiment of a thousand Baptist preachers in the state, some of whom are gospel submarines, sons of thunder, cannon, Gattling guns, breech loaders, self-accenters, rifles, pistols, poppuns, fire crackers and matches." Rev C. T. Walker, D. D., of Augusta, Georgia, who is termed the "Black Spurgeon," one of the most noted and most eloquent Negro preachers in the country, responded to the addresses touching everything that had been said, and assured the governor, the mayor, and all white people that the Negro had always been loyal and ever would be, and that in all of the hardships to which his people had been subjected in this country, it had never produced a traitor, but when called upon was ever ready to give their lives on the altar for the flag, "I have known that this was our country for a long time," he said, for the first blood spilled for its independence was that of Crispus Attacks on the streets of Boston." He said many good things, and his address was punctuated with outbursts of applause. PRAYER OPENS MEETING The convention opened at 10 o'clock this morning with impressive song and prayer service conducted by the Rev. G. W. W. Ward, of Indiana, and the singing was led by Evangelist W. H. Skipwith of Virginia. Rev. W. W. Lindsay, of Mississippi, made the opening prayer, and Dr. Ward, led in singing, "I am a Soldier of the Cross." Rev. L. G. Jordan, of Philadelphia, suggested that the thousands of people in the hall would sing the song which expressed the authority under which the Baptist preacher went out, "Go Preach My Gospel, Sath the Lord." Rev. R. T. Sims, of Mississippi made the dedicatory prayer and Walter Committee, of Kansas City, Kan., sang an original song voicing welcome. Rev. J. W. Ribbons, of Mississippi, will preach the annual missionary sermon tonight. (Muskeguee Times-Democrat, Sept. 5, 1917.) MEALY—INGRAM Mr. Joseph J. Mealy, youngest son of the late Julian and Sally Mealy, of Cumberland, Va., was married Sept. 3, 1917. to Miss Lila A. Ingram of Cincinnati, Ohio. The bride is a school and music teacher and the only daughter of Mrs. A. L. Ingram. They left Cincinnati immediately after the marriage ceremony for Richmond and Cumberland, Va. Both families are prominently connected. 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, Rhondown, Va. Friends THE WALKER CASE The suit of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker against the Standad Acident Insurance Company on account of the insurance on the life of her husband for $7,500.00 will be called in the law and Equity Court of this city Sept. 20, 1917 and there is every indication that the case will be tried at that time as both sides have declared their readiness to go into the case. The plaintiff will be represented by Hon. H. M. Smith, Jr., and Attorney J. Thomas Hewin and the defendant by Hon. L. O. Wendenburg and Attorney J. R. Polhard. NOTICE! Grand Reunion Meeting of the G. G. A. O., of Bros. and Sis. of Love and Charity to convene at Prices Hall, Monday night, Sept. 17th, 1917. All members are requested to be present, Dr. Albert A. Teennant, District Deputy; Thomas Miner, Chairman. Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield is producing an original patriotic play of great magnitude, which will show here this Fall. Looking to rent something? See Cephas, Office, 535 1-2 N. 2nd St. Telephone, Ran, 588. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1917. STUDY NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY STUDY NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY --- The first biennial meeting of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History surpassed all expectations. I4 the first place, there were distinguished Negroes from att parts of the country and several of the most prominent white men in the United States. Among the latter were Dr. James H. Dillard, Director of the John F. Slater Fund; Mr. George Foster Peabody, the New York Banker; and Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the noted philanthropist. The morning was the most interesting. After the reading of Mr. Monroe H. Work's paper on the Negro and the world war and Dr. C. G. Woodson's plans for saving the record of the Negro, the chairman introduced Mr. G. F. Peabody who expressed his interest in the work of the Association and in the general uplift of the race. He emphasized the need of cooperation as an essential in carrying out the plans of the organization. Mr. Julius Rosenwald was then introduced. He referred to the time when he first received a copy of the Journal of Negro History and how he was o impressed with it that he decided to give one hundred dollars a quarter to support it. Mr. Rosenwald said the work of the promoters of this enterprise has a bearing on the general effort of helping the race toward achievement and recognition. Mr. James H. Dillard, the next speaker, spoke chiefly of the importance of learning more about Africa. He mentioned some of the important books which he has recently read and which so enlightened him that the continent of Africa now seems to him to be an unexplored land of many wonders. Finally he explained how the study of the traditions of one's race is helpful in the formation of ideals. At the afternoon session the reports of the Director and of the Secretary-Treasurer were read and received with applause. It was shown that the Journal of Negro History has rapidly moved forward and that the affairs of the society have been so managed that it has come to the end of the first two years of its existence without owing any one. New officers were then elected. The committee on nominations reported the names of most of the old officers. The name of Dr. G. C. Hall, the president was at his request omitted. Dr. C. G. Woodson and Dr. J. E. Moorland expressed regret that Dr. Hall desired to retire and then paid him high tribute as a co-worker and a man without whom the work could not have been so successful. The new officers elected are: Dr. R. E. Park, of the University of Chicago, president; Dr. C. G. Woodson Director of Research and Editor; Dr. J. E. Moorland, Secretary-Treasurer; and Joh Julius Rosenwald, Geo. Foster Peabody; James H. Dillard, John R. Hawkins, F. J. Jones, L. Holingsworth Wood, Thomas Jesse Jones, A. L. Jackson, Moorfield Storey, and J. C. Phelps Stokes as members of the Executive Council. At the evening session Professor Benjamin G. Brawley of Morehouse College read an excellent paper three Negro Poets: Horton, Mrs Harper and Witman. Professor Kelly Miller then delivered an instructive address on the place of Negro History in our schools. Dr. C. G. Woodson, made some remarks concerning the work of the Association and Dr. J. E. Moorland made an appeal to the people for their support. Many new members were added. The Association then adorned. Y. M. L. AND U. GIVES A FREE PICNIC LABOR DAY. --- Many People There—Grand Time The Young Men's Love and Union club of South Richmond hold a gala day at stop No. 23 on the Petersburg Pike Labor Day, Sept. 3rd, Running jumping, swinging, and all kinds of out door sports were indulged in by more than 500 pleasure seekers. The large residence of Mrs. Preston was thrown open to the club and many whiled away the time tripping the light fantastic toe. At 2:30 clock the club served a free dinner to all on the grounds Brunswick stew, ham, chicken, bananas, watermelon, lemonade, ice cream and cake were serve, abundant by and all ate to the satisfaction of the inner man. The committee which consisted of Messrs. Herbert Harris, chairman, Wm. A. Lewis, Richard Dixon, Jas. McShan, Richard Newby, Jas. Johnson, Willie White and John Cogbill, deserves great credit for the excellent manner in which they handled the great crowd. President Wm. H. Mosby, was as busy as a bee in assisting the committee. After all had voted the free picnic a grand success, they left for their several homes tired, but overjoyed at the day's outing on the pike. SUPREME LODGE, EASTERN AND WESTERN HEMISPHERE HAS GREAT SESSION. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 5. — The fifteenth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, Eastern and Western Hemisphere, adjourned last Friday after an interesting week. The Supreme Court of Calanthe also met. Reports received from various departments indicated growth, numerically and financially. Among the few changes in the officers was the selection of William L. Butler, Jr., of Baltimore, for Supreme trustee, to take the place of G. Fred Freeman of Cambridge, Mass., who was made trustee emeritus; and the election of George Gordon, of Chelsea, Mass., as supreme recorder of deeds vice William E. Grandison, of Cambridge, Mass., who was given an encreusus relation also made a member of the beneficiary board. The list of officers follows; W. Ashle Hawkins, Baltimore, supreme chancellor; William H. Willis, New York City, supreme vice chancellor; George E. Gordon, supreme keeper of records and seal; J. C. Anderson, Crewe, Va., supreme master of exchequer; T. K. Storts, Fishkill, N. Y., supreme master at arms; Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Brooklyn, N. Y., major general of the uniform rank; Richard E. Clarke, New York City, supreme organizer; William A. Heatman, Providence, R. I., treasurer of beneficiary department; T. G. Schuyler, Boston, James R. Farrar, Bridgeport, Conn., and William I. Butler, Jr., supreme trustees. The Supreme Court of Calanthe elected the following officers: Mrs. Jennie Ross, Baltimore, supreme worthy counsel; Mrs. Jessie Draper New York City, supreme associated counsel; Mrs. Mary E. Wright, Philadelphia, supreme register of deeds; Mrs. Mary E. Hiley, Newport, R. L., supreme receiver of deposits; Mrs. Prescivia Robinson Ackley, N. Y., supreme escort, ann. E. Z. R. Kiner, Cambridge, Mass, supreme court representative. ANNUAL MEETING OF IMPERIAL ORDER OF KING DAYID. On Sept. 3rd the delegates to the Grand Lodge convention of the Imperial Order of King David left for Trevillians, Va., where their ninth annual session was held at Bright Hope Baptist Church of which Dr. D. N. Vassar is pastor. They were met at the station by Imperial Band of King David and escorted to the church. This band was organized by our beloved G. W. S. Worf, W. R. F. Thompson during his life time. Tuesday morning promptly at 10 o'clock the Grand Worthy Ruler, Mrs. A. G. Thompson sounded the gavel which called the convention to order. Roll of officers and delegates was called and each esponded. Remarks were made by the officers and delegates which showed that the lodges were in a most prosperous condition. A public meeting was held at bright Hope Church, Tuesday night Sept. 4. The church was packed with both white and colored and crowds were on the outside. Welcome address was delivered by Rev. T. M. Johnson of Trevillians, Va., response by Miss Ethel Lennus of Richmond, Va., Sermon by Rev. W. H. Ford of Ashland, Va. Severaj selections were played by the Imperial band of King David. It was said by both white and colored to have been the greatest convention that has ever been in that part of the country. Five hundred and eighteen new members were added to our ranks this year. The following officers were elected ed for the ensuing year: A. G. Thompson, Richmond, G. W. R.; Rev. W. H. Ford, Ashland, Va., G. W. L. St. V.; M. C. Swann, Croston, Va., G. W. 2nd. V. R. Mary M. Scott, Richmond, Va., G. W. S.; M. C. Brown, Richmond, G. W. A. S. E. J. Talferro, Hewlett, Va., G. W. Treas. Rev. F. H. Will. Bon Air, V. G. W. Capt., James H. Hill Padtown, Va., G. W. R. G., J. C. Wilson, Bon Air, V. G. W. L., G. Maria C. Johnson, Richmond, G. W. Warden W. T. Terrell, Partlow, Va., G. W. O, G. Harriet Blunt, Richmond, G. W. L. G. Hattie Grey, Richmond, G. W. Keep of Wardrobe Thomas Jefferson, Skin Quarter, Va., G. W. L. Board of Regents: E. J. Talferro, Hewlett, Va., Clara S. Fills, Partlow, Va. Annie Johnson, Richmond, W. A. Twigg, Ruther Glen, M. L. Perkins, Trevilians, Robt. L. Coleman, Partlow, Va. Martha C. Brown, Richmond, Va. A. G. Thompson and Mary M. Scott, Ex. Off io. The cession adjourned with one of the greatest meetings ever held to meet with Talferro Lodge No. 2 Spottylvania, Co., the first Tuesday in Sept. 1918. The 40th Anniversary exercises of the Imperial Order of King David will be held at the First Baptist church the fourth Sunday, September 23, 1917 at 3:30 o'clock P. M. The sermon will be preached by the pastor Rev. W. T. Johnson. All are welcome. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. HARRY S. CUMMINGS IS LAID TO REST HARRY S. CUMMINGS IS LAID TO REST Baltimore, Sept. 12.—With prominent city officials in attendance and thousands of his friends either packed within or massed outside of the edifice, the funeral of City Councilman Harry S. Cummings was held at Metropolitan M. E. Church, Orchard street, near Drudid Hill ave., last Monday afternoon. The remains lay in state at the church from noon until 2 P. M., and thousands of people, white and colored past the flower-laden $^{b}$ to take a last look at the best known colored man in Baltimore. Hundreds visited his home also. When the funeral procession reached the church, Orchard street, was lined with humanity from Drudid Hill avenue nearly down to Tessier street. The funeral party contained the family, close friends of the dead councilman and members of the City Council, Mayor Preston was unable to be present, Hon. John Hubert, president of he Second Branch City Council taking his place, Police Marshall Carter, John J. Mahoe, Democratic city leader; Charles H. Heintzeman, Republican mayorally candidate in the $^{b}$ municipal election; Ocington E. Weller, Republican candidate for Governor in 1915; Daniel C. Loden, collector of水利 Rents and Licenses; Judge William M. Dunn, of the Orphans' Court; and Chris J. Perry, publisher of the Philadelphia $^{b}$ bune were among the many promi- --- NATIONAL IDEAL SOCIETY HAD FINE SESSION HERE. Good Reports—Supreme Master A. W. Holmes Speaks—Children's Department in Session. The fifth annual session of the Supreme Lodge of the Nat. Ideal Benefit Society, Inc., convened Sept. 4, 1917, at the Third St. Bethel A. M. E. Church with Supreme Master A. W. Holmes presiding; Mrs. I. E. Charity, Supreme Secretary. The session lasted three days and was the most successful one in the history of the Order. The obligations had been met and the Order now occupies its own building at 210 E. Clay St., in this city, Mrs Sallie M. Stockton of Washington, D. C., led in the new work REV. ANDERSON SPEAKS Rey W. L. Anderson of Beaver Dam Va., made the most enthusiastic and stirring speech of the session. The annual address of Supreme Master A. W. Holmes was a feature. He inspired the delegates to greater efforts for the coming year. He was enthusiastically applauded. The following officers were elected. OFFICERS ELECTED Supreme Officers Elected: A. W. Holmes Sup. Master, Rev. W. L. Anderson Vice Sup. Master; Mrs. S. M. Stockton, Sup. Mistress; Mrs. L. E. Charity, Sup. Secy, Mrs. M. S. Payne Assistant Secy, T. L. Beverly, Treasurer; Rev. W. T. Johnson, Sup. Chapain; Mrs. Rosa Thompson, Su. Right Herald; M. T. Robinson, Sup. Left Herald; James Richardson, Sup. Right Guide; Mrs. Catherine S. Jackson, Sup. Left Guide; Peter E. Agent Sup. Sentinel; W. H. Smith, Sup. Outside Guard; Mrs. Lueinda Carter, P. P. Mistress. Board of Directors: A. W. Holmes Rev. W. L. Anderson, Lueinda J. Carter; L. E. Charity, Rosa Thompson, T. L. Beverly, W. T. Johnson, James Richardson, D. L. Vest, Sallie M. Stockton, J. R. Hicks, Joseph Charity, Jno. S. Powell, F. L. Bryant, Cora L. Lenkins. TO MEET NEXT YEAR IN NEWPORT NEWS The fourth annual session of the Ideal Nursery Guardians' Convention was held on the 6th inst., with President Rosa Thompson, presiding. Miss Luey A. Hall, Secretary. The reports showed a flourishing condition for this department. Both bodies adjurred to meet next year in Newport News, Va.. Looking to rent something? See Cephas, Office, 535 1-2 N. 2nd St. Telephone, Ran, 588. DO YOU KNOW HER? I desire to know the whereabouts of Sarah E. Grimes, wife of Benjamin Grimes. He has a daughter named Merrier Helen Grimes. Any information will be thankfully received. Address; Mrs. A. V. WHITE, 1609 Bange Ave. Asbury Pa. N. J. PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Mrs. Angie Bradshaw is visiting friends in Carson, Va. —Mr. Jacob Hilton, of Philadelphia, Pa. is visiting in the southside. Mrs. Mattie Hawley has returned from a visit to her husband, who is now at Coatesville, Pa. —Mr. Thomas Berry of 210 E. 17th street, southside, who was operated on a few weeks ago at Richmond Hospital, has returned home and is improving rapidly. —Miss Augusta C. Smith of Cape Charles, Va. is visiting friends in Richmond or in the city after spending delightful time with Miss Adal, Norman of 912 Wilcox St., Petersburg, Va. —Dr. A. A. Tennant and wife have returned from an extended vacation trip visiting points of interest in this country and Canada. Both are much improved in health. —Mr. Edgar E. Cogbill left the city Thursday night for Brunswick, Co. Va. to spend a few days. —Mrs. A. R. Carr left last Sunday to visit Bayonne, N. J., Bridgeport, Comm. She may remain during the month. —Rev. R. G. Adams, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church of Portsmouth, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mealy, white on their honey moon. visited Mrs. Nellie Winston in East 16th street, South Richmond, this week. Miss Bernetta Young, who has been attending the Columbia University of New York, arrived in the city last Wednesday evening. She is looking well. Mr. and Mrs. John Hickman, of New York are visiting their mother Mrs. Amelia Jones of 200 W. 21st St., South Richmond. Col. Adolphus Jackson has returned to the city from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The Colonel is looking well. Miss Karolyn M. Carter, who has been slick for some time, is improving. Mr. E. J. Cunningham has returned to his home in West Nineteenth street, Southside, after a pleasant visit to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York. Mrs. Fannie Patterson, of 1217 N. First street, left Tuesday night on the eleven o'clock train for Cincinnati, O., where she will spend ten days with her brother. Mrs. Fannie Lovings, now residing in White Plains, N. Y., is visiting her relatives and friends in this city, after an absence of thirteen years. She is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Edna Frances Lovings. Dr. M. B. Jones and party, Dr. Marie M. Jones, Mrs. Mannie W. Brown, Mrs. J. A. Bowler and Misses Susie Crump, Cora Bright Elyn and Antoinette Bowler returned to the city last week after a two weeks' tour trip visiting Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, Pa., Atlantic City and Trenton, N. J. and New York City. Mrs. Catherine Washington Butler, formerly of Richmond, but now of Pittsburgh, Pa., accompanied by her two little nieces, Misses Thelma and Lillian Parker, is visiting the city, the guest of Mrs. Mary Layne, 735 N. Second street. MISS NANNE BURROUGHS GETS HEARING BEFORE SENATE RULES COMMITTEE My Friend: Praise the Lord! We won. I got a hearing before Rules Committee Friday. Mr. Dyer is happy. He phoned me "your appeal to make America a safe place in which to live and labor, struck home and the Resolution is to be favorably reported." A few of our would be leaders who have not turned their hands, came to the Capitol at the hour when victory was in sight. They are now claiming to have been at hearing. No truth in it. I carried 10,000 appeals from 36 States. I showed what a mountain of protest and appeal is back of this drive. Yours to pay the price of real freedom. NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN. The Public Schools opened last Thursday with a large attendance. Teachers' meeting was held last Wednesday at the John Marshall High School and assignments for the term announced. PRICE, FIVE CENTS CAN'T SCARE COLORED UNION PRESIDENT White Miners Want Colored Man to Say He Is Not the Officer—Colored Men Standing by Their Brother Officer. Praco, Ala., July 28, 1917.—(Special to The Birmingham Reporter.)—That the white labor union is not friendly toward the colored man in the mines is shown by a report from Praco Mines just a few hours ago when a colored man was seriously intimidated by white men because of an office he is holding by election when whites and blacks met together and organized what is known as a United Mine Workers Union. At this place the Negroes outnumbered the whites by a time working majority, and they proceeded to put one of their members in as president defeating the white aspirant, and this has caused, as is reported, the white union men to begin their nefarious practices on the colored workmen. The situation is pathetic, heart rendering and the indications are that trouble may be had. Informant states that the colored man was elected president. He proceeded to exercise the functions of his office as president of such office. Those who claim to be his friends among the white labor union men advised him to quietly and submissively resign and let one of the white brethren have it. Mind you, it is Negroes number three to one in that district. The colored brethren said; No, he didn't think he would do that; I am a minor just like you, only I have got the interest of my company and my people at heart, and we represent the work in this district, and I am not going to resign, well, several committees went to him; he still refused and holds out with his colored brethren strongly behind him, supporting him in his well chosen office. One of the white brethren said: "Jim, I want you to give that office up and let Mr. Smith have it." "On what grounds must I do that?" asked the colored gentleman. "Well, you know we white men are not going to let you preside over us nigger." "Well, I know I am not going to resign." Then came the threats and the intimidations by his white brethren. "You are an impudent d—blacks of b—" The colored man answered; "I don't know just why you say that, and I don't know that I am all the things you say I am, but there is one thing I do know—I am president of this local, and I'm not going to resign, whitman. You need not to come to me any more about it. I have nothing in mind if resigning or what you want me to do." Thus ends the first episode of No groes associating with white folk. SHEIHERDS OF BETILEHEM TO MEET IN FREDERICKBURG The Improved Order of Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem whose Home Office is in this City, will hold its Seventh Annual Session in Fredrickburg, Virginia, beginning with September 25th. The Oder was to have held its annual session in Culpepper, Virginia, but owing to prevalence of InfantileParalysis in that City the Council forbade any public gatherings. The session of the Order, which was to have been held on the 1st Tuesday in September has been postponed until the 4th Tuesday in Sept. of this year. Of the young Orders in the State of Virginia, the Improved Order of Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem is taking the front rank. Although it is only seven years since it was founded, the Grand Secretary's report just compiled shows that the Order has 110 subordinate Folds established in this State alone. The new members brought in during the year pass have exceeded 1250. The prospects for the coming year are very bright and it is only a question of time when this order will number among the first in the State of Virginia. WANTED—At once, Colored Stewardess at Newport News, Va. for the United States Army. Good pay and all expenses paid. This includes $20.00 per month, board, lodging, clothing, etc. Apply at Recruiting Station, $20 E. Broad St, Richmond, Virginia WANTED—A Good Barber at once 60 cents on a dollar. Apply to JESSE M. TURNER, 83 N. Main street, Harrisonburg, Va. 44 HE PLANET C. Photo by American Press Association. GERMANS WOUND 5 WOMEN Bombs Dropped in Region of Dunkirk Hit a Hospital. French raiding parties penetrated the German dines southeast of Vaux alio and north of The Cascade in the Champagne, according to the Paris war office announcement. German supplies were destroyed and the French made a number of prisoners. German aviators during the night dropped bombs in the region of Dunkirk. Some of the miseles struck a hospital and wounded five women. "Enemy surprise attacks north of Jouy and northeast of Cerny were repulsed by our fire," says the war of fire. "Our batteries took under fire enemy troops south of Justinecourt. On both banks of the Mense (Verdun region) there was intermittent artillery fighting." There was local fighting between British and German forces in the nearby borhood of Villeret, on the Somme front, the British war department are nounced. The statement adds: "In the last few days owing to un favorable weather," says an official statement, "operations by our navy aircraft have been restricted. Our enemy aircraft was shot down and an other was driven down out of control. bombs have been dropped on the Hout tave airdrome. Cwing to bad visibility the results could not be observed All our machines returned safely. HEAVY LOSS FROM FROST Lancaster Tobacco is Badly Damaged Many Fields Being Black. Many Fields Being Black. Reports from leading tobacco growers of Lancaster county estimate the loss by frost at $2,000,000, or one fourth of the entire crop. Great efforts are being made to get as much of the remainder of the crop as possible harvested. More than 75 per cent of the crop is still in the fields. Shortage of labor is held responsible for the loss, as great fields of ripe tobacco have lain uncut. The sections hurt were in the Manors, near East Petersburg, where the finest is grown. Growers estimated that another killing frost would cut the crop in two. Whole fields have been turned black by the frost. In the East Petersburg section, one of the finest tobacco growing sections in the country, the fields are black. Near Bareville some patches have been killed altogether. County Farm Agent Bucher after a trip through the county, said that a 25 per cent loss was a reasonable estimate. He reported also that corn had been badly damaged by the frost, and large stretches of sweet potatoes ruined. A great deal of the Lancaster county corn is of late planting, and unless the cold spell breaks the harvest will be slight. In some of the fields of low-lying sections every stalk has been touched and the leaves are rapidly beginning to dry. TO ANNOUNCE CASUALTIES War Department Directs Pershing to Forward Reports. All casualties among American soldiers hereafter are to be announced by the war department. The statistical division, in charge of Major J. S. Jones, cabled to Major General John J. Pershing, in command of the American force in France, to communicate directly all deaths and facts obtainable about wounded and missing soldiers as quickly as the knowledge is gained. General Pershing also was directed to ask allied forces with which American troops are serving to inform him of casualties, that a report may be made to Washington. Upon report of news of casualties, the war department will make immediate announcement through the press. Telegraphic notice also will be sent to the next of kin of the soldier killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing. KORNILOFF MOVES ON PETROGRAD Premier Kerensky is Accused of Act ing For the Germans—The Leaders Join the Revolt. General Kornilloff's army is marching on Petrograd. The main body of his troops has been ordered to detrain at Dno, 120 miles from the capital, as the govern- ment forces have torn up the railroad at Senvino. From Dno an advance overland will be made. A smaller force of Kornilloff troops is reported to be only forty miles from the capital and government troops have been sent out to meet them. The government is taking vigorous steps to meet the danger and convo- cation of the national assembly is pro- posed by the cabinet to meet the situ- ation. General Kornuloff in a second proclamation to the people, accused the government of acting in the interest of the German general staff. He declared that he was the son of a simple cossack, that he could not tolerate Russia's shame, preferring death. All hopes of checking the revolt without serious bloodshed vanished when it became known that belated messages from the front of a most serious character had been received by the provisional government. The most important telegram was from the supreme commissary, Filipe penko, who declared categorically that the higher command of the army had determined to seize all power and that a sanguinary conflict probably would result. Another message came from the chief of the general staff at the front, General Lokomsky. He is the real brains and soul of the revolt. His telegram declared that if the government refused to accede to General Korniloff's demand the result would be serious. The cabinet then discussed measures necessary for the security of Petrograd, deciding to declare martial law and to appoint a new commander of the Petrograd military district in place of General Vasilkovsky. Next, the cabinet debated a series of measures necessary for the protection of the Petrograd government buildings and the defense of the city in case General Korniloff sent against part of his army. Petrograd likewise is in danger of being off from Moscow by action of the Cossacks whose commander threatens to cut the railway if the government continues to hold out. General Savonkoff, the new military governor of Petrograd, issued a proclamation urging the population to remain calm. He declared every person caught acting against the revolution would be treated as a traitor. Two prominent leaders have come out for the revolt. General Denikine commander of the Russian armies on the southwestern front, has telegraphed to Premier Kerensky that he intends to support General Korniloff. Alexander J. Guchikoff, the October 1st leader, who formerly held the positions of president of the Duma, chief of the munitions bureau, and minister of war and navy ad intrim, has also gone over to General Korniloff. On the other hand, Lieutenant General Dmirlr St. Cherbatcheff, commander of the Russian forces on the Rumanian front, has ordered his armies and also the Odessa military district to take no part in the conflict, at the same time remaining true to the provisional government. GENERAL STEWART DIES Commander of Pennsylvania National Guard Stricken in Harrisburg. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart, administrative head of the national guard of Pennsylvania, died of heart disease at his home in Harrisburg, Pa. General Stewart was sixty-nine years old. Monday being his birthday anniversary. General Stewart, who had not been in health for the last year or more, had handled all the details throughout the mobilization of the national guard and its transfer to federal service, and literally died on duty. After returning home from his office Monday evening, he ate a hearty dinner and some time later became ill. A heart attack developed. The general rested better toward morning, but about nine o'clock was again selzed with heart pains. He died shortly after ten o'clock. A man found on a mountain near Lansford, Pa., with his stomach almost eaten away by vein min but still alive, was taken to the Laurytown hospital by Chief Burgess Thomas Gallagher and Chief of Police Cullen. The man is thought to have been exposed to the elements for several days. Famous Aviators Coming Georges Carpentier, the French pugilist, and at present an aviator in the French army, according to the Paris Herald, is going to the United States as an aviation instructor and will be stationed at Dayton, O. Second Lieutenant Jean Navarre, the French ace, who is credited officially with having brought down twelve German machines, is also going to Ameri.ca on a similar errand. Canners Buy Crops. Acknowledgement of the statistics issue of the United States Department of Agriculture, the cannon of Fort Washington, THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA glycanna have contracted for the total production of 5200 acres of corn, 2157 acres of tomatoes and smaller acreages of peas, beans and other products. This is the first year the state has made an effort to keep track of such sales. Charged With Stabbing Man 5 Times 3 times. As James Ví鲁o stepped from a trotley car at Kulpunm, Pa., Sanuel Ví鲁o, it is alleged, stabbed five times. Ví鲁o was arrested and committed to fall. Ví鲁o was removed in a critical condition to the state hospital. The man, it is said, had long been on bad terms. MR. MANNING'S FIGHT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE. "How much interest have I taken in reading all you do and say for my people! While the task is hard, from the fact that you have to go it alone, I can but say, go on. To stop the fight at this stage would be the thing your opposers wish for and my people, not you, would be the greatest sufferers."—C. A. Howze, Birmingham, Ala. "I read your address and it is all right and just like you. You are doing great good for our people and we feel it in the South. We are praying for you, for if there is anything this race needs, it is friends, who are not afraid to speak their honest convictions."—Rev. T. W. Walker, D. D., pastor Shiloh Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. "I see that you are still defending the right and condemning the wrong. I congratulate you on your fairness and indomitable manhood, whether in the North or South. Some day, in the distant future, many will rise up and say these are the fulfillments of Joseph Manning's prophecies. You are doing a good work. Keep at it."—Bishop J. W. Alstork, Montgomery Ala. "I read with a grat ideal of care your forceful speech in Bethel Church, New York. Nothing but the pittless publicity you are giving political affairs in the South will bring about the much needed reforms there You do not speak as a theorist, but as one having first hand knowledge."—George A. Douglass, Esq., Newark, N. J. Mr. Manning's speech in pamphlet edition, may be had, at 25 cents the copy by application to Joseph C. Manning, 214 West 34th Street, New York City. FLORENCE NEWS AND NOTES. FLORENCE, S. C., Sept. 10.—Mr. S. G. Graham, of Hemmingway, S. Q. spent a day in our city recently. Mr. Graham is one of the wealthiest Negroes of the county. He remembers war times. He helped hide food from Sherman's army. He runs a large farm an has 962 acres of land and has a large store also. He cleared $1,000 on his tobacco this year. Mr. Peter Higgins, of St. Augustine, Fla. passed through here enroute to Winston-Salem, N. C. Mr. Joo Blackwell, of Timmonsville, S. C. a farmer, was through hore recently. Miss Mary Kennedy, of New York is visiting her III mother, at Charleston, S. C. Mr. John T. Freeman passed hero last Sunday morning, with the body of his son, Elijah, who died Friday, September 7th. He and his son were cooperers by triste and lived well, judging from his pocket book. Mr. P. W. Poole, who has invented an ante-aircraft machine gun has gone to Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. Poole is hopeful of his invention, The U. S. Government is planning to purchase the gun. At a call meeting of the official board of Trinity Baptist Church, Sunday A. M., after the morning service, a grand rally was set for the third Sunday in October to pay off a debt and repair the roof of the church and other improvements. Mrs. Smithie Carr, of Wilmington, N. C. passed through here recently enroute to Boxley. Ga. to visit relatives. Mr. Leroy Allen and Miss Herrin, of Darlington, have returned from Hendersonville, N. C. where they spent the season. Mr. Allen is chief cook at Central Hotel. —E. B. WEBSTER. RONCEVERTE NEWS. RONCEWBRTE, W. VA., Sept. 10. ---Mrs. Florence Bowles, Mrs. Taylor and children, on their return from Cincinnati, spent Sunday with Mrs. Henry Morton. Rev. I. H. Carpenter preached at Alderson, W. Va., Sunday. Mrs. Henry Morton and daughter, spent Sunday with friends and rela- tives at Clifton Forge, Va. Mrs. L. B. Johnson and brother, are visiting their mother, Mrs. John Black. Mrs. John Eubank is very ill at her home on Main street. Mrs. Joe Marshall is very ill at her home on Lewisburg avenue. Mr. Clarence Allen has returned home after spending a few days with his mother. Rev. G. H. Carter filled his pulpit in Ronceverte last Sunday. The Baptist Sunday School plenice was held at Caldwell and was largely attended, last Thursday. Mrs. Proctor's sister, of Wheeling W. Va. is spending a few days in Ronceverte. Miss Martha Baldwin has returned home after spending a few weeks at Allegheny, Va. Mrs. William Grosse has returned after spending a few weeks at Charleston, W. Va. and Columbus, O. and other Western cities. Mrs. Vence Brickridge is very ill at her home. Mrs. Julia Smith spent Sunday with Miss Augustine Patterson. Misses Mary Liggens and Augustine Patterson accompanied her to her home at the Whitel Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Miss Vivian spent the latter part of last week with her mother and friends in Alderson, W. Va. Mr. Herbert Cooley is taking his vacation in Richmond, Va. Mr. Clarence Early spent two days at Hot Springs, Va. playing ball with the noted Lewisburg team. Mr. Abner Lacy is very ill with Pneumonia and is in the Clifton Forge Hospital. He was visited last week by his mother, Mrs. William Lacy and also his brother, Mr. Harry Lacy. Mrs. Alex Brown and Miss Helen Woodley attended the fair at the White Sulphur Springs last week. Mr. Alex H. Brown and son spent Sunday with his mother in Alderson W. Va. The men of the M. E. Church are preparing for a grand time at their "Men's Day" program on the first Sunday in October. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Long and sister are spending a few days in Covington, Va. —OLIVER GREEN. URBANNA NOTES. Urbanna, Sept. 10.—The revival meeting has about closed around here now. Sunday being rainy the church attendance was very small. church attendance was very small. Rev. J. W Tynes, B. D., pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist church preached an able sermon last Sunday. Text: Colossians 3:1-4; Subject, "The Risen Soul." Quite a large number was added to the church as a result of the recent revival. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry and daughters Misses Fannie and Lizzie Perry who have been visiting the former's sister have returned to their home in Baltimore, Md. Rev. E. C. Johnson preached an excerpt sermon at the Lebanon Baptist church last Sunday. On account of the inclement weather the sacred concert which was to take place on the Rappahannock river has been postponed. Mr and Mrs. Roht, Fields, Messrs Moses Field, Willie L. Lewis, James and Eddie Jones, Sawwood Burrell and Misses Matilda Hodges and Copia Field were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Roane last Sunday afternoon. Messrs Charlie Burrell, Roye Holmes and the Misses Fannie and Lizzie Perry were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnson last Sunday evening. Well the Oyster men are getting their boats and equipment ready for the season, no doubt when you be reading this we will be enjoying a healthful dish of nice select oysters. "Planet" for sale at Thornton's the presser. DANVILLE NEWS. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hairst of Almargow wish to announce the marriage of their daughter Mabel to Mr. Ernest Humphrey, May 21-17. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. R. Cooper in the presence of a few intimate friends. They are now making their home in Roxboro, N. C. The home of the groom. Mr. Willis Williams of Paxton St. and Mrs. Phebe Alexander of Lynchburg, Va., were united in marriage Tuesday, Aug. 5. Mr. Royal Grasty of Gay St., and Miss Rosa Hicks were quietly married Wednesday night by Rev. J. R. Cooper at the residence of Prof. W. F. Grasty. The announcement of the marriage of Mr. Herman Williams *Miss Aletha McGill of Summerville, S. C.* was quite a surprise to their many Danville friends. The ceremony was performed June 7th, by Rev. Ewer. They are now residing at the groom's home Upper St. Mr. Aaron Wheeler and Miss Zella Moorman were united in wedlock Wednesday evening Sept. 5th, by Rev. J. R. Cooper. The reception was at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Moorman, Ross St. They received many beautiful and costly presents. Rev. J. R. Cooper has won the name of being the marrying preacher of Danville. Miss Maude Wilson has returned from Dry Fork and resumed her duties in the class room of the Westmoreland High School. Mrs. Annie Channey is visiting relatives in Greensboro, N. C. Rev. Parker filled the pulpit of the High St. Baptist Church all day Sunday The pastor, Rev. S. A. Moses being on his vacation. Mrs. Cella Winslow and her daughter Katherine are spending sometime in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Elize Grasly of Holbrook St. won the first prize on her yard in the city beautiful contest. Mrs. Minnie Bowers and her little son George of New York are visiting her mother on Holbrook St. ADDS NEW MEMBERS Richmond, Vt., Sept. 12.—North Side Lodge No. 164 K, of P, met in its regular meeting on the above date with a good number of its members in attendance. A few members of Unity Lodge No. 24 K, of P, were also present. These members led by Sir F. H McKenzie were welcomed in our midst and they rendered us valuable services in assisting us in giving three ranks to three or four members. Sir F. H. McKenzie was invited to act as C. C. and to appoint some of the visiting members to fill some of the other stations. Sir B. L. Jackson act of as V. C.; Sir B. W. O. H. Jones as Prelate.; Sir C. F. Foster as Ma*r*r of Arms. After Sir F. H. McKenzie saw that the Lodge had a disposition to work in all three ranks the members soon completed the work of the Lodge. The members were highly pleased* with the work accomplished after which refreshments were served. 1 FORT DES MOINES CAMP NEAR THE FINISH. Commissions Will Be Awarded to Colored Candidates September 10 All reports of the awarding of commissions to candidates now at the officers training camp at Fort Des Moines will be false until Sept. 12 or later according to the officers at the fort. The schedule of work is prepared up to and including the 12th, and it is probable, according to the authorities at the camp, that the ranking of the successful men will not be announced from the war department before Sept. 15 or 18. The schedule for next week is made up almost altogether of field work with skirmishes and sham battles a part of the daily program. Open formation practice has been the rule for two hours every day for the past three weeks. OFFICERS KEPT BUSY. Examinations are all but concluded. None has been given since last Friday, and the practice under the eyes of the training officers will be the rule until the commissions are finally awarded. Officers and instructors are so busy correcting and reviewing the papers filed in the examination that they have in many cases been forced to work until midnight and later. Several officers who were detailed to attend to the heavier work of the examination have been unable to be present in personal command of the companies because of the time devoted to the papers. Five hundred and fifty enlisted men in the newly established Negro medical corps have begun their preliminary training at the camp. The men have been formed into companies under command of white officers and some advanced workers among the Negro candidates. The medical corps consists of colored men enlisted from all parts of the country, many of them successful practicing physicians. A few of the doctors who were member of the officers' training camp were transferred to the medical corps. TROOPS SING AT PARADE Since the removal of the First Iowa Infantry band-to the fair grounds the Negro companies and battalions in their reviews and parades at the Fort have been forced to furnish their own music. Instead of the band playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" on parade, the men sing the national anthem while standing at attention with "present arms." When the companies pass in review various military airs are whistled or sung by the soldiers. Officers say that the music when made by the men themselves is an even greater factor than the band music in keeping up the spirits of the troops. ```markdown ``` NEW COMPANY MUSTERED IN UNIFORM RANK, K. O. F. West Point, Va., September 12.—A new company of thirty-three stalwart Knights was mustered into the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, by Col. Roscoe C. Mitchell and Capt. George Branch, who were sent here by Brigadier General John Mitchell, Jr. The initiation was conducted under the new ritual and was very interesting. The following officers were installed: Captain G. L. Harris, First Lieutenant Silas Tupnounce, Second Lieutenant J. S. White, Right Guard Ray Carter, Left Guard William Lee, Recorder A. R. Walker, Q. M. Sergeant A. Carmichael, Corporals, Sirs Andrew Roots, E. Phillips, George Davis, A. Bennett, J. Williams, Treasurer, C. H. Clarke, Sir C. H. Clarke, Sr. was put on detached service. Refreshments were served after the cremations and all enjoyed themselves. The visitors were domiciled at the residence of Mrs. Louisa Walker and were dined at Mrs. O. B. Davis' establishment. NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION APPOINTMENTS. The following are the names of Virginia Baptists appointed on Boards the recent meeting of the National Baptist Convention at Muskogee, Oklahoma. Vice-President, Rev. Thomas H. White, D. D., Clifton Forge, Va.; Foreign Mission Board, Rev. S. A. Moses, D. D., Danville, Va.; Home Mission Board, Rev. R. C. Pannell, D. D., Staunton, Va.; National Publishing Board, Rev. B. Tyrrell, D. D., Lynchburg, Va.; Educational Board, Rev. E. E. Ricka, D. D., Ronnake, Va.; National B. Y. P. U. Board Roscoe C. Mitchell, Richmond, Va.; National Benefit Board, Rev. J. A. Brown, D. D., Staunton, Va.; Committee on Resolution, Rev. Z. D. Lewis, D. D., Richmond, Va.; State of the Country, Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., Richmond, Va.; Temperance, Rev. S. A. Brown, D. D., Petersburg, Va.; Time and Place, Deacon Armistead Washington, Richmond, Va.; Permanent Organization, Rev. S. A. Garland, D. D., Lynchburg, Va.; Oblitary, Rev. A. S. Thomas, D. D., Richmond, Va.; Union Publishing Committee, Rev. Edward D. Lewis, Richmond, Va. MR. UZZIAH MINER'S EFFORT The Mercantile Calendar Company Mr. Mishael Jones, Pres., announces the publication of a pamphlet, entitled "The American Negro and World Democracy" by Mr. Uzziah Miner, former member of the editorial staff of the Howard University Journal. Mr. Miner will be remembered in connection with the article published recently in the columns of this Journal and which article and journal were under the ban of the Post Office Department in this city for about five days, the latter being finally reversed by the authorities at Washington. The pamphlet sells for only ten cents per copy and is intensely treatening and should be in the hands of every devotee of the race. Address the publishers at 1105 You St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Freedom of Speech and of the Press Guaranteed. Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. —From the Constitution of the United States. Article 1. Join the Vacation Club for 1918 Now Forming. Have a Good Time Next Year. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 12 For information, call and see us. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, John Mitchell, Jr., President. 3rd and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. MAN FINDS BODY. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Edmund J. Pendleton, sixty years old, guitor of the Ginter Park Public School, last Thursday, morning the 6th inst., was cleared up last Sunday morning when his body swollen to thrice its natural size, was found in the canal at the foot of South Thirteenth Street. The discovery was made by Richard Wood, colored, of 56 North Eighteenth Street. Wood renorted the matter at once to Policeman Duggins, and an ambulance was called. The body was found to be weighted down with a rock weighing fifty pounds. The rock was attached to the corpse with a rope tied about the neck. Coroner Whitfield was notified and he viewed the body, directing that it be taken to the morgue, pending an investigation relative to its identity. News soon came to the coroner that Pendleton was missing from his home 410 Belvidere Street, and soon relatives came to the morgue and identified the body as that of the late janitor of the Glister Park School. Upon learning this, the coroner gave instructions that the body be sent to Christian's undertaking establishment. It was surmised by the police that Pendleton, for some reason known only to himself, decided to end his life, and that he studied out a method that would make the tragedy void of the spectacular. He is thought to have sought a secluded spot on the side of the canal and to have tied the rock to his neck and then to have plunged in the water. Mrs. Pendleton almost collapsed when she heard of her husband's tragic death last night. She said she knew of no reason for his act. WINCHESTER NOTES WINCHPSTER, VA. Sept. 11. Mrs. M. Entelle Hall is visiting Miss FIVE Bettie Jackson on South Market St. Mrs. Hall is a well known music teacher of Baltimore. Miss Irene Brown was the guest at a party given in her honor at the home of Mr. Samuel E. Bannister, on S. Market street. Miss Jennie Grigaby, of White Post is the guest of Miss Frances Moton on N. Coell street. 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Sometimes a fine rain would drizzle for hours on end, and when it would clear the saw toothed ranges flanking the lake would stand out all freshly robed in white—a mantle that crept lower on the fir clad slopes after each storm. Early in October Charlie Benton had squared his neighborly account with Jack Fyfe. With crew and equipment he moved home, to begin work anew on his own limit. Katy John and her people came back from the salmon fishing. Then Charlie wheeled Stella into taking up the cookhouse burden again. Stella consented. In truth she could do nothing else. Charlie spent a little of his contract profits in piping water to the kitchen, in a few things to brighten up and make more comfortable their own quarters. "Just as soon as I can put another boom over the rapids, Stell," he promised, "I'll put a cook on the job. I've got to sail a little close for awhile. With this crew I ought to put a million feet in the water in six weeks. Then I'll be over the hump, and you can take it easy. But till they"— "Till then I may as well make myself useful," Stella interrupted caustically. "Well, why not?" Benton demanded impatiently. "Nobody around here works any harder than I do." And there the matter rested. THAT was a winter of big snow. November around with rain. Dear November opened with rain. Day after day the sun hid his face behind massed, splitting clouds. Morning, noon and night the eaves of the shacks dripped steadily, the gaint limbs of hardwoods were a line of coursing drops, and through all the vast reaches of fir and cedar the patter of rafa kept up a dreary monotone. Whenever the mist that blew like rolling smoke along the mountains lifted for a brief hour there, creeping steadily downward, lay the banked white. Before the snow put a stop to logging, Jack Fyfe dropped in once a week or so. When work shut down he cannot offener, but he never singled Stella out for any particular attention. Once he surprised her sitting with her elbows on the kitchen table, her face buried in her palms. She looked up at his quiet entrance, and her face must have given him his cue. He leaned a little toward her. "How long do you think you can stand it?" he asked gently. "God knows," she answered, surprised into speaking the thought that lay uppermost in her mind, surprised beyond measure that he should read that thought. He stood looking down at her for a second or two. His lips parted, but he closed them again over whatever rose to his tongue and passed silently through the dining room and into the bunkhouse, where Benton had preceded him a matter of ten minutes. It lacked a week of Christmas. That day three of Benton's men had gone to the Chickamauk to Roaring Springs for supplies. They had returned in midafternoon, and Stella guessed by the new note of bilarity in the bunkhouse that part of the supplies had been liquid. This had happened more than once since the big snow closed in. She remembered Charlie's fury at the logger who started Matt the cook on his spree, and she wondered at this relaxation, but it was not in her province, and she made no comment. Jack Fyfe sighed to supper that evening. Neither he nor Charlie came back to Benton's quarters when the meal was finished. While she stacked up the dishes Katy John observed: Later there rose a brief clamor. In the dead silence that followed she heard a thud and the clinking sunsh of breaking glass, a panted oath, sounds of struggle. Stella slipped on a pair of her brother's gum boots and an overcoat and ran out on the path beaten from their cabin to the shore. It led past the bunkhouse, and on that side opened two uncurtained windows, yellow squares that struck glemming on the snow. The panes of one were broken now, sharp fragments standing like saw teeth in the wooden sash. She stole warily near and looked in. Two men were being held apart, one by three of his fellows, the other by Jack Eyfe alone. Fyfe grinned mildly, talking to the men in a quiet, pacific tone. "Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she heard him say, "You're both full of fighting whisky, but a bunkhouse isn't any place to fight. Wait till morning. If you've still got it in your systems go outside and have it out. But you shouldn't disturb our game and break up the furniture. Be gentlemen, drunk or sober. Better shake hands and call it square." "Aw, let 'em go to it, if they want to." Charlotte's voice, drink thickened. C. B. BROWN "Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she hoard him say. Harsh, came from a corner of the room into which she could not see until she moved nearer. By the time she picked him out Tyfe resumed his seat at the table where three others and Benton waited with cards in their hands, red and white chips and money stacked before them. She knew enough of cards to realize that a stiff poker game was on the board when she had watched one hand dealt and played. It angered her, not from any ethical motive, but because of her brother's part in it. He had no funds to pay a cook's wages, yet he could afford to lose on one hand as much as he credited her with for a month's work. She could shave at the kitchen job day in and day out to save him $45 a month. He could lose that without the flicker of an eyelash, but he couldn't pay her wages on demand. Also she saw that he had imbbed too freely, if the redness of his face and the glassy fixedness of his eyes could be read aright. "Tig!" she muttered. "If that's his iden of pleasure. Oh, well, why should I care? I don't, so far as he's concerned, if I could just get away from this beast of a place myself." Abreast of her a logger came to the broken window with a sack to bar out the frosty air. And Stella, realizing suddenly that she was shivering with the cold, ran back to the cabin and got into her bed. But she did not sleep, save in uneasy periods of dozing, until midnight was long past. Then Fyfe and her brother came in, and by the sounds she gathered that Fyfe was putting Charlie to bed. She heard his deep, drawing voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with caked boots on and Benton's hiccup response. The rest of the night she slept fitfully, morbidly imagining terrible things. She was afraid, that was the sum and substance of it. Over in the bunkhouse the carousel was still A man sits in a chair, holding a cup of tea, with a steaming pot of tea on the table in front of him. A woman stands behind the stove, holding a teapot and a cup of tea. The stove is set in a wooden kitchen with a window and shelves. Jack Fyfe Sat With His Feet on the Oven Door. at its height. She could not rid herself of the sight of those two men struggling to be at each other like wild beasts, the bloody face of the one who had been struck, the course animalism of the whole whisky saturated gang. It repelled and disgusted and frightened her. The night frosts had crept through the single board walls of Stella's room and made its temperature akin to outdoors when the alarm wakened her at 6 in the morning. She shivered as she dressed. Katy John was blissfully devoid of any responsibility, for seldom did Katy rise first to light the kitchen fire. Yet Stella resented less each day's bleak beginning than she did the enforced necessity of the situation. The fact that she was enduring these things practically under compulsion was what called. A cutting wind struck her lely as she crossed the few steps of open between cabin and kitchen. Above no cloud floated, no harbinger of melting rain. The cold stars twinkled over snow blurred forest, struck tiny gleams from stumps that were now white capped pillars. A night swell from the outside waters beat its melancholy dirge on the frozen beach. And, as she always did at that hushed hour before dawn, she experienced a physical shrinking from those grim solitudes in which there was nothing warm and human and kindly, nothing but vastness of space upon which silence lay like a smothering blanket, in which she, the human atom, was utter negligible, a protesting mote in the inexorable wilderness. A light burned in the kitchen. She thanked her stars that this bitter cold morning she would not have to build a fire with freezing fingers while her teeth chattered, and she hurried in to the warmth herbelled by a spark belching stovepipe. But the Slush girl had not risen to the occasion. Instead Jack Fyfe sat with his feet on the oven door, a cigar in one corner of his mouth. The kettle steamed. Her porridge not brittled ready for the meal. THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND. VIRGINIA "Good morning," he greeted. "Mind my pre-capturing your job?" ```markdown ``` "Not at all," she answered. "You can have it for keeps if you want." "Aren't you getting pretty slick of this sort of work, these more or less uncomfortable surroundings and the sort of people you have to come in contact with?" he asked pointedly. IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "I am," she returned as bluntly, "but I think that's rather an impertinent question, Mr. Fyfe." "You hate it," he said positively, "I know you do. I've seen your feelings many a time. I don't blame you. It's a rotten business with a girl of your tastes and bringing up. And I'm afraid you'll find it worse if this snow stays long. I know what a logging camp is when work stops and whisky creeps in and the boss lets go his hold." "That may be true," she returned gloomily, "but I don't see why you should enumerate these disagreeable things for my benefit." 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. "I'm going to show you a way out," he said softly. "I've been thinking it over for quite awhile. I want you to marry me." "Listen," he said peremptorily, leaning closer to her and lowering his voice. "I have an idea that you're going to say you don't love me. Lord, I know that. But you hate this. It grates against every inclination of yours like a file on steel. I wouldn't jar on you like that; wouldn't permit you to live in surroundings that would. That's the material side of it. Nobody can live on day dreams. I like you, Stella Benton, a whole lot more than I'd care to say right out loud. You and I together could make a home we'd be proud of. I want you, and you want to get away from this. It's natural. Marry me and play the game fair and I don't think you'll be sorry. I'm putting it as badly as I can. You stand to win everything with nothing to lose but your domestic chains." The gleam of a smile lit up his features for a second. "Won't you take a chance?" 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. "No." she declared Impulsively. "I won't be a party to any such cold blooded transaction." "You don't seem to understand me," he said soberly. "I don't want to hand out any sentiment, but it makes me sore to see you wasting yourself on this sort of thing. If you must do it, why don't you do it for somebody who'll make it worth while? Because we don't marry with our heads in the fog is no reason we shouldn't get on fine. What are you going to do—stick here at this till you go crazy? You won't get away. You don't realize what a one idea, determined person this brother of yours is. He has just one object in life, and he'll use everything and everybody in sight to attain that object. He means to succeed, and he will. You're purely incidental. But he has that perverted, middle class family pride that will make him prevent you from getting out and trying your own wings. Nature never intended a woman like you to be a collate, any more or I was so intended. And sooner or hate you'll marry somebody if only to hop out of the fire into the frying pan." FOR $30 WORTH, WE WILL SEND YOU A COPY OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR'S WORKS WE WILL ALLOW YOU A CASH DISCOUNT ON ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS THAT YOU MAY SEND US. THE PLANET SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME. IT IS NEWSY AND READABLE. AN EXPERIENCE OF MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ENABLES US TO CATER TO THE READING PUBLIC. YOU WILL LIKE THE PLANET IF YOU WILL READ IT "I hate you," she flashed passimately, "when you talk like that." "No, you don't," he returned quietly. "You hate what I say because it's the truth, and it's humiliating to be helpless. You think I don't sabe? But I'm putting a weapon into your hand. Let's put it differently; leave out the sentiment for a minute. We'll say that I want a housekeeper, preferably an ornamental one, because I like beautiful things. You want to get away from this drudgery. That's what it is, simple drudgery. You crave lots of things you can't get by yourself, but that you could help me for you. There's things lacking in your life, and so are there in mine. Why shouldn't we go partners? You think about it." 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 don't need to," she answered coolly. "It wouldn't work. You don't appear to have any idea what it means for a woman to give herself up body and soul to a man she doesn't care for. For me it would be plain selling myself. I haven't the least affection for you. I might even detest you." "You wouldn't," he said positively. "What makes you so sure of that?" she demanded. "It would sound conceived if I told you why," he drawled. "Listen. We're not gods and goddesses, we human beings. We're not, after all, in our real impulses, so much different from the age when a man took his club and went after a female that looked good to him. They mated and raised their young and very likely faced on an average fewer problems than arise in modern marriages supposedly ordained in heaven. You'd have the one big problem solved—the lack of means to live decently, which wrecks more homes than anything else, far more than lack of love. Affection doesn't thrive on poverty. What is love?" 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 His voice took on a challenging note. "I don't know," she answered absently, turning over strips of bacon with the long handled fork. "There you are," he said. "I don't know, either. We'd start even, then, for the sake of argument. No, I guess we wouldn't, either, because you're the only woman I've run across so far with whom I could calmly contemplate spending the rest of my life in close contact. That's a fact. To me it's a highly important fact. You don't happen to have any such feeling about me, ch?" "No. I hadn't even thought of you in that way." Stella answered truthfully. that way," Stella answered truthfully. "You want to think about me," he said calmly. "You want to think about me from every possible angle, because I'm going to come back and ask you this same question every once in awhile so long as you're in reach and doing this dirty work for a thankless boss. You want to think of me as a possible refuge from a lot of disagreeable things. I'd like to have you to chum with, and I'd like to have some incentive to put a big white bungalow on that old foundation for us two," he smiled. "I'll never do it for myself alone. Go on. Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella. Say yes, and say it now." JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia she shook her head resolutely. Continued on Page Seven. 8IX THE PLANET BIG TIMBER (Continued from Page Three.) was packed with the silver horde, threshing through shoul and rapid to reach the spawning ground before they died. Of every eck mouth and all along the lake the seal followed to prey on the salmon, and sea trout and lakers alike swarmed to the spawning beds to feed upon the roe. The day shortened. Sometimes a fine rain would drizzle for hours on end, and when it would clear the saw toothed ranges flanking the lake would stand out all freshly robed in white—a mantle that crept lower on the fir clad slopes after each storm. Early in October Charlie Benton had squared his neighborly account with Jack Fyfe. With crew and equipment he moved home, to begin work anew on his own limit. Katy John and her people came back from the salmon fishing. Then Charlie wheeled Stella into taking up the cookhouse burden again. Stella consented. In truth she could do nothing else. Charlie spent a little of his contract profits in piping water to the kitchen, in a few things to brighten up and make more comfortable their own quarters. "Just as soon as I can put another boom over the rapids, Stell," he promised. "I'll put a cook on the job. I've got to sail a little close for awhile. With this crew I ought to put a million feet in the water in six weeks. Then I will be over the lump, and you can take it easy. But till then"— "Till then I may as well make myself useful," Stella interrupted cautiously. "Well, why not?" Benton demanded impatiently. "Nobody around here works any harder than I do." And there the matter rested. THAT was a winter of big snow. Nearby snow with white skies. 1 November opened with rain. Day after day the sun hid his face behind massed, spitting clouds. Morning, noon and night the eaves of the shacks dripped steadily, the gaurt limbs of hardwoods were a line of coursing drops, and through all the vast reaches of ir and cedar the patter of rain kept up a dreary monotone. Whenever the mist that blew like rolling smoke along the mountains lifted for a brief hour there, creeping steadily downward, lay the banked white. Before the snow put a stop to logging, Jack Fyfe dropped in once a week or so. When work shut down he came offener, but he never singled Stella out for any particular attention. Once he surprised her sitting with her elbows on the kitchen table, her face buried in her palms. She looked up at his quiet entrance, and her face must have given him his cue. He leaned a little toward her. "How long do you think you can stand it?" he asked gently. "God knows," she answered, surprised into speaking the thought that lay uppermost in her mind, surprised beyond measure that he should read that thought. He stood looking down at her for a second or two. His lips parted, but he closed them again over whatever rose to his tongue and passed silently through the dining room and into the bunkhouse, where Benton had preceded him a matter of ten minutes. It hacked a week of Christmas. That day three of Beenton's men had gone in the Chickamauk to Roaring Springs for supplies. They had returned in midafternoon, and Stella guessed by the new note of hilarity in the bunkhouse that part of the supplies had been liquid. This had happened more than once since the big snow closed in. She remembered Charlie's fury at the logger who started Matt the cook on his spree, and she wondered at this relaxation, but it was not in her province, and she made no comment. Jack Fyfe stayed to supper that evening. Neither he nor Charlie came back to Beenton's quarters when the meal was finished. While she stacked up the dishes Katy John observed: "Goodness sakes, Miss Benton, them fellers was fresh at supper. They was half drunk, some of them. I bet they'll be half a dozen fights before mornin'." Later there rose a brief clamor. In the dead silence that followed she heard a thud and the clinking smash of breaking glass, a painted oath, sounds of struggle. Stella slipped on a pair of her brother's gum boots and an overcant and ran out on the path beaten from their cabin to the shore. It led past the bunkhouse, and on that side opened two curtained windows, yellow squares that struck gleaming on the snow. The panes of one were broken now, sharp fragments standing like saw teeth in the wooden sash. She stole warily near and looked in. Two men were being held apart, one by three of his fellows, the other by jack Fyfe alone. Fyfe grinned mildly, talking to the men in a quiet, pacific tone. "Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she heard him say. "You're both full of fighting whisky, but a bunkhouse isn't any place to fight. Wait (till morning). If you've still got it in your systems go outside and have it out. But you shouldn't disturb our game and break up the furniture. Be gentlemen, drunk or sober. Better shake hands and call it square." "Aw, let 'em go to it, if they want to." Charlie's voice, drunk, thickened. C. 1820 "Now you know that was nothing to scrap about," she heard him say, Marsh, came from a corner of the room into which she could not see until she moved nearer. By the time she picked him out Fyfe resumed his seat at the table where three others and Benton waited with cards in their hands, red and white chips and money stacked before them. She knew enough of cards to realize that a stiff poker game was on the board when she had watched one hand dealt and played. It angered her, not from any ethical motive, but because of her brother's part in it. He had no funds to pay a cook's wages, yet he could afford to lose on one hand as much as he credited her with for a month's work. She could slave at the kitchen job day in and day out to save him $45 a month. He could lose that without the flicker of an eyelash, but he couldn't pay her wages on demand. Also she saw that he had imbbed too freely, if the redness of his face and the glassy fixedness of his eyes could be read aright. "Pig!" she muttered. "If that's his idea of pleasure. Oh, well, why should I care? I don't, so far as he's concerned, if I could just get away from this beast of a place myself." Abreast of her a logger came to the broken window with a sack to bar out the frosty air. And Stella, realizing suddenly that she was shivering with the cold, ran back to the cabin and got into her bed. But she did not sleep, save in uneasy periods of dozing, until midnight was long past. Then Fye and her brother came in, and by the sounds she gathered that Fye was putting Charlie to bed. She heard his deep, drawing voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on and Benton's hiccup response. The rest of the night she slept tifully, morbidly imagining terrible things. She was afraid, that was the sum and substance of it. Over in the bankhouse the carousel was still A man sits in a chair, holding a cup of tea, while a woman stands in the doorway, holding a teapot. The stove is on, emitting steam. A table is in front of them, with a teapot and two cups. Jack Fyfe Sat With His Feet on the Oven Door. at its height. She could not rid herself of the sight of those two men struggling to be at each other like wild beasts, the bloody face of the one who had been struck, the coarse animalism of the whole whiskey saturated gang. It repelled and disgusted and frightened her. The night frosts had crept through the single board walls of Stella's room and made its temperature akin to outdoors when the alarm wakened her at 6 in the morning. She shivered as she dressed. Katy John was blissfully devoid of any responsibility, for seldom did Katy rise first to light the kitchen fire. Yet Stella resented less each day's bleak beginning than she did the enforced necessity of the stunfion. The fact that she was enduring these things practically under compulsion was what gallled. A cutting wind struck her lefly as she crossed the few steps of open between cabln and kitchen. Above no cloud floated, no harbinger of melting rain. The cold stars twinkled over snow blurred forest, struck thy gleams from stumps that were now white capped pillars. A night swell from the outside waters beat its melancholy dirge on the frozen beach. And, as she always did at that hushed hour before dawn, she experienced a physical shrinking from those grim soltudes in which there was nothing warm and human and kindly, nothing but vastness of space upon which silence lay like a smothering blanket, in which she, the human atom, was utter negligible, a protesting note in the hexa- orable wilderness. A light burned in the kitchen. She thanked her stars that this bitter cold morning she would not have to build a fire with freezing fingers while her teeth chattered, and she hurried in to the warmth herded by a spark belching stovepipe. But the Siwash girl had not risen to the occasion. Instead Jack Fyfe sat with his feet on the oven door, a cigar in one corner of his mouth. The little stenamed. Her porridge pot had already been for the meal. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA "Good morning," he greeted. "Mind my preoccupation your job?" --- Not at all, she answered. "You can have it for keeps if you want." "Aren't you getting pretty sick of this sort of work, these more or less uncomfortable surroundings and the sort of people you have to come in contact with?" he asked pointedly. IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "I am," she returned as bluntly, "but I think that's rather an impertinent question, Mr. Pyfe." "You hate it," he said positively. "I know you do. I've seen your feelings many a time. I don't blame you. It's a rotten business with a girl of your tastes and bringing up. And I'm afraid you'll find it worse if this snow stays long. I know what a logging camp is when work stops and whisky creeps in and the bess lets go his hold." "That may be true," she returned gloomily, "but I don't see why you should enumerate these disagreeable things for my benefit." 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. "I'm going to show you a way out," he said softly. "I've been thinking it over for quite awhile. I want you to marry me." Stella gasped. "Mr. Fyfe." "Llsten," he said perceptibly, leaning closer to her and lowering his voice. "I have an idea that you're going to say you don't love me. Lord, I know that. But you hate this. It grates against every inclination of yours like a file on steel. I wouldn't jar on you like that; wouldn't permit you to live in surroundings that would. That's the material side of it. Nobody can live on day dreams. I like you, Stella Benton, a whole lot more than I'd care to say right out loud. You and I together could make a home we'd be proud of. I want you, and you want to get away from this. It's natural. Marry me and play the game fair and I don't think you'll be sorry. I'm putting it as bably as I can. You stand to win everything with nothing to lose but your domestic chains." The gleam of a smile lit up his features for a second. "Won't you take a chance?" 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 "No," she declared impulsively. "I won't be a party to any such cold blooded transaction." "You don't seem to understand me," he said soberly. "I don't want to hand out any sentiment, but it makes me sore to see you wasting yourself on this sort of thing. If you must do it, why don't you do it for somebody who'll make it worth while? Because we don't marry with our heads in the fog is no reason we shouldn't get on fine. What are you going to do—stick here at this till you go crazy? You won't get away. You don't realize what a one idea, determined person this brother of yours is. He has just one object in life, and he'll use everything and everybody in sight to attain that object. He means to succeed, and he will. You're purely incidental. He has that perverted, middle class family pride that will make him prevent you from getting out and trying your own wings. Nature never intended a woman like you to be a cultivate, any more than I was so intended. And sooner or late you'll marry somebody if only to hop out of the fire into the frying pan." 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 "I hate you" she flashed passionately, "when you talk like that." ly, "when you talk like that." "No, you don't." he returned quietly. "You hate what I say because it's the truth, and it's humiliating to be helpless. You think I don't sneeze? But I'm putting a weapon into your hand. Let's put it differently; leave out the sentiment for a minute. We'll say that I want a housekeeper, preferably an ornamental one, because I like beautiful things. You want to get away from this drudgery. That's what it is: simple drudgery. You crave lots of things you can't get by yourself, but that you could help me get for you. There's things lacking in your life, and so are there in mine. Why shouldn't we go partners? You think about it." "I don't need to," she answered coolly. "It wouldn't work. You don't appear to have any idea what it means for a woman to give herself up body and soul to a man she doesn't care for. For me it would be plain selling myself. I haven't the least affection for you. I might even detest you." 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. "You wouldn't," he said positively. "What makes you so sure of that?" she demanded. "It would sound conceived if I told you why," he drawled. "Listen. We're not gods and goddesses, we human beings. We're not, after all, in our real impulses, so much different from the age when a man took his club and went after a female that looked good to him. They muted and raised their young and very likely faced on an average fewer problems than artise in modern marriages supposedly ordained in heaven. You'd have the one big problem solved—the lack of means to live decently, which wrecks more homes than anything else, far more than lack of love. Affection doesn't thrive on poverty. What is love?" 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 His voice took on a challenging note. "I don't know," she answered absently, turning over strips of bacon with the long handled fork. "There you are," he said. "I don't know, either. We'd start even, then, for the sake of argument. No, I guess we wouldn't, either, because you're the only woman I've run nessos so far with whom I could calmly contemplate spending the rest of my life in close contact. That's a fact. To me it's a highly important fact. You don't happen to have any such feeling about me, ch?" No, I don't ever thought of you in that way. Stella answered truthfully. "You want to think about me," he said calmly. "You want to think about me from every possible angle, because I'm going to come back and ask you this same question every once in a while so long as you're in reach and doing this dirty work for a thankless boss. You want to think of me as a possible refuge from a lot of disagreeable things. I'd like to have you to chum with, and I'd like to have some incentive to put a big white bungalow on that old foundation for us two," he smiled. "I'll never do it for myself alone. Go on. Take a gambling chance and marry me, Stella. Say yes, and say it now." JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia she shook her head resolutely. Continued on Page Seven. --- HARKEN, LUKE, THE VILLAGE CHURCH BELL IS RINGING BONG DING BONG DING YEH IT ARE RINGING TODAY MUST BE SUNDAY BONGA DING DANGA BONG DING DANG SUNDAY!! NOTHIN' TODAY ARE FRIDAY I TELL YOU TODAY IS SUNDAY!! DON'T YOU HEAR THAT CHURCH BELL RINGING? YOU DOUGH FACE. O! NO IT AINT. O! NO IT AINT. I SAY IT'S FRIDAY SEE!!! THEN TELL ME WHY IS THAT CHURCH BELL RINGING. BONGA DING DANG BLONG DING B'CAUSE SOME ONE MUST BE PULLIN' THE ROPE THE SOLARNET A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR WEDNESDAY. Cadorna's strategy continues to bear fruit in the great offensive the Italians are waging for Trieste. Although official announcement is lacking, there seems little reason to question despatches that Monte San Gabriele, the last of the Austrian strongholds in the Gorz district, has been taken, giving the Italians possession of the cattle chain of hills dominating the area. On the Franco-British front the British hall of shells being dropped upon the German lines in Flanders is causing the Germans to contemplate abandoning a wide expanse of territory there now being swept by General Sir Douglas Hoggs's big guns and those of the French co-operating with him in the Belgian campaign. The starting of the next entente push hero is apparently imminent. THURSDAY. With the appearance of a German fleet in the Gulf of Riga the difficulties of the Russians on their northern front are accentuated. Not only is the safety of their armies concerned, but apprehensions are excited to what will happen to the Russian fleet if the German naval forces are given full swing in the Baltic. The Italian campaign for Trieste is being vigorously pushed in the face of vast concentrations of Austrian infantry and artillery. General Cadorna continues to report progress. It seems that the unofficial reports of the capture of San Gabrieli were premature, judging from the latest advices from the front, but the ultimate reduction of this last remaining stronghold of the Austrians in the Gorz hills is accounted a certainty by the military writers. FRIDAY Although the Austrians retain a hold upon Monto San Gabrielle, the remaining mountain stronghold northeast of Gorz, the end is in sight for them in this region, according to Italian belief. General Cadorona's report shows the Austrians resisting desperately but staggering under heavy losses. The continued retreat of the Russians has not caused the authorities to fear seriously for Petrograd, according to current advice, but apparently has had the effect of wakening most of the radical elements in the capital to the necessity of strengthening Russia's powers of resistance. Their news papers are now urging the dropping of internal political quarrels, enforcing discipline and presenting a united front to the enemy. SATURDAY. Despite the continued retreat of the Russians on the Riga front indications are not wanting that the German drive may have reached its limits. This view, indeed, is taken by leading German military writers, who point to the lateness of the season as making it improbable that von Hindenburg intends to push his campaign further this fall. He will be content with safe guarding his new acquisitions, the bases of Riga and Duenamuende, they intimate. The French have renewal their offensive in the Verdun region. Berlin reports an attack by Petain's forces on a front of twenty miles was repulsed. The battle is still raging, the Germans say. London reports heavy patrol fighting on the Ypres front during the night a successful British raid near Gavreille and Whe heavy shelling of Lange mark by the Germans. SUNDAY Again the French and the Germans are engaged in extremely heavy fighting in the Verdun sector, with the Germans trying to recoup their losses of the end of last week on the right bank of the Meuse, but with Genera' Petain's forces holding them back al Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Continued from Sixth Page. and as Katy John came in Just then Fyfe took his foot off the stove and went out of the kitchen He threw a glance over his shoulder at Stella, a broad smile, as if to say that he harbored no grudge and nursed no wound in his vanity because she would have none of him. forks and spoons told of appetites in process of appeasement. Charlie came into the kitchen in the midst of this, bearing certain unmistakable signs. His eyes were inflamed, his cheeks still bearing the flush of liquor. His demeanor was that of a man suffering an intolerable headache and correspondingly short tempered. Stella barely spoke to him. It was bad enough for a man to make a beast of himself with whisky, but far worse was his gambling streak. Stella watched him bathe his head copiously in cold water and then seat himself at the long table trying to force food upon an aggrieved and rebellious stomach. Gradually a flood of recklessness welled up in her breast. "For two plus I would marry Jack Fyfe," she told herself savagely. "Anything would be better than this." (TO BE CONTINUED) most everywhere and covering the ground with their dead. At various points on the front held by Field Marshal Haig, the British troops have delivered successful attacks, especially northwest of St Quentin, where German positions on a front of several hundred yards were captured and prisoners taken. There has been a considerable slacking in the German advance in northern Russia, due in large measure to the Russians making stands at seven points, particularly on the front of the Peshot railroad line leading eastward from Riga. MONDAY The battle which General Cadornis is waging for Monte San Gabriel is continuing. The Austrians are being subjected to pressure but by means of heavy concentrations of fresh troop they have been able to keep the Italians from achieving the notable success which completion of the capture of the mountain would constitute. General Petain's troops clinched the success they won northeast of Verdon on Saturday when they pushed their lines ahead materially in the Fosse and Caurieres wood sector. The Germans were obliged to abandon their furious assaulting tactics of the day, probably because of the heavy loss they sustained in attacks which left the French line unshaken. The German advance in the Rig region is definitely halted, according to indications in the current reports. Russia again has a critical political situation to face, however, with General Korniloff deposed from the chief command because of his demand, dictatorial powers, and with martial law declared in Petrograd. Mrs. Dellinger Freed From Murder. Mrs. Annie Dellinger, charged with having shot and killed her husband, Harry Dellinger, last January following a quarrel in their home near The Brogue, was declared not guilty in York, Pa., by a jury, after deliberating five hours. Mayor Breaks Auto Law. Mayor Harvey, of Hazleton, Pa., was arrested on information sworn out by Herbert Smith, a state trooper, charged with running two automobiles on one license, and having two unlicensed drivers in his employ. The mayor waived a hearing and paid fines and costs amounting to $27. Fourteen other auto owners were arrested on charges of violating the speed laws within the city limits and fined $10 each. U. S. Merchant Ships Convoyed. The American marchant ships operating between this country and Europe are being convoyed by ships of this. The navy department permitted this to become known. For a long time the department was silent on methods devised to protect these ships. Now officials admitted that groups of merchantmen have been despatched under convoys that succeeded in warding off hostile submarines. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA SUPPRESS TWO GERMAN PAPERS Arrest Tageblatt Officers In Philadelphia. FALSE STATEMENTS CHARGED Government Agents Confiscate More Than Truck Load of Evidence in Descent on Offices. Concerted action against all treason suspects in Philadelphia was begun by the federal authorities and their pressure already has resulted in the suppression of two German newspapers, the arrest of two of their officers, and the impounding apprehension of other officers in the publishing company. Warrants also have been sworn out for all the members of the executive committee of the Socialist party in Philadelphia, and it is believed all the men who are sought will be in the hands of the federal government within twelve hours. The German newspapers suppressed as a result of their alleged pro-German proclivities and a repeated editorial stand against the war moves of the administration at Washington, are the Philadelphia Tageblatt and the Sonntagsblatt, both published by the Philadelphia Tageblatt Publishing association, at 107 North Sixth street street, Philadelphia. The offices of the organization were raided and more than a truck load of evidence was confiscated, including a complete file of the newspapers, letters and telegrams, office records and statements and even some manuscripts. The raiding party was drafted from three branches of the federal government. Chief Postal Inspector Corteloy led a detail of his assistants; Frank L. Garbarino was there with a detail from the department of justice, and James Kenny and his men were assigned from the United States marshal's office. Sergeant Kinster, of the fourth district police station, was on hand with a squad to prevent possible demonstration by the crowd which gathered and watched the raid. The charge against the officers of the newspaper company, two of whom have been arrested, is using their property "as a means of committing certain felonies, that is to say, the felony of willfully making and conveying false reports and statements with intent to promote the success of the enemies' of the United States while the United States was at war with the imperial German government." There is another paragraph in the charge which is worded identically as the foregoing with the exception that it deals with the use of the malls for the same purpose. officers of the public cation who were taken in custody are Dr. Martin Darkow editor-in-chief, and Herman Lermke, the business manager It is expected that the others for whom warrants have been issued will be speedily taken. They are Louis Werner, managing editor; Paul Vogel treasurer; Peter Schaeffer, president, and Waldemar Alfredo, chief editorial writer. Products Prices Soar. All records for September commodity prices were broken in Lancaster, Pa., and a canvas of a number of farmers brought the prediction that by Christmas eggs would be selling in Lancaster county for a dollar a dozen. The following quotations provalled: Average 10 per cent higher than in 1864; Butter, fifty cents per pound; eggs, forty-tight cents per dozen; chickens, $3 per pair. Pea coal also jumped to $7.50 per ton. Two Americans Wounded in France. The war department announced that Sorgeant M. G. Calderwood and W. F. Brannigan, a private, both of Company F, Eleventh railway engineers, had been slightly wounded by shell fragments while on duty in France. This is the army's first casualty an nouncement of the war except that concerning the members of the medical corps killed when German aviators bombed a hospital. 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THESE GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTERNOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. Ze 1 TELL YOU TODAY 1S SUNDAY!! THEN TELL ME— as TSUNA Loot ET YOU BREE Te] A WHY 18 THAT CHURCH] © L_=<q ONG ZA > Dane YOU DOUGH Pace (eo BELL RINGING, pONeh=— a ee ee me! ii x "| [Sst = oe pe fA ee LE % pve ay DON BLONG ve PBlone oS “Yt 8 PDINS " sonoay BLONG J —q. ee I—T1DLONG QA MGA ee Ba 5 eats a SON ate || @ =e ONO TAN Eg A VE, 7 RY Cr " RY LeZA = SD a Yi feet T ‘RP yas aly = Nee XN 4 “\ Yt ip MZ Ze (7 PEC GEN) lA sy 6 YW NX 73 GC WL Ue Sule Y \ LK % Se\ <a) Q Ne a4 LON , y Df vk Yue fling ee , Meee | Qi tt OA 1 —_. | JS run _, {Sa »/ y cn NO gn \ | ei I = fin —_ yo: Uy == = ~ares” We. =O’ aie | - © to eta SF SS GSES ee =e BL a A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR Cadorna’s stratesy continues to bea: fruft in the great offensive the Italians are wasins for Trieste, Although olf efal announcement ts lacking, there seems little reason to question des patehes that Monte San Gabriele, the last of the Austrian stroneholds in the Gorz. district, has heen taken, giving the Halians possession 4 the entire chain of hits dominating the area, On the Prancodrttish front the Reit Ash hail of shells hein: dropped por the German lines In Minders is cans ing the Germans to contemplate aban doning a wide expanse of territory there now being swept hy General Si Douglas Wage's bie zuns and those a the French’ cooperating with him fh tho Helgian campaign, ‘The starting of the nest entente push hero fs ap parently imminent, THURSDAY. With the appearance of © German floct In the Gulf of Riza the dimeuttics of the Russians on thetr northern front aro accentuated, Not only is the safe ty of their armies concerned, but ap prohensions are excited as to what will happen to the Russian fleet If the Ger man naval foreos are given full swing in the Raltte, ‘Tho Itatlan campnizn for ‘Trieste ts being vigorously pushed in the face o} vast concentrations of Austrian infan try and artillery, General Cadozni continues to report progress, It seoms that the unofiictal reports of the cap ture of San Gabriole were premature Sudging from the latest advices from the front, Int the ultimate reduction of this last rematning stronghold of the Austrians In the Gorz hills {sae counted a certainty by tho military writers, FRIDAY. Although the Austrians retain a hold Upon Monto San Gabriclo, the remain Ang mountain stronghold ‘northeast o! Gorz, the end ts in sight for them fn this region, according to Hallan be Mef. General Cadorna’s report shows the Austrians resisting desperately bu staggering under heavy losses. Tho continued retreat of tho Rus sans has not ernsed the authorities to fear seriously for Yotr-crad, accord Ang to oo yont advioes. cin apparamtty has had the effect oF wakening most o} tho radtoal elements In the capital t tho necessity of strengthening Rus sla'a powers of resistance. ‘Thotr news Papers are now urging the drepplny of Internal politteal quarrels, enfore ing discipline and presenting a unites front to the enemy, SATURDAY. Despite the continued retreat of the Russians on the Risa front indications aro not wanting that the German driv May have reached its limits. Thi view, indeed, is taken by leading Ger man military writers, who point to th Jateness. of the season as making 4 Improbable that von Tindenburg tn tends to push his campaign further thi fall. We will be content with safe guarding his new acquisitions, th bases of Riga and Duenanmende, thes intimate. ‘The Preneh have renowel their offen sive in the Verdun region, Berlin re ports an attack hy Petain's forces ot & front of twenty miles was repulsed The battle ts SUM raging, the Ger mans say. London reporis heavy patrol Aghting fon the Ypres front during the night A successful British rald near Gavrell and Wtho heavy shelling of Lango marek by the Germans, SUNDAY. Again the French and tho Germans aro engaged in extremely heavy flght ing tn the Verdun sector, with the Germans trying to recoup thelr losso of the end of last week on the right Dank of the Mense, int with Genora Petain's foros ho"! them back al Charley Hears the Church Pell Ringing Ra LUKE, THE VILLAGI pee [EHURC BELL IS "RINGING BONG a = [yen ir ane NG: RINGING hy een re Va SUT vo ¢ y AN a ds » BE ra ~é 4 ren! Se Wi ae Charley Chaplin’s Comic Capers BIG TIMBER Wid as Katy John came tn just then Fyfe took his font ant the stove and Went ont of te kitchen He threw a Elance over his shottkder at Stetlay a broad smite, as if te say that be har: bored ne genie sod mairsed ne wound In his vinity becuse she would have none ef him, Katy ras the brokfast omg. Five aiinutes liter the tattoo of knfves and forks und spoons toll of appetites in process of appeascment, Charlte came into the kitchen in the midst of thls, bearing certain unmistakable shgns. Tis eyes Were inthraed, his checks still Dearing the ish of Liquor, His de: meaner was Unt of a aman suffering An Intolerable heidache and correspond: Sngly short lempered. Stella barely spoke to hia. It was bad enough for & man Co make a beast of himselt with Whisky, bat far worse was his gat: Ditny streak: Stella watched him bathe his head copiously in cold water and then seat Mfmself at Cie long table trying to force food upon an ascevieved and rebellions stomach, Gradiuilly a tlood of reekless. ness welled us in her breast. “For two pls 1 would marry Jack Fyfe," she td herself savagely, “Any: thing woabl be better tan this” (TO BE CONTINUED) most everywhere ad covering th xround with their test AL varions pofots en the front. hel: by Field Morstl dais, the Teitis! troops have delivered Successful at tacks. srs fay northwest of St Quentin, where “Gernvn positions a front of several hundred yards wer captured and prisoners tater, There has been a considerable slack Ing fn the Germen slvanee in merits Russia, due in larse mensnre to Russians mabing stents at sece points, partie tarly on the front of Peter eoleotd Tne lesting eastwar: from Riga, MONDAY. Phe betes whieh General Cadorn fs waster for Monte Sin Gabriele t comtieting. The Austrians are beln subjected to pressnre but by means « heavy concentrations of fresh troo: they have been able to keep the Ts! fans from achiovine the notable su cess which completion of the captur of the mountiin would constitute, General Petain's troops elinehed 1 snecess they won northeast of Ve dun on Saturday when they. pushe their Ines ahead materiatly int! Fosse and Caurieres wood seetor, 7 Germans were obliged te abandon th: furions ossantting tacties of We try Probably heewse of the heave loos they sustafed in attoeks whieh bf the French line unshaken, Tho German pavance in the Ror region Is defnitely batter, accardis to Indfeations In the cart rents Russia again hes a estieal potittea situation to face, however, with Ger oral Korntlo® deposed trom tre obi command beeause of his demand dictatorial powers, and with marud law declared in Petrograd. Mrs. Dellinger Freed From Miusdar Mrs, Annie Dellinger, charged with having shot and killed her Inusband Harry Dellinger, last January fo"ow Ing a quarrel in’ thelr home near Th Brogue, was declared nat euitte in York, Pa, hy a Jury, after detihorttyy five hours, | Mayor Breaks Acto Law. Mayor Harvey, of Hazloton, Pa, was arrested on information sworn ont by Herhert Smith, a state trooper, charged wih running’ two automobiles on one Heense, and having two un. Heensed drivers In his employ... ‘The mayor waived a hearing and pata fines and costs amounting to $27, Fourteen other auto owners were azrosted on charges of violating tie speed laws within the elty limits and ned $10 iio U. 8. Merchant Ships Convoyed. The American marehiant — ships operating between this country and Eusone are being convoyed by ships of war. ‘The navy depart. ment permitted this to become known, For a long time the department was silent on methods devised to protect these ships, Now officials admitted that groups of merchantmen have been despatched under convoys that sue. ceoded in warding off hostile subma- TINGS THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINTA SUPPRESS TWO GERMAN PAPERS Arrest TageblattOficrs in Philadelphia, FALSE STATEMENTS CHARGED Than Truck Load of Evidence in Descent on Offices, Concerted action awstinst all trea. Son suspects im bin adelphiiy was Dogun by the fedcial authorities and their pressure wecaiy has re sulted in the supp.s ian of two Ger MAN Newspapers, Loe wie st OF lwo Vt their officers, and tite inpeading appr Hension oF other otticess in Lhe pubs Ushing company, | “Warrants aiso have been sworn out jfoF all the members of the exeoutive committer of the Socialist. party in | Philadelphia, and it fs bolieved all the men who ure sought will be in the hands of the federal government with In twelve hours, ‘The German newspapers: supprossed As a result of their alleged. proGer. man proclivities and a repeated edt torial stand asainst the war moves of the administration at Washington, are the Philadelphia ‘Tagoblatt and the Sonntacosttatt, both published by the | Pafladetpaia “Tageblatt Publishing j Associaton. at 197 North Sixth street | street, 1" iladelphia, ‘Tho offlees of the organization were ralded and more than 1 trick load of evidence was confiscated, Including a complete filo.of the newspapers, letters and tole. Krams, often records and statements and oven some manuscripts, ‘The ralding party was drafted from threo branches of the federal govern: meat. Chtef Postal Inspector Cortol you led a detail of his assistants; Prank 1. Garharino was there with a detail from the department of Justiee and James Kenny and his men were assigned from the United States mar shal's office, Sergeant Kinsler, of the fourth district police station, was on hand with a squad to prevent possibte demonstration by the crowd whhict gathered and watched the raid, ‘The charge avalust the oMcers of tho newspaper company, two of whom have been arrested, is using thett property. “as a moans of committing certain felonies, that fs to say, the folony of willfully making and convey. Ing false reports and statements with Intent to promote the success of the cnomics of the United States while {6 United States was at war with the imperial German governmont.” ‘There ts anothor paragraph in the charge which Is worded Identically as tho forexoing with the exception that it deals with the use of the mails for the same purpose. : »oncers of the publi. © ° Gesthors vino wore taken in custody are Dr. Martin Darkow editor-in-chlef, and Herman Lenike, the business manager It fs expected that the othors for whom warrants have hoen Issued will be speedily taken. ‘They are Louls Wer ner, managing editor; Paul Vogel treasurer: Peter Schaeffer, president and Waldemar Alfredo, chlet editorta witter, Products Prices Soar, AIL records for September com modlty prices were broken tn Lan caster, Pa., and a canvas of a num ber of farmers brought the predictiot that by Christmas exgs would bo sell ing in Lancaster county for a dollai a dozen, ‘Tho following quotations prevaited: Average 10 per cent higher than tr 1864; Mutter, Atty cents per pound: eggs, forty-tikht aents per dos en; chickens, $2 per pair, Pea coa also jumped to $7.50 per ton, ‘Two Americans Wounded In France The war department announcec that Sergeant M. G. Calderwood and W. F. Brannigan, a private both of Company PF, Eleventi railway engineers, had been slightly wounded by shell fragmonts whilo ot duty in France. ‘This fs the army's first casualty an nouncement of the war except thal concerning the members of the medt cal corps killed whon German aviators bombed a hospital. Subscribe to The Richmond Planet. $1.50 per year in advance. Perfect Phonographs at Popular Prices THESE TALKING MACHINES ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE VALUES THAT HAVE YET BEEN OFFEREO 10 THE TRADE. IN FINISH AND TONE QUALITY THEY ARE EQUAL TO ANY GF THE O20.00 RETAIL MACHINES ON THE MARKET —_ == =) _ No. 1—13x13x6 inches, - - - $75 Worth of Umbrella Coupons No. 2.--16x16x7 inches, - - - $160 Worth of Umbrella Coupons Siauineniich aici mtr term THE RICHMOND PLANET S11 N. 4th St., - - Richmond, Va. hi es he a hh th Nt ee es es ERR ER eee ee eee Press Room sas Lo Fa =| ty (— S We print everything. Before ordering your printing Mxewhere give us a chance. 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THESE, GROUNDS ARE ADJACENT TO THE MAGNIFICENT WOODLAND CEMETERY GROUNDS, WHERE WIDE DRIVE-WAYS AND CONCRETE WALK-WAYS ARE A FEATURE. REST ROOMS FOR LADIES. LARGE PORCHES WITH HAMMOCKS, WHERE THE COOL AFTER- NOON BREEZES CAN BE ENJOYED. GOOD ORDER GUARANTEED. TWO BLOCKS FROM_ THE HIGHLAND PARK STREET-CAR LINE. EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM CHURCHHILL John Mitchell, Jr., President D. P. Bragg, Secretary Call up the President at Randolph 2213, or Bragg Brothers & Company, 506 North Second Street. SEVEN O. CHARLIE! O. GEE! THAT'S LUKE, MAYBE A BANDIT HAS GOT HIM!! CHARLIE. C'MERE WHAT THE DEUCE ARE YOU DOING IN THERE ???? O. CHARLIE!! I'M KILLING A BIG SNAKE HOW ARE YOU KILLING HIM?? I'M CHOKING HIM TO DEATH SATURDAY Sept. --15 THE PLANET ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE, VAK, Sept. 10.—An automobile party left the city for Lexington Va., September 2, consisting of the following gentlemen of the city: Mr. A. F. Brooks, Mr. Green Penn, Mr. Charles Lawson, Mr. T. T. Tallfero, Dr. Edwood Downing, Mr. Willie Patterson and Purcell Cuff. The party went from Lexington to Natural Bridge and into the caverns at two o'clock. They left the caves at three o'clock and arrived in Roanoke at six o'clock, having had the trip of their lives. Mr. W. K. Walker, of Lexington entertained the Roanoke visitors royally, so much so until the gentlemen will not soon forget the hospitalities shown them while in Lexington. Miss Gertrude Lawson and sister, Estelle, left Sunday night for Norfolk and Hampton, visiting the daughter of Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Miss P. Spinnie, of Hampton, Va. Mrs. Emma Mickey, the daughter of Mrs. Catherine Miller, of No. 314, died Monday after a long illness and the funeral took place from the home. Rev. J. J. Jefferson officiated, the pastor being out of the city, Funeral Director W. F. Hughes had charge of the burial. Mrs. Miller wishes to use this method in thanking the many friends who assisted her so nicely during the illness and death of her daughter. Mrs. Annie L. Powell, 620 Walker avenue, N. E. left last Saturday for a two weeks' vacation visiting friends at Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., Va. She carried her little son Master Edwin. Sunday morning and night, Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of Mt. Zlon A. M. E. Church delivered two very weighty sermons. At night the Reverend used as a text, 11 Peter, 5th verse, "And besides this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge." Mrs. James A. Swift, 508 Eighth avenue, N. E. left for Columbus, O. September S, to visit her sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Roberts. Miss Augusta Eggleston, 301 Tenth avenue, N. E. has returned from a visit to Columbus, O. and Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. W. R. Rollinson, of Washington, D. C. has been visiting his sister Mrs. Ellen Crutchfield, of 245 Tenth avenue, N. E. and was accompanied by her to Forest, Va., where he preached a wonderful sermar and returned to Washington. Mrs. Gillie Furgerson, 22 Fifth avenue, N. W., who underwent a serious operation at Freedmen's a few weeks ago, is getting along fine. Mrs. Annie Brown and Mrs. Blancho Cooke of Pittsburgh, Pa. are visiting their sister, Mrs. Berta Hosson and Mrs. Ida Bonds and Susie Earloy, of North-east Roanoko, 716 Ninth avenue. Another father of the city has fallen a victim to the great monster death, in the person of Brother T. G. Kinsey, who died Saturday night at nine o'clock and was buried on Monday with high honors by Kebar Lodge, I. O. O. F. The funeral was from St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church, of which he was a member for forty years and two months. He never faltered in the fight for God and the right. He died in the full triumph of faith and was solemnly laid to rest in Midway Cemetery, He lived to bless mankind and secured a home in Heaven. The Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday School gave the children a truck ride and picnic at Kingstown last Thursday. They enjoyed quite a pleasant outing with abundance of the delicacies of the season. WANTS TO LOCATE SISTER. Any information of the whereabouts of Mrs. Margaras Kinton will be of much comfort and great relief to her dear sister, Mrs. Angie Brown of 346 Ninth avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Va. When last heard of, two years ago, she was at Winston-Salem N. C., on east Third street. Miss Minnie Hay, of Rustburg, Va., the adopted daughter of Mr. Samuel Jennings, was brought to Ronhoke and placed in Burrell Memorial Hospital, for an operation under Dr. J. B. Claytor. Mrs. Annie Mitchell and daughter, Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Miss Beatrice, of 617 Sixth avenue, N. W. left the city August 19 for a trip to Cleveland, O. and Detroit, Mich. They enjoyed the trip of their lives and were favored to witness the Elks' Convention in Cleveland, O., where thousands were in attendance. They also had a three days' stay on an excursion to Detroit, Mich. They returned to Cleveland and from there home, arriving in Roanoke, September 2, much delighted over their trip. Mrs. Nettie Ferguson and husband Mr. William Ferguson, 153 High street, wish to use this method in thanking their many friends for the great care extended them during the illness and death of their son, James H. Ferguson, who died Monday morning, September 3, 1917. Prof. M. Traynham, 226 Fifth avenue, N. W. was brought home from R. M. Works, foundry department, vory sick, Monday, September 10. Mr. Byrd Stanfield, 556 Seventh avenue, N. W. is improved to what he was some weeks ago. The Helping Hand Home Society had their annual sermon preached at the Hill Street Baptist Church, Sunday, September 9, at three o'clock sharp by their pastor, Rev. D. R. Powell. The members of the club were prompt. There are fifty-two members on roll and forty were present, although the weather was very inclement. They rallied to the great cause, because they realize Jesus said If we go He will go with us, so we took him at His word. The club had a splendid program as follows: Introductory remarks, Sister Martha Whales, Worthy Treasurer; solo, Sister Cornella J. Dickerson, VicePresident, which held the people spellbound for awhile. This solo was worth while to listen to and was very touching to everyone who was present. The Worthy President, Sister Georgia A. Hairston read a paper. She explained in a very simple and interesting way the first organization of this noble club and its origin and where and when it was organized. The pastor was introduced by the president and recognized by the club. He took his text from John 11:43. He preached a noble sermon and was enjoyed by everybody present. He bid us God speed. Sisters Mary Hairston, Lucy Day and Cornella Dickerson lifted the collection and $7.80 was raised. The pastor invited us back next Sunday After such a noble sermon there were several applications received. Georgia A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Robertson, Secretary. BRIGHTON—REDMAN Mr. Laurny Brighton and Miss Lillian Redman, of Pulaski and Newport News, Va. respectively, were united in marriage at the home of Mrs. Cornella Dickerson, Tenth avenue, N. E., a friend of the groom, in Roanoke, on Monday last. The marriage took place at 3:30 P. M. with the Taylor, Taylor officiating. Those present were: Rev. Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Bolling, Mrs. Octavia Guthrie, Mrs. Dora Holland, Misses Holena Traynham, Georgia Hairston Squabrina, Pittman, Queen Williams, Lea Jones, Hattle Stockton, Ethel Stockton and Mrs. Bettie Stockton. Reception Committee of 100 Formed —Great National Convention to be Hold—Race Riots the Issuce Paramount. New York, N. Y., Sept. 6. A reception Committee of One Hundred has been organized here to welcome the delegates to the National Race Congress called by the National Equal Rights League to convene in Mother Zion Church, N. 136th St., Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 18 and 19. On this Committee are local editors, clergymen, lawyers, doctors, business people and citizen leaders. Conspicuous among its members are leaders of the Silent Protest Parade who went to the White House with a petition against lynchings. The paramount issue of the Congress and of the 10th Annual meeting of the League which opens on the third day, Thursday, Sept. 20 will be the fresh and increased assaults upon the rights of the race by the Federal Government and upon the persons of the race by white Americans since the call to support the Europeans now for world war for world democracy. Sept. 16, National Congress Sunday. Pres. Gunner of the League not only appeals to every community to form an Equal Rights Committee to provide for a delegate by a public rally or otherwise, but calls upon every pastor to make Sunday, September 16th, "Race Congress Sunday" and pray and preach on a national getting-together for justice, also urging a delegate be sent by church. THE RICHMOND PLANET MR. DARDEN ANSWERED. Colored Aviators Barred. From Service—No Colored Aviation Squadron Formed. 407 German Bldg., Aug. 10, '17. To The Secty, of the War Department. Washington, D. C. My Dear Sir,—Numerous complaints all over the country are being made by young colored men who have applied to the local Recruiting Officers in the various States, for enlistment in the Aviation Department. Most of these young men are intelligent, and could qualify to enter any Department of the government and render effective service, but they are promptly cold, by said Officers, that their application cannot be accepted in that Department because of their color. TWO SPECIFIC CASES. I know of two young men in this city one is a Doctor, and the other, a young man who is possessed of some technical knowledge of engineering, who applied at the local office of this city, and were promptly told that their applications could not be accepted because of their color. I was informed, some time ago, through the News Papers that applications from young colored men would be acceptable to the government in that Department, and I am now unable to understand where the local Recruiting Officers of that Department get their instructions to the contrary. ATTORNEY DARDEN SHOPES. I do sincerely hope that your Department will relieve the hundreds of young men who are daily making application for enlistment in that Department, by making, or causing to be made through your department an authorized statement settling for the present at least the question of Negro enlistment in the Aviation Department. Your earliest convenience in the matter of a statement will greatly oblige. THE CAPTAIN'S REPLY In reply to Mr. Darden's letter the Secy. of War said: War Department, Washington, D. C. Aug. 17, 1917. From: Office of Chlof Signal Officer. To: Mr. Chas, S. Darden, 407 Germain Bld., Los Angeles, Cal. Subject: Colored Units; Your letter of Aug. 10th, with reference to colored men who have applied for enlistment in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. At the present time no colored aero squadrons are being formed and applications from colored men for this branch of the service cannot be considered for that reason. If it is decided later on to form colored aero squadrons, recruiting officers will be notified to that effect and colored men may then apply for that particular service. By direction of the Chief Signal Officer. THOMAS H. McCOMNEL Captain, Signal Corps, U. S. R. BETHEL CHURCH'S RALLY. Baltimore, Sept. 6.—Bethel A. M. E. church has just concluded a rally for $10,000 which was used in paying off a second mortgage. There still remains a debt of $60,000. Of the $15,000 $7,000 was given by the coloured people of Baltimore, $8,150 by a group of interested whites and $265 by other white friends. Much of the credit for the rally's success is due to the efforts of the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, who raised over $6,000 in one campaign while pastor of St. Paul church, St Louis. He is now at Excelsior Springs, Mo., enjoying a well-earned vacation. City Councilman Harry S. Cummings is critically ill at his home, 1318 Drulid Hill avenue. He is 51 years of age and was educated at Lincoln University and the law school of the University of Maryland. He seconded the nomination of President Roosevelt at Chicago in 1904 and from 1911 until 1915 was attorney general for the Odd Fellows. Quinto a number of colored Baltimore means took part in the selective army men's parade Wednesday. John H. Murphy, publisher of the Afro-American, is at Atlantic City. Monumental Lodge of Elks is elated over the fact of capturing the 1918 session of the Grand Lodge. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON 628 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore. Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? Chaplin's UKE HAS WHAT TH DOING O.CHARLIE! KILLING A BIG S DINWIDDIE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL One of the secondary schools in the State of Virginia that is suing for a first place among Negro Educational activities, and is destined to rank among the best of such institutions is Dinwiddie. Normal and Industrial School located at Dinwiddie, Va., on the Seaboard Air Line R. R., just 15 miles south of Petersburg. The school was founded in 1898 by some white men for the training of colored youth. Later, Mr. Alexander Van Rensselaer of Philadelphia took hold of it and developed it to a high degree of efficiency. In 1908 he conveyed the whole plant (250) acres to the Board of Education (250) acres to the Board of Education of A. M. E. Zion Church. The session which closed last May sent out six graduates and is said to have been the most successful in several years. There was a larger attendance than usual and more interest shown by the colored people than ever before. This perhaps is accounted for from the fact that Bishop G. L. Blackwell of Philadelphia had been made the president of the board of Trustees and put the face of his personality and put the face of the most powerful Principal, W. E. Woodward. The teaching force has been strengthened, three of the teachers being graduates respectively of Fiske, Lincoln Howard Univ. Bishop Blackwell with the assistance of Bishop J. S. Caldwell has just closed an education campaign for the school which resulted $4 in $5200.00. This amount together with other sources of income has put the school in first class condition. All the old bills have been paid off and the salaries of the teachers guaranteed. During the summer vacation the buildings have been overlaid the boy's dormitory enlarged the reservoir put in first class condition the grounds cleaned up and the whole plant made perfectly sanitary. Principal Woodyard reports that he has on hand from the farm 100 quarts of canned beans 13 quarts of berries, 65 quarts of apples, 35 quarts of tomatoes, and that he has 15 bushels of white potatoes with a late crop yet to dig, 40 bushels of sweet potatoes, 2000 heads of cabbage, a nice lot of rape, kale peas, turnips, beans, butter beans 40 bushels of wheat, 11 hogs to kill 12 small plums a few chickens and plenty of feed for horses and cattle. The school is in first class condition, and offers comfortable rooms, fine table board, efficient training and good discipline. Entrance fee $5.00; board, tuition and room rent per month $8.00 for girls; $9.00 for boys. The forth conting. session opens Oct. 3 and the largest number in the history of the School is expected. The graduates from the Normal department receive from State Superintendent of Education, Certificates to teach with the State of Virginia without further examination. Aside from literary training, the school teaches musle, stenography, bookkeeping, domestic science, sewing, carpentry, blacksmithing, poultry, pig and stock raising and agriculture. Persons wishing further information may address the: rincipal, W. E. WOODYARD, Winwiddle, Va. BLACK MOVEMENT TO AFRICA Editor Mitchell Editor Mitchell, My Dear Sir—The organizing committee on the Black movement to Africa by the Colored people going from the United States and other countries, request that you air the movement with your best judgment and inform the people that we cannot attempt to organize the people at this time, because of the war in Europe. But as soon as it s over we shall send out the organizing secretary to form many committees to take up the business and start the movement. Many of the colored people have been invited to come west to Arizona where they can get homes, and plenty of work, good wages, on farms and at mining camps. Railroad companies will aid them also. You must keep out of race riots if possible. We don't know an English, French, German, Italian, or Russian subject from the American lynchers. Therefore we don't know the guilty from the innocent whites. There is danger ahead and we don't want Col. Roosevelt to leave here at this time. Let a West Pointer take the army to Russia. Commissioner Koiner is mailing out the Department's September Bulletin to all farmers whose names are on the Department's mailing list. Every farmer should read these helpful bulletins. There is much valuable information in the September bulletin which will A Good Skin Bleach copyright applied for Black and White Ointment—For Removing Freckles, Tan, Blackheads Skin Blemishes—Lightens Up Dark or Sallow Skin—Used by White and Colored Folks. Give Black and White Ointment a trial. Just apply the ointment freely as directed on label, to your freckles, tans, dark or sallow skin. It bleaches lightens your skin and removes blemishes and heals all eruptions. Hairles or blackheads, giving your skin that healthy, pearl light, smooth complexion so much desired. Black and White causes the skin to grow brighter. Just think how much better you would look with bright, smooth, healthy skin and clear, clean complexion. Costs only 25 cents a large box, or five boxes for $1. Agents: This black and white sells fast. Write quick for territory and special deal. Plough Chemical Co., Dept. 5, Memphis, Tennessee. Sold in Richmond by all drug stores. enable the farmer to save money in the marketing of his crops. The marketing of the wheat crop is especially discussed in this bulletin, also important information on the production and marketing of the peanut crop, information as to the size and probable market of the apple crop, discussion about wire grass, more information regarding the Farm Loan Act, the use of raw phosphate rock, and market work in general. These bulletins are sent free of cost every month to all farmers who desire them. The information contained is practical and reliable to farmers in their daily work. PORTSMOUTH NEWS PORTSMOUTH, VA., Sept. 11. The Planet is still attracting attention in this section of the state, as a leading organ in the defense and uplift of our people. Our minds are made up. We intend to have more of our people read your paper each week. So you may expect to hear from this section. We find there are, among the ministry, some new comers in this city and vicinity. Rev W. E. Brown of the First Baptist Church, South Portsmouth, of a recent date, came here and is contemplating the erection of a new church house. His people are rallying to his support. E. Brown attended Women's Auxiliary to the Lott Care, Foreign Mission Convention which met in Richmond, Va. She returned clated over the success of the work of the Convention. Rev. R. G. Adams, pastor of Met- ropolitan Baptist Church is another new comer. We are expecting nothing but success of this con- gregation, while he is their leader. His helpmate, Mrs. M. C. Adams, is a recognized leader among women. Rev. Adams conducted a revival meeting one week for the Olive Branch Baptist Church. The mem- bership is delighted at the success. The meeting closed Friday evening with sixteen conversions. While Rev. Adams was filling the pulpit on Sunday at First Baptist Church, Hampton, Va., Revs. Weaver and Brown administered the Gospel to his flock. Mr. J. T. Brown has returned from Baltimore, where he expected to have an operation performed but the doctor thought best not. Mr. J. W. Barns returned from Danville, Va., where he attended the meeting of District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Hattie Boone, of Effingham street has been visiting friends in the country. She returned looking fine. The son of Deacon R. J. Perkins will leave for Asheville, N. C., where he can find a more conductive atmosphere. Deacon Thomas Tucker is much improved since his return from the country. Mr. P. B. Hairston, of Farmville, Va. spent a few days with his expasor, Rev. Adams. Mr. Hairston is a business man and a deacon of First Baptist Church, Farmville. This is the third officer of this church who has visited the Reverend since his coming to Portsmouth. The Metropolitan members are beginning to open their eyes. The revival meeting at Metropolitan Church will begin the first week in October. Rev. Adams will attend the Grand Lodge of True Reformers, which will convene in Richmond, Va. this week. Rev. F. C. Campbell is still on the shelf. Dr. J. M. Armstead is the beacon light in this section. Dr. C. C. Somorville is holding his own. Rev. O. C. 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GRADUATES Get State Certificates to Teach With Fine Table Board, Comfortable Rooms Faculty Unsurpassed, Thorough Good Discipline. Board and Room f $9 per Month For Further Information. A Principal W. E. Woodyard, A. Opens October STUDY---Grammar School, New Domestic Science, Sewing, F Raising, Blacksmithing, Agri- c Certificates to Teach With Comfortable Rooms Surpassed, Thorough B. Board and Room f $9 per Month Further Information. A E. Woodyard, A. T. For Further Information. Address Principal W. E. Woodyard, A. B., Dinwiddie, Va. THE SUPERIORITY OF MME, JOHNSON'S FAMOUS (Shur Pleeze) HAIR GROWER is Recognized by Thousands of Women who have Used and Appreciate the Luxuriousness of its Great Superiority. Price, 50 Cents by Mail if there is not an Agent in your city, or town. Guaranteed under the Food and Drug Law. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Send all mail to ..... 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FOR COMPLETE COURSE BY INDENT INCOME FOR LIFE. of Democracy. RICHMOND Virginia SATURDAY Sept. --15 THE PLANET ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE NEWS NOTES ROANOKE, VA. Sept. 10.—An automobile party left the city for Lexington Va., September 2, consisting of the following gentlemen of the city: Mr. A. F. Brooks, Mr. Green Penn, Mr. Charles Lawson, Mr. T. Talafero, Dr. Edwood Downing, Mr. Willie Patterson and Purcell Cuff. The party went from Lexington to Natural Bridge and into the caverns at two o'clock. They left the caves at three o'clock and arrived in Roanoke at six o'clock, having had the trip of their lives. Mr. W. K. Walker, of Lexington entertained the Roanoke visitors royally, so much so until the gentlemen will not soon forget the hospitalities shown them while in Lexington. Miss Gertrude Lawson and sister, Estelle, left Sunday night for Norfolk and Hampton, visiting the daughter of Mrs. W. T. B. Williams, Miss P. Spinnite, of Hampton, Va. Mrs. Emma Mickey, the daughter of Mrs. Catherine Miller, of No. 314, died Monday after a long illness and the funeral took place from the home. Rev. J. J. Jefferson officiated, the pastor being out of the city. Funeral Director W. F. Hughes had charge of the burial. Mrs. Miller wishes to use this method in thanking the many friends who assisted her so nicely during the illness and death of her daughter. Mrs. Annie L. Powell, 620 Walker avenue, N. E. left last Saturday for a two weeks' vacation visiting two weeks at Rocky Mount, Franklin Co. Va. She carried her little son Master Edwin. Sunday morning and night, Rev. George C. Taylor, D. D., of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church delivered two very weighty sermons. At night the Reverend used as a text, II Peter, 5th verse, "And besides this giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge." Mrs. James A. Swift, 508 Eighth avenue, N. E. left for Columbus, O. September S., to visit her sister and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Roberts. Miss Augusta Eggleston, 301 Tenth avenue, N. E. has returned from a visit to Columbus, O. and Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. W. R. Robinson, of Washington, D. C. has been visiting his sister Mrs. Ellen Crutchfield, of 245 Tenth avenue, N. E. and was accompanied by her to Forest, Va., where he provided a wonderful German and returned to Washington. Mrs. Gillie Furgerson, 22 Fifth avenue, N. W., who underwent a serious operation at Freedman's a few weeks ago, is getting along fine. Mrs. Annie Brown and Mrs. Blanche Cooke of Pittsburgh, Pa. are visiting their sister, Mrs. Berta Hosson and Mrs. Ida Bonds and Susie Earley, of North-east Roanoke, 716 Ninth avenue. Another father of the city has fallen a victim to the great monster death, in the person of Brother T. G. Kinsey, who died Saturday night at nine o'clock and was buried on Monday with high honors by Kebar Lodge, I. O. O. F. The funeral was from St. Paul's Memorial M. E. Church, of which he was a member for forty years and two months. He never faltered in the fight for God and the right. He died in the full triumph of faith and was solemnly laid to rest in Midway Cemetery. He lived to bless mankind and secured a home in Heaven. The Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday School gave the children a truck ride and picnic at Kingstown last Thursday. They enjoyed quite a pleasant outing with abundance of the delicacies of the season. WANTS TO LOCATE SISTER Any information of the whereabouts of Mrs. Margaret Kinton will be of much comfort and great relief to her dear sister, Mrs. Angie Brown of 345 Ninth avenue, N. W., Roanoke, Va. When last heard of, two years ago, she was at Winston-Salem N. C., on east Third street. Miss Minnie Hay, of Rustburg, Va., the adopted daughter of Mr. Samuel Jennings, was brought to Ronnicko and placed in Burrell Memorial Hospital, for an operation under Dr. J. B. Claytor. Mrs. Annie Mitchell and daughter, O, CHARLIE! Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers Miss Beatrice, of 617 Sixth avenue, N. W. left the city August 19 for a trip to Cleveland, O. and Detroit, Mich. They enjoyed the trip of their lives and were favored to witness the Elks' Convention in Cleveland, O., where thousands were in attendance. They also had a three days' stay on an excursion to Detroit, Mich. They returned to Cleveland and from there home, arriving in Roanoke, September 2, much delighted over their trip. Mrs. Nettie Ferguson and husband Mr. William Ferguson, 153 High street, wish to use this method in thanking their many friends for the great care extended them during the illness and death of their son, James H. Ferguson, who died Monday morning, September 3, 1917. Prof. M. Traynham 226 Fifth avenue, N. W. was brought home from R. M. Works, foundry department, very sick, Monday, September 10. Mr. Byrd Stanfield, 556 Seventh avenue, N. W. is improved to what he was some weeks ago. The Helping Hand Home Society had their annual sermon preached at the Hill Street Baptist Church, Sunday, September 9, at three o'clock sharp by their pastor, Rev. D. R. Powell. The members of the club were prompt. There are fifty-two members on roll and forty were present, although the weather was very inclement. They rallied to the great cause, because they realize Jesus said if we go He will go with us, so we took Him at His word. The club had a splendid program as follows: Introductory remarks, Sister Martha Whales, Worthy Treasurer; solo, Sister Cornelia J. Dickerson, VicePresident, which held the people spellbound for awhile. This solo was worth while to listen to and was very touching to everyone who was present. The Worthy President, Sister Georgia A. Hairston read a paper. She explained in a very simple and interesting way the first organization of this noble club and its origin and where and when it was organized. The pastor was introduced by the president and recognized by the club. He took his text from John 11:43. He preached a noble sermon and was enjoyed by everybody present. He bid us God speed. Sisters Mary Hairston, Lucy Day and Cornelia Dickerson lifted the collection and $7.80 was raised. The pastor invited us back next Sunday. After such a noble sermon there were several applications received. Georgiana A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Robertson, Secretary. BRIGHTON—REDMAN. Mr. Lauryn Brighton and Miss Lillian Redman, of Pulaski and Newport News, Va. respectively were united in marriage at the home of Mrs. Cornelia Dickerson, Tenth avenue, N. E., a friend of the groom, in Roanoke, on Monday last. The marriage took place at 3:30 P. M. with the Rev. Taylor officiating. Those present were: Rev. Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Bolling, Mrs. Octavia Guthrie, Mrs. Dora Holland, Misses Helena Traynham, Georgia Halston Souphra Pittman, Queen Williams, Laura Jones, Hattie Stockton, Ethel Stockton and Mrs. Bettie Stockton. RACE CONGRESS SUNDAY. Reception Committee of 100 Formed —Great National Convention to be Held—Race Blots the Issue Paramount. New York, N. Y., Sept. 6.—A reception Committee of One Hundred has been organized here to welcome the delegates to the National Race Congress called by the National Equal Rights League to convene in Mother Zion Church, N. 136th St., Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 18 and 19. On this Committee we local editors, clergymen, lawyers, doctors, business people and citizen leaders. Conspicuous among its members are leaders of the Silent Protest Parade who went to the White House with a petition against lynchings. The paramount issue of the Congress and of the 10th Annual meeting of the League which opens on the third day, Thursday, Sept. 20 will be the fresh and increased assaults upon the rights of the race by the Federal Government and upon the persons of the race by white Americans since the call to support the Europeans now for world war for world democracy. Sept. 16, National Congress Sunday, Pres. Gunner of the League not only appeals to every community to form an Equal Rights Committee to provide for a delegate by a public rally or otherwise, but calls upon every pastor to make Sunday, September 16th, "Race Congress Sunday" and pray and preach on a national getting-together for justice, also urging a delegate by sent by each church. THE RICHMOND PLANET MR. DARDEN ANSWERED. Colored Aviators Barred From Service—No Colored Aviation Squadron Formed. 407 Germain Bldg., Aug. 10, 17. To The Secty, of the War Dept. Washington, D. C., My Dear Sir,—Numerous complaints all over the country are being made by young colored men who have applied to the local Recruiting Officers in the various States, for enlistment in the Aviation Department. Most of these young men are intelligent, and could qualify to enter any Department of the government and render effective service, but they are promptly old. by said Officers, that their application cannot be accepted in that Department because of their color. TWO SPECIFIC CASES. I know of two young men in this city one is a Doctor, and the other, a young man who is possessed of some technical knowledge of engineering, who applied at the local office of this city, and were promptly told that their applications could not be accepted because of their color. I was informed, some time ago, through the News Papers that applications from young colored men would be acceptable to the government in that Department, and I am now unable to understand where the local Recruiting Officers of that Department get their instructions to the contrary. ATTORNEY DARDEN JOPES. I do sincerely hope that your Department will relieve the hundreds of young men who are daily making application for enlistment in that Department, by making, or causing to be made through your department an authorized statement settling for the present at least the question of Negro enlistment in the Avtation Department. Your earliest convenience in the matter of a statement will greatly oblige. Respectfully, CHAS. S. DARDEN THE CAPTAIN'S REPLY In reply to Mr Darden's letter the Seccty, of War said: 407 Germain Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Subject: Colored Units: Your letter of Aug. 10th, with reference to colored men who have applied for enlistment in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. At the present time no colored aero squadrons are being formed and applications from colored men for this branch of the service cannot be considered for that reason. If it is decided later on to form colored aero squadrons, recruiting officers will be notified to that effect and colored men may then apply for that particular service. By direction of the Chief Signal Officer. THONAS H. McCONNEEL Captain, Signal Corps, U. S. R. BETHEL CHURCHIFS RALLY. Baltimore, Sept. 6.—Bethel A. M. E. church has just concluded a rally for $15,000 which was used in paying off a sec nd mortgage. There still remains a debt of $60,000. Of the $15,000 $7,000 was given by the coloured people of Baltimore, $8,150 by a group of interested whites and $265 by other white friends. Much of the credit for the rally's success is due to the efforts of the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, who raised over $6,000 in one campaign white pastor of St. Paul church, St. Louis. He is now at Excelsior Springs, Mo., enjoying a wellearned vacation. City Councilman Harry S. Cummings is critically ill at his home, 1318 Drudg Hill avenue. He is 51 years of age and was educated at Lincoln University and the law school of the University of Maryland. He seconded the nomination of President Roosevelt at Chicago in 1904 and from 1911 until 1915 was attorney general for the Odd Fellows. Quite a number of colored Baltimoreans took part in the selective army men's parade Wednesday. John H. Murphy, publisher of the Afro-American, is at Atlantic City. Monumental Lodge of Elks is claed over the fact of capturing the 1918 session of the Grand Lodge. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON 628 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore. Your subscription to the Planet is due. Have you paid it? If not why not? Chaplin's UKE HAS WHAT TH DOING Q.CHARLIE!! I KILLING A BIG S DINWIDDIE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL One of the secondary schools in the State of Virginia that is suing for a first place among Negro Educational activities, and is destined to rank among the best of such institutions is Dinwiddie, Normal and Industrial School located at Dinwiddie, Va., on the Seaboard Air Line R. R., just 15 miles south of Petersburg. The school was founded in 1898 by some white men for the training of colored youth. Later, Mr. Alexander Van Rennsacher of Philadelphia took hold of it and developed it to a high degree of efficiency. In 1908 he conveved the whole plant (250) acres to the Board of Education of the A. M. E. Zion Church. The session which closed last May sent out six graduates and is said to have been the most successful in several years. There was a larger attendance than usual and more interest shown by the colored people than ever before. This perhaps is accounted for from the fact that Bishp p G. L. Blackwell of Philadelphia had been made the president of the board of Trustees and put the f race of his personality and office hie the most capable Principal, W. E. Woodyd. The teaching force has been strengthened, three of the teachers being graduates respectively of Fiske, Lincoln Howard Univ. Bishop Blackwell with the assistance of Bishop J. S. Caldwell has just closed an e luc canvail for the school which resulted in $5200.00. This amount together with other sources of income has put the school in first class condition. All the old bills have been paid off and the salaries of the teachers guaranteed. During the summer vacation the buildings have been overlaid the boy's dormitory enlarged the reservoir put in first class condition the grounds cleaned up and the whole plant made perfect in sanitary. Principal Woodyd reports that he has on hand from the farm 100 quarts of canned beans 13 quarts of berries, 65 quarts of apples, 35 quarts of tomatoes, and that he has 15 bushels of white potatoes with a late crop yet to dig, 40 bushels of sweet potatoes, 2000 heads of cabbage, a nice lot of rape, kale peas, turnips, navy beans, butter beans 40 bushels of wheat, 11 hogs to kill 12 small quills quite a few chickens and plenty of feed for horses and cattle. The school is in first class condition, and offers comfortable rooms fine table board, efficien training and good discipline. Entrance fee $5.00; board, tuition and room rent per month $8.00 for girls; $9.00 for boys. The forth compession opens Oct. 3 and the largest number in the history of the School is expected. The graduates from the Normal department receive from State Superintendent of Education, Certificates to teach with the State of Virginia without further examinations Aside from literary training, the school teaches music, stenography, bookkeeping, domestic science, sewing, carpentry, blacksmithing, poultry, pig and stock raising and agriculture. Persons wishing further information may address the: rincipal, W. E. WOODYARD, Dinwiddie, Va. BLACK MOVEMENT TO AFRICA Editor Mitchell Editor Mitchell, My Dear Sir....The organizing committee on the Black movement to Africa by the Colored people from the United States and other countries, request that you air the movement with your best judgment and inform the people that we cannot attempt to organize the people at this time, because of the war in Europe. But as soon as it is over we shall send out the organizing secretary to form many committees to take up the business and start the movement. Many of the colored people have been invited to come west to Arizona where they can get homes, and plenty of work, good wages, on farms and at mining camps. Railroad companies will aid them also. You must keep out of race riots if possible. We don't know an English, French, German, Italian, or Russian subject from the American lynchers. Therefore we don't know the guilty from the innocent whites. There is danger ahead and we don't want Col. Roosevelt to leave here at this time. Let a West-Pointer take the army to Russia. SEPTEMBER STATE FARMERS BULLETIN READY Commissioner Koiner is mailing out the Department's September Bulletin to all farmers whose names are on the Department's mailing list. Every farmer should read these helpful bulletins. There is much valuable information in the September bulletin which will A Good Skin Bleach copyright applied for Black and White Ointment—For Removing Freckles, Tan, Blackheads, Skin Blemishes—Lightens Up Dark or Sallow Skin—Used by White and Colored Folks Give Black and White Ointment a trial. Just apply the ointment freely as directed on label, to your freckles, tans, dark or sallow skin. It bleaches lightens your skin and removes blemishes and heals all eruptions, pimples or blackheads, giving your skin that healthy, pearl light, smooth complexion so much desired. Black and White causes the skin to grow brighter. Just think how much better you would look with bright, smooth, healthy skin and clear, clean complexion. Costs only 25 cents a large box, or five boxes for $1. Agents: This black and white sells fast. Write quick for territory and special deal. Plough Chemical Co., Dept. 5, Memphis, Tenn. Sold in Richmond by all drug stores. enable the farmer to save money in the marketing of his crops. The marketing of the wheat crop is especially discussed in this bulletin, also important information on the production and marketing of the peanut crop, information as to the size and probable market of the apple crop, discussion about wire grass, more information regarding the Farm Loan Act, the use of phosphate rock, and market work in general. These bullets are sent free of cost every month to all farmers who desire them. The information contained is practical and reliable to farmers in their daily work. PORTSMOUTH NEWS PORTSMOUTH, VA., Sout. 11.—The Planet is still attracting attention in this section of the state, as a leading organ in the defense and uplift of our people. Our minds are made up. We intend to have more of our people read your paper each week. So you may expect to hear from this section. We find there are, among the ministry, some new comers in this city and vicinity. Rev. W. E. Brown of the First Baptist Church, South Portsmouth, of a recent date, came here and is contemplating the erection of a new church house. His people are rallying to his support. E. Brown attended. Women's Auxiliary to the Lott Care Foreign Mission Convention which met in Richmond, Va. She returned clated over the success of the work of the Convention. Rev. R. G. Adams, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church is another new comer. We are expecting nothing but success of this congregation, while he is their leader. His helpmate, Mrs. M. C. Adams, is a recognized leader among women. Rev. Adams conducted a revival meeting one week for the Olive Branch Baptist Church. The membership is delighted at the success. The meeting closed Friday evening with sixteen conversions. White Rev. Adams was filling the pulpit on Sunday at First Baptist Church, Hampton, Va., Rev. Weaver and Brown administered the Gospel to his stock. Mr. J. T. Brown has returned from Baltimore, where he expected to have an operation performed but the doctor thought best not. Mr. J. W. Barns returned from Danville, Va., where he attended the meeting of District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Hattie Boone, of Efingham street has been visiting friends in the country. She returned looking fine. The son of Deacon R. J. Perkins will leave for Asheville, N. C., where he can find a more conducive atmosphere. Deacon Thomas Tucker is much improved since his return from the country. Mr. P. B. Hairston, of Farmville, Va. spent a few days with his expasor, Rev. Adams. Mr. Hairston is a business man and a deacon of First Baptist Church, Farmville. This is the third officer of this church who has visited the Reverend since his coming to Portsmouth. 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Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 1.—The following resolutions were unanimously offered and adopted during the Eighteenth Annual Session of the National Negro Business League which was held at Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 15th to 18th, 1917. The National Negro Business League in eighteenth annual convention assembled, shares with all true Americans deep concern in the tittantic struggle now going on among the nations of Europe, into which America has been unwillingly drawn. We are true Americans. There is no hyphen in our patriotism. No slackers are buried in our society, no spies harbored no spirit of disloyalty or intrigue is entertained for a moment, nor in the slightest of encourag. In every war of the republic we have done our "bit," and we will not fail in this hour of our nation's greatest crisis. We call upon our people to contribute in every way to the successful prosecution of the war by giving our noble sons for offense abroad and for defense at home; by an increase of crops, by larger planting and better farming; and by a closer conservation of our products in observing the suggestions of the government as to our consumption of food and the elimination of waste. We share the conviction that as true patriots we should give our last ounce of devotion in the service that may bring victory to the armies of our country and our heroic allies. We yearn intensely for the day when the world shall be "safe for democracy," when men may be men the world over, freed from caste, political discrimination, oppression of every sort, and prejudice; when men everywhere shall enjoy the inalienable rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," with equal opportunities for education and labor, with free-for-all incentives for personal and racial development, with equal justice to all and malice toward none, most respectfully urge that condemn demands that as we proach democracy, we shall practice it at home. We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless our country is safe for democracy. Unless every man in America shall have a man's chance, America's plan for world democracy shall, because of our inconsistency, be the occasion of our humiliation. The seas must not only be safe for travel but likewise every bypath in America. We unreservedly condemn crime of every nature, whether found in our race or others, and we put ourselves squarely on record against the vicious criminal class. At the same time we lift our voices in condemnation of lynching and mob rule, believing as we do that such practices undermine good government, promote insecurity of all, and are a serious reflection on our Christian civilization. The recent occurrences that have made East St. Louis, Memphis, and Abbeville black spots in America have made East St. Louis, Memphis, throughout the world. The failure to punish adequately the perpetrators of these crimes has emboldened until many of our people in some parts We desire to commend State and county officials in all parts of the country who in the exercise of their offices, seek to protect the lives of prisoners and thwart the purposes of the mob. We especially desire to commend the attitude taken on lynching by the Hon. Sidney J. Catts, Governor of Florida and the Hon. Augustus O. Stanley, Governor of Kentucky. We record our hearty appreciation and sincere gratitude to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for his eloquent and forceful words recently delivered condemnatory of mob rule and lawlessness, which words sent a thrill throughout the nation and the world and were particularly heartening to our people. Largely because of insecurity, as well as lack of school facilities, poor wages, unfair treatment of courts and unfair administration of our suffrage laws, our people have become uncontrollably restless. They are seeking security, larger liberty, and more of the comforts of life. Knowing as we do that the Negro at heart loves the South and would here abide contentedly in large numbers under better and more favorable conditions, and gratefully recognizing the progressive attitude taken by many of the white friends in the South toward our advancement and their efforts for the betterment of our schools and living conditions in general, in Tennessee, for example, we nevertheless urge that our Southland be made safe for all men to th extent that criminals of every class shall be punished by the process of the law, that adequate school facilities shall be placed with in the reach of all, in the rural districts as well as in the small towns and cities, with better school buildings and with better trained teachers that better housing conditions be provided on the farms and plantations for tenant, with garden spots and other inducements to make the dwelling place a home instead of a hovel; and that our people shall share in the production of their own toll and receive higher wages. We cherish the memory of our great founder whose genius and spirit abide with us today. We seek to carry out his program of racial good will and co-operation. We share the conviction that it is in the interest of the industrial, commercial and financial welfare of our whole country that the races shall learn to trust each other more, shall share with each other in counsel where their interests are inter-locked and co-operate for the progress and happiness of each and all. We call attention to the opportunities along commercial, industrial and financial lines now open to our people, and urge upon them the wisdom of preparing to seize these opportunities that are made possible by the large earning of our own people and by the willing co-operation of the financial interests of the South, to assist individuals of our race who have shown good business judgment, integrity and dependability in matters financial and commercial. We how in humble submission to the will of the Heavenly Father who has taken from us our energetic coworker and Second Vice-President, Honorable John E. Bush, of Little Rock, Arkan as, who was devoted to the work of the National Negro Business League as he was to teery other effort for racial advancement. This organization has had no more faithful worker, nor has the race had a more earnest and unselfish leader. In the passing of John E. Bush, we recognize the removal of one of our most steadfast and dependable supporters and we express to his family our deepest and most sincere sympathy in this their great loss. It is also with deep regret that we have learned of the death of Dr. Hollis B. Frissell. Principal of Hampton Institute which occurred Sunday, August 5, 1917. In his passing Hampton Institute loses a constructive leader and a fine administrator and the nation loses one of its foremost educators. He was a warm supporter of the National Negro Business League and one of the best friends that the Negro race find in the South. We greatly dephore his death. Liberia's condition on account of the European War is critical. Lack of overseas transportation facilities and depletion of public revenues invite the world's most patient sympathy and aid and now inasmuch as Liberia has become an ally of the entente countries she is entitled to all of the consideration and recognition given to the other nations united in the compact. Therefore. Be it resolved; That we ask for Liberia fair and just treatment such as will preserve her sovereignty. Be it resolved; That we ask the United States Government to re-open the coaling station on Liberia territory as recommended by the American Commission to Liberia, in 1909. We believe this would not only foster American interests but would also be a stimulus and encouragement to Liberia herself. Be it resolved; That we request the President of the United States to appoint a Commission to inquire into the condition of American citizens abiding in Liberia which would also indirectly benefit the Republic. Be It resolved: That the Negro Press be called upon to arouse a healthy public sentiment favorable to Liberia and for American assurances of those things which are vital to its continued existence and progress. We record our appreciation of the National Negro Health Week as carried forward under the direction of the League and as so efficiently promoted by our Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott. The first Health Week was observed in 1915, and was one of the last important undertakings of national significance initiated by Dr. Washington. During the campaign conducted this year more than 200 communities participated by cleaning up and more than 50,000 pieces of mail and literature were distributed. As further evidence of the importance of this movement reference might be made to the co-operation of Honorable Leo M. Favrot, Supervisor of Rural Education for the State of Louisiana, who organized the entire Negro teaching forces of his State to act as leaders in their communities to observe the Health Week. The record of the Health Week campaign in Louisiana is incorporated in Mr. Favrot's annual report for this year. Whereas, The National Clean Up and Pain Up Bureau, with headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri, gave hearty and encouraging co-operation through Its Chairman, Mr. Allen W. Clark, and Whereas, The Bureau, in order to stimulate interest in the movement, donated three silver engraved cups to be awarded as prizes to the 3 communities whose reports of clean up work showed the best organized plans and most effective results, which prizes were respectively awarded to Atlanta, Georgia; Salisbury, North Carolina and New Madrid, Missouri. Be it resolved: That we heartily commend this Health Week campaign and that we urge our State and Local Leagues to co-operate in every possible way for a more general observance of the campaign during the year, 1918. Be it further Resolved: That we heartily thank Mr. Allen W. Clark and the National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau for the three silver cups donated and for the pledge of future co-operation in stimulating the Health Week as promoted by the National Negro Business League. Whereas, we have learned that it is the purpose of the Honorable W. T. Andrews, of Sumter, South Carolina, and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League, to establish a Negro daily newspaper in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, to be known as the Baltimore Daffy Herald. Be it Resolved: That we commend the enterprise to our people in all parts of the country as worthy of their hearty support. Whereas, The National Federation of Women's Clubs have issued a call for a Day Of Prayer, at which time our people all over the country shall be asked to assemble and implore the Almighty for wisdom and guidance in this particular time and crisis of our racial life. Be It Resolved: That we most heartily commend this movement. We record our unstinted appreciation of the many courtesies accorded the National Negro Business League THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA in Its Eighteenth Annual Session held in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. We desire particularly to thank the Local Committee of Arrangements, with Mr. G. W. Franklin, Jr., as Chairman, and all his associates, for the most excellent arrangements made for our convenience and pleasure; recording our thanks especially for the use of the Lyric Theatre, the fine Auditorium of the Court House, the Government Park on Lookout Mountain, the National Guard Armory and for the many other conveniences and courtesies. We desire especially 15 thank His Excellency Governor Tom C. Rye; His Honor, Mayor Jesse L. Littleen, and Mr. J. Read Voight for their most cordial and sympathetic addresses of welcome. We appreciate also the addresses of welcome delivered by Prof. W. H. Singleton Miss Mattie R. Jackson and Mr. H. D. Alexander. We desire also to thank the daily press particularly the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News for the liberal space given to the reports of our convention and for the sympathetic editorials bearing upon the purposes of the League. Without co-operation such as is given the League by the daily press, it would be difficult for us to effectively prosecute the great work which the League is undertaking to carry on. Respectfully submitted: (Signed) CHIS. J PERRY, Pennsylvania. SOL C. JOHNSON, Georgia. DANIEL PREEMAN, District of Columbia. W H. SINGLETON, Tennessee. MARY McLEOD BEJHUNE Florida. I S. LEEVY, South Carolina. MRS. CHARLES BANKS, Mississippi. WILLIAM J. HALE, Tennessee. ROBERT E. JONES, Chairman, Louisiana. Shockoe Creek on Another Rampage Shockoe Creek on Another Rampage Floods Lower Section of City, Doing Damage to Large Area. Trash Forms Dam in Archway Under Marshall Street, and Bottom Is Quickly Flooded—Damage Done Along Seventeenth Street. According to business men and residents in the Shoackee Creek Bottom that area of Richmond was damaged many thousands of dollars by the flood waters of the rainstorms that swept over the city about 6 o'clock last night. Rev. John G. Scott, proprietor of Scott's Drug Store, Seventeenth and Franklin Streets, said that he could not tell exactly what his loss was, but stated that it would total several thousand dollars. I. Bluford, proprietor of I. Bluford & Co. hardware and machine wholesalers, 501 to 509 North Fifteenth, Street, said that the floodwater poured over the main business floor of his store to a depth of eighteen inches, and covered scores of machines, worth many thousands of dollars with mud. "My firm has always rush orders from the De Pole Power Company, at Hope well, which, as everybody knows, is working night and day in the interest of the United States in the great world war, and we shall be greatly delayed in filling these orders by this flood," said Mr. Bluford. Within the period of two hours following the start of the rainstorm Shockoe Creek rose between Marshall and Brown Streets, more than twenty feet, according to measurements made later. The great rise was caused primarily, of course, by the rushing waters from both sides of the creek into the stream, the water shed for a wide area being almost like the roof of a house. This rush of water dammed the small archway over the creek at Marshall Street and pushed the water over the bottoms, flooding business houses in that district, and routing many Negro families from their homes. MANY COLORED FAMILIES ROUTED FROM THEIR HOMES On the other side of the arch the ground is higher, but a similar condition prevailed, and that accounts for the damage done at the Scott Drug Store and at Swift & Co's., and other business places. 'We are not badly damaged by the storm,' said one of the managers at Swift's last night. The water came in to our cellar about three inches deep, but since we have been damaged badly before we have prepared to fight the flood, and we kept our pumps at work and forced the water out before it did much damage." Other business houses in the vicinity of Swift's and of the Scott store were closed last night, and it was not known what the loss was to them. In Brown Street many colored folks were routed from the lower floors of their homes to the top, where they spent the night. In other places, where the house was small one-story affair, the family was forced to flee and stay away for the night. The beds were ruined with water and mud, and in many cases it was said that food was spoiled. "Lordy," said one good-natured colored mother, as she cuddled her youngest child to her bosom and held another little pickainny by the hand, "Ah, done lost mah suppa, table and all, and was pow'ful glad to save mah chill'un." Mr. Bluford said that he had to go to court about the damage to property in the bottoms whenever it chanced to rain. "I have worked hard for what I have," he said. "I paid $16,000 for the building in which I am now doing business, and pay $300 taxes for doing business there. I am not getting protection under the law. Another business firm near," said Mr. Bluford, "has a barrel factory and they stack up hundreds of barrels on the banks of the creek near the arch. Whenever trash and refuse dam the archway slightly at Marshall Street, the barrels are washed down and make the dam complete, causing the flooding of my business house and of scores of colored taxpayers' homes." (Richmond Times-Dispatch Aug. 1917.) We all kinds of Job Work. Let us do it for you. HOW TO VISIT THE LAND SHIP "RECRUIT" WHEN YOU GO TO NEW YORK. Navy's Recruiting Station and Training Ship in Union Square Now One of Manhattan's Sights Everyone visits New York some time. Not a day passes that its railways and steamboat lines fail to bring thousands of transients from every part of the Nation. It is always thronged with sightseers and there is always something new to see. Just now when the Nation is at war the keenest interest is naturally displayed in everything that pertains to the armed services and their preparations for over seas duty. Thus New York and its visitors have found one of the chief points of interest to be the United States Ship Recruit right in the heart of the city where young men by the hundreds have been recruited for the Navy and where the routine and daily life of a big battle ship is carried out in every detail—and this too on Broadway. Built through the energies of Blaine Ewing, chairman of the sub committee on New York recruiting, of Mayer or Mitchell's Committee on National Defense, the landship located in Union Square has completely brought new life to this section of Broadway which had been almost deserted in the rapid rush uptown of the city's life. Now Union Square is filled with people day and night and there is always something going on aboard and about the ship. Here are quartered nearly a hundred officers and men on the Recruit which is a perfect replica of a modern battleship. Daily drills take place here all of the recruits leaving New York for training meet for a farewell gathering; here are held daily meetings to stimulate interest in recruiting and at night moving pictures of life in the Navy are shown on a great screen off the stern of the ship. It is the desire of the officers and the Mayor's Committee to have all of the visitors to New York see this remarkable ship. For this purpose this newspaper herewith presents a coupon which when clipped and properly filled out will be honored for admission when presented to the ship— U. S. S. RECRUIT UNION SQUARE NEW YORK ADMIT VISITORS NAME OF ACCOUNT OF Name of Newspaper OF Issued by the U. S. Navy Publicity Bureau, New York, ADMIT VISITORS NEW YORK Fill this out and take it to New York with you and then go to Union Square and see the Recruit. Then after you have made your visit, the ship's officers will have the coupon mailed back to your own home town paper showing that you have been aboard and seen this real novelty in the great and active campaign for Recruits which has been so successfully carried out by the United States Navy — the First Line of Defense. Y. M. C. A NOTES A live meeting was held last Friday night by the Y. M. C. A. Literary at the building and the bunch was a great one. The Soldiers to the camp was the cry. Last Sunday was an opportunity for every boy and man in the work of Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Committeeman Wm. Rainey conducted the meeting for the workers and the hour was well spent. The inmates of the city home were glad to welcome the committee 10 A. and the meetings were good. The meetings in the city jail 10 A. M. by the committee were crowded with much interest and all were happy. 4 P. M. Committeeman B. L. Allen addressed the boys at the Y. M. C. A. Subject: The Four Great Heroes. The boys were more than paid for coming Mothers we thank you. The open meeting for the men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A., was a good one. Every man was active. Subject: "For The People Had A Mind To Work." The new song hooks which were sent to us by one of our members in Washington, D. C., are a gem and the men are just wild over this very timely gift. Prof. Beverley Trent lead the songs accompanied by Mr. E. J. Gary. The meeting was a great hit. The soldiers were not forgotten. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Mothers send your boys to the meeting for the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will conduct the meeting. Be on time. Committeeman William Minor will address the men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Come and join us in the new songs from Washington, D. C., sent by one of our members. Bring the other man. The Class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson will open Saturday September 29th, 5 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. We have been successful securing Dr W. H. Stokes to explain the lesson this season. Let women and men take an active part in this class. Free for everybody. Be a committee. The Season for the work of the Y. M. C. A., will be launched at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Sunday October 7th, S P. M. Come and join us in the song service before the regular programme. Women and men are invited to come. Let every father and mother help us in this opening. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. KINKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT EMILY... Long... Silky By using Herolin The new discovery that causes new hair to sprout will make your head make all your nappy, cutout, kinky hair, oily hair, long hair straight so you can call an attorney. Together your hair is 15 inches. LINDS DANIELS MAKE HAIR 5.5 inches. LINDS DANIELS MAKE HAIR 5.5 inches. 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ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT REALLY HAPPENED! WHY DID THE DOG BARK? He was just a plain, common, ordinary hungry man. He ambled down the street in search of a place to load up his "bread-basket" allay stomach—and it was some empty stomach, too. He had not connected with a square meal for the past few hours and the digestive organs had gone out of business entirely. Finally he succeeded in locating the proper place for putting the 'kibosh' on the hunger pain. He dragged up to a table, fell exhausted in a chair and asked the waiter for the "program of the day." He wanted something heavy and he wanted it WANTED THE PLANET MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337 RESIDENCE 1015 St. James St., Madison 6610 HAVE YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED Roane and Holmes Harness Company 17 1:2 NORTH 18th St Phone, Mad. 3085. We make and repair anything in Harness line, Suit-cases, Leather Bags Automobile Cushions, etc. We carry a full line of Harness, Whip, Robes, Bits, Pads, Brushes, Combs, Harness Dressing, Salves, Notes, Oils, Halters, Saddles, Hardware, etc. We make a Specialty of Hand-made Harness. Our motto is to SATISFY YOU. Your patronage will be appreciated. Stop in and let us serve you. All work guaranteed. S. C. Waldron PAPER HANGING WALL PAINTING AND —ROOM MOULDING WAREROOM 8 EAST FEDERAL STREET RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Unexcelled for its purity and excellence. It cures dandruff and gives new life to the hair. Price only 50 cents per box. Other Excelsior preparations are: Hair Gloss & Temple Food, each 550 per box. Tetter Salve & Medicated Shampoo 500 each per box. Excelsior Special Temple Food for aggravated cases of baldness of temples, of long standing, per box, 750. Once tried, these preparations are always used. Be Our Agent. Learn the Excelsior System of Hair Culture, thus double your earning capacity, and handle our goods more successfully. Terms reasonable. Instruction thorough. Diploma given on completion of Course. 1000 more agents wanted in every city and village. Commission liberal. Write for Agents Price List. Goods sent to any address in United States on receipt of price. Trial Treatment. $1.60 postpaid. Foreign orders. $2.25. Orders receive prompt attention. EXCELSIOR HAIR PREPARATIONS are made only by— THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO 265 S. Blau & Ft. Contractor & Builder Nics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2106 The Taking of Contracts for Building Structure. Job Work A Specialty. OTT, Funeral Director Y. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT CALL RANDOLPH 2703. LND, VIRGINIA quick, so he decided on an order of Frankfurters, better known by the elite name of "hot dogs." After giving in the order, the hungry one began to dream of the good times that were scheduled to happen in a few minutes. He figured out exactly how the slaughter of the cats would be carried on, and how he expected to "top things off" with a light "boy" which was bottled up in his inside pocket. All of a sudden he was rudely awakened from his reverie. Hark! What is that noise in the kitchen? A dog is barking in a distressing tone. The hungry one acted quickly, and said, "Please BRING ME HAM AND EGGS!" OFFICE WARROOM VIRGINIA TWO National Negro Business League. Resolutions Adopted. Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 1.—The following resolutions were unanimously offered and adopted during the Eighteenth Annual Session of the National Negro Business League which was held at Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 15th to 18th, 1917. The National Negro Business League in eighteenth annual convention assembled, shares with all true Americans deep concern in the tittitic struggle now going on among the nations of Europe, into which America has been unwillingly dream. We are true Americans. There is no hypen in our patriotism. No skewers, pre-tolerated in our society, no spies harbored no spirit of disloyalty or intrigue is entertained for a moment, not in the slighest way encouraged. In every war of the republic we have done our "bit," and we will not fail in this hour of our nation's greatest crisis. We call upon our people to contribute in every way to the successful prosecution of the war by giving our noble sons for offense abroad and for defense at home; by an increase of crops, by larger planting and better farming; and by a closer conservation of our products in observing the suggestions of the government as to our consumption of food and the elimination of waste. We share the conviction that as true patriots we should give our last ounce of devotion in the service that may bring victory to the armies of our country and our heroic allies. We yearn intensely for the day when the world shall be "safe for democracy," when men may be men the world over, freed from caste, political discrimination, oppression of every sort, and prejudice; when men everywhere shall enjoy the inalienable rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," with equal opportunities for education and labor, with free for all incentives for personal and racial development, with equal justice to all and malice toward none, most respectfully urge that conspiracy demands that as we preach democracy, we shall practice it at home. We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless our country is safe for democracy. Unless every man in America shall have a man's chance, America's plea for world democracy shall, because of our inconsistency, be the occasion of our humiliation. The seas must not only be safe for travel but likewise every bypath in America. We unreservedly condemn crime of every nature, whether found in our race or others, and we put ourselves squarely on record against the vicious criminal class. At the same time we lift our voices in condemnation of lynching and mob rule, believing as we do that such practices undermine good government, promote insecurity of all, and are a serious reflection on our Christian civilization. The recent occurrences that have made East St. Louis, Memphis, and Abbeville black spots in America have made East St. Louis, Memphis, throughout the world. The failure to punish adequately the perpetrators of these crimes has emboldened of the country live in constant fear and unaccentess by day and by night. We desire to commend State and county officials in all parts of the country who in the exercise of their offices, seek to protect the lives of prisoners and thwart the purposes of the mob. We especially desire to commend the attitude taken on lynching by the Hon. Sidney J. Catts, Governor of Florida and the Hon. Augustus O. Stanley, Governor of Kentucky. We record our hearty appreciation and sincere gratitude to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for his eloquent and forceful words recently delivered condemnatory of mob rule and lawlessness, which words sent a thrill throughout the nation and the world and were particularly heartening to our people. Largely because of insecurity, as well as lack of school facilities, poor wages, unfair treatment of courts and unfair administration of our suffrage laws, our people have become uncontrollably restless. They are seeking security, larger liberty, and more of the comforts of life. Knowing as we do that the Negro at heart loves the South and would here abide contentedly in large numbers under better and more favorable conditions, and gratefully recognizing the progressive attitude taken by many of the white friends in the South toward our advancement and their efforts for the betterment of our schools and living conditions in general, in Tennessee, for example, we nevertheless urge that our Southland be made safe for all men to th extent that criminals of every class shall be punished by due process of the law, that adequate school facilities shall be placed with in the reach of all, in the rural districts as well as in the small towns and cities, with better school buildings and with better trained teachers that better housing conditions be provided on the farms and plantations for tenant, with garden spots and other inducements to make the dwelling place a home instead of a hovel; and that our people shall share. the production of their own toll and receive higher wages. We cherish the memory of our great founder whose genius and spirit abide with us today. We seek to carry out his program of racial good will and co-operation. We share the conviction that it is in the interest of the industrial, commercial and financial welfare of our whole country that the races shall learn to trust each other more, share with each other in counsel where their interests are interlocked and co-operate for the progress and happiness of each and all. We call attention to the opportunities along commercial, industrial and financial lines now open to our people, and urge upon them the wisdom of preparing to seize these opportunities that are made possible by the large earning of our own people and by the willing co-operation of the financial interests of the South, to assist individuals of our race who have shown good business judgment, integrity and dependability in matters financial and commercial. We bow in humble submission to the will of the Heavenly Father who has taken from us our energetic coworker and Second Vice-President, Honorable John E. Bush, of Little Rock, Arkan as, who was devoted to the work of the National Negro Business League as he was to twenty other effort for racial advancement. This organization has had no more faithful worker, nor has the race had a more earnest and unselfish leader. In the passing of John E. Bush, we recognize the removal of one of our most steadfast and dependable supporters and we express to his family our deepest and most sincere sympathy in this their great loss. It is also with deep regret that we have learned of the death of Dr. Holkis B. Prisselb. Principal of Hampton Institute which occurred Sunday, August 5, 1917. In his passing Hampton Institute loses a constructive leader and a fine administrator and the nation loses one of its foremost educators. He was a warm supporter of the National Negro Business League and one of the best friends that the Negro race had in the South. We greatly deplore his death. Liberia's condition on account of the European War is critical. Lack of overseas transportation facilities and depletion of public revenues invite the world's most patient sympathy and aid and now inasmuch as Liberia has become an ally of the entente countries she is entitled to all of the consideration and recognition given to the other nations united in the compact. Therefore. Be it resolved; That we ask for Liberia fair and just treatment such as will preserve her sovereignty. Be it resolved; That we ask the United States Government to re-open the coaling station on Liberia territory as recommended by the American Commission to Liberia, in 1909. We believe this would not only foster American interests but would also be a stimulus and encouragement to Liberia herself. Be it resolved; That we request the President of the United States to appoint a Commission to inquire into the condition of American citizens abiding in Liberia which would also indirectly benefit the Republic. Be it resolved; That the Negro Press be called upon to arouse a healthy public sentiment favorable to Liberia and for American assurances of those things which are vital to its continued existence and progress. We record our appreciation of the National Negro Health Week as carried forward under the direction of the League and as so efficiently promoted by our Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott. The first Health Week was observed in 1915, and was one of the last important undertakings of national significance initiated by Dr. Washington. During the campaign conducted this year more than 200 communities participated by cleaning up and more than 50,000 pieces of mail and literature were distributed. As further evidence of the importance of this movement reference might be made to the co-operation of Honorable Leo M. Favrot, Supervisor of Rural Education for the State of Louisiana, who organized the entire Negro teaching forces of his State to act as leaders in their communities to observe the Health Week. The record of the Health Week campaign in Louisiana is incorporated in Mr. Favrot's annual report for this year. Whereas, The National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau, with headquarters at St. Louis, Missouri, gave hearty and encouraging co-operation through its Chairman, Mr. Allen W. Clark, and Whereas, The Bureau, in order to stimulate interest in the movement, donated three silver engraved cups to be awarded as prizes to the 3 communities whose reports of clean up work showed the best organized plans and most effective results, which prizes were respectively awarded to Atlanta, Georgia; Sallisbury, North Carolina and New Madrid, Missouri. Be it resolved: That we heartily commend this Health Week campaignaid that we urge our State and Local Leagues to co-operate in every possible way for a more general observance of the campaign during the year, 1918. Be it further Resolved: That we heartily thank Mr. Allen W. Clark and the National Clean Up and Paint Up Bureau for the three silver cups donated and for the pledge of future co-operation in stimulating the Health Week as promoted by the National Negro Business League. Whereas, we have learned that it is the purpose of the Honorable W. T. Andrews, of Sumter, South Carolina, and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League, to establish a Negro daily newspaper in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, to be known as the Baltimore Daily Herald. Be it Resolved: That we commend the enterprise to our people in all parts of the country as worthy of their hearty support. Whereas, The National Federation of Women's Clubs have issued a call for a Day Of Prayer, at which time our people all over the country shall be asked to assemble and implore the Almighty for wisdom and guidance in this particular time and crisis of our racial life. Be It Resolved: That we most heartily commend this movement. We record our unstinted appreciation of the many courtesies accorded the National Negro Business League THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA in its Eighteenth Annual Session held in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. We desire particularly to thank the Local Committee of Arrangements, with Mr. G. W. Franklin, Jr., as Chairman, and all his associates, for the most excellent arrangements made for our convenience and pleasure; recording our thanks especially for the use of the Lyric Theatre, the fine Auditorium of the Court House, the Government Park on Lookout Mountain, the National Guard Armory and for the many other conveniences and courtesies. We desire especially 15 thank His Excellency Governor Tom C. Rye; His Honor, Mayor Jesse Littleton, and Mr. J. Read Voight for their most cordial and sympathetic addresses of welcome. We appreciate also the addresses of welcome delivered by Prof. W. H. Singleton Miss Mattie R. Jackson and Mr. H. D. Alexander. We desire also to thank the daily press particularly the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News for the liberal space given to the reports of our convention and for the sympathetic editors bearing upon the purposes of the League. Without co-operation such as is given the League by the daily press, it would be difficult for us to effectively prosecute the great work which the League is undertaking to carry on. Respectfully submitted: (Signed) CHIS, J. PERRY, Pennsylvania. SOL, C. JOHNSON, Georgia. DANIEL PREEMAN, District of Columbia. W. H. SINGLETON, Tennessee. MARY MLEOE BETHUFN Florida. I. S. LEEVY, South Carolina. MRS. CHARLES BANKS, Mississippi. WILLIAM J. BALE, Tennessee. ROBERT E. JONES, Chairman, Louisiana. Shockoe Creek on Another Rampage Shockoe Creek on Another Rampage Floods Lower Section of City, Doing Damage to Large Area. Trash Forms Dam in Archway Under Marshall Street, and Bottom Is Quickly Flooded—Damage Done Along Seventeenth Street. According to business men and residents in the Shoackee Creek Bottom that area of Richmond was damaged many thousands of dollars by the flood waters of the rainstorms that swept over the city about 6 o'clock last night. Rev. John G. Scott, proprietor of Scott's Drug Store, Seventeenth and Franklin Streets, said that he could not tell exactly what his loss was, but stated that it would total several thousand dollars. I. Bluford, proprietor of I. Bluford & Co. hardware and machine wholesalers, 501 to 509 North Fifteenth, Street, said that the floodwater poured over the main business floor of his store to a depth of eighteen inches, and covered scores of machines worth many thousands of dollars with mud. "We have many rush orders from the DuPont Power Company, at Hope well, which everybody knows, is working right and many in the interest of the United States in the great world war, and we shall be greatly delayed in filling these orders by this flood," said Mr. Bluford. Within the period of two hours following the start of the rainstorm Shockoe Creek rose between Marshall and Brown Streets, more than twenty feet, according to measurements made later. The great rise was caused primarily, of course, by the rushing waters from both sides of the creek into the stream, the water shed for a wide area being almost like the roof of a house. This rush of water dammed the small archway over the creek at Marshall Street and pushed the water over the bottoms, flooding business houses in that district, and routing many Negro families from their homes. MANY COLORED FAMILIES ROUTED FROM THEIR HOMES On the other side of the arch the ground is higher, but a similar condition prevailed, and that accounts for the damage done at the Scott Drug Store and at Swift & Co., and other business places. 'We are not badly damaged by the storm,' said one of the managers at Swift's last night. The water came in to our cellar about three inches deep, but since we have been damaged badly before we have prepared to fight the flood, and we kept our pumps at work and forced the water out before it did much damage.' Other business houses in the vicinity of Swift's and of the Scott store were closed last night, and it was not known what the loss was to them. In Brown Street many colored folks were routed from the lower floors of their homes to the top, where they spent the night. In other places, where the house was small one-story affair, the family was forced to flee and stay away for the night. The beds were ruined with water and mud, and in many cases it was said that food was spoiled. "Lordy," said one good-natured colored mother, as she cudled her youngest child to her bosom and held another little pickainny by the hand, "Ah, done lost mah suppa, table and all, and was pow'ful glad to save mah chill'm." Mr. Bluford said that he had to go to court about the damage to property in the bottoms whenever it changed to rain. "I have worked hard for what I have," he said. "I paid $16,000 for the building in which I am now doing business, and pay $300 taxes for doing business there. I am not getting protection under the law. Another business firm near," said Mr. Bluford, "has a barrel factory and they stack up hundreds of barrels on the banks of the creek near the arch. Whenever trash and refuse dam the archway slightly at Marshall Street, the barrels are washed down and make the dam complete, causing the flooding of my business house and of scores of colored taxpayers' homes." (Richmond Times-Dispatch Aug. 1917.) We do all kinds of Job Work. Let us do it for you. HOW TO VISIT THE LAND SHI "RECRUIT" WHEN YOU GO TO NEW YORK. Navy's Recruiting Station and Training Ship in Union Square Now One of Manhattan's Sights. Everyone visits New York some time. Not a day passes that its railways and steamboat lines fail to bring thousands of transients from every part of the Nation. It is always thronged with sightseers and there is always something new to see. Just now when the Nation is at war the keenest interest is naturally displayed in everything that pertains to the armed services and their preparations for over seas duty. Thus New York and its visitors have found one of the chief points of interest to be the United States. Recruit right in the heart of the city have young men by the hundreds have been recruited for the Navy and where the routine and daily life of a big battle ship is carried out in every detail—and this too on Broadway. Built through the energies of Blaine Ewing, chairman of the sub committee on New York recruiting, of Mayor or Mitchell's Committee on National Defense, the landship located in Union Square has completely brought new life to this section of Broadway which had been almost deserted in the rapid rush uptown of the city's life. Now Union Square is filled with people day and night and there is always something going on aboard and about the ship. Here are quartered nearly a hundred officers and men on the Recruit which is a perfect replica of a modern battleship. Daily drills take place here all of the recruits leaving New York for training meet for a farewell gathering; here are held daily meetings to stimulate interest in recruiting and at night moving pictures of life in the Navy are shown on a great screen off the stern of the ship. It is the desire of the officers and the Mayor's Committee to have all of the visitors to New York see this remarkable ship. For this purpose this newspaper herewith presents a coupon which when clipped and properly filled out will be honored for admission when presented to the ship— U. S. S. RECRUIT UNION SQUARE NEW YORK ADMIT VISITORS NAME OF ACCOUNT OF Name of Newspaper OF Issued by the U. S. Navy Publicity Bureau, New York. ADMIT VISITORS U. S. S. REMOIT UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Fill this out and take it to New York with you and then go to Union Square and see the Recruit. Then after you have made your visit, the ship's officers will have the coupon mailed back to your own home town paper showing that you have been aboard and seen this real novelty in the great and active campaign for Recruits which has been so successfully carried out by the United States Navy — the First Line of Defense. Y. M. C. A NOTES A live meeting was held last Friday night by the Y. M. C. A. Literary at the building and the bunch was a great one. The Soldiers to the camp was the cry. Last Sunday was an opportunity for every boy and man in the work of Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Committeeman Wm. Rainey conducted the meeting for the workers and the hour was well spent. The inmates of the city home were glad to welcome the committee 10 A. and the meetings were good. The meetings in the city jail 10 A. M. by the committee were crowded with much interest and all were happy. 4 P. M. Committeeman B. L. Allen addressed the boys at the Y. M. C. A. Subject: The Four Great Heroes. The boys were more than paid for coming Mothers we thank you. The open meeting for the men 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A., was a good one. Every man was active. Subject: "For The People Had A Mind To Work." The new song books which were sent to us by one of our members in Washington, D. C., are a gem and the men are just wild over this very timely gift. Prof. Beverley Trent lead the songs accompanied by Mr. E. J. Gary. The meeting was a great hit. The soldiers were not forgotten. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the meeting for the workers at the Y. M. C. A. 9:30 A. M. Mothers send your boys to the meeting for the boys 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman C. B. Gaston will conduct the meeting. Be on time. Committeeman William Minor will address the men 5:30 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. Come and join us in the new songs from Washington, D. C., sent by one of our members. Bring the other man. The Class for the explanation on the Sunday School Lesson will open Saturday September 29th, 5 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. We have been successful securing Dr W. H. Stokes to explain the lesson this season. Let women and men take an active part in this class. Free for everybody. Be a committee. The Season for the work of the Y. M. C. A. will be launched at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Sunday October 7th, 8 P. M. Come and join us in the song service before the regular programme. Women and men are invited to come. Let every father and mother help us in this opening. Every home is asked to have special prayer for the Y. M. C. A. KINKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT long hair silky using Herolin The new discovery that causes new hair to cobble all over your body, makesball your nape, cuts hair, knits hair, bends hair, fluffy, straight to suit care, is in high demand. It is a new product, and is available in a variety of sizes. SEND 25 C HEROLIN GIRLS—LADIES! 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THE PLANET Umbrella Coupons GOOD FOR FIVE VOTES ALPHEUS SCOTT (Church-hill) FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Office, 3006 P Street, Phone, Mad. 2337—Residence, 1$15 St. James Street, Phone Madison 6019. Paraphernalia, Material and Service of the Burge, Publication, Moderate Rates. MME, SCOTT, Enshulmer for Women and Children and in attendance at Funeral SAVE THE PLANET COUPONS THE EXCELSIOR SCALP FOOD Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelior Mfg. Co., Excelior System of Hair Culture Mrs. W. H. Callaway, President Excelior Mfg. Co., Excelior System of Hair Culture D. J. FARRAR, Co Office, Room 405, Mechanics Residence, 610 N. First St.—Shop Special Attention Paid to the T of Any Kind of Architectu ROBERT C. SCOTT FIRST CLASS LIVERY. TELEPHONE, RANDO AND SUNDAY, CAR RICHMOND D. J. FARRAR, Contractor & Builder Office, Room 405, Mechanics Bank Bldg. Phone, Ran. 2637 Residence, 610 N. First St. Shop in Rear. Phone, Randolph 2166 Special Attention Paid to the Taking of Contracts for Building of Any Kind of Architecture. Job Work A Specialty. FIRST CLASS LIVERY. OFFICE 2220 E. MAIN ST. TELEPHONE, RANDOLPH 2073. ALL NIGHT AND SUNDAY, CALL RANDOLPH 2703. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA IT REALLY HAPPENED WHY DID THE DOG BARK? He was just a plain, common, ordinary hungry man. He ambled down the street in search of a place to load up his "bread-basket" alias stomach—and it was some empty stomach, too. He had not connected with a square meal for the past few hours and the digestive organs had gone out of business entirely. Finally he succeeded in locating the proper place for putting the 'kibosh' on the pain pain. He dragged up to a table, fell exhausted in a chair and asked the waiter for the "program of the day." He wanted something heavy and he wanted it WANTED THE PLANET MADAME LUCIE CHRISTIAN SCOTT is associated in business with her husband, Mr. Alpheus Scott. Madame Scott claims the honor of being the only Negro woman in the State of Virginia—holding a State license to practice Embalming, and is indeed, one of the few women in the United States embalming and conducting funerals. She ranks with the best in her profession. She is prominent in fraternal organizations, namely, Courts of Calanthe, I. O. of St. Luke, I. O. of Good Samaritans, Household of Ruth, Tents, Sons and Daughters of Richmond, Shepherds of Bethlehem and Ideal Benefit Society. Your patronage and influence will be greatly appreciated. Please remember that she is always at your service. Reliable service at Moderate Rates. RESIDENCE 1015 St. James St., Madison 6610 HAVE YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED Roane and Holmes Harness Company 17 1:2 NORTH 18th St. Phone, Mad. 3035. 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After oled giving in the order, the hungry one diao began to dream of the good times las that were scheduled to happen in a apty few minutes. He figured out ex-ect-actly how the slaughter of the cats past would be carried on, and how he gassed expected to "top things off" with a rely, light "boy" which was bottled up in the his inside pocket. All of a sudden posh' he was rudely awakened from his up reverie. Hark! What is that noisoe hair in the kitchen? A dog is barking pro-in a distressing tone. The hungry rated one acted quietly, and said, "Please it BRING ME HAM AND EGGS!!" BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright, 1916, by Little, Brown & Co. 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. Charlie and Stella proceed to his logging camp on Rearing lake. Stella is aghast at the unfortunate resupply by the unfortunate of the lumberyard. The cook has been discharged and Stella does the cooking. In need of more men, Charlie borrows a crew from Jack Fyfe. BY Sept. 1 a growing uneasiness hardened into distasteful certainty upon Stella. It had become her firm resolve to get what money was due her when Charlie marketed his logs and try another field of labor. That camp on Rearling was becoming a nightmare to her. She had no inherent dislike for work. She was too vibrantly alive to be lazy. But she had had an overdose of unaccustomed drudgery, and she was growing desperate. If there had been anything to keep her mind from continual dwelling on the manifold disgraceableness she had to cope with, she might have felt differently, but there was not. She ate, slept, worked—ate, slept, and worked again—till every fiber of her being cried out in protest against the deadening round. Benton left to make his delivery of logs to the mill company, and meantime Stella had leisure to think and plan for the future. She felt that she could not stand her surroundings any longer and determined to tell Charlie so. Ten days later he and his loggers returned, all more or less exhilarated with liquor. He himself was fairly mellow and rejoicing over a 0,000,000 foot contract he had secured and which was to be delivered as early as possible in the spring. When supper was over, the work done and the loggers' celebration was slowly subsiding in the bunkhouse she told Charlie with blunt directness what she wanted to do. She wanted to go to Vancouver and earn her living there. With equally blunt directness he declared that he would not permit it. Stella's teeth came together with an angry little click. "I'm of age, Charlie," she said to him. "It isn't for you to say what you will or will not permit me to do. I want that money of mine that you used and what I've earned. God knows I have earned it. I can't stand this work, and I don't intend to. It isn't work; it's slavery." "But what can you do in town?" he countered. "You haven't the least idea what you'd be going up against, Stell. You've never been away from home, and you've never had the least training at anything useful. You'd be on your uppers in no time at all. You wouldn't have a ghost of a chance." "I have such a splendid chance here," she retorted ironically. "If I could get in any position where I'd be more likely to die of sheer stagnation, to say nothing of dirty drudgery, than in this forsaken hole I'd like to know how. I don't think it's possible." "You could be a whole lot worse off if you only knew it," Benton returned grumply. "If you haven't got any sense about things, I have. I know what a rotten hole Vancouver or any other seaport town is for a girl alone. I won't let you make any foolish break like that. That's flat." From this position she failed to budge him. Once angered, partly by her expressed intention and partly by 9. "I won't let you make any foolish break like that. That's flat." the outspoken protest against the mountain of work imposed on her, Charlie refused point blank to give her either the $50 he had taken out of her purse or the three months' wages due. Having made her request and having met with this, to her, amazing refusal, Stella sat dumb. There was too fine a streak in her to break out in recrimination. She was too proud to cry. So that she went to bed in a ferment of helpless rage. Virtually she was a SYNOPSIS CHAPTER V. Duranco Vllo. prisoner, as much so as if Charlie had kidnapped her and held her so by brute force. The economic restraint was all potent. Without money she could not even leave the camp. And when she contemplated the daily treadmill before her she shuddered. At least she could go on strike. Her round cheek flushed with the bitterest anger she had ever known. She sat with eyes burning into the dark of her sordid room and vowed that the thirty loggers should die of slow starvation if they did not eat until she cooked another meal for them. She was still hot with the spirit of mutiny when morning came, but she cooked breakfast. It was not in her to act like a petulant child. Morning also brought a different aspect to things, for Charlie told her while he helped prepare breakfast that he was going to take his crew and repay in labor the help Jack Fyfe had given him. "While we're there Jack's cook will feed all hands," said he. "And by the time we're through there I'll have things fixed so it won't be such hard going for you here. Do you want to go along to Jack's camp?" "No," she answered shortly, "I don't. I would much prefer to get away from this lake altogether, as I told you last night." "You might as well forget that notion," he said stubbornly. "I've got a little pride in the matter. I don't want my sister drudging at the only kind of work she'd be able to earn a living at." "You're perfectly willing to have me drudge here," she flashed back. "That's different," he defended. "And it's only temporary. I'll be making real money before long. You'll get your share if you'll have a little patience and put your shoulder to the wheel. Lord, I'm doing the best I can." "Yes, for yourself," she returned. "You don't seem to consider that I'm entitled to as much fair play as you'd have to accord one of your men. I don't want you to hand me an easy living on a silver salver. All I want of you is what is mine and the privilege of using my own judgment. I'm quite capable of taking care of myself." If there had been opportunity to enlarge on that theme they might have come to another verbal clash, but Benton never lost sight of his primary object. The getting of breakfast and putting his men about their work promptly was of more importance to him than Stella's grievance. So the incipient storm dwindled to a sullen mood on her part. Breakfast over, Benton loaded men and tools aboard a scow hitched beside the boat. He repeated his invitation, and Stella refused, with a sarcastic reflection on the company she would be compelled to keep there. The Chickamau, with her tow, drew off, and she was alone again. "Marcooned once more," Stella said to herself when the little steamboat slipped behind the first jutting point. "Oh, if I could just be a man for awhile!" Some time during the next forenoon she went southerly along the lake shore on foot without object or destination, merely to satisfy in some measure the restless craving for action. When she returned to camp at 2 o'clock, driven in by hunger, Jack Fyfe sat on the doorstep. "How do do? I've come to bring you over to my place," he announced quite casually. "Thanks. I've already declined one pressing invitation to that effect," Stella returned dryly. His matter of faci assurance rather nettled her. "A woman always has the privilege of changing her mind," Fyfe smiled. "Charlie is going to be at my camp for at least three weeks. It'll rain soon, and the days'll be pretty gray and dreary and lonesome. You might as well pack your war bag and come along." She stood uncertainly. Her tongue held ready a blunt refusal, but she did not utter it, and she did not know why. "I haven't had any lunch," she temporized. "Have you?" "I rowed over here before 12. Thought I'd get you back to camp in time for dinner. You know," he said, with a twinkle in his blue eyes, "a logger never eats anything but a meal. A lunch to us is a snack that you put in your pocket. I guess we lack tone out here. We haven't got past the breakfast-dinner-supper stage yet. Too busy making the country fit to live in." "You have a tremendous job in hand," she observed. "Oh, maybe," he laughed. "All in the way you look at it. Suits some of us. Well, if we get to my camp before 3 the cook might feed us. Come on. You'll get to hating yourself if you stay here alone till Charlie's through." Why not? Thus she parlayed with herself, one half of her minded to stand upon her dignity, the other part of her urging acquelence in his wish that was almost a command. She was tempted to refuse just to see what he would do, but she reconsidered that. Without any logical foundation for the feeling, she was shy of pitting her will against Jack Fyfe's. Hitherto quite sure of herself, schooled in self possession, it was a new and disturbing ex- perience to come in contact with that subtle, analysis defying quality which carries the possessor thereof straight to his or her goal over all opposition, which indeed many times stilts all opposition. Force of character, overmastering personality, emanation of sheer will, she could not say in what terms it should be described. Whatever it was, Jack Fyfe had it. It existed, a factor to be reckoned with when one dealt with him. For within twenty minutes she had packed a suit case full of clothes and was embarked in his rowboat. He sent the lightly built craft easily through the water with regular, effortless strokes. Stella sat in the stern, facing him. Out past the north horn B. D. W. "Why did you make a point of coming for me?" she asked bluntly. of the bay she broke the silence that had fallen between them. "Why did you make a point of coming for me?" she asked bluntly. Fyfe rested on his oars a moment, looking at her in his direct, unembarrassed way. "I wintered once on the Sttekine," he said. "My partner pulled out before Christmas and never came back. It was the first time I'd ever been alone in my life. I wasn't a much older hand in the country than you are. Four months without hearing the sound of a human voice—stalk alone. I got so I talked to myself out loud before spring. So I thought—well, I thought I'd come and bring you over to see Mrs. Howe." Stella sat gazing at the slow moving panorama of the lake shore, her chin in her hand. "Thank you," she said at last, and very gently. Fyfe looked at her a minute or more, a queer, half anused expression creeping into his eyes. "Well," he said finally, "I might as well tell the whole truth. I've been thinking about you quite a lot lately. Miss Stella Benton, or I wouldn't have thought about you getting lonesome." We smiled ever so faintly, a mere movement of the corners of his mouth, at the pink flush which rose quickly in her cheeks and then resumed his stendy pull at the oars. Except for a greater number of board shacks and a larger area of stump and top littered waste immediately behind it, Fyfe's headquarters, outwardly at least, differed little from her brother's camp. Jack led her to a long log structure with a shingle roof, which from its more substantial appearance she judged to be his personal domicile. A plump, smiling woman of forty greeted her on the threshold. Once within, Stella perceived that there was, in fact, considerable difference in Mr. Fyfe's habitation. There was a great stone fireplace, before which big easy chairs invited restful lounging. The floor was overlaid with thick rugs which deadened her footfalls. With no pretense of ornamental decoration, the room held an air of homely comfort. "Come in here and lay off your things," Mrs. Howe beamed on her, "If I'd n' know you were livin' so close we'd have been acquainted a week ago, though I ain't got rightly settled here myself. My land, these men are such clams! I never knew till this mornin' there was any white woman at this end of the lake besides myself." She showed Stella into a bedroom. It boasted an enamel washstand with taps which yielded hot and cold water, neatly curtained windows and a deep seated morris chair. Certainly Fyfe's household accommodation was far superior to Charlie Benton's. Stella expected the man's home to be rough and ready like himself, and in a measure it was, but a comfortable sort of rough and readiness. She took off her hat and had a critical survey of herself in a mirror, after which she had just time to brush her hair before answering Mrs. Howe's call to a "cup of tea." The cup of tea resolved itself into a well cooked and well served meal, with china and linen and other unexpected table accessories which agreeably surprised her. I inevitably she made comparisons, somewhat tinctured with natural envy. If Charlee would fix his place with a few such household luxuries life in their camp would be more nearly bearable despite the long hours of disgregable work. As it was—well, the unrelieved discomforts were beginning to warp her outlook on everything. Fyfe maintained his habitual sparsity of words while they ate the food Mrs. Howe brought on a tray hot from the cook's outlying domain. When they finished he rose, took up his hat and helped himself to a handful of cigars from a box on the fireplace mantel. "I guess you'll be able to put in the time, all right," he remarked. "Make yourself at home. If you take a notion to read there's a lot of books and magazines in my room. Mrs. Howe'll show you." He walked out. Stella was conscious of a distinct relief when he was gone. She had somehow experienced a recurrence of that peculiar feeling of needing to be on her guard as if there were with that quality which mereof straight all opposition, stilts all opter, overmastation of sheer in what terms Whatever it It existed, a with when one within twenty in a suit permanent embarked in it craft easily regular, effort- some curious, latent antagonism between them. She puzzled over that a little. But she did not spend much time puzzling over Jack Fyfe. Once out of her sight she forgot him. It was balm to her lonely soul to have some one of her own sex for company. 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He introduces a neighbor, Paul Abbey. Charlie and Stella proceed to his logging camp on Bearing Lake. Stella is aghast at the barrenness of it and is repelled by the uncle's number jackets. The cook has been discharged and Stella does the cooking. He fills the oven, Charlie borrows a crew from dark Jacken. BY Sept. 1 a growing uneasiness hardened into distasteful certainty upon Stella. It had become her firm resolve to get what money was due her when Charlie marketed his logs and try another field of labor. That camp on Roaring lake was becoming a nightmare to her. She had no inherent dislike for work. She was too vibrantly alive to be lazy. But she had had an overdose of unacustomed drudgery, and she was growing desperate. If there had been anything to keep her mind from continual dwelling on the manifold disgracefulness she had to cope with, she might have felt differently, but there was not. She ate, slept, worked—ate, slept, and worked again—till every fiber of her being cried out in protest against the deadening round. Benton left to make his delivery of logs to the mill company, and meantime Stella had leisure to think and plan for the future. She felt that she could not stand her surroundings any longer and determined to tell Charlie so. Ten days later he and his loggers returned, all more or less exhilarated with liquor. He himself was fairly mellow and rejoicing over a 6,000,000 foot contract he had secured and which was to be delivered as early as possible in the spring. When supper was over, the work done and the loggers' celebration was slowly subsiding in the bunkhouse she told Charlie with blunt directness what she wanted to do. She wanted to go to Vancouver and earn her living there. With equally blunt directness he declared that he would not permit it. Stella's teeth came together with an angry little click. "I'm of age, Charlie," she said to him. "It isn't for you to say what you will or will not permit me to do. I want that money of mine that you used and what I've earned. God knows I have earned it. I can't stand this work, and I don't intend to. It isn't work; it's slavery." "But what can you do in town?" he countered. "You haven't the least idea what you'd be going up against, Stell. You've never been away from home, and you've never had the least training at anything useful. You'd be on your uppers in no time at all. You wouldn't have a ghost of a chance." "I have such a splendid chance here," she retorted ironically. "If I could get in any position where I'd be more likely to die of sheer stagnation, to say nothing of dirty drudgery, than in this forsaken hole I'd like to know how. I don't think it's possible." "You could be a whole lot worse off if you only know it." Benton returned grumpily. "If you haven't got any sense about things, I have. I know what a rotten hole Vancouver or any other seaport town for a girl alone. I won't let you make any foolish break like that. That's flat." From this position she failed to budge him. Once angered, partly by her expressed intention and partly by 9. 1850 "I won't lot you make any foolish break like that. That's flat." the outspoken protest against the mountain of work imposed on her, Charlie refused point blank to give her either the $50 he had taken out of her purse or the three months' wages due. Having made her request and having met with this, to her, an amazing refusal, Stella sat dumb. There was too fine a streak in her to break out in recrimination. She was too proud to cry. So that she went to bed in a ferment of helpless rage. Virtually she was a CHAPTER V. prisoner, as much so as if Charlie had kidnapped her and held her so by brute force. The economic restraint was all potent. Without money she could not even leave the camp. And when she contemplated the daily treadmill before her she shuddered. At least she could go on strike. Her round cheek finished with the bitterest anger she had ever known. She sat with eyes burning into the dark of her sordid room and vowed that the thirty loggers should die of slow starvation if they did not get until she cooked another meal for them. She was still hot with the spirit of mutiny when morning came, but she cooked breakfast. It was not in her to act like a petulant child. Morning also brought a different aspect to things, for Charlie told her while he helped prepare breakfast that he was going to take his crew and repay in labor the help Jack Fyfe had given him. "While we're there Jack's cook will feed all hands," said he. "And by the time we're through there I'll have things fixed so it won't be such hard going for you here. Do you want to go along to Jack's camp?" "No," she answered shortly, "I don't. I would much prefer to get away from this lake altogether. I told you last night." "You might as well forget that notion," he said stubbornly. "I've get a little pride in the matter. I don't want my sister drumming at the only kind of work she'd be able to earn a living at." "You're perfectly willing to have me drudge here," she flashed back. "That's different," he defended. "And it's only temporary. I'll be making real money before long. You'll get your share if you'll have a little patience and put your shoulder to the wheel. Lord, I'm doing the best I can." "Yes, for yourself," she returned. "You don't seem to consider that I'm entitled to as much fair play as you'd have to record one of your men. I don't want you to hand me an easy living on a silver salver. All I want of you is what is mine and the privilege of using my own judgment. I'm quite capable of taking care of myself." If there had been opportunity to enlarge on that theme they might have come to another verbal clash, but Benton never lost sight of his primary object. The getting of breakfast and putting his men about their work promptly was of more importance to him than Stella's grievance. So the helpless storm dwindled to a sullen mood on her part. Breakfast over, Benton loaded men and tools aboard a snow hitched beside the boat. He repeated his invitation, and Stella refused, with a sarcastic reflection on the company she would be compelled to keep there. The Chickamin, with her tow, drew off, and she was alone again. "Marooned once more," Stella said to herself when the little steamboat slipped behind the first jutting point. "Oh, if I could just be a man for awhile." Some time during the next foreoon she went southerly along the lake shore on foot without object or destination, merely to satisfy in some measure the restless craving for action. When she returned to camp at 2 o'clock, driven in by hunger, Jack Fyfe sat on the doorstep. "How do do? I've come to bring you over to my place," he announced quite casually. "Thanks. I've already declined one pressing invitation to that effect." Stella returned dryly. His matter of fact assurance rather nettled her. "A woman always has the privilege of changing her mind." Fyfe smiled, "Charlie is going to be at my camp for at least three weeks. It'll rain soon, and the days'll be pretty gray and dreary and lonesome. You might as well pack your war bag and come along." She stood uncertainly. Her tongue held ready a blunt refusal, but she did not utter it, and she did not know why. "I haven't had any lunch," she temporized. "Have you?" "I rowed over here before 12. Thought I'd get you back to camp in time for dinner. You know," he said, with a twinkle in his blue eyes, "a logger never eats anything but a meal. A lunch to us is a snack that you put in your pocket. I guess we lack tone out here. We haven't got past the breakfast-dinner-supper stage yet. Too busy making the country fit to live in." "You have a tremendous job in hand," she observed. "Oh, maybe," he laughed. "All in the way you look at it. Suits some of us. Well, if we get to my camp before 8 the cook might feed us. Come on. You'll get to hating yourself if you stay here alone till Charlie's through." Why not? Thus she parleyed with herself, one half of her minded to stand upon her dignity, the other part of her urging acquiescence in his wish that was almost a command. She was tempted to refuse just to see what he would do, but she reconsidered that. Without any logical foundation for the feeling, she was shy of putting her will against Jack Fyfe's. Hitherto quite sure of herself, schooled in self possession, it was a new and disturbing ex- perience to come in contact with that subtle, analysis defying quality which carries the possessor thereof straight to his or her goal over all opposition, which indeed many times stifles all opposition. Force of character, overmastering personality, emanation of sheep will, she could not say in what terms it should be described. Whatever it was, Jack Fyte had R. It existed, a factor to be reckoned with when one dealt with him. For within twenty minutes she had packed a suit case full of clothes and was embarked in his rowboat. He sent the lightly built craft easily through the water with regular, effortless strokes. Stella sat in the stern, facing him. Out past the north horn E.P. WILLIAM. "Why did you make a point of coming for me?" she asked bluntly. of the bay she broke the silence that had fallen between them. "Why did you make a point of coming for me?" she asked bluntly. Fyfe rested on his ears a moment, looking at her in his direct, unm embarrassed way. "I wintered once on the Stlekine," he said. "My partner pulled out before Christmas and never came back. It was the first time I'd ever been alone in my life. I wasn't a much older man in the country than you are. Four months without hearing the sound of a human voice—stark alone. I got so I talked to myself out loud before spring. So I thought—well, I thought I'd come and bring you over to see Mrs. Howe." Stella sat gazing at the slow moving panorama of the lake shore, her chin in her hand. "Thank you," she said at last, and very gently. Fyfe looked at her a minute or more a queer, half amused expression creeping into his eyes. "Well," he said finally, "I might as well tell the whole truth. I've been thinking about you quite a lot later, Miss Stella Benton, or I wouldn't have thought about you getting lonesome." We smiled ever as falsely, a were movement of the corners of his mouth, at the pink flush which rose quickly in her cheeks and then resumed his stendy pull at the ears. Except for a greater number of board shacks and a larger area of stump and top littered wood immediately behind it. Fyfe's headquarters, outwardly at least, differed little from her brother's camp. Jack led her to a long log structure with a shingle roof, which from its more substantial appearance she judged to be his personal domicile. A plump, smiling woman of forty greeted her on the threshold. Once within, Stella perceived that there was, in fact, considerable difference in Mr. Fyfe's habitat. There was a great stone fireplace, before which big easy chairs invited restful lounging. The floor was overlaid with thick rugs which deadened her footfalls. With no pretense of ornamental decoration, the room held an air of homely comfort. "Come in here and lay off your things," Mrs. Howe beamed on her, "If I'd 'n' known you were livin' so close we'd have been acquainted a week ago, though I ain't got right settled here myself. My land, these men are such clams! I never knew till this mornin' there was any white woman at this end of the lake besides myself." She showed Stella into a bedroom. It boasted an enamel washstand with taps which yielded hot and cold water, neatly curtained windows and a deep seated morris chair. Certainly Fyfe's household accommodation was far superior to Charlie Benton's. Stella expected the man's home to be rough and ready like himself, and in a measure it was, but a comfortable sort of rough and readiness. She took off her hat and had a critical survey of herself in a mirror, after which she had just time to brush her hair before answering Mrs. Howe's call to a "cup of ten." The cup of tea resolved itself into a well cooked and well served meal, with china and linen and other unexpected table accessories which agreeably surprised her. I inevitably she made comparisons, somewhat tinctured with natural envy. If Charlie would fix his place with a few such household luxuries life in their camp would be more nearly bearable despite the long hours of disagreeable work. As it was—well, the unrelieved discomforts were beginning to warp her outlook on everything. Fyfe maintained his habitual sparsity of words while they ate the food Mrs. Howe brought on a tray hot from the cook's outlying domain. When they finished he rose, took up his hat and helped himself to a handful of cigars from a box on the fireplace mantel. "I guess you'll be able to put in the time, all right," he remarked. "Make yourself at home. If you take a notion to read there's a lot of books and magazines in my room. Mrs. Howe'll show you." He walked out. Stella was conscious of a distinct relief when he was gone. She had somehow experienced a recurrence of that peculiar feeling of needing to be on her guard as if there were THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA L. J. HAYDEN Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines If so, call and see L. J. HAYDEN, Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines, 220 W. 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THRES HEPPOLET Published every aturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 311 N. 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia. Published every aturday 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 ..... Sept. 15, 1917 "SMOKING US OUT." The Baltimore, Md., Afro-American, under the caption of "Where are you, John?" says: It has been heralded around the country that John Mitchell, Jr., did not attend the recent session of the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias at St. Louis. The fighting editor of the Richmond Planet and bank president, who is also grand chancellor for Virginia, has been at odds with the Supreme Lodge since before its session at Baltimore four years ago. Lawsuits have been incited and, we believe that Editor—Banker—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell has come out best. Be that it may, the rumor comes to town that the smaller wing of the Knights of Pythias, which met in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., last week, may meet "somewhere in Virginia" two years hence. Now that is John's hallwick. We wonder will the meeting be held there, with John treating the strangers within his gates in a friendly but distant way or will it be that the militant editor and lodgeman is tired of the strenuosity of the age and is willing to lead his cohorts into those of the ap slices of peace and good will whose ramparts are said to reach all over the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. We want to know is the slogan, "Let us have peace" or "Flight to the Death." If we were to reply frankly to the questions propounded we would answer that we are not tired of fighting for great principles as we understand them and yet we are in favor of that peace as enunciated by the great statesmen who have gone on before. As to the question, "Where are you, John?" in the Knights of Pythias at air, we are where the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by restraining order and decree left us. It reads: 1. That the defendant (Supreme Lodge) the Knights of Pythias of N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, its officers, agents, attorneys and all others on its behalf, but and they are here by, restrained and permanently enjoined from attempting to enforce the decree or enactment of the Supreme Lodge of the said defendant Order of the Knights of Pythias, adopted at its Biennial Session held at Baltimore City, Maryland, in the year 1913, purporting to revoke the charter of the plaintiff and to dissolve the said plaintiff Grand Lodge of the jurisdiction of Virginia, and, further, from doing any other act or thing on the assumption that the said plaintiff Grand Lodge has been dissolved, or that its fraternal charge has been revoked, or that the said plaintiff Grand Lodge is liable to be dissolved, or that its charter is revocable, or liable to be revoked, by reason of any cause or matter existing or claimed to exist, or arising and occurring, or claimed to have arisen or occurred, prior to the date hereof. 2. And it is further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed That the defendants (Supreme Lodge), the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, its officers, agents, attorneys and all others on its behalf be, and they are hereby, restrained and permanently enjoined from enforcing attempting to enforce the proclamation of suspension issued at New Orleans, Louisiana on the 20th day of July, 1912, with revoking or attempting to revoke the charter of the plaintiff for any of the causes mentioned in such proclamation of suspension. 3. And it is further Ordered Adjudged and Decreed That the defendants (Supreme Lodge) the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia its officers, agents attorneys and all others on its behalf be, and they are hereby, restrained and permanent; enjoined from collecting or undertaking so to do, any unpaid portion of the certain tax claimed and assumed to have been levied upon and against the plaintiff, or its members, by the said defendant Order of the Knights of Pythias at its Biennial Session held at Kansas City, Missouri, in the year 1909, and in the pleadings evidence and proceedings here in set forth and described This means that we are reinstated by order of court to all our rights and privileges in the Supreme Lodge. It means too that John Mitchell, Jr., is reinstated to all of his rights and privileges in the Supreme Lodge. He is Supreme Representative from Virginia and also a member of that body by virtue of his being a Past Grand Chancellor. Thomas M. Crump, E. R. Jefferson and William M. Reid are similarly situated. Whether or not anyone or all of us will ever exercise those rights. which have been established will rest with ourselves and the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Virginia when it convenes next year in Danville, Va. We must admit we have been forced to the conclusion that some of the leaders in the present national organization are not of a kind and character to entitle them to either the support or the respect of honorable citizens. Just to what extent the representatives from Virginia and their constitutents will tolerate this condition of affairs, deponent sayeth not As to the prospective meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere which is rumored will meet in this state, we have not been advised. Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins ranks high among the leaders of the colored people of this country. Should he and his associates come amongst us he can rest assured that the hospitality for which Virginia is noted will not be waived in their cases. We repeat that we are where the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia left us,—on the inside of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A, A. & A. In fact, Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green and Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, to the contrary not withstanding, we have never been legally on the outside. Selah. MR. HUGHES' ADDRESS. It must be evident to any one of ordinary intelligence that Hon. Charles Evans Hughes of New York ranks with the foremost statesmen this or any other country has produced. His language is of the highest order and his declaration of great principles and sound logic must necessarily attract the attention and win the admiration of the thoughtful. He delivered an address before the American Bar Association at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., last week and is quoted as follows: Mr. Hughes gave a clear and concise exposition of constitutional government in war. He explained that the war powers under the Constitution are carefully distributed. To Congress is given the power "to declare war," he said, while the proposal to and "to make peace" found no favor, as this was deemed to belong to the treaty making power vested in the President and the Senate. To the President, he added, was given the direction of war as the commander in chief of the army and navy. "This exclusive power to command the army and navy and thus direct and control campaigns," Mr. Hughes said, "exhibits not autocracy, but democracy fighting effectively through its chosen instruments and in accordance with the established organic law." And again: Concerning the power of Congress to pass conscription laws Mr. Hughes said: "Upon every citizen lies the duty of alding in the common defense. In exercising its constitutional power to raise armies, the Congress may enforce this duty. The Congress may call any one to service who is able to serve. The question who may be called, or in what order, is simply one for the judgment of the national legislature. The power vested in Congress is not to raise armies simply by calling for volunteers, but to raise armies by whatever method Congress deems best, and hence must be deemed to embrace conscription." He continued: Mr. Hughes said that the constitutional authority vested in Congress is not limited by any qualifications arising from religious beliefs or conscientious objections. "It is, however, in my judgment," he continued, "a sound policy on the part of Congress to provide for the discharge from the draft of conscientious objectors. Nothing, I believe, is gained for the country by overriding the claims of conscience in such cases; but it is obviously necessary that there should be such definitions and restrictions as will prevent imposture and evasion by those who have as little conscience as they have stomach for war." He spoke further: Dealing with the subject of reasonable regulations to insure success in war Mr. Hughes said: "The extraordinary circumstances of war may bring particular business and enterprises clearly into the category of those which are affected with a public interest and which demand immediate and thoroughgoing public regulation. The production and distribution of foodstuffs, articles of prime necessity, those which have direct relation to military efficiency, those who are absolutely required for the support of the people during the stress of conflict, are plainly of this sort. Reasonable regulations to safeguard the resources upon which we depend for military success must be regarded as being within the powers confided to Congress to enable it to prosecute a successful war." There is no maudlin sentiment, no appeal to national prejudices, no seeking of enthusiastic applause from the extremists in this country. It was a plain, judicial interpretation of constitutional law and his lucid explanation of the powers of the executive and legislative branches of the government will rank among the great discourses of the century. This plain, unassuming man possesses rare characteristics and great reasoning powers. Men of his type and calibre are not now recognized by the masses of the electorate at their true worth. Certain it is, he stands head and shoulders above many of his follows. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HARRY S. CUMMINGS (Continued from First Page.) nt persons present. Various lodges and club organizations were also well represen TOUCHING TRIBUTES PAID Rev. Leonard Z. Johnson, pastor of Madison street Presbyterian Church, of which congregation the deceased was a member, conducted brief services at the "Cummings' home, 1318 Druid Hill ave, Rev. R. W. S. Thomas Orcaite praye The services at the church included the reading of the opening hymn, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," Rev J. T. Colbert; opening prayer, Rev D. G. Hill, a classmate of the dead politician at Lincoln University; the reading of the first scripture lesson by Rev. A. L. Gaines; the scripture lesson, Rev Hodges; reading of Nearer My God To Thee by Rev A. J. Mitchell; the reading of resolutions from the Colored Bar Association, 17th Ward Republican Organization, and other organizations, and a sketch of Mr. Cummings' life, by Rev Naylor. The principal eloody was delivered by Dr. Leonard Z. Johnson. Brief and eloquent tributes were paid by Rev. Drs. R. W. S. Thomas, and others. DR. JOHNSON'S ESTIMATE. Dr. Johnson in paying his tribute to Mr. Cummings said: "It was his ostinction preeminent to be prominent in the public eye and speech of the community, the city and state in which he lived. He was a Negro, born with the handicap of his race life, yet out of Negro heredity of descent and Negro conditions of family and social and out of Negro economic and civil and political opportunities, he so made himself and so achieved by what he made himself to be that he lifted himself to the wide and conspicuous prominence he attained." After paying a compliment to his achievements in college and declaring that the achievements made by the dead politician indicated the probability of further successes on his part "had all things of life rightly shaped themselves to their full play in strength and use of all his powers," the speaker continued: "This life is a token and a proof of Negro possibility in the sphere of life achievement, if given its chance to fulfill itself, and while such Negro possibility shows there shall none of right reason, deyry the Negro people and race and refuse right and a place of common human respect and equal opportunity of strong life in the citizen life of the nation. MESSAGE OF HIS LIFE "He stands t. revealing type of what the race can do as a citizen element of intelligence and force in the nation's life. The race can take its place and fulfill its part side by side with all elements with such efficiency and such forceful effect as to make indubitably manifest its right and fitness to be there, winning the respect and inducing the fellowship of all, as man to more citizen in nation. This is the meaning and message of his life to which we point and emphasize. And it is the meaning of and message of every enlightened and achieving Negro life in the life of the nation. Monumental Lodge of Elks held their last services, and Mr. Samuel T. Hemeley sang a solo. Mr. H. Cummings died on Friday last week, following a long illness. He was born in Baltimore, May 19, 1856. He was educated at Lincoln University and the law school of the University o. Maryland. As the City Council fills all vacancies Democrat will succeed him. The floral numbers, the majority of which were made by George H. Silons, were numerous and hand-one four carriages being necessary to take them to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, where interment took place HANDSOME FLORAL TRIBUTES. the honorary palebearers, were former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, Judge Robert H. Terrell, of Washington; John C. Dancy, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church; Wallace L. Smith, Dr. C. D. Jones; James Hughes, John P. Forrester and Chris J. Perry. The active palebearers were: William L. Houston, of Washington; James N. Young, Dr. William T. Carr, Harry T. Pratt, H grafton Browne, George H. Siddons, George W. F. McMechen and Robert Turner. Among the people from out-of-town who attended the funeral were: Amos W. Scott, "Al" Jones, M. Fisher Grobes, Sr., all of Philadelphia; Henry I. N. Nutter, William Ginn, Wesley Ginn, all of Atlantic City; James W. Gray, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Daniel Murray, William Painter, and J. Snowden, all of Washington and T. M. Conklin, of Jersey City, a brother-in-law of the deceased. COUNCIL PAYS HOMAGE The City Council held its first meeting Monday afternoon, following the summer recess. Following the adoption of a motion offered by Council man Daniel C. Joseph to have the seat and desk of Mr. Cummings draped for the next fifteen days, the City council adjourned until next Tuesday out of respect to the man who held the record among its members for length of service. Both the Criminal and Orphan's courts adjourned out of respect to the memory of Mr. Cummings, Monday, State's Attorney William F. Broening offered the motion in the Criminal Court. W. Ashleie Hawkins made the motion in the Orphan's court, Henry J. Brooning seconding. The flag at the City Hall hung half mast Monday, and Superinter out of Public Buildings, William J. Conor was among those who attend the funeral. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. Looking to rent something? S phas. Office, 535 1-2 N 2nd $ telephone, Ran, 688. U. S. WARSHIPS SINK U-BOAT Two Merchant Ships Lost Off Coast of France. ATTACK MADE ON CONVOY Secretary Daniels Startles Country by Erroneous Report That Six Submarines Were Sent to Bottom. A typographical error in a cablegram reporting a submarine attack on a convoy of merchant ships off the coast France, on September 5, led Secretary of the Navy Daniels to announce that six submarines probably had been sunk in the battle. In reality, the probabilities are that only one was destroyed. The mistake was not discovered until several hours after the country had been electrified by the report of a wholesale sinking of U-boats. This statement then was issued by Mr. Daniels: "My attention has just been called to a serious error made in transcribing the report of the attack made on the Westwego and other vessels. I gave the report to the press exactly as it was presented to me, stating that 'two of the steamships attacked were sunk, and probably all of the submarines were lost.' "The cablogram, I now find, stated that 'one' of the submarines probably was lost." The true version, it appears, is that the merchant ships, of which the oil tanker Westwego was one, were attacked by submarines in force off the coast of France, September 5. In the fight two merchant ships were lost and probably one submarine was sunk The ships were, conveyed, presumably by American destroyers or other warships. Some statement probably will be made later to show where the typographical error was made which led the navy department to announce the probable loss of six submarines. The uncorrected despatch as given out follows: "The navy department received a report from Paris which states that the steamship Westwego reports on September 8 that while cruising with several other ships she was attacked by a massed force of six submarines off the coast of France, on September 5. The result of this attack was that two of the steamships attacked were sunk and probably all of the submarines were lost." While this does not actually say American destroyers were conveying the ship, that is believed to be the fact. It was announced recently that a policy of convoying fleets of merchant ships across the Atlantic had been adopted. The fleet, of which the Westwege was one, was on the way to Europe from the United States when attacked. No details of the fight were included in the report. The names of the ships sunk were not included in the despatch. It is not even known whether they were American ships. The navy department has cabled for additional information. PRISONER KILLS DETECTIVE Wanted For Murder, Italian Breaks Away and Stabs Captor. Captain Ralph Mullin, of the P. R. R. detective force, was stabbed to death at Philadelphia by a man he had arrested on a charge of murder, said to have been preferred against him in Buffalo, N. Y. Mullin went to Franklin and Thompson streets, where the man, who said his name is Martino, was employed in a sewer excavation job. Presenting his warrant, Mullin took charge of Martino and started toward the station house with him when the prisoner whipped out a knife and plunged it in the detective's breast. Policemen heard Mullin's cries for help and started in pursuit of Martino who took to his heels. One of the pursuers drew his revolver and fired several bullets after the fleeing man, one striking him in the knee and bringing him to a halt. Both Mullin and Martino were taken immediately to the Children's Homeopathic hospital, where the detective was pronounced dead and the foreigner's wound dressed. Burned to Death at "Party." Martha Briscoe, a negro, has been committed to the Kent county jail at Middletown, Del., charged with having killed Alonzo Walters, also a negro. Walters had a party at his home. During the evening a fight ensued, when the woman, it is alleged, procured a can of coal oil, poured the fluid over Walters and then threw him across a hot stove. He was so badly burned that he died a short time later. Report Italian Warship Sunk The news of the sinking of the Italian warship Umberto I. by striking a mine while conveying merchant vessels through the Mediterranean sea was brought to an Atlantic port by a Norwegian steamship. Fifty of the crew porished, according to the report. The Umberto I was a converted merchantman. Says Germans May Invade U. S. "There is danger of a German invasion of the United State. It is time that the American people woke up and get ready to fight. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the military affairs committee, so told the senate. BIBLES FOR SOLDIERS Stacks of New Testaments In Khakl. For the Troops. A woman is seated in a room with a large window. She is holding a tray with several small objects, possibly candles or decorative items. The room is dimly lit, and the walls are covered with a patterned wallpaper. Photo by American Press Association Bumper Grain Crops Forecasts of production of the principal corps, based on conditions existing September 1, were announced by the department of agriculture, as follows: Spring wheat, 250,000,000. All wheat, 668,000,000. Corn, 3,248,000,000. Other crop estimates are: Oats, 1,533,000,000. Barley, 204,000,000. Buckwheat, 20,200,000. White potatoes, 462,000,000. Sweet potatoes, 88,200,000. Tobacco (pounds) 1,221,000,000. Flax, 11,000,000. Rice, 32,200,000. Hay (tons) 91,700,000. Sugar beets (tons) 7,940,000. Apples, 177,000,000. Peaches, 42,500,000. Kafrps, 10,000,000. Senate Adopts War Tax Bill The senate's bitter fight over war profits taxation virtually has come to an end with adoption of the finance committee's compromise provisions for a total levy of $1,286,000,000, or about one-third of this year's war and normal excess profits. This is an increase of $1,000,000,000 over present taxes. The high tax advocates failed to secure adoption of a single amendment. The vote on adoption of the finance committee's draft was 72 to 7. The seven were Bankhead, Borah, Gronna, Johnson (California), Lafollette, Underwood and Vardaman. Hld Wound That Killed. Fearful that he might be punished, Claude B. Dincle, five years old, son of Martin Dincle, of Biltzahottown, near Lancaster, Pa., did not toll his parents he was suffering from a bullet wound inflicted with his father's revolver with which he was playing. The boy's sister witnessed the accident. Both decided not to toll their parents. The boy gradually grew worse and died. The undertaker in preparing the body for burial discovered the bullet wound, and the sister then told of the shooting. Warning to Wheat Growers A warning to American farmers to beware of abnormally high priced seed wheat has been issued by the department of agriculture "Various persons," said the statement "are offering varieties of seed which they describe as far superior to the kinds now being sown. They are usually given catchy names and extravagant claims are made for them." Record Ballroad Earnings Proliminary returns for 016 of the 186 large railroads of this country that has been made public by the interstate commerce commission, indicate that the July revenues will exceed those of June, which establish a new high record. The 106 roads reported net revenues of $63,308,195 compared with $61,290,980 in July, 1916. To Exile Grand Dukes The Petrograd newspapers report the government has decided to release and exile abroad, a result of the recent exposure of a counter revolutionary plot, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, and Grand Duke Paul. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA--FLOUR -- Firm Ship: $10.12@5.105; city mills, $12.17@13. RYE FLOUR—Qulot; per barrol, $3.50@10. POULTRY--Live steady; hons, 25@ 27c; old roosters, 18@19c. Dressed, steady; choice fowls, 29c; old roosters, 26c. BUTTER — Firm; fancy creamy, 16c per lb. EGGS — Firm; selected, 50@51c; nearby, 42c; western, 42c. Live Stock Quotations CHICAGO--HOGS --Strong. Bulk. $17.25@18.60; light, $17@18.65; mixed. $16.85@18.90; heavy, $16.75@18.80; $16.85@18.90; heavy, $16.75@18.80; CATTLE--Slow. Native cow cattle, $2.52@17; western steers, $16.50@ 15.20; stockers and feeders, $5.90@ 15.20; stockers and feeders, $4.65@17.20; alves, $12@16; SHEEP--Strong. wethers, $8.60@ SHEEP—Strong, wothers. $8.50 12.10; lambs. $11.40@17.60. Avilator Falls, May Die. Loderick R. Kennedy, Minne private. Third Aero squad 200 feet at the aviation c Fort Sill, Okla., and received as which may prove fatal. His caught fire and he was b ned. 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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. 851 St. Cleveland, O., A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FREE OF ALL CHARGE For Sunday School Teachers and Officers Conducted by Rov. S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. C. The Sunday School that has not trained teachers is behind the times, Rov. S. N. Vass, D. 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And an affidavit 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 what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. Testo: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. BREGINIA—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 YBELIA 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 Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and what may be necessary to protect or interest herein. 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The fighting editor of the Richmond Planet and bank president, who is also grand chancellor for Virginia, has been at odds with the Supreme Lodge since before its session at Baltimore four years ago. Lawsuits have been instituted, and we believe that Editor—Banker—Grand Chancellor John Mitchell has come out best. Be that it may, the rumor comes to town that the smaller wing of the Knights of Pythias, which met in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., last week, may meet "somewhere in Virginia" two years hence. Now that is John's bailwick. We wonder will the meeting be held there with John treating the strangers within his gates in a friendly, but distant way or will it be that the militant editor and lodgeman is tired of the strenuosity of the age and is willing to lead his cohorts into those of the ap siles of peace and good will whose ramparts are said to reach all over the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. We want to know is the slogan "Let us have peace" or "Fight to the Death." If we were to reply frankly to the questions propounded we would answer that we are not tired of fighting for great principles as we understand them and yet we are in favor of that peace as enunciated by the great statesmen who have gone on before. As to the question, "Where are you John?" in the Knights of Pythias affair, we are where the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by restraining order and decree left us. It reads: 1. That the defendant (Supreme Lodge) the Knights of Pythias of N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, its officers, agents, attorneys, and all others on its behalf, but, and they are here by, restrained and permanently enjoined from attempting to enforce the decree or enactment of the Supreme Lodge of the said defendant Order of the Knights of Pythias, adopted at its Biennial Session held at Baltimore City, Maryland, in the year 1913, purporting to revoke the charter of the plaintiff and to dissolve the said plaintiff Grand Lodge of the jurisdiction of Virginia, and, further, from doing any other act or thing on the assumption that the said plaintiff Grand Lodge has been dissolved, or that its fraternal charm has been revoked, or that the said plaintiff Grand Lodge is liable to be dissolved, or that its charter is revocable, or liable to be revoked, by reason of any cause or matter existing or claimed to exist, or arising and occurring or claimed to have arisen or occurred, prior to the date, hereof 2. And it is further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed That the defendants (Supreme Lodge), the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, its officers, agents, attorneys and all others on its behalf be, and they are hereby, restrained and permanently enjoined from enforcing or attempting to enforce the proclamation of suspension issued at New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 20th day of July, 1912, and from revoking or attempting to revoke the charter of the plaintiff for any of the causes mentioned in such proclamation of suspension. 3. And it is further Ordered Adjudged and Decreeed That the defendants (Supreme Lodge) the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia its officers, agents attorneys and all others on its behalf be, and they are hereby, restrained and permanent enjoined from collecting or undertaking so to do, any unpaid portion of the certain tax claimed and assumed to have been levied upon and against the plaintiff, or its members, by the said defendant Order of the Knights of Pythias at its Biennial Session held at Kansas City, Missouri, in the year 1909, and in the pleadings evidence and proceedings here in set forth and described This means that we are reinstated by order of court to all our rights and privileges in the Supreme Lodge. It means too that John Mitchell, Jr., is reinstated to all of his rights and privileges in the Supreme Lodge. He is Supreme Representative from Virginia and also a member of that body by virtue of his being a Past Grand Chancellor. Thomas M. Crump, E. R. Jofferson and William M. Reid are similarly situated. Whether or not anyone or all of us will ever exercise those rights. which have been established will rest with ourselves and the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Virginia when it convenes next year in Danville, Va. We must admit we have been forced to the conclusion that some of the leaders in the present national organization are not of a kind and character to entitle them to either the support or the respect of honorable citizens. Just to what extent the representatives from Virginia and their constituents will tolerate this condition of affairs, deprive sony not As to the prospective meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere which is rumored will meet in this state, we have not been advised. Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins ranks high among the leaders of the colored people of this country. Should he and his associates come amongst us he can rest assured that the hospitality for which Virginia is noted will not be waived in their cases. We repeat that we are where the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia left us, on the inside of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E. A. A. & A. In fact, Supreme Chancellor S. W, Green and Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins, to the contrary not withstanding, we have never been legally on the outside. Selah. MR. HUGHES' ADDRESS. It must be evident to any one of ordinary intelligence that Hon. Charles Evans Hughes of New York ranks with the foremost statesmen this or any other country has produced. His language is of the highest order and his declaration of great principles and sound logic must necessarily attract the attention and win the admiration of the thoughtful. He delivered an address before the American Bar Association at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., last week and is quoted as follows: Mr. Hughes gave a clear and concise exposition of constitutional government in war. He explained that the war powers under the Constitution are carefully distributed. To Congress is given the power "to declare war" he said, while the proposal to add "to make peace" found no favor, as this was deemed to belong to the treaty making power vested in the President and the Senate. To the President, he added, was given the direction of war as the commander in chief of the army and navy. "This exclusive power to command the army and navy and thus direct and control campaigns," Mr. Hughes said, "exhibits not autocracy, but democracy fighting effectively through its chosen instruments and in accordance with the established organic law." Concerning the power of Congress to pass conscription laws Mr. Hughes said: "Upon every citizen lies the duty of aiding in the common defense. In exercising its constitutional power to raise armies, the Congress may enforce this duty. The Congress may call any one to service who is able to serve. The question who may be called, or in what order, is simply one for the judgment of the national legislature. The power vested in Congress is not to raise armies simply by calling for volunteers, but to raise armies by whatever method Congress deems best, and hence must be deemed to embrace conscription." He continued; Mr. Hughes said that the constitutional authority vested in Congress is not limited by any qualifications arising from religious beliefs or conscientious objections. "It is, however, in my judgment," he continued. "a sound policy on the part of Congress to provide for the discharge from the draft of conscientious objectors. Nothing, I believe, is gained for the country by overriding the claims of conscience in such cases; but it is obviously necessary that there should be such definitions and restrictions as will prevent imposture and evasion by those who have as little conscience as they have stomach for war." He spoke further: Dealing with the subject of reasonable regulations to insure success in war Mr. Hughes said; "The extraordinary circumstances of war may bring particular business and enterprises clearly into the category of those which are affected with a public interest and which demand immediate and thoroughgoing public regulation. The production and distribution of foodstuffs, articles of prime necessity, these which have direct relation to military efficiency, those who are absolutely required for the support of the people during the stress of conflict, are plainly of this sort. Reasonable regulations to safeguard the resources upon which we depend for military success must be regarded as being within the powers confided to Congress to enable it to prosecute a successful war." There is no maudlin sentiment, no appeal to national prejudices, no seeking of enthusiastic applause from the extremists in this country. It was a plain, judicial interpretation of constitutional law and his lucid explanation of the powers of the executive and legislative branches of the government will rank among the great discourses of the century. This plain, unassuming man possesses rare characteristics and great reasoning powers. Men of his type and calibre are not now recognized by the masses of the electorate at their true worth. Certain it is, he stands head and shoulders above many of his fellows. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA HARRY S. CUMMINGS (Continued from First Page.) nkent persons present. Various lodges and civil organizations were also well represen TOUCHING TRIBUTES PAID Rev. Leonard Z. Johnson, pastor Madison street Presbyterian Church, of which congregation the deceased was a member, conducted brief services at "Cummings' home, 1318 Druid Hill ave, Rev. R. W. S. Thomas orice praye The services at the church included the reading of the opening hymn, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," Rev. J. T. Colbert; opening prayer, Rev. D. G. Hill, a classmate of the dead politician at Lincoln University; the reading of the first scripture lesson by Rev. A. L. Gates; the scripture lesson, Rev. Hodges; readin of Nearer My God To Thee by Rev. A. J. Mitchell; the reading of resolutions from the Colored Bar Association, 17th Ward Republican Organization, and other organizations, and a sketch of Mr. Cummings' life, by Rev. Naylor. The principal eulogy was delivered by Dr. Leonard Z. John Sbriet and eloquent tributes were paid by Rev. Drs. R. W. S. Thomas, and others. DR. JOHNSON'S ESTIMATE. Dr. Johnson in paying his tribute to Mr. Cummings said: "It was his distinction preeminent to be prominent in the public eye and speech of the community, city and state in which he lived. He was a Negro, born with the handicap of his race life, yet out of Negro heredity of descent and Negro conditions of family and social life and out of Negro economic and civil and political opportunities, he so made himself and so achieved by what he made himself to be that he lifted himself to the wide and conspicuous prominence he attained." After paying a compliment to his achievements in college and declaring that the achievements made by the dead politician indicated the probability of further successes on his part "had all things of life rightly shaped themselves to their full play in strength and use of all his powers," the speaker continued; "This life is a token and a proof of Negro possibility in the sphere of life achievement, if given its chance to fulfill itself, and while such Negro possibility shows there shall none of right reason, deyry the Negro people and race and refuse right and a place of common human respect and equal opportunity of strong life in the citizen life of the nation. MESSAGE OF HIS LIFE "He stands in revealing type of what the race can do as a citizen element of intelligence and force in the nation's life. The race can take its place and fulfill its part side by side with all elements with such efficiency and uch forceful effect as to make indubitably manifest its right and fitness to be there, winning the respect and inducing the fellow" of all, as man to more citizen to citizen. This is the meaning and message of his life to which we point and emphasize. And it is the meaning of and message of every enlightened and achieving Negro life in the life of the nation. Monumental Lodge of Elks held their last services, and Mr. Samuel T. Hemeley sang a solo. Mr. H. Cummings died on Friday last week, following a long illness. He was born in Baltimore, May 19, 1886. He was educated at Lincoln University and the law school of the University o. Maryland. As the City Council fills all vacancies Democrat will succeed him. The floral numbers, the majority of which were made by George H. Sidons, were numerous and hand-one four carriages being necessary to take them to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, where interment took place. HANDSOME FLORAL TRIBUTES' The honorary palebearer, *wore* former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, Judge Robert H. Terrell, of Washington; John C. Dancy, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church; Wallace L. Smith, Dr. C. D. Jones; James Hughes, John P. Porrester and Chris J. Perry. The active palebearers were; William L. Houston, of Washington; James N. Young, Dr. William T. Carr, Harry T. Tratt, H. Grafton Browne, George H. Siddons, George W. F. McMechen and Robert Turner. Among the people from out-of-town who attended the funeral were: Amos W. Scott, "Al" Jones, M. Fisher Grobes, N. Lutter, William Ginn, Wesley Ginn, all of Atlantic City; James W. Gray, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Daniel Murray, William Painter, and J. Snowden, all of Washington and T. M. Conklin, of Jersey City, a brother-in-law of the deceased. COUNCIL PAYS HOMAGE The City Council held its first meeting Monday afternoon, following the summer recess. Following the adoption of a motion offered by Council man Daniel C. Joseph to have the seat and desk of Mr. Cummings drapped for the next fifteen days, the City Council adjourned until next Tuesday out of respect to the man who held the record among its members for length of service. Both the Criminal and Orphans Courts adjourned out of respect to the memory of Mr. Cummings, Monday, State's Attorney William F. Proeiling offered the motion in the Criminal Court, W. Ashble Hawkinson made the motion in the Orphans court, Henry J. Broening seconded. The flag at the City Hall hum half mast Monday, and Superinter out of Public Buildings, William J. Conor was among those who attend the funeral. FRANKLIN E. JOHNSON Looking to rent something? S phas, Office, 535 1-2 N 2nd S telephone, Ran, 688. U. S. WARSHIPS SINK U-BOAT Two Merchant Ships Lost Off Coast of France. ATTACK MADE ON CONVOY Secretary Daniels Startles Country by Erroneous Report That Six Submarines Were Sent to Bottom. A typographical error in a cablegram reporting a submarine attack on a convoy of merchant ships off the coast France, on September 5, led Secretary of the Navy Daniels to announce that six submarines probably had been sunk in the battle. In reality, the probabilities are that only one was destroyed. The mistake was not discovered until several hours after the country had been electrified by the report of a wholesale sinking of U-boats. This statement then was issued by Mr. Daniels: "My attention has just been called to a serious error made in transcribing the report of the attack made on the Westwege and other vessels. I gave the report to the press exactly as it was presented to me, stating that 'two of the steamships attacked were sunk, and probably all of the submarines were lost.' "The cabaglum, I now find, stated that 'one' of the submarines probably was lost." The true version, it appears, is that the merchant ships, of which the oil tanker Westwero was one, were attacked by submarines in force off the coast of France, September 5. In the fight two merchant ships were lost and probably one submarine was sunk. The ships were, conveyed, presumably by American destroyers or other warships. Some statement probably will be made later to show where the typographical error was made which led the navy department to announce the probable loss of six submarines. The uncorrected dospatch as given out follows: "The navy department received a report from Paris which states that the steamship Westwego reports on September 8 that while cruising with several other ships she was attacked by a massed force of six submarines off the const of France, on September 5. The result of this attack was that two of the steamships attacked were sunk and probably all of the submarines were lost." While this does not actually say American destroyers were convoying the ship, that is believed to be the fact. It was announced recently that a policy of convoying feet of merchant ships across the Atlantic had been adopted. The fleet, of which the Westweste was one, was on the way to Europe from the United States when attacked. No details of the fight were included in the report. The names of the ships sunk were not included in the despatch. It is not even known whether they were American ships. The navy department has cabled for additional information. PRISONER KILLS DETECTIVE Wanted For Murder, Italian Breaks Away and Staha Cantor. Away and Stabs Captor. Captain Ralph Mullin, of the P. R. R. detective force, was stabbed to death at Philadelphia by a man he had arrested on a charge of murder, said to have been preferred against him in Buffalo, N. Y. Mullin went to Franklin and Thompson streets, where the man, who said his name is Martino, was employed in a sewer excavation job. Presenting his warrant, Mullin took charge of Martino and started toward the station house with him when the prisoner whipped out a knife and plunged it in the detective's breast. Policeman heard Mullin's cries for help and started in pursuit of Martino who took to his hooks. One of the pursuers drew his revolver and fired several bullets after the fleeing man, one striking him in the knee and bringing him to a halt. Both Mullin and Martino were taken immediately to the Children's Homeopathic hospital, where the detective was pronounced dead and the foreigner's wound dressed. Burned to Death at "Party." Martha Briscoe, a negro, has been committed to the Kout. county jail at Middletown, Del., charged with having killed Alonzo Walters, also a negro. Walters had a party at his home. During the evening-a light on sunday, when the woman, it is alleged, procured a can of coal oil, poured the fluid over Walters and then throw him across a hot stove. He was so badly burned that he died a short time later. --- Report Italian Warship Sunk The news of the sinking of the Italian warship Umberto I, by striking a mine while conveying merchant vessels through the Mediterranean sea was brought to an Atlantic port by a Norwegian steamship. Fifty of the crew perished, according to the report. The Umberto I was a converted merchantman. Says Germans May Invade U. S. "There is danger of a German invasion of the United State it is time that the American people woke up and get ready to fight senator Chamberlain, chairman of the military affairs committee, so told the senate. BIBLES FOR SOLDIERS Stacks of New Testaments In Khaki For the Troops. A Photo by American Press Association Bumper Grain Crops. Forecasts of production of the principal corps, based on conditions existing September 1, were announced by the department of agriculture, as follows: Spring wheat, 250,000,000. All wheat, 668,000,000. Corn, 3,248,000,000. Other crop estimates are: Oats, 1,533,000,000. Barley, 204,000,000. Buckwheat, 20,200,000. White potatoes, 462,000,000. Sweet potatoes, 88,200,000. Tobacco (pounds) 1,221,000,000. Flax, 11,000,000. Rice, 32,200,000. Hay (tons) 91,700,000. Sugar beets (tons), 7,940,000. Apples, 177,000,000. Peaches, 42,500,000. Kafrps, 10,000,000. Senate Adopts War Tax Bill. The senate's bitter fight over war profits taxation virtually has come to an end with adoption of the finance committee's compromise provisions for a total levy of $1,286,000,000, or about one-third of this year's war and normal excess profits. This is an increase of $1,060,000,000 over present taxes. The high tax advocates failed to secure adoption of a single amendment. The vote on adoption of the finance committee's draft was 72 to 7. The seven were Bankhead, Borah, Gronna, Johnson (California), Lafollette, Underwood and Vardaman. Hid Wound That Killed The boy's sister witnessed the accident. Both decided not to tell their parents. The boy gradually grew worse and died. The undertaker in preparing the body for burial discovered the bullet wound, and the sister then told of the shooting. Warning to Wheat Growers A warning to American farmers to beware of abnormally high priced seed wheat has been issued by the department of agriculture. "Various persons," said the statement, "are offering varieties of seed which they describe as far superior to the kinds now being sown. They are usually given catehyne names and extravagant claims are made for them." Record Ballroad Earnings Proliminary returns for 016 of the 186 large railroads of this country that has been made public by the interstate commerce commission, indicate that the July revenues will exceed those of June, which established a new high record. The 106 roads reported net revenues of $63,108,195, compared with $61,290,980 in July, 1916. To Exile Grand Dukes The Petrograd newspapers report the government has decided to release and exile abroad, as a result of the recent exposure of a counter revolutionary plot, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, and Grand Duke Paul. GENERAL MARKETS PHILA-ADELPHA--FLOUR -- Firm PHILA-ADELPHA--10.25@10.50; city milla $12.67@13 RYE FLOUR—Quot; per barrol, $$.50@10. WHEAT—Nominal. CORN—Firm; No. 3 yellow, $2.25@ 20. OATS—Strong; No. 2 white, 67½@ 88¾ OUILY—TRIY—Live stony; hens, 25@ 27e; old roosters, 18@ 19e; stony; choice fowls, 29c; old roosters, 26c. UUTTER—Firm; fancy creamy, 160 per lb. EGGS—Firm; selected, 50@ 51c; nearby, 42c; western, 42c. Live Stock Quotations CHICAGO - HIGGS - Strong. Bulk. $17.25@18.60; light, $17.18.65; mixed. $16.85@18.90; heavy, $16.75@18.80; cough, $16.75@17; pigs, $12@16.50. $16.75@17. Show Native beef cattle. $7.25@17. stockers and feeders. 13.20; stockers and feeders, $5.90@ 9.40; cows and heifers, $4.65@12.70; valves, $12@16. 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French ralding parties penetrated the German dines southeast of Vaux. ailio and north of The Casque in the Champagne, according to tho Paria war office announcoment. Gorman supplies were destroyed and the Frenah made a number of prison: ors, Gorman aviators during tho night dropped bombs in the region of Dun: Adrk, Some of the miselos struck a hospital and wounded five women. “Enomy surprise attacks north of Jouy and northeast of Cerny were ro pulsed by our fire," says the war of fice. “Our batterles took under fire enemy troops south of Justincourt. On both banks of tho Meuse (Verdun re. sion) there was intermittent artillery fighting,” There was local fehting between British and. Gorman to. .0 In the netall horhood of Villeret, on the Somme front, the British war department an nounced. The statement adds: “In the last few days owing to un: favorable weather." says an oficial statomont, “oporations by our nayal aircraft havo heen restricted. Out enemy alreraft was shot down and an: ‘other was driven down out of control, Bombs have been dropped on the Hout: tave airdrome, Owing to bad vistbill ty tho results could not be observed. All our machines returned safely, HEAVY LOSS FROM FROST Rg Hee tan Le eee | ee eo Many Fields Being Black. Reports from leading tobacco grow ers of Lancaster county estimate the loss by frost at $2,000,000, or one fourth of tho entire crop. Great efforts are being mado to gel 8g much of the remainder of the crop ag possible harvested. More than 7% per cont of tho crop 4s stil in the fields. Shortage of labor ts held re sponsible for the loss, as groat flolds of ripe tobacco have Iain uncut. ‘The sections hurt were In the Manors, neat Bast Petersburg. where the finest {s grown, Growers estimated that anothor Kdll Ang frost would cut the crop in two Whole flelds have been turned black by tho frost, In the East Potersburg section, one of the finest tobacco growing section in tho country, tho flelds aro black, Near Dareville some patches have been kdlled altogether. County Farm Agont Bucher, after a trip through the county, sald that a 28 per cent loss was a reasonable estl. mato. Ho reported also that corn had beon badly damaged by the frost, and fargo strotches of swoct potatoes Tutn. ed. A great deal of tho Lancaster county corn is of Into planting, and unless tho cold spell broaks the har vest will be slight. In somo of the fields of low-lying sections every stalk has beon touched and the leaves are rapldly beginning to dry. TO ANNOUNCE CASUALTIES War Department Directs Pershing to Forward Reports, All casualties among American sot dlers hereafter are to be announced ‘by the war department, ‘Tho statistical division, in charge of Major J. S. Jones, cabled to Majot Genoral John J. Pershing, in command of the American force in France, to communicate directly all deaths and facts obtainable about wounded and missing soldiers as quickly as the knowlodgo is gined, Genoral Pershing also was directed to ask allied forces with which Amert. ean troops are serving to inform him of casualties, that a report may be made to Washington. Upon report of nows of casunities, the war depart ment will make tmmediate announce mont through the press. ‘Telegraphie notice also will ho sent to tho next of kin of tho sotdier Idle, wounded, taken prisoner or missing. KORNILOFF MOVES ON PETROGRAD " of Ghecking Revolt With. out Bloodshed Ends, ‘BIG BATTLE. 1S. EXPECTED |Promier Kerensky is Accused of Act Ing For the Germans—The Leadert Join the Revolt, General Korniloft’s army 1s marching on Petrograd, Tho main body of his troops has been ordered to detrain at Dno, 120 miles from the capital, as the govern ‘ment forces have torn up the railroad fat Semvino. From Dno an advance overland will be mado, A smaller force of Korniloft troop: 4s reported to be only forty miles from tho capital “and government troops havo been sent out to meet them, | ‘The government is taking vigorous steps to mect tho danger and convoew tlon of the national assembly ts pro posed by tho cabinet to meet tho situ ation, General Korntloff In a second procla mation to the people, acensed the gov ernment of acting in the interest of the German general stall. Me declarod that. he was the son of a simple cos sack, that he could not tolerate Rus sin’g shame, preferring death, All hopes of checking tho revolt without serfous bloodshed vanished when It became known that belated messages from the front of a most sorious character had heen received by the provisional government, | ‘Tho most important telegram was from the suprome commissiary, Fill: penko, who declarod categorically that tho higher command of the army had determined to seize all power and that a sahguinary conflict probably would rosult, Another message came from the chief of the general staff at the front, General Lokomsky. He {s the rea brains and soul of the revolt. Hie tologram declared that if the govern ment refused to accede to Genera Korniloft's demand tho result would be serious. The cabinet then discussed measures nocessary for the security of Petro grad, deciding to declare martial Inv and to appoint a new commander of tho Petrograd military district in place ‘of General Vasilkovsk, Next, the cabinet debated a series o} measures necessary for the protection of tho Petrograd government buildings and the defenso of the ity In case General Kornilof sent against it par of his army. Petrograd Ikewiso Is In danger o boing cut off from Moscow by action of tho Cossacks whova. commande threatens to cut tho railway if the government continues to hold out. General Savonkorf, the new militar governor of Petrograd, Issued a proc Jamation urging tho population to ro main calm. He declared every persor caught acting against the revolution would bo treated as a traitor. Two promincnt leaders have come ‘out for the rovolt. General Deniking commander of tho Russian armies or the southwestern front, has telegraph ed to Premier Kerensky that he in tonds to support General Korniloft. Alexander J. Guehkoff, the October fst leader, who formerly ‘held the post tions of president of the Duma, chlo of tho munitions bureau, and minister of war and nav} ad intrim, has als¢ gono over to General Korniloft. On tho other hand, Ltentenant Gen eral Dmitri St. Cherbatcheff, command or of the Russian forces on the Ruma nian front, has orderod -his armies an¢ also tho Odessa military district te tako no part in the confilct, at th same time remaining true to the pro visional government, GENERAL STEWART DIES Commander of Pennsylvania Natlonai Guard Stricken In Harrisburg. Adjutant General Thomas J, Stewart administrative head of the national guard of Ponnsylvanja, died of heart diseaso at his home in Harrisburg, Pa Goneral Stewart was sixty-nine years old, Monday being his birthday anni versary. General Stewart, who had not been in hoalth for tho Inst year or more, hhkd handled all tho details throughout the mobilization of tho national guard and its transfer to federal service, and Uterally died on duty, After returning home from his office Monday evening, ho ate a hearty din nor and some time later becamo fil A hoart attack developed. The general rosted better toward morning, but about mine o'clock was again seized with heart pains. He died shortly after ten o'clock. : Vitals Eaten, Still Lives, A man found on a mougtatn noar Lansford, Pa. with his stom ach almost eaten’ away by ven min but still alive, was taken to the Laurytown hospital by Chief Burgess Thomas Gallagher and Chief of Police Cullen. ‘The man is thonght to have been oxposed to the elements for sev. eral days, Famous Aviatorea Cominn. | Georges Carpentior, tho French pugilist, and at present an aviator in tho French army, according to the Pars Herald, is going to the Unit. ed States as an aviation instructor, and will be stationed at Dayton, 0, Socond Tieutonant Joan Navarre, the French ace, who 4s credited officially with having brought down twelve Ger. man machines, 1s also going to Ameri. ca on a similar errand. Canners Buy Crops, According to tho statictics jsau. ed by the state department of agriculture tho canners of Penn: THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND, VIRGINIA sylvanta Lave contracted for the total production of 5200 acres of corn, 2187 acres of tomatoes and smaller acreages of peas, beans and other products, This 4s tho first year the state has made an effort to keep track of such sates, Charged With Stabbing Man 5 Times, As dames Vixulo stepped from a trolley car at Kulpmont. Pa. Sam uel Verano, tt Is allozed, stabbed him five Umes, Verano was arrested and committed to fail. Viewlo was remov. ed In a erittea! condition to tho state hosnitet "rhe mes tt fs eald, had long bosn on bad terms, MR. MANNING'S FIGHT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE, |, “How much interest have I taken in reading all you do and say for my people! Wille the task is hard, from the fact that you have to go it alone, I can but say, go on. To stop the fight at this stage would be the thing your opposers wish for and my people, not you, would be the Rreatest sufferers."-C, A, Howze, Birmingham, Ala, “Tread your address and it ts all right and just like you. You are Woing great good for our people and ‘we feel It in the South. We aro praying for you, for if there is any- thing this raco ‘needs, it is friends, who are not afraid to speak thelr honest convietions."—Roy. 'T. W. Walker, D. D., pastor Shiloh Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. “I see that you aro still defending tho right and coneemning tho wrong. I congratutate you on your fairness and indomitable. manhood, whether in the North or South, Some day, jin the distant future, many will rise up and say these are the fullliments fof Joseph Manning’s prophecies. You are doing a good work, Koep at it.” Bishop J. W. Alstork, Montgomery Ala. | “Tread with a grat deal of cure your foreeful speech in Bethel |Chureh, New York. Nothing but the pitiless’ publicity you are giving pe- Hitieal affairs in’ the South will bring ‘abont the much needed reforms there You do not speak as a theorist, but as one having first. hand knowledge.” py gorse A. Douglass, Hsa., Newark, nals | “Mr. Manning's speech in pamphlet edition, may be had, at 25 cents the ‘cony by application to Joseph C. Man- ning, 214 West 34th Street, New ‘York City. FLORENCE NEWS AND NOTES. FLORENCE, S. C., Sept. 10.—Mr. 8. G. Graham, of Hemmingway, S. GQ. spent a day in our city recently, Mr. Graham ts one of the wealthiest Negroes of the county. He remem- vers war times. He helped hide food from Sherman's army. He runs a large farm an has 962 acres of land and has a large store also, He cleared $1,000 on his tobacco this year. Mr. Poter Higgins, of St. Augus- tine, Fla. passed through here on- route to Winston-Salom, N. C. Mr. Joo Blackwoll, of ‘Timmons- villo, 8. C., a-farmer, was through hora’ reaantly. Miss Mary Kennedy, of New York is visiting her {1 mothor, at Charles- ton, 8. C Mr, John 'T. Freeman passed here last Sunday morning, with the body of his son, Elijah, who dled Friday, Soptember' 7th. He and his son were coopers by treGe and lived well, judging from his pocket. book. Mr. P. W. Polete, who has invented an ante-aireraft, machine gun has gone to Chattanooga, Tenn. — Mr. Poleto is hopeful of his invention, Tho U.S. Government ts planning to purchase the gun, At a call meeting of the oMelal board of ‘Trinity Baptist. Chureh, Sunday A. M,, after the forning service, a grand rally was set for the third Sunday in October to pay off a dobt and repair the roof of the church and other improvements, Mrs. Smithie Carr, of Wilmington, N. C. passed through hore recently enroute to Boxley. Ga. to visit rel- atives, Mr. Leroy Allen and Miss Herrin, of Darlington, havo returned from Hendersonville, N, C..where they spent the season. Mr. Allen is chief cook at Central’ Hotei, —D, B. WEBSTER. RONCEVERTE NEWS. |} RONCPVERTE, W. VA., Sept. 10. = AMrs. Ryorenco Bowles, Mrs. Taylor and children, on their return from Cincinnati, spent Sunday with Mrs, Honry Morton, \ | Rev. I. H. Carpentor preached at Alderson, W. Va., Sunday. | Mrs, Henry Morton and daughter, spont Sunday with friends and rela- tives at Clifton Forge, Va. | Mrs. I B. Johnson and_brother, aro visiting their mother, Mrs, John Black. | afte, John ataNe J very iu at her home on Main street. \ | Mrs. Joe Marshall \s very {M1 at her home on Lowisburg avenile, | Mr. Clareneo Allon has roturnea home after spending a few days with his mother, Rev. G, H. Carter filled his pulpit in Ronceverte last Sunday. The Baptist. Sunday School piente was held at Caldwell and was largoly attonded, Inst Thursday. Mrs. Proctor’s sister, of Wheoling W. Va. is spending a fow days in Ronceverte. Miss Martha Baldwin has roturnedd home after spending a tew weeks at Allegheny, Va. y Mrs. William Grosse has returned after spending a fow wooks at Charleston, W. Va. and Columbus, ©. and othor Western cities, Mrs. Venco Brickridgo 18 vory ill at her home. Mrs. Julia Smith spent Sunday with Miss Augustine Pattersen, Misses Mary Liggens and Augus- tine Patterson accompanted hor. to hor home at the Whitel Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Miss ‘Vivian spont the latter part of last weok with her mother and /friends in Alderson, W. Va. Mr. Herbert Cooley is taking his vacation In Richmond, Va. ,; Mr. Clarence Early spent two days at Hot Springs, Va. playing ball with the noted Lewisburg team. Mr, Abner Lacy is very 11 with pneninonta and is in the Clifton Forge Hospitul. He was visited last week by his mother, Mrs. William Lacy and also his brother, Mr. Harry Lacy. Mrs. Alex Brown and Miss Helen Woodley attended the fair at the White Sulphur Springs last week. Mr. Alex H, Brown and son spent Sunday with his mother in Alderson W. Va. ‘The men of tho M. B. Church are preparing for a grand timo at their “Men's Day" program on the first Sunday in October. j Mr. and Mrs. Tom Long and sistor are spending a few days in Coving- ton, Va. ' —OLIVER GREEN. URBANNA NOTES. Urbanna, Sept. 10.—The revival meeting has about closed around here now, Sunday being rainy the chureh at tendance was very small, Rev. J. W Tynes, B. D., pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist church preached an able sermon last Sunday, ‘Text: Colossians 3:14; Subject, “The Risen Soul.” Quite a large number was add ed to the church as a result of the re cent revival. Mrs, Elizabeth Perry and daughters Misses Fannie and Lizzie Perry who have been visiting the former's sister have returned to their home in Balti more, Md, Rev, B,C. Johayaa preached an ex celet sermon at the Lebanon Japt Fst chureh last Sunday. On account of He Inclement weath er the sacred concert which was to take place on the Rappahannock river has been postponed. Mr and Mrs. Robt, Fields, Messrs Moses Pield. Willie L. Lewis, Jame: and Eddie Jones, Sawood Burrell and ‘Misses Matilda ‘Hodges and Copia ‘Pield were visitors In the home of Ur. and Mrs, "6 Roane last Sunday afternoon, | Messrs Charlie. Burrell, Roe Holmes and the Misses Fannie afd ‘Liaate Perry were the guest of Mr. and ‘Mrs. J.B. Johnson last Sunday even: ng. | Wel! the Oyster men are getting their boats and equipment ready for the season, no doubt when you be reading this we will be enjoying a healthful dish of nice select oysters “Planet! for sale at Thornton's the presser. DANVILLE NEWS, Mr, and Mrs. Aaron Halrst of Almagro wish to announce.the . trl: ‘Age of their daughter Mabel to Mr. Ernest Humphrey, May 21,-17. The ceremony was performed by’ Rov. J. R. Cooper in the presence of a few intimate friends. ‘They are now. mak. ing their home in Roxboro, N, C. The home of the groom, Mr. Willis Williams of Paxton St. and Mrs. Phebo Alexander of Lynch: burs, Va., were united In tharriage Tuesday, ‘Aug. 6. Mr. Royal Grasty of Gay St., and Miss Rosa Hicks were quietly married Wednesday night by Rey. J. Tt. Coop: er at the residence of Prof, W. F. Grasty. ‘The announcement of the marriage of Mr. Herman Williams +3 Miss Ale thea McGill of Summerville, S. C, was quite a surprise to their many Danville friends. The ceremony was performed June 7th, by Rev, Ewer. ‘They are now residing at the groom's /home Upper St. ,.. Mr. Aaron Wheeler and Miss Zella Moorman were united in wedlock Wednesday evening Sept 6th, by Rev. J. R, Cooper, The reception was at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Moorman, Ross St. They received many beautl: ful and costly presents. | Rev. J. R, Cooper has won the name ‘of being the marrying preacher of Danville, | Miss Maude Wilson has returned from Dry Fork and resumed her du- tes in the class room of the Westmore land High School. Mrs. Annie Channoy is visiting rela- tives in Greensboro, N. C., Rev. Parker filled. the pulplt _of the High St. Baptist Church ali day Sunday ‘The pastor, Rey. S. A, Mos- es being on hls vacation. = Mrs, Cella Winslow and her daugh- tor Katherine aro spending some- time in Richmond, Va., Mrs. lize Grasty of’ Holbrook St. won the first prize on her yard in tho city beautifal contest. Mrs, Minnfe Bowers and her little son George of New York are visiting her mother on Holbrook St. ADDS NEW MEMBERS. Richmond, Vp., Sopt. 12,—North Side Lodge No. 164 K. of P., met in ita regular meeting on the abovo date with a good number of its members in attendance. A few membors of Unity Lodge No. 24 K. of P. wero also present, ‘Theso members led‘ by Sir F, H MeKenzle were welcomed in our midst and they rendered us valuable services in assisting us in giving three ranks to three or four members. Sir F. H. MeKenzle was invited to act as ©. C. and to appoint somo of the vis- iting members to fill_ somo of the other stations. Sir B. L, Jackson act od as V. C.; Sir W. 0. H. Jones as Prelato,; Sir C. F. Foster a8 Mast or of Arms, After Sir F. H. McKenzlo saw that the Lodge had a disponsation to work In ‘all three ranks the mom- bers soon completed the work of the Lodge. The members were highly Pleased* with the work accomplished after which refreshments were served. FORT DES MOINES CAMP NEAR HE FINISH. ¢ sete 4 Commissions Will Bo Awarded to Colored Candidates September 15 or 18, All reports of the awarding of com. missions to candidates now at the of ficers training camp at Port Des Moin es will be false until Sept, 12 or later according to the officers at the fort. ‘The schedule of work is prepared up to and including the 12th, and it {s probable, according to the authorities at the camp, that the ranking of the successful men will not be announced from the war department before Sept. 16 or 18. ‘The schedule for next week fs made up almost altogether of field work with skirmishes and sham battles a part of the daily program. Open for: mation practice has been the rule for {wo hours every day for the past thre: weeks, OFFICERS KEPT BUSY. “Examinations are all but conelud ed. None has heen given since last Friday, and the practice under the eyes of the training officers will be the rule until the commissions are finally awarded, - Officers and instructors are so. busy correcting, and reviewing the papers filed in the examination that. they have in many cases been forced tu work until midnight and later. Sev. eral effizers who wore detailed to at tend to the heavier work of tue ex amination have ber tnatie to he preset in personal eommenl of 2h companies hoecause of the time devoi cd to the papers. Five hundred and fifty sntisted men In the nowly established Negro medi cai corps have begun their pretimt nay training at the camp, ‘The men have heen formed into compantes. un. der command of white officers and some advanced workers among the Negro candidates. ‘The medical corps consists of colored men enlisted from all parts of the country, many of them successful practicing | physicians. A few of the doctors who were member: of the officers’ training camp were transferred to the medical corps. ‘TROOPS SING AT PARADE. = Since the removal of the First Iowa Infantry band-te the fair grounds the Negro companies and battalions In their reviews and parades at the Fort have been forced to furnish their own iMusic. Instead of the band playing “The Star-Spangled Banner" on parade, the men sing the national anthem while standing at attention with “present arms.” When the com: panies pass in review varlous military airs are whistled or sung by the sol- Miers, Officers say that the music when made by the men themselves Is an even greater factor than the band niusie In keeping up the spirits of the troops. NEW COMPANY MUSTERED 1N UNIFORM RANK, K, OF P. West Point, Va., September 12.— A new company of thirty-three stal- wart Knights Was mustered into the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, by Col. Roscoe 'C. Mitchell and Capt! George Branch, who were sent here by Brigadior General John Mitchell, Jr. ‘The initlation was conducted under the new ritual and was very interesting. The following officers wore in- stalled: Captain G. 1. Harris, First Lieutenant Silas ‘Tupponce, Second Lieutenant J. 8. White, Right Guard Ray Carter, Left Guard William Lee, Recorder A. R. Walker, Q. M. Ser- geant A, Carmichael, Corporals, Sirs Andrew Roots, B. Phillips, George Davis, A. Bennett, J. Williams, Treasurer, C. H. Clarke, Jr. Sir C. H. Clarke, Sr. was put ‘on detached serviee. Refreshinets were servod after the cromonies and all enjoyed them- selves, ‘The vistors wero domiciled at the residnce of Mrs. Louisa Wall- er and wore dined at Mrs. 0. B. Davis’ establishment. NATIONAL, BAPTIST CONVENTION APPOINTMENTS. The following are the names of Virginia Baptists appointed oy Boards at the recent meeting of the Nation- al Baptist Convention at Muskogee, Oklahoma: Vice-President, ‘Rey. ‘Thomas _H. White, D. D., Clifton Forge, Va.; Forcign Mission Board, Rev. SA. Moses, D. D., Danville, Va.; Home Mission Board, Rev. R. C. ‘Pannell, D. D., Staunton, Va.; National Pub lishing Roard, Roy. B. ‘Tyrrell, D. D, Lynchburg, Va.; | Bducational Board, Rey. B. B. Ricks, D. D., Roan- oke, Va.; National B. Y, P. U. Board Roscoe C, Mitchell, Richmond, Va.; National Benefit Board, Rev. ‘J. A’ Brown, D. D., Staunton, Va.; Com- mittee on Resolution, ‘Rev.’ %. D. Lowis, D. D., Richmond, Va.; State of tho Country, Hon. John Mitchell, Jr Richmond, Va.;_ ‘Temperance, Rev. 8. A. Brown, D. 'D., Petersburg, Va.; Time and Place, Deacon Arm: istond Washington, Richmond, Va.; Permanent Organization, Rev. 8. A. Garland, D. D., Lynchburg, Va.; Obituary, Rev. A. 8. Thomas, D. D., Richmond, Va.; Union Publishing Committee, Rev. Edward D. Lowis, Richmond, Va. MR. UZZIAN MINER'S EFFORT. Tho Mercantilo Calendar Company Mr, Mishael Jones, Pres. announces the publication of a pamphlet, en- titled “The American Negro’ and World Democracy” by Mr, Uzziah Min- er, former momber of the ‘editorial staff of the Howard University Jour- nal. Mr. Miner will bo remembered in connection with tho article publish- ed recently In the columns of this journal and which article and journal were under tho ban of the Post Office Department in this clty for about five days, the latter being finally rovers- xl by tho authorities at Washington. ‘Tho pamphlet solls for ouly ten cents per copy and is intensely in- teresting and should be In the hart, of every devotes of the raco. Address tho publishers at 1105 You St, N, W., Washington, D. GC. Freedom of Speech and of the Press Guaranteed. 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MAN FINDS: nODY: — paeeacttean on, South Markot St. | ‘The mystery surrounding the disap- pearance of Edmund J, Pendleton, sixty years old, ‘anitor of the Ginter ‘Park ‘Public School, last ‘Thursday, morning the Gth {ust., was cleared up last Sunday morning when his body swollen to thrice its natural size, was found in the canal at the foot of South ‘Thirteenth Street. The discovery was made by Richard Wood, colored, of bei North Rignteenth Street. wood renorted the matter at once {o Policeman Duggins, and an ambu- lance was called. The body was found to be weighted down with a rock weighing fifty pounds. ‘The rock was attached tq the corpse with a rope tied about the neck. Coroner Whitfield was notified and he viewed the body, directing that it be taken to the mor: gue, pending an investigation relative to its identity. News goon came to the coroner that Pendleton was missing from his home 410 Belvidere Street, and soon rela- tives came to the morgue and indentl- fied the body as that of the late Janl- tor of the Ginter Park School. Upon learning this, the coroner gave Intruc- tions that the budy be sent to Chris- tan's undertaking establishment. Tt was surmised by the police that Pendleton, for some reason known on- ly to himself, decided to end his life, and that he ‘studied out a method that would make the tragedy vold of the spectacular. He 1s thought to have sought a secluded spot on the aide of the canal and to have tied the rock to his neck and then to havo plunged in the water. Mra. Vendleton almost collasped when she heard of her husband's trag- fo death Inst night. Sho said she knew of no reason for his act. WINCHESTER NOTES. WINCHESTER, VA., Sept. 11.— Mrs. M. Estelio Hall is visiting Mis FIVE Bettie Jackson on South Market St. ‘Mrs, Hall is a well known’ music teacher of Baltimore. Miss Irene Brown was the guest ata party given in her honor at the home of Mr. Samuel E. Bannister, on 8. Market street. Miss Jennie Grigsby, of White Post is the guest of Miss Frances Moton on N. Cocil atreet. Miss Lelia Virginia Wilkerson and Mr. Walter ‘Thomas, both of Union- town, were married at the parsonage of Mt, Carmel F’, B. Chureh, the Rev. W. P. Fisher officiating. ‘They loft Tor Hagerstown on the-G. V. to spend their honeymoon. ‘They will make their ohme here. Mr. Wugene Walker has returned from Philadelphia, Pa. ‘Tho followig dologates for tho yearly mecting wero elected: Mrs. Fannie Douglas, Mrs. John Quiott, Mrs. R. D. Jenning, Mrs. Ben Ride- ont, Mrs. John Jofferson, Miss Emma Parks, Messrs. M. L. Brown, Charles Lampkin, M. B. Cooke, A. Caroy, John Morris, Henry Walker. Mrs. Mertha Reed, of New York is the guest of Mrs. Bettio Coxon, N. Marhot street. 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