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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 45 BAPTIST CONVENTION AT MUSKOGEE (By Robert Chapman Juddins, D. D.) The National Baptist Convention Rev, E. C. Morris, D. D., President, met in Muskogee, Okla., September 14th to 11th, 1917. The southern states sent large delegations and mess engers came from almost every section of the country. The men's con- vention was held in a large auditorium, while the Women's National Baptist Convention presided over by Mrs. Layton met in one of the local Baptist Churches THE WELCOME The welcome extended the convention was eloquent and hearty. Local business men and ministers as well as the mayor and the governor of the state delivered able, ringing welcome addresses that elicited wide applause, Rev. C. T. Walker, D. D., of Augusta, Ga., responded to the welcome addresses and maintained his former record for eloquence and readiness of expression. Muskogee is a thriving little city and rare opportunities are presented the colored people for material advancement. THE CONVENTION The convention was one of the most largely attended of any session in his history, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and other sur rounding states sending unusually large delegations. The election of officers resulted in the election of Dr. E. C. Morris, president; Dr. W. G. McKinley, president large; Professor R. B. Hudson, professor; Dr. J. G. Klutes, D. D. treasurer with all the minor officers reelected SERMONS AND ADDRESSES The sermons and the addresses by Dr E C. Morris, Rev J. W. Ribbens, D D., Rev D. F. Thompson, D D., Rev E. W. Johnson, D D., Rev W. A. Bowren, D D., Rev W. A. Creditt D, D. were all able and eloquent deliverances and stirred the great audiences. It is a great tribute to the gospel that throughout the session of the convention the sermons drew the largest audiences and held the closest attention. INDERTEDNESSES. It was a great surprise to many of the delegates to learn that the convention was more than seven thousand and dollars in debt. Most of this money was for running expenses of the convention and salaries to the president and secretary. The convention owed Dr. E. C. Morris $4214.30 and secretary Hudson $2759.18. Dr. Morris was paid $1800.00 and secretary Hudson $600.00. Other smaller debts were paid until the money raised (about $1000.00) was disbursed. It is evident that the machinery of the convention was money and that to allay the persistent complaints and murmurings some dial changes must be made. The Officers of this convention have had full control of the disbursements of the convention funds and therefore are respoible for the piling up of these debts. SPIRIT OF REFORM There is a persistent, stubborn, surging spirit of reform in this convention that if intelligently directed will remedy many evils and make the convention a great power for good. For a decade a few men, on platform and in press have kept 0.2 calling for these reforms, and notwithstanding they have been hooted down and jeered at by the public labor in an awakened conscience and a spirit that is determined on better things. PEACE AND REUNION In September 1915, the National Baptist Convention met in Chicago, IL. For several years the sessions had been unduly stormy and on every hand contention was rife. The storm that gathered in Chicago broke in all its fury upon the Denomination and when the skies had cleared there were two National Baptist Convention (Continued on the eighth page). WORTHINESS OF COMMUNITY Mr. James Cannan of Long Branch N. J. has sent us a drawing of a flag that he wishes to be adopted as the flag of the Sons of Ethiopia. The design is very attractive, but the question is, how many citizens of color would he be able to rally under its folds? We shall be pleased to hear from some of our leaders upon this phase of an all important question. In the meantime, we shall keep the drawing for future reference and for future coagitation. WRITE EM. GIRLS Soldiers Wish to Correspond With Attable Girls. Company, L. 25th Infantry, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, September 3, 1917. Sir.—On reading your paper we will have to compliment you on it being a fine paper and we are asking you a favor, which we are sure you will grant, by putting a few items in your paper. Girls, we are very lonely, and would like to have a few words of consolation by writing us a letter or post card, upon which we will send our pictures by request. Girls, we are way over here in the tropics of the Pacific, on the Island of Oahu. Colored girls are very rare, the native girls are very queer and its hard for us to be contented, so, a word of consolation will be highly appreciated. Your letters will be of great importance to us, as we, being colored soldiers, have to hold our own, and you know how a colored man has to work to hold his place in this world. Now, in return we will write you nice and sweet letters and also send our photos. Signed: Privates: LUTHER SANDERS WILLIE L. BOONE MURIEL COTTON GEORGE T. DEHAVEN ISAAC JOHNSON Company L. 25th Infantry, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION AT SOLDIERS' HOME Hampton, Va., Sept. 17—The National Memorial Association (Incorporated). Washington, D. C., held quite an interesting patriotic meeting Sunday, the 16th inst. in the Soldier's Home Harpton, Virginia under the auspices of Company H, colored. Governor Joseph S. Smith, commandant of the home, presided. In his introductory remarks, he paid a high compliment to the valor, patriotism, and suffering of the colored soldiers and sailors who fought in all the wars of our country. The object of the meeting was to assist in raising money to erect a national monument in the city of Washington, D. C., for which the Hon L. C. Dyer, of Missouri, has introduced a bill in Congress, House Bill No. 18721, asking Congress to appropriate $100,000 toward its erection. Attorney J. Thomas Hewin, of Richmond, Va., Mr. Ferdinand D. Lee, of Washington, D. C. and Capt. F. B. Ray, of company H spoke in bedding terms of the great needed and appreciated work and the interest taken by the Governor of the Home, Sergeant W. S. Wilson, of Company H, manager of the work in the home has handled the work to the satisfaction of the entire home. The Home Band, under the leadership of Prof. Greenwood furnished excellent music. MARTIN—MOORE Mrs. Marion W. Bowser announces the marriage of Miss Lillian Leuise Moore of Richmond, Va., to Mr. Benj H. Martin of Chicago, Il., Thursday morning Sept. 6, 1917, 10:45, at her residence 3431 South Park Ave., Chicago, Il., Rev. Moses H. Jackson, officiated. The bride and groom left immediate ly for Indianapolis on their bridal trip. WITT->JACKSON Mrs. Witt announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Lacille Elizabeth to Mr. Robert Jackson, Aug. 30, 1917, 9 P. M. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Bing. The reception was in Washington, D. C., Sept. 19, 1917. COLEMAN—HOWELL Mr. and Mrs. C. Howell request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Rosa H. to Mr. W. H. Coleman, Thursday evening October 4. 1917, at 9 o'clock at 801 12 N. Fourth St., All friends are invited No cards. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends and acquaintances for their kindness and most appreciated gifts received on our reception evening. With gratitude, JESSE and JOSEPHINE, LEROUGH Looking to rent something? See Cephas. Office, 535 1-2 N. 2nd St. Telephone, Ran. 588. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 ALL NATION'S SMALL TRIUMBLE AND QUARRE FROM MY SPORT, UNTIL, ENOUGH. PREJUDICE, RACE-HATRED, AUDRICE AND ALL OTHER MIGHTY LIONS ARE CAST ASUNDER. THEN SMALL MY FAIR DRAUGHT, PERGE COME. BAPTIST CONVENTION AT ATLANTA Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5—Patriotic isming, mingled with plantation and jubilee melodies marked the opening of the 55th annual session of the National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated) which was called to order by E. P. Jones of Vicksburg, Miss., and which was welcomed by a host of dignitaries among the Baptists and other denominations of the city and THE state Negro Baptists from every state in the Union are here. The sessions were called to order at ten o'clock this morning in the Friendship Baptist Church. The entire city is giving a cordial welcome and the people of the state of Georgia have joined in with the Atlanta folks and are here in large numbers, making this one of the most largely attended metings among the religious people of the state that has been held for years. This convention is made up of the membership among, the Baptist churches said to be two million,' five hundred thousand. Every state in the Union and many of the West Indies Islands, Canada and Mexico have sent representation. The work to be done this week is purely missionary and educational. The convention is composed of seven boards, into whose hands this special work is committed during the year. These boards are presided over by their respective officers. Their reports will be made beginning today and concurrent throughout the week. The officers of the convention are E. P. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss., pres- ident; Robt, Mitch, of Lexington, Ky., Vice president; T. J. King, Rich- mond, Va., secretary; assistant se- cretaries. Charles J. W. Boyd, Texas; Hume, Tennessee; Charles H. Clowe, Indiana; W. H. Woods, Okla- hona;恤圣斯, Hancec, South Carolina; treasurer, John Thomas, Illinois; auditor, J. R. Bock- ham, Missouri; with the following boards and their officials: Foreign Mission Board, Ellert W. Moore, Columbus, O., chairman, R. Kemp, Charleston, S. C., secretary: Home WAR KING SPIR ALL NATION QUARREL FROM PREJUDICE, RA OTHER MIGHTY THEN SHALL MY Mission Board J. P. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark., chairman. J. D. Brooks, secretary. Educational Board, G. L. Prince, St. Joseph, Mo. chairman; David Abner, Jr., Conroe, Texas, secretary; Publishing Board, C. H. Clark Nashville Teen, chairman, R. H. Boyd, Nashville, Jenn., secretary; Baptist Young People's Union Society Board, L. Drane, Chicago, III, chlgrman, S. R. Prince, Fort Worth, Texas, secretary; Old Minister's Benefit Board, Boston J. Prince, Chicago, III, chlgrman, J. H. Winn, Fl. Worth Texas secretary; Laymen's Missionary Movement, Wm. Harrison Oklahoma City, Okla., president, W. B. Currle, Viickburg, Mlsa., secretary; Mrs. Georgia DeLaptiste Ashburn; President, Mrs. M. A. B. Fuller Austin, Tex., corresponding secretary T woman's Auxiliary Convention Continued on Page 4. WHITE OFFICERS ARE CRITICISED WHITE OFFICERS ARE CRITICISED Superintendent of Police Unit To Hold Office—Peculiar State of Affairs In Houston, Tex. Houston, Tex., Sept. 14,—Negro solvers of the Twenty-fourth F. S. In factory had planned a riot of blood shed among the white residents of Houston, two days before the deadly outbreak occurred, which cost the BEAKS. N'Y SHALL TROUBLE AND MY SPORT, UNTIL ENVY. E-HATRED, AUHANCE AND ALL LUNKS ART, CAST, ASUNGER. FAR DROUGHTER, PERGE'COME. lives of fifteen Houston citizens, August 23, according to the reports of the civilian board of inquiry which reported to the City Council to night. The report also criticises Superintendent of Police Brock for "his inability to enforce discipline" among the police and declares that "he is not qualified for the position he holds." ARRESTS CAUSED TROUBLE The committee is of the opinion that the riot undoubtedly was precipitated by two arrests of Negroes made by the police, "although sufficient evidence was presented at the hearing to reveal the fact that a serious disturbance was intended by some of the Negro soldiers before leaving Houston and the arrests referred to simply brought it to a head sooner, and per- (Continued On Fourth Page.) PERSONALS AND BRIEFES. Miss Ethel G. Bowler returned to the city last Sunday from Farmville, Va., much improved from the trip. Mrs. Kate S. Thomas and Miss Annie Thomas have returned to the city after a pleasant visit to Newark N. J., and New York. Mrs. H. C. Vaughan and little grand-daughter, Myrth. H. Vaughan, of Farmville, Va. are in the city the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Bowler. Mr. Elijah B. Williams, of the Southside, has returned to the city after spending three days in Norfolk and Portsmouth, on business. It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Brown of 512 N. Third St., will make Boston, Mass., their future home. Their many friends regret much to have them leave Richmond. — Dr. T. T. Fawcett of Lynchburg, Va., called on us this week. He made a "flying trip" to this city, being interested in the Abney Barrett case. Mrs. Cora Eips Hill returned home Friday of last week from Staunton, after spending a delightful time in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allen. Mrs. Hill is much improved in health. Mrs. Marion Jones Taylor and her two sons, Abbey Jr., and James S. Taylor have returned to the city after spending a pleasant summer, in Lunenburg, Va., the guest of Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Quarles. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Randolph, of South Norwalk, Conn. spent two weeks with his mother, Mrs. Martha Reed, of 10 E. Jackson-street. He is headwaiter in one of the leading hotels. Mrs. Lula Cobcill and her son, flaoiid, returned from Claremont, Va. last Saturday after a week's visit Mr. Lindsay W. Hill had a successful trip of three weeks, via auto from Richmond, through New York State, Maine and Canada. He left Montreal Tuesday, reaching Richmond Saturday afternoon looking well. Mr. Hill is an auto expert. Mrs. Mary Smith Frayzer visited her brother, Mr. Win B. Smith, of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. She was accompanied by Mr. Smith's little son, Master Reginald. They also spent a few days with Mr. Chas. coiller of Coxington, Va. Mr. John Hickmom, formerly of South Richmond, but now of New York City, returned home last Saturday after a ten days' visit to his old home town. He was delightfully entertained by his brother, Mr. Floyd Hickmom, on the night of September 14th. Refreshments were served abundantly and all had a "down-home" time. Mrs. Edith L. Bradford left the city Wednesday of this week for Atlantic City, N. J. While there she will be the guest of her brothers, Messrs. Stanard R. and Walter T. Williams. She plans to join Mrs. Ella O. Walter, who is returning from Providence, R. L. and visit New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. before returning to Richmond. Richmond, Va., Sept. 18—Mr. C. P. Hayes left the city on Monday for Baltimore, Md., to attend the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Association of the Amature Athletic Union of America, as representative of the Spartan Literary and Athletic Association. Mr. Hayes was the recipient of many courtesies while in Baltimore, and reports an enthusiastic and profitable meeting, Mr. M. Alphonso Norrell, President of the Spartan's was elected to the Board of Managers. GONE BEFORE. Sister of D. J. Taylor Passes Away Mrs. Mary Laws, sister of D. J. Taylor, black smith of Noel, Va., departed this life September 13th, at 9:40 A M. During her illness she was sensitive of serving the Lord all the way through. She was taken sick May 1st 1917 and her brother, D. J. Taylor visited her in her sick home, May 15th, at 1322 N, 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa., where she departed this life. Mrs. Mary G. Laws I have to mourn their loss a husband, three children, a mother, three sisters and two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. Sleep on dear sister we love you But Jesus loves you best. Her Two Brothers. D. J. TAYLOR and A. H. TAYLOR, Noel, Va. Sleep on dear darling. Mother loves you. But Jesus loves you best. My loss is Heaven's gain. Her Mother. Mrs. J. W. WATSON. PRICE, FIVE CENTS GIVE COLORED QUOTA BIG SEND OFF Plans are being consummated by which it is hoped to give our boys a big send-off when they leave for Camp Lee to undergo intensive training for the work to be done "Somewhere in France". It has been a long while since we have had colored soldiers to honor and some citizens are arranging to make good the opportunity now offered. The Fifth District Exemption Board has appointed Captain John C. Dabney to whip the selected men of that district into some semblance of military shape and also to arrange a demonstration. Captain Dabney is a former officer of the far-formed Pythian Cadet Battalion of this city and is well versed in things military. He has issued a call for the selected men to report every afternoon at Second and Leigh streets, at 5:20 o'clock to receive drill practice. Crowds congregate at Second and Leigh every evening to see the Nationa Army men go through their evolutions. Captain Dabney is assisted by officers from the Pythian Cadet Battalion and good results are being obtained. All of the drafted men in list below and as many from other districts who may, are asked to come out. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca T. Mitchell a committee of (Continued on Fifth Page.) WALKER CASE POSTPONED The suit of Mrs. Mugg'le L. Walker against the Standard Accident, 1956 Insurance Company of Detroit, loan, for $7,500,000 did not come to trial. Last Thursday in the Law and Equity Court of this city on account of the indisposition of the plaintiff, who was said to have been in Atlantic City, N. J. It is not now known when the case will be called for a hearing. L. O. KING DAVID TO OBSERVE NINTH ANNIVERSARY The ninth anniversary of the Imperial Order of King David will be observed at the first Baptist Church Sunday evening, September 23, at 3:30 o'clock. The annual sermon will be delivered by Rev. W. T. Johnson. D. D. pastor. Other numbers on the program will be a paper by David and a solo by Mrs. Milbred Cresson in addition to interesting exercises. The members of the Order are requested by the G. W. Ruler, Mrs. A. G. Thompson, to meet in the basement of the church at 2:30 o'clock. RACE CONGRESS The Natoinal Race Congress of the United States Ill meet in its 2nd annual session at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, D.C. Oct 3rd, and 4th, 1917. One phase of the Race condition in this country will be discussed including the East St. Louis, the Chester, Va. riots and the Immigration of the colored people North. Twenty one states were represented in the last congress. The officers of the congress are appealing to the race loving people in every state to see to it that they are represented in Oct. The Color I people are aroused in this country as never before, and many of the prominent men of the race will be present. The churches, ministers' conferences, fraternal organizations, business organizations and all other organizations within the race that have for their object the upfit of our people are requested to send a representative to this congress. Any race loving man or woman is also invited (Race Papers Please Copy). Rev. M. W. W. D. Norman, Washington, D. C. Chr. Executive Committee, Lawyer W. Calvin, Chase, Wash. D. C. National Organizer; Rev. W. A. Taylor, Corr. Sec'y; Rev W. H. Jernagin, Pres. 430 Q. St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Rev. Wm. Alexander, Sec'y; Baltimore Md., Rev J. C. Austin, Pittsburg, Pa., Chr. Special Committee of the Baptist Jubilee Convention of Va. Will Present Mammoth Spectacle, Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield is hard at work on the caste of a mammoth play which is to be presented here this Fall. Over 200 people will be in this play, which is her composition Looking to rent something? See Cephas, Office, 535 1-2 N. 2nd St. Telephone, Ran. 588. 8IX HYPERNET BIG TIMBER (Continued from Page Three.) fired to anticipate. It was a pale, weary eyed young woman, dressed in the same plain tailored suit she had worn into the country, who was cuddled to Mrs. Howe's plump bosom when she went aboard the Panther for the first stage of her journey. A slaty bank of cloud spread a somber film across the sky. When the Panther laid her ice sheathed guard-rall against the Hot Springs wharf the sun was down. The lake spread gray and lifeless under a gray sky, and Stella Benton's spirits were steeped in that same dour color. CHAPTER VIII. And So They Were Married. SPRING had waved her transforming wand over the lake region before the Fyfes came home again. All the low grounds, the creeks and hollows and banks were bright green with new leaved birch and alder and maple. Stella stood on the Hot Springs wharf looking out across the emerald deep of the lake, thinking soberly of the contrast. Something, she reflected, some part of that desolate winter, must have seeped to the very roots of her being to produce the state of mind in which she embarked upon that matrimonial voyage. A little of it chung to her still. She could look back at those months of loneliness, of inmeasurable toll and numberless indignities, without any qualms. There would be no repetition of that. The world at large would say she had done well. She herself in her most cynical moments could not deny that she had done well. Materially life promised to be generous. She was married to a man who quietly but inexorably got what he wanted, and it was her good fortune that he wanted her to have the best of everything. She was not sorry she had married him. If they had not set out blind in a fog of sentiment, as he had once put it, nevertheless they got on. She did not love him, not as she defined that magic word, but she liked him, was mildly proud of him. When he kissed her, if there were no mud thrill in it, there was at least a passive contentment in having inspired that affection, for he left her in no doubt as to where he stood, not by what he said, but wholly by his actions. He joined her now. The Panther, glossy black as a crow's wing with fresh paint, lay at the pler end with their trunks aboard. Stella surveyed those marked with her initials, looking them over with a critical eye, when they reached the deck. "How in the world did I ever manage to accumulate so much stuff, Jack?" she asked quizzically. "I didn't realize it. We might have been doing Europe with souvenir collecting our principal aim by the amount of our baggage." Fyfe smiled without commenting. They sat on a trunk and watched Roaring Springs fall astern, dwindle to a line of white dots against the great green base of the mountain that rose behind it. "It's good to get back here," he said at last, "to me, anyway. How about it, Stella? You haven't got so much of a grievance with the world in general as you had when we left, eh?" "No, thank goodness," she responded fervently. "You don't look as if you had," he observed, his eyes admiringly upon her. Presently they were drawing in to Coquitlam point, with the weather bleached buildings of Fyfe's camp showing now among the upspringing second growth scrub. Fyfe went forward and spoke to the man at the wheel. The Panther swung offshore. "Why are we going out again?" Stella asked. "Oh, just for fun," Fyfe smiled. He sat down beside her and slipped one arm around her waist. In a few A. B. C. "Look around and tell me what you think of the House of Fyfe." minutes they cleared the point. Stella was looking away across the lake at the deep cleft where Silver creek split a mountain range in twain. "Look around," said he, "and tell me what you think of the House of Fyfe." There it stood, snow white, broad porch, a new house reared upon the old stone foundation she remembered. The noon sun struck flashing on the windows. About it spread the living green of the grassy square. Behind that towered the massive, dark hued background of the forest. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "What wizard of construction did the work. That was why you fussed so long over those plans in Los Angeles. I thought it was to be this summer or maybe next winter. I never dreamed you were having it built right away." "Well, isn't it rather nice to come home to?" he observed. "It's dear, a home looking place," she answered. "A beautiful site, and the house fits, that white and the red tiles. Is the big stone fireplace in the living room, Jack?" "Yes, and one in pretty nearly every other room besides," he nodded. Wood fires are cheerful." The Panther turned her nose shoreward at Fyfe's word and soon slid in to the float. Jack and Stella went ashore. Lefty Howe came down to meet them. Thirty-five or forty men were stringing away from the camp, back to their work in the woods. Some waved greeting to Jack Fyfe, and he waved back in the hall fellow fashion of the camps. "How's the frau, Lefty?" he inquired after they had shaken hands. "Fine. Down to Vancouver. Sister's slick," Howard answered inconically, "House's all shipshape. Wanta eat here or up there?" "Here at the camp until we get straightened around," Fyfe responded. "Tell Pollock to have something for us in about half an hour. We'll go up and take a look." Howe went in to convey this message, and the two set off up the path. A sudden spirit of impishness made Jack Fyfe sprint. Stella gathered up her skirt and raced after him, but a sudden shortness of breath overtook her, and she came panting to where Fyfe had stopped to wait. "You'll have to climb hills and row and swim so you'll get some wind," Fyfe chuckled. "Too much easy living, lady." She smiled without making any reply to this sally, and they entered the house—the House of Fyfe, that was to be her home. If the exterior had pleased her, she went from room to room inside with growing amazement. Fyfe had finished from basement to attic without a word to her that he had any such undertaking in hand. Yet there was scarcely a room in which she could not find the visible result of some expressed wish or desire. Often during the winter they had talked over the matter of furnishings, and she recalled how unconsciously she had been led to make suggestions which he had stored up and acted upon. For the rest she found her husband's taste beyond criticism. There were drapes and rugs and prints and odds and ends that any woman might be proud to have in her home. "You're an amazing sort of a man, Jack," she said thoughtfully. "Is there anything you're not up to? Even a Chinese servant in the kitchen. It's perfect." "I'm glad you like it," he said. "I hoped you would." "Who wouldn't?" she cried impulsively. "I love pretty things. Walt till I get done rearranging." They introduced themselves to the immobile featured Celestial when they had jointly and severally inspected the house from top to bottom. Sam Foo gazed at them, listened to their account of themselves and disappeared. From that day on Stella found in her hands the relms over a smooth, frettonless, well ordered existence. Sam Foo proved himself such a domestic treasur as only the trained oriental can be. When the labor of an eight room dwelling proved a little too much for him he urbanly said so. Thereupon at Fyfe's suggestion he imported a fellow countryman, another bland, silent footed model of efficiency in personal service. Thereafter Stella's task of supervision proved a sinecure. A week or so after their return in sorting over some of her belongings she came across the cheek Charlie had given her—that $270 which represented the only money she had ever earned in her life. She studied it a minute, then went out to where her husband sat perched on the veranda rail. "You might cash this, Jack," she suggested. He glanced at the slip. "Better have it framed as a memo-to," he said smiling. "You'll never earn two hundred odd dollars so hard again, I hope. No, I'd keep it if I were you. If ever you should need it it'll always be good—unless Charlie goes broke." There never had been any question of money between them. From the day of their marriage Fyfe had made her a definite monthly allowance, a greater sum than she needed or spent. As a matter of fact, he went on, "I'm going to open an account in your name at the Royal bank so you can negotiate your own paper and pay your own bills by check." She went in and put away the check. It was hers, earned, all too literally, in the sweat of her brow. For all that it represented she had given service three-fold. If ever there came a time when that hunger for independence which had been fanned to a flame in her brother's kitchen should demand appearance—she pulled herself up short when she found her mind running upqn such an eventuality. Her future was ordered. She was married—ere long to become a mother. Here lay her home. All about her ties were in process of formation, ties that with time would grow stronger than any shackles of steel, constraining her to walk in certain ways—ways that were pleasant enough, certain of ease if not of delinte purpose. Charlie Benton came to visit them. Strangely enough to Stella, who had never seen him on Roaring lake, at least dressed otherwise than as his loggers, he was sporting a nutty gray suit, he was clean shaven, oxford ties on THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA his feet, a gentleman of leisure in his garb. If he had started on the down grade the previous winter, he bore no sign of it now, for he was the picture of ruddy vigor, clear eyed, brown skinned, alert, bubbling over with good spirits. ```markdown ``` "Why, say, you look like a tourist," Fyfe remarked after an appraising glance. IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "I'm making money, pulling ahead of the game, that's all," Benton retorted cheerfully. "I can afford to take a holiday now and then. I'm putting a million feet a month in the water. That's going some for small fry like me. Say, this house of yours is to the good, Jack. It's got class, outside and in. Makes a man feel as if he had to live up to it, eh? Mackinaws and calked boots don't go with oriental rugs and oak floors." 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. "You should get a place like this as soon as possible, then," Stella put in dryly, "to keep you up to the mark, on edge aesthetically, one might put it." "It's a touch of civilization that looks good to me," Charlie declared. "You can put my private mark on one of C. B. BROWN 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 "You might cash this, Jack," she suggested. those big leather chairs, Jack. I'm going to use it often. All you need to make this a social center is a good looking girl or two—unmarried ones. You watch. When the summer flock comes to the lakes your place is going to be popular." 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 That observation verified Benton's shrewdness. The Fyfe bungalow did become popular. Two weeks after Charlie's visit a lean, white cruiser, all brass and mahogany above her topsides, slid up to the float and two women came at a dignified pace along the path to the house. Stella had met Linda Abbey once, reluctantly under the circumstances, but it was different now—with the difference that money makes. She could play hostess against an effective background, and she did so graciously. Nor was her graciousness wholly assumed. After all, they were her kind of people. Linda, fair haired, perfectly gowned, perfectly manered, sweetly pretty; Mrs. Abbey, forty-odd and looking thirty-five, with that calm self assurance which wealth and position confer upon those who hold it securely. Stella found them altogether to her lik- We Do All Kinds of Job Work ing. It pleasured her, too, that Jack happened in to meet them. He was not a scintillating talker, yet she had noticed that when he had anything to say he never failed to attract, and hold attention. His quiet, impersonal manner never suggested stolidness. And she was too keen an observer to overlook the fact that from a purely physical standpoint Jack Fye made an impression always, particularly on women. Throughout that winter it had not disturbed her. It did not disturb her now when she noticed Linda Abbey's gaze coming back to him with a veiled appraisal in her blue eyes that were so like Fye's own in their tendency to twinkle and gleam with no corresponding play of features. 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. "We'll expect to see a good deal of you this summer," Mrs. Abbey said cordially at leave taking, "We have a few people up from town now and then to vary the monotony of feasting our souls on scenery. Sometimes we are quite a jolly crowd. Don't be formal. Drop in when you feel the inclination." When Stella reminded Jack of this some time later in a moment of boredom, he put the Panther at her disposal for the afternoon. But he would not go himself. He had opened up a new outlying camp and he had directions to issue, work to lay out. "You hold up the social end of the game," he laughed, "I'll hustle logs." So Stella invaded the Abbey-Mohonan precincts by herself and enjoyed it, for she met a houseful of young people from the coast, and in that light hearted company she forgot for the time being that she was married and the responsible mistress of a house. 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 She had the amused experience of beholding Charlie Beenton appear an hour or so before she departed and straightway monopolize Linda Abbey in his characteristically impetuous fashion. Charlie was no diplomat. He believed in driving straight to any goal he selected. "So that's the reason for the outward metamorphosis," Stella reflected. "Well?" Altogether she enjoyed the afternoon hugely. The only fly in her ointment was a greasy smudge bestowed upon her dress—a garment she prized highly—by some cordage collated on the Panther's deck. The black tender had carried too many cargoes of loggers and logging supplies to be a fit conveyance for persons in party attire. She exhibited the soiled gown to Fyfe with due vexation. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia "I hope you'll have somebody scrub down the Panther the next time I want to go anywhere in a decent dress," she said ruefully. "That'll never come out. And it's the prettiest thing I've got too." "Ah, what's the odds!" Fyfe slipped one arm around her waist. "You can buy more dresses. Did you have a good Continued on Page 70. 81X THE YERNET BIG TIMBER (Continued from Page Three.) fired to anticipate. It was a pale, weary eyed young woman, dressed in the same plain tailored suit she had worn into the country, who was cuddled to Mrs. Howe's plump bosom when she went aboard the Panther for the first stage of her journey. A slaty bank of cloud spread a somber film across the sky. When the Panther had her ice sheathed guardrail against the Hot Springs wharf the sun was down. The lake spread gray and lifeless under a gray sky, and Stella Benton's spirits were steeped in that same dour color. CHAPTER VIII. ing wand over the lake region before the Fyfes came home again. All the low grounds, the creeks and hollows and banks were bright green with new leaved birch and alder and maple. Stella stood on the Hot Springs wharf looking out across the emerald deep of the lake, thinking soberly of the contrast. Something, she reflected, some part of that desolate winter, must have seeped to the very roots of her being to produce the state of mind in which she embarked upon that matrimonial voyage. A little of it chung to her still. She could look back at those months of loneliness, of inmeasurable toll and numberless indignities, without any qualms. There would be no repetition of that. The world at large would say she had done well. She herself in her most cynical moments could not deny that she had done well. Materially life promised to be generous. She was married to a man who quietly but inexorably got what he wanted, and it was her good fortune that he wanted her to have the best of everything. She was not sorry she had married him. If they had not set out blind in a fog of sentiment, as he had once put it, nevertheless they got on. She did not love him, not as she defined that muggle power, but she liked him, was mildly proud of him. When he kissed her, if there were no mad thrill in it, there was at least a passive contention in having inspired that affection, for he left her in no doubt as to where he stood, not by what he said, but wholly by his actions. He joined her now. The Panther, glossy black as a crow's wing with fresh paint, lay at the pier end with their trunks aboard. Stella surveyed those marked with her initials, looking them over with a critical eye, when they reached the deck. "How in the world did I ever manage to accumulate so much stuff, Jack?" she asked quizzically. "I didn't realize it. We might have been doing Europe with souvenir collecting our principal aim by the amount of our baggage." Fyfe smiled without commenting. They sat on a trunk and watched Roaring Springs fall astern, dwindle to a line of white dots against the great green base of the mountain that rose behind it. "No, thank goodness," she responded fervently. "You don't look as if you had," he observed, his eyes admiringly upon her. Presently they were drawing in to Cougar point, with the weather bleach-ed buildings of Fyfe's camp showing now among the upspringing second growth scrub. Fyfe went forward and spoke to the man at the wheel. The Panther swung offshore. "Why are we going out again?" Stella asked. "Oh, just for fun," Fyfe smiled. He sat down beside her and slipped one arm around her waist. In a few A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. "Look around and tell me what you think of the House of Fyfe." minutes they cleared the point. Stella was looking away across the lake at the deep cleft where Silver creek split a mountain range in twain. "Look around," said he, "and tell me what you think of the House of Fyfe." There it stood, snow white, broad porch, a new house reared upon the old stone foundation she remembered. The noon sun struck flashing on the windows. About it spread the living green of the grassy square. Behind that towered the massive, dark hued background of the forest. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "What wizard of construction did the work. That was why you fussed so long over those plans in Los Angeles. I thought it was to be this summer or maybe next winter. I never dreamed you were having it built right away." "Well, isn't it rather nice to come home to?" he observed. "It's dear, a honey looking place," she answered. "A beautiful site, and the house fits, that white and the red tiles. Is the big stone fireplace in the living room, Jack?" "Yes, and one in pretty nearly every other room besides," he nodded. Wood fires are cheerful." The Panther turned her nose shoreward at Fyfe's word and soon sled in to the float. Jack and Stella went ashore. Lefty Howe came down to meet them. Thirty-five or forty men were stringing away from the camp, back to their work in the woods. Some waved greeting to Jack Fyfe, and he waved back in the hall fellow fashion of the camps. "How's the frau, Lefty?" he inquired after they had shaken hands. "Fine. Down to Vancouver. Sister's slick," Howard answered inconically, "House's all shipshape. Wanta eat here or up there?" "Here at the camp until we get straightened around," Fyfe responded. "Tell Pollock to have something for us in about half an hour. We'll go up and take a look." Howe went in to convey this message, and the two set off up the path. A sudden spirit of impishness made Jack Fyfe sprint. Stella gathered up her skirt and raced after him, but a sudden shortness of breath overtook her, and she came panding to where Fyfe had stopped to wait. "You'll have to climb hills and row and swim so you'll get some wind," Fyfe clucked. "Too much easy living, indy." She smiled without making any reply to this sally, and they entered the house—the House of Fyfe, that was to be her home. If the exterior had pleased her, she went from room to room inside with growing amazement. Fyfe had finished from basement to attic without a word to her that he had any such undertaking in hand. Yet there was scarcely a room in which she could not find the visible result of some expressed wish or desire. Often during the winter they had talked over the matter of furnishings, and she recalled how unconsciously she had been led to make suggestions which he had stored up and acted upon. For the rest she found her husband's taste beyond criticism. There were drapes and rugs and prints and odds and ends that any woman might be proud to have in her bone. "You're an amazing sort of a man, Jack," she said thoughtfully. "Is there anything you're not up to? Even a Chinese servant in the kitchen. It's perfect." "I'm glad you like it," he said. "I hoped you would." "Who wouldn't?" she cried impulsively. "I love pretty things. Wait till I get done rearranging." They introduced themselves to the immobile featured Celestial when they had jointly and severally inspected the house from top to bottom. Sam Foo gazed at them, listened to their account of themselves and disappeared. From that day on Stella found in her hands the reins over a smooth, fretionless, well ordered existence. Sam Foo proved himself such a domestic treasure as only the trained oriental can be. When the labor of an eight room dwelling proved a little too much for him he urbanly said so. Thereupon at Fyfe's suggestion he imported a fellow countryman, another bland, silent footed model of efficiency in personal service. Thereafter Stella's task of supervision proved a sinecure. A week or so after their return in sorting over some of her belongings she came across the check Charlie had given her—that $270 which represented the only money she had ever earned in her life. She studied it a minute, then went out to where her husband sat perched on the veranda rail. "You might cash this, Jack," she suggested. He glanced at the slip. "Better have it framed as a memo- to," he said smiling. "You'll never earn two hundred odd dollars so hard again, I hope. No, I'd keep it if I were you. If ever you should need it it'll always be good—unless Charlie goes broke." There never had been any question of money between them. From the day of their marriage Fyfe had made her a definite monthly allowance, a greater sum than she needed or spent. "As a matter of fact," he went on, "I'm going to open an account in your name at the Royal bank so you can negotiate your own paper and pay your own bills by check." She went in and put away the check. It was hers, earned, all too literally, in the sweat of her brow. For all that it represented she had given service three-fold. If ever there came a time when that hunger for independence which had been fanned to > flame in her brother's kitchen should demand appraisement—she pulled herself up short when she found her mind running upgain such an eventuallity. Her future was ordered. She was married—are long to become a mother. Here lay her home. All about her ties were in process of formation, ties that with time would grow stranger than any shackles of steel, constraining her to walk in certain ways—ways that were pleasant enough, certain of ease if not of definite purpose. Charlie Beuton came to visit them. Strangely enough to Stella, who had never seen him on Roaring lake, at least dressed otherwise than as his loggers, he was sporting a nutty gray suit, he was clean shaven, oxford ties on THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA hits feet, a gentleman of leisure in his garb. If he had started on the down grade the previous winter, he bore no sign of it now, for he was the picture of ruddy vigor, clear eyed, brown skinned, alert, bubbling over with good spirits. ```markdown ``` "Why, say, you look like a tourist," Fyfe remarked after an appraising glance. IT IS OUR LOSS AND YOUR GAIN! "I'm making money, pulling ahead of the game, that's all," Benton retorted cheerfully. "I can afford to take a holiday now and then. I'm putting a million feet a month in the water. That's going some for small fry like me. Say, this house of yours is all to the good, Jack. It's got class, outside and in. Makes a man feel as if he had to live up to it, eh? Macknaws and caked boots don't go with oriental rugs and oak floors." 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. "You should get a place like this as soon as possible, then," Stella put in dryly, "to keep you up to the mark, on edge aesthetically, one might put it." "It's a touch of civilization that looks good to me," Charlie declared. "You can put my private mark on one of C. G. RANDO 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 "You might cash this, Jack," she suggested. those big leather chairs, Jack. Um going to use it often. All you need to make this a social center is a good looking girl or two—unmarried ones. You watch. When the summer flock comes to the lakes your place is going to be popular." 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 That observation verified Benton's shrewdness. The Fyfe bungalow did become popular. Two weeks after Charlie's visit a lean, white cruiser, all brass and maghogany above her topsides, slid up to the float and two women came at a dignified pace along the path to the house. Stella had met Linda Abbey once, reluctantly under the circumstances, but it was different now—with the difference that money makes. She could play hostess against an effective background, and she did so graciously. Nor was her graciousness wholly as summed. After all, they were her kind of people. Linda, fair haired, perfectly gowned, perfectly mannered, sweetly pretty; Mrs. Abbey, forty-old and looking thirty-five, with that calm self as surance which wealth and position confer upon those who hold it securely. Stella found them altogether to her lik- We Do All Kinds of Job Work ing. It plaged her, too, that Jack happened in to meet them. He was not a scintillating talker, yet she had noticed that when he had anything to say he never failed to attract and hold attention. His quiet, impersonal manner never suggested stolidness. And she was too keen an observer to overlook the fact that from a purely physical standpoint Jack Fyfe made an impression always, particularly on women. Throughout that winter it had not disturbed her. It did not disturb her now when she noticed Linda Abbey's gaze coming back to him with a veiled appraisal in her blue eyes that were so like Fyfe's own in their tendency to twinkle and gleam with no corresponding play of features. 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. "We'll expect to see a good deal of you this summer," Mrs. Abbey said cordially at leave taking. "We have a few people up from town now and then to vary the monotony of feasting our souls on scenery. Sometimes we are quite a jolly crowd. Don't be formal. Drop in when you feel the inclination." When Stella reminded Jack of this some time later in a moment of boredom, he put the Panther at her disposal for the afternoon. But he would not go himself. He had opened up a new outlying camp and he had directions to issue, work to lay out. "You hold up the social end of the game," he laughed. "I'll hustle logs." So Stella invaded the Abbey-Mohan precincts by herself and enjoyed it, for she met a houseful of young people from the coast, and in that lighthearted company she forgot for the time being that she was married and the responsible mistress of a house. 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 She had the amused experience of beholding Charlie Beenton appear an hour or so before she departed and straightway monopolize Linda Abbey in his characteristically impetuous fashion. Charlie was no diplomat. He believed in driving straight to any goal he selected. "So that's the reason for the outward metamorphosis," Stella reflected. "Well?" Altogether she enjoyed the afternoon hugely. The only fly in her ointment was a greasy smudge bestowed upon her dress—a garment she prized highly—by some cordage coiled on the Panther's deck. The black tender had carried too many cargoes of loggers and logging supplies to be a fit conveyance for persons in party attire. She exhibited the soiled gown to Fyfe with due vexation. JOHN MITCHELL JR., PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, 311 N. Fourth Street Long Distance Telephone, Randolph 2213 Richmond, Virginia "I hope you'll have somebody scrub down the Panther the next time I want to go anywhere in a decent dress," she said ruefully. "That'll never come out. And it's the prettiest thing I've got too." "Ah, what the oids!" Fyfe slipped one arm around her waist. "You can buy more dresses. Did you have a good --- Continued on Page Seven. THE PLANET SATURDAY.....Sept. 22, 1917. Continued from Sixth Page Citie? That's the thing! That ruined gown, however, subsequently produced an able, forty foot, cruising launch, powerfully engineed, easy in a sea and comfortably, even luxuriously fitted as to cabin. With that for their private use the Panther was left to her appointed service, and in the new boat Fyfe and Stella spent many a day abroad on Roaring lake. They fished together, explored nooks and bays up and down its forty miles of length, climbed hills together like the bear of the ancient ripe, to see what they could see. And the Waterbug served to put them on intimate terms with their neighbors, particularly the Abbey crowd. The Abbeys took to them wholeheartly. Fyfe himself was highly esteemed by the elder Abbey, largely. Stella suspected, for his power on Roaring lake. Abbey pere had built up a big fortune out of thimber. He respected any man who could follow the same path to success. Therefore he gave Fyfe double credit—for making good and for a personality that could not be overlooked. Summer slipped by. There were dances, informal little hops at the Abbey domicile, return engagements at the Fyfe bungalow, laughter and music and Japanese lanterns strung across the lawn. There were tea and tennis and murmuring rivers of small talk. And amid this Stella Fyfe flitted graciously, esteeming it her world, a fair measure of what the future might be. Viewed in that light it seemed passable enough. Later, when summer was on the wane, she withdraw from much of this activity, spending those days when she did not sit barred in a book out on the water with her husband. When October ushered in the first of the fall rains they went to Vancouver and took apartments. In December her son was born. CHAPTER IX. A Close Call and a New Acquaintance. WITH the recurrence of spring. Fyte's household transferred itself to the Roaring into bungalow again. Stella found the change welcome, for Vancouver weared her. It was a little too crude, too much as yet in the transitory stage, in that clybobledhoy period which overtakes every village that shoots up overwitfully to a city's dimensions. So she was quite as well pleased when a mild April saw them domiciled at home again. In addition to Sam Foo and Fend Shu, there was a nurse for Jack junior. Stella did not suggest that; Fyte insisted on it. He was quite proud of his boy, but he did not want her chained to her baby. So, apart from voluntary service on behalf of Jack junior, she was free as of old to order her days as she pleased. Yet that small morsel of humanity demanded much of her time, because she released through the maternal floodgates a part of that passionate longing to bestow love where her heart willed. Sometimes she took issue with herself over that wayward tendency. By all the rules of the game she should have loved her husband. He was like a rock, solid, enduring, patient, kind and generous. He stood to her in the most intimate relation that can exist between a man and a woman. But she never fooled herself. She never had so far as Jack Fyfe was concerned. She liked him, but that was all. He was good to her, and she was grateful. Nevertheless she had recurring perlods when moodiness and ill stilled discontent got hold of her. Sometimes she stole out along the cliffs to sit on a mossy boulder, staring with absent eyes at the distant hills, and sometimes she would slip out in a canoe to lie rocking in the lake swell, just dreaming, filled with a passive sort of regret. She could not change things now, but she could not help wishing she could. Fyfe warned her once about getting offshore in the canoe. Rouring lake, bent in the shape of a boomerang be- Charley Doesn't Like Luke As a Valet NEXT TIME I HIRE A VALET ILL HIRE A JAP INSTEAD OF A PEANUT, PICK UP MY SHOES IT SLIPPED Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers LISTEN, LUKE, TAKE MY SHOES TO TOWN, AN' GET'EM HALF- SOLED GET ME! HALF- SOLED Tween two mountain ranges, was subject to squalls. Sudden bursts of wind would shoot down its length like blasts from some monster funnel. Stella knew that. She had seen the glassy surface torn into whitecaps in ten minutes, but she was not afraid of the lake nor the lake winds. She was hard and strong. The open, the clean mountain air and a measure of activity had built her up physically. She swam like a seal. Out in that sixteen foot canoe she could detach herself from her world of reality, lie back on a cushion and lose herself starling at the sky. She puld little heed to Kyfe's warning beyond a smiling assurance that she had no intention of courting a watery end. So one day in mid-July she waved a farewell to Jack junior, crowing in his nurse's lap on the bank, paddled out past the first point to the north and, pillowing her head on a cushioned thwart, gave herself up to dreamy contemplation of the sky. There was scarcity a ripple on the lake. A fault breath of an offshore breeze fanned her, drifting the canoe at a small pace She Was Being Beaten Farther Out and Down the Lake. out from hnd. Stella luxuriated in the quiet afternoon. A party of campers cruising the lake had tarried at the bungalow till after midnight. Jack Fyfe had risen at dawn to depart for some distant logging point. Stella, once wakened, hld risen and breakfasted with him. She was tired, drowsy, content to lie there in pure physical relaxation. Lying so, before she was aware of it, her eyes closed. She wakened with a start at a cold touch of moisture on her face—rain, great pattering drops. Overhead an omnithously black cloud hid the face of the sun. The shore, when she looked, lay a mile and a half abound. To the north and between her and the land's rocky line was a darkening of the lake's surface. Stella reached for her paddle. The black cloud let fall long, gray streamers of rain. There was scarcely a stirring of the air, but that did not deceive her. There was a growing chill, and there was that broken line sweeping down the lake. Behind that was wind, a summer gate, the black squall dreaded by the Slwashes. She had to buck her way to shore through that. She drove hard on the paddle. She was not afraid, but there rose in her a peculiar tensed up feeling. Ahead lay a tiklah bit of business. The sixteen foot canoe dwarfed to pitiful dimensions in the face of that snarling line of wind harried water. She could hear the distant murmur of it presently, and gusty puffs of wind began to strike her. Then it swept up to her, a ripple, a chop and very close behind that the short, steep, lake combers with a wind that blew off the tops as each wave head broke in white, bubbling froth. Immediately she began to lose ground. She had expected that, and it did not alarm her. If she could keep the canoe bow on there was an even chance that the squall would blow itself out in half an hour. But keeping the canoe bow on proved a task for stout arms. The wind would catch all that forward part which thrust clear as she topped a sea and twist it aside, tending always to throw her broadside into the trough. Spray began to splash aboard. The seas were so short and steep that the canoe would rise over the crest of a tall one and dip its bow deep in the next, or leap clear to strike with a slap that made Stella's heart jump. She had never undergone quite that rough and tumble experience in a small craft. She was being beaten farther out and down the lake, and her arms were growing tired. Nor was there any shackling of the wind The combined rain and slaps of spray sonked her thoroughly. A puddle gathered about her knees in the blege, sloshing fore and aft as the craft pitched, killing the natural buoyancy of the canoe, so that she dove harder. Stela took a chance, ceased paddling and bathed with a small can. She got a tossing that made her head swim while she lay in the trough. And when THE RIOHMOND PLANET, RIOHMOND, VIRGINIA she tried to head up info it again one comber bigger than its fellows reared up and slapped a barrel of water inboard. The next wave swamped her. Sunk to the clamps. Stella held fast to the top sides, crouching on her knees, immersed to the hips in water that struck a chill through her flesh. She had the wit to remember and act upon Jack Fyte's coaching—namely, to sit tight and hang on. No sea that ever ran can sink a canoe. Wood is buoyant. So long as she could hold on the submerged craft would keep her head and shoulders above water. But it was numbing and cold. Fed by glacial streams, Roaring lake is lecy in hottest midsummer. What with paddling and balling and the excitement of the struggle, Stella had wasted no time gazing about for other boats. She knew that if any one at the camp saw her rescue would be speedily effected. Now, holding fast and sitting quiet, she looked eager about as the swamped canoe rose loggily on each wave. Almost immediately she was heartened by seeing distinctly some sort of craft plunging through the blow. She had not long to wait after that, for the approaching launch was a lean lined speeder, powerfully engineled, and she was being forced. Stella supposed it was one of the Abbey runabouts. Even with her teeth chattering and numbness fustening itself upon her she shivered at the chances the man was taking. It was no sea for a speed boat to smash into at thirty miles an hour. She saw it shoot off in the top of one wave and disappear in a white burst of spray, slash through the next and bury itself deep again, flinging a foamy cloud far to port and starboard. Stella cried futilely to the man to slow down. She could hang on a long time yet, but her voice carried no distance. After that she had not long to wait. In four minutes the runabout was within a hundred yards, open exhausts cracking like a machine gun. And then the very thing she expected and dreaded came about. Every moment she expected to see him drive bows under and go down. Here and there at intervals uplifted a comber taller than its fellows, standing, just as it broke, like a green wall. Into one such hoary headed sea the white bont now drove like a lance. Stella saw the spray leap like a cascade, saw the solid green curl deep over the forward deck and engine hatch and smash the low wind shield. She heard the glass crack. Immediately the roaring exhausts died. Amid the whistle of the wind and the murmur of broken water the launch staggered like a drunken man and hurled off into the trough, deep down by the head with the weight of water she had taken. CABINETS MAY BE SPRING MOTOR AT NO. 2 IS EQUIPPED ONE WINDING. THE CHINES. TURN-TA HIGHLY POLISHED THE P 311 N. 4 The man in her stood up with hands cupped over his mouth. "Can you hang on awhile longer," he shouted, "till I can get my boat bailed?" "I'm all right," she called back. She saw him heave up the engine hatch. For a minute or two he bailed rapidly. Then he spin the engine without result. He straightened up at last, stood irresolute a second and peeled off his coat. The launch lay heavily in the trough. The canoe, rising and clinging on the crest of each wave, was carried forward a few feet at a time, taking the run of the sea faster than the disabled motorbott. So now only a hundred odd feet separated them, but they could come no nearer, for the canoe was aheam and slowly drifting past. Stella saw the man stoop and stand up with a coil of line in his hand. Then she gasped, for he stepped on the coaming and plunged overboard in a beautiful, arching dive. A second later his head showed glistening above the gray water, and he swam toward her with a slow overhand stroke. It seemed an age, although the actual time was brief enough, before he reached her. She saw then that there was method in his madness, for the line strung out behind him, fast to a cleat on the launch. He laid hold of the canoe and rested a few seconds, pouting, smiling broadly at her. "Sorry that whopping wave put me out of commission," he said at last. "I'd have had you ashore by now. Hang on for a minute." He made the line fast to a thwart near the bow. Holding fast with one hand, he drew the swamped canoe up to the launch. In that continuous roll it was no easy task to get Stella aboard, but they managed it, and presently she sat shivering in the cockpit watching the man spill the water out of the canoe till it rode buoyantly again. 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That ruined gown, however, subsequently produced an able, forty foot, cruising launch, powerfully engineed, easy in a sea and comfortably, even luxuriously fitted as to cabin. With that for, their private use the Panther was left to her appointed service, and in the new boat Fyfe and Stella spent many a day abroad on Roaring lake. They fished together, explored nooks and bays up and down its forty miles of length, climbed hills together like the bear of the ancient ripe, to see what they could see. And the Waterbug served to put them on intimate terms with their neighbors, particularly the Abbey crowd. The Abbeys took to them whollyheartedly. Fyfe himself was highly esteemed by the elder Abbey, largely. Stella suspected, for his power on Roaring lake. Abbey pere had built up a big fortune out of thimber. He respected any man who could follow the same path to success. Therefore he gave Fyfe double credit—for making good and for a personality that could not be overlooked. Summer slipped by. There were dances, informal little hops at the Abbey domicile, return engagements at the Fyfe bungalow, laughter and music and Japanese lanterns strung across the lawn. There were tea and tennis and murmurring rivers of small talk. And amid this Stella Fyfe flitted graciously, esteeming it her world, a fair measure of what the future might be. Viewed in that light it seemed passable enough. Later, when summer was on the wane, she withdraw from much of this activity, spending those days when she did not sit buried in a book out on the water with her husband. When October ushered in the first of the fall rains they went to Vancouver and took apartments. In December her son was born. CHAPTER IX. A Close Call and a New Acquaintance. WITH the recurrence of spring, Fyfe's household transferred itself to the Roaring lake hungalow again. Stella found the change welcome, for Vancouver weared her. It was a little too crude, too much as yet in the transitory stage, in that clovibhobledhey period which overtakes every village that shoots up overwitfly to a city's dimensions. So she was quite as well pleased when a mild April saw them domiciled at home again. In addition to Sam Foo and Fend Shu, there was a nurse for Jack junior. Stella did not suggest that; Fyfe insisted on it. He was quite proud of his boy, but he did not want her chained to her baby. So, apart from voluntary service on behalf of Jack junior, she was free as of old to order her days as she pleased. Yet that small morsel of humanity demanded much of her time, because she released through the maternal floodgates a part of that passionate longing to bestow love where her heart willed. Sometimes she took issue with herself over that wayward tendency. By all the rules of the game she should have loved her husband. He was like a rock, solid, enduring, patient, kind and generous. He stood to her in the most intimate relation that can exist between a man and a woman. But she never fooled herself. She never had so far as Jack Fyfe was concerned. She liked him, but that was all. He was good to her, and she was grateful. Nevertheless she had recurring periods when moodiness and ill distilled discontent got hold of her. Sometimes she stole out along the cliffs to sit on a mossy boulder, staring with absent eyes at the distant hills, and sometimes she would slip out in a canoe to lie rocking in the lake swell, just dreaming, filled with a passive sort of regret. She could not change things now, but she could not help wishing she could. Fyfe warned her once about getting offshore in the canoe. Roaring lake, bent in the shape of a boomerang be- Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers LISTEN, LUKE, TAKE MY SHOES TO TOWN, AN'GET'EM HALF- SOLED GET ME! HALF- SOLED Tween two mountain ranges, was subject to squalls. Sudden bursts of wind would shoot down its length like blasts from some monster funnel. Stella know that. She had seen the glassy surface torn into whitecaps in ten minutes, but she was not afraid of the lake nor the lake winds. She was hard and strong. The open, the clean mountain air and a measure of activity had built her up physically. She swam like a seal. Out in that sixteen foot canoe she could detach herself from her world of reality, he back on a cushion and lose herself staring at the sky. She puld little heed to Fyfe's warning beyond a smiling assurance that she had no intention of courting a watery end. So one day in mid-July she waved a farewell to Jack junior, crowing in his nurse's lap on the bank, puddled out past the first point to the north nud, pillowing her head on a cushioned thwart, gave herself up to dreamy contemplation of the sky. There was scarce a ripple on the lake. A fault breath of an offshore breeze fanned her, drifting the canoe at a snail's pace She Was Being Beaten Farther Out and Down the Lake. out from land. Stella luxuriated in the quiet afternoon. A party of campers cruising the lake had tarried at the bungalow till after midnight. Jack Fyfe had risen at down to depart for some distant logging point. Stella, once awakened, had risen and breakfasted with him. She was tired, drowsy, content to lie there in pure physical relaxation. Lying so, before she was aware of it, her eyes closed. She waked with a start at a cold touch of moisture on her face—rain, great pattering drops. Overhead an omnithous black cloud hid the face of the sun. The shore, when she looked, lay a mile and a half abream. To the north and between her and the land's rocky line was a darkening of the lake's surface. Stella reached for her paddle. The black cloud let fall long, gray streamers of rain. There was scarcely a stirring of the air, but that did not doceceive her. There was a growing chill, and there was that broken line sweeping down the lake. Behind that was wind, a summer gale, the black squall dreaded by the Siwoshes. She had to buck her way to shore through that. She drove hard on the paddle. She was not afraid, but there rose in her a peculiar tensed up feeling. Ahead lay a ticklish bit of business. The sixteen foot canoe dwarfed to pittiful dimensions in the face of that snarling line of wind harried water. She could hear the distant murmur of it presently, and gusty puffs of wind began to strike her. Then it swept up to her, a ripple, a chop and very close behind that the short, steep, lake combers with a wind that blew off the tops as each wave head broke in white, bubbling froth. Immediately she began to lose ground. She had expected that, and it did not alarm her. If she could keep the canoe bow on there was an even chance that the squall would blow itself out in half an hour. But keeping the canoe bow on proved a task for stout arms. The wind would catch all that forward part which thrust clear as she topped a sea and twist it aside, tending always to throw her broadside into the trough. Spray began to sphash aboard. The seas were so short and steep that the canoe would rise over the crest of a tall one and dip its bow deep in the next, or leap clear to strike with a slap that made Stelha's heart jump. She had never undergone quite that rough and tumble experience in a small craft. She was being beaten farther out and down the lake, and her arms were growing tired. Nor was there any sheckening of the wind. The combined rain and shops of spray sonked her thoroughly. A puddle gathered about her knees in the bilge, sloshing fore and aft as the craft pitched, killing the natural bonyancy of the canoe, so that she dove harder. Stella took a chance, ceased paddling and balled with a small can. She got a tossing that made her head swim while she lay in the trough. And when THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA she tried to head up into it again one comber bigger than its fellows reered up and slapped a barrel of water inboard. The next wave swammed her But the wave swamped her. Sunk to the clamps. Stella held fast to the top sides, crouching on her knees, in immersed to the hips in water that struck a chill through her flesh. She had the wilt to remember and act upon Jack Fyte's coaching—namely, to sit tight and hang on. No sea that ever can sink a cune. Wood is buoyant. So long as she could hold on the submerged craft would keep her head and shoulders above water. But it was numbing and cold. Fed by glacial streams, Roaring lake is ley in hottest midsummer. What with paddling and bailing and the excitement of the struggle, Stella had wasted no time gazing about for other boats. She knew that if any one at the camp saw her rescue would be specially effected. Now, holding fast and sitting quiet, she looked eagerly about us the swamped canoe rose logically on each wave. Almost immediately she was heartened by seeing distinctly some sort of craft plunging through the blow. She had not long to wait after that, for the approaching launch was a lean lined speeder, powerfully engineed, and she was being forced, Stella supposed it was one of the Abbey runabouts. Even with her teeth chartering and numbness fastening itself upon her she shivered at the chances the man was taking. It was no sea for a speed boat to smash into at thirty miles an hour. She saw it shoot off the top of one wave and disappear in a white burst of spray, slush through the next and bury itself deep again, flinging a foumy cloud far to port and starboard. Stella cried futilely to the man to slow down. She could hang on a long time yet, but her voice carried no distance. After that she had not long to wait. In four minutes the rumabout was within a hundred yards, open exhausts cracking like a machine gun. And then the very thing she expected and dreaded came about. Every moment she expected to see him drive bows under and go down. Here and there at intervals uplifted a comber taller than its fellows, standing, just as it broke, like a green wall. Into one such hoary headed sea the white boat now drove like a lance. Stella saw the spray leap like a cascade, saw the solid green curl deep over the forward deck and engine hatch and smash the low wind shield. She heard the glass crack. Immediately the roaring exhausts died. Amid the whistle of the wind and the murmur of broken water the launch staggered like a drunken man and hurched off into the trough, deep down by the head with the weight of water she had taken. The man in her stood up with hands cupped over his mouth. "Can you hang on awhile longer," he shouted, "till I can get my bount bailled?" "I'm all right," she called back. She saw him heave up the engine hatch. For a minute or two he bailed rapidly. Then he spun the engine without result. He straightened up at last, stood resolute a second and peeled off his cont. The launch lay heavily in the trough. The canoe, rising and clinging on the crest of each wave, was carried forward a few feet at a time, taking the run of the sea faster than the disabled motorbottle. So now only a hundred old feet separated them, but they could come no nearer, for the canoe was abum and slowly drifting past. Stella saw the man stoop and stand up with a coil of line in his hand. Then she gasped, for he stepped on the coming and plunged overboard in a beautiful, arching dive. A second later his head showed glistening above the gray water, and he swam toward her with a slow overhand stroke. It seemed an age, although the actual time was brief enough, before he reached her. She saw then that there was method in his madness, for the line strung out behind him, fast to a cleat on the launch. He held hold of the canoe and rested a few seconds, punting, snilling broadly at her. "Sorry that whopping wave put me out of commission," he said at last. "I'd have had you ashore by now. Hang on for a minute." He made the line fast to a thwart near the bow. Holding fast with one hand, he drew the swamped canoe up to the launch. In that continuous roll it was no easy task to get Stella aboard, but they managed it, and presently she sat shivering in the cockpit watching the man spill the water out of the canoe till it rode buoyantly again. Then he went to work at his engine methodically, wiping dry the ignition terminals and all the various connections where moisture could effect a Subscribe to The Richmond Planet $1.50 per year in advance. 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"Well, Miss Shipwrecked Mariner," said he lightly, "where do you wish to be landed?" "Over there, if you please. Stella pointed to where the red roof of the bungalow stood out against the green. "Tm Mrs. Fyfe." He Laid Hold of the Canoe and Rested a Few Seconds, Panting. "Ah!" said he. An expression of volledup surprise flashed across his face. "Another potential romance strangled at birth. You know, I hoped you were some local maiden before whom I could pose as a heroic rescuer. Such is life, Odd too. Linda Abbey—I'm the Monohan tail to the Abbey business kite, you see—impressed me as pilot for a spin this afternoon and backed out at the last moment. I think she smelled this blow. So I went out for a ride by myself. I was glowering at that new house through a glass when I spied you out in the thick of it." He had the clutch in now, and the launch was cleaving the seas, even at half speed throwing out wide wings of spray. Some of this the wind brought across the cockpit. "Come up into this seat," Monohan commanded. "I don't suppose you can get any wetter, but if you put your feet through this bulkhead door (the heat from the engine will warm you. By Jove, you're fairly shivering." "It's lucky for me you happened along." Stella remarked when she was ensconced behind the bulkhead "I was getting so cold. I don't know how much longer I could have stood it." "Thank the good glasses that picked you out. You were only a speck on the water, you know, when I sighted you first." He kept silent after that. All his faculties were centered on the seas ahead which rolled up before the sharp cutwater of the launch. He was making time and still trying to avoid boarding seas. When a big one lifted ahead he slowed down. He kept one hand on the throttle control, whistling under his breath disconnected snatches of song. Stella studied his profile, clean cut as a caeme and wholly pleasing. He was almost as big bodied as Jack Fyte and full four inches taller. The wet shirt clinging close to his body cutlined well knit shoulders, ropy muscled arms. He could easily have posed for a viking, so strikingly blond was he, with fair, cairly hair. She judged that he might be around thirty, yet his face altogether boyish. While Stella sat there, drawn faced with the cold, the launch slipped into the quiet nook of Cougar bay and slowed down to the float. Monohan helped her out, throw off the canoe's painter and climbed back into the hunch. "You're as wet as I am," Stella said. "Won't you come up to the house and get a change of clothes? I haven't even thanked you." "Nothing to be thanked for," he smiled up at her. "Only please remember not to get off shore in a canoe --- again. I mightn't be handy the next time, and Roaring lake's kickle as your charming, sex—all smiles one minute, storming the next. No. I won't stay this time, thanks. A little wet won't hurt me. I wasn't in the water long enough to get chilled, you know. I'll be home in half an hour. Run along and get dressed, Mrs. Fyfe, and drink something hot to drive that chill away. Goodby." Stella went up to the house, her hand tingling with his parting grip. Over and above the peril she had escaped rose an uneasy vision of a greater peril to her peace of mind. The plathitudes of soul affinity, of irresistible magnetic attraction, of love that leaped full blown into reality at the touch of a hand or the glance of an eye, she had always viewed with distrust, holding them the weaknesses of weak, volatile natures. But there was something about this man which had stirred her, nothing that he said or did, merely some elusive, personal attribute. She had never undergone any such experience, and she puzzled over it now. A chance stranger, and his touch could make her pulse leap. It filled her with astonished dismay. Afterward, dry clad and warm, sitting in her pet chair, Jack junior cooing at her from a nest among cushions on the floor, the natural reaction set in, and she laughed at herself. When Fyfe came home she told him lightly of her rescue. He said nothing at first, only sat drumming on his chair arm, his eyes stendy on her. "That might have cost you your life," he said at last. "Will you remember not to drift offshore again?" "I rather think I shall," she responded. "It wasn't a pleasant experience." "Monohan, eh?" he remarked after another interval. "So he's on Roaring like again." "Do you know him?" she asked. "Yes," he replied briefly. For a minute or so longer he sat there, his face wearing its habitual impassiveness; then he got up, kissed her with a queer sort of intensity and went out. Stella gazed after him, mildly surprised. It wasn't quite in his usual manner. (TO BE CONTINUED) DANVILLE NEWS. Mr. T. W. McGill stopped over to pay a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Williams, Friday morning September 14th. He was on his way to him. Summerville, S. C., from Atlan-City Willie on his visit he met a host of Danville friends. An elaborate dinner was given in his honor at the home, 627 Upper St., Those present were Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Geary Mrs Carrie Spruell Harrison and Miss Lottie and Ophilia Coleman. Mr. McGill left very happy and satisfied for his home on the midnight train. Misses Lottie and Ophelia Coleman served dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Herman J. Williams Sunday, September 16, after which they called on some of their numerous friends Mrs. Millie Thompson and her daughter Louise are visiting friends in Norfolk, Va., Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Goode are now home after touring the north for several weeks. Mrs. Caddie Isham and her sister, Clara Smith have returned to their home in Hampton after a short visit to their parent. Rev. Parper of Youngstown, Ohio, filled the pulpit of the High St. Baptist Church Sunday morning. Rev. Harper preached a very able and help ful sermon. Mr. S. B. Noble has returned home after a business trip to Ohio and other points north. Dr. Jerry D. Luck Interne at Freed man's Hospital is visiting parents in N. Danville. Miss Jannette Chaney left this morning for Hampton, Inst. accompanied by her father Mr. George Chaney. Misses Clara and Ethel Pannell left this morning for Wilberforce University. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I would like to know the where abouts of my brother Richmond Satterwhite. When last heard of, he was living at Sayreton, Ala., about six miles from N. Birmingham, Address, Timothy Satterwhite, P. O. Box 7, Leavenworth, Kan., Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers BAPTIST CONVENTION BAPTIST CONVENTION (Continued From First Pago.) tions. Throughout the United States there are many ministers who deplore the split and who long for and are ready for Peace and Reunion. At one of the most largely attended sessions of the convention in Muskogee the following resolution was offered: Mr. President and Members of the National Baptist Convention, assembled in Muskogee, a. "Whereas all indications point to wider and larger opportunities for religious and missionary work at the close of the world war; And whereas it is the spirit of Christianity to bring into closer union all who love our blessed Lord Jesus as evidenced in His prayer in Gethsmane: "Father, I pray for them that they may be one as we are one;" And whereas division creates hatred, ill feeling and perpetuates abuse And whereas the division in our domination creates a spirit of antagonism in many State Conventions, District Associations, Ministers' Conferences and churches— A CALL FOR PRAYER Therefore be it resolved; That we implore our ministers and the members of our churches to engage in serious, humble prayer that the great Husband man of the Vineyard will speedily come to his vineyard and bring peace among its workmen; But it further resolved: That we ask our speakers and officers and editors to refrain from all unkind remarks about those who seem to differ from us; and finally be it resolved: That this convention appoint a committee of five (5) to confer with a similar committee which we will ask our brethren meeting in Atlanta, Ga., to appoint to confer on terms of Peace and Reunion. I am. A PROPOSITION FROM WHITE BRETHREN The resolution was voted down. Two hours after this resolution failed of passage Dr. J. B. Gambrell and Dr. O. L. Halley bith of Dallas, Texas, came before the convention on a special mission. These white ministers had visited the convention in Atlanta, Ga., and came before the convention in Muskogee, Okla., to suggest that a committee be appointed from each one of the conventions to meet together with a similar committee from the white Southern Baptist Convention to confer on terms of Peace. Dr. Gambrell is president of the Southern White Baptist Convention and Dr. Halley is an eminent minister of that same convention. Their message to their brethren was one of "Peace and Reunion." The tender of their good offices to help our brethren settle their differences and renite represents a deep desire in the white southern baptist convention, and a still deeper desire in the hearts of the men and women who fill our churches. A motion prevailed pledging the convention to carry out the suggestion of the white brethren in so far as that could be done without surrendering any principle of manhood and justice, etc. All of this gave considerable impetus to the "Peace and Resumon" movement and it became the chief topic of discussion among groups of delegates. Today we have two National Organizations, two rival publishing houses in the same city, two secretaries to appeal to the railroads once a year for special Railroad rates, two National Sunday School Congresses, in some states two State Conventions as a result of our National split; two Women's National Baptist Conventions, two Foreign Mission Boards to split up the work in Africa; two Baptist [Ministers' Conference] in some cities; besides hatred, abuse, and strivings throughout the United States. It is inconceivable that such a condition among Christian men in the same denomination can last. It is contrary to the teachings of the New Testament and has the prayers and longings of our great constituency against it. TO MEET IN NEW JERSEY. The convention adjourned to meet next September in Newark, N. J., We believe that the Baptists of New Jersey together with our brothers and sisters in New York will give the convention such entertainment as they have never had. THE RICHMOND PLANET LARGER OPPORTUNITIES R. C. JUDKINS. MOTION PREVAILED Jersey City, N. J. ATTORNEY LANCASTER DISAGREES WITH NEIGHBORS. Editor Virginian: Sir.-Let the twenty-six citizens of Charlotte county who jovied and respected the late Mr. W. T. Roach and myself reason together and allow me to ask a few questions. I don't, not can I, gainysa one word of what you have said except that you are mistak en if you think Aubrey Barrett was represented by any lawyer on his trial at Charlotte C. H., excepting this also; that I have never written nor said one word about Albert Barrett being under average intelligence. But in this connection I must say that I have heard difference of opinion expressed and must also say that after I drafted a petition for commutation in Aubrey's case, which I proposed to send to Charlotte county and endowed with the citizens there sign I submit it to my friend, ex-Judge A. D. Watkins, and asked him to advise with me concerning same (and in it was nothing of the boy's ignorance or intelligence.) Judge Watkins; who prosecuted the Barretts, pronounced it to shouting for the people to sign and he wrote or dictated the petition which I did send, and in it he wrote that the boy was not of average Intelligence and I fathered that petition and that assertion the petition to the extent of using it and never heard his intelligence or those of intelligence questioned until by Mr. Lee Snell, although I believe now Judge Watkins had information or good reasons to believe that the assertion was true. If anyone was duped or imposed upon by Aubrey as to his ignorance it was Judge Watkins. My recollection is and of which I am very positive that the evidence was that Aubrey Barrett, picked up off of the ground $1.58 a watch and knife, the property of Mr. Roach and when arrested had spent the money and noth ing was said about the knife. Albert and Aubrey both had said the watch was given by Aubrey to Albert when they were about five miles from home the day after the killing, and that Aubrey spent the money. I cannot think that the two ty- dix signers of the citizens of Barrett's case which appeared in The Virginian of the 6th inst., could have attended the trial. Is it exactly fair or right in you gentlemen to say that Mr. Lancaster has misled anyone, or that his article or statements have been misleading or false? Is it fair for you to use heresy testimony or state what the twelve year old Barrett girl told Mr. Snell when the girl did not testify at all? Is it making a fair impression on the public for to speak of several different larcies of which Albert and Aubrey Barrett may have perpetrated upon Mr. Roach in discussing this case and telling who helped to trace up and find out the facts in regard thereto, and of the several con promises, forgivings, etc., when none of these facts were in evidence? Is it fair to try to prejudice this case by the refusal of Albert's wife to give information and such like things when none of this was brought out in evidence? No doubt, gentlemen, that you or I would have acted as Mr. Roach did, after the wheat had been stolen proven to be stolen and admitted to have been stolen. If you or I had undertaken to watch or hold the guilty parties until a warrant could be obtained for their arrest. We doublets would have pursued them and restrained them when we had no right so to do without a warrant; nevertheless this does not make it legal or right; and does not that wrong doing or mistake mitigate the offe.so? Does not his aiding his father when he was in peril and his age mitigate the crime? Yours very respectfully, W. L. LANCASTER. Farmville, Va., Sep 7. (Richmond Virginia, Sept. 9, 1917) THE SUPREME COURT AND BARRETT. The refusal of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to grant a writ of error in the case of the younger Barrett, Negro is so worded as to inspire all hope that a second application, containing matter upon which the court wishes to pass, will be given an posible consideration. A careful reading of the court's order, as printed for the first time this afternoon in The News Leader, will, we think, satisfy all readers as to the accuracy of this conclusion. The circumstances in the case, now familiar to all Virginia, were such that it was a matter of extrema difficulty to prepare a proper record. The evidence had to be summarized from memory and cannot, in the nature of things, be as complete or as accurate as a stenographic report. We are sure, however, that a record that will satisfy the demands of the court can be prepared. This, however, is probably second- dary to the necessity of presenting to the court a full statement of the manner in which the boy entered his plea of guilty. This is practically asked for by the court—a most unusual proceeding that shows how important the court regards this aspect of the case. So, in varying degree, with the other essential facts mentioned in the court's order. We direct particular attention to the court's reference to the discretion of Judge Hundley in this case. Readers will recall that this was one of the points that figured very largely in public discussion of the trial. The News Leader has already pointed out that Judge Hundley had a discretion under a special act of assembly relating to the trial of children under 18 years of age. The court goes beyond all question of statute law and points out the discretion vested in the court by section 8 of the constitution. We trust it will not be necessary, after such an, order as this has been entered, to urge upon friends of justice in Virginia the necessity of having the boy's case fully and properly prepared for presentation to the appellate court. After the court, has practically invited fuller statement of the grounds on which a new trial may be asked, the blood of this ignorant boy would be on the heads of the people of Virginia if they did not see that he has competent counsel and avails himself fully of his legal rights. We have been satisfied all along that righteous public sentiment and sound law would not permit the execution of any on after such a trial as that given this Negro boy. 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The multiple cylinders fired with a rear. He moved back behind the wrecked wind shield where the steering gear stood. "Well, Miss Shipwrecked Mariner," said he lightly, "where do you wish to be handed?" "Over there, if you please. Stella pointed to where the red roof of the bungalow stood out against the green. "Tm Mrs. Fyfe." He Laid Hold of the Canoe and Rested a Few Seconds, Panting. "Ah!" said he. An expression of velled surprise flashed across his face. "Another potential romance strangled at birth. You know, I hoped you were some local maiden before whom I could pose as a heroic rescuer. Such is life. Odd too. Linda Abbey—I'm the Monohan tail to the Abbey business kite, you see—impressed me as pilot for a spin this afternoon and backed out at the last moment. I think she smelled this blow. So I went out for a ride by myself. I was glowering at that new house through a glass when I spied you out in the thick of it." He had the clutch in now, and the launch was cleaving the seas, even the half speed throwing out wide wings of spray. Some of this the wind brought across the cockpit. "Come up into this seat," Monohan commanded. "I don't suppose you can get any wetter, but if you put your feet through this bulkhead door the heat from the engine will warm you. By Jove, you're fairly shivering." "It's lucky for me you happened along," Stella remarked when she was ensconced behind the bulkhead. "I was getting so cold. I don't know how much longer I could have stood it." "Think the good glasses that picked you out. You were only a speck on the water, you know, when I sighted you first." He kept slant after that. All his faculties were centered on the seas ahead which rolled up before the sharp cutwater of the launch. He was making time and still trying to avoid boarding seas. When a big one lifted ahead he slowed down. He kept one hand on the throttle control, whistling under his breath disconnected sutches of song. Stella studied his profile, clean cut as a capeo and wholly pleasing. He was almost as big bodied as Jack Fyfe and full four inches taller. The wet shirt clinging close to his body cutlined well knit shoulders, ropy muscled arms. He could easily have posed for a viking, so strikingly blood was he, with fair, curly hair. She judged that he might be around thirty, yet his face was altogether boyish. While Stella sat there, drawn faced with the cold, the launch slipped into the quiet nook of Cougar bay and slowed down to the float. Monohan helped her out, threw off the canoe's painter and climbed back into the hunch. "You're as wet as I am," Stella said, "Won't you come up to the house and get a change of clothes? I haven't even thanked you." "Nothing to be thanked for," he smiled up at her. "Only please remember not to get offshore in a canoe --- again. I mustn't be handy the next time, and Roaring lake's kickle as your charming sex, all smiles one minute, storming the next. No. I won't stay this time, thanks. A little wet won't hurt me. I wasn't in the water long enough to get chilled, you know. I'll be home in half an hour. Run along and get dressed, Mrs. Fife, and drink something hot to drive that chill away. Goodbye." Stella wore up to the house, her hand tingling with his parting grip. Over and above the peril she had escaped rose an uneasy vision of a greater peril to her peace of mind. The platitudes of soul alinity, of irresistible magnetic attraction, of love that leaped full blown into reality at the touch of a hand or the glance of an eye, she had always viewed with distrust, holding them the weaknesses of weak, volatile natures. But there was something about this man which had stirred her, nothing that he said or did, merely some elusive, personal attribute. She had never undergone any such experience, and she puzzled over it now. A chance stranger, and his touch could make her pulse leap. It filled her with astonished dismay. Afterward, dry end and warm, siting in her pet chair, Jack junior cooling at her from a nest among cushions on the floor, the natural reaction set in, and she laughed at herself. When Pyfe came home she told him lightly of her rescue. He said nothing at first, only sat drumming on his chair arm, his eyes steady on her. "That might have cost you your life," he said at last. "Will you remember not to drift offshore again?" "I rather think I shall," she responded. "It wasn't a pleasant experience." "Monohon, eh?" he remarked after another interval. "So he's on Roaring lake again." "Do you know him?" she asked. "Yes," he replied briefly. For a minute or so longer he sat there, his face wearing its habitual impassiveness, then he got up, kissed her with a queer sort of intensity and went out. Stella gazed after him, mildly surprised. It wasn't quite in his usual manner (TO BE CONTINUED) DANVILLE NEWS. Mr. T. W. McGill stopped over to pay a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Herman J. Williams. Friday morning September 14th, He was on his way hme, Summarville, S. C., from Atlantic City. While on his visit he met a host of Danville friends. An elaborate dinner was given in his honor at the home, 627 Upper St., Those present were Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Gary Mrs Carrie Spruell Harrison and Miss lottie and Ophelia Coleman. Mr. McGill left very happy and satisfied for his home on the midnight train. Misses Lottie and Ophelia Coleman served dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Herman J. Williams Sunday, September 16, after which they called on some of their numerous friends Mrs. Millie Thompson and her daughter Louise are visiting friends in Norfolk, Va. Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Goode are now home after touring the north for several weeks. Mrs. Caddie Isham and her sister, Clara Smith have returned to their home in Hampton after a short visit to their parent. Rev. Harper of Youngstown, Ohio, filled the pulpit of the High St., Baptist Church Sunday morning. Rev. Harper preached a very able and help ful sermon. Mr. S. B. Noble has returned home after a business trip to Olio and other points north. Dr. Jerry D. Luck Interne at Freed man's Hospital is visiting parents in N. Danville. Miss Jannette Chaney left this morning for Hampton, Inst. accompanied by her father Mr. George Chaney. Missos Clara and Ethel Pannell, left this morning for Wilberforce University. DO YOU KNOW THEM? I would like to know the whereabouts of my brother Richmond Satterwhite. When last heard of, he was living at Sayreton, Ala., about six miles from N. Birmingham, Address, Timothy Satterwhite, P. O. Box 7, Leavenworth, Kan., Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers BAPTIST CONVENTION BAPTIST CONVENTION (Continued From First Pago.) tions. Throughout the United States there are many ministers who deplore the split and who long for and are ready for Peace and Reunion. At one of the most largely attended sessions of the convention in Muskogee the following resolution was offered: Mr. President and Members of the National Baptist Convention, assembled in Muskogee, i.a. "Whereas all indications point to wider and larger opportunities for religious and missionary work at the close of the world war; And whereas it is the spirit of Christianity to bring into closer union all who our blessed Lord Jesus as evidenced in His prayer in Gethsemane: "Father, I pray for them that they may be one as we are one;" And whereas division creates hatred, ill feeling and perpetuates abuse And whereas the division in our Denomination creates a spirit of antagonism in many State Conventions, District Associations, Ministers' Conferences and churches— Therefore be it resolved; That we implore our ministers and the members of our churches to engage insiderious, humble prayer that the great Husband man of the Vineyard will speedily come to his vineyard and bring peace among its workmen; but further resolved: That we ask our speakers and officers and editors to refrain from all unkind remarks about those who seem to differ from us; and finally be it resolved: That this convention appoint a committee of five (5) to confer with a similar committee which we will ask our brethren meeting in Atlanta, Ga., to appoint to confer on terms of Peace and Reunion. I am A PROPOSITION FROM WHITE BRETHREN The resolution was voted down. Two hours after this resolution failed of passage Dr. J. B. Gambrell and Dr. O. L. Halley bith of Dallas, Texas, came before the convention on a special mission. These white ministers had visited the convention in Atlanta, Ga., and came before the convention in Muskogee, Okla., to suggest that a committee be appointed from each one of the conventions to meet together with a similar committee from the white Southern Baptist Convention to confer on terms of Peace. Dr. Gambrell is president of the Southern White Baptist Convention and Dr. Halley is an eminent minister of that same convention. Their message to their brethren was one of "Peace and Reunion." The tender of their good officers to help our brethren settle their differences and renite represents a deep desire in the white southern baptist convention, and a still deeper desire in the hearts of the men and women who fill our churches. A motion prevailed pledging the convention to carry out the suggestion of the white brethren $jn$ so far as that could be done without surrendering any principle of manhood and justice, etc. All of this gave considerable impetus to the "Peace and Resumon" movement and it became the chief topic of discussion among groups of delegates. Today we have two National Organizations, two rival publishing houses in the same city, two secretaries to appeal to the railroads once a year for special Railroad rates, two National Sunday School Congresses, in some states two State Conventions as a result of our National split; two Women's National Baptist Conventions, two Foreign Mission Boards to split up the work in Africa; two Baptist [Ministers' Conference] in some cities; besides hatred, abuse, and strivings throughout the United States. It is inconceivable that such a condition among Christian men in the same denomination can last. It is contrary to the teachings of the New Testament and has the prayers and longings of our great constituency against it. TO MEET IN NEW JERSEY The convention adjourned to meet next September in Newark, N. J. We believe that the Baptists of New Jersey together with our brothers and sisters in New York will give the convention such entertainment as they have never had. THE RICHMOND PLANET LARGER OPPORTUNITIES A CALL FOR PRAYER Truly. R. C. JUDKINS. MOTION PREVAILED Jersey City, N. J. ATTORNEY LANCASTER DISAGREES WITH NEIGHBORS Editor Virginian: Sir.-Let the twenty-six citizens of Charlotte county who loved and respected the late Mr. W. T. Roach and myself reason together and allow me to ask a few questions. I don't, not can I gainisay one word of what you have said except that you are mistakes if you think Aubrey Barrett was represented by any lawyer on his trial at Charlotte C. H., excepting this also; that I have never written nor said one word about Albert Barrett being under average intelligence. But in this connection I must say that I have heard difference of opinion expressed and must also say that after I drafted a petition for commutation in Aubrey's case, which I proposed to send to Charlotte county and endeavor to have the citizens there sign I submitted it to my friend, exJudge A. D. Watkins, and asked him to advise with me concerning same (and in it was nothing of the boy's ignorance or intelligence.) Judge Watkins; who prosecuted the Barretts, pronounced it too strong for the people to sign and he wrote or dictated the petition which I did send, and in it he worte that the boy was not of average Intelligence and I fathered that petition and that assertion in the petition to the extent of using it and never heard his intelligence or lack of intelligence questioned until by Mr. Lee Snell, although I believe now Judge Watkins had information or good reasons to believe that the assertion was true. If anyone was duped or imposed upon by Aubrey as to his ignorance it was Judge Watkins. My recollection is and of which I am very positive that the evidence was that Aubrey Barrett picked up off of the ground $1.58 a watch and knife, the property of Mr. Roach and when arrested had spent the money and nothag was said about the knife. Albert and Aubrey both had said the watch was given by Aubrey to Albert when they were about five miles from home the day after the killing, and that Aubrey spent the money. I cannot think that the twen ty-5 signers of the citizen of Barrett's case which appeared in The Virginian of the 6th inst., could have attended the trial. Is it exactly fair or right in you gentlemen to say that Mr. Lancaster has misled anyone, or that his article or statements have been misleading or false? Is it fair for you to use heresay testimony or state what the twelve year old Barrett girl told Mr. Snell when the girl did not testify at all? Is it making a fair impression on the public for to speak of several different larcenes of which Albert and Aubrey Barrett may have perp- pterated upon Mr. Roach in discussing this case and telling who helped to trace up and find out the facts in regard thereto, and of the several con promises, forgivings, etc., when none of these facts were in evidence? Is it fair to try to prejudice this case by the refusal of Albert's wife to give information and such like things when none of this was brought out in evidence? No doubt, gentlemen, that you or I would have acted as Mr. Roach did, after the wheat had been stolen proven to be stolen and admitted to have been stolen. if you or I had undertaken to watch or hold the guilty parties until a warrant could be obtained for their arrest. We doublets would have pursued them and restrained them when we had no right so to do without a warrant; nevertheless this does not make it legal or right; and does not that wrong doing or mistake mitigate the offer so? Does not his adding his father when he was in peril and his age mitigate the crime? Farmville, Va., Sep. 7. (Richmond Virginian, Sept. 9, 1917) THE SUPREME COURT AND BARRETT. The refusal of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia to grant a writ of error in the case of the younger Barrett. Negro is so worded as to inspire all hope that a second application, containing matter upon which the court wishes to pass, will be given at possible consideration. A careful reading of the court's order, as printed for the first time this afternoon in The News Leader, will, we think, satisfy all readers as to the accuracy of this conclusion. The circumstances in the case, now familiar to all Virginia, were such that it was a matter of extreme difficulty to prepare a proper record. The evidence had to be summarized from memory and cannot, in the nature of things, be as complete or as accurate as a stenographic report. We are sure, however, that a record that will satisfy the demands of the court can be prepared. This, however, is probably accon- dary to the necessity of presenting to the court a full statement of the maner in which the boy entered his piece of guilt. This is practically asked for by the court—a most unusual proceeding that shows how important the court regards this aspect of the case. So, in varying degree, with the other essential facts mentioned in the court's order. We direct particular attention to the court's reference to the discretion of Judge Hundley in this case. Readers will recall that this was one of the points that figured very largely in public discussion of the trial. The News Leader has already pointed out that Judge Hundley had a discretion under a special act of assembly relating to the trial of children under 18 years of age. The court goes beyond all question of statute law and points out the discretion vested in the court by section S of the constitution. We trust it will not be necessary after such an order as this has been entered, to urge upon friends of justice in Virginia the necessity of having the boy's case fully and properly prepared for presentation to the appellate court. After the court has practically invited fuller statement of the grounds on which a new trial may be asked, the blood of this ignorant boy would be on the heads of the people of Virginia if they did not see that he has competent counsel and avails himself fully of his legal rights. We have been satisfied all along that righteous public sentiment and sound law would not permit the execution of any on after such a trial as that given this Negro boy. We are confirmed in this belief by the order of the court and we trust a new—a truly Virginia trial—may be granted him. (Richmond Va., News Leader Sept 15, 1917. VIRGINIA—In the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 19th day of September, 1917. JUNIUS BROADNAX, ... Plaintiff against In Chancery. Manerva BROADNAX, ... Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matriarchy by the plaintiff from the defendant on the grounds of desertion and adultery. 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Louisville Ky. aN ae >) NN J | <¥ va \E \ as , se ee Al ASS \ SSA ~~ Ce 49 BG he dy 4 fs N:: ee f= Re Oy PNY: ‘ @ 7 wu SF a <<... ah eS Se Pe CK SO Es eke J Ny |G Re _ “Ge Sb <a = oe a 2 . — . A eee oo | fie. 0) i . Se ‘ \ AX ~ AC < “_ BAPTIOT CONVENTION AT MUSKOGEE (By Robert Chapman Juditins, D. D.) ‘The Natfonal Baptist Convention, Rey. B,C. Morris, D. D., President, met in’ Muskogee, Okla., September bth to 11th, 1917. ‘The southern stat es sent large delegations and _mess- engers came from almost every sec- tlon of the country ‘The men’s con- vention was held in a large auditort: um, while the Women's National Baptist Convention presided over by Mrs Layton met tn cne of the local Baptist: Churches THE WELCOME ‘The welcome extended the conyen- tion was eloquent and hearty. Local Dusiness men and ministers aswell as the mayor and the governor of tho state delivered able, ringing welconte addresses that elicited wide applause, Rey. C. 'T. Walker, D. D., of Augusta, Ga., respanded to the welcome addres ses and ma’ntained his former re- rd for eloquence and readiness of exprespion. Muskogee is a thriving little elty and rare opportunities are presented the colored people for ma- torial advancement, ‘THE CONVENTION ‘The Gonyention was one of the most largely attended qf any session in its history, Alabama, Arkansas, Geor gia, Mississippi, Texas, and other sur rounding states dendgng unusually’ large delegations . The clection of offiicers resulted in the olection of Dr. HW, C, Morris, prest- dent; Dr, W. G. Parks, vico president * targos ) Prolgasor. & B, Hudson, Fergicc som dope teh wnat ARON OR) DD: aD RaaiRaN ie aiE MES Mn otleors reelected SERMONS AND ADDRESSES ‘The sermons and the addresses by Dr. B,C. Morris Rev. J. W. Ribbons, D. D,, Rev. D, F. Thompson, D. D., Rev. BE. W. Johnson, D. D,, Rev. W. A. Bowren, D. D., Rev. W. A. Credit, D. D. were all able and eloquent de- lverances and stirred the great audi- onces. It is a great tribute to the gospel that throughout the session of the convention the sermons drew the largest audiences and held the closest attention. INDEBTEDNESSES. It was a great surprise to many of the delegates to learn that the con- yonw'qn was more than seven thous- andl doljars jn dabt. Most of thls money as for running expenses of the convention and salaries to the president. and secretary. 'The conven- tion owed Dr. B.C Morris $4214.30 and secretary Tucson $2759.18 Dr. Morris was paid $1800.00 and secre tary Hudson $800.00. Other smaller debts were paid "until the money raised (about $4000.00) was disburs- ei. Tt is evident. that tho machinery of this convention calls for too much money, and that to allay the persis: tont complaints and murmurings some redieal changes must be made, The Officers of this conventfon have had full control of the disbursements of the convention funds and therefore are respoi vile for the piling up ot these debts. SPIRIT OF REFORM. ‘There is a persfstent, stubborn, aurg'ng spirit of reform ‘in this con- yention that if intelligently directed will remedy many evils and make the convention a great power for good, For a decade a few men, on platform and in press have Kept oa calling for thos roforms, and notwithstanding they have heen hooted down and Jecr- ed at they now soo the fruits of their labor in an awakened conscience and ‘a spirit that 1s determined on better things. PEACE AND REUNION. In September 1915, the National Baptist Convention met in Chicago, M., For several years the sessions had been unduly stormy and on every hand contention was rife, Tho storm that gathered In Chicago broke in all Sts fury upon the Denomination and when the skies had cleared there wore two National Baptist Conven- (Contiined on the elghth page). WORTHINESS OF COMMUNITY. Mr, James Cannan of Long Branch N. J. has sent us a drawing of a flag that he wishes to be adopted as tho flag of the Sons of Bthiopla. The design is very attractive, but the ques- tion is, how many cltizons of color would hho be able to rally under its folds? ‘Wo shall be pleased to hear from somo of our loaders upon this _phaso of an all important, question, In the meantime, we shall keep the drawing for fulx.re roference and for future cogitation, Mei so WRITE *bM, GIRLS, Soldiers Wish to \Correspond With ‘Affable Girls, Schofleld Barracks, Hawali, September 3, 1917, iSir,—On reading your paper we will have to compliment you on it’s boing a fine paper and we are asking you a favor, which wo are sure you will grant, by putting a few items ‘in your paper. | Girls, we ‘are very lonely, and would Itke to have a fow words of consolation by writing us a letter or post card, upon which we will send our pictures by request. Girls, we are Way over here In the tropics of the Pacific, on the Island of Oahu. Colored girls are very rare, the na. Uve girls are very queer and its hard for us to be contented, so, a word of consolation will be highly appre- elated. Your letters will be of great im- portance to us, as wo, being colored soldiers, have to hold our own, and you know how a colored man has to work to hold his place in this world, Now, in return we will write you nice and sweet letters and also send. our photos. Signed: Privates: LUTHER SANDERS WILLIE L. BOONE MURIEL COTTON GEORGE 'T, DEHAVEN ISAAC JOHNSON Company L, 25th Infantry, Schofield ‘Barracks, ‘Hawait. PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION aT SOLDIPRS' HOME. Hampton, Va., Sept. 17.—Tho Na- tlonal Memorial’ Association (Incor- porated), Washington, D. C. held quite an interesting patriotie’ meot- Ang Sunday, tho 16th Anat, in, tho Raatere en Hampton, Virgin MHder tae: = aeee” OF! Gaiuane NS colored. Governor Joseph 8, Smith, commandant of the home, presiied, In his introductory remarks, ho pald & high compliment to the valor, pa- triotism, and suffering of the colored soldiers and sailors who fought in all the wars of our country. ‘Tho object of tho meoting was to assist in raising money to orect a national monument in the elty of Washington, D. C., for which the Hon. L, C.’ Dyer, of Missouri, has introduced a bill in Congress, House BM No. 18721, asking Congress to appropriate $100,000" toward. Sts erection. Attorney J. ‘Thomas Iewin, ‘ot Richmond, Va., Mr. Ferdinand D. Lee, of Washington, D. C. and Capt. P. B. Ray, of Company H spoke in bofitting terms of the great neoded ani appreciated work and tho in- terest taken by the Governor of the Home. Sergeant W. S. Wilson, of Company H, ‘manager of the avoric in the home las handled the work to tho satisfaction of the entire homo, ‘The Home Band, under the leader- ship of Prof. Greonwood furnished excellont music, MARTIN—MOORE, Mrs. Marion W. Bowser annoiyfees tho marwinge of Miss Lillian Louise Moore ot Richmond, Va. to Mr. Benj H. Martin of Chicago, M., Thursday morning Sept. 6, 1917, 10:45, at her residence: 3431 South Park Ava, Chi cago, TM, Rev. Moses H, Jackson, of- ficiated. ‘The bride and groom left immediate ly for Indianapolis on their bridal trip. ¢ eee WITT—JACKSON, Mrs. Witt announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Lucille Ellaabeth to Mr. Robert Jackson, Aug. 30, 1917, 9 P.M ‘Tho marriage coremany was per- formed by Rov. Binga. The reception was in Washington, D.C, Sept 19, You7. COLEMAN—HOWELL, Mr. and Mrs. ©. Howell request the honor of your presence at the marri- age of tholr daughter, Rosa H. to Mr. W. H. Coloman, ‘Thursday ovening, October 4, 1917, at 9 o'clock at 801 1-2 N. Fourth St., All friends aro invited. No cards. ‘ ee Card of Thanks. | Wo wish to thank our many friends and acquaintances for thelr kindness and most appreciated gifts recoivel on our reception evening. With gratitutio, JESSE and JOSHPHINE LEBOUGH Looking to rent something? Soc Cephas. Office, 685 1-2 N. 2nd St. Telephone, Ran. 688. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. PAE WARING SPEARS, i HWA ier; ad AU NATIONS Sua Tremere Ano Edn QUAKE FROM MY SPORT, UNTIL, ERY, ao NY TREYVDICE, AACE-HATRED.AUARKKE AWD NLL Gsaeysy OTHER THIGH CUS ARs CHET ASUNDER. vie a RIAEN SHALL AY nin BAUERTERUPEAGE Care Ca - eh GEG Mano, era ar ( o Ce eae GES Bee TE eens ANS, i Bass sa WU oy AES i/e ee oo Cy Car / | 5 RUN 18s Cea we 1 ree SS So aah OH Ne ere SS eS we & | Y 2 = WS SN 3 VY) e PIES NBS i) ee DR aC WM VOW eee “aR re ( IN cy ei Wai \ ff ‘eos - \ \ mi NO ¢ Vv tag Wie vos. Wes AX . Li i SO j Pn | SS ee RIN Ca \\ ye Ny BEE AA ENR QQ YG es aie a NA AS AW UZ es px y on A. Hie x Wy, | Gee Uf CY, GOREN AREA WW \— ZS, / MN RANA i aA \ 4 yy a LON ‘ TMT? LYE ES \ i) Wns \ Seen se” /// HU NGA UIDA eal PSN NAG Le LY QT W/} ST HN Atlanta, Ga. Sept, 5.—Patriotie isnging, mingled with "plantation and Jubilee melodies marked the opening of the 37th annual session of the Nat- fonal Baptist Convention (Unincorpo- rated,) which was called to order by E. P. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss. and which was welcomed by'a host of dignitaries among the Baptists and other denominations of thd city and state. Negro Baptists from very state in the Union aro here, ‘The sessions wero called to ordor at ten o‘clock this morning in tho Friendship Baptist Church. Tho en- tire elty is giving a cordial welcome and the people of the state of Geor- gia have joined in with the Atlanta folks and are here in large numbers, making this one of the most largely attended moetings among tho roligi- ous people of the stato that has heen held for years. This conyontion 1s made up of the momborship among, the Baptist churchos sald to be two million,’ five hundred thousand. Bv- ery stato in the Union and many of tho West Indios Islands, Canada and Mexico have sent reprosentation. The work to be done this weok is puroly missionary and educational. | ‘The convention is composed of seven boards, into whose hands this spoctal work is committed during tho year, ‘Theso boards are presided over by their mespeotive officers. Their’ re- ports will be made beginning today and conunuing throughout the week. ‘The officers of the conven‘ion are E. P. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss., pres: ident; Robi. Mitchell, of Lexington, Ky., Vice president; ‘T, J, King, Rich: mond, Va., secretary; assistant’ secre- taries, Charles J. W. Boyd, ‘Texas; C. T. Hume, ‘Tennesseo; Gharles I. Lewis, Indiana; W. H. Woods, Okla: homa; statistician, G. B. Hancock, South Caraiina; treasurer, John F. Thomas, Iilnois; auditor, J, B. Beck ham, Missouri; “with the | “fotiowing boards ax2 thelr officiala: Foreign Mission“ Boord, | Elbert W. Moore, Columbus, 0. ‘chairman, R. Kemp, Charleston, S. C., secretary; Home Mission Board J, P. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark, chairman, J. D. Brooks, secrotary, ‘Educational Board, G. 1. Prince, St. Joseph, Mo., chairman; David Abner, Jr., Conroo, “Poxas, secre tary; Publishing Board, C. H.’ Clark Nashville ‘fonn., chairman, R. H. Boyd, Nashville, ‘Mann, accrotary; Baptist Young People's Union Soclo- ty Board, 1. Drano, Chicago, Ill, chairman, S. R, Princo, Fort Worth, Toxas, secretary; Old Ministers! Benefit Board, Boston J. Princo, Chi- cago, Til, chairman, J. H. Winn, Wt. Worth oxag, secretary; Laymon’s Missionary Movement, Wm, Harrison Oklahoma City, Okla. president, W.. B. Currie, Vileksburg, Mias., secre tary; Mra. Georgia DoBaptisto Ash-| burn; President, Mra, M. A. B, Fullor Austin, Tex., corresponding secrotary, tary Woman's Auxillary Convontion | +2 Continued on Page 4," Superintendent of Police Unfit To Hold Oflico—Pecullar Stato of Affairs In Houston, Tex. Houston, ‘Tox., Sept. 11,—Negro sol- wers of the Twenty-fourth U, S, In- fantry had planned a riot of’ blood. shed among the white residents of Houston, two days before the deadly outbreak occurred, which cost the lives of fifteon Houston citizens, Anmist 23, according to tho roports. ot the civilian board of inquiry which reported to the City Counell tanight, Tho report also criticises Superinton dent of Police Brock for “his inabill- ty to onforce disciplino” among the: police and declares that “he {s not: qualified for the position he holds.” ARRESTS CAUSED TROUBLE. ‘Tho committee is of the opinion that the riot undoubtedly was precipitat- ed by two arrests of Negroos mado by tho ‘polico, “although sufficiont ovi- dence was presented at tho hearing to roveal tho fact that a sorlous disturb- ance was intended by somo of the Ne- gto soldiers hofore leaving Houston and the arrests referred to simply brought it to a head sooner, and per- (Continued On Fourth Page.) PERSONALS AND BRIEFS. Miss Ethel G. Bowler returned to the city last Sunday from Farmville, Va, niueh improved from the tip! —Mrs, Kate S. Themas and Miss Annie ‘Phomas Nave returned to the city after a pleasant visit to Newark N.J., and New York, Mrs. H.C. Vaughan and ttle krand-daughter, Myrtle H. Vaughan, of Farmville, Va. are In the elty the xuest of Rey, and Mrs. J, A, Bowler. Mr. Elijah B. Williams, of the Southside, has returned to’ the city after spending three days in Norfoli and Portsmouth, on business. It fs reported that Mr. and Mrs, S. P. Brown af 512 N. Third St,, will make Boston, Mass, their future home. ‘Their’ many.” friends regret much to have them leave Richmond. —Dr. 'T. J. Puweett of Lynchburg, Va., called on us this weok. He made a “flying trip to this city, being in- terested in the Aubrey Barrett caso. Mrs. Cora Bpps Hill returned home Friday of last week from Staunton, after ‘spending a delightful time In the home of Mr. and Mrs, J. 1H. Allen. Mrs. Hill is much hnproved in heatth, Mrs, Marion Jones ‘Taylor and her two sons, Aubrey Jr. and Jamos S, Taylor have returned to the city after spending a pleasant summer, én Tan enburg, Va.. the guest of Rev, and Mrs. 1S, Quarles. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Randolph, of Sonth Norwalk, Conn. spont two weeks with his mother, Mrs, Martha Reed, of 10 B. Jacksonstreet. He is Neadwaiter In one of the leading hotels. Mra, Lula, Coxbill and her, son, Hatold) Nbltienen, jdrom « Claremont, Va, last Saturday aftor a weok's visit Mr. Lindsay W. HIN hid a sue- cessful trip of three weeks, via auto from Richmond, through New York Stato, Maine and Canada. He left Montreal Tuesday, reaching Rich- mond Saturday ‘afternoon looking well. Mr. Hill ts an auto expert. —Mrs, Mary Smith Prayzer visit: ed her brother, Mr, Wm. B, Smith, of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., She was necompanted by Mr, Smith's Uttle son, Master Reg{nald. ‘They al- 80 spent a few days with Mr. Chas. wmiller of Covington, Va., 1 Mr. John Hickmon, formerly of South Richmond, but’ now of ‘Now York City, returned home last Sat- urday after a ten days’ visit to his old home town. He was delightfully ontortained by ts brother, Mr. Floyd Hickmon, on tho night of Septem- ber 14th. Refreshments were served abundantly and all had a “down- home” timo. Mrs, Edith L. Bradford lett tho city Wednesday of this week for At- lantle City, N. J. While there she will bo the guest of her brothers, Messrs. Stanard R. and Walter T. Williams. Sho plans to join Mrs, Ela 0. “Waller, who 1s returning from Providence, R. I. and visit New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. before returning to Richmoni, Richmond, Va., Sept. 18,—Mr. ©. P! Hayes le.t ‘he ely on Monday for Bal- timore, Md., to attend the annual meeting of “the South Atlantic Asso- ation of the Amature Athletic Un- ion of America, as representab!ve of the Spartan Titerary and Athletic Assod’ation. Mr, Hayes was the recipi ent of many courtesies while in Bal- fimore, and reports an _onthusfastic and. profitable meoting. Mr. M.Al- phonso Norrell, President of the Spar- tan’s was elected to- the Board of Managers. GONE BEFORE, Sister of D. J. Taylor Passes Away Mrs. Mary Laws, sister of D. J. Taylor, black smith’ of Nool, Va., de- parted this life September’ 13th, at 9:40 A.M. During her illness ‘sho was sonsif've of serving tho Lord all the way through. Sho was taken sick May Ist 1917, and her brother, D J. Taylor visited her ‘in her sick’ homo, May 16th, at 1322 N, 17th St. Philadelphia, Pa., where she departed this lito. Mrs. Mary G. Laws 1 ave to mourn their loss a husband, threo children, @ mother, threo sisters and two broth: ers and a host of relatives and friends. Sleep on dear sister we love you But Jesus lovos you ‘best. Hor. Two Brothers, D. J, TAYLOR and A. H. TAYLOR. Noel, ‘Va., Sleep on dear darling, Mother loves you, But Jesus loves you best. My loss is Heaven's gain, Her Mother, Mra. J. W. WATSON, GIVE COLORED QUOTA BIG SEND OFF Plans are being consummated by which it is hoped to give our boys @ big send-off when they leave for Camp Lee to undergo intensive trating for the work to be done “Somewhere ht Franco” Tt has been a long while since we have had colored soldiers (o honor and ‘some citizens are arranging to make good the opportunity now: offered. The Pitti” District Exemption Ronrd has appointed Captain. John C. Dabney to whip the selected men of that district into some semblance of military shape and also to arrange a demonstration. Captain. Dabney is a former officer of the far-famed Pythian Cadet Battalion of this city and fs well versed in things military. He has Issued q call for the selected men to report every afternoon at Second and Leigh streets, at 5:30 o'clock to receive drill practice. Crowds congregate at Second and Leigh every evening to see the Na- Monal Army men go through. their evolutions, Captain Dabney is as- sisted by officers from the Pythian Cadet Battalion and good resuits ato boing obtained. AN of the drafted men tn list below and as many from other districts who may, are’ asked to come out, Under the direction of Miss Re- becea ‘T. Mitchell a committee of (Continued on Fifth Page.) WALKER CASE POSTPONED. The suit of Mrs. Magee L. Walker fgeinst: the Btantong AceiaenE, Ate Tnoitrance Compaiiy ot Dotrolty Mien, for $7,500.00 did not come to trial last Thursday in the Law and Equity Court af this city on account of the Andisposition of the plaintiff, who was said to have been in Atlantic City, N. J. It is not now known when the case will be called for a hearing. I. O. KING DAVID TO OBSERVE NINTH ANNIVERSARY, The ninth anniversary of the Im- verial Order of King David will be observed at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening, September 23, at 3:30 o'clock. ‘The annual sermon will be delivered by Rev. W, T. John- son, D. D., pastor. Other numbers on the program will be a paper by Miss Belle Boyd and a solo by Mra. Miltred Cross, in addition to inter: esting exercises. The members of the Order are re- quested by the G. W. Ruler, Mrs .A. G. Thompson, to meet in the base- ment of the church at 2:30 o'clock, RACE CONGRESS. ‘The Natoinal Race Congress of the United States > iI mect_in its 2nd. annual session at the lonida Ave: nuo Baptist Chureh, Washington, D. ©, Oct, 3rd, and 4th, 1917. Every phase of the Race condition in this “country will be discussed, —in- cluding the East St. Lonis, the Ches- ter, ’a., riots and the Imhiigration of the colored people North. ‘Twenty one states were represented in tho last congress. The officers of the congress are appealing to the race loving people in every state to seo to it that thoy are represented in Oct. ‘The Colorel people are aroused in thts country as never before, and many of the prominent men of the race. will be present. ‘The churches, ministers’ conferene- es, fraternal organizations, business organizations and all other organiza- tions within the race, that have for their object the uplift of our people, are requested to send a representa: live to this congress, Any race loving man or woman is also invited. (Race Papers Please Copy.) Rev. M. W. D. Norman, Washing- ton, D, C., Chr. Wxecutive Committee; Lawyer W. Calvin Chase, Wash. D. G. National Organizer; Rev. W. A. Taylor, Corr. Sec'y., Rev. W. H. Jerna gin, Pres. 430 Q. St, N. W., Wash- ington, D. C., Rev. Wm. Alexander, See'y; Baltimore, Md., Rev, J. C. Aus tin, ‘Pittsburg, Pa., Chr. Special Com- mittee of the Baptist Jubilee Conven- tion of Va., WHI Present Mammoth Spectacle. ‘Mrs. Mary E. Satterfield is hard at work on the caste of a mammoth play which is to be presented hore this Fall, Over 260 people will be in this play, whieh 4s her composition Looking to rent something? See Cephas. Office, 635 1-2 N. 2nd St, ‘Delephone, Ran. 588, HE PLANET SATURDAY.....Sept. 22. 1917. ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE, VA., Sept. 17.—In passing through the streets of Roanoke Sunday morning, between the hours of ten and ten-thirty, I noticed a group of young white men and colored men and boys in an entrance to a store shooting crap on Sabbath morning. Within two hundred and fifty yards North on the same street stood a church, where services were being held. I wondered to myself if civilization was not drifting back to heathenism.—M. Stanfield. Mr. and Mrs. Lizzie Wright spent their week's vacation at Red Plains, Franklin county, Va., where they reported having enjoyed themselves very nicely, at and around their old homestead. Rev. T. J. King filled the pulpit Sunday morning and at night. Two wonderful sermons were delivered and many were persuaded to come into the fold of the church and to help make the world better. The collection was $92.00 J. C. Dugger and Mrs. Hattie L. Dugger have returned from their ten days' trip to Halifax County, Houston, South Boston, Chester Springs and Boll Springs, where they enjoyed the products of his uncle's farm as only a city man can. He is on the job for work now. Brother Thomas Burwell, the young preacher of Kittrell College, North Carolina, preached to the people of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, last Sunday night. His text was I Peter, 3:9: "The Lord is not shack concerning His promises, as some men count his slackness; but is longing to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." He handled the text with nuanced and careful instruction to the satisfaction of the entire audience, wherein God has always been faithful and true to His promise to the children of men in all ages. Mrs. Pauline Cosby, of New York is visiting her mother and friends, of Pulaski, Va. spent the week end with Mrs. Edward Reeves, 603 Sixth avenue. She was accompanied by Miss Callie Carter on her return trip as far as Washington. Mrs. Edward Reeves and Mrs. Maud Willis will leave Thursday to visit Wytheville and Kimball, W. Va. While in Kimball she will be the guest of Mrs. Pearly Perkins. Mrs. J. T. Thompson, of 516 Ninth at N. W. and cousin, Miss Middle Barreau who have spent a week visiting Mrs. Thompson will make a flying trip to Detroit, Mich. Thursday evening. Mr. George Ready, of 219 Webster avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. has been in the city about two weeks past surrounding country for his health, stopping at the quiet and comfortable home of Mr. James and Emma Wright, 722 Gainesboro avenue. I met Mr. Ready soon after his arrival. He was quite thin but I remarked to him that he had struck the town and climate for health and recuperation. So Mr. Ready has decided that I know whereof I spoke. Miss Rhodia L. Hill, 902 S. Jefferson street left, the city Sunday, September 9th for Greensboro, N. C. where she spent the ensuing week with her mother, Mrs. Jessie Hill and her uncle, Rev. T. D. Ware. She reports having had the most delightful trip of her life. She returned last Sunday much refreshed. Mrs. Maria Harris, of Ninth avenue, N. W. returned Thursday last, after six weeks vacation in Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. Jane Palmer, of East Radford Va. is visiting Mrs. Essie Watkins, 630 Eighth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Lelle McPherson Early arrived in the city September 3, and is stopping at their home, 348 Harrison avenue, N. W. Mrs. Early is from Pittsburgh, Pa. for a three weeks' stay in Roanoke. The revival at the High Street Baptist Church is being conducted under the direction of Rev. Dr. T. J. King of Richmond and the praying people of the High Street Church and of the city. It is hoped that a spiritual success may result to the entire church and community. Mrs. M. H. Douglass returned from a trip to New York and Atlantic City and Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Gatlin, of Cleveland, Ohio is visiting his mother, Mrs. Nora Bugg. Mr. John Lewis returned from Knoxville, Tenn., where he spent ten days visiting his family. Let Joo Dugger or M. Stanfield serve you every Saturday with the colored papers of the United States. Leave your order at 207 Fifth avenue N. W. Mrs. Palmyra Harris, of Bluefield, W. Va. is visiting in the city. Mr. J. A. Gatlin returned to the city after a successful season at Atlantic City and New York City. He will enter Howard University again this year. Mr. Hunter Terry and Mr. Charles Poindexter returned from Pittsburgh and Columbus, where they spent their vacation. Mr. Park Wade, formerly of the famous Rabbit Foot show has located in his home town, Roanoke. He has opened a lunch room at Hotel Hampton and will be glad to see his many friends. Miss Margret Smith, Mrs. Viola Holland and Mr. Boyd Cephas, of Columbus, Ohio are visiting friends and relatives in Roanoke. Mrs. M. D. Barlow, of 66 Chestnut avenue loft for Columbus, O. and Pittsburgh, Pa., where she will join her son, Master Clemons Barlow, who is now in Pittsburgh attending school. Miss Marquena Taylor, the daughter of Rev. G. C. Taylor, 115 Seventh avenue, N. W. is quite ill at this writing. She is very little improved since first taken sick. Professor M. Traynham, 226 Fifth avenue, N. W. is very much indisposed at this writing. Rev. J. J. Mayo, of Roanoke preached two sermons at Maria Baptist Church, of Lynchburg, Va., on Sunday, September 9th, Rev. Farmer is the pastor of this church. Mr. Isaiah Cooper, of Brooklyn, N. Y. is visiting his relative in the city. He is a brother of Dr. J. S. and T. C. Cooper and Mr. A. F. Brooks. Have you joined the Magic City Building and Loan Association? Why not? Let Joe Dugger explain it to you. Joseph Dugger and his wife spent ten days visiting his uncles, Washington Harris and Isaac Crawley on their 142 acre farm down in Halifax County, six miles from South Boston, Va. They have a large crop of corn and tobacco and other vegetables. All of the colored farmers have excellent crops. Sunday, September 9th, there was baptism, preaching and communion at Borah Springs Baptist Church. Twelve converts were baptized by Rev. Wilson before a large congregation. This was the closing of a successful revival at this church and another victory for God. Next Week at Hampton Theatre, September 17—Bensbow Stock Co. 12 people, also big line of feature pictures. 5 reels daily. Monday, American Girl; Tuesday, Fighting Trail; Wednesday, Pearl of the Army; Thursday, Mystery of the Double Cross—only 2 more; Friday, Helen Holmes, Railroader; Saturday, Our Girl Reporter. Come to your house and show race pride, where you can see the display of colored talent. The Helping Hand Home Society held their regular monthly business meeting at the residence of Sister Emma Brown, 309 Ninth avenue, N. D. There were about thirty members present. There were eighteen new members brought in by members of the club. We had a lovely meeting and each member seems to be very much interested in the progress of the club. There is much union and harmony existing among us. We are trying to help uplift fallen humanly. Come in and help us. We were highly entertained with refreshments of the season and we all went home happy. Georgia A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Robertson, Secretary. In dear, but sad remembrance of my father, Randolph Pleasant Barlow, who died the 16th day of September, 1891. Twenty-six years have passed and my heart yet is sad, but I know some day I'll meet thee where parting will be no more. Shall we sleep, shall we greet thee, yes we shall meet; we shall meet beyond the river, where parting will be no more. His daughter, —Lizzie Barlow Thompson, 515 Seventh avenue, N. W. Mrs Lizzie Barlow Thompson was at home Thursday night, 13th, to her visiting friends of Pittsburgh, Pa. Among the friends were Mrs. Sado Calbore, Marksdale, Mrs. Marla Young, Mrs. Willie Walker, Mrs. Josephine Haslon, Mrs. B. M. Osbon, Mrs. J. H. Bond, Mrs. Ida Williams, Mrs. Sarah Graham, Mrs. Eddle Reed of Chicago, Mrs. Lee Calloway, Miss Pauline Banks. Among the men were Dr. Mosley, M. D. Barlow, William Preston, E. T. Tate, Charles Lawson, Walker Scott, W. H. Hughes, J. H. Taylor, of Tennessee. The low suite of rooms was beautifully decorated for the occasion. Mrs. Thompson served a twenty course supper. Mrs. Lizzie Thompson will entertain her friends Tuesday night in honor of her cousin, Mrs. Clyde Barns, of Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED—A good man to fill the place as Janitor for the Orlofe Apartment. Striely reliable. $25.00 a month. Apply, Dr. B. C. Keister, 22 Seventh avenue, S. V., 'Phone 1155. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER "I have no garden, drive on." was the way Hon. M. T. Whittick, Editor of The McDowell Times, of Keystone, W. Va. greeted Little Willey Sunday night in the lobby at Hotel Hampton in the Magic City. Now first of all, the out of town folk will ask, Where is Keystone, W. Va.? Where and what is Hotel Hampton? And what is meant by, "I have no garden, drive on. I can't use it?" Well just, everybody knows Editor Whittico, of the McDowell Times which is the strongest Negro journal in West Virginia. Keystone is the hustling city situated between a high mountain and a small stream called Tug River and has as its citizens a set of high-class men of the race, who stand for push and hustle in the business world. West Virginia is sometimes called the capital of Keystone. Hotel Hampton, formerly Hotel Pierce, of Roanoke, is the best hotel for colored people between Philadelphia and Atlanta. This house is under new management, refurnished throughout and is up to Now in every way, the stopping place of best people traveling. Now, don't ask any more questions. You know what they mean when they say, "Drive on, I have no garden," and so old Editor Whittice know, but he really wanted all he could get, that he might have lots to say about the Magic City in his popular sheet this week. So read the McDowell Times this week and see all about Roanoke, as handed out to the West Virginia Editor by Little Willie. All about the business men of the Magic City. It appears this week, unless the "Health Officers" stopped the editor. At the Hampton Theatre this week, the famous Benbow players are drawing crowds nightly. This is a high class company of twelve people, headed by Mr. W. M. Benbow. They are putting on good, clean plays that please the public. Virginia Liston, an old favorite here is with the company and is screaming them nightly with her many "Blues," unlike many performers that use the "Blues" she is refined in her delivery and above all, CLEAN—that counts for much, as our people are at the THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA point that you don't have to resort to snout to get applause. Deliver the goods as Miss Liston is doing here, and you will get the hands. We are glad to have high class performers as our entertainers at all times and the Hampton is booking only such shows, and when they are otherwise, they get a pink slip with a can attached. The Benbow playres are great; good voices, pretty girls and A1 wardrobe. Mr. J, Howard Buford, of Orange. N. J. is in the city for a few days on business, stopping in the "bachelor den" with Little Willie. "The Fighting Trail" said to be the strongest out-door motion picture made, opened at the Hampton Tuesday of this week. This picture is in twenty-five parts, and will run at the Hampton every Tuesday. Come to the Hampton. It's your house, owned and controlled by your people. No back entrance, no stairs to climb, good music, swell shows. Spend your money with your own people, where you get to see the best pictures to be had. Love your country, love your race, fear God and do the right; then take a policy with the N.C. Mutual. COLORED CONSCRIPTS WILL GO TO CAMP DOGE. Regiment of Colored Men To Be Trained at Iowa Cantonment. Number of Negroes Drawn with First Contingent Nc4 Known Room to be Made For Them by Transfer of Drafted Men to National Guard Regiments at Deming, N. M. (Special to Times Republican.) Division Headquarters, Eighty-eighth Division, First Overseas Army, Camp Dodge. Sept 12,—Advices here today from unofficial sources at Washington are that a regiment of Negro conscript soldiers will be trained at Camp Dodge. They are to come from the four states in this division—Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota. Secretary Baker has announced definitely that Iowa Negroes would be trained at Camp Dodge. Adjutant General Guy E. Logan, in charge of mobilization of conscripts previous to their arrival at Camp Dodge, said to day it was impossible to estimate the number of Iowa Negroes drafted in the first increment until full reports from county boards were in. The Negroes will not be summoned however, until all other conscripts are settled at Camp Dodge. That means the middle of October at the earliest. Colored men who will soon receive commissions at the official training school at Fort Des Moines will command the regiment. Roon tor the Negro regiment of 3,605 will be made when the war department completes the draft of conscript soldiers from the Eighty-eighth division here to fill the depleted ranks of the Thirty-third division now training at Deming, New Mexico. The exact number to be drafted has not been announced by the war department, but it is anticipated that enough men will be taken from the individual state conscript quotas to fill the ranks of the regiments from which drafts were made to fill up the regiments sent to the rainbow division from this territory. In Iowa alone this would mean 2,400 men for each of the two Iowa regiments at Deming, or 4,800 all told—one-third of Iowa's first army quota. Camp Dodge is still wrestling with the problem of whipping the first batch of conscripts into shape. News paper men and civilians are still barred from the registration rooms and no records of assignments will be available for several days Men are transferred from one branch of the service to another daily as their qualifications are sifted. Their drill is light. Many have not received uniforms. Others have hats, shirts and shoes but no trousers have been issued them. Some of the soldiers were uncomfortable with the extremely low temperature of the last few nights. ACCOMAC NEWS Accomac, Va., Sept. 17.—Mrs. Grace Ashley and her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Richardson and two daughters-in-law, Mrs. J. H. Davis and Mrs. H. J. Pittman, are the guest of her daughter, Miss Bridget Davis near Froggoole, Va. Mrs. S. B. Smith left for Baltimore Friday last for a short trip. Miss Shealy Smith, who has been ill in the Salisbury Hospital, is much improved at home. We are sorry to note that our most worthy pastor, Rev. P. H. Arnold, at Norfolk, who has been pastoring New Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near Palmor, Va. for about three years, is going to leave here soon. It will not be easy to place a man of God in his stead in our pulpit. We say farewell, and may God bless him all through the journey of life and may God's right arm be his last place of rest. RONCEVERTE NEWS Ronceverte, W. Va., Sept. 16—Rev. I. H. Carpenter filled his pulpit here Sunday. Mrs. L. B. Johnson and brother, Mr. Edmonds, have returned from Union, W. Va. Mr. Edmonds will return to Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Berthela Johnson is visiting her cousin, Miss Alice Green. Miss Helen Woodly has returned to Bluefield Va., after visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Rosa Cockrain. Little Hazel Green, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morton is very ill at her home on Main street. Mr. Oliver White and Mr. William Brown spent Sunday at Green's Hotel Miss Augustine Patterson was a business visitor at White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Essex Hunter were visitors at Union, W. Va. Mr. James Liggons has received a black eye. We are very sorry to see it. Mr. and Mrs. James Justice have returned to take up their school work in Rooverte, W. Va. Rev. G. H. Hearn spent Sunday in Lewisburg, W. Va. THE SUPREME COURT REFUSES AUBREY BARRETT WRITE. But Highest State Tribunal Calls Attention to Omissions in the Record Which Will Probably Be Supplied in Another Petition Counsel for Negro Youth is Epected to Present —Supreme Court Holds That Trial Judge Hundley Was Not Limited to Imposition of the Death Sentence. An opinion rendered by the supreme court of appeals at Staunton refuses a writ of error and supersedes in the case of Aubrey Barrett, the Negro youth tried and sentenced by Judge George J. Hundley in the circuit court of Charlotte county for murder in the first degree. In refusing the writ, however, the supreme court calls attention to important omissions from the transcript of the record that accompanied the petition. To quote, the supreme court says: "The record does not disclose the relation between the two Barretts the evidence relative to the murder, the age of Aubrey, the circumstances attending the entry of the plea of guilt, nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court." The petition declared that the trial court had no power to impose the punishment of life imprisonment, in stead of death, but the supreme court says that this contention is not well founded as section S of the constitution provides that, in a case of this kind, the court "shall hear and determine the case," and that, the supreme court holds, invests the trial court with all the power and discretion vested in the jury by the statute prescribing the punishment for murder. In other words, the supreme court directly contradicts the trial judge, who, in the course of a controversy that arose after the trial contended that he had no power to impose any punishment except the death penalty. It is regarded as altogether probable that counsel for the Negro youth will present another petition to the supreme court in which will be embodied the portions of the record emitted before court to which the supreme court calls attention. Barrett is under sentence to de' Sept. 30, having been reprieved by Governor Stuart from August 31, when his father was electrocuted. SUPREME COURTS ATTITUDE Following is the text of the supreme court's decision: In the supreme court of appeals, held at the courthouse thereof, in the city of Staunton, on Thursday, the 13th day of September, 1917. The petition of Aubrey Barrett, for a writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment pronounced by the circuit court of Charlotte county on the 26th day of July, 1917, in a prosecution by the commonwealth against the petitioner for a felony, murder in the first degree whereby it was considered by the court that the said Aubrey Barrett be electrocuted according to law; having been maturely considered and the transcript of the record of the judgment aforesaid seen and inspected the court being of the following opinion: "The record in this case remains noise of the evidence and discloses nothing of what took place at the trial, except that the petitioner and Albert Barrett were jointly indicted, and upon arraignment pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried ap artately. After conviction of Albert Barrett, the record shows that Aubrey Barrett withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty, by and his consent in person, in open court, elected to be tried by the court and the attorney for the commonwealth consented thereto, and the court, after hearing the testimony found him guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to be electrocuted. The record does not disclose the relation between the two Barretts, the evidence relative to the murder, the age of Aubrey, the circumstances attending the entry of the plea of guilty nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court. The assignment of error that the trial court had no power to impose the punishment of life imprisonment, instead of death, is without merit, as Section 8 of the constitution provides that, in a case of this kind the court "shall hear and determine the case," and that invests the court with all the power and discretion vested in the jury by the statute prescribing the punishment for murder; doth reject said petition and refuse said writ of error and supersedeas, the effect of which is to affirm the judgment of said circuit court. (Richmond, Va., News-Leader, Sept 15, 1917.) Y. M. C. A. NOTES Last Friday night was stormy but some of the men were out, and the hour was a profitable one. The work for last Sunday was very good because of the interest taken by the boys and men. 9:30 A.M., at the Y. M. C. A. Building the workers were out in good numbers and the meeting was a good one. The boys received some very good advice 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building helping them to get the right start after their vacation. The meeting was one of the best. Committees did some excellent work in the city jail, home, and penitentiary 10 A. M. 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Building Committee Wm. Minor delivered a timely address to the men touching upon the soldiers and the work. Men be on time Sunday ready for hard work and the other man. Come to the special meeting for the workers 9:30 A. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mothers send your boys to the meeting for them 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Committeeman R. L. Allen will address them. Every boy is invited. All men are invited to hear one of the workers speak 5:30 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. Mr. W. W. Inpton A. Hoe ley. Live music from Washington, D. C. Tell the other fellow. The Bible class for boys will open Tuesday Sept. 25th., 7 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. The Men's Bible class will open Tuesday Sept. 25th 8 P. M. M. C. A. Watch for the Volley Ball here to make it live as you did the croquet. 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The brainy one rushed upstairs and made a few vicious gestures at the leaking pipes, and then ran back to his office again. He stood there like Joshua of old—commanding the waters to stand still, and stop ruining his books. He rushed out and called for assistance. Two men came and suggested that the water be cut off. The learned one said, "Ye gods no! " Go up and mop up the water and save my books." Why don't you push the books out of the way, said the men. The learned man said, GOLLY' I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT. NUFACTURING CO Bluefield, W. VA. TWO HEY PLANET SATURDAY.....Sept. 22, 1917. ROANOKE NOTES ROANOKE, VA., Sept. 17.—In passing through the streets of Roanoke Sunday morning, between the hours of ten and ten-thirty, I noticed a group of young white men and colored men and boys in an entrance to a store shooting crap on Sabbath morning. Within two hundred and fifty yards North on the same street stood a church, where services were being held. I wondered to myself if civilization was not drifting back to heathenism.—M. Stanfield. Mr. and Mrs. Lizzie Wright spent their week's vacation at Red Plains, Franklin county, Va., where they reported having enjoyed themselves very nicely, at and around their old homestead. Rev. T. J. King filled the pulpit Sunday morning and at night. Two wonderful seminars were delivered and many were persuaded to come into the fold of the church and to help make the world better. The collection was $92.00 J. C. Dugger and Mrs. Hattie L. Dugger have returned from their ten days' trip to Halifax County, Houston, South Boston, Chester Springs and Boll Springs, where they enjoyed the products of his uncle's farm as only a city man can. He is on the job for work now. Brother Thomas Burwell, the young preacher of Kittrell College, North Carolina, preached to the people of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church, last Sunday night. His text was, I Peter, 3:3: "The Lord is not shack concerning His promises, as some man count slackness: but is long-suffice to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." He handled the text with much pains and careful instruction to the satisfaction of the entire audience, wherein God has always been faithful and true to His promise to the children of men in all ages. Mrs. Pauline Cosby, of New York is visiting her mother and friends, of Pulaski, Va. spent the week end with Mrs. Edward Reeves, 603 Sixth avenue. She was accompanied by Miss Callie Carter on her return trip as far as Washington. Mrs. Edward Reeves and Mrs. Maud Willis will leave Thursday to visit Wytheville and Kimball, W. Va. While in Kimball she will be the guest of Mrs. Pearly Peckins. Mrs. J. T. Thompson, of 516 Ninth street, N. W. and Soushi, Miss Middlebury, who have spent a week visiting Mrs. Thompson will make a flying trip to Detroit, Mich. Thursday evening. Mr. George Ready, of 2819 Webster avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. has been in the city about two weeks and surrounding country for his health, stopping at the quiet and comfortable home of Mr. James and Emma Wright, 722 Gahnsboro avenue. I met Mr. Ready soon after his arrival. He was quite thin but I remarked to him that he had struck the town and climate for health and recuperation. So Mr. Ready has decided that I knew whereof I spoke. Miss Rhodia L. Hill, 902 S. Jefferson street left, the city Sunday, September 9th for Greensboro, N. C. where she spent the ensuing week with her mother, Mrs. Jessie Hill and her uncle, Rev. T. D. Ware. She reports having had the most delightful trip of her life. She returned last Sunday much refreshed. Mrs. Maria Harris, of Ninth avenue, N. W. returned Thursday last, after six weeks vacation in Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. Jane Palmer, of East Radford Va. is visiting Mrs. Essie Watkins, 630 Eighth avenue, N. W. Mrs. Lelle McPherson Early arrived in the city September 3, and is stopping at their home, 348 Harrison avenue, N. W. Mrs. Early is from Pittsburgh, Pa. for a three weeks' stay in Roanoke. The revival at the High Street Baptist Church is being conducted under the direction of Rev. Dr. T. J. King, of Richmond and the praying people of the High Street Church and of the city. It is hoped that a spiritual success may result to the entire church and community. Mrs. M. H. Douglass returned from a trip to New York and Atlantic City and Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Gatlin, of Cleveland, Ohio is visiting his mother, Mrs. Nora Bugg. Mr. John Lewis returned from Knoxville, Tenn., where he spent ten days visiting his family. Let Joe Dugger or M. Stanfield serve you every Saturday with the colored papers of the United States. Leave your order at 207 Fifth avenue N. W. Mrs. Palmyra Harris, of Bluefield, W. Va. is visiting in the city. Mr. J. A. Gatlin returned to the city after a successful season at Atlantic City and New York City. He will enter Howard University again this year. Mr. Hunter Terry and Mr. Charles Poindexter returned from Pittsburgh and Columbus, where they spent their vacation. Mr. Park Wade, formerly of the famous Rabbit Foot show has located in his home town, Roanoke. He has opened a lunch room at Hotel Hampton and will be glad to see his many friends. Miss Margret Smith, Mrs. Viola Holland and Mr. Boyd Cophas, of Columbus, Ohio are visiting friends and relatives in Roanoke. Mrs. M. D. Barlow, of 66 Chestnut avenue left for Columbus, O. and Pittsburgh, Pa., where she will join her son, Master Clemons Barlow, who is now in Pittsburgh attending school. Miss Marquena Taylor, the daughter of Rev G. C. Taylor, 115 Seventh avenue, N. W. is quite ill at this writing. She is very little improved since first taken sick. Professor M. Traynham, 226 Fifth avenue, N. W. is very much indisposed at this writing. Rev. J. J. Mayo, of Roanoke preached two sermons at Maria Baptist Church, of Lynchburg, Va., on Sunday, September 9th, Rev. Farmer is the pastor of this church. Mr. Isaiah Cooper, of Brooklyn, N. Y. is visiting his relative in the city. He is a brother of Dr. J. S. and T. C. Cooper and Mr. A. F. Brooks. Have you joined the Magic City Building and Loan Association? Why not? Let Joe Dugger explain it to you. Joseph Dugger and his wife spent ten days visiting his uncles, Washington Harris and Isaac Crawley on their 142 acre farm down in Halifax County, six miles from South Boston, Va. They have a large crop of corn and tobacco and other vegetables. MI of the colored farmers have excellent crops. Sunday, September 9th, there was baptism, preaching and communion at Borah Springs Baptist Church. Twelve converts were baptized by Rev. Wilson before a large congregation. This was the closing of a successful revival at this church and another victory for God. Next Week at Hampton Theatre, September 17—Bensbow Stock Co. 12 people, also big line of feature pictures. 5 reels daily. Monday, American Girl; Tuesday, Fighting Trail; Wednesday, Pearl of the Army; Thursday, Mystery of the Double Cross—only 2 more; Friday, Helen Holmes, Railroader; Saturday, Our Girl Reporter. Come to your house and show race pride, where you can see the display of colored talent. The Helping Hand Home Society held their regular monthly business meeting at the residence of Sister Emma Brown, 309 Ninth avenue, N.E. There were about thirty members present. There were eighteen new members brought in by members of the club. We had a lovely meeting and each member seems to be very much interested in the progress of the club. There is much union and harmony existing among us. We are trying to help uplift fallen humanity. Come in and help us. We were highly entertained with refreshments of the season and we all went home happy. Georgia A. Hairston, President; Mary Alice Robertson, Secretary. In dear, but sad remembrance of my father, Randolph Pleasant Barlow, who died the 16th day of September, 1891. Twenty-six years have passed and my heart yet is sad, but I know some day I'll meet thee where parting will be no more. Shall we sleep, shall we greet thee, yes we shall meet; we shall meet beyond the river, where parting will be no more. His daughter, —Lizzie Barlow Thompson, 515 Seventh avenue, N. W. Mrs Lizzie Barlow Thompson was at home Thursday night. 13th, to her visiting friends of Pittsburgh, Pa. Among the friends were Mrs. Sadele Calloway Barnsdale, Mrs. Marla Young, Mrs. Willie Walker, Mrs. Josephine Haston, Mrs. B. M. Osbon, Mrs. J. H. Board, Mrs. Ida Williams, Mrs. Sarah Graham, Mrs. Eddie Reed of Chicago, Mrs. Lee Calloway, Miss Pauline Banks. Among the men were Dr. Mosley, M. D. Barlow, William Preston, E. T. Tate, Charles Lawson, Walker Scott, W. H. Hughes, J. H. Taylor, of Tennessee. The low suite of rooms was beautifully decorated for the occasion, Mrs. Thompson served a twenty course supper. Mrs. Lizzie Thompson will entertain her friends Tuesday night in honor of her cousin, Mrs. Clydie Barns, of Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED—A good man to fill the place as Janitor for the Oriole Apartment. Strictly reliable. $25.00 a month. Apply, Dr. B. C, Keister, 22 Seventh avenue, S. W., Phone 1155. LITTLE WILLIE'S LETTER "I have no garden, drive on," was the way Hon. M. T. Whitteic, Editor of The McDowell Times, of Keystone, W. Va. greeted Little Willie Sunday night in the lobby at Hotel Hampton in the Magic City. Now first of all, the out of town folk will ask, Where is Keystone, W. Va?. Where and what is Hotel Hampton? And what is meant by, "I have no garden, drive on. I can't use it?" Well just, everybody knows Editor Whitteic, of the McDowell Times which is the strongest Negro journal in West Virginia. Keystone is the hustling city situated between a high mountain and a small stream called Tug River and has as its citizens a set of high-class men of the race, who stand for push and hustle in the business world. West Virginia is sometimes called the capital of Keystone. Hotel Hampton, formerly Hotel Pierce, of Roanoke, is the best hotel for colored people between Philadelphia and Atlanta. This house is under new management, refurnished throughout and is up to Now in every way, the stopping place of best people traveling. Now, don't ask any more questions. You know what they mean when they say, "Drive on, I have no garden," and so did Editor Whittico know, but he really wanted all he could get, that he might have lots to say about the Magic City in his popular sheet this week. So read the McDowell Times this week and see all about Roanoke, as handed out to the West Virginia Editor by Little Willie. All about the business men of the Magic City. It appears this week, unless the "Health Officers" stopped the editor. At the Hampton Theatre this week, the famous Benbow players are drawing crowds nightly. This is a high class company of twelve people, headed by Mr. W. M. Benbow. They are putting on good, clean plays that please the public. Virginia Liston, an old favorite here is with the company and is screaming them nightly with her many "Blues," unlike many performers that use the "Blues" she is refined in her delivery and above all, CLEAN—that counts for much, as our people are at the THE RICHMOND PLANE1, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA point that you don't have to resort to smut to get applause. Deliver the goods as Miss Liston is doing here, and you will get the hands. We are glad to have high class performers as our entertainers at all times and the Hampton is booking only such shows, and when they are otherwise, they get a pink slip with a can attached. The Benbow playres are great: good voices, pretty girls and A1 wardrobe. Mr. J. Howard Buford, of Orange. N. J. is in the city for a few days on business, stopping in the "bachelor den" with Little Willie. "The Fighting Trail" said to be the strongest out-door motion picture made, opened at the Hampton Tuesday of this week. This picture is in twenty-five parts, and will run at the Hampton every Tuesday. Come to the Hampton. It's your house, owned and controlled by your people. No back entrance, no stairs to climb, good music, swell shows. Spend your money with your own people, where you get to see the best pictures to head. Love your country, love your race, fear God and do the right; then take a policy with the N. C. Mutual. LETT.B. WILLIE COLORED CONSCRIPTS WILL GO TO CAMP DOGE. Regiment of Colored Men To Be Trained at Iowa Cantonment. Number of Negroes Drawn with First Contingent Net Known Room to be Made For Them by Transfer of Drafted Men to National Guard Regiments at Deming, N. M. (Special to Times Republican.) Division Headquarters, Eighty-eighth Division, First Overseas Army, Camp Dodge. Sept 12. Advices here today from unofficial sources at Washington are that a regiment of Negro conscript soldiers will be trained at Camp Dodge. They are to come from the four states in this division—Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota. Secretary Baker has announced definitely that Iowa Negroes would be trained at Camp Dodge. Adjutant General Guy E. Logan, in charge of mobilization of conscripts previous to their arrival at Camp Dodge, said to day it was impossible to estimate the number of Iowa Negroes drafted in the first increment until full reports from county boards were in. The Negrees will not be summoned however, until all other conscripts are settled at Camp Dodge. That means the middle of October at the earliest. Colored men who will soon receive commissions at the official training school at Fort Des Moines will command the regiment. Room for the Negro regiment of 3,605 will be made when the war department completes the draft of conscript soldiers from the Eighty-eighth division here to fill the depleted ranks of the Thirty-third division now training at Deming, New Mexico. The exact number to be drafted has not been announced by the war department, but it is anticipated that enough men will be taken from the individual state conscript quotas to fill the ranks of the regiments from which drafts were made to fill up the regiments sent to the rainbow division from this territory. In Iowa alone this would mean 2,400 men for each of the two Iowa regiments at Deming, or 4,800 all told—one-third of Iowa's first army quota. Camp Dodge is still wrestling with the problem of whipping the first batch of conscripts into shape. Newspaper men and civilians are still barred from the registration rooms and no records of assignments will be available for several days Men are transferred from one branch of the service to another daily as their qualifications are sifted. Their drill is light. Many have not received uniforms. Others have hats, shirts and shoes but no trousers have been issued them. Some of the soldiers were uncomfortable with the extremely low temperature of the last few nights. ACCOMAC NEWS Accomac, Va., Sept. 17.—Mrs. Grace Ashby and her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Richardson and two daughters-in-law, Mrs. J. H. Davis and Mrs. H. J. Pittman, are the guest of her daughter, Miss Bridget Davis near Frogstoolo, Va. Mrs. S. B. Smith left for Baltimore Friday last for a short trip. Miss Shealy Smith, who has been ill in the Salisbury Hospital, is much improved at home. We are sorry to note that our most worthy pastor, Rev. P. H. Arnold, at Norfolk, who has been pastoring New Mt. Zion Baptist Church, near Painter, Va. for about three years, is going to leave here soon. It will not be easy to place a man of God in his stead in our pulp. We say farewell, and may God bless him all through the journey of life and may God's right arm be his last place of rest. RONCEVERTE NEWS Ronceverte, W. Va., Sept. 16—Rev. I. H. Carpenter filled his pulpit here Sunday. Mrs. L. B. Johnson and brother, Mr. Edmonds, have returned from Union, W. Va. Mr. Edmonds will return to Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Berthelia Johnson is visiting her cousin, Miss Alice Green. Miss Helen Woodly has returned to Bluefield Va., after visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Rosa Cockrain. Little Hazel Green, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morton is very ill at her home on Main street. Mr. Oliver White and Mr. William Brown spent Sunday at Green's Hotel Miss Augustine Patterson was a business visitor at White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Essex Hunter were visitors at Union, W. Va. Mr. James Liggons has received a black eye. We are very sorry to see it. Mr. and Mrs. James Justice have returned to take up their school work at Ronceverte, W. Va. Rev. G. H. Carter spent Sunday in Lewisburg, W. Va. THE SUPREME COURT REFUSES AUBREY BARRETT WRITE. But Highest State Tribunal Calls Attention to Omissions in the Record Which Will Probably Be Supplied in Another Petition Counsel for Negro Youth is Epected to Present —Supreme Court Holds That Trial Judge Hundley Was Not Limited to Impostion of the Death Sentence. An opinion rendered by the supreme court of appeals at Staunton refuses a writ of error and supersedes in the case of Aubrey Barrett, the Negro youth tried and sentenced by Judge George J. Hundley in the circuit court of Charlotte county for murder in the first degree. In refusing the writ, however, the supreme court calls attention to important omissions from the transcript of the record that accompanied the petition. To quote, the supreme court says: "The record does not disclose the relation between the two Barretts the evidence relative to the murder, the age of Aubrey, the circumstances attending the entry of the plea of guilty, nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court." The petition declared that the trial court had no power to impose the punishment of life imprisonment, in stead of death, but the supreme court says that this contention is not well founded as section S of the constitution provides that, in a case of this kind, the court "shall hear and determine the case," and that, the supreme court holds, invests the trial court with all the power and discretion vested in the jury by the statute prescribing the punishment for murder. In other words, the supreme court directly contradicts the trial judge, who, in the course of a controversy that arose after the trial, contended that he had no power to impose any punishment except the death penalty. It is regarded as altogether probable that counsel for the Negro youth will present another petition to the supreme court in which will be embodied the portions of the record emitted before, and to which the supreme court calls attention. Abney Barrett is under sentence to d'e Sept. 30, having been reprieved by Governor Stuart from August 31, when his father was electrocuted. SUPREME COURT'S ATTITUDE. Following is the text of the supreme court's decision: In the supreme court of appeals, held at the courthouse thereof, in the city of Staunton, on Thursday, the 13th day of September, 1917 The petition of Aubrey Barrett for a writ of error and superseeds to a judgment pronounced by the circuit court of Charlotte county on the 26th day of July, 1917, in a prosecution by the commwealth against the petitioner for a felony, murder in the first degree whereby it was considered by the court that the said Aubrey Barrett be electrocuted according to law; having been maturely considered and the transcript of the record of the judgment afrecaid seen and inspected the court being of the following opinion: "The record in this case remains none of the evidence and discloses nothing of what took place at the trial, except that the petitioner and Albert Barrett were jointly indicted, and upon arraignment pleaded not guilty and elected to be tried ap artately. After conviction of Albert Barrett, the record shows that Aubrey Barrett withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty, and by his consent in person, entered in open court, elected to be tried by the court, and the attorney for the commwealth consented thereto, and after hearing the testimony found him guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced him to be electrocuted. The record does not the relation between the two Barretts, the evidence relative to the murder, the age of Aubrey, the circumstances attending the entry of the plea of guilty nor any objection or exception to the action of the trial court. The assignment of error that the trial court had no power to impose the punishment of life imprisonment, instead of death, is without merit, as Section 8 of the constitution provides that, in a case of this kind the court "shall hear and determine the case," and that invests the court with all the power and discretion vested in the jury by the statute prescribing the punishment for murder; doth reject said petition and refuse said writ of error and superseeds, the effect of which is to affirm the judgment of said circuit court. (Richmond, Va., News-Leader, Sept. 15, 1917.) Y. M. C. A. NOTES Last Friday night was stormy but some of the men were out and the hour was a profitable one. The work for last Sunday was very good because of the interest taken by the boys and men. 9:30 A.M., at the Y. M. C. A. Building the workers were out in good numbers and the meeting was a good one. The boys received some very good advice 4 P. M. at the Y. M. C. A. 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The brainy one rushed upstairs and made a few vicious gestures at the leaking pipes, and then ran back to his office again. He stood there like Joshua of old—commanding the waters to stand still, and stop ruining his books. He rushed out and called for assistance. Two men came and suggested that the water be cut off. The learned one said, "Ye gods no! " Go up and mop up the water and save my books." Why don't you push the books out of the way, said the men. The learned man said, GOLLY! I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT. BIG TIMBER BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Estella Benton, left a peniless 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. Fyfe pays a visit. Stella is repolied by him, although she feels the force of his personality. Stella wants to quit, but her brother dissuades her. He takes the gang back to Fyfe's camp. Stella visits Fyfe's camp while her brother there. It is an improvement over Charlie. Fyfe's the Bentons and qualls a drunken not among the loggers. Charlie gets intoxicated and Stella becomes all the more disgusted with her surroundings. Fyfe proposes marriage as a way out, but is rejected. STELLA went over that queer debate a good many times in the ten days that followed. It revealed Jack Fyfe to her in a new, inexplicable light, at old variance with her former conception of the man. She could not have visualized him standing with one foot on the stove front speaking calmly of love and marriage if she had not seen him with her own eyes, heard him with somewhat incredulous ears. She had continued to endow him with the attributes of unrestrained passion, of headlong leaping to the goal of his desires, of brushing aside obstacles and opposition with sheer brute force, and he had shown unreckoned qualities of restraint, of understanding. She was not quite sure if this were gulle or sensible consideration. He had put his case logically, persuasively even. She was very sure that if he had adopted emotional methods she would have been repelled. If he had laid siege to her hand and heart in the orthodox fashion she would have raised that siege in short order. As it stood, in spite of her words to him, there was in her own mind a hack of finality. As she went about her daily tasks that prospect of trying a fresh fling at the world as Jack Fyfe's wife tantalized her with certain desirable features Was it worth while to play the game as she must play it for some time to cone, dangle away at mean, sorridd work and anud the drearliest sort of environment? At best she could only get away from Charlie's camp and begin along new lines that might perhaps be little better, that must inevitably lie among strangers in a strange land. To what end? What did she want of life, anyway? She had to admit that she could not say fully and explicitly what she wanted. When she left out her material wants there was nothing but a nebulous craving for—what? Love, she assumed. And she could not define love, except as some incomprehensible transport of emotion which irresistibly drew a man and a woman together, a divine fire kindled in two hearts. It was not a thing she could vouch for by personal experience, It might never touch and warm her, that divine fire. Instinct did now and then warn her that some time it would wrap her like a flame. But in the meantime life had her in midstream of its remorseless, drab current, sweeping her along. A foothold offered. Half a loaf, a single slice of bread even, is better than none. Jack Fyfe did not happen in again for nearly two weeks and then only to pay a brief call, but he stole an opportunity, when Katy John was not looking, to whisper in Stella's car: "Have you been thinking about that bungeal of ours?" She shook her head, and he went out quietly without another word. He neither plended nor urged, and perhaps THE TOASTER That Was Only One of a Dozen Brutal Incidents. that was wisest, for in spite of herself Stella thought of him continually. He loomed always before her, a persistent, compelling factor. She knew at last, beyond any gain- saying, that the venture tempted, largely perhaps because it contained so great an element of the unknown. To get away from this soul dwarfing round meant much. She felt herself reasoning desperately that the frying pan could not be worse than the fire and held at least the merit of greater dignity and freedom from the twin evils of poverty and thankless domestic slavery. While she considered this, pro and con, shrinking from such a step one hour, considering it soberly the next, the days dragged past in wearisome sequence. The great depth of snow endured, was added to by spasmodic furries. The frosts held. The camp sethed with the restlessness of the men. In default of the daily work that consumed their superfluous energy the loggers argued and fought, drank and gambled, made "rough house" in their sleeping quarters till sometimes Stella's checks blanched and she expected murder to be done. Twice the Chleakamin came back from Roaring Springs with whisky aboard, and a protracted debauch ensued. Once a drunken logger shouldered his way into the kitchen to leer unpleasantly at Stella and, himself inflamed by liquor and the afront, Charlie Benton beat the mma until his face was a mass of bloody bruises. That was only one of a dozen brutal incidents. All the routine discipline of the woods seemed to have slipped out of Benton's hands. When the second whisky consignment struck the camp Stella stayed in her room, refusing to cook until order reigned again. Benton grumblingly took up the burden himself. With Katy's help and that of sundry loggers he fed the rolering crew, but for his sister it was a two day period of protest disgust. That mood, like so many of her moods, relapsed into dogged endurance. She took up the work again when Charlie promised that no more whisky should be allowed in the camp. "Though it's 10 to 1 I won't have a corporal's guard left when I want to start work again," he grumbled. "I'm well within my rights if I put my foot down hard on any jinks when there's work, but I have no license to set myself up as guardian of a logger's morals and pocketbook when I have nothing for him to do. These fellows are paying their board. So long as they don't make themselves obnoxious to you I don't see that it's our funeral whether they're drunk or sober. They'd tell me so quick enough." To this pronouncement of expediency Stella made no rejoinder. She no longer expected anything much of Charlie in the way of consideration. So far as she could see, she, his sister, was little more to him than one of his loggers; a little less important than, say, his donkey engineer. In so far as she conducted to the well being of the camp and effected a saving to his credit in the matter of preparing food, he valued her and was willing to concede a minor point to satisfy her. Beyond that Stella felt that he did not go. Five years in totally different environments had dug a great gulf between them. He felt an arbitrary sense of duty toward her, she knew, but in its manifestations it never happed over the bounds of his own immediate self interest. Stella looked out along the shores piled high with broken ice and snow, through a misty air to distant mountains that lifted themselves imperiously aloof, white spires against the sky—over a forest all draped in winter robes; shore, mountains, and forest allike were chill and hushed and desolate. The lake spread its forty odd miles in a boomerang curve from Roaring Springs to Fort Douglas, a cold, lifeless gray. She sat a long time looking at that, and a dend weight seemed to settle upon her heart. She did not hear Jack Fyfo come in. She did not dream he was there until she felt his hand gently on her shoulder and looked up. And so deep was her despondency, so keen the unassuaged craving for some human sympathy, some measure of understanding, that she made no effort to remove his hand. She was in too deep a spiritual quagmire to refuse any sort of aid, too deeply moved to indulge in analytical self fathoming. She had a dlm sense of being oddly comforted by his presence, as if she, affloat on uncharted seas, saw suddenly near at hand if safe anchorage and welcoming hands. Afterward she recalled that. As it was, she looked up at Fyfe and hid her tear stained face in her hands. He stood silent a few seconds. When he did speak there was a peculiar hesitation in his voice. "What is it? he said softly. "What's the trouble now?" Briefly she told him, the barriers of her habitual reserve swept aside before the essentially human need to share a burden that has grown too great to bear alone. "Oh, thunder!" Fyfe grunted when she had finished. "This isn't any place for you at all." He slid his arm across her shoulders and tilted her face with his other hand so that her eyes met his. And she felt no desire to draw away or any of that old instinct to be on her guard against him. "Will you marry me, Stella?" he asked evenly. "I can free you from this sort of thing forever." "How can I?" she returned. "I don't THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA want to marry anybody. I don't love you. I'm not even sure I like you. I'm too miserable to think, even. I'm afraid to take a step like that. I should think you would be too." He shook his head. "I've thought a lot about it lately," he said. "It hasn't occurred to me to be afraid of how it may turn out. Why borrow trouble when there's plenty at hand? I don't care whether you love me or not, right now. You couldn't possibly be any worse off as my wife, could you?" "No," she admitted. "I don't see how I could." "Take a chance then," he urged. "I'll make a fair bargain with you. I'll make life as pleasant for you as I can. You'll live pretty much as you've been brought up to live, so far as money goes. The rest we'll have to work out for ourselves. I won't ask you to pretend anything you don't feel. You'll play fair because that's the way you're made—unless I've sized you up wrong. I'll simply be a case of our adjusting ourselves, just as matting couples have been doing since the year one. You've everything to gain and nothing to lose." "In some ways," she murmured. "Every way," he insisted. "You are not handcapped by caring for any other man." "How do you know?" she asked. "Just a hunch," Fyfe smiled. "If you did he'd have haunted me to the rescue long ago—if he were the sort of man you could care for." "No," she admitted, "there isn't any other man, but there might be. Think how terrible it would be if it happened—afterward." Fyfe shrugged his shoulders. "Sufficient unto the day," he said. "There is no string on either of us just now. We start even. That's good enough. Will you?" "You have me at a disadvantage," she whispered. "You offer me a lot that I want, everything but a feeling I've somehow always believed ought to exist, ought to be mutual. Part of me J. B. B. Before She Was Quite Aware of His Intention He Kissed Her. wants to shut my eyes and jump. Part of me wants to hang back. I can't stand this thing I've got into and see no way of getting out of. Yet I dread starting a new train of wretchedness. I'm afraid—whichever way I turn! Fyfe considered this a moment. "Well," he said finally, "that's a rather unfortunate attitude. But I'm going into it with my eyes open. I know what I want. You'll be making a sort of experiment. Still, I advise you to make it. I think you'll be the better for making it. Come on. Say yes." Stella looked up at him, then out over the banked snow, and all the dreary discomforts, the mean drudgery, the sordid shifts she had been put to for months rose up in disheartening phalanx. For that moment Jack Fyfe loomed like a tower of refuge. She trusted him now. She had a feeling that even if she grew to dislike him she would still trust him. He would play fair. If he said he would do this or that she could bank on it absolutely. She turned and looked at him searchingly a half minute, wondering what really lay behind the blue eyes that met her own so steadfastly. He stood patiently, outwardly impassive. But she could feel through the thin stuff of her dress a quiver in the fingers that rested on her shoulder and that repressed sign of the man's pentup feeling gave her an odd thrill, moved her strangely, swung the pendulum of her impulse. "Yes," she said. Fyfe bent a little lower. "Listen," he said in characteristically blunt fashion. "You want to get away from here. There is no sense in our fussing or hesitating about what we're going to do, is there?" "No, I suppose not," she agreed. "I'll send the Panther down to the Springs for Lefty Howe's wife" he outlined his plans unhesitatingly. "She will get up here this evening. Tomorrow we will go down and take the train to Vancouver and be married. You have plenty of good clothes, good enough for Vancouver. I know"—with a whimstical smile—"because you had when you came last summer, and you've had no chance to wear them out. Then we'll go somewhere—California, Florida, and come back to Roaring Lake in the spring. You'll have all the bad taste of this out of your mouth by that time." Stella nodded acquiescence. Better to make the plunge boldly, since she had elected to make it. "All right. I'm going to tell Benton." Fyfe said. "Goodbyt till tomorrow." She stood up. He looked at her a long time earnestly, searchingly, one of her hands imprisoned tight between his two big palms. Then, before she was quite aware of his intention, he kissed her gently on the mouth and was gone. This turn of events left Benton dum-founded, to use a brite but expressive phrase. He came in, apparently to look L. J. HAYDEN Manufacturer of Pure Herb Medicines TO CURE ALL DISEASES OR NO CHARGE. 220 W. Broad, Richmond If so, call and see L. J. HAYDEN, Manufacturer of Pure Horb Medicines, 220 W. Broad Street, My Medicines will cure you, or no charge, no matter what your disease, slickness or affliction may be, and restore you to perfect health. 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Not at this stage of the game, as you occasionally remark." He ruminated upon this a minute, flushing slightly. "Well, I wish you luck," he said sincerely enough, "though I can hardly realize this sudden move. You and Jack Fyfe may get on all right. He's a good sort—in his way." "His way suits me," she said, spurred to the defensive by what she deemed a note of disparagement in his utterance "If you have any objections or criticisms you can save your breath—or address them direct to Mr. Fyfe." "No, thank you," he grinned. "I don't care to get into any argument with him, especially as he's going to be my brother-in-law. Fyfe's all right. I didn't imagine he was the sort of man you'd fancy, that's all." Stella refrained from any comment on this. She had no intention of admitting to Charlie that marriage with Jack Fyfe commended itself to her chiefly as an avenue of escape from a well high intolerable condition which he himself had inflicted upon her. 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Things have been sort of lean around here, maybe, but I still think it's a pity you couldn't have stuck it out till it came smoother. I hate to see you going away with a chronic grouch against me." She sat on the closed lid of her trunk, looking at the check and money, three hundred and sixty dollars, all told. A month ago that would have spelled freedom, a chance to try her luck in less desolate fields. Well, she tried to consider the thing philosophically. It was no use to be bowal what might have been. In her hands now lay the shinews of war she had foregone all need of waging. It did not occur to her to repudiate her bargain with Jack Fyfe. She had given her promise, and she considered she was bound irrevocably. Indeed, for the moment she was glad of that. She was worn out, all weary with unaccustomed stress of body and mind. To her just then rest seemed the sweetest boon in the world. Any port in a storm, expressed her mood. What came after was to be met us it came. 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A.M., local; 0:30 A.M. 8:17 P.M. THREE FOUR HEY LUNET Published every aturday by John Mitchell, Jr., at 511 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. BAPTIST TROUBLES. As the National Baptist Convention presided over by Rev. E. C. Morris, D. D., seems to have been the largest in the history of that organization and the results attained are said to have been satisfactory to the present management, it is to be regretted that the body did not send a message to the other side at Atlanta, Ga., then in session with the words, "Let us depart in peace." Certainly the two bodies, if their glowing reports are to be believed, show that more work is being accomplished for the Master with the two organizations than was ever done when the one of them, embracing the membership of both bodies was in operation. We say this on the basis of the paradoxical reports sent out by the two organizations, which must be accepted at their face value regardless of our opinion of the accuracy of either the one or the other of the reports. The financial reports, by which we must necessarily be guided will constitute an index of the progress of both bodies. Both sides are suffering from a lack of money. The amount due President Morris and Secretary Hudson should be paid. The former has expressed a willingness to retire from the presidency and we do not blame him. The National Baptist Convention should pay him the full amount due him before accepting his resignation, if he contemplates tendering the same. He has rendered great service to the denomination and ranks among the great churchmen of the country. We have never understood why Rev. Dr. Boyd of Nashville, who is the moving power behind the other organization has not seen fit to arrange for an adjudication of the questions now agitating the Baptist denomination and accept the management of the publishing house, conducted by the two wings of this great organization. In the absence of such an agreement the proposition of Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham is the only one to be adopted. Let the National Baptist Publishing Board's Plant alone and build one. It will be cheaper in the long run. It may be if Dr. Morris is paid the full amount due him and a conservative is elected to the presidency harmony may be restored, although Dr. Boyd and Dr. Jones are not made of compromising material. President Jones is of a combative type and he might prove to be a stumbling block in the way of peace. "A MESSAGE TO THE BAPTISTS." The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Black Dispatch, under the caption, "A message to the Baptists," well says; It were well sometimes to get away from petty details and narrow horizons and go up in the mountain top and take a broadened view of life situations and then many a little personal grievance will from the majesty of distance disappear, and things of weigater importance, of more vital necessity to church and race grow, with stand out in the horizon as the only things worth while. The powers of evil looking down upon the triumphal advancement of American Baptist Hosts, seeing that almost alone among the churches they stood as adamant against the frivolity and pursuit of the lesser vices, searing the spiritual life of the world, determined for them a dire isaster, some great obstruction must be hurled in the van or this over-growing, over-advancing church. Evil questioned, How can I turn these swords now drawn against error, one against the others heart? Her purpose has been effected Great gashes have been cut in the Baptist heart. You cannot go into a community where you cannot find the church membership at swords point. If the time of our church services is taken up by denunciation of church leadership, on either sde, how much time is left for spiritual development and real church growth. We are heralding race weakness into the face of an already existing lack of confidence in the other race. We may speak the words that will break race confidence in its leadership and when we have thus thoroughly instructed them we shall reap it in utter apathy when we appeal to them to man for us the ranks of the church. The scriptures say, "Cover a shamofal matter." We herald race disgrace, when if we have been careless, unbusinesslike, even though un- wittingly, the duty yet confronts us to return again to council and seek that power of Christ to rectify these errors, rendering asunder today the Baptist church. Let us get up in the mountain top, we who love Baptism. Let us forget our personal grievances and ambitions and opinions, else there may be no future days for the wonderful Baptist church. Upon one common ground the opposing forces may harmonize. That procedure which will prove love for this church. From this bals much can be hoped. Am I loving the Baptist church. No man having a personal grievance but should efface himself at this hour of crisis. Men of charity of good judgment, of firmness alone can heal the breach. This conservative talk is all right. To a person or to an organization, not crazed by passion or smarting under wrongs, real or imaginary, it gives food for reflection and thought. Certainly when the spell of anger, and the flood of passion is over, this talk will be accepted at its true worth. Certainly, the editor demonstrated the reading public that he possesses an intellect of a high order and that he is a safe guide in other channels than those relating to religion. While the talk may do no good, we certainly commend the advice given to both sides in this great religious controversy. THE AMATUR ATHLETIC UNION RE-ELECTS ITS OFFICERS. M. Alfonso Norrell, of Richmond, becomes Member of Board of Managers. St. Louis Delegates Are Named. Baltimore, Md., September 17.—All of last year's officers of the South Atlantic Association of the Amateur Athletic Union were re-elected unanimously by the members present at the Baltimore, Athletic Club tonight. Latrobe Cogawell, who acted as its presiding officer, was re-elected president as was Reginald Rutherford the vice-president, of Washington; William L. Lehmkuhler was designated to act in two capacities—secretary and treasurer. Action for the enlisting year Delegates to the Amateur Athletic Union of America which meets in St. Louis on October 15, also were elected, and the following will represent the local body in St. Louis'; Latrobe Logswen, Dr. William Budick, George J. Turner president of the Amateur Athletic Union; Colonel Washington Bowie, Jr., William J. Leimkuhler and Reginald Rutherford of Washington. The alternates; Miss Elizabeth U. Meehan, athletic director of the local Women's Central Young Women's Christian Association; J. J. McAllister, Frank Connolly, J. C. Doyle, H. Sadtler and Dan Younger. The registration committee is composed of Dr. William Burdick, John C. Doyle and C. J. Dean, of Washington. The board of managers are George J. Turner. Dr. William Burdick. Latrobe Cogswell, J. J. McAllister, Dan Younger, W. J. Lelmukhier, J. C. Doyle and Miss Elizabeth U. Meehan, of this city; C. J. Dean, of Washington, D. C., and M. Alphonso Norrell, of Richmond. Joseph T. England was re-elected handcanner. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. Required by the Act of Congress of August 21, 1912. --- Of Planet, published weekly, at Richmond, Virginia, for October, 1917 State of Virginia, County of Henrico, Before me a notary in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared John Mitchell, Jr., who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Publisher and Owner of The Planet, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc. of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, John Mitchell, Jr., 311 North Fourth street, Richmond, Va. Editor, John Mitchell, Jr. Managing Editor, John Mitchell, Jr. Business Managers, John Mitchell, Jr. 2. That the owner is, John Mitchell, Jr. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of September, 1917 ALBERT V. NORRELL, JR., Notary Public. My commission expires Nov. 21, '19. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DR. HALL'S WILL PROBATED. Estate Valued at $100,00.—Other Items From Baltimore. (By Franklin Johnson.) Baltimore, Md., Sept. 20.—The will of the late Dr. Reverdy M. Hall was admitted to probate in the Orphan's Court Thursday of last week. It disposes of an estate said to be valued at $100,000. The widow, Mrs. F. Jeannette Hall is left an annual income of $1,200 to be paid in quarterly installments. Should she marry again the estate is to be divided equally between her two children, Mrs. Daniel C. Brown of this city and Dr. R. M. Hall Jr., of Milwaukee Wis. The two children are named executors without bond. The N. E. Home for the Aged is left $100, Edna Hall Brown, granddaughter of the testator, $200 and a gold watch and chain and a diamond stickpin to a nephew. The estate is to be divided between the two children at the death of their mother C. C. Fitzgerald is the attorney. Dr. Hall died on September 7. The funeral of James A. Smith, a well known resident of Cleveland, O., was held at the residence of his niece Mrs. Lillie L. Taylor 707 George St., Monday afternoon. The Rev. L. Z. Johnson and George F. Bragg, Jr., officiated. Interment was in Laurel Cemetery. The deceased died in Cleveland, O., Wednesday of last week following a hungering illness. He was born in Baltimore 63 years ago and received his education in a private school here. He had resided in Cleveland for the past 35 years. He had been connected with the Cleveland Postoffice since 1891 and at the time of his death was connected with the inquiry division. A widow, Mrs. Lillie Smith and five sisters are among the surviving relatives. George E. Gordon, of Chalsea, Mass., supreme keeper of records and seal of the smaller wing of Knights of Pythias, spent Saturday and Sunday here, the guest of the Supreme Chancellor W. Ashble Hawkins. The public schools reopened last Thursday. There are four new teachers in the Colored High, School, Miss Amelia Redden, Miss Brenda Monywick, John Berry and E. A. Burgess. Dr. James H. N. Waring, superintendent of the Howard Orphanage Kings Park, L. I., was in this city last week, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. S. S. Booker. He accompanied Mrs. Waring back home. John H. Murphy, Jr., is confined to his home 111 Division street, suffering from a slight attack of blood-poisoning resulting from injuries received in a fall. Ford T. Dabney, of New York City was a visitor here Monday and Tuesday. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. 628 N. Eutaw Baltimore News' Tribute to the Hon Harry S. Cummings. (Baltimore, Md., Nowa, Sept. 7.) Harry S. Cummings, one of the leading members of his race in this city, a capable lawyer and member of the First Branch City Council, who died last night demonstrated what the Negro can accomplish by work and in intelligent application. It was creditable to his sound judgment and tact that the first Negro to take his seat in an elective body in Maryland, he bore himself so as to win the respect and liking of his associates. He was well treated. Though never lukewarm in the cause of his own people, he knew instinctively how to conduct himself in a Southern city. He made few enemies. Placed in a position where it was easy to arouse race prejudices, he took the wiser path and found that it paid both for himself and for his race. It was a difficult task and the manner in which it was carried out deserves recognition. ABINGDON NEWS. Last Monday morning the doors of our public schools were thrown open for the session with a large number of pupils enrolled. Sunday morning Rev. W. H. Gray B. Th. of the Valley St. Baptist Church delivered a very instructive sermon and at night he administered The Lord's Supper to a large number Rev W. H. Ward of the M. E. church will attend his annual conference this week. Rev J. A. Valentine of the A. M. E. Church is planning to soon take his flock into their new house of worship. Mr. and Mrs. William Vance of Knox ville, Tenn., have been visiting relatives and friends in our town. DO YOU KNOW THEM? Washington; D. C., Sept. 18, 1917. Mr. Editor; I am hunting my people. My name is Osborne F. Dennis. I am fifty eight years old, was born in Henrico Co., Virginia, ran off from my mother when quite a child, have never seen nor heard from her since. A child's recollection of my home place was in Henrico Co., Virginia, thirteen miles from Richmond on the pike road and four miles from deep bottom, my father died when I was quite young. My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis married again. There were three children of the first marriage, two girls and a boy; Manerva and Josephine Dennis; the youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis. My father's name was Fred Dennis. My mother's owner was John Gofright Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. PROCLAIM RUSSIA A REPUBLIC Gen. Alexieff's Forces and Revolutionists Near Clash During Negotiations, But Premier's Firm Stand Saved Situation. Russia has been proclaimed a republic. The provisional government issued the proclamation dated September 14. The proclamation follows: "General Kornilloff's rebellion has been quelled. But great is the confusion caused thereby, and again great is the danger threatening the fate of the fatherland and its freedom. "Holding it necessary to put an end to the external indefiniteness of the state's organization, remembering the unanimous and rapturous approval of the republican idea expressed at the Moscow state conference, the provisional government declares that the constitutional organization according to which the Russian state is ruled is a republican organ'zation and if hereby proclaims the Russian Republic (Signod) "Mintster and President, Kerensky: "Minister of Justice, Yacoudul." (The title "minister and president" affixed to Premier Kerensky's signature to the proclamation probably refers to his position as president of the ministry, rather than of the republic.) The provisional government anounced that all affairs of state had been entrusted to five members of the cabinet. The following official communication was issued: "Panding the definite constitution of a cabinet, and in view of the pres ent extraordinary circumstances, all affairs of state have been entrusted to M. Kerensky, premier; M. Terest chenko, minister of foreign affairs; General Verkovsky, minister of war; Admiral Verdevski, minister of marine, and M. Nikifin, minister of posts and telegraphs. The surrender of General Korniloff took place without bloodshed, but only after prolonged negotiations, during which a collision seemed inevitable. When the government army under General Korontokoff was marching from Orsha on Mohilley, General Korontokoff was negotiating with General Alexeft, chief of staff, who already had reached Mohilley, but was unable to effect Korontokoff's arrest owing to the fact that part of the local forces was emphatically for Korontokoff, and prepared to defend him to the last. Korontokoff and Lokomsky laid down conditions under which they were willing to surrender their swords, the nature of which has not yet been reported. Both showed considerable obstinacy and the negotiations broke down. General Alexieff telegraphed to Premier Korensky a description of the position at Mohilley, expressing the opinion that a majority of the local troops were sliding with Korniloff, Korensky refused to countenance delay and gave the order to General Alexieff to execute immediately the order of arrest, and as Alexieff still hesitated to provoke a conflict, Korensky telegraphed him that if Korniloff had not surrendered within two hours, he would conclude that Alexieff was Korniloff's prisoner and would take other measures for the expulsion of the counter-revolutionists from Mohilley. In the meantime government troops were being steadily concentrated on Mohlely, barring the roads and capturing all fugitives, among these being Kornilloff's ordinary officer, Zavolka, who took a prominent part in the rebellion, members of the union of the officers of the army and fleet and other prominent rebels. Kornilloff off surrendered apparently only when General Korotokoff's forces were near Mohlely and after the defection of his last supporting troops. Robert K. Young Dles Robert K. Young, former auditor general and state treasurer, died in the Blossburg hospital at Wellsboro Pa. He was fifty-six years old. Mr. Young was a bitter enemy or graft in politics and early in his career took leading rank as an "independent." Last June Mr. Young was badly in jure while fishing with former Governor Stone. His right leg was broken two inches below the hip joint and he lay in the water an hour and a half before ad reached him, and he was taken to the Blossburg hos hospital, where he has been since. Long Sentence For Araon: When Judge Endlich, in Reading, Pa., sentenced Dr. Richard A. Doerr, a medical specialist, pleading guilty to arson, to from three to twelve years in the penitentiary, his wife collapsed and her hysterical cries almost stopped proceedings in court and in an adjoining room, where a murder trial was in progress. Doerr and his wife, jointly indicted pleaded guilty to setting fire to their office in a business building recently to obtain the insurance. Sentence in the wife's case was suspended. She was carried out of the courtroom. General Dougherty Succeeds Stewart General C. B. Dougherty, of Wilkes Barre, has been selected by members of the Pennsylvania state armory board to act as vice chairman succeeding the late. Odjutant General Thomas J. Stewart. (Continued from First Page.) haps, intensified the crimes which folowed." Continuing, the committee says that the "undisputed and convincing testimony of witnesses prove that the Negro soldier went forth to stay the white population indiscriminately, that no Negro was hurt or abducted by them, not one Negro house was fired into and that the Negroes were warned before and during the riot to stay off the streets. AN ALLEGED REMARK "The testimony of the captain in charge of the fire station at Camp Logan and one of his assistants is that when the shooting began in the Negro camp, one of the Negro guards stationed at the fire station remarked that the troops were to shoot up Houston, that they had planned to do so on the preceding Tuesday night, but could not get quite ready. "This testimony and the testimony of numerous other circumstances in the record convince us (and our opinion is shared by Inspector-General John '7 Chamberlain, of the United States Army, who so expressed himself to us) that the prior conflicts with the police were mere incidents of the riot; that the riot was unquestionably contemplated prior to that date, that it probably would have occurred, though possibly not so severe, had the alteration between police officers and the Negro sergeant Baltimore, not taken place." FEELING OR HOSTILITY The report declares that shortly after the arrival of the Negro troops in Houston there was manifested by at least some of them a feeling of hostility and defiance of the State law requiring the separation of white and Negro races in the street cars; that when on leave of absence from the camp soldiers usually frequented those sections of Houston and those establishments where lowed and lawless elements of the Negro population are to be found that the Negro soldiers white abuse them that the discipline exon guard duty at Camp Logan, were arrogant and insulting toward white laborers seizing the most trivial circumstances as an excuse to curse and listing at the camp was grossly lax in moral conditions; jewel Negro women, some mere children, thirteen years of age, being permitted to free visit the camp and remain over night, and that such women were permitted to bring parcels into the camp without inspection by the sentries, keeping the soldiers liberally supplied with whisky* and other intoxicants. MEN NOT QUALIFIED FOR JOB. Concerning the superintendent of police, the report says: "For Mr. Brock as an individual we have a highest regard and it is no reflection on his personal character to say that in our opinion he is not qualified for the position he holds, a position the duties and responsibilities of which will become more important and grave when Camp Logan is occupied. His course towards Officer Sparks (Officer Sparks arrested sergeant Baltimore) shows it's inability to enforce discipline in difficult cases; his course on the night of the riot shows that he is not a safe leader in an emergency." STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE Mechanics Savings Bank Of Richmond, Va., located at Richmond in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business September 11th, 1917, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and discounts...$129,844.86 Overdrafts,.....$ 2,658.00 Bonds, securities, etc. owned, including premium on same..... 8,630.00 Banking house and lot. 41,063.99 Other real estate owned 83,699.75 Furniture and fixtures. 5,046.34 Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings 1,079.25 Other cash items..... 993.08 Due from National Banks 28,065.55 Due from State Banks, Private Bankers and Trust Companies..... 1,000.00 Paper Currency..... 5,728.00 Fractional paper currency 8,630.00 41,052.99 83,699.75 5,046.34 Capital stock paid in . . . $34,300.00 Dividends unpaid . . . 440.90 Individual deposits, in- cluding savings deposits 269,491.11 Time certificates of deposit 40.00 Certified checks . . . 278.66 Cashier's checks outstand- ing . . . 549.94 Bills payable. . . 16,500.00 Unearned discount . . . 3,310.37 Total . . . $325,000.98 I, John Mitchell, Jr., President, do solely swear that the above is a true statement of the financial con- dition of Mechanics Savings Bank, of Richmond, Va., located at Rich- mond, in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 11th day of Sep- ember, 1917, to the best of my knowl- edge and belief. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. President. THOMAS M CRUMP R. W. WHITING JOHN T. TAYLOR Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. Sworn to and subscribed before me by John Mitchell, Jr., President, this 20th day of September, 1917. ALBERT V. NORRELL, JR. Notary Public. My commission expres Nov. 21, 1919 MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited FLORENCE NEWS AND NOTES. FLORENCE, S. C., Sept. 18.—Mrs. M. J. McKay, of Watertown, S. Dakota is here visiting relatives and friends. She left here more than twenty-nine years ago for Paris, Tex., where she finished her schooling at Wiley University. She also raised a family here and educated them. A few years ago Mr. McKay, a South Carolinian died and now she is living with her children at Watertown, S. Dakota. She is visiting old friends at Kingstree, S. C. Mrs. Jeannette Mitchell, of Chicago, Ill. passed through here recently returning from Wade, Fla., where she went to the burial of her brother-in-law, Mr. Amos Graham. Mrs. Rosa Brown, of Marion, S. C. has returned from a visit to her sister at Rochelle, Ga. Mr. C. W. Wilson is home from Philadelphia. He was called to the bedside of his sick sister, Mrs. Janette Jenkins. He is to return soon. Rev. S. M. Zimmerman, of Mallory, S. C. passed through the city enroute to Darlington, S. C. to arrange for the burial of his sister, who died in New York, September 10. Miss Rosa Brown, his sister, has been a faithful member of Macedonia Baptist Church for more than twenty-five years. She will be very much missed by her friends and relatives. D. B. WEBSTER. BODY FOUND HANGED TO TREE (By Associated Press.) Athens, Ga., Sept. 18.—Early this morning persons passing along the country road near White Hall saw the body of a Negro tied to three trees and riddled with bullets. Investigation showed it to be the remains of Rufus Moncrief, a thirty year old Negro. Over his head was tacked a piece of paper bearing the words: "You have assaulted one white girl, but will not another." This paper is in the hands of the authorities. There is no other clue. Persons near the scene say that two automobiles came to the spot, just after midnight, that a fusillade of shots was heard and the machines went back toward Watkinsville. Bapt. Convention at Atlanta (Continued from 1st Page) Mrs. Helen A. Moore, Columbus, O., recording secret ry. The sessions of the Woman's Convention will be held in the Liberty Baptist Church, while the Laymen's Organization will hold forth in one of the local churches of the City. BRISTOL NEWS Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Sept. 16.—A party left the city for Christiansburg and Hampton Institute, Va. Messrs. Harrison Clay, Judge Davis and Cornellus Sanders will attend the Christiansburg Industrial School and Miss Corinth Steward will attend school at Hampton, Va. Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. A., September 16th, a fine son. Mother and son are doing fine. Congratulations. Mrs. Laura Fields wishes to announce the marriage of her youngest daughter, Miss Henrietta to Mr. Hanper Johnson, of Jenkins Jones, W. Va., which took place at the residence of Mrs. J. C. Campbell, 941 E. State street. It was a home wedding. We wish for them much success in life Dr. C. H. Johnson united them in marriage. Mr. Walter Smith made a flying trip to Johnson City, Tenn. Monday on business. Mr. W. M. H. Brown and party motored to Kingaport, Tenn. Monday night. The famous Negro Business League Glee Club motored to Ervine, Tenn. Monday, September 17, where they rendered a grand entertainment in the High School building. They were at their best and had to respond to a large number of encors. Hon. R. E. Clay, our wonderful orator, made a splendid address and received much applause. A splendid sum was realized. Mr. Walter Smith will leave for West Virginia to look after business. Mrs. Rebecca Barber, 614 Clinton avenue, Bristol, Va. left for Bowie, N. C. Saturday to spend a few weeks visiting Mrs. E. D. Harris and other relatives. Little Misses Leola and Elisa Kinseton, left for Jonesboro, Tenn. to attend school. Mr. A. M. Smith, the noted Dunkar reader and also a member of the Negro Business League Glee Club will leave for points West in two weeks. Mrs. Lawrence Franklin, 942 Lillie street has been sick for some time but is out again to the delight of her friends. VINTON NEWS. Vinton, Va., Sept 18—(Too late for Roanoke news.)—Mr. Willie Franklin, of Cattlesburg, Ky. Is here visiting his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin. Mr. Lory Thomas left for Columbus, O. to visit her daughter DO YOU KNOW HER? Communicate with undersigned attorney of Washington, D. C., an learn of something to your interest. State if you can come to Washing ton in September if necessary. ATTORNEY B. W. J. Caro PLANET, Richmond, Va I am very anxious to find the whereabouts, 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. R. E. Sturdivant's PHILADELHIA, PA. Boll 'Phono Poplar 6245 Madame Sturdivants OFFICE OF EMPLOYMENT. Select Help Furnished—We Furnish Employment to All Classes Colored and White. The Negro Agricultural & Technical College of North Carolina (Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) GREENSBORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 28—JULY 29, 1916 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address Dr. S. B. Jones, Director, Need #1 and secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. When our collector calls on you don't fail to pay him. Your subscription is due, pay it now. The East India Hair Grower Will Promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also restore the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If Your Hair Is Dry, and Wrry, Try— EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Fishing Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a Jar of East India Hair Grower. The remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulate the skin, helping Nature to do its work. Leaves the Hair Soft and Silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for heavy and beautiful Black eyebrows, also Restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price Sent by Mail, 50c S. D. LYONS, Gen. 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Certainly the two bodies, if their glowing reports are to be believed show that more work is being accomplished for the Master with the two organizations than was ever done when the one of them, embracing the membership of both bodies was in operation. We say this on the basis of the paradoxical reports sent out by the two organizations, which must be accepted at their face value regardless of our opinion of the accuracy of qither the one or the other of the reports. The financial reports, by which we must necessarily be guided will constitute an index of the progress of both bodies. Both sides are suffering from a lack of money. The amount due President Morris and Secretary Hudson should be paid. The former has expressed a willingness to retire from the presidency and we do not blame him. The National Baptist Convention should pay him the full amount due him before accepting his resignation, if he contemplates tendering the same. He has rendered great service to the denomination and ranks among the great chancellors of the country. We have never understood why Rev. Dr. Boyd of Nashville, who is the moving power behind the other organization has not seen fit to arrange for an adjudication of the questions now agitating the Baptist denomination and accept the management of the publishing house, conducted by the two wings of this great organization. In the absence of such an agreement the proposition of Rev. Dr. W. F. Graham is the only one to be adopted. Let the National Baptist Publishing Board's Plant alone and build one. It will be cheaper in the long run. It may be if Dr. Morris is paid the full amount due him and a conservative is elected to the presidency harmony may be restored, although Dr. Boyd and Dr. Jones are not made of compromising material. President Jones is of a combative type and he might prove to be a stumbling block in the way of peace. "A MESSAGE TO THE BAPTISTS." The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Black Dispatch, under the caption, "A message to the Baptists," well says; It were well sometimes to get away from petty details and narrow horizons and go up in the mountain top and take a broadened view of life situations and then many a little personal grievance will from the majesty of distance disappear, and thongs of weigater importance, of more vital necessity to church and growth, will stand out in the horizon as the only things worth while. The powers of evil looking down upon the triumphal advancement on American Baptist Hosts, seeing that almost alone among the churches they stood as adamant against the frivolity and pursuit of the lesser vices, searing the spiritual life of the world, determined for them a dire isaster, some great obstruction must be hurled in the van or this over-growing, over-avancing church. Evil questioned. How can I turn these swords now drawn against error, one against the others heart? Her purpose has been effected Great gashes have been cut in the Baptist heart. You cannot go into a community where you cannot find the church membership at swords point. If the time of our church services is taken up by denunciation of church leadership, on either side, how much time is left for spiritual development and real church growth. We are her alding race weakness into the face of an already existing lack of confidence in the other race. We may speak the words that will break race confidence in its leadership and when we have thus thoroughly instructed them we shall reap it in utter apathy when we appeal to them to man for us the ranks of the church. The scriptures say, "Cover a shameful matter." We herald race disgrace, when if we have been careless, unbusinesslike, even though un wittingly, the duty yet confronts us to return again to council and seek that power of Christ to rectify these errors, rendering asunder today the Baptist church. Let us get up in the mountain top, we who love Baptism. Let us forget our personal grievances and ambitions and opinions, else there may be no future days for the wonderful Baptist church. Upon one common ground the opposing forces may harmonize. That procedure which will prove love for this church. From this bals much can be hoped. Am I loving the Baptist church. No man having a personal grievance but should enface himself at this hour of crisis. Men of charity of good judgment, of firmness alone can heat the breach. This conservative talk is all right. To a person or to an organization, not crazed by passion or smarting under wrongs, real or imaginary, it gives food for reflection and thought. Certainly when the spell of anger, and the flood of passion is over, this talk will be accepted at its true worth. Certainly, the editor demonstrated the reading public that he possesses an intellect of a high order and that he is a safe guide in other channels than those relating to religion. While the talk may do no good, we certainly commend the advice given to both sides in this great religious controversy. THE AMATEUR ATHLETIC UNION RE-ELECTS US OFFICERS. M. Alfonso Norrell, of Richmond, Be comes Member of Board of Managers. St. Louis Delegates Are Named. Baltimore, Md., September 17.—All of last year's officers of the South Atlantic Association of the Amateur Athletic Union were re-elected unanimously by the members present at the Baltimore, Athletic Club tonight. Latrobe Cogswell, who acted as its presiding officer, was re-elected president as was Reginald Rutherford the vice-president, of Washington; William J. Leimkuhler was designated to act in two capacities—secretary and treasurer—for the Delegates to the Amateur Athletic Union of America which meets in St. Louis on October 15, also were elected, and the following will represent the local body in St. Louis's; Latrobe Cogswen, Dr. William Budick, George J. Turner president of the Amateur Athletic Union; Colonel Washington Bowie, Jr., William J. Leimkuhler and Reginald Rutherford of Washington. The alternates; Miss Elizabeth U. Meehan, athletic director of the local Women's Central Young Women's Christian Association; J. J. McAllister, Frank Connolly, J. C. Doyle, H. Sadtler and Dan Younger. The registration committee is composed of Dr. William Burdick, John C. Doyle and C. J. Dean, of Washington. The board of managers are George J. Turner Dr. William Burdick La Trobe Cogswell, J. J. McAllister, Dan Younger, W. J. Leimkuhier, J. Doyle and Miss Elizabeth U. Meehan, of this city; C. J. Dean, of Washings ton, D. C., and M. Alphonso Norrell, of Richmond. Joseph T. England was re-elected handrapper. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. Required by the Act of Congress of August 21, 1912. --- Of Planet, published weekly, at Richmond, Virginia, for October, 1917 State of Virginia, County of Henrico, Before me a notary in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared John Mitchell, Jr., who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Publisher and Owner of The Planet, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc. of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers, are: Publisher, John Mitchell, Jr., 311 North Fourth street, Richmond, Va. Editor, John Mitchell, Jr. Managing Editor, John Mitchell, Jr. Business Managers, John Mitchell, 2. That the owner is, John Mitchell, Jr. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bond file owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of September, 1917 ALBERT V. NORRELL, JR. Notary Public. My commission expires Nov. 21, '19. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA DR. HALLS WILL PROBATED. Estate Valued at $100,00.—Other Items From Baltimore. (By Franklin Johnson.) Baltimore, Md. Sept. 20.—The will of the late Dr. Reverdy M. Hall was admitted to probate in the Orphan's Court. Thursday of last week. It displays of an estate said to be valued at $100,000. The widow, Mrs. P. Jeannette Hall is left an annual income of $1,200 to be paid in quarterly installments. Should she marry again the estate is to be divided equally between her two children, Mrs. Daniel C. Brown of this city and Dr. R. M. Hall Jr., of Milwaukee Wis. The two children are named executors without bond. The N. E. Home for the Aged is left $100, Edna Hall Brown, granddaughter of the testator, $200 and a gold watch and chain and a diamond stickpin to a nephew. The estate is to be divided between the two children at the death of their mother C. C. Fitzgerald is the attorney. Dr. Hall died on September 7. The funeral of James A. Smith, a well known resident of Cleveland, O. was held at the residence of his niece Mrs. Lillie L. Taylor 707 George St., Monday afternoon. The Rev. L. Z. Johnson and George F. Bragg, Jr., of affiliated. Interment was in Laurel Cemetery. The deceased died in Cleveland. O. Wednesday of last week following a hunger illness. He was born in Baltimore 63 years ago and received his education in a private school here. He had resided in Cleveland for the past 35 years. He had been connected with the Cleveland Postoffice since 1891 and at the time of his death was connected with the inquiry division. A widow, Mrs. Lillie Smith and five sisters are among the surviving relatives. George E. Gordon, of Chalsea, Mass., supreme keeper of records and seal of the smaller wing of Knights of Pythias, spent Saturday and Sunday here, the guest of the Supreme Chancellor W. Ashbie Hawkins. The public schools reopened last Thursday. There are four new teachers in the Colored High School, Misa Amelia Redden, Miss Brenda Moneywick, John Berry and E. A. Burgess. Dr. James H. N. Waring, superintendent of the Howard Orphanage Kings Park, L. L. was in this city last week, the guest of his daughter, Mrs. S. S. Booker. He accompanied Mrs. Waring back home. John H. Murphy, Jr., is confined to his home 1811 Division street, suffering from a slight attack of blood-poisoning resulting from injuries received in a fall. Ford T. Dabney, of New York City was a visitor here Monday and Tuesday. FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. 628 N. Eutaw Baltimore News' Tribute to the Hon. Harry S. Cummings. Gladmore, Md., News, Sept. 7.) Harry S. Cummings, one of the leading members of his race in this city, a capable lawyer and member of the First Branch City Council, who died last night demonstrated what the Negro can accomplish by work and in intelligent application. It was creditable to his sound judgment and tact that the first Negro to take his seat in an elective body in Maryland, he bore himself so as to win the respect and liking of his associates. He was well treated. Though never lukewarm in the cause of his own people, he knew instinctively how to conduct himself in a Southern city. He made few enemies. Placed in a position where it was easy to arouse race prejudices, he took the wiser path and found that it paid both for himself and for his race. It was a difficult task and the manner in which it was carried out deserves recognition. ABINGDON NEWS Last Monday morning the doors of our public schools were thrown open for the session with a large number of pupils enrolled. Sunday morning Rev. W. H. Gray B. Th. of the Valley St. Baptist Church delivered a very instructive sermon and at night he administered The Lord's Supper to a large number Rev W. H. Ward of the M. E. church will attend his annual conference this week. Rev. J. A. Valentine of the A. M. E. Church is planning to soon take his flock into their new house of worship. Mr. and Mrs. William Vance of Knox ville, Tenn., have been visiting relatives and friends in our town. REPORTER DO YOU KNOW THEM? Washington, D. C., Sept. 18, 1917. Mr. Editor--I am hunting my people. My name is Osborne F. Dennis. I am fifty eight years old, was born in Henrico Co., Virginia, ran off from my mother when quite a child, have never seen nor heard from her since. A child's recollection of my home place was in Henrico Co., Virginia, thirteen miles from Richmond on the pike road and four miles from deep bottom, my father died when I was quite young. My mother whose name was Silvia Dennis married again. There were three children of the first marriage, two girls and a boy; Manerva and Josephine Dennis; the youngest a boy was myself, Osborne F. Dennis. My father's name was Fred Dennis. My mother's owner was John Fogright Please see if you can trace the whereabouts of my sisters or relatives. Looking to rent something? See Cephas. Office, 535 1-2 N 2nd St. Telephone, Ran. 588. Gen. Alexieff's Forces and Revolutionists Near Clash During Negotiations, But Premier's Firm Stand Saved Situation. Russia has been proclaimed a republic. The provisional government issued the proclamation dated September 14. The proclamation follows: "General Korniloff's robbellion has been quelled. But great is the confusion caused thereby, and again great is the danger threatening the fate of the fatherland and its freedom. "Holding it necessary to put an end to the external indefiniteness of the state's organization, remembering the unanimous and rapturous approval of the republican idea expressed at the Moscow state conference, the provisional government declares that the constitutional organization according to which the Russian state is ruled is a republican organization and it hereby proclaims the Russian Republic. (Signed) "Minister and President, Keren-ky: "Minister of Justice, Yacoumil." (The title "minister and president" affixed to Premier Kerensky's signature to the proclamation probably refers to his position as president of the ministry, rather than of the republic.) The provisional government announced that all affairs of state had been entrusted to five members of the cabinet. The following official communication was issued: "Punding the definite constitution of a cabinet, and in view of the present extraordinary circumstances, all affairs of state have been entrusted to M. Kerensky, premier; M. Torest chenko, minister of foreign affairs; General Verkovsky, minister of war; Admiral Verdervski, minister of marine, and M. Nikitin, minister of posts and telegraphs. The surrender of General Korniloff took place without bloodshed, but only after prolonged negotiations, during which a collision seemed inevitable. When the government army under General Korontolkoff was marching from Orsha on Mohliev, General Korniloff was negotiating with General Alexeff, chief of staff, who already had reached Mohliev, but was unable to effect Korniloff's arrest owing to the fact that part of the local force was emphatically for Korniloff, and prepared to defend him to the last. Kornilloff and Lokomsky laid down conditions under which they were willing to surrender their swords, the nature of which has not yet been reported. Both showed considerable obstinacy and the negotiations broke down. General Alexieff telegraphed to Premier Kerensky a description of the position at Moh磊, expressing the opinion that a majority of the local troops were sliding with Kornilloff, Kerensky refused to countenance delay and gave the order to General Alexieff to execute immediately the order of arrest, and as Alexieff still hesitated to provoke a conflict, Kerensky telegraphed him that if Kornilloff had not surrendered within two hours, he would conclude that Alexieff was Kornilloff's prisoner and would take other measures for the expulsion of the counter-revolutionists from Moh磊. In the meantime government troops were being steadily concentrated on Mohilev, barring the roads and cap-turing all fugitives, among those being Kornulloff's ordinary officer, Zavoka, who took a prominent part in the rebellion, members of the union of the officers of the army and fleet and other prominent rebels. Kornulloff surrendered apparently only when General Korotokoff's forces were near Mohilev and after the defection of his last supporting troops. Robert K. Young Dies Robert K. Young, former auditor general and state treasurer, died in the Blossburg hospital at Wellsboro Pa. He was fifty-six years old. Mr. Young was a bitter enemy or graft in politics and early in his career took leading rank as an "independent." Last June Mr. Young was badly in jurel while fishing with former Governor Stone. His right leg was broken on two inches below the hip joint and he lay in the water an hour and a half before aid reached him, and he was taken to the Blossburg hos hospital, where he has been since. Long Sentence For Arson When Judge Endlich, in Reading, Pa., sentenced Dr. Richard A. Doerr, a medical specialist, pleading guilty to arson, to from three to twelve years in the penitentiary, his wife collapsed and her hysterical cries almost stopped proceedings in court and in an adjoining room, where a murder trial was in progress. Doerr and his wife, jointly indicted pleaded guilty to setting fire to the office in a business building recently to obtain the insurance. Sentence in the wife's case was suspended. She was carried out of the courtroom. General Dougherty Succeeds Stewart General C. B. Dougherty, of Wikies Barre, has been selected by members of the Pennsylvania state armory board to act as vice chairman succeeding the late. Odjutant General Thomas J. Stewart. (Continued from First Page.) haps, intensified the crimes which folowed." Continuing, the committee says that the "undisputed and convincing testimony of witnesses prove that the Negro soldiers went forth to slay the white population indiscriminately, that no Negro was hurt or molested by them, not one Negro house was fired into and that the Negroes were warned before and during the riot to stay off the streets. AN ALLEGED REMARK "The testimony of the captain in charge of the fire station at Camp Logan and one of his assistants is that when the shooting began in the Negro camp, one of the Negro guards stationed at the fire station remarked that the troops were to shoot up Houston, that they had planned to do so on the preceding Tuesday night, but could not get quite ready. "THIs testimony and the testimony of numerous other circumstances in the record convince us (and our opinion is shared by Inspector-General John 'Chamberlain, of the United States Army, who so expressed himself to us) that the prior conflicts with the police were mere incidents of the riot; that the riot was unques tionably contemplated prior to that date, that it probably would have occurred, though possibly not so severe, had the alteration between police officers and the Negro sergeant Baltimore, not taken place." FEELING OR HOSTILITY. The report declares that shortly after the arrival of the Negro troops in Houston there was manifested by at least some of them a feeling of hostility and defiance of the State law requiring the separation of white and Negro races in the street cars; that when on leave of absence from the camp soldiers usually frequented those sections of Houston and those establishnexts where lewd and lawless elements of the Negro population are to be found that the Negro soldiers white abuse them that the discipline exon guard duty at Camp Logan, were arrogant and insulting toward white laborers seizing the most trivial circumstances as an excuse to curse and listing at the camp was grossly lax in moral conditions; jewed Negro women, some mere children, thirteen years of age, being permitted to free visit the camp and remain over night, and that such women were permitted to bring parcels into the camp without inspection by the sentries, keeping the soldiers liberally supplied with whisky and other intoxicants. MEN NOT QUALIFIED FOR JOBS. Concerning the superintendent of police, the report says: "For Mr. Brock as an individual we have the highest regard and it is no reflection on his personal character to say that in our opinion he is not qualified for the position he holds, a position the duties and responsibilities of which will become more important and grave when Camp Logan is occupied. His course towards Officer Sparks (Officer Sparks arrested sergeant Baltimore) shows its inability to enforce discipline in difficult cases; his course on the night of the riot shows that he is not a safe leader in an emergency." STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE Mechanics Savings Bank Of Richmond, Va., located at Richmond in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business September 11th, 1917, made to the State Corporation Commission. RESOURCES Loans and discounts .. $129,844.48 Overdrafts .. $ 2,658.80 Bonds, securities, etc. owned, including premium on same Banking house and lot... Other real estate owned Furniture and fixtures. Exchanges and checks for next day's clearings Other cash items.... Due from National Banks Due from State Banks, Private Bankers and Trust Companies.... Paper Currency.... Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents. Gold coin.... Silver coin.... Bonds guaranteed... Total. $325,000.98 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in. $34,390.00 Dividends unpaid. 440.90 Individual deposits, in- cluding savings deposits 269,491.11 Time certificates of deposit 40.00 Certified checks 278.66 Cashier's checks outstanding 549.94 Bills payable. 16,500.00 Unearned discount. 3,310.37 Total. $325,000.98 I, John Mitchell, Jr., President, do solely swear that the above is a true statement of the financial con- dition of Mechanics Savings Bank, of Richmond, Va., located at Rich- mond, in the County of Henrico, State of Virginia, at the close of business on the 11th day of Septem- ber, 1917, to the best of my knowl- edge and belief. Correct—Attest: JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President. THOMAS M CRUMP R. W. WHITING JOHN T. TAYLOR Directors. State of Virginia, City of Richmond. S sworn to and subscribed before me by John Mitchell, Jr., President, this 20th day of September, 1917. ALBERT V. NORRELL, JR. Notary Public. My commission expires Nov. 21, 1919 MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE Private Papers Kept in Round Door Burglar Proof Vaults. Legal Papers Acknowledged Before Notary Public. Savings Accounts Solicited FLORENCE NEWS AND NOTES. FLOREENCE, S. C., Sept. 18.—Mrs. M. J. McKay, of Watertown, S. Dakota is here visiting relatives and friends. She left here more than twenty-nine years ago for Paris, Tex., where she finished her schooling at Wiley University. She also raised a family here and educated them. A few years ago Mr. McKay, a South Carolinian died and now she is living with her children at Watertown, S. Dakota. She is visiting old friends at Kingstree, S. C. Mrs. Jeanneette Mitchell, of Chicago, Ill. passed here recently returning from Wade, Fla., where she went to the burial of her brother-in-law, Mr. Amos Graham. Mrs. Rosa Brown, of Marion, S. C. has returned from a visit to her sister at Rochelle, Ga. Mr. C. W. Wilson is home from Philadelphia. He was called to the bedside of his sick sister, Mrs. Janette Jenkins. He is to return soon. Rev. S. M. Zimmerman, of Mallory, S. C. passed through the city enroute to Darlington, S. C. to arrange for the burial of his sister, who died in New York, September 10. Miss Rosa Brown, his sister, has been a faithful member of Macedonia Baptist Church for more than twenty-five years. She will be very much missed by her friends and relatives. —D. B. WEBSTER. BODY FOUND HANGED TO TREE (By Associated Press.) Athens, Ga. Sept. 18.—Early this morning persons passing along the country road near White Hall saw the body of a Negro tied to three trees and riddled with bullets. Investigation showed it to be the remains of Rufus Monerief, a thirty year old Negro. Over his head was tacked a piece of paper bearing the words: "You have assaulted one white girl, but will not another." This paper is in the hands of the authorities. There is no other clue. Persons near the scene say that two automobiles came to the spot just after midnight, that a fastlade of shots was heard and the machines went back toward Watkinsville. Bapt. Conven= tion at Atlanta (Continued from 1st Page) Mrs. Helen A. Moore, Columbus, O. recording secret ry. The sessions of the Woman's Convention will be held in the Liberty Baptist Church, while the Laymen's Organization will hold forth in one of the local churches of the City. BRISTOL NEWS Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Sept. 16.—A party left the city for Christiansburg and Hampton Institute, Va. Messrs. Harrison Clay, Judge Davis and Cornelius Sanders will attend the Christiansburg Industrial School and Miss Corinth Steward will attend school at Hampton, Va. Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. A., September 16th, a fine son. Mother and son are doing fine. Congratulations Mrs. Laura Fields wishes to announce the marriage of her youngest daughter, Miss Henrietta to Mr. Hasper Johnson, of Jenkins Jones, W. Va., which took place at the residence of Mrs. J. C. Campbell, 941 E. State street. It was a home wedding. We wish for them much success in life. Dr. C. H. Johnson united them in marriage. Mr. Walter Smith made a flying trip to Johnson City, Tenn. Monday on business. Mr. W. M. H. Brown and party motored to Kingsport, Tenn. Monday night. The famous Negro Business League Glee Club motored to Ervine, Tenn. Monday, September 17, where they rendered a grand entertainment in the High School building. They were at their best and had to respond to a large number of encores. Hon. R. E. Clay, our wonderful orator, made a splendid address and received much applause. A splendid sum was realized. Mr. Walter Smith will leave for West Virginia to look after business. Mrs. Rebecca Barber, 614 Clinton avenue, Bristol, Va. left for Bowie, N. C. Saturday to spend a few weeks visiting Mrs. E. D. Harris and other relatives. Little Misses Leola and Elise Kinston, left for Jonesboro, Tenn. to attend school. Mr. A. M. Smith, the noted Dunbar reader and also a member of the Negro Business League Glee Club will leave for points West in two weeks. Mrs. Lawrence Franklin, 942 Lillie street has been sick for some time but is out again to the delight of her friends. VINTON NEWS. Vinton, Va., Sept 18.—(Too late for Roanoke news.)—Mr. Willie Franklin, of Cattlesburg, Ky. is here visiting his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin. Mr. Lory Thomas left for Columbus, O. to visit her daughter. DO YOU KNOW HER? Communicate with undersigned attorney of Washington, D. C., an learn of something to your interest. State if you can come to Washing ton in September if necessary. ATTORNEY B. W. J. Care PLANET, Richmond, Va WANTS TO FIND HIM. I am very anxious to find the whereabouts, 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 B. 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. R. E. Sturdivant's RELIABLE LODGING HOUSES. 1340-41-42-43 & 40, POPLAR ST. PHILADELHIA, PA. Bell 'Phone Poplar 0245 OFFICE OF EMPLOYMENT. Select Help Furnished—We Furnish Employment to All Classes— Colored and White. The Negro Agricultural @ Technical College of North Carolina (Formerly the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race) GREENSBORO, N. CAROLINA SUMMER SCHOOL For Progressive Teachers SEVENTEENTH Annual Session JUNE 20—JULY 29, 1916 Easy terms, practical courses, pleasant surroundings. For terms or catalog, address S. B. Jones, Director. Send $ and secure lodging in advance. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President Greensboro, N. C. When our collector calls on you don't fail to pay him. Your subscription is due, pay it now. The East India Hair Grower Will Promote a full Growth of Hair. Will also restore the Strength, Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If Your Hair Is Dry, and Wrry, Try— EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair. with Failing Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair Trouble, we want you to try a Jar of East India Hair Grower. The remedy contains medical properties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulate the skin, helping Nature to do its work. Leaves the Hair Soft and Silky. Perfumed with a balm of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy for heavy and beautiful Black eyebrows, also Restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color Can be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. Price Sent by Mail, 50c S. D. LYONS, Gen. Agt. 814 East Second St., Oklahoma City, Okla. (10c extra for postage) ACONS UNS 19-1 Hair Grower 1 Tample Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Washcloth, 1 Face Cream and Directions for Selling. $9.00. 20 cents extra for postage HEY SPACE DRAFTED ARMY GOES TO CAMP NEXT MOVE TO FRANCE Equipment and Supplies Are Coming Rapidly, Although Soldiers Must Wear Own Overcoats. Marshaled for the last time as civilians and under civilian authority, more than 300,000 men of the national army went forward on Wednesday to the sixteen cantonments to be trained for the battle against German autocracy. Their next move will be as fighting men toward the battlefields of France. The whole nation will be astr with the movement of the selective forces. The men represent approximately 40 per cent of the total quota under the first call from each of nearly 5000 local boards. Already at the camps is the advance guard of 5 per cent of the total, composed of experienced men, including cooks. Out of this has been created a skeleton organization into which the second increment will begin to be absorbed with little confusion. When the last men of this increment arrive the camps will house half of the first call forces, of 343,500 men, and the other half will follow as rapidly as quarters and equipment are made available. In a statement the war department says the enormous task of obtaining equipment and supplies for the army is moving satisfactorily. Some of the men of the national army may be only partially equipped for some time after they are mobilized, and no attempt will be made to furnish them with full war equipment until the eve of their departure for Europe. Some civilian clothing, to be used for a long time, will have to be used for a long time as the clothing industry has not as yet caught up wit its work. With the mobilization of one half of the 687,000 men of the first call under the selective service law in progress, the question arises as to whether that number of men will be sufficient to fill all units of the national guard and national army. There are indications that a deficiency in men will be disclosed when official reports from all the thirty-two training camps are available. Seventeen divisions of the national guard have been organized, but with the exception of the New York, Pennsylvania and a few others and the forty-second division, which soon will embark for France, they are not at maximum war strength. The fighting strength of the seventeen divisions under the new tables of organization would be 623,000 men, supplemented by many thousands of auxiliary troops. Whatever deficiencies there are will be supplied promptly from the national army as the guard will go first to the front. Since the president called the first 687,000 men of the national army, the signal corps, including the aviation section, has been greatly expanded. Nearly 100,000 additional men must be transferred to this service alone. The medical corps also has been greatly increased, and numerous necessary auxiliary units for immediate duty abroad, not thought of when the call was made, have been organized. Here enlisted men of the guard of the regular army have been taken their places will have to be filled with national army men. CITY TO SELL COAL CHEAP Mayor to Manage Yard and Open a Municipal Mine. Mayor Bosse, of Evansville, Ind., opened a municipal coal yard, selling lump coal to householders at $3.63 a ton, delivered. It will be a good grade of coal at that. Until the recent advance in the freight rate the mayor had expected to sell coal for $3.50. The municipal mine he is opening in Warrick county will not be complete in time to furnish coal*before the first of the year, but Mayor Bosse has contracted with operators for a supply until the mine is producing. His experiment is being watched with great interest by many other mayors in this state. SHOOT UP NEW HELMETS Steel Hats For Our Boys in France Deflect Bullets at Factory. Bennet Bullets at Factory. Steel helmets for the American soldiers in France are being manufactured at the Berwick, Pa., plant of the American Car and Foundry company. The helmets are tested by placing the steel hat on a "dummy's" head. Standing ten feet distant, with a regulation 45-calibre repeating revolver, the helmet is fired upon. If the bullet pierces the steel, the helmet is rejected. Soldier Gulity, of Killing Girl. Robert Warm, of Pottstown, Pa. the United States cavalryman, who has been on trial at St. Albans Vt., charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Jennie Hemmingway, four teen years of age, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in the county court. Counsel for the defenses announced that the case would be carried to the supreme court on exceptions. PAUL PAINLEVE French Premier Hints at Repub- lic's Peace Terms. M. NEW EXEMPTION RULES The President Will Only Consider Appeals on Industrial Grounds. pears on industrial Grounds. No appeals for exemption from service in the national army will be considered by President Wilson unless based on agricultural or industrial grounds, is in the latest set of ruler governing the operation of the selective service act, issued, by Provost Marshal General Crowder. No evidence, not submitted to district appeal boards will be taken into consideration by the president in acting on such claims, unless an appeal board has refused a second hearing of the case in question. Dependency claims, though they cannot be carried to the president, may be appealed to the governors of the respective states, if district boards refuse to reopen the case after once refusing a claim. On the other hand, local and district boards, if in doubt, can also apply to the governor of their state for an interpretation of the law and instructions as to how to apply the same. If convinced that one of the boards has erred the governor should order the chairman to reopen the case. No plea or suggestion as to an individual case by any one, whether senator, congressman, or cabinet officer, will be listened to by the president, while the war department officials have been ordered not to entertain any suggestions or communications concerning such cases, no matter from whom received. KAISER WANTS AN AMERICAN But Adds Week to Captor's Leave. The American headquarters staff in France has just been informed by the French authorities that Emperor William has promised a prize of 300 marks ($75) and three weeks leave to the first German who captures an American soldier. This information came from a German prisoner recently taken. He declares that the offer was contained in an order issued throughout the army. A despatch from British headquarters in France and Belgium, September 15, said the German general commanding the Eleventh reserve division had promised to the man who brought In the first American dead or alive to headquarters, the Iron Cross of the first class, 400 marks ($100) and two weeks' leave. This offer had been made was disclosed by the diary of a captured Prussian sergeant of the Twenty-third reserve infantry regiment. AIR BOMB WORKS HAVOC 900 Germans Killed or Wounded by Missile in Roulera. In the recent raid by the entente allies' airmen on the Belgian town of Roulers, says the Courier de la Meuse, of Maastricht, Holland, a bomb fell on a building near the market and killed or wounded 900 Germans. Three German shells, fired at entente airmen bombing a German position near Knocke, Belgium, fell on Dutch territory and exploded. German troops, after a violent bombardment south of Mette river launched an attack, and reached the French lines towards Neufchatel road. The official statement says that after a sharp fight the Teutons were ejected from the positions, losing heavily and leaving prisoners. The artillery was active on both sides of the Meuse river and in the region of Fosse wood. Eats Toadstools. Dies. Peter D'Angeles' twenty-sven years old, died in the Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia, as a result of toadstool poisoning. His wife and sister-in-law Mrs. Marle Immorata, are also in the hospital, suffering from the same cause. They will probably recover D'Angeles was given some "mushroom"s" by a neighbor, and after eating, the entire family was taken ill House Passes Big Wor Bill The $7,000,000,000 war deficiency bill, carrying huge appropriations for the army fortifications and shipping board, passed the house by a unanimous vote. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE NEW CEMETERY. INFORMATION CONCERNING IT-A BOON TO COLORED PEOPLE-NOW HAVE UNDISTURBED POSSESSION-YOU CAN BUY A LOT ON LONG TIME PAYMENT. RACES POSSESSING the highest degree of civilization are most careful in looking after the last resting place of their dead. When you talk about a pleasure park to colored folks, with all of its frivolities, such as dancing, games, boating, swimming and the like, their faces brighten with pleasure. When you talk burial lots, cemetery, tombstones, etc. to them, their faces darken with frowns. They look away. This applies primarily to young folks though. The older ones have lived longer and know better. But to the point: We have a beautiful, well-drained, "near-to-Richmond", cemetery. It's name is "Woodland" or "Woodlawn," just as you choose to pronounce it. The ground is high and dry and the whole lots have a minimum dimension of fifteen feet square. We would like to show you the tract of land secured by us. The location was secured after about two years of effort and is situated in a neighborhood where the progressive colored people may rest assured that they will not be disturbed. The ground has been paid for in full and deeds will be given each lot owner, so that he will hold a valid title to the place of interment. LOT-OWNERS CONTROL CEMETERY. Each (section) lot owner, who pays in full for his purchase becomes a member of the Cemetery Corporation. The profits from the sale of lots will go into a treasury for the improvement of the cemetery grounds. The board that controls the cemetery is elected by the lot-owners. The intention of the promoters of this project is to make it second to none in this section. Churchhill people can reach Woodland Cemetery just as readily as those living on Shockoe Hill, as it is in close proximity to Woodville and to Chelsea Hill. HIGHLAND PARK CAR LINE GOES THERE. The Highland Park car line goes within two blocks of the cemetery. If you are walking, go across the Fifth Street Viaduct (bridge) at Hospital and Fifth Streets, go up Fifth Avenue in Highland Park until you reach Magnolia Street, which street blocks Fifth Avenue, for you can go no further in a northerly direction. Turn to your right (going East) cross the C. & O. R. R. track and you will see the sign. Lots 15x15 feet—15 feet square—sell for from $35.00 upwards. Single graves are also reasonable. You can purchase a lot on long time payments. Should you lose a member of your family and desire to use the lot, the full amount will become immediately due. We shall be pleased to answer all of your enquiries. Call up Randolph 2213, and our agent will call to see you. We have an automobile which will be at your service to show you the grounds. By the way, Woodland Park adjoins Woodland Cemetery. There the lake is located, which furnishes water for the reservoir, which in turn affords an abundant supply for the hydrants in the cemetery grounds and for the fountain. The chapel is in the keeper's house. Here, too, may be found all the conveniences of home,—lavoratories, bath, toilet, etc. Woodland Cemetery was laid off by Messrs. T. Crawford Redd & Brother, Surveyors. More than two miles and a half of concrete have been laid. The flower-beds here are an attraction and the general verdict is that the ground is ideally located for a cemetery. The sand and gravel on the premises have saved the Corporation many hundreds of dollars' worth of expense. WOODLAND CEMETERY CORPORATION Mechanics Bank Building, Third & Clay Streets, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President, 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond, Va., Phone, Randolph 2213. D. P. BRAGG, Secretary, 506 N. Second St., Richmond, Va., Phone, Randolph 4569. Information For Our Patrons. Information For Our Patrons. WE DO NOT MEAN any insult, but we are bound to do it. The heavy increase in the cost of white newspaper has forced us to discontinue Planets to those who are unable to pay for them. We want your patronage. We want to continue the Planet to your address and you ought to desire to read it, but let it be a case of—money first. By paying in advance, you aid a good cause. EVERY PERSON of color, able so to do, should read his own race journal. No other paper can supply this natural want. Intelligent colored people should need no advice along this line, but many of them do. A race of people is largely gauged by its newspapers. THE PLANET is only $1.50 per year. We have not raised the price although the people from whom we purchase material have raised the price on us. The paper costs us more and the material costs us more. All we are asking now is that you agree to pay the price in advance, and pay it. OUR JOB DEPARTMENT is open as usual and the work done is the best at the lowest possible cost. Come and see us. We want your patronage. THE PLANET, 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR GIVE COLORED QUOTA GIVE COLORED QUOTA ladies is being formed to give some recognition and token to the men before they depart. A movement is under way to coordinate the demonstrations in the various districts of the city and make one grand display on the evening of October 1st. The following is a list of the men certified into the service of the National Army of the United States from the Fifth District: SIZE OF LOTS AMPLE. dry and the whole lots have a min- w you the tract of land secured by us, situated in a neighborhood where the disturbed. The ground has been pa- will hold a valid title to the place of OWNERS CONTROL CEMETE who pays in full for his purchase beca- the sale of lots will go into a treas- that controls the cemetery is elected is to make it second to none in this as readily as those living on Shocko- ill. AND PARK CAR LINE GOES line goes within two blocks of the ce- (bridge) at Hospital and Fifth Street nolia Street, which street blocks Fifth to your right (going East) cross the C —15 feet square—sell for from $35. phase a lot on long time payments. S the full amount will become immedia QUESTIONS ANSWERED. answer all of your enquiries. Call up an automobile which will be at your dojoins Woodland Cemetery. There t turn affords an abundant supply for The chapel is in the keeper's house. CONVENIENCES OF HOUSE. all the conveniences of home,—lavora at Messrs. T. Crawford Redd & Brot- he been laid. The flower-beds here are fully located for a cemetery. The sand hundreds of dollars' worth of expense. BUND CEMETERY CORP. Building, Third & Clay St. President, 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond Va., 506 N. Second St., Richmond, Va. Action For Our any insult, but we are bound to do it us to discontinue Planets to those who at to continue the Planet to your address by first. By paying in advance, you ain color, able so to do, should read his own Intelligent colored people should need n is largely gauged by its newspapers. $1.50 per year. We have not raise al have raised the price on us. The are asking now is that you agree to pay ENT is open as usual and the work us. We want your patronage. 311 North Fourth Street CHELL, JR., EDITOR AND PR Samuel P. Nickerson, 1011 N. Elgh Squire M. Taylor, 1015 N. First Mack Dickerson, 730 1-2 N. Fourth Ernest E. Liggins, 1122 N. Second Washington Ellis, 1914 Short P Linwood Betts, 1701 Richard Marks Anderson, 811 N. First Albert Bettin, 1221 N. Seventeenth Arthur Smith, Petersburg Harry T. Miles, 2039 Fairfield Robert Hall, 737 1-2 N. Second Richard Drake, 910 Turpin Charles Peterson, 1103 N. 17th Sam Lashley, 1214 Buchanan Wm. Raymond Thomas, 802 N. 2nd Joff Cobb, 714 E. Clay Andrew Jackson, 802 Twenty-first William Patterson, 219 E. Clay John E. Booker, 106 E. Leigh William Jones, 206 E. Clay Alonzy Langley, 709 1-2 N. Fourth John C. Dabney, 743 N. Third Harrison Jones, 809 N. Fifth Joseph Jackson, 614 James Luther Gibbs, 1093 Cedar Clarence P. Hayes, 725 N. Second George Harrell, 516 N. Third Albert Lancaster, 1113 N. 17th Charles R. Boyd, 919 N. Fifth Willie L. Hall, 1 Fell Burnett Gibbs, 608 James Wesley O. Graves, 607 Crouch Anderson Hymes, 103 A Short Q John J. Powell, 725 N. Third Frank Summerfield, 209 E. Duval Harry Young, 411 N. Fifth Frank Tinsley, 19 St James Cabell H. Morris, 107 E. Charity Clarence Brown, 207 E. Leigh Haywood Lodge, 519-A. N. Third John W. Deberry, 627 N. Fifth Joseph Henry, 725 N. Third John S. Woodson, 219-A W. Charity Robert Battle, 617 N. Third Frank McCraw, 630 N. Ninth Claude M. Thomas, 741 N. Fourth Oscar W. Shelton, 1301 N. First Earl W. Johnson, 812 N. Sixth Mack Nance, 209 E. Clay Luther Troy Robinson, Petersburg John Williams, 324 Bowling Green Patrick H. Anderson, 920 N. Second Arthur White, New Rochelle, N. Y. George Johnson, 718 E. Baker Joseph Mickens, 1415 James Milton McLaurin, 725 N. Ninth Arthur Woods, 620 N. Ninth James Kato, 2000 Accommodation W. H. Johnson, 820 N. Thirst-first Lawrence Carmichael, 416 E. Leigh Cecil C. Martin, Upshaw, Va. Willie Bellemy, 219 W. Charity Henry Witherspoon, Cheraw, S. C. Oliver Adams, 507 E. Federal Andrew Otley, 725 N. Fourth Thomas Fields, 22 W. Leigh Wellington N. Fox, 1015 N. Fifth John E. Fitzgerald, Danville, Va. William Henry Brown, Philadelphia William N. Baylor, Philadelphia Floyd Daniels, 1846 Jay DEFER OFFICERS' GRADUATION. Negro Candidates Will Get Commissions on October 15. Graduation for the candidates for commissions on the Negro officers' training camp at Fort Des Moines has been postponed until October 15 by Secretary of War Baker, according to dispatches received by The Register last night. The original date for the final examination of the men was set for September 12, and Brig. Gen. C. C. Ballou, in command at the camp, had the schedule of work fixed to include that day in the training. Dispatches indicate that Secretary Baker has ordered instruction to continue until the revised date for the issuance of commissions. The decision of the secretary will add practically a month to the training of the men. Every candidate was expecting to work until September 12 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." THE WHEELS For information, call and see us. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, John Mitchell, Jr., President. 3rd and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. and learn of the success or failure of the men within a week. It is presumed that the recent announcement that the troops raised from the selected draft from the Negro population would be placed in training later than other units influenced the secretary in his decision. A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FREE OF ALL CHARGE For Sunday School Teachers and Officers Conducted by Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. C. The Sunday School that has not trained teachers is behind the times. Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D., is the only man in the Negro race whose experience fits him to do this teacher training work thoroughly, having had a quarter of a century experience on the field, and the American Baptist Publication Society has kept him on the field all these years, and has now turned over entirely to his supervision the work of training the teachers of a whole race by his travels and office work. Write to him at Box 441 Raleigh, N. C., for further information. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 28th day of August, 1917. IN VACATION. CHARLES NELSON, ..... Plaintiff against In Chancery ANNIE NELSON, ..... 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 alfawad having been made and filed that the defendant, Annie Nelson is not a resident of the State of Virginia; it is ordered that she FIVE appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of September, 1917, IN VACATION. MARYLAND BARBER....Plaintiff against In Chancery SYBELIA BARBER....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion. And an afidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sybolia Barber is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the duo publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. $ 1 00 PANTS MADE TO MEASURE Not $1.00, not even 50c, not one cent cost to you under our easy conditions. no extra charge for underwear no extra charge for extra big, extreme pog-tops, pearl buttons, tunnel or fancy bolt loops, no extra charge for any thing you want. other order, before you buy a suit or pants, get our samples and new offer. Agents of other tailoring houses which will provide you with a suit will open your eyes. We ask every man to answer this, every boy in long pants, every man, everywhere. No matter where you live or what you do, write your name, address and signature. Ma Your New Free Offer' the big, new different tailoring deal. Cost nothing and no extra charges. Write today, this minute. Address KNICKENBOCKER TAILORING CO. Dept. 718 Chicago, IL HEY PLANET DRAFTED ARMY GOES TO CAMP Over 300,000 Men Leave Their Homes. Equipment and Supplies Are Coming Rapidly, Although Soldiers Must Wear Own Overcoats. Marshaled for the last time as civilians and under civilian authority, more than 300,000 men of the national army went forward on Wednesday to the sixteen cantonments to be trained for the battle against German autocracy. Their next move will be as fighting men toward the battlefields of France. The whole nation will be astir with the movement of the selective forces. The men represent approximately 40 per cent of the total quota under the first call from each of nearly 5000 local boards. Already at the camps is the advance guard of 5 per cent of the total, composed of experienced men, including cooks. Out of this has been created a skeleton organization into which the second increment will begin to be absorbed with little confusion. When the last men of this creement arrive the camps will house half of the first call forces, of 343,500 men, and the other half will follow as rapidly as quarters and equipment are made available. In a statement the war department says the enormous task of obtaining equipment and supplies for the army is moving satisfactorily. Some of the men of the national army may be only partially equipped for some time after they are mobilized, and no attempt will be made to furnish them with full war equipment until the eve of their departure for Europe. Some civilian clothing, such as overcoats, will have to be used for a long time as the clothing industry has not as yet caught up wit its work. With the mobilization of one-half of the 687,000 men of the first call under the selective service law in progress, the question arises as to whether that number of men will be sufficient to fill all units of the national guard and national army. There are indications that a deficiency in men will be disclosed when official reports from all the thirty-two training camps are available. Seventeen divisions of the national guard have been organized, but with the exception of the New York, Pennsylvania and a few others and the forty-second division, which soon will embark for France, they are not at maximum war strength. The fighting strength of the seventeen divisions under the new tables of organization would be 623,000 men, supplemented by many thousands of auxiliary troops. Whatever deficiencies there are will be supplied promptly from the national army as the guard will go first to the front. Since the president called the first 687,000 men of the national army, the signal corps, including the aviation section, has been greatly expanded. Nearly 100,000 additional men must be transferred to this service alone. The medical corps also has been greatly increased, and numerous necessary auxiliary units for immediate duty abroad, not thought of when the call was made, have been organized. There enlisted men of the guard of the regular army have been taken their places will have to be filled with national army men. CITY TO SFLL COAL CHEAP Mayor to Manage Yard and Open Municipal Mine. Mayor Bosse, of Evansville, Ind, opened a municipal coal yard, selling lump coal to householders at $3.63 a ton, delivered. It will be a good grade of coal at that. Until the recent advance in the freight rate the mayor had expected to sell coal for $3.50. The municipal mine he is opening in Warrick county will not be complete in time to furnish coal before the first of the year, but Mayor Bosse has contracted with operators for a supply until the mine is producing. His experiment is being watched with great interest by many other mayors in this state. SHOOT UP NEW HELMETS Steel Hats For Our Boys in France Deflect Bullets at Factory. Defect Bullets at Factory. Steel helmets for the American soldiers in France are being manufactured at the Berwick, Pa. plant of the American Car and Foundry company. The helmets are tested by placing the steel hat on a "dummy" head. Standing ten feet distant, with a regulation 45-callibre repeating revolver the helmet is fired upon. If the bullet pierces the steel, the helmet is rejected. Soldier Gulley of Killing Girl. Robert Warm. of Pottsstown, Pa. the United States cavalryman, wc has been on trial at St. Albans Vt., charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Jennie Hemmingway, four teen years of age, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury. In the county court, Counsel for the defenses announced that the case would be carried to the supreme court on exceptions. PAUL PAINLEVE [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit]. NEW EXEMPTION RULES The President Will Only Consider Appeals on Industrial Grounds. peals on industrial Grounds. No appeals for exemption from service in the national army will be considered by President Wilson unless based on agricultural or industrial grounds, is in the latest set of ruler governing the operation of the selective service act, issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder. No evidence, not submitted to district appeal boards will be taken into consideration by the president in acting on such claims, unless an appeal board has refused a second hearing of the case in question. Dependency claims, though they cannot be carried to the president, may be appealed to the governors of the respective states, if district boards refuse to reopen the case after once refusing a claim. On the other hand, local and district boards, if in doubt, can also apply to the governor of their state for an interpretation of the law and instructions as to how to apply the same. If convinced that one of the boards has erred the governor should order the chairman to reopen the case. No plea or suggestion as to an individual case by any one, whether senator, congressman, or cabinet officer, will be listened to by the president, while the war department officials have been ordered not to entertain any suggestions or communications concerning such cases, no matter from whom received. KAISER WANTS AN AMERICAN Cuts Price on Capture of First One But Adds Week to Canton's Leave A FIRST WEEK to CAPTAIN LEAVE. The American headquarters staff in France has just been informed by the French authorities that Emperor William has promised a prize of 300 marks ($75) and three weeks leave to the first German who captures an American soldier. This information came from a German prisoner recently taken. He declares that the offer was contained in an order issued throughout the army. A despatch from British headquarters in France and Belgium, September 15, said the German general commanding the Eleventh reserve division had promised to the man who brought in the first American dead or alive to headquarters, the Iron Cross of the first class, 400 marks ($1000) and two weeks' leave. This offer had been made was disclosed by the diary of a captured Prussian sergeant of the Twenty-third reserve infantry regiment. AIR BOMB WORKS HAVOC 900 Germans Killed or Wounded by Missile in Roulers. In the recent raid by the entente allies' airmen on the Belgian town of Roulers, says the Courier de la Meuse, of Maastricht, Holland, a bomb fell on a building near the market and killed or wounded 900 Germans. Three German shells, fired at entente airmen bombing a German position near Knocke, Belgium, fell or Dutch territory and exploded. German troops, after a violent bombardment south of Miette river launched an attack, and reached the French lines towards Neuchatel road. The official statement says that after a sharp fight the Teutons were ejected from the positions, losing heavily and leaving prisoners. The artillery was active on both sides of the Meuse river and in the region of Fosse wood. Eats Toadstools, Dies Peter D'Angeles, twenty-five years old, died in the Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia, as a result of toadstool poisoning. His wife and sister-in-law Mrs. Marie Immorata, are also in the hospital, suffering from the same cause. They will probably recover D'Angeles was given some "mush rooms" by a neighbor, and after eating, the entire family was taken ill. House Passes Big War Bill. The $7,000,000,000 war deficiency bill, carrying huge appropriations for the army fortifications and shipbuilding board, ceded the house by a unanticipated vote. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THE NEW CEMETERY. INFORMATION CONCERNING IT—A BOON TO COLORED PEOPLE—NOW HAVE UNDISTURBED POSSESSION—YOU CAN BUY A LOT ON LONG TIME PAYMENT. RACES POSSESSING the highest degree of civilization are most careful in looking after the last resting place of their dead. When you talk about a pleasure park to colored folks, with all of its frivolities, such as dancing, games, boating, swimming and the like, their faces brighten with pleasure. When you talk burial lots, cemetery, tombstones, etc. to them, their faces darken with frowns. They look away. This applies primarily to young folks though. The older ones have lived longer and know better. But to the point: We have a beautiful, well-drained, "near-to-Richmond" cemetery. It's name is "Woodland" or "Woodlawn," just as you choose to pronounce it. The ground is high and dry and the whole lots have a minimum dimension of fifteen feet square. We would like to show you the tract of land secured by us. The location was secured after about two years of effort and is situated in a neighborhood where the progressive colored people may rest assured that they will not be disturbed. The ground has been paid for in full and deeds will be given each lot owner, so that he will hold a valid title to the place of interment. LOT-OWNERS CONTROL CEMETERY. Each (section) lot owner, who pays in full for his purchase becomes a member of the Cemetery Corporation. The profits from the sale of lots will go into a treasury for the improvement of the cemetery grounds. The board that controls the cemetery is elected by the lot-owners. The intention of the promoters of this project is to make it second to none in this section. Churchhill people can reach Woodland Cemetery just as readily as those living on Shockoe Hill, as it is in close proximity to Woodville and to Chelsea Hill. HIGHLAND PARK CAR LINE GOES THERE. The Highland Park car line goes within two blocks of the cemetery. If you are walking, go across the Fifth Street Viaduct (bridge) at Hospital and Fifth Streets, go up Fifth Avenue in Highland Park until you reach Magnolia Street, which street blocks Fifth Avenue, for you can go no further in a northerly direction. Turn to your right (going East) cross the C. & O. R. R. track and you will see the sign. Lots 15x15 feet—15 feet square—sell for from $35.00 upwards. Single graves are also reasonable. You can purchase a lot on long time payments. Should you lose a member of your family and desire to use the lot, the full amount will become immediately due. We shall be pleased to answer all of your enquiries. Call up Randolph 2213, and our agent will call to see you. We have an automobile which will be at your service to show you the grounds. By the way, Woodland Park adjoins Woodland Cemetery. There the lake is located, which furnishes water for the reservoir, which in turn affords an abundant supply for the hydrants in the cemetery grounds and for the fountain. The chapel is in the keeper's house. Here, too, may be found all the conveniences of home,—lavoratories, bath, toilet, etc. Woodland Cemetery was laid off by Messrs. T. Crawford Redd & Brother, Surveyors. More than two miles and a half of concrete have been laid. The flower-beds here are an attraction and the general verdict is that the ground is ideally located for a cemetery. The sand and gravel on the premises have saved the Corporation many hundreds of dollars' worth of expense. WOODLAND CEMETERY CORPORATION Mechanics Bank Building, Third & Clay Streets, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., President, 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond, Va., Phone, Randolph 2213. D. P. BRAGG, Secretary, 506 N. Second St., Richmond, Va., Phone, Randolph 4569. Information For Our Patrons. WE DO NOT MEAN any insult, but we are bound to do it. The heavy increase in the cost of white newspaper has forced us to discontinue Planets to those who are unable to pay for them. We want your patronage. We want to continue the Planet to your address and you ought to desire to read it, but let it be a case of—money first. By paying in advance, you aid a good cause. EVERY PERSON of color, able so to do, should read his own race journal. No other paper can supply this natural want. Intelligent colored people should need no advice along this line, but many of them do. A race of people is largely gauged by its newspapers. THE PLANET is only $1.50 per year. We have not raised the price although the people from whom we purchase material have raised the price on us. The paper costs us more and the material costs us more. All we are asking now is that you agree to pay the price in advance, and pay it. OUR JOB DEPARTMENT is open as usual and the work done is the best at the lowest possible cost. Come and see us. We want your patronage. THE PLANET, 311 North Fourth Street, Richmond, Va. JOHN MITCHELL, JR., EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR GIVE COLORED QUOTA (Continued from the First Page.) ladies is being formed to give some recognition and token to the men before they depart. A movement is under way to coordinate the demonstrations in the various districts of the city and make one grand display on the evening of October 1st. The following is a list of the men certified into the service of the National Army of the United States from the Fifth District: Joseph L. Loving, Jr., 207 E. Leigh James Lee, 715 N. Second Zack Raines, 708 N. Fourth Edward Johnson, 1004 N. Fifth Walter Green, 516 E. Federal William Angell, 921 Short 19th Leonard Pitts, 208 E. Leigh John Hughes, 44 Wood Wilbur J. Scott, 904 E. Turpin William Garnett, 745 N. Fifth Soloman Gibbs, 1013 Short 19th Isaac Plenty, 1917 Cedar James M. Foster, 105 Fritz Howard Payne, 1212 N. Twenty-fifth Willie Harrison, 721 N. Ninth William Cowans, 410 E. Leigh George W. Banks, 1816 Littlepage Harry H. Lee, 613 N. Second Otis Jones, 713 N. Fourth Henry W. Hill, 1922 Fairfield Lee Myers, 207 E. Duval Willie Jowers, 613 N. Second Benjamin B. Braxton, 910 N. Second Willie Clemons, 1822 Cedar John O. Garnett, 529 N. Second Willie Green, 1101 N. Seventeenth Walter Henderson, 614 N. Fifth William Wright, 614 N. Seventeenth Joseph Gady, Williamsburg, Va. Eddie Chambers, 744 N. Seventeenth Robert Cabinness, 734 N. Second Allen Harris, 412 E. Baker SIZE OF LOTS AMPLE. dry and the whole lots have a miw you the tract of land secured by us situated in a neighborhood where the disturbed. The ground has been p will hold a valid title to the place of OWNERS CONTROL CEMET who pays in full for his purchase because the sale of lots will go into a treat that controls the cemetery is elected is to make it second to none in this as readily as those living on Shocko hill. AND PARK CAR LINE GOES line goes within two blocks of the co (bridge) at Hospital and Fifth Street nolia Street, which street blocks Fifth to your right (going East) cross the C—15 feet square—sell for from $35 chase a lot on long time payments. S the full amount will become immedi QUESTIONS ANSWERED. swer all of your enquiries. Call up an automobile which will be at your joins Woodland Cemetery. There t turn affords an abundant supply fo the chapel is in the keeper's house. CONVENIENCES OF HOUSE. all the conveniences of home,—lavor Messrs. T. Crawford Redd & Brow been laid. The flower-beds here are fully located for a cemetery. The sane hundreds of dollars' worth of expense. BUND CEMETERY CORP Building, Third & Clay St. President, 311 N. Fourth St., Richmond St., 506 N. Second St., Richmond, V. Action For Our any insult, but we are bound to do it us to discontinue Planets to those who t to continue the Planet to your address first. By paying in advance, you a color, able so to do, should read his own intelligent colored people should need is largely gauged by its newspapers. $1.50 per year. We have not raise al have raised the price on us. The are asking now is that you agree to pay ENT is open as usual and the wor us. We want your patronage. 311 North Fourth Street CHELL, JR., EDITOR AND PR Samuel P. Nickerson, 1011 N. Eighth Squire M. Taylor, 1015 N. First Mack Dickerson, 730 1-2 N. Fourth Ernest E. Liggins, 1122 N. Second Washington Ellis, 1914 Short P Linwood Betts, 1701 N. First Marks Anderson, 811 N. First Albert Betts, 1221 N. Seventeenth Arthur Smith, Petersburg Harry T. Miles, 2039 Fairfield Robert Hall, 737 1-2 N. Second Richard Drake, 910 Turpain Charles Peterson, 1103 N. 17th Sam Lashley, 1214 Buchanan Wm. Raymond Thomas, 802 N. 2nd Joff Cobb, 714 E. Clay Andrew Jackson, 802 Twenty-first William Patterson, 219 E. Leigh John E. Booker, 106 E. Leigh William Jones, 206 E. Clay Alonzy Langley, 709 1-2 N. Fourth John C. Dabney, 743 N. Third Harrison Jones, 809 N. Fifth Joseph Jackson, 614 James Luther Gibbs, 1909 Cedar Clarence P. Hayes, 725 N. Second George Harrell, 516 N. Third Albert Lancaster, 1113 N. 17th Charles R. Boyd, 919 N. Fifth Willie L. Hall, 1 Fell Burnett Gibbs, 608 James Wesley O. Graves, 607 Crouch Anderson Hymes, 1039 A Short Q John J. Powell, 725 N. Third Frank Summerfield, 209 E. Duval Harry Young, 411 N. Fifth Frank Tinsley, 19 St James Cabell H. Morris, 107 E. Charity Clarence Brown, 207 E. Leigh Haywood Lodge, 519-A. N. Third John W. Dobery, 627 N. Fifth Joseph Henry, 725 N. Third John S. Woodson, 219-A W. Charity Robert Battle, 617 N. Third Frank McCraw, 630 N. Ninth Claude M. Thomas, 741 N. Fourth Oscar W. Shelton, 1301 N. First Earl W. Johnson, 812 N. Sixth Mack Nance, 209 E. Clay Luther Troy Robinson, Petersburg John Williams, 324 Bowling Green Patrick H. Anderson, 920 N. Second Arthur White, New Rochelle, N. Y. George Johnson, 718 E. Baker Joseph Mickens, 1415 James Milton McLaurin, 725 N. Ninth Arthur Woods, 620 N. Ninth James Kato, 2000 Accommodation W. H. Johnson, 820 N. Thirst-first Lawrence Carmichael, 416 E. Leigh Cecil C. Martin, Upshaw, Va. Willie Bellemy, 219 W. Charity Henry Witherspoon, Cheraw, S. C. Oliver Adams, 507 E. Federal Andrew Otey, 725 N. Fourth Thomas Fields, 22 W. Leigh Wellington N. Fox, 1015 N. Fifth John E. Fitzgerald, Danville, Va. William Henry Brown, Philadelphia William N. Baylor, Philadelphia Floyd Daniels, 1846 Jay DEFER OFFICERS' GRADUATION. Negro Candidates Will Get Commissions on October 15. Graduation for the candidates for commissions on the Negro officers' training camp at Fort Des Moines has been postponed until October 15 by Secretary of War Baker, according to dispatches received by The Register last night. The original date for the final examination of the men was set for September 12, and Brig. Gen. C. C. Ballou, in command at the camp, had the schedule of work fixed to include that day in the training. Dispatches indicate that Secretary Baker has ordered instruction to continue until the revised date for the issuance of commissions. The decision of the secretary will add practically a month to the training of the men. Every candidate was expecting to work until September 12 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." 100 For information, call and see us. MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK, John Mitchell, Jr., President. 3rd and Clay Sts., Richmond, Va. and learn of the success or failure of the men within a week. It is presumed that the recent announcement that the troops raised from the selected draft from the Negro population would be placed in training later than other units influenced the secretary in his decision. A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FREE OF ALL CHARGE For Sunday School Teachers and Officers Conducted by Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D. Box 441, Raleigh, N. C. The Sunday School that has not trained teachers is behind the times. Rev. S. N. Vass, D. D., is the only man in the Negro race whose experience fits him to do this teacher training work thoroughly, having had a quarter of a century experience on the field, and the American Baptist Publication Society has kept him on the field all these years, and has now turned over entirely to his supervision the work of training the teachers of a whole race by his travels and office work. Write to him at Box 441 Raleigh, N. C., for further information. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 28th day of August, 1917. IN VACATION CHARLES NELSON, ..... Plaintiff against In Chancory ANNIE NELSON, ..... Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant on the ground of desertion. 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 FIVE appear here within fifteen days after the due publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. J. HENRY CRUTCHFIELD, p. q. VIRGINIA—In the Clerk's Office of the Law and Equity Court of the City of Richmond, the 5th day of September, 1917, IN VACATION. MARYLAND BARBER.....Plaintiff against In Chancery SYBELIA BARBER.....Defendant The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony by the plaintiff from the defendant, on the ground of desertion. And an affidavit having been made and filed that the defendant, Sybella Barber is not a resident of the State of Virginia, it is ordered that she appear here within fifteen days after the duo publication of this order and do what may be necessary to protect her interest herein. Teste: LUTHER LIBBY, Clerk. A Copy. 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